Forum Flashbacks: April 24-30
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, APRIL 23, 2000
25 YEARS AGO: Easter Egg Hunt – Dale Reuter helps daughter Kylie find Easter eggs Saturday at the Lion’s Club Easter Egg Hunt at Sunrise Park.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, April 25, 1975
Dr. Foster Selected for Russian Visit
Dr. Robert P. Foster president of Northwest State University, will be a member of the six-man United States delegation in Moscow, May 2-9.
A highlight of the visit for the Americans will be participation May 8 in Russia’s observance of the 30th anniversary of V. E. Day, a celebration marking the end of World War II in Europe. …
Russia had requested that a representative of the American Legion be a member of the select group. Russian veterans groups are currently showing interest in U.S. veteran’s programs such as hospitals and other benefit programs.
Dr. Foster’s name was submitted to the Russian government by the American Legion, and Russia readily accepted the nomination. The MSU president was notified last Tuesday of his selection by the State Department.
Dr. Foster is chairman of the American Legion’s national Foreign Relations Commission, and in that capacity last month led a 30-man delegation to Panama to study current U.S. negotiations concerning a proposed new Panama Canal Treaty. …
“It is an honor, and I would like to think it will bring further credit to Northwest State University. I am deeply moved, and I appreciate this opportunity to represent my country, the American Legion, the State of Missouri and this University,” he concluded.
Among the festivities that the delegation will participate in will be the V. E. Day parade through Red Square in Moscow with its famous pageantry. …
During his stay in Russia, Dr. Foster said he will meet with Russian government and veterans officials, view war memorials and battlegrounds, and visit such cities as Kiev, Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), and Leningrad.
100 years ago
Maryville Tribune April 24, 1925
NEW TRAFFIC RULES BEING WORKED OUT
Maryville’s traffic problem, which has engaged the attention of Mayor W. O. Garrett and the City Council for some time, may result in the elimination of parking on Main street, and the opening of three or more “parking stands” in the downtown district.
In speaking of the difficulties due to congested traffic, Mayor Garrett said this morning:
“Our people do not realize the magnitude of the traffic problem, although, in fact, it is bigger in proportion to the size of the town than that of St. Joseph or Kansas City. Solving it is not a question of putting on big city airs, but it is a necessity.”
It now appears that Main street, because it is a state highway, will have to be cleared of parked cars. If the city must prevent parking on Main street to comply with the regulations of the State Highway Commission, then, in Mayor Garrett’s opinion, the city should not be foolish enough to lessen the efficiency of Main street as an arterial highway by permitting cars to park right up to Main street on intersecting thoroughfares.
The overflow of parked cars eliminated by no parking on Main street, and probably other streets in the heart of the business district, will be absorbed by parking grounds in various vacant lots near the center of the city …
It is the mayor’s idea, also, that center parking in Maryville must go. Among the objections to it are the congested channels which fire apparatus, and, for that matter, all traffic must negotiate, on downtown streets; the danger of collision in backing cars from parking stalls; splattering pedestrians on rainy days because cars are forced to travel close to the curbs; and the inability of the city, without the addition of at least six traffic officers, to prevent narrowing of the traffic lanes by cars parking next to the curb in areas where center parking is the rule.
Another feature of traffic regulations which will follow naturally on adoption of the others is the designation of “stop streets,” and the prevention of full turns on busy corners. On approaching a stop street, the motorist will be warned by a traffic sign to come to a standstill at the intersection before driving his car onto or across the highway he is approaching, and he will be forbidden by law to proceed if crosswise traffic is in motion. Abolition of the full term privilege will prevent motorists from circling a busy corner in such a way that they return in the same direction from which they approached the intersection.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50- and 100-year flashbacks are courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
