Out of the past 10/5/07

25 years ago: Oct. 5, 1982

Cuts in state aid have left area public schools minus sizable chunks of their budget pies; although some educators expected only a 3 percent cut in state aid to education, Gov. Kit Bond has called for a 5 percent reduction.

A group of planning consultants has indicated the best locations for a multipurpose civic arena in Cape Girardeau: The tract just west of South Kingshighway between Route K and Bloomfield Road, which was once the proposed site for Westborough Mall; property just north of the junction of North Sprigg and Bertling streets, and parcels of land to the east and west of North Sprigg Street just south of Bertling Street.

50 years ago: Oct. 5, 1957

President Mark F. Scully of State College says that action yesterday by the legislature to allow state building bonds to sell at a discount will accelerate the pending building program on the campus; the college has plans for one of its buildings ready to ask for bids.

The State Highway Department has ordered a survey to determine the amount of traffic on Hopper Road; the department is continuing to study whether Hopper Road will dead end at the new federal highway, now designated Interstate 55.

75 years ago: Oct. 5, 1932

Holding up Cline Hope, manager of the Economy Cash Grocery, 701 N. Main St., at noon, two unmasked robbers, each flourishing two revolvers, take $1,542 in cash and speed away in an automobile in which a driver is waiting.

President J.A. Serena, at the Teachers College assembly in the morning, announces that the ban on dancing at the school has been lifted; dancing will be permitted for one year, the permission to last or be rescinded at the end of that time as the college authorities judge best.

100 years ago: Oct. 5, 1907

The regular quarterly meeting of the Farmers' Society of Equity convened at the Jackson courthouse yesterday; T.E. Joyce, the county organizer, having resigned his position to teach school, was replaced by L.R. Johnson.

C.W. Hassler, sales agent for the National Cash Register Co., of Dayton, Ohio, is in Cape Girardeau installing an electrically operated cash register in the handsome new Elks' buffet.

-- Sharon K. Sanders