Out of the past: Nov. 8

1990

After recommending months ago the city build a new $1.3 million terminal building at the municipal airport in lieu of plans to renovate the existing building, Cape Girardeau's Airport Advisory Board wants to reconsider the proposal; Truman Cole, a board member, believes the planned site for the new terminal, just north of the existing facility, is ill-conceived.

Southeast Missouri State University's women's basketball team was dealt a major blow yesterday, when it was announced the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association has declared five Otahkians ineligible for the first four MIAA games this season; the move punishes the players, who participated on the same team during the 1990 Show Me State Games in Columbia, Missouri.

1965

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The state Commission on Higher Education submits to Gov. Warren E. Hearnes a 1966-1967 budget for the University of Missouri, Lincoln University and the five state colleges totaling $106,306,095; Southeast Missouri State's share is $4,876,156.

James R. Bush has been moved to Cape Girardeau as superintendent of Trail of Tears State Park, succeeding Clarence Schilling, who has resigned.

1940

BENTON, Mo. -- Bronze memorial tablets with the names of 53 service men who lost their lives in the World War have been placed on the fountain at the southwest corner of Courthouse Square at Benton; the memorial will be unveiled during a service Sunday afternoon.

The official count of votes cast in Cape Girardeau County in Tuesday's election, completed late in the day by County Clerk L.H. Schrader and his assistants, brings no material change from the announced unofficial results.

1915

J.W. McMurry, president of McMurry Construction Co., which has the contract for improving the riverfront here, is expected to be in Cape Girardeau tomorrow or Wednesday to make preparations for continuing the work;.

Tillman Anderson, a young Commerce, Missouri, man who is making a small fortune selling horses to the French government, is at home in the village wearing a plaster cast from the armpits down to his hips; Anderson was driving a pacer in a race at Detroit three months ago when he took a spill from the sulky; a splinter of bone was broken off one of the vertebrae of his spine, causing two or three nerves to short circuit; the cast, which will be on for a year, will allow the bone to mend.

-- Sharon K. Sanders