Out of the past: May 19

1994

Citing concerns with the timing of payments and overall safety standards, the City of Cape Girardeau has elected to send Cape Central Airways Inc. an eviction notice; the city is seeking to end a 12-year lease with the company, which is the fixed-base operator for Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport.

Vote totals on the riverboat gambling issue changed slightly yesterday following a recount of the ballots in Cape Girardeau County, but pro-casino forces were still dealt a losing hand; the gambling amendment was defeated in the county by a vote of 8,383 against to 6,468 for.

1969

Dorothy Quarles Weirich, a Webster Groves, Missouri, teacher, and Roe L. Johns, professor and former chairman of the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Florida-Gainsville, have been chosen to receive this year's Alumni Merit Awards from State College.

Cape Girardeau County was washed by heavy rains over the weekend, accumulating to 4 inches in some sections, where agricultural damage was considerable; the heaviest rains came in Jackson, Allenville, Delta and Gordonville.

1944

It is announced the stock of Roth Tobacco Co. of Cape Girardeau has been purchased by R.C. Owen Co. of Gallatin, Tennessee; the Roth plant, 102 S. Frederick St., is being operated by the new owners; Mrs. E.W. Flentge, president and treasurer of Roth Tobacco, sold only the stock and the right to use the Roth company's brands, which have been popular for years.

ST. LOUIS -- U.S. District Judge Ruby M. Hulen denies the right of the federal government to condemn a plot in Courthouse Park in Cape Girardeau as the site for a proposed $430,000 federal building and office; in dismissing the government's amended condemnation petition, Hulen holds federal officials had acted arbitrarily as a matter of law in selecting the site.

1919

Mayor H.H. Haas has received an official order from the Public Service Commission at Jefferson City permitting the Cape Girardeau Utilities Co. to raise its rates on water, light and gas; the company is permitted to raise the rate on water from 30 to 35 cents per 1,000 gallons; gas will be raised from $1 to $1.40 per 1,000 cubic feet; electric light will remain at 11 cents per kilowatt hour.

M.A. Ollie, the man who was believed to have died in the fire that destroyed his home at 49 N. Hanover St., at an early hour Saturday morning, visits the fire station in the morning to inform the chief he was away from home when his house burned; Ollie didn't know anything about the fire until this morning, when he found the debris.

-- Sharon K. Sanders