Out of the past: Sept. 12

1991

Area schools are dealing with a problem that's unusual for mid-September -- 90-degree heat in classrooms that lack air conditioning. Some schools, including Notre Dame High School, dismiss early because of the heat.

As many as 40 Cape Girardeau Central High School students met before classes yesterday to pray for the school and those in it. Janie Propst, a Central senior and organizer of a religious club that meets at the school, explains Wednesday was a national day of school prayer called "See You At the Pole."

1966

Everything is ready for tomorrow's opening of the SEMO District Fair. Tuesday's grandstand feature will be a tractor-pulling contest. Presented last year for the first time, it drew a large crowd of spectators.

There's a vacancy on the Republican ticket in the 150th District state representative race for the November election. The Rev. Lawrence Kennon of Advance, Missouri, has withdrawn because of illness.

1941

Members of the Independent Theater Owners of Southeast Missouri, meeting here yesterday, adopted a resolution protesting the attack being made by Sen. Bennett C. Clark of Missouri upon the motion-picture industry. Clark is one of the leaders in Congress in an investigation of what he terms propaganda of the motion picture industry designed to bring the United States into war. The owners' resolution terms Clark's attack as "unfair, uncalled for, unpatriotic and unjust."

Protests of church organizations in Jackson against gambling and indecent shows of a carnival at the recent Homecomers celebration are growing in number, and the demand is being made that hereafter, games of chance and questionable entertainment be eliminated.

1916

Although the fair doesn't officially begin until tomorrow, a large crowd visits Fairground Park during the day. Racing events will starts tomorrow, both horses and motorcycles. Also making a return will be the first of two grand Capaha parades in the evening; it will consist of 14 floats, three bands, 200 mounted Indians and other features.

School superintendent J.N. Crocker and members of the school board, responding to the appeal for help from at least two teachers, visit the different public schools with a view of relieving overcrowding. Helen Miller, primary teacher at Jefferson School, reports 56 small children in her room, which is intended for not more than 30. Three children occupy each desk. Helen Carroll, the primary teacher at Broadway School, reports 66 children in her room, which should accommodate only 50.

-- Sharon K. Sanders