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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 LYNNsusan@iolaregister.com

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 LUKENrichard@iolaregister.com

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 JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

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 SNEVEjoe@iolaregister.com

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-

By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

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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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

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PEELING AWAY THE YEARS

Register/Allison Tinn

Jim Smith pulls away a layer of drywall that was built alongside the stadium seating in the old Iola Theatre. Smith and David Toland are renovating the old theater to turn into a non-profit venue for community members to use for different events. Smith and Toland are in the process of finding contractors that can renovate the theater to what it once looked like, Smith said Monday.

Council addresses annexation concerns

By STEVEN SCHWARTZsteven@iolaregister.com

Two residents of Country Es-tates, Barbara Sherwood and Duane McGraw, came forward to voice their opinions on the annex-ation of the subdivision into the city and to clarify what it would mean to be inside the city limits.

Sherwood referenced a Reg-ister article regarding the plan-ning commission meeting held Wednesday. Sherwood wanted to know if changes would need to be made by the city if the subdi-vision were annexed — due to the fact that certain aspects of the Country Estates, including its roads, were not up to city code.

City Administrator Carl Slaugh said the city is under no require-ment to update the roads, side-walks or housing to bring them up to code.

One of the con-cerns, brought up by McGraw, was in regard to sewage pumps that have “not been updated since they have been installed.”

He said he has had overflow twice in his house, where he has found sewage water flooding his floors. His complaint is that people “don’t care” enough to fix any sort of issues in the area, and oftentimes don’t even know a sewage pump is in Coun-try Estates. He said he is in full support of annexation of the area to the city.

“I am anxious to see it annexed into the city,” McGraw said. “I want to see something better than what we have.”

The city would not be required to update the sewage systems in the area. However, Assistant City Administrator Corey Schinstock said the city likely would feel obli-gated to bring the area up to code.

Council member David Toland chimed in about the advantag-es of annexing an area such as Country Estates.

“In terms of representation, there are some compelling advan-tages,” Toland said.

He said there is not an accurate

School steps closer to heightened security

Register/Allison Tinn

County Clerk Sherrie Riebel approaches the board to consider going at large, which would allow for anyone in the USD 257 area to vote or run for a seat on the school board.

By RICHARD LUKENrichard@iolaregister.com

HUMBOLDT — More answers are needed before Humboldt City Council members will agree to hire a private company to man-age Humboldt’s swimming pool.

Council members, gathered at a special meeting Monday, held an at-times contentious debate about the benefits of paying USA Pools, a Georgia-based company, $45,730 to manage the Humboldt Municipal Pool in 2013.

The city has a proposal to sign a one-year contract, or a three-year contract with a slight dis-count.

City Administrator Larry Tucker pointed out the city bud-geted more than $54,000 this year for pool expenditures, including salaries, benefits, training and chemical supplies.

As part of the proposal, USA Pools would hire a pool manager and lifeguards to oversee daily operations, from 1 to 8 p.m. daily

from Memorial Day to Labor Day.The city would receive the

revenues from daily admission costs, while the company would receive the bulk of the revenues for special events, such as pri-vate parties.

Humboldt also would be re-sponsible for repairs and mainte-nance to the pool.

The company also has pledged to work closely with the Hum-boldt Recreation Commission in

Humboldt defers pool decision

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By ALLISON TINNallison@iolaregister.com

Iola schools are one step clos-er to a comprehensive security system that will use special card readers, USD 257 board of educa-tion members learned Monday night.

The system would keep access doors locked during class and would reopen during passing pe-riod. Faculty and staff would be given special cards, called prox-imity cards, which would allow for access into a school, as well as hall passes, which would allow students to leave class during the locked hours.

If a student is running late, more than five minutes past the tardy bell, he would require a hall pass from the front office to proceed to class, said Brett Linn, technology director.

The school district will also be installing panic buttons at all

the schools. The buttons are to be used only in case of an active shooter on school grounds and would send a message across all law enforcement radios, cutting response time down dramatically.

Guest check-ins will be in-stalled in the schools. Upon en-tering a school guests will be re-quired to visit a kiosk, which will print out a name badge for a guest to wear after recording the guest’s information. Exiting guests will be required to check-out.

The software was seen at the new Chanute Elementary School when the facilities planning com-mittee took a tour of the school.

The new check-in system will cost roughly $1,159 per school, and will be installed into five schools.

Additional features to the check-in system come with a

See SECURITY | Page A6

Duane McGraw

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By STEVE SCHWARTZsteven@iolaregister.com

Former Human Resources Manager Ken Hunt will receive a $40,000 settlement from the city of Iola in regard to his termination in 2011.

Hunt was terminated by the city after reports of misconduct that included fraud and the chang-ing of operation manuals without consent from the city.

City Administrator Carl Slaugh said an investigation was made through the city, and no results were found to support the claims.

“The investigation showed that there was no ac-tual evidence of the claims that were made,” Slaugh said.

The settle-ment included a formal apology from the city, which was read by council member Joel Wicoff during Monday night’s meeting, as well as a statement that ex-plains that Hunt’s separation was voluntary.

The apology read: “We apolo-gize for the circumstances sur-rounding your termination and we hope this settlement helps ev-eryone move forward.”

Slaugh said the council was eager to get the situation behind them and clear up any further liti-gation with Hunt.

“They wanted to get the situa-tion settled and move on,” Slaugh said. “It’s a difficult thing to go through.”

He said the council believed it was an appropriate time for the settlement, since the city could reach a reasonable agreement.

The $40,000 includes damages received from the termination, in-cluding loss of income.

Hunt receives formal apology for termination

The investigation showed that there was no actual evi-dence of the claims that were made.

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Lawmakers planning extra-long spring breakTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas

legislators are planning to take an unusually long spring break this year, part of efforts by Re-publican leaders to shorten the time lawmakers spend in ses-sion, House Speaker Ray Mer-rick said Monday.

Legislators plan to work through April 5, the 74th day in session, then reconvene on May 8 to wrap up business for the year. If they had followed a traditional schedule, they would reconvene on April 24.

Merrick faced questions about whether the ex-tended break is designed to al-low legislators to attend an early May meeting of the American Legislative Ex-change Council, a national group for lawmakers that promotes con-servative model legislation on a wide range of issues. Merrick, a conservative Stilwell Republi-can, and Senate President Susan Wagle, a conservative Wichita Republican, are members of the group’s national board.

“It’s a coincidence,” Merrick told The Associated Press.

Instead, Merrick said, the goal is to limit legislators’ work after the spring break to reviewing ve-toes by Gov. Sam Brownback. Ex-tending the spring break ensures that any deadlines for the conser-vative Republican governor to act on any bills approved by the GOP-dominated Legislature will have passed.

“We might be out of here in a day,” Merrick said.

GOP leaders in the Senate de-ferred to Merrick to explain the schedule change, saying they weren’t fully aware of the rea-

Ray Merrick

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Vincent CulbertsonVincent E. Culbertson,

97, left this world and went home to Jesus on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, at Chanute Health Care Center in Cha-nute. Vincent was born to George W. Culbertson and Ida E. (Geddes) Culbertson on Dec. 15, 1915. Vincent had three siblings, a sister, Velma, and two brothers, G. Kenneth and Eugene, who preceded him in death.

On Dec. 25, 1940, Vincent married Betty L. Biggs. They lived their lives together on the Culbertson Homestead in rural Iola which was established by his grand-father, R.E. Culbertson, in 1861. Betty preceded him in death in 1996 after a long battle with cancer. Together they raised seven children, Robert V. Culbertson, wife Rose, Coffeyville, Bill E. Culbertson, wife Christina, Topeka, Mary E. Wood, hus-band Don, Elk City, George E. Culbertson, wife Cindy, rural Iola, Eric G. Culbert-son, (deceased 1964), Roy L. Culbertson, rural Iola, and Ben E. Culbertson, wife Nancy, Nevada, Mo.

Vincent was a longtime member of Salem United Methodist Church of rural Iola.

Vincent is survived by many grandchildren and many, many great- and great-great-grandchildren.

Vincent attended Onion Creek School, rural Iola, and Iola High School. Vin-cent was a farmer and very proud to be one. He also worked part time in the oil fields to help make ends meet. He loved to see things grow and to know that he had a part in that. He loved to be outdoors and enjoy na-ture.

As a young man he en-joyed playing the violin. He was a very good carpenter which he really enjoyed. He loved working with his hands and was very good at whatever he was doing. Vin-cent also enjoyed going on road trips with his family to see and experience new things. Vincent was a quiet and soft-spoken man. He never asked for much and yet he gave so much to any-one and everyone.

Vincent spent the last few years of his life living with his son George and wife Cin-dy on the Culbertson Home-stead that he loved so much. In July of 2012 he became a resident of the Chanute Health Care Center due to failing health. Vincent will be dearly missed by not only his family, but by anyone who ever knew him.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Friday, at Calvary United Methodist Church in Iola.

Burial will be at DeWitt Cemetery west, Humboldt.

Memorials to Salem Unit-ed Methodist Church may 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.

