Out of the past: March 30

1993

TCI Cablevision of Missouri will raise expanded basic cable television rates throughout the service area 81 cents to $11.11 per month; basic service will remain at $10 per moth; the change in rates will become effective in April.

Elizabeth A. Ader will begin her duties as new director of the Cape Girardeau Public Library Thursday; Ader, who comes here from Lee's Summit, Missouri, is filling a vacancy created in June, when Terry Risko left the director's position.

1968

Two stockily-built men, one armed with a sawed-off shotgun and both wearing disguises, robbed the Union Bus Depot, 16 N. Frederick St., about 8:45 last night of about $100 and threatened the ticket agent, Marjorie Kelley; she was in the station by herself, when the robbery occurred.

Coleman Construction Co. of Monroe, Louisiana, this week took out a permit for construction of a building to contain 40,000-square-feet to house a Carps, Inc., department store; the structure, to be built on the large Blattner tract, will be at the southwest corner of William Street and Kingshighway, directly across from the Town Plaza.

1943

David Shaltupsky says he will close out his shoe store at 122 N. Main St., known as the Bootery, probably by the end of this week; he has taken a position with the Curtiss-Wright Corp. at Lambert Field in St. Louis and is to report there soon; Mrs. Shaltupsky and their two daughters, Ruth and Judith, will continue to reside on Perry Avenue.

William DeWitt, business manager of the St. Louis Browns, says the team will play a doubleheader Sunday at Fairground Park with the Naval Air Station baseball team from Lambert Field, St. Louis; the naval team boasts such players as Johnny Berardino, a former Brownie shortstop; Bob Scheffling, a former Cubs catcher, and Al Fischer of St. Louis, who has done a lot of hurling in the minors.

1918

At 6:50 p.m., many Cape Girardeau factory whistles will blow to announce to the people that at 7 p.m., all clocks should be set ahead one hour; this will be done in accordance with the Daylight Saving law, which goes into effect at 2 Sunday morning, March 31.

Friends of Dr. Paul Williams are elated over the news that the health of the young physician, who was thought to be very near death in recent days at Fort Riley, Kansas, continues to improve and that he has just received a commission promoting him to a captaincy.

-- Sharon K. Sanders