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

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

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

By SUSAN [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By RICHARD [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

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

By BOB [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

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By JOE [email protected]

When Brian Pekarek was hired as superintendent of the Iola school district in February, he saw an opportunity to “reinvigo-rate” USD 257.

With a focus on academic achievement and public transpar-ency, Pekarek hopes he can fur-ther success for the district and the more than 1,300 students rely-ing on it.

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-

By BOB [email protected]

An anticipated field of a thou-sand runners and walkers, who will flee Iola’s downtown busi-ness district early Saturday as Charley Melvin did in 1905, can be thankful that Melvin chose to do his dastardly deed in the mid-dle of the night.

Had the event being commemo-rated occurred in mid-day, par-ticipants would battle oppressive heat and humidity, with both forecast at the upper end of the discomfort scale during daytime Friday and Saturday. As is, they will run and walk in somewhat more inviting temperatures pre-dicted for the low 70s by 12:26 a.m. Saturday.

The race — many walkers will be out for a stroll — will cap activ-ities that start late Friday after-noon and will go on throughout the evening. Included will be the much-awaited “drag race,” fea-turing some of the area’s finest men and women dressed in drag.

Chris Weiner at Thrive Allen County, co-sponsor with Allen County Crimestoppers for “The Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run for your Life,” said total of partic-ipants was approaching 450, with about 200 signed on for the 5-kilo-meter run. The walk will follow a 3-kilometer course.

“Registration, including prob-ably a fifth online, has really

picked up,” Weiner said Tuesday afternoon. As in the past, “we ex-pect a lot of people to sign up Fri-day night.”

Cost is $12 for the walk. Run-ners’ fees are $14 for youth to age 17, $20 for adults and $17 each for members of teams.

Runners in the third annual event will aim for best times of 15.40.06 for males and 20.44.78 for females, set last year.

Sticks of “Melvin Dy-No-Mite” will be awarded the first three places for males and females in each of five ages groups, 15 and under, 16-30, 31-45, 46-60 and 61 and over.

All participants will break from in front of the post office. Runners will follow a course that will take them on West to Wash-ington, then Jackson, Jefferson and East to Cottonwood. They

Temps for runlook inviting

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ATLANTA (AP) — Former Atlanta schools Superintendent Beverly Hall knew about cheat-ing allegations on standardized tests but either ignored them or tried to hide them, according to a state investigation.

An 800-page report released Tuesday to The Associated Press by Gov. Nathan Deal’s office through an open records request shows several educators report-ed cheating in their schools. But the report says Hall, who won the national Superintendent of the Year award in 2009, and other administrators ignored those re-ports and sometimes retaliated against the whistleblowers.

The yearlong investigation shows educators at nearly four dozen Atlanta elementary and middle schools cheated on stan-dardized tests by helping stu-dents or changing the answers once exams were handed in.

The investigators also found a “culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation” in the school district over the cheating allegations, which led to educators lying about the cheating or destroying

Pekarek finds home at USD 257

Brian Pekarek, center, visits with Barb Geffert and Marcy Boring at the USD 257 board office.

Cheating scandal detailed

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F-C DAYS PREPARATIONS

Register/Bob JohnsonIola Electric Department worker Kelly Rouse prepares to connect a power line Monday afternoon that will feed concessions on the courthouse lawn this weekend for Farm-City Days. Prior to the electrical work, Rouse put up a banner advertising the Iola fall festival.

Humboldt to extend water lines to sports area Advanced voting begins Wednesday

Avid volunteers shyabout role in parade

By STEVEN [email protected]

Donna and Ray Houser are very good at being active in their community, helping people and representing Iola.

The one thing at which they’re a little rough, is receiving recog-nition.

The Housers have been selected to represent the city of Iola as pa-rade marshals for this weekend’s 41st annual Farm-City Days.

“I’m at a loss for words, which if you know me at all, is very rare,” said Donna of the honor.

Ray echoed her sentiment by saying, “It’s an honor, but we are not very good at receiving hon-ors.”

If someone were to look at the Housers’ list of achievements, it wouldn’t be hard to see why they were selected to lead Saturday’s parade. Since moving to Iola in the 1960s, the Housers have been involved in almost every aspect of the community.

Shelia Lampe, executive direc-

tor of the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce, said the parade mar-shals represent the best of Iola and its farms, and the Housers were a good choice for the respon-sibility.

Donna worked as a dental hy-gienist, graduating with a dental

By STEVEN [email protected]

Oct. 23 will mark the first day of Allen Community College’s online GED program, being the first of its kind in southeast Kan-sas.

Julia Martin, director of adult education at the college, said the program’s goal is to create a new level of convenience for indi-viduals who are working toward their GED, or general education development, certificate.

The program is an eight- to 10-week course that is completed entirely through online classes with ACC. Martin said the col-lege avoided hiring new instruc-tors for the course, and will rely on current staff for the online instruction. Students will be re-quired to come to the campus for

a 12-hour orientation, but that will be the only time they are required to step foot on ACC’s grounds, Martin said. Students are also required to meet “face-to-face” over the Internet with an instructor for four hours per week. She said the students could utilize a program such as Skype for the weekly meetings.

Martin said she believes it is important to maintain an up-to-date status when it comes to what courses are available online.

“Allen has always been a lead-er with online courses,” Martin said. “It’s important to keep that status for us and our students.”

Martin said students can take the course on their own time, with no set schedule for classes. The course does require a mini-mum amount of hours spent

working toward the certificate per week.

The online class is a boon to students who are looking to save money. The course price will re-main the same for the online reg-istration — $25. Martin said the goal of the program is to provide an easier way for people in the community to succeed, and to give them options to do so.

“People such as a mother of three or a working dad don’t have a lot of time to complete a course on campus,” Martin said. “We need to give those people op-tions.”

The GED program at ACC is a grant-funded operation. The state of Kansas honors GED graduates with a high school di-ploma upon completion of the 70-hour course.

ACC set to open online GED course

By MATTHEW LEEAssociated Press

LIMA, Peru (AP) — U.S. Sec-retary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is answering Republi-can criticism of the Obama ad-ministration’s handling of last month’s attack at the U.S. con-sulate in Benghazi, Libya, saying she — not the White House — is responsible for security at all of America’s diplomatic missions.

“I take responsibility,” Clinton told CNN. “I’m in charge of the State Department’s 60,000-plus people all over the world (at) 275 posts.”

With only weeks before the presidential election, outrage has crystallized around Vice President Joe Biden’s claim in

last week’s debate with Repub-lican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan that “we weren’t told” about requests for extra secu-rity at the consulate where as-sailants killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

Congressional hearings re-vealed that the State Department was aware of, and rejected, sev-

eral requests for increased secu-rity in Benghazi. Spokesmen for both the State Department and the White House took pains Fri-day to make clear that Biden’s “we” referred to the White House, where such requests would not go.

Clinton backed up Biden’s assertion. “The president and the vice president wouldn’t be knowledgeable about specific de-cisions that are made by security professionals,” she said Monday.

Clinton told Fox News Chan-nel that “the decisions about security are made by security professionals. But we’re going to review everything to be sure we’re doing what needs to be done in an increasingly risky en-vironment.”

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By ALLISON [email protected]

Beginning Wednesday, Kan-sans can cast their votes for the Nov. 6 general elections as part of advanced voting.

The last day to register to vote is today by 5 p.m. at either the county courthouse or online through the Kansas Secretary of State’s website, www.kssos.org.

Sherrie Riebel, Allen County clerk and election official, said

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By BOB JOHNSON [email protected]

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt council members voted their intent Monday night to extend two six-inch water lines to the east edge of town to support construction of a new USD 258 sports complex. Sewer service already is available.

The district will build base-ball, softball and football fields, as well as a track, on a nearly 52-acre tract given by Joe and Jane Works.

City Administrator Larry Tucker said the project would

cost about $42,000, with the lines running along Central and New York streets. The city has $10,000 available for such work in its 2013 budget.

Tucker said Community Na-tional Bank agreed to provide money for the project through a loan, which City Attorney Fred Works said was “the cleaner way to do it.” The district also offered to pay interest on a three-year loan, or loan money to the city interest-free. Works said he was uncertain about the legality of one tax-supported entity (USD 258) loaning money to another

(the city).The details of financing can

wait, Tucker said. The council’s first duty was to give the school district the go-ahead, “so they can proceed with their plans,” Tuckers said.

The water line extensions will attach to an eight-inch main the district will include in its project and will provide a side benefit to the city, Tucker noted. The loop created by the two main exten-sions will provide a loop between the city’s two water towers. That would assure service for all of

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Charge soughtA charge of battery is being sought

against Wesley Sinclair after he threw his lunch and drink at corrections officers in the Allen County Jail Saturday. One offi-cer suffered minor burns to an arm.

Drivers arrestedEnrique Santana-Zapatero, Eureka,

was arrested Saturday for driving on U.S. 54 without a driver’s license.

Lucky A. Ragan was arrested for driv-ing while under the influence of alcohol

following a single vehicle accident on Ne-braska Road at the south edge of LaHa-rpe Sunday afternoon.

Drug concerns prompt arrest Troy Smith, Kansas City, Mo., was ar-

rested for alleged possession of marijua-na, possession of drug paraphernalia, no proof of insurance and illegal vehicle reg-istration following a traffic stop Sunday in Bassett. He was taken to the Allen County Jail and released on bond. Officers noted Smith was not the Troy Smith who works in court services for Allen County.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas driver’s licenses are about to get a new look and some new features.

The Department of Revenue is unveiling the new design at an event Tuesday with Gov. Sam Brownback and Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan.

Motorists will begin receiving the new licenses this week. Among the elements are new security fea-tures to protect against identity theft or illegal duplication.

Revenue Department spokes-woman Jeannine Koranda says Kansas updates its driver’s licenses every four to six years as technol-ogy changes.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — The U.S. soldier ac-cused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in March was transferred Monday to an Army base in Washington state, where he faces a pre-trial hearing Nov. 5.

