Out of the past 3/20/12

25 years ago: March 20, 1987

Cape Girardeau police Capt. Howard Boyd yesterday wrestled his revolver away from a robbery suspect who grabbed it in a scuffle and fired two shots that just missed officers; a 27-year-old Charleston, Mo., man is in custody following the incident at the Downtowner Motel.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars honor Brad Golden as Firefighter of the Year, Paula Jones as Paramedic of the Year and the late Floyd "Barney" LeGrand as Law Enforcement Officer of the Year.

50 years ago: March 20, 1962

Highway officials of four states and the federal government confer in Cape Girardeau with the engineering firm charged with gathering data regarding the future location of Interstate 24, whose western terminus may be near Cape Girardeau; states represented at the meeting are Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee.

It was house-moving day March 19, 1962, at Scott City, where dwellings were removed from their original sites along the new Interstate 55 right of way. Here, the six-room frame and stone Raymond Heisserer dwelling was moved two blocks through a field to a new foundation prepared for it. A Sikeston, Mo., firm did the job. (Missourian archive photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

Yesterday was house-moving day in Scott City, despite the rain; houses are being removed from their original sites along the new Interstate 55 right of way.

75 years ago: March 20, 1937

A hearing on an application for an injunction to restrain the city from proceeding with development of the fairground west of Cape Girardeau is postponed until the regular term of circuit court at Jackson in April; Maj. Giboney Houck is seeking a court order to "perpetually restrain" the city from acquiring or developing the proposed property.

The possibility of securing Amelia Earhart, whose plane crashed today as she took off at Honolulu on the second lap of a world-girdling flight, as a speaker at the district teachers' meeting in Cape Girardeau in October is revealed by officers of the District Teachers Association.

100 years ago: March 20, 1912

Charles Wulfers, the west end dairyman, receives by express a thoroughbred Holstein male calf; it is a fine specimen, twice as large for its age as common stock.

The officers of the Southeast Missouri racing circuit meet to complete the list of purses and stakes for the various races to be pulled off at the fairs of the circuit this season; those attending are A.A. Ebert of Sikeston, Mo.; James R. Hogg of Poplar Bluff, Mo.; and D.A. Glenn, J.T. Nunn, Clyde Vandivort, J.T. Nunn Jr., and W.F. Schade of Cape Girardeau.

-- Sharon K. Sanders