Out of the past 7/27/14

1989

Community health representatives speak at a public hearing to gather information about the needs of people with AIDS; testimony at the Southeast Missouri State University Center reveals services for people with AIDS are virtually nonexistent in Southeast Missouri.

For the first time in nine years, unless forced to do so by weather, the Cape Girardeau Public Library will close for a short time; the library will be closed Aug. 7-8 to allow the staff and volunteers to finish placing bar codes on more than 100,000 holdings, part of a new computer system.

1964

Mary Beth Greaser, the 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Greaser of Cape Girardeau, is in satisfactory condition in a local hospital, after having been bitten by a snake on the Lawrence Seyer farm near Oak Ridge yesterday.

Jackson Excavating Co. is awarded the contract for construction of the main and lateral sewer lines that will serve the new Jackson Junior High School; a representative of the firm says he thinks the job can be completed by Aug. 31, in time for school opening.

1939

It has been proposed that the Jackson Board of Education establish a two-year high school course in the Lincoln School at Jackson; heretofore, graduates from the elementary school have been transported to Cape Girardeau, where there is a four-year high school course for blacks.

The Cape Girardeau Junior American Legion baseball team will compete in the state tournament at Trenton, Missouri, in August; members of the team are Bill Golladay, Bob Blattner, Bob Bohnsack, Ivan Hente, Jack Behrens, Ralph Ferguson, Cecil Pletcher, Bob Beard, Garnett Williamson, Billy Bertrand, Paul Bock and Vernon Landgraf; coach of the team is Lou Muegge.

1914

W.C. Merritt and D.C. Stephens of New York, and H.B. Whitney of Iowa, who have the contract to dig the diversion channel, are here with Mr. Crawford, a member of the firm which built the big drainage machines; they are visiting the works, along with several expert machinists; a week or so ago, one of the big machines broke down.

Just to remind residents that summer is not yet over, the thermometer crept up to 100 degrees Sunday and again today.

-- Sharon K. Sanders