Out of the past: July 27

1991

Southeast Missouri Hospital announces construction of a 105,000-square-foot clinical services building, the major component of a $30 million expansion project; the three-phase project will be carried out over the next five years.

PADUCAH, Ky. -- At its annual retreat being held in Paducah this weekend, the Cape Girardeau Board of Education makes a commitment to improving education for its youngsters by building a new middle school; the board will ask voters to approve a bond issue to finance the new building.

1966

Gravel Hill is nearing an end; the four houses remaining of the 16 original houses -- built to house employees of what now is called the Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America -- will be moved; the employees aren't losing their jobs, but they no longer have to live that close to the pipeline.

The laying of underground telephone cable to connect Cape Girardeau and Illmo-Scott City for toll-free service between the two points is expected to begin within the next 30 days; Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.'s plan is also for non-toll service between Cape Girardeau and Jackson, but this will be accomplished by use of existing overhead cables.

1941

Following the morning worship service at the Christian Church, the pastor, John A. Abel, his wife and their small daughter, Rita Kay, leave for an extended vacation; they will return in time for the minister to resume his services Aug. 24; during Abel's absence, members of the congregation will be speakers at the morning services.

Laverne Williams has arrived from Abilene, Texas, and has begun her work as head of the Wesley Foundation, composed of Methodist college students, at Centenary Methodist Church; she succeeds Betty Glasson, who has taken a similar post at Lafayette, Louisiana.

1916

A large fly wheel in the heading plant of the Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. at Morehouse, Missouri, breaks into pieces while revolving several hundred revolutions a minute; it deals all but death to two men and injures eight or 10 others seriously; Tom Jones and Robert Rose are crushed and cut, and doctors say there is little chance of their surviving their injuries.

John H. Wells, manager of the new business department of the Missouri Public Utilities Co., will resign his position in the near future and move his family to Salt Lake City; the move should aid the health of Wells' 1-year-old son, John Henry Wells Jr.

-- Sharon K. Sanders