Out of the past: Sept. 24

1991

The Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority and Union Electric are headed to court next week to seek an interpretation on whether the port can purchase energy at wholesale rates; an evidentiary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 2 in Scott County Circuit Court at Benton, Missouri.

Local spokesmen for Cape Girardeau's black population last night told members of the Missouri Housing Development Commission that public housing is needed here to meet low-income and minority housing needs; the commission is holding hearings across the state to receive public comments on its Comprehensive Affordable Housing Strategy.

1966

Sterling Stores Co., Inc., headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, has signed a long-term lease with the Downtown Investment Corp., owners of the St. Charles Hotel property at Main and Themis, leading to demolition of the historic old building and construction of a brick structure to house the company's expanded store.

Spec. 4 Michael E. Middleton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Middleton of Cape Girardeau, has been awarded the Bronze Star with V for valor in ceremonies held in South Vietnam; the presentation followed the Aug. 26 battle 20 miles north of Saigon, when two U.S. Air Force Supersabre jet fighters dropped fiery napalm by error on 1st Infantry Division fighters in the savage jungle battle; Middleton was with the 1st Infantry; he also received a field promotion from private to specialist fourth class following the battle.

1941

Called into active military service from his rank in the Officers Reserve Corps, Dr. B.F. Holly, a dentist at Illmo, was ordered last week to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, for service as a captain in the Dental Corps; Holly attended Teachers College, was a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for two years, went to Southern Methodist University and graduated from St. Louis University School of Dentistry.

Federal Materials Co. plant in South Cape Girardeau, pressed with orders to deliver crushed stone and rip-rap stone, is working at capacity; the plant is working its full six days a week, eight hours a day, and officials are finding it difficult to secure trucks, rock haulers and loaders; much of the stone is being delivered for use in building the government's Crab Orchard ordnance plant between Carbondale and Marion, Illinois, and quite a bit is being used on the Mississippi River.

1916

Dies, Louise Cruchon Wright, 85, at her home in Jackson; she was born in Paris, France, Sept. 26, 1830, and came to America in her youth with her father, Alexander Cruchon, who was said to have conducted the first bakery in St. Louis; she was married July 8, 1849, to Erie Wright, an architect from the East, who was accidentally shot and killed on May 18, 1861; she moved to Jackson with her family about 1866; she is survived by a son and three daughters.

J.A. Kinder and family and Mrs. W.H. Bohnsack Sr., and Dr. Anita Bohnsack motor to Perryville, Missouri, and spend the day with relatives and friends.

-- Sharon K. Sanders