Out of the past: March 27

1992

A National Guard engineer battalion in Southeast Missouri that had been targeted for elimination has been spared under a Pentagon proposal; the Pentagon's National Guard Bureau is recommending keeping the 1140th Engineer Battalion headquartered in Cape Girardeau and instead eliminating the 110th Engineer Battalion based in Kansas City, Missouri.

John Lorberg, 55, senior member of the Jackson School Board, is retiring from that body this month after serving 13 years.

1967

Cape Girardeau County Court receives notice a strike of elevator-company employees has ended, and work will resume on the Jackson courthouse elevator as soon as it can be scheduled. The county purchased an electric elevator for the county courthouse last fall, and preparation of an elevator shaft largely has been completed under a local contract.

Two Cape Girardeau elementary schools were broken into over the weekend. Louis J. Schultz School was hit hardest. Thieves there pried open vending machines, entered two food freezers, ransacked the principal's office and damaged the boiler-room ceiling. They made off with about $5 after doing $200 worth of damage. At Washington School, only cookies were taken.

1942

On a motion presented by Arnold Roth, the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce voted at its annual dinner to support a mandate to the city council to take immediate steps to promote a bond issue that would provide for acquiring and developing Consolidated School of Aviation Inc. into a municipal airport.

James Laskaris, owner and proprietor of the Coney Island Lunch Stand on Broadway, has designated Saturday as his personal "War Relief Day"; beginning tonight at midnight and continuing until midnight Saturday, Laskaris pledges to give all proceeds he derives from his business to war relief.

1917

Fornfelt postmaster J.E. Kinkead has rented the Dr. Mayfield building and will move the post office there the first of next month. The postmaster says he will fix the rear part of the building for offices. Mrs. Mayfield will build a four-room brick cottage on the lot adjoining the office building for her own residence.

A car load of black men, some 50 or 60, arrive here in a special car on the Frisco passenger train at 4 a.m. to work for Edward Hely, the quarryman south of Cape Girardeau. Hely recently installed new machinery and will increase his plant's outfit threefold; in order to get sufficient workers, he had to import the men from Alabama.

-- Sharon K. Sanders