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

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

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

By SUSAN [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By RICHARD [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

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

By BOB [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

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By JOE [email protected]

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

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

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-

By BOB [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Temps for runlook inviting

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Countyhearsbudgetrequests

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

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

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

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

Pekarek finds home at USD 257

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

Cheating scandal detailed

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Allen County school safety questioned after Conn. shootingIola schools look to heighten security

Humboldt schools always locked

Marmaton Valley examines protocol

By BOB [email protected] leading into Hum-

boldt schools are locked throughout the day, includ-ing those where visitors may enter elementary, mid-dle or high schools, said K.B. Criss, superintendent of schools.

“The only place a visi-tor may get in one of our schools is near the offices,” Criss noted, and then en-trance isn’t permitted until the door lock is released by office personnel. “There’s a buzzer at each door and a camera, so we know who wants in. We also have se-curity cameras through-out the schools,” including views of outdoors.

“We have spent the

time and money to make our s t u d e n t s as safe as we can,” Criss add-ed.

T h e only time doors are open during the school day is when students go between the middle and high schools building and the technology building.

“They open automatical-ly for a four-minute peri-od,” to give students access to classes in the technology building and to return to their regular classrooms, he said.

By SUSAN [email protected]

Ron Baker, 56, and a native of Humboldt, will serve as the new chief executive officer of Allen County Hospital beginning Jan. 28, 2013.

“It’s a great opportunity to come back home and hopefully re-tire from the same place I started all those years ago,” Baker said in a phone conversation Monday afternoon.

Baker worked as a lab techni-cian at ACH from 1978 to 1983.

He is a 1974 graduate of Hum-boldt High School. From there he attended the University of Kansas where he received a bachelor’s of science in medical technology.

After his stint at ACH, Baker went back to KU — “I’m a Jay-hawk through and through” — to pursue a master’s in business ad-ministration.

For 10 years Baker worked as a lab director for a hospital in Inde-pendence, Mo.

In 1997, he and his wife, El-lie, left the city life and he began work in small rural hospitals in western Kansas, central Missouri and in northern Iowa.

He currently is CEO of Santan-ta District Hospital in Santanta, which is between Garden City and Liberal.

His wife remains in rural Sweet Springs, Mo., where she is a pre-school teacher in Alma, Mo.

Her mother is in a Kansas City-based nursing home.

“She visits her most days,” Baker said, and plans to remain near her mother until circum-stances dictate otherwise.

Ellie is a native of Indepen-dence, Kan.

The Bakers have two children, Adam, 32, of Cincinnati, and Me-linda, 31, of Denver. Both are mar-ried and have two children each, “with another on the way,” Baker said.

Baker’s parents are Doris and Melvin Baker of Humboldt. Lori Moran, Iola, is Baker’s sister.

BAKER SEES his entry at ACH coming at a busy time.

“It’s going through great orga-nizational changes as it moves away from the HCA (Hospital Corporation of America) lease agreement to self-management,” he said.

“The board will have a much

Humboldt native is CEOof Allen County Hospital

ALL I WANT...

By ALLISON [email protected]

Although the tragedy in Newtown, Conn. was some 1,300 miles away, the event hits close to home.

In regards to the shoot-ing that occurred Friday, school districts, not only in Allen County but also all over the state and country, are revisiting their safety procedures.

“Whenever something like this happens it always affects all school districts,” said Brian Pekarek, super-intendent of Iola school district. “What is most important is the safety of our kids, staff, parents and community.”

Pekarek said review-

ing safety p r o c e -dures and m a k i n g c h a n g e s according-ly, keeps s c h o o l d i s t r i c t s proactive against danger.

“You can’t guarantee something like this will never happen, but you can lower the risk,” of it hap-pening, Pekarek said.

Since the shooting, Pe-karek has been speaking with various administra-tors to see what would be the correct course of ac-tion.

By JIM KUHNHENNAssociated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just two weeks before the economy-threatening “fiscal cliff ” is due to kick in, both President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are making significant concessions, backing off what had once been ironclad positions on how to avoid the huge auto-matic spending cuts and tax in-creases.

The moves signal a new stage in the negotiations, which picked up steam Monday with Obama’s offer to drop his long-held insis-tence that taxes rise on individu-als earning more than $200,000 and families making more than $250,000. He is now offering a new

threshold of $400,000 and lower-ing his 10-year tax revenue goals from the $1.6 trillion he had ar-gued for a few weeks ago.

Obama’s move follows conces-sions by Boehner on higher tax rates for the wealthy.

In the new proposal, Obama abandoned his demand for per-manent borrowing authority. In-stead, he is now asking for a new debt limit that would last two years, putting its renewal beyond the politics of a 2014 midterm election.

And in a move sure to cre-ate heartburn among some con-gressional Democrats, Obama is proposing lower cost-of-living increases for Social Security ben-eficiaries, employing an inflation index that would have far-reach-ing consequences, including

Above, surrounding Santa (Trey Colborn) were female members of the Iola High School Singers during Monday night’s Winter Concert at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. From left, are Abigail St. Clair, Emma Piazza, Katherine Terhune, Hannah Stout, Tessa Rowe, Audrea Stahl, Abigail Tay-lor, Mackenzie Weseloh and Bob-bi Sinclair. At right, out front in the opening number were Colton Schubert and Chanel Coyne. In the background, from left, were Joey Dunlap, Emma Piazza, Joe VanRiette and Hannah Stout.

Register/Bob Johnson

Starting Thursday, area children can go to Santa’s Toy Shop at 110 S. Jefferson to visit Santa, have a cookie and hot chocolate and pick out a toy of their liking. Everything in the store was donated by local community members and businesses. The toy shop was created by Iolan Tracy Keagle. Toy shop hours are Thursday and Friday, from 5 to 8:30 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday from 1 to 6 p.m. and Monday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. All gifts and treats are free.

Register/Allison Tinn

By STEVEN [email protected]

Marmaton Valley schools are going to take a hard look at their secu-rity measures in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shooting.

Superintendent David Hardage said Marmaton Valley has never seen any major security problems, which he believes is due to the fact that Moran is such a tight-knit community. However, he said after Fri-day’s shooting, it is appar-ent that even small towns can be vulnerable.

“Like most small schools, we are wide open — you can walk in any-where,” Hardage said.

He said he has already met with principals of the schools to discuss se-curity of the main build-ings on campus. He said topics will also be brought up during the next school board meeting on Jan. 14.

“We need to start a dis-cussion on safety and secu-rity,” Hardage said. “But we have no concerns just yet.”

The Marmaton Valley schools consists of two main buildings, the el-ementary school and the junior/senior high school. The classrooms have phone systems connecting them, which Hardage said is key during an emergen-

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Santa comes to town

Obama, Boehner back off in search of budget compromise

(The hospital) is going through great organi-zational changes as it moves away from the HCA lease agreement to self-management. The board will have a much greater role in its operations.

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He will be 95 on December 22, 2012!

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Acoustical Guitar Concert by

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A 20 year-old Iola native, Maggie plays a variety of songs: a little oldies, a little bluesy, a little pop, and a little folk rock. Armed with an acoustic guitar and a

loop pedal to create harmonies with herself, she will showcase a few of her own original songs.

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Richard WatsonRichard Lynn Watson

was born on Feb. 27 in Iola 58 years ago to John New-ton Watson and Ethylene Watson and died Sunday, Dec. 16, at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Mo.

Richard spent the early years of his life in Iola. He spent his later years trav-eling around the country before settling down in Stockton, Mo., 17 years ago.

During his travels he has done many things such as making boats to train horses. Richard had several years of adventure as the head wrangler of a guest ranch in Colorado, where he led vacationers on horseback though the Rocky Mountains. This is where he met his wife Debbie Becker.

Richard had a fascina-tion with leather work and horses so he decided to embark on what would be his true calling, he started a custom saddle company.

Richard is survived by Deborah and Aiden Wat-son; two sons, Jason Wat-son and wife Lacey and their children and Jeda-diah Watson and wife Car-olyn and their children; two brothers, Stephan and Kent, and two sisters, Es-tella Robinson and Ethyl-ene Stephens.

He was preceded in death by both parents and several siblings.

Obituary

Local acoustic guitar artist Maggie Wilson will perform at 7 p.m. Thurs-day at the Warehouse The-atre as part of the commu-nity theater’s “One Night Stand” series.

Wilson, 20, is an Iola native who specializes in blues, pop and folk-

rock music. She plays the acoustic guitar accompa-nied with a loop pedal to create harmonies with herself. She will be play-ing some of her original work as well.

Doors open at the ware-house, 203 S. Jefferson, 30 minutes before the show.

Maggie Wilson performs in Iola

Arrest madeRobert Stufflebeam

Jr. was arrested in Iola Saturday for violating a protection order issued in Arkansas.

Fence damaged,driver flees

Sometime Saturday night or early Sunday morning a vehicle ran off Alabama Road a quarter of a mile west of 600 Street, in the Petro-lia area, and damaged fence on land owned by Charles Isle, rural Hum-boldt. The driver left the scene without reporting the accident.

LaCygne womandies in accident

Dorothy Arlene Har-vey, 90, LaCygne, died Monday afternoon when the car she was driving collided with a pickup truck driven by Stoney Don Whittle, 39, Mound City.

According to the High-way Patrol, the accident occurred when Harvey failed to stop at an inter-section of a Linn County road and K-7 eight miles west of LaCygne.

Whittle was injured. He was transported to the Overland Park Re-gional Medical Center.

