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

Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

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

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

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

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

By SUSAN [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By RICHARD [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

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

By BOB [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

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By JOE [email protected]

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

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

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-

By BOB [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Temps for runlook inviting

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

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

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

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

Pekarek finds home at USD 257

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

Cheating scandal detailed

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Vol. 114, No. 222 75 Cents Iola, KS

JENNIFER PELTZAssociated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Ameri-cans paused again Tuesday to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror at-tacks with familiar ceremony, but also a sense that it’s time to move forward after a decade of remembrance.

As in past years, thousands were expected to gather at the World Trade Center site in New York, the Pentagon and Shanks-ville, Pa., to read the names of nearly 3,000 victims killed in the worst terror attack in U.S. his-tory. President Barack Obama was to attend the Pentagon me-

morial, and Vice President Joe Biden was to speak in Pennsyl-vania.

But many felt that last year’s 10th anniversary was an emo-tional turning point for public mourning of the attacks. For the first time, elected officials weren’t speaking at the ceremo-ny, which often allowed them a solemn turn in the spotlight, but raised questions about the public and private Sept. 11.

“I feel much more relaxed” this year, said Jane Pollicino, who came to ground zero Tues-day morning to remember her husband, who was killed at the trade center. “After the ninth

anniversary, that next day, you started building up to the 10th year. This feels a lot different, in that regard. It’s another anni-versary that we can commemo-rate in a calmer way, without that 10-year pressure.”

As bagpipes played at the year-old Sept. 11 memorial in New York, family clutching bal-loons, flowers and photos of their loved ones bowed their heads in silence at 8:46 a.m., the moment that the first hijacked jetliner crashed into the trade center’s north tower. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama observed the

NEVER FORGET

Curtis Tate/MCTAbout 10,000 people attend the dedication of the Flight 93 National Memorial on Monday. The memorial, near Shanksville, Pa., is still $5 million short of completion, and the families of the 40 passengers and crew members who died here would like to see the project finished by 2016.

11th anniversary ceremony begins in NY

USD 257 meets in LaHarpe

Morehomessought forupgrades


LAHARPE — Chuck Richey, LaHarpe, said the Iola school dis-trict “shot itself in the foot,” by closing the LaHarpe Elementary School in 2009 and questioned whether it was worth the money saved because of students who have since transferred to other districts.

Tony Leavitt, board president, admitted it “caused some hard feelings,” but that it was a pru-dent move, “considering our bud-get has been cut by $2.2 million” since 2008.

In an effort to improve rela-tions with LaHarpe residents, the USD 257 board of education held its regular meeting Tuesday night at LaHarpe City Hall, but to no avail. Only a handful of resi-dents showed up, with Richey, a senior citizen, the only one will-ing to speak up.

The savings to the school dis-trict to close the LaHarpe school is about $300,000 a year, said Bri-an Pekarek, superintendent of schools.

Leavitt asked that Richey con-sider the real culprit in their deci-sion to close the school – the Kan-sas Legislature.

“We’re simply doing what the state legislature has forced us to do. I can guarantee the teachers aren’t very happy with it; and it hasn’t been good for the students or community in general. I would ask that you reconsider who’s to blame. We’re playing the cards we’ve been dealt.”

Last year, 61 students from USD 257 attended Moran schools. Forty district students attended

Council awaits tax vote results By BOB JOHNSON

[email protected] — Humboldt

Council members put in place Monday night mechanics for a half-cent sales tax to fund most of a $1.7 million street improve-ment program over the next 15 years.

The unknown element is whether voters favored the tax in a mail ballot election, which ended at noon today. Votes will be counted when Allen County Clerk Sherrie Riebel’s office clos-es at 5 p.m.

If the outcome is positive,

county commissioners are ex-pected to go through the formal-ity of reviewing ballots and cer-tifying the election next Monday.

Council members then would meet at 5:30 p.m. Monday in a special session to consider a res-olution triggering the tax, a le-gal requirement that precedes a 90-day waiting period before the tax may be collected. If all goes as anticipated the tax will be col-lected starting Jan. 1.

The half cent will increase Humboldt’s local sales tax to 1.75 percent and overall tax to 9.3 per-cent. Of the 1.25 percent already

collected for local advantage, 1 cent on every $1 of sales goes to the city’s general fund, a quarter cent to retire swimming pool im-provement bonds.

The projection is that a half cent tax would generate as much as $90,000 a year and would be coupled with $30,000 in fuel tax distributions to pay for improve-ments to 300 blocks of residen-tial street, mainly through re-construction from the base up. Curbs, gutters and culverts also would get attention.

List of maintenance needs grows heavier


LAHARPE — Poor Scott Stanley.If only he had some good news

to report. As director of transportation

for USD 257, Stanley told board members at their meeting Mon-day night the district’s fleet of school buses is quickly aging.

“Within the next six years, nine of our buses will have reached their 25-year limit,” he said.

The district has nine regular

routes and other regular respon-sibilities such as shuttling el-ementary students to the SAFE BASE after-school program at Lincoln Elementary four days a week.

Vans and smaller buses trans-port a handful of students who need special education services in outlying districts, Stanley said, one as far away as Parsons. A cur-rent situation also requires a bus to make three separate trips to

City looks to future


As Iola continues to look at the future of its ambulance and fire department, the city could consider a number of “what if ” scenarios, a City Council mem-ber stressed.

Councilman Steve French posed a number of scenarios Monday while discussing the matter Monday with Iola Emer-gency Medical Service director Ron Conaway.

Conaway has been asked to develop a proposal for a single, countywide service with Ja-son Nelson, Allen County EMS director. The proposal was re-quested Friday by a committee appointed to look at ambulance services throughout the county.

The city and county have op-erated separate services since 2008, the result of an occasion-ally acrimonious negotiation be-tween the two entities.

A report by the Kansas EMS Board earlier this month sug-gested three potential scenarios: Keeping the status quo, with two independent services; a single service for all of Allen County; or using a third-party service for the entire county.

Iola City Administrator Carl Slaugh said a single service could save up to $1 million annu-ally by eliminating duplicated services.

But therein lies the rub. The city is reluctant to drop its am-bulance service because of po-tential cuts to its Fire Depart-ment. Iola’s firefighters for years have split duties as ambulance

Hospital construction moving along


Construction of the new Al-len County Hospital continues to zip along at high gear, officials in charge of the building project said this week.

Sheldon Streeter, project man-ager with Murray Construction, which is overseeing the hospital construction, and ACH Trustee Chairman Harry Lee Jr. briefed Iola City Council members on the construction progress Monday.

“I hate to see us in a drought, but it’s allowed us to stay on schedule,” Streeter said.

The hope is to get the 65,000-square-foot medical center

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Rep. candidate stops by to build better communication

By ALLISON [email protected]

HUMBOLDT — Monday night’s school board meeting was Ed Bideau’s, candidate for the House of Representatives, latest stop on his tour of area schools for building better com-munication.

Bideau, a Chanute Republi-can, is running unopposed in the November elections. He attend-ed the Iola school board meeting earlier this month.

“I don’t know many state rep-resentatives who have met with everyone, but I can try,” Bideau told USD 258 board members. “What I am trying to do in all districts, but particularly Allen County, is to reach out to differ-ent governmental units and es-

tablish communication.“My goal is to put together an

informal advisory group during the legislative session,” he said.

Bideau’s major concern going into the next legislative session is the possibility of doing away with school equalization.

Allen County school districts, similar to many rural school districts, receive federal funding recycled from the profitable and bigger, urban school districts, Bideau said.

“If equalization is taken away, if it does happen, we will be fac-ing some bad times,” Bideau said.

Another worrisome topic Bideau wanted board members to be aware of is leadership in

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With $150,000 still to spend, Iola officials hope to find homeowners eager to spruce up their digs.

Iola City Council members were briefed Monday on progress of a housing rehabilitation proj-ect through Community Develop-ment Block Grants.

Homeowners who live between Madison and Spruce streets to the north and south and First and Fourth streets on the west and east sides may qualify for up to $20,000 in assistance to fix up their houses. Eligibility is determined by property owners’ income.

Shonda Jefferis, Iola’s code en-forcement officer, said the reha-bilitation work entails everything from installing new siding and windows to electrical wiring and gutter replacement. The money is an outright gift with no strings at-tached.

Council members discussed ways to get the word out about the program.

Steve French and David Toland both said they’d be willing to go door to door to ensure folks know about the program. Toland also suggested placing billboards at houses undergoing renovations so more residents are aware of its availability.

Jefferis said mailings have been sent out to property owners in the designated areas.

French also inquired about ex-panding the target area. Those pa-rameters were established when the program began, City Admin-istrator Carl Slaugh explained, and cannot be altered.

Even rental properties may be

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Sept. 9, 2012, at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor.George was born Nov. 4, 1926, in LaHarpe, the son

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Funeral service will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Rob-erts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home. The service will be conducted by Pastor Jeannie Jensen of First United Methodist Church with military honors by Ball-McColm Post No. 5 American Legion. Cremation will follow the service. Memorial contributions to the First United Methodist Church or Friendship Meals can be sent in care of Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home. Condolenc-es may be left at robertsblue.com.

Dean DelaplainDean Ellis Delaplain, 75, Iola, died Sunday, Sept. 9,

2012, at Moran Manor.Dean was born July 30, 1937, in Elsmore, the only child

of Glenn and Hazel (Perkins) Delaplain. He grew up in Elsmore until the family moved to Iola when he was 11. He graduated from Iola High School and served in the U.S. Air Force from 1956 to 1960.

On June 4, 1961, Dean married Dorothy Haen in Piqua. They made their home in Pamona, Calif., where Dean worked as a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. They returned to the area in 1993 after he retired. Dorothy pre-ceded him in death on Nov. 27, 2008.

He is surviived by three daughters, Debbie Muhl and her husband, Rick, Iola, DeAnne Delaplain, Iola, and De-nise Butler, Iola; and four grandchildren, Michael and John Muhl and Roseanne and Josh Butler

According to his wishes, his body was donated to the University of Kansas School of Medicine for research. No services will be held.

Memorials are suggested to the Alzheimer’s Associa-tion and may be left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memo-rial Chapel of Iola, which is in charge of arrangements.

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

Martha SandersMartha Grace (Mott) Sanders, 70, Parsons, died Satur-

day, Sept. 8, 2012, at Labette Health Care in Parsons.Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at High-

land Cemetery in Iola. The Rev. Steve Traw will officiate.Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola is in

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Hazel HowarterMemorials for Hazel Howarter, 93, Escondido, Calif.,

whose death was announced in Saturday’s Register, may be sent to made to San Diego Hospice Foundation, 4311 Third Avenue, San Diego, CA 92103. Online condolences may be sent to www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Obituaries

the House. “There are three de-

clared candidates for Speaker of the House, and they are all from Johnson County,” Bideau said. “I don’t like that.”

Bigger counties such as Johnson County would be a negative impact on the ru-ral school districts because urban legislators and their concerns differ from those of rural areas.

Though Bideau says he doesn’t have all the an-swers, he does say that be-ing vigilant in the rural areas is key.

APPROVALS AND gen-eral housekeeping took precedence over the second part of the board meeting.

Ruby Crawford’s res-ignation was approved. Crawford taught Spanish and language arts and has been with USD 258 since 1979.

Rob Myers was approved to be the new cross country assistant coach.

