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

Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

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

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

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

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

By SUSAN [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By RICHARD [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

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

By BOB [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

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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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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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Vol. 115, No.26 75 Cents Iola, KS

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Nearly a third of the Kansas Legisla-ture’s members will have no pre-vious experience in either cham-ber when lawmakers convene in January, bringing new energy and less predictability to their next annual session.

The large freshman class is likely to have a big influence over how lawmakers and con-servative Republican Gov. Sam Brownback close a projected budget shortfall and follow up on massive income tax cuts enacted this year. Turnover in the Senate will push it to the political right following the ouster of moderate GOP leaders who’d worked with Democrats to stall initiatives from Brownback and other con-servatives.

Some veterans believe that new legislators’ impatience will be a significant issue for their leaders and expect some early hitches in drafting policy as lawmakers receive on-the-job training. But Brownback also

will have solid majorities of fel-low GOP conservatives in each chamber.

In the House, 49 of the 125 members will have no prior legislative experience. Four of 40 senators will have no previ-ous service in the Legislature, though 12 are new to the cham-ber after serving previously in the House.

“Everybody’s going to come in with the attitude of, ‘I know what’s wrong, and I’m going to fix it’ — you know, be a giant,” said Sen.-elect Jim Denning, a conservative Overland Park Republican, who’s coming off of two years in the House. “We think we’re going to get in here and fix it by the end of the day.”

Newcomers already were a sig-

nificant voting bloc as legislators prepared for party caucuses in both chambers Monday to pick new leaders. Candidates for the top jobs in both the House and Senate wooed them and prom-ised open communication and a significant role in policy-making for freshman.

In the House, Republicans re-tained their 92-33 majority in this year’s elections, and 40 GOP lawmakers-elect have no legisla-tive experience. Nine Democrats also are newcomers.

The Senate’s party division also remained unchanged, with a 32-8 GOP advantage. But 14 Republicans will be new to the chamber next year, including the four with no legislative experi-ence. Democrats have two new senators, both former House members.

The Legislature has so many new faces partly because of po-litical redistricting. A bitter stalemate between GOP factions prevented lawmakers from ap-proving any redistricting legisla-tion, forcing three federal judges

New faces to influence Kan. LegislatureJohnHannaAn AP news analysis

Tinn’s PinsWhen I’m bored, looking for new craft or recipe ideas or just want to

kick back and browse the internet I look to Pinterest. It has become my addiction and saving grace.

For those who haven’t gotten hooked on Pinterest yet, let me ex-plain. It is a social networking site where people from all over the world post — or “pin” — what they think is interesting. Do-it-yourself (DIY) arts and crafts, recipes, animal pictures or fashion styles — you name it, Pinterest has it.

Now, I realize that sounds like a woman’s site, and men are thinking, I won’t touch that with a nine-foot pole, but let me tell you, I have found my boyfriend checking over my shoulder several times to see what new pins have been posted.

As I was perusing through Pinterest I got to thinking, why not share these pins on the Register, and give it a local tie. Each Monday I will share my top pins and the site where readers can find the pinned item.

Readers can follow me on Pinterest, http://pinterest.com/tinnspins/I am encouraging all readers to send me your top pin and I will share a couple each week. Email me

the pin at [email protected] and a brief description of why you like that pin or email me an idea for a local pin, for example if you see the house with the nicest Christmas decorations, email me the address and I will get a picture of it and make it a local pin. Or if you have a dynamic recipe you would like to share send me an email with the recipe and picture.

Allison Tinn

Spicy mocha pound cakeThis little taste of delight might make you a favorite among

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Photo courtesy of Pinterest and bevcooks.com

1 tsp real vanilla extract1 cup flour½ cup cocoa powder1 tsp cayenne1 tsp baking powder1 pinch salt

1 cup sugar1 stick butter, cut into

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sugar. Once creamed, add each egg, one at a time, until creamy and silky. Pour the milk, coffee and vanilla extract into the mix-ture and give her one more good whirl, just to get it all good and mixed. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa pow-der, cayenne, baking powder, and the small pinch of salt. Sift it a couple more times. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry in-gredients and fold and whisk until combined and smooth. Pour mixture into a lightly greased and floured loaf pan. Bake for 50 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Start checking at the 40-minute mark. Let cool about 10 minutes.

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Having photo credentials for NFL football games can be one of the advantages of working for the press, and Sunday’s Kansas City Chiefs game gave me a unique look at team pulling together in one of its darkest times.

Forget the fact the Chiefs were 1-10 coming into this week’s game versus the Carolina Pan-thers. Forget the fact they have struggled on offense and defense against top-ranked opponents on the field.

On Saturday morning, line-backer Jovan Belcher shot his girlfriend multiple times, killing her, before driving to the Chiefs’ practice facility at Arrowhead Stadium and shooting himself in front of three coaches. Any team, 1-10 or 10-1, would feel the blow of losing a teammate in such a terrible and tragic way. And yet, the NFL decided to move forward with the game against Carolina.

I had been planning on attend-ing Sunday’s game to take pho-tos from the sideline, and I knew this game would be a bit different than most. To add to the fact, I had

never even been to a pro football game before, and my first would be the best seat in the house.

There was much criticism from players, fans and commentators about the NFL’s decision to move forward with the game. Their money-driven agenda is not al-ways appreciated when tragedy strikes ball clubs, especially in a circumstance like Saturday’s. However, the players didn’t seem to be surprised. They knew they had a job to do.

It was evident the atmosphere was a bit different in Arrowhead Stadium. There was no mention of Belcher’s name in the pregame festivities — just a moment of si-

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Chiefs rise abovetragedy, controversyPRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. (AP)

— Former students from a sub-urban Kansas City high school have been paying tribute across the country to a 17-year-old soc-cer star who died in a recent ac-cident.

On college campuses nation-wide, Shawnee Mission East graduates have been wearing light blue and taking to social media to honor Tyler Rathbun, a senior at the school who died Sunday in a crash on an all-ter-rain vehicle in Miami County, The Kansas City Star reported.

By Monday, Kansas State Uni-versity freshman Logan Rose

organized a quick photo on campus, thinking Tyler’s fam-ily might appreciate the gesture. Things grew from there, with a vast social media outpouring for Tyler, from Instagram pictures, tweets and Facebook posts.

Graduates eager to support the Rathbun family and Shawnee Mission East students gathered in Lawrence for a photo with about 100 students, and students at the University of Missouri snapped a shot and produced a video. Then more photos of East alums came from Oklahoma State, William Jewell, Arizona State, Vanderbilt, the University

of Virginia and Colorado State.East graduates at Tulsa, Mi-

ami of Ohio, Purdue, Arkansas, Yale, Wisconsin, Stanford and Nebraska also contributed. Then students at rival high schools such as St. Thomas Aquinas and Pembroke Hill also donned light blue. Tweets came in from NFL quarterback Josh Freeman, who posed with the sign (hash)RIP-TR. ESPN sportscaster Jay Bilas also offered a note of sympathy.

Shawnee Mission East Princi-pal Karl Krawitz said he amazed when the pictures started piling

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Shawnee student honored by classmates

Sunset’s glory

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Mike Myer of Humboldt doesn’t normally take 45 minutes to drive from Iola to Humboldt. But he did Sunday evening, “because I kept stopping and taking pictures of the sunset,” he said. The setting sun, coupled with a thin layer of clouds, created a picturesque orange hue across the western horizon.

Photo courtesy of Mike Myer

By JULHAS ALAMAssociated Press

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — As 112 of her co-workers died in a garment-factory fire, Dipa Ak-ter got out by jumping from the third floor through a hole made by breaking apart an exhaust fan. Her left leg is wrapped in bandag-es and she has trouble walking.

Now she wants back in.“If the factory owner reopens

the factory sometime soon, we will work again here,” the 19-year-old said. “If it’s closed for long, we have to think of alternatives.”

Major retailers whose products were found in the fire have dis-avowed the Tazreen Fashions Ltd. factory, but workers who survived have not. They can’t afford to.

Factories like the one gutted Nov. 24 are a rare lifeline in this desperately poor country, and now many of the more than 1,200 surviving employees have no work and few prospects.

