25 years ago: May 14, 1980

It took a lot of bargaining, but after more than a month of negotiations, the Community Teachers Association and the Jackson R-2 Board of Education have reached an agreement on the teacher salary schedule for the 1980-1981 school year.

Petitions asking that a mental health fund proposal be placed on the Aug. 5 primary election ballot in Cape Girardeau County will be presented Monday by members of the health fund steering committee to the county court.

50 years ago: May 14, 1955

DEXTER, Mo. -- An Air Force C45 twin-engine plane is reported missing on a flight from Minneapolis, Minn., to Dexter by the 44th Air Rescue Squadron at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colo.; the plane was last reported over Quincy, Ill.; at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport, members of the Civil Air Patrol are patrolling a wide area, searching for possible wreckage.

National and state officers and delegates from chapters over the state are welcomed to Cape Girardeau by Mayor Narvol A. Randol as the annual meeting of Missouri Division, National Secretaries Association officially gets under way at the Hotel Marquette.

75 years ago: May 14, 1930

BENTON, Mo. - A movement underway in Scott County to vote a moderate sized bond issue to erect a new jail building to supplant the antiquated one now in use is gaining interest, but definite action on the proposal has been delayed.

Contract bids for the grading and bridging of Highway 74 from Cape Girardeau to Dutchtown and for construction of the four-mile strip of Highway 55 from Blomeyer, Mo., to Chaffee, Mo., will be received May 27 by the state highway commission.

100 years ago: May 14, 1905

To an audience that is unprepared for the shock, the Rev. Robert S. Brown hands in his resignation during the morning service at the Presbyterian Church; he plans to return to his former charge at Lynnville, Tenn.

The Frisco excursion season on this division is inaugurated; the much advertised excursion leaves St. Louis, Mo., with a great crowd of four coaches; a short distance out, the engine hits a boulder which had fallen on the track, causing a delay to the excursion train and the afternoon mail train; after the track is cleared, both trains are combined and arrive in Cape Girardeau around 7 p.m.

-- Sharon K. Sanders