Forum Flashbacks: April 4-10
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, APRIL 4, 1999
25 YEARS AGO: Eggs in Many Baskets – Counting up the treats they discovered during Saturday morning’s Easter egg hunt are Karen King and Cynthia Smail, front, and Calvin and Serena Wallace, with their parents Melissa and George.
25 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, April 9, 1999
At least one tornado and very strong winds ripped through the area yesterday, destroying a great deal of property.
Most of the damage was centered in southern Nodaway County and northeast Andrew County. No injuries were reported.
An 18-wheeler, belonging to Dean Praiswater and his son Doug of Fillmore, Mo., was picked up and thrown about 100 feet, into a nearby pond off of Highway H. The truck was parked near some grain bins and a silo. The silo was bent in half and debris was strewn over the area. There were two sets of tracks going into the pond, indicating the truck may have been picked up and thrown twice.
Just south and around the corner on Highway Y, at the home of Jim and Rhonda Hawkins, the damage was worse, the family lost almost everything.
“Every building on our property was destroyed, except for the house,” Rhonda said. “And it was the one I was in.”
The house actually was pretty much destroyed, but it was still standing. She said the tornado had to have picked the house up and then set it back down, because the support beams fell over.
Hawkins was standing in the bedroom folding clothes when the tornado hit. It blew all the windows out of the house, except for a couple at the back of the house. The family lost two barns, their shop, an implement shed, four grain bins and a garage. The water lines were also broken. When asked what all they lost, she replied, “Everything, but we didn’t lose our sense of humor.”
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, April 10, 1974
Parks Department To Plant Trees
The Maryville parks and recreation department, in an agreement with Northwest State University, will be planting about 30 large trees in the city park system in the near future. Work got underway earlier this week with the planting of trees at Franklin Park, and will continue next week.
Under the agreement with the University, the city is using the street sweeper at the University, and MSU is loaning the city its tree spade for transplanting large trees.
The trees are being taken from near the 102 River Dam, where an area is being cleared for dam repair work. Plans call for about six trees in Franklin Park, about three in Water Tower Park, 10 to 15 in the new part of Peach Creek Park, and possibly some trees in Beal and other parks, according to Richard Metsker, parks and recreation director.
Bus Wheel’s Antics Entertain Ravenwood
There were probably a few surprised faces in the Platte Valley Bank at Ravenwood Tuesday afternoon. As a school bus was coming from the south and turning east by the bank, a wheel of the bus came off, rolled across the street, struck the door of the bank, continued across the foyer and crashed into the service counter. No one was injured.
100 years ago
Maryville Tribune, April 7, 1924
The following story, taken from Sunday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch tells of William A. Lippman, Jr., of Mr. and Mrs. William Lippman, former residents of Maryville, who recently lost his amateur radio operator’s license because of violating federal regulations:
Radio station 9-AQB, St. Louis, has lost its license for a year, all because a clock was a little slow and one heated word was hurled into the ether by its boy operator.
William A. Lippman, Jr., 15 years old, a student at Soldan High School, operated the station at his home, 6 Thornberry Place, since last September, and used to relate proudly how his “stuff” had been hard in many states.
Licensed amateurs are obliged to obey certain regulations as to what they may do with their stations. In St. Louis, as elsewhere, volunteer radio fans “listen in” to see that regulations are obeyed. One night last autumn young Lippman was sending a program after his time was up and one of the listening officers asked him, via wireless, why he didn’t “get off the air.”
“What the hell business is it of yours!” was the lad’s peevish reply, which, by the law of averages, must have gone through the ether to headsets and loud speakers of the public in various sections.
Plainly, the reply constituted broadcast profanity and it was reported to Dr. Charles L. Klenk, then chief radio traffic officer here. Dr. Klenk, who said today that he had had reports that the operator of 9-AQB was disobedient of sending rules, referred the matter to E. A. Beane, Federal Radio Supervisor, whose office is in Chicago. Beane came here and he and Dr. Klenk verified the report in a call on young Lippman.
The station has been silent and dismantled since Feb. 2, in response to the revocation of its license for a year. A dispatch from Chicago states that the revocation was based on a petition signed by 200 St. Louis radio amateurs, who were said to have objected to programs sent out by 9-AQB.
Lippman’s father, relating today the circumstances of the case, said his son was sorry, a thousand times sorry, and had apologized for broadcasting a naughty word. He was sending out of hours because his clock was a bit slow, the father said, and the latter regards the punishment as harsh. Young Lippman was quoted as saying that “some fellows” in the neighborhood didn’t like his station because it interfered with them.
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.
