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Vol. 115, No.129 75 Cents Iola, KS

By ALLISON TINNallison@iolaregister.comRotary isn’t just a group, it

is a way of life — at least that’s what any full-fledged Rotarian would say.

Before each meeting Rotar-ians recite the Four-Way Test, better viewed as the Rotar-ian’s creed.

First, is it the truth? Sec-ond, is it fair to all concerned? Third, will it build good will and better friendship? And fourth, will it be beneficial to all concerned?

Rotarian Bob Hawk believes that if The Four Way Test is followed there would be fewer problems in the world.

According to Hawk, Rotary isn’t only to meet and eat, but it offers something for all in-terest types.

“If you can’t find something to light your fire, your wood is wet,” Hawk said.

Iola’s Rotary Club has not

only helped its local com-munity but also has affected many foreign countries such as Chile. There are 18,000 Chil-eans who can now see better because of the Vision Quest project, which was started by the Iola Rotary Club.

The project provides inex-pensive reading glasses by using raw materials and the training needed to allow peo-ple in developing countries to make their own glasses.

“In 15 to 20 minutes you can have a pair of reading glass-es,” Rotarian Ellis Potter said.

“I don’t know how peo-ple survive without their eyesight,” Rotarian Judy Brigham said.

The Iola Rotary Club has also been involved in the Be-lize Water Project, which pro-vides Belizeans with water filters that makes dirty water

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From left, Ellis Potter, Tom Brigham, Karen Gilpin, Bob Hawk and Judy Brigham are all members of the Iola Rotary Club.

Register/Steven Schwartz

Iola Rotary ~a way of life

Top, State Sen. Caryn Tyson learned about Pat Haire’s workshop, filled with belt-driven tools, during a visit to Humboldt Friday. Above, Rep. Ed Bideau, center, visits with Paul Finney, left, and Jerry Stephens.

By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

The annual Relay for Life raised $36,500 at the Recre-ation Community Building in Riverside Park Friday night and Saturday morning.

“Our deadline isn’t until June, and with additional fundraisers the total will grow,” said Deb Scheibmeir, financial chairman.

Proceeds go the American Cancer Society.

Donation may be made to any Relay for Life team mem-ber, Scheibmeir at 365-0412 or at the Relay’s website, relay-forlife.org/allencoks.

Iola Sisters OK5A raised the most money at $11,428, followed by Gates $6,452, Al-len County Hospital $6,008, Calvary United Methodist Church $2,726, Marmaton Valley FCCLA (new to the Re-

lay this year) $1,654, The Fam-ily Physicians (Wolfe Pack) $1,241, Patty’s Posse $1,086, Chartwell’s $673, Windsor Place of Iola $436, PSI $413, Colony Diner $110, Individu-als $98, and Kathy’s Klowns $80.

Ina Railsback, Iola Sisters OK5A, was the top individual at $7,800, followed by Saundra Upshaw, Calvary Methodist Church, $2,286, Joan Hess, Iola Sisters OK5A, $1,022, Angie Luedke, ACH, $859, Gwen Tefft, Gates, $782, Edna Donovan, Iola Sisters OK5A, $750, Jean Parker, Iola Sisters OK5A, $728, Katie Sander, Gates, $676, Staci Talkington, Chartwell’s, $674, and Melis-sa Stokes, Gates, $575.

HAVING THE Relay in the community building re-sulted from two changes.

Initially, the Relay was moved from August because it had been plagued by hot

weather the past several years, and then it was moved indoors last week because of ongoing chilly weather and rain, Scheibmeir observed.

In the run-up to the start of the event, the annual sur-vivor walk, singers Kristine Johnson and Becky French entertained, along with a skit by Marmaton Valley FCCLA members.

This year’s theme was Route 66, which prompted the ACH team to decorate its booth with antique license plates, a lunch counter and neon cactus.

More than 30 survivors participated in the opening lap.

Two inflatable toys attract-ed kids and no one went hun-gry. At the start sloppy joes, turkey salad sandwiches, tur-key and noodles and pulled pork sandwiches, fresh from

Relay for Life raises $36,500

Legislators pay visit

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By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

HUMBOLDT — Members of Humboldt’s Downtown Action Team want to place the town’s landmark bandstand placed on the state’s registry of historic sites.

There’s a catch.State law restricts exterior

improvements of any building within 500 feet of a structure so designated.

A DAT project is to have that part of the law stricken.

Members had receptive ears Friday afternoon when state Sen. Caryn Tyson and Rep. Ed Bideau came to town.

Bideau introduced legisla-tion in the House to remove the restrictions for Humboldt and other communities that have an interest in preserving and recognizing historical sites.

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More than $36,000 was raised during Relay for Life in Riverside Park’s Recreation Com-munity Building Friday night.

Register/Bob Johnson

Register/Bob Johnson

Authors of all ages display their skills

Register/Steven Schwartz

Above, Susan Stevens Crummel gives area elementary students a lesson on writing. Below, Blake Walker reads his own book to other students in the Iola High gymnasium on Saturday.

Wilson to speak at society meeting

The Allen County Histori-cal Society and Iola Public Library have partnered to sponsor a presentation by Ron Wilson on Tuesday evening.

Wilson, the director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kan-sas State University, will give the presentation titled “Now, That’s Rural: Entrepreneurs and Innovators Who Shaped Kansas Communities.”

Wilson served as a legisla-tive assistant, staff member

for the U.S. Senate Com-mittee on Agriculture, N u t r i t i o n and Forestry and as vice president of the National Council of Farmer Co-operatives.

The program begins at 7 p.m. in the Dr. John Silas Bass North Community Building.

Ron Wilson

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Mostly clearTonight, mostly clear. Lows 60 to 65. South winds

15 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.Tuesday, sunny and breezy.

Highs 80 to 85. South winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the afternoon.

Tuesday night, partly cloudy. Lows 55 to 60. South winds 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the evening.

Wednesday, partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs 70 to 75. South winds 5 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.

Sunrise 6:28 a.m. Sunset 8:11 p.m.

