Out of the past 6/6/04

10 years ago: June 6, 1994

Acting against advice of Cape Girardeau Mayor Al Spradling III, city council elects to delay action on proposed trash-fee increase until solid waste task force can offer its recommendation June 20; city staff has recommended that council raise monthly residential waste collection rate from $10.54 to $12.13 to reflect higher disposal costs.

Cape Girardeau Board of Education members hope third time's a charm when voters go to polls Tuesday; board is asking for approval of waiver on property tax rollback provided by Proposition C, state sales tax for education; result would be 37-cent tax increase per $100 assessed valuation; money is earmarked for building improvements.

25 years ago: June 6, 1979

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Voters here approved plan to dissolve Chaffee Special Road District Tuesday, but turned thumbs down on proposal that would have allowed school personnel to transfer 40 cents of school tax levy from debt service fund to incidental fund.

Appointment of F. Steve Sumner as publisher and general manager of The Missourian, succeeding Hugh F. Hollister, is announced; Hollister, who joined newspaper in 1975, has been promoted to management consultant in Thomson Newspapers' central office in Des Plaines, Ill.

50 years ago: June 6, 1954

Large, two-story house of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Sawyer near Millersville burns in morning; Mr. and Mrs. Truman Sawyer and their son and daughter-in-law reside on second floor; all household contents on upper floor are lost, but several items on first floor are carried to safety; only rock chimney remains.

Congregation of Centenary Methodist Church approves new bids for construction of parsonage on North Street near Ellis; low bid of $25,265 is approved for Masters Construction Co. of Jackson, for general building work.

75 years ago: June 6, 1929

Suggestion has been made that concerts of Cape Girardeau Municipal Band should be played at Fairground Park rather than at Courthouse Park, as has been custom for years.

The Rev. Eberhard Pruente, at Solemn High Mass at St. Mary's Catholic Church yesterday, celebrated his 50 years of priesthood; speaker for the occasion was the Rev. Joseph Selinger, D.D., of Jefferson City, pupil many years ago of Pruente, and by coincidence the speaker at silver jubilee services for Cape Girardeau pastor 25 years ago.

-- Sharon K. Sanders