Out of the past 10/21/05

25 years ago: Oct. 21, 1980

Dogs running at large in Cape Girardeau are posing a greater threat this fall than during any other autumn in recent years, says C. Lanny Smith, officer in the Cape Girardeau Health Department; the number of complaints of stray dogs in the city for the month of September was almost triple the number of complaints for the same month in 1979; reports of dog bites have also climbed significantly over last year.

The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce is hunting for a paddle-wheel riverboat to be based on the Cape Girardeau riverfront; it would be used for river excursions.

50 years ago: Oct. 21, 1955

An estimated 3,500 teachers, the greatest number ever to attend a single session of the Southeast Missouri Teachers Association, jam into Houck Field House to hear Herbert A. Philbrick, FBI counterspy, urge teachers to take to their students the warning that the communist conspiracy has but one aim: The ultimate destruction of the United States and domination of the world.

H.E. Grayum, superintendent of schools at Ironton, Mo., is elevated to the presidency of the Southeast Missouri Teachers Association at the election of officers by delegates.

75 years ago: Oct. 21, 1930

Alfred L. Harty, former Cape Girardeau banker and for 25 years a member of the board of supervisors of the Little River Drainage District, has been elected president of the board; he succeeds the late John H. Himmelberger.

Shannon Eulinberg, who lives in Jackson, is the principal of the school for black children at Old Appleton this year; in addition to the children in the Old Appleton district, he has children from adjoining districts also under his care.

100 years ago: Oct. 21, 1905

Maj. A.L. Oliver of Caruthersville, Mo., serving with the Sixth Separate Battalion, Missouri State Militia, was in Cape Girardeau yesterday en route to Burfordville, where today he is conducting rifle practice with companies from Jackson and Lutesville, Mo.; while here, Oliver and Capt. R.B. Andrews of the local company took a drive over the city to see if available grounds could be secured for the holding of the next state encampment.

The Commercial Club is hoping to attract a new manufacturing plant to Cape Girardeau; a St. Louis firm is looking to establish a factory for the manufacture of gasoline automobiles that can be sold for $300 apiece.

-- Sharon K. Sanders