Out of the past: May 2

1994

The Southeast Missourian's Jackson U.S.A. Signal will become a weekly publication; starting Sunday, approximately 10,000 Southeast Missourian subscribers in Jackson, Fruitland, Gordonville and portions of the rural Cape Girardeau and New Hamburg, Missouri, areas will receive the newspaper; non-subscribers in the Jackson area will receive the publication.

Red Lobster Restaurant opens the doors to its new 6,000-square-foot, 200-seat facility in front of Victorian Inn on Route K, between Interstate 55 and Silver Springs Road; the seafood restaurant employs more than 100 people.

1969

U.S. Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton, making a series of appearances in Cape Girardeau yesterday and today, tells a student audience at State College the attitude of those who are forcing campuses to close is wrong; Eagleton, a Democrat, explains, "One of the problems today is that college students are seeing poverty amongst plenty, racial injustice, an unwanted war, and these are spreading discontent."

CAIRO, Ill. -- The curfew is lifted after a third night of complete calm in racially troubled Cairo; Mayor Lee B. Stenzel announces the withdrawal of the 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew after a meeting with city officials, National Guard and state police commanders.

1944

The Preston levee, one link in the 30-mile dike guarding the McClure, Illinois, basin, gave way overnight before the flooding Mississippi River, throwing a part of the stream's torrent, for the second time in 11 months, over 57,000 acres of Illinois' richest farm land; the break came at 9:45 p.m., about half way between the Highway 3 bridge at Aldridge near the mouth of the Big Muddy River and the Mississippi River.

The Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau is at 40.65 feet at 1 p.m., and the crest is expected tomorrow at 41.5 feet; copies of The Southeast Missourian are delivered to communities south of here by motorboat in the afternoon; Ernest Goehring, pressman and motorboat enthusiast, takes the papers across the Diversion Channel spillway, where Highway 61 is closed, by boat; Frank Arnold of Ancell, regular auto route carrier for the newspaper, picks them up south of the channel and takes then to carriers in various towns.

1919

Dr. W.S. Dearmont receives word the bill, which has just been considered in the Missouri Senate, to change the name of the Normal schools of Missouri has passed; the name of the Cape Girardeau Normal will now become the Southeast Missouri State Teachers College.

It is confidently believed the 12 band boys and a number of other Cape Girardeau County men in the 128th Regiment will arrive on the noon Frisco train tomorrow; they left Camp Funston, Kansas, this afternoon and are expected to come straight through; Dr. C.E. Schuchert's band will be at the station to welcome the heroes home.

-- Sharon K. Sanders