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PRESS-NEWS JOURNAL, CANTON, MO.
Editorial & O00inion
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by Dan Steinbeck
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A display of formal finery
Ahh. The fancy apparel. The dressing to the nines.
Polished shoes. The fresh look. This can mean only one
of four things: a teenage prom; Kentucky Derby attend-
ees; a Star Trek/alien convention; or any combination of
all of these.
Some people might argue all fashion styles have
been tried and thus, there is nothing new under the sun.
Just in case these haven't been tried, here are some com-
ing fashion style ideas (and as one embarrassed sibling
of one anonymous columnist can attest, who better to
comment on fashion):
Men could wear a tuxedo with a horned opera singer
hat. Or perhaps a man could wear a cumberband with
a matching wrap-around tail. For electronic bling, put
flashing lights on the cumberband (Laugh, if you will,
but remember someone actually did that with children's
tennis shoes and proabbly retired comfortably at age
29.)
Men might also wear a tux with a lapel made solely
out of pressed flower petals. How about waering a cravat
that doubles as a monogrammed dinner napkin?
Women could probably attach a bedroom pillow and
a four inch yellow ribbon on their head and be granted
immediate entrance to Churchill Downs where the Ken-
tucky Derby is run each year. Or ladies could wear a
cardboard box with neon colors. How about ladies wear-
ing a spiral hairdoo, with brightly colored pressurized
string outlining Churchill Downs on the 'doo. What
about wearing a white chef's hat or a ceiling fan blade
or an oversized actual taco shell, or a lampshade? Whose
going to turn any of them away.
Any of the women's hats could bring the thoughtful
comment from fans in the back: "Down in front."
With outlandish costumes like these and others
recently shown and yet to be shown, and in the never-
ending one-upmanship, how does anyone stand out in a
crowd, when everyone is trying to stand out?
Backward Glances
From the pages of early County newspapers
Transportation in Jefferson
City for their crew's acci-
dent free record.
Congressman Harold
20 YEARS AGO
The Press News Journal
May 1, 1989
Culver-Stockton College
will hold graduation cer-
Volkmer is urging farmers
to check with their local
ASCS office to determine
their eligibility for drought
assistance programs.
LaGrange City wide
clean-up lS May 13.Wash-
ington Park will serve as
headquarters for the day. A
first aid station will be set-
uo adnd participants will
receive garabage bags and
instructions for clean-up.
for another 30 bed expan- 40 YEARS AGO
sion. Whiston Construction The Canton Press-News
May 8, 1969
Instant local news is com-
ing to Canton in the form
of Dial News.
Stephen and Michael
Dykstra, twin sons of Dr.
and Mrs. John Dykstra, se-
nior students at the Kansas
YES TER YEAR
PICTURE
Ewing High School
Commencement for 1945
was held Thursday night,
May 17. The program was
as follows:
Processional, Miss
WinifredWood; invocation,
Virgil O. Graces; song "Our
Yesterday," Betty Herrick,
Georgia Sharpe, Lorraine
Whitaker; address, Rev.
L. B. Arvin; presentation
of eighth grade diplomas,
Mrs. Graces; presentation
of high school diplomas,
Mr. Leach; and benediction
by Virgil O. Graves.
This senior class photo
includes: first row -Georgia
May Felter; Leta Daggs,
vhaledictorian; Betty Her-
emonies on May 13. The
largest class in recent years
of 166 students will receive
diploma's on Saturday.
Two will receive honorary
degrees at Culver-Stock-
ton. Richard A. Liebirg
, of Quincy will receive an
hooonorary doctor of laws
degree. Dr. Roy L. Griggs
will receive an honorary
doctor of divinity degree.
The Lewis County Nurs-
ing Home will break ground
Company submitted the
lone bid of $825,000 for
the 8,560 square foot ex-
pansion.
The Lewis and Clark
Meat Company has been
sold to Dutchway.
rick, salutatorian; Lorraine
Whitaker and Anna Mae
Stone. Back row includes:
Lawrence O'Brien, Dolan
Mildred Bailey was hon- City College of Osteopathy
ored by Lewis County staff and Surgery and members
for 30 years of service with of the College Chorale will
the Division of Family Ser- accompany the group to
Dallas, Texas for a spring
concert.
Mrs. Virgie Rogers, 87,
died May 4 in the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Paul
vices.
