Blast from the past

Cori Nichols began a full-time position as environmental public health specialist with the Daviess County Health Department on June 23. Cori was born and raised in Gallatin and graduated from GHS in 2004. Cori’s father is Doug Nichols and her stepmother is Jackie Nichols of Gallatin. Her mother is Cindy Falco of Columbia.

On July 25, a Kansas City man was convicted by a federal jury for his role in a marijuana growing operation in Daviess County, according to John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. Jhanmay Molina-Perez, 29, of Kansas City, was found guilty of participating in a conspiracy to manufacture marijuana from May 1 to Oct. 31, 2006, and of managing and renting the 22-acre property that was used for growing marijuana. Law officers found the large marijuana operation inside a cornfield behind a residence east of Coffey.

July 29, 1998

Funeral services for Dr. Edward Earl Nixon, 85, longtime Gallatin physician, were held Saturday at Hope-Eldringhoff Funeral Home with burial at Hillcrest Cemetery, Gallatin. He served the community for most of five decades.

Gallatin’s Joey Hubbard and Hamilton’s Scott Sanderson represented the Grand River Conference Saturday night in the 22nd Annual Missouri Lions East-West All-Star Football Game held at Lincoln University in Jefferson City. Both Hubbard and Sanderson received all-state recognition for the 1997 football season.

July 27, 1988

Bob Parker, Daviess County ASCS executive director for 26 years, is being promoted to District 2 Director effective Aug. 1. Parker becomes one of nine ASCS district directors in the state.

Fifteen volunteers were on hand Saturday morning as cement trucks from Bethany Concrete began pouring a slab for an outdoor basketball court next to the community building in Altamont. Major contributors to the project include Wood Brothers Concrete, John McLaughlin, Doug Youtsey and R.L. Eaton, Hales Super Market, the First National Bank of Gallatin, Perry Bauer, Trager Quarries and Bethany Concrete. The $2,000 project is being supervised by Dean Rhoades.

Jack Barton of Gallatin won third place in the street class of “Starfest 88,” the first National Mercedes Benz Car Show held recently at the Sheriton Premiere Hotel in Washington, D. C.

July 26, 1978

Six young men from Jameson’s varsity basketball squad were among those participating in the week long camp held by Coach Larry Holley last week at Northwest Missouri State University. They are John Agenstein, Frank Wheeler, Clint Snyder, Dennis Croy, Kenny Holdsworth and John Holdsworth.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Carder have returned to Gallatin to live after four years in the U. S. Navy Seabees. They were stationed in N.A.S. Alamdea and Port Huneme, Calif. Carl had an eight-month deployment on Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean.

The State Highway Department recently honored two area employees for longtime service. Clyde T. Rainey of Coffey, a highway maintenance foreman in District 1, was recognized for having completed 25 years of service. J.W. Young of Jameson has completed 25 years with the department, last serving as a maintenance crew leader in District 1.

Aug. 1, 1968

Members of the Gallatin R-5 Board of Education meeting in special session last Wednesday, employed Kay Cleavinger, Architect and Associate, to draw up plans for a two classroom addition to the elementary school in southwest Gallatin. The additional classroom space would make it possible to provide housing for the addition of kindergarten to the elementary school and a room available for music instruction.

Sunday and Monday at the Courter Theater, Super Mother Superior vs. Groovy Sister George: Rosalind Russell and Stella Stevens starring in “Where Angels Go …Trouble Follows.” Also starring Milton Berle, Arthur Godfrey, Van Johnson and Robert Taylor.

July 31, 1958

Daviess Countians will begin paying higher postal rates tomorrow with the rate on letters four cents an ounce, postal cards three cents and air mail not exceeding eight ounces jumped from six cents to seven cents an ounce.

Burle Hisle will begin excavation soon, weather permitting, on a seven-unit motel on Highway 13 just north of the highway department garage.

The City of Pattonsburg will be chemically sprayed shortly to forestall any possible outbreak of disease as the result of the health hazzard created by the recent high water near there.

The aftermath of the July flood has once again embroiled this area in stormy controversy over the methods of flood control for Grand River with a reported 500 petitions in circulation in the lower basin for the engineers’ six-reservoir plan.

July 29, 1948

The menace posed by a bumper grasshopper crop is causing concerns to farmers in all parts of the county. Movement of the hoppers from harvested fields to nearby clover, alfalfa and corn fields has spread.

A timber rattlesnake measuring more than five feet long and carrying 12 rattles and a “button,” was killed this morning by Andy Souders, Sheridan Township, who caught the reptile in the act of swallowing a baby chicken in his chicken yard.

About eight miles of Highway 13 between Gallatin and Hamilton today remained to be given a final coating of blacktop surfacing.