Today's Feature
Maple Leaf Queen Chosen.

Saturday, October 9th, Carrie McDowell was crowned Maple Leaf Queen for the 38th annual Maple Leaf Parade. McDowell is the daughter of William and Robyn and sister to Michael (13) and Matthew (13). She attends Carthage Senior High School and would like to attend college at either Pittsburg State University or Missouri Southern State University with ambitions of a career in the optometry field.

The first runner up for Maple Leaf Queen was Katie Wooldridge and second runner up was Katelyn Baines. The pageant consisted of 10 contestants who were evaluated on formal modeling, appearance, talent and interviews with judges.

Brittany McBride was named Maple Leaf Junior Miss at the Junior Miss Pageant last Saturday. Bailey McBride-Lee (little sister to Junior Miss) and Hadley Atnip were chosen as the Maple Leaf Little Miss and Mister.

I heard the comment several times yesterday that we really need the rain, but folks still don’t like it. Umbrellas, wet feet, damp clothes all day. Just mostly uncomfortable.

What people seem to like is a nice steady rain all night, then sunshine durin’ the day.

My dad used ta say, when people complained about the rain, "I couldn’t be better if I had my hand on the faucet myself."

What he was sayin’ was nature seems ta somehow make things work pretty well without us humans bein’ involved. It may be inconvenient from time to time, but in the long run the weather does a pretty good job in these parts.

‘Course he lived for a while where he said it was considered a down pour when someone saw three rain drops on a brick.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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McCune- Brooks Hospital

To Your Good Health

By Paul G. Donahue M.D.

New Treatments for Heart Failure

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My mother, 88, has taken care of herself up till now. She lives far from me. My sister called to tell me that my mother is hospitalized with congestive heart failure, and she implied that Mother is on death’s door. Do people recover from congestive heart failure? — D.R.

ANSWER: Congestive heart failure — CHF — means the heart is pumping so weakly that it cannot deliver enough blood to tissues and organs to provide them with the oxygen they need. Because the heart is a feeble pump, blood backs up and "congests" the lungs and sometimes other body organs and tissues. Ankle swelling is a sign of such congestion.

The prominent heart failure symptom is breathlessness on slight exertion. The breathlessness comes from a lack of oxygen. As failure progresses, people become short of breath when they lie down. And as it progresses even further, people wake from sleep gasping for air.

Coreg and Lopressor are two relatively new CHF medicines. They belong to the class of medicines known as beta blockers. Another important addition to treatment is ACE-inhibitor drugs — examples include Captopril, Vasotec, Prinivil and Altace. In a different class of drug is Inspra. It’s a brand-new medicine that has been added to the arsenal of treatments.