Forum Flashbacks: Feb. 26-March 4
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, FEB. 25, 2001
25 YEARS AGO: Space Play – Horace Mann’s First Level performed a “Space Play” Wednesday. Control Workers (front) Maeve Goad and (back) Brittany Farlow discuss space travel with aliens Daniel Johnson, Jason Lin. Planets list in, (ltor) Jacob Marsh, Elena Bellamy, Taylor Ross, Calvin Wallace, Holly Wilmarth, Jeremy Clark, Alex Burgher, Kelsey Coats, Nickolas Groumoutis.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Feb. 27, 1976
Student Trailblazers Shun Sidewalk Stepping
Maybe young America is in too much of a hurry, at least that’s what Bob Brought, director of physical plant at Northwest Missouri State University thinks.
What concerns Brought is that in their anxiety to get where they are going rapidly, University students have a habit of taking the most direct route and avoiding established sidewalks.
The result — countless paths through University lawns. Brought says the foot paths detract from the appearance of the campus and are used even when the ground is muddy, thus causing mud to be tracked onto sidewalks and into buildings.
In addition, it’s a constant job and never-ending expense for the grounds maintenance crew to dig up paths, re-seed the area, fertilize the ground, water it, protect the area with fences, and then await the area to become a path again by those who would shave a few seconds from their trip.
Brought said that the NWMSU main campus has some 8 miles of sidewalk. But, he said, there is probably nearly that same amount of unofficial paths stamped into the University lawns.
And in answer to those who say build more sidewalks where there are now unofficial foot paths and you’ll cure the problem, Brought replies, “We’ve found that the traffic patterns then will vary and create a whole new set of paths in the grass after you’ve gone to all that expense.” …
He says he believes the offending individuals aren’t aware of what they are doing — “They do it unconsciously, they have a general lack of understanding about the problems they create.”
It is a case of “haste makes waste,” according to Brought, who says, “We’ve studied the traffic patterns, and we find that none of those paths saves more than 30 seconds for the student in getting to his destination.”
Until there is more of an awareness by those creating the problem, Brought and his staff will go on planting grass, planting “stay off the grass” signs, and trying to think of other ways to cure the problem.
75 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Feb. 27, 1951
Workmen Begin Re-Modeling Of Armstrong Foundry Building
Workmen today began razing parts of the old Armstrong foundry building on North Market street, and the Barmann auto supply company will move into the building as soon as re-modeling is completed.
Hugh Armstrong, present owner, is re-modeling the building, and Francis Barmann, owner of the auto supply company, will lease the premises, Barmann said today.
The space vacated by the supply company at 112 East Fifth street will then be occupied as a store room for the Mutz oil company. The foundry building has been unoccupied for several years.
New Front Planned
Barmann said today that present plans call for an entire new front in the foundry building, but that portions of the rear and side walls will be retained. A complete new front in the foundry building but that portions of the rear and side walls will be retained. A complete new roof will be built on the structure.
The re-modeling will completely alter the appearance of one of the older business buildings in Maryville. The building was built by the grandfather of the present owner, J. J. Armstrong, in 1892, the same year that the Nodaway county courthouse was built, and was operated continuously as a foundry until 1947 when Armstrong and Jack Carson constructed a new building south of Maryville and moved their manufacturing business there.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50- and 75-year flashbacks are courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
