Out of the past 9/28/03

10 years ago: Sept. 28, 1993

With nearly 20 years of experience in various levels of city administration, Doug Leslie is well prepared to take over this week for departing Cape Girardeau assistant city manager Al Stoverink; Leslie, who was hired as city's public works director in 1990, previously was city manager in Nevada, Mo.

Gov. Mel Carnahan likely will name successor to Circuit Judge A.J. Seier before Seier's resignation takes effect Dec. 1, governor's deputy chief of staff, Roy Temple, says; although filling vacancies in most county offices is strictly up to governor, traditionally county central committee of same political party as governor meets and makes recommendation.

25 years ago: Sept. 28, 1978

Approval for inclusion of $100,000 planning request to Coordinating Board on Higher Education for multipurpose building is given by Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents; board president James H. Estes urges that regents give structure high priority in its placement on capital improvements list that must be submitted Oct. 1 to state board.

Tentative budget of $21,168,314 for fiscal year 1980 has been developed by Southeast Missouri State University for submission to Coordinating Board of Higher Education; budget includes state appropriation request of $16,723,557 as compared to present fiscal year appropriation of $14,064,370; total operating budget for university this year is $18,447,651.

50 years ago: Sept. 28, 1953

Police continue search for two polite young gunmen who held up Sunset Rexall Pharmacy on Broadway Saturday and escaped with $150 in cash and some checks; Kenneth Mehrle, co-owner of store, says two who robbed him at pistol point were about 25, well dressed and very calm.

Alice J. Porritt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julian F. Porritt of Cape Girardeau, will be Miss Missouri in Miss Universe contest in Long Beach, Calif., next June; she won honor by being chosen National Soybean Festival Queen at Portageville Saturday night, winning out over 29 other contestants.

75 years ago: Sept. 28, 1928

Kennett, Mo. -- Two men and woman are in jail and another man is in hospital at Jonesboro, Ark., suffering from gunshot wound in left shoulder, following pitched battle between Missouri and Arkansas officers of law and alleged Chicago gangsters, in corn field two miles southwest of Hornersville, near state line.

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Nelson have moved to their new residence at 1212 Highland Place; new dwelling, one of most beautiful and attractively arranged of Cape Girardeau's new homes, commands imposing view of country west of city from its high elevation; new house, constructed of buff-colored brick and trimmed with cherry red brick, was built by A.H. Gerhardt.

-- Sharon K. Sanders