Stories from Friday, July 18, 2003

Catherine Hinkle doesn't look like an action-movie hero. She's a soft spoken petite woman who takes obvious pride in her home. There's no bandolier of ammunition slung across her chest, no automatic weapon dangling from her shoulder. All the same Hinkle has performed heroically, donating 20 gallons of blood, 120 pints, in her lifetime -- something most Hollywood types would have a hard time emulating. ...

Mirandia Fowler is a whiz in the kitchen, and a week ago her culinary prowess earned her a silver medal in a national student competition conducted in Philadelphia, Pa. The 17-year-old Nevada High School student competed with a team of students from other schools and scored 85, enough to gain a silver medal in the competition. ...

Tomato growers have begun to notice with alarming frequency that the bottom of their tomato fruit is rotting off. Pat Miller, West Central Region agronomy specialist for the University of Missouri Outreach and Extension office, said that there has been more complaints this year about blossom-end rot than any of the 14 years that she has been in this area. ...

LIBERAL, Kan. -- Battered by the home run for much of the season, the Nevada Griffons used it to their advantage last night. Gus Milner broke open a tie game with a grand slam to lift the Griffons to a 12-6 win over Liberal on Thursday. With the score tied at 5, Milner's fifth-inning slam over the center-field wall sent the Griffons up 9-5. ...

100 Years Ago -- July 18, 1903 TROUBLE AT SWARTZ -- Samuel Wagner struck a man named Miller over the head five times using a pitchfork. Miller is in a serious condition. It is alleged that a love affair is the cause of the trouble. It is learned that after the physicians dressed Miller's wounds he was taken by request to Arcadia where he took a train for Columbus, Kansas, where he has friends. ...

If your time to you Is worth saving' Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changing' These words a part of a Bob Dylan song called "The Times They Are A Changin'." They are very appropriate for a time like now. ...