ObituaryStudents qualifying for

the all “A” and “A-B” honor roll at Humboldt Elemen-tary Charter School for the second nine weeks are as follows:

All “As”Third grade

Peyten Galloway, Nau-tianna Goforth and Laken Hunter.Fourth grade

Samuel Neeley, Madi-son Riebel and Drew Scho-endaller.Fifth grade

Kilea Heslop, Kaylie Hole, Emma Johnson, Winter Lohmann and Nichole Turner.

All “A-B”Third grade

Ashtyn Ansley, Jarek Baughn, Jaron Boncz-kowski, Robert Cook, Hope Everett-Snyder, Madelynn Hodgden, Colton Johnson, Paige Marvin, Kirstyn Murrow, Brayden Oliver, Gavin Page, Abby Rinehart, Madison Sinclair, Colton

Slocum, Madilyn White, Drew Wilhite and Cooper Woods.Fourth grade

Kyle Brinkerhoff, Aid-an Collins, Cole Criss, Jada Dangerfield, Natalie Davis, Drake Harrington, Addison Hart, Kady Hart, Trenton Heisler, Ash-lynn Herridge, Angelina Keidel, Thane Meadows, Jessica Myers, Jurnee Rutledge, Riley Schmidt, Clay Shannon, Jailynn Sinclair, Blake Walker, Kennady Wilkerson, Ca-mille Wood and Mayci Yost.5th grade

Taylor Beeman, Trent-en Booe, Veronica Corona-do, Calvin Delich, Logan Dillow, Madison Funk, Madison Gean, Hailey Hammer, Drake Hotten-stein, Joshua Hull, Coo-per Jaro, Alayna Johnson, Tymber Kaufman, Taylor Lassman, Briar Orth, Reid Smith, Heather Swogar and Luke Yokum.

Humboldt Elementary honor roll

scheduling youth swim lessons and adult swim classes.

Before the city signs the contract, City Attor-ney Fred Works wrote out a series of questions, in-cluding one provision that would prohibit the hiring of any employees such as lifeguards for one calen-dar year if the contract is canceled. Such a provi-sion could make it difficult to rehire lifeguards if the city for whatever reason, ends its contract with USA Pools.

Works recommended the city stick with a one-year contract before agreeing to any multi-year option.

Mayor Nobby Davis agreed, saying the city needed answers to those and other questions posed Monday by a handful of audience members.

Darcie Croisant and Jason Bauer, represent-ing the Humboldt Recre-ation Commission, asked whether HRC or USA Pools would offer swim lessons, while Toni Schomaker, a resident and candidate for the USD 258 Board of Education, grilled council-men on how the company would manage the pool.

Would the managers be from out of town, she asked.

A company employee likely from the Kansas City area will oversee the hiring of pool managers, Tucker responded, and ev-ery effort would be made to hire local employees.

Tucker also said compa-ny officials have pledged to work with the recreation commission on a number of issues, including swim lessons and swim meets.

Schomaker also noted Chanute hired a private company to manage its pool for a few years, but eventually ended the con-tract because of public criticism of the company’s managing style.

The company ran the Chanute facility like “pool Nazis,” Schomaker con-tended.

Would the company con-tinue to offer free adult water aerobics sessions, as has been done in years past, Bauer asked.

Works also noted the proposed contract con-tains little if any language regarding concessions sales. Would the company be responsible for conces-sions?

The city also must be mindful that a license would be necessary for certain food products to be sold, and a new state law would require modifi-cations to the pool’s bath-house if a license is neces-sary, Davis said.

Tucker asked council members to give tentative approval to the contract, provided the company had suitable answers for the questions.

Council members, how-ever, agreed to wait, not-ing the company wanted to know by “the first of Feb-ruary” — and not Feb. 1 — the city’s decision.

A decision is expected at the council’s Feb. 11 meet-ing.

COUNCIL MEMBERS approved purchase of a new backhoe to replace the existing backhoe that may be on its last legs.

The city will purchase a JCB backhoe from Sellers Equipment of Wichita for $64,325, minus trade-in.

The city’s current back-hoe was purchased in 2005, and is almost certainly on its last legs because its mo-tor is in danger of failing.

“We could rebuild the motor, but we’re still look-ing at a used piece of equipment,” Davis said.

The city will pay half of the costs out of its general fund, and the other half out of a $73,000 payment Humboldt received from class action settlement from a St. Louis-based her-bicide producer.

Syngente Crop Protec-tion paid more than 1,000 communities across North America roughly $105 million because its prod-ucts wound up depositing high levels of atrazine in groundwater supplies.

The added atrazine was removed from the water by the cities’ water treatment facilities, including Hum-boldt’s.

“The settlement helps pay for the chemicals we used to treat that water,” Tucker said.

Tucker noted the back-hoe would be used exten-sively for water line re-pairs.

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sons for it. Democratic leaders also said they couldn’t explain it.

“I’ve just seen the calen-dar,” said House Minority Leader Paul Davis, a Law-rence Democrat.

ALEC’s spring meet-ing is May 2-3 in Oklaho-ma City, and the National Conference of State Leg-islatures also is having a spring meeting May 2-4

in Denver. Merrick sent fellow House members a letter Monday, urging them to join ALEC and noting its May meeting.

Republican leaders re-peatedly have said they’d like to shave 10 or more days of the annual ses-sion’s normal schedule of 90 days.

The Kansas Constitu-tion specifies 90 days, but lawmakers often have met longer over the past two decades. The record was 107 days in 2002. Last year, legislators were in session 99 days, including 26 days after their spring break.

Lawmakers began scheduling the spring break in 1969, when Repub-

licans had large ma-j o r i t i e s in both chambers and Dem-ocrat Rob-ert Dock-ing was governor.

The first few wrap-ups lasted one or two days, in line with descriptions of them as “veto” sessions. However, by the late 1980s, legislators were waiting un-til after their spring break to resolve most issues.

“We have pushed far too many issues off into the veto session in previous years,” Davis said. “It’s a practice we should end.”

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Susan Wagle

It was reported in Satur-day’s issue of the Register that after- prom activities would occur in Topeka. The students, in fact, will travel to Tulsa after the prom. The Register regrets the error.

In addition, the junior af-ter prom committee is sell-ing enchiladas until Feb. 8.

Correction

The Iola Ministerial As-sociation will be giving away sacks of potatoes at the community pantry, 16 W. Broadway, Feb. 8 at 9:30 a.m.

The sacks of potatoes are first-come first-serve.

Potatoes to be given away

We have pushed far too many issues off into the veto ses-sion in previous years. It’s a prac-tice we should end.

— Paul Davis, house minority leader

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By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT— A home-based business has many facets for the owner.

Robert “Gary” Yokum, 65, started cutting firewood in 1980 for the extra income. Today, his wood-cutting business also gives him “something to do.”

“I got tired of sitting around,” Yokum said. “I hadn’t cut wood for a long time, but I started back in the fall. I didn’t want to be like some of these guys who retire then just sit around.”

Since starting his wood cutting business again, the activity has resulted in him losing 20 pounds.

“I’m 65 years old and still handling this wood; I think I’m doing pretty good, by golly,” he said.

In 1980, his six children were at home and Yokum decided cutting wood would be a means for some extra cash.

He retired from Nu Way Campers, Chanute, after 10 years of employment there and worked for Rolco Trail-ers in Chanute for 10 years prior to that. Although the kids are no longer under his roof, the extra money is nice to have, he said.

Buying the chain saws, the gas-oil combination, oil for the bar and chains are typical expenses incurred, but the wood splitter is con-sidered the most expensive, Yokum said.

“This splitter cost me about $1,300,” Yokum said pointing to the mechanical wedge on two wheels used to reduce a large log into smaller, more manageable pieces.

The type of wood typi-

cally dictates how long the saw’s chain will last, Yo-kum explained.

“Hedge wood is three or four times harder and a chain doesn’t last as long,” he said. “Now hackberry, it’s like cutting through butter, but it doesn’t burn as long. Hedge gets harder the older it gets. You can’t drive a nail in 2-year-old hedge.”

Yokum also is free to set his hours and workload.

“I can work at my own pace,” Yokum said.

It is his practice to team up with a friend when go-ing out to restock his inven-tory.

“He likes to cut wood too and if we go together, then we’re not out there by our-selves, if something would happen,” Yokum said.

Yokum’s pickup can haul 2½ rick of wood (a mea-surement of stacked wood that is 4 feet tall by 4 feet wide 8 feet long), but how long it takes to get a load varies.

“If we don’t have to throw the brush, it goes a lot faster,” he said.

The most common place for cutting wood is along a hedgerow that a farmer wants cleared. Then,cutters wanting to save the wood for firewood are asked to pile the brush trimmed off the tree leaving a clean area.

Once a tree is felled, branches of sufficient size for firewood must be trimmed of foliage and smaller limbs. These, and the trunk, are cut in 16- to 18-inch lengths and loaded in the bed of his pickup to be hauled to town, where each log is reduced to small-

er pieces with the splitter and stacked, ready for sale.

“I don’t split as small as some,” Yokum said. “I leave them a little bigger. I call them ‘all-nighters.’”

