Out of the past: March 6

1992

JEFFERSON CITY -- Sikeston, Missouri, native Maj. Gen. Laurence B. Adams Jr., who retired as the Missouri National Guard's adjutant general in 1973, died yesterday at his home here; he was 76. Adams served 41 years in the military, including three years in the Southwest Pacific during World War II.

A Cape Girardeau police officer responding to an accident crashes his patrol car into a brick building after a vehicle he is trying to pass starts to make a turn in front of him. In avoiding the crash, police Sgt. Bradley E. Moore crashes into Clark Wheel Alignment Co., 430 Independence St.

1967

Snow begins falling around 6 a.m., and the U.S. Weather Bureau at Cairo, Illinois, predicts it will continue until late in the evening. Warnings of hazardous driving conditions have been issued in Southern Illinois and Southeast Missouri.

Harold D. Kuehle officially takes office as Cape Girardeau County collector, and former collector Bill W. Rose turns in his list of delinquent taxes, his second-last official act of office. Rose still has to file an annual report for 1966 and for the period he has served in 1967.

1942

W.L. Pendleton, general agent for the Frisco Railroad, says he has been advised under a new schedule of the railroad, the noon northbound passenger train will make a signal stop daily at Neelys Landing. This restores a practice in effect for years. Recently, when the stop was removed, citizens of that community protested elimination of the practice prevented them from coming to Cape Girardeau and returning home the same day.

Much of the water, five feet deep in places, is being drained from the lagoon at Fairground Park so the banks may dry out for revetment work. Concrete slabs will be used to surface the lagoon banks.

1917

G.W. Mabrey, the well-known Haarig barber, is preparing to move soon to Colorado in search of better health for his wife.

For a number of years, the local land owners have been trying to get the county to build a 28-foot bridge over Seller's Branch on the Snider Mill and Whitewater road but failed. Last fall, W.A. Sander made a proposal to the county highway engineer to donate $100 and furnish all the team labor necessary for the work. The plan was accepted, and the job started immediately.

-- Sharon K. Sanders