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Family fun at South Barber’s PTO CarniFALL Oct. 20 By Yvonne Miller If you think it would be fun to decorate a caramel apple or play a game of witchess hat ring toss, don’t miss the CarniFALL at South Barber Elementary School gym Thursday, Oct. 20, from 6 to 8 p.m. A steaming bowl of chili awaits everyone attending. Chili dogs, hot dogs and bottled water are also available for sale. South Barber’s Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) sponsors CarniFALL. PTO President Tara Duncan, said the organization puts on CarniFALL “as a fun, family event.” Kids will definitely have fun as they try to win prizes at a variety of booths featuring carnival-type games such as: a football toss; balloon darts; fishing in a duck pond; fun, non-permanent tatoos; plinko; karaoke; a candy wheel; pumpkin putt-putt; and more. Everyone will want to go on the hayrack ride. Admission at the door for children. There is no charge for children under 2 or adults. Duncan said this is really not a fundraiser. “If we make anything it will go to field trips or for teacher needs,” she said.
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Face painting was offered at the Alva Oktoberfest on Saturday, Oct. 8. Above are Laura Anton and Eralynn Moreno, members of Girl Scout Troop 3128. Photo by Lynn L. Martin
The Oktoberfest celebration drew a large crowd on the Alva square last Saturday. A pumpkin painting contest is in progress with Julius Cardonita, left, and Norah Scarbrough showing their skills. Photo by Lynn L. Martin
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Looks like leprosy of the forehead By Lynn L. Martin You may not want to read about my medical experiences. If that if the case, just skip to the next Newsgram page right now. On the other hand, I get quite a bit of comment from those who have faced or maybe are facing the same thing and they seem to like they are not alone. About three weeks ago I took advantage of Medicine Lodge free skin cancer screening clinic. The young dermatology resident said I should see my regular dermatologist because she identified four small skin-cancer like spots on my forehead, likely brought about by sunlight exposure. She recom-
mended wearing a hat. A couple days later I saw St. Anthony’s Kristi Steinert, PA-C in Enid and she agreed with the diagnosis. She first sprayed liquid nitrogen to freeze off the offending spots, and then said if I wanted them gone for good, I should apply a chemical skin peel. She said it will burn, look terrible and cause people to run the other way. The first medicine she talked about had to be applied 15 days and that few people could tolerate the 15 continuous days of application. It would be alright to skip a day or so just so I made it up in the end. “On the other hand,” she said, there was a similar chemical called Picato that was VERY expensive but the whole ordeal would take only three days of application. It would hurt and burn like the other chemical, but it would be for three-four days instead of 15. I asked, “How much does
this more efficient drug cost?” She said, “$600.” I did a little math in my head and concluded that 12 days less of suffering might be worth $50 per day. So I chose the expensive stuff. She called the prescription into Holders and when I picked it up, the bill was far less than I expected, about $250. I presume my Medicare co-pay had helped me a lot. I have delayed the start of the threeday application until past this past Saturday’s wedding in Ponca City. I didn’t want to be any more homely than usual for that. Kristie showed me photos of what my skin would look like while undergoing the treatment. Maybe I should wait until Halloween and I will fit right in with Frankenstein masks and other ghoulish coverings. Probably I will make the first application the day this Newsgram comes out.
Wine and beer tasting Oct. 22 in Kiowa Fundraiser by Kiowa Hospital Foundation By Yvonne Miller If you love tasting wine and beer, mark your calendars to be in Kiowa, Kansas, the evening of Saturday, Oct. 22. The Friends of the Kiowa District Hospital and Manor Foundation are sponsoring an evening of fun for you and your friends that will ultimately benefit
the facilities in a variety of ways. The wine and beer tasting is from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Kiowa Community Building, 119 S. 5th St. The Standard Beverage Corporation from Wichita will send their wine connoisseur Roger Fowler and his staff to present the tasting and demonstration. A ticket includes samples of six categories of wine and champagne and four categories of beer. Finger foods will also be served. Besides sampling, Fowler and staff will demonstrate cooking with
wine and share tips. They’ll also talk about taste preference and how wine is rated and priced – even medical and therapeutic value of wine, and about being responsible when consuming beer and wine. Foundation President Judy Schrock said, “Join us for a fun evening of tasting and learning!” Proceeds from the evening will benefit Kiowa District Healthcare through needed equipment purchases; landscaping improvements; and the continued effort to raise funds to expand the KDH busy physical therapy department. See the KDH advertisement in Newsgram for ticket pricing.