Yokum explained that a fireplace may take a log as long as 24 inches, but the popular fireplace inserts take the shorter size. “Back in ’80 and ’81, I sold about 100 rick of mixed wood. Once people got inserts, those sales went downhill.”

Customers prefer cured wood and will choose hedge over hackberry because of the heat produced.

Yokum said he tries to go out and cut every day, thus building up the stock on hand, but securing a place to work, isn’t always easy.

“Some of the farmers now days just bulldoze the trees to clear it out,” he said.

“I’d like to have more of the Hedge by summer, because people like it cured.”

A lifelong resident of Al-len County, Yokum has lived in Humboldt since 1969.

Since rekindling his home-based business, he has gained new customers and keeps them supplied with wood to burn by deliv-ering the amount ordered.

“I deliver or they can haul their own,” he said. “I charge $50 a rick for hedge, but if I have to go out of town, I like them to take two rick … with the price of gas.” Hackberry is $40 a rick.

With the sluggish econo-my, winter weather that has been less than harsh and the competition in supply-ing firewood, sales have not been as good as in the past, Yokum said, “but, I’m just getting started again.”

By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT — Prairie Spirit Trail volunteers met Saturday morning at the Humboldt trailhead, east of B & W Trailer Hitches, where they concentrated on clearing brush and debris in the three miles north.

Jane and Lindsey Tweedy, regular volun-teers from Iola, encour-aged workers to bring chainsaws, pole saws and lopping shears in the work notification. “Looks like Mother Nature will be good to us; we’ll work until about noon.”

Envisioning a 14-foot trail bed with at least 12 feet of hard surface, Dave Fontaine, another regu-lar, directs clearing efforts along both sides, where protruding branches, creeping roots and thick underbrush crowd the trail.

A landscape rake has been beneficial in the clearing process along the seven-mile length to Iola,

as well as an industrial brush cutter and grader. Some pieces and chunks of decomposing railroad ties in the trail bed have to be dislodged manually and tossed aside.

“It will have to be graded a couple of more times be-fore we can place screen-ings,” Fontaine said.

Although the trail is not ready nor officially open, Tweedy said walkers and hikers are welcome to walk the trail and see what has been accomplished.

Work in the days ahead will involve “dressing up” the road intersections for visibility, installing bol-lards and mounting barri-ers on ladder towers along the trail.

“We’ve been fortunate with the weather for this time of year,” Fontaine said. “We’ve got quite a bit done, but there’s still a lot to do.”

Those interested in assisting with the trail are welcome to join the group which meets most Saturdays.

Thursday - Rail trail committee meeting, 6:30 p.m., Thrive office, Iola.

Friday - Allen County County Spelling Bee, 1 p.m., Bowlus Fine Arts Center, Iola.

Saturday - St. Peter’s Lutheran Church ground hog feed, 6 a.m.-2 p.m., church basement.

Feb. 5 - Hoe and Hope Garden Club meeting, 9 a.m., library community room.Annual ground hog feed

St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Men’s group will serve pancakes and sau-sage Saturday from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. This is the 55th year for the event that draws hundreds of lo-cal and area supporters. The annual fundraiser helps provide funding for their district project, the church youth group and the high school after prom event.

The price at the door, for all you can eat, is $5 for adults and $3 for chil-dren. Members of the youth group will be on hand helping carry food, clean tables or training for future duties in the kitchen.PEO

The theme for the Sat-urday meeting of Chapter AM PEO was “come as you are” and held at the home of Linda Leonard.

Christy Seufert, Ellie Walburn and Amanda Ames were appointed to the nominating commit-tee to select officers for

the year. Members signed up for anniversary com-mittees and the Chapter voted to join the Chamber of Commerce.

The next meeting will be Feb. 12.Mary Martha Circle

Juanita Hamm hosted the Mary Martha Circle of the First Baptist Church on Thursday at the church.

Valentine cards were brought by seven mem-bers, one officer and one guest for roll call and those present signed the cards to be sent to shut-ins.Garden club

The Hoe and Hope Gar-den Club met in the com-munity room of the library for their January meeting with host Ellery Robertson giving the opening prayer. Nine member attended.

It was decided the club would not work the ball concessions this summer and instead assess mem-bers $10. Westar is working on a lighting solution for the garden on Hwy 224 and field trips for the year were finalized.

Robertson shared his procedure for successful-ly growing amaryllis and June Stipp spoke about the progress on the Neo-sho River Park walking paths and garden plans. Examples of native plants that will be used were provided and how best to plant the seeds discussed. “Native” for plants means that the plant has grown here for 200 years, Stipp said.

Local resident Robert Yokum uses a splitter to re-size large logs making them suitable for burning in a fire-place insert. His home-based wood cutting business provides him with extra cash.

Register/Terry Broyles

Man reaps benefit of home business

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Lindsey Tweedy, one of six volunteers helping to clear the rail trail near Humboldt Saturday, uses lop-ping shears to sever a nuisance root. Trees, brush and abandoned railroad ties must be far enough away from the trail shoulder that a grader can pass.

Register/Terry Broyles

Rail trail shows progress

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In what was supposed to add spark to a performance, turned into a deadly fire at a nightclub in southern Brazil in the wee hours of Sunday.

More than 230, mostly uni-versity students, were killed in the blaze.

It was started by a singer in the band who lighted a kind of flare and when he held it above his head it accidently set the ceiling on fire.

A faulty fire extinguisher al-lowed the blaze to go unabated.

Here in the United States, a similar tragedy at a nightclub in Rhode Island killed 100.

A quick call to Iola’s fire department assured no such instance could occur here — le-gally. Pyrotechnics of any sort in public venues such as a bar

violate city fire codes. The Brazil club’s owners

were arrested for multiple vio-lations of safety regulations.

That’s all well and good, but does nothing to bring back those lives lost.

The incident is a reminder that negligence exists and that concert-goers, for instance, need to be aware of their sur-roundings. Take note of exits. Keep a finger on the pulse of the crowd. If things seem to be getting out of hand, leave the scene.

BRAZIL’S sorrows are an-other reminder for cities to be vigilant in enforcing codes. The rules are there to protect us.

— Susan Lynn

Brazil’s deadly blaze

The most striking aspect of the Pentagon’s decision to lift a 1994 ban on combat duty for women last week was the lack of any sub-stantive opposition in Congress. Normally, any policy change that hints at evolving social values leads to some kind of political uproar; it was a deeply divided Congress, for example, that re-pealed “don’t ask, don’t tell.” No comparable controversy erupted last week, as such Republicans as Senator John McCain embraced the change. That’s partly because the new policy reflects the actual practice in the field in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also gives belated acknowledgment to the over 150 women who have died in uniform since 2001. They did, in fact, per-ish in combat.

In retrospect, the White House, which appears to have been taken by surprise by the timing of De-fense Secretary Leon Panetta’s decision, was unnecessarily fear-ful of addressing the issue. All the service chiefs came to the conclusion some time ago that, in wars with no clear battle lines, the formal exclusion of women was impossible to enforce.

Commanders still have some latitude; the new rules give them the authority to exclude all wom-en from some units. But as ex-plained on Thursday by General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the new rules put the onus on the military to defend policies or practices that exclude women. “We have never had that

conversation before,” he said.Implementation of the new

combat rules will occur over time. The winding down of US military involvement in Iraq and Afghani-stan means that any changes will be gradual. Meanwhile, the ques-tion of whether young- women will be required to register for a potential draft, as young men are, remains unanswered; for now, the Pentagon seems content to punt on that decision — wisely concluding that it’s best to let the

changes in combat policy sink in first.

In the meantime, the greatest practical effect of the new rules is to give more women the chance to attain the highest levels of military rank, for which formal combat experience can be an important credential. And, over time, more high-ranking female officers can be deeply involved in decisions about whether to send women — and men — to war.

— The Boston Globe

Women in combat a naturalBy JOHN SCHLAGECKKansas Farm Bureau

While food safety will always be the cornerstone of our food production process, allegiance is making inroads into why and where consumers buy their products.

Sure, the majority of today’s shoppers enjoys and often takes for granted the expanded menu in supermarkets. They look for-ward to shopping in a meat case filled with dozens of new cuts, pre-packaged, oven-ready, cus-tom portioned, “natural” and pre-cooked products. They can’t wait to get their mitts on the marinades, dry rubs, cooking bags and other specialty items designed for time strapped, two-income families.

There’s also another growing group of consum-ers who are pur-ch a s i n g products based on trust and n o s t a l -gia. This n o t i o n of nostal-gia har-kens back to the good old days — a time when events and lives were perceived as simpler, more wholesome, just downright bet-ter.

Many in this new group of consumers want to share in the story behind the product they are buying. They wish to estab-lish a direct link and cultivate a relationship with the producer who provides them with toma-toes, asparagus, corn or their leg of lamb for the upcoming holiday.

There are a fair number of shoppers who yearn to develop a trust with producers who they believe will provide them with a quality, consistent wholesome product.

Tapping into this ever-chang-ing consumer landscape, today’s food producer — especially those located near large-popu-lation, urban areas — must not miss the opportunity to reach the hearts, minds and stomachs of consumers who feel strongly about their food.

