Stories from Tuesday, February 1, 2005

By Ben Holman Nevada Daily Mail Dorothy of "The Wizard of Oz" might feel at home in Vernon County this season since several area farmers are considering switching some soybean acres over to a crop commonly associated with Kansas -- sunflowers. On Friday, around 20 area growers met at the Vernon County Fairgrounds to discuss the viability of growing sunflowers in Vernon County. ...

Pat Miller, University of Missouri Extension agronomist, will conduct a class at 6 p.m., Feb. 8, discussing the pros and cons of perennials vs. annuals, how to select and grow perennials and how to divide them. The class will be held at the Nevada TeleCenter, 2015 North West Street, Nevada. The cost for the class is $15. To sign up, call (417) 448-1212...

Nevada Daily Mail Vernon Co PWSD No. 6 has joined Missouri One Call System, a non-profit organization established for the protection of underground facilities. Missouri law requires anyone planning to dig, drill or blast to report the location of the dig site by calling (800) DIG-RITE. ...

Nevada Daily Mail During a meeting set for 7 o'clock tonight, in the council chambers in Nevada's Public Safety Building, Ash and Austin, the Nevada City Council plans to discuss several issues. Among items on the agenda are the second reading of a bill authorizing a conceptual design agreement with Bucher, Willis & Ratliff for a potential civic center on the northeast corner of Hunter and Ash, final plat approval of Erwin Stone Gate Addition and zoning the newly-annexed land owned by Bill Erwin and Janet Erwin as RP-1, planned district, single-family. ...

Community members and representatives of the Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce gathered at The Cabin Hair and Tanning Salon on the Square in Nevada for their monthly Fourth Friday Coffee. Those who attended were given a tour of the new facilities and had the opportunity to talk with the owners and other chamber members. The business relocated to the Square recently and officially opened at their new location on Oct. 18 of last year...

Wayne Prewitt, University of Missouri Extension, leads the discussion at the Agri-Business table during Tuesday's seventh annual Ethics Workshop at the 3M Clubhouse. Seniors from all Vernon County schools are invited to participate in the workshop each year. ...

Fred Dewayne Coppage, 73, Warsaw, Mo., died Jan. 28, 2005, at Garden Valley Manor, in Gladstone, Mo. He was born on Sept. 16, 1931, in Pleasanton, Kan., to John Quintin Coppage and Rosa Rittenhouse. He was a Kansas City resident most of his life. He worked for TWA for more than 25 years. He lived in Warsaw, Mo., for the past 10 years...

Martha J. Baker, 80, Rich Hill, died Jan. 30, 2005, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She is survived by three daughters, Stella Tacia, Nevada, Doris Long, Milo, and Susie Kelly, Rich Hill; one sister, Polly Harrison, Crossville, Tenn.; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren...

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Jan. 23 The Buffalo (N.Y.) News, on draining the military: The "wave of steel" that rolled through the Iraqi desert is corroding in the swamp of occupation and insurgency, and America's citizen-soldiers are paying a high price for that...

100 years ago: New railroad for Nevada A new railroad was incorporated yesterday in the office of the Secretary of State John F. Swanger, the Kansas City, Nevada & Springfield Railroad Company. The company is capitalized at $720,000 and will build a road from Nevada to Springfield, Mo., through the counties of Vernon Cedar, Dade and Greene, a distance of 72 miles...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail For the second straight year the Nevada Lady Tigers have won their own tournament, winning the Lady Tiger Classic after defeating Willard in the championship game Saturday, 57-44. Nevada was led by senior Hillary Adams, who scored 28 points, including five 3s, as the hosts turned away the Willard Lady Tigers...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail With seven minutes left in the third quarter, the bottom fell out. At least that has to be what the Nevada Tigers felt like happened in Saturday's championship game of the Tiger Classic against Willard. Willard won 58-37, but it was a 16-0 run in the third period that was the difference...

Nevada Daily Mail The Hume basketball teams split with Sheldon and Miami last week during the Hume Tournament. The boys beat Sheldon, but fell to Miami. The girls did the opposite, beating Miami but falling to Sheldon. Thursday the boys beat Sheldon 68-47 behind James Salters' 24 points...

"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie," goes the old song, but -- sorry Dean Martin fans -- that may not be amore anymore. That "moon" may be Mickey Rooney's butt. Thankfully, Americans were recently spared the sight of Mickey Rooney's 84-year-old backside on Super Bowl Sunday...