Stories from Friday, April 19, 2002

The nation as a whole has learned from many years of experience to distrust politicians. It's a national pastime. Most assuredly some of them deserve their unfavorable reputation. Many of them do not. Not every politician is in office to fulfill his or her own agenda. Most of them truly believe in serving the people they are representing. Certainly that can be said of members of the McCook City Council...

OBERLIN -- Mary C. Francis, 95, died Thursday (April 18, 2002) at Decatur County Hospital in Oberlin. She was born Feb. 19, 1907, to John and Artie (Barnes) Stastney in Oberlin. She grew up in Oberlin and graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1927...

OMAHA -- Donna LaVone Allen, 65, died Wednesday (April 17, 2002) at Clarkson Hospital in Omaha. She was born March 11, 1937, to Ivan and Helen (Cotton) Allen at Cambridge. She graduated from Cambridge High School and received a teaching certificate from McCook Junior College...

OBERLIN -- Norbert Adam Sulzman, 82, died Wednesday (April 17, 2002) at the Decatur County Hospital. He was born on Nov. 28, 1919, to John and Antonette (Simpson Zodrow) Sulzman in Selden. He attended Selden Grade School and graduated from Selden Rural High School...

The habit starts early. My daughter received her first purse at the ripe old age of two. What does a two-year-old girl carry around? For starters, a day's supply of candy, some rocks from the driveway and her treasured 30 bite-size pieces of scratch paper she cut up earlier in the day...

But Heisman Trophy winner from Nebraska probably won't be playing quarterback The National Football League's annual rite of spring -- the Draft -- takes place Saturday and Sunday in New York City. The Draft starts at 11 a.m. Saturday with Rounds 1-3 and continues at 10 a.m. Sunday with Rounds 4-7...

A good lesson I'm sorry about how some of the kids reacted to the mock disaster at the MHS. However, with what happened recently west of McCook, maybe this is exactly what they needed with summer coming on and them complaining there's nothing to do. Kids now days just laugh at ads whether it be for smoking, drinking or even drugs...

Haven't the area residents around the speedway listened? It is county owned property and there is no noise level ordinance even though it is within city limits. If they don't like it, move. Upon purchasing their next house, maybe they should investigate their surroundings a little better...

If your going to press real hard on this noise level then you might as well press the same issue against the kids that are driving around in the cars whose radios are blaring so loud it vibrates the windows on peoples houses. Fair is fair. You go against the people who are racing the cars you should go against the teenagers with their loud radios...

Dear Editor, I don't know how many people in McCook saw Good Morning Nebraska this morning, but if you did you have to be very proud of our McCook High School Math Whiz Kids. This was the second time that I've seen them on the program and they are very impressive. They are an example of the quality of young people that we are blessed to have as part of our community and are to be commended as role models...

Dear Editor, A school assembly is held and -- for all practical purposes -- a false report is given to the students concerning a fatality accident. In retrospect, it seems that the motive for this may have been admirable, but the methodology was certainly ill-conceived...

Dear Editor, When I was in high school I sang in the choir. We sang the song Them bones, them bones, them dry bones. I didn't know what it meant until years later when I studied Bible prophecy. The prophet Ezekiel wrote about "the valley of dry bones" in Ezekiel 37. ...

INDIANOLA -- Wanda L. Malleck, 79, died Wednesday (April 17, 2002) at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. She was born Jan. 8, 1923, to Harley and Neva (Gueck) Kelley at Cambridge. She graduated from Cambridge High School. On April 13, 1949, she married Lester Malleck at McCook. She lived in Indianola for 53 years...