Police reports

South Logan FCE met Dec. 11 for its Christmas party. Seven members at-tended. Their next meeting will be at 9:30 a.m. Jan. 25 at the Allen County Court-house for an FCE Program-ming Day. Ann Ludlum and Kathy McEwan will lead the group with three

different lessons that will include:

10 a.m. Cook Once, Eat for a Month;

10:45 a.m. Get Financial-ly Prepared: Take Steps Before a Disaster;

11:30 a.m. Lunch, and 12:15 p.m. Emotional

Appetite: The Food-Mood

FCE members learn to cook efficiently

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By E. KENNEDYAssociated Press

BEIRUT (AP) — More than a dozen heavily armed pro-regime gunmen kid-napped NBC’s chief foreign correspondent Richard En-gel and several colleagues for five days inside Syria, threatening them with mock executions and keep-ing them bound and blind-folded until they escaped unharmed during a fire-fight between their captors and rebels, Engel said today.

Speaking to NBC’s “To-day” show one day after the escape, an unshaven Engel said the kidnappers executed at least one of his rebel escorts on the spot at the time he was captured. He also said he believes the kidnappers were a Shiite militia group loyal to the Syrian government, which is fighting a deadly civil war against rebels.

“They kept us blindfold-ed, bound,” said 39-year-old Engel, who speaks and reads Arabic. “We weren’t physically beaten or tor-tured. A lot of psychologi-cal torture, threats of being killed. They made us choose which one of us would be shot first and when we re-fused, there were mock shootings,” he added.

“They were talking openly about their loyalty to the government,” Engel said. He said the captors were trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and allied with Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militant group.

“They captured us in or-

der to car-ry out this exchange,” he said.

B o t h Iran and H e z b o l -lah are close al-lies of the embattled Syrian regime, which has become a global pariah since it unleashed its forces in March 2011 to crush mostly peaceful pro-tests against the regime. The bloody crackdown on protests led many in Syria to take up arms against the government, and the con-flict has morphed into a civil war.

Engel said he was told the kidnappers wanted to exchange him and his crew for four Iranian and two Lebanese prisoners being held by the rebels.

Around 11 p.m. Monday, Engel said he and the oth-ers were being moved to an-other location in northern Idlib province.

“And as we were moving along the road, the kidnap-pers came across a rebel checkpoint, something they hadn’t expected. We were in the back of what you would think of as a minivan,” he said. “The kidnappers saw this checkpoint and started a gunfight with it. Two of the kidnappers were killed. We climbed out of the ve-hicle and the rebels took us. We spent the night with them.”

The team crossed back into neighboring Turkey earlier today.

NBC did not identify the others who were kidnapped along with Engel. The net-work said there was no claim of responsibility, no contact with the captors and no request for ransom during the time the crew was missing.

The Syrian government has barred most foreign media coverage of the civil war in Syria, which has killed more than 40,000 people since the uprising began in March 2011. Those journalists whom the re-gime has allowed in are tightly controlled in their movements by Information Ministry minders. Many foreign journalists sneak into Syria illegally with the help of smugglers.

Several journalists have been killed covering the conflict. Among them are award-winning French TV reporter Gilles Jacquier, photographer Remi Och-lik and Britain’s Sunday Times correspondent Ma-rie Colvin. Also, Anthony Shadid, a correspondent for The New York Times, died after an apparent asthma attack while on assignment in Syria.

Engel joined NBC in 2003 and was named chief for-eign correspondent in April 2008. He previously worked as a freelance journalist for ABC News, including during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He has lived in the Middle East since he gradu-ated from Stanford Univer-sity in 1996, according to his biography from NBC.

NBC correspondent escapes kidnapping

Engel

By SKAR GARCIAAssociated Press

HONOLULU (AP) — On Dec. 7, 1941, high school se-nior Daniel Inouye knew he and other Japanese-Amer-icans would face trouble when he saw Japanese dive bombers, torpedo planes and fighters on their way to bomb Pearl Harbor and oth-er Oahu military bases.

He and other Japanese-Americans had wanted des-perately to be accepted, he said, and that meant going to war.

“I felt that there was a need for us to demonstrate that we’re just as good as anybody else,” Inouye, who eventually went on to serve 50 years as a U.S. senator from Hawaii, once said. “The price was bloody and expen-sive, but I felt we succeeded.”

Inouye, 88, died Monday of respiratory complica-tions at a Washington-area hospital. As a senator, he became one of the most in-fluential politicians in the country, playing key roles in congressional investi-gations of the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals. He was the longest serving current senator and by far the most important for his home state of Hawaii.

“Tonight, our country has lost a true American hero with the passing of Sen. Daniel Inouye,” Presi-dent Barack Obama said in

a statement M o n d a y. “It was his incred-ible brav-ery during World War II — in-c l u d i n g one heroic effort that

cost him his arm but earned him the Medal of Honor — that made Danny not just a colleague and a mentor, but someone revered by all of us lucky enough to know him.”

Inouye turned toward life as a politician after his dreams of becoming a sur-geon became impossible in World War II. He lost his right arm in a firefight with Germans in Italy in 1945.

Inouye’s platoon came un-der fire and Inouye was shot in the stomach as he tried to draw a grenade. He didn’t stop, crawling up a hillside, taking out two machine gun emplacements and grabbing a grenade to throw at a third.

That’s when an enemy rifle grenade exploded near his right elbow, shot by a German roughly 10 yards away.

He searched for the gre-nade, then found it clenched in his right hand, his arm shredded and dangling from his body.

“The fingers somehow froze over the grenade, so I just had to pry it out,” In-

ouye said in recounting the moment in the 2004 book “Beyond Glory: Meal of Honor Heroes in Their Own Words” by Larry Smith.

“When I pulled it out, the lever snapped open and I knew I had five sec-onds, so I flipped it into the German’s face as he was trying to reload,” he said. “And it hit the target.”

In 2000, when then-Pres-ident Bill Clinton belat-edly presented Inouye and 21 other Asian-American World War II veterans with the Medal of Honor, Clinton recounted that Inouye’s father believed their family owed an un-repayable debt to America.

“If I may say so, sir, more than a half century later, America owes an un-repayable debt to you and your colleagues,” Clinton said.

Inouye

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By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT — Stacy Mueller is well known for her baking and cake deco-rating talents, but not as many people know she plays violin.

She sings with the St. Peter’s Lutheran Church choir on a regular basis, and on Monday she will play a selection on her violin during the church’s 6:30 p.m. Christmas Eve service.

“I’m pretty rusty,” Muel-ler admitted. “We’ve had so much going on this year and with work, I don’t have much time to play.”

Mueller and her hus-band, Mark, own Stacy Cakes Etc., a bakery and sandwich shop on Bridge Street.

“When Dodie (Copley) asked me to play, I didn’t know if I should since I haven’t played in a while,” she said.

The skill in playing the instrument is not long for-gotten, however. Mueller has had a violin and bow in her life since she was 11.

“I played through mid-dle and high school in the orchestra,” she said. “Usu-

ally, I can pick it back up pretty fast.”

Living in Georgia while growing up, Mueller start-ed taking piano lessons before she turned 7. That lasted until sixth grade when she took up the vio-lin, eventually earning the designation of first chair, second violin status.

“I thought I wanted to play guitar, but I never did try it,” she said. “I liked the sound of the violin. I think I probably drove my Mom crazy practicing.”

Due to the nature of her decorating business where repetitive motions are re-quired, Mueller has some carpal tunnel discomfort that affects her playing.

“I can’t play vibrato that much now. Probably if I played every day and exer-cised that wrist, it would be better,” she said.

She plays the same vio-lin that she did when she was in middle and high school, but has changed from a horse hair to a syn-thetic string bow. She has joined violinists Glenna Wulf and Lynn and Jes-sica Lytle a few times playing at church and has performed a few times for

the Community Singspira-tion.

A final selection for Monday’s performance hasn’t been determined, but she knows it will be a traditional Christmas song and she will play

with an accompaniment CD.

Playing the violin is re-laxing, Mueller said, but that is not the case when the spotlight is on her, “I would really rather be in the background.”

By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT — City crews were busy Thursday repairing water leaks on lines that were not includ-ed in the city’s line replace-ment project a year ago.

“We had three emergen-cy water leaks,” Patricia Sanchez, utility and public service foreman, said. “The

dry and cooler weather was believed to be the cause.”

Leaks were addressed in front of Emprise Bank on South Ninth Street, at 10th and Mulberry streets and at Sixth and Pecan streets.

“There was a pinhole in the old line past the ‘stop’ on the city’s side,” Sanchez said of the leak on South Ninth.

CalendarWednesday - Last day to

drop off Adopt-a-Kids gifts.Friday - Adopt-a-Kid gift

pick-up, 2-6 p.m., Humboldt Library.

Monday - City offices closed; Christmas Eve ser-vice, St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, 6:30 p.m.; Christ-mas Eve services, United

Methodist Church, 7 p.m.Dec. 25 - MERRY CHRIST-

MAS.

Christmas dinnerDuring this season of

giving, the Scovill family set its sights on the commu-nity.

The Scovills will provide dinner Christmas Day for folks who may find them-selves alone that day.

“The meal is provided in order to help ensure that

anybody who would other-wise be alone for Christmas Day has the opportunity to enjoy the company of oth-ers for a few hours of eat-ing and fellowship,” John Scovill said.

Scovill, wife Cindy and their two daughters came up with the idea of a Christ-

mas community dinner in 2003 as a way to demon-strate the spirit of giving detached from material gifts.

The meal is free and any-one needing a ride to the meal should call 620-228-3850 or 620-228-3851. The dinner will be at the Hum-boldt Senior Center. Serv-ing is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.PEO

Chapter AM PEO met Dec. 11 in the home of Car-rie Bilby with 12 members present.

