Out of the past: Nov. 3

1991

The calendar may read Nov. 3, but the thermometer shows a mid-winter reading; the mercury dips to 22 degrees in the evening at Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport; temperatures in Missouri and much of the Midwest plunge to lows normally not seen until January.

Cape Girardeau's Show Me Center management pulled off a minor coup yesterday by booking The Judds' -- Naomi and Wynonna -- farewell tour, and the near sell-out crowd's appreciation was evident throughout the evening.

1966

In a somewhat heated session, the County Court accepts a petition recommending an adjustment be made in 1967 taxes for what is called an "overcharge" in the 1966 taxes; the petition is presented by James W. Basinger of Jackson, who says some petition sheets are still in circulation and a total of about 2,000 signatures will be on the papers; the petition statement voices disapproval of the 50 percent increase in auto assessments.

Toll-free telephone service between Cape Girardeau and Jackson returns in the morning; this is the first time since 1877 the cities have had toll-free service between them.

1941

For the announced purpose of acquiring the Mississippi River toll bridges at Cape Girardeau and Cairo, Illinois, the formation of an Alexander County Bridge Commission has been authorized by the County Board of Commissioners at Cairo.

Seventeen grocery and meat market proprietors meet with the city council to ask for enforcement of an ordinance that provides such establishments must be closed on Sundays; some stores have been kept open for regular business on Sundays recently, the merchants charge.

1916

According to press dispatches, Tony Janus, the aviator who visited Cape Girardeau many times and took several residents for joy rides in his hydroplane, fell and was killed Oct. 12 in Russia, where he was engaged by the government to teach army aviators to fly; Janus was in Cape Girardeau the last time the day before Thanksgiving, 1912, when he was on his way to New Orleans attempting a long-distance record for hydroplanes.

Ed G. Pott, a native of Cape Girardeau and a resident up to about 10 years ago when he moved to St. Louis, is here looking for a house and will move his family back just as soon as he can locate a place to live; Pott has been appointed Southeast Missouri agent for the Northwestern Life Insurance Co.

-- Sharon K. Sanders