Out of the past: Jan. 22

1991

The Missouri Highway and Transportation Department is asking the Federal Highway Administration to appoint it as the lead agency for a feasibility study on whether to build a new east-west highway being promoted as Interstate 66.

Signing a lease for a proposed automated mail processing center in Cape Girardeau has been pushed back again, this time to April 29; the newest delay pushes the date back seven months beyond the original Sept. 30, 1990, deadline.

1966

The first real touch of winter strikes Cape Girardeau early in the day, draping the area in a white mantle of snow; a total accumulation of 2 inches is predicted for Cape Girardeau, as the snow continues throughout the day.

Completion is only a few days away for the new Big Star store at the southeast corner of Broadway and Kingshighway; the business is set to begin operations in the new quarters around Jan. 31, with a formal opening date to be announced later.

1941

After reading items in The Missourian about two other women who have made solo flights in recent months, Thelma Shively, a waitress at the Eat Shop on Broadway, declares she made her first solo flight at Poplar Bluff, Missouri, on June 16, 1935; since that time, she has made several flights over Southeast Missouri, into Arkansas, Illinois and Tennessee.

Work is expected to be completed in about 60 days on remodeling the ground floor of the building at 701 Broadway, occupied by one of the three Cape Cut Rate Drug stores; the location, recently badly damaged by fire, is being altered to take in more space at the rear and provide a larger store; while the work is going on, the store at that site is being operated in quarters at the rear of the damaged location.

1916

The Palace saloon on lower Broadway is added to the list of those wet goods houses that recently have been visited by robbers at an early hour; a sneak thief enters the saloon and carries off money, a pistol and several bottles of whiskey.

Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Champion and little daughter leave in the afternoon for Cairo, Illinois, to spend a few days with his parents; Champion is a Linotype operator at The Republican office.

-- Sharon K. Sanders