Out of the past: July 30

1990

Chris Mathes is leaving his position as executive of the Southeast Missouri Boy Scout Council to accept a similar position with the Jayhawk Council based in Topeka, Kansas; Mathes has been with the local council since 1984.

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- City administrators and members of the Downtown Advisory Committee unveil plans for a $1.5 million redevelopment project of Perryville's downtown business district; about 50 people attend the meeting, some of whom own businesses in the 12-block area and stand to pay as much as $35 per foot for renovations of the fronts of their buildings as part of the project.

1965

Charles W. Boutin, who rose from clerk to president of a telephone company and then became one of the moving forces behind the acquisition of land for Trail of Tears State Park, dies in the morning at a local hospital; he was 79 years old.

Three more people become candidates for the Cape Girardeau City Council, bringing the number of announced candidates to 10; the latest to file affidavits with the city clerk are Robert J. Adams, Billy R. Beckett and Clyde M. Vaughn.

1940

Cape Girardeau gets its first measure of relief from the 11-day heat wave in the afternoon when a heavy shower of rain brings a temperature drop of 22 degrees in two hours; the mercury falls to 74 degrees at 2 p.m.

Heuer Truck Sales & Service moves from the building at 420 Broadway, being remodeled into a theater, to its new building on Sprigg Street, just south of Independence Street; the latter building is under construction, the first floor having been completed and brick work for the upper floor going forward; it should be completed in about three weeks.

1915

Ben Lundy, a dredge boat engineer, takes a bath at his home, 542 S. Frederick St., in the morning and shortly thereafter the house burns; it isn't exactly his bath or the taking thereof that does the work, but the fire he builds in the cook stove to heat the bath water does the destructive deed.

After a good night's sleep, Louis Houck declares from his hospital bed that he is recovered from injuries he received a recent buggy mishap; Mrs. Patrick Frissell, his daughter, arrives in the afternoon from Douglas, Arizona, where her husband is stationed with the Army.

-- Sharon K. Sanders