Out of the past 3/22/11

25 years ago: March 22, 1986

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- After downing Cheyney (Pa.) State Friday night 90-81 in the NCAA Division II national tournament, the Southeast Missouri State Indians fall to the Pioneers of Sacred Heart (Conn.) University 93-87 in the championship game.

The Missouri Department of Conservation has announced plans to purchase 1,900 acres of rolling, wooded hills along the Mississippi River in north Cape Girardeau County that will become part of the state's forest land system.

50 years ago: March 22, 1961

The city of Cape Girardeau has learned that development and connection of new sanitary sewer districts here won't be permitted by the state in view of the failure of the community to start to take care of the matter of dumping raw sewage into the Mississippi River.

Ray Ripplemeyer, former State College basketball star, started on the mound in Monday's game for the Cincinnati Reds against the St. Louis Cardinals; he pitched four innings, allowing 12 hits, nine runs and walked two; the Reds fell to the Cardinals in exhibition play 14-5.

75 years ago: March 22, 1936

Two fires do an estimated $2,000 in damage in Cape Girardeau; early in the evening, a blaze in the Surety Building, 320 Broadway, gets a considerable start before being discovered and damages a small portion of the interior; in the morning, fire breaks out in a cabin at the Airline establishment on Highway 61, and the small frame building and its furnishings are destroyed.

Despite efforts, Cape Girardeau yesterday lost its bid to host the state Democratic convention; instead the party committee chose Joplin for the May 5 convention.

100 years ago: March 22, 1911

Eddie McDade, proprietor of the Lyric Theater, has leased the large plot of ground opposite The Republican building in the 200 block of Broadway and has begun the erection of an airdome; the airdome, which McDade will call the Hippodrome, will be graded into a natural amphitheater, with a stage at the east end of the lot; he will offer moving pictures and vaudeville acts.

George Gouge, a sailor boy who has been on the warship USS Minnesota, has served out his time in the Navy and come back to Cape Girardeau.

-- Sharon K. Sanders