TemperatureHigh yesterday 75Low last night 56High Saturday 59Low Saturday 41High Friday 51Low Friday 47

High a year ago 78Low a year ago 59

Precipitation72 hours ending 7 a.m .53This month to date 5.62Total year to date 10.86Excess since Jan. 1 1.58

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

TodayEMS committee meeting, courthouse assembly room, 6

p.m., to discuss merger of services. Open to the public.

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

County Courthouse.American Red Cross office, 9 to 11:30 a.m., Emprise

Bank. Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, meeting room at Allen Commu-

nity College student center.Ron Wilson, featured speaker at the Allen County His-

torical Society’s spring meeting, 7 p.m., Dr. John Silas Bass North Community Building. Open to the public.

WednesdayCommunity dinner, 5 to 7 p.m., St. Timothy’s Episcopal

Church.

ThursdayRotary Club, noon, The New Greenery.Allen County Farmers Market, 5:30 to 7 p.m., southwest

corner of the square.Allen Community College play “33 Variations” opens at

7:30 p.m. in the ACC theater. It runs through May 4.

Calendar

CorrectionIt was incorrectly re-

ported in Saturday’s Register that Ricky Dawn, Iola, was charged

with theft. Charges have already been filed on an unrelated case. The Reg-ister regrets the error.

A breakfast club for Al-zheimer’s caregivers will be at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the alliance room at Me-morial Building at 101 S. Lincoln in Chanute.

Anyone may attend

who serves as a family caregiver to any individ-ual with a dementia like Alzheimer’s

Fore more informa-tion contact (620) 421-6550 (ext. 1794).

Caregivers meal is Wednesday morning

Wednesday is May Day and flowers will sprout because of ef-forts of Iola Girl Scouts.

Girl Scouts will col-lect dandelions Iolans have removed from their yards and replace each with a flower to plant.

The girls will collect

dandelions Tuesday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the bandstand on the Iola Square, so the flow-ers will be ready for planting on Wednesday.

For their efforts, Girl Scouts will earn an en-vironment badge as well as help to beautify Iola.

Dandelion exchangescheduled Tuesday

The Marmaton Val-ley High forensics team will present a show-case of its state-bound events Wednesday eve-ning in the high school band room at 7 p.m.

The evening will also include project presentations from the art classes and Family and Consumer Science students. The public is invited to attend.

MV forensics hosting event

About 30 pounds of out-of-date and unneeded prescription drugs were collected outside City Hall Saturday, including this nearly full box held by Jaime Westervelt, left, Allen County Multi Agency Team co-chair, and Michelle Hoag, AC-MAT secretary. Saturday was national Drug Take Back Day.

Drug haulRegister/Bob Johnson

By TOM RAUMAssociated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents like to take credit for economic recoveries, just as Presi-dent Barack Obama is angling to do now.

He and his allies in Congress have “walked the economy back from the brink,” his new 2014 federal budget blueprint asserts. And Democrats hope these improve-ments, while still slow and uneven, will give them at least a small boost in 2014’s midterm races.

That’s a big order, con-sidering:

— Presidential claims of responsibility for eco-nomic gains rarely win plaudits from voters, yet presidents nearly always get blamed when things get worse.

— The historical odds for midterm gains in Congress by the in-power party are slim at best. Since World War II, the president’s party has lost an average of 26 seats in midterm elections and gained seats only twice — Democrats in 1998 un-der President Bill Clin-ton and Republicans in 2002 with George W. Bush in the Oval Office.

— Presidential elec-tions are often referen-dums on the economy. That applies less often to midterms.

Still, the health of the economy “is going to be an important factor” in 2014 races, said Demo-cratic pollster and strat-egist Mark Mellman. “What matters most is changes in the amount of money people have in their pockets. It’s very hard to tell people they’re better off than they feel.”

“But we’re still quite a ways from November 2014,” he added.

Right now, surveys and reports show that the re-covery is continuing, al-though more slowly than most, despite continued high unemployment and an environment of mod-est economic growth and

inflation. Home prices are on the rise, manufac-turing is slowly improv-ing.

The government re-ported Friday that eco-

nomic growth acceler-ated to an annual rate of 2.5 percent from January through March, helped by the strongest consum-er spending in more than two years. But federal spending fell, and tax increases and Washing-ton’s budget cuts could slow growth later this year.

The report showed the economy was get-ting stronger after nearly stalling late last year, when it grew just 0.4 per-cent in the final three months of 2012.

“It’s hard to do vic-tory laps in the climate of slow growth and con-tinued high unemploy-ment,” said historian Douglas Brinkley of Rice University.

“A president’s job is to rebuild the psyche of the nation,” Brinkley said. “And there has been a feeling of incremen-tal improvement after Obama’s first term in of-fice. That’s the key word, incremental. Presidents have to make the people believe that things are getting better every month.

“A lot of what I’m talk-ing about is the optics of the situation. When Obama came in, things were rotten and then it got better. There is no longer that sense of pan-ic going on.”

Obama’s efforts have been overshadowed

somewhat by several noneconomic issues: the congressional battles over gun safety and im-migration and the deadly Boston Marathon bomb-ings.

What steps can Obama rightfully claim that have helped spur economic improvement?

His $830 billion stimu-lus program of 2009, for one. The White House also cites two other ma-jor emergency programs — the auto and financial industry bailouts. Both were started under Presi-dent George W. Bush and expanded by Obama.

The White House sug-gests Obama’s anti-reces-sionary programs helped

nurture the creation of more than 6 million new jobs since the economy bottomed in 2010. Repub-licans voice skepticism but mainstream econo-mists generally cite substantial gains from the federal efforts in the range of 3 million or more jobs.

The bank bailout, or Troubled Asset Relief Program, turned out to be politically radioactive for many who supported it. But economists gen-erally agree it helped avert a national financial meltdown. And it wound up yielding investment returns to taxpayers of most of the original $700 billion-plus cost.

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It’s hard to do victory laps

in the climate of slow growth and continued high unemploy-ment.

— Douglas Brinkley, historian

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~ Journalism that makes a difference

Having a purpose in life is what kept Emerson Lynn getting up each day long af-ter most people retire. He liked to feel useful.

