BASEBALL Royals’ losing

streak continuesSee B1

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The IOLA REGISTER

Vol. 115, No.145 75 Cents Iola, KS

More than routine maintenanceBowlus coordinatessummer renovations

‘WE ARE GOING TO HOLD OUT HOPE’

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Search and rescue crews worked through the night after a mon-strous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, de-molishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood. At least 51 peo-ple were killed, including at least 20 children, and those numbers were expected to climb, officials said Tuesday.

The storm stripped leaves off trees and left scores of blocks in Moore barren and dark. Rescu-ers walked through neighbor-

hoods where Monday’s power-ful twister flattened home after home, listening for voices calling out from the rubble. A helicopter buzzed above, shining lights on crews below.

As Monday turned into Tues-day, the town of Moore, a com-munity of 41,000 people 10 miles south of the city, braced for an-other long, harrowing day.

“As long as we are here ... we are going to hold out hope that we will find survivors,”

EF4 tornado lays to wasteOklahoma town; 51 killed

See TORNADO | Page A6

The Bowlus’ boiler, left, was installed when the building was built in 1964.

Allen County readyfor severe weather

Iola Lincoln

Elementary School 700 N. Jefferson West & South Doors

Bowlus Fine Arts Center

205 E. Madison Alley Entrance McKinley

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By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

Allen County had this year’s first brush with severe spring weather Sunday, and came away in fine fettle.

“It got pretty hectic for a while,” said Pam Beasley, emer-gency manager for the county, who had a full complement of volunteers aiding her in track-ing weather conditions from the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), 410 N. State St. “We also had six spotters and county offi-cers spread throughout the coun-ty keeping watch.”

The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning — meaning a twister had been spot-ted, by watcher or radar — at 8:34 that evening. The warning was canceled 34 minutes later.

“None of the spotters saw a tornado and the weather bureau issued the warning on the basis of rotation detected by radar in clouds over Allen County,” Beas-ley said.

Rain fell in sporadically heavy amounts and wind gusts were enough to rip limbs from a few trees, but “basically we were pretty lucky,” Beasley said.

Storm sirens continued to sound, with brief interruptions, until the warning was canceled. Iola police officers also sound sirens when severe weather ac-companied by winds in excess

of 70 miles an hour is im-

See PREPARED | Page A6

By STEVEN SCHWARTZsteven@iolaregister.com

A bit more than routine mainte-nance is being tackled at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center over the summer.

There are four projects on-deck for the center in coming months. The boiler is being replaced, flooring in Creitz Recital Hall is being replaced and the risers in the band room are be-ing removed. Also, students from the University of Kansas are providing a design report on improvements for acoustics throughout the center.

Director Susan Raines said the Friends of the Bowlus and USD 257 will pay for the new boiler, while the Friends will pick up the other expens-es. Besides being a premiere venue for musical and theatrical productions, the Bowlus also provides classrooms and practice facilities for USD 257 stu-

See BOWLUS | Page A2

CHENEY — Iola High soph-omore Kaden Macha’s storied young golf career turned into a historic one late Monday af-ternoon.

Macha won a dramatic

three-way playoff to capture the Class 4A state golf title, defeating Wichita Collegiate’s Camron Chugg and KC Piper’s Montana Fasching. Macha parred the first hole of the play-

off at Cheney’s Cherry Oaks Golf Course, while Chugg and Fasching both bogeyed.

Additional details from Io-la’s first ever individual state golf champion are on Page B1.

Macha wins playoff, stateKaden Macha tees off during the Class 4A State Championship Monday afternoon in Cheney. Macha won first place after a playoff.

Register/Richard Luken

Former Iolan Laura (Sparks) Dale and her family were out of harm’s way when the mas-sive tornado devastated Moore, Okla., Monday afternoon. They live in Yukon, about 25 miles north of Moore.

Laura is the daughter of Io-lans Terry and Cheryl Sparks.

Laura’s husband, David, is a police officer in Oklahoma City and was on duty when the tor-nado struck. He was among the multitude who responded in Moore.

“Laura said she was able to get a couple of texts from Da-vid, and that he was scheduled

to work until 2 a.m. He probably was there all night,” Cheryl Sparks said this morning.

The Dales have three children and are expecting a fourth in November.

Their 6- and 4-year-old daugh-ters attend a Christian school in Edmond. Laura was there to pick them up when she first heard about the tornado, Sparks said. They also have a 2-year-old son.

“They have a shelter in their garage at home and spent some time in it Sunday,” when a tornado warning was issued, Sparks said.

Former Iolan in neighboring city

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Marilyn WeideMarilyn Ann (Mc-

Nitt) Weide, age 76, passed away on May 16, 2013 at her home in Newton.

Marilyn was born Aug. 27, 1936, at Neo-sho Memorial Hos-pital in Chanute, the daughter of Cornelius Frederick and Anna Laura (Klick) McNitt. Marilyn liked horses and enjoyed being with them and rid-ing. She got her first pony, a Shetland, at the age of 5. She and the pony went many miles together. Mari-lyn had several differ-ent horses and each one of them were spe-cial to her. Her family was most important to her but horses and dogs followed close af-ter. She raised several litters of puppies with her Rottweiler dog.

After graduating from Yates Center High School, Marilyn went on to attend American Business College in Wichita. She also com-pleted grade school in seven years, complet-ing two grades in one year. She worked for Massachusetts Life Ins. Co. as a secretary before working for the Union National Bank in Wichita. Marilyn also worked for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency in Yates Center for 30 years.

On Oct. 20, 1957, Marilyn and Wil-lard Weide were mar-ried at the Batesville EUB Church in To-ronto. The couple was blessed with two chil-

dren, Karen and Bri-an. The couple lived on their farm west of Yates Center until they moved to Halstead in 2008 to be closer to their grandkids. In 2010, the couple moved to Presbyterian Manor in Newton, which is where she remained until her death.

Marilyn was pre-ceded in death by her parents and a sister-in-law, Mary Alice McNitt in 2009. She is survived by her husband Wil-lard; her children, Kar-en Foraker and hus-band Harlan, Burrton, and Brian Weide of Kansas City, Mo. Mari-lyn is also survived by her siblings, Gary McNitt and wife Kay of Conifer, Colo., Gor-don McNitt, Toronto, and Sharon McNitt, Lenexa, as well as two grandchildren, Blake and Kaci Foraker and many other relatives and friends.

Services for Mari-lyn are today at 1 p.m. at Campbell Funeral Home in Yates Center. No formal visitation will take place. Mari-lyn will lie in state at the funeral home prior to the service. In lieu of flowers the fam-ily suggests memori-als be made to Harry Hynes Hospice or the Presbyterian Manor of Newton. The memori-als may be sent in care of Campbell Funeral Home P.O. Box 188 Yates Center, KS 66783. The family wishes to extend a grateful thank you to the staffs at Harry Hynes Hos-pice and Presbyterian Manor.

Obituaries

Arrest madeJohn E. Huskey, 43,

Humboldt, was arrested by Allen County officers Saturday evening for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, driving while his driv-er’s license was revoked and speeding, all follow-ing a traffic stop near Humboldt. He was taken to Allen County Jail and later released on bond.

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H BowlusContinued from A1

dents.The Friends will have

moved past the $1.1 mil-lion-mark in funds given to the Center since the group was created in Oc-tober of 1991.

“They (the Friends) have received some won-derful gifts in the past couple of years,” she said.

Raines said the center, which was the first rural fine arts center in Kansas, has received an incredible amount of support from different groups through-out the years.

“We are really in a won-derful position that we have a community that supports us so willingly,” Raines said.

This year, the City of Iola agreed to direct 1 mill in property taxes to the Center. That equates to $31,900 a year, up from its previous $25,000 annual donation.

Allen County commis-sioners have approved $2,500 a year to the Cen-ter and have been ap-proached to dedicate a percentage of a mill to the Center. The county will determine its budget next month.

THE BOILER is an original part of the center, built in 1964, and Raines said it has fully outlived its expected lifespan of 35 years.

The Friends of the Bowlus and USD 257 have agreed to split the cost of the boiler, which is $128,784 total — $64,392 for each entity.

The boiler is being installed by Henderson Engineers out of Lenexa. The removal and installa-tion costs are included in the project, which Raines said will be no small task. The old boiler will be cut apart and removed by crane through the west-side maintenance entrance to the Bowlus.

The new boiler will be in-stalled through the same opening. Raines said the installation work will be done in late July or early August.

