Out of the past: June 11

1991

Construction of a railroad spur into the Southeast Missouri Regional Port is underway, port commissioners were advised Monday; executive director Allan Maki told the board that a notice to proceed with construction was given Thursday to CRW Construction Co. of Little Rock, Arkansas, and work began Saturday.

The Cape Girardeau city staff counters claims the city will deficit spend under next year's $27 million operating budget proposal; Assistant City Manager Al Stoverink tells the City Council the sagging sales-tax receipts won't require deficit spending, but will require that funds from the city's motor-fuels tax be transferred from new street projects to general street maintenance.

1966

A 43-year-old Overland, Kansas, man is killed in the morning, when his car strikes the Old Appleton bridge on Highway 61, his body being thrown into Apple Creek by the impact; his death brings the number of fatalities at the bridge since 1945 to eight; ironically, the State Highway Commission is to conduct a special hearing today which will touch on the possibility of replacing or improving the Old Appleton hazard.

A Chinese junk, one of six shipped to America, is staying the weekend in Cape Girardeau on a cruise down the Mississippi River from Muskegon, Michigan, to New Orleans, Louisiana, with a crew of four.

1941

PANAMA -- A search party reached the wreckage of a crashed U.S. Army bomber in a Panama jungle last night, reporting four of the crew of seven are dead; among the three crew members missing is Staff Sgt. James T. Cartwright, 23, who was born in Cape Girardeau, but moved to St. Louis with his family when he was a boy.

Chief Clerk Allen A. Reed of the county draft board receives word from the state selective service headquarters that preparations are being made for the registration on July 1 of 22,150 men in Missouri who have passed their 21st birthday since last Oct. 16; the local boards will have to conduct the registration with little, if any, outside help.

1916

Justice of the Peace Orren Wilson was slugged in the head last night in the Hartle restaurant in the rear of the Edward Frenzel saloon, corner of Good Hope and Sprigg streets; Wilson didn't see the man who hit him, but several witnesses identified the miscreant; his arrest is expected in the next few days.

The closing exercises of St. Vincent's parochial school for boys are attended by a good crowd, in spite of the inclement weather; eighth-grade graduates are Fred Behrens and Fred Kage; the school is conducted by the Sisters of Loretto.

-- Sharon K. Sanders