Out of the past 7/30/10

25 years ago: July 30, 1985

The contractor on an access road being built to the Southeast Missouri Regional Port near Scott City and an engineering firm on the port project are trying to determine what caused a portion of the road to sink, apparently over the weekend; portions of an estimated 100 feet of the road appear to have sunk about three feet.

The Rev. Jerry Falwell, nationally recognized evangelist and leader of the Moral Majority, makes a "social call" on Jerry Lipps, owner of Lipps Truck Service in Cape Girardeau; Lipps is a friend of Fallwell's and is on the board of directors of The Old Time Gospel Hour.

50 years ago: July 30, 1960

JOPLIN, Mo. -- Confidence reigns in the Cape Girardeau headquarters at the American Legion Missouri Department convention as delegates continue the drive for votes to elect Lory Stahly as the new state commander.

Social Security payments are now going monthly to 3,636 people in Cape Girardeau County, with the total paid each month being in excess of $202,704, it is announced by Harold F. Kearns, manager of the Cape Girardeau district office.

75 years ago: July 30, 1935

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- City officials and civic leaders table for the present a proposal by J.E. Betts, of the Army Corps of Engineers' office at Memphis, Tenn., for construction of a floodway along the Black River in Butler County.

Cape Girardeau probably has little chance of benefiting directly through the Works Progress Administration because of the present good financial condition of the city government; the W.P.A. was set up as a relief agency, and the city has no debts at present.

100 years ago: July 30, 1910

A special committee appointed by Mayor M.E. Leming and president I.R. Kelso of the Commercial Club met at the latter's office last night and decided to start a trip of inspection next Tuesday; the committee will go direct to Keokuk, Iowa., where the parks will be inspected the following day; from there, the committee will inspect parks at Quincy, Ill., and Hannibal, Mo.

The steamer Spread Eagle arrives at noon with a good list of freight and a big passenger list; the boat lays in a big supply of ice cream here for the comfort of excursionists.

Featured in "Men of Affairs" is E.W. Flentge.

-- Sharon K. Sanders