Out of the past 12/22/10

25 years ago: Dec. 22, 1985

The Rev. Stephen Schneider, pastor of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Jackson, has been elected to serve on Bishop John J. Leibrecht's advisory council as secretary; Schneider has been a member of the council for two years.

Dr. John V. Crampton, head of the accounting and finance program at Southeast Missouri State University since 1968, is stepping down from his administrative post to return to full-time teaching starting in the spring semester.

50 years ago: Dec. 22, 1960

Cape Girardeau had its coldest weather in nine years last night, when the thermometer plunged to 3 degrees below zero at Municipal Airport; garages do a rousing business pushing stalled cars and providing starting power for those with batteries that decline to function in the frigid air; Cape Girardeau streets are a glaze of ice left over from Tuesday's snowstorm.

In the interest of safety, Cape Girardeau police and street departments have blocked off Bertling Street, from Bel Air Drive to North Henderson Avenue, to allow youngsters a hilly road for coasting.

75 years ago: Dec. 22, 1935

If things go as planned at Cape Girardeau's "shipyard" on the Mississippi River at the north edge of the city, Eddie Erlbacher will have a 275-ton towboat ready for service in 60 days; he has built the boat from "the water up," and it will be worth $125,000 when completed.

Henry H. Haas, 57, prominent businessman and Republican leader, dies at Southeast Missouri Hospital of pneumonia; he was a former mayor and for 12 years postmaster of Cape Girardeau.

100 years ago: Dec. 22, 1910

If President William H. Taft, Secretary of Commerce and Labor Charles Nagel and Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock don't have a good time this Christmas, it will be their own fault, as Cape Girardeau Postmaster E.W. Flentge has sent each a gallon of good wine made from the grapes at this home.

Wade Anderson and Henry Gather of Commerce, Mo., are in Cape Girardeau to do some shopping.

-- Sharon K. Sanders