Out of the past 10/23/05

25 years ago: Oct. 23, 1980

May Centers Inc., which is developing and managing partner for the new West Park Mall, announces David T. Berry will be general manager of the 504,000-square-foot shopping center; also, additional tenants for the mall are announced: Colonial Federal Savings and Loan Association, Dreifus Jewelers, Gallenkamp Shoes, Hair Performers, Foot Locker, General Nutrition, The Great Hot Dog Experience, Parklane Hosiery, Kinney Shoes and Waldenbooks.

Officers have been monitoring the flow of pedestrian traffic at two intersections in Cape Girardeau for the past two weeks as part of a study requested by the city council; the city will use the data when determining whether to remove traffic lights at Broadway and Fountain Street and at Good Hope and Sprigg streets.

50 years ago: Oct. 23, 1955

The formal dedication of the Red Star Baptist Church is held in the afternoon with friends of the church joining in the ceremonies; the Rev. T.W. Nelson, pastor of First Baptist Church of Jefferson City, Mo., gives the main address.

The Rev. Louis L. Pabor is installed as new co-pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church; the sermon is given by the Rev. Wilfred L. Zickert, co-pastor, and the Rev. O.H. Pooker, Christ Lutheran Church of Gordonville pastor, installs Pabor.

75 years ago: Oct. 23, 1930

Hundreds of teachers in public schools from over Southeast Missouri come back to Cape Girardeau to open their three-day annual meeting; from 23 counties in the district, members of the Southeast Missouri Teachers Association are assembled.

Bootlegging of tickets to Teachers College football games has been discovered by college officials, and strict measures to stop the practice have been taken.

100 years ago: Oct. 23, 1905

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Fire is discovered at 4 a.m. in the governor's mansion, and it takes some great hustling to get the guests out; before the fire is extinguished, practically every room in the mansion is flooded with water; Gov. Joseph W. Folk works with the firemen and saves the valuable portraits of his predecessors.

The long-discussed proposition of running the streetcars out Broadway to the fairgrounds is brought to a climax, when the contractor and a big gang of men start plowing up the street from Pacific Street west; the work had been held up when the gravel road company notified the street car company that it owned the street from Pacific west.

-- Sharon K. Sanders