So it was fitting that when he died last week at age 88, he would leave his body to medical science. “I can keep being productive even after I’m dead!” he said, and was thrilled at the thought.

The University of Kan-sas School of Medicine received his body within hours of his death through its Willed Body Program.

“Willing a body to science is one of the most personal and honorable gifts an indi-vidual can make,” wrote Dr. Dal R. Abrahamson, chair of the anatomy and cell bi-ology department, in a let-ter to the family.

“We are grateful for the selfless gift of education that each donor makes to this program. All bodies donated … are used only for legitimate human ana-tomical education purpos-es and/or ethical medical research.”

The letter ended with

condolences and an invita-tion to attend a ceremony this fall in tribute to those who willed their bodies to science.

Bodies that are donated to university programs like KU’s are used to teach future doctors, nurses and scientists the relationship between the systems and structures of the human body. Sometimes they’re used to discover new surgi-cal procedures.

You can’t be too old to do-nate; but certain diseases preclude a body being ac-cepted, including tuber-culosis, HIV, hepatitis and Creutzfeldt-Jacobs, a dis-ease of the brain. Obesity also prevents donations in most cases.

DOES THE THOUGHT of willing your body to medical science give you the willies?

Get over it.Think ahead, do the pa-

per work, and find a garden that will benefit from your ashes. The truly final last gift.

— Susan Lynn

Donating body toscience extends life’s purpose

Governor Sam Brownback has plans to visit all the Kan-sas Board of Regents univer-sities. At every university, he reminds them that he pro-posed level funding, while the state legislature wants to cut them by either 2 percent in the Kansas State Senate or 4 percent in the Kansas State House. He then touts the benefits of his tax plans, a major component of which is to continue the state sales tax rate at 6.3 percent instead of letting it drop in July to 5.7 percent. Then comes the hammer; the universities’ budgets can be spared if the legislature passes his tax ini-tiatives. Even though the state Senate has already signed on to Brownback’s taxing plans, state House Republicans, led by Speaker Ray Merrick, (R-Stillwell) have not.

Outside of Wyandotte Coun-ty, Democrats and/or mod-erate Republicans still tend to win legislative seats in or near our university communi-ties. Most of these Democrats, especially those in leadership positions like Democratic House Minority Leader Paul Davis of Lawrence, are com-mitted to making Brownback live with the results of what they consider to be the reck-less tax cuts enacted last ses-sion.

According to the Consensus Estimating Group report, re-leased this week, Brownback’s income tax reductions will lower state general fund rev-enues by over $450 million for FY 2014. If the sales tax is also

reduced to 5.7 percent in July, the state will lose another $270 million.

If the politics of the past foreshadow the future, one might suspect that Brown-back is attempting to cobble

together a new version of the moderate coalition in the state House. Some speculate that a bare majority of the GOP House caucus supports Brownback’s plan. If a large portion of the Democratic caucus would change its tune and also support his plan, there would be just enough votes for it to pass.

This would be an interest-ing development, but current politics makes this type of scenario very unlikely. Con-servative Republicans in the state House have a sour taste in their mouths from the mod-erate coalitions of yesteryear. They’d prefer to provide all the votes necessary to pass any major policy or budget bill, sans Democrats.

House Democrats don’t ap-pear to be willing partners ei-ther. They have spent much of this session saying, “I told you so! Why didn’t you listen?” They are resigned to allow Brownback and the Republi-cans to live with the ramifica-tions of the tax cuts enacted last year. They will not be volunteering to cast the win-ning votes for any Brownback policy.

Left in the balance of this

new era of politics in Kan-sas are the universities and Brownback. The universities have already announced that the impact of these proposed budget cuts would be grave, because these cuts come on

top of years of flat funding or decreased funding from the state.

What’s in it for Brownback? Since the beginning of his administration, the gover-nor’s budgets have provided level funding for the Regents system, despite cuts in other areas. If he loses this battle, or walks away with a compro-mise solution, he can legiti-mately claim that he fought the good fight, expending time and political capital for them.

But, he can also point his finger back at Democrats, ask-ing where were they when the tough vote came to keep the sales tax rate at its current level to protect the universi-ties’ budgets?

Even though the Democrats will protest loudly, claiming that it was Brownback’s in-come tax cuts that created this budget mess; Brownback has maneuvered them into a tough spot, defending policies that hurt Kansas’ universi-ties. This is a shrewd move by a politician who even when he seemingly loses, wins.

Aistrup is a political science

professor at Kansas State Uni-versity.

The politics of funding universities

JoeAistrup

InsightKansas

Since the beginning of his administration, the governor’s budgets have provided level funding for the Regents system, despite cuts in other ar-eas. If he loses this battle, or walks away with a compromise solution, he can legitimately claim that he fought the good fight, expending time and political capital for them.

Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner was cleared to fly last Thurs-day. The Federal Aviation Administration lifted a ban on passenger flights that it imposed in January after two battery malfunctions in the new jets raised serious safety concerns. The FAA approved Boeing’s plan to modify the 787 battery sys-tem and flights are expected to resume within days.

So, the FAA says the Dreamliner is safe. But will travelers buy that? We think so. Here’s why.

The innovative, fuel-effi-cient Dreamliner ran into trouble because it is the first passenger jet to make ex-tensive use of lithium-ion batteries. Those batteries, widely used in laptops and cellphones, have a history of occasionally overheat-ing. When Boeing designed the aircraft, the company and its suppliers devised a series of tests to ensure the battery system would be safe for flight. The tests, done un-der the oversight of the FAA, suggested the planes could go for millions of hours without encountering any battery problem.

In practice, however, prob-lems occurred not long after the Dreamliner entered ser-vice. An empty plane parked on a runway in Boston filled with smoke. A plane full of passengers in Japan had to be evacuated.

So it was back to the draw-ing board. Boeing, its suppli-ers, federal regulators and their global counterparts developed new tests to figure out what caused the batter-ies to fail. Boeing hired bat-tery experts from outside the aviation industry to evaluate the testing procedures and propose solutions.

