Mornin' Mail

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Monday, November 22, 1999 Volume VIII, Number 111

Did Ya Know?. . .The Carthage Business and Professional Women will have a business meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, November 22 at the Jasper County Central Annex at 105 Lincoln St. (Central & Lincoln). Scott Packard, Internal Revenue Service, will be the featured speaker. Interested individuals are welcome to attend. For more info call 359-8716 or 358-9128.

Did Ya Know?. . .Diabetes Screening & Awareness for National Diabetes Month will be from 2:30-4:30 p.m. on Mon., Nov. 22. Please eat your lunch 2 hours before Free Blood Sugar checks. It will be held at McCune-Brooks Hospital, 1st hallway past pharmacy on the right (follow signs).

today's laugh

Patient: Doctor, I think everyone tries to take advantage of me.

Psychiatrist: That’s silly. It’s a perfectly normal feeling.

Patient: Is it really? Thanks for your help, doctor. How much do I owe you?

Psychiatrist: How much do you have?

Farmer: That new man I hired yesterday doesn’t know much about farming.

Wife: Why do you say that?

Farmer: He found some milk bottles behind the barn and ran to me shouting that he had found a cow’s nest.

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

Five Carthage Teachers to Speak.

Five of the teachers in the Carthage schools have been put on the program for papers at the Thanksgiving meeting of the Southwest Missouri Teachers’ association to be held at Clinton. There are as follows: Prof. Edwin Gray, principal of the High school, who has the subject, "High School Electives"; Miss Lee M. Cate, of the Benton school, who is to have a paper on "Pupil Government"; Prof. J. N. Whybark, of the High school, "Influence of Music in the High School." Misses Mabel Dow and Winifred Bryan, both of the High school, and having charge, respectively of the physical culture and manual training departments, will each have a paper on a subject appropriate to her work.

This is an unusual number to put on the program from one city, and there is no accounting for it except as an unconscious tribute to the merits of the Carthage schools and the excellence of the local teachers.

Today's Feature

City Land Sale on Agenda.

A council bill authorizing the Mayor to enter into a contract for the sale of a portion of the northeast corner of the Myers Park Property to Southwest Missouri Bancorporation, Inc. will be in first reading during tomorrow night’s regular Council meeting in City Hall. The $600,000 price for the approximate 8.7 acres will be augmented with an additional $75,000 to go toward street improvements adjacent to the property. The contract states that SMB will pay the road funds when work on the streets is commenced.

Scheduled for second reading is a bill that will make the Myers Park Regulations and Development Standards a part of the City Code. The main change in the standards will be that the City Engineering Department will be responsible for determining compliance rather than a separate Myers Park Committee.

Also scheduled for first reading is a Council bill repealing an ordinance that prohibits the sale of merchandise from vehicles parked on City streets. The proposed repeal has twice failed to get the approval of the Public Safety Committee.

Just Jake Talkin'
Mornin',

I learned a couple a lessons back when I was ridin’ a motorcycle. Fortunately they were taught at relatively slow speeds so I only hurt my pride.

The first is don’t hit the front wheel brake when your on loose gravel. Plop, down ya go. I never had much experience with front brakes on a two wheeler, the bicycles I grew up with only had rear brakes.

The second lesson was ta not hit the gas while turnin’ when there are small water puddles on the parkin’ lot. Plop, down ya go. Fortunately on this one, I had learned to keep the leg up and out a little when turnin’. I simply stepped off as the bike slid out from under me. Scratched the fender some.

Ya never know when you’re in for a little learnin’, best be ready.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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Weekly Column

The Super Handyman

When using a tape measure, you often need a way to secure it back at the end so the tape doesn’t follow you like a snake. If you are working solo, you can attach a suction cup to the end of the tape.

Either with glue or by drilling a small hole through the tape, you can attach the suction cup near the end of the tape. Then just secure it where you are measuring from and unroll the tape.

Make sure you mount the suction cup a couple of inches from the tape’s end, so that you can butt the end of the tape right up against something if you need to.

Dear Al: My garage is filled almost to the point where my car will no longer fit. I’ve got a workbench in the very back, and when I pull my car into the garage, it’s practically touching the workbench. In fact, I’m ashamed to admit, I even hit the bench one day. To keep from doing that again, I have hung a long string from the garage ceiling with a rubber ball on the end of it. The ball and string hang down to where they touch the windshield when my car is at the correct position. Now when I pull in, I know exactly when to stop, and I don’t worry about hitting my workbench anymore.

SUPER HINT—Keep a can of shaving foam on your workbench or in the trunk of your car for quick washups.