Out of the past: March 31

1993

Southeast Missouri State University's Board of Regents voted unanimously yesterday to hike incidental fees and raise rental charges for its off-campus apartments, effective this fall; university officials say the hike in incidental fees is based on a projected $52.6 million budget, which includes projected state funding of about $31 million.

Although Central Hardware Co. has filed for bankruptcy, company officials say it won't affect customers or jobs; the Cape Girardeau Central Hardware store employs 59 persons.

1968

The Rev. W.A. Rempfer, who has been pastor of the Eisleben Lutheran Church at Illmo for the past five years, has accepted a call to serve the dual parish of Natoma and Plainville, Kansas; he preaches his farewell sermon at Eisleben in the morning.

Sunday School teachers, workers, officers and pastors from Southeast Missouri meet at St. Andrew Lutheran Church in the afternoon for the annual institute of the Sunday School Association of the Altenburg-Cape Girardeau Circuit; Professor Herbert Mayer of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis is the guest speaker.

1943

A. Max Hatfield took over his duties here yesterday as the chief executive of the Southeast Missouri Area Council of Boy Scouts, succeeding Frank M. Chase, who is now the executive of the Cornhusker Council, with headquarters in Lincoln, Nebraska; Hatfield and his wife have two daughters, Judith and Nancy, and an infant son, Stephen.

Kenneth Vangilder, 19, the son of Elam Vangilder, a former pitcher for the St. Louis Browns and the Detroit Tigers, is sporting a Browns uniform these days as he works out in spring training here with the Brownies; young Vangilder is 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighs 190 pounds; like his dad, he's a right-hander and has been pitching about three years, last season for Gordonville; he hopes one day to carry on the Vangilder name in organized baseball.

1918

Easter Sunday. A week-long mission begins in the morning at St. Mary's Catholic Church with an impressive service conducted by the Revs. Joseph Jordans and Theodore Hegemann, Jesuits; session will be conducted each day this week in German and in English; the mission will conclude with the golden jubilee of the parish next Sunday and Monday.

The Rev. W.L. Haberstadt, the new pastor of Centenary Methodist Church, occupies the pulpit at both morning and evening services.

-- Sharon K. Sanders