Out of the past: March 22

1993

Jess Bolen Plumbing and Heating has opened in Cape Girardeau; Bolen, who has been in the plumbing business for 32 years, worked with A.E. Birk & Son the past decade; that firm recently closed after 69 years in Cape Girardeau, and Bolen will continue to serve Birk customers.

The Cape Girardeau police had a busy year in 1992; fewer than 60 officers responded to 31,081 incidents last year, not counting traffic stops, motorist assists and warrant service; that is nearly 5,000 more calls than they responded to in 1991.

1968

Cape Girardeau continues to bask in the warm blow of satisfaction over its selection as an All-American City and begins making plans for a week of celebration April 7-13 to be highlighted by a mammoth community banquet April 9 at the Arena Building;.

Residents of the Critesville or Starlight community west of Jackson, who have been proposing formation of a village, will have to go back to the drawing board; last night it was learned a new village or town cannot be established within two miles of an existing town; apparently, people living in area hope to incorporate as a means of prohibiting Jackson from annexing the area.

1943

With sunshine and the official arrival of spring, interest in victory gardens blooms with renewed vigor; so eager are the landless gardeners that all of the 55 lots Albert Kempe of the civilian defense victory garden committee had located and announced Saturday as being available have been snapped up.

Cape Girardeau's civic organizations pay tribute to two great athletic organizations at a dinner at the May Greene School; honored are members of the Teachers College basketball team, which March 13 won the National Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament championship, and the St. Louis Browns, here for their spring baseball training.

1918

After listening to about a dozen witnesses testify as to the inadequacy of the present Frisco passenger station, Commissioner E.J. Bean of the State Utilities Commission declared yesterday he didn't wish to spend any more time on the subject; city officials believe Bean will recommend that a new passenger station should be built here as soon as possible as an emergency matter.

Commissioner E.J. Bean of the Missouri State Utilities Commission, after hearing testimony regarding the Cape Girardeau Northern Railroad yesterday, announced it would never do to junk the section of the C.G.N. between Jackson and Perryville, Missouri, and that he would do all he could to have the property put back in service.

-- Sharon K. Sanders