Out of the past 6/16/07

25 years ago: June 16, 1982

Cape Girardeau city officials are taking a second look at disaster warning sirens following the tornado that ripped through Marion, Ill., on May 29; officials there say the death toll would have been much higher had residents not heard the town's sirens before the tornado struck.

Recent and upcoming layoffs at Superior Electric Products Co. on Nash Road are a result of adjusting to the end of the plant's fan sales season, says president James W. Bauerle; he says the company is reducing inventory primarily because of the high cost of borrowing money.

50 years ago: June 16, 1957

Although answering the call promptly, the Illmo and Fornfelt fire departments were unable to save the combination garage and smokehouse yesterday at the Barney Stubenrauch farm a quarter of a mile south of Fornfelt; the family was able to save only three children's bicycles from the structure.

Albert Wessell, 59, farmer living on Route 2 outside of Cape Girardeau, sustains severe lacerations on his left hand when it is caught in a combine; he was working on the farm of his brother-in-law, Albert Keller, when the accident happened.

75 years ago: June 16, 1932

A total of 1,013 crates of strawberries, grown near Cape Girardeau, were marketed this season by association members selling through the Broadway Fruit Market; this number is down from the 1931 crop, when the same growers sold approximately 2,500 crates.

Morning classes at Shady Brook Farm School on North Sprigg Street Road in Cape Girardeau will begin Monday, according to Gertrude E. Maull, who will be associated with Ruth Kelso Renfrow in the project again this year; they have had the school every summer for four years.

100 years ago: June 16, 1907

With a rousing meeting in the evening, at which the Rev. Lincoln McConnell is at his best, the great tabernacle revival meeting at Cape Girardeau closes after three weeks.

The Cape Girardeau Capahas trounce the visiting Charleston, Mo., baseball team by a score of 9 to 1; Harrigan pitches for the local crew, limiting the Charleston players to three hits.

-- Sharon K. Sanders