Out of the past 5/10/10

25 years ago: May 10, 1985

Work is expected to resume soon, possibly next week, on construction of an access road to the Southeast Missouri Regional Port near Scott City; bad weather has delayed the $627,000 project.

The administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration is being urged to designate the Cape Girardeau flight service station as an "attendant station" in an effort to keep it open; the station at the Municipal Airport is scheduled to close in 1987.

50 years ago: May 10, 1960

In approving a $1,440,023 operations budget for public schools in the coming fiscal year, the Cape Girardeau Board of Education last night reaffirmed its approval of a higher salary schedule for teachers, raised the pay of maintenance employees and cafeteria workers, and voted emphatically against additional pay in the future for "extra work" or "extra time" spent by the instructors.

Pupils in the Campus School kindergarten, directed by Louise M. Gross, took a ride on the southbound Frisco passenger train yesterday to Chaffee, Mo., as part of their school activity; after the ride, a school bus brought them back to Cape Girardeau.

75 years ago: May 10, 1935

A contract is let to Sam R. Smith to build a one-story brick office building at 230 N. Middle St., for Dr. C.A.W. Zimmermann; the building will contain five rooms and the walls will be 12 inches thick; a modernistic design is to be used.

While six men are taking down the bridge over the Auxvasse River in Ste. Genevieve County in preparation for moving it to Cape Girardeau County and re-erecting it at the Tripp crossing over Indian Creek, part of the structure suddenly collapses and plunges down into 13 feet of water; none of the workers is injured.

100 years ago: May 10, 1910

The Normal Choral Society presents its third concert of the annual May Festival, it being Frederick H. Cowan's cantata "The Rose Maiden," one of the most popular musical compositions of this form.

H. Bisenden moves his home from 315 N. Ellis St., to 514 Themis St.

-- Sharon K. Sanders