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

Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

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

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

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

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

By SUSAN LYNNsusan@iolaregister.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By RICHARD LUKENrichard@iolaregister.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

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

By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

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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

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Vol. 114, No. 179 75 Cents Iola, KS

Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

At the bandstand Jake Ard, directorThursday, July 12, 2012 8 p.m.

PROGRAM (“Christmas in July”)Star Spangled Banner ............................................. arr. J.P. SousaChristmas Festival Overture ............................Richard SaucedoCarol of the Bells............................................arr. Andrew BalentChristmas Chorale and March ......................... arr. John KinyonChristmas at the Movies ....................................... arr. John MossThe Nutcracker.......................................arr. James SwearingtonWinter Wonderland ..............................................Smith/BernardLet It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! ......................Cahn/StyneWe Wish You A Merry Christmas ..........................arr. Del BorgoSanta Meets Sousa .........................................arr. Mark Williams

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

By SUSAN LYNNsusan@iolaregister.com

Hospital trustees are a step closer to signing a contract with Cerner, Inc., to be its provider of electronic health records.

At their meeting Tuesday night, trustees discussed the need for the contract to have “teeth” in it to hold Cerner accountable not only for its product but also for its implementation in a timely fash-

ion.Trustees had reason to be con-

cerned. In the past week many learned that Girard Medical Cen-ter had filed suit against Cerner for a breach of contract. Girard had hired Cerner to install a $2.9 million electronic medical re-cords system. After one year and

$1.9 million, the project was halt-ed midstream, according to a July 2 article in The Kansas City Star.

Larry Peterson, ACH chief fi-nancial officer, assured trustees an attorney and an IT specialist are going over the contract thor-oughly.

Peterson said he became aware

of the Girard trouble with Cerner, “five or six months ago. We knew about it but weren’t so concerned that we wanted to rule them out,” he said when reviewing bids for the services.

“As long as we do our due dili-

Voters wanting to participate in the Aug. 7 election have un-til Tuesday to register to vote or change their party affiliation.

Republicans dominate the races. The State House race, for example, has a Republican-only slate of Judy Brigham and Bud Sifers of Iola and Ed Bideau of Chanute.

V o t e r s must vote along party lines in the primary.

In the Nov. 6 general election, voters can cross party lines.

In the city-wide special vote on Aug. 7 asking for the recall of Iola city councilmen Kendall Calla-han and Ken Rowe, all voters can weigh in.

Changing one’s party affilia-tion or registering to vote is easy.

Either go to the Allen County Clerk’s office in the courthouse and complete a one-page voter registration form, or go online at www.kdor.org/voterregistration.

By RICHARD LUKENrichard@iolaregister.com

There’s something a bit un-nerving to be considered “histor-ic,” Debra (Barnes) Snodgrass told audience members Tuesday at the Allen County Historical Society’s summer meeting.

“It means I’m getting old,” joked Snodgrass, who grew up in Moran as Debra Dene Barnes and was crowned Miss America in 1968.

Snodgrass spoke about how growing up in Moran and Allen County shaped her life.

SNODGRASS described her-self as a product of her com-munity, and of all of her music instructors through the years, including her mother and Iolan Florence Hobart. Hobart carried special significance because she convinced Snodgrass to enter music competitions as a child, which led to her earning a schol-arship to attend Pittsburg State University.

It was at PSU that Snodgrass was convinced to try out for a lo-cal pageant, more on a lark than anything.

A music club asked her to represent them in a newly devel-oped Miss Pittsburg State Pag-eant.

Register/Richard LukenMoran native and Miss America 1968 Debra (Barnes) Snodgrass is greeted by Iolan Gary Hawk at the conclusion of her keynote address and piano performance Tuesday at the Allen County Histori-cal Society’s summer meeting. The meeting was in the Creitz Recital Hall of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

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By ROB BURKETTrob@iolaregister.com

This summer Iola children from sixth to eighth grade have an opportunity to explore the world of music through an enrichment program directed by newly hired band director Matt Kloepfer.

Kloepfer will direct band class-es in Iola High School and Iola Middle School.

As a professional musician, Kloepfer said he wants students in the community to become ex-cited about the opportunities mu-sic can provide.

“I want to build their love of music and the confidence they have in themselves that they can play and enjoy that music,” Kloepfer said.

One of the ways he has gone about doing that is

getting the community involved in collecting the tools needed. Through an initiative started in collaboration with the Bowlus Fine Arts Center called, “Save the Music,” Kloepfer has received nine instruments in varying de-grees of condition.

“The community showed they cared when we asked them to help us,” Kloepfer said. “I think the level of interest people are show-ing has been great so far.”

With new instruments com-ing in and older instruments be-ing put back into working order, Kloepfer has turned his attention toward the most important aspect of his job, getting students interested in playing an

By ALLISON TINNallison@iolaregister.com

Word is getting about.While it is no surprise that peo-

ple from the surrounding area will come to join in Friday’s Mad Bomb-er Run/Walk, the growing popular-ity of the race is going coastal.

Chanute and other nearby towns such as Yates Center and Fort Scott will provide the majority of out-of-town participants, but the commu-nities of Topeka, Pittsburg, Over-land Park, Coffeyville and Netawaka — just to name a few — also will be represented.

Proof of the night’s increasing draw is through its registrations for the 5k run and 3k walk. Participants are coming from Lincoln, Neb., Seat-tle, Wash. and Broken Arrow, Okla.

Some participants have family here and others used to live here, but either way they come back to join what is becoming an Allen County tradition.

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The chef ’s table at the Al-len County Farmers Market this Thursday will feature Nich Lohman and Anna Setter.

They will be making cool sum-mer dishes using veggies from the market. Samples will be given along with a copy of their reci-pes.

John Barker will provide the prelude and postlude music.

Vendors will be bringing in their summer bounty of vegeta-bles, fruit, meat and eggs, baked goods and handcrafts.

The market will begin at 5:30 p.m. and lasts until 7 p.m., on the southwest corner of the square.

Runners coming from near and far

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Register/Rob BurkettBret Plumlee, 11, lifts his trumpet to show what he learned after his first les-son. Though Plumlee knows only one note thus far, he plans on practicing quite a bit over the summer. Plumlee said he is looking forward to playing in band next year under first-year Band Director Matt Kloepfer.

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ACH Auxiliary meetsAt their monthly meeting

Friday, Allen County Hospi-tal Auxiliary members dis-cussed an upcoming blood drive Aug. 1 in Iola.

Members also discussed a brochure including bits of the Auxiliary’s history and a list of the services the organization provides.

Thirteen members at-tended.

The next meeting will be at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 3 at the ACH conference room.

Kappa Alpha to install officers

Members of the Kappa Alpha chapter of Phi Tau Omega sorority will hold their installation of new of-ficers ceremony at 6:30 p.m. Monday at The New Green-ery.

Outgoing President Sha-ron Bland, will preside over

the ceremony to install the following: Mary Ellen Stanley, president; Lucinda Stanley, vice president; Ro-berta Ellis, recording secre-tary; Mary LaCrone, social secretary; Janet Wilson, treasurer; Collene Ellis, as-sociate scribe; Audrey Wag-ner, sergeant-at-arms; and Jolene Boeken, historian. Connie Rutledge and Gwen Tefft will be in charge of the sorority’s cancer re-lief fund. Hostesses for the event will be Mary LaCrone and Janet Wilson.

Kappa Alpha will provide a desserts-only food booth at the Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run on Friday and Saturday, and will partici-pate in the Allen County Relay For Life July 20-21.

The next business meet-ing will be Aug. 6., hosted by Jolene Boeken and Rho-denia Rowe.

Neosho FallsZack Patterson, 6, son

of Eric and Sara Patter-son, Manhattan, spent a week visiting grandparents Wayne and Charlene Ger-man and his great-grand-mothers, Mary German and Juanita Chriesterson.

Jaqui Maples and Mi-chael Bedenbender were married Saturday in Thel-ma Bedenbender’s front yard. The couple was mar-ried by Jaqui’s uncle, the Rev. Travis Darnell, Grove, Mo., with dinner served at the senior center in Neosho Falls.

Parents of the couple were Billy Sue Maples, Arma, and Wallace Maples, Fort Benning, Ga., Dee Jay and Sheila Bedenbender, Neosho.

The Chriestenson family held a picnic on the river north of Neosho Falls on

July 4 with fireworks in the evening.

Trent Bedenbender spent Friday evening in Arkan-sas City attending the 60th wedding anniversary of Ar-ron and Sandra Hosley.

Several relatives and friends were in Iola Satur-day for Al Weiland’s 100th birthday. Al lived in Neosho Falls as a young man.

Mary German’s week-end guests were her daughters Darlene, Texas, and Michella, Seattle.

Buck awarded PSU scholarship

Local PSU student, Chel-sea Buck, has received a scholarship from the nurs-ing scholarship fund, for the 2012-2013 academic se-mester. She attended Iola High School, and is mar-ried to Travis Buck. Chel-sea’s parents are Ron and Kindith Holman.

Misc.Cars hit

Jarred M. Holman, Mo-ran, was backing from a parking stall at 709 N. State St. Thursday when he struck a passing car driven by Iolan Ramona L. Moyer.

Also Thursday, Mary C. Ames, Chanute, was back-ing from a parking stall at The Family Physicians, 1400 East St., when her pickup struck a car driven by Iolan Julia Stout.

On Monday, Thaddeus N. Hutton, Iola, was driv-ing in the Iola Walmart parking lot at 2200 N. State St. when he struck the rear of a car driven by Khrista L. Vance, Iola.

None of the drivers, nor occupants, was injured.

Door damagedSharon Barnhart told

Iola police officers Friday the back door to her home at 418 N. Sycamore St. was damaged.

Vehicle burglarized

Nelson Caldwell, Iola, told Iola police officers Saturday his vehicle had been entered, with sev-eral tools in a pair of tool boxes and a black Garmin GPS device stolen.

Air compressorreported stolen

Ted Bresee, 501 S. Wal-nut St., reported Sunday an air compressor valued at $500 had been stolen from his residence.

Wedding band foundA men’s ring, possibly a

wedding band, was found at the intersection of Spruce and Walnut streets Sunday. The ring is a ster-ling silver and gold band, Iola police officers said.

Car burglarizedCatherine Hall, 520 S.

Colborn St., had a tent, in-flatable mattress and wal-let with three credit cards and a debit card taken from her unlocked vehice, she reported Monday.

Police reports

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to increase the amount of investments small busi-nesses can expense next year.

The White House says Obama wants lawmakers to let small businesses write off up to $250,000 in expenses. Officials say the initiative is included in Obama’s proposal earlier this week for Congress to end tax cuts for fami-lies making more than $250,000 a year.

Republicans says end-ing the tax cuts would lead to a tax hike on small busi-nesses owners. A spokes-man for House Speaker John Boehner says the president’s announce-ment would be “no solace” for small businesses fac-ing a tax increase.

Obama also signed ex-ecutive orders that the White House says accel-erate federal payments, reduce paperwork, and make it easier for small businesses to access loans and tax credits.

Obama calls for rise in small business write-offs

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Part of a freight train carrying ethanol derailed and caught fire in Ohio’s capital city early this morning, shooting flames skyward into the darkness and prompting the evacu-ation of a mile-wide area as firefighters and hazard-ous materials crews moni-tored the blaze.

Norfolk Southern said it appeared about 11 cars of a southbound train de-railed around 2 a.m. near Interstate 71, southeast of the Ohio State University campus. They went off the tracks north of down-town, in an industrial area blocks from residen-tial neighborhoods.

Joel Priester said he watched the blast from his home two blocks away.

“I saw flames, then I heard a loud sound, like a boom, and saw the flames shooting higher,” he said. “It looked like the sun ex-ploded.”

