Out of the past 4/28/05

25 years ago: April 28, 1980

Angered by President Jimmy Carter's decision not to tell Congress of the attempt to rescue U.S. hostages in Iran, Rep. Bill D. Burlison (D-Cape Girardeau) says, "I feel that I should have known something of what was planned"; Burlison chairs a House Intelligence subcommittee on program and budget authorization; he pledges that his subcommittee will closely scrutinize the wisdom and execution of the failed rescue attempt.

An autopsy is scheduled for today to help determine what killed an unidentified man whose body was found floating in the Mississippi River yesterday; the body was discovered shortly after 7 a.m. at Honker's Boat Dock.

50 years ago: April 28, 1955

Sale of the Jackson hosiery mill to Wayne Knitting Mills Inc., of Fort Wayne, Ind., one of the nation's leading manufacturers in the knitting field, is announced; also included in the purchase is the hosiery mill at Chester, Ill., which is operated by Prim Hosiery Inc.

Two hundred forty-five children received the Salk vaccine against polio yesterday at the Jackson Grade School, administered by doctors of the county medical society; youngsters attending school in Delta, Oak Ridge and Millersville will receive the shots tomorrow at the Jackson school.

75 years ago: April 28, 1930

The population of Cape Girardeau, as shown in the 1930 census, is 16,148, an increase of 57 percent over the enumeration in 1920, Carl F. Blocker, district census supervisor at Caruthersville, Mo., announces; the gain for the 10-year period was 5,896.

A number of Girardeans gaze at the sun in an effort to view the partial eclipse which is in effect from 12:37 until 3:15 in the afternoon; it is difficult to discern the eclipse, which is caused by the moon passing in front of the sun.

100 years ago: April 28, 1905

A meeting of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, a national organization of lumbermen whose famous emblem is a black cat with an arched back, is being held in Cape Girardeau; T.A. Moore, vicegerent snark, of St. Louis, Mo., is conducting the different sessions.

Cape Girardeau will have a new subdivision in the new future that offers inducements to new factories and for new residences; C.A. Vandivort, acting as agent, sold 14 acres of land belonging to St. Vincent's College and lying west of the Houck Railroad and south of the brewery to the Cape Realty Co., an organization which will divide the land into factory sites and building lots and generally improve the property.

-- Sharon K. Sanders