Out of the past: Nov. 30

1991

The Christmas wish list grows longer and longer for Tony Jamar, Santa Claus at West Park Mall; on that list are the ever-popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Baby Alive and Nintendo's Game Boy, a hand-held video game; Jamar, 50, is a Marble Hill, Missouri, resident.

High winds, gusting up to 60 miles per hour, ripped through Jackson last night causing damage to many businesses and homes, but no injuries; the construction site at Lee-Rowan, the roof at First Baptist Church, Dale's Daycare Center and a long fence in front of B&B Auto Salvage all were damaged; a car wash on U.S. 61 East partially collapsed.

1966

A $775,000 school-bond issue to support a varied capital-improvements program gained easy approval yesterday at the hands of Cape Girardeau voters, 1,539 to 389; authorization of the bonds assures local funds to buy a site and erect a vocational-technical school on it, add annexes to Central High and Alma Schrader schools and begin renovation of two older buildings.

The Cape Girardeau police parking-meter scooter is burned extensively early in the morning while parked at the home of Sgt. Burl R. Statler; police chief Irvin E. Beard said the incident is "definitely arson."

1941

"Uncle Bud" Robinson, 82, one of the most widely known men in the Nazarene denomination, is the speaker at a special evening service at the local Nazarene Church; Robinson has been preaching for more than 50 years and has traveled more than 2 million miles in various parts of the world.

The Rev. Gordon Wayne Huffman, son of the Rev. and Mrs. William Huffman of Cape Girardeau, has received a call as half-time pastor of the Iona Baptist Church; next Sunday, he will preach a trial sermon at New Bethel Baptist Church for the position of half-time pastor; the Rev. William Huffman is pastor of Red Star Baptist Church.

1916

Thanksgiving Day. All churches in Cape Girardeau and Jackson, Sikeston and Oran, Missouri, and other towns in the district hold special Thanksgiving services; a union service sponsored by the Protestant alliance churches is held in the morning at the Presbyterian Church; a choir made up of the best singers from all member churches furnishes the music.

An elated Louis Houck returns from St. Louis, the latter having learned of Judge Walter Sanborn's decision he had been awarded full damages from the Frisco in his million-dollar bond suit; Sanborn's decision supports the report of Special Master Thomas T. Fauntleroy in every respect; the latter had found the Frisco was obliged to pay Houck 90 cents on the dollar for every dollar of bonds he held.

-- Sharon K. Sanders