Bank Draft for Season Passes.

The City Council met for its regular meeting Tuesday evening in City Hall. The Council unanimously voted in favor to allow golf season passes made payable monthly through a bank draft.

City Administrator Tom Short reported earlier that the cost of the season passes will have a ten percent surcharge to cover bank costs for the monthly draft. Individuals will still have the opportunity to pay the full price of season passes in one installment to avoid the ten percent surcharge.

Parks Director Alan Bull reported that Pro Shop Manager Mark Peterson has received some interest from individuals for season passes paid monthly since hearing of the discussions between the City Council and the Parks Department.

In other business, the Council voted in favor of continuing the use for 2004 of City facilities for the following; Carthage Adult Softball Program for the use of Hallam Field in the Municipal Park; Jasper County Youth Fair for the use of the fair barn and other designated parts of Municipal Park; and the Carthage Aquatic Team for the use of the Municipal Pool.

Mornin'

The plan to develop the Myers Park property gets another push as the sale of another parcel looks promisin’. As was predicted in the beginnin’, the development is workin’ its way around the perimeter of the property. Hopefully the rest of the plan, to use proceeds of sales to develop the interior of the development, is also on schedule.

The temptation to use some of the revenue for other projects in the City will no doubt be raised. There might even be some justification in usin’ a percentage of the revenue to spruce up older portions of the business community.

The Myers Park Development will no doubt become a contributor to the sales tax base, but established businesses must be supported also to maintain a balanced sales tax revenue stream.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

by

Metcalf Auto Supply

Click & Clack
TALK CARS

By Tom & Ray Magliozzi

Dear Tom and Ray:

My wife keeps telling me this is happening, and I want to believe her, but the local Chrysler dealer and our favorite mechanic are stumped. Every two or three weeks, my wife will be driving her 1998 Chrysler Town and Country LXi when the front brakes slowly start to apply themselves. No matter how much she presses on the accelerator, the car eventually won’t move an inch. It’s happened three times. By the time she stops, smoke is pouring from the brakes. An hour later, the car will run fine again. Mechanics have replaced both of the front brake lines, saying the lines were semi-clogged. But we’re still having the problem. What’s wrong? — Paul.

RAY: Well, first of all, Paul, you should always believe your wife when she tells you something is wrong with her car.

TOM: I learned that the hard way. My wife was complaining that her old Volvo wagon was acting up. She couldn’t make it happen with me in the car, so I told her she was dreaming. She said: "Fine. You drive it." A couple of days later, after it died on me in a torrential rainstorm, I walked 2 miles home, entered the house soaked all the way down to my mutandis, and said, "OK, I believe you, hon."

RAY: Well, I’m not surprised that replacing the brake lines didn’t fix it. After all, what are the chances that two independent brake lines just happened to go bad at the same time? My guess, Paul, is that your wife’s car has a bad power brake booster.

TOM: The booster uses vacuum to amplify the pressure that your foot puts on the brake pedal. Sometimes when boosters go bad, they "stay on." So, it’s as if you never took your foot OFF the brake pedal last time you stopped.