Forum Flashbacks: June 4-10
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, JUNE 7, 2001
25 YEARS AGO: Gone Fishin’ – You’re never too young to get started with the art of fishing. Pictured is three-year-old Braydn Kemper with his line in the water at the Northwest Missouri State University pond, though he’s seated safely on the surrounding grass. Trying to get a closer look is little sister, 10-month-old Brylee Kemper.
25 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, June 8, 2001
Skidmore man reported missing since April 11
Branson Perry, a 20-year-old Skidmore man, was reported missing April 11 by his grandmother JoAnn Stinett. He was born in February 1981 to Bob and Becky Perry.
The family has called in a psychic from Kingston, Joyce Morgan, who has visited with people and has been taken to some of the places where Branson was last seen. She has been in Skidmore twice, June 1 and again Wednesday.
“There has been ground search parties out covering somewhere around a 15-mile extraction of Skidmore,” said Nodaway County Sheriff Ben Espey. …
“We’ve checked in a lot of different places and talked to a lot of people,” Espey said. “We’re rechecking on some leads and will be out again today following up on those.”
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, June 10, 1976
Arbitration Board Rules Against R-VI
A special state board of arbitration has ruled against a proposed change between the North Nodaway R-VI and the Worth County R-III school districts. Bobby R. Kelley, R-VI superintendent of schools, received the board’s ruling by mail this morning.
The three-member board — Mack Ruth of Cameron, Marion Houghton of Kingston and Frank Hoffman of Trenton — ruled the boundary change was not necessary.
The decision came after a two-hour public hearing Tuesday in Albany when the State Board of Education appointed board heard arguments for and against the boundary change.
Residents on the western edge of the former Sheridan School District, which has been merged into Worth County R-III effective for the coming school year, had petitioned to be included in the North Nodaway R-VI District. The dissolution of the Sheridan district meant they were closer to Hopkins than to Grant City where the Worth County schools are located.
At issue in the proposed boundary change were tax revenues and about 16 students. … Estimates on tax money involved in the dispute ranged widely from $72,000 to twice that amount. Various revenues would have been affected to some extent from property taxes to state school aid.
In the letter rendering the decision, the arbitration board did not include its reasoning, just that the change was not necessary.
Supt. Kelley was disappointed in the decision by the arbitration board, however, he said that no additional revenues or students had been counted on in preparing the budget for the coming school year. “As far as we are concerned the matter is closed,” Kelley said.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50-year flashback is courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
