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published every weekday except major holidays
Thursday, April 13, 2006 Volume XIV, Number
209
did
ya know?
Did Ya Know?... A Red
Cross Blood Drive will be held at the Church of
the Nazarene, 2000 Grand Carthage, Thursday,
April 13 from 1:30 to 7 p.m. and Friday, April 14
from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Please bring a photo ID.
Did Ya Know?... VFW Post
2590 Ladies Auxillary will host the Annual Easter
Egg Hunt Saturday, April 15. The Easter Bunny
will be present, doors open at noon, Easter egg
hunt at 2 p.m. Shrine Train rides, Fingerprinting
by CPD, Lite a Bike - Lite a Trike, Free baskets
while supply lasts, prizes for all age groups
1-3,4-6,7-9,10-11, free popcorn, coffee, kool
aid, $.50 candy bars, hotdogs, soda pop.
Did Ya Know?... Chapter
41 of the Disabled American Veterans will meet
Tuesday night, April 18 at 7 p.m. in the Legion
Rooms of the Memorial Hall. Members of the
Auxiliary will be meeting at the place.
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today's
laugh
You know they call
corn-on-the-cob, corn-on-the-cob, but thats
how it comes out of the ground. They should just
call it corn and every other type of corn, corn-off-the
cob. Its not like if someone cut my arm off
they would call it Mitch, and then reattach it
and call it Mitch-all-together. - Mitch Hedberg
I play golf even though I hate
it. Im not done with the game yet. I hate
those windmills. - Mark Guido
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1906
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have
Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
Still Another Keen
Thrust.
Joplins City
Council Doubles Occupation Tax of the Electric Line.
And still another gun has
been turned on the Southwest Missouri Electric Railway
company by Joplins city council. That body last
night voted 10 to 1 to increase the corporations
occupation tax from $1,000 to $2,000. To make the tax
$5,000 instead of $2,000 was the purport of an amendment
voted down after an hours discussion.
Deafness Cannot Be
Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to
cure deafness and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inflammed condition of the
mucuous lining of the Eustachian Tube. Nine cases out of
ten are caused by Catarrh, which is an inflamed condition
of the mucuous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot
be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. F.J. Cheney &
Co.
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Today's
Feature
New Council
Sworn In.
The Carthage City
Council met Tuesday evening in a regular session.
This was the final meeting for Mayor Kenneth
Johnson and Council member Jackie Boyer,
following the April 4 Municipal Election.
After the
completion of old business by the former Council,
the new Council was sworn in. Jim Woestman was
sworn in as Mayor, and appointed Dan Rife to take
his 5th Ward Council seat. Council elected Mike
Harris Mayor Pro-Tem.
Council members
sworn in included; Claude Newport and Larry Ross,
Ward 1; Mike Harris, Ward 2; Cynthia Curry, Ward
3; Bill Johnson, Ward 4; and Tom Flanigan and Dan
Rife, Ward 5.
Council members
new and old expressed their gratitude and
appreciation to Kenneth Johnson for his 8 years
of service as Mayor and 23 total years service to
the City. Council members also thanked Jackie
Boyer for her 13 years on Council and 13 years
serving on the Budget Committee. The new members
were welcomed by Council.
Following the
appointments, the new Council heard the first
reading of an ordinance adding a new paragraph to
the Special Use Permit section of the City Code.
The new paragraph would allow for a restaurant to
sell liquor by the drink if the establishment
makes at least 60% revenue from the sale of food.
There was no discussion on this item.
Horse Tale.
Arrangements
Made for Pet Burial in Park Cemetery 100 Years
Ago. No Horses Allowed.
The ordinance
allowing a portion of land owned by Park Cemetery
to be used as a pet cemetery has been approved by
City Council. Research of the Mornin Mail
archives, and conjunctively the 1900 archives has
uncovered at least one instance long ago where
permission was granted by Park Cemetery for the
burial of pets.
According to a
November 2001 Mornin Mail article,
featuring an article from 1901, an old Carthage
resident named Mrs. O. Trenkler, after deciding
to move to Germany, considered having her pets
killed and buried as opposed to leaving them in
the care of strangers. The article reads;
"But one
problem puzzled the kind- hearted old lady, and
that was the disposition of her pets, a horse, a
sand hill crane, and her laughing
dove. She could not think of leaving them
to unsympathetic strangers, and rather chose in
her zeal for their welfare to see them dead and
buried. She made an application to Regan Bros. to
bury them in Park Cemetery, and got permission as
to the crane and dove, but as she explained to
one reporter at the train Saturday night,
they would not let me lay out the horse
there."
This horse dilemma
forced kind-hearted old Mrs. Trenkler to
re-evaluate her stance, and she decided instead
to leave the animals alive, and in the care of
Mrs. John Koontz, northeast of town, according to
the 1901 reporter.
At the Council
meeting Tuesday night, Park Cemetery
representative Neel Baucom spoke to the Council
concerning the burial of horses and other large
animals, saying that the Cemetery would prefer
that all animals be cremated. The largest plot
offered by the Cemetery would be 2 x
4, which most likely will eliminate the
possibility for burial of a non-cremated horse.
The area for pet
burial is separated from the human cemetery by
267 feet, according to Baucom.
Flanigan
Presents City Seal.
At the Council
meeting Tuesday Council member Tom Flanigan
presented a newly revised City Seal logo which is
to be displayed behind the Mayors seat in
the Council Chambers.
The seal is behind
glass in a large circular frame and features the
official City logo. This version has been changed
from a black and white illustration to full
color. Flanigan said that the seal will be
displayed in appreciation of all of the Mayors of
Carthage.
