Stories from Thursday, January 29, 2004

Do you think in complete sentences? That is, when you are just doing your usual tasks, and are not talking to another person or even to an animal, do you express your own thoughts -- to yourself -- in complete sentences? I don't know if I have always done this or not, but lately I have been aware that instead of just getting up and going to do something, I say to myself, "I'd better get up and start supper (or whatever)."...

100 Years Ago -- January 29, 1904 The Oil Reports -- Seat of activity seems now to be at Walker. It is understood the company will not drill for oil but will develop the asphalt beds in Drywood and Dover Township. From a gentleman who came up from Sheldon it is learned that the Missouri Asphalt and Oil Company's big drill will be moved to Walker where the company has leased land and that the drill will be started at once...

Patricia Eileen Cole, 71, Nevada, formerly of Garden City, Kan., Denver, Colo., and Las Vegas, Nev., died Jan. 27, 2004, at Moore-Few Care Center. She was born on Oct. 13, 1932, in Garden City, Kan., to Archie E. and Genevieve M. Bishop Crabb. In 1950 she married Lee Roy Lile, who preceded her in death in 1981...

The Nevada Lady Tigers rallied from a nine-point halftime deficit to topple El Dorado Springs 48-41 at the Nevada Tiger Classic on Wednesday. Battling out of a 27-18 halftime hole, the Lady Tigers outscored El Dorado 16-5 in the third period to forge a 34-32 lead. They extended the margin to five at 40-35 before a 6-0 run vaulted the Lady Bulldogs back on top at 41-40 with 1:33 to go...

Nevada broke a five-game skid with a 47-29 win over El Dorado Springs in the first-round of the Nevada Tiger Classic on Wednesday. The Tigers, in easily their best overall effort since a forced lineup change three games ago, never trailed after an early 2-0 deficit...

The Cottey Comets' tailspin continued with three more losses, stretching their losing streak to 14. The latest loss, against perennial Division II power Penn Valley Community College on Tuesday, followed defeats at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley and St. Louis CC at Meramec on Thursday and Friday...

Many Vernon County residents may assume that drugs and crime are just a big city problem. But we have our own drug problem in Vernon County -- the manufacturing, use and trafficking of methamphetamine. Investigator Jay Hamilton, with the Vernon County Sheriff's Office, reports that in 2003 and the first part of 2004 86 people were arrested for manufacturing, intent to manufacture or possession of methamphetamine. In addition there were 13 operational labs busted and seven lab dumpsites found...

The city of Nevada and Wal-Mart are going to work together to increase the number of youth in the area who play golf. "That is the future of the golf course. We need to attract those younger golfers," Carol Branham, Nevada Parks and Recreation director, told the Nevada Parks Board, during a regular meeting Wednesday evening...

The second of three meetings of the Nevada R-5 Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Advisory Council was held at the Nevada High School library Wednesday evening. The group has been active in the R-5 schools for many years and in the past has sponsored a junior/senior and coaches versus alumni basketball games but this year decided to focus on supplying more information and resources to those attending a family fun night, which is still in the planning stages at this time...