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales arrived Monday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord and was being held in pretrial confinement, Lt. Col. Gary Dangerfield confirmed. Bales was transferred from a military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

Bales faces 16 counts of premeditated murder; six counts of attempted mur-der; seven counts of as-sault; and one count each of possessing steroids, us-ing steroids, destroying a laptop, burning bodies and

using alcohol.His civilian lawyer, John

Henry Browne, said a de-fense request for a delay in the pretrial hearing was de-nied Monday.

The defense sought the delay because it has been told it won’t receive foren-sic evidence until Oct. 26. Browne said that will leave insufficient time to evalu-ate it.

“That’s what, 10 days before the hearing? But the judge says it’s going forward no matter what,” Browne said.

The pretrial hearing is expected to last two weeks.

Browne said he will trav-el to Afghanistan soon to question witnesses.

During the hearing, villagers are expected

to testify by video from Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan. The second week of the proceeding will be held in the evening so villagers can testify during daylight hours in Afghanistan.

The hearing under Arti-cle 32 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice will determine whether Bales, of Lake Tapps, will face a court-martial.

Investigators say Bales was armed with a 9 mm pistol and M4 rifle out-fitted with a grenade launcher when he walked off his base in southern Afghanistan March 11 and went on a nighttime kill-ing spree.

Bales could face the death penalty if convicted.

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Associated PressKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)

— A study released by the U.S. Army Corps of Engi-neers on Monday says the agency did what it could to manage the historic 2011 flooding on the Missouri River, but that more repairs, research and monitoring are needed to mitigate damage in future high flow years.

Experts from the Corps of Engineers conducted the study, which focuses on vul-nerabilities that remain af-ter the Missouri River rose to record levels last year.

The flooding began after the corps began releasing massive amounts of water from upstream reservoirs that had been filled with melting snow and heavy rains. The onslaught lasted for more than 100 days, bust-ing levees, carving gouges up to 50 feet deep and dumping tree limbs, pieces of chil-dren’s swing sets, gas cans and other debris on farmers’ fields.

The corps says about $400 million will be spent to fix damage along the Mis-souri River caused by the

2011 flooding. Most of the levee repairs are expected to be completed before next spring, with work on the dams expected to take longer.

More funding may be re-quired for the repairs, but the corps says it is still evalu-ating the amount.

Numerous studies are in the works, including ones that explore whether climate change played a role in the flooding. Another issue that is being examined is wheth-er efforts to create more shallow-water habitat to help wildlife contributed to levee damage.

The study released Mon-day found that more moni-toring is needed, and the corps says it needs better in-formation about such things as the frost depth of the soil and the water content of the snow. The agency wants details about how runoff is affected by a wetlands area in the Dakotas known as the prairie pothole region.

The corps is collaborat-ing with several groups to enhance data collection and forecasting. Among the ideas is establishing more perma-nent plains snow measure-ment stations.

Study examines 2011 Missouri River flood

Sharon Bland, assisted by Jolene Boeken and Rho-denia Rowe, was hostess to a “Backwards Party” Monday evening for Kap-pa Alpha Chapter of Phi Tau Omega Sorority. The

party was held at Rowe’s cabin.

Dinner was served to 12 members and four guests, Ashlyn Rowe, Gwen Ham-ilton, Vivian Pevey, and Carla Hunt. The remain-

der of the evening was playing various games and visiting.

The next rush party will be hosted by Beckye Park-er, place and time to be an-nounced.

Kappa Alpha meets at cabin

Kansas in brief Driver’s licensesget new look

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas driver’s licenses are about to get a new look and some new features.

The Department of Reve-nue is unveiling the new de-sign at an event today with Gov. Sam Brownback and Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan.

Motorists will begin re-ceiving the new licenses this week. Among the ele-ments are new security features to protect against identity theft or illegal du-plication.

Revenue Department spokeswoman Jeannine Ko-randa says Kansas updates its driver’s licenses every four to six years as technol-ogy changes.

Children’s Discovery center receives grant

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Children’s Dis-covery Center in Topeka is one of three pilot sites cho-sen after a national compe-tition.

Officials at the center announced Monday that the selection comes with a $65,000 grant, which is part of an initiative called “Go-ing Wild at Children’s Mu-seums.”

The center’s expansion of its Outdoor Adventure was selected as part of the project funded by the Trust-ees’ Philanthropy Fund of Fidelity Charitable.

The center must raise an-other $65,000 to match the grant. The money would be used to create a large water garden and launch two oth-er national initiatives.

The Topeka Capital-Jour-nal reports the center will be a Monarch Watch site, and will develop programs and interactive outdoor challenges that can be used by children’s museums na-tionwide.

Town upset with plan to drop police

NICKERSON, Kan. (AP) — After hearing from sev-eral angry residents, the Nickerson City Council voted for the second time to disband the city’s police department — but added a chance for a vote on the is-sue in April.

The council voted last week to eliminate the po-lice department after the chief resigned in early Oc-tober. On Monday night, about 50 residents of the Reno County town blasted the decision.

The Hutchinson News

reports council members voted again Monday to dis-band the department. But they included a provision that the public could vote in April to reinstate the de-partment.

Until then, the Reno County Sherriff ’s Depart-ment will provide law en-forcement in Nickerson. Sheriff Randy Henderson warned that deputies re-spond to calls by priority, and they are often busy in Hutchinson, particularly on weekends.

University student robbed at gunpoint

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A University of Kan-sas student says she was robbed at gunpoint while she was on the campus in Lawrence.

The student told police she was on a swing set Mon-day evening between Irving Hill Road and Stouffer Place Apartments when the man approached her, showed her a gun and de-manded her property.

The man left after the student gave him her cell-phone and iPod.

The robber is described as a black man about 6 feet, 2 inches tall and 170 pounds. He was wearing a

black ski mask and a gray hooded sweatshirt.

School board reviews science standards

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State Board of Education members are reviewing the progress of Kansas and other states in drafting common science standards.

The board planned to hear this afternoon from the state official oversee-ing work on the standards and from a member of the state’s standards-writing committee.

Kansas is working with 25 other states and the Na-tional Research Council on common standards for pos-sible adoption in their pub-lic schools.

A draft of the proposed standards released in May treats evolution as well-established science and a crucial concept for stu-dents to learn. Kansas of-ficials expect another draft to be released in November.

Past work on science standards in Kansas has been overshadowed by de-bates about how evolution should be taught. Kansas currently has evolution-friendly standards, but state law requires them to be updated.

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By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT — Today is National Boss’ Day on the calendar, but the many people with a home-based business or who are self-employed, will not likely receive recognition.

“I could send myself a card,” Cheryl Reed said laughing.

Reed went into business for herself 33 years ago after marital difficulties resulted in her becoming a single parent twice. She made a decision that she would not rely on assis-tance from family or the government to care for her-self and children.

Born and raised in Cha-nute, she graduated from Chanute High School and from the Mary Grimes School of Nursing at Neo-

sho County Community College. For a time she was employed as Director of Nursing at a Chanute facil-ity, but when her husband left in 1979, she discovered he also left her with $20,000 in debts for which she is re-sponsible.

“I needed money. My sister told me about Home Interiors and I thought I would try it from October until December,” she said. “By the end of December, I was completely out of debt.”

She began comparing her director’s pay with what she was earning sell-ing the decorating prod-ucts; she decided she would continue with Home Interi-ors through January to pad her checking account and get ahead.

“I never got around to quitting,” she said. “I had a lot of pressure as a direc-tor, but this (Home Interi-ors) was straight from the hand of God. They were encouraging and patted me on the back.”

The first two years Reed worked both jobs, booking Home Interior shows in the evenings, which meant she missed out on some evening time with her children. In 1981 she quit the director’s position and went full time selling Home Interior products.

“They had to teach me everything. I didn’t know anything,” Reed recalled about her early years. “I was bashful and backward, I would throw up before I got up to do a presentation. It was all I could do to keep

going.”She learned quickly and

was proficient at dupli-cating the company’s dis-plays, eventually confident enough to experiment with her own ideas. She discov-ered she could “write her own paycheck” and when she had extra expenses, like tags and taxes coming due, she would book addi-tional shows.

“You have to be orga-nized, disciplined and hon-est,” Reed said about being her own boss. “You have to follow through every lead and, I guess, keep re-inventing yourself.”

The drawbacks of hav-ing your own business were more pronounced in the beginning when she was the sole provider.

The parent Home Inte-riors Company sold four years ago and is now known as Celebrating Home. Reed has been rewarded for her high volume of sales with numerous vacation trips, a diamond and a van among other things. After some prompting, she went back into nursing on a part-time basis five years ago and has cut back the shows to three or four a week.

The home-based busi-ness has been a good fit for her children to be involved with and her grown daugh-ters have become recruits into the business.

“One year the kids sold candles and made enough to buy band uniforms,” Reed said. “It’s nice for in-come taxes at the end of the year because I can de-duct for things like having an office in my home.

“I won’t ever quit. I can’t ‘not do it’ because of the friends and relationships I’ve made through the busi-ness. It’s really like nurs-ing in that I’m meeting people’s needs.”

Reed lives in Humboldt with her husband, Vester. They have four grown children, one son at home, Heath, 16, and have six grandchildren.

Thursday-Chamber of Commerce meeting, 5:30 p.m., libraryAnnual meeting

Cookbooks through the ages will be the program at the Friends of the Hum-boldt Public Library an-nual meeting on Oct. 23, at 7 p.m.

Lucy Heidrick and DeAnn Hauser will present the program in the library meeting room and the pub-lic is invited to attend. Re-freshments will be served.P.E.O.

Chapter AM, P.E.O. met in the home of Linda Leon-ard on Oct. 9 with 12 mem-bers in attendance.

The Chapter will par-ticipate in the Adopt-a-Kid program, donate to the Humboldt Food Pantry in January and wrap packag-

es at Amazon in December.Plans were made for a

joint dinner meeting with Chapter DD, Chanute, in November.

Celebrating P.E.O.’s 100-year history, Karen Works summarized events from 1914 through 1923. Sussie Sharp led group singing and accompanied with the guitar.

