Out of the past: May 2

1991

Earth movers are preparing the ground at Sunset and Lacey streets, where a new, three-story parking garage will be built for Southeast Missouri Hospital; work also is underway on extending Lacey to Sunset, with completion expected in about three weeks. Penzel Construction Co. of Jackson is the contractor for the projects.

Richard C. Rice, the director of the Missouri Department of Public Safety and an Army veteran of more than 28 years, said the current move to reduce the U.S. military should be met with a counterstrike of letters to congressmen; Rice speaks to a Southeast Missouri Peace Officers Association gathering in Jackson.

1966

The spring term of the U.S. District Court opens in the morning with a docket of six criminal and 21 civil cases; Judge Roy W. Harper will preside at the session to be held in the U.S. District Courtroom in the Federal Building at Broadway and Fountain Street.

J. Ronald Fischer becomes mayor of Cape Girardeau in a re-organizational meeting of the city council; he succeeds Charles A. Hood, who was elected by the other council members last September as the city's first mayor under the council-manager system.

1941

Some Cape Girardeau horses are being sold to the government each month for its armed forces, according to officials with the W.H. Bishop Horse and Mule Auction Co., which each week holds a sale on Highway 61; the company also has a sales barn at Anna, Illinois.

An addition is to be built to the office at the International Shoe factory on North Main Street; the addition, one-story high, will measure 18 by 51 feet; there are 30 people employed in the office, and the change will make more adequate room for personnel and for records.

1916

Frank J. Eastin, salesman for the Graham Paper Co., is in town; he comes here about once a month, and up to a year ago his visits were pleasant for those who buy paper. At that time, Eastin sold paper to The Republican newspaper at $2.50 a hundred pounds delivered; the price now has reached a little more than $4 a hundred pounds.

A new ordinance calling for a special election to vote bonds to the amount of $15,000 for the purchasing of firefighting apparatus was passed by the Cape Girardeau City Council last night; the election will be May 23.

-- Sharon K. Sanders