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Vol. 113, No. 209 75 Cents Iola, KS

Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

At the bandstand Jim Garner, directorThursday, July 7, 2011 8 p.m.

PROGRAMStar Spangled Banner ..................................................arr. J.P. SousaAmericans We — march .......................................... Henry FillmoreRock, Rhythm and Blues — medley ......................arr. Jack BullockArmy of the Nile — march ...................................Kenneth J. AlfordBegin of the Beguine ...................................................... Cole PorterInvercargill — march ...................................................Alex LithgowHymn to the Fallen.................................... John Williams/SweeneyMen of Ohio — march ............................................. Henry FillmoreA Sixties Time Capsule — medley .............................. arr. JenningsThe Washington Post — march ...................................John P. Sousa

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

Register/Richard LukenMules Pat and Pete pull an antique sickle bar mower piloted by Ray Whiteley of Le Roy. Whiteley was joined by Greg Gleue in cutting an 18-acre prairie hay field Tuesday.

By SUSAN [email protected]

If you’ve got enough of it, Fri-day night is the night to let your hair down.

One sure test is to participate in the “Drag Race” as a runup to the Charlie Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life race.

Men and women alike are en-couraged to dress in a cross-gen-der manner and then “compete” in teams of four in a relay. Last

year a woman’s garter was trans-ferred from one participant’s leg to another.

“It’s better than a baton,” said David Toland, executive director of Thrive Allen County and one of the organizers for Friday’s events.

If you don’t have a thing to wear — no worries.

Dresses, hats, purses, jewelry and other accoutrements will be available at Elizabeth Donnelly’s

The Shirt Shop, 20 W. Jackson, where participants will have a wide selection from which to choose. Doors open at 10 p.m.

Registration to participate in the drag race is $5. That also gains participants entrance to a 9:30 p.m. pre-party at the Thrive office, 12 W. Jackson. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Thrive office or Friday night on

By RICHARD [email protected]

LE ROY — Unlike the mecha-nized behemoths of today, Ray Whiteley’s mowing outfit was considerably quieter.

His “engine” — a pair of 1,200-pound mules — needed only an occasional break from the sti-fling summer heat as Whiteley traversed his way around an 18-acre prairie hay meadow.

“It’s a little warm, so we’ve been taking it easy,” Whiteley said. “It’s our little hobby.”

The mules were pulling White-ley’s antique sickle bar mower, a small wagon with cutting bar

attached. The bar was triggered through a gear box engaged as its wheels roll.

With no mechanical engine to speak of, the only noise emanat-ing from his unit was from the teeth of the seven-foot cutting bar rotating back and forth.

Joining Whiteley was neighbor and friend Greg Gleue, with his own mowing outfit, another sick-le bar mower pulled by a pair of Percheron draft horses.

“We’re having some fun with it,” Whiteley joked. “Greg’s kind of a wimp about it. He needs a

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

Register/Susan LynnThese men are ready to leave their inhibitions at home as they participate in Friday night’s favorite race, the drag race. From left to right are Matt Skahan, Brian Wolfe, Nic Lohman, David Toland and Fred Heismeyer. The race begins at 10:30 p.m. on the courthouse square.

By BOB [email protected]

Calls to the 911 dispatch center average one almost every 10 min-utes.

And while that may sound a lit-tle slow, played out over 24 hours a day and every day of the year, the total comes to 55,000.

“That’s what we received last year,” Angie Murphy, dispatch center director, told Allen County commissioners Tuesday morn-ing.

The call total — she figures half or more are for true emer-gencies — wasn’t the point of her appearance, but the magnitude of the number captivated commis-sioners.

Murphy was before commis-sioners to request a 20 percent increase in the department’s bud-get for 2012, up $126,000 over this year’s $490,000.

The increase seemed pretty hefty. Murphy reasoned health insurance will cost an additional $50,000 and another $6,000 was expected for Kansas Public Em-

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

See EGO | Page B6

By JOE [email protected]

When Brian Pekarek was hired as superintendent of the Iola school district in February, he saw an opportunity to “reinvigo-rate” USD 257.

With a focus on academic achievement and public transpar-ency, Pekarek hopes he can fur-ther success for the district and the more than 1,300 students rely-ing on it.

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-


An anticipated field of a thou-sand runners and walkers, who will flee Iola’s downtown busi-ness district early Saturday as Charley Melvin did in 1905, can be thankful that Melvin chose to do his dastardly deed in the mid-dle of the night.

Had the event being commemo-rated occurred in mid-day, par-ticipants would battle oppressive heat and humidity, with both forecast at the upper end of the discomfort scale during daytime Friday and Saturday. As is, they will run and walk in somewhat more inviting temperatures pre-dicted for the low 70s by 12:26 a.m. Saturday.

The race — many walkers will be out for a stroll — will cap activ-ities that start late Friday after-noon and will go on throughout the evening. Included will be the much-awaited “drag race,” fea-turing some of the area’s finest men and women dressed in drag.

Chris Weiner at Thrive Allen County, co-sponsor with Allen County Crimestoppers for “The Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run for your Life,” said total of partic-ipants was approaching 450, with about 200 signed on for the 5-kilo-meter run. The walk will follow a 3-kilometer course.

“Registration, including prob-ably a fifth online, has really

picked up,” Weiner said Tuesday afternoon. As in the past, “we ex-pect a lot of people to sign up Fri-day night.”

Cost is $12 for the walk. Run-ners’ fees are $14 for youth to age 17, $20 for adults and $17 each for members of teams.

Runners in the third annual event will aim for best times of 15.40.06 for males and 20.44.78 for females, set last year.

Sticks of “Melvin Dy-No-Mite” will be awarded the first three places for males and females in each of five ages groups, 15 and under, 16-30, 31-45, 46-60 and 61 and over.

All participants will break from in front of the post office. Runners will follow a course that will take them on West to Wash-ington, then Jackson, Jefferson and East to Cottonwood. They

Temps for runlook inviting

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Countyhearsbudgetrequests

ATLANTA (AP) — Former Atlanta schools Superintendent Beverly Hall knew about cheat-ing allegations on standardized tests but either ignored them or tried to hide them, according to a state investigation.

An 800-page report released Tuesday to The Associated Press by Gov. Nathan Deal’s office through an open records request shows several educators report-ed cheating in their schools. But the report says Hall, who won the national Superintendent of the Year award in 2009, and other administrators ignored those re-ports and sometimes retaliated against the whistleblowers.

The yearlong investigation shows educators at nearly four dozen Atlanta elementary and middle schools cheated on stan-dardized tests by helping stu-dents or changing the answers once exams were handed in.

The investigators also found a “culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation” in the school district over the cheating allegations, which led to educators lying about the cheating or destroying

Pekarek finds home at USD 257

Brian Pekarek, center, visits with Barb Geffert and Marcy Boring at the USD 257 board office.

Cheating scandal detailed

See CHEATING | Page A5See MOWING | Page A5See COUNTY | Page A5

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Vol. 115, No.55 75 Cents Iola, KS

‘I SOLEMNLY SWEAR...’

Newly elected Allen County officials were sworn in Monday morning by District Court Judge Dan Creitz. They are, from left, Cara Barkdoll, register of deeds, Wade Bowie, attorney, Bryan Murphy, sheriff, Jim Talkington and Tom Williams, commissioners, and Sherrie Riebel, clerk. All will serve four years. Darolyn Maley, not pictured, will take office as treasurer in October.

Register/Bob Johsnon

By SUSAN [email protected]

HUMBOLDT — Several resi-dents attended Monday’s Hum-boldt Board of Education meeting in hopes discussion would be held on the fate of Matt Kerr, agricul-ture teacher at Humboldt High School who was placed on admin-istrative leave with pay last week.

USD 258 board members may have discussed Kerr, but it was all in executive session, out of the public eye.

Kerr is being investigated by the Allen County Sheriff ’s De-partment for allegations of mis-conduct.

Bryan Murphy, Allen County sheriff, said the investigation is ongoing. “We still have a long list of witnesses to talk to,” Murphy said this morning, and hoped to have “something concrete” by the end of the week.

What was to be a 30-minute ex-ecutive session lasted more than

Teacher’s suspension a concern in Humboldt

By STEVEN [email protected]

A motion was rescinded to award former City Administrator Judy Brigham $56,000 in addition-al restitutions from a lawsuit that was settled in 2012.

The motion, made by Don Becker, and passed by an 8-0 decision by the council, will ne-gate the remain-ing 50 percent of Brigham’s sick leave and her le-gal costs. In addition, the sever-ance pay for Brigham will not be paid.

City Administrator Carl Slaugh said the purpose of the restitutions were under question, mainly because a legal settlement had already been reached with Brigham.

Brigham denied additional restitution

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Judy Brigham

Security top priority for Iola school district

Superintendent gives notice

By ALLISON [email protected]

With the Sandy Hook tragedy in Connecticut, coupled with the more recent Taft High School shooting in California, school safety took precedence at Mon-day night’s meeting of the USD 257 board of education.

Board members gave a con-sensus on moving forward with three security changes:

• Putting buzz-in systems in all elementary schools. The buzz-in system will have a small camera and voice service that will be hard-wired to the school secre-tary’s desk.

• For Iola Middle School, only its front doors will be open un-til the tardy bell rings, then the doors will be locked and visitors will use a new door that will be created where a window is now in the middle school office. The new glass door will be equipped with a buzz-in system.

• For Crossroads only, a buzz-in system with a small camera and voice recall will be installed in its front door.

Students walking back and forth from the main high school building to the science building and cafeteria across the street and to the Bowlus Fine Arts Cen-ter also pose security risks.

“Every 90 minute-interval a majority of the students are walking outside. We are looking at the risks but we don’t know yet how to alleviate them,” Iola High School principal Stacey Fager said. “We’re doing some changes right away, such as locking doors. Unless we get other systems put

in place it will be very difficult to move around every hour and a half.”

USD 257 Superintendent Brian Pekarek has been working with Allen County emergency direc-tor Pam Beasley to draw up secu-rity plans.

“Our kids need to be safe now,” Beasley said. “We definitely need plans, the things that Brian wants to implement are things we should already have.”

Beasley said she would be conducting crisis drills in the schools and evaluating where the vulnerable spots are.

The budget is $60,000-$65,000 from capital outlay. Pekarek said with quotes the district has been receiving he thinks they will come in under budget.

Beasley said she would be ap-plying for grants that will hope-fully ease some of the budget strain for new systems.

“There are some grant oppor-tunities to cut away from some of the expenditure. The problem right now is that all school dis-tricts are going for them,” Beas-ley said.

Age-to-Age Preschool at Wind-

Brian Pekarek, USD 257 Super-intendent of Schools, submitted his resignation effective June 30, at Monday night’s board meeting.

“I took an-other position in western Kansas, closer to family,” Pekarek said this morning. “This was a difficult decision for me and my wife but we were both raised in smaller communities, both went to 1-A school districts and we saw this move as a better fit for us.”

“Things lined up and we couldn’t neglect the opportunity to be close to family,” Pekarek said.

Pekarek, who is in his second year with the school district, said he wanted to give the board ample time to find a replacement.

Walmart gives a check to SAFE BASE for $7,500 at Monday night’s school board meeting. Holding the check are Walmart em-ployees Jeff Livingston and Shandie Wrench with Angela Henry, SAFE BASE director. They are flanked by board members, from left, Darrel Catron, Doug Dunlap, Don Snavely, Supt. Brian Pek-arek, Tony Leavitt, Mark Burris and Jack McFadden.

Register/Allison Tinn


HUMBOLDT — Humboldt vot-ers will be asked again to approve a half-cent sales tax to generate revenue for street repairs.

The issue will be the same as one turned down 441-218 in a mail ballot referendum last September.

A second election was proposed to council members Monday night by Dan Julich and Mark Slater, who form the street committee. No date was set for the tax, which would push Humboldt’s overall sales tax to 9.3 percent.

“We need to fix the streets and if presented right, I think the vote will pass,” said Julich, who noted September’s election came soon after the council approved a budget that contained a 10-mill tax levy hike, which may have left taxpayers in a sour mood.

If decided by about Feb. 1, the issue could be on the April 2 school-city election ballot. Julich, however, recommended council members wait until later in the year and to use the time to build an effective campaign warranting the tax increase.

A special election would then be held on the measure.

Julich said he favored another mail ballot election, which he said gets a good reading of public opinion.

Mayor Nobby Davis noted that a half-cent sales tax equated to $5 on a $1,000 purchase, and “an average trip to Moon’s (super-

market) would mean 15 to 20 cents more.”

An upgrade of streets “would be something our kids would ben-efit from and would be paid for as we go,” with the tax in force for 15 years, he added. “I want to do what’s best for the community.”

Slater pointed out that a sales tax taps the pockets of all who shop in Humboldt, including out-of-towners.

“It’s sure cheaper than align-ment of the front end of your car after you hit a pothole,” he said.

At half a cent, “I don’t think most people really realize what they’re paying,” said Vada Ai-kins, another council member.