The exact cause of the bat-tery failures never was iden-tified. When complex sys-tems fail, it can be difficult to pinpoint a simple reason. Boeing, though, developed

a way to protect the passen-gers and the planes.

The company redesigned the battery system so if one cell short-circuited, others would not. Short circuits are the most likely reason that an undamaged battery would overheat. Boeing also added high-grade insulation between cells so overheat-ing in one part of the battery would not spread to other parts.

Perhaps most important from the passenger stand-point, Boeing encased the battery system in a sealed steel enclosure, vented out-side the aircraft. So even if a battery failure occurred, the aircraft wouldn’t be dam-aged. Smoke or fire would not spread.

As part of the testing, ac-cording to news reports, Boe-ing went so far as to simulate explosions inside the steel case. The enclosure is so se-cure that passengers would not notice if a failure oc-curred. The aircraft doesn’t rely on the batteries to stay in the air.

These incidents were alarming, but no one was hurt. The damage to the air-craft was isolated in the bat-tery compartment.

The credibility of Boeing, the FAA and the airlines that fly the Dreamliner is on the line. A battery problem that damaged a plane or created a safety threat would be a huge blow to the airline industry. There’s a big incentive to get this right.

Investors have shown con-fidence. Boeing’s stock has jumped this year, despite the widely reported troubles.

The airlines have shown confidence, too. Despite the grounding of the fleet and the delays in deliveries, air-lines did not cancel the hun-dreds of orders they placed for the Dreamliner.

Who’s left to convince? The people who fill the seats.

— The Chicago Tribune

Ready for takeoff,but will the publicboard Dreamliner?

�A�look�back�in�time60 Years Ago

Week of April 28, 1953Charles Gray, administra-

tor of Allen County Hospital, announced today that the hos-pital has been designated as one of 25 hospitals in Kansas where gamma globulin will be available in 1953.

Gamma globulin is the blood derivative which has been found effective in pre-venting paralysis following an attack of polio. Its supply is very limited and all use is under strict control of the Of-fice of Defense Mobilization and the United States Public Health Service. Gamma globu-

lin also has been found useful in treating measles and infec-tious hepatitis. Because of the limited supply available it will probably be allowed only in positively diagnosed cases of polio and direct family con-tacts of those cases.

1973An Area Agency on Aging

for nine southeast Kansas counties will be created, Gov. Robert Docking announced. A contract to form the agency has been awarded to the South-east Kansas Mental Health Center, one of three mental health centers serving the SEK

area. Services to be provided include Meals on Wheels, transportation, homemaker aids, home chores service and other services which will en-able senior citizens to live in-dependently in their homes rather than be placed in insti-tutions. On the state level, the agency funding the program is the Division of Services for the Aging of the State Department of Social Welfare.

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The bill has passed out of the House and is in conference commit-tee, Bideau said, with its next step, if it occurs this year, presentation on the Senate floor.

Tyson said she was unsure whether it would progress that far, was supportive if it did and assured, since the Leg-islature is in a two-year cycle, the effort would have a hearing next ses-sion if not this year.

Having the bandstand on the state registry has twofold advantage: It makes it more of an at-traction for tourists and opens the door to grant opportunities reserved for historic sites.

Bideau has been in-volved in historic site designation in Chanute, where he is an attorney, and noted without the restriction more build-ings likely would be put on the registry. Most communities aren’t comfortable making the effort when they know it would affect nearby pri-vate building owners, he said.

TYSON AND Bideau were taken on a tour of sites rich in Humboldt history, and also were shown improvements that have been made, such as Neosho River Park — in its final stages of development — and ball fields at Sweatt Park.

They then met constit-uents at Stacy Cakes.

Tyson said she is a champion of rural op-portunity zones, which already are in place in 50 counties, mostly in the western half of Kan-sas. She wants Allen and another 22 counties in-cluded.

Inclusion means the

state foregoes income tax for five years for new residents and through local-state cooperation a portion of college loans are paid for new residents, a concession meant to attract profes-sionals such as doctors and dentists.

An outcome of last year’s income tax cut was that some small business owners appar-ently overlooked their inclusion and have con-tinued to send estimates to the state, Tyson said.

“We need to keep mon-ey at home,” she said.

“You have a really good state senator” in Tyson, Bideau said. “She studies bills and has been behind the ru-ral initiative. I thought it was dead but she gave it CPR.

“We give a lot of lip service to getting kids to come back home, and the rural opportunity zone does that,” said Bideau.

Tyson said her inter-est was in helping small towns — they dot her 12th District — and is convinced that smaller, smarter government works better for constit-uents.

“The more local gov-ernment is, the better the decisions,” she said. “What fits Humboldt might not fit Dodge City (where she attended St. Mary’s of the Plains) — the fact is I know it wouldn’t.”

BOTH SAID a con-cern of rural legislators was that urban areas have accumulated much power from population shifts.

Tyson noted that 20 of the state’s 40 sena-tors represent the five largest counties and 25 representatives are from

Johnson County.Many urban legisla-

tors don’t understand economics that impact rural counties, or that agriculture is as much a driver of the state’s economy as it is, she said.

Part of that is because many new legislators are young and have no rural ties, Bideau said.

“When I was in the legislature 20 years ago many of those represent-ing the larger counties were older and grew up in rural areas,” he said. “Right now, (House) rep-resentatives from the three largest population counties could out-vote us (rural areas).”

Neither legislator is certain what will oc-cur with the 6.3 percent statewide sales tax.

House members want it reduced to 5.7 percent, which was part of the proposal when it passed three years ago to fill revenue gaps, mainly for education. If that oc-curs, the remaining .4 percent would go to the Kansas Department of Transportation.

Most senators prefer to keep it at 6.3 percent, Tyson said, although she is a proponent of lower taxes.

“I’m for lower taxes, but we have to be smart about how it’s done,” she said, allowing that dependency on state rev-enue could be reduced substantially through trimming waste.

“We must have 1,000 Internet outlets in the Statehouse, each costing $42.50 a month, and we don’t need nearly that many,” she said. “At one state facility they serve shrimp and tilapia. We could save $200,000” with less expensive fare.

