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Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

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

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

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

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

By SUSAN LYNNsusan@iolaregister.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By RICHARD LUKENrichard@iolaregister.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

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

By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

See EGO | Page B6

By JOE SNEVEjoe@iolaregister.com

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

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

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-

By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Temps for runlook inviting

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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

See CHEATING | Page A5See MOWING | Page A5See COUNTY | Page A5

See PEKAREK | Page A5

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HAPPY NEW YEAR

TAKING A MOMENT TO REFLECT

Santa Fe SunsetChanute’s Santa Fe Lake sported a flock of geese last week. The golden glow gave a warmth we may not feel for at least the next few days. Snow is forecast for today and Tuesday with highs in the lower 30s.

Photo by Phyllis Luedke

Rocking in the new yearBy ALLISON TINN

allison@iolaregister.comLocal band, Led Astray, has

been living by the tune of an AC/DC song, “It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock ‘n’ roll,” and they have done it without regrets or complaints. The band will be ringing in the New Year perform-ing at Scooter’s bar tonight from 9 o’clock to 1 a.m.

“You have (the ones who get by) then you have the ones who bust their humps, we bust our humps,” band member Mike Genoble said.

Led Astray is made up of Geno-

ble, vocals, Josh Powell, base, Ben Reeder, lead guitarist, Chris Belknap, drums, and Brian Sil-cox, sound guy.

“We started about two, two and a half years ago,” Genoble said. “A bunch of buddies who shared the love of music.”

The young band got its first break playing on a friend’s pa-tio in Gas in 2010 to a receptive crowd. Since then they have found success. They won Farm City Days’ Battle of the Bands twice, have played local gigs, in

Led Astray band members are, from left, Josh Powell, Mike Geno-ble, Chris Belknap and Ben Reeder. Not pictured is Brian Silcox.

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Burning wood a cost-cutting measure for IolansBy BOB JOHNSON

bob@iolaregister.com“It feels different, a warmer

warm,” said Lee Gumfory, as warm air flowed from a vent above his wood-burning fire-place.

Gumfory, 83, and wife Colleen, 82, spend much of their time during cold-weather months near the fireplace, taking ad-vantage of its warmth and be-ing comfortable in knowing that what it costs to heat their three-bedroom home at 412 E. Douglas is less than using natural gas.

“It hasn’t made a great differ-ence this year,” Gumfory said. “Gas prices aren’t too high, but it sure has helped in previous years.”

Over the years the Gumforys have had just two utility bills that totaled — for all services — more than $200. If they de-pended on gas alone for heating, they likely would have paid that much or more in a month for fuel in past years when gas spiked into double figures for 1,000 cu-bic feet (mcf). Burning 20 mcf isn’t unusual to heat a house of any size when the weather turns frigid.

The Gumforys built their home on two lots near the Zero Packing plant when it was a going business at 409 N. Cot-tonwood. Dale Stalnaker, who owned the custom butchering business and locker, urged them to take up residence next door in

1954, three years after Gumfory started work at Zero.

“We were living in east Iola and it made sense to be close to work,” he said.

Originally, it was a frame wood house. In the mid-1970s, when rural water districts laid lines throughout Allen County, the Gumforys took advantage of limestone slabs left from the construction and added a rock facade.

“We did it all,” Gumfory said. “It’s a mighty tight house. We didn’t have a crack anywhere until last summer,” when the on-going drought caused more of a shift than the rock walls could stand.Lee Gumfory adds a log to his wood-burning fireplace, which

provides a toasty warmth.

Register/Bob Johnson

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By MATTHEW LEEAssociated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sec-retary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is under observation at a New York hospital after being treated for a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sus-tained earlier this month.

Clinton’s doctors discovered the clot Sunday while perform-ing a follow-up exam. Clinton is being treated with anti-coag-ulants and will remain at New York-Presbyte-rian Hospital for at least the next 48 hours so doctors can mon-itor the medication.

Clinton fell and suffered a con-cussion while at home alone in mid-December as she recovered from a stomach virus that left her severely dehydrated. The concus-

sion was diagnosed Dec. 13 and Clinton was forced to cancel a trip to North Africa and the Middle East that had been planned for the next week.

The seriousness of a blood clot “depends on where it is,” said Dr. Gholam Motamedi, a neurologist at Georgetown University Medi-cal Center who was not involved in Clinton’s care.

Clots in the legs are a common risk after someone has been bed-ridden, as Clinton may have been for a time after her concussion. Those are “no big deal” and are treated with six months of blood thinners to allow them to dissolve on their own and to prevent fur-ther clots from forming, he said.

A clot in a lung or the brain is more serious. Lung clots, called pulmonary embolisms, can be deadly, and a clot in the brain can cause a stroke, Motamedi said.

Keeping Clinton in the hospital for a couple of days could allow doctors to perform more tests to determine why the clot formed,

Hillary Clinton, 65, under observation for blood clot

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2012 YEAR END

REVIEW

Pasta e lenticchieWhile black-eyed peas are a tradition for many Americans on New

Year’s Day, I grew up in Italy eating pasta e lenticchie as a New Year’s Day tradition. It has been a while since I lived in Italy and I am a full-blood-ed American, but our family tradition of eating the pasta and lentil dish remains. Similar to the American tradition, if not well-seasoned, pasta e lenticchie can be a bland disaster. This is my recipe that is meant to bring good luck and prosperity in the new year.

In a saucepan, bring the water to a boil, add lentils and cook, cov-ered over medium-high heat, until nearly but not entirely tender, about 20 minutes. Add the garlic, olive oil, tomatoes, salt, and pepper. Reduce the heat, cover, and continue to simmer briskly for another 10 minutes, stirring a few times, or until the lentils are fully tender.

Cook the pasta at least halfway in plenty of salted boiling water. Drain the pasta, add to lentils, and simmer to finish cooking the pasta. When pasta is cooked to taste, remove the pot from the heat, stir in the parsley, cover the pot, and let stand about five minutes before serving. Serve hot, passing hot pepper oil or the best-quality extra-virgin olive oil for drizzling on top.

Ingredients: 5 cups water¾ cup lentils2 large cloves garlic, crushed3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil1 cup chopped canned plum toma-

toes, with some juice2 teaspoons salt¼ teaspoon hot red pepper flakes½ pound small tubular pasta2 rounded tablespoons finely cut or snipped parsley

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ObituariesChuck Wilson

Charles “Chuck” Wilson, 47, rural Kincaid, passed away Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, at his home.