The new system will have two boilers, giving a backup system if one were to fail. Raines said the current system only has one, which could lead to possible issues in win-ter months.

“If the current boiler were to fail, we couldn’t have any classes or pro-grams in the building,” she said.

ACOUSTIC IMPROVE-MENTS to the building have been organized through a unique pro-gram in conjunction with the KU architecture pro-gram.

Bob Coffeen, a profes-sor with the university, has a yearly studio pro-gram with his students — the Bowlus is this year’s selection. The students have already been in the building to shoot sound waves, which allows them to decide which acoustic designs will accommo-date the facility in the best manner.

“We were really lucky to hook up with them,” Raines said. “We reap the benefits of the informa-tion, and they reap the benefits of a real-life proj-ect.”

She said there is no cost to the Bowlus for the stu-dents’ work, which would be around $8,000 for a pro-

fessional firm. While the students are only provid-ing information, designs and reports — which will be given this afternoon — it will be essential when the time for installation comes next summer.

THE RISERS in the band room, utilized by Iola Middle School and high school, have been an area of contention for band directors over the past several years.

“The past six band di-rectors have made some sort of comment about getting those risers out of there,” Raines said.

The current director for both schools, Matt Kleopfer, was successful in getting the removal into action.

“You’ve got to practice the same way you per-form,” Kleopfer said. “We don’t perform in a setting where there are risers.”

He said the risers also limit the way the space is utilized, and it forces him to split some of his orchestra sections during practices. With no risers, he will be able to easily fit the band — which is currently experiencing a growth spurt.

“They used fit 100-piece orchestras in here,” Kleopfer said. “It won’t be long ’til we’re back there.”

He said he and Raines went before the USD 257 school board, to request financial assistance for the removal of the risers, floor tiles and the installa-tion of new acoustic-rated flooring. The total cost is just under $25,000.

The Creitz Recital Hall is the final project for the summer on the Bowlus’ to-do list.

The tiles, which con-tain asbestos, are begin-ning to split and rise along the floor, making an unsightly appearance and creating tripping hazards for those entering the

room.The tiles will be re-

moved and replaced for between $18,000 and $19,000.

RAINES SAID all of these projects are going to improve the experience for everyone involved in the Bowlus’ classes and programs, which have been increasing in recent months.

She said the Yates Cen-ter dance group, The Stu-dio, held its recital for the first time in the Bowlus on Saturday, which filled more than 600 seats in the auditorium.

Conversations are in-motion with Burlington’s dance studios for recitals next year. She said there is no fine arts center with-in 80 miles that matches the caliber of the Bowlus.

“There’s nothing of our size that has the low ticket prices and programming that we have,” Raines said.

Programs draw people from across the area and state. Raines estimates 75 percent of the programs are held at no-charge.

“It’s nothing for us to have 30 different zip codes and more for a program,” she said.

Raines is currently looking for additional av-enues to raise funds for capital improvements, one of which is through their new 50 for 50 pro-gram. It asks alumni to contribute $50 for five years, or for a donation of $250 up-front.

“If we get all of our alumni to do that, we could have another mil-lion dollars in our fund,” Raines said.

She said the Bowlus, like many other fine arts centers, needs it more than ever.

We are re-ally in a won-derful position that we have a community that supports us so willingly.

— Susan Raines

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Partly cloudyTonight, partly

cloudy. Lows 50 to 55. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

Wednesday, mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

Sunrise 6:07 a.m. Sunset 8:30 p.m.

TemperatureHigh yesterday 79Low last night 56High a year ago 75Low a year ago 53

Precipitation24 hours ending 7 a.m 1.27This month to date 3.22Total year to date 14.08Excess since Jan. 1 1.58

William BettsWilliam E. Betts, Jr.,

44, Garnett, died Friday, May 17, 2013, at Ander-son County Hospital.

Services were at 2 p.m. today at Feuer-born Family Funeral Service, Garnett.

Spraying to rid the area of mosquitoes be-gins tonight and will continue throughout the summer.

City of Iola sprays on Tuesday and Thursday evenings on the south and north halves of town, respectively. River-side Park is sprayed both evenings.

The spraying mecha-nism disperses a mist which is clear and “prac-tically odorless,” accord-ing to information sent by city offices.

Mosquito spraying starts

William BrownWilliam M. “Bob”

Brown III, passed away Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Iola, at the age of 85.

He leaves behind his wife, Mary Lou (Simp-son) Brown. Crema-tion is planned. In lieu

of flowers, contribu-tions may be made to “Friends for Life” of Yates Center and may be sent in care of Camp-bell Funeral Home, P.O. Box 188, Yates Center, KS 66783.

Betty RiceBetty Sue Rice, 66,

Chanute, passed away Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita. Betty was born in Iola on Aug. 14, 1946, the daughter of Silas and Mary (Smith) Nicholas.

Funeral services

will be at 2 p.m. today at Penwell-Gabel Gib-son Chapel in Chanute. Burial will follow in Shaw Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the family and may be left with the funeral home. Penwell-Gabel Gibson Chapel is in charge of arrange-ments.

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conversation on housing in Humboldt, 6:30 p.m., library.

Thursday - Mary Mar-tha Circle of First Bap-tist Church meeting, 7:30 p.m., at the church; Dream Humboldt steer-ing committee meeting, 7 p.m., library

Saturday - Swimming pool opens, 1 p.m.

Sunday - Community Singspiration, 5 p.m. din-ner, 6 p.m. program, Unit-ed Methodist Church.

Monday - City offices closed in observance of Memorial Day; deadline to send in reservations for Chamber Annual Din-ner on June 6.Historical society

Building insurance and roof damage were topics of discussion when members of the Hum-boldt Historical Society met May 13 at the River-side School House.

Board members signed up for work days at the museum grounds and du-ties for the 12th Annual Appreciation Day were distributed. Appreciation Day will be held June 29 at the Museum and the next Society meeting will be June 10.PEO

Kate Works acted as co-hostess for the May 14 Chapter AM, PEO meet-ing held in the home of Linda Leonard. Fourteen members attended the meeting.

Members were thanked for donating food to the bake sale held during the city-wide garage sale, the business meeting time was changed to 7 p.m. be-ginning in September and the chapter will volunteer two nights running the summer ball concession stand.

Grave markers for de-ceased PEO sisters will be purchased in place of flowers and members vol-unteered to be hostess or

present a program next year. Ellie Walburn will host a morning backyard meeting in June when members will hear the state convention report.

Several of the PEO projects, IPS, Cottey, Continuing Ed, Scholar Award and Sunflower Grant was the focus of the evening program.

Housing focusof conversation

The public and other interested parties are in-vited to attend an open meeting this evening at 6:30 in the community room of the Humboldt Library to discuss local housing.

Sponsored by the Hous-ing Action Team (HAT) and the Public Square Communities LLC, orga-nizers are seeking input on the current housing in town and a plan for eco-nomic growth.

Questions in reference to the meeting can be answered by calling city hall, 473-3232.DAT

In their May 16 meet-ing, the Downtown Ac-tion Team (DAT) commit-tee read communications from Senator Caryn Ty-son and State Representa-tive Ed Bideau, discussed items to be included in the next newsletter and outlined summer and fall activities in the commu-nity.

Representative Bideau, in his e-mail, updated the team on the historic preservation bill status and Team members will consider attending the signing of the bill by the Governor once passed by the House.

By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT — The Downtown Action Team (DAT) received good news Friday in an e-mail from 9th District State Representative, Ed Bideau, informing them HB2118 passed in the House by a vote of 92-18. The vote to approve the bill had passed the Sen-ate earlier.

HB2118, included in the Conference Commit-tee Report, “repeals the

historical environs re-strictions” and will now go to Governor Sam Brownback for signing.

“The opponents may try to get the Gover-nor to veto it,” Bideau wrote, “but I doubt that is going to happen. Nev-ertheless, the next step is to contact the Gover-nor and encourage him to sign the bill when it comes to his desk.”

The team has been re-searching the possibil-ity of having historical

preservation distinc-tion and concerns were raised about proximity restrictions. The suc-cessful passage and signing of the HB2118 would eliminate the proximity restrictions.

“Getting this all done in the course of one leg-islative session is a big accomplishment,” Bide-au wrote. He also recog-nized several legislative supporters that were in-fluential in getting the bill passed, in the face

of opposition from some parties in Coffeyville and Independence.

Larry Tucker, city ad-ministrator and mem-ber of the DAT, said the team would like to go to Topeka and witness the governor signing the bill.