Three of the burning cars were tankers carry-ing ethanol, said Assis-tant Chief David Whiting of the Columbus fire di-vision. After viewing the scene in daylight, authori-ties decided to let the fire burn out instead of trying to extinguish it.

It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the de-railment.

Two people who ran toward the scene before the explosion were in-jured but were able to take themselves to a hospital, fire Battalion Chief Mi-chael Fowler said.

Norfolk Southern said none of its workers were hurt.

Photographer Chris Mumma said he was more than 10 miles away in New Albany when he saw the night sky brightened by a “huge illumination” that he later learned was an explosion. He said he went to the scene to take pho-tos and saw punctures on top of the train that were spewing flames 20 to 30 feet high. He also noticed an odd odor.

“I noticed there was a chemical smell, and I was inhaling it so I backed up a little bit more because I wasn’t sure what I was getting involved with,” he said. Mumma said it made him so nauseous that he ended up at the hospital.

About 50 evacuees were at an American Red Cross aid site set up at the state fairgrounds.

Among them was Linda Ogletree, who lives a block from the accident site.

“I was in the house and heard the explosion, then I ran outside to see where it was coming from. The whole outside was lit up,”

Ohio train derailment causes evacuation

VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clin-ton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five de-cades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs dur-ing the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia.

Clinton met with the communist government’s prime minister and foreign minister in the capital of Vientiane today, part of a weeklong diplomatic tour of Southeast Asia. The goal is to bolster America’s standing in some of the fast-est growing markets of the world, and counter China’s expanding economic, dip-lomatic and military domi-nance of the region.

Thirty-seven years since the end of America’s long war in Indochina, Laos is the latest test case of the Obama administration’s ef-forts to “pivot” U.S. foreign policy away from the long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It follows a long period of estrangement between Washington and a once hostile Cold War-era foe, and comes as U.S. relations warm with countries such as Myanmar and Vietnam.

In her meetings, Clinton discussed environmental concerns over a proposed dam on the Mekong River, investment opportunities and joint efforts to clean up the tens of millions of unexploded bombs the U.S. dropped on Laos during the Vietnam War. Greater American support pro-grams in these fields will be included in a multimillion-dollar initiative for South-east Asia to be announced later this week.

After the meetings, she said they “traced the arc of our relationship from ad-dressing the tragic legacies of the past to finding a way to being partners of the future.”

Clinton also visited a Buddhist temple and a U.S.-funded prosthetic center for victims of American

munitions.At the prosthetic cen-

ter, she met a man named Phongsavath Souliyalat, who told her how he had lost both his hands and his eyesight from a cluster bomb on his 16th birthday.

“We have to do more,” Clinton told him. “That’s one of the reasons I wanted to come here today, so that we can tell more people about the work that we should be doing together.”

The last U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos was John Foster Dulles in 1955. His plane landed after being forced to circle overhead while a water buffalo was cleared from the tarmac.

At that time, the moun-tainous, sparsely populated nation was at the center of U.S. foreign policy. On leav-ing office, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned his successor, John F. Kennedy, that if Laos fell to the com-munists, all Southeast Asia could be lost as well.

While Vietnam ended up the focal point of America’s “domino theory” foreign policy, Laos was drawn deeply into the conflict as the U.S. funded its anti-com-munist forces and bombed North Vietnamese supply lines and bases.

The U.S. dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs on the impoverished country during its “secret war” between 1964 and 1973 — about a ton of ordnance for each Laotian man, wom-an and child. That exceeded the amount dropped on Ger-many and Japan together in World War II, making Laos the most heavily bombed nation per person in history.

Four decades later, American weapons are still claiming lives. When the war ended, about a third of some 270 million cluster bombs dropped on Laos had failed to detonate, leaving the country awash in un-exploded munitions. More than 20,000 people have been killed by ordnance in post-war Laos, according to its government, and contami-

nation throughout the coun-try is a major barrier to ag-ricultural development.

Cleanup has been excru-ciatingly slow. The Wash-ington-based Legacies of War says only 1 percent of contaminated lands have been cleared and has called on Washington to provide far greater assistance. The State Department has pro-vided $47 million since 1997, though a larger effort could make Laos “bomb-free in our lifetimes,” California Rep. Mike Honda argued.

“Let us mend the wounds of the past together so that Laos can begin a new leg-acy of peace,” said Honda, who is Japanese-American.

The U.S. is spending $9 mil-lion this year on cleanup op-erations for unexploded ord-nance in Laos, but is likely to offer more in the coming days.

It is part of a larger Obama administration ef-fort to reorient the direc-tion of U.S. diplomacy and commercial policy as the world’s most populous con-tinent becomes the center of the global economy over the next century. It is also a reaction to China’s expand-ing influence.

Despite America’s diffi-cult history in the region, nations in Beijing’s back-yard are welcoming the

greater engagement — and the promise of billions of dollars more in American investment. The change has been sudden, with some longtime U.S. foes now seeking a relationship that could serve at least as a counterweight to China’s regional hegemony.

Myanmar, also known as Burma, has made signifi-cant strides toward reform and democracy after de-cades as an international pariah, when it was univer-sally scorned for its atro-cious labor rights record and its long repression of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy movement. The Obama ad-ministration is expected to ease investment restrictions in the country this week.

Vietnam, threatened by Beijing’s claims to the resource-rich South Chi-na Sea, has dramatically deepened diplomatic and commercial ties with the United States, with their two-country trade now ex-ceeding $22 billion a year — from nothing two decades ago. Clinton on Tuesday made her third trip to the fast-growing country, meet-ing with senior communist officials to prod them into greater respect for free ex-pression and labor rights.

Let us mend the wounds of the past togeth-er so that Laos can begin a new legacy of peace.

— Mike HondaU.S. Congressman from California

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gence we should be able to protect ourselves from a similar incident,” he said.

Trustees requested a summary of demands on behalf of the hospital in re-gards to the IT agreement before they go any further in negotiations.

TRUSTEES approved $732,420 in payments to Murray Construction. Big items included drilled piers, earthwork, founda-tion work and under-slab utilities.

Construction is on target with an August 2013 open-ing.

Trustees and members from the community de-vised a new mission state-ment for the hospital at a June 30 retreat under the supervision of Rick Beh-rens of Building the Public

Square. It is,

Still ahead is designing a new logo for the hospital as well as developing a new vi-sion and values statements.

As a name, Allen County Hospital is not in stone. Naming opportunities ex-ist, trustees said, and they are open to suggestions.

In regards to the newly affirmed Affordable Care Act, Peterson said it was good for the hospital busi-ness.

“HCA’s stock went up 5 percent,” the day the Su-preme Court ruled in favor of Obamacare, Peterson

said. HCA is the largest cor-poration of hospitals in the United States and includes Allen County Hospital.

“If you insure more peo-ple, that means less risk for a hospital,” Peterson said. Kansas has about 351,000 residents without health insurance.

His biggest concern with the health care act is if Gov. Sam Brownback doesn’t ex-pand Medicaid to include a bigger swath of the poor.

“That will create a big hole for a hospital to cover,” he said.

States have the option of expanding Medicaid to include those up to 133 per-cent of the poverty level, or roughly $30,000 for a fam-ily of four. That expansion would cover 151,000 indi-viduals currently without insurance. Of those, 25,000 are children.

Also on Peterson’s ra-dar is KanCare, the state’s revised system in which three private companies, instead of the state, will oversee Medicaid services and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

In the current system, doctors and hospitals are reimbursed by the state and federal government for their services to Medicaid patients.

Under KanCare, the state will pay those three com-panies an amount for each person enrolled in Medic-aid and the private com-panies will reimburse hos-pitals and physicians for those services.

Peterson said he hopes the reimbursements to the hospital for treating Medic-aid patients will be “some-thing close to cost.” He estimates those reimburse-ments to be about $350,000 a year.

“If we lose that, it’ll be a big deal.”

Trustees will next meet at 7 p.m. Aug. 14.

Together, we provide pro-gressive, compassionate care that

* promotes wellness, * relieves suffering and* restores health.

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A Kansas photo ID is re-quired.

For more information call the county clerk at 365-1407 or the Secretary of State’s office at 1-800-262-8683.

IN ALLEN COUNTY, Republicans outweigh Democrats two-to-one. In the 2010 election, Repub-licans numbered 3,866; Democrats, 1,931. Those unaffiliated with any party numbered 2,558; Libertarians, 55, and the Reform Party, 6.

Brian Pekarek, Su-

perintendent of USD 257 schools, said the Kansas National Education Asso-ciation has weighed in its opinions of which candi-dates are strong support-ers of education.

For the Kansas Senate race, the KNEA endorses Republican John Coen of Ottawa over Caryn Tyson, Parker.

Pekarek said the educa-tors’ organization has not endorsed a candidate for the Kansas House in Dis-trict 9 between Bideau, Brigham and Sifers, “but are reviewing the infor-mation.”

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Snodgrass maintained she felt more at home on a softball field.

“I was a tomboy musi-cian,” Snodgrass recalled.

But her fellow collegians had a sound reason for pick-ing Snodgrass. As a pianist, she could easily put togeth-er a three-minute perfor-mance, one of the pageant’s requirements.

“I was a convenient con-testant,” she said. “I didn’t win. I didn’t know what I was doing. None of us did, but we had a great time.”

A year later, another group asked Snodgrass to represent them in PSU’s second Miss Pittsburg State Pageant a year later.

“Why?” Snodgrass asked. “I’d already tried this once.”

“Because you already have all the clothes,” was the response.

Snodgrass agreed, eyeing a potential $150 scholarship — enough to cover her en-tire tuition at PSU.

“You know, not one per-son that I can remember ever said, ‘We think you can win,’” she joked. “The biggest reason was I’m not the pageant type. I thought pageant girls sat around reading fashion magazines and doing their nails all day. That’s not me; that’s still not me.”

But this time, Snodgrass did win, not knowing the pageant was a precursor to Miss Kansas and later Miss America that same year.

The crowning sparked a memorable year-long buzz of activity, and a bit of cul-ture shock.

Snodgrass figured she would immediately return to school — winning Miss America brought with it a $10,000 scholarship, after all.

Instead, she spent the next year criss-crossing the

country, traveling 250,000 miles in the ensuing 12 months.

“And I had been on a plane once in my life before that,” she said — the flight to Atlantic City, N.J., for the Miss America Pageant.

SNODGRASS noted her upbringing played a large role in defining her future.

Living in Moran, she said, meant being a part of a true community. She could walk from one end of town to the other on foot, and practically enter any home along the way to say hello.

“I felt safe,” she said.Church was a staple in

her life, as it was for all of her friends.

But despite attending church services all her life, Snodgrass noted she didn’t feel truly fulfilled until years after her crowning, marriage and motherhood.

Snodgrass said accepting Jesus and his teachings in her heart “was the greatest thing that ever happened to

me, and it can happen to us all.”

Not everyone can become Miss America, Snodgrass noted. But everyone can find Christ.

“Accepting Jesus became what defined me,” she said.

SNODGRASS, who used her pageant winnings to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from PSU, delighted the crowd with a trio of songs on the piano, including “How Great Thou Art” and “Flight of the Bumblebee,” the latter ain impromptu performance at the crowd’s urging.

She also fielded ques-tions, many of which dealt with the local celebrations in Moran and elsewhere in Allen County the night she was crowned.

“I’d heard there was a street dance in Moran and everything,” she said. “Of course, I couldn’t be there. I was jealous.”

Even Mrs. Hobart, her old dance teacher, got in the act.

One audience member recalled being asked to check on Hobart — “We were afraid she’d have a heart attack” — only to find

her dancing in front of her house.

