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

Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

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

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

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

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

By SUSAN [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By RICHARD [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

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

By BOB [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

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By JOE [email protected]

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

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

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-


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. 184 75 Cents Iola, KS

Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

At the bandstand Jake Ard, directorThursday, July 19, 2012 8 p.m.Star Spangled Banner ............................................. arr. J.P. SousaValdres ............................................................. Hannsen/CurnowHymn to the Fallen.......................................................... WilliamsClear Track Polka ..............................................................StraussThe Phantom of the Opera ................................................WebberThe Band Played On...................................................Ward/YoderColossus of Columbia ................................ ...Alexander/BainumAcross the Wide Missouri ................................................... SmithRock, Rhythm and Blues ........................................... arr. BullockKing Cotton ........................................................................... Sousa

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas health officials warned residents Tuesday to stay hydrated and limit their exposure to the heat as temperatures hit 100 degrees or higher during the next several days.

Three people have died from heat-related illnesses already this year, and more than 240 have be-come ill, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Envi-ronment.

Along with extreme heat, the forecast calls for recent modest winds to dissipate by week’s end, increasing concerns about air quality.

Doug Watson, meteorologist for KDHE’s air quality department, said cloud cover and winds limit the production of ozone, which can be dangerous for residents with asthma and other respira-tory conditions.

“Mostly the folks with pre-existing conditions it affects the most,” he said. “But at higher levels, it can even affect healthy people.”

In northwest Kansas, residents seeking relief from 100-degree heat flocked to the Colby Aquat-ic Park. Manager Jill Nech said daily attendance has been more than 400 people, with a few days

of more than 700 seeking a cool respite.

“Most of the time we’re busy from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.,” Nech said.

Proposed county budget soars to new heights By BOB JOHNSON

[email protected]“We’ve had pretty sharp pencils

the last several years,” said Rob Francis, as he and other Allen Coun-ty commissioners, Dick Works and Gary McIntosh, completed their first look at next year’s budget.

Rodney Burns, Chanute accoun-tant who annually constructs the county’s budget, handed the newest version to commissioners Tuesday morning. It called for a record mill levy.

Taking proposals from depart-ment heads and others who depend

on the budget for funding, Burns of-fered a plan to spend $12.75 million — nearly $800,000 more than this year’s estimate — that would require an ad valorem tax levy of 73.518 mills. This year’s levy, the highest to date, is 67.635 mills.

“We have some homework to do,” said Works, commission chairman, an exercise they also asked Burns to employ in respect to two funds in particular, those for ambulance and dispatch services.

The proposed ambulance levy was 2.169 mills more than last year’s, ris-

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By ALLISON [email protected]

CHANUTE — Promenading around the dance floor for a night of square dancing is often thought of as either being an ac-tivity for older people or some-thing taught in grade school. Though its general popularity is losing steam, that doesn’t stop a local square dance club from do-si-doing.

Square dance caller Bruce Main of Liberty says “most peo-ple think square dancing is for older people. The truth is older people have been square danc-

ing for 40 years.” Saturday the Chanute Do Si

Do Square Dance club got to-gether at the Central Park Pavil-ion Community Building. Peo-ple came from as far as Wichita to join in on the dance.

Main, who says he will be an old “die-hard” when it comes to square dancing, also calls it economical. It only costs $6 to get into the club and you get two and a half hours of entertain-ment and food — compare that to a dinner and movie date night where a person could spend at least $20 just for the tickets.

Ruby Smith, Independence, travels to compete in square dancing competitions and has made dancing a family affair by having taught her children how to dance when they were grow-ing up, she said.

Smith is not the only one who has found square dancing to be a family event. Many people have met their husband or wife through square dancing.

Clyde Lowe, Do Si Do mem-ber and whose parents helped start the club 66 years ago, met

Square dance clubs see drop in numbers

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One of the area’s largest ac-tivities dedicated to fighting cancer returns to the Allen County Courthouse square Fri-day and Saturday.

The annual Relay For Life campaign runs from 6 p.m.

Friday until 6 a.m. Saturday on the south side of the court-house square. Several teams will field walkers to travel the courthouse sidewalk circuits — some nonstop — over the 12-

Church prepares for big open By ROB BURKETT

[email protected] fellow church is helping First

Baptist Church of LaHarpe get it-self ready to open its doors in a newly refurbished building.

Iola First Baptist has been hosting a group of mission work-ers from Forrest City, Ark., since last week. The group came to lend support in the establishment of a new house of worship for the con-

gregation. They also have been spending time working with area children in this summer’s vaca-tion bible school.

“We’re here to help reach out to people who need our support,” Virginia Taylor, mission member, said. “When we heard about this project we knew we needed to be up here.”

Register/Allison TinnChanute’s Do Si Do Dance Club meets on the second Saturday of July to participate in square dancing from 8 to 10 p.m.

Register/Rob BurkettRobert Hatcher, Forrest City, Ark., works on top of scaffolding to at-tach siding onto the future home of First Baptist Church in LaHarpe.

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Allen County is seeking spe-cial appropriations from the Kansas Department of Trans-portation to replace two bridges.

They are the Geneva bridge over Indian Creek 2 miles east of Neosho Falls and the Heg-wald bridge, named for a nearby landowner, over Owl Creek 2½ miles west of Humboldt.

Bill King, director of Public

Works, said KDOT had “some extra money” that it intended to award for bridge construction.

The tipping point will be whether state funding is suf-ficient to permit the county to take advantage, meaning at least 80 percent will have to come from KDOT.

The county has $420,000 set aside in its special bridge

Bridges may be replaced

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Michael AbernathyMichael McGuire Abernathy, 66,

of Orlando, Fla., died Sunday, July 15, 2012, at Orlando. Mike was born Aug. 29, 1945, at Fort My-ers, Fla., and was the eldest of the three children of Arthur Briggs Abernathy, Jr. and Louise C. McGuire Abernathy. Mike’s dad was serv-ing in the military and a few months after Mike’s birth, the family relocated to another duty assignment beginning Mike’s oppor-tunity to live in locations throughout the United States and overseas. Mike particularly enjoyed living in Ari-zona, where his next door neighbor spent endless hours introducing him to fast cars, woodworking and the ability to fix anything mechanical. Between the neighbor and his uncle, Marvin McGuire, who gave him his first ride on a motorcycle, they ignited interests that Mike enjoyed through-out his life.

Mike graduated from high school in Germany. Years ago Mike learned of the Bitburg Alumni Association and thereafter kept in touch with his high school friends as well as attended alumni reunions throughout the coun-try. After high school, Mike moved to Wichita for his dad’s last duty assign-ment at McConnell Airforce base. He attended college at Wichita State and also completed drafting school. Mike enlisted in the United States Navy serving in Viet Nam. After receiving an honorable discharge, he moved back to Wichita where he worked as a draftsman and also had his own cabi-net and woodworking shop. Mike was very involved in the Sports Car Club of America while in Wichita and rode motorcycles in various groups and with numerous fellow cyclists.

In 1989, Mike moved to Florida to marry Nancy J. Fursman Abernathy and they lived in Orlando after their marriage. He continued with jobs in the woodworking and cabinet mak-ing field until opening his own shop. The workmanship of his furniture and cabinet making was exquisite. Much of his work was completed for homes of celebrities and entertain-ers, professionals in the medical and legal fields and professional athletes. A client could describe a vision of a project while he sketched details re-sulting in a complete drawing Mike

would then create into a work of art in wood. Mike was also skilled with Auto-Cad and other computer pro-grams which assisted in his projects. Often Mike would develop a particu-lar type of wood turning or other spe-cialty item to make a project unique with the commitment to the client it would never be repeated in any other client’s project.

In 2006, Mike closed his shop due to health issues but continued to advise, consult and work part time as long as he was able. His enthusiasm for cars and motorcycles continued and he enjoyed attending rallies and events with his friends. Mike had founded several motorcycle clubs in Orlando. He also participated with a group which meets every Thursday night for conversation and dinner referring to the guys who attend as some of the best people he had ever met.

Mike’s additional interests includ-ed metal turning, music and garden-ing and he was a voracious reader. He was a man of intelligence, wit and compassion. He always enjoyed being a pet owner from the time he had his beloved dog Josie through the series of rescued cats that came to live with him and Nancy with the current fe-line king of the house known as Rey-naldo.

In addition to his wife, Nancy, Mike is survived by his mother and brother, Pete Abernathy, and Pete’s wife, Holly, all of Cincinnati, Ohio; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law Susan and Don Diebolt, Iola, John A. Fursman, III, Garnett, and Roxanne and Charles Dawson, Great Bend; father-in-law, John A. Fursman, Jr., Colony; and many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews; and two great-great-nieces. His father and his sister Deany Rief are deceased.

