Out of the past: Feb. 12

1991

An investigation by the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, in Kansas City, Missouri, finds the Cape Girardeau Public School's gifted program doesn't discriminate against elementary schools with high minority student populations; the investigation was prompted by an anonymous complaint.

Proponents of a 5-cent property tax levy to fund senior-citizen programs in Cape Girardeau County say many think the tax would only fund the Cape Nutrition Center; however, the $220,000 the tax would generate annually would fund health, nutrition and quality-of-life programs for people 60 and older in the county.

1966

A sale is conducted in the afternoon in the historic St. Charles Hotel building, at Main and Themis streets; chairs, tables and many other pieces of furniture used in the hotel are auctioned off.

Capping ceremonies of the Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing in St. Louis were yesterday at the Holy Cross Lutheran Church there; out of the class of 87 students receiving caps, three were area girls: Janet Wessel of Gordonville, Jane Seabaugh of Jackson and Joyce Kuntze of Burfordville.

1941

A movement launched by pupils several months ago to secure an "open night" at the Central High School building at intervals when dancing, games and other forms of recreation under supervision could be allowed will come before the school board at a public hearing Feb. 20; the hearing was ordered after a petition from the Central Parent-Teacher Unit was presented asking approval of the plan.

A $1,600-per-month payroll and training in clerical and other lines of work for 200 girls and young women is going by the boards in Cape Girardeau because a suitable building to house the program can't be located.

1916

Mrs. W.E. Sorsby, who now lives in Muskogee, Oklahoma, is offering for sale a two-story frame house and one of the best lots in the city, at the corner of Broadway and Henderson Avenue; she is most anxious to dispose of the property.

John Randol and brother, farmers living on a rural route near Cape Girardeau, sell a bunch of hogs to Duke Miles that are as fine porkers as have been seen this winter; the hogs are only 6 months old, but average slightly more than 200 pounds each.

-- Sharon K. Sanders