Out of the past: Dec. 10

1990

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- A Charleston man trapped in Kuwait since the Iraqi army's invasion is on his way home; Randal Warren, 49, of Charleston, has been hiding out in Kuwait since Aug. 2; his family hopes to learn today when his plane will fly into the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport.

Jack Hensley, a professor of speech and theater arts for the past 36 years, will retire Saturday from Southeast Missouri State University; Hensley has spent the last 27 years teaching at Southeast.

1965

The impact the proposed city annexation would have on different school systems and on city finances is explored in testimony in the morning as the lawsuit in Common Pleas Court goes into a second day; the city of Cape Girardeau is seeking a declaratory judgment in support of its plan to annex eight square miles of territory on the south, west and north sides.

After studying the needs of the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse in Jackson for two months, a citizens committee is recommending a number of changes to the building; the heart of the recommendations is the installation of an elevator.

1940

The Sunny Hill Dairy is making improvements at its newly acquired building, the former laundry structure at 45 S. West End Blvd., with a plan of moving in shortly after Jan. 1; Sunny Hill will keep its current location, 240 S. Frederick St., as the feed and seed division of the firm.

Mrs. Henry J. Rasche and son, Wesley, are preparing to move to their former home in West Jackson; recently, they sold their 216-acre farm south of town to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scott of Chaffee, Missouri.

1915

FAYVILLE, Ill. -- The Dupont plant for the manufacture of explosives at Fayville, across from Commerce, Missouri, is building factories and making preparations for the manufacture of gun cotton and other high explosives; a force of 1,000 men will be employed, there being about 250 men already working there; the industry is of great benefit to Commerce, as a good many Commerce residents are employed there, and many who live on the Illinois side travel by ferry to Commerce to trade.

A defective flue causes a fire in the home of Mrs. Charles Unnerstall, 332 S. Sprigg St., at an early hour, destroying nearly the entire residence and nearly all the household goods; those in the house -- Mrs. Unnerstall, her sister, a daughter, a grandchild and a roomer -- escape the flames in their night clothes.

-- Sharon K. Sanders