Out of the past 6/15/08

25 years ago: June 15, 1983

A $3.5 million appropriation to begin construction on a multipurpose building in Cape Girardeau is passed by the Missouri Legislature on the last day of its session.

Southeast Missouri State University's assistant men's basketball coach Ed Arnzen will succeed Angela Beck as the school's head women's basketball coach, assuming his duties Aug. 1; Arnzen has 13 years of coaching experience at the prep level and four on the university level.

50 years ago: June 15, 1958

Roscoe Wring of Cape Girardeau has taken over operation of the former Roth Motor Co., having purchased the business from F.X. Roth.

Sikeston, Mo., was selected as the site for the 1959 meeting of members of the Southeast Missouri Press Association; the group elected officers and concluded its 66th annual conference with a dinner last night at Cape Catholic High School; Harry Naeter of the Southeast Missourian was elected president of the group.

75 years ago: June 15, 1933

A community canning kitchen is being arranged by Salvation Army Capt. and Mrs. E.R. Orchard; it probably will be established in some building in downtown Cape Girardeau.

Work on the foundation for the addition to the Ely Walker manufacturing plant of Illmo-Fornfelt begins by contractor J.J. Miller; the one-story unit will be placed at the east end of the present plant and it will house a new department in which semidress and dress trousers will be made.

100 years ago: June 15, 1908

Walter Trickey has been in communication with a party in St. Louis who is contemplating establishing an immense sanitarium at Jackson, provided the necessary arrangements can be made; the site proposed for the sanitarium is the hill in west Jackson; the elevation would be high enough to get away from all possible miasma and malaria.

The Mississippi River is still rising, having reached 31.4 feet by noon; in order to protect the embankment here, the Frisco Railroad is placing hundreds of bags of silica along the outer edge of the track near Planters Mill; the water is up to the ties in one or two places.

-- Sharon K. Sanders