Out of the past 11/14/07

25 years ago: Nov. 14, 1982

Roger East of Cape Girardeau, who spent 1971 in Vietnam as a helicopter crew chief with the 11th Armored Cavalry, is in Washington, D.C., to attend four days of activities honoring Vietnam vets; among weekend events is a three-hour parade and the dedication of the new Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Renovations that have spanned almost two years have transformed St. Vincent's Seminary into an evangelization center; a large number of Catholics use the center annually for retreats.

50 years ago: Nov. 14, 1957

Two days and nights of almost incessant rain have filled drainage ditches and flooded farm lands in the delta country of Southeast Missouri, hampering harvest of a late and short cotton crop and cutting into its grade; with drainage ditches filled almost to levee tops in some instances, water that has fallen since Tuesday is standing in fields over a wide section of the area.

The board of the SEMO District Fair Association has been asked to consider the possibility of increasing its number from nine members to 12.

75 years ago: Nov. 14, 1932

A Pierce-Arrow automobile sedan, taken from H.G. Redmon of East St. Louis, Ill., by bandits who held him up on Highway 61 near Benton, Mo., was used Saturday afternoon as the getaway car after they robbed bank branch in Little Rock, Ark., of $4,000.

Trustees of Southeast Missouri Hospital present a statement for $2,700, covering charity patient service over the past three years, to the Cape Girardeau City Council; the trustees ask that the city render some assistance in order that the charity work might not be so great on the hospital.

100 years ago: Nov. 14, 1907

A defective hose is the cause of another failure on the part of Cape Girardeau's volunteer firemen to extinguish the flames in a house on South Fountain Street last night.

The officers of the Southern Metal and Manufacturing Co. having shown their inability to get the smelter in South Cape started, a movement is afoot to have the trustees of the company -- D.A. Glenn, L.J. Albert and E.H. Engelmann -- take over the operation of the plant.

-- Sharon K. Sanders