The Apple Shed, on the edge of Clarksville, will be the setting for the September performances of the satirical opera, The Beggar's Opera put on by the Opera Theatre of St. Louis.
An artist's drawing of the Brentwood city hall as it will look upon completion next year, shows the addition in the rear of the building. The improvements include additional parking space and expanded facilities for the public library, ambulance service, police and fire departments, A $375,000 bond proposal for the addition was approved by Brentwood voters in the Nov. 7 general election.
Jay Knehans, Joe Paule, and Steve Driskell play trumpets for the Glennon Orchestra Friday night benefit for the Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital for Children.
New Brentwood Bank - Here is the bank's new $1,000,000 structure at Brentwood Boulevard and the Daniel Boone Expressway. It is one of the most modern in the area.
Father Ted Feldbrugge leads the memorial service for the first anniversary of the assassination of Sem. Beningo Aquino. The memorial was held by the St. Louis unit of the movement for a free Philippines and was conducted at the Brentwood community center.
First municipal canine team in the county trained by the St. Louis Police Department is on duty in Brentwood. Patrolman Charles W. Mayer and Smokey, a 14-month old German Shepherd, went into service last week.
New home of Goff-Moll American Legion Post at 2721 Collier ave., Brentwood, will be dedicated at 7 p.m., Saturday May 27 with district Legion officials and various civic and service organization officials present. The new home includes facilities for serving banquets, is completely air conditioned and has large parking lot adjacent.
Council chambers were packed at Brentwood City Hall Monday night as city officials heard from opponents of the condominium conversion of Audubon Park apartments. Robert N. Knickmeyer, executive director of the St. Louis Committee for Freedom of Residence, shown standing in the audience, is seeking an ordinance to protect tenants who will be displaced by condominiums.
Brentwood Recreation Complex, 2505 Brentwood bl., will open the doors to its community center facilities by mid-January. The ice rink facilities at the complex have been open since mid November.
Repairs are to start soon on the brick walls in front of Brentwood's 3-year-old recreation center. A combined bid by two firms was accepted by the city last week, and details are now being worked out for the $3,230 project at the center located at 2505 S. Brentwood Blvd.
The Capital of Southeast Missouri, as its newspaper asserts, is Cape Girardeau, which boomed as a riverfront town before the Civil War and now has an economic stability based on diversified industry and farming. The view of this photo looks south toward Old Ozark Trails Bridge with the Missouri Utilities Co. plant and International Shoe factory in the foreground; Smelterville is beyond the bridge.