Out of the past 11/2/04

25 years ago: Nov. 2, 1979

Ozark Air Lines officials say a Civil Aeronautics Board essential air transportation recommendation released this week has nothing to do with company's decision to eliminate one of three flights between Cape Girardeau and St. Louis, effective Nov. 15.

Members of a search committee to find a new president for Southeast Missouri State University will be appointed by Wednesday, at the latest, says board of regents president Kenneth L. Dement.

50 years ago: Nov. 2, 1954

A proposal that John S. Cobb School be rebuilt to take care of the city's black schoolchildren was presented to the school board last night by a delegation of taxpayers, who said they felt the youngsters would "learn better and feel better if they were together."

McCLURE, Ill. -- Fire breaks out early in the morning in a storage building at McClure, causing heavy smoke and posing a threat to 260 tons of alfalfa meal in the Quonset-type structure; the building is in the heart of the village and in close proximity to a number of frame buildings.

75 years ago: Nov. 2, 1929

Three members of a Cape Girardeau family were killed and two other people are injured when an automobile driven by L.B. Prennel of Caruthersville, Mo., crashes into the rear of a car driven by Richard Pepper of Cape Girardeau, two miles south of Hayti, Mo., on Highway 61; dead are Edith Pepper, 33; Irene Pepper, 8, and Sam Pepper, 3.

NEW MADRID, Mo. -- The dredge Gamma, pride of the federal government's Mississippi River fleet, sank suddenly last night near Bessie, Tenn., seven miles south of New Madrid; a deckhand is missing and presumed drowned.

100 years ago: Nov. 2, 1904

W.T. Tyndall, Republican candidate for Congress, addresses an audience that fills the courthouse and proves himself a good, reliable, honest man who will do his duty if elected.

While playing with a group of his friends in the evening, little Willie Daues of South Frederick Street, falls from a pile of lumber and was rendered unconscious; the accident occurred near the German Catholic church; he is recovering this morning.

-- Sharon K. Sanders