Out of the past: July 9

1990

For the second time in less than a week, the mercury in Cape Girardeau topped out at 100 degrees yesterday, as a blistering heat-wave returned to the area over the weekend; a chance of thunderstorms Wednesday could bring some much lower temperatures by the end of the week.

Workers at Lone Star Cement have voted overwhelmingly, 111 to 2, to become members of the Independent Workers of North America union.

1965

Southeast Missouri farmers, who already grow a variety of crops, have added Irish potatoes to the list; the spuds are being grown commercially in Mississippi County, and the current harvest of 160 acres is meeting with such a success growers say they may expand the operation in future years.

Four hundred men from Cape Girardeau and surrounding counties, members of a National Guard infantry battalion based here, will leave next week for mock war maneuvers similar to the real thing in South Vietnam; the First 140th Infantry Battalion will travel by truck and Jeep convoy to Camp Riley, Minnesota, for the 17-day camp.

1940

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education is discussing offering the old Broadway School site as a possible location for Cape Girardeau's new post office building; a price for the site hasn't been discussed, nor has there been any talk of a possible effort to have owners of nearby lots join with the board in offering the government a larger tract.

Consolidated School of Aviation of East St. Louis, Illinois, plans to open a private flying field for the training of pilots in Cape Girardeau in the near future; Clyde R. Primo, manager of the school, has made arrangements to lease a large field of the Barrett Cotner farm on Highway 74, formerly used as a temporary flying field.

1915

The brick work on the new garage building opposite The Republican office has been finished; in about another week, contractor Reisenbichler will turn the completed building over to the owners.

J.M. Samuel returns to his home in Memphis, Tennessee, after spending a few weeks with relatives and friends at Jackson and Oak Ridge; Samuel is a half-brother of C.A. Macon, the well-known Jackson merchant.

-- Sharon K. Sanders