SNODGRASS and hus-band Bill live in Carthage, Mo. She is the mother of two grown daughters and has five grandchildren. She is an asssociate professor of music at Missouri South-ern State University in Jop-lin and music director at Faith Life Worship Center in Carthage.

During the past 40 years, Snodgrass has traveled as a motivational speaker for elementary and secondary schools, colleges, civic organi-zations and youth and wom-en’s retreats and has given her Christian testimony to church-es of all denominations.

IN A PAIR OF newswor-thy moments, Jeff Kluever, ACHS executive director, announced Iola artist Gary Hawk soon will be included in the ACHS museum’s “Fa-mous Allen Countians” ex-hibit.

Additionally, it was an-nounced Kluever was leav-ing his post of 2½ years at ACH later this month.

He will become education director at Pamplin Histori-cal Park in Petersburg, W.V.

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Register/Richard LukenDebra Snodgrass, Moran native and Miss America 1968, plays the piano Tuesday during the Allen County Historical Society summer meeting.

Kaylan Gambill, from Broken Arrow, has family in town and while visiting Iola a couple of months ago she saw a flyer for the run.

“I thought it would be something fun to do,” to get out and exercise and get involved, Gambill said.

She and her father will be driving to Iola on Fri-day, prior to the race, be-cause her father has a re-union to attend in town. At night the family will go to the fair and later she will run the 5K.

“I am in varsity basket-ball at my high school, so running is how I stay in shape,” she said.

Gambill, who will be a junior this year, has run a 5K before and thought it would be fun to do anoth-er one, she said.

Ever since the race’s popularity has grown, people have turned out to come from all over, and each year they have people from about eight or nine different states joining in, of-ficer and Mad Bomber Run organizer, Mike Ford said.

“Usually people have family coming in,” Ford said. “We have a lot of families registering to-gether.”

So far the official num-ber of registrations Ford has received is 548, but “I haven’t entered all the numbers so we really have more,” he said.

Thrive Allen County’s Executive Director, David Toland, has said they are expecting to hit a 1,000 people, given the amount of people that registered the last days leading up to the run last year.

Ford agrees that goal seems on target. “We are ahead from where we were last year at this point,” Ford said.

The other element race

organizers have going for them is the expected good weather.

“The low is supposed to be 75 degrees and a high of 77,” Ford said of the midnight tempera-tures. “Each year we have lucked out with good weather. We had a little rain one year, but nothing to stop us.”

The walk/run begins at 12:26 a.m. Saturday.

THE MAD BOMBER Run/Walk is only two days away, but it is not too late to get involved.

Participants can regis-ter up to midnight Friday.

Online registration for the walk/run ends at noon Thursday. Registra-tions then will be han-dled at the Thrive office, 12 W. Jackson. On Friday beginning at 5 p.m., reg-istration will be in front of the Shirt Shop also on the north side of the square.

Community National Bank is giving away $10 coupons to groups of four or more who register — all groups must register together.

Adult runners are $25; groups are $20 per in-dividual; youths 17 and younger are $15. All walk-ers are $15 apiece.

This year a Parade of Lights will begin at 9:30 p.m., where people can decorate themselves, floats, cars, motorcycles, bicycles, wheelchairs or anything mobile with lights.

LED lights, glow-in-the-dark items or even Christ-mas lights can be used. Walmart has ordered an extra amount of glow products and has created a display for customers to see and buy from.

People can still register for the parade until 8 p.m. Friday.

There will be no early shirt pick-up or registra-tion, Ford said.

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A couple of writers, Eliza-beth Dunn and Michael Nor-ton, desperate for a topic latched onto money and happi-ness. How much income does it take to make a family happy, they wondered.

Using data collected from al-most half a million Americans by Gallup, they discovered that most of us think $75,000 a year meets our basic needs and money earned above that number doesn’t produce pro-portionately more happiness.

The Gallup conclusion was seconded by research done at Princeton University. Scholars there found that higher house-hold incomes were associated with better moods on a daily basis — but that the “benefi-cial effects of money tapered off entirely after the $75,000 mark.”

Armed with those results, Dunn and Norton did some of their own prospecting. A sample of Americans told them they thought their “life satisfaction would double” if they earned $55,000 instead of $25,000. But further question-ing found that those earning the higher figure were only 9 percent more satisfied than those earning $25,000.

Additional research brought them to the conclusion that “buying more and buying for ourselves are ineffective at turning money into happiness.

“A decade of research has demonstrated that if you in-sist on spending money on yourself, you should shift from buying stuff (TVs and cars) to experiences (trips and special evenings out.)

“Our own recent research shows that in addition to buy-ing more experiences, you’re better served in many cases by simply buying less — and buy-

ing for others.”The pair go ahead to dem-

onstrate that most of us get as much pleasure from sharing as we do from accumulating and conclude that how money is spent makes as much dif-ference to happiness levels as does the amount spent.

DUNN AND NORTON won space for their article because it is an old story that bears frequent retelling. Yes, money buys happiness — but only un-til basic needs are met. From that point forward, happiness happens mostly as a byproduct of useful and compassionate living.

The ancients knew this truth. Greek, Chinese and Egyptian philosophers and sto-ry-tellers all had their versions of men and women brought low by greed and self-love — and made happy and admira-ble by selfless service to others.

But, like all basic truths about human behavior, the scripture must be preached of-ten and earnestly because self-love, lust and greed are every bit as destructive — and every bit as much a part of most of us — today as they were in the days of King Midas and King David.

Heed the old wisdom and find serenity.

— Emerson Lynn, jr. N.B. Elizabeth Dunn is an

associate professor of psy-chology at the University of British Columbia, and Mi-chael Norton is an associate professor of business admin-istration at Harvard Business School. They are authors of the forthcoming book “Happy Money: The Science of Spend-ing.” The article quoted above appeared in the Sunday New York Times.

Want to be happy?Here’s the recipe

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Corn and soybean prices surged Monday after the latest govern-ment report showed a widespread drought in the middle of the coun-try is hurting this year’s crop.

The U.S. Department of Agri-culture report said 30 percent of the corn in the 18 states that pro-duce most of the nation’s crop is now considered in poor or very poor condition. A week ago, it was 22 percent.

Indiana and Illinois have been particularly hard hit. The USDA said 61 percent of Indiana’s corn is now rated poor or very poor, compared to 50 percent last week. In Illinois, 48 percent of the corn is rated as poor or very poor, com-pared to 33 percent a week ago.

Nationwide, the amount of corn rated good to excellent also is dropping, to 40 percent this week from 48 percent a week ago.

Corn surged 31 cents to $7.74

per bushel in afternoon trading.The soybean crop is stressed

too and worries that it will suffer drove prices to a new record on Monday. In morning trade, prices peaked at $16.79 per bushel be-fore settling back down to close at $16.65, up 45 cents.

The USDA reported that 27 percent of soybeans were in poor or very poor condition in the 18 states were most are grown. It was 22 percent a week earlier.

Only 40 percent of the soybean crop was in good or excellent con-dition, down from 45 percent a week earlier.

Corn is pollinating in many ar-eas of the farm belt, and extreme heat during pollination can hurt formation of the ears and ker-nels, cutting into the amount of corn farmers will harvest.

Soybeans develop later and the most critical time for the plant is usually in early August when the

bean pods begin to develop.The heavily traded Decem-

ber contract for corn shot up 37 cents, or 5 percent, to settle at $7.30 per bushel Monday. Corn has been rising sharply since June 21, when it settled at $5.50 per bushel.

Wheat for September delivery rose 22 cents to $8.2825 a bushel and soybeans for November de-livery settled at $15.4775 a bushel, up 42 cents.

Strong demand for soybeans from China also kept prices high.

Scott Strand, an analyst with Northstar Commodity in Minne-apolis, said more price increases for grains and beans could be on the way.

“The next 10 days look pretty dry across the Midwest, further reducing the yield prospects for corn,” Strand said. “Corn is fol-lowing the weather very closely, as are soybeans.”

Grain prices snap higher as heat persists

By TIM WENDELVIENNA, Va. — With baseball’s midsea-

son classic upon us, we’re reminded how problematic such all-star games have be-come.

The National Football League begrudg-ingly decided to bring back its Pro Bowl for at least for another year. The National Hockey League has tried multiple formats, with the captains most recently choosing up sides. And the National Basketball As-sociation has turned its All-Star weekend into part-party, part-skills contest with the actual game often an afterthought.

No sport has tried harder than Major League Baseball to have its All-Star Game actually matter.

After a tie game in 2002, it was decided that the winning side would have home-field advantage in the World Series. But even raising the stakes hasn’t made this game as memorable as when a young Ted Williams won it with a walk-off home run in 1941 or even when Alex Rodriguez called for Cal Ripkin to return to his old position of shortstop in 2001.

The problem here doesn’t have anything to do with format or the winner’s share. Rather it’s about how the relationship be-tween the players and fans has changed so dramatically in recent years.

Today the latest highlights about a fa-vorite player or team are just a click away on the Internet or we can catch it almost hourly on ESPN. We can watch those im-ages over and over again, but such images

don’t bring our sports heroes into any bet-ter focus.

Not that long ago, our sports stars still lived among us. Willie Mays played stickball with the kids on the streets of New York and Johnny Unitas had a catch with those in his old Baltimore n e i g h b o r -hood. Before the money bal looned into strato-s p h e r e , profession-al players often lived in our com-m u n i t i e s . They were still among us.

When I was writing my latest book, “Summer of ’68,” I was struck by how much tighter the bond between the players and fans was back then.

In Detroit, for example, Tigers outfielder Willie Horton single-handedly tried to stop the riots of 1967 that shook the Motor City to its core. His teammate Mickey Lolich, along with many other ballplayers from

that era, served in the National Guard. In so many ways, they were one of us.

Compare that with today’s stars. Often they can tell us about their personal

path to the top, how they excelled in a particu-

lar system or under specific coach.

But ask them whose foot-steps they are

f o l l o w i n g and most don’t have a clue. As Sports Il-l u s t r a t -ed’s Chris B a l l a r d said, “To-day’s ath-letes are all

about their p e r s o n a l

journey and, as a result, they

often have a limit-ed sense of place.”How important is

this? Novelist Eudora Welty contended that for something to be

truly understood and even treasured it needed to have a setting that was “named, identified, concrete, exact and exacting.” If not, she added, the stories and the peo-ple involved in them can become unrecog-

nizable.In 1968, Willie Horton had no interest

in living in a “bubble,” as many of today’s ballplayers do. After the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kenne-dy in that tragic year, he made a conscious decision to reach out instead of drawing away. When the team went on the road, he made friends in every port. Good enough friends that he could give them a call if he wanted to — perhaps sit down for dinner together.

“What I was doing was making sure that I had a home everywhere I went playing ball,” he told me decades later. “In 1968 es-pecially, that’s how I got by.”

Decades later, Horton continues to reach out. At the Tigers’ downtown ballpark in Detroit, where Horton works in the front office, he will often take a walk about Com-erica Park at the start of a new homestand.

As Horton shakes another hand, asks how somebody else’s family is doing, you wish more of today’s players could witness this. How by reaching out, remaining a part of a community, the athletes and the rest of us can gain so much.

———About the writer

Tim Wendel is the author of nine books, most recently “Summer of ’68: The Season That Changed Baseball — and America — Forever.” He is a writer in residence at Johns Hopkins University. Readers may write him at JHU, 1717 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, D.C. 20036.

