Out of the past: Dec. 10

1991

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Chaffee Police Chief Ivan McLain has resigned his post and is eying a possible campaign next year for Cape Girardeau County sheriff, a job he once held for more than 10 years.

Scott City Mayor Shirley Young says she won't seek re-election to a second term; after 10 years in city government, Young says she's ready to retire.

1966

The cloak of secrecy has been drawn over the records of the magistrate court, and Magistrate Roland G. Bush has apparently appointed himself censor of the information which is to be viewed by the public; the date at which Busch withdrew the records from public inspection isn't know, but The Missourian newspaper became aware of the situation this week, when a reporter asked to see the charges against an Oak Ridge woman.

A Cape Girardeau school bus carrying 15 to 20 seventh-grade pupils yesterday slid into a muddy street-side ditch on Vincent Avenue requiring first a city-owned machine and then a wrecker to pull it free; no one was injured in the accident.

1941

Members of the Cape Girardeau County committee to serve as a unit of the State Council of Defense during the war emergency have been named by C.L. Harrison, who as a member of the state council from this county is also county chairman; members of the council include Frank M. Chase, A.E. Kies, Mrs. R.S. Cunningham, Mrs. Oscar C. Kaiser, Sheriff Ruben R. Schade, J.F. Hughes, George A. Naeter, Dan Blount and E.O Schoembs.

Hoping to complete the program by the end of the Christmas holidays that it might function in January, the Trinity Lutheran Parent-Teacher Circle, at its meeting yesterday, voted to install a cafeteria in the basement of the school.

1916

Walter Black, an expert chauffeur, drove the new big pumping engine and hose vehicle considerably yesterday; he pronounced it a powerfully strong machine, warning that the greatest care will have to be exercised in handling it because of its great power and weight.

The home of Mr. and Mrs. L.B. Houck is again brightened by the happy laughter and little footsteps of a tiny, 3-year-old girl; Frances, as she has been named, has become one of the family; she is the second child the Houcks have brought into their home as their own, the first having died about five years ago in New York.

-- Sharon K. Sanders