Stories from Thursday, February 10, 2005

Bison frosh boys close season with win over Hershey HERSHEY -- The McCook freshman boys basketball team were in action traveled to Hershey Tuesday for its season finale and got a big 53-38 win. McCook got off to a slow start only scoring 3 points in the first quarter but turned up the offense for the rest of the game for the comfortable 15 point win...

Oct. 5, 1934-Feb. 7, 2005 HAIGLER -- Leslie L. White, 70, of Haigler, died Monday (Feb. 7, 2005) at the Wray District Community Hospital in Wray, Colo. He was born Oct. 5, 1934, to Herman and Lillie (Dixon) White on his family's farm south of Haigler in Cheyenne County, Kan. He grew up on the farm and attended country school near his home. He was a graduate of Haigler High School...

Oct. 28, 1914-Feb. 8, 2005 Josephine Almira Wesch, 90, died Tuesday (Feb. 8, 2005) at Hillcrest Nursing Home. She was born Oct. 28, 1914, in Frontier County, to Burtis Lloyd and Minnie Mary (Jewel) McMains. She attended Center Pointe School and received her GED from McCook Community College in 1978...

May 14, 1912-Feb. 8, 2005 Vera Mae (Jones) Miller, 92, was born May 14, 1912, at Lebanon to Leslie Franklin and Mary Atillia (Bush) Jones. She departed this world on Feb. 8, 2005, at the age of 92 in Cambridge. She was married in Oberlin to Eugene V. Miller on March 18, 1934. She was owner/operator of Circle M Ceramics...

Gary and Karla (Hester) Harris of McCook are celebrating their 30th anniversary Feb. 14. The couple married in 1975 in McCook. Their children are Justin and wife, Kaylynn and Jamie and husband, Danny. They have two grandchildren.

The family of Marge Richardson is hosting a card shower in honor of her 84th birthday Feb. 14. Cards of congratulations will reach her in care of Hillcrest Nursing Home, PO Box 1087, McCook, NE 69001.

The family of James L. "Jim" and Wyona "Nonie" (Stute) Dailey of Stratton is hosting a card shower in honor of the couple's 40th anniversary Feb. 14. The couple married in 1964 in Max. Their children are James H. Daily and Melissa, of Stratton and Kenda Dailey. They have three grandchildren. Cards will reach the couple at HC 1 Box 157, Stratton, NE 69043...

The family of Donald Grafel is hosting an open house in honor of his 80th birthday, Feb. 13, 2-4 p.m., at the senior center in Herndon. Cards of congratulations will reach him at Route 1 Box 2, Herndon, KS 67739.

Outside lobbyists working against legislative action to change term limits have angered Sen. Tom Baker. During his regular legislative call Thursday morning at the McCook Chamber of Commerce, Sen. Tom Baker told Dixie Lorentz of McCook that he felt like kicking a truck pulling a trailer with a 6-foot wooden horse and a sign decrying the repeal of term limits...

McCook Senior High's vocal music department presents its annual Cabaret dinner show Tuesday, in McCook's Memorial City Auditorium. The dinner begins at 6:30 p.m., followed by the program, "Souvenirs of the '50s, '60s and '70s," at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the dinner --...

More than a month has passed, but the people of Southwest Nebraska know little more now than they did Jan. 7 about the cause the death for 3-month-old Kyla Martinez in rural Palisade. Word of the tragedy spread on the first Friday of 2005 when the death was reported to authorities by Community Hospital of McCook. However, it was not until the following Tuesday, Jan. 11, that officials confirmed that an investigation was under way...

**Dear Editor, To whom it may concern. You have obviously missed the point I was trying to make so let me clarify it just a bit. First off, I don't care what you did in the past, it's not my business and is of no interest to me. Second, I looked over all of my papers and didn't see your name as the responsible party on anything...

**Dear Editor, I would like to thank you for publishing my letter of 2-7 A.D. 2005. I believe that there are a few people out there in Gazetteland who decide or will decide to pay the heat bill or purchase their children some shoes instead of swilling a case of beer Saturday night...

Have you ever had one of those days? You know the one. When time had gone by so fast -- or dragged by so slowly -- you're not sure whether it's Tuesday or Friday, February or June? "I can't even remember what day it is," I told Brad one evening. He was sitting at his desk working on his daily logs, while I sat on the couch trying to arrange the next set of interviews for an assignment at work...