Out of the past: July 10

1991

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education last night formally approved a contract hiring Neyland Clark as superintendent of schools; the board also approved hiring Terry Kitchen as the district's athletic director.

Lights flicker for only about a second through much of Cape Girardeau early in the afternoon, after an earthmover strikes a 55-foot-tall utility pole on North Sprigg Street Road near Cape Rock Village; but others aren't so lucky; about 500 Union Electric customers in the Cape Rock Village area are without power much of the afternoon and early evening, while the current is turned off and the pole replaced.

1966

The Rev. W.W. Pitts, pastor of Second Baptist Church since 1962, is honored at fourth anniversary services; churches from Cape Girardeau and Jackson take part in the observance.

Hoping to beat the heat, thousands of people descend on Trail of Tears State Park; more than 5,500 people visited the park yesterday and today as temperatures hit the 100-degree mark; Lake Boutin is a popular destination in the park for swimmers and sunbathers.

1941

Members of the Cape Girardeau City Council have agreed to take the Frisco franchise-easement snarl to Federal Court for a solution, as negotiations have moved slowly since the question was formally taken up last month; the city proposes to file a petition in U.S. Federal Court to force a settlement over Frisco's use of Cape Girardeau streets and of city-owned, non-street property through town.

As a cooperative project between the State Department of Education and the WPA, an aircraft sheet-metal class, using portable equipment, will be established here, probably in late August; it will be a link in the national defense training program.

1916

Trainmen coming in from Pemiscot and Dunklin counties report the schools in those counties opened today; classes will run until October, when they will shut down for two months for cotton picking; classes then will resume.

Dr. and Mrs. R.E. Cunningham give an evening outing in honor of their guest, Ella Mundy Ramey; the girls and boys gather at the Cunningham home around 6 p.m., and then motor to Burfordville, where they spend the evening and enjoy a picnic supper.

-- Sharon K. Sanders