Out of the past: March 20

1990

Winter makes a comeback overnight, when the mercury falls to 25 degrees at the municipal airport. David Diebold, market manager and co-owner of Diebold Orchards Inc. at Benton and Kelso, Missouri, says the low temperature may have done serious damage to the orchard's 7,000 peach trees.

A plan by the Jackson School District to relocate its bus garage to school property near the junior high school has encountered neighborhood opposition. An overflow crowd jammed into a public hearing last night to protest the district's request for a special-use permit to build the garage on East Lane, a residential street east of the school.

1965

A resolution condemning "repressions of human and constitutional rights engaged in recently by state and local officials in Selma and Montgomery, Alabama," was passed by the Cape Girardeau Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Friday.

For the first time since the All-City Basketball Team was inaugurated four years ago, selection of the squad was unanimous: Sylvester Johnson and Lonie Blackwood of Central High's city champion team; Paul Compas and Steve Wulfers of Notre Dame; and Ray Langston and Brian Duschell of College High.

1940

Mayor Edward L. Drum, veteran campaigner seeking his fifth term, and Hinkle Statler, 31-year-old oil dealer new to municipal politics, out-polled four other candidates yesterday and won the right to battle for the office of Cape Girardeau mayor in the city election April 2.

Terming the Versailles Treaty of 1918 an armistice only for nations to arm for another war and declaring the world is facing a desperate situation, Sherwood Eddy, internationally famous author, lecturer and traveler, speaks at an assembly at Teachers College on "Can Religion Build a New World?"

1915

Some time during the night, river pirates stole the big boat C.F. Crews operates between this city and Thebes, Illinois, and a smaller launch he keeps on hand for emergency use; the smaller boat is discovered tied to the bank about 3 miles below the town.

The cornerstone of the new Central High School building on Pacific Street is laid in the afternoon; members of the school board and several prominent residents are present at the ceremony, which is arranged rather hurriedly.

-- Sharon K. Sanders