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AUGUST Proposition C perplexes some

CALENDAR Yes vote on health care
From farmers markets to a rockin’
fair, there’s plenty to do in the Ozarks
referendum symbolically
next month. Life, 1C opposes federal reform.
By Amos Bridges
ABRIDGES@NEWS-LEADER.COM
YOUR COMMUNITY In addition to voting on dozens
of primary races for state and
federal offices, Missouri voters
on Aug. 3 will be asked to weigh
in on a state referendum that has
led to some confusion locally.
Proposition C, dubbed the Mis-
souri Healthcare Freedom
Amendment, would alter state law
to prohibit the government from
penalizing residents who don’t
buy private health insurance.
It also would prohibit any
penalties against residents who
want to pay directly for health
care service, or for health care
providers that accept direct pay-
ment.
The proposition’s language
doesn’t directly reference the
Primary elections 2010
federal health care bill Congress • Breakdown of ballot language for
passed in March, although some Proposition C. 7A
supporters have described it as a • New IRS law requires more paper-
refutation of the federal reforms.work for major purchases. 7A
If passed, the proposition • Sample ballots inside:
would create a conflict between — Greene County, Christian County
state and federal law that likely and Polk County on 4A
would have to be resolved in — Dade County and Webster County
court. on 5A
— Stone County, Taney County, Dallas
See Proposition C, Page 7A County and Lawrence County on 6A

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The Kimberling Bridge crossing Table Rock Lake was built in the 1950s, when the area was mostly woods.

Kimberling City still thrives

50 years after its first hotel
HERMANN J. KNIPPERTZ / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

15 DEAD IN LOVE
PARADE STAMPEDE
IN GERMANY/ 2A Once a wooded wilderness,
MARKET the city is continuing work
to bring in new businesses.
By Wes Johnson
WJOHNSON@NEWS-LEADER.COM
KIMBERLING CITY — In the late
1950s — with a new steel bridge
spanning the deep blue water of
Table Rock Lake —
John Q. Hammons JIM BARRETT PHOTO
saw something that A scene from the early days in
no one else did. Kimberling City, which is now a
“This was all retirement and vacation destina-
HERMANN J. KNIPPERTZ / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS wilderness and tion.
woods — rough
On Page 8A
LAW TARGETS ground — back in Barrett
those days,” said Jim • New highway will po-
MINERALS FROM Barrett, businessman, author and
Ozarks historian.
sition Kimberling City to
grow when the economy
THE CONGO/ 1E “There was nothing here. But John eventually rebounds, ac-
has always been able to see further cording to the chair of
into the future than most people.” the city’s Planning and
OPINION Hammons bought 1,500 acres of Zoning Board. 8A
cedar-covered rock at the north end JIM BARRETT PHOTO

SEE WHICH 7TH of the bridge and set about building Nana Kimberling, husband Fred Kimberling and Nettie Kim-
berling McCullough attend the opening of the Kimberling Bridge
DISTRICT GOP See City, Page 8A over Table Rock Lake in Stone County in April 1958.

CANDIDATE WE’RE
ENDORSING / 6B N. Korea: Act could Searing temperatures
Index
lead to ‘sacred war’ scorch the East Coast
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D. Asby 1E Life 1C
At the Library 3B Lottery 1B
Auctions 21G Merchandise 20G
Automotive 3G Movies 8D By Eric Talmadge ongyang sees as a rehearsal for By Bruce Shipkowski played a role in the death of a 20-
Business 1E Nation/World 2A ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER an invasion. The U.S. keeps THE ASSOCIATED PRESS year-old man who was biking, went
Careerbuilder 1G Opinion 6B
Carolyn Hax 8C Real Estate A BOARD USS G EORGE 28,500 troops in South Korea TOMS RIVER, N.J. — Another into cardiac arrest and hit his head
Classified 1G For Sale 2H WASHINGTON — A massive and another 50,000 in Japan, wave of oppressive heat clamped on a tree as he fell.
Crossword 8C Rentals 8H nuclear-powered U.S. super- but says it has no intention of down on a broad swath of Eastern With the heat and humidity com-
Deaths 4B-5B Sports 1D
Garage sales 20G Travel 9C carrier began maneuvers Sun- invading the North. states on Saturday, with tempera- bining for a possible heat index of
Horoscope 8C Weather 4E day with ally South Korea in a Still, the North’s latest tures in the high 90s and 100s and over 110 degrees, the weather ser-
potent show of force that rhetoric threatening “nuclear residents scrambling for shade or vice issued an excessive heat warn-
Weather North Korea has threatened deterrence” and “sacred war” just staying indoors. ing for the first time this year for an
could lead to “sacred war.” carries extra weight following In the Mid-Atlantic, already the area stretching from south of
90° Humid today
with periods of The military drills, code- the sinking of a South Korean locus for brutal temperatures sev- Washington to north of Baltimore,
73° thunderstorm
clouds and sun. A named “Invincible Spirit,” are warship that killed 46 sailors. eral times in July, weather experts along the Interstate 95 corridor. By
in to run through Wednesday Seoul and Washington say a warned of the dangerous condi- midday Saturday, a wide band from
some areas. 4E with about 8,000 U.S. and North Korean torpedo was re- tions and residents resigned them- lower New England to the Deep
Precipitation: 55% South Korean troops, 20 ships sponsible for the March sink- selves to coping with the discom- South was under a heat advisory.
and submarines and 200 air- ing of the Cheonan, consid- fort. Kristin Kline, a weather service
craft. The Nimitz-class USS ered the worst military attack “Oh, it’s disgusting. It’s already meteorologist at Mount Holly, N.J.,
George Washington, with sev- on the South since the 1950-53 really hot,” meteorologist Heather said this summer hasn’t been
eral thousand sailors and Korean War. Sheffield of the National Weather “record-setting hot” in most places.
dozens of fighters aboard, was The American and South Ko- Service said of morning tempera- The off-and-on scorching heat
deployed from Japan. rean defense chiefs announced tures in Washington, D.C. that’s been felt in the Mid-Atlantic
The North routinely threat- last week they would stage the One possible weather-related can be blamed on “a Bermuda
ens attacks whenever South military drills to send a clear death was reported in Maryland, high” between Bermuda and North
Korea and the U.S. hold joint message to North Korea to stop where paramedics said the high Carolina that is pushing hot, humid
military drills, which Py- its “aggressive” behavior. temperatures and humidity likely air into the region, Kline said.