Out of the past: March 15

1990

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- The people of Marble Hill have received a double dose of good news; a new industry -- Heartland Industries of Cape Girardeau -- is coming to town, and a $682,000 bequest from Lorma Wisley, sister of Frank Pellegrino, will be used to build the town's first swimming pool in Pellegrino Park.

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- The superintendent of Catholic schools in the St. Louis Archdiocese has decided to keep St. Vincent High School here open; it was learned in January the school might have to close.

1965

The Frisco Railroad petitions the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to discontinue all of its passenger train service, including the last remaining passenger trains serving Cape Girardeau; Cape Girardeau is on the railroad's line between St. Louis and Memphis, Tennessee, and has had passenger service for more than 60 years.

The 10th Congressional District, of which Cape Girardeau County is a part, would be enlarged by seven counties under a redistricting bill recommended by Missouri's Senate Reapportionment Committee.

1940

As a next step in the effort to locate a flying field in the Cape Girardeau-Jackson area, contour maps will be made of seven possible airport locations viewed by a joint committee of the two towns yesterday; the maps will be drawn by Roy W. Woeltje of Jackson and W.L. McDonald of Cape Girardeau, civil engineers.

The Southeast Missouri Council of Boy Scouts is given $7,000 to supplement its program in the district during the coming 18 months; the money, to be used in securing two additional scout directors to develop areas not now serviced, was given by Frank Phillips, head of the Phillips Petroleum Co.

1915

Although Cape Girardeau has a city attorney, the city council orders the employment of Sen. Thomas F. Lane to conduct the legal proceedings connected with the opening of Merriwether Street; Lane will be paid large amounts of money from the general revenue fund for his services, while city attorney Whitelaw, who is paid a salary for looking after such work, will sit idle.

Members of the entertainment committee and quite a few other members of the Commercial Club meet in the evening to consider the matter of holding a fair in the fall; the club would like to have total charge of the fair this year, and either stand a loss or gain a profit.

-- Sharon K. Sanders