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City to raise water ratesBy STEVEN SCHWARTZsteven@iolaregister.com

Water and wastewater rates will be increasing for 2013 to ac-count for inflation over the past several years, necessary changes after funds in the city of Iola have seen complete depletion.

There will be a 10 percent in-crease in rates effective Jan. 1. This comes after an 18 percent increase in rates over the past year, which City Administrator Carl Slaugh said proved to be “inadequate” to surmount in-flation. This means a 30 percent increase to the funds overall, which Slaugh said is still below what the state of Kansas would recommend based on a national average.

He said both the wastewater and water funds for the city have been depleted, and have been going into the negative. In 2010, $300,000 was transferred from the wastewater fund to the water fund, after it was depleted. By year’s end, the wastewater fund was at negative.

Slaugh said he did not know a specific reason for the lack of oversight to the funds’ stability other than people’s reluctance to adjust utility rates.

“There seems to be a great re-luctance in raising utility rates, even more than property tax,” Slaugh said. “The rates affect ev-erybody.”

Slaugh said gas and electric rates may change for the new year as well. However, he said fluctuations in those rates are

common from month-to-month, due to the fact that they change with the market.

SLAUGH SAID the city will be updating the sewage lines and lift station pumps in 2013 as well.

The $1.5 million dollar project comes off of $768,000 in grants provided by the Environmental Protection Agency to repair the pumps and re-line the sewage lines that run throughout the city.

“There are a lot of pipes that are cracked or even collapsed in some areas,” Slaugh said. “When we get a large rain, the rainwa-ter can get into the sterile sewer water.”

Mitch Phillips, gas, water and wastewater superintendent for the city of Iola, said he has not experienced an undertaking this large. In the past, repairs have been made on very small levels and he said this time around will be much different.

“The sewer system needs to

The sewer system needs to be around for the life of Iola. This is one of the big-gest projects I’ve ever seen — we’ve never tried anything like this.

— Mitch Phillips, gas, water and wastewater superintendent

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By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

Ed Bideau, elected 9th District representative in November, is ea-ger to join the debate on whether Kansas should retain the one-cent increase of the sales tax, which pushed it to 6.3 percent on July 1, 2010.

It is scheduled to reduce to 5.7 percent on July 1, 2013. The re-tained .4 percent will go to high-ways.

The increase was voted by the Legislature when state revenue failed to meet expectations, par-ticularly for school funding.

There is some question wheth-er the decrease will occur, rather stay in place to enhance revenue when Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposed income tax reduction comes about next year.

Bideau said he doesn’t favor keeping the sales tax at the high-er rate to make up for lost income because of the reduction in in-come taxes. Projections are that if the income tax cuts occur as they stand now, the state will lose more than $200 million in revenue in the next two years, Bideau said.

A sales tax is regressive in na-ture, Bideau said, because the poor and rich alike pay the same for purchases, making it more of a burden for low-income families. Bideau’s district of Allen and Neosho counties has a high rate of poverty.

Meanwhile, “I’ve been told there are flaws in the income tax law” that proposes lower rates,

Bideau said. “At the very mini-mum we’re probably going to have to clean it up.”

“Brownback said he would hold school funding harmless, but I’m concerned,” said Bideau, whose wife is a fourth-grade teacher in Chanute. “What’s harmless for Johnson County may not be good for schools in smaller counties,” such as Allen and Neosho.

BIDEAU served in the Kansas

House 1984-88 and returns to duty Jan. 14.

His committee assignments are Judiciary, Health and Healing

Taxes on Bideau’s radarBy BOB JOHNSON

bob@iolaregister.comJournal entries from the early

1900s have provided good read-ing of late for Ivan Powell.

Powell’s mother, Mabel Pow-ell, kept a diary from 1912 to her death on Sept. 14, 1974. She was 83.

“Her last entry was the day be-fore she died,” Powell said, as he leafed through those for the year.

The Powells lived on a farm south of Carlyle — that’s where Ivan was raised — and the jour-nals document what farm life was like.

Late Thursday morning Ivan, 86, lounging in a favorite chair in his and wife Jan’s nicely ap-pointed home in north Iola, talk-ed at length about his mother’s writings, as well as four years he spent in the Navy during the Ko-rean War.

“I landed at just about every major port in the Orient,” Ivan said. “All of those in Japan large enough for bigger ships, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Midway (Island). I’ve seen a lot of them.”

His ship, a destroyer, was in-volved in hostilities a few times, but the time that had Ivan and his shipmates were most ill at ease was during one of several typhoons.

The destroyer was an escort for an aircraft carrier and dur-ing a violent storm its mission was to deflect huge waves bear-ing down on the floating airstrip. That put the smaller ship broad-

side to gigantic swells.“One time we went over 47 de-

grees,” he recalled, far enough that the ship was so askew Ivan feared it was going to roll over.

Ivan has relished reading through his mother’s journals.

In addition to daily entries, she noted whenever produce was sold and what it fetched.

He thinks others will find her observations interesting. Here are some:

1912Oct. 8: Cut kaffir corn all day.Oct. 12: Papa went down to

Jones’ to gather walnuts.

Nov. 9: We all went to Iola. I got my wedding dress.

Dec. 10: Pa went to Iola and got me a fine coat and a pair of shoes.1915

Jan. 27: Jim (her husband) helped his father haul hay to Ge-neva. Cold, snowed some.

Feb. 12: Jim plowed all day.April 16: I put in peas, lettuce,

radishes and onions.June 7: We went to the creek

afishing. Caught about 12.July 26: Jim cultivating late

corn. I washed and planted late cabbage.

Journals spark memories

Ivan Powell looks through journals his mother, Mabel Powell, kept from 1912 until she died in 1974.

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Ed Bideau

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By ANITA KUMAR and WILLIAM DOUGLAS

McClatchy NewspapersWASHINGTON — President

Barack Obama and the Senate re-turned Thursday to Washington to revive stalled negotiations to avert a potentially devastating series of tax increases and spending cuts — but both parties remained pessimistic they would find a solution before a crucial end-of-the-year deadline.

“I have to be very honest,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. “I don’t know time-wise how it can happen now.”

The president cut short his fam-ily vacation in Hawaii to fly back to Washington on Thursday. The Democratic-controlled Senate also returned. But House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, on Thursday in-structed members not to come back to the Capitol for votes until 6:30 p.m. Sunday, less than 30 hours be-fore the New Year.

Obama will meet at the White House with Republican and Demo-

cratic congressional leaders Friday afternoon, according to the White House.

Obama is calling for a scaled-back package that would raise taxes for individual income above $200,000 and family income above $250,000 — his original proposal that he cam-paigned on — and an extension of jobless benefits for 2 million unem-ployed workers.

His latest proposal on taxes is less palatable to anti-tax Republi-cans than his earlier offer to raise taxes only on income above $400,000 — and much less popular than a fallback plan that Boehner floated but could not get past his own Re-publican House. And it no longer includes proposed cuts in projected

spending Obama had offered before the holidays, all part of a plan that the Republicans rejected.

The president made a fresh round of calls to congressional lead-ers — Boehner, Reid, Senate Minor-ity Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. — late Wednesday in the hopes of jumpstarting the talks. The White House declined to release details of the conversations.

“I told the president that we’re all happy to look at whatever he propos-es,” McConnell said. “But the truth is, we’re coming up against a hard deadline here, and, as I said, this is a conversation we should have had months ago. And Republicans aren’t about to write a blank check for anything Senate Democrats put forward just because we find our-selves at the edge of the cliff. It’s not fair to the American people.”

Obama and Boehner had been working on a compromise in the weeks following the election. After a possible solution fell apart, the speaker insisted the Senate first pass a bill.

The House previously had passed

Obama and Senate return to D.C., in search of deal

U.S. President Barack Obama returns to the White House in Washington, D.C. on Thursday from a shortened Christmas va-cation to his home state of Hawaii.

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I have to be very hon-est. I don’t know time-wise how it can hap-pen.

— Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

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ObituariesMarie Sinclair

Marie Eleana Sinclair, 71, of rural Humboldt, died Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, at Neosho Memorial Region-al Medical Center in Cha-nute.

M a r i e was born Sept. 9, 1941, the d a u g h t e r of Frank and Mary ( K i p p ) H e i m a n on a farm northwest of Humboldt. She spent most of her childhood in the Humboldt area and gradu-ated from Humboldt High School.

On Dec. 16, 1961, Marie married Jerry R. Sinclair at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Humboldt. They have made their home west of Humboldt since then. She did in-home care and then worked for Pinecrest Nursing Home in Hum-boldt before she retired.

She was a member of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and Altar Society in Hum-boldt. She and Jerry loved horseback riding, trail rides, and in later years entering their wagon in area parades. She enjoyed reading, following KU bas-ketball and having din-ner out with her special friends, Joyce, Chris, Syl-via and Denise.

Survivors include her husband, Jerry, of 51 years; three daughters, Re-becca Spino and husband, Brad, Salida, Co., Denise Marie Schomaker and husband, Frank Jr., Hum-boldt, and Angela Mou-lin and husband Shawn, Fairway; six siblings, Bob Heiman and Sylvia York, both of Humboldt, Dan Heiman, Moran, Betty Heppler, Wichita, Kenneth Heiman, Scranton, and Charles Heiman, Piqua; eight grandchildren, Faith Spino, Emily Marie Hamm and husband, Kyle, Bill Schomaker, Alex Marie Pi-att, William Moulin, Jus-tin Todd Sinclair, Jeffrey Ray Sinclair and Jericka Hare and husband, Shane; and six great-grandchil-dren.