The next meeting will be Nov. 13 at the library.Downtown Action Team

Team members finalized plans for the bandstand celebration and volunteer recognition activities dur-

ing their meeting of Oct. 5, assigning members to com-plete various tasks.

Larry Tucker, Team member, reported total do-nations received are more than $43,000 and there are still grant opportunities available the Team will be looking into.

DAT members will meet with Matt Just in Olathe on Thursday to go over fi-nal plans for the sidewalks and streetscape project to include in the USDA and KDOT grant requests. It was also noted a Commu-nity Development Block Grant would be available for applications in 2013 for repairs of buildings in a commercial business dis-trict, if there are building owners interested in mak-ing application for funding.

Reed reaps benefit of being ‘her own boss’

Register/Terry BroylesCheryl Reed went into business 33 years ago. Today the love and loyalty she has experienced selling Celebrating Home products, formerly Home Interiors, makes her never want to quit.

Register/Terry BroylesHumboldt High School students gathered at the bandstand in the city square Friday afternoon for a pep rally before the Homecoming game with Eureka. The game was rescheduled due to threatening weather and was played Monday evening.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas health officials are expecting the state to have another relatively mild flu season, but they’re still en-couraging shots for nearly everyone 6 months or older.

Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer and Health and Environment Secretary Robert Moser had a Statehouse news con-ference Monday to promote

getting vaccinated. Both received flu shots from a Walgreen Co. pharmacist during the event.

The flu season typically starts in early October, but the state has yet to receive a report of any influenza cases. But Colyer said it’s still wise to get a shot to re-duce the chances of spread-ing the illness.

Officials expect mild flu season

by ROXANA HEGEMANAssociated Press

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas soldier will spend 10 months in federal prison for entering into a sham marriage so he could get additional military benefits and his Jamaican bride could become a legal immigrant, a federal judge ruled Monday.

In a rare move, U.S. Dis-trict Judge Monti Belot rejected the prosecution’s request for leniency for Joshua Priest, saying it was not justified in this case. The former Fort Riley pri-vate pleaded guilty in July

to conspiracy to commit marriage fraud and wire fraud, and testified against his wife, Shannakay Hunter.

“The fact you came in and cooperated is fine, but it doesn’t excuse what you did,” Belot told the crest-fallen defendant during the sentencing hearing.

Belot also ordered Priest to pay nearly $30,000 in res-titution for the fraudulent-ly obtained housing and subsistence benefits given married soldiers.

“The worst part of it, Mr. Priest, is that you were a member of our armed forc-es,” Belot said.

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You have to be organized, disci-plined and honest, you have to follow every lead and, I guess, keep rein-venting yourself.

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Submitted photo by Pam WhitcombTrent Johnson and Aubrey Maxton were crowned the 2012 Homecoming king and queen Friday night.

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Kansas’ own Koch Indus-tries of Wichita is out to save America. Its crusade was page one in Sunday’s Kansas City Star and Wichita Eagle. Its ob-ject is to defeat Barack Obama and go on from there to remake the country. The vision it has in mind is an end to govern-mental regulations, still lower federal taxes, an end to all sub-sidies to agriculture and every other industry and much lower taxes — libertarianism on ste-roids.

The Koch brothers are not new to politics. With unlimited w e a l t h , they have been sup-p o r t i n g far right political c a n d i -dates for decades. What is new is their de-c i s i o n to move out front in their a s s a u l t . Sunday’s l e n g t h y f e a t u r e stories are one example. Anoth-er was their decision to send “information packets” to their 50,000 employees and contrac-tors earlier this month warn-ing them a vote for Obama and other Democrats would be a vote against the company.

Here’s a quote from the mis-sive:

“ . . . If we elect candidates who want to spend hundreds of billions in borrowed money on costly new subsidies for a few favored cronies, put un-precedented regulatory bur-dens on businesses, prevent or delay important new con-struction projects, and exces-sively hinder free trade, then many of our more than 50,000 U.S. employees and contractors may suffer the consequences, including higher gasoline prices, runaway inflation and other ills. . . .”

Included was a list of candi-dates the company supports.

THE CITIZENS UNITED decision by the U.S. Supreme Court gave the Koch brothers and the rest of the 1 percent the right to spend their money without limit to support what-ever candidate and whatever political philosophy they wish.

The right to spend is guaran-teed by the First Amendment, the court ruled. Speech and money are identical; corpora-tions are people.

It will probably take a con-stitutional amendment to right that wrong.

Critics of the Kochs like to argue that what they really want is an unlimited right to make money; to increase their wealth and, by doing so, to in-crease their power.

Reading the motives of oth-ers is an inexact science. The Kochs, like the rest of us, de-

serve re-spect as individu-als. They say they b e l i e v e that re-e l e c t i n g President O b a m a w o u l d lead to ut-ter disas-ter and a catalog of h o r r o r s too long to list. They are entitled to

their dark fears. But the rest of us need to re-

visit our nation’s political cam-paign rules and ask ourselves if the role that money plays shouldn’t be examined anew.

It is clear that money influ-ences elections. A campaign with $1 million to spend can be defeated by a campaign with $100 million in its coffers. Likewise, an individual with $200 million to spend — that’s how much the Koch brothers said they would spend to defeat the president — speaks with a louder voice than can you or I.

This is a fact that truly tests the fundamentals of democ-racy, a system of government that rests on the equality of the citizenry.

Campaign spending should be limited. Congress tried to do that with the McCain-Feingold Act that the court overruled. The American people are more than ready to make another at-tempt at leveling the playing field on Election Day.

Depend on the Koch broth-ers to fight that desperately needed reform. The fortune they will spend in the effort will be a powerful argument in its favor.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Koch brothersmake the casefor new controls

Perhaps we should congratu-late the European Union for win-ning the Nobel Peace Prize and let it go at that. It is not, after all, unusual for the Norwegian com-mittee to select an organization rather than an individual, and the E.U. surely satisfies Alfred Nobel’s criteria of forging frater-nity between nations, reducing standing armies, and holding and promoting peace congresses.

There is no question that the E.U. has come to symbolize the transformation of a continent mired for centuries in war to one that has embraced peace and hu-man rights. And by opening its doors to newly liberated mem-bers of the Soviet bloc, the E.U. certainly helped to break down the division of East and West.

But when the Norwegian No-bel Committee selects the E.U. for a peace prize just when Eu-rope is going through a major and potentially destructive cri-sis, it is obvious that, once again, the Norwegians have chosen to send a political message. Thor-

bjorn Jagland, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Commit-tee, acknowledged as much in a news conference: “We want to remind us all what can happen if disintegration starts and if we let extremism and nationalism start growing again in Europe.” Again, that is not new: the Nobel Committee has regularly stirred controversy by using the award to encourage and endorse politi-cal courses of action. The award to Barack Obama less than a year into his presidency or to Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger in 1973 are only two of many examples.

Yet we find ourselves asking whether it is really the job of the committee to use this award to get involved in current affairs

rather than to single out great achievements, as the awards to Albert Schweitzer and Mother Teresa did. And we find it a bit hard to accept the singling out of the E.U. (which Norwegians have voted against joining) for its fos-tering of peace in Europe since World War II, when NATO and the United States were at least as responsible.

But all that aside, who can be-grudge the E.U. a dollop of posi-tive reinforcement at this time? There is little question that the E.U. is a remarkable achieve-ment, and if this award helps it overcome its current woes, good. One way to do that would be to give the award money to Greece.

— The New York Times

A Nobel Peace Prize for the Continent The Citizens United decision gives the Koch brothers and the rest of the 1 percent the right to spend their money without limit to support whatever candidate and whatever political philoso-phy they wish. ... We need to revisit our nation’s political cam-paign rules and ask ourselves if the role that money plays shouldn’t be examined anew.

We want to remind us all what can happen if disin-tegration starts and if we let extremism and national-ism start growing again in Europe.

— Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Committee

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Democrats hope to avoid another election-year wipeout by making funding for public schools a ma-jor issue in legislative races, and their move highlights key differ-ences between them and Republi-can Gov. Sam Brownback.

Democrats are criticizing Brownback and his conservative allies over massive income tax cuts enacted this year, suggest-ing they’ll create big budget prob-lems. They contend the tax cuts will force the state to dramati-cally reduce aid to public schools and that Brownback has shown he’s willing to slash education funding.

Brownback and House Appro-priations Committee Chairman Marc Rhoades sought to undercut the criticism in separate news conferences by pointing to cuts in education funding under Brown-back’s Democratic predecessor, Mark Parkinson.

The back-and-forth showed that Democrats see increased spending on public schools as a much higher priority than tax cuts, while Brownback and his al-lies place the biggest premium on reducing income taxes to stimu-late the economy. Also, the de-bate showed that Democrats view money as the biggest concern in education, while Brownback and his allies see other policy issues as important.

“For a lot of years, we’ve been high-centered on finances,” said

Rhoades, a conservative Newton Republican. “I’d like to add to the conversation.”

Democrats hope a debate over education funding inoculates them against almost-certain mailings and advertising by con-servative groups tying them to President Barack Obama and the federal health care law he cham-pioned. The same tactic resulted in big GOP gains in 2010 and fu-eled a purge of moderate Senate incumbents in this year’s Repub-lican primaries.

Brownback’s news conference last week was an attempt to coun-ter Democrats’ suggestions that he’s anti-education.

In 2011, he pushed legislators to reduce the state’s base aid to schools by 5.9 percent to help close a budget shortfall. But his staff handed out a data sheet and set up a big poster-board chart showing the overall decline was bigger under Parkinson in the wake of the Great Recession and that the state has committed more total dollars to schools since he took office.

The state will spend $3.2 bil-lion under its current budget on aid to public schools — not quite as much as it did during the 2008-2009 school year but more than it has since then. Base aid per student is still nearly 13 percent lower than in 2008-09 because the state had to compensate for a loss of federal stimulus funds and shifted resources into teacher pensions and capital improve-ments.