The sales tax would gener-ate about $80,000 a year, which alone wouldn’t be enough to pay for upgrades to about 300 blocks proposed for repairs. Supplemen-tal funding would come from an-nual fuel tax distributions, which amount to about $50,000. Of that, $30,000 or so would be used for major street improvements, the remainder for regular mainte-nance.

The street repairs project is es-timated at $1.7 million, with com-pletion over 10 to 15 years.

Streets would be ground down, bases reshaped and they then would be resurfaced with asphalt.

Allen County agreed last year to assist with the work by dis-patching a crew and a road re-claimer, a device that grinds pave-

Humboldt will try again for sales tax

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By STEVEN [email protected]

Improvements to the city’s wastewater collection systems will soon be under way after city council members approved $194,000 to Crossland Heavy Con-tractors for the project.

Bid openings were made Jan. 8 for phase 1, which includes im-provements to the main station lift pumps. Crossland is based out of Columbus. Improvements made will be subject to approval from KDHE and EPA.

In addition, council members discussed bids that were opened for renovations on high water service pumps on Jan. 8 as well. The original bid made by Fluid Equipment was approximately $90,000. Upon re-opening the bids, City Administrator Carl

Slaugh said the bid had been raised to $118,500 — $28,500 above the original amount.

“We haven’t had the case to re-quire the extra pump, and I would prefer not spending $118,000 on the pump,” Slaugh said.

Council member David Toland urged the council to consider in-cluding the work with the waste-water collection renovation be-ing done with Crossland Heavy Contractors. Slaugh said there is a provision with Crossland’s agreement to combine the proj-ects under the EPA grant funds.

No decision was made for the pump project, and discussions were tabled until Slaugh could discuss the matter further with the bidders.

In other business:• An ordinance was passed to

keep garbage bins off of resi-dential streets during times that

trash is not being picked up by the city. Under the ordinance, residents may only place the bins on the curb the day before pick-up, and they must be removed the day after pickup. Bins must be kept behind the front of resi-dences during non-pickup days.

• Council member Jim Kilby has announced that he will not be running for the ward three council seat in 2013. When asked, he said he has changed jobs and no longer has the time for the council duties.

“I hope that some people step up to run,” Kilby said, “It has been rewarding, I’ll probably miss it.”

As of Monday night, Nancy Ford, Scott Stewart, Don Becker, Jerod Kelley and Steve French had all filed for city council po-sitions in the election. No appli-cations have been filed for the mayor position.

• A new bicycle ordinance was officially passed to allow bicycles to be ridden on the sidewalks at any location in the city. Also, bicycle owners are no longer re-quired to register their bicycles with the city, although it is still highly encouraged.

• Coronado’s Mexican Restau-rant was approved for its cereal malt beverage license from the city council.

• A purchasing policy com-mittee meeting will be Jan. 28 to discuss current policies and pos-sible changes. Council members have yet to appoint members to the committee.

• An agreement with the eco-nomic development advisory board has been approved to allow support of an economic develop-ment position with Thrive Allen County. The position will receive $15,000 in funding from the city

Brian Pekarek

City discusses wastewater improvement project

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ObituariesKenneth Hartman

Kenneth Eugene Hart-man, 88, Moran, passed away Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, at Windsor Place in Iola.

He was born June 2, 1924, in M o u n d City, the son of E d w a r d and Grace (Huggins) Hartman. K e n n y married Nellie Ray Hick-man on Aug. 10, 1949, in Gar-nett. This union was blessed with five children. She pre-ceded him in death. He then married Betty Jean Higgin-bottom-Bohnert on Nov. 25, 1966, in Vinita, Okla. She also preceded him in death.

Kenny ran a blacksmith shop in Bronson before marriage. He then worked in the oil fields in the sur-rounding area. He worked as a plumber, electrician, farmer and construction worker among many other areas. Kenny was a jack of all trades.

Kenny was preceded in death by his parents, Ed-ward and Grace Hartman; daughter, Rose Covey; step-daughter, Jeannie Eravi; five brothers and three sisters.

He is survived by his children, Nina Thompson and husband Bryan, Po-mona, Sally Powelson and husband Steve, Moran, Gene Hartman and wife Kristi, LaHarpe, Dale Hart-man and wife Shirley, Mo-ran, Charles Bohnert and wife Joyce, Fenton, Mo.; 24 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; and several great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel in Moran. Burial will follow in Oak-wood Cemetery, Center-ville. The family will greet friends tonight from 6 to 8 at the funeral home in Mo-ran.

Memorial contributions may be made to Allen Coun-ty Hospice.

Online condolences may be sent to www.feuerborn-funeral.com.

Charlene WestCharlene Louise (Odell)

West, 77, Iola, died Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, at Allen Coun-ty Hospital.

Charlene was born Aug. 25, 1935, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Roy and Letha (Hills) Odell. She grew up in the Fort Scott area.

Charlene married Wil-liam Harry “Blackie” Smith, Sr. and they had two sons and later di-v o r c e d . She mar-ried Tom More and they made their home in Humboldt. They had two sons and later divorced. Charlene and Ronald J. West Sr. were married in 1984 and made their home in Iola. He pre-ceded her in death June 30, 2004.

She is survived by four sons, James Leroy Smith, Houston, Texas, William H. Smith, Jr., Fort Scott, Jon More, Fort Scott, and Mi-chael More, Iola; one sister, Lottie Martin, Fort Scott; and a number of grandchil-dren and great-grandchil-dren.

She was preceded in death by her sister, Verna Mae Coyan, and a brother, Sherman Sylvester Odell.

Graveside services will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at Fort Scott National Cem-etery.

She will lie in state at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola on Wednes-day from noon to 8 p.m.

Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola, is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.

Dorothy Duncan TreatDorothy Duncan Treat,

85, a former Iolan, passed away Monday, Jan. 14, 2013, at Sunshine Meadows Re-tirement Community in Buhler.

Dorothy was born June 16, 1927, in Para-g o u l d , Ark., the daughter of Floyd L. and Edith F. ( M c D o n -ald) Eu-banks. She grew up in Ar-kansas and Louisiana.

In 1950, Dorothy mar-ried Dean Duncan and they made their home in Mis-souri before moving to Iola in 1952. They were later di-vorced.

On March 22, 1980, Doro-thy married Jay L. Treat.

He preceded her in death on July 3, 1995.

She is survived by two daughters, Carolyn Sebbert and husband, Chuck, New Braunfels, Texas, and Terri Duncan-Watt and husband, George, McPherson; four grandchildren and two great-granddaughters with another great-granddaugh-ter on the way.

She was preceded in death by a son, Floyd Lee Duncan in 1974, and an in-fant sister.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola.

Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola.

Burial will be at High-land Cemetery, Iola.

Memorial choice is Sun-shine Meadows Retirement Community Dorothy Treat Memorial Fund and can be left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola, which is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.

Kenneth Hartman

Charlene West

Dorothy Treat

sor Place will not need to be changed. The facility is already secured with supervision and keypad locks.

Pekarek said they hope to make changes in Feb-ruary.

The Iola Police Depart-ment has suggested all schools receive a panic button, which would cut down on response time.

Panic buttons, when activated send out a mass announcement over the police radio stating there is an emergency and where.

“There are panic but-tons at the courthouse,” Beasley said. “When it is activated it looks like the officers are swarming the courthouse because officers come from every-where.”

ANGELA Henry, direc-tor of SAFE BASE, gave a presentation updating board members on the program’s status.

SAFE BASE entered into its third session this week and 51 percent of students from the elemen-tary schools have attend-ed SAFE BASE.

Henry is waiting to hear back from a pend-ing $1.1 million grant for which she applied.

The grant is a five-year 21st Century Community Learning Center grant to provide continued pro-gram operation as well as a new five-week summer program and adult liter-acy education opportuni-ties for parents of partici-pating students.

“Here’s to hoping,” Henry said.

Henry acknowledged Walmart for the volun-teer time associates have spent at SAFE BASE and accumulation of grants Walmart has given SAFE BASE, totaling $7,500.

“It is fun giving away money,” Walmart store manager Jeff Livingston said.

FAGER gave a presen-tation on bullying and what the school is doing to keep the issue at bay.

Fager said there is a distinct difference be-tween bullying and a conflict-related incident. Bullying means dominat-ing another person and a conflict is an incident be-tween two people.

Fager said this is im-portant to determine early on because it helps when deciding the disci-pline options for the stu-dent or students involved.

“You have to start with the baseline,” Fager said, adding it is important to document reported inci-dents, “so that when we call their parents we can tell them what all their child has done and what will happen if it contin-ues,” Fager said.

The high school faculty, staff and administration have been making stu-dents more aware of their actions while also taking ownership of what they do.

In 2012 there were three

presentations put on for students by the high school regarding bully-ing. In August, Stand up for Teen Statistics was performed at the Bow-lus Fine Arts Center; in October, student council presented Voices in the Hall; and in December a No Bullying pledge was put on by students.

Fager said these ac-tivities and the behavior enforcement in the high school has made students more responsible for their actions and to take pride in their schools and fellow classmates.

He said more and more students are standing up to bullying and report-ing incidents to teachers, counselors and adminis-trators.

“If these are our ex-pectations then students need to know what we ex-pect of them,” Fager said. Banners, behavior mod-ules and shirts have been given out to students and posted in classrooms to be seen every day.

IN OTHER news, Ona Chapman, Iola Middle School English teacher, will be retiring at the end of the school year; Jeffer-son custodian Bob Irwin will be retiring Feb. 1, and Judy Lawrence, food service, will be resigning as well.

Randalle White was ac-cepted as new custodian.

Lea Casner, a parapro-fession at Jefferson El-ementary and who has been on a leave of ab-sence to be with her son Raef who has cancer, has been approved for longer leave time.

Vocals teacher Greta Adams and band direc-tor Matt Kloepfer will be co-directing the play “Grease,” which will be put on later in the spring semester.

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There are panic buttons at the courthouse. When it is ac-tivated it looks like the officers are swarming the courthouse because officers come from ev-erywhere.

— Pam Beasley, Al-len County emergency

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for the span of one year.• The 2012 audit contract

with Jarred, Gilmore & Phillips was approved for $10,550.

• Payment has been completed for the Prai-rie Spirit Trail. The city passed a motion to pay Schwab-Eaton engineer-ing firm $19,269.32 in final charges for construction on the trail. Addition-al funds amounting to $2,569.89 were included

in the amount, due to ad-ditional days required for inspection of the trail — 80 percent of the amount will be paid by the state, the city will cover $513.98 of the cost.

• Motions were passed to approve a natural gas purchasing resolution with MuniGas, as well as contract approval for the Kansas Department of Transportation to begin construction on U.S. 54, east of Iola.

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Order violatedAllen County officers

were told Saturday that a protection from stalking or-der filed on behalf of John Hughes, rural Elsmore, had been violated. A suspect was identified and information about the case will be given to Allen County Attorney Wade Bowie.

Arrest is madeKarl F. Hawkinson, 20, was

arrested Saturday evening at the home of his parents, rural Elsmore, for domestic assault, disorderly conduct and possession of drug para-

phernalia.

Moran man arrestedChase E. Dudley, 19, rural

Moran, was arrested early Sunday morning at his home after his vehicle allegedly slid off South Elm Street in Moran and struck a vehicle owned by Kenneth Walls Jr., which then struck a second vehicle belong to Walls.

Officers said Dudley fled from where the accident oc-curred. Charges of a minor in possession of alcohol and failure to report an accident will be sought against Dud-ley.

Police reports

The Dirt Diggers Garden Club met Jan. 9 at the Town-house Apartments Community Room.

Shirley Robertson gave the program from the magazine “Fine Gardening” about how plants can make it through the winter. Seven members attended.

The next meeting is Feb. 13 at the home of Beverly Tom-linson.

Dirt Diggers meet

Mardi Gras Celebra-tion, the annual fundrais-er for Tri-Valley Develop-mental Services is Feb. 5 at the Liberty Theater in Fort Scott.

Proceeds help build homes for individuals with learning disabilities. One such home exists in Iola, with another two in Humboldt and Fort Scott each.

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Liberty Hall is at 113 S. Main. The doors open at 6 p.m. Free bus service is available from Chanute and Iola.

Cost is $35 per person or $220 for a table of six.

Reservations are re-quired and may be made by calling 620-431-7401, ex-tension 230 and should be made by Jan. 25.

