Out of the past: Aug. 28

1993

Workers for the Main Street Levee District yesterday opened the Broadway floodgate for the first time since July 5, allowing people to get a closeup view of the river for the first time in nearly two months; the river gauge yesterday was at 37.6 feet, down from its record crest of 47.9 feet set Aug. 7.

Faced with new federal solid-waste regulations taking effect Oct. 1, landfills throughout the nation likely will close regardless whether they have more space for trash; the Cape Girardeau landfill already is being closed and three others in the area, in Jackson and Perry and Ste. Genevieve counties, likely will close when the new "Subtitle D" regulations take effect.

1968

The Marquette Cement Mfg. Co. is asking the City of Cape Girardeau for a year's extension of time to further correct the dust-control equipment at its dry plant to conform to the city's air pollution ordinance.

Dr. John C. Bierk, a member of the English Department faculty at State College, received his doctorate yesterday after oral exams at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; he received a Doctor of Philosophy, with a major in English; Bierk has taught English at State College for 11 years.

1943

Word comes from the War Department 1st Lt. H. Weldon Propst, 28, is missing in the Middle East; the Cape Girardeau flyer was reported missing Aug. 16, presumably while serving with a unit of the air forces, which had been in a number of raids in Italy.

Missouri Attorney General Roy McKittrick on Thursday ruled the state law, requiring a three-day waiting period for those who want to get married, wouldn't be effective until Nov. 22, thereby reversing a previous ruling the law became effective July 6; conflicting rulings have kept Cape Girardeau County officials guessing.

1918

W.W. Hinchey, for 13 years in business on Broadway as the Hinchey Mercantile Co., is closing out his store in Cape Girardeau; Hinchey recently moved to Sikeston, Missouri, where he is engaged in the mercantile business and in farming.

Friends in Cape Girardeau of Harvey Jones, a druggist here for several years, have learned through recent letters Jones is now an assistant to a doctor in charge of a company of Yanks in France; Jones was drafted for military service earlier this spring and was detailed to hospital work because of his experience in medicine.

-- Sharon K. Sanders