The Kansas Democratic Party

declared in recent mailings in legislative races that, “nothing is more important than good public schools,” and Democratic leaders see restoring education funding to pre-2009 levels as a compelling need. With the economy recover-ing, tax cuts should be considered when schools are properly fund-ed, they argue.

“We would have restored the cuts to public schools first before you pass this massive income tax cut,” Senate Minority Leader An-thony Hensley, a Topeka Demo-crat, said during a news confer-ence following up on Brownback’s event.

Brownback and his allies took another path this year. The state will cut individual income tax rates for 2013 and exempt the own-ers of 191,000 businesses from income taxes. The final measure was more aggressive than Brown-back proposed, but he signed it, even in the face of projections from legislative researchers that it would lead to collective budget shortfalls approaching $2.5 bil-lion over the next six years.

The governor has acknowl-edged the likelihood of budget problems over the next two years, but he and other conservatives believe the legislative research-ers’ projections are too pessimis-tic.

Conservatives also dispute the idea that pushing aggressively for tax cuts means they’re ignor-ing schools’ needs. They argue that the growth resulting from

Ed funding debate hits key issues

JohnHannaAn AP news analysis

I can’t emphasize this enough: [Economic] Growth is the key to edu-cation funding.

— Gov. Sam Brownback

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tax cuts will boost state and local revenues.

“I can’t emphasize this enough: Growth is the key to education funding,” Brownback said during his news conference.

Brownback also has attempted to shift the debate from a focus on raw dollars to how effectively those dollars are spent by appoint-ing a school efficiency task force dominated by certified public ac-countants. He contends the state needs to do a better job of making sure its aid finances classroom in-struction.

Similarly, Rhoades said, “If all we talk about is the funding part, we don’t talk about how we edu-cate.”

For Democrats and some GOP moderates, money is the crucial issue. House Minority Leader Paul Davis, a Lawrence Demo-crat, said raising other issues is an attempt to provide political cover for inevitable cuts in educa-

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MANHATTAN — Top-sy-turvy weather this summer and fall posed plenty of challenges for livestock producers — one of which is the possibility of increased nitrate and prussic acid levels in for-ages, according to Kansas State University veteri-narian, Larry Hollis.

Producers in some parts of the state saw new plant growth after much-needed rains this fall, fol-lowing months of severe drought. Testing of some forage supplies, however, indicated nitrate levels above safe levels in some cases, said Hollis, who is a beef cattle specialist with K-State Research and Ex-tension.

Dave Kehler director of the K-State Research and Extension office in El Dorado, is encouraging producers to test before turning cattle out on new-growth forages.

“We have sent samples of corn, forage sorghum, milo and millet,” Kehler said. “Only one of those tests came back with a safe nitrate level. One was medium (7,070 parts per million dry matter basis). The others have been high (10,000-15,000 ppm) and some others over 18,000.”

Kehler said that all prussic acid tests that he’s aware of in his area have been low, but they were all taken before a recent fall freeze.

“A lot of this unusual nitrate situation is a re-sult of producers fertil-izing their crops with ni-

trogen and the nitrogen not being utilized from the soil because of the low level of grain or forage production resulting from the drought,” Hollis said. “The available nitrogen in the soil was only par-tially utilized by the origi-nal plant growth. Some of the original growth was already high in nitrate be-cause of poor movement of nitrogen into the upper parts of the plants (leaves and corn ears or sorghum heads). The regrowth of plants that were still alive, or new growth of volun-teer plants from scattered corn or milo seed, pulled a lot of available soil nitro-gen into these live plants, resulting in the high ni-trate levels currently be-ing detected.”

In addition to the ni-trate levels, Hollis is en-couraging producers to check for prussic acid levels in any forages that were green and growing at the time of the recent freezing nights.

“If leaves on the plants had already turned brown and dried up prior to any recent rain, then prussic acid is not a concern,” he said. “If re-growth of green leaves, develop-ment of tillers, or volun-teer growth of plants oc-curred, then prussic acid could be a problem.”

Hollis also fielded at least one report of high nitrate levels in both tur-nips and oats.

Given the extreme weather conditions, we are seeing toxic levels in plants that we don’t nor-mally suspect,” Kehler said. “For this reason, we are encouraging produc-ers to have tests done.”

Challenging weather causes strife for farmers

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ExtensionAgent forAgriculture

Bulbs are a good addition to any landscape or garden because they offer a vari-ety of bloom color, flower-ing time, plant height and shape. October is the time to plant spring flowering bulbs.

Bulbs can be planted in a variety of locations in-cluding around house foun-dations, under deciduous shrubs and trees, along bor-ders, in perennial beds and rock gardens, in containers and even on steep slopes.

When planted along a foundation, bulbs will add color in the early spring if planted in a grouping of 12 or more. If you have ever-green shrubs planted along a foundation, they will pro-vide a nice background for planting of bulbs. Bulbs will “pop” with color in contrast to the green of the shrubs.

Spring bulbs can be planted under deciduous shrubs or small trees. You

may be wondering how this can be because of a lack of sunlight. Early bloom-ing bulbs receive plenty of light because they start growing long before trees and shrubs start to develop leaves. Some bulbs that do well in this type of setting include grape hyacinths, crocus, bluebells and early maturing daffodils.

A border of bulbs planted along the edge of the lawn will add a splash of color to the lawn area. You can add them directly into a peren-nial bed and the bulbs will bloom in March, April and May before perennials start to grow.

For steep slopes that are

difficult to mow and main-tain, bulbs with a fibrous root system such as daylil-ies, are an effective plant to use. The foliage is attractive and the bloom adds color to the area.

Both spring and sum-mer bulbs can be planted in portable containers. The nice thing about container plantings is their versatil-ity. For spring bulbs, once bloom is past, the container can be moved to a location

out of sight while the foli-age matures. Summer bulbs will add color all summer long to areas such as a patio or deck.

With bulbs such as tulips or daffodils, plant at least 12 bulbs of one variety in a grouping. Smaller bulbs should be planted in groups of 50 to have visual impact.

K-State Research and Extension has an excellent video titled “Planting Bulbs for Spring Color.”

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The Oct. 8 meeting of the Square B 4-H club met at the Nazarene Church in Iola and was called to or-der by President Shannon Vogel. The flag salute and 4-H pledge were led by Levi Meiwes.

Debbie Bearden, outgo-ing community leader, per-formed the ceremony for new officers. The club pre-sented Debbie with a gift of $25 to help start a new 4-H club in LaHarpe.

Club members were re-minded to attend Harvest Baptist Church on Oct. 28 at 10:30 a.m. in celebration of

4-H Sunday. Members who will attend

the Kansas Youth Leader-ship Forum at Rock Springs Ranch Nov. 16-18 are Shan-non Vogel, Klair Vogel, Em-ily Klubek, John Hutton and Tyler Powelson.

The program was led by Becky Meiwes, community leader, who recognized par-ents who supported the 4-H club this year with certifi-cates.

Levi Meiwes, recreation leader, led the members in a game called “Spot It.”

Club reporter,Tyler Powelson

4-H news

tax cuts will boost state and local revenues.

“I can’t emphasize this enough: Growth is the key to education funding,” Brownback said during his news conference.

Brownback also has attempted to shift the de-bate from a focus on raw dollars to how effectively those dollars are spent by appointing a school ef-ficiency task force domi-nated by certified public accountants. He contends the state needs to do a bet-ter job of making sure its aid finances classroom in-struction.

Similarly, Rhoades said, “If all we talk about is the funding part, we don’t talk about how we educate.”

For Democrats and some GOP moderates, money is the crucial issue. House

Minority Leader Paul Da-vis, a Lawrence Democrat, said raising other issues is an attempt to provide po-litical cover for inevitable cuts in education funding.

“They are going to pro-duce some sort of study saying we can reduce fund-ing for school by this cer-tain amount and it will all be in the name of efficien-cy,” Davis said. “The pur-pose of it is to try to back out funding.”

Meanwhile, in pushing education funding as a big issue in legislative races, Democrats are outlining a political vision for Kansas voters to consider that’s significantly different than the one spelled out by Brownback and his allies in governing.

___John Hanna has covered

Kansas politics and gov-ernment since 1987.

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There are three separate investigations into the at-tack going on now: an FBI probe into the deaths of the four Americans, an inde-pendent inquiry by a panel appointed by Clinton and the congressional hearings.

Initial reports attributed the cause of the violent at-tack as one of a number of spontaneous demon-strations in several Mus-lim countries over a film produced in the U.S. that denigrated the Prophet Muhammad. The U.S. am-bassador to the United Na-tions, Susan Rice, insisted in on a number of Sunday talk shows that the inves-tigation up to that point showed no indication of a planned attack. Within days, the White House re-versed its position, saying new findings indicated the attack was intentional and coordinated.

“In the wake of an at-tack like this, in the fog of war, there’s always going to be confusion,” Clinton told CNN. “And I think it is absolutely fair to say that everyone had the same in-telligence. Everyone who spoke tried to give the in-formation that they had. As time has gone on, that information has changed. We’ve gotten more detail, but that’s not surprising. That always happens.”

She added, “What I want to avoid is some kind of political gotcha or blame game.”

Three Republican sena-tors said Clinton’s claim was “a laudable gesture,” but they put the responsi-

bility for the Benghazi at-tack and what they called “an escalating pattern of attacks this year in Beng-hazi” squarely on President Barack Obama and his na-tional security team.

“If the president was truly not aware of this ris-ing threat level in Beng-hazi, then we have lost confidence in his national security team, whose re-sponsibility it is to keep the president informed,” Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire said in a statement released late Monday. “But if the Presi-dent was aware of these earlier attacks in Benghazi prior to the events of Sep-tember 11, 2012, then he bears full responsibility for any security failures that occurred.”

Bloomberg News re-ported Sunday that Ambas-sador Stevens’ father said he believes his son’s death is being investigated ad-equately and said it would be “abhorrent to make this into a campaign issue.”

Clinton agreed with the need to keep the Benghazi tragedy out of politics.

