By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

Early Tuesday morning, with wet, wind-driven snow plastering her thick curly coat, Bossy left the herd and struck out for a brushy corner of pasture southeast of Hum-boldt.

From experience, the cow knew she was about to have a calf.

At mid-morning the event occurred. In short order a strong and rambunctious calf was at her side. The brisk wind and ankle-deep snow seemed only to invigorate the calf as its searching nudges for milk were so pronounced they almost caused mom to shudder.

Cows are bred to have calves in mid- to late winter, so their offspring are at the right size and weight to move on to feed-lots or be ready to join a breed-ing stock later the same year.

Cows like privacy during birthing. Maybe because of the many chores the mother has to endure after the event.

That Tuesday’s storm fell short of that forecast was no great advantage. New calves have an inborn means of deal-ing with adverse weather con-ditions. Even so, temperatures in the low 30s and an ebbing of snow made for a better com-fort level.

BY LATE Monday forecasts called for up to a foot of snow for the Iola area. Wind could make for blizzard conditions. Allen Countians were on the heels of a pretty good dose of winter last week.

Instead, the county seemed in be in the peaceful eye of the storm with snow falling all

around but here.As late as 3 a.m. Tuesday

no snow of any appreciable amount had fallen.

A bit later the snow finally arrived.

“I called out our crew at 4 o’clock,” said Bill King, direc-tor of Public Works for the county.

City workers tore into two to three inches of snow on downtown streets about the same time.

By noon Iola thoroughfares were clean and most side streets, with the temperature above freezing and ample traf-fic to help out, were easily passable.

The south two-thirds of the county received three to four inches of snow and the north-ern tier a little more, said Sheriff Bryan Murphy, who joined six other county offi-cers and a reserve in patrols to look for folks in need of as-sistance.

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A cow and her calf born at the tailend of Tuesday morning’s winter storm were doing fine later in the day southeast of Hum-boldt.

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Tristan, left, and Kyler, two of four brothers, have a snowball fight in their backyard on Tuesday. The igloo seen in the background was the boys’ accomplishment in the morning. Not pictured are Hunter and Blake Mittelmeier.

Family takes advantageof day off from school

By ALLISON TINNallison@iolaregister.com

Snow days are usually fun for kids and a challenge for parents. Lisa Cloud, a mother of four boys, doesn’t mind it so much.

“If we were stuck inside then we might (go a little stir crazy), but I can turn them loose in the backyard,” Cloud said.

And that is exactly where the boys were, all day long. Their routine Tuesday: play, get wet, go inside to warm up, change clothes, go back outside. Over and over again.

The Mittelmeier boys, Blake, 12, Hunter, 11, Tristan, 8, and Kyler, 7, attend Lincoln Elemen-tary and Iola Middle School. Lisa is a third-grade teacher at Marmaton Valley Elementary School in Moran.

Though the boys’ routine might seem hectic, Cloud said she finds time to catch up on things on her day off from teaching.

“I have been able to get caught up on housework, I fin-ished my grading and record-ing my grades,” she said.

The boys even had a friend over making Cloud’s count up to five, but she said she didn’t mind that either.

“When you have four boys, adding one doesn’t make a dif-ference,” she said.

The boys built an igloo in the backyard that took them about two and half hours to make. Cloud said the boys had her gardening tools out and were working on it all morning.

The key to a successful snow day, Cloud said, is recy-cling gloves, scarves, hats and clothes.

“They probably go through three or four changes of clothes,” she said.

Cloud herself doesn’t enjoy the cold much, but remembers that at her boys’ age she, too, went wild on a snow day off from school.

Hospital gets $112,000 gift

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Snow-covered trees and contrasting pavement made for a picturesque drive down 2600 Street south of LaHarpe Tuesday morning.

The road less traveled

Hospital trustees recog-nized a gift of $112,500 at their meeting Tuesday night. The initial gift was for $100,000 from Emerson Lynn, Jr. of which half is to help pur-chase equipment for the new hospital, and the other $50,000 to go toward the hospital’s en-dowment. The second portion received a 25 percent match from a grant from the Kansas Health Institute, augmenting it by $12,500.

In recognition of the gift, a large meeting room in the new hospital will be named the Lynn Family Conference Room.

To date, the hospital has received a total of $1,790,987 in gifts and pledges. The goal is to raise $3.2 million to pur-chase equipment for the new hospital, and $1 million for an endowment, said Susan Mi-

chael, executive director of the Allen County Community Foundation which manages the gifts.

TRUSTEES paid the archi-tectural firm Health Facilities

Group $44,301.33 and $2,085 for consultation from Diag-nostic Technology regarding radiology technology.

Signage out front of the hospital was discussed. A

Storm fallsshort of forecasts

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Looking over plans for signage at the new hospital are, from left, Larry Peterson, Harry Lee, Glenn Buchholz, Sean McReynolds, Jay Kretzmeier and Patti McGuffin.

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from events occurring at the office. A client a few weeks ago took a litter of puppies out to ACARF for surrender. As is ACARF policy, a surrender fee was required and certain basic health issues have to be dealt with prior to the puppy’s being surrendered. Our client had issue with the idea of paying for these requirements, apparently believing that ACARF was a tax-funded, public service. It is not. ACARF is funded though adoption fees, surrender fees, fundraising, and a few municipal contacts, which allow towns to essen - tially “farm out” their animals kenneling, quarantine, and adoption/euthanasia without the expense of main - taining a pound. As many of us know, owning and maintaining a pet is expensive. ACARF usually has a census of 40 dogs and 20 cats. That is really expen - sive and they need help. As well as animal expenses, ACARF deals with the same expenses any business has; wages, utilities, loan service, insurance, main - tenance and more.

We as a county benefit from the presence of a facility like ACARF, both indirectly and directly. Indirectly the presence of ACARF creates the perception of a county that is humane and forward thinking, providing advanced services to our citizens. ACARF’s presence directly benefits the citizens and law enforcement by providing shelter services, helping to prevent the issue that results from abandoned pets on the roads, in the neighborhoods, left to reproduce uncontrolled, harbor - ing and spreading disease and parasites. Let’s do a better job supporting ACARF and let’s require the county to get involved, also. We all benefit, even if it is indirectly. We all need to pay our way.

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Financial Focus

Take Advantage of Higher IRA Contributions Limits

For the first time since 2008, contribution limits have risen for one of the most popular retirement savings vehicles available: the IRA. This means you’ve got a greater opportunity to put more money away for your “golden years.” Effective earlier this year, you can now put up to $5,500 (up from $5,000 in 2012) to a traditional or Roth IRA when you make your 2013 contribution. And if you’re 50 or older, you can put in an additional $1,000 above the new contribution limit. Over time, the extra sums from the higher contribution limits can add up. Consider this example: If you put in $5,000 per year to an IRA for 30 years, and you earned a hypothetical 7% per year, you’d wind up with slightly over $505,000. But if you contributed $5,500 per year for those same 30 years, and earned the same 7% per year, you’d accumulate almost $556,000 — about $51,000 more than with the lower contribution limit. Keep in mind that if you have invested the above amounts in a traditional, tax-deferred IRA, you’ll be taxed on your withdrawals at your ordinary income tax rate. With a Roth IRA, your contributions are made with after-tax funds, but your withdrawals have the potential to be tax-free — provided you’ve had your account at least five years and don’t start taking withdrawals until you’re 59 1 ⁄ 2 . (Not everyone is eligible to contribute to a Roth IRA, as income limits apply.)

If you have an IRA, you already know its advantages. If you aren’t investing in an IRA, you should be aware of these key benefits: • Tax-deferred growth — A traditional IRA can

provide tax-deferred growth while a Roth IRA can potentially grow tax-free, provided you meet the conditions described above. To get a sense of just how valuable these tax advantages are, consider this example: If you put in $5,500 per year (the new IRA maximum) for 30 years to a hypothetical investment that earned 7% a year, but on which you paid taxes every year (at the 25% tax bracket), you’d end up with slightly more than $401,000 — about $155,000 less than what you’d accumulate in an IRA. As mentioned above, you will eventually have to pay taxes on your traditional IRA withdrawals, but by the time you do, you might be in a lower tax bracket. Futhermore, depending on your income level, some of your contributions to a traditional IRA may be tax-deductible. (Roth IRA contributions are not deductible.)

• Variety of investment options — you can invent your funds within your IRA in many types of investments — stocks, bonds, certificates of deposit (CDs), U.S. Treasury securities and so on. In fact, within your IRA, you can create a mix of investments that are suitable for your risk tolerance, time horizon and long-term goals. Of course, investing always carries some risks, including loss of principal — but the risk of not investing may be greater, in terms of not having enough assets for retirement.

