Out of the past 1/17/06

25 years ago: Jan. 17, 1981

Michael L. Richey, who this spring will complete his first term on the Cape Girardeau Board of Education, says he won't seek re-election to the post; Richey, an attorney, says he hopes to devote more time to his family and business.

Paul K. Oscarson has been named general manager for the new Famous-Barr store scheduled to open the first week of March in West Park Mall; he has been with the company since 1971.

50 years ago: Jan. 17, 1956

Vinson A. Rueseler, 34, president and general manager of the Rueseler Chevrolet agency, has been named Cape Girardeau's outstanding young man for 1955 and presented the annual Cape Girardeau Jaycees' Distinguished Service Award.

The Cape Girardeau County Board of Education reached a decision to work out another plan of school district reorganization and submit it for approval at its meeting last night; if submitted, it will be the fourth time that a reorganization proposal has been prepared; the other three were rejected.

75 years ago: Jan. 17, 1931

Seven more jobs are supplied through the unemployment committee, working from registration headquarters in the Chamber of Commerce building; the number of those seeking work is now at 200; another plan whereby men may obtain employment is being worked out; L.L. Bowman of the committee is securing donations of wood from various property owners near the city, which the unemployed will be hired to cut and haul; the wood is then being sold at $2 per load.

Frederick Claibourn moves his violin studio to 816 Merriwether St.; it had been at 313 Broadway.

100 years ago: Jan. 17, 1906

The Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church is hoping to order a new pipe organ so that it can be installed in the church by Easter Sunday; nearly $1,500 is at hand, and once that amount is assured, the order for the new instrument will be placed.

Clyde Vandivort and family yesterday moved into the residence he had built at 608 North St.; it is a fine home.

- Sharon K. Sanders