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Vol. 115, No.130 75 Cents Iola, KS

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Register/Steven Schwartz

IMS finance team wins state

From left, Jean Johns, Isaiah Wicoff, Olivia Taylor and Jon Miller traveled to Wichita for the state personal finance meet, where they finished first over Indian Woods Middle School.

Register/Steven Schwartz

By JOHN MILBURNAssociated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kan-sas legislative committees are taking separate paths in try-ing to solve differences over the state’s 2014 budget, and both chambers are hoping to make quick work of linger-ing issues when lawmakers return to the Statehouse next week.

The House Appropria-tions Committee met Mon-day to review spending ad-justments required by bills already signed in to law and to receive an update on state revenue estimates. Chairman Marc Rhoades said any deci-sions made to approve about two dozen spending requests would be included in what he and two other negotiators dis-cuss with Senate counterparts next week.

Rhoades, a Newton Republi-can, said House leaders didn’t want to delay the process by drafting new bills to be debat-

ed if talks were still open on

the $14 billion state budget.“They want to get agree-

ments on the budget and taxes and go home,” he said.

The Senate, whose budget committee met last Thursday, plans to have a separate catch-all spending bill on its calen-dar when it returns, which would have to go to the House for debate.

Rep. Jerry Henry, a Cum-mins Democrat, said he didn’t understand why the House

Gates records high employment numbers

Panel resumes work on Kansas budget

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They want to get agreements on the budget and taxes and go home.

— Marc Rhoades,House Appropriation Com-

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Michael Burnett, right, county ambulance director, shares comments with Eric Sanders, one of his shift supervisors, during ambulance discussions Monday night.

Register/Bob Johnson

By STEVEN SCHWARTZsteven@iolaregister.comMill and overlay projects for

2013 are under way and crews are working to replace surfac-es on some of Iola’s most trav-elled roadways.

The project, which is be-ing contracted through a bid-ding process by Se-Kan As-phalt Services, is budgeted at $219,040.39.

Corey Schinstock, Iola as-sistant city administrator,

said the top two inches of the road surface are removed by a grinder, and then replaced by either concrete or asphalt — depending on the road.

The following streets will be receiving the mill and overlay treatment:

— Carpenter Street, from Cottonwood Street east to Kentucky Street

— Jackson Avenue, from

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By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

Discussions for merger of Iola and Allen County ambu-lance services seem on firm-er ground than ever before.

At the conclusion of almost two hours of sub-committee discussions Monday evening, negotiators within the two services — Iola’s Ryan Sell and the county’s Terry Call — were instructed to flesh out a plan to have ambulance service under one roof.

The question is whose roof it will be. Whether the city or county will be the contracted party is yet to be decided. In

either case fire protection will be a part of the mix.

Sell and Call will put cost figures to the plan, with a goal of a 30-person force.

Initially, mention was made of a 36-person fire/EMS department, which will be in place if accord is reached on a contract for either county or city to be the provider. Iola fire/EMS has 18 employees, including three hired under a federally funded Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergen-cy Response (SAFER) Grant, which eventually will expire. County ambulance also has 18 full-time employees.

County Commissioner Tom Williams said several times there was no intention for any current employee to be eliminated, with the smaller number anticipated through attrition.

Williams initially was prepared to discuss a plan to have 30 people man ambu-lances — in Iola, Humboldt and Moran — and answer fire calls at Iola, but deferred as discussion rambled through philosophies and settled on the plan hashed out by em-ployees of the two services.

‘WE CAN WORK OUT DETAILS’

Discussion for EMS on firm ground

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The Iola Middle School per-sonal finance team has gar-nered a state championship after attending the state meet in Wichita on Wednesday.

Isaiah Wicoff, Olivia Tay-lor and Jon Miller competed for IMS by taking different qualification tests against five other schools. The top two scoring teams in the tests, IMS and Indian Woods Middle School, faced off in a quiz-bowl type competition. IMS came out the victor.

The team is no stranger to state championships.

Team supervisor, Jean Johns, said the personal fi-nance teams at IMS have won several state championships in past years. She said the students study all year for the competitions, following the personal finance curriculum.

Team members had the op-portunity to enjoy Wichita, along with a keynote speech

from State Treasurer Ron Es-tes. Team members, however, agreed the chocolate fountain at the conference was their favorite part.

For their success, each student was awarded $75 in Kellogg’s stock, and Wicoff, who finished second as an in-dividual contestant, won an additional $25 in the stock.

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World War II veteran Scottie Ooton (center) who helped to liberate a concentration camp, and Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel (left) are presented with pins by former U.S. President Bill Clinton during the 20th anniversary National Tribute at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Monday in Washington, DC.

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Se-Kan Asphalt crews work on Carpenter Street Monday.

Gates Manufacturing is an Iola success story, said Mark Cooper, plant manager.

Current employment is 715 with a payroll of up to $30 mil-lion.

Cooper was the guest speak-er at Friday’s See, Hear Iola forum in Riverside Park.

Gates manufactures hy-draulic hose and couplings, pulleys and tensioners, indus-trial hose and engine hose. Of its 31 plants in North Ameri-ca, the Iola plant is the largest, Cooper said, and even then faces overcrowding. In the

summer of 2012, employment peaked at 830.

Gates has a global footprint with manufacturing and dis-tribution plants in Europe, Asia and India, the Middle East and North Africa, and South America. Corporate headquarters are in Denver, Colo.

“We’re in the things that move you,” is its company slogan, Cooper said. Familiar markets for the industrial and automotive industry are John Deere, Bobcat, NAPA Auto Parts, O’Reilly Auto Parts and CarQuest.

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By Terry BroylesHumboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT — Stu-dents in first through fifth grade were given the opportunity to show off their writing or il-lustrating skills recent-ly when they took part in the Young Authors competition submitting a total of 148 entries to be judged. From those

entries, 35 students were selected to attend the Young Author’s Cel-ebration in Iola on Sat-urday and were each given a medal of accom-plishment in a school-wide assembly Friday.

Author Susan Camp-bell Bartoletti, Pennsyl-vania, spoke to elemen-tary students, teachers and parents Friday

outlining her methods in writing poetry, short stories, novels and non-fiction pieces for publi-cation.

A total of 175 Allen County public school students were invited to the Celebration fea-turing two published authors, Bartoletti and Susan Stevens Crum-mel, Texas.

Humboldt Elementary School Young Author winners are seated in front from left, Dylon Bertie, Harper Schoendaller, Kyndellin Church, Bridgett Neeley, C’airah Johnston, Mia Wright, Chrissy Yeager; second row, Danica Modlin, Landon Oliver, Maddox Johnson, Ella Lassman, Elizabeth Melendez, Gun-ner Johnson, Alyvia Brannon, Randi Wilson; third row, Molly Schomaker, Ashtyn Ansley, Madelynn Hodgden, Peyten Galloway, Evan Lucke, Brayden Oliver, Emma Schmidt, Bridgette Ewing, Kerry Malone, Bradley Loftis; back row, Ashlyn Herridge, Kennady Wilkerson, Madison Riebel, Alayana John-son, Jada Dangerfield, Logan Dillow, Kyle Brinkerhoff, Blake Walker and Andrew Comstock. Avah Carman was not available for the picture.

Author Susan Campbell Bartoletti, right, pre-sented the winners of the Young Author com-petition with a medal Friday following her talk at a school-wide assembly. Language Arts teacher, Linda Rinehart, assisted.

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Frank YohoFrank Travis Yoho, 33,

Le Roy, died Friday, April 26, 2013, near Anderson, S.C., from the results of a motorcycle accident.

Travis was born Nov. 4, 1979, in Iola, the son of William Ray Yoho and Marsha Lou Storrer Yoho.

He grew up in Le Roy and Humboldt and gradu-ated from Le Roy High School in 1998.

Following high school, he became a millwright and was employed first at Mid-American Machine in Le Roy and then H. F. Machinery in Topeka, his current employer.

He was a member of Neosho Lodge No. 27, A.F. & A.M. in Le Roy.

He was married to Kallie Jewett on June 10, 2000, and they were later divorced.

Travis is survived by three children, William Trenton Yoho and Trin-ity Meridian Yoho, Grid-ley, and Eliot James Ard,

Iola; his mother and step-father, Marsha and Gary Frederick, Humboldt; his father and step-mother, Bill and Martha Yoho, Le Roy; two sisters, Amanda Yoho, Kansas City, and Kellee Frederick, Hum-boldt; a brother, Nick Yoho, Lawrence; grand-parents, Don and Sondra Storrer, El Dorado, De-nise Yoho, Le Roy, Bill and Jean Frederick, Hum-boldt, and Ron and Maxie Folks, Lexington, Okla.; along with many other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at First Christian Church in Le Roy. Burial will follow in Logue Cemetery east of Le Roy.

Visiation will be from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Jones Funeral Home in Burlington.

Memorial contribu-tions may be made to the Travis Yoho Children Ed-ucation Fund and may be sent in care of the funeral home.

Obituaries

Eileen Chase, a native Iolan, and a senior at Oklahoma City Univer-sity, was second runner-up in the OCU Senior Queen ceremony on April 26.

She was selected from a pool of 34 men and women who were nominated for king and queen by different cam-pus teams and organi-zations. Votes were cast by students, faculty and staff at OCU.

Chase was repre-senting the Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is graduating in May with a bachelor’s degree of fine arts in acting. She is a member of the Delta Epsilon Iota Honor Soci-ety, Kappa Phi, Sodexo Student Board of Direc-tors, OCU Relay for Life, Ad Astra Women’s Choir

and the OCU Rhythms Dance Team.

Eileen Chase

Iolan honored at OCU ceremony

ETA chapter mem-bers of Alpha Delta Kappa were hostesses for the Kansas Alpha Delta Kappa District III Biennial meeting April 20 at Calvary United Methodist Church.

Linda Johnson, District III chairman, welcomed members. Linda Brocker, ETA chaplain, gave the thought for the day. Greetings were given by by Del Jo Broad-rick, Alpha Delta Kap-pa Kansas state presi-dent. Former Mayor Bill Shirley welcomed the teachers to Iola.

