Out of the past: Feb. 9

1990

Two of the finalists for president at Southeast Missouri State University also are among finalists for the presidency at Northeast Missouri State University in Kirksville; the two, Dr J. Wade Gilley and Dr. Kala M. Stroup, are among three presidential finalists at Northeast Missouri State and among four finalists at Southeast.

The city staff is proposing that municipal airport property be designated as a special zone and that new buildings in the zone be limited to two stories or 30 feet in height.

1965

The Cape Girardeau City Council voted three to two yesterday in favor of annexation of new territory to the north, west and south; under the plan, the new northern limits would extend from the Mississippi River to Interstate 55 near Wedekind Park, adding about a mile on the north; the line would then follow the east right of way on Interstate 55 southeastward to the highway's intersection with the Frisco Railroad tracks; the tracks would become the south city limits as far eastward as the present line.

The Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport Board yesterday voted to ask an engineering firm to prepare a revised plan incorporating a longer runway at the airport and other upgrades to the facility.

1940

More than 1,000 Boy Scouts in the Southeast Missouri Area Council initiate the national observance of Anniversary Week of the Boy Scouts of America by attending classes in full uniform; this is the 30th anniversary of Scouting in America.

Duke Allan says he will open his new movie house at 109 Independence St. on Monday or Tuesday; the location is the former Vogelsanger hardware store; Allan's first picture will be "Code of the Fearless," a musical western; the serial will be "Kit Carson."

1915

The firm of Hoosier Land and Investment Co. of Sikeston, Missouri, is the lowest bidder for two big contracts in the dredging for the Little River Drainage District; the contracts are the largest in value, aside from that for the dredging of the big diversion channel.

Henry Young and Charles G. Wilson have opened the Valley Supply Co. at Broadway and Pacific Street, offering to the public a service station for tires, tubes, gasoline, oil and auto necessities.

-- Sharon K. Sanders