Stories from Thursday, June 16, 2005

CAMBRIDGE -- A five-day span without any games doesn't happen very often for the McCook National Bank American Legion Seniors baseball team. This last week was one of those rare occurrences. The Seniors had planned to go to a tournament in Crete, but the large amounts of rainfall canceled the tournament...

CURTIS -- Recent rainfalls are filling area reservoirs, but it will be years before Southwest Nebraska irrigators make up for the first years of the drought, a Natural Resources Manager said. In a monthly reservoir report from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Middle Republican NRD Manager Dan Smith told the NRD Board of Directors that with the recent intensive rainfall, peaks at Cambridge and Orleans exceeded the historical record. ...

By Connie Jo Discoe Regional editor When these cars were new, the center line of American highways was white. "You've heard of 'white-line fever'?," Louis Mraz of Aurora, Colo., asked. "That's what that song refers to." The cars that Mraz was referring to are Fords equipped with flathead V-8 engines, built between 1932 and 1953...

As area grainmen know so well, you can't count your wheat kernels before they're harvested. Wheat growing -- especially in the wide open spaces of western Kansas and Nebraska -- is a game of waiting, worrying and guessing. That's true every year, but rarely more so than it has been in 2005. Last summer's hail, this spring's frost and outbreaks of old and new diseases are taking their toll...

**Dear Editor, It is time to start thinking about fresh produce that gardeners and farmers are growing this year. McCook Main Street Farmers Market is a social event where you meet friends and neighbors while you shop the vendors. This event is not only a growers' market, but open to baked products such as breads, cookies, cakes, rolls, fruit pies and more. No cream pies or baked goods which require refrigeration will be allowed. Inspected meat vendors must be approved and provide refrigeration...

**Dear Editor, It's obvious that exchanging jabs will change nobody's mind so it is futile to engage. I think we all will agree that the U.S. was attacked on September 11 by terrorists. They don't like us. If the U.S. military doesn't pursue the attackers, they would most likely attack again. If we pursue the attackers it requires "invading" somebody and terrorists know no borders. They seem to be welcome in many places...

Ahhh! Spring in Virginia. Yeah, right! I'm not sure exactly what I was expecting when I joined my son for the final leg of his cross-country trip to the east coast, but it certainly wasn't temperatures reaching into the upper 90s and humidity of 132 percent...

DENVER -- Elizabeth (Lindbeck) Rollstin, 95, died June 1, 2005. Elizabeth was born and lived in McCook until moving to Arizona and then Denver, Colo., in her later years. She is survived by daughter LeAnn, and husband, Larry Nelson; grandsons Glen Nelson, Todd Nelson, and wife, Ronda; great-grandchildren Kira, Mollie, and Josiah all of Denver, Colo; step-daugther Claudia Rollstin of Wichita, Kan.; sisters Jody Braun and Ileen Lenhart of McCook, Mary Korte of Broken Bow, and Helen Jean Lebsack of Spokane, Wash.. ...

(Jan. 17, 1913 - June 15, 2005) FAIRBURY -- Charles E. Churchhill, 92, died Wednesday (June 15, 2005), at the Jefferson Community Health Center in Fairbury. He was born Jan. 17, 1913 to Charles Elmer Churchhill, Sr. and Donnie Belle (Bulson) Churchhill in Albert, Kan. He graduated high school...

(May 11, 1905 - June 13, 2005) ST. FRANCIS, KAN. -- Alvin Henry Hempeler, 99, died Monday (June 13, 2005), at Good Samaritan Village in St. Francis, Kan. He was born May 11, 1905 in Cook. He was a farmer. Survivors include one sister, Charlotte Hempeler of St. Francis, formerly of Bird City...

(May 1, 1919 - June 14, 2005) ST. FRANCIS, KAN. -- Fannie Georgina Nelson, 86, died Tuesday (June 14, 2005), at the Good Samaritan Village in St. Francis, Kan. She was born May 1, 1919 in Cheyenne County, Kan. She worked primarily as a waitress. She was preceded in death by her husband, Omar Nelson in 1974...