Out of the past: April 20

1990

Members of the Cape Girardeau plumbing and gas fitters boards say they oppose the city abolishing the boards and testing requirements for licenses; they say measures would lead to more unqualified plumbers and gas fitters doing business here.

A budget committee at Southeast Missouri State University has reached conceptual agreement on salary increases it will recommend for university employees next fiscal year; the committee will recommend pay raises of 4 percent for administrators, 5 percent for faculty members, 6 percent for professional staff employees and 4 percent or $600, whichever is greater, for clerical, technical and service employees.

1965

Louis W. Brune, who served two terms as commissioner of public works in Cape Girardeau's municipal government, dies in the morning at a St. Louis hospital; Widely known throughout the city, and especially in the Red Star suburb, Brune, 55, was frequently sought for counsel by his friends.

Dr. Hugh V. Ashley, whose early medical experience was on the battlefields of France in World War I, is honored in the evening by the medical staff of Saint Francis Hospital in recognition of his 50 years in the medical profession.

1940

Cape Girardeau will have its own, made-at-home movies, with local people taking all the parts in a gripping thriller, and all scenes shot in the community; The Missourian has arranged with a nationally known organization to supervise the making of the movies.

In its first move to improve municipally-owned equipment, the Cape Girardeau City Council has approved the purchase of a new motorized street sweeper to replace one now ready for the junk heap; the Austin-Western Road Machinery Co. sweeper was purchased for $3,800, less $200 allowed for the old sweeper.

1915

Members of the city council and the mayor hold a meeting at the water pumping station in the north end of the city and view the site, which is desired by the water company as the location for a settling basin; the water company is asking the council to vacate the dead end of Water Street and turn it over to the company.

Cape Girardeau will soon have a modern creamery in operation; Thomas C. Eugas, one of the owners of the Perryville, Missouri, creamery, arrives here to begin the installation of his machinery on the ground floor of the Woods building on Frederick Street, near the Houck tracks.

-- Sharon K. Sanders