Out of the past: March 5

1992

Bettye Black, assistant director of the Cape Girardeau Public Library, said the library will discontinue its Sunday hours April 26. Over the summer, library officials will discuss whether to reopen Sundays in the fall.

BIEHLE, Mo. -- Seven of this tiny incorporated town's eight registered voters cast ballots for a 1-cent sales tax in a special election Tuesday; the eighth didn't vote. The election was so small, ballots were mailed to the town's voters; some ballots were then mailed back to the Perry County Clerk's Office, while the rest were brought in by the voters.

1967

The new Lutheran Campus Center, 903 College Hill, is open for public inspection in the afternoon. Lutheran Campus Ministry is being developed with the support of area congregations in cooperation with the Missouri District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.

Two State College students will represent Missouri in the 1967 Interstate Oratorical Contest, having won the men's and women's oratory championships here yesterday as the Missouri Association of College and University Speech Directors closed its 33nd annual tournament. Winning on the home court, so to speak, were Ronald Patterson of Charleston, Missouri, and Evelyn Allison of Poplar Bluff, Missouri.

1942

Federal Judge J.C. Collet, ruling in the post office case, said the federal government has the legal right to acquire the proposed site in Courthouse Park upon which to build a new post office. Construction of a post office in the park will mean demolition of the Common Pleas Courthouse.

General inspection is made by officials of the Civil Aeronautics Administration at the Consolidated School of Aviation Inc., and some tests are given to individual pilots seeking rating advancements. Instruction in the new Civilian Pilots Training program for Teachers College students will begin next week.

1917

It is learned the Naval Armor Plate Board, which is to select a site for the $11,000,000 plant to be constructed by the government, will visit Cape Girardeau on Friday or Saturday. After the board's visit here, it will sit for two days at St. Louis to hear arguments from representatives of all cities in the Mississippi River valley proper that are candidates for the plant.

Because of delays to shipments of freight, especially perishable goods, Cape Girardeau merchants have been complaining about the service of the Frisco Railroad in handling their consignments. Part of the reason for the delay is a shortage of railroad cars.

-- Sharon K. Sanders