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Monday, February 22, 1999 Volume VII, Number 174
did ya
know?
Did Ya Know?. . .The Carthage
Police Department will hold Neighborhood Meetings from 7
p.m.-8 p.m. on Feb. 22 at Fairview School, March 16 at
Columbian School, March 22 at Carhtage Sr. High, and
April 12 at the Memorial Hall.
Did Ya Know?. . .Tax Counseling
for the Elderly CTCE Program will be each Tues. starting
February at the Over 60 Center. Call 358-4741 for more
information.
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today's
laugh
So your uncle was a horse thief?
No, not really. You see he had a great
sense of humor and he was always talking about his wild
oats, and sometimes the horses would hear him and follow
him home.
Last year we had an electric Christmas.
What do you mean?
Well, my little brother got an electric
train, my sister got an electric iron, my mama got an
electric washing machine and papa got the electric chair.
My uncle fell into a ditch in Arizona
and they never found him.
Fell into a ditch and never came out!
That's ridiculous!
You mean you've never heard of the
Grand Canyon?
1899
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have
Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
A Man Named Carter Tried to End
His Life at the Arlington Today.
A man named Carter locked himself in
his room at the Arlington hotel some time this forenoon
and turned on the gas, apparently with suicidal intent.
The smell of the escaping gas attracted the notice of the
employees about 1 o'clock, and Landlord Carter began a
thorough search of the house. The trouble was finally
traced to its source, and upon finding the door locked it
was broken in and the occupant found to be in an
insensible condition. Restoratives were applied and a
telephone message brought a physician hurriedly to the
spot. Carter was worked with for some time before he
revived, but he eventually rallied.
A reporter called at the hotel but
failed to gain any further information. None of his
questions were answered.
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Today's Feature No Action Taken on Airport Settlement.
The City Council will meet in
its regular session tomorrow night in City Hall
at 7:30. The Agenda continues to consist of
typical housekeeping business.
There is no mention of the
closed session of City representative of the
Airport Settlement Committee last Thursday night,
but Mayor Kenneth Johnson is expected to report
on the meeting to the Council.
Johnson said last Friday that
the Committee took no action during the closed
session. He says he anticipates a meeting of the
Airport Settlement Committee as a whole to
further discuss the settlement proposal submitted
to the City. The ASC is comprised of five members
representing the City and five members
representing those who have filed suit to force
construction of a new aviation facility. Johnson
told the Mornin' Mail that more could be
accomplished if the entire committee now sits
down to discuss the proposal.
The Council will have a public
hearing on proposed annexation of property
located at 1911 S. Baker Blvd. as requested by
Evelyn E. Curry and consider a resolution to
annex property at 781 S. Country Club Road.
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Just Jake
Talkin'
Mornin',
It's gettin' close to the
City Budget Hearin' season. The Budget
Committee may get a head start tonight when
they start goin' over the Departments'
capital improvement requests. The situation
that seems ta be generatin' the most interest
initially is the fact that the Police
Department is gonna need to upgrade, or more
likely replace almost all of its computers
before the end of the year.
The estimate I'm hearin' is
somewhere around a hunderd grand. 'Course
considerin' that most of the equipment was
pieced together over the last ten years,
there isn't much invested in the current
hardware.
The is several other bigger
ticket items that will be discussed I'm sure.
The proposed Civil War Road improvements and
the possibility of gettin' a 71
Highway/Fairview exchange are a couple.
Plenty of places to spend the money, I've got
the time.
This is some fact, but
mostly,
Just Jake Talkin'.
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Weekly Column
The Super Handyman.
Dear Al & Kelly:
We finally switched to large
plastic boxes for storage instead of plain
cardboard boxes. The plastic protects our things
better and moisture won't be a problem anymore.
There is one drawback: the
cost. They last forever, but the initial cost was
too much for us to do too much at one time. A
really good plastic container that isn't so
expensive is a plastic garbage can. They have
snap-shut lids and cost about half of what the
boxes cost, plus you can fit a lot more stuff in
one. We use the garbage cans for winter or summer
clothes, since we usually pack and unpack them
all at once.
Shower curtains are still
popular, at least for looks. They sometimes do
have a problem, though, with allowing water to
get around them and out on the bathroom floor.
Shower curtains - or at least
the vinyl liners - used to have magnets in the
hems so that they would magnetically attach to
the tub. But magnets won't work on the new
fiber-glass and acrylic tubs, so manufacturers
don't use the magnets anymore. Velcro, however,
works just as well, and you can install it
yourself.
You can buy stick-on Velcro
strips at hardware stores and home centers. Just
apply one piece to the tub and the matching piece
to the shower curtain.
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