March 7, 1947

• Billy Dick Barton left Wednesday night for New York, where on Saturday he reported for a two week’s cruise with the Atlantic fleet on its spring maneuvers, which will take him through the Caribbean and to Panama. Billy Dick is a member of the naval reserve, which entitles him to take such trips as this when he desires. He will be on the battleship Wisconsin and President Truman will inspect the fleet while on this trip.

• Over 100 farm leaders and vocational agricultural students attended the annual soil and crops conference held in Rock Port Wednesday, February 26. George Opp of Rock Port and Denny White of Fairfax reported on their results using fertilizer on corn. Increased yields where fertilizer was used made the extra corn produced cost less than 25¢ per bushel. James Stevens, chairman of A.A.A., said that, “Over 250 tons of fertilizer was applied to grasses and legumes in Atchison County in 1946.”

• Atchison County 4-H Club members join the rest of the nation in observing National 4-H Club Week March 1-9. The main theme is “Working together for a better home and world community.” During 1946, the county had 13 4-H clubs and 214 members. Since the end of the 1946 club year, seven new clubs have been organized: Royal, York, Oak Grove, Wolverines, Northern High Lights, North Easters, and Nishna Valley.

• Worley H. Flanagan, who retired from the rural mail carrier service November 20 after a service which dated back to 1906, had carried the mail through all kinds of weather and over all kinds of roads. One such road was during a period of high water and he drove a team onto a bridge with only one end above water and the bridge went clear out of sight. He drove on and made it across. After that, he took no chances and did not try to cross until he could see all of the floor.

March 9, 1972

• Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Osburn moved their house trailer Monday, February 28, from Knob Noster to the trailer lot of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Davis. He will be associated with his father in farming.

• A highlight for Saturday, March 18, will be in the form of a Folk Music Musicale to be held in the high school gym. The Celestial Folk Singers, a youth choir ranging in age from fifth graders through college, will present a program called “Natural High.”

• The social studies program for junior and senior high is presently being reorganized. The seventh grade will study world history and the exploratory period. The eighth grade will be responsible for American history through the Civil War. Freshmen citizenship will be replaced by modern American history from the Civil War to present. Sophomores will take world geography with emphasis on social, political, and economic conditions. The junior social studies will continue unchanged for two years.

March 6, 1997

• Memorial funds in remembrance of Velma Phillips, Lucille Tompkins, and Millie Davis have been established at Community Hospital Association, Fairfax.

• Over The Back Fence by Nancy Gaines: “March came in like a lamb. Will it go out like a lion? The weather sure cooperated with the sponsors of the Fairfax elementary tournament. While games were going on inside, games were also going on outside on the playground. They still had their basketball uniforms on, too! Now that is youth! The rest of us had on coats.”