Did Ya Know... The Outer Limits, 727 River, will have a ribbon cutting ceremony Wed., May 7, at 10 a.m.
Did Ya Know... Small businesses employ 53 percent of the private work force.
Did Ya Know... City Wide Trash Day will be Saturday, May 10. No trash is to be placed at pickup points until the night before the scheduled clean-up day.
A young man was brought to testify before the judge. The judge looked down over the bench and said to him, "Have you ever taken the oath before?"
The man just stood there with a blank expression on his face. The judge repeated the question and got the same response. "Perhaps you didn't understand me," said the judge. "Do you know how to swear?"
The young man's eyes lit up and a smile came across his face. "Of course I know how to swear, Your Honor. Don't you remember? You taught me how. I'm your caddie."
The first drive-in bank was established so that people could show their cars to their real owners.
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
HURT IN A RUNAWAY.
The Narrow Escape of Jas. H. McNeill This Morning.
This morning about 9:30 o'clock a horse driven by Jas. H. McNeill, an old gentleman who lives on West Walnut street, became frightened and ran away on Central avenue. Mr. McNeill was seated in a light buggy and was driving up to E. H. Bell's custom mills on Central avenue to get some feed when the animal took fright.
The horse ran east and when he reached a point just north of B. F. Thomas' lumber yard the buggy collided with a farmer's wagon standing at the side of the street. The buggy was overturned and Mr. McNeill thrown out entangled in the lines. The horse tore loose from the buggy and dragged Mr. McNeill about thirty-five feet along the muddy street before being stopped by Mr. Bell. He is rather advanced in years which makes the shaking up he received rather dangerous.
There are lot’s of little tid bits of wisdom that keep rollin’ around. Some ya forget for years and then they just pop into your head.
I’ve always had mixed emotions about the old sayin’ of “Rule #1-Don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule #2-It’s all small stuff.”
In a lot a ways most of us get pretty wound up about things that really don’t matter much. I suppose that the “small stuff” that is referred to.
On the other hand, there are things that need to be attended to. There are times when ya just gotta move a particular situation outa the “small stuff” category.
I’d guess that the tendency for most to worry too much makes the rules #1 & #2 worth rememberin’, just as long as those timeless values, and there are at least a couple, are kept in perspective.
I suppose the other old sayin’ that fits ends with “grant me the wisdom to know the difference.”
This is some fact, but mostly, Just Jake Talkin’.
by Mari An Willis
The arrival of spring often brings with it new optimism. With the appearance of bright tulips and jonquils to the aromatic fragrance of sage blooming or the irises blowing in the breeze one is met with the renewal of life.
For many individuals who have been challenged with long term dis-ease, the renaissance of herbal medicine has brought about a "spring in their lives." Many have incorporated herbal teas and supplements into their daily routines. It is not unusual to see someone sipping ginger tea or peppermint tea after a large meal to help aid digestion or to brew a cup of chamomile prior to bedtime to quiet the nerves after a long day. The usage of herbs goes far beyond these simple pleasures.
For those treating more serious conditions one must note that the scientific validation of herbs is available for review and study as an option and an adjunct to more commonly used drugs. An excellent reference book on this subject may be The Scientific Validation of Herbal Medicine by Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D. It is full of references to particular scientific research on various herbs shedding light in areas once considered "old wives tale." In Germany and many other foreign countries the usage of herbs is standard practice.
As our lawns flourish from spring to summer, take a look at your weeds with a new perspective. That broad leafed plantain has traditionally been used to stop poison-ivy itch, dandelion for minerals and liver, chickweed for weight loss and wild onion and garlic for immune maintenance. Plants, as life itself, is all how you look at it.
*This article is meant for informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for medical advice.
The Budget/Ways and Means Committee was advised Wednesday evening by City Clerk Barbara Welch that there will be approximately a half million dollars of “turn-in” money at the end of this fiscal year.
The “turn-in” is the result of money budgeted but not spent during the past budget year. The exact amount will not be known until near the July 1 beginning of the next fiscal year for the City, so the Committee is expected to view the news cautiously.
Initial estimates showed the requests for next year to outweigh the projected income by just over $1 million. The number swelled when the Committee recommended a new compensation plan for City employees at a cost of approximately $120,000 and agreed to reimburse the Library Board and the Park Board and increased amount based on their mill levy.
Council member Charlie Bastin questioned when the cuts were going to come.
Committee Chairman Bill Johnson said that the Department requests were not typically where adjustments were made, but cuts would come from the $1.4 million in capital project requests.
The short fall also includes just under $250,000 in outside agency requests from the Park Board, Main Street, the Chamber of Commerce, Over Sixty Center, and Youth Baseball.
The Committee also heard that a catalogue update was responsible for the City receiving a less than satisfactory flag pole that was to be placed in front of City Hall. The pole was ordered by stock a number that had been changed by the manufacturer. The Committee voted to send the pole back and order the correct one which has an internal halyard mechanism to prevent tampering. It is hoped that the pole will arrive in time for a dedication to the American Legion who agreed to pay for the improvement.
The vote came after a brief confrontation in which Assistant City Engineer Harold Neely shouted for a Council member to “shut up” so he could answer a question. Neely then left and the meeting continued.
