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Herrman’s Historical Happenings week of April 5
1847 The city plat for Papinville is approved and recorded in Bates Co. Named for Peter Melicourt Papin, who donated the land.
1885 Bates Co farmers are taking advantage of the high price of corn and getting 30 cents a bushel.
1916 a $20,000 bond issue passes for a modern school building in Hume.
1965 Pete & Betty Provence are celebrating their grand opening of thee Sears catalog store at 200 West Dakota st, Butler.
1973 According to James Barnhart, Bates Co Fair secretary, 295 shareholders have purchased a total of 405 shares in the Bates County Fair.
1978 There is heavy damage in a late night fire at the Bill Brooks Machine Shop, located at the Butler airport.
1991 The Citizens Bank of Amsterdam, Larry Shannon, president, has made application with the FDIC to locate a branch bank in Cleveland, Mo.
1996 Byron Mott, owner of the Rockville Meat Company announces they are planning to increase their capacity for the slaughter of cows and bulls. The plant has a daily capacity of 200.
Linda Schapeler Howard (Class of 1970) will be catering again this year. Main dish choices are Beef Brisket or Rolled Pork Tenderloin. You will be asked when you make reservations which main dish choice you prefer. There are several ways to obtain ticket reservations.
You can register on-line at https://forms.gle/wBvQ1a9EzaWMpMPZA (on-line payment is being set up but not yet available so you will pay at the door the night of the Banquet.) You can contact Beverly Sullins at 417-395-4288. Leave a message on the answering machine and your call will be returned.
Tickets will also be available at Citizens Bank in Rich Hill beginning the middle of this week. The RHHS Class of 2023 are invited to be our guests, but they do need to let us know to include them in our meal count.
Several Reunions are already planning to be in attendance and if you plan a reunion and would like to reserve a table for your class to sit together let us know. The Ticket Reservation Deadline will be May 20th. All RHHS Alumni are Welcome and we hope to see you there!
-Our thanks to Wanda Smith
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Now that we’re into April, perhaps there will be some relief from the winds of March. The Third Month certainly blew out like a lion; Friday saw gusts to over 50 knots, snapping wind socks out like a poker. Airplanes tied down outside strained at their moorings as they reached flying speed while sitting still.
Not too many aircraft flew in during the often-inclement conditions of the week; we saw a Cessna Skyhawk or two, a Piper Warrior and a Cirrus, and an Army Guard Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter came by. Of the local fleet, Brandt Hall flew his Avid Flyer homebuilt, Rebekah Knight was up in a Cessna 150 and Drake Cashman went to Garnett and New Century, KS. I made one maintenance test flight to return N704EZ to service. It was sad to see the SkyDive KC Beech King Air jump plane depart for its new home on Wednesday, after several years of carrying parachutists up to 15,000 feet. It will be remembered.
The Harrisonville airport was shut down last Thursday while pavement maintenance was making temporary repairs to the runway. The planned reconstruction of its runway has been delayed until 2024, so some filling and sealing will keep it usable for now. A survey crew was seen at Butler airport this week, taking sightings and marking parameters for installation of a new LED runway lighting system, coming soon.
The biig East Coast Sun ‘n Fun fly-in wound up last week, uneventfully. There wasn’t a lot of new product news forthcoming, traditionally released after a winter of development. Rotax announced its new 916 engine, a little firebreather replacing its 915 motor, now pumping out a Lycoming-sized 160 horsepower for one minute during takeoff, 137 horses continuous. Its first use was in a Cub clone that landed on a postage-stamp size heliport atop a tall building over in Dubai. It took three passes to get the approach just right so the STOL plane could skid to a stop in a few dozen feet. Otherwise, there wasn’t a lot of news from the show.
It was announced on the 31st that FLYING Magazine has purchased the struggling Plane & Pilot magazine, promising to continue it as coverage of the lighter piston-engine segment of general aviation. Those are about the only newsrack aviation publications left; most others have gone to digital-only media or are membership-based outlets instead of general circulation.
Our question from last week asked about the lack of a button atop the AOPA baseball caps, given out to members of the organization. The button is eliminated to avoid discomfort of the “pill” being pressed into one’s skull under a headset or when hitting the ceiling in turbulence. Reader Matt Poland knew the reason. For next week, we want to know the purpose of the small venturi device connected to a tube under the belly of some airplanes; no, it’s not related to the gyroscope vacuum system. Send your answers to kochhaus1@gmail.com.
Known as the ‘fastest two hours in radio’ the Lions didn’t catch a break as phone lines lit up during the four night auction that was broadcast on KMOE FM 92.1 nightly last week.
With 100% of all donations being returned to the community, the Butler Lions Club would again like to heartily thank all who made donations, small and large as well as those who dutifully called and bid as well. And yes, plans are already in the works for the annual auction next year.
