Out of the past: April 23

1990

ASH GROVE, Mo. -- A statewide conservation and landowner rights group has joined a fight against a Cape Girardeau-Bollinger counties lake; the board of Concerned Citizens Conservation Association recently passed a resolution opposing Senate Bill 776, which would give the two counties an opportunity to establish a lake authority and pass a 1-cent sales tax to fund the lake.

Fewer than 600 rap music fans attended Saturday's De La Soul concert at the Show Me Center; it was one of the smallest crowds at a concert there.

1965

Petitions filed with the city Monday appear to have fallen short of having enough signatures to require an election on the council-manager question, Mayor W.E. Davis says.

WASHINGTON -- Strenuous objection was voiced yesterday by a delegation from Southeast Missouri on a proposal that local interests be required to pay an estimated $3.5 million for new flood easements in the New Madrid Floodway; Army engineers recently recommended some modifications in the Mississippi River levee system at the floodway; engineers said that because of the proposed changes, they believed new flood easements were needed in the 33-mile long floodway and recommended local interests provide these easements.

1940

A replica of a necklace worn by the former Mrs. Wallis Simpson, American bride of Edward, Duke of Windsor, and abdicated king of England, is on display in the show windows of the Cape Cut Rate Drug Store, 31 N. Main St.; along with the necklace, replicas of other stones that have made history in the wars, loves and intrigues of Europe, Asia and Africa are on display.

Dozens of volunteers pour into The Missourian's office in the evening, as director Bob Marshman sets up a temporary casting office there and interviews applicants; each applicant is asked to walk about the office so as to demonstrate poise and grace; this is particularly true of the older girls.

1915

In an explosive meeting of the Jackson Board of Education last night, J.H. Goodin was re-elected superintendent of public schools over J.E. Howard of Desloge, Missouri; the vote, requiring three ballots, was conducted in a closed session of the board.

The vote for the Cape Girardeau school tax of $1 on the $100 valuation of property in the school district carries on a vote of more than three to one.

-- Sharon K. Sanders