Out of the past: March 10

1991

The North Cape Church of Christ begins meeting in the morning at the Show Me Center; the church has been in the planning for the last three years, as a part of the mission effort of Macon Road Church of Christ in Memphis, Tennessee; pastor of the new church is Randy Short.

Southeast Missouri State University president Kala Stroup announced Friday the new university sports complex will be named for Marvin Rosengarten; Stroup also thanked an anonymous couple who provided a "six-figure gift" toward the money needed to begin construction of the new complex.

1966

Throwing his support behind the Cape Girardeau Teen-Age Club's fund-raising drive, Mayor Charles A. Hood has declared Sunday "Johnny Rabbit Day"; local teenagers have invited Johnny Rabbit, a St. Louis disc jockey on radio station KXOK, to emcee a money-raising dance at the Arena Building on Sunday afternoon.

The Cape Girardeau Fire Department is notified gasoline or diesel fuel is seeping from pipelines owned by Mobil Oil Co., 1400 Giboney St., running underground near Vine Street to a terminal at the Mississippi River; the ground is damp and soggy in a large area about 20 feet from the nearest home; according to a resident of the area, so much fuel has seeped from the pipelines it can be scooped up in buckets.

1941

Construction for the National Youth Administration of a downtown building to house its district offices and three projects for the employment training of young men and women has virtually been agreed upon; the location hasn't been announced, although it is said to be only a block from Main Street.

Cape Girardeau police nab a 29-year-old Minneapolis man as he prepares to bed down for the night in the Miles residence at 805 S. Sprigg St.; it's the second night the burglar broke into the same house this week.

1916

Much to the delight of baseball fans in Cape Girardeau, Mayor F.A. Kage and the other members of the city council recently went out to the fairgrounds and took a look at that "deplorable ravine" that passes for a baseball field; it was decided to fill in the ravine, and pipe the runoff from the north end of the grounds to the pond.

The firm of Bruening-Kerstner Dry Goods Co. in Jackson is no more; Rozier Mercantile Co. of Perryville, St. Marys and Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, has taken over the remainder of the once magnificent stock.

-- Sharon K. Sanders