Out of the past: June 17

1990

A blazing sun and mostly clear skies combine to create a new record high temperature at Cape Girardeau; the old record of 97 degrees, set in 1970, is tied at 3 p.m.; an hour later, the mercury creeps up to 98 degrees, making Cape Girardeau the hottest spot in Missouri.

Champion Odenof's Sassy Tomato, a 3-year-old Doberman Pinscher owned by Jane Odom and Douglas Jenson of LaPlace, Louisiana, is judged superior to more than 1,000 other competitors, taking home blue-ribbon honors in the 63rd Southeast Missouri Kennel Club All-Breed Dog Show at the Arena Building.

1965

The Cape Girardeau City Council finds petitions of council-manager proponents acceptable and calls an election July 20 to decide if Cape Girardeau should change from a commission form to a council-manager type municipal government.

A proposal that Cape Girardeau County hire a public health nurse and form a county health department is presented to the County Court for consideration; Melvin Lichtenegger, Jackson Community Betterment chairman, and Mrs. Herman Bock of Gordonville ask the court to look into the proposal.

1940

A committee of Cape Girardeau and Jackson residents, working to secure a major airport for Cape Girardeau County, meet with the County Court in a special session to ask that the court authorize the expenditure of $35,000 to purchase three farms totaling 372 acres, just north of Dutchtown; the court reports it doesn't have that much money to spend, but finally agrees that a way might be found to purchase the optioned land by using the county's reserve fund.

Eighty-three Boy Scouts from Cape Girardeau, Jackson, Fredericktown, Poplar Bluff, Bloomfield and Sikeston, Missouri, and four Scout leaders in addition to the regular camp staff, went to Camp Lewallen yesterday afternoon to begin the second week of the annual summer encampment sponsored by the Southeast Missouri Area Council.

1915

Gilbert "Red" Mabrey, the popular Haarig barber, purchased an automobile yesterday afternoon and initiated it into service by driving into a ditch on the Jackson gravel road, just outside the city limits; Mabrey had never operated an auto before.

A Hawaiian duo arrives on the noon train and will appear at the Park Theater for three days; this is the first time such an offering has been made here; both the man and his wife are accomplished musicians on native instruments.

-- Sharon K. Sanders