Out of the past: May 12

1994

JEFFERSON CITY -- With two days remaining in the 1994 session of the Missouri General Assembly, Sen. Peter Kinder is at odds with Majority Leader J.B. "Jet" Banks over a concealed-weapons amendment he is trying to have added to a juvenile crime bill; Kinder offered the amendment Tuesday night, and it was immediately challenged with a point of order; Banks protested the amendment wasn't relevant to the bill.

A Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport marketing survey is showing dramatic results; Trans World Express boardings for April reached a five-year high of 510; this tops last April's total by 23%; TWE has had 1,648 boardings this year compared to 1,357 for the same reporting period last year.

1969

WOLF LAKE, Ill. -- Shawnee High School here is closed to permit the cleanup of debris from Saturday's fire; officials expect the school to reopen tomorrow; the fire, which damaged the teachers lounge, a storage room and the roof over the main hallway of the building, also forced postponement of the senior prom, which had been scheduled for last night.

A prize show horse valued at $25,000 is injured in the afternoon near Jackson, when it is startled by a honking horn and jumps from the trailer in which it is riding; the accident, which happens on Highway 72 at Millersville, is reported to the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department by Mrs. Roy Rudolph of Paducah, Kentucky; the horse suffers cuts on the legs and neck.

1944

Floodwaters vacate all downtown business district buildings; the Mississippi River drops to 37.8 feet, which is barely low enough to recede from a vacant building at the northeast corner of the Main-Independence streets intersection; water still covers Frisco Park and area.

L.F. Brenneisen starts construction of a roller skating rink on West Broadway, having moved materials there earlier; government permission has been given for construction of the recreation building; Brenneisen owned a rink on Bloomfield Road, which was ruined by fire last fall.

1919

Charleston, Missouri, won the 14th annual high school track and field meet at Fairground Park in Cape Girardeau on Saturday afternoon with a total of 46 points; De Soto, Missouri, was second with 25 points, followed by Jackson and Campbell, Missouri; races were the slowest ever, the track made heavy by the rains of last week.

At the meeting of the board of the Christian Church yesterday afternoon, it was agreed the church would be repaired to a considerable extent; the work will include new windows and lights and painting inside and out.

-- Sharon K. Sanders