Out of the past: Feb. 21

1991

Members of the Faculty Senate at Southeast Missouri State University have given final approval to a much-debated merit-pay plan; under the plan, faculty members would receive an across-the-board pay raise of at least 3 percent annually for each of the next three years; in addition, faculty members would receive fringe benefits and $1,000 in merit pay awarded annually in those years to eligible faculty.

Narvol Randol Jr. was re-elected chairman of the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau during a meeting of the bureau's advisory board yesterday; David Ross was elected vice chairman and Beverly Estes secretary.

1966

A new wintry assault brings a widening band of snow to the district in the morning, making city and highway driving a hazardous venture; the storm, moving southeast, sweeps into Cape Girardeau around 7 a.m.; 1 to 3 inches of snow are expected to accumulate throughout the day.

Post 3838 here of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was presented with a perpetual charter at the quarterly meeting of the 15th District VFW and auxiliaries at Kennett, Missouri, on Sunday; a post must have at least 25 life members to qualify for the perpetual charter.

1941

A National Youth Administration project to improve a tract of land adjoining Fairmount Cemetery on the north as additional cemetery space for blacks is approved by Edward G. Hanlan, district NYA director, and will be submitted to the Cape Girardeau City Council for final approval; work on the tract will begin next week; black youths will be used on the project.

About 50 members of the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers, here for their annual meeting, go on a field trip that takes them over much of the Little River Drainage District system and to Cairo, Illinois, and the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway.

1916

Nine Frisco officials of one rank or another make a trip over the Cape Girardeau Northern Railroad, starting at Cape Girardeau at 7:30 a.m. and finishing up at Farmington, Missouri, at about 2 p.m.; Louis Houck, who insists Frisco bought the road but hasn't paid for it, says it is just an inspection trip by the owners.

Fred Groves, Ford agent for this district, is moving his automobile company into its new quarters; the building is a fine, two-story brick structure on Fountain Street, adjoining the big H.-H. Building.

-- Sharon K. Sanders