Out of the past: April 3

1992

Construction on the next major phase of the $3 million Lexington Avenue arterial project in Cape Girardeau is well underway; if the weather continues to cooperate, city officials say the street should be completed from Kinghshighway east to Perryville Road by the middle of the summer.

Should Southeast Missouri State University athletics remain under the control of a provost? That's a question being asked by university officials and faculty as Southeast prepares to begin a search for a new provost to replace Leslie Cochran.

1967

In a realignment and advancement of its staff, The Missourian has appointed Don Gordon as city editor and has moved Cecelia Sonderman to his position as municipal affairs and general assignment reporter. The shift in duties is the result of the recent retirement of Aven Kinder, for 38 years a reporter and editor at The Missourian.

Work on two additional 12-story dormitories at State College isn't expected to start for at least two more weeks, reports the McCarthy Brothers Co. of Ladue, Missouri, one of the contractors; McCarthy and the J.E. Hathman Construction Co. of Jefferson City, Missouri, submitted the low base bid of $3,311,500 for the project in December.

1942

After having served five years in the Army during the first World War, John A. McGuire, a Cape Girardeau machinist, has gone back into service, this time in the Navy to do his bit in the war against the Axis powers; he departed over the weekend for San Diego, where he will take up his duties as a machinist mate second class.

The Cape Girardeau City Council has appointed R.P. Smith as city attorney, succeeding Robert Oliver; the appointment will be effective April 11, when Oliver, as a member of the Army officers reserve, is to go into active Army duty.

1917

Rough work on the magnificent mausoleum that is being erected in Lorimier cemetery at the top of the north end hill, where the colony of departed is to look over a broad expanse of the country to the south, is rapidly nearing completion; the walls, especially the exterior and the hollow tile centers, are up to the point where the roof attaches. The walls are of Bedford limestone, clear and white, every stone cut to perfect dimensions and set by the hands of master workmen.

Employees of the Frisco freight house and those working at the round house are demonstrating their loyal enthusiasm and patriotism by floating the stars and stripes to the breezes. An American flag flies above the freight house; down at the round house and engine shops, plans are in the works to raise a 20-foot banner atop an 80-foot steel pole.

-- Sharon K. Sanders