The board approved a raise for substitute teacher pay from $75 to $80 a day.

Bids were placed from surrounding and in-town companies for the Building Trades house.

The bids were compar-ing “apples to apples” ac-

cording to USD 258 super-intendent K.B. Criss.

Cleaver’s was approved for materials, Dilbert’s Septic for plumbing, K&K Electric for electric and D & J Construction for the heating and cooling.

ELEMENTARY AND middle school principle Kay Bolt reported on up-coming events and improv-ing school morale.

School pictures and an open house for the elemen-tary school will be held next week, she said.

“Our goal is to promote school pride in our dis-trict,” Bolt said.

Incentives, such as

awards, will be given out highlighting the students, teacher and classified staff.

Thursday was Hum-boldt’s first home game and “out of 143 students, all but 38 kids participated,” she said. “It has been a good start to the year.”

JOHN JOHNSON, high school principle, said iPads have been released on the third floor and teachers are getting well acquainted with using them, accord-ing to Johnson.

Student enrollment is estimated to be 180 and, “Eight students were lost, but 16 gained in total,” Johnson said.

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Chanute each day. The critical services for

these special needs students come at a cost, Stanley said. “I imagine we’ll spend $2,000 a month on fuel to go to the Fairfield Alternative Pro-gram in Parsons,” he said.

Burris asked Stanley if there wouldn’t be a savings if the district leased its ve-hicles from a private busi-ness, as is done at the Inde-pendence school district.

Stanley said he didn’t know the cost of such a pro-gram and worried about its limitations, but that he would pursue the idea.

Summer repair projects totaled $306,404, Stanley said. The biggest project was repairing two sections of the roof to Iola Middle School – “the worst build-ing in the district,” Stanley said. Next summer, another section will be repaired.

Last Friday’s rain leaked through the roof of the Iola

High School gymnasium during a volleyball game, he said. Maintenance crews be-gan replacing screws in the ceiling to stem the leaks.

Don Snavely, board mem-ber, quipped that replacing the worn out screws will lead to a “perception prob-lem.

“People will wonder what 20-year-old screws are doing in a ‘new’ building,” he said, of the common misconcep-tion that Iola schools are relative new.

A developing “ridge” along the floor of the east side of the high school also has Stanley concerned.

The buckled floor is where a previous air chase was laid 50 or so years ago, Stanley said. Several years ago the vent was capped and filled with a material that has since settled, leaving a depression the length of the high school from the teach-ers’ lounge all the way south to classrooms.

A structural engineer

investigated the ridge, to ensure additional fill would not put undue stress on the structural supports of the floor. While that may not be an immediate worry, Stan-ley said they most likely will need to “mud jack” the seam, possibly next sum-mer.

“We need to do it before the building becomes a haz-ard,” he said.

THE HEATING and cool-ing systems district-wide are past their life expectan-cies, Stanley said. Last week a motor went out in the hot water heater in the high

school. “We need to budget mon-

ey to replace these systems,” he said.

The district ended its con-tract with Schneider Elec-tric, an energy management company that installed thermostat-controlled heat-ing and cooling systems for district buildings.

The agreement with Schneider was that for $13,800 a year the company would guarantee trouble-free operations.

That never happened. Especially in the middle school, temperatures have ranged from cold to hot in various rooms within the same heating and cooling zones. Stanley figures the district’s maintenance de-partment can do a better job in keeping a building’s classrooms more temperate.

The district owes an esti-mated $700,000 over the next 11 years for the energy man-agement program that was installed four years ago.

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People will won-der what 20-year-old screws are ‘new’ building.

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personnel.But outside Iola, county

ambulance personnel are reluctant to train and work as firefighters.

“THERE ARE a lot of questions in my mind,” French said, such as:

— What if the city loses its ambulance department, and thus cannot afford a full-time fire department?

— Would Fire Depart-ment cuts be feasible now that the city has qualified for a federal SAFER grant that mandates a full staff for the next two years?

— What would become of Iola’s ambulances and equipment?

“There’s a domino effect if we don’t stay with the status quo,” French said.

Conaway noted he and Nelson are coming up only with a proposal, and even the EMS committee’s rec-ommendations are non-binding. The final decision will rest with Iola’s council-

men and Allen County com-missioners.

Conaway said he and Nel-son hoped to have a propos-al within the next 30 days.

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By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT — A short drive east on Maryland Road – just over a mile — off old Highway 169, motorists will find Humboldt's newest fam-ily entertainment facility, Wide Open Speed Park.

The Hoepker family built a new motorsports facil-ity on property west of their country home, at 896-1400 St., and will be hosting the opening event Sept. 22.

“The Central Mud Bog-gers Association (C.M.B.A.) was looking for a place to have their mud runs,” Justin Hoepker said. “We thought about it and thought it would be nice to add another enter-tainment to the community; something different.”

Transforming a hay meadow into the Speed Park has taken Ho-epker almost six months of eve-ning and weekend work. “When he started, all I could think of was 'if you build it, they will come,'” wife Nicolle said.

“The hardest part was plan-

ning the layout,” Hoepker said. “Where the pit would be, where to put the stands and stuff like that.”

Hoepker constructed the grand-stands to accommodate spectators with a close up view of the action. A mobile home was brought in to serve as an office and conces-

sions center. The mud pit was dug, guard rails and fenc-ing installed for safety, and grav-el spread to fill the low spots in the meadow.

“Before I started all this, I talked to the neighbors to see if they would have any objec-tions,” he said. “They have all been supportive and interested in whats going on.

“Motorsports is big in this

area. This will be something new for families to do,” Justin Hoep-ker said.

Saturday's opening event will be sanctioned by the Central Mud Boggers Association. Members will be eligible to add points to their season total. A few of the

towns making up the CMBA in-clude Chanute, Thayer, Eureka, and Toronto.

Hoepker doesn't know how many trucks to expect on Sat-urday, but hopes to have 30 or 40 show up along with ATVs and four-wheelers.

“The mud run is open to C.M.B.A. members who want to compete for points, but anyone can enter. Someone might have a farm truck and want to see what it'll do. “Entry fees are $20 for members and $25 for non-members,” Hoep-ker said.

Alongside of the 200 ft. pit, filled with five feet of water, is a much shallower pit where the ATVs and four-wheelers will race. There is a designated pit area for drivers and their families separate from the spectator area.

C.M.B.A. will provide official timing sensors and technicians will be on site to make sure trucks qualify for the class entered. The nine truck classes and two ATV classes are determined mainly by the tire and motor size.

“We'll be giving first place tro-

phies in all nine classes plus their pay out and we've got $2,000 in sponsor added money,” Hoepker explained.

Mud runs are not new to the area. The local Lions Club spon-sored two in 2007 and 2009.

The Hoepkers have three chil-dren, Rayce, 14, Chassis, 13, and Speed, 11, who have helped build the speed park, and the children are reason for emphasizing the family atmosphere.

“We have designed the park for safety,” Hoepker said. “We've been to other facilities where they may just have a mud pit and a card table. We wanted this to be a premier facility and hope people will enjoy coming here.”

The Hoepkers have plans for other events they aren't ready to reveal yet, but they will have to do with motorsports. “We welcome everyone to come out and see what we've done,” he added.

Action will start at 1 p.m., reg-istration will be from 10 a.m. to noon. Admission at the gate will be $8, 13 years and older; $6, 6 to 12; children under 5 are free.

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Register/Terry BroylesJustin and Nicolle Hoepker, founders of Wide Open Speed Park.

New racetrack promises family excitement

CalendarToday-Biblesta Com-

mittee, 6:30 p.m., Faith Assembly of God Church; Biblesta chorus practice, 7 p.m., United Methodist Church.

We d n e s d a y - U n i t e d Methodist Women, 9:30 a.m., church fellowship hall.

T hursday-Lutheran Guild, 6:30 p.m., baked po-tato bar, special speaker; Housing Action Team, 3 p.m., City Hall with Jea-nette Siemens of Public Square Communities Housing Initiative.

Saturday-Miles for Sta-cy fundraiser, city square,

6 p.m.Sunday-Southeast Area

Annual Gathering, 3 p.m., First Baptist Church.

Sept. 17-G.A.L.S. meet-ing, 7 p.m., Kate Works hostess.

Sept. 18-South Logan F.C.E. meeting, 1:30 p.m., library; Biblesta chorus practice, 7 p.m., United Methodist Church.Biblesta walk/run

Walkers and runners

planning to take part in the Biblesta Run for the Son, 3K walk/5K run, should pre-register before Sept. 21, to save $5 in fees and guarantee a Run for the Son t-shirt the day of the race.

The annual walk/run will begin at 8 a.m. Oct. 6, in front of City Hall. Registration is $15 before Sept. 21 and $20 until race day.

Nicole Lucke and Carol Larson have organized the walk/run for the last cou-ple of years with all pro-ceeds from the race going to the Biblesta committee. Registration forms and

route maps are available on the Biblesta web site or by contacting Lucke at [email protected] or Larson at (620) 473-2198.Meltdown

Sign-up and registra-tion for Thrive Allen County Meltdown is in progress. Men and women are welcome to take the eight-week challenge to get in shape, by stopping at Terry’s Flower and Home Décor Store to reg-ister official weigh-in and measurement numbers for tracking progress.

Terry’s is at 107 S. 9th St. on the east side of the Humboldt square.

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Nature’s wrathA large limb on the northwest corner of the Humboldt city square broke loose Friday afternoon when a fast moving storm came through leaving just over a half inch of rain. Above Humboldt city employee Chaz San-chez uses a chainsaw to cut a limb into manageable pieces for moving off the street.

Register/Terry Broyles

Park cleanupA handful of volunteers clear away more brush Sat-urday at Neosho River Park. Humboldt Healthy Eco-system member Vada Aikins said, “The rain received on Friday hampered some clean-up plans at the park, but volunteers were able to make several brush piles, which the city will dispose of.” Above, Rodney Bea-man, member of the HHE and one of the chainsaw operators, cuts up a dead tree that had fallen on the walking path.

By DELTA GEORGESouthwind Extension

District agentMANHATTAN — Sev-

eral Southwind Extension District 4-H members par-ticipated Aug. 25-26 in the fourth annual Kansas 4-H Livestock Sweepstakes.

Riley Angleton, Hayden Cole, Caitlin Dreher, Rea-gan Dillow, Hannah Fry, Drew George, Chase Glea-son, Colton Heffern, Gus Hopkins, and Trent John-son represented seven 4-H Clubs within Allen, Neo-sho and Bourbon counties.

The 4-H’ers learned new skills and polished up on skills they already knew for the sweepstakes, which consisted of four contests: livestock judging, meats judging, livestock “skillathon” and a live-stock quiz bowl.

Trent Johnson and Colton Heffern tied for eighth in swine, while Hayden Cole tied for 10th in sheep. The Southwind teams were seventh in sheep, eighth in swine, 10th in cattle and ninth overall.

