Out of the past: July 19

1991

A brief, weekend respite from the heat and humidity is over, and the "Dog Days of Summer" are here. The extended outlook calls for highs in the 90s and lows in the 70s.

The U.S. government has filed suit to recover about $615,000 it says it has spent in investigating the Kem-Pest Superfund site near Cape Girardeau and enforcing its cleanup, along with other actions. Government lawyers filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, acting on the request of the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

1966

State Sen. Albert M. Spradling Jr. of Cape Girardeau is the keynote speaker for the Midwest meeting of the Council of State Governments in Chicago. He tells participants too many state legislatures depend on the executive department and lobbyists for their information and are inadequately staffed to function effectively.

Cape Girardeau County native Dr. Earl Crader, chairman of the Department of Administration and Supervision at Memphis State University, will deliver the address at State College commencement exercises Aug. 5. The program will be conducted on the terraces of Academic Hall in the evening.

1941

Rain drenched a part of the district yesterday but skipped Cape Girardeau, which has been all but missed by previous rains. Only a light shower fell here, but from Jackson north, Cape Girardeau County got a shower that definitely broke any serious drought threat.

Southeast Missouri, if expectations of its area Boy Scout Council are reached, will contribute enough scrap aluminum in its part of a nationwide drive next week to add three giant bombers to the U.S. Army Air Forces. The 30,000 pounds of aluminum expected to be collected in this district won't be used in bombers, but will release that much new aluminum for the planes' construction. Scrap metal gathered will be used for secondary purposes.

1916

Charles Boutin, auditor of the telephone company; Bern Looney, manager of the Jackson telephone branch; Riley Hahn, hardware salesman; and Dennis Scivally, county engineer, are having a grand time, spending about a week fishing five miles from Marquand, Missouri.

The Valley Park Novelty Co., which for years has manufactured screen doors, ice boxes, ironing boards, clothes dryers, wooden toys and other articles of a similar nature, is to move to Cape Girardeau shortly. It is hoped the 80-man plant will locate in Leadville, the far south end of the city.

-- Sharon K. Sanders