Out of the past: June 23

1999

Southeast Missouri State University officials couldn’t be happier with the university’s $527 million share of the state budget; the funding includes $4.6 million for its River Campus project; Gov. Mel Carnahan signed the $16.2 billion state budget yesterday.

Brother David Anthony Migliorino has been named the new principal at Notre Dame Regional High School; he begins his new duties here July 1; Migliorino is a member of the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn.

1974

For the first time in its history, a former Cape Girardeau resident and member of the church preaches at Foursquare Church, 1222 Bloomfield; the Rev. Charles Seabaugh, who grew up in Cape Girardeau and was a member of Foursquare Church four years before entering LIFE Bible College in Los Angeles, preaches at the church in the evening; Seabaugh pastors a Foursquare Church in Florence, Colorado.

More than 700 persons traveled the waters of the Mississippi River yesterday as the USS Enterprise Jr., the Navy’s smallest aircraft carrier, offered brief rides to the public; barring rain, the Enterprise will again be open for inspection this morning with free rides offered this afternoon; the mini carrier will depart for Cairo, Illinois, tomorrow morning.

1949

If weather conditions don’t improve, the cotton yields in this district may be cut by one-third this season, says Ronnie F. Greenwell of Hayti, secretary of the Missouri Cotton Growers Association; particularly is this true in the area between New Madrid and Hayti, while the crop south of Hayti and north of New Madrid seems to be in better condition; rains have kept farmers out of the fields in the Hayti area for so long, grass and weeds have virtually taken over the crop.

ST. LOUIS — Russell L. Dearmont, 58, formerly of Cape Girardeau and chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank, has been named temporary chairman of a 15-member human relations council; the council was formed to help cope with a city problem emphasized by a racial clash two nights ago in which 11 persons were injured; a series of fights broke out between whites and Blacks using the same swimming facilities, a city-owned pool in Fairground Park; a city rule opening the pool to all races was quickly rescinded by Mayor Joseph M. Darst after the first report of violence.

1924

Louis Schultz will be the head of the manual training department of Cape Girardeau Central High School next year; Hathorne Ranney, who had been head of the department 10 years, will leave for Pontiac, Illinois, where he will take a similar position at the high school there; Schultz is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gust Schultz of Cape Girardeau and is a former student and athlete at the Teachers College here; he is married to the former Norma Shivelbine.

Cape Girardeau Baptists are getting their new church building; closing their formal drive last night with $73,027 pledged for the building, a “mop-up campaign” continues and results from this, together with the proceeds from the sale of the old church structure and lot at Broadway and Spanish Street, will put them “over the top” in their effort to raise $80,000 to underwrite the cost of the new edifice on West Broadway.

Southeast Missourian librarian Sharon Sanders compiles the information for the daily Out of the Past column. She also writes a blog called “From the Morgue” that showcases interesting historical stories from the newspaper. Check out her blog at semissourian.com/history.