Out of the past 1/3/04

10 years ago: Jan. 3, 1994

Proposed $1.46 per month trash fee increase is again delayed as Cape Girardeau City Council votes to have citizens group examine volume-based billing options; council refuses to take steps to bid out city trash service to private contractors.

Teacher coming to school Sunday to retrieve lesson plan for next day's classes discovered several rooms of Washington School had been ransacked by burglars.

25 years ago: Jan. 3, 1979

As result of recent deregulation of airline industry, and subsequent reduction of federal subsidy on some routes, Ozark Air Lines Inc. is considering limiting or eliminating service to Cape Girardeau within next few years.

Weather is better in Anchorage, Alaska, than in Cape Girardeau; Anchorage enjoys 15-degree heat wave, while Cape Girardeau continues in grip of bitter cold.

50 years ago: Jan. 3, 1954

The Rev. Marvin Koch of Lafe, Ark., is installed as new pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church at Tilsit by the Rev. O.H. Pooker, who served church during recent vacancy.

Marvin E. Gray of East. St. Louis, owner of M.E. Gray Brick Contracting Co., which has brick sub contract on new Catholic high school here, is killed in airplane crash at New Orleans, along with his wife and two others; they had been to New Orleans for New Year's Day football game.

75 years ago: Jan. 3, 1929

Breaking grip of cold wave that had clutched area for two days, mercury slowly climbs to 19 degrees; forecasters are calling for snow or rain overnight and Friday.

J.C. Penney store will open its new building on Main Street Saturday, says J.B. Carpenter, manager; store will be closed Friday while stock is moved from its present quarters to new building.

-- Sharon K. Sanders