Out of the past 1/28/07

25 years ago: Jan. 28, 1982

It comes as no surprise when the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents votes to increase student incidental fees starting next fall by $55 a semester.

State Rep. Jerry Ford of Cape Girardeau has been given the Outstanding Legislator Award from the St. Louis Police Officers Association.

50 years ago: Jan. 28, 1957

A glaze of ice, the second in as many days, delays and snarls traffic early in the morning, closing schools in Cape Girardeau and over a wide area of Southeast Missouri.

Much of Southeast Missouri is isolated by a solid sheet of ice which built up a coating of as much as three-quarters of an inch on wires and trees in the district; Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. dispatches crews into the area, where poles are down and wires broken by the weight of the ice.

75 years ago: Jan. 28, 1932

Interest in Cape Girardeau's mayoral race waxes warmer with the formal announcement of Mayor Edward L. Drum that he will contest for re-election; 18 men are seeking to get the three commissioner jobs, while besides Drum, J.C. Zimmerman and Charles Abbott have filed for mayor.

Construction begins on a seven-room brick dwelling in the 300 block of North Park Avenue in Cape Girardeau for Virginia Willer, a public school teacher; this is the third new house this year; the others are being built for Oscar Hirsch on Highland Avenue and E.P. Masters on West Broadway.

100 years ago: Jan. 28, 1907

Many people in Cape Girardeau are anxiously waiting to learn what the intention of the Frisco management is in regard to the future repairing of cars here; no sooner had the flames eaten their way into the large repairs shop in the south part of the city Saturday night than tongues were set wagging about the last tie binding the shops to this town being destroyed.

Just as the January term of the Common Pleas Court is to convene in the morning, Judge B.F. Davis receives a telegram that his aged mother in Milford, Del., is seriously ill; court is postponed until Feb. 18, and Davis leaves in the afternoon for his old home to be at the bedside of his mother.

-- Sharon K. Sanders