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South Barber school Board hires cooks, assistants; gets technology update Miss South Barber Emily Rugg named first runner-up at Miss Cinderella; Board members tour high school to see details of the building’s physical needs; PTO Fall Carnival Oct. 20 By Yvonne Miller South Barber’s School Board met in the high school library Monday night for their October meeting, which lasted over two hours. By meeting at the high school, members were able to take a walking tour of some areas of the high school that need physical improvements as noted in P1s proposed master plans for the building. The board heard a detailed update on the school district’s technology by IT Director Luke MacKinney. They hired employees and much more. Board President Steven Allen called the meeting to order with all members present except Mike Miller. Members attending were: Dooli Rugg, Deb Helfrich, Mariah Doherty, Mark Pollock and Melissa Simpson. Superintendent Dr. Andi Williams sat at the board table as did board clerk Julie Johnson. Also present were: PreK - 6th Principal Eric Stoddard, 7-12 Principal Brent Shaffer and MacKinney. The board approved Principal Stoddard as the Junior High Boys’ assistant basketball coach. The meeting began with Auditor Stan Busby giving a brief audit report
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to the board, which was a good one. Board Members Tour Specific Areas of High School Superintendent Williams led board members on a tour of the high school to specific areas of needed physical improvement. This comes from the continuing process to consider master plan improvements proposed by the P1 Group of Wichita. Board members submitted Master Plan priority rankings to the superintendent. She’s compiled a document from those to be used by P1 for an investment grade audit the board approved last month. At the September meeting P1 rep Dana Dunn said USD255 can likely qualify for some procurement money for pursuing deferred maintenance which will save money in the long run by fixing the problem. The tour started in the gymnasium where the group looked at the wooden pull out bleachers that are the original ones from when the building was constructed in the early 1970s. The bleachers have gaps that keep widening and pose a danger for someone tripping or getting their foot caught. Locker rooms have no secure places for students to store their personal items
and the layout of the rooms reportedly needs improvement. Touring the vocal room found the need for new risers and the tall shell that stands behind them. New carpet is needed throughout the building as most of the current carpet has rips and tears that pose numerous problems, both physical and aesthetic. Replacing the walk-in freezer is a priority in the kitchen with a price tag of over $60,000. Better exhaust is also needed. Lockers in the hallways do not lock. Voices from one classroom can be heard in another which is a distraction. There is plumbing failing partially from collapsed clay. Lighting is dim in many parts of the building. Superintendent Williams Reports on Enrollment and More Regarding enrollment of USD No. 255, the superintendent said they are up 12 full students. That increase is mainly in some lower elementary classes. However, she added that number is not official until the Kansas Department of Education (KSDE) does the annual enrollment audit. She presented the board an overview handout of Common Core from the KSDE website. Williams reported briefly on building report cards. She said South Barber’s ACT scores are slightly below the state average. The sixth grade average reading scores are above the state average while math is below average, the superintendent said. The school is beginning science and social studies alignment this month. The superintendent and Principal Stoddard discussed a project to help students improve. It’s the MultiTiered System of Supports (MTSS). It features three levels: Tier1, Core Curriculum (the goal is to have 80 percent of students in that tier); Tier