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drinkable.Rotarians have been

fighting polio on a world-wide scale. There are only three countries still reporting cases of polio — Afghanistan, Paki-stan and Nigeria.

On a local level, Iola Rotarians have helped bring awareness to the disease and have raised funds to help purchase the expensive vaccine.

Rotary, overall, has raised more than $1 bil-lion to the effort.

Rotarians who choose to travel overseas, for immunization days for example, pay their own way, but once in the for-eign country they stay with other Rotarians.

The wagon wheel Ro-tary emblem makes for more than a handsome pin. It “means you are welcomed,” all across the world, Potter said.

Going into a for-eign country can be intimidating, but with 1.2 million Rotarians worldwide, the network affords an instant con-nection.

“We might have a lot of differences between us. Different language,

districts and locations, but the differences are minor in comparison to our similarities. We have the same wants, desires and goals,” Hawk said.

If the international trips and efforts aren’t appealing, Rotary spear-heads many local proj-ects.

Because of the Rotari-an’s efforts a playground was put in at Windsor Place and the Mary Mar-tin Art Gallery in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center was built. Every other month Rotary holds a paper drive, they have given out scholarships to local students, they give watches to graduating seniors, they have given elementary students dictionaries and twice a year they clean up a part of U.S. 54.

The new Allen County Hospital is also on Rotar-ians’ radars and they are helping raise funds to buy it new equipment.

Rotarian’s generos-ity extends to commu-nities, near and far. When the tornado went through Joplin, Rotari-ans worked with Habitat for Humanity to rebuild houses.

“I feel completely con-fident that if we had a disaster we would have Rotary at our doorstep,” Brigham said.

Along with the many projects on Rotarian’s plates locally and world-wide, the group is always open to new project sug-gestions.

“Most projects aren’t dictated, it is usually an individual’s interest,” Potter said. “Our proj-ects are usually grass roots projects.”

Rotarians join the club for their own rea-sons but one thing they all have in common is what is known as the Ro-tary moment.

“When you are in an-other country putting reading glasses on peo-ple, all of a sudden you get it,” Rotarian Tom Brigham said. “It’s what keeps you going, it’s what touches you.”

ROTARIANS are al-ways looking for new members to join the group.

Iola’s Rotary Club meets every Thursday at noon at The New Green-ery.

Dudley Done Right BBQ, were available. When tastes changed in the wee hours of Satur-day, breakfast burritos, cinnamon rolls and pan-cakes were rolled out, along with plenty of cof-fee.

Several teams offered things for sale. Andy Daeges won a five-burn-

er grill in a raffle by the Gates team.

The luminaries cer-emony unfolded at 9 o’clock Friday evening with all team members going to the center of the arena. Girl Scouts Tay-lor Johnson, Lorie Car-penter, Caiden Cloud, Averia Witchley, Kilea Heslop, Danny Fees, Nat-alie Fees, Camryn Fre-

imiller, Lora Newkirk, Lola Newkirk and Kia Llori walked the track dressed as angels as the names of those who have succumbed to cancer were read.

Walkers who stayed past midnight were eli-gible for four tickets to a Kansas City Royals game, which Barbara Smith won.

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Register/Richard LukenAllen Community College’s Kaitlin Norris delivers a single in a game earlier this season. On Saturday, Norris and her teammates were shut down by 13th-ranked Highland Com-munity College in both games of their Region VI, Division II playoff doubleheader, ending the Red Devils’ season.

Red Devils’ season ends with sweepBy RICHARD LUKEN

richard@iolaregister.comHIGHLAND — Allen Com-

munity College’s softball season came to a quiet end Saturday, at the hands — or arms, to be more specific — of Highland Community Col-lege.

Highland pitchers shut out the Red Devils on a combined five hits over two games in a doubleheader sweep, 10-0 and 8-0, in the Region VI, Divi-sion II playoffs.

The losses end Allen’s sea-son at 9-30.

“We knew going in that Highland was going to be a beatable team, but we would have to play the best we have all season,” Allen coach Ja-mie Amerine said. “Then we committed some costly er-rors in the first inning.”

The Scotties set the tone for the day in the first inning of Saturday’s opener. After retiring Allen in order of the top of the frame, Highland erupted for six in the bottom of the inning. The lead grew to 8-0 by the bottom of the second and 10-0 by the end of the fourth.

“We tried everything we could to pitch around their home run hitters, but it didn’t matter where we pitched it, they were able to get good contact,” Amerine said. “We got good swings at the plate, and we played aggressively.”

Allen twice had two run-ners on base, but in both cas-es, they were left stranded. Lauren Poertner reached on a one-out error and Taylor Easum singled in the second inning before Highland’s

Paige Crawford struck out the next two batters to end the threat.

Stormie Bush and Paige Rothwell had singles in the top of the fifth, but they were left on base when Annie Gen-try’s line drive was snared by the Highland third baseman.

Mary Reilly struck a one-out double in the fourth, but also was left stranded.

Audra Nelson was saddled with the loss, allowing eight hits with a strikeout.

Highland’s damage in the second game was contained to the second and third in-nings, but it was plenty for starter Taylor Hatfield. Hat-field shut down Allen on a single hit, Rothwell’s fourth-inning single.

By RICHARD LUKENrichard@iolaregister.com

EL DORADO — Allen Com-munity College’s track and field team flexed some dis-tance running muscle Satur-day.

The Red Devils were noth-ing less than dominant in the men’s and women’s 5000-me-ter runs Saturday at the Ollie Isom Invitational hosted by Butler County Community College.

On the women’s side, Denae McGee won the 5000 with a na-tional meet-qualifying mark of 19 minutes, 19.02 seconds.

Then there were the men.Allen entered nine runners

in the men’s 5000. All finished in the top 10, led by Tegan Mi-chael’s 15:39.27.

Michael qualified for na-tionals with his time, as did runner-up Garrett Colglazier in 15:40.36 and Dakota Parker in third at 15:44.98. Colglazier

and Parker had qualified for nationals previously.

