Out of the past: July 30

1993

There's no change in the 48.5-foot record flood crest expected to pass Cape Girardeau in six days; and the good news is that no heavy rains are forecast for the next six to 10 days over the Midwest; but river watchers say to expect the flood to linger at Cape Girardeau through late August.

Site preparation is underway for the new Jackson Middle School at the intersection of West Independence Street and Broadridge Drive; the site work, being done by Penzel Construction Co., is expected to be completed by the end of August.

1968

The name of Walter H. Ford, associate Cape Girardeau County Court judge, will appear on the Aug. 6 primary election ballot, says County Clerk Rusby C. Crites; Ford died early yesterday morning, just nine days before the election; he was unopposed in his bid to gain renomination on the Democratic ticket for a second term.

The number of visitors to patients at Saint Francis and Southeast hospitals has dropped considerably in the past month; hospital officials credit the decline to the discontinuance in mid-June of publication of the admission lists to the hospitals by The Southeast Missourian newspaper.

1943

Homes for boys and girls who are state wards have been offered in all parts of Cape Girardeau County and elsewhere in the district, in response to an appeal made by Mrs. C.M. McWilliams, county welfare worker, through an item in The Southeast Missourian; McWilliams received around 30 replies to the item from as far south as Sikeston and Puxico, Missouri, and north as far away as Perryville and Farmington, Missouri.

Sorghum growers find themselves in a dilemma; last year, sorghum molasses sold at $1.10 per gallon, prompting growers to plant eight or 10 times as much land in sorghum this year as last; but the food administration has placed a ceiling of 69 cents per gallon on sorghum molasses, and growers declare they can't produce molasses at that price; some say they won't harvest the crop at all.

1918

F.W. Morrison of the Morrison Ice & Fuel Co. denies yesterday's report his ice plant had suffered a breakdown and output was curtailed as a result; he says the plant is in first-class condition and is turning out about 30 tons of ice daily; the only problem Morrison has is a shortage of labor.

Cape Girardeau City Counselor James A. Barks has been requested by the bond committee of the U.S. Treasury Department not to proceed with the building of the $180,000 west end sewer system until the end of the war; municipalities the size of Cape Girardeau have been asked not to issue bonds over the amount of $100,000 for improvements while the war is in progress.

-- Sharon K. Sanders