Out of the past 3/21/12

25 years ago: March 21, 1987

Friends, relatives and patients of Dr. Edward D. Campbell pay tribute to his 40-year career as a physician; appropriately enough, the festivities at Cape Girardeau's Holiday Inn are also in celebration of Campbell's 50th wedding anniversary.

Speaking before about 40 people, mostly local NAACP members here, the Rev. Raymond Mallory of Hannibal, Mo., says despite integration, black Americans are "losing out" in terms of quality education; Mallory is an NAACP coordinator for a 10-state region.

50 years ago: March 21, 1962

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Professor Fred Lewallen, for 27 years head of the school system here, has resigned for health reasons; the change will be effective June 30.

Cape Girardeau police are investigating the overnight destruction of three city parking meters, two in the 100 block of North Sprigg Street and one in the 900 block of Broadway; the meter casings and mechanisms inside, all smashed beyond repair, are found by officers scattered in surrounding areas.

75 years ago: March 21, 1937

Palm Sunday ushers in the start of Holy Week; during the week, there will be services each evening at Centenary Methodist Church under auspices of the city's four Methodist congregations; Bishop Charles L. Mead of the Kansas City area of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which includes Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma, will be the speaker.

The May Greene School Boys Chorus, under the direction of Sue Burch, provides the special music in the morning at First Baptist Church.

100 years ago: March 21, 1912

Bids are opened for the new, five-story hotel to be built by George McBride at Broadway and Fountain Street; the firm of Vogelsang Brothers of Cape Girardeau lands the plumb; the building of the new Idan-Ha Hotel and the remodeling of the present one will cost $50,000.

Dr. O.W. Hartle, health officer of Fornfelt, says there were no new cases of meningitis at that place yesterday, and that the schools of Fornfelt and Illmo will probably reopen immediately; in addition, there have been no new cases reported at Chaffee, Mo.

-- Sharon K. Sanders