Out of the past: May 7

1991

Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. will be hearing from Jackson's city attorney and engineer; the city wants to know why the company built a 15-foot-long concrete pad across the city's 15-foot-wide utility easement directly over a water main in a residential area of Otto Drive and Charlotte Court, which is near Old Cape Road.

Southeast Missouri State University employees won't be receiving raises this year unless additional funding is found, say university officials; with state funding for general operations at Southeast expected to remain at the current $30.7 million level for the 1992 fiscal year, school officials say there isn't sufficient revenue to provide pay raises.

1966

The two dormitories under construction on the State College campus are beginning to take on a high-rise appearance; the buildings when completed will reach 12 stories above the ground in the Home of the Birds; Henry Faarup, job superintendent for the contractor, McCarthy Brothers Construction Co. of St. Louis, says concrete has been poured for the fourth floor of the men's dorm, while the women's dorm isn't quite that far along.

Bobby L. Williams, who has worked as boys' supervisor at the Wesley House Association in St. Louis for the past three years, has been named the new executive director of the Cape Girardeau Civic Center, 1232 Ranney St.

1941

Edward Hanlon, district National Youth Administration director, announces that approval has been received from Washington for the building of a vocational agricultural unit under the football stadium at Jackson; the Jackson school board has set aside $2,500 for material costs; N.Y.A. funds allotted to the project amount to $6,000.

Several hundred people braved frequent showers yesterday to witness the two-hour initial stunts by the Jackson Beard Club in preparation for the pageant to be held next week on Jacksonian Day; these bearded men, who haven't shaved for two months so they may better represent the characters which they are to portray in the pageant, formed a club and appointed Allen Fulenwider president.

1916

Lt. Col. Sharp of the Salvation Army, one of the leaders of the Army and in charge of the campaign in Missouri and Arkansas, speaks three times in Cape Girardeau during the day; he speaks at the Presbyterian Church in the morning, Centenary Methodist Church in the afternoon, and at Army headquarters on Independence Street in the evening.

The old Hope property at the corner of Fountain and Independence streets, which for years has seemed to be on the verge of falling down, is being remodeled; the property is owned by Charles Juden's children, and Louis Houck is said to be having the place redone; it was built some 50 or 60 years ago by a man named Smire and was later purchased by Mrs. Hope, a one-armed woman who was principal of Lorimier School for many years.

-- Sharon K. Sanders