The project was
made possible with the help of former council
member H.J. Johnson, owner of Carthage Printing,
according to Flanigan.
Due to an inquiry
about the presence of a wagon in the City seal it
should be cited; The Code of Carthage, Chapter
XXVI, Seal of the City, Section 1097 states;
"The seal of the City of Carthage shall have
on its face and around its margin the words,
City of Carthage, Jasper County,
Missouri, and the inscription of a public
building and an express wagon, the two extra
wheels thereof leaning against the
building."
The reason for
this requirement is not known.
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Stench Report:
Wednesday,
4/12/06
No Stink
Reported
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Just Jake
Talkin'
Mornin',
Saw a group a boys
jumpin a chat pile on their bicycles the
other day. Get a good run and up one side,
seein how far they dared to fly in mid air.
We used to go down to the spot
where the highway crews kept various mounds of
this and that for the roads. For those who have
never tried this, there is a direct relationship
to the amount of intestinal fortitude and how far
you fly. There are various methods to control the
ascent, speed bein the most critical. There
is an art to goin fast up to the last split
second and then brakin just a little to
lesson the jump. After a few jumps on one
particular day, yours truly decided to go all
out. I managed to stay upright on landin,
but I also managed to sit squarely on the exposed
rear tire upon impact. Those knobby tires made
quite an impression on me.
This is some fact, but mostly,
Just Jake Talkin.
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By Tom and Ray MagliozziDear Tom and Ray:
For years, a friend of mine has
been on me about something I did as a young man,
which he says is harmful to any car. Many years
ago, on the second day of the state of Georgia
bar exam, I drove my old beat-up Chevy Vega (I
know I am dating myself with this vehicle) to the
civic center, where the exam was administered. As
I put the vehicle in reverse to park it, the
clutch cable apparently broke. I had no clutch
and the shifter was stuck in reverse. Being a
penniless law-student, after the exam that day I
decided to drive the car home, going in reverse
the entire 10-mile trip. It was difficult,
looking backward over my shoulder, stopping at
red lights on a busy street . Aside from the
obvious traffic-law violations, my friend says it
is BAD for any car to drive in reverse. I say
its NOT, as I got the cable repaired and
drove the car for another two years. What do you
say? - Thanks, Steve.
TOM: Well, thanks for that
image, Steve. Thats the best laugh
Ive had all day!
RAY: You didnt do the car
any harm. You might have harmed your career, if
any future clients had seen you, but the car
didnt suffer at all.
TOM: What you did is just like
driving home in first gear. Your speed is
limited, because the gear ratio is high. But as
long as you didnt go too fast and over-rev
the engine, no harm was done.
RAY: And because of the
difficulty of controlling a car while driving
backward, Im confident you DIDNT go
too fast.
TOM: But by the way, Steve, you
didnt have to drive home in reverse. When
the clutch isnt working, you can still
shift gears in a manual transmission if you first
turn off the engine. So, you could have shifted
the car into, say, second gear, and driven home
more comfortably.
RACING
By Greg Zyla
Sponsored by Curry Automotive
Many Racing
Careers Start With Karting
Q: Greg, my son
and I are thinking of buying a go-kart and
starting racing. What is the top organization to
join? And if you can recommend a kart, Id
be grateful. -- Glenn L., Pennsylvania
A: Glenn, the
World Karting Association is the nations
largest concern for karting motorsports. The WKA
is a membership-owned, non-profit corporation
formed in 1971 to regulate and promote the sport
of competitive kart racing. The WKA has grown to
more than 10,000 active members and 120
sanctioned tracks nationwide, making it the
largest sanctioning body for kart racing in the
U.S.
The
"go-kart" phenomenon began in the late
1950s with informal parking-lot events and
rapidly grew into organized competition on
purpose-built tracks. Since then, the sport has
spread around the world, forming a true
"grassroots" type of motorsports.
A majority of
todays drivers at the highest levels of
racing trace their beginnings to competitive
karting. They include Paul Tracy, Fernando
Alonso, Tony Stewart, Jamie McMurray, Sam Hornish
Jr., Sara Fisher and Danica Patrick.
As for what kart
to run, the most popular are dirt-track karts,
both caged and uncaged. Id look at the
caged (meaning it has a roll cage) Sportsman
classes to get the best bang for your buck.
We spoke with WKA
president Randy Kugler about starting a racing
career in karting.
"Karting is a
great training ground for up-and-coming
racers," Kugler said. "You can do all
you want to seat placement and weight
distribution, tires in, tires out, that sort of
thing, but when it comes to the handling of the
kart, there are no springs and no suspension
whatsoever. So, the kart is what it is, and you
have to learn consistency as a driver.
"Consistency,
lap after lap, will take you places where just
hitting a fast lap every now and then wont.
If you ever miss your apex (in a curve) and have
to lift the throttle in a kart, youll have
a real difficult time making up that lost time,
and probably wont," Kugler said.
"Karting teaches drivers this, whereas other
forms of junior motorsport dont."
Asked where new
growth will come from in kart racing, Kugler said
to take a close look at the new TAG karts. TAG
means "Touch and Go," because these new
racing karts have onboard starters and 125cc
engines.
Kugler also
addressed why karting is a true family effort.
"The most
important job anyone will ever have is to raise
your children," he said. "Karting
provides an opportunity for the entire family to
work together in that job area and learn how to
win graciously and accept defeat graciously, too.
Both spouses can get involved, and other
siblings, too.
"Karting is a
great sport. Its safe, and its a
controlled environment for kids and parents.
Karting is loaded with built-in positives, and if
a family lets it, it will return them a truly
great experience."
To learn more,
visit the WKA Web site at www.worldkarting.com.
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