Out of the past 4/6/02

10 years ago: April 6, 1992

State Coordinating Board for Higher Education will meet in Cape Girardeau this week and will discuss enacting stricter admission requirements for Missouri's public colleges and universities; eight-member board regularly schedules one or more meetings at college campuses throughout state each year; it hasn't met in Cape Girardeau since 1986.

Workers install new Fiberglas columns around steel supports in front of Common Pleas Courthouse; new columns replace wood pillars which had become targets of woodpeckers and had weathered badly.

25 years ago: April 6, 1977

Councilmen Paul W. Stehr and Samuel L. Gill have indicated they are willing to go along with proposals by west end merchants to clean out Cape LaCroix Creek as first step toward solving periodic flooding problem; two councilmen - both affected by March 27 flood which entered Stehr's home and Gill's business - say they favor financing dragline operation to clean the creek.

Newcomer to political scene, Robert K. Herbst, made clean sweep of all 18 city wards and incumbent Oliver A. Hope survived rush by Robert White to win seats Tuesday on Cape Girardeau City Council; in only contested race for school board, Robert G. Talley failed in his bid to unseat J. Ronald Fischer.

50 years ago: April 6, 1952

Class of 19 are confirmed at special Palm Sunday service at Trinity Lutheran church by pastor, the Rev. Wilbert H. Koenig; confirmands are Melva Fiedler, Jimmie Fischer, Ronald Grebing, Janie Gross, Betty Hengst, Shirley Kassel, Caroline Koenig, Timothy Koenig, Kenneth Krieger, Lida Landgraf, David Lohmeier, Kay McCullum, Patricia Nagel, Jerry Reimann, Carolyn Robinson, Gerald Schlegel, Schirley Sinn, Shirley Sprangel and Juanita West.

Clyde M. Clark, scout executive of Southeast Missouri Council past six years, has resigned his post effective May 15 to accept similar job with Lincoln Trails Council at Decatur, Ill.

75 years ago: April 6, 1927

Edward L. Drum and Ernest L. Miller were elected members of school board in yesterday's balloting; both tax proposals, to continue present rate of taxation for maintenance and operation of public schools, were adopted by heavy majorities; vote was lightest in years, with less than 25 percent of normal city vote being cast.

Unless there is more rain in its tributary territory, Mississippi River is expected to crest Friday at 37 1/2 feet at Cape Girardeau; unofficial reports from points north, however, indicate that river might not reach even that stage here; river at St. Louis fell one-half foot overnight.

- Sharon K. Sanders