Out of the past 6/20/02

10 years ago: June 20, 1992

Chaffee - North Scott County Ambulance District personnel have all the cheerful hospitality of first-time homeowners for anyone who stops by their home office; facility is district's first home office it has owned; building, on Highway 77 south of Chaffee, is open to public during day; as visitors drop by, district employees provide tours of building.

U.S. House has passed funding bill for two Southeast Missouri lake projects; U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson says total of $470,000 has been earmarked for projects at Wappapello Lake near Puxico and at Clearwater Lake near Piedmont in Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act of 1992.

25 years ago: June 20, 1977

Captain Gary Robbins of Ft. Leonard Wood has been appointed first public defender of 32nd Judicial Circuit of Cape Girardeau and Bollinger counties; Robbins, 29, who has been with Chief Legal Assistance Division of Office of State Judge Advocate at Ft. Leonard Wood since September 1976, will assume new position Aug. 1.

New newspaper delivery system begins in Illmo and Scott City for readers of The Southeast Missourian; Circulation Manager Julian Howes says new system promises to be more reliable than that used in past; rather than having single individual make deliveries by car, newspapers are being delivered by 14 carriers in two cities.

50 years ago: June 20, 1952

Ralph Pink, whose playing days were spent on great Kirksville State College team and whose Central College teams at Fayette have lost only single conference game in two years, is hired as basketball coach at State College; he fills vacancy created by resignation of John A. Adams; Rolla Anderson, who was originally scheduled for position, asked to withdraw short time after his employment, explaining he planned to leave coaching field.

Charleston - Charlestonians will have to keep conserving city's water supply until next week; city is being provided with water by only one well, production of which is perilously close to consumption by residents; new well drilled to replace 27-year-old one damaged couple months ago can't be connected to water storage tank until water from it has been approved as sanitary; new well should be connected first of next week.

75 years ago: June 20, 1927

Charleston - Closing of People's Exchange Bank May 10 tied up $32,040.18 of city funds and has resulted in much confusion in city finance matters; city has $2,000 remaining from time deposits in Charleston-Mississippi County Bank and tax and license collections for May, on which it must operate until liquidation of defunct bank makes more money available.

Dave Shultupsky, proprietor of Peoples Store at 27 N. Main for past six years, announces he will close establishment within few weeks and will enter another line of business; he will retain his interest in Sample Shoe Store.

- Sharon K. Sanders