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By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

“Everybody complains about the weather, but no-body does anything about it,” Charles Dudley Warner, nov-elist and good friend of Mark Twain, once said.

Steve Strickler and every other farmer would love to do something about it. Drought and heat, in a combination of ways, have made it difficult this summer to make ends meet on the farm, much less turn a profit.

STRICKLER Dairy has 290 cows in its daily milking cy-

cle that give an average of 55 pounds of milk. That’s 15,950 pounds a day and at $18 a hun-dredweight, daily income is nearly $2,900.

Sounds good until the cost to produce that nearly 8 tons of milk is added to the equa-tion.

“I was talking to a farmer in Missouri this morning about a bull,” Strickler said Wednes-day afternoon. “He’s a lot bet-ter than I am with a pencil and he figured it was costing $21 for his cows to produce 100 pounds of milk.

“I haven’t figured our costs, but I imagine it’s at least $20

a hundredweight,” Strickler groaned. “We’re losing $2 for every 100 pounds of milk we sell.”

Drought isn’t the problem, he continued in a matter-of-fact discussion of farm eco-nomics. “It’s the heat and hu-midity. That’s hard on cows, just like it is with people.”

A second element that causes dairymen and farm-ers with livestock woes is the cost of feed grain and forage, pushed to historic high prices by unfavorable growing condi-tions.

“Corn is headed to $10 a

Register/Bob JohnsonTomas Avvizo prepares to milk one of the 290 cows in the Strickler Dairy herd.

Feed costs weigh down dairy

Corn bad, beans worseBy BOB JOHNSON

bob@iolaregister.comThe corn harvest will go

out with a whimper.“It looks like we’re going

to average 25 to 30 bushels an acre,” said Marvin Lynch, manager of the Piqua Farm-ers Cooperative. “I’ve heard of everything from one bushel to 100,” with not many on the upper end.

This year’s harvest is a re-peat of 2011’s, although the de-mographics are reversed.

“Last year the north part of our (service) area had bet-ter corn, this year it’s in the south,” said Lynch, noting the spotty nature of what rain that did fall the past 2½ months.

It’s easy to understand why corn failed to produce more than a fraction of what farm-

ers expect in today’s agricul-tural environment.

During April, May and June, when fall crops are planted and are expected to attain most of their maturity, rainfall normally totals about 15 inches in the Iola area. This year, 6.79 inches fell, includ-ing nothing of consequence after the middle of June.

Meanwhile, temperatures rose to or above 100 degrees 11 times in late June and July. When the mercury didn’t hit triple digits, it usually topped out just a degree or two under. That kind of heat usually oc-curs in late July and August.

The result was corn having difficulty pollinating — the optimum temperature for that is 86 degrees — and ear devel-opment was stymied by the

Register/Bob JohnsonSoybeans, after having endured weeks of drought and heat, are starting to wilt to nothing, such as those in this field west of Iola.

Kansas to see follow-up legislation on tax cuts

Bus pick-up secured for students

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback’s administra-tion acknowledged Thursday that Kansas legislators will have to consider technical changes in a new law reducing state income taxes and faced new criticism over the cuts be-cause state agencies have been directed to propose ways to trim their spending.

The Department of Revenue is still considering what tech-nical issues must be tackled next year, but it will pursue a follow-up measure, spokeswom-an Jeannine Koranda said. Her comment came after critics of this year’s law described parts of it as flawed or unclear during a Statehouse news conference.

Critics fear the cuts will lead to future budget reductions, something they say was con-firmed by instructions issued to state agencies last month. Bud-get Director Steve Anderson told agency directors to draft

proposals for cutting spending by 10 percent for the fiscal year beginning July 2013, though the administration says aid to pub-lic schools wasn’t included.

The Legislature’s research staff has projected that the cuts will lead to a budget shortfall in the next fiscal year and the cumulative shortfalls over the next six years will approach $2.5 billion. Brownback and other conservative Republicans see the forecast as far too pessimis-tic, believing the cuts will boost the economy, create jobs and new tax revenues.

Revenue Secretary Nick Jor-dan accused critics of trying to “roll back the clock with scare

By ROB BURKETTrob@iolaregister.com

LAHARPE — Parents have se-cured a place for their children to board USD 256 buses headed to Moran, members of the LaHa-rpe City Council learned during a budget meeting Wednesday.

The new pick-up stop is on

South Main Street immediately north of the post office. Right now it sits as a vacant lot but come Monday morning it will be filled with children waiting in parents’ cars to hitch a ride east to Mar-maton Valley schools.

According to Ken and Phyl-lis Nelson, owners of the prop-

erty being used, the two were approached by Angelia Roney, LaHarpe parent, about using the lot. The Nelsons said they are fine with the setup and while they un-derstand district officials’ view-points, agree with Roney that

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Smail prepares to take Piqua Co-op reinsBy ROB BURKETT

rob@iolaregister.comMarvin Lynch and Kenny

Smail have worked together 38 years at the Piqua Cooperative. After 42 years, Lynch is preparing to step down in February when Smail, who has taken over the title of co-op manager, will start running things on his own.

Lynch started working at the co-op not long after graduating from Kansas State University in 1969. Coming back to Piqua was a pretty easy choice.

“I needed to eat,” Lynch said. “I needed a job and I had worked out here a few summers while I was going to school so I knew every-one. I ended up never leaving.”

Smail’s story is similar. In need of a job, Smail turned to the co-op to keep him going.

“I thought it would be a good place to work and it has been,” Smail said. “All the guys have been here a pretty l o n g t i m e so that t e l l s you the kind of people we hire h e r e , p e o p l e

you can rely on.”In fact, the combined service of

the employees totals just a little more than 192 years.

For 28 of Smail’s 38 years at the co-op, he

worked under Lynch who was promoted

to manager in

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Kenny Smail, left and Marvin Lynch

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Walter Johnsonplaque vandalized

A plaque identifying the site of Walter John-son’s birthsite northwest of Humboldt was damaged by a shotgun blast. Allen County officers learned of the vandalism Thursday morning.

Walter Johnson, a Hall of Fame pitcher, won 417 games during a 21-year ca-reer with the Washington Senators that ended in 1927. His victory total is second only to Cy Young’s 511.

Citations issuedfollowing traffic stop

During a traffic stop ear-ly Wednesday in the 2600 block of North State Street, Mary Sirota was cited for allegedly transporting an open container of alcohol and Lacy Sigg was cited for suspicion of consuming al-cohol as a minor.

Iola police officers said the stop followed an inci-dent which had occurred a few minutes earlier at Iola Walmart.

Iola police citedriver, passenger

During a traffic stop Wednesday in the 600 block of South fourth Street, Mor-gan Owens, 26, and Gregory Hoff, 28, were cited by Iola police officers for allegedly transporting open contain-ers of alcohol.

Vehicles collideA vehicle driven by Trac-

ey L. Horton collided with another vehicle driven by Lenora Lind Tuesday after-noon at the Pump ’N Pete’s convenience store at 709 N. State St.

Iola police officers said Horton was backing from a parking stall and Lind was entering the parking lot when the accident oc-

curred. Neither was in-jured.

Theft allegedIola Walmart officials

told Iola police officers Thursday that an employee had been stealing miscella-neous items from the store for the past six months. Bryan Mize Jr., 21, Union-town was cited for suspi-cion of theft. Police said the items were valued altogeth-er at $940.

Water thrownIolan Cierra Mock, 20,

told Iola police officers Monday a white male threw a cup of water on her while she was exiting her vehicle in the 400 block of South Kentucky Street. The sus-pect was identified. An in-vestigation continues.

Pickup hitBrenda L. Mills was pull-

ing from the A & W Fam-ily Restaurant parking lot Monday afternoon when her sport utility vehicle struck the side of a passing pickup driven by Joshua T. Beerbower, who was east-bound on U.S. 54.

Neither driver was in-jured, nor was a passenger in Mills’ vehicle.

Bicycles found,another stolen

Iola police officers re-ported a green Huffy bicy-cle and purple Next bicycle were recovered Monday from an abandoned struc-ture in the 500 block of West Street.

On Wednesday, Rebecca Hicks, 42, 841 Wilson Ln., reported her bicycle, a 26-inch Mongoose with a cop-per or dull bronze color was stolen from her back porch.

The theft occurred some-time over the previous week. The bike was valued at $50.

Police reportsPresbyterian Church

The Rev. Steve Traw’s message Sunday was “The King’s Dream” from Dan-iel 2:1-23.

Virginia Masoner cele-brated her birthday Friday. Fred and Pat Heinz cel-ebrated their wedding an-niversary Monday. Travis and Melissa Smith’s anni-versary was Tuesday, and Charles and Helen Sutton’s was Wednesday.

David Loomis opened Sunday evening’s Sing-spiration service with a prayer. Gene Chambers and Merrill Hodgden read selections. LaFern Mc-Donald played piano and

Kathryn Sarver the organ. Deniece Edson and Jeri Waters sang, accompanied by McDonald and Rita Sanders, respectively, on the piano.

Traw will lead Sunday’s 9:30 a.m. service. David Loomis will lead Sunday school activities at 10:30 a.m. A church dinner is at noon. Singspiration is at 6

p.m.Around town

Guests last weekend of Linda and Melvin Guen-ther were granddaugh-ter Kendra Davis, grand-sons Collin and Canden and Justin Mann, all of Bartlesville, Okla.

Linda Guenther’s sister, Connie Grimes and her husband, Bill, and Billie Frame, Bartlesville, vis-ited with their aunt Ruth Richards, Iola, and aunt Mildred Chambers.

Pauli Hawk celebrat-ed her belated birthday Wednesday with friends Naomi Chambers, Bev-erly Hawk and Joanne Mc-Intyre, who took her out for lunch at the Coffee Loft in Garnett.

Jim Hinson, Iola, and Joanne McIntyre attended Joanne’s mini class re-union of Iola High School’s Class of 1948. Twenty-one attended a lunch at Ryan’s Cafeteria in Overland

Park.On Aug. 5, Ryan Co-

chran and Rachel Cochran celebrated their birthdays at the home of Ryan’s par-ents and Rachel’s grand-parents, Bruce and Judy Cochran. Cake and ice cream followed their gifts. Attending were Rose Ma-rie Cochran, Darrell and Lea Baughn and Tabitha, Travis Baughn, Michelle Thompson, Breail and Bay-lea, Mike, Dora and Colby Cochran and Nancy McEn-dree, Iola; Zack, Kady and Zoey McIntyre, rural Yates Center; Ashton McIntyre, Jim Hinson and Joanne McIntyre.

Joanne McIntyre and Jim Hinson were Wednes-day supper guests of Judy and Bruce Cochran and Ryan. Others present were Rose Marie Cochran, Lea Baughn, Michelle, Breail and Baylea Thompson, and their cousin, Glo, from In-dependence, Mo.

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News from Carlyle

Emma WestEmma Jean West (Scul-

ly), 68, passed away sudden-ly on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012 in Albuquerque, N.M.

Emma attended St. John’s Catholic School in Iola, then Mount Saint Scholastica in Atchison where she received her di-ploma.

She was married to Grant Gibbs Alexander from 1963 to 1977. Grant passed away in 2003.

Grant and Emma ran the Montgomery Ward catalog store on the Iola square from the mid 1970s to the mid ’80s. Emma or “E.J.” then became a mainstay at Coast to Coast / Ace Hard-ware.

Emma married Dennis Gilbert West of Bronson in 1996. They moved to Ca-ballo, N.M., in 2004 where they enjoyed time at “West’s Palm Beach” with all the wonderful wildlife and beautiful scenery. Af-ter Dennis passed away in 2009, some wondered aloud if she’d move back to Kansas, but she didn’t really consider it. She had made a true spiritual, fa-milial home in the high desert.

Emma was surrounded

by her “family” at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church where she was a leader of the Lady’s Council. Emma also was recently made Chaplain of the American Legion Aux-iliary. She also had a close-knit family of neighbors in her subdivision.

She leaves behind one brother, Joseph Scully, and his wife Judy of the family farm in Colony; one son, Mike Alexander, and his wife, Angie, Lenexa; and three stepdaughters, Linda Leake and her husband, Steve, Iola, Cherryl Olson, Chanute, and Mary Daniels and her husband, Brett, Sa-vonburg.

