1990

After two and a half hours of deliberation, two petitions, 19 citizen appearances and two motions, the Cape Girardeau City Council yesterday voted again to alter the engineering plans for Lexington Street; the amended plan calls for a 44-foot-wide street with an 80-foot right-of-way from Kingshighway east to Perryville Road and from Cape Rock Drive east to Highway 177, with a 36-foot-wide section with 60-foot rights of way between.

Cape Girardeau police chief Howard Boyd is hoping a fundraising campaign, aimed in part at city school children, will yield enough money to purchase a trained police dog for use by the force.

1965

Harris College batters created such a wind yesterday afternoon the Weather Bureau considered putting out gale warnings; State College pitcher Kermit Meystedt sent 15 batters down swinging at empty air as the Indians blanked visiting Harris 7-0 at Capaha Park.

A one-week camp-out in Cimarron, New Mexico, is in sight for three outstanding Cape Girardeau Boy Scouts from July 15 through 31, when they will go to Philmont Boy Scout Ranch for the Junior Leadership Instruction Training program; the boys are Robert Isaac of Troop 7, Tim Penzel of Troop 8 and Bruce Preston of Troop 13.

1940

G.E. DuBois of Washington, D.C., has arrived to take charge of the Cape Girardeau field office of the Social Security Board pending the selection of a permanent successor to H.L. Gilhaus, who will go to St. Louis in a few days as assistant manager of the office there.

Allen L. Oliver is elected vice president of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, which closes its convention in Washington, D.C.; he has been vice president of the Missouri division of the organization and also is national trustee for the Missouri group.

1915

Business men of Cape Girardeau, meeting last night under the auspices of the Commercial Club, unanimously approved a resolution asking the mayor to call a special election to vote on a bond issue for $60,000 for park purposes.

Rain forces the postponement of the field-day sports at the Lorimier School athletic grounds for all the children of the public schools until Monday; many teachers, who had planned to leave the city Monday, are having to revise their schedules.

-- Sharon K. Sanders