Akter spent 25 minutes trying to get down the smoke-filled stairs before jumping, which she said

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Fire victims seek to reclaim jobs

The Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Department still has flu vaccine for those wishing to be inoculated for the current flu season.

The department has about 100 regular flu vaccine doses, plus an-other 20 or so nasal dosages.

The vaccine provided through a nasal spray must be used by Dec. 16 or be discarded, interim co-director Dee Dee Martin said.

The regular flu vaccine is good through June.

For more information, call 365-2191.

Flu shots still available

The Associated PressToday is Monday, Dec. 3,

the 338th day of 2012. There are 28 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Dec. 3, 1992, the first telephone text message was sent by British engineer Neil Papworth, who transmitted the greeting “Merry Christmas” from his work computer in Newbury, Berkshire, to Voda-fone executive Richard Jarvis’ mobile phone.

On this date:In 1818, Illinois was admit-

ted as the 21st state.In 1947, the Tennessee Wil-

liams play “A Streetcar Named Desire” opened on Broadway.

In 1967, surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart trans-plant on Louis Washkansky, who lived 18 days with the new heart.

Ten years ago: Thousands of personnel files released un-der a court order showed that the Archdiocese of Boston

went to great lengths to hide priests accused of abuse, in-cluding clergy who’d allegedly snorted cocaine and had sex with girls aspiring to be nuns. U.N. weapons inspectors made their first unannounced visit to one of Iraqi leader Sad-dam Hussein’s presidential palaces.

Five years ago: A U.S. in-telligence report concluded that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons development pro-gram in the fall of 2003 under international pressure but was continuing to enrich uranium.

One year ago: In Atlanta, a defiant Herman Cain suspend-ed his faltering bid for the Re-publican presidential nomina-tion amid a drumbeat of sexual misconduct allegations, which he condemned as “false and unproven.” Oklahoma State defeated Oklahoma 44-10 to win the Big 12 championship. (Exultant Oklahoma State fans stormed the field, resulting in a dozen injuries.)

Thought for Today: “What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.” — Pearl Bailey, American enter-tainer (1918-1990).

By SUZETTE LABOYAssociated Press

MIAMI (AP) — At Miami International Airport, two large signs warn drivers of large vehicles not to pass be-neath the 8-foot-6 inch con-crete overpass. Authorities say two passengers are dead and others have been criti-cally injured after a too-tall charter bus smashed into the overpass, crumpling metal.

One of the signs attached to the top of the concrete barrier reads: “High Vehicle STOP Turn Left.” The oth-er, placed to the left of the driveway and several feet in front of the barrier, says all vehicles higher than the 8-foot-6 threshold must turn left.

Authorities said the large,

white bus carrying 32 mem-bers of a church group hit the overpass after the driver got lost Saturday, killing two male passengers and leav-ing three other passengers critically injured.

Airport spokesman Greg Chin said the bus was too tall for the entrance to the arrivals area and that buses are supposed to go through the departures area because of its higher clearance.

The bus was going about 20 mph when it struck the overpass Saturday morn-ing, Chin added. News pho-tographs showed the front of the vehicle’s rooftop crumpled beneath the over-pass.

Osvaldo Lopez, an officer with the Miami-Dade Avia-tion Department, said he heard a loud noise Saturday morning and rushed to help. He said he went inside the bus and found several pas-sengers tossed into the cen-ter aisle. He said the passen-gers, many of whom were elderly, remained calm.

“It was just very bloody,” he added.

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Esther MaloneyEsther Elizabeth Ma-

loney, 88, of Humboldt, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, at Neosho Memo-rial Regional Medical Cen-ter in Chanute.

Esther was born Nov. 3, 1924, at Winterset, Iowa, the daughter of Archie and Lottie (Johnson) Rockwell. She came to Kansas with her family in a covered wagon.

On May 20, 1942, she married William R. “Russ” Maloney and they made their home in Iola before moving to Humboldt. He preceded her in death May 7, 1988.

Esther worked for Mill-er Dress Factory in Iola for 32 years and then for Walmart for 18 years be-fore retiring. She had re-cently moved to Neodesha to be near family.

Survivors are one son William E. “Bill” Malo-ney of Humboldt, four daughters, Barbara Stal-naker of Iola, Evelyn Knapp of Yates Center, Betty Nicolay of Baldwin

City and Brenda Guti-errez of Neodesha, one step-son William R. “Bill” Maloney, Jr. of Yachats, Ore., one step-daughter, Jerry Thomas of Dover, 21 grandchildren, and a num-ber of great- and great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a grandchild, Christopher Clements, great-grandchild, Britni Proctor, two brothers, Har-old and Joe and four sis-ters, Pearl, Rosella, Leona and Irene.

Cremation has oc-curred.

Memorial services will be at 2 p.m., Saturday, at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola.

Inurnment will be at Highland Cemetery, Iola.

Memorial gifts can be made to the Veterans Me-morial Wall and left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel, which is in charge of ar-rangements.

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

Deadline: Notify the Register about calendar announce-ments by 7 a.m. Monday in order to have your event listed in that week’s schedule.

Today Moran Public Library Board of Directors meeting, 5 p.m., Moran

Public library. Iola Public Library board meeting, 6 p.m., Flewharty-Powell Annex. Moran City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Moran City Hall. Iola Community Theater meeting, 7:30 p.m., Warehouse Theater,

203 S. Jefferson.

TuesdayAllen County Commissioners, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse.Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Allen Community College Student Center

meeting room. Jefferson Elementary Christmas program, 7 p.m., Bowlus Fine Arts

Center. Allen County Historical Society board meeting, 7 p.m., Allen County

Historical Museum, 20 S. Washington. Knights of Columbus, 7 p.m., Knights of Columbus Room in the St.

Johns Parish Center.

Wednesday Vespers rehearsal, 8:15 p.m., Wesley Methodist Church.

ThursdayRotary Club, noon, the Greenery.Take Off Pounds Sensibly No. KS 880, Iola, 5 p.m. weigh-in, 5:30

meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church, 118 W. Jackson. McKinley Elementary Christmas Program, 7 p.m., Bowlus Fine

Arts Center.

Friday Allen County Hospital Auxiliary 1:30 p.m., Hospital Conference

Room. Senior Citizens and Card Club potluck dinner, 5:30 p.m., senior

citizens center, 204 N. Jefferson.

Saturday Cancer support group, from 10 to 11 a.m., Parish Hall at St. John’s

Catholic Church.

Dec. 8-9Molly Trolley holiday lights tour, board at the First Nazarene

Church, 1235 N. Walnut, call (620) 365-5252 for advanced tickets $6, at the trolley $7.

Dec. 10Unity Club meeting, 1:30 p.m., Donna Houser residence 120 W.

Garfield, program will be given by Ellie Walburn.

Dec. 11IMS Band and Choir Concert, 7 p.m., Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

Dec. 12Cash Mob, meet at the chamber parking lot at 5:30 p.m.

Dec. 14Downtown Block Party, 4 to 8 p.m.

Dec. 17IHS Winter Concert, 7 p.m., Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

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Cooler TuesdayTonight, mostly cloudy

in the evening then becom-ing partly cloudy. Colder. Lows near 40. North winds 5 to 10 mph.

Tuesday, mostly sunny. Cooler. Highs near 60. North winds around 5 mph.

Tuesday night and Wednesday, mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Highs near 60.

Wednesday night, partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows 40 to 45.

Sunrise 7.21 a.m. Sunset 5:02 p.m.

TemperatureHigh Sunday 68Low Sunday 42High Saturday 71Low Saturday 37High Friday 63Low Friday 43

High a year ago 55Low a year ago 31Precipitation24 hours ending 7 a.m. 0This month to date 0Total year to date 27.28Def. since Jan. 1 9.18

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Ira PeckIra Buford Peck, 84,

passed away on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012.

He was born on Sept. 4, 1928, to Ira and Velma (Slack) Peck in Iola. He spent his early childhood in Iola before the family moved to Pleasanton, where he graduated. After gradua-tion he returned to the Iola area where he remained.

