Out of the past 6/28/07

25 years ago: June 28, 1982

Farm activist Wayne Cryts, speaking before the Breakfast Optimist Club in Cape Girardeau, draws a bleak picture of current farm economics and declares that the principal of due process puts the law on his side in his battle over a crop of soybeans that were stored in an elevator that went bankrupt.

The Cape Girardeau Chapter of the American Red Cross and the Missouri-Illinois Regional Blood Services dedicates the first mobile blood bank for Cape Girardeau during a ceremony in the morning at First Presbyterian Church.

50 years ago: June 28, 1957

Special Auxiliary Police and Missouri Highway Patrol details will assist Cape Girardeau police tomorrow in crowd control and traffic regulation during the peaks of Cape Girardeau's celebration of the freeing of the Mississippi River traffic bridge.

After nearly 40 years of service, Alvin M. Kempe retires from the telephone company, which he served in the capacity of trouble shooter, wire chief and in the plant engineering department.

75 years ago: June 28, 1932

A start is made on driving pilings for a bridge the Cape Special Road District will construct on the Outer Drive, near Hobbs Chapel, north of Cape Girardeau; the bridge will span Juden Creek, and it will be 66 feet long with a roadway of 20 feet.

James A. Finch Jr., son of Judge and Mrs. James A. Finch of Cape Girardeau, goes to Jefferson City to become an assistant to Attorney General Stratton Shartel; young Finch received his degree from the University of Missouri law school this spring.

100 years ago: June 28, 1907

Because rain and threatening weather spoiled the arrangements made for the lawn party at the residence of Mrs. R.B. Oliver last evening, the ladies of the United Daughters of the Confederacy have decided to hold the fete this evening; the ladies have prepared an inspirational musical and literary program for the edification of the people.

W.J. Schnurbusch of the Springfield Normal School, formerly of Perry County, is in Cape Girardeau visiting his brother, Leo H. Schnurbusch, of the Cape Girardeau Normal School.

-- Sharon K. Sanders