She was preceded in death by a son, Raymond Dean Sinclair, on Jan. 22, 2000, and by a brother, Bill Heiman.

Parish Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Sunday at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Humboldt. Visi-

tation will follow in the church Parish Hall.

Mass of Christian buri-al will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Hum-boldt, followed by burial in St. Joseph’s Catholic Cem-etery, Humboldt.

Memorials can be made to St. Joseph’s Catho-lic Church and left with Waugh-Yokum and Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola, which is in charge of ar-rangements.

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

May BartlettNellie May Tomlinson

Bartlett, 93, Olathe, for-merly of Humboldt and Iola, passed away Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, at Pinnacle Ridge Nursing Home in Olathe.

May was born in Wood-son County on Feb. 9, 1919, the daughter of Fred and Rose (Hibbs) Churchill. She attended schools in Woodson County.

She was married to Johnie Tomlinson in 1937. He preceded her in death on Jan. 3, 1975. She later mar-ried Kenneth Bartlett. He also preceded her in death.

May worked on the as-sembly line for IMP Boats in Iola for more than 24 years.

She enjoyed cooking and sewing and spending time with her family.

May is survived by two daughters, Deana Gardner and her husband, Al, Mo-ran, and Janice Brown and her husband, Bob, Olathe; one son, Bruce Tomlin-son and his wife, Linda, Minneola; eight grand-children; 16 great-grand-children and three great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands Johnie and Ken-neth; a son, Harold Leon Tomlinson; three sisters, Wilma Schoepflin, Shirley Mynatt and Patty Gard-ner; and a brother, Fred Churchill.

Services were Thursday at Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home in Humboldt. Burial is in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Pinnacle Ridge Nursing and Rehab Center, Olathe, and may be left with the funeral home.

Penwell-Gabel Hum-boldt Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Marie Sinclair

DISTRICT COURT Judge Daniel Creitz

Civil cases filed:Olivia E. Trickey vs.

Eric W. Trickey, protec-tion from abuse. Charlotte M. Wright vs. Kenneth P. Wright, protection from stalking. Bekki F. Hicks vs. James H. Hicks, di-vorce.

MAGISTRATE COURT

Judge Thomas Sax-ton

Convicted of speed-ing or other violations with fines assessed:

Jesse R. Murphy, Gar-nett, 64/55, $224. Darren D. Embry, Kansas City, 81/65, $179. Laura L. Schabel, Independence, 80/65, $173. Thomas G. Robinson, Skiatook, Okla., 78/65, $161. An-thony R. Myers, Moran, littering from a vehicle, $213. Myo K. Thu, North

Chesterfield, Va., 75/65, $143. Emmanuel Salvador-Torres Rosales, Overland Park, 76/65, operating without a license, $269. Elaine R. Waters, Tongan-oxie, 80/65, $173. Michael J. Prothe, Paola, 75/65, $143. Bryan E. Tiecke,

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Failing to appear:

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and Vision 2020.“My first reaction was

Vision 2020 sounded inter-esting, but I wondered if it would do anything.”

His charge is to decide what the state should look like in 2020 and then de-velop plans for “how to get there,” Bideau said. “It in-volves power, water, health programs and economics, all that we need to decide for the long haul.”

Bideau said he also “is enthused about the health and healing assignment,” after its chairman told him work would include putting together oversight for Kan-Care.

KanCare is private man-agement of programs for Medicaid recipients in Kan-sas, including Tri-Valley Development Services.

With Bideau being an at-torney, service on the Judi-ciary Committee is a good fit.

BIDEAU POINTED out that for the first time in his-tory a consortium of rep-resentatives and senators

from the state’s four most-populous counties have the numbers to control each house of the Legislature.

In answer to the rural-urban division, he said a rural caucus had formed in efforts to ensure their inter-ests are heard.

He also would like to see a group formed to work for improvements to U.S. 169, which runs from Kansas City to Tulsa and squarely through the 9th District.

“U.S. 69 — which runs from Kansas City south through Fort Scott and Pittsburg — has a well-orga-nized support group that’s intent on getting improve-ments,” he said.

Bideau said he spent considerable time prior to the general election meet-ing with governing bodies throughout his district, as well as citizens, and that he would encourage input from constituents.

“It’s going to take me a little while to adjust — the last time I was in the Legis-lature we had typewriters and carbon paper — but I will,” he said.

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By STEVE EVERLYThe Kansas City StarKANSAS CITY, Mo. _

The largest wind farm to be built in Kansas is set to begin operations by the end of the year.

Flat Ridge 2, jointly owned by BP Wind Energy and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power, is on a 66,000-acre site covering parts of Harper, Barber, Kingman and Sumner counties in southern Kansas.

The project has 274 wind turbines, each with capac-ity to generate 1.6 mega-watts of electricity or a total of 438 megawatts. That’s enough to sup-ply electricity to 160,000 homes.

Besides being the larg-est wind farm in Kansas, the $800 million project is the largest ever to be built all at once, instead of in phases.

The owners said the gi-ant wind farm was built in Kansas in part because of its business environment but largely because of its

wind resources, which have been ranked the sec-ond best in the United States.

“Kansas is blessed by very strong winds,” said John Graham, the CEO of BP Wind Energy, which is a unit of the BP oil and natural-gas conglomerate.

The opening of the wind farm will be a boost to Kansas, which has been relatively slow to take advantage of its wind. It is ranked ninth in the amount of wind-energy installations.

Nevertheless, Kansas still has felt some econom-ic benefit from its wind en-ergy. The Kansas City law firm of Polsinelli Shughart in a study financed by groups or companies con-nected to the wind indus-try found that wind energy had created 3,484 construc-tion jobs, 262 operation and maintenance jobs, and 8,569 indirect and induced jobs in Kansas as the in-vestment rippled through the state’s economy.

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CorrectionDavid Ingle, an Iola police officer, was driving his per-

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legislation to extend all the George W. Bush-era tax cuts that expire Tuesday and prevent $109 billion in au-tomatic spending cuts that will take effect Wednesday. The Senate this summer passed a measure to ex-tend only tax cuts for indi-viduals earning less than $200,000 and families mak-ing less than $250,000.

Reid opened the Senate session Thursday with a full-throated blast against the House for its failure to be in Washington working to solve the so-called fiscal cliff that could thrust the nation back into a reces-sion. He accused Boehner of not wanting to bring a viable solution to his cau-cus until after the New Year because of concerns about alienating some House Re-publicans before he is re-elected speaker Jan. 3 at the start of the new Congress.

“We are here in Wash-ington working,” Reid said. “While the members of the House of Representatives are out watching movies and watching their kids play soccer and basketball and doing all kinds of things.

They should be here.”The Senate was working

on unrelated foreign intel-ligence legislation, not on the budget crisis.

In response, Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said Reid “should talk less and legislate more.”

“The House has already passed legislation to avoid the entire fiscal cliff,” he said. “Senate Democrats have not.”

House Republicans were told that the chamber will come back into session on Sunday with votes expected after 6:30 p.m., according to the office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.

Failure to reach a deci-sion by the end of the year would mean that $500 bil-lion in tax increases take ef-fect early next year, coupled with $109 billion in spend-ing reductions, the first in-stallment toward $1.2 tril-lion in cuts over two years. Combating the problem, Congress learned this week that the government will reach the $16.4 trillion debt limit Monday.

Obama and Boehner had been debating a plan that would raise taxes for house-holds with annual incomes of more than $400,000, cut spending $2.1 billion and apply a less-generous measure of inflation to Social Security and other programs to lower cost-of-living adjustments. But Re-publicans were skeptical of the White House’s calcula-tions on budget cuts.

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On my computer desktop I have a picture of my grand-daughter Olive whose gleeful face always puts me in good cheer.

Most Thursdays I serve as Louise and Nick’s baby-sitter up in Lawrence. I leave at dawn to get there by the time they head to their respective jobs and most nights stay over, returning

to Iola Friday mornings.My life with Olive revolves

around playing, eating, reading stories, taking an afternoon run on the nearby bike path while Olive naps in the stroller, go-ing to the grocery store, and a periodic swipe with a dust mop when (if) she naps.

I call it my sanity day.Olive has taught me some life

lessons.• Always be up for fun. If you

want to connect with a child, let go of your inhibitions. They thrive on craziness.

• Be open to love. Close the computer. Turn off the TV. And look your loved one in the eyes and say those three simple words that can help carry the weight of the world off some-one’s shoulders.

• Be intentional. I’m embar-rassed to admit it, but I see Olive in Lawrence more often than I see any other friends or relatives right here in town. The time is blocked out on my calendar and it takes a VIP meeting to get me to cancel. Visits don’t “just happen.” If a relationship is important, then make it a priority by scheduling time together.

• Time is a wastin’. By evi-dence of her picture, Olive is growing up fast. Every week I marvel at how she’s grown. Don’t wait to be with someone special.

• Teach your child the world is a wonderful place by being in awe of its bounty. Take them outside — a lot — to experience bright blue skies, clean air, riv-ers, mountains and fields. We don’t know how lucky we are to be in an area where the out-doors is so safe and accessible. Teach your children to love be-ing outside doing healthy ac-tivities by doing it with them. That’s a win-win.

• Children are innocence in-carnate. Protect it. When we play hide-and-seek, Olive knows I’m just around the corner, and I’ll never disappoint. When she wakes up from her nap, I’m there the minute she calls out

“Mimi.” These actions rein-force trust. Olive is growing up knowing she is in a safe world and will be well taken care of. That knowledge allows her to be confident, happy and loving.

