Out of the past 10/14/07

25 years ago: Oct. 14, 1982

Ground is broken for the new Biokyowa, Inc., plant on Nash Road south of Cape Girardeau; the multimillion-dollar facility will produce livestock feed additives; several hundred people, including Missouri Gov. Christopher Bond and Shiro Saigi, the consul general of Japan, attend the ceremony.

Twenty-eight microfilmed issues of the Cape Girardeau Eagle, dating from 1857 through 1861, have been given to Southeast Missouri State University's Kent Library and to the Cape Girardeau Public Library by the Center for Regional History and Cultural History at the university.

50 years ago: Oct. 14, 1957

Judi Mahan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Mahan, is the 1957-58 Central High football queen; escorted by Don McBride, she was crowded during the half-time ceremony at the Jackson-Central game Thursday.

Win Wilfong, former Puxico High School basketball star and now prize recruit of the St. Louis Hawks, professional basketball team, is presented with awards in the evening at an exhibition game at the Arena Building; the Hawks defeat the Syracuse Nationals 117-107.

75 years ago: Oct. 14, 1932

The first package of air mail to be received at Cape Girardeau's new airport on Highway 74, two miles south of the city, is dropped at 12:45 p.m. from a Ford tri-motored ship of American Airways on its regular route from St. Louis to Memphis.

Denver M. Wright offers his two lions to the city of Cape Girardeau, thereby proposing to call off his big-game hunt; but the offer is quickly rejected by Mayor Edward L. Drum, and Wright then declares plans for the hunt will go forward.

100 years ago: Oct. 14, 1907

The frame house owned by Mike Miggins and occupied by the E.M. McKee family, at the southeast corner of North Spanish and Pearl streets, burned to the ground last night; the fire department was delayed in reaching the home.

A second fire visits Cape Girardeau in the morning; the house belonging to Mrs. Ella Wall Rodney on North Main Street, just north of Broadway, burns; the sheet-iron house was occupied by Andrew McGuire, the blacksmith.

-- Sharon K. Sanders