Peggy SiggMargaret Lynn “Peggy”

(Martin) Sigg, 48, Iola, passed away at home with her family on Friday, Aug. 17, 2012.

Complete obituary in-formation and funeral ar-rangements will be pub-lished in Monday’s Iola Register. Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola is in charge of ar-rangements.

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

ObituariesDISTRICT COURT

Judge Daniel CreitzCivil cases filed:Melissa D. Howard v. Mi-

chael Howard, protection from abuse and divorce. Ashley Thedford-Haviland v. Matthew Thedford-Havi-land, divorce. State of Kan-sas, et al. v. Stephanie M. Morgan. State of Kansas, et al. v. Jeffrey Quigley, pa-ternity. State of Kansas, et al v. Edward M. Sargent Jr., child support.

State of Kansas, et al v. Chad E. Ranes, paternity. State of Kansas, et al v. Harold E. Lyman, paterni-ty and child support. State of Kansas, et al v. Wesley E. Zornes, paternity.

MAGISTRATE COURTJudge Thomas SaxtonConvicted of speeding

or other violations with fines assessed:

Andrew E. Jackson III, Iola, 60/45, $173. Earl G. Nation, Mound City, 65/55, $143. Grant A. Marshall, Skiatook, Okla., 75/65, $143. Beverly A. Ruse, Humboldt, 50/35, $173. James A. Hosack, Iola, 67/55, $155. Joey D. David-son, Shawnee, 75/65, $143. Joseph C. Burke, Parsons,

77/65, $155. Carl R. Quirong,

Bartlesville, Okla., 81/65, $179. Wyatt D. Logan, Gas, no seat belt (14-17 years), $60. Jeyton T. Steffan, Bur-lington, no seat belt (14-17 years), $60. Kennith E. Fultz, Tulsa, Okla., 84/65, $197. Thomas P. Martin, Tulsa, Okla., 78/60, $161. Peter Q. Tran, Oklahoma City, 86/65, $212. Beverly A. Bollinger, Chanute, 81/65, $179.

Gary D. Bradshaw, Loui-siana, Mo., broken tail light, $143. Brian D. Pruitt, Ottawa, failure to yield, $173. Blake R. Olsen, Cha-nute, driving while intoxi-cated, $2,095. Jennifer C. Bain, Iola, disorderly con-duct, $160. John M. Fred-rick, Kansas City, Mo., bro-ken tail light, $143.

Scott M. McCullough, Iola, driving while re-voked (second offense), $423. Billy R. Lyda, Colony, disobeying traffic signals, $173. Nora J. Lickteig, Cleveland, Okla., 75/65, $143. Jeff R. Fitzsimmons, Wann, Okla., 78/65, $161. Victor L. Jordan, Tulsa, 75/65, $143. Emily K. Pe-terson, Lawrence, 83/65, $191.

Convicted of no seat belt and fined $10:

Quinton J. Fowler III, Tulsa. Dennis D. Cheney, Humboldt.

Diversion agreements:Nicole West, Iola, con-

sumption of alcohol, $610. Mary B. Bell, Chanute, 77/65, $180.

Criminal cases filed:Ronald E. McFadden,

Mildred, disorderly con-duct. Darrell D. Shaw, Iola, domestic battery. Rebecca L. Carpenter, Mildred, dis-orderly conduct. Jacob R. Baughn, driving while in-toxicated, minor consum-ing alcohol.

Juvenile dispositions:Tea C. Shelton, Hum-

boldt, attempted theft, $316.

Civil contract cases filed:

U.S. Bank National As-sociation c/o JP Morgan Chase v. Lant Blazek et al. Progressive Direct Insur-ance Company v. John No-lan. Southeast Kansas Or-thopedic Clinic v. Quentin Lee. Kansas Payment Cen-ter et al., v. Darrin J. Folk.

Small claims filed:Sigg Financial Services

LLC v. Randi Atkins et al. Carl Ranabarger et al., v.

Douglas Brown.

IOLA MUNICIPAL COURTJudge Thomas SaxtonConvicted as follows

with fines assessed:Brandi M. Jones, Iola,

minor consuming alco-hol, $300, sentenced to 30 days in jail, suspended for six months probation, driver’s license suspended 30 days. Robert D. King, Colony, $180, driving while revoked, sentenced to five days in jail, suspended for six months probation.

Vern A. Kurth, Els-more, disorderly conduct, $180, sentenced to 10 days in jail, suspended for six months probation. Audrey M. Montague, Iola, own-ing a pet with no rabies vaccination, $120. Rickey R. Randall, Jr., Iola, 43/25. $188. Michael D. Rogers, Iola, 45/35, $140. Hazel D. Shimp, owning a pet with no rabies vaccination, $120.

Convicted of no seat belt and fined $10:

Tina M. Prater, Westpha-lia. Roy C. Carllson, Iola. Mildred L. Masters, Iola.

Diversion agreement:Vernon E. Yoder, Gar-

nett, failure to yield, $180.

Court report

(Published in the lola Register, August 18, 2012)

ORDINANCE NO. 3406 SUMMARY

On August 13, 2012, the City of lola. Kansas adopted Ordi-nance 3406, amending Chapter 34 Fees, Article XXIV Utilities, Section 34-785 Charge for Water Usage of the Code of the City of lola to increase water rates. Effec-tive January 1, 2013, the regular rate meter charge increases from $17.10 to $19.47, charge for each unit from $3.14 to $3.45, whole-sale rate #1 from $3.04 to $3.34 and wholesale rate #2 from $2.56 to 52.82. A complete copy of this ordinance is available at City Hall, 2 W. Jackson, lola, Kansas or may be viewed on the City’s website at www.cityofiola.com. This summa-ry has been certified by Charles H. Apt lll, lola City Attorney.

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(Published in the lola Register, August 18, 2012)

SummaryOn August 13, 2012, the City of

Iola, Kansas adopted Ordinance 3407 amending the maximum mill levy for funding the Iola Library from 5.5 to 5.715. A complete copy of this ordinance is available at City Hall, 2 W. Jackson, lola, Kansas or may be viewed on the City’s website at www.cityofiola.com. This summary has been cer-tified by Charles H. Apt lll, lola City Attorney.

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First published in The Iola Register August 11, 2012)IN THE DISTRICT COURT

OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSASCIVIL DEPARTMENT

U.S. Bank, N.A. as Trustee on behalf of Conseco Finance Home Equity Loan Trust 2001-C

Plaintiff,vs. Meredith M Rogers, Jane Doe,

and John Doe, et al.,Defendants

Case No. 12CV49Court No.

Title to Real Estate InvolvedPursuant to K.S.A. §60

NOTICE OF SUITSTATE OF KANSAS to the

above named Defendants and The Unknown Heirs, executors, devisees, trustees, creditors, and assigns of any deceased defen-dants; the unknown spouses of

any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any de-fendants that are existing, dis-solved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, adminis-trators, devisees, trustees, credi-tors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; and the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability and all other person who are or may be concerned:

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTI-FIED that a Petition for Mortgage Foreclosure has been filed in the District Court of Allen County, Kansas by U.S. Bank, N.A. as Trustee on behalf of Conseco Finance Home Equity Loan Trust 2001-C, praying for foreclosure of certain real property legally de-scribed as follows:

LOT FOUR (4), BLOCK SIX (6), GEAR’S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF IOLA, [ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS.] Tax ID No. IA01832

for a judgment against defen-dants and any other interested parties and, unless otherwise served by personal or mail service of summons, the time in which you have to plead to the Petition for Foreclosure in the District Court of Allen County Kansas will expire on September 24, 2012. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the request of plaintiff.

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Jennifer L. Michaels, #24256 jmichaels@msfirm.com

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ATTORNEYS FOR U.S. BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE ON BEHALF OF CONSECO FINANCE HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2001-C IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

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Public notices

BOSTON (AP) — Presi-dent Barack Obama’s re-election campaign kept up pressure against Re-publican rival Mitt Rom-ney on two fronts Friday, launching a new ad de-fending Obama’s record on Medicare while chal-lenging Romney to re-lease at least five years of tax returns.

The TV advertisement, accusing Romney and run-ning mate Paul Ryan of undermining the health care program critical to millions of seniors, came as Romney continued raise money in non-bat-tleground states. That re-mains a top priority, even with the election less than 12 weeks away and Obama

making extended visits to toss-up states such as Iowa and Ohio.

Obama campaign man-ager Jim Messina said the president’s camp would seek no further disclosures if Romney would release five years of his individual tax returns.

The Romney campaign, which often says there will be no end to Democrats’ demands for tax records, rejected the offer.

Romney released his 2010 tax return and has pledged to release his 2011 returns, but no oth-ers. Obama, like most other modern-day presi-dential nominees, has released several years of returns.

Obama keeps heaton Romney tax returns

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This week I had the privi-lege of welcoming new students at Allen Commu-nity College for the 2012-13 school year.

As I looked out at the 200 faces, it occurred to me what a great opportu-nity we have as community leaders to encourage young

people to make their ca-reers and homes in the Iola area.

I hope each and every re-tail person welcomes them

into their stores. I encour-age you to attend games, theater productions or mu-sic events.

Take the opportunity to get to know some of the out-of-town kids and make them feel at home.

I got to know a couple of students when they came into the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce office to fulfill community service obliga-tions for scholarships they received at Allen.

We had some great help with data entry and miscel-laneous office skills.

If given the chance, I hope you welcome them into your churches and the community. It may be you who gains from the experi-ence.

I can’t believe how fast the summer flew by. Kids are back in school, and soon it will be time for fall

activities. One of the upcoming

events is the Fall Citywide Garage Sale Sept. 15.

Listing applications are available on the Chamber’s website, via e-mail or at the office for pickup at 208 W. Madison Ave.

Get started cleaning out those closets and garages and start organizing. Ga-rage Sale Day will be here before you know it.

Take time to welcome newcomers to ACC, IolaSheliaLampe

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Arrests reportedIola police officers

arrested Michael Peer Monday in the 200 block of North Chestnut Street. Officers said Peer was wanted on an arrest warrant issued by the Kansas Department of Corrections.

Jamie Henderson, 35, Iola, was arrested for shoplifting and criminal trespassing Tuesday at Iola Walmart.

Wednesday, police of-ficers were called to the 100 block of White Bou-levard because of a “sus-picious person” in the area. During the investi-gation, Micah Reynolds was arrested for being a minor in consumption of alcohol, hosting a party and obstructing the legal process. Mark McGurk, 19, was arrested for con-suming alcohol as a mi-nor and hosting a party.

Zachary Smith, 19, was arrested for allegedly consuming alcohol as a minor.

Vehicle stolen, damaged, returned

Jamie Henderson, 35, 112 S. Third St., told Iola police officers Wednesday she borrowed a vehicle from a friend.

While it was parked at her residence, somebody took it from her driveway, wrecked it and returned it, Henderson said.

The incident report-edly occurred between 11 p.m. Tuesday and 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Henderson said.

An investigation contin-ues.

Police reports

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Opinion

My conservative conscience came calling earlier this week.

He’s a nice gentleman con-cerned about my blind spot to President Obama.

“Your president is a liar,” the soft-spoken elderly man said. “He said the United States is not a Christian nation.”

I instinctively took Obama’s defense, though I admit feeling off-kilter by the accusation, not knowing its context, when it sud-denly dawned on me Obama prob-ably did say the United States does not require its citizens to be Christians. In other words, he believes in the U.S. Constitution, which allows freedom of reli-gion — the key reason for declar-ing independence from England some 236 years ago. Whether that goes against conservative think-ing, I don’t know.

In not so many words my call-er called me a hypocrite because several years ago I frequently ran a box stating the U.S. debt and the burden on taxpayers and now I no longer do.

He’s got me there.The mounting debt under

President George W. Bush an-gered me. I viewed two unfund-ed wars (Iraq and Afghanistan) and increasing tax cuts as irre-sponsible management.

When the recession of 2008 hit, I believe Obama’s actions to bail out the banks and auto in-dustries and stimulate the econ-omy with the Jobs Recovery Act was, unfortunately, the best course. Yes, it has ballooned the deficit even more, but I continue to believe it averted a full-scale depression.

