Nevada High School - Nevamo Yearbook (Nevada, MO)

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0ur Library. City Hall, And Post lliiice Are t -- Na- 3 f' 1 7. 3, f' vfaifqf' 'iid A3 1,9 i ha ' -- r f . 7, RIGHT HERE ON HIGHWAY 54 is our new CITY HALL which was contracted in 1955 at a cost of 515146, 215. 75. Good thing, too, for the old one was on its last timbers. Guess you know we're well run here by a city council and a city manager form of government. ACROSS THE HIGHWAY from the City Hall is the PUBLIC LIBRARY,built in 1917 through community -wide action and the Carnegie Corporation. You might say we're regular readers here, for this library has 14,000 books, and people are going through those library doors every day except Sunday. THEY KEEP UP A STEADY STREAM through the doors of our UNITED STATES POST OFFICE too. Of course, now with drive- in mail boxes and people more opposed to walking, the doors are probably going to last longer. Anyway, this building was put up in 1910 at a cost of 560, 873.00. Last year people in this area sent and received almost 5, 000, 000 pieces of mail! NOW, WE'LL GET STARTED WITH THE STORY. We don't have that gift of look- ing into the future 3 we really don't have the time to gaze into the past, so we have to stay with the present. We wouldn't attempt to teach any great truth about life as Wilder did so well in his play OUR TOWN. Some of you and some of your children and grandchildren will be looking at this book years from now, so this is the way things were in 1960-61. AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, people had to start from ashes, and now this town has grown to a population of 8, 400. Two im- portant highways, 71 and 54, converge here, and we're only 14 miles from the Kansas line. You can't see all the ab- stract things that make a town, but the se concrete buildings play important parts in the lives of people of all ages around here. PUBLIC LIBRARY - ,, X 4 5 nk, I H Wir M y gy.. ,W-get F' A 1 .. ,-Q ' I Q. Zz. br' V ti s Q N. L' . J , ' f 'tgirl-5, A ink I, 3.3-5,55 R A ,rm . -- -f'.f-kaww '-7.. is . -ffffvfw 435--' , t2t,Q1.-'i.ef3','g:.l'- . fm. .Mum ixjfii' W ,, K gi,-P. 4, fy- i ' ,L.'.., '-,fi 4' ' 'R ., g::ki+i:fIi': 'aj r. bij

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Two Hospitals And Cottoy Collogo Are CITY HOSPITAL WHENEVER PEOPLE IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD hear the name of our town, they link some Well-lmown institutions with it. One of these is STATE HOSPITAL NO. 3 which has been a part of the community since 1886. Here Dr. Paul Barone, Super- intendent, directs a staff of 739 people in the care and treatment of l, 970 patients. ANOTHER HOSPITAL IN NEVADA is the CITY HOSPITAL. It was in 1937 that We opened this 57 bed hospital, and you'll find it to be one of the busiest places in this community. Last year 2, 400 patients were admitted, and 360 new babies first took a look at this World from that hospital. Guess you could say that our toWn's keeping in step With the population explosion! 8 STATE HOSPITAL NO. 3