Out of the past 2/27/11

25 years ago: Feb. 27, 1986

A plan that assures emergency extricating services will continue to be provided at vehicle accidents throughout Cape Girardeau County has been worked out between the county and the cities of Cape Girardeau and Jackson; Cape Girardeau city firefighters will perform extrications, and the service will be supported financially by the county and two towns.

The Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents adds a new major in health sciences, and drops the varsity tennis program.

50 years ago: Feb. 27, 1961

The opening games of the first round of the State High School Basketball Tournament in Class M and Class S will be played tonight at Houck Field House, starting at 6:30; Steele will play Advance in the opener, followed by Bragg City against Doe Run, and Desloge versus Fisk.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- W. Raymert Miller is formally hired by the Sikeston City Council as the town's first city manager; he will assume his duties Wednesday.

75 years ago: Feb. 27, 1936

Two sections of the Southeast Missouri state highway system are closed because of the softening of the roads by the quick, general thawing; Highway 67 in Wayne County, from the Arkansas line to near Poplar Bluff, Mo., is restricted; Highway 25, two miles south from Delta, is closed.

Wade Anderson of Commerce, Mo., while in Cape Girardeau, announces he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for sheriff of Scott County; he is well known here, being interested in the management of the Anderson Sales Barn, a livestock auction establishment on U.S. 61.

100 years ago: Feb. 27, 1911

The merchants of Cairo, Ill., are trying to induce Capt. A.C. Jaynes to take his boat, the Gladys, from Cape Girardeau and put it into ferry service at Cairo.

A.M. Smith of Thebes, Ill., has purchased the old boiler of the Planters' Mill and will use it in his sawmill plant; it is being loaded for shipment today; Planters' Mill burned in 1909.

-- Sharon K. Sanders