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Volume 103 • Number 253 • Tuesday, December 31, 2013 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO
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Preventative care crucial during winter By TONY BROWN News editor
PHOTO COURTESY OF JOLENE KERWIN
Standing bull
A bull stands silhouetted in a snow-covered field near Stanberry. Severe winter weather poses special challenges for both farmers with livestock and town-dwellers responsible for keeping their dogs and cats safe from the elements.
Bitter cold challenges livestock By STEVE HARTMAN Staff Writer
All outdoor animals, whether livestock or family pets, need extra care and attention to remain healthy during periods of extremely cold weather. Dr. Kirk Francis, a local veterinarian, said he hasn’t seen a significant increase in the number of large-animal calls due to the recent cold spell, but he
did offer some tips to those who must care for livestock when temperatures plunge toward negative territory. “First of all, make sure they have someplace to protect themselves from the wind and cold,” Francis said. “It can be a barn, shed or even a tree-line. They just need someplace to go where they can at least partially get out of the elements. “In addition, make sure the animals
have access to fresh water. If you have horses, make sure they have fresh water constantly, and if their water has been frozen for any length of time, monitor them carefully when they have access to water again, as they have a tendency to drink too much water and possibly founder because of it.” Outdoor pets also need extra attention and care during the winter months, See WINTER, Page 5
Christmas is over and New Year’s is nearly here, which means that the season for cold-weather car woes is just getting underway. A heavy December snowfall, slick roads and temperatures hovering at or below the zero mark have all combined to spell trouble for motorists as the year winds down. And anyone who’s lived in north Missouri for a while knows that Old Man Winter is likely just getting started. Marshall Shell, owner of Shell’s Service, Towing & Repair, Maryville’s only remaining full-service gas station and garage, said he’s been busy this year pulling vehicles from snow drifts and roadside ditches and handling everything from jump starts to serious mechanical failures. Shell, who took over the business from his father in 1998, has seen just about every cold-weather pitfall drivers can face, and said this week that a little foresight and common sense can go a long way toward keeping motorists rolling trouble-free between the ditches until springtime returns. Rule number one, he said — and perhaps the precaution car owners most frequently fail to take — is to keep the fuel gauge as close to “full” as possible. The most obvious reason for making sure your tank stays topped off in winter, Shell said, is to avoid running out of gas on a rural blacktop when the wind chill is 20 below. But a second reason for filling up frequently is
See CAR CARE, Page 3
Looking for Dale
Self-help king’s roots forged in Nodaway County By VENUS BROWN Special to the Daily Forum
Many people look back on the 1880s through the warm sepia lens of nostalgia. The old West was closing. The last big cattle drive arrived in Dodge City. Billy the Kid and Jesse James were brought to justice. The Oklahoma land rush took place, and the territories of Washington, Montana and the Dakotas became states. Yet for James and Amanda Carnagey, who farmed near Harmony Church ten miles southeast of Maryville, it was a time of backbreaking labor and grinding poverty. When the Carnageys welcomed their second son into the world on Nov. 24, 1888, they could not have imagined that he would one day spark the multi-billion dollar self-help industry. Dale Breckenridge Carnagey, who later changed his name to Carnegie in imitation of the wealthy steel magnate and “robber baron,” grew to become a man of fierce ambition, whose writings on the art of personal advancement and selfpromotion become a sort of gospel for Main Street boosters and entrepreneurs in the first half of the 20th century. His legacy is one of both immense success and controversy. See CARNEGIE, Page 6
Photos courtesy of Nodaway County Historical Society
Top Left: Dale Carnegie, front row center in lace collar, still spelled his name Carnagey when this picture was taken in the late 19th century at Rose Hill School near Bedison in southeastern Nodaway County. Above right: Self-help guru Dale Carnegie, a native of Nodaway County, is shown at the pinnacle of his success in this well-known publicity photo. Among other books, Carnegie was the author of “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” which became a sort of bible for entrepreneurs and sales professionals in the years between the Great Depression and the end of the post-war boom in the 1970s. Above left: Rose Hill School near Bedison, where Dale Carnegie, the first great apostle of self-advancement, learned reading, writing and arithmetic in the waning years of the 19th century.
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