Out of the past: Dec. 18

1991

The Convention and Visitors Advisory Board will include two new members when it begins next month to discuss proposals for use of the city's tourism funds; the Cape Girardeau City Council has reappointed the board's chairman, Narvol Randol Jr., and Robert Hoppmann, but replaced Show Me Center director David Ross with Walt Wildman, director of the Regional Commerce and Growth Association; Dan Drury of Mid-America Hotels Inc. was appointed to a vacancy left by the death of David McKinney.

Nearly 12 years ago, Grace V. Hoover of Southeast Missouri State University had an idea for an adult day-care facility; yesterday, Hoover was honored by the university and community for the idea that became a program and now bears her name: The Grace V. Hoover Eldercare Center Program.

1966

The music ministry of Red Star Baptist Church presents its annual Christmas program in the evening; three choirs -- the Cherub Choir (ages 6 to 8), the Carol Choir (ages 9 to 12) and the Sanctuary Choir -- participate in the program.

New officers of the Cape Girardeau Ministerial Alliance of the coming year recently were elected; they are: president, the Rev. Max R. Jenkins, pastor of First Christian Church; vice president, the Rev. Clyde F. Byrd, minister of education at Centenary Methodist Church; and secretary-treasurer, the Rev. Max D. Sullivan, pastor of St. Mark Lutheran Church.

1941

Cape Girardeau learns of its first war casualty, a 19-year-old youth who had been on sea duty for three months; he was Lloyd Dale Clippard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Clippard of Cape Girardeau and Bloomfield, Missouri.

WASHINGTON -- The United States entrusts supreme command of its Pacific fleet to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz; he succeeds Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, who with two other top-ranking officers of the Hawaiian area was relieved of command; Kimmel is a son of former Cape Girardeans, Mr. and Mrs. Manning M. Kimmel; they left here in 1872, moving to Henderson, Kentucky, where Admiral Kimmel was born.

1916

From 10:30 to 10:35 this morning, the Frisco Railroad stands still; not a train moves nor an employee turns a hand out of respect to W.C. Nixon, the late president of the railroad who died Friday afternoon.

Cape Girardeau furniture dealer Phil A. Hoch has secured the contract to furnish the new Rock Levee school with desks; as soon as the desks are installed, the new school will open; the old Rock Levee schoolhouse was burned several months ago.

-- Sharon K. Sanders