Action was taken to ap-prove the revised courtesy committee guidelines, re-mind workers of the Ama-zon fundraiser and learn about Adopt-a-Kid children.

Donna Salzwedel gave the program with the aid of the “Santa Train,” a children’s book about a Christmas train going through the Ap-palachian Mountains.Gift pick-up

Adopt-a-Kid gifts will be ready for parent pick-up be-tween 2 and 6 p.m. Friday at the Humboldt Library. San-ta Claus will be on hand to visit with youngsters from 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Individuals, clubs, or-ganizations and churches adopted 115 children for Christmas with Janie Works of the Chamber of Commerce organizing the program.South Logan

Seven members of South Logan FCE attended the Dec. 11 meeting at the Hum-boldt Public Library. The group focused on making plans and goals for 2013

while working on next year’s program books.

Everyone enjoyed Christ-mas snacks and a game before adjourning for the year. The next meeting will be Jan. 25 at Allen County Courthouse. Kathy Mc-Ewan and Ann Ludlum will present lessons with a soup luncheon following.Chamber of Commerce

Humboldt Chamber of Commerce members gath-ered Dec. 10 for a lunch meeting in the library meet-ing room. Vice Chairman Loren Korte presided in the absence of Chris Bauer. Heritage Health Care pro-vided the meal.

Window decals for 2013 Chamber members will be ordered, the phone number on the Walter Johnson and George Sweatt field signs has been updated. Only 22 names out of 115 remained to be adopted for Christmas Adopt-a-Kid program.

Vada Aikins of the Hum-boldt healthy ecosystem committee reported elec-tricity is available in the Neosho River Park and five more cement tables have been set up in the park. Plans are for 12 tables to be set throughout the park.

Karen Emerson will represent the Chamber at Southeast Kansas Day on the Hill in January. The volunteer banquet has ten-tatively been set in March.

Due to the drought affect-ing the trees in Camp Hunt-er, Joe Works said place-ment of cement RV parking pads has been canceled for the time being.

Stacy Mueller will share her talent on the violin at a St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Christmas Eve service Monday. Her violin is the same one she used as a child.

Register/Terry Broyles

Mueller rekindles hidden talent

From left, Sonny Chapman, Jeremy Bulk and Chaz San-chez finish a water line repair in front of Emprise Bank in Humboldt, setting stop boxes, filling in and dressing up the grounds.

Register/Terry Broyles

City repairs leaks

NEW YORK (AP) — Cer-berus is planning to sell its stake in Freedom Group, maker of the Bushmaster rifle, following the school shootings in Newtown, Conn.

The private equity firm said that the shootings were a watershed event in the national debate on gun control. While it said that it is not its role to take po-sitions or attempt to shape or influence the gun control debate, Cerberus said it can take action by selling its stake in Freedom Group.

“We believe that this de-cision allows us to meet our obligations to the investors whose interests we are en-trusted to protect without

being drawn into the na-tional debate that is more properly pursued by those with the formal charter and public responsibility to do so,” the company said in a statement.

On Friday, 26 people were killed at Sandy Hook El-ementary School in one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. The gun-man, Adam Lanza, used a .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle during the shootings.

Cerberus said Tuesday that it was deeply saddened by Friday’s events. The New York firm said that it will hire a financial adviser to help with the process of selling its Freedom Group interests.

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Gripped by anger and tears, President Barack Obama re-acted to Friday’s massacre of 20 innocent children and six adults at Newtown, Conn. with a pledge to put an end to sense-less mass killings.

“We cannot tolerate this anymore. These tragedies must end. And to end them we must change. We cannot accept events like this as routine. Are we really prepared to say that we’re powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard? Are we prepared to say that such violence vis-ited on our children year after year is somehow the price of freedom?”

In an emotional speech at Newtown the president didn’t mention gun controls. That wasn’t necessary. The only “change” that he can urge is to take military weapons and am-munition off the streets.

He concluded by reading off the names of the 20 dead chil-dren and repeating his pledge, “ . . . For those of us who re-main, let us find the strength to carry on and make our country worthy of their memory.”

Obama can be expected to follow up by proposing gun control laws that prohibit the manufacture and sale of automatic pistols and rifles, which have no legitimate pur-pose except for the defense of the people by the military and police. The production of am-munition designed to do the maximum damage by breaking apart as soon as they enter a human body so that fragments tear into bone and muscle en-suring death should also be banned.

A pistol or rifle that can fire 30 or more of those bullets within seconds has no accept-able purpose in civilian hands. Yet Friday’s massacre was the fourth such rampage by a ber-serk assassin armed with mili-tary firearms in the four years Mr. Obama has been president,

giving him the wrenching as-signment each time to visit the ravaged communities to com-fort survivors and share their anguished disbelief.

What the president is ask-ing, is what kind of a society have we created that tolerates the senseless murder of in-nocents? What twisted logic persuades us that flooding the nation with such perfect instruments of death and de-struction in some way protects our freedom or strengthens our society?

And the answers to these questions clearly are that we’ve followed a good idea out the window and over the cliff. Law-abiding citizens should be able to buy and keep hunt-ing guns and to buy ammuni-tion for them. Shooting skeet is an expensive but fun sport. Carefully constructed and con-trolled rifle and pistol ranges provide safe venues for gun lovers to improve their skills.

None of these lawful, accept-able uses of firearms require automatic weapons capable of slaughtering 26 people in less time than the average target shooter will take to get ready to fire his or her first shot.

What our nation needs are laws controlling guns and am-munition that would seem rea-sonable and desirable to 90 per-cent — or perhaps 99 percent — of the American people who agree with President Obama that we are not powerless to stop this heart-breaking car-nage.

Sandy Hook School in New-town, Conn. could have been Jefferson Elementary School in Iola, Kan. The names would have sounded the same: “Char-lotte, Daniel, Olivia, Josephine, Ana, Dylan, Madeleine, Cath-erine, Chase, Jesse . . .”

How can we say that we must accept those lifeless little bod-ies are somehow the price of freedom?

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Obama makes a pledge to controlmilitary guns

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback has roiled the debate about state finances by suggesting that Kansas return to two-year budgeting, a practice out of fashion for more than half a century.

Brownback was serious enough about the idea to promise last week to submit a two-year spend-ing plan to state lawmakers when they convene on Jan. 14 for their 2013 session. Legislative leaders in both parties are intrigued, all but guaranteeing some discus-sion of his suggestion.

The conservative Republican governor acknowledged that he wants to reassure allies who’ll lead the GOP-dominated Legis-lature that the state can man-age core spending commitments such as public schools and social services even with aggressive in-come tax cuts enacted this year to stimulate the economy. But Brownback also is signaling his desire to jolt the state out of its short-term thinking about spend-ing.

“Right now, our system — by that I mean the agencies and everybody under them — are building budgets for two or three months every year, and it’s just kind of your constant paper-work,” Brownback said last week at a Statehouse news conference.

The state had two-year budgets for decades before it began enact-ing annual spending blueprints in 1956, and Brownback isn’t the first Kansas official of his gen-eration who has advocated going back to them. Robin Jennison, now Brownback’s wildlife and parks secretary, suggested it as House majority leader in 1997, and then-Senate President Dave Kerr raised the issue in 2001 after a lengthy, budget-driven wrap-up of the legislative session.

Legislators already draft bien-nial budgets for small regulatory agencies financed by fees, and the state has a 10-year transportation program. In the mid-2000s, when lawmakers boosted education funding to comply with Kansas Supreme Court rulings, they set spending levels three years ahead.

Yet state government remains wedded to an annual cycle that prevents officials from suspend-ing their budget-writing for long. At the start of the state’s fiscal

year in July, agencies receive in-structions from the budget direc-tor for drafting recommendations for the governor to consider pre-senting to legislators in January.

Budgeting drives the schedule of legislators’ annual sessions, and agencies are left guessing in uncertain times whether each year’s funding gains will remain the next. Public school officials are frustrated that legislators make crucial decisions in April and even May for an academic year beginning in August. Vet-eran legislators acknowledge the appeal of going to a two-year cy-cle.

“We’ve always thought that was a good idea for education,” said Sen. Laura Kelly of Topeka, the ranking Democrat on the Sen-ate Ways and Means Committee. “It couldn’t hurt other agencies.”

But there is skepticism.Supporters of the idea face

questions about the accuracy of longer-term revenue forecasts. State officials and university economists issue a consensus fis-cal forecast twice a year, and each November, they project state rev-enues for the following 20 months. The most recent forecast predicts revenues through June 2014; Brownback’s idea would require predictions through June 2015.

THE EXPERIENCES of the Great Recession also make some officials wary thanks to repeated spending cuts in 2009 and 2010 that made budgeting even a half-year ahead seem tricky. Mark Tallman, a Kansas Association of School Boards lobbyist, said edu-cators really want a commitment of two or more years on state funding that rolls forward an-nually and worry that promises made in the first year of a bien-nial cycle would be broken during the second, particularly with an economic slump.

“Even with this approach, the Legislature, the state, can’t send money it doesn’t have,” Tallman said.

Finally, critics of the massive income tax cuts enacted this year

suspect that Brownback wants to outline a two-year budget to camouflage the damage the re-ductions are doing to the budget. Because of the tax cuts, the state faces a self-inflicted shortfall of $295 million for the fiscal year that begins July 2013.

“We’ve got a black hole,” said outgoing Senate President Steve Morris, a moderate Hugoton Re-publican who lost his seat to a conservative challenger in the August primary election.

