Out of the past 6/23/13

1988

With sizzling temperatures and no rain, Girardeans are beginning to feel the heat of what could be a long summer; a record-high temperature was set at the municipal airport yesterday, when the thermometer hit 100 degrees at 3 p.m..

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has proposed adding the Illada Energy and Oil Reclamation plant in northern Alexander County, Ill., to the Superfund national priorities list for toxic waste cleanups.

1963

Workers have begun excavating for the foundation for a new education building for Emanuel United Church of Christ in Jackson; it will be built east of the church, where the old parsonage stood; the two-story building will be constructed by Penzel Construction Co.

The Rev. and Mrs. Noble W. Scroggins and their daughters, Beverly, 14, and Kathleen, 7, are the new residents in the parsonage of the Foursquare Church; the family moved from Denver; Scroggins has been pastor of churches in Duluth, Minn., Wichita, Kan., and Colorado Springs, Colo.

1938

Cape Girardeau Mayor Edward L. Drum says there's no way for the city to sponsor as a WPA project the long-proposed downtown storm sewer if the city has to put up sufficient funds to guarantee the cost of materials used in its construction; property owners would have to put up part of the money.

The Jackson Board of Education has ordered a special election July 12, at which voters will decide whether a bond issue of $75,000 will be authorized; the bonds would be used to build a new grade school to replace the one that has been in use more than 50 years.

1913

Evangelist Lincoln McConnell began the final week of the big tabernacle meeting last night in good form before a packed house; a stranger in town, a transfer driver for Fred Kain, attempted to disrupt the meeting by heckling the preacher, but McConnell dealt with him easily.

The anti-free lunch law went into effect yesterday; if enforced, the law means the end to free lunches in Missouri saloons; it is said saloons in Cape Girardeau did away with its free lunch counters some time ago.

-- Sharon K. Sanders