Out of the past: July 12

1990

Circuit Court Judge Michael J. Bullerdieck of Perry County has given the city of Jackson the green light to hold an election this fall to annex about 450 acres; much of the area to be annexed extends north and south of Bainbridge Road.

WASHINGTON -- A study proposal for a new coast-to-coast interstate highway, one passing through Missouri and Kansas, has cleared an initial legislative hurdle and is headed for the House floor for consideration; the House Appropriations Committee has approved $1.5 million in federal funds in the next fiscal year to help pay for a feasibility study of Interstate 66.

1965

The Cape Girardeau County Board of Equalization meets to organize and begin its two-week job of equalizing tax assessments; as its first item of business, the board takes up errors in the tax books.

An anonymous campaign against the council-manager government got started over the weekend with the circulation of unsigned handbills and unidentified recorded telephone messages; Cape Girardeau residents will vote on the issue July 20.

1940

A field of wheat on the E.G. Gramling farm near the Diversion Channel and just west of U.S. 61, was threshed yesterday, averaging a little better than 26 bushels an acre; there was a production of about 1,590 bushels from 60 acres; Buck Whitmer is the farmer.

Consolidated School of Aviation was located on Highway 74 near Cape Girardeau. (G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Barrett Cotner says the Cotner field on Highway 74, southwest of Cape Girardeau, has been leased to Clyde R. Primo of the Consolidated School of Aviation; the company will use the 60-acre tract as a private flying field, concentrating on the training of young pilots; a few years ago, American Airways prepared a runway on the farm.

1915

Secretary A. Hinchey of the Cape Girardeau Commercial Club reports the immediate starting of two more factories here; one is the Cape Girardeau Tool Handle Manufacturing Co. plant, which will employ about 20 men, and the other is a plant for the manufacture of floor-sweeping compounds, polishes and disinfectants.

Fred Kain, dray man and watermelon expert, returns in the afternoon from Scott County, where he spent the morning looking over the watermelon situation; he says there will be a lot of melons this year, but they will be a little later than usual in being shipped.

-- Sharon K. Sanders