Of all the Western countries affected by the 2008 recession, the United States has far ex-ceeded the economies of Ger-many, France, Italy, Spain and Great Britain in terms of recap-turing its economic output. As of the end of 2011, the United States has regained all ground since the recession of 2008.

Yes, unemployment for the U.S. is still high, 8.1 percent, but many experts say a lot of the jobs lost in 2008 simply will not return. Of the 52,700 jobs lost in Kansas in 2008, less than half, 23,400 have been regained.

My new fear is that Gov. Sam Brownback’s order for all state agencies to cut their budgets by 10 percent will cause a lot more layoffs. The Kansas Department of Labor says that since June almost 17,000 jobs have been eliminated. Most of those jobs were government jobs at edu-cational institutions. In other words — good jobs that require sharp minds.

Is this a good time to elimi-nate good jobs, good people, in order to afford tax cuts?

MY CALLER and I parted with a hug.

He was sincere in his efforts that I see “the light.”

“Please watch Fox News, to understand the ‘other’ side,” he said.

I can’t go that far, I said, but I promised to reinstate the U.S. running debt box and to be more attune to his perspective.

The biggest reward of the en-counter was sitting across from someone with an obviously dif-ferent mindset and seeing a hu-man being. His faded blue eyes sparkled with warmth.

“You’re wrong,” he said with a smile.

And at that moment, it didn’t so much matter.

Reader pricks guilty conscienceSusanLynnRegistereditor

Columns I write about yes-teryear often draw comments, but seldom do I get a response as detailed, and interesting, as one from Jan Scheibmeir, Piqua, about our visit last Saturday to the White Grill.

I want to share some of what Jan wrote:

“I remember the White Grill very well, as does my mother, Dor-othy (Dottie) Young, now 93.

“Mac and Emma McLaughlin opened the eight-stool grill in 1949. Dottie worked for Mac and Emma from 1949 until 1952; no tables or booths, just eight stools at the counter and open 24 hours a day.

“Waitresses wore white uni-forms with a pretty ‘hankie’ showing from the bodice pocket. My favorite uniform accessory was a retractable pen pinned to the opposite pocket, at the ready for taking orders.

“Mom’s salary was $19 a week. If you worked hard you could make as much in tips. A quarter was a good tip.

“I spent one summer working behind the counter.

“When school time rolled around, I had saved enough to buy a pair of school shoes, from the Economy Shoe Store. Saddle shoes were OK, but penny loafers were the best. I also had enough to pay for my book rental from Layle’s Book Store and get my supplies from Kress’.

“Cyrus Truck Line was just west of Iola. Almost all of the drivers came in for breakfast at 5 to 6 each morning — sausage, ba-con, ham, eggs, pancakes, waffles and gallons of coffee.

“They were a swell bunch of fellows.

“We had a lot of steady custom-ers.

“Al Becker and Father Hertel had quite a time playing the pin-ball machine.

“Dewey and Ira Peck from the Texaco station across the street came in, as did Maxine (Smith) and Lyle Harvey, Dewey Stewart, Logan Reynolds and Hellen and Elbert Hayes.”

Jan also clarified misconcep-tions I had.

“There never was any filler in the hamburger. Swift Meat Co. delivered beef in quarters, which were boned and ground for hamburger. Quite a chore but we thought we had the best burgers in Iola.”

Jan also set me straight on the mustard. It was pure as could be, not a drop of water added.

White Grill story stirs memoriesAt

Week’s EndBob Johnson

In 1995, 25-year-old Paul Ryan became the legislative director for first-term congressman Sam Brownback. Now he’s an almost-even-money bet to become vice president of the United States.

Ryan has always presented himself as an economic policy wonk, although his record on so-cial issues like abortion and gay marriage stands at the far-right side of the spectrum (e.g., no abortions for rape victims). Con-versely, Brownback has built his career on a raft of social issues, even though his economic pref-erences have always emphasized market solutions, low taxes, and smaller government (well, save for farm subsidies).

Both Ryan and Brownback have demonstrated deep po-litical ambition from their high school days, and for all their be-lief in the private sector, they have almost never been off the governmental payroll. So their dedication to the virtues of the free market comes not from actu-al practice, but from theory and ideology.

Even before college, Paul Ryan committed to the Ayn Rand phi-losophy of pure, hard-edged capitalism. This commitment remains the bedrock of his be-lief in low taxes and immense cuts to public-sector spending. A life-long Catholic, Ryan has edged away from Rand’s com-plete rejection of religion, but on economic issues, he is a true believer.

In the end, Ryan’s budget pro-posals are based on his Rand-based philosophy, cobbled to-gether into a serious appearing format. But independent analyst after independent analyst has poked immense holes in his bud-get. For example, exactly where will the huge, unspecified cuts be

made? Moreover, like Romney’s tax

plan, Ryan’s budget places oner-ous costs on the middle class and the poor for non-defense dis-cretionary spending and health care while cutting taxes for the richest Americans. It’s Ayn Rand’s philosophy dressed up in D.C. budget-speak.

Early in his career, according to many of his law school and partisan contemporaries, Sam Brownback was quite the oppo-site of Paul Ryan: an ambitious politico without much explicit ideology, more or less a Bob Dole Republican.

Brownback developed his ideology through a growing re-ligious conservatism, which became the hallmark of his 14-year Senate career. While Ryan’s political ambition propelled him through the ranks of GOP House members, Brownback’s ambitions brought him back to Kansas with a new emphasis on economic issues.

In the 20 months since his sweeping 2010 victory, the gover-nor has moved the state on a path toward smaller government and lower taxes — hallmarks of the politically essential Republican agenda in both state and nation.

Like Paul Ryan, Sam Brown-back has his own economic guru — the supply-side economist Arthur Laffer, who last week in Johnson County bestowed, once again, his blessing on the gover-

nor’s historic tax cuts.Ryan’s 25-year romance with

Ayn Rand illustrates a degree of philosophical commitment and seriousness, even if Rand’s capi-talism remains an unlikely road map within a large, complex de-mocracy.

But Arthur Laffer, who great-est contribution to economic theory (sic) was drawn on a cock-tail napkin? Please. Supply-side economics has had 30-plus years to demonstrate its theoretical validity and prove that tax cuts can stimulate enough growth to increase governmental rev-enues. Simply put, this has not occurred, as the George W. Bush years demonstrated.

Both Ryan and Brownback have combined their ambitions with economic beliefs that go far beyond well-established theo-ries. Still, Rand’s hyper-capital-ism and Laffer’s tax-cutting have served these politicians — espe-cially Ryan — very well.

The U.S. Congress is unlikely, even with a Romney-Ryan vic-tory, to experiment with an Ayn Rand approach. But the Kansas Legislature and Gov. Brownback have already decided to conduct a full-bore experiment in radical tax-cutting for the wealthy.

I’m a big fan of political ambi-tion, and both Ryan and Brown-back are mid-career successes as they seek national office. But Ryan’s constancy and apparent seriousness has, in the short term, pulled him well ahead of Gov. Brownback, who must qui-etly hope for a Romney loss and a sparkling economic perfor-mance in Kansas.

That parlay is a true long shot.

Burdett Loomis is a political science professor at the University of Kansas.

Ryan and Brownback go way back

Dear editor,During my lifetime the United

States has fought World War II, the Korean War, Cold War (Ber-lin blockade, 1949), Berlin Crisis, 1961, Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, Vietnam War, Panama, Grenada, Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait (Desert Storm), War on Terrorism, Af-ghanistan, Iraq and Libya.

In most of these wars the mis-sion was to defend democracy and to ensure the rights of the people to hold free and open elections.

Think of Iraq, where the sym-bol of a free and open election was the purple fingers the people so proudly displayed after casting

their votes with their fingerprints. The United States now has mil-

lions of veterans, over 2 million from Vietnam alone.

In my lifetime hundreds of thousands of U.S. armed forces have died defending democracy and ensuring the rights of others to have free and open elections. I believe an honorable discharge or a DD-214 declaring honorable ser-vice should be adequate ID to vote in any state.

Kansas and several other states have passed laws requiring photo ID to vote. I believe restricting the voting rights of any veteran is at minimum un-American and pos-

sibly unconstitutional. For various reasons many vet-

erans do not have a photo ID.The U.S. Supreme Court has

ruled in the Citizens United case that it is legal for a wealthy indi-vidual or a corporation to make unlimited anonymous political contributions to influence the re-sults of an election. These donors are not required to register with the state or furnish a photo ID.

I understand that to mean the Koch brothers, Koch Industries, Inc., and other corporations or individuals can legally make un-limited, undisclosed anonymous political contributions to influ-

ence the results of an election, yet it is illegal for a veteran with an honorable discharge and no photo ID to cast one vote to influence the results of an election.

Just call me old-fashioned, but that seems un-American to me. During the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the U.S. armed forces were called the guardians of democracy. It must have been the German de-mocracy we were defending. It doesn’t feel like it was mine 51 years later.

William Frank Schomaker, Sr.,Humboldt, Kan.

P.S.If you served in the armed forc-

es during the period of 2-28-1961 to 5-7-1975, you can send a photo copy of your DD-214 or honorable discharge to the Kansas Commis-sion on Veterans Affairs and Gov. Brownback will send you a Viet-nam War Medallion, a medal and a certificate thanking you for your service. No photo ID required.

So your honorable discharge or DD-214 does have some value in Kansas. They will not permit you a vote, but they will give you a $10 medal.

So after serving a 30-month tour of duty I now know what my ser-vice is worth to the state of Kan-sas — approximately $10.

Burdett Loomis

US Debt Clock$15,953 trillion

Debt per person — $50,741US population — 314 million

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bushel and soybeans are $16,” he said. “I just talked with Doug (his brother, a row crop farmer) about when his beans might be stressed enough so they could be baled.

“You grind up soybean hay and it makes pretty good feed, with a lot of pro-tein.

“We put up twice as much corn silage this summer as we usually do because the alfalfa was short, but we’re going to have to watch feed-ing it because of high ni-trate levels,” Strickler said, which means corn — with its price jumping almost daily — will be added for a healthy mix.

A LARGE POND Strick-ler built on Coon Creek’s headwaters just east of Ken-tucky Street about 25 years ago and enlarged in recent years, has alleviated con-cerns about water.

“Harry (Clubine, farm foreman) said we have plen-ty of water,” Strickler said, which translates to about 100 gallons a day for each cow.

“Milk is 86 percent water, after all,” he noted.

“We process the water and use some of it domes-tically, as well as for the cows,” Strickler added. “We also have rural water.”

While water on the main farm isn’t a problem, and doesn’t appear that it will

be, Strickler recalled heifers kept a mile to the east along Rock Creek suffered from bad water.

“We lost three heifers and it took us a little while to figure out that it was from them drinking water after the creek had stopped run-ning. The water was con-taminated with blue-green algae,” he said. “We had a tank of fresh (rural) water, but they wouldn’t leave the shade trees along the creek and drank the bad water.”

Once the problem was found, the heifers were brought to the main farm and in a matter of days “looked like different ani-mals, having good water to drink.”

Others farmers have had problems, including deaths, with livestock drinking foul water in creeks and ponds, many nearly dry after more than two months of no rain.

“WHEN YOU have high feed cost, transportation costs pushed up by high fuel costs and utility costs, it’s not a healthy equation” for making money milking cows, Strickler said.

“I’ve a friend in Hillsboro, a good dairyman, who told me he was losing $30,000 a month milking 300 cows,” he said. “He has $100,000 worth of corn in bins, and he’s decided to sell his cows rather than feed the corn and lose more money.”

Clubine is cutting cor-ners anywhere he can to

save money and keep prof-itable figures from straying too far from the milk parlor.

“I haven’t told you yet that I’ve been talking to the people at Louisburg about apple cores,” from the cider mill, Clubine told Strickler.

“We’re even feeding straw,” Strickler chimed in.

“There’s going to be a lot of crappy hay fed this year with farmers look-ing wherever they can to find forage,” he continued. “They’re baling grass from the highway rights of way. It’s going to have cans and cigarette butts, who knows what else in it. There’s go-ing to be hardware in cows this fall and winter.

“But, you’re going to have to have something to feed.”

