Out of the past 1/3/010

25 years ago: Jan. 3, 1985

Under the watchful eye of a Federal Aviation Administration representative, employees of Barton Air Traffic Control Inc. are training for the reopening of the control tower at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport; the tower, closed since August 1981, should reopen late this week or next week.

The second snowstorm of the winter creates snarled traffic and fender benders and gives schoolchildren a holiday after just two days back in class from the Christmas break; snow begins falling just before noon, and by midafternoon reaches a depth of four inches.

50 years ago: Jan. 3, 1960

A service of ordination and installation of newly elected deacons is held in the morning at the First Presbyterian Church; forming the class are Donald T. McNeely, Paul L. Bray, Dr. Dan B. Cotner and Francis F. Lewis.

State College coeds, assisted by parents and boyfriends, move their belongings from Albert Hall to the new dormitory unit in Dearmont Quadrangle; 95 girls move from the old structure, which is to be razed.

75 years ago: Jan. 3, 1935

Gov. Guy Park's plan to place the five State Teachers Colleges under the University of Missouri is finding little support in Cape Girardeau; W.F.D. Batjer, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, expresses a widely held opinion: "Local men in my opinion are better qualified for the job of directing the colleges in Missouri."

Work of replacing a brick foundation with concrete for the support of the front side of the one-story brick building at 103 S. Sprigg St., occupied by the Sugar Creek Creamery, is underway; the bricks were beginning to break, causing the building to sink.

100 years ago: Jan. 3, 1910

Martin Lorberg, who has been in charge of the branch store in Haarig of the Juden Mercantile Co., has bought the stock of goods and in the future it will be known as the Haarig Furniture Co.; Lorberg expects to take in Jacob LaCroix as a partner.

At the city council meeting, Councilman T.J. Gill makes his usual query regarding the intake pipe at the mouth of Sloan's Creek; he is informed that the Water and Light Co. is now having the pipe extended further upstream from the mouth of the Sloan's Creek sewer.

-- Sharon K. Sanders