“I know that we’re very close to an election,” Clin-ton told CNN. “I want to just take a step back here and say from my own expe-rience, we are at our best as Americans when we pull together. I’ve done that with Democratic presidents and Republican presidents.”

H ClintonContinued from A1

In the wake of an attack like this, in the fog of war, there’s always going to be confu-sion, and I think it is absolutely fair to say that every-one had the same intelligence. Ev-eryone who spoke tried to give the information that they had. As time has gone on, that information has changed. We’ve gotten more de-tail, but that’s not surprising. That always happens.

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Allen Countians can re-quest a ballot to be sent to their homes.

Though the last day for mailed ballot requests is on Nov. 2, Riebel said that is pushing it and to keep in mind turnaround time. The voter will first receive a ballot request form, which will need to be returned to the court-house. Voters will then re-ceive the official voting ballot.

Ballots must be in the county clerk’s office by 7 p.m. Nov. 6.

According to Riebel, last year there were roughly 1,600 advanced voters. Riebel said she suspects Wednesday there will be a substantial number of people showing up to vote.

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Traditionalists can still go to the polls on Nov. 6 to cast their votes.

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the town if one of the stor-age towers were out of ser-vice. Also, USD 258 will ask for the sports complex site to be annexed to the city once work there is completed.

Tucker said the project was being designed to “meet city of Humboldt zoning codes and regulations.”

COUNCIL members laid to rest, for the time being at least, any efforts to build a new fire station.

Tucker said he had been sitting on a proposal to have an engineering firm deter-mine the condition of the current station to see wheth-er it meets standards, includ-ing ability to withstand a tornado.

“We don’t need to spend $750 (cost of the lesser of two proposed studies) to tell us it wouldn’t stand up to a tornado,” said Councilman Dan Gulick.

Vada Aikins, a mem-ber of the Council’s Public

Safety Committee, said that although the building was acceptable through it being “grandfathered in” — built before regulations were up-dated — she thought it was appropriate to find out what it would cost to bring it up to snuff, “so our fire equipment would be safe.”

Tucker said the overrid-ing plan discussed earlier was to move the ambulance station, which he deemed inadequate for 24-hour-a-day service, to the fire station and build a new structure to house fire-fighting equip-ment.

Mark Slater brought dis-cussion to an end with a mo-tion to table discussion, say-ing he didn’t think “we’re ready for a new (fire) sta-tion.”

Having countywide am-bulance service still a dis-cussion point by a review committee, as well as Allen County commissioners, also put a shadow of uncertainty on any plans to improve pub-

lic safety facilities in Hum-boldt.

THE COUNCIL’S Novem-ber meeting was moved to Nov. 13 to avoid a conflict with Veterans Day on Nov. 12.

Council members tabled discussion on a new contract with the Allen County Ani-mal Rescue Facility, which called for Humboldt to pay $80 for each dog taken to the LaHarpe kennels.

Works said he had not had opportunity to review the contract, first presented to him and council members Monday night.

Provisions for Humboldt to take sick animals to a vet-erinarian before transport-ing them to ACARF gave Works pause, as did other things “I’m seeing for the first time,” he said.

Tucker said a meeting to consider how to improve Humboldt’s housing stock would be at 6 p.m. Nov. 5 at Humboldt High.

Also, he said the storm siren in Cannon Park, in the north part of town, would be moved to a higher pole. The initial pole was 50 feet tall and didn’t have the siren high enough to cover all of the town. Trees and the park being “in something of a valley” affected its coverage, Tucker said. A new 100-foot-tall pole was purchased from Chanute for $1,000, which Tucker described as a bar-gain.

Aikins and Councilman Otis Crawford attended a League of Kansas Mu-nicipalities conference last week.

Aikins said during a ses-sion on codes it was noted that to be effective, cities should adopt codes that were enforceable and then enforce them.

Crawford pointed out that Aikins was elected presi-dent of the league’s council and commission members, “quite an honor for her and Humboldt.”

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hygiene degree from Temple University, before becoming an English teacher at Al-len Community College and Iola Middle School. Ray was the head football coach at Iola High School, as well as a history and social science teacher.

While they share many things in common, Donna said she and Ray are com-plete opposites when it comes to how they work. Donna is a self-proclaimed “workahol-ic,” describing her comfort zone as being busy all of the time. In the Allen County Historical Society’s annual report, Donna was the only volunteer who didn’t have a specific amount of hours list-ed for the year — her amount just read “1,000-plus.”

Ray openly described him-self as someone who likes to relax when possible. How-ever, Donna described him as someone who works very hard behind the scenes.

“I don’t particularly like to be on the front page,” Ray said. “Donna just happens to end up there all of the time.”

While they have differ-ent approaches to achieving their goals, the Housers are the type of people that have helped make Iola what it is today. The Housers have worked to “beautify” the square, renovating windows and store fronts. Ray has been a docent with the Bow-lus Fine Arts Center for sev-eral years. Both Donna and Ray tried to list from memo-

ry all of the groups there are involved with, and it seemed to be a strain — they both ran out of fingers to count on.

They said they have always worked well together, espe-cially when considering how different they are in their ap-proaches to being involved in the community. When teach-ing at the middle school, Donna and Ray taught joint classes in history, social sci-ence, math and English. Ray said it gave them the chance to cooperate and link the sub-jects together for a better un-derstanding of the subjects for the students. He said he always thought it was impor-tant to be a “good role model for the kids,” and he and his wife’s teamwork served the purpose well.

Since Donna retired in 1999 and Ray retired in 1997, they have taken advantage of their free time to travel. The couple, now married for 53 years, have been to every state and have also been on six continents — they both agree they are going to avoid Antarctica.

As for Farm-City Days, Ray and Donna both agree it is an

essential part of Iola, and it helps bring recognition to a city that has qualities that are “often overlooked.”

“We have a lot of things go-ing on in Iola,” Donna said. “We just need to learn to brag about it.”

Both Donna and Ray said Farm-City Days is not just about Iola, but it helps pro-mote business in the entire county. Ray said if people don’t include the entire coun-ty in their way of thinking, it will feel the effects as a whole.

When asked what car they would be leading the parade in, Donna and Ray laughed and said they hadn’t even had time to think about en-joying the weekend’s festivi-ties, since they have been so busy in recent weeks.

Donna repeated her stance on acting as a parade mar-shal with her husband.

“We don’t want the credit,” Donna said. “We just want the town to grow.”

The Housers may not be very good at receiving rec-ognition or leading a parade, but it looks like they will have to learn before Saturday.

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We don’t want the credit. We just want the town to grow.

— Donna Houser

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CUBS BLAST EUREKA

Register/Steven Schwartz Humboldt Cubs’ running back Jacob Carpenter (5) runs for a gain in Monday’s win over Eureka High School.

Humboldt opens districts with 48-8 romp

Register/Richard LukenAllen Community College’s Dorian Fox scored a goal Monday for the Red Devils in a 2-1 win over visiting Dodge City Community College.

Red Devils earn splitBy RICHARD LUKEN

[email protected] Community College mid-

fielder Dorian Fox’s goal from about 10 yards out gave the Red Devil soccer team an early lead Monday afternoon.

The Red Devil defense took it from there, limiting Dodge City Community College’s scoring op-portunities throughout the rest of the 2-1 win.

The Fox goal, midway through the first half, came off an assist by Jhovanty Baltazar.

Baltazar’s pass led to a nifty bit of footwork by Fox, who got his defender turned around long enough to rifle a shot to the bot-tom right corner of the net, be-yond the reach of the Conquista-dor goalkeeper.

An own goal later in the contest provided the final margin of the 2-1 win.

Jordan Drake made a number

of critical saves in the contest — seven total — as goalkeeper.

The victory snaps a five-game losing streak for the Red Devils (5-9 overall and 3-6 in Jayhawk Conference action).

The Red Devil women, however, could not match their male coun-terparts.

A Dodge City goal in the 39th minute of the first half was the only tally of a 1-0 Conquistador victory.

Keelie Arbuckle played in goal for Allen and made eight other saves.

The soccer teams are in Tonka-wa, Okla., to face Northern Okla-homa College today. The game is the final regular season contest of the year for the men. The women (1-14 overall; 1-8 in Jayhawk Con-ference) return home Thursday to host Garden City Community College to wrap up the regular season.

Allen Community College’s Alexis Dean, foreground, maintains possession against Dodge City Community College Monday. The Red Devils fell 1-0.

HUMBOLDT — Having to wait three extra days to open district play had little negative effects Monday for Humboldt High.

The Cubs erupted for 34 first-half points to open their contest Monday against visiting Eureka High in a 48-8 win.

The win pushes Humboldt’s record to 5-2 on the season and 1-0 in Kansas Class 3A, District 6 play. The Cubs host another district contest Friday night at home against winless Fredonia.

Monday night’s game was postponed from Friday due to

stormy weather.“We came out and were re-

ally efficient offensively,” Hum-boldt head coach K.B. Criss said. “Our defense did a good job of not giving up a big play against their passing game. We bent, but didn’t break.”

The offense was once again keyed by senior quarterback Nathan Whitcomb, who rushed for 109 yards on 7 carries and completed 11 of 15 passes for 178 more.

Whitcomb tossed touchdown passes to Blake Crawford for 16

yards, Tanner McNutt for 30 and to Noah Thornbrugh for 50 be-fore taking a well-deserved rest in the second half. He also ran a 54-yard touchdown jaunt late in the first quarter.

The Cubs led 13-0 after the first quarter and put the game away with three more touchdowns in the second period.

Jacob Carpenter scored on a two-yard run to open the first-half scoring. Trey Johnson’s one-yard scoring run ended it.

Spirit of PinkThe Allen Community College athletic teams have joined the Spirit of Pink campaign this month, by wearing pink in support of those who have suffered from breast can-cer. Athletes from the men and women soccer teams, women’s basketball, baseball, softball, as well as the cheer and dance squads and athletic trainers participated. Also participating, but not pictured here, were ACC volleyball players.

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PARSONS — It took a while for Allen Community College to get adjusted to a new offense, de-ployed Monday because of a con-cussion suffered over the week-end by Jacqui Ortiz.

