Out of the past: March 28

1992

The 12th annual Southeast Missouri Home Builders Association Home and Garden Show is underway at the Show Me Center. Ann Brookman of Edgewater Glass Co., this year's chairman of the show, expects more than 10,000 people to attend the three-day event.

Faculty members at Southeast Missouri State University gave university president Kala Stroup passing grades in a recent survey; 120 faculty members responded to the survey, or less than one-third of Southeast's approximately 400 faculty members. Stroup received an overall approval rating of 64.4 percent.

1967

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- The Chaffee City Council last night voted to amend an ordinance changing the date of filing for candidates from 10 days to five days before an election. The action followed another lengthy discussion on the legality of the filing of R.H. Capshaw as a candidate for the office of mayor in the April 4 election. Capshaw has been seeking the annexation of his property just outside the city limits to become a legal candidate; Chaffee voters are balloting on that issue today.

Groundbreaking for the new vocational-technical school to be located on Clark Avenue starts in the afternoon, as bulldozers move trees in preparation to leveling the ground. Trenches also are being dug for the foundation.

1942

The suggestion an effort be made in Cape Girardeau to pool lathes -- equipment vital to war production -- to set up a large shop to do defense work is made by John Kraft of Cape Girardeau, an expert machinist and a member of the board of education. Such a plan might prove effective in getting war contracts, he says.

Many local male residents are going to be seeking ways and means of sharpening their razor blades in light of an announcement that manufacturing of blades will be curtailed by the War Production Board to the point where one blade per week will be the average.

1917

Some thief is living high, eating ham, breakfast bacon and eggs at the expense of Haarig grocer Claude Winningham. Some time last night or this morning, a thief entered Winningham's grocery store and carried off about $40 worth of his choicest goods, including four hams, 10 slabs of bacon and eight dozen eggs.

Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kochtitzky return from an extended trip through the South and East. They were accompanied by their daughter, Mrs. A.R. Byrd Jr., who left the party at Baltimore and returned to her home in New York.

-- Sharon K. Sanders