“I will let you know when we can take a road trip,” he said. “Con-gratulations to the DAT committee and its ef-forts to help support the new law. Wow!”

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Twelve-year-old Seth Yowell shows off one of his catches during the Lions Club annual Kids Fishing Derby Saturday morning. Yowell’s perch weighed in at .12 lbs. A total of 41 youths from the community took part in the event.

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Humboldt Virtual Ed. holds graduation Above, Sunday afternoon 30 of the 42 Humboldt Virtual Education Class students received their high school diplomas in commencement ceremonies witnessed by friends and family. All the graduates earned the required credits they were individually lacking in order to receive a high school diploma through online classes.

Left, Napoleon Blackwell hugs his son, Brodhyei, after receiving his high school di-ploma in commencement exercises Sunday afternoon.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A prominent conservative Kan-sas legislator has launched what could become the most aggressive campaign to date to rein in the state Supreme Court after a proposal failed that would have changed how its justices are selected.

House Judiciary Commit-tee Chairman Lance Kinzer wants to make the state’s appellate courts, including the Supreme Court, more accountable to the public they’re supposed to serve. Conservatives’ desire to overhaul the courts intensi-fied in recent years following Supreme Court decisions in abortion, death penalty and education funding cases.

Kinzer, an Olathe Repub-lican, unveiled three propos-als last week, only a day after two developments in the de-bate over the judicial selec-tion system. The Kansas Bar Association’s board unani-mously rejected a proposal for Senate confirmation of appellate court members, a move that caused supporters to stop their push for it. The decision came hours after Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss accused anoth-

er prominent conservative of trying to exert undue influ-ence on behalf of the mea-sure, an allegation the law-maker said was “baseless.”

One of Kinzer’s proposals would reorganize the state’s top courts and remove the Supreme Court as final arbi-ter of many of the cases that now come before the seven justices.

He said his proposal is a starting point for a discus-sion about the Supreme Court’s role. However, if he’s successful, it would lose much of its authority to settle cases — an idea that lawmakers haven’t seriously pursued.

“Anytime you’re looking at a fundamental reorganiza-tion of the structure of the courts, that is a far-reaching proposal,” Kinzer said dur-ing an interview.

Another House committee — Federal and State Affairs — agreed last week to spon-sor Kinzer’s proposals, and he intends to have lawmak-ers consider them next year. Legislators hope to wrap up their business for the year this week.

Kinzer’s measures alarm Democratic legislative lead-ers. They already consider proposals to change how Su-preme Court and Court of Appeals members are chosen as attempts by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s allies to ensure that the courts be-come subservient to execu-tive and legislative branches

under conservatives’ control.“It’s just an overreach,”

said Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a Topeka Democrat. “It’s just punitive politics at its worst.”

Legislators are watching the Supreme Court because it’s reviewing a school fi-nance lawsuit. In January, a three-judge panel in Shaw-nee County declared that the state isn’t living up to its ob-ligation under the state con-stitution to adequately fund public schools and ordered a boost in spending of at least $440 million a year.

In 2005 and 2006, Supreme Court rulings in a previous education funding lawsuit forced the state to dramati-

cally increase its spending, much to the frustration of GOP conservatives.

What followed then — and now — were proposals to change the judicial selection system and rewrite provi-sions of the Kansas Consti-tution to prevent the courts from having a say in how much money is spent on pub-lic schools.

Kinzer’s proposal to de-

crease the mandatory retire-ment age for Supreme Court justices and Court of Ap-peals judges would ensure at least eight vacancies on those courts for Brownback to fill should he serve two full terms as governor.

But the proposal to reor-ganize the appellate courts would have an even more dramatic effect. The state constitution says the Su-preme Court has the jurisdic-tion to consider challenges from prisoners to the legality of their incarceration, law-suits aimed at forcing public officials to perform a public duty and challenges to the right of someone to hold of-fice or a government license

or privilege. The constitu-tion says the Supreme Court also hears other appeals “as may be provided by law.”

Thus, much of the Su-preme Court’s authority to hear cases is set by state law, not the constitution, which is far more difficult to change. A constitutional amend-ment must be adopted by two-thirds majorities in both chambers and approved by a

simple majority of voters in a statewide election. Chang-ing state law takes a simple majority in both chambers and the governor’s signature.

Kinzer proposes splitting the existing Court of Appeals into a five-member tribunal to hear the final appeals in criminal cases and a nine-member court that would sit in three-member panels to consider civil cases. His pro-posal also would not have the Supreme Court hear most civil cases, but Kinzer said he’s starting there to push lawmakers to thoroughly ex-amine exactly which cases the justices might handle.

But if Kinzer is success-ful, a Supreme Court that has yet to authorize an execution under the state’s 1994 capital murder law would no longer consider death penalty cases. A high court that has ordered the state to increase educa-tion spending might not re-view such issues ever again.

And such possibilities have undeniable appeal for the conservative Republicans who control the Legislature.

“There is a level of con-cern, I know, in just talking to rank-and-file legislators,” said Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, a Hutchin-son Republican who favors changing the judicial selec-tion system.

AP Political Writer John Hanna has covered Kansas politics and government since 1987.

Kansas courts in the crosshairs of politicians

JohnHannaAn AP news analysis

It’s just an overreach. It’s just punitive politics at its worst.

— Anthony Hensley, Senate minority leader

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The Kansas Legislature this session is expected to grant Secretary of State Kris Kobach the power to prose-cute those suspected of voter fraud.

According to the Associat-ed Press, Republican Kobach has sought the power since he took office in January 2011 but has been thwarted by Democrats and moderate Re-publicans. Kobach has said he needs to be able to prosecute because county prosecutors and the Kansas Attorney General’s Office are too busy to deal with voter fraud.

So, how pressing a problem is voter fraud? For a ground-level view, we asked Saline County Clerk Don Merriman — who said he’s not aware of any voter fraud going on in the county — not now, not ever.

As Merriman, a Democrat, noted, if you think about it, someone here illegally is un-likely to try to vote, because to do so would require them to enter their name, address,

driver’s license number and other information into the state’s database. Why would anyone want to draw atten-tion to themselves like that?

Other voting problems can include people trying to vote in more than one state. But Kansas is part of a multistate

group that allows those states to check names against each other, so that’s not likely to be a problem.

PROBLEMS also can occur when people have the same names and birthdates (but not the same years), and it’s “sur-prising” how often that can happen, Merriman said.

“You have to be darn care-ful when you start looking at these things,” he said.

The key word here is “pow-

er.” Kobach wants it, and now that the conservative wing of the GOP controls the Legisla-ture, he’ll likely get it, even though that doesn’t appear to be necessary.

As with Kobach’s voter ID law, we imagine not much will come of this, because there’s

little to no voter fraud in Kan-sas. But if Kobach is going to move up politically, he’s got to keep stirring the pot to draw attention.

That’s not easy when you’re secretary of state, typically not a cauldron of controversy. So, you have to create contro-versies.

This appears to be, as Mer-riman notes, another example of a solution in search of a problem.

— The Salina Journal

Kris Kobach’s silly power play

If Kobach is going to move up politically, he’s got to keep stirring the pot to draw attention.

Fundraising to buy equipment for the new Al-len County Regional Hospi-tal is almost halfway to its $4.8 million goal.

Last week’s gift of $15,000 by Great Southern Bank helped tip the scales over the $2 million mark.

“For a long time we were hovering around $1.8 mil-lion,” said Susan Michael, director of Allen County Community Foundation, which manages money given to the fundraising campaign, Uniting For Ex-cellence. Along with pur-chases for the new hospital, the campaign hopes to have $1 million set aside for an endowment to perpetuate funds for the hospital.

The campaign has been in full swing since the first of the year. Its “quiet phase,” began in December 2011.

“Now we’re in the active, in-your-face mode,” Mi-chael said.

What perhaps has been misunderstood, is why fundraising is needed. After all, county voters overwhelmingly passed a 10-year quarter-cent sales tax in 2010 to build the $25 million hospital and the $5 million needed in start-up capital. On top of that, another half-cent sales tax was directed by Iola com-missioners.

That’s true. But of that $30 million, only $2 million was budgeted to purchase an estimated $6 million in needed new equipment.

County officials agreed to base the issuance of the $30 million in municipal bonds on past business rev-enue of the hospital.

That was a conserva-tive estimate on the debt service, for which Allen County residents should be grateful.