• Be a sponge and take to learning like a child. Value education. As “mature” adults, we know continued learning is one of the secrets to youth. Learning new things prevents the brain from rusting to a halt. I marvel at how quickly Olive picks up new words and ideas. We can read ’til the cows come home and she’s always up for “one mo.” That love of learning helps us grow into interesting people.

MY NEW YEAR’S resolu-tion? To be more like Olive. Trusting, fun and loving. What a wonderful way to live life.

SusanLynnRegistereditor

Life lessons from a 1-year-old

Gov. Sam Brownback is wise to want to reassess mental health services after the New-town, Conn., tragedy. But is he willing to increase funding, if needed, or will tax cuts remain his priority?

Though much is still un-known about the young man who killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elemen-tary School, the shooting has raised concerns about mental health care.

“One of the things I want to look at is whether or not we’re providing suffi-cient mental health services,” Brown-back said.

The answer is obvious to mental health profession-als in Kansas, as well as to families struggling with this issue: No, we’re not. And a key reason has been budget cuts.

Kansas made the sixth-highest level of cuts to mental health funding from 2009 to 2011, according to a study last year by the Nation-al Alliance on Mental Illness. State grants to community men-tal health centers were cut by $19 million. And though those grants were increased this year, funding remains 24 percent low-er than it was in the state’s 2000 budget, the Associated Press re-ported.

THE STATE’S MENTAL health hospitals also have strug-gled to keep up with the needs.

“We are unable to provide a broad array of services that people need to have wrapped around them until they become a crisis situation,” Amy Camp-bell, coordinator of the Kansas

Mental Health Coalition, told the Lawrence Journal-World.

Others are concerned that the tax cuts Brownback approved could result in more reductions in mental health services. An expected drop in tobacco-set-tlement money also threatens a program that serves families who have children with serious mental health issues.

Brownback’s spokeswom-an pointed out that Medicaid spending on mental health ser-vices has increased significantly in recent years. Still, large gaps

remain.Brownback not-

ed, for example, that many people with mental illness-es aren’t getting help and are ending up in jail or prison.

State Sen. Dick Kelsey, R-Goddard, raised concerns last year about the closure of several psychiatric resi-dential treatment facilities in Kansas.

“We are headed for a tremendous

crash in the ability of Kansas to help poor, seriously mentally and emotionally challenged youth,” Kelsey warned.

Other mental health advo-cates have warned that Kansas isn’t immune to tragedies like the shooting in Newtown.

“I don’t like saying this,” Rich-ard Cagan, executive director of NAMI Kansas, told the Kansas Health Institute News Service, “but we’re just lucky this didn’t happen in Kansas.”

Kansas can’t keep counting on luck. It needs to provide mental health services and support to those who need them. And that should be a higher priority than tax cuts.

— The Wichita Eagle

Kansas failing in carefor the mentally ill

We are headed for a tremendous crash in the abil-ity of Kansas to help poor, seri-ously mentally and emotion-ally challenged youth.

— State Sen. Dick Kelsey, R-Goddard

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Everyone has a story.Seldom has that been more

true, from the Register’s perspec-tive, than in the past year.

I wrote about a woman, Diana Ross, who grew up during the Nazi blitz of England in World War II; a LaHarpe resident, Bill Folkner, who was a crackerjack FBI agent; Iola urban pioneers, David and Beth Toland; and, with apologies for not mentioning more, a good many other folks who make this little corner of the world so special.

The Register’s mission is to re-cord the daily occurrences here-abouts. One of the best ways is to tell the stories of all the interest-ing folks of our area.

Our New Year’s resolution at the Register is that we can be an even more meaningful part of each and every reader’s life.

Help us out. Give the Register a call at 365-2111, send an email to news@iolaregister.com or contact any of the our reporters, whose names and email addresses ac-company stories they write.

We may not be able to get to a story the same day, but we’ll give careful consideration to each and every one.

There’s a good bet that you, or someone you know, has a story that others would be delighted to read.

Give us a chance to tell it.

Let us tell your storyAt

Week’s EndBob Johnson

Dear editor,I am a World War II veteran.

When inducted, I was not asked whether I was a Republican or Democrat but only to serve my country. Thousands of people died during that war, giving up their lives serving their coun-try.

Today, in Washington, D.C., Congress does not have the guts

to save this country. I would like to take a broom and sweep the floor of them, pick up the trash and put them in a dumpster.

My wish for Kansas would be Mrs. Brownback to be governor and Mr. Brownback to be a share-cropper in Texas.

Yours truly,Bob Sharp,

Humboldt, Kan.

Letter to the editorHunter Hillmer is a prisoner in

his own body. At 19 years old, that will be the case for the rest of his life.

He is now paralyzed from the waist down, but the Topeka man deserves no sympathy. He brought on his condition by driving drunk. He also killed a man in the process and has been convicted of second-degree murder — a crime that carries with it as much as a 13-year prison sentence.

Still, the courts should consid-er Hillman’s condition and come to the conclusion that house ar-rest — in this instance — is pen-alty enough.

Friends and family members of the 15-year-old killed as a re-sult of Hillmer’s bad decision might disagree. The state might have the prison facilities to house paraplegics and quadriplegics, but from a financial standpoint it simply should not pay the extra freight for Hillmer’s incarcera-

tion.A Kansas Department of Cor-

rections spokesman told the Tope-ka Capital-Journal that the state pays an average of $70.30 a day to house an inmate. The cost to care for paraplegics and quadriplegics — once you get past the one one-time expense to buy equipment needed to accommodate them — is only slightly higher.

Still, it is spending more to house a special-needs inmate. And at a time when every dollar counts, the state simply can’t af-ford the added expense, which would compound daily. At a time when there is a real issue of over-crowding in our prison system, the state needs to consider if this is a man who requires an extend-ed stay behind bars.

This is a story not confined to Topeka. It easily could have hap-pened anywhere. Hillman has been in the Shawnee County Jail since late May. Officials there say

their cost to house an inmate is $89.76 a day, adding that it costs an additional $12 a day to house Hill-mer because of medication and specialized materials he requires.

That’s a substantial expense to the state over the course of his sentence. In fact, over the 13-year sentence, that $12 addition-al a day would add up to nearly $57,000. That’s a tab the taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay.

Put him under house arrest. This would force his family to care for him — and, just as impor-tant, pick up the bill for his care.

Hillmer will have no joy ride in avoiding a stay in prison. His life never will be the same. The free-doms he once knew and obvious-ly took for granted are gone. His life hence forth will be a series of challenges, beginning each day with climbing out of bed.

He now begins his life sen-tence.

— The Hutchinson News

Home sentence good for paralyzed convict

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Community of Christ East 54 Hwy., Iola

Sunday School.......9:30 a.m. Sun. Morning Worship 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Evening Prayer as announced

Gary Murphey, pastor (620) 365-2683

Covenant of Faith Christian Center

407 N. Chestnut, Iola

Sunday Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00 a.m. Sunday Evening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Bible Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m. Wednesday Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m.

Rev. Philip Honeycutt (620) 365-7405

First Baptist Church

801 N. Cottonwood, Iola Sunday School........9:15-10:15 a.m.

Sunday Worship.........10:30-11:30 p.m. on 1370 KIOL 11-11:30

Sunday Evening Bible Study Youth/Adult............................6 p.m.

Wednesday Prayer Meeting...................... 6:30 p.m. Dr. Michael Quinn, pastor

(620) 365-2779

Carlyle Presbyterian Church

Sunday Worship............9:30 a.m. Sunday School immediately after

service

Steve Traw, pastor

St. Timothy ’ s Episcopal Church

202 S. Walnut, Iola

Holy Eucharist & Sermon at 9 a.m. followed by coffee and fellowship

Rev. Jan Chubb (620) 365-7306

Moran United Methodist Church First and Cedar Streets

Moran Sunday School...........8:45 a.m. Sunday Worship .........9:30 a.m.

EVERYONE WELCOME Rev. Young-Gil Bahng

(620) 237-4442

Independent & Fundamental Lincoln & Second Streets, Iola Sunday School (all ages)........9:45 a.m. Morning Worship...............10:50 a.m. Evening Worship..................6:00 p.m. Wed. Prayer & Worship.......7:00 p.m.

(Nursery provided, all services) Roger R. Collins, pastor

(620) 365-2833

Grace Lutheran Church

117 E, Miller Rd., Iola Sunday School.................9:00 a.m.

Adult Bible Class................9:00 a.m. Worship Service.............10:30 a.m.

Rev. Bruce Kristalyn (620) 365-6468

St. John ’ s Catholic Church

314 S. Jefferson, Iola Saturday evening................5:30 p.m. Sunday Worship....................10 a.m.

(at St. Joseph’s, Yates Center)8 a.m. Wednesday P.S.R. Classes...6:30 p.m.

(September through May) Confessions Saturday

4:30-5:00 p.m . Father John P. Miller

(620) 365-3454

Fellowship Regional Church

214 W. Madison, Iola Saturday:

CRUX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m. Sunday:

Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:30 a.m.

Jeff Cokely, pastor Jared Ellis & Luke Bycroft

(620) 365-8001

First Presbyterian Church - Iola 302 E. Madison, Iola

Sunday Worship ........9:30 a.m. Sunday School...........10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Kids Club........3 p.m.

Rev. Kathryn Bell Interim Pastor (620) 365-3481

First Christian Church

1608 Oregon Rd., Iola “ Lead-Feed-Tend ” -

(John 21:15 - 17) Sunday School............9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship.........10:30 a.m. Bible Study.................6:00 p.m. Wed. Prayer...............6:30 p.m. Dave McGullion, pastor

Travis Riley, youth pastor fcciola@aceks.com

(620) 365-3436

First Assembly of God 1020 E. Carpenter, Iola

Sunday School, All Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 a.m. Sunday Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 a.m. Sunday Afternoon Teens FIRST...2:30 p.m. Sunday Praise & Prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 p.m. Wednesday Kids FIRST.............6:30 p.m. Wednesday Bible Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m. (620) 365-2492 iolafirstag.org Paul Miller, pastor

Trinity United Methodist Church

Broadway & Kentucky, Iola Sunday Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 a.m. Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 a.m.

