Out of the past 10/1/08

25 years ago: Oct. 1, 1983

Beginning tomorrow, no loads of brush or tires will be accepted at the Cape Girardeau city landfill, which is entering its final year of operation at the site just off Highway 177 north of here; brush and tires must be buried deeper than other types of trash, and the landfill is too shallow to accommodate them.

Former Southeast Missouri State basketball star Terry Mead is jumping from the Division II ranks to the Continental Basketball Association, with eyes on the NBA; Mead was the first draft choice of the Sarasota, Fla., Stingers and the third pick overall.

50 years ago: Oct. 1, 1958

Autumn weather, only a week old, drops the temperature to a chilly 39 degrees in Cape Girardeau this morning, the lowest reading here since last May 7; a few people report seeing a light frost on roofs, but it isn't a killing frost.

Paul J. Berkbigler of Jackson is appointed Boy Scout executive for the Shawnee District, which embraces Cape Girardeau, Perry and Madison counties; Berkbigler is married and the father of three children -- two boys and a girl.

75 years ago: Oct. 1, 1933

Army Lt. B.D. Butler, who for six months has been directing young men at a Civilian Conservation Corps at Aly, Ark., has been released from that work; he returned home to Cape Girardeau Friday and will at once take over his duties in this district as instructor for National Guardsmen.

Frank E. McDonald, 67, a prominent farmer and stockman and a leader in Democratic politics in the county for more than 30 years, dies at a local hospital after an illness of 11 days; he is survived by his wife, the former Miss Cora Hinman; a son; and a daughter.

100 years ago: Oct. 1, 1908

Mrs. Rhoda Cochran of near Jackson is entertaining a brother and a sister, who are in town for Homecomers; Reuben Newkirk of Knox City, Mo., has been away from this county for 50 years; Mrs. M.S. Cummings and her husband are here from San Jose, Calif.; she hadn't been here since the war.

The burned Houck building on Main Street has been repaired and repainted on the outside so that it can't be told that a fire occurred there.

-- Sharon K. Sanders