If you wish to remember Mike with a memorial tribute, please donate to the charity of your choice or to a cause in which you believe. Mike believed in organ donation and as his final act of kindness provided the gift of sight to two individuals by donation of his corneas to the Lions Eye Institute for Transplant and Research, 1410 N. 21st Street, Tampa, FL 33605, telephone 813-289-1200.

A graveside service will be at the Colony Cemetery in Colony, on Sat-urday, July 21, 2012, at 2 p.m. with burial in the Fursman family section of the Cemetery. Military honors will be conducted by Moran American Le-gion. Services are under the direction

of Waugh-Yokum and Friskel Memo-rial Chapels of Iola, telephone 620-365-2948. In accordance with Mike’s wishes, a celebration of his well-lived life will be held in Orlando at a later date.

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

Mark ArdMark Christopher Ard, 39, Iola,

passed away Monday, July 16, 2012, at the Ard family farm, rural Elsmore.

He was born March 17, 1973 in Iola, the son of Robert Dean Ard and Deborah Ruth (Smith) Ard. Mark attended school in Moran and gradu-ated from Marmaton Valley High School in 1993. He grew up working on his grandparents’ farm, a place he dearly loved. He later worked with his dad and then for Paul Dean Weston Construction. In 2000 Mark began working at Russell Stover Candies in Iola; he was currently working in the maintenance department.

Mark loved the outdoors and he especially enjoyed sharing that love with his children. They would spend time on his grandparents’ farm where they would hunt, fish and ride four wheelers.

He was preceded in death by his pa-ternal grandparents, Mervin and Bev-erley Ard; maternal grandparents, Robert and Maxine Smith; uncle, Lar-ry Ard; and cousin, Lisa Ard.

Mark is survived by his beloved children, Aubrey, Wyatt and Kailyn; father, Robert Ard of Richards, Mo.; mother, Deborah Smith of Ottawa; brother, Norman Dix of Ottawa; two sisters, Roberta Ard of Nevada, Mo., and Emily Ard of Westminster, Colo.; nieces and nephews, Derek and Me-gan Dix, Austin and Sierra Deer, Brit-tany, Garrett and Kadie Vickers; and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Elsmore United Method-ist Church. Burial will follow in Els-more Cemetery. The family will greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Feuerborn Famly Funeral Service in Moran. Memorial contributions may be made to the Mark Ard memorial fund and sent in care of the funeral home, 344 N. Cedar, Moran, KS 66755.

Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

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LAWRENCE — Several area students were among the more than 4,200 under-graduate students at the University of Kansas to be named to the school’s honor rolls for the spring 2012 semester.

The students, from KU’s Lawrence campus and the schools of allied health and nursing in Kansas City, Kan., represent 92 of 105 Kansas counties, 42 other states and the Dis-trict of Columbia, and 31 other countries.

The honor roll compris-es undergraduates who meet requirements in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and in the schools of allied health; architecture, design and planning; business; educa-tion; engineering; journal-ism; music; nursing; phar-macy; and social welfare.

Local honorees:From Iola High School

— Kellen Bolt, a senior in American studies and English; Caitlin Brigham, a student in the School of Pharmacy; Ching-Yee Cheung, a senior in chemical engineering; Ki-ang Cheung, a junior in

pre-medicine; David Cun-ningham, a sophomore in history and pre-business; Baley Lahaye, a senior in accounting; Preeya Pa-tel, a senior in pharmacy; Alec Peterson, a junior in pre-business; Alexander Piazza, a senior in music education; Christopher Porter, a senior in bio-chemistry; and Misty Pow-elson, a senior in sport sci-ence.

From Marmaton Valley High School — Jill Hart-man, a senior in sport sci-ence.

From Crest High School — Jacob Schooler, a junior in psychology; and Tanner Strickler, a senior in biol-ogy and pre-medicine.

Honor roll criteria vary among the university’s academic units. Some schools honor the top 10 percent of students en-rolled, some establish a minimum grade-point average, and others raise the minimum GPA for each year students are in school. Students must complete a minimum number of credit hours to be considered for the hon-or roll.

Area students named to KUhonor rolls

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration unveiled plans today to cre-ate an elite corps of master teachers, a $1 billion ef-fort to boost U.S. students’ achievement in science, technology, engineering and math.

The program to reward high-performing teach-ers with salary stipends is part of a long-term ef-fort by President Barack Obama to encourage educa-tion in high-demand areas that hold the key to future economic growth — and to close the achievement gap between American students and their interna-tional peers.

Teachers selected for the Master Teacher Corps will be paid an additional $20,000 a year and must commit to participate mul-tiple years. The goal is to create a multiplier effect in which expert educators share their knowledge and

skills with other teach-ers, improving the qual-ity of education for all stu-dents.

Speaking at a rally for his re-election campaign in San Antonio on Tuesday, Obama framed his empha-sis on expanded education funding as a point of con-trast with Republican chal-lenger Mitt Romney, whom he accused of prioritizing tax cuts for the wealthy over reinvestment in the nation.

“I’m running to make sure that America has the best education system on earth, from pre-K all the way to post-graduate,” Obama said. “And that means hir-ing new teachers, especially in math and science.”

The administration will make $100 million avail-able immediately out of an existing fund to incentivize top-performing teachers. Over the longer term, the White House said it plans to launch the program with $1 billion included in Obama’s budget request for fiscal year 2013.

But the House and Senate both voted down Obama’s budget earlier in the year, making it far from certain that Obama will be able to get congressional approval to spend $1 billion on mas-ter teachers.

An aide to Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, noted that the federal gov-ernment already has more than 80 teacher quality pro-grams and said it would be foolish to pump money into programs that may be du-plicative or unproductive.

Obama unveils ‘master teacher’ programI’m running to

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“Most people are staying about two to four hours. We’re selling lots of water and ice cream.”

The park has two slides and a lazy river, and Nech said many people are just coming out to float around to cool off. Temperatures were back in the 100s on Tuesday and were as high as 110 at the end of June.

“We’ve got to keep an eye on kids who are in the water quite a bit and to make sure that our guards

get breaks, too, every 30 to 45 minutes,” she said.

Tom Langer, KDHE’s director of the bureau of environmental health, said the danger in extend-ed periods of high heat is that residents let their guard down and become vulnerable to heat inju-ries. He said people should be drinking enough fluids well in advance of planned outdoor activities, espe-cially sports fans who ex-pect to be watching a ball game for several hours at a time.

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BURLINGTON — A Grid-ley man was sentenced to prison for using text mes-sages to solicit a minor for sex.

Dylan T. Redding, 19, was sentenced to 77 months in prison by District Court Judge Phillip M. Fromme Thursday for his June con-viction of electronic solici-tation of a child under 14.

Redding was arrested in March after the victim’s parents contacted the Cof-fey County sheriff ’s school resource officer about text messages their 12-year-old daughter received. Inves-tigators from the Coffey County Sheriff ’s Depart-ment subpoenaed phone and Facebook records and conducted interviews with the victim and Redding.

“By the time the reports were on my desk, there was no question what had hap-pene,” Coffey County Attor-

ney Douglas Witteman said in a press release.

In addition to the prison sentence, Redding will be required to register as a sex offender for 25 years after his release.

Witteman said the case illustrated the need for pa-rental involvement and dil-igence in monitoring new technologies with their children. He admonished parents to insist on access and monitor their chil-dren’s electronic communi-cation and social media.

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Club met Wednesday at the home of Maxine Red-fearn. Beverly Tomlin-son served as cohostess.

Dorothy McGhee and Dorothy Catron will choose the upcoming “Yard of the Month” winner in Iola. Help also will be needed for the Allen County Fair.

Shirley Robertson gave the program on helping plants deal with hot, dry weather.

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The group will meet again at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 8 at Catron’s home.

Melvin in ESUsummer musical

Iolan Marah Melvin will portray Isabelle in an upcoming Emporia State University Summer Theatre production of “U:Bug:Me.”

The musical follows the story of a housefly, whose girlfriend is a cat-erpillar going through changes, while his best friend is mad at him and he’s being terrorized by a giant horsefly.

The show runs July 25-28 at the Karl C. Bruder Theatre in King Hall. Tickets are avail-able from the university box office at (620) 341-6378.

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Tara GardensVisitors during the week

were Vinnie Wille, Delma Nutz and Jason Burchett to visit Joan Creason. Mark and Hana Westgate visited Helen Wells. Visiting Cath-erine Yocham was Mary-ann Rehmert. Remember to sign the guest book just to the left of the front door.