Baseball greats need to connect with communities

25 Years AgoWeek Of July 8, 1987

Mary Grimes has had a varied career in nursing and teaching and is now director of the nurs-ing program at Neosho County Community College in Chanute. She told Register family living editor Lillian Qualls about some

of her experiences, including two summer trips to the island of Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, spend-ing two weeks each visit caring for the people there. She learned that she could survive, no matter the conditions. She and her hus-band, Butch, who is postmaster

at Humboldt, have been foster parents to 18 children over the past six years. She said she would like to say they had helped all of them overcome their problems, but “sometimes we have children who have problems we don’t have the expertise to handle,” she said.

A look back in time

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6th grade:July 17, 24, 31. Aug. 7.

Clarinet: 9-10 a.m.Flute: 10-11 a.m.

Trumpet: Noon-1 p.m.Saxophone: 1-2 p.m.Trombone: 2-3 p.m.

7-8th grade schedule: July 12, 19, 26, Aug. 2, 9.

Percussion: 9-10 a.m.Flute: 10-11 a.m.

Trumpet/horn: 11 a.m.-NoonSaxophone: Noon-1 p.m.Trombone/tuba: 1-2 p.m.

Clarinet: 2-3 p.m.

Lessons are $5 per session.

Iola Summer Music Enrichment

instrument and working to bring out their inner musi-cian.

Starting Tuesday, Kloep-fer began giving private les-sons.

Fledgling trumpeter Bret Plumlee, 11, came in to start his path of musical enlight-enment.

“I’ve always been inter-ested in playing,” Plumlee said. “My brother plays saxophone so I wanted to do something different.”

Plumlee’s interest in mu-sic first started when his grandfather brought home a horn from Israel. Plum-lee couldn’t put it down and knew he wanted to get into music. After his first lesson ever, his desire to play has been fueled.

“I had a lot of fun today,” Plumlee said. “I think it’s cool to play.”

Plumlee isn’t the only neophyte musician to show up. The band director spent time with several other stu-dents as well.

“We had three clarinet players show up for a les-son,” Kloepfer said. “They really played their hearts out. The thing I’m most en-couraged by is the desire these kids are showing when they are here. You can see

they really want to be here. The parents aren’t pushing them as much as the kids are asking to be here.”

Going forward, the rest of the summer will be high-lighted by weekly lessons punctuated with other op-portunities outside of the classroom.

“Next Tuesday we’re going to take some kids to Wichita to see ‘Drums Across Kansas 2012,’” Kloepfer said. “There’s go-ing to be several drum and bugle corps there from around the country. I want the kids to see what some-one can do with enough practice and hard work. I hope it’ll inspire them.”

The band director is also looking at doing an event in August to help introduce himself to the community while also getting everyone excited about the upcom-ing school year. The event is still being planned and would likely take place af-ter the municipal band con-cert schedule is over.

For those interested in getting their children set up with lessons the rest of the summer, a one-hour ses-sion is $5. For more infor-mation contact the Bowlus Fine Arts Center at 620-365-4765.

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By ERIN LOURY Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES (MCT) — The cryptic letter ar-rived a few weeks after Maira Gutierrez donated blood for the first time in 1997. The Red Cross had re-jected her blood. It listed a phone number to call.

Gutierrez left a message, then waited three agoniz-ing days for a reply, fear-ing she had HIV. The truth proved more confusing than reassuring: She had something called Chagas’ disease, an ailment she’d never heard of, spread by a winged insect incongru-ously dubbed the “kissing bug.”

A Red Cross pamphlet told her the parasitic af-fliction could be fatal — it could stop her heart. But doctors she consulted didn’t know how to help her or treat the disease.

Physically, Gutierrez felt fine. After months of stress and unanswered questions, she decided to try to move on. But for more than a decade, the heavy knowledge that she carried a potentially dead-ly parasite hung over her.

Then, late one evening in 2008, her sister phoned, frantic. Chagas’ disease was on the news.

CHAGAS affects an es-timated 300,000 people in this country and about 13 million worldwide, chiefly in Latin America, where it is a leading cause of heart failure.

Most carriers in the United States are immi-grants who acquired the disease in impoverished areas of Bolivia, Mexico or Central America, where kissing bugs inhabit the cracks and crannies of homes. The bugs nip at faces and lips while people sleep, and drop feces laden with the parasite Trypano-soma cruzi. The parasite can enter the open wound and circulate in the blood, attacking the heart, colon or esophagus.

No one is predicting an epidemic in this country, but disease experts are try-ing to increase awareness, testing and treatment of Chagas, which can affect sizable swaths of the pop-ulation, particularly in states with a large Latin American immigrant pop-ulation.

The effort is needed because the disease can linger undetected for de-cades, making it difficult to diagnose. Symptoms can be as subtle as an ir-regular heartbeat or short-ness of breath.

Two-thirds of those who become infected never de-velop complications. But

for about 30 percent of those who contract Cha-gas’ disease, it can cause serious illness, often si-lently ravaging the heart muscle. Most American physicians don’t think to test for it, potentially deny-ing life-saving treatment to thousands.

The disease can trigger strokes and heart failure in people as young as 30. “Your heart just turns into a big, ineffective bag,” said cardiologist Sheba Mey-mandi, director of a Cha-gas treatment program at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, the only one of its kind in the nation. About 1 in 100 Latin American im-migrants whom the center tests has the disease.

Insects carrying the par-asite live throughout the southern half of the U.S. But there have been only nine confirmed cases of people contracting the dis-ease from insects in this country since 1955.

Still, says Meymandi, “This is not an exotic dis-ease. This is a prevalent disease that is treatable in our community. And un-til people think about it, we’re not going to make inroads.”

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention offers free drugs to treat Chagas. But they receive just 50 or 60 re-quests a year for the medi-cations, suggesting that thousands of cases go un-treated. “Most health care providers don’t think of Chagas’ disease when they

see someone who might be at risk,” said Susan Mont-gomery, a CDC epidemiolo-gist.

GUTIERREZ, 39, of Mis-sion Hills grew up in the small mountain village of El Congo, El Salvador, with no running water or electricity. She lived with her grandmother until age 8, then immigrated to Lyn-wood with her younger sister to join her parents, who had already fled their homeland’s civil war.

Working as an admin-istrative assistant at Uni-versal Studios introduced Gutierrez to the man who became her husband, Daniel, who works there as a landscaper. It was also through her job that she learned of Chagas. She tested positive for the disease during a random screening after a 1997 workplace blood drive.

For the next decade, Chagas crossed her mind whenever her health flagged, when her daugh-ter was born two months early, when delivering her son required a lengthy re-covery.

After her sister called about the Chagas news story in 2008, Gutierrez learned of the Olive View Center and contacted Meymandi. The doctor performed heart tests and started Gutierrez on an an-ti-parasitic drug. She took the pills three times a day for three months, a gruel-ing regimen that sapped her appetite. She lost 20 pounds.

As with nearly everyone who undergoes treatment, she wasn’t cured, but her parasite count and the risks of serious complica-tions were greatly reduced.

After her treatment, Gutierrez began speaking

at medical conferences about Chagas from a pa-tient’s perspective. “People think it’s not here,” she said.

IN THE southern U.S., kissing bugs carrying the parasite can infect rac-coons, dogs and, on occa-sion, people. The blood-borne disease also passes from mother to child in utero 5 percent to 10 per-cent of the time.

Since 2007, the Ameri-can Red Cross has screened all new blood donors for Chagas. Unlike Gutier-rez, donors who test posi-tive today receive disease information and treat-ment guidance from the outset. But the Red Cross has found that most do not check in with a doctor as instructed.

A more effective ap-proach, Meymandi says, is working with promotoras — trusted Latin Ameri-can community members who provide health educa-tion through churches and schools. They also orga-nize neighborhood health fairs, where Meymandi and her staff collect blood samples for Chagas test-ing. Attendees who test positive almost always come in for treatment, Meymandi said.

FOR Gutierrez, the dis-ease’s shadow remains, if more faintly. “You kind of forget that you have it un-til someone brings up the subject,” she said.

She’s determined to lead a normal life but also talks with her hus-band about their finances, their kids’ college educa-tion and when he could remarry — just in case. “I don’t know how much time I have,” she said. “It could be 50 years, but I’m not sure.”

Ailment brings confusion, despair

Michael Robinson Chavez/Los Angeles Times/MCT Dr. Sheba Meymandi, who specializes in Chagas disease, talks to a patient having blood drawn at a clinic in Northridge, CaliF. in June 2012.

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MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government imposed fur-ther austerity measures on the country today as it unveiled sales tax hikes and spending cuts aimed at shaving $79.85 billion off the state budget over the next two and a half years.

A day after winning Eu-ropean Union approval for a huge bank bailout and breathing space on its defi-cit program, Prime Minis-ter Mariano Rajoy warned Parliament that Spain’s future was at stake as it grapples with recession, a bloated deficit and investor wariness of its sovereign debt.

“We are living in a cru-cial moment which will determine our future and that of our families, that of our youths, of our welfare state,” said Rajoy.

“This is the reality. There is no other and we have to get out of this hole and we have to do it as soon as pos-

sible and there is no room for fantasies or off-the cuff improvisations because there is no choice.”

He spoke as thousands of miners stung by a huge cut in government subsidies marched through down-town Madrid.

The spending cuts, de-signed to cut nearly $80 billion of state budgets by 2015, include a wage cut for civil servants and members of the national parliament and a new wave of closures at state-owned companies. Spain will also speed up a gradual increase in the re-tirement age from 65 to 67.

The measures are in ex-change for the bank bail-out of up to $122.85 billion granted to Spain by the other 16 countries that use the euro and extra time to cut the Spanish budget deficit. Finance ministers approved the bailout pro-gram at meetings in Brus-sels this week and as much

as $36 billion could flow to Spain’s banks by the end of the month. The country’s banks are saddled with bil-lions of euros in toxic loans and assets following the collapse of the country’s real estate market. The goal is to strengthen the banks’ balance sheets against fur-ther economic shocks so they can start lending to businesses and families. The full amount Spain will seek is not yet known.

Europe’s finance min-isters also this week ex-tended Spain’s deadline for achieving a budget deficit

of less than 3 percent of its annual economic out-put, until 2014. The size of Spain’s economy in 2011 is estimated to have been $1.5 trillion.

The bank aid and the def-icit-cutting come at the cost of greater EU supervision of Spain’s finances, both for the government and the banks, even though Rajoy’s government insists it has given up no sovereignty.

“In exchange for the bank bailout agreement, Brus-sels, the ECB and the IMF have placed Spain and its institutions in a situation

of strict monitoring and control,” Spanish newspa-per El Pais said in an edito-rial today.

Spain — the fourth-larg-est economy in the eurozone — has been struggling to keep a lid on its government deficit in the midst of a re-cession while trying to sup-port its troubled banking in-dustry. There are fears that should Spain need a bailout of its own, the eurozone would struggle to finance it, pushing the region further into recession.

The jobless rate in Spain is nearly 25 percent and the forecast is for the economy to shrink 1.7 percent this year. The country is mired in its second recession in three years. The con-cern among investors and Europe-watchers is that further austerity cuts will push Spain’s economy fur-ther into recession, making it even harder for the gov-ernment to trim its deficit.

Blaming the previous So-cialist government for the legacy of 8.9 percent deficit in 2011, Rajoy said, “The ex-cesses of the past must be paid in the present.”

Highlighting the need to trim the civil service, Ra-joy said that while nearly 3 million private-sector jobs had been lost since 2007, public sector employment numbers had increased by 289,000.

“I know the measures are not pleasant but they are imperative,” he said.

Today’s increases in sales tax include a 3 percentage point hike on products and services like clothing, cars, cigarettes and telephone services to 21 percent and a 2 percentage point increase on goods such as public transport fares, processed foods and bar and hotel services to 10 percent. The sales tax on basic goods like bread, medicine and books stays at 4 percent.

