Out of the past: March 13

1990

Eager fans will converge on Cape Girardeau on Friday and Saturday for the NCAA Division II South-Central men's basketball tournament. The Southeast Missouri State University Indians will meet Southern Indiana in the second game Friday night, the first being West Texas versus Missouri Western.

Maintenance workers are busy preparing an office for Stanley A. Grimm, judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District, in the Common Pleas Courthouse Annex. The occasion may be the first time a Missouri appeals judge has had an office in Cape Girardeau.

1965

Members of Campus School Cub Scout Pack 3, Den 1, built 10 nesting boxes for wood ducks as a Webelos service project this winter. They have been installed high in trees in the I.R. Kelso Memorial Bird Sanctuary on Cape Rock Drive.

The 150th anniversary celebration of the incorporation of the city of Jackson will begin Monday, and nearly all civic events taking place after that date will be keyed to the sesquicentennial. August is expected to be the busiest month of the year, with major events leading up to the annual Homecomers celebration.

1940

Definite announcement is made that a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, now at Perryville, Missouri, will be moved to Jackson. Approval of a 15-acre tract of land, on the Bailey property, east of Jackson, between the old Cape-Jackson Road and U.S. 61, as a site for the camp will be recommended by engineers.

Work is to begin soon on a new dwelling on Alta Vista Drive for Mr. and Mrs. R.E.L. Lamkin Jr. The structure will be a five-room, colonial type house and will be on the east side of the drive, facing west, just north of Normal Avenue. Will and Walter Klaproth are the contractors.

1915

Otto Kochtitzky, the prominent drainage contractor, was nominated for mayor of Cape Girardeau at a mass meeting held in the courthouse last night; the meeting was attended by about 150 representative voters.

Henry Yount, distributor of the new Monroe roadster, has been kept busy this week demonstrating the little car. Within one hour after the first car arrived, he made the first sale, Tony Wulfers being the purchaser.

-- Sharon K. Sanders