Out of the past 8/4/14

1989

Mark Seesing, who literally grew up in the aviation business, has been named Cape Girardeau's first full-time airport manager; Seesing, 30, is assistant general manager at Cape Central Airways, which operates a charter service based at the municipal airport.

Union Electric officials say they don't know why brief power outages affecting some 1,000 customers have been occurring each afternoon for the past four days west of Interstate 55; everything UE serves west of the interstate, including Gordonville, is being affected.

1964

Sen. Albert M. Spradling Jr. of Cape Girardeau rides a resounding Cape Girardeau County majority to gain the Democratic nomination for state senator from the 27th District over Fred E. Steck of Sikeston, Missouri.

Just a short two years after they voted the measure in, Cape Girardeau County voters rescind their action and cancel the county's Johnson grass abatement program; by a vote of 3,616 against the program to 2,875 for, they agree to abolish a tax of 5 cents per $100 assessed valuation, which netted $37,000 in tax revenue last fall.

1939

In their first game of the state American Legion junior baseball tournament at Trenton, Missouri, this afternoon, the Cape Girardeau team trims the St. Joseph, Missouri, boys, 3-2; Jack Behrens, on the mound for the Girardeans, checks the competition on six hits and fans 12.

The annual Achievement Day and Roundup of the Cape Girardeau County 4-H clubs is held at the Jackson high school, attended by around 400 people.

1914

Within a few weeks Cape Girardeau will have its "white way" system installed; the electric light company begins setting the big steel poles at noon at Main and Independence streets; they will stand 30 feet above the ground and will be in solid concrete; an ornamental pedestal about four feet tall will encase the base; 12 feet above the street, an ornamental arm will project, which will hold three large ornamental globes.

The farmers living in the Juden schoolhouse neighborhood on Bend Road, about 3 miles north of Cape Girardeau, are being harassed by a large gathering of gypsies, who have established a camp there.

-- Sharon K. Sanders