Out of the past: March 17

1992

The Salvation Army has kicked off a million-dollar capital campaign for a new building, which will be constructed near the intersection of South Sprigg and Good Hope streets in Cape Girardeau. Fred R. "Rock" and Judy Wilferth are co-chairpersons for the campaign.

Orval Thorne, the owner of Sands Pancake House, has tossed his hat into the political ring by filing as a Democratic candidate for Cape Girardeau County treasurer.

1967

The State Park Board and state park director, Joe Jaeger, tour the historic Bollinger Mill and covered bridge at Burfordville in the morning with an eye toward accepting Cape Girardeau County's offer to deed the property to the state. Locals supporting the proposal hope the 27-acre mill tract will be developed as a recreation area and the mill restored to operation for souvenir grain milling.

Two area men lost their lives recently in Vietnam. Fred Frier, 23, of Blytheville, Arkansas, who lived with his sister in Chaffee, Missouri, was killed in action; Sikeston, Missouri, soldier Sgt. Fred W. Pack died March 11 in Saigon, South Vietnam.

1942

Income taxpayers filed 3,300 returns in the offices of Ralph P. Coleman and Lee J. Bagby, deputy federal internal revenue collectors, the collectors report. This doesn't include all the returns filed up to midnight Monday, the deadline for making the reports without payment of delinquent penalties; however, this is approximately twice as many returns as have been filed here in previous years.

With furnishings installed, the District 5 state liquor-control office is now situated at 114a N. Main St., headed by V.W. Baiker, district supervisor. J. Scott Graham is also an agent located here.

1917

Some woman in Cape Girardeau is wishing the death of Alice Schulz, wife of Dr. G.B. Schulz. Postal inspectors are investigating letters that have passed through the Cape Girardeau post office offering different people at Oran, Missouri, $3,000 to perform the deed that would remove Schultz. The name of the person who wrote the letters hasn't been divulged.

Something must be done at once to give the aviation school proposition a strong boost, or the city will lose one of the finest chances it ever has had to establish an airfield here. A.B. Lambert of St. Louis, who had no end of praise for Cape Girardeau when he toured the proposed site for the school recently, now says Cape Girardeau's outlook is not good at all.

-- Sharon K. Sanders