The Meats Judging con-test was based on identifi-cation of 30 retail cuts, six placings classes of retail cuts and carcasses and

three sets of reasons. Drew George was fourth in iden-tification, fourth in plac-ings and sixth overall indi-vidual. Chase Gleason was second in placings, fourth in reasons and ninth indi-vidually. Hannah Fry was seventh in reasons. As a team, Southwind was first in placings, second in rea-sons, fourth in identifica-tion and third place over-all. The second Southwind

team placed 10th.In the Livestock

Skillathon, 4-Her’s rotated individually through sta-tions that addressed six areas of animal science: feedstuffs, breed identifi-cation, equipment identifi-cation, meat identification and a written test. There also was a team component where members worked to-gether on selecting heifers based on a given scenario,

a quality assurance dem-onstration and wool judg-ing. Trent Johnson placed 10th. The Southwind teams placed fifth and 12th.

The Livestock Quiz Bowl started with a quali-fying exam. The eight teams with the highest average scores competed head to head against each other. Southwind was seed-ed first and third after the test, but finished second and fifth after the head-to-head matches.

For the overall Sweep-stakes contest — which takes into account all four contests — Chase Gleason was the overall Sweep-stakes winner with Drew George fifth, Trent John-son 13th, Hannah Fry 14th and Caitlin Dreher 15th.

Southwind Extension District completed the weekend by being named as the 2012 Kansas State 4-H Reserve Champion Sweepstakes Team.

4-H members excel at state competition

Courtesy photoTen 4-H members represented the Southwind Exten-sion District at the Kansas 4-H Livestock Sweep-stakes Weekend on the Kansas State University campus. Attending were, front from left, Hayden Cole, Reagan Dillow, Hannah Fry, Caitlin Dreher and Drew George; and second from left, Riley Angleton, Chase Gleason, Gus Hopkins, Trent Johnson and Colton Heffern.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former bank vice president from Topeka has been sen-tenced to 30 months in fed-eral prison for bank fraud.

U.S. Attorney Barry Gris-som said in a news release Monday that 40-year-old Jennifer Hughes-Boyles also was ordered to pay $712,144 in restitution.

Jennifer Hughes-Boyles pleaded guilty to one count

of bank fraud, which oc-curred in 2011 while she was vice president of Heri-tage Bank in Topeka.

The investigation began when bank officials no-ticed Hughes-Boyles origi-nated more than $2 million in real estate loans despite the struggling economy. They also noticed a change in her lifestyle during that time.

Former bank VP sentenced

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Rep. Tim Huelskamp of the Kansas First District — where many Kansas farmers live — is one of the reasons Congress didn’t pass a farm bill before it went on vacation last month. Rep. Huelskamp wants to cut the food stamp allocation of about $72 billion by $33 billion — nearly in half. That’s about twice the reduction the Senate had already approved.

While Huelskamp belongs to the radical right fringe in Con-gress, he is not alone in his de-sire to cut back the cost of the five-year farm bill, which will reach nearly a trillion dollars when it finally becomes law.

It is his decision to attack the food stamp allocation, which will draw wide-ranging opposi-tion, primarily from non-farm legislators.

Food stamps and the school lunch programs are in the farm bill for strategical reasons. Farm state legislators long ago saw the wisdom of paying for those two programs through the ag budget: they are impor-tant to every community in every state in the nation. They also are an important part of our nation’s way of giving ba-sic assistance to low-income families. There are about 47 million on the food stamp rolls. Every school district has a sub-sidized lunch program.

Cutting food stamps in half would take food off the tables of millions of men, women and children unless the pro-gram were funded in some other way. Putting the food as-sistance programs in the farm bill made the spending seem

essential to members of Con-gress who know nothing about agriculture and don’t identify with farmers.

This is not to say the farm bill can’t be cut or shouldn’t be. Farm commodity prices are high. Farmers can make a good living in today’s economy. Perhaps the vastly improved world market for grain, poul-try and beef will continue and subsidies will no longer be nec-essary. And a good case can be made for ending subsidies to the ethanol industry.

But it will always be good business for government to subsidize crop insurance to provide a safety net when drought and other natural di-sasters strike. It is in the long- term interest of every national economy, including ours, to subsidize conservation mea-sures and build dams to curb floods and store water against drought.

No one can argue against the value of continuing the research at our universities that has made it possible for so few farmers to feed so many such nutritious food here and around the world.

That said, the farm bill can be reduced by billions by trim-ming back the benefits that now go to huge farm opera-tions or to absentee land own-ers and by making certain pay-ments are reduced when high commodity prices make them illogical.

Those are the kinds of re-forms the Huelskamps in Con-gress should be pursuing.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Huelskamp pickswrong way toattack farm bill

A large part of Cuba went dark Sunday night. The elec-tricity was still off Monday morning and no explanation was made to the public that reached the United States.

Cuba’s weather has been calm. Power failed because Cuba’s infrastructure is an-cient and inadequate. It can’t be brought up to snuff because the Cuban economy is too weak.

The United States can help its island neighbor. Not by sending money, but by sending tourists and opening up trade.

It is true that Cuba still clings to communism — a fact which makes it a curiosity as well as an ideological dinosaur. It is not true that it represents a threat to the United States. Its 11 million people live in poverty, which would be great-ly relieved if it could regain its standing as a winter-time vaca-tion destination for Americans and could once again sell sugar to the U.S. market.

Because of the large popula-tion of former Cubans in Flor-ida, which remains virulently anti-Castro and clings to the impossible dream of regaining

property lost in the revolution, the U.S. Congress has refused to drop the Cold War sanctions adopted decades ago when the U.S.S.R. shipped missiles to Cuba and caused an interna-tional crisis.

War was avoided because President John F. Kennedy stood firm and the Kremlin backed down.

That was 60 long years ago. And 27 years later the Berlin Wall was hammered down and the U.S.S.R. fell apart. The Communist threat evaporated. The only reason that U.S. poli-cy toward Cuba did not evapo-rate along with the Soviet em-pire was Florida politics.

But Florida politics is chang-ing. The generation of Cuban expatriates who fled Cuba is dying off. The succeeding gen-eration is American through and through. A growing num-ber of them want the U.S. to have normal relations with Cuba.

It is long past time for Con-gress and the president to move out of our 1962 mindset and treat our Cuban neighbors — like neighbors.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Time to changeUS-Cuba policy

WASHINGTON (AP) — Af-ter all this time running to lead America, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are still trying to show they really believe in America.

Both men have made the elec-tion not just about the economy or even the American Dream, but about America itself. They see a nation pessimistic about it-self and nervous about its future, hardly American traits.

They see political opportunity if they can come across as the one who gets what it means to be American, the guy who restores the glory.

What’s more, for reasons quiet-ly tied to religion or race or fam-ily roots, Romney and Obama can never do enough to shore up their own American bona fides in vot-ers’ minds.

This despite the fact that one of them will be the president next year, and one already is the presi-dent.

In the midst of their patriotic push, Obama and Romney have never overtly accused the other of being un-American.

But they spend no small amount of time raising doubts about the other’s belief in America’s prom-ise, its workers, its resilience, its basic compact with its people.

Both talk about the goodness of Americans and the exceptional nature of America itself. They rarely concede that the other can-didate shares that view.

Obama and Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, have vastly different visions on how to create jobs and opportunity, and that contrast in governing phi-losophy is a defining choice for voters in November.

They often make it sound per-sonal, too.

“I think this election will de-cide the soul of America,” Rom-ney said while campaigning for the Republican nomination in April. “And I have a very different view of the soul of America.”

When Romney stood up at the GOP convention to accept the nomination, the theme of the night was on the giant screen be-hind him: “We Believe In Ameri-ca.” The sentiment is on the side of his campaign plane, too.

The suggestion is that the oth-er party, led by Obama, does not believe in America, and that it’s chiefly Obama. He flies on an air-plane, Air Force One, with “Unit-

ed States of America” on its side.The believe part is implied.In Obama’s acceptance speech

at the Democratic convention, he framed the election as a choice of two visions. His was the one that would “restore the values” of America. The other vision he offered was of a Romney presi-dency that dismisses the role of citizenship; the one in which, for example, it would be OK for chil-dren to breathe toxic pollution in the name of corporate progress, he said.

“You know what? That’s not who we are,” Obama said. “That’s not what this country is about.”

There is something to this nag-ging sense that America has lost its way.

Associated Press polling has not found a majority saying the nation is moving in the right di-rection since 2003. The richest nation on earth is divided over whether today’s children will have a better standard of living than their parents do.

When the national debt sur-passed $16 trillion just days ago, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan held it up as indictment of Obama’s leader-ship.

“That’s a country in decline,” Ryan said.

Vice President Joe Biden quickly turned those words back on him, working in a don’t-you-doubt-America riff to his con-vention speech, and hitting that theme in campaign stops since.

“America is not in decline,” Biden boomed. “I’ve got news for Governor Romney and Congress-man Ryan. It’s never been a good bet to bet against the American people. Never.”

Obama, campaigning in Flori-da on Saturday, called the U.S. “a young nation with the greatest diversity of talent and ingenuity from every corner of the globe, so no matter what the naysayers may say for political reasons, no matter how dark they try to make everything look, there’s not a country on Earth that wouldn’t gladly trade places with the Unit-ed States of America.”

While the values of policies and

budgets they envision are part of the debate, Romney and Ryan have never actually bet against the American people.

They are running to represent them.

Romney has even gone so far as to sing “America the Beautiful” at events. The Obama campaign used it against him in a mocking ad about Romney’s record on jobs and his taxes. On Saturday in Vir-ginia Beach, Va., Romney recited the Pledge of Allegiance at a rally, going through it phrase by phrase to suggest Obama has fallen short of its promise.

The candidates know the na-tion is divided politically, but not patriotically. Almost 90 percent of people called themselves “very patriotic” in a Pew Research Cen-ter poll in April.

“Patriotism is very emotional. When people are scared — and essentially they’re scared about where our country is going — they are prone to relate to that argument,” said Barbara Perry, a senior fellow who studies the presidency at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.

“Most Americans, whether lib-eral or conservative, fall into the patriotic category,” she said, “be-cause we all created this experi-ment of a country together.”

Romney and Obama have their personal reasons, too.

The challenger is the first ma-jor party nominee to be a follower of the Mormon religion, which means he is subject to voter bias that hasn’t budged much in de-cades in the United States. Nearly 20 percent of Americans say they would not vote for a well-qualified presidential candidate who hap-pens to be a Mormon, a Gallup poll in June found.

Many voters still aren’t sure about Obama’s faith, either. Just under half of registered voters in a Pew poll in June correctly iden-tified him as Christian.

Obama, of course, is the first president in U.S. history to dig up a long-form birth certificate just to prove he was born in America, and this was long after he had al-ready been on the job. The notion that Obama was born anywhere other than in Hawaii has long been discredited, although Rom-ney stirred it up again last month when he said “no one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate.”

He later said he was joking.

The politics of believing in AmericaAnAP news analysis

Ben Feller

Quotations of the dayThe Associated Press

“This is a long-term battle that everyone’s going to watch. Oth-er teachers unions in the United States are wondering if they should follow suit.” — Eric Ha-nuskek, a senior fellow in education at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University in comments after Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract dispute over evaluations and job security to the streets of the nation’s third-largest city — and to a national audience — less

than a week after most schools opened for fall.

*****“Now, the Bagram prison is

converted to one of Afghanistan’s regular prisons where the inno-cents will be freed and the rest of the prisoners will be sentenced according to the laws of Afghani-stan.” — Afghan President Hamid Kar-zai welcoming the handover of the main American-run prison to Afghan forces as a victory for Afghan sovereignty, though he and U.S. officials remain locked in a

dispute over the fate of hundreds of Tali-ban and terror suspects behind bars.

