Representative Emery - C.A.R.E.S.

The city of Sarcoxie in Jasper County marks the most southern tip of the 126th District. According to 126th District Representative Ed Emery citizens of Sarcoxie are presently in the midst of a battle for the integrity of their community. A proliferation of pornographic video stores in the area has become the focus of a family movement called C.A.R.E.S. (Committed Area Residents Ensuring Safety). Emery says the group is over 220 strong so far and has organized into a steering committee and three working sub-committees. They are meeting monthly and building a network of contacts throughout Jasper County. The group’s goal is to isolate and eliminate the evil influence of pornography on the communities it invades.

"Assistance to the C.A.R.E.S. movement is coming from many corners" Emery said. "A number of state legislators are taking a personal interest and have offered to help. Several have similar problems in their own districts, and they know that whatever we learn in Jasper County will help them rid their districts of similar perversion. Local county and city officials have offered encouragement and support. Churches are banding together as well as community leaders and law enforcement agencies. National family-support organizations have provided research and legal counsel. The team effort is essential because elitist and irrational judges have made it increasingly more difficult to depend on our courts for any common sense judgments."

"One of the first objections opponents will enlist is that we cannot restrain ‘freedom of speech." That is the perpetual and mindless argument that simply repeats another’s claim without applying reason. Logic would define free speech as the liberty to persuade, not license to indulge. Freedom is not the absence of standards; it is the open debate of standards before they are applied or discarded. Immoral living and activity is not ‘free speech.’ Immorality is merely rebellion against the agreed-to standards of society. Societal standards are to be of the people, for the people, and by the people. They are to reflect the will of the people. We have the freedom to disagree with the mores of the majority and even to try peacefully to overthrow them, but not to discard them. That is anarchy, and today’s activist judges are creating and fostering anarchy by ill conceived and reprobate rulings."

"The citizens of Sarcoxie and of Jasper County have resolved that, with or without the help of the courts, they will resist the spread of pornography. They have already shown the patient determination to prevail in this battle for their families and community. I hope you will offer them your prayers and support."

Youth Dove Hunt at Shawnee Trail.

News Release

This year on Shawnee Trail Conservation Area, located in southwest Barton County, the Missouri Department of Conservation will be providing a special hunt to introduce young people to dove hunting. This past spring, MDC staff planted approximately 14 fields specifically to provide dove hunting opportunities. Three of these fields will be preserved for this special hunt. The Shawnee Trail Youth Dove Hunt will be held Saturday, September 4th.

In order to keep dove activities high on these fields, no scouting or hunting will be allowed on these fields until after the Youth Dove Hunt. Once the youth dove hunt is completed, all hunters can then utilize these fields (beginning the morning of September 5th). Those interested in the Youth Dove Hunt, must register at the Joplin MDC Office. Participants must also attend the mandatory pre-hunt workshop and be accompanied by an adult during this workshop and the hunt. The workshop will be held at Shawnee Trail shop (SW 50th Road) on August 28th from 8:30 am to 12 noon. During the workshop, the participants will get information on dove identification, management, regulation, hunting times, and gun and hunting safety. Following the classroom portion of the workshop, attendees will get the opportunity to shoot. Targets and shells will be provided. Participants need to bring their guns to the workshop, field positions will be randomly selected so each hunter knows what field and what location they will be hunting at during the September 4th hunt. Depending on condition of fields and dove use, the youth hunt may be split into morning and afternoon segments.

Participants must be 11-15 years old and have a valid Hunter Safety Identification Card (Heritage Card) to participate in this hunt. For more information and to register for this workshop/hunt please call the Joplin MDC office (417) 629-3423.

Growin’ up with gravel roads and plenty of "stickers" growin’ in the area, onea the things ya learned at a young age at my house was how to patch a bicycle tire.

Gettin’ the tire and wheel off was a fairly straight ahead process. Undo a couple of nuts and presto, instant gratification. The real challenge was to carefully pry off the tire without punchin’ another hole in the inner tube in the process.

The excitement of discovery came next as ya ran water over the inflated tube to locate the bubbles of air escapin’ through a pin hole. Then the real fun of layin’ on the patch and ignitin’ the fuel on top of the patch to "vulcanize" the tube and patch together.

That, of course, was a pretty big word, even for a six year old with grease on his hands and playin’ with matches.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

by

McCune-

Brooks Hospital

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH

By Paul G. Donohue, M.D.

Hysterectomy Only One Treatment for Fibroid

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am 34 and have two children, and I would like one or two more. My doctor told me that I have a fibroid. I made the mistake of telling that to my mother. She says that if I don’t have my uterus removed, I will lose so much blood during my periods that I will end up sick. What do you say? — K.J.

ANSWER: Your mother harkens back to a time when fibroids were thought to be a danger to health. They aren’t. They are benign growths of uterine muscle. They are common and are hardly ever cancerous. By age 50, 70 percent of white women and 90 percent of black women have at least one. Most of the time, a fibroid can be left untreated.

On the other hand, if a fibroid makes it impossible to have children or if it is painful, then consideration can be given to getting rid of it.

Hysterectomy — removal of the uterus — is only one way to treat a fibroid. Many times a fibroid can be removed without taking the uterus, and sometimes it can be removed without making any abdominal incision. A laparoscope — the telescopic instrument used to view inner organs — is used with simultaneously passed surgical instruments to remove a fibroid.