Out of the past: July 28

1990

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Eldon Ziegenhorn, who served as a Scott County commissioner for 18 years before retiring due to ill health in 1989, dies at a Cape Girardeau hospital at age 67. A stroke in October 1988, a month before he was elected without opposition to a new commission term, made Ziegenhorn unable to perform his official duties.

A consultant's cost estimates for renovating the municipal airport's terminal building show that a new building might cost the city only $115,000 more than renovation.

1965

Cape Girardeau National Guardsmen at Camp Ripley, Minnesota, listen on transistor radios as President Lyndon Johnson announces he won't call up National Guard units to serve in Vietnam at this time, but will increase draft calls; the president is adding 50,000 troops to U.S. forces in Vietnam, doubling the draft call.

Police Commissioner Al Nenninger refuses to make bids taken on police cars May 17 available to a reporter who had requested to see them; when reminded the bids are a matter of public record, the commissioner persists in his refusal.

1940

Plans for a still larger enrollment during the fall term of the Teachers College are being made by the Southeast Missouri Baptist Foundation, which has seen three successful terms pass; the foundation has served 272 students, according to Dr. S.D. Aubuchon, dean.

The temperature in Cape Girardeau reaches a sweltering 97 degrees, a seasonal high mark; in an effort to keep cool, Girardeans are using nearly 50 tons of ice daily, about 60 percent more than was consumed two weeks ago.

1915

Judge R.G. Ranney in Common Pleas Court calls the docket for the second day of the session, only to find not a case is ready for trail before the jury. At a cost of about $75 a day, the jury waits around and does nothing. Ranney says the expense to the county is too great for such arrangements to go on and indicates he will change the system to get trials while the jury is on hand.

Louis Houck, who was injured by being thrown from his buggy yesterday morning while en route from his home to his Cape Girardeau office, is improving nicely at Saint Francis Hospital; there is some concern over an injury to his left eye, caused by a cut from Houck's broken eyeglasses.

-- Sharon K. Sanders