City Council will meet tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Council Chambers. The agenda contains five new items in first reading including a proposed ordinance for a contract between the City of Carthage and American Disposal for the collection and disposal of solid waste. It is a five year contract and will see a raise in residential trash pickup prices from $3.61 to $4.01 for single and from $5.83 to $6.33 for a family.

Creators of a petition in Carthage concerning the odor emissions from Renewable Environmental Solutions have set this meeting as the date to voice their concerns about the odor situation.

"We believe that the plant should operate according to their promises, which would mean, ‘odor free,’" says an excerpt from the petition. The petition asks individuals in favor of putting an end to the emmissions to attend the Council meeting.

City Officials will meet with R.E.S. tomorrow in an attempt to find a solution to the situation.

Other items on the agenda include an ordinance levying taxes on real estate in Carthage for the year 2004.

I took a trip to "the city" over the weekend. Tried to stay out of the main stream as much as possible, but couldn’t avoid the typical Saturday afternoon flow.

I hadn’t been to the Tulsa area for a few years and was a little disoriented by all the new freeways and toll roads that have been constructed. Most of my old landmarks weren’t recognizable at 65 mph.

I try to get out in the mix ever now and then just to remind myself of why I don’t live where ya gotta get on a divide highway just to get to a fillin’ station. I don’t like traffic much.

Even some of the smaller surroundin’ communities are now part of the net. New housing springin’ up and along with it all the home improvement stores and fast food.

The fast lane just isn’t my speed.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

by

McCune- Brooks Hospital

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH

By Paul G. Donohue, M.D.

Heart Attacks Can Occur Without Pain

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My brother, who was only 43, died from a heart attack. I was with him when it occurred. He never said a word about pain, only that he was tired and wanted to lie down. He did, and he died while he was asleep. How could I have recognized that he was in trouble? I need to know all the symptoms of a heart attack. — J.O.

ANSWER: Most heart attacks cause chest pain. People describe it as a heavy sensation, a pressure or a viselike grip around their chests. The location of the pain is usually behind the breastbone or on the left side of the chest. A few individuals feel pain only in their necks or jaws or arms, with the left arm more frequently the site of pain than the right. Or, a person can have chest pain that radiates to those locations.

You cannot blame yourself for not recognizing what was happening to your brother. Quite often, heart attacks are preceded by a period of exertional chest pains. In the weeks or months prior to having an attack, people often get chest pain — angina — when they are rushing around or doing physical labor. Those pains serve as a warning that a heart attack could be in the offing. Your brother had no such warnings.