The Red Devil volleyball squad dropped its opening set to host Labette Community College.

“We struggled to look orga-nized,” head coach Jessica Pe-ters said, “along with a defense that was watching balls hit or fall rather than going after them.”

The mindset started to change in the second set.

Sophomore Autumn Douglas, along with Sierra Morgison and Hayley Mertens, keyed a three-set rally to win, 18-25, 25-20, 25-19, 25-19.

“Admitting as a team that we were waiting for Labette to make the mistakes was the change that had to be made quickly,” Peters said. “That is when we found the team we knew we had: orga-nized, effective, supportive and with a ‘wanting a win’ mentality.

“Credit can go to blocking, which minimized their errors tonight, and we also saw a few aces throughout the night. Over-all, we didn’t give away many points.”

Mertens led the way with 19 points, 19 kills and 19 digs. Douglas, described by Peters as “unstoppable” through the first

three sets, had 16 points, 14 kills, 12 digs and two assisted blocks. Adriee Munoz added 44 set as-sists and three aces.

Morgison wound up with 11 points, 10 kills and seven digs.

Allen hopes to extend its two-match winning streak on the road Wednesday at Johnson County Community College.

Allen 18-25-25-25Labette 25-20-19-19Danielle Goodman, 1 kill, 1 dig, 1 solo

block, 2 points; Sierra Morgison, 10 kills, 1 set assist, 1service ace, 7 digs, 11 points; Adriee Munoz, 2 kills, 44 set assists, 3 service aces, 21 digs, 3 block assists, 6.5 points; Sarah Charbonneau, 22 digs; Hayley Mertens, 19 kills, 1 set assist, 19 digs, 19 points; Randi Billings, 5 kills, 3 digs, 3 solo blocks, 1 block assist, 8.5 points; Autumn Douglas, 14 kills, 5 set assists, 1 service ace, 12 digs, 2 block assists, 16 points.

Revamped ACC squad claims victory

Register file photoAllen Community College’s Autumn Douglas (15), shown here in game from earlier in the season, was a key contributor for the Red Devils in a four-set victory over Labette Community College.

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2012 Football StandingsPioneer League

Team League OverallIola 4-0 5-2Prairie View 3-1 4-3Wellsville 3-2 3-4Anderson Co. 2-2 3-4Central Heights 1-4 2-5Osawatomie 0-4 0-7

Tri-Valley LeagueName League OverallCaney Valley 5-0 6-1Neodesha 4-0 6-1Humboldt 2-2 5-2Burlington 2-2 3-4Cherryvale 2-3 2-5Eureka 0-4 0-7Fredonia 0-4 0-7

8-ManYates Center none 0-7

Three Rivers LeagueName League OverallMarmaton Valley 4-0 7-0St. Paul 4-0 6-0Crest 3-2 4-3Chetopa 2-3 4-3Pleasanton 0-4 3-4Uniontown 0-4 1-5

Lyon County LeagueName League OverallWaverly 3-0 7-0Madison 4-0 6-1Lebo 2-2 5-2Burlingame 1-2 1-6Marais Des Cygnes 2-2 4-3Hartford 1-4 1-6So. Coffey County 0-3 1-6

Kansas High SchoolDistrict Football Standings

Class 4A, District 6Team District OverallFort Scott 1-0 7-0Chanute 1-0 4-3Iola 0-1 5-2Anderson County 0-1 3-4

Class 3A, District 6 Team District Overall

Humboldt 1-0 5-2Burlington 1-0 3-4Eureka 0-1 0-7Fredonia 0-1 0-7

Eight-Man I, District 2Team District OverallMarmaton Valley 3-0 7-0St. Paul 3-0 6-0Marais Des Cygnes 2-1 4-3Pleasanton 1-2 3-4Uniontown 0-3 1-5Yates Center 0-3 0-7

Eight-Man II, District 3Team District OverallWaverly 3-0 7-0Crest 2-1 4-3Chetopa 1-1 4-3So. Coffey Cty 1-1 1-6Elk Valley 0-3 0-6

Prep footballstandings

OVERLAND PARK — Allen Community Col-lege’s Debra Kime brought home the top individual time for the Red Devil women’s cross country team Saturday at the Dave Burgess Open, a 5K cross country race.

Kime’s mark of 21 min-utes, 20.5 seconds, was good for ninth overall.

She was followed by Kim Boyle, 11th at 21:30.2; Kim Cooper, 19th at 22:07.1; Syd-ney Owens, 20th at 22:09.2; and Bianca Ramirez, 26th overall at 24:35.8.

Allen’s cumulative time of 1:51.42.8 was good for fourth place overall at 83 points.

Haskell’s Talisa Budder won the race with a time

of 19:33.5. Cowley County had the top team score at 41 points at 1:46:04.5.

The Red Devils sat their top three runners due health reasons.

Allen head coach Vince DeGrado said the results show a need for improve-ment.

“We didn’t compete like a team that is one of the top three in the region,” DeGrado said. “We were very uncertain of our-selves. I take full blame for our performance. I’m not in panic mode or anything, because I know this is just part of the ‘dog days’ we have to get through.

“The competition fea-tured Cowley and High-land,” he continued. “They

both looked strong, and I’m expecting them to be ready in two weeks as the region and conference favorite with Johnson County.”

While Allen could have been considered a favor-ite for a regional crown as recently as a few weeks ago, injuries and other struggles have taken their toll on the Red Devils, De-Grado said.

“I’ll have my ladies ready Oct. 27 to compete, and all I can ask is for them to give it their best they possibly can, and we’ll see where the chips fall from there.”

There was one bright spot. DeGrado credited Owens for improving her time in claiming a top-20 finish.

Kime leads ACC runners

TodayHigh School Volleyball

Iola at Anderson County, 4:30 p.m.Uniontown, Pleasanton at Marmaton ValleyBurlington, Fredonia at HumboldtYates Center at NeodeshaCrest at St. Paul

Jr. College SoccerAllen at Northern Oklaho-ma, women 2 p.m., men 4 p.m.

WednesdayJr. College Volleyball

Allen at Johnson County, 5:30 p.m.

ThursdayJr. High Football

IMS 7th, 8th at Parsons, 5 p.m.

FridayHigh School Football

Fort Scott at Iola, 7 p.m.Yates Center at Marmaton ValleyFredonia at HumboldtCrest at Southern Coffey County

Cross CountryAllen at Butler County Re-lay, El Dorado, 4 p.m.

SaturdayHigh School Volleyball

Iola at 4A substate, El Do-radoHumboldt at 3A substate, FredoniaYates Center at 2A sub-state, UniontownMarmaton Valley at 1A substate, MoranCrest, Southern Coffey County at 1A substate, Le Roy

Cross CountryIola at 4A regional, Gar-nettHumboldt at 3A regional, BurlingtonYates Center at 2A region-al, BurlingtonMarmaton Valley, Crest at 1A regional, Wichita

Sportscalendar

Chris Lee/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/MCTSt. Louis Cardinals’ Matt Holliday breaks up a double play by sliding into San Fran-cisco Giants second baseman Marco Scutaro in first inning action during Game 2 of the National League Championship Series Monday at AT&T Park in San Francisco. The Giants won, 7-1.

Kason Siemens connect-ed with Robby Sellman on a four-yard touchdown pass in the game’s final minute.

Hunter Murrow pulled in four receptions, cov-ering 52 yards. Thorn-brugh had 54 yards on two catches. McNutt had 38 yards on two receptions. Crawford’s two catches were good for 30 yards. Hayden Boring rushed for 34 yards on three carries. Carpenter had 18 yards on four totes.

On defense, Murrow and Carpenter led Humboldt with six tackles apiece.

Johnson and Murrow pulled in fumble recover-ies, McNutt had an inter-ception. Ryan Gean blocked a punt that was recovered by Whitcomb. Thornbrugh, Johnson, Gean and Sellman each registered quarter-back sacks.

While Criss was happy with the win, he was not allowing Humboldt much time to celebrate.

“At midnight we need to put this game in the rear view mirror and begin to prepare for Fredonia,” he said. “We have to bounce back quick with two games this week.”

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By ANTONIO GONZALEZAP Sports Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Marco Scutaro stayed steady behind second base, absorbing Matt Holliday’s hard takeout slide and toss-ing the ball to first for a pos-sible double play.

As Scutaro squirmed in the infield, twisting in pain, fans at AT&T Park show-ered Holliday with boos. Giants players watched and worried, fearing the worst for a fallen teammate. Manager Bruce Bochy and trainer Dave Groeschner ran out of the dugout to at-tend to Scutaro, who final-ly dusted off the dirt and stood up strongly.

And just like that, so did San Francisco’s offense.

Scutaro singled in two runs during a four-run fourth inning before leav-ing with a hip injury, spark-ing San Francisco’s first home win this postseason, 7-1 over the St. Louis Car-dinals on Monday night to tie the NL championship series at one game apiece.

“We felt for him,” center fielder Angel Pagan said. “We felt a little bit of an-ger.”

All those feelings came crashing down on the Car-dinals in a hurry.

Scutaro left after the fifth because of a left hip he in-jured on a play Giants man-ager Bruce Bochy felt was il-legal. X-rays were negative, and Scutaro likely will get an MRI exam today. There was no word on his status, but closer Sergio Romo said when Scutaro left, the sec-ond baseman “had a little smile on his face that he’d be back. Definitely not re-ally worried right now.”

“In my opinion,” right fielder Hunter Pence said, “it pumped us up a little bit.”

The series now shifts to St. Louis for three games, starting Wednesday when San Francisco ace Matt Cain takes on Kyle Lohse of the Cardinals, and the

Giants are already rally-ing behind the slide against Scutaro.

Things got testy when Holliday barreled into Scutaro at second base to break up the potential double play in the first in-ning. The play riled up fans that had seen three straight losses by the Giants so far this postseason and still hold fresh — and sensi-tive — memories of the home-plate collision that sidelined All-Star catcher Buster Posey most of last season.

