Out of the past 7/19/04

10 years ago: July 19, 1994

Rendrag Corp. was granted approval by city council last night to pull plug on its own housing development project after it withdrew its rezoning request.

After ironing out last-minute details in closed session, Scott City Council yesterday unanimously approved $63 million riverboat gambling contract with Lady Luck Gaming Corp.

25 years ago: July 19, 1979

Dean of Southeast Missouri State University graduate program, Dr. Bill W. Stacy, is selected by board of regents as interim president replacing Dr. Robert E. Leestamper; committee to find new president will be appointed this fall.

Snakes breeding in swamp east of Highway 61 South are finding their way into homes, and city council is once again being asked to do something about it; attorney for residents along highway, between Highway 74 intersection and south Cape Girardeau exit of Interstate 55, cited several instances of snakes being killed in homes, in basements, on porches, on screen doors and in lawns.

50 years ago: July 19, 1954

Special committee acting for larger group from all sections of county presents formal petition to county court asking that County Farm be developed as public park and recreation area.

For first time in recent years, tolls of Mississippi River traffic bridge showed decline in 12-month period ending May 31.

75 years ago: July 19, 1929

With two-thirds of grading work completed on roadbed of new Missouri Pacific Railroad being built from Illmo to Cape Girardeau, construction work on remainder of project is being pushed so that construction gang may proceed with laying of track from road's connection with Thebes Bridge Terminal Railroad at Illmo, northward to this city.

Temporary bridge across Cape LaCroix Creek just west of Cape Girardeau on Gordonville Road is opened to traffic of that district by commissioners of Cape Special Road District.

-- Sharon K. Sanders