Here’s one more point to keep in mind: The earlier in the year you “max out” on your IRA contributions, the more time you’ll give your account to potentially grow. By reaching the new, higher contribution limits, and by full funding your IRA as early in each year as possible, you can help yourself take full advantage of this powerful retirement savings tool.

Partly cloudyTonight, mostly cloudy.

Lows near 20. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.

Thursday, mostly sunny. Highs 35 to 40. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

Thursday night and Fri-day, mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. Highs in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to 15 mph.

Friday night, mostly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.Saturday and Saturday night, partly cloudy. Highs

30 to 35. Lows near 15.

Sunrise 6:56 a.m. Sunset 6:13 p.m.

TemperatureHigh yesterday 34Low last night 29High a year ago 50Low a year ago 31

Precipitation24 hours ending 7 a.m. TraceThis month to date 1.50 Total year to date 3.65 Excess since Jan. 1 .83

TFI Family Services will host a 10-week class called Partnering for Permanency and Safety Model Approach to Part-nerships and Parenting starting March 4. The class will be on 10 con-

secutive Mondays from 6 to 9 p.m. in the TFI Fami-ly office in Chanute, 1709 E. 7th St.

For more information contact TFI at www.tfi-familyservices.com or at 1-800-279-9914.

A St. Paul woman was injured in a one-car ac-cident two miles south of Chanute just before noon Tuesday.

According to the Kan-sas Highway Patrol, Heather Treiber, 32, was driving south on Elk Road when she lost con-

trol of her vehicle on slush-covered roadway and struck a concrete culvert.

Two children in the vehicle, Ava Treiber, 5, and Benjamin Treiber, 1, were uninjured.

All three were wear-ing safety belts.

Woman injuredin vehicle crash

TFI to hold classes

By CHRISTI PARSONSTribune Washington

BureauNEWPORT NEWS,

Va. — President Barack Obama rejected Repub-lican suggestions Tues-day that he should have more power to carry out $85 billion in pending budget cuts, and instead urged Congress to work out a better solution that involves raising revenue through taxes on the wealthy.

Obama told shipyard workers that he doesn’t want responsibility for apportioning the loom-ing “sequester” cuts because there is no wise way to do it.

“The problem is, when you’re cutting $85 billion in seven months,” Obama said, “there’s no smart way to do that. You don’t want to have to choose between, ‘Let’s see, do I close funding for the disabled kid, or the poor kid? Do I close this Navy shipyard or some oth-er?’”

Hundreds of work-ers at Newport News Shipbuilding applauded Obama’s idea of stav-ing off the cuts for a few weeks and then com-ing up with a budget compromise that closes loopholes and deduc-tions to do away with the need for some of the spending cuts.

The draconian cuts are set to take effect automatically Friday

as part of a deal Repub-licans and Democrats crafted months ago to try to force themselves to come to a bigger bud-get deal.

That deal has eluded them, and now all sides are resigning them-selves to the fact that across-the-board cuts will kick in as sched-uled. Republicans are contemplating offering legislation that would give the administra-tion more authority to

decide which programs get cut, so that he could steer around the most critical programs.

The Senate could con-sider that proposal this week, and the House could take up the issue as part of another bud-get bill next week.

If it passed, it could give the president more ownership of cuts he has worked for weeks to distance himself from.

Tuesday’s trip to Vir-ginia was only the latest

event in which he spoke in gloomy terms about the possible effects of the cuts and publicly laid the responsibil-ity for averting them on Congress.

Even if he had more power to carry out the cuts, Obama said, “you can’t gloss over the pain” they would cause.

“Only Congress has the power to pass a law that stops these dam-aging cuts and replac-es them” with more sensible alternatives, Obama said.

He spoke on the cav-ernous factory floor of the largest manufac-turing employer in Vir-ginia, a few yards away from a hulking mass of black steel — one of the submarine hulls made at the shipyard.

In Virginia alone, the White House says, about 90,000 civilian Department of Defense employees would be forced to take unpaid time off if the seques-ter takes effect.

As he toured the fa-cility, Obama was ac-companied by Rep. Scott Rigell, a Virginia Republican who has said that GOP leaders should at least consid-er a compromise that includes closing tax loopholes. Rigell did not speak to the crowd, but flew to the event with Obama aboard Air Force One.

Workers at the yard gather to see President Barack Obama deliver a speech on avoiding sequestration cuts facing the nation in Newport News, Virginia, Tuesday.

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Pain unavoidable if cuts happenLaHARPE — LaHarpe

voters whittled the field of city council candi-dates from 10 to six dur-ing Tuesday’s primary election.

Surviving the prima-ry, with vote totals, were Don F. Gay, 16, Harry Lee Jr., 12, Diana Mul-lins and Sara’Nicole L. Prock, 10 each, and Clay-

ton Carr and Ron Knavel Sr., eight each. Voters will select three council members at the April 2 general election.

Candidates eliminated in the primary election were Tiffany Andres, six votes, Ruth Lee Jackson, four, Tawnya M. Roloff, three, and Stanley Am-weg, one.

LaHarpe narrows field

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A bill proposed in the Kansas House would require governments to allow concealed weap-ons in public buildings or provide adequate se-curity measures such as metal detectors or security guards, as well as override local ordi-nances that outlaw open carry of firearms.

Currently, state, county and city gov-ernments can ban con-cealed weapons simply by posting a sign on its building.

Gun rights advocates told the House Federal and State Affairs Com-mittee Monday that policy makes public buildings easy targets for criminals, The Law-

rence Journal-World re-ported.

“Posting the no-carry sign is tantamount to placing a bulls-eye on that facility,” said Pa-tricia Stoneking, presi-dent of the Kansas State Rifle Association.

And Al Terwelp, state chair of the Kansas Lib-ertarian Party, said the measure was needed “to help protect law en-forcement and law-abid-ing citizens who choose to exercise their Second Amendment rights in Kansas.”

But representatives of cities, counties and other groups opposed the measure, saying it would be expensive to implement and over-rides local control of

decisions on gun regu-lations.

“It is a massive un-funded mandate on lo-cal governments and the citizens they repre-sent,” said Mike Taylor, a spokesman for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City. “The bill crushes local control and nullifies decision making by locally elect-ed officials.”

He said it would cost

more than $2 million to install all the neces-sary security measures at the Unified Govern-ment’s municipal build-ings, making it so bur-densome that “many cities and counties will have no choice but to allow the carrying of concealed weapons into City Hall, recreation centers and other public buildings because they can’t afford to do other-wise.”

State gun bill faces opposition

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ADAMS SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS FOR 2013-2014 ARE NOW AVAILABLE

To apply, an applicant must be A graduate of an Allen County, Kansas, high school, includ - ing those students who will graduate in the spring of 2013,

and A student in one of these three areas: (1) Teaching — in the fall of 2013 must be at least a junior in

a four-year university located in the State of Kansas AND (1) be currently admitted or will have been admitted to the university’s School of Education (or its equivalent title) or (2) is in a teacher education program as defined by the university.

(2) Bookkeeping — in a post-secondary Kansas educational institution.

(3) Carpentry — in a post-secondary Kansas educational institution.

See scholarship application and instructions for definitions and conditions of each of these scholarships.

Each scholarship for the fall semester of 2013-2014 will be a minimum amount of $ 1,000.00; the amount for subsequent semes - ters will be determined each semester.

For a copy of the application and of the rules and conditions of these scholarships, contact:

Clyde W. Toland Trustee of the Adams Scholarship Fund

P.O. Box 404 Iola, KS 66749 (620) 365-8006

Application deadline is April 30, 2013.

The fam ily of Loren H ow erton sends thanks to all those w ho helped w ith care, and the thoughts and

prayers. Special thanks to D r. W alter, A llen C ounty H ospital, W indsor Place,

W augh-Yokum and Friskel, Lloyd H ouk and all their staff.

CalendarSaturday - Lions Club

annual pancake/soup and chili feed, City Hall community room, 7 a.m.-7 p.m.; Monday - Cemetery board meet-ing, city office, 7 p.m.; Wednesday - Lions Club, Kincaid Method-ist Church, joint meet-ing with Kincaid Lions Club; fire meeting, fire station, 7 p.m.School calendar

Friday - high school basketball sub-state at Allen Community Col-lege; Monday-Friday - Ag Week; Tuesday - middle school schol-ars bowl at Jayhawk, 4 p.m.; Wednesday - No Toddler group.Senior meals

Friday - fish, maca-roni and tomatoes, mixed veggies, bread, Jell-O with fruit; Mon-day - salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, gra-vy, lima beans, bread, pears; Wednesday - meatloaf, baked potato, strawberries, wheat roll, cheesecake. Sug-gested meal donation, $3. Phone 620-852-3479 for reservations. Can-cellations must be made 24 hours in ad-vance.Churches

Scripture presented at Sunday’s Christian Church service was Matthew 5:3-10.

