Out of the past 5/28/10

25 years ago: May 28, 1985

The Missouri attorney general's office has started investigating landlords who have told tenants they must substantially increase their rents because of statewide property reassessment; any landlord found guilty of misrepresenting the reason for a rent increase could be prosecuted.

The Cape Girardeau police report 29 more summonses were issued over the weekend for failure to pay city sewer taxes, bringing the total number of summonses issued since Friday to 45.

50 years ago: May 28, 1960

An agreement between the city and Frisco Railroad for razing the passenger and freight depots on Main Street went aground at a special city council meeting yesterday on the controversial $3,600 annual rental assessed against the line; as part of the deal, the road had agreed to build a modern terminal near William Street.

The Most Rev. Charles H. Helmsing, bishop of the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese, will be the speaker at tomorrow's commencement exercises for 63 graduates of Cape Catholic High School to be held in the evening in the school auditorium.

75 years ago: May 28, 1935

The Cape Girardeau School Board last night approved demolition of the old Lorimier School building on Independence Street, if the work can be done as a Federal Emergency Relief Administration project; the board ordered all families now using the building as temporary living quarters to vacate it.

Amid the confusion caused by the Supreme Court's decision declaring Section 3 of the Industrial Recovery Act (the National Recovery Administration codes) unconstitutional, the Roosevelt administration abandons all attempts to enforce the NRA and appeals to businesses to observe its rules voluntarily.

100 years ago: May 28, 1910

J.M. Keys, his wife and baby arrived in Cape Girardeau on Friday; they will probably make their home here; he has been manager of the Western Union office in Camden, Ark., but the climate there didn't agree with him.

The recent heavy rains in the watersheds of the Whitewater River has resulted in the low bottom lands along that stream being flooded to a depth of 2 to 6 feet; the young corn planted there has been destroyed.

-- Sharon K. Sanders