The Mornin' Mail is published daily -Thursday, February 12, 1998 Volume VI, Number 167

did ya know?

Did Ya Know... The Carthage R-9 Board of Education will meet Thurs., Feb. 12, at noon at the Carthage Senior High Conference Room, second floor CSHS.

Did Ya Know... Due to circumstances beyond their control, the Carthage Over 60 Center will not have their dinner Feb. 15.

Did Ya Know... Carthage Masonic Lodge is having a Valentine’s dinner and meeting today. All Masons, their ladies, and widows of Masons are invited to dinner at 6 p.m.; meeting to follow at 7 p.m.

Did Ya Know... Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) #MO439 open house is today at 7 p.m. in the childcare center at Carthage YMCA. Everyone is invited.

today's laugh

Husband: I saw the doctor today about my loss of memory.

Wife: What did he do?

Husband: He made me pay him in advance.

 

"What makes him act so grouchy?"

"Oh, he’s teething."

"Teething?"

"Yes...they keep slipping out."

 

"He’s a wiry little chap."

"He doesn’t look it. What does he do?"

"Connects telephones."

1898
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.

Bank Officers Elected.

The newly elected directors of the First National Bank held a meeting last night and elected officers for 1898. Wm. E. Brinkerhoff was re-elected president; Cashier V. A. Wallace was elected vice-president, and ex-Mayor E. B. Jacobs was promoted from assistant cashier to cashier. The promotions were made to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. C. L. Bartlett who was vice-president. Although the promotions are now in effect, they are to all practical purposes merely changes in title, for both Messrs. Wallace and Jacobs will remain actively interested in the bank, and will be found at their accustomed desks.

 

W. O. Davis and wife, of Bloomington, Ill., are visiting their sister, Mrs. Mary Bailey, in the southern ‘suburbs.’ Mr. Davis is publisher of the "Pantagraph" one of the oldest and most prosperous papers in the state.

  Today's Feature

Right of Way Ordinance Progress.

Finance/Personnel Committee Chair Lujene Clark says that new regulations concerning City right of ways will be discussed for the next sixty to ninety days. The regulations could effect all telecommunications companies as well as other utility companies. Clark says that it is a complicated, far reaching document and it deserves to be well researched.

Dean Petersen of SW Missouri Cable agrees. He told the Committee last Tuesday afternoon that the initial draft of the proposed ordinance that he had seen was "totally unworkable."

"I think you’re making a big mistake," said Petersen, "crafting this on the basis of theory. Get some experience and base it on reality rather than perception."

Clark said that she wants the proposal "tightened up" so as to include the City utility CW&EP. At the current time, City Administrator Tom Short feels City owned utilities would be exempt from the regulations.

"We fully expect those areas of the City who use that right of way to dance to the same tune," said Clark.



   
Just Jake Talkin'
Mornin',

The proposed right of way ordinance has several purposes. One is to try and capture some type of franchise fee from telephone long distance providers. This is a probably the toughest goal.

Other ramifications of the proposal deal with how the City controls placement of utility poles, construction that disturbs existing streets and sidewalks, and other definable activities.

The initial draft presented to the Finance/Personnel Committee and the Council came from the Missouri Municipal League and is thirty-five pages in length. Most agree that it is a less than perfect document. Some feel it is nothing less than a local attempt to cripple growth of existing and future telecommunication endeavors.

Another focus has been introduced that would bring CW&EP under tighter control of the City. This is prob’ly the most interestin’ portion for us non telecommunication types. It should be local politics at its best.

This is some fact, but mostly, Just Jake Talkin’.

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Click and Clack Talk Cars

Dear Tom and Ray:

I have a ’92 Honda Civic LX sedan, which developed a vibrating, noise a few weeks ago. My mechanic said it was probably a loose heat shield, and I figured he would tighten a clamp or something. So imagine my surprise when I came back later to find he had removed the heat shield entirely. I asked him if it was safe, and he said it’s perfectly safe. I’m not convinced, however. Why would the Honda engineers have put it there if it wasn’t necessary? - Robert

Ray: Well, if you took your car to 1,000 different mechanics, Robert, 999 would probably do exactly what this guy did, and charge you $25.

Tom: And the other guy - the one who’d been sued because a customer’s car caught fire - would have installed a new heat shield and charged you over 100 bucks. And we’d have to endorse that guy’s action, mostly because our lawyers insist upon it.

Ray: Most cars have several heat shields...some more important than others. The one most commonly removed by mechanics fits just below the catalytic converter. It’s designed to keep a hot converter from igniting stuff underneath the car, like dead leaves and tall, dry grass you might park on top of.

Tom: So if you live in a city, and never park in a dry meadow, you can probably get by without that heat shield. But there are situations where something is wrong with the engine and too much fuel pours into the converter, causing it to overheat. And under those circumstances, the converter gets red hot and can ignite something and set the car on fire if no heat shield is present. And that’s really why the engineers put it there.


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