Out of the past: April 16

1991

As part of its effort to comply with a new Missouri law that calls for a 40 percent reduction in landfill waste, Cape Girardeau this year will likely implement an ambitious citywide recycling program; it is hoped curbside recycling pickups throughout the city will begin in October.

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education approves a salary package that will give public school teachers and administrators a average raise of 2.8 percent for the 1991-92 school year.

1966

Construction of a sewage disposal lagoon, collecting system and pumping station to serve the industrial park along Nash Road will start within 10 days; Superior Concreters of Cape Girardeau will construct the 3.6-acre lagoon.

Having been with Sears for 20 years, the Cape Girardeau store manager, Hugh M, McCall, is honored by company officials and employees; he is presented a 20-year emblem in ceremonies at the store.

1941

In Cape Girardeau, Scott and Perry counties, the recount of the vote cast last November in the now-contested race for governor will be started April 22, but in Bollinger County there seems to be a question of when or whether the recount will be made; Bollinger County Sheriff D.B. Graves hasn't served the formal notice of the recount on County Clerk H.R. James; it is said Graves has done nothing with the notice so far, but has written to Jefferson City for a service fee of $1.

U.S. District Attorney Harry C. Blanton of St. Louis, here attending Federal Court, says he will check the title on the Courthouse Park plot where the new $430,000 federal building will be built, when the post office department supplies him the papers; the abstract of title and deed are now being prepared by the city for the government.

1916

Palm Sunday is observed at all churches in the city, but the Catholic, Episcopal and Lutheran churches give it particular importance; at Trinity Lutheran Church, the rite of Confirmation is performed; nine children are confirmed in the English language and seven in German.

Cape Girardeau has another new auto firm, the Enger-Jeffery Auto Co.; Al Maurer, the young man who built up a good business reputation in the blacksmith business in Haarig, has leased the fine new Mayer building on Independence Street, between Frederick and Sprigg, and will equip it as a garage and blacksmith shop.

-- Sharon K. Sanders