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Obituaries MICHAEL AREBALO Michael Lynn Arebalo, 73, passed away on Sunday Oct. 2, 2016, at home with family after a hard battle with Parkinsons. His parents Fred and June Arebalo, brother in law Bill, and close friend Corky, were all awaiting his arrival in heaven. Mike is survived by his wife Nancy; children Stacy (wife, Lisa) Arebalo of Tehachapi, California; Jason (wife, Sandra) Arebalo of Petaluma, California; Dane (wife, Bethany) Fricker of Lancaster, California; Susan (husband, Bill) Lenaway of Fallbrook, California; sisters Anita (husband, Richard) Dettle and Brenda (husband, Steve) Hannaford of Oklahoma; sisters-in-law Sue Hopper of League City, Texas, and Becky Columbo of Sun City, Texas; motherin-law Margery Hankins of Greenfield Illinois and seven grandchildren, Amanda and Matthew Arebalo, Lauren and Cora Arebalo, Rachel Fricker, Riley and Ethan Lenaway. He was born Aug 7, 1943, in Hardtner, Kansas, and grew up in Alva, Oklahoma. Mike served our great country in the USAF, as an active duty and reserve pilot for 20 years. He flew transport during Vietnam, but also took part in flights that transported women and children to safety. In lieu of flowers the family requests that friends make donation to the National Parkinson Foundation, Wounded Warriors Foundation, or a charity of their choice. A time of visitation was held on Tuesday, October 4, 2016, at Ramsey Funeral Home 5600 Williams Dr. Georgetown, Texas 78633. Burial will follow at a later date
in Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California. You may share a message or memory in the online memorial guest-book at www.RamseyFuneral.com. DEAN W. BRINTNALL Dean W. Brintnall, 82, of Kiowa, Kansas, passed from this life on Monday, October 3, 2016, at the Kiowa Hospital. He was born August 29, 1934, to Byron and Jessie (Gingrich) Brintnall in Chester, Oklahoma. He served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean conflict after graduating from Seiling High School in 1952. Following his service and honorable discharge in 1955, he graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1960 with a degree in accounting. He spent his career in agriculture-centered management, finance and banking. He served the Farmers Cooperative at Hazelton, Kansas, as manager and later worked at the National Bank for Cooperatives (CoBank), retiring in 1995. During retirement he served on the Boards of the First State Bank and South Central Telephone Communications. Dean was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Kiowa and served as treasurer for many years. He and Charlene Cunningham were married in 1960. He was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers and three sisters-in-law, Eugene (Genie), Wayne, and Wendell (Sandy) and Alma Jean Ellison as well as two brothers–in–law, Jesse James and Henry Holmes. Those surviving are his wife, Charlene Brintnall of Kiowa; his son, Ray (Jean) Brintnall of Hiawatha; his daughter, Sheila Brintnall of Alva, three grandchildren, Jay (fiancé
Jessica) Brintnall and Jessie Brintnall of Hiawatha; one sister, Bessie Holmes of Enid, two sisters-in-law, Alvena Brintnall of Bethany, and Alice Faye James of Chandler. Services were held Friday, October 7, 2016, at the First United Methodist Church, Kiowa, Kansas, at 1:30 p.m. Graveside services with military honors followed at the Alva Municipal Cemetery in Alva, Oklahoma. Lanman Funeral Home, Inc. of Kiowa, Kansas, is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be made at www. lanmanmemorials.com. Memorials may be made to Kiowa First United Methodist Church through the funeral home. CLYDE DONALD CAMPBELL Clyde Donald Campbell was born on January 21, 1928, in Helena to W.F. and Irene Campbell. Clyde attended Helena Public School and graduated from Helena High School in 1946. Upon graduation, Clyde enrolled in Oklahoma A&M in Stillwater and earned a degree in agriculture. He was a proud member of the OSU Farmhouse fraternity. Thereafter, Clyde served for two years in the Air Force as a 1st Lieutenant, serving as supply manager while stationed in Wichita, Kansas. It was in Wichita, that he met and married the love of his life, Norma D. Hamilton, and on August 14th of this year they celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary. After his discharge from the Air Force, Clyde and Norma returned to Helena, where Clyde began his lifelong dream of farming. Clyde and Norma raised two sons, the late William (Bill) Campbell and Larry D Campbell. Clyde’s hard work and farming legacy live on as his son and each of his three grandchildren are actively involved in the family farm. Clyde also served on the Christian Church Board, Farmers Coop Board and Helena Fair board. He was preceded in death by his parents and one son, Bill Campbell. He is survived by his wife, Norma; son, Larry Campbell (Renee); grandchildren, Mandy Parks (Josh), Jared Campbell (fiancé, Veronica),
