Out of the past: May 28

1990

Memorial Day. Flag desecration fills the thoughts and fuels the questions of Blair Moran; a Vietnam veteran from Sikeston, Missouri, Moran sternly reproves the act of flag desecration during a Memorial Day service at the Veterans Memorial in Cape Girardeau County Park; an estimated 200 people attend the service.

About 60 people turn out for a Memorial Day observance at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6407 in Scott City, hearing Vietnam veteran Tom Seematter reflect on "the painful price of freedom and the tragic cost of war;" Seematter is a former Cape Girardeau resident who now lives at Annapolis, Missouri.

1965

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- This year is heading toward good production on farms in this area, with weather favoring farmers; at this point, nearly all corn is planted, oats are nearing maturity, wheat and barley harvest isn't far away, and the first cutting of hay is completed on more than half the area farms.

The State College Board of Regents yesterday confirmed two key personnel appointments and accepted federal action increasing a loan for the construction of two new high-rise dormitories; the new dean of students will be Carroll Walker, who has been the student loan officer at the college; Paul Mawhinney, director of special services for the Grosse Pointe, Michigan, schools, will become the new chairman of the Education Department.

1940

Downtown traffic, brought back into the limelight through a ban by the city on angle parking on a number of streets, came up for a long discussion by the city council Monday; the council is considering one-way traffic on two blocks of Themis Street, on either side of Main Street, with traffic moving away from the busy thoroughfare.

Army worms are damaging some crops in the vicinity of New Wells; August Leimach, living west of there, and a neighbor are in Jackson to seek advice about curbing the destructive worms and to get poison to use against them; hordes of worms are eating mainly timothy hay, native grasses and wheat.

1915

A small section of concrete on the third floor of the Central High School building fell last evening, just before work was stopped for the day, and two laborers dropped to the second floor with it; neither was injured.

Mrs. Mary Baggott, for 15 years manager of the Western Union Telegraph office here, will retire June 1; by an unusual courtesy of the management, she will be placed on the company's pension roll and enjoy a good monthly stipend as long as she lives.

-- Sharon K. Sanders