Stories from Thursday, July 20, 2006

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail Tuesday night the majority of the Nevada City Council voted 3-2 to override an action of a single councilmember, apparently taken in defiance of the rest of the council's wishes. Councilmen Bill Edmonds, Russ Kemm and Mayor Jim Rayburn voted yes and Dick Meyers and Bill Gillette voted no...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail A public meeting slated for 7 o'clock tonight in the home economics building at the Vernon County fairgrounds offers local residents the chance to provide input on a proposed watershed management plan being developed by the Osage Valley Resource and Development Council and the Bates and Vernon County Soil and Water Conservation Districts...

Nevada Daily Mail The Vernon County Arts Council will host a benefit dinner Saturday, Aug. 5, at 6 p.m., in the City/County Community Center in Nevada, to raise money for their new programs. The dinner will consist of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans almondine, grilled Texas toast, brownie cake, and iced tea or fruit beverage...

By Colette LeFebvre Nevada Daily Mail Masao Shimura's entrance into the cool lobby of the Nevada based Missouri Pecan Plant was quick, he wasn't used to the 100 degree weather as the beads of sweat showed upon his brow. Shimura wasn't too sure that he was in the right place and seemed at a loss, almost as if caught in a whirlwind...

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail The blank paper in front of Maddison Cooke was not destined to remain unmarked. It was destined instead to become one of the soon-to-be-fourth grader's works of art. With instructions aimed at encouraging freedom of expression, Alice Stevenson guided young student's efforts without manipulating them, and Maddison's paper became first a few lines, then a full-page abstract drawing with several elements tied together with strings of Maddison's imagination and inspired by tips and words of encouragement from Stevenson.. ...

J.D. (James D.) Ochsner of Nevada, Mo., has traveled on. He died on July 18, 2006, after a short illness. J. D. was born on Dec. 12, 1930, in Nevada, the only child of Frank Ochsner and Sarah Ethel Willis Ochsner. J.D. graduated from Nevada High School in 1948. ...

As I drove down Highway 43 today, I remembered the excitement and pride felt by my parents when they discovered that just one mile from our farm there was going to be a Farm to Market Road. That was the name given to the smaller state highways when they were first created in the 1930s. ...

By Larry Dablemont When I was 21 years old I spent a summer working for the University of Missouri with what they would call today "at risk boys." Back in my hometown of Houston, Mo., they provided me a big bus and 27 boys between the ages of 9 and 14, some without fathers, some with constant discipline problems, some downright juvenile delinquents...

100 years ago Collision of steamers results in wild panic NEW YORK -- The excursion boats, the Thomas Pattern of the Pleasure Bay Route, and the Perseues, of the Iron Steamboat Company, collided off Robbins Reef this evening. Both vessels were thronged with passengers at the time but, although the Persures received an almost fatal wound, there were no fatalities, thanks to the vessels that buried to the assistance of the two...