Out of the past 7/8/04

10 years ago: July 8, 1994

Stalled Cape LaCroix-Walker Creek flood-control project is on shaky ground with no plan in immediate future for contractors to resume work; construction was halted several months ago because excavation equipment damaged building at corner of Kingshighway and Bloomfield Road.

Negotiations between Scott City and Lady Luck Gaming Corp. are nearing completion as July 18 operating agreement deadline looms; Lady Luck has promised more than 1,100 jobs with its casino proposal.

25 years ago: July 8, 1979

Joan Speidel, student at Southeast Missouri State University, is serving 10 weeks as Southern Baptist Home Mission Board student summer missionary in New England.

Cape Girardeau Jaycees Summer Doin's concluded yesterday with full slate of events; bluegrass concert was held at Arena Park grandstand in afternoon; featured performers were Broken Arrow Band; disco dance ended weeklong activities.

50 years ago: July 8, 1954

Reward fund for information leading to arrest of brutal slayer of Bonnie Huffman has been started with $50 contribution from members of Cape Girardeau Police Department; feeling in Delta against still-unknown murderer is developing into cold fury.

Dr. G.B. Schulz, for 62 years a practicing physician in Cape Girardeau, pioneer surgeon in community and former president of state board of health, dies at local hospital after illness of 14 months.

75 years ago: July 8, 1929

Ten teams, each composed of two Cape Girardeau businessmen, begin solicitation of Girardeans to sell $15,000 of stock for Mid-Continent Dairy Products Co., which is building milk condensery here.

Girardeans will have opportunity to take ocean dip in their own pool; Martin Oberheide, director of municipal swimming pool, learned Coliseum at St. Louis recently salted its water.

-- Sharon K. Sanders