Out of the past 5/24/10

25 years ago: May 24, 1985

City Councilman Robert K. Herbst is questioning whether the Cape Girardeau Police Department has too many vehicles; in particular, he questions the need for two motorcycles, a motor scooter and a mobile crime unit (van).

The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce and redevelopment officials are trying to interest a Nebraska developer in efforts to renovate the old shoe factory building on North Main Street, now that federal funding appears unlikely; local leaders would like to see the 78-year-old structure turned into an apartment building.

50 years ago: May 24, 1960

The Dr. Joseph A. Serena property on U.S. 61 near Arena Park was sold for $99,200 in a public sale attended by 60 people yesterday afternoon at the east door of Common Pleas Courthouse; Jesse Tow, owner of the American White Cross Laboratories plant here, bid $93,500 for the largest part of the property, 10 acres, which has 928 feet of U.S. 61 frontage; the highest bidder for the other three lots with frontage on Rodney Vista Boulevard was Denzil Slinkard.

The Missourian is told there is a grave danger that the Naval Reserve Division, now based at Municipal Airport, will be suspended June 30 because of the lack of enlisted personnel.

75 years ago: May 24, 1935

Tentative plans are to locate the Civilian Conservation Corps camp to be built in Cape Girardeau County on the farm-to-market road four miles northwest of Delta; the camp will have from 17 to 20 buildings and will house around 236 men.

Bert W. Masterson, for two years a sports writer for The Southeast Missourian, leaves early in the morning for Kansas City, where he will become a reporter for the United Press Association.

100 years ago: May 24, 1910

D.A. Glenn receives a telegram advising him that the body of his young kinsman, Fowler Post, was recovered at Chester, Ill., this morning; Post was one of the 12 victims of the wreck of the steamer Saltillo, which sank May 11 at Glen Park, Mo., after striking a rock.

H.G. Dempsey returned to Cape Girardeau last night from St. Louis, where he had attended the funeral of S.C. Baker, the clerk of the steamer Saltillo, drowned at Glen Park.

-- Sharon K. Sanders