Out of the past 6/3/11

25 years ago: June 3, 1986

Flood-control projects, estimated to cost a total of $1.75 million, are being proposed by an advisory committee of engineering and construction experts as a way to alleviate some of the city's flooding problems; items included in the plan are construction of a new Sprigg Street bridge over Cape LaCroix Creek, widening and straightening the creek, and construction of a new Wilson Road bridge north of the present bridge site.

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Underdog Ruth Heck is elected city collector over Gay Siegmund; Perryville voters also approved a revenue bond issue to finance $2.1 million in development for a municipal natural gas distribution system.

50 years ago: June 3, 1961

Petitions asking that steps be taken to obtain federal government surplus food for distribution in Cape Girardeau will be presented to the County Court at Jackson on Monday; they bear 343 signatures.

Thieves netted $571.19 in merchandise and currency in a daring break-in at the Tinsley Appliance store, 715 Broadway, last night; burglars entered the building by breaking out glass in the front door and crawling through; taken were several transistor radio sets, ranging in value from $29.50 to $49.95.

75 years ago: June 3, 1936

Robert Drum, 91, prominent resident of Bollinger County with a record of 18 years' service in the Missouri General Assembly either as a member of the House or the Senate, and for many years a leading merchant and banker of the county, dies at a local hospital; he was the father of former Cape Girardeau mayor Edward L. Drum.

At a special election Tuesday, Delta voters granted the Missouri Utilities Co. a 20-year franchise to furnish electric light and power to the community; the vote was 104-0.

100 years ago: June 3, 1911

Judge Rudolph Bahn, merchant, farmer, scholar and lawyer, and all his life a useful citizen of Cape Girardeau, died last night after a long illness; Bahn, 44, served as police judge here for 10 years.

S.T. Gresham, inspector of building and loan associations for Missouri, is here in the rounds of his work; 11 years ago, he was an instructor of mathematics at the Normal School.

-- Sharon K. Sanders