Out of the past 3/8/07

25 years ago: March 8, 1982

State Sen. Harriet Woods, announcing her candidacy for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate, targets her remarks at Reagan administration economic policies during a stopover at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport.

An overwhelming majority of Cape Girardeau County voters questioned in a survey favor a state lottery, and more than half of them want the Blue Law prohibiting Sunday sales in the county repealed; they are almost evenly split on whether parimutual betting should be allowed on horse racing.

50 years ago: March 8, 1957

A proposal to relocate the floodwall on the riverfront along Water Street in Cape Girardeau, so as to preserve the present wharf for river shipping, has been rejected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; a representative of the engineers says the proposal would entail an additional expenditure of as much as $1.5 million and the building of a high wall too near the channel.

The city's sesquicentennial time capsule, containing memorabilia of mid-century Cape Girardeau, receives a belated burial in Common Pleas Courthouse Park in the afternoon.

75 years ago: March 8, 1932

Six women, representing the Cape Gir-ardeau Parent-Teacher Council, filed a petition yesterday with the city council containing the names of more than 400 mothers of schoolchildren, asking that the council appoint a woman probation officer to look after the interests of girls in the city; Judge O.A. Knehans of the Common Pleas Court, who is in charge of the juvenile division of the court, made an appeal to the council to employ such an officer.

Orren Wilson enters the mayoral race in Cape Girardeau with the declaration that, if elected, he will reduce his own salary $1,000 per year.

100 years ago: March 8, 1907

Because of the numerous arrests with which tollgate keepers on the road from Jackson to Burfordville were subjected, the keepers have abandoned their posts; Prosecuting Attorney H.E. Alexander has charged several keepers with collecting tolls illegally.

Mr. and Mrs. D.A. Glenn and daughter Sarah leave in the morning for Hot Springs, Ark., where they will spend about a month.

-- Sharon K. Sanders