Stories from Sunday, August 24, 2003

Sunday, Monday, Happy Days. Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days, Thursday, Friday, Happy Days. Saturday, what a day! Rockin' all week with you. -Theme from Happy Days TV show Back in the 1950's, going to the drive-in theater was a coming-of-age experience for American teenagers. ...

Editor's note: Butler and Wanda Felts, who operated Nevada's Trail Drive-In from 1974 to 1983, are still in the business of drive-in theaters, and still operates a theater in Lamar. Here's his the tale of the couple in the projection room By Steve Moyer Nevada Herald It's a warm Friday evening, the sun is about to set, the temperature is cooling off after a hot day. ...

Editor's note: Earlier this month, news accounts told of a Butler man who pleaded guilty in a Vernon County Court to sexual misconduct, involving a minor child. The man had originally been charged with a more serious crime. This is the first in a weekly series about the fight to prevent and prosecute sex crimes against children in Missouri. ...

Hi neighbors. Missouri is known for its caves and I think it's high time we went back to living in them. Why? They are cold. That is the only reason, and the only one I need. Okay, so I won't have electricity -- tell that to New York. I won't have a view -- tell that to apartment dwellers. ...

100 Years Ago -- August 24, 1903 Mephisto's Great Circling the Loop Act with John Robinson's Shows, demonstrates the fact that the man who works the longest does not get the most money. His actual work covers twelve seconds a day, six seconds at each performance. ...

Remember the Snakehead? Last year this strange fish appeared in Maryland and captured all kinds of attention among fishermen and the general public alike. Eric Dolin recently wrote a book about the Snakehead called "A Fish Out of Water." Often the most ususual tales have humble beginnings. ...

This is a column I had more or less delayed writing in hopes that it would go away. The opposite has happened and after the umpteenth person urged me to weigh in on it -- OK. It is the saga of one Ricky Clemons, another episode in what has become rather routine during the relatively short tenure of the young lions at Mizzou. ...