Guest Home EstatesJim Hinson and Jo Mc-

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elyn Calhoon. Todd, Bec-ca, May and Max, Mount Pleasant, Texas, visited Melva Lee. Sharon and Lauren Fredricks, West Des Moines, Iowa, visited Elmer Nichols and Doro-thy Loomis. Pattie Nichols, West Des Moines, and John, Stephanie, Abbie, Gabe and Sadie, Clive, Iowa, visited Elmer Nichols. June O’Dell, Iola, visited Evelyn Cal-hoon. George Fagg, El Do-rado, visited Althea Buckle.

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Iola Nursing CenterHelen Dorsey, Miami,

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Teachers and staff who were on board when the class of 1987 was winding its way through Iola schools are invited to a reunion cel-ebration at Allen County Country Club.

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Two distinguished Republi-cans, former senators Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire, have made an appeal to Con-gress to pass the Disclose Act of 2012. The legislation would require the public identifica-tion within 24 hours of any individual or organization that spent $10,000 or more on “cam-paign-related” advertising or other political “disbursement.”

Rudman and Hagel point out that anonymous individuals, corporations and trade unions already have spent more than $160 million trying to influence the outcome of the presiden-tial election in this election cy-cle — with nearly four months still to go.

They contrast this total with the $36 million spent in the same period in 2008.

“What alarms us about this situation,” they wrote in an op-ed article in Tuesday’s New York Times, “is that we can’t find out who is behind these blatant attempts to control the outcome of our elections. We are inundated with extraor-dinarily negative advertising on television every evening and have no way to know who is paying for it and what their agenda might be. In fact, it’s conceivable that we have cre-ated such a glaring loophole in our election process that foreign interests could directly influence the outcome of our elections. And we might not even know it had happened un-til after the election, if at all.

“This is because unions, cor-porations, ‘super-PACs’ and other organizations are able to make unlimited independent expenditures on our elections without readily and openly dis-closing where the money they are spending is coming from.

As a result, we are unable to get the information we need to decide who should represent us and take on our country’s challenges.

“Unlike the unlimited amount of campaign spend-ing, the lack of transparency in campaign spending is some-thing we can fix and fix right now — without opening the door to more scrutiny by the Supreme Court.”

RUDMAN AND HAGEL go ahead to note that the disclo-sure bill introduced by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Demo-crat of Rhode Island, was be-ing debated this week in the Senate. It was, however, kept from advancement Monday by a party line vote, which saw every Republican in the Sen-ate — including Sen. John Mc-Cain, whose name once was synonymous with campaign reform — voting to protect do-nor anonymity.

The bill, however, is not dead. It is merely short of the 60 votes it needs for the super-majority the Senate requires of itself to act.

Kansans should let their Re-publican senators — Pat Rob-erts and Jerry Moran — know that they favor transparency in campaign finance and ask them to switch their votes to yes.

Hagel and Rudman put the matter succinctly: “ . . . No thinking person can deny that the current situation is unac-ceptable and intolerable. We urge all senators to engage in a bipartisan effort to enact that critically needed legislation. The Disclose Act of 2012 is a prudent and important first step in restoring some sanity to our democratic process.”

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Kansans shouldask Roberts andMoran for action

We are inundated with extraordi-narily negative advertising on televi-

sion every evening and have no way to know who is paying for it and what their agenda might be.

— Republicans Chuck Hagel, Nebraska, above, and Warren Rudman, New Hampshire

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How to contact your U.S. SenatorsSen. Pat Roberts109 Hart Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510-1605Phone: 202-224-4774Fax: 202-224-3514Email: http://www.roberts.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/p=EmailPat

Sen. Jerry MoranRussell Senate Office BuildingRoom 354Washington, D.C. 20510Phone: (202) 224-6521Fax: (202) 228-6966Email: http://moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-jerry

Dear editor,This is my opportunity to say

a good word about Ed Bideau and why he should be elected to the 9th District Kansas House posi-tion. I have known Ed since the days he was in my classroom, and it has been my pleasure as a for-mer teacher to have followed his academic and professional career. He has been dedicated to leading a respectable path throughout his life in this community. With his education and experience, he has the background and ability to study the issues and use his own processes to arrive at sound judg-ments and he is not afraid of the hard work that is required.

A major area where govern-mental support has diminished in recent years is public educa-tion. Ed believes in our schools and will put his efforts into mak-ing excellence in education a high priority once again.

One of the things we ask and pray for in our representatives is honesty. Can we count on mem-bers of Congress to keep their honesty even in difficult times when political influences are pull-ing to the right or the left? Will this representative or that one go down with others and stray from their ethics, allegiance, and responsibility? Ed Bideau will be

true to his promises and beliefs! It is my sincere belief that Ed will listen to all citizens, that he will respond when asked, and that he will carry our needs to Topeka.

We can count on him and we need more like him. Please vote. Please vote for Ed Bideau.

Don Coates,Chanute, Kan.

Dear editor,Several weeks ago I received an

email with a multitude of names in the body of the message. It inti-mated that these were all support-ers of Bud Sifers.

My name was included in this list.

I would like it to be known that I am not a supporter of Mr. Sifers.

Sincerely,Leon R. Harris,

Iola, Kan.

Dear editor,When I learned last week that

Ed Bideau II is running for the Kansas House 9th District, I im-mediately thought about what he and I have in common: a strong interest in the importance of ed-ucation. I told someone the other day, “Ed isn’t just a well-educated, experienced lawyer and past Kan-sas Representative of the people, he possesses and practices God-

given values that account for his successful life.”

Through his parents’ examples, Ed learned the rewards of main-taining a strong work ethic. His father, Ed Jr., a decorated WWII veteran, for many years owned and operated Bideau Insurance Agency in Chanute; his mother Beverly, an honored math teacher at Royster (Middle School), served on the NCCC board for many years. Both were prominent con-tributors to their community.

It is not surprising that their son is married to an elementary school teacher, Margaret. I’ve watched her work. After my re-tirement, I was invited to be her substitute and know she still loves to teach.

During my 14 years of teach-ing in Chanute, I met Ed Bideau at parent conference week at Cha-nute High School. Before I knew him as a lawyer, I had seen his positive influence at work in son Scott and daughter Sarah, his children, my students. I know that the people of the Kansas House, 9th District, will benefit greatly from Ed Bideau’s wisdom, generosity of spirit, honesty, and exemplary leadership.

With deep appreciation,Eileen Robertson,

Humboldt, Kan.

Letters to the editor

The state with the country’s worst health care record just hap-pens to have a governor who has been the loudest voice against na-tional efforts to improve it.

A quarter of the residents of Texas, 6.3 million people, are uninsured, by far the highest percentage in the country. (That number includes more than a mil-lion children.) Texas ranks last in prenatal care and finished last on a new federal assessment of over-all health quality that examined factors like disease prevention, deaths from illnesses, and cancer.

Yet Gov. Rick Perry — strangely puffed up as he was so often in his presidential bid — recently told the Obama administration that he would proudly refuse a huge infusion of Medicaid money that would significantly reduce those shameful statistics and cover 1.7 million more people. The same indifference to suffering that pushed Texas to the bottom is now threatening to keep it there.

At least five other Republican governors have made a similar choice, announcing that they will not expand their Medicaid pro-gram for the poor even though the federal government would pay for almost all of it for several years under President Obama’s health care reform law.

Their refusal illuminates a growing divide over the nature of a state government’s role. Around the country, a new study shows, states continue to face a fiscal cri-sis because of rising costs and Re-publican-driven cuts in federal aid.

While some governors and law-makers are searching for new rev-

enue sources, others are using the downturn as an excuse to end a long tradition of states being the fi-nal backstop for society’s neediest.

Over the last year, for example, eight states have cut or elimi-nated cash welfare payments to their poorest residents. It hap-pened last week in Pennsylvania, where 61,000 residents — almost all of whom are disabled and poor — were told that they would abruptly lose their $200 monthly general assistance payments, all to save $150 million a year. Our hands are tied by a tightening budget, welfare officials told as-tonished recipients, though Gov. Tom Corbett’s hands didn’t seem restrained when he handed out $300 million in business tax cuts earlier this month.

Gov. John Kasich of Ohio has cut hundreds of millions from ed-ucation, but when the state found itself with a $235 million surplus a few weeks ago, he announced that it would all go into a rainy-day fund, doing nothing to deal with rising classroom sizes. In Maine, Gov. Paul LePage — who compared the health care reform law to the Holocaust — signed a budget bill in May that will re-duce or eliminate existing Medic-aid coverage for 21,000 people.

Mr. Perry, too, opposes the ex-

isting Medicaid program, and, in a recent letter to Washington, said that expanding it repre-sented “brazen intrusions into the sovereignty of our state” and would “threaten even Texas with financial ruin.” The truth is that Washington will pay all the cost of the expansion for three years (then scale back to 90 percent). Mr. Perry’s bold resistance may play well politically in his state, but it’s nothing more than a stom-ach punch to the millions of un-insured in Texas who will have to stay that way.