All Are Welcome! Leslie Jackson, pastor

(620) 365-5235

St. Peter ’ s Lutheran Church

910 Amos St., Humboldt

Sunday Worship 8:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 a.m. David E. Meier, pastor

(620) 473-2343

Ward Chapel A.M.E.

Lincoln and Buckeye Streets Iola

Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00 a.m. Sunday Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:00 a.m.

Joseph Bywaters, pastor

Wesley United Methodist Church

Madison & Buckeye Sun.Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:00 a.m. Sun. School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:15 a.m. Middle School UMYF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 p.m. High School UMYF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m.

Rev. Trudy Kenyon Anderson

(620) 365-2285

For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, & whoever calls upon His nam e shall not

perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16

Calvary United Methodist Church

Jackson & Walnut St. Iola

“ The Cross Shines Brightly at Calvary ”

Sunday Worship.............9:15 a.m. Sunday School..............10:30 a.m. Rev. Gene McIntosh, pastor

Office: 365-3883 Parsonage: 365-3893

Friends Home Lutheran Church

Savonburg Sunday School at 10 a.m. Sunday Worship at 11 a.m

PMA Sidney Hose (620) 754-3314

Trinity Lutheran Church

430 N. Grant, Garnett

Saturday Women Bible Study.......... 9a.m. Sunday School..............9 a.m.

Sunday Worship...............10 a.m. Wednesday Bible Study.............7 p.m.

Ervin A. Daughtery Jr., pastor (785) 448-6930

LaHarpe Baptist Mission

901 S. Main, LaHarpe Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:00 a.m. Sunday Evening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:00 p.m.

Duwayne Bearden, pastor (620) 228-1829

Poplar Grove Baptist Church 305 Mulberry, Humboldt

Come Let Us Worship The Lord

Sunday School.....................9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship.................10:45 a.m. Thursday Service......................6 p.m.

Rev. James Manual (620) 473-3063

Harvest Baptist Church

401 S. Walnut, Iola Adult Small Group......9:15 a.m.

(no child-care provided) Fellowship Sunday Worship..10:30 a.m.

Tony Godfrey, pastor (620) 365-3688 (620) 228-2522

Humboldt United Methodist Church

806 N. 9th, Humboldt Sunday School..............9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship.............11:00 a.m. MS/HS Youth.....................5:00 p.m.

Nursery provided Marge Cox, pastor

(620) 473-3242

First Baptist Church 7th & Osage, Humboldt

Sunday School......................9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship.................10:50 a.m.

Sunday Evening Kids Bible Club...........5:30 p.m. Evening Service.....................7 p.m. Wed. Night Bible Study..........7 p.m. Rev. Jerry Neeley, pastor

(620) 473-2481

Salem United Methodist Church “ The Little White Church in the Country ”

3 miles west, 2 miles south of Iola Sunday School ......10:00 a.m. Sunday Worship....11:00 a.m.

Rev. Gene McIntosh Pastor (620) 365-3883

Northcott Church 12425 SW Barton Rd.

Colony Sunday School.....................9:00 a.m. Sunday Worship.................10:00 a.m. Sunday Evening.......................6 p.m.

Sharon K. Voorhees, pastor (620) 852-3077

Community Baptist Church 124 N. Fourth, Iola Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00 a.m. Sun. Morning Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:00 a.m. Sun. Evening Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:00 p.m. Wed. Prayer Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:00 p.m.

Marion Sponseller, pastor Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Home (620) 365-6811 (620) 365- 3150

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Happy New Year! Frank’s Body Shop

Chris Tidd, pictured, owner of Frank’s Body Shop has 12 years’ experience in handling all your collision and restoration needs. You can take your car or truck to Chris with confidence that it will be fixed right and in a timely manner.

What a customer can expect at Frank’s Body Shop in Iola:

• Fast, accurate computerized estimates • State-of-the-art frame straightening

machine with high-tech laser gauges • Full service auto body collision repair center • Precise computerized paint matching with

PPG • P.D.R. (paintless dent repair) for less severe

hail damage • Honoring all insurance company estimates • Pick-up and delivery available • Quality work guaranteed

214 West St., Iola • (620) 365-2645

DENISON, INC. Serving Southeast Kansas since 1944

Area locations: GENERAL REPAIR & SUPPLY SIEVERS AUTO PARTS

1008 N. Industrial Rd., Iola 214 W. Rutledge, Yates Center (620) 365-5954 (620) 625-3251

WALLY’S SAW SHOP CHANUTE FREDONIA 219 S. Birch, Moran 216 E. Elm 405 Madison

(620) 237-4433 (620) 431-1680 (620) 378-4148 Denison, Inc. was started in Fredonia in 1944

and purchased by current owner Howard Alger in 1966. Today Denison is still serving some of its original customers from 1944, one of those being Allen County’s Highway Department. Denison offers Miller-Victor industrial and medical gases, welding equipment and supplies, fire extinguisher sales and service, Sioux air tools and medical equipment.

Pictured above is Denison salesman Shawn Randall delivering merchandise to his Iola loca - tion, General Repair & Supply. See them for Miller welding equipment, acetylene, oxygen, nitrogen, helium and all types of welding supplies .

be around for the life of Iola,” Phillips said. “This is one of the biggest proj-ects I’ve ever seen — we’ve never tried anything like this.”

Four of the oldest pump stations will be repaired; they have been in place since the 1970s. Phillips said the pump stations are meant to pump sewage water to a higher eleva-tion, so gravity can move it through the pipe systems through the filtration pro-cess and eventually into the lagoons south of Iola.

The sewage pipes will be re-lined with a heavy ure-thane fiberglass compound that runs along the inside of the pipes. It contours with the curves and bends in an approximate quarter-inch diameter.

“A lot of the equipment has just seen normal wear and tear,” Phillips said. “Some of the pipes have been around since day one.”

Slaugh said many of the

issues with the sewer lines came up during the 2007 flood as well, while many of the other issues accu-mulate over time as the pipes erode.

Now that the city is mak-ing adjustments to the utilities, Slaugh said they can focus their attention on making improvements through the project.

“We didn’t have enough money for the wastewa-ter improvement project, so it has been stalled for the past couple of years,” Slaugh said.

Phillips said the waste-water pipes and pumps are a good place for the city to start, but he would like to eventually see a complete overhaul of any water lines and pumps in Iola.

The deadline for the project is June, but Slaugh said he expects the work to only take about two or three weeks in its entirety — once bids are opened and selected.

Official bids for the work will be opened on Jan. 8.

H RatesContinued from A1

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Sept. 22: Made my plaid gingham dress and (son) Earl’s shirting dress.

Nov. 15: Jim took bug-gy down to Geneva to get it fixed.1917

March 17: Jim awfully sick. (Neighbors helped out, several entries note; she became ill a week later.)

April 17: Sold 17 dozen eggs at 29 cents a dozen.

April 21: Jim hauling manure.

May 12: Sold Jennie (donkey) and took her to Iola in p.m. I got Earl sandals and got about 30 tomato plants.

June 25: Helped Jim harrow and I planted some beans. Jim sowed

his millet.1918

Jan. 11: Very cold. 18 degrees below zero.

Feb. 8: Beautiful day. Jim hauled corn for George Kettle.

March 28: Jim finished buggy shed.

April 11: Rover (their dog) got killed by a car.

May 24: Replanted corn that pigs dug up.

June 15: Went to Iola and got muslin for night-gowns.

Aug. 4: Very hot and windy. Early corn burn-ing up.

Aug. 13: We have to feed our cattle fodder and haul water.

Oct. 19: All public plac-es closed because of in-fluenza.

Nov. 11: War over.

Went to Iola in eve to pa-rade.1919

April 14: Jim working on roads; hauling gravel.

June 16: Sow had 10 pigs.

June 28: Jim cut 4 acres of wheat.

Aug. 18-22: Jim helped neighbors with thresh-ing.

Sept. 4: We all went to (Allen County) fair. We drove car south of track and watched races.

MABEL POWELL’S journal entries contin-ued for another 55 years.

Most are similar to those above, and often refer to other families living in the Carlyle area and friends living else-where in the area.

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In your opinion, what is the most im-portant local news story from the past year?

Send your answers to steven@iolaregis-ter.com, post them on Facebook, call the Register at 365-2111, or give your opinion at iolaregis-ter.com. Results of the poll will be post-ed in Wednesday’s Register.

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Papa Cleto and Mama Sally have Papa Cleto and Mama Sally have gone on before us but their legacy gone on before us but their legacy lives on in spirit at Coronado’s. lives on in spirit at Coronado’s.

Our Plates A re Ho t ! Our P lates Are Hot !

Our 45th Year!

A Family Tradition Since 1968

Serving Our Own Mexi-Kan Recipes

Proudly Serving The Best Of 2 Lands

In observance of The New Year,

Our normal Sat. Weekender will be

published early and delivered on Fri., Dec. 28.

We will close at 1 p.m.

We will close at 1 p.m. on Mon.,

Dec. 31 and remain closed until 8 a.m.

Wed., Jan. 2 The Register will not

be published on Tue., Jan. 1.

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Open New Year’s Eve Mon., Dec. 31 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Closed New Year’s Day Tue., Jan. 1

Happy New Year To All!