Still, it creates the need for funds to purchase equip-ment — that don’t come cheap. A new CAT scan,

for instance, has a $500,000 price tag.

Great Southern’s gift will help purchase a new lab mi-croscope and a blood gel system.

For those who give $25,000 and up, they also get the op-portunity to have a room in the new hospital named after them. The family of the late Helen and Howard Gilpin, for example, have the hospital’s board room named after them because of their parents’ bequest.

Mary Ellen Stadler’s gift of $60,000 in 2001 will now secure her name in memo-ry on one of the deluxe pa-tient rooms.

Some opt for anonymity. A gift of $500,000 has been requested to be kept under wraps, Michael said.

Many are crafting gifts to the new hospital out of their wills. Michael recalled a recent gift of $150,000 left through a life insurance policy.

“Our pledges range from $25 per month to $100,000 per year for five years,” Mi-chael said.

For a gift of $1 million or more, the entire hospital campus will bear the do-nor’s name.

GETTING DOWN to earth, Michael appreciates any and all sizes of gifts.

“There’s no gift too small,” she said.

To date, the hospital has received 375 gifts totaling $2,028,207.73.

Think about the impor-tant role a hospital plays in a county. Sometimes it’s the deciding factor for in-dustries scouting possible sites. It’s what helps bring a high caliber of employ-ees to an area. It’s what provides hundreds of good jobs in its own right.

Then see what role you want to play. You’ll fit right in, whatever the size.

— Susan Lynn

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H TornadoContinued from A1

we will find survivors,” said Trooper Betsy Ran-dolph, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma High-way Patrol.

More than 120 people were being treated at hospitals, including about 50 children. Amy Elliott, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office, said Tuesday that there could be as many as 40 more fatalities from Monday’s tornado.

On Monday evening, families anxiously wait-ed at churches to hear if their loved ones were OK. A man with a mega-phone stood near St. An-drews United Methodist Church and called out the names of surviving children. Children and parents hugged as they reunited. Other parents waited, hoping to hear their sons’ and daugh-ters’ names as the night dragged on.

Crews continued their desperate search and rescue effort throughout the night at Plaza Tow-ers Elementary, where the storm had ripped off the school’s roof, knocked down walls and turned the playground into a mass of twisted plastic and metal as students and teachers huddled in hallways and bathrooms.

Children from the school were among the dead, but several stu-dents were pulled out alive from under a col-lapsed wall and other

heaps of mangled de-bris. Rescue workers passed the survivors down a human chain of parents and neighbor-hood volunteers. Parents carried children in their

arms to a triage center in the parking lot. Some students looked dazed, others terrified.

James Rushing, who lives across the street from the school, heard reports of the approach-ing twister and ran to the school where his 5-year-old foster son, Aiden, attends classes. Rushing believed he would be saf-er there.

“About two minutes after I got there, the school started coming apart,” he said.

Another school, Bri-arwood Elementary, was also damaged by the tor-nado.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin deployed 80 Na-tional Guard members to assist with rescue op-erations and activated extra highway patrol of-ficers. Fallin also spoke Monday with President Barack Obama, who de-clared a major disaster and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts.

In video of the storm, the dark funnel cloud could be seen march-ing slowly across the green landscape. As it churned through the community, the twist-

er scattered shards of wood, awnings and glass all over the streets.

A map provided by the National Weather Service showed that the storm began west of Newcastle and crossed the Canadian River into Oklahoma City’s rural far southwest-ern side about 3 p.m. When it reached Moore, the twister cut a path through the center of town before lifting back into the sky at Lake Stanley Draper.

The National Weath-er Service issued an ini-tial finding that the tor-nado was an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale, the second most power-ful type of twister.

The Storm Predic-

tion Center in Norman, Okla., forecast more stormy weather on Tuesday, predicting golf ball-sized hail, power-ful winds and isolated, strong tornadoes for parts of Texas, Arkan-sas, Louisiana and Okla-homa. The area at risk does not include Moore, Okla.

Monday’s powerful tornado loosely fol-lowed the path of a kill-er twister that slammed the region with 300 mph winds in May 1999. It was the fourth tornado to hit Moore since 1998.

The weather service estimated that Mon-day’s tornado was at least a half-mile wide.

Moore Mayor Glenn Lewis, who was also mayor during the 1999 storm, said the city was already at work on the recovery.

“We’ve already start-ed printing the street signs. It took 61 days to clean up after the 1999 tornado. We had a lot of help then. We’ve got a lot of help now.”

Monday’s devastation in Oklahoma came al-most exactly two years after an enormous twist-er ripped through the city of Joplin, Mo., kill-ing 158 people and injur-ing hundreds more.

We’ve already started printing the street signs. It took 61 days to clean

up after the 1999 tornado. We had a lot of help then. We’ve got a lot of help now.

— Glenn Lewis, Moore Mayor

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minent.Sunday’s activation was

the first for Beasley and her volunteers this year. She said more are likely, with this being the time of year when areas of low pressure, cool fronts and warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico clash over the Plains states.

The current system had moved on to the east and south today; another is ex-pected in the nation’s mid-section by the weekend.

“Anytime there is a chance for severe weather, I have at least a partial ac-tivation (of the response group),” Beasley said, which includes members of the Iola Amateur Radio Club, who are dispatched as spotters, other volun-teers and law enforcement officers at all levels.

At the EOC, several sources of information are monitored continu-ously — dispatches from the National Weather Ser-vice, images from several Internet weather sources, information provided by spotters and social me-dia, mainly through Face-book.

“I also correspond with other emergency man-agers in southeast and eastern Kansas through a chat program,” Beasley said.

When taken in total, data available gives Bea-sley and her aides a con-cise picture of what is oc-curring, and is the basis for Code Red calls made to those who have regis-tered.

“Code Red gives an op-portunity to reach people immediately by tele-phone,” including cell service, she said.

Sunday night, for ex-ample, Code Red alerts from the National Weath-er Service were forward-ed to local residents, as well as a call which alerted subscribers that storm shelters in Iola — Lincoln and McKinley elementaries and the Bowlus Fine Arts Center — had been opened. All drew crowds, including an estimated 200 at the Bowlus.

To register for Code Red alerts, call Beasley at 365-1477, the sheriff ’s office at 365-1400, or go to Allen County’s or Iola’s websites — cityofiola.

com or allencounty.org — and click on the Code Red weather warning icon.

ALL OF WHAT Beas-ley’s team does goes for naught if people don’t keep themselves aware, she noted.

Iola’s sirens are a sure sign that troubling weath-er is near, but “they are

outdoor sirens and some people indoors may not hear them,” she said. “Having a weather radio is a good idea, and lis-tening to the Iola radio station (KIKS-KIOL) also helps. The Iola station did a good job Sunday keep-ing listeners aware of what was going on.”

When severe weather is bearing down, it’s a little late to dash off to a shelter, Beasley said. If a person or family feels unsafe at home, go to a shelter early on, when the first warnings of severe weather are circulating, she said.

“We want people to be prepared and if possible at a place of safety when a storm arrives,” she said.

If that place is at home, a basement is the logi-cal and safest place to be, Beasley continued. In homes without a base-ment, Beasley said occu-pants should seek refuge in a central part, in a closet or bathroom and cover themselves with a blanket.

In a bit of advice that may elicit a chuckle, Bea-sley said an important thing to have handy is a pair of shoes.

“Be sure to have shoes where you’re going to ride out a storm,” she said. “That way if your home is damaged, you won’t hurt your feet on debris. You’d be surprised how many foot injuries happen after storms be-cause people are walking around barefoot.”

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We want peo-ple to be pre-pared and if pos-sible at a place of safety when a storm arrives.

— Pam Beasley

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Sports BThe Iola Register Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Sports world reacts to Oklahoma tornadoes — B2Humboldt to honor sports teams at send-offs — B6

MACHA NABS STATE TITLE

Register/Richard LukenIola High golfers competing Monday at the Class 4A State Tournament were, from left, Shane Walden, Matt Jacobs and Weston Hines. The tournament was held at Cheney’s Cherry Oaks Golf Course.

Kaden Macha

HAVING FUN IN THE SAND

Photo courtesy of Kevin BarnesYates Center High’s Nick Schemper strokes a putt at Mon-day’s Sand Green State Golf Tournament in Tipton.

TIPTON — Yates Center High’s Nick Schemper re-bounded nicely after a rough start to pick up a top 20 finish at the State Sand Greens Golf Tournament Monday.