Many mainstream Republican governors are taking a different approach. In a letter to the presi-dent last week, Gov. Bob McDon-nell of Virginia, the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, said states should think carefully before they reject Washington’s money. Though he remained quite critical of health reform and Medicaid, he also noted that refusing the expansion would create “a significant gap in coverage” for low-income people.

For now, at least, Virginia rec-ognizes an obligation to its weak-est citizens. It’s time for Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Wiscon-sin, Iowa and Louisiana to do the same.

— The New York Times

States rush to abandon the poor

Gov. Rick Perry — strangely puffed up as he was so of-ten in his presidential bid — said he would proudly refuse a huge infusion of Medicaid money ... that would cover the health care needs of an additional 1.7 million poor.

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Taylor, a self-professed gardening enthusiast, has made it her mis-sion this week to get the front lawn of the church grounds cleared off and set up with several box planters. Several of the mission group are con-tractors with putting up siding and other minor repairs to the outside of the building.

“We knew we wanted to take on something we could do in a short amount of time,” Robert Hatcher, mission mem-ber and contractor, said. “Something like siding doesn’t take that long so

we decided to tackle it first.”

Several members of the group have also teamed up with LaHarpe church members to give area children a wide va-riety of activities to par-ticipate in both indoors and outside.

“This is a lot of fun,” Michael Wagner, 12, said. “All the different games and stuff is awesome. It’s like a carnival a little bit.”

The group from Ar-kansas is staying until Thursday. There will be a block party from noon to 2 p.m. Thursday to thank the group for their efforts before they depart.

wife at a square dance get-together.

Lowe also has played matchmaker by intro-ducing other members to each other.

In addition to square dancing being a social in-teraction it is also “clean fun,” according to Lowe.

“People who don’t want to bother with the booze can come dance and just have fun,” he said refer-ring to a cardinal rule of no alcohol among all square dancing clubs. “If someone comes in and has even the smell of booze on their breath we will escort them to the door.”

The reason for the no-alcohol policy is because drinking lowers a per-son’s reaction time, Lowe said.

Multiple studies link square dancing to help-ing with delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s dis-ease because of the men-tal stimulation that goes into square dancing.

Participants have to constantly keep their minds engaged as they listen for the next com-mand the caller gives. Exercise is also a major benefit to square dancing.

“A night of square

dancing has been proven to be the equivalent of a three- to five-mile walk,” Lowe said.

But even though square dancing is proven to be beneficial to people’s health, it is a dying field.

“It goes in phases. It gained popularity in the ’80s and then dropped back down,” Lowe said. “We hope it picks up, we just hope.”

Coral Gough, president of Do Si Do, also hopes popularity increases so they can hold their usual lessons in October, but they need four beginner couples to be able to make a full square and to hold lessons, she said.

Gough said the club would be willing to come to Iola if there would be enough people who want-ed to take lessons.

Lowe says it takes roughly 12 lessons until someone really gets the hang of the dance, but a person can never truly learn until they get out there and just do it, he said.

The Do Si Do Square Dance Club holds a dance on the second Saturday of May, June, July and August and during other months they hold an ad-ditional dance on the fourth Saturday.

vices.The proposed ambu-

lance levy was 2.169 mills more than last year’s, ris-ing to 5.318 mills, with ex-penditures pegged at $1.6 million, nearly $300,000 more than this year.

Dispatch is part of the general fund. Its funding was put at $609,273, near-ly $60,000 more than this year.

General fund expendi-tures actually were less than this year’s estimate — $5.169 million com-pared to $5.224 million — but the general fund tax levy of 39.583 mills was higher by 2.362 mills.

Public Works Depart-ment levies also were higher. Road and bridge expenditures were up $138,000, to $2.234 million, with the levy increasing by .819 mills to 16.97. Spe-cial bridge fund expendi-tures stayed the same at just under $421,000, but re-quired an additional levy of .748 to mills to 2.705. Tax dollars are about half of bridge expenditures.

On a cursory note, Works asked if depart-ment heads included pay increases in their pro-posed budgets. County Clerk Sherrie Riebel said they did.

Works didn’t make any further comment, al-though the query could be interpreted as not boding well for pay increases in 2013.

Just how much com-missioners and Burns will trim the budget —

he’s due back at the July 31 meeting — won’t be known until later, but it is likely commissioners will attempt to cut the budget to leave the finished prod-uct with numbers not significantly higher than this year’s totals.

A LOOK back shows that property tax levies have increased often in recent years — while as-sessed valuations also have climbed.

For a reference, the levy in 1992 was 33.624 mills with assessed valu-ation of $53.77 million for a budget of $7 million. In 2002, the levy was 45.5 mills, valuation $70.9 mil-lion and budget $9.4 mil-lion.

Just a year later, in 2003, the levy broke over 50 mills to 51.622 mills with valuation of $71.4 million and a budget of $8.64 mil-lion. In 2009, the first levy of more then 60 mills was approved, at 64.513. That year assessed valuation was $91 million with a budget of $12.8 million

This year’s levy could be the first in excess of 70 mills. This year’s valu-ation, likely to change a smidgen with final tabula-tion, is $95.87 million.

For perspective, a levy of 1 mill raises $1 when applied to assessed valu-ation of $1,000. Residen-tial property is assessed at 11.5 percent of market value, meaning a house valued at $100,000 has an assessed value of $11,500, and a levy of 1 mill raises $11.50.

and construction of each bridge is expected to cost about $1 million. That would put the county’s responsibility at about $200,000, plus right of way and design costs.

As a precursor to a pos-sible state grant, King sug-gested some design work be done.

“We’ve already done a little for the Geneva bridge,” he noted.

The two bridges, he add-ed, are “two of the worst out there. They’ve been on our list for years.”

The Hegwald bridge isn’t as large as the Ge-neva, but could cost more because it crosses Owl Creek at an angle, which will require more work on approaches.

WAYNE SMITH, repre-senting Humboldt’s Down-

town Action Team, asked commissioners whether they’d thought any more about removing tin cover-ing the senior center fa-cade in Humboldt.

DAT is encouraging building owners to take off metal coverings and return Humboldt business buildings to the way they looked originally, with brick, stone and mortar fronts.

“We’ll have to take a look. That’s the only way we’ll know what the cost will be,” said Dick Works, commission chairman and Humboldt resident.

Smith, who renovated a downtown building that now holds granddaughter Stacy Mueller’s business, Stacy Cakes, allowed no owner was as yet on board with the project.

DAT members think having the county redo

the senior center may be a catalyst.

“Making buildings look ‘modern’ was a disease of the 1950s,” chimed in Ei-leen Robertson, another of Humboldt historic preser-vation activists.

“We’re anxious but pa-tient,” Robertson added.

Commissioner Gary Mc-Intosh registered his sup-port: “Many people are ap-preciative of what you’re trying to do.”

DON HILLBRANT, Iola, told commissioners he was concerned about trees on the courthouse lawn, and that he feared con-tinued heat and drought would kill some.

“Can’t we do something about watering them,” he asked.

Works noted an esti-mate for installation of water lines to make wa-

tering a manageable task was $3,000, a project com-missioners didn’t seem eager to embrace minutes after looking at 2013 bud-get numbers. They intend to pare expenditures next year to reduce a proposed tax levy increase of nearly 6 mills to 73.518.

“We recognize the need and appreciate your in-put,” Works told Hillbrant.

A bit later, commission-ers agreed to raise fees for conditional land use and zoning change appli-cations, to bring what is charged in line with coun-ty costs.

Alan Weber, county counselor, recommended raising the conditional use application fee from $20 to $150, the zoning change fee from $40 to $200.

“That will just pay for publication” and other costs, Weber said.

Register/Rob BurkettCaleb Nolan, 10, left foreground, stands next to Mat-thew Wagner, 10, catching bean bags being thrown by Vacation Bible School volunteers Rachael Love and Brett Pendergrass while Melany Dean, 10, watches. The children spent part of the day outside participating in events like the throw and relay rac-es.

hour relay.The proceeds from the

event benefit the Ameri-can Cancer Society.

The festivities kick off at 5 p.m. with Lloyd Houk, followed by Sandra Up-shaw and Becky French.

A survivor’s lap begins at 6, with cancer survi-vors welcome to introduce themselves and tell others how long they’ve weath-ered the disease.

Lap teams will begin walking at the conclusion of the survivors lap.

An auction of donated items begins at 7 o’clock, and a ceremony to light luminaries takes place at 9.

Luminaries are for sale in honor of cancer survi-vors and in memory of

those who have died of cancer.

