Out of the past: Dec. 14

1990

Soccer has been given the boot as a varsity sport at Southeast Missouri State University; the university's board of regents voted unanimously yesterday to terminate the intercollegiate soccer program, effective immediately; the action is the result of a lack of funding for the sport.

About 30 people attended a public hearing at the A.C. Brase Arena Building to protest a proposed fee hike at the Jaycee Municipal Golf Course yesterday; those in attendance told members of the Golf Course Advisory Board that poor management, not low user fees, is the root of the course's financial problems.

1965

Cape Girardeau school officials, recognizing the most immediate space problem in the system is developing at Central High School, are taking steps to obtain an outside opinion on the situation; the school board will ask a University of Missouri team to make a survey of the community and project the form the physical expansion of the school system should take.

Sen. Albert M. Spradling Jr. of Cape Girardeau urges the establishment of community mental health centers to combat alcoholism, crime and other social problems that are on the increase; he makes his remarks in Chicago to open a joint meeting of the Council of State Governments and the National Institute of Mental Health.

1940

Erwin Moss, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Moss of Cape Girardeau, will leave tomorrow for Northwestern University, where he will take a three-month course to become an ensign in the U.S. Navy; Moss, former athlete at both Central High School and the Teachers College, passed the examination as a midshipman during the summer and took a one-month cruise on the U.S.S. Tuscaloosa, being one of 88 out of 200 to pass the exam.

Paying admission with cans of food for Christmas baskets to feed the needy, children jam Broadway Theater to enjoy a free movie program.

1915

The Sturdivant Bank bid in the $40,000 issue of 4 percent bonds that was recently voted by the people of Cape Girardeau for the purchase of the fairgrounds and the improvement of the city's parks; the bid was for a premium of $1,628.

A movement has been inaugurated by the patrons of the public school systems of the cities of Illmo and Fornfelt for the construction of a joint central high school building next spring; the curriculum will consist of a five-year course in high-school branches; at present, both communities have high-school organizations.

-- Sharon K. Sanders