Out of the past: Feb. 1

1997

Paul Ebaugh has joined a small, prestigious group; Ebaugh, retired consulting construction contractor and bank president, was named recipient of the Rush H. Limbaugh Award last night; the award was presented by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce during the chamber's annual dinner-dance held at the Show Me Center; also honored were Horizon Screen Printing and Promotional Products, which received the Small Business of the Year Award, and Cathy Schlosser, who received the Go-Getter Award; Schlosser's award was for her outstanding work with the chamber's membership committee.

The city of Cape Girardeau has announced its five Employees of the Year for 1996; the recipients are Brock Davis, Brad Dillow, Tracy Lemonds, Mary Thatch and Stephen Williams.

1972

Hedging his bets, Raymond H. Vogel, County Republican Central Committee chairman, refuses to comment on State Auditor Christopher "Kit" Bond's decision to seek the Republican gubernatorial nomination; Vogel says he won't endorse either Bond or Rep. R.J. "Bus" King, who had had the field virtually to himself before Bond's announcement.

Jackson voters give nearly 80% approval to a $2 million revenue bond issue for expansion of the city's electrical generating facilities; the vote clears the way for early action on the expansion, with engineering plans for the project to be presented to the City Council Monday for review.

1947

Plans for construction of new river terminals, each of which will be started as soon as materials can be delivered, are announced by two major oil companies; the terminals, to be located near each other in south Cape Girardeau, are to be erected by the Shell Oil Co. and Standard Oil Co., and involve expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

An urgent appeal for donors with type AB blood is made to provide transfusions for Ernest Strong Jr., 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Strong of Cape Girardeau, who was injured when struck by an automobile Jan. 22 on the Mill Street hill; the youngster is in serious condition at Southeast Hospital.

1922

At a citizens' banquet in the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce rooms last night, 175 men attending voted unanimously to go ahead with a bond issue to raise $125,000 for the improvement of Fairground Park as a memorial park; plans call for a park that would serve residents all year round, with baseball, tennis and other sports in the summer and football, the county fair and livestock and other shows in the fall and winter

COMMERCE, Mo. -- Loot valued at about $10,000 -- including jewelry valued at $3,500 and stolen from the home of A.N. Ireland here -- has been recovered by peace officers of Scott County and Cairo, Illinois, with the arrest of a man Monday at Cairo.

-- Sharon K. Sanders