To purchase a luminary, contact a Relay For Life team member.

For those in the mood for something other than simply walking, a number of games and activities are scheduled throughout the relay.

In addition, kids’ bounce equipment and face painting runs from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday.

The closing ceremony is slated for 5:45 a.m. Sat-urday.

Relay For Life organiz-ers are hosting cancer survivors with a dinner party this evening at the North Community Build-ing. Call Jennifer Con-away, 365-8032 or email at [email protected] for more information.

By ROB [email protected]

Iola’s unique early childhood devel-opment program will be highlighted at the Kansas State Board of Educa-tion meeting in September.

As one of just two programs from throughout the state, the USD 257 pre-school at Windsor Place is being rec-ognized for its work of exposing chil-dren to what some have referred to as, “the greatest generation.”

Jana Shaver, district 9 represen-tative on the state board, brought the program to the attention of the board. Shaver represents more than 70 schools in the southeast Kansas re-gion, including Iola.

“One of the areas we haven’t spent as much time focusing on lately is early childhood development,” Shaver said. “I wanted to make sure people know what kind of work the commu-nity of Iola is doing in that regard.”

According to Shaver, the benefits gained from putting more effort into early childhood development are many. By connecting the newest gen-eration to the oldest generation of

Iolans, Shaver thinks that the commu-nity fabric is that much stronger.

“The children get a chance to learn about all kinds of things from these people who have experienced so much in their lives,” Shaver said. “It helps enrich the residents’ lives as well.”

Heather Wools, preschool teacher, has seen firsthand what Shaver is re-ferring to. The opportunity to work on things like social skills outside of the peer age group is something that Wools has used to her advantage in helping her students.

“The residents are always so happy to see the kids,” Wools said. “One of the things we really work on is mak-ing the kids comfortable in a place like Windsor. We want people to see this as a welcoming place. Part of that is making that connection from a social angle.”

Brian Pekarek, USD 257 superin-tendent, gives credit also to the staff at Windsor Place in the way the pro-gram has run so well. Pekarek, along with preschool staff and Windsor Place staff, will go to the meeting.

Pekarek will present the work and related research on the issue of early childhood development. Two studies done at Kansas State University and Wichita State University will help build the basis for Pekarek’s report.

The KSU research on age-to-age education reinforces what those in Iola believe. The system of using the oldest to teach the youngest makes sense. WSU’s research also further explains that by the time those liv-ing in assisted care are to that point, their motor skills and ability to do activities are similar in skill level to a preschool child. This in turn makes them what Pekarek refers to as, “per-fect candidates to help teach and re-late to children on their level.”

“Age-to-age does so much more than provide education for the children,” Pekarek said. “They’re enriching the lives of these residents in ways that they will never know. These people who may not have a lot of family come visit them look forward to seeing the kids. It provides them with a sense of fulfillment.”

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EVANSDALE, Iowa (AP) — Family members of two young girls who went miss-ing in northeastern Iowa are beginning to wonder wheth-er the cousins were abduct-ed, after days of investiga-tions appeared to produce no significant leads.

Elizabeth Collins, 8, and Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, were last seen Friday at their grandmother’s house in Evansdale, a suburb of Waterloo. Their bicycles and Elizabeth’s purse were found later that day at nearby Meyers Lake and FBI dogs detected the girls’ scent in the area.

On Monday, authorities began draining the lake, a task that FBI spokeswoman Sandy Breault said could take up to three days.

Officers paddled around

the lake in kayaks Tuesday while others walked the shoreline hunting for clues. One officer picked up some-thing that appeared to be a cup and placed it in an evi-dence bag, but officials did not identify the object to the media.

Breault said the reaction from the dogs indicated a “strong possibility” the girls had been at the lake but that because there were no confirmed sightings there, authorities couldn’t be certain.

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ben of the Black Hawk County Sheriff ’s Office said the case was still con-sidered a missing persons investigation and that they were draining the lake to rule out the possibility the girls were in the water.

Lyric’s parents said they didn’t think the girls had drowned, noting their swimming abilities and the fact that no shoes were re-covered on the bank of the lake. Relatives suspected abduction.

“I don’t think that they’re in the lake, not at all, but it is just like a dead end as far as we know so far,” said Dan Morrissey, Lyric’s father.

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where maintenance gate is. It is a spot that looks to me like a trap,” Morrissey said. “Somebody could have just come along right then or followed them down. It would have been the worst spot to be in.”

Family members fear missing cousins were abducted

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Libby joins KDWP forceBy JOCELYN SHEETS

[email protected] was found and rescued.

Some day Libby might find some-one and rescue them.

Libby is a 15-month-old black Labrador retriever living and working with Ben Womelsdorf, the area Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks game warden. Womelsdorf, who is in his fifth year as a KDWP game warden, was certified in April as one of five members of the KDWP K-9 unit.

“Training for the K-9 unit was the most stressful and difficult of any of my wildlife department training but they (other KDWP of-ficers) were right, it is extremely rewarding,” Womelsdorf said.

“Libby is a great dog. We found her at the Pottawatomie County Caring Hearts Humane Society. She had been found in Kansas City, running the streets, and moved to the Wamego animal shelter, which is a no-kill shelter.”

Womelsdorf said the KDWP K-9 unit used Labrador retrievers be-cause of their even temperament and excellent tracking skills. He said the department targeted dogs to rescue for the job.

Once he found Libby, he and his dog went through a 400-hour train-ing period. The dogs and handlers learn man-tracking, wildlife detec-tion and evidence recovery.

“She did very well. The dogs live with the handlers and we bond with them,” Womelsdorf said. “We haven’t had any techni-cal usage here in the area yet. I expect more work for Libby when fall and winter hunting seasons roll around.”

Right now, it’s practice and more practice for Libby and

Womelsdorf. She’s with him most of the time as he patrols as game warden.

“In this heat, she’s been left at home a lot this summer which she hasn’t liked,” he said. “We will be doing public programs and dem-onstrations with her.”

The KDWP K-9 unit handlers and dogs not only work wildlife cases, but will assist other law

enforcement agencies if they are called upon. The dogs are trained to track humans.

Womelsdorf said the K-9 Unit was established through dona-tions in 1992. Hills Science Diet of Topeka provides all the dog food at no charge for the unit’s dogs. He pointed out that Pottawatomie County Caring Hearts waived all adoption fees for Libby.

By JOCELYN [email protected]

Iola American Legion’s AA Indians go into the 2012 KABA League Senior Division tourna-ment as the top seed out of the KABA South. The Indians won the South Division title for the second summer in a row.

Ottawa is the North Division winner. Iola and Ottawa could be on track for a rematch of last year’s KABA tournament cham-pionship game.

In the 2011 tournament, Iola beat Ottawa in the winners brack-et final then faced Ottawa again in the championship game.

Ottawa then defeated Iola twice to win its third consecutive KABA tournament.

Iola AA and Ottawa have not played this summer in regular season action. The teams’ double-header wasn’t played because of field conditions.

The 2012 tournament gets un-der way Thursday at Baldwin.

Iola plays Burlington, which defeated Chanute 16-10 in Mon-day’s play-in game, at 2:30 p.m. Thursday. The game is at Baker University’s Sauder Field.

The AA Indians are 27-2 for the season. Burlington improved to 7-16 overall.

If the Indians win, they play at 7:30 at Baldwin Ball Complex Thursday; if they lose it’s a 7:30 game at Baker.

Ottawa opens against Baldwin at noon Thursday at the Baldwin

Ball Complex.Iola and Ottawa are in the same

Legion zone tournament next week.

Here is the bracket for the tour-nament:

KABA League TournamentSenior Division

Double EliminationThursday

At Baker University fieldGarnett (10-17) vs. Fort Scott (8-9), noonIola (27-2) vs. Burlington (7-16), 2:30 p.m.

At Baldwin Ball ComplexBaldwin (7-15) vs. Ottawa (23-7), noonOsawatomie (18-12) vs. Wellsville (12-6), 2:30 p.m.

Losers BracketAt Baker University

Loser of Garnett-Fort Scott vs. loser of Baldwin-Ottawa, 5 p.m.Loser of Iola-Burlington vs. loser of Osawatomie-Wellsville, 7:30 p.m.

Winners Bracketat Baldwin Ball Complex

Winner of Garnett-Fort Scott vs. winner of Baldwin-Ottawa, 5 p.m.Winner of Iola-Burlington vs. winner of Osawatomie-Wellsville, 7:30 p.m.

FridayAt Baldwin Ball Complex

Losers BracketTeams TBA, noonTeams TBA, 2:30 p.m.

Winners Bracket FinalTeams TBA, 5 p.m.