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Cherokee school board holds monthly meeting By Stephanie Lambert The Cherokee Public Schools Board of Education Oct. 10 meeting was called to order at 7:01 p.m. with Kory Littlefield, Jeff White and T.J. Allison, present and Amber Wilhite and Tony Hellar absent. Donna Anderson, Jeremy Hickman, Judy Porter and Amantha Sanborn were also present. Items “A-N” on the consent agenda were approved, except item “O” because no school fundraisers were submitted. The estimate of needs was scheduled to be reviewed at the meeting, but it was not available at that time. A list of surplus items submitted by Amanda Tucker was approved by the
board. T.J. Allison made a motion to approve the Annual School Board Election Resolution, which was seconded by Jeff White and was approved by all present board members. An executive session was approved to discuss the employment of a support staff member for the remainder of 2016-2017. The board convened at 7:08 p.m. and returned to open session at 8:08 p.m. After returning to open session, the board voted to employ Starla Smith as a support staff member on a temporary contract for the remainder of the 20162017 school year. The meeting adjourned at 8:15 p.m.
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Bush - Rogers announce engagement Brodie W. Bush and Allyson D. Rogers and are pleased to announce their engagement and upcoming marriage. Brodie is the son of George and Sally Bush of Alva, Oklahoma. Brodie graduated from Northwestern Oklahoma State University with a BS degree in agribusiness. He owns and operates Bush Farms in Alva. Allyson is the daughter of Eddie and Twyla Rogers of Mangum, Oklahoma. Allyson is a graduate of Oklahoma State University with a BA degree in studio arts. She owns a wedding photography business, Originallyson Photography, and also works for Dr. Larry Smith Dentistry in Alva. The couple plan to be married in a small ceremony at the historic Mayo Hotel in Tulsa. They will reside on the Bush family ranch northwest of Alva.
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and Logan Campbell and one great granddaughter, Sadie Parks. Funeral service for Clyde will be Wednesday, October 12, 2016, at 10 a.m. at Helena Christian Church. Burial will follow at Good Hope Cemetery with arrangements by Lanman Funeral Home Inc. of Helena. Online condolences may be made at www. lannmanmemorials.com. Memorials may be made to the Helena First Christian Church, Timberlake Education Fund or charity of one’s choice through the funeral home. DWAYNE A. KRUCKENBERG Memorial services for Dwayne A. Kruckenberg, 75, were held on Thursday, October 6, 2016, at 2 p.m. at St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Kiowa, Kansas, with arrangements by Lanman Funeral Home Inc. of Kiowa, Kansas. Online condolences may be made at www.lanmanmemorials.com. Dwayne was born on the family farm near Isabel, Kansas, on May 10, 1941, to parents Ted Kruckenberg and Mildred Jenkins Kruckenberg. He and Marlene Reif were married in Wichita, Kansas, on January 27, 1962. They lived and farmed in the Kiowa, Kansas, area for 54 years. Dwayne was a man who liked to be involved in many things such as his yard, especially caring for his squirrels for whom he mixed special food, hunting, checking cattle and the farm work, even after retirement. He was a great KU basketball fan. He was also an avid pitch player and loved to go to casinos. His children and grandchildren meant much to him and he followed their activities. Dwayne is preceded in death by his father, Ted Kruckenberg; his mother, Mildred Buckles; his step-father, Hilbert Buckles; one sister, Marcia Jo Sporn and one brother, Gary Kruckenberg. Those left to cherish his memory are his wife, Marlene Kruckenberg; one daughter, Cindy Summers; two sons, Casey Kruckenberg and wife, Ruth and Scott Kruckenberg and wife, Tammy; five grandchildren, Dallas Summers, Kirsti Summers, Nick Kruckenberg, Nathan Kruckenberg and Austin Kruckenberg; two great-grandchildren, Daccota Kruckenberg and Kolten
