Dairy Set to Reopen.

The Executive Director for the Missouri Soybean Association Dale Ludwig and colleagues met with the Jasper County Commission Thursday morning in the Carthage Courthouse. The purpose for the meeting was to present to the Commission and citizens their plans for reopening the Hylton Dairy near Avilla, MO. Ludwig stated that they hope to be milking 200 head of cattle by May and plan to increase that number over the next year to 1260 head of dairy cattle.

Ludwig expressed that the Association will do everything according to federal regulations and wishes to be a good neighbor. He also reported that $3 million in funding for the facility was coming from investors but some grants had been applied for.

"We will do everything possible," said Ludwig, "to be responsible neighbors and citizens. We will be good stewards of the land."

Engineer for the Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation project Jeff Brown reported that the plans will include a waste management system, a second stall barn, sand bedding, an additional storage basin, two waste streams and use of the existing lagoon.

"We will design and construct," said Brown, "according to regulations. The facility will be a concrete structure, the waste water will be held and stored in the lagoon which has a liner and the water will stay on site until dried and land applied."

Presiding Jasper County Commissioner Chuck Surface stated that the meeting was planed so the Association could inform the community of their plans and give the citizens of Jasper County a chance to address any questions one might have concerning the dairy and its operations.

"We didn’t want it done in the dark," said Surface.

Approximately a dozen of concerned citizens turned out for the meeting with questions concerning the odor and water quality.

Jasper County resident and candidate for Eastern District County Commissioner Brent Erwin informed that he lives near the dairy and that it opened for the first time in 1999 and operated for a year and a half and went bankrupt.

"The last time, said Erwin, "it polluted the creeks and the air was disgusting. I will serve you notice now, it will smell and I will file a nuisance suit."

Carthage resident Wanda Chaffen stated that she was concerned with the amount of water the facility would be using and the quality of the ground water after the dry waste has been spread.

"We recently moved here," said Chaffen, "bought a house and plan on staying. What about the hormones and antibiotics given to cows, will the water be safe now and in the future for my grandchildren?"

A representative for the Mid-America Dairy Association reported that the hormone BST was naturally produced by all dairy cows and that antibiotics were only administered when a cow was ill. She stated that there is not a high concentration of either and that the ground water would not be affected.

Correction.

In the Tuesday edition of the Mornin Mail, the phone number for Coast Guard Auxiliary member Harry Weissenberger was printed incorrectly.

The number to call is 359-5737 or Mary Horvath at 417-858-2714.

From time to time, a variety of things end up in our yard that we have no clue as to how they got there.

Currently there is a basketball out by the old elm tree. It’s been there long enough that it had to be moved for mowin’ once. I keep figurin’ who ever owns the roundball will eventually reclaim it. As a kid, if a ball of any kind was missin’ there would be an all out search until it was located.

Typically in our neighborhood, there were only one or two decent balls of any kind that were available. We usually could come up with a usable baseball and we had a good leather football. A friend had a good basketball, and nobody at that time cared about a soccer ball or a soft ball. There may have been a tennis ball or two for the dog, but ya never left a ball in a neighbor’s yard.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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Oak Street health & herb

Natural Nutrition

By Mari An Willis

I am pleased to share this information with you via Dr. Alan Clark.

Mercury – Toxic in any form. Missouri may be the first State in the US to ban mercury in some childhood vaccines. In 1999 and 2001, respectively, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Institute of Medicine urged the phasing out of toxic mercury in vaccinations – including flu shots. Unfortunately, without enforcement power, the pharmaceutical industry has been slow to act and mercuy is still present in multi-dose DTP injections for children as well as most flu vaccines.

In an effort to hasten the removal of mercury in vaccines, Representative Roy Holand, MD (Springfield) introduced House Bill 852 which would eliminate all but tract amounts of this toxic metal in vaccines for children beginning tin 2006. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC recently issued alerts stating that now 1 out of 6 children have a developmental or behavior disorder. One out of 166 children now has full blown autism, up from one in 10,000 just 15 years ago. Mercury is known to cause damage to developing brains which has long been recognized to produce the same symptoms as what physicians now call "regressive autism."

On April 5, 2004, Florida Congressman David Weldon, MD introduced H.R. 4169 which would eliminate mercury from vaccines on a national level – very similar to the Missouri legislation.The Missouri House has already passed HB 852. Now, it is important for all Missourians to contact your Missouri State Senator and urge passage of HB 852 banning mercury in vaccines. For more updates on this initiative, visit

www.NoMercury.org

http://www.nomercury.org/

a Carthage, Missouri based website.