The celebration has started and the

countdow n is on. H ere’s to another

year rich in love and laughter.

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Start your New Year’s Eve

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12 oz. Prime Rib

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Becky and Matt Trost are the proud parents of a new baby boy, Samuel Ethan Trost.

Samuel was born Oct. 30, 2012, at Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Overland Park. He weighed 8 pounds, 7 ounces and was 20 inches long.

His maternal grandpar-ents are Deanna and Tom

King, Iola. His pater-nal grand-p a r e n t s are Nancy and Mike Trost, To-peka.

Samuel joins a sister, Lauren, 3.

His great-grandmother is Dona Erbert, Iola.

Birth announcementSamuel Ethan Trost

Samuel

The children of Naomi and Eugene E. Clounch, Jr., invite family and friends to celebrate their parent’s 50th wedding anniversary with a card shower.

Rev. Thompson united the

couple in marriage on Dec. 29, 1962, at the Ward Chapel AME Church parsonage.

Cards may be sent to 304 E. Lincoln, Iola 66749.

Their children will host a reception at a later date.

Anniversary

Naomi and Eugene E. Clounch, Jr.

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SunnySaturday, sunny. Highs 35 to 40.

West winds 5 to 10 mph.Saturday night, mostly clear.

Lows near 20. Southwest winds around 5 mph.

Sunday, mostly sunny. Highs 40 to 45. South winds 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the after-noon.

Sunday night, not as cold. Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of light freezing rain or snow after midnight. Lows near 30.

Sunrise 7:37 a.m. Sunset 5:11 p.m.

TemperatureHigh yesterday 37Low last night 23High a year ago 47Low a year ago 32

Precipitation24 hours ending 7 a.m. 0This month to date .45Total year to date 27.73Def. since Jan. 1 9.86

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The sixth annual gathering of Kansas natural resourc-es professionals takes place next month in Wichita.

The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tour-ism says the Kansas Natural Resource Conference will be Jan. 24-25.

This year’s conference will focus partly on invasive species such as the emerald

ash borer, which has been destroying trees in Kansas and several other states.

Other session topics will be aquatics, forestry, pas-ture and wetlands.

The Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries So-ciety, Society of American Foresters, Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams are among conference spon-sors.

Natural resourcesession in January

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Sports

Sports Calendar

High School Basketball Friday vs. OSAWATOMIE, 6 p.m.

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By RICHARD LUKENrichard@iolaregister.comIt’s hard to tell which is more

staggering: Cole Becker’s pro-lific rushing numbers in 2012, or the fact he rarely played a full four quarters during the season.

The Marmaton Valley High senior racked up 2,205 rushing yards as the Wildcats rolled to a 10-win season, advancing to the second round of the Kan-sas Eight Man, Division I play-offs.

Becker was selected with classmate Daylen Houk to rep-resent Marmaton Valley in an Eight Man Division I All-Star Game June 8 in Beloit.

Becker’s rushing totals came on 203 carries — an average of nearly 11 yards per rush.

The impressive rushing num-bers came even though Mar-maton Valley played a full four quarters in only three of the 11 games on its schedule (the oth-ers were ended early via Kan-sas’ eight-man mercy rules).

Becker also didn’t rush a sin-gle time in a blowout win over West Elk.

Becker, who already received all-league and all-state hon-ors for his gridiron prowess, brought home some more hard-ware in addition to the all-star game invitation.

He was named both offen-sive and defensive player of the year for Eight Man I, District 2 by kpreps.com, a statewide high school football reporting service. He also was named all-state for running back by kpreps.com.

On defense, Becker racked up 85 tackles and three sacks with an interception he returned for a touchdown.

EVEN WITH limited carries — due in no small part to Beck-er’s gridiron success — Houk’s numbers were impressive none-theless.

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Register/Susan LynnCody Michael shows off some of the hardware he earned this year for his drag racing prowess at Heartland Park Topeka. Michael was named Heartland Park’s 2012 Driver of the Year.

See ALL-STARS | Page B2

LIFE HARDLY A DRAG FOR RACER

Iolan is Heartland Park’s top 2012 driverBy SUSAN LYNN

susan@iolaregister.comBefore Cody Michael hits the

road he checks the weather — temperature, barometric pres-sure, humidity.

All three bear on how well his car will run.

“The track is about 906 feet above sea level. So if the baro-metric pressure is low, that’s the equivalent of being at an altitude of 3,500 feet,” Michael said.

“Now if the humidity is high, that’s tough on a car. An engine can’t burn water. Also, warmer weather is easier for the engine to breathe.”

From this information Michael then adjusts the fuel intake of his racecar to operate at maximum capacity.

“You don’t want it too rich — more air than the car needs — because then the car will outper-form what you have dialed in.”

This is racecar talk for guess-

ing what you think your time will be to travel 1,320 feet. For Michael, it’s about 9.3 seconds, give or take a tenth of a second.

Michael, 28, is on the heels of a record-winning year in the field of drag racing. He won three Pro Class finals and came in second in two other races at Heartland Park in Topeka.

He earned the most points in Pro Class and was named the 2012 Driver of the Year, meaning he had the highest overall points of all divisions after a season of 12 races of which the top 10 were tal-lied.

See MICHAEL | Page B2

By EDDIE PELLSAP National Writer

DENVER (AP) — One team is going for the first seed in the AFC playoffs. The other is in line for the first pick in next year’s NFL draft.

Yes, Sunday’s game featuring Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos against Jamaal Charles and the Kansas City Chiefs shows every sign of being one of those routine Week 17 blowouts. Denver is a 16-point favorite.

But if the Chiefs (2-13) are play-ing like a team that’s packed it in for the season, those 352 yards rushing they amassed last week against Indianapolis certainly don’t show it.

And if the Broncos (12-3) are thinking more about their Super Bowl aspirations than their AFC West rivals, they certainly aren’t telegraphing that.

“We’re all pretty focused here,” receiver Brandon Stokley said. “Just concerned about the Chiefs and trying to play a good game this weekend.”

With a victory, the Broncos would secure at least the No. 2 seed in the AFC and the first-round bye in the playoffs that goes with it. A win, combined with a Houston loss to Indianapo-lis in a game that ends around the time the Broncos kick off, would make the Broncos the top-seeded team in the conference. The only airplane flight on their potential road to the title would be a trip to Manning’s home town, the Super Bowl city of New Orleans.

Might that compel the Denver quarterback to check the out-of-town scores Sunday?

“No,” he said.But, he concedes, he’s glad

there is something on the line in this game — with a loss and a New England win, Denver could actually fall to the third seed and lose the bye — unlike many final-week scenarios he faced in India-napolis, where the Colts often had nothing to play for come the last game.

“Another chance to work on something,” said Manning. “It’s been such a fast-break year. It’s a great opportunity for us and I think we’re facing a tough chal-lenge.”

Making it even less likely the Broncos will overlook the Chiefs are the memories of the season’s first meeting, five weeks ago in Kansas City.

Denver’s 17-9 victory was a four-quarter struggle and marked the only time during its 10-game win-ning streak that it has been held under 20 points. Only one other team, Oakland, has held Denver under 30 during that span.

And if that’s not enough, there were the Pro Bowl rosters that

came out Thursday.Led by Manning and Von Mill-

er (17½ sacks), the Broncos placed a respectable five players on the AFC squad.

So did the Chiefs.“I’ve said it all year and it’s

true,” Broncos coach John Fox said. “We don’t look at the record. We look at the tape.”

Last week, Charles — one of Kansas City’s Pro Bowlers — ran for 226 yards, but the Chiefs fell 20-13 to Indianapolis and became the first team in NFL history to amass 350 yards rushing and lose.

Their Achilles’ heel: Turn-overs. Brady Quinn threw two in-terceptions, Charles lost a fumble and the Chiefs fell to minus-25 in turnover differential this season, last place in the NFL.

“You can’t ever do that in a game and expect to come away with a win,” Quinn said.

Kansas City goes into the sea-son finale tied with Jacksonville for the league’s worst record. If the teams end up tied, Kansas City would get the top pick. But in a fitting symbol of how miserable things are for the Chiefs this year, the top of the 2013 draft is noth-ing like last year’s, when quarter-backs Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III highlighted a gifted group of incoming rookies.

“This year, there’s no strength at the top,” ESPN draft expert Mel Kiper said recently on a con-ference call. “You don’t have the quarterback, you don’t have the running back, you don’t have the cornerback or safety.”

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the ground, averaging more than eight yards a carry. On defense, he had 78 tackles, two interceptions and two sacks.

Kent Houk, Wildcat head coach and Daylen Houk’s father, also earned an invi-tation to serve as an assis-tant coach at the June 8 all-star game. The third-year head coach has a career re-cord of 20-10 at Marmaton Valley.

Marmaton Valley’s Na-than Smart also earned all-state recognition by kpreps.com for his work on the of-fensive line and on both the offensive and defensive lines in Eight Man District 2.

They were joined on kpreps.com’s all-district offensive team by Jared Kale, lineman, and Lucas Hamlin, end. All-district defenders were Becker as linebacker, Smart as line-man, Kale as defensive end and Houk as defensive back. Hamlin was named all-district kicker and Jim-my Frye all-district return specialist.

Earning all-district honorable mention were Marmaton Valley’s Carlos Gonzales, linebacker and defensive back, Hamlin as defensive end and Lane Hamm as offensive line-man.

MEANWHILE, Crest High’s Kyle Hammond, whose selection to play in the Kansas Shrine Bowl in Topeka next July was re-ported in Thursday’s Reg-ister, also was invited to the Eight Man All Star festivi-ties. Hammond will play in the Eight Man Division II contest.

