Out of the past: Oct. 25

1990

The name of the Cape Girardeau Police Department's newest member is Greif, a 5-year-old male German shepherd; patrolman Dennis Horn has been assigned to be the dog's handler.

NEW HAMBURG, Mo. -- Steven Niederkorn, a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper who formerly lived in New Hamburg, has been promoted to corporal; he is the son of Irene Niederkorn of New Hamburg and the late Charles Niederkorn; he is assigned to the highway patrol's Kennett, Missouri, zone.

1965

The Cape Girardeau Jaycees honor members of the city's police department at a dinner at Holiday Inn; 28 of the 32-member force are able to attend the dinner; two officers are ill, and the other two are on vacation; the Cape Girardeau Auxiliary Police take charge of police work while the patrolmen normally on duty attend the meal.

Members of the State Highway Department are making a traffic survey of the access road leading from U.S. 61 to the Alvin F. Klaus Park, to determine whether a surfacing project would be justified; the park is the section of the County Farm cut off by the Interstate 55 project.

1940

With the drawing of the first numbers for selective service scheduled in Washington at noon next Tuesday, Cape Girardeau County's draft board is speeding its work to get all names of registrants in the county classified and assigned numbers; extra stenographers have been put to the task of making out the lists of those men between 21 and 36 who registered Oct. 16.

ORAN, Mo. -- Filling in for U.S. Sen. Bennett C. Clark, Sen. R.L. Dearmont of St. Louis and Cape Girardeau speaks at a Democratic rally at the Majestic Theater here; his talk deals entirely with national issues; a big crowd turns out for the rally, there being 750 people in the theater, and many others unable to get inside.

1915

A team of horses belonging to Albert Schwab, a farmer living several miles out of this city, becomes frightened at the switch engine while standing on the levee at noon and collides with William Vedder's automobile as the animals turn to run out Broadway; the car is only slightly damaged, and the horses and wagon are uninjured.

Henry Armgardt, son of Councilman Charles Armgardt, has accepted a position in the freight department of the Frisco Railroad at Chaffee, Missouri; he will move his family there soon.

-- Sharon K. Sanders