Brownback has inevitably faced questions about whether returning to biennial budgets al-lows a return to biennial legisla-tive sessions, but he insists that’s not his goal.

“You budget your first year and then do oversight the second year, if you’re a legislator, and you can spend a lot more time, then, in the oversight,” the governor said.

KANSAS HAD ANNUAL legis-lative sessions from statehood in 1861 through 1877, but voters ap-proved a constitutional change for biennial sessions in 1875. Re-publican Gov. Thomas Osborne advocated the idea in three con-secutive annual messages to law-makers, pitching it as a way to reduce state spending.

“The prevalent disposition is to legislate too much, with too little reflection upon the probable con-sequences of frequent changes and without marked apparent ne-cessity for them,” Osborne added in his 1875 message. “What is needed in our system is stability.”

By 1953, some lawmakers thought yearly budgets would bet-ter control spending. They put a return to annual legislative ses-sions on the statewide ballot, and voters approved it in 1954, leading to 30-day budget sessions in even-numbered years. Subsequent con-stitutional changes pushed Kan-sas to 90-day legislative sessions each year.

And that practice has come to seem a permanent tradition. But in pushing for biennial budgets, Brownback is reviving an issue that’s never really died.

2-year budget proposal roils debate

JohnHannaAn AP news analysis

Critics of the massive income tax cuts enacted this year suspect that Brownback wants to outline a two-year budget to camouflage the damage the reductions are doing to the budget. Because of the tax cuts, the state faces a self-inflicted shortfall of $295 million for the fiscal year that begins July 2013.

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A look back in time

20 Years AgoDecember 1992

Lena and Leo Thummel’s house grew so quiet after Lena stopped baby-sitting that the couple left town for an extended vacation to adjust. Lena, who has four children of her own, started baby-sitting in her home 31 years ago. Over the years her house became a second home for more than 60 children. But in May, at the end of the school year, she “retired.” For the first time in 41 years, since the birth of their first child, there were no children in Lena’s and Leo’s home.

*****Archeologists from the Kan-

sas State Historical Society spent this week digging a yard under the old Santa Fe depot

yard in search for remnants of two former railway depots, those created by the forerun-ners of the Santa Fe, the Kansas City, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad and the Atchison, To-peka and Santa Fe. They were unable to find the foundations of either, but took artifacts such as rusty nails, bits of glass and half a pencil back to Topeka with them for further study.

*****A team of specialists talked

about conversion of the rail-road right-of-way from Iola to Ottawa to a linear park by the Kansas Department of Parks and Wildlife here Monday af-ternoon. The current plan is to make the former Santa Fe Rail-way right of way into a bike and hiking trail.

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— Euripides,Greek poet, 480-406 BC

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Kansas State University, Southwind Extension Dis-trict, Wildcat Extension Dis-trict, and Pfizer invite you to attend the Winter Ranch Management Seminar Jan. 8 in the Neosho County Court-house meeting room. The conference begins with regis-tration at 4 p.m., and the pro-gram starts at 4:30.

This will be one of nine seminars across the state fea-turing local speakers, as well as presentations via webinar.

Topics to be covered in-clude:

• Protection and Restora-tion of Forage and Range Re-sources – Keith Martin, Wild-cat Extension District.

• R.A. Brown Ranch: Man-agement Innovations for a Changing Beef Industry – Donnell Brown, R.A. Brown Ranch, Throckmorton, Texas.

• Fetal Programming: Im-plications for Beef Cattle Pro-duction – Rick Funston, Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln.

• Tips and Tools to Reach Your Management Goals: Properly Assessing Your Pre-Calving Cows – Jaymelynn

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• Introduction to a potential Kansas Heifer Improvement Initiative – Delta George, Southwind Extension Dis-trict.

To attend, please contact the Southwind Extension Dis-trict, Fort Scott office at (620) 223-3720 or [email protected] by Jan. 2. Registration fee will be $25 with additional attendees from the same family, farm or operation at $15. Dinner will be provided.

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• K-State Olathe, 22201 W. Innovation Drive, Olathe — Rick Miller — (913) 715-7000 or [email protected].

• Bowyer Community Building, Lyon County Fair-grounds, 2710 W. Highway 50, Emporia – Brian Rees, 620-341-3220 or [email protected].

More information, includ-ing registration, is available through the above site con-tacts or online at www.asi.ksu.edu/rms or www.south-wind.ksu.edu.

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4-H newsPrairie Rose

The December meeting of the Prairie Rose 4-H Club was Dec. 9 at the Moran Senior Center.

Prior to the meeting the club met at the Moran Manor Nursing Home to sing Christ-mas carols. The meeting was called to order by President Kaysha Elmenhorst. Roll call was answered by saying the most unusual Christmas gift ever received. Shawna War-ford led the club in singing “Happy Birthday” to Casey Allen, Stevie Allen and Bryce Ensminger. Casey Allen read the minutes from the No-vember meeting. Reporters report was given by Karlie

Stephens. Emily Smart gave the treasurer’s report.

Club members were re-minded about the Wreaths Across America Ceremony at the Fort Scott Cemetery Saturday.

Brenda Armstrong an-nounced the club will be holding a foods project meet-ing from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday.

The club seal ceremony was performed by the senior officers. Allison Heim, rec-reation leader, had the club play Christmas carol cha-rades. Club Leaders Laura Johnson and Amanda Allen handed out awards for the club achievement banquet. Awards were given out for

members in good standing, perfect attendance, complet-ing record books and complet-ing KAP forms. Members also were recognized for the Coun-ty Awards they had received.

The extension meeting will be Jan. 13 at Moran Se-nior Center.

Karlie Stephens, club reporter

Logan PalsThe monthly meeting of

Logan Pals 4-H Club was Dec. 12. Caroling took place at 6:30 p.m., and the meeting was at 7 p.m. at the Iola City Hall base-ment. Roll call was answered by what is your favorite deco-ration. Council report was a reminder that the Southwind

roller skating party is at 6. p.m. Dec. 27 at the Chanute Skating Rink.

Livestock judging is in January. Abby Rinehart gave a talk on how to wrap a pres-ent, Danielle Sharp gave a talk on how to make a Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus wood set, and Gabriella Sharp and Abby Rinehart lead the club in singing Christmas car-ols before the meeting, and “Happy Birthday” to those with December birthdays. Practice meetings for 4-H Club Day will be at 5 p.m. Jan. 13, 20 and 27 at the Humboldt Lutheran church.

Zoey Rinehart,club reporter

Prairie Rose 4-H club members gathered food for char-ity. Helping were, front from left, Bryce Ensminger, Mallory Heim, Peyton Scharff, Ty LaRue, Gracie Yoho, Kendall Scharff, Bailey LaRue and Jenny Armstrong; second row from left, Isaac Heskett, Haley Plaschka, Allison Heim, Austin Gardner, Shawna Warford, Ty Scharff, Shelby Yoho, Zoi Yoho and Lana Myers; and third row from left, Casey Allen, Emily Plaschka, Trent

Johnson, Megan Ens-minger, Stevie Allen, Emily Smart, Nathan Smart and Karlie Stephens.

Club joins food driveSubmitted photo

In stitchesKahlan Roloff shows the counted cross-stitch proj-ect that she is learning how to make this 4-H year.

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Shelia and Don Lampe rep-resented Woodson County at the annual meeting.

Delegates from Al-len County attending Kansas Farm Bureau’s Annual Meeting Dec. 4-5 in Manhattan, were, from left, Layne Sterling, ACFB president, Darrell Mon-fort, ACFB policy chair and voting delegate, Deb-bie Bearden, coordinator, Denise Mentzer, women’s chair and voting del-egate, and Craig Mentzer, natural resources chair and voting delegate.

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USD 257 has two options available, Pekarek said. One, are simple chang-es, such as ensuring all doors remain locked at the schools with the exception of the front door.

Currently, all Iola schools have open access through-out their buildings. Signs are posted for visitors to check in at the respective front office of each of the three elementary schools, the middle school and the high school.

All the schools have cam-eras, which are monitored throughout the day, Pek-arek said.

The second option is more costly, such as chang-ing the location of front of-fices in the schools so visi-tors must go through the office before entering the school, or having key card access to all doors at the schools.

There isn’t a definite course of action for USD 257 as of yet, but Pekarek said he would continue meeting with teachers and administrators to brain-storm new procedures that would lower the risk of danger in the schools.

Pekarek will then pres-ent any changes at the next board meeting on Jan. 14.

WITH the possibility of a new school to be built in Iola, safety has become a significant area of focus for the facilities planning committee — even prior to the shooting in Connecti-cut.

The committee visited new schools in Garnett and in Chanute and each school has extensive safety fea-tures. All doors are locked and there is only one entry and exit point for visitors with a buzz-in feature.

These features have been at the top of the commit-tee’s “must need” list when thinking of a new facility, Pekarek said.

“It is important to stay proactive when negative news comes in,” Pekarek said. “We can’t help what happened in Connecticut, but we can be proactive in keeping our kids safe.”

Also, Criss said when talk-ing about doors being locked that “means all of them. If a custodian goes out a service door, it locks behind him.”

State fire codes require all doors to be easily opened from inside while students are in a building.

“Making the schools a safe environment for students is the responsibility of all staff members, teachers, adminis-trators and custodians,” the superintendent said. “I am confident everyone takes the responsibility seriously.”

Criss said the district also had developed a crisis plan that was continuing to be up-graded.

“Our school nurse, Me-gan Anderson, has been ag-

gressive in working on the plan,” which lays out what staff and students would do if faced with any emergency situation.