“In hindsight, I wish I would have started the slide a little earlier, but it happened so fast,” Holliday said. “I hope he’s OK, he’s a good guy. I was more in-terested in breaking up the double play.”

There was plenty to cheer all night for Giants supporters.

Ryan Vogelsong pitched seven strong innings, Pa-gan hit a leadoff homer to give San Francisco its first home lead this postseason and Scutaro stayed in un-til breaking the game open with his single off Chris Carpenter.

“That shows you how tough he is,” Bochy said. “I really think they got away with an illegal slide there. That rule was changed a while back. And he really didn’t hit dirt until he was

past the bag. Marco was behind the bag and got smoked. It’s a shame some-body got hurt because of this. That’s more of a road-block.”

Making Scutaro’s hit even sweeter for the Giants was the fact that Holliday misplayed the ball in left field, allowing a third run to score on the error and Scutaro to advance to sec-ond.

“There’s baseball gods. There’s definitely baseball gods,” said former Giants first baseman and current special assistant Will Clark, whose takeout slide in July 2008 of St. Louis second baseman Jose Oquendo, now the Cardinals third base coach, set off a brawl. “There’s a reason why he hits a (single) and Holliday boots the ball he hit. Base-ball gods shine in weird ways.”

The Giants also ben-efited from a missed call by an umpire in the eighth inning after St. Louis cen-ter fielder Jon Jay made a spectacular, diving catch to rob Brandon Crawford of a hit.

Jay threw toward first and the Cardinals should have gotten a double play, but first base umpire Bill Miller did not see Allen Craig tag Gregor Blanco’s jersey as he raced back to first on the play.

Giants roll past Cards, 7-1

By BERNIE WILSONAP Sports Writer

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Down 24-0 at halftime, Pey-ton Manning and the Den-ver Broncos reveled after one of the biggest come-backs in NFL regu-lar-season history.

On the flip side, the San Di-ego Char-gers were s a d d l e d with an enormous col-lapse.

Manning threw three touchdown passes in the second half and Tony Carter and Chris Harris scored off turnovers by Philip Rivers as the Bron-cos overcame a 24-0 half-time deficit to shock the Chargers 35-24 on Monday night.

Asked if he’d ever been a part of such a big come-back, Carter replied: “Only in Pop Warner football.”

It took a quarterback of Manning’s caliber to pull this one out.

“It sure was special considering what was on the line,” said Manning, a Super Bowl winner and four-time NFL MVP who’s in his first season with the Broncos.

Manning was 13 of 14 for 167 yards in the second half for the Broncos (3-3) who tied the Chargers (3-3) atop the AFC West.

It tied for the fourth-big-gest regular-season come-back in NFL history.

Manning had been 1-5 in his last six games against San Diego, all with India-napolis.

Rivers was intercepted four times — three in the fourth quarter — and lost two fumbles. The four pickoffs and six turn-overs were both career highs.

A week earlier, the

Chargers blew a 10-point lead in the third quarter in a 31-24 loss at New Or-leans.

“When you lose it’s rough, especially in a game where you had a big lead and so much at stake,” Rivers said.

“It’s bad,” San Diego linebacker Takeo Spikes said. “Every adjective you can come up with as far as disappointment, it covers it.”

The Broncos seemed fin-ished after an awful first half in which Manning served up an 80-yard inter-ception return for a touch-down by Quentin Jammer and two special teams fum-bles led to 10 points for the Chargers.

“I thought we had a good plan. It was so disappoint-ing to have these special team mistakes,” Manning said.

Manning began the comeback when he hit Demaryius Thomas on a 29-yard touchdown pass on the opening drive of the second half.

On the ensuing San Di-ego possession, Elvis Du-mervil stripped the ball from Rivers and Carter ran 65 yards for a touch-down, holding up the ball in celebration as he approached the end zone.

Denver then sacked Rivers to force a punt and Manning capped the next drive with a 7-yard touchdown pass to Eric Decker to pull to 24-21.

Manning’s 21-yard touchdown pass to Bran-don Stokley gave Denver its first lead of the game, 28-24 with 9:03 left. Stokley outleaped defensive back Marcus Gilchrist to catch the ball, and then got both feet down before tumbling out of the end zone.

That score was set up by Carter’s interception.

Harris sealed the vic-tory with a 46-yard in-terception return for a touchdown with 2:05 left. It was his second pick of the game.

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ABBY SEWELLLos Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — It was built for orbital speeds ap-proaching five miles per second, but space shuttle En-deavour took its own sweet time Sunday as it wheeled triumphantly onto the grounds of its new home, the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

“Mission 26 — mission accomplished,” Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced, amid the cheers of thousands of spectators. Before it was retired by NASA, the spacecraft had logged 25 flight missions.

However, its final journey was slowed by unexpected maintenance issues and last-minute maneuvers to avoid obstacles like trees and util-ity poles. Ultimately, the 85-ton orbiter survived the trip with nary a scratch.

Endeavour arrived at Ex-position Park, where the sci-ence center is located, more than 16 hours late, after a three-day, 12-mile journey from Los Angeles Interna-tional Airport.

In preparation for the move, the city of Los Ange-les felled 268 trees to make room for Endeavour’s wings, while public works crews temporarily removed 223 traffic signals and raised more than 100 power and utility lines. Shuttle trans-porters designed a complex series of zigzag, crab-like movements to move the craft down Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to avoid harming pine trees planted in honor

of the late civil rights leader.Even so, the journey was

halted repeatedly so crews could do last-minute trims on tree branches. At one point, workers lowered the shuttle so it could sneak un-der the branches of a leafy tree.

The trip also was length-ened when a two-hour main-tenance stop in the Leimert Park section on Saturday night stretched to five hours. As it began rolling again, crews spotted a hydraulic leak from one of the wheeled trailers under the spacecraft and hit the brakes.

Despite the delays, the crowds remained buoyant. When Endeavour reached the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Vermont Avenue about 10:45 a.m., thousands of peo-ple poured into the streets chanting “Science center or bust!” “Let’s go, let’s go!” and “So close, so close!”

The Los Angeles Police Department reported no ar-rests, although some specta-tors suffered heat exhaus-

tion and other injuries.Many spectators waited

through the night or rose long before dawn for their chance to view a piece of history. Some were still clad in pajamas and bathrobes as the shuttle passed through their neighborhoods early in the morning.

Guy Quesada, 42, began his stakeout at the Califor-nia Science Center at 4 p.m. Saturday. But after hours of waiting, he decided to find the shuttle on his own. He walked west on Martin Lu-ther King Jr. Boulevard for about an hour and squeezed through the crowd to catch a glimpse. By Sunday morn-ing, he had wandered back east to the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Bou-levard and Sixth Avenue, where he watched the shut-tle through a pair of binocu-lars.

“The actual wing was right over us. It (crept) right over us,” Quesada said, smiling. He said he was close enough to read the numbers on the shuttle’s individual tiles.

Endeavor finally reaches its home

Michael Robinson Chavez/Los Angeles Times/MCTSpace shuttle Endeavour moves down Martin Luther King Boulevard on the last leg of its journey to the Cali-fornia Science Center at Exposition Park on Monday.

By BEN FOXAssociated Press

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — Five Guantanamo pris-oners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks returned before a military tribunal Mon-day, forgoing the protests that turned their last ap-pearance into an unruly 13-hour spectacle.

But the apparent coop-eration of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has said he masterminded the worst terror attack on U.S. soil, and four code-fendants did little to speed up proceedings that been have stuck in a legal and political morass for years.

Defense lawyers spent hours arguing that their clients shouldn’t have to attend the hearing, say-ing they dredge up bad memories of their harsh treatment in CIA deten-tion. The military judge ruled that the men would not have to attend the hearings for the rest of the week.

“Our clients may be-lieve that ... I don’t want to be subjected to this pro-cedure that transports me here, brings up memories, brings up emotions of things that happened to me,” said Jim Harrington, who represents Ramzi Bi-nalshibh, accused of help-ing to provide support to the hijackers who crashed planes into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and a field in Pennsylva-nia on Sept. 11, 2001.

The five men sat quietly

at the defense tables under the watchful eyes of mili-tary guards and several 9/11 family members at the U.S. base in Cuba. Mo-hammed, his beard dyed a rust color with henna, se-renely read legal papers. Two others responded po-litely to the judge when asked.

All seemed to cooper-ate with their attorneys in a specially designed high-tech courtroom that allows the government to muffle sounds so specta-tors behind a glass wall cannot hear classified in-formation.

The orderly scene was in stark contrast to their arraignment in May on charges that include ter-rorism and murder. At that session, one prisoner was briefly restrained for acting out, Binalshibh launched into an incoher-

ent rant, the men gener-ally ignored the judge and refused to use the court translation system, and two stood up to pray at one point.

Harrington told the court that the defendants may want to boycott fu-ture court sessions be-cause they don’t recognize the U.S. government’s au-thority, or because their transportation from their high-security cells may remind them of the harsh treatment they endured when confined in the CIA’s overseas network of secret prisons before they came to Guantanamo in Septem-ber 2006.

Prosecutors want the men to be required to at-tend court sessions. Army Col. James Pohl ruled that Mohammed and his code-fendants could not attend hearings that were sched-uled to run through the end of this week. He said he may require them to attend future pretrial ses-sions and said they would have to be present for their trial, likely to begin more than a year from now.

The focus of the week’s hearings include broad se-curity rules for the prison-ers, including measures to prevent the accused from publicly revealing what happened to them in the CIA prisons.

Prosecutors have asked the judge to approve what is known as a protective order intended to prevent the release of classified in-formation during trial.

Defendants return to Gitmo hearings

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By MIKE STOBBEAssociate Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Two more drugs from a spe-cialty pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak are now being investigated, U.S. health officials said, as they urged doctors to con-tact patients who got any kind of injection from the company.

The New England Com-pounding Center of Fram-ingham, Mass., has been under scrutiny since last month, when a rare fungal form of meningitis was linked to its steroid shots used mostly for back pain.

