Out of the past: Feb. 12

1992

Crews are putting the finishing touches on a three-story, 198-space parking facility at Southeast Missouri Hospital; completion of the structure, which opened for parking this week, is the first step in Southeast's five-year building plan; the hospital also plans a $30 million expansion that will increase the size of the facility by more than 40 percent.

Cape Girardeau City Councilman Hugh White, contemplating a race for the Missouri Senate, yesterday withdrew as a candidate for re-election; White said he hasn't decided whether to seek the Democratic nomination for the Senate.

1967

Pre-Cana Conferences for engaged couples begin in the afternoon in the hall of St. Mary's Grade School; the conferences will be conducted on this and subsequent Sundays; a medical doctor, a lawyer and a priest address the couples, and a panel of married couples discuss marriage by relating personal experiences.

Six boys -- Harold W. Meyr, Burton Bock, Darrell Ludwig, Dan Younghouse, Ronnie Ludwig and Ronald Meyr -- help build and erect three crosses as reminders of the Lenten and Easter seasons; they are members of Good Shepherd Lutheran Chapel and have placed the crosses on a hill at the corner of Cape Rock and Bel Air drives, where the new church will be built.

1942

Its light hidden under a bushel for about a year, the Cape Girardeau Symphony Orchestra has announced a plan of activity beginning with a concert May 10 at Teachers College auditorium; Frieda Rieck, music instructor at Central High School, is director; the orchestra is made up of townspeople, college students and high-school pupils.

Another landmark is soon to disappear; the flour mill at Millersville is being razed; David Lange, the present owner, has concluded the old building isn't tenant-able, and the machinery contained in it is mostly scrap iron.

1917

Congressman J.J. Russell, in a letter to M.E. Leming of the Cape Girardeau Commercial Club, has advised that the Navy Department's armor-plate factory board of location will visit Cape Girardeau early in March; they will look at possible sites for the $11,000,000 factory.

Friends of William T. Ruff, an undertaker connected with the Lorberg Undertaking Co. of Good Hope Street, have about persuaded him to get into the race for city councilman from the third ward; Ruff ran last spring, but was defeated by Henry Brunke by 14 votes.

-- Sharon K. Sanders