Out of the past 3/11/12

25 years ago: March 11, 1987

The Southeast Missouri Home Builders Association is urging the city council to implement construction trades licensing as a means of improving building code enforcement.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri House of Representatives gives overwhelming approval to a bill sponsored by Rep. Marvin Proffer of Jackson giving citizens an opportunity to vote June 2 on whether any windfall from federal tax reform should be used to enhance state services or be refunded to taxpayers.

50 years ago: March 11, 1962

Cornerstone-laying services are held in the afternoon for the recently completed Third Baptist Church, at the corner of Lynwood Drive and Randol Avenue; the Rev. Ray Daniels, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Thebes, Ill., delivers the sermon; pastor of Third Baptist is the Rev. Floyd Lacy.

Representatives of churches in Cape Girardeau County and Illinois, as well as members of the congregation, attend an evening organ dedicatorial service at St. James AME Church; the instrument is a Wurlitzer model with an attached high-fidelity-tone cabinet.

75 years ago: March 11, 1937

The Teachers College basketballers have hung up their togs for the season, having won 13 games out of 16 played; coach C.P. Harris's Indians were Robert McKee, Henry Norman, Kenneth Luke, Hub Shroyer, James Thornton, George Godwin, Harold Kiehne, Joe McDonald, Eugene McDonald and Hays Adams.

Property owners on Broadway are being asked what they think of a plan to surface the street from Main to Pacific streets with a coating of asphaltic concrete, known as amiesite, to preserve the pavement and keep it from going to pieces.

100 years ago: March 11, 1912

BENTON, Mo. -- Scott County Sheriff L.B. Gober is shy 10 boarders, that many prisoners having escaped from the Benton jail overnight; the prisoners, who are law violators of every degree from murderer to a sneak thief, got into the main corridor of the jail and then uncoupled a section of the bars, which gave them access to an outside window through which they escaped.

The Republican county convention held Saturday at Jackson was an orderly affair; the GOP of Cape Girardeau County are ready to put up a solid front for Taft for president.

-- Sharon K. Sanders