Out of the past 12/14/04

25 years ago: Dec. 14, 1979

An incidental fee increase of $15 per semester was unanimously approved yesterday by the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents, bringing the fee rates for the coming academic year to $180 per semester for undergraduates and $190 per semester for graduate students.

A recent announcement by U.S. Rep. Paul Simon of Carbondale, Ill., that he supports Sen. Edward Kennedy for the Democratic presidential nomination, has touched off some political scrambling in Simon's district; a primary election battle is shaping up between backers of Kennedy and those of President Jimmy Carter.

50 years ago: Dec. 14, 1954

State College will renew its request for funds to construct a new science building, president W.W. Parker says the college will ask $2,422,500 for the biennium from the legislature, which meets next month; $800,000 will be asked for the science building, to replace the present structure, which has been in use since 1902.

Denver Wright, St. Louis manufacturer and big-game hunter, is in Cape Girardeau on a goose-hunting expedition to Southern Illinois.

75 years ago: Dec. 14, 1929

Although all the reports aren't in, the money raised this week in Cape Girardeau for Southeast Missouri Hospital stands at $18,017.05; the committee hopes the total will reach $20,000 to $25,000 with late contributions.

The Postal Telegraph Co. has leased quarters in the Hotel Marquette building and will begin moving equipment at once to the new location in preparation for establishing an office here; the closest office of the Postal Telegraph is now at Cairo, Ill.

100 years ago: Dec. 14, 1904

Rumors of a new hotel for Mill Town, since the Lorimier Hotel burned the other night, have started; this time, it is said that a fireproof brick hotel of 15 rooms will be built; Louis Houck, who owned the Lorimier, has declared he won't build another hotel, but will put up a brick storeroom with concrete floors and iron doors instead.

Charles Daues, city attorney and prosecuting attorney-elect for the county, will move to Jackson Thursday to prepare for his duties; he has rented attorney William Miller's residence there.

-- Sharon K. Sanders