Out of the past: Nov. 5

1991

Mother Nature didn't just break the record low temperature yesterday morning, she smashed it; a dome of arctic air that settled in over the MIdwest late Sunday and early yesterday sent the mercury tumbling to 16 degrees at the municipal airport, breaking the 40-year-old record low of 21 degrees for Nov. 4.

Larry H. Ferrell and Michael A. Price were sworn in yesterday as assistant U.S. attorneys at ceremony in the Federal Building; presiding over the ceremony was U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh.

1966

In an extremely close vote, four men are elected to the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors: Clarence Suedekum Jr., Raymond H. Vogel, Kenneth Mehrle and Ray W. Call; the other candidates for the four seats on the board were Bill D. Burlison, Vernon Auer, Wendell P. Black, Walter H. Ford and George Wrape.

As entries pour in from points over a 150-mile radius of Cape Girardeau, preparations are well underway for the 20th Annual Missourian Art Exhibition, to be held at the Missourian Building Nov. 19-20; remarking on the paintings received so far, Edna Glenn, art instructor at Cape Girardeau Central High School, remarks, "Every year it gets better!"

1941

Looking to possible development of the flying field on Highway 74 some time in the future, in the event the Civil Aeronautics Authority approves it, the city of Cape Girardeau is to have a preliminary survey made of the site, says Mayor Hinkle Statler; if it is found there is available space between the highway and the drainage ditches to the south for the long runways, CAA approval is expected.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- The community of Sikeston has all the thrills of a cyclone -- without the cyclone -- late in the afternoon, when a funnel cloud hangs in the southwest for 15 minutes before breaking up without touching the earth; hundreds observe the clouds.

1916

Representatives of the Missouri Anti-Saloon League, coming from St. Louis, fill the pulpits at the Cape Girardeau Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian hurches in the morning and at the German Methodist in the evening; in the evening they also speak at the churches in Jackson.

About midnight Saturday, fire was discovered in the large barn of Mrs. Roxie Fulenwider in Burfordville; it was impossible to save anything from the building; the barn was destroyed, along with its contents, and six horses were killed.

-- Sharon K. Sanders