Stories from Thursday, October 25, 2001

Clarence and Lois Helms of Holbrook spoke for many of us in Tuesday's Open Forum column, when they wrote, "The attack makes us realize there are other things more important than fame, wealth or even sports." True, so true. In a period of national peacetime -- when wars were being waged on foreign soils -- Americans were lulled into a false sense of security and an overemphasis on the outcome of sporting events...

I would like to comment on Claude Cappel's opinion on the water situation. Mr Cappel states this situation can be worked out without much loss. He must not have read the court's judgment. The court enters judgment for the Plaintiffs in the total sum of $2,700,00.00, plus interest at the rate of 7,287 percent, from March 1, 2000 until such time as the $2,700,000.00 has been paid...

Dear Editor, One of your subscribers in Arapahoe, a dear friend of mine, always clips the column, "Mike at Night," and sends it to me here in Southeast Texas, when she writes, and I find it one of the best-written, thought-provoking, always interesting weekly essays I have read over the years...

When Franklin D. Roosevelt said there's nothing to fear but fear itself, he hit the nail right on the head. Of course he could have used the hammer to kill the spider that attacked me the other day. Up until that moment I felt fearless. I was standing on the porch outside of our front door taking pictures of a really huge spider. Okay, it wasn't huge, it wasn't even the size of a half dollar. However, when you put the camera on zoom, it did fill up the screen...

Florence Graves OBERLIN -- Florence Graves, 81, died Wednesday (Oct. 24, 2001) at Cedar Living Center in Oberlin. She was born Jan. 25, 1920, at rural Jennings, Kan., to Frank and Anna (Fiala) Krizek. She grew up on a farm north of Jennings in Decatur County. She graduated from Jennings High School...