Out of the past: Nov. 14

1990

Property along the west side of North Sprigg Street could become "Greek Row" within the next 10 years, with fraternities leasing land from Southeast Missouri State University and building chapter houses; school officials are looking at the idea as the number of social fraternities and sororities at Southeast continues to grow.

Despite concerns over funding the program, the Jackson Board of Education has decided to implement a girls varsity and junior varsity volleyball program in the 1991-92 school year.

1965

A former mental patient fires a shot at Cape Girardeau County Sheriff John C. Crites and two county Sheriff's Patrol members before being captured near Gordonville; Crites injures his knee diving to avoid the shot.

The Cape Girardeau police arrest an 18-year-old man who admits to threating a young housewife here with a knife Thursday afternoon; the youth jumped into the car with the woman as she was leaving the Town Plaza Shopping Center, grabbed her arm and held a knife on her, threatening to kill her if she didn't do as she was told; he bailed from the car at William and Park, when the woman began screaming.

1940

The Teachers College Board of Regents yesterday approved proposals of the Consolidated School of Aviation in Cape Girardeau and the Brayton School of Aeronautics of St. Louis to give flight instruction when an aeronautics department is established at the college early in 1941 under an arrangement with the Civil Aeronautics Authority.

Beginning the process upon which actual deferment or service requirements will be based, the Cape Girardeau County draft office at Jackson yesterday sent out the first batch of 50 questionnaires to the top registrants of the county; the flow will continue at 50 each day, except Sunday, until 20 percent of the total registration has received the eight-page booklet upon which classification will be based.

1915

President and Mrs. W.S. Dearmont depart early in the day for Nashville, Tennessee, to attend a national conference of educators called together by the government's director of public education; the conference will discuss rural education.

The dedication and golden jubilee of the Zion Lutheran Church near Gordonville is largely attended, in spite of inclement weather; the ceremonies are impressive and interesting; the new edifice is a credit to the enterprise and spirit of the congregation.

-- Sharon K. Sanders