Out of the past: April 22

1991

Pam McCarron, a single parent, and the Non-Traditional Student Association she heads are pushing for the establishment of a campus day-care facility at Southeast Missouri State University; Student Government leaders also are studying the issue.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- The North Scott Medical Center, formerly Chaffee General Hospital, begins operation of a full-time clinic, called MedNow; the clinic will fill a growing need for out patient medical care in Chaffee and surrounding communities, according to clinic officials.

1966

A new tractor-trailer unit valued at $25,000 has been reported missing from the Harris Truck and Trailer Sales parking lot at U.S. 61; police assume the truck was taken with the trailer unit owned by Cauble and Field Fruits and Vegetables, which was noticed missing from the same lot Monday.

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Circuit Judge Marshall Craig of Sikeston, Missouri, orders the second murder trial of Douglas Wayne Thompson in the shooting of a Cape Girardeau police officer moved to Mississippi County; in moving the case, Craig upholds the motion of Thompson's attorney for a change of venue from Bollinger County, where the original trial was in 1961.

1941

Country Club officials move with a firm hand to put down an insurrection of 15 caddies, who staged a "stand up" strike against new regulations laid down by the club; Albert M. Spradling, chairman of the club's golf committee, said the 15 have been discharged and an ad placed in The Missourian newspaper for new youths to serve as caddies.

Both the plumbing and electrical-control ordinances, passed by the Cape Girardeau City Council in September, were repealed outright by the council yesterday in unanimous action; the plumbing code set up an examining board, and applicants for master or journeyman licenses from the city had to pass examinations given by the board.

1916

Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago is in Cape Girardeau, having come down from St. Louis on the steamer Cape Girardeau to get away from the exacting duties of his office for a few days; with him are two close friends, William Moynihan and Charles W. Ward.

BENTON, Mo. -- Like Cape Girardeau County, Judge Frank Kelly rules Scott County must pay for building a bridge across the Diversion Channel of the Little River Drainage District; Kelly holds Missouri statutes provide that the counties in a district must defray the expenses of building bridges across ditches and channels where they cut county roads.

-- Sharon K. Sanders