Stories from Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Concerns over nurses' pay dominated the Nevada Regional Medical Center Board of Directors meeting Tuesday night, overshadowing other matters on the agenda. Dr. Mitch Magruder focused the boards attention on the issue of salary compression and staffing levels. ...

Joe Kraft and former Nevada mayor Dick Meyers brought their concerns about travel expenses and how the city uses the money in the special project fund before the Nevada City Council Tuesday night. Kraft told the council that he was concerned that the list of potential trips included in the amendment to the 2003 budget did not cite a total cost. ...

Gardeners beware! A deadly killer is stalking your multiflora roses. Fatal to multiflora roses, Rose Rosette Disease is a progressive sickness that takes several years of declining rose health before the plant finally gives in. The ailment,RRD is spread by a four legged eriophyid mite known as Phyllocoptes fructiphilus K. ...

The Senior Golf League, with 22 players participating, held an individual-play event using International scoring on the back nine of Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course on Tuesday. International scoring is a points system which awards scores under par and penalizes scores above. A flight 1. David Grubb 2. Maynard Browning 3. Alan Hoover B flight 1. Charlie Smith 2. John Carmichael 3. Paul Hendrix...

CARTHAGE, Mo. -- "A true team effort" is how Nevada coach Tyson Beshore described the Tigers' semifinal performance. Nevada, the seventh seed, advanced to the Class 3, District 12 final with a 13-7 win over No. 3 Seneca on Tuesday. "We're on a roller coaster and we're going downhill right now at a very fast speed," said Beshore, "and the kids are playing well, so we're just going to enjoy it." The Tigers are playing well, executing and getting contributions throughout the lineup. ...

The Nevada Tigers finished sixth in the 12-team MSHSAA Class 1, District 5 Tournament at Millenium Tennis and Fitness Club in Joplin, Mo. Although no Nevada participant advanced to Saturday's finals, the Tigers performed well in Friday's preliminary round, scoring 11 points. ...

The most popular activity at the McGennis Youth Center is swimming in the lake. The swimming season will start at 1 p.m. this Sunday. Swimming hours are from1 to 7 p.m. daily. There is some discussion by board members of changing the hours and perhaps closing swimming one or two days a week. ...

100 Years Ago -- May 21, 1903 REPORTED FROM RICHARDS --A. Comstock shipped a carload of feeders from his farm near Laharp, Illinois. Mrs. Phelps of Neosho, who has been visiting her parents Dr. and Mrs. J.D. Todd, left on the 11:40 train for Rockville to spend a few days with her grandparents. ...