Out of the past: Feb. 13

1991

JEFFERSON CITY -- Sen. John C. Dennis, D-Benton, Missouri, has been named chairman of a new Senate Ethics Committee that will investigate any alleged wrongdoings by members of that chamber.

BENTON, Mo. -- Grand juries in Scott and Mississippi counties have issued over 60 indictments, most of them involving drug charges; 30 indictments were handed down in Mississippi County Feb. 5, and 31 indictments were issued in Scott County on Feb. 7; these are the first indictments issued since Circuit Judge Tony Heckemeyer convened the two separate grand juries in January.

1966

City Manager and Mrs. Paul F. Frederick and two of their children, Jon and Mary, meet a sizable representation of the Cape Girardeau public during a reception and open house at the Common Pleas Courthouse; as many as 400 people turn out to welcome the Fredericks to Cape Girardeau.

Lester G. Seabaugh, 51, owner and operator of the Blue Note Restaurant, 731 Broadway, dies unexpectedly while playing golf at the Kimbeland Country Club near Jackson.

1941

Confronted with the problem of finding more space for cemetery purposes, blacks of Cape Girardeau plan to make an appeal Monday to the City Council to assist them; all of the space allotted in Fairmount Cemetery for the burial of blacks has been taken up, and efforts to crowd in a few more graves have resulted in digging into others; blacks families in the community have asked mortician Frank J. Sparks to help them secure additional burial space.

The last of Cape Girardeau's once-proud team of 15 Golden Gloves boxers, a straggling remnant of men, were eliminated last night in the Eastern Missouri tournament at St. Louis; Dick Dagger, injured from the previous night's bout, lost by default; Alvie James went down on points; Jerry Brown lost by a third-round knockout; Lester Williams tossed a foul punch at his opponent and was immediately eliminated.

1916

The Fornfelt City Council has raised the saloon licenses from $400 to $600 a year; all music and pianos were ordered removed from saloons, and it was also ordered that paint be removed from saloon windows so the interiors are visible from outside; an ordinance was also passed forbidding punch boards.

All hope that Dennis Scivally would accept the reappointment to the important office of highway engineer, which he has successfully filled for several years, vanished yesterday when he flatly refused to be considered; to show how it felt about the matter, the County Court, just before adjourning last night, reappointed Scivally for another year.

-- Sharon K. Sanders