Out of the past 10/1/05

25 years ago: Oct. 1, 1980

EAST CAPE GIRARDEAU, Ill. -- Thirty-four years after a study was commissioned, the Army Corps of Engineers last night trotted out a $4.9 million proposal for improved flood control in a 50,000-acre area along the Mississippi River in Union and Alexander counties.

An ordinance passed last month by the Cape Girardeau City Council, reaffirming proper zoning for construction of Westborough Mall, won't have an effect on a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by the mall developers against the city and developers of West Park Mall.

50 years ago: Oct. 1, 1955

A relatively light vote is expected Tuesday when Cape Girardeau voters, along with those elsewhere in Missouri, ballot to determine if the foundation plan of state school support should be adopted and if cigarettes should be taxed two cents per pack to aid the program; in addition, voters here will mark ballots on a proposal for the city to issue $165,000 in bonds to finance construction of a two-unit swimming pool in Capaha Park to replace the condemned pool now there.

Leo E. Haupt of St. Louis recently purchased 13 lots of a new Jackson subdivision owned by John F. Hartle.

75 years ago: Oct. 1, 1930

M.I. Parker and R. Schuermann, engineers for the Missouri Inspection Bureau of St. Louis, are in Cape Girardeau making an inspection of the public fire-protection facilities; they will issue a report for the bureau and for the city council, which will give information concerning the water pressure in the mains throughout the town and the efficiency of the firefighting equipment now in use.

Three airplanes, including a 15-passenger Ford tri-motored cabin air line, have started passenger service from Cuskaden Field, south of Cape Girardeau.

100 years ago: Oct. 1, 1905

The pulpit at the Methodist Church is vacant; the Rev. E.T. Adams, who has been appointed to this place by the conference, is unable to be present; he was transferred to this conference from the Kansas City conference.

At the Baptist Church, besides the regular morning and evening services, a special memorial service for the Knights and Ladies of Security is held in the afternoon, where the Rev. T.J. Duvall preaches on "The Cave of Machphelia."

-- Sharon K. Sanders