“This was an opportunity to better their marks,” Allen coach Vince DeGrado said.

The Red Devil athletes used Saturday’s competition as a tune-up for the upcoming Re-gion VI and Jayhawk Confer-ence championships, which run Friday and Saturday at Barton County in Great Bend.

“That 5K shows just how much depth we have in our middle distance,” DeGrado said. “Breaking the 16-min-ute barrier is kind of the gold standard at this level, and to have almost our entire team do that shows just how strong we can be.”

DeGrado also heaped praise on the Red Devil sprinters and their work with assistant coach Tony Davis.

Antonio Duncan took sec-

By SCOTT STEWART HUMBOLDT — As is the

case with area activities of late, weather has played havoc with Humboldt Speedway’s schedule.

Fortunately, Sunday after-noon provided perfect racing weather, and Wichita driver Ryan McAninish took ample advantage to win his first ever McCarthy Auto Group /USRA Modified feature at the Speed-way.

While McAninish led from

start to finish, John Allen con-tended with Canadian Joey Galloway for runner-up spot, eventually taking second. Fourth went to Chris Tonoli; Travis Smith was fifth.

Derrick Wilson picked up his fourth win of the year in the Whitworth Construction pure stock feature. However, the rest of the field was shuf-fled by the failure of several finishers to pass post-race in-

Swing into actionAllen Community College’s Jerrik Sigg connects a hit in a game earlier this season. On Sun-day, Sigg went a combined 4-for-7, but it was not enough for the Red Devils, who lost 7-2 and 13-1 at Fort Scott Community College. The schools wrap up their four-game series this afternoon after Saturday’s doubleheader was pushed back to today because of rain. Other details from Sunday’s games were unavailable.

Register/Richard Luken

Allen dominates5K races at tune-up

Iola’s Riverside Park will serve as the site for a number of upcoming track and field events.

Iola High will host meets on May 6 and the Class 4A Re-gional Meet May 17.

Track coach Marvin Smith is in need of workers to help the meets run smoothly.

The May 6 meet will have varsity teams from the area, while Iola, Chanute, Burling-ton and Anderson County will enter junior varsity ath-

letes.Volunteers should contact

Smith at 363-4343 if they can help. The May 6 meet begins at 4 p.m.

MEANWHILE, Crest High also will host a track meet at Riverside Park on Thursday.

Athletics director Brent Smith is in need of volunteers for that event as well.

Workers can call him at (620) 852-3521. That meet be-gins at 3:30 p.m.

Track helpers needed

McAninish tops fieldat special Sunday race

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PITTSBURG — The ANW Special Education Coopera-tive’s Special Olympics team competed here April 19 in the Southeast Kansas track and field events.

Representing ANW were:Kaleb Beckman, Gas, first in soft-

ball throw and first in standing long jump

Bo Bland, Iola, second in softball throw and first in 100-meter race

Judy Branstetter, Iola, third in 100-meter race and second in run-ning long jump

Jonathan Cress, Iola, first in ball throw and fifth in 50-meter race

Katlin Cress, Iola, first in ball throw and third in 50-meter race

Gavin Doolittle, Iola, fourth in ball throw and first in 25-meter assisted walk

Manual Doolittle, Neosho Falls, first in softball throw and second in 100-meter race

Brandon Griggs, Moran, first in 200-meter race and fifth in running long jump

Ty Johnson, Moran, second in softball throw and second in standing long jump

Leibreanne Moore, Moran, fifth in softball throw and fourth in 100-meter race

Justin Narvaez, Iola, fifth in 100-meter race and fourth in running long jump

Mariz Schlotterbeck, Yates Cen-ter, second in ball throw and third in 25-meter race

Corrine Simpson, Iola, fourth in

softball throw and third in 50-meter race

Gracie Splechter, Yates Center, third in standing long jump and third in 50-meter race

Ian Spoor, Iola, second in ball throw and second in 50-meter race

Tyler Streeter, Gas, third in 100-meter race and second in stand-ing long jump

Whitney Tarter, Gas, second in ball throw and fourth in standing long jump

Wolfgang Webber, Colony, sec-ond in ball throw and second in 50-meter race

Christopher White, Iola, third in ball throw and second in 50-meter race

Derek White, Iola, second in run-ning long jump and third in 100-meter race.

The relay team of Manual Doolit-tle, Leibreanne Moore, Ian Spoor and Katlin Cress finished second

The relay team of Justin Narvaez, Tyler Streeter, Christopher White and Derek White finished first.

The relay team of Jonathan Cress, Ty Johnson, Wolfgang Webber and Gracie Splechter finished third.

The relay team of Kaleb Beck-ham, Bo Bland, Judy Branstetter and Brandon Criggs finished first.

Two from Allen County also com-peted.

Casey Riebel, LaHarpe, was first in softball throw and fourth in 100-meter race

Steven Riebel, LaHarpe, was second in softball throw and first in 250-meter assisted walk

ANW athletes fare well at Special Olympics

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas higher education officials are depending upon Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s politi-cal mojo working on fel-low GOP conservatives on tax issues to preserve existing state funding for public universities and colleges.

Brownback began touring university and community college campuses last week in what his administration described as an effort to highlight the impor-tance of higher educa-tion to the state and its economy. The tour came after university presi-dents warned the Kan-sas Board of Regents that budget cuts being considered by legisla-tors could endanger cru-cial initiatives.

Legislators are tak-ing their annual spring break and plan to recon-vene May 8 to finish their business for the year. Tax issues are linked to the campaign to prevent cuts in higher education spending.

The governor and other Republicans want to position Kansas to phase out individual in-come taxes, but the state must stabilize its budget over the next few years. Brownback proposes to cancel a decrease in the sales tax scheduled by law for July, and if law-makers don’t agree to that plan, they’ll find it difficult — and perhaps impossible — to follow his recommendation to preserve existing higher education spending.

The Republican-dom-inated Legislature ap-pears headed toward cut-ting higher education, with some GOP lawmak-ers suggesting the re-gents and university of-ficials haven’t been held accountable enough to the public. But much de-pends on how legislators resolve tax issues.

