Out of the past: April 9

1991

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education renames Hawthorn Elementary School for its retiring principal, Charles C. Clippard; Clippard has served as principal at Hawthorn for 25 years and has worked in Cape Girardeau schools for 35 years; he will retire at the end of the school year.

BENTON, Mo. -- The first phase of construction on the Missouri International Race Park motor speedway complex near here is almost complete; track spokesman Keith Simpson says they anticipate an opening day of May 11.

1966

Curfew for State College women has been extended to 1 Saturday and Sunday mornings; previously, the curfew had been set at midnight Fridays and Saturdays; the 10:30 curfew on week nights hasn't changed; the dress regulation which prohibits women students from wearing shorts or slacks on campus before 4 in the afternoon, or in downtown Cape Girardeau "unless covered by a long coat" is also being reviewed.

Vandals recently destroyed 17 trees at the Jaycee Park at Illmo; the trees -- birches, red bud and dogwood -- had been acquired by the Junior Wives Club and planted by the Jaycees in the park picnic area; two of the trees were pulled out of the ground, and the others were stripped and slashed.

1941

Arrangements have been made for an 8-acre school cafeteria garden in Cape Girardeau, and planting will start as soon as the ground is dry; a plot on the St. Vincent's College farm has been donated for use; along with the public schools, St. Vincent's College, St Mary's School and possibly St. Vincent's School will cooperate with the project; WPA labor will handle the planting, cultivating and food packaging.

A health program designed to give physical examinations and clinical advantage to hundreds of Southeast Missouri youths was initiated yesterday, when the first of 31 black employees of the National Youth Administration here were examined by Dr. W.A. Fingal, a black physician; dental exams will be conducted by Dr. M.R. Ransom, a black dentist from New Madrid, Missouri.

1916

The traffic between Jackson and Cape Girardeau is enormous; thanks to the automobile, people in the two towns visit one another as frequently and with as much convenience as they used to visit their friends in the next block; the fine, dustless pike road and the bracing air are particularly inviting to joyriders.

C.C. McSpadden recently came to Cape Girardeau from Arkansas to make his home; he has bought the Chenue home on North Frederick Street; he and his family several months ago suffered a complete loss of their home and its contents in a fire at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas; since moving here after the fire, the family has been living in the Vasterling home on Themis Street.

-- Sharon K. Sanders