Out of the past: March 7

1992

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education is poised to make more than $1 million in budget cuts at its meeting Monday. Board President Pat Ruopp says according to the preliminary reports he has seen, the cuts affect every area of the district.

The Town Plaza Shopping Center is taking on a new look. Greater Missouri Builders Inc., which has owned the center since 1972, is in the process of redecorating the entire strip that fronts William Street. Within the next year, a new entrance off North Kingshighway and new signs will be in place.

1967

Winter, apparently saving its worst for last this year, threw a combination of frigid temperatures and ankle-deep snow at the Cape Girardeau area yesterday and today. The late-winter storm, just the second major snowfall of the season here, leaves city streets and area roads and highways slippery and hazardous.

North Sprigg Street, a narrow, bending blacktop road between Bertling and existing pavement, would be relocated to the east and its curves removed or reduced under a new city plan. The proposal has been submitted by the city to the State College, which owns the land over which the relocation would take place.

1942

The Board of Directors of the Southeast Missouri Fair Association voted unanimously last night to withhold for 60 days any plans for a 1942 district fair pending the outcome of a proposal the new city park might be used by the U.S. Army as the site for a ground school for Air Corps enlistees. The board voted to offer the fairgrounds as a site to be used by the government for any use it might make of it.

Plans for Tuesday's big war rally are shaping up with the announcement of the program by the Marine Corps League. There will be two parts to the event; the first will be a downtown parade, and the second will include activities at Houck Field Stadium.

1917

M.C. Harty of Puxico, Missouri, bought the Tribune newspaper of Fornfelt and took charge of the plant Monday. H.E. Bartlett, who came to Fornfelt from Van Buren, Missouri, and started the paper more than a year ago, hasn't decided what he will do, except for taking a much-needed rest.

The big fire department truck got stuck in the mud on West Broadway last night, when it was called to answer an alarm sent in from the old Albert property. It was unable to pull out on its own; the hook-and-ladder wagon was sent to rescue it.

-- Sharon K. Sanders