Out of the past: Aug. 24

1993

A dispute between cable operators and area broadcasters could leave cable customers scrambling for "rabbit ears"; from Paducah, Kentucky, to Cape Girardeau, cable operators have threatened to drop the ABC, NBC and CBS affiliate broadcast stations from their lineups rather than pay retransmission fees.

Cape Girardeau County Presiding Commissioner Gene Huckstep says he has serious reservations about a riverboat gambling operation run from the harbor of the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority; earlier this month, it was revealed that a Memphis-based company had been negotiating with the port authority for a five-year lease.

1968

NEW MADRID, Mo. -- Citizens here yesterday gave almost unanimous approval to the issuance of $210,000,000 in revenue bonds to finance a gigantic industrial development project; the voter support assures funds for the construction of a huge aluminum reduction plant and a smaller wire and rod plant for Noranda Manufacturing Ltd. of Toronto, Canada, and a mammoth steam power plant to serve those and other industries.

The hot breath of summer scorched the Cape Girardeau area again yesterday, the mercury soaring to 99 degrees here, the highest reading of the season so far.

1943

The Cape Special Road District lets a contract to Charles A. Hood, the low bidder, for construction of more than a half mile of concrete pavement on Independence Street, extending east from Highway 61; the road district will do the grading and will start at once.

Carl Pensel of Jackson submitted the low offer when bids were received yesterday by the Cape Institute of Aeronautics on a proposal to construct a sewage disposal line from Harris Field to the Little River Diversion Channel; the line will run from the main sewage trap to the drainage canal, taking the sewage away from the port to the channel and eventually into the Mississippi River; sewage from the field is chemically treated in a filter trap and septic basin; the added installation provides the sewage will be pumped from the basin, after treatment, through the line and into the channel.

1918

C.E. Stiver, civil engineer of Cape Girardeau, has been employed by the city of Kennett, Missouri, to supervise the street paving construction which is being done there; Stiver is at present time the city engineer for Cape Girardeau, but is seriously considering making a change in residence to Kennett.

The Civic Improvement Association of Cape Girardeau has patriotically decided to erect at some conspicuous place a memorial board, on which will be painted the names of the men who are serving or will hereafter serve their county in the Army, Navy or Marine Corps.

-- Sharon K. Sanders