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Vol. 113, No. 209 75 Cents Iola, KS

Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

At the bandstand Jim Garner, directorThursday, July 7, 2011 8 p.m.

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 LYNNsusan@iolaregister.com

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 LUKENrichard@iolaregister.com

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 JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

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

See EGO | Page B6

By JOE SNEVEjoe@iolaregister.com

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 JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

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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Countyhearsbudgetrequests

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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Vol. 114, No. 182 75 Cents Iola, KS

Fourth annual Melvin run draws record crowds

Racing beauties

Register/Allison TinnDavid Toland, from left, Nich Lohman and John Mas-terson prepare for the starter’s gun with the Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life “Drag” Race Friday evening.

By RICHARD LUKENrichard@iolaregister.com

“Take a look around,” emcee Jim Talkington admonished a crowd of gathering runners and walkers early Saturday. “This is what 1,000 people looks like.”

Talkington, serving as emcee for the fourth annual Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life, noted organizers had reached their goal of 1,000 partici-pants for the race, which started at the stroke of 12:26 a.m. — the exact time sticks of dynamite Melvin had placed in three local saloons exploded in July 1905.

The mood was festive from start to finish, with just enough of a break of the summer heat to create picture-perfect weather conditions.

As for the race, 14-year-old Den-ver Parker was the fastest of 370 runners completing the 5-kilome-ter course in 17 minutes, 33.37 sec-onds, followed by Vince DeGrado of Iola. DeGrado, track and cross country coach at Allen Communi-ty College, helped design the new route for the runners.

Fifteen-year-old Michaela Bau-er was the fastest female runner — good enough for eighth overall — with her time of 19:07.57.

Other winners for specific age groups were:

Females 1-14, Paige Scheckel, 24:13.49; males 15-19, Drew Baum, 18:13.10; females 20-29, Nicole Schowengerdt, 21:10.48; males 20-29, Spencer Anderson, 22:11.46; females 30-39, Melissa Hermann, 21:22.72; males 30-39, DeGrado, 18:02.39; females 40-49, Jenny Wil-son, 26:04.47; males 40-49, Lynn Wilson, 18:54.47; females 50-59, Debra Erhart, 27:53.64; males 50-59, Brian Wolfe, 24:19.16; females

Photos by Rob Burkett, Richard Luken, Allison Tinn and Madison LukenAbove, Samantha Dietrich, 7, foreground, and Rourk Boeken, 4, watch eagerly while dousing themselves in a barrel of water during a bucket brigade race as part of the Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life activities Friday. At right, Lawrence’s Tyler Gregory performed a collection of folk songs from the Allen County Courthouse bandstand. Other photos from the fourth an-nual Melvin run are available via the “Photos” link at www.iolareg-ister.com, on the Register’s Facebook page, and for free at www.seekcrun.com.

Above, Vince DeGrado was among the 1,000 runners and walkers participating in the Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life early Saturday. At upper center, Shaane Park, Derby, and his father, Wade Park, Iola, were among the “drag” racers in which the community’s most distinguished gentle-men dressed up as women for relay races. At bottom center, Kilea Heslop rode her bicycle during

the Parade of Lights. At far right, Denver Spencer took home first place in the 5-kilometer Melvin run, completing the course in 17 minutes, 33.37 seconds.

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Thank You Thank you to everyone for the cards, flowers, food,

thoughts, prayers, and all who helped and supported us at the benefit poker run and pool tournament. A very

special thank you to Dick Liquor, Ranz Motor Co., B& W Trailer Hitches, Jayhawk Lumber, Casey’s General Store, Service Office Supply, Big Ed’s Spirits, Cherry Berry, Cleaver’s Farm & Home, Shields Motor Co.,

Four Seasons Floral, Grain Bin, Opie’s Family Restaurant, Cardinal Drug, McDonald’s, Sonic, NuWa,

The Humboldt Union, Hofer & Hofer, H&H Grill, J&J Accounting, Terry’s Flower Shop Home Decor & More, Community National Bank & Trust, Pizza Hut,

Cheaper Than The Rest, Jerald R. Long Law Office, Curl Up & Dye, Sentsy by Cisha Wallace, Styles On

Madison, D & D Propane, EZ Lock & Key, Broyles Inc., Estrellita Mexican Restaurant, McMillin Racing,

Bracelets Are Us, Merle Norman Cosmetics, American V-Twin Service, Booze Brothers, Barfoot Lumber,

Casual T’s, Stacy Cakes and REB’s Place. Words cannot express how truly grateful we are.

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Vacation Vacation Bible School Bible School

July 17-19 July 17-19 9 a.m.-Noon 9 a.m.-Noon

We invite all kids from 4 years old through 12th grade to come join us as we encounter God’s Awesome Power!

LaHarpe City Hall/Community Center LaHarpe City Hall/Community Center

Everyone of all ages come for free food,

fun and a visit from the Eagle-Med Helicopter!

Thursday, July 19th Thursday, July 19th Noon ‘til 2 p.m. Noon ‘til 2 p.m.

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Roy StroudCleo Roy Stroud, 72, Iola,

died Friday, July 13, 2012, at Allen County Hospital in Iola.

Burial has taken place in Highland Cemetery, Iola.

Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel, Iola, was in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.

Nadine KennisonEunice “Nadine” Keni-

son, 89, McLouth, died Thursday, July 12, 2012, at the F.W. Huston Geriatric Center, Winchester.

She was born Feb. 11, 1923, in Chanute, the daugh-ter of C h a r l e s John and S i g n a E l i n o r Bergsten A n d e r -son. She was a 1940 graduate of Chanute High School and attended classes at Emporia State Univer-sity.

Nadine married Fred LeRoy Kenison on Aug. 26, 1942, in Chanute. He died Jan. 17, 2012.

Together they operated K & K Distributors, sell-ing and delivering sundry items throughout the state. She also was an elemen-tary school teacher for five years. She was an active parent, working with the PTA in Iola for all of her children. Nadine also was known for her superb pies.

Survivors include four daughters, Patricia “Pat-ty” Ann Peres, Shorev-iew, Minn., Judith “Judy” Dalton, McLouth, Jeanne Baze, Lawrence, and Anita Douglas, Bentonville, Ark.; 15 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two sisters.

Memorial services were Sunday at Barnett Family Funeral Home in Oskaloo-sa. A private family burial was Saturday at the Buffalo

Cemetery. Memorial dona-tions may be sent to Jeffer-son County Friends of Hos-pice, and sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 602 Oskaloosa, KS 66066.

