Out of the past 6/22/14

1989

Members of local veterans groups express outrage over yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling which, in effect, permits desecration of the American flag as a form of protest.

Officials of the St. Louis-Southwestern Railroad say a broken wheel on a tank car caused seven cars of a 76-unit Union Pacific freight train to derail west of Delta Wednesday night; there were no injuries, none of the derailed cars overturned, nor did the octyl alcohol the tank car was carrying leak from the damaged car.

1964

The Cape Girardeau County Court votes two-to-one to take the county zoning proposition off the ballot at the Aug. 4 primary; the action follows a discussion triggered by comments arising from a series of stories on the proposition carried in The Southeast Missourian.

Ralph "Bogey" Harrison Jr. and Marvin Rosengarten will return to State College as coaches; Harrison, former assistant football coach here in 1955-59, has been hired as swimming coach, assistant grid coach and physical education instructor; Rosengarten, a football star here before graduation in 1955, has been named head track coach, replacing the resigned Ervin Pitts, and also as assistant football coach.

1939

With Harry S. Sharp, past department commander of the United Spanish War Veterans as the speaker of the evening, the Louis K. Juden Post of the American Legion last night unanimously endorsed Oscar Kaiser for vice commander of the Legion in Missouri; the office will be filled at the state convention in Joplin, Missouri, in September.

Lloyd S. Rhymer is appointed to fill a vacancy on the City Board of Adjustment, while Mrs. Lilly Brucher Gehrs is named to fill a vacancy on the Public Library Board; Rhymer takes the place of city attorney B. Hugh Smith on the board; Mrs. Gehrs fills the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Professor John H. Gehrs.

1914

George S. Summers of Cape Girardeau was again elected national auditor of the Modern Woodmen of America, during last week's convention at Toledo, Ohio.

A contract is let to J.W. Gerhardt of St. Louis for the construction of the new Centenary Methodist Church on North Ellis Street; Gerhardt took the contract at $25,165.

-- Sharon K. Sanders