*****“Relief is probably the best

word I would use to describe how I’m feeling just now. You’re in a lit-tle bit of disbelief, because when I have been in that position many times before and not won, you do think: Is it ever going to happen?” — Andy Murray after winning the U.S. Open in five grueling sets to become the first British man since 1936 to capture a Grand Slam title.

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eligible, Jefferis said, al-though property owners in that case may be required to contribute up to 25 per-cent of a project’s cost.

The funds are available through Jan. 31, Slaugh said.

“The problem is if we don’t spend the money now, we may have a tough time asking for more money lat-er,” Toland said. “This has got to be a high priority.”

In a related matter, coun-cil members directed the grant money for houses at 215 S. First St. for $23,800, and 321 S. Third St. for $18,800. D & D Construction, St. Paul, had the lowest of four bids for both contracts. Both were accepted unani-mously.

A NEW electric agree-ment with Westar and oth-er neighboring communi-ties will once again restore Iola’s ability to benefit from generating its own power, council members were told.

The council unani-mously approved Iola’s participation within the Southwind Energy Group, a consortium consisting of Iola, Chanute, Fredonia, Sabetha, Centralia and Ar-cadia.

The six-member group will act as a single custom-er in dealing with Westar, which will manage the com-munities’ electric power re-sources.

Through the terms of the agreement, Iola will

occasionally be asked to generate its own electricity. But unlike with the city’s current arrangement with the Kansas Power Pool, the generation may result in ei-ther lower rates for the city or reimbursement, energy consultant Scott Shreve ex-plained.

“This gives us flexibil-ity,” City Attorney Chuck Apt added.

The agreement goes into effect in March 2014 and runs for four years. In the interim, SEG will continue to look at potential power sources, Slaugh said.

The council voted last November to terminate its membership within the Kansas Power Pool, which required a two-year notice.

The city will pay Westar $1 per kilowatt hour for its management services or $1,500 per month, which-ever is greater. Shreve said the contract would cost the city between $25,000 and $28,000 annually.

“It’s very reasonable,” Shreve said.

AS AN aside, Shreve said the city may want to take another look at the city’s generating capacity. The 2007 flood, which destroyed a series of steam genera-tors at the city’s power plant along the Neosho River means the city can no longer meet peak demand on its own.

“You may want to con-sider to build or buy more capacity,” Shreve said.

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“dried in” or fully enclosed by the end of the year so that interior work may continue through the win-ter months.

Exterior walls are in place in many parts and will soon be finished with-in the next month or two. Once the roof is in place and windows installed, or other openings covered, work can continue indoors regardless of how wet or cold it is outside, Streeter explained.

The pace has continued on schedule for its October 2013 completion, Lee said, with one catch — a benefi-cial one, it turns out.

Because construction costs have routinely come in under budget, the trust-ees have some flexibility in certain options. For ex-ample, trustees recently approved installing Corian countertops throughout the building instead of less expensive materials.

The changes may or may not affect architects’ plans along the way, Lee said, which may add a couple of week’s to the project’s deadline.

UTILITY extensions to the hospital site are com-plete, Iola City Adminis-trator Carl Slaugh noted, although some minor work remains to hook up elec-

tric, gas and water service to the building.

As a part of the hospi-tal construction plans, the city agreed to pay up to $350,000 annually through 2019 by earmarking a quarter-cent of its sales tax revenues. Iola has paid $326,333 so far this year.

SUSIE CALL, Iola’s Mu-nicipal Court Clerk for the past 16 years, is retir-ing. Council members ap-proved her retirement, ef-fective Oct. 1. She has been a city employee for the past 25 years.

Carol West, who has worked in Iola’s utilities office since 2001, also is re-tiring.

Council members also hired Clint Johnson as the city’s new assistant code enforcement officer.

A NEW POLICY unani-mously approved by the council puts in place a low-er threshold needed to call off Iola Recreation Depart-ment-sponsored baseball and softball games.

All games will be called canceled if the heat index exceeds 105 and until it re-turns to 105 or below.

The city also will pro-vide water coolers at all games in which the heat index is 81 or above. Games will be shortened if the heat index is between 99 and 105.

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Council members ap-proved a contract with B&G Consultants, Empo-ria, to do a two-phase ex-amination of the waste-water treatment plant to determine what improve-ments should be made and how they could be funded.

B&G will be paid $11,000 this year and $7,675 in 2013 to look closely at the how the plant operates and evaluate what could be done to better deal with daily flow. Also, electrical and aeration systems will be analyzed.

The outcome will be rec-ommendations, including a review of wastewater user rates and possibilities for obtaining grants and loans.

MAYOR NOBBY Davis was authorized to lift wa-ter-use restrictions when-ever the Kansas Water Of-

fice deemed the drought sufficiently broken to per-mit unfettered consump-tion.

Recent rains have greened grass but haven’t been sufficient to notice-ably increase flow of area streams and the Neosho River.

A state declaration of a water emergency prompt-ed KWO to order restric-tions for users along the Neosho, which is fed pri-marily during dry times by water released from John Redmond Reservoir north of Burlington.

The projection is that without any substantial rain the reservoir holds enough water to keep the river flowing through the end of the year. Water re-serves in Council Grove and Marion reservoirs en-sure water for months af-ter that.

Davis and council mem-bers Vada Aikins and Otis

Crawford will attend the League of Kansas Munici-palities meeting Oct. 6-8 in Topeka. Crawford will be Humboldt’s voting dele-gate, Aikins the alternate. Because of the state meet-ing conflict, Humboldt’s next council meeting will be Oct. 15.

Kelley Zellner, Hum-boldt minister who has background in construc-tion work, was appointed as the city’s second build-ing inspector, joining Roy Moorehouse, who has been on board since early July. The inspectors, on duty only when called, receive $30 for an inspection and $15.34 an hour if an inspec-tion proves to be time-con-suming.

Humboldt will purchase a two-gun paint striper from Sherwin-Williams, Chanute, for $3,800.

The striper was budget-ed for purchase at $4,200 in 2013, and was accelerated

by a reduced offer.City Administrator

Larry Tucker said several streets, including those around the schools, need-ed marking. The machine would make the process less expensive because it takes less painting and la-bor than doing the chore by hand.

TUCKER SAID swim-ming pool admission this summer was 4,974, an in-crease of 9 percent over last year’s 4,567. This con-tinues an annual increase; 2010’s was 4,300.

A celebration of im-provements to the band-stand in the downtown square will be at 6 p.m. Oct. 13.

Tucker said the Down-town Action Team would recognize several people who were instrumental in the bandstand’s upgrade. The event will include a band concert.

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Pickup hitAn unknown motorist

struck the driver’s side of a pickup owned by ANW Spe-cial Education Cooperative while it was parked Thurs-day near the intersection of Cottonwood and Jackson streets. The motorist left without reporting the acci-dent.

Post struck

Whitney D. Buckle was exiting the Iola Walmart parking lot when she struck

a concrete post Friday morning with her pickup. She was not injured.

Vehicle struckA pickup driven by Josh-

ua R. Powell, 27, was struck from behind by a pickup driven by Austin R. Coy while Powell was stopped at a stoplight at the inter-section of Madison Avenue and Buckeye streets. Nei-ther driver was injured in the Friday afternoon wreck.

Police reports

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A powerful car bomb struck the Yemeni defense minister’s motorcade as he was driving through the nation’s capital today, kill-ing at least 13 people but leaving the minister un-harmed, security officials said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast but al-Qaida’s Ye-meni branch has carried out several failed assas-sination attempts against the minister, Maj. Gen. Mo-hammed Nasser Ahmed, in the past. The attack comes a day after Yemeni authorities announced the

death of the No. 2 leader of the network’s Yemeni branch in an apparent U.S. airstrike.

Today’s bombing hit the last vehicle in the minis-ter’s three-car convoy as it was traveling through Sanaa’s al-Izaa neighbor-hood, Yemeni security of-ficials said. The blast left the car a charred hulk of twisted metal with burnt bodies strapped inside, and blew out the windows of storefronts and scorched a building nearby. Pools of blood stained the pave-ment.

Eight of the minister’s security guards and five

civilian bystanders were killed, the officials said on condition of anonymity be-cause they were not autho-rized to brief the media.

“This is awful,” said Mohamed El-Mehdi, who works in the area. “The people and children are unable to grasp what hap-pened.”

He said some of the five civilians killed were the owners of nearby shops.

While there was no claim of responsibility for the assassination attempt, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the terror net-work’s Yemeni branch, has been locked in a fierce

battle with the country’s military, and has tried on several recent occasions to kill the defense minister.

In May, the group car-ried out a suicide bombing that killed 96 soldiers and wounded at least 200 in a military parade in the cap-ital. Al-Qaida said it had been targeting Ahmed, who was not hurt in the at-tack.

Last September, a sui-cide attacker driving an explosives-laden car blew himself up in the southern city of Aden next to the minister’s passing convoy. Ahmed escaped that attack unscathed as well.

Attack misses Yemeni official, kills 13

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Noses across Southern California were hoping for a sweeter-smelling today as public officials sought a solid answer for what made Monday so pungent.

One answer appeared far more likely than any other: The weather-aided waft of a fish die-off from the Salton Sea.

But even as officials said several factors indicate the Salton Sea as the source of the sulfurous smell, air qual-ity investigators stopped short of declaring with cer-tainty that the saltwater lake 150 miles southeast of Los Angeles was the cause.

Barry Wallerstein, ex-ecutive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Manage-ment District, said in a statement late Monday that “there is not yet any defini-tive evidence to pinpoint the Salton Sea or any other source yet.”

One reason for doubt, the statement said, is that “it

is highly unusual for odors to remain strong up to 150 miles from their source.”

The smell was reported as far away as Palmdale and Lancaster, more than 150 miles north of the Salton Sea. The dying sea had a fish die-off within the past week and that, combined with strong storms in the area Sunday, could have churned up the water and unleashed bacteria from the sea floor that caused the stench, said Janis Dawson of the Salton Sea Authority.

The massive thunder-storm complex brought wind gusts up to 60 mph and widespread dust storms. Mark Moede, a National Weather Service meteorolo-gist in San Diego, called it “huge, one of the largest that any of us have ever seen in probably 10 years.”

A strengthening onshore breeze today may dissipate lingering odors closer to the coast, the South Coast air quality district said.

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Humboldt schools, with an-other 14 students attending schools in Chanute, Colony and Yates Center. The of-ficial attendance numbers for this year will be released Sept. 20, Pekarek said.

Last year’s numbers are less than those of 2010-2011, but still reflect a higher exodus of district students compared to incoming stu-dents from other districts. Last year, 44 students from 10 other districts came to Iola for their education.

Enrollment at USD 257 schools has decreased by 21 students, down from 1,352, according to a preliminary head count, Pekarek said.

“There’s no pattern to either our losses or our in-creases from year to year,” Pekarek said. “We gained enrollment after the flood of 2007 and again when Hal-dex closed, which surprised us.”

IN AN EFFORT to im-prove communication between school adminis-trators and parents of stu-dents, starting today an on-

line survey will be posted on the district’s website, www.usd257.org.

The survey asks 10 questions regarding Iola schools.

For parents whose chil-dren choose not to attend Iola schools, a face-to-face visit is necessary, suggested board member Mark Bur-ris.