Kruckenberg. Memorials may be made to the Kiowa Library through the funeral home. DONNA JEANNE OLSON PIERSOL SCHNACKENBURG Donna Piersall Schnackenberg, 83, passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by her family on October 3, 2016. She was born September 10, 1933, in Kiowa, Kansas. She moved to Oklahoma as a young child and graduated from Capron High School. She briefly attended Northwestern State College in Alva, and then went to work for a local bank in Hardtner, Kansas. It was here she met her future husband, Teddy Keith Piersall, whom she married in 1953. They had two children, Keith Ray and Sheri Jeanne, in the next few years while living on the family farm. Donna and her family moved to Anthony, Kansas, in 1958 where she worked as a cook for the combined elementary/high school, which allowed her to be home for her children each afternoon. Once her children were in grade school, she started working for the city clerk’s office in Anthony until the mid-80s when she retired. Her husband, Ted, passed away suddenly in 1982. In 1985, she was re-married to John Schnackenberg, who showed her the world. Together they traveled and spent winters in Florida, while still remaining active in their church. John died in 2009, and in 2011 Donna moved to Kansas City, Kansas, to live with her daughter, Sheri. Donna was a good Christian woman who found the Lord at an early age. She showed a love and kindness towards all, which included volunteering with her church in Anthony and being a friend to everyone she met. She loved to sew, making clothes for her daughter until she was in high school. One of her favorite things to do in Kansas City was to sit on her front porch every day and wave to anyone and everyone who passed by. Her
sweet, radiant smile and her blown kisses helped bring together those who lived around her and made them into a true neighborhood. Donna had many friends in Anthony and Kansas City and she will be lovingly missed and remembered by them all. Donna was preceded in death by her parents, Ray and Orra Olson; two sisters, Mina Mae McKay and Ethel Rugg; infant son, Kent; husband Ted Piersall; son Keith Piersall; stepdaughter Jana Hirschman; and second husband John Schnackenberg. She is survived by her daughter, Sheri Piersall; step-daughter Kathy Aldridge and husband Al; step-son J.D. Schnackenberg and wife Janice; step-daughter Angie Cloud and husband Mark; step-son-in-law Don Hirschman; and her many nieces and nephews, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. Funeral service were held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, October 7, 2016 at the Revolution Fellowship in Anthony, Kansas, with Pastor Kent Olds officiating. Burial followed in the Hardtner Cemetery, Hardtner, Kansas. Memorials may be made to the Revolution Fellowship and may be sent in care of the funeral home. Prairie Rose Funeral Home, 602 E. Main St., Anthony, KS 67003, was in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be made at www. prairierosefuneralhomes.com. ALECA K. WANGELIN CHEROKEE — Funeral services for Aleca K. Wangelin, 61, were held on Tuesday, October 11, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. at Cherokee First Baptist Church. Burial followed at ByronAmorita Cemetery under the direction of Lanman Funeral Home Inc. of Cherokee. Online condolence may be made at www.lanmanmemorials.com. Aleca Kay Graham Wangelin was born January 8, 1955, in Cherokee to Dale Graham and Peggy Stover Graham and passed from this life on October 6, 2016, in Cherokee. She is survived by her mother, one daughter, two granddaughters, two grandsons and three brothers. Memorials may be given to the funeral home on behalf of the family.