In 1949 Buford married Doris Crowl. They had a daughter, Debra Jean, and a son Doug. They later di-vorced. In 1975, he married Edna Smoot. He raised her youngest daughter, Carol, from the age of 3. He served in the Army during the Korean War. He worked at Peck’s Texaco, IMP Boats, and retired from Gates Rub-ber Co. He was actively in-volved with the American Legion and 40 et 8, called bingo for 23 years, and was an avid bowler.

Buford was preceded in death by his parents and Debra Jean. He is survived

by his lov-ing wife of 37 years, his sister S h i r l e y Peck of To-peka; son Doug Peck and wife Cindy of O ve rl a n d

Park; stepdaughter Carol Feagins and husband Tim of Chanute; stepdaughter Marie Toews and husband Merle of Valley Center; stepson Robert Raney and wife Barbara of Aiken, S.C.; stepson Gary Raney and wife Barbara of Wich-ita; along with numerous stepgrandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Calvary United Methodist Church in Iola. Burial will follow at LaHarpe Cem-etery.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola.

Peck

Richard WoodwardRichard Phillip Wood-

ward, 98, Iola, passed away Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at Allen County Hospital.

Phil was born Feb. 12, 1914. On April 1, 1942, he married Nola Shannon Smith and they made their home in Iola. He farmed before going to work in the oil fields. He worked for Boyer Oil Co., for more than 40 years. Mrs. Wood-ward preceded him in death on Oct. 23, 2002.

He is survived by a daughter, Sharon Brooks of Iola; a son, Arthur Smith and wife Ruby of Lockport, Ill.; four grand-children, Russell Peres and wife, Tina, Michael Peres and wife, Michelle, Brian Smith and Roger Smith; two great-grand-children, Zachery and Al-exandrea Peres; and three

g r e a t -g r e a t -g r a n d -children.

H e was pre-c e d e d in death by an i n f a n t g r e a t -

grandchild, Emma Nicole Peres, two brothers and three sisters.

Family and friends will meet at 1:30 p.m. Wednes-day at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel before leav-ing for graveside services in Highland Cemetery at 2 o’clock.

Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola is in charge of ar-rangements.

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

Dale BradfordDale Bradford, 57, Iola,

died unexpectedly Satur-day, Dec. 1, 2012.

Dale was born Jan. 29, 1955, in Iola, the son of Richard and Doris (Craw-ford) Bradford. He grew up on farms south of Iola and graduated from Humboldt High School in 1974.

On Aug. 25, 1975, Dale married Kim L. Watson and they made their home in Iola, Sublette and Chanute before settling in Iola. She preceded him in death July 6, 2012.

Dale had worked at Gates Rubber Co. in Iola since 1982. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and working on the farm.

He is survived by a son, Christopher Dale Bradford, Iola; his parents, Richard and Doris Bradford, Iola; two brothers, Jack Brad-ford and wife Donna of St.

Augustine, Fla., and Paul Brad-ford and wife, Kim, W i c h i t a ; and two grandchil-dren, Aus-tin and Emma

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola. Burial will follow at Highland Cem-etery in Iola. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Memorials to The Dale Bradford Memorial Fund for his grandchildren’s edu-cation may be left with the funeral home, which is in charge of arrangements.

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

BradfordWoodward

Zelma WhiteleyZelma Whiteley, 92, Le

Roy, died Friday, Nov. 30, 2012.

Graveside services will be at noon Wednesday at Jamestown Cemetery in Jamestown. Whiteley will lie in state at Van Arsdale

Funeral Home in Le Roy from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tues-day.

Memorials may be sent to the United Methodist Christmas Fund in Owas-so, Okla., and left with the funeral home at P.O. Box 8, Le Roy, KS 66857.

A night for starsU.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrive at the Kennedy Center Honors at the Kennedy Center on Sunday in Washington, D.C. The Kennedy Center Honors recognized seven individu-als — Buddy Guy, Dustin Hoffman, David Letterman, Natalia Makarova, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant — for their lifetime contributions to Ameri-can culture through the performing arts.

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Einstein was right. Those who do the same thing over and over again and expect dif-ferent results are insane. Con-gress and the administration deserve the label.

Last week Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner handed House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell a pro-posal to avoid the fiscal cliff. Taxes would be increased $1.6 trillion over the next decade, entitlements would be reduced by $400 billion and $50 billion would be spent on stimulus projects to keep the economy improving.

Sen. McConnell reportedly laughed in Geithner’s face. Speaker Boehner told the na-tion that talks on fiscal reform were at a stalemale.

Boehner said the next day the Republican position re-mains the same: no increase in tax rates. Period.

Now Boehner did say he would listen to proposals to

close loopholes and “get rid of special interest deductions” to raise the same amount of money. He would listen, under-stand, but would not list any of the loopholes or special inter-est deductions. The implica-tion is, the details are for him to know and the administra-tion to find out.

Mr. Boehner and Mr. Mitch-ell are playing games with the people. Mr. Gotrocks will see no difference in an increase in the tax rate that costs him $10,000 more on April 15 and a closing of loopholes which costs him the same amount.

Fact is, the tax structure should be reformed to get rid of unwise deductions and special interest loopholes, the income tax rates should be restored to the Clinton-era levels when the budget was in balance and spending should be reduced.

When Congress does all three it can be congratulated for fiscal sanity.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

A three-point test for fiscal sanity

Giving up the paper dollar for that good-looking gold coin would save the American tax-payer some $4.4 billion over the next 30 years, the government estimates.

Vending machine operators love the idea. Feeding paper money into their machines causes paper jams that are ex-pensive to repair and vastly ir-ritating to customers who get neither the merchandise they sought nor their money back.

But the reactionary Ameri-can public will have nothing to do with logic or dollar coins. Over the past five years, the U.S. Mint has produced 2.4 bil-lion Presidential $1 coins. Most remain in storage at the Fed-

eral Reserve. Production was suspended about a year ago be-cause banks couldn’t get rid of them.

When was the last time — heck, when was the first time — you were given dollar coins back in change from a store?

The coins aren’t being used because Uncle Sam isn’t mean enough. All it would take to put them into universal use would be a government fiat to pull the $1 bills from circulation and, of course, to stop print-ing them. Will that happen? Only when it becomes a federal crime for any member of Con-gress to pledge support for the paper $1 bill.


$1 coin dilemma

Standing around the coffee pot Sunday at church conver-sation turned to the end of the world. This old globe will give it all up on Dec. 21, when a 5,125-year cycle known as the Long Count in the Mayan calendar comes to a close, or so an AP sto-ry datelined Moscow reports.

The Russians are given to mystical things and take the Mayan threat seriously. Or some of them do. They are the ones who are buying all the matches, kerosene and candles on store shelves. There will be no natural light come Dec. 22,

you see — or, rather, won’t see. This news was greeted by

fellow Presbyterians in two different ways. One thought it a shame that we’d all miss Christmas. Another practi-cal type was glad it would not be necessary to over-spend on presents again.

And a third wondered aloud at the durability of end-of-the-world alarms.

Look on the bright side: no more world equals no more presidential campaigns. Noth-ing is all bad.


Only 18 days left

WASHINGTON — It seems the Republicans have run out of squishy moderates to purge. Now they’re starting to run conserva-tives out of town for being insuf-ficiently doctrinaire.

Exhibit A: The defenestration of Tom Cole.

Cole, a deeply conservative con-gressman from deeply Repub-lican Oklaho-ma, is not to be confused with a RINO: Repub-lican in name only. But when the lawmaker, who has been part of House GOP leadership, floated a per-fectly sensible notion last week — that Republicans should ac-cept President Obama’s offer to extend tax cuts for the 98 percent of Americans who earn less than $250,000 a year — he was treated as if he had been caught reading Marx in the Republican cloak-room.

“I think he’s wrong and I think most of the conference thinks that he’s wrong,” declared rookie Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho. Cole, he said, is “a man who has voted for a lot of the increased spending in Washington, D.C., and that’s the problem. We have a lot of Republi-cans who are, you know, catching their hair on fire right now, but they’re the ones who were here for 10 or 20 years causing all the problems that we’re now facing.”

Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., called Cole’s position “absurd.” House Speaker John Boehner went be-fore the cameras to deliver Cole a rare public rebuke.

