Out of the past 5/9/10

25 years ago: May 9, 1985

A construction crew may begin next week repairing a Trail of Tears State Park road leading to the Mississippi River campground, which campers haven't been allowed to use since the road was closed by park officials in October following flash flooding.

The Missouri House of Representatives Budget Committee has recommended that $2.7 million of the remaining $400 million in revenue from sale of state capital improvement bonds be for construction of a veterans nursing home in Cape Girardeau County.

50 years ago: May 9, 1960

Traffic on U.S. 61 was locked for more than two hours Saturday afternoon when a huge tractor-trailer truck loaded with sheep overturned across the highway south of Kelso, Mo.; about a dozen sheep were killed in the accident; the remainder of the 247 were led to safety in a nearby farmyard.

A strong gust of wind caught a Cape Central Airways plane Saturday at Lambert Field in St. Louis and flipped it on its back; the pilot, Jimmy Lee Boyd, 24, of Farmington, Mo., was uninjured from the incident proper, but received a head injury when he unfastened his seat belt as he dangled upside down.

75 years ago: May 9, 1935

A single in the second inning by Wilver Wessel prevents Elbert Wadlington of the Fornfelt High team from hurling a no-hit and no-run baseball game, as the Scott County nine hand Central's Tigers a 4-0 defeat at Fairground Park.

The motor car in which Clyde Barrow, the Southwest desperado, and his companion, Bonnie Parker, met death several months ago, which was on display two days at the Hope Auto Co. here, was seen by 11,000 people, says Glenn C. Hope, owner of the auto agency.

100 years ago: May 9, 1910

The May Festival begins in the evening with a presentation of "Gallia" by Charles Gounod; singers from Chicago and St. Louis join local vocalists in the performance at the Normal School; the festival will continue tomorrow, with the youth of the city taking center stage.

In excavating for the sewer pipe to carry off the overflow of the spring in Happy Hollow, made necessary by the building of Lorimier Street, considerable blasting has to be done to get the sewer ditch through the limestone.

-- Sharon K. Sanders