Out of the past 2/26/07

@sco:25 years ago: Feb. 26, 1982

The 1982 Jackson city budget is expected to total slightly more than $5.7 million, only about an $8,000 increase over last year's budget.

Budget problems at the federal and state level dominate the list of concerns voiced at the Cape County Farm Bureau's annual legislative dinner held at Jackson; Tenth District Rep. Bill Emerson, state Reps. Jerry Ford and Marvin Proffer, and state Sen. John Dennis each in their turn paint a somber picture of declining revenues and looming cash shortages in government coffers.

@sco:50 years ago: Feb. 26, 1957

A projected tax levy to be placed before voters at the April 2 school election is being discussed by the Cape Girardeau Board of Education; the need for added funds to care for school grounds and other improvement projects in the system and to meet possible salary increases are being considered.

Paul Ebaugh and Trece Boyd, who work for the R.B. Potashnick firm, return from a four-week trip to Syria with the impression that the Middle Eastern country is pro-American and pro-Eisenhower; Ebaugh says they were the first Americans to enter Damascus since the Suez crisis.

@sco:75 years ago: Feb. 26, 1932

Oliver Boswell of the Red Star Suburb announces himself as a candidate for the Cape Girardeau City Council; Boswell is the 32nd candidate to announce for one of the city commissioner jobs to be filled in the coming election.

The Walter Funeral Home Co. has purchased a lot on Middle Street in Cape Girardeau, just south of its funeral home property at the corner of Middle and Bellevue; the lot was purchased from W.P. Whitledge; the lot will be landscaped.

@sco:100 years ago: Feb. 26, 1907

Louis Lorimier, 53, one of the two remaining grandsons of the founder of Cape Girardeau, Don Louis Lorimier, dies at his home in the north part of the city; the other grandson, Clem W. Lorimier, resides in St. Louis.

Two recent newcomers to Cape Girar-deau in the medical profession, Dr. Jim Martin of Kentucky and Dr. Winters of this county, have purchased the drug store formerly conducted by Dr. G.T. Van Cleve on Broadway.

-- Sharon K. Sanders