Out of the past: Dec. 20

1990

Eighteen members of an Army Reserve medical detachment in Cape Girardeau are among 400 reservists from four Missouri medical units who have been called to active duty in support of Operation Desert Shield; the 18 members are from Detachment 2 of the 21st General Hospital, based at the Army Reserve Center here.

The Cape Girardeau City Council has approved a plan to build an underpass for a fitness trail as part of a new Bloomfield Road bridge; the underpass will be part of a nine-mile, $1.23 million fitness trail.

1965

Judge W.O. Statler of the Common Pleas Court rules in favor of the city of Cape Girardeau in its effort to annex new territory, terming the extension as "reasonable and necessary to the proper development" of the city.

Otto Fluegge, Cape Girardeau County highway engineer, presents a list of 18 proposed CART gasoline tax projects to the County Court; the projects are for the 1966 county road program and include four projects in Cape and Byrd Special Road districts; the total cost of the projects is $38,540, slightly more than the county anticipates receiving in the state funds.

1940

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Mayor O.T. Honey has been granted a year's leave from his municipal post while he is in military training with the 140th Infantry Missouri National Guard at Camp Joseph T. Robinson at Little Rock, Arkansas; L.D. Lankford will serve as acting mayor.

County Judge Fred Clippard suggests $1,000 be raised through $10 donations for an emergency fund, including money for fuel, instead of asking for donations of a small size to supplement the relief in the city and county as now administered; he says winter needs should be taken care of, to prevent suffering, in deserving cases; while the county Social Security staff looks after the main relief work, it can't supply all emergency needs, Clippard said.

1915

Basketball coaches and officials met at Sikeston, Missouri, over the weekend and adopted a schedule of high school games for the winter months; Cape Girardeau Central High will play eight games, four at home and four away, against the Missouri towns of Chaffee, Sikeston, Poplar Bluff and Charleston.

Jack Williams, the human fly, is in town; he's seeking permission to climb the walls of the H.-H. Building tomorrow evening; he doesn't use anything on his hand or feet, but merely crawls up a wall, hangs over the cornice and then climbs back down.

-- Sharon K. Sanders