Out of the past: Dec. 30

1989

Gov. John Ashcroft has appointed Cape Girardeau lawyer John L. Oliver Jr. to a six-year term on the six-member Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission.

A dense fog yesterday and today on the Mississippi River hampers efforts to move a backlog of towboats and barges trapped in a 200-mile stretch of river between St. Louis and Cairo, Illinois; a temporary water rise coming down the river will allow some of the trapped vessels to pass through the area this week.

1964

Members of the Golden Eagles Marching Band depart from State College in the morning for their migration to the South, where they will present the halftime program for the National Football League's Pro Playoff Bowl in Miami on Sunday; there are 154 band members and eight members of the college faculty making the trip on four chartered buses.

Cape Girardeau's 1927 Bartholomew Plan, only slightly used with low mileage, may be traded in for a newer model; park commissioner Harry A. Siemers says representatives of Bartholomew and Associates have been invited to attend a joint meeting Jan. 19 of the city council, the planning and zoning commission and the park advisory board.

1939

A small frame building used by the Cape Rock Dairy Products Co. as a retail ice cream vending station last summer on Broadway near Harmony Street, and sold since to the Midwest Dairy Products Co., is purchased by the Lee Albert Coal Co., and moved to 19 S. West End Blvd.; Albert will use it as his coal company office.

Continuing unchecked during the year, Cape Girardeau in its 1939 building program constructed 129 new structures at a total cost of $624,066; of the new building, 116 were residences.

1914

Gerald Daley of Jackson passes through Cape Girardeau on his way to Chaffee, Missouri, to seek employment in the Frisco shops; Daley recently served out his apprenticeship as a machinist in the Iron Mountain Railroad shops at De Soto, Missouri.

Today marks the passing of the Haupt-Paar-Barks county court, this being the last session; the next court will be an entirely new one; William Paar will be the presiding officer and P.C. Kasten and G. Jacob Keller will be his associates.

-- Sharon K. Sanders