Power Plant Expansion to be Studied.

City Council members were given an initial look at next year’s CW&EP budget at the regular Council meeting Tuesday evening in City Hall. CW&EP Interim General Manager Bob Williams will attend this evening’s Budget/Ways and Means Committee meeting at 7 p.m. in City Hall to answer questions concerning the document.

The proposed budget includes allowance for increased maintainence for the existing Electric Plant in Carthage.

"We expect that it will be necessary to operate the generating plant at approximately 60% capacity daily throughout the months of June, July, August, and September of 1999," the document from CW&EP states, "and also operate at some level through the last part of May and the first part of October. This trend began in 1998 and is expected to continue as power supply shortages have suddenly become a reality throughout the Midwest. Because of this trend in generation shortages, we will be exploring the opportunity and possible need to add capacity at the Carthage plant in a power supply study that will be conducted during 1999-2000."

letter from ma

Call me a fuddy-duddy. Or an old lady out of tune with the times. But is it wrong to want to recognize the tune to a song? Take "Georgia." At a recent performance we attended, it pleased me to see that favorite melody of long ago was to be presented. Before WWII took Pa off to the South Pacific for three years, we glided and swooped to that tune every Friday night at all-school dances in the Student Union. Every generation has its special songs. For us,"Georgia," "I’ll Be Seeing You," and other familiar ones of that era.

Now, when we hear them, they take us back to innocent, happy days before WWII changed our lives forever. The young woman who sang our song has a good voice. Some said she has a great voice. But when she finished, Pa and I looked at each other, both disappointed. Neither of recognized what she sang. It was all fortissimo. Not a note of pianissim. And every one seemed to be above high C She interpreted "our" song her way. Yeah, I know. She had a right to do that. But I doubt the writer would have recognized it himself . I suppose Beethoven and Bach have been surprised at the rendition of some of their works, too.

Just Jake Talkin'
Mornin',

As a kid we lived close to the grade school which had a baseball field (we didn’t play softball back then). Durin’ the spring it was typical for the neighborhood kids ta be engaged in a game of "move up" or even have enough for a couple a short teams.

As the evenin’ fell, the number of players would slowly drop until only the die hards were left. The game naturally had to modify and eventually would be little more than some type of battin’ practice. When it got too dark to see fly balls comin’ at ya, we began buntin’. When the folks would call for us to come in, we’d beg for another thirty minutes. The realization would finally grow that darkness would not bend to the pleas of young players. Even playin’ baseball was ruled by the laws of nature.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

by

Metcalf Auto Supply

Click and Clack Talk Cars

Dear Tom and Ray:

I have teen-agers, and I try to maintain a small fleet of used cars for them to drive. My problem with my daughter's '89 Dodge Shadow, however, has left me several hundred dollars poorer and no closer to a solution. The fuse that controls all of the dashboard gauges and warning lights has blown eight times in the two years we have owned the car.

This does not seem to bother my daughter until she runs out of gas, after not noticing that the fuse is blown again. It bothers me considerably because I'm constantly having to stop what I'm doing and pick her up. I've taken the car to several mechanics who have tried to solve the problem. Several have charged me hours of labor time without finding the cause. One specialized in automotive electronics, and told me I had a blower motor that was drawing too much power and causing the fuse to blow. We replaced the blower motor, and...you guessed it, the fuse blew again. Any suggestions? - Patty.

RAY: Sure. Get one of those fold-up bicycles and throw it in the trunk of the '89 Shadow. That way, next time your daughter runs out of gas, she can pedal home and you can go on with your poker game.

TOM: I'd go back to the automotive electronics guy and politely ask him to apply the cost of the blower motor to the work he's about to do for you.

RAY: He'll probably argue that you needed the blower motor anyway, but it obviously didn't solve your problem.

TOM: You should ask him to install a circuit breaker instead of a fuse. The breaker will reset itself after it cools down.

RAY: Then all you have to do is wait.

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