Out of the past: March 1

1991

The Cape Girardeau Golf Course Advisory Board yesterday recommended the city council maintain the current management structure at the Jaycees Municipal Golf Course and not hire a professional course manager. City Councilman Al Spradling III has advocated hiring a course manager as a way to improve the course and attract more players.

Students will be paying substantially more in incidental fees and room and board charges at Southeast Missouri State University. Through action of the Board of Regents, the combined tuition and room and board fees for many beginning students will total more than $4,500 for the 1991-92 academic year.

1966

Construction of the new Naval Reserve Training Center at Cape Girardeau is being held up until funds become available. The delay in the project, which had been scheduled to begin this winter, is apparently the result of the new spending demands brought about by the war in Vietnam.

The Jackson Chamber of Commerce last night voted to endorse daylight saving time for 1966. Along with that endorsement, the chamber recommended daylight saving time end Oct. 1 rather than toward the end of that month.

1941

Harold C. Chancellor, for 10 years manager of the Travelers Hotel at Lamar, Missouri, has signed a lease and taken over management of the Hotel Idan-Ha. The hotel, owned by Decker Hotel Co. of Memphis, Tennessee, was leased for a term of 15 years in September 1939 by H.H. Humbert of Terre Haute, Indiana. Chancellor and Humbert completed negotiations Friday whereby Chancellor assumed management of the establishment.

Gussie Maurer of Cape Girardeau opens a Skelly service station at Sprigg and Merriwether streets, in a building leased from Herman E. Hoyer. The station previously was a Conoco unit and had been closed about a month.

1916

Five girls studying at St. Mary's Grade School merited a general average of 90 percent or better in the February examinations: Anna Knaup, 95; Clara Gelven, 95; Antonia Haas, 92; Elizabeth Lefarth, 90; and Josephine Schaaf, 90.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Goehring leave in the afternoon for Frohna, Missouri, where they will spend a few days with his parents. From there, they will go to Canada to make their home. Mrs. Goehring formerly lived in Canada. Goehring has been working on the dredge machines south of Cape Girardeau for several months.

-- Sharon K. Sanders