Forum Flashbacks: June 19-25
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, JUNE 13, 2000
25 YEARS AGO: Forever Blowing Bubbles – At Burlington Junction Town & Country Days, T.J. Sturm blows bubbles while sitting in the lap of his “Nanna,” Gay Yocum. The pair and other family members were on hand to watch the Burlington Junction Queen contest.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, June 23, 1975
Milner Day Counted Big Success
Rain washed the festivities inside but it couldn’t put the damper on the toasting and roasting that put a wonderfully warm touch on Saturday’s Ryland Milner Day celebration at Northwest State University.
Henry Iba, Milner’s former high school and college coach, joined about 250 other teammates, students and just plain friends in honoring the retiring MSU athletic director (since 1957), who has served as a faculty member and coach at MSU since 1937 and was one of the school’s outstanding student-athletes ever from 1929-33.
“At no time on the field or on the court did Ryland Milner ever give up,” said Iba, the man who coached Milner as a prep at Oklahoma City’s Classen High and brought him along when Iba undertook coaching duties at then Northwest State Teachers College.
“He has never given up for you here at this University, either,” the college cage game’s third winningest coach ever and leader in the Olympic basketball movement added.
Between 150 and 200 contributors from coast to coast helped the day’s organizational committee present Milner and his wife Luretta with numerous gifts, including a press plate from a special Milner photo and feature page appearing in the Maryville Daily Forum presented by business manager Frank Merenghi, rings, and a golf cart to make the pursuit of one of Milner’s pleasures a bit easier in the retirement years.
Contributors also added approximately $1,200 to the Milner Scholarship Fund, established a few years ago.
100 years ago
Maryville Daily Democrat-Forum, June 20, 1925
Firecrackers Cause Mayor to Quit Office
Eldon, Emery and Oren Throckmorton, young boys at Guilford, were arrested today for disturbing the peace. …
These boys were arrested on information issued by Joe Bakyr, a merchant at Guilford, who conferred with George Pat Wright, prosecuting attorney, Dick Nelson, mayor of Guilford, accompanied Bakyr here.
These boys, it is said, fired some firecrackers in Guilford Thursday night. According to information received here today Nelson resigned as mayor of Guilford when the town board in session last evening refused to back him up and W. B. Torrance, editor of the Guilford Times, was selected as his successor.
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.
