Out of the past: June 14

1990

Cape Girardeau's Planning and Zoning Commission met last night to consider a request to amend the city's billboard ordinance only to have the request withdrawn; Bob Drury of Drury Development Corp. withdrew a request to allow the erection of 672-square-foot billboards along Interstate 55 within the city limits because the matter "isn't worth the aggravation."

Attorneys for the M&W Manufacturing plant and the Cape Girardeau County Commission sign final papers for the issuance of $1.3 million in revenue bonds to be paid off with tax increment financing; the bond money will be used for improvements at the plant site.

1965

Scores of volunteers -- police estimate more than 100 -- continue an intensive search for blond Elizabeth Ann Gill, 2, who walked away from her home, 324 S. Lorimier St., at about 4 p.m. yesterday and vanished; the tot, one of 10 children of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gill, had been playing with her siblings when she apparently wandered away.

Petitions said to contain the names of more than 3,000 Cape Girardeau residents asking for an election on the council-manager issue are filed with the city; this is the second petition effort on behalf of this question this spring.

1940

A telegram from U.S. Rep. Orville Zimmerman indicates $430,000 has been "found" to finance construction of a new federal building at Cape Girardeau.

J.A. Rigdon, owner of a brick building on South West End Boulevard, formerly used by the National Guard, says he hasn't leased the building yet; a prospective tenant -- rumored to be a wholesale liquor distributing agency -- is considering taking a lease, but a contract hasn't been signed.

1915

Thanks to the ladies of the Daughters of the American Revolution, many of Jackson's business houses and dwellings are decorated with the national color in honor of Flag Day.

Cape Girardeau doesn't have great love of country and the flag; although it is Flag Day, when every citizen should have the Stars and Stripes waving from his house or business place, there are probably only a dozen places so decorated; large flags flutter from First National Bank, the St. Charles Hotel, the post office, Hinchey's, Krueger'ss, The Republican Building and possibly a handful of other places.

-- Sharon K. Sanders