Online condolences may be made at www.barnett-familyfh.com.

Hazel LordHazel Mae Lord, 81, Bron-

son, went to join her sons and grandson in heaven, Friday, July 13, 2012, at Mer-cy Hospi-tal in Fort Scott.

H a z e l was born Feb. 3, 1931, in W o o d s C o u n t y, Okla., the d a u g h t e r of Frank Alfred Bergen and Mary Jane Sims Ber-gen. She was raised on a farm near Avard, Okla. She married Earnest Mandiv-ille Lord on April 1, 1950, in Waynoka, Okla.

Their first home was near Avard, where they raised turkeys. A tornado hit their home and killed most of their turkeys in 1964. Following the torna-do, they sold their farm and moved to a farm near Bron-son. Hazel helped her hus-band on the farm her entire married life.

To this union, five chil-dren were born, Vicki An-nette, Ernest Mandiville (Corky), Frank McKinley, Mary Jalene and Marty Ray. Hazel loved to fish and hunt arrowheads. She taught all her children and most of her grandchildren the love of fishing. She was an outstanding basketball and softball player. Hazel loved to attend her children’s and grandchildren’s sporting events. She was an excel-lent seamstress, making most of the family cloth-ing. She also loved making quilts and has given each child, grandchild and great-grandchild a quilt. Garden-ing was another passion as well as keeping her yard looking beautiful. She will

be dearly missed by her family, but she instilled in-dividual memories in each and everyone.

Survivors include one son, Frank Lord and wife Lucille, Uniontown; two daughters, Vicki Wood, Humboldt, and Mary Ridge and husband Tom, Xenia; three grandsons, Jared Lord and wife Heather, Heath Lord and wife Carrie, and Ty Lord, all of Union-town; five granddaughters, Mindy McCall and husband Travis, Humboldt, Ashley Lord, St. Louis, Mo., Shel-by Wood and fiancé Ryan Brown, Pleasanton, Ray-ma Ridge, Fort Scott, and Mandie Ridge, Xenia. Also surviving are three great-grandsons, Derrik McCall, Humboldt, and Tyler and Lane Lord, Uniontown; five great-granddaughters, Hannah, Makaylah and Aricah McCall, Humboldt, and Crystal and McKen-na Lord, Uniontown; and three sisters, Dora Jean Watts and Grace Chipman, Oklahoma City, Okla., and Yvonne Manning, Washing-ton, Okla.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two sons, Corky Lord and Mar-ty Lord; one son-in-law, Kenneth Wood; one grand-son, Austin Ryan Lord; sev-en brothers, Frank, Bobby, James, Billy, John, Ray-mond and Donny; and two sisters, Florene Rowland and Opal Treece.

The Rev. Rusty Newman will conduct funeral ser-vices at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Cheney Witt Bronson Chapel.

Following funeral servic-es there will be cremation with private family burial in Bronson Cemetery at a later date.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 o’clock tonight at the Bronson Cha-pel.

Memorials are suggested to the Uniontown Ruritan for a baseball and softball lighting fund. Words of re-membrance may be submit-ted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com.

Mabel CentlivreMabel Marie Kelsey

Centlivre, 96, Iola, died Fri-day, July 13, 2012, at Wind-sor Place in Iola.

Mabel was born June 25, 1916, in Kimbal l , in Neosho C o u n t y, the daugh-ter of S a m u e l Ferdinand and Sar-ah Daisy ( S p o h r ) K e l s e y. She grad-uated in 1934 from Grant Township Rural High School in Stark.

On Oct. 4, 1941, Mabel married Peter C. Centlivre in Kansas City, Kan. They made their home in vari-ous places due to his career in the Army and Air Force. They spent 1957 to 1960 in Itazuke, Japan. She worked at North American Avia-tion in Kansas City, then at the Department of Agricul-ture in Washington, D.C. In San Bernardino, Calif., she worked at Bank of Ameri-ca, St. Bernardine’s Hospi-tal and then for 10 years at Patton State Hospital as a certified psychiatric techni-cian and licensed vocation-al nurse.

In 1973, she and her hus-band retired and moved to Iola. He preceded her in death Sept. 23, 1993.

She was a member of Mo-ran Christian Church.

She is survived by a son, Michael P. Centlivre and wife, Amy, Escondido, Calif.; three granddaughters and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by a sister, Dorothy, and brothers Melbern, Ro-land and Dale Kelsey.

Graveside services were this morning at Highland Cemetery in Iola.

Memorial gifts to Moran Christian Church may be left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola, which is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.

Obituaries

Cox Communications customers in the area ex-perienced two phone and Internet outages over the weekend.

The first, on Friday night, perhaps went less noticed because of the Charley Melvin Run For Your Life festivities going on during the outage.

But on Sunday, late

afternoon and into the night, Iola residents were not able to use Internet or phone.

At approximately 8 o’clock Sunday night, a Cox representative said the reason for the outage was unknown but that all modems in the 66749 zip code area were not re-sponding.

Area offlineover weekendInternet, phone lines dead

Nadine Kennison

Hazel Lord

Mabel Centlivre

Weekly Molly Trolley tours will be discontinued until September, organizer Donna Houser said.

“It’s just too hot,” Houser said, for passengers in the

trolley, which does not have air-conditioning suitable for large crowds.

Among the cancellations was an upcoming tour of lo-cal cemeteries.

Heat cancels trolleytours ’til September

Daniel D. Enright, 47, Le Roy, was injured in a one-vehicle accident in north-ern Coffey County Sunday morning.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Enright was northbound on Trefoil Road when his truck left the roadway, re-entered, went through a ditch and over a fence into a yard, where it

came to rest against an oak tree.

Enright, who was wear-ing a seat belt, was taken to Coffey County Hospital in Burlington.

Le Roy driver hurt

Deadline: Notify the Register about calendar announce-ments by 7 a.m. Mondays in order to have your event listed in that week’s schedule. The calendar is published every Monday.

TodayKappa Alpha chapter of Phi Tau Omega officer installation,

6:30 p.m., New Greenery Restaurant. USD 258 school board meeting, 7:30 p.m., board office.

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

Courthouse commissioners’ room.Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Allen Community College Student

Center meeting room.

WednesdayVeterans Day Committee, 7 p.m., Alfred Link’s home, 623 S.

