Out of the past: Jan. 17

1990

Saint Francis Medical Center has begun a process that could lead to it offering open heart surgery; it's proposal to offer the service is pending before the Missouri Facilities Review Committee; Southeast Missouri Hospital is the only hospital in the region that offers open heart surgery, a service it began providing in 1984.

Educator Dr. Richard Farmer speaks to over 100 school administrators at the 24th annual winter meeting of the Southeast Missouri Secondary School Principals Association at the University Center; he discusses corporal punishment and the evaluation of special-education students, both of which could pose legal problems for schools.

1965

The Rev. M.R. Buller is the new pastor of the First Pentecostal Assembly, 1012 S. Ellis St.; he is replacing the Rev. Daniel Leslie, who has moved to Yakima, Washington, to pastor a church there.

The Riverside Regional Library headquarters on Union Street in Jackson is to be doubled in size; the present building, about 40 by 80 feet, will have an addition of about equal size constructed on the south end.

1940

Judge Frank Kelly charges the new Cape Girardeau County grand jury in Circuit Court; speaking of the law breaking for which the jury might look, Kelly mentions gambling, breaking of statutory and blue law regulations, "bucket shops" and the like; the jury is also charged with inspecting the county offices, jail and County Home.

Construction of a vault to safeguard city records, particularly those of the city engineer's office, has been suggested by Commissioner Phillip H. Steck; there is a danger of records being destroyed by fire, and most of them couldn't be duplicated.

1915

The congregation of Centenary Methodist Church holds its evening service at the Christian Church; it has been arranged to have joint services with the Christian Church members on Sunday evenings until the new Methodist church is completed.

Peter Dearmont, father of President W.S. Dearmont of the Normal School, dies at his home in Mound City, Missouri; his death comes unexpectedly, although he had been an invalid for several years; had he lived until April, he would have achieved the age of 80 years.

-- Sharon K. Sanders