Services are pending and will be announced later by Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Me-morial Chapel of Iola.

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

Bonnie CarrigerBonnie M. Carriger, 87,

Greeley, passed away Thurs-day, Dec. 27, 2012, at her home. She was born Feb. 26, 1925, in LaHarpe, the young-est of 13 children of William and Lillie Roush.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Feuer-born Family Funeral Ser-vice Chapel in Garnett. Fam-ily will greet friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Garnett V.F.W. Post 6397.

Condolences for the fam-ily may be left at www.feuer-bornfuneral.com.

Pat McGuireMeredith “Pat” McGuire,

70, Cherryvale, passed away Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, at St. John Medical Center in Tul-sa, Okla.

Services were this afternoon at Wick-ham Fam-ily Funeral Home, 216 E. 4th St., C h e r r y -vale. Pri-vate burial will be at High-land Cemetery in Iola.

Memorial remembrances are suggested to Parkinson’s Support Group at Windsor Place in Coffeyville.

Pat was born June 7, 1942, at Albuquerque, N.M. the son of Glen McGuire and Is-abel (Ashford) McGuire. He grew up in Iola and gradu-ated from Iola High School in 1960. After high school he served in the Air Force and spent four years in Korea.

He worked as a propane delivery driver for Union Gas until 1997 when he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s.

Pat’s favorite hobby was playing the theater organ and will be remembered for his musical talents.

Survivors include cousins, Merrill Mazza of Guerns-ville, Calif., Kathi Ashford, David Ashford, Jeff Ashford, Steve Ashford, aunt and un-cle, Shirley and Kendall Ash-ford, Iola, and caregiver, Jan Booth, Coffeyville.

Joseph MaloneyJoseph Lee Maloney, Sr.,

73, Iola died Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 at Sacred Heart Hos-pital in Pensacola, Fla.

He was born July 13, 1939 in Iola to Helen and Joe Malo-ney. He was the old-est of six chi ldren. He joined the Kansas Na-tional Guard in July 1956 and served until July 1964. He began working for local carpenters and construc-tion companies. It was while building houses in the Ozarks that he met and married Lavonda Williams on July 15, 1966. They made their home in Iola. They had six children, and raised a granddaughter. He and his wife owned and operated Maloney Construction and Maloney’s Greenhouse in Iola until their retirement. He enjoyed traveling, fish-ing, going to casinos and vis-iting family and friends.

He is survived by his wife Lavonda; his children, Tina Maloney and Chris Moore, Gulf Breeze, Fla., Ann Lea and husband Brad, Iola, Jo-seph Maloney, Jr. and wife Kerri, Pensacola, Fla., Shir-ley Mitchell, Paris, Tenn., Patricia Tilton, Iola, Renee’ Leavitt, Pensacola, Fla.; his grandchildren, Hanna Mef-ford, Iola, Heidi Mefford, Gulf Breeze, Fla., Chelsea, Matt, Morgan and Jake Lea, Iola, Suzanna Lea, Colony, Joseph III, Darren, Kaitlyn and Ashley Maloney, Pen-sacola, Fla., Thomas, Brian and Derrick Mitchell, Paris, Tenn., Jimmy and Ivy Til-ton, Iola; one great-grand-daughter, Brooklynn Mef-ford, Iola; three brothers, Earl and wife Janice, Fort Scott, Dale and Jimmy, Iola; one sister, Diana Duckworth and husband Chuck, Victo-ria, Texas, and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Helen and Joe Maloney, his in-laws, Blanche and Bill Hitchcock, Ava, Mo., his brother Leon Maloney, infant son Darren Maloney and infant grand-son Mason Maloney.

Cremation has taken place and a memorial service will take place at a later date with burial at Highland Cemetery.

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ThursdayRotary Club, noon, The Greenery.Take Off Pounds Sensibly No. KS 880, Iola, 5 p.m. weigh-

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

Friday Senior Citizens and Card Club potluck dinner, 5:30 p.m.,

senior citizens center, 204 N. Jefferson.

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On Dec. 23, the Rev. Steve Traw’s message was “The Cradle Filled with Love,” from Luke 6:27-36.

Rita Sanders and Linda Guenther presided over lighting of the advent can-dles.

Evan Nelson and Tyton Burton sang, “Joy to the World” accompanied by Myrna Wildschuetz at the piano, and Rita’s grand-daughter, Julia Sanders, Lenexa, playing “Away in the Manger” on the piano.

Bible study, on the book of Revelation, will resume Jan. 8.

The Christmas Eve wor-ship service began with the Nazarene praise team sing-ing “O, Holy Night” from the balcony.

David and Phyllis Loom-is presided over the comple-tion in lighting of the Ad-vent wreath bringing focus on the good news.

“Here with Us” was an-other musical selection from the Nazarene praise team with Wade Vogel sing-ing and playing the piano and his daughter, Shannon, playing the clarinet and singing along with Audrea Stahl.

Rev. Traw read the Christmas Story from pas-sages of Scripture in Isaiah 9:6, Micah 5:2 and Luke 2:1-20 and gave a devotional on “Good News of Great Joy,” also from Luke 2.

Gene and Naomi Cham-bers led the closing of the candlelight service.

Carlyle newsJoanneMcIntyre

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Fred Krebs, 66, who was instrumental in develop-ment and perpetuation of the annual Buster Keaton Celebration here, died Sat-urday in Kansas City

He taught humanities and social studies at John-son County Community College.

Krebs also was known to Iolans for his many presen-tations at Allen County His-torial Society and Friends of the Library meetings. He frequently portrayed the person he spoke about, a

device he also used in the classroom at JCCC.

A grad-uate of the University of Kan-sas and the University of Missouri at Kansas City, he was a Rhodes Scholar finalist.

Memorial services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at the JCCC Carlsen Center in the Polsky Theater.

Fred Krebs

Krebs, Keaton member, dies

By ALAN FRAM and JULIE PACE

Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) —

Working against a midnight deadline, negotiators for the White House and congres-sional Republicans in Con-gress narrowed their differ-ences today on legislation to avert across-the-board tax increases.