The USD 257 Reba Davis Drumming Cir-cle, directed by Kar-en Jesseph, p r o -vided entertaining music. Jesseph ex-plained techniques for playing the drums and provided an opportu-nity for teachers to participate.

Susan Jones, Dis-trict III secretary, called the roll with 29 members attending from Sigma, Alpha Sigma, Eta, Iota, in-cluding eight mem-bers in attendance. Kathryn Sarver, Dis-trict III treasurer, pre-sented the financial report.

Nancy Medina, Kansas membership chairman and pres-ident-elect, gave the message encouraging members to welcome others and to be proud of their organization’s

accomplishments.Joann Hook, Kansas

altruistic chairman, explained the organi-zations’ newest proj-ect, “Building H.O.P.E. for Brighter Futures.” A new elementary school is being built in San Martin, Peru, with financial support coming from Alpha Delta Kappa members.

Phyllis Luedke, pho-tographer and a mem-ber of Eta, presented a colorful program titled, “Spring Awak-ening” — photographs of wildflowers she has taken. A luncheon was provided by Eta mem-bers with Dan John-son as kitchen super-visor.

Broadrick gave the keynote speech, re-minding teachers of the founders and the reason why ADK was founded for women educators. She spoke of the high standards of membership eligi-bility, the importance of educational fellow-ship and the many worthwhile altruistic projects the organiza-tion supports.

Omega members Earline Foiles, Alberta Elizabeth Gentry and Jane McBride were recognized in a memo-rial service conducted by Julie Strickler, Eta member.

The next biennial District III meeting will be in 2015 with the Iota chapter as host-esses.

Educators sorority has biennial forum

Model T Haven, 2033 Nebraska Rd., is home to a good many old cars in varying degrees of re-pair.

Members of the East Central Kansas Ford Model T Club will gather there beginning at 10 a.m. Several times dur-ing the day the antique cars likely will be seen on area highways.

It won’t be all gab-bing and reminiscing, though.

Mark Freimiller, own-er of Model T Haven, has extraordinary knowl-

edge of how to make the old cars purr like the day they rolled from Henry Ford’s assembly line, and will give a hand in repairs.

The area Model T club is a not-for-profit chap-ter of the Ford Model T Club of America and members enjoy discuss-ing their vintage rides, about as much as re-storing and driving the unique old cars.

Questions about the get-together may be di-rected to Bud Redding, 785-733-2124.

Arnold Greenhouse

Arnold Greenhouse, husband of the late Lou-ise Lynn Greenhouse, originally of Iola, died April 19, 2013.

He was born Dec. 24, 1926 in Brooklyn, N.Y. and attended medical school at the University of Kansas, where he met Louise Lynn, a nurs-ing student. She was the daughter of Ruth and Emerson Lynn, Sr.

He completed a resi-dency of neurology in Denver, Colo. and from there moved to Albu-querque, N.M., where

he became chief of the neurology deparment at the University of New Mexico.

Over the years he worked at the Cleveland Clinic, did private prac-tice in Grand Junction, Colo., and returned to academic medicine at Creighton University, Omaha, Neb., and the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Reno, where he complet-ed his career as a clinical professor of medicine, neurology and geriatrics.

He is survived by four children and numerous grandchildren.

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By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT — Peggy Strong, executive director of Arrowood Lane and Tara Gardens, Iola, resi-dential care communi-ties is proud to announce employee Ron Conaway was recently given the K.E.M.T.A. Outstanding Service Director Award.

Conaway and Strong traveled to Hutchinson for the Kansas Emergen-cy Medical Technician Association convention and awards ceremony.

“He definitely deserved it,” Strong said.

Conaway, a registered nurse, firefighter and

EMT, has worked for Strong on and off for 14 years. He started with the Iola Fire Department in 1981, went back to school to become an RN and an EMT, eventually serv-ing as Director of EMS (Emergency Medical Ser-vices) in Iola. In 1999, he was awarded the Univer-sity of Kansas Heart of Health Care Award.

Both Arrowood Lane and Tara Gardens staff a Register Nurse, but both can cover duties in either Humboldt or Iola when needed.

“I come to Humboldt several times a month,” Conaway said.

By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT — Rick Wilson, formerly of Cha-nute, “loves gardening;” so, following his doctor’s orders to “stay active” is easy, especially when he can get outside.

Wilson, 60, like others in his family, suffered with heart issues forcing him to go into early re-tirement from the heat-ing and air conditioning business.

“Heart problems run in my family,” Wilson said. “I was in heating and air conditioning for 40 years and had my own business for 18 years.”

After experiencing life-threatening pneu-monia that triggered two heart attacks and the loss of 100 pounds, Wil-son became a resident at Guest Home Estates in Chanute for eight years, moving to Arrowood Lane Residential Care 18 months ago. In a matter of months, he had a spot plowed for a garden.

“Ever since I was a kid, I’ve had a garden,” Wilson said. “I just love it.”

The garden was a huge success — it rendered 300 pounds of sweet po-tatoes and more produce than Wilson knew what to do with. A lot of the tomatoes, fresh corn, po-tatoes and green beans were used in the kitchen at Arrowood and fellow residents enjoyed meals from the garden.

Wilson’s hobby has been beneficial to the residents. They help clean, shuck or prepare the vegetables for the cooks, they visit and speculate as to what will

be ready next and they enjoy watching as the garden grows.

“We try to do things at our facilities that our residents have been ac-customed to doing,” Ex-ecutive Director, Peggy Strong explained. “Like gardening or raising chickens. It keeps them active.”

Wilson said many of the plants were started with seeds raised inside at Arrowood and then planted in the garden.

Last summer, when the watermelons were ready for harvesting, there were more melons than the facility could use, so Wilson set up a table and sold the rest to passers-by.

“We sold pumpkins, tomatoes and gourds,” he said. “I thought we could use the money I made for more seeds next year.”

This year he added to the garden area and now has four spots covering approximately two and half acres: one for vine-growing produce, one for tomatoes and sweet corn, one for potatoes and sweet potatoes and the fourth a fellow resi-dent wants to experi-ment with on his own.

Wilson keeps busy around the property while waiting on agree-able spring-garden-planting weather. In the meantime, the plots are plowed, disked, tilled, smoothed and fertilized with cow manure.

“I clean up a little around (outside) and piddle around in the tim-ber,” he said referring to the wooded area south of Arrowood.

Strong pointed out Wilson’s interest in the woods have led to him making log planters that will be filled with annual and perennial flowers soon.

“Oh, I guess the logs are about three or four feet long,” Wilson said, “and some are 20 inches in diameter. They are ce-dar logs.” A space along the length of the log is cut out where the flow-ers will be located.

Wilson finds plenty to do at his new home and is doing well.

“I probably do too much,” he said, “but, my doctor told me to stay ac-tive and I feel great.”

The reasons for tak-ing up residence in a facility such as Arro-wood are varied, Strong said. “Some just need help with medications or some just need su-pervision for their own safety.” Providing famil-iar activities gives resi-dents independence and

makes the transition to residential care a little easier.

“Like our chickens,” Strong said. “We had a couple who left the farm and was having a rough time, but the wife took the baby chicks and watched over them in her room and was hap-pier.

“So, now we also have fresh eggs for the resi-dents.”

The state approved of the chickens, observed the residents’ joy in car-ing for them and thought it was great they helped a resident adjust to her new home.

Wilson said he is be-hind in planting the garden this year due to frequent rain showers, but “if the sun shines” he’ll be planting onions, cucumbers, turnips and early crop potatoes. He plans to sell the excess at his produce table east of Arrowood.

Saturday - City-wide garage sale; PEO bake sale, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. at Terry’s Flowers; Kan-sas Sampler, Liberal, Kan.

May 7 - Hoe and Hope Garden Club meeting, 9 a.m., library.Mary Martha Circle

Members of the Mary Martha Circle of the First Baptist Church met Thursday at the church. Tammy Neeley was hostess and nine members at-tended. Items for May baskets were donated for roll call.

Neeley gave the de-votions using Scrip-tures 1 John 3:1 and Romans 8:13-15. Joyce Hudson led the sing-ing.

Announcements in-cluded an invitation to attend a May 1 lun-cheon and program at Chanute First Baptist Church, May baskets will be assembled that morning. Lorraine Ste-phens will be in charge of delivering Meals-

on-Wheels from May 15-31 and church clean-ing supplies should be brought to the May 23

meeting.Phyllis Loomis gave

the lesson titled “Eat Problems for Break-fast” referring to Ne-hemiah 13 and then closed in prayer.Dream Humboldt

The Dream Hum-boldt steering com-mittee met Thursday where Larry Tucker reported activities of the following Ac-tion Teams, Business, Housing and Down-town.

He announced a regional conversa-tion would be held in Fredonia on May 1 and four members from the steering committee plan to attend.

Last week Rick Wilson, resident at Arrowood Residential Care, started planting onion sets that are just one of many vegetables he plans to grow in the garden this summer. He started with 400 sets and still wants to add Vidalia onions.

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Pictured with Ron Conaway is Peggy Strong, ex-ecutive director of the local care facility.

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Amazon is the new Walmart when it comes to killing small retailers.

For 18 years the online megastore has crowded in on sales from bookstores to large items including appli-ances and furniture.

Its success is so huge that it’s now backing a bill to require Internet retailers to charge sales tax — a dra-matic change from its pre-vious lobbying efforts.

The reason Amazon can support the legislation is that it sees an opportunity to sell services that help online retailers figure the cumbersome tax structure individual to each state.

It’s also learned that in states that collect sales taxes for Internet sales, Amazon has weathered the tax quite nicely. Timely de-livery, free shipping and a great selection, it seems, are worth the additional charge in sales taxes.

In states that don’t man-date the tax, customers are to self-report all online pur-chases and pay the sales tax accordingly on their state income tax statements.

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quire businesses making $1 million or more must collect the sales tax on mer-chandise.

According to the Nation-al Council of State Legisla-tures, it’s estimated states are losing out on more than $23 billion in sales tax rev-enue from online sales.

For states like Kansas that are hurting for funds, that sales tax money could help avoid raising taxes elsewhere.