Scripture presented at the Methodist ser-vice was Psalm 27:1-14, Matthew 6:1-4 and Luke 13: 31-35. Pastor Leslie Jackson presented the sermon. March UMW challenge is spring cleaning (supplies); March 16 - free game night, fellowship hall of the church, 6-8 p.m.

UMWThe United Method-

ist Women met in fel-lowship hall of the church for their Febru-ary session. They did not meet due to illness in January. Vivian Bar-nett, president, was in charge of the meeting. Sue Colgin was wel-comed as a new mem-ber. Valentines were signed to be sent to shut-ins. Barnett pre-sented the lesson from the response book “Af-ter the Storm,” which told of the help given to the victims of Hur-ricane Sandy from the United Methodist Women and other or-ganizations. Charlotte Wallace won the draw-

ing. Jane Ward served refreshments. The next meeting will be Thurs-day with Pat Heldeb-rant as lesson leader and hostess.Canned food drive

Results of Crest’s an-nual canned food drive are as follows: kinder-garten through fourth grade, kindergarten won; fifth-eighth grade, fifth won; ninth-12th grade, ninth won. Total cans collected were 346. FCCLA students di-vided the canned food items into three groups making all items as even as possible. STU-CO bought spiral cut hams to complete the meal. Jerry Turner and Brent Smith delivered the canned food boxes, and hams, to three fam-ilies within the Crest USD 479 district. Kayla Taylor is the FCCLA adviser.Library

The regular library board meeting was Feb. 19 at the City Hall com-munity room.

A donation of three laptops was received from Crest USD 479. Members will be look-ing into purchasing desks to use for the laptops. The summer reading workshop was Feb. 27 in Iola. Lola Call, Delene Lindberg and Donna Westerman

were to attend. The summer story hour theme is “Dig into Sum-mer Reading.” Books will be purchased to be used as prizes for sum-mer story hour.Lions club

Lions joined the Kin-caid Club for a soup and chili supper at the Kincaid Methodist Church Feb. 20. Several Colony Lions attended. The Colony Club’s an-nual “all you can eat” breakfast and chili/soup supper is Satur-day at the Colony City Hall community room.

Serving will be from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. The Lions next regular meeting is at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Unit-ed Methodist Church basement. All are wel-come to attend and learn the club’s mem-bership opportunities.4-H

Seekers Not Slack-ers 4-H Club held its monthly meeting Feb. 18 at the Lone Elm community building. Roll call was answered by 20 members and three leaders in nam-ing a 4-H project. Tyler Gillespie and Tanner LaCross led the club in saying the flag salute and 4-H pledge. Juli-ana Sprague and Kar-son Hermreck led the club singing “Old Mc-

Donald had a Farm.” Community Leader Stacy Sprague told of the upcoming favorite foods show, cooking camps and livestock shows this spring. She also gave information on electronic identi-fication ear tags for livestock. Community leader Kathy LaCross informed there is a foods project clinic in Woodson County March 16. She also re-minded members of the FCCLA carnival at Crest High School March 23. Club mem-bers will provide con-cessions for the carni-val.

Community leader CJ Lacey reminded members sign-up for the Dirty Dozen Camp and Discovery Days Camp is coming up. Photography project leader Cara Bowen informed members there is a Photo Safari workshop in Auburn in March, with sign-up due by Feb. 22. Infor-mation is on the 4-H website.

For the program, Cassie Bowen played “Regal March” on the clarinet. Alex Brown-rigg gave a demonstra-tion on “How to Tie a Tie.” Tanner LaCross gave a speech on goat showmanship. For rec-

reation, Alex Brown-rigg led the club in playing Simon Says. Next meeting is March 18 at 7 p.m. at the Lone Elm community build-ing. The Nicki Sprague and Jerry Jones fami-lies will provide re-freshments. Council meeting will be on March 11. Exchange meeting with Lucky 13 will be in April. The meeting closed with saying the 4-H motto.Around town

Sharon and Lowana Minckley spent Feb. 23 with Dorothy Davidson at Guest Home Estates in Garnett. It was her 94th birthday and they enjoyed the day with her. Dorothy’s late hus-band was Alvie David-son and her sister the late Wilma Minckley, Colony.

The Jolly Dozen Club met at the home of Claudette Ander-son Feb. 18 with nine members attending. They enjoyed a presi-dential game. Debbie Wools won the hostess gift. She served cher-ry cheesecake. Vivian Barnett will host the March meeting.

Winter arrived in Colony with a thun-derstorm snow (loud at times) and an accumu-lation of a seven-inch snow on Feb. 21.

Sympathy is extend-ed to Virginia and Jay Dutton at the death of her brother, Jacob George, 89, Colony. He died Feb. 17 at Allen County Hospital. Fu-neral services were Feb. 20 at the Colony Community Church, followed with burial in Cedarvale Cemetery, Neosho Falls.

Mrs.Morris Luedke

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Colony elementary students raised $1,029.04 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The Pennies for Patients project involved students in third, fourth and fifth grades at Crest Elementary. Students collected primarily pennies, said Shelly Strickler, coun-selor at Crest High School. The drive helped teach students about blood cancers, such as leukemia and lymphoma. Garnett State Savings Bank of Colony helped count the thousands of pennies gathered.

Pennies aplentyCourtesy photo

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Kan-sas City man has been charged with setting fire to his roommate’s home and then attempt-ing to kill the emergen-cy workers who rescued him.

William J. Outhet Jr., 58, faces one count each of arson and attempted first-degree murder in Johnson County Dis-trict Court, The Kan-sas City Star reported. During a hearing Mon-day, his bond was set at $1 million. Conditions of being freed include that he “follow mental health recommenda-tions, including taking of medication as pre-scribed.”

Outhet wasn’t able

to attend the hearing because he was hospi-talized. No one else was injured in the Feb. 1 incident. According to court documents, Out-het “staged” firearms around an Olathe home and fired a shotgun. Emergency responders were listed as the in-tended victims.

Ultimately, firefight-ers pulled Outhet from the home and rushed him to a hospital.

Outhet is being rep-resented by the John-son County public defender’s office. The office phone rang unan-swered Tuesday.

“Clearly from the charges, his intent was to harm first respond-ers,” said Johnson

County District Attor-ney Steve Howe, who declined to discuss de-tails of the investiga-tion.

Howe said it was for-tunate that no first re-sponders were injured.

“It could have been really bad,” he said.

Spokesmen for the Olathe police and fire departments, which conducted a joint inves-tigation, also said they could not comment.

Shannon Laber, who said she was Outhet’s former girlfriend, said Outhet was “doing bet-ter” physically and was recovering. She de-clined to discuss details of the situation.

Outhet’s next court appearance is March 7.

Olathe man charged with attempted murder of rescuers

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Republicans are finding it politically expedient to change in all kinds of ways these days. On Tuesday higher-ups lined up to en-dorse same-sex marriage.

In the queue are former presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, Meg Whitman, a 2010 candidate for gover-nor of California, Stephen Hadley, a George W. Bush national security adviser, and David Stockman, Presi-dent Ronald Reagan’s first budget director.

The impetus for the turn-out are two upcoming cas-es before the U.S. Supreme Court.

One is against the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, the other challenges Propo-sition 8, a California law approved by voters in 2008 banning same-sex mar-riage.

Behind that facade is the fact Republicans have lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. Party leaders sense a growing dissatisfac-tion with the GOP’s conser-vative tenets.

“The marketplace of ideas will render us irrel-evant, and soon, if we are not honest about our time and place in history,” wrote Huntsman in a piece in the journal, “The American Conservative.”

In his campaign for presi-dent Huntsman didn’t come out for gay marriage, but as governor of Utah he sup-ported civil unions, a close second. Today, Huntsman encourages Republicans to lead the way on same-sex marriage, saying the stance is not only right because it treats all people equally, but also will endear the party to a wider swath of voters.

Since 2010, the majority of Americans have come in

support of same-sex mar-riage. A recent CBS News Poll cited 54 percent of Americans, including near-ly a third of Republicans, saying same-sex couples should have the legal right to marry, while 39 percent said they should not. Vot-ers under 30 favor same-sex marriage by more than 70 percent.

GAYS ARE PEOPLE, too, could be the new Repub-lican mantra. A stretch, admittedly, and in direct contradiction to the party’s platform, which has autho-rized the expenditure of tax dollars to defend the 1996 marriage law defining marriage in the eyes of the federal government as the union of a man and a wom-an, only.

The most vocal propo-nents, including vice presi-dent Dick Cheney and for-mer first lady Laura Bush, are not running for office.

Many believe it’s politi-cal suicide. The powerful National Organization for Marriage has pledged $500,000 to defeat Republi-can lawmakers supporting any law to allow same-sex marriage in Minnesota, a state considering such leg-islation.

