April 13, 1950

• Showing at The Tarkio theatre: “Riders In The Sky” with Gene Autry and Gloria Henry, “Forbidden Street” with Dana Andrews and Maureen O’Hara, and “The Hasty Heart” with Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, and Richard Todd.

• The First National Teller Tells: “By invitation of Howard Moore, a landscape engineer from May Seed and Nursery Company made a survey of the two city parks in Tarkio, as well as the Legion building grounds and City Hall last week.”

• Harrison W. Yount, chief aircraft communicator at the local U.S. Airways Communications Station, received figures this week detailing Tarkio weather history of the last 70 plus years. Within five months in 1936, Tarkio experienced the coldest temperature in its history (-22ºF on February 5) and the hottest (113ºF on July 25). The latest frost ever recorded in Tarkio was on May 29, 1947, and the earliest was September 22, 1913. The year 1915, Tarkio experienced its wettest year on record with a total of 47.80 inches.

• A birthday dinner is planned for Dr. J.A. Thompson, president emeritus of Tarkio College, and Professor H.K. Noel, business manager emeritus. Dr. Thompson turned 90 February 8 and Professor Noel turned 91 on April 2.

• More than 40 shooters took part in the Tarkio Gun Club’s first registered trap shoot of the season Sunday. Earl Bowman was the money winner in the Calcutta pool with a 96, earning $186.40. Mr. Bowman also took high with a 96 in the 100 target handicap race.

• Specials at Evans Drug Co in Tarkio include: Rexall aspirin, 2 for 50¢; milk of magnesia toothpaste, 3 large tubes for 59¢; toothbrush, 2 for 16¢; Liggett’s jumbo size chocolate bars, 3 for 43¢; and single round, loose-powder compact, 59¢.

April 17, 1975

• The First National Bank in Tarkio was robbed of approximately $30,000 about 10:00 Wednesday morning. Three men, armed with revolvers, entered the bank and told everyone to lie on the floor. One of the men took bank president Lew Schollian into the vault and ordered him to open it. Schollian convinced the bandit he was unable to do so and the men fled.

• Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, USN (Retired), will be the last Tri-State Artist Lecture Series guest speaker at Tarkio College this year. Bucher, a 27-year Navy veteran, was in command of the U.S.S. Pueblo when he and its crew were seized and imprisoned in North Korea. They were all tortured and starved. After an 11 month confinement and his release, he was brought before the Navy Court of Inquiry on five charges of violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. After a higher court disapproved the earlier decision, he retired from the Navy. It is these experiences that have caused Bucher to question how much a U.S. citizen can be expected to endure in the name of patriotism and how much can be withstood in the name of self-respect.

April 13, 2000

• Two Tarkio FFA ag teams qualified for state at the Spring District Agriculture Contest at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville March 28. The Livestock Judging Team of Tyler Rolofson, Casie Lesher, Adam Rolf, and Ryan Sundermann and the Ag Mechanic Team of Paul Klute, Tim Vette, Stuart Heck, and Brett Hurst both qualified for state with their 4th place finishes.

• The After School Special students at the United Methodist Church in Tarkio recently made blessing bags to be given to children at Community Hospital Association in Fairfax. The bags contain coloring books, note pads, crayons, stickers, and pencils, plus a note from the students.