“Until we pass the tax package, I have abso-lutely no idea what kind of funding we’re going to get to work with,” said Sen. Tom Arpke, a conservative Salina Re-publican and chairman of the Senate Ways and Means subcommittee on education.

The Senate has em-braced Brownback’s sales tax measure and his proposals for a sec-ond round of individual

income tax cuts. The House approved a plan to let the sales tax drop as planned, with far less aggressive income tax cuts. Legislators must resolve those differences to pass a tax bill after

their spring break ends.House and Senate ne-

gotiators also expect to continue talks on the fi-nal version of a roughly $14.5 billion state budget for the fiscal year begin-ning in July.

Under Brownback’s proposals, total spend-ing on higher education would remain about $2.5 billion for the next fiscal year. About $775 million in spending would be financed with state tax

dollars — as opposed to tuition dollars or federal funds — four-tenths of 1 percent more than the amount in the current budget.

In January, Regents Chairman Tim Emert, a former Senate major-ity leader from Indepen-dence, praised the gover-nor for “recognizing the importance of higher education.” A political alliance was forged.

Regent Mildred Ed-wards, of Wichita, said last week after Brown-back’s visit to Washburn University in Topeka, “The Kansas Board of Regents fully supports the governor’s budget for higher education. It’s necessary to continue to grow Kansas and build our work force.”

The Senate approved a 2 percent cut in the state’s share of the fund-ing, trimming about $15 million from the gover-nor’s proposals for the next fiscal year.

The House went signif-icantly deeper. It started with a 4 percent cut in universities, community colleges’ and technical colleges funding, trim-ming about $29 million. But it also capped the amount of money for state government sala-ries and longevity bo-nuses at existing levels — and the regents esti-mate the policies would cost them another $19 million.

House GOP leaders contend they’re trying to keep the tax burden on Kansas families, partic-ularly middle-class ones, low and they chided the regents over the annual tuition increases they’ve approved to make up for tight state funding.

“Just because an in-stitution provides a valuable service to our state does not mean they should avoid be-ing accountable for tax-payer dollars,” House Appropriations Com-mittee Chairman Marc Rhoades, a Newton Re-publican, said in a state-ment last week.

Democratic legisla-tors are frustrated be-cause they think the debate over higher edu-cation spending shifts attention away from the state’s self-inflicted bud-get problems. Support-ers expect last year’s tax cuts to stimulate the economy, but the reduc-tions have — as Brown-back concedes — left the state needing to backfill its budget to avoid sig-nificant cuts to core pro-grams.

“The drumbeat to fund higher education at the governor’s rec-ommended level, that’s being played out just to put pressure on leg-islators to not sunset the sales tax,” said Sen. Laura Kelly of Topeka, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Ways and Means Committee.

The sales tax is set to drop to 5.7 percent in July, under a 2010 bud-get-balancing law that boosted the tax before Brownback took office. Keeping the rate at 6.3 percent would generate $258 million during the next fiscal year.

“The whole budget has to fit together,” Brownback said last week. “Your receipts and your expenditures have to balance.”

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SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Staffing issues and an increasingly violent inmate population have prompted a central Kan-sas sheriff to close a ju-venile detention facility, but county commission-ers aren’t so sure he has the power to do that.

Saline County Sher-iff Glen Kochanowski called all three commis-sioners Friday to say he had decided to close the Saline County Juvenile Detention Center early this week, the commis-sioners confirmed to the Salina Journal.

“It was kind of a sur-prise to me,” said Com-mission Chairman Ran-dy Duncan. “We know that there are some needs — a temporary staffing crisis and a few

more juveniles, but it’s not clear to me whether this is a long-term prob-lem or a short-term problem.”

He said it’s also un-clear whether Kochan-owski has the authority to close the facility.

The sheriff declined to comment when con-tacted over the weekend, saying he will make an announcement today.

Kochanowski and Lt. Sean Kochanowski, who operates the juvenile fa-cility, asked for at least two new staff positions at the center during a commission meeting April 16. The sheriff told commissioners the cen-ter is often over capacity, which has led to alter-cations and injuries to staff and inmates.

The sheriff said the facility is seeing increas-ing numbers of violent offenders. He told com-missioners juvenile de-tention standards call for 15 staff members for facilities of similar size, but the Saline County fa-cility has only 11.

The county budgeted just over $700,000 for ju-venile center operations for 2013, which was an increase of more than 3 percent from the previ-ous year. The increase was to pay for salaries, utilities and medical supplies.

Duncan said he didn’t think two new positions would be an option this year because they would cost about $78,000 that was not budgeted.

“We’re not like the

federal government,” he said. “You just don’t cre-ate money out of thin air.”

Duncan said the sher-iff was informing staff and would arrange to move seven juveniles to the North Central Kan-sas Juvenile Detention Facility in Junction City. The sheriff had previ-ously told commission-ers it would cost $150 a day per inmate to house them there, but Duncan was hoping Glen Kocha-nowski could negotiate a cheaper rate.

Duncan said he thinks the sheriff is acting out of concern for his em-ployees and the juve-niles housed at the facil-ity, which he believes are also priorities of com-missioners.

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The Red Devils were without the services of leading hitter Maecy Charleston, who was un-available because of a family wedding.

“We knew for a year she wasn’t going to be with us at regionals,” Amerine said. “I don’t think it hurt us because we were able to adjust our outfield.”

Kaitlyn Rash started for Allen, allowing 10 hits.

“This definitely wasn’t the season we had hoped for in terms of victories, but our record didn’t in-dicate how we played,” Amerine said. “The start was tough because of the weather, having to go in and out and in and out. We played probably only about half as many games as we normally would. But I saw im-provement with several girls. We’ll continue to work over the summer to get better and gear up for next year.”

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ond in the 400-meter hurdles in 58.16 sec-onds while Chris Don-ald took third in the 110-meter hurdles at 15.12 seconds.

“I can’t say enough about just much Coach Davis has meant for this team,” DeGrado said. “To see how well he’s worked with our sprinters, and to see the powerhouse group he’s recruiting, it’s get-ting very exciting.”

