Out of the past: Jan. 12

1990

Sen. John Dennis will introduce a bill next week in the Missouri Senate that will allow voters in Cape Girardeau and Bollinger counties to approve a 25-year, 1-cent sales tax and establish an authority to oversee the development and maintenance of a proposed 7,700-acre recreational lake; the bill will make changes in a measure passed two years ago that authorized the counties to approve a sales tax for 15 years to construct a lake, but made no mention of establishing an entity for overseeing the lake.

Construction workers are putting the finishing touches on the 150-bed Cape Girardeau veterans home; the facility was slated to be completed in December.

1965

Members of the Cape Girardeau Board of Education last night signed $795,000 worth of bonds, which will be used to remodel the old junior high school and construct a new grade school; in reference to the proposed elementary school on Hopper Road, superintendent Charles E. House says it is hoped the architect will have the specifications and plans prepared within the next week and a half, and that a call for bids will then be made.

Gov. Warren E. Hearnes of Charleston, Missouri, yesterday raised his right hand and took the oath of office on the steps of the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City.

1940

Highway 34, from the Cape Girardeau County line to Marble Hill and Lutesville, Missouri, will be relocated and hard-surfaced as soon as the right of way can be obtained, according to the State Highway Commission.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- In the first major step toward finding a solution for the pressing farm workers' problem in this cotton-growing district, registration of those tenants and sharecroppers who may be without a farm on which to live is started at five points in Southeast Missouri.

1915

Oscar Linhart, a boy living near New Hamburg, Missouri, wins the $50 cash prize at the Normal School corn show for having raised 84 bushels and 45 pounds of corn on an acre of ground.

A.D. Bowles, an agent of the state public utilities commission, arrives in Cape Girardeau, where he will look over the waterworks plant and the system generally; he came in response to a complaint filed with the commission by the water and light committee of the city council against the water service the local company is giving the city.

-- Sharon K. Sanders