Out of the past: June 6

1991

Veteran river Capt. Woodrow "Woody" Rushing, who has made numerous trips steering towboats up and down the Mississippi River, is at the helm of the paddle-wheeler Spirit of St. Charles when it docks here in the evening; temporarily renamed "Spirit of Riverfest," it will offer river cruises as part of this weekend's Riverfest celebration.

The Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents approves an amended faculty merit pay plan that excludes annual across-the-board pay increases; the plan recommended earlier this year by the Faculty Senate would have awarded faculty members an across-the-board pay raise of at least 3 percent annually for each of the next three years.

1966

SIKESTON, Mo. -- A local man, Marine Pvt. Wayne Hyde of Sikeston Highway 4, has lost his life in the fighting in Vietnam; he was killed near Chulai on June 4; Hyde, 20, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tommye Hyde.

Negotiations with the Florsheim Division of International Shoe Co., underway for months, culminates with the announcement the company will build a plant costing approximately $1,000,000 here, if the community can underwrite $190,000 to assist in financing; site for the new plant is a 10-acre tract on Highway 74, immediately across from the South West End Boulevard intersection.

1941

ORAN, Mo. -- Oran voters narrowly approved a bond issue of $5,000 for purchase of a park site and for sponsoring construction of a city hall; the proposition, requiring a two-thirds majority, drew a vote of 255 for the proposal and 127 against.

Rush H. Limbaugh Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Rush H. Limbaugh of Cape Girardeau, is to be graduated from the law school of the University of Missouri next Friday; young Limbaugh, called under the selective service act to the Army in June, has gotten his reporting date deferred to early July, so he can take the state bar examination at Jefferson City on June 24.

1916

Four people were killed outright when a cyclone passed over several points in Scott County last night; they lived at a small station known as Miner Switch, Missouri, two miles east of Sikeston, Missouri; the fury of the storm has seldom been equaled in Southeast Missouri.

The two best of three fire horses owned by the city of Cape Girardeau were instantly killed yesterday evening when they stepped on a downed live wire at the corner of Broadway and Lorimier Street; the fire wagon had been called out to the report of a fire at The Republican office; the line had been downed by a storm.

-- Sharon K. Sanders