October 20, 1950
• Showing at the Tarkio Theatre: “Sons of New Mexico” with Gene Autry, “Annie Get Your Gun” with Betty Hutton, and “Rusty’s Birthday” with Ted Donaldson, John Litel, Ann Doran, and Jimmy Hunt.
• Herbert Mallicoat of Tarkio has been employed by Philco Corporation as a field engineer and will go overseas with the armed forces as civilian technician. Mr. Mallicoat served eight years with the Army Air Forces during World War II.
• Mr. and Mrs. Bill Abell of Tarkio hold the distinction of operating the highest ranking cream station in the state of Missouri. The station’s top score of 99.75 out of 100 possible points was announced October 6. Each year, the Missouri Butter and Cream Institute, in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Agriculture, conducts a cream station scoring contest.
• The famous Red Heads, a girls’ basketball team, will meet a men’s team sponsored by the Atchison County Memorial Post 4608 Veterans of Foreign Wars at Brown Gymnasium on the Tarkio College campus Tuesday, November 21. The girls’ team is composed of players who for years were members of one of the teams playing in the Women’s National Basketball tournament. They play men’s style basketball with men’s rules.
October 23, 1975
• Mrs. Ina Deane Smith died Sunday, October 19, at the Fairfax hospital where she had been a patient since July 9 of this year. She was 90 years of age. She was a Tarkio High School and Tarkio College graduate who became a registered pharmacist in 1911 and worked for many years in the Withrow Drug Store in Tarkio.
• Tarkio High School’s Ed Roberts led his THS band to the Class M Championship of the Northwest Missouri State University Homecoming Parade. Thirty-five bands, including seven Class M groups, competed.
• The Jim Buthe Service Station at 5th and Main in Tarkio was being dismantled this week and the lot cleared. This is the site for the proposed Atchison County Health Center.
October 19, 2000
• Tarkio High School junior golfer Laurie Whittington qualified for State Golf by shooting a 104 on the par 72 course at Districts. She placed third overall.
• Charles and Mary (Cook) Lee will be celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary. They were married October 27, 1940, at the home of Charles’ grandmother in Tarkio.
• The Tarkio City Council has agreed to allow business owners to cut down the trees in front of their businesses. Several of the trees are causing sidewalk issues.
• Continuing its 30-year commitment to cultural development in Tarkio, the Mule Barn Theatre Guild has approved a subcommittee to start raising funds for a new resource center in Tarkio.
• Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, his oldest son Roger, and top aide Chris Sifford were killed in a plane crash Sunday, October 16. The plane, piloted by Roger, was enroute to New Madrid, Missouri, for a planned campaign stop in Carnahan’s race for the U.S. Senate. In an editorial comment, Avalanche publisher Will Johnson remarked on meeting Governor Carnahan, who opened doors which helped Y.S.I. locate in the Tarkio College campus.
