Out of the past 6/1/12

25 years ago: June 1, 1987

Wet Gene's Water Slide, along U.S. 61 between Cape Girardeau and Jackson, has reopened under the name LicketySplit Water Slide; its new owner is Phillip "Bud" Leuckel of Cape Girardeau.

The Lutheran Home on Bloomfield Road is expanding; the new wing will add 60 beds.

50 years ago: June 1, 1962

Residents in a large area surrounding the State College campus have been hearing for the past week the vibrant and sonorous sounds of a new musical instrument; it's the college's new carillon, which was installed last week; speakers of the instrument are in the dome of Academic Hall.

Cape Girardeau Central High baseball Tigers earn a spot in the State Baseball Championship game with St. Louis University High by blasting St. Louis Normandy, 10-4, at Busch Stadium.

75 years ago: June 1, 1937

BENTON, Mo. -- Scott County farmers declare war on grasshoppers and army worms, with 2,400 pounds of poison bran mash being mixed here in the fight to eradicate the pests, which continue to prove a real threat to crops; the mash will be sufficient to wipe out the pests on 240 acres.

Work will resume on the west side park project on U.S. 61 tomorrow by the WPA force, and other projects in the county also are to get a fresh start; there had been a month-end layoff of several days.

100 years ago: June 1, 1912

The Cape Girardeau School Board last night selected teachers for the ensuing year, well after most school districts in the area had finalized their faculties; principals for the coming year will be J.C. Croker, high school; May Greene, Broadway; Alma Schrader, Jefferson; Alice Carroll, Washington, and John S. Cobb, Lincoln.

Rush Limbaugh, the young man who won many honors in oratory at the Normal School, leaves for his home in Sedgewickville, Mo., where he will spend the summer with his parents; he will attend the state university at Columbia, Mo., in the fall.

-- Sharon K. Sanders