Some consumer-savvy food growers are already honed in on

this concept. They’ve retooled their farming operation from a conventional commodities-only business to one that includes pick-your-own sweet corn, pumpkins, asparagus, tomatoes and strawberries. They’re giv-ing people what they want.

Others now provide home de-liveries of fresh produce and sell their produce at local farmers’ markets. Still others have added a corn maze, day-on-the-farm activities, ice-cream socials and chuck-wagon cookouts for ev-eryone from school-aged kids to wedding rehearsal parties.

This new direction in farming is being driven by farmers and ranchers who are attempting to be less dependent on cheap land and vast acreage. These pioneers are tapping into the population

s u r g e a n d w e a l t h of con-s u m e r s who shop o n l i n e , drive a c o u p l e cars in-c l u d i n g a SUV and don’t

mind paying a premium for the food they feed their families.

Another common element of this non-traditional farmer is the belief that this shift in production style may not make them rich, but will keep them out in the open spaces, running their own business and doing what they enjoy. A large percent-age of those willing to try some-thing new are younger farmers. In many cases, a young farmer is often considered someone who has yet to reach the half-century mark.

For some traditional farm-ing became too expensive. Oth-ers decided traditional farming was no longer worth the effort. Whatever the reason, any farm-er will tell you that farming is a challenging vocation. Still most would agree they are glad they bought their land, and glad they’re doing what they enjoy.

No doubt, more and more farmers will be looking at new strategies. Those who are deter-mined to stay in this business of agriculture will have to find in-novative ways to farm.

Kansas is your customer

There are a fair number of shoppers who yearn to develop a trust with producers who they believe will pro-vide them with a quality, consistent wholesome product.

The Muslim Brotherhood, amidst widespread public anger, wanted to mark the second an-niversary of Egypt’s revolution by planting 500,000 trees, helping a million hospital patients and renovating 2,000 schools. Instead, the country looks like it is falling apart. Tear gas swirled through the windows of the posh hotels surrounding Tahrir Square. Ten people were killed during anti-government protests in Suez. In Port Said riots sparked by a court ruling left 35 dead. On Sunday night, the president, Mohammed Morsi, declared a state of emer-gency in those two cities and Is-mailia, promising that any fur-ther unrest would be dealt with even more harshly.

The past two days in Egypt looked at times like a slow-mo-tion repeat of the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak two years ago: the marches, the gas, the shouted demands to topple the regime, and a miscalculated response by the president (Mr. Morsi took to Facebook and Twit-ter to express his condolences to the families of those killed). Hard-nosed Suez, where the first demonstrator was killed in 2011, again provided the spark. Protest-ers ripped down police shacks and set government buildings alight. The police killed ten of those protesting.

The unrest felt darker, more anarchic, than the uprising of 2011. In the coastal city at the northern mouth of the Suez Ca-nal, 33 civilians and two police officers were killed after relatives tried to storm a prison housing 22 local football fans sentenced to death on Saturday over a bloody stadium stampede last year.

Blurry video showed prison guards popping up from behind their turreted towers to fire at the angry crowd a few of whom were shooting back. The Port Said families are furious; their in-nocent sons, they say, have been wrongly con-demned by a politicized court to avoid the cha-os that would engulf Cairo if the victims of the pitch invasion — mostly supporters of Cairo’s Ahly club — were not avenged. The Ahly fans are equally furious; the massacre, abetted by the govern-ment, they say, must be punished, or they will take action.

The riots have re-vealed worrying signs of a state that is both absent and untrusted by the people. Two years of transition

and seven months of Brother-hood administration have failed to restore a sense of accountabil-ity. The Port Said families took matters, violently, into their own hands because they did not trust the court. The Ahly fans threat-ened to do the same. Protesters in Tahrir Square believe that Mr Morsi has lied to them too often to remain in office.

Who will lead Egypt out of its current crisis is unclear.

— The Economist

Egypt’s turmoil as dark as ever

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If that doesn’t get your fever up for spring, then I don’t know what will. As you start to plan your 2013 garden, take a look at the 2013 All-American Selec-tions (AAS) winners.

Each year, the All-Amer-ica Selections tests and in-troduces new flowers and vegetables to home gar-deners. These plants have proven themselves to do well in trials across North America. The AAS winner label is like a stamp of ap-proval.

These descriptions were taken from All-American Selections material.

Melon “melemon” F1 — This melon offers earliness, high yield on strong plants with supe-rior taste. Judges related the taste of this melon to honeydew, but with a surprising and delicious tanginess. It has a uni-form fruit shape which makes it perfect for mar-ket growers as well as home gardeners. Each personal-sized fruit has a refreshing crisp flesh and a unique sweet-tart taste.

Tomato “jasper” F1 — This cherry tomato has ex-cellent taste, a long harvest window and outstanding performance in the trials. Judges liked the texture

and sweetness of the toma-to as well as the uniformity of the fruits that grow on vigorous, healthy plants. Jasper is a high yielding variety with fruits that stay on the vine and then hold well after ripening both on the vine and post-harvest. Vines are vigor-ous and require little or no fertilization. An added bonus to this tomato is fu-sarium resistance and the ability to overcome weath-er-related stresses.

Watermelon “harvest moon” F1 — This is the first ever hybrid, triploid seedless watermelon to win an AAS award. This watermelon is similar to the popular heirloom va-riety, “moon and stars.” “Harvest moon” is an improvement in that it features healthy, shorter vines that produce medi-um-sized fruits and sweet, crisp, pinkish-red flesh. It retains the familiar dark green rind with yellow dots, like that of “moon and stars” but is seedless, earlier to ripen, higher

yielding and better tasting.Canna “south pacific

scarlet” F1 — This canna has showy, 4-inch flowers that bloom all summer long in a delicious shade of scarlet. Large leafed plants reach 4 to 5 feet tall. Compact in habit and well suited for both landscape and container use. It pre-fers warm and humid con-ditions over 77 degrees. This variety is more vig-orous, more uniform, and has more basal branching

than Canna Tropical Red.Echinacea “cheyenne

spirit” — Produces a de-lightful mix of flower col-ors from rich purple, pink, red and orange tones to lighter yellows, creams and white. An added bo-nus is that it does not re-quire a lot of watering and offers a wide range of uses from the perennial border, in a mass landscape plant-ing, in a butterfly garden or as a cut flower. This is a durable plant and is very sturdy and does not topple

over during wind and rain like many other Echina-cea.

Geranium “pinto pre-mium white to rose” F1 — This geranium has nu-merous 5-inch blooms that are long-lasting in the gar-den. Petals start out white then deepen to rose-pink as flowers mature, giving it an attractive bicolor ef-fect. Dense, well-branched plants sport deep green leaves with darker zones that contrast beautifully

with the light-colored flow-ers. This is a great choice for carefree, colorful sum-mer garden beds or patio containers.

For a complete descrip-tion of the 2013 All Amer-ica Selections, visit www.all-americaselections.org.

Krista Harding is a K-State Research and Exten-sion Agricultural agent assigned to Southwind Dis-trict. She may be reached at 620-244-3826 or kharding@ksu.edu.

In the January issue of the Tufts University Health and Nutrition Letter, one of the articles highlighted the top six sources of sodium in today’s American diet, and it’s not just french fries and potato chips.

The American Heart Asso-ciation introduced the “salty six” to increase awareness of six common foods that may be loaded with excess sodium.

They are:Bread and rolls — one slice

of bread or roll can contain as much as 230 milligrams of sodium.

Cold cuts and cured meats — deli or pre-packaged tur-key can have as much as 1,050 milligrams.

Pizza — one slice can con-tain up to 760 milligrams.

Poultry — choose your chicken wisely, avoiding products enhanced with a sodium solution. Just three ounces of fast-food-style nug-gets can contain almost 600 milligrams of sodium.

Soup — one cup of canned chicken noodle soup can have up to 940 milligrams of sodium.

Sandwiches — a sandwich can easily top 1,500 milli-grams of sodium.

It’s clear that Americans have developed quite a taste for salt, but we know that salt plays a role in high blood pressure. The dietary guide-lines for Americans recom-mend that everyone, includ-ing kids, should reduce their sodium intake to less than 2,300 milligrams of sodium a day — or about 1 teaspoon of salt.

Adults 51 and older, Afri-can Americans of any age and those with high blood pressure, diabetes or chronic kidney disease should fur-ther reduce their sodium in-take to 1,500 mg a day.

Learning to enjoy flavorful foods without all the sodium may take a little practice, and require you to adjust

your taste buds, but it can be done. Begin by cutting back on salt little by little — pay at-tention to the natural tastes of various foods.

Before you know it, your taste for salt will lessen.

Cooking at home is a great place to start because you are the one in control of what’s in your food. Skip the salt when cooking. Use herbs, spices, garlic, vinegar, no-salt seasoning mixes, pepper or lemon juice instead.

Pay attention to condi-ments you might add to recipes, however. Foods like soy sauce, ketchup, pickles, olives, salad dressings and some seasoning packets are high in sodium. Choose low-sodium options whenever you can. Cooking without salt certainly does not mean cooking without flavor. Don’t be afraid to experiment and be creative.

