Stories from Sunday, October 8, 2006

By Steve Moyer Herald-Tribune Nevada, Mo. --Nevada will host the Kaysinger Business Conference, in the Missouri Recital Hall, inside the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts at Cottey College, Oct. 12. Business people from all over southwest Missouri will converge on Nevada for a day of speakers and informational sessions designed to expose new and existing business owners to opportunities for growth. ...

By Colette Lefebvre-Davis Nevada Daily Mail Nevada, Mo. -- Thirty-five years ago, one of the largest employers in the area opened its doors. Getting to that point was a long road for 3M. There were many facets of bringing the plant to town that had to be addressed, like negotiations with local chamber members and bonds that needed to be issued. Then there was the famous Midwestern weather which limited construction activity at times...

By Jason E. Silvers Herald -- Tribune UNIONTOWN -- The USD 235 Board of Education is looking to draw up new boundaries for its six member districts. The board is scheduled to approve a resolution on Monday to change the boundaries of those districts, which are currently not balanced in terms of population, in order to be in accordance with state law that took effect in July, USD 235 Superintendent Randy Rockhold said...

By Colette Lefebvre-Davis Herald-Tribune Most school children in Nevada's past and present can recall when Fire Pup came to their classrooms and explained the hazards of fire. Fire Prevention Week marks the anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of Oct. ...

By Colette Lefebvre-Davis Herald-Tribune "In fourteen hundred and ninety two Columbus sailed the ocean blue He had three ships and left from Spain He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain He sailed by night, he sailed by day; A compass also helped him know...

Jason and Tera Elliott, Richards, and Craig and Catie, are proud to announce the birth of their son and brother, Cody Walter Elliott. Cody was born at 5:34 a.m., Oct. 5, 2006, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces, and measured 21.5 inches...

Dorthy Mae Taber, 79, formerly of Fort Scott, and recently of Rogers, Ark., passed away Thursday, evening Oct. 5, 2006, at the Circle of Life Hospice in Springdale, Ark. She was born Jan. 27, 1927, in Lawton, Okla., the daughter of Elmer Eldon and Frances Elizabeth (Townley) Howeth. She married Owen B. "Sonny" Taber Oct. 19, 1942, in Chickasha, Okla. He preceded her in death Feb. 7, 1993...

James A. Wallace, 83, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Friday, Oct. 6, 2006, at the Nevada Regional Medical Center. He was born Dec. 21, 1922, in Mulberry, Kan., to Dwight Wallace and Jessie West Wallace. He married Maxine A. Short on Feb. 27, 1944, in Fort Scott, Kan., and she survives of the home...

Hi neighbors. We are two weeks into autumn now and it's time to put away the lawn mowers and start raking leaves. I'm sure many of us will miss the noise of a lawnmower, the criss-cross patterns of geometrically correct greenery and all that fun of lawn mower maintenance...

I'm getting pickier and pickier about movies in my old age. Even when I get a free ticket, as Ginny and I had the good fortune to do early this week, I want to know in advance that it's not an outrageously macho Tom Cruise number; or a movie in which someone drives over a cliff and plunges into a blossoming ball of flame; or, least of all, an updated "screwball comedy," like those starring Cary Grant and Kate Hepburn, that were so much funnier when first made back in the 1930s...

One of the most popular pictures during the time I was growing up was of an Indian sitting dejectedly on a horse with the sun going down in the background. The portrait was apropriately called, "The End of the Trail." That portrait, along with "The Lone Wolf," still hangs on my wall, but I am thinking about adding a picture of my 1952 Allis Chalmers D17 tractor because, as of late, appears to be going the way of the lone Indian and the droopy horse...

Samantha Beth Hart and Robert Eugene Stevens were married on Aug. 12, 2006, at the First Church of God in Fort Scott. Samantha is the daughter of Kirk and Jeanie Hart and the granddaughter of Perry and Betty Dobbins and the late Freda Dobbins of Fort Scott, and the late Wilbur and Helen Hart of Uniontown. Robert is the son of Robert and Vera Stevens of South Carolina. The couple lives in Parsons, Kan...

By Scott Nuzum Herald-Tribune FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- Just to show you how little statistics can mean sometimes, Fort Scott High's football team pounded Independence, 56-14, at Frary Field Friday night, even though the Tigers produced just 191 yards of total offense...

By Joe Warren Herald-Tribune NEOSHO, Mo. -- Four times Nevada had the ball inside the Neosho 35 yard line during the first half of Friday's Southwest Conference game, four times Nevada was turned away without any points and that was the story of the contest as the Wildcats put together a 28-6 victory over the Tigers...

Herald-Tribune OSWEGO, Kan. -- Uniontown rolled up 419 rushing yards in a 45-0 rout of Oswego in Three Rivers Play Friday night. The win put the Eagles in a tie with Pleasanton atop the Three Rivers League-Upper Division standings with those two teams scheduled to meet next week...

Herald-Tribune PLEASANTON, Kan. -- Riverton rolled up 382 yards of offense Friday night as they defeated Pleasanton, 42-6, in a non-league game. The Blu-Jays, 2-4, managed only 108 yards, all of it on the ground. Their only score came in the fourth quarter when Elijah Barber ran in from three yards out with 3:48 remaining...

It was as if Chuck Shelton had stepped out of H.G. Wells' time machine when he strolled into what used to be known as the Nevada High School cafeteria on Sept. 1, and sat down at a table with John McKinley and me. Looking around the room you could see most of his former players from that 1966 championship team he coached. ...

With weather more suited for fishing than hunting, several hunting seasons opened this past week, including the fall turkey firearm season that runs the entire month of October and the short first part of the Canada goose season. Most goose hunters would prefer cooler weather, but others like Casey Jones, Stockton, went on his first goose hunt and was rewarded with a great hunt and plenty of action...