Out of the past 3/13/05

25 years ago: March 13, 1980

A delegation of Scott City and county officials say it hopes to receive some response next month from the state Highways and Transportation Commission on a proposal to build a bridge and connect two outer roads to help alleviate heavy traffic at the Interstate 55 interchange at Scott City.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Conditions return to normal at a power plant construction site following a labor dispute yesterday that resulted in minor injuries to three workers.

50 years ago: March 13, 1955

The Rev. Edward Wyman, missionary from Peru, now in the United States on furlough, speaks at the Church of the Nazarene in the morning; Wyman has served as a teacher in the Bible School at Chicago and has done extensive evangelistic work in Peru.

Police chief Kenneth Cruse returns to Cape Girardeau from a two-week seminar on criminal investigation conducted by the Southern Police Institute at the University of Louisville, Ky.

75 years ago: March 13, 1930

Contract for the new service unit and gasoline filling station on the southwest corner of the intersection of Broadway and North Henderson Avenue has been awarded to S.R. Smith, Cape Girardeau contractor; the unit has been leased by the Phillips Petroleum Co. of Bartelsville, Okla., which has also leased another station nearing completion at Good Hope and South Spanish streets.

All of the setback levee from Birds Point to New Madrid in Mississippi and New Madrid counties is now under contract; the levee is 35 miles long and practically 60 percent of this part is under construction.

100 years ago: March 13, 1905

C.M. Lee, the contractor, will this week begin work on a house in Donneybrook for John Boss and Lafe Caruthers; he also has contracts for two other houses to be built this spring.

Whiskey must have flowed freely someplace yesterday, or else someone is supplied for many months; the barrel house on the levee was broken into shortly after midnight, and a large quantity of wet goods and cigars stolen; J.L. Shelby owns the saloon.

-- Sharon K. Sanders