Stories from Tuesday, February 22, 2005

By Marc Powers Nevada Daily Mail JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Under Missouri's system of three co-equal branches of government, the legislature sets public policy, the executive department carries it out and the judiciary determines if it's constitutional...

Special to the Daily Mail Cole Hornbeck, Sheldon, won first place in the junior class and first place, overall Grand Champion in the University of Arkansas College spaghetti bridge building contest Feb. 12. More than 150 high school students from northwestern Arkansas, western Oklahoma and southwestern Missouri gathered at the University of Arkansas campus on Feb. 12 to participate in the final phase of the annual spaghetti bridge competition...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada's City Council is scheduled to meet in special session today, at 4 p.m. in the council chambers at 110 S. Ash. The only item on the agenda is consideration of Bill No. 2005-032, an emergency ordinance amending the closing date with Ash Place Developers...

In honor of Black History Month, Jill Warford, executive director of the Gordon Parks Center for Culture and Diversity in Fort Scott, will speak at the Nevada Public Library meeting room, Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m. Gordon Parks was born in Fort Scott in 1912 and became one of the country's most influential photojournalists...

The El Dorado Springs Sound Collage was one of 22 choirs from 15 school that participated in the Nevada Show Choir Classic 2005 Saturday at Nevada High School. Choirs came from all over western Missouri including McDonald County, Cassville, Joplin, Pleasant Hill, Carrollton and Sedalia, as well as Ottawa, Kan...

Chi-Feng "Felix" Liu, 33, died Feb. 19, 2005, at his home in Nevada. He was born Oct. 5, 1971 the son of Shoei Muh Liu and Li Hsueh Liu Chen, in Peitong, Taiwan. He was a machine operator most of his life. Survivors include his parents; his wife, Min-Hui Yuan, of the home; two sons, Justin and Wesley Liu, also of the home; and one brother, Chi-Ming Liu...

Ruth Osborn, 77, El Dorado Springs, died Sunday, Feb. 20, 2005, at the Community Springs Nursing Home in El Dorado Springs. She is survived by two daughters, Karen Fassel, Gower, Mo., and Cindy Berten, El Dorado Springs; four grandchildren; one brother; and five sisters...

Joseph Andrew Durbin, 27, Pittsburg, Kan., died Friday, Feb. 18, 2005, at Mount Carmel Regional Medical Center following a heart illness. He was born Nov. 22, 1977, in Kansas City, Kan., the son of Jesse L. Durbin and Virginia Sullivan Durbin. He married Tierra Ford on May 5, 2001, in rural Fort Scott...

E. Paul Gregg, 85, of Columbia, Mo. died Feb. 19, 2005, at his home. There are no services planned. He was born Feb. 23, 1919, in Iola, Kan., to John and Asintha Brooks Gregg. He married Ouida Wilson on Dec. 7, 1941, in Nevada, and she survives. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II...

Mary Ilene Lukenbill, 56, died, Feb. 18, 2005. Services were held at Ferry Funeral Home on Feb. 21, at 1:30 p.m., with John Nichols officiating. Musical selections were "My Way" and "Memories." Pallbearers were David Cherry, Bob Schalasky, Larry Scism, Tommie Ray, Larry Lippert and Kevin Quackenbush. Interment was in Newton Burial Park. Arrangements are by Ferry Funeral Home...

Robert Foster Collier, 77, died Monday morning at his home in Nevada. Family information and funeral arrangements will be announced later by Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada.

Phyllis M. Walkup, 75, Jerico Springs, Mo., died Sunday, Feb. 20, 2005, at her home in Jerico Springs. She was born March 22, 1929, in Putney, Vt., to Burt Holway and Edna Morse Holway. She is survived by her husband, Paul E. Walkup, of the home in Jerico Springs, Mo., and nine children...

Debra Sue Hubbard Bumgarner, 59, Nevada, formerly of Aurora, Mo., died Sunday, Feb. 20, 2005, at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, following a lengthy illness. She was born on Oct. 24, 1946, in Crane, Mo., to John W. Hubbard and Isel Leola Wolf Hubbard...

You consider yourself a good parent, perhaps you're even a wise and caring "safety mom" who makes her kids wear helmets and knee pads to ride the elevator. And yet, right this very minute, you may be exposing your family to: BAGELS! Bagels and other "Dangerous Things That Don't Seem Dangerous At All" were highlighted in a recent "Bottom Line Personal" article that made it clear that just about Everything Is Dangerous...

Prayer. That's what this column is about. I don't want to sound preachy, but prayer has been on my mind quite a bit. Most of us have been praying as long as we can remember. Now I lay me down to sleep ... . God is great, God is good ... . Many of us have turned to prayer in times of extreme need: God, get me through this final exam with a passing grade, and I promise ... ...

100 years ago: Nine injured in Carthage trolley wreck CARTHAGE -- An incoming car on the Southeast Missouri Electric Railroad jumped the track four miles west of town at 6 o'clock yesterday evening and was completely demolished. Nine persons were cut and injured, one seriously...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail Nevada senior wrestler Tyler Shouse did something only three wrestlers in each weight class can claim, finishing the season with a win. Wrestling in the third-place match Saturday at the Missouri state championships, Shouse convincingly beat Derek Schlotzhauer of Harrisonville 11-3, earning a major decision victory...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail It was senior night at Pittsburg State University Saturday. The Gorillas honored all of the seniors who were playing their final regular season home games at John Lance Arena. One of them was Greg Campbell, a 2000 Nevada graduate, who joined his senior teammates at midcourt before the game with parents standing close and fans cheering with appreciation...

Associated Press SURPRISE, Ariz. -- With the Kansas City Royals cutting payroll and going through another youth movement, Brian Anderson knows that he could be traded in spring training. Anderson could be a valuable commodity on the trade market to a club looking for a veteran left-hander to plug into the middle of the rotation. He acknowledges it's possible he could be traded before the April 4 opener...

Nevada Daily Mail The Calvary Christian Eagles defeated the Shawnee Mission Mustangs Friday, 57-35 in Kansas. Jonathan Hall led the Eagles with 17 points, also adding six rebounds in the process. Tyler Borders had 16 points, 10 rebounds and four assists in the win, and Scott Borders had 15 points, nine boards, seven assists and seven steals...