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By BOB JOHNSON [email protected] Few things are more worth- less, from a dairyman’s per- spective, than a dry milk cow that isn’t pregnant. That was an overriding con- cern for Steve Strickler four weeks ago after the milk par- lor at Strickler Dairy burned at the northeast corner of Iola. About 350 high-grade Hol- steins were being milked twice a day and the result of the fire was that Strickler had no place to continue the chore. “Within 15 hours, we had them all moved, 250 to a dairy near Hiattville and 100 to Prescott,” he said. That was the initial stop- gap measure. “We had to get them some- where quickly so they could be milked,” Strickler observed. “If a cow isn’t milked, it gets awfully painful for her right away and eventually they dry themselves up.” The Hiattville dairy had been milking 140 heads, and could assimilate the addition- al cows for only so long. “They (at Hiattville) went from their normal schedule to milking 24 hours a day,” he said. The Kansas dairy frater- nity has become a small, tight group in recent years and within days Strickler had 100 cows each at dairies near Syracuse and Jetmore, as well as others at Hiattville and Prescott. A farm near New- ton is caring for 15 maternity cows. “All the guys really rallied around to get the cows out to where they needed to be,” he said. Initially, Strickler thought his milk parlor, and an addi- tion to house an office, break room and storage, might be completed within a month so the cows could return to Iola. “Now it looks like it’s go- ing to be sometime in early March,” he said. The parlor itself won’t be enlarged — piping and equip- ment were saved — which means the dairy will return to twice-a-day milking of 16 head at a time. ALL INDICATIONS are the fire rekindled from one that occurred earlier on the fateful day. “We were having some welding done and there was a fire in the afternoon,” Strick- ler said. “Everyone thought it was out, but then it apparent- ly came back in the wall that night. “I got a call at 11 o’clock — I already was asleep — that there was a fire and when I got to the milk parlor it was full of smoke and still had cows in it. I guess the guys were just fro- zen by what was happening. “We got the cows out and I told everyone to do what they could with water hoses we had,” Strickler said. “I was standing on a gate with a hose in one hand and my cell phone in the other, calling 911. “I asked that the fire trucks not use their sirens, and they apparently didn’t. That would have scared the cows and we’d have had three-fourths of Iola out here.” The response was so BASEBALL ACC opens season See B1 Locally owned since 1867 www.iolaregister.com Monday, February 18, 2013 The IOLA REGISTER Vol. 115, No.79 75 Cents Iola, KS Strickler eager for herd’s return Steve Strickler thinks his milk parlor, extensively damaged by fire Jan. 21, will be back in operation by early March. Register/Bob Johnson See STRICKLER | Page A4 By ALLISON TINN [email protected] Many artists attribute their success to an inspira- tion or a muse. Iolan Nicholas Olson has a fleet of inspiring people. His wife, parents and his mentor and Allen Community Col- lege theater director, Tony Piazza, are all on Olson’s side pushing him to fulfill his dream of being a playwright. “I would not have written as much if it weren’t for Paige (wife), Tony and my parents,” Olson said. “They make me do something I enjoy.” Five of Olson’s one-act plays will be performed and directed by ACC students and Piazza Feb. 28 through March 2, as part of the clev- erly named production, “Nic at Night.” Olson, manager at Sterling Six Cinema, attended ACC from 2005 to 2007. He began putting his own experiences to paper and wrote his first one-act play in 2006. “I like bringing life into my writing. It helps with per- spective,” Olson said. Though Olson brings per- sonal experience to his writ- ings, he also likes to add whimsical elements to make what he writes more enter- taining. “Everyone lives a normal life. I like to bring a little whimsy so the audience can enjoy someone else’s ridicu- lous life,” Olson said. “It gets people out of their boring life for a little bit and have a good time.” The Nic at Night plays are “A Successful Robbery,” where two guys try to rob a bank and the bank teller is extremely unhelpful; “Grim Intervention,” where fairy tale characters, predominate- ly female, have an interven- tion, which Olson wrote be- cause he had never written a play with strong female char- acters; “Chat with Ralph,” based on his and Paige’s cat; “Predictable,” in which high school students meet a psy- chic; and followed by “So this One Time,” based on his time in Lawrence while Paige was going to college and he was working as a gas station at- tendant. “It is exciting for me to have a local playwright,” Piazza said. “He has such a knack for play writing and an ear for dialogue.” Piazza has taken on the role of Olson’s literary agent. They have sent out some of his work to publishing com- panies. Olson received a rejec- tion letter from one of the publishing companies, but it wasn’t anything that could keep Olson’s spirits down. The letter said Olson’s work, though good, was outside the Nicholas Olson Local playwright brings laughs to ACC stage THE ROAD TO STATE Register/Steven Schwartz A referee raises Trey Colborn’s hand in victory Saturday at the 4A regional wrestling tournament in Pittsburg. Colborn won third place n the 285-pound division with a win over Field Kindley High’s Austin Ryder, qualifying for state. Everyone lives a normal life. I like to bring a lit- tle whimsy so the audience can enjoy someone else’s ridiculous life. It gets people out of their boring life for a little bit and have a good time. — Nicholas Olson “ “ See OLSON | Page A4 TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Leaders of the Kansas Sen- ate’s Republican supermajor- ity are signaling that they’re nervous about the prospects for passing legislation this year to further overhaul the state’s tax system after mas- sive income tax cuts last year. The tipoff was a change in the Senate’s handling of a technical bill correcting flaws in last year’s tax-cutting law after the House passed it early last week. GOP leaders initially planned to have the full Senate debate the measure within days, anticipating it would pass unchanged and go to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. But top senators postponed the debate until at least this week, when the measure could be considered alongside more significant tax proposals. Senate GOP leaders now expect to marry this year’s changes to the corrections of last year’s law in the House- passed bill. It’s an example of how legislative procedure can be significant, because top Senate Republicans are moving to increase chances that Brownback will achieve his goal of stabilizing the budget while promising fu- ture income tax reductions. “We want to control the de- bate,” said Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, a con- servative Hutchinson Repub- lican. Brownback wants to phase in a second round of cuts in individual income tax rates over the next four years. His plan also promises further reductions in rates in future years if the state’s economy is robust enough. But the governor and legis- lators also must stabilize the budget after last year’s tax re- ductions. Brownback has pro- posed eliminating two popu- lar income tax deductions for homeowners and canceling a drop in the state’s sales tax scheduled for July. The Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee last week endorsed a bill contain- Move shows GOP angst in tax debate John Hanna An AP news analysis President Barack Obama departs the White House on board Marine One, to travel to Decatur, Ga., on Thurs- day in Washington, DC. Pool photo by Brendan Hoffman via Abaca Press/MCT Taking the scenic route See DEBATE | Page A2

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By BOB [email protected]

Few things are more worth-less, from a dairyman’s per-spective, than a dry milk cow that isn’t pregnant.

That was an overriding con-cern for Steve Strickler four weeks ago after the milk par-lor at Strickler Dairy burned at the northeast corner of Iola.

About 350 high-grade Hol-steins were being milked twice a day and the result of the fire was that Strickler had no place to continue the chore.

“Within 15 hours, we had them all moved, 250 to a dairy near Hiattville and 100 to Prescott,” he said.

That was the initial stop-gap measure.

“We had to get them some-where quickly so they could be milked,” Strickler observed. “If a cow isn’t milked, it gets awfully painful for her right away and eventually they dry themselves up.”

The Hiattville dairy had been milking 140 heads, and could assimilate the addition-al cows for only so long.

“They (at Hiattville) went from their normal schedule to milking 24 hours a day,” he said.

The Kansas dairy frater-

nity has become a small, tight group in recent years and within days Strickler had 100 cows each at dairies near Syracuse and Jetmore, as well as others at Hiattville and Prescott. A farm near New-ton is caring for 15 maternity

cows.“All the guys really rallied

around to get the cows out to where they needed to be,” he said.

Initially, Strickler thought his milk parlor, and an addi-tion to house an office, break

room and storage, might be completed within a month so the cows could return to Iola.

“Now it looks like it’s go-ing to be sometime in early March,” he said.