Congressional officials familiar with talks between Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said one major remaining sticking point was whether to postpone spending cuts that are scheduled to begin on Jan. 1.

Republicans want to re-place across-the-board re-ductions with targeted cuts elsewhere in the budget, and the White House and Democrats were resisting.

At the same time, Demo-crats said the two sides were closing in on an agreement over taxes. They said the White House had proposed blocking an increase for most Americans, while let-ting rates rise for individu-als with incomes of $400,000 a year and $450,000 for couples, a concession from President Barack Obama’s campaign call to set the lev-els at $200,000 and $250,000.

Any overall deal was also

likely to include a provision to prevent a spike in milk prices with the new year, ex-tend unemployment bene-fits due to expire and protect doctors who treat Medicare patients from a 27 percent cut in fees.

Both the House and Sen-ate were on track to meet on the final day of the year, al-though there was no expec-tation that a compromise could be approved by both houses by midnight, even if one were agreed to.

Instead, the hope of the White House and lawmak-ers was to seal an agree-ment, enact it and send it to Obama for his signature before taxpayers felt the impact of higher income taxes or federal agencies began issuing furloughs or taking other steps re-quired by spending cuts.

Regardless of the fate of the negotiations, it ap-peared all workers would experience a cut in their-home pay with the expira-tion of a two-year cut in payroll taxes.

Officials who described the negotiations did so on condition of anonymity, citing the confidential na-ture of the discussions.

A spokesman for Mc-Connell, Don Stewart, said the Kentucky lawmaker and Biden “continued

their discussion late into the evening and will con-tinue to work toward a solu-tion. More information as it becomes available.”

Unless an agreement is reached and approved by Congress by the start of New Year’s Day, more than $500 billion in 2013 tax in-creases will begin to take

effect and $109 billion will be carved from defense and domestic programs

Though the tax hikes and budget cuts would be felt gradually, economists warn that if allowed to fully take hold, their combined im-pact — the so-called fiscal cliff — would rekindle a re-cession.

‘Fiscal cliff’ disputes remain as deadline nears

By FRANCES D’EMILIOAssociated Press

ROME (AP) — Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground re-search in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died at her home in Rome on Sunday. She was 103 and had worked well into her final years.

Rome Mayor Gianni Ale-manno, announcing her death in a statement, called it a great loss “for all of humanity.” He praised her as someone who represented “civic conscience, culture and the spirit of re-search of our time.”

A petite woman with up-swept white hair, she kept an intensive work schedule well into old age. “At 100, I have a mind that is superior — thanks to experience — than when I was 20,” she said in 2009.

“A beacon of life is extin-guished” with her death, said a niece, Piera Levi-Montalcini, who is a city councilwoman in Turin.

Nobel Prize winner dies

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By CHRIS TOMLINSONAssociated Press

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — State leaders like to brag about Texas’ fast growing economy and low unemployment, but rarely do they mention the high poverty rate and so far they don’t appear inclined to pass any new laws to deal with it.

The unemployment rate and the creation of new jobs are the statistics most often cited by Gov. Rick Perry to brag on Texas, and unemployment is among the low-est in the country at 6.2 percent. That’s well below the national av-erage of 7.7 percent.

Perry also uses the Texas En-terprise Fund and the Emerging Technology Funds to encourage employers to relocate to Texas and create new jobs in the state, adding hundreds of jobs every year.

Employment, though, is not the only measure of economic pros-perity. There is the question of quality of life.

The number of Texans living in poverty rose for a third consecu-tive year in 2011, adding more than 214,000 people to total 4.6 million. That’s 18.5 percent of the population, 3 percent higher than the nation as a whole, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. By comparison, New Hampshire had the lowest proportion of people living in poverty, with 8.8 percent, and Mis-sissippi the highest, 22.6 percent.

The metropolitan areas in the United States with the first and third highest proportions of poor people are in Texas, with McAl-len-Edinburgh at 37.7 percent and El Paso at 24.7 percent. These are two of the fastest-growing parts of Texas, and places where Republicans need to do better to hold onto power in the future.

While the poverty rate did rise

with the Great Recession, Texas weathered the downturn better than most states and ranked high in poverty even in the best economic times. In 2007, the poverty rate was 16.5 percent, the second high-est in the nation that year. Since 2000, the rate has consistently been above 15 percent, and 4 percent higher than the na-tional average.

THE TWO BIGGEST predic-tors of poverty are poor educa-tion and chronic health problems. Only about 80 percent of Texans have a high school diploma, the second lowest in the country, and Texas has the highest number of uninsured citizens.

Politicians of all stripes decry the high poverty rate in Texas, but what differs is how to deal with

it. Republicans hold every state-wide elected of-fice, control both houses of the Legislature and Perry’s appoin-tees direct every state agency.

Perry’s oft-repeated formula for economic growth is low taxes, few regula-tions and limited lawsuits.

Going into the legislative ses-sion that begins Jan. 8, he has promised to limit state spending to less than population growth plus inflation. To help the poor and unemployed, he has proposed requiring drug testing as a con-dition for some people to receive welfare benefits, to make sure they are employable.

“Being on drugs makes it much harder to begin the journey to in-dependence, which only assures individuals remain stuck in the terrible cycle of drug abuse, des-peration and poverty,” Perry said

last month. “Extending taxpayer-funded benefits while ignoring a behavior that could make it vir-

tually impossible for someone to en-ter the workforce or finish school, sends them down the road to a much bleaker future.”

Democrats are pushing for state government to provide services

they believe will help people move out of poverty, including restor-ing $5.4 billion cut from the pub-lic school budget and nearly $1 billion cut from higher education. Democrats also want the state to expand Medicaid to provide 1.5 million Texans with health insur-ance at a minimal cost to the state through 2020.

Most Democrats fiercely op-pose the drug testing proposal.

“To automatically assume that a single mother, a recently un-employed veteran, or a teacher who lost his or her job because of Governor Perry’s budget cuts is a drug user is shameful,” state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San An-tonio, said. “When a family is in crisis, we have a moral obligation to provide assistance as soon as possible.”

The drug test bill, SB-11, serves as a useful analogy for the differ-ences in approach going into the session, with Republicans placing the emphasis on personal respon-sibility, and Democrats belief that government plays a role in help-ing Texans escape poverty.

Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dew-hurst have called the incoming Republican-controlled Legisla-ture one of the most conserva-tive in Texas history, but parents across the state are angry about education cuts and many of the state’s most powerful health care lobby groups would like to see Medicaid expanded. The outcome of the debate of how best to fight poverty is far from decided.

Texas economy leaves many behind

Kansas will stride into 2013 smiling.

Unemployment dropped to 5.4 percent in November while the national rate was 7.7 percent. Personal income increased strongly, driven pri-marily by high commodity prices that boosted farm fami-lies. Kansas was No. 11 among the 50 states in income growth from the second to the third quarter of the year — that puts us in the top 20 percent. We’re a leader!

Nothing in the visible fu-ture will change that picture. If rainfall returns to past av-erages, those high prices will put even more in farm bank ac-counts as production soars.

Oil and gas production joined agriculture to boost the state’s economy.

The Kansas Corporation Commission told the Legisla-ture’s Joint Energy and Envi-ronmental Policy Committee in its November report that the number of “intents to drill” increased sharply. The average monthly number is 600. The October total climbed to 794. There were 140 drilling rigs ac-tive in Kansas and 18 of those were horizontal rigs used in hydraulic fracturing (frack-ing).

A lot of those rigs were drill-ing in this part of the state. The most new production increases were reported in Anderson, Barber, Franklin and Woodson counties.

In addition to these new wells, drilling into the Mis-sissippi limestone along a 100-mile-wide band running from Goodland to Harper County by major oil companies is expected to generate another sustained boom that will en-rich the state.

Kansas manufacturing is also on the upswing, as it is in other parts of the nation. That trend should continue as more and more corporations discov-er it is once again becoming more profitable to manufacture in the U.S. than in other na-

tions. Wages in China continue to increase at about 18 percent a year — a rate that has made a startup there far less attractive than it once was.

Kansas should capitalize on that fact and build in addi-tional long-term insurance by focusing on processing plants which use agricultural prod-ucts as raw material. Plants that make grain, meat and fiber into products ready for a consumer to buy will be far more stable employers because they can’t be moved to Mexico or some other competing coun-try that chases lower wages and benefits.

Manufacturing in partner-ship with Kansas farmers would capitalize on our state’s greatest strengths. Our farms are among the world’s most productive. The work ethic in our state assures employers of high productivity rates. Our community colleges and re-search universities work with industry to produce a top-flight work force and cutting edge technology.

As the 2013 Legislature be-gins its session, its leaders and Gov. Sam Brownback should build on these strengths. Per-haps the greatest challenge that faces them is to make certain the state’s education system is up to the challenge. Pre-school programs must be strong. Research shows chil-dren who are ready and eager to learn when they enter first grade rarely drop out and usu-ally succeed.

At the other end of the sys-tem, states with superior com-munity colleges and top-rank four-year, research universi-ties create thriving towns and cities. Our leaders must make certain Kansas makes the nec-essary investment in education to provide each new genera-tion with a full opportunity to achieve individual goals and, in so doing, make Kansas an even better place to live and make a difference.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

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Employment, though, is not the only measure of economic prosperity .... 18.5 percent of Tex-ans live in poverty.

The two biggest predic-tors of poverty are poor education and chronic health problems.

January 196231 — Last Friday, C. Ora Smith

of Iola made a bird count in this area, as he does twice a year for the Audubon Society and the Kan-sas Ornithological Society. Dur-ing the 15-mile trip, within a ra-dius of three or four miles of Iola, he identified 873 individual birds representing 31 species.

January 197230 — Orville Kretzmeier and

Duane McCammon announced as of Monday, Kretzmeier and As-sociates, local accounting firm, will be known as Kretzmeier and McCammon. McCammon has been with the firm, which recent-ly moved into new quarters on North State Street, since 1959.

January 198231 — Nearly $218,000 has ei-

ther been raised or pledged for construction of a multi-purpose facility at First Baptist Church, Cottonwood and Carpenter. The new facility will have seven class-rooms, two offices, restrooms, stor-

age space, additional kitchen fa-cilities and a large multi-purpose room which will be used as a gym, auditorium and meeting place for congregational gatherings. The Rev. Bill Travis is pastor.

January 199230 — A team of specialists

talked about conversion of the railroad right-of-way from Iola to Ottawa to a linear park by the Kansas Department of Parks and Wildlife here Monday afternoon. The current plan is to make the former Santa Fe Railway right of way into a bike and hiking trail.

A look back in time

Today in History The Associated Press

Today is Monday, Dec. 31, the 366th and final day of 2012.

Today’s Highlight in History:On Dec. 31, 1862, President Abra-

ham Lincoln signed an enabling act paving the way for Virginia’s western counties to become the state of West Virginia, which took place in June 1863.

In 1879, Thomas Edison first public-ly demonstrated his electric incandes-cent light in Menlo Park, N.J.

In 1909, the Manhattan Bridge, spanning the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, was officially opened to vehicular traffic.

In 1946, President Harry S. Truman

officially proclaimed the end of hostili-ties in World War II.

In 1972, Major League baseball player Roberto Clemente, 38, was killed when a plane he’d chartered and was traveling on to bring relief sup-plies to earthquake-devastated Nicara-gua crashed shortly after takeoff from Puerto Rico.

In 1985, singer Rick Nelson, 45, and six other people were killed when fire broke out aboard a DC-3 that was tak-ing the group to a New Year’s Eve per-formance in Dallas.

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The years go by in single file;/ But none has merited my fear,/ And none has quite escaped my smile.” — Elinor Wylie, American author (1885-1928).

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Gumfory by then owned the packing plant, and he became fast friends with many area farmers. That opened a door to make heat-ing with wood economical.

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and to rule out a heart prob-lem or other condition that may have led to it, he said.

Dr. Larry Goldstein, a neurologist who is direc-tor of Duke University’s stroke center, said blood can pool on the surface of the brain or in other areas of the brain after a concus-sion, but those would not be treated with blood thinners, as Clinton’s aide described.

Clinton was forced to cancel Dec. 20 testimony before Congress about a scathing report into the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. The report found that seri-ous failures of leadership and management in two State Department bureaus were to blame for insuffi-cient security at the facility. Clinton took responsibility for the incident before the report was released, but she was not blamed.

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addition to a recent perfor-mance in Emporia. They are broadcasted on Social Network Radio, they are on ReverNation, they have played the Elk’s Lake Fest as well as for countless benefits.

