Out of the past 7/1/12

25 years ago: July 1, 1987

The final piece of Saint Francis Medical Center's emergency and trauma program is set in place with the addition of an air ambulance service; Gene Huckstep, the chairman of the hospital's board of directors, calls the air service "the icing on the cake."

Country singer Tanya Tucker will be in concert at the Show Me Center on Aug. 21, according to Capitol/EMI America Records; grand opening for the venue is set for Aug. 20 through 28.

50 years ago: July 1, 1962

More than 10,000 people turn out for the third annual Aviation Day at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport; the program is not just an air show, but rather shows the daily, routine business at the airport; one of the main features not of a routine nature, however, is a demonstration of parachute jumping by members of the St. Louis and Cape Girardeau parachute clubs.

The Rev. David J.O. Loesch is installed as pastor of Hanover Lutheran Church by the Rev. Paul J. Keisker, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church at Jackson; the Hanover pulpit had been vacant since November 1960.

75 years ago: July 1, 1937

William S. Allen ended a 32-year career as a rural mail carrier yesterday, having worn out six buggies and eight automobiles during that time; in those years he has traveled enough to have circled the globe 12 times.

His position as personnel officer in the Works Progress Administration headquarters at Sikeston, Mo., abolished in the general consolidation of activities, B. Hugh Smith announces he will reopen his law office in the Hirsch Building on Good Hope Street; associated with him will be John L. Keusenkothen, an attorney who came here from Fornfelt two years ago.

100 years ago: July 1, 1912

Ground is broken for the new Idan-ha Hotel; Vogelsang Brothers, the contractor, begins excavating for the foundation and basements for the new building and the Episcopal rectory; George McBride is having the new hotel built.

The city engineer and the street and wharf committees having reported favorably on the work done by the Frisco Railroad in carrying out the first part of its contract to pave the levee and construct Water Street, the city council accepts the work.

-- Sharon K. Sanders