Schemper’s 83 tied him for 17th at the Tipton Oaks Golf Course.

“Nick was pretty tight the first nine,” Wildcat golf coach Kevin Barnes said.

Schemper shot a 10-over-par 45 in the opening nine holes.

“But the second nine, he got settled down,” Barnes said, shooting 3-over 38.

Devon Freeman of Rock Hills won the individual tour-nament with a 4-under-par 66. Rock Hills also won the team title with a 293.

YC golfertakes 17th

SENECA — Humboldt High’s Robbie Sellman carded an 87 Monday to finish in a tie for 34th at the Class 3A State Golf Tournament.

His day improved consider-ably as the round progressed.

After carding a 49 in the front nine, Sellman shaved nine strokes off his pace along

the back nine, shooting a 38.Phillipsburg’s Ryan Hoover

shot a 74 to win the state title, two strokes better than Pitts-burg-St. Mary’s Colgan golfer David Misasi. More than 100 golfers were a part of the state tournament.

State champion Sabetha’s team score of 336 was three

strokes better than Hays-Thomas Moore Prep.

Of local interest, former Iolan Isaiah Grover, Cheney, carded an 88 to finish in a tie for 43rd. Grover is the son of former Iola High School Prin-cipal David Grover, who is Cheney’s superintendent of schools.

By KRISTIE RIEKENAP Sports Writer

HOUSTON (AP) — Matt Dominguez was touted for his defensive skills when he joined the Houston Astros.

Lately, he’s shown that he’s pretty good on offense, too.

Dominguez hit a three-run homer and Jason Castro added a solo shot to give the Houston Astros a 6-5 win over the Kansas City Royals on Monday night.

The Astros trailed by one in the fourth inning before Dominguez launched his fourth homer of the season in left field to give Houston a 6-4 lead.

“I’m trying to figure some things out and be more con-sistent,” said Dominguez, who is batting .239. “I’ve been able to get some big hits, and hopefully, the aver-age will be there by the end of the year. But most impor-tantly, I’ll get the RBIs and get the (wins).”

Dominguez has hit all of his homers in the past nine games and his 21 RBIs are second on the team.

“This guy is growing up right before our eyes,” Hous-ton manager Bo Porter said of the 24-year-old. “He’s get-ting more and more confi-dence ... I think he’s gotten to the point where he un-

derstands himself, he un-derstands what the league is trying to do to him, and now he’s picking his spots and you see that he has some power.”

Castro’s homer came in Houston’s two-run third inning before Kansas City took the lead on a three-run home run by Miguel Tejada in the fourth. It was his first homer since 2011.

Houston’s Dallas Keuchel (1-1) allowed nine hits and four runs while striking out six in 6 2-3 innings for the win. He was helped by three double plays turned by his defense, which lead the majors with 60. Closer Jose Veras struck out two in a perfect ninth for his seventh save.

“Keuchel did a great job of, one, attacking the zone and being very efficient with his pitches and did a good job of pitching to both sides of the plate and using his off-speed stuff to induce ground ball double plays,” Porter said.

Kansas City starter Jer-emy Guthrie (5-2) allowed eight hits and a season-high six runs in five innings — his shortest start of the sea-son. He had gone 18 games without a loss before allow-

By RICHARD LUKENrichard@iolaregister.com

CHENEY — Iola High sopho-more Kaden Macha exited the 18th green at Cherry Oaks Golf Course Monday with his hopes dashed.

“Coach kept telling me I was los-ing by two strokes,” Macha said. “I think it was to keep me focused.”

Instead, Macha’s even par 72 at the Class 4A State Golf Tourna-ment was enough to put him in a three-way playoff with Wichita Collegiate’s Camron Chugg and KC Piper’s Montana Fasching for the individual title.

The playoff ended after the first playoff hole. Macha reached the 488-yard No. 1 hole in two shots, close enough to two-putt for par. Both Chugg and Fasching missed the green on their second shots, forcing them to chip. Both were left with putts of about eight feet to tie Macha.

Neither did, giving the title to Macha.

“It was a little hard not to smile when they missed those putts,” Macha admitted afterward.

A crowd of about 30 spectators, including Macha’s parents and teammates, were on hand.

Coach Doug Kerr was among them, dousing Macha with a con-tainer of water — his personal “Gatorade Bath.”

“I wasn’t expecting that, either,” Macha said.

Other Iola golfers competing at state were Shane Walden, who carded an 81 to tie for 40th; Adam Peterson, who tied for 73rd with an 87; Weston Hines, whose 95 was good for 94th place, one stroke ahead of Drake Dieker, who fin-ished 95th; and Matt Jacobs, who shot a 101 to finish 100th.

MACHA’S DAY settled down fol-lowing a rough start. He bogeyed the second and third holes to settle in at 2-over for the front nine.

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“I didn’t get too frustrated be-cause those are two of the tough-est holes on the course,” he said.

The key was to contain the dam-age. Macha did so, parring the next 10 holes until delivering bird-ies on the 13th and 14th holes to get back to even par.

He finished the back nine with a 34, the lowest score of any golfer of the day for that stretch.

“The course really suited my game,” he said. “The greens were fast, but not too fast.”

That Macha was able to reach the green in two strokes on the playoff was sweet retribution.

“I had really struggled with my approach game all day,” he said. “My putting saved me.”

THE VICTORY sets up what could be a budding rivalry be-tween Macha and Chugg, both of

Sellman hits 87 at 3A state tourney

Astros extend KC’s losing skid

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Correction: The Class 3A State Softball Tournament bracket posted in Satur-day’s Register featured incorrect start times. The correct bracket is below.

4A state baseball bracketSalina — Dean Evans Stadium

3A state baseball bracketManhattan-Tointon Family Stadium

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High School BaseballClass 3A State

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ing 19 hits and 11 runs in the past two games to lose two straight.

“I never really got into a groove, and it’s my own fault,” Guthrie said. “Whether it was a walk or falling behind guys, I just wasn’t able to put anybody away. For the most part, none of my pitches were super well-executed, and they just made me pay.”

The Royals cut the lead to 6-5 when Eric Hosmer doubled and Jeff Fran-coeur sent him home with a double, which dropped just in front of a diving Jimmy Paredes in the eighth inning.

Francoeur, who en-tered the game in a 0 for 11 slump, had a sea-son-high three hits for his first multi-hit game since April 30.

The Royals mustered a little more offense on Monday that they had in a weekend sweep by the Athletics when they man-aged just five runs in three games. But their losing streak stretched to four games after going 3 of 10 with runners in scoring position on Monday.

Royals catcher Salva-dor Perez was shaken up when he crashed hip-first into the railing near Houston’s dugout chas-ing a foul ball in the fifth inning. He finished the inning, but was replaced by George Kottaras for

the sixth inning. Manag-er Ned Yost said he has a bruised right hip and is listed day to day.

Kansas City’s three-run fourth inning ended a 36-inning streak where the Royals didn’t score more than one run in a frame. Perez singled to start the inning be-fore a one-out single by Francoeur set the table for Tejada’s shot, which landed in the back of the Crawford Boxes in left field and gave Kansas City a 4-3 lead.

It was the first home run for the 38-year-old Tejada, who didn’t play in the majors last sea-son, since July 16, 2011.

“Right now, for me, even if I get a hit, it’s great,” Tejada said. “When I get an opportu-nity, I just want to help my team win a game. I’m excited to hit a home run, but I’m just trying to do my best to help us win.”

Carlos Pena walked and Paredes singled in the fourth before the homer by Dominguez put Houston up 6-4.

Marwin Gonzalez led off Houston’s third with a single and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt. Gonzalez took third on an error by El-liot Johnson when he missed the catch on a pickoff try. A sacrifice fly by Jose Altuve gave Houston a 2-1 lead.

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By The Associated PressThe massive tornado

that ripped through a handful of Oklaho-ma City suburbs and killed at least 50 people grabbed the attention of the sports world on Monday, especially the players and coaches with ties to the area.

Kevin Durant, a three-time scoring champion for the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thun-der, posted on his Twit-ter account that he was praying for everyone in-volved. He added: “Ev-erybody stay safe!”

Mets pitcher Jeremy Hefner went to Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, just south of Oklahoma City. The school had its roof torn off and walls knocked down. Some of those killed died at the school.

“I mean, it’s terrify-ing,” the right-hander said.

Hefner still has fam-ily living in Moore. He said he had been in con-tact with his mother, who told him his cous-ins and uncles were OK.

