Out of the past: Sept. 6

1991

Despite the efforts of a religious group, MTV won't be banned from local television service, said Roger Harms, an official with TCI Cablevision of Missouri. Cape Girardeau County Chapter of the American Family Association is circulating a petition supporting removal of the channel.

After 46 years with the district, Calvin Brennan Sr., maintenance supervisor for the Cape Girardeau Public Schools, retires. Brennan followed in the footsteps of his father, John, and his son, Calvin Jr., will carry on the family tradition of working for the school district.

1966

Public schools in Cape Girardeau begin classes in the morning with an opening-day enrollment of 5,201. Trinity Lutheran School also opens in the morning with an enrollment of 305.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- New steps are being taken this week toward the establishment in this general area of a two-year college that would emphasize vocational and technical training. The proposed community-college district would cover Scott, Stoddard, Mississippi and New Madrid counties.

1941

The steamer Golden Eagle will be brought down the Mississippi River past here today or Sunday, should efforts to raise the steamer off a sandbar near Chester, Illinois, prove successful. The boat was caught there June 14; since then, its hull has been repaired and the water pumped from inside. Capts. Henry W. Leyhe and William "Buck" Leyhe, brothers, who own the Eagle, plan to take it to Paducah, Kentucky, for repairs during the winter.

Spontaneous combustion in a coal bin caused a fire in the basement at the home of Dr. and Mrs. G.B. Schulz, 605 Broadway, last night. While the damage wasn't great, firemen had to move five tons of stoker coal, shoveling some of it outside the basement.

1916

Victor M. Holm, a sculptor and member of the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, has agreed to meet with the ladies of the Cape Girardeau Cemetery Association regarding the erection of a memorial for the city's founder, Louis Lorimier. The ladies have been collecting funds for this purpose for several years and now are ready to proceed with their plan.

The J.W. Murry Construction Co. inserts an advertisement in The Republican newspaper for laborers wanted for work on the Cape Girardeau levee front. Several days ago, a small force began getting things ready for the resumption of work on the sea wall. Work on the wall was stopped in the fall of 1914 by cold weather, and in 1915, the river never got low enough for work to be resumed.

-- Sharon K. Sanders