Out of the past: Jan. 27

1990

Opponents of a recreational lake proposal in Cape Girardeau and Bollinger counties plan to testify Tuesday before a Senate committee in opposition to a bill that would give the counties power to establish a lake authority and pass a sales tax to pay for lake construction.

Nell Holcomb School Board members have purchased approximately 17 acres of land, ground that may be used to build a district high school.

1965

LUTESVILLE, Mo. -- Highway patrolmen and Bollinger County authorities are conducting an extensive search for two men who last night engaged in a running gun battle with the city marshal of Lutesville; three shots from either a high caliber pistol or a rifle penetrated the windshield and front end of the Lutesville police car and knocked out the rear window of the car; Marshal Elmer "Ed" Reeves wasn't injured.

Efforts are underway to organize a citizens committee to clear Cape Girardeau news and magazine stands of indecent and pornographic literature; the main concerns of those at last night's meeting, which included City Judge Vernon Auer and assistant county prosecutor Richard E. Snider, were the effects of the literature on young people.

1940

Members of First Christian Church have passed the halfway mark in their campaign to raise funds to remodel and expand the present church building and to provide a new social center for the congregation; thus far, $13,000 of the $25,000 needed to pay for the improvements has been secured in cash or negotiable notes.

Woodrow Seabaugh, who recently obtained a pilot's license, his instructor Fred Clifton and Kenneth Wagner, all of Jackson, and D.K. Hutson, manager of the air school at Sikeston, Missouri, leave in the evening for Atlanta; there, Seabaugh and Clifton will purchase a small, open-type airplane; the four are driving to Atlanta, but Seabaugh and Clifton plan to fly the new plane home.

1915

H.S. Miller and Riley Hahn, agents of the National Refining Co., who have been in Cape Girardeau looking for a location for a branch plant, have been unsuccessful so far.

Sen. R.B. Oliver returns from Jefferson City, Missouri, and reports he found no danger confronting the existence of the Cape Girardeau Common Pleas Court in the Legislature.

-- Sharon K. Sanders