The Mornin' Mail is published every weekday except major holidays
Friday, May 11, 2001 Volume IX, Number 230

did ya know?

Did Ya Know?. . .The City of Carthage will conduct it’s Annual Residential City Wide Spring Cleanup on Sat., May 12th. Items that will not be taken are rocks, batteries, yard waste, chemicals, paint, hazardous household waste, or any appliance which uses CFCs or HCFCs as a coolant such as refrigerators & air conditioners, unless the compressor has been removed. Please contact the Engineering Department at 237-7010 for more information.

Did Ya Know?. . .The National Association of Letter Carriers, in conjunction with the U.S. Postal Service, the AFL-CIO, and Carthage Area United Way, will be collecting nonperishable food items on Saturday, May 12th for distribution to Carthage Crosslines Ministries. Please place a food donation by your mailbox and your letter carrier will deliver it to Carthage Crosslines.

Did Ya Know?. . .On Monday, May 14th the intersection of Garrison avenue and Chestnut street will be closed to traffic from 8 a.m.- 4 p.m. for street work and repairs. Traffic will be detoured on Garrison at Sycamore, on Chestnut at Lyon, on Garrison at 10th, and on Chestnut at McGregor.


today's laugh

"Are you an actress, auntie?"
"No, darling, why do you ask?"
"Because Daddy said when you arrived we’d have a scene."


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INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.

HIGH WINDS WORK DAMAGE.

At 2 o’clock this afternoon the big iron smokestack at the Fitch electric light plant in the Frisco bottoms, now run by the Carthage Light Co., was blown down with a great crash and bang. A force of men was at once dispatched by Supt. Enright to straighten it up. This was found a difficult task. The stack was 50 feet high and 32 inches in diameter. About two-thirds of it was destroyed and Supt. Enright thinks that the light plant will hardly be able to run tonight as a result of the blow down.

Some signs and billboards up town suffered the high winds, and the street sprinklers coped with the dust clouds in vain.

The telephone people were caused a world of trouble, and the central operators were almost caused to tear their hair by the innumerable crosses and confusion of wires resulting from the wind.

On the prairies the wind cut up high jinks. Many a frail fence or a flimsy haystack went sprawling.

The two o’clock electric car, Carthage bound, found the gun club’s shooting shed, near the Missouri Pacific crossing, blown over a fence and down an embankment onto the track. Passengers lifted it up, when the wind came along again and whirled the shed over into the wagon road.


  Today's Feature

Myers Park Street Cut.


The City Council Budget/Ways and Means Committee decided Wednesday recommend delaying the improvements on Airport Drive from Hornback to Garrison Avenue. The $283,000 project brought the commitment to the Myers Park area down to just under $700,000 for next year.

The bulk of that funding will be used to extend George Phelps Boulevard from the center of the development to Hazel. That project would include the circle drive that will eventually be intersected by Garrison extending from Airport drive to HH Highway. The extension of George Phelps Boulevard from Grand to the traffic circle is expected to be completed this fiscal year.

The Committee is recommending that a Myers Park Development fund be established with $800,000 of the $1.2 million received this year from property sales.

The remaining $400,000 represents the approximate amount that the proposed budget would add to General Fund reserves.

General Fund expenditures of about $7.7 million would be covered with the projected $6.86 million in revenues and the remainder coming from General Fund reserves.


Letter to the Editor
Opinions expressed reflect those of the writer
and not necessarily those of the Mornin' Mail.

Dear Editor,

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department for the excellent work they did patrolling the area around the Joplin 66 Speedway last Saturday during the Cinco de Mayo festivities. Bringing in a Captain and six armed deputies on their day off and tying up six patrol cars for the entire day was way above and beyond the call of duty. I thought the roadblocks were a nice touch. I’m not exactly sure if the selective stops and searches of only Hispanic people were constitutional but I slept well knowing that we were made safe from these Mexican marauders who attempted to enter the Speedway dressed in their fancy native garb. Apparently we forgot to notify the Sheriff that it was a Mexican celebration similar to our Fourth of July and not a large Hispanic gang disguised as husbands, wives and small children. I must admit that I apparently was mistaken when I felt that a half a dozen patrol cars parked in the speedway parking lot on private property was a bit of overkill. When I expressed my concerns to a very rotund authoritative deputy he advised me that I was blocking the road and if I didn’t move I would be arrested. It didn’t make a bit of difference to him when I explained it was a private drive belonging to the Speedway. Being a recent transplant from Ohio I didn’t realize that Jasper County has it’s own set of rules that have nothing to do with constitutional rights. For this I sincerely apologize. I’ll make sure I read up on the local customs before I ever approach another Jasper County deputy.

