Out of the past: Feb. 22

1990

Plans are being made to expand the public defender's office in Jackson to include two additional counties by closing a satellite office in Benton, Missouri, next month.

The city of Cape Girardeau is one of 87 municipalities in Missouri whose waste water discharge facilities didn't meet state standards between Jan. 1, 1988, and Sept. 30, 1989; the city was cited for not implementing a pre-treatment program for waste water going into its treatment plant.

1965

The Missouri Commission on Higher Education spends the day on the State College campus here; the commission is considering a proposal to establish branches of the University of Missouri at Joplin and St. Joseph; part of the same package is a bill to establish a branch of Cape State College as a junior college in the Bootheel.

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education decides to construct an 18-classroom elementary school on Hopper Road in one project under contracts totaling $430,765.61; the alternative would have been construction of only a 12-classroom school initially, with a six-room section added later.

1940

Resumption of construction work on the new levee between Gale and McClure, Illinois, which was stopped last summer by a labor controversy, will begin within a week if weather conditions permit.

For the first time since the commission form of government was put into effect in Cape Girardeau in April 1918, Louis Wittmor won't be a candidate for commissioner at this year's election; he has served 12 years, or six terms, as commissioner.

1915

Rumors and tales of silver deposits in the north part of Cape Girardeau County and south Perry County have led to the organization of a stock company to search for ore in a systematic way; a big drilling machine was purchased for $1,200, and test drills are being made on the farm of Theodore Ponder, 2 miles north of Appleton.

The Retail Druggists' Association of Cape Girardeau will give a banquet for the town's doctors and undertakers Wednesday evening at the Commercial Club rooms in the Elks building; the purpose of the meeting is to get doctors, druggists and undertakers to work more harmoniously together than they have in the past.

-- Sharon K. Sanders