Today's Feature

Gunshot Victim.

The Police Department, Fire Department and Ambulance were dispatched to 1200 Grove in reference to a female shooting victim on Sunday July 31 at 8:20 p.m. Police discovered 21-year-old Brandi Leathers in a bedroom with a gunshot wound to the chest. Leathers was flown to St. John’s Hospital in Joplin for treatment of her injuries

The wound is believed to be self-inflicted and an investigation is ongoing.

Blunt’s Highway Priorities.

News Release

The Conference Report on H.R. 3 - Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users, containing ten Southwest Missouri highway projects sponsored by Seventh District Congressman Roy Blunt, is headed to President Bush’s desk to become law. "The goal of this legislation is to modernize some of Southwest Missouri’s busiest highways in an effort to make the traveling public safer and make our transportation system more efficient," Blunt, the House Majority Whip,

said. "This legislation assures that well before the end of this decade we will have four safer lanes of traffic on Highway 71 extending to Arkansas and the Joplin Bypass can be completed.

Blunt added, "Due to the work of Senator Bond and Senator Talent, the new transportation bill means Missouri will have our fair share of highway funds to undertake crucial highway improvements. It also means more of the money Missouri motorists send to Washington will come back to be used on our highway priorities."

"This was a job-creating week in the U.S. House," Blunt said. "As soon as this funding is put to use in Southwest Missouri, we’ll see new jobs being created, as well as improved transportation infrastructure."

Blunt secured $12 million to upgrade Highway 71 in McDonald County to four lane expressway standards. The bill also designates $8 million for continued construction on the Range Line By-pass (Highway 249) in Joplin.

Other funds are set aside for studies on the design of the corridor of Highways 37 and 60 from Republic to Monett through Cassville to the Arkansas state line and to design and construct improvements to the I-44 and Highway 39 interchange in Mt. Vernon.

Stench Report:
Monday,
08/01/05

No Reports of Stench

I don’t think I’ve ever run across anyone that didn’t enjoy a heapin’ bowl of real, honest to goodness home made ice cream.

You can always tell the experienced ice cream eaters. They can be found takin’ their seats at a comfortable distance from the churns where they can watch those who are doin’ the crankin’. They might even actually get up and give a first hand lesson for a short time.

‘Course there are always a few who sit on the outer circle who don’t know anything ‘bout ice cream makin’. They just enjoy sittin’ ‘round tellin’ folks how it oughta be. Sometimes it seems there are more and more of those people around. Always the first in line to get their fair share, last when it comes to contributin’ effort and energy.

When all the shoutin’s over, someone still has to turn the crank.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

Baseball and Sore Arms

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a teen who plays baseball three times a week. My upper right arm — my throwing arm — has become sore. Do you have any idea what might have caused it? — J.C.

ANSWER: Pitchers, of course, are the ones most susceptible to sore arms, but they can happen to anyone who has to throw a ball.

It takes 11 different muscles to throw. Those muscles are in the arm, shoulder, chest and back. Furthermore, the leg, abdominal and back muscles are intimately involved in throwing. Sore arms can usually be traced to overuse, errors in throwing technique or lack of conditioning. Overuse you have to address yourself. You shouldn’t throw when the arm hurts. Throwing technique is something you’ll have to have a coach or an expert adult analyze for you. Conditioning is something you can do on your own.

Even during the baseball season, so long as the arm doesn’t hurt, a program of muscle strengthening can keep your throwing arm free of pain. Limit your exercise sessions to three times a week, and do them on the days you aren’t playing. Choose weights you can lift eight to 12 times successively, and take a two-minute rest between two or three series of lifts. Make sure you exercise muscles on the back of your shoulder.

I haven’t mentioned the shoulder joint as a source of pain. It can be. If your arm isn’t improving with three weeks of rest, then you have to see a doctor for the many joint troubles that cause a sore arm.