Out of the past: Aug. 29

1990

The lack of a women's safe house in Cape Girardeau because of the closing of the Women's Information Service Inc. (WISER) is spurring some leaders to set up a new facility; the safe house is already incorporated as a non-profit agency known as Safe House for Women; a building is yet to be found for the agency.

Provost Dr. Leslie Cochran defends the suspension of faculty merit pay as a necessary cost-cutting move at a Southeast Missouri State University Faculty Senate meeting; the suspension of merit pay for the current year was among budget cuts made recently by the Board of Regents to offset greater-than-expected withholding of state funding and increased health insurance costs.

1965

Services at Trinity Lutheran Church include the installation of two new teachers for the Christian Day School and a farewell sermon by Vicar Roland Kroll; Kroll will be returning in the near future to Concordia Seminary in Springfield, Illinois, for his final year of schooling, after serving a one-year vicarage here; the new teachers are Katherine Braeunig of Sioux City, Iowa, and Viola Rattel of Napoleon, North Dakota.

The Rev. Donald G. Pelsue delivers his farewell sermon, "A Man for All Men," at First Christian Church in the morning; Pelsue will leave Tuesday to become pastor of Bethany Christian Church in St. Louis, a newly organized congregation.

1940

The 1940 annual Homecomers opened with a bangyesterday at Jackson, but the peak of attendance came after 8 p.m., when the crowds were swelled by many country folk and Cape Girardeau people; the weather was ideal after the rain, with no dust and no excessive heat; highlighting the entertainment was a show by brilliantly attired acrobats and gymnasts.

The Cape Girardeau City Council has passed ordinances for licensing and control of motor buses and taxicabs to be operated on city streets; on Sept 6, the city will be ready to receive applications of bus companies which desire to operate here.

1915

Robert Brinkopf and Louis Krueger, two popular anglers here, catch an alligator-gar in the river that weighs 33 1/2 pounds and is nearly five feet long; Krueger says the monster almost overturned their boat several times before he is brought to shore.

J.P. Young of Kansas City, Kansas, arrived in Jackson yesterday to look into the kaolin deposits around the city; the Jackson Commercial Club recently sent him samples of the kaolin; Young represents one of the largest concerns in the country, which manufactures insulators and other paraphernalia for electrical work; kaolin has been mined in this community in a desultory way for over 25 years.

-- Sharon K. Sanders