Out of the past: April 19

1993

Boatmen's Bank has announced the site of its banking facility to be constructed in Jackson; the facility will be on the northwest corner of the intersection of West Main and Russell streets; bank officials hope to be opened at that location within the next two years.

At the urging of the local NAACP, the Cape Girardeau City Council next month will consider whether the city needs public housing, an issue that has proven contentious in the past.

1968

A mass rally of students was held at Capaha Park last night, gathering in response to the State College's dismissal of eight faculty members; the students, and a scattering of faculty members and other individuals, numbered around 1,0000.

"Number, please?" husky male voices are heard to ask as male management personnel join female supervisors across the nation in manning switchboards in the Communications Workers of America strike against Western Electric Co.; in Cape Girardeau, pickets were placed around the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., office at Broadway and Ellis Street yesterday afternoon; while Bell System employees aren't on strike, they have refused to cross the picket lines in support of CWA demands in the wage dispute.

1943

Injured when he fell from a moving fire truck as it rounded a curve on a road south of Illmo while en route to a fire, Roy Kirkendall, 17, a son of Mrs. W.M. Innis, died Saturday night at a Cape Girardeau hospital; Kirkendall was serving as a volunteer fireman, due to the absence of many men from Illmo.

Plans have been completed for the reorganization of the Capahas baseball team under sponsorship of the Kiwanis Club, and the first workout is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon; manager Louis A. Weiss and Henry Betten went to St. Louis Friday and purchased 15 baseball uniforms from the St. Louis Browns; the Browns have also agreed to let the local club have enough baseballs to go through the season.

1918

The Free Library benefit at the Orpheum Theater last night was a great success; the theater was packed, the picture -- "The Slacker" -- was fine, and the Minute Women's Glee Club delighted the audience; the Orpheum management gave all the proceeds above the actual expense to the Free Library Association, amounting to $82.15.

Cecero Sadler has taken over the rock-crushing plant north of Jackson, which was formerly owned and operated by he late Henry Taylor, whose tragic end occurred at the plant in February; the crusher is a necessity here, not only for furnishing road material and stone for concrete work, but for reducing to a useable size the limestone for the use on land.

-- Sharon K. Sanders