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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 Volume XIV, Number 227
did
ya know?
Did Ya Know?... The
Salvation Army, Carthage, will be conducting
their annual advisory board meeting and volunteer
recognition meeting on Monday, May 15 at 6:30
p.m. at 125 E. Fairview, Carthage. Public
invited, please call Bess, 358-2262 between 9
a.m. and noon to reserve a space.
Did Ya Know?... The
Peace Star Chapter of the American Business
Womens Association will hold a scholarship
fund-raiser trip to the Kansas City Repertory
Theatre, June 17, 2006. "Room Service"
will be the feature. Includes dinner, shopping,
entertainment. For more info. or to make
reservations call Judy Boyd, 237-1061 (work) or
358-2874 (after 5), Sally Metcalf at 394-2213, or
Eunice Carter at 358-7803.
Did Ya Know?... The
McCune-Brooks Hospital 15th Annual Carthage
Community Health Fair will be held Saturday, May
13 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon in the Carthage
Memorial Hall, 407 S. Garrison.
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today's
laugh
Children make the most
desirable opponents in Scrabble as they are both
easy to beat and fun to cheat. - Fran Lebowitz
Exercise is bunk. If you are
healthy, you dont need it; if you are sick,
you shouldnt take it. - Henry Ford
Im very bad at
arithmetic. I can count from 1 to 100, but I have
trouble putting the numbers in order.
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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.
Two Serious Accidents.
Occurred at Mines In
Webb City District Yesterday Afternoon.
Two accidents at mines
north of Webb City occurred yesterday afternoon within 30
minutes of each other.
Williams Page, an employee
at the Osceola mine No. 2 was caught by the premature
explosion of a squib and both his eyes were destroyed,
his face dreadfully lacerated and one hand shot off while
the flesh was torn from his arm between the wrist and
elbow. He was taken to the Salvation Army hospital in
Webb City, where it was found necessary to amputate his
arm just below the elbow, and his life will probably be
saved but the restoration of his sight is regarded as
hopeless. He is a single man about thirty years of age
and his home is Vandalia, Mo. He has a brother living at
Farber, Mo. who has been notified of the accident.
The other accident
occurred at the John L. Mine close to the Majestic in
Center valley. A carpenter named Warren Christian was
working on a scaffolding about twenty-five feet from the
ground when some part of the platform broke allowing
Christian to fall the entire distance to the ground. He
was taken to his home in Webb City and on examination it
was found that he had sustained a broken arm, two
fractured ribs and two severe scalp wounds, but so far as
could be learned, he escaped internal injuries. The
injured man is single about 25 years old.
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Today's
Feature
Special Use
First Reading.
The City Council
will meet this evening at 7:30 p.m. in the
Council Chambers of City Hall. Items on the
agenda include the first reading of an ordinance
requesting special use permit for the purpose of
a 60/40 restaurant at 1926 S. Garrison.
The 60/40 special
use permit sparked much public input at the last
meeting, when it was adopted into the City code.
The permit allows for the sale of liquor by the
drink if 60 percent of a businesss income
is derived from the sale of prepared food.
Several Carthage citizens voiced opposition to
this new permit, some speaking against
alcohol-serving establishments and some speaking
against the application of the permit at 1926
Garrison.
The Council will
decide if any additional restrictions should be
applied to the permit. Potential restrictions
that have been discussed by Council and the
neighboring citizens include; hours of operation,
fencing around the parking lot and a yearly
review period for the permit.
Other items on the
agenda for the Council meeting include a public
hearing concerning annexation of property
commonly known as 1327 Baker.
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Stench Report:
Monday,
5/15/06
Stench
detected late Friday
5/5/06
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Just Jake
Talkin'
Mornin',
Nothin like a big
goose egg from bangin your head on the
bottom of a table youve been under. Whack!I hear that the thing to do is to apply
all the pressure you can to the knot before it
really starts swellin. It may work, but
what I really hear is the screamin from the
victim bein helped in this way.
I grew up with a gentler
remedy. Put some ice on it. I dont figure
anything makes a lot a difference. After a day or
two the size gets smaller and starts feelin
better till ya happen to bump it again.
"Feels better when it
stops hurtin," my old baseball coach used ta
say. Real funny guy.
At least if ya get a shiner you
can make up a good story bout the other
guy.
This is some fact, but mostly,
Just Jake Talkin.
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To
Your Good Health
By Paul G. Donohue, M.D.Early Lung Cancer
Difficult to Detect
DEAR DR. DONOHUE:
In 2000, my wife was diagnosed with polymyalgia,
temporal arteritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Prednisone gave her some relief. In 2002, she
developed a mild but persistent cough, which was
explained as a medication side effect. In 2003,
she had X-rays for back and leg pain, which was
ascribed to arthritis. In 2004, now age 78, we
requested a scan to look deeper into her
complaints. The scan showed she had advanced lung
cancer, which had spread to her liver, brain,
back and knee. She died five months later. How
could this cancer not have been detected in an
earlier stage? -- J.C.
ANSWER: No words
can suitably convey my sympathy to you and your
family, and I cant offer you a suitable
explanation why it took so long for your
wifes cancer to be diagnosed, but such is
often the case with lung cancer.
Medicine has
failed to come up with a good screening test for
early lung-cancer detection. The chest X-ray is
not a great screening test. It misses too many
small cancers. There is hope that a special kind
of CT scan, a spiral CT scan, might prove to be
the answer to this problem of finding lung cancer
in its early stages, when it can be more
successfully treated. I cant say if your
wifes cough in 2002 was the first sign of
the cancer. If it was, a chest X-ray at that time
should have shown it. I can say, without trying
to gloss over this tragedy, that many lung
cancers behave in the same way your wifes
did.
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