The parlor itself won’t be enlarged — piping and equip-

ment were saved — which means the dairy will return to twice-a-day milking of 16 head at a time.

ALL INDICATIONS are the fire rekindled from one that occurred earlier on the fateful day.

“We were having some welding done and there was a fire in the afternoon,” Strick-ler said. “Everyone thought it was out, but then it apparent-ly came back in the wall that night.

“I got a call at 11 o’clock — I already was asleep — that there was a fire and when I got to the milk parlor it was full of smoke and still had cows in it. I guess the guys were just fro-zen by what was happening.

“We got the cows out and I told everyone to do what they could with water hoses we had,” Strickler said. “I was standing on a gate with a hose in one hand and my cell phone in the other, calling 911.

“I asked that the fire trucks not use their sirens, and they apparently didn’t. That would have scared the cows and we’d have had three-fourths of Iola out here.”

The response was so

BASEBALL ACC opens season

See B1

Locally owned since 1867 www.iolaregister.comMonday, February 18, 2013

The IOLA REGISTER

Vol. 115, No.79 75 Cents Iola, KS

Strickler eager for herd’s return

Steve Strickler thinks his milk parlor, extensively damaged by fire Jan. 21, will be back in operation by early March.

Register/Bob Johnson

See STRICKLER | Page A4

By ALLISON [email protected]

Many artists attribute their success to an inspira-tion or a muse.

Iolan Nicholas Olson has a fleet of inspiring people. His wife, parents and his mentor and Allen Community Col-lege theater director, Tony Piazza, are all on Olson’s side pushing him to fulfill his dream of being a playwright.

“I would not have written as much if it weren’t for Paige (wife), Tony and my parents,” Olson said. “They make me do something I enjoy.”

Five of Olson’s one-act plays will be performed and directed by ACC students and Piazza Feb. 28 through March 2, as part of the clev-erly named production, “Nic at Night.”

Olson, manager at Sterling Six Cinema, attended ACC from 2005 to 2007. He began putting his own experiences to paper and wrote his first one-act play in 2006.

“I like bringing life into

my writing. It helps with per-spective,” Olson said.

Though Olson brings per-sonal experience to his writ-ings, he also likes to add whimsical elements to make what he writes more enter-taining.

“Everyone lives a normal life. I like to bring a little whimsy so the audience can enjoy someone else’s ridicu-lous life,” Olson said. “It gets people out of their boring life for a little bit and have a good time.”

The Nic at Night plays are “A Successful Robbery,” where two guys try to rob a bank and the bank teller is extremely unhelpful; “Grim Intervention,” where fairy tale characters, predominate-ly female, have an interven-tion, which Olson wrote be-

cause he had never written a play with strong female char-acters; “Chat with Ralph,” based on his and Paige’s cat; “Predictable,” in which high school students meet a psy-chic; and followed by “So this

One Time,” based on his time in Lawrence while Paige was going to college and he was working as a gas station at-tendant.

“It is exciting for me to have a local playwright,” Piazza said. “He has such a knack for play writing and an ear for dialogue.”

Piazza has taken on the role of Olson’s literary agent. They have sent out some of his work to publishing com-panies.

Olson received a rejec-tion letter from one of the publishing companies, but it wasn’t anything that could keep Olson’s spirits down. The letter said Olson’s work, though good, was outside the

Nicholas Olson

Local playwright brings laughs to ACC stage THE ROAD TO STATE

Register/Steven Schwartz

A referee raises Trey Colborn’s hand in victory Saturday at the 4A regional wrestling tournament in Pittsburg. Colborn won third place n the 285-pound division with a win over Field Kindley High’s Austin Ryder, qualifying for state.

Everyone lives a normal life. I like to bring a lit-tle whimsy so the audience can enjoy someone else’s ridiculous life. It gets people out of their boring life for a little bit and have a good time.

— Nicholas Olson

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See OLSON | Page A4

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Leaders of the Kansas Sen-ate’s Republican supermajor-ity are signaling that they’re nervous about the prospects for passing legislation this year to further overhaul the state’s tax system after mas-sive income tax cuts last year.

The tipoff was a change in the Senate’s handling of a technical bill correcting flaws in last year’s tax-cutting law after the House passed it early last week.

GOP leaders initially planned to have the full Senate debate the measure within days, anticipating it would pass unchanged and go to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. But top senators postponed the debate until at least this week, when the measure could be considered

alongside more significant tax proposals.

Senate GOP leaders now expect to marry this year’s changes to the corrections of last year’s law in the House-passed bill. It’s an example of how legislative procedure can be significant, because top Senate Republicans are moving to increase chances that Brownback will achieve his goal of stabilizing the budget while promising fu-ture income tax reductions.

“We want to control the de-

bate,” said Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, a con-servative Hutchinson Repub-lican.

Brownback wants to phase in a second round of cuts in individual income tax rates over the next four years. His plan also promises further reductions in rates in future years if the state’s economy is robust enough.

But the governor and legis-lators also must stabilize the budget after last year’s tax re-ductions. Brownback has pro-posed eliminating two popu-lar income tax deductions for homeowners and canceling a drop in the state’s sales tax scheduled for July.

The Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee last week endorsed a bill contain-

Move shows GOP angst in tax debateJohnHannaAn AP news analysis

President Barack Obama departs the White House on board Marine One, to travel to Decatur, Ga., on Thurs-day in Washington, DC.

Pool photo by Brendan Hoffman via Abaca Press/MCT

Taking the scenic route

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ObituaryLoren Howerton

Loren Millard How-erton, 77, rural Iola, passed away Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, at Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita.

Loren was born April 24, 1935 at Savonburg, the son of Olaf M. “Bill” and Lillian (Aus-tin) Howerton. He was united in marriage to Patricia Ann Baker on Dec. 21, 1965, in Miami, Okla.

He drove a truck be-fore farming and rais-ing cattle. After retiring he and his wife along with his brothers and their wives traveled on vacations to most of the United States. He en-joyed hunting and fish-ing, especially for big yellow catfish.

Loren was an early member of the Iola Ru-ral Fire Department, Storm Watchers and operated an amateur ra-dio station (ham AIØT) since 1978.

Survivors are his wife, Patricia Howerton; one brother, Roger How-

erton, Alamogordo, N.M.; two sisters-in-laws, Melba Howerton, El Cajon, Calif., and Patsy Howerton, Yuma, Ariz.; nieces and neph-ews; one sister-in-law they helped raise after Pat’s mother died, Traci Ridge, Iola.

He was preceded in death by three brothers, Gary D., Bernard and Darrell Howerton, and a sister, Winnie Simmons.

Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola. Funeral service will be 1:30 p.m. Wednes-day at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel. Burial will be at Swedish Cem-etery, Savonburg.

Memorial choices are Hospital Equipment Fund of Allen County Community Foundation or Allen County Histori-cal Society and may be left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel. Online condo-lences for the family may be left at www.iola-funeral.com.

Deadline: Notify the Register about calendar an-nouncements by 7 a.m. Monday in order to have your event listed in that week’s schedule. The calendar is published every Monday. Email event news to [email protected]

TuesdayAllen County Commissioners meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen

County Courthouse.Corleone’s grand opening, ribbon cutting, 11 a.m., Cor-

leone’s, 2402 N. State St. Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, meeting room at Allen Commu-

nity College student center.

WednesdayVeterans Day Committee meeting, 7 p.m., Alfred Link’s

home, 623 D. Sycamore.

ThursdayRotary Club, noon, The New Greenery.Take Off Pounds Sensibly No. KS 880, Iola, 5 p.m. weigh-

in, 5:30 meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church, 118 W. Jackson.

Allen County Community College Board of Trustees meet-ing, 6 p.m., student center.

Endurance Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group, 7 p.m., First Assembly of God, 1020 E. Carpenter.

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

senior citizens center, 204 N. Jefferson.

Feb. 25Unity Club meeting, 1:30 p.m., B&B Cafe. Carol Immel will

be the hostess and the program will be given by Kit McGuffin.

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ing most of Brown-back’s plan. Opinions differ widely on what GOP senators are likely to approve, but Bruce believes his chamber is likely to pass something similar to the commit-tee’s version.

