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riginal D-Day Articles by Ernie Pyle Starts on Page 2B
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Wednesday,June June 11, 19, 2013 Wednesday, 2013 USPS-299800 Vol. 138 No. 24 La Plata, MO, 63549 • 12 Pages • 2 Sections
First Dutch’s Frostop Reunion - 57 Years Later
Subscribers to the Home Press are the nicest people! This week we salute
Howard & Ruth Sullivan, Macon, MO In This Edition: • Senior Living • Atlanta Homecoming Schedule
• Original D-Day Articles Written by Ernie Pyle
Northwest Spring 2014 Trimester Graduates
Macon County Historical Society hosted the first Dutch’s Frostop Reunion on Saturday, June 7, 2014. In addition to displaying old photos and articles, they also had a replica of the huge root beer mug from atop the building and served old-fashioned Frostop Root Beer floats. Pictured above is (seated on the left) Virginia Hirrlinger Scroggs, daughter of the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Hirrlinger. She is surrounded by those who were once carhops and a short-order cook at the Frostop Drive-in in Macon. According to the album at the museum, the drive-in opened June 22, 1957. A photo of the restaurant the day before the grand opening can be found pn Page 4A.
News From the Road - TransAmerica Bicycle Trail
Former Bevier resident, Charles Sharp, aka Rick, has dreamed of riding the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail since he started cycling as an adult. The TransAmerica Bicycle Trail was originally created in 1976 as a route across the country in honor of America’s 200th birthday. That year over 2000 cyclists rode the entire “Bikecentennial” route, from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon. This is still the greatest and most traveled bicycle route crossing America. I will not be alone on the trail as many cyclists from all over the world ride this route. The entire route from coast to coast is 4,234 miles. He will be riding his recumbent trike, which he says is more fun, more comfortable and has higher visibility than a standard bicycle. Sharp hopes to average about 60 miles a day, while resting on Sundays and attending church in whatever town he stops near. His wife, Carol (Brown) formerly of Macon, will drive the same route in a pickup with a small camper trailer and meet up with him each night. Sharp had originally planned to continue from West Yellowstone to Oregon this year, stopping at the Astoria, Ore., on the west coast. That is an additional 1,300 miles, bringing the total trip up to 2,600. To reduce logistical issues, he will ride the second leg of the 1,300-mile journey in July of 2015. See page 4A for an excerpt from his daily blog. You can read more in future editions of The Home Press and visit his blog at http://sharp-cpa.com/trike. Continued on Page 4A
The Office of the Registrar and the Graduate School at Northwest Missouri State University have released the names of students who completed requirements for degrees at the conclusion of the 2014 spring trimester. Area students include: La Plata: Michael Alan Eitel, B.S. Ed., English Education; Emily Marie Snodgrass,B.S.,Industrial Psychology Macon: Jakob William Kircher, B.S., Applied Advertising; Rachel Lynn Marie McGowan, B.S. Ed., Elementary Education
June’s Contest: Callao Hawks!
The Home Press is holding a contest for all of our great local sports fans! We will feature a school mascot handmade wreath each month until we cover all of the schools in Macon County! The Callao Hawks contest will run until the winner is announced on June 25. See Page 2 for details.
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Father’s Day - A Brief History On July 5, 1908, a West Virginia church sponsored the nation’s first event explicitly in honor of fathers, a Sunday sermon in memory of the 362 men who had died in the previous December’s explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah, but it was a onetime commemoration and not an annual holiday. The next year, a Spokane, Washington woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children raised by a widower, tried to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s Day for male parents. She went to local churches, the YMCA, shopkeepers and government officials to drum up support for her idea, and she was successful: Washington State celebrated the
nation’s first statewide Father’s Day on July 19, 1910. Slowly, the holiday spread. In 1916, President Wilson honored the day by using telegraph signals to unfurl a flag in Spokane when he pressed a button in Washington, D.C. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge urged state governments to observe Father’s Day. However, many men continued to disdain the day. As one historian writes, they “scoffed at the holiday’s sentimental attempts to domesticate manliness with flowers and gift-giving, or they derided the proliferation of such holidays as a commercial gimmick to sell more products– often paid for by the father himself.” Information from The
History Channel
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