Out of the past 10-22-06

25 years ago: Oct. 22, 1981

Southeast Missouri State University's Board of Regents approves a new program for the school's physics department that will enable physics majors to receive a bachelor of science degree with emphasis on computerized physics.

Cape Girardeau County officials may have to implement some sort of basic building code in order to enforce a proposed building permit program, says former county consulting engineer Robert J. Hahn; the new building permit program is expected to be implemented in January.

50 years ago: Oct. 22, 1956

A vacancy on the ticket for probate judge, created by the recent death of K.P. Oldfield, was filled Saturday by the Cape Girardeau County Democratic Committee in a move which involved the transfer of one candidate to the vacant position; Marybelle Mueller, county magistrate, formally withdrew as candidate for that office and was then named by the committee to fill the open position of probate judge.

A Christmas parade, an annual event for many years in Cape Girardeau, is discarded without a single objection by the Retail Merchants Association, whose members decide instead to spend the sum previously allocated to it for new and modern Yule street decorations.

75 years ago: Oct. 22, 1931

The 56th annual session of the Southeast Missouri Teachers Association opens, with the first teachers registering at Teachers College; the first general session is held in the evening, with a lecture by the explorer-scientist Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson.

A reduction of $5,573.99 in the amount which the Cape Girardeau public schools will receive this year from the state on the basis of attendance is causing school authorities to consider ways to pare expenses.

100 years ago: Oct. 22, 1906

The big General Association of Missouri Baptists convention gets underway in the afternoon; it has been estimated that there will be 500 or 600 people here attending the convention, which will last through the week.

Because the Frisco payday fell on Saturday, some of the checks were late in being delivered; so the Cape Girardeau merchants keep their stores open this evening to favor their railroad customers.

-- Sharon K. Sanders