Today's Feature

Beauty Shop Permit Returns.

Carthage City Council will meet this evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of City Hall. The agenda includes an ordinance concerning a special use permit for a beauty shop at 1816 S. Maple as requested by property owner Dianna Sheldon.

This ordinance was postponed at the previous meeting. After hearing several citizens voice opinions about the beauty shop Council member Tom Flanigan recommended a postponement due to the absence of Council members Jim Woestman and Dave Woods. Council member Jackie Boyer was opposed to the postponement stating that Council had voted many times on important issues without the presence of full Council. The vote to postpone was tied and Mayor Kenneth Johnson broke the tie moving the item to this week’s meeting.

The participants at the meeting included former Council member Lujene Clark who was opposed to the special use permit due to the negative effects that might occur to property value as the result of a business being allowed in a residential area. Clark also expressed concerns about how subsequent requests for business permits in the area would be handled after the approval of one such request. Planning, Zoning and Historic Preservation board member Jenny Mansfield also spoke at the meeting in favor of the permit which had passed through the Zoning committee. Mansfield said that the permit would only allow for operation as long as Sheldon was the owner of the property.

Some of the participants from the previous meeting intend to return again and state their positions before full Council.

Stench Report:
Monday,
08/22/05

No reports of stench.

I get ta feelin’ sometimes that ever’thing mechanical is bein’ influenced by the whims of the moon. These minor aggravations are not much when they come ever’ now and then, but it seems that durin’ certain phases they pile up and become all consuming.

This is the time when the lawn mower, automobile, remote control, light bulbs, telephone and other various and sundry items become contrary. Shoe laces break, ball point pens run out of ink and the pocket calculator battery runs down. The only solace is the faith that at some point ever’thing that can break will break and it will finally be over till the next lunar intrusion.

When I do happen to get down in the dumps thinkin’ about it, I imagine three guys up in a space station. They prob’ly don’t have much time to sweat the small stuff.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin.

Some Strokes Caused by Brain Bleeding

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have a friend whose sickness started with a cough. Then she got a bad headache and vomited. She was taken to the hospital, where it was found that a blood vessel in her head had burst. She is now able to walk well and eat well. What caused this? — Anon.

ANSWER: Your friend had a hemorrhagic stroke — one that results from bleeding in the brain. It’s not the most common kind of stroke. The most common kind results from a blockage of blood circulation in a brain artery. That’s an ischemic stroke.

Hemorrhagic strokes often come from the sudden rupture of an aneurysm. An aneurysm develops from a weak spot on an artery wall, in this case a brain artery. The weakness leads to the formation of a blisterlike bulge that can suddenly break.

When the aneurysm breaks, or just prior to its breaking, affected people often complain of the worst headache they have ever had. Their neck stiffens, and vomiting is quite common. Then they lapse into unconsciousness.

The initial break often seals itself, but it can bleed again. A neurosurgeon can place a metallic clip at the base of the aneurysm to prevent another bleed, or a doctor can thread a soft, pliable tube — a catheter — into the aneurysm. When the catheter is in place, the doctor deposits platinum coils in it.