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12th Grade Honor RollPrincipal’s Honor Roll:

Aubrey Dawn Maxton, Kristin Marie McClanah-an, Jakeb Paul Nott.Teacher’s Honor Roll:

Stevie Marie Barfoot, MacKinzie Marie Coy, Kelsey Lynn Cramer, Ryan Michael Gean, Dylan Mi-chael Grey, Robb Phillip Houser, Judiah Lloyd Haw-ley, Megan Nicole Herder, Neal Anthony Miller, Chey-enne Nicole Schomaker, Benjamin Scott Welch, Lo-gan Dale Yokum.Regular Honor Roll:

Samuel Cole Aguirre, Brook Ann Boatwright, Blake Evan Crawford, Ra-chel Nicole Crays, Shayli Danae Ellis, Trevor Lee Gibson, Melanie Lynn Herder, Trey Lyn Johnson, Nicholas Wade Keazer, Kile Levi Martin, Tanner Scott McNutt, Robert L. Moore Jr., Lauren Taylor Moore, Amanda J. Perkins, Mariah Shay Phillips, Caleb Al-len Rutledge, Julie Marie Seibert, Sarah Rebecca Re-

nee Smith, Whitney Alisse Strack, Sean Jay Scott Swaggerty, Noah Samule Thornbrugh, John Nathan Thornbrugh.11th Grade Honor RollPrincipal’s Honor Roll:

Ryan Michael Huse, Sheri E. Middleton, Hunter Gage Murrow, Zackary T. Osborn, Haley Marie Rieb-el, Kayle Ann Riebel, Anna Christine Setter.Teacher’s Honor Roll:

Kolbyn Delaney Allen, Marli Grace Allen, Aus-tin David Beeman, Caleb Jordan D’Armond, Leigh-ton Rochelle Jaro, Allie B. Johnston, Jorie Rose Ma-loney, Dawson Dean Mauk, Alexander Ray Murrow, Brooklyn N. Rollett, Caleb Matthew Vanatta.Regular Honor Roll:

Mikah Renee Arthur, Tristan W. Bruneau, Zacha-ry Todd Culbertson, Alexis M. Doolittle, Justice Xena Gillespie, Mara Lynn Gil-lespie, Justin Dean Jay, Morgan James Leroy, Dal-

ton Ray Modlin, Grayson Earl Pearish, Tanner Lee Porter, Nicholas Alexander Reynolds, Preston Williams Roseberry, Christian Hope Sallee, Jayce Adam Scho-maker, Savannah Dawn Williams.10th Grade Honor RollPrincipal’s Honor Roll:

Jacob J. Carpenter, Josh-ua Lee Hawley, Chelsea McKenzie Blanch Lea.Teacher’s Honor Roll:

Miranda Bree Albert, Ethan Alexander Bartlett, Ashley Nicole Coy, Hailey J. Dixon, Joshua B. Elder, Cheyenne Hailey English, Breanna Marie Kline, Jaci Lynn Ross, Robert Steven Sellman, Rachael Marie Taylor, Delaney Morgan Umholtz.Regular Honor Roll:

Chelsea Renae Bailey, Devin Michael Davidson, Justin R. Meins, Karsyn Lyn Menzie, Robert G. Na-varro, Heath McKenley Reed, Alexandra Marie Reynolds, Kason James

Siemens, Brittany Rachelle Smith, Devyn Elizabeth Smith, Wynnter Macoll Snyder, Tye M. Taylor, Ja-cob Bradley Ward, Ty El-don Yowell.9th Grade Honor RollPrincipal’s Honor Roll:

Brianna Benae Ames, Sarah Ann Heisler, Bryce David Isaac, Haylie Diann Yost.Teacher’s Honor Roll:

Cade Douglas Ames, Kai-lyn A. Hammer, Austin Lee Heisler, Megan Paige Hud-lin, Hannah E. Hulett, Ty-ler John Korte, Kaitlyn E. Larson, Jadyn Bailey Malo-ney, Caley Alexis Schomak-er, Rhett M. Smith, Morgan Paige Wilson, Briana Ruth Yokum.Regular Honor Roll:

Dillon Wayne Aikins, Kalob Cleaver, Anthony K. Doran, Jacob E.L. Ei-tel, Nisha Paige Ingle, Jes-sica Erin Lytle, Hunter Lee Morris, Tanner Wayne Orth, Courtney R. Richey, Connor Duane Roseberry, Logan Wade Roseberry, Co-rey R. Whitcomb.

8th Grade Honor Roll All ‘A’ Honor Roll:

Rayce Hoepker, Aspen Lawson, Morgan Lea, Jason Mangold, Kira McReynolds, Colton Riebel, Tilar Wells, Anna-lise Whitcomb.Principal’s Honor Roll:

Matthew Arana, Cara Bartlett, Whitney Coy, Pa-dyne Durand, Paige Durand, Layton Gillespie, Raven Gil-lespie, Hannah Hudlin, Joe Kline, Matthew Lea, Makay-lah McCall, Austin Sigler, Ky-lie Splechter, Breckon Suther-land and Griffin Voorhies.Regular Honor Roll:

Triston Albert, Brendan Almanza, Domanick Bresee, Colton Davis, Levi Habiger, John Hole II, Will Hughes,

Anthony Ikehorn, Chris Jones, Jules Jones, Arzila Loftis, Kendra McNutt, Day-lon Splane, Logan Wood.7th Grade Honor RollAll ‘A’ Honor Roll:

Kaiti Carpenter, Chassis Hoepker, Zach Korte, Hess-ton Murrow, Lizzie Myers.Principal’s Honor Roll:

David Avery, Jacob Baker, Sierra Brinkerhoff, Eden Carman, Colin Gillespie, Ca-leb Hart, Keagan Hodgden, Bailee Hosfelt, Sydney Houk, Nick Jarred, Noah Johnson, Katie Lott, Katie Malone, Se-bastian Mock, Hunter Nick-ell, Edward O’Neal-Wilks, Cedric Osborne, Hannah Riebel, Wyatt Seufert, Sarah Todd, Josh Vanatta, Rylan

Wilhite, Kailey Wolken, Brit-nee Works. Regular Honor Roll:

Kassie Angleton, Seth Deal, Alex Farmer, Evan Gean, Seth Hegwald, Mikel Jaro, Denise Johnson, Brooklyn Kuhn, Cole Mur-row, Khloe Rook, Zach Sigler, Brady Slocum, Nate Todd, Chasity Wells, Jackson Wild-er, Brent Yost, Seth Yowell.6th Grade Honor RollAll ‘A’ Honor Roll:

Kyler Allen, Sydney Barker, Bo Bigelow, Ash-lynn Booth, Marisha Collins, Courtney Coy, Camrie Far-ran, Dagen Goodner, Mag-gie Johnson, Sybil Jones, Dawson Lohmann, Morgan Mauk, Calvin Schoendaller.

Principal’s Honor Roll:Xavier Bauer, Caleb

Coronado, Rain Gillespie, Logan Gray, Melanie Hal-lacy, Sadie Houk, Tucker Hurst, Kaylie Johnson, Teryn Johnson, Jennifer Jones, Jacob Lea, Aricah McCall, Kyle O’Neal-Wilks, Zoey Rinehart, Molly Schei-mann, Michalah Splechter, Allison Turner, Tori White, Anne Wood.Regular Honor Roll:

Seth Barlow, Austin Ber-tie, Riley Brown, Treyvor Comstock, Steven Cottage, Dylan Doolittle, Sydney Hegwald, Kaytlin Johnson, Caleb Klauman, Genesis Korte, Alexandra Melendez, Joe Murrow, Ryan Sellman.

Humboldt high announces honor roll

HMS honor students announced

ASIF SHAHZAD andMUNIR AHMEDAssociated Press

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s top court or-dered the arrest of the prime minister in a cor-ruption case today, the lat-est clash between the gov-ernment and a judiciary that has repeatedly pres-sured the country’s politi-cal leaders.

The ruling is sure to inflame the already an-tagonistic relationship between the court and the government, pushing the country toward yet another political crisis. It also could provide ammu-nition to Tahir-ul-Qadri, a firebrand Muslim cleric who was leading tens of thousands of people in a second day of rallies in Islamabad to press for the removal of the govern-ment, which he criticized as corrupt and indifferent to the common man.

The Supreme Court or-der against Prime Minis-ter Raja Pervaiz Ashraf was related to a case in-volving private power stations set up to provide electricity to energy-starved Pakistan. The judges are investigating allegations that the bid-ding process was marred by corruption.

Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry ordered the ar-rest of 16 people involved in the case, including Ashraf, who previously served as minister for water and power, said the written court order.

An adviser to the prime minister, Fawad Chaudhry, said any at-tempt to arrest the prime minister would be uncon-stitutional since he enjoys immunity from prosecu-tion while in office.

“We consider it a judi-cial coup, and it is part of a greater plan to derail de-mocracy,” Chaudhry said.

The Supreme Court clashed repeatedly with the government over the last year, especially over

an old corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari in Swiss courts. Pakistan’s top court con-victed Ashraf ’s predeces-sor, Yousuf Raza Gilani, of contempt of court for refusing to reopen the case and ousted him from office.

The judges pressured Ashraf as well, and the government finally agreed to the court’s demand to ask the Swiss to pursue the case — which Swiss authorities have said pri-vately they have no in-tention of doing because Zardari enjoys immunity

while in office.It was unclear whether

there was any connec-tion between the Supreme Court’s order and Qadri’s rally. But some speculated it was a scripted one-two blow by the chief justice and the cleric to strike at their opponents in the gov-ernment.

Qadri has seized on al-leged corruption by Paki-stani politicians to rally support for his protest against the government. The cleric rocketed to na-tional prominence after his return from Canada late last year, and his mes-sage has galvanized many Pakistanis who say the government has brought them only misery.

But critics fear that Qa-dri and his demands for election reforms may de-rail the country’s upcom-ing democratic elections, possibly at the behest of the country’s powerful military — allegations de-nied by the cleric.

Pakistan court orders prime minister’s arrest

We consider it a judicial coup, and it is part of a greater plan to derail de-mocracy.

— Fawad Chaudhry,adviser to the prime

minister

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By KARL RITTERAssociated Press

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A woman stole an empty commuter train from a depot today and drove it to a suburb of Stockholm where it derailed and slammed into an apart-ment building, officials said.

The woman was seri-ously injured in the early morning crash and was flown to a Stockholm hos-pital, police spokesman Lars Bystrom said. No one else was injured.

Bystrom said the wom-an was arrested on suspi-cion of endangering the public.

Tomas Hedenius, a spokesman for train op-erator Arriva, said the woman, born in 1990, stole the four-car train at a depot outside Stock-holm.

She then drove it about a mile to the end station on the railway line, where it jumped off the tracks, careered for about 30 yards and crashed into a

three-story building.Photographs from the

scene showed the crum-pled front car of the train buried deep into the struc-ture.

“There were three fami-lies inside the apartment building, but no one was injured. At least not physi-cally,” Hedenius said.

The motives of the woman, who worked for a company contracted to carry out cleaning for the train operator, were not immediately clear.

“We have only heard good things about her. We’re investigating how this could happen, and why she did what she did,” Hedenius said.

He said it’s unclear how she got the keys to the train, but added that driving it is not that com-plicated.

“Generally speaking that’s possible even if you’re not a train driver,” he said. “You can read about it on the Internet, or observe how others do it.”

Woman crashes stolen train in Sweden

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With a court ruling requir-ing the Legislature to increase K-12 funding by $480 million a year staring them in the face, some lawmakers want to amend the constitution in-stead.

It is the constitutional re-quirement that the schools be adequately financed that forced the Legislature to in-crease school funding in 2006 and will do so again in 2013 unless the Shawnee County District Court ruling is over-turned or modified by the Su-preme Court.

Last year’s huge income tax cuts put the budget $267 mil-lion in the hole. It would be impossible to increase school funding to meet the court’s rul-ing without sending state taxes soaring.

The solution, conservatives believe, is to amend the consti-tution to give the Legislature the authority to define an ad-equate education and deter-mine K-12 funding levels.

Putting an amendment on the ballot requires two-thirds majorities in both houses. It would then be necessary to get approval from the people to turn school funding over to the most conservative, anti-tax batch of lawmakers in the state’s history.

Public opinion polls show that most Kansans favor in-creases in school funding rath-er than further cuts.

PRO-SCHOOL LEADERS will oppose altering the consti-tution because the education clause has been the salvation of public schools over the past decade. Nonetheless, a strong argument can be made that school funding should be de-termined by the Legislature rather than the courts. The Legislature is charged by the

constitution with getting and spending: with levying taxes and passing a budget.

There is no logical rea-son why education should be funded by court order. Quite the contrary. Education con-sumes more than 65 percent of state spending and the pub-lic schools account for about 52 percent. Since the Legisla-ture must raise that money it should also have control over spending it.

But that’s only half of the equation. The quality of the public schools and a state’s system of higher education to a very large extent determine the quality of life in a state and a nation. As the past five years have demonstrated in Kansas, the Legislature has not put the highest priority on maintain-ing the quality of the public schools or higher education.

Last year was a prime ex-ample. With the economy in recovery and state revenues in-creasing, lawmakers chose to slash taxes deeply rather than restore public school funding to 2007 levels. There is every reason to believe that the cur-rent Legislature and Gov. Sam Brownback would cut taxes still more rather than raise the revenues needed to provide the best possible education for Kansas students if they were not required by the constitu-tion to put education first.

If the education clause is taken out of the constitution, as is being proposed, what re-quirement for educational ex-cellence will take its place?

If the answer to that ques-tion is the prudent under-standing of Kansas lawmakers — well, let’s keep the constitu-tion just as it is and pray for wise judges and justices on the state’s courts.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Conservativestaking aim atconstitution

By DAVID POWLSThe Holton Recorder

The main thing that the re-cent fiscal cliff dilemma tells us is that members of the U.S. Con-gress recognize the need to cut federal spending and reform en-titlements but are too scared to propose any meaningful plans because it would be politically un-popular for them personally.