Cole, who enjoys a lifetime rat-ing of 92 percent from the Ameri-can Conservative Union as he enters his sixth term, isn’t wor-ried about a putsch. “I think I’m going to be hard to sell as a dan-

gerous liberal,” he told me with a chuckle. The outrage, he said, “surprised me a little bit, because I think the politics of this are blindingly clear.”

Cole is correct, for two reasons. On a practical level, his plan calls Obama’s bluff: Because raising taxes on the top 2 percent of earn-ers won’t bring in nearly enough tax revenue to fix the budget problem, Obama would likely be forced to come up with some seri-ous entitlement-program cuts as part of a larger tax-and-spending deal.

But Cole is right for a larger reason: The Republicans’ negoti-ating position is morally indefen-sible. They are holding 98 percent of Americans hostage by refusing to spare them a tax hike unless the wealthiest 2 percent are in-cluded.

“Some people seem to think this is leverage. I think that’s wrong,” Cole said. “You don’t consider people’s lives as leverage. I live in a blue-collar neighborhood. I’ve got a retired master sergeant as my next door neighbor, police officer across the street. These are working folks, they’re great people, and the idea that I would ever use them as leverage is just wrong.”

In defying the party purists, Cole is taking a novel approach: doing what his constituents want him to do. His staff reports that calls and emails to his Washing-ton office are running 70 percent favorable, and calls to his south-central Oklahoma offices are 90 percent positive.

No surprise: Median income in his district is under $47,000, below the national average of $52,000. Only 1.8 percent of households there have income of $200,000 or more.

“They’re pro-business, they’re pro-free enterprise,” Cole said of his constituents, who are farm and ranch workers, oil employees and the like. “But they’re going to want to know that we’re not going to raise taxes on them because they make $43,000 a year, and $1,000 to $2,000 is a lot of money when you’re trying to raise a fam-ily.”

Cole, who worked as a politi-cal consultant and as chief of staff at the Republican National Committee before coming to Con-gress, understands this reality better than many of his peers. In their obsession with protecting the wealthiest, Republicans often work against their own constitu-ents, because red states tend to be poorer and more reliant on gov-ernment spending.

Cole’s stand is a refreshing re-minder that being conservative doesn’t mean you have to be un-reasonable. “Both sides, I think, need to be a lot more clear-eyed,” he told me. “We’re going to be living in this house together for four years in all likelihood. Let’s get some things done that we can agree on.”

Thankfully, Cole, who won re-election with 68 percent of the vote, isn’t intimidated. Of his intra-party critics, Cole asks: “Where’s your political cour-age? It’s pretty easy to vote ‘no’ around here. But we’ve got a di-vided government. The American people ratified that in this elec-tion. They’ve basically told us to work together. Here’s something we both agree on that would be in their interest. Why don’t we do this?”

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40 Years AgoDecember, 1972

Steve Strickler of Iola, a stu-dent at Kansas State University in Manhattan, is head of the plan-ning committee for this year’s Little American Royal contest in which KSU students are judged on their ability to groom, train and show K-State-owned live-stock.

*****Employees of Allen County

Hospital will receive a wage in-crease of 4 percent beginning Jan. 1 and room rates will be increased to provide the money, the board of trustees decided last night. An increase of slightly less than 3 percent was made at the begin-ning of the year. The rate sched-ule will put private rooms at $44, semi-privates at $36 and wards at $35. Vernon Walker, administra-tor, had proposed a 5.5 percent

wage increase. The 4 percent de-cision represented a compromise between conflicting views of vari-ous board members.

***** Southwestern Bell has added

equipment for 200 more lines at Iola’s telephone central office, Bob Nixon, local manager, said. The $26,000 investment provided for continuing telephone growth in the Iola area, he said. The local exchange now has 3,285 subscrib-ers, an increase of nearly 150 since Jan. 1, 1971.

*****The Iola Senior Citizens Center

is a busy place. The elderly citi-zens that meet at the old fire barn at 117 W. Madison are sponsored by the Southeast Kansas Commu-nity Action Program. The volun-teer-managed center is used for group meetings and also serves

as a place for the members to sell their crafts. The money received is important to their incomes, Mrs. Rose Brown remarked. Mrs. Brown is a volunteer worker at the center. The group also sells used clothing that has been do-nated. The city of Iola doesn’t charge for the use of the build-ing and SEK-CAP pays the utility bills. Mrs. Brown and several of the other volunteers help deliver meals to shut-ins.

***** A $240,000 loan from the Small

Business Administration has been granted to Iola Industries, Inc., for financing of FEEM, Inc., a rapidly growing die-casting firm located in the Iola Industries industrial park south of town. The loan will be used to finance purchase of equipment and make further expansion possible.

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festivities — just a moment of silence as the Chief ’s or-ganization recognized vic-tims of domestic violence. The announcer referred to the murder-suicide as “yes-terday’s events.” Fans held non-specific signs that said “out hearts and prayers go out to you.” Their prayers may have been heard.

As I watched from the sidelines, I saw an ener-gized Chiefs team. Their offense had a spark that many fans can say they haven’t seen all season.

I felt like a fish out of wa-ter compared to the other journalists photographing the game. At times it was hard for me to concentrate on my job, trying hard not to get caught up in the dra-ma and excitement of the action. I’ll admit I missed a photo of a Chiefs’ touch-

down in the second quar-ter because I was cheering for the home team.

The Chiefs’ offense and defense did have a sol-emn attitude. They didn’t cheer and celebrate as if they were a team that was about to win their second game for the sea-son. I don’t know if it was concentration or if their minds weren’t dwelling on the game, but it didn’t seem to matter.

The players put togeth-er some of the most im-pressive drives of their season, battling past the Panther defense for Sun-day’s win. My heart went out to the organization, and I was glad to see them come out with a victory.

As for me, the game was a highlight for my year. I had the opportunity to

be around players that I normally get to see only on TV or as names on my fantasy football roster. I got to shake hands with Dwayne Bowe and walk the sideline with Cam Newton. It was important for me to catch a glimpse of how the NFL works, and it was eye-opening.

The NFL may be driven on money alone, but Sun-day’s Chiefs team was not. They knew they had to play, it is their job. But they were going to play on their own terms, for

their own reasons, and that just happened to be enough for a win.

Some cynics may point out the Panthers were also one of the worst teams in the league, and that a victory wouldn’t need a special motiva-tion. I choose not to be-lieve that. Despite the NFL’s decision to move ahead with the game, the Chiefs came out looking like a better team. They needed to believe they are a team that can win, now more than ever.

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to redraw political bound-aries to ensure equal rep-resentation.

Also, Brownback’s fel-low conservatives and al-lies such as the tea party movement, abortion op-ponents and the powerful Kansas Chamber of Com-merce made a concerted and largely successful ef-fort to defeat GOP moder-ates in the Senate.

Conservatives are eager to push legislation that previously stalled in the Senate, such as a proposal backed by Brownback to give the governor and leg-islators more power over appellate court appoint-ments. There are also ini-tiatives pushed by House members who will be join-ing the session, such as a measure aimed at allowing concealed weapons on uni-versity campuses.

“All those things, I think, are going to be at the fore-front,” said Sen. Terry Bruce, a conservative Hutchinson Republican in

line to become the Senate’s next majority leader.

The House also had a big Republican, largely con-servative freshman class in 2010. The 34 GOP new-comers were an important factor in the enactment of income tax cuts worth an estimated $4.5 billion over the next six years as a way to stimulate the economy.

Those reductions led legislative researchers to protect a self-induced gap of $328 million between anticipated revenues and existing spending commit-ments for the fiscal year beginning in July 2013. But incoming GOP legisla-tors are prepared to trim

spending, and many also want to pursue other tax initiatives.

They’re also likely not to adhere to the vanish-ing tradition from decades past, that freshman legis-lators were supposed to re-main relatively invisible while being schooled in legislating. Rep.-elect J.R. Claeys, a conservative Sa-lina Republican, said new lawmakers’ constituents expect them to be active.

“There can’t be a huge learning curve or a year off as we’re tackling big budget problems,” Claeys said.

