Jan. 10, 2007
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The Gallatin Theater League is asking the community to assist them in a $20,000 renovation campaign. The theater needs some serious structural maintenance and the League has further outlined a plan to upgrade the technical and cosmetic portions of the building.
Charles “Butch” Bayne, a 30-year employee of the Missouri Department of Transportation, retired on Jan. 1. Butch retired as a senior crew worker at the Coffey maintenance facility where he worked throughout his entire career.
Sophomore Wren Tolen scored a career high 24 points, 17 coming in the second half, and pulled down 11 rebounds to lead the Lady Bulldogs to a slim, 50-48, victory over Richmond in the opening round of the Lawson Tournament.
Jan. 15, 1997
WideBand Corporation, currently the sole manufacturer of the world’s fastest computer network over copper wire rather than fiber optics, has announced plans to build a new business facility in Gallatin Area Business Park.
Gallatin’s renowned McDonald Tea Room began operations under new owners Friday. Patty Hubbard, with the support of her entire family, continues the tradition of fine dining at one of Daviess County’s best known businesses.
Frances Whitt of Gallatin was among 20 nominees recognized as a regional runner-up for the Missouri Older Worker of the Year Contest. Frances was nominated by Teresa Monteith, Food Service Manager at the Daviess County Care Center.
Jan. 14, 1987
Michele Pittsenbarger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Pittsenbarger of Gallatin, has recently received the honor of Drum Major of the CMSU Marching Mules for the upcoming 1987 marching season. Miss Pittsenbarger plans a bachelor of music degree from CMSU and is in her second year at the university.
Homecoming candidates at Jameson High School this year are Christy King and George DeLarber, Anita McNeely and Phil Griggs, Becky Griffin and Matt Williams, Jill Feurt and Robyn McNeely, Tammy Breit and Chris Baker.
Jan. 12, 1977
Daviess County remains under a heavy blanket of snow, with temperatures most of the week below zero and the wind chill index on many occasions rated at 35 to 40 below. The mercury climbed to near 20 degrees yesterday and Daviess Countians considered it a heat wave.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Courter Theater, a double feature with “Godzilla vs. Meglaon,” plus “From Noon Till Three.”
Don McWilliams of Kansas City, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom McWilliams of Gallatin, has received a promotion with his employer, Trans World Airlines at the TWA Technical Services Center at KCI Airport. Don is a 1972 graduate of Gallatin High School and Weaver Airline Personnel School.
Jan. 12, 1967
Work got underway in earnest this week on the new building for Thompson Implement Company in south Gallatin. The building will occupy the site of the one-time showplace home of the Givens family, two blocks south of the square on Highway 13.
The Swiss Ambassador to the United States, the Honorable Felix Schnyder, will come to Gallatin Jan. 30 for the dedication of the Albert Gallatin stamp. It is most appropriate that Switzerland be represented since Albert Gallatin is one of their favorite sons.
Miss Carol Sue Trimble, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Trimble of Jamesport, will be one of 10 soloists to appear on the “Campus Talent ‘67” variety show to be televised on Channels 2 and 9. Carol Sue is a junior voice major at the University of Missouri.
Jan. 10, 1957
Capt. L.E. Dowell, 31, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lial Dowell of Gallatin, died in the crash of his plane Saturday in California. Dowell was one of two Air Force officers killed when their T33 jet trainer, on a routine flight, exploded at 500 feet.
Les Langford, a former Jamesport mail carrier and now a Gallatin resident, is enjoying retirement following 32 years of continuous service carrying the mail. Langford, who retired Dec. 31, wore out several horses, 13 cars and tow jeeps in the performance of his duties.
With the advent of dial telephones in Gallatin, the local switchboard operator became a thing of the past. It is apparent, however, that many local patrons do not realize that dialing “0” does not get a Gallatin operator but a Trenton operator. One female patron, calling the operator to ask the time of day, was told that that information was not considered a function of the long distance operator. When she asked “how am I going to know what time it is?” Replied the operator, “Buy a clock.”
Jan. 9, 1947
Members of the starting five of the Gallatin High School basketball team, current leaders in the Northwest Missouri Big Six Conference, with an undefeated record, are Charles Hershberger, forward; Larry Potts, guard; Johnny Brown, center; Captain Bill Branam, guard; and Dale Hiatt, forward.
Divorces in Daviess County during 1946 outnumbered marriage licenses sixty-one to forty-five. The 45 marriage licenses indicated an upturn since the war years. The 1945 total was only 26.
Miss Donna Courter, former photographer’s model and now a movie starlet, whose home town is Coffey, is off on a junket to South America, with six other MGM lovelies to entertain our neighbors to the south. Miss Courter is a daughter of Roscoe Courter of Coffey and niece of Gallatin’s J. E. Courter.