Out of the past 1/19/12

25 years ago: Jan. 19, 1987

Vandals caused extensive damage throughout L.J. Schultz School over the weekend, the third time this school year Schultz has been hit by vandalism; in addition, about 30 windows were broken at Alma Schrader Elementary School on Friday night.

The Cape Girardeau County Commission is expected to give final approval to a $4 million 1987 general revenue budget tomorrow, which is only about $200,000 more than what was budgeted for the past year.

50 years ago: Jan. 19, 1962

The State College Board of Regents is preparing to accept bids on a new dormitory complex and the mathematics wing of the Magill Hall of Science; in addition, at a recent meeting the regents approved the Southeast Missouri State College Development Corp., which is empowered to acquire property adjacent to the campus and sell it to the college.

Cold and snow snarled Cape Girardeau traffic Jan. 19, 1962. This view of Broadway, east from Ritter Drive, showed a portion of the traffic which crept bumper-to-bumper along the street from Highway 61 to West End Boulevard. (Missourian archive photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

Winter's heaviest snowfall spread a two-inch cover on Cape Girardeau overnight; the snow was accompanied by a new assault of frigid air; the 26-mile-long Mississippi River ice blockade is threatening to worsen with the new cold wave.

75 years ago: Jan. 19, 1937

KENNETT, Mo. -- Winning its battle against an army of men seeking to confine its flood within earthen dikes, the St. Francis River broke through levees at three points in Dunklin County overnight and early today, flooding 30,000 acres of fertile farmland and sending 300 rural families fleeing to Kennett, Mo., Cardwell, Mo., and Senath, Mo.

There is now a concern that the Mississippi River, calm in recent months, may put on a flood show all its own, boosted by floodwaters along its tributaries; the river at Cape Girardeau is at 23.6 feet and is rising slowly.

100 years ago: Jan. 19, 1912

Three men were killed and another fatally injured in a head-on collision of two Frisco freight trains yesterday at Wittenberg, Mo.; dead are engineer Charles Baird of Cape Girardeau, and brakeman C.G. Sutton and fireman W.C. Clark, both of Chaffee, Mo.; injured was brakeman H. Hilhouse of Chaffee.

Mrs. M.C. Dunlop, who has had managerial charge of the Riverview Hotel for quite a long time, leaves for Chicago to join her two sons; she will be away for several weeks.

-- Sharon K. Sanders