Out of the past: May 24

1991

NEW MADRID, Mo. -- A third-generation Silver Beaver Award was bestowed on Cape Girardeau attorney John L. Oliver Jr., at the Southeast Missouri Boy Scout Council annual awards dinner last night; the award is the highest honor that a Boy Scout council can award an adult volunteer.

In its third year, Cape Girardeau's 3-inch asphalt street overlay program already has paved three miles of gravel city streets, with two more miles of streets slated for work this year; as part of the program, the city paves one- or two-block sections of gravel streets at a cost not to exceed $10 per front foot; the cost of the street is tax billed to property owners along the route.

1966

Construction of a structure to house a cobalt therapy unit for the treatment of cancer as part of the current building program has been authorized by the Southeast Missouri Hospital Board of Trustees; the board also approved the erection of the superstructure for a new x-ray unit at an estimated cost of $32,000.

"Operation Palette," a traveling exhibit composed of a selection from more than 3,000 paintings and drawings in the U.S. Combat Art Collection, will be shown at 20 N. Spanish St., Friday through June 2; the exhibit is being brought here as a mobile unit by the Navy Department under the sponsorship of the Cape Girardeau Council, Navy League of America.

1941

With a reported 180 prospective patrons signed, further extension of rural electrification in Cape Girardeau County appears a certainty under the program of the Rural Electrification Administration; Leemon Gladish is signing up farm families for the project, which will be organized as part of the Scott-New Madrid-Mississippi Cooperative.

The entire staff of Camp Lewallen, to have charge during the summer season for the Southeast Missouri Area Council of Boy Scouts, goes to the site and will remain there during the coming week getting the camp ready for the season opening June 1.

1916

Another Cape Girardeau girl will receive her nursing school diploma; Emma Faust, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Faust of Cape Girardeau, is a member of the 1916 class at the Jewish hospital in St. Louis; she and nine others will receive their diplomas Monday.

Harry Albert has opened offices in the H.-H. Building and will soon move his family back to Cape Girardeau; Albert is planning to make several improvements to the Peironnet home on the Bend Road, including the addition of a ballroom on the south side of the house.

-- Sharon K. Sanders