Thinking ahead to the future I believe that it would be wise if we never held another Hispanic event here at Joplin 66 Speedway. In fact, maybe we shouldn’t encourage anyone whose roots are from another country including my own. My folks are from Ireland and we all know what kind of beer drinking hell raisers the Irish are. Well, I guess there goes the St. Patrick’s Day show. Heaven help us if the Baptists want to hold a revival here. The county will have to bring out the dogs to control that unruly crowd.

In closing, I want the voters of Jasper County and the elected officials to rest easy. Before we ever again hold an ethnic event here at the racetrack we’ll check with the sheriff first to make sure he approves. That’s the American way isn’t it?

Sincerely, Kevin Ruic

Promoter Joplin 66 Speedway


University Outreach & Extension Week.

news release

Jasper County University Outreach and Extension has the expertise to help you and your family, your business, your farm and your community be successful in the 21st century. Learn how University Outreach and Extension, a leader in the new millennium, can help you put the resources of the University of Missouri and Lincoln Universtity to work for you.

In recognition of University Outreach and Extension Week in Missouri, the Jasper County Outreach and Extension Council and staff will be hosting an open house from 10 a.m. until noon on Wednesday, May 16 in the Extension Center, Courthouse Basement, Carthage. Make plans to stop by, or visit their website (http://outreach.missouri.edu/Jasper).

University Outreach and Extension works in partnership with local citizens, through County Outreach and Extension Councils, to determine people’s local educational needs and develop programs designed to meet those needs.

To learn more about how local Outreach and Extension faculty can assist you, or to be notified about upcoming programs via newsletters or e-mail, contact the office at 417-358-2158 or (jasperco@missouri.edu).

University Outreach and Extension links people throughout the state with educational programs and research information from the four campuses of the University of Missouri System and Lincoln University.


Membership Votes Favorably on New Board!

by Robin Putnam, artCentral

We had our annual Membership meeting this last week. Thanks to all of our members who voted and returned the ballots. All new Board members were voted in as well as the new officers for the coming year.

The newest Board of Directors consists of the following wonderful volun-teers: Don Knost - President,

Eddie Grundy, Jr. - Vice President, JoAnn Evans - Secretary, Robin Putnam - Treasurer, Shellie Ross, Debbie Reed and Karen Rouse.

We thank Ron Petersen, Jr. for serving on our Board for the last three years !! We wish him well with his new job !! We do have two spaces open on the Board so if you are interested or know of someone who may be interested just get in touch with someone around here and we can fill you in on the gory details !!

Really it’s not a bad thing.......we have our meet-ings at noon and we all sit down to lunch first so no one has to go back to work hungry !! Then we proceed with business and get out of here around one. Think about it !!

Good news !! There will be new drawing and oil painting sessions held here for anyone interested in learning the basics. It’s techniques and tutorial. This means that while the class is working on a technique the instructor will be able to work with the students - one on one.

So......these classes will begin June 6th for drawing and June 7th for oil painting with the session being 4 weeks for each one.

Matt Myers is the instructor. He has worked as a free lance artist for 17 years and has paintings all over the world. Locally his work can be seen in Carthage and Joplin in private homes, the Ronald McDonald House and Prime Trucking in Springfield. If you’re a cruiser you may have seen his work as he has done numerous murals for Royal Caribbean, Celebrity and Cunard cruise lines.

Students will supply their own materials, the classes will be held here at the Hyde House from 1pm-3pm. Cost will be $35 for each 4 week session. Just call Matt here for more info and to get signed up.....hurry !! artCamp info should be available by this time next week !! Looks like another awesome class line-up !!

More.........next week. 358-4404. 1110 E 13th & www. ozarkartistscolony.com Tues. - Sat 9am - 3pm.


Just Jake Talkin'

Mornin',

Accordin’ to numbers supplied by City Administrator Tom Short, the City’s departments will be spendin’ a little less than the City is takin’ in next year.

That’s not bad news, but capital improvements - major street construction, traffic signals, storm water ditch construction are bein’ paid for out of reserves.

I can’t help but wonder what the situation would have been if the proposed airport purchase had come through. That $450,000 woulda changed some of the budget decisions I’m sure.

If ya add that amount to the recent sales of property ya end up with $1.65 million in cash. We can always delay big projects if more cash from sales doesn’t come.

Times are good, for now.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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Researchers at the Universities of Nevada and Utah isolated NDGA from the leaves of a Chaparral plant after a cancer victim was miraculously cured. The 87 year old patient began consuming chaparral daily and in a few short months cured a facial cancer.

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* This article is meant for informational purposes only
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