And GOP newcomers in the House showed their po-tential clout by scheduling a weekend meeting in To-peka with candidates for leadership jobs ahead of Monday’s voting.

“The freshmen are going to have a pretty big say,” said Rep.-elect Travis Cou-ture-Lovelady, a conserva-tive Palco Republican. “We just want to be included in

the process right out of the gate.”

But Denning and other returning lawmakers said the freshmen are likely to encounter surprises. For example, they said, many proposals on a wide range of fiscal and social is-sues often require several years’ worth of debate be-fore lawmakers are ready to approve them. And expe-rience in business — meet-ing payrolls and producing budgets — doesn’t trans-late into instant knowledge about state government.

“The bookkeeping is different. The accounting is different. The budget-ing is different,” said Den-ning, formerly the chief executive officer of a chain of eye-care centers who served on the House Appropriations Commit-tee.

Yet, Bruce said the large number of newcomers means that some of them are likely to get plum com-mittee assignments.

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up in his inbox.“Wow! It’s just incred-

ible,” he said, looking at the faces of his graduates.

Tyler’s family members said they were moved by the support and thanked all those who participated.

“Seeing the love that peo-ple have for Tyler and the amount of caring they have for our family and our com-munity is beyond words,” the family said in a writ-ten statement. “The time and energy that people are giving to show their sup-port is remarkable and an indication of the number of lives that Tyler touched. Your support is helping us through our time of grief, and we cannot thank you enough.”

Rochelle Harris, clinical psychologist at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clin-ics, said she has watched social media quickly be-

come a key part of the grieving process for young people. She said many of the students organized pho-tos to help others but likely benefited from that person-to-person support.

“This is a way both of sharing their grief with those around them as well as doing something com-passionate.”

The photos and flurry of social media helped Danielle Norton, a friend of Tyler’s and 2012 East graduate. Norton said she spent the first few days cry-ing alone in her dorm at the University of Southern California.

“After all of this started emerging, there’s no way you can’t feel better,” she said. “Everyone is going through the same thing and everyone is there to support you. We can start accept-ing.”

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was “the only option other than being burned.”

Despite her injuries and trauma, she needs the job. Without it, she said, she would either be a house-maid or jobless in her home village.

Almost one-third of Bangladesh’s 150 million people live in extreme pov-erty. There are few formal jobs in villages, where about 70 percent of the population lives. Garment work is one of the few paths to secure a stable in-come, collect some savings and send money to fam-ily — especially for young, uneducated rural women, who are already trained to make clothes at home.

The industry has given women in this Muslim-ma-jority, conservative nation an accepted opportunity to leave their homes and join the main workforce.

“I have a life here.” Ak-ter said. “I have a time-table to wake up in the morning and I know when I should go to bed.”

Akter made about 4,550 takas ($57) a month sew-ing pants, shirts and nightgowns. Her husband makes about the same at another factory, but she said it is impossible for them to survive just on his salary.

The landlord is demand-ing rent and she has bills at a grocery shop.

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The freshman are going to have a pret-

ty big say. We just want to be included right out of the gate.

— Travis Couture-Lovelady

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AMY TEIBEL andLORI HINNANTAssociated Press

JERUSALEM (AP) — Three European nations summoned their Israeli ambassadors today to denounce Israel’s latest settlement construction push, deepening the rift between the Jewish state and European allies that has cracked open over the Palestinians’ successful U.N. statehood bid.

Although Europe con-siders all Israeli settle-ment construction illegal, the summoning of ambas-sadors in France, Britain and Sweden to accuse Isra-

el of undermining already troubled peace efforts was an unusually strong ex-pression of displeasure. It came at a time when Israel was already smarting over Europe’s failure to back the Jewish state in its cam-paign against the state-hood move.

The Europeans were furious over Israel’s an-nouncement Friday that it would move ahead on plans to build 3,000 settler homes to punish the Pal-estinians for winning U.N. recognition of a state of Palestine in territories Is-rael captured in 1967.

Israel also said it would

begin planning work on an especially sensitive piece of land outside Jerusalem that it has refrained from developing because of U.S. pressure. A meeting with developers and other inter-ested parties was to take

place Wednesday.After a flurry of angry

phone calls from Europe-an capitals to Israel over the weekend, France sum-moned the Israeli envoy to Paris late Monday morn-ing.

Israel feels heat from Europe over settlements

The players put together some of the most impressive drives of the season, battling past the Panther defense for Sunday’s win.

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CANEY — A pair of wild mo-mentum swings gave Iola High senior Stephen McDonald a tour-nament championship Saturday, while denying sophomore Trey Colborn a similar feat.

McDonald, wrestling in the 220-pound weight class of the Caney Valley Invitational, used a quick reversal to erase a potential loss in his championship match.

The win over Ethan Gustus of Caney Valley gave McDonald a 5-0 record on the day.

Nearly simultaneously, Col-born, wrestling on a separate mat in his heavyweight championship match, lost a point late in the com-petition to drop a 1-0 heartbreaker to Stephen Baker of Caney Valley. The loss gave Colborn the second-place medal via his 4-1 record.

The duo, along with junior Cody Conner, spearheaded a suc-cessful day for Iola’s wrestlers, who took home fifth place among 13 Kansas and Oklahoma high schools.

“I was very pleased with how the boys did,” head coach Brad Carson said. “I saw some moves today that showed me they’ve re-ally started executing moves that we showed them.”

MCDONALD’S comeback win put the capper on an exciting day.

“Stephen was really in control

of his match, but got turned and put on his back in the third peri-od,” Carson said.

The outcome looked bleak with McDonald behind in points as the seconds ticked away.

But a nifty reversal gave Mc-Donald the win seconds before the match ended.

“It was to the point that I was walking over to Trey’s match, and had just turned my head when he got out of it,” Carson said.

He heard commotion from Mc-Donald’s match and returned his attention just in time to see Mc-Donald seal the win.

“It was a great match,” Carson

said. “I’m proud of him.”

COLBORN’S heartbreak was another story.

He was scoreless in his champi-onship match and was given the option of starting the third round

Mustangs thrive in Caney Valley

It won’t take long for local high school basketball sched-ules to hit high gear, with all area schools playing three games this week in preseason tournaments.

Iola High’s Mustangs and Fillies head to Burlington Tuesday, Wednesday and Fri-day for the Burlington Pre-season Tournament.

The Iola squads will take on the Burlington Wildcats Tuesday. The Fillies tip off at 6 o’clock; the Mustangs at about 7:45 in Burlington High School gymnasium.

Both Iola squads return to Burlington 24 hours later for the second round, this time against Louisburg.

Results from the two prelim-inary rounds will determine what time the Fillies and Mus-tangs play on Friday, either at Burlington High School or

Hoopstourneysin fullswing

By DAVE SKRETTAAP Sports Writer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Brady Quinn tried to avoid look-ing at the empty locker when he arrived at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback couldn’t bear the sight of Jovan Belcher’s jer-sey hanging from a hook, just like it would have any other game day.

“That’s when it kind of hit me,” Quinn said. “It was kind of tough to step back and gain focus, what the task was in front of us. And more than anything, as a player, we just wanted to come together as a team and bring some good to this situation.”

The Chiefs managed to do that in the wake of an unthinkable tragedy.

Quinn threw two touchdown passes and Jamaal Charles ran for 127 yards in an inspired 27-21 victory over the Carolina Pan-thers. It not only ended an eight-game losing streak, it also proved cathartic for a franchise still reel-ing from a murder-suicide involv-ing one of its own.

“It was tough,” Quinn said, his voice shaky at times. “It was an eerie feeling after a win, because you don’t think you can really win in this situation.”

According to authorities, Belcher shot his girlfriend mul-tiple times early Saturday at a residence near Arrowhead Sta-dium, then sped to the team’s practice facility and turned the gun on himself as coach Romeo Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli watched in the park-ing lot.

“It’s tough when circumstanc-

es happen that you can’t undo,” Crennel said, tears forming at the corners of his eyes. “You have to rely on each other, rely on your family, your friends and your faith. That’s what, as a team, we tried to do today.”

