Stories from Friday, September 30, 2005

Douglas, Wallace combine for no-hitter The McCook High School softball team lost a heartbreaker to Kearney 1-0 Thursday night at Jaycees Sports Complex in spite of Stephanie Douglas and Marissa Wallace throwing a combined no-hitter. Kearney scored in the fifth when Wallace came in to pitch...

Five area high school football teams are ranked entering Friday night's games -- four from Nebraska and one from Kansas. H In Nebraska Class B, McCook (4-0), which came from behind to defeated Gering 20-15 last week, is ranked No. 1 and has outscored its opponents 139-15...

While driving up and down McCook's Norris Avenue Thursday, townspeople and visitors saw ample evidence of how deeply friends cared about Corky Reed. On the day of Corky's funeral, an abundance of floral tributes stood outside Mexico Lindo, the restaurant he owned and managed for many years. Then, farther up the hill, these words topped the Fox Theater marquee: "So Long Corky -- We Will Miss You. Love -- All Your Friends Down Here."...

Organization is not my middle name. In fact, it's usually not even in my vocabulary. Combine my lack of organization with all the tiny technology gizmos in our lives today and I'm constantly compensating for lost gizmos. Take cell phones for an example. Because of speed dial and preprogramming, many cell phone users don't know the numbers they are dialing. They simply push No. 4 and Joe Schmoe rings up on the other end of the line...

Jim Gastor, left, of Indianola, explains to fourth graders at Central Elementary the many ways the American Indians used the buffalo. Gastor, along with wife Marilyn and son Jeremy, was at Central on Thursday giving outdoor demonstrations of how the American Indians lived on the plains. ...

A great two days of music is coming to McCook on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 14 and 15, courtesy of McCook's Barbershop Chorus, the Prairie Statesmen. The Prairie Statesmen are hosting one of the finest a capella singing instructors in the SPEBSQSA association, Bill Rashleigh, to come to McCook for two days of instruction and singing fun...

June 3, 1987--Sept. 27, 2005 ARAPAHOE -- Leslie Samuel "Sam" Cookson, 18, died Tuesday (Sept. 27, 2005) at the Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, as the result of an auto accident. He was born June 3, 1987, in Santa Rose, Calif., to Greg S. Cookson and Angela C. (Gerr) Hendricks. He attended school in Elwood and Arapahoe, where he was a senior in high school. He was a member of Arapahoe High School athletics and the United Methodist Church in Arapahoe...

Oct. 12, 1916--Sept. 28, 2005 NORCATUR, Kan. -- Wilbur Logan Hix, 88, died Wednesday (Sept. 28, 2005) at the Norton County Hospital in Norton, Kan. He was born Oct. 12, 1916, in Norcatur to John Wilbur and Cecil Inez (Logan) Hix. He attended rural grade school and Norcatur High School...

Aug. 7, 1920--Sept. 29, 2005 OXFORD -- Andrew E. "Andy" Blue, 85, died Thursday (Sept. 29, 2005) at the Holdrege Memorial Homes. He was born Aug. 7, 1920, in Trenton to Enos and Katherine (Waters) Blue. He was the youngest of 12 children. He graduated from Trenton High School in 1939...

Dec. 24, 1915--Sept. 27, 2005 CURTIS -- Mamie Domeier, 89, died Tuesday (Sept. 27, 2005) at Linden Court in North Platte. She was born Dec. 24, 1915, in Hayes County to Marvin and Effie Phelps Evans. She was the sixth of eight children, three boys and five girls. ...

Dec. 9, 1951--Sept. 27, 2005 OMAHA -- Steven Lynn Jones, 53, died Tuesday (Sept. 27, 2005) at his home in Omaha. He was born Dec. 9, 1951, in McCook to Kenneth D. and Barbara J. (Neilson) Jones. He graduated from Wilson High School in Wilson, Kan., in 1970...

June 11, 1925--Sept. 27, 2005 IMPERIAL -- Alyce Louise Arterburn, 80, long-time Chase County resident, registered nurse and community volunteer, died Tuesday (Sept. 27, 2005) at Chase County Community Hospital, where she spent most of her nursing career...

Jan. 11, 1952--Sept. 28, 2005 KEARNEY -- Deborah A. "Deb" Huber, 53, died Wednesday (Sept. 28, 2005) at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. She was born Jan. 11, 1952, in Sioux City, Iowa, to Marjie LaDene Crumley Rosenwinkel and Kurt W. Rosenwinkel. ...

Sept. 25, 1920--Sept. 28, 2005 SYRACUSE, Kan. -- Wilma L. (Gallaher) Hess, 85, died Wednesday (Sept. 28, 2005) at the Hamilton County Hospital in Syracuse, Kan. She was born Sept. 25, 1920, in Duck Hill, Miss., to Fresco and Bessie J. (Rinehart) Gallaher. She graduate from high school in Alva, Miss., in 1939. She attended Nursing School in Winona, Miss., and Chicago, Ill...