Other ways to consume less sodium include filling up on fresh and frozen veg-etables and fruits — they are naturally low in sodium. Fresh foods of all kinds are generally lower in sodium.

In fact, most of the sodium Americans eat is found in processed foods, so eat them less often and in smaller por-tions.

Finally, read the Nutrition Facts label to find packaged and canned foods that are lower in sodium.

Look for foods labeled as “low sodium,” “reduced so-dium,” or “no salt added.” When using canned vegeta-bles, draining, rinsing and re-heating the vegetables in water can significantly re-duce the sodium.

Try new flowers, veggies in gardenKristaHarding

ExtensionAgent forAgriculture

Each year, the All-American Selections tests (AAS) and introduces new flowers and vegetables to home gardeners. These plants have proven themselves to do well in trials across North America. The AAS winner label is like a stamp of approval.

Avoid the ‘salty six’Kathy McEwanExtensionAgent forFamily andConsumer Sciences

Olivia Bannister shows how to use a homemade “sock bun” on Trilby Bannister at a recent Prairie Dell 4-H club meeting.

Photo by Terri Kretzmeier

Southwind District 4-H Day will be held Satur-day at Uniontown High School.

Activities begin at 8 a.m.

Southwind District in-cludes 4-H members from Bourbon, Allen and Neo-sho counties. Youth will present talks, demonstra-

tions, talent, vocal and instrumental music and model meetings.

The public is invited. The schedule of events can be found online at www.southwind.ksu.edu.

Winners will advance to Regional 4-H Day Feb. 23 at Allen Community College.

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higher price tag. One feature include scanning a guest’s driver’s license, which would tell school officials if the guest is on the national of-fender’s list.

The district will be taking sealed bids until Feb. 6 for a security system. The prices for proximity cards and the panic buttons have yet to be determined.

Iola Middle School has received and accepted a bid for a new door that will be in-stalled. The new door will re-quire guests to enter through the main office rather than the side entrance with no su-pervision.

The bid came from Iola Glass and local contractors.

The Bowlus Fine Arts Center will have a buzzer system with a two-way inter-com, camera and a proxim-ity card.

Crossroads will have a buzzer, two-way intercom system with a camera.

Given the existing security around the Age-to-Age Pre-school, a keypad entry will be installed.

OTHER UPDATES also need to be made to the schools, said Scott Stanley, di-rector of operations.

Buses are required to be shuffled out after 25 years of use. Stanley said about nine buses will be reaching their expiration date in the next couple of years.

Stanley said he looked into contracting buses, but found the savings wasn’t greater than what the district would be losing. Current bus driv-ers have a very high chance of losing their jobs because the contractor would hire its own employees and the district would be leasing the buses.

The board decided to pur-chase a new bus and a new

van and trade some of their buses.

The total for the purchase will be roughly $101,645.

Each year a plan is pre-sented to the board for sum-mer work for updates and repairs.

Some of the items to take priority in 2013 are entry doors for the high school and McKinley Elementary School, and roof repairs for the middle school gym, middle school upper roof, sci-ence building, McKinley and Crossroads, which Stanley says is the worst in the dis-trict.

Leveling the floors in the high school will be postponed another year. Stanley said the floors are not presenting an immediate threat but will get progressively worse.

“We are protecting our stu-dents from the outside, may-be we should be protecting them from the inside,” board member Buck Quincy said.

The total costs will be in the ballpark of $250,000.

“Sooner or later we are go-ing to have to pay the piper,” board president Tony Leavitt said. “It’s not what I want to hear but it’s reality.”

COUNTY CLERK Sher-rie Riebel approached the board to request they change the way members are elect-ed. Riebel suggested board members be elected at large, meaning anyone in the USD 257 school district would be able to run for or vote for a position on the board.

Currently, wards, causing up to 16 different ballots dur-ing election year, divide the board seats up.

“I don’t have a problem with going at large, but I would like to hear what the public has to say about it,” Leavitt said.

The decision to go at large will need to be made some-time before 2015.

representation of how many people live in Iola by the 5,700 on the popula-tion signs. There are many people living just outside of the city limits, such as Country Estates, and he said by not including them in the city limits, the city is missing out of some po-tential qualified civic ser-vants and representatives.

McGraw estimated that there are 45 to 47 homes currently in the Coun-try Estates area north of town.

TOBY Shaughnessy came before the council to announce that he and his father, Bob Shaughnessy, will be opening a Sam and Louie’s restaurant on North State Street in Iola, as well as request a tax abatement from the city.

The council agreed to a 10-year abatement incen-tive, and passed the motion to waive property, utility, inspection and permit fees for the restaurant.

The Italian restaurant chain is based out of Oma-ha, Neb., and will be the first in Kansas. There are 22 locations nationwide.

Shaughnessy said they hope to start construction in March, in order to be open for business by sum-mer. They will build on the empty lot to the north of Dollar General and south of the Walmart parking lot.

In other business:— The city of Iola will

pay for 25 percent, or ap-

proximately $75,000, of the Kansas Department of Transportation’s Highway 54 construction project. The construction of 817 feet of roadway is planned to begin on March 18.

— Council members passed a motion to hire Schwab-Eaton, Wichita, as engineers for the Mis-souri Pacific Recreational Trail project. The report stated that the trail will be constructed as a “new rec-reation trail beginning at the existing Prairie Spirit Rail Trail and east along Benton Street to Cotton-wood Street.”

— After a split decision, Mayor Bill Shirley cast the deciding vote to deny an increase to city em-ployees’ wage adjustment. The increase, proposed by council member Don Beck-er, would have been a .8 percent increase from the 1.7 percent cost of living

adjustment already put in place by the city.

— Council members ap-proved payment of a de-molition on 202 S. Third through the Community Developmentment Block Grant program.

— Walmart manager Jeff Livingston and To-land came before the coun-cil for permission to ac-cept funds for signage on the Prairie Spirit Trail, as well as signs to be placed in the city.

The funds, garnered from grants from the Gump Foundation out of Miami County and a pri-vate donor, will pay for entry signs to the Prairie Spirit Trail. In addition, a Kansas Health Foundation grant will fund new direc-tional signs to be placed in the city to point out key lo-cations. Specific locations for the signs are yet to be determined.

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By JOHN RABYAP Sports Writer

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Kansas has stretched the na-tion’s longest winning streak to 18 games with a mix of blow-outs, nail-biters and, lately, strength-sapping defense.

The second-ranked Jayhawks turned up the pressure after nearly relinquishing a 15-point lead, then watched West Virgin-ia wilt down the stretch in a 61-56 victory Monday night.

In the first-ever meeting be-tween the schools, the Jayhawks held West Virginia to four field goals over the final 10 minutes.

“The second half we just kind of pieced it together,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “Our de-fense needed to be good because we didn’t score, either. I thought defensively we did a pretty good job.”

Travis Releford and Jeff Withey both scored 15 points while Ben McLemore overcame

early foul trouble to add 13 points for Kansas (19-1, 7-0 Big 12).

The Jayhawks have held their last six opponents under 60 points. They are in the mid-dle of a stretch of six of nine games on the road.

The next test for the winning streak comes at home Saturday against Oklahoma State (13-5, 3-3).

“None of us are paying any attention to it,” Releford said of the streak, which started on Nov. 15. “We don’t sit around in the locker room and talk about it because we know it’s a long season. So we’re not too wor-ried about it.”

Kansas shot better from the field (54 percent) than at the free throw line (53 percent). It was the Jayhawks’ second-worst showing of the season at the line.

INDEPENDENCE — Iola Middle School’s A teams split their contests Monday, with the seventh-grade squad pulling out a two-point win, and the eighth-graders falling short.

The seventh-grade Ponies over-came a one-point halftime deficit by holding Independence to six second-half points in an 18-16 win.

Evan Sigg led the way for the victory with 11 points and seven rebounds, while Ethan Holloway followed with three points and three rebounds. Matt Komma had two points and six boards. Nick Vaughn also scored two points.

“We did just enough to get the win,” Iola coach Marty Taylor said. “We have to be ready to play every game and tonight we were not. Evan was able to get some tough baskets inside. That made the difference tonight.”

The eighth-grade A team fell behind 7-2 after one quarter and never recovered in a 31-14 defeat.

Independence led 7-2 after one quarter and 15-7 at halftime be-fore erasing any doubt with a 12-5 third-quarter spurt.

Chase Regehr led Iola with six points and eight rebounds. Gar-rett Wade and Braden Plumlee each had two points and five re-

IMS squads earn split

By BRENT SNAVELYDetroit Free Press

DETROIT — Imagine spending about $8 million in 60 seconds.

That’s what at least seven auto-makers are preparing to do next Sunday during Super Bowl XL-VII, a sign that automotive mar-keting budgets have rebounded as competition for sales heats up.

Teaser commercials featuring reggae singers, supermodels and TV stars have been released in re-cent weeks to build hype for Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Volkswa-gen and others.

Conspicuously absent from the pre-game hype is Chrysler.

For the third year in a row, the Auburn Hills, Mich., automaker is planning a long commercial that it hopes will be impactful, but the company hasn’t said how long the ad will be or what car or truck it will highlight.

“I cannot tell you anything,” Olivier Francois said Jan. 15. “We have a bunch of options on the table ... and I need to share them with my boss.”

