Out of the past: Oct. 11

1990

Construction of a 12,000-square-foot municipal airport terminal building, a 100,000-gallon water storage tank, fuel storage system, and T-hangars are among top priority projects at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport over the next two years; the projects, in the city's five-year capital improvements plan, were prioritized last night by the Airport Advisory Council.

In an effort to boost the number of registered voters in Cape Girardeau County, County Clerk Rodney Miller hosts a voter-registration drive in the evening; the county clerk's offices also will offer extended hours nest week.

1965

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education hears curriculum and construction reports on Hawthorn School; Hawthorn principal John R. Miller says the planned approach is for an "upgraded instructional program with team teaching" with the aim of allowing all children to progress at their own pace in all areas.

To comply with a new state law, vision tests necessary for the renewal of driver's licenses will be given each Monday afternoon and on the mornings of the first and third Thursday, and Fridays and Saturdays of the month at 220 N. Main St. in Cape Girardeau.

1940

Jews from throughout Southeast Missouri are in Cape Girardeau in the evening for Yom Kippur services at the B'Nai Israel Synagogue on South Main Street; Cantor Paul Lang is in charge of the service.

Dr. Hal F. Irwin, a dentist and captain in the Army Reserve Corps, has been advised to report Monday for active duty with the general staff at Seventh Corps Area headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska; he is the first reserve officer in Cape Girardeau to be called into active duty in the present defense program.

1915

The Rev. Lynn F. Ross, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Jackson, departs in the morning for Farmington, Missouri, where he will attend a meeting of the directors of the Elmwood Orphanage; from there he will go to St. Louis to attend the Southern synod of the Presbyterian Church, which convenes tomorrow night in the Central Presbyterian Church; Dan Klein of Jackson also will attend the synod as representative of the Jackson church.

A bold robber visited the Riverview saloon early yesterday morning; he stole several boxes of cigars, several quarts of whiskey, a $30 Savage revolver and helped himself to some port wine; he then left the tap open on the wine barrel, letting all the wine run out; the loss, according to bar owner Claud Speak, amounts to nearly $100.

-- Sharon K. Sanders