Out of the past: Jan. 11

1990

Secretary of State Roy Blunt, at a news conference at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport in the morning, outlines recommendations for ethics legislation that would include financial disclosure for all state elected officials and some local officials.

A state highway that would run from a new Mississippi River bridge to Interstate 55 would cut across a number of city streets, but won't result in dead-end roads; City Planner Kent Bratton explains the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department will construct short, connecting streets between the various streets cut off by the new highway.

1965

Freezing rain that built up an ice coating on telephone and power lines in the Bootheel disrupted service over a wide area when lines and poles snapped under the weight of the ice.

A cable shooter yesterday brought not only telephone company trouble shooters into play, but also the FBI; about 4:55 p.m. Sunday, phone service to the Federal Aviation Agency Flight Service Station, the airport and other users in that area went out; someone with a shotgun, apparently standing on the closed bridge of old Highway 61, fired a shot directly into the cable.

1940

A hearing on the complaint of the National Labor Relations Board against the Missouri Utilities Co., based on charges of unfair labor practices filed by Local No. 2 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, begins before board examiner J.C. Batten of Washington, D.C., in a courtroom of the Federal Building.

William H. Coerver, 91, a two-term mayor of the community and one of the organizers of First National Bank, died last night; born in Monroe County, Illinois, Coerver traveled about over several states before coming here in 1873; he was in the drug business here for 50 years.

1915

About 1,000 people gathered at the riverfront yesterday afternoon, apparently wanting to get a first-hand view of a predicted conflict between classes of laboring men; however, nothing disturbed the calm of the day; 4 p.m., the appointed time of the protest, passed and not an idle worker appeared to say a word in support of the demands that 10 foreigners employed on the riverfront improvements be discharged and their places given to home laborers.

A dapper young fellow, quick acting and talking, is arrested in the afternoon after policeman Ed Beeve takes three ineffectual shots at him near Main Street and Broadway; when searched at the jail, a small arsenal is found in his clothes and the bundle he carries.

-- Sharon K. Sanders