Out of the past: Nov. 6

1990

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Chaffee General Hospital has shut down for two weeks, but a hospital board member said the closing is unrelated to the facility's financial difficulties; Randy Dooley, acting president of the board of directors, said the shutdown is for administrative restructuring.

Eighth District U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson piles up 57.3 percent of the vote to claim a sixth term by defeating Democrat Rus Carnahan; Emerson carries all but four of the 26 counties in the district, winning by a margin of about 20,000 votes.

1965

Thousands of people line Broadway and Main Street to view the annual State College Homecoming parade; the best cheering section along the route is the Jackson High School band; one of the last units in the parade, its members stand on Broadway while most of the units pass, giving round after round of applause to their fellow bandsmen from area schools.

Construction has been started on a new plant for Superior Electric Products Corp. on the industrial tract south of Cape Girardeau along Nash Road; the facility will supplement the existing plant at 1507 Independence St.

1940

Answering a call to a much larger pastorate, the Rev. Marvin C. Reichert, pastor of the English Lutheran Church for 1 1/2 years, hands in his resignation at a congregational meeting; Reichert will go to the Redeemer Lutheran Church at Centralia, Missouri, with a membership of about 250 people.

Whether it's cod liver oil or lumber, diamonds or perfume, it's getting harder for Girardeans to make a purchase without somewhere down the line running into a kickback from the European war, either because of scarcity or increase in prices; the price of diamonds is up as much as 200 percent; cameos are non-existent in local jewelry shops; perfumes are scarce, as is cod liver oil; the only optimists nowadays are local tailors, who still get much of their cloth from mills in England, with prices remaining steady.

1915

Joe "Dep" Barenkamp said that after tomorrow's baseball doubleheader between the Capahas and the clubs from Illmo and Chaffee, Missouri, he will retire from the game for good; Barenkamp has been manager of the Capahas for the past two seasons.

Vogelsang Brothers, contractors and builders, have just about completed the big Central High School building; in a few days the architects or their representatives from Kansas City will make a final inspection to accept the building, if it is finished properly.

-- Sharon K. Sanders