10 years ago: Sept. 5, 1993

Gov. Mel Carnahan's decision to award Cape Girardeau and Jackson license fee offices to Southeast Missouri State University Foundation has prompted concern on part of some members of foundation's board of directors; foundation's 45-member board, including its executive committee, will convene Tuesday at Show Me Center to discuss issue.

While high water has passed to south, repair of levees damaged in flooding along upper Mississippi River has just begun; flood broke through or topped more than two-thirds of 1,576 levees along Missouri and upper Mississippi River basins, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in levee damage; during preliminary study, Corps of Engineers found that only 203 of these levees are eligible for help from Corps.

25 years ago: Sept. 5, 1978

New 120-bed nursing home for city proposed by Dallas, Texas, man will be subject of rezoning hearing Wednesday; Les Callison is developer for project being handled locally by A.D. Price; nursing home would be located at 17 Pindwood, across street from site where last month city council denied rezoning request, after objection was raised for construction of day-care center.

Transfer of all city and county offices from Common Pleas Courthouse to new city hall in renovated Lorimier School on Independence Street has been scheduled for week of Sept. 20; county offices -- collector, assessor and voter registration clerk -- will make move on Sept. 22; city offices will be moved Sept. 23 and 24.

50 years ago: Sept. 5, 1953

Sgt. Don C. Edwards, once reported missing before it was learned he had been captured, came back to freedom last night in next-to-last exchange of prisoners after 27 months imprisonment by communists in North Korea; news of his release brings joy to his father, Doyle W. Edwards of Cape Girardeau, and his mother, Mrs. R.W. Stewart of Flint, Mich., after weeks of anxious waiting as list of prisoners dwindled.

Summer vacation nears its end for almost 5,000 Cape Girardeau school children, who will report to their various buildings Tuesday, with early dismissal; first full day of classes will be Wednesday, unless another heat wave shortens sessions.

75 years ago: Sept. 5, 1928

Benton, Mo. -- Judge Frank Kelly in circuit court Tuesday sustained quo warranto proceedings brought by Wylie and Rockview school districts of Scott County to prevent consolidation of these districts with Chaffee schools; court held that consolidation was annulled by inaccurate school enumerations on which union of three districts was based.

City council yesterday set in motion necessary legal machinery for paving of seven more blocks of streets in Cape Girardeau, probably this year; streets ordered paved were Maud avenue, from Broadway to Bellevue, in front of Houck Field; Middle Street, from Good Hope to Morgan Oak, and William, from Spanish to Main.

-- Sharon K. Sanders