Stories from Friday, March 16, 2007

The McCook Community College softball team dropped both ends of Thursday's home doubleheader to Pratt Community College, Pratt, Kan. MCC lost the opener 15-6 and the second game 12-7. The games were played at the Jaycee Sports Complex in McCook. MCC's Tyne Willert, who plays first base for the Indians, went 7-for-8 in the two games with two runs-batted-in...

The McCook Community College baseball doubleheader against Cloud County slated for Sunday at Jaycee Sports Complex in McCook was postponed until April 10 in McCook, starting at 2 p.m. McCook hosts Brown Mackie College, Salina, Kan, at 3 p.m. Saturday...

Dec. 29, 1938 - March 14, 2007 Veronica "Dot" Louise Jacobsen, of McCook died Wednesday (March 14, 2007) at Bryan LGH East at Lincoln.  She was 68 years old. She was born on Dec. 29, 1938, in St. Libory, to William F. and Kathryn (Zauha) Placke.  She grew up in St. Libory graduating from the eighth grade Parochial School and then graduating in 1956, from St. Paul High School...

May 3, 1925 - March 14, 2007 HERNDON -- Monica Solko, 81, died Wednesday (March 14, 2007) at Decatur County Hospital. She was born May 3, 1925, to Peter and Rosina (Jesch) Pochop in Rawlins County. She grew up and attended school in Rawlins County...

DRESDEN, Kan. -- Donald Sulzman, 78, of Dresden, Kan., died at the Cedar Living Center in Oberlin on Friday (March 9, 2007). He is a brother to Agnes Roberts; brother-in-law to Don Roberts; Uncle of Bill Roberts and Donna Stone and family; Jim Roberts and family; and cousin to Bernadine Wood all of McCook...

Aug. 12, 1914 - March 13, 2007 ATWOOD -- Bertha (Micek) Williams 93, died Tuesday (March 13, 2007) in Minneapolis, Minn., at Catholic Eldercare. She was born Aug. 12, 1914, to Anton and Matilda (Dozababa) Micek, on the family farm north of Atwood. She attended Czech School north of Atwood, elementary school in Herndon and graduated from Atwood High School in 1933...

Oct. 20, 1939-March 15, 2007 Mable F. (Leonard) Skuldt died Thursday, March 15, 2007 in McCook at Hillcrest Nursing Home. She was 67 years old. Mable was born on Oct. 20, 1939, in Berthoud, Colo., to Thomas Earl and Mildred (Cronn) Leonard. Her grandchildren and great-grandchildren were the joy of her life. Mable devoted her life to them and helped raise three with her son...

July 12, 1942-March 13, 2007 LUSK, Wyo. -- Funeral services for Barbara Dee Crouse will be held in Lusk, Wyo., on March 19, 2007, at the First Baptist Church with Pastor Tom Strock officiating. Interment will be at the Lusk Cemetery followed by a luncheon where friends and family may share wonderful memories of Barbara. Barbara Dee Crouse died March 13, 2007, at the young age of 64...

Branches piling up at collection sites designed for leaves and grass clippings, are an ongoing source of headaches for city crews. But some city residents say the city has not been as vigilant as they could when clearing the sites. Transferring the massive amount of branches takes extra man hours, said Public Works Director Kyle Potthoff. ...

I enjoyed the feature story "Mrs.America 1955" by Billie Cole. It reminded me of my freshman Home Ec class in early 1950. We were required to iron a shirt (not permapress), sew an apron, plus plan and cook meals. Wonder if our teacher, Mrs. Hoffaber, realized she was grooming us for the Mrs. America Contest?...

I saw the article, "Let's end the Daylight Saving Time experiment." Boy, what a misguided Democrat they are. Sounds like they own oil stocks. In the first place, we save 15 million barrels of oil a month. That is a fact. As far as the computers are concerned, if you update like you should, you would not have a problem. If you run a computer, you should learn how to use it. Go to the time and date in the control panel, uncheck the box for daylight savings time...

There are times when keeping the names of candidates for jobs secret is warranted. Certainly in private industry, competition and business strategies often dictate discretion, and the candidates themselves deserve a degree of privacy. Even then, however, employer-employee relationships should be such that an honest discussion of employment status is possible on both sides...

Although I'm not saving any rain forests or putting a stop to global warming, I do try to recycle when possible. I try to combine errands in an effort to conserve gas. I try to shut off lights when no one is in the room to conserve energy. It's this last category which is really throwing me for a loop because of the introduction of a new type of light bulb...

A Japanese man, who spoke little English and avoided talking to reporters, makes his way north on U.S. Highway 83 on Wednesday, carrying his possessions on a two-wheeled cart. The man told McCook residents he started at the tip of South America nearly three years ago, and planned on arriving at the northern tip of Alaska in two years...

By DAWN CRIBBS Associate Editor "Behold the man." Thus spoke Pilate when he presented Jesus, wearing a rich purple robe and a crown of thorns, to an angry crowd in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago. The Rev. Clark Bates painted a gruesome picture Friday afternoon at First Congregational Church describing the scene with borrowed words spoken hundreds of years before by the prophet Isaiah, "... ...