Out of the past: March 11

1993

Repairs to damaged sections of new pavement on South Sprigg Street near the Lone Star Cement plant will begin next month, says Public Works director Doug Leslie; several sections of pavement, broken during the past few years by heavy vehicles crossing Spring near the cement plant's quarry entrance and near the old entrance to the cement plant, will be replaced.

ORAN, Mo. -- The Oran facility of the Golden Cat Corp. will close Monday; it's part of the company's plans to focus on its cat box filler business.

1968

About 180 delegates representing schools in 20 counties are expected to attend the annual Southeast Missouri Teachers Association meeting in Cape Girardeau this week at State College.

The Cape Girardeau County Court turns $5,000 over to the County Park Board for development of Klaus Park, the same amount given last year; park board treasurer Carl Penzel reports the board has a balance of $4,891 from last year's appropriation and the funds available should allow the board to open a road into the park.

1943

A number of people are at the Federal Building to file their second papers, seeking naturalization, before a representative of the U.S. Naturalization Department.

Bernice Blattel of Cape Girardeau, for more than a year a nurse at Saint Francis Hospital, has been called for active duty in the Army Nurses Corps; she will be attached to 70th General Hospital Unit; she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Blattel of Cape Girardeau.

1918

The bridge across the big drainage ditch is completed and once more traffic between Cape Girardeau and its neighbors to the south is in full swing; the bridge was finished Saturday evening, and four automobiles crossed it; Sunday, when the news was scattered through the immediate district, people began using the bridge, dozens of cars crossing over.

The safe at McAtee Mercantile Co.'s store in Jackson is robbed at an early hour, $205 in cash and $207 in checks being taken; at 2 a.m., Fritz Wolter hears an explosion, but thinks it is a tire bursting and pays no attention to it; later, Julius Schaper, the first McAtee employee to enter the building, discovers the blown safe; the explosion was so violent, the door was blown a distance of 15 feet and badly shattered.

-- Sharon K. Sanders