Out of the past: April 25

1993

"A Celebration of American Sacred Music" is the theme of the free spring concert held in the afternoon at Centenary United Methodist Church; the concert is dedicated to Nancy Hilty, who is retiring after 20 years as church organist.

The contractor renovating the terminal building at Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport apparently won't make the completion deadline; the renovation has been plagued with holdups, initially by a Federal Aviation Administration bureaucratic snafu and now by construction delays.

1968

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy declares during a two-hour visit in Cape Girardeau welfare handouts aren't going to solve the country's unemployment problems, only efforts by communities, business and industry can; Kennedy speaks before a youthful, cheering crowd of 5,000 to 6,000 at the Town Plaza Shopping Center.

A crowd of State College students, protesting the Board of Regents' decision yesterday not to reinstate eight dismissed faculty members, surges onto the first floor of Academic Hall in the morning; the chanting, placard-bearing students end the demonstration a short time later and disperse outside the building.

1943

Historic Cape Rock is the scene of Cape Girardeau's annual Community Easter Sunrise Service; police and State Highway Patrol officers are on hand to direct traffic; preaching the sermon is the Rev. Galen C. Fain, pastor of Centenary Methodist Church; performing a trumpet quartet are Homer Gilbert, Louis Kassel, Henry Grossheider and Dan Cotner.

ALTO PASS, Ill. -- From atop Bald Knob, the Illinois Ozarks' highest hill, 4,000 persons observe the Easter sunrise with appropriate worship services for the seventh consecutive year; the event climaxes a week during which a lighted cross shone continuously high over the wooded hills.

1918

Capt. Wilson C. Bain, who left Cape Girardeau last summer in command of Company L of the Missouri Sixth and who later was transferred to the aero division at Waco, Texas, has again been transferred; he writes he is now commanding a troop of New York men in the Pioneer Infantry, which is a new outfit in the Army and something like the engineers.

The big iron bridge being erected over the drainage ditch near Allenville has been washed out by the high water and carried off nearly three-quarters of a mile; the washing out of the work already done on the bridge will handicap people living in he south end of the county for a longer period; persons living at Randles, Arbor, Advance, Missouri, and other points are badly in need of the bridge.

-- Sharon K. Sanders