Stories from Thursday, May 6, 2004

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail A fire Wednesday night at the Capri Bowl in Nevada caused about $300,000 in damage and fire officials estimate that the property is largely lost. "We'll have to wait for the insurance company to look at the figures for the final monetary loss but I'd say the property is a 75-percent loss," said fire chief Bill Gillette...

By Scott Moyers Nevada Daily Mail Terry Lorton of Osceola frowned as the numbers sped past the $30 mark on the gas pump as he filled up his 45-gallon work truck Wednesday afternoon at a Nevada service station. "It's not even to the halfway point yet," said the self-employed construction worker. "It's getting too darn high."...

By Brian Johnson Nevada Daily Mail When 52-year-old Jim Liley went to the 16th annual St. Charles Golden Games to compete in team volleyball, he dreamed that he would come out of the competition with a gold medal. But a funny thing happened on the way to a gold medal -- Liley's team stunk and lost early in the competition...

Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada High School boys tennis team will not want to remember Tuesday's competition at the Southwest Conference Tournament for very long. The Nevada team placed fourth among the four conference schools entered the team finished one point behind Neosho with 20.5, Carthage with 18.5 and Webb City with 3.5 points...

Joyce Kilmer's poem, "Trees," was one of the poems our third-grade teacher suggested we read. I loved it and instantly memorized it. I could recite it today if the jingle that parodied it didn't stick in my mind and block the real poem. I think it might have been Ogden Nash who wrote the take-off from the poem, but I am not sure. It goes, "I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree, Indeed unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all!"...

Charles Loyal Malcom, 78, Augusta, Kan., died May 5, 2004. He was born May 14, 1925. Visitation will be on Sunday from 1 to 6 p.m., with family present from 2 to 4 p.m., at Hillside Funeral Home in Augusta, Kan. Services will be Monday, at 10 a.m., at the Hope Community Church in Andover, Kan. ...