Forum Flashbacks: March 7-13
Maryville Daily Forum, March 7, 2014
10 years ago: All the presidents – Fifth-graders at St. Gregory’s School who participated in the annual Presidential Showcase Thursday show off their costumes. Shown front row, left to right, are Cassidy Spire (Letitia Taylor), Jordan Spire (Bess Truman), Kaitlyn Vaught (Eleanor Roosevelt), Abbie Farris (Abigail Adams), Fritz Lager (John F. Kennedy), Jake Ginther (George Washington) and Dylan Swaney (George H. Bush). Shown back row, left to right, are Kirsten Imry (Jacqueline Kennedy), Ashlyn Alexander (Rosalynn Carter), Tori Allen (Michelle Obama), Tyler Burke (Bill Clinton), Aiden Stone (Barack Obama) and Gunnar Grispino (Ulysses Grant).
10 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, March 13, 2014
One of the recommendations of a 2008 Downtown Revitalization and Economic Assistance for Missouri (DREAM) initiative plan for Maryville was formation of an organization of advocates for the city’s central business district.
Six years later, that recommendation has come to fruition with the formation of the Maryville Downtown Improvement Organization.
The group, which adopted bylaws during a Monday meeting, will select a nine-member board. One member of the board will be a City Council member. Officers include Matt Gaarder, president; Brian Schieber, vice president; Keitha Clapp, secretary; and Marlene Carmichael, treasurer. …
Gaarder said the group’s focus in the short-term is simple — bring more people downtown.
“We think the organization will give downtown a unified voice,” Gaarder said. “There are no fees to join the organization. If you live within or own property within the designated boundaries, just tell us you wish to join, and we will welcome your ideas and opinions.”
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, March 9, 1974
When Mark Turner has a question for his teacher, he doesn’t raise his hand. He merely flips a switch and asks his question into a microphone.
His question, asked from his living room in Burlington Jct., is answered by one of his teachers at West Nodaway R-I, where he was a freshman until he left in mid-December, stricken with rheumatoid arthritis.
Mark, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Turner, is able to continue his studies through a special telephone hookup system installed by the school electrician, John Gage, who also works for the Northwest Nodaway Telephone Corp.
The cost for the system, dubbed the “tele-Turner” by Gary Bell, Mark’s physical science teacher, is shared by the school and the State Department of Education. The equipment — a transmitter, receiver and microphone for his home and an identical set for the school which is moved from class to class — was supplied by the school, the phone company and Gage.
Bell visits Mark weekly to oversee his physical science experiments and deliver tests, maps and other study aids from Mark’s teachers.
The tele-Turner was suggested by Mark’s doctor, Harry Stoekle, head of pediatrics at a Columbia hospital. Mark will see Dr. Stoekle March 21 and he has hopes that he will be able to return to school. “The main reason I can’t go back to class is because I might be exposed to the flu. And I need the rest,” Mark said. …
Mark’s American History teacher, Ron Kerr, described Mark as a “relatively good student.” Kerr said it is not hard to teach Mark through the system but it would be difficult to teach a group of students in that manner.
“I find that I must present more information verbally and I try to give him as much outside reference material as I can,” Kerr said. “Using the system is not disruptive to the class, but I must maintain a quieter class than usual.”
100 years ago
Maryville Tribune, March 13, 1924
DENY PETITION FOR POOL HALL
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By a vote of two to one the County Court late yesterday afternoon denied the petition of F. A. Turner for license to operate the pool hall on the north side of the square, which he recently purchased from John Shonley. The vote on the application was by secret ballot and was taken at the end of a hearing which lasted from 1:30 o’clock until nearly 6 o’clock.
E. G. Cook, attorney for Turner, served notice on the court last night that he would file action in the Nodaway County Circuit Court to compel the County Court to issue a license to Turner. The action will probably not be filed today.
At the hearing yesterday witnesses were introduced in behalf of Turner to show that his character is good, and that the restaurant which he formerly operated here enjoyed a good reputation.
One of the other side witnesses testified that Turner had been arrested by the city on a charge of gaming, that he had permitted gaming in the basement of the pool hall since he had purchased the business, and that the business itself and the place in which it is operated bears an unsavory reputation.
It is necessary for Turner to obtain a county license before he can get a city permit to operate his pool hall. Although he had not yet secured the county license, he filed application for a permit before the city commissioners some weeks ago and it was refused. At a second meeting of the commissioners, when at the request of Turner the matter was again brought up, the permit was again refused.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50-year and 100-year flashbacks are courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
