May 11, 1950
• Showing at The Tarkio Theatre: “The Pirate” with Gene Kelly and Judy Garland, “Sands of Iwo Jima” with John Wayne and John Agar, and “The Doctor and The Girl” with Glenn Ford and Janet Leigh.
• Tarkio High School’s largest graduating class since 1941 will be honored in commencement exercises next Friday. There are 46 candidates for graduation, only four less than the 50 in the record class nine years ago.
• School children from 48 rural schools in Atchison County will parade down Main Street here today as a feature of the annual rural school exhibit to be held at the Tarkio Community Building.
• Open house on the Tarkio College campus is planned for Monday afternoon, May 22, in recognition of the completion of one phase of the college’s development and building program. Those attending will be taken on a tour of inspection of building additions to the campus made in the past six years.
May 15, 1975
• Commencement exercises will be held at Tarkio High School Friday, May 23. Charlie Plumb, former Vietnam prisoner of war, will be the speaker. Plumb’s Navy fighter plane was downed near Hanoi on his 75th combat mission and he spent nearly six years in a north Vietnamese prison.
• The third annual Cub-Mo-Bile races will be held Sunday, May 18, from 9th street to 6th street on Main. All Cub Scouts will be driving cars. Two cars run in each race and all drivers will drive twice, once in the south lane and once in the north lane.
• Janet Arneal, senior at Tarkio College, was chosen as the Tarkio College Woman of the Year by popular student ballot.
• Specials at Hy-Vee in Tarkio include: Mariner frozen fish sticks, 8 ounce package for 25¢; Miracle Whip, 32 ounce jar for 89¢; Hy-Vee refrigerated biscuits, 8 ounce tube for 10¢; and Del Monte catsup, 14 ounce bottle for 33¢.
May 11, 2000
• Tarkio High School golfers Derek Hancock and Brad Sparks qualified for state golf after finishing in the top 10 at districts in Maryville. Both shot an 81 and tied for third place.
• Dean Hicks and the Tarkio High School vocational agriculture program have been selected as the Outstanding Agriculture Education Program honorees in the state.
• The Tarkio City Council accepted a bid from Sodbuster’s Service Company to install air conditioning at the Tarkio Community Building. Even though the city accepted the lower bid Sodbuster’s had put in with a lower efficiency air conditioner instead of the higher bid that the company had also sent in with a more efficient air conditioner, Steve and Rick Harrington with Sodbusters donated the $530 difference to allow the city to install the higher efficiency Bryant units instead of the lower efficiency Coleman ones.
• Ask Elsie Fae column: “I ran into Scott Morehouse at Hy-Vee and asked, ‘Why won’t you work for me?’ He said, ‘Because I did once.’” “Will Johnson wants me to teach ‘Nagging’ and Denny and Erika Mather want me to have a class in ‘Minding Your Own Business.’ I’m flattered my reputation as a good teacher is recognized, not only in Tarkio, where I’ve never taught, but even in Germany, where I’ve never taught. We won’t mention Shenandoah, where I have taught.”
