Out of the past 3/30/11

25 years ago: March 30, 1986

ALTO PASS, Ill. -- Continuing a tradition that began 50 years ago, an Easter sunrise service is held at Alto Pass, site of the Bald Knob Cross of Peace, which was completed in 1963; guest speaker is the Rev. A. VanHoose, who was also the guest speaker at the 1940 Easter service.

Centenary United Methodist Church holds two special services Easter Sunday; Nancy Robinson performs a solo at the 8:15 a.m. service; at the following service, a string quartet composed of T. Donley Smith, Margaret Thomas, Melvin Gilhaus Jr. and Tarina Kang performs.

50 years ago: March 30, 1961

The school future of the Pipeline Village area, on Highway 34 west of Gravel Hill, will be determined at the school district elections on Tuesday; the Jackson School District in Cape Girardeau County will vote to annex the village sector, with a high assessed valuation, to the Jackson-centered district, and in Bollinger County District (Woodland) R-4 will vote not to change the district boundaries, which would mean the village sector would remain with the Bollinger school district.

CAIRO, Ill. -- Leo C. Schultz, a native of Cape Girardeau and twin of the superintendent of schools there, Louis J. Schultz, has announced his retirement as superintendent of the public school system here.

75 years ago: March 30, 1936

A crowd of 150 people in addition to about 600 schoolchildren and teachers attends the annual kite carnival at May Greene School in the afternoon; there are 130 kites on the competition list.

Workers are remodeling the interior of the Hope Auto Co. building, 725 Broadway; a portion has been removed from the front in order to give additional space for the display room, making it 40 feet by 50 feet, while an office and parts room are being built just in the rear; a portion of the southwest corner of the building is being torn away to make an entrance to the building from Ellis Street by a ramp.

100 years ago: March 30, 1911

L.B. Houck of this city and his brother at Shelbina, Mo., have decided to extend their Shelby County railroad from Shelbyville, Mo., to Knox County, a distance of 15 miles, as soon as summer weather permits uninterrupted work.

The Bank of Whitewater has installed a Mosler Corless safe, one of the finest in the country; it is guaranteed burglar-proof.

-- Sharon K. Sanders