Out of the past 9/23/04

10 years ago: Sept. 23, 1994

School boards need to work together to defeat Hancock II, constitutional amendment limiting state revenue growth, on Nov. 8 ballot, school board association official said yesterday; Carter D. Ward, executive director of Missouri School Boards Association, spoke at Scott City to more than 100 regional school board members and superintendents on negative impact on public education if amendment passes.

Saint Francis Medical Center has unpaid bill sitting on its administrator's desk; hospital administrator John Fidler says 19-year-old Elgin, Ill., man who was injured in gun battle with highway patrolman in Jackson on Sept. 2, has incurred bill of almost $19,000, and no one wants to pay it.

25 years ago: Sept. 23, 1979

Alan K. Lipke is installed as teacher and athletic director for St. Paul Lutheran School in Jackson.

In effort to broaden its influence and clarify its purpose, Bethel Christian Church has changed its name to Cape Christian School, says the Rev. Steve Linney, pastor of Bethel Assembly of God Church.

50 years ago: Sept. 23, 1954

All highway troopers in Southeast Missouri were ordered to Jefferson City immediately after bloody riot broke out at Missouri state prison in Jefferson City; four Cape Girardeau area troopers, Sgt. P.R. Little, Morley G. Swingle, I.E. Beard and Glenn W. Lampley, left immediately.

George Hampton, member of Cape Girardeau Police Department for over 10 years, is promoted to captain on heels of announcement of dismissal of Capt. Marshall F. Morton.

75 years ago: Sept. 23, 1929

Cape Girardeau County Fair closed its 71st edition with some record numbers; gate receipts showed that between 10,000 and 11,000 people attended last day of fair; receipts for week indicate approximately 25,000 attended fair.

Goodyear dirigible "Vigiland," visits Cape Girardeau, landing on Cuskaden field south of city on Highway 61; airship sails over city several times, coming low enough for pilot to talk to officials of Whitledge Service Co., Goodyear agency, on Middle Street, and receive instructions for landing.

-- Sharon K. Sanders