“It’s just unfathom-able,” he said. “I used to live there.”

Dodgers star Matt Kemp posted on Twit-ter: “’m giving $1000 for tonight’s HR and every HR until the All-Star break for the victims of my hometown in OKC. (hash)PrayforOklaho-

ma”Coverage of the tor-

nado damage was on the clubhouse TV as the Red Sox prepared for their game at the Chi-cago White Sox.

“It’s a tragedy when you see a natural disas-ter like that take place, so many innocent peo-ple that are certainly af-fected, if not directly by injury or possibly loss of life,” Boston man-ager John Farrell said. “Having been though something similar back in 1997 that had prob-ably very similar dam-age, it’s a scary situa-tion. Our thoughts are with all the people af-fected.”

Farrell played for Oklahoma State in col-lege, and then served as the assistant coach and pitching and recruit-ing coordinator for the Cowboys for five sea-sons from 1997-2001.

“The location today is very close to where

it was back in ‘97,” Farrell said. “Just that area just south of Okla-homa City seems to be right in the path of unfortunately a lot of storm fronts and cer-tainly the tornadoes again today.”

White Sox manager Robin Ventura also played his college ball at Oklahoma State, where was a three-time All-America. The Santa Maria, Calif., native said he didn’t know anything about torna-does until there were a couple that passed through the area while he was in school.

“It’s scary,” he said. “There’s nothing you can do about it.”

Kansas coach bas-ketball coach Bill Self also went to Oklahoma State.

“We wish nothing but the very best for (those affected by the storm) and our thoughts are with them,” he said.

Athletes eye devastation

It’s a tragedy when you see a natural disaster like that take place, so many in-nocent people that are certainly affected, if not directly by injury or possibly loss of life. Having been through something similar back in 1997 that had probably very simi-lar damage, it’s a scary situation.

— John Farrell, Boston Red Sox managerand Oklahoma State alum and former coach

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Older Americans Month is observed each May.

It was established in l963 when about 17 mil-lion Americans were 65 or older. Almost one third of older Ameri-cans were living in pov-erty and few programs existed to help meet their needs. President John F. Kennedy des-ignated May as “Se-nior Citizens Month.” In l980, under Presi-dent Jimmy Carter, the month was renamed “Older Americans Month.”

In 2011, the 41.4 mil-lion Americans age 65 and over made up 13.3 percent of the popula-tion. And with the ag-ing of the baby boomer generation, which be-gan turning 65 a couple years ago, America’s senior population is ex-pected to number 72.1 million by 2030. Seniors will be 19 percent of the U.S. population.

Today’s seniors have lived through wars and hard times, as well as periods of unprece-dented prosperity. They pioneered new technol-

ogies in medicine, com-munications and indus-try while spearheading a cultural revolution that won equal rights for minorities, women and disabled Ameri-

cans.This year’s Older

American Month theme — “Unleash the Power of Age!” — em-phasizes the important role of older adults as productive, active and influential members of society.

Seniors make many contributions to their communities through civic and volunteer in-volvement. They volun-teer at meal sites and deliver food to home-bound seniors; they provide transportation for older adults who cannot drive. Seniors do home repairs and

run errands for neigh-bors; they volunteer in schools, churches, and community organiza-tions.

Think for a moment about the number of se-niors who make signifi-cant contributions to our local communities and the volume of vol-unteer hours they pro-vide in various endeav-ors. We all owe a debt of gratitude to those who have given, and con-tinue to give so much to society.

A common myth is that aging is negative, and means giving up things that you enjoy. Debra Sellers, Exten-sion specialist in adult development and aging, Kansas State Universi-ty, responds that the ef-fects of aging can push older adults to make choices, but making choices is part of life at any age and the choices need not be negative.

While some choices can be related to losses due to the natural aging process, such as chang-es in vision, hearing or memory, many adults report balancing such

losses with new oppor-tunities and report a sense of well-being in their mid-70s that is greater than a sense of well-being felt at a younger age.

Aging is a natural life process, said Sellers, who emphasizes the need to be proactive and make choices to take advantage of the gift of time.

As older adults, or, if you prefer, adults get-ting older, the aging population is going to have a lot of company, and that’s why it’s im-portant to strive for a healthy lifestyle, main-tain a positive attitude, and be willing to adapt to each new year, said Sellers, who noted that many people will be able to enjoy previous activities and also may develop new interests.

Contact me in the Fort Scott office of Southwind Extension District at 620-223-3720, or aludlum@ksu.edu, if you have questions or need information about health and well-ness issues across the life span.

Aging should be a positive part of life

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By COLTON TONEYJunior Club Reporter

May was Grandpar-ent’s Night at 4-H for the City Slicker’s 4-H Club. Brody and Kyser Nem-ecek along with their grandparents led the club in the flag salute and 4-H pledge. There were 20 members, sev-en sets of grandparents and one guest, Roper Curry, in attendance.

Grant Luedke gave a talk on his goats, Emilee Luedke gave a demonstration on how to make duct tape bows, and Colton Toney and his grandmother, Loret-ta Ellis, gave a demon-stration talk on “How to Make Snicker Doodle Muffins.” City Slick-ers’ next meeting will be June 6 for Parent’s Night.

Colton Toney, left, and his grandmother, Loretta Ellis, demonstrate how to make Snicker Doodle muffins at their 4-H meeting.

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City Slickers 4-H Clubhonors grandparents

By LEXY RIEBELJunior Club Reporter

The Square B 4-H Club had a project meeting for the reading project on May 9 at the Iola Library. The club set goals and specific action plans to meet project expectations.

Square B plans to read at a nursing home, have a book drive and donate books for a good cause, as well as par-ticipate in the library’s summer reading pro-gram. Square also had some 4-H’ers read books from the library

and from Farm Bu-reau to kids at the Iola Farmers Market. The 4-H’ers who partici-pated in reading to the kids were Jacob, Abby, Lexy, Ann, and Ashley Riebel, Tristan Miller, and Levi and Abigail Meiwes.

Reading focus for Square B 4-HThe Southwind Exten-

sion master gardeners group will lead a land-scape tour on June 1. This tour will highlight several beautiful land-scapes and is free and open to the public.

The tour will begin at 9 a.m. at the home of Tracy Keagle, 207 S. Elm. Keagle’s garden is a simple space designed to make the property ap-pear larger than it actu-ally is. Grass, hosta, se-dums and pachysandra fill out the garden.

The second stop at 9:20 a.m. will be to Cot-tonwood Gardens in the 200 block of South Cot-tonwood. A beautiful garden replaces where a dilapidated home once stood.

At 9:45 a.m., the tour

will visit the Wayne Gar-rett Children’s Garden at the corner of Syca-more and Lincoln. The garden is utilized by the SAFE BASE afterschool program. John Richards will guide participants through the garden and discuss how the green-house is used to start seeds that are then used in the garden.

Next, at 10:15 a.m., will be the garden of Steve Greenwall, 820 Meadowbrook W. An artist’s eye has been brought to this land-scape. Greenwall has a great understanding of how and why plants look good together. Visitors will enjoy the careful consideration of color, form and texture of the plantings.

The final stop will be in Carlyle. Pat Sigg’s labyrinth garden at 32 Adams will be the end of the tour at 11 a.m. The labyrinth is surrounded by beautiful flower gar-dens, including a minia-ture garden and a Mon-arch waystation.

Garden tour is June 1

By ROXANA HEGEMAN

Associated PressWICHITA, Kan. (AP)

— Cattle feeders in the U.S. are coping with re-duced herds and high corn costs in part by increasing their use of growth-inducing drugs designed to bulk up ani-mals, get more pounds of beef from each car-cass and circumvent the drought’s withering ef-fects on the food cycle.

Accelerated use of the drugs, known as “beta-agonists,” is de-fended by producers who say they are essen-tial to withstanding the drought and their phar-maceutical creators who insist the additives are safe. But their use is drawing new scru-tiny both at home and abroad, especially now that Russia and other key markets for U.S. beef have banned their use and some domestic producers worry about the additives’ potential

effect on beef tender-ness and flavor.

In February, Russia joined the European Union, China and other countries banning the import of beef raised on the additives.

The United States — which along with other countries such as Mex-ico and Canada which allow the supplements — blame politics, not food safety fears, for the export bans.

But some U.S. con-sumer groups are also taking notice. In Decem-ber, the Center for Food Safety and the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a petition with FDA urging the agency to conduct comprehen-sive studies on the long-term effects of human consumption and ani-mal health.

