Out of the past: Oct. 15

1990

Richard D. Kinder, formerly of Cape Girardeau, has been elected president and chief operating officer of Enron Corp., a Houston-based natural gas company.

Southeast Missouri State University will pay $1.8 million to St. Louis scholar and businessman Louis D. Brodsky over a 20-year period for a massive collection of rare books and manuscripts by author William Faulkner; the collection was acquired by the university under terms of a Dec. 31, 1988, agreement.

1965

A tract of 2 2/3 acres at the southeast corner of the Bloomfield Road overpass on Interstate 55 have been purchased from Albert Keller by the Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah Witness congregation; construction of a new Kingdom Hall there has been started under the direction of Paul Thiessen, the group's minister-overseer.

The Cape Girardeau County Court has authorized the County Parks and Recreation Board to hire a professional firm to make a survey of the long-term outdoor recreational needs of the county; a survey would take into account the recreational facilities in Jackson and Cape Girardeau, but would be oriented toward development of recreational areas in the rural sections of the county.

1940

The Cape Girardeau County Court, holding to the growing contention that Courthouse Park in Cape Girardeau is in reality the property of the county and not the city, has stated it won't deed away the park for any purpose; a delegation, made up largely of those opposing the use of the park as a site for the new federal building, brought the matter to the court Monday; the park and the courthouse have for many years been jointly occupied by both the city and the county.

Like some 16 million others throughout the nation, young men in Cape Girardeau County and Southeast Missouri between the age of 21 and 35 will go to their respective voting places tomorrow to register for conscription for possible military duty.

1915

Contractors yesterday finished putting in the large concrete culvert across Gordonville Road near the home of H.P. Siemers, about 3 miles west of Cape Girardeau; this was the last of the wooden bridges on Gordonville Road to be replaced by a culvert.

Those baseball fans who are tired of seeing the Capahas and the New Madrid (Missouri) Spaniards play will have an opportunity Sunday to see something new; big Jeff Tesreau, formerly of Perryville, Missouri, but now of the New York Giants, will be here with the Perryville Blues for a game with the Caps; the managers of the Capahas and the New Madrid teams couldn't settle on a site for the championship game of the local league, so a game was arranged with the Blues.

-- Sharon K. Sanders