STACEY FAGER, princi-pal at the high school, said its teachers have taken “a leap of faith,” in allowing students to use their cell phones in between classes and during lunch break.

“It put more ownership on the students, and they responded,” Fager said, cit-ing few abuses of the new policy. The change has al-lowed students “to put more focus on their studies when in the classroom.”

JACK STANLEY, princi-pal at Iola Middle School, said he welcomes senior cit-izens to become “greeters” at the school each morning.

“Seeing a warm smile is a great way for a student to start the day,” Stanley said.

Stanley is hoping a pool of volunteers will crop up to share the duty – which is a somewhat harsh word to describe the pleasant expe-rience.

SAFE BASE, the after-school program, began Monday at Jefferson El-ementary School. Brad Crusinbery, Jefferson prin-cipal, said he estimated about 200 children were in the program.

Pekarek outlined strate-gic goals for the next one, five and 10 years for the school district that were de-veloped by a committee.

Goals included:• Updates to facilities

with a 10-year goal of hav-ing all new buildings for all facilities;

• To advocate for better salaries for teachers and staff with a 10-year goal of having the best paid crew in Allen County;

• To research moving Crossroads Alternative School and continue to meet its goals of providing an alternative education;

• To begin a preschool and research grant possi-

bilities for its funding;• To continue to give stu-

dents the best education the district can afford, regard-less of funding decisions in the state legislature. This includes investing charter schools or unique special-ized schools of learning for that relate to a particu-lar direction, be it in sci-ence, math, or 21st Century skills;

• To promote staff devel-opment and staff morale by having only the best educa-tors for students and an en-vironment that allows for creativity.

After emerging from a 45-minute executive ses-sion, board members to dis-cuss personnel, board mem-bers voted to hire Hannah Chambers as a para at Lin-coln Elementary. She will replace Cindy Leslie, whose contract was terminated.

Jessica Dvorak, English teacher at IHS and at Cross-roads, was made coordina-tor of English as a Second Language. Sara Fox was hired as a bus para and an activities custodian.

And the resignation of Joe Riley as a custodian at

IHS was accepted.

IN OTHER NEWS, Lori Maxwell, principal at McKinley Elementary School, said enrollment for the district’s Age-to-Age Preschool at Windsor Place was at full capacity with a waiting list. Maxwell and a host of school administra-tors and staff will present the highlights of the pro-gram before the State De-

partment of Education on Sept. 18 in Topeka.

Marv Smith, recently retired longtime chemis-try teacher, also has given up the reins of the high school’s Saturday School, which ran Saturday morn-ings from 8 a.m. to noon. In its place is study program from 3:30 to 6 p.m. on Fri-days.

“It has been very well re-ceived,” said Fager.

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Register/Susan LynnLori Maxwell, left, principal at McKinley Elementary School and Angie Linn, director of curriculum, hold up the banner proving McKinley’s success for achieving high academic progress over the past four years.

moment in a ceremony on the White House’s south lawn. Victims’ families in New York began the sol-emn, familiar ritual of reading the names of near-ly 3,000 killed.

Thousands had attended the ceremony in New York in previous years, includ-ing last year’s milestone 10th anniversary. Fewer than 500 family members had gathered by this morn-ing, reading their loved ones’ names on the Sept. 11 memorial, built over the twin towers’ footprints.

Commuters rushed out of the subway and fewer police barricades were in place than in past years in the lower Manhattan neighborhood surrounding ground zero.

Families had a mixed reaction to the changing ceremony, which kept poli-ticians away from the mi-crophone in New York for the first time.

Charles G. Wolf, whose wife, Katherine, was killed at the trade center, said: “We’ve gone past that deep,

collective public grief ” and said it was appropriate that politicians no longer speak.

But Pollicino said it’s im-portant that politicians still attend the ceremony.

“There’s something miss-ing if they’re not here at all,” she said. “Now, all of a sudden, it’s ‘for the fami-

lies.’ This happened to our country — it didn’t happen only to me.”

And Joe Torres, who put in 16-hour days in the “pit” in the days after the at-tacks, cleaning up tons of debris, said another year has changed nothing for him.

“The 11th year, for me, it’s the same as if it hap-pened yesterday. It could be 50 years from now, and to me, it’ll be just as impor-tant as year one, or year five or year ten.”

Political leaders still are welcome to attend the

ground zero ceremony, and they are expected at the other commemorations, as well.

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama plan to attend the Penta-gon ceremony and visit wounded soldiers at Walter

Reed Army Medical Center. Biden and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar are expected to speak at the Flight 93 National Memo-rial near Shanksville, at the site where the hijacked United Airlines plane went down.

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TodayHigh School Volleyball

Marmaton Valley, St. Paul at Southern Coffey CountyHumboldt at CherryvaleCrest, Burlington at Yates Center

Jr. High VolleyballIMS 7th, 8th at Chanute, 3:30 p.m.

Youth Tackle Football3rd-4th Grade League

Mound City at Iola, 6 p.m.Humboldt at Yates Center

5th-6th Grade LeagueGarnett at Iola, 7:15 p.m.Humboldt at Yates CenterMound City at Uniontown

WednesdayJr. College Volleyball

Allen at Highland, 5:30 p.m.Jr. College Soccer

Allen at Independence, women 2 p.m., men 4 p.m.

Girls’ GolfYates Center at Eureka

ThursdayHigh School Volleyball

Crest at PleasantonGirls’ Tennis

Iola at Chanute, 3 p.m.Cross Country

Iola, Marmaton Valley, Humboldt, Yates Center, Crest at Parsons, Big Lake Reservoir, 4 p.m.

Jr. High FootballLabette County at IMS 7th, 8th, 5 p.m.

Jr. High VolleyballPittsburg at IMS 7th, 8th, 3:30 p.m.

FridayHigh School Football

Blue Valley-Randolph at Marma-ton Valley, 6 p.m.Iola at Coffeyville, 7 p.m.Humboldt at NeodeshaUniontown at CrestSouthern Coffey County at Mar-ais Des Cygnes ValleyWaverly at Yates Center

Jr. College VolleyballNEO at Allen, 6:30 p.m.

Jr. College SoccerBarton at Allen, women 2 p.m., men 4 p.m.

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Senior quarterback Mason Coons, seated right, and junior lineman Derrick Weir, left, were awarded the MVP awards for Iola High’s 40-28 win over Osawatomie by the Cops for Jocks program. The Iola Police Department selects the MVP awards each week for the Mustang games. On hand to present the awards Monday were Bob Droessler, left, and Iola Police Chief Jared Warner.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — San Diego’s Philip Rivers threw a six-yard touchdown pass to Malcom Floyd and Nate Kaeding kicked a career-high tying five field goals to spoil Dennis Allen’s debut as Oakland coach with a 22-14 vic-tory Monday night.

The Raiders couldn’t score a touchdown until the final min-ute and there were three botched punts after an injury to Pro Bowl long snapper Jon Condo.

Rivers threw for 231 yards, but was sacked just once and did not turn the ball over after having 20 interceptions a year ago.

Darren McFadden caught a career-high 13 passes for Oak-land. A head injury to Condo in the second quarter proved to be even more significant when back-up long snapper Travis Goethel was involved in three plays that resulted three field goals for the Chargers.

Carson Palmer finally got Oak-land into the end zone with 54 seconds left on a two-yard pass to rookie Rod Streater and the two connected for a two-point conver-sion to make it 22-14. But San Di-ego recovered the onside kick and iced the game.

Palmer went 32 for 46 for 297 yards.

Ravens 44, Bengals 13BALTIMORE (AP) — Joe Flac-

co threw for 299 yards and two touchdowns, Ed Reed took an in-terception 34 yards for a score and Baltimore extended its home win-ning streak to 11 games.

Using the no-huddle offense almost flawlessly, the Ravens amassed 430 yards and got two short touchdown runs from Ray Rice. After letting an early 14-point lead dwindle to 17-13, the Ravens pulled away by scoring 24 straight points in just over six minutes.

Flacco watched the final eight minutes of the blowout on the sideline after going 21 for 29 in Baltimore’s ninth consecutive victory in the AFC North. The Ravens were the only team in the division to win the opener.

The Ravens sacked Andy Dal-ton four times and turned two turnovers into touchdowns over a two-minute span.

Still churning for yards is Iola High’s Keanen Badders (35) as Osawatomie High defenders hang on to him trying to tackle the freshman running back. Badders helped the Iola High junior varsity post a 39-6 win at home over the visiting Trojans Monday night. The IHS junior varsity is 2-1 on the season.

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Iola High’s Mustang junior var-sity steamrolled visiting Osawat-omie High’s Trojans 39-6. The Trojan junior varsity offense did not score in the game Monday.

The Mustangs were up 26-0 at halftime. They scored three touchdowns in the second quar-ter.

Keanen Badders got loose for a 10-yard touchdown run in the third to push Iola’s lead to 32-0. On the ensuing kickoff, Osawato-mie returned the kick for its only score of the night.

Badders made it a four touch-down night when he ripped off a 51-yard touchdown run in the third. He had a one-yard run to the end zone in the first quarter and a five-yard touchdown run in the second as he amassed 170 yards on 13 carries.

Brice Aiello caught a 20-yard touchdown pass from Brett Tay-lor and returned an interception 50 yards for a score. Both were in the second quarter.

Mason Key kicked extra points following Iola’s first two touch-downs and the final touchdown.

Taylor was 2 for 4 passing for 44 yards. Aiello competed two passes for 40 yards. Shane Walden caught three passes for 64 yards.

Terrell Smith rushed for 48 yards on four carries for Iola. Ai-ello had 25 yards on five carries.

Leading the Mustang defense was Jake Gumfory with six tack-les and two quarterback sacks. Badders recorded five tackles and two assisted tackles.

Cody Conner and Aiello each had two interceptions. Gus Hop-kins made four tackles and three assisted tackles.

The Mustang JV is 2-1 on the season. The Mustangs will host Coffeyville next Monday at River-side Park.

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MORAN — Marmaton Valley High’s Wildcats cap-tured their home MVHS Junior Varsity Invitational volleyball tournament title Saturday.

The Wildcat JV beat Uniontown High 15-12, 15-11 in the championship match. The Wildcats went 5-0 to run the junior varsi-ty’s record to 11-2.

They opened with a 15-10, 15-8 win over Central Heights followed by a 15-7, 15-12 victory over Southern Coffey County. Marmaton Valley defeated Hartford 15-7, 15-10 the downed North-east-Arma 15-4, 15-7.

“What a fun tournament. All nine girls on the team

played their hearts out,” said Jamie Stodgell, MVHS assistant coach.

“Everyone contributed to get the wins and their ef-forts were rewarded with gold medals.”

Shauna Knight served for 24 points for the Wild-cats in the five matches. Kenzie Harrison had 23 ser-vice points and Ruby Mann had 21 service points.

Mackenzie Tynon led the net attack with nine kills and five blocks plus served up 15 points. Tessa Olson had four kills, one block and 10 points served.

Mann had three kills and one block. Ashlynn Pinker-ton served for eight points and had three kills and one block at the net.

By LARRY LAGEAP Sports Writer

DETROIT (AP) — Shan-non Eastin used her left hand to tuck her pony tail under her cap after the national anthem and got ready for work.

She seemed to do her job, which ended by helping to separate St. Louis Rams and Detroit Lions players after some shoving, push-ing and shouting broke out following the final play.