Monday’s step by the Food and Drug Adminis-tration followed two devel-opments. One was a report of a meningitis illness in a patient who got another type of steroid made by the company.

The agency also learned of two heart transplant patients who got fungal in-fections after being given a third product from the com-pany during surgery.

The illnesses are under investigation, and it’s very possible the heart patients were infected by another source, FDA officials cau-tioned. They did not say

whether fungal meningitis was involved in the new re-port.

The current outbreak has sickened 214 people, in-cluding 15 who have died. For weeks, officials have been urging doctors to con-tact patients who got shots of the company’s steroid methylprednisolone ace-tate, advise them about the risks of fungal infection, and urge them to take any meningitis symptoms seri-ously.

The steroid was recalled last month, and the compa-ny later shut down opera-tions and recalled all the medicines it makes.

The FDA on Monday ex-panded its advice to doctors to contact all patients who got any injection made by the company, including ste-roids and drugs used in eye surgery as well as heart op-erations.

The agency said it took the step “out of an abun-dance of caution” as it in-vestigates the new reports involving the heart surgery drug and the second ste-roid, called triamcinolone acetonide.

Last week, federal health officials said 12,000 of the roughly 14,000 people who received steroid shots had been contacted. Nearly all the 214 illnesses are fungal meningitis; two people had joint infections

Symptoms of meningitis include severe headache, nausea, dizziness and fever. The CDC said many of the cases have been mild, and some people had strokes. Symptoms have been ap-pearing between one and four weeks after patients got the shots, but CDC offi-cials on Thursday warned at least one illness occurred 42 days after a shot.

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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two American scholars won the Nobel economics prize Monday for work on match-making — how to pair doctors with hospi-tals, students with schools, kidneys with transplant re-cipients and even men with women in marriage.

Lloyd Shapley of UCLA and Alvin Roth, a Harvard University professor cur-rently visiting at Stanford University, found ways to make markets work when traditional economic tools fail.

Shapley, 89, came up with the formulas to match sup-ply and demand in markets where prices don’t do the job; the 60-year-old Roth put Shapley’s math to work in the real world.

Unlike some recent No-bel prizes — such as the Peace Prize that went to the embattled European Union last week — this year’s eco-nomics award did not seem to send a political message.

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Shapley made early theo-retical inroads into the sub-ject, using game theory to analyze different matching methods in the 1950s and ‘60s.

In a groundbreaking 1962 paper, Shapley and the late David Gale looked at how to match 10 men and 10 women in perfectly stable marriages. They created a model in which no two peo-ple liked anyone else better than each other.

While that may have had little impact on marriages and divorces, the elegant algorithm they developed has been used to better un-derstand many different markets.

Building on Shapley’s work, Roth applied it de-cades later to the market for allocating doctors, cre-ating an algorithm that led to the redesign of the Na-tional Resident Matching Program that pairs fourth-year medical students with hospitals.

“Before Roth, it was not unusual to not get any of your first three or four choices,” said David Warsh, who follows university economists in his Econom-ic Principals blog. “After Roth hooked up this new algorithm, almost everyone got what they wanted.”

Roth also successfully ap-plied the formula to New York City’s public schools, ensuring that fewer stu-dents ended up in schools that were not among their top choices. Now, noted Su-

san Athey, a Stanford Uni-versity economist, “there are school districts all over the country that are consid-ering these matching proce-dures.”

The algorithm has also been used to match kidneys with patients who need transplants.

Before Roth, “there were no economists in that busi-ness at all,” Warsh says. “He’s really changed it and saved a lot of lives.”

Roth looks at cases where prices can’t be used to match supply and demand. In some markets — such as organ transplants — soci-ety recoils at the notion of a product or service going to whoever can pay the high-est price.

Americans win Nobel econ prize

We’re talking about the nitty-gritty of health care and edu-cation — which medical students are assigned to which hospitals. We’re talking about how to ar-range donors of kidneys.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will weigh in on the controversy over voter fraud and decide whether Ari-zona can require residents to show proof of their citizen-ship before they register to vote.

The justices voted to hear Arizona’s appeal of an anti-fraud provision that was struck down by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The high court will not hear the case until early next year, with a ruling expected in the spring.

Although many states seek to require more proof of a voter’s identity when they cast a ballot, Arizona wants to require more documentation from those who seek to regis-ter to vote.

Arizona’s voters in 2004 ad-opted Proposition 200, which included new provisions de-signed to prevent illegal im-migrants from voting. Those wanting to register to vote were told they must submit proof of their citizenship. They could show an Arizona’s driver’s license, a U.S. pass-port, a birth certificate or nat-uralization documents.

But this provision was chal-lenged in court and blocked from taking effect. The 9th Circuit said the requirement for extra documents clashed with the federal “motor voter” legislation of 1993, which was designed to make it easier for people to register to vote by filling out a federal form and sending it through the mail. The form requires applicants to certify they are citizens en-titled to vote.

A panel of 9th Circuit judg-es, including retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, struck down the Arizona provision because it conflicted with the federal law. The Constitution says Congress may override state rules for elections, the judges said.

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linois, my home state.” She added, “forgive me if I’m a little excited today. For me it was Election Day.”

Obama’s campaign said it was the first time a presidential nominee and his spouse will not vote in person on Election Day, reflecting their emphasis on early voting in several key battleground states. Obama dominated early voting in 2008, giving him an edge over Republican John McCain well before Election Day.

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The carefully choreo-graphed early voting an-nouncement was part of a big push this week. Obama plans to discuss early vot-ing in Ohio and Iowa on Wednesday, after Tuesday’s second presidential debate. The first lady was discuss-ing early voting at events in Ohio on Monday, in North Carolina today and in Wis-

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign has targeted sup-porters who don’t typically vote in every election, plac-ing a premium on getting those voters to cast early ballots. Most of Romney’s remaining supporters would be people who are much more likely to vote, regardless of whether they are contacted by the cam-paign.

Obama, first lady voting early

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

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Petition for Mortgage Fore-closure has been filed in the Dis-trict Court of Allen County, Kansas by Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Com-pany, praying for foreclosure of cer-tain real property legally described as follows:

ALL OF LOT FIVE (5) AND LOT

FOUR (4), LESS THE WEST 35 FEET, STEWART’S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF IOLA, ALLEN COUN-TY, KANSAS. Tax ID No. IA03137

for a judgment against defen-dants and any other interested par-ties and, unless otherwise served by personal or mail service of sum-mons, the time in which you have to plead to the Petition for Foreclosure in the District Court of Allen County Kansas will expire on November 14, 2012. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the request of plaintiff.

MILLSAP & SINGER, LLCBy: Jennifer L. Michaels, #24256 [email protected] R. Doornink, #23536 [email protected] L. Craft, #23315 [email protected] M. Hart, #20886 [email protected] Tomahawk Creek Park-

way, Suite 300Leawood, KS 66211 (913) 339-9132(913) 339-9045 (fax)ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFFMILLSAP & SINGER, LLC

AS ATTORNEYS FOR BAY-VIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY IN-FORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

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Dear Drs. Donohue and Roach: I had two total hip replacements about 10 years ago. I was told that I should take antibiotics one hour before undergoing dental procedures. I take 600 milli-grams of clindamycin.

Recently, I read that a con-siderable percentage of the orthopedic medical commu-nity is of the opinion that an-tibiotics are NOT required after a two-year post-op pe-riod. My dentist feels oth-erwise, but I feel he may be reacting with an overabun-dance of precaution because of the possibility of litiga-tion in the event an infection were to develop after dental work. Your thoughts? — C.H.

Answer: People with total hip replacements have hard-ware in their joints that is at higher risk for infection than normal, healthy joints, so it makes sense to consider using antibiotics before pro-cedures that might cause a temporary inflow of bacte-ria.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons doesn’t give a specific recom-mendation, just that clini-cians consider prescribing antibiotics. Early studies

show that infection of the ar-tificial joint can happen even many years after surgery, so I’m not sure the two-year rule makes complete sense. Ultimately, your doctor has to weigh the risks of the an-tibiotic (low, but not zero) against the risk of infection (low, but disastrous if it oc-curs). Doctors and dentists do think about litigation risk, but let’s give your den-tist the benefit of the doubt and assume he reasoned that the possible side effects of an antibiotic you have taken be-fore are less dangerous than the small possibility of an infected hip joint.

Dear Drs. Donohue and Roach: I am a 52-year-old female. About a year and a half ago, my primary-care doctor informed me that my white blood cell count was high, and she advised that I see a hematologist. I did as she advised, and was diag-

nosed with polycythemia vera. I have been seeing my hematologist on a regular basis; he said he isn’t con-cerned about any type of treatment because my hemo-globin and platelets are fine. My white blood cell count is always between 20-24. Do you feel I have anything to be concerned about? I am otherwise healthy, feel great and don’t feel tired. I would like to know what you think. — K.M.

Answer: Polycythemia vera, also called polycythe-mia rubra vera (which, in Latin, means “too many red blood cells”), is an un-common blood condition in which the body makes more red blood cells than it needs. People with the usual kind of this condition have too many RED blood cells. You have too many WHITE blood cells.

In the usual kind, the most

common form of treatment is bloodletting. (Yes, there are still a few diseases that we treat with bloodletting.) But periodic blood removal is not indicated for people who have normal red blood or hemoglobin levels; that’s why your hematologist isn’t recommending any treat-ment.

A complication of poly-cythemia vera is transfor-mation to a myelodysplas-tic (MY-el-oh-dis-PLAS-tic) syndrome, a more severe blood disease of the white cells, such as leukemia (“my-elodysplastic” means “bad growth in the bone mar-row”). Although this hap-pens at a rate of only about 0.5 percent per year, it is more common in women, and this is something I am sure your hematologist is looking out for. There are medicines to reduce the white blood cell count, but some of these seem to increase the rate of leukemia. Blood clotting can be a problem in some patients, and this can be treated and prevented with aspirin. Polycythemia vera should be managed by an expert, so keep seeing your hematologist regularly.

Opinions mixed on antibiotics before dental workDr. Paul Donohue

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