Sycamore.

ThursdayKansas Commission on Veterans Affairs representative, 9:30

a.m.-2:30 p.m., Allen County Courthouse commissioners’ room.911 Advisory Board meeting, 10 a.m., Moran Police Depart-

ment in City Hall, 330 N. Cedar.Rotary Club, noon, The Greenery.Take Off Pounds Sensibly No. KS 880, Iola, 5 p.m. weigh-

in, 5:30 meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church, 118 W. Jackson.

Farmers Market, 5:30 p.m., southwest corner of Iola square.Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group, 7 p.m., First Assembly

of God Church, 1020 E. Carpenter.

FridaySenior Citizens Card Club potluck dinner, 5:30 p.m., senior

citizens center, 204 N. Jefferson.

July 23Iola City Council meeting, 5 p.m., New Community Building,

Riverside Park.USD 257 school board meeting, 6:30 p.m., Iola High School

lecture hall.

Friday and SaturdayAllen County Relay For Life, 6 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Satur-

day, Allen County Courthouse square.

Calendar

Coming events

PITTSFIELD, Maine (AP) — A Maine man who learned how to use a para-chute as a Navy pilot dur-ing World War II has final-ly made his first jump — at age 90.

Lester Slate of Exeter jumped out of a plane for the first time on Sunday at Pittsfield Airport and was guided to the ground by a tandem jumper, and accompanied by another skydiver trailing a U.S. flag.

The jump was a 90th birthday present to him-self. More than 50 family and friends watched.

Slate tells the Bangor Daily News he was in-spired by former presi-dent George H.W. Bush, who jumped from an air-plane on his 85th birthday in 2009.

Slate says he had such a

good time he wants to do it again — on his 95th or 100th birthday.

90-year-old man sky dives for first time

Opinion

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In my 40 years of writing col-umns, I do not recall ever writ-ing about a more important elec-tion for Kansans than the one coming up.

I am not referring to the presi-dential election, which is very important, but it is a foregone conclusion that Kansas will go for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Personally, I have no problem with that.

What I am referring to is the fate of the Kansas Senate, which will determine the future of this state for years to come, perhaps forever.

The state Senate has been the bulwark against a tidal wave of radical right-wing legislation passed by the radical conserva-tives in the House of Representa-tives, with a governor willing to sign anything the House passes.

What is at stake is nothing less than the ability to moderate extremism.

There is a conspiracy — yes a vast right-wing conspiracy — to take over the Senate with Re-publican conservatives in the upcoming Aug. 7 primary elec-tion. Whoever wins in August is likely to prevail in November’s general election.

This conspiracy is not lurking in the shadows. It is transparent for all to see.

Who is in this conspiracy?The three self-proclaimed

vanguards of this effort are Americans for Prosperity, con-trolled by the right-wing Koch brothers in Wichita; the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, which is totally controlled by extrem-

ist conservatives; and Gov. Sam Brownback, who has publicly announced he will actively cam-paign for conservative state Sen-ate candidates.

Millions of dollars will be spent across the state to knock off incumbent moderate state senators or to defeat first-time moderate candidates. (Former Gov. Bill Graves is attempting to counter this effort by endorsing moderates in this election.)

Each state Senate race is ex-pected to garner hundreds of thousands of dollars in an un-

precedented, coordinated effort to overwhelm the moderates with negative advertising. If past efforts are any indication, the campaigning will be as ugly as it can get. The extremism I referred to, if the right-wing tri-umvirate prevails, will affect ev-ery Kansan.

The agenda of the radical right includes starving public schools. There is no use for what are called “government schools,” while there is strong support for private schools and home school-ing. Public schools are consid-

ered factories of liberalism, and there is no concern about qual-ity public school funding.

The same goes for universi-ties. You can count on less fund-ing for higher education, anoth-er bastion of liberalism in the eyes of the right wing.

You can predict with certainty that legislation will be passed and signed by the governor to prohibit doctors in training at the University of Kansas Medi-cal Center from performing abor-tions on the university’s proper-ty, a bill that sailed through the

House but was blocked in the Senate. It almost surely would mean the loss of accreditation of the obstetrics and gynecology program, which in turn would likely lead to a mass exodus of faculty from all departments.

You can bet that a constitu-tional amendment will be passed and signed, followed by a vote of the people, to attempt to change the way our state Supreme Court justices are selected. The goal will be to have a conservative state Senate confirm the nomina-tions of a conservative governor, resulting in the Supreme Court packed with right-wing extrem-ists. No checks and balance.

All that’s just for starters.Social services would be gut-

ted; guns would be allowed in public buildings; transporta-tion funds would be slashed; and funds to local governments like-ly would be cut.

You don’t need a crystal ball to forecast. This is all very predict-able.

The future of the state Senate, and therefore the state, rests in the hands of registered Repub-licans throughout Kansas. (The voter registration deadline is Tuesday.)

This may be the most impor-tant vote you will ever cast.

Steve Rose,The Kansas City Star

(Editor’s note: Caryn Tyson, a candidate for the Kansas Sen-ate for District 12, can be lumped in this camp of extremists. She has the backing of the so-called triumvirate of which Mr. Rose speaks. Her opponent is Republi-can John Coen of Ottawa.)

Only Kansas Senate can stop extremism

By any measure, Friday night’s Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run for Your Life was a success.

More than 1,000 runners and walkers packed the Iola square at 12:26 Saturday morning to participate in its cornerstone event.

It was a mad house. A won-derful, crazy, fun-filled night that brought families, out-of-towners and multi-generations together in good healthy fun.

The event met its goal of surpassing the 1,000 mark of walkers and runners. Up from 800 in 2011, and 600 in 2010. If organizers keep it up, the Charley Melvin will become a significant tourism draw for southeast Kansas.

Thanks go to Thrive Al-len County and Allen County Crime Stoppers for their efforts for coordinating the fourth an-nual Charley Melvin.

From what began as an in-

famous act of single-handed terrorism on Iola in 1905 has turned into a charming cel-ebration which capitalized on the name of Charley Melvin.

Besides the multiple venues of entertainment and activi-ties, the biggest reward of the night was the chance to mingle with hundreds of people from throughout the county. A light breeze helped sweep away rem-nants of the day’s heat, leaving a beautiful night for camarade-rie.

