Out of the past: Nov. 29

1991

From tree farms to tree lots, area residents have a lot to choose from in picking out the family Christmas tree. Prices generally range from $3 to $4 a foot, with a seven-foot tree typically costing $25 to $30.

In a telephone interview from his Washington-area home, U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau, says President Bush needs to turn his attention to domestic affairs. Emerson suggests the president needs to assemble a high-level policy team to focus on the domestic economy.

1966

Judge Marshall Craig of Sikeston, Missouri, has been re-elected president of the Southeast Missouri Boy Scout Council. Craig, who presides over the 33rd Judicial Circuit, has served as president of the council for the past year.

A water-freight organization is asking that the vertical clearance proposed beneath the Interstate 57 bridge at Cairo, Illinois, be increased to at least that of the existing bridges at Cairo and Thebes, Illinois. The American Waterways Operators Inc. also is seeking greater horizontal clearance.

1941

Benefiting more than those in any other section of the state from the National Youth Administration's widespread building program, Southeast Missouri communities, since last January, have constructed a total of 22 buildings or projects of various kinds at a combined cost of $244,160.98. Those builds have been constructed through co-sponsorship with the federal agency.

ST. LOUIS -- James P. Jamieson, a noted St. Louis architect, died yesterday at the age of 74. Along with buildings at Washington University and the University of Missouri, Jamieson and his firm designed the new library structure and Cheney Hall on the Teachers College campus.

1916

Will Bergmann is back from his bear and deer hunt along the Arkansas line, and his friends remain bearless and deerless. He relates some wonderful stories of bagging big game, but neither hide nor feather is at hand as proof.

E.T. Brown is brought to Cape Girardeau from Bell City, Missouri, suffering with a broken leg which he sustained last Monday while felling trees, and he is taken to the hospital for treatment. A tree Brown chopped down struck his left leg as it fell, breaking both bones just below the knee.

-- Sharon K. Sanders