Out of the past: Jan. 15

1991

A $5.4 million budget approved by the Cape Girardeau County Commission yesterday reflects a 4.4 percent increase in revenue and expenses for this year, but in his annual budget message, Presiding Commissioner Gene Huckstep warned flat sales-tax growth and increasing expenses in most areas of county government will make it necessary to keep a close eye on funds.

BENTON, Mo. -- Circuit Judge Tony Heckemeyer has ordered the empaneling of grand juries in Scott and Mississippi counties; the juries were requested by prosecutors as well as private citizens.

1966

Cape Girardeau city manager Paul F. Frederick is preparing a general city purchasing system he hopes to implement Feb. 1; he also will institute new accounting and budgeting procedures.

Ozark Air Lines announces it will improve the commuter-flight service between Cape Girardeau and St. Louis by providing more non-stop flights; presently, there is only one daily, non-stop flight from here to St. Louis.

1941

Earl J. Davis, 32, a salesman of Independence, Missouri, was brought to Southeast Hospital last night for treatment of injuries sustained when his DeSoto coupe left Highway 25 at Old Appleton, went over a 12-foot embankment and landed in Apple Creek, right side up, but turned in the opposite direction; the crash and Davis' calls for help were heard by Barney Balsman and others at Old Appleton, who found a cold, drenched Davis sitting on top of his car.

In tents heated with natural gas and equipped with electric lights and with three blankets to the bunk, the enlisted men of Service Company, 140th Infantry, Missouri National Guard, now in the Army at Camp Robinson, Arkansas, are missing few of the comforts of home.

1916

The Rev. F.Y. Campbell announces his sermons tomorrow will be his last as pastor of First Baptist Church here; at the morning service, a vote will be taken on the pastor's resignation.

A half dozen Illinoisans have a very narrow escape from being dumped into the Mississippi River about 8 a.m., when they get caught between several ice floes while trying to cross the river to Cape Girardeau; after getting caught between the floes and carried to a point below the bend about five miles south of here, the six people in two skiffs give up the idea of coming to "the Cape."

-- Sharon K. Sanders