Out of the past 6/21/08

25 years ago: June 21, 1983

Cheryl A. Williams is the new principal of Cape Christian School, 1855 Perryville Road; she is a native of Medina, Ohio, and a graduate of Central Bible College in Springfield, Mo.

Fourteen property owners, representing a dozen families along Sherwood and Briarwood drives in northern Cape Girardeau, take the witness stand to describe how their basements have been repeatedly flooded with sewage water and raw sewage over the past six years; 12 families have brought suit against the city of Cape Girardeau in circuit court.

50 years ago: June 21, 1958

Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Raebel of St. Louis expect to move to Cape Girardeau next weekend into a home they are building on Ridgeway Drive; Raebel is real estate and investment development representative for the Standard Oil Co. and has been transferred to the district sales office here.

BENTON, Mo. -- A lifetime in prison awaits Lynn W. Hester; the 18-year-old is convicted of killing Johnny Malugen, a Charleston, Mo., high school athlete, on a cotton patch road near Sikeston, Mo., on Jan. 5, 1957.

75 years ago: June 21, 1933

Dr. Walter W. Parker, retiring head of the Northwestern Teachers College at Alva, Okla., will become president of State Teachers College in Cape Girardeau Sept. 1; Vest C. Myers of Chicago, an alumnus of the college and former educator in this district, will become dean at the same time.

The board of regents of the Cape Girardeau Teachers College didn't discuss the status of Dean R.S. Douglass at yesterday's meeting because of the press of other matters; some members of the board favor the retention of Douglass, long a member of the college faculty, as a teacher in the history department.

100 years ago: June 21, 1908

Although the day is terribly hot, the Broadway Bums get snowed under; the Cape Citys, who are supposed to be a scrub nine, blank the Bums 6-0; in another baseball game of the day, the Haarigs trounce the Spanish Street Spaniards 21-9 on the St. Vincent's College grounds.

The board of trustees of Thebes, Ill., recently voted to repeal the Sunday-closing ordinance; however, what kind of business it wants open on Sunday isn't known.

-- Sharon K. Sanders