The 20th birthday of St. Mark Lutheran Church is observed at morning services; a reception follows in the fellowship room.
Complete renovation and some expansion of facilities are underway at the Cape Girardeau Country Club, involving both the clubhouse and grounds; the clubhouse kitchen will be redone, with new equipment added; a new dining room will be installed; a new room will be added for the "19th Hole."
More than 3,000 teachers are in town for the 85th annual spring meeting of the Southeast Missouri Teachers Association at Houck Field House; speaking on the communist threat is Robert Kazmayer, who lived and worked in Russia.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- Southeast Missouri State's Indians ambush Chicago University's Maroons 67-41 in the first round of the NCAA College Division basketball national tournament; the Girardeau team will next play tomorrow night against South Dakota State.
Mr. and Mrs. A.S. Duckworth of Cape Girardeau have received word from their son, Herbert, that he has been promoted to lieutenant commander in the Navy; Duckworth is with the USS Langley of the Pacific fleet; he has been in the Navy 14 years, having graduated from the Naval Academy in Annapolis in 1922.
A crew starts work in the north end of the new West End sanitary sewer; 20 men are excavating a trench by hand for an 8-inch lateral line on Rose Street running west from West End Boulevard to Missouri Avenue.
JEFFERSON CITY -- The Missouri Senate yesterday passed the Oliver bill providing for the formation of drainage and levee districts based upon the acreage of land instead of upon its value; the chief opposition to the measure in Southeast Missouri came from Louis Houck of Cape Girardeau.
A third ticket has been announced for the coming election; on the Progressive ticket are A.C. Vasterling for mayor, who is also a candidate of the Industrial ticket; W.W. Summers, marshal; J.H. Caruthers, city attorney; Orren Wilson, police judge; Denver Bollinger, assessor; Edward Willer, collector; Louis Stein, treasurer; Willer and Stein are on all three tickets.
-- Sharon K. Sanders
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