Forum Flashbacks: Nov. 21-27
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, NOV. 27, 1974
50 YEARS AGO: Dr. Robert Bohlken, chairman of the Northwest State University department of speech and theater and director of a cooperative public education program with the Missouri Division of Community Development and the Maryville Optimist Club concerning the electrical energy crisis, can project with this Energy-Environmental Simulator the future use of energy and when the energy resources in this country will be consumed. The simulator shows the usage of energy available from natural resources through industrial, transportation, household, and commercial consumption. And it will predict the number of years the energy will last at current rates as well as at rates needed in the future by a growing population.
25 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Nov. 22, 1999
Media has a powerful effect on people’s lives and that’s what St. Joseph Light and Power is afraid of.
Tonight NBC will air a made for TV movie which depicts hysteria taking place January 1, 2000. In the movie, the Y2K glitch has caused widespread disasters, including power shortages.
Light and Power has reacted to the movie after receiving a notice from their national trade organization, the Edison Institute, that the movie might incite panic.
“We’re just trying to alert our customers that it is fiction,” Jerry Musil, manager, said. “It is the work of the writer’s imagination.”
Musil noted that there is currently some fear and concern over possible computer problems, but it is mostly unwarranted. The company just recently finished three years of preparation for Y2K.
“We’re confident that our systems will work January 1,” Musil said.
NBC understands that the movie may cause some panic among viewers and they will run a disclaimer prior to the movie.
“We are confident the TV viewers are fully capable of distinguishing between news programming and entertainment programming,” NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks said.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Nov. 25, 1974
Dr. Jim Smeltzer, Northwest State University associate professor of physics, is among a select group of 100 educators from around the nation invited to be on hand to receive firsthand data sent back to earth from Pioneer 11 as it encounters the planet Jupiter on Dec. 2-3.
Dr. Smeltzer, a member of the Northwest State University faculty since 1969, has accepted the invitation to participate in a Pioneer-Jupiter Educators Conference at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., as the Pioneer 11 space probe swings within 27,000 miles of the solar system’s largest planet.
Later, Pioneer 11 will loop around the planet and be flung off on a path toward a 1979 rendezvous with Saturn. Pioneer 11 was launched on April 6, 1973, on its 21-month trip to Jupiter. Its predecessor, Pioneer 10, traveled 21 months and 620 million miles in its historic first man-inspired vehicular penetration beyond Mars and the wide region of sun-orbiting space dust and rocky debris, known as the asteroid belt, that lies between Mars and Jupiter. At time of encounter, the craft will be some 500 million miles from earth and radio signals will take some 45 minutes to reach earth.
Dr. Smeltzer will be involved in a conference which will feature the scientists and engineers responsible for the planetary mission. As the data is received at the Ames Research Center, the scientists and engineers will be interpreting it for those at the conference. In addition, these same investigators will review the findings of Pioneer 10, which encountered Jupiter in December of 1973.
100 years ago
Maryville Daily Democrat-Forum, Nov. 26, 1924
POTATOES A LA SUPREME
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Wells will have abundance of potatoes for their Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.
Today, they received several of ould(sic) Ireland’s favorite fruit from their daughter, Mrs. Henry Corbin of Greybull, Wyo. Two of the potatoes weighed five pounds.
Wyoming elected a woman governor in the earthquake of Nov. 4, and the potatoes have already realized they must make good under a feminine administration.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50- and 100-year flashbacks are courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
