Out of the past 11/20/03

10 years ago: Nov. 20, 1993

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Clinton administration said it will spend $18 million to repair additional levees damaged by Midwest floods, a blow to Missouri lawmakers who sought eight times as much.

The first phase of a project to improve traffic safety and the appearance of I-55 and the highway 61-34 interchange between Cape Girardeau and Jackson is under way.

25 years ago: Nov. 20, 1978

Volunteer firemen and employees spent more than eight hours battling a blaze in a warehouse at the Procter & Gamble Paper Products plant in Cape Girardeau County last night and earlier today.

A settlement last week of a $52,000 court judgment against Montgomery Trust, owner of the H-H Building, has averted the sale at auction of the five-story Broadway office property scheduled for today.

50 years ago: Nov. 20, 1953

In letter to The Missourian, the post office says determining the site of a new federal building rests with the General Services Administration and not with post office officials.

A powerful tractor-trailer lumbers out of control and crashes into the home of Clarence Springer on Highway 24, a tenth of a mile north of the Gordonville Road intersection.

75 years ago: Nov. 20, 1928

The Mississippi River, fed by the torrential rains of last week in the Missouri valley, rose more than 7 feet at Cape Girardeau during the past 24 hours.

A meeting of all milk dealers supplying Cape Girardeau has been called for tomorrow at the Common Pleas Courthouse; a representative of the Missouri state board of health will discuss a city ordinance that would regulate methods of handling milk at dairies and distribution of it in the city.

-- Sharon K. Sanders