Forum Flashbacks: Feb. 6-12
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, FEB. 10, 1975
50 YEARS AGO: North Nodaway picks basketball royalty – David Blackford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Blackford, and Miss Linda Frueh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Frueh, were crowned king and queen of the North Nodaway R-VI Basketball Homecoming Saturday night in Hopkins. Both are seniors.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Feb. 11, 1975
After years of confusion North College Drive is now officially North College Drive.
The Maryville City Council, on a 3-1 vote, approved the name for the street running north of Northwest State University Monday night after a group of citizens requested the name be officially recognized.
Actually, as far as city records could determine, the street had never been named by the city. But the city referred to the street as Truman Road, which was the name appearing on a 1962 plat; citizens living along the street have always called it North College Drive.
Citizens attending the Council meeting said everyone now living along the street is listed in the telephone book with an address of North College Drive. This is confusing, they contended, when the street signs say Truman Road, especially when out-of-town visitors try to find their houses.
David Warren, Maryville city manager, suggested an entirely different name: University Avenue, since there is no longer a “college.” He said since the street lines up with Munn Avenue, which is confused with Dunn, perhaps the names of both streets could be changed.
Councilman Gerald “Doc” Henggeler suggested a public hearing to bring in the residents of both Munn Avenue and North College Drive to see if they would be agreeable to the University name. But Councilmen Howard Judah and Marlin Slagle said they thought the people living along North College Drive were the ones affected and their feelings should have priority.
Slagle made a motion for naming the street North College Drive and the motion passed, with Henggeler voting against.
100 years ago
The Maryville Daily Democrat-Forum, Feb. 11, 1925
LOUD COLORS FOR SUMMER
“A great variety of loud colors; shorter skirts and dresses; increasing popularity of ensembled suits, fur trimmings on suits, coats and dresses.”
This is the way Harvey L. Haines describes the spring and summer styles in women’s wearing apparel on his return from a ten-day buying trip in the New York markets.
The proper length of skirts and dresses will be about twelve inches from the ground, Mr. Haines said this morning. Prices are firm with a tendency to go higher on account of the increasing demand. There is little probability for lower prices in spring and summer goods, Mr. Haines said.
All factories in the East are running at 100 per cent capacity and the employment situation is satisfactory, according to the Maryville merchant.
Exporters all report good business, Mr. Haines said, and they believe that European countries are gradually getting back on a purchasing basis and they are buying American-made merchandise. The settlement of Europe’s reparations problem has had a tendency to greater optimism among the exporters in the East and there is a general feeling that the markets of the world are in a far better condition than a few months ago.
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.
