Out of the past 6/16/11

25 years ago: June 16, 1986

Members of the Cape Girardeau City Council discuss "Bad Street," with Mayor Gene Rhodes expressing concern about the increasing problem of violence among youth who congregate along a stretch of West Broadway near Kingsway Drive; the problem has received a lot of attention since the June 7 stabbing death of a 21-year-old Scott City resident.

Massive steel assemblies arrived in Cape Girardeau last week by barge and are being transported to the multipurpose building site on North Sprigg Street by truck.

50 years ago: June 16, 1961

Cape Girardeau County will take advantage of the government's program for distribution of surplus food commodities to eligible families; the County Court yesterday formally instructed county clerk Rusby C. Crites to begin the procedure to obtain the commodities.

In an effort to avoid a conflict of issues and to give voters a clear shot at sewage disposal alone at the July 11 bond election, the Cape Girardeau City Council orders an unofficial straw vote June 26 to determine the method of financing the bonds; voters will be able to chose between a property tax or a water use tax.

75 years ago: June 16, 1936

Officers of the Cape Girardeau Jaycees announce they have delivered to Charles F. Blanton Jr., district WPA director at Sikeston, Mo., the complete plans and cost estimates of the proposed fairgrounds project; the entire project is estimated to cost $197,500 and would employ 280 men for 12 months.

Running wild after it unleashed its moorings at its parking place on Lacy Street in front of Southeast Missouri Hospital, a 1934 Ford automobile owned by Helen Williams late last night dashed down the hill, smashed into a picket fence at the home of County Assessor J. Doyle Summers, and came to rest in the front yard of Summers' next door neighbors.

100 years ago: June 16, 1911

The 33rd annual meeting of the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association comes to an end at noon after a most successful convention; the druggists choose I. Ben Miller of Cape Girardeau as president of the association for the coming year.

Joseph Hohler, the upper Broadway shoemaker, falls off a ladder at his home and breaks an ankle.

-- Sharon K. Sanders