Following a tradi-tional process, the Sen-ate bill would go to the House, where it almost certainly would be amended heavily before final approval. Three ne-gotiators for each cham-ber would draft a final version of the bill and present their compro-mise to each chamber for an up-or-down vote.

Amending the Sen-ate’s tax plan into the House’s technical bill could substantially shorten the process of passing major tax legis-lation.

If the House’s tech-nical bill becomes the vehicle for this year’s tax overhaul, senators would rewrite the bill and pass it. House lead-ers would ask for nego-tiations and talks would ensue, even though the House hasn’t passed — or even debated — its own plan.

Legislators would cut a big step out of their process — and possibly avoid big roadblocks to anything passing.

Negotiators for the two chambers might not even have to reach agree-ment. If talks proved contentious, pressure would build on the House to accept the Sen-ate’s tax plan wholesale in a single vote to ap-prove all Senate amend-ments to the House’s technical bill.

“By embarking on this kind of a strategy, you

are basically cutting the House out of any sort of meaningful debate or dialogue on what the tax bill ought to look like,” said Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hens-ley, a Topeka Democrat.

And some GOP sena-tors are pessimistic about the House’s ability to fashion and pass a tax plan.

“I can’t say what is go-ing to be viable or not viable,” said Senate As-sessment and Taxation Committee Chairman Les Donovan, a conser-vative Wichita Republi-

can.While Brownback

pitches his package of proposals as a five-year plan to reduce income taxes, he’s facing criti-cism because the mix would net the state more than $1.1 billion in new revenues in the first three years — before tax-payers saw the bulk of the benefits from lower-ing individual income

tax rates.Also, some legislators

don’t like keeping the sales tax rate at its cur-rent 6.3 percent rate be-cause it breaks a prom-ise made three years ago. Lawmakers boosted the tax then to balance the budget — at the urging of Brownback’s Demo-cratic predecessor, Mark Parkinson — but said the tax would decrease to 5.7 percent in July.

And the Kansas As-sociation of Realtors has mounted an aggressive campaign to save the two income tax deductions,

for the property taxes Kansans pay on their homes and the interest on their home mortgages.

Before lawmakers con-vened their annual ses-sion in January, some Brownback critics wor-ried that the Legislature would rubber stamp his policies. Fellow conserva-tives run both chambers, and Republicans have majorities of 32-8 in the Senate and 92-33 in the House.

But questions arose last month about whether the House is as friendly to Brownback as critics had supposed.

The trigger for the doubts was a relatively slim majority — 68 of 125 votes — for a bill prohib-iting public employee unions from automatical-ly deducting money from members’ paychecks to help finance political ac-tivities. The measure is favored by the GOP right and the powerful, con-servative-leaning Kansas Chamber of Commerce.

Meanwhile, even Brownback allies in the House have said they’ll be searching for alternatives to his tax proposals.

Thus, some senators weren’t surprised when the Senate’s GOP leaders hedged against potential problems by holding onto the House’s technical tax bill.

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By embarking in this kind of strategy, you are basically cutting the House out of any sort of meaningful debate or dia-logue on what the tax bill ought to look like.

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Sunday morning Pastor Steve Traw’s message was “with God in the wilderness (beyond the veil)” from Hebrews 10:19-25.

Special music was provided by the Cun-ninghams with Betty singing “My Wonder-ful, Wonderful Lord” accompanied by Glenn at the piano and Mat-thew and Elizabeth with violins.

Celebrating birth-days are Glen Hersch-berger, Feb. 14, Kar-en Rohr, Feb. 16 and Charles Sutton also on Feb. 16.

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Kansas briefsWichita airport reports slight drop in passengers

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita’s Mid-Con-tinent Airport says the number of passengers in 2012 fell 2 percent.

The airport says the decline is the result of some airlines dropping flights from Wichita. Frontier Airlines halted service to Denver in No-vember, a loss of about 200 seats each way. And Allegiant Air stopped seasonal service to Los Angeles in August 2011.

Air carriers offered 33 daily departures out of Wichita in Decem-ber, down from 53 daily flights in 2003. At the same time, 1.51 million passengers flew in and out of the airport, com-pared with 1.41 million in 2003.

Passenger traffic in Wichita peaked in 2008 at 1.62 million.

The Wichita Eagle reports Southwest Air-lines plans to enter the Wichita market on June 2, which is expected to add flights and service.

Call for prostitute ends with 3 in jail in Wichita

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police say three people were arrest-ed after a man couldn’t pay for the prostitute he called to his home.

Police went to the 33-year-old man’s home early Sunday after a neighbor reported a dis-turbance.

Spokesman Sgt. Bart Brunscheen says the man apparently wasn’t able to pay the full amount he owed the pros-titute. She and an associ-ate returned and forced their way into the man’s home, where the woman took his cell phone.

The homeowner was charged with solicit-ing a prostitute. The 24-year-old woman was charged with burglary and prostitution and her 28-year-old associate was charged with aggravated burglary and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Kan. education budgets to be presented

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two committees in the Kansas Legislature are close to finishing their work on proposed spend-ing for public schools and the six regents uni-versities.

The House Appro-priations Committee planned to hear a sub-committee’s recommen-dation Monday for fund-ing K-12 education for the next two academic years. Kansas spends more than $3 billion on public schools annually.

In the Senate, the

Ways and Means Com-mittee will review fund-ing proposals for the University of Kansas and its medical center, as well as Kansas State, Wichita State, Pittsburg, Emporia and Fort Hays State universities.

All of the spending recommendations will be folded into a state gov-ernment budget bill to be debated in the coming weeks.

Kan. lobbyist spending reported at $765K for 2012

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Lobbyists in Kansas re-ported spending almost 6 percent more in 2012 to influence state govern-ment officials than they did in 2011.

A report released this month by the state Gov-ernmental Ethics Com-mission said 550 lobby-ists reported spending a total of $765,000 last year. That’s $43,000 more than the figure for 2011.

The biggest jump in spending was on news-letters and other commu-nications from groups to their members or from companies to their em-ployees, urging them to contact state officials. The figure for 2012 was almost $115,000, com-pared to less than $20,000 in 2011.

But spending on me-dia advertising dropped to about $135,000 last

year from $186,000 in 2011.

Lobbyists also re-ported spending almost $477,000 on providing free food for state officials.

Kansas bill seeks to help students with dyslexia

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Advocates of children with dyslexia are hoping Kansas lawmakers will pass a bill this year that spells out how schools serve students with dys-lexia.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that a bill in the Senate would require schools to offer 90 minutes of special-ized instruction per day outside the student’s regular classroom time. That instruction would take place in smaller groups or one-on-one.

Some parents contend the measure is neces-sary because they say many children with dys-lexia go undiagnosed and that if they are di-agnosed, those students often don’t receive the specialized instruction they need.

Dyslexia is a learning condition that involves difficulty with reading and spelling. Under fed-eral law, students with dyslexia qualify for spe-cial education services.

Opponents say the bill is redundant and a viola-tion of federal law.

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WASHINGTON — Lindsey Graham is turning himself into the mad dog of Capitol Hill.

First, the Republican sena-tor from South Carolina op-posed Chuck Hagel’s nomina-tion to be defense secretary because of Hagel’s foreign policy views. Then he argued that Hagel had not produced sufficient background mate-rial. Now he’s arguing against Hagel because of the admin-istration’s handling of the at-tack on U.S. diplomats in Ben-ghazi, Libya, last September — when Hagel was a professor at Georgetown University.

“I am going to fight the idea of jamming somebody through until we get answers about what the president did personally when it came to the Benghazi debacle,” he said in the Senate TV studio Wednes-day, a day before his unprece-dented filibuster of a nominee to a national-security Cabinet post.

“How do you respond to crit-ics who say you’re just moving the goal posts?” CNN’s Dana Bash asked.

“Oh, I’m going to take every opportunity. I’m not denying it,” he answered.

“You are moving the goal posts?” Bash asked. Several of us in the room chuckled.