Hammond rushed for 2,000 yards and threw for 1,100 more in leading the Lancers to an 11-4 season. Like Marmaton Valley, Crest advanced to the sec-ond round of the postsea-son playoffs.

Both the Division I and Division II games will be June 8 in Beloit.

SEVERAL other area high school standouts earned postseason recogni-tion by kpreps.com.

Humboldt senior Tan-ner McNutt was named all-state wide receiver in Class 3A for his exploits with Humboldt’s record-setting passing attack. McNutt had 40 catches for 871 yards — more than 21 yards per catch — and 10 touchdowns.

In Eight Man, Division I Hammond was named of-fensive MVP in District 3. He was honored for his work as running back, line-backer and punter. Ham-mond was joined on the all-district team by Jesse Boone, senior lineman on offense and defense, Brock Ellis and Jordan Morton, offensive ends, and Jordan Morton, defensive back.

Also earning all-district honorable mention in Eight Man Division I were Yates Center’s Robert Arnold, tight end, wide receiver and defensive end, Caleb DeNoon, running back and linebacker, and Austin Mc-Nett, linebacker.

Also earning all-district honorable mention in Eight Man Division II were Crest’s Clayton Miller, line-backer, Dylan Sedlak, de-fensive back, and Landon Stephens, defensive end, and Southern Coffey Coun-ty’s Walker Harred and Luke Kraft, both defensive ends. Kraft was named all-district offensive lineman for the Titans.

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Michael’s easygoing manner helps keep his passion for cars in check. At the starting line his fo-cus is on a set of five lights that blink in descending order yellow, yellow, yel-low, green, and red, if a false start occurs. A per-fect reaction time has his car crossing through the radar’s beam just as the light turns green. In less than 10 seconds he has his Chevy Monza up to 147 mph.

In drag racing, two cars are paired against each other. If Michael’s esti-mate, called a “dial in” of how fast he’ll accomplish the race, is closer than his competitor’s dial in of his own race, then Michael is declared the winner.

“It’s a numbers game,” he said. “You figure your reaction time to the light turning green is about two-tenths of a second, plus another two- to three-tenths of a second for the car to react. Add that to the speed you can gain going down the track and you come up with your dial-in.”

Races are often decided within hundredths of a second, a few inches apart.

On a typical race night, Michael will compete in six to seven elimination runs.

MICHAEL RECEIVED an associate’s degree in automotive technology from the program at Pitts-burg State University. He also attended one year at Allen Community College. He’s worked as a mechanic for six years at Colt En-ergy, where he maintains its fleet of vehicles used in the oil drilling business.

His drag racing car is a 1977 model that he and his dad, Bruce, and brother, Derek, built from scratch.

It weighs about 2,600 pounds, “with me in it,” and has 650 horsepower. The average four-cylin-der car has 200 hp; a six-cylinder, 250 hp. Profes-sional dragsters have cars equipped with 10,000 hp.

Michael began drag rac-

ing in earnest in 2004. Ever since he was child,

however, Michael felt the lure of drag racing.

“I remember as a kid we’d pass the Mo-Kan (drag strip) in Joplin, and I’d always want to stop, but we never did,” he said with a dig to his mother, Tricia, who was present at this interview, and is her son’s biggest fan.

“I got to see my first race when I was 7. Then in fourth grade we saw the Nationals at the Heart-land.

“By the time I was 12 I began tinkering on cars with my brothers.”

Besides Derek, 34, Cody also had an older brother, Matt, who died in 2000 at age 20.

Michael bought his first car, a 1966 Impala, for $300 when he was 12.

“Don’t tell anyone, but we’d let him drive it along our road,” Tricia said. The Michaels live northwest of town on 1000 Street.

Though that first car was little more than a rust heap, the Michael crew got it running. There’s little Michael can’t do to make a car sing. He’s adept at breaking down and re-building carburetors, en-gines, transmissions and the rear-end distributor, if needed.

Tricia says she never has to take her car to a pro-fessional mechanic. Her husband, Bruce, is a sales-man at Twin Motors Ford.

MICHAEL’S LOVE for racing goes deep. He doesn’t dare put a price tag on it and doesn’t both-er to try.

Is it expensive? “Oh, yeah,” is his reply.

Methanol at $2.63 a gal-lon is the fuel of choice for his racecar. On a given race day, he’ll average one mile per gallon. He buys the fuel in 55-gallon drums and averages five a season.

Then there’s diesel for the generator.

And then Michael shrugs. What’s the use?

It’s a passion that uses his skills to their utmost.

Priceless.

H MichaelContinued from B1

Register file photoMarmaton Valley High’s Daylen Houk carries the ball in a postseason game for the Wildcats. Houk and teammate Cole Becker were chosen to participate in a Kansas Eight Man All-Star Game June 8 in Beloit.

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By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MITCH STACY

Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP)

— Truth is, retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf didn’t care much for his popular “Stormin’ Nor-man” nickname.

The seemingly no-non-sense Desert Storm com-mander’s reputed temper with aides and subordi-nates supposedly earned him that rough-and-ready moniker. But others around the general, who died Thursday in Tampa, Fla., at age 78 of complications from pneumonia, knew him as a friendly, talkative and even jovial figure who preferred the somewhat milder sobriquet given by his troops: “The Bear.”

That one perhaps suited him better later in his life, when he supported various national causes and chil-dren’s charities while es-chewing the spotlight and resisting efforts to draft him to run for political of-fice.

He lived out a quiet re-tirement in Tampa, where he’d served his last military assignment and where an elementary school bearing his name is testament to his standing in the community.

Schwarzkopf capped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein’s forces out of Kuwait in 1991 — but he’d managed to keep a low profile in the public debate over the second Gulf

War against Iraq, saying at one point that he doubted victory would be as easy as the White House and the Pentagon predicted.

Schwarzkopf was named commander in chief of U.S. Central Command at Tampa’s MacDill Air Force Base in 1988, overseeing the headquarters for U.S. mili-tary and security concerns in nearly two dozen coun-tries stretching across the Middle East to Afghanistan and the rest of central Asia, plus Pakistan.

When Saddam invaded Kuwait two years later to punish it for allegedly stealing Iraqi oil reserves, Schwarzkopf commanded Operation Desert Storm, the coalition of some 30 countries organized by President George H.W. Bush that succeeded in driving the Iraqis out.

At the peak of his post-war national celebrity, Schwarzkopf — a self-pro-claimed political indepen-dent — rejected suggestions that he run for office, and remained far more private than other generals, al-though he did serve briefly as a military commentator for NBC.

While focused primar-ily on charitable enter-prises in his later years, he campaigned for President George W. Bush in 2000, but was ambivalent about the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In early 2003 he told The Washington Post that the outcome was an unknown: “What is postwar Iraq go-

ing to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That’s a huge question, to my mind. It re-ally should be part of the overall campaign plan.”

Initially Schwarzkopf had endorsed the invasion, saying he was convinced that Secretary of State Co-lin Powell had given the United Nations powerful evidence of Iraqi weap-ons of mass destruction. After that proved false, he said decisions to go to war should depend on what U.N. weapons inspectors found.

He seldom spoke up dur-ing the conflict, but in late 2004 he sharply criticized Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the Pen-tagon for mistakes that included erroneous judg-ments about Iraq and inad-equate training for Army reservists sent there.

“In the final analysis I think we are behind sched-ule. ... I don’t think we counted on it turning into jihad (holy war),” he said in an NBC interview.

Schwarzkopf was born Aug. 24, 1934, in Trenton, N.J., where his father, Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, founder and commander of the New Jersey State Po-lice, was then leading the investigation of the Lind-bergh kidnap case. That in-vestigation ended with the arrest and 1936 execution of German-born carpenter Richard Hauptmann for murdering famed aviator Charles Lindbergh’s infant son.

Looking to the new yearAs we close out 2012, we

are already working to-ward 2013. The plans are in the works for the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce Business EXPO which will once again be held the last weekend of March.

There will be some trav-el shows and classes to attend. New students en-rolled at Allen Community College are welcome.

The Chamber has been paired with Manhattan’s Chamber of Commerce in an exciting new pilot pro-gram from the State Tour-ism and the Travel and Tourism Association of Kansas, that pairs big cit-ies and small towns across the state.

We look forward to help-ing with The Bowlus Fine

Arts Center as plans take shape for the center’s 50th anniversary. We also want to be a part of the discus-sion as USD 257 considers its plan for the schools. And we’ll be on hand for the new Allen County Hos-pital’s opening this fall.

There is so much going on in Iola. Our buildings around the square contin-ue to be full with wonder-ful shops. The City of Iola continues to work hard

to make this a wonderful community.

Chamber Ambassa-dors, the Chamber Trolley Board and all our volun-teers help make the Cham-ber an integral part of Iola. We could not do half of what gets done without these groups.

It is all of you who make it a joy to represent Iola as I go to travel shows and state meetings. You make it easy to invite people to come visit, shop, work, come and stay in the Iola area.

Yes, it is shaping up to be a busy year and we are look-ing forward to it.

Happy New Year from all of us at The Iola Area Chamber of Commerce and Tourism.

SheliaLampe

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Desert Storm commander Schwarzkopf dies

Arrests reportedDustin Fuller, 28, Beloit,

was arrested Dec. 20 for suspicion of disorderly conduct and interfering with a law enforcement officer after Iola police of-ficers were called to 118 E. Jackson Ave.

On Dec. 21, Iola police were called to the 200 block of North Second Street for a reported assault. No ar-rests were made concern-ing the report, although Amanda Sue Mary Hatton was taken into custody for an unrelated arrest war-rant.

