Out of the past 11/24/01

10 years ago: Nov. 24, 1991

Glory Choir, senior adult choir at First Baptist Church, is in Jefferson City to perform in annual Missouri Baptist Music Festival; group is directed by John Broom, minister of music at church.

Longtime Cape Girardeau businessman and civic leader David Allen Graves dies at Chateau Girardeau Health Center; he was 86; Graves was member and volunteer with numerous city organizations; he managed Montgomery Ward store in downtown Cape Girardeau until retiring in 1969; he was executive vice president of Downtown Merchants Association from 1970 to 1989; Graves married Mary A. Campbell in 1935 in Springfield; she died in 1967; he is survived by two daughters and three grandchildren.

25 years ago: Nov. 24, 1976

Purchase of The Southeast Missourian by Thomson Newspapers Inc. is announced by Harry Naeter, newspaper's publisher. Hugh Hollister, general manager of The Missourian, will be named publisher; St. Clair McCabe, executive vice president of Thomson group, emphasizes there will be no changes in either policies or personnel of The Missourian; Naeter family has owned newspaper since 1904.

Motorists who ignore school bus warning signals and pass while children are being loaded and unloaded will be target of crackdown by city; drivers for Cape Transit Co., which operates school bus system, say such unlawful incidents happen more often than public thinks; some drivers experience three to five incidents a day.

50 years ago: Nov. 24, 1951

Final accounting of sales in first Defense Bond campaign shows that Cape Girardeau County, continuing support it showed in World War II days, again went over top and surpassed quota assigned it; county's sales amounted to $106,220, or 100.8 percent of goal, which had been set for it by state headquarters.

Four businessmen have been named to board of directors of Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce; new directors are Lindsay W. Simmons of First Federal Savings & Loan Association and J.P. Tlapek of Auto Tire & Parts Co., representing commercial members; and Walter R. Davis of Davis Electric Co. and Marvin J. Fehlings of Cape Supply Co., representing industrial members.

75 years ago: Nov. 24, 1926

With practical dissolution of Miss-Cape-Scott Boy Scout area apparent, plans for carrying on Scout movement in Cape Girardeau will be made at meeting of Scout Council and interested residents Friday at Public Library auditorium; there are eight Scout troops in Cape Girardeau, four of which are active and hold regular meetings; about 140 boys are affiliated with troops.

Work is to start immediately on construction of new $140,000 Southeast Missouri Hospital in Sunset Terrace; Board of Trustees last night entered into contract with Arthur H. Gerhardt, Cape Girardeau contractor, to build 100-bed institution, which is to be operated as non-denominational and designed to serve entire Southeast Missouri district.

-- Sharon K. Sanders