Out of the past 4/14/12

25 years ago: April 14, 1987

The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board is recommending that the Arena Building be renamed the "A.C. Brase Memorial Building" in honor of a man who spearheaded improvements to the building over the years

The board of commissioners of the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority met with representatives of the Corps of Engineers yesterday to discuss proposed plans and designs for an 1,800-foot slackwater harbor that should be under construction late this summer.

50 years ago: April 14, 1962

Plans for a 24-unit motel and an eight-unit apartment house boosted building permits issued this week by the city engineer's office; the motel will be constructed at 212 Morgan Oak St., at a cost of $51,000; located at 372 N. Henderson (rear), the apartment building will be built by Thomas L. Meyer at a cost of $30,000.

Grace Methodist Church congregation will occupy its newly completed sanctuary building for the first time tomorrow, Palm Sunday.

75 years ago: April 14, 1937

A new development of the motor age -- trailer homes for college students -- is a reality here; two students, Ervin Garrett of near Poplar Bluff, Mo., and Emil Hunnicutt of Fisk, Mo., enrolled this week for the spring term at Teachers College and are domiciled in an auto trailer, intending to remain there all summer; they are temporarily parked in Fairground Park, but plan to move soon to a spot near the business district and the college.

The new flag decorations for business streets, ordered by the Retail Merchants Bureau, have arrived; they will be displayed for the first time Thursday during the annual convention of the Southeast Missouri Retail Lumberman's Association; the flags are mounted in clusters of four each and will be affixed to electric lamp standards.

100 years ago: April 14, 1912

Mrs. Alice Scott Abbott, state lecturer and organizer for the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Missouri, delivers two lectures in Cape Girardeau, at the German Methodist church in the afternoon and at the South Cape church in the evening.

From all the pulpits in the city, announcements are made that Cape Girardeau will send donations to the flood sufferers; the Commercial Club will collect the food and clothing and will send them south by the relief boat Erastus Wells.

-- Sharon K. Sanders