Out of the past: Dec. 27

1989

The Cape Girardeau County Commission puts on hold a request for a major expansion of the county's juvenile detention center, and takes under advisement requests for increased staff that would include providing full-time staff coverage of the facility.

Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department crews are working to clean overgrown brush from the islands in the Capaha Park lagoon; last week, four city workers spent three hours rounding up and hauling off one duck and 24 geese from the park to reduce overcrowding.

1964

After nearly two years of church and civic work, three Jackson Boy Scouts receive the God and Country Award at First Baptist Church; the boys are Mike Craig, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan R. Craig; William Hiatt, son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hiatt, and Stanley Bridges, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bridges.

A Kenosha, Wisconsin, man was trapped in his 1962 Ford last evening, after the car struck a bridge railing near Allenville and overturned in the Diversion Channel; the driver was in water up to his neck when he was rescued after being trapped for several minutes.

1939

The Cape Girardeau district is blanked in the first snow of the season; two inches of snow fell yesterday afternoon and this morning, and forecasts indicate the fall might begin again this evening; temperatures remain just above the freezing point.

More than 1,400 children attend a free motion picture show at the Broadway and Orpheum theaters in the morning, the entertainment being sponsored annually by the Rotary Club; each child receives a box of popcorn at the end of the entertainment.

1914

The stockholders of the Cape Girardeau County Fair and Park Association, at a meeting yesterday, voted nearly unanimously to make a proposition to the City Council to sell the fairgrounds to the people of Cape Girardeau for $30,000.

With the city's water pumping facilities stalled because of the frozen intake pipe in the river, Cape Brewery is offering residents water from its artesian well for drinking and cooking purposes.

-- Sharon K. Sanders