Out of the past: June 8

1991

Greyhound is looking for a new home in Cape Girardeau again. A new location will be the fourth for the bus company since March 1990, when the former Union Bus Depot at 16 N. Frederick St., closed after more than 40 years.

Willard H. "Dutch" Estes presented the 1991 Cobblestone Award yesterday to Moe Sandfort during the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce First Friday Coffee. The award is given annually to a person who exhibits civic dedication.

1966

Announcement is made by a delegation that called on the Federal Aviation Agency in Washington on Tuesday it has approved a 6,500-foot runway for the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport. The FAA allowed no more funds for the project beyond $757,000 that previously had been allocated but approved a change in specifications. The increase of the length was gained by narrowing the width of the strip from 150 feet to 100 feet.

Public telegram service in Cape Girardeau and all across the nation halted last night when an estimated 20,000 Western Union employees walked off the job in a dispute involving wages and other benefits. Four Cape Girardeau members of Local 23 of the AFL-CIO joined in the strike.

1941

Plans for redecoration of Centenary Methodist Church are to be made soon by a committee named by Dr. W.W. Parker, chairman of the official board. Those named to the committee were Arnold Roth, N.B. Mullen, Fred Naeter, Mrs. James A. Finch, Rush H. Limbaugh and Stanley Richmond. The committee will consider the needs of the main church building.

In observance of the fourth anniversary of Springdale Bird Sanctuary, guests from St. Louis as well as local people are shown through the grounds. The most recent improvement at the sanctuary is construction of a dam to create a pond for attracting waterfowl.

1916

While the great choir at the Forsythe tabernacle meeting was singing the first song last evening, a host of Presbyterians marching behind the city band appeared at the doors and then paraded into the big building.

Contractor J.W. Gerhardt begins work in the morning on the new Buckner-Ragsdale Co. store here, letting a subcontract and hauling out broken brick, concrete blocks, steel and iron from the basement of the Houck building at Broadway and Main Street.

-- Sharon K. Sanders