Today's Feature
Thank
You Carthage.
by David Thorn, Show Chairman
The Greater Ozarks British
Motoring Club held its second annual all British
car show on the Carthage square Saturday, July
28th, 2001. It was held in conjunction with the
annual sidewalk sale. The weather was very rainy
Friday and Saturday, but we had sixty cars from
six different states displayed on the square. The
one thing we heard over and over during the
weekend was how much people enjoyed coming to
Carthage. The friendly atmosphere and beautiful
homes and buildings are something to be very
proud of. Many were impressed by the castle-like
courthouse in the center of the square surrounded
by such well-maintained storefronts housing a
wide assortment of businesses. Our Carthage show
draws more families to participate, compared to
just a car and driver, than any other show we
have ever attended.
Many businesses donated door
prizes to be given to entrants to the show. I
would like to thank Sports World, Young’s
Terrific T’s, Chamber of Commerce, Southwest
Uniforms, Remember When Antiques, Poor
Richard’s, Carthage Hardware, Southwest
Missouri Bank, Jerry Ellis, Bee’s Discount
Variety, Uptown-Downtown, Pages on the Square,
JCT, Abbey Title, Southwest Agency, Carthage
Deli, Dry Gulch and Victorian Carthage, Inc.
A driving tour of Carthage was
held following the show. A long line of
forty-five British cars cruised down Grand Ave.
and back up Main looking at homes on the historic
drive. Then it was on to the Americold
underground facility where we cooled off as we
drove through. We traveled on to Red Oak II for
some great photo opportunities; Lowell Davis
turned on the neon lights of the old 66 station
for us. Many pictures were taken of the buildings
and sculptures at Red Oak II.
Saturday evening the Kendrick
Place went all out serving a banquet dinner to
over one hundred people. The food was fantastic,
as were the decorations. The volunteers of
Kendrick Place topped off the banquet by dressing
in period costumes to serve us our meals. Thank
you Leann for putting it all together.
Those who attended our show
this year promised to return next year with even
more members of car clubs in their home areas.
Many people went back to their homes with great
memories of their weekend in local restaurants
and shopping our stores. This is one example of
the type of event Carthage should promote to
bring more visitors to our city.
Thanks again to the people and
businesses of Carthage for allowing the Greater
Ozarks British Motoring Club to hold our show on
the square.
Commentary
Martin
"Bubs" Hohulin
State Representative, District 126
I am going to start this week
talking about a federal issue. As you probably
know by now, Pres. Bush followed through on a
campaign promise to lower the taxes that former
Pres. Clinton raised. Despite strong opposition
from the democrats, the tax relief bill passed
and was signed into law. The rebate checks are
being mailed even as we speak. Imagine my
surprise when people started calling to complain!
Granted, the people calling to complain were
people that were not going to get a check.
The reason they weren’t
going to get any money back is they didn’t
pay any in the first place. That is the whole
concept of a rebate. You have to have paid
something to start with in order to get something
back. If you don’t pay anything in and then
get something back, it isn’t a rebate, it is
now a handout. I don’t know about you, but I
got real sick of seeing the national media trot
out these welfare moms with a herd of kids
running around and give a sob story about how
this person won’t be getting a check while
someone that ‘doesn’t need the money as
bad’ will be getting one. Hello; the reason
is that the second person has paid in a lot of
money already, much of which has already went to
people that won’t support themselves. If you
are getting a check back, enjoy it and be glad
there are still politicians that keep their
campaign promises.
We still haven’t heard any
word from Gov. Holden about whether the Special
Session call will include repealing the Livestock
Pricing Act.
That flawed legislation is
still costing Missouri livestock farmers
thousands of dollars. The only way that became
law was that it was tied in with a bill dealing
with ethanol production. Gov. Holden needs to
wake up and realize that price controls
don’t work and we need to repeal this law.
The only reason he hasn’t included it in the
Special Session is that would mean he would have
to admit the law that his liberal buddies
proposed isn’t working.
You would think with all the
time Gov. Holden has spent on the state jet, he
would have time to think all this through.
Gov.Holden has used the state jet on average of
every other day. Some days he has crisscrossed
the state, visiting the same city twice. Those
planes don’t fly cheap, he has already rung
up over $70,000.00 in flight time just this year.
He has doubled what former Gov. Carnahan spent on
flying and more than doubled what Attorney
General John Ashcroft spent when he was governor.
When confronted with these facts, Gov. Holden
promised to be ‘more sensitive’ to
using the plane, then climbed aboard and flew to
four different cities to sign the same bill.
After the inauguration, the flying, and the new,
high dollar proposed staff positions, it appears
our new governor has quite a Cadillac complex.
Too bad we are the ones stuck with the bill for
all of that.
As usual, I can be reached at
House Post Office, State Capitol, Jefferson City,
MO 65101, or 1-800-878-7126, or
mhohulin@services.state.mo.us for your questions,
comments, or advice.
Letters to the Editor
Opinions
expressed reflect those of the writer
and not necessarily those of the Mornin' Mail.
Dear Jake,
On the subject of whose name to
be memorialized for what, where and on what,
I’d go along with Janet Kavandi, and these
others come to mind for their contributions to
either city, state, or nation.
Debbie Barnes Miles, a former
Miss America, who continues to share her musical
talents with those by whom she is surrounded;
Philip Joslen, the first Carthage military person
killed in the Vietnam War; Carrie Nation, a WCTU
activist who performed "hatchet
surgery" on bars and saloons in her reign of
terror, but did no harm in Carthage while
visiting here in the early 1900’s; Gerald
Ford, a former President of the United States was
a visitor here when he was a mere Congressman.
Others might include, a
"Dr." Tom Sayman, a soap salesman of
note who donated land to the State of Missouri
which later became the site of Roaring River
State Park and is now pretty well forgotten by a
lot of folks in Carthage, and Jackie Potter whose
romance novels have brought hours of pleasant
reading to fans everywhere. Another would be
Leslie Strait, a one time U.S. Marine Corps
"grunt" who was a Midway Island
defender when the back of the Jap navy was broken
in June 1942, thereby shortening the time span of
World War II.
My list would also include
brothers Clayton and E.O. Smith, co-founders of
the Big Smith Work Clothes manufacturing company,
a major Carthage industry for some 84 years,
followed by a couple of once well known athletes
from Carthage, Richard Campbell, a basketball
player at the University of Missouri - Kansas
City and Terry Roberts, a football player at the
University of Missouri - Columbia.
My list and the lists of others
could go on and on and on, but these came to mind
when reading "Just Jake Talkin’"
on July 26th.
Dick Ferguson
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