Out of the past: Nov. 15

1990

Steve Bone, Cape Girardeau's parks and recreation director, has resigned to take a position as general manager of the Lake St. Louis Community Association; Bone, 35, has served as the city's park director since August 1985.

GALE, Ill. -- An Illinois Environmental Protection Agency official says the first phase of the Ilada Energy Reclamation cleanup project should be completed some time in early 1991, nearly six months behind schedule.

1965

A rescue team uses ropes to pull a State College student to safety in the morning from the face of a 300-foot bluff north of Trail of Tears State Park, where he had been stranded since yesterday afternoon; William A. Erfurth, 22, a junior from Overland, Missouri, was attempting to climb the steep cliff when his footing gave way; he was able to scramble to a rock about 60 feet below the rim of the bluff, where he is rescued by members of the Mississippi County Rescue Squad.

The Cape Girardeau City Council announces Paul F. Frederick, the city manager of Minot, North Dakota, will become Cape Girardeau's first city manager Jan. 1; Frederick, 42, a civil engineer, has been at his present job seven-and-a-half years; his salary here will be $15,000 per year.

1940

Alvin A. Boss, president of the Cape County Savings Bank at Jackson and an outstanding civil leader, dies at a local hospital at age 65; he is survived by his widow, the former Miss Bessie Abernathy, a son and a daughter, a granddaughter and two sisters.

The Shell Oil Co. announces plans for construction of a large Mississippi River gasoline storage terminal to be on a 14-acre tract in South Cape Girardeau recently purchased from St. Vincent's College.

1915

A special election will be held in Cape Girardeau tomorrow to decide whether the city should issue $40,000 in bonds, $30,000 of which would be used to buy the fairgrounds and the remaining to be used for improving city park property.

A burglar paid another visit to the store of E.M. Hobbs on the levee Saturday night or early Sunday morning and stole six pairs of shoes and two boxes of cigars; the robber smashed a glass out of a window on the north side of the building near the front of the store, and then reached through and took what he could reach.

-- Sharon K. Sanders