Out of the past 12/6/03

10 years ago: Dec. 6, 1993

Gallery 100 and Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts, located for past 7 1/2 years in bank building at 100 Broadway, will move at end of month to temporary lodgings at 1707 Mount Auburn Road.

City council agrees to table proposed trash fee hike until its Dec. 20 meeting to allow for citizen comments and staff presentation regarding plan.

25 years ago: Dec. 6, 1978

Around-the-clock concrete pours are being conducted at Marquette Cement Mfg. Co. on four towering silos which will be used to store kiln feed for plant; when completed, silos will be 112 feet tall, 40 feet in diameter, and have average wall thickness of 12 inches.

Garbage disposal system is being considered by Cape Girardeau officials in cooperation with Marquette Cement, which would involve burning of city's solid waste to provide energy for plant.

50 years ago: Dec. 6, 1953

Groundbreaking ceremony is held in afternoon at Butler Street and Price Drive for new First Christian Church parsonage, a part of major building program undertaken by congregation.

State College can boast growth in enrollment from 35 students to more than 1,000 when it reaches 80th anniversary of beginning of classes this month; first classes met Dec. 20, 1873, in rooms of old Lorimier School.

75 years ago: Dec. 6, 1928

Grading on Illinois highway from Cape Girardeau traffic bridge to McClure, Ill., continues; driving of piling for bridge over channel crossing right of way three miles east of bridge is under way.

Albert Illers and family are vacating county jail in Jackson and turning management over to new jailer, J.A. Snider, who with his family is moving in.

-- Sharon K. Sanders