Forum Flashbacks: Jan. 15-21
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, JAN. 17, 2001
25 YEARS AGO: K.C. Wolf Visits Poster Winner – Kansas City Chiefs mascot, K.C. Wolf, made a special appearance Tuesday at the Maryville Middle School to recognize four-state poster contest winner, fifth-grader Abbie Florea. The contest was sponsored by Midwest Dairy Council and the Kansas City Chiefs. Runners-up also recognized were Andrew Aguiar, Tarah Gutzmer and Jessica Begley.
25 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Jan. 14, 2001
Nod. County Courthouse receives threat
Early Sunday morning, Jan. 13, 2001, downtown Maryville businesses were shut down or not allowed to open, due to a bomb threat at the Nodaway County Courthouse in Maryville, according to area businesses and local law enforcement.
Brian Smith, a resident who lives above The Student Body, at 102 E. Third St., in Maryville said he was awakened by a Missouri State Highway Patrolman knocking at his door at 5 a.m. Saturday morning and was told to leave his apartment.
“They said we had a bomb threat and needed us all out,” Smith said. “They told us if we didn’t have anywhere to go, we could go to Public Safety.”
Smith said residents of two other apartments in the building were also asked to leave.
“We had a bomb threat and they (police officers) cordoned every place off and wouldn’t let anyone in,” said Al Turner, owner of The Sport Shop.
Area law enforcement agencies were notified in the early morning hours, of a potentially hazardous situation of an explosive device at the Nodaway County Courthouse in Maryville, according to a combined press release from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the Nodaway County Sheriff’s Department and the Maryville Department of Public Safety.
The area was immediately secured and evacuated, according to the release.
A two-block radius around the courthouse was completely closed off and people coming into the area to go to a business or to open their business were told to leave quickly, as there was a dangerous situation. …
The matter remained under active investigation until about 10 a.m., when the area was determined safe after no device was located, according to the release. …
This remains under full investigation, the release said.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Jan. 20, 1976
Harvey ‘Snicker’ Puts Burlington Jct. on Map
Mrs. Sharon Shipley, program coordinator for Northwest Missouri State University radio station KXCV-FM (90.5), put Burlington Jct. on the national map last week.
A sometime listener to ABC Radio commentator Paul Harvey, Mrs. Shipley contributed a bumper sticker message to Harvey to use on his daily broadcast feature concerning witty sayings seen on the back and fronts of autos.
Mrs. Shipley, who lives in Burlington Jct. with husband John and son Aaron, got the idea from bumper stickers circulated by National Public Radio (NPR), the nationwide federally funded radio network of which KXCV-FM is a member station.
The bumper sticker “snicker” message read — “Public Radio: The Rare Medium That’s Well Done.” And Harvey responded by putting it on his Jan. 15 broadcast from coast to coast.
So far as NPR is concerned, Harvey blew it. He failed to mention the “public” part of the message. But while NPR received no benefit from the ABC exposure, Burlington Jct. got mentioned as Mrs. Shipley’s address.
While Burlington Jct. is a nice small town, it rarely goes national. And when Harvey mentioned the town’s name, local citizens and those associated with the town understandably got excited.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50-year flashback is courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