Eastin became the first woman to be an official in an NFL regular-season game, working as the line judge in the Rams-Lions matchup Sunday.

“It’s a great milestone,” Detroit coach Jim Schwartz said after his team beat St. Louis 27-23. “But we didn’t think about it all during the game.”

That’s probably just the way she — and the league — liked it.

Eastin is among the re-placement officials hired by the league while the regu-lar officials are locked out. Replacement officials are working games for the first time in 11 years.

She became the first fe-male official to work an NFL preseason game last month as the line judge when Green Bay played at San Diego. The Pro Football Hall of Fame has the hat and whistle she used dur-ing that preseason game, and they’ll are expected to be displayed in Canton, Ohio.

The 42-year-old resident of Tempe, Ariz. has worked as a referee in the Mid-East-ern Athletic Conference — college football’s second-highest level — and has 16 years of officiating experi-ence. MEAC officials de-clined comment on Eastin, as did the NFL in the days leading up to the ground-breaking assignment.

“Commenting on indi-vidual officials is not some-thing we do,” league spokes-man Greg Aiello wrote in an email. “Her place in league history speaks for itself.”

NFL Commissioner Rog-er Goodell has said having Eastin on the field is a great opportunity for her and the league.

“She’s well prepared for it, and I think she’ll do terrific,” Goodell said last month. “So we’re excited about that.

“And there are more com-ing, by the way. We’ve been working along this path to try to properly train and prepare a female official, and now we have the oppor-tunity.”

The NFL declined to make Eastin available for interviews during the week leading up to the game and didn’t allow media to have access to her following the Rams-Lions game, but did set up a conference call with her in August.

“I hope to show it really doesn’t matter if you are male or female,” Eastin said last month.

Eastin walked onto the Ford Field turf about 50 minutes before kickoff Sun-day, chatted briefly with a police officer and shook hands with Lions lineback-ers coach Matt Burke. She then went largely unno-ticed as she paced the home team’s sideline during pre-game warm-ups.

Pittsburgh Steelers line-backer Larry Foote believes it is good for the game to have female officials, even though he worries about her safety working along-

side some of the world’s biggest, strongest and fast-est athletes.

“Women are more honest and fair than men and they know how to catch a man cheating,” Foote said. “I hope she’s just a line judge. Don’t want her to get hurt.”

Eastin, who is originally from Worcester, Mass., was a multiple national judo champion as a child and started officiating high school games before mov-ing up to colleges. She owns a company called SE Sports Officiating, which trains officials in football and bas-ketball.

“I’ll be working even harder, to show I am capa-ble and I am where I should be,” Eastin has said.

She is joining a small group of women to break into officiating ranks at the highest levels of sports.

“It’s a sign of the times,” Lions center Dominic Raio-la said. “The NBA did it.”

Violet Palmer, one of Eastin’s inspirations, start-ed officiating NBA games in 1997 and is still in the league. Bernice Gera be-came the first woman to work in baseball’s minor

leagues in 1972 as an um-pire in a New York-Penn League game. Pam Postema umpired major league spring training games in 1989 and Triple-A baseball for six seasons.

The locked-out NFL Ref-erees Association has said Eastin shouldn’t be allowed to work league games be-cause she has been in the World Series of Poker. If Eastin is hired permanent-ly, the NFL’s gambling poli-cy would bar her from par-ticipating in such events.

Basketball Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman, the first woman to play and coach against men in profession-al basketball, is glad the NFL’s labor problems with its regular officials opened a door for Eastin.

“She doesn’t have to hit anybody, she just has to know the rules,” Lieber-man said. “She won’t be de-fined by her gender if she does her job. And while this is not normal for the rest of the world to see, this is very normal for her because she works as an official for a liv-ing.”

Kathy Babiak, co-direc-tor of SHARP, a partner-ship between the Women’s Sports Foundation and the University of Michigan, said Eastin’s accomplish-ment is encouraging.

“It shows the strides women and girls in sports have been making since Title IX was passed 40 years ago,” Babiak said. “Before Title IX, these kinds of op-portunities for women and girls were not even imagin-able. It shows that women and girls have a desire, in-terest and ability to work in sports at all levels — even men’s professional sports.

“Some girl will be watch-ing Sunday and say, ‘Hey, I want to do the same thing!’”

NEW YORK (AP) — Too exhausted to jump up and down or run over to the stands the way some newly crowned champions do, Andy Murray dropped his racket to the court, crouched down gingerly and covered his mouth with his hands.

A few minutes later, he took off his shoes, sat in his chair on the sideline, leaned his head back and looked into the dark New York sky.

What a relief !The 25-year-old Scots-

man won the U.S. Open to earn the Grand Slam title that had eluded him the four previous times he had gotten this close. It took six minutes short of five hours on a windblown Monday night that was certainly not made for tennis. If it seemed like longer, well, there are some pretty good reasons for that.

Murray’s final against Novak Djokovic felt like three matches packed into one and maybe a lifetime or two for those watching back home in Britain, where it was a few minutes after 2 a.m. Tuesday when the last ball was struck.

After taking a two-set lead, then squandering it, then girding himself for

the deciding fifth set, Mur-ray brought the first major men’s title back to Britain since 1936, defeating the de-fending champion 7-6 (10), 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2.

“I cried a little bit on the court,” said Murray, after becoming the first man to

bring a Grand Slam trophy to Britain since Fred Perry did it, three years before the start of World War II. “You’re not sad. You’re in-credibly happy. You’re in a little bit of disbelief be-cause when I have been in that position many times

before and not won, you do think, you know, is it ever going to happen?”

If there’s one other per-son aware of how difficult these things are to con-quer, it’s Murray’s coach, Ivan Lendl. To prepare for the season, Murray hired

Lendl, the Czech who lost in his first four trips to Grand Slam finals before breaking through at the French Open in 1984.

The first one under his belt, Lendl went on to win seven more.

“It was a very strange thing,” the 52-year-old three-time U.S. Open cham-pion said. “I went, in one match, from a guy who can never come back to a guy who never gives up. I don’t think I deserved either of those. But that’s the way it goes ... sometimes.”

When they teamed up, Lendl and Murray both said it would take between six and nine months to see the results. You could’ve set your watch by that one. Murray won the Olympic gold medal last month on home turf at Wimbledon. He closed out a grueling summer of tennis by going 7 for 7 at Flushing Mead-ows.

And boy was No. 7 a doozy.

It included rallies that of-ten lasted 20, 25, 30 strokes — and one that even went 55.

It included 17 breaks of serve and 121 unforced er-rors — a number that often speaks of shaky play, but in this case was a testament to

the way the wind wreaked havoc with seemingly every shot over these grueling five sets.

The 4 hours, 54 minutes tied a U.S. open final record.

“It was an incredibly tough match, and, yeah, ob-viously it felt great at the end,” Murray said. “Relief is probably the best word I would use to describe how I’m feeling just now.”

Back in Britain, the cel-ebration was on. “Yankee Doodle Andy!” shouted one of the headlines.

Murray now has a per-manent spot in the hearts of fans in a country that invented Grand Slam ten-nis — awarding the first of the sport’s top titles, back at Wimbledon in 1877.

Lendl, who saw the flood-gates for his own career open after he finally broke through, insists there was no magic behind Murray’s first major victory. Only a lot of hard work, with more to come.

“You can help somebody in a very short period of time,” he said. “However, it takes longer for more things to set in. You can-not do it all in one week, you cannot do that in one month, and hopefully, we’re not anywhere near where Andy could get.”

Murray defeats Djokovic for US Open title

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Andy Murray wins the men’s final of US Open tennis tournament after defeating No-vak Djokovic Monday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flush-ing Meadows, N.Y.

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Major League BaseballAt A Glance

All Times EDTThe Associated Press

American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBNew York 79 61 .564 —Baltimore 78 62 .557 1Tampa Bay 77 63 .550 2Toronto 64 75 .460 14½Boston 63 78 .447 16½

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 76 64 .543 —Detroit 73 67 .521 3Kansas City 63 77 .450 13Cleveland 59 82 .418 17½Minnesota 59 82 .418 17½

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 83 57 .593 —Oakland 80 60 .571 3Los Angeles 77 64 .546 6½Seattle 67 74 .475 16½

Monday’s GamesMinnesota 7, Cleveland 2Chicago White Sox 6, Detroit 1Oakland 3, L.A. Angels 1

Tuesday’s GamesTampa Bay (M.Moore 10-9) at Balti-more (Hammel 8-6), 7:05 p.m.Seattle (Er.Ramirez 0-2) at Toronto (Morrow 8-5), 7:07 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 13-10) at Boston (Lester 9-11), 7:10 p.m.Cleveland (U.Jimenez 9-15) at Tex-as (M.Harrison 15-9), 8:05 p.m.Detroit (Fister 8-8) at Chicago White Sox (Peavy 10-10), 8:10 p.m.Kansas City (W.Smith 4-7) at Min-nesota (Diamond 11-6), 8:10 p.m.Oakland (Straily 1-0) at L.A. Angels (Williams 6-7), 10:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesTampa Bay (Cobb 9-8) at Baltimore (Undecided), 7:05 p.m.Seattle (Millwood 5-12) at Toronto (R.Romero 8-13), 7:07 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (D.Phelps 3-4) at Boston (A.Cook 3-9), 7:10 p.m.Cleveland (J.Gomez 5-7) at Texas (Dempster 5-1), 8:05 p.m.Detroit (Scherzer 15-6) at Chicago White Sox (Floyd 9-9), 8:10 p.m.Kansas City (Hochevar 7-13) at Minnesota (Walters 2-3), 8:10 p.m.Oakland (Griffin 5-0) at L.A. Angels

(E.Santana 8-11), 10:05 p.m.National League

East Division W L Pct GBWashington 87 54 .617 —Atlanta 81 61 .570 6½Philadelphia 70 71 .496 17New York 65 76 .461 22Miami 63 79 .444 24½

Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati 85 57 .599 —St. Louis 75 66 .532 9½Pittsburgh 72 68 .514 12Milwaukee 70 71 .496 14½Chicago 55 86 .390 29½Houston 44 97 .312 40½

West Division W L Pct GBSan Francisco 79 62 .560 —Los Angeles 74 67 .525 5Arizona 69 72 .489 10San Diego 67 75 .472 12½Colorado 57 83 .407 21½

Monday’s GamesPhiladelphia 3, Miami 1Cincinnati 4, Pittsburgh 3, 14 inningsWashington 5, N.Y. Mets 1Chicago Cubs 4, Houston 1Milwaukee 4, Atlanta 1Colorado 6, San Francisco 5San Diego 11, St. Louis 3

Tuesday’s GamesMiami (Eovaldi 4-11) at Philadelphia (Halladay 9-7), 7:05 p.m.Pittsburgh (Correia 10-8) at Cincin-nati (Leake 7-9), 7:10 p.m.Washington (Zimmermann 10-8) at N.Y. Mets (Dickey 18-4), 7:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Germano 2-6) at Houston (Lyles 3-11), 8:05 p.m.Atlanta (T.Hudson 14-5) at Milwau-kee (Estrada 2-6), 8:10 p.m.San Francisco (Bumgarner 14-10) at Colorado (Chacin 2-5), 8:40 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 12-8) at Ari-zona (I.Kennedy 12-11), 9:40 p.m.St. Louis (Wainwright 13-12) at San Diego (Volquez 9-10), 10:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesMiami at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m.St. Louis at San Diego, 6:35 p.m.Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.Washington at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Houston, 8:05 p.m.Atlanta at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.San Francisco at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

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Jordan Drake made five saves for the Allen men in a 1-0 loss.