“No!” Graham said, then explained how he was indeed moving the posts. “I’m going to hit you and keep hitting you, absolutely,” he said, rais-ing his voice. Thumping the lectern, he added, “You better believe I’m not going to let this thing go.”

Fox News’ Chad Pergram pointed out that the treatment he was giving Hagel was in a “rare category.”

Graham made a fist. “Am I supposed to sit on the side-lines and be a good compliant Republican and just let this administration not account for what I think is a national security breakdown of monu-mental proportions?” He add-

ed that “I guaran-damn-tee you” that Democrats would treat a Republican president

even worse.And I guaran-damn-tee you

this: Graham’s antics have as much to do with events in Co-lumbia, S.C., as with events in Washington. His sentiments are no doubt genuine, but the ferocity with which he has been attacking the Obama administration — taking a high-profile role on Benghazi, Susan Rice, Hagel and gun control — are helping him to repel a tea party primary chal-lenge at home.

Graham acknowledged the pressure when I asked him about the influence of home-state politics on his recent actions. “You know, I’m in a red state. I know I’m always exposed in a Republican pri-mary,” he said. But he argued, correctly, that he continues to take a leading role on im-migration, which infuriates many conservatives.

“I think it’s positive for me to one day beat the hell out of them and the next day see if we can do a deal,” he said. He described his role in the op-position as a balance between saying “yes for the common good of the country where you can” and saying “no because you need to.”

The problem is Graham, to get through the 2014 primary, needs to say “no” more often now. And Congress can hardly afford for one of its few re-maining dealmakers to take an obstreperous turn. But per-haps Graham should be given some slack. The Republican primary system has gone hay-wire, and this may be the only

way a sensible lawmaker can survive it.

Not too long ago, Graham had been in deep trouble with South Carolina conservatives because of his talk about climate-change legislation, his votes for both of Obama’s Supreme Court nominees, his criticism of the Bush admin-istration’s wiretapping and interrogation programs, and his championing of “Graham-nesty” immigration reforms.

But the gradual reposition-ing has apparently worked. A survey by Public Policy Poll-ing in December found that the percentage of Republicans saying they would vote for him in a primary has climbed to 51 percent from 37 percent in January 2011.

And Graham isn’t letting up. At a hearing on gun con-trol, he unnerved a witness, a U.S. attorney, by beginning his questions with a blunt in-quiry: “Do you own a gun?” At a Benghazi hearing, he got the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to admit he was “sur-prised” about Hillary Clin-ton’s ignorance of the ambas-sador to Libya’s request for more security shortly before he was killed.

And Graham delivered a memorable hectoring of Ha-gel for the nominee’s prior claim that lawmakers are “in-timidated” by the Israel lobby. “Name one,” Graham chal-lenged. Hagel couldn’t.

Graham, who has voted the conservative line 90 percent of the time over his career, argues that his new positions are consistent with his previ-ous ones — and they are. But the difference is in the em-phasis. In order to survive the Republicans’ backward pri-mary system, Graham needs to de-emphasize anything that might make him appear to be reasonable.

Dana Milbank’s email ad-

dress is [email protected].

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Senator on the growl

You just knew after last year’s brouhaha about the governor’s meetings at Ce-dar Crest that some state legislators would look for a way to retaliate.

Their plan materialized last week in the introduc-tion of two bills, one in the Senate and one in the House, that would eviscer-ate the underpinnings of the Kansas Open Meetings Act if approved.

Apparently, pesky report-ers and nosey citizens who be-lieve in open government are making it difficult for public officials to do their jobs.

House Bill 2336 and Sen-ate Bill 200 would rewrite KOMA in such a way that any gathering deemed a “social event” could be used as subterfuge for pub-lic discussion of virtually any issue.

Language in HB 2336 would let every public of-ficial in the state of Kan-sas — not just legislators — off the hook if a gather-ing didn’t lead the body or agency to “deliberate spe-cific matters” under their purview. SB 200 would al-low such gatherings as long as discussions didn’t lead to the formulation of policy or to a vote of the body.

KOMA is not just about how a public official votes; it’s about the process that led to that vote. Citizens have a fundamental right to know what influences played a part in a decision,

not just whether someone ultimately voted “yes” or “no.”

That’s why we pay close attention to who contrib-utes to campaigns, who pays big bucks to lobby leg-islators and who shows up at meetings as opponents and proponents of issues.

If such legislation is ap-proved and “social gather-ings” are allowed to be used as a cover for previously illegal public discussions of the issues, citizens will be shut out of the political process.

Even more, the “social gathering” opportunities for public officials will skyrocket, emboldening those with influence to peddle and the deep pock-ets to pay for it.

Let’s hope those state lawmakers advocating open government prin-ciples prevail over those who would return our political system to the proverbial “smoke-filled rooms” of the past.

Kansans should rise up in protest of this blatant attempt to usurp the pow-er of the people.

DougAnstaett

A KPA news analysis

Keep public business fully transparent

Not only should public officials of all ilk make available to public scrutiny all that they do, they also should avail themselves of any and all opportunities to know what is contained in open meetings and open records laws, down to the fine print.

All governing bodies have attorneys to advise them, but often those attor-neys aren’t present when questions about either law surfaces. Executive sessions, for example, oc-casionally occur because of discussion that unfolds during a meeting, not as a foregone conclusion be-forehand.

Tutorials on the laws are held periodically by state-

wide school, county and municipal organizations. Public officials should take advantage.

Also, special sessions may be arranged and would be a capital idea, particu-larly for newly elected offi-cials.

The Kansas Press Asso-ciations — and surely other applicable bodies — provide condensed versions of each law that are handy to have. They’re easy to read and to the point.

Ignorance of the law, the age-old saying goes, is no excuse, and shouldn’t be lost on public officials.

And, transparency in government never has been more essential than today.

— Bob Johnson

Know the law

Week of Feb. 20, 197820 — Twenty-one Iola High

School students are building a house at 410 N. Third, which will be sold when it is complet-ed. The building trades pro-gram is taught by Larry Bar-nett. It was started two years ago as a cooperative effort between the school districts in Iola, Moran and Humboldt. Humboldt and Moran also have houses under construc-tion.

21 — Berg employees were warned today that a ruling by the U.S. Department of Trans-portation would reduce em-ployment here. Sergio Campa-nini, company president, said the current requirement for anti-lock brakes on tractor-trailers may be lifted, which could result in fewer orders

for the equipment and a loss of employment here. The brake systems are a signifi-cant part of the plant’s out-put, he said.

22 — Jan. 27, 1928, spurred on by Dolly Adams, 83 work-ing women pounded out and signed a constitution and bylaws for a Business and Professional Women’s Club in Iola. The charter from national headquarters was presented to representatives of the Iola club in Febru-ary of that year at a district meeting in Fort Scott. Last night Thelma Roberts, a past president of the Iola club, gave members and guests a brief history of the 50 years of the Iola organization’s activities. Truly a service club, she said, during World

War II members were active in such things as the sale of war bonds, blood donor drives, preparing bandages and helping the war effort in other ways. At the present time the club provides a gift for the outstanding Iola High School senior girl and financ-es two scholarships to Allen County Community Junior College.

24 — MORAN — Planning for a new water supply for Moran is going ahead despite a threat to federal funding. Moran now depends on Katy Lake for its residential and commercial water supply. The lake is small, has silted in and is not reliable during dry periods. Water usage had to be curtailed during the dry period in 1976.

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stealthy that some near-by residents didn’t know about the fire until the next day.

“The good thing was no cows or people were hurt, other than when I fell off the gate,” he added.

When he had time the next day to assess all that was occurring, Strickler said he wanted to keep the cows all to-gether and thought that was going to be possible at Syracuse, a dairy that daily milks 4,300 head.

“I had 10 trucks lined up, but then he (the Syr-acuse owner) called back and said he a bunch of heifers coming from Cal-ifornia that were about ready to calf and he couldn’t take all 350 of my cows,” Strickler re-counted. “But, everyone was extremely kind to do all they have to help out.”

Even so, Strickler knows things won’t be as they were when the cows start trooping into the rebuilt milk parlor in two or three weeks.

“They’ll never be the same,” he said. “Cows are creatures of habit. When you change their routine they hate it.

