Out of the past 1/6/14

1989

City officials have selected a site for a new west-side fire station; the new facility will be built on a 1.6-acre tract on Mount Auburn Road just north of Bloomfield Road; the city is purchasing the property from D and D Investments and Drury Development Corp. at a cost of $140,000.

"No-smoking" signs have gone up on buildings all over the Southeast Missouri State University campus; the university became a "tobacco-free environment" Jan. 1, pleasing some, but raising the ire of many smokers.

1964

Seeking a fourth term on the Cape Girardeau City Council, Commissioner J.W. McBride files his petition, containing 67 names, with city clerk Verna L. Landis; McBride, who was first elected to the council in 1952, is superintendent of parks and finance.

The old wing of the Cape Girardeau Public Library is being reroofed, and the work is expected to be finished this week; the contractor is Modern Roofing and Sheet Metal Works Inc. of Scott City.

1939

Construction of 120 miles of rural electric lines in Cape Girardeau County, with aid from the Rural Electrification Administration, is being planned, according to Madison H. Zaricor of Sikeston, Mo., manager of the Scott-New Madrid-Mississippi Cooperative Association, to which the local loop will be attached; the line would be built in the vicinity of Jackson and in the southern end of the county.

Judge Ray B. Lucas of Benton, Mo., who retired from the state Supreme Court on Tuesday, is named state insurance superintendent by Gov. Lloyd C. Stark.

1914

Judge B.F. Davis has informed the Cape Girardeau City Council that he won't represent the city in condemnation proceedings against owners of property fronting on Water Street just south of Independence Street; Davis would be working against the interests of several of the clients of the law firm to which he belongs should he represent the city in the matter.

W.A. Dunn, formerly of Cape Girardeau and who now lives in Marble Hill, Mo., is spending a few days here with his daughters; one is teaching in the public schools and the other is attending the Normal School.

__Sharon K. Sanders__