1990

Speaking last night at the annual transportation banquet of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, John L. Oliver Jr., a member of the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission, said the recently passed budget-tax agreement wiped out chances of new roads and bridges in the state of Missouri.

U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson attends the dedication of a sculpture hewn from the fallen Berlin Wall at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri; President Ronald Reagan speaks at the dedication.

1965

A Cape Girardeau municipal budget for the current fiscal year, envisioning general revenue expenditures of $909,669.37 and income in the fund of about $73,000 less than expenses, is adopted by the city council. The budget is based on the continued tax rate of $1.30 per $100 valuation.

A year ago, the wheels of light machinery began turning in a city-owned factory building in south Jackson, and Lee-Rowan Co. started making various clothes hangers; now, more than 80 people are employed at the plant, and the figure is expected to reach 90 by the end of the year

1940

Fifty-one bales of cotton are received in Jackson and stored by the Agricultural Adjustment Act to be used in the cotton mattress-making program. This cotton is part of the surplus commodity from which farm families with incomes of $600 or less per annum may obtain a supply of mattresses for family use.

Cape Girardeau's own Jimmy Curry, a trombone player and comedian in Larry Clinton's orchestra, is being seen these days in a movie short, "Listen to Larry," being shown at the Fox Broadway Theater. Curry is a son of Mrs. Helen Way of Cape Rock Drive.

1915

Oscar Childs, upper Broadway barber, who is in business with Charles Becker in the Star Barber Shop near Sprigg Street, has sold out his interest in the place to Alex Hughes of Commerce, Missouri. Childs is going to Colorado Springs, Colorado, with his wife and daughter, both of whom need the high, dry climate for the betterment of their health.

Cape Girardeau's public school teachers may be asked to forgo cashing their paychecks at the end of this month, and possibly at the end of December, unless the condition of the school treasury grows better. The monthly payroll is around $3,500, and the treasury hasn't nearly enough money on hand just now to pay the teachers.

-- Sharon K. Sanders