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ment which will determine our fu-ture and that of our families, that of our youths, of our welfare state.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police say a would-be burglar was halted by unlikely obstacles — win-dow blinds.

KRQE-TV reports police found Thomas Molina on Sunday tangled in some window blinds at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque

after police received a call about a break-in.

Police say the 38-year-old Molina told police he was looking for computer hard-ware.

Molina was arrested and charged with burglary and breaking and entering. He is being held on a $10,000 bond.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Last year brought a record heat wave to Texas, massive floods in Bangkok and an unusually warm November in England. How much has global warming boosted the chances of events like that?

Quite a lot in Texas and England, but apparently not at all in Bangkok, say new analyses.

Scientists can’t blame any single weather event on global warming, but they can assess how climate change has altered the odds of such events happening, editor Tom Peterson of the National Oceanic and At-mospheric Administration told reporters in a news briefing.

In the Texas analysis, re-searchers at Oregon State University and in England noted that the state suf-fered through record heat last year. It happened dur-

ing a La Nina weather pat-tern, the flip side of El Nino. Caused by the cooling of the central Pacific Ocean, La Nina generally cools global temperatures but would be expected to make the south-ern United States warmer and drier than usual. But beyond that, the scientists wondered, would global warming affect the chances of such an event happening?

To find out, they ran a lot of computer simulations of Texas climate during La Nina years. They compared the outcome of three such years in the 1960s with that of 2008, which was used as a stand-in for 2011 because they were unable to simu-late last year. The idea, they said, was to check the like-lihood of such a heat wave both before and after there was a lot of man-made cli-mate change, which is pri-marily from burning fossil

fuels like coal and oil.Their conclusion: Global

warming has made such a Texas heat wave about 20 times more likely to happen during a La Nina year.

Using a similar approach, scientists from Oxford Uni-versity looked at tempera-tures in central England. Last November was the sec-ond warmest in that region in more than 300 years. And December 2010 was the sec-ond coldest in that time.

Their analysis concluded that global warming has made such a warm Novem-ber about 62 times more likely, and such a cold De-cember just half as likely.

Kevin Trenberth, of the National Center for Atmo-spheric Research’s climate analysis section, said that he found the Britain study to be reasonable, given what he called a flawed cli-mate model. As for the Tex-

as result, he said that given how the study was done, the calculated increase in likelihood “could well be an underestimate.”

A third analysis consid-ered unusually severe river flooding last year in central and southern Thailand, in-cluding neighborhoods in Bangkok. It found no sign that climate change played a role in that event, noting that the amount of rainfall was not very unusual. The scale of the flooding was influenced more by factors like reservoir operation policies, researchers wrote.

LAST YEAR was the coolest since 2008 in terms of global average tempera-ture, but it still remained among the 15 warmest years since records began in the late 1800s, the agency said. It was also above aver-age for the period 1980-2010.

Global warming tied to risk of weather extremes

Everday tasks are the new frontier in service careersBy MICHAEL KANELL

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

ATLANTA — You can hire Sara Fisher to straight-en up your room. You can hire Amber Leigh Salis-bury to straighten out your love life.

And why stop there? You can call Deneane Maldona-do when your child needs minding and Dennis Free-man when you want to im-prove your child’s mind.

Of course, you could also do all those things yourself. But if you hire someone, you can save time, avoid stress, make your life less cluttered — and maybe even better.

By the way, you’ll also be fanning a series of small, glowing embers amid the ashes of the job market. “I am sure that the market is growing,” said Freeman, owner of In-Home Tutors Atlanta, which sends tu-tors to client homes. “On a good week, I pay about 100 tutors, who are working with maybe 150 students. ... People have a lot on their plates.”

The trend accelerated af-

ter the recession, starting in late 2007, cast millions of workers into unemploy-ment. The lackluster recov-ery beginning in 2009 has not created enough jobs to pull all those people back onto payrolls.

The result has been a huge supply of potential entrepreneurs. Many of them have started offering services — from dog-walker to rent-a-friend.

Sue Cleere, for example, started She’s Wired LLC after being laid off by Web-MD in late 2008, just as the economy was falling off a cliff. She installs technol-

ogy, fixes problems and teaches her clients how to get the most out of their de-vices.

“They are not necessar-ily tech people, but they want the latest technology,” she said. “They are always looking for the next thing.”

Right now, Cleere said, she has enough business to consider taking on an em-ployee or even franchising what she does in different cities.

The trend extends through all sorts of person-al needs, according to soci-ologist Arlie Russell Hochs-child, author of a new book, “The Outsourced Self.”

“Every stage of life has its corresponding market service,” she wrote. “I in-terviewed love coaches and wedding planners, birth surrogates and parenting counselors, paid friends and mourners-for-hire.”

Hochschild discounts narrow economic explana-tions. The trend, she ar-gued in a recent email, has been caused by a conjunc-tion of factors: growth in the two-job family, decline of community services and rising demand as more for-profit businesses get con-tracts to run public institu-tions like prisons, schools and parks.

Are these “outsourced” services just marginal jobs at the edge of the economy that will never amount to much?

E.J. Reedy, a research fel-low at the Kauffman Foun-dation, which studies entre-preneurship, predicted that some will be able to “scale,” or expand to provide the same services to more cus-tomers by hiring more em-ployees.

Some services have al-ready made the jump to a

larger scale, creating many jobs.

Nanny Poppinz Inc. — a project that Deneane Mal-donado started two decades ago when she was a stay-at-home mother — now has more than 3,000 nannies placed in metro Atlanta.

A database with tens of thousands of names lets the company find nannies who fit client requests, she said.

“This is designed to be like Match.com — a kind of matchmaking set-up. I am the headhunter,” Maldona-do said.

The client pays a $40 fee to Nanny Poppinz, then pays the nanny $12 an hour for one child — $1 an hour more for each additional child. Her nannies average 32 months on each job and make between $28,000 and $38,000 a year, Maldonado said.

Certified professional organizer Sara Fisher organizes paperwork at a client’s home in Atlanta, Ga.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pablo Sandoval and Melky Cabre-ra turned the All-Star game into a Giant blowout.

Flashing their bright orange spikes and booming bats, the San Francisco sluggers keyed a five-run blitz against Justin Verland-er in the first inning that sent the National League to an 8-0 romp over the American League on Tuesday night.

Cabrera homered and won the MVP award, and Giants team-mate Matt Cain started a strong pitching performance for the NL in its most-lopsided All-Star vic-tory.

Cain combined with Stephen Strasburg, R.A. Dickey, Aroldis Chapman and the rest of a lights-out staff on a six-hitter.

“San Francisco Giants show,” Matt Kemp of the rival Dodgers said during the game.

Ryan Braun, an All-Star again after his drug suspension was overturned last winter, doubled, tripled and made a fine catch in the outfield to help give the NL its first three-game winning streak in two decades.

Chipper Jones singled in his fi-nal All-Star at-bat at age 40 as the NL, under retired manager Tony La Russa, once again claimed home-field advantage in the World Series.

Teen sensation Bryce Harper had a shaky All-Star debut. Fel-low rookie Mike Trout, only 20, showed off his dynamic skills.

The game was pretty much decided a few moments after it started.

Sandoval hit the first bases-loaded triple in All-Star history off Verlander, who couldn’t con-trol his 100 mph heat. Cabrera sin-gled and scored the first run, then hit a two-run homer against Matt Harrison in a three-run fourth.

Rafael Furcal also hit a three-bagger, making the NL the first league with three in an All-Star game.

As the All-Stars returned to Kansas City for the first time since 1973, La Russa bid a fond farewell to the national stage in the city where he played for his first major league team.

Having retired after managing St. Louis to last year’s World Se-ries title, La Russa became just

the fourth inactive manager to skipper an All-Star team and im-proved to 4-2.

The NL boosted its advantage to 43-38-2 and won for just the third time in the 10 years the All-Star game has been used to deter-mine home-field advantage in the World Series.

Jones, retiring at the end of the season, also had one last All-Star moment, pinch hitting in the sixth and singling just past sec-ond baseman Ian Kinsler and into right field. Jones chuckled as the ball rolled through.

Harper, at 19 the youngest posi-tion player in All-Star history, had a shaky start when he entered in the fifth. The heralded rookie, wearing shiny gold shoes, didn’t flash a Gold Glove and lost Mike Napoli’s routine fly to left in the lights, allowing it to drop behind him for a single. He then caught Kinsler’s bases-loaded flyball to end the inning, earning cheers from the crowd of 40,933 at Kauff-man Stadium, spruced up by a $250 million renovation that was completed three years ago.

Harper did draw a walk and tagged up on a long fly, but later got himself hung up in a run-down and tagged out.

Trout, among a record five All-Star rookies, had a nice showing

against two very different pitch-ers. The Angels outfielder singled and stole a base against Dickey’s knuckleball, then drew a walk against Chapman and his 101 mph heat.

Cain pitched the 22nd perfect game in big league history last month. He didn’t have to be per-fect in this one, allowing one hit in two innings for the win.

Cain was followed by 10 reliev-ers, with Jonathan Papelbon get-ting the last out with a runner on third base.

Verlander had a puzzling out-ing. He became the first All-Star to give up a five-spot since Hous-ton’s Roger Clemens in front of his hometown fans in 2004.

A crowd clad in red, white and blue T-shirts cheered during pre-game introductions for hometown star Billy Butler, who dropped his cap when he tried to wave it. Fans booed the New York Yankees’ Rob-inson Cano, who angered local fans when he bypassed Butler for Monday night’s Home Run Derby.

Not since Game 7 of Kansas City’s 1985 World Series over the Cardinals had the baseball world descended on the Royals’ ball-park, a rare 1970s beauty known for its 322-foot-wide fountain in right and the 105-foot-high score-board topped by a crown.

San Francisco Giants’ Melky Cabrera hits a single in the first inning of Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game on at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. Cabrera hit a two-run home run in the fourth helping the National League beat the American League 8-0 plus he was named the MVP of the game.

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NL stars rout AL stars

George Brett pats the Kansas City Royals’ Billy Butler (16) on the back after Brett threw out the ceremonial first pitch in Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game.

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PAOLA — Game one was a cruise to victory for Iola Ameri-can Legion’s AA Indians. Game two Tuesday night was a come-from-behind nail-biter.

Both games, 10-1 and 4-3, went down in the win column for Iola against Paola. Iola’s record is now 23-2.

Iola hosts Chanute Thursday at Allen Community College for a doubleheader. First pitch is at 6 p.m.

The AA Indians are trying to reschedule a rained-out home twin bill with Ottawa for Sun-day, said Mike Taylor, Iola head coach.

The KABA American Legion League tournament begins Mon-day with play-in games. The tour-nament — Thursday, Friday, Sat-urday — is in Baldwin.

The Indians used a six-run sec-ond inning to roll past Paola Tues-day in the opener. They added a run in the fifth and three more in the seventh for a 10-0 lead.

Paola’s run came on a solo home run in the bottom of the seventh inning.

Jerrik Sigg was the winning pitcher for Iola, going six innings on the mound. He allowed no runs on two hits, four walks and one hit batter. He struck out eight.

Levi Ashmore pitched one in-ning and charged with one run on one hit. He has two strikeouts.

Drew Walden and Braden Lar-son delivered two singles each for

Iola. Hitting a single apiece were Clint Heffern, Corey Taylor, Dal-ton Smith and Mason Coons.

In the nightcap, the Indians came up with the go-ahead run in the fourth. Paola had rallied to tie the game at 3-3

With one gone in the fourth, Larson drew a walk then Devon Conner reached on a fielder’s choice. Kris Collins got aboard via a base-on-balls.

Jarred Latta connected for an RBI base hit to put Iola up 4-3.

Iola defense and Dalton Smith held Paola scoreless for two in-nings for the win. Smith gave up three hits and walked three plus struck out two.

