Out of the past: June 11

1990

The Mississippi River reached flood stage yesterday at Cape Girardeau; but tomorrow's expected crest at 34.1 feet won't be high enough to necessitate closing of the downtown floodgates; high waters covered most of the amphitheater seating on the river side of the floodwall during Riverfest over the weekend.

A representative of The Earth Bound Technology Corp. of Houston reports contamination at the Missouri Electric Works site by polychlorinated biphenyls is restricted to surface and subsurface soils; no groundwater is affected.

1965

Two barns were destroyed by fire when struck by lighting during overnight storms in Cape Girardeau County; a barn on the Edwin Peetz farm about 2 miles west of Gordonville burned to the ground, destroying a hay baler and several other pieces of farm equipment; at Millersville, a barn owned by Lloyd Caldwell behind the O.E. Bollinger store also burned down; it was reportedly full of new hay.

R.B. Oliver III, former circuit judge in Cape Girardeau, Scott and Mississippi counties, has announced the opening of law offices at 106 E. Washington St. in Jackson.

1940

SIKESTON, Mo. -- An Army air training field has been assured in conjunction with the Sikeston airport; the training field will include all of the present 160-acre airport east of Sikeston and an additional 175 acres required by the Army; the facility will include a ground school for the preliminary training of Army pilots.

James Kinder Jr., son of Judge and Mrs. James A. Kinder of Cape Girardeau, who was here over the weekend, departs for a trip West to California for a month before returning to St. Louis to do research and clinic work at Washington University; he is a senior at the medical school.

1915

Alvin Kempe, Price Banes, Clarence Pott and some friends of Pott, who are here for a visit, went down to Dutchtown last night on a frog hunt and brought back several dozen of the highly prized jumpers; the boys report the frogs are so thick along the banks of the creek.

Capt. Buck Leyhe hasn't been on the steamer Cape Girardeau this week; he remained in St. Louis on Monday to get the new steamer Peoria ready for its first trip to Peoria, Illinois; the new steamer was built for trade between St. Louis and Peoria, but the boat is so large there are some fears it will have to be kept on the Mississippi River.

-- Sharon K. Sanders