Francois said he planned to review Chrysler’s Super Bowl options with Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne during a plane trip back to Italy later that

same day.Chrysler has successfully

bucked conventional wisdom the last two years with its gritty, se-rious, two-minute-long commer-cials starring Eminem in 2011 and Clint Eastwood in 2012.

“We have come to expect big

things from Chrysler’s Super Bowl ads,” said Michele Krebs, senior analyst for Edmunds.com.

Francois hinted that Chrysler may decide to run a 30-second ad for Fiat like it did last year in ad-dition to a longer commercial for the company or another Chrysler

brand.“We bought air time,” Francois

said. “Now we need to fill it.”No other automaker advertis-

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ings and asked people to vote on their favorite one.

Mercedes-Benz is running five short teaser commercials on broadcast television and released a slow-motion video of super-model Kate Upton watching guys wash a Mercedes.

By Friday afternoon, Upton’s video had been viewed 4.2 mil-lion times on YouTube and has been the subject of a number of mainstream media stories debat-ing whether or not it objectifies women.

“There was a time when you held everything for the Super Bowl, but now you have these social media channels that help you leverage your investment,” said Donna Boland, manager of corporate communications for Mercedes-Benz.

Audi, advertising for the sixth consecutive year, has learned the value of building awareness be-fore the Super Bowl, said Loren Angelo, Audi’s general manager of brand marketing.

In 2011, two million people viewed a version of Audi’s com-mercial before the game. In 2012, that number doubled to four mil-

Register/Richard LukenAbove, Iola Middle School eighth-grader Garrett Wade puts up a field goal attempt, while at left, seventh-grader Evan Sigg drives against a defender in games earlier this season. Wade scored two points Mon-day for the eighth-graders, who dropped a 31-14 decision on the road at Independence. Sigg scored 11 points with seven rebounds to lead the seventh-grade Pony squad to an 18-16 win. The middle schoolers re-turn to Independence Saturday for the IMS Winter Classic.

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See IMS | Page B2By DOUG FERGUSON

AP Golf WriterSAN DIEGO (AP) — Tiger

Woods never looked so irritated winning a golf tournament so comfortably.

His record eighth victory at Torrey Pines was all but over when Woods ripped a 5-iron from 244 yards over the corner of a bunker and onto the green at the par-5 13th hole, setting up a two-putt birdie that gave him an eight shot lead in the Farm-ers Insurance Open.

At least he had plenty of time to savor this victory. The final five holes felt like they took for-ever.

Woods twirled his club on the tee and leaned on it in the fair-way as the final round dragged on. He lost rhythm and appeared to lose interest, and it showed. A bogey from the bunker on the 14th. A tee shot that caromed off a eucalyptus tree on the 15th hole that led to double bogey. A tee shot he popped up on the 17th hole that left him 50 yards

behind the other players and led to another bogey.

“It got a little ugly at the end,” Woods said. “I started losing pa-tience a little bit with the slow play.”

No matter. It only affected the margin, not the outcome. Woods had to settle for an even-par 72 that gave him a four-shot win over defending champion Brandt Snedeker and Josh Teat-er, who each had a 69.

For a tour that has been criti-cized for slow play, this wasn’t an ideal start to the network portion of its schedule. With Woods virtually a lock to win, CBS Sports wanted the final round to resume Monday later than normal so that it could be televised in late afternoon on the East Coast. Play was so slow that CBS went over its allotted time.

Woods, meanwhile, had the ideal start to his tour season.

Only a week earlier, he

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bounds. Ethan Scheibmeir and Joey Zimmerman scored two points each.

“I thought Chase played hard, but overall, not a very good effort,” Taylor said.

The squads also split their B team games.

The eighth-grade B team won 28-18, behind Zane Bea-sley’s eight points and Dari-us Greenawalt’s seven. Ma-son Ingle followed with six, Rhett Allen with four and Colton Toney with three.

Independence prevailed 17-7 in the seventh-grade B team affair. Dalton Ryherd scored all seven of the Po-nies’ points.

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Kansas had 16 turnovers, including three apiece by McLemore, Releford and Elijah Johnson.

“Our guard play has got to get better,” Self said. “Teams that pressure us, we’ve kind of thrown it around of late. I thought we did some good things but we made some bone-head plays.”

Aaric Murray had 17 points and Juwan Staten added 14 for the Mountain-eers (9-11, 2-5), who fell to 0-4 against ranked oppo-nents this season.

West Virginia coach Bob Huggins could have picked up a $25,000 bonus for a regular-season win over Kansas, something that was included in a contract extension signed in No-vember.

But the Mountaineers shot just 37 percent and Huggins fell to 0-5 all-time against the Jayhawks.

Without any players av-eraging in double-figure scoring for the season, Huggins has jumbled his lineups this season to try to come up with size match-ups and points production.

Lately, not much has worked.

West Virginia has lost

five of six games. With 11 games left in the regular season, the Mountaineers are in jeopardy of miss-ing the NCAA tournament for the first time under Huggins, their sixth-year coach.

Freshman Eron Harris, who led West Virginia in scoring at nearly 16 points over the last three games, was limited to two points on 0-of-4 shooting against Kansas.

“I just never know what we are going to do,” Hug-gins said. “It seems like when we have made shots, we miss free throws. When offense kind of ran, we didn’t guard (Kansas).”

Big 12 newcomer West Virginia never led in the second half. Staten scored three straight baskets, including a jumper that pulled the Mountaineers within 48-46 with 10:19 left.

“West Virginia executed their plays well (in the sec-ond half) and we weren’t in tune with our scouting report and they got some easy baskets,” Releford said.

But West Virginia fell silent over the next 3 min-utes, while McLemore, Kansas’ leading scorer, made up for a sour first

half in which he spent most of the time on the bench in foul trouble.

McLemore hit a layup and made two free throws on the next trip down the court during a 7-0 run that put the Jayhawks ahead 55-46 with 7:33 left.

West Virginia never re-covered.

Kansas held West Vir-ginia without a field goal over the game’s first 7 minutes. Withey, who had a 25-pound weight disad-vantage to West Virginia’s Deniz Kilicli, scored eight

of Kansas’ first 14 points and he reached double fig-ures midway through the half.

The Jayhawks twice built a 15-point lead before getting sloppy, and West Virginia trimmed the defi-cit to 38-30 at halftime.

Rich Sugg/Kansas City Star/MCT Kansas’ Travis Releford, right, drives while defended by Oklahoma’s Buddy Hiel-don Saturday in Kansas’ 67-54 victory. On Monday, Releford scored 15 points to lead the Jayahwks to a 61-56 victory over West Virginia.

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By HOWARD FENDRICHAP Pro Football WriterNEW ORLEANS (AP)

— Baltimore Ravens line-backer Terrell Suggs re-spects and understands President Barack Obama’s opinion about the dangers of football — and hesita-tion about having a child play.

The hard-hitting 2011 Defensive Player of the Year also says that no m a t t e r how vio-lent the sport, his 4 - y e a r -old son will be a l l owe d to take it up if he wants.

“It would have to be his choice,” Suggs said Mon-day. “Football isn’t for ev-erybody. If my son ... came to me and said, ‘Dad, I want to play football,’ then I would let him play.”

The president’s thoughts about the future of the NFL — and whether he’d let a son play football — were a main topic of conversation as Super Bowl week got un-der way. So much so that when San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Alex

Boone stepped away from his interview session, he asked someone, “What’s up with all this Obama (stuff)?”

Here’s what’s up: In an interview with The New Republic, the newly in-augurated president ex-pressed what many other parents might be thinking following new studies about concussions and re-cent suicides by former NFL players.

“I’m a big football fan, but I have to tell you, if I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football,” Obama said.

“I think that those of us who love the sport are go-ing to have to wrestle with the fact that it will prob-ably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence,” he added. “In some cases, that may make it a little bit less exciting,

but it will be a whole lot better for the players, and those of us who are fans maybe won’t have to exam-ine our consciences quite as much.”

Ravens safety Ed Reed, for one, agreed with the sentiment.

“I am with Obama,” Reed said. “I have a son. I am not forcing football on my son. If he wants to play it ... I can’t make decisions for him. All I can do is say, ‘Son, I played it so you don’t have to.’”

Reed, a nine-time Pro Bowl selection in his 11 NFL seasons, thinks there needs to be improvements within the league.

“We’ve got some leaks in it that need to be worked out,”

Reed said. “Every medical training room should be up-graded; training rooms can be a lot better.”

And as he noted: “When you’ve got the president talking about it, you got something.”

Reed isn’t sure everyone is being trained properly or cared for adequately.

“I felt like I played the game as safe as possible,” he said. “I even tell the guys that they have to take care of their bodies, take care of themselves. If you take care of that, it will take care of you.”

Researchers at the Na-tional Institutes of Health announced recently that Junior Seau — the star linebacker who died of a self-inflicted gunshot last year — had a degenerative brain disease often linked to repeated blows to the head.

Seau is one of several dozen football players who were found to have chronic traumatic ecephalopathy, or CTE.

