Out of the past: Oct. 22

1990

A representative of BFI Inc., which handles about a third of the city's commercial trash accounts, asks the Cape Girardeau City Council to consider bidding out the residential trash service; city officials say that would allow a private company to monopolize an essential service, with no safeguards as to quality of service.

A new policy at Capital Bank has forced St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad officials to refinance the tourist railroad's business loan with another bank. The railroad chose to refinance its loan with the Jackson Exchange Bank and Trust Co. rather than pay a substantial reduction on the company's principal that Capital had requested.

1965

The first opportunity for rural Cape Girardeau County voters to register in their home communities begins with the opening of a registration station at the Oak Ridge High School gymnasium; the registration station there will be open again Monday before moving on to another township.

Evelyn M. Neininger of Webster Groves, Missouri, a State College freshman, has been named a winner of the Carnegie Award for Heroism; last New Year's Eve, Neininger rescued four small children from a burning Glendale, Missouri, home.

1940

Rep. Frank A. Lowry, representing a local group opposed to the razing of Common Pleas Courthouse and use of that site for the construction of a new federal building, asked members of the Cape Girardeau City Council yesterday to withdraw its offer of the site to the government. Speaking for the council, Mayor Hinkle Statler said, "I can't see anything unsound in our proposal. I do not propose to withdraw it."

Hardy C. Wilbourn of Cape Girardeau becomes the county's No. 1 draft registrant, with the drawing of his name first by the county draft board as it meets at Jackson to classify and assign serial numbers to the 4,643 men who registered last Wednesday.

1915

Two hundred fifty high-school and eighth-grade pupils of the Cape Girardeau Public Schools start to the new Central building for the first time. There is much confusion, naturally, and no effort is made to hold classes; the intention is merely to have pupils become acquainted with the big building.

With the Mississippi River falling, Capt. A.C. Jaynes warns his ferryboat may be put out of commission Sunday or Monday. He lands his boat on the Illinois shore opposite the Frisco depot, but he can't do this if the river falls below 16 feet.

-- Sharon K. Sanders