Out of the past 2/20/03

10 years ago: Feb. 20, 1993

Southeast Missouri State University Regent Mark Pelts has proposed creation of community college division at school; Pelts suggests such division would allow students who don't meet new, tougher admission requirements an opportunity to go to college.

Students attending Southeast Missouri State University will be paying more to live on campus next year; Board of Regents Friday unanimously approved hike in room and board fees, coupled with new three-tier rate structure for 1993-94 academic year.

25 years ago: Feb. 20, 1978

First contested primary race for county political office has developed on Democratic ticket for office of Cape Girardeau county clerk; Leonard Little announces he will file this week as candidate for that post.

Gov. Joseph P. Teasdale, along with leaders in many other states, launches all-out effort to conserve energy, particularly coal-generated electricity, as country enters 78th day of massive United Mine Workers Strike; governor orders state agencies to cut their consumption of electricity and switch from coal to other fuels for heating wherever possible.

50 years ago: Feb. 20, 1953

St. Louis -- St. Louis baseball Cardinals are sold for $3,750,000 to Anheuser-Busch, Inc., of St. Louis, one of nation's largest breweries; sale is announced jointly by brewery and Fred M. Saigh.

Arthur Job of Gordonville Road harvested 97.29 bushels of corn an acre this winter, despite unfavorably dry weather, grasshoppers and army worms and placed first in Cape Girardeau County in 1952 corn-growing contest sponsored by DeKalb Hybrid Seed Corn Co.

75 years ago: Feb. 20, 1928

Plans for artificial spillway, 175 miles long, starting three miles sought of Cape Girardeau and emptying into the Mississippi River in Arkansas, are included in report filed with congressional flood committee by Morgan Engineering Co. of Memphis, Tenn.; plans were made at request of drainage and levee districts in Missouri and Arkansas, as proposal for restraining turbulent flood waters of Mississippi.

Fred Klapp, owner of several retail shoe stores in Illinois, has leased room on Main Street now occupied by Carp store and will occupy it about April 1 with large shoe stock.

-- Sharon K. Sanders