Business-wise, restaurants and bars around the square were brimming with crowds. A peek into Sidelines around 11:30 p.m. showed it packed with runners and walkers, by evidence of their race num-bers affixed to their shirts.

Are their improvements to be made? Always. But not without your help. Remember, many hands make light work.

— Susan Lynn

Serious possibilitiesfor a night of fun

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About 12 years ago I wrote let-ters to the forum informing read-ers that Bryan Murphy would make a better sheriff than the other candidate. While many vot-ers didn’t agree with me, those four years speak for themselves.

Once again, I am saying that Bryan Murphy is the best quali-fied candidate to be Allen County

sheriff and asking you to vote for Bryan Murphy. He has the integ-rity, maturity, and experience (20 continuous years) that is needed to fill the position of sheriff.

Bryan has always treated all residents of the county and the traveling public with respect and provided them all with equal pro-tection and justice. As sheriff, he

will continue to do the same while ensuring that those under him follow his example.

Being sheriff is a full-time posi-tion and Bryan will be a full-time sheriff having no outside interest in a second job, career or political position.

Paul J. HaenIola, Kan.

Letter to the editor

25 Years AgoWeek of July 15, 1987

MORAN — Philip John began his work here Monday as new manager of Klein Tools. He has had a career-long association with forging and tool-making op-erations. He and his wife, Carol, have three sons and are negotiat-ing to purchase a home in Moran.

*****

Carol Foley is head designer at the H. L. Miller and Son dress plant here. Before joining H. L. Miller, she taught fashion and design and pattern making at Ste-phens College in Columbia, Mo., for 20 years. While teaching, she and a colleague wrote and pub-lished a book on pattern making.

*****The Kansas Open Chess Tour-

nament will be this weekend at Allen County Community Col-lege. Players will participate from all over Kansas and from Missouri and Oklahoma. Gary McIntosh of Iola, an avid player himself, will be tournament co-ordinator. This will be the second Kansas Open Iola has hosted. Mc-Intosh said about 100 players are expected.

A look back in time

60-69, Jan Taylor, 30:14.29; males 60-69, Kenny En-glert, 21:33.95.

A full list of results is available on the Internet at ozendurance.net.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS:— The annual “drag”

race drew raucous cheers as some of Iola’s most dis-tinguished gentlemen trad-ed in their business suits for dresses — some a bit more risque than others — through a series of garter

exchange relay races. — The inaugural Parade

of Lights drew scores of oohs and aahs as floats, bikes and the drag queens were illuminated with glow sticks or other neon-colored decor.

— Iola historian Clyde Toland was accompanied by the Brass Boomers Band in the retelling of Melvin’s tale and how the strict pro-hibitionist attempted to destroy the illegal saloons. There were no fatalities, but damage to the three

saloons was extensive. The nearby Allen County Courthouse, and its new clock, sustained damage as well. Melvin fled Iola and was arrested about a month later in Iowa.

— Lawrence crooner Tyler Gregory delighted crowds with a pair of per-formances — one prior to sundown; the other after dusk — with his unique brand of folk music from the courthouse band-stand.

— Youngsters in at-tendance were kept busy by bouncing around on a series of inflatable carni-val attractions, sponsored by the Allen County Ani-mal Rescue Facility, and through a bucket brigade contest. The bucket brigade involved races in which teams attempted to fill trash barrels with buckets of wa-ter. Talkington and Charley Melvin himself, otherwise known as Iolan Don Burns, were there to spur on the competitors, and to step in

occasionally. By the end, all of the competitors, as well as Talkington and Burns, were drenched from head to toe.

— Perhaps most impor-tantly, the festivities drew thousands of visitors once again to Iola as part of the largest fundraiser of the year for two local groups, Allen County Crime Stop-pers and Thrive Allen County.

Participants came from across 35 Kansas commu-nities and nine states.

Crime Stoppers aids lo-cal law enforcement agen-cies by offering cash re-wards to tipsters who help solve crimes. Rewards of up to $1,000 are offered, de-pending on the seriousness of the crime.

Thrive, meanwhile, is an organization dedicated to improving lives of Allen Countians through better health, including promot-ing healthy activities and providing greater access to health care.

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Allen County residents may find being part of and receiving Veterans Affairs benefits to be a hassle, but representatives are work-ing to bridge that gap.

Saturday morning Al-fred Link, retired National Guard sergeant major and a leader on the Iola Veter-ans Committee, held a re-tired military meeting at the B&B Country Cafe. The meeting outlined veterans’ needs in rural areas.

Outside the cafe was a parked VA mobile center, where retired veterans could sign up with the VA and apply for benefits.

Link’s guests at the meet-ing were Laurie Pfeiffer, Department of Veterans Affairs registered nurse for women’s health and director of rural health, Andy Thompson and John Henshall, with Mobile Vet Center, and Victoria Aud-ley, RN MN health promo-tion and disease preven-tion program manager and Myhealthevet coordinator.

Audley, an Iola High graduate and Link’s cous-in, encourages veterans to use the Myhealthevet web-site because the site makes applying for VA benefits easier, she said.

Through the site veter-ans can get prescription refills, store all medical re-cords, get VA wellness re-minders and other interac-tive benefits with doctors.

In addition to better ac-quainting veterans with the health program the speakers also briefly dis-cussed the benefits of be-ing part of the VA.

“Every vet should look into and apply to the VA,” Pfeiffer said. “The VA is an aggressive program trying to help veterans.”

Veterans might be afraid that they have waited too long to get signed up, but Audley assured, “It is nev-er too late” to join.

The other worry is the remote location of Allen County residents. Mobile Vet Centers travel to rural areas to bring VA services to people who cannot get to a major city like Kansas City or Wichita.

“We are trying to bridge a gap to your community,” Henshall said. “We would like to keep coming down to this area.”

MOBILE VET Centers are not the only way vet-erans can be in contact with the VA. There are programs now called tele-medicine where patients

may get connected with a doctor through video in-teraction. So people who cannot make it to a major city to see a physician on a regular basis may do it from an outreach center in a rural area.

Allen County currently does not have an outreach center but Mobile Vet Cen-ters bring those services to rural areas, Henshall said.

In addition to serving veterans, the mobile cen-ters also work with the families and couples who have been affected by a sol-dier’s work with the mili-tary. “We want to make that transition back as smooth

as possible” for everyone, Henshall said.

