Out of the past 11/17/03

10 years ago: Nov. 17, 1993

Members of Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau Advisory Board berate preliminary plans for multi-purpose building in city's new Osage Park.

New section of divided four-lane highway through south edge of Cape Girardeau could be completed in 1995; work will start on new Mississippi bridge route between Sprigg and Kingshighway next year.

25 years ago: Nov. 17, 1978

Southeast Missouri State University has come into portion of $7.2 million in federal money channeled into state to help finance acquisition of outdoor recreation projects.

Illinois and Cape Girardeau authorities are seeking Southeast Missouri State University student for questioning in shooting death year ago of coed Sheila Cole and killing earlier last year of Mary Parsh and Brenda Kay Parsh.

50 years ago: Nov. 17, 1953

Albert Beussink, 27, carpenter of Jackson, fell while at work yesterday and suffered broken collarbone.

Cape Girardeau youth will be seen in movie, "From Here to Eternity," which opens this week at Broadway Theater; William Calvin Chapman, son of Walter D. Chapman, is stationed in Honolulu, with Army.

75 years ago: Nov. 17, 1928

New, $300,000 Hotel Marquette is formally opened to public; parade, led by Drum and Bugle Corps of Louis K. Juden Post of American Legion, kicks off festivities; approximately 8,000 people inspect new hotel.

Napoleon Oliver, 52, resident of Smelterville, is instantly killed when he falls from Sycamore Springs trestle of Frisco Railroad in South Cape Girardeau; he is standing on timber projecting from trestle as fast "Sunnyland" speeds by and loses his balance, hurling 20 feet to bed of creek.

-- Sharon K. Sanders