Monday, April 21, 2025
The Museum Minute: Some fast construction
Herrman’s Historical Happenings week of April 23
1881 In 4 hours, people of Adrian build a 24 by 40 foot building to be used for the church.
1885 The Butler City Council appoints saloonkeeper, J.W. Willis, as street commissioner.
1903 The Bates County Democrat newspaper reports plans are under way to put a large pleasure boat on the Marais Des Cygne River at Papinville. It should be come quite a tourist attraction.
1945 Amsterdam High students select Mary Russell best girl citizen & Walter Stanfill as best boy citizen.
1949 Willard Martz, Elmer Wells, and Harris Pyeatt have been helping C.R. James ready his skating rink for the season. Butler.
1965 Grand ol' Opry star, Kitty Wells, presents a show at the Rich Hill High gym.
2001 Bates County Sheriff Duane Diehl and the Bates County Commissioners Terry Wheatley, Bob Wingate and Randy Pike are visiting some new constructed jails, in Kansas. Bates Co is thinking about a new jail.
2005 The play "Harvey" is performed at the Ballard school as a dinner theater presentation.
What's Up by LeRoy Cook
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‘Tis the season…April showers continued last week, suppressing airport activities around the country. The weather is traditionally unsettled over the Easter holidays, and this year was no exception. A few flights were logged by the Butler evacuees at Harrisonville, as the lighting project proceeded at Butler, leaving the runway shut down.
We continually get asked “When are we going to get to buy fuel at Butler airport?” Officially, the goal is to have the new fuel pump ready for use by the time the airport is reopened from the lighting replacement. The two projects are not related in any way, the avgas debacle being a year-long struggle while the light installation has been in the plans for many years. Planes don’t always need runway lights, but they have a continuous appetite for fuel, so having to fill up at Clinton, Nevada or Harrisonville instead of home base requires planning.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a notice last month that it’s planning to do away with in-flight Flight Service radio frequencies, which is just about the last actual helpful service the FAA offers for General Aviation. Their excuse is that pilots “all have cell phones” and can get weather updates from a host of on-line and broadcast sources, so very few actually call in by radio and talk to a real live weather briefer, only about 300 per day,, the agency claims. Forty years ago, before personal electronic devices, FAA got 22,000 requests per day, over the network of Flight Service radio outlets like the one at Butler VORTAC station, 122.1 mHz. The 122.2 frequency used to be usable anywhere above 5,000 feet, known as “Flightwatch,” but that was eliminated years ago, with a remnant left at Springfield. Clinton and Jeff City still have outlets on 122.4, 122.3 is at Pittsburg and the 122.6 channel is found at Joplin. It’s still nice to have FSS ready to give assistance at the press of a mike button, as a backup for all the fancy screens and uplinks in our panel, but you’d better call them while you still can. If you want to protest the abandonment of air-ground flight service, you have until May 27 to write the FAA, 800 Independence Ave., Washington, DC 20591, Attn: AJR-81. Quote Docket # FAA-2025-0558.
The predictable fall-out from the trade-tariff wars is being seen in the deliveries of new airliners. Delta Airlines has a bunch of new Airbus 350 widebody jets on order, but won’t be taking them because the extra import tax from the European builder will make them too expensive. Of course, Delta is also anticipating a drop-off in its international traffic, so maybe they won’t need them anyway. And China’s Communist-controlled airline industry won’t be accepting the 10 new Boeing 737s it had been expecting to get, even though Boeing has some airliner parts built in China. The Chinese are building a home-grown copy of the 737 for their own use, so it’s logical to cancel the orders for Boeings.
Small helicopter maker Robinson Helicopter is going to bring out a big-brother model to tap a marker beyond its R66 turbine six-seater. The forthcoming R88 will seat 10 and will need a 1,000-hp French Safran Areil engine for lift. The overall enlarged design is similar to other Robinson helicopters.
Last week’s quiz question wanted to know the origin of the name “Skyhaven” for the Warrensburg, MO airport. It was from the associated Skyhaven Motel and restaurant on 50 highway. Next week’s question is from CH-47 ‘copter pilot Beth McCune; what was the nickname of the armed Chinooks used briefly in the Vietnam War? You can send your answers to kochhaus1@gmail.com.
Sunday, April 20, 2025
High water creating hazards around the area
Rich Hill and Butler fire departments were called earlier to a water rescue on B highway near O highway to assist occupants of the above vehicle reach safer ground. Throughout this afternoon there have been numerous reports of hydroplaning which resulted in several vehicles that needed to be pulled from ditches as well.
Current radar indicates more rain is inbound and we are under a Flood Warning for Bates County and surrounding areas until 10 pm.
Below, 4th street south of Haw is impassable in Rich Hill. Fire personnel are working to get a barricade put up at this time.
Remember TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN!
East Nursery street, Butler
Old Town access, Rich Hill
South Main street, Butler
11 Run Inning Helps Lady Tigers Past Miami
By Cody Morris, Tailgate TV
Rich Hill got on the board early as Ephland poked the ball to center for an RBI Single, scoring Potter. Shortly after Potter crossed the dish, Phelps would also grab an RBI Single which scored Ephland. After the 1st, the Miami Eagles found themselves trailing 2-0.
In the second, Rich Hill would again be able to hold the Lady Eagles scoreless. In the bottom of the 2nd the Lady Tigers would plate 2 more runs off of an RBI Double from Ephland.
In the bottom of the 3rd is when the Lady Tigers really came to life, rallying to score a total of 11 runs in the inning to run rule the Lady Eagles with a final of 15-0 after 3.
Mady Ephland was the offensive standout for the Lady Tigers as she went a perfect 3 of 3 on the game and racked up 5 RBIs and 2 Runs. Wheatley and Potter also recorded multiple hits and 2 RBIs each in the contest as well.
Ava Tialino went 3 innings for Rich Hill, striking out 6, and giving up just one lone hit.
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