“We have played a lot of benefits, such as Relay for Life,” Belknap said. “We like to (play benefits) to help out the community.”

With the exception of Belknap, all the band mem-bers have been in Iola for the majority of their lives.

Belknap moved to Iola from New Jersey about 16 years ago to be with family. The rest of the band members have been “best friends since grade school,” Genoble said.

With the exception of Genoble, who is self-em-ployed, the band members work at Gates Manufactur-ing, and as they describe on their Facebook page, they “work full-time jobs during the day and rock at night.”

What they rock is a di-verse range of music, pre-

dominately ’90s rock to modern music.

“We play some older songs, but they are all remade,” Belknap said. “We’ll play a country song and turn it into rock. Our style of rock is diverse.”

“It also depends on our mood at the time, and the crowd,” Reeder added. “We could be playing our best song and if the crowd isn’t into it (it doesn’t matter).”

The band members don’t take life too seriously, a possible key to a success-ful medium between work, passion and family.

“We are all full-time daddies,” Genoble said. “Our kids can sing all of our original recorded songs.”

“We are very family ori-

ented,” Belknap said.Led Astray stays current

by keeping social network-ing sites, like Facebook, current, and can be found on most networks.

Band members feel their prospects are high. They have more scheduled per-formances coming into 2013 and are talking about releasing a live-recorded album.

“We have gotten a lot of positive feedback from people who have listened to our music. We have been told several times ‘if you guys don’t make it, it will be your own fault,’” Geno-ble said.

Whether the band makes it big, they are dedicated to playing for as long as they can, Genoble said.

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DENVER (AP) — Peyton Manning figured one one-handed catch deserved an-other.

So, up the ladder he went — throwing the ball high in the back of the end zone to Demaryius Thomas.

Thomas leaped and brought it down with his right hand, then got both feet down inside the line for a touchdown. With that, he joined Eric Decker in Den-ver’s one-handed-touch-down club Sunday and gave the Broncos another other-worldly highlight to go with their home-field advantage throughout the playoffs af-ter a 38-3 runaway over the Kansas City Chiefs.

“They claim they can do that all the time,” said cor-nerback Champ Bailey, who got to watch the replays of both catches about a half-dozen times on the score-board. “They say they prac-tice that. I don’t see it. But as long as they do it on Sun-day, I’m all for it. Those are some great, hard-working boys and I expect nothing less.”

Manning, in search of his fifth MVP award and, yes, a second Super Bowl title, finished 23 for 29 for 304 yards, three scores and a 144.8 passer rating. One of his main competitors for the award, Adrian Peterson of the Vikings, ran for 199 yards to reach 2,097 for the season in a 37-34 win over Green Bay that secured a playoff berth.

That one went down to the wire. Manning was out of his game by the fourth quarter.

This was the second straight Sunday he used a grey-and-orange glove to prepare for the cold, play-off weather he could face at home the next two games.

“I threw it OK today, I guess,” said Manning, who finished the season with 4,659 yards, 37 touchdowns and a 105.8 passer rating, all second best in his 15-year career.

Thanks to Houston’s 28-16 loss to Indianapolis before the Broncos kicked off, Denver (13-3) will be the top seed for the sixth time. The Broncos made the Su-per Bowl four of the previ-

ous five times they’ve had home-field advantage.

Though the Chiefs (2-14) gave the Broncos as tough a tussle as anyone during their 11-game win-ning streak — in a 17-9 loss last month — this wasn’t expected to be much of a game. It wasn’t.

Leave it to Manning, ever the perfectionist, to ramp up the degree of difficulty.

On the 16-yard touch-down to Decker, Manning slightly overthrew the pass but Decker reached out with his left hand, brought the ball into his helmet, had it pinball against his face-mask twice, then cradled it with both hands as he was falling to the ground.

“Peyton throws the ball up, giving us a chance to make a play. It’s our job to catch it,” Decker said.

The 13-yard touchdown to the 6-foot-3 Thomas mir-rored a TD pass Manning threw to Decker last week against Cleveland: high in the back of the end zone

where only his receiver could catch it.

“That was probably the limit right there,” Manning said. “But I’ve seen him in practice. He can jump. He can really elevate. It’s hard to throw it over his head, I’ll say that.”

The Thomas touchdown made it 28-3 and the cel-ebration was on. The only trip the Broncos will have to make on their road to a championship would be to New Orleans for the Super Bowl. They’ll open the play-offs at home Jan. 12 against Baltimore, Cincinnati or Manning’s old team, the Colts.

Coach John Fox, in search of his second trip to the Super Bowl, won his 100th career game. Thom-as and linebacker Wesley Woodyard congratulated him with a big splash of or-ange Gatorade at the end.

“It’s an accomplishment, but it’s something that was a lot of people’s work. It wasn’t one guy,” Fox said.

Nor would Manning take all the credit for all he’s ac-complished in this, a come-back season in which he didn’t know what to expect.

This marked his 73rd

three-touchdown game, surpassing the record held by Brett Favre. Manning closed the regular season only 41 yards short of his career high.

“It’s been a gratifying regular season,” Manning said. “I will admit that. It is certainly more than I expected. I’m grateful and humble for it.”

On the other end of the spectrum are the Chiefs, who, like the Broncos, had five Pro Bowlers on their roster, but finished with 119 yards of offense and wrapped up the first pick in next year’s draft.

Coach Romeo Crennel watched the game from the sideline, leaning on a crutch, after having his knee drained of fluid ear-lier in the week. Many in Kansas City expect him to be unemployed soon.

The Broncos swept their division games for the first time since 1998 — the last time they won the Super Bowl.

John Elway retired after that one. Now, he’s back, running Denver’s front of-fice, and he signed Manning with only one goal in mind: a third Lombardi Trophy.

Chiefs go meekly in finale

Denver Broncos middle linebacker Keith Brooking (57) sacks Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Brady Quinn (9) in the third quarter on Sunday at Sports Authority Field in Denver. The Denver Broncos defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, 38-3.

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Quick, name the college football team that has won the most national champi-onships. Alabama? Notre Dame? Princeton?

If you gave any of those answers, and maybe a few others, you might be right. Because over the years there have been a lot of organizations using differ-ent methods to determine who they think is national champion.