Republicans in favor of the measure say one’s sexu-al orientation does not pre-clude a stable relationship and that families do best in a secure environment. What seems to be a less powerful message is the discriminatory nature of current laws banning gay couples from the rights of heterosexual couples.

“Freedom means free-dom for everybody,” said the GOP’s Cheney.

My, my.— Susan Lynn

GOP and gay rights;they’ve come along ways, baby

WASHINGTON — A meat cleaver hangs over the federal government, but the unflap-pable men and women of the House majority remain cool and poised.

With just a few days to stop automatic spending cuts from affecting everything from air travel to food inspections, House Republicans had but one item on their agenda Mon-day: renaming a NASA facil-ity in California.

H.R. 667, as this urgently needed legislation is known, would “redesignate the Dryden Flight Research Cen-ter as the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center.”

You’d have to be on another planet to think that renam-ing NASA operations is Con-gress’ most pressing order of business this week. But for Republicans, using this mo-ment to honor the first man to walk on the moon is not lunar lunacy. The naming proposal was taken up at a time when House Republicans are pursu-ing a considered strategy of deliberate idleness.

After months of fretting over the harmful effects of sequestration, as the auto-matic cuts are called, House Republicans have belatedly embraced the realization that if they do nothing at all, they will be rewarded on Fri-day with a 2.5 percent cut in all federal spending without coughing up a single dollar in tax increases. They have learned to stop worrying and love the sequester.

President Obama is barn-storming the country, calling for tax increases and alterna-tive spending cuts to replace the automatic ones. But while Republicans say they’d con-sider a different blend of re-

ductions, they’d rather have the sequester than another deal like the one in December that raised taxes.

“The president says we have to have another tax increase in order to avoid the sequester,” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said at a news confer-ence Monday. “Well, Mr. Presi-dent, you got your tax increase. It’s time to cut spending here in Washington.”

Boehner instructed Obama to “sit down with Harry Reid tonight and work with Senate Democrats.” As for House Re-publicans, they’ll be busy do-ing ... well, not much.

Of the 56 days so far in 2013, the House has been in session for 20 — and a large chunk of those have been pro-forma sessions without votes, or

with ceremonial bills. After a week’s recess, the chamber returned Monday with just a few items on the calendar. Lawmakers are scheduled to be out of town Friday, when the sequester is set to take ef-fect. They’re planning anoth-er recess at the end of March, when the federal government is due to shut down for lack of funding.

THE HOUSE started its day Monday at 2 p.m. Before leading the Pledge of Allegiance, Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., request-ed a roll-call vote on approv-ing the journal of proceedings from the last day in session — a time-wasting technique.

Next, Rep. Joe “You Lie” Wilson, R-S.C., requested a minute of time to speak his mind, closing with his stan-dard sign-off: “In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we’ll never forget September 11 and the global war on terror.” Af-

ter Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., spoke about climate change, Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, had something to say about “the president’s take-over of health care.”

Next, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., pleaded for the House to “abandon this reck-less policy” of sequestration. Foxx, citing an op-ed by Bob Woodward in Sunday’s Wash-ington Post, replied that the sequester “was the brainchild of the Obama administration” and that it is up to Democrats to replace it.

It was 2:10 p.m. — 10 min-utes into the day’s proceed-ings — and the speaker called a three-hour recess. Finally, it was time for the NASA renam-ing. The task before the House: to put Armstrong’s name on

the facility, relegating that of Hugh L. Dryden, a NASA engi-neer who died almost 50 years ago, to the facility’s test range.

The bill passed the House in the last Congress by a vote of 404 to 0 (the Senate didn’t take it up), so it could have cleared the chamber with a simple voice vote. But that would not have eaten up much time. And so six lawmakers chewed up almost half an hour on the floor prais-ing Armstrong and Dryden.

The lone Democrat to speak, Rep. Donna Edwards of Mary-land, noted the irony in the vote. “We will do our renam-ing today,” she said, and then “we will take an ax hammer to NASA’s budget on March 1, at the end of this week, taking out $894 million from an al-ready strapped budget. I dare say future generations will not be inspired by what this Congress will do.”

The speaker declared an-other recess.

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A look back in time

20 Years AgoFebruary 1993

Dr. George DeTar, who prac-ticed medicine in Iola from the early 1960s until 1988, died today, Feb. 25, in Colorado Springs. Dr. DeTar received the Army Commendation Medal for rescuing the pilot of an airplane which crashed with Dr. DeTar as a passen-ger on duty as a member of the Kansas National Guard. He was president of the Allen County Airport Board, was county coroner for several years and played baritone in the Iola City Band and trum-pet in the civic symphony.

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Lincoln Elementary School has changed the name of the street flanking the school building to its north. It was named Hutton Boulevard this week after a fund-raising drawing to name the street was won by Russell Ross. He chose to name the street for his three grandsons who at-tend Lincoln School.

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derground explosion believed caused by a bomb rocked the 110-story World Trade Cen-ter of Friday, killing at least seven people, injuring 500 and forcing thousands to flee down dark, smoke-filled stairs.

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“We had a few vehi-cles slide off roads and there was a minor non-injury accident on the east side of LaHarpe,” Murphy said.

The only significant property damage re-ported was a handful of power poles pulled over by snow building up on electric lines run-ning along Connecti-cut Road southeast of Humboldt. Crews had power restored by late afternoon.

“We also had a power line down northeast of LaHarpe, but that was about it,” Murphy re-ported.

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plows sliced through mushy snow on high-ways 54, 59 and 169 and by afternoon much of the pavement already had dried.

IN ADDITION to not being a particularly troublesome event — except for precaution-ary closings of schools, businesses and offices — the snow and pre-ceding light showers brought about .35 of an inch of moisture, an aside farmers wel-comed.

The recent snows will be of particular advantage to winter wheat, with all mois-ture soaking in to root level.

current design is a mon-ument style going 10 feet high, two feet higher than allowed by Iola codes.

An alternative to the monument style sign, which sits on a broad base, is a sign placed high atop poles. Those signs must be at least 15 feet off the ground but not higher than 30 feet, said Carl Slaugh, Iola city administrator.

Trustees agreed to wait until graphics art-ists with Reactor Design of Kansas City, secured earlier this month, have come up with a design for the new hospital’s logo before they pursue the issue further.

“Let’s wait until we

have a good idea of the artists’ conceptions to decide how a sign will accommodate it,” said Sean McReynolds, a trustee on the hospital board.

“You don’t want the size and shape of the sign to limit what the future design of the logo might be,” added Dr. Bri-an Wolfe, an ex-officio member of the board.

Placing a very large sign along U.S. 169 was also discussed to alert travelers of a nearby hospital, but its expected high cost caused trust-ees to shy away from any significant discussion.

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Associated PressVATICAN CITY (AP)

— Pope Benedict XVI basked in an emotional sendoff today from a massive crowd at his fi-nal general audience in St. Peter’s Square, recall-ing moments of “joy and light” during his papacy but also times of difficul-ty when “it seemed like the Lord was sleeping.”

An estimated 150,000 people, many toting banners saying “Gra-zie!” (“Thank you!”), jammed the piazza to bid Benedict farewell and hear his final speech as pontiff. In this appoint-ment — which he has kept each week for eight years to teach the world about the Catholic faith — Benedict gave deep thanks to his flock for respecting his decision to retire.

Benedict clearly en-joyed the crowds, taking a long victory lap around the square in an open-sided car and stopping to kiss and bless half a dozen children handed to him by his secretary. A total of 70 cardinals, some tearful, sat in sol-emn attendance.

But Benedict made a quick exit, foregoing the typical meet-and-greet session that follows the audience; the Vatican has said there were sim-ply too many people who

would have wanted to say goodbye.

Given the historic moment, Benedict also changed course and didn’t produce his typi-cal professorial cate-chism lesson.

Rather, he made his final public appearance in St. Peter’s a personal

one, explaining once again why he was be-coming the first pope in 600 years to resign and urging the faithful to pray for his successor.

“To love the church means also to have the courage to take diffi-cult, painful decisions, always keeping the good of the church in mind, not oneself,” Benedict said to thundering ap-plause.

He noted that a pope has no privacy: “He be-longs always and forever to everyone, to the whole church.” But the pope promised that in retire-ment he would not be re-turning to private life — instead taking on a new

experience of service to the church through prayer.

He recalled that when he was elected pope on April 19, 2005, he ques-tioned if God truly want-ed it. “It’s a great burden that you’ve placed on my shoulders,” he recalled telling God.

During his eight years as pope, Benedict said, “I have had moments of joy and light, but also mo-ments that haven’t been easy ... moments of tur-bulent seas and rough winds, as has occurred in the history of the church when it seemed like the Lord was sleep-ing.”

