Out of the past: Jan. 31

1991

Tuition at Southeast Missouri State University may be going up as much as 10 percent next school year in the face of a budget crunch; in-state tuition alone now amounts to about $750 a semester; a student who attends school in the fall 1991 and spring 1992 semesters could end up paying a total of $1,650 in tuition.

The National Catholic Education Association has awarded Carl E. Rosenquist the 1991 Catholic Elementary School Distinguished Graduate Award; Rosenquist, a graduate of St. Augustine School in Kelso, Missouri, is principal of St. Vincent de Paul School in Cape Girardeau.

1966

The Superior Electric plant in Cape Girardeau is idle because of a lack of heating fuel, but should be back in operation tomorrow; Missouri Utilities Co. had asked the company not to use gas for heating purposes this weekend because of the low temperatures, so the community would be assured of an adequate reserve gas supply for homes and certain other buildings.

At a presentation in the Social Security office, Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Zimmer Jr. of Cape Girardeau receive the first two health insurance cards issued in Southeast Missouri under the new Medicare program; in addition, Zimmer is later given the James P. Reinagel Past President's Award at a meeting of the Breakfast Optimist Club.

1941

City fathers have back in their laps the knotty question of putting a merchants' license ordinance on the books; an advisory committee, appointed in December, reports it has done no good in coming up with a solution to the problem; one suggestion was a rehash of the city's most recent ordinance, with the amount of license based on $1 per $1,000 of retail business done.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Initial plans have been made by the Chaffee Chamber of Commerce to raise $6,000 to be used in the construction of a 50-by-100-foot addition to the Sports Specialty Shoe factory here.

1916

Rising at the rate of an inch every two hours, the Mississippi is at 35.3 feet at noon and gives indications of going to a modern record; the Frisco tracks on the levee are completely inundated from the foot of Themis Street to William Street; trains still are passing over the tracks; South Cape Girardeau, especially the manufacturing district, also is flooded.

The heavy rains of the last few days caused the sidewalk on William Street, just across the street from Tom Lilly's feed store, to cave in Sunday night; about 150 feet of the walk went into the deep ditch on the north side of the street.

-- Sharon K. Sanders