February 21, 1947
• The Federal Works Agency has started construction this week of a building on the Tarkio College campus to house the overflow classes and laboratory groups. This building is erected west of Marshall Hall and south of the central heating plant. Building materials being used were secured from the POW camp in Clarinda, Iowa, the hospital administration building and dental clinic having been torn down.
• Fire Sunday morning about eleven o’clock destroyed a house owned by Mr. and Mrs. Leon Pursell and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Vincent DeHart at the Pursell farm three and one-half miles northeast of Tarkio. Apparently the roof of the one-story house had caught fire from sparks from the chimney. Bob Graf and three other people who happened to be flying by in an airplane, noticed the smoke and flames and immediately landed to give assistance, but the flames had already gained too much headway.
• The public is invited to the community building Wednesday, February 26, to hear a survivor of the Bataan Death March tell of his experiences. Staff Sergeant Frank G. Knapp, a member of the U.S. Army Recruiting Office in St. Joseph, will speak of his observations while on the Bataan Death March and tell of his three and one-half years as a Prisoner of War of the Japanese.
February 24, 1972
• Stanley G. Sunderwirth, a graduate of Tarkio College and professor at Kansas State College in Pittsburg, Kansas, recently returned from a two-week motorcycle tour of pre-Columbian ruins in Mexico with another KSC professor. They made the trip without a breakdown of either cycle and enjoyed many archeological wonders, highlighted by the Mayan City of Palenque.
• Ira Paul Smith will be operating a new 60 series Chevrolet lime and fertilizer spreader truck by Kraus of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He will be operating the truck through the Westboro Supply.
• Attorney General John C. Danforth said that he favors approval of a Missouri-Nebraska compact to settle a boundary dispute rather than a lawsuit before the United States Supreme Court. The compact would establish the present center line of the Missouri River as the boundary along a disputed 63-mile section involving Atchison and Holt counties. McKissick’s Island would remain with Nebraska. At present some of the land is claimed by both states and in some instances, by more than one property owner. The suit before the Supreme Court applies only to four tracts, however, not the whole area disputed.
• The Westboro Lions Club is sponsoring a Country Shindig February 28 in the Westboro School Gym.
February 20, 1997
• Brian Heits and Jonathan Dantzler qualified for State Wrestling with their finishes at Sectionals. Heits placed 2nd in the 275 lb. weight class and Dantzler placed 4th in the 215 lb. weight class.
• Tarkio Elementary School sixth grader Megan McAdams won the Atchison County Spelling Bee Thursday, February 13, at Fairfax R-3. Kody Kemerling placed 2nd. Both will advance to Regionals in St. Joseph, Missouri.
• The City of Tarkio will once again be vying for a grant to replace the water tower. The city is applying for a block grant to replace the current tower, which was built in 1921. The current tower holds 75,000 gallons of water, but the new tower will hold 300,000 gallons.
• Harry Happy and Connie Cochran were chosen as the 1997 Valentine’s King and Queen at Community Care of America in Tarkio.
• The Tarkio Rural Fire Protection District recently purchased a 1996 GMC tanker. The new truck, which replaced a 1962 International previously used by the district, can hold 1,800 gallons of water.
