Out of the past: Jan. 16

1990

About 150 people participated in the annual Memorial Freedom March from the Common Pleas Courthouse to Southeast Missouri State University last evening; the march is held during the observance of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr. Charles Ernst, 67, has earned a 25-gallon pin for blood donations from the American Red Cross; Ernst, an optometrist with Pearle Vision Center in West Park Mall, began giving blood when he was 17.

1965

Winter sank its fangs into Southeast Missouri late yesterday, bringing severe cold, ice and snow and leaving a hazardous layer of glaze on area highways and city street; although the snow, which began late Friday afternoon, fell heavily at times here, it accumulated only 1 3/4 inches at the airport and somewhat more than that in the city.

Four employees of The Southeast Missourian newspaper, whose combined experience amounted to 124 years of work for the company, are retiring; they are Fred C. Gerecke, foreman of the press room and stereotyping operations; Flora Denecke, switchboard operator; Jean L. Giroir, Linotype operator and composing room machinist; and Herbert H. Howes, circulation manager.

1940

Examiner J.C. Batten of the National Labor Relations Board dismisses the board's petition for jurisdiction over the Missouri Utilities Co., bringing to an end a four-day hearing in the Federal Building here on charges the company engaged in unfair labor practices.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Blechle and daughter Ruby, who had been residing at 300 Sunset Blvd., have moved to their remodeled dwelling on Cape Rock Drive, formerly the Casita Inn.

1915

When wheat jumped to $1.30 per bushel yesterday, from the former high price of $1.25, a dozen or so farmers who have been delivering wheat to the Cape County Milling Co., began to take added profits, having saved their harvest of last summer; the new price is the highest here since the winter of 1898.

Captain Harry Bridges discusses with Louis Houck spending cuts to the Normal School his committee is making to the Legislature; the school had requested $270,000, but the committee has reduced that figure by $66,000; items eliminated were construction of an agricultural building and dairy barn.

-- Sharon K. Sanders