Out of the past: April 21

1990

All five members of the Airport Board told the City Council and city staff yesterday they feel their recommendations have been ignored over the past month; at the conclusion of the special hour-long meeting, council members and staff pledged to do a better job of communicating with the board.

The Cape Girardeau Central High School Student Council leads an Earth Day parade in the morning; it ends with a rally at Capaha Park, featuring speakers and music.

1965

The Cape Girardeau County grand jury, in its report to Circuit Judge W. Osler Statler, clears the Cape Girardeau Police Department of any irregularities and generally commends police personnel; it does recommend better training of officers and suggests the city administration make definite provisions regarding employment and subsequent promotion of police officers.

Guidelines by which local school districts might receive financial aid for vocational education before June 30 are described by State Department of Education officials in a meeting with district school administrators at State College's Academic Auditorium.

1940

The Rev. C.H. Morton, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, is absent from his pulpit; he is in Chicago to preside at the christening of his grandson, Charles Bancroft Hammond, at Fourth Presbyterian Church; the youngster is 3 months old and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Hammond, Mrs. Hammond being the former Miss Sydney Morton.

Harold R. Nootz of Lincoln, Nebraska, who has been selected as one of the two field executives for the Southeast Missouri Area Council of Boy Scouts, will have his headquarters at Sikeston, Missouri; a second field worker, to be selected later, will be located at Poplar Bluff, Missouri.

1915

B.B. Cahoon Jr., a resident of Fredericktown, Missouri, bought the Grissom property Monday at public auction; the properties consist of three buildings at the southwest corner of Broadway and Spanish Street.

Granberry Jackson, the distinguished civil engineer who drew the plans for Cape Girardeau's sanitary sewer system 10 years ago and who was invited by the City Council to confer on a new sewer district, received possibly the coldest reception at the hands of a council in the history of Cape Girardeau last night; after hearing Jackson's report, the council voted to receive and file it, meaning Jackson's services were not wanted; the council didn't even reimburse him for his trip and his consultation.

-- Sharon K. Sanders