Smith and the Indians had to work around a one-out single in the fifth. With the tying run on base, Smith got two ground ball outs to end the game.

Iola scored twice in the first in-ning and once in the third to lead 3-1. Paola tied the game in its half of the third.

Heffern hit two singles and drove in a run for Iola. Taylor had an RBI ground-out in the first in-ning.

Walden doubled. Ashmore and Sigg each had a base hit.

Iola AA will go after back-to-back trips to the Kansas Ameri-can Legion AA State Tournament later this month. The Zone 2 tour-nament begins July 23 in Ottawa.

Along with Iola and Ottawa in the Zone 2 tournament are Gar-nett, Burlington, Fort Scott, Bax-ter Springs and Osawatomie.

Gathering in a foul ball near an opponent’s dugout is Iola Ameri-can Legion’s AA catcher Drew Walden in a home game two weeks ago. The AA Indians won two games at Paola on Tuesday and host Chanute Thursday at Allen Community College.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR on Tuesday penal-ized two championship contenders — including suspen-sions for Nationwide Series driver Austin Dillon’s team — for problems found during qualifying at Daytona.

Three-time champion Tony Stewart was docked six points, and crew chief Steve Addington was fined $25,000 because of a cooling hose found inside Stewart’s car after his qualifying lap. Stewart forfeited his second-place qual-ifying spot, but still rallied to win Saturday night’s Sprint Cup Series race.

Addington and car chief Jeff Meendering were both placed on probation through Aug. 22, and listed car own-er Margaret Haas was docked six championship owner points.Stewart-Haas Racing said it would not appeal the penalties.

In the Nationwide Series, Dillon’s team was penalized for the second consecutive week. Like Stewart, his car was found to have a cooling hose inside of it during his qualify-ing run and his time was also tossed out by NASCAR.

But because it’s the third time this season the No. 3

owned by Richard Childress Racing has had an issue, NASCAR cracked down on the title contenders.

Crew chief Danny Stockman was fined $10,000, and he and car chief Robert Strmiska were both suspended through July 25, a span of two races. NASCAR said the suspensions were because Stockman and Strmiska had al-ready been on probation since May 1.

Dillon was also docked six points for the second con-secutive week, as was listed car owner Morgan Shepherd.

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It’s a considerable hit for Dillon, who could be lead-ing the point standings by four points but is instead trailing Elliott Sadler by eight.

NASCAR also punished Joe Gibbs Racing for fail-ing the post-race inspection after Friday night’s Nation-wide Series event when the car driven by Joey Logano was found to be too low.

Crew chief Adam Ste-vens was fined $10,000 and placed on probation along with car chief Christopher Landis through Aug. 22. Car owner Joe Gibbs was docked six championship owner points.

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Sierra Snavely of Iola and Karlie Stephens of Mo-ran played on the SEK Slug-gers, a 10-and-under girls traveling softball team, in last weekend’s state tourna-ment in Shawnee Mission.

The SEK Sluggers, which is a team based out of Cha-nute, went 2-2 in the double elimination event. The tournament was held at Mid America Sports Com-plex.

Snavely was voted the MVP of the first game of the tournament for the SEK Sluggers, who won 14-2. Snavely hit a double and two inside-the-park home runs — one was a grand slam — and drove in nine runs.

The SEK Sluggers lost 4-3 in the second game with Snavely pitching. The team won its third game then lost its fourth.

Stephens hit a home run for the SEK Sluggers in the third game. She and Snave-

ly received special T-shirts for hitting home runs.

The SEK Sluggers are coached by Candy Babcock

of Thayer and managed by Beth Jackett of Chanute.

Local girls play in state tournament

LONDON (AP) — The Olympic flame is visiting one of Britain’s great cathe-dral cities today, winding its way through Winchester on its journey around the British isles.

The relay is covering 8,000 miles across the country ahead of the July 27-Aug. 12 Olympics. Orga-nizers say the flame should come within 10 miles of 95 percent of the U.K.’s popu-lation, but it is also high-lighting the country’s best known tourist attractions.

Winchester Cathedral, the longest Medieval cathe-dral in Europe, has become a site of pilgrimage for fans of author Jane Austen, who is buried there.

The flame ends its travels today in Salisbury, another great cathedral city. One of the surviving copies of the Magna Carta— a 13th century document that lays out personal liberties — is housed within the Chap-ter House and has been on public display for the last 25 years.

The trip came after a banner day for the Olympic torch on Tuesday: It vis-ited the queen at Windsor Castle, was carried by the man who broke the 4-min-ute mile and by Britain’s greatest Olympic rower and even got a passing glance at a streaker.

Queen Elizabeth II held an unopened umbrella as Gina Macgregor, a sodden 74-year-old runner, carried the torch to the castle. The Duke of Edinburgh also welcomed the torch team to the castle.

The day began with the torch being held aloft by 83-year-old Roger Bannis-ter, who in 1954 became the first runner to smash the 4-minute mile. Bannister walked with the torch on the track where he set that record.

A naked man with ‘Free Tibet’ written on his back also streaked past crowds just before former rower Steve Redgrave got the torch in Henley, 35 miles to the west of London. Red-grave, 50, won gold medals at five consecutive Olym-pics.

Police said the streaker, 27-year-old Daniel Leer, was charged with indecent ex-posure and released on bail.

Submitted photoMembers of the 2012 SEK Sluggers are, left to right, front row, Ryleigh Dean, Kori Babcock, Rylee Donovan, Rachel Jackett, Taylor Thompson, Shalynn Frederick; back row, Jadeyn Wyrick, Marcy McDonald, Sydney Barker, Sierra Snavely, Sabry Trout, Karlie Stephens.

Olympic flame relaymoving across Britain

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — U.S. national team goalkeeper Hope Solo received a public warn-ing Monday from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency after she tested positive for the banned substance Canre-none in a urine test.

Solo has accepted the warning and will still play for the United States in the Olympic tournament.

The 30-year-old Solo test-ed positive for Canrenone in a test on June 15.

“I took a medication pre-scribed by my personal doc-tor for pre-menstrual pur-poses that I did not know contained a diuretic,” Solo said in a statement. “Once informed of this fact, I im-mediately cooperated with USADA and shared with them everything they need-ed to properly conclude that I made an honest mistake, and that the medication did not enhance my perfor-mance in any way.”

Canrenone is classified as a specified substance, so its presence in an athlete’s sample can result in a re-duced sanction.

“As someone who be-lieves in clean sport, I am glad to have worked with USADA to resolve this mat-ter and I look forward to representing my country at the 2012 Olympic Games in

London,” she said.A recent semifinalist on

“Dancing With The Stars,” Solo has been the regular U.S. keeper for nearly six years and backstopped the Americans to the 2008 gold medal in Beijing with some spectacular performances.

Considered one of the world’s top keepers, she helped the Americans to a second-place finish in last year’s World Cup, only a penalty kicks shootout loss to Japan denying Solo her first World Cup title.

She also is remembered for the contentious finish to the 2007 World Cup in China, when she helped the Americans reach the semi-finals. But she was benched by coach Greg Ryan against Brazil for veteran Briana Scurry, a hero of the 1999 world champions. Scurry was rusty, the United States was routed 4-0, and Solo famously criticized Ryan’s move.

US soccer’s Solo gets warning on drug test

Hope Solo

By The Associated PressDeron Williams hit the

jackpot in Las Vegas, and Blake Griffin signed on for a few more years in Los An-geles.

Free agents in the NBA could finally sign contracts starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT-today, and the Brooklyn Nets wasted no time getting their All-Star point guard to put pen to paper — well, iPad actually — on a new deal worth $98 million over five years.

The Nets came to Wil-liams at his hotel in Las Vegas, where he is training with the U.S. Olympic team. He posted a picture of him-self signing the contract on

his Twitter page.“We are obviously

thrilled that Deron will lead the Nets into our new home in Brooklyn,” Nets general manager Billy King said in a statement. “Deron is in my opinion the top point guard in the NBA. With his leadership and guidance on and off the court, the fans of Brooklyn should be proud.”

The Clippers announced they signed Griffin to a con-

tract extension that could be worth $95 million over five years. He left U.S. camp Tues-day for a day to return to Los Angeles and get all the terms taken sorted out, and he should certainly like them.

Also, the Lakers an-nounced their sign-and-trade deal with Phoenix to bring Steve Nash to Los An-geles for first-round picks in 2013 and 2015, as well as second-rounds in 2013 and 2014

Free agent deals done in the NBA

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KHI NEWS SERVICE WICHITA — The dean

of the University of Kan-sas School of Medicine in Wichita is resigning for a position in Kentucky, KU officials announced Wednesday.

Dr. David Wilson, who has served as dean since 2009, accepted the position of special assistant to the dean for educational devel-opment at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.

Dr. Garold Minns, KU Med associate dean for academic and student af-fairs, will take over as dean of the Wichita campus on Aug. 1 and will work with Wilson through Septem-

ber, university officials said.

As dean, Wilson over-saw the expansion of the Wichita campus to a full, four-year medical school program in July 2011. The expansion was part of ef-forts by KU and the state to retain more medical school graduates in Kan-sas, particularly in rural and other underserved ar-eas.

“The KU School of Medi-cine-Wichita has a tremen-dous track record training doctors who choose to stay and practice medicine in Kansas. As I have traveled throughout the state, it has been extremely grati-fying to hear from those

whose lives are helped by the work we do and the physicians we have edu-

cated,” Wilson said. “I am truly honored to have been

a part of this crucial mis-sion and grateful to the Wichita community and our legislators for their tremendous support.”

Minns joined the faculty of KU Med in Wichita in 1980. He is a Kansas native who graduated from the school and completed his residency and fellowship training on the Wichita campus. Minns served as chair of the Department of Internal Medicine from 1994 to 2003 and has re-ceived numerous awards during his career at KU, in-cluding the 2010 Rainbow Award, the W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence Award and the Thor Jager Award.

KU Med-Wichita dean resigns, new dean appointed JUNCTION CITY, Kan.

(AP) — The driver of a semitrailer truck pulled his 7-year-old daughter out of the truck just moments before it exploded and burned on a Kansas high-way.

Geary County Under-sheriff Tony Wolf says the explosion happened Tuesday afternoon on In-terstate 70 east of Junc-tion City. The semitrailer hit a truck being used by a contract crew for the state transportation depart-ment to paint lines on the

interstate.Wolf says the tractor

trailer driver tried to miss the truck but clipped it, rupturing the semitrailer’s fuel tank.

WIBW reports the driver was able to get his daughter out of the truck before it exploded. No injuries were reported.

Traffic was blocked on the highway for several hours.

Authorities decided to let the wreckage cool over-night and will remove the debris Wednesday.

Truck explosion

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors are urging an appeals court to uphold the convictions of a Kan-sas doctor and his wife in a moneymaking conspir-acy linked to 68 overdose deaths, arguing the couple got an “exceedingly fair tri-al” despite the involvement of a national patient advo-cate in the case.

Documents filed Tuesday with the 10 Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver seek a rejection of defense claims that Dr. Stephen Schnei-der and his wife, Linda, received poor representa-tion by trial lawyers who served as little more than “mouthpieces” for a patient

advocate using the case to promote her own agenda.

In addition to conspir-acy, the Haysville couple was convicted in 2010 of unlawfully prescribing drugs, health care fraud and money laundering. The doctor was sentenced to 30 years, his wife to 33 years. The government also won a forfeiture judgment of $1.27 million, and the Schneiders were ordered to pay $114.7 million in restitution to victims.

