Out of the past: May 22

1991

There's a new telephone prefix in Cape Girardeau: 290; the new prefix is part of a statewide plan being implemented for Missouri state offices.

St. Louis Mayor Vincent Schoemehl, who is flying around the state in his quest to become Missouri governor next year, said he will actively support a $385 million tax package for education that voters will decide Nov. 5; but he warns the plan won't solve all the problems of education.

1966

In observance of Armed Forces Day, Capt. Roy A. Bishop, chaplain of the Naval Air Station at Memphis, Tennessee, is the guest minister at the morning worship at Centenary Methodist Church.

Lawrence E. Amadi of Nigeria, West Africa, and a student at Southwest Baptist College at Bolivar, Missouri, speaks in the morning and evening for Youth Day at Second Baptist Church; he speaks on "Christian Youth in an Integrated Society: Education, Occupation, Perpetuation."

1941

A motor-bus, to be used in transporting rural patients to the free clinic conducted in the Gorman building on Main Street in Cape Girardeau, has been secured and will make its first trip Friday; the bus, owned by Dave Dysinger of Delta, is used as a school bus; it will serve the Delta, Randles, Dutchtown, Whitewater and Crump communities.

A depressing heat wave, loaded with humidity, holds Cape Girardeau in its grip following a brief rain and electrical storm last night; temperatures soar to the 90-degree mark, following yesterday's record high of 92 degrees for the season.

1916

Robert Masters, Jackson's night watchman, was seriously injured Saturday night when his service revolver dropped out of its holster and discharged when it struck the concrete walk; Masters was stooping over at the time, and the heavy gun happened to hit just right to explode one of the shells; the bullet hit Masters in the shoulder, causing an ugly wound.

Bill Misenheimer and J.A. Withers of Allenville take a pair of geese to Cape Girardeau as a gift to the zoo at the city park; several people chipped in and helped buy the geese, which cost $6.50; they bought the birds from George Griffin.

-- Sharon K. Sanders