Thirty-one Culver-Stock-
ton students participated in
three mock trials. Canton
Attorney Dennis Smith sets
up a fictious situation so the Shuman at Lewistown.
students could get practice Mrs. Rogers was Demo-
in a trial setting, cratic Central Committee
woman for several years.
Two Canton lawyers
were among the 775 gradu-
ates of the University of
u
Clinton T. Turner of
Canton is one of three area
men recently honored by
Missouri Highway and
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State Senator District 18 Report
by Wes Shoemyer
its investment staff, despite
the fact the state pension
fund lost close to $2-bil-
lion last year. The agency
doled out some $300,000
in bonuses to 14 invest-
ment managers, including
$114,000 for the fund's
chief investment officer. I
don't get it. The state has
been forced to eliminate a
lot of jobs and other state
employees are going with-
out raises, yet the state pen-
sion fund thinks it's okay to
hand out close to $300,000
in bonus payments to peo-
ple who lost billions of dol-
lars.
In response to this
boneheaded move, I offered
an amendment to a bill
dealing with the Missouri
Americans have been
understandably outraged
at the big bones the fat cats
on Wall Street have been
giving themselves despite
destroying our economy.
What really upsets people is
that the federal government
has been bailing out these
big financial firms with
taxpayer dollars, and then
these firms turn around and
hand out millions in bonus-
es to the very same people
who got us into this mess.
This week we discussed a
similar issue in the Sen-
ate regarding the Missouri
State Employees Retire-
ment System (MOSERS).
Earlier this month we
learned that MOSERS gave
big bonuses to members of
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First District Rep. Report
Every time you go to
vote, you cast a secret bal-
lot. No one but you knows
what selections you made.
Secret ballots ensure the
voter is able to make a per-
sonal choice and is not in-
fluenced by intimidation or
bribery. The use of a secret
ballot in America was first
deemed necessary to pro-
tect the voting rights of re-
cently freed slaves after the
Civil War. During southern
reconstruction, this prob-
lem was rampant. African
American first-time voters
were being threatened with
physical violence and even
lynching, based on how
their publicly known bal-
by Brian Munzlinger
lots were cast.
Unfortunately, voter
intimidation still takes
place to this day and is of-
ten exercised byunions.
Unions and pro-union em-
ployees have been known
to use peer pressure to per-
suade reluctant workers to
sign their cards and/or vote
for certain political candi-
dates.
Clearly, this behavior
goes out of its way to repel
the civil liberties so many
fought for. It is shocking
to think our great coun-
try could experience such
set backs as forceful labor
unions fighting against the
right to a secret ballot.
Earl Clinton who has
been in the car, and car and
garage business in LaBelle,
has started up at Taylor and
expects to reside in Can-
ton.
Mr. and Mrs. Trevor
Pecher of Hannibal are
moving to Canton. Trevor
will attend C-SC.
Miss Martha Lamb will
close the school at Gorin
and will leave the next day
with a magazine crew and
travel 'eastward. The crew
expects to arrive at the
New York World's Fair by
July 1.
80 YEARS AGO
The Lewis Co. Journal
May 9, 1929
Word has been received
that Bert Neatarour, who
has been supervisor of the
state road and located at
Lewistown, will be trans-
ferred to LaGrange where
he will be employed on the
gravel on 61.
The annual Junior-Se-
nior Banquet was given at
the school house in Monti-
cello May 4. The menu so
served, was prepared by
the mothers of the juniors
and five sophomore girls
dressed in white served as
waitresses.
LaBelle with a total of
50 1/2 points were returned
Missouri-Columbia School
of Law who were recently
awarded a new degree by
their alma mater. Richard
R. Howe and Dennis W.
Smith received the juris-
prudence degree.
70 YEARS AGO
The Lewis Co. Journal
May 11, 1939
Mackie's Markets, Inc.
opened its new store in the
Hetzler building on Lewis
Street. William Giegerich
is the manager and Del-
bert Pilcher is the assistant
manager.
THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2009 - PAGE 11
Daggs, Willard Collins,
Wayne Crabill. The man in
the center was not identi-
fied.
Accountability Portal. My
amendment would have re-
quired that payments such
as these bonuses be posted
on the state's online portal,
which provide information
to the public about who
gets tax credits and other
state benefits. My amend-
ment would have provided
some transparency and ac-
countability regarding the
actions of the state's pen-
sion fund, but other sena-
tors said we were trying
to micromanage MOSERS
and defeated the amend-
ment.
