Out of the past: March 13

1993

National and state Republican officials voice their optimism in the GOP's future at Cape Girardeau's 23rd annual Lincoln Day celebration; despite the loss of the White House and the State House to Democrats, the Republicans say they are poised to once again become a political party that's united internally and with the American people.

Strong winds, gusting up to 39 miles per hour, cause a portion of the back porch roof of the historic Glenn House to collapse sometime in the morning.

1968

Cape Girardeau County Court says it will have to look again at a proposal by the County Park Board that a 10-cent per $100 assessed valuation tax levy be submitted to county voters for development of the County Farm as a park; the re-evaluation is brought about by interpretation of a law regarding park taxes, which says the county tax wouldn't be applicable to Cape Girardeau if it passes its proposed 20-cent levy.

Charles E. House, superintendent of schools in Cape Girardeau, is elected first vice president of the Southeast Missouri Teachers Association at a pre-convention session of delegates in the evening at State College.

1943

Reported missing after the fall of the Philippines, Virgil Shaw, 21, son of James R. Shaw of the Smelterville suburb, is a prisoner of the Japanese, the Navy Department has advised the youth's father; his brother, Charles H. Shaw, is also a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines.

Added time is granted for filing 1942 state income reports, but the Monday night deadline holds for posting federal income tax forms; the stream of federal taxpayers is still moving at the H.-H. Building, where Lee Bagby and Ralph Coleman are taking the returns as deputy internal revenue collectors; for more than a week, the local taxpayers have been going to the office to make their annual reports, some of them paying the full tax, others paying only for one quarter.

1918

At a meeting of the friends of the Cape Girardeau Free Library and Reading Room last night, the announcement was made that in the near future the library would be moved into the room adjoining the Commercial Club assembly room; the Commercial Club is arranging to take over the entire first floor of the Elks Building for community purposes.

J.R. Parmenter, who was convicted several weeks ago in circuit court in Jackson and sentenced to 18 years in the state penitentiary for the murder of Cape Girardeau Policeman Albert Demortiers, has moved to his farm near Bloomfield, Missouri; Parmenter took an appeal to the State Supreme Court and will remain on the farm until the case is finally settled.

-- Sharon K. Sanders