Out of the past: Aug. 2

1990

The city staff this week adjusted the cost estimate for a downtown access route from the planned Highway 74 after a review of the cost by city engineer J. Kensey Russell; Russell's latest study estimates a downtown route aligned with Fountain Street would cost $600,500, $43,400 less than his initial estimate.

Motorists caught speeding along a stretch of Interstate 55 that runs through the city of Cape Girardeau have accounted for 275 speeding tickets since the city began a special interstate enforcement effort in March.

1965

The National Guard Infantry unit based here has returned from summer camp with the highest rating of any battalion participating in training exercises at Camp Ripley, Minnesota; the First Battalion, 140th Infantry, made an overall score of more than 91 percent covering simulated combat exercises and administrative, maintenance and supply operations.

A primary election toward the selection of a new city council is assured with the filing of the 11th candidate for office; the latest hopeful is the Rev. W.E. Pitts, pastor of the Second Baptist Church and president of the Cape Girardeau branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

1940

An application for funds to construct the proposed airport in the vicinity of Dutchtown is filed at Jefferson City, Missouri, with the Works Projects Administration; the application is the first of its type in the state filed under a new defense program listing.

Faced with the possible loss of a huge amount of garden produce, officials of the Randles Consolidated School District have issued an appeal for quart and half-gallon fruit jars; through a WPA garden project, five men and five women have raised a garden, with the food produced to be canned and used to feed 175 school children this winter; however, unless the appeal is answered, it's likely 1,000 quarts of tomatoes and an equal amount of corn will spoil.

1915

The Park Auto Co. is moving into its new home opposite The Republican office on Broadway; the new building is one of the most modern in the city.

Will Hirsch and family leave in the morning for San Francisco, where they plan on visiting the Panama fair and other points of interest throughout the West; they will be gone about a month; they will visit Hirsch's brother, George, who lives in San Francisco.

-- Sharon K. Sanders