Out of the past 4/28/08

25 years ago: April 28, 1983

Starting next year, there will be many more parking spaces available for Southeast Missouri State University students and employees on city streets; the board of regents votes to discontinue the school's policy of enforcing parking regulations within six blocks of the campus, thereby lifting the university's ban on student and staff parking on city streets.

PERRYVILLE, Mo. — The New Bourbon Regional Port Authority held its first official meeting in Perryville this week.

50 years ago: April 28, 1958

Rush H. Limbaugh, local attorney and president of the State Historical Society of Missouri, advocated the establishment of a historical foundation dedicated to preserving fast-vanishing landmarks when he spoke Saturday at the annual dinner meeting of the Cape County Historical Society; Limbaugh said the fund might be used to preserve such points of historic interest as Burfordville Mill.

Fred E. Wachter of Shawneetown files as a Republican candidate; he is seeking the party nomination for representative.

75 years ago: April 28, 1933

With honors at stake in events that have featured the annual Southeast Missouri Literary and Field Meet at Teachers College for two decades, boys and girls from 74 district high schools are in Cape Girardeau to begin their annual contests; today's events include musical, speaking and agriculture competition, as well as tennis matches.

It is rumored that one or two camps under the federal government's reforestation plan may be established in Southeast Missouri, where the chief task would be clearing work along drainage canals.

100 years ago: April 28, 1908

HELENA, Ark. — Fifteen people lost their lives Sunday and several others sustained serious injuries when the steamer Marion capsized near the mouth of the St. Francis River; the boat, which was going from Helena to Cape Girardeau, was caught in a windstorm and overturned 200 yards from shore; the boat carried members of a carnival company.

The Jackson Academy baseball team is swamped by the Normal School club at the fairgrounds, 11-0.

— Sharon K. Sanders