THE ANTI-TAX cabal such as Grover Nordquist’s Americans for Tax Reform and the Heritage Founda-tion are vocal opponents to levying the Internet sales tax.

Any tax is a bad tax, is their motto.

Those in favor of smaller government also find them-selves on the wrong side of the aisle when it comes to creating a new law on the books.

Nordquist maintains the law would create an un-equal playing field by giv-ing poor states such as Kan-sas an unfair advantage to states such as Washington, headquarters of Amazon.

In a “Let them eat cake,” attitude, Nordquist said the current system provides customers the best services at the lowest cost.

TRUTH IS, local retailers play a tremendous role in keeping small town Amer-ica alive.

Iola’s downtown square continues to draw visitors and prospective residents because of its attractive and vibrant stores.

Downtown merchants also can learn from those online such as Amazon that satisfying customers re-mains to be the calling card for business.

A good sales experience keeps customers coming back.

Big Internet retailers — remember, we’re talking only about businesses that have $1 million and more in profits — should have to collect sales taxes on their goods, especially if it helps make local retailers more competitive.

The Senate is likely to pass the measure come Monday, with House action to follow.

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By JOHN SCHLAGECKKansas Farm Bureau

Just when Kansas wheat growers thought this year couldn’t get any worse, Moth-er Nature dealt them a cruel blow with a record freeze. April 23 may have driven the final nail in the coffin for some wheat fields in southwestern Kansas.

Temperatures were plenty cold in Ford County where Rick Konecny recorded 18 degrees for an overnight low. East of his farm Dodge City reported a 23 degree night and north in Garden City the mer-cury dipped to 19 degrees.

“I’m not sure if our wheat crop can survive this freeze,” Konecny says. “This is a pret-ty severe freeze for this time of the year.”

But while he’s worried about the wheat crop, the veteran Ford County farmer hasn’t given up hope.

“Who knows what may hap-pen,” he says. “We’ll have to wait until it warms up. You can never count a wheat crop out. When you do, it’ll prove you wrong.”

Compounding the late April freeze was an earlier freeze when temperatures dropped as low as 13 degrees on April 10. After this killer freeze, Finney County farmer Gary Millershaski said his wheat looked like someone sprayed a defoliant on it.

When you couple these two hard freezes in April with the continuation of a three-year drought — some label as the worst since the 1930s, you have a recipe for disaster.

That’s been the case on Konecny’s three farms within a 22-mile radius west of Dodge City. During a 2½-year period, his land has fallen behind by 34 inches in moisture. That’s in a region of Kansas where the annual rainfall is 16-17 inches per year.

With no subsoil moisture and no rainfall, the winter wheat crop on Konecny’s farms looks bleak.

“We see some clouds once in a while,” the dry-land wheat farmer says. “A front occa-sionally moves through and the forecast is for moisture but all we receive is a couple

points of precipitation.”Konecny’s wheat crop 22

miles southwest of Dodge City is “virtually gone.”

Brown spots started to show up in early April.

“This wheat crumples in your fingers,” he says. “This year’s crop never got going.”

Freezes are a funny thing, Konecny says. When a freeze hits a dry plant that is already stressed for moisture it dis-rupts the cellular structure and even though the plant may still look green, it kills it, he says.

“It’s kind of like when you take a flower or leaf and press it in a book,” the Ford County farmer says. “It may main-tain the same color but there’s nothing there. It’s not a live plant anymore.”

WHILE MANY believe a wheat crop has nine lives, Konecny doesn’t believe this adage holds true this year. Couple that with his last three wheat crops that averaged 25, five and three bushels per acre, the prospect of another wheat failure would hit him square in the heart and deep in the pocket.

“It’s very hard right now,” he says. “As a farmer I’m used to producing, you want to pro-duce a wheat crop. It’s your livelihood. It’s how I grew up. Harvesting a good wheat crop helps define me and my self-worth. There’s a real weight that comes on you when you deal with three years of

drought and raising very little grain.”

Continuing to farm repre-sents a legacy of several gen-erations, Konecny explains. He feels not only responsible for his immediate family but the future of his children and the rich tradition of family farmers that were his parents and grandparents.

“Late at night, you some-times wonder, ‘Am I done? Can I continue to farm? How long do I go on with 50 years and the better part of my life de-voted to farming?’”

In spite of the dire circum-stances and the prospect for another drought and crop fail-ure, Konecny says he’ll keep the faith and pray to his God to help him weather this drought.

“We simply go through the effort as farmers,” he says. “I just always try to uphold my end of the bargain and pray. He’s always seen us through.”

Schlageck is a leading com-mentator on agriculture and rural Kansas. Born and raised on a diversified farm in north-western Kansas, his writing reflects a lifetime of experi-ence, knowledge and passion.

Freeze worsens wheat woes

Harvesting a good wheat crop helps define me and my self-worth. There’s a real weight that comes on you when you deal with three years of drought and raising very little grain.

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Rep. Lynn Jenkins,(Republican)130 Cannon House Office Building, Washington D.C., 20515; phone: (202) 225-6601; Pittsburg: 701 N. Broad-way, Pittsburg, KS 66762; phone: (620) 231-5966. Email: lynnjenkins.house.gov/contact-me/

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The intent of the Sun-flower Supreme program is to provide knowledge, guidance and tools to as-sist beef producers in improved reproductive performance of replace-ment heifers and in turn increase cow longevity with in a herd. The im-provements will occur as a result of the adop-tion of effective health protocols and success-fully utilizing available technologies and genetic tools. Focus will primar-ily be on decreasing dystocia issues, a whole herd health program, and breeding techniques

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Interstate 70 in downtown Kansas City is closed after a tractor-trailer truck drove over a guardrail and dropped onto the interstate.

The accident occurred early Tuesday in down-town Kansas City.

Investigators say the truck was on a ramp from Interstate 35 to I-70 when it went along the guard-rail before falling over the edge. The truck landed on its roof and debris was

thrown across eastbound lanes of Interstate 70.

The driver was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening.

The westbound lanes were closed to allow emergency vehicles and cleanup vehicles to reach the crash site.

Univ. of Kansas campus earns historic designation

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — University of Kansas leaders are hail-ing the designation of the Lawrence campus as a

new listing in the Nation-al Register of Historic Places.

The historic district of the campus covers the period of 1863 to 1951 and includes the Watson Li-brary, the World War II Memorial Campanile and The Hill overlooking Me-morial Stadium.

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Kansas unionemployee charged with embezzlement

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Federal prosecu-tor’s in Kansas have ac-cused a former union em-ployee of stealing about $50,000 from an employee

benefit plan.The Kansas City Star

reports that Angela Hen-inger worked as an ex-ecutive assistant for the Mobilization, Optimiza-tion, Stabilization and Training Trust, or MOST. MOST is an affiliate of the International Broth-erhood of Boilermakers, which is headquartered in Kansas City, Kan.

Heninger was charged last week in U.S. District Court in Kansas with one count of embezzlement, six counts of wire fraud and five counts of bank fraud.

Online court records don’t list a lawyer for Heninger, and a phone listing under her name was disconnected.

Cessna offers more voluntary buyouts

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Cessna Aircraft is offer-ing voluntary retirement buyouts for its hourly em-ployees.

The Wichita Eagle re-ports that Wichita-based aircraft company aims to get about 180 workers rep-resented by the Machin-

ists union to take the vol-untary retirement offer.

Cessna employs 8,200, including 5,800 in Wichi-ta. The company has said it needs to cut employ-ment figures because of sluggish demand for light business jets.

Cessna’s senior vice president of human re-sources Jim Walters said in a statement that the buyouts and a simi-lar program for salaried employees announced last month are expected to allow the company to make the majority of its workforce adjust-ments through voluntary means.

Ag. Department move presents dilemma for workers

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — More than 100 state employees are facing the dilemma of whether to move, commute more than 50 miles or retire when the Kansas Department of Agriculture moves from Topeka to Manhattan.

Agriculture Secretary Dale Rodman announced earlier this month the de-partment was making the 56-mile move to be closer to Kansas State Universi-ty, the future National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility and other ag-related enti-ties.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports the depart-

ment will keep its admin-istrative staff of about 10 employees in Topeka and will maintain a lab and field office at Forbes Field. The other 150 KDA workers will have to de-cide whether to commute, move or leave the depart-ment.

The proposal calls for KDA leave its downtown Topeka offices no later than June 30, 2014.

Kansas couple gives $2.5 million to KU Cancer Center

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City-ar-ea couple has donated $2.5 million to the University of Kansas Cancer Center.

The money from Tom and Teresa Walsh of Leawood will support the nurse navigators pro-gram. Nurse navigators help patients through ap-pointments, tests, treat-ments and follow-up, as well as providing emo-tional support.

The center announced the gift Monday. It said in a news release that the Walshes’ gift will support five new nurse navigator jobs.

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The Iola plant opened in 1976 and has expand-ed over the years to 450,000 square feet on

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Cottonwood Street east to First Street

— Broadway Street, from State Street east to Buckeye

— Jefferson Avenue, from Broadway South to Neosho Street

Schinstock said streets are evaluated by Street and Alley Super-intendent Dan Leslie, as well as monitored for use and amount of “road decomposition.” He said roads with high amount of use are given priority when de-ciding which roads will receive the surface re-placement.

He expects the pro-cess to be fairly speedy.

“I’m guessing within two weeks we’ll be out

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Crews began work on Monday, grinding the surface of Carpen-ter Street, and then will move on to Jackson Street. Jefferson and Broadway, both con-crete streets, will fol-low.

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While city streets are prioritized for mill and overlay projects, Schin-stock said other road-ways — such as North-western Street — are being patched by city crews as well.

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The Open Circle Club met April 10 at the B&B Cafe for breakfast.

Phyllis McVey was hostess, seven mem-

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The next meeting is May 8 at 9:30 a.m. at B&B Cafe. Mildred will act as hostess.

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Job outlook is optimisticBY ROXANA HEGEMAN

Associated PressWICHITA, Kan. (AP)

— Employment in Kan-sas is forecast to grow at a “slightly faster rate” than last year and is expected to add nearly 24,000 jobs to the state’s economy, according to a report released Tues-day.