On the fourth Tuesday of every month a service representative travels to the county courthouse in Iola, and there veterans may utilize the services the representative provide, such as filling out paper-work or just answering ba-sic questions.

The VA tends to have a stigma of being slow mov-ing and difficult to work with, but Audley and the rest of the speakers agreed that the VA program is progressive and people in-volved are working hard to make the process faster and easier for veterans.

VA reaches to rural veterans

The Department of Veterans Affairs sent a mobile bus to the parking lot of B&B Country Cafe Saturday morning to show retired veterans how the VA plans to bridge the difficult gap of living in a rural area and accessing VA benefits.

By PHIL CAUTHONKHI News Service

WICHITA — About 60 people — including a doz-en doctors and dentists — gathered today to formally announce a campaign to persuade city officials to fluoridate Wichita’s public water.

Members of Wichitans for Healthy Teeth — which includes about 500 area dentists and doctors — said they had gathered more than 5,500 signatures since June, when the group start-ed a petition asking the Wichita City Council to add fluoride to the public water system.

The group’s chair, Dr. Sara Meng, said that about 6,300 signatures were need-ed to put the proposal on the council’s agenda. She said the group planned to approach the council before the end of the year.

“We’re optimistic that we’ll have a significant increase in petition signa-tures after this event,” said Meng, a Wichita dentist. She said the campaign re-ceived a big boost after the Derby city council earlier this week voted to endorse the fluoridation campaign. Derby is a Wichita suburb and one of Wichita’s largest water customers.

“If that is enough to in-fluence the (Wichita) coun-cil, that would be fantastic. But I believe it could go either way — they can ap-prove it or they could put it to a (citywide) vote,” she said.

The campaign is the first since 1999, when the Sedgwick County Board of Health passed a proposal to fluoridate Wichita’s water. However, then-Mayor Bob Knight did not put the pro-posal on the agenda, saying it was too controversial and divisive. Among concerns cited by opponents of water fluoridation is that overex-posure to fluoride in chil-dren can lead to fluorosis, a condition that permanently stains teeth.Benefits of fluoride

Adding fluoride to a com-munity’s water system has been shown to reduce tooth decay. The Centers for Dis-ease Control and Preven-tion counts fluoridation among the top 10 public health achievements of

the last century, alongside using vaccines to control infectious diseases such as smallpox, typhoid and plague.

Nationwide, about 74 per-cent of people have access to publicly fluoridated wa-ter, according to the CDC. In Kansas, the rate is 65 percent.

Of the 50 largest U.S. cit-ies, 44 add fluoride to the public water supply. Wichi-ta is among the six that do not.

Coalition members said with a small investment — about $2 million initially and about $150,000 annual-ly, they estimate — millions of dollars a year would be avoided in dental work.

“Fluoridated water can reduce decay by about 25 percent,” Meng said. “A very conservative estimate of how much can be saved is $4.5 million annually, in preventing fillings and ba-sic services. That does not count all the crowns, root canals and other major ser-vices.”

She said fluoridating wa-ter is a critical part of oral health care, along with eat-ing a healthy diet, brush-ing and flossing teeth, and making regular trips to the dentist.

“Toothpaste and all the products we have that con-tain fluoride have a higher level of fluoride, but it only remains on the teeth for only a few minutes to hours. Whereas continual drinking water that con-tains fluoride gives better topical protection during the day. With fluoride, it’s not always how much, it’s how often,” Meng said.Resistance to fluoridation

Before the event, Michael Hicks, executive director of Wichitans for Pure Water, said Wichita opponents of fluoridation number “in the hundreds, definitely — if not thousands.”

He said the opposition to fluoridating public water is based “on principle and on science.”

“We shouldn’t use the wa-ter supply as a vehicle to de-liver medicine,” Hicks said. “We’re only putting it in the water to treat a minority of high-risk individuals who would be better cared for if we gave them access to topi-cal fluoride.”

Fluoride campaign begins for Wichita

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Iola A Indians battle to third in KABA tourneyBy JOCELYN SHEETS

jocelyn@iolaregister.comBALDWIN — Iola American

Legion Post 15’s A Indians tapped the comeback tactic in their first two games of the 2012 KABA Ju-nior League tournament.

That set up a No. 2 (Iola) versus No. 1 (Ottawa) scenario for the winners bracket final on Satur-day. It didn’t go Iola’s way.

The Indians dropped an 11-1 run-rule decision to Ottawa. In doing so, they went down to the losers bracket final against Spring Hill Sunday.

Under the intense heat of the early afternoon sun, Iola saw a 3-2 lead evaporate.

Spring Hill scored two runs in the fifth and one more in the sev-enth for a 5-3 win.

Iola, which won the preseason KABA Junior League tourna-ment in June, finished third to end the regular season. The Indi-ans went 2-2 in tournament play.

Now, the Indians turn their fo-cus to the Kansas American Le-gion A Zone 3 tournament this week. Iola is the No. 1 seed at 15-6 and plays No. 4 seeded Emporia (6-23) at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

The Zone 3 tournament is hosted by Burlington Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. All games will be played on Burlington High’s Wildcat Field.

Eureka (17-11) is second seed-ed and Burlington (5-21) is third seeded.

There will be an admission

charge for the zone tournament, $4 for adults, $2 for students. Chil-dren 5 and under and veterans with identification will be admit-ted free.

In the KABA tournament, Io-la’s A team was in danger of los-ing its opener Friday afternoon. Baldwin jumped out to a 7-2 lead after three innings.

Trent Latta and Derrick Weir had back-to-back singles to begin

the fifth. Two Baldwin errors kept the Indian rally alive. Eric Hef-fern hit an RBI single.

Cole Morrison drew a walk and Thealvin Minor delivered a two-run triple. Kohl Endicott singled in a run. Iola added two more runs in the sixth on its way to a 10-7 victory.

Barclay got the win in relief of Morrison, who started on the mound for Iola. Morrison was

charged with six runs on two hits and five walks. Barclay gave up one run on two hits and three walks. He struck out 11.

Latta had two singles and a double and Weir had two doubles and a single. Shae Beasley, Hef-fern and Endicott hit two singles each. Minor tripled and Morrison singled.

The Indians had to work over-time to win in come-from-behind

fashion in a second game Friday evening. They scored a run in the first inning but trailed 2-1 head-ing into the bottom of the seventh against Paola.

With one gone, Drew Faulhaber tripled and scored on a two-out single by Weir. Tied 2-2, the teams went into extra innings.

