Out of the past 3/28/08

25 years ago: March 28, 1983

An overflow crowd attends a 2 1/2-hour public hearing the Cape Girardeau City Council called to gather public sentiment on the future of traffic on Broadway; the six blocks of Broadway between Pacific and Lorimier streets are scheduled to be changed from one-way to two-way traffic around May 1.

Winner of a special Merit Award at the Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair last week was Karen Stoll, a ninth-grader at Poplar Bluff, Mo.

50 years ago: March 28, 1958

Scores of Rotarians from throughout Southeast Missouri, meeting in Jackson, hear Lou Roth of St. Louis, Rotary International director, outline legislative proposals to be considered at the Rotary International convention in Dallas in June.

More than 3,400 patrons attend the awards program for the Regional Science Fair; sweepstakes winners are Don Golightly of Cape Girardeau for his electrostatic generator; Robert Goin of Chaffee, Mo., for his weather-making device, and Jim New of Risco, Mo., for his space station shown in drawings.

75 years ago: March 28, 1933

Charles P. Miller, dean of Southeast Missouri linotype operators, dies in the morning at a local hospital; Miller, 70, had been employed by The Southeast Missourian newspaper for 16 years.

Members of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce board of directors last night selected Charles F. Fluhrer as president, to succeed Joseph A. Rigdon; Fluhrer was formerly associated in the management of the Roth Tobacco Co. and is interested in considerable real estate in Cape Girardeau.

100 years ago: March 28, 1908

The Frisco Railroad will likely be the defendant in a series of lawsuits brought by the Cape Girardeau County Court, property owners and residents in the district south of Cape Girardeau, which was recently damaged by floodwaters; some maintain the overflow was caused by the negligence of the company in leaving a large obstruction across the bed of Cape LaCroix Creek.

H.W. Leonard and Thomas V. Hall are in Cape Girardeau looking over the smelting plant; Leonard is affiliated with the trustees and others hoping to get the plant operating.

— Sharon K. Sanders