Out of the past: April 9

1990

Almost a year to the day of a similar power outage, the lights go out in the morning for parts of the Cape Girardeau area; Union Electric officials say the cause of the 37-minute outage is the same as that on April 12, 1989: a "faulty" fault detector in the UE switching station in South Cape Girardeau.

Cape Girardeau firefighter Paul Breitenstein climbs a tall ladder to install three mylar balloons on the wooden columns of Common Pleas Courthouse; the balloons, which sport big eyes, are an effort to scare away a pair of woodpeckers that have damaged three of the columns.

1965

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education reorganized last night with one new member, an occasion that also marked the end of Walter H. Oberheide's long service; the board renamed Joseph J. Russell president for the third year and also re-elected Dr. Hugh V. Ashley vice president; Carl G. Meyer succeeded Oberheide on the board.

For the first time in the nine-year history of the event, classmates from the same high school take major honors in the Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair; Allen E. Long and Ronald Summers, seniors at Sikeston (Missouri) High, are named winners of the coveted, all-expense trip to compete in the National Science Fair-International in St. Louis form May 5 to 9; Michael Crowder, a pupil at Cape Girardeau Central High, is named the Navy Science Cruiser.

1940

Federal Court Judge George H. Moore grants a motion presented by Sen. R.L. Dearmont, counsel for Guy H. Thompson, trustee for the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which gives authority for the trustee to sink four oil wells on right of way of the Mo-Pac line in Marion County, Illinois.

The Rev. B.V. Wulff and four members of Zion Methodist Church, west of Gordonville, appear in county court to request aid in improving a roadway to the church; the court promises to loan some of the county's road machinery for that purpose.

1915

S.D. Hensley, the well-known and prosperous farmer living near Jackson, and two sons, Joe and Robb, bring over several fine beeves, which they sell to Frank Lawler; Hensley is a scientific farmer, feeding his cattle scientifically and getting good results.

C.E. Tinsley, formerly connected with the Chero-Cola Bottling Works in Cape Girardeau, has established an auto service between Cape Girardeau and Allenville and intermediate points.

-- Sharon K. Sanders