Out of the past: April 5

1991

Scott City plans to finance a large part of the $563,500 cost of water- and sewer-line construction to the Nash Road industrial area through a 12-year $360,000 bond issue. A $290,000 grant from the Department of Economic Development, which the city applied for in 1990 to finance the lines, has been rejected.

Cape Girardeau County Presiding Commissioner Gene Huckstep says a new board to oversee the allocation of tax money for services for senior citizens will be established within 90 days.

1966

Cape Girardeau attorney Earl S. Mackey files with the secretary of state's office as a candidate for state representative from Cape Girardeau. Mackey, a Democrat, previously had announced he would be a candidate from any legislative district which included the city. Under a reapportionment plan filed last week, Cape Girardeau became a district entitled to a representative.

For the first time in more than 20 years, a Cape Girardeau police officer with almost 25 years of continuous service here has retired. The occasion called for a special appreciation banquet, which was held last night at the Arena Building, in honor of Joe Lee Woods. More than 80 city, county and state law-enforcement officers attended.

1941

Excavation began yesterday for an office building C.A. Juden is erecting on the east side of Spanish Street, half a block north of Independence Street. The brick structure will house the National Youth Administration offices. Another Spanish Street building, one block north, also has been started; Louis Hecht is putting up a one-story structure to house the state employment office.

Missing for seven years during which efforts to find have proven fruitless, Roy Ehrenschneider, onetime World War flyer and resident of Cape Girardeau, may be declared legally dead at the next session of Common Pleas Court. An application to administer his estate has been filed with the court by his father, George Ehrenschneider of Cape Girardeau.

1916

Two new members, W.H. Seagraves and Henry Brunke, were elected to the Cape Girardeau City Council yesterday. Two old members, Arthur C. Bowman and W.H. Medley, were returned to the council by good majorities.

At yesterday's election in Jackson, the wet element elected three city councilmen and the drys one. There were near-riots in one or two wards at certain times during the day, and it's possible the courts may be invoked to settle some disputes, although cooler heads on both sides of the alcohol issue are advising the matter be dropped.

-- Sharon K. Sanders