Out of the past: July 9

1991

Circuit Judge A.J. Seier of Cape Girardeau says he will decide soon whether brief ballot wording for a proposed $385 million tax-and-reform package for education adequately describes the measure's tax increase; attorneys for three plaintiffs have brought legal challenges concerning the wording.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Work on the Highway 77 Cotton Belt railroad bridge overpass north of here has been halted until the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department determines if a compound mixed into the soil to stop soil subsidence at the bridge is environmentally safe.

1966

Lawyers and jurists from over the state joined the Cape County Bar Association at a dinner last night to pay tribute to Rush H. Limbaugh for 50 years of service as a practicing attorney, who has won prominence in local, state and national bar affairs.

Parking meter enforcement in Cape Girardeau reached new heights during the past fiscal year, when a record $3,526.79 was paid in fines; the 12-month period also saw a climb in meter receipts for the second year in a row, but the amount of collections, $36,639.55, was still short of the levels of several years ago; parking meters have been a part of Cape Girardeau life for 18 years.

1941

CAIRO, Ill. -- During a hearing here before the County Board of Supervisors yesterday, it was revealed that renewal of liquor licenses has been refused to four night club establishments in the vicinity of McClure, Illinois: the Colony Club, the Villa, the Curve Inn and the Purple Crackle; it was in buildings near these places that gaming equipment was seized in a recent raid.

Protests over enforcement of the government program which exacts a penalty of 49 cents per bushel, half the value of the grain at present prices, on wheat that was grown by farmers not complying with the Agricultural Adjustment Act, are growing in Cape Girardeau County as farmers start circulating petitions opposing the wheat ruling and asking that the entire farm program of the A.A.A. be abolished.

1916

The great tabernacle campaign conducted here for five weeks by Dr. Eli J. Forsythe comes to an end in the evening; the total number of converts who hit the sawdust trail during the revival was 935; at the final evening service starts at 7:30 and concludes at 11 p.m., and then the main workers, the evangelist and his assistants sit and rest and discuss the great closing scenes for another hour.

Roy Clark and Jennings Craig, the Cape Girardeau young men who left here last week for St. Louis, where they were reportedly going to join the Army or Navy, return home; they are still civilians.

-- Sharon K. Sanders