Out of the past: March 14

1992

U.S. Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., is the featured speaker at the Cape Girardeau County Republican Day banquet in the evening at the Arena Building; he calls for reform of the way Congress operates.

Youngsters wielding shovels, rakes and wheelbarrows transform a pile of gravel and sand into the beginnings of a small desert plot at Nell Holcomb School; the rock and cactus garden is part of the school's outdoor classroom.

1967

A University of Missouri survey team, giving the Cape Girardeau school system a favorable review, recommended, among other things, additional reorganization of nearby districts, development of a public-relations program and expansion of adult education. The team had particular praise for the programs offered in the schools here, singling out Hawthorn School for individual praise.

A third of the million dollars needed in local funds to build a new Saint Francis Hospital now has been pledged, it was announced yesterday at a luncheon at the Holiday Inn to kick off the drive of the big-gifts division. That division has a total of six gifts amounting to $74,050 already pledged.

1942

Aliens of enemy countries residing in Cape Girardeau County, like those living elsewhere in the various states, now are restricted by government order as to their comings and goings. The unnaturalized persons are under regulations requiring them to move about, away from their place of residence, only when absolutely necessary; that is, they may go to and from work, to church services, funerals and the like.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brown of Jackson have been notified by the Marine Corps their son, Fred H. Brown, 21, is a prisoner of war in Asia.

1917

According to City Counselor Oscar Knehans, the widening of Main Street south of Independence Street is being delayed, awaiting the acceptance by the reorganized Frisco Railroad company of the franchise granted to the old company, but Knehans expects notice of such acceptance by the latter part of the week. The Frisco has agreed to pave the entire width of Main Street from Independence Street to the south line of Merriwether Street.

Contractor J.W. Gerhardt of Cape Girardeau goes down to Chaffee, Missouri, to complete the new school building, which has been under construction since September. At a recent meeting of the Chaffee school board, it was decided to stop contractor J.E. McCarty of St. Louis from further work, and Gerhardt then was employed to finish it.

-- Sharon K. Sanders