Out of the past 11/13/02

10 years ago: Nov. 13, 1992

Cape Girardeau's Ministerial Alliance has offered to sponsor baccalaureate ceremony for Central High School seniors; annual ceremony was placed in jeopardy following U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning prayer at high school graduation ceremonies.

Owner of site of former Kem-Pest Laboratories in Cape Girardeau Thursday objected to second phase of Environmental Protection Agency's plan for cleanup of Superfund site; EPA plans to demolish and remove building where pesticides were manufactured; but Elizabeth Knote, whose family owns site, said at public hearing on cleanup plan that building could be more easily decontaminated.

25 years ago: Nov. 13, 1977

Henry Voss of Cape Girardeau recently received Lamb Award, which is highest award Lutheran can receive; Voss is in his 14th year of service to Boy Scouting units of Trinity Lutheran Church and is one of 30 men in United States to receive the award yearly.

W. Ralph Nance, evangelist for Cape Girardeau Church of Christ in 1952, is guest speaker at 25th anniversary reunion service in afternoon at Church of Christ; Nance moved from Cape Girardeau in 1956 to become instructor in history and assistant to president of David Lipscomb College in Nashville, Tenn.; presently, he preaches for Natchez Trace Church of Christ in Nashville.

50 years ago: Nov. 13, 1952

Meeting in annual session last night, Southeast Missouri Fair Association voted to expand its Board of Directors from nine to 12 members; by increasing number of directors, association hopes to increase active participation by communities of Cape Girardeau and Jackson in Fair.

Superior Electric Products Corp., in move to expand its present production space, will start construction soon of auxiliary building containing 9,500 square feet immediately to west of its existing plant on West Independence street.

75 years ago: Nov. 13, 1927

Work is progressing rapidly on Centenary Methodist Church education plant, and it is expected to be ready for use within next few days; Dec. 11 to 18 have been set aside for opening of new quarters.

Preparations are being made for community revival service, which begins Monday at Houck Field House; group of volunteers is building large platform, and seats are being arranged; pastors of several churches have asked all members of cooperating churches in city to help support revival; among those scheduled to speak during week are Dr. C.G. Chappel and Dr. Ashbey Jones.

-- Sharon K. Sanders