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Thursday, June 19, 2003 Volume XII, Number 2
did ya
know?
Did Ya Know?. . .A Huge Rummage
Sale will held at the Grace Episcopal Church, 820 Howard,
Carthage, from 6 a.m.-3 p.m. on Friday, June 20th and
Saturday, June 21st. Proceeds go towards Youth Camp.
Did Ya Know?. . .The Carthage
Masonic Lodge #197 will put 3rd degrees on a father &
son to celebrate St. John’s Day at 4:00 a.m. on June
21st at the Masonic Lodge, behind the Library. After the
meeting breakfast will be served. All area Master Masons
are invited to attend. For more info call Rob Lewis at
623-7112.
Did Ya Know?. . .A Benefit
Gospel Concert for Camp Quality will be held at 7 :00
p.m. on Friday, June 20th at the Victory Baptist Church
in Carthage, MO. Featured guests include The Revelators,
The Missourians, and Jerrad Tombley. Admission is free,
and donations will be collected. For more information
please call 438-7964.
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today's laugh
"Why don’t you take that
complaint to the landlord?"
"That landlord of ours? Why, if we told him the roof
leaked, he’d charge us extra for shower baths."
After a haircut, when the barber says,
"Is that the way you want it, sir?"
Drive him crazy and say, "Not quite, a little longer
in back."
1903
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have
Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
To Organize a Berry
Growers’ Union.
A movement is on foot to organize a
berry growers’ union in Carthage, and the plan is
meeting with much favor.
A meeting of the Commercial Club will
probably be called in the near future to consider the
matter. The organization is to be a berry shipping and
selling association, along the same lines as the Sarcoxie
association.
Homeseekers, Take
Notice.
Several choice suburban residence lots
for sale at one-half original price, on South Garrison
avenue, close to electric line. Lots worth $150 at $75;
lots worth $250 at $130. One-third cash; balance on time.
For sale by McFarland & Bailey, Real Estate Exchange,
office in Regan block, west side square.
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Today's Feature
Public Works Meeting.
The Public Works meeting is in
a to-be-continued state. Sam Proffer, Director of
engineering, reported the costs of six different
computer bids from three different vendors as
options for the two new computers the department
is in need of.
Many options were put on the
table, such as buying a refurbished computer from
Dell.
A refurbished computer is one
that has been sent back from a company due to an
order that exceeded needs. Refurbished computers
have no defects and a one-year warranty, but cost
as much as $1000 less.
"We should try and get as
much as we can because we don’t do this very
often," said Proffer.
The committee will consider the
options and will have another meeting to decide
the final answer. The computer has to be
purchased by June 30th.
Thanks to United Methodist
Youth Ministry and their pick-up, the city was
able to write off three property maintenance
cases and they picked up around 42.2 tons of
debris.
NASCAR to the
Max
Last Sunday’s Sirius
Satellite Radio 400 at the Michigan International
Speedway in Brooklyn, MI appeared to be headed
for a Tony Stewart versus Sterling Marlin
showdown until the race’s late going. Marlin
remained in contention until a missed shift after
a late race restart allowed several front runners
to pass and he ultimately finished sixth. Stewart
battled to the end but was only able to salvage
an eighth place finish. Marlin did garner the
five bonus points for leading the most laps.
Kurt Busch appeared to have
little chance of winning during the race’s
early going. During each of the race’s nine
caution periods, Busch’s crew made numerous
changes to his car’s chassis, attempting to
give their driver a car that could challenge the
leaders. All of the adjustments and changes paid
off in the end as Busch held off Bobby Labonte
and Jeff Gordon by over six car lengths to claim
his third win of the season.
This week’s race will be
held near Sonoma, CA at the Infineon Raceway. The
track is a 10-turn, 1.949-mile road course that
will test the driver’s ability to turn right
as well as left. Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon
typically run well at Infineon with Ricky Rudd
also having several good finishes there recently.
Silly Season, the time of the
year when driver changes and rumors of driver
changes run rampant, used to start in late summer
or early fall as the season wound down. Recently,
with the pressure from sponsors on the teams to
perform, Silly Season has started earlier and
earlier. Steve Park and Jeff Green were the first
victims a few weeks ago with the drivers
essentially swapping rides. Last week, John
Andretti was unexpectedly released by Petty
Enterprises. The most recent victim was
Morgan-McClure’s Mike Skinner who failed to
qualify last week.
Several online sources
including ESPN.com and thatsracin.com are
reporting that Nextel, a wireless communication
service provider, will be announced as the
sponsor of NASCAR’s premier series replacing
longtime sponsor Winston. The
"official" announcement is scheduled
for 10:00 am eastern time this morning.
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Just Jake
Talkin'
Mornin',
I called a cell phone
number the other day and the party
wasn’t answerin’. A canned
voice message came on thankin’ me
for usin’ such-and-such a service
but the person wasn’t available. I
expected to hear an answerin’
machine take over, but instead the
message said please call later. O.K.
Then, for some reason,
this enthusiastic voice informed me that
this was "message 28-TU." He
made it sound like that should mean
somethin’ to me.
I’m sure all the
phone company messages have some type of
code name for identification, but I just
can’t figure out why they feel I
should be privy to that information.
There are things I just don’t care
to know.
By the way, we started
our twelfth year doin’ the Mornin’
Mail yesterday.
This is some fact, but
mostly,
Just Jake Talkin’.
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TALK CARS
By Tom & Ray Magliozzi
Dear Tom and Ray:
We are looking for a
recommendation for an auto club that provides
reliable roadside assistance. I say
"reliable" because AAA left my husband
stranded outside for three hours in 10-degree
weather. The driver who finally showed up said
AAA had only called him half an hour ago. Does
anybody provide quality, reliable roadside
assistance? Thanks! — Frances.
TOM: It’s a good question,
Frances. Roadside assistance works something like
medical insurance these days. There are four
major providers, and those providers have deals
with garages all over the country.
RAY: For example, AAA enters
into an agreement with Vinnie’s Towing and
Charm School to cover a certain geographical
area. The deal says that when AAA calls,
Vinnie’s will go out and tow the stranded
car for a predetermined, set fee, which is
typically much lower than Vinnie’s normal
rates.
TOM: So, when you call
AAA’s toll-free number, they call
Vinnie’s. But if it’s 10 degrees out
and Vinnie is overwhelmed by cars that won’t
start, it might take him three hours to get to
you, or he might choose to serve his regular
(i.e., higher-paying) customers before he comes
to get you for AAA chump change.
RAY: Now, there are other
companies that put together networks for roadside
assistance, but it’s possible that Vinnie
will belong to one or more of them, too. Just
like your doctor may take both Blue Cross AND the
Tri-State Death Plan. And as far as we know, none
of the national towing networks stands
head-and-shoulders above any other in terms of
reimbursement rates. But from the scuttlebutt we
hear, AAA seems to be particularly disliked among
many garage owners.
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