Out of the past: Oct. 6

1991

Phil Breithaupt left Teen Challenge, a local camp that helps individuals fighting drug and alcohol abuse, in 1987, but he and his wife, Beverly, are both back at the camp; Breithaupt is a regional representative for the camp and directs the choir and his wife is an administrative assistant.

More than 200 pro-life supporters, carrying signs saying "Abortion kills children," line a section of Broadway as part of a nationwide anti-abortion effort; Cape Girardeau is one of six Missouri cities where demonstrations are held involving thousands of Missourians.

1966

Business operators in the Main-Spanish area are seeking the installation of an ornamental street-lighting system fed by underground circuits; city manager Paul F. Frederick said he understands interest in such a project might exist also along Broadway and predicts the idea would spread into other business districts, such as the Good Hope-South Sprigg area.

Fire that follows an explosion guts a one-story frame house at 913 Independence St. in the morning, destroying the furniture and clothing of the occupants; Marie Pyle manages to get her three children -- aged 5, 4 and 2 -- out of the house without injury; a fourth child is at school; her husband, James Pyle, is working in Chicago as a truck driver.

1941

Twenty Teachers College students begin their Civilian Pilots Training Program at the Consolidated School of Aviation, this being the third class to be furnished by the college in cooperation with the Civil Aeronautics Authority to build up the nation's civil aviation strength.

Two Cape Girardeau youths, Raymond Blakeney, 20, and Lloyd West, 18, left their hometown Sept. 22 with only 34 cents in their pockets and hitchhiked 1,057 miles to Port Arthur, Ontario, to join the Canadian Navy and "fight Hitler"; Blakeney is the son of Mrs. Hugh Mitchell and West is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernie West; the former recently was given a medical discharge from the U.S. Coast Guard.

1916

The work on the sea wall at the foot of Independence Street is nearing completion; the concrete was poured yesterday in the last form, which will connect the wall from the north and south end; all concrete work should be completed by the latter part of next week, and the filling in with dirt between the tracks and the walls will then start.

Albert Grimes, one of the partners of the Edwards-Grimes Auto Co. of Cape Girardeau, will leave Sunday for Toledo, Ohio, where he has taken a job with the Overland automobile company; Oliver Edwards has accepted a position with the Groves Motor Car Co.

-- Sharon K. Sanders