Aflatoxin, a poison-ous product of corn ear fungus that surfaces in plants stressed by heat and drought, is another con-cern, but one that Strickler said was controlled by ven-dors such as Piqua Co-op with whole grain and distill-er’s grain from an ethanol plant in Craig, Mo.

“They test every load, so we don’t worry about it,” he said.

Aflatoxin can taint milk and be deadly for livestock.

CORN ISN’T the only high-priced feed Strickler cows eat to produce milk.

“We have a contract through September for wet distiller’s grain at $92 a ton,” Clubine said. “My broker

told me the next contract, to run through March, will be at least $148 a ton, maybe higher.”

Distiller’s grain is a corn-based by-product of ethanol plants, essentially mash that’s left after alcohol is produced.

“We’re paying $325 a ton for soy hulls (soybean pro-cessing residue) and not too many years ago the price was $45 a ton,” he noted. “Go back 20 years and they were giving soy hulls away if you’d haul them.”

Alfalfa is prime forage for dairy stock, but it has just about been priced out of the market, “if you can find it,” Strickler said. “The price right now is $250 a ton and I’ve heard of some for $300 a ton.”

The mix of dry feed var-ies by whatever is available, but a cow’s appetite remains constant.

“They eat 50 pounds of dry feed a day and drink 100 gallons of water,” Clubine said, no matter what the cost or how much milk fetches.

STRICKLER doesn’t de-pend completely on milk production for the dairy’s bottom line.

He also is, literally, in the bull market and sells other stock, but milk drawn daily from the cows is the farm’s bread and butter. With costs rising and milk prices not keeping pace, the bread is getting mighty thin and lightly buttered.

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ongoing drought and heat.“We usually take in a mil-

lion to 1.2 million bushels of corn,” Lynch observed. “Right now (Thursday af-ternoon) we have 400,000 and I doubt if we get more than 50,000 bushels more.”

Last year’s intake was 440,000 bushels.

While bottom-line eco-nomics are adversely af-fected by the short harvest, farmers’ lifeline, crop in-surance, also takes a hit.

Lynch said insurance payments are figured on several years’ average yield, with best and worst years thrown out. With two straight years of depressed harvest, that means insur-ance payments will be hurt by having one extremely bad year’s yield in the mix.

“Besides,” he added, “in-surance basically just pays for input costs, and often not all of that.”

Farmers have domestic concerns the same as ev-eryone else and when the source of their livelihood doesn’t turn a profit, it’s a struggle to make ends meet.

Saving grace is that farm-ers today have experienced hard times before and have taken steps to weather a bad year.

“There aren’t any poor farmers,” Lynch said.

But, two bad years in a row puts a strain on the most forward-looking.

“I think most of them are handling it pretty well,” Lynch allowed, drawing on conversations he has had with the many farmers who have been in the co-op’s of-fice of late. “Their outlook really is pretty good.”

THE UNFORTUNATE aside of meager harvest is that corn prices have climbed to near $8 a bushel, and some analysts think they may hit $10 by Decem-ber. High prices, though, don’t mean much when a farmer has little to sell.

All of the corn belt has been hurt by miserable growing conditions. Har-vests similar to those in

this area are expected to be repeated in Iowa and Indi-ana.

And then there is aflatox-in, a fungus that occurs on corn ears when weather is hot, dry and humid, a daily description of eastern Kan-sas this summer.

The trigger for price dock is 20 parts per million (ppm), a level that has been noted in about half the corn delivered to Piqua this year. Last year that was found in about 10 percent.

At 20 parts per million, corn is unsafe for human consumption and dairy cat-tle, but may be used for live-stock feed up to 200 ppm. Corn testing as high as 300 ppm may be used for finish-ing beef cattle in feedlots, and above that contami-nated corn must be blended with aflatoxin-free grain.

High aflatoxin levels also disqualify corn for ethanol production because dis-tiller’s grain, a profitable byproduct, is used for live-stock feed.

WHILE CORN had made a bit of a crop, Lynch fears soybeans will fall flat.

Last year about 200,000 bushels were carried to the Piqua elevator. This year’s intake may approach zero.

“They’re awfully thin and bad spots are starting to show up in bean fields,” he said. “As long as they’re green, they could make a little if we were to get a rain, but it would take a de-cent amount of moisture,” much more than the .33 of an inch that fell on Iola ear-lier this week.

The 10-day forecast gives farmers little hope. It calls for continued hot days, al-beit not in triple digits, and little chance of rain.

“I think you’ll see a lot of farmers plant wheat this fall, even if it is in dust,” Lynch said. “Wheat doesn’t take as much moisture.”

This spring’s robust wheat harvest will be en-couragement for greater planting this fall. It came on the heels of the poor corn and soybean harvests in 2011.

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child safety is at the core of the situation.

“I respect USD 257’s view on this,” Phyllis Nelson said. “I know funding is a big issue nowadays but we need to be focusing on chil-dren.”

“That property is a lot safer than lining them up out there along a county road,” added Ken Nelson.

Roney puts the respon-sibility now on the parents for the success of the rem-edy.

“We will need to make sure there isn’t trash and litter everywhere,” Roney said. “If we want this then we have to step up and make sure things are get-ting done right.”

School administrators have approached the issue from a financial standpoint, arguing over the state fund-ing that each student rep-resents. However with the 2.5 mile law in effect, there is nothing legally that dis-tricts can do. As a result, USD 257 is deciding to give

up on its protests for now.“I talked to the board

members Wednesday,” Brian Pekarek, USD 257 superintendent, said. “This has gone from a public en-tity conversation to a pri-vate one, with businesses involved. We’ve decided to take the high road now and refocus our efforts on our district and making our schools the best they can be.”

While Iola’s school dis-trict refocuses, parents in LaHarpe still contend that the discussion should have been on child welfare from the beginning.

“This is going to be a lot safer for the kids,” Roney said. “We’ll be getting Ja-son Prock, LaHarpe police-man, back from his deploy-ment to Afghanistan so there’ll be an officer going up around there on a regu-lar basis. It’s also a well-traveled area so there will plenty of people watching out.”

In addition, those par-ents concerned with chil-

dren being left at the stop in the afternoon won’t have to worry. USD 256 bus policy states that children who don’t have a parent pres-ent aren’t allowed to exit the bus. Instead, the child would be taken back to Mo-ran where parents would be responsible for picking them up.

Other school districts have observed the situa-tion, waiting to see what might come of it. K.B. Criss, USD 258 superinten-dent, currently takes a sim-

ilar stance to what Iola has.“We are being watchful

and observing our school district borders,” Criss said. “We are going to re-main within our borders for the time being.”

Criss did say that his dis-trict does have many stu-dents attending from out-side the district. Currently, the district has bus routes that go out to meet some students at the district borders. Many more either drive in or are driven in by parents each day.

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Register/Rob BurkettThe property being used as a new bus stop in La-Harpe beginning Monday morning is along South Main Street north of the post office.

1984. Along the way both have seen a variety of changes that have illus-trated how agriculture has evolved over the years.

“You know when we started out here, farmers used to come by with pickup trucks full of grain,” Lynch said. “Now they come with semitrailers. The amount of usable ground they have now is pretty impressive.”

Smail calls the science of farming as one of the more dramatic changes he has seen in his time.

“I think the way that sci-ence has and really contin-ues to change everything is one of the more impressive things for me,” Smail said. “The amount of bushels that you can get out of a field now is so much more than what it was when Mar-vin or I first started. It re-ally has been a revolution.”

The two also agree that “red tape” is the one thing that not only has changed, but has grown at an almost seemingly exponential rate.

“Government regula-tions are the thing that al-ways are moving on us,” Lynch said. “Every year they’re coming up with something new for us to have a report on or test for. Don’t get me wrong, the amount of grain we grow now feeds a lot of people around the world. We have to be safe.”

“That’s why Marvin is staying around for a little

bit,” Smail added. “He’s been helping me get into understanding what all I need to do with all that.”

Lynch will retire as just the second co-op manager since it was established in Piqua in 1956.

Lynch plans to spend the additional free time he is acquiring with his family initially.

“I have a new grand-child,” Lynch said. “I’m going to spend the first 30 days after I get done here spoiling her rotten.”

Family won’t be his only indulgence. Despite the heat the area is experienc-ing, Lynch thinks he’ll manage to work in more time pursuing golf, one of his true passions.

“I love to get out there and play,” Lynch said. “I’m so used to being out in this heat that it doesn’t bother me so I play when most peo-ple wouldn’t. I get a lot of looks when I’m out there in that weather. I imagine I’ll get out there more often.”

Lynch also plans on ex-ploring the state that has been his lifelong home. He’s a bit of a history buff and has never had a chance to get out and enjoy what Kan-sas has to offer.

“I really want to get out and see the different muse-ums and things like that,” Lynch said. “Kansas is such a big state with a lot of dif-ferent things to see. I never really had a chance to enjoy any of that. So I’ll probably travel with my wife a little.”

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tactics,” adding in a state-ment, “Kansas is open for business.”

During their news con-

ference, critics derided the tax cuts as likely to lead to devastating cuts in state programs. They also said the tax law was sloppily

drafted.“It was a mish-mash on

the legislative floor,” said Kansas Democratic Party Chairwoman Joan Wagnon, a former revenue secretary.

The tax law will cut in-dividual income tax rates for this year and includes a drop in the top rate to 4.9 percent from 6.45 percent. It exempts the owners of 191,000 partnerships, sole proprietorships and other businesses from income taxes. The cuts are worth $231 million during the cur-rent fiscal year, with the figure growing to $803 mil-lion for the next fiscal year, eventually rising to $934 million after six years.

But Martin Dickinson, a University of Kansas law professor who specializes in tax issues, said some pro-visions are flawed and un-clear. For example, he said, the provision meant to ex-empt partners in a business from paying income taxes could still result in them

facing taxes when income is distributed to them, not what lawmakers intended.

“I’d say there might be a half-dozen points that might be in controversy,” Dickinson, a registered Democrat who’s taught at the university since 1967, said during the critics’ news conference. “There are parts of the bill which the Legislature will defi-nitely need to address.”

The Department of Rev-enue already has acknowl-edged one flaw, sections conflicting on whether many income tax deduc-tions are retained. But Jor-dan has said the agency will interpret the law as keeping them, as lawmak-ers intended. Koranda said it’s common for lawmakers to follow up with technical adjustments the year after complex legislation has passed.

As for a tax bill next year, she said, “It’s not an ‘if,” but a ‘what.’”

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percent chance of thunderstorms. High near 80. East winds 5 to 10 mph.

Saturday night, partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunder-storms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of thunder-storms after midnight. Low near 60. Northeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.

Sunday, mostly sunny. High in the mid-80s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.

Sunday night and Monday, mostly clear. Low 55 to 60.

Sunrise 6:40 a.m. Sunset 8:10 p.m.

TemperatureHigh yesterday 86Low last night 56High a year ago 91Low a year ago 70

Precipitation48 hours ending 7 a.m. 0This month to date .39Total year to date 15.73Def. since Jan. 1 8.37

Birthday celebration

Wedding

Duane and Jamie Kell-erman, Altamont, are the proud parents of a daugh-ter, Adalee Elizabeth.

She was born Aug. 7, 2012. She weighed 5 pounds and 15 ounces and was 18½ inches long.

She joins two brothers, Hunter Montgomery, 8, and Kaden Alexander, 3.

H e r grandpar-ents are Milo and J a n i c e K e l l e r -man, Iola, and Ron and Paula T i b b s , Poplar Bluff, Mo.

Birth announcements

Cynthia Volland and Harold Dvorachek

Scott and Heather Dan-iels are the proud parents of a daughter, Sydney Day-le Daniels.

She was born May 30, 2012 at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center. She weighed 8 pounds and 7 ounces and was 20½ inches long.

She joins two sisters

Chloe Bre Daniels, 7, and Bailey Marie Daniels, 2.

Her maternal grandpar-ents are Loretta Jameson, Humboldt, and Spencer Jameson, Quinton, Okla. Sydney’s paternal grand-parents are Dale and Judy Daniels, Humboldt. She has a great-grandparent, Max-ine Cuppet, Savonburg.

Adalee Elizabeth Kellerman

Sydney Dayle Daniels

AnniversaryWayne and Nancy Chandler

Wayne and Nancy Chandler will celebrate their 50th anniversary.

