Out of the past 8/6/07

25 years ago: Aug. 6, 1982

Gov. Kit Bond's withholding of $520,365 in anticipated revenue from Southeast Missouri State University for the 1983 fiscal year has forced school administrators to increase the University School's tuition from $100 to $300.

Cape Girardeau's Multipurpose Advisory Committee chooses the St. Louis firm of Booker Associates Inc. to perform a study looking at the feasibility of building and operating a multipurpose sports and convention facility here.

50 years ago: Aug. 6, 1957

Joplin will represent Missouri in the Babe Ruth League regional playoff this week after defeating Clinton yesterday, 5-0, behind the no-hit pitching of Lefty Irwin; the tournament should have finished up Sunday, but was delayed because of Saturday night's storm.

ALTENBURG, Mo. -- Altenburg's 20-year effort to build a modern water system is successfully completed with passage of two bond propositions that will assure its construction.

75 years ago: Aug. 6, 1932

Among the projects now before the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce is a proposition for the location of an industrial plant by a company which is operating 22 separate facilities; the plant proposed for Cape Girardeau would employ 500 to 700 people, 90 percent of whom would be women; the plant would require a two-story building containing 70,000 square feet of floor space.

Twenty-four members of the Headquarters Company, 140th Infantry of Missouri National Guard, entrains at the Frisco passenger station, along with other companies of Southeast Missouri, for the annual encampment at Camp Clark, Nevada, Mo.; they will be gone two weeks.

100 years ago: Aug. 6, 1907

H.L. Nunn, who is to be superintendent of the new shoe factory being built in Cape Girardeau, arrives in the morning to take up his duties; he reports that people from throughout Southeast Missouri have written to the company seeking employment; he appeals for more living quarters for workers.

Manual Andrews, a young farmer living near Dutchtown, is in Cape Girar­deau looking for a house; he has heard about the good times coming for the city and would move his young family here if he could find a residence.

-- Sharon K. Sanders