But he said he never felt alone, that God al-ways guided him, and he thanked his cardinals and colleagues for their support and for “under-standing and respect-ing this important deci-sion.”

Under a bright sun and blue skies, the square was overflow-

ing with pilgrims and curiosity-seekers. Those who couldn’t get in picked spots along the main boulevard leading to the square to watch the event on giant TV screens. Some 50,000 tickets were requested for Benedict’s final mas-ter class. In the end, the Vatican estimated that 150,000 people flocked to the farewell.

“It’s difficult — the emotion is so big,” said Jan Marie, a 53-year-old Roman in his first years as a seminarian. “We came to support the pope’s decision.”

With chants of “Bene-detto!” erupting often, the mood was far more buoyant than during the pope’s final Sunday blessing. It recalled the jubilant turnouts that often accompanied him at World Youth Days and events involving his pre-decessor, Pope John Paul II.

Benedict has said he decided to retire after realizing that, at 85, he simply didn’t have the “strength of mind or body” to carry on.

“I have taken this step with the full understand-ing of the seriousness and also novelty of the decision, but with a pro-found serenity in my soul,” Benedict told the crowd today.

Pope recalls ‘joy’ of papacy, and difficulties

To love the church means also to have the courage to take difficult, pain-ful decisions, always keeping the good of the church in mind.

— Pope Benedict XVI

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An enchanted walk

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rosa Parks is famous for her 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a city bus in Alabama to a white man, but there’s plenty about the rest of her experienc-es that she deliberately withheld from her family.

While Parks and her husband, Raymond, were childless, her brother, the late Sylvester McCauley, had 13 children. They de-cided Parks’ nieces and nephews didn’t need to know the horrible details surrounding her civil rights activism, said Rhea McCauley, Parks’ niece.

“They didn’t talk about the lynchings and the Jim Crow laws,” said McCau-ley, 61, of Orlando, Fla. “They didn’t talk about that stuff to us kids. Ev-eryone wanted to forget about it and sweep it un-der the rug.”

Parks’ descendants now have a chance to be first-hand witnesses as their late matriarch makes more history, this time becoming the first black woman to be honored with a full-length statue in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. The statue of Parks joins a bust of another black woman, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, which sits in the Capitol Visitors Center.

President Barack Obama, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner are among the dignitaries taking part in the unveiling today. Mc-Cauley said more than 50 of Parks’ relatives trav-eled to Washington for the ceremony.

In a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus in segregated Montgom-

ery, Ala. She was arrested, touching off a bus boycott that stretched over a year.

Jeanne Theoharis, au-thor of the new biogra-phy “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” said Parks was very much a full-fledged civil rights activist, yet her contri-butions have not been treated like those of other movement leaders, such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Rosa Parks is typically honored as a woman of courage, but that honor focuses on the one act she made on the bus on Dec. 5, 1955,” s a i d T h e o -haris, a po-litical s c i -e n c e profes-sor at B r o o k l y n College-City University of New York.

“That courage, that night was the product of decades of political work before that and continued ... decades after” in De-troit, she said.

Parks died Oct. 24, 2005, at age 92. The U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp in her honor on Feb. 4, which would have been her 100th birthday.

Parks was raised by her mother and grandparents, who taught her that part of being respected was to demand respect, said Theoharis, who spent six

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By JOAN LOWYAssociated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Automatic spending cuts could force some of the nation’s busiest air-ports to close runways, causing widespread flight delays and cancel-lations, the union repre-senting air traffic con-trollers said today.

The spending cuts are scheduled to go into effect on Friday, but furloughs of air traffic controllers won’t kick in until April because the Federal Aviation Admin-istration is required by law to give its employees advance notice. That will delay most of the impact of the spending cuts on air travel for at least a month.

Significant furloughs would leave too few con-trollers to handle planes at Atlanta’s Hartsfield In-ternational Airport, for

example, forcing the clo-sure of one of its three runways, said the report by the National Air Traf-fic Controllers Associa-tion.

Instead of 126 land-ings per hour, there would be only 96 land-ings, the report said. Hartsfield handles more passengers than any oth-er airport in the world. Houston’s Intercontinen-tal and Chicago’s O’Hare airports may also have to close runways, it said.

“What Congress and everybody needs to understand is that the world’s busiest airport runs like a Swiss watch,” said Victor Santore, the union’s Southern re-gional vice president. “If you slow down the arrival rate, the nation-al airspace system will most certainly suffer. It takes hours to recover at Hartsfield.”

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Roughly 300 young wres-tlers will be at Iola High School Saturday for the Allen County Open/Novice Invita-tional.

Wrestling begins at 9 a.m. and will feature youths from 25 clubs across Kansas, Mis-souri and Oklahoma. Thirty-one Allen County youngsters will be a part of the action.

Admission is $2 for adults and $1 for children.

Proceeds will benefit the Allen County Wrestling Club, event host.

“This event is not only our largest fundraiser for the year, it is our time to show our stuff on the mat before our home-town crowd,” AC Wrestling Club coach John Taylor said. “I couldn’t be more proud of the effort our kids have shown on the mat.”

Tournament officials are looking for volunteers to help serve as table and door work-ers and to help set up and tear down equipment.

“It is a great opportunity for anyone who has a few hours to give back to the kids,” Taylor said.

Those willing to volunteer should call Jana Taylor at (620) 228-3788.

Concessions will be avail-able. Breakfast includes bis-cuits and gravy. Lunch will feature pulled pork sandwich-es and pizza.

Funds raised from conces-sion sales go to help the Iola High School wrestling pro-gram.

“We firmly believe that there are no losers in wres-

tling, only learners,” Taylor said “It is in those times of defeat that the lesson is the strongest. That is what wres-

tling has done for so many of these kids. I promise you won’t be disappointed with what you see on Saturday.”

Saturday’s meet will be the last tournament as a full team for the Allen County group. After Saturday is a series of

qualifying matches for the club’s experienced wrestlers. A sub-district tournament is March 16 in Pittsburg.

Area wrestlers ready to shine for locals

Photo by Jana TaylorAllen County Wrestling Club members are, front from left, Coach Greg Shields, Landon Boldra, Korbin Cloud, Konner Lar-ney, Curt Shannon, Creed Shannon, Zander Reed, William Jay, Tripp Chapman, Ryan West and Coach John Taylor; second from left, Alejandro Vargas, Briar Holding, Payton Houk, T.J. Taylor, Kyler Mittlemeier, Jaaron Griffin, Eli Adams, Samual Anderson, Kaden Wright and Casey McKarnin; Coach Adam Sanford, Adam Atwell, Brandon McKarnin, Jack Adams, Clay Shannon, Jeremy Ridge, Gage Schiebmeir, Cole Mathes, Kalen Wright, Trenton Jones and Coach Chris Mathews; fourth from left, Coach Brett Erikson, Kole Rogers, Kendall Jay, Blake Mittlemeier, RJ Holding, Seth Sanford, Hunter Mittlemeier and Cooper Riley.

Area schools have ad-justed their substate play-off schedule following the recent wintry weather that forced many schools to close this week.

Iola High’s boys and girls, who were to open Class 4A substate action Tuesday at Altamont’s Labette County High, instead will play to-night. The girls tip off at 6 o’clock, the boys at about 7:30.

If the Fillies win, they will advance to the semifi-nal round to play Towanda-Circle, which defeated El Do-rado Monday evening. If the Mustangs win, they will take on Independence Thursday evening in semifinal action.

In Humboldt, the weather delay means one more home game for the Lady Cubs. The Humboldt girls originally were supposed to play Mon-day at Jayhawk-Linn. Now, the game has been switched

to Humboldt, the host site for this week’s Class 3A substate. The girls tip off to-night against Jayhawk-Linn at 7 o’clock in the Humboldt Community Fieldhouse. Humboldt’s boys, mean-while, will begin tourna-ment play Thursday evening at 7 o’clock, also against Jay-hawk-Linn. Eureka High’s boys, the second seed, defeat-ed Fredonia, 57-45, Tuesday.

Marmaton Valley High’s girls and boys both will open Class 1A, Division I play Thursday at Olpe, the host school. The Wildcat girls will play their hosts from Olpe at 7 o’clock. The boys will take on Lebo at about 8:30.

Despite not having school today, Crest High’s girls still will play tonight in Class 1A, Division II action against Altoona-Midway at the host site, Allen Community Col-

Rescheduled tournamentsback on track

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Kyndell Harkness/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT Minnesota’s Austin Hollins dunks the ball in the last seconds of the game against Indiana at Williams Arena in Minneapolis, Minn., Tuesday. Minnesota defeated Indiana, 77-74.

By DAVE CAMPBELLAP Sports Writer

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Re-taining that No. 1 national ranking has been elusive throughout this wild season in college basketball, and In-diana was the latest to lose at the top — again.

