Out of the past: Nov. 12

1990

A project to enhance the safety of travel along Interstate 55 and other four-lane, divided highways in Southeast Missouri was completed last week by the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department; more than 11,000 white reflective markers have been mounted on flexible poles along the right shoulders of interstates 55 and 57, and the divided, four-lane areas along highways 60, 67 and 25.

Parents of students on the girls softball team at Central High School attend the Cape Girardeau School Board meeting to protest the school's softball program being reduced to one season in the 1991-1992 school year; that policy was adopted in April and was in accordance with a recommendation by the athletic task force; the board decides to further study the matter.

1965

Mark F. Scully, president of State College, expresses general satisfaction with recommendations of the State Commission on Higher Education for state appropriations totaling $7,577,551 for the next fiscal year; if the recommendations are carried out and the amounts are actually appropriated, it would mean the college could build another classroom structure in the near future.

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Godwin Jr., Cape Girardeau Route 1, were named the best team yesterday by the National Pilots Association after a 352-mile proficiency race at Palm Springs, California.

1940

Thirty-two aliens have been registered at the Cape Girardeau post office under terms of the federal law for all noncitizens to appear to give information about themselves and to be fingerprinted; the oldest individual to register was 89 years old and the youngest was a child of 5.

Paul R. Brooks of Cape Girardeau, a former city commissioner, takes over the office of constable of Cape Girardeau Township, to which he was elected last Tuesday; he receives no salary as constable, his pay being only fees for serving papers and doing similar work.

1915

Masons of Cape Girardeau gave degree work to several residents of other towns yesterday; Dr. W.T. Tomlinson and Otto Bugg of Morley, Missouri, and John McWilliams and James McPheeters of Benton, Missouri, were on hand for the work; Martin Nelson, a traveling man, also took his degrees here.

Will Meyer and family, who left Cape Girardeau about a year ago for the state of Oregon to seek a home and fortune, have returned here and are glad to be back; said Meyer: "The Oregon country is not what it is claimed to be."

-- Sharon K. Sanders