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Catlin Chance Sinclair was arrested in the 400 block of South Colborn Street Friday for suspicion of being a pedestrian under the influence of drugs or al-cohol.

Windshield damagedreported to police

Michael Howard, 713 N. Chestnut St., told Iola police officers Thursday somebody damaged the windshield of his Dodge truck while it was in the 700 block of North Chest-nut Street.

Cyclist injured afterstriking pickup

Scott Black, 20, told Iola police officers Friday he was injured while riding his bicycle behind Jump Start Travel Center. Black said he collided with the back of a pickup, which left the scene. Black was treated at Allen County Hospital.

Charges soughtO’Shaughnessy Liquor

Store employees said Fri-day a known male had shoplifted four bottles of

liquor valued at $31.53. Offi-cers are requested a felony theft charge be filed against the suspect, whose name was not released.

Theft allegedIola police officers were

told Thursday Anthony Smith allegedly entered Pump ’N Pete’s and stole $79 from a cash register.

Trailer takenLyle E. Trowbridge, 50,

Iola, told police Friday his 1978 yellow and white truck bed trailer had been stolen from his property in the 500 block of South Kentucky Street.

Wallet stolenTina Casteneda, 36, 221

N. Second St., told police Sunday her wallet was sto-len from her purse. A sus-pect has been identified; an investigation continues.

Vehicle struckA vehicle driven by Bren-

da A. Holloway struck the back of a vehicle driven by Crystal D. Wood as both ve-hicles were slowing to pick up children in front of Iola Middle School along East Street Sept. 4.

Police reportsWhile attending the

Bressner Pasture Field Day last week, Dr. Dale Kirkham of the Kansas Rural Center spoke on ways to reduce soil erosion in pastureland.

This article was adapted from the proceedings and used with Dr. Kirkham’s permission.

Pastures are primarily managed for abundant for-age production and good livestock performance. But other benefits from prop-erly managed pastures in-clude clean run-off water, habitat for wildlife, carbon sequestration, and scenic views.

Soil erosion is a natural process and generally not a major concern in pas-tureland. However, certain activities by cattle and ranchers can accelerate the process resulting in gullies started by ruts that concentrate water flows. Cattle trailing, ranch roads and feeding during wet periods are high on the list of activities that subject the sod to erosion damage.

Cattle are creatures of habit and commonly “trail” to water, salt and mineral feeders, and shade

which can form paths that lead to gullies. Gullies also start along fences where stocker cattle travel steadi-ly during the first few days after turnout. Where small gullies have started along fences, cattle paths, and pasture roads, placing short “kickout” berms of earthen fill will divert con-centrated runoff onto good sod.

Where cattle trail along fences, short stub fences may be installed to direct their movements toward the center of the pasture, especially on steeper slopes. Even those unwant-ed orange (hedge) trees can be cut and placed to direct cattle traffic.

What about healing ac-tively eroding gullies? The key is to slow the flowing water in the channel if it cannot be diverted. Start-ing at the upper end of smaller gullies, place avail-

able materials such as used net wrap held by rocks or tree branches at intervals to slow water flow and trap sediment. Annual grasses and weeds will soon es-tablish and eventually be replaced by native spe-cies. Larger gullies often require structures made of rock or earthen fill de-signed by an engineer to be fully effective.

Pasture roads also can lead to gullies as repeated vehicle traffic, especially during wet times and on steeper slopes, breaks the sod cover and forms ruts. Negative impacts can be reduced by following the contour of the land and altering routes whenever possible. Also, use light-weight vehicles with broad tires, such as ATVs and UTVs if available and suit-able for the task.

Winter feeding sites are another source of sedi-ment, minerals and bacte-ria in runoff.

Moving feeding to new areas often will alter traffic patterns, reduce spot dam-age to the sod, and encour-age cattle to consume dor-mant forage in lightly used areas of the pasture. Feed in open areas away from

ponds and streams dur-ing suitable weather while saving sheltered spots for extreme conditions. Feed-ing supplements in larger amounts just 2-3 times per week will also reduce ve-hicle traffic.

Spring burns that re-move both the standing dead material and the sur-face layer of mulch leave the soil vulnerable to sheet and rill erosion until new plant growth is sufficient to provide protection. When-ever possible, burn native pastures when the soil and mulch layers are moist in order to leave a protective layer on the soil surface. In the patch-burn-patch graze system, the higher rates of sheet and rill erosion that may occur in the heavily grazed third of the pasture are likely offset by greater protection in the remain-ing two-thirds.

Remember that main-taining good grass and mulch cover will slow run-off, trap sediments and in-crease infiltration, thus, being rule No. 1 in reduc-ing soil erosion in pas-tures. Rule No. 2 is to mini-mize livestock and human activities that lead to con-centrated flows of runoff.

Reducing soil erosion in pastures DeltaGeorge

ExtensionAgent forAgriculture

Tornadoes, flooding, ice storms and more. In Kan-sas, if it’s not one thing it’s another.

What we call a disaster can take many forms. It could be individual, as in a fire to one’s home or local as in a tornado that hits a community. It could also be regional, such as a flood that follows the trail of a river, or even statewide, such as an ice storm that knocks out power to a large percentage of residents.

September is National

Preparedness Month and a good time to make prepara-tions in the event a disas-ter should strike.

Good businesses plan ahead to mitigate the im-pact of disasters, so should

families, says Jamie Rath-bun, family and consumer sciences extension agent in Ellsworth County.

One way to be prepared for emergencies is to create a grab-and-go box.

Kept in a secure place in the house, in a waterproof, fireproof container, it would be ready to be taken at a moment’s notice. Items included should be those that would provide access to cash, banking services and the personal identifica-tion needed to conduct day-

to-day financial life after a disaster.

Items in the box should include:

• Identification and other key documents that may be needed to restore financial records, including copies of driver’s licenses, pass-ports, social security cards.

• Insurance cards, poli-cies, or other proof of in-surance coverage.

• Household inventory.• Immunization records.• Bank account numbers,

cash.

• Copies (front and back) of ATM, debit, and credit cards.

• Phone numbers and ac-count information for all financial service and insur-ance providers.

• Important telephone numbers (family members, doctors, veterinarians).

• Names and prescription numbers for medications.

• Safe deposit box key.• House and car keys.• Backups of financial

data kept on the computer.• Pocket notebook and

pen or pencil.

If the following items are not kept in a safe deposit box, these should also be kept in the grab-and-go box.

• Family records (birth, marriage, death certifi-cates).

• Wills, contracts, deeds, stocks, and bonds.

• Titles to vehicles.Disasters can be devas-

tating, not only to property, but also to emotions. Hav-ing the needed information handy could help make re-covery from a disaster a little easier.

Preparation remains key to safety during disasters AnneLudlumExtensionAgent forFamily andConsumer Sciences

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By SAM HANANELAssociated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The massive teacher strike in Chicago offers a high-profile test for the nation’s teacher unions, which have seen their political influ-ence threatened as a grow-ing reform movement seeks to expand charter schools, get private companies in-volved with failing schools and link teacher evalua-tions to student test scores.

The unions are taking a major stand on teacher evaluations, one of the key issues in the Chicago dis-pute. If they lose there, it could have ripple effects around the country.

Both the National Edu-cation Association and the American Federation of Teachers are “a bit weaker,” said Rick Hess of the Amer-ican Enterprise Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. “They are playing on more hostile terrain and they are facing opponents the likes of which they have not had to face before.”

Members of the Chi-cago Teachers Union — the AFT’s oldest local — walked off the job Monday for the first time in 25 years over issues that include pay raises, classroom con-ditions, job security and teacher evaluations.

They are pitted against Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a powerful Demo-crat — and former chief of staff to President Barack Obama — who wants to extract more concessions from teachers while the school district faces a near-ly $700 million deficit.

Major teacher strikes have been rare in recent years, compared with the 1960s and 1970s, when teachers went on strike frequently for better pay and improved bargaining rights. While unions gen-erally got what they want-ed in the past, they face a tougher climate today.

With the weak economy,

unions have seen massive teacher layoffs, increased class sizes and school dis-tricts unable or unwilling to boost teacher salaries. Like other public employee unions, they are also un-der attack from Republican governors like Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who signed a measure last year to curb collective bargaining rights and limit benefits for state workers.

The 2.2-million mem-ber NEA has lost more than 100,000 members since 2010, as fewer public school teachers are hired and more charter schools open, most of which are not unionized. At the 1.5 mil-lion-member AFT, years of steady growth have leveled off.

“They certainly are on the defensive,” said Rich-ard Ingersoll, a professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsyl-vania. “They are under at-tack. A lot of times they are demonized. On the other hand there’s really smart and progressive elements in the teacher’s movement who want to get out ahead of this and do it in a way that’s fair.”

In the past, teachers unions could count on a Democratic White House to fight back on their behalf.

But Obama’s education secretary, Arne Duncan, is a former head of Chicago Public Schools who has pushed for many of the changes that unions op-pose.

“In many ways, the Obama administration has signed onto the very conser-vative set of reforms that the education community is imposing on teachers,” said Richard Kahlenberg of the Century Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington.

Both the NEA and the AFT have strongly en-dorsed Obama’s re-election despite his administra-tion’s support of policies to expand charter schools, weaken tenure and base teacher evaluations on how much student performance improves.

Teachers strike tests unions

Heather Charles/Chicago Tribune/MCTBrianne Kelly drops off her daughters Breshayia Kelly, 11, and Isabella Kelly, 7, as teachers picket outside of Ray Elementary School in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago Monday. Ray is one of the open schools for displaced students.

In many ways the Obama administration has signed onto the very conservative set of reforms that the ed-ucation community is imposing on teachers.

— Richard KahlenbergCentury Foundation

“

“The Prairie Dell 4-H

Club was called to order by junior president Allyson Hobbs Sept. 3 at the North Community Building.

Katana Smith led the club in the flag salute and 4-H Pledge.

Khrystal Smith and Kah-lan Roloff led the club in singing “Happy Birthday” to Lane Roloff and Clara Wicoff.

The following officers were elected for the new 4-H year: Trey Wilson and Allyson Hobbs, co-presi-dents; Emily McKarnin, vice president; Clara Wi-coff, secretary; Chyanne Vaughn, treasurer; Olivia Bannister, reporter; Al-lyson Hobbs, Clara Wicoff, Emily McKarnin, council representatives; Trilby Bannister, Katie Weide, Krystal Smith, song lead-ers; Henry Wicoff and Lane Roloff, recreation leaders; Isaiah Wicoff, parliamentarian; Alexis Hobbs, historian; Chyanne Vaughn, jr. president; Jen-na Wilks, jr. vice president; Emily McKarnin, jr. sec-retary; Jackson Wilks, jr. treasurer; Alexis Hobbs, jr. reporter; Isaiah Wicoff, jr. council representative; Kahlan Roloff, Eve Ard, Ethan Weide, junior song leaders; Ilennia Aguirre, Casey McKarnin, Bran-don McKarnin, junior rec-reation leaders; Annika Hobbs, junior historian; Katana Smith, junior par-liamentarian.

