Out of the past: July 18

1991

Construction workers digging an elevator shaft for L.J. Schultz Middle School hit a natural spring at the site. The incident slowed work for a short time, but installation of the elevator is back underway in the 77-year-old building.

Desma Reno, a faculty member in the Department of Nursing at Southeast Missouri State University since 1981, has been appointed the new administrator for the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau.

1966

Cape Girardeau County Coroner Don Kremer said he will ask area lawmakers to seek legislation requiring the reporting of deaths that may involve the coroner to the proper authorities. His request is prompted by three instances during the past several days in which deaths that were or might have been coroner cases weren't reported to him by hospital authorities.

It is reported at a meeting of the County Court that before the week is out, the board of equalization will protest the 50 percent auto-assessment increase ordered by the state tax commission. The basis of the protest and the form it will take have yet to be determined.

1941

Formation of a corporation to be known as the Consolidated School of Aviation Inc. is announced with 19 Cape Girardeau, Jackson and St. Mary, Missouri, business and professional men as stockholders. The new corporation takes over all equipment of the Consolidated School of Aviation, which has been operating on the Barrett Cotner farm on Highway 74 south of Cape Girardeau.

Cape Girardeau's top-ranking 21-year-old selective-service eligible -- barring the possibility of deferment -- will be a youthful repair worker at the Marquette Cement quarry, Benjamin H. Howard. His name was the first called from Cape Girardeau County last night, and as such, he will be the first to face examination among the new men when their questionnaires come before the draft board for classification.

1916

The Cape Girardeau Capahas are declared the winners of the pennant for the first half of the baseball season in the SEMO League, according to a statement issued by league president S.S. Thompson.

Judge J.H. Doris, former prosecuting attorney for Cape Girardeau County and Cape Girardeau's biggest lawyer, was buried in Paducah, Kentucky, on Sunday, having died the day before at his son's home. Doris left his home here four weeks ago for Dawson Springs, Kentucky, to take the baths, hoping his health might be improved. He was there only one week when he started for home dissatisfied and stopped at Paducah to rest at the home of his son before continuing farther.

-- Sharon K. Sanders