Forum Flashbacks: Dec. 31-Jan. 8
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, JAN. 4, 2000
25 YEARS AGO: First Baby of 2000 – The first baby of the Year 2000 in Northwest Missouri, Patricia Lee Snyder, was born at 1:09 a.m., Monday, Jan. 3, 2000 at St. Francis Hospital, Maryville. She weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces and was 20 inches long. She is the daughter of Jerry and Debbie Snyder of Bethany, Mo., and joins a sister, Megan.
25 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Jan. 5, 2000
…The City of Maryville’s new $328,000 transfer station, located at the city landfill on Business 71, went online for the first time this week loading garbage and trash that would normally have gone into the landfill into semitrailer trucks for transportation to the Hamm Sanitary Landfill near Lawrence, Kan.
A portion of the tipping fees are to go toward offsetting the $240,000 transportation cost of the 25 tons a day the city is contracted to provide the landfill, City Manager David Angerer had said during the two-month fee debate. The city will pay $24 per ton.
“Shortly after I came to Maryville, five years ago, we became aware we had a dwindling capacity left in the landfill and that we had three options,” Angerer said. “We could add on to the landfill, which would cost $300,000 to $400,000 per acre; we could go up and build the garbage into a small mountain, which was rejected for aesthetic reasons; or build a transfer station.”
The city chose the transfer station, because other options, like filling the landfill completely or closing it, would have put local trash haulers out of business, Angerer said.
“For some of them, having to drive a long distance to use a landfill would hurt them,” he said. “So we decided to stay in the trash business and do the transfer station.”
100 years ago
The Maryville Daily Democrat-Forum, Jan. 7, 1925
JUST WHAT IS A RADIO?
Radio!
What is a radio?
If the assessor would come around to you and ask how the radio should be classified, how would you answer?
The assessor of Taylor County, Iowa, have been having a heated discussion at their annual meeting recently, just over this question. The Bedford Times-Republican this week says in part, concerning a meeting of the assessors of Taylor County:
“The problem which arose was, What is a radio?”
“This was a serious question, because the assessors could not decide how to tax the critters. ‘Are they musical instruments?’ was the question of the county auditor. ‘No, not very,’ is the reply of the Marshall township assessor. And so the battle rages.
“‘They are certainly not furniture,’ pipes up someone else.
“‘Well,’ says another voice, ‘they aren’t livestock.’
“But the gentlemen finally settled the matter by deciding to assess radios as personal property, just as graphophones and musical instruments.”
Assessors in Missouri this last year did not have this problem to bother with as the State Tax Commission has not put radios on the tax list for assessment, George Meek, Polk township assessor, said this noon. Mr. Meek was of the opinion that next year radios would be taxed, but it will be up to the State Tax Commission to make some mention of radios on the tax list.
As the matter came up in Iowa, radios cannot be classed as musical instruments, as they are not machines that produce music, Mr. Meek said. When they are taxed, and it is only a matter of time, the Polk township assessor said this noon, as he nibbled away at a piece of cherry pie at the city hall, they will be classified as personal property, or the Tax Commission of the state will make a special mention of them as “radios” just as musical instruments and motor vehicles are listed.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 100-year flashback is courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