What should be a time for op-timism with the start of a new Congress is anything but that. Pray that our leaders will have the necessary courage to do the right things this time around. They need it.

The last Congress left the new one the same challenges that should have been resolved but were not — getting spending and the deficit under control, enabling economic growth and reforming the tax code. ...

In a nutshell, while Capitol

Hill should be the place where the competing concerns of the Republicans and Democrats get hammered out, it isn’t anymore. The traditional legislative system for dealing with tough issues in a rational manner has been thrown out the window and replaced with what some are calling “fiscal brinkmanship.”

We currently elect U.S. senators to six-year terms and U.S. House of Representatives to two-year terms. Maybe it’s time to consider four-year terms for both so there is significant time in between their elections to better measure the work they are doing for us, but not too much.

As it stands now, House mem-bers are required to campaign continuously and when you are doing that you can’t focus on what’s best for the country. On the other hand, senators have too much time in between elections.

Someone needs to propose a five-day work week for Congress, too. It’s great to visit with our sen-ators and representatives at town hall meetings, but we don’t need to do that every week.

Currently, a member of Con-gress must wait one year after leaving office before lobbying former colleagues directly for special interest groups on Capitol Hill. Executive branch officials faced a five-year ban in 1999, al-though that has been reduced to one year. However, members are often hired by lobbying firms as consultants or advisers immedi-ately upon leaving Congress, then begin lobbying once the year-long “cooling off ” period is over.

We need a law in the land that bans former members of Con-gress from ever lobbying on Capi-tol Hill.

Powls is editor and publisher of The Holton (Kan.) Recorder.

The trouble with Congress

60 Years AgoWeek of Jan. 13-19, 1953

Dr. R. O. Christian, Dr. A. R. Chambers and T. H. Bowlus, the committee appointed Jan. 6 to study the future of baseball in Iola, met yesterday with other baseball fans at City Hall. It was generally agreed if underwrit-ers for $7,000 could be found, Iola

probably could have a 1953 sea-son. John Layle agreed to serve as chairman of a committee to so-licit businessmen. He expects to be helped by Milford Langley, Don Kelley, Art Ericson, Ollie Suther-land, and others.

*****The virus flu infection, which

has reached epidemic propor-

tions here in the past few days, tightened its grip on Iola stu-dents, keeping 277 students from their classes. This is an increase of 48 in the past 24 hours.

*****The Hotel Kelley coffee shop,

which has been given a major face lift in the past 30 days, is back in business.

U.S. debt clockAs of Jan. 15, 2013, the U.S. debt is

$16,446,935,632,232The estimated population of the U.S. is 314,242,188

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The Kansas Bar Association (KBA) has expressed its support for a merit-based process for se-lecting judges on the appellate and supreme courts of Kansas. In response to recent concerns that the merit selection panel is com-posed of a majority of attorneys who were selected by other attor-neys, and at the urging of its own membership, the KBA examined the question of judicial selection and adopted the following resolu-tion at its Dec. 7, 2012, meeting of the KBA Board of Governors:

RESOLVED, that the Kansas Bar Association supports the merit selection system for appellate judg-es and justices, independent of how merit panel members are se-lected. The present application, in-terview, questioning and selection process provides the best available information to identify and select the most qualified appellate judges and justices, independent of politi-cal considerations.

By this resolution the KBA

clearly indicated its support for the merit selection process, in-dependent of criticisms concern-ing who selected panel members or whether those panel mem-bers were attorneys. The KBA also re-affirmed its position that selection of judges by a panel, trained to evaluate candidates based solely on their professional merits, in a transparent process free from political influence, re-mains the most effective means of ensuring an independent, im-partial judiciary. The KBA recog-nizes that many expert perspec-tives should be considered when selecting judges to serve in the state’s highest courts. Hence, the KBA acknowledges that the panel (commission) charged with ju-dicial selection should contain members that bring these varied perspectives to bear.

The state’s current judicial selection process is the most comprehensive and exhaustive method available for determining the qualifications of applicants

to these important judicial posts. The current merit selection pro-cess for filling vacancies on the Kansas Supreme Court was cre-ated through the adoption of an amendment to the Kansas Consti-tution in 1958. This same process utilizing the same commission was implemented for the Kansas Court of Appeals when that court was created in 1977.

Any individual may apply for an open appellate court position. Every applicant’s credentials and experience are reviewed by the panel and those applicants who are best qualified are inter-viewed. The panel then recom-mends a slate of top candidates from which the governor may select a new judicial appointee. Every judge on each appellate court is subject to a performance review through retention election by the public.

Contact Smithyman, KBA presi-dent, at (913) 661-9800 or at [email protected].

Current process best for judge selection

Selection of judges by a panel, trained to evaluate candidates based solely on their professional merits, in a transparent process free from political influence, remains the most effective means of ensuring an inde-pendent, impartial judiciary.

LeeSmithyman

Kansas BarAssociation,president

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It is generally accepted that adequate supervision at calving has a significant impact on reducing calf mortality. Adequate super-vision has been of increas-ing importance with the use of large beef breeds and cattle with larger birth weights. On most opera-tions, supervision of the first calf heifers will be best accomplished during the daylight hours, with the least supervision in the middle of the night.

The easiest and most practical method of inhib-iting nighttime calving at present is by feeding cows at night. The physiological mechanism is unknown, but some hormonal effect may be involved. Rumen motility studies indicate the frequency of rumen contractions falls a few hours before parturition. Intraruminal pressure be-gins to fall in the last two weeks of gestation, with a more rapid decline during calving. It has been sug-gested that night feeding causes intraruninal pres-sure to rise at night and de-cline in the daytime.

In a Canadian study of 104 Hereford cows, 38.4 per-cent of a group fed at 8 a.m. and again at 3 p.m. calved during the day, compared to 79.6 percent of a group fed at 11 a.m. and again at 9 p.m. In field trials by cattleman utilizing night feeding, when 35 cows and heifers were fed once a day between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., 74.5 percent of the calves were born between 5 a.m. and 5 p.m.

However, the most con-vincing study involved 15 Iowa farms and 1,331 cows. These cows were fed once daily at dusk, 85 percent of the calves were born be-tween 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. It seemed to make no appar-ent difference if the cows were started on night feed-ing the week before calv-ing or two to three weeks

prior.This year may provide

an extra challenge for some producers. Those that need to stretch the hay supplies as much as possible may choose to limit access to the hay. Limiting the time to four to six hours per day that cows have access to the big round bales (in bale feeders) has been shown to improve hay feeding effi-ciency.

However, limited access to the hay may be difficult to accomplish with “night-time feeding.” If the cows are turned in with the hay at dusk, they must be re-moved from the hay at 10 p.m. to midnight — in the dark. This is neither easy, nor convenient to accom-plish.

Perhaps a better solution would be turn the cows into the area with the hay bale just before noon and use the protein supplement such as range cubes to coax them into the adjoining pasture at dusk. This would allow the cows access to the big round bales for about five hours, then they will eat the supplement over the

next hour. The shift to day-light calving may not be as dramatic as would be ac-complished with total night time feeding, however some compromise is necessary in times of limited forage. Be sure to have enough feeder space for all of the cows to have access to the hay bales at once.

On large operations with plenty of forage it may be impossible to feed all the cows after 5 p.m. In these situations, it would be best to feed the mature cows ear-lier and feed the first calf heifers at dusk to insure there will be observation and assistance available during calving.

Various means have been employed to effectively re-duce animal loss at calving. Skilled personnel should be available to provide as-sistance and neonatal care to maximize the percent-age of calf crop weaned. Currently, evening feeding seems to be the most effec-tive way of scheduling par-tition during the daylight hours but is not 100 percent effective so skilled person-nel are still vital.

DeltaGeorge

ExtensionAgent forAgriculture

Practices to promote day-time calving

Most people do what they can to keep them-selves and their families healthy and safe. We bun-dle up in warm clothes during cold weather, buck-le seat belts and change smoke alarm batteries pe-riodically.

One potential danger which is often overlooked is the exposure to radon in homes.

Radon is a natural, tasteless, odorless, color-less, radioactive gas pro-duced from the decay of uranium found in nearly all soils. Outdoors, radon is diluted to low levels in the air and poses no problem. However, once it comes into an enclosed space through cracks in floors, walls or founda-tions, radon can accumu-late to unsafe levels. Ra-don can also enter through floor drains, sump pumps, or cracks or pores in hol-low-block walls.

Radon can be a problem in all types of homes — old and new, drafty and insu-lated homes, homes with basements, and homes without basements. A neighbor’s level of radon cannot substitute for test-ing your own home.

Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking and the leading cause among people who have never smoked. The risk of devel-oping lung cancer increas-es as the concentration and length of exposure to radon increases. Because the effects of being ex-posed to radon accumu-late over time, it may take many years for disease to appear. Many scien-tists believe children may run an even greater risk from radon exposure than adults, and smokers are definitely at greater risk than nonsmokers.

To call attention to the need for testing homes and reducing high levels

of radon, the Kansas Ra-don Program and Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) pro-mote January as Kansas Radon Action month.

Simple test kits can de-termine the radon level in a home. No level of radon is considered absolutely safe, so the level in a home should be reduced as much as reasonably possible. A reading of 4.0 pCi/L means further testing is needed and the problem needs fixed. Southwind District Extension offices have the test kits available for pur-chase for $6 each. Local hardware and builder’s supply stores often have kits for sale. Test kits come with easy to follow instruc-tions for use. Testing will not disrupt your daily rou-tine. Winter is a good time to test while doors and windows are kept closed. Once the test is completed, it can be mailed in the pre-paid mailer to the lab for analysis to determine the radon level.

Fixing the problem of a high level of radon in a home is relatively easy and every home can be brought down to a safe level. A vent pipe sys-tem and fan, which pulls radon from beneath the house and vents it to the outside, is typically used. Most homes can be fixed for $800 to $2,000. Kansas law requires all profes-sional radon contractors operating in Kansas to obtain certification from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. A list of those certified contractors is available

at www.kansasradon-program.org or from the Kansas Radon Program at 800-693-5343. Do-it-yourself instructions for homeowners who want to do the work on their own home are also on the Kansas Radon Program website.

Contact me at 620-223-3720 or [email protected] if you have ques-tions about radon or oth-er health and wellness issues. And make sure you’ve had your home’s radon level tested. It’s easy, it’s inexpensive and it could save lives.

Testing for radon could save lives

AnneLudlumExtensionAgent forFamily andConsumer Sciences

A weed resistance lun-cheon will be Jan. 22, at the Yeager Building on the Bourbon County Fair-grounds. The program will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and include lunch provided by AgVenture. Commercial pesticide credits will be available.

Topics to be covered are: • Weed resistance: how we got here, what to do now,

and where to go from here, presented by Dallas Peter-son, K-State Weed Special-ist

• Southeast Kansas Agronomy Update — Doug Shoup, Area Agronomy Specialist.

Registration is requested by Friday by calling the Southwind Extension Dis-trict — Fort Scott office at (620) 223-3720.

Weed resistance luncheon scheduled

The Southwind Exten-sion District and Citizens Bank, NA, are sponsoring an Ag Profitability Confer-ence on Feb. 12 in the Allen County Courthouse base-ment. The event will be from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Speakers and presenta-tions secured are:

• Glynn Tonsor: Profit-ability Drivers and Global Position Impacts on the U.S. beef industry’s future.

• Troy Dumler: Crop prof-itability outlook for 2013.

• Gordon Dowell: What’s Next?

• Kevin Herbel: Bringing the next generation to the farm: Do we have what we need to do what we want?

• Bryan Schurle: Land prices during periods of rapid change

Registration is requested to the Fort Scott office by Feb. 5.

Ag profitability conference to be held

“All A” honors at McKinleyMcKinley Elementary’s third-grade all A honor roll are front row from left Anna Taylor, Colin Long, Cameron Hutton, Brook-lyn Ellis, Heidi Hibbs, Eve Ard and Brett Wil-lis. Second row from left are Leslie Ayala, Brax-ton Curry, Ryker Curry, Deacon Harrison, Corrin Helm, BreAnna Peeper, Skyler Shelton and Hunter Zimbelman.

Photos by Allison Tinn

McKinley’s A-B honor rollMcKinley Elementary’s third-grade A and B honor roll are, front row from left, Beonka Lazo-Baraho-na, Aibree Christy, Court-ney Smutz, Nick Ruppert, Tyler Boeken, Sammy Holding and Ethan Weide. Second row from left are Cael Adair, Emily Ator, Ta-lia Epting, Rhegan Fisch-er, Ethan Hunter, Nicholas Karns and Sianne Smith-back.

You can contact any of the Iola Register staff at [email protected]

McKinley Elementary third-grade spelling bee cham-pions were, from left, first place, Corrin Helm, sec-ond place, Ryker Curry, third place, Leslie Ayala and alternate, Courtney Smutz.

Spelling bee champions

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an hour and two of the five in the audience, Chris Coronado and Winona English, were summoned individually to discuss the matter with board mem-bers.

Coronado is a 2010 grad-uate of Humboldt High. English has a granddaugh-ter attending HHS.