The Center for Eco-nomic Development and Business Research at Wichita State Univer-sity forecast 1.8 percent growth, to add an esti-mated 23,794 new Kan-sas jobs in 2013.

“This is still slow growth — 1.8 percent is not fast, it is not stellar growth by any means,” said the center’s direc-tor, Jeremy Hill. “But we have a fairly optimis-tic forecast.”

Most of those new

jobs are in the service sector, which is expect-ed to grow by 2.2 percent and add 13,327 jobs this year. That is a broad sector that includes law-yers and hotel workers.

Also adding jobs is the production sector — which includes the energy and construc-tion industries and is forecast to grow 2.3 per-cent and add 5,279 jobs. Many of those jobs are tied to the growth of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in which wa-ter, sand and chemicals are injected into rock to free the oil and gas within. Construction jobs are also rebound-ing.

“The economy is growing. The question is whether there are headwinds in the na-tional and state econ-omy — and how that

would affect it,” Hill said.

Among concerns are that tight fiscal policies and budget cuts at the national and state level will continue to drag on the Kansas economy, Hill said. He also cited as worrisome the un-certainty about imple-mentation of the new health care law and the slowing of employment growth last month.

But Hill also pointed to positive economic signs in consumer spending, increasing inventories, growing business profits and rebounding housing starts.

Housing starts have been rising nationwide and now Kansas is also beginning to see im-provement, which is re-flected in the construc-tion job growth.

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wouldn’t want to anoth-er spending bill to con-sider and why GOP lead-ers would want to limit debate.

“Why do we have a fear of sending a bill to the floor of the people’s house,” Henry said.

One of the biggest obstacles in the budget talks is how to treat high-

er education. The House proposes a 4 percent cut in spending while the Senate is seeking a 2 per-cent reduction.

BOTH ARE AT ODDS with Republican Gov. Sam Brownback who has been touring the state urging lawmakers to spare higher educa-tion from any cuts. He’s

asking them to endorse his proposal to keep the state’s sales tax rate at 6.3 percent instead of let-ting fall to 5.7 percent as scheduled in July, giving Kansas about $258 mil-lion more in revenue.

Brownback has said he prefers legislators settle the tax negotia-tions before finalizing the budget.

Specifics were not dis-cussed, though generally it keeps in place Iola’s fire department structure and staffs ambulances at type I level — a paramed-ic on each run — in the three cities.

As with any service, ambulance service costs are found mainly in personnel — estimates ranged from 70 to 80 per-cent — and would be re-duced if fewer employees, 33 or 30, were the out-come.

Michael Burnett, coun-ty ambulance director, opined that if no money were saved with a merger, perhaps “we should stay with the status quo.”

It was Iola Mayor Joel Wicoff who moved dis-cussion off dead center.

“Let’s push forward with 30 (employees) and have a proposal by next week,” he said.

The county’s three commissioners and the full city governing body, eight council members and mayor, will meet Monday evening at the Dr. John Sills Bass Com-munity Building.

Then, Sell and Call will lay out the plan with pro-posed budget.

WILLIAMS prefers whatever evolves to have a public safety board, similar to the Allen Coun-ty Hospital trustees, in a management position.

With what most agreed should be a workable plan coming, conversations Monday likely will center on ultimate authority.

If the county takes the reins — of Iola fire and a merged ambulance ser-vice — the expectation is that a part of any agree-ment will be protection of benefits accrued by city employees, such as was done when 911 dispatch was taken over by the county and city employ-ees transferred.

EMS personnel would be cross-trained to lend assistance in firefighting, not in the role of a full-fledged firefighter, but at least in support.

Some personnel ad-justments naturally will occur, said Don Becker, a city councilman.

He recalled business mergers with which he was familiar and noted that management num-bers naturally are less for one group after a merger than before.

While cost-saving is a factor, all agreed provid-ing citizens with upscale

service was the goal.“In no way, shape or

form do we want to re-duce service,” Williams said.

Sell, in a pragmatic view, noted “we’re all aware of history” of Iola and Allen County’s disagreements over am-bulance service and Iola starting its own in 2008, and “our mission is to work together for a merg-er. We can work out the details.”

That’s the court the ball is bouncing in today.

ONCE AN equitable plan draws agreement, attorneys for the two governing bodies will de-velop a contract, which would be binding, accord-ing to County Counselor Alan Weber on future councils and commis-sions for its duration, ex-cept for an escape clause either could trigger.

For continuity’s sake, the contract likely would roll — an additional year would be added each year to maintain it at three, four or however many years.

Fire Chief Don Leap-heart pointed out the ne-cessity of a longer term contract to give employ-ees job security.

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Register/Richard LukenMarmaton Valley High’s Ashlynn Pinkerton and her Wildcat teammates rolled to a 17-2 victory over visiting Altoona-Midway Monday in the first game of their doubleheader.

Wildcat girls romp past Atloona-Midway

Register/Richard LukenAllen Community College’s Trey Francis fields a ground ball in a game earlier this season. He and his Red Devil teammates saw their 2013 season end with a double-header split Monday against Fort Scott. Allen lost 13-1 in the opener before rebounding to win, 1-0, in the night-cap.

SEASON ENDS

By RICHARD LUKENrichard@iolaregister.com

MORAN — Marmaton Val-ley High’s girls scored early and often Monday.

The Wildcats erupted for nine runs after one inning in their opener against visiting Altoona-Midway High, ending the game in the third frame with a 17-2 win.

The trend was nearly identi-cal in the second contest.

The Wildcats again took control early, winning 17-2.

“It was good for the girls to play well,” Wildcat coach Brenda Mills said. “I’m happy for them.”

Kenzie Harrison kept Al-toona’s batters off balance with her off-speed pitches, throwing three hitless innings and striking out four.

The Wildcat batters turned walks into runs with timely hits. MaRyiah Cavender had a single and double. Shauna Knight also doubled, while Emily Boyd and Kacie Shad-den each had singles.

Cavender pitched the sec-ond game, striking out two while allowing one hit over

By HOWARD FENDRICHAP Sports Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Last summer, NBA veteran Jason Collins considered joining an old Stanford college room-mate, U.S. Rep. Joseph Ken-nedy III, at Boston’s gay pride parade.

Collins eventually decided he shouldn’t, because he want-ed to keep his secret safe: For more than a decade as a profes-sional athlete, he had remained silent about his sexuality, wor-ried about what teammates, opponents, fans — the world, really — might think.

Then came the Boston Mara-thon bombings two weeks ago, which Collins says “reinforced the notion that I shouldn’t wait for the circumstances of my coming out to be perfect. Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully?”

So after having, he explains, “endured years of misery and gone to enormous lengths to

GARNETT — Iola Middle School’s Drake Sell served up the low score, beating his nearest teammate by 14 strokes Monday.

Sell’s 53 was the best round of the day for the Pony golfers, who traveled to the Anderson County Invitational. His score earned him 15th overall.

Others scoring well for Iola were Addison Prather, who took seventh in girls play with

Iola High’s baseball and softball teams will begin Pio-neer League Tournament play Thursday.

The Mustangs will play at Allen Community College’s baseball diamond, regardless of their opponent. The Fillies will open the tournament on the road.

Matchups will be an-nounced Wednesday.

Each will play two games on Thursday.

Admission to the tourna-ment games in Iola are $4 for adults and $3 for students.

Both the baseball and soft-ball teams will return to the ACC fields Monday for the fi-nal rounds.

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IMS golfers hit links

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CHERRYVALE — It took a while for Humboldt High’s softball team to shake off the rust Monday afternoon.

Playing their first games in 10 days, the Lady Cubs trailed Cherryvale 6-2 after three innings of their open-er at Cherryvale.

The lead remained until Humboldt erupted for eight in the fifth and seven in the seventh of a 17-6 win.

The roll continued in the second game, a 18-0 Hum-boldt romp.

The victories lift Hum-boldt to 7-2 on the season and 5-2 in Tri-Valley League action.

“You could tell we had not played in 10 days by the way we started,” Humboldt coach Brad Piley said.

After spotting Humboldt a 2-0 lead, Cherryvale scored

four times in the bottom of the first before adding single runs in the second and third.

Humboldt’s fifth-inning outburst gave the Lady Cubs a 10-6 lead.

Several Humboldt players stepped up offensively.

Breanna Kline had a sin-gle, double, triple and three stolen bases with two RBIs. Kayle Riebel ripped three doubles with a stolen base and three RBIs. Brook Turn-er had two singles and a dou-ble with one stolen base and one RBI. Courtney Richey had a single and home run with a stolen base and RBI. Megan Hudlin had a single and double. Morgan Mor-ris blasted a home run to go with two singles. She drove in four. Kasey Beeman had

Lady Cubs sweep

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DAVE SKRETTAAP Sports Writer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Over the first few innings Monday night, Wade Davis kept making good pitches that the Cleveland Indians kept hitting into holes in the Kansas City Royals defense.

When he started making poor pitches, though, every-thing really unraveled.

Ryan Raburn hit a three-run homer to cap a six-run fifth inning, and Ubaldo Jimenez shut down the Kan-sas City offense in a 9-0 vic-tory that gave the Indians a

split of their four-game se-ries.

“A tough night. They hit some good pitches off Wade, but they hit some mistakes, too,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “Wade wasn’t up in the zone, but a lot of the balls they hit were catching a little too much of the plate down.”

Such as the one Raburn sent scorching over the fence in the fifth inning.

Raburn added another homer off reliever Kelvin

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High School Baseball/Softball

Today, at Cherryvale, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, vs. CANEY VALLEY, 4:30 p.m.

High School TrackToday, at Altoona-

MidwayThursday, at Cherryvale

Yates Center

High School Baseball/Softball

Today, JV at Chanute, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, Pioneer League Tournament, at Al-len Community College, TBA

Friday, JV at Wellsville, 4:30 p.m.

