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Tuesday, April 4, 2006 Volume XIV, Number 202

Did Ya Know?... The Carthage High School Stream Team is holding a public forum on April 5, 2006 at 6 - 6:30 in the high school auditorium to discuss the past years test results and future testing. It is open to the general public and anyone interested in the health of Spring River.

Did Ya Know?... L’economique, non-profit resale store has moved to 135 S. Main. New hours; M-F 10:30-12:30, Sat. 8-12. Accepting donations of any items, new or used. For more info call 359-6688.

Did Ya Know?... Carthage Relay Luminary Committee Brandie Hoagland and Kathy Hill will be selling luminaries In Memory or In Honor of on April 8 in front of the Carthage Wal-Mart store for $5.00. Luminary lighting will be held at the Relay For Life, June 2 at 9:15 p.m.

today's laugh

While playing in a music store this week, Kenny G set a world record by holding a saxophone note for forty-five minutes. While he did warn spectators that it would be boring, it should be noted that it is every bit as boring to hear Kenny G play different saxophone notes for forty-five minutes. - Norm MacDonald

Customer: I’m sorry, but I won’t be able to pay for this suit for two months.
Tailor: Oh, that’s all right.
Customer: When will it be ready?
Tailor: In two months.

1906
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.

Need Of A Y.M.C.A.

Carthage Minister Writes of Saloon and Pool Hall Evils.

Editor: - Referring again to the question of a Y.M.C.A. in Carthage, I should like to call attention to the fact that there are numerous places now in vogue where boys and young men may be entertained of evenings and at other times. The saloons of the city have a very clever management behind them. There is a correlation of influences sweeping toward the saloon vortex in our city which not every citizen takes the trouble to observe. There are "good fellows" connected with the saloons who work the social feature to an extent. Sober themselves, posing for gentlemen, they lead young fellows into the snare of moderate drinking.

In some cases lunch counters or eating places give a hidden entrance to the drinking bar so that a young man may obtain his drink without publicity. Sometimes those who are not "admitted" to the bar rooms can be served at these eating places. And no doubt many a lad is turned into the way of intemperance by just this means.

Then there is the pool hall provision. You and I pass along the street and glancing in only see a crowd of men amusing themselves with what appears to be a harmless sport. And we may sigh for the associations inside, the vulgarity, the profanity, the low ideals, and so on, but we think little about it after we have passed by. Now, anxious fathers tell me about their boys and other father’s boys. They speak of the fact that boys are allowed to play pool under age. They inform me that real gambling - on a small scale perhaps - goes on sowing the seeds for greater things of the same kind. They tell me that the pool checks used in these places are legal tender at the saloons and what more natural than for a boy or youth to try them there? By an ingenious arrangement the pool hall has made a first rate feeder to the bar room, training both young men and boys as its constituency.

I challenge any reader of your paper to pass one of these places mentioned and testify if in the evening light it does not look inviting to the lad or youth. And there is no other kind of place with open doors that does look inviting. What can he do? He craves amusement, society, entertainment, and here they are; and these needs of his are not met elsewhere. Who can blame him if he goes in? And who can wonder if these influences, so carefully planned and worked, lead to ruin?

May I not ask through you, ought there not to be a place, attractive, homelike and open every day, where boys and young men might find evening amusement, entertainment and society, amidst associations morally healthy and wholesome? To ask it briefly, ought there not to be a Y.M.C.A. in Carthage? - A Minister

Today's Feature

Public Works Committee to Meet.

The City Council Public Works Committee is scheduled to meet this afternoon at 5:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers of City Hall. Items on the agenda include the discussion of vacation of an alley running North and South between 9th and 10th streets and East and West between Clinton and Fulton streets.

At the previous meeting the committee approved a different alley vacation running North and South between East Chestnut and 9th street.

Healthy Kids Day.

News release

Hundreds of kids and families from across the nation are expected to celebrate YMCA Healthy Kids Day on Saturday, April 8. Families can participate at Fair Acres Family YMCA in an activity filled festival that celebrates the day’s key call to action, "Put Play in Your Day." This year more than 1,300 YMCAs will be participating in the YMCA Healthy Kids Day nationwide.

YMCA Healthy Kids Day activities taking place at the Fair Acres Family YMCA include kid’s health fair, games, healthful food, and recipes. Parents can get connected, too, by participating in activities with their kids and receiving free YMCA handouts with tips on raising healthy kids.

"With 9 million U.S. children overweight - more than double the percentage in 1980 - increasing the levels of physical activity in the lives of our children is a critical component of this country’s efforts to fight childhood obesity," said Ruth Sawkins, Program and Fitness Coordinator, Fair Acres Family YMCA. "Statistics suggest that in the surrounding areas, one in five children are considered overweight, and Fair Acres Family YMCA is committed to helping these young people get healthier."

Fair Acres Family YMCA activities for the 15th annual YMCA Healthy Kids Day will include; Kid’s Health Fair, games, food, recipes, helpful handouts, wellness professionals and more.

YMCA Healthy Kids Day is part of YMCA Activate America, a national long-term initiative focused on developing and implementing community-based solutions to help all Americans improve their health and wellness.

Stench Report:
Monday,
4/3/06

No Smells

Just Jake Talkin'
Mornin',

There is a theory presented in a book I was browsin’ through that says if ya want a new couch, throw out your old one and just leave the space empty. Eventually, some way or another, the couch will be replaced.

The person promotin’ this theory seemed to imply that there was some mystical reason for this. I’m suspectin’ that the practical answer may be closer to the fact that after a while, even havin’ your old couch back starts lookin’ better after a while.

In my experience, if ya got an empty shelf, somethin’ will eventually be put on it. Just a matter of time. Nothin’ mystical, just more stuff than ya have places to stick it.

‘Course you can have less stuff or more shelves. But, who ever has enough shelves?

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.