Stories from Thursday, December 27, 2012

Barth Frank Hinkle passed away peacefully on Christmas day 2012, at the Moore-Few Care Center. Barth was born Oct. 3, 1924, in Anderson, Ind., the eldest of two sons of Alvin Charles Hinkle and Glenn Eloise Hinkle. After spending most of his boyhood in Hannibal and Joplin, Barth served in the U.S. Air Force from 1943 to 1946. He received a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1949...

George Andrew Miller, 68, the son of James A. and Elsie M. Miller was born Aug. 4, 1944, in Omaha, Neb., and passed from this life on Dec. 2, 2012, in Olathe, Kan. George spent most of his young life in Nebraska then, along with his family, moved to Missouri settling in the Schell City area. He was a 1963 graduate of Schell City High School. Soon afterward he served our country in the United States Army...

When I was growing up a typical meal always had some meat, potatoes or occasionally rice and gravy, two vegetables, salad, bread, butter, jelly, milk to drink except in the summer and then it was iced tea for some meals, and a dessert. This would be varied about once a weak with a meal of beans and cornbread with slaw as a salad, but there would still be a dessert. ...

Nevada Daily Mail Vernon County Sheriff Ron Peckman said the recent report of a stolen horse trailer and attempted cattle rustling near Sheldon was not unusual for Southwest Missouri, where strong cattle prices have increased cow country hijinks. "That trailer was recovered in Cedar County," Peckman said Wednesday. "This type of incident is quite common. The rustlers steal a trailer in one county and go steal cattle someplace else. This is a person who knows cattle and has handled them...

Nevada Daily Mail State Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Lamar, said Wednesday that his proposed House Bill 70 to let teachers and administrators carry concealed firearms in public schools "will get some tweaking," but fellow legislators' initial reactions have been generally favorable...

Nevada Daily Mail A lot of area children received remote control vehicles for Christmas and it has been too cold to use them outside. So Wednesday, Dana Redburn, Nevada parks and recreation director, announced that she is reserving the small gym at the Franklin P. ...

Nevada Daily Mail RICH HILL -- This south central Bates County town's "Famous for the Fourth" Celebration has been notified that it set a new world record for the highest price ever paid for a pie at auction. The receipt of record certificates last Friday from Guinness World Records in London, England, confirmed what auctioneer Larry Hacker and other leaders had been hoping for since the auction last July 6 elicited farmer Jerry Mummaw's $3,100 bid for his granddaughter Jara's banana peanut butter pie.. ...

American Legjon adjatant Delvin CHubick, back, watches as Jeff Gicante, left, and Paul Rhodes dish up Christmas dinner trays Tuesday at the Legion Hall. Legion members and volunteers delivered about 25 dinners to shut-ins as well as those who came to the Legion. ...

By Floyd Jernigan Nevada Daily Mail Success came early and often for the Nevada Middle School seventh-grade girls' basketball program, with both the A and the B teams winning the bulk of their games. Head coach Danny Penn's A team finished the year with an 11-4 record, while the B team finished finished the 2012 season with an overall record of 7-2...

Nevada Daily Mail "It's a really cute program," former Nevada Lady Tigers basketball player Kelly (Meyers) Ast, said at the conclusion of the Osage Prairie YMCA's basketball program for 3- to 5-year-old boys and girls. "I like the way they run it like a practice," Ast said, adding that she thought it was well-organized...