Out of the past 6/10/12

25 years ago: June 10, 1987

A federal grand jury has reportedly joined local authorities, the U.S. Marshal's office, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in the investigation of last month's attempted escape of a federal prisoner from Cape Girardeau's jail.

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- U.S. District Judge H. Kenneth Wangelin of Poplar Bluff, a federal judge for 16 years and most recently judge of the Southeast Division in Cape Girardeau of Missouri's Eastern District, dies at age 74.

50 years ago: June 10, 1962

The Rev. William F. Reinking of St. Louis, a Lutheran missionary to the deaf, is guest clergyman at St. Andrew Lutheran Church's ninth mission festival; Reinking is the executive secretary of the Board for Missions to the Deaf of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

Allen Robinson, executive vice president of the chamber of commerce, occupies the pulpit of Centenary Methodist Church in the morning; his theme is "Portrait of a Man."

75 years ago: June 10, 1937

Postmaster Nat M. Snider announces the approval of a plan to reorganize city mail delivery in Cape Girardeau, including the addition of two more carriers and territory taking in at least 500 more city homes.

A new diving board is put into service at the municipal swimming pool, replacing one that snapped beneath the weight of a too-heavy swimmer last summer; the board, of hickory, is 16 feet long.

100 years ago: June 10, 1912

I. Ben Miller, president of the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association, and James A. Kinder, representing Cape Girardeau pharmacists, leave in the afternoon for Pertle Springs, Mo., to attend the annual state druggists convention.

There will be a special election held at Illmo on June 15 to vote on granting a franchise to A.M. Tinsley of Cape Girardeau to operate an electric lighting plant in Illmo to furnish a night and day current; the plant will run in conjunction with the Cape Girardeau plant, if the franchise is approved.

-- Sharon K. Sanders