Out of the past: April 27

1993

Two new principals have been named to head Cape Girardeau elementary schools; Barbara Kohlfeld, who has been a facilitator in the schools' gifted program for the past five years, has been appointed principal of May Greene School; Barbara Blanchard, who has been the interim principal at Washington School the past year, has been named the permanent principal.

Strapped in two buckets suspended above the flooding Mississippi River, bridge inspectors from the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department are examining the steel superstructure of the 68-year-old Mississippi River bridge at Cape Girardeau this week and next; while the inspection continues, one-way traffic is in effect on the bridge, resulting in delays of up to 30 minutes in crossing the span.

1968

Members of the Southeast Missouri Press Association, meeting in Cape Girardeau, adopt a resolution saying they will continue to publish the news in the future as they have in the past, ignoring the security code -- the Reardon Report -- adopted by the American Bar Association; the resolution is one of the features of the morning business meeting that leads off the 76th annual meeting for area newsmen at the Flaming Pit Restaurant.

A. Robert Pierce Jr., 29, a Cape Girardeau lawyer and the city's mayor, filed yesterday as a Republican candidate for the Missouri House of Representatives, 155th District which takes in most of Cape Girardeau.

1943

Flight instructor Dominic Cassera, 20, and Aviation Cadet David B. Frederick, 20, of Harris Field, lost their lives Monday, when their Army training plane crashed on a farm five miles east of Benton, Missouri; the crash occurred during a routine flight from Lee Field, the east auxiliary field to the main flight base here.

ST. LOUIS -- The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses District Judge John C. Collet in his decree condemning Cape Girardeau's Common Pleas Courthouse and park as a site for a new post office and federal building; the condemnation had been appealed by Isca W. Carmack, one of the descendants of Louis Lorimier, who originally conveyed the land in 1807 as the permanent site of the "seat of justice" for the District of Cape Girardeau.

1918

Clayton B. Crow of Ellington, Missouri, a Normal School student for a number of terms, died at an Atlantic port April 14, as he was ready to leave with his company for France; he was taken ill with pneumonia on April 4, his 29th birthday.

Acting Scott County School Superintendent B. Hugh Smith has placed a service flag in the lobby of the courthouse at Benton, Missouri, for the teachers who are in military service; 10 stars appear for the following instructors: M.E. Montgomery, Arthur Schivitz, Ernest Peoppelmyer, Frank Smith, E.A. Fulbright, Creal Black, Joe Hawkins, Herman Leuddecke and Roy Parker.

-- Sharon K. Sanders