Out of the past: Feb. 13

1992

State Sen. John Dennis, vice chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee that will consider a House-passed bill increasing the state's fuel tax by 6 cents, predicts the bill will receive quick approval in the Senate; the measure should be on the governor's desk early next week, Dennis says.

U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson is in Jefferson City, Missouri, to file for his seventh term in Congress; yesterday, Emerson spoke at the Cape Girardeau Lions Club luncheon meeting.

1967

A daringly bold burglary was staged in the morning at the residence of Charles A. Juden Jr., 306 Independence St., where guns and camera equipment valued at $2,545 were stolen from the downstairs hallway and dining room as the family slept upstairs.

Formation of a historical society for the city of Cape Girardeau is being spearheaded by the Teen Age Club; the society will be for adults, and various organizations in the city have been invited to send delegates to the initial meeting Sunday afternoon at the TAC building; the purpose of the society is to extend the work of the Cape County Historical Society and to attract visitors to Cape Girardeau.

1942

The grim realities of a world at war will be brought home even more forcefully to an approximate 3,000 Cape Girardeau County men tomorrow, Sunday and Monday, when they register for possible military combat duty in the third enrollment of manpower under the Selective Service Act; in Cape Girardeau and Jackson, the registration will be held the first two days, as well as Feb. 16; the other 13 registration centers in the county, however, will be used Monday only.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Crashing in a vertical dive in a cotton field near Blodgett, Missouri, air cadet William P. Klaus, 21, of the Missouri Institute of Aeronautics, is killed instantly; his death is the second at the Army primary-training center here this week.

1917

A big St. Bernard dog was rescued from a cake of ice in the middle of the Mississippi River off the South Cape wharf Monday by Donald Pind, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Pind, who live in the far end of the city; the dog was noticed standing aboard a large block of ice rapidly floating south; young Pind jumped a floating piece of ice and stepped from one to another until he reached the dog.

The chassis for the big automobile ambulance to be built for the Lorberg Furniture & Undertaking Co. arrives in Cape Girardeau; the old ambulance carriage will be transferred from the horse-drawn ambulance to the new chassis.

-- Sharon K. Sanders