Out of the past 3/1/03

10 years ago: March 1, 1993

Tenants at Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport terminal building will have to operate out of their temporary offices for a while longer; completion of long-awaited terminal building renovation project has been pushed back to April 17; although some of tenants likely will be able to move into renovated section of terminal later this month, car-rental companies at airport will have to remain in temporary office -- mobile trailer situated in terminal building parking lot.

For second consecutive meeting, Cape Girardeau City Council refuses to approve spending city money to study feasibility of converting old St. Vincent's Seminary into Civil War museum.

25 years ago: March 1, 1978

Awarding of longer contract and pay raise next year for Jackson High School football coach has been assailed by Community Teachers Association as departure from normal procedure of dealing with teachers as a group; issue, which has also divided board of education, was aired last night at board meeting attended by 20 teachers representing CTA salary and executive committees.

Request for nearly $100,000 to renovate old Cape County Farm for use by Cape County Senior Citizens Center brought comment from virtually every councilman Tuesday at study session, most of it unfavorable; only Councilman Samuel L. Gill appeared willing to grant request.

50 years ago: March 1, 1953

Milk truck driven by Lawrence R. Davis, 29, of Cape Girardeau, misses curve at Delta in morning and crashes through wall of barber shop; Orville Duncan, owner and operator of shop, is asleep in quarters in rear of building where he lives with his wife and children.

Cape Girardeau is drenched with cold, day-long rain that is intermixed with sleet, but escapes snow that measures up to six inches in St. Louis area and snarls traffic as far south as Ste. Genevieve.

75 years ago: March 1, 1928

Post office at Arbor, which is fourth-class station, probably will be discontinued; railway mail clerks on Hoxie branch of Frisco Railroad have been directed that mail to Arbor must be sent via Chaffee; new rural route will be established at Chaffee in next few days, according to C.M. Stout, Cape Girardeau assistant postmaster, and it is presumed that mail to Arbor will be distributed on this route; R.A. Hitt is postmaster at Arbor.

Navigation on Mississippi River between Cape Girardeau and St. Louis will be resumed this weekend; steamer Cape Girardeau is scheduled to arrive at Cape Girardeau on its first trip of season Saturday; river traffic is being resumed this year few days earlier than last year, when first trip was made March 7.

-- Sharon K. Sanders