Out of the past: Nov. 1

1990

The U.S. Postal Service is inspecting two Cape Girardeau sites for a regional mail processing center, which is expected to open early in 1991; being considered are the DI Supply Inc. warehouse on Bloomfield Road near Interstate 55 and the Mid-America Distributors building on Highway 74 in the Six-Thirty Industrial Park.

Spokesmen for four of five area law-enforcement agencies describe last night's Halloween observance as "quiet"; while not dealing with anything destructive, Cape Girardeau police did handle vandalism incidents resulting from eggs, soda and toilet paper.

1965

Cape Girardeau County Court enters into a contract with Bartholomew and Associates, a planning firm of St. Louis, for a county parks and recreation survey and long-range development plan.

Cases involving illegal traffic in drugs, liquor and wild ducks, as well as bookmaking and Interstate Commerce Commission violations, make up the criminal docket in the morning as the November term of the U.S. District Court opens here; presiding is Judge James H. Meredith.

1940

The Board of Elders of the Presbyterian Church in Cape Girardeau is recommending to the congregation it call the Rev. W. Davidson McDowell of Ferguson, Missouri, as pastor of the church.

Results of a presidential straw vote taken Sunday in 52 towns in which the Fox Theater system operates in the Midwest, including Cape Girardeau, shows President Roosevelt getting a majority of 2,699 from the total of 47,995 "ballots" turned in by moviegoers; Democrat Roosevelt received 25,347 votes, while his Republican rival, Wendell L. Willkie, got 22,648; in the 15 Missouri towns polled, Roosevelt received 10,485 votes and Wilkie 8,618.

1915

Otto Kochtitzky, chairman of the financially strapped Cape Girardeau Township Special Road District, is out hunting up some of the councilmen to ask that the council turn over to the district the money due it from the city; the law provides the city shall turn over to the district one-fourth of all the money derived from saloon and pool room licenses; Kochtitzky figures $2,000 is owed.

Firebugs again got busy at the Haas barn on South Lorimier Street early Sunday, trying for the second time to burn it down; H.H. Haas believes someone is trying to destroy the automobile he keeps there.

-- Sharon K. Sanders