USD 258 is one of three Kansas districts selected to have their crisis plans cri-

tiqued by the Federal Emer-gency Management Agency at a training seminar in Em-mitsburg, Md., in the spring.

“FEMA will take our plan apart and work with our staff to make it better,” Criss said.

In response to Friday’s school shooting, Criss and Brian Dillow, Humboldt chief of police, co-signed a letter made available to par-ents.

It noted that “in partner-ship with the Humboldt Po-lice Department, we have decided to have additional law enforcement presence throughout the day within USD 258, whenever possi-ble.”

Dillow stressed increased patrol around school was in response to concern the Fri-

day shooting generated.“Neither our department

nor the school district have received any threats,” Dil-low said.

“It is our duty not only to educate the children of this community, but also make sure our kids are safe while at school or attending school activities,” Criss said.

ALLEN COUNTY Sheriff Tom Williams said he and his officers have in place plans for response should a crisis arise at any schools in the county.

“I’m not going to talk about specifics of how we would respond,” Williams said. “I don’t want to give away the blueprint.

“But, I will say it would be swift and effective,” he said.

cy situation. As for add-ed measures, he said the changes will not be conve-nient, but they will be nec-essary.

He said administrators with the schools will dis-cuss what measures need to be taken in order to keep the students safe. The measures could include identification requirements, buzzers for the doors and security cam-eras. Hardage said Sandy Hook Elementary in New-town, Conn., had state-of-the-art security, which did

not prevent the shooter from entering the building.

He said the key to pre-venting shootings such as the tragedy in Connecticut is to stop the shooter before they can carry out their plans. He said people need to keep their eyes and ears open, and report anything they hear to the police, even if the person may be joking.

“The most important thing is for people to stop the attempts before they happen — for people to alert the authorities,” Hardage said.

greater role in the gover-nance of the hospital.

“It’s an opportunity for different paradigms with HCA, as well as internally,” he said.

Baker has experience with change.

When CEO of the Sweet Springs hospital, he over-saw the rebirth of the hospi-tal and its new construction.

“We started from scratch,” he said of the ef-fort in the small town of 1,400 to build a new hospi-tal, recruit physicians and open two rural health care clinics.

Baker served as hospital administrator in Greens-burg and Minneola and was hospital and nursing facil-ity administrator in Hamp-ton, Iowa.

Baker is also an accom-plished organist, studying

under the late Marjorie Gard of Iola.

“I learned on the Bowlus organ in Wesley Method-ist Church,” he said, a gift of the late Tom Bowlus, for various occasions, includ-ing weddings.

Baker said he remains ac-tive as an organist, noting that this weekend he has five performances, includ-ing a wedding Saturday in Garden City, Sunday eve-ning services in Ulysses and Christmas morning servic-es in Sweet Springs.

“It’s quite a bit of fun,” he said of the avocation.

Baker will be relieving Larry Peterson, chief finan-cial officer of the hospital, of his additional duties as interim CEO.

pushing more people into higher income tax brack-ets.

Those changes, as well as Obama’s decision not to seek an extension of a temporary payroll tax cut, would force higher tax pay-ments on the middle class, a wide swath of the popu-lation that Obama has re-peatedly said he wanted to protect from tax increases.

As public posturing has given way to pragmatism, both sides still seem will-ing to lock in on a substan-tial agreement rather than just putting off a fiscal day of reckoning. To that end, Obama has conceded that a big bargain would require giving up some of his proposals.

“I understand that I don’t expect the Republi-cans simply to adopt my budget,” he said during his post-election news confer-ence last month. “That’s not realistic. So, I recog-nize we’re going to have to compromise.”

The talks, facing a loom-ing deadline, seek to avoid across-the-board tax hikes for nearly all wage-earners as well as spending cuts at the Pentagon and in do-mestic programs that are set to kick in at the start of the new year. Economists inside and outside the gov-ernment have warned that the combination of the two — the “fiscal cliff” — could stall a weak recovery and threaten a new recession.

Obama’s steps toward Boehner came after the House speaker took a plunge in a call to Obama on Friday — while the na-tion was focused on the horror of a mass murder in Newtown, Conn. — and agreed to accept an increase in tax rates for taxpayers who earn more than $1 million. Boehner’s plan would raise about $1 trillion in taxes over 10 years.

That was a barrier-breaking moment, chang-ing the negotiations from a fundamental debate over whether tax rates should rise at all to quibbling over who should pay them.

There are still plenty of disputes to iron out. And people familiar with Obama’s proposal w e r e c a r e f u l not to de-scribe it as his fi-nal offer.

T h e O b a m a plan seeks $1.2 trillion in revenue over 10 years and $1.2 trillion in 10-year spending reductions. Boehner aides say the rev-enue is closer to $1.3 tril-lion if revenue triggered by the new inflation index is counted, and they say the spending reductions are closer to $930 billion if one discounts about $290 billion in lower estimated debt interest.

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Register/Richard LukenAt left, Kamri Naff works on her ability to backhand a ground ball Sunday during a softball clinic at Allen Community College. Be-low, Iolan Keith Gurwell works with Kirsten Kobalt on the proper technique infielders follow in order to do backhanded flips. Gur-well and Iolan Travis Weseloh offer the free softball clinics each Sunday at the ACC Student Activities Building (Red Barn). Above is Weseloh, who works with advanced players.

By RICHARD [email protected]“I want to see you scraping

dirt.”Keith Gurwell’s instructions

were simple.If the young softball players

were in proper defensive posi-tion, they should be crouched low enough to scrape dirt with their gloves.

“If you can’t scrape dirt, you’re not low enough,” he said. “You’ll think you can get to a

ground ball and it’ll roll right below it.”

Proper fielding technique was the centerpiece of Sun-day’s softball clinic, offered on a weekly basis by Gurwell, Iolan Travis Weseloh and a handful of other volunteers.

The sessons began in Novem-ber and will run each Sunday afternoon through April, next Sunday excepted because of Christmas.

The clinic is offered free of charge to anyone eager to learn about softball, regardless of their age.

Sunday’s session had girls as young as 7 to high school-aged.

About 20 were on hand, roughly 10 fewer than normal.

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By JOHN KEKISAP Sports Writer

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — With his wife, Juli, looking on at the postgame press conference and his young children close by, Syra-cuse coach Jim Boeheim’s final remarks were not about his mile-

stone 900th career victory.Instead, he was thinking about

two 6-year-old boys who were bur-ied Monday, victims along with 18 other children and six adults in a shooting massacre last week at an elementary school in Connecti-cut.

“If we cannot get the people who represent us to do some-thing about firearms, we are a sad, sad society,” Boeheim said Monday night. “If one person in this world, the NRA president, anybody, can tell me why we need assault weapons with 30 shots

— this is our fault if we don’t go out there and do something about this. If we can’t get this thing done, I don’t know what kind of country we have.”

It was a sobering end to what was a memorable evening for Syracuse basketball. The third-

ranked Orange’s 72-68 victory over Detroit in the Gotham Clas-sic made Boeheim just the third Division I men’s coach to reach 900 wins.

Boeheim, 68 and in his 37th

By DAVE SKRETTAAP Sports Writer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — In the entire history of the Kansas City Chiefs, one steeped in tra-dition, they have never before ranked last in the NFL in scoring over the course of an entire sea-son.

Guess that’s one way to cel-ebrate the franchise’s 50th anni-versary in Kansas City.

The Chiefs (2-12) were blanked by the Oakland Raiders, losers of six straight before Sunday, and thus failed to score an offensive touchdown for the fifth time in 14 games. The last time that hap-pened to them was 1974, when they still managed to somehow win five games.

That’s one more win than their best-case scenario this year.

“We continue to struggle to develop any consistency,” Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel said Mon-day. “We’re not very good on of-fense. This past game we couldn’t

run, we couldn’t throw it, and it’s hard to be in a game when that happens.”

The Chiefs were playing their first full game without wide re-ceiver Dwayne Bowe, who went on injured reserve Saturday night with injured ribs, and his absence was obvious.

Kansas City managed just 17 yards on 18 plays in the first half, and finished with 119 yards of to-tal offense, all against an Oakland defense that had given up more points than any other team in the NFL. The last three teams the Raiders have held to fewer than

20 points have been the Chiefs, and their last shutout back in 2002 was also against Kansas City.

Asked whether the Chiefs’ of-fense was the worst that Crennel has been part of in more than 40 years of coaching, he replied: “Statistically, I think you might be able to say that.”

Kansas City, which hosts the Indianapolis Colts in its home finale on Sunday, has only man-aged 195 points through its first 14 games. That total is second only to last year’s team for the fewest in franchise history at this point in the season.

The Chiefs’ average of 13.9 points is nearly a third of league-leading New England’s 36.1 points per game, and it’s nearly two points worse than the Jackson-ville Jaguars, who are their big-gest competition for the league’s worst record and the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft.

By BEN WALKERAP Baseball Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Cy ya later.R.A. Dickey and his nasty

knuckleball are headed north of the border.

After weeks of speculation and then a weekend spent ironing out the last few details, the New York Mets finally traded the NL Cy Young Award winner to the To-ronto Blue Jays in a seven-player swap Monday.

Toronto ac-quired the 38-year-old Dickey and catchers Josh Thole and Mike Nickeas. The Mets got top catch-ing prospect Travis d’Arnaud and veteran catcher John Buck, plus minor league right-hander Noah Syndergaard and outfielder Wuilmer Becerra.

Earlier in the day, Dickey and the busy Blue Jays agreed to a new contract, clearing the way for New York to send him to a team that’s spending a lot of money trying to join baseball’s elite.

