Out of the past: May 10

1990

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Southeast Missouri State University would receive about $750,000 for capital improvement projects under a bill expected to be approved by the Missouri General Assembly; the state funding includes $100,000 in planning money for a new College of Business and Public Administration building.

At a special meeting, the Cape Girardeau Board of Education approves salary increases for teachers and administrators in the Cape Girardeau district for the 1990-1991 school year; the 5.2 percent salary increase will cost the district approximately $518,000.

1965

Rainfall over the weekend came to the rescue of Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois, being extremely well timed; Cape Girardeau had 1.2 inches of rain downtown, mostly on Sunday; Jackson had 1.04 inches.

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education hires Gary K. Gilbert as vocational education director to take charge of the school system's expanding efforts in that field; Gilbert is now supervisor of the Tri-County Trade and Technical School at Malden, Missouri.

1940

The Southeast Missourian newspaper publishes an extra, its front-page headline screaming: "Nazis invade Belgium;" an Associated Press story says, "Nazi Germany unleashed lightning air and land attacks on Belgium, The Netherlands and tiny Luxembourg early today adding a vast new lowland front to the titanic European struggle which already had directly embroiled six European nations;" another article relates the news that Winston Churchill has been appointed Britain's prime minister, succeeding Neville Chamberlain, who resigned.

The four-story Hecht building on Main Street, just north of First National Bank, has been leased for a long term to the Gamble-Skogmos Group., Minneapolis, Minnesota, for a Gamble store.

1915

A splendid baseball game was staged for fans at the fairgrounds yesterday; the Capahas lost to the New Madrid, Missouri, club, 5-4, but the play was good; just as the game ended, the big wheel was given a turn, and police officer Edward Beeve took a shot at it, hitting number 966; that gave the Ford touring car to Dr. George W. Walker, one of the most violent fans in the city.

August Daues and family of St. Louis are in the city to attend the Knights of Columbus convention tomorrow; Daues is a kinsman of Charley Daues and hasn't been here in 10 or 12 years.

-- Sharon K. Sanders