The NFL is facing law-suits brought by thousands of former players who say the league withheld infor-mation on the harmful ef-fects of concussions.

Players who were asked Monday about Obama’s comments tended to side with Ravens center Matt Birk, who did not hesitate before saying: “I have three sons, and once they get to a certain age, if they want to play football, I would let them.”

San Francisco’s Boone doesn’t see how there is a lot of room for the game itself to change.

“There’s going to be in-juries and there’s going to be problems,” Boone said, “but we’re working on try-ing to prevent them.”

His coach, Jim Har-baugh, responded to the president’s remarks in a lighter vein. Harbaugh, who played quarterback in the NFL for 14 seasons, mentioned his own child.

“Well, I have a 4-month-old — almost, soon-to-be 5-month-old — son, Jack Harbaugh, and if Presi-dent Obama feels that way, then (there will) be a little less competition for Jack Harbaugh when he gets older,” San Francisco’s coach said with a chuckle. “That’s the first thing that jumps into my mind, if other parents are thinking that way.”

President’s comments strike chord for playersI’m a big football fan, but I have to tell you,

if I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — John Beilein ac-knowledged Monday af-ternoon that he had quite a few text messages on his phone.

The Michigan coach just hadn’t checked them yet.

“I’ve been absorbed in Northwestern tape,” Beilein said.

The Wolverines are No. 1 in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll for the first time since their Fab Five days 20 years ago, but Beilein is determined not to get carried away with all this recognition.

Michigan took over the top spot after a 74-60 vic-tory at Illinois on Sunday night.

Michigan received 51 first-place votes from the 65-member national me-dia panel Monday. Kansas moved up one spot to No. 2 and had 13 first-place votes. They are the only one-loss teams in the poll. Indiana, Florida, which

drew the other first-place vote, and Duke complete the top five.

Duke, which was No. 1 last week, dropped af-ter being routed 90-63 by Miami in the third-worst defeat by a top-ranked team. It was the second straight week the No. 1 team lost.

Rounding out the top 10 are No. 6 Syracuse, fol-lowed by Gonzaga, Arizo-na, Butler and Oregon. Mi-ami rode its win over Duke to an 11-place jump in the poll, from 25th to 14th.

Fourteen ranked teams, including half of the top 10, lost at least one game last week. Four teams, in-cluding Louisville, which dropped from fifth to 12th, lost twice last week.

San Diego State and Marquette returned to the rankings this week, re-placing Virginia Common-wealth, which was 19th, and Notre Dame, which was 24th.

Michigan tops pollKNOXVILLE, Tenn.

(AP) — One of the best performances of Skylar Diggins’ brilliant career spoiled a night when Ten-nessee was honoring for-mer coach Pat Summitt.

Diggins scored a career-high 33 points Monday as Notre Dame built a 19-point lead and with-stood a late Tennessee ral-ly in a 77-67 triumph over the Lady Vols. Notre Dame earned its 14th straight victory and snapped the Lady Vols’ nine-game win-ning streak.

Now the Lady Vols (16-4) hope the loss doesn’t prove doubly painful.

Tennessee center Isa-belle Harrison was play-ing Monday with a menis-cus injury in her left knee. Harrison hurt the knee again in the first half while driving to the bas-ket, and the 6-foot-3 sopho-more had to be helped off the floor. Tennessee coach

Holly Warlick had no im-mediate word on Harri-son’s condition.

“I hope she’s going to be back because we need her,” Warlick said. “She’s a vital part of our pro-gram.”

Before the game, Sum-mitt had a banner raised in her honor at Thompson-Boling Arena. Summitt’s 1,098-208 career record in 38 seasons gives her the most wins of any Divi-sion I men’s or women’s basketball coach. Sum-mitt stepped down in April after announcing in 2011 that she has early onset de-mentia, Alzheimer’s type.

Summitt’s ceremony at-tracted plenty of star pow-er. The announced crowd of 13,556 included former Lady Vols greats Tamika Catchings, Chamique Holdsclaw, Michelle Mar-ciniak and Candace Parker.

“This is one of the toughest places to play

with all those fans out there,” Diggins said. “It was a great moment for Coach Summitt, with all those players like Can-dace Parker and Tamika Catchings on the side-lines. It was a very emo-tional night tonight, and I thought we did a good job of handling it because they had a lot to play for.”

Diggins took over the game early in the first half to put the Irish ahead. She dominated on both ends of the floor again early in the second half. And after Tennessee cut a 19-point deficit to five in the clos-ing minutes, Diggins re-sponded once more.

“She had a phenomenal game. ... She’s shooting the ball extremely well,” Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw said. “She shot 50 percent from the field (13 of 26) against a great de-fense, managed the game, ran the team.”

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missed the cut in Abu Dha-bi, in part because of a two-shot penalty assessed after his second round for taking an illegal drop. Woods had never missed the cut on the European Tour, and he had never started his season with the weekend off.

He might have been the only one who didn’t panic.

Woods seized control with a 65 on the North Course at Torrey Pines, the

spent the rest of the week pulling away from the field until no one could catch him.

“I don’t know if anybody would have beaten him this week,” said Nick Watney, who got within five shots of Woods when the tourna-ment was still undecided until making three bogeys on his next five holes. “He’s definitely on his game.”

It’s still too early to figure out the state of his game, es-

pecially in relation to Rory McIlroy, who also missed the cut in Abu Dhabi.

Torrey Pines is a public course that Woods treats like his private domain. He won the tournament for the seventh time, one short of the PGA Tour record for most wins in a single event. Sam Snead won the Great-er Greensboro Open eight times. Woods won for the eighth time at Torrey Pines, including the 2008 U.S. Open,

and that’s a PGA Tour re-cord that W o o d s previous-ly shared with ... him-self. He also has won seven times at Fire-stone and Bay Hill.

“I think he wanted to send a message,” said Hunt-er Mahan, who shares a swing coach with Woods.

“I think deep down he did. You play some games to try to motivate yourself. There’s been so much talk about Rory. Rory is now with Nike. That would be my guess.”

And it was his 75th win on the PGA Tour, seven short of the record held by Snead. Woods has won 23 of those tournaments by at least four shots.

“I’m excited the way I played all week,” Woods said. “I hit the ball well — pretty much did everything well and built myself a nice little cushion. I had some mistakes at the end, but all my good play before that allowed me to afford those mistakes.

“My short game was back to how I know it can be,” he continued.

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By JULIE PACEAP White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking swift action on immigration, President Barack Obama today will try to rally public support behind his proposals for giving millions of illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship, as well as mak-ing improvements to the legal immigration system and border security.

The president will launch his push in a cam-paign-style event in Las Ve-gas, a day after a bipartisan group of senators unveiled their own plan for address-ing an issue that has lan-guished in Washington for years.

Administration officials said Obama would largely endorse the senators’ ef-forts, though immigra-tion advocates said they expected the president’s own proposals to be more progressive than the Sen-ate group’s plan, including a faster pathway to citizen-ship.

The simultaneous im-migration campaigns were spurred by the Novem-ber presidential election, in which Obama won an overwhelming majority of Hispanic voters. The re-sults caused Republican lawmakers who had previ-ously opposed immigra-tion reform to reconsider in order to rebuild the party’s reputation among Hispanics, an increasing-ly powerful political force.

Most of the recom-mendations Obama will make today are not new. He outlined an immigra-tion blueprint in May 2011 but exerted little political capital to get it passed by Congress, to the disap-pointment of many His-panics.

Obama “believes that we are at a moment now where there seems to be support coalescing at a bipartisan level behind the very principles that he has long put forward and behind principles that have in the past en-joyed bipartisan sup-port,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday. “And that is a very positive thing.”

The president was to make his pitch in Nevada, a political battleground he carried in November, in large part because of support from Hispanics in the state.

Nationally, Obama won 71 percent of the Hispanic vote, giving him a key ad-vantage over Republican rival Mitt Romney.

Administration officials said the president would bolster his 2011 immigra-tion blueprint with some fresh details. His original plan centered on four key areas: a pathway to citizen-ship for the 11 million ille-gal immigrants in the U.S., improved border security, an overhaul of the legal immigration system, and an easier process for busi-nesses to verify the legal status of workers.

Administration officials said they were encouraged to see the Senate backing the same broad principles. In part because of the fast action on Capitol Hill, Obama does not currently plan to send lawmakers formal immigration legis-lation.

However, officials said the White House does have legislation drafted and could fall back on it should the Senate process stall. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal strategy.

Gay and lesbian advo-cates were also expecting Obama’s proposals to in-clude recognition of same-sex couples where one partner is American and another is not.

Sen. John McCain called the issue a “red flag” in an interview today on “CBS This Morning.”

The Arizona Republican also said he didn’t think the issue was of “para-mount importance at this time.”

“We’ll have to look at it,” McCain said. But he added that the highest priority is finding a “broad consen-sus” behind the immigra-

tion bill already being planned. He said the coun-try must do something about 11 million people “living in the shadows.”

Obama’s previous pro-posals for creating a path-way to citizenship required those already in the U.S. il-legally to register with the government and submit to security checks; pay reg-istration fees, a series of fines and back taxes; and learn English. After eight years, individuals would be allowed to become legal permanent residents and could eventually become citizens five years later.