Crennel said he consulted with the Chiefs’ captains before decid-ing to play the game as scheduled. He was on the sideline through-out the day, resolutely holding together a team in turmoil, while

Pioli walked through the press box before the kickoff and said he was “OK.”

“If for no other reason, it took our minds off our misery for a few hours,” Crennel said.

Kansas City police have not re-leased a motive for the shootings, which claimed the life of Belcher and 22-year-old Kasandra M. Per-kins, and left their 3-month-old daughter, Zoey, an orphan.

Those details may emerge in

the coming days and weeks.“It’s been an incredibly diffi-

cult 24 hours for our family and our entire organization,” Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt told The Associated Press. “We have so many guys on our team and our coaching staff who are really, re-ally hurting.”

Chiefs players gathered in the tunnel leading to the field for a brief prayer before their pregame stretching. A few fans in the half-

empty stadium held up signs ref-erencing the shootings, and there was a moment of silence to re-member all victims of domestic violence.

“I was really emotional going to the stadium this morning,” Chiefs linebacker Derrick John-son said. “We wanted to play the game because we’re football play-ers. We love the game.”

Once it began, it proved to be an emotional release.

TodayHigh School BasketballPreseason Tournament

Yates Center Wildcat Winter Classic

Norris GymnasiumSouthern Coffey Co. vs. Yates Center girls 6:15 p.m.Southern Coffey Co. vs. Yates Center boys 8 p.m.

Jr. High BasketballIMS 7th, 8th girls at Royster, 3:30 p.m.Jr. College BasketballSouthwestern JV at ACC men, 7 p.m.

TuesdayHigh School BasketballPreseason TournamentsBurlington Invitational

Iola vs. Burlington girls, 6 p.m.Iola vs. Burlington boys, 7:45 p.m.Humboldt TournamentCrest girls vs. Erie, 4 p.m.Crest boys vs. Erie 5:30 p.m.Humboldt girls vs. Uniontown 7 p.m.Humboldt boys vs. Uniontown 8:30 p.m.Marmaton Valley InvitationalMarmaton Valley girls vs. Northeast-Arma 7 p.m.Marmaton Valley boys vs. Northeast-Arma 8:30 p.m.Wildcat Winter ClassicEast GymnasiumSouthern Coffey Co. girls vs. Altoona-Midway, 6:15 p.m.Southern Coffey Co. boys vs. Al-toona-Midway, 8 p.m.

WednesdayHigh School BasketballPreseason TournamentsBurlington Invitational

Iola vs. Louisburg girls, 6 p.m.Iola vs. Louisburg boys, 7:45 p.m.

Jr. College BasketballPratt at ACC, women 6 p.m., men 8 p.m.

ThursdayHigh School Basketball

Iola JV at Fort Scott Invitational, TBAHumboldt Tournament

Crest vs. Humboldt girls 7 p.m.Crest vs. Humboldt boys 8:30 p.m.

Marmaton Valley InvitationalMarmaton Valley girls vs. Olpe 7 p.m.Marmaton Valley boys vs. Olpe 8:30 p.m.

Wildcat Winter ClassicAltoona-Midway girls vs. Yates Cen-ter, 6:15 p.m.Altoona-Midway boys vs. Yates Cen-ter, 8 p.m.

FridayHigh School BasketballPreseason TournamentsBurlington Invitational

Iola TBAHumboldt Tournament

Crest girls vs. Uniontown 4 p.m.Crest boys vs. Uniontown 5:30 p.m.Humboldt girls vs. Erie 7 p.m.Humboldt boys vs. Erie 8:30 p.m.

Marmaton Valley InvitationalMarmaton Valley girls vs. Howard 7 p.m.Marmaton Valley boys vs. Howard

8:30 p.m.Wildcat Winter Classic

Norris GymnasiumGirls 3rd place game, 4:45 p.m. Girls 1st place game, 6:15 p.m.Boys 1st place game, 8 p.m.

East GymnasiumGirls 5th place game, 4:45 p.m.Boys 5th place game, 6:15 p.m.Boys 3rd place game, 8 p.m.

SaturdayHigh School Basketball

Iola JV at Fort Scott Invitational, TBAHigh School Wrestling

Iola at Anderson Co. Invitational, 9 a.m.Iola JV at Coffeyville Invitational, 9 a.m.

Jr. High Basketball

Area prep sports calendar for the week ahead

Register/Richard LukenShown here in a match last week, Iola High’s Trey Colborn, top, took home second place in the heavy-weight division Saturday in the Caney Valley Invitational.

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Register/Steven SchwartzKansas City’s Jamaal Charles breaks through the line of scrimmage Sunday in a 27-21 victory over the Carolina Panthers. The victory came one day after the Chiefs’ Javon Belcher killed his girlfriend and committed suicide outside Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.

Chiefs beat Panthers in somber Arrowhead Stadium

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The fifth-graders in Patty Daman’s class like to move and do a lot of fidgeting while working on their les-sons.

Daman says that’s fine with her, as part of a new program that encourages students to stand and move during class.

The Wichita Eagle re-ports Daman used a $5,000 grant came from Educa-tion Edge, a private fun-draising group that sup-ports Kensler Elementary and other Wichita schools, to convert standard desks into standing work sta-tions, with “foot fidgets,” a type of bouncy foot rest. The desks also have a stool for each student.

Standing and moving helps most students con-centrate and reduces dis-tracting behavior, Daman said. And most students agree.

“It helps me learn,” said Shyanna Terzian, 11. “In

our old desks, it was a lot easier to fall asleep.”

Shannon Patterson, a physical therapist who works at Kensler, said she proposed the “Stand Up to Learn” project while

researching ways to help kids stay focused.

“Most kids just aren’t made to sit down and stay still for very long,” Patter-son said. “We wanted to try something different, see how it worked.”

Students in Daman’s class are encouraged to stand at least 75 percent of the time they’re in class. They can lean on the desks, which are adjusted to the student’s height, and put their feet on the foot fidget or a stool.

Not all students and par-ents were happy with the idea.

“There were some com-plaints. There still are,” Daman said. “But I have noticed a difference in their time on task. It’s re-ally noticeable with some kids. The number of times I have to redirect them has gone down significantly.”

One parent said she was concerned her daughter might get tired or develop

back problems if she stood three-fourths of the day.

“When I really explained the program to her, she was like, “Oooohhh,’” Da-man said. “She understood it better. . And I think the kids are catching on, too.”

Another benefit is that standing helps students burn more calories. About 42 percent of Daman’s stu-dents are overweight or obese.

A pilot study of five classrooms by Texas A&M University found up to a 32 percent increase in calo-ries burned among a group using standing desks com-pared to a group that sat, Patterson said.

Patterson said she’s ea-ger to hear what students say about the desks next spring, after they’ve used them for most of the school year.

“We’re gathering all types of information,” Pat-terson said. “This is very much an experiment.”

Wichita class uses stand-up desks to help kidsThere were some com-

plaints. There still are. But I have noticed a difference in their time on task. It’s really noticeable with some kids. The number of times I have to redirect them has gone down significant-ly.

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By PHIL CAUTHONKHI News Service

PITTSBURG — Via Christi Hospital in Pitts-burg is beginning con-struction on an $18 million surgery facility, the largest such project at the hospital since it was built in 1971.

Hospital officials said the project began last week and is scheduled to be done by spring. It will add nearly 40,000 square feet to the hospital including five new operating rooms, two endoscopy rooms and a mi-nor procedure room, said spokesman Michael Hay-slip. Currently, the facility has five smaller rooms for surgeries, he said.

“Our surgery area has not been touched since 1971. When you look at the growing technology of health care — it changes so frequently,” Hayslip said. “We recognized the need for additional space for that technology and addi-tional operating rooms,” all of which would now be private to meet modern pa-tient expectations, he said.

Apart from adding more space, he said the improve-ments are aimed at luring more doctors to the south-east Kansas hospital.

“We hope to be expand-ing services, because it is our hope that the surgery center is going to help us attract additional sur-geons and physicians and specialists,” Hayslip said.

He said the aim is to at-

tract over the next three years about 20 new sur-geons and specialists in neurology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, psychia-try and primary care.

About two dozen new clinic jobs and two dozen other hospital jobs are also expected to result from the expansion, Hayslip said.