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Iolans will have the chance to help out Raef Casner, a Jefferson Elementary fifth-grader who is battling liver cancer, today at the Iola High School commons.

Starting at 4:30 p.m., chili and homemade cinnamon rolls will be served until halftime of the boys varsity basketball game. Free-will donations will be accepted, $4 donations are suggested as a minimum.

All proceeds will go to the Cas-ner family to help defer medical expenses.

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ments of fielding, throwing and swinging, to more intri-cate details on strategy.

The clinic’s genesis be-gan about 14 years ago when Gurwell signed on to coach a summer league softball team.

While the squad was blessed with talented ath-letes, Gurwell noted a strik-ing lack of fundamental in-struction.

“I brought them out to the college for a weekend workout,” he recalled.

A few more showed up the following week. Then even more the next.

“The goal is to have girls show up at whatever skill level, and come out ready to play ball,” Gurwell said. “We think we can help the girls get better.

Clinics this fall have brought in girls from Iola and Chanute, while previ-ous years have drawn par-ticipants from as far away as Fort Scott, Moran, Gar-nett, Kincaid, Yates Center and Moran.

All are welcome, Gurwell stressed.

“We really like to see high school girls participate,” he said. “We’ve had quite a few improve enough to make a go of it in college.”

College coaches can quickly assess if a player knows her stuff.

“They can tell just by watching a girl field ground balls if she’s ready for col-lege,” he said. “If you’re not set up properly, they probably won’t give you a second look because they don’t want to have to take extra time to teach funda-mentals. Those are things

girls should know already.”Weseloh, who has girls

in high school and middle school active in softball, has helped for about eight years.

“He’s been great to work with because he’s so thor-ough,” Gurwell said. “He takes the time to teach.”

Sunday’s session also in-cluded help from local vol-unteers Roy McCoy, Kevin Hall and Rick Ross. All

stepped forward at various points to work individually with the youngsters to en-sure they were practicing properly.

Gurwell also lauded the ACC officials for their coop-eration.

“They’ve got such a great facility here, and we can go all winter because it’s in-doors,” Gurwell said.

Gurwell carries a fond-ness for the college athlet-

ics program. He’s helped paint signs around the baseball and softball dia-monds, built dugout shel-ters for both facilities and helped in other ways through the years.

“We’ve had a great re-lationship,” Gurwell said, praising ACC Athletics Di-rector Jessica Peters and her predecessors. “They’re the ones who make this pos-sible.”

The Associated PressThe top 25 teams in The

Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parenthe-ses, records through Dec. 16, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Prv1. Duke (62) 9-0 1,622 22. Michigan (3) 11-0 1,543 33. Syracuse 9-0 1,465 44. Arizona 8-0 1,371 85. Louisville 9-1 1,362 66. Indiana 9-1 1,321 17. Ohio St. 8-1 1,249 78. Florida 7-1 1,163 59. Kansas 8-1 1,110 910. Illinois 12-0 1,044 1011. Cincinnati 10-0 967 1112. Missouri 8-1 886 1213. Minnesota 11-1 730 1314. Gonzaga 10-1 710 1415. Georgetown 9-1 579 1516. New Mexico 11-0 548 1717. Creighton 10-1 530 1618. San Diego St. 8-1 493 1819. Butler 8-2 361 —20. Michigan St. 9-2 343 1921. UNLV 8-1 315 2022. Notre Dame 9-1 291 2223. North Carolina 8-2 256 2124. Oklahoma St. 8-1 244 2425. NC State 7-2 198 25Others receiving votes: Oregon 176, Pittsburgh 158, Kentucky 41, Wyoming 14, Marquette 8, VCU 7, Wichita St. 6, Murray St. 4, UConn 4, Miami 3, Maryland 2, Bucknell 1.

The Associated PressThe top 25 teams in the

The Associated Press’ wom-en’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in pa-rentheses, records through Dec. 16, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking:Record Pts Prv1. Stanford (22) 9-0 978 12. UConn (16) 8-0 967 23. Baylor (2) 8-1 931 34. Duke 8-0 884 45. Notre Dame 6-1 821 56. Georgia 11-0 789 67. Kentucky 8-1 773 78. California 7-1 663 109. Maryland 7-2 641 910. Tennessee 7-1 602 1311. Penn St. 9-2 595 1112. UCLA 7-1 539 1413. Purdue 10-1 495 1514. Louisville 9-2 491 815. Oklahoma St. 7-0 440 1616. Dayton 10-0 395 1717. North Carolina 10-1 317 1918. Oklahoma 8-2 285 1219. Kansas 9-1 215 2220. Texas 7-2 197 1821. South Carolina 10-0 152 2422. Texas A&M 6-3 139 2323. Florida St. 8-1 126 —24. West Virginia 7-2 101 2525. Colorado 9-0 99 —Others receiving votes: Arkansas 94, Miami 58, Nebraska 52, Iowa St. 41, Ohio St. 37, Delaware 15, Vanderbilt 15, Michigan 10, Michigan St. 9, Chattanooga 7, Duquesne 7, Syracuse 6, Iowa 5, Villanova 5, Toledo 2, Gonzaga 1, Rutgers 1.

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year at his alma mater, is 900-304 and joined an elite fraternity. Mike Krzyze-wski (936) and Bob Knight (902) are the only other men’s Division I coaches to win that many games.

“To me, it’s just a num-ber,” said Boeheim, whose first victory was against Harvard in 1976. “If I get 900, have I got to get more? That’s why maybe it’s just not that important to me because to me it’s just a number, and the only num-ber that matters is how this team does.”

So far, it’s done OK.James Southerland had

22 points for Syracuse (10-0), which increased its home winning streak to 30 games, longest in the na-tion. Detroit (6-5), which lost 77-74 at St. John’s in the second game of the season and 74-61 at Pitt earlier this month, had its four-game

winning streak snapped.Dave Bing, Boeheim’s col-

lege roommate, teammate and fellow Hall of Famer, and Roosevelt Bouie, a star on Boeheim’s first team in 1976-77, were in the Carrier Dome crowd of 17,902.

Bing was standing tall in the locker room after the game.

“Nobody would have thought when we came here 50 years ago that either one of us would have had the kind of success we’ve had,” said Bing, today the mayor of Detroit. “I’m so pleased and proud of him because he stuck with it. He’s prov-en that he’s one of the best coaches ever in college bas-ketball, and he’ll be No. 2 shortly.”

After a victory that nearly was short-circuited, Boeheim was presented a jersey encased in glass with 900 emblazoned on it.

“I’m happy. I’ve stayed

around long enough. I was a little nervous,” Boeheim said at center court. “I’m proud to be here. To win this game is more pressure than I’ve felt in a long time. I wasn’t thinking about losing until the end. That wouldn’t have been a good thing to happen, but it very well could have.”

Indeed.Midway through the sec-

ond half with Syracuse dominating, fans were giv-en placards featuring card-board cutouts of Boeheim’s

face with 900 wins printed on the back to wave in cel-ebration. But when the pub-lic address announcer in the Carrier Dome invited fans to stick around for the postgame ceremony, the Ti-tans roared back.

Juwan Howard Jr., who finished with 18 points, scored 14 over the last 6 minutes to key a 16-0 run, his two free throws pulling Detroit within 67-63 with 55.1 seconds left after the Titans had trailed by 20 with 6:09 to play.

derson said the Mets didn’t completely decide to trade Dickey until they saw the final package that Toronto offered.

“This was a complicated deal,” Alderson said on a conference call.

Dickey broke the news even before the teams did.

A few minutes ahead of the trade announcement, he tweeted his thanks to Mets fans and added he was all set to pitch for the Blue Jays.

“Now that it’s official, I want to say that I don’t have the words to express how grateful I am to you for the steadfast support,” Dickey

posted on Twitter. Dickey was already

signed for $5.25 million next year. His new contract adds two more seasons for $25 million — he will get $12 million in both 2014 and 2015, plus there’s a club op-tion for 2016 at $12 million with a $1 million buyout.

Toronto has now acquired All-Stars Jose Reyes, Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle, Melky Cabrera and Dickey since the season ended.

“We’re just so close to contention,” Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos said. “It’s not just about one sea-son. This allows us to put

what we feel is a contend-ing team together for an extended run, for a three- to five-year period.”

Dickey needed to pass a physical before the teams announced the deal. He be-came the fourth pitcher to win the Cy Young and be traded before the next sea-son, joining David Cone, Pedro Martinez and Roger

Clemens.Alderson said the Mets’

preference going into the offseason was to sign Dick-ey to a multiyear deal. But as the winter meetings ap-proached in early Decem-ber, Alderson said Dickey’s value “in a possible trade was also sky-rocketing. At some point, those lines crossed.”

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Kansas City has man-aged to score 106 points over its past eight games; the Seattle Seahawks have scored 108 in their past two.

“You try to look for an-swers, but I’ve said this before, unless you’re look-ing in the mirror, you’re looking at the wrong place,” said right tackle Eric Winston. “It’s kind of easy right now to point fingers, say that guy’s the problem. But until you look at yourself, you’re not going to find any an-swers.”

Crennel said that punt-er Dustin Colquitt was the Chiefs’ most valu-able player on Sunday,

and it wasn’t hyperbole. Colquitt routinely gave them good field position.

When the defense held, the Chiefs’ punchless of-fense just couldn’t do any-thing with the ball.

“We’ve got to do a bet-ter job early on first and second down. We got to do a better job at being consistent,” said quarter-back Brady Quinn, who took such a beating from the Oakland front that he may be limited in practice this week with his own in-jured ribs.

“There’s just not enough consistency,” Quinn said. “There’s not anyone making any plays or making anything hap-pen.”

