25 years ago: Nov. 11, 1979

KFVS12 has implemented a new policy regarding the telecast of information during periods of severe weather; Vice President-General Manager Thomas J. Josephsen says KFVS will remain on the air past its normal sign-off time when a major portion of its coverage area is under a severe weather watch, warning or other unusual emergency situations.

Betty Lou Cox of Cape Girardeau has been selected as crusade vice chairman for the Missouri Division of the American Cancer Society.

50 years ago: Nov. 11, 1954

Cape Girardeau's United Fund campaign, all but completed on the basis of original contacts, stands far below the goal which had been set for it; on the basis of reports received through yesterday, 78 percent of the $49,500 necessary to service six community organizations had been raised.

The school board has rejected a bid of the Cape Girardeau Moose Lodge in the amount of $15,000 for the John S. Cobb School property at the corner of Merriwether and Ellis; the lodge had planned to convert the property into a civic community center and playground for children.

75 years ago: Nov. 11, 1929

G.U. Keller, 72, former county judge, vice president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, and a prominent farmer, drops dead from heart disease in the morning at his home in the Koch suburb; his only survivors are a brother and two sisters, his wife - the former Miss Minnie Schwab - having died about seven years ago.

Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois appropriately observe Armistice Day by joining in a celebration in Cape Girardeau; several hundred Legionnaires and members of the National Guard from over Southeast Missouri and from Cairo, Ill., parade through town.

100 years ago: Nov. 11, 1904

August Ude of Jackson, who was badly hurt by a street car last week in East St. Louis, Ill., is getting better; he is with his son, Paul, at Nameoka, Ill.

Word comes from St. Louis newspapers that W.D. Vandiver of Cape Girardeau will probably be appointed by the governor as excise commissioner of St. Louis; this position has been the one outrageous political graft that Republicans have been trying for years to exterminate.

-- Sharon K. Sanders