Out of the past 6/12/06

25 years ago: June 12, 1981

In an apparent last-ditch effort to move circuit court files from Cape Girardeau back to Jackson, to provide circuit clerks at Jackson and to establish a probate court at Jackson, state Rep. Marvin E. Proffer has won passage of an amendment to a Senate bill that cleared the House late yesterday; the Jackson Democrat's effort at again getting the circuit court records moved back to Jackson brings criticism from county officials.

A broken track causes a derailment of cars of a Cottonbelt Railroad train near Randles in the morning; most of the tank cars in the train are empty, and the accident presents no hazards.

50 years ago: June 12, 1956

Congressional action having been completed, only the signature of President Eisenhower is needed to return ownership of historic Common Pleas Courthouse to the people of Cape Girardeau; the Senate yesterday finished congressional action on the resolution introduced in the House by Rep. Paul C. Jones to re-exchange the courthouse and park property for the present post office at Broadway and Fountain Street.

Irvin Keller of Cape Girardeau has been appointed executive secretary of the Missouri State High School Activities Association.

75 years ago: June 12, 1931

Mrs. Ernestine Hoyer of Cape Girardeau has learned that her niece, Mildred Block, a trained nurse of Hartford, Conn., is with Sir Hubert Wilkins' submarine expedition to the North Pole; the English explorer and his party left Boston June 2 on the submarine Nautilus.

Trees on Cape Girardeau streets which offer obstruction to lights will be trimmed in order to give the new street lighting system an opportunity to have the proper effect; trees in this city have been allowed to grow without respect for the efficiency of street lighting.

100 years ago: June 12, 1906

Clara Hauenschild arrives from Oakland, Calif., at noon, having left that city last Thursday; she was in the earthquake which destroyed San Francisco and partially ruined Oakland; she was compelled to jump from the high window on the first floor of the house in which she was living, spraining her ankle in the process.

The Daily Republican has had a hard time today; a few months ago, the newspaper installed an electric motor to run the type-casting machine and presses, relegating the gasoline engine to the woodshed.

-- Sharon K. Sanders