Out of the past 5/6/04

10 years ago: May 6, 1994

Southeast Missouri State University and one of its former fraternities, Kappa Alpha Psi, are being sued for damages by parents of student who died earlier this year after alleged hazing beating.

Don Harrison, president of Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents, was honored this week for endowment he provided to College of Business; Harrison's donation and subsequent naming of college in his honor was announced last fall.

25 years ago: May 6, 1979

The Rev. Edward H.P. Zacharias is installed as pastor of Eisleben Lutheran Church in Illmo; the Rev. Karl K. Leeman of Gordonville, counselor of Cape Girardeau Circuit of Missouri District, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, performs installation rite.

THEBES, Ill. -- Towboat with six barges struck Missouri Pacific Railroad Bridge over Mississippi River last night, dumping 84,600 gallons of fuel oil into river.

50 years ago: May 6, 1954

Dr. G.T. Dorris of Illmo, physician to thousands in North Scott County over 40-year period, died yesterday evening at Cape Girardeau hospital, where he had been patient four weeks; son of a doctor, Dorris was born in July 13, 1880, at Galatia, Ill.; upon graduating from Barnes School of Medicine in St. Louis, he established his practice in Illmo in 1940; Dorris is survived by his wife, former Anna Sander, and two children, Mrs. Alton Bray and Mrs. W.R. Britton; two brothers and a sister.

Sixty-four-year-old John S. Cobb School building, 731 Merriwether, was torn down yesterday in matter of minutes; workers hitched tractor to cables tied around walls and then pulled burned out shell down.

75 years ago: May 6, 1929

Terrific rain and electrical storm, climaxing series of disturbances past several days, strikes Cape Girardeau, flooding highways and causing creeks and small rivers to go on rampage.

Petition presented by business men and property owners on Good Hope Street asking for placing of electric traffic signal at Good Hope and Sprigg is acted upon favorably by city council; this will be second traffic signal in town, other being at Broadway and Sprigg.

-- Sharon K. Sanders