SPEAKOUT

AS I LOOK through the Sports section of the TV Guide, I see there's no Cardinal games broadcast on KBSI. Channel 11 has two games listed. This is the second week in a row without any games on KBSI. Why can't this cable company give us what we Cardinal and Blues fans want: Channel 11.

THIS IS IN response to the response about the students wanting to ban smoking in the grocery stores. I have been a smoker for 25 years and it still irritates the heck out of me to go the grocery store and stand in line and have some smoker, like me, standing in line with a cigarette and afraid they're going to burn something. If you have to have a cigarette, smoke it on the way to the grocery store or after you get out of the grocery store. And if you can't wait the five or 10, or 20 minutes it takes you in the grocery store, maybe you ought to quit. Thank you.

I AM CALLING to complain about trash pickup in Scott City. Having to have the trash out to be picked up by 6 a.m. is impossible for those of us who like to sleep in a little later. You really can't put your trash out there at night because of all the roaming animals. Thank you.

WOULD YOU GIVE us the reason why you can't ever get the Missourian out on Sunday mornings. This happens all the time. I'd like to see it in print. Thank you.

I JUST WAS wondering whether they published a Sunday morning paper today. It is now 10:00 and we haven't received and I was wanting to shopping at 11:00. I don't know what the ads are or anything and when we purchased the paper, they said it would be here by 6 a.m. and it seems like Sunday morning, it's never here at 6 a.m. It's always 9 a.m. or later. It's getting rather disgusting to not get a paper. Thank you.

A delay in delivery of Sunday's paper which affected about 15-20 percent of subscribers was caused by problems with new production equipment in the Missourian's circulation department. The problem with the equipment has been resolved. We apologize for the delay.

I'VE BEEN READING several Speak Outs in the newspaper in the past few weeks concerning the imports to this the country and the giveaway of American taxpayers' dollars to these foreign countries. It appears now that we are going to start feeding the country of Russia. I would like to say for myself, that this can be changed when it becomes election time. The people should put the party aside and vote for new faces and put these dead beats in Washington, D.C. out on the street to find work, just like the unemployed has had to do for years. I say it's time we put these politicians out of work and let them feel what it's like to walk the streets and wonder where the next meal is coming from. I have had it up to my Adam's apple with the politicians giving our country away day by day. People wake up. Vote for the man, not the party and let's see some new faces in Washington, D.C. And we might even add a few in the state of Missouri. Thank you very much.

I WAS APPALLED when I read the headline in Friday's paper about teen pregnancy. It said there were 27 in one school alone. Where are the morals of these young people? And where are the parents? Do they condone this behavior? I hope not. Is this what all this sex education is leading to? If it is, let's drop it. Don't these young people realize what they are doing to their lives? I feel sorry for them and the children they are bringing into a one-parent home. Abortion is not the answer. Self esteem and higher morals are. Thanks.

DEAR SPEAK OUT: I do hope that you will print this call in. It is a tribute to my best friend and pal, my dog, Mr. Cub. After a long hard fight of some six months with cancer, Cub was put to sleep, Friday, May 31 at 4:30. This beautiful 14-year-old sleek, black Labrador, had lots and lots of heart. He fought so hard to live and it was awful easy for this master to be selfish and continue to help him. The list of different kinds of pain medicine grew to four and the numbers of pills was six given at least twice a day. But he still fought on to live. His appetite was great to the very end. Finally, when the cancer hit the nervous system today, it was time to end it and to say I am releasing you my pal and giving you the greatest gift, no pain. This evening, my beautiful lab is the hound of heaven, chasing those rabbits all over glory land. Love, your master. Goodbye, Cub.

HELLO, SPEAK OUT. I've been in an argument with some of my friends over the pronunciation of the name of the park down by Cape Rock and Briarcliff. Could you please print the phonetic spelling of this park? It's Dennis Scivally Park.

The correct pronunciation is Dennis Civ-al-lee Park.