Out of the past 2/3/11

25 years ago: Feb. 3, 1986

Toyota Gosei Co., a Japanese auto parts maker owned mostly by Japan's largest automaker, Toyota Motor Corp., announces plans to build a plant in Perryville, Mo., by April 1987 to produce parts for U.S. automakers.

University High School named Wendy Meyer and Chris Jansen queen and king of its Winter Homecoming recently; they will be the last royalty at the school, which is slated to phase out its secondary program this spring as part of Southeast Missouri State University's new teacher education program.

50 years ago: Feb. 3, 1961

Rain, sleet and snow fused into a tightly packed covering of icy trouble for motorists and pedestrians yesterday afternoon and evening, brought wholesale postponements of meetings, and caused a holiday for children at all but two Cape Girardeau Schools; only St. Marys Cathedral School and Notre Dame High School brave the weather and continue classes.

Joe Buerkle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Buerkle, has been awarded an athletic scholarship to the University of Missouri at Columbia; he has played football at Jackson High School for three years.

75 years ago: Feb. 3, 1936

Southeast Missouri highways, made slippery by a six-inch snow over the weekend and a light mist which freezes at falls, are hazardous; bus lines between Cape Girardeau and St. Louis have canceled their runs.

Because it hasn't been determined in which school district they are located, three black schoolchildren living west of Cape Girardeau aren't attending school; neither of the two districts -- Kage and Pecan Grove -- claim the land where they live in Old Fairground Park on the Gordonville Road, and Cape Girardeau's district has rejected them for now because no one will help the state pay tuition.

100 years ago: Feb. 3, 1911

Assessment figures for Cape Girardeau are published; the total valuation for the city of Cape Girardeau is $760,735, Jackson $329,865, and Byrd Township $247,080; the report also gives the number and value of horses, mules, cattle, sheep, hogs, money notes and personal bonds for each.

Mrs. A.C. Sherwood returns from Jackson, where she had been visiting friends for the past few days; she will play for the dancing classes, which begin today.

-- Sharon K. Sanders