Toni Schomaker, a moth-er of four, said she was up-set with school adminis-trators for not addressing the situation earlier.

“How come the entire world knew, but no one on the board of education seemed to know,” of Kerr’s alleged indiscretions, Schomaker said. “This has been going on for years. It wasn’t until John John-son became principal that things are getting out in the open. Before him, ev-erything has been kept un-der wraps.”

Johnson became interim principal when Principal Craig Smith also was put on administrative leave in the fall of 2011. Johnson was appointed principal at the beginning of the 2012-13 school year. Johnson moved up from assistant principal and athletic di-rector. He has been with the district for 13 years.

“We still don’t know the story about Craig Smith,” said Kit Rogers, whose son is a junior at HHS. Smith’s contract was not renewed.

“As a parent, I want to know who is around my children,” said Rogers.

When board members emerged from five con-secutively called executive sessions, they had no com-ment.

IN OTHER NEWS, Da-vid Wells, Humboldt Rec-reation Department Board member, said rec basket-ball leagues began Satur-day. Thirty-one boys in fifth and sixth grades have signed up to be on three teams. The teams play in a rec league in Chanute.

Wells did not know if any girls teams had been formed.

Spring soccer forms have been sent out, he said.

A ladies 3-on-3 basket-ball league will start on Sunday. Cost is $125 per team. Each team plays two games a Sunday.

Jeb Kaufman, weight room supervisor, has stepped down, Wells said. Jason Bauer, rec depart-ment director, will fill in until a replacement can be found. The position is be-ing advertised, Wells said.

Co-ed volleyball has six teams signed up, Wells said. The season lasts four weeks, ending with a tour-nament.

BOARD MEMBERS ap-proved a bid for $155,300 from Heartland Seat-ing of Shawnee for new spectator seating at the ball diamonds in the new recreation complex. They followed that action with approving the lone bid of $207,641 from Shaw Sports Turf of Dalton, Ga., to lay a synthetic turf on the fields.

A band trip to San Antonio, Texas, was ap-proved, as was a trip to Emmitsburg, Md., for a crisis management semi-nar in which a school nurse and teachers from the elementary, middle and high school will at-

tend along with a repre-sentative of the Humboldt Police Department and perhaps someone from Al-len County’s EMS depart-ment.

An initiative to have all of the high school’s core classes — English, science, social studies and math — taught from digital text-books, is in the works, said K.B. Criss, superintendent of schools.

“By next year, we should be there,” he said.

A new 65-passenger school bus was approved for purchase. Members agreed to pay $87,793 to Midwest Bus Sales, Bon-ner Springs. It is a Thomas Built bus. Helping defray the cost is a $26,000 clean air grant, Criss said, se-cured by Sunny Shreeve, director of the district’s after-school program.

The board accepted three resignations, that of Sheila Fitzmaurice, a paraprofessional in the el-

ementary school library; David Ciccone as coun-selor at the elementary and middle schools; and Stacey Wiatrac as senior sponsor.

Paula Kovacic was hired as new senior sponsor.

Don Hauser, who rep-resents the board on the ANW Cooperative, said it had recently purchased two 18- passenger buses, one cargo van and one eight-passenger van.

Kay Bolt, elementary and middle school princi-pal, said overall, 58 percent of elementary students and 90 percent of middle school students made the honor roll for the second quarter.

Johnson reported 70 percent of freshmen through seniors made the honor roll for the second quarter.

Criss reported the dis-trict had received a favor-able audit “with no recom-mended changes.”

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“It was inappropriate in terms of legalities, you have to have a bona fide purpose,” Slaugh said.

A letter from former City Attorney Chuck Apt to the council raised questions about the motivation behind the awarded money, as well as the legality of the issue. An opinion was sought from the attorney general’s office, but was eventually declined.

Slaugh said there was no purpose behind the payment, because the council was not obligated to make further payments past the settlement. He said the legal costs were included in the settlement. As for the severance, he said due to the fact that Brigham was reinstated into her po-sition until her retirement, severance was not required. The other 50 percent of the sick leave is not required to be paid, as listed under the city’s personnel manual.

Slaugh said the original motion to pay the $56,000 was made without legal counsel,

and he believes the decision was swayed by the circum-stances at hand.

“Sometimes you are swayed by the situation tak-ing place at the time,” Slaugh said, “In this case, the pendu-lum swung too far in one di-rection.”

Multiple executive sessions were held over the course of two city council meetings, and council members were given the chance to discuss their opinions on the matter.

“It’s not an easy matter, the council recognizes that the whole community is going through this,” Slaugh said. “There was a rehashing of some old issues, some of them were not pleasant.”

When asked for comment, Brigham said she “did not have enough information” about the decision to com-ment and had not yet been formally contacted by the city.

“My attorney at the time felt that everything was le-gal,” Brigham said. “I need more information to respond with whatever I need to do.”

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ment to small chunks. In addition to street repairs, some curbs, gutters and cul-verts would be replaced or improved.

COUNCIL members were receptive to a proposal from USA Pools, a Roswell, Ga., company, to manage Hum-boldt’s swimming pool.

Matt Satterly said his company would manage the pool, which would include hiring employees, provid-ing chemicals and having it open 1 to 8 p.m. from Me-morial Day through Labor Day for $46,730 this year, or $42,470 for each of the next three years.

The city budgeted $54,427 for this year’s pool costs.

Satterly said his company also would provide swim lessons, schedule special events and sell concessions with 25 percent of gross re-ceipts going to the city.

“We’ll tweak our program to what you’re comfortable with,” Satterly said.

Time is of the essence, he added, asking council mem-bers to make a decision by Feb. 1, “so we can start pre-paring for this summer.”

“Sounds like a good deal to me,” said Councilman Wayne Smith.

Others were more cau-tious.

“I think we need a little time to think about what’s been proposed,” said Mayor Davis.

Davis asked Otis Craw-ford and Sunny Shreeve, the swimming pool committee, to study the proposal and make a recommendation.

THE OLD city hall will be leased to Weide’s Cemetery Service and Memorials, as a showroom and office space.

Bryan Weide told com-missioners the company, operated by him and Shelia Bolling, didn’t have a vis-ible presence, only a shop at 420 S. Wheeler, near the old Lehigh Cement plant south of Iola.

They will use the Hum-boldt location as a place to display grave markers, monuments and other mer-chandise associated with funerals and burials.

“We also make name posts, stepping stones and address rocks,” Weide said.

He noted his family had been involved with things to do with funerals since the 1960s in Iola, including D of D Vaults before it was sold.

“I’ve been doing it all my life,” he said, noting that “sandblasting and all the dirty work will be done at my shop in Iola.”

The old city hall is for sale, but in the interim, council members have of-

fered it as a business incu-bator. Weide will pay no rent the first year and utilities will be phased in at 25 per-cent in three-month incre-ments. Weide’s lease would be terminated in 60 days if the building were to sell.

TUCKER reported that all 12 units in the new senior housing at the north edge of Humboldt were filled and there is a waiting list.

Also, he said an animal clinic for registrations and vaccinations would be Feb. 23.

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Register/Richard LukenAbove, Iola High’s Taelyn Sut-terby (30) is surrounded by Chanute High defenders Sumer Jacobs, from left, Shayla Phil-lips and Emily Slansky Monday. The Blue Comets stifled the Fillies offense in a 41-10 win. At right, Iola’s Kohl Endicott, left, drives against Chanute defend-er Aaron Haviland in the Blue Comets’ 53-29 victory.


Amid the exploding popular-ity of “extreme” sports comes an extreme form of running — ultramarathons.

No longer content to settle for those puny 26-mile jaunts, Eric Steele is among the growing le-gion of runners who have taken to running upward of 100 miles or more per trip.

Steele plans to introduce eastern Kansas to the world of ultramarathons March 23 with the Prairie Spirit 100.

The race will start at the Ot-tawa end of the Prairie Spirit Trail, make its way to Iola, then double back to Ottawa.

“As soon as I heard about the plans to extend the trail all the way to Iola a few years ago, I knew the trail would be perfect,” said Steele, the race’s chief organizer and founder of Epic Ultras, an organization that plans and organizes ultra-running events.

The race will be offered in two lengths — 50 miles for about half of the expected 100 or more

participants, and the full 100 miles for the heartiest of souls.

Those who race the 50 miles will be given 28 hours to com-plete their trek; the 100-milers will get 30 hours.

The close deadlines for the two distances was done inten-tionally, Steele noted.

Freshman squads drop pair

Big bucksThe Allen County Wrestling Club received a $1,500 donation from Modern Woodmen in matching funds from a recent Spirit Cup fundraiser. Combined with the matching funds, the group will have $4,508.50 to spend on new equipment. Shown with the wrestlers and coaches is Modern Woodmen agent Josh Oberley, center.

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Offensive struggles plagued both of Iola High’s freshman squads Monday as they opened a ninth-grade tournament.

The ninth-grade Fillies man-aged only 10 points worth of of-fense in a 41-10 loss to the visit-ing Chanute High freshmen. The Mustangs, meanwhile, dropped a 53-29 decision to the Blue Com-ets.

Both squads will wrap up tournament play next Monday at home. The Fillies will take on Fort Scott at 3 p.m., then Prairie View at about 6 o’clock. The Mus-tangs play Fort Scott at about 4:30, and Prairie View at 7:30.

CHANUTE’S BOYS opened the contest with Iola with offensive

explosions.The Blue Comets erupted for

21 points in the first period, then scored 20 in the fourth quarter.

Curiously enough, Iola held the Blue Comets scoreless in the second quarter, but could close the lead only to 21-8 at the break. Chanute’s lead stood at 33-14 after three quarters.

Iola more than doubled its score in the fourth quarter, scor-ing 15 points of its own in the fi-nal eight minutes.

Gus Hopkins scored all seven of his points in the fourth quarter and wound up as the Mustangs’ leading scorer. Travis Hermstein and Adam Peterson both scored six points, while Dodger Beck-ham scored five, Kohl Endicott three and Sager Patel two.

Aaron Haviland paced Chanute

with 18 points.

IN THE GIRLS contest, Cha-nute took a 16-5 lead after one quarter and effectively ended any suspense with a 17-2 second-quar-ter run. The Blue Comets out-scored Iola 8-3 in the second half.

Olivia Bannister scored four points to lead the Fillies. Ashlie Shields and Hannah Ingle each added two points. McKayli Cleav-er and Micaiah Larney had one point each.

Paige Kidwell scored 15 to lead the Blue Comets.

In other tournament action Monday, Fort Scott’s boys downed Prairie View 55-22. The Prairie View girls defeated Fort Scott 38-25.

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Ultrarunnersgear up forPrairie Spirit 100

CHEROKEE — The second time was most definitely not the charm for Marmaton Valley High’s girls.

The Wildcats took on St. Paul High’s Indians for the second time in a week.

After defeating Marmaton Valley 55-27 six days earlier, St. Paul erased any suspense in Monday night’s contest by rac-ing to a 25-2 lead.

The 60-15 Indian victory brings a sour note for the Wild-

cats in the opening round of the Southeast Lancer Classic.

Marmaton Valley (4-5 overall) wraps up tournament pool play at 8:30 p.m. Thursday against Columbus.

Results of the first two rounds will determine matchups in Fri-day’s final rounds.

“We just didn’t run our of-fense or defense the way we should have,” Wildcat coach Kent Houk said. “That sums it up right there.”

Eric Steele

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By JIM LITKE andJIM VERTUNO

AP Sports WritersAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lance

Armstrong has finally come clean.

A r m s t r o n g confessed to doping during an interview with Oprah Winfrey taped Monday, just a couple of hours after a wrench-ing apology to staff at the Livestrong charity he founded and has now been forced to sur-render.

The day ended with 2½ hours

of questions from Winfrey at a downtown Austin hotel, where she said the world’s most fa-mous cyclist was “forthcoming” as she asked him in detail about doping allegations that followed him throughout his seven Tour de France victories.

Speaking on “CBS This Morn-ing,” Winfrey said today she had not planned to address Arm-strong’s confession before the interview aired on her OWN network but, “by the time I left Austin and landed in Chicago, you all had already confirmed it.”

“So I’m sitting here now be-

Wildcats fall to St. Paul

Armstrong comes clean about doping

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High School BasketballMidseason TournamentsBurlington Invitational

Today, Iola boys vs. Sa-betha, 5:05 p.m.

Today, Iola girls vs. Burl-ington, 6:40 p.m.

Friday, Iola girls vs. Paola or Sabetha, 6:40 p.m.

Friday, Iola boys vs. Burl-ington or Santa Fe Trail, 8:15 p.m.

Saturday, Iola girls, boys, TBA

Iola freshman tourneyMonday, Fort Scott 9th

girls and boys at Iola, 3 p.m.Monday, Prairie View 9th

girls and boys at Iola, 5:30 p.m.High School Wrestling

Saturday at Eureka Invita-tional, 9 a.m.

Middle School Basketball

Thursday, 7th, 8th boys at Parsons, 3:30 p.m.

Iola

SportsCalendar

High School BasketballMidseason Tournaments

Pleasanton InvitationalToday, HHS boys vs. Al-

toona-Midway, 4 p.m.Today, HHS girls vs.

