Out of the past: Nov. 5

1990

The Cape Girardeau City Council defies neighborhood opposition and initially approves a zoning request that would allow Southeast Missouri Hospital to build a three-story parking garage along Sunset Court.

A contentious issue is revived by the Cape Girardeau City Council, when member of the True Christian Pentecostal Witnesses Church object to a local businessman wanting to open a tavern at 361 S. Sprigg St.; the council votes 5-1 to deny a liquor license to John and Jerrianne Wyman, who want to open a bar where the former Sprigg Street Tap was situated.

1965

The presidents of all five of Missouri's state colleges agree in their disfavor with the State Commission on Higher Education's recommendation for an increase in tuition fees, it is reported by Mark F. Scully, president of Cape State College; the commission is calling for residential fees to go up to $220 per year by 1967.

Harold Kuehle, who spoke yesterday at the Cape Girardeau Kiwanis Club meeting, says an organization is being set up here to establish a rehabilitation center with a private gymnasium and a physio-therapist in attendance for the permanently, physically disabled

1940

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented third term in office; but in Cape Girardeau County, Republicans reign supreme, as they get majorities in all national and state races, and also elect every Republican candidate on the county level; the opposite is true in Scott County, where heavy majorities are turned in for nominees on the Democratic ticket from president down to the various county offices.

Under the sponsorship of the Cape Girardeau Police Department, the Ace Lilliard "Circus of Death," a series of thrills by automobile drivers, will be staged Monday at the new city park.

1915

Although a half dozen men were convicted on the charge of night-riding in Federal Court recently, night-riders are still active in New Madrid County; several nights ago, Pete Adkinson of Illinois, who had purchased 280 acres of land near Clarkton, Missouri, and moved there, was attacked by a crowd of masked men after dark; they whipped him and threatened to kill him unless he met their demands.

W.H. Stubblefield Jr., trustee of the D.A. Glenn estate, submits his final report to bankruptcy referee Oscar A. Knehans, a report that indicates the creditors of the estate will have divided among them approximately $14,000.

-- Sharon K. Sanders