Out of the past: March 30

1990

Authorities try to determine the cause of an early-morning explosion that levels an unoccupied house about 3 miles north of Cape Rock Village. The blast occurs about 3:49 a.m. and is heard by hundreds of people in the Cape Girardeau, Egypt Mills, Gordonville, Jackson and Oak Ridge areas.

The Cape Girardeau County Commission has reappointed Doug Stevens and Bob Wilhite to the county park board; Stevens will serve a second term as chairman of the board.

1965

A compromise annexation proposal was accepted by the Cape Girardeau City Council yesterday, despite the continued opposition to the plan by officials of the Nell Holcomb School District. The compromise reduces the amount of land the city would attach from the Holcomb district.

Dr. Mark F. Scully, president of State College, yesterday appeared before the House Appropriations Committee in Jefferson City to discuss the capital improvements outlay for the college for the next biennium. The largest items omitted by Gov. Warren Hearnes from the budget are $3 million for a new field house and $1,170,000 for a new classroom building for the Cape Girardeau college.

1940

At a Cape Girardeau Township mass meeting last night at Common Pleas Courthouse, delegates were elected to attend the county Democratic convention at Jackson and a formal resolution was passed directing the delegation to vote as a unit for a resolution supporting the Roosevelt administration. The resolution is interpreted as a direct slap at Sen. Bennett C. Clark.

Purchase of a site on which a building to serve as permanent headquarters for the Southeast Missouri Baptist Foundation will be constructed was authorized yesterday at a meeting of the executive board of the foundation.

1915

The Daily Republican is in receipt of a copy of the Saturday World newspaper, published at Winter Haven, Florida, by Park Adams, a former resident of Cape Girardeau. The paper is devoted primarily to boosting Winter Haven and Florida, and has little other matter in it.

About 30 representative business and professional men meet at the Commercial Club and adopt a resolution calling upon Gov. E.W. Major to call a special session of the Legislature to increase the freight and passenger rates as a way to relieve business depression and restore work to thousands of men.

-- Sharon K. Sanders