Monday, Pioneer League Tournament, TBA

High School TrackToday, at Burlington,

3:30 p.m.Thursday, JV at Crest In-

vitational at Iola, 3:30 p.m.Friday, at Chanute, 3:30

p.m.Monday, JV at Iola Invita-

tional, 4 p.m.High School TennisThursday, at Class 4A

Regionals, IndependenceFriday, at Class 4A Re-

gionals, IndependenceHigh School Golf

Today, at Coffeyville, 1 p.m.

Saturday, at Anderson County Invitational, 8:30 a.m.

Monday, at Chanute, 3 p.m.

Middle School GolfWednesday, at Chanute,

1 p.m.

Iola

High School TrackToday, at Altoona-Mid-

wayThursday, at Crest Invita-

tional at Iola, 3:30 p.m.High School

Baseball/SoftballToday, vs. CHETOPA,

4:30 p.m.Thursday, vs. OSWEGO,

4:30 p.m.High School Golf

Today, JV at Uniontown, 3 p.m.

Thursday, at Uniontown, 3 p.m.

Monday, Three Rivers League Tournament at Jay-hawk-Linn

Marmaton Valley

High School TrackToday, at Altoona-Mid-

wayThursday, at Crest Invita-

tional at Iola, 3:30 p.m.Monday, at Iola Invita-

tional, 4 p.m.

Crest

High School TrackToday, at Altoona-Mid-

wayThursday, at Crest Invita-

tional at Iola, 3:30 p.m.Monday, JV at Lyon

County Meet, Emporia, 3 p.m.

Southern Coffey Co.

High School Baseball/Softball

Today, JV softball vs. BURLINGTON, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, at Union-town, 2 p.m.

Friday, vs. EUREKA, 4:30 p.m.

Monday, vs. CANEY VALLEY, 4 p.m.

High School TrackThursday, at CherryvaleFriday, at ChanuteMonday, at Iola, 4 p.m.

High School GolfToday, at Neodesha Thursday, at UniontownMonday, at Tri-Valley

League Meet, Neodesha

Humboldt

SportsCalendar

East Division W L Pct GBBoston 18 7 .720 —New York 15 10 .600 3Baltimore 15 11 .577 3½Tampa Bay 12 13 .480 6Toronto 9 17 .346 9½

Central Division W L Pct GBDetroit 14 10 .583 —Kansas City 13 10 .565 ½Minnesota 11 11 .500 2Cleveland 10 13 .435 3½Chicago 10 14 .417 4

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 16 9 .640 —Oakland 15 12 .556 2Seattle 12 16 .429 5½Los Angeles 9 16 .360 7Houston 8 18 .308 8½

East Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 16 9 .640 —Washington 13 13 .500 3½Philadelphia 12 14 .462 4½New York 10 14 .417 5½

Miami 7 19 .269 9½Central Division

W L Pct GBPittsburgh 15 11 .577 —St. Louis 14 11 .560 ½Cincinnati 15 12 .556 ½Milwaukee 13 11 .542 1Chicago 10 15 .400 4½

West Division W L Pct GBColorado 16 10 .615 —Arizona 15 11 .577 1San Francisco 14 12 .538 2Los Angeles 12 13 .480 3½San Diego 9 16 .360 6½

Monday’s GamesAL

Houston 9, N.Y. Yankees 1Detroit 4, Minnesota 3Cleveland 9, Kansas City 0Oakland 10, L.A. Angels 8,

19 inningsNL

Miami 4, N.Y. Mets 3, 15 in-nings

Atlanta 3, Washington 2Chicago Cubs 5, San Diego 3

Milwaukee 10, Pittsburgh 4Cincinnati 2, St. Louis 1San Francisco 6, Arizona 4Colorado 12, L.A. Dodgers 2

Today’s GamesAL

Houston (Humber 0-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 3-1), 7:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Worley 0-3) at Detroit (Verlander 2-2), 7:05 p.m.

Boston (Lester 4-0) at Toron-to (Morrow 0-2), 7:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quin-tana 2-0) at Texas (Darvish 4-1), 8:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Cobb 3-1) at Kansas City (Shields 1-2), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 1-1) at Oakland (Parker 0-4), 10:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Hammel 3-1) at Seattle (Maurer 2-3), 10:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Hefner 0-2) at Miami (Slowey 0-2), 7:10 p.m.

IntraleaguePhiladelphia (Halladay 2-2)

at Cleveland (McAllister 1-3), 7:10 p.m.

NLWashington (G.Gonzalez

2-1) at Atlanta (Hudson 2-1), 7:10 p.m.

San Diego (Volquez 1-3) at Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 0-3), 8:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 2-2) at Milwaukee (Estrada 2-1), 8:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Arroyo 2-2) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 2-1), 8:15 p.m.

San Francisco (Bumgarner 3-0) at Arizona (Cahill 1-3), 9:40 p.m.

Colorado (J.De La Rosa 2-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 2-1), 10:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesMinnesota at Detroit, 1:05

p.m.L.A. Angels at Oakland, 3:35

p.m.

Houston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Boston at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Texas,

8:05 p.m.Tampa Bay at Kansas City,

8:10 p.m.Baltimore at Seattle, 10:10

p.m.N.Y. Mets at Miami, 12:40

p.m.Pittsburgh at Milwaukee,

1:10 p.m.Cincinnati at St. Louis, 1:45

p.m.Philadelphia at Cleveland,

7:05 p.m.Washington at Atlanta, 7:10

p.m.San Diego at Chicago Cubs,

8:05 p.m.San Francisco at Arizona,

9:40 p.m.Colorado at L.A. Dodgers,

10:10 p.m.

MLB standings

NEODESHA — Tan-ner McNutt was golden — literally — Thursday afternoon.

The Humboldt High senior took home first place in four events at the Neodesha Invita-tional Track Meet.

McNutt’s gold med-als in the long jump, 200- and 400-meter dashes and as part of the 4x800-meter relay team helped Humboldt claim second as a team. He teamed with An-drew and Nick Keazer and Ethan Bartlett.

He wasn’t alone.Senior Sam Aguirre

also won the 110-meter hurdles, while claim-

ing third in the 300-me-ter hurdles. He also teamed with Bartlett, Bryce Isaac and Nick Keazer to win the 4x400-meter relay.

The Lady Cubs were led by Haylie Yost, who took third in the 800-meter run, and Sheri Middleton, who claimed bronze in the 400-meter dash.

Humboldt’s girls fin-ished ninth as a team.

BoysBryce Isaac, fourth, triple

jump, 38’10”Andrew Keazer, second,

800-meter run, 2:12.8Tanner McNutt, first, long

jump, 21’2”, first, 200-me-ter dash, 22.9 seconds; first, 400-meter dash, 50.5.

Hayden Boring, sixth, long

jump, 18’7 1/2”Sam Aguirre, first, 110-me-

ter hurdles, 15.7; third, 300-meter hurdles, 42.4.

Ethan Bartlett, fourth, 400-meter dash, 53.1

Nick Keazer, fifth, 400-me-ter dash, 55.4

4x100-meter relay (Layne Gonzales, Rayden Goltry, Jimmy Mangold, Ben Welch), sixth, 54.1

4x400-meter relay (Bartlett, Isaac, Aguirre, N. Keazer), first, 3:41.9

4x800-meter relay (Mc-Nutt, A. Keazer, Nick Keazer, Bartlett), first, 8:54

GirlsHaylie Yost, third, 800-me-

ter run, 2:51Kolbyn Allen, fourth,

800-meter run, 2:54Shaylie Ellis, fifth, long

jump, 13’11 3/4”Sheri Middleton, third,

400-meter dash, 67.8.

BURLINGAME — Southern Coffey Coun-ty’s track and field ath-letes earned several top medals Monday at the Bearcat Relays,

Leading the charge was the Titans’ Aaron True, who won the jav-elin with a throw of 155 feet, 3 inches, while claiming second in the 800-meter run in 2 min-utes, 25.42 seconds.

Hunter Pankey took home second in the long jump, 18’10”, while Walker Harred finished second in the discus, 125’8 1/2”.

The Titans fin-ished fifth with 50 points. Lyndon won with 154.5 points.

On the girls’ side, Martyna Hegwald took home a pair of silver medals. She finished second in the 100-meter hurdles in 19.87 seconds and second in the 300-me-ter hurdles, finishing 56.01 seconds. Connie Lyda finished second in the javelin, 94’3”, Chenae Newkirk was second in the 800, 2:45.54, Sarah Webb took second in the high jump, clearing 4’6” and the 4x200-meter relay team of Lyda, Webb, Hegwald and Newkirk took second in 2:05.75.

The Lady Titans finished third with 71 points. Marais des Cygnes Valley won with 111 points.

Girls3200-meter run5. Amber Emmons,

17:14.12Shot put4. Breanna Isch, 30’2 1/2”Javelin2. Connie Lyda, 94’3”800-meter run2. Chenae Newkirk,

2:45.54Triple jump5. Kalyn Deal, 26’10”4x200-meter relay2. SCC (Lyda, Sarah

Webb, Martyna Hegwald, Newkirk), 2:05.75

1600-meter run4. Jessica Cole, 6:52.20400-meter dash5. Kaylie Garretson,

1:23.836. Maycee Hegwald,,

1:29.69

High jump2. Webb, 4’6”100-meter hurdles2. Martyna Hegwald, 19.87Discus5. Myranda Hegwald, 79’1”4x100-meter relay5. SCC (Deal, Maycee Heg-

wald, Emmons, Lyda), 1:01.79300-meter hurdles2. Martyna Hegwald, 56.014x400-meter relay4. SCC (Lyda, Webb, Mar-

tyna Hegwald, Newkirk)Boys

Triple jump6. Hunter Pankey, 34’1 1/2”Discus2. Walker Harred, 125’8 1/2Javelin

1. Aaron True, 155’3”5. Harred, 128’5”Long jump2. Pankey, 18’10”Shot put4. Harred, 43’10 1/2”4x100-meter relay5. SCC (Brier Johnson,

Charlie Patterson, Michael Hill, Harred), 50.13

800-meter run2. Aaron True, 2:25.425. Chism Newkirk, 2:31.126. Pankey, 2:32.224x200-meter relay5. SCC (Newkirk) Patter-

son, Hill, Johnson), 1:45.594x400-meter relay5. SCC (Pankey, Zach

Roush, Hill, Johnson), 4:07.65

a 67, Mea DeLa Torre, who was eighth with a 68, and Emilee Luedke, who was 10th with a 71.