Most important and maybe more challenging for the Hoo-siers, however, is holding on to first place in the tough-as-ever Big Ten.

Trevor Mbakwe had 21 points on 8-for-10 shooting and 12 rebounds to help Min-nesota take down top-ranked Indiana 77-73 on Tuesday night, the seventh time the No. 1 team in the Associated Press poll has lost this sea-son. Three of those losses were by the Hoosiers, who were No. 1 when they fell to

Butler and Wisconsin earlier this season. All three oppo-nents were unranked at the time.

Indiana (24-4, 12-3) has held the No. 1 ranking for 10 of the 17 polls by the AP this season, including the last four, and that will likely change next week. But fending off Michi-gan, Michigan State and Wis-consin is what’s on the minds of the Hoosiers, who’ll take a one-game lead in the con-ference race into Saturday’s game against Iowa.

“Winning the Big Ten was going to be tough whether we won today or lost,” said star guard Victor Oladipo, who had 16 points. “We knew it was going to be tough from the jump. Now it’s even tougher. But I think my team is ready for it. We just have to go back

and see what we did wrong and correct it.”

Andre Hollins added 16 points for the Gophers (19-9, 7-8), who outrebounded Cody Zeller and the Hoosiers by a whopping 44-30 and solidified their slipping NCAA tourna-ment hopes with an emphatic performance against the con-ference leader. The fired-up fans swarmed the court as the last seconds ticked off, the first time that’s happened here since a 2002 win over In-diana.

“There were just too many times when that first shot went up and they were there before we were because we didn’t get into their bodies,” Hoosiers coach Tom Crean said. “We weren’t physical enough on the glass. That’s the bottom line.”

Minnesota downs top-ranked Hoosiers

David Santiago/El Nuevo Herald/MCTThe Miami Heat’s Ray Allen, left, dives for a loose ball against the Sacramento Kings’ John Salmons in Miami Tuesday. The Heat won in double overtime, 141-129.

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High School BasketballClass 4A Substate

Today, at Labette Co., girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30

Thursday, Iola boys, TBAFriday, Iola girls, TBA

Iola

High School BasketballClass 3A Substate

at HumboldtToday, girls vs. Jayhawk-

Linn, 7 p.m.Thursday, boys vs. Jay-

hawk-Linn, 7 p.m.

Humboldt

High School BasketballClass 1A Div. I Substate

at OlpeThursday, girls vs. Hart-

ford, 7 p.m.Thursday, boys vs. Lebo,

8:30 p.m.

Marmaton Valley

High School BasketballClass 1A Div. II Substate

at ACC in IolaToday, girls vs. Altoona-

Midway, 7:30 p.m.Friday, boys vs. Elk Val-

ley or Altoona-Midway (at ACC in Iola), 7:30 p.m.

Crest

High School BasketballClass 1A Div. II Substate

Thursday, girls vs. Crest or Altoona Midway (at ACC in Iola), 7:30 p.m.

Friday, boys vs. Chetopa, 6 p.m.

Southern Coffey Co.

BasketballWednesday, at Johnson

Co., women 5:30 p.m., men 7:30 p.m.

BaseballThursday, vs. OKLAHO-

MA WESLEYAN, 3 p.m.Saturday, vs. Kansas

City, Kan., 2 p.m.Sunday, vs. Kansas City,

Kan., 2 p.m.Tuesday, vs. BROWN

MACKIE, 3 p.m.Softball

Saturday, at Labette tournament, 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Sunday, at Labette tour-nament, 1 and 3 p.m.

Tuesday, vs. LABETTE, 2 p.m.

Allen

Saturday, vs. West Virginia, 1 p.m.

TV: CBSMonday, vs. TEXAS

TECH, 6 p.m.TV: ESPNU

Kansas

BasketballSaturday, at Baylor, 6

p.m.TV: ESPN2

Tuesday, vs. TCU, 7 p.m.

TV: Big 12 Network

KansasState

BasketballClass 2A Substate

at ArmaThursday, girls vs. Madi-

son/Hamilton, 5 p.m.

Yates Center

Sportscalendar

lege gymnasium in Iola. The Lady Lancers tip off at 7:30 p.m. Southern Coffey County, the top seed on the girls side, awaits to play the win-ner Thursday at ACC. On the boys side, top-seeded Crest will take on

the winner of tonight’s play-in game between Elk Valley and Altoona-Midway at 7:30 p.m. Fri-day in the Allen gym.

Yates Center High’s girls travel to Northeast

High in Arma, the host site for their Class 2A substate tournament, to take on Madison/Ham-ilton at 5 p.m. Thursday. The Wildcat boys — the only area high school to

play so far this week — were eliminated Monday by a loss at Oswego.

The final rounds are at 6 and 7:30 p.m. Satur-day for girls and boys, respectively.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas Senate committee on Tues-day narrowly rejected Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposal to hold back third-graders who fail the state reading test.

The 6-5 vote means the bill remains in the Senate Education Com-mittee, where its pros-pects for the remainder of the session are un-certain.

Brownback wants to bar schools from pro-moting third-graders to fourth grade if they fail to read at a proficient level on state tests. The bill also included a grant system for early education programs aimed at boosting read-ing skills.

The Republican gov-ernor was disappointed following the vote. He has made improving fourth grade reading proficiency a goal of his administration, first broaching the con-cept during the 2010 gu-bernatorial campaign and later announcing the initiative during his State of the State address in January.

“It’s early in the pro-cess. We’ll work with legislators,” Brown-back said. “It’s an im-portant topic.”

Opponents, includ-ing Republicans and both Democrats on the committee, questioned the bill’s impact on stu-dents and the lack of parental involvement in the decision to hold students back a grade. Sen. Dan Kerschen, a freshman Republican from Garden Plain, said school districts al-ready have the author-ity to retain students and that local control of the process was working well.

Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hens-ley, a teacher, said the bill was “bad public policy” and that more focus should be on the causes of poor reading scores and early learn-ing programs.

“It makes absolutely no sense. We’re mak-

ing a serious mistake if we think we’re going to pass this bill in this legislative session,” said Hensley, a Topeka Democrat.

Sen. Jeff Melcher, a Leawood Republican, said the cost to the state in future school years to promote a child who wasn’t prepared to suc-ceed was potentially greater than the cost of retaining the student or providing other re-

sources.“How many resourc-

es are wasted by al-lowing a non-reading fourth-grader to move on?” Melcher said.

Sen. Steve Abrams, an Arkansas City Re-publican and chair-man of the committee, amended the bill to al-low for schools to give students a chance to take a second, alterna-tive test to measure their reading profi-ciency. The move ad-dressed concerns that the bill was too harsh and didn’t take into account students who may have had extenuat-ing circumstances that affected the outcome of the first exam.

Brownback was re-ceptive to the idea of including a second test for students who failed the first exam to give another opportunity to advance to the fourth grade.

Abrams said it was unclear if the reading proposal would sur-face again this session, which ends in May. He said it was possible that the plan would be adopted by the House in some form or that it could be added to other legislation.

Panel rejects reading initiative

How many resources are wasted by al-lowing a non-reading fourth-grader to move on?

— Sen. Jeff Melcher

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In 1801, the Dis-trict of Columbia was placed under the juris-diction of Congress.

In 1911, inventor Charles F. Kettering demonstrated his elec-tric automobile start-er in Detroit by start-ing a Cadillac’s motor with just the press of a switch, instead of hand-cranking.

In 1913, author and playwright Irwin Shaw (“Rich Man, Poor Man”) was born in New York.

In 1922, the Supreme Court, in Leser v. Garnett, unanimous-ly upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote.

In 1939, the Supreme Court, in National La-bor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical

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In 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limit-ing a president to two terms of office, was ratified.

In 1960, the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Sovi-ets, 3-2, at the Winter Games in Squaw Val-ley, Calif. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)

Today in history

By JIM McLEANKHI News Service

TOPEKA — A major-ity of Kansans support expanding Medicaid to help low-income people gain health coverage, ac-cording to a poll done in December for the Kan-sas Hospital Association and released this week.

According to the sur-vey results, 60 percent of the state’s residents would support expand-ing Medicaid to include persons earning up to 138 percent of the feder-al poverty level – $15,420. Expansion was opposed by 24 percent of those surveyed and 16 percent said they weren’t sure.

Kansas currently has one of the most restric-tive Medicaid programs in the nation. Generally, it covers pregnant wom-en, children, the elderly and the disabled who are poor. Adults without children are not eligible regardless how little they make.

The survey, which sampled views of 610 Kansans, was conducted for the hospital associa-tion by the ETC Institute of Olathe. It has a mar-

gin of error of plus or m i n u s 4 per-centage points.

S u p -port for e x p a n -sion in-creased slightly to 62 percent when those polled were told that it would in-crease federal Medicaid spending in the state by $800 million over three years. But that addition-al 2 percent is considered negligible given that it is within the survey’s mar-gin of error.