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She’s still accepting donations for the MS Bike Ride, trying to surpass last year’s record
match the total to double her donation for MS research. Jones wants to meet or beat those numbers this year. She asks that you again help her in that effort. People can donate online to the National MS Society and find Jones’ name and donate. Or, send a check to NM55, 4606 E 6th St, 5th 103, Tulsa, OK 74136. Or send a check to Elda Jones at 5801 N Oakwood, G lOS, Enid, OK 73703. Make check out to NM55 and put her name and bike ride in memo. This year weather caused part of the MS Ride through Oklahoma to be canceled. The Norman-to-Guthrie part of the ride was completed, but it didn’t make
Elda Jones might be in a wheelchair, but keeps rolling By Yvonne Miller Elda Jones is the first person to say, “I have a disability – but I’m not disabled. I just have to keep going. I refuse to get real down.” Diagnosed with the hardest hitting form of Multiple Sclerosis (MS), chronic progressive, in 1993, forced the active, thriving woman into a wheelchair by 1999. The neurological disease that most often hits young women in the prime of their life, did just that, forcing Jones to retire from her position at NWOSU in Alva as an assistant professor of health and physical education at Northwestern, which she started in 1980 and “dearly loved.” It’s undoubtedly Jones’ love of physical fitness that keeps her so active. Instead of sitting at home all day, she stays as active as she can. She rides a horse through hippotherapy. Through a friend Cindy Weigand she was introduced to the Oklahoma MS 150. The following is a clip out of an article Weigand wrote about her friend “Elda:” “I think it was at our 30th class reunion that I saw Elda Hart Jones for the first time after her diagnosis as having MS. At the time, her speech was slurred and quite frankly, she didn’t look well. I wondered if I would see her again at a class reunion. “Flash-forward to our 40th class reunion in 2012. What a transformation! Elda spoke clearly and she had lost weight. She looked good. Never one to complain about her situation, she was even more upbeat. I remember thinking that Elda, with the support of the MS Society, must really be doing something right and their research solid. “An active cyclist for several years, I told Elda that I had thought about doing an MS 150 bike ride. She looked up at me and said, ‘Would you?’ Well, saying ‘no’ to someone in a wheelchair is rather difficult, so I told her I’d think about it and decided to ride in the Oklahoma
MS 150 out of Chandler the next year, 2013. The MS Society sponsors rides throughout the United States each year. I did the required fundraising and with the help of an anonymous donor, I raised enough funds to become a member of Club 66, because we ride along old Route 66. I even received a Rookie of the Year plaque.” Now fast-forward to 2015 when Jones and her team “Out Spokin’” raised $18,670 to place fifth in team fundraising last year. She personally raised $7,500 and placed fifth in individual fundraising among 400 riders. Whatever amount she raises, Jones has an anonymous donor who will
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Elda Jones, formerly of Alva and now of Enid, loves the feeling of independence riding a hand-pedaled bike gives her. She still seeks donations for her ride in the Oklahoma MS Bike Ride this year.
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“I drove myself to the Emergency Room and Dr. Lawrence and Dr. Rader saved my life.” - Nancy West Nancy grew up on a farm near Avard, but spent most of her life in Alva, with a short stint in Enid handling home health care and working in nursing homes, including Share Convalescent Home. She was planning on attending a family reunion that weekend and started feeling terrible with zero energy.