In the ninth, Faulhaber walked and moved to second on a sacri-fice bunt by Latta. Weir drove in the winning run with a base hit.

Latta racked up 16 strikeouts in going the full nine innings. He gave up five hits and walked three.

Faulhaber had a single and a triple. Weir and Barclay each hit two singles.

Ottawa scored six runs in the fourth inning to end Saturday’s winners bracket final on the run-rule at 11-1. Minor and Beasley pitched for Iola and allowed 10 hits and walked five.

Weir hit a single and double and Endicott had two singles. Mi-nor doubled, while Barclay and Heffern each singled.

Iola battled Spring Hill to get into the tournament champion-ship game with Ottawa. Iola was up 3-2 until Spring Hill plated two runs in the fifth. Spring Hill scored another run in the sev-enth.

Minor and Barclay pitched for the Indians. They allowed four hits and five walks.

Faulhaber hit two singles and Latta singled and doubled. Weir doubled and Barclay singled.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Luis Mendoza outpitched Chris Sale on Sunday. His offense couldn’t outscore the White Sox, though.

Chicago beat Kansas City 2-1 Sunday on the strength of Adam Dunn’s homer and Alexei Ramirez’s run-scoring double-play grounder, sending the Royals to their 10th loss in 13 games.

Mendoza gave up two runs on four hits, only one after the sec-ond inning, while striking out six and walking four in 7 1/3 innings.

Dunn hit his AL-best 28th hom-er in the first inning. The other run scored when third baseman Mike Moustakas made a diving stop of Ramirez’s smash ground-er to start a double play with the bases loaded in the second.

“Mendoza did a great job,” Roy-als manager Ned Yost said. “The one inning with the bases loaded, Moose really picked us up with just really tremendous defense. They were only able to get the one

run, the run that beat us, but that was big.”

Sale (11-2), who is 8-0 since a May 12 loss to the Royals, gave up a season high 10 hits in eight in-nings, but only one run.

“Sale showed why he was an

All Star, but Mendoza almost matched him,” Yost said. “He’s kept his pitch count down and he’s effectively using his break-ing ball, locating with his fastball. He’s just pitching well.”

Dunn, who leads the league

with 28 home runs and has hom-ered in three straight games, drilled a 2-0 pitch from Mendoza (3-6) just inside the right-field pole in the first inning. Dunn has 65 hits overall this season, mean-ing 43 percent of them have been home runs.

Addison Reed, who blew a save Friday, worked a scoreless ninth for his 14th save in 16 opportunities.

The Royals avoided a shutout when Mike Moustakas, who led off the fifth with a single and ad-vanced to second on a wild pitch, scored on Chris Getz’s single.

Getz moved to third on Alex Gordon’s single, but was stranded when Alcides Escobar struck out and Butler grounded out.

The Royals went 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position against Sale.

The AL Central leading White Sox are 7-2 in their past nine games. The Royals lost for the 10th time in 13 games.

Register/Jocelyn Sheets

Aaron Barclay swings to meet a pitch during a home game this season playing for Iola American Legion’s A Indians. The A Indians finished third in the weekend’s KABA Junior League tournament in Baldwin.

LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Kasey Kahne got his second Sprint Cup win of the season. Denny Hamlin and his crew chief had trouble communicating.

Kahne took the lead from Ham-lin during a restart on the 240th lap of the 300-lap race at the one-mile New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday. The winner was helped by miscommunica-tion between Hamlin, who want-ed two tires changed, and crew chief Darian Grubb, who thought he wanted four.

That longer pit stop left Hamlin all the way back in 13th place, but he kept passing cars until only Kahne remained in front. Kahne stayed ahead and won by about 10 car lengths.

It was Kahne’s 14th win of his career and first since May 27 at Charlotte. Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Brad Keselow-ski rounded out the top five.

The win enhances Kahne’s chances of qualifying for the Chase, the last 10 races of the sea-son in which the top 10 drivers in the point standings win automatic berths. Two additional spots go to the drivers with the most wins who are ranked 11th to 20th in points. Kahne began the day in 16th place, but his two wins are more than any-one in the second group of 10.

“We’ve been pretty tough all year, but we just haven’t finished ’em off a lot of the times,” Kahne said. “From here on out, we need

some more top 10s and top fives the rest of the way. It doesn’t get us in the Chase yet, but it does help with a win today.”

The turning point came when the third caution flag came out on the 234th lap for oil dropped on the track by David Reutimann.

Hamlin went into the pit, tell-ing Grubb over the radio that he wanted tires. Grubb, who first planned to change just two, inter-preted that to mean four. As Ham-lin went back on the track, Grubb told him, “My bad, bud.”

Hamlin’s Toyota was the best car in the race, which enabled him to pick off one car after another as he recovered from the error.

“It’s such a team sport,” he said. “We just had a slight miscommu-nication and that one little mis-communication will magnify it.”

Kyle Busch, the pole-sitter, led the first 66 laps before his own cost-ly pit stop. It took longer than usual as his crew had a problem with the right tire. Then there was more trouble — a drive-through penalty against Busch for entering pit road too fast. When he finally returned to the track, he was all the way back in 22nd place.

His crew chief, Dave Rogers, tried to reassure the sometimes temperamental Busch.

“No emotion right now. No emotion,” he told Busch over the radio. “One hundred percent driving talent. Long way to go. Just chip away, one by one.”

Busch finished 24th.Busch’s teammate, Hamlin,

took over the lead from Busch af-ter that problem.

The first caution of the race came on the 90th lap to clear debris from the track. All the drivers on the lead lap made pit stops except for Jeff Gordon, who went in front.

But through 100 laps Busch had climbed all the way up to ninth while Hamlin, Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Kahne and Earnhardt held the top five spots. The last four all drive for Hendrick Motorsports.

Sprint Cup points leader Matt Kenseth finished 13th and has won just once this year — in the season-opening Daytona 500 in February.

Sam Hornish Jr., replacing the suspended AJ Allmendinger, came in 22nd. Allmendinger was suspended about 90 minutes be-fore the race at Daytona Inter-national Speedway last weekend after a urine sample taken the previous weekend at Kentucky Speedway came back positive for what his team identified only as a stimulant. His “B’’ sample is to be tested, probably this week, with his toxicologist present.

Kahne captures victory

At right, Kasey Kahne crosses the finish line to win the LENOX Industrial Tools 301 Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speed-way.

