Out of the past: March 8

1991

Twenty-one National Guard units in Missouri, including ones in Cape Girardeau and Jackson, would be eliminated under U.S. Defense Department plans to cut spending. The affected units include the 1140th Engineer Headquarters Company at Cape Girardeau and the 1140th Engineers Company A in Jackson.

Cape Girardeau officials say it's likely boardings at the municipal airport will dip below 10,000 this year, which would result in the loss of $300,000 in Federal Aviation Administration entitlement funds for airport development.

1966

The Jackson City Council has set March 25 as the deadline for filing for city office in the April 5 election. A councilman from each ward is to be elected; filing so far have been incumbent councilmen Raymond Reiminger from Ward 1 and William Schloss from Ward 3.

Richard C. Dirnberger of Cape Girardeau began work yesterday as assistant innkeeper at the Holiday Inn here. He is assisting Paul Reidman.

1941

Officials with the Bee Line Transit Corp., which is to open street bus service in Cape Girardeau, expects to take delivery of four General Motors buses before March 29; however, start of service won't be before April 1. Delivery of buses has been delayed by national defense orders.

Work will begin next week on construction of a brick building on U.S. 61 to be owned by the Nenninger Packing Co., 614 rear Good Hope St. The structure will be built on the west side of the highway just south of the present stockyards and north of the Highway 74 intersection. The firm, owned and operated by Al Nenninger, will retain its present Good Hope Street establishment as the packing and distribution outlet.

1916

R.E. Jones, teacher of Campster School, three miles southwest of Cape Girardeau on Bloomfield Road, reports the school was visited by a robber Monday night, and many school supplies were stolen. Everything in the pupils' desks was taken out and scattered over the floor. The teacher's desk also was turned upside down, and the contents that weren't stolen were thrown on the floor.

Mrs. John S. Kochtitzky and Mrs. L.B. Houck left yesterday for Graniteville, Missouri, to select two boulders to be used for marking the old King's Highway. One will be place on Spanish Street near the Catholic school, while the other will be sent to Benton, Missouri.

-- Sharon K. Sanders