Out of the past: Oct. 10

1990

After more than two decades of planning, an upgraded section of Highway 61 between Cape Girardeau and Jackson will be dedicated Monday; the new four- and five-lane highway should help generate industrial, development growth along the route, says Jackson city administrator Carl Talley.

In the aftermath of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, area school superintendents and school district managers are trying to cope with budget-busting, skyrocketing prices for fuel used to operate their bus fleets, and propane fuel for winter heating; both have just about doubled in price since early August.

1965

Allen L. Oliver cites the representatives of the past, present and future in the stones of the First Presbyterian Church during cornerstone ceremonies conducted by St. Mark's Lodge No. 93, AF & AM; Oliver says the cornerstone of 1902, removed from the former building and relaid in the church under construction, is an emblem of the past; the 1965 cornerstone, he says, is a symbol of the present, and both represent the future.

A man wanted by Tennessee authorities for the murder of an FBI agent is apprehended by Scott County Sheriff John Dennis after a high-speed chase in the evening; the captive is a former mental patient who escaped from a Tennessee hospital in October 1963.

1940

Mayor Hinkle Statler declares that it has been "officially stated in Washington" that the government would use the present Federal Building site on Broadway, if Courthouse Park is not made available for the new post office building; the government agent who investigated the sites here said the present post office site is the best one for the new building, but agreed "it would be a very serious loss to the city" for it to be destroyed to make way for a new building.

Preliminary plans for the 1941 SEMO District Fair are being made by the fair board; the board has a balance of $4,129 on hand after the fifirst exposition held at the new city park two weeks ago.

1915

The New Madrid (Missouri) Spaniards tie things up in the championship baseball series of Southeast Missouri, downing the Capahas 6-5; both teams have won two games in the series.

E.L. Dockins, merchant at Millersville, has traded his stock of goods to a consortium of promoters from Chaffee, Missouri, for 150 acres of land near Snider's Mill; the taking of the inventory of Dockins' store was completed yesterday, and the Chaffee people will soon have charge; the books containing the invoices were brought to Jackson to be added up on an adding machine.

-- Sharon K. Sanders