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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 Volume XIV, Number 227

Did Ya Know?... The Salvation Army, Carthage, will be conducting their annual advisory board meeting and volunteer recognition meeting on Monday, May 15 at 6:30 p.m. at 125 E. Fairview, Carthage. Public invited, please call Bess, 358-2262 between 9 a.m. and noon to reserve a space.

Did Ya Know?... The Peace Star Chapter of the American Business Women’s Association will hold a scholarship fund-raiser trip to the Kansas City Repertory Theatre, June 17, 2006. "Room Service" will be the feature. Includes dinner, shopping, entertainment. For more info. or to make reservations call Judy Boyd, 237-1061 (work) or 358-2874 (after 5), Sally Metcalf at 394-2213, or Eunice Carter at 358-7803.

Did Ya Know?... The McCune-Brooks Hospital 15th Annual Carthage Community Health Fair will be held Saturday, May 13 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon in the Carthage Memorial Hall, 407 S. Garrison.

today's laugh

Children make the most desirable opponents in Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. - Fran Lebowitz

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it; if you are sick, you shouldn’t take it. - Henry Ford

I’m very bad at arithmetic. I can count from 1 to 100, but I have trouble putting the numbers in order.

1906
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.

Two Serious Accidents.

Occurred at Mines In Webb City District Yesterday Afternoon.

Two accidents at mines north of Webb City occurred yesterday afternoon within 30 minutes of each other.

Williams Page, an employee at the Osceola mine No. 2 was caught by the premature explosion of a squib and both his eyes were destroyed, his face dreadfully lacerated and one hand shot off while the flesh was torn from his arm between the wrist and elbow. He was taken to the Salvation Army hospital in Webb City, where it was found necessary to amputate his arm just below the elbow, and his life will probably be saved but the restoration of his sight is regarded as hopeless. He is a single man about thirty years of age and his home is Vandalia, Mo. He has a brother living at Farber, Mo. who has been notified of the accident.

The other accident occurred at the John L. Mine close to the Majestic in Center valley. A carpenter named Warren Christian was working on a scaffolding about twenty-five feet from the ground when some part of the platform broke allowing Christian to fall the entire distance to the ground. He was taken to his home in Webb City and on examination it was found that he had sustained a broken arm, two fractured ribs and two severe scalp wounds, but so far as could be learned, he escaped internal injuries. The injured man is single about 25 years old.

Today's Feature

Special Use First Reading.

The City Council will meet this evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of City Hall. Items on the agenda include the first reading of an ordinance requesting special use permit for the purpose of a 60/40 restaurant at 1926 S. Garrison.

The 60/40 special use permit sparked much public input at the last meeting, when it was adopted into the City code. The permit allows for the sale of liquor by the drink if 60 percent of a business’s income is derived from the sale of prepared food. Several Carthage citizens voiced opposition to this new permit, some speaking against alcohol-serving establishments and some speaking against the application of the permit at 1926 Garrison.

The Council will decide if any additional restrictions should be applied to the permit. Potential restrictions that have been discussed by Council and the neighboring citizens include; hours of operation, fencing around the parking lot and a yearly review period for the permit.

Other items on the agenda for the Council meeting include a public hearing concerning annexation of property commonly known as 1327 Baker.

Stench Report:
Monday,
5/15/06

Stench
detected late Friday
5/5/06

Just Jake Talkin'
Mornin',
Nothin’ like a big goose egg from bangin’ your head on the bottom of a table you’ve been under. Whack!

I hear that the thing to do is to apply all the pressure you can to the knot before it really starts swellin.’ It may work, but what I really hear is the screamin’ from the victim bein’ helped in this way.

I grew up with a gentler remedy. Put some ice on it. I don’t figure anything makes a lot a difference. After a day or two the size gets smaller and starts feelin’ better ‘till ya happen to bump it again.

"Feels better when it stops hurtin," my old baseball coach used ta say. Real funny guy.

At least if ya get a shiner you can make up a good story ‘bout the other guy.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin.’

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To Your Good Health
By Paul G. Donohue, M.D.

Early Lung Cancer Difficult to Detect

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: In 2000, my wife was diagnosed with polymyalgia, temporal arteritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Prednisone gave her some relief. In 2002, she developed a mild but persistent cough, which was explained as a medication side effect. In 2003, she had X-rays for back and leg pain, which was ascribed to arthritis. In 2004, now age 78, we requested a scan to look deeper into her complaints. The scan showed she had advanced lung cancer, which had spread to her liver, brain, back and knee. She died five months later. How could this cancer not have been detected in an earlier stage? -- J.C.

ANSWER: No words can suitably convey my sympathy to you and your family, and I can’t offer you a suitable explanation why it took so long for your wife’s cancer to be diagnosed, but such is often the case with lung cancer.

Medicine has failed to come up with a good screening test for early lung-cancer detection. The chest X-ray is not a great screening test. It misses too many small cancers. There is hope that a special kind of CT scan, a spiral CT scan, might prove to be the answer to this problem of finding lung cancer in its early stages, when it can be more successfully treated. I can’t say if your wife’s cough in 2002 was the first sign of the cancer. If it was, a chest X-ray at that time should have shown it. I can say, without trying to gloss over this tragedy, that many lung cancers behave in the same way your wife’s did.