Out of the past: March 18

1990

It is announced the Southeast Missourian will convert its weekday newspapers to morning circulation beginning June 4; it will continue to publish six newspapers a week, Monday through Friday, with a weekend package Sunday.

The I-66 Project Inc. headquarters have been moved from Cape Girardeau to Wichita, Kansas; Walter Wildman, an official with the project, says the relocation will aid efforts to secure construction of a new highway across the nation.

1965

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The county collector's Cape Girardeau branch -- and the pay that goes with it -- became an issue last night before the Senate's Local Government Committee that heard testimony of four Cape Girardeau men: Mayor W.E. Davis, City Commissioner Harry Siemers, County Collector Bill W. Rose, and Gary Rust, chairman of the Cape County Republican Committee; the committee ruled in favor of a bill that would require the office to be maintained at Cape Girardeau.

Demolition work has started on the 60-year-old First Presbyterian Church at the southeast corner of Broadway and Lorimier Street, to make way for a modern edifice on the same site.

1940

Parts of Cape Girardeau County are hit by a hail and rain storm in the morning, but no damage of consequence is done.

When Mr. and Mrs. James Sanford of Fornfelt return home from work, they find that wind had nearly wrecked their four-room residence; the house had been thrown off its timber foundation and split open through the middle; luckily, the roof held together to keep the rain out, and a heater with fire in it didn't overturn.

1915

The special committees representing the Commercial Club and the Fair and Park Association met last night to discuss holding the fair this fall; the club offered to pay the association $1,200 for the use of the fairgrounds from April 1 to Nov. 1, and take charge of all activities, including the county fair, during that time; no agreement was reached.

Only a handful of citizens turn out in the evening for a mass meeting to nominate candidates to run for positions on the Cape Girardeau School Board, rain keeping most people indoors; on a motion by E.W. Flentge, the meeting adjourns without making nominations.

-- Sharon K. Sanders