Stories from Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Fort Scott Community College officials want to get the public more involved in the college's future plans. During the FSCC Board of Trustees meeting on Monday, FSCC President Clayton Tatro discussed the purpose of upcoming strategic planning sessions that college officials have scheduled next month as part of the four-day fall in-service program for faculty and staff at FSCC...

Floyd Alexander Gibson did not dispute the seriousness of the crimes he committed, facing two felony charges. At approximately 3 p.m., Monday, in the Bourbon County Courthouse, Gibson was placed on 48 months of intensive supervised probation on two counts of indecent liberties with a child, a severity level five person felony...

The American Red Cross is teaming up with 3M and Rousch Fenway Racing to launch "Red Cross Racing," a campaign to engage NASCAR fans as blood donors and to raise awareness about the ongoing need for blood. Every two seconds, an American needs blood and the need is especially great during the summer months...

TOPEKA -- Effective Aug. 1, the State of Minnesota will join forty-six other states with a three-stage, graduated system of licensing (GDL) for teen drivers, leaving Kansas one of only three states remaining without one, according to James Hanni of AAA Kansas, in a speech to the Topeka Lions Club today...

Theda S. Headley, 75, of Uniontown, Kan., died Sunday, July 27, 2008, at the Mercy Health Center. She was born June 11, 1933, in Uniontown, Kan., the daughter of Boyce and Inez Clare (Bobbit) Keith. She married Herbert E. Headley, Sept. 15, 1957, in Huntsville, Ark. He preceded her in death June 18, 2005...

Cory Joseph Reynolds, age 15 of Macksville, Kan., died July 23, 2008, near Weir, Kan. Born Nov. 17, 1992 at Pittsburg, Kan., the son of James W. Curtis and Jennifer L. (Harper) Gibson. A resident of both Macksville and Weir, he completed his freshman year at Macksville High School...

Margaret Annetta Allen, age 69, resident of rural Mapleton, Kan., died Saturday, July 26, 2008, at St. John's Regional Medical Center, in Joplin, Mo. She was born May 19, 1939, in Prague, Okla., the daughter of Ennis O' Brien and Ola Gist O'Brien. Margaret married John A. ...

Bobby Wayne Jones, 50, of Uniontown, Kan., died Friday morning as the result of a vehicle accident. He was born April 8, 1958, in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Lee Charles and Opal Ilene (Ballou) Jones. He is survived by a sister; Carol Adamson, of Fort Scott, and two brothers; John Jones, of Uniontown, and Charles Jones, of Uniontown, two nephews; Joshua Adamson, and Jessie Jones, and a niece; Ashley Adamson. Bobby was preceded in death by both of his parents, and a sister; Jeanne Hood...

100 YEARS AGO (1908) Railroad Notes: Passenger train No. 2 on the Katy, due here from the south at 4 o'clock each morning, was nearly five hours late today. Cause of the delay was not made known here. Mrs. Lizzie Johnson, nee Lizzie Crain, has returned to her home in Newkirk, Okla., after visiting here with her mother and her brothers, J.H. and C.C...

Our neighbor Carol called to say her father, Hershel, had died. Up until a couple of years ago Hershel and his wife Gladys lived in Pittsville, and then they decided to return to the Brodhead area to live. Since they moved away we had only heard from them at Christmas time. ...

Members of the Uniontown 4-H club answered roll call at the June meeting by telling their favorite brand of jeans. Cole George led the members in a salute to the American flag. Drew George led the 4-H pledge. Council report was given by Seth Bartlett and Kelly Wilkinson...