Iola police were sum-moned to 417 W. Martin St. Sunday for an alleged domestic dispute. During the investigation, Ricardo Guerrerro was arrested

for suspicion of domestic battery.

Tuff board takenJames Ping told police

Sunday a 4-foot by 8-foot sheet of Tuff board had been stolen from his ve-hicle while it was parked in the teen block of North State Street.

Driver citedTravis Walters, 19, Iola,

was cited Monday for al-legedly driving with a suspended driver’s license and speeding after he was stopped in the 1200 block of North State Street.

Fight reportedIola police were called to

Scooter’s Bar, 118 E. Jack-son Ave., Sunday because

of a disturbance. Orion Leigh, 22, Iola, reported he was struck in the face by Breck Sicka, 22, Fredonia.

An investigation contin-ues.

Suspect soughtIola police officers were

called to a report of do-mestic battery Dec. 20 in the 600 block of North Oak Street. Officers said they were still looking for a sus-pect from the incident. An investigation continues.

Iolan’s Christmasdecoration stolen

Lindsey Shaughnessy, 28, Iola, told police Dec. 20 a Christmas decoration was stolen from her yard in the 700 block of Kansas Drive.

Police reports

“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” — Michael Crichton, Ameri-can author (1942-2008).

Thought of the day

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(First published in The IolaRegister, December 22, 2012)IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF

ALLEN COUNTY, KANSASEmprise Bank, Plaintiff vs. Deborah Sue Huffman and

Robert Wayne Huffman, City of Humboldt Kansas, State of Kan-sas Department of Housing and Urban Development, Board of County Commissioners Neosho County, Kansas,

DefendentsCase No. 10-CV-60

NOTICE OF SALEBy the virtue of an Order of Sale

dated November 13, 2012, directed and delivered to me as Sheriff of Al-len County, Kansas, and issued out of the District Court of said county, I will at 10:00 o’clock a.m. on Janu-ary 16, 2013, at the south door of the courthouse in Iola, Kansas, sell at public auction to the highest bid-der for cash in hand, all of the de-fendants’, Deborah Sue Huffman and Robert W. Huffman aka Robert Wayne Huffman’s, right, title and

interest in the following described real estate situate in Allen County, Kansas, to wit:

The South One (1) foot of Lot One (1) and all of Lots Seven (7) to twelve (12), both inclusive, all in Block Eleven (11) of Alger’s Addi-tion to the City of Humboldt, Allen County, Kansas.

Said property will be sold to sat-isfy judgment rendered against the defendants, Deborah Sue Huffman and Robert W. Huffman aka Rob-ert Wayne Huffman, in the amount of $89,121.65, together with a per diem rate of interest, court costs, and further costs of executing this order.

Dated: December 18, 2012.Thomas Williams

Sheriff of Allen County, KSWilliam N. LacyAttorney for PlaintiffEmprise Bank111 S. StateP.O. Box 202 Yates Center, KS

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Public notice

Dear Tom and Ray: Win-ter is coming, and I have two gallons of oil/gas mixture (40-to-1) for my weed whacker that I don’t want to save for next year or try to dispose of. Is it safe to add this mixture to an almost-full tank of gas in my 2004 Honda Ac-cord? I use 87 octane and live in Cleveland. Thanks! — Jeff

RAY: You live in Cleve-land? You may want to just hang on to the gas-oil mixture and buy yourself a snow blower, Jeff.

TOM: Actually, it’s fine to use it in your car. It’s a relatively small amount of oil (1 part oil to 40

parts gasoline).RAY: It won’t harm the

engine, the fuel-injection

system or the catalytic converter.

TOM: It’s not great for the environment, but, presumably, you would have burned it in your weed whacker anyway, so it’s doing no more harm being burned by your car.

RAY: Most of my broth-er’s cars burn more oil

than that on their own, due to age and/or dis-repair. In fact, some of them burn more oil than gas.

TOM: Keep in mind, you also can save the mix-ture for next year. Gaso-line generally is good for at least a year, these days. You can make it last even longer by adding a small amount of gasoline stabi-lizer, like Sta-Bil.

RAY: And if you keep it, you also can use it in your lawnmower, your chainsaw, your portable generator or your deluxe gas-powered butt-scratch-er, Jeff.

TOM: But if you do de-

cide to power your Accord with this mix, I would do it over several tankfuls, rather than dumping the whole thing in at once. That’ll minimize the con-centration of oil and en-sure that no harm is done.

* * *Changing your oil reg-

ularly is the cheapest in-surance you can buy for your car, but how often should you change it? Find out by ordering Tom and Ray’s pamphlet “Ten Ways You May Be Ruining Your Car Without Even Knowing It!” Send $4.75 (check or money order) to Ruin, P.O. Box 536475, Or-lando, FL 32853-6475.

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Adding weed-whacker gas to car won’t hurt

On overly sexualized clothing for girls:

Why feel nervous about little girls’ short-shorts and midriff tops? Would people similarly get ner-vous about a little boy play-ing outside in the summer with no shirt at all?

I know it’s hard to raise kids in a world that isn’t al-ways safe for them. Does a little girl’s clothing choice matter in that regard? How can you say that to a child without hurting her? “We don’t want you to wear the short-shorts in fashion be-cause we don’t want you to attract the wrong kind of attention.” That’s kind of

the peewee version of the rape myth, what a woman wears or does is part of

why she gets raped.Parents should focus less

on shaping girls into their image of what a girl should be and more on strengthen-ing them for their futures as young ladies. — M.

I believe that there are several things the family can do to make sure a girl is safe and body-proud, which will shield her bet-ter than a focus on cloth-ing.

First, Mom and Dad can make a point to praise the daughter once a week or more on something she has done, whether a book re-port, or learning to turn a cartwheel or listening to a friend.

Second, give her an op-portunity to be part of a community focused out-side herself: e.g., packing boxes for the food bank

or painting a Habitat for Humanity house. This is all about the person she will be, not the clothes she wears.

Third, see that she is in-volved in something she loves that makes her sweat. It can be karate, dance, gymnastics, swimming or playing an instrument. Athletes (and marching band members) in high school with 7 a.m. practice don’t wear much makeup, especially when they have a match at 4 p.m. as well. Athletes are proud of their bodies just the way they are, thanks. — S.

Women speak out on girls’ clothes

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Each year — or at least for the past six — NASCAR’s “integrated marketing/communications team” issues what it dubs its “Loopies,” i.e., awards deter-mined by examining the so-called “loop data” from Sprint Cup races.

Though he finished third in the Chase, five-time champion Jim-mie Johnson finished first in 13 of the 15 categories.

What were the titles indicative of Johnson’s excellence? He led in Driver Rating (109.5), Average Running Position, Fastest Early in a Run, Fastest Late in a Run, Fast-est Laps Run, Fastest on Restarts, Green-Flag Speed, Laps in Top 15, Laps Led, Miles Led, Percentage of Laps Run on the Lead Lap, Speed by Quarter and Speed in Traffic.

Some of the awards were a bit less scientific-sounding. Most Im-proved was Greg Biffle. Roush Fen-way teammate Carl Edwards was Least Improved, which was a polite and slightly inaccurate way of put-ting it since it didn’t actually reflect improvement. The “Closer” statis-tic, won by Ryan Newman, referred

to improvement in position over the final 10 percent of a race. The worst “Closer,” was Dale Earnhardt, who lost a net 41 positions in the final 10 percent.

Champion Brad Keselowski had the most Quality Passes, defined as passes of a driver in the top 15. That number, by the way, was 2,201.

Too busy — Robby Gordon, heavily involved in something called Off Road’s Stadium Super Truck Se-ries, has no plans to compete in NASCAR this year,

though a spokesman for Gordon said he “would never rule out the possibility of running selected NASCAR events.”

Gordon will again compete in the Dakar Rally, which begins on Jan. 5 in Lima, Peru.

Outside now — Showtime has canceled its weekly “Inside NAS-CAR” show after three seasons. The show has most recently been hosted by Chris Myers, with Kyle Petty and Michael Waltrip.

A NASCAR spokesman said the

show would be “actively shopped” to other television entities.

It takes endurance — Chip Ganassi will run his Cup drivers, Juan Pablo Montoya and Jamie McMurray, in the Rolex 24. They won’t compete on the same team. Ganassi entries have won the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series six times and is reigning champ.

If you have a question or comment, write: NASCAR This Week, c/o The Gaston Gazette, P.O. Box 1538, Gastonia, NC 28053 or send an e-mail to mdutton@gastongazette.com. You can also send your NASCAR questions to Monte on Facebook at Facebook.com/monte-dutton and at Twitter.com/MonteDutton. Please specify you are submitting them for the NASCAR This Week page.

These fi ne NASCAR awards were a tad ‘Loopy’

THOUGHTS OF SUGAR PLUMS AND MORE RACING

� Have you got those lack-of-racing blues? Do you think testing might help? The Speed cable/satellite channel will offer live coverage of the Jan. 10-12 sessions at Daytona International Speedway.� The old Dale Earnhardt Inc.

property, once known informally as the sport’s “Garage Mahal,” is apparently going to be con-verted into private recreational retreat by Dale Earnhardt’s widow, Teresa.� The latest word from owner

James Finch is that Phoenix Racing will split time next season with at least two drivers, Regan Smith and A.J. Allmendinger.� In 2012, Jimmie Johnson

had more top-five finishes (18) and top 10s (24) than Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski, but Johnson also had more DNFs (“did not finish”) than any other driver in the Chase field. He failed to complete six races.� The driver who completed

the most laps didn’t win a race. Paul Menard completed 99.6 percent of the laps run during the season. That’s 10,406.� Tony Stewart has never

failed to win at least once dur-ing a season. That’s 14 years in a row for the driver of No. 14.� Jeff Burton’s most recent

victory occurred 149 races ago. Martin Truex Jr.’s only career vic-tory to date was 203 races ago.� A former champion has a

streak even longer. The 2000 winner of what was then the Winston Cup, Bobby Labonte, has driven 324 races since his 21st career victory.� The new director of the

Camping World Truck Series is ex-driver Chad Little. Wayne Auton is moving up to the Na-tionwide Series in that capacity.� NASCAR, or more likely

“#NASCAR,” ranked second only to “#NFL” in terms of “highest-trending sports topics of 2012.” One can’t help but wonder how this can be calculated without 2012 being over.