Uniontown, 5:30 p.m.Thursday, HHS boys vs.

Central Heights or Union-town, 5:30 p.m.

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Saturday, HHS boys, girls TBA

Humboldt

High School BasketballMidseason TournamentsSoutheast Lancer Classic

Today, MV boys vs. South-east, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, MV boys vs. Co-lumbus, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, MV girls vs. Co-lumbus, 8:30 p.m.

Friday MV girls, boys TBA

Marmaton Valley

High School BasketballMidseason Tournaments

Pleasanton InvitationalToday, Crest girls vs.

Pleasanton, 7 p.m.Today, Crest boys vs.

Pleasanton, 8:30 p.m.Thursday, Crest girls vs.

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KansasState

Photos courtesy of Jana TaylorAmong the Allen County Wrestling Club members wrestling Sunday at a tournament in Burlington were, clockwise from upper left, Cole Mathes, Jack Adams, Alejandro Vargas and Keaton Larney.

BURLINGTON — Mem-bers of the Allen County Wrestling Club continue to find success in the 2013 season.

Several wrestlers took home gold medals with their performances Sun-day at the Burlington Open/Novice Tourna-ment.

“This was the largest tournament of the year so far,” coach John Taylor said. “Our wrestlers com-

peted against kids from all over Kansas, as well as Missouri. (Sunday) was the first tournament for several of the boys and they came home wearing gold.”

Taking home first place finishes in their respec-tive divisions were Ko-rbin Could, Ryan West, Landon Boldra, Konner Larney, Cole Mathes, Brandon McKarnin, Adam Atwell, T.J. Tay-

lor, Jeremy Ridge, Blake Mittlemeier, Seth Sanford and R.J. Holding.

Earning second place in their divisions were Con-ner Salee, Curt Shannon, Trenton Jones, Clay Shan-non, Jack Adams and Kole Rogers.

Placing third were Jaar-on Griffin, Tripp Chap-man, Samual Anderson, Payton Houk, Alejandro Vargas and Casey McK-arnin.

Zander Reed, Keaton Larney, Eli Adams, Cooper Riley and Hunter Mittle-meier took fourth.

Placing fifth in their groups were Creed Shan-non, Briar Holding and Kyler Mittlemeier.

Our winning record continues to grow every week,” Coach Taylor said. “Our coaches couldn’t be prouder of these kids, whose dedication to the sport is really showing.”

Wrestlers fare well in Burlington

cause it’s already been confirmed,” she added.

The session was to be broadcast on Thursday but Winfrey said it will now run in two parts over two nights because there is so much material.

Winfrey would not characterize whether Armstrong seemed con-trite but said he seemed ready for the interview. “I would say that he met the moment,” she said.

“I don’t think ‘emotional’ begins to describe the intensity or the dif-ficulty he experienced in talking about some of these things.”

The confession was a stunning reversal for a proud athlete and celebrity who sought lavish praise in the court of public opinion and used courtrooms to punish his crit-ics.

For more than a decade, Arm-strong dared anybody who chal-lenged his version of events to prove it. Finally, he told the tale himself after promising over the weekend to answer Winfrey’s ques-tions “directly, honestly and can-didly.”

The cyclist was stripped of his Tour titles, lost most of his en-dorsements and was forced to leave Livestrong last year after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency issued a damning, 1,000-page report that accused him of masterminding a long-running doping scheme.

The International Cycling Union, or UCI, issued a statement today saying it was aware of the reports that Armstrong had con-fessed to Winfrey. The governing body for the sport urged Armstrong to tell his story to an independent commission it has set up to exam-ine claims it covered up suspicious samples from the cyclist, accepted financial donations from him and helped him avoid detection in dop-ing tests.

Armstrong started Monday with a visit to the headquarters of Livestrong, the charity he founded in 1997 and turned into a global force on the strength of his athletic dominance and personal story of surviving testicular can-cer that had spread to his lungs and brain.

About 100 Livestrong staff members gathered in a confer-ence room as Armstrong told them “I’m sorry.” He choked up during a 20-minute talk, expressing regret for the long-running controversy tied to performance-enhancers had caused, but stopped short of admit-ting he used them.

Before he was done, several mem-bers were in tears when he urged them to continue the charity’s mis-sion, helping cancer patients and their families.

“Heartfelt and sincere,” is how Livestrong spokeswoman Kather-ine McLane described his speech.

Armstrong later huddled with almost a dozen people before step-ping into a room set up at a down-town Austin hotel for the interview with Winfrey. The group included close friends and lawyers. They ex-changed handshakes and smiles, but declined comment.

Winfrey has promoted her inter-view, one of the biggest for OWN since she launched the network in 2011, as a “no-holds barred” ses-sion, and after the voluminous USADA report — which included testimony from 11 former team-mates — she said she went into the session with 112 questions ready to go. Not all of them were asked, she said, but many were.

USADA chief executive Travis Tygart, a longtime critic of Arm-strong’s, called the drug regimen practiced while Armstrong led the U.S. Postal Service team “the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.” USADA did not respond to requests for com-ment about Armstrong’s confes-sion.

For years, Armstrong went af-ter his critics ruthlessly during his reign as cycling champion. He scolded some in public and didn’t hesitate to punish outspoken rid-ers during the race itself. He waged legal battles against still others in court.

At least one of his opponents,

the London-based Sunday Times, has already filed a lawsuit to re-cover about $500,000 it paid him to settle a libel case, and Dallas-based SCA Promotions, which tried to deny Armstrong a promised bo-nus for a Tour de France win, has threatened to bring another law-suit seeking to recover more than $7.5 million awarded by an arbitra-tion panel.

In Australia, the government of South Australia state said today it will seek the repayment of several million dollars in appearance fees paid to Armstrong for competing in the Tour Down Under in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

“We’d be more than happy for Mr. Armstrong to make any repay-ment of monies to us,” South Aus-tralia Premier Jay Weatherill said.

Betsy Andreu, the wife of for-mer Armstrong teammate Frankie Andreu, was one of the first to pub-licly accuse Armstrong of using performance-enhancing drugs. She called news of Armstrong’s con-fession “very emotional and very sad,” and choked up when asked to comment.

“He used to be one of my hus-band’s best friends and because he wouldn’t go along with the dop-ing, he got kicked to the side,” she said. “Lance could have a positive impact if he tells the truth on ev-erything. He’s got to be completely honest.”

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Libby Shay, one of only two seniors on the Iola High Fillies squad, has been lost for the season with a knee injury she suffered Jan. 8.

Fillies coach Becky Carl-son said Shay tore liga-ments in her knee as she was driving to the basket in Iola’s game against Central Heights.

Shay scored 15 points on the season for Iola.

The Fillies begin midsea-son tournament action to-night at Burlington against the top-seeded Burlington Wildcats.

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By RUSTIN DODDThe Kansas City Star

LAWRENCE, Kan. (MCT) — Perhaps Kansas simply needed to return home, to the comfort of Allen Field-house. Maybe that’s the eas-iest explanation. Maybe it’s also the most true.

On Monday night, with a capacity crowd in the old barn, No. 4 Kansas came home and buried Baylor 61-44 with a dominating per-

formance against a team many thought would be the Jayhawks’ most wor-thy challenger in the Big 12 race.

This was a knockout _ perhaps a sloppy one _ but a technical beatdown, none-theless. Baylor had entered with one of the most dan-gerous offenses in the na-tion, and Kansas squeezed the life out of a previously undefeated conference op-

ponent.For Kansas, the scariest

moment may have come with 2:44 left in the second half, when freshman guard Ben McLemore lay on the ground in pain, clutching at his right ankle. McLemore stayed down for more than a minute before limping off with KU’s trainers and heading to the locker room.

“My heart dropped,” Kansas senior Elijah John-

son said.Kansas coach Bill Self

said McLemore had been evaluated by team doc-tors and suffered a grade-1 sprained ankle. Self added that McLemore is likely day to day for now.

“I can’t make a predic-tion on how many days he’s gonna be out,” Self said, “but we’re certainly hope-ful that it’s not more than two or three.”

McLemore shook off a quiet performance against Texas Tech on Saturday and finished with a team-high 17 points Monday. Johnson also rebounded af-ter an early January slide, finishing with 12 points while playing through foul trouble in the first half.

More than that, though, Kansas reclaimed a sem-blance of its defensive iden-tity, limiting Baylor to 23.2 percent (13 for 56) shooting in the game. More bad news for the Bears: They con-nected on only nine of 42 from two-point range.

It was ugly all night.In the opening 20 min-

utes, Baylor made six of its first 28 shots from the field, and other than senior point guard Pierre Jackson and freshman forward Isaiah Austin, it was a near shut-out. The rest of Baylor’s roster combined to shoot just one of 16 from the floor.

For Kansas, a team that had started the season 14-1 and 2-0 in the Big 12, this felt like a night with a little more urgency than usual.

This was Big Monday, a prime-time slot on ESPN, and Kansas entered the night attempting to dis-tance itself from an ear-ly January rut. In three games, the Jayhawks had looked quite mortal. They needed a second-half come-back to extinguish Temple and a minor miracle to beat Iowa State in overtime. Then they looked mediocre in a 14-point victory at Tex-as Tech on Saturday.

Jayhawks thump Baylor in Monday tilt


Public notice (First Published in The Iola Register January 15, 2013)

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By JIM MCLEANKHI News Service

TOPEKA — A study of existing research on Med-icaid managed care sug-gests that officials in Kan-sas and across the country may be overestimating the extent to which it can save money and lead to better health outcomes.

Michael Sparer is a pro-fessor at Columbia Univer-sity’s Mailman School of Public Health. He recently completed a comprehen-sive review of the research done on Medicaid managed care for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He concluded in a report pub-lished in September 2012, that managed care initia-tives have not substantial-ly reduced Medicaid costs nor improved the quality of care.

“The peer-reviewed lit-erature on the cost impli-cations of Medicaid man-aged care is quite thin, especially given the anec-dotal claims of cost sav-ings by policymakers at both the state and federal levels,” Sparer wrote.

While a few studies found modest savings, Sparer said that virtually all the others he exam-ined showed that Medicaid managed care initiatives were either cost neutral or

“end up costing more than traditional fee-for-service programs.”

Many of the state-specif-ic studies that showed cost savings and the report that summarized them were done by consulting firms on behalf of health plan associations, Sparer noted in the report.

Kansas Medicaid offi-cials have estimated that Gov. Sam Brownback’s KanCare managed care initiative will reduce pro-jected increases in Med-icaid spending by at least $1 billion over the next five years. Currently, the program costs approxi-mately $3.2 billion a year. The state is responsible for about $1.3 billion of that cost, the federal govern-ment the rest.

In an interview with the KHI News Service, Sparer said some savings are pos-sible given that the state is seeking to start manag-ing the care provided to its most expensive Medicaid populations – the elderly, disabled and chronically ill. But the existing evi-dence indicates policy-makers in Kansas and else-where should temper their expectations, he said.

“State after state is promising significant de-creases and I’m very skep-

tical that managed care is going to save the kind of money that people are talking about,” Sparer

said. “It costs money to take care of older, sicker people and we’ve been sort of getting by on the cheap in a low-cost program like Medicaid. So, it’s hard to say we’re both going to do right by these people and save money at the same time.”

States that have achieved what Sparer re-fers to as “modest savings” in his report have done so

in part by cutting provider rates, something that Kan-sas officials have vowed not to do. The contracts the state negotiated with three Medicaid managed care companies prohibit the companies from reduc-ing provider rates in order to meet their cost-saving targets.

In addition to saving money, Brownback and others in his administra-tion have said they expect KanCare to improve the quality of care provided to the approximately 380,000 Kansans on Medicaid, par-ticularly for those high-cost, high-need popula-tions.

Setting improved qual-ity as a twin objective to reduced costs is laudable but may not be realistic, Sparer said.

“There are trade-offs between cost, access and quality,” he said. “If you are actually going to improve access so that you can improve qual-ity – that could cost more money. I think there is a lot of evidence that sug-gests managed care could be a good way to go but it’s not magic. So, I think you really do have to be cautious in your esti-mates of how it’s going to play out.”

Study: Benefits of Medicaid managed care unproven

The peer-re-viewed literature on the cost impli-cations of Med-icaid managed care is quite thin, especially given the anecdotal claims of cost savings by poli-cymakers at both the state and federal levels.

— Michael Sparer, professor at Columbia

University Mailman School of Public Health

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators opened their annual session Mon-day facing major budget is-sues even as many of them hoped to cut income taxes a second consecutive year.

Each chamber had a new top leader for its conser-vative Republican major-ity, Speaker Ray Merrick of Stilwell in the House and President Susan Wagle of Wichita in the Senate. Both are allies of conservative GOP Gov. Sam Brownback and committed to shrink-ing state government and phasing out income taxes.

Brownback and legisla-tors must close a projected $267 million gap between anticipated revenues and existing spending commit-ments for the fiscal year that begins in July. The shortfall results from ag-gressive income tax cuts enacted last year to stimu-late the economy, but many GOP legislators were look-ing to go further to keep taxes lower than in other states.

