Stories from Thursday, July 1, 2004

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail The mountains of Afghanistan are riddled with caves, and it's in this region where Ryan Jones, a 2001 graduate of Nevada High School and a corporal in the United States Marine Corps, hunts for stores of hidden ammunition and supplies...

Sgt. Mark Harwell of the Missouri State Highway Patrol takes down an accident report after a carload of teenagers overturned on Happy Hollow Road just east of Highway BB at about 2:30 Wednesday afternoon. Harwell said Deborah Snowden, 20, of Richards, was driving a 1991 Dodge Shadow on BB Highway and turned onto the gravel road, traveling too fast. ...

By Ben Holman Nevada Daily Mail For everyone who attends a college or university one of the biggest challenges is figuring out how to pay the bills. Most people depend on scholarships, grants, loans or the generosity of their parents, but the owners of J&J Fireworks have discovered a novel way to earn supplemental income to fund their education...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Troy Matthews is a candidate for Vernon County Sheriff and recently that fact had county officials scrambling. Matthews is also on the list of sexual offenders -- the circumstance that caused the flurry of activity, in an effort to ensure he's an eligible candidate for the office...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail The camp United States Marine Corps Cpl. Ryan Jones of Nevada is stationed at is named for one of the Marines that give that service its special aura, Col. John W. Ripley. Ripley enlisted in the Corps in 1957 and served as an enlisted man for a year before securing an appointment to the United States Naval Academy, graduating in 1962 as a Marine 2nd Lieutenant...

By Robert Sandler Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- State agencies will have to analyze how proposed rules will affect small businesses before the rules can be issued under legislation signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Bob Holden. The law requires agencies to try to develop the least restrictive rule possible for businesses with fewer than 50 employees. ...

Births Bailey Anne Ast Kevin and Christy Ast, Nevada, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Bailey Anne Ast. Bailey was born at 9:05 p.m., on June 17, 2004, at Freeman Medical Center in Joplin. She weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces, and measured 20 inches. Paternal grandparents are LeRoy and Ann Ast, Nevada. Maternal grandparents are Jim and Suzanne Melton, Nevada. Paternal great-grandparent is Agnes Ast, Conway Springs, Kan. Maternal great-grandparent is Sue Bailey, Nevada...

Are you sure it happened that way? "Do you remember the time all five of us sisters were together at the Elderhostel near Potosi?" "Sure I do." "Okay, then, why did I come home a day earlier than the rest of you, and since I came home earlier how did Miriam get back home?" "I think you had some church commitment or something, but Miriam probably drove over herself. ...

'The White Man's Burden' reconsidered Rudyard Kipling, a Nobel Laureate for Literature, has been "politically incorrect" almost since he won the award, back in 1907. All the more reason for his many admirers, including the present writer, to like and respect him. His "Gunga Din" alone proves he wasn't the "racist" he's accused of being; and his countless would-be "sexist" remarks ("A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke"), taken in context, read quite otherwise...

100 years ago: Vernon Dairy Association contemplates establishing a creamery in nevada in near future. Several members of the Vernon County Dairy Association met at the Court house this afternoon and held a business session. These gentlemen are enthusiastic over the dairy question and they have ever reason for being so for the question of producing cream and butter is indeed an important one...