Out of the past 4/18/03

10 years ago: April 18, 1993

The Rev. Richard Tragasz is installed as pastor of Scriptural Lutheran Church in afternoon service; installation sermon is delivered by the Rev. Klebe Brumble of Richardson, Texas, circuit visitor for church of Evangelical Lutheran Synod in this area.

Monsignor Joseph H. Huels, 83, former pastor of St. Mary's Cathedral, died April 15 at St. Francis Medical Center; Huels was born Sept. 8, 1909, in St. Louis, son of Joseph and Methildis Richter Huels; he was ordained in 1934; after serving numerous parishes in St. Louis Archdiocese and Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese, he was appointed pastor of St. Mary's in 1967.

25 years ago: April 18, 1978

Set of uniform minimum jail standards is needed if local authorities are expected to continue to hold prisoners without fear of violating their constitutional rights because of sub-standard facilities, says County Court Associate Judge J. Ronald Rischer.

Chaffee, Mo. -- Chaffee Board of Education has begun task of sorting out and solving financial problems of school district; following six-hour meeting of school board last night, board president Philip Dame says it will take several weeks for board to get its feet on ground.

50 years ago: April 18, 1953

Steps to start grading work around building, to lay out entrances and to begin construction of sidewalks point to final stages of building operations at new Central High School, where contractors have been paid total of $833.666.30 on their contract awards of $991,005.15.

Winter pays savage, out-of-season return to Cape Girardeau, winging in on driving northerly wind that carries 1.68 inches of rain before it up to 8 a.m. today and threatens to continue intermittently throughout day; rain changes to sleet briefly and peppers down in steady fall, as thermometer hovers at 31 degrees.

75 years ago: April 18, 1928

Funeral services are held at Burfordville in afternoon for George W. Bast, 89, Confederate war veteran and native of Cape Girardeau County, who died at home of his granddaughter, Mrs. Truman Miller, near Millersville, yesterday.

Reorganization of Boy Scout work in Cape Girardeau, with ultimate plan of forming council and maintaining executive here, is being worked out by local leaders in cooperation with O.J. Williams, field scout executive for Missouri Pacific Railroad.

-- Sharon K. Sanders