The state’s sales tax also is set to drop in July, the result of a deal sold three years ago by Brownback’s predecessor as governor to close a previous bud-get shortfall. Brownback pushed unsuccessfully last year to cancel the decrease to lessen the potential bud-get problems caused by the income tax cuts he pro-posed, but some Republi-cans are willing to revisit

the issue if it’s tied to fresh income tax relief.

But a three-judge panel in Shawnee County Dis-trict Court complicated the debate by ruling last week that the state’s fund-ing for its public schools is inadequate. If lawmak-ers attempted to comply with the order, they would boost annual aid to school districts by at least $440 million, but the state is planning to appeal, and Republican leaders are de-fiant for now.

Successful conservative challenges to moderate incumbents and political redistricting last year left the Legislature with doz-ens of new faces. While the GOP’s overall majori-ties remained at 32-8 in the Senate and 92-33 in the House, conservatives top-pled moderate Republican leaders in the Senate.

The session began with the swearing in of all 40 senators and 125 House members. Brownback plans to outline his agenda in this evening’s State of the State address and release the de-tails of his budget propos-als Wednesday morning.

Fiscal issues dominate Legislature’s agenda

JohnHannaAn AP news analysis

By JOHN HANNAAP Political Writer

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Conservative Republicans who control the Kansas Legislature want to revise the state constitution to rein in the courts follow-ing a ruling that the state must boost its spending on public schools, several GOP leaders confirmed Monday.

The leaders told The As-sociated Press that inter-est among Republican leg-islators in a constitutional amendment has been high since the ruling Friday by a three-judge panel in Shawnee County District Court. The leaders aren’t sure yet what form the proposal will take but said it would clarify that only the Legislature — and not the courts — can deter-mine school funding lev-els.

“There’s been a whole lot of discussion about what the response should be,” said new Senate Vice President Jeff King, a con-servative Independence Republican who is also Ju-diciary Committee chair-man. “Submitting that question to the people of Kansas to decide seems like a pretty good idea to me.”

A constitutional change must be adopted by a two-thirds majorities in both

chambers — which Repub-licans have — and be ap-proved by a simple major-ity of voters in a statewide election. Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, a con-servative Hutchinson Re-publican, said the goal is to put a measure to a vote as quickly as possible, per-haps even in a special elec-tion.

The three-judge panel declared that the state

must boost aid to public schools by at least $440 mil-lion a year to meet its ob-ligations under the state constitution to provide a suitable education to ev-ery child. And, in a move particularly irritating to conservatives, the judges criticized legislators for claiming the state couldn’t afford to spend more on schools while enacting massive income tax cuts last year to stimulate the

economy.The attorney general’s

office already has prom-ised to appeal, but it’s not clear how quickly the Kan-sas Supreme Court could issue a final ruling.

Democrats, moderate Republicans and educa-tion groups are likely to re-sist any proposed constitu-tional change, arguing that the Legislature has a duty to comply with the court

order.“There’s a purpose for

the three branches of the government, and I would hate to see a particular legislature that we have in office right now usurp that balance,” Karen Godfrey, president of the Kansas National Education Asso-ciation, the state’s largest teachers’ union, said dur-ing an interview. “It’s clear that we have a constitu-tional mandate to fund our

schools suitably.”The education article of

the state constitution com-mands legislators to “make suitable provision for fi-nance of the educational interests of the state.” The Supreme Court has said in rulings in 2005 and 2006 that lawmakers must finance an adequate education for ev-ery child, keep up with ris-ing educational costs and ensure that schools contin-ually improve.

But House Majority Leader Jene Vickrey, a con-servative Louisburg Re-publican, said lawmakers are frustrated because they believe the courts have ex-ceeded their constitutional authority in weighing in on school funding. He said GOP lawmakers see any constitutional changes as merely clarifying the issue.

“We have the purse strings,” he said. “Most of us believe that it’s already black and white.”

Conservative lawmakers pushed for constitutional changes after the earlier Supreme Court rulings, but such measures were blocked by Democrats and GOP moderates. The Sen-ate had been controlled by GOP moderates, who often worked with centrist and liberal Democrats, but con-servatives have a strong majority after last year’s elections.

Lawmakers mulling ballot measure on schools

There’s a purpose for the three branches of the government, and I would hate to see a particular legislature that we have in of-fice right now usurp that balance. It’s clear that we have a constitutional mandate to fund our schools suitably.

— Karen Godfrey, president of the Kansas National Edu-cation Association

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Kansas briefSuspect in Hutchinson shooting waives hearing

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A suspect in a fatal Hutchinson shooting will be arraigned Feb. 4, after he waived his right to a prelimi-nary hearing.

Twenty-year-old Isaac D. Beltran of Hutchinson is charged with second-degree murder in the November 2012 death of 26-year-old Dustin Brooks.

The Hutchinson News reports Beltran’s case was transferred after Monday’s hearing to Judge Tim Cham-bers. Beltran will enter a plea at the Feb. 4 hearing.

Brooks died at Hutchin-son Regional Medical Center after being shot outside a Halloween party. Police say the shooting occurred after Brooks and Beltran argued.

Ethanol plant in Pratt expected to reopen

PRATT, Kan. (AP) — A new owner plans to reopen an ethanol plant in Pratt that’s been closed since 2008.

Officials with Scoular Co. of Omaha, Neb., announced Monday that it sold most of its interest in the plant to Pratt Biofuels Inves-tors. That’s a new company formed by investors in a Cal-ifornia ethanol plant, Cal-gren Renewable Fuels.

Calgren plans to reopen

the Pratt plant by spring. The plant, which can pro-duce 55 million gallons of ethanol a year, closed in 2008.

The Wichita Eagle reports Scoular will continue to pro-cure feedstock and will mar-ket and ship the ethanol and distillers grains produced at the plant.

Scoular has eight facili-ties in Kansas and employs more than 150 people in the state.

Brownback to give Kan. State of State

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brown-back is preparing to deliver his third State of the State address, outlining for legis-lators his agenda for the 2013 session.

The speech will be deliv-ered tonight to a joint ses-sion of the House and Sen-ate.

Brownback is expected to share his plans for balancing the state budget, which faces a projected shortfall of $267 million for the fiscal year be-ginning July 1. The governor has already suggested that a sales tax increase approved in 2010 and set to expire this summer be kept in place to raise revenue.

Brownback is also likely to suggest how legislators should respond to last week’s court ruling that declared the state’s school finance for-mula unconstitutional.

By ANDREW MIGAAssociated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Northeastern lawmak-ers hoping to push a $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package through the House face roadblocks by fiscal conservatives seek-ing offsetting spending cuts to pay for recovery efforts as well as funding cuts for projects they say are unrelated to the Oct. 29 storm.

The amendments by budget hawks set up a fa-ceoff today, with Northeast lawmakers in both parties eager to provide recovery aid for one of the worst storms ever to strike the region as the House moves toward expected votes on the emergency spending package.

The base $17 billion bill by the House Appropria-tions Committee is aimed at immediate Sandy recov-

ery needs, including $5.4 billion for New York and New Jersey transit sys-tems and $5.4 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s di-saster relief aid fund.

Northeast lawmakers will have a chance to add to that bill with an amend-ment by Rep. Rodney Frel-inghuysen, R-N.J., for an additional $33.7 billion, in-cluding $10.9 billion for pub-lic transportation projects.

The Club for Growth, a conservative group, is urg-ing lawmakers to oppose both Sandy aid measures. Sandy aid supporters, nonetheless, voiced confi-dence Monday they would prevail. The Senate passed a $60.4 billion Sandy aid package in December with bipartisan support.

“We have more than enough votes, I’m confi-dent of that,” said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., claim-

ing strong support from Democrats and Republi-cans from the Northeast and other states for both the base $17 billion bill and the amendment for the ad-ditional $33.7 billion.

The House Rules Com-mittee on Monday night approved 13 amendments for floor consideration, including one requiring spending offsets and four seeking to strike money for some projects either not directly related to Sandy or not seen as emergency spending.

“With that many amend-ments, one could sneak through,” King said. “We should be able to defeat the important amendments though.”

As with past natural di-sasters, the $50.7 billion Sandy aid package does not provide for offsetting spending cuts, meaning the aid comes at the cost

of higher deficits. The lone exception is an offset pro-vision in the Frelinghuy-sen amendment requiring that the $3.4 billion for Army Corps of Engineers projects to protect against future storms be paid for by spending cuts else-where in the 2013 budget.

Conservative Reps. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., Tom McClintock, R-Calif., Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., and Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., offered an amendment to offset the $17 billion base bill with spending cuts of 1.6 percent for all discre-tionary appropriations for 2013.

Mulvaney said he wasn’t trying to torpedo the aid package with his amend-ment.

“This is not a poison pill,” he said. “It’s not de-signed for delay. ... I just want to try and find a way to pay for” Sandy aid.

Sandy aid package moving toward House votes

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TOPEKA — About 80 people braved below-freezing temperatures to take part in a rally at the Statehouse Monday pro-testing potential cuts in education programs and social services to offset the consequences of a tax cut package signed into law last year by Gov. Sam Brownback.

“We want legislators to know that while the Brownback agenda has a super majority in both the House and Senate, there are a lot of Kansans who want the state to continue being moderate and rea-sonable in its approach to dealing with these issues,” said Jan Swartzendruber of Wichita, one of the ral-ly’s organizers.

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of the State address today.The rally, held outside

the Statehouse, was a proj-ect of the MoveOn groups in Johnson and Shawnee counties. It was billed as “The Peoples State of the State Address.”

“We are very worried about how Brownback’s policies are going to af-fect people economical-ly as well as the effect they’re going to have on education and health care,” Swartzendruber said.

Among those address-ing the rally were Sen-ate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a To-peka Democrat; former State Rep. Ann Mah, a Topeka Democrat; Lisa Ochs of the American Federation for Teachers-Kansas, Karen Godfrey of the Kansas National Education Association, Micheline Burger of the Mainstream Coali-

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Nancy Wagner, a MoveOn member from Overland Park, held a sign that read, “Expand Access to Medicaid - Don’t leave behind 130,000 of our Kan-sas neighbors,” a reference to concerns that Brown-back and the Legislature might reject expanding Medicaid eligibility.

“I used to work for SRS (the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilita-tion Services now known as the Department for Children and Families),” Wagner said, “I saw that people who were on Medic-aid needed it, and I saw a lot of people who needed it but couldn’t get it.”

Wagner said she worked at SRS more than 20 years. She retired last year.

Nancy Wagner, a former Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services worker from Overland Park, holds up a sign Monday during a rally outside the State-house.

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Rally protests education cuts

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Associated PressBAMAKO, Mali (AP) —

French forces led an all-night aerial bombing cam-paign Tuesday to wrest control of a small Ma-lian town from armed Is-lamist extremists, as more French troops arrived in preparation for a possible land assault.

A convoy of 40 to 50 trucks carrying French troops crossed into Mali from Ivory Coast. Several thousand soldiers from the nations neighboring Mali are also expected to begin arriving soon, and Nige-ria said nearly 200 would be coming in the next 24 hours.

French President Fran-cois Hollande launched an attack on Mali’s reb-els, who are linked to al-Qaida, last week after the

insurgents began advanc-ing south. France’s ac-tion preempted a United Nations-approved plan for a military operation in Mali, which was expected to start about nine months from now. Hollande de-cided a military response could not wait that long in its former colony.

French officials have ac-knowledged that the rebels are better armed and pre-pared than they expected. Despite France’s five-day-old aerial assault, the Is-lamist fighters have suc-ceeded in gaining ground, most notably taking Dia-baly on Monday, putting them roughly 400 kilome-ters (250 miles) from Mali’s capital, Bamako. When the air raids began last week, the closest known point they occupied was 680 kilo-meters (420 miles) from the capital.

“They bombed Diabaly. They bombed the town all night long. I am hid-ing inside a house,” said Ibrahim Toure, who irons clothes for a living and happened to be passing through Diabaly on his way to visit relatives, get-ting caught when the Is-lamists encircled the town. “It only stopped this morn-ing at around 6 a.m.”

France ordered the evacuation of the roughly 60 French citizens living in the area of Segou, the administrative capital of central Mali located a three-hour drive from Dia-baly, according to an email sent by the French Embas-sy in Bamako.

During a stop in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, Hol-lande told RFI radio that he was sure the French military operation would succeed.

France begins bombing in Mali

NEW YORK (AP) — Chil-dren who survived last month’s shooting rampage at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School have recorded a version of “Over the Rainbow” to raise money for charity.

Twenty-one children from Newtown, Conn., sang the song today with singer-songwriter Ingrid Michael-son on ABC’s “Good Morn-ing America.” Most of them are current and former stu-dents of the school where 20 first-graders and six staff

members were killed.They recorded the song

at the home of two former members of the Talking Heads rock band. It went on sale today on Amazon and iTunes, with proceeds ben-efiting a local United Way and the Newtown Youth Academy.

Ten-year-old Kayla Verga says she’s singing for her friend, Jessica Rekos, who was killed in the rampage. She says it feels like Jessica is beside her, singing along with her.

