Stories from Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Feb. 21, 1928 - April 4, 2008 OBERLIN -- Henrietta Ann Bremer, 80, died Friday (April 4, 2008) at Decatur County Hospital in Oberlin. She was born Feb. 21, 1928, in Decatur County to Henry A. and Mabel (Ericson) Olson. She grew up on a farm in Sappa Township in Decatur County. She graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1946, and Colorado Women's College in Denver, Colo., in 1948...

Sept. 23, 1964 - April 6, 2008 LEVANT, Kan. -- Marty R. Crampton, 43, died Sunday (April 6, 2008) in rural Thomas County, Kan. He was born Sept. 23, 1964, in Cambridge to Kenneth and Kathleen Crampton. He had lived in Colby, Kan., area since 1973. He worked as a farmer...

Nov. 19, 1935 - April 7, 2008 HOLDREGE -- Memorial services for Violet M. Aman will be conducted from Nelson-Bauer Funeral Home in Holdrege, on Thursday, at 2:30 p.m., with Mr. Mark Wagner, officiating. Private family inurnment will be at a later date...

The family of Roland and Marilyn (McBrien) Anderjaska is hosting a card shower in honor of the couple's 50th wedding anniversary. They were married in McCook on April 12, 1958. Cards of congratulations will reach the couple at 73348 Old 17 South Hayes Center, NE 69032...

The family of June (Morgan) Truxoll is hosting a card shower in honor of her 80th birthday on April 12. Cards of congratulations will reach her at 307 Pawnee Dr., McCook, NE 69001.

Pawnee Aviation has helicopter kits ready to sell, potential customers and no test pilot, and no sales. Pawnee Aviation -- the former McCook company that borrowed $300,000 from Red Willow County to develop, assemble and sell helicopter kits -- has a craft "ready and waiting," county commissioners learned during their weekly meeting Monday morning. But the company has no pilot to fly a completed, operational kit-helicopter for customers who have expressed interest in buying kits...

After two years of flying east, going west may be in the future for flight service at McCook Regional Airport. The McCook City Council unanimously approved a recommendation Monday from the airport advisory board to accept Great Lakes Aviation's proposal for one-stop service to Kansas City, but to also pursue the possibility of flights to Denver...

It would be cheaper to tear down the former West Ward Elementary school building than to remodel it into city offices or another city facility. That was the opinion of an appraiser the city hired to determine the accuracy of the $100,000 purchase price, offered by D. Jon Morrison to the city for the city block and school building at 300 West Fourth...

Cash incentives for contractors will help speed things along concerning the upcoming J Street improvement project, scheduled for late summer. The project will cost about $1 million, with $700,000 coming from federal highway allocation funding and the rest from city sales tax revenue...

All of the positive publicity China hoped to gain is turning into a disaster as protesters dog the torch on its 85,000-mile journey from Ancient Olympia in Greece to the Aug. 8-24 Olympics in Beijing. While China can crack down on protesters in its own country, it has no control elsewhere in the world. ...

Gov. Heineman will get to say he tried to hold down taxes, the state can say it's doing its best to fix the potholes in the highway, and most of us won't notice the difference in our gasoline prices. If we do, we'll probably blame the oil company, anyway...

Now that the temperatures are warming, it will make staying outside longer for late evening sky viewing more comfortable. On the other hand the sun is setting later each day making it take longer to get dark. One hand giveth while the other hand taketh away...

In my home state in the nation's heart, Kansas, a statue of a Native American atop the Capitol dome draws his bow and aims for the North Star. The state's motto is Ad astra per aspera -- "to the stars through difficulties." It's inspiring. But not enough to overcome the difficulty Americans have in changing their lives to head off climate change. Despite the rising pile of evidence behind an alarming forecast, we remain the good ol' US of SUV...

Aug. 27, 1928 - April 5, 2008 Jimmy 'Jim' F. Campbell, died Saturday (April 5, 2008) at Community Hospital in McCook at the age of 79. He was born Aug. 27, 1928, at York, the son of the late Morris A. and Mary Eva ( Flint) Campbell. Jim grew up in York, where he graduated from York High School in 1946...