Out of the past: May 15

1991

Cape Girardeau public schools athletic director Gary Lynch will be head football coach at Central High School and a classroom teacher next school year; the school board approved Lynch's reassignment at its meeting last night; it also hired Richard Giles, principal at Lee Hunter Elementary School in Sikeston, Missouri, to head Charles C. Clippard Elementary School.

Bureaucratic snags and uncooperative weather have forced delays in capital improvement projects at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport this year; a terminal building renovation project, T-hangar and taxiway construction and an airport signage project have all been delayed by unforeseen obstacles.

1966

Immanuel Lutheran Church at Tilsit holds its centennial celebration with special services in the morning and afternoon; during the afternoon program, an open house is held at the newly constructed parish hall; Immanuel Church was organized May 10, 1866.

The First Baptist Church of Jackson opens its new building; an informal dedication is held at the morning worship service, and an open house is held in the afternoon; the building is of red brick and stone construction and is of contemporary architecture.

1941

Every available seat of the 5,000 arranged in the Jackson High School stadium was filled, with some spectators standing, for the pageant "Jackson Marches On," presented last night as the closing feature of Jackson Day; the pageant was written by Mrs. E.A. Mason and was acted by a cast of 350 people, all local, and directed by Dr. William L. Meyer.

The U.S. Surplus Commodity Administration, in charge of the food-stamp program, has for the present suspended organization activities in Missouri, and as a result is marking time in the proposed setup in Cape Girardeau County.

1916

Jackson's Ideal lunch room is no more; John Savers last night closed the doors of his popular West Main Street hash parlor and quit; W.E. Green will occupy the room with his tailoring establishment, now on South High Street.

Herbert Niemeyer, one of Cape Girardeau's finest young men, will leave tomorrow afternoon for St. Louis to join the U.S. Signal Corps of the Army; he will spend a month at Jefferson Barracks, where he will be given the preliminary training that everyone is put through upon joining the Army and will then be sent to the government school at Omaha, Nebraska, to get polished up for service.

-- Sharon K. Sanders