The couple was married Aug. 25, 1962 at the Moran Christian Church.

They have one daughter, Jenny, married to Mark Spillman and two grand-children, Sarah and Jeff Spillman.

They will celebrate with family and friends on Aug. 25 at the Moran Christian Church Fellowship Hall from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Instead of gifts, they re-quested a card shower.

Rose Mary Maddox will mark her 80th birthday on Aug. 25. Her children ask

that friends send cards to Maddox at 509 S. Cotton-wood, Iola.

Cynthia Volland and Harold Dvorachek were married May 12, 2012 at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, Iola.

The Rev. Janel Chubb of-ficiated.

Cynthia, Hartford, is the daughter of Richard and Mary Volland, Madison.

Harold, Iola, is the son of William and Helen Dvo-rachek, Vienna, Va.

The matron of honor was Dorothy Dvorachek-Lars-en, Chicago. The brides-maid was Jackqulyne Pal-let, Okinawa, Japan.

The best man was Sgt. Martin Pallen, Okinawa. The groomsman was An-drew Dvorachek, Lawrence.

Cynthia is a fifth-grade teacher at Village Elemen-tary School, Emporia. Har-

old is self-employeed in the oil business.

The couple currently re-sides in rural Yates Center.

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By JOCELYN SHEETSjocelyn@iolaregister.comIola High’s Blue and Gold

scrimmages are coming,Iola’s Fillies hit the volley-

ball court Tuesday for their in-trasquad scrimmage. It starts at 7 p.m. in the high school gym.

The Mustang football team will scrimmage at 7 p.m. Thurs-day. That will be at the football stadium in Riverside Park.

Admission to either scrim-mage is free but cash donations will be accepted. All donations go to the athletic programs.

Iola High will sell season passes for athletic events dur-ing each scrimmage.

The IHS Booster Club will be on hand both nights to sell memberships. The club also has IHS clothing and spirit items for sale.

There will be free watermel-on to all attending the Mustang football scrimmage. Watermel-ons have been donated by Jim Talkington of Iola’s Shelter In-surance.

The Fillies open the 2012 vol-leyball season in a tournament at Prairie View High School in LaCygne next Saturday. The IHS junior varsity volleyball team hosts a tournament that Satur-

day also.Iola’s foot-

ball squad opens the 2012 season at home Aug. 31. A new oppo-nent — the Cherryvale High Char-gers — come to Riverside Park’s sta-dium on that Friday night.

On each home football game Friday night, the IHS Booster Club will have its cook trailer at the west end of the stadium. It will offer meal deals for fans.

The IHS Booster Club gave $12,000 to IHS activities last year, according to Sharla Miller, booster club vice president.

While the Mustang football team is in Blue and Gold scrim-mage mode Thursday, the IHS girls’ tennis team begins its season at Chanute. The tennis matches begin at 3 p.m. at the CHS tennis courts.

Iola High’s cross country team begins the 2012 season Aug. 30 at Garnett in the An-derson County High Invita-tional. It starts at 4 p.m.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — Peer-ing through heavy rain, Dexter McCluster backed-pedaled to catch the punt, cut left and sprint-ed a Kansas City team-record 94 yards for a touchdown to spark a season-opening victory over San Diego that led to the AFC West championship.

That’s the last time the Chiefs returned a punt for a touchdown. Two years and counting. Even worse for the Chiefs, it’s going on three years since anybody ran a kickoff all the way back to the end zone.

Not surprisingly, special teams coach Steve Hoffman lost his job and his replacement, Tom Mc-Mahon, has been stressing kick returns since the minute camp opened on July 27.

“The return game has been a big point of emphasis,” said Mc-Cluster. “We know what we’re ca-pable of if everyone will do their job. And we have the guys back there to get the job done.”

Kansas City plays the St. Louis Rams tonight at 7 o’clock in St. Louis for the second preseason game.

Few things turn a game’s mo-mentum quicker than taking a punt or kickoff all the way back. While going 7-9 in 2011, the Chiefs were one of only 11 teams in the NFL with neither. Their aver-age starting position on offense was basically their own 20-yard line (20.6) — 30th in the 32-team league.

Javier Arenas had a better-than-decent punt return average of 12.8 yards. But he never got into the end zone.

“It’s frustrating to know the average is good. But that is not

something we aim for,” said Are-nas. “We aim for exceeding all ex-pectations on special teams.

Arenas insists he’s not aware of the team’s drought.

“If I am aware, then I’d be beating up on myself,” he said. “I know what I can do and we all know what we can do and we are going to go do it. Simple as that.”

All talk about the long touch-down return drought seems to have been banned.

“I’m not ever going to look back. The bottom line is we have to execute our returns,” said

McMahon. “We don’t try to do so much that every week we are changing it. I think we have some good returners. They’ll produce this year. I’m not talking over their heads, because those guys can produce. I’m going to look for-ward rather than behind.”

McMahon’s approach has been to drill, baby, drill on all the little things.

“There are 11 guys that are in-volved and we have to do a good job blocking,” he said.

Chiefs are wanting more happy returns

By JOCELYN SHEETSjocelyn@iolaregister.com

Longtime cross country and track head coach Marvin Smith knows the hassle of ordering sup-port braces for athletic injuries out of a catalog. Smith, who re-tired as a full time teacher at Iola High but continues to coach, was among several area coaches visit-ing the clinic at Iola Respiratory and Home Medicine Wednesday.

Iola Pharmacy invited coaches Wednesday to review its line of products.

“You have a kid turn an ankle

or something and have to order out of a catalog, It’s tough. You just hope you order the right size and it gets here in time before the kid has to run again,” Smith said.

“It’s good to have the supplies here in town. There’s a nice selec-tion and they are here to help us.”

Jacey Combs, a respiratory therapist, and Jennifer Foster, a durable medical equipment specialist, worked with coaches throughout the day. Marv Taylor, representative of Mueller Sports Care, was on hand to demonstrate

how the sports braces and sup-ports work.

“When I played at Iola High, our ankles were wrapped tight with tape. The braces weren’t as good as they are now,” said Jim Bauer, pharmacist and one of the owners of Iola Pharmacy.

“Last year from the beginning of the football season, it was like a M.A.S.H. unit. We thought it would be good for all the area high school and community college coaches to know what we offered in braces, wraps and supports.”

Coaches from Iola, Humboldt,

Moran, Yates Center, Colony, Bur-lington, Chanute, Erie, Eureka, Fort Scott, Garnett, Le Roy and Uniontown were invited to come. Also coaches from Allen Commu-nity College, Fort Scott Commu-nity College and Neosho County Community College received in-vitations.

“I came up to see what they had,” said David Taylor, Hum-boldt High head basketball coach and assistant football coach. “This is a local resource for all the schools, the kids and parents.

“It’s convenient for us to be

able to come right up here and get what we need immediately.”

Combs pointed out that individ-uals involved in activities such as sports and cheerleading will receive 25 percent off on braces, wraps and supports for the 2012-2013 year.

“They need to bring in a roster with their name on it and they get the discount,” Combs said.

Wednesday afternoon, there were Iola High football players and a cheerleader who came in and “modeled” some of the brac-es and other items.

COLONY — Crest High’s annu-al Lancer Night is Thursday.

The Lady Lancers’ volleyball intrasquad scrimmage is at 5 p.m. in the CHS gym.

Also at 5 p.m. is the Lancer football team’s scrimmage on the Crest football field.

At 6:15 is the ninth annual CHS football player auction.

M e m b e r s of the Lancer football team will be auc-tioned off to do four hours of work. Pro-ceeds benefit the CHS foot-ball program.

Shane Keyser/Kansas City Star/MCT

Kansas City Chiefs defensive back Javier Arenas (21) looks to make a cut away from Josh Bellamy (8) while returning a kickoff during the team’s training camp at Spratt Stadium at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Mo.

IHS Blue and Gold scrimmages are set

CHS scrimmages are Thursday

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Coaches, athletes find supports locally a good thing

At left, Iola High senior cheerleader Paiton Combs has a knee brace put on by Jacey Combs of the Iola Respiratory and Home Medicine department of the Iola Pharmacy.Above, Iola High football players, left to right, sophomore Shane Walden, seniors Mason Coons and Stephen McDonald and junior Adam Kauth have various braces and supports on their arms, legs and feet offered by Iola Pharmacy. Paiton Combs and the Mustangs were models during a coaches clinic Wednesday.

Register/Jocelyn Sheets

B2Saturday, August 18, 2012 The Iola Register www.iolaregister.com

KICKS COUNTRY IN IOLA Trading Post — 8 a.m. - 9 a.m.

Community of Christ East 54 Hwy • Iola

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship:

10:45 a.m. Wednesday Evening Prayer

as announced Gary Murphey, pastor Phone: (620) 365-2683

Covenant of Faith Christian Center

407 N. Chestnut • Iola Sunday worship . . . . . 10:00 a.m. Sunday evening . . . . . . . 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Bible study . . . . . 7 p.m. Wednesday service . . . . . . . . 7 p.m.

Rev. Philip Honeycutt (620) 365-7405

First Baptist Church

801 N. Cottonwood Iola, 365-2779

Sunday School . . . . . . 9:15-10:15 a.m. Sunday Worship . . . 10:30-11:30 p.m.

on 1370 KIOL 11-11:30 Sunday Evening Bible Study Youth/Adult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 p.m. Wednesday Prayer Meeting . . . . . 6:30

Dr. Michael Quinn Pastor

Carlyle Presbyterian

Church Sunday Worship: 9:30 a.m. Sunday School immediately

after service Pastor Steve Traw

Humboldt United Methodist Church

806 N. 9th Humboldt

(620) 473-3242 Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship . . . . . . . . 11:00 a.m. MS/HS Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:00 p.m.

– Nursery provided – Pastor Marge Cox

First Baptist Church

7th & Osage Humboldt

(620) 473-2481 Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship . . . . . . . . . . 10:50 a.m. Sunday Evening Kids Bible Club . . . . . . . . 5:30 p.m. Evening Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m. Wed. Night Bible Study . . . . . . 7 p.m.

Rev. Jerry Neeley, pastor

St. Timothy ’ s Episcopal Church

202 S. Walnut • Iola

Holy Eucharist & Sermon at 9 a.m. followed by coffee and fellowship

Rev. Jan Chubb (620) 365-7306

Moran United Methodist Church

First and Cedar Streets Moran

(620) 237-4442 Sunday School 8:45 a.m. Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m. EVERYONE WELCOME

Rev. Young-Gil Bahng

Independent & Fundamental Lincoln & Second Streets, Iola Sunday School (all ages) . 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship . . . . . . . . . 10:50 a.m. Evening Worship . . . . . . . . . . . 6:00 p.m. Wed. Prayer & Worship . . 7:00 p.m.

(Nursery provided, all services) Roger R. Collins, pastor

church 365-2833

Grace Lutheran Church

117 E, Miller Rd. • Iola (620) 365-6468

Sunday School 9:00 a.m. Adult Bible Class 9:00 a.m. Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

Rev. Bruce Kristalyn

St. John ’ s Catholic Church

(620) 365-3454 Saturday evening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:30 p.m. Sunday Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 a.m. (at St. Joseph’ s, Yates Center) . . . 8 a.m. Wednesday P.S.R. Classes . . . . 6:30 p.m.

(September through May) Confessions Saturday 4:30-5:00 p.m.

Father John P. Miller

Fellowship Regional Church

Saturday: CRUX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m. Sunday: Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:30 a.m.

Pastors, Jeff Cokely Jared Ellis & Luke Bycroft

365-8001

First Presbyterian Church – Iola

302 E. Madison • Iola Sunday Worship . . . . . . 9:30 a.m. Sunday School . . . . . . 10:45 a.m. Wednesday Kids Club . . 3 p.m.

Rev. Kathryn Bell Interim Pastor (620) 365-3481

First Christian Church

1608 Oregon Rd. • Iola (620) 365-3436

“ Lead-Feed-Tend ” - (John 21:15 - 17)

Sunday School: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship: . . . . . . . . . . 10:30 a.m. Bible Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:00 p.m. Wed, prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:30 p.m.

