Out of the past: Oct. 3

1990

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- An overflow crowd gathered in the Chaffee City Hall last night to hear options for keeping the cash-poor Chaffee General Hospital open; the audience was told the hospital needs doctors who can admit paying patients to the hospital; to get the money to pay the doctors, the hospital needs both short-term and long-term financing.

Dr. Mikio Kato, president of Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co. Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan, was in Cape Girardeau this week to take part in the dedication of a new expansion project at Biokyowa, Inc.; the $20 million expansion included doubling the size of the Biokyowa warehouse and power plant and the addition of equipment in the production plant.

1965

Sunday worship services are conducted for the first time by the new pastor, the Rev. Bobbie L. Buster, at Lynwood Baptist Church; Buster arrived in Cape Girardeau Thursday with his wife and four children, coming here from serving a church in Clinton, Iowa.

Wood laminated Gothic arches were hoisted into place last week at the site of the new First Presbyterian Church, Broadway and Lorimier Street; the arches are encased in colorful wrappings to protect their unfinished surface; later, they will be stained to match the interior wood finish of the sanctuary and will be an exposed part of the ceiling.

1940

A group of Girardeans, mostly Broadway business men, held a meeting yesterday at the Vedder store, 611 Broadway, to voice their opposition to the location of a new federal building in Courthouse Park, where Common Pleas Courthouse now stands; also attending were Postmaster Nat M. Snider, Common Pleas Court Judge L.L. Bowman, and H. Arthur Tucker, government architect sent here from Washington to pick the site for the new building.

A news dispatch from Washington reports the Senate committee has turned down the request of the Civil Aeronautics Authority for $80,000,000 to construct 4,000 airports in this country; unless the committee reconsiders this proposal and acts favorably on it, the chances of building the proposed airport at Dutchtown are eliminated.

1915

G.W. Marshall and family, Frank Marshall, Nettie Marshall and Lucy Brundrett, all of near Commerce, Missouri, decide to drive to Oak Ridge to visit relatives; while driving from Cape Girardeau to Jackson, G.W. Marshall loses his coat containing a gold watch and chain; he retraces his path, but is unable to find the items.

Balloonist Ralph Planet is hospitalized here, after his balloon collapsed at the fairgrounds yesterday afternoon; the balloon lost all its air and fell from about 400 feet; Planet suffered a broken leg in the hard landing near second base of the baseball diamond.

-- Sharon K. Sanders