Out of the past: Jan. 14

1990

LifeBeat, the air medical service at Southeast Missouri Hospital, makes a precautionary landing in a field near the Interstate 55 Fruitland rest stop in the evening, when it develops an oil pressure problem; the patient, being transferred to Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, is transported the rest of the way by ambulance dispatched from Perry County.

Authorities on both sides of the Mississippi River are warning residents not to do any outdoor burning until weather conditions improve; the warning comes as firefighters in Southeast Missouri battled a series of wildfires last week.

1965

The Missourian newspaper learns that the city council met secretly the night of Jan. 6 with a number of liquor dealers and tavern operators at the Moon Distributing Co. offices; only police commissioner Al Nenninger was among the five councilmen not present; the meeting was called by liquor interests in a lobbying attempt to have the council maintain the status quo on liquor-by-the-drink licenses; it apparently failed.

The Cape Girardeau County Court gives its approval for use of the basement at the County Farm Retarded School as a workshop for older retarded children.

1940

BENTON, Mo. -- For the present, Masses at St. Denis parish are being celebrated in the Circuit Court auditorium, the combined church and parochial school having been ruined by fire recently; school classes are being held in the public schools, the courthouse and a Boy Scout cabin, until new facilities can be constructed.

Sunday school is disrupted at General Baptist Church when fire breaks out in a second-floor room; the men attending the school use buckets of water to bring it under control; a youth, John Proffer, discovers the fire in a closet as he is hanging up his cap.

1915

Conrad & Hamilton's rock crusher is running at full blast at Whitewater and is turning out rock at the rate of 35 or 40 cubic yards a day; the company has a $1,000 contract with the town of Whitewater to furnish rock for its streets.

Dr. A.F. Henning, 79, formerly a physician here, dies in St. Louis; Henning lived in Cape Girardeau more than 25 years ago, at the corner of Good Hope and Spanish streets, in the Fougee property; Dr. Henning had been official physician to St. Vincent's College here.

-- Sharon K. Sanders