Losers BracketTeams TBA, 7:30 p.m.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ryan Verdugo’s big league debut Tuesday night eerily resembled Jonathan Sanchez’s final start a day earlier for the Royals.

That’s not what Kansas City was hoping for.

Verdugo, a 25-year-old left-hander, gave up six runs on eight hits and two walks without mak-ing it through two innings of a 9-6 loss to the Seattle Mariners.

Sanchez gave up seven runs in 1 1/3 innings in a loss Monday to the Mariners and was designated for assignment Tuesday.

After retiring the first two batters, Verdugo gave up four straight hits, including Justin Smoak’s two-run homer. He failed to get out of the second when he surrendered three more runs on four hits.

“Ryan got the two outs and I thought ‘Here we go,’ and then it kind of caved in on him,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “When he got hurt it was on pitches up. He’s basically a two-pitch pitcher and he was able to throw his curveball but he was leaving the fastball up.”

Verdugo and Sanchez were the two pitchers the Royals acquired

from the San Francisco Giants in a trade last November for out-fielder Melky Cabrera, who was named the All-Star Game MVP.

“I got those first two outs and I was trying to take a deep breath,” Verdugo said. “The game is differ-ent up here. It’s much quicker.

“I might have been a little too amped up. I was nervous on the drive up here, but it didn’t really affect me. I just really didn’t ex-ecute pitches too well,” he added. “I just left a few pitches up and they took advantage. I know I still have to go out and execute.”

Every Mariners starter had at least one hit. Jesus Montero went 3 for 4 and drove in two runs.

Smoak homered with Montero aboard in the three-run first in-ning. It was the second straight game Smoak homered in the first. Montero’s double scored Casper Wells with the first run.

“It puts us on the board early,” Smoak said. “Those guys are swinging the bats well, too, so we’re going to have score some runs.”

Michael Saunders homered in the fifth inning off Vin Mazzaro after Miguel Olivo singled to give

the Mariners a 9-3 cushion.Kyle Seager doubled home two

runs, while Montero singled in the other run in the third off Verdugo.

Blake Beaven (4-6), who was just recalled from Triple-A Ta-coma, worked six-plus innings, al-lowing five runs on seven hits. He logged his first victory since May 30 after going 0-2 with a 15.43 ERA in two June starts, which merited a demotion to the Pacific Coast League.

Tim Wilhelmsen worked a spot-less ninth for his eighth save in 10 opportunities. Wilhelmsen has not allowed a run in 23 innings over his past 19 games.

Lorenzo Cain hit a two-run pinch-hit homer in the seventh off Mariners reliever Shawn Kel-ley to cut the lead to 9-6.

Jarrod Dyson and Alex Gordon hit back-to-back triples in Kansas City’s three-run third.

The Royals have lost 12 of 15 to fall a season-low 13 games below .500. They are 15-27 at Kauffman Stadium, the worst home record in the majors.

Bruce Chen, who is 4-0 with a 2.73 ERA against Seattle, will start tonight for the Royals.

Royals are imploding since All-Star break

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Kansas City Royals’ Eric Hosmer (35) is tagged out by Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Blake Beavan (49) on a chopper in the third inning during Tuesday’s baseball game at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England (AP) — Tiger Woods’ last trip to northwest England for the British Open ended in a two-shot win at Royal Liverpool.

That was six years ago, and it seems even longer.

It was his first major after the death of his father, and he sobbed on the shoulder of his caddie

and his wife, both of whom are no longer with him. There was no discussion about No. 1 in the world because Woods’ point aver-age was nearly double that of Phil

Mickelson.Now it’s a matter of getting

back.The good news for Woods is

that the British Open is the first major since the 2011 Masters that he has a mathematical chance to return to No. 1 in the world. At this time a year ago, he was No. 19 and at home in Florida letting his leg injuries heal.

Only it’s not that simple. Woods now has gone four years since winning his last major, and he con-ceded Tuesday that they are not getting any easier to win. Fifteen players have won the last 15 ma-jors, the longest stretch without a multiple winner since 1993 to 1998.

But when asked whether he was feeling any anxiety over when he will win another major, Woods simply shook his head.

“I just try and put myself there,” Woods said. “I think that if I continue putting myself there enough times, then I’ll win major

championships.”The trouble this year has been

giving himself chances.If there are questions about

the state of his game, look only at the trophies he won at Bay Hill, Muirfield Village and Congressio-nal — more wins than anyone on the PGA Tour, tied with Branden Grace of South Africa for most worldwide.

But the majors have been a disappointment. Woods had his worst finish as a pro at the Mas-ters (tie for 40th), then vanished on the weekend of the U.S. Open when he was tied for the lead after two rounds at The Olympic Club.

He wins one week, he misses the cut the next week.

The immediate future is Royal Lytham & St. Annes. A miserable English summer of rain has left the course green and soft, and the rough so incredibly dense that Woods described some spots as unplayable.

Woods ready for challenge of the British Open

Iola AA opens KABA tournamentplay on Thursday

Register/Jocelyn Sheets

Kansas Game Warden Ben Womelsdorf of Iola is now one of five members of the KDWP’s K-9 Unit with the addition of Libby.

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Route 18 — Chase Roettgen, 209 S. Tennessee, 620-228-2136 — (N. 1st St., N. 2nd St., 800 block of E. Jackson Ave., part of E. Lincoln St., 818 E. Carpenter).

Route 19 — Mercedes Jones, 324 S. Ohio, 620-228-3267 — (N. 3rd St., N. 4th St., Tara Gardens, 900-1110 E. Carpenter St., 902-1101 E. Douglas St., 1105 E. Lincoln).

Route 20 — Jennifer Tidd, 1418 Virginia Rd., 620-380-1259 — (The Square, 100-300 South St., 100-220 S. Jefferson Ave., 1- 102 N. Washington Ave., 9-19 N. Jefferson Ave., 110 East St., 1-108 E. Madison Ave., 1-115 E. Jackson Ave., 2-224 S. Washington Ave., 9-120 W. Madison Ave.).

Route 21 — Trevor Gray, 616 South St., 620-228-7742 — (217 E. Madison Ave. to 1000 block, 700 block East St. on, S. 2nd St.).

Route 22 — Chase Roettgen, 209 S. Tennessee, 620-228-2136 — (Low numbers on N. Buckeye, 200-700 E. Jackson Ave., 8- 19 N. Sycamore St., East St. thru 700 block, 200 N. Elm St., 200 N. Colburn St., 400-500 E. Monroe St., 100 N. Cottonwood St.).

Route 23 — Jason Ruppert, �510 N. 3rd, 620-363-1848 — (Meadowbrook Rd. East and West)

Route 24 — Mandy Gardner, 510 N. 3rd St., 620-363-2743 — (N. Kentucky 700 block on, E. Buchanan St., Redbud Ln., Kenwood Cir., Sterling Heights Addition).

Route 25 — Andrew Garber, 416 N. Chestnut St., 620-228-1874 — (N. Kentucky thru 600 block, N. Ohio St., N. Tennessee St., 1200-1300 block E. Carpenter St., 1100-1300 E. Lincoln St., 1100-1321 E. Douglas St., 1200-1300 E. Breckenridge).

Route 26 — Trevor Gray, 616 South St., 620-228-7742 — (N. Vermont St., Kansas Dr., 1500 E. Carpenter St. on, Eisenhower Dr., Wilson Ln.).

Route 27 — Dravin Luttrell, 725 N. Elm, 620-363-2140 — (Dodge Dr., Holiday Ln., Kansas Ave., Holiday Cir. North and South).

Route 28 — Joe Myrick, 521 S. Sycamore St, 620-380-6094 — (1800-2600 N. Cottonwood St., E. and W. Miller Rd., Funston St., Pryor St., Canary Ln, Cardinal Dr.).