More than 70 percent said that keeping federal Medicaid dollars from going to other states was a good reason to expand the program in Kansas.

Tom Bell, the hospital association’s chief ex-ecutive, said if the state doesn’t expand Medicaid it would result in “real cuts to hospitals that are currently serving as the primary safety net for many uninsured indi-viduals.”

As originally passed,

the federal Affordable Care Act would have required all states to expand their Medicaid programs. However, the U.S. Supreme Court rul-ing that upheld the law made the expansion op-tional for states.

Several Republican governors who opposed the federal health re-form have nevertheless announced recently that their states will imple-ment the Medicaid ex-pansion.

Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas, who also opposed the law, has not made a decision about opening up the program, but has ques-tioned whether the fed-eral government can be trusted to keep its funding promises. The law requires the feder-al government to shoul-der expansion costs for three years. After that, the federal share would gradually drop to 90 percent, where it would remain.

The Brownback ad-ministration has esti-mated that the state’s share of those expan-sion costs would total

approximately $600 mil-lion from 2014 to 2023. However, the same esti-mate predicts that state Medicaid costs would go up by approximately $513 million over the same period even if it doesn’t expand eligi-bility. That would hap-pen, the report says, because more Kansans who already are eli-gible for Medicaid but not enrolled would be-come aware of the pro-gram and sign up.

Last week, the hospi-tal association kicked-off its lobbying cam-paign in support of Medicaid expansion by releasing its own re-port, which estimated the expansion would increase federal spend-ing in Kansas by $3 bil-lion by 2020 and create 4,000 new jobs.

The Legislature hasn’t acted on the expansion issue, yet. There has been a bill introduced that would authorize it but there also is a resolution be-ing considered that states the will of the Legislature is to op-pose it.

Tom Bell

Poll: Kansans favor Medicaid expansion

By JIM SALTERAssociated Press

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The blanket of snow covering much of the Great Plains after two big storms in less than a week may provide some relief for parched areas, but it’s no “drought-buster,” ex-perts said Tuesday.

States like Kansas, Nebraska and Okla-homa have been among the hardest hit by the drought that at one point covered two-thirds of the nation. Now, they’re bur-ied under snow from two storms just days apart that dumped nearly 20 inches on Wichita, and more than a foot in parts of Oklahoma, Nebraska and other Plains states.

The snow may help ease the drought some, but it’s unlikely to have a big impact because it’s

sitting largely on frozen ground, especially in the upper Plains. As snow on the surface melts, the water is likely to run off into rivers and streams instead of soaking into the rock-hard ground.

That’s good news for those who depend on the many rivers and lakes that are near his-toric lows because of the drought. But it does little to help farmers who need the moisture to soak into the soil so they can grow plants, said Brian Fuchs, of the National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, Neb.

“It’s welcome relief, and maybe it’s going to start trending us in a positive way,” Fuchs said of the snow. “But it’s not the drought-buster that some would hope.”

Even if all the snow

melted straight into the ground, it wouldn’t break the drought. A foot of snow equals roughly an inch of rain, and parts of the Plains are roughly 20 inches short of precipitation, even after the storms, Fuchs said.

THE DROUGHT that settled over much of the middle of the coun-try last spring hasn’t let up in the Plains. Big portions of Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas are still in exceptional or extreme drought, the most severe classifica-tions listed by the U.S. Drought Monitor.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture in its latest crop condition re-port offered a glimpse of what that has done to the winter wheat crop: In Kansas, 36 percent of wheat fields are listed as in poor or very poor con-dition. Half of the crop in Nebraska is poor or very poor, and in Okla-homa, 54 percent is poor or very poor. Winter wheat is planted in the fall, when dry soil made it difficult for seeds to germinate, and needs a

blanket of snow to pro-tect it. This year’s snows came late.

David Cleavinger, a wheat producer near Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle, was happy to finally see the 10 inches of snow now cov-ering his fields.

“It won’t be enough to produce really good crops, but it’ll produce some,” Cleavinger said. “But also you’ll get spring rains.”

Texas could use a wet spring after two years of drought. The state just had the third-driest two-year span its his-tory, getting just 71 per-cent of normal rainfall in 2011 and 2012 com-bined.

Kansas needs more precipitation, too, even after taking the brunt of the winter storms. Farmer Dean Stoskopf has his fingers crossed that the 900 acres of winter wheat he planted in western Kansas will come in strong.

Experts said it can take months or years for pastures and range-land to recover from such conditions and provide good forage for livestock.

Winter storms won’t end drought

Drifted snow nearly buries a street sign in rural Pratt County, Tuesday, after heavy snow over-night combined with high winds caused deep drifts in South Central Kansas.

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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 Hos-pitality Services, part-time as needed. Cook in Nutrition Ser-vices, full-time. Nutrition Ser-vices Aide, part-time as needed. Apply online at: www.saintluke-shealthsystem.org/jobs See online posting for more informa-tion on each open position. We Hire Only Non-Tobacco Users. EOE.

TACO BELL is taking appli-cations for SHIFT MANAGER positions. We offer competi-tive pay, insurance, vacation time, sick time and manage-ment advancement. Please apply at Iola Taco Bell, 1602 N. State St.

CNA/CMA positions avail-able, all shifts. Applications may be picked up at Deseret Health and Rehab at Yates Center, 801 S. Fry, Yates Cen-ter, KS 66783, 620-625-2111.

RN/LPN. Windsor Place is taking applications for an evening/nightshift charge po-sition. Apply at 600 E. Garfield, Iola. You may send resume to: mhighberger@windsor-place.netCan You Dig It? Heavy Equip-ment Operator Training! 3 Week Hands On Program. Bulldozers, Backhoes, Excavators. Lifetime Job Placement Asst. w/ Nation-al Certs. VA Benefits Eligible - 866-362-6497

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AIRLINES CAREERS - Be-come an Aviation Maintenance Tech. FAA approved training. Fi-nancial aid if qualified - Housing available. Job placement assis-tance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 888-248-7449.

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

Quarry/Mobile Equipment Manager Position Quarry/Mobile Equipment Manager Position The Monarch Cem ent Company, a million plus tons per year producing cement plant that has been operating for over 100 years, located in Southeast Kansas, is seeking a Quarry/Mobile Equipment Manager to join our team in Humboldt, Kansas. Primary responsibilities for this position is to ensure the safety of the 16 employees in the two departments; manage and lead the two departments efficiently and effectively; ensure the most economic means of producing the required quantity and quality of the raw materials for producing cement; develops and manages the mining plans to provide quality limestone while optimizing the use of limestone reserves for short and long term operating periods; analyze quarry operations and set plans for improvement in areas of quarry, safe equipment operations, overburden removal, drilling, blasting, loading and hauling raw materials, crushing and water management; analyze mobile equipment operations, repair work done timely, preventive maintenance skills for mobile equipment, mechanical knowledge of mobile equipment. Education requirements for this job would be a Bachelors of Science degree or an Associates degree in Mining, Geological, Materials Engineering, or Chemistry is preferred. At least 5 years experience of quarry operations as a Supervisor, preferably in the cement industry, is a plus. Also experience working with Caterpillar or other heavy equipment and have the ability to troubleshoot quarry and heavy mobile equipment problems. Strong leadership skills (able to lead), able to manage and motivate individuals, self-starter with exceptional organizational skills, excell ent

verbal and written communication skills, good problem solving and analytical skills and proficient computer skills. Ability to work in a fast pace environment, multi-task, manage cost and planning of daily quarry and mobile equipment jobs. We offer competitive salaries and an excellent benefits package. Qualified candidates may submit their resume including salary history to john.bilby@monarchcement.com or fax to 620-473-3112 or mail to: The Monarch Cement Company, Attn: John R. Bilby, Manager Human Resources, P.O. Box 1000, Humboldt, KS 66748-0900. EOE

Transfer/Career Advisor (Full-time – TRIO Grant Transfer/Career Advisor Funded) Neosho County Community College seeks a person to provide individual and group advising about college transfer options, requirements and course equivalencies, career exploration, and major selection for Student Support Services program. Bachelor’s degree (Masters preferred) in psychology, counseling, human resources development or related field pre - ferred; experience working with disadvantaged popu - lations, college admissions, school counseling, and academic advising. $28,500 to $34,200 with excellent benefits including health insurance and KPERS. Please send a letter of application, resume, unofficial transcripts, employment application, and five ref - erences with phone numbers to Transfer/Career Advi - sor Search, Neosho County Community College, 800 West 14 th Street, Chanute, KS 66720. This position will remain open until filled. Review of applications will begin March 1, 2013. Visit www.neosho.edu for application and position announcement.

