Out of the past: July 19

1990

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Three Southeast Missouri dams -- Lake Tywappity east of here, Lake Girardeau near Crump and Perry County Community Lake near Perryville -- are the first of 13 dams in the state being improved this year to meet state-mandated dam and reservoir safety standards.

Workers with the Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department are constructing a kiosk entrance to the east side of the Rose Display Garden in Capaha Park.

1965

Cape Girardeau police discover paint remover or acid was thrown on 10 cars parked on a lot at Ford Groves Motor Co., 100 N. Sprigg St; the paint is blistered on the front fenders and hoods of the 1965 model cars.

The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to postpone a hearing on whether Cape Girardeau can support more than two AM radio stations, and it is likely the hearing won't be held at all; local radio station KGMO and the Missouri-Illinois Broadcasting Co., holder of a permit to construct a station here, have filed a joint petition to cancel the hearing; KGMO Radio-Television Inc., had initially requested the hearing.

1940

Alexander C. Vasterling, 70, an insurance company representative in Cape Girardeau for many years and whose efforts while serving on the city council helped bring about the establishment of a fire department here, dies at the family home.

Cape Girardeau Mayor Hinkle Statler has been named to a nine-member state war industries committee, subject to the approval of Gov. Lloyd C. Stark; the committee will study the general industrial situation in Missouri, and prepare to help advantageously locate, on a patriotic basis, defense and other war industrial plants in Missouri.

1915

The Rice and Dore water carnival furnished good amusement Saturday at the riverfront; while the afternoon performance was only sparsely attended, the evening show, after the heat of the day had dispersed, drew thousands to the wharf.

COMMERCE, Mo. -- The women of Commerce staged a regular Boston Tea Party yesterday; a man who was in the habit of transporting liquor to Commerce from Cairo, Illinois, by way of the ferry was met by a dozen women, who smashed his bottles of booze and threw them into the river; he was warned to end his bootlegging ways.

-- Sharon K. Sanders