June 4, 1948

• A capacity crowd filled the new memorial building here Sunday as Tarkio residents of all denominations joined in a special Memorial Day service in tribute to the dead of all wars. As a special feature of the service, a memorial plaque bearing 66 names of deceased veterans of World War I and World War II was unveiled. Of the 66, 38 died while serving.

• Two persons were injured in an airplane crash which happened Wednesday evening at the Olin Cloepfil farm four miles northwest of Tarkio. The crash occurred after pilot Keith Adkins, 19, of Elmo, Missouri, landed in a field because a passenger was air sick. When Adkins took off again, he failed to gain sufficient altitude and crashed in a cornfield across the road.

• Van McNeal has been appointed assistant postmaster and Woodrow Marrs has been transferred from the position of carrier to that of clerk at the local post office effective June 1.

June 7, 1973

• Dr. Sam McNaughton, formerly of Westboro, Missouri, is co-author of a recently published textbook, “General Ecology.”

• The Tarkio College Basketball Team’s tour of Scotland and England has started off well. The Owls won their first four games. In the second game, the Owls played the team that won the British Cup Championship in 1972. Several players on this team played for Great Britain in the 1972 Olympic Games.

• Bob Tucker, head track coach and head defensive coach in football at Tarkio College, was named District 16 Coach of the Year in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for 1973.

• The Atomic Energy Commission will hold an informal public meeting at Tarkio College on June 14 to answer questions from local residents about the status of the Cooper Nuclear Station being built across the Missouri River at Brownville, Nebraska.

• Larry Greenwalt of Shenandoah, Iowa, will be featured as guest artist at the third annual Walnut Hill Art Fair June 9 at the Tarkio Community Building. Although he finds most of his subjects in the familiar surroundings of the local countryside, he also does portrait work and has painted such people as former president Lyndon Johnson.

June 4, 1998

• The Tarkio Community Betterment met at 10th Street Restaurant in Tarkio June 1 to finalize the plans for its big job of the season, a project book. This will highlight improvements in the town which took place from August 1, 1997, through July 31, 1998. This will also include the relatively new Main Street program, the 13th year for C.A.B.A., the rebirth of the Tarkio Rodeo, and community activities.

• Ask Elsie Fae – “On the Eleventh Commandment…There must have been an influential committee somewhere, sometime, that decided God left out the Eleventh Commandment – Old people shall not have fun. There will always be someone to say, ‘Look at her. She’s trying to act young.’ Let’s be reasonable – why would anyone try to act old? . . . At one time, Edna and I could drive anywhere we wanted to go, but those days are gone. They’re gone because I made a simple mistake, and instead of going to my intended destination, Wisconsin, I missed the turn and went to Chicago. Edna and I laughed about my silly mistake all the way to Janesville, Wisconsin, but my three children and their respective mates did not laugh.”