Forum Flashbacks: June 5-11
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, JUNE 9, 2000
25 YEARS AGO: It’s not fair – Marshall Shell and his children, Megan and Trevor, went fishing. Megan oftentimes stays home. This time she caught the big one. Brother was heard to mumble after dropping his pole, “That’s the last time I’m taking my sister fishing.”
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, June 6, 1975
Beetle Subgenus Named For MSU Science Professor
Official notification of the discovery and naming of a new subgenus and species of beetle in honor of a Northwest State University professor has been made to the scientific world.
Dr. Charles A. Triplehorn, internationally known coleopterist from Ohio State University, has recently published in “The Coleopterists Bulletin,” a description of a beetle named after Dr. David Easterla, MSU associate professor of biology, who discovered the beetle in a cave in Big Bend National Park, Tex.
Dr. Easterla, who describes himself as a “bat and bird man,” hypothesized that because the cave contained the only known U.S. colony of the Mexican Longtongued Bat that the beetles therein, which he found feeding on the bat guano, might be new to the scientific world. These bats, because they feed only upon pollen and nectar produce guano deposits very different from insect-eating bats.
The 1971 theory of Dr. Easterla proved correct. He sent a collection of the beetles to Dr. Triplehorn, and the next year found Dr. Easterla leading the Ohio State University scientist on an all-day trek into the cave to further study the beetles. …
The beetle has been named by Dr. Triplehorn as Eleodes (the genus) Caverneleodes (the new subgenus) easterlai (the new species).
100 years ago
Maryville Daily Democrat-Forum, June 8, 1925
ADVICE TO MOTORISTS
Following a publication of a communication by Mayor W. O. Garrett recently regarding traffic rules, the classes in vitalized agriculture at the State Teachers College took up study of traffic regulations in general. Two students, Miss Lou Etta DeFord of Winston, Mo., and Miss Helen White of Gallatin, Mo., collaborated in writing the following paper on the subject which gives some generally accepted rules for car drivers that were not specifically mentioned in the Mayor’s communication.
“In addition to the traffic laws issued in the Maryville papers before now, there are some general traffic laws which should be observed by all automobile drivers. They are the hand and horn signals.
“The hand signals are: On turning to the right hold the hand above. On turning to the left hold the hand below. To stop hold the hand horizontally.
“The horn signals are: When going straight ahead, honk once. To turn to the right, honk twice. To turn to the left, honk three times.
“It is well to speak at this time about the persons having the right of way at intersections. For illustration, say, a car going north has the right of way of a car going east. A car going west has the right of way over a car going north. A car going south has the right of way over a car going west. A car going east has the right of way over a car going south. This is done so that the drivers will only have to look to the right at each intersection.”
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.