No wonder “mythical” is the word that often pre-cedes national title.

“There is no official stan-dard because there is no of-ficial national champion,” said Kent Stephens, histo-rian at the College Foot-ball Hall of Fame in South Bend. “It all depends on the standard the school wishes to utilize. The national champion is in the eye of the beholder.”

This explains how Princeton can claim 28 national championships, starting with the first one

in 1869. The Tigers went 1-1 that season against Rut-gers in the only two games played in college football that year. They were ret-roactively crowned cham-pion by several ranking organizations.

Among more traditional powerhouses, Alabama claims the most national championships with 14, followed by Notre Dame with 11, which is the same number Southern Califor-nia and Michigan say they deserve.

The Fighting Irish and Crimson Tide are tied at eight for the number of times they have been de-clared national champions by The Associated Press since the wire service start-ed its poll in 1936. One of the teams will be awarded its ninth AP title in the wee hours of Jan. 8, after the BCS title game.

The biggest difference between the number of overall national champion-ships Alabama and Notre Dame claim is the way they add up their titles.

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RECYCLE! RECYCLE! RECYCLE!

By PETER HANCOCKLawrence Journal-World

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Move over MP3s, Kindle and Wikipedia. The next digital revolution that will shake up the powerful pub-lishing industry is about to take place, and it’s com-ing to a school near you.

Starting with the new semester in January, Lawrence public schools will begin pilot testing a new Web-based tool that, among other things, will allow teachers to dis-pense with traditional hardbound textbooks and replace them with “open-source” learning material. That is, digital media that can be copied and distrib-uted for free, without copy-right or royalty restric-tions, as long as it’s used for classroom educational purposes.

“I think this is a game-changer, I really do,” said Adam Holden, Lawrence’s assistant superintendent for teaching and learning. “I think the free, open-source availability of real-ly good materials changes the game completely. Our students now have the ability to access informa-tion which is, quite frank-ly, staggering.”

If the pilot tests go as planned, and if voters ap-prove an upcoming bond issue that includes fund-ing for district-wide tech-nology upgrades, Holden said the district could be ready to deploy the new system throughout the dis-trict within two or three years.

Recently, Holden gave a presentation to the board of education showing how the new system is intend-ed to work.

Using their own devices — laptops, tablets and even smartphones — students would log in to a Web por-tal called “Canvas,” where all of the material for each course is stored. Teachers can load the system with all of the reading material and other content that goes with the course, as well as

worksheets, quizzes and tests. Both the teacher and student will use the portal to keep track of the stu-dent’s progress and even communicate one-on-one outside the regular class-room environment.

The system allows read-ing and other learning ma-terial to come from a wider variety of sources, includ-ing traditional publishing companies as well as a bur-geoning number of other groups that are now offer-ing content for free, or at a greatly reduced cost.

Ultimately, Holden said, that could result in sub-stantial savings for par-ents who are currently paying textbook fees of $97 per year for an elementary student, and $147 per year for students in grades 6 through 8.

Schools to test ‘open-source’ materials

I think this is a game-changer, I really do. I think the free, open-source availability of really good materials changes the game completely. Our students now have the ability to access information which is, quiet frankly, staggering.

— Adam Holden, Lawrence’s assistant superintendent for teaching and learning

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TOPEKA — State offi-cials said today that they had received final written approval from the federal government to proceed with implementation of their KanCare Medicaid overhaul.

K a r i B r u f f e t t , d i r e c t o r of the Di-vision of H e a l t h Care Fi-nance for the Kan-sas De-partment of Health and Environment, announced receipt of the approval let-ter from the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services during a confer-ence call Friday with pro-viders and consumer advo-cates. The letter formalizes the provisional approval the state received from CMS earlier this month.

“Good news as we contin-ue to move forward,” Bruf-fett said.

Representatives of the three managed care com-panies that will take op-erational control of the Medicaid program on Jan. 1 said the number of calls they are receiving from consumers is increasing as the launch date nears. They also said efforts to build out their provider networks would continue past the start date.

The three companies are Amerigroup, United-Healthcare and Sunflower State Health Plan, a subsid-iary of Centene.

Earlier in the week, Bruffett said the state had assigned each of the com-panies a roughly equal number Medicaid enroll-ees making the transition to managed care. About 380,000 low-income, dis-abled and elderly Kansans are covered by Medicaid. Most of them are among those being assigned to the companies. Develop-mentally disabled Kansans covered by Medicaid won’t make the switch until 2014.

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback has said hir-ing private companies to manage the care of Medic-aid recipients will slow the projected increase in the cost of the almost $3 billion program and improve the care provided.

Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, the administration’s KanCare point person, alluded to those goals in a prepared statement issued Friday.

“KanCare will improve coordination of care and services to achieve better outcomes and long-term savings without reducing benefits or eligibility, while safeguarding reimburse-ment for providers,” Colyer said.

KanCare gets final approval

Kari Bruffett

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Legislature will experience its largest freshman intake in more than four decades when the 2013 session opens on Jan. 14, and their influ-ence will be most evident when senators review Re-publican Gov. Sam Brown-back’s spending proposals.

For the first time in near-ly six decades, newcomers will make up a majority on the budget-writing Senate Ways and Means Commit-tee. The most prestigious and powerful committee in the chamber will have seven new senators among its 11 members, including three who haven’t served previously in the Legisla-ture.

The change in the Sen-ate committee’s makeup reflects a shift of power within the GOP major-ity, away from moderate to conservative leaders. Each chamber’s freshman class is dominated by conserva-tive Republicans ready to trim spending and keep the state moving toward eliminating income taxes.

“I don’t come in with any particular agenda, other than maintaining zero growth or a reduction in state spending,” said Rep.-elect Mark Kahrs, a Wichita Republican who will serve on the House Appropriations Commit-tee. “We just believe the government has grown too much. It’s too large.”

With conservatives in control and the GOP hold-ing overall majorities of 32-8 in the Senate and 92-33 in the House, it is unlikely that Brownback will strug-gle to win approval for his budget recommendations, tax proposals and other measures, possibly includ-ing a plan to rewrite the state’s education funding formula.

Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a To-peka Democrat, whose 36 years at the Statehouse make him the longest-serv-ing legislator ever, predict-ed that the Senate budget committee’s Republicans will be “yes men.”

