Out of the past: March 2

1993

The county commission yesterday appointed a committee to design a five-year capital improvements plan for roads and bridges in Cape Girardeau County; the 11-member group was recommended by new 1st District Associate Commissioner Larry Bock as a way of getting more input about maintenance and replacement of bridges and nearly 600 miles of county roads.

CenterMark Properties, Inc., formerly May Centers, Inc., a partner and operator of the mall since it opened more than a decade ago, acquires the remaining interest in the property from an affiliate of Drury Industries.

1968

The one-way portion of old Highway 61, which has been used to carry Highway 74 and South Sprigg Street traffic in a northerly direction since Interstate 55 was opened, will again be designated as a two-way stretch; the changeover will become effective March 8, after the present signs and markings are revised to allow for two-way traffic.

Capaha Park, site of a unique model tree-planting program under the direction of the Council of Gardening Clubs, soon will have a number of additions to its collection; the city tree-planting committee this spring will plant 27 more trees of 12 different varieties; they will join 76 shade trees or flowering trees planted in previous years.

1943

Feeling he can be of "greater service" in the present crisis "by remaining free of the obligations which would necessarily be imposed" by membership in the convention, Judge I.R. Kelso announces he won't be a candidate for delegate-at-large to the state constitutional convention; numerous letters had urged Kelso to run.

A tentative decision to open two blocks of Fountain Street, for several years a one-way street, to regular two-way traffic was reached during a City Council meeting yesterday; the blocks run north and south of Broadway.

1918

At a second meeting of representative men of Cape Girardeau last night, Rush H. Limbaugh was unanimously endorsed for mayor, and August H. Ruesskamp and E.P. Ellis were unanimously endorsed for commissioners; those attending the meeting represent most every channel of industry and activity in the city.

George S. Summers, for 11 years cashier of the First National Bank of Cape Girardeau, receives notice of his appointment as a national bank examiner; he is ordered to report at Washington as soon as possible and will be assigned to the third federal reserve district, with headquarters in Philadelphia.

-- Sharon K. Sanders