Out of the past: March 1

1992

Storey's Food Giant, 201 S. Broadview St., closed about 6 p.m. yesterday in what a Storey's manager describes as a "permanent closing." Joel Kaye, Storey's district manager at Sikeston, Missouri, says the store was forced to close because of "a breach of contract" by owners of The Centre, the shopping development in which the store is located.

Survey work for the extension of Nash Road from Interstate 55 to the Southeast Missouri Regional Port has begun. Presently, the only entrance to the port is by going through Scott City.

1967

The most recent county audit, covering the years 1958 through 1962, has been received by the county and shows overpayments to Cape Girardeau County officials and employees totaling $48,000.04.

A lifetime's work of assembling, writing and editing the news of Cape Girardeau and its environs was concluded yesterday with the retirement of Aven Kinder, general news editor and farm editor of The Southeast Missourian. Kinder, whose farm page repeatedly has been judged excellent statewide, joined the newspaper staff as a reporter in March 1929.

1942

The Rev. J.C. McDaniel, former pastor of Maple Avenue Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau and for the past two years at St. Clair, Missouri, has been named pastor of the Methodist Church at Oran, Missouri, to succeed the Rev. George Heslar, who is to transfer to the Ballwin, Missouri, church.

Members of St. James A.M.E. Church launch a drive to secure funds to pay off the $3,200 indebtedness on the church property. The Rev. C.W. Williams, pastor, has charge of the drive, which is scheduled to close June 7.

1917

The Rev. T.M. Finley of Oran, Missouri, inventor of what he calls the "aerocruiser," is in Cape Girardeau on his way to Washington, having been summoned there by the joint aviation committee of the Army and Navy, that his machine may be examined by experts. Finley says if the aviation board accepts his aerocruiser for government use, he will insist the plant for its manufacturing be established in Cape Girardeau.

J.W. Jacobs, the Fornfelt newspaper agent, has put in the foundation for a skating rink in East Fornfelt, just west of the Brown studio building. The building will measure 44 by 80 feet, and Jacobs will manage the rink himself.

-- Sharon K. Sanders