“I think they’ll do what-ever Sam Brownback tells them to do,” Hensley said. “I don’t think there will be

a lot questions.”The new Republican

lawmakers said that while they’re likely to embrace Brownback’s goals, they’ll show a lot of indepen-dence in haggling over the details. Brownback expects them to push their own proposals.

“Part of the mix chang-ing is for people to come in with a different set of ideas and outlooks, and that’s healthy,” Brown-back said during a recent interview with The Asso-ciated Press. “What you’re hoping to get out of a citi-zen Legislature is a lot of expertise in a disparate set of fields.”

The Legislature was virtually guaranteed a big freshman intake when three federal judges re-drew the state’s politi-cal boundaries in June. Also, the powerful Kansas Chamber of Commerce and its allies financed in-dependent mailings and broadcast advertising that helped conservative Re-publican candidates win, ousting eight moderate GOP senators.

The House will have its largest contingent of new members since at least 1970. Forty-nine of 125 members have never served in the Legislature, and 40 of them are Repub-licans. Another six repre-sentatives are returning to the House after a hiatus, including incoming Speak-er Ray Merrick, a Stilwell Republican who spent the past two years in the Sen-ate.

Sixteen of the Senate’s 40 members will be new to the chamber, the most since 1993 when there were 21. Fourteen new arriv-als are Republicans. The freshman class includes 10 Republicans and two Dem-ocrats who have served in the House.

Legislators will con-front a projected $295 mil-lion gap between anticipat-

ed revenues and spending commitments for the fiscal year beginning in July, a self-inflicted budget short-fall tied to massive income tax cuts enacted in May in hopes of stimulating the economy.

Brownback has prom-ised to protect education funding, social services and other core govern-ment programs. Legis-lators have options for offsetting this year’s tax cuts — such as keeping the state sales tax at 6.3 per-cent rather than letting it drop to 5.7 percent in July as scheduled.

Some new legislators are open to keeping the sales tax as it is — if the state enacts more income tax cuts — but want to cut back elsewhere.

“We’ve got to reduce spending,” said Sen.-elect Steve Fitzgerald, a Leav-enworth Republican who will serve on the Ways and Means Committee.”

Joining Fitzgerald on the Senate Ways and Means Committee are new-to-the-Legislature Republicans Jeff Melcher of Leawood and Michael O’Donnell of Wichita. Re-publicans Tom Arpke of Salina, Jim Denning of Overland Park, Dan Ker-schen of Garden Plain and Larry Powell of Garden City also will join the com-mittee fresh from service in the House. Denning will be vice chairman, having served on the House Ap-propriations Committee the past two years.

The last time the Sen-ate Ways and Means Com-mittee had as many new senators as members was in 1957 — when the cham-ber had 28 new members. Incoming Senate Major-ity Leader Terry Bruce, of Hutchinson, said Senate GOP leaders concentrated veterans in chairman-ships of other committees and new senators were particularly eager to serve on the budget committee.

“I think there’s been so much hunger for account-ability and responsibility,” O’Donnell said, explaining his interest. “For the fore-seeable future, the budget is going to be the No. 1 is-sue.”

New members may play big roleJohnHannaAn AP news analysis

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HAGAR THE HORRIBLE by Chris Browne

ZITS by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

HI AND LOIS by Chance Browne

BABY BLUES by Kirkman & Scott

BEETLE BAILEY by Mort Walker

FUNKY WINKERBEAN by Tom Batiuk

BLONDIE by Young and Drake

DAILY CRYPTOQUOTES - Here’s how to work it:

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

Readers give advice on snooping, an abusive mateWhile Carolyn Hax is

away, readers give the ad-vice.On snooping:

I’ve seen so many letters about reading a significant other’s texts or e-mails. I’ve even read a few columns that said a cheater who has promised to reform should give their spouse or partner all their passwords.

What never seems to come up is that you are also violating the privacy of everyone who writes to the person whose accounts are now open books. I’ve accepted that there is a cer-tain amount of slippage when it comes to things I tell friends in long-term re-lationships, but I find it of-fensive that someone who is dating a friend of mine and suspects her or him of cheating could easily ac-

cess e-mails that are about deeply personal issues I’d rather not share with them.

It’s something snoopers should think about when they go onto an e-mail ac-count or phone. They’re not just violating their partner’s privacy, they also may find information that a perfectly innocent person never wanted to share with them. — E.On dealing with a loved one’s engagement to an abusive mate:

Seeing a loved one get involved with an abusive partner can be incredibly difficult, especially if you see the loved one ignore obvious and repeated warn-ing signs. If they’ve been together a long time, his sense of reality might be even more skewed than he lets on.

I speak from experience. I was engaged to a woman who was abusive and it took the continued efforts of friends and loved ones to see what I was too ashamed to recognize.

A victim of abuse is go-ing to need someone to keep his sense of reality and self, particularly when she re-ally starts to sink her claws into him. I am so thankful to friends and family who cared enough and helped me get my life back. — D.On deciding whether to

have children:When I was a newlywed,

my mom gave me this ad-vice: “If you cannot imag-ine yourself having a hap-py future without, have a child. If you can in any way see yourself living happily without, do not.”

This has proved a use-ful guidepost in countless decisions since: divorce, remarriage, career choices, doughnuts, ad infinitum. I did choose to become a mother — three times — of astonishingly wonder-ful people. After 36 years of mothering, here’s what I think: If I could have known how wonderful the good is, I would have start-ed 10 years earlier and had twice as many. If I could have known how awful the bad is, I would not have had any. — Life Is Approximate

Tell MeAbout It

CarolynHax

Chewing tobacco is not safe to useDear Drs. Donohue and

Roach: I was washing the clothes of my 17-year-old son when I found a tin of chew-ing tobacco. Needless to say, I was very upset. I confronted my son about it after school. He told me that a lot of his friends use it and that it is “no big deal — at least I’m not smoking!” I told him it IS a big deal because it is just as dangerous as cigarettes and I reminded him of our fam-ily’s history of cancer. My father, his two brothers and two of his sisters all died of different cancers.

Can YOU please try to ex-plain to my teenage son the danger of chewing tobacco? Thank you. — A.M.

Answer: As the parent of three teenagers, I empathize with your frustration. Try-ing to explain the increased risks of disease to someone who knows perfectly well what it means but doesn’t re-ally believe that it could ever happen to him is nearly im-possible. But I will try, since there is a belief that smoke-less tobacco is safe. It isn’t.