“Right now they’re getting different feed, being milked at differ-ent times and some will come back not preg-nant.”

Cows having calves each year is an integral part of the dairy busi-ness.

“I did see my cows in Syracuse last weekend and I was pleasantly sur-prised at how good they looked,” Strickler said.

WHILE THE FIRE caused extensive dam-age, Strickler pointed out that the 7,000-gallon stainless steel milk stor-age tank was saved.

“That’s not just some-thing to go out and buy,” he said. “They are cus-

tom built and that takes time.”

His options, in the days after the fire, were to sell his herd, build a new parlor or rebuild what was left, which in-cluded the piping system and concrete stem walls.

“Rebuilding was the choice because of cost, although it’s going to be at least $120,000 and probably more, with no guarantee yet on insur-ance,” he said, noted the rebuilding option was “a lot simpler and quicker.”

Meanwhile, a large barn near the parlor, undamaged by the fire, stands as a stark remind-er of the herd it has shel-tered for years between the cows’ twice-a-day treks to the milk parlor.

“I’ve tried to avoid looking at it — really have only once since the fire,” Strickler said. “I get pretty emotional when I see it empty.”

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company’s market.The feedback made

Olson smile because, “someone who doesn’t know me said they en-joyed it and I was doing a good job,” Olson said. “I just need to continue doing it, I have to keep at it.”

Olson, whose wife Paige recently had a baby boy, strives to find time for writing. He said the easiest way for him to fall asleep is by sit-ting at his computer at night, writing down his thoughts. Out of those thoughts have come

some of the one-acts that will be performed at ACC.

“Here in the next cou-ple of months I will prob-ably have something written about being a dad and being a man during the pregnancy,” Olson said.

Olson said he is not one for writing stories too serious. He enjoys writing with humor, things that make people laugh.

On Feb. 28, a recep-tion will be held where audience members can mingle and get to know Olson. The performanc-es begin at 7:30 p.m.

I’ve tried to avoid looking at it — really have only since the fire. I get pretty emotion-al when I see it empty.

— Steve Strickler, dairy farmer

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I have a crush on youOn Valentine’s Day Marmaton Valley freshmen held a fundraiser where they sold and delivered a balloon, a can of Crush pop and a message to students for $2. Front row from left are Tanna Lutz, Brady Newman, Austin Deer, Jacob Kress, Cody Moore-Wilson and Alexis Smith. Back row from left are Chad Starliper, Keagan Boyd, Tanner O’dell, Micheal Beggs, Dane Myers, Jamee Jones, Kory Bauer, Gage Adams and Brett Jones. Not pictured are Klay-Von Dowe, Sterling Lawson, Ashlynn Pinkerton, Jacob Wise, Zachary Wise, Mackenzie Tynon and Tyler Wilkerson. The fundraiser was sponsored by Debra Carr. The freshmen sold a total of 947 crushes.Register/Allison Tinn

Ella Trimble dances on stage during the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon at the Bryce Events Center in University Park, Pennsyl-vania, on Saturday. Dancers started the 46-hour fundraiser on Friday. The event, known as Thon, raises money to help families that are battling pediatric cancer. Last year's event raised $10 mil-lion.

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Dance for a cause

By PHILIP ELLIOTAssociated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is downplaying its draft immigration proposal as merely a backup plan if lawmakers don’t come up with an overhaul of their own. It won’t be necessary, Republican and Democratic law-makers alike are telling the Obama administra-tion.

White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said Sunday that Presi-dent Barack Obama wants to “be prepared” in case the small bipar-tisan group of senators fails to devise a plan for the estimated 11 mil-lion illegal immigrants in the United States. In response, lawmakers as-sured the White House they are working on their own plan — and warned that Obama would be heading toward failure if the White House gets ahead of them.

“We will be prepared with our own plan if these ongoing talks be-tween Republicans and Democrats up on Capi-tol Hill break down,” McDonough said, add-

ing he’s optimistic they would not crumble.

But he was equally realistic about the fierce partisanship on Capitol Hill.

“Well, let’s make sure that it doesn’t have to be proposed,” McDonough said of the president’s pitch, first reported on USA Today’s website late Saturday.

Even so, the admin-istration is moving for-ward on its own immi-gration agenda should one of Obama’s top pri-orities get derailed.

The administration’s proposal would create a visa for those in the country illegally and al-low them to become le-gal permanent residents within eight years. The proposal also requires businesses to know the immigration status of their workers and adds more funding for border security.

It drew immediate crit-icism from Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., one of the eight lawmakers search-ing for a comprehensive plan.

“If actually proposed, the president’s bill would be dead on arrival in

Congress, leaving us with unsecured borders and a broken legal immi-gration system for years to come,” said Rubio, who has been a leading GOP spokesman on im-migration.

Many of the details in the administration’s draft proposal follow the broad principles that Obama previously out-lined. But the fact the administration is writ-ing its own alternative signaled Obama wants to address immigration sooner rather than later and perhaps was look-ing to nudge lawmakers to move more quickly.

The tactic could com-plicate the administra-tion’s work with Con-gress.

David Axelrod, who was a senior adviser to Obama’s re-election cam-paign, acknowledged today that it likely was a mistake for news of the Obama immigration plan to be made public.

Appearing on MS-NBC, Axelrod said in an interview from Chicago that “the mistake here was to disseminate it so widely within the admin-istration” and said he be-lieves that White House officials would “take it back” if they could.

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INSIDE: Southern Coffey Co. squads lose —B2

PITTSBURG — The Iola High Mustangs qualified two more wrestlers Saturday for the upcoming state tourna-ment on a successful day on the mat for the IHS squad.

Bryce Misenhelter and Trey Colborn both earned state berths during the sec-ond day of action at the Class 4A regional tournament in Pittsburg. They will join teammate Stephen Colborn in Salina for state, which be-gins Friday.

What head coach Brad Carson deemed as “winnable matches” for Colborn and Misenhelter proved to be just that.

Misenhelter came out in full form against Kylan Dixon of Frontenac for the consola-tion semifinal match in the 182-pound division. A close first round had both wrestler with six points from reversals and near-pins. Misenhelter came out fighting in the sec-ond round, and it proved to be too much for his opponent. He flipped Dixon on a hard move and had his shoulders on the mat, midway through the period.

Colborn’s match went a similar direction.

A slow first period left Colborn and Field Kindley High’s Austin Ryder score-less. The second period was another story. Colborn made a quick move underneath, putting Ryder on his heels. Another quick move earned Colborn the pin.

THE FINAL matches in the

consolation bracket did not affect the qualifications, but proved to be a good test for both of the qualifiers.

“Brice has been battling sickness all day, and I could see it in his match,” Carson said.

Matt Lofing of Osawatomie made quick work of Misen-helter for the third-place match with a quick pin.

“The matches were a lot tougher than I expected them to be,” Misenhelter said of his fourth-place finish. “I got a little nervous.”

Misenhelter said he did better than expected, and hoped to carry the momen-tum to Salina.

Colborn’s third-place

match in the 285-pound divi-sion was slow for the first two rounds. Both wrestlers danced around the mat — vy-ing for better footing and po-sition.

The third round began much the same, until Col-

born made his move. A quick lurch under Chanute’s Will Divine put Colborn right in the position he needed to be. He turned his opponent and pinned him with under one

COFFEYVILLE — Facing the second-ranked NJCAA squad on the road is tough enough at full strength.

But take away Allen Com-munity College’s second-leading scorer, and the task gets even more daunting.

The Red Devils stayed within shouting distance ear-ly on until host Coffeyville Community College closed the first half with a 20-4 run.

Allen clawed back to with-in eight points in the second half, but could not stay with the powerful Ravens in a 79-55 loss.

The defeat snapped Allen’s two-game winning streak. The Red Devils play twice at home this week, hosting La-bette today and Kansas City, Kan., Wednesday before clos-ing the regular season with two games on the road.

Red Devil coach Andy Shaw said Coffeyville’s hot shooting gave the Red Ravens an early lead over Allen’s zone defense. The game was decided via Cof-feyville’s press, which led to “easy transition layups and dunks,” Shaw said.

