Out of the past: April 2

1992

The Faculty Senate at Southeast Missouri State University narrowly rejected a proposal to include homosexual "orientation" in the university's anti-discrimination policy; the measure was debated at length last week, but there was little comment before Wednesday's vote.

Participants in a five-state economic development conference are urged to take advantage of the Mississippi River as a vital transportation resource and a link to international markets; the comments come from Allan Maki, executive director of the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority, speaking at the annual Quinstate Economic Development Conference at Southeast Missouri State University.

1967

Exhibitions are in place, and judging is expected to end late today as the 11th annual Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair gets underway at Houck Field House under the sponsorship of the State College and The Southeast Missourian.

Cape Girardeau voters approve the public-library tax rate and the school levy, while the two incumbents are re-elected to both the city council and the board of education; Councilmen J. Hugh Logan and A. Robert Pierce Jr. are elected to three more years on the council, and Mary Kasten and Gene E. Huckstep are returned to their places on the school board.

1942

Registration by the government of sugar retailers and distributors in the Cape Girardeau community will take place April 28 and 29 at the music room at Central High School, with the high-school teachers in charge. The consumer registration will be in the public grade schools of the city, also with teachers handling the paperwork, from May 4 to 7.

The Rev. and Mrs. R.M. Talbert have returned to Cape Girardeau from Little Rock, Arkansas, where he had been stationed for nearly a year as a district chaplain for camps in the Civilian Conservation Corps. Because of the discontinuance of 25 of the 36 camps in the area, the staff was reduced in size and only one chaplain was retained for the remaining camps.

1917

The heavy rains of Saturday night and Sunday morning caused much damage throughout Cape Girardeau County, washing out railroad trestles and county bridges over streams and cutting deep holes in farm land. In the south end of the county, particularly near Dutchtown, the streams overflowed their banks and flooded the entire farming district.

A night extra of The Daily Republican brings the news President Woodrow Wilson has asked Congress to declare war on Germany.

-- Sharon K. Sanders