Initially used to treat respiratory ailments in humans, the additives — fed to livestock in the last days of their lives — are mixed in with normal feeds and work at a cellular level to more efficiently convert the feed’s nutrients into lean muscle instead of fat. Their use has fueled annual increases in car-cass weights that result in larger cuts of meat in stores — a pharma-ceutical end-run around a drought that has not only driven up the cost of feed grains but has forced cattlemen to sell off their livestock.

Statistics kept by the Agriculture Depart-ment prove what con-sumers are seeing: In 2000, the average fed carcass weight was 772 pounds. By 2011, with the use of beta-ago-nists picking up speed, weights had grown to an average 816 pounds. During the 2012 drought the average beef carcass weighed 835 pounds.

“Drought and tough times makes a producer

use all technology that is available,” CattleFax analyst Kevin Good said.

The U.S. Food and

Drug Administration has approved two beta-agonists: ractopamine, marketed for cattle un-der the brand name Optaflexx by Elanco An-imal Health; and more recently zilpeterol, sold under the brand name Zilmax by Merck Ani-mal Health. The more potent zilpeterol has been available in the U.S. for cattle since 2007.

WHILE HORMONE implants have been widely available to cattle producers for de-cades, newer technolo-gies like beta-agonists did not become commer-cially available in the U.S. until 2004 after rac-topamine was approved for cattle. FDA approved ractopamine for pigs in 1999.

The federal govern-ment considers them safe, and their makers contend the additives increase productivity and have no noticeable effect on the beef ’s taste if producers follow feed-ing guidelines.

When corn was cheap, feedlot operator Steve Landgraf could afford to feed enough grain to his cattle and he only

put in one time-released growth hormone im-plant in each animal’s ear to help them gain weight. The drought has

him inserting two hor-mone implants in the ears of each animal that comes into his Lakin Feed yard in southwest Kansas — plus he is now feeding them beta-agonists. While those drugs are costly, he says he can afford to spend a little more for them when feed grain costs are so high.

“We are feeding the cattle less corn and making them bigger,” Landgraf said.

Cattle fed ractopa-mine reach slaughter weight eight days earli-er than those that do not get the supplements, each animal consum-ing an average 2.3 fewer bushels of corn, accord-ing to study prepared by Global AgriTrends, a private agricultural analysis firm.

If beta agonists were removed from the 70 percent of U.S. cattle es-timated to use them, it would require an addi-tional 41 million bushels of corn to beef up cattle for slaughter. Removing it from the 90 percent of pigs grown on the sup-plement would require another 50 million bush-els.

Drought increases drug use in cattle

We are feeding the cattle less corn and making them bigger.

— Steve Landgraf, feedlot operator

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In 2000, the average fed carcass weight was 772 pounds. By 2011, with the use of beta-agonists picking up speed, weights had grown to an average of 816 pounds. During the 2012 drought the average beef car-cass weighed 835 pounds.

The Iola Public Li-brary will observe the Memorial Day holiday with reduced hours.

The library will close at 5 p.m. Friday

and remain closed throughout the week-end and Monday.

It will be open for business at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Library to observe holiday

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There’s room for Wednesday and Fri-day’s ever-popular Kids Can Cook classes sponsored by the Ex-tension office.

This year’s theme is “International Fla-vors,” said Kathy McEwan, Extension agent at the Allen County courthouse.

“Kids will be experi-menting with African, Mexican and Hawai-ian dishes,” she said.

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By JOHN HANNAAP Political WriterTOPEKA, Kan. (AP)

— Kansas legislators were stalemated Mon-day on spending and tax issues as Republican leaders publicly bick-ered over GOP Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan to stabilize the budget by canceling a scheduled decrease in the state sales tax.

Senate President Susan Wagle acknowl-edged that she’s waiting for the House to endorse Brownback’s proposal to keep the sales tax at its current 6.3 percent rate. The Senate has approved the measure as part of a larger plan that also cuts individual income tax rates over the next four years, as Brownback wanted.

The House passed a tax plan earlier this year allowing the sales tax to drop to 5.7 per-cent in July, as called for by state law, with less aggressive income tax cuts. Last week, House Republican lead-ers outlined a compro-mise moving toward the Senate’s position on income-tax cuts and setting the sales tax at 6 percent.

The two Republican-dominated chambers still have differences to settle on a proposed state budget of roughly $14.5 billion for each of the next two fiscal years, starting in July.

Their biggest bud-

get disagreement is over higher education spending, and both the House and Senate are at odds with Brownback. The governor wants to

keep state funding flat over the next two years, while the Senate wants to trim 1 percent each of the next two years. The House is seeking a 4 percent cut during the next fiscal year, plus additional restrictions on spending on salaries over the next two years.

Discussions of both issues degenerated Monday into back-and-forth press releases, as both tax and budget ne-gotiators failed to meet.

“It’s their terms or no terms,” House Speaker Ray Merrick, a Stilwell Republican, said dur-ing a caucus for GOP representatives. “That’s not negotiation, and it’s a disservice to the citi-zens of the state to oper-ate like this.”

But Wagle, a Wichita Republican, said that if House members con-tinue to study tax and budget issues, their chamber eventually will endorse Brownback’s sales tax plan.

“I think it will most

likely happen,” she said. “We’re prepared to work as long as we need to.”

GOP House members and Democrats in both

chambers have resisted canceling the sales tax decrease because it was a promise lawmakers made when they boost-ed the tax three years ago to balance the bud-get, before Brownback took office.

But Brownback and Republican leaders want to follow up on massive individual in-come tax cuts enacted last year with more re-ductions, positioning the state to phase out personal income taxes. Wagle argued that keep-ing the sales tax at 6.3 percent will not only stabilize the budget but allow for more aggres-sive income tax cuts, stimulating the econo-my more.

Republican leaders had promised that leg-islators would finish their annual session in 80, trimming 10 days off the normal schedule in a show of efficiency. But Monday was the 87th day.

Legislature at stalemate

It’s their terms or no terms. That’s not negotiation, and it’s a disservice to the citi-zens of the state to operate like this.

— House Speaker Ray Merrick

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By ROXANA HEGEMAN

Associated PressWICHITA, Kan. (AP)

— An engineering firm accused of firing a whis-tleblower for reporting unsafe conditions at an eastern Kansas nuclear power plant plans to ap-peal the ruling by fed-eral regulators, the firm said Monday.

The Labor Depart-ment’s Occupational Safety and Health Ad-ministration found En-ercon Services violated whistleblower protec-tions when it retaliated against an engineer for raising concerns during construction work at the Wolf Creek nuclear pow-er plant in Burlington.

The company was or-dered to pay $261,152 in back wages, damages and interest, plus attor-ney’s fees. OSHA found it violated the whistle-blower protections of

the Energy Reorganiza-tion Act (ERA), OSHA said Monday.

“Professionals who work in the nuclear pow-er industry have a right and responsibility to ex-press their professional opinion and report safe-ty-related concerns,” OSHA acting regional administrator Marcia Drumm said in a news release. “The depart-ment’s responsibility is to protect all employees from retaliation for ex-ercising basic worker rights. The ERA protects the workers, who, in turn, protect the public.”

OSHA said any ap-peal would go to the department’s Office of Administrative Law Judges.

Enercon said in an email Monday that the employee-owned com-pany promotes a safety-conscious work envi-ronment.

Firm looks to appeal whistleblower case

Today is the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in His-tory:

On May 21, 1932, Ame-lia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean as she landed in Northern Ireland, about 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland.

In 1542, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto died while searching for gold along the Mississippi River.

In 1881, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.

Five years ago: Oil pric-

es blew past $130 a bar-rel and gas prices climbed above $3.80 a gallon. Israel and Syria unexpectedly an-nounced the resumption of peace talks after an eight-year break.

Thought for Today: “Our present addiction to poll-sters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic un-certainty about the future.... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the en-trails of a chicken.” — Eric Hoffer, American philoso-pher (1902-1983).

Today in history

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HAGAR THE HORRIBLE by Chris Browne

ZITS by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

HI AND LOIS by Chance Browne

BABY BLUES by Kirkman & Scott

BEETLE BAILEY by Mort Walker

FUNKY WINKERBEAN by Tom Batiuk

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DAILY CRYPTOQUOTES - Here’s how to work it:

Sudoku is like a crossword puzzle, but uses numbers instead of words. The puzzle is a box of 81 squares, subdivided into 3x3 cubes of 9 squares each. Some squares are filled in with numbers. The rest should be filled in by the puzzler. Fill in the blank squares allowing the numbers 1-9 to appear only once in every row, once in every column and once in every 3x3 box. One-star puzzles are for beginners, and the difficulty gradually increases through the week to a very challenging five-star puzzle.

