Out of the past: Aug. 20

1993

Highway 51 at McBride, Missouri, still looks like a lake, and the Chester, Illinois, bridge across the Mississippi River remains closed to traffic; the bridge may be high and dry, but motorists can't get there from the Missouri side; the McBride area is still under water, the result of a July 25 levee break.

Nip Kelley Equipment Co. Inc., the contractor for the short segment of Lexington Avenue between Perryville Road and Concord Place, says the storm sewer work should be completed today allowing grading of the tract to begin; city engineer J. Kensey Russell says the section will be completed this fall.

1968

Cape Girardeau County Court has issued a call to Circuit Judge W. Osler Statler urging him to convene a grand jury; the court, in a letter to Statler, doesn't specify any particular thing to be investigated by a grand jury; two grand juries were called between 1963 and 1966, but none since.

Cape Girardeau's new Sheltered Workshop, created through public contributions, will begin to function in 30 to 45 days, according to Hilary F. Schmittzehe Jr., who spoke to the Cape Girardeau Rotary Club on Monday; the Sheltered Workshop will provide vocational training for the "trainable retarded" and will be housed in the Ruh Building on Good Hope Street; it will be directed by Norman Swann.

1943

Twelve people were injured, none seriously, late yesterday afternoon when a northbound Tri-State Trailways motor bus left Highway 25 two miles north of Jackson and crashed into a metal culvert at the edge of the highway; the bus driver started to drive around a truck after sounding the horn, but the truck cut in front of him to make a left-hand turn onto a rural road; the bus driver drove off onto the south side of the road to avoid a collision.

Officers and directors of the new Kiwanis Club at Chaffee, Missouri, were installed Thursday night at the Byrd Hotel; the officers are: president, O. Paul Krueger; vice presidents, the Rev. J.B. Jordan and H.G. Cooke; secretary, W.J. Ludwig, and treasurer, Bernard Papin.

1918

The Cape Girardeau Knights of Columbus has passed a resolution to throw open the doors of the club hall to all sailors and soldiers and others engaged in the service of their country, to be used by them day or night when in the city; the club hall is in the Sturdivant Bank building.

Joe Killough, serving with the Medical Department, 140th Infantry, in France recently wrote a letter home: "We are in the Alsace country. All the Cape boys are in the same sector and we see each other every day. There (have) been no casualties among us so far."

-- Sharon K. Sanders