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Royals come up short against White Sox

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Kansas City Royals starter Luis Mendoza (39) throws a pitch in the first inning during Sunday’s baseball game against the Chicago White Sox at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City.

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Ser-ena Williams overcame a shaky start and two service breaks to beat lucky loser Coco Vandeweghe 7-5, 6-3 on Sunday for her second straight Bank of the West Classic title.

Eight days after winning Wim-bledon, Williams saved a set point and won the final four games of the opening set. The first all-American WTA final on home soil in eight years was hardly a one-sided affair.

The 20-year-old Vandeweghe moved the 14-time Grand Slam champion and her highlighter-yellow outfit all over the court to give Williams her only real chal-lenge of the week.

The final result was still the same. Serving for the first set at 5-4, Vandeweghe crumbled when she had the chance to put a dent into Williams’ final tuneup before the London Olympics.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Each of Kansas’ major political factions want voters to blame someone else for this year’s bitter legislative wrangling over redrawn election districts, which ended up in federal court and could stick tax-payers with big legal bills.

Conservative Republi-cans, their moderate coun-terparts and Democrats all are working before the November election to get voters to buy their respec-tive narratives about why a Legislature with huge Republican majorities couldn’t pass a single new political map to ensure equal representation. The redistricting stalemate led to a lawsuit, and three federal judges ended up redrawing congressio-nal, legislative and State Board of Education dis-tricts to account for popu-lation shifts during the past decade.

The judges still must determine which legal bills will be covered by the state. Attorneys for 15 people who signed onto the lawsuit have filed re-quests totaling more than $669,000. The fiscal fallout is likely to get the most at-tention from voter-taxpay-ers.

“They’re going, ‘Why are we being stuck with this? This is not our fault,’” said House Speak-er Mike O’Neal, a Hutchin-son Republican and at-torney who was involved in the lawsuit but hasn’t asked to be reimbursed. “It’s an election year, and everybody wants to make it political.”

The redistricting im-passe arose from a fierce internal struggle between moderate Republicans who currently control the state Senate and their conservative colleagues. The moderates have been skeptical and even openly critical of GOP Gov. Sam Brownback’s initiatives to slash income taxes, over-haul the public pension system, remake appellate courts and change how the state finances public schools. The conserva-tives are looking to push back by gaining more seats in the chamber come November.

Conservatives cast Senate Reapportionment

Committee Chairman Tim Owens, a moderate Overland Park Republi-can, as the main villain in the redistricting saga. The first new Senate district map that cleared his com-mittee drew three conser-vative GOP incumbents out of the districts of the moderate incumbents they expected to chal-lenge — including Owens’ expected challenger, Rep. Greg Smith of Overland Park.

Smith had lived in the center of Owens’ old dis-trict. But the first map po-sitioned his home about a tenth of a mile beyond the district’s northern bound-ary, West 87th Street, with the street sign just visible from Smith’s front yard.

“I think a lot of people look at that as a gaunt-let being thrown down,” Smith said. Ultimately, the federal judges’ lines separated him and Ow-ens as Senate candidates, though both have primary contests.

Conservatives also note Owens led a group of four people who intervened in the lawsuit, represented by five attorneys from two Topeka law firms. The group initially sought to have the state cover nearly $188,000 in legal expenses. They reduced the figure to $162,000, though it’s still the biggest request.

Smith also jumped into the lawsuit but didn’t seek reimbursement of any le-gal expenses, saying, “To me, that’s not cool.”

The lawsuit initially was filed by Robyn Renee Essex, a Republican pre-cinct committee member from Olathe, against Sec-retary of State Kris Ko-bach, a conservative Re-publican who’s endorsed Smith. Democrats and moderate Republicans saw a fix coming and ar-gued their intervention in the lawsuit was necessary. The judges eventually al-lowed 26 people to join Es-sex as plaintiffs.

Owens called it “almost laughable” to blame him for the legislative impasse. He said conservatives went into the redistrict-ing debate hoping to pun-ish their opponents. As for his committee’s first map, he said West 87th Street routinely served as a boundary in Overland Park for city council and state House districts.

“There was a lot of stuff in the air before that,” he said.

Democrats and GOP moderates eventually pushed Senate maps op-posed by conservatives through that chamber. Conservatives, led by O’Neal, blocked them in the House.

Remap fight looms as campaign issue

It’s an election year, and every-body wants to make it political.

— Mike O’NealHouse Speaker

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DAILY CRYPTOQUOTES - Here’s how to work it:

Dear Dr. Donohue: What is your recommendation for osteoarthritis? I am a 77-year-old man currently taking diclofenac and Ty-lenol for arthritis, as pre-scribed by my primary physician, to no avail. I also would appreciate your opinion on turmeric. — J.T.

Answer: Osteoarthritis is the most common kind of arthritis, a condition that almost all older people have a touch of. It comes about because of the fraying and crumbling of cartilage in-side the joint. Cartilage is a material that makes it pos-sible for one bone to glide across another without friction or pain when the joint moves. You didn’t say, but I’m assuming you have arthritis of the knees.

Exercise, believe it or not, is helpful. It strength-

ens muscles around the arthritic joint and affords it protection. Biking, walk-ing, swimming and water aerobics are some of the exercises that most people with arthritis are capable of.

Hot or cold compresses on the affected joint are an-other way to eliminate pain. Experiment to see whether heat or cold works better for you. Weight loss greatly relieves stress on joints, the knee in particular. A loss of only five pounds takes enor-

mous strain off the joint. Nonsteroidal anti-inflam-

matory medicines (NSAIDS) are effective in relieving joint pain.

Your diclofenac (Voltar-en) is one of more than nine other such products. I’d try a different one. All of them should be used in the low-est dose that provides pain control and for the shortest period of time.

Cortisone products in-jected into the joint can reliably alleviate pain. The doctor can inject the joint three or four times a year for up to two years.

Readers sing the praises of glucosamine and chon-droitin. I have some res-ervations about their ef-fectiveness, but they won’t hurt you if you want to try them.

When nothing works and

a person is immobilized or nearly so, joint replacement can restore your freedom.

Turmeric comes from the root of a tropical plant. It’s an ingredient in curry pow-der. Curcumin is the active material. It makes me sus-picious because it’s touted for so many conditions. It’s another product that won’t hurt you if you want to ex-periment.

Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer in-dividual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Readers also may order health newslet-ters from www.rbmamall.com.

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Exercise to help with arthritis

Social media becoming relationship contestDear Carolyn: Why do

people feel the need to use social media to constantly brag about their lives? I can’t tell you how many pic-tures of bouquets and din-ners and chocolates popped up on my Facebook feed around Valentine’s Day — on top of the already daily descriptions of “perfect boyfriends” and pictures of vacations in real time. When did people stop liv-ing life and start just trying to prove to others that they are doing so?

And, my main question, how can I stop from get-ting sucked in to feeling like I need to prove myself to everyone else? I have a wonderful boyfriend with whom I share such a bond that I don’t CARE how big his bouquet is or how much my Facebook “friends” know or see .?.?. but I al-most feel guilty. Like my in-difference toward bragging means this relationship re-ally must not be brag-wor-thy.

Answer: The first part is easier to answer than the second: Just block habitual braggarts from your news feed. Save your page for people who post things that interest you.

Some might say just to stay off social media al-together, a perfectly good and uncluttered solution — but if you see a lot of good amid the bad, then waste a little extra time on your set-tings to accommodate your peeves.

The second question, how not to care? If only that were about adjusting your settings.

It is possible you run with a crowd that’s particu-larly competitive socially,

but that presents a chick-en-or-egg riddle: Are they making you that way, or did you seek them out because you’re that way?

Fortunately, that ques-tion becomes easier to an-swer if you consciously remove yourself from the competition — not just on social media, but in other interactions as well.

It’ll take a bunch of small, on-the-spot deci-sions (and a few mental recitations of an “It’s not a race” mantra) to break a habit of comparing your-self with others socially. However, if you’re able to pull it off enough to step back from your guilty feel-ings, then you’ll be able to see whether it’s your envi-ronment or your emotional makeup that motivates you to measure your happiness against others’.

Dear Carolyn: I am 100 percent sure I don’t want kids. Is it worthwhile/fair for me to pursue a relation-ship with the woman of my dreams, who as luck would

have it does want them? — D.C.

Answer: That’s an ex-cellent question to ask her. Have you and she talked about it?

If it’s too soon to have talked to her about it, then it’s also too soon for you to be calling her the woman of your dreams.

And by the time it isn’t

too soon, then she also wouldn’t be the woman of your dreams, she’d be a par-ticularly fortuitous reality.

Can you tell “ . . . of my dreams” is not the concept of my dreams? And exactly how far off the subject am I at this point?

Anyway, honesty is the call here. Let the facts write your dreams.

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE by Chris Browne

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

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By JOCELYN SHEETSjocelyn@iolaregister.com

Winning is good. Ath-letes expect to win when they step on the field to play.

Getting better each day is a measure of success.

“It’s about being better today than we were yester-day,” said Doug Kerr, Iola High Mustang head football coach. “That is what we’ve been asking our players to do this week.”

Kerr is entering his first season as head coach at IHS. He held his first sum-mer team camp last week.

“We have seen 30 to 35 players consistently in the weight room since June 5. The weight room is open to all sports but we’ve had a good core group show up. We’ve worked on strength and agility coming into this week’s camp.”

Camp began with se-

niors, juniors and sopho-mores taking a “blind” bus trip Monday morning. Kerr said the players had no idea where they were going when they boarded the bus.

No cell phones allowed.First stop — Fort Scott

Community College, where Kerr played two years of college football. The Mus-tangs had a visit from FSCC head coach Curtis Horton then had a 90-minute prac-tice on the Greyhounds’ field turf practice field.

“We installed a base de-fense during that practice,” Kerr said.

Then it was off to Spring field, Mo. The group ate lunch and went swimming in the Finley River.

“They could go anywhere along the river in the area but they had to go as a group. The guys had a blast swimming in the cold, clear

spring water,” Kerr said.Third stop of the day

— Ozark High School in Ozark, Mo. OHS head coach Mark Bliss, who had coached at Conway Springs High in Kansas for years, took the Mustangs on a tour

of the facilities.“We had a walk-through

practice then played three 7-on-7 football games. Our kids won two games,” Kerr said. “We had coupons for free pizzas, fed the team and we slept in the Ozark High locker room, which is as nice as a college or pro team’s locker room.”

Tuesday morning was another early call — 5:30 with a two-hour practice on the field turf field at Ozark. Then the team loaded up and traveled to Joplin, Mo.

“We drove through the area hit by the tornado. We went to Joplin High’s sta-dium and scrimmaged with the Joplin team. Our kids were competing against a big time school and doing well.”

The team ate, then board-ed the bus for a “quiet” trip home, Kerr said. “The guys were tired but it was a great trip.”

Kerr said he used the trip to establish rules and organizational aspects of

Iola High’s team. Players went through how the team warms up before a game, and how the team carries it-self from the time it leaves for a game and returns.

“We are playing for our community. We are service warriors in the sense we represent not just ourselves as individuals but our school and our community. I want these boys to have the pride of being a part of something bigger than themselves,” Kerr said.

He said the older play-ers returned with the base offense and defense estab-lished. Wednesday night brought the Mustang fresh-men into the fold.

“When the freshmen showed up Wednesday, they followed the routine our older guys knew in warm ups and it went well. The last three nights have been about teamwork and know-ing the defense and of-fense,” Kerr said.

“We can’t count on wins. We can count on getting better and having fun to-gether on the football field. If your only goal is to win a state championship, that’s tough. There are 64 teams in Class 4A in Kansas so 63 teams are going to be disap-pointed.”

Kerr talked to the players about realistic, reachable goals. He said his goal was to have 60 kids out for foot-ball this first year.

“Right now we’re looking at 40 but I’m working on it,” Kerr said. “These kids have responded well and we’re excited about the season.”

Kerr said he and his staff are looking for Mustang football alumni.

“They are a part of the IHS program and we want them to be active with the program,” Kerr said.

Kerr said alumni can contact him at mustang-football2012@gmail or go to iolamustangfootball.com.

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Pulling together

Mustangs workto be bettertogether in 2012

Iola High head coach Doug Kerr explains moves to players (above and below) dur-ing Mustang football camp last week.

Senior quarterback Mason Coons hands the football to senior Zeph Larney as junior John Whitworth heads out to block on the play.

Seniors and juniors work together on a team sit up during last week’s Iola High football camp.

Photos by Jocelyn Sheets