Out of the past: Jan. 30

1990

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A ruling by the Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee clears the way for a new open-heart surgery program at Saint Francis Medical Center; the hospital, which said the cost will be under $400,000, hopes to get its program underway by midyear.

At the Cape Girardeau Jaycees' annual awards banquet, Mike Kohlfeld, vice president and general manager of Kohlfeld Distributing Inc., is presented the Distinguished Service Award and Joe Gambill, plant manager of BioKyowa Inc., is named Boss of the Year.

1965

The on-again, off-again winter came on strong again overnight, leaving Cape Girardeau and area wrapped in numbing cold and cloaked in white; the new blast from the north drops the thermometer at the municipal airport to 7 degrees in the morning; the wind-whipped dry snow is measured officially by Lee Albert at 1 1/4 inches downtown.

The State License Bureau here will open Tuesday in a new location with a new agent; Russell R. Young will move the office from the Town Plaza Shopping Center to 220 N. Main St.

1940

The concrete pavement on Broadway, 50 feet east of West End Boulevard, bulges upward and threatens to disrupt traffic; city engineer John Walther says freezing under the street evidently caused the 3- to 4-inch upheaval; before noon, a water main under the concrete also breaks.

Allen Oliver of Cape Girardeau has been appointed a Missouri delegate to the 35th annual Rivers and Harbors Congress by Gov. Lloyd C. Stark; other delegates include John W. Wolpers of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and Langdon Jones of Kennett, Missouri.

1915

Frank M. Robinson, secretary of the Cape Girardeau Commercial Club, has received a letter from Frank M. Robinson, manager of the moving picture exhibit of Missouri activities fore the Panama Exposition at San Francisco, inviting the club to send films representing the city's activities.

Officers Ed Beeve and Arthur Whitener, Cape Girardeau's efficient night police, raided a craps game in the rear of E.C. Ramsey's tailoring and pressing shop on Main Street last night, arresting four young men engaged in the game; a fifth made his escape by running into the front room and diving through the glass door.

-- Sharon K. Sanders