Out of the past

25 years ago: March 6, 1982

Final negotiations are in process for acquisition by Lone Star Industries Inc., the world's largest producer of cement, of the Marquette Cement Mfg. Co., from Gulf and Western Industries Inc.; the sale price has been placed at $245 million.

The Southeast Missouri State University Indians defeated the University of Tennessee-Martin, 56-53, yesterday for the NCAA Division II South-Central Regional Championship, becoming one of only eight teams left vying for the national title.

50 years ago: March 6, 1957

The only woman member of the board, Mrs. H.B. Newman, announces she will seek re-election to the Cape Girardeau Board of Education at the school election April 2; she is completing her second three-year term.

A suggestion that the floodwall from Broadway to Independence Street in Cape Girardeau be located at the foot of the wharf near the water's edge rather than at the street level near the railroad tracks as proposed by U.S. Engineers is adopted at a conference of residents; such a plan would permit filling in of the area between the tracks and the edge of the stream; when filled, it could be used as a parking area.

75 years ago: March 6, 1932

APPLE CREEK, Mo. -- A new recreation building, constructed by the St. Joseph's Catholic Parish at Apple Creek in Perry County, is being finished this week; the main floor of the structure is 47 feet wide and 84 feet long; it will be used as an auditorium and community hall.

John Philip Sousa dies at Reading, Pa., at age 77; Girardeans recall that the March King visited here Sept. 14, 1929, when record crowds gathered for two concerts.

100 years ago: March 6, 1907

In a letter printed in The Daily Republican, M.E. Leming declares he has withdrawn as a candidate for the office of mayor of Cape Girardeau on the Municipal Reform ticket; he states: "... I feel that if elected I would be compelled to neglect either my own business or that of the city."

The steamer Stacker Lee comes up from Memphis, Tenn., in the morning, bound for St. Louis; it stops here long enough to discharge a lot of household furniture; the boat is loaded from the Texas to the keel with cotton, cotton seed, corn, chairs, parcels merchandise, stock, lumber and movers' wagons.

-- Sharon K. Sanders