Out of the past 1/24/02

10 years ago: Jan. 24, 1992

High-tech world of DNA analysis has come to Cape Girardeau County Circuit Court; pending burglary and assault case from Cape Girardeau is county's first case to make use of DNA analysis; defendant is accused injuring woman with knife in connection with burglary on July 7, 1989, in 700 block of North Street.

Kenneth E. Myles of Cape Girardeau has been elected 103rd Potentate of the Moolah Shrine Temple in St. Louis; Myles, insurance broker and real estate developer, has been member of ascending line of officers for past 10 years.

25 years ago: Jan. 24, 1977

Along Cape Girardeau's riverfront, towboats are plying back and fourth attempting to break pathway in ice; ice pack begins at Mile 12.5 above Cairo, Ill., and extends 60 miles to Grand Tower, Ill.; local ice-breaking efforts serve to separate barges and boats moored here from main ice floe and discourages adventurers from attempting to walk on river ice.

Chaffee - Contract for 1977-78 school year is accepted by Superintendent of Schools Howard Reed during executive session of Chaffee Board of Education; Reed will complete his first year with school system in May.

50 years ago: Jan. 24, 1952

Lt. Earl L. Davis of Poplar Bluff, executive officer of Troop E of State Highway Patrol, has been elected president of Southeast Missouri Peace Officers Association; he succeeds W.W. Chism of Hayti, Public Service Commission special agent, who became first vice president after three terms sa president.

Missouri State Employment Service is combing hills of Bollinger, Cape Girardeau and Perry counties in intensive recruiting campaign for single men and entire families to take permanent places as hired help on rich north Missouri farms.

75 years ago: Jan. 24, 1927

With communication with outside world completely broken and service here only partially normal, Girardeans are clearing away wreckage from its worst ice and sleet storm in recent years; telephone communication with any point outside city is impossible; electric light and power service extends to only part of town; roads and highways in vicinity are in bad condition, although train service continues.

Practically every tree on Teachers College campus has been damaged by ice and sleet storm and, in many of cases, trees - some older than college buildings - were destroyed; campus proper, in front and to sides of Academic Hall, is mass of broken and tangled limbs and debris.

- Sharon K. Sanders