Out of the past 6/22/08

25 years ago: June 22, 1983

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Chaffee has been selected as the site for the newest operation of the Henschell Manufacturing Co. of St. Louis; the company makes leather goods and hats.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- A former school superintendent here has been named to the Chaffee Board of Aldermen to serve the unexpired term of Robert Delezene, who died June 7; Mayor Robert Capshaw has appointed Reece Brown to serve the remainder of the two-year term.

50 years ago: June 22, 1958

James Weis, a student of theology at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, preaches at the morning service of Trinity Lutheran Church; he is the son of Albert J. Weis of Cape Girardeau.

A program of sacred choral music is presented in the evening in the Capaha Park band shell by members of the Grace Methodist Senior Choir; the choir is under the direction of Lee Roy Friday.

75 years ago: June 22, 1933

The Rev. Leonard M. Steinmeyer, assistant pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church, has been transferred to St. Cecilia Church in St. Louis; succeeding him at the Cape Girardeau church will be the Rev. H. Wiesmann.

Three men, two Girardeans and one from Cairo, Ill., miraculously survived an airplane crash yesterday on the banks of the Mississippi River, 11 miles south of Cape Girardeau, in which their aircraft was demolished; Robert T. Richards, an electrical engineer at the Marquette Cement Mfg. plant, owner and pilot of the plane; Eldridge Rose, another employee of the plant, and E.H. Eckler of Cairo received only minor scratches when the motor of the plane stalled in midair over Thebes, Ill., and then side-slipped across the river into a field on the Missouri side.

100 years ago: June 22, 1908

Farmers in the bottoms around McClure, Ill., again feel the need of a levee along the east side of the Mississippi River; an effort was made a few years ago to have such a levee constructed at a cost of about $75,000; however, while some landowners agreed to the plan, others would not.

The Mississippi River crested about noon yesterday at 34.1 feet at Cape Girardeau; not since 1903 had the stream gone that high.

-- Sharon K. Sanders