Out of the past 4/8/12

25 years ago: April 8, 1987

Strong support in metropolitan and most other municipal areas across the state led to passage yesterday of Proposition A, a measure that will generate in excess of $100 million more annually for road and bridge construction in Missouri and $32 million more for city and county road and bridge use; the measure won in Cape Girardeau County by a 59 percent margin.

Wayne Maupin, administrative assistant to the superintendent of the Jackson School District, has been named assistant superintendent and superintendent-elect of the district, effective next school year.

50 years ago: April 8, 1962

The dedication of the second unit of St. Andrew Lutheran Church is held in the morning; the Rev. Eugene F. Pennekamp of Poplar Bluff, Mo., delivers the dedicatory address in the chapel.

McCLURE, Ill. -- Fire, believed to have been set off by an explosion in the furnace room, destroys one of this area's nightspots in the afternoon; only portions of the brick walls of the Flamingo Club, formerly known as the Dawn Club, on Highway 3 near McClure are left standing.

75 years ago: April 8, 1937

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Chaffee's new firetruck, purchased three months ago, is delivered in the afternoon; the 500-gallon pumper truck is delivered by Percy Lambert, assistant fire chief, and E.G. Buchanan, sales representative for the Boyer Fire Apparatus Co. of Logansport, Ind.; the new truck cost $4,250.

Commissioner L.H. Butler says new bids will be asked by the city council for construction of a temporary swimming pool dressing room structure at Fairground Park; plans have been drawn for a one-story frame building, 44 by 66 1/2 feet in size.

100 years ago: April 8, 1912

The Farmers & Merchants Bank of Cape Girardeau closed a deal Saturday for the purchase of a very valuable piece of property, upon which it will build a handsome bank building; the property acquired is on the southwest corner of Good Hope and Sprigg streets, now occupied by the Dietiker restaurant.

The river gauge at Cape Girardeau is steadily falling, and the flood danger is past at most places.

-- Sharon K. Sanders