Out of the past 4/9/06

25 years ago: April 9, 1981

A potential confrontation between the administration and certified staff was detoured last night when the Cape Girardeau Board of Education agreed to a request by the Community Teachers Association that the Missouri State Teachers Association be allowed to determine whether there are sufficient district funds to allocate a larger teacher salary increase than currently proposed.

Officials of the Missouri District Health Office at Poplar Bluff have recommended a quarantine of Cape Girardeau County because of an outbreak of rabies; but county court judges say they won't declare a quarantine at this time because they remain unconvinced there is a danger yet to county residents.

50 years ago: April 9, 1956

A federal court jury in Cape Girardeau, scheduled to be on hand for trial of a case this afternoon, is canceled when all suits requiring a panel are either passed for settlement or are dismissed; this leaves for trial two cases, both of which will be heard by Judge Rube H. Hulen without a jury.

Kathleen I. Gillard of Cape Girardeau, former dean of women and English instructor at State College, dies at a local hospital where she had been a patient since March 31.

75 years ago: April 9, 1931

Cape Girardeau has been selected as the location for one of a series of waterways cold storage plants and terminal warehouses to be built along the Mississippi River from New Orleans, La., to St. Louis; the site under consideration by the Mississippi Gulf Holding Co., of Tampa, Fla., is a piece of city-owned property at the foot of Broadway on the Mississippi River bank, where the old Frisco passenger station formerly was located.

Fire that originates in the basement destroys the home of Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Seabaugh on Sunset Boulevard early in the morning; the family awakens just in time to escape the flames.

100 years ago: April 9, 1906

The first indoor athletic contest in the history of the Cape Girardeau Normal School will be held tomorrow evening in the gymnasium; records will be made in the following events: running high jump, standing high jump, standing broad jump, three standing broad jumps; 22-yard dash; hop, step and jump; dip, potato race; high dive, high kick, hitch and kick.

The second term of the federal court convenes at the Common Pleas Courthouse in Cape Girardeau in the morning; Judge G.A. Finkleberg is on the bench.

-- Sharon K. Sanders