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Desktop Support Technician: NCCC seeks a per - Desktop Support Technician: son to provide complex technical support at the Ottawa campus. Duties will include coordination of HELP desk, hardware and software troubleshooting and software installation and security. Go to www.neosho.edu for a complete position announce - ment. To apply send online application, resume, 5 references with phone numbers and unofficial tran - scripts to Desktop Support Technician Search, HR Director, NCCC, 800 W. 14th Street, Chanute, KS 66720. NCCC is an AA/EEO employer NCCC is an AA/EEO employer

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DARK OAK DINING TABLE, w/3 leaves, 8 chairs, $350, 620-363-0480.

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GUITARS, STRINGS, AND AC-CESSORIES. Over 70 guitars in stock new & used. Buy, sell and trade. Lessons available, T&R Guitar Exchange, 101 N. Washington, Iola, 620-365-3233, Tue.-Fri. 10-5, Sat. 10-2.

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CREATIVE CLIPS BOARD-ING & GROOMING Clean, Affordable. Shots required. 620-363-8272

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WANTED: OLD CARS/TRUCKS (1960s models & old-er), not running, 620-431-0134.

Apartment for Rent 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.

Mobile Homes for Sale 1998 MODEL, 3 BEDROOM, 2 bath, on 3 lots, 810 S. Har-rison, LaHarpe, $35,000, 620-380-1159.

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

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

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

302 N. SYCAMORE, 3 BED-ROOM, 2 bath, fenced back-yard, no pets, $600 monthly plus deposit, 620-363-2529.

IOLA, 313 N. VERMONT, 2 BEDROOM, very nice, CH/CA, appliances, single attached garage w/auto opener, $695 monthly, 620-496-6161 or 620-496-2222.

609 S. WASHINGTON, 2 BED-ROOM, 1st story duplex, CH/CA, appliances, single garage w/auto opener, $650 monthly includes all utilities paid, 620-496-6161 or 620-496-2222.

GAS, 1 BEDROOM, no pets, $350 rent, $350 deposit, 620-380-1696.

608 S. WALNUT, 2 BEDROOM, 1 bath, CH/CA, new flooring, $425 monthly, $425 deposit, 620-228-7510.

Real Estate for Sale Allen County Realty

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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 susan-lynnks@yahoo.com. More info and pictures at iolaregister.com/classifieds

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Senior Spotlight Iola High School

Class of 2013

Abigail is the daughter of Bill St. Clair and Ruth Runyan.

She is involved in tennis, STUCO, SADD, green team, National Honors Society, players, forensics, FCA, scholar’s bowl, theater, band, singers, yearbook and the youth group at First Christian Church.

Her hobbies are art and photography. She has a part-time job at Dairy Queen. After graduation she hopes to attend Kansas

City Art Institute to study graphic design. Abigail said her high school highlights have

been when an exchange student, Tobi, visited, the band trip to New York City, the Labette art show where she won two first place ribbons and the tennis season.

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Jason is the son of David and the late Julie Tidd.

He is involved in football, cross country, wrestling, history bowl, history bee, track, scholars bowl, forensics, band, jazz band, STUCO, NHS, FCA, SADD, players, I-club, FBLA, City Slickers 4-H club, Grace Bible Church, Iola Municipal Band and First Christian youth group.

His hobbies are learning, reading, music, video games and watching the news.

He works part-time at Walmart and at his family farm.

After graduation Jason plans to go to college, probably K-State, to major in economics.

His high school highlights have been attending the national history bowl trip to Washington, D.C., the band trip to New York City and the K-State band clinics.

Drew is the son of Danielle and Steve Smith. He is involved in cross country, tennis,

forensics, school plays, Iola Municipal Band and serves at St. John’s Catholic Church.

He said he enjoys reading, drawing, hanging out with friends and writing.

He works part-time at A&W. After graduation Drew plans to attend Kansas

State University and possibly major in psychology.

His high school highlights have been going on the New York City band trip, going to state in forensics and attending the Kansas State band clinic.

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(First published in The IolaRegister, February 27, 2013)IN THE DISTRICT COURT

OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSASDEUTSCHE BANK NA-

TIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR LONG BEACH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-8 PLAINTIFF

Case No. 13CV9Div. No.

K.S.A. 60Mortgage

ForeclosureJUDY HENDERSON,DEFENDANTSNOTICE OF SUITThe State of Kansas to:

JUDY E. HENDERSON, A/K/A JUDY HENDERSON; JOHN DOE (REAL NAME UN-KNOWN); MARY DOE (REAL NAME UNKNOWN); A-1 ELEC-TRIC, INC.

and the unknown heirs, ex-ecutors, administrators, devi-sees, trustees, creditors, and assigns of such of the defen-

dants as may be deceased; the unknown spouses of the de-fendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of such defendants as are existing, dissolved or dor-mant corporations; the unknown guardians and trustees of such of the defendants as are minors or are in anywise under legal disability; and all other persons who are or may be concerned:

You are hereby notified that a petition has been filed in the Dis-trict Court of Allen County, Kan-sas, by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, As Trustee For Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-8 for judgment in the sum of $43,219.24, plus interest, costs and other relief; judgment that plaintiff’s lien is a first lien on the said real property and sale of said property to satisfy the indebtedness, said property de-scribed as follows, to wit:

THE SOUTH FIFTY (50) FEET OF LOT TWELVE (12)

AND THE SOUTH FIFTY (50) FEET OF THE EAST FORTY (40) FEET OF THE ELEVEN (11), ALL IN BLOCK EIGHT (8), ALGER’S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF HUMBOLDT, KAN-SAS. Commonly known as 1022 Neosho Street, Humboldt, Kansas 66748

and you are hereby required to plead to said petition in said Court at Iola, Kansas on or be-fore the 15th day of April, 2013.

Should you fail therein judg-ment and decree will be entered in due course upon said petition.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT

PURPOSE.SHAPIRO & MOCK, LLC_

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No. (913)831-3320Our File No. 13-005719/dkb(2) 27 (3) 6,13

Public notice

By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD

McClathcy NewspapersWASHINGTON —

Tanks would not roll, fighter jets would be grounded and aircraft carriers might be stuck dockside.

In addition, the De-fense’s Department 800,000-member civilian workforce likely would go without paychecks at times throughout the year if mandatory feder-al budget cuts go into ef-fect Friday, top Pentagon officials said Tuesday.

The department, De-fense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a memo to employees, “will be forced to place the vast majority of its civilian workforce on adminis-trative furlough.”

Moreover, by the end of September, two-thirds of U.S. Army combat troops would be “unac-ceptable” in terms of military readiness, po-

tentially affecting the ability to deploy war-riors to replace those al-ready deployed, officials said.

“There is no mistak-ing that the rigid nature of the cuts forced upon this department, and their scale, will result in a serious erosion of read-iness across the force,” Panetta wrote.

With just two days to go before the $85 bil-lion in across-the-board federal budget cuts be-come reality, defense of-ficials released the most detailed look to date of their effects. The loom-ing budget ax is the re-sult of the inability of Democrats and Republi-cans to reach a deal that would satisfy their own agreed-to Budget Control Act of 2011.

The Pentagon is faced with $46 billion in cuts. Asked during a news conference if such dire outcomes weren’t simply

scare tactics, Comptrol-ler Robert Hale said, “We don’t have a lot of choic-es. . . . I think we’re going to have serious readiness effects. I don’t see where we’re going to get the money. We’re going to have to cut back on train-ing significantly.”

While troops already deployed won’t be direct-ly affected by these deep cuts, the lack of training could affect future de-ployments, especially in the Army, but across all the services.

Acting Under-Sec-retary of Defense Jes-sica Wright said the cuts would be felt by every-one, in all services and in all locations. She not-ed the “invaluable ser-vice” of civilian employ-

ees and said furloughs would leave military per-sonnel worrying about spouses and kids at home who rely on the Penta-gon’s civilian workforce for various services, like commissaries, schools and medical care.

“The effects of seques-tration on the military will be devastating, but on our civilians, it will be catastrophic,” she said. “These critical mem-bers of our workforce work in our depots, they maintain and repair our tanks, our aircraft, our ships.”

The pain of these bud-get cuts would reverber-ate through many parts of the United States, Wright said. The Penta-gon released a state-by-

state breakdown of the expected lost wages for civilian employees if furloughs begin, as is now expected, toward the end of April.

Defense prepares for furloughs

Photo by Glenda Aikins

A tree in the back yard of Glenda and Randy Aikins’ home in Humboldt is weighed down by the heavy snowfall Tuesday. Homes in Humboldt went almost 12 hours without power Tuesday.

Weighted down

Wagon wheelsColony photographer Phyllis Luedke captured this peaceful scene Tuesday. Schools in Iola, Yates Center and Humboldt resumed today, but remained closed in Moran, Garnett, Uniontown, LeRoy and Burlington.