The City Council is scheduled to vote on the agreement with Victorian Carthage for marketing services in the amount of $17,500 during the regular Council meeting tomorrow evening in City Hall at 7:30. The agreement was initially scheduled to be approved along with several other annual contracts before the end of the City’s fiscal year on June 30. Several delays have postponed the agreement but a contract with adjustments has been generally agreed upon. There is some hope among Council members that the final vote on the agreement will take place during this reading.

The Council is also scheduled to vote on the sale of property located at 4th and Lyon to the Post Office. A City parking lot now occupies the space that is planned for expansion of the current Post Office facility. The selling price is $65,000.

New business for the Council includes vacating a utility easement on the property to be purchased by the Post Office. Also in first reading will be an ordinance vacating an portion of an alley between Fairlawn Avenue, Main, and Maple Streets. First reading setting the tax levy is also scheduled.

Carthage R-9 School Opening Plans.

news release Carthage R-9

Monday, August 21, 2000, will be the official opening of school for grades Kindergarten through 12. Classes will begin at 8:00 a.m. with school dismissing at the regular time of 3:00 p.m. on opening day. Buses will operate on their normal schedules.

Anyone desiring information concerning transportation should contact the office of Dr. Kirby Hall, Assistant Superintendent for Business, telephone 359-7000. School cafeterias will serve school lunches on the first day of school.

Breakfasts will be served in all schools beginning Tuesday, August 22, 2000.

Missouri state law and Carthage R-9 Board of Education require students to be immunized against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (up to the seventh birthday), polio, measles, mumps and rubella.

The hepatitis B immunization series is required for entrance to school in kindergarten, first, second, third, seventh and eighth grades.

Students new to the district may enroll once verification of immunizations has been provided to the school.

Students previously enrolled whose immunizations are due during the summer must provide proof of those immunizations prior to receiving their class schedules at the beginning of the school year or attending class.

Just a last reminder to take a few minutes to get to the polls tomorrow.

If you’ve voted before, most likely you’ll go to the same spot ta vote ya did last time. If you’ve moved since then, ya might want to check at City Hall or the Courthouse to find out where ta vote.

From all indications, there will be a light turnout for tomorrow’s primary, so ever’ vote will carry weight, even in the State primary races.

As you’re prob’ly aware, there are several County primaries. These races will effect you closer to home and you carry a even bigger responsibility in those decisions.

We’ll have the results in Wednesday mornin’s Mornin’ Mail.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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Workman's Loan

Dear Al: When you are using a woodworking pattern for a project that is coming from a book or magazine, make a photocopy of it first. Then lay it upside down on the wood and run a hot iron over t. The pattern comes off on the wood. It will be a mirror image, so you need to consider that, but it will save you time and make things easier.

Q: I have an old copper range hood in my kitchen. It tarnishes easily, and I spend a lot of time cleaning and polishing it. Is there a way to retard the tarnish or seal it out?

A: After the polishing is done and before you touch the shiny metal, apply a coat of clear finish. Some people like spray lacquer; others prefer a polyurethane coating.

Keep in mind that almost all such finishes are flammable. Be sure you have plenty of ventilation and that there’s no source of ignition, not even the spark from flipping a light switch. Since the hood is above the range, kill those pilot lights if it’s a gas stove.

With a clear finish in place, the shine would last much longer, and an occasional wipe would be all it would need.

Dear Al: I recently needed to oil the blower motor on the air conditioner before cranking it up, and couldn’t reach it with the oil can. I ended up stretching a wire from the oil can to the oil port, and allowed some of the oil to drip down the wire and into the port. My plan worked great.