Out of the past: March 13

1992

Parents of children attending Washington School are demanding a full-time principal be hired for the coming school year. The school is one of two in the Cape Girardeau School District that may be forced to share a principal next year as part of a $1.2 million budget cut approved by the school board this week; May Greene is the other school.

Southeast Missouri State University provost Leslie Cochran is one of three finalists for the position of president of Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio.

1967

Members of the County Court make arrangements to conduct the State Park Board on a tour of the Bollinger Mill site at Burfordville; the court meets with Rep. Marvin E. Proffer, who has been working with the State Park Department in an effort to get the mill taken over by the state as a historic site and recreation area.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Twelve people have filed as candidates in the April 4 city election. R.H. Capshaw is the only candidate thus far for the office of mayor, although his official status as a candidate is awaiting the outcome of a special election on the annexation of his property into the city limits.

1942

What often has been heralded as the school of the future became the school of the present this week at Central High School when several scores of men, taking advantage of the numerous vocational courses offered in the new shop recently completed as an annex of the high school, are engaged in learning a trade. A woodworking course is being taught by Hal B. Lehman and an auto mechanics course by Lonnie Temple.

Mack Randol, son of Mrs. Allen Randol of Jackson, has been reported missing in Asiatic waters. He is the fourth Cape Girardeau County sailor reported missing or lost in action; the others are Lloyd Dale Clippard of Cape Girardeau, Noble B. Harris of Fruitland and Rupert Webb of Millersville.

1917

In a recent edition of The Poplar Bluff (Missouri) Republican, the newspaper paid a nice compliment to Louis Hecht, who is preparing to open a new store in Cape Girardeau; the article calls him "one of Poplar Bluff's most aggressive young businessmen."

The workshop, tools and many supplies of Al Huhn, the well-known plumber, are ruined by fire in the evening when a bolt of lighting strikes a tree on the Huhn premises and springs to the shop. The fireman answering the telephone misunderstands the operator, and the fire engine is driven to 604 S. Sprigg St. instead of 604 N. Sprigg

-- Sharon K. Sanders