Stories from Monday, November 21, 2011

McCOOK, Nebraska --Elden Lavern Fuller went to be with his Lord in his Heavenly home on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, at the age of 76. He was born April 23, 1935, at Franklin, Nebraska. He received his education at Franklin before the family moved to McCook...

LINCOLN, Nebraska -- On Friday, ACLU Nebraska was informed by the Nebraska Attorney General's office that Frank Shoemaker of Holbrook would be allowed to have a license plate reading "NE420." "ACLU Nebraska is pleased that the State of Nebraska has decided to respect the Constitution and Mr. ...

"How much are we willing to sacrifice," we asked a year ago, Nov. 11, 2010. We now have the answer. Not much. The result is likely to be business as usual, except that the business is more likely to be further decline in the U.S. credit rating and, as a result, influence around the world...

I am writing this in regard to my feeling of the American people toward Thanksgiving. I haven't seen anything or any ads about Thanksgiving. It seems that people don't have time to thank the good Lord for what he has given them and their country. The stores can't even wait for Thanksgiving to be over before putting up Xmas lights and decorations. They worry more about Black Friday so they can make more money...

Just a little add-on to Dick Trail's story about Wayne Boyer, kind of the Rest of the Story. Wayne very seldom talked about the war. One day, as we were looking at a new stand of hay coming up, he started talking about it. He told about how he could see the whites of their eyes before their plane blew, about how the man carrying shells had bullets flying all around him...

"Outlined against a blue, gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. "In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction, and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley, and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone, before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon, as 55,000 spectators peered down on the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below." This paragraph, penned by Grantland Rice, of the New York Herald-Tribune, on the occasion of the Notre Dame's victory over Army, 13-7, on Oct. ...

Most Americans are very thankful that we live in a country that takes care of its senior citizens and doesn't break the promises that have been made to them about Social Security and Medicare. I intend to fight to make sure that these two wonderful programs are not dismantled by those who would do so for political reasons...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. -- McCook and Cambridge will get an early jump on the 2011-12 basketball season. The Bison and Trojans will meet Tuesday, Nov. 22, in exhibition games to benefit the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame. Action gets underway at the Cambridge High School gym with the girls varsity scrimmage at 5:30 p.m., followed by the boys varsity scrimmage at approximately 7 p.m...

An undefeated regular season, a berth in the state playoff quarterfinals -- pretty much what is expected every fall from the McCook High School varsity football program. Head coach Jeff Gross and his staff have built one of the top prep gridiron programs in the state's Class B ranks. ...