Stories from Wednesday, March 3, 2004

Lee B. Hill, 56, Nevada, Mo., died Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2004, at Christian Health Care in Nevada following a long battle with cancer. She was born April 11, 1947, in Providence, R.I., to Rodgers Carr Broomhead and Nancy Beth Schuyler Broomhead. Hill graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur, Calif., and San Francisco State University with a degree in Physical Anthropology. ...

Harold Junior Schmoranz, 81, Sheldon, Mo., died March 1, 2004, at Lakeview Healthcare Center, Lamar, Mo., following a lengthy illness. He was born Sept. 26, 1922, in Marshalltown, Idaho, to Henry Schmoranz and Vera Beatrice Lucas Schmoranz. He married Irene Fields on March 24, 1946, in Marshalltown, Idaho, and she preceded him in death on July 20, 1997...

A sneak preview of the new Vernon County Senior Center was held Sunday, with approximately 200 in attendance. There is much enthusiasm and excitement for the center in this community. People from different parts of the county were in attendance and that is what it is being developed for -- the senior citizens of all of Vernon County...

By Larry Lewis DREXEL, Mo. -- Two Vernon County Conference teams, Northeast Vernon County and Bronaugh, survived first-round play in the boys' bracket at the MSHSAA Class 1, District 12 Tournament on Tuesday. Two others, Sheldon and Hume, saw their seasons come to an end...

Members of the Nevada Youth Wrestling Club competed with marked success on three fronts this past weekend. Spenser Daniels placed second at the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Missouri State Championships in St. Louis. Jordan Hagerman, a Nevada seventh grader, captured a gold medal at the United States Girls Wrestling Association Missouri State Championships, held in Pleasant Hill, Mo...

By Ralph Pokorny The operation of the Nevada city government will be under a microscope for the next couple of months. Donna Christian, audit manager in the State Auditor's Springfield office, told the Nevada City Council Tuesday night that next week the State Auditor's office will start work on an audit of the city government...

Medicalodges Inc., has announced that, effective March 1, the company has taken over operation of the Nevada Manor nursing facility. This facility has been leased and managed by the Beverly Corporation since 1979. Prior to 1979, Medicalodges built and operated the facility as Medicalodge of Nevada. As of March 1, the facility will again be known as Medicalodge of Nevada...

100 Years Ago - March 3, 1904 Nevada among other things has the best telephone connections with the outside world of any city of its size in the state. The telephone company, of which Nevada citizens are stockholders, has one of the best local systems in the state but this is not all. ...

By Nick Wright During and since the Vietnam war, many photographs -- an image of a Vietnamese girl running down the road after having been burned by napalm, a photograph of a North Vietnamese prisoner being summarily executed -- have helped to show Americans the horrors and suffering of a people at war. ...