Pastor Dave McGullion Youth Pastor Travis Riley

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First Assembly of God 1020 E. Carpenter • Iola

Sunday School, All Ages . . . . . . . . 9 a.m. Sunday Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 a.m. Sunday Praise & Prayer . . . . . . . . 6 p.m. Wednesday Bible Class . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m.

(620) 365-2492 iolafirstag.org Pastor Paul Miller

Trinity United Methodist Church

Broadway & Kentucky Iola (620) 365-5235

Sunday Worship 11 a.m. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. All Are Welcome!

Pastor Leslie Jackson

St. Peter ’ s Lutheran Church 910 Amos St. • Humboldt

Sunday Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 a.m. Pastor David E. Meier (620) 473-2343

Ward Chapel A.M.E.

Lincoln and Buckeye Streets Iola

Sunday School . . . . . . . . . 10:00 a.m. Sunday Worship . . . . . . . 11:00 a.m.

Pastor: Barbara J. Miniefee

Wesley United Methodist Church

Madison & Buckeye 365-2285

Sun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Worship 9:00 a.m. Sun. School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:15 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Middle School UMYF 6:00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . High School UMYF 7:00 Rev. Trudy Kenyon Anderson

For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, & whoever calls upon His name shall not

perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16

Calvary United Methodist Church

Jackson & Walnut St. • Iola “ The Cross Shines Brightly at Calvary ”

Sunday worship: 9:15 a.m. Sunday school: 10:30 a.m.

Rev. Gene McIntosh, Pastor Office: 365-3883

Parsonage: 365-3893

If you would like to join our directory

call Janet at the Iola Register for details,

(620) 365-2111.

Community Baptist Church

124 N. Fourth • Iola Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00 a.m. Sun. Morning Service . . 11:00 a.m. Sun. Evening Service . . . . . 6:00 p.m. Wed. Prayer Meeting . . . . . . 6:00 p.m.

Marion Sponseller, pastor Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Home (620) 365-6811 (620) 365- 3150

KJV Indepedent

Friends Home Lutheran Church

Savonburg

Sunday Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 a.m

PMA Sidney Hose 620-754-3314

Trinity Lutheran Church

430 N. Grant Garnett, KS

Saturday: Women Bible Study 9a.m. Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 a.m. Sunday Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 a.m. Wednesday Bible Study . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m.

Pastor: Ervin A. Daughtery Jr. 785-448-6930

LaHarpe Baptist Mission

901 S. Main LaHarpe

(620) 228-1829 Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship . . . . . . . . 11:00 a.m. Sunday Evening . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:00 p.m. Wednesday Service . . . . . . . 7:00 p.m.

Pastor Duwayne Bearden

Poplar Grove Baptist Church

305 Mulberry Humboldt

(620) 473-3063 church Come Let Us Worship The Lord Sunday School.....................9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship.................10:45 a.m. Thursday Service...............6 p.m.

Rev. James Manual

Harvest Baptist Church

401 S. Walnut • Iola (620) 365-3688 (620) 228-2522

Sunday School 9:15 a.m. & Fellowship Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.

Pastor: Tony Godfrey

Salem United Methodist Church

“ The Little White Church in the Country” 3 miles west,

2 miles south of Iola Sunday school: 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship: 11:00 a.m. Rev. Gene McIntosh Pastor

(620) 365-3883

He’s also been evaluating candidates to return both punts and kickoffs. Mc-Cluster, Arenas, Devon Wy-lie, Cyrus Gray and Mikail Baker have all been given long looks. The Chiefs had several nice returns dur-ing Friday night’s 27-17 preseason victory over Ari-zona, including a 32-yard punt return by Wylie and Arenas’ 31-yard kickoff re-turn.

Still, nobody got into the end zone. In 2011, teams went 6-3 in games where they returned a kickoff for a TD. When taking back a punt for a score, teams were 15-5.

“I think the guys are working at it,” said coach Romeo Crennel. “In prac-tice, all the guys, they know the right assignments and they kind of go to the right spots. But when you do it in a game and that adrenaline is flowing and you’re doing it against a different oppo-

nent, it doesn’t always work out the way it does in prac-tice. I like our ability in the return game. Now we have to get into the game. We have to execute and then take advantage of that abil-ity.”

On kickoff returns, Mc-Mahon said he would like to reach the 25-yard line on average. It might surprise him to know the boss has loftier hopes.

“I think if we can get the ball on the 30- and 40-yard line on a consistent basis, that would be pretty good,” said Crennel.

Notes: CB Brandon Flow-ers began a third straight week of inactivity because of a foot injury. Crennel in-dicated Flowers probably would not play Saturday night in St. Louis. “We’re doing all we can to evaluate him, look at him, and try to help him get back on the field,” Crennel said. “And he’s working, doing every-thing we ask of him to try

to get back. But he’s just not back yet. It’s not where it needs to be with him.”

NFL PreseasonThursday’s Games

Cleveland 35, Green Bay 10Cincinnati 24, Atlanta 19

Friday’s GamesTennessee at Tampa BayBuffalo at MinnesotaJacksonville at New OrleansDetroit at BaltimoreMiami at CarolinaOakland at Arizona

Saturday’s GamesN.Y. Giants at N.Y. Jets, 6 p.m.San Francisco at Houston, 7 p.m.Kansas City at St. Louis, 7 p.m.Washington at Chicago, 7 p.m.Dallas at San Diego, 8 p.m.Seattle at Denver, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s GameIndianapolis at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Monday’s GamePhiladelphia at New England, 7 p.m

Major League BaseballAt A Glance

By The Associated PressAll Times EDT

American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBNew York 70 48 .593 —Baltimore 64 54 .542 6Tampa Bay 64 54 .542 6Boston 58 61 .487 12½Toronto 55 63 .466 15

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 65 52 .556 —Detroit 63 55 .534 2½Cleveland 54 64 .458 11½Kansas City 51 66 .436 14Minnesota 50 67 .427 15

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 68 49 .581 —Oakland 62 55 .530 6Los Angeles 62 57 .521 7Seattle 55 64 .462 14

Thursday’s GamesTexas 10, N.Y. Yankees 6Boston 6, Baltimore 3Chicago White Sox 7, Toronto 2Oakland 3, Kansas City 0Tampa Bay 7, L.A. Angels 0Friday’s GamesBaltimore at Detroit, 7:05 p.m.Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.Texas at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.Cleveland at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.Tampa Bay at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.Minnesota at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesTexas (Dempster 1-1) at Toronto (Vil-lanueva 6-2), 1:07 p.m.Boston (Lester 6-10) at N.Y. Yankees (Phelps 3-3), 4:05 p.m.Baltimore (S.Johnson 1-0) at Detroit (Porcello 9-7), 7:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Peavy 9-8) at Kansas City (B.Chen 8-10), 7:10 p.m.Cleveland (Kluber 0-1) at Oakland (B.Colon 9-9), 9:05 p.m.Tampa Bay (Cobb 7-8) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 9-9), 9:05 p.m.Minnesota (Diamond 10-5) at Seattle (Vargas 13-8), 9:10 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesBaltimore at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.Texas at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.Tampa Bay at L.A. Angels, 3:35 p.m.Cleveland at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.Minnesota at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 8:05 p.m.

Monday’s GamesKansas City at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.Baltimore at Texas, 8:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.Minnesota at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.Cleveland at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBWashington 73 45 .619 —Atlanta 69 49 .585 4New York 56 62 .475 17Philadelphia 54 64 .458 19Miami 53 66 .445 20½

Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati 71 47 .602 —

Pittsburgh 65 53 .551 6St. Louis 64 54 .542 7Milwaukee 53 64 .453 17½Chicago 46 70 .397 24Houston 39 80 .328 32½

West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles 65 54 .546 —San Francisco 64 54 .542 ½Arizona 59 59 .500 5½San Diego 52 68 .433 13½Colorado 45 71 .388 18½

Thursday’s GamesPittsburgh 10, L.A. Dodgers 6N.Y. Mets 8, Cincinnati 4Atlanta 6, San Diego 0Milwaukee 7, Philadelphia 4Arizona 2, St. Louis 1Colorado 5, Miami 3

Friday’s GamesN.Y. Mets at Washington, 7:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta, 7:35 p.m.Arizona at Houston, 8:05 p.m.Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.Miami at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.San Francisco at San Diego, 10:05 p.m.

Saturday’s GamesChicago Cubs (Samardzija 8-10) at Cincinnati (Cueto 15-6), 1:10 p.m., 1st gamePittsburgh (Bedard 7-12) at St. Louis (Lynn 13-5), 4:05 p.m.Arizona (Corbin 4-4) at Houston (Lyles 2-9), 7:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Niese 9-6) at Washington (E.Jackson 7-7), 7:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Raley 0-2) at Cincin-nati (Redmond 0-0), 7:10 p.m., 2nd gameL.A. Dodgers (Harang 8-7) at Atlanta (Sheets 4-2), 7:10 p.m.Philadelphia (Hamels 13-6) at Mil-waukee (Fiers 6-5), 7:10 p.m.Miami (Eovaldi 3-8) at Colorado (Chatwood 3-2), 8:10 p.m.San Francisco (Zito 9-8) at San Di-ego (Stults 3-2), 8:35 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesChicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta, 1:35 p.m.N.Y. Mets at Washington, 1:35 p.m.Arizona at Houston, 2:05 p.m.Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m.Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.Miami at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.San Francisco at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.

Monday’s GamesAtlanta at Washington, 7:05 p.m.Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.Colorado at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.Miami at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.Pittsburgh at San Diego, 10:05 p.m.San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

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H ChiefsContinued from B1

NEW YORK (AP) — Less than three weeks before the season kicks off, the NFL and the NFL Referees Asso-ciation are no closer to an agreement to end the lock-out of officials.

As replacement officials work preseason games — and generally get criticized for their performances — the league and officials Thursday disputed such issues as full-time employ-ees and adding officiating crews.

On Sept. 5, the Cowboys visit the Giants to open the season. Not since 2001 has the NFL played games that count in the standings with replacement officials, and that was for one week. This lockout began June 3.

The NFL is offering to add three full officiating crews, increasing the total number of officials to 140.

League spokesman Greg Aiello said “this would re-duce stress on the officials by allowing each official to work fewer games, would reduce travel, would allow us to do more intensive training, integrate younger officials more effectively, increase diversity, and im-prove quality of officiating.

“The union flatly oppos-es this proposal ...” Aiello added.

But the NFLRA insists the compensation being of-fered with such an increase would reduce their pay.

“The increase in the number of officials was first proposed by the NFL to the NFLRA by letter dated July 19, 2012 and had never been mentioned in the pre-ceding 10 months of nego-tiations,” the NFLRA said in a statement. “It is clear that this proposal is a ne-

gotiating tactic to attempt to divert attention from the real issues.”

Another key issue, one Aiello noted will improve the quality of officiating long term, is hiring full-time officials. The league is proposing having seven of-ficials — one per position of referee, umpire, line judge, side judge, back judge, field judge, head linesman — who would train, scout, handle communications, safety issues and rules in-terpretations year-round. Now, all NFL game officials are part-time employees, with outside jobs ranging from lawyer to teacher to business owner.

Finally, there is a stale-mate over the officials’ pen-sion plan, which the union said the league plans to freeze and ultimately ter-minate.

Referees, NFL still at an impasse

By ANDY HYLANDThe Lawrence Journal-World

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Say you’re teaching a class at Kansas University, and you’re worried about a particular student.

Maybe a passage in a paper seems particularly dark or talks about suicide. Maybe someone notices a social media post that looks like a threat. Maybe a student unleashes a loud, verbal attack after receiv-ing a failing grade. Where to call?

Definitely 785-864-4060, says Frank DeSalvo, asso-ciate vice provost for stu-dent affairs.

That will alert KU’s Student Conduct Review Team, a group of seven people who consider cases where students are exhib-iting behavior that others may find alarming.

The group was formed in April 2008, about a year after a campus shooting at Virginia Tech University that left 33 people dead. DeSalvo, a member of the team, said the university wanted to pull together experts from a variety of areas of campus to get a sense about why certain behaviors might be occur-ring and the psychology behind them.

Andrew Shoemaker, as-sociate director for KU’s

Academic Achievement and Access Center, is an-other team member. He said that while many uni-versities — such as Arizo-na State, where he worked before coming to KU — had these teams in place, many more formed after the Vir-ginia Tech shooting.

