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Volume 104 • Number 81 • Monday, April 28, 2014 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO
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‘Take back’ keeps drugs off the street By TONY BROWN News editor
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Caged for a cause
Anna Hastert, a Northwest Missouri State University freshman, lounges in her cage Saturday at Orscheln Farm and Home while waiting to be “adopted” during an in-store event hosted by the New Nodaway Humane Society.
Living a dog’s life for shelter By STEVE HARTMAN Staff writer
Anna Hastert, a freshman at Northwest Missouri State University, spent last Friday night living like an animal. In a bid to raise awareness about the plight of shelter dogs available for adoption through the New Nodaway Humane Society, Hastert allowed herself to be penned up for 22 hours inside a small metal dog cage. “I love pets and have adopted a dog from the New Nodaway Humane Society,” Hastert said. “So when the opportunity came up to raise awareness for what the Humane Society does and what it needs, I agreed to spend 22 hours in a dog pen just like a dog waiting to be adopted.” Northwest’s student radio station, KZLX, partnered with the New Nodaway Humane Society to promote both the mission of the Humane Society and a pet adop-
tion event held Saturday at the Orscheln Farm and Home store on South Main. The radio station stayed on air for the entire 22 hours Hastert was in her cage. During that period, student broadcasters reported on several of Hastert’s “pen mates” who are awaiting adoption. Hastert wanted the experience to be as real as possible, so she didn’t have a cot or bed, just a pillow like every other animal at the shelter. She also shunned silverware and dishes, choosing to have a food dish and water bowel like her kennel mates. “The dogs finally settled down about 10:30 p.m.,” Hastert said. “I didn’t go to sleep until about 1 a.m. and everybody woke up about 5:30 a.m. If I would have known we were getting up so early, I would have gone to sleep earlier myself. Other than getting a little cold overnight, everything was fine.” See SHELTER, Page 6
Maryville Public Safety officers and Northwest Missouri State University police completed a major drug sweep over the weekend — but nobody got arrested, no one went to jail and no one was bound over for trial. Rather, the prescription medications — along with an assortment of over-thecounter pills and antibiotics — were collected during a “drug take-back,” a twice-ayear event that lets area residents safely clean out their medicine cabinets with no questions asked. The take-back is supported by the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, which will collect the drugs today from local law enforcement and take them to a special facility for incineration. Funds to pay for the program were provided through a grant awarded to Maryville Partners in Prevention, a local anti-substance abuse coalition. Also funded by the grant this year was a giveaway of several dozen security pill bottles featuring a special combination lock cap. Maryville Public Safety Director Keith Wood said last week that the take-back has proven to be an effective tool over the past couple of years in terms of taking prescription drugs off the street.
Unlike decades past, when substances like marijuana and cocaine were most often the drugs of choice for abusers, the trend these days is toward pharmaceuticals like OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin, Hydrocodone and Lortab. One reason for that, Wood said, is simple availability, See DRUG, Page 6
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Safety first
This combination lock pill bottle proved a popular giveaway item Saturday during a prescription drug take-back event conducted by Maryville Public Safety and the Northwest Missouri State University Police Department.
Echoes of Great War still resound By TONY BROWN News editor
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Honoring …
This plaque, one of two which stand across the street from the old armory building on the campus of Northwest Missouri State University.
One hundred years ago this summer a shot rang out in a European backwater that both changed the world and hurled the young, boisterous United States toward its unforeseen destiny as a mighty global power. On June 28, 1914, in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, a nationalist assassin put a fatal bullet into Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. The Great War that followed wiped out an entire generation of European men. The carnage included an estimated 16 million military and civilian dead and 20 million wounded. Though the United States didn’t enter the war until its fourth and final year, 1918, the conflict forever changed the way this country thought of itself and brought deep changes to all parts of society, including the part known as Nodaway County. Of the local boys who marched off to war from the Maryville area, about 50 gave their lives. Today, their names are cast in bronze on a pair of columns across the street from the old armory building, now a computer center, on
the campus of Northwest Missouri State University. World War I is being recalled during this centennial year during events all over the world, including one over the weekend at the Nodaway County Historical Society Museum, where a new display dedicated to the war has been installed. Maryville High School social studies teacher Catrina Pelton gave a presentation about the war on Saturday, telling a good-sized audience that its horrors have dimmed over the years, largely due to the catastrophe of World War II, which consumed Europe in a second conflagration 20 years after the Great War ended on Nov. 11, 1918 — now celebrated as Veterans Day. Pelton, who serves as a fellow of the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, explained how WWII was a direct consequence of the first war, and grew out of Germany’s frustration over hard terms imposed by victors England and France despite objections by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. She also talked about how a war that began in Central Europe in 1914 eventually affected the lives of farmers’ and merchants’ sons from northwest Missouri, whose number included a young
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artillery officer named Harry S. Truman. “It was a time of imperialism,” said Pelton, “and imperialism demanded expansion.” The goal of the Archduke’s assassination was ostensibly to break the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s hold over its Slavic provinces and form a Greater Serbia. Instead, Austria-Hungary retaliated by declaring war on Serbia. And Germany, with an eye towards settling old scores with France, Britain and Russia, joined the fray. Germany attacked Belgium and France, forcing England and Russia to honor their treaties and enter the war as French allies. The United States, under the leadership of Wilson, did its best to remain neutral, but in the face of continued German aggression took steps to institute a draft. Again, there was a northwest Missouri connection. A native of Trenton, Gen. Enoch H. Crowder, judge advocate general of the United States Army, helped write the Selective Service Act of 1917 and guide it through Congress. When the United States declared war on Germany in the spring of 1917, the draft See WWI, Page 6
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… WWI vets
The plaques, on the face of brick columns at Northwest, bear the names of 45 Nodaway Countians who died while serving during World War I.
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