Out of the past: June 28

1991

Southeast Missouri State University officials say they must look for ways to slash $936,000 from the university's budget following major cuts enacted by Gov. John Ashcroft in approving the 1992 state budget; university officials also voice disappointment over the governor's veto of $420,600 in capital-improvement projects for Southeast.

The Center for Earthquake Studies on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University received a financial shakeup yesterday; about a third of its budget -- $65,000 -- was vetoed by Gov. John Ashcroft.

1966

Hot, dry weather over 90 degrees for the past eight days has sped the wheat harvest into the final stages in Cape Girardeau County; results range from "we don't have more than half a crop, but it's bringing a good price" at Delta to "wheat is nearly running out our ears" at Shawneetown.

The second trial of Douglas Wayne Thompson in the slaying of Cape Girardeau Auxiliary Policeman Herbert L. Goss is set for Dec. 20 in Mississippi County, five years after his original trial and conviction for the crime.

1941

The successful bid for a postal substation having been submitted by J.C. Wylie, he will be in charge of a sub-office at 234 S. Sprigg St., effective Tuesday. The Good Hope area substation has for several years been located in the Kinder drug store. Wylie has a real-estate office at the South Sprigg Street address.

An increase in the price of milk in Cape Girardeau is announced by some of the larger dairies. The increase amounts to 2 cents per quart on the retail price; most milk will sell at 12 cents a quart, instead of the present 10 cents per quart.

1916

VILLA RIDGE, Ill. -- Villa Ridge, 12 miles north of Cairo, Illinois, was held at bay for an hour overnight by a gang of eight yeggmen, who blew the safe in the store of W.H. Spaulding and escaped to Mounds, Illinois, in an automobile. Spaulding and Harry Horsefall of Cairo quickly organized and armed a posse, which chased the bandits to Mounds.

Seven young men passed inspection before Maj. George W. Goode, a U.S. Army recruiting officer, at the station here last night, and six of them leave on the northbound train this morning for Jefferson Barracks. They are John Neal, Walter C. McClanahan and Alvis J. Carie of Cape Girardeau; William M. Hunter of Kennett, Missouri; Joe Freeman of Princeton, Kentucky; William Crisenburg of Illmo; and Henry Hale of Tyler, Texas. Freeman and Hale have been working here for some time.

-- Sharon K. Sanders