Out of the past: Sept. 1

1990

The state's tax-limitation Hancock Amendment could snuff out plans by officials of the North Cape County Fire District to implement a tax levy this fall; citing a concern that such a move could violate Hancock, the Missouri State Auditor's Office has refused to implement a 30-cent tax levy; the tax levy was authorized by voters 13 years ago, but was never implemented.

With the help of area residents, a trailer packed with food and other items will soon be on its way to tornado-ravaged Plainfield, Illinois; a local collection effort started last night at the Jackson Wal-Mart store for residents of the affected area; a trailer in the store's parking lot is being used to collect the items.

1965

Cape Girardeau voters yesterday picked 10 men from a field of 25 to advance to the general election, when a new City Council will be decided under the city manager form of government; winners were Charles A. Hood, J. Ronald Fischer, A. Robert Pierce Jr., J. Hugh Logan, W.E. Davis, W. Glenn Bishop, Robert Jack Adams, Loren E. Smith, W.R. Withers, and Norman H. Kirby.

School opens in he morning for 4,305 Cape Girardeau Public School children, but approximately 600 others receive a six-day reprieve from classwork; pupils who will be attending the Louis J. Schultz School will have to wait until next Tuesday to start classes, as workers finish up the building's renovation; classes also begin at the city's parochial schools.

1940

The Rev. R. Borth is installed in the evening as pastor of the Eisleben Lutheran Church at Illmo; the Rev. W. Kiesker of Jackson is in charge of the ceremony, assisted by other Lutheran pastors of this district.

The Rev. William H. Wolfe, pastor of Grace Methodist Church, resumes preaching following a two-week vacation; Sunday evening services also resume following the summer months.

1915

W.H. Whitnell, formerly pastor of the Methodist church here, has decided to open an office for the practice of law; just where he will start up isn't known yet.

Jennings Tallent, son of the Main Street barber, has returned from Detroit, Michigan, where he had been working in a barber shop, and from many other points of interest throughout the country; when Jennings left Detroit, he turned his job over to his brother, Harold.

-- Sharon K. Sanders