Out of the past 7/6/06

25 years ago: July 6, 1981

Like a defective firecracker, last week's Fourth of July Doin's was a dud according to members of the Cape Girardeau Jaycees, who sponsored the annual event at Arena Park; rain hampered many of the activities during the three-day event and forced cancellation of the fireworks display Saturday night.

PATTON, Mo. -- Dan Tallent, assistant principal and athletic director at Perryville (Mo.) High School, has been named the new superintendent for the Meadow Heights school district here; he replaces Lyle Laughman, who recently resigned.

50 years ago: July 6, 1956

Plans for the first phase of the rehabilitation of Common Please Courthouse are ready, says the committee in charge, but before anything can be done, money to pay for the work must be secured; the first step to be undertaken in the restoration of the old building will be to sandblast the exterior to remove the paint, then to tuckpoint the brick and finally to waterproof the outside walls.

Ted R. Regenhardt, former Cape Girardeau County collector of revenue, has been advanced to the eligible list for the Cape Girardeau postmastership; Regenhardt joins Kenneth Cruse and U.G. Pettigrew on the list of candidates.

75 years ago: July 6, 1931

Plans are made at a dinner meeting at the Hotel Marquette for a district rally next Saturday to promote the proposed gubernatorial candidacy of state Sen. R.L. Dearmont.

About 30 wheat growers assemble in the circuit court auditorium at Jackson to hear Ernest Wray of Maryville, Mo., explain the inside workings of the cooperative plan of wheat marketing as proposed by the National Grain Marketing Association and the Missouri Grain Growers Association; it is resolved to organize a local cooperative association.

100 years ago: July 6, 1906

The hopes of the Cape Girardeau Board of Education in obtaining Prof. Carter of the Doniphan, Mo., public school were blasted, when a letter was received from him announcing that the couldn't accept the position of superintendent of schools here; Carter had been elected to that position at the last meeting of the school board, with a salary of $110.

Henry Ossenkop, the architect of Cape Girardeau, had his plans and specifications for a school building accepted by the school board of Edna recently; the building will be two stories high and contain four large rooms; it will cost about $5,000.

-- Sharon K. Sanders