Out of the past: March 15

1993

The Cape Girardeau Police Department will hire five new officers over the next few months, three to replace departing officers and two more if approved in the police budget by the city council.

Circuit Judge William S. Syler forever bans a Caruthersville, Missouri, public defender from his courtroom, after the attorney fails to provide "competent" counsel for a client to which he was assigned.

1968

A candidate has filed from each ward for Jackson city councilman, but, as of this morning, no one has filed for the two seats which will be expiring on the Jackson School Board; filing for the city offices have been two incumbents -- Raymond Reiminger in Ward 1 and William L. Schloss in Ward 3 -- and two challengers -- Dale E. Smith in Ward 2 and George F. Decker in Ward 4.

While development of a game fish population in Lake Girardeau is still in a trying stage, development of the land around the Crump Lake is proceeding; the Department of Conservation is planting 2,500 seedlings to enhance the landscape.

1943

A strapping, 15-year-old lad from Morringsport, Louisiana, who hitchhiked all the way from his Dixie home hoping for a tryout with the St. Louis Browns, is awaiting a chance to give Manager Luke Sewell a sales talk; busy at Houck Stadium with his players, Sewell manifests interest when told about Gene Springer, a high school sophomore who bats left handed and prefers first bace, but will play elsewhere in the infield, if given a chance.

C.P. Harris, coach of the national collegiate champion Teachers College basketball team, has signed on for service with the American Red Cross; he will be an assistant field director of recreation for the Red Cross and will serve overseas with an Army unit.

1918

The parents of J.C. "Clelle" Ramsey of Burfordville, who went with the Cape Girardeau County boys into military training camp last fall, have received a postcard telling of his safe arrival in France; Ramsey was with an engineer regiment that sailed on the Tuscania; however, he was hospitalized with the mumps, delaying his departure on a later ship, and so missed being one of the unfortunate passengers on the wrecked steamer.

At the regular meeting of the Cape Girardeau Board of Education, the secretary is authorized to publish the annual call for the election of two members of the board; the terms of H.H. Haas and E. Drusch expire in March.

-- Sharon K. Sanders