Out of the past: March 11

1992

Half of the Cape Girardeau County Democrats who participated in yesterday's presidential caucus chose uncommitted delegates; presidential hopeful Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas won three delegates from Cape County and Sen. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts took two delegates.

Winter made an unwelcome and untimely return to the Cape Girardeau area yesterday, making seven consecutive days of 70-plus-degree temperatures last week just a pleasant memory; the arctic blast was ushered in by snow showers that fell during the day.

1967

A Cape Girardeau woman, Mrs. Lunda Hartle Propst, 54, dies in an early-morning fire which does extensive damage to her apartment at 117 N. Clark Ave.; it is believed the fire started in a divan in the living room, possibly from a dropped cigarette.

Long, dedicated careers in school classrooms and administrative offices will be recognized next week when five district educators are honored at the annual meeting of the Southeast Missouri Teachers Association: Lyda B. Gibbs, principal of Jefferson School at Cape Girardeau; Sue Crawford, English teacher at Campbell High School; Grace Pickens Daniels of Farmington, Missouri, a retired elementary teacher; Clyde S. Hamrick, Jefferson County superintendent of schools, and A.O. Hilpert, Perryville (Missouri) High School math teacher and former superintendent at Perryville.

1942

Thousands of people crowded Cape Girardeau's business districts yesterday afternoon for the big war rally parade, and that night packed Houck Field Stadium to witness the final features of the patriotic program; the rally was sponsored by the Marine Corps League.

Rumors that the CCC camp at Jackson will be moved or that another camp will be located at the county seat are unfounded, according to the camp commander, John E. Grant; the camp has 170 men at present, and it remains a force of World War I veterans.

1917

Jackson is to have a novelty this baseball season: a bloomer girls team; the fact that the girls are all black doesn't seem to make any difference; if practice is kept up, Jackson will be able to boast of the first team of black female ball players in the United States.

The Mississippi River boat season had an informal opening yesterday, after an usually long and severe winter; the beautiful weather drew many to the riverfront, curious to see the new construction going on, so that a large crowd was on hand to greet the steamer East St. Louis as it headed for New Orleans; in the evening the Bald Eagle passed on its way to St. Louis.

-- Sharon K. Sanders