Out of the past 6/5/10

25 years ago: June 5, 1985

Cape Girardeau voters narrowly approved a $1.9 million sewer bond issue yesterday, the measure passing by only 28 votes; voters also approved a requested 17-cent fund transfer from the Cape Girardeau School District's debt service to its teachers fund.

Dr. Linda Godwin, 32, a native of Oak Ridge and a graduate of both Jackson High School and Southeast Missouri State University, has been named one of 13 new astronauts selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

50 years ago: June 5, 1960

With the Rev. Glennon P. Flavin, S.T.D., auxiliary bishop of St. Louis, officiating, the Rev. Donald L. Berkbigler is ordained to the priesthood at Church of the Assumption in Perryville, Mo.; Berkbigler is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Berkbigler of Cape Girardeau.

Fred Sturm of Dexter, Mo., parole and probation officer for Cape Girardeau and Scott counties, and former Cape Girardeau resident, suffers a fractured right foot in an accident in Dexter; Sturm is on a scaffold helping a neighbor install a window, when the board breaks and he falls 8 feet to the ground.

75 years ago: June 5, 1935

The enrollment at the summer term at State College has reached 705; additional anticipated registration may put the mark past last year's peak of 720 students.

Work is progressing on the construction of two suburban electric power lines out of Cape Girardeau; most of the line being constructed from Highway 61 to the new Dennis Scivally Park on the Outer Drive has been completed by Missouri Utilities linesmen; work on the new farm-to-market road from Cape Girardeau to Egypt Mills has temporarily halted building on the two miles of line between Juden Creek, on Outer Drive, north to Scism Creek.

100 years ago: June 5, 1910

The Rev. A. Kistler, who has been absent from Cape Girardeau for two weeks, returns to his pulpit at the First Presbyterian Church; he preaches on "The Model Church."

Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Kinnison left yesterday for St. Joseph, Mich., where they will make their home; the couple came here from that city several years ago; Mr. Kinnison has been one of the principal owners of the Indiana Lumber Co., being its manager and treasurer.

-- Sharon K. Sanders