Out of the past 9/5/11

25 years ago: Sept. 5, 1986

Allen Waste Management, a Carterville, Ill., waste disposal firm, has applied for a permit from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources to build a transfer station here; such a facility would allow garbage to be compacted and then hauled to a regional landfill.

Cape Girardeau city officials have implemented a down-to-earth policy regarding unauthorized helicopter landings within the city limits; the new policy requires helicopter pilots to obtain authorization from the assistant city manager or, in his absence, the police chief before landing within city limits.

50 years ago: Sept. 5, 1961

Corridors come alive and empty classrooms fill in Cape Girardeau's schools as summer vacation comes to an end and 5,269 children begin their work in a new school year; the figure will increase substantially during the remainder of the week and will climb even higher next week when Campus School at State College resumes elementary and high school classes.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- Husky Gil Robert pitched a no-hit, 14-inning game for the Cape Girardeau Jets to win the Missouri men's softball championship with a 1-0 victory over the St. Joseph Athletics last night.

75 years ago: Sept. 5, 1936

With two objectives -- securing the 1937 state convention and winning the fourth annual state drum and bugle corps championship -- the American Legion and Legion Auxiliary delegations leave for Springfield, Mo., shortly before midnight on Frisco's Southeast Missouri Golden Troopers Special for the three-day state Legion convention.

Ray Beckman of the Beckman Grocery Store, 633 Good Hope St., announces that about Sept. 15 he will move his store from the present location, which he has occupied since 1922, to the new Nussbaum Building, which is nearing completion in the 300 block of South Sprigg Street.

100 years ago: Sept. 5, 1911

It is said that the parties who recently circulated the petition asking the City Council to leave the saloon license at $1,000 per year will now get busy and circulate a petition calling for a local option election to be held this fall.

This is a busy day in Cape Girardeau, as the various schools begin classes; every school in the city, from the big Normal on the hill to the new grade school of two rooms in the north end, show scenes of activity.

-- Sharon K. Sanders