10 years ago: March 6, 1992

Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents has discontinued 1987 fee stabilization plan that permitted students to "lock in" incidental fee charges for eight semesters; board action came Thursday on recommendation of university administration.

Major topic of discussion today isn't politics, but is Michaelangelo virus; computer experts are warning that computer virus is capable of destroying computer's ability to find and retrieve data; virus is set to go off today, 517th birthday of Italian artist, Michaelangelo; at least one case of virus was discovered this week locally.

25 years ago: March 6, 1977

Major downtown retail business has entered into new 10-year lease, while another store has announced plans for major remodeling and expansion this summer; Montgomery Ward and Co. has renewed lease with Aquamsi Land Co. on its store at 18 N. Main; Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., 1 S. Main, has announced plans to remodel store front and expand its service department to the south.

Long-time Cape Girardeau business man, Howard H. Boyd, dies at local hospital after illness of three years; he was 63 years old; for 40 years, Boyd was associated with family packing business, Pipkin-Boyd-Neal.

50 years ago: March 6, 1952

Scramble for places in race for city commissioner continues with names of four more candidates filed for record at office of city clerk, bringing to 15 the number now eligible to be placed on ballot for March 18 primary.

Columbia - After holding short first-period lead, Cape Girardeau Central High Tigers slumps before tall team from University City of St. Louis and are eliminated from State Class A basketball tournament; score is 57-34.

75 years ago: March 6, 1927

Classes of First Baptist Church Sunday School are asked to agree to pay for interior finishing of their respective classrooms in new $175,000 Baptist church building on West Broadway, which will be ready for occupancy within a few weeks.

Mrs. Eugenia Hardesty, 73, dies at home of her son, Benson C. Hardesty, 325 N. Lorimier, with whom she had resided for past 16 years; born in Delaware, she was member of prominent pioneer family; she married W.G. Hardesty in 1876 in Harrington, Del., and he survives, along with son and two daughters; burial will be at Barratt's Chapel cemetery in Delaware.

- Sharon K. Sanders