Out of the past: Jan. 31

1990

JEFFERSON CITY -- Former state Rep. Betty C. Hearnes of Charleston, Missouri, files to try to regain her 160th District House seat; Hearnes gave up her seat in 1988 to run as the Democratic candidate for governor, losing to Republican John Ashcroft.

Cape Girardeau's collection and disposal of trash no longer is buried under red ink; with the opening of a transfer station and an increase in trash fees last spring, the city's solid-waste program has emerged on a sound footing financially.

1965

The Missouri Baptist Student Union is sponsoring a summer missions program to send 15 volunteers to Jamaica as vacation Bible school workers and 10 students to the Southeast Missouri National Baptist Camp near Poplar Bluff to construct new buildings.

The annual Lyman Matthews Breakfast for all men of Centenary Methodist Church is held in the morning in the church dining room, with W.E. Davis preparing the meal.

1940

The plan to submit to voters of Cape Girardeau a new form of city government -- the city manager plan -- has been deferred until after the April Election; after the city election is over, petitions will be circulated calling for an election on the new form of government.

Trapped below a huge ice gorge at Gayoso Bend, east of Hayti, Missouri, government and privately owned river craft are waiting for the blockade and its wall of water to disperse; the effect of the gorge is being felt in the stage of the river here, as the water backs up.

The state files a suit in Common Pleas Court to condemn the right of way needed for improvement of State Highway 34 between Gravel Hill and the Bollinger County line.

1915

Richard Wakeland of Oran, Missouri, appeared in the office of the clerk of the Common Pleas Court here recently to request an application to get a passport to travel to London, England; Wakefield is a native of London and desires to visit there for three or four months; there is some thought he may be heeding the call of his former country for fighters against the Germans; his wife will remain at Oran while he is away.

Mrs. Ross Hayes Schachner, the national secretary of the young peoples' branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, lectures in the evening at a union service at the Presbyterian church.

-- Sharon K. Sanders