Out of the past: July 7

1991

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Dianna Moore, executive director of the Perry County Industrial Development Authority the past eight years, is leaving that post to take a job with the Missouri Department of Economic Development as director of the state's Community Development's programs.

The giant, fiberglass Indian with outstretched arm that has greeted football fans at Houck Stadium since 1981 is missing from its customary perch atop the stadium's doorstep; the behemoth, minus a pilfered right arm, was removed by university personnel, after an inspection found that it was cracked and in danger of falling.

1966

One of the most damaging storms to hit Cape Girardeau in recent years struck with fury in three main sweeps overnight; high winds knocked down power lines throughout the city and blew down trees; streets turned into streams, causing flash floods at Broadway and Caruthers Avenue and at Independence and Pacific streets; strong winds peeled off the roof of Plaza Supply Co., 2103 Good Hope St., causing some water damage inside the building.

L.W. McDowell, city electrical inspector, has been named as the Cape Girardeau city park superintendent, a newly created position; the move relieves Glen Seabaugh for full-time supervision of the Arena Building.

1941

The Rev. S.H. Salmon, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Jackson, has received a unanimous vote of his congregation permitting him a year's leave of absence to accept a commission as chaplain in the Army; he will leave July 15 to go first to Jefferson Barracks for his physical examination and then will be stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

The County Court decides to delay a formal order calling for a special election on a proposal to issue $65,000 in bonds to build a new airport until Acting Prosecuting Attorney James A. Finch looks into the legal angles connected with the plan; boosters of the plan hope to construct an airport near Dutchtown.

1916

Although Jennings Craig promised his foster-mother, Mrs. Varina Ward, when he left here yesterday for St. Louis he would return home Saturday or Sunday, his friends say he told them he was going to enlist in either the Army or Navy; they believe he won't be home for three or four years; Craig left here with Roy Clark, who also has ambitions to join the military.

An epidemic of smallpox is raging on the other side of the river from Cape Girardeau in Illinois; 31 cases are reported at Reynoldsville, a small town north of East Cape Girardeau; at McClure, there are six or seven cases.

-- Sharon K. Sanders