Coffeyville took a 43-24 lead into halftime.

One silver lining, Shaw said, was Allen’s ball control after halftime. The Red Dev-ils turned the ball over only three times after the break, even without the services of Cameron Blue, who missed the game because of illness.

“Playing without him made it very tough to com-pete against Coffeyville’s size and athleticism,” Shaw said.

Andrew Rountree led the way for Allen with 18 points and 11 rebounds with a

blocked shot and two steals. Bryce Schippers hit 4 of 6 3-pointers for 12 points, while DeAndrae Barnett scored 11. Tray Fountain added eight. CeZanne Burnes and Alex Keiswetter each had three assists. Keiswetter led Allen with three steals.

Earl Peterson was a mon-ster for Coffeyville with 29 points, while Montel James poured in 23.

Allen (24-31—55)Coffeyville (43-36—79)Allen (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Rountree

6-6-2-18, Burnes 0-0-1-0, Wesley 0/1-0-1-3, Fountain 1-6-2-8, Schip-pers 0/4-0-0-12, Keiswetter 0-0-2-0, Barnette1/3-0-0-11, Walden 0/1-0-1-3, Walter 0-0-3-0. TOTALS: (8/9-12-12-55)

Coffeyville (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Cameron 0/2-0-1-6, Stephens 1-0-0-2, Alexander 2-1-1-5, Martin 0-0-3-0, Jn. Wilson 0-0-3-0, Britt 1/2-0-1-8, Pe-terson 5/5-4-2-29, Jy. Wilson 3-0-0-6, James 10-3-2-23, Huskey 0-0-2-0. TOTALS: 22/9-8-16-79.

LAWRENCE — Allen Com-munity College indoor track athletes brought home Region VI and Jayhawk Conference championships in a number of running events Friday.

The track squad traveled to Lawrence for a meet that dou-bled as both the conference and Region VI meet.

Dakota Parker is both re-gional and conference cham-pion in the 1-mile run, finish-ing in 4 minutes, 23.1 seconds. Bruce Barclay also is dual champion in the 60-meter hur-dles, finishing in 8.21 seconds. On the women’s side, Terika Henry won the regional and conference crowns in the 400-meter dash, finishing in 57.65 seconds.

Allen competed against teams in its own division as part of the Jayhawk Confer-ence meet, while teams from the Jayhawk Conference West-ern Division were combined in the regional standings.

For example, Tegan Mi-chael’s time of 2:38.72 was best among Jayhawk East runners in the 1000-meter run, while also counting as third among all Region VI runners.

Those who finished in the top two in either category were considered either all-conference or all-region.

Danae McGee, with her time of 3:08.26 in the 1000-me-ter run, was best in Jayhawk East and third in Region VI.

Parker also earned the Jay-hawk East championship in the 3000-meter run with his time of 8:56.67, good for fourth in Region VI. Ryan Pulsifer also had the best conference time in the 5000-meter run

SEMINOLE, Okla. — A walk-off win by Seminole Ju-nior College spoiled a memo-rable spring debut by Allen Community College’s Jerrik Sigg Saturday.

The Iola native drilled a game-tying homer home run in the Red Devils’ season-opener on the first pitch he saw in the top of the seventh with Allen trailing 2-1.

But the Trojans respond-ed with a walk-off single by Phillipe Craig St. Louis in the bottom of the inning in Seminole’s 3-2 win.

The defeat set the tone for the rest of the series for Allen, which subsequently dropped 11-1 and 7-3 deci-sions.

Allen (0-3) returns to ac-tion Tuesday with a double-header at Evangel University

in Springfield, Mo.

SATURDAY’S loss in the opener spoiled a gutty ef-fort by Allen’s Tanner Lee, who scattered nine hits over six innings before giving up a leadoff walk in the bot-tom of the seventh. Lucas Westervelt came on in relief and gave up two hits, includ-ing the two-out single by St. Louis to end the game.

Seminole took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first before Tim Lewis, Garrett Rasch and Nate Arnold opened the top of the fourth with singles. Sigg grounded into a double play, scoring Lewis, for the Red Devils’ only run of the inning.

Seminole went back up 2-1 with a run in the bottom of the sixth, setting up the cli-

mactic seventh.Lee gave up nine hits and

four walks over six innings with seven strikeouts.

Lewis went 3-for-3 on the day, all on singles. Clint Hef-fern added a single for the Red Devils.

THE TROJANS scored in all five innings of its 11-1 win, taking advantage of nine hits, five walks and four Allen errors.

The Red Devils, conversely, could muster only three hits.

Rasch reached on a walk and stole a base before scor-ing on an RBI single by Ar-nold in the top of the third. Sigg had led off the inning with a double, but was picked off prior to Arnold’s single.

COFFEYVILLE — The road was unforgiving for a short-handed Allen Community Col-lege women’s squad Saturday.

Playing without five play-ers, including the team’s three leading scorers, Allen saw host Coffeyville shoot 70 per-cent from the field in the first half of an 82-48 win.

The loss drops Allen to 13-13 overall and 6-8 in Jayhawk Conference and Region VI play. The Red Devils also fell one game behind Coffeyville for third in Region VI standings.

Even though Coffeyville’s shooting cooled off after half-time — the Lady Ravens led 49-28 at the break — so did Al-len’s. The Red Devils were a cool 7 of 30 (23 percent) from the field in the second half.

Ebonie Jones led Allen with 10 points, while Endesha Fla-nigan, Brittney Redmond and Jamie Peel scored six apiece. Kendra Taiclet chipped in five. Flanigan and Hannah Blackwell each had five re-bounds. Jones had three as-

sists; Taylor Seward led Allen with three steals.

Chelsie Keys scored a game-high 21 points to pace Cof-feyville. Tera Green scored 16 and Devyn Edwards 14.

Allen was without the ser-vices of Miracle Davis, DaN-ara Day, Ronesha Hall, Kylie Molisee and Leslie Ware, who were cited for theft by Iola police officers Wednesday be-cause of an alleged shoplift-ing incident.

Allen returns to action to-night at home against Labette. Tipoff is at 6 o’clock.

Allen (28-20—40)Coffeyville (49-43—82)Allen (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Jones 2/2-

0-1-10, Saulsberry 0-0-1-0, Stithem 1/1-0-0-5, Morton 0/1-0-2-3, Flanigan 3-0-4-6, Redmond 2-2-4-6, Peel 0/2-0-1-6, Taiclet 1-3-2-5, Seward 1-0-0-2, Blackwell 2-1-2-5. TOTALS: 12/6-6-16-48.

Coffeyville (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Green 5/2-0-2-16, Cook 0/1-0-2-3, Keys 9-3-2-21, Washington 0-0-3-0, Zaragoza 1-0-0-2, Edwards 5/1-1-0-14, Carpen-ter 2-5-1-9, Brantley 1-0-0-2, Coursey 4-1-3-9, Anderson 2-2-0-6. TOTALS: 29/4-12-13-82.

Allen women falter

Second-ranked Coffeyville wins

POTEAU, Okla. — Allen Community College’s softball team had a rough start to the 2013 season Saturday.

The Red Devils committed 12 errors on the day in drop-ping three straight games as part of the Carl Albert Tour-nament. Allen had four errors in each of the three losses.

The Red Devils fell 9-3 to host Carl Albert in the opener; 12-1 to Paris Junior College in game two; 6-4 to Connors state in the finale.

Carl Albert led the opener 4-0 before Paige Rothwell’s two-run single scored Stormie Bush and Kaitlin Norris in the bottom of the third.

The Vikings responded with two runs more in the fourth

and sixth innings to take con-trol.

Maecy Charleston tripled in the bottom of the seventh and scored on a passed ball for Al-len’s third and final run.

Kaitlyn Rash went the dis-tance in the pitcher’s circle, giving up nine hits and five walks in seven innings with three strikeouts.

Annie Gentry added two singles for Allen, while Bailey Burnett and Bush each had one single.

