Out of the past 3/25/03

10 years ago: March 25, 1993

Board of Regents at Southeast Missouri State University will consider raising incidental fees when it meets next week; regents will consider raising fees by $5 for Missouri resident graduates and undergraduates and $10 for out-of-state students for 1993-94 fiscal year.

Full professor at Southeast Missouri Sate University would make more than $50,000 on average next fiscal year under compensation package recommended by school's Budget Review Committee.

25 years ago: March 25, 1978

System of alerting merchants of flash flooding in Cape LaCroix and Walker Creek floodplains should allow businesses sufficient time to move merchandise, minimizing damage; system, which involves notifying merchants by telephone and radio, was devised by Raymond F. Cole, director of Cape Girardeau REACT-ALERT, organization which monitors Citizens Band emergency Channel 9.

Thebes, Ill. -- M-V Joe Walker collides in morning with railroad bridge across Mississippi River; vessel, which is owned by Walker Towing Co., of Paducah, Ky., has hole punched in its hull during accident.

50 years ago: March 25, 1953

Oran, Mo. -- Construction has begun on new theater building for Oran; Bernard Tenkhoff will be operator; building will be on lot formerly occupied by Heisserer store, which was destroyed by fire last summer.

Advance, Mo. -- High-test gasoline, pouring out of overturned transport truck into roadside ditch, creates hazard on Highway 25 at Advance at its junction with Highway 91 from mid-afternoon until late in evening; danger is further heightened as bulk of gasoline is pumped from one truck to another and as wreckers seek to upright huge tractor-trailer.

75 years ago: March 25, 1928

Civic Sunday services, under auspices of Ministerial Alliance and Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, are held in evening at Teachers College auditorium; the Rev. C.D. Latrop, vice president of Ministerial Alliance, presides.

At Christ Evangelical Church, confirmation class is presented before congregation at morning service; no sermon is preached by minister, but instead children of class give testimony of things they have learned.

-- Sharon K. Sanders