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THIS WEEK IN LOCAL HISTORY
Medicaid wouldn’t treat Dole’s male dysfunction
Published Thursday, May 8, 2008
10 years ago From the Columbia Daily Tribune May 8, 1998 Front page story: "Medicaid will cover the use of Viagra in some states." Missouri was not one of them. Nor was Kansas, the home of Bob Dole, the 1996 Republican presidential candidate who supplemented his income by being a spokesman for the drug. Arkansas, the home of President Bill Clinton, was one of the states where Viagra use was covered. May 9, 1998 Wes Fewell threw a one-hitter to give Hickman High School a 6-1 victory against Mexico. Fewell lost his no-hitter when Bulldogs designated hitter Tyler Jensen singled with two out in the seventh inning. Sophomore center fielder Jake Whitesides was 2-for-4 with an RBI. Junior Ryan McCullem threw a no-hitter two weeks earlier to beat defending state champion Francis Howell. 25 years ago From the Kingdom Daily Sun Gazette May 8, 1983 Doug Horstman of South Callaway High School signed a letter of intent to attend the University of Missouri to play baseball. He will be the first South Callaway athlete to come to MU with an athletic scholarship. Doug was a second-team all-state selection in basketball and was the Little Dixie Conference baseball player of the year. May 10, 1983 The South Callaway R-2 Board of Education held a bond burning Monday night for $600,000 returned by the district in 1982. "We paid off another $800,000 in March," Superintendent Darrell Lee said, "but they haven’t been returned or we would have had a bigger fire." May 10, 1983 By a 4-3 vote, the Fulton City Council turned down a proposal to tighten the animal control ordinance. 50 years ago From the Columbia Daily Tribune May 9, 1958 The Missouri Highway Commission has acquired all right of way for the outer loop from Highway 40 to Providence Road. The cost of the land was $145,518. All but four of the 28 affected ownerships were obtained without condemnation. No date has been set for the construction bids. May 10, 1958 Ernie Nevers won his third-straight start, giving MU an 8-6 victory against Iowa State and keeping the Tigers on top of the Big Eight baseball standings. May 12, 1958 Rep. A. Basey Vanlandingham of rural Columbia was honored by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat as the most effective first-term member of the Missouri House of Representatives. The Globe also honored Rep. Warren Hearnes as the most effective debater in the House and Richard Ichord as showing the greatest growth in leadership. May 12, 1958 MU split with Iowa State, losing the opener 8-7 then winning the nightcap 11-0 on Doug Gulick’s one-hitter. John O’Donoghue lost to Bob Locker in the opener. Both hurlers went on to major league careers. 75 years ago From Omar D. Page’s Sturgeon Leader May 11, 1933 Tar Baby, an 8-month-old black Persian cat owned by Olivia Griffith of Columbia, survived a second scary experience in its young life. It had been chased by a large dog on Friday evening and was not seen again until Sunday morning when Mrs. Griffith discovered it in a hollow tree where its foot had been trapped. A couple of months earlier, the kitty had been sent to the laundry in a bag with the family wash, surviving two days with the dirty clothes.
● Riverside tires - Four ply. From $3.25-$5.50 each. Six ply from $6.05 to $8.35 each. ● Battery - $3.95 with a 12-month guarantee. ● Spark plugs - 42 cents each. ● Oil - 15 cents a quart.
100 years ago From the Columbia Weekly Herald May 8, 1908 Gov. Joseph Folk delivered the 14th-annual commencement address at Ashland High School and presented diplomas to the five graduates. The graduates were Frank Martin, valedictorian; Ruth Old, salutatorian; William Vandiver, class historian; Thurman Murray, class essayist; Josie Lee Vandiver, class will.
Walter Williams retired from active editorial connection with the Herald and soon will become the dean of MU’s new School of Journalism.
150 years ago From the Missouri Statesman May 14, 1858 An editorial: "If Uncle Sam were a trillionaire, it would require but a few Democratic administrations to relieve the weight of ‘the old gent’s’ pockets. "As a reasonable estimate, it is determined that Congress costs the nation $6,000 for every day it is in session. A speech of an hour’s length costs $500, and a call for yeas and nays in the House costs $140. "The cost of public printing of the 33rd and 34th Congresses alone came to $3,839,608.66." Compiler’s note: What follows sounds like 2008. "The government has issued Treasury warrants to the amount of $20 million to pay one debt. Now it wants $30 million to redeem warrants. In a short time, it will want $50 million to pay the loan - and so on till the end of the Buchanan administration. "At this rate, by March 1861, the government will have a handsome debt of $500 million. Give us a few more Democratic congresses and presidents, and the U.S. will be strapped." 180 years ago From the Missouri Intelligencer May 9, 1828 The paper continued to put women in their niche. "Ladies should be fully sensible that no beauty has any lasting and permanent charms, but the gracefulness of women is far more engaging than beauty of person. "They should consider that intelligence, modesty and sensibility are true and lasting charms, that contentment, industry and economy are amiable qualities; that virtue is an invaluable treasure, the universal charm, and should never be parted with upon any consideration. "They who have these are qualified as they should be for usefulness in society and the domestic circle, for the management of families, for the education of children, for pure and lasting affection for their husbands and to submitting cheerfully to a prescient mode of loving."
Bill Clark is a Tribune columnist.
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