The project includes outfitting the new facil-ity with the latest surgical technology, said Deb Bain-bridge, Via Christi’s Pitts-burg chief financial officer.

“We know investing in state-of-the-art technology is going to help us bring those physicians here to

serve the patients of our region,” she said.

The construction is funded by bonds issued in Sedgwick County to pri-vate investors. The Via Christi Health system, which is based in Wichita, is the state’s largest and in-cludes 12 hospitals around the state as well as other facilities such as nursing homes and clinics and ser-vices such as in-home care.

Hayslip said that plan-ning for the project long preceded current budget uncertainties facing hos-pitals — such as federal deficit-reduction talks that could lead to a 2 percent

cut in Medicare spending as well as planned changes in Kansas’ Medicaid pro-gram.

“This is part of a long-term master facility site plan that both the hospital and the health system had in place,” he said. “We felt financially confident, and that’s part of the advan-tage of being with an or-ganization like Via Christi Health that is financially stable and has made a com-mitment to make sure that projects and facility plans keep up with the technol-ogy and health care needs of the communities that they serve.”

Via Christi Pittsburg begins construction

An architectural rendering of the new surgery center at Via Christi Hospital Pitts-burg, scheduled to be completed in the spring. Construction of the nearly 40,000 square-foot facility began Nov. 19.

Kansas news in briefGarden City zoo pre-pares for winter

GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — Winter’s at the doorstep, and workers at Lee Richardson Zoo in Gar-den City are ready to meet the cold-weather needs of every animal — from tropi-cal birds to snow leopards.

Preparations began months ago to ensure heaters are functioning, vents are closed and win-dows and doors don’t let in drafts.

The zoo has barns and shelters for all of its 250 to 300 animals. But some ani-mals that aren’t expected to warm up to snow are happy to be outside after a snowfall.

Animal keeper Sara Niemczyk says the zoo’s African lions like to go out-side and play in the snow. The weather has to be pret-ty terrible, she says, for the

big cats to stay inside.

Crane Observatory open house

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An observatory at Wash-burn University is opening its doors to the public next week.

Children and adults will get a chance to view the night sky from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Crane Ob-servatory in Topeka. It fea-tures a Warner & Swasey refracting telescope built in the late 1800s.

The event is free but will be canceled if the weather isn’t conducive to viewing the sky. The observatory and planetarium is in Stof-fer Science Hall.

Washburn Universityfeature of ornament

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Washburn University will

be featured on the official Kansas ornament that will be part of the National Christmas Tree display in Washington.

The Topeka university was founded in 1865, and the school is preparing for its 150th anniversary. The Washburn sesquicenten-nial committee designed the ornament.

It bears Washburn’s 150th anniversary logo, which shows the school’s mascot, the Ichabod. The state seal is on the back of the ornament.

The ornament can be purchased for $24 at the university and other loca-tions, including the Kan-sas Historical Society Gift Shop.

Washburn started as Lincoln College near the end of the Civil War. But shortly after Ichabod Washburn, of Worcester,

Mass., pledged $25,000, the one-building institution was renamed.

Today, Washburn has about 7,200 students.

Leavenworth inlockdown

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. Peniten-tiary in Leavenworth is on lockdown after two sepa-rate fights broke out.

Penitentiary officials say in a news release the lockdown was declared Sunday evening after a fight in one of the housing units. Another fight oc-curred earlier in the day in the recreation yard.

Both fights were quickly contained and involved only a few inmates.

No programs will be held and no visiting will be allowed until the lockdown ends.

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS

CIVIL DEPARTMENTCitiMortgage Inc., plaintiff, vs.

Brad E Vyhlidal aka Brad Vyhlidal, Ivy C Vyhlidal aka Ivy Vyhlidal, Jane Doe, and John Doe, et al., defen-dants

Case No. 12CV76Court No.

Title to Real Estate InvolvedPursuant to K.S.A. §60

NOTICE OF SUITSTATE OF KANSAS to the

above named Defendants and The Unknown Heirs, executors, devisees, trustees, creditors, and assigns of any deceased defen-dants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any defendants that are existing, dissolved or dormant cor-porations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; and the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability and all other person who are or may be concerned:

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Petition for Mortgage Fore-closure has been filed in the Dis-trict Court of Allen County, Kansas by CitiMortgage, Inc., praying for foreclosure of certain real property legally described as follows:

THE EAST THIRTY-EIGHT AND ONE HALF FEET (38 1/2’) OF LOT ONE (1), BLOCK FOURTEEN (14), RHOADES ADDITION TO THE CITY OF IOLA, ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS. Tax ID No. IA02896

for a judgment against defen-dants and any other interested par-ties and, unless otherwise served by personal or mail service of sum-mons, the time in which you have to plead to the Petition for Foreclosure in the District Court of Allen County Kansas will expire on January 14, 2013. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the request of plaintiff.

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(First Published in The Iola Register, November 26th, 2012)NOTICE OF INTENT TO DIS-

POSE OF COUNTY PROPERTYPUBLIC NOTICE is hereby giv-

en that the Allen County, Kansas, Board of County Commissioners has unanimously determined that the following property owned by Al-len County is no longer required for the public purposes of the County, to-wit:

Commencing at the NW cor-ner of Lot (1), Block (4) Mar-tin’s Addition to the City of Iola thence North 460 feet thence East 182 feet to the true point of beginning; thence East 226 feet; thence South 183 feet; thence West 226 feet; thence North 183 to POB. Also known as 502 North State St., Iola, KS

Pursuant to law, the Commis-sioners have unanimously voted to lease said property to Rick Vink and Kevin Sullivan for the sum of $500.00 per month for a period of twenty four months with an option to purchase the same during or at

the end of the lease for the sum of $40,000.00 paid in cash at closing. The disposition of the property is “as is” and any and all repairs and improvements will be the respon-sibility of the tenants. Any persons desirous of making an alternative offer for the property shall pres-ent their offer to the Allen County Commission, in writing, at or be-fore their meeting on December

4th, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in the Com-mission Room in the Allen County Courthouse, 1 N. Washington, Iola, Kansas, Dick Works, Chairman

Board of County Commissioners

Attest: Sherrie RiebelAllen County Clerk

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Public notices

Dear Drs. Donohue and Roach: I read your column on prostate cancer. I was surprised that you did not discuss the PSA test. Was there any reason for that? My doctor has used this method many times when testing my blood. I have heard that for some this is not a very accurate test. Do you think this way? I am 75 years old. Should I stop these tests? — W.S.

Answer: PSA testing is one of the biggest contro-versies in medicine now, with both sides feeling pas-sionately. However, the data show that PSA testing leads to small (or even no) gains in life expectancy, and often leads to a worsening quality of life, due to the treatment for the prostate cancer.

Unfortunately, most commonly, prostate can-cer found by PSA testing is not the kind of cancer that spreads from the prostate to bone throughout the body. Those aggressive kinds of prostate cancer are hard to

find using PSA testing, be-cause they spread quickly. Even if you are getting PSA tests yearly, it may be too late to cure the cancer through surgery. Further, as medical treatments get bet-ter, it becomes less impor-tant to find the cancer early.

These are the reasons the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has stated that the expected benefits of screening are outweighed by the risks. As men get older, the benefits tend to decrease and risks increase, so at age 75 I would strongly recom-mend against screening.

It is very important to note that “screening” re-fers to trying to find a con-dition in someone who has

no symptoms. PSA testing remains valuable in trying to find out why a man is having urinary symptoms, even though, if a cancer is discovered, one of the op-tions may be to just “wait and see,” since many pros-tate cancers mind their own business for years without causing problems.

Anyone with a diagnosis of prostate cancer should see a urologist and perhaps a medical oncologist to dis-cuss the different options. All treatments for prostate cancer can lead to harm, including erectile dysfunc-tion and incontinence. It’s important to think through the options before deciding to act.

Dear Drs. Donohue and Roach: Several months ago, my internist prescribed Detrol for some urinary problems I was having. The first time I took it, I had a hallucination of something hovering over me in bed. Needless to say, it fright-ened me terribly. I immedi-ately stopped the Detrol and described my experience to the internist. The reply came back: “Stop having cocktails.” I had another experience, only this time I actually thought I saw a young woman. This hallu-cinating is frightening me. Any suggestions? — R.Y.

