Seven People Die In Missouri Traffic Crashes Over Labor Day Holiday

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports seven fatalities during the 2010 Labor Day holiday. Last year, there were eight fatalities. The 2010 counting period ran from 6 p.m., Friday, September 3, through 11:59 p.m., Monday, September 6, 2010. During this period, the Patrol investigated 294 traffic crashes, which included 148 injuries and six of the fatalities. St. Louis City Police Department investigated one fatality. Troopers made 190 arrests for driving while intoxicated in 2010, compared to 149 arrests last year. (Note: In 2009, troopers investigated 308 traffic crashes, which included 130 injuries and six of the eight fatalities.)

Of the six fatalities troopers investigated, four occurred in Troop D, Springfield area.

One person died in traffic crashes on each day, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Four people died in traffic crashes on Labor Day. Most of the deceased were not wearing their seat belt at the time of the crash.

I still remember that early chess game with some distant relative as a kid. We both were just learnin’ the game, but this kid was bein’ a real jerk about all he knew about the game. After several games, he had prob’ly won more than I had, but he kept insistin’ his superior knowledge of the game and the rules was his advantage.

Durin’ what I recall as our last encounter, he made a critical move that was an obvious stupid mistake. When I capitalized on the error, he screamed foul and insisted that wasn’t the move he had intended, he wanted to take it back. I of course reminded him that after he removed his hand from the piece, the move stood. He whined and moaned how unfair I was bein’. The rules obviously applied to me but not to him. At that point the game was secondary, the lesson primary.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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• "I store my sleeping bags in the garage with my tent. The tent is in a bag to keep all the pieces together, but the sleeping bags are just rolled up and secured. To keep them dust-free, I store them in pillowcases, which allow the material to breathe so it won’t get musty, but it keeps them clean and ready to use." -- C.A. in Florida

• Use the plastic lids from large coffee cans underneath bottles of cooking oil or syrup in kitchen cabinets. This way, anything that drips down the side goes on the lid, not on the cabinet.

• Too much soap in the washer? Sprinkle suds with salt to disperse, and then rewash.

• If you live in an area where it is humid and your outdoor light bulbs are susceptible to rusting, give the bulb threads a light coat of petroleum jelly before screwing the bulb in. It will keep the metal from rusting and will make it easier to remove the bulb when the time comes to change it.