Out of the past: July 15

1994

Local American Red Cross volunteer Darlene MacCubbin leaves in the morning for Georgia to help victims of flooding there; she is the only local volunteer called to duty in Georgia so far.

Talks aimed at improving cooperation among the Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Scott City chambers of commerce could lead to the establishment of an area-wide chamber; representatives from the three chambers and the Regional Commerce and Growth Association discussed the issue at a private meeting yesterday in Cape Girardeau.

1969

The U.S. Weather Bureau at Cairo, Illinois, lowers the expected crest for the floodwaters at Cape Girardeau from 39.5 feet tomorrow to 39 feet; damage to crops and homes is expected to reach into the millions of dollars in the Missouri counties of Cape Girardeau, Perry, Ste. Genevieve, Scott and Mississippi, and Alexander County, Illinois, along with Kaskaskia Island; nearly 34,000 acres of farmland are estimated to be underwater.

Merchants along West Broadway are hoping Cape Girardeau's new anti-litter ordinance will be a success; for several years, Ward's Big Star, Cape Electric Supply Inc., Child's Foodliner and establishments in the Broadway Plaza have had difficulty with large groups of young people congregating on their lots at night and littering the areas with beer cans, bottles and other debris.

1944

E.A. Esicar, owner of the Esicar Grocery & Market, 411 Broadway, has leased the ground floor of a building at 313 Broadway from the owner, William Vedder, and plans to move his store to the new location in August; the quarters he now occupies have been taken over by the owner, Mike Shaltupsky, who will move his business, Mike's Liquor Store, from its present location in the Idan-Ha Hotel Building to the grocery site.

Fred Schneider and John Penn are appointed sergeants of the Cape Girardeau Police Department by Mayor Raymond E. Beckman and chief M.F. Morton; Schneider has been with the department since July 1, 1937; Penn has been on the force two years.

1919

Mississippi River Scenic Highway convention delegates and visitors from 10 counties of Southeast Missouri and Northern Arkansas meet in the Commercial Club rooms in the afternoon; committees are organized and officers elected, including Charles McMullen of Sikeston, Missouri, president of the organization of the south central division of the highway.

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education has chosen Belmont Farley as principal of Central High School to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of W.T. Doherty, who has joined the faculty at the Teachers College.

-- Sharon K. Sanders