Forum Flashbacks: Sept. 21-27
FORUM FILE PHOTO
50 YEARS AGO: Frisky, a two-month-old half terrier-half dachshund, certainly lived up to his name when his owners, Robin Hainline (center), 3½, and Terry Hainline (right), 1½, and their friend, Kirk Henry, 3½, tried to corral him for this picture. Frisky took off, running round and round a tricycle in the yard, followed by the three happily screaming children. The whole episode looked like a cut from a Keystone Cops movie. … Robin and Terry are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hainline, and Kirk is Mr. and Mrs. Robert Henry’s son.
8 years ago
No one can say the Maryville City Council doesn’t dream big.
The five-member governing board spent more than an hour Monday night listening to a detailed report for overhauling the often-congested South Main Street traffic corridor delivered by John Chamberlin, director of engineering for SK Design Group.
If fully implemented — an effort that will likely take years — the three-phase, $12 million plan calls for transforming the retail artery into a smooth-flowing, tree-lined boulevard complete with new north-south and east-west connector/feeder streets, aligned parking lot entrances, ample turning lanes, greenspace, and sidewalks. …
He said the two-volume plan, which is thick with traffic counts, accident tallies, aerial views, diagrams, perspective renderings, and pages crammed with technical data, is designed to give the city the information it needs to achieve three basic goals: relieving traffic congestion, improving pedestrian access, and providing concepts and cost estimates for getting the job done. …
Suggested improvements include adding eastbound and westbound left-turn lanes on South Avenue and extending an existing right-turn lane serving the Hy-Vee supermarket parking lot north to the intersection itself.
While agreements would have to be worked out with property owners, Chamberlin said the north end of the corridor, as well as other portions of the strip, would benefit from removing or combining numerous driveway entrances, especially those that allow overlapping left turns by motorists headed in opposite directions. …
Other proposed construction includes an 8-foot-wide walking-bicycling path on the west side of the street running north from near Kawasaki, as well as a five-foot-wide sidewalk on the east side of the street. A suggested 20-foot greenspace between the Main Street curb and pedestrian paths would accommodate ornamental trees.
One much-desired aesthetic improvement not included in the traffic study is the undergrounding of overhead utility lines, which both Chamberlin and City Manager Greg McDanel said would be prohibitively expensive.
50 years ago
At least three Maryville women were ready to hit the sack after a long, hard night of bargain-hunting at the Night Owl Sale. They showed up at Clardy’s Shoe Shack in baby doll pajamas.
The idea wasn’t theirs. Clardy’s offered a free pair of shoes to the first woman over 17 years of age to appear at the store in shorty pajamas. The salespeople at Clardy’s were wearing nighttime attire in observance of the Nite Owl Sale.
Mrs. Charlene Shackelford, attired in red pajamas with white bolero trim, was the first through the door at 7 p.m. when the store reopened for the sale. She got her pick of any pair of shoes in the store. Mrs. Lavonne Dredge, dressed in pajamas identical to Mrs. Shackelford’s, arrived at the store with the winner, but was second through the door. She received a consolation prize — her choice of sale shoes.
Miss Ellen Burton, a student at Northwest State University, was the third to arrive and also received as a consolation prize a pair of sale shoes. She was dressed in lavender and white print pajamas with a green ribbon at the throat.
All three women were barely protected from the rain with housecoats.
100 years ago
MANY LEGION MEN FOR SHAM BATTLE
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BIG GUNS TO BE USED
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All the American Legion posts in Nodaway County and in the surrounding counties will be represented by delegations that will take part in the sham battle which will take place on Reunion Day of the Maryville Fall Fiesta and Exposition, October 5. It will be attempted by Battery C of the National Guard and the Legion posts to make this sham battle as realistic as possible and those in charge of the affair are working hard to secure as many American Legion men to participate in the sham battle as possible.
The sham battle is to be held on the southwest part of the College campus, at 7 o’clock in the evening, the attacking forces divided into two divisions, each division composed of both artillery and infantry. Fire works, night bombs and flares will be used in connection with the reports of the infantry rifles, the light cannons and the battery of four French 75’s that Battery C has. The committee is spending several hundreds of dollars for the bombs and the fire works that will be displayed in the evening. One thousand rounds of ammunition has been secured for the small fire arms. The big guns will be planted early in the day. The battle is to consist of an attack by each opposing force and then a counter attack, the ridge of the east edge of the campus to be used as a sort of trench over which one of the divisions will rush.
In order to get as many Legion men here for the sham battle during the Fall Fiesta and Exposition several men from Maryville are out this week visiting the neighboring Legion posts in an effort to have the ex-service men come here. It is expected that the towns of Bedford, Shenandoah, Rock Port, Savannah, Stanberry, Grant City, Mound City, Tarkio and the towns of Nodaway County represented by delegations from the American Legion posts.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The original 8-year article ran in the Aug. 26, 2015, issue of the Maryville Daily Forum. The 50-year and 100-year flashbacks are courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, viewable at shsmo.newspapers.com. The original 50-year article ran in the Sept. 26, 1973, issue of The Maryville Daily Forum and the original 50-year photo ran in the Sept. 27, 1973, issue. The original 100-year article ran in the Sept. 24, 1923, issue of The Maryville Daily Democrat-Forum, which later would become The Maryville Forum.
