Out of the past: June 18

1991

By a 4-3 vote last night, with Mayor Carlton Meyer breaking a 3-3 tie, the Jackson Board of Aldermen rejected a pay increase for themselves and the mayor; but the board voted unanimously to raise the salary of City Administrator Carl Talley from $35,000 to $39,050.

Roy Drury, who has been adding up the numbers at Southeast Missouri State University for 33 years, first as controller and later as business manager-treasurer, is counting down the days until early retirement; on June 28, he'll put away the ledgers for the last time.

1966

Gene Helton had rounds of 37-37 to capture the Jaycee Senior Division Golf Tournament yesterday; Ron Bowers was runner-up with a 78; the two Central High players qualify for the state meet to be held next month.

Twenty-three Cape Girardeau high school boys depart in three buses for Central Missouri State College at Warrensburg for the annual Missouri Boys State; the boys, all high school seniors next fall, will get a first-hand dose of politics at the week-long event.

1941

The Rev. H.C. Croslin, pastor of the Red Star Baptist Church since November 1938, and co-founder of the Southeast Missouri Baptist Foundation at Teachers College, announces his resignation, to take effect Aug. 31; the congregation, informed of the resignation at services last Sunday, rejected it; Croslin plans to enter evangelistic work for a time.

Concrete is being poured for the foundation, walls and footings for the new dwelling being built on Highland Drive and North West End Boulevard for Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Erlbacher; workers have spent a week making the extensive excavation; it is expected brick and stone work will start in about two weeks.

1916

A second Forsythe tabernacle is to go up at once in Cape Girardeau, at the far north end of the city where there are three or four hundred houses in a community known as the Red Star Addition; it will be built Monday with volunteer labor; the lumber has been donated by Tom Williams of the threshing machine factory; the Rev. Roy Forsythe will conduct services there during the period the meetings are held at the main tabernacle by the Rev. Eli Forsythe, father of Roy.

Trinity Lutheran Church's annual mission festival is held on the lawn of Trinity Hall; the day-long festival opens with a sermon by the Rev. F.H. Rudie of Tilsit in the German language; the afternoon service, conducted by the Rev. Joseph Frenz, is in English.

-- Sharon K. Sanders