Newtown survivorsmake recording


HAGAR THE HORRIBLE by Chris Browne

ZITS by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

HI AND LOIS by Chance Browne

BABY BLUES by Kirkman & Scott

BEETLE BAILEY by Mort Walker

FUNKY WINKERBEAN by Tom Batiuk

BLONDIE by Young and Drake

DAILY CRYPTOQUOTES - Here’s how to work it:

Sudoku is like a crossword puzzle, but uses numbers instead of words. The puzzle is a box of 81 squares, subdivided into 3x3 cubes of 9 squares each. Some squares are filled in with numbers. The rest should be filled in by the puzzler.Fill in the blank squares allowing the numbers 1-9 to appear only once in every row, once in ev-ery column and once in every 3x3 box. One-star puzzles are for begin-ners, and the difficulty gradually increases through the week to a very chal-lenging five-star puzzle.

(First published in The IolaRegister, January 15, 2013)

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

(Letters of Intent)The Southeast Kansas Area

Agency on Aging, Inc. (SEK-AAA) has been designated by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) to develop a coordinated and comprehensive plan for the provision of elderly services within its nine county southeast Kansas Planning and Service Area 05 (PSA-05). SEK-AAA is accepting letters of intent from organizations interested in submitting proposals for the purpose of negotiation to enter into contracts with service providers for the following programs.

Congregate and home delivered nutrition services under Title III-C(1) and Title III-C(2) of the Older Ameri-cans Act ()AA) of 1065, as amended.

In-Home Services under Title III-B and Title III-E of the Older Ameri-cans Act of 1965, as amended, and Senior Care Act.

Legal assistance under Title III-B of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended.

Respite Services under Title III-B and Title III E of Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended.

Disease Prevention/Health Pro-motion under Title III-D of the Older Americans Acts of 1965.

All services are for the elderly in Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Craw-ford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson and Woodson counties. The provider must have an office in the state of Kansas to provide Senior Care Act services.

Letters of intent to submit a pro-posal must be received at the SEK-AAA office, 1 West Ash, P.O. Box J, Chanute, Kansas, by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, January 25, 2013. No letters of intent will be accepted after Friday, January 25, 2013. Information may be obtained by contacting John L. Green, Executive Director, SEK-AAA, Inc., at 1-620-431-2980.

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(First published in The IolaRegister, January 8, 2013)

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF BOURBON COUNTY, KANSAS

JUVENILE DIVISIONIN THE INTEREST OF:Name: K.L.L.,

DOB xx/xx/2006 A femaleCase No. 2011-JC-0044

NOTICE OF HEARINGPublication

Pursuant to K.S.A 38-2237TO: Felicia Lane216 S. 4th Street, lola, KS 66749and all other persons who are or

may be concernedYou are hereby notified that a peti-

tion has been filed in this court alleg-ing that the child(ren) named above is a Child in Need of Care. The Court may find that the parents are unfit by reason or conduct or condition which renders the parents unable to care properly for a child, the conduct or condition is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future, the parental rights of the parent should be terminated, and a permanent custodian should be appointed for the child(ren).

A hearing on the petition is sched-uled for the 17TH day of JANUARY, 2013, at 1:30 PM.

At the hearing the Court may is-sue orders relating to the care, cus-tody and control of the child(ren). The hearing will determine if the parents should be deprived of their parental rights and the right to custody of the child(ren).

The parent(s), and any other per-son having legal custody are required to appear before this Court on the date and time shown, or to file your written response to the petition with the Clerk of the District Court prior to that time. Failure to respond or to appear before the Court at the time shown will not prevent the Court from entering judgment as requested in the petition, finding that the child is a Child in Need of Care, removing the child from the custody of parent, par-ents or any other present legal custo-dian until further order of the Court, or finding the parents unfit, and entering an order permanently terminating the

parents’ parental rights.An attorney has been appointed

as guardian ad litem for the child:Vance E. White, Attorney at

Law, 120 Osage, Fulton, KS 66738, (620)215-1821.

You have the right to appear be-fore the Court and be heard person-ally, either with or without an attorney. The Court will appoint an attorney for any parent who desires an attorney but is financially unable to hire one.

The Court may order one or both par-ents to pay child support. An attorney has been appointed for you:

Gilbert E. Gregory, Attorney at Law, PO Box 305, Fort Scott, KS 66701,(620) 223-5025.

Date and time of hearing: JANU-ARY 17, 2013, at 1:30 PM

Place of hearing: Bourbon County Courthouse, 210 S. National Ave., Fort Scott, KS 66701.

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Public notices

Dear Dr. Roach: Would you please write about pleurisy? I suffered from it 30 years ago, and now I have it again. Are there any medications that will help me? Aspirin seems to work. — R.L.

Answer: “Pleurisy” is a term for inflammation of the pleura, the lining of the lungs. The major symptom is pain in the chest that wors-ens in certain positions or when breathing. There are many causes of pleurisy, and treatment depends on the di-agnosis.

Infection probably is the leading cause, and it can be via viruses or bacteria. Vi-ral pleurisy can be mild or severe, and I have seen many cases so severe that we were concerned about very seri-ous illness, like heart attack or blood clots in the lung. An old name for viral pleurisy is “devil’s grip,” which gives some idea of how bad it can make you feel.

Bacterial pleurisy usually

is associated with pneumo-nia, with its attendant fever and cough. Tuberculosis used to be a common cause, but is not so anymore.

Pleurisy with fever or other worrisome symptoms should be evaluated right away, as should pleurisy that lasts more than a few days. You are taking aspirin, an anti-inflammatory medi-cine, which can be useful for non-urgent cases of pleurisy. However, I still would recom-mend getting this evaluated if it isn’t getting better.

Dear Dr. Roach: In 2010, I was diagnosed with a pitu-itary tumor, found after an MRI for vision problems. I

had surgery, showing a be-nign tumor, but the tumor re-grew, requiring another sur-gery. My neurosurgeon now wants to treat the remaining tumor with gamma knife sur-gery. I am concerned about the long-term effect of radia-tion on the pituitary gland. Can you discuss the risks (greater than 10 years) on the pituitary? — D.B.

Answer: The pituitary gland sits right above the op-tic nerve, and tumors of this gland usually are benign, as in your case. They almost always cause symptoms through pressing on the optic nerve, causing specific visual problems, or through secret-ing hormones.

Surgery or medication is usually first-line treatment, but neither is effective 100 percent of the time. Gamma knife is a way of delivering radiation to the tumor while minimizing the amount of radiation damage to sur-rounding structures of the

brain.I was able to find one Swed-

ish study that showed good results, both in terms of con-trolling the tumor as well as side effects, up to eight years after surgery. Since gamma knife is relatively new, lon-ger-term results are hard to come by. However, based on the principles, I would expect that the good results would continue long term, although lifetime follow-up is neces-sary. The brain is relatively resistant to the effects of ra-diation, and gamma knife is designed to focus the radia-tion precisely on the tumor.

All that being said, your neurosurgeon knows far more about you, about pitu-itary tumor and about gam-ma knife than I do. While I applaud your desire for knowledge and to find out for yourself, there comes a time when you have to trust your doctor and that he has your best interests firmly at heart.

Pleurisy, inflammation of the lung coveringsDr. Keith Roach

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Courtesy photoSights such as this one along the Prairie Spirit Trail — minus the still-to-sprout foliage — will greet ultramarathon runners March 23 when they embark on the Prairie Spirit Trail 100, from Ottawa to Iola and back.

“If you can power walk, you can probably do a 50-miler,” he said.

Those who run the full 100 miles can be joined by a “pacer” or companion runner for different seg-ments of the return trip to Ottawa.

AS OF last week, run-ners from 12 states have registered — 33 doing the 50-mile path; 34 during the 100-mile path.

Registration will remain open through March 20, Steele said, and can be com-pleted online at prairie-spirit100.com. Registration costs $125 for those doing the 50 miles and $175 for the 100-mile participants. The prices will go up $25 after Feb. 9, plus early registra-

tion will guarantee partici-pants will get a shirt and buckle on the day of the race.

“Everybody who races will get a buckle, but we’d like to make sure we have enough that day,” Steele said.

RUNNING ultrama-rathons became a natural progression for Steele, 47, Wichita, who admitted he was hardly a bastion of good health as a young adult.

“I was overweight, smok-ing a pack of cigarettes a day and not really happy with where my life was headed,” he recalled.

He started running — poorly, it turns out — as a quick route to physical fit-ness.

“I had run a little in high school, but I was in pretty bad shape,” he said. “I couldn’t even run a mile when I started.”

Plus, he continued his smoking habit the first two years as a runner.

“It’s almost easier to do it that way,” he said with a laugh. “Most people would try to stop smoking before they start running, but what forced me to quit was that after running more and more, I figured out that smoking was making me sick. That’s when I finally stopped.”

Steele has a tie to Iola.His paternal grandfather,

Horace Glen Steele, was born in Iola in the early 1900s.

WHAT PROMPTS a

runner to go 100 miles in one excursion?

“You mean what makes us a special breed of crazy?” he replied with a laugh.

Steele compared ultra-marathoners to college students who have already earned a bachelor’s degree in a certain course of study, yet still want to do more in that area.

“So you complete your master’s courses,” he said. “That might be like doing a 50-mile race. Is there fur-ther study from a master’s? Of course; you have your doctorate. Runners have their doctorates in the form of 100-mile runs.”

He notes one significant difference between ultra-marathoners and those ded-icated to shorter distances.

“Serious runners who do marathons or half-mar-athons are the type who hate to have to walk at any point,” he said.

Ultramarathoners, on the other hand, are per-fectly willing to slow to a brisk walk — some will even stop to rest or take a

quick nap — to ensure their body stays charged enough to complete the course.

Steele follows a simple philosophy.

“Just run until it feels too hard, then walk until it feels too easy,” he said.

THE PRAIRIE SPIRIT trail should be attractive to veterans and newcomers alike for its forgiving gravel surface, its relatively flat course from end to end and its limited exposure to traf-fic, Steele said.

“This is a great course for runners to try to get their personal best marks,” said Steele, who ran the trail shortly after it was ex-tended to Iola about three years ago.

The trail’s proximity to U.S. 169 and then U.S. 59 — it runs virtually parallel to the highway corridor from Ottawa to Iola — is another benefit.

“It makes it very easy for runners to have sup-port teams at the ready if needed.”

Several manned and un-

manned aid stations will be set up along the route, close enough together that runners will go no farther than six miles between sta-tions. Most will be about five miles apart, Steele said.

STEELE helped form the Kansas Ultrarunners Society in 1995.

One of the first races he conceived was the famed Flatrock 50K race in rural Montgomery.

The name is something of a misnomer. Following the Elk River Hiking Trail, the course is anything but “flat” with scenic climbs along rolling hills just west of Independence.

The Prairie Spirit Trail will be far less challenging, as far as ultramarathons go.

“Plus, the runners will get to visit some great lit-tle towns along the way,” he said. “It should be a tremendous event. That’s why I’m calling this the ‘Inaugural’ Prairie Spirit 100. I want to come back year after year and do this again.”

H RunnersContinued from B1

Chanute girls (16-17-4-4—41)Iola girls (5-2-1-2—10)

Chanute (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Thompson 4-0-2-8, Umbarger 0/2-1-0-6, Jacobs 0-0-1-0, Barrick 2-0-2-4, Schoenhofer 2-0-1-4, Jackett 2-0-1-4, Schoenberger 2-0-0-4, Kidwell 7-1-1-15. TOTALS: 17/2-1-9-41.

Iola (FG-FT-F-TP): Cleaver 0-1-2-1, Delich 0-0-1-0, Lar-ney 0-1-0-1, Bannister 2-0-0-4, Shields 1-0-4-2, Sell 0-0-3-0, Ingle 1-0-0-2. TOTALS: 4-2-10-10.Chanute boys (21-0-12-20—53)Iola boys (4-4-6-15—29)

Chanute (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Allen 0-4-0-4, Lind 0-0-5-0, Krusich 1/1-0-2-5, Lewis 1-0-4-2, Haviland 3/3-3-1-18, Man-beck 4-1-2-9, Gilmore 0-1-2-1, Triplett 0-0-1-0, Richards 3-0-2-6, Taylor 0/2-2-3-8, Cooper 0-0-2-0. TOTALS: 12/6-11-25-53.

Iola (FG-FT-F-TP): Endicott 0-3-1-3, Works 0-0-2-0, Taylor 0-0-1-0, Hopkins 3-1-5-7, Ja-cobs 0-0-2-0, Hermstein 0-6-1-6, Peterson 2-2-2-6, Beck-ham 1-3-0-5, Patel 0-2-4-2. TOTALS: 6-17-18-29.

H IHSContinued from B1

Iola High freshman Travis Hermstein (15) is fouled by Chanute High’s Trey Lind (11) while Hermstein puts up a field goal attempt Monday. Hermstein scored five points for the Mustangs in a 53-23 defeat to open Iola’s freshman tournament. Tournament play wraps up next Monday.

Register/Richard LukenAbove, Iola High’s Tay-lor Sell, top, scrambles for a loose ball with Chanute High’s Jordan Schoenberger Monday.

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