Out of the past 3/27/05

25 years ago: March 27, 1980

Recent legislative action in Jefferson City prompts president Bill Stacy to offer good news and bad news to the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents; the good new is that the Senate approved a spending level of $17.6 million for Southeast; the bad news is the defeat in the House of a proposal to have the funds for Magill Hall come from the state general fund rather than revenue-sharing fund.

Concern over the crowded conditions in elementary schools has prompted Jackson school officials to study possible ways to reduce overcrowded classrooms in the coming school year, including busing of pupils to outlying attendance centers at Gordonville and Burfordville.

50 years ago: March 27, 1955

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Monroe, Bend Road, have received word that the remains of their son, Cpl. Billy J. Monroe, who was killed in action in Korea in 1950, will arrive here Tuesday. Burial will be the following day in Memorial Park Cemetery.

The Rev. A.F. Harper, editor in chief of all Sunday school literature in Church of the Nazarene, speaks at the morning worship service at the Cape Girardeau Church of the Nazarene.

75 years ago: March 27, 1930

The girls residing in Albert Hall at the Teachers College are raising money to purchase a radio for the dorm; the girls are divided into teams and are giving shows, selling candy, soda, sandwiches and cake, and things of all sort on the campus and in the hall.

The polling place for Ward 2 in Cape Girardeau has been moved from the police station to the building at 537 Broadway, formerly occupied by the Bartels store.

100 years ago: March 27, 1905

As the Houck train passes the brickyards in the afternoon, some scoundrel throws a half brick through a car window, nearly killing the child of William B. Schaefer of Jackson; the brick crashes through the window, striking the baby and buries small pieces of glass in its face.

C.F. Betten, the well-known ice and coal man, has consented to become a candidate for school director.

-- Sharon K. Sanders