The Senate group’s path-

way to citizenship for ille-gal immigrants already in the U.S. would be contin-gent upon securing the bor-der and improving track-ing of people in the U.S. on visas. Linking citizenship to border security could become a sticking point be-tween the White House and

lawmakers.The Senate framework

would also require those here illegally to pass background checks and pay fines and taxes in or-der to qualify for a “proba-tionary legal status” that would allow them to live and work here — but not qualify for federal ben-efits — before being able to apply for permanent residency, a critical step toward citizenship. Once they are allowed to apply they would do so behind everyone else already waiting for a green card within the current immi-gration system.

Passage of legisla-tion by the full Demo-cratic-controlled Senate is far from assured, but the tallest hurdle could come in the House, which is dominated by conservative Republi-cans who’ve shown lit-tle interest in immigra-tion reform.

The senators involved in formulating the im-migration proposals, in addition to McCain, are Democrats Charles Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illi-nois, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Mi-chael Bennet of Colo-rado; and Republicans Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marco Rubio of Florida and Jeff Flake of Arizona.

Several of these law-makers have worked for years on the issue. McCain collaborated with the late Demo-cratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on compre-hensive immigration legislation pushed by then-President George W. Bush in 2007, only to see it collapse in the Senate when it couldn’t get enough GOP sup-port.

Obama to push immigration change

“Obama believes that we are at a mo-ment now where there seems to be support co-alescing at a bipartisan level behind the very prin-ciples that he has long put forward and behind principles that have in the past enjoyed bipartisan support,”

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(First published in The IolaRegister, January 29, 2013)

To the participating members:You are hereby notified that

the annual meeting of the Rural Water District No. 5, Anderson County, Kansas, will be held on Wednesday, February 13, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. at the office of 204 East Broad, Colony, Kansas, for the purpose of election of three direc-tors and considering such other business as may properly come before the meeting, as authorized by the by-laws of the district.

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(First published in The IolaRegister, January 22, 2013)

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ALLENCOUNTY CONSERVATION

DISTRICTTo all qualified electors residing

within the boundaries of the Allen County Conservation District, no-tice is hereby given that pursuant to K.S.A. 2-1907, as amended, on the 5th day of February, 2013, at 6:30 p.m., an annual meeting of the Allen County Conservation District will be held at Riverside Park Community Building, 510 Park Ave., Iola, Kan., 66749.

The meeting agenda shall in-

clude the following business items:ONE:The supervisors of the Allen

County Conservation District shall make full and due report of their ac-tivities and financial affairs since the last annual meeting.

TWO:The supervisors shall conduct an

election by secret ballot of qualified electors there present, of one su-pervisor to serve for a term of three years from date of said meeting.

The term of David Colgin is ex-piring.

All in the county of Allen in the State of Kansas.

By Craig Mentzer, ChairpersonAllen County Conservation Dis-

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Public notice

Dear Dr. Roach: I would like your opinion on the use of hyperbaric oxygen for cancer treatment. I was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer in 2011, treated with chemo and was in remission with a re-currence in 2012. I’ve com-pleted chemo again, and I am now back in remission. I’ve been advised to try the above treatment. I will have to travel to another state, because it is not offered in mine. It would be no trouble to travel if this would help. Thank you. — J.S.

Answer: I am pretty sure it wasn’t your oncologist who recommended the hy-perbaric oxygen. Hyper-baric oxygen is the use of a compression chamber and pure oxygen to raise the

oxygen levels very high. Hy-perbaric oxygen is used for many conditions, including decompression sickness, carbon monoxide poisoning and gangrene, but there is no evidence that it is help-ful in treating cancer. There is no evidence that it doesn’t help, either. However, there is a reason to be concerned in your particular case: Some of the chemotherapy you may have received, such as bleomycin, platinum and

doxorubicin, can react badly to hyperbaric oxygen and cause serious lung disease, even months after chemo-therapy.

Everybody wants an edge to make it a little more likely to cure cancer, but I don’t think hyperbaric oxygen is helpful, and in your case, it may be harmful.

Dear Dr. Roach: What is bipolar? Is it a disease? What causes the chemical imbal-ance in the brain? Is there a cure for this problem? I would truly appreciate any answers. — K.B.P.

Answer: Bipolar affective disorder, also called manic-depressive illness, is a psy-chiatric illness manifested by periods of mania, which ais the term for a persistent-ly elevated mood. Usually

there also are periods of pro-found depression. A subtype, type II bipolar disorder, has only depressive symptoms, with no full-blown mania. It is one of the most serious of the psychiatric illnesses, and while there is no cure, there is effective treatment for most people.

Nobody knows what the exact cause is at the level of the brain. Research studies suggest that calcium chan-nels in the brain may play an important role, and lithium has been shown to be in-volved at a molecular level in the brain, and is one of the most important treatments of bipolar affective disorder. There is a strong genetic component; many people with this condition have a family history.

Dr. Keith Roach

To YourGoodHealth

Hyperbaric oxygen is no-go post-chemo

Dear Tom and Ray: For the past four to six weeks, when I start my Chevy Trailblazer (2004) first thing in the morn-ing, the smell of gas and sometimes oil comes out of the air-conditioning vents. Once the car has run for five minutes or so, the smell dissi-pates and does not come back for the rest of the day. We typ-ically keep the car in the ga-rage overnight. My husband does not think this is a big deal, since I have taken it to the mechanic twice and they didn’t find a problem. The first time I took it in, they re-placed the thermostat in the coolant system. The second time, they conducted a fuel-pressure test and an evapora-tive smoke test. The results did not show any problems. I am still driving it with the

gas smell in the morning. I drive my two young girls (5 and 2) around daily. Is my husband right that I should not worry? Or should I be concerned, take it to a differ-ent mechanic and ask them to do ... what? Thank you. — Shannon

Ray: I’d be concerned but not alarmed, Shannon. Let’s assume that what you’re smelling is gas, rather than oil. What do you need to be concerned about when you smell gas?

Tom: Fire usually is at the top of my list. And to the

great thrill of every hungry liability lawyer in the coun-try, I’m going to suggest that the risk of a gasoline fire due to your particular problem, Shannon, is relatively low (not nonexistent, but low). Why? Because it’s been ex-amined carefully by mechan-ics twice, and they’ve found no leak.

Ray: It takes very little gas-oline to make a lot of gasoline smell. And if your gasoline smell is dissipating after five minutes and not coming back for the rest of the day, it’s prob-

ably being caused by a very small amount of seepage.

Tom: That said, breathing gasoline fumes is not good for the old brain cells — especial-ly the brain cells of little kids. So, for that reason, I would ig-nore your husband, and push to get this fixed.

Ray: When you park the car at night, the fuel system is still under tremendous pressure. My guess is that as the engine cools down, some small fitting or hose shrinks a little and allows a little bit of gasoline to seep out.

Gas smell on starting engine might indicate small leak

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sumers in advance when there is a high level of inter-est around the Super Bowl . . . is ultimately the way to be a part of the larger con-versation,” Angelo said.

Kia Motors said Friday it was planning to debut a teaser video on YouTube for its Kia Sorento cross-over that includes babies in space suits.

Ford started shooting the Lincoln commercial it plans to air during this year’s Super Bowl on Jan. 8.

Lincoln is working with late-night TV talk-show host Jimmy Fallon, who solic-ited tweets about crazy road trips for the commercial.

Fallon received more than 6,000 tweets during three days the first week in December.

With millions of dollars on the table, and many au-tomotive companies com-peting for attention, most automakers have launched social-media campaigns to build buzz for their com-mercials.

The success of those campaigns before kickoff is becoming increasingly important, said Tim O’Day, executive director of the Yaffe Center for Persua-sive Communication at the University of Michigan. However, companies must strike a careful balance be-tween revealing too much and generating interest.

The challenge for auto-makers in the Super Bowl to create memorable com-mercials is heightened by the number of companies and car ads, said John Swallen, chief of research for Kantar Media.

In 2012, seven of the 33 advertisers were automo-tive manufacturers — the

most of any industry, Swal-len said. Those companies paid about $94.5 million on 16 commercials for 12 brands.

This year, at least seven companies representing eight brands are planning to advertise in the game.

“That’s a lot of messages competing for attention in (a) three-hour game,” Swal-len said.

But this year, General Motors — the third-largest spender in the Super Bowl the last 10 years — will be sitting on the sidelines.

GM created buzz last year with its Mayan Apoca-lypse ad for the Chevrolet Silverado and a commer-cial for the subcompact Chevrolet Sonic with the soundtrack of the band Fun’s “We Are Young.”

Joel Ewanick, then the GM chief marketing officer, announced last spring that the Super Bowl has become too expensive and that the automaker would bow out this year.

That decision has raised eyebrows, especially since Chevrolet revealed its new

Corvette at the Detroit auto show this month and is pre-paring to launch its rede-signed Chevrolet Silverado.

“Maybe they just didn’t plan for it far enough in ad-vance,” Krebs said. “To me, it seems like a missed op-portunity.”

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson appears in a Super Bowl TV com-mercial for the National Milk Mustache ‘got milk?’