In their appeal, the Schneiders claim their tri-al lawyers had a conflict of

interest that allowed Siob-han Reynolds, president the Pain Relief Network, to essentially direct the de-fense strategy. They paint Reynolds as a zealot who believed the war on drugs has transformed America into a police state in which the federal government let patients live and die in un-necessary pain. Her goal, they say, was fighting gov-ernment prosecution of physicians for prescribing painkillers.

In bolstering their con-flict-of-interest argument, the appeals attorneys con-tend Reynolds was in a sexual relationship with Kevin Byers, the lead at-

torney representing Lin-da Schneider. Reynolds, Byers and his mother were killed in December when a small plane he was piloting crashed in Ohio.

But in its response, the government argued the couple knowingly waived their rights to conflict-free representation in separate hearings before two fed-eral judges. Assistant U.S. Attorney Tanya Treadway said in her filings that the defendants purposefully pursued a common defense of innocence and enlisted Reynold’s help. Treadway argued that a case of “buy-er’s remorse” is not enough to merit overturning the convictions and that Reyn-old’s involvement had no impact on the convictions.

“The defendants received a trial they wanted, and an exceedingly fair trial, vig-orously defended by sepa-rate counsel the defendants trusted and who believed in their respective client’s in-nocence,” Treadway wrote.

The government also ar-gued that the defendants did not properly raise their claim of ineffective assis-tance of counsel first in the district court, and that those claims should there-fore be dismissed.

Prosecutors insist fair trial was given

The defendants received a trial they want-ed, an exceedingly fair trial, vigorously de-fended by separate counsel the defendants trusted and who believed in their respective client’s innocence.

— Tanya Treadway Assistant U.S. Attorney

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I am truly hon-ored to have

been part of this crucial mission and grateful to the Wichita com-munity and our legislators for their tremendous support.

— Dr. David Wilson

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By MARISA TAYLORMcClatchy NewspapersWASHINGTON — One

of the nation’s most secre-tive intelligence agencies is pressuring its polygra-phers to obtain intimate details of the private lives of thousands of job ap-plicants and employees, pushing the ethical and legal boundaries of a pro-gram that’s designed in-stead to catch spies and terrorists.

The National Reconnais-sance Office is so intent on extracting confessions of personal or illicit be-havior that officials have admonished polygraphers who refused to go after them and rewarded those who did, sometimes with cash bonuses, a McClatchy Newspapers investigation found.

The disclosures include a wide range of behavior and private thoughts such as drug use, child abuse, suicide attempts, depres-sion and sexual deviancy. The agency, which over-sees the nation’s spy satel-lites, records the sessions that were required for security clearances and stores them in a database.

Even though it’s ag-gressively collecting the private disclosures, when people confess to serious crimes such as child moles-tation they’re not always arrested or prosecuted.

“You’ve got to wonder what the point of all of this is if we’re not even going after child molest-ers,” said Mark Phillips, a veteran polygrapher who resigned from the agency in late May after, he says, he was retaliated against for resisting abusive tech-niques. “This is bureau-

cracy run amok. These practices violate the rights of Americans, and it’s not even for a good reason.”

The agency refused to answer McClatchy’s ques-tions about its practices. However, it’s acknowl-edged in internal docu-ments that it’s not sup-posed to directly ask more personal questions but says it legally collects the information when people spontaneously confess, of-ten at the beginning of the polygraph test.

After a legal review of Phillips’ assertions, the agency’s assistant gen-eral counsel, Mark Land, concluded in April that it did nothing wrong. “My opinion, based on all of the facts, is that manage-ment’s action is legally supportable and corrective action is not required,” he wrote.

But McClatchy’s review of hundreds of documents — including internal poli-cy documents, memos and agency emails — indicates that the National Recon-naissance Office is push-ing ethical and possibly legal limits by:

• Establishing a system that tracks the number of personal confessions, which then are used in po-lygraphers’ annual perfor-mance reviews.

• Summoning employees and job applicants for mul-tiple polygraph tests to ask about a wide array of per-sonal behavior.

• Altering results of the tests in what some polyg-raphers say is an effort to justify more probing of employees’ and applicants’ private lives.

Various national secu-rity experts, including

those who support the use of polygraph in general for security screening, said they were disturbed by what McClatchy found, es-pecially considering that the number of polygraph screenings has spiked in the last decade.

“There’s a narrow ju-risdiction for a polygraph program, which is to pro-mote security,” said Steven Aftergood, a senior ana-lyst with the Federation of American Scientists, a nonpartisan research cen-ter that tracks intelligence policies. “When agencies exceed their authority, they not only violate the privacy of employees, they corrupt the entire pro-cess.”

The dispute is part of a long-running debate over the proper use of polygraph by the federal government in screening employees, when it’s not known whether the ma-chine can detect the differ-ence between a lie and the truth or simply registers

an emotional response.In 2002, the National

Academies, the nonprofit institute that includes the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that the federal government shouldn’t use polygraph screening because it was too unreliable.

Yet since then, in the Defense Department alone, the number of national-security poly-graph tests has increased fivefold, to almost 46,000 annually. Many of those who are required to un-dergo the tests aren’t just bureaucrats in Washing-ton but also private con-tractors across the coun-try.

Federal agencies say the information gathered dur-ing polygraph screenings helps them rule out unde-sirable and even dangerous employees who otherwise wouldn’t be detected dur-ing routine background in-vestigations, which often are described as expensive and time-consuming.

Agency accused of illegally collecting data

Staff Sgt. Valerie Smith/U.S. Air Force/MCTU.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jason Arnold, 407th Expedi-tionary Communications Squadron, acts as an exam-inee for an Office of Special Investigations polygraph examiner during Operation Iraqi Freedom at Ali Base, Iraq, March 4, 2006.

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BEIJING — China’s econ-omy appears to be weak-ening more rapidly than official statistics would sug-gest, raising fears of a pain-ful slowdown that could be felt around the globe.

Second-quarter gross do-mestic product statistics to be released this week are expected to show growth of around 7.5 percent com-pared with the same period last year, according to ana-lysts’ estimates. That would be the slowest pace since the depths of the global financial crisis. But gov-ernment data are widely believed to understate the extent of China’s woes.

Other indicators point to a much sharper decline, economists said. Record amounts of coal and iron ore are piling up at depots, signaling waning demand for electricity and building materials. Excavators and other heavy equipment are being idled or sold at deep discounts as housing con-struction has stalled. The demand for diesel, needed to power those machines, has been flat for six months. Shipyards have laid off thousands of workers, and half-built vessels have been left to rust.

On Sunday, Premier Wen Jiabao warned of “huge down-ward pres-sure” on the world’s No. 2 economy, one of the stron-gest admis-sions yet that China’s top leaders are worried about

the recent deceleration. The country’s central bank last week unexpectedly cut bank lending rates in a bid to stimulate lending. China’s trade minister said last month that the coun-try would be “lucky” to meet its growth targets for imports and exports this year, describing the envi-ronment as “grim.” Trade numbers for June, released Tuesday, came in lower than expected, according to media reports.

Industrial data point to a decline that government growth figures wouldn’t fully reflect, according to economists who are down-grading their forecasts. Local officials throughout China are suspected of pad-ding growth estimates to meet targets set by Beijing to boost their chances for promotion.

“Recent economic data, including steel production and corporate profits, have continued to weaken vis-ibly,” said Yiping Huang, an economist for Barclays. “There is a renewed percep-tion that the real economy is much weaker than is sug-gested by official statistics.”

Meanwhile, Chinese manufacturing activity has been slowing, a sign of slackening demand from Europe and the U.S., Chi-na’s biggest markets for fac-

tory goods.Alan Wang, a footwear

trader in the southern city of Shenzhen, said sales this year are down a third. His mostly French and Span-ish customers are taking as long as four months to pay their bills. Wang said one of his local suppliers has al-ready closed. Another is on the brink after a U.S. buyer filed for bankruptcy and couldn’t pay for a $1.1 mil-lion order for tennis shoes.

“This year is really bad compared with last year,” said Wang, managing di-rector of Charmy Shoes. “I think China needs another big stimulus. Factories are closing down because they can’t get paid.”

Such weakness is unwel-come news for a world econ-omy already weighed down by troubles in the eurozone. China powered through the 2008 financial crisis and has delivered blistering GDP growth during much of the past decade. Now analysts are projecting that the growth rate in 2012 will struggle to reach 8 percent — a symbolic target that of-ficials are loath to miss.

Developing nations in-cluding Brazil have already seen exports of oil, iron ore and other commodities to China slump. Luxury jewel-ers in Hong Kong are com-plaining about a decline in free spenders from China. Macau, long a draw for Chi-nese gamblers, is reporting a steep drop-off in high roll-ers from the mainland.

“Growth expectations in Macau are going to un-dergo an uncomfortable ad-justment phase,” said Gary Pinge, an analyst for finan-

cial services firm Macqua-rie.

The slowdown has also crimped earnings at U.S. corporations that had been expanding in China, includ-ing Caterpillar Inc., Nike Inc., McDonald’s Corp. and Yum Brands Inc., which op-erates KFC and Pizza Hut.

With a once-in-a-decade transition of top leader-ship looming in China this year, stability is para-mount. Calls are growing for officials to buttress the economy through policy tinkering and government stimulus.

But China’s leaders must proceed carefully. The na-tion is still suffering the fallout from the last round of intervention following the 2008 global crisis. To keep the economy hum-ming, Beijing spent bil-lions on public works and encouraged banks to lend — easy credit that fueled a housing bubble and a surge of borrowing by local gov-ernments.

The real estate sector is now deflating, thanks in part to government re-strictions introduced two years ago to clamp down on speculators. Home pric-es throughout China have plummeted and develop-ers have been saddled with tens of thousands of unsold units.

China’s economic growth slowing at fast pace

There is a renewed perception that the real economy is much weaker than is sug-gested by official statistics.

— Yiping Huang, economist for Barclays

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This year is really bad compared with last year. I think China needs another big stim-ulus. Factories are closing down because they can’t get paid.

— Alan Wang, footwear trader

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LONDON (AP) — Inves-tigators were conducting further tests today in a bid to shed light on the death of Eva Rausing, one of Brit-ain’s richest women, whose body was found in her west London home.

H e r husband, H a n s K r i s t i a n R a u s i n g , has been a r r e s t e d in connec-tion with her death, which police are treating as unexplained.

U.S.-born Eva Rausing, 48, and her husband were wealthy philanthropists who have both waged a long battle against drug addic-tion. They were arrested on drug charges in 2008 after Eva Rausing was caught trying to smuggle crack co-caine and heroin into the U.S. Embassy in London in her handbag.

Hans Kristian Rausing, 49, is an heir to the Tetra-Pak fortune his father built as a globally successful manufacturer of laminated cardboard drink contain-ers.

Police found Eva Raus-ing dead at her multimil-lion-dollar London home on Monday. Initial post-mor-tem examinations Tuesday failed to establish a formal cause of her death.

The Metropolitan Po-lice said officers arrested a 49-year-old man Monday in connection with the case.

Police did not release the man’s name but offered details of the arrest in re-sponse to a question about Hans Kristian Rausing.

They said they arrested the man on suspicion of drug possession, and that a subsequent search of an ad-dress in London’s upmarket Belgravia neighborhood related to that arrest led to the discovery of Eva Raus-ing’s body later that day.

Police said he remained under arrest but was re-ceiving medical attention at a location away from a police station. They would not say if the man was un-der guard.

Eva Rausing’s parents, Tom and Nancy Kemeny, and the rest of her family paid tribute to a “devoted wife” and mother of four “much loved and wonderful children,” saying they were devastated over her death. Their statement also allud-ed to her struggles.

“During her short life-time she made a huge philanthropic impact, sup-porting a large number of charitable causes, not only financially, but using her own personal experiences,” the family said in a state-ment. “She bravely fought her health issues for many years.”

