Forum Flashbacks: Sept. 10-18
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, SEPT. 12, 1951
75 YEARS AGO: Maryville’s 1951 Harviesta, sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, featured a continuous line of contests — from beauty queens and babies to livestock and barrows. Pictured: Three proud mothers show winners in divisions of the Baby Contest. Left to right: Mrs. George Tiller, Maryville, and son, Ralph Marvin, named baby with most personality in the six months to one year age group; Mrs. Marvin Nickell, Skidmore, and son, Michael David, named baby with most personality in the one year to 18 months age group and baby with the most grandparents; Mrs. Edmund McGary, Pickering, and daughter, Patricia Ann, named fattest baby in the up to six months age group.
25 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Sept. 18, 2001
Maryville resident sees second plane hit tower
Tom Carneal, professor and chair of the History, Humanities and Philosophy Department, at Northwest Missouri State University, was near the site of the World Trade Center on Tuesday when terrorists struck the towers with two jetliners. …
Carneal is a delegate to the American Kennel Club, which he said meets three times a year in New York. …
“(The World Trade Center) is just across the Hudson River from the upper floors of the hotel and from our balcony, you could see the skyline.” …
“Somebody rushed in and said something had hit the World Trade Center and it was on fire,” he said. “We stepped out on the balcony and we could see the smoke coming from one of the towers — we found later, it was the north tower.” …
“Then rapidly, we saw the second plane coming toward the building — we were too stunned to realize it was going to hit the building,” he said. “I just won’t forget the screams of the women on the balcony with me — it really alerted me to how serious it was — that was when the (second) plane hit and the fireball came out the other side and we realized it had gone through the building.” …
“My first thought was how could these planes be so off-course,” he said. …
Carneal didn’t see the actual collapse of the towers, because the group had gathered back inside the hotel to try to have their meeting.
“I don’t know what we were thinking, we were all too upset to have the meeting,” he said.
So, they just gathered together and talked about what was happening. He said they all got a good deal of information later from watching the live coverage of the attacks, which is when they realized the enormity of the situation.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Sept. 10, 1976
Mall Plans Announced
John Yancey, spokesman for a recently-incorporated group of local businessmen, today announced plans for the construction of a new shopping mall on the north side of the Maryville square between Beeman Hardware and the Hatten-Robey Insurance Agency.
The local businessmen, whose incorporation is awaiting confirmation by the state, will develop the property in conjunction with the Citizens State Bank of Maryville which owns the property.
The development, to be built by O’Riley Brothers Construction Co., will be known as the Northside Mall.
Two buildings will be constructed 44-feet in width parallel with Fourth St. which will be 125-feet in length from Fourth St. to the alley. The two buildings will be linked by a covered mall which will be 22-feet wide which the businesses will face.
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.