Allen’s full results follow

Women800-meter run

5. Danae McGee, 2:23.9114. Kim Boyle, 2:38.235000-meter run1. McGee, 19:19.02 — NQ3. Mahilia Soap, 21:27.04

Men100-meter dash7. Kelvin Gant, 10.84200-meter dash9. Jethro St. Hubert, 21.8514. Rodrick Simmons,

22.1216. Michael Burns, 22.4021. Jordan Fountain, 22.5222. Kyle Smith, 22.63400-meter dash11. Rondell Simmons800-meter run5. Tegan Michael, 1:56.777. Chris Donald, 1:57.2316. Tucker Morgan,

2:00.0626. Rickcardo Bailey,

2:04.6635. Jordan Caudill, 2:08.02

5000-meter run1. Michael, 15:39.27 — NQ2. Garrett Colglazier,

15:40.36 — NQ3. Dakota Parker, 15:44.98

— NQ4. Josh Whittaker, 15:48.885. Patrick Rachford,

15:49.326. Kyle Schauvliege,

15:49.467. Kevin White, 15:51.729. Jacob Spence, 15:57.0210. Gerald Christian,

16:07.54110-meter hurdles3. Chris Donald, 15.12400-meter hurdles2. Antonio Duncan 58.165. Bruce Barclay, 60.794x400-meter relay6. Allen-B, 3:27.02Long jump6. Michael Burns, 5.93NQ — national qualifier

spection. The final re-sults: runner-up was Matthew Kay, with Nor-man Mackley third, Levi Phillips fourth and El-don McIntosh fifth.

Ray’s Metal Depot B-Mod feature action saw a hard-fought win by Jeremy Chambers, who held off hard-charging Riley Whitworth. Blake Kisner clawed his way to third, while Jimmie Da-vis finished fourth, and Tim VanGotten fifth.

Victorious once again in factory stock was Scott Stuart, winning despite serious competi-tion from runner-up Da-vid Matlock and Daryl Drake in third. Jeremy Wilson was fourth, Steve Herrick fifth.

Coming this Friday, Mini Mods will join the regular show. Also, weather permitting, men and women wear-ing shorts and cowboy boots will be admitted for half price.

Gates open at 6 p.m.; races start at 8.

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By DAVE SKRETTAAP Sports Writer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ned Yost was positively glowing after the opener of Sunday’s day-night doubleheader against Cleveland, and for good reason. The Royals had rolled to a 9-0 victory.

He had a much differ-ent assessment of the nightcap.

“We were crummy,” the manager said.

Mike Aviles hit a three-run homer and finished with a career-high five RBIs, and the Indians cruised to a 10-3 victory to split the first day-night doubleheader in Kauff-man Stadium history.

The Indians scored twice off spot starter Will Smith (0-1) in the second inning. Aviles hit his homer in the third, and then he add-ed sacrifice flies in the fourth and seventh in-nings against his for-mer team, doing his best to wake up the In-

dians’ long-slumbering offense.

“Things haven’t been going the way we wanted them to lately. Everybody knows that,” Aviles said. “It was good to get a couple runs and then add on.”

The Royals played much better in the opener of a doublehead-er caused by Friday’s rainout.

Guthrie (3-0) allowed six hits over 6 2-3 innings for his 16th consecutive start without a loss. That matched the Kansas City record set by Paul Splittorff from Aug. 13, 1977-April 22, 1978.

“I knew it’s been a number of starts in a row, because people kept reminding me of it,” Guthrie said with a smile. “Ultimately, it means a lot because hopefully the guys be-hind me when I go out are confident that we have a chance to win the game.”

Alcides Escobar and

Alex Gordon homered to pace Kansas City.

Escobar’s solo shot came in the fifth in-ning and Gordon’s two-run homer came in the eighth, capping a big afternoon for the Royals offense. Jarrod Dyson also drove in a pair of runs, and Mike Mousta-kas had a single and three walks — one with the bases loaded.

Justin Masterson (4-2) allowed seven runs in 6 1-3 innings for the In-dians. The right-hander, who entered the game with a 1.85 ERA, was trying to join Bob Lem-on, Greg Swindell and Cliff Lee as the only

pitchers in franchise history with five wins in April.

Instead, Masterson got roughed up by the bottom of the Royals’ lineup.

So much for that. The only close call off Guth-rie came in the second inning.

Santana hit a drive to center that hit off the green padding atop the wall. The ball bounced back into play and was ruled a double, and the call was upheld when the umpires checked the replay. Santana was left stranded when Guthrie retired Ryan Raburn and Lonnie Chisenhall.

Royals, Indians split doubleheader

DAVE SKRETTAAP Sports Writer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — After spending their first three picks on offense, the Kansas City Chiefs led off the fi-nal day of the NFL draft looking for some help on defense.

The Chiefs grabbed Alabama linebacker Nico Johnson with the second selection in the fourth round Saturday, and then picked Georgia defensive back Sanders Commings early in the fifth round.

Kansas City added California (Pa.) center Eric Kush in the sixth round, and a compensa-tory choice later in the round went to Kansas State fullback Braden Wilson. The Chiefs wrapped up their draft by taking Princeton de-fensive end Mike Catapa-no in the seventh round.

The Eagles traded up three spots to the first pick in the fourth round, and chose Southern Cali-fornia quarterback Matt Barkley. That led to spec-ulation that the Phila-delphia brass thought the Chiefs might be in-

terested in Barkley with the No. 99 overall pick.

Reid said the Chiefs were going defense all the way.

They wound up pick-ing Johnson, filling a need at linebacker by choosing a natural fit for the defensive system Kansas City intends to keep under new coordi-nator Bob Sutton.

Johnson was the first defensive player chosen by the Chiefs. They’d already drafted offensive tackle Eric Fisher, tight end Tra-vis Kelce and running back Knile Davis the first two days.

Commings played pri-marily cornerback dur-ing his time at Georgia, but his size (6 feet, 216 pounds) and physical nature mean he could shift over to safety in the NFL.

Chiefs targetdefense as draft concludes