Out of the past 10/7/07

25 years ago: Oct. 7, 1982

A retired St. Louis art teacher and a longtime Cape Girardeau businessman have been named recipients of the Alumni Merit Awards from Southeast Missouri State University; they are Catherine E. Ehrmann Milovich, president emeritus of art and design at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, and M. Luther Hahs, a retired life insurance agent.

Robert N. Hunter, addressing the annual highway dinner of the Chamber of Commerce, says a number of highway improvements planned in Southeast Missouri will be shelved if the proposal to increase the state fuel tax by four cents is rejected by voters.

50 years ago: Oct. 7, 1957

Work begins on the new Cape Osteopathic Hospital building, to be located on a 10-acre tract on Minnesota Avenue, immediately south of the new Jefferson School.

Any protests relative to the floodwall along the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau should be lodged with Congress, Col. Charles B. Schweizer, St. Louis District engineer of the Corps of Engineers, says while visiting here; he points out that plans for the wall were drawn after a long study of river records of the past.

75 years ago: Oct. 7, 1932

Lt. Gov. E.H. Winter, nominee for governor of Missouri, speaks at the Republican rally held at Courthouse Park in the evening; J.L. Thompson, nominee for secretary of state, also talks.

Denver M. Wright, St. Louis manufacturer, announces he intends to stage a lion hunt in Southeast Missouri; the announcement brings a storm of protest from area residents; Wright, apparently aware there are no lions in Southeast Missouri, intends bring a couple of beasts along and release them at an undisclosed spot for the hunt.

100 years ago: Oct. 7, 1907

Despite the rain which continues up to the time of opening, the Lyric Theater gives a good performance in the afternoon to a crowd that comfortably fills the little playhouse.

Onie Moore, a young man who enlisted in the Navy a year ago, is in Cape Girar-deau en route to his ship at Boston; he had been down to Campbell, Mo., to visit his mother.

-- Sharon K. Sanders