Also playing for Iola on the boys side were Sam Terhune, 66, and Zeth DePriest, 71.

Royster’s Clete Carl-

son was the top medalist with a 39.

Iola’s four-man total for the day was 254. Royster was the top team with a score of 164.

The Ponies have one more event scheduled, Thursday at Safari Golf Course in Chanute.

Photo by Mike MyerHumboldt High’s Megan Hudlin drives the ball in a game earlier this season. On Monday, Hudlin and her Lady Cub teammates scored 35 runs in a doubleheader sweep at Cherryvale.

two singles and an RBI. Jaci Ross had a single and two RBIs. Megan Herder also singled.

Ross started and pitched five innings, al-lowing six hits and two walks with three strike-outs. Courtney Richey pitched two innings of scoreless relief, allow-ing one hit and one walk with three strikeouts.

RICHEY GOT THE start in game 2, and was masterful from the start. She pitched a perfect game over five innings, allowing nary a hit or walk, with seven strike-outs.

She also was the of-fensive star with her second home run on the day to go with a double, single, stolen base and four RBIs. Kline had

two singles and two sto-len bases. Riebel had a double. Turner had two stolen bases and an RBI. Morris had a single, Hu-lett stole two bases. Hud-lin had a single, double and three RBIs. Ross had a double and RBI. Herd-er had a single and RBI. Delaney Umholtz had a triple.

Humboldt led 6-0 after one inning, 9-0 after two and 13-0 after three. The Lady Cubs put the finish-ing touch with five runs in the top of the fifth.

“Courtney had a great night in the circle,” Pi-ley said.

Because of forecasts for rain Thursday, Hum-boldt and Uniontown will move up its baseball and softball games to 2 p.m. Wednesday, HHS athletics director Steph-anie Splechter said.

three innings. She also had a triple and sin-gle at the plate, while Shadden pounded out an inside-the-park home run. Ashlynn Pinkerton doubled, Knight had two singles

and Molly Hamlin had one single.

Marmaton Valley continues its frenetic pace this week. The Wildcats host Chetopa in a doubleheader to-day and Oswego Thurs-day.

H WildcatsContinued from B1

Register/Richard LukenMarmaton Valley High’s Kenzie Harrison deliv-ers a pitch Monday in a doubleheader sweep over Altoona-Midway. The Wildcats won both games with identical scores of 17-2.

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BURLINGTON — De-spite being outmanned on the golf course, Yates Center High’s Derrick Updegrove and Derrick Heslop still competed Monday.

The duo competed in a junior varsity tourna-ment in Burlington. The

tournament format was a three-man scramble. Because the Wildcats only had Updegrove and Heslop, they played a two-man scramble.

They shot a 51, head coach Kevin Barnes said, good for 10th over-all.

Yates Center JVgolfers take 10th

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Herrera in the eighth, and Jason Kipnis also went deep on a big night for Cleveland’s strug-gling offense.

“I put myself in some spots,” said Davis (2-2), who allowed eight runs and 12 hits and three walks in just 4 2-3 in-nings — little improve-ment over his previous start, when he went 3 2-3.

“My pitch selection was probably off,” he said. “I made some bad decisions and didn’t ex-ecute.”

Jimenez (1-2) didn’t have any such problem.

He allowed only two walks and an infield sin-gle by Billy Butler over his first seven innings. Otherwise, the former All-Star kept the Royals off balance in a dazzling start that brought back memories of the pitcher who once threw a no-hitter for the Colorado Rockies.

“He threw the ball well,” said Mike Moutaskas, who dou-bled off Jimenez in the eighth. “He got ahead of us early and mixed his pitches well. That’s a great pitcher out there.

His track record speaks for itself. We had an off-day. He was mixing in three or four pitches. He had a good sinker with good action. He was get-ting ahead 0-1 and put-ting us in a hole nearly every at-bat.”

Jimenez has struggled mightily over the past couple of years, and hadn’t won a game since Aug. 9, 2012. He’d lost all eight of his decisions over 12 starts, and had been especially dread-ful of late, allowing 18

earned runs in 11 in-nings over his past three outings.

The Royals couldn’t solve him, though.

They didn’t really come close.

“You’re always look-ing to be encouraged,” Indians manager Terry Francona said, “but we flew right past encour-aged and got sideways. ... That was just so much delight tonight.”

Jimenez faced the minimum number of batters through the first

three innings, and would have been flirting with another no-hitter had Butler not hit a ground-er to the right of short-stop Asdrubal Cabrera with two gone in the fourth. Cabrera was too deep in the hole to throw out Butler at first base, resulting in the Royals’ only hit until the eighth inning.

Kipnis hit his first home run since Sept. 13 with one out in the first, and Michael Brantley’s leadoff double and a

base hit by Cabrera in the third gave the Indi-ans a 2-0 lead.

Davis kept minimiz-ing the damage until the fifth, when Brantley’s one-out double again stirred up trouble. Kip-nis walked and Cabrera followed with an RBI double. Mark Reynolds added a two-out base hit, and Carlos Santa-na’s run-scoring double pushed Cleveland’s lead to 5-0 lead.

Royals pitching coach Dave Eiland came out to

visit Davis, but it didn’t do much good. Raburn’s three-run shot, his first homer since May 15, 2012, finally chased him from the game.

Moustakas doubled leading off the eighth against Jimenez, and a single by Jeff Fran-coeur finally ended his night. Reliever Nick Hagadon left both run-ners stranded by retir-ing three straight bat-ters, though, preserving Jimenez’s fine perfor-mance.

“It felt really good,” Jimenez said. “I was able to throw everything for a strike, fastball, breaking ball. It all felt good.”

Notes: RHP James Shields takes the mound against his former team when Tampa Bay opens a three-game series in Kansas City on Tues-day night. Indians RHP Zach McAllister will be on the mound to open a two-game set in Phila-delphia. ... Indians OF Michael Bourn (sliced hand) hopes to play in the next couple of days, possibly on a short re-hab assignment. He’s eli-gible to come off the DL on Tuesday.

COFFEYVILLE — Io-lan Brek Ulrich isn’t one to let a disappointing ending spoil what other-wise was a solid showing for the Iola Soccer Club Sunday.

Iola Soccer Club, a traveling 14-and-under youth squad featuring players from Iola and the surrounding area, was tied with host Cof-feyville going into the fi-nal minute of extra time.

Coffeyville scored, however, with about 30 seconds left in the match to win, 2-1.

The loss drops Iola into a three-way tie for first with Coffeyville and Independence.

“The ending was a heart-breaker, but I think we surprised them with how well

we played,” Ulrich, the team’s coach, said.

The same teams played one week earlier in Iola, with Coffeyville victorious, 2-1.

Zane Beasley netted Iola’s only goal on an as-sist from Bret Plumlee in the first half.

Goalie Braden Plum-lee had nine saves.

Iola is home for two games Sunday, playing a pair of Chanute squads starting at 2 p.m. at the Davis Athletic Fields. The second game is ex-pected to start about 3:30.

A snack bar will be set up, with proceeds to help pay for the team’s upcoming trip to a tour-nament in Leawood.

There is no admission charge to attend either game.

Register/Richard LukenIola Soccer Club member Chloe Gardner, right, and a player from Coffeyville grapple for position on the soccer field in a game in Iola April 14. On Sunday, Iola lost a heart-breaker on the road at Cof-feyville, 2-1.

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John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/MCTKansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez (13) tags out Cleveland Indians’ Asdrubal Cabrera (13) dur-ing first-inning action at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Monday.

live a lie,” Collins be-came the first active player in one of the four major U.S. pro sports leagues to come out as gay. He wrote a first-per-son article posted Mon-day on Sports Illustrat-ed’s website that begins: “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.”

Most recently a little-used reserve center for the Washington Wizards after a midseason trade

from the Boston Celtics, the 7-foot Collins is a free agent who can sign with any team. He wants to keep playing in the NBA.

And he plans to be in Boston on June 8, march-ing alongside Kennedy at the city’s 2013 gay pride parade.

“I didn’t doubt for a second, knowing he was gay, that he would be the one to do it,” Kennedy, a Massachusetts Demo-crat, told The Associ-ated Press. “I’ve never

known him to look for publicity, or to look for the spotlight, but given that no one else would raise their hand, I knew he would do it.”

Added Kennedy: “I’m so proud of him. And I’m so proud to call him a friend.”

In an interview taped Monday and aired this morning, Collins told ABC’s “Good Morning America”: “I think the country is ready for sup-porting an openly gay

basketball player.”His announcement

Monday, nearly two weeks after the Wiz-ards’ season ended, im-mediately drew praise and backing not only from pals, current and former teammates and coaches, the NBA itself, and a sponsor, but also from the White House. President Barack Obama called him — “he was in-credibly supportive and he was proud of me,” Collins told ABC — along

with former President Bill Clinton, and athletes in various other sports.

“I certainly appreci-ate it, as a gay person. Any time you can have someone this high-pro-file come out, it’s just so helpful, particularly to young people. We’ve reached a tipping point,” said Billie Jean King, a member of the Inter-national Tennis Hall of Fame who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles.

“We’ve got to get rid of the shame. That’s the main thing,” King said in a telephone interview. “And Jason’s going to help that. He’s going to help give people courage to come out.”

In texts to the AP, Wizards guard Garrett Temple wrote, “I was surprised. I didn’t know and I was right next to him in the locker room. It definitely took a lot of courage for him to come out. He was a great team-mate,” and rookie Brad-ley Beal wrote: “I didn’t know about it! I don’t think anyone did! I am proud of his decision to come out and express the way he feels and I’m supportive of that!!”

Collins’ coach with

the Celtics, Doc Riv-ers, drew a comparison between Monday’s an-nouncement and Jackie Robinson’s role when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, break-ing the color barrier in Major League Baseball.

“I am extremely happy and proud of Jason Col-lins. He’s a pro’s pro. He is the consummate pro-fessional and he is one of my favorite ‘team’ play-ers I have ever coached,” Rivers said. “If you have learned anything from Jackie Robinson, it is that teammates are al-ways the first to accept. It will be society who has to learn tolerance.”

Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant tweeted that he was proud of Col-lins, writing: “Don’t suf-focate who u r because of the ignorance of others,” followed by the words “courage” and “support.”

Asked if he hoped other athletes will follow his example, Collins told ABC: “I hope that every player makes a decision that leads to their own happiness, whatever happiness that is in life. I know that I, right now, am he happiest that I’ve ever been in my life.”

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— Looking for a new way to get that jolt of caffeine energy? Food companies are betting snacks like potato chips, jelly beans and gum with a caffein-ated kick could be just the answer.

The Food and Drug Administration is close-ly watching the market-ing of these foods and wants to know more about their safety.

The FDA said Monday it will look at the foods’ effects on children in re-sponse to a caffeinated gum introduced this week by Wrigley. Alert Energy Gum promises “the right energy, right now.”

The agency is already investigating the safety of energy drinks and en-ergy shots, prompted by consumer reports of ill-ness and death.

Michael Taylor, FDA’s deputy commissioner of foods, said Monday that the only time FDA explicitly approved the added use of caffeine in a food or drink was in the 1950s for colas. The current proliferation of caffeine added to foods is “beyond anything FDA envisioned,” Taylor said.

“It is disturbing,” Tay-lor said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We’re concerned about whether they have been adequately evalu-ated.”

Taylor said the agency will look at the potential impact these “new and easy sources” of caf-feine will have on chil-dren’s health and will take action if necessary. He said that he and other FDA officials have held meetings with some of

the large food companies that have ventured into caffeinated products, including Mars Inc., of which Wrigley is a sub-sidiary.

Wrigley and other companies adding caf-feine to their products have labeled them as for adult use only. A spokes-woman for Wrigley, De-nise M. Young, said the gum is for “adults who are looking for foods

with caffeine for en-ergy” and each piece contains about 40 milli-grams, or the equivalent amount found in half a cup of coffee. She said the company will work with FDA.

“Millions of Ameri-cans consume caffeine responsibly and in mod-eration as part of their daily routines,” Young said.

Food manufacturers have added caffeine to candy, nuts and other snack foods in recent years. Jelly Belly “Ex-treme Sport Beans,” for example, have 50 mg of caffeine in each 100-calorie pack, while Arma Energy Snx mar-kets trail mix, chips and other products that have caffeine.

Critics say it’s not enough for the compa-nies to say they are mar-keting the products to adults when the caffeine

is added to items like candy that are attractive to children. Major medi-cal associations have warned that too much caffeine can be danger-ous for children, who have less ability to pro-cess the stimulant than adults. The American Academy of Pediatrics says caffeine has been linked to harmful effects on young people’s devel-oping neurologic and cardiovascular systems.

“Could caffeinated macaroni and cheese or breakfast cereal be next?” said Michael Ja-cobson, director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which wrote the FDA a letter concerned about the number of foods with added caffeine last year. “One serving of any of these foods isn’t likely to harm anyone. The concern is that it will be increasingly easy to con-sume caffeine through-out the day, sometimes unwittingly, as compa-nies add caffeine to can-dies, nuts, snacks and other foods. “

Taylor said the agency would look at the added caffeine in its totality — while one product might not cause adverse effects, the increasing number of caffeinated products on the market, including drinks, could mean more adverse health effects for children.

Last November, the FDA said it had received 92 reports over four years that cited illnesses, hos-pitalizations and deaths after consumption of an energy shot marketed as 5-Hour Energy. The FDA said it had also received reports that cited the highly caffeinated Mon-ster Energy Drink in several deaths.

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JULHAS ALAMAssociated Press

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — A top Bangladesh court today ordered the government to “imme-diately” confiscate the property of a collapsed building’s owner, as thousands of protesters demanding death pen-alty for the man clashed with police, leaving 100 people injured.

A two-judge panel of the High Court also asked the central bank to freeze the assets of the owners of the five garment facto-ries in the building, and use the money to pay the salaries and other ben-efits of their workers.

The order came af-ter police produced the building owner, Moham-med Sohel Rana, and the factory owners in court. The order did not elabo-rate but it was implied that the salaries of the dead victims would be paid to their relatives.

At least 386 people were killed when the ille-gally constructed 8-story Rana Plaza collapsed on April 24. A total of 3,122 people were employed in the garment factories. It is not clear how many were working at the time, but some 2,500 people

were pulled out of the rubble alive.

The collapse has be-come the deadliest disas-ter to hit Bangladesh’s garment industry, which is worth $20 billion annu-ally and supplies global retailers.

Rescue efforts have now been suspended and authorities are using heavy machinery to clear the broken and crushed concrete slabs to get to the bottom floor, where

emergency workers ex-pect to find many more dead bodies.

Today, clashes broke out again between thou-sands of garment work-ers and police in Savar, leaving at least 100 people injured, the United News of Bangladesh news agency reported.

The protesters also smashed at least 20 ve-hicles in the area, the agency said.

EARLIER, people had waited patiently at the site for news of missing relatives, holding their pictures and identity cards as they watched cranes lifting sections of

ceilings and floors from the rubble. Emergency workers in hard hats used drilling and cutting machines to break up the slabs into manageable pieces.

Ratna Akhtar, look-ing for her husband at a nearby school ground, wailed: “Give me my husband back. At least I want to see his dead body if not alive.”

Most of the bodies have been handed to fam-

ilies except 49 that have been kept at the morgue of state-run Dhaka Medi-cal College Hospital for identification. Mahmud Ali of the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society said many more bod-ies are believed trapped under the rubble of the building, judging by stench of decomposing flesh still emanating.

Zillur Rahman Chow-dhury, a Dhaka district administrator, put the number of missing at 100, based on the infor-mation received from the families of the miss-ing.

But volunteers from the Social Welfare Club

based at the Jahangir-nagar University say the official tally is in-complete because people have little faith in the government and don’t bother reporting their loss.

Ahsan Imu, a volun-teer at the club, said that based on information gathered from families at the site at least 1,000 people may be missing, which if true would put the death toll at 1,400. However, he cautioned that there may be some duplication in the list.

On Monday, a magis-trate give police 15 days to interrogate Rana, the building owner. He was arrested on Sunday in a border town as he tried to flee to India. He is being questioned on charges of negligence, illegal construction and forcing workers to join work. The crimes he is accused of carry a maxi-mum punishment of seven years. More charg-es could be added later. Rana had permission to build a 5-story building but added three more floors illegally.

The death toll has sur-passed a fire five months ago that killed 112 people and brought widespread pledges to improve work-er-safety standards. But since then, very little has changed in Bangla-desh.

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LOREN H. HOUK, S.C. #10590

Attorney at Law9832 DubonP.O. Box 48467Wichita, KS 67201-8467(316) 650-7317; Fax: (316)

263-7820IN THE THIRTY FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT

DISTRICT COURT, ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS

PROBATE DEPARTMENTIN THE MATTER OF THE

ESTATE OFJOE R. CHALKER,deceased.

Case No. 11 PR 54NOTICE OF HEARING

THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:

You are notified that a peti-tion has been filed in this Court by Shirley B. Wells, duly ap-pointed, qualified and acting Co-Executor of the Estate of Joe R. Chalker, deceased, re-questing that the Co-Executors’ acts be approved; their account be settled and allowed; the heirs be determined; the Will and “Valid Settlement Agree-ment” be construed and the Estate be assigned to the per-sons entitled thereto; the Court find the allowances requested for attorneys’ and expenses are reasonable and should be al-lowed; the costs be determined and ordered paid; the adminis-tration of the Estate be closed; upon the filing of receipts the Petitioner and her Co-Executor be finally discharged as the Co-Executors of the Estate of Joe R. Chalker, deceased, and the Petitioner and her Co-Executor be released from further liabil-ity. You are required to file your written defenses to the petition on or before May 22, 2013, at

10:00 a.m. in the District Court, in Iola, Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail to

file your written defenses, judg-ment and decree will be entered in due course upon the petition.

SHIRLEY B. WELLS

BARBARA CHALKER AN-DERSON

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Dear Tom and Ray: Back in the ’80s, when there wasn’t anywhere he knew of to take used oil for recycling, my dad started pouring it into a 55-gallon drum in the ga-rage. Not just oil, but any-thing sort of like it: trans-mission fluid, brake fluid, you name it. That drum filled up long ago, and it’s still there! Other than leaving it in place for eter-nity, what’s the best thing to do with it? — Dottie

TOM: Wow. Your dad left you a 55-gallon drum of waste oil. I’m going tell my ex-wife never to com-plain again about that lousy, chipped tea set her mother left her.

RAY: Do you live any-where near that big nu-clear waste facility in the Rocky Mountains, Dottie?

TOM: Actually, it shouldn’t be very hard to dispose of. But it’s not easy, either.

RAY: Most states have strict regulations about how you can transport and dispose of waste oil. And they’ll only license certain companies, that meet the qualifications, to handle waste oil properly.

TOM: “Properly” means, first, not spilling it, because a single gal-lon of spilled oil can con-

taminate a lot of ground water. And second, safely delivering it to someplace where it can be recycled — most often burned as heating fuel in a waste-oil furnace.

RAY: So, first you’re go-ing to have to check with your state’s department of environmental affairs and find out what the rules are.

TOM: Based on what you learn, you’ll probably have to call a licensed waste-removal company to handle this.

RAY: If what’s in the drum is just waste oil (like motor oil and trans-mission fluid), they’ll come and pump it out of your drum and cart it away for, most likely, be-tween $100 and $200. Not too bad, right?

TOM: But here’s the bad news: If there’s brake fluid in there — you say there is — it’s no longer considered just “waste oil.” It’s considered a “fed-eral hazardous waste,” and, by federal law, it has to be handled much more carefully.

RAY: If the waste oil is mixed with brake fluid, the stuff can no longer be burned as heating fuel. There are chlorines in brake fluid that are poi-sonous to humans when burned, and a small amount of brake fluid can contami-nate an entire barrel of oth-erwise reusable oil.