For new business the

club decided to attend the First Christian Church on 4-H Sunday, Oct. 7. A com-mittee of Alexis Hobbs, chair, and Allyson Hobbs, Annika Hobbs, Chyanne Vaughn, Kahlan Roloff, Lane Roloff, Katie Weide, and Henry Wicoff are in charge of the 4-H week window display. Club members also decided to wear their club shirts dur-ing 4-H Week on Oct. 10. A committee of Katana Smith, Khrystal Smith, Chyanne Vaughn, and Al-lyson Hobbs was appoint-ed to plan the fall party.

Allyson Hobbs gave a talk about her silkies chick-ens named “Black Beauty” and “Snow White.” Clara Wicoff showed how to pick the perfect watermelon us-ing her foods poster from the fair.

Casey McKarnin show-ed his dog “Oreo.”

Henry Wicoff and Casey McKarnin led the club in playing rooster romp.

Following the meeting members sampled the wa-termelon Clara Wicoff brought for her talk.

The next meeting will be Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. at the North Community Building.

Photos by Terri KretzmeierAbove, llyson Hobbs talks about her silkies chickens named “Black Beauty” and “Snow White.” Below, Clara Wicoff talks about how to choose the perfect watermel-on, while Emily McKarnin holds her poster.

4-H news

Dear Dr. Donohue: My daughter’s best friend has a noticeable mus-tache and chin hair if she doesn’t shave frequently. My daughter says the girl told her she has hirsutism. Both girls are 17. The girl is popular, well-adjusted and very funny. Does this have any implications for her health? — A.L.

Answer: Hirsutism is something that an affected person can tell you she has by looking into a mirror. It’s a female who has male hair growth on the body and face. It results, most often, from an overproduc-tion of male hormones by the female or from an ex-treme sensitivity to nor-mal production of male hormone. In some instanc-es, it’s a genetic trait.

Polycystic ovary syn-drome, a fairly common female condition, is one of the chief conditions that produce hirsutism. The involved woman’s ovaries are studded with cysts. Ul-trasound examination of the ovaries shows them. Menstrual periods are few and far between. The prob-lem is an overproduction of male hormone. That’s the trigger for the kind of hair growth we’re talking about. Obesity is another common manifestation of polycystic ovary syn-drome. However, many women, aside from facial hair and menstrual ir-regularities, have few of the other signs. One of the treatments often used is the birth-control pill to restore balance between male and female hor-mones. It’s not the only treatment.

Tumors of the adrenal gland are another cause of hirsutism.

If the problem is isolat-ed hirsutism, not caused by other conditions, then a

woman has many options. Shaving is one of those options. Bleaching the hair disguises the growth. Electrolysis and laser treatments get rid of the unwanted hair.

I think it wise not to bring all this up to your daughter or her friend. The girl knows what she has. She wouldn’t have said “hirsutism” if she had not gotten the diagno-sis from a doctor. The de-tails of her treatment are best left between her and her parents.

Dear Dr. Donohue: Six months ago, I was con-stipated so bad that I had to have an impaction re-moved by a doctor. The doctor put me on MiraLax. I have been taking it ever since. I live in fear of con-stipation.

In the past two weeks, I have been having diar-rhea. Should I stop the Mi-raLax? The doctor never said how long to take it. — L.M.

Answer: M i r a L a x draws water into the di-gestive tract. That’s how it eases constipation. Yes, you should stop taking it now. The manufacturer’s

directions say it should be used only for two weeks or less.

The strictures against laxative use have been greatly relaxed. By using them, people don’t develop a “laxative bowel,” a bowel that loses its normal abil-ity to evacuate waste ma-terial.

However, taking laxa-tives when one has diar-rhea is not good. I don’t even have to temper this advice by the usual “see your doctor.” Stop the lax-

ative right away.Not only does MiraLax

draw water from the body, it draws sodium, potas-sium, chloride and bicar-bonate. You could be get-ting into a deficiency of those minerals.

Readers may write to Dr. Donohue or request an or-der form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Readers may also or-der health newsletters from www.rbmamall.com.

Dear Tom and Ray:I just learned that I

might be driving a chick car. I own a red Honda del Sol, and I really enjoy driv-ing it. Do other guys think I’m less than manly? How can I add some testosterone to this ladylike transport? At least it doesn’t have an automatic transmission. Should I worry about this? –Steve

TOM: In our experience, the way guys “find out” they’re driving a “chick car” is that some other guy, who’s feeling insecure about his own masculinity that day, tries to make him-self feel better by saying, “Dude, that’s a chick car you’re driving.”

RAY: Guys occasionally

have days like that. Some days my wife dresses me in a pink shirt and matching boxers, and I just have to unload on somebody!

TOM: Yeah, my brother has been known to be a smug, “chick car” accuser from time to time.

RAY: I admit it. I have been known to razz the oc-casional guy who drives a white Mazda Miata.

TOM: Like me!RAY: Exactly.TOM: Not only should

you not worry about this, Steve, but you probably are one of the few who, like me, have discovered a wonder-ful secret: Who likes chick cars? Chicks!

RAY: That’s true. Most women tend to be intimi-dated or put off by so-called macho cars. And they tend to be more attracted to cars they consider cute. So if you’re interested in talk-ing to women, a cute car -- like the del Sol -- is exactly what you should be driving, Steve.

TOM: On the other hand, if you’re more interested in attracting guys to your car, then you should drive a “guy car.” I know when I test-drive something ma-cho, like an oversize truck

or a Dodge Challenger with a Hemi V8, 99.9 percent of the stares I get are from guys!

RAY: That’s true. And conversely, last week, when I was test-driving the little Fiat 500, it was like tak-ing a puppy for a walk on a crowded beach! Women everywhere were turning their heads to look and smile.

TOM: At the car! Once they saw that my brother was driving, they put their hands over their mouths and bent forward. But that’s not the car’s fault.

RAY: No. So drive happily, Steve. And if some numb-bolt tells you you’re driving a chick car, say: “Yeah! It’s great, isn’t it!”


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By MIKE SHIELDS Kansas Health Institute OLATHE — Johnson

County commissioners have hit a wall in their ef-fort to learn how much the three insurance companies that have signed contracts to run the Kansas Medicaid program will collect in prof-it or administrative fees.

State officials told them they would not share the requested financial in-formation because it was “proprietary and confiden-tial,” according to Maury Thompson, director of Johnson County Develop-mental Supports, a county agency that provides ser-vices to the disabled and which initiated the infor-mation request.

‘Very curious’“The county’s opin-

ion is that they are pub-lic documents and should be disclosed,” Thompson said. “Once any contract is signed by the board of county commissioners, it is a public document. We’re very curious to learn on what legal grounds they think they cannot disclose a signed, legal governmen-tal contract.”

Portions of the state’s KanCare contracts with the three managed-care or-ganizations (MCOs) have been posted on a state web-site. But not included with those postings were con-tract attachments A and B, which is where Thompson said commissioners believe the information they seek could be found.

“The underlying intent of obtaining this financial information is to deter-mine what the administra-tive charge will be to the state for their services and what their medical loss ra-tio or profit will be from this business,” Thompson said. “What sort of money are we pulling out of the system to pay these three MCOs?”

Kansas is expected to spend about $3.2 billion on Medicaid services in the coming year, or, on aver-age, about $641 per benefi-ciary per month. Most of that money would go to the insurance companies and their service providers, assuming federal authori-ties sign off on Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan to imple-ment KanCare starting Jan. 1.

$1 billion in savingsBrownback officials have

said they expect the new system to save the state and federal governments $1 billion over the next five years without cutting services and while improv-ing outcomes for Medicaid patients. The claims have been met with some skep-ticism by county commis-sioners and legislative crit-ics because details of how the savings might be real-ized have not been clearly explained. Administration officials have said the sav-ings will come from better coordination of care.

Johnson County officials filed their disclosure re-quest on Thursday and are awaiting the formal denial from state officials so they can file a counter response, Thompson said. Meanwhile, the matter rests in the hands of the county’s lawyers and could lead to a showdown between the local and state officials over the correct in-terpretation of the state’s Open Records laws.

Thompson said state offi-cials had agreed to release MCO cost proposal infor-mation sought in a separate and earlier information re-quest by the county. That information is expected to the commission early this week, but it won’t include the figures commissioners most want to see, he said.

Laws and practices slow to catch up

Profit-driven Medicaid managed care companies have become some of the nation’s fastest growing and most sophisticated business enterprises.

Directly or indirectly through subcontractors they employ hundreds of thousands of people, report billions of dollars in an-nual revenues and now, ac-

cording to federal statistics, have about half the coun-try’s 62 million Medicaid patients enrolled in their plans.

But federal and state laws and practices in some im-portant ways haven’t kept pace with the growth of the managed care companies, which exist in a regulatory and legal space different from that occupied by com-mercial health insurers, those that provide plans to employers and other pri-vate purchasers.

For example, Brown-back officials prepared

and issued the voluminous request for proposal to po-tential KanCare contrac-tors without consulting the state insurance depart-ment, even though it was commonly known or ex-pected that major national insurance companies likely would win the awards and despite the fact that only companies certified as HMOs by the department were qualified to bid.

‘Increased risk’As early as 1996, the

National Association of Insurance Commission-ers was talking about the disconnect between Medic-aid officials and insurance regulators with respect to the managed care compa-nies. Greater collaboration in dealing with the MCOs might be warranted given that the financial risks of providing Medicaid ser-vices were being shifted in large measure from the state governments to the companies, according to an NAIC white paper.

Limited role regulating Medicaid contractors

But that did not happen

with KanCare and appar-ently no one from the in-surance department or the Brownback administration proposed a collaborative approach.

Ken Abitz said he and other insurance depart-ment officials didn’t see the RFP until it was made generally available to the public but that the depart-ment historically has had a limited role dealing with or overseeing the state’s Med-icaid contractors.

In any event, Kansas law exempts a Medicaid man-aged care company under contract with the state welfare agency from meet-ing the net worth require-ment that other insurers or HMOs must meet in order to operate in Kansas.

Nor do they have to file statements of fiscal sound-ness with the insurance department, though they are required to file finan-cial projections, which are closed to public view.

Important distinctionUnlike those in some

other states, Kansas’s law does give the insurance commissioner authority to

deal with a failed Medicaid MCO as if it were an in-surance insolvency rather than a standard corporate bankruptcy, according to insurance department of-ficials.

That distinction is im-portant according to legal analysts because it could afford some protections for state officials in the event something goes seriously wrong with one of the MCOs. For example, in the event one MCO fails, the insurance commissioner could order the surviving MCOs to open their rolls to the failed company’s benefi-ciaries.

State officials say given the size of the KanCare MCOs they see little likeli-hood any would experience a financial collapse. But the last few years have of-fered plenty of examples of corporate giants that unexpectedly teetered or toppled, including Lehman Brothers, one of nation’s largest investment banks, and insurance giant AIG, which survived a 2008 li-quidity crisis thanks only to billions of dollars in gov-ernment loans.

KanCare contractors keeping mum on financials

Johnson County officials are trying to get financial information regarding the three KanCare contractors hired to run the state’s Medicaid program but could be stymied by exceptions to the state’s Open Records law, which allow nondisclosure of “trade secrets” and vari-ous insurance company financial filings.

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