PARIS took advantage of 10 walks, eight hits and four errors to roll past ACC in the second contest. Paris scored

Softball squad starts 0-3Seminole sweeps Red Devils

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Wrestlers earn state berthsColborn,Misenhelterqualify in 4A

Register/Steven SchwartzAbove, Bryce Misenhel-ter wrangles Frontenac’s Kylan Dixon during the 182-pound semifinal con-solation match Saturday at Pittsburg High School. At right, Iola’s Brice Aiello makes a last-ditch effort to put Paola’s Ashton Poage on the mat.

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Track teamtakes titles

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ANDERSON COUNTY HOS-PITAL, Saint Luke’s Health System has the following positions open: Registered Nurse in Med/Surg department, full-time night shift. Certified Nursing Assistant in Long Term Care, part-time evening shift. Certified Nursing Assistant in Long Term Care, part-time as needed. Housekeeper in Hospitality Services, part-time as needed. Cook in Nutrition Services, full-time. Nutrition Services Aide, part-time as needed. Apply online at: www.saintlukeshealthsystem.org/jobs See online posting for more information on each open position. We Hire Only Non-Tobacco Users. EOE.

ACTIVITIES. Arrowood Lane Residential Care in Humboldt and Tara Gardens in Iola are looking for creative and enthu-siastic CNAs or CMAs to lead our resident activities program. Lead social activities for our residents and help plan an ac-tive calendar for them including crafts, exercise, parties, music, etc. Come be part of our caring team, apply at 615 E. Franklin, Humboldt, KS 66748.

CNAs. Tara Gardens and Ar-rowood Lane Residential Care Communities are currently seeking CNAs for part-time day shifts. Please apply in per-son at Arrowood Lane, 615 E. Franklin, Humboldt.

Sealed Bids WE ARE ACCEPTING SEALED BIDS UP THROUGH WEDNESDAY 2/20/13 on a 1992 Toyota Camry don’t run, and a 1997 Ford F150 don’t run. Sealed bids must be de-livered in person to Pearson 56 & 69 Towing, 1269 Highway 54, Redfield, KS no later than Noon 2/20/13.

Services Offered ALL THINGS BASEMENTY! Basement Systems Inc. Call us for all of your basement needs! Waterproofing? Fin-ishing? Structural Repairs? Hu-midity and Mold Control. FREE ESTIMATES! Call 1-888-720-5583.

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vehicles and junk iron 620-228-3511

STORAGE & RV OF IOLA WEST HIGHWAY 54, 620-365-2200. Regular/Boat/RV storage, LP gas,

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SUPERIOR BUILDERS. New Buildings, Remodeling,

Concrete, Painting and All Your Carpenter Needs, including replacement windows and vinyl siding. 620-365-6684

Sparkles Cleaning & Painting Interior/Exterior painting and wallpaper stripping Brenda

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Help Wanted

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE SPECIALIST, full-time in Humboldt. Must be detail ori-ented, able to prioritize duties, good communication, organiza-tion, and computer skills. Rele-vant experience in accounts re-ceivable, insurance billing, etc. Send resume to: Robert Chase, Executive Director, Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center, PO Box 807, Iola, KS 66749, 620-365-8641, EOE/AA.

FFX, Inc., Fredonia, KS, is ex-panding our fleet in your area. If you are looking for: home ev-ery 2 weeks or more, locally/family owned, top wages, excel-lent customer base. Requires 2 year experience, CDL Class A license. Call 866-681-2141 or 620-378-3304.

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS IN HUMBOLDT, KS, CRUDE OIL DRIVERS. Need Class A CDL, clean record, hazmat & tanker experience. Submit resume to [email protected], must in-clude job title/job location in the subject line. More info: nichols-brothersinc.com

Real Estate for Sale Allen County Realty

Inc. 620-365-3178 John Brocker.......620-365-6892 Carolynn Krohn...620-365-9379 Jim Hinson...........620-365-5609 Jack Franklin.......620-365-5764 Brian Coltrane.....620-496-5424 Dewey Stotler......620-363-2491

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ACCEPTING BIDS FOR 73.15 ACRES NOT INCLUDING THE HOUSE, 35.20 acres tillable and 37.95 acres pasture. Loca-tion is 5 miles south of Moran, KS on 59 Highway, Section 24-25-20 S/2 SE/4. Minimum bid $128,000. Please call 620-754-3316 or leave message. Dead-line is March 1, 2013.

DREAM HOME FOR SALE. 402 S. Elm, Iola, Grand 3-sto-ry 1897 home on 3 lots. 4,894 sq. ft., Corian countertops, WoodMode cabinets and Sub-Zero fridge/freeezer. $190,000. Call 620-365-9395 for Susan Lynn or Dr. Brian Wolfe [email protected]. More info and pictures at iolaregister.com/classifieds

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Apartments for Sale UPSTAIRS, 1 BEDROOM, no pets, non-smokers, $295 plus deposit, 620-365-6774.

APPLICATIONS are currently being accepted for apart-ments at Townhouse East, 217 North St., Iola. Mainte-nance free homes, appliances furnished and affordable rent for elderly, handicapped and disabled. For more information call 620-365-5143 or hearing/speech impairment 1-800-766-3777. Equal Housing Opportu-nity.

209 S. SYCAMORE, newly decorated, appliances, $510 monthly, senior discounts avail-able, 620-365-3165.

Real Estate for Rent

IOLA, 1201 E. LINCOLN, 3 BEDROOM, 1-1/2 bath, very nice, CH/CA, appliances, single attached garage w/auto opener, $795 monthly, 620-496-6161 or 620-496-2222.

IOLA, 426 KANSAS DR., 3 BEDROOM, all new, CH/CA, appliances, large fenced back-yard, deck, single attached garage w/auto opener, $825 monthly, 620-496-6161 or 620-496-2222.

2 BEDROOM, 2 BATH APART-MENT. 3 bedroom house, all appliances in both, 620-228-8200.

NEW DUPLEX, 2 BEDROOM,, CH/CA, appliances, garage. Ready now, taking applications, 620-228-2231.

QUALITY AND AFFORDABLE HOMES available for rent now, www.growiola.com

IOLA, 605 N. OHIO, 3 BED-ROOM, very nice, CH/CA, appliances, attached single ga-rage, $595 monthly, 620-496-6161 or 620-496-2222.

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JOB SEEKERS 55 PLUS, The Older Kansas Employment Program (OKEP) will be tak-ing applications at 1p.m on Wednesday, February 20th, at the Allen County Courthouse, Assembly Room (basement level), Iola.

Child Care Licensed day care has open-ings, all ages, SRS approved, 620-228-4613.

Poultry and Livestock BOTTLE CALVES, beef dairy crosses, starting mid Febru-ary, Nichols Dairy 620-344-0790, 785-489-2456.

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LE ROY — Southern Coffey County High’s boys lost a heart-breaker Friday, falling to visiting Lebo 40-39.

The Wolves closed the game with a 20-15 run to overcome a 24-20 deficit.

Aaron True scored 16 points to lead the Titans, followed by Charlie Pat-terson and Josia Witte-man with six apiece.

Tyson Robke scored 11 for Lebo.

IN GIRLS action, Lebo raced to a 15-5 lead after one quarter and never looked back in a 43-28 win.

Sarah Webb scored 10 points and Breanna Isch had nine for Southern Coffey County.

Lebo girls (15-8-12-8—43)SCC girls (5-6-11-6—28)Lebo (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP):

Holmes 1/1-0-0-5, Scott 0-0-1-0, Sloan 4-0-1-8, Hodges 11-1-2-23, Weiss 0-0-4-0, Johnston 2-0-2-4, Ables 0/1-0-3-3. TO-TALS: 18/2-1-13-43.

SCC (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Newkirk 1-1-1-3, Deal 1-0-2-2, Mart. Hegwald 2-0-3-4, Webb 4-2-3-10, Alumbaugh 0-0-2-0, Hall 0-0-1-0. TOTALS: 11/1-3-12-28.

Lebo boys (4-8-8-20—40)SCC boys (5-7-11-15—39)Lebo (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Mi-

lota 2-0-0-4, Holmes 2-5-3-9, Gould 2-1-5-5, Robke 4/1-0-2-11, Davies 0/3-0-0-9, Barker 1-0-0-2, Wolford 0-0-2-0. TO-TALS: 11/4-6-12-40.

