Out of the past 6/13/04

10 years ago: June 13, 1994

Union Electric officials say they won't remove hazardous waste that might lay beneath site of old Cape Girardeau Waterworks' coal gasification plant, because waste poses no environmental risk.

Around 100 parents and staff attend Cape Girardeau school board meeting to discuss recent change in Central High's commencement practice and how change was made.

25 years ago: June 13, 1979

COMMERCE, Mo. -- Town council of Commerce has received word from Federal Flood Aid Administration that it will allow only $636.50 in aid money for repair of town's streets damaged by this spring's flooding; council estimates it will cost nearly $30,000 to repair streets.

Critical diesel fuel shortage is developing along Mississippi River, and it may soon force some towboat operators to dock until they can get fuel, says fuel suppliers and towboat firms.

50 years ago: June 13, 1954

L.C. Blattner Jr. has purchased interest of Irvin C. Richmond in Sunny Hill Farms Dairy Co., a partnership, at 45 S. West End Blvd; Blattner and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Blattner, are owners of business.

Don Koch, who caught for Central High Tigers' state championship baseball team, is reported to have signed baseball contract with New York Giants and has been sent to Giants' farm club in Iowa.

75 years ago: June 13, 1929

Severe rain and electrical storm, accompanied by high wind, struck Cape Girardeau and vicinity late yesterday and continued through night, hampering telephone and telegraph communications and temporarily blocking motor traffic in many places.

Timothy Hosmer, 86 years old, one of few surviving Civil War veterans in Cape Girardeau, dies unexpectedly at home of his daughter, Mrs. H.O. Freese; during his long life, Hosmer had been soldier, printer, newspaper editor and sawmill operator.

-- Sharon K. Sanders