Out of the past: March 24

1992

The Cape Girardeau Historic Preservation Commission last week passed a resolution opposing the Salvation Army's plans to demolish its building at 701 Good Hope St. to make room for a new facility; the current Salvation Army building, the former Farmers & Merchants Bank, has historic value, according to members of the commission, and should be preserved.

Budget cuts have forced the elimination of wrestling, driver's education and the school newspaper at Scott City High School; in addition, out-of-district tuition has been raised by $100, and one section of kindergarten has been eliminated in an effort to save the district about $75,000 next school year.

1967

An aroused group of city and county officials and others interested in highways here subjected W.D. Carney, District 10 highway engineer, to sharp cross-examination last night over the low priority given to the completion of Interstate 55 from Fruitland to Festus, Missouri. The occasion was the annual meeting of representative public agencies and the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee with officials of the State Highway Department.

J. Hugh Logan, Cape Girardeau city councilman, was elected the first president of District 12 of the Missouri Municipal League at its organizational meeting yesterday in Cape Girardeau.

1942

Spurred by a few days of excellent weather, construction has stepped up considerably in Cape Girardeau. Building work is underway on 13 major projects; among the homes under construction are the Eddie Erlbacher and Jake Pollack residences on West End Boulevard at Rockwood Drive and the V.A. Kogge dwelling on Normal Avenue near Park.

Members of the Milk Producers Association of Cape Girardeau County, in a conference with Cape Girardeau milk-company representatives at the courthouse at Jackson last night, failed to reach an agreement on future milk prices; as a result, some of the producers who daily bring a supply of milk to Cape Girardeau plants don't deliver their milk this morning. Some of the milk was taken to a cheese plant at Perryville, Missouri, instead.

1917

For the ninth time in 10 years, Cape Girardeau has been declared the victor in the inter-Normal School oratorical contest, and to Harry Crumb is given the honor of holding the championship title for the local school. Crumb will represent the school at the interstate oratorical contest May 4 at Emporia, Kansas.

Walter Oberheide, for two years an attache of the Farmers & Merchants Bank in Cape Girardeau, has accepted an offer of employment from one of the large banks in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

-- Sharon K. Sanders