Out of the past: Aug. 30

1993

A new process that evaluates Cape Girardeau city employees based on their performances goes into effect Wednesday; the new procedure is intended to improve worker performance, the delivery of city services and communication between supervisors and workers.

As many as 46 Southeast Missouri school districts will ask voters Oct. 5 to waive the rollback of property taxes granted under Missouri's Proposition C; the election is part of a rather complicated scenario triggered by Missouri's new funding and education reform act; the trouble stems from the fact that many area school districts have property tax rates well below the minimum of $2.75 set by Senate Bill 380.

1968

Warrant Officer David L. Blattel, 22, who was reported missing in action on May 5, has been changed to killed in action on that date; his mother, Kathlyn Blattel of Scott City, received word of his death this week; Blattel was a pilot of a helicopter that was shot down while on night patrol three miles east of Tam Kay, Vietnam.

Paving begins on the west side of North Kingshighway south of the Arena Park entrance as part of the general overhaul of the highway-Cape Rock Drive intersection.

1943

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Cotton growers in Mississippi County have an application pending for the use of Italian prisoners of war to help pick cotton in this area; housing, with adequate health facilities, would be necessary, and the Army would maintain a force of guards.

Nona Scholl of Altenburg, Missouri, receives a message from the War Department stating her son, Cpl. Elmer A. Scholl of Cape Girardeau, was killed in action in Sicily; Scholl, 26, was in an infantry unit of the Army and went through the entire African campaign from its beginning, having been overseas almost a year.

1918

J. Edmond Perry, an Army YMCA worker, is here visiting his mother, Mrs. John Perry, before he departs for Europe to take up his work on the battlefields; Perry's father dropped dead on the Frisco passenger station platform several weeks ago while discharging his duties as a coach cleaner, but the young man couldn't get away at that time to attend the funeral.

The County Court has revoked the saloon license of Adam Cox of Cape Girardeau, giving him three weeks to dispose of the stock of goods he has on hand; many of the business men in Haarig hope that the Green Tree corner will never again be occupied by a saloon, as that corner has borne a bad reputation for many years.

-- Sharon K. Sanders