Out of the past 7/21/07

25 years ago: July 21, 1982

International Teamsters organizers have been called in to help Teamsters and Chauffeurs Local 574's effort to represent production and maintenance employees of Procter & Gamble Co. north of Cape Girar­deau.

Dr. Doris Hamer, chairman of the Southeast Missouri State University Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, has resigned her administrative position; she will return to full-time teaching at the university this fall.

50 years ago: July 21, 1957

Dr. Clarence E. Hall, dean of LIFE Bible College, Los Angeles, speaks at the morning service of the Foursquare Church; Hall and his wife are visiting many of the Foursquare churches on their return trip to California, having been teachers in the Midwest district summer camping program near Kansas City.

David Yen, a native of Indonesia, who is attending Southwest Baptist Church at Bolivar, Mo., addresses the congregation of First Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau.

75 years ago: July 21, 1932

Thousands of Southeast Missouri Democrats gather in a 40-acre grove near New Madrid, Mo., to hear Sen. R.L. Dearmont of Cape Girardeau predict his nomination as the Democratic candidate for governor of Missouri; he assails his chief opponent, Francis M. Wilson, as a candidate of the Kansas City organization boss.

The new bridge over the Diversion Channel at Dutchtown was opened to traffic yesterday without any ceremony and without being accepted by the State Highway Department; the contractor, Cohen Construction Co., is wrecking the old bridges.

100 years ago: July 21, 1907

A week ago, the Brotherhood of the Methodist Church was organized, and Tom Hamil -- who was accidentally killed Thursday -- was one of the prime organizers; today, the Brotherhood decides to dedicate to him one of the large windows in the church now under construction.

Mrs. C.B. Emerson of Boulder, Calif., arrives in Cape Girardeau to visit her sister, Mrs. James R. Magner; she will be here about a month.

-- Sharon K. Sanders