TOM: For that reason, it has to be handled differ-ently — usually shipped somewhere for safe pro-cessing — and that in-creases the cost to you.

RAY: And here’s the other bad news: You can’t just lie about it and say there’s no brake fluid in there. Licensed carriers will test a sam-ple on the spot, to figure out if they have to treat it as waste oil or hazard-ous waste. If it’s hazard-ous waste, you probably are looking at more like

$300-$500 to have it taken away.

TOM: But you really should get it done, Dot-tie. And the sooner, the better. Because if that barrel ever rusts out and starts to leak, then you’ve got your own lit-tle EPA superfund site, and the costs of cleanup only go up from there — sometimes exponen-tially.

RAY: Start by going to the website of whatever department in your state deals with environmen-tal protection. Or call. If you’re prohibited from transporting it yourself, they should be able to give you a list of compa-nies that are licensed to cart away waste oil and hazardous waste.

TOM: Call a few of them and shop around for a good price. Let them know over the phone that there may be brake fluid in the oil so you can get an accurate price quote.

RAY: Then bite the bullet and get rid of the stuff. And don’t forget to say, “Thanks, Dad” as you write the check.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Gold, that mythical com-modity used as a symbol of love, wealth and pow-er by ancient pharaohs, modern-day rappers and untold couples, suddenly plunged in value in re-cent weeks, tarnishing its luster for businesses, collectors and specula-tors.

“It’s slow, real slow,” said Bobby Chopra from his empty Cash for Gold San Jose store. “We’ll keep buying until we’re dead, but people who needed cash, or were hurt by the economy, sold their gold a long time ago.”

In the past decade, storefronts began pop-ping up across the coun-try as gold prices re-

mained high and people turned their jewelry and other gold into cash during tough economic times. Now those same businesses are finding few customers willing to sell at today’s low prices.

Lou Rosas, 47, of San Jose, held onto his late mother’s gold chains, necklaces and earrings that were worth more than $3,000 just six

months ago when gold was selling for $1,790 an ounce.

But the price drifted down and then, on Tax Day, gold saw its biggest one-day drop in more than 30 years.

The 9 percent plunge left Rosas with jewelry that was suddenly worth about $500 less than it was six months before.

Even though gold prices appeared to have bottomed out at $1,375.72 on April 17 and have climbed back up above $1,400, people like Rosas are reluctant to sell.

“It’s a perfect time to buy,” Rosas said. “But if you want to sell, you’re not going to get that much.”

Fred Foldvary, a re-tired Santa Clara Uni-

versity economics pro-fessor who continues to lecture in public finance, law and economics at San Jose State, has sim-ple advice for people dis-appointed in the down-turn: Ride it out.

“Gold’s been around for thousands of years,” said Foldvary, who holds gold mining stocks as a minor part of his own in-vestment portfolio. “And gold remains implicit money. Central banks want to hold gold. China and Japan are increas-ing their gold holdings, so gold operations will continue. It was only this year that the price went down so much.”

As part of the finan-cial planning advice that he gives to clients, Chuck Putney of Wal-nut Creek, Calif.-based Putney-Klein Associates warns about putting too much emphasis on gold.

“Long-term, the best hedge is a balanced port-folio with no more than 5 percent of your invest-ment portfolio in gold,” Putney said. “Gold is a precious metal. The Chi-nese like it, and other Asians culturally and historically do, too. But it really has no intrinsic value and it’s not going to produce any revenue for you if you look at the long-term history of the markets.”

As for Rosas, he is still figuring out what to do with his late mother’s jewelry.

“I can’t sell my mom’s jewelry because the price of gold is too low,” he said. “And I can’t buy because no one wants to sell. So I don’t know what to think.”

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Lou Rosas holds his late mother’s gold jewelry. Rosas wants to sell it, but not while the price of gold is low.

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The lack of competi-tion in nearly a dozen states could present problems when the in-surance exchanges that are part of the Afford-able Care Act launch in October. The ex-changes are supposed to give Americans who do not get health insur-ance from their employ-ers the opportunity to choose from an array of private insurance plans. The idea is to generate competition between in-surers that will lead to lower premiums.

Individuals and busi-nesses with up to 100 employees will be able to shop on the exchanges, and people who can’t af-ford coverage on their own will get government subsidies to help them pay their premiums. About 26 million low-income Americans are expected to receive sub-sidies to purchase health insurance through the exchanges.

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rive for quite some time.A recent analysis by

the American Medical Association found that a single insurance com-pany held 50 percent or more of the market in nearly 38 percent of local markets nationwide. And in 30 states, a single in-surance company covers more than half the people who purchase insurance individually, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The dominance by a single insurance com-pany is particularly pro-nounced in Alabama, Hawaii, Michigan, Dela-ware, Alaska, North Dakota, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Wyoming and Nebraska.

In general, multiple insurance companies are eager to compete in states that have a large number of health care providers and a lot of people who can afford to pay premiums. A rela-tively young and healthy population is also an at-traction. In states that don’t have those char-acteristics, competition can be sparse.

Alabama ranks 45th in the nation in overall health status, and 46th in median household in-come, according to the

United Health Founda-tion and the U.S. Census Bureau, respectively. Over the decades, a few major insurance car-riers have tried to dip their toes into Alabama, but most pulled out after just a few years.

In other states, there are different reasons for the lack of competition. In Wyoming, for exam-ple, the problem is that the state has relatively few health care provid-ers and people have to travel long distances to get care.

Wyoming has only 18.7 physicians per 10,000 people, ranking it 47th in the U.S., according to the Kaiser Family Founda-tion. By comparison, New York has 34.8 physicians per 10,000 people, Mary-land has 35.3 and Mas-sachusetts has 39.7. The national average is 25.7.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming dominates the market. Do Wyoming consumers want more choices? “Sure they do,” said Tom Hirsig, Wyo-ming’s insurance com-missioner. But Hirsig said it’s a huge challenge for new carriers to de-velop provider networks in Wyoming. “My sense right now is that the in-dividual market inside

the exchange is not go-ing to be stacked with lots of competition.”

A shortage of hospi-tals is the problem in Rhode Island, where there are just 11 hospitals owned by two companies. Health Insurance Com-missioner Christopher Koller said Rhode Island-ers would like other op-tions, but he isn’t sure they’ll have them when the state’s exchange launches in October.

The vast majority of Americans get health insurance coverage through their employ-ers. Millions of low-in-come Americans qual-ify for Medicaid, and seniors can sign up for Medicare. But for people outside of these groups, there are few good op-tions when it comes to health insurance.

Many of these Ameri-cans pay high premi-ums if they are sick or middle-aged — if they can find coverage at all. They also run the risk of purchasing policies that don’t cover certain medical conditions or limit the total dollar amount of claims. That’s why so many of them go without insurance alto-gether.

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exchanges are designed to change that. The poli-cies that are included on the menu will have a uni-form set of benefits and pricing structures that will be easy for people to understand and com-pare.

In addition, the new health law will make it illegal to deny coverage to people who have pre-existing conditions. It also will mandate a min-imum set of benefits; prohibit lifetime caps on claims; and require insurance companies participating in the ex-changes to spend at least 85 percent of their rev-enue on health care.

The hope is that this new pool of previously uninsured people will attract insurers to en-ter new markets, creat-ing competition where none exists now. Poor states across the South and West have the larg-est share of uninsured people, and thus hold the greatest potential for in-surers to cash in on the $350 billion the federal government plans to spend over the next 10 years to help low-income people buy insurance.

FURTHERMORE, the exchanges should allow smaller companies and nonprofits to market their products more effectively, challenging entrenched incumbents. “When you go online, the Blue of Ala-bama won’t look so much bigger than the next plan,” said Andy Hyman of the Robert Wood John-son Foundation. The ex-change is meant to be an “equalizer,” Hyman said.

Carriers that dominate a particular state often argue that they hold onto their position by keeping prices down. “There are lots of national carri-ers out there who would provide a product that is

less expensive than what is in the market, if they could,” said Kim Holland, director of state affairs for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. “We’re not so naive as to think that if we don’t price our products cor-rectly our customers won’t find another alter-native.”

Some economists note that in some cases, a dominant carrier can use its heft to negotiate the best prices with hospitals and then pass along those savings to consumers. In some markets, dominant insurers are akin to utili-ties, explained Paul Gins-burg, director of the Cen-ter for Studying Health System Change. “You don’t necessarily need more than one,” he said.

Ginsburg said large carriers are likely to get better prices from hospi-tals and doctors, because providers can’t do with-out them. “I suspect that consumers have actually benefited from high (mar-ket) concentration. It’s re-ally a bigger problem for physicians,” he said.

Despite having the least competitive health insurance market in the country, Alabama’s indi-vidual premium prices compare favorably with neighboring states and are below average for the nation.

But the AMA, which represents doctors, dis-putes the idea that big insurers always secure the best prices for con-sumers. They point to national studies show-ing that when insurance companies merge and acquire smaller compa-nies, their profits go up and so do their premi-ums.

TWO STATES, Mas-sachusetts and Vermont, already have exchanges, and offer a glimpse of what the future might hold.

When Massachusetts launched its exchange in 2007, new players did not immediately burst into the market. One new carrier, Centene Cor-poration, joined the ex-change to offer a limited network of providers for Medicaid beneficiaries. Competition in the indi-vidual market remained relatively unchanged.

But Massachusetts already had a relatively competitive market, so existing carriers com-peted with each other to create new, lower-cost plans in response to mar-ket demand — and pres-sure from state officials to keep costs down. De-spite the emergence of low-cost plans, however, average premium prices have continued to rise.

Earlier this month, Vermont became the first state in the nation to publish preliminary health insurance rates for its exchange. Not unexpectedly, the tiny state of only 626,000 resi-dents did not attract any new insurance compa-nies. And the price of the plans offered on the exchange? They cost about as much as what Vermonters were paying before.

Exchanges unlikely to end monopoliesIndividuals and businesses with up to

100 employees will be able to shop on the exchanges, and people who can’t afford coverage on their own will get government subsidies to help them pay their premiums. About 26 million low-income Americans are expected to receive subsidies to purchase health insurance through the exchanges.

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