Out of the past: April 25

1990

The Jackson School District's five kindergarten teachers and several parents told the board of education yesterday that kindergarten class sizes need to be reduced; there are 280 children in 10 kindergarten classes this year; although the average size of the class is 28, one section has 30 children and several have 29.

Fire late yesterday heavily damaged the Crader Tire and Retread Service Inc. building, situated west of Interstate 55 on Birk Road in Jackson; the fire was contained to the curing chamber; the business is owned by Bob Crader.

1965

Cardinal Key and Wakapa, top men's and women's honor societies at State College, accept 12 new members at tapping ceremonies in front of Academic Hall; new Wakapa members are Nancy Bray, Phyllis Fay, Marilyn Mastin, Elizabeth Riddle, Jacquelyn Stricker, and Carolyn Vogt; new Cardinal Key members are Donald Ford, Richard Black, Thomas Harte, Jerry Jenkins, William Wilkinson and Thomas Mitchell.

Infantry units attached to the Army Reserve Center in Arena Park practiced small unit maneuvers in a wooded area north of the city yesterday and today.

1940

Fairground Park, center of baseball in Cape Girardeau for decades, will have its old dilapidated wooden grandstand replaced with a modern one, if a tentative plan outlined by Commissioner Raymond E. Beckman works out; Berkman would like to raze the old stand, use the lumber salvaged to build a horse barn at the news city park on Highway 61, and construct a new concrete grandstand at the baseball diamond at Fairground Park.

Foundations are being constructed and steel is being erected for the two-story brick addition to the Missouri Utilities Co. electric plant in preparation for installation of a new 1,600-horsepower boiler; in addition, a new 5,000 kilowatt turbine, which was purchased at a cost of $177,000, will be shipped next month and will be installed in the main room of the big plant.

1915

Fred Groves, the Ford man, reports he received and sold 22 standard Fords last week; he says it would be no trouble to sell twice as many cars as he can get.

A Fanny Crosby memorial service is held in the evening at First Baptist Church; a short sketch of the famous mission worker's life is given, and a number of her hymns are sung; Crosby died earlier this month.

-- Sharon K. Sanders