Sidewalk Replacement for Square.

The Downtown Sidewalk Project is on the agenda for the City Council meeting this evening in City Hall. The project would provide replacement of the sidewalk for the block between 3rd and 4th Street and between Main and Lyon Street. The work is to be completed one side at a time starting on 3rd Street between Main and Lyon. Funding for the project will be made possible by a Community Development Block Grant for $130,000 which is to cover the entirety of the restoration process.

This will be the second reading of the ordinance authorizing the Mayor to enter into contract with Sprenkle and Associates who will be providing the design for the sidewalk replacement. Sprenkle and Associates has included in the contract a maximum of 20 visits to the site during the restoration. Supervision of the improvements would be maintained by the City Works department throughout the remainder of the time.

An ordinance authorizing the Mayor to sign an agreement between the City of Carthage and the Harry S. Truman Coordinating Council for grant administration will be in its first reading.

Land Transactions.

On July 27, 2004 John and Jeana Bartosh sold the property at 3543 County Rod. 110, Carthage, MO, to Kenneth E. West and Leandra West. The sale was handled by Kip Smith with Donal M. Myers Realty in cooperation with Donal M. Myers Realty.

On July 21, 2004, Phillip W. Blankenship sold the property at 1106 Prospect, Carthage, MO, to Christopher T. Johnson & Tracy A. Johnson. The sale was handled by Donal M. Myers of Donal M. Myers Realty.

Joyce A. Buchanan and George Buchanan, wife and husband, Edward L. Johnson and Bessie Johnson, husband and wife, Harold R. Johnson and June Johnson, husband and wife, and Ruth Johnson, sold the property at 101 Bobbie Smith Street, Diamond, MO 64840, to Donald J. McCleary revocable trust agreement. The property was sold at auction by Kip Smith Auction Service in cooperation with Donal M. Myers Realty.

Ernest Chandler and Sandra Chandler, husband and wife, sold the property commonly known as 1017 E. 13th Street, Carthage, MO 64836 to Roger K. Howerton. The transaction was handled by Kip P. Smith with Donal M. Myers Realty in cooperation with Donal M. Myers.

On July 21, 2004, Victor Gardner and Trudy L. Gardner sold the property at 820 Macon, Carthage, MO to Christopher T. Johnson and Tracy A. Johnson. The sale was handled by Donal M. Myers of Donal M. Myers Realty.

On July 23, 2004, Wayne Rice and Marilyn Rice sold the property at Southwood Addition, Carthage, MO to Phillip W. Blankenship. The sale was handled by Donal M. Myers of Donal M. Myers Realty.

John F. Bartosh sold property to Eddie E. Young, II and Mandy J. Young, husband and wife. The transaction was handled by Kip P. Smith with Donal M. Myers Realty.

A friend a mine figures there only about nine or ten original jokes. He says ever’thing else is just a modification of those originals.

He has a buddy who was tryin’ to chronicle ever’ joke he ever heard. Ever’ now and then he’d call up and give my friend a punch line and ask what the joke was. Just couldn’t remember exactly how it went.

He says he hasn’t heard a really good new joke for several years. It may be he’s heard ‘em all, or I’m guessin’ he just doesn’t get out ta where the jokes are as often as he used to.

I suppose ever’one has a favorite joke or two. I’m thinkin’ the older my buddy gets, the more he’ll forget. Maybe onea these days I can spring a joke on him he forgot to remember. That ‘ll be a laugh.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

by

McCune-
Brooks Hospital

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH

By Paul G. Donohue, M.D.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Please tell me something about potassium. I was told that a blood test showed mine to be slightly elevated. The doctor told me to take only half of the Atacand HCT that I use for blood pressure control. He also told me not to eat bananas or orange juice. Why? — K.M.

ANSWER: Potassium is royalty when it comes to its contribution in regulating many body functions. It has a hand in maintaining fluid balance and in maintaining the right amount of water in body cells. Nerves don’t fire without potassium. Neither do muscles contract. Without it, the heart stops beating. It also has a hand in regulating blood pressure.

Too little potassium is the more common potassium problem, and often the potassium deficit comes from taking diuretics for blood pressure control.

Too high a blood potassium level leads to muscle weakness, and, depending on how high it is, it can produce muscle paralysis. It can also disturb heart rhythm, and with super-high levels, it can spark a lethal heartbeat — ventricular fibrillation. A slight elevation of potassium is not dangerous.

Atacand HCT has two components. The Atacand ingredient sometimes causes a retention of body potassium. The HCT ingredient commonly lowers blood potassium. Your doctor believes that a lesser dose will straighten out the potassium imbalance.