Stories from Sunday, July 13, 2003

Eleven-year-old Scotty Bough scratched the head of the steer and kept a steadying hand on the feed bucket he'd provided for the animal just hours before the steer show at the Vernon County Youth Fair on Friday. This was the third time the young Nevada resident has shown, and each year, he's chosen a Simmetal-Charolais cross for the project. ...

The Vernon County University Outreach and Extension Center will be hosting three informational meetings concerning the proposed Vernon County Public Safety and Enhanced 911 Emergency Communications Center. According to a release from county officials, current county resources and a proposed one-half cent countywide sales tax would fund the public safety center, and within 15 years, the tax would be reduced to three-eighth cent. ...

Liberal rained home runs, then Mother Nature rained on the game. The Nevada Griffons fell to the Liberal BeeJays 7-1 in 5 1/2 innings of play at Lyons Stadium on Friday night. Lightning, followed by rain, washed out the scheduled nine-inning Jayhawk League contest, but not until it went into the record book as an official game. ...

It's long since become gruesomely monotonous: the nightly news that still another U.S. soldier (or, more often, group of soldiers) has been ambushed and shot dead by still another Saddam Hussein supporter. Where are all the Iraqi millions who were yearning to breathe free of Saddam's barbaric torture chambers? Where are all the down-trodden Iraqis who, we were assured, would greet our troops to their shores with open arms? Military intelligence? I don‚t think so. ...

Hi neighbors. You have to get up pretty early to drink your coffee outside before melt down hits. I don't know if the globe is warming -- but Nevada is. This week I went to see my daughter in Iowa. Every trip is a new adventure whenever I leave Nevada for the wide open spaces. ...

Fishing for a lunker fish is exciting. A big fish, caught or lost, is the subject of many campfire conversations, and it is a source for a common bond between anglers. It also supplies a lifetime memory as a special pride in fishing accomplishment that no angler can resist. ...

It's difficult to grasp the undeniable fact that an entire generation has grown up since they stopped playing professional sports at 22nd & Brooklyn in Kansas City. One thing Jim Novak always says makes sense. If we were younger, we wouldn't have the memories we will take with us either to the grave or until Alzheimer's disease or something else just as rude steals them from us. ...

100 Years Ago -- July 13, 1903 Wm. H. Talbot, a mechanical genius of this city, who has been manufacturing a fishing reel that has become famous, will spread out this work on a more extensive scale. Today, he announces that he has disposed of an interest in the business to Ed H. ...