“I think Virginia Tech probably opened the eyes to a lot of different cam-puses,” Shoemaker said.

A similar team at the University of Colorado considered the case of James Holmes, who now faces 24 counts of first-degree murder and 116 counts of attempted mur-der after a shooting July 20 in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater.

In that instance, accord-ing to the ABC affiliate in Denver, the team took no further action after Holmes began the process of dropping out of school around the same time as the review.

At KU, DeSalvo said, re-sponses can vary depend-ing on what the team finds. Upon receiving a call that someone is worried about a student, DeSalvo said some initial inquiries are made before convening the entire group.

In some cases, students simply don’t know their behavior was improper, and the situation is quick-

ly remedied, DeSalvo said.“We tell them what they

have done almost consti-tutes or about constitutes a threat, which is a crimi-nal violation,” he said. “We just say don’t do it anymore and they comply. They don’t realize how close they came to commit-ting a crime.”

Other instances involve relationships that need to be worked out, such as a po-tential stalking situation.

Rarely, a student is deemed to be an imminent danger to himself or oth-ers, DeSalvo said, and can be referred (involuntarily, in some cases) to the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center. KU Police Capt. Schuyler Bailey is a member of the group, and can involve police if neces-sary, DeSalvo said.

Even if a student is no longer enrolled and is still a concern, DeSalvo said the group can ask police to drive by the student’s residence and at least see what’s going on.

“They’ll talk with them for awhile,” DeSalvo said. “They’ll get in there and at least see what kind of con-dition the apartment is in and what kind of condition the student is in.”

Shoemaker said each member of the team brings a different sort of specialty to the table when meeting

with a student. His role, for example, is often to re-fer students with disabili-ties to a variety of services that can potentially assist with the situation, includ-ing offering note-takers, secluded testing rooms or other services.

“It’s not a disciplinary thing,” when the commit-tee meets with a student, Shoemaker said. “It’s more, ‘We’ve heard some concerns. What can we do to help?’”

DeSalvo said calls are in-creasing as more people at KU hear about the service. In 2011, he fielded about 35 calls, some of which were situations that were re-solved without involving the entire committee. And that’s OK, he said, as it’s always better to err on the side of caution.

“If you’re wondering about whether or not to call us, that’s the indicator to call us,” DeSalvo said.

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SundayKansas Old Time Fiddlers, Pickers and Singers, 1-4 p.m., North

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Horseshoe Pitching League, 6:30 p.m., Riverside Park horse-shoe pits, all ages and skill levels welcome.

Friday Seniorcise class, 9 a.m., Recreation Community Building.Water exercise class, 9-10 a.m., Super 8 Motel, Pauline Hawk

instructor, call 365-5565.

Coming eventsYouth Flag Football Program, registration forms available at the

recreation office, registration deadline is Aug. 31, boys in girls in grades 1-5 eligible.

Quilting group, 6-8 p.m., second and fourth Monday of each month, North Community Building, 505 N. Buckeye St., call Helen Sutton, 365-3375.

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HOLTON, Kan. (AP) — Three Topeka men survived when a small plane crashed in rural Kansas.

Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse says the plane landed in a ditch west of Holton Thursday night. He says two of the men were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries and a third suffered minor inju-ries.

The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the men as 58-year-old David F. Os-

borne of Berryton, the plane’s pilot; 52-year-old Steve L. Stutzman and 47-year-old Stephen M. Graff, both of Topeka.

The men were returning to Topeka from a business trip to North Dakota.

Morse says Osborne be-gan looking for a place to land after the plane started smoking and descending rapidly. The plane went down along a rural road south of Kansas 16 west of Holton.

Three men survive plane crash near HoltonI think Virginia

Tech probably opened the eyes to a lot of differ-ent campuses.

— Andrew Shoemakerassociate director for

KU’s Academic Achieve-ment and Access Center

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KU follows trend, evaluate upset students

Open Circle club meetsMembers of the Open Circle met Wednesday at B & B

Cafe in ola. Phylis McVey served as hostess.Nine members and one guest, Ashton Louk, attended.A thank-you card from the family of David Troxel was

read.June Terrell will host the club at at 11 a.m. Sept. 12 at

her home.

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By AMY BICKELThe Hutchinson NewsKINGMAN, Kan. (AP) —

Maneuvering his boat on murky waters, Jeff Koch envisions a day when an-glers again will frequent Kingman State Fishing Lake in search of a limit of healthy sport fish.

But during a trip to the northern end of the lake, where northern pike typi-cally gather near a spring to escape the summer heat, the state fisheries biologist and his crew were coming up with everything they didn’t want.

“That’s telling,” Koch said as his crew netted large gizzard shad instead of the pike they sought.

Long overrun by white perch, as well as large giz-zard shad and common carp, anglers aren’t having as much luck as they’d like when fishing at the King-man lake. The numbers tell the story. Anglers us-ing the lake have fallen 70 percent since 1999.

“If people aren’t using the lake, that tells us some-thing,” Koch said. “Large-mouth bass, bluegill and

crappie populations are in pretty bad shape.”

Therefore, this week Koch and his Kansas De-partment of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism crew searched the lake to try to salvage what they could of the pike population — a self-sustaining fish that has been in the lake since the mid-1990s — before they drained the lake in at-tempt to kill what was left.

Then, he said, he and other officials would sim-ply start over.

White perch thrive in the Chesapeake Bay area and KDWPT officials would rather they stay away from Kansas waters.

However, in 1994 wild-life and parks staff mis-takenly introduced perch into Cheney and Wilson reservoirs during a striped bass stocking that origi-nated from Virginia, said regional fisheries supervi-sor Sean Lynott.

That same shipment also was supposed to go to Glen Elder but didn’t, Koch said.

Because of natural and illegal movements, perch now are in other state wa-

ters, including Lake Af-ton and Sedgwick County Park Lakes in Sedgwick County, Carey Park Pond in Hutchinson, Hoover Pond in Kingman and the Ninnescah, Arkansas and Saline rivers.

Lynott said Kingman’s infestation of perch prob-ably occurred from an an-gler who had perch in his bait bucket.

White perch are a pro-lific species. Numbers augmented so much that by 2010, Koch and other wildlife and parks officials knew the problem had to be fixed — and before an-gler usage dropped any further.

“There just were not enough predators to keep the numbers down,” Koch

said.That has hurt the aquat-

ic life in the lake, he said. White perch and other nui-sance fish are destroying spawning efforts and eat-ing young fish after they hatch.

“Ever since 2003, when we discovered white perch in the lake, their num-bers have drastically in-creased,” Koch said. “That has led to the decrease of our sport fish popula-tions.”

Meanwhile, carp also have become common enough that they are root-ing on the bottom of the lake, leaving the water cloudy — conditions not necessarily preferred by clear water fish like north-ern pike.

Fishing suffering in state lakes

NORTH HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Officials in a Con-necticut town say they’ve settled a zoning dispute over a 7-year-old girl’s 20-pound pet bunny after receiving calls and emails from across the country supporting her.

North Haven First Select-man Michael Freda said Friday that the town will allow the girl and her fam-ily to keep the Flemish giant named Sandy and change the zoning rule that led to a

cease-and-desist order three weeks ago. The rule bars anyone from keeping rabbits and other livestock on prop-erties smaller than 2 acres.

The town’s zoning enforce-ment officer issued the cease-and-desist order while inves-tigating a blight complaint against the Lidsky family.

Josh Lidsky says his daughter, Kayden, is happy about the town’s decision. He says she was scared and cried because she didn’t want to lose her bunny.

Giant rabbit allowed to stay

If people aren’t using the lake, that tells us something. Larmouth bass, bluegill and crappie populations are in pretty bad shape.

— Jeff KochKansas Department

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Dear Dr. Donohue: You have written very little about asthma, its cause and treatment. Is it in-herited? I am 86 and de-veloped it at the age of 5. My daughters and their children are asthmatics. — H.S.

Answer: A s t h m a obstructs the flow of air into and out of the lungs. Part of the obstruction comes from a sudden nar-rowing of the airways (bronchi). A second con-tributor is the produc-tion of thick mucus that plugs the airways. The obstruction isn’t perma-nent. It comes in attacks. More than 300 million people worldwide suffer from asthma.

Allergens are one trig-ger for asthma attacks. They include pollens from trees, grasses and weeds. Mold spores are another trigger. So are dust mites. Irritants, cigarette smoke being a big one, plus cold air and strong perfumes induce an attack. Some medi-cines bring on asthma. Aspirin and beta block-ers (medicines used to control the heartbeat and lower blood pres-sure) are two examples. Viral infections are an-other source of trouble for asthmatics. Even strenuous exercise can provoke an attack.

Your family history shows that asthma can have a genetic basis. Multiple genes, not a single gene, are thought to transmit it to off-spring. Not every case of asthma, however, comes about through inheri-tance.

Asthma might not be completely cured, but it most often can be con-trolled and be made less of an intrusion into one’s life. Drugs in in-haler form provide rapid expansion of the airways when an attack begins. Proventil and Ventolin are two examples. Be-cause inflamed airways are another contributor to attacks, inhaled medi-cines that contain one of the many cortisone drugs soothe inflamed

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Dear Tom and Ray:When I first learned to

drive, a million years ago, my father (who knew noth-ing about cars) advised me to always drive a manual transmission because they handle better, are easier to repair, are cheaper, get better mileage, etc. Be-ing an obedient daughter, I have owned and driven only manual-transmission cars all these years. Also, I needed the boost I got from the cool factor of a woman driving a stick shift (men are so transparent). But now I’m older and am tired of all that shifting. I’m get-ting ready to trade in my 2003 Subaru Forester for a new one, and I want an au-tomatic -- but will I be losing out on all the good things, like control and economy? Or does that no longer re-ally apply, with today’s car engineering? I don’t want to do anything that might make me any less cool than I already am. Can I make the switch? My father isn’t around any longer to advise me, but I know he would trust the opinions of his fa-vorite car guys. – Nina

TOM: Get the automatic,

Nina. You have our bless-ing.

RAY: The things your fa-ther cites, while true in his day, are either no longer true or are not compelling arguments anymore. Let’s take them one at a time.

TOM: Myth 1: Manual transmissions get better mileage. While this cer-tainly was true for a long time, today’s automatic transmissions pretty much match the mileage you can get with manual transmis-sions.

RAY: Older automat-ics had a lot of “slippage,” or inefficiency, built into them. But much of that is gone since there are now computer controls, lock-up torque converters and things like dual clutches. Some automatics now have six, seven, eight or even infinitely variable speeds, giving them an advantage in mileage over their man-ual counterparts.

TOM: Myth 2: A manual transmission gives you more control over your car. This usually refers to being able to employ engine braking by downshifting or delaying an upshift. But you know what? You can do those things with an automatic transmission, too. And many computer-controlled automatics now have a “manual mode” that allows you to shift up and down through the gears manually anyway. So, if you want to, you can still drive to Duluth in second gear and get seven miles per gallon.

RAY: Plus, with the wide-spread adoption of comput-erized safety enhancements such as stability control, traction control and anti-lock brakes, new cars are very well-controlled these days, no matter what kind of transmission you’re using.

TOM: Myth 3: Manual transmissions are cheaper and easier to repair. Well, that one’s true. On cars that offer you a manual trans-mission option, it’s often $1,000 less than the auto-matic. And should your automatic need a rebuild, it’s expensive, because it’s like doing one of those

14,000-piece jigsaw puzzles without the box-top picture.

RAY: However, many au-tomatic transmissions last for the life of the vehicle, whereas a manual trans-mission will require at least one, if not more, $1,000 clutch replacements during a car’s life. So the costs re-ally are about the same.

TOM: Myth 4: Manual transmissions are more fun. That’s probably the stron-gest argument for getting a manual transmission. And if you feel that way, you should get one and enjoy it.

RAY: But for some peo-ple, they’re not more fun -- people who live in cities, for instance, and have to creep along in traffic every day. Or people who’d rather have their right hand free to change the radio station or administer a dope slap to a recalcitrant preteen in a passenger seat.

TOM: But it’s really a matter of personal pref-erence now. There are no good economic or mechani-cal reasons to choose a manual over an automatic anymore, Nina. So be as shiftless as you like. Dad would approve.

