Vickie Woods Hoover Services: Have been held. Vickie Woods Hoover, 67, of Rialto, Calif., died Jan. 5, 2005, in Fontana, Calif., after a short illness. She was born on Nov. 12, 1938, in Melrose, to DeWitte and Lois Woods. She married Darnell Hoover on July 2, 1959, in Melrose. She graduated from Melrose High School […]
Pilot remembered for daring WW II raid
March 2, 2004
Don McAlavy Editor’s note: Col. Travis Hoover was born Sept. 21, 1917, at Melrose. The son of the late Fred and Elizabeth Hoover died at age 86 in Joplin, Mo., on Jan. 17. A daring raid. Beyond daring, even. Suicidal. Yet, it changed the course of a world war, and — who knows — perhaps […]
New book outs truth of ‘FDR’s Folly’
October 9, 2003
Thomas Sowell They say “truth will out” but sometimes it takes a long time. For more than half a century, it has been a “well-known fact” that President Franklin D. Roosevelt got us out of the Great Depression of the 1930s. That view was never pervasive among economists, and even J.M. Keynes — a liberal […]
