Out of the past: Dec. 5

1991

The Show Me Center's board of managers yesterday endorsed a proposal to expand the center, despite strong objections from one board member over how such a project would be funded. Charles C. Leming submitted a letter to fellow board members objecting to the proposal to use surplus money in the city tourism fund to partially fund construction of an addition for convention and meeting-room space.

Loretta Schneider, a former member of the Cape Girardeau City Council and unsuccessful mayoral candidate, has filed for election to one of three council terms that will expire next spring.

1966

Two men -- William A. Connally, 51, of Cape Girardeau and Arthur R. Adams, 17, of Jackson -- are found dead in the morning in the compartment of a gasoline barge on the Mississippi River. Cape Girardeau County Coroner Don Kremer rules the men died of "excess inhalation of gasoline fumes."

The County Court gives its approval to the Cape County Association for Retarded Children to use an apartment at the County Farm to house a custodian after Jan. 1. The State Retarded Children's School is at the farm, and the county says it will provide the quarters in return for the custodian keeping an eye on the rest of the farm.

1941

The steamer Golden Eagle, which was damaged when it struck a submerged piling north of Cape Girardeau last summer, will be all set to go the coming season, and already has a new hull. The boat has been taken back up river and is at what is known as the Alton Slough, a protected spot of water near Alton, Illinois, where the boat will remain during the winter.

Priorities in connection with securing and using metals haven't yet hampered manufacturing at the Superior Electric Products plant on Independence Street; however, after probably six months of 1942, the future is indefinite for operations.

1916

Students and teachers at the Normal School and followers of athletics in general in Cape Girardeau are highly elated over the admittance of the Cape Girardeau Normal into the Missouri State Athletic Conference. By being a member of the conference, the school will get many athletic dates it could not obtain otherwise.

Twenty carloads of United States soldiers, members of the Third Minnesota Regiment, pass through Illmo in the morning and stop there for several hours for recreation and to buy supplies. They are on their way home from the Mexican border, where they had been since last July.

-- Sharon K. Sanders