Answer: Hallucinations are reported in about 1 percent of people who take Detrol, so the first episode certainly could be related to the medication. Many medications list hallucina-tion as a rare side effect, so the internist should not have been flippant with the response. Stopping the Det-rol certainly was the right thing to do.

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It took Allen Community College’s women about five minutes to build a double-digit lead Saturday and an-other five to push that lead to 20 over visiting Central Christian College.

The Red Devils never looked back, forcing 19 first half turnovers and out-rebounding the visiting Ti-gers 66 to 49.

Even shooting struggles weren’t nearly enough to derail the Red Devil train as Allen secured a 92-32 vic-tory, the team’s third vic-tory in a row.

Head coach Mark James pointed to Allen’s defense.

“That’s our key today,” he said. “I mean, we haven’t been bad defensively, but we haven’t been as good as we’re capable of being. To-day we wanted to focus and buckle down on defense, and I thought we did that.”

The dust had barely set-tled and the Red Devils held a 10-0 lead. The score was 24-4 by the 10-minute mark of the first half and 51-13 at the break.

The margin allowed James to substitute liber-ally throughout the con-test. Every one of Allen’s players registered at least 9 1/2 minutes of court time, while only one player — re-serve Ebonie Jones — reg-istered more than 20 min-utes. Thirteen of the 14 Red Devil players also scored points in the victory.

“It was big for us,” James said. “We’re pretty deep — one of the deeper teams in the conference and we don’t have a big dropoff when we go from our starters to our reserves.

“It’s a nice luxury to have, but sometimes it can be tough to get everybody as much playing time as you want,” he continued. “But there are only so many min-utes in a game. It was nice to get the lead early, and

they never dropped off.”DaNara Day led the way

with 20 points — 17 in the first half — followed by Ja-mie Peel with 15 and eight rebounds and Kylie Moli-see with 14 points and 11 rebounds.

Jones added six as-sists and five steals. Ken-dra Taiclet registered four steals.

The Red Devils wound up forcing 28 Central College turnovers in the game.

While Allen struggled

from 3-point range, hitting only 10 of 45 treys for 22 percent, James still found positives.

“It’s a little disappoint-ing, but it’s nothing to be concerned about,” he said. “It wasn’t anything they did to us. The shots just weren’t falling. We’re gon-na shoot the ball better.”

Gabbie Salazar and Nata-lie Johnson scored seven points each to pace the Ti-gers.

The Red Devils (6-4) host

Pratt at 6 p.m. Wednesday.Central Christian (13-19—32)Allen (51-41 — 92)

Central Christian (FG-FT-F-TP): Salazar 2-3-1-7, Johnson 2-3-3-7, Richard 1-1-1-3, Fairchild 2-1-1-5, Curtis 1-1-3-3, Alderson 2-1-3-5, Metz 0-0-2-0, Jameson 1-0-1-2. TOTALS: 11-10-15-32.

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on his feet or on bottom.“I’m second-guessing

myself because I had Trey start on bottom,” Carson said. “I figured he would es-cape and get a point.

“But Trey got turned and couldn’t escape,” giving Baker the 1-0 victory.

“I told Trey this is going to lead to better things,” Carson said. “This is going to drive him.”

CONNER ROLLED through his division with a 3-1 record to take home second place. One of his wins was against teammate Brice Aiello, a freshman who wrestled as a junior varsity competitor.

Aiello took home a 4-1 re-cord, good for third.

“Because Brice was a JV wrestler, he didn’t get to re-cord any points for us, but he still got his medal,” Car-son said.

BRYCE MISENHELTER, a junior in the 182-pound class, took home fourth place via his 3-1 record. He defeated Yancy Wade of West Elk and D.J. Kessler of Independence. He lost to Cole Martin of Oolagah in a semifinal round be-fore rebounding to defeat Mason Orr of Bartlesville, Okla.

“Bryce was doing very well, but got put in an awkward position in his only loss. I’m guessing he was probably the second or third best wrestler, but the way the pools worked, he had to settle for fourth place.”

Zeph Larney, senior, went 3-2 to take fifth place at 152 pounds. Travis Rieske, 160-pound junior, went 2-3 for seventh.

“Travis went up a weight class because we have Brice Aiello wrestling for us at

152 pounds,” Carson said. “This will be some good ex-perience for him. “

Kaleb Mock wrestled in the 132-pound division. The sophomore went 2-2 to take fifth place.

Andrew Garber also went 2-2, but settled for sev-enth place.

“I’m proud of both of those guys,” Carson said. “They battled some tough wrestlers.”

Chase Roettgen, senior, wrestled in junior varsity at 220 pounds. He went 2-3 to take sixth place.

“That was a tough weight

class for him,” Carson said. “He had some tough oppo-nents.”

Tristan Sigfusson, junior, wrestled in the 132-pound class. He went 1-3 on the day in the junior varsity side.

“We’re really close with a lot of guys,” Carson said. “They showed a lot of fight, and they’re picking up some of the new tech-niques. Brice Aiello did one move without even think-ing and it earned him a quick pin.”

Iola returns to the mats Saturday at the Anderson County Invitational.

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Burlington Middle School.

Tournament organiz-ers were forced to change locations from Baldwin to Burlington because of ongoing sewer repairs in the Baldwin Middle School locker rooms.

THREE OTHER AREA schools will host pre-season tournaments.

Humboldt will host Crest, Uniontown and Erie for a round-robin festival beginning Tues-day. Crest’s girls play Erie at 4 p.m. Tuesday, followed by the Crest and Erie boys at about 5:30. Humboldt’s girls and boys host Uniontown at about 7 and 8:30 p.m., re-spectively.

After the 4 o’clock game tips off, subsequent games those nights will begin 20 minutes after the previous game has concluded.

Humboldt will host Crest on Thursday night in the second round, with the girls tipping off about 7 o’clock and the boys at 8:30. Crest then takes on Uniontown Fri-day, with the girls begin-ning at 4 p.m., the boys at about 5:30. Humboldt’s girls host Erie at about 7, followed by the boys at about 8:30.

MARMATON Valley will host Northeast-Ar-ma, Olpe and Howard, respectively, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

The Wildcat girls tip off against Northeast at 7 p.m. Tuesday, followed by the boys at 7:30. The time repeats on Thursday for Marmaton Valley against Olpe’s boys and girls, and again on Friday when the Wildcats take on Howard.

YATES CENTER, the only area school that has not yet played a game, will host the Wildcat Win-ter Classic starting today.

The Wildcat girls will take on Southern Cof-fey County at 6:15 p.m., followed by the boys at 8 o’clock. Both games will be in Yates Center’s Nor-ris gymnasium.

On Tuesday, Southern Coffey County returns to action, this time in the East Gymnasium. The Lady Titans take on Altoona-Midway at 6:15 p.m., the boys at 8 o’clock.

Yates Center hosts Al-toona-Midway on Thurs-day, also in the East Gym-nasium. Again, the girls tip off at 6:15, the boys at 8.

Results from the first two rounds will deter-mine tip-off times for Friday’s championship rounds.

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Red Devil women win in romp

Register/Steven SchwartzAllen Community College’s Kylie Molisee puts up a field goal attempt Saturday in the Red Devils’ 92-62 win over Central Christian College.

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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Collin Klein threw a touchdown pass and ran for two scores and No. 7 Kansas State beat No. 23 Texas 42-24 on Saturday night for its third confer-ence title in 117 years and a trip to the Fiesta Bowl.

The Wildcats had never played for a conference championship in their last game at home, and had never had a player end the regular season in such close contention for the Heisman Trophy as Klein.

Neither of his main

competitors, Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel nor Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o, played this weekend. So Klein, a multitalented se-nior, had the stage all to himself, one last chance to burnish his creden-tials for what would be Kansas State’s first Heis-man.

In front of their sixth sellout in seven home games, the Wildcats (11-1, 8-1 Big 12) tied their team record for victories in a season and matched Okla-homa’s Big 12 record.

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