Out of the past 7/23/06

25 years ago: July 23, 1981

State Selective Service System officials are appealing for applicants for state board members in the area; the system, which is required to appoint one board member from each county, began taking applications June 1.

BERNIE, Mo. -- Defying federal authorities, Wayne Cryts took his controversial soybeans from an elevator yesterday and stored them at his farm in Puxico, Mo.; although the beans are in the custody of a federal bankruptcy judge in Little Rock, Ark., Cryts insists he owns them and has the right to sell them; after leaving the elevator, he drove two truckloads of soybeans to the Agricultural and Stabilization Service in Bloomfield, Mo., where he attempted to repay a 2-year-old loan with the commodity; but state officials refused to accept the grain.

50 years ago: July 23, 1956

Walker Childs was recently awarded a 1956 Nash Rambler cross-country station wagon, grand prize in a nationwide display contest conducted among 6,000 IGA stores in the United States and Canada.

Main Street merchants, who had petitioned last week for such attention, press their plans for removal of the parkway south of Independence Street with a personal appearance before the Cape Girardeau City Council.

75 years ago: July 23, 1931

With the organization of the newly created Missouri Highway Patrol an objective within the next few weeks, Southeast Missouri friends of Capt. Charles Schweer of the Cape Girardeau Police Department are boosting his appointment as a district captain.

Dr. Dennis B. Elrod, son of Mr. and Mrs. U.R. Elrod of Cape Girardeau, has been issued a state license to practice medicine, having successfully passed the state medical examination given in June; he is a graduate of the Teachers College and Washington University at St. Louis.

100 years ago: July 23, 1906

A happy boating party is out on the river in the morning, and several visitors to the city are given a fine ride; the party is in honor of Zoe and Maud Rozier of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., who are guests of Judge and Mrs. B.F. Davis; in the party are Rose Watkins, Marie Watkins, Margaret Oliver, Etta Smith, Allan and Palmer Oliver, Harry and Charles Himmelberger, and Russell Dearmont.

The Cape Girardeau City Council meets by candlelight in the evening; when the work accomplished is enumerated, there isn't much to show for two hours and more of steady talking.

-- Sharon K. Sanders