Out of the Past 3/22/09

25 years ago: March 22, 1984

A five-year, $25 million capital improvement plan, approved last night by the Cape Girardeau City Council, contains several sewer improvement projects that are dependent on voter approval of bond issues for funding.

Action by Missouri Gov. Kit Bond to release state aid for education funds that had previously been withheld because of the state's financial press has sent Southeast Missouri State University on a spring shopping spree; regents have approved budget adjustments amounting to $259,000.

50 years ago: March 22, 1959

A children's confirmation service is held at St. Andrew Lutheran Church for the first children's class to be confirmed in the congregation's new chapel; members of the class are Elaine Fiehler, Stephen Kirchhoff, Carolyn Maevers, Lonnie Nagel, Gary Quade and James Stovall II.

With 11 inches of snow covering the ground at Madison, Wis., Sid Gallagher and two of his friends chartered a plane and flew to Cape Girardeau yesterday, where they got in two rounds on the Cape Girardeau Country Club course.

75 years ago: March 22, 1934

J. Morton Thompson has resigned as commander of the Louis K. Juden Post of American Legion, saying his new duties as deputy U.S. marshal in this district will take him away from the city much of the time; Alvin A. Haas, the first vice commander, succeeds him.

With everything set to go, only the location of the grandstand and the playing field is holding up construction work on Cape Girardeau's new baseball park at the junction of U.S. 61 and Gordonville Road; Roy Mahy owns the tract, and Billy Sullivan, the Capahas' mentor, has the field under lease.

100 years ago: March 22, 1909

Herman Miller of Jackson receives 10 head of beef cattle in the morning, part of a herd of 56 recently bought from Fred Hartle of near Millersville; Miller will butcher them at Cape Girardeau and at Jackson.

Charles F. Lueth, press builder for the Duplex Printing Press Co., arrives in Cape Girardeau and begins the installation of the big new press in The Daily Republican office.

-- Sharon K. Sanders