Out of the past: March 6

1993

U.S. Sen. Kit Bond has accepted President Bill Clinton's challenge and this week proposed $228 billion in government cuts that could be made before any tax increases; he challenged Clinton to balance the budget by trimming government spending, saying the president's proposed tax hikes will only result in more spending and will do little to put a dent in the $300 billion budget shortfall.

Two men are injured in the afternoon, when a northbound Burlington Northern train jumps the tracks near the Lone Star Cement plant; the three engines pulling the about 100-car train derail along with seven cars, which pile together in a twisted mass of metal, rocks and mud; slightly injured are the train's engineer, W.R. Geiser of Dutchtown, and the conductor, Paul Buchheit of Scott City.

1968

The field of candidates for Cape Girardeau City Council widens when Charles A. Juden Jr. files his affidavit with City Clerk Verna L. Landis; his filing brings the number of candidates to six, the others being Councilman J. Ronald Fischer, Lester Rhodes, Warren S. Hastings, Ivan L. Irvin and Thomas F. Jackson.

Rep. Marvin E. Proffer, Jackson Democrat, files with the secretary of state in Jefferson City for re-election to the House of Representatives for the 156th District; Proffer is serving his third term in the House, but the first from the 156th, which includes all of Cape Girardeau County outside of Cape Girardeau and Kelso Township in Scott County.

1943

Snow continues to fall at intervals in Cape Girardeau throughout the day, and much colder weather is predicted overnight; five inches of snow, the heaviest in recent years here, have fallen since noon yesterday.

Two Cape Girardeau men reported for duty last week to the Navy pre-flight school at the University of Iowa at Iowa City; they are John E. Godwin, 339 N. Henderson Ave., and William S. Vandivort, who resides on Highway 61; they will receive three months' intensive physical training and will then go to a naval air station for flight training.

1918

Rury Lesem, first cornet in the old Sixth Regiment Band, which under the leadership of Dr. C.E. Schuchert headed the boys from Southeast Missouri when war was declared, wired his parents lat night that he and other members of the band have been assigned to a band at Camp Pike at Little Rock, Arkansas, and will move at once.

Sherman and Shirley Harger are moving their lunchroom and popcorn stand from the Jim Miller Building on the corner of Good Hope and Frederick streets to the old Kaess Bakery building; they will install a soda fountain and enlarge the business to a great extent.

-- Sharon K. Sanders