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By JOEDY McCREARYAP Sports Writer

Duke is back in a famil-iar place — No. 1.

The Blue Devils ad-vanced one spot to replace Indiana at the top of The Associated Press’ Top 25 on Monday, drawing clos-er to UCLA’s record for most No. 1 rankings.

Duke has reached No. 1 at least once in a record 16 seasons under coach Mike Krzyzewski, and has played more games as the No. 1 ranked team in 33 years under Coach K (209) than as an unranked team (141).

Indiana (9-1) held the top spot from the pre-season poll through the first five weeks of the sea-son. Butler beat the Hoo-siers 88-86 in overtime Saturday.

They will debut their latest No. 1 ranking at home Wednesday night against Cornell.

Michigan (11-0), which received the other No. 1 votes, and Syracuse moved up one place each to second and third. They were followed in the top 10 by Arizona, Louisville, Indiana, Ohio State, Flori-da, Kansas and Illinois.

Duke takes top spot

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Chris Johnson went 94 yards for the lon-gest touchdown run in the NFL since 2006 and the Tennessee Titans beat the Jets 14-10 on Monday night to eliminate New York from playoff contention.

Jake Locker’s first touchdown run of the season put Tennessee ahead late in the third quarter and the Titans in-tercepted four passes by a struggling Mark Sanchez

to snap a three-game skid.The Jets (6-8) needed

to win their final three games and get help else-where to earn an AFC playoff spot. Instead, the Titans sacked San-chez three times and got a fourth on Tim Tebow. Jason McCourty and Mi-chael Griffin each had two interceptions, keep-ing the Jets out of the playoffs a second straight season after reaching con-secutive AFC title games.

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Wolfe. I live in Iola. Mom-my and Daddy say I have been very good this year. So, when you come to my house please bring me two Wizard of Oz dolls, I would like one to be the scare-crow and the other to be the Tin Man.

Merry Christmas, Lynna

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Bayleee would like a dream light, pop star Bar-bie, doll dog house and a Barbie swimming pool.

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and this is what I would like. A camera, MP3 player,

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and this is what I would like. A Minnie Mouse dress-up

set, girls hide-away tent, Minnie twinkle cell phone and microphone, playtime chair, wood puzzle, Minnie

Mouse color n’style purse, Disney dolls with PJ, Disney table with kitchen set, music sets, pal size puzzle, lalaloopsy dolls, Barbie car

and dolls, monster high dolls, pink Ford Fiesta, glitzy dolls, doll house, dizzy doo doll, jewelry, shopping cart, lovely patsy, cheer-leader doll, cupcake doll,

baby cake set, doll, nurs-ery, kitchen cookware set, kitchen appliance set, glow pad, a bike, sleepy doll set and tiny inks with markers.

Love, Lilli

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and an iPad, that is all. Thank you. I am thankful for you.

Love,Mikey

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Christmas is a remote con-trolled fire truck.

That is all. I have been trying to be

a good boy so you’ll keep me off the “naughty” list.

Merry Christmas!Shannon Brigg, age 5

P.S. please say “hi” to Ru-dolf for me!

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House, an ice cream mak-er, a big makeup set, finger nail polish remover and a Barbie closet.

Love, Emily Ator

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Legos and a new game, Legend of Zelda, a Ninten-do and a D.S.

Love. Edwyn

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Your friend, Caroline

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and new crowns for Christ-mas. Please stop by Christ-mas Eve.

Thank you, Jaylynn Cacey

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a brush, a play mobile, Tay-lor Swift’s “Red” CD and “Brave.”

I will leave you some cookies and milk. Thank you!

Love, Ella

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I have been a good boy. I would like a Lego set, the

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I will leave you some cookies and milk!

Love,Jesse Taylor

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Love, Andy Kerr

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two monkeys. And I’ve been good.

I love you,William Toland

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I am eight years old and I live in a house with my two little sisters and my older cousin. I want them to get everything they want for Christmas too.

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Sincerely, Sam Fager

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Thank you for what you do Santa.

Skull candy Los Angeles Clippers BG32 Hesh head-phones, Boys short sleeve heat gear t-shirt grey medi-um, Nike team fly kids shorts blue medium, Nike team fly kids shorts blue medium, Nike pro-hyper strong vis-deflex fitted boy basketball shirt medium.

Dear Santa Claus, My name is Klaira Gay-

le Hayes and I am four years old. My Mammy is helping me write this let-ter to you (and she says that I have been a VERY good girl!). I try to help my mommy and to do my best at pre-school and dance class. For Christ-mas, I hope that they will say little kids can visit my Pappy again at the hos-pital and take him a pres-ent. Santa, for my Christ-mas gift I would like a Dream Light, a big Christ-mas Hello Kitty stuffed animal and karaoke ma-chine, a Barbie with a beautiful dress, a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Hulk. Please re-member to bring some nice gifts for my cousins Matt, Tanner, Kate, Alex, Lane, Austin, Mattie, Gra-cie, Charlie and Griffin. We will leave a snack for you and we will throw some carrots in the yard for the reindeer too! I love you Santa, and Mer-ry Christmas to you and Mrs. Claus and all of your little elves! (My Grammy has six very old Elves on a shelf and my cousins and I have some too! Their names are Sparkle, Tick-le and S’ketti and they are watching to make sure we’re being good!).

With love, Klaira

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Help Wanted The City of Humboldt is now taking applications for the posi-tion of ASSISTANT CITY CLERK. The position is responsible for the clerical, accounting and munici-pal records for the City. The posi-tion requires a high school degree or GED equivalent, and/or college degree and/or equivalent training with three to five years experience in City Administration. The posi-tion also requires a valid Kansas driver’s license. The successful ap-plicant will be subject to a medical examination, including drug screen-ing. Position is open until filled. For information and job application forms, please contact the City of Humboldt, PO Box 228, Humboldt, KS 66748 or call 620-473-3232. The City of Humboldt is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR NEED-ED to teach Dreamweaver and Flash classes at Allen Community College for the 2013 semester on the Iola Campus. Classes are of-fered on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays from 11a.m. to 1p.m. Mas-ter’s degree with at least 18 gradu-ate hours in Computer Science or a related discipline preferred. Review of applications will begin immediate-ly. Come be a part of our great team! Send letter of interest, resume, un-official college transcripts and three professional references to: Person-nel Office, Allen Community Col-lege, 1801 N. Cottonwood, Iola, KS 66749. Fax to 620-365-7406, email: [email protected]. Equal Op-portunity Employer.

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The people who run the state’s only medical school say its national accredita-tion will fall in jeopardy or be lost, if money isn’t raised for a new, $75 mil-lion structure at its Kan-sas City campus.

“If you’re not an accred-ited medical school, your students can’t take board examinations. Your gradu-ates cannot get into resi-dency programs that are accredited. And in most jurisdictions if you can’t sit for your boards and you don’t graduate from an accredited residency pro-gram, you can’t practice (medicine), you can’t get a license. So accreditation is a huge deal,” said Dr. Glen Cox, the dean in charge of keeping the school OK with the Liaison Commit-tee on Medical Education, the national group that certifies medical schools.

The current education building on the school’s Kansas City campus was built in 1976 and officials here say if it isn’t obsolete it is nearly so, especially given the changes happen-ing in the ways doctors and other health professionals are trained.

“A building built in the 1970s just can’t fit the tech-nology needs of today,” said Dr. Steven Stites, act-ing executive vice chan-cellor of the University of Kansas Medical Center, which includes the medi-cal school. “We have a structural problem and we can’t renovate it. It would cost more to fix it up than

it would to replace it.”Lecture halls, even in

the first year of study, now are considered less impor-tant to learning than small practice rooms that allow for simulations that mimic the conditions students — as doctors — will face when they encounter real patients. Also, with grow-ing emphasis on coordinat-ed care within the health care industry, schooling now focuses increasingly on teamwork, not just among fellow medical stu-dents but also drawing in nursing students and oth-er health-care trainees.

The school has some spaces for that sort of teaching by doing in small groups, but not enough, according to the people in charge. The accreditation process is so meticulous, as described by Cox, that it even dictates how much private space and storage must be allowed for each resident.

Cox said he is among the few people at the medical school to remember the accreditation problems it experienced in the 1990s, a years-long ordeal he said he would prefer not to live again. And that was before he was the administrator tasked with keeping those things in order.Need for more docs

Besides warding off ac-creditation woes, a new school would allow for training more doctors, KU officials said. Experts across the country for years have warned of doc-tor shortages that have since arrived and are growing and of the need to

expand medical schools to slow or reverse that trend.

KU between 1998 and 2007, according to medical school statistics, graduat-ed an average of about 165 medical students per year and 41 percent (an average of about 67 graduates per year) stayed in the state.

The new building would allow the school to have 25 more students per class year in Kansas City and — after counting graduates from expanded satellite campuses in Wichita and Salina — the state should see 96 new KU-trained doc-tors a year practicing in the state by 2016, according to projections prepared by KU. That would be a net gain of almost 30 doctors a year.

With a generation of baby-boom doctors retir-ing or soon to retire, many Kansas towns struggle to recruit new doctors. A disproportionate number of the doctors working in the state’s rural and un-derserved areas are KU graduates.

There are about 259 doctors per 100,000 U.S. residents. In Kansas, however, there are only about 213 doctors per 100,000 residents. The state also is below the national average when it comes to primary care doctors.

According to KU esti-mates, the state will need 213 new doctors a year by 2030 just to maintain the state’s current below-average ratio. To match the national average, it would need about 285 new doctors a year by 2030.

