Out of the past: June 1

1990

Jack H. Higdon, general manager of West Park Mall since September 1985, announces he will be leaving Cape Girardeau this month; Higdon is being transferred, at his request, to St. Louis, where he will manage the Railway Exchange Building.

Mike Kohlfeld of Cape Girardeau is presented the "Cobblestone Award" by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce at its First Friday Coffee; the award, given annually, recognizes civic efforts and is presented by W.H. "Dutch" Estes.

1965

Silas T. "Slick" Carroll, an employee of Marquette Cement Mfg. Co. for 21 years, is fatally injured when struck by the bucket of a crane in unloading operations at the plant.

State College officials are looking for small houses to rent; Jack Hols, the college's facility director, says about 40 new faculty members, most of whom have families, will be arriving in Cape Girardeau within the next few weeks; many of them will be looking for two- and three-bedroom residences to rent.

1940

The R.M. Ollers frame dwelling at 1556 N. West End Blvd., is destroyed by fire shortly after midnight, with an estimated loss of approximately $4,000; Mr. and Mrs. Ollers and son, Grady, are forced to leave the house immediately and save virtually nothing.

The Cape Girardeau float, prepared by the chamber of commerce, wins second-place honors in the annual Poplar Bluff (Missouri) Jubilee; the float from Fisk, Missouri, takes first place, and Sikeston, Missouri, third; gracing the Cape Girardeau float are three local girls: Bette Baynham, the Cape Girardeau queen, and Virginia Buckner and Celeste Perkinson.

1915

The Southeast Missouri Baseball League was reorganized yesterday at a meeting held at Sikeston, with a four-team circuit: Dexter and Poplar Bluff being voted out; the revamped league is now made up of Caruthersville, New Madrid, Sikeston and Cape Girardeau.

Mrs. William Paar of Jackson has received word that her nephew, Herman Koehler, was killed in battle in Russian Poland during the first week of May; Reinhard Zschille, a farmer north of Jackson, also has learned of the death of his nephew, Walter Otto, who died on the battlefield in the Vosges Mountains last August; six of Zschille's nephews are or were in active service in the German army.

-- Sharon K. Sanders