Out of the past: March 4

1992

The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled in the city's favor in a long-standing dispute over the legality of Cape Girardeau's gross-sales licensing tax; the case involved a group of auto dealers in Cape Girardeau who filed a lawsuit claiming the city's tax is invalid.

The Broadway Theatre will reopen Friday, offering budget entertainment; most of the films offered at the 70-year-old theater will be fairly recent shows, most coming back to Cape Girardeau for a second engagement; all seats at the Broadway will be $1.

1967

Two Cape Girardeau cadets of the Civil Air Patrol have been selected to participate in special summer activities this year; Cadet 2nd Lt. Robert Snider was named to attend a powered flight encampment; Cadet 1st Class James C. Roche will attend the Spiritual Life Conference at Ridgecrest, North Carolina.

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Southeast Missouri's newest newspaper, the Three Rivers Times, made its debut this week with a three-section, 28-page newspaper; publisher is K.Q. Lewis, a Poplar Bluff certified public accountant, and editor is Cletis R. Ellinghouse.

1942

Speaking last night at a meeting of the Cape County Wildlife Federation, Ted Butler if Kansas City, Missouri, executive secretary of the Conservation Federation of Missouri, declared that if the money that will be spent on two proposed White River dam projects, in Arkansas and Missouri, were used for other land practices and general conservation, each county of Missouri could be handed $10 million; the dams, to be known as Table Rock and Bull Shoals, will ruin the fertile valley and destroy natural beauty, because of wishes of minority groups, says Butler.

More than 600 persons, Cape Girardeau's Boy and Cub Scouts and members of their families, attended the first annual pot luck supper for local scouts last night at the Arena Building.

1917

Mrs. M. Rosenthal departs for Providence, Rhode Island, where she will spend the remainder of the winter months and early spring; Providence was Rosenthal's former home, and she has many relatives with whom she will visit during her trip.

Samuel Scherer, 27, an Illinois Central switchman, was "ground to pieces under his engine" yesterday morning in the yards at Mounds, Illinois; he is survived by his widow and 9-day-old baby.

-- Sharon K. Sanders