SCC (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): True 3/2-4-0-16, Newkirk 1-1-5-3, Houston 1-2-3-4, Patterson 3-0-4-6, Nelson 1-0-1-2, Witteman 2-2-1-6, Harred 1-0-4-2. TO-TALS: 12/2-9-18-39.

Titans fall

Rasch had Allen’s only other hit, a first-inning single.

Seth Jones took the loss, giving up six hits and four walks in four innings, to go with two strikeouts. Auston Weldy and Jordan Hicks com-bined to go two-thirds of an inning, giving up three hits and a walk.

The game ended when Seminole State scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth, giving the Trojans a 10-run lead.

SUNDAY’S series fina-le turned on Seminole’s four-run fifth inning, erasing a 3-2 Red Devil lead.

Allen scored one in the fourth and two more in the fifth.

Heffern started Al-len’s fifth-inning rally with a single. He ad-vanced to third on a Troy Willoughby single and scored when Lewis reached on an error. The runners advanced on an Arnold single before Sigg delivered a sacrifice fly for the Red Devils’ third run.

One inning earlier, Drew Walden’s two-out single scored Sigg, who reached on a one-out walk and stole second.

Hunter Miller took the loss, giving up two hits and three walks in two innings of relief work, with three strike-outs. Gage Dickerson went three innings with the start, giving up three hits and an earned run with four strikeouts. Jake Johnson gave up a hit and walk in his in-ning of relief. Arnold gave up one hit in two in-nings with three strike-outs. The Red Devil hurl-ers tallied 11 strikeouts in the contest.

Lewis had two singles for Allen.

four in the top of the second and eight in the top of the third in a five-inning contest.

Conversely, Allen had only one hit, a run-scor-ing double by Katelyn Pedrow in the fourth. She drove in Norris, who opened the inning with a walk.

Melissa Davidson started for Allen, giv-ing up four hits and six walks in two innings of work. Rash came on in relief to give up two hits with four walks and three strikeouts in three innings.

IN THE FINALE, Al-len trailed 3-0 before scoring four times in the bottom of the third to take a lead for the first time this season.

But Connors State responded in the top of the fifth with Whittney Whitmore’s three-run home run to retake the lead for good.

Taylor Easum’s bases-loaded single drove in Rothwell and Gentry, who opened the third with hits for the Red Devils. Charleston, who was hit by a pitch, and Easum came around to score on an error by Connors State’s Amanda O’Neal.

But Allen was unable to put another runner on base after Connors State re-acquired the lead.

Charleston, who reached base all three times, had two singles to lead Allen. Burnett also had a single.

Rash pitched all seven innings for Allen, giving up five hits and six walks with three strikeouts.

The Red Devils (0-3) resume play Thursday at Maplewoods Commu-nity College in Kansas City, Mo.

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with a mark of 15:44.66, good for fourth in regional standings.

Allen’s distance medley squad was third overall and first in Jay-hawk East with a time of 10:43.72.

Debra Kime earned all-confer-ence status for her time of 11:38.52 in the 3000-meter run, which took second in conference and third in Region VI. The women’s 4x400-me-ter relay team took second among conference schools and third in Region VI with its time of 10:03.15.

Chris Donald earned all-con-ference status for his second-place finish in the 400-meter dash. Donald’s time of 49.67 seconds was good for third in Region VI. Michael also placed second in Jayhawk East with his 800-me-ter time of 1:57.67, good for third in Region VI. Tucker Morgan’s time of 4:30.93 in the 1-mile run garnered second in Jayhawk East and fifth in regionals.

Allen’s complete results, along with places in Region VI and Jay-

hawk East follow. Region VI Conf.Women200-meter dashTerika Henry, 26.03 seconds 10 7400-meter dashTerika Henry, 57.65 seconds 1 11000-meter runDanae McGee, 3:08.26 3 11-mile runMahalia Soap, 6:11.44 10 6Danae McGee, DNF3000-meter runDebra Kime, 11:38.52 3 2Kim Boyle, 11:49.36 6 44x800-meter relayAllen, 10:03.15 3 2Men60-meter dashRodrick Simmons, 7.07 seconds (DNQ) 6Michael Burns, 7.14 seconds (DNQ) (DNQ)Jordan Fountain, 7.29 seconds (DNQ) (DNQ)200-meter dashKelvin Gant, 22.63 seconds 16 8Rodrick Simmons, 22.91 seconds 21 9400-meter dashChris Donald, 49.67 seconds 3 2Kyle Smith, 51.61 seconds 9 5Antonio Duncan, 51.67 seconds 10 6600-meter runRickcardo Bailey, 1:22.83 7 4Jordan Fountain, 1:30.32 21 11Gerald Christian, 1:30.54 22 12

800-meter runTegan Michael, 1:57.67 3 2Evan Adams, 1:58.60 6 4Jordan Caudill, 2:08.92 22 121000-meter runTegan Michael, 2:38.72 3 1Tucker Morgan, 2:40.84 8 4Garrett Colglazier, 2:48.74 17 71-mile runDakota Parker, 4:23.1 1 1Tucker Morgan, 4:30.93 5 2Josh Whittaker, 4:36.72 7 33000-meter runDakota Parker, 8:56.67 4 1Patrick Rachford, 9:08.11 8 3Jacob Spence, 9:16.64 10 55000-meter runRyan Pulsifer, 15:44.66 4 1Brock Artis, 15:55.99 6 3Garrett Colglazier, 16:00.55 7 460-meter hurdlesBruce Barclay, 8.21 seconds 1 1Chris Donald, 8.51 seconds 5 34x800-meter relayAllen, 8:12.81 9 4Distance medleyAllen, 10:43.72 3 14x40-meter relay, 3:33.37 9 5Long jumpJethro St. Hubert, 6.84 meters 4 3Michael Burns, 6.59 m 11 8Triple jumpJethro St. Hubert, 12.69 m 12 8Andrew Boggs, 12.41 m 14 9

curing a third-place win.“I honestly don’t think

I would have made it without (Stephen) Mc-Donald pushing me in practice,” Colborn said. “He always pushes me to be better,” Colborn said.

Colborn said he focus-es more on his condition-ing if he is going to place in state. He said he was excited to see how things turn out in Salina.

“It’s going to be fun,” he said with a grin.

Stephen McDonald opted out of wrestling for the championship match in the 220-pound division, in order to rest his healing shoulder be-fore the state matches in Salina. Pittsburg’s Ger-shom Avalos won first place by injury default.

“It was my decision, with the help of my fam-ily and coaches,” Mc-Donald said.

Coach Carson had some input.

“We figured it was better, he was wincing a couple of times,” he said. “The ultimate goal is what happens next week. He is already in.”

Carson said the quali-fiers are ready to com-pete and give it their all.

“You’ve got to leave it all out on the mat,” he said. “Nobody is satis-fied with just getting there.”

IN OTHER action, Cody Conner had a quick pin over Ander-son County’s Stephen Kaufman in the second round of the consolation bracket at 145 pounds. Zeph Larney won his

first 152-pound match of the day as well. A hard fought match brought a fourth-round against Frontenac’s Trace Bald-win, and Larney edged out the win with a flip to give him a 12-10 point ad-vantage as time expired.

Brice Aiello was eliminated in a 6-0 loss to Ashton Poage in the 160-pound division.

Andrew Garber won in fine style against Lou-

isburg’s Cooper Smeed in the 170-pound division with a second-round pin.

Conner started the third round of the con-solation bracket with another win over Fron-tenac’s Ethan Hess with a pin in the third period.

Larney lost a 6-3 deci-sion to Andy Blanton of Osawatomie, knocking him out of the tourna-ment. Garber then was eliminated in a match

against Dunkan Watrous of Paola, falling 6-4.

The semifinal round of the consolation brack-et pitted Conner against Paola’s Daniel Dees. The match had most of the action turned against Conner. He lost the match on a 17-5 decision.

“Cody is right there,” Carson said. “He was one match away from state, and still has a lot to learn.”

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