Out of the past 4/17/11

25 years ago: April 17, 1986

At the request of Joe Mirgeaux, a Cape LaCroix-Walker Creek Levee District commissioner, the Cape Girardeau City Council agrees to ask the Missouri National Guard to undertake a flood relief project along the southern reaches of Cape LaCroix Creek; if the plan is approved, the Guard would provide the equipment and manpower while the levee district would furnish the fuel and pay the cost of insurance the Guard requires for the project.

A check for $50,000 is presented Southeast Missouri Hospital by its auxiliary at the hospital's annual dinner; the money will help pay for a new patient television system.

50 years ago: April 17, 1961

Winter, which should have departed some time ago, made a return visit to Cape Girardeau over the weekend with a combination of cold rain and snow, plus low temperatures.

Cape Girardeau Federal Savings and Loan Association has moved to temporary quarters at 120 N. Spanish St., a block west of its present location; the move was required by the remodeling of the company building, 102 N. Main St.; the size is being doubled by taking over the former Gaylor Shoe store building to the north.

75 years ago: April 17, 1936

City Commissioner Harry Coffman tells The Missourian newspaper that unless a maximum of $25,000 is pledged at once the opportunity to secure construction of the downtown storm-water sewer system with the expenditure of $163,000 in Works Progress Administration money to keep 200 men working for a year will be lost; the $25,000 would be used to buy necessary materials -- in this case, the cement.

Mrs. George Thurn, lecturer for The Missourian's 10th cooking school next week, and her assistant, Mrs. E.L. Nye, arrive from Paducah, Ky., where they had been holding a school; the local school will be held daily Tuesday through Friday at the Fox Broadway Theater.

100 years ago: April 17, 1911

The Frisco trains are still being transferred at the scenes of the washouts north of Cape Girardeau and, in consequence, the service is still badly handicapped; it is hoped things will be running smoothly again tomorrow.

Steve B. Hunter of Sikeston, Mo., and E.J. Deal of Charleston, Mo., are in Cape Girardeau attending a meeting of the Trust Company directors.

-- Sharon K. Sanders