Out of the past: Oct. 30

1990

No changes in operations by Trans World Express are anticipated at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport after the announcement the firm is being acquired by Trans States Airlines.

Mercantile Bank of Cape Girardeau has announced plans to close its Kurre Lane office next month; Mercantile has doubled the size of its main office, 325 N. Kingshighway, allowing the bank to consolidate more operations at the main facility.

1965

A recommendation of the Missouri Commission on Higher Education that tuition fees at the five state colleges be increased in the next two years draws fire from State College president Mark F. Scully; replying to a directive from Ben Morton, executive secretary of the commission, Scully says a tuition increase would deprive many Missourians of a college education; the commission has recommended that by Sept. 1, 1976, the colleges should increase student fees by $60 a year to a minimum of $220.

Jim Harmon, well-known St. Louis artist and State College graduate, will be the guest artist for The Missourian Annual Art Exhibition in November.

1940

Roy Haman, a city fireman, and E.L. Hutson, formerly a police officer, will be added to the Cape Girardeau Police Department as patrolmen, said chief of police E.W. Barenkamp; the new officers will fill in for William Wickham, who is ill, and for George I. Staley, who will be heading to Arkansas with the National Guard for a year of active training.

Work has been started on the remodeling of the interior and exterior of the two-story, 10-room brick residence at 525 Themis St., belonging to Mrs. Emil Bahn; the residence will be made into two five-room apartments.

1915

Betty Boyd, a feature writer for the St. Louis Republic, is one of the main speakers on, the morning program for the big teachers meeting at the Normal School; Boyd wants people to quit using the term "old maid" and substitute "unmarried woman"; last night's speakers were Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, who spoke on women's suffrage, and former Minnesota governor A.O. Eberhardt.

The Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. lets the contract for a fine reinforced concrete garage building to be erected just north of its big office building on Fountain Street; Herman Loeffel and Edward F. Regenhardt secure the contract; the building has been leased to the Fred A. Groves Auto Co.

-- Sharon K. Sanders