Out of the past: March 26

1990

The mild winter weather has saved Cape Girardeau taxpayers between $5,000 and $6,000 in snow-removal costs; the city spread salt and sand over city streets only seven or eight times this winter.

The National Transportation Safety Board says the Dec. 22, 1988, crash of an Air Evac medical helicopter near Cape Girardeau was probably caused by a series of pilot errors and poor weather conditions; three people were killed in the crash.

1965

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Representatives from 14 district towns meet here at noon to discuss the possibility of developing a uniform plan for daylight saving time throughout the district; among those attending the luncheon meeting are W.E. Davis of Cape Girardeau and Larry A. Nowak of Jackson; several cities in the district, including Cape Girardeau, have already decided to switch to daylight time.

State College freshman Michael Matvy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Matvy of Illmo, killed a 25-pound bobcat, three feet in length, in a wooded area south of Illmo this week.

1940

Approval has been given in Washington for a works program on the campus at Teachers College to include construction by WPA labor of a series of tennis courts, drives and a number of improvements on terraces and street curbings; the project will put 48 men to work, probably within 10 days.

The ballots having been counted, three new members were elected to the board of directors of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce: Walter H. Oberheide, Arthur F. Deneke and Oscar Hirsch; they will succeed L.W. Simmons, Joe L. Moseley and Thomas T. Ferguson.

1915

The Southeast Missouri Baseball League will field four teams this season, rather than the six that played last summer, New Madrid and Dexter, Missouri, having dropped out.

According to a statement made this afternoon at Elmwood, the country estate of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Houck, Rebecca Houck will become the bride of Army Lt. Patrick Frissell tomorrow morning; the Rev. Dr. J.C. Maple will pronounce the wedding service, and only the immediate relatives of the couple will be present; the announcement comes as something of a surprise; it hadn't been generally known that the officer had won the hand and heart of the community's most interesting woman.

-- Sharon K. Sanders