Out of the past: Feb. 22

1992

Area state legislators discuss education issues with teachers and school administrators at a meeting of the Missouri State Teachers Association at Drury Lodge. Association members tell legislators more money is needed for education immediately.

Teen pregnancy, drug abuse and other issues that trouble young people were discussed yesterday at the annual Community Caring Conference. The council is a coalition of about a dozen local social service organizations and groups; it and the conference are the brainchild of state Rep. Mary Kasten.

1967

A retired State College faculty member, Clara L. Hoffman of Cape Girardeau, has been named winner of one of the George Washington Freedoms Foundation awards, given annually to individuals, schools and organizations for contributions to the American way of life. Hoffman's winning entry was an essay titled "The Rights and Responsibilities of an American Citizen."

BENTON, Mo. -- Voters of Scott County School District, in a special election yesterday, defeated a proposal to issue bonds of $495,000 for the purpose of building an elementary school center at the site of the present Kelly High School, between Benton and Diehlstadt, Missouri.

1942

The 31-piece band at John S. Cobb School has secured new blue and white uniforms; the band made its first appearance in the new suits yesterday for a basketball tournament here. Gerald A. Brooks, director, organized the band two years ago.

Emma Fuerth, who resides north of Cape Girardeau on the Bend Road, fractured her right hip when she fell in St. Vincent's Catholic Church, where she had attended an early Mass. Fuerth, 76, is the mother of Dr. A.L. Fuerth, local physician and surgeon.

1917

The roundhouse is the only branch of the Frisco Railroad shops in Cape Girardeau that is now working; the machine shops having been closed and the employees paid off at the end of working hours yesterday. The employees in the roundhouse have heard they, too, will be laid off within the next few days.

The dedication of the new flag at the county courthouse in Jackson is an impressive affair, with several hundred school children and a troop of Boy Scouts in attendance. Col. L.M. Bean and Lee Masters, two Civil War veterans, hoist the banner while the children sing patriotic songs.

-- Sharon K. Sanders