A statement from her in-laws, Hans and Marit Raus-ing, said they were “deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the tragic death.”

Eva Rausing supported a number of charities that

helped to fight addictions. One of them — Action on Addiction — was among the first to express sadness over her death and praise her “wonderfully gener-ous” support over the years.

She also was listed as a long-time supporter of The Prince’s Foundation, part of a group of nonprofit charities that have Prince Charles as their patron. His office said the prince was told of Rausing’s death but did not offer further com-ment.

IN A DIPLOMATIC scan-dal in 2008, Eva Rausing was arrested outside the U.S. Embassy for report-edly trying to bring crack cocaine and heroin into the building in her handbag. Police later found small amounts of cocaine, crack and heroin in a search of the couple’s house. They were charged with drug possession but prosecutors later agreed to drop the charges in exchange for for-mal police warnings.

At the time, the Raus-ing family issued a state-ment saying relatives were “deeply saddened” by the couple’s drug problems and hoped they could overcome their addictions.

Hans Rausing’s Swedish father helped transform TetraPak into a hugely suc-cessful manufacturer. The fortune of the senior Raus-ing and his family is esti-mated at $6.7 billion by the Sunday Times Rich List.

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(First Published in the Iola Register, July 11, 2012)CHARTER ORDINANCE 19A CHARTER ORDINANCE OF

THE CITY OF IOLA, EXEMPT-ING THE CITY OF IOLA, KAN-SAS FROM THE PROVISIONS OF K.S.A. 14-101 to K.S.A. 14-310’ INCLUSIVE, AND PROVIDING SUBSTITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, RELATING TO A MAY-OR-COUNCIL FORM OF GOV-ERNMENT.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF IOLA, KANSAS:

SECTION 1. The City does here-by adopt Charter Ordinance No.19 of the Code of the City of lola, to read as follows:

WHEREAS, K.S.A. 14-101 to 14-310, inclusive, authorizes a city to implement a council form of gov-ernment, which provisions are not uniformly applicable to all cities; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Article 12, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, cities may exempt them from such provisions and provide substitute and addition-al provisions therefore;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT OR-DAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF IOLA, KANSAS:

Section 1: The City of Iola, Kan-sas, a city of the second class, by the power vested in it by Article 12, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, hereby elects to exempt itself from and makes inap-plicable to it the provisions of K.S.A. 14-101 TO 14-310, inclusive, and to provide substitute and additional provisions as hereinafter set forth in this Ordinance. The referenced provisions are either enactments or parts thereof, which are applicable to this City, but are not applicable uniformly to all cities.

Section 2: As used in this Or-dinance, the following words and phrases shall be defined as follows:

Mayor: shall mean a person elected at large, on the first Tues-day in June of every odd-numbered year, for a two (2) year term, who shall have only the following re-sponsibility and authority: (1) serve without compensation; (2) have no veto power; (3) preside over council meetings; (a) will have the authority to vote in all instances where there is a tie vote of the council; (5) make recommendations for all appoint-ments to City positions and commit-tees to be approved by the council; and (6) such other powers as the Council may grant to the mayor from time to time

Treasurer: shall mean a person appointed by the Council for a two (2) year term at the same time other appointments to City offices are made;

Council members shall: (1)

serve without compensation; (2) serve for a term of four (4) years, with two (2) Council members to be elected from each ward as follows; a. The terms shall be staggered with one (1) council member to be elected from each ward every two (2) Years; b, These staggered terms shall be established by the election of April, 2013, with the top vote get-ter in each ward to serve an initial four (4) year term and the second top vote getter in each ward to re-ceive an initial two (2) year term and then thereafter on the First Tuesday of every odd-numbered year, start-ing in the year 2015, there shall be elected from each ward a council member whom shall be elected to a four (4) year term thereafter.

c. The council members shall be chosen by the qualified electors of their respective wards, and no per-son shall be eligible to the office of council member who is not at the time of the election or appointment an actual resident of the ward for which he or she is elected or ap-pointed, and if any council mem-ber shall move from the ward from which he or she was elected or ap-pointed, his or her offices as council member shall thereby become va-cated immediately.

d. Whenever a vacancy shall oc-cur in the office of council member, the Governing Body shall appoint an elector of the ward where the vacancy occurs to be council mem-ber for the balance of the unexpired term.

Section 3: This Charter Ordi-nance shall be published once each week for three consecutive weeks in the official City newspaper,

Section 4: EFFECTIVE DATE: This Charter Ordinance shall take effect and be in force sixty-one days after its first publication in the City newspaper.

PASSED by the Governing Body, with not less than two-thirds of the members elected voting in fa-vor thereof, June 11, 2012.

APPROVED and SIGNED by the Mayor this 9th day of July, 2012. CITY OF IOLA, KANSAS

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Public notice

Dear Carolyn: Every time we visit my in-laws, I end up snappish and short-tempered, which obviously isn’t the side of me I want them to see. When I brought this up with my husband, he said that he understood and that I didn’t have to go on the next planned trip.

While I appreciate his letting me off the hook, I don’t think avoidance is a permanent solution. What I’d really like are some cop-ing techniques or attitude adjustments to decrease my stress around them.

For what it’s worth, they’re not bad people. We just have radically differ-

ent political views, bio-rhythms, interests, parent-ing philosophies, etc. They drive my husband crazy, too, but since it’s the en-vironment he grew up in, he adjusts fairly easily — which is probably part of what irritates me. — Vaca-tioning With In-Laws

Answer: You have one answer sitting on the oth-er end of the couch: Your husband adjusts, so don’t growl at him — learn from him. Ask what strategies he uses.

And, you have another answer in you. When peo-ple don’t drive us crazy, it usually means we’re get-

ting what we need from them (or we just don’t care). So, when people do drive us crazy, that usually means we want something from them that we aren’t getting.

Now think about your in-laws with the goal of fig-uring out what that some-thing is — and giving up hope. Give up on their ever understanding you, being interesting, not being awk-ward, serving edible food, approving of the way you raise your kids, saying, “You’re right” ... Hope sty-mies acceptance.

Also, don’t underesti-mate avoidance as a perma-nent solution. Boycotting is extreme, sure, but ....

You can make the visits a wee bit shorter, a tad less frequent, a smidge more structured (a movie, a play, another venue where con-versation is similarly dis-couraged). After a day or two, you can spin off on your own to visit a friend who lives somewhere (re-motely) nearby. You can be-come Super DIL, and go gro-cery shopping (alone), weed the flower beds (alone), do the dishes (alone) ... espe-

cially when politics erupt.In other words, you can

control the dosage more, and more good-naturedly, than you think. A fresher you can then focus on where your interests do overlap.

Dear Carolyn: My son is in a serious relationship with a woman who is, in my opinion, very rude. But she probably thinks I’m up-tight; we have had words over whether it’s okay to have her stomach showing in public and her forgetting to say “thank you” after I treated them to an expen-sive dinner.

When is it appropriate for me to insist on correct behavior, and what things do I have to just let go? — Son Has a Rude Girlfriend

Answer: Hm. Hard to top the rudeness of comment-ing on someone’s attire, in-sisting upon being thanked and calling attention to the price of a meal.

But, I’ll play: You don’t get to re-raise this woman to your liking or make the rules “in public.” You do get to make rules in your own home.

You can also back off. If this couple is breakup-bound, your harping will actually delay that; if they’re altar-bound, your harping will hurt you a lot more than it hurts them — and a lot more than her na-vel annoys you now.

Learn from husband with in-lawsTell MeAbout It

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week he lost his job.But on Monday, ex-life-

guard Tomas Lopez was given the key to the city by Hallandale Beach officials for risking his job to save a man’s life.

And though he was proud of the shiny gold key, Lopez received an even bigger re-ward: meeting the young man whose life he helped save.

“It was just amazing see-ing him,” said Lopez, who has since been offered his lifeguarding job back, but turned it down. “Every-thing has come full circle.”

Monday marked one week since 20-year-old Maksim Samartsev was swimming in an unprotect-ed part of Hallandale Beach when he felt something pull him under.

Beach-goers saw the man struggle and stepped in to help.

Marisol Azofra was on the beach with her mother, sunbathing.

“He was drowning,” Azo-fra recalled Monday. “No one wanted to touch him. He looked afraid.”

She dove in.A man with a bodyboard

already in the ocean pad-dled over. Together, they got Samartsev on the board and dragged him to shore.

Lopez heard screams from the crowd gathering on the beach and took off running, even though it meant leaving his coverage zone.

He got there as the board with Samartsev’s near life-less body on it was pulled onto the beach.

A nurse stepped in and began giving Samartsev CPR until the paramedics arrived.

Ivan Samartsev said he was in his apartment in the Hemispheres Condo-minium when two officers knocked on the door to tell them that his son had been in an accident.

Samartsev said his son is on a three-month vaca-tion from Estonia before he heads off to university and had only been in town for about two weeks when the incident occurred.

“I was so scared,” said the elder Samartsev.

The teen spent several days at Aventura Hospital getting oxygen. His father said he worries his son may have brain damage.

“We just don’t know,” he said. “We have to go back to the doctor.”

But Samartsev said that his son “walking and talk-ing” is a miracle.

And he is so grateful for the heroes who saved his son’s life.

“He is like another son to me,” said Ivan Samartsev of Lopez. “He is part of our family.”

Sitting between his res-cuers, Maksim Samartsev was all smiles Monday.

“A big thank you, you saved my life,” he said to Lopez, who had traded in his swimming trunks for a sleek suit and tie for the oc-casion.

Clutching the white box with his shiny gold key in-side, Lopez said he didn’t do

anything extraordinary.“I was just doing my job,”

he said.Hallandale Beach Mayor

Joy Cooper called the group or rescuers “unsung he-roes.”

“That’s what today is about — our hometown he-roes,” she said. Those indi-viduals who with no hesita-tion jump right in and help their fellow man.”

But the company that employed Lopez originally saw it different.

Lopez, 21, was fired on the spot, for ignoring proto-col and leaving his station.

Two other lifeguards who defended his actions were fired the next day, and at least three more resigned in solidarity.

After their story got in-ternational attention, Jeff Ellis Management Com-pany, which provides life-guards for the city’s two public beaches and munici-

pal pool, offered Lopez his job back.

He turned it down, say-ing he would rather focus on his studies at Broward College than return to the

$8.25 an hour job.The city has been critical

of Jeff Ellis Management since the story went inter-national. The commission hinted that when the com-pany’s contract expires in September, it would not be renewed.

But on Monday, Jeff El-lis sent a letter to City Hall saying he would not seek to renew the contract.

“I want to personally

apologize to the mayor, city commission and citizens of Hallandale Beach for the regrettable incident surrounding the recent termination of our life-guard employee, Tomas Lopez,” he wrote in the letter. “Knowing that this incident and surround-ing negative publicity has distracted you and other officials from dealing with important city business, I want to advise you that

we will not seek to obtain future service agreements to manage city aquatic operations for pools and beaches.”

Meanwhile, Lopez said he will place his key to Hal-landale Beach next to a key the city of Miami gave his late grandfather decades ago for his role in helping to develop Miami’s Calle Ocho festivities in Little Havana.

“He would be very proud of me,” said Lopez.

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Joe Cavaretta/Sun Sentinel/MCT Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper, left, presents the key to the city to lifeguard Tomas Lopez Monday at City Hall in Hallandale Beach, Fla. Within the span of a week, the former lifeguard saved Maksim Samartsev, right, from drowning, lost his job, received international recognition and was handed a key to the city.

That’s what today is about — our home-town heroes. Those individuals who with no hesitation jump right in and help their fellow man.

— Joy Cooper, mayorHallandale Beach, Fla.

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