The major risk of smoke-less tobacco is in head and neck cancers — lip, mouth, tongue, throat. Having taken care of many of these pa-tients, I can attest to the ter-rible pain and disfigurement that come from the disease and its treatment. But your best bet may be to talk about your son’s family members who died from cancer. Dis-cussing real people who have been through it may get through better than statistics about increased risks. A fam-ily member with esophageal or pancreatic cancer also would be important, since there is incontrovertible evi-dence that chewing tobacco causes these as well.

Is it safer than smoking? Yes. But playing Russian rou-lette with one bullet in the

chamber is safer than play-ing Russian roulette with two.

Dear Drs. Donohue and roach: My mother was 82 when she died. She had Al-zheimer’s disease. My broth-er, who is 68, is beginning to show the same symptoms that my mother had at about the same age. I am 14 months younger than my brother, and I am wondering what, if anything, my brother and I can do to slow the possible onset of Alzheimer’s. I un-

derstand that genetics plays an important role in the odds of us having this terrible ill-ness. — L.F.

Answer: This turns out to be a very difficult question to answer. The risk of having Alzheimer’s disease at age 65 is about 13 percent over-

all. However, if both of your parents had Alzheimer’s, your risk at age 65 is about 36 percent. Having a parent (or sibling) clearly increases the risk. The risk goes even higher as we get older.

There are blood tests that claim to predict risk of Al-zheimer’s disease; none of them is perfect.

There currently is no prov-en method of prevention that is generally accepted; howev-er, most authorities believe

that reducing risk of vascu-lar disease, by controlling those risk factors, also can reduce risk of Alzheimer’s. These include not smoking and controlling blood pres-sure, high cholesterol and blood sugar. Some evidence also suggests that keeping an active mind throughout adulthood may be impor-tant. There are promising treatments on the horizon for early Alzheimer’s disease as well.

Dr. Paul Donohue

To YourGoodHealth

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To YourGoodHealth

Kansas State University provides you with research-based information through many avenues. Locally, your contact is the South-wind Extension District in Iola. Hundreds of publica-tions and fact sheets, writ-ten by K-State researchers and specialists, are avail-able through the univer-sity’s Publications Library, www.ksre.ksu.edu/library Another alternative is to research the information provided on the Southwind website, www.southwind.ksu.edu

However, not all of our services can be found on the Internet.

One of the most utilized resources is soil testing. K-State Research and Ex-tension can test soil for $12 per sample or $10 apiece for two or more. Soil testing is recommended for garden-ers, farmers, lawn and turf problems, or pasture man-agement. Feed and forage testing is also offered. The only way to know for cer-tain the quality of feed is to get a lab analysis of it, with a forage test. A forage test runs from $12 to $24 per sample, depending on what you want the sample tested for. Other services available include Radon Test Kits ($6) and Water Quality Testing resources.

Have you ever wondered what that unidentified pest or plant lurking around your home may be, or even how you can get rid of it?

The Extension office has expertise and resources available to identify pests that are common to our area and in Kansas. This includes home and crop in-sects, weeds, and various plants. We can also provide information on how to re-move or control pests, de-pending on your situation.

“Best kept secret” prod-ucts that we offer for sale are odor neutralizers. Ecosorb ($6) is used in nu-merous home, farm and industrial/commercial applications. Most of our clients use this product to control odors from fuel spills, mold smell, or skunk sprays. Neutroleum Alpha ($16) is a concentrated prod-uct utilized in a similar fashion to control strong odors. Because it is a con-centrate, it can be used in a larger area.

We also sell quite a few farm and family account books ($2.50 to $4). If you haven’t made the transi-tion to computerized re-cord keeping, this resource allows for an accurate ac-counting of your finances in a form that makes com-pleting taxes easier.

Extension publications are very accessible to the public, and most are free if

you pick them up in the Ex-tension office. The Kansas Garden Guide is a new pub-lication that is available for only $5. If you are looking for resources on planning a garden, seeding and plant-ing, or details about a spe-cific crop, this publication is a must-have. Extension offers many, many publica-tions on home gardening so please stop by if you are looking for something spe-cific.

Area farmers and ranch-ers often utilize Kansas per-formance tests for various crops to determine which varieties will grow best in this area of the state. This month, the 2012 Hybrid Re-ports for Corn, Soybean, and Grain Sorghum will become available in the Extension office. This is in addition to the Wheat Seed Book, which is always avail-able in late summer after wheat has been harvested and data collected.

The 2012 Chemical Weed Control Guide will be pub-lished in January and provides suggestions for chemical weed control in several major crops. It of-fers recommendations, and guidelines for crop specific chemicals.

If you are involved in a club or organization that requests presentations, the Southwind District offers a “speakers bureau” bro-chure, which contains pub-lic speaking topics offered by Extension agents. Let us help you with your edu-cational topics during your meetings.

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Visitors to parts of Ev-erglades National Park are getting tarps and bungee cords to make their vehi-cles less delectable to vul-tures.

Migrating vultures have developed a habit of rip-ping off windshield wip-ers, sunroof seals, and other rubber and vinyl vehicle parts. Visitors to the park’s Homestead and Flamingo entrances are loaned “anti-vulture kits” to protect their vehicles.

Park wildlife biologist Skip Snow tells The Miami Herald the vultures are mi-grating as normal. It’s just not clear why the birds are picking at parked cars and trucks. Park employees have tried to scare away the vultures, but nothing has worked.

Park Superintendent Dan Kimball says com-plaints about the vultures have declined since em-ployees began distributing the tarps and bungee cords last year.

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita man has gotten a utility patent for a comput-erized fishing pole that he plans to begin selling.

The Wichita Eagle re-ports that Edward Pope’s fishing pole is called the Poletap SmartRod, and he’s now trying to get the prod-uct into the retail market.

Pope, who runs Audio Vi-sual Services, received the patent on the technology in the pole, which he says uses computer controlled accelerometer technology so that the pole can detect when a fish is biting. The SmartRod also has differ-ent bite sensitivity settings and alerts anglers to a bite with a light and alarm.

The pole is water resis-tant and will sell for be-tween $55 and $70, depend-ing on whether it’s bought with a reel.

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