Council member Nolan Henry again raised the question of the Police Department’s involvement in the Marian Day’s activities.
Henry has expressed the opinion on several occasions that he doesn’t feel the Department should actively patrol the grounds during the annual observation that brings over 50,000 Vietnamese visitors to the community.
By Steve Taylor
KDMO/KMXL News & Sports Director
Carthage Sports Week In Review
Another week has gone by and one of the most exciting baseball games of the season happened this past Monday when the Tigers were down at Neosho to take on the Wildcats. The Tigers were ahead by one run going into the bottom of the seventh inning when Chris Nelson hit a solo home run with two out and a full count to tie the game. In the eighth inning, Ryan Hill scored Adam Murray and the Tigers held the Wildcats in the bottom of the eighth to win 11-10 in the Southwest Conference match-up. In all, seven home runs were hit in the game, three by the Tigers including Jerry Poston, Kyle Wilson and Ryan Hill.
In other action, Carthage took on McDonald County yesterday at Carl Lewton Stadium in which I will put the results in next week’s column. In other action this coming week the Tigers host Hillcrest on Monday, travel to Parsons on Tuesday, and host Neosho on Thursday in which Neosho will be seeking some revenge for the loss on Monday.
The track team is at Girard, Kansas today and will be getting prepared for Conference action on Thursday.
The tennis team is also in action in the coming week hosting Aurora on Monday and taking part in the Southwest Tournament Tuesday.
by Carolyn L. Wyatt, GRI
How much do you earn each year? Did you know that that figure is a rule of thumb as to the price of the home you can afford? When you double your gross income this represents the amount you may be indebted to for a home. Triple this figure if interest rates are low.
Notice I said indebted to, not the total purchase price. Add the amount you will have as a down payment, this may come from savings and it may come from equity in your present home.
Banks and mortgage bankers view indebtedness essentially the same. You are only allowed so much "extra" debt ratio. For a 95% loan you may have a debt load of 28-36%, this figure must include your new house payment.
What is considered debt? Credit card bills - how much is the minimum payment and how much longer will it take to pay the card off? If the amount due is small, pay it off. If the term is longer, only the minium payment will be debited. With car loans, the same applies. Medical bills, the same applies.
Who else do you owe? Consider any bill that comes to you on a monthly basis, except utilities and insurance. Calculate 28-36% of your gross income. Add your monthly installment payments together and subtract this from your allowable percentage, what's left is the amount left for a mortgage payment. What amount do you qulaify for?
Thanks Les at Action Mortgage.
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THE WORLD WIDE WEB
The World Wide Web is the most talked about component of the Internet today. It is also the one component of the Internet that is advancing (in terms of technology) the fastest. As you travel from place to place, information is constantly being transfered back and forth between client and server computers.
While you’re “surfing” the World Wide Web, you use Hypertext Links (Sometime called Hot Links) to quickly travel from one location to another.
These links change colors after you click on them. This makes it easier for you to keep track of where you’ve been. In addition, these links could take you anywhere. Clicking on a hypertext link could connect you to another town, state, or even country.
Of course, links aren’t the only way to connect to another location. Each World Wide Web Site has its own individual address. You’ve probably seen commercials on television where they show an address that looks something like ‘http://www.company.com/’. This is the World Wide Web Address of that company. The real name for this address is Uniform Resource Locator (or URL) and you can easily access that particular company by typing the address directly in the location field on your browser.
Martin "Bubs" Hohulin
State Representative, District 26
This week I'm going to discuss something the Senate did and get back to the business of the House next week. The Senate, in a brilliant move, killed a particularly bad piece of legislation before it got to the House.
I'm speaking of SB 360. This is the bill which was touted as a way to distribute the savings from the failed (and ended) desegregation project in St. Louis and Kansas City. The project was a complete and utter failure, proving once again that control of our schools belongs at the local level. Judge Russell Clark, a Pres. Jimmy Carter appointee, masterminded and ordered the project. He is the most compelling argument against federal judges being appointed for life.
Anyway, with the project coming to an end there was going to be some surplus dollars to the tune of about $200 million. Right away the discussion was; how can we best spend this money? There are a couple ways to look at this. The most obvious was; why do we need to spend it? If we already owe the people money why do we need to look for ways to spend $200 million? Let's just give the money back to where it came from, the tax papers.
For years schools other than St. Louis and Kansas City have been getting short changed while paying the bills for the desegregation project. Under SB 360 the money would be distributed based on the number of free and reduced lunches in a school district. Now let's look at this logic. We are telling school districts we will reward them with more taxpayer dollars if they sign up students on what amounts to a welfare program paid for with more tax payer dollars.
Whatever happened to rewarding people for taking personal responsibility? I guess personal responsibility is yet another casualty of the forty year entitlement programs set up by the democrats. It is only now that those programs are starting to be, every so slowly, dismantled by the republican majority led Congress to be replaced by people actually taking responsibility for their own lives. This idea of personal responsibility has been referred to by the main stream press and liberal do gooders as draconian, cold hearted, extremist, etc. I prefer to think of it as tough love and doing what is right.
Anyway, the Senate on a very close vote defeated this bill so it is probably dead for the year.