June 22, 1950
• Showing at the Fair Theatre in Fairfax: “Meet the Killer” with Abbott and Costello, “Ma and Pa Kettle” with Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride, and “One Sunday Afternoon” with Dennis Morgan.
• Specials at B.P. Hunter Stores include: Miracle Whip, 29¢ for a pint jar; Wheaties, 2 eight-ounce packages for 39¢; and Tide, Oxydol, or Duz, 2 large packages for 49¢.
• The Blue Cross hospital service, which this week is accepting individual enrollments from Atchison County residents, was started in 1929 by a small group of Dallas, Texas, teachers and now provides service without regard to cost to 36 million Americans.
• L.E. Agee of Bethany, Missouri, started work Monday as shop foreman at the Craven Implement Company.
June 26, 1975
• The Missouri State Highway Patrol was recently issued a new citizens band radio license by the Federal Communications Commission with the call sign KMO 0911. Troopers with CB transceivers will answer callers who use the previous call sign KGY 5621 and then will advise the person to use the new call sign.
• Mary Anne Scarlett was crowned Miss Fairfax at the 10th annual Fairfax Community Fair. Kim Wake and Chuck Litherbury were crowned Little Miss and Mr. Fairfax respectively.
• An added feature to the fair this year was the water fights by local and visiting firemen. In the men’s division, two teams from each of the Carson, Iowa, and Rock Port, Tarkio, and Fairfax, Missouri, fire stations competed. Winners were Rock Port first, Carson second, and Fairfax third. In the women’s division, teams from Carson and Rock Port competed with Carson coming out ahead.
• How wet has it been? Well, it’s been wet enough to grow mushrooms in late June. Carmen Brindle has a couple of long-stemmed beauties in her deep freeze to prove it. She found them last week while trimming the hedge.
June 22, 2000
• The Fairfax City Council has issued an Emergency Water Conservation ordinance. Residents will not be allowed to water their lawns, wash their vehicles/boats/trailers/etc., nor clean outdoor surfaces such as driveways, porches, or outdoor buildings with water. Burning and the use of fireworks has also been banned until further notice.
• Larry Goodloe, Community Hospital Association’s Administrator, has resigned effective August 22, 2000.
• Tylicia and Willie Bradley of Fairfax announce the birth of their daughter, Leslie Jay Payton Bradley. She was born on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 18.
• Funeral services were held Saturday, June 17, for Lulu Etta Harmon of Tarkio. Lulu was a 1924 Fairfax High School graduate who taught school for 31 years in Tarkio, Westboro, and Craig, Missouri, and two years spent in California.
