Did Ya Know... The Children’s Department of Carthage First Church of the Nazarene will have a free musical presentation of "The Great Late Potentate" on Sun., Dec. 7 at 10:40 a.m.

Did Ya Know... Friends of the Library meeting is today at 1:30 p.m.

Did Ya Know... Carthage Council of Social Agencies meeting is today at noon at the Golden Corral restaurant.

Did Ya Know... An After School Assistance Program is available Mon. - Thurs. from 3:30-5 p.m. by the Family Literacy Council. For details, call 358-5926.

Did Ya Know... Winter heating assistance is available from Economic Security Corp. For details call 358-3521.

Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.

Don’t judge your wife too harshly for her weaknesses. If she didn’t have them, chances are she would never have married you.

Diner: Waiter, please close the window.

Waiter: Is there a draft, sir?

Diner: Yes, it’s the third time my steak has blown off the plate!

Jury Returned Guilty Verdict.

The guilt or innocence of Thomas Kettlewell charged with raping his 10-year-old stepdaughter was left in the hands of the 12 jurors in circuit court. At 11:30, the jury filed into the court with a verdict and sheriff W. H. Warren went to the county jail to bring the defendant into court to hear it. There were only a few attorneys and spectators when the prisoner entered in charge of deputy Nate Smith and the hands of the big clock pointed to 11:51. Judge Perkins read the verdict: "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of assault with intent to commit rape, as charged in the second count of the indictment and assess his punishment at 3 years imprisonment in the penitentiary."

After court adjourned, Kettlewell said: "I may be stamped by my fellowmen as a criminal, but I thank God that I go to prison an innocent man." As he was speaking the big clock in the tower tolled twelve and he was led out of the courtroom.

One a the hardest things ta get across to a new swimmer is that if ya relax, most folks will float.

The thing that sinks most who try to float is they don’t understand that the feet don’t float. When the feet start sinkin’, they panic and down they go.

The trick is to get a good amount of air in the lungs and just relax. The feet go down and the head will tilt forward into the water. If ya just relax and be still, you’ll float till ya need ta take another breath. To do this you just raise your head and give a little kick to raise ya up a bit. That gives ya time to take another gulp of air and resume the relax position.

This survival technique is simple and nearly always works.

Durin’ the holiday season it occurs to me on occasion that most of us find it hard to take a minute and get a deep breath to relax. I’m sure it was this concern that prompted the clerk over the weekend to politely ask me to go jump in the lake.

This is some fact, but mostly, Just Jake Talkin’.

by Randall Kunze, D.P.M.

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