Out of the past: March 9

1991

Three area educators will be honored for meritorious service during the 115th annual Southeast Missouri District Teachers Association meeting to be held March 15: William C. Hoover of Southeast Missouri State University, Barbara Jean Klein of the Perryville School District and Virginia Eloise Marsh of the Sikeston School district.

Three people were killed and another critically injured in a house fire early yesterday morning that has been described as the worst residential fire in Cape Girardeau in 46 years; the fire gutted a 2 1/2-story, wood-frame home at 731 N. Spanish St.

1966

CORNING, Ark. -- A boxcar loaded with heavy artillery shells explodes with terrific force near here before dawn, gouging a 15-foot crater into the ground, shattering windows at least 30 miles away and, miraculously, causing only one reported minor injury; the blast shatters 10 to 12 plate glass windows in the Poplar Bluff, Missouri, business district, 30 miles to the north of Corning.

Competitive swimming didn't create a big splash in its first year at State College this season, but considering the handicaps it went through, there were some bright spots; every swimmer for coach Fred Friedrichsen shared in the pool records, but leading the way with six school records was Dan Kannady.

1941

Cranston Gesell, a student from Maywood Lutheran Seminary in Chicago, who will complete his work there this spring, delivers a trial sermon at the English Lutheran Church here; the church has been without a regular pastor since the Rev. Marvin C. Reichert took a new charge at Centralia, Illinois.

Japan will never conquer China is the belief expressed by Mary Tarrant, for 41 years a missionary of the Methodist Church in China, during the first of four consecutive nights of special mission programs at Centenary Methodist Church.

1916

SEDGEWICKVILLE, Mo. -- There is going to be a bridge built across the Whitewater River on the old Neelys Landing Road near the Bollinger and Cape Girardeau county line; both counties are putting up the money to finance the build.

Good road enthusiasts and those who know conditions as they exist are glad to learn Dennis Scivally has decided to accept reappointment to the important office of highway engineer; it will be remembered the County Court couldn't persuade him to make an application for reappointment, whereupon the court made the appointment anyway, hoping Scivally would eventually accept.

-- Sharon K. Sanders