Some argued that the
bonuses were appropriate
because MOSERS actually
grew their investment port-
folio by 3.9 percent over a
five-year period. While that
may be true, I think most
The class motto was
"Out of school life into
Life's School". The class
flower was a yellow rose.
people who are struggling
to keep their jobs, pay their
mortgages and put food on
the table would be upset to
learn that state employees
who already earn really
good money also received
thousands of dollars in tax-
payer-provided bonuses.
We all have to make sac-
rifices to get through this
economic downturn, and it
just doesn't seem right or
fair that a small group of
state employees received
bonuses that in some cases
are worth more than most
state employees earn in an
entire year.
Contact me at 573-
751-7852 or emall at wes.
shoemyer@senate.mo.gov
or write to Room 434, State
Capitol, 201 West Capitol
Ave., Jefferson City, Mo.
65101.
This week the Missouri
House approved a proposal
that would guarantee the
right to secret ballot elec-
tion for all public offices.
It also extends to ballot
initiatives, referendums,
and authorizing the cre-
ation or dismantling of a
labor union. The proposed
constitutional amendment
is aimed to protect against
the federal Employee Free
Choice Act legislation, cur-
rently being considered in
Congress. This process,
also known as "card check",
would make it easier to
form a union by bypassing
secret ballot elections. The
federal legislation aims
to allow a union to form
when at least a 50 percent
of workers sign a card gen-
erally handed to them and
asked to sign while a union
official is watching, avoid-
ing the need for an elec-
tion.
We cannot let the use
of the secret ballot be taken
away. I support protecting
the practice of using secret
ballots because I believe in
our rights as American citi-
zens. Our people should be
able to vote without fear of
any negative consequences
or bullying. A voter's right
to a secret ballot is an es-
sential and fundamental
principle in our society.
Without that ability, indi-
vidual political freedom
will decline and be subject
to threats and intimidation
by those who want voters
to pursue a specific course
of action or ideology, I am
proud of the action taken
by the Missouri House to
ensure our citizens are able
to keep their right to a se-
cret ballot.
In a recent interview,
our Governor said that he
wanted to spend every last
cent of the stimulus pack-
m
90 YEARS AGO
The Lewis Co. Journal
May 9, 1919
Lt. Edwin Balthrope,
Travis Boulware, Milton
Lewis and Walter Haggerty
are more Canton boys to
return from overseas.
The War Department
says that all soldiers will
age for ongoing projects
and welfare expansion, re-
gardless of federal strings
attached. In fact, Governor
Nix0n went as far as to say,
"If there's debt, Missouri
kids and grandkids will pay
that debt off." Frankly,• we
couldn't disagree more.
The stimulus package
sent to us by the federal
government is one-time
occurrence. Spending it on
programs that expand our
already out of control wel-
fare system is irresponsible
and we simply won't do it.
The Governor's proposal
clearly isn't prudent bud-
geting.
I am proud to announce
that the House has passed a
bill, taking one billion dol-
lars in stimulus money and
using it to cut your taxes.
If passed through the Sen-
ate and signed into law, this
will rein as the largest tax
cut in Missouri history.
In the House, it is our
firm belief that the only
way to truly stimulate our
economy is to give back
your hard-earned dollars
and allow you to spend or
save them as you please.
Don't let the word
"Stimulus package" fool
you. These are your tax
dollars. You know how to
spend the funds in a way
that will benefit your fami-
ly and stimulate our econo-
my. Missouri taxpayers are
responsible, we don't need
the government to make
our decisions for us.
We will not stand by
and sling financial burden
on the backs of our future.
Together, we can build
back our state's economy
and look towards a promis-
ing future for our children
and grandchildren.
Contact me at 573-
751-7985 or at brian.mun-
zlinger@house.mo.gov
Dr. C. S. Todd announced
that in order to promptly
care for the needs of his
patients he has associated
with Dr. Gleason from St.
Louis recently returned
from service in the U.S.
Army.
Roscoe Veatch has re-
turned from overseas;
he left Brest April 1 and
winners of the annual Lew- be home by the first of Sep- landed in New York April
is County Track and Field tember except the army of 7, was sent to Camp Tay-
meet held on Tuesday at occupation in Germany and lor, Ky., and received his
the Culver-Stockton Field it is planned to return them honorable discharge and
at Canton. Steffenville with during September. returned toLewistown.
23 points was runner-up.
