Out of the past 6/4/11

25 years ago: June 4, 1986

A crane is used to take down the sign in front of the old Cape Ready Mix Co., plant at 513 S. Kingshighway; Cape Ready Mix is building a new plant at a location off Highway 61 between Cape Girardeau and Jackson.

The Cape Girardeau City Council, whose members earlier this week were divided on whether to seek voter approval of a higher-than-originally proposed trash-collection fee, votes to place the original proposal on the Aug. 5 ballot; the package calls for establishing a $4.85 per month residential trash-collection fee, a 30 percent hike in the fees charged business for trash pickup, and an increase in the landfill disposal fee.

50 years ago: June 4, 1961

The Rev. Franklin D. Owen, a Baptist minister from Lexington, Ky., himself a graduate of Central High in the early 1930s, expresses concern in his baccalaureate sermon at the Central auditorium that more and more young people are going out into a society with less and less inhibitions, less and less regard for taboos that used to be.

Operator of the Rialto Theater since its establishment in 1940 at 420 Broadway, Victor Klarsfeld dies in the evening at a Cape Girardeau hospital; he was 56.

75 years ago: June 4, 1936

With the deadline approaching at midnight, two more men have filed for the office of Cape Girardeau County sheriff: J.E. Crafton, former Cape Girardeau chief of police, and Henry A. Illers, postmaster of Jackson.

Glenda Mabrey and Louis Muegge, who will supervise the public playground at Fairground Park this summer, have agreed upon a list of sports which will be offered: Swimming, wading, dodge ball, tennis, softball, volleyball, croquet, slides, swings, merry-go-rounds, sand boxes, horse shoes, checkers, hand work, dart ball, washer pitching, marbles, races, boat sailing, and ball pitching.

100 years ago: June 4, 1911

The Rev. A.M. Ross, a Baptist evangelist, fills the pulpit at the Jackson Baptist Church, made vacant by the recent resignation of Dr. I.A. Ayers.

One of the worst storms in the history of the north end of Cape Girardeau breaks out in the afternoon, causing the death of one man and damaging considerable acreage of young crops; Arthur Martin, son of Mrs. Silas Martin, living between Fruitland and Leemon, is killed when he is struck by lightning in a field.

-- Sharon K. Sanders