Out of the past: Oct. 2

1991

Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese and Village Voice writer Nat Hentoff debated at Southeast Missouri State University yesterday, clashing on numerous issues regarding freedom of speech.

Doug Kaminskey, Cape Girardeau environmental services coordinator, said yesterday's first day of citywide recycling service went "better than expected"; Kaminskey said collection and sorting of recyclable materials went particularly well.

1966

A basket dinner follows the morning worship service at Southside Baptist Church; in the afternoon the new addition to the church and the new parsonage are dedicated; today is also the sixth anniversary for the pastor, the Rev. Charles Marshall, coming to Southside.

The Rev. and Mrs. Lee J. True recently accepted the position of administrators of the Church of God Rest Home at Jackson; the rest home is owned by the Southeast Missouri Ministerial Fellowship and is operated by a board of four ministers and five laymen.

1941

CAIRO, Ill. -- Protests over the proposed purchase by the Cairo Bridge Commission of the traffic bridge at Cape Girardeau are pouring into Cong. M.C. Bishop's office at Washington, D.C.; the bill would permit the Cairo commission, which now operates the traffic bridge over the Ohio River here, to acquire the span at Cape Girardeau through purchase from the current owner, Ozark Trails Bridge Co.

A member of the first class of its kind in the Army, Sgt. Charles G. Beardslee, son of Mrs. Paul Beardslee of Cape Girardeau, graduated this week with a commission as second lieutenant from the Armored Force officer candidates school at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

1916

Before dismissing the Methodist Conference here, Bishop E.R. Hendrix reads off the appointments for the ensuing year; Dr. J.C. Handy will remain at Centenary Church, and the Rev. S.A. McFarland at the South Cape Girardeau church; the Rev. A.H. Barnes stays as presiding elder, the Rev. L.R. Jenkins remains at Jackson and the Rev. C.M. Hawkins goes back to Charleston, Missouri, for another year; very few changes are made, except in St. Louis.

Frank R. Jesse, treasurer of the Missouri-Illinois Mausoleum Co., leaves in the afternoon for Sikeston, Missouri, to start an advertising campaign for the selling of spaces in the mausoleum that will be built in that town; the ground for the mausoleum in Sikeston has been purchased; work is progressing nicely on the mausoleum here.

-- Sharon K. Sanders