1991

War in the Persian Gulf has bolstered security at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport and put Cape Girardeau police officers on heightened alert. The heightened security is being taken to guard against possible terrorist activities against government facilities.

Teenagers and young adults leaning toward a career in law enforcement soon will gain experience through the Cape Girardeau Police Department. The department has formed a law-enforcement Explorer post open to people 15 to 20 years of age; 10 students from area schools, primarily Southeast Missouri State University, make up the post.

1966

The Jackson City Council last night reversed itself by withdrawing recognition of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers as the union representing city water and light employees. The action apparently leaves no course open to the union other than the courts.

Albert M. Spradling Jr. is elected chairman of the board of the Farmers and Merchants Bank. Members elected to the bank's board of directors are L.C. Blattner Jr., Jack E. Himmelberger, Alfred G. Hirsch, David E. Hoche, Walter H. Oberheide and Ella H. Vogelsang.

1941

Leaving its parking spot on Water Street, just north of Broadway, a 1935 model Oldsmobile sedan owned by Mrs. W.L. Perkinson of Cape Girardeau rolls across the Frisco Railroad tracks and down the riverfront levee, crashing into the wall of a Corps of Engineers towboat anchored here. The front end of the car, badly smashed, is embedded in the wall of the boat's galley, and the rear end is left hanging on the edge of the stone sea wall.

Barred from military service by a stiff finger, Oliver Swan of Cape Girardeau had the offending member dismembered. He returned to the Navy recruiting at St. Louis a month after his rejection and was accepted. This week, he entered the Great Lakes, Illinois, Training Station, sans finger, but his ambition fulfilled.

1916

Evangelist Steve Burke and his choir leader, A.B. Hobbs, who turned a few religious somersaults and other stunts at Jackson a year ago, have announced they will conduct a revival at Illmo and Fornfelt this spring.

After spending a few weeks here with the Frissell and Houck families, Lt. and Mrs. Patrick Frissell left yesterday for their home in Douglas, Arizona, where he is stationed with the U.S. Army; Mrs. Frissell was formerly Miss Rebecca Houck.

-- Sharon K. Sanders