The 2013 version of Kansas Community Col-leges Enrollment and Financial Statistics, compiled by the Kansas Association of Commu-nity College Business Of-ficers, recently was post-ed on the Kansas Board of Regents’ website.

There are a number of comparisons I found in-teresting.

First, our enrollment of 64,692 credit hours or 2,156.4 full-time equiva-lent students in the 2011-2012 academic year ranks us eighth in size among the 19 community col-leges in Kansas. We are only five students behind number seven. We are the largest community col-lege in southeast Kansas by nearly 500 students, with Fort Scott second at 1,663.9 students, Neo-sho County at 1,662, Cof-feyville 1,499, Labette 1,242, and Independence at 940.6. Eleven percent of our students are from Allen County, 85 percent are from other Kansas counties, and 4 percent are out-of-state. Females

account for 63.3 percent and 36.7 percent are male. Online education is the fastest growing seg-ment of our enrollment with nearly half of our students taking at least one online class.

The board of trustees and administration have worked very hard over the years to keep cost to students and to county residents a bargain. Our tuition and fees last year were $68 per credit hour for resident students, which was next to the lowest in the state. The highest tuition and fees charged by a community college in the state was $99 per credit hour at Johnson County. For com-parison, the University of Kansas charges $296.25

per credit hour.In 2011-2012, Allen

received the smallest amount of local (county) funding of the 19 Kansas community colleges and substantially less than the other five southeast Kansas community col-leges. Revenue from Al-len County taxes was $1,381,572, which was 11.2 percent of our total.

Coffeyville’s local taxes were $9,007,747 (45.1 percent), Ft. Scott’s $2,518,616 (21.9 per cent), Independence’s $4,862,230 (54.5 percent), Labette’s $4,556,953 (29.6 percent), and Neosho’s $4,721,302 (37.8 percent). Our lo-cal mill levy of 16.767 was third lowest in the state for community col-leges and Allen County’s assessed valuation of $96,004,713 was 16th of the 18 counties support-ing a community college. One of the ways that the state checks for efficiency is by dividing total aca-demic year expenditures by full-time equivalency (FTE) or cost per student. In 2012 we spent $5,271 per

full-time student, which was over $1,000 per stu-dent less than our closest competitor. The average for the 19 community col-leges was $10,861 per FTE, more than twice our aver-age.

Those of us in higher education are all anx-iously awaiting the legis-lature’s decision regard-ing state funding. State funding is the largest contributor to our rev-enue at $4,567,232 and is 37 percent of the total. Since the recession hit in 2008, our state fund-ing has been reduced by more than 12 percent. This obviously has a greater effect on Allen than on other colleges that are less dependent on state funding.

Legislators were re-cently looking at three funding scenarios. The House would impose a 4 percent cut to higher education, the Senate a 2 percent cut, and the gov-ernor was proposing no cuts to higher education. We hope the governor is successful.

John Masterson

Allen Community College President

Numbers show ACC successes

Dear Dr. Roach: Sev-eral years ago my hus-band received a stent for a 99 percent blockage. What had kept him alive was a network of collat-eral arteries, thanks to a lifelong high level of exercise. His cardiolo-gist put him on Crestor, and he became an old man before his time — muscle cramps, muscle weakness to the point that he was unable to exercise and our sex life became nonexistent. Also, his mental func-tioning dropped off no-ticeably.

He stopped taking the medication for a month and returned to nor-mal. His cardiologist changed his medication to pravastatin, and the side effects didn’t re-turn, but his LDL level went up. The physical side effects started to re-turn with an increased dosage, and she’s just doubled the dose again.

I’m concerned that he’ll be back to where he was physically while on the Crestor. How critical is it for someone with a history of coronary blockage to have a low LDL level when you fac-tor in quality-of-life is-sues? — D.S.

Answer: I have al-ways recommended a careful evaluation of the balance between the

good effects of a medica-tion and the bad effects. Your story is a good ex-ample of a time when this principle applies.

In my mind, there is

no question that your husband should take the lower dose of pravas-tatin, enjoy life and do the exercise — which, as you correctly point out,

also reduces his risk of future heart and health problems. Medication should prolong life with-out making life seem no longer worth living.

Medicine should help, not hinder

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Register/Richard LukenIola High’s Adam Peterson, above, strikes an ap-proach shot from the rough, while Drake Dieker, right, hits a putt at Monday’s Class 4A State Golf tournament in Cheney.

whom are sophomores.Macha defeated Chugg

by a single stroke at last week’s regional tourna-ment in El Dorado.

“I’m sure we’ll be see-ing more of each other down the road,” Macha said.

IOLA’S team score of 335 placed the Mus-tangs in a tie for 11th with Larned, although the Indians got the tie-breakers because of the lower score among each team’s fifth-place golfer. The competition was tight and fierce. Iola was five strokes away from a top-seven finish.

Collegiate won the team title with a score of 299, ahead of KC Piper’s 305.

Individual resultsKaden Macha 38-34—72 Shane Walden 41-40—81 Adam Peterson 42-45—87 Weston Hines 44-51—95 Drake Dieker 48-48—96 Matt Jacobs 50-50—100

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IRVING, Texas (AP) — Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo will miss at least three weeks of off-season workouts after a procedure to remove a cyst from his back.

The team’s website re-ported Tuesday, the first day of organized team workouts, that Romo un-derwent the procedure last month and could re-turn for the mandatory minicamp that starts June 11. He will be ready for training camp in July.

Romo became the highest-paid player in franchise history in March when he signed a

six-year, $108 million ex-tension with $55 million guaranteed, more than Super Bowl winner Joe Flacco of Baltimore.

The Dallas Morning News reported that the outpatient procedure was performed before the NFL draft. Romo was restricted to light con-ditioning work in April but has been cleared to throw.

“If this was the regu-lar season and I had to play next week, I could,” Romo told the newspa-per Monday. “That’s why I did it now. This will have no effect on train-ing camp.”

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has said Romo will have an expanded role in the offense, and his quarterback has committed to “Peyton Manning-type time” in trying to turn Dallas into a Super Bowl con-tender again.

Backup Kyle Orton will take most of the snaps in Romo’s absence. He signed as a free agent last year but played in just one game, a blow-out loss to Chicago. The Cowboys also have second-year player Nick Stephens and undrafted rookie Dalton Williams on the roster.

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BY DOUG FERGUSONAP Golf Writer

Golf ’s governing bodies approved a new rule today that outlaws the putting stroke used by four of the last six major champions, go-ing against two major golf organizations that argued long putters are not hurting the game.

The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and U.S. Golf Association said Rule 14-1b would take effect in 2016.

“We recognize this has been a divisive issue, but after thor-ough consideration, we remain convinced that this is the right decision for golf,” R&A chief executive Peter Dawson said.

The new rule does not ban the long put-ters, only the way they commonly are used.

Golfers no longer will be able to anchor the club against their bod-ies to create the effect of a hinge. Masters cham-pion Adam Scott used a long putter he pressed against his chest. Brit-ish Open champion Er-nie Els and U.S. Open champion Webb Simp-son used a belly putter.

“We strongly believe that this rule is for the betterment of the game,” USGA presi-dent Glen Nager said. “Rule 14-1b protects one of the important challenges in the game — the free swing of the entire club.”

The next step is for the PGA Tour to follow along with the new rule or decide to establish its own condition of competition that would allow players to anchor the long putters.

Putting stylecontroversycontinues

Humboldt athletes to get send-offs

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt High School’s baseball, soft-ball and track teams will be honored in a se-ries of send-offs Thurs-day.

All will depart from the east side of the Humboldt Community Fieldhouse.

The baseball team, competing in the Class 3A State Tournament in Manhattan, will de-part at 9 a.m. The Cubs will play Salina-Sacred Heart at 4 p.m. at Man-hattan’s Tointon Fam-

ily Stadium.The track team will

be at the state track meet in Wichita Friday and Saturday. Those athletes will be sent off at 11 a.m. The state meet will be at Wichita State University’s Cess-na Stadium.

The softball team, at the Class 3A State Tournament in Man-hattan, will be sent off at noon. The Lady Cubs will play Marys-ville at 7 p.m. Thursday at Manhattan’s Twin Oaks Complex.