Out of the past 8/2/10

25 years ago: Aug. 2, 1985

Parkside Corp. of St. Louis has bought the Sunny Hill Motor Inn on West End Boulevard and plans to convert the property to a number of uses, including student housing; the property was purchased from L.C. Blattner Jr.

Consideration of a resolution approving the issuance of $1.75 million in industrial revenue bonds for the expansion of Thorngate Ltd., 1507 Independence St., and a proposal to seek a $555,720 economic development block grant for sewer and utility improvements in connection with that project are among items on the city council's agenda for next week.

50 years ago: Aug. 2, 1960

Vandals ransack Juden School on Cape Rock Drive in the afternoon; John Monroe, a member of the school board, notices the front doors of the building standing open as he drives by; police find most of the inside of the two-story, unused structure vandalized.

Another parking lot, metered with long-time clocks, will be established immediately on the site of the old Frisco passenger station under plans adopted by the city council; the new lot will hold 145 automobiles.

75 years ago: Aug. 2, 1935

The first heat wave of the 1935 summer season in Cape Girardeau and Southeast Missouri remains unbroken, having claimed one victim; the mercury hit 97 degrees again Thursday for the second time this season, and today the sun is just as hot; a 52-year-old man was overcome by the heat yesterday while working on a county road construction project, and died last night.

Plans are being made by the school board to file an application for Works Progress Administration aid in razing the old Lorimier School and grading the site in preparation of constructing a new school building, when it is needed.

100 years ago: Aug. 2, 1910

Cape Girardeau is to have an interstate shooting contest in September; there will be crack shots here from all the clubs in Southeast Missouri and from Southern Illinois.

The committee appointed to examine public parks in Quincy, Ill., and other towns fails to leave as scheduled; various members, including Mayor M.E. Leming, D.A. Glenn, E.W. Flentge and Will Bergmann, are unable to make the trip at this time.

Featured in "Men of Affairs" is Walter D. Black.

-- Sharon K. Sanders