Out of the past: Sept. 10

1991

Twenty-two area businesses, which combined have about 6,000 employees, are seeking to reduce their ever-rising health care costs through the efforts of a group they have established, the Cape Area Business Health Care Group; the group is in the process of hiring an executive director to guide its efforts both locally and at the legislative level.

Two carnival workers at the SEMO District Fair are arrested and charged after one of them allegedly hit a Cape Girardeau woman several times in the head with an iron pipe; when police tried to arrest the two workers, one reportedly assaulted an officer, causing another officer to bring the man under control by spraying him in the face with pepper Mace.

1966

The State College Board of Regents has given approval to a preliminary application for a new federal loan for dormitory construction and to budget requests for the next fiscal year totaling $12,536,633; the new dorm loan request, which has been made, is for $8,250,000 and would finance the next dorm project after the current complex of four high-rise residence halls is completed.

The challenge to service, particulary in community and international projects, was issued to the city's newest civic organization, the Cape Girardeau West Rotary Club, in a charter presentation ceremony last night; Lee G. Cochran, governor of 40 Rotary Clubs in District 609 of Southeast Missouri, presented the charter to Dewey Keller, president of the new club.

1941

Reacting to yesterday's defeat of a bond issue which would have financed the construction of an airport near Dutchtown, Mayor Hinkle Statler says the city of Cape Girardeau may consider becoming sponsor of the project, in the event it is found it can do so legally.

Speaking at the public installation of officers of Louis K. Juden Post and Post Auxiliary at Houck Field House, Paul G. Armstrong of Springfield, Illinois, former American Legion state commander in Illinois, declares the United States must be prepared for defense and be united for that defense in the event it has to go to war; the Legion, made up of men who saw fighting at first hand in the first World War, has stood for preparation against invasion from the first years of its existence, Armstrong points out.

1916

W.A. "Big Bill" Tetley, as Dr. Lincoln McConnell used to call him, is holding a revival campaign at Jackson, which is expected to run another week or two; Tetley is no stranger to he county; he was assistant to McConnell in his evangelistic campaign at Cape Girardeau three years ago.

The Rev. J.H. Knehans, pastor of the German Methodist Church at Sprigg and Independence streets, is leaving Cape Girardeau; the German Methodist conference, in session at Peoria, Illinois, this week, has decided he must go to a church at De Soto, Missouri.

-- Sharon K. Sanders