Forum Flashbacks: Aug. 20-26
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, AUG. 21, 2001
25 YEARS AGO: Barnard Picnic Little Princess And Prince – Twins, MacKayla and Mitchell Hilsabeck, children of Brian and Janet Hilsabeck, Barnard, were named Little Princess and Prince, Friday at the Barnard Picnic. A large number of people were in attendance during the many activities held this weekend.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Aug. 25, 1976
Local Public Safety Reorganization Sought
A petition requesting the Maryville City Council to return to a volunteer fire department is circulating around the city.
The petition asks the Council “to consider, take action upon and adopt ordinances reorganizing the Maryville Public Safety Department by recreating a separate Fire Department for the City of Maryville, manned by volunteer firemen….”
It was not immediately known what individual or group is sponsoring the petition. …
The public safety department was created in 1969, combining administration and duties of policemen and firemen.
The petition circulating today states the undersigned feel the requested reorganization and volunteer fire department “would afford better fire protection to the residents of the city and their property.”
It was not known how long the petition had been circulating or how many signatures had been gathered.
The City Council has already announced plans of a new public safety center at the old A & P Store building. An option has been taken on the property, and an architect is working on plans so the Council may determine the feasibility of such a move.
75 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Aug. 25, 1951
Sat. Night Musings
Column by Henry G. Weiss
Colonel Eek, this week, received a post card from behind the “Iron Curtain” addressed to the Pony Express Territory Recreation association with a one-line message. It read: “Please send additional information.” The writer’s address was listed as Reichenbach, Saxony, (Russian Zone) Germany.
Naturally one is suspicious of any request made for information from a person who must live on Stalin’s side of the iron wall and we wonder if material sent to them might have some military value. Somehow, this seems doubtful.
If information about recreational facilities here in the Pony Express Territory was given wide distribution in Saxony, there is no doubt that the net effect would be the strengthening of democracy’s cause in the fight against Russian propaganda. However there is no reason to believe that the truth will ever be disseminated in any region controlled by the Russians.
While they stifle attempts to express viewpoints other than their own, they leave no stone unturned to get their ideas before others. Even the brightly colored 12 pfenning stamp on the post card speaks in glowing terms of the Red youth festival recently held in Berlin.
We feel certain that if there were some way of letting all the people in the Red Satellite nations know what wonderful opportunities exist here, not only for recreation but also for making a livelihood, Colonel Eek would be happy to tell them about it. Perhaps he could send them our information via “Freedom Balloons.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50- and 75-year flashbacks are courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