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Major League BaseballAt A Glance

The Associated PressAll Game Times EDT

American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBNew York 56 34 .622 —Tampa Bay 47 44 .516 9½Baltimore 46 44 .511 10Boston 46 45 .505 10½Toronto 45 46 .495 11½

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 50 40 .556 —Detroit 47 44 .516 3½Cleveland 46 44 .511 4Kansas City 38 51 .427 11½Minnesota 38 52 .422 12

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 55 35 .611 —Los Angeles 50 41 .549 5½Oakland 46 44 .511 9Seattle 39 53 .424 17

Tuesday’s GamesL.A. Angels 13, Detroit 0N.Y. Yankees 6, Toronto 1Chicago White Sox 7, Boston 5Tampa Bay 4, Cleveland 2Minnesota 6, Baltimore 4Seattle 9, Kansas City 6Texas 6, Oakland 1

Wednesday’s GamesToronto (R.Romero 8-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 8-7), 1:05 p.m.Texas (Lewis 6-6) at Oakland (Blackley 2-2), 3:35 p.m.L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 9-5) at De-troit (Fister 3-6), 7:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox (P.Hernandez 0-0) at Boston (Doubront 9-4), 7:10 p.m.Cleveland (Masterson 6-8) at Tam-pa Bay (Hellickson 4-6), 7:10 p.m.Baltimore (Tom.Hunter 3-4) at Min-nesota (Liriano 3-8), 8:10 p.m.Seattle (Millwood 3-7) at Kansas City (B.Chen 7-8), 8:10 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesCleveland at Tampa Bay, 12:10 p.m.L.A. Angels at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.Baltimore at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m.Seattle at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Boston, 7:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBWashington 52 36 .591 —Atlanta 49 40 .551 3½New York 46 44 .511 7Miami 44 46 .489 9Philadelphia 41 51 .446 13

Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati 51 39 .567 —Pittsburgh 50 40 .556 1St. Louis 47 44 .516 4½Milwaukee 43 47 .478 8Chicago 36 53 .404 14½Houston 34 57 .374 17½

West Division W L Pct GBSan Francisco 50 40 .556 —Los Angeles 48 44 .522 3Arizona 43 47 .478 7San Diego 37 55 .402 14Colorado 35 55 .389 15

Tuesday’s GamesWashington 5, N.Y. Mets 4, 10 in-ningsCincinnati 4, Arizona 0San Francisco 9, Atlanta 0Miami 9, Chicago Cubs 5Milwaukee 3, St. Louis 2Pittsburgh 6, Colorado 2San Diego 8, Houston 2Philadelphia 3, L.A. Dodgers 2

Wednesday’s GamesSt. Louis (Wainwright 7-9) at Mil-waukee (Thornburg 0-0), 2:10 p.m.Philadelphia (Cl.Lee 1-6) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 7-5), 3:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 9-3) at Colorado (Guthrie 3-9), 3:10 p.m.Houston (W.Rodriguez 7-7) at San Diego (Richard 6-10), 3:35 p.m.N.Y. Mets (C.Young 2-3) at Wash-ington (Zimmermann 6-6), 7:05 p.m.Arizona (I.Kennedy 6-8) at Cincin-nati (Latos 7-2), 7:10 p.m.San Francisco (Vogelsong 7-4) at Atlanta (Minor 5-6), 7:10 p.m.Miami (Jo.Johnson 5-6) at Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 6-8), 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesSan Francisco at Atlanta, 12:10 p.m.Arizona at Cincinnati, 12:35 p.m.N.Y. Mets at Washington, 12:35 p.m.Miami at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.Houston at San Diego, 10:05 p.m.

Baseball

Moran No. 2 T-ball team, sponsored by Elsmore Feed Store, went undefeated during its summer schedule. It is the Three Rivers League regular-season champion and won the T-ball tournament in Blue Mound, July 5-7. Members of the team are, left to right, front row, Skyler Harris, Landon Boldra, Kody McVey, Jaaron Griffin, Jase Her-rmann; middle row, Jarrett Herrmann, Brayden Lawson, Bryce Carman, Wyatt Ard, Bryce Ensminger, Jeff Spillman; back row, coaches Josh Herrmann, Jeremy Boldra, Chad Lawson.

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SEK Thunder, a 14-and-under traveling girls’ softball team, is currently ranked No. 2 with Kansas ASA power rankings. It won the championship of the KC Metro tourna-ment at Blue Springs, Mo., July 7-8, winning 11-10 in a two-hour title contest. There are players on the team from Iola, Humboldt, Chanute, Yates Center, Fort Scott, Neodesha and Cherryvale. Members of the team are, left to right, front row, Bri-ana Yokum, Savannah Hastings, Megan Hudlin, Briana Ames; middle row, Dannah Hartwig, Tiffany Grogan, Emily Hale, Ashlyn Stipp, Madi Dean, Emily Proper; back row, coach Hunter Hastings, scorekeeper Connie Vance, head coach Doug Ames. Not pictured: Beth Hawkins, coach Tony Hawkins.

PAU, France (AP) — The RadioShack Nissan Trek team pulled Frank Schleck, one of the big-gest names in pro cycling, out of the Tour de France on Tuesday after he failed a doping test, threatening to overshadow Bradley Wiggins’ bid to win the three-week race in Paris this weekend.

The 32-year-old rider from Luxembourg, who was third in last year’s Tour, left a police station in Pau where he had discussed the case with authorities after cycling’s governing body announced the positive test.

The International Cy-cling Union, or UCI, said

Schleck had tested positive for banned diuretic Xip-amide in an anti-doping test conducted by a French anti-doping lab on a sample taken from him on Saturday.

It marked the second dop-ing scandal to hit this Tour, and was another reminder of the doping cloud that has damaged the image of cy-cling and its biggest event for years.

Schleck, the RadioShack leader, had been in 12th place overall — 9 minutes, 45 seconds behind leader Wiggins — going into the second and latter rest day on Tuesday.

The revelation was likely to add stress on the crash-

and sickness-depleted pack, just as they were gearing up for two grueling days in the Pyrenees starting today.

Wiggins, who is aiming to become Britain’s first Tour champion, leads fel-low Briton and Sky team-mate Christopher Froome by 2:05 and Vincenzo Nibali of Italy by 2:23. Defending champion Cadel Evans of Australia is fourth, 3:19 be-hind.

Competitors in the 99th Tour had plenty of time to ponder the tricky 16th and 17th stages on the rest day, with the Pyrenees visible on the horizon from the me-dieval, palm tree-lined city of Pau.

Second rider’s positive drug test jolts 2012 Tour de France

State NewsWednesday, July 18, 2012The Iola Registerwww.iolaregister.com B3

By MIKE SHERRYKHI News Service

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Talk of repealing the Affordable Care Act is partisan bluster that won’t come to pass even if Republicans sweep the November elections, a top Obama administration health care official predicted at a forum here today.

“Even those people who are talking about repealing, pri-vately, they acknowledge that no, the law is here to stay,” said Jay Angoff, director of the U.S. Health and Human Services De-partment region that includes Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.

Angoff said that even if Re-publicans control the White House and U.S. House following the election, they would not have a large enough majority in the Senate to push through legisla-tion to overturn the law. Senate rules require 60 votes to advance most legislation.

Angoff is a former Missouri insurance commissioner and has served as an advisor to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on health in-surance cost and coverage is-sues. The forum, organized by the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, drew an au-dience of about 50 people.

‘When the dust settles’Kansas State Rep. Jim Den-

ning, an Overland Park Repub-lican, disputed Angoff ’s com-

ments, including taking issue with the director’s analysis of the potential congressional re-peal. Denning is the retired chief executive of Discover Vision Centers, which has eight loca-tions in Missouri and Kansas.

Angoff also predicted that states eventually would go along with the expansion of Medicaid eligibility included in the Afford-able Care Act.

“When the dust settles,” he said, “states are going to realize what a terrific deal this is.”

In its June 28 ruling on the re-form law, the U.S. Supreme Court left it up to the states to decide if they want to participate in the expanded Medicaid program.

Under the law, the federal gov-ernment would pay 100 percent of the costs of the newly eligible Medicaid enrollees when the pro-vision takes effect in 2014, gradu-ally reducing its share to 90 per-cent by 2020.

The expanded eligibility would take in low-income residents un-der the age of 65 who earn up to

138 percent of the federal pover-ty level.

Kansas currently covers more than 350,000 individuals under its Medicaid program. Prelimi-nary estimates project the state’s enrollment could increase by about 130,000 individuals under the health law expansion.

The Kansas Medicaid program costs about $2.8 billion a year. The federal government currently cov-ers about 60 percent of the cost.

Good for small businessAngoff also said the Afford-

able Care Act was a great deal for small businesses, despite the fact that the National Federation

of Independent Businesses was a lead challenger of the law in the suit before the Supreme Court.

He noted a provision that pro-vides tax credits to businesses with 25 or fewer workers that offer health insurance to their workers.

Roughly 360,000 small busi-nesses have already received assistance under that program, Angoff said, and more than 1 million more are eligible.

“We think it’s a great victory for the American public,” Angoff said of the Supreme Court deci-sion.

Denning said it wouldn’t take a 60-vote majority in the Senate to

repeal the Affordable Care Act.

‘No money’He said the Senate could over-

turn the act with a simple major-ity through the budget process, much the way the law was passed in the first place.

He also disagreed that the Med-icaid expansion was a good deal.

“This is not free money,” Den-ning said. “The federal govern-ment has no money.”

He said the federal govern-ment would have to run up its debt to pay for the Medicaid ex-pansion.

He also said he was concerned that the federal government would pay for the expansion the first few years but then would pull back, leaving states to pick up more and more of the tab.

