Out of the past: April 9

1993

Funding for a new building for the College of Business -- long considered the major capital priority for Southeast Missouri State University -- is included in the capital improvements budget approved this week by the Missouri House of Representatives; but final funding for the $13 million project is still a long way from reality.

Semi-retired Cape Girardeau surgeon Dr. Melvin C. Kasten has been elected president of the Missouri State Medical Association; Kasten is also a member of the Cape Girardeau City Council.

1968

The Rev. W.J. Moore, pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church, is in Atlanta to attend the funeral service of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Moore was accompanied by J.W. Gwin of Sikeston, Missouri.

Cape Girardeau's All-America citizens put on an All-American program in the evening to celebrate their achievement as an All-America City; the gala affair is held at the beautifully decorated Arena Building, at which participants hear salutes by LOOK magazine and the National Municipal League.

1943

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education reorganized last night, following Tuesday's election, and H.A. Lang was elected chairman; he had been filling in as presiding officer, after I.W. Upshaw went into the armed forces; at the meeting, the question of whether married women teachers will be hired, as a war emergency measure, was left undecided; the board has had a rule, in effect for more than 10 years, against hiring married women as regular teachers.

Because all manner of garbage was being dumped in the newly established city dumping ground near Fairmount Cemetery, and because the city cannot maintain a custodian there, it has been decided to abandon the plan of having two dumping grounds and only utilize Happy Hollow for a garbage dump; it will be strictly monitored.

1918

Cape Girardeau is now under the commission form of government; the old aldermanic government passed out of existence last night, when Mayor Will Hirsch declared the city council adjourned sine die at 9:30, and commissions of office were given to Mayor-elect H.H. Haas and Commissioners R.W. Frissell and Louis Wittmor.

The federal courthouse here is crowded with witnesses for the grand jury; men and women are coming from many counties to appear before the jury; it is said most of the witnesses have been called in loyalty cases.

-- Sharon K. Sanders