From King To The Wonder BoyRichard Petty’s final race in NASCAR’s premier

series was also Jeff Gordon’s debut. It was the Nov.14, 1992, Winston Cup season finale at what was then Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Ga. Gordon finished 31st and Petty was credited with 35th. Bill Elliott won the race, though he lost the championship by 10 points to Alan Kulwicki.

John Clark/NASCAR This WeekThough teammates, Gannasi’s Juan Pablo Montoya will not race with Jamie McMurray in the upcoming Rolex 24.

2013 CUP SCHEDULEFeb. 16 Daytona Shootout FoxFeb. 17 500 qualifying FoxFeb. 21 Daytona Duel SpeedFeb. 24 Daytona 500 FoxMarch 3 Phoenix FoxMarch 10 Las Vegas FoxMarch 17 Bristol FoxMarch 24 Fontana FoxApril 7 Martinsville FoxApril 13 Texas FoxApril 21 Kansas FoxApril 27 Richmond FoxMay 5 Talladega FoxMay 11 Darlington FoxMay 18 Charlotte All-Star SpeedMay 26 Charlotte FoxJune 2 Dover FoxJune 9 Pocono TNTJune 16 Michigan TNTJune 23 Sonoma TNTJune 29 Kentucky TNTJuly 6 Daytona TNTJuly 14 New Hampshire TNTJuly 28 Indianapolis ESPNAug. 4 Pocono ESPNAug. 11 Watkins Glen ESPNAug. 18 Michigan ESPNAug. 24 Bristol ABCSept. 1 Atlanta ESPNSept. 7 Richmond ABCSept. 15 Chicagoland ESPNSept. 22 New Hampshire ESPNSept. 29 Dover ESPNOct. 6 Kansas ESPNOct. 12 Charlotte ABCOct. 20 Talladega ESPNOct. 27 Martinsville ESPNNov. 3 Texas ESPNNov. 10 Phoenix ESPNNov. 17 Homestead ESPN

Fans Dreaming Of A New Season

With Daytona weeks away, the excitement builds

The Daytona Shootout is scheduled for Feb. 16. Speedweeks continues at Daytona International Speedway through the Daytona 500, which is to be run on Feb. 24.

Matt Kenseth won last year. Next year the two-time 500 winner will compete in a Joe Gibbs-owned Toyota instead of a Roush Fenway Ford, but that is only one of many changes to be unveiled in the coming year.

Daytona Beach, Fla., is cool and often breezy in Feb-ruary. Fans miss the NASCAR merry-go-round during the winter months, when they cross the bar between “whew, the season’s over” to “I feel like a bucking horse waiting to be let out of the stall.”

This offseason brings with it considerable reason for optimism. Christmas was appropriate for the masters of the NASCAR universe. They’re all getting new race cars. The 2013 season will be the first for what the sport’s leaders have dubbed the “Generation Six” de-sign, with renewed manufacturer identity and “racier” look than the so-called “Car of Tomorrow” that was partially implemented in 2007.

This year’s Daytona qualifying races, to be run on Thursday, Feb. 21, will regain some of the significance of their storied past. In recent years, the twin 150-milers (once 100 and then 125 miles) morphed into little more than polite exhibitions held for the benefit of televi-sion and the gate. Only a few positions in the 500 were available for drivers to “race their way in.” That changes next season as the qualifying format takes on the basic shape of years past. It should make the qualifying races exciting again.

The Daytona Shootout — I’m thinking a corporate sponsor could materialize at any time right up to the week before it is run — is also in throwback mode, re-turning to a format in which the exhibition race honors pole, not race, winners. That, by the way, eliminates the drivers who finished first (Brad Keselowski) and second (Clint Bowyer) in the recent Chase, but at least the changes give the race a reason again. It’s a fast race for fast qualifiers instead of a knock-off of the Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte in May.

Fans will be able to tell a Ford from a Chevy (from a Toyota) again. The qualifying races are going to mean something. NASCAR Nation can’t wait.

� Who’s hot: David Reutimann may be the choice if JTG/Daugherty Racing can execute a plan to add a second team. ... Jimmie Johnson fell shy of a champion-ship but dominated the NASCAR “loop data” statistics recently released.� Who’s not: Carl Edwards’ driver rating dropped from 101.0 in 2011 to 84.2 in 2012. ... Kurt Busch’s fall was even greater: from 93.7 to 71.0. Busch competed with a dif-ferent team, though. Edwards didn’t.

By Monte DuttonNASCAR This Week

Talkin’ Parnelli JonesMotorsports publisher Coastal 181 has

announced the release of “As a Matter of Fact I AM Parnelli Jones,” written by the legendary driver with racing journalist Bones Bourcier. The book also includes commentary from such racing icons as Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt, A.J. Watson, Leonard Wood, Al and Bobby Unser, Johnny Rutherford, Walker Evans, Bud Moore and Tony Stewart. It’s available for $39.95, online at www.coastal181.com or by phone at 877-907-8181.

By Monte DuttonNASCAR This Week

1 — Jamie McMurray — Chevy — Hendrick Motorsports is now supplying the engines.

2 — Brad Keselowski — Ford — The champion drove a Dodge. Now no one does.

10 — Danica Patrick — Chevy — Cup has a woman driver, and Tony Stewart has a third team. Tony Gibson is the crew chief.

17 — Ricky Stenhouse Jr. — Ford — The two-time Nationwide champion replaces Matt Kenseth at Roush Fenway.

20 — Matt Kenseth — Toyota — For the first time since Stewart left, JGR now has a champion (2003) in the lineup.

22 — Joey Logano — Ford — The champion has a new teammate, and Logano has a new lease on life, or at least his career.

39 — Ryan Newman — Chevy — Matt Borland, who once was Newman’s crew chief at Penske, is back behind the pit wall.

42 — Juan Pablo Montoya — Chevy — As with teammate McMurray, switch to Hendrick power.

51 — Driver varies — Chevy — It looks as if James Finch will use Regan Smith and A.J. Allmendinger, perhaps with an occasional appear-ance by David Reutimann.

55 — Driver varies — Toyota — Most of the time, Mark Martin will be the driver, with nine races for Brian Vickers and three for owner Michael Waltrip.

78 — Kurt Busch — Chevy — The 2004 Cup champion moves from Phoenix Racing to Furniture Row, having replaced Regan Smith late in 2012.

CHANGES IN THE SPRINT CUP DRIVER LINEUP

John Clark/NASCAR This WeekRicky Stenhouse Jr. moves up into Matt Kenseth’s old Ford at Roush Fenway Racing next season.

NASCAR’s Sprint Cup teams are still trying to line up sponsors, juggle their crews and prepare for the coming season. Many slots remain unfilled or at least not finalized. Here’s a list of changes, or at least

the ones we know about.

John Clark/NASCAR This WeekA minor change for Jamie McMurray in the coming season — his car will be supplied with Hendrick engines.

VERSUS

Expectations run high for Kenseth, a former champion, in his role as driver of Joe Gibbs Racing’s No. 20. Logano, meanwhile, moves to a Penske Racing Ford. A rivalry of sorts is inevitable.

NASCAR This Week’s Monte Dutton gives his take: “Expectations may run high for Kenseth, but there’s more pressure on Logano, who won two races in four years at JGR. Now Logano is the teammate of the Sprint Cup champion, Brad Keselowski, and those two have to learn to work together.”

MATT KENSETH VS. JOEY LOGANOKenseth Logano

Jeff Gordon’s FameThis Week welcomes letters to the editor, but

please be aware that we have room for only a few each week. We’ll do our best to select the best, but individual replies are impossible due to the bulk of mail received. Please do not send stamped and self-addressed envelopes with your letters, which should be addressed to: NASCAR This Week, The Gaston Gazette, P.O. Box 1538, Gastonia, N.C. 28053. Send emails to mdutton@gastongazette.com, ATTN: NTW question

Dear NASCAR This Week,

If I’m not mistaken — when Jeff Gordon won the Homestead race back in November — he has thus won at every track on NASCAR’s circuit. If this is true, I was wondering why I haven’t heard anything about this.

L.C. CoatesAvon Park, Fla.

He hasn’t won yet at Kentucky Speedway, which, of course, is due in no small measure to there having been only two Sprint Cup races run there so far. Gordon’s accomplishment at Homestead received some mention, but it may have been lost in all the attention devoted to Brad Keselowski’s championship. Race winners are often slighted at Homestead.

J. Gordon

Reutimann

Kurt Busch

John Clark/NASCAR This WeekAs families celebrate the holiday season, many race fans can dream about the upcoming race season. With the yet-to-be sponosored Daytona Shootout coming up on Feb. 16, owners and teams scramble to get ready for the season. One new change will be Matt Kenseth. Last year’s Daytona 500 winner — seen kissing his wife, Katie, on Victory Lane — is now racing for Joe Gibbs Racing.

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