Out of the past: Jan. 28

1991

A six-member committee will study the possibility of establishing a county-wide 911 emergency response telephone reporting system for Cape Girardeau County; this is a joint project of the county and the cities of Cape Girardeau and Jackson.

The original Missouri state flag, which was made here 80 years ago, is brought home one last time by Secretary of State Roy Blunt; he unveils the restored, hand-painted, silk flag at an assembly of fifth- and sixth-grade pupils at Franklin School; now sealed in a permanent case, the flag will be returned to Jefferson City, where it will be put on permanent display.

1966

Bone-chilling temperatures, which completely reversed a trend 12 days ago, are stubbornly hanging on to Cape Girardeau, threatening if anything to become worse and bring snow besides; since Jan 16, nighttime temperatures have regularly slipped into the teens or lower; the extended cold has frozen the lagoon in Capaha Park thick enough to allow ice skating.

State College's Cheney Hall, which has been in continuous service since 1939 as a men's residence hall, will be occupied next school year by women students; the move was prompted by expected increases in enrollment next year and by the fact the two high-rise residence halls now under construction probably will not be completed until the latter half of 1967.

1941

Don Faurot, head football coach at the University of Missouri, spoke last night at a dinner meeting of the Cape Girardeau's three service clubs and the Missouri University alumni; the meeting, held at the Hotel Marquette, was attended by about 125 people.

Unless definite action is taken to seat someone as governor of Missouri within the next few days, there will be quite a few delayed paydays around town, particularly at the Teachers College, where salary checks are due Feb. 1; the political snarl has killed appropriations efforts in Jefferson City.

1916

The Cape Girardeau Commercial Club receives a written proposition from M.D. Miesner, president of the Miesner Manufacturing Co., for the relocation of his factory to this city; the Miesner plant, which was in Wittenberg, Missouri, recently was destroyed by fire.

Mike Delurey is taken to the county farm in the morning in Martin Lorberg's ambulance; he'll remain there until he recovers sufficiently from the broken leg he sustained in a fall from a beer wagon last week to get out again.

-- Sharon K. Sanders