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Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s last two victories occurred at Michigan, the next Sprint Cup Series stop, and he’s trying to put a halt to his first slump of the season.

It doesn’t matter. Earnhardt said he’s not going to play favorites anymore.

“I don’t have a favorite because I’ve figured out that if I had favorites … I’d go to those ones that I didn’t like, and I didn’t run well because I’d go it with a bad attitude about it,” he said. “I would go to Darlington being miserable about being there, run miserable and have a miserable experience. Everybody around me was affected by that aura and that emotion.

“You really have to do a lot of soul searching on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday about trying to put yourself in a positive frame of mind about this being the time you’re going to go out there and put in the effort. Put in the work and make something happen. … I would get to about eight weeks left in the year and wish it was over because it just felt like it was so long. I felt like I was just burned out. I was just arguing and strug-gling, and pulling and pushing, and shoving within my team, or with other drivers, or what have you. Or just the sport.”

Not an issue — Many fans have thought Mar-tin Truex Jr. slighted by television coverage that overlooked him in post-race interviews during a string of top-five finishes.

If Truex was as miffed as some reported, he wasn’t showing it in his Watkins Glen press con-ference. Or was he?

“Honestly, either way, it doesn’t matter,” Truex said. “I’m paid to go out there and do a job, and I feel like I’m doing that as well as I can possibly do it right now. So, for me, that’s enough. I don’t need to read my name in print or be in headlines. That’s not what I’m here for. I’m here to do my job, have fun doing it, work with my guys and be part of a team.

“We’ve done a fabulous job this year. I feel like we’re stepping up our program on all fronts. I feel like I’ve done a good job as a driver of be-ing a leader of my team, being a team player and somebody who’s had a lot of input into where we’re at. I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished, and whether it makes the headlines or not, I couldn’t care less.”

Dirt is brown — Penske competition director Travis Geisler had an interesting take on “the color of success” at the Glen.

“Black is good, brown is bad,” he said in a Dodge release. “You can have every right strategy – fuel mileage, brake package, transmission suc-cess – in the world be right, but if you run off track and lose track position, you can’t recover.

“Track position is key, and there are many ways you can lose it at Watkins Glen. First thing is having a good, consistent race and staying on track.”

He’s got the itch — Carl Edwards, who raced at least semi-regularly in the Nationwide Series, made his first appearance of the year on Saturday and wouldn’t rule out the possibility of returning to the series more often.

“We’ll see how this goes and see what Ford and Jack (Roush) are up for, but if this goes well and if it’s fun – which I think it will be – I think there might be more in the future,” Edwards said. “We might try to work a few Nationwide races in when we feel that they’ll be really beneficial and when it will work.”

Still one for all — All four Hendrick Motorsports teams could make the Chase. Does that affect the willingness of the teams to share information?

“It doesn’t,” Jimmie Johnson said. “It can’t. At Hendrick Motorsports, the way it’s set up, the information is always there. It can’t stop. Every outing report that every team makes goes into a database and it’s there.”

If you have a question or comment, write: NASCAR This Week, c/o The Gaston Gazette, P.O. Box 1538, Gastonia, NC 28053 or send an e-mail to mdutton@gastongazette.com. You can also send your NASCAR questions to Monte on Facebook at Facebook.com/monte-dutton and at Twitter.com/MonteDutton. Please specify you are submitting them for the NASCAR This Week page.

Junior trying to break rst slump of seasonBy Monte DuttonNASCAR This Week

WATKINS GLEN KEEPS AMBROSE IN THE HUNT

Only one run for DenleyArnold Denley of Memphis, Tenn., competed in only one major

NASCAR race, at Memphis-Arkansas Speedway, a 1.5-mile dirt track in LeHi, Ark., on June 10, 1956. Ralph Moody, in a Ford, won by four seconds over Jim Paschal, in a Mercury. They completed all 167 laps. Denley started 24th and finished 29th. He completed only five and never ran another race in what is now the Sprint Cup Series. Denley’s 1955 Studebaker wore No. 21. (Source: racing-reference.info)

Marcos Ambrose had barely taken the checkered ag when many were proclaiming Watkins Glen’s Finger Lakes 355 as having produced the greatest nal lap in NASCAR history. Hold your horses. There have been lots of great nal laps. Let’s just say the Glen deserves consideration. Brad Keselowski was odd

man out two days in a row. He lost a rousing duel with Carl Edwards in Saturday’s Nationwide Series race and an ever rougher one to Ambrose (after himself dispatching Kyle Busch) in the Sprint Cup race.Dale Earnhardt Jr. nished

on the lead lap in the season’s rst 20 races (as well as the last one of 2011). Now he’s failed to do two weeks in a row. Coinci-dence? Probably.A.J. Allmendinger now says

he took Adderall by mistake. His story has changed several times. Adderall is apparently used (and abused) by students as a study aid, supposedly increasing their powers of concentration. Does this mean it could be racing’s performance-enhancing drug? NASCAR of cials, by the way, haven’t of cially con rmed that Adderal caused Allmendinger to unk his drug test, acknowledging only that it was “an amphet-amine.” Allmendinger thinks he could complete NASCAR’s recovery program by month’s end. Whether he can nd a ride is another issue entirely.

By Monte DuttonNASCAR This Week

When the final lap at Watkins Glen International commenced, Marcos Ambrose was running third. He knew he had Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski in front of him. What he didn’t know was that he also had an oily track in front of him.

Keselowski took the lead by nudging Busch out of the way. He got the same medicine from Ambrose, enabling the Ford driver from Australia (Launceston, Tasmania) to win at the Glen for the second year in a row.

“I was the first one to slip in the oil, and it was just get-ting worse and worse,” Ambrose said later. “You could tell the car was staying out there because the oil was moving around the race track and you just take your chances. You’ve got to commit at that point in the race, and it was great racing with Kyle and Brad. They’re the two best guys to race. It’s just awesome fun, and that’s the way racing should be and we got the No. 9 Stanley Ford in Victory Lane.”

It was one of the more exciting final laps in NASCAR

history. Both of the 35-year-old’s victories are at Watkins Glen. He has a chance to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup, thanks to the victory, but it will require at least another win in the final four races of the regular season.

But Ambrose holds the qualifying record at Michigan International Speedway, the next stop on the schedule.

“We got the pole at Michigan. We were running top five all day there. There’s no reason why we can’t go there and surprise them again,” he said.

Ambrose had to settle for ninth in the Quicken Loans 400 on June 17.

For the second time, Ambrose managed to win at one of few tracks where his owner, Richard Petty, never took a checkered flag.

“You go and you run, and you do the best you can, and then you try to take advantage of the circumstances that are there,” Petty said. “That’s what Marcos did. He didn’t create any of those circumstances. He took ad-vantage of those circumstances.”

For the second week in a row, the Sprint Cup winner was neither first nor second when the final lap began.

In The Chase MixAmbrose claims exciting Watkins Glen victory, needs another

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2012 POINTS STANDINGSSprint Cup Series Pts.1. Jimmie Johnson 7772. Greg Biffle -13. Matt Kenseth - 24. Dale Earnhardt Jr. -175. Brad Keselowski - 446. Martin Truex Jr. - 497. Clint Bowyer - 588. Tony Stewart - 619. Kevin Harvick - 6710. Denny Hamlin - 8411. Kasey Kahne - 12412. Carl Edwards - 127

Nationwide Series1. Elliott Sadler 7832. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. - 133. Sam Hornish Jr. - 244. Austin Dillon - 295. Justin Allgaier - 746. Michael Annett - 1097. Cole Whitt - 1618. Mike Bliss - 2059. Brian Scott - 26310. Joe Nemechek - 291

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John Clark/NASCAR This WeekAfter his win at Watkins Glen, Marcos Ambrose remains in the hunt for the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Ambrose is currently in 17th place, leaving him 50 points out of 12th place in the Sprint Cup standings. Ambrose needs at least one more victory in the next four races to have a chance to make the Chase. Next up is Michigan International Speedway where Ambrose holds the qualifying record.

Race: Pure Michigan 400Where: Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn (2.0 mi.), 200 laps/400 miles.When: Sunday, Aug. 19.Last year’s winner: Kyle Busch, Toyota.Qualifying record: Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 203.241 mph, June 16, 2012.Race record: Dale Jarrett, Ford, 173.997 mph, June 13, 1999.Last race: Marcos Ambrose greeted owner Richard Petty in Watkins Glen’s victory lane. The Glen is one of few tracks where Kyle Petty won but his father didn’t. Ambrose won at the Glen in Richard Petty Motorsports’ No. 9 Ford for the second consecutive year.

Race: NAPA Auto Parts 200 Presented by DodgeWhere: Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal, Quebec (2.71 mi.), 74 laps/200.9 miles.When: Saturday, Aug. 18.Last year’s winner: Marcos Ambrose, Ford.Qualifying record: Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 97.079 mph, Aug. 29, 2010.Race record: Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 70.025 mph, Aug. 20, 2011.Last race: Carl Edwards, making his first series start of the season, outdueled Brad Keselowski to win at Watkins Glen International. The victory was Edwards’ 38th, surpassing Kevin Harvick for third place all-time.

Race: VFW 200Where: Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn (2.0 mi.), 100 laps/200 miles.When: Saturday, Aug. 4.Last year’s winner: Kevin Harvick, Chevy.Qualifying record: Kyle Busch, Chevy, 181.612 mph, June 17, 2005.Race record: Brendan Gaughan, Dodge, 154.044 mph, July 26, 2003.Last race: Joey Coulter won for the first time in the series, leading a Chevy parade that also included runner-up James Buescher and third-place Nelson Piquet Jr. The Toyotas of Matt Crafton and Denny Hamlin completed the top five.

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Who’s hot: For now, Marcos Ambrose is the master of Wat-kins Glen. He’s won two in a row there. Jimmie Johnson took the points lead by nishing third.

Who’s not: For the second week in a row, Dale Earnhardt Jr. had a rough day, thus falling from rst to fourth in points. Tony Stewart crashed while running second and dropped to eighth in points.

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Keselowski said he didn’t wreck Busch intentionally on a rousing final lap at Watkins Glen International. Keselowski didn’t win the race as a result, thanks to Marcos Ambrose’s similarly headlong rush to the front. Busch declined com-ment, but crew chief Dave Rogers said simply, “Well, he raced us the way he raced us.”

NASCAR This Week’s Monte Dutton gives his take: “Not only was the race on the line. Oil was on the track. Quite the rousing spectacle.”

KYLE BUSCH VS. BRAD KESELOWSKIKyle Busch Keselowski

The rules are differentThis Week welcomes letters to the editor, but

please be aware that we have room for only a few each week. We’ll do our best to select the best, but individual replies are impossible due to the bulk of mail received. Please do not send stamped and self-addressed envelopes with your letters, which should be addressed to: NASCAR This Week, The Gaston Gazette, P.O. Box 1538, Gastonia, N.C. 28053. Send emails to mdutton@gastongazette.com, ATTN: NTW question

Dear NASCAR This Week,Please, will someone explain to me the

difference between the original start of the Nationwide race at the Brickyard and the last restart, when they black-flagged the leader …? It appears to some of us that the name of the driver was the only difference. What is right for one is right for all.

Martha LonnMesick, Mich.

The View: First of all, we disagree with the call, too, but NASCAR officials pointed out that the start and subsequent restarts are not defined by the same rules. The race’s start is governed by when the green flag waves. Subsequent restarts are in the hands of the leader, who may accelerate at any time after he reaches a defined point coming to the flagstand. We disagree with the call because Elliott Sadler had little choice in the matter because he was being pushed by a trailing car.

Chase contenders at the House of Blues in ChicagoOn Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the House of

Blues in Chicago, fans will be able to interact directly with the 12 Chase contenders at 1:30 p.m. NASCAR Contenders Live, sponsored by Toyota and Sprint, will signify the start of the most intense and competitive time of the NASCAR season, the 2012 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. The 12 Chase contenders will interact onstage with NASCAR’s biggest supporters, the fans, and share their strategies and insight on how they plan to win the ultimate prize: the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship. Fans can visit www.NASCAR.com/ContendersLive to enter the “Contenders Live” Sweepstakes until Aug. 30.

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