Stories from Monday, February 19, 2007

More than 60 years after serving the United States as a member of its military forces in World War II, Fort Scott native Roy Clark is receiving thanks for his service and sacrifice. Clark, who received a Purple Heart after being injured in battle on Feb. ...

The Fort Scott Police Department is seeking minority residents to serve on an advisory committee that will assist the department with combating racial profiling. The committee will undertake multiple roles by advising Fort Scott Police Chief Jeff Davis on racial profiling issues that arise, working with Davis on how to release information to the public on how to report racial profiling, and supplying training and evaluation to the department...

John Meredith Chance, age 62, of Willard, Missouri, passed away Friday, February 16, 2007, at Willard Care Center in Willard, Missouri. He was born April 20, 1944, in Rochelle, Illinois the son of Meredith M. Chance and Mabel E. Kupka Chance. He is survived by his wife Judy Chance of the home; two daughters and their husbands, Kim and Kevin Sowell, Wichita and Shelly Chance and Ryan Berland, Wichita; one son, Shane Young, Houston, Texas; and three grandchildren, Ethan and Sage Berland and Dylan Sowell.. ...

Lucy Needham, age 93, of Mapleton, died Saturday morning, February 17, 2007, at the Medicalodge Nursing Home in Fort Scott. She was born on June 3, 1914 in Miami, Arizona the daughter of Arthur Guy and Rachel Nonamaker Smith. She graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1932. She married Alvin Ira Needham on October 2, 1932, in Fort Scott. He preceded her in death on June 23, 1999...

Helen Louise "Dot" Nelson, age 88, died Saturday, February 17, 2007, at Fort Scott Medicalodge. She was born May 9, 1918, in Fort Scott, the daughter of John Albert Strickline and Mert Louise Turk. She was raised by her aunts, Anna and Rachel Turk, and attended the Fort Scott Plaza School. ...

KERR -- Margaret Kathleen Lawless Kerr, a girl, was born on Friday, January 26, 2007 at DeWitt Army Hospital in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, to parents Kerry and Patrick Kerr, of Lorton, Virginia. She weighed 8 pounds, 9.5 ounces at birth. She joins two brothers, Colin and Brendan. Maternal grandparents are the late Monta Kay and William Tillman. Paternal grandparents are Dr. and Mrs. Gerald F. Kerr, of Fort Scott...

HUDSON -- Jaymie Michelle Hudson, a girl, was born at 2:07 p.m. on Friday, February 16, 2007 at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, to parents Donna and Billy Hudson, Mound City. She weighed 8.1 pounds at birth. She joins two siblings, Jayde and Jeremyah Hudson. Maternal grandparents are Elizabeth and J.D. Major, Salem, Missouri. Paternal grandparents are Truman and Mary Hudson, Clinton, Missouri...

100 YEARS AGO (1907) Mrs. M.J. Jordan has employed Biddle & Lardner in her big damage case against the Frisco Railroad Company for burning up the large orchard on her property in McCune, Crawford County. The body of Charley Orr, the Hammond young man who was killed Sunday at Livingstone, Montana, in a railroad accident, is expected to reach Hammond tonight. The funeral will occur tomorrow if the body reaches that place tonight...

For Christmas, former neighbors of Bill Watt, Jerry Skyler presented him with tickets to the Texas-KU basketball game as well as the KU-MU game in Columbia, Mo. Together with a son, Garrett, and Stacie Skyler, they all attended both games, one Feb. 3, the other Feb. 10. Bill's brother, Allen Watt, Douglas Watt and Don Bassett attended the Wichita basketball game on Sunday, Feb. 11...

Basketball, as is well known, is a game of momentum. And over the course of a game, it can change several times. That was well demonstrated in Fort Scott Community College's 95-73 Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division victory over Highland at Arnold Arena Saturday afternoon...

In most of the games they've won this season, Fort Scott Community College's women have played their best in the second half. Saturday afternoon against Highland at Arnold Arena, the Greyhounds didn't wait that long before going on a 20-0 run to end the first half, effectively putting the Scotties away at that point on their way to an 88-67 win in Jayhawk Conference-Eastern Division play...