Out of the past 3/19/02

10 years ago: March 19, 1992

Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau Advisory Board will make budget recommendation for operation of bureau for fiscal 1992-93 year during its April meeting; budget proposal of $303,218 was submitted to board in February and re-submitted Wednesday in more detail.

Delta - Delta R-V School District has trimmed its budget and is asking voters to approve 61-cent tax increase in effort to keep school system operating.

25 years ago: March 19, 1977

Body of Cape Girardeau taxicab driver, who was shot twice in back of head and robbed of about $30 in fares, is found in his cab by police in South Cape Girardeau; victim is Nelson E. Caldwell, 38.

Poplar Bluff - Fire drives about 100 elderly people from high-rise apartment complex; four people are taken to hospitals for treatment of smoke inhalation and shock.

50 years ago: March 19, 1952

Manning P. Greer, who piled up substantial margin to lead three-man field, and Walter H. Ford, incumbent, are nominees for mayor of Cape Girardeau, while field of 19 candidates for commissioner was winnowed down to eight in yesterday's primary voting.

Skillful maneuvering by Jackson pilot, Larry Loos, yesterday brought his private airplane into Municipal Airport in belly landing that left him unshaken and plane only superficially damaged.

75 years ago: March 19, 1927

Arrangements for laying of cornerstone for new $140,000 Southeast Missouri Hospital being built in Sunset Terrace were discussed at meeting of board yesterday; it is planned to have ceremony April 3 at new hospital site, and speaker from St. Louis will be secured to make principal address.

Caisson to be used in installation of pier No. 3 of Cape Girardeau traffic bridge across Mississippi River arrives at noon on barge from St. Louis, and it is tied up at foot of Morgan Oak Street; workers will start next week preparing frame and concrete work around it, before it is taken out in river to pier site.

-- Sharon K. Sanders