Out of the past: Sept. 11

1990

A Nevada, Missouri, city official has accepted the job of Cape Girardeau's new personnel and risk-management director. Gordon Epps, 33, a 1981 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, will begin work here Oct. 1.

Extensions of Jackson's Main Street to County Road 618 north of Cape Girardeau and Nash Road from the Mississippi River to Interstate 55 are two priority highway needs discussed by a group of area officials here. About 20 government and civic leaders from Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Cape Girardeau County gather to evaluate highway needs in the area.

1965

Torrential rains -- the nasty children of Hurricane Betsy -- deluge southern states and soak the Cape Girardeau area. Showers began here late last night and continue into this morning; creeks and their branches are on the rise.

Construction of a concession building at Lake Girardeau at Crump is scheduled to begin this fall in preparation for the opening of the lake for fishing Jan. 1; Conservation Commission biologists recently surveyed the fish population of the 150-acre lake and found the fish rapidly reaching a desirable size.

1940

Overcome by smoke from a fire in the basement at the family home, 1216 N. West End Blvd., late last night, James Frazier, 22, was unconscious until revived by firemen, who discovered his condition accidentally. Mr. and Mrs. Frazier and her father, Harry Blore, reside at the dwelling.

The 20-year-old Illinois youth who made a daring leap from a window of the Jackson courthouse Friday has been dubbed the "Flying Squirrel"; after being caught the day after his escape, he attempted to gain his freedom again yesterday, this time employing a football block on deputy sheriff Bob Reed as the latter opened the door of the jail. He later was captured north of Crystal City, Missouri, after a running gun battle.

1915

Charles Schultz, 75, dies at his home on North Henderson Avenue in the morning. Schultz was born in Brunswick, Germany, and came to America with his mother when he was 11 years old, settling in Cape Girardeau. He served in the Union Army, engaging in 22 battles; he was wounded at the battle of Shiloh and again at Fort Donaldson.

Having secured the entire building at the corner of Broadway and Sprigg Street, known as the Mertens building, F.F. Braun has closed the upper floors; he plans to renovate and modernize the building and to lease it for hotel purposes, catering especially to Normal School students and to men only.

-- Sharon K. Sanders