Out of the past 3/31/05

25 years ago: March 31, 1980

The Magill Hall addition at Southeast Missouri State University appears to be on solid footing, funding wise; the Missouri Senate Appropriations Committee gives tentative approval to slash nearly $30 million from a $101 million House spending bill for new building projects, but the Magill project remains at the top of the funding list.

Two more finalists for the position of vice president for academic services at Southeast Missouri State University are announced: Dr. Leslie H. Cochran, vice provost for academic administration at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, and Dr. Larry W. Hughes, associate dean of academic affairs at the University of Houston, Texas.

50 years ago: March 31, 1955

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- An impressive array of oral and documentary evidence detailing reasons landowners and residents want the government to abandon the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway as a flood safety valve for Cairo, Ill., was paraded before the Corps of Engineers yesterday.

The State College campus is swarming with high school pupils arriving for the district music contests today and tomorrow; there are 2,956 entries in the more than 45 contests to run both days.

75 years ago: March 31, 1930

Political observers expect a record number of voters in tomorrow's municipal election in Cape Girardeau; voters will select a mayor and two commissioners to serve two-year terms, to elect three members of the school board, and to approve the usual tax levies for school purposes.

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Brewer's Lake, located just east of here, has been lost to free-lance anglers; the fine fishing place is now open only to a club with 60 members, mostly Cairo, Ill., sportsmen, which controls the lake.

100 years ago: March 31, 1905

Fougen & Duggan will open up a first-class marble yard on Good Hope Street as soon as their new building is completed, which will be about April 15.

The old Carroll building on Main Street, which has stood the wear and tear for the past 40 years, is being torn down, and a new two-story structure will replace it; the new building will be two stories high, 28 by 106 feet, steam heat, and will connect with the Glenn Mercantile Co.

-- Sharon K. Sanders