Denning also said the tax cred-it program for small businesses has not been nearly as popular as Angoff made it seem.

“He’s just talking sound bite stuff there,” Denning said of An-goff ’s remarks.

The tax credit program was complicated and resulted in cost-ly plans that insurance brokers had little luck in pushing with their business customers, he said.

The KHI News Service is an edi-torially independent program of the Kansas Health Institute and is committed to timely, objective and in-depth coverage of health issues and the policy making environ-ment.

Affordable Care Act predicted to weather elections

Jay Angoff isregional director of the U.S. Health and Human Ser-vices Department.

When the dust set-tles, states are going to realize what a terrific deal this is.

— Jay Angoff, regional HHS director, on the expanded

Medicaid benefits available to states.

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By KHI NEWS SERVICEKANSAS CITY, Kan. —

The University of Kansas Hospital was rated among the top 50 hospitals in the U.S. in 10 specialty areas by the 2012 U.S. News & World Report in rankings released today.

KU Hospital was rated the best adult hospital in Kansas, and for the third year in a row was named the best adult hospital in the Kansas City metropoli-tan area.

“This is a tribute to the partnership between our physicians, nurses and other health care provid-ers. You cannot get these results without all parties united in a single focus on quality patient care,” said Bob Page, KU Hospital’s chief executive.

The hospital’s cancer ranking came just days after KU’s Cancer Center became the 67th federally designated cancer center through the National Can-cer Institute. The designa-tion was not factored into the rankings, officials said.

The hospital’s care rank-ings were:

• Cancer — 37th out of 902 hospitals ranked.

• Cardiology and Heart Sur-gery — 24th out of 708.

• Diabetes and Endocrinol-ogy — 38th out of 1,111.

• Ear, Nose and Throat — 20th out of 686.

• Gastroenterology — 20th out of 1,550.

• Nephrology — 15th out of 1,641.

• Neurology and Neurosur-gery — 22nd out of 1,333.

• Pulmonology — 15th out of 1,651.

• Urology — 45th out of 1,482.

The hospital was ranked out-side the top 50 hospitals in two specialities:

• Gynecology — KU scored 64.2 out of 100; the 50th ranked school scored 67.7;

• Orthopedics — KU scored 49.0 out of 100; the 50th ranked school scored 52.9.

Schools with scores out-side the top 50 are not as-signed ranks. The hospital was not given scores in Psy-chiatry, Rehabilitation or Rheumatology.

All the ranking are avail-able at usnews.com.

KU Med earnstop rankings

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A minibus carrying minority Shiite Muslims hit an anti-tank land mine in northwestern Pakistan today, killing 14 of them in what police described as the country’s latest sectar-ian attack.

Eight members of one family, including three women and three children, died in the attack on the outskirts of Kohat city, said police official Naeem Khan. The group was traveling from Spai, a predominantly Shiite village in the Or-akzai tribal area.

“It was a terrorist act. It apparently seems to be a sectarian incident,” Khan said, adding that it was un-clear who had buried the mine that hit the minibus.

Sunni militants in the region, including the Paki-stani Taliban, have carried out attacks against Shiites in Orakzai and the neigh-boring Kurram tribal area. They have used anti-tank land mines in past attacks, said Khan.

Land mine blast kills 14

BEIRUT (AP) — A bomb ripped through a high-level security meeting today in the Syrian capital, killing the defense minister as well as President Bashar Assad’s brother-in-law in the harshest blow to the government’s inner circle in the 16-month uprising.

Syrian state-run TV said the blast came during a meeting of Cabinet minis-ters and senior security of-ficials in Damascus, which has seen four straight days of clashes between rebels and government troops.

The high-level assassina-tions could signal a turning point in Syria’s civil war as the violence becomes in-creasingly chaotic.

Syria’s rebel commander, Riad al-Asaad, said his forc-es carried out the attack.

Although state-run TV said it was a suicide blast, al-Asaad said his rebel forces planted a bomb in the room and detonated it. All those involved in carrying out the attack are safe, he said.

“God willing, this is the beginning of the end of the regime,” al-Asaad told The Associated Press in a tele-phone interview from his base in neighboring Tur-key.

“Hopefully Bashar will be next,” he added.

Defense Minister Da-woud Rajha, 65, a former army general, is the most senior government offi-cial to be killed in the reb-els’ battle to oust Assad. Also killed was Gen. Assef Shawkat, the deputy de-fense minister and one of the most feared figures in Assad’s inner circle. He is married to Assad’s elder sister, Bushra.

Interior Minister Mo-hammed Shaar was wound-ed and in stable condition, state-run TV said.

Republican Guard troops surrounded the nearby al-Shami Hospital, where some officials were taken for treatment, witnesses said.

The Assad family has ruled Syria for four decades, creating an ironclad and im-penetrable regime. Today’s attack was an unheard-of strike on the inner circle.

Damascus-based ac-tivist Omar al-Dimashki said large numbers of troops and plainclothes po-lice were deployed in the streets after the explosion. Snipers took positions on high buildings in different neighborhoods, he added.

“More than 80 percent of shops in Damascus are closed. People are rushing home,” he said.

The attack came two days before the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ra-madan, when observant Muslims abstain from eat-ing, drinking and sex from dawn to dusk. Last year, anti-government protests sharply increased during Ramadan.

In the hours after the as-sassination, Syria’s state-run TV said a presidential decree named Gen. Fahd Jassem al-Freij as the new defense minister. Al-Freij used to be the army chief of staff.

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS

PROBATE DEPARTMENTIn the Matter of the Estate of: JACK DAY, deceased

Case No. 12PR27NOTICE OF HEARING

AND NOTICE TO CREDITORSTHE STATE OF KANSAS TO

ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:You are notified that on June 29th, 2012, a petition was filed in this Court by Teresa Black, a named executor in the “Last Will and Testa-ment of Jack Day,” deceased, dated February 7, 1996, and the “First Codicil to the Last Will and Testa-ment of Jack Day,” deceased, dated February 18, 1998, requesting the will and codicil filed with the Petition be admitted to probate and record; petitioner and Michael E. Day be appointed as co-executors, without bond; and petitioner and Michael E. Day be granted Letters Testamen-tary’.You are required to file your written defenses to the petition on or be-

fore the 14th day of August, 2012, at 9:00 o’clock A.M., in the District Court, Iola, Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail to file your written defenses, judgment and de-cree will be entered in due course upon the petition.All creditors are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within the latter of four months from the date of the first publica-tion of notice under K.S.A. 59-2236 and amendments thereto, or if the identity of the creditor is known or reasonable ascertainable, 30 days after the actual notice was given as provided by law” and if their de-mands are not exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

Teresa Ann Black, PetitionerROBERT W. MANSKE Attorney at Law 336 E. Park St., Olathe, Ks.

66061 913-782-5212Fax 782-0800 [email protected] for petitioner(7) 18, 25, (8) 1

(First Published in the Iola Register, July 18, 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, IN-CLUSIVE, AND PROVIDING SUB-STITUTE AND ADDITIONAL PRO-VISIONS ON THE SAME SUBJECT, RELATING TO A MAYOR-COUNCIL FORM OF GOVERNMENT.

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 April 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 ap-pointments 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 vacan-cy occurs to be council member 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

By William A. Shirley, MayorAttest:(Seal)Roxanne Hutton, City Clerk(7) 18, 25, (8) 1

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High potassium tied to kidneysDear Dr. Donohue: Will

you write something about high blood potassium level? I received a call from my doc-tor regarding a high potas-sium reading from recent routine blood work.

The doctor said he would do another potassium check in a month. I have had one banana a day but have now substituted strawberries, and will eliminate potatoes from my diet. — J.A.

Answer: Potassium has many functions. It facilitates nerve transmission of infor-

mation. It keeps the heart beating at a normal tempo. It’s important in producing muscle contractions. It main-tains body electrical neutral-ity.

A rise in blood potassium

most often is due to a mal-function of the kidneys, one of whose jobs is to maintain a normal level of that min-eral. Rarely does potassium rise from potassium-rich foods if the kidneys are func-tioning normally. Your blood pressure pill hydrochloro-thiazide ought to be lowering your potassium.

False potassium eleva-tions are sometimes re-sponsible for a high read-ing. Repeated clenching and unclenching of the fist to make veins more accessi-

ble to the lab tech drawing blood can falsely elevate po-tassium. A high blood count of both red and white blood cells is another reason for a spurious rise of potas-sium. One of these expla-nations might fit your high reading. Medicines called beta blockers, ACE inhibi-tors and ARBS — all blood pressure medicines — can elevate the potassium level. Dehydration, diabetes and a low output of hormones from the adrenal gland are other causes.

Dr. Paul Donohue

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