The KU School of Medicine has a few practice rooms intended to simulate for students the clinical conditions they would experience in a hospital as doctors. Mannequins can be programmed to display certain heart patterns and other con-ditions. Dr. Glen Cox, right, is a dean at the medical school.

KU seeks help for med center

Photo by Mike Shields

By JIM MCLEANand

DAVE RANNEYKHI News Service

TOPEKA — Like many Kansans, Rick Cagan spent much of last week-end reading and listening to news reports about the gunman who killed 20 chil-dren and six adults at an elementary school in New-town, Conn.

Cagan had a profes-sional reason for learning what he could about the tragedy. He runs the Na-tional Alliance on Mental Illness-Kansas Chapter of-fice in Topeka.

“It’s devastating,” he said. “It’s heartbreaking.”

According to initial news reports, the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, may have suffered from a personality disorder or had been diagnosed with Asperger’s, a form of au-tism. However, there is no indication that he had the kind of severe mental ill-

ness suffered by others re-sponsible for mass shoot-ings.

Jared Loughner, the man convicted of shooting former Arizona Congress-woman Gabrielle Giffords and killing six others, for instance, suffered from schizophrenia, a mental illness that causes disor-dered thinking and delu-sions.

And James Holmes, the man accused of shoot-ing 12 people to death and wounding 58 others last summer at a movie theater in Denver sought mental health treatment before the attack, according to multiple news reports.

Mass shootings nearly always rekindle debates about gun control and the adequacy of the nation’s mental health system. Commenting on the latter, Cagan said many Kansans with mental illness are not getting the early treatment they need to avoid crises.

“More than 60 percent of the adults who have a serious mental illness are untreated,” he said, noting that in Kansas half the ad-missions to the state hos-pitals for the mentally ill involve people who’ve had no previous contact with their community’s mental health center.

In Kansas, state-hos-pital admissions are re-served for adults who are seriously mentally ill and have been deemed a danger to themselves or others.

“NAMI is always re-luctant to jump in with some sort of comment when these kinds of in-cidents occur because there’s so much that we don’t know,” Cagan said, referring to the shoot-ings. “But, still, blaming the individual only goes so far. At some point, we have to look at the overall well-being of our mental health system.”

Shooting sparks mental health discussion

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Let the fitness begin.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brown-back has picked the four members of his team that will compete in a state em-ployee weight-loss contest.

Brownback issued the challenge last month to en-courage Kansas residents to live healthier and shed extra pounds.

Joining Brownback’s team are Commerce Secre-tary Pat George, Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Lee Ta-fanelli, acting Labor Sec-retary Lana Gordon and Transportation Secretary Mike King.

The contest will run from Jan. 15 through May 15, coinciding with the an-nual session of the Legisla-ture. Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer is also fielding a team.

Brownback invited businesses and local gov-ernments to hold similar contests. Two counties have expressed interest in forming teams but will not be part of the official state competition.

Brownbacksets weight loss team


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Dear Drs. Donohue and Roach: I took a multivitamin faithfully for 20 years. I also have asthma. I wheezed ev-ery day. I ran out of the vita-min and forgot to buy more. Ten days without a vitamin and the wheezing stopped. — S.W.

Dear Drs. Donohue and Roach: I used a variety of multivitamin brands. They all gave me a pain in the stomach. I take the vitamins separately and have no trou-ble. — E.D.

Dear Drs. Donohue and Roach: Whenever I take a multivitamin, I feel nause-ated. What’s wrong with me? — J.D.

Dear Drs. Donohue and Roach: I get dizzy after tak-ing a multivitamin. When I don’t take one, I’m fine. — B.L

Answer: Most multivita-min users have no problems with them. Some, however, do. I’m not sure why. It might be that a few people react to the filler material in a vita-min, the things that keep the pill or capsule together. The only solution I have is for these people to stop taking

them.A question frequently

asked and frequently an-swered with differing opin-ions is the necessity of taking a multivitamin. It wasn’t un-til the early part of the 20th century that the structure and manufacturing of vita-mins got its start. From the dawn of man’s appearance on Earth, no vitamins were ever taken in pill form until then. All those generations of people lived well without them. In some instances, vi-tamin deficiencies sprung up, but the connection between the deficiency and the lack of a vitamin wasn’t made until the 1900s. In the 18th century, James Lind fed British sail-ors limes and lemons and thereby prevented scurvy, a

disease prevalent in the Brit-ish navy. He didn’t know the reason why these fruits were effective. It wasn’t until rela-tively recently that scurvy proved to be a deficiency of vitamin C.

Some people feel that tak-ing a multivitamin ensures that they are getting the rec-ommended daily allowances for vitamins. However, the average American and Ca-nadian has a variety of foods available to them, all rich in vitamins, and those foods are all they need to stay healthy.

Dear Drs. Donohue and Roach: My problem is nasal drainage. It’s constant dur-ing the day and has the con-sistency of water. At night, it stops. I have seen several ENT doctors and been given

nose drops to try, but they didn’t work for me. The only diagnosis I was given: “This is a problem many older women have.” I had brain surgery four years ago after an accident falling down our stairs and hitting my head on a wooden pole. I was in the hospital for two months. Could this be related to my draining nose? — B.K.

Answer: A far-out possi-bility is that your head in-jury has fostered a leak of cerebrospinal fluid, the fluid that drains over and within the brain and over the spinal cord. Standing and sitting encourage the leak. Lying down pretty much abolishes it.

This fluid brings some nourishment to brain cells, and it cushions the brain and spinal cord. If the nasal drainage fluid tests positive for sugar, that’s evidence that the fluid might be ce-rebrospinal fluid. This isn’t the most sophisticated test, but it does provide enough information to warrant a search for a leak.

Readers describe varied effects from multivitaminsDr. Paul Donohue

To YourGoodHealth

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To YourGoodHealth

Dear Tom and Ray: I have a wonderful car, a ’97 Saturn that gets great mileage and has been reliable all this time. But it’s beginning to signal me that it’s time for a replacement. I’d like to get a Toyota Prius, but my curb cut is just steep enough that everyone I know who drives a Prius scrapes when they turn into my driveway. So, my questions are: (1) Would frequent scraping on the front of the car damage it? And (2) if the scraping would cause damage, can I have the car raised a couple of inches somehow so it doesn’t con-tact the sidewalk every time I drive in and out? This proba-bly sounds pretty stupid, but I really don’t know anything about car bodies, so I’d appre-ciate your advice. Thanks! — Peter

Tom: Frequent scraping certainly can cause dam-age, Peter. Ask anyone who spends a lot of time riding a bicycle.

Ray: It really depends on what’s being scraped. Lots of cars have a plastic wind deflector under the front bumper to improve mileage. If that’s all you’re scraping, it would be of no mechani-cal consequence — until it fell off. And even then, it still might not be of much conse-quence.

Tom: But if you were scraping, say, the oil pan, that could cause problems. Then you could tear it open one day as you were backing out of the driveway, lose all of your oil, freeze the engine and then have to go out and buy your-self a cheap replacement car,

like a used ’97 Saturn. RAY: So this requires some

specific investigation, Peter. Explain to your Toyota deal-er that when you test-drive the new Prius, the route is going to have to include a trip up your driveway.

Tom: When you turn into your driveway (go very slow-ly), if you hear a scrape, you then can get out and watch and try to determine what’s scraping. Even if you can’t tell by watching, you may be able to see telltale scrape marks on something under there.

Ray: The Prius is designed with mileage in mind, so my guess is that what’s scrap-ing probably is some plastic shielding that improves air-flow underneath the car. But since this car starts out low to the ground for aerodynam-ic purposes, you also could be risking a more important component. So my advice would be: If it scrapes, look for a different car.

Tom: You’re not going to raise the car a few inches. That’s impractical, and it’s difficult to do. Plus, you’d change the car’s handling and decrease its mileage.

Ray: There are several oth-er Prius models now — the

Prius V and Prius C — and you might find that one is better suited to your particu-lar situation. If not, there are other great hybrids out there made by other companies, and you’ll just have to consid-er one of those instead.

Driveway scraping may scrap buying Prius

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Shannon Vogel, center, receives recognition for drawing the winning entry of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center’s holiday gift card, pictured at right. Vogel is flanked by Amy Shannon, left, Iola High School art instructor, and Susan Raines, right, ex-ecutive director of the Bowlus. Cards were sent to the Bowlus mailing list. Vogel was given a $25 check and an award.

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By TOM KRISHERAP Auto Writer

DETROIT (AP) — With Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks pil-ing up on dealer lots, Gen-eral Motors is offering generous deals to thin the stock.

It’s matching or beating discounts from rivals Ford and Chrysler, offering up to $9,000 off remaining 2012 models and close to $4,500 off 2013s. That, plus low interest rates, sweet lease deals and abundant financing, is good news for people in the market for a truck.

“They’re all very com-petitive with each other right now,” said Russell Barnett, who owns dealer-ships around Winchester, Tenn., southeast of Nash-ville, that sell GM pickups

as well as the Ford F-Se-ries and Chrysler’s Ram. “The manufacturers are putting a big emphasis on it, and there’s a lot of peo-ple in the market.”

Last month, the Ram led the way with an aver-age of $4,800 in discounts, followed by GMC and Ford at $3,700, according to in-dustry statistics from J.D. Power and Associates. GM dropped incentives on the Silverado to just under $3,700. Dealers say GM has boosted its offers in December, while the others have either held steady or raised incen-tives on certain models. Barnett said the incen-tives run from $4,500 to around $5,000, although the discounts vary with model year and options on the trucks.

GM looks to thin pickup inventory

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