today's
laugh
A farmer was trying to
sell his horse. After exercising it, he exclaimed to his
prospective buyer: "Dont you admire his
coat?"
"Coats all right," said
the prospect, "but I dont care for the
pants."
"To what do you attribute your
remarkable health?"
"Well," replied the old farmer, "I reckon
I got a good start on most people by bein born
before germs was discovered, thereby havin less to
worry about."
Show me an army general, and Ill
show you an attention getter.
1901
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have
Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
WORLDS
FAIR STENOGRAPHER.
Burt K. Blair of
Carthage Gets Missouri Appointment.
Burt K. Blair of Carthage was last
Friday duly installed as official stenographer of the
Missouri board of seven commissioners to the St. Louis
Worlds Fair of 1903.
The position pays $100 per month and
continues at the will of the commission. Mr. Blair has
moved his household goods to St. Louis, and is now at
Seneca to accompany his wife there.
While in discharge of his duties at St.
Louis Mr. Blair expects to pursue a night course in law
school, fitting himself for practice at the bar.
Roy Cramer, a brother-in-law of C. R.
Gray succeeded Mr. Blair in the Frisco service and has
transferred from Monett to Joplin.
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Today's Feature The
Cost of Celebrating.
The initial numbers are in for
the City sponsored Red, White and Boom July 4th
Celebration for 2001. Total expenditures totaled
$51,575.53. Total revenues generated by the event
include $17,600 in private and corporate
contributions and $4,781 in fees and sales. The
City appropriated an additional $20,000 that paid for
the fireworks display. Total revenues and City
budgeted funds therefore totaled $42,376. The
$9,199.53 shortfall will have to be absorbed by
the City.
The shortfall was the result of
an over estimation of revenues and an
underestimation of expenditures. The total
budgeted revenues for the event was $46,520.
Budgeted expenditures were $48,946.50.
Expenditures would have
actually come in under budget if publicity costs
had not exceeded budget by $3918.96. The budgeted
amount was $14,626.50 for publicity. Actual
costs, including the 15% commission paid to
Phillips-Ward and Associates, was $18,545.46.
The Red, White and Boom T-shirt
sales were low again this year with total sales
amounting to $212. Venders fees generated
$2,200 this year.
Commentary
Martin
"Bubs" Hohulin
State Representative, District 126
We started Special Session this
week and with it came some very strange committee
assignments. Usually, when we have a Special
Session, the committee assignments stay the same
as they were during the regular Session. That has
changed dramatically this time around.
As I have mentioned before, one
of the major items we have on the agenda is the
livestock pricing law that has caused so many
problems since its passage. The best way to deal
with it would be to repeal it entirely. Many
producers and producer organizations agree this
would be the best course of action. It is simply
a bad law.
House Speaker Jim Krieder
(D-Nixa) apparently disagrees. Much to
everyones surprise, he appointed a special
committee to hear the issue in Special Session.
That would be strange enough. Making it even
stranger is the fact that most of the members he
appointed to the committee are from the cities.
He also appointed the republican members instead
of letting the republican leader make those
choices. Of the seven democrats and four
republicans appointed to the committee, four are
from St. Louis, two are from Kansas City, and one
is from Springfield. Further compounding the
problem is that two of the republican members
appointed are legislators that have been easily
swayed in the past to vote with the democrats on
key issues. Of the 23 members of the House
Agriculture committee, only two were appointed to
the special committee.
What is Speaker Kreiders
reason for doing this? It doesnt make any
sense to not appoint the members with the
background and expertise to deal with this issue.
Kreider has made no secret of the fact that he
still thinks this law is a good thing. He has
distributed literature to that effect. Apparently
he still doesnt believe in the power of the
free market system.
Some have speculated that this
latest move is designed to bolster his chances of
a run for a higher political office. That may be
the case, and it may work to that effect.
However, many members have higher political
aspirations, myself included. That does not take
away from the fact that our first responsibility
is to do the job we were elected to do. Future
aspirations have to take a back seat to that. If
Speaker Kreider is willing to sell out the
livestock industry in Missouri to satisfy his own
political ambitions, that is just wrong. No one
person is that important.
As usual, I can be reached at
House Post Office, State Capitol, Jefferson City,
MO 65101, or 1-800-878-7126, or
mhohulin@services.state.mo.us for your questions,
comments, or advice.
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Just Jake
Talkin'
Mornin',
If ya take it as a given
that the 20 grand will be spent for a decent
fireworks display, heres how the
remaining $31,575 in expenditures for the
July 4th celebration broke down.
Advertising and agency
fees, $21,545 (69%); Rain insurance, $2260
(7%); actual entertainment, childrens
activities and miscellaneous expenditures,
$7775 (24%).
Actual revenues from
vendors, entry fees, and concessions totaled
$4,781.
The Fireworks Committee
appears to have done an excellent job of
monitoring expenses they had control over and
the execution of the event. The City Council
must take full responsibility for allowing
City funds to be spent for advertising that
were not allocated or budgeted.
This is some fact, but
mostly,
Just Jake Talkin.
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Weekly Column
Health
Notes
Health & Nutrition by
Judith Sheldon
A few columns
ago, I urged caution in the use of melatonin as a
sleep aid or for any of the widely touted
reasons.
At a recent conference at the
National Institutes of Health, researchers from
around the country voiced reservations about what
its supposed to do, and apprehension on
what it may do in the human body.
Melatonin is a naturally
occurring hormone that rarely needs to be
supplemented. Researchers are concerned that
taking melatonin supplementation without a
doctors supervision may result in serious
medical problems.
Because of what many health
care providers consider an unwise law passed by
Congress a few years ago, melatonin does not
require FDA approval for sale to the public.
Under this law, melatonin is
considered a food, not a drug, and is, therefore,
exempt from FDA approval.
The researchers are cautioning
that instead of the FDA being empowered to
require melatonin producers to test the product
under strict testing guidelines, the producers
are testing it on its consumers.
As one of the researchers put
it, "The public has become the guinea pigs
for this industry."
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