Out of the past: Sept. 13

1991

Saying they didn't want to lose a "bird in the hand," a majority of members of the Cape Girardeau Airport Advisory Board yesterday voted against a motion to halt a plan to renovate the airport terminal building so the matter could be studied further. The board in December approved a motion to go forward with the $1.1 million renovation project.

WASHINGTON -- Missouri Sen. Kit Bond says the "showdown" to save the Missouri Army National Guard's 1140th Combat Engineer Battalion at Cape Girardeau and 30 other guard units in the state will begin next week in Washington. The Pentagon wants to cut the guard's manpower nationwide by 136,000 men.

1966

Continuing the pattern of growth set through the years, the largest crowd on record attends the opening day of the 1966 SEMO District Fair. In attendance are 9,415 persons, as compared to 4,706 who attended the opening day in 1965. Drawing a big crowd to the grandstand in the evening is the tractor-pulling contest.

The Jackson School Board gives general approval to preliminary plans for the elementary addition but finds the district doesn't have the bonding capacity to finance the proposed building immediately.

1941

One teacher has been appointed to the public school faculty, subject to the approval by the school board, to fill a vacancy, and some shifts are to be made in the coming week, says Supt. L.J. Schultz. The new instructor is Dorothy Louise Goerke of St. Louis, who has been teaching in St. Louis County. She will teach at May Greene School. Flora Burton will be transferred from May Greene to Central High School to become library director and to have charge of a new guidance program.

A depot has been established at the J. Carron agency, 109 Broadway, for Tri-State Trailways bus line. The line's schedule calls for six trips daily into Cape Girardeau, three northbound and three southbound.

1916

The old Ben Adams house at Jefferson Avenue and South Frederick Street probably will be turned over to the local Provident Association to become the first city dispensary, or a home for poor people in emergency cases the coming winter. The frame house contains 12 large rooms and a store room on the first floor.

Aviator Al Boshek fails to arrive in Cape Girardeau because Frisco officials refuse to hold the train in St. Louis for a few minutes so an express transfer can be made. Boshek was scheduled to give an airplane-flight demonstration at the Cape Girardeau fair, which starts today.

-- Sharon K. Sanders