I told my sister I was going to the Share Emergency Room to see what was wrong. I drove myself up there. I parked the car and went into the ER and told them I wasn’t feeling good and was awfully weak. They said, “Come on Nancy, we'll put you on a table and check you out." First thing they took my blood pressure and started an IV. Dr. Lawrence was there . . . a very nice man, by the way. He ran a bunch of tests on me, and he came back said, "Nancy, you have very low potassium and very low sodium. If you hadn't come up here you could have died!” I said, “That’s nice. How low was it?” He said, “It was rock bottom, Couldn’t have been lower.” They kept me Saturday, Sunday and Monday. A couple of those days I got to visit with Dr. Rader with that television thing. It was really neat. And he is SUCH a nice
man. He told me that I should eat better and that I was going to have to start changing my diet and start eating these things listed on a sheet of paper he printed out. Everybody was so nice up there. It would be awful ,. . . terrible if we lost this hospital. The nurses seemed to anticipate my every need and I hardly had to ask for anything. This place is what's keeping this community alive. We would be in trouble if we lost it. There are people around here who say they don't like this hospital. They haven't been up there to see what all we've got. We've got stuff that a lot of hospitals don't have. And the nurses and doctors are so kind and excellent. While I was in the hospital, my relatives sort of brought the family reunion to me. They brought two plates; one with healthy stuff I could eat. Another with sweet goodies that we gave to the nursing station. I hear they loved it. I came to the ER on death’s door, and left three days later feeling great. Thank you.
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We did not ask Meagan to write this! It was a pleasant surprise. Look what customers are saying about our printing service at the newspaper.
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Officials, parents worry Chicago schools deal won’t stick By Don Babwin and Jason Keyser CHICAGO (AP) — Teachers in the nation's third-largest school district pulled back from a threatened strike after a tentative last-minute contract agreement that Chicago officials acknowledged Tuesday may amount to a temporary fix and parents worried would fall apart. "It wasn't easy, as you all know," Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said after Monday's latenight agreement, which now goes to the union's House of Delegates and all 28,000 members for a final vote. Vice President Jesse Sharkey said Tuesday that he's "confident that it'll pass" because it has wins for students and for school workers. But even as Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who fought bitterly with Lewis before and during the 2012 teachers' strike, praised the union and the Chicago Public Schools in a speech in which he introduced his 2017 budget proposal, it still isn't clear how the financially strapped city will pay for the four-year deal. The proposal includes a 2 percent cost-of-living increase in the third year and 2.5 percent one in the fourth year. It doesn't require current teachers to pay more toward their pensions — a change CPS had been seeking and the union rejected earlier this year — but future hires will have to pick up that additional pension cost. A key provision is an agreement by the city to divert about $88 million from a $175 million surplus of the city's attimes controversial special taxing districts — known as tax increment financing, or TIF, funds — to the schools. That figure is less than the $200 million in additional spending the union had sought. "Obviously when you take that TIF surplus, that's not a sustainable way of funding the schools," said Alderman Pat Dowell, who represents South Side neighborhoods. "The money probably will not available next year so the (union and the school district) are going to have to look for more permanent financing, which is probably at the state level." Alderman Patrick O'Connor agreed with Dowell, but said the city is in the same position it is in every year when it
tries to secure state funding. Illinois is locked in a budget stalemate, meaning funds that are normally available have been slow to come or temporarily cut off. "Every year we rely on (the state) to give us a certain amount of money and every year there is drama ... and we're never quite sure whether it is going to come or not," said O'Connor, who is Emanuel's City Council floor leader and represents a West Side district. One casualty due to the TIF money diversion, which required several aldermen to sacrifice projects in their wards that would have been paid for with those funds, was a $60 million selective-enrollment high school to be named after President Barack Obama. Alderman Walter Burnett said he agreed to sacrifice it indefinitely; the proposed school and its name stirred controversy when Emanuel announced it in 2015 due to its location on the near North Side — far from where Obama built his political career on the South Side. The tentative agreement also addresses class sizes in the nearly 400,000-student district, assigning an assistant to any younger-grade classes with more than 32 students. Parents and others who dropped off children Tuesday remembered the teachers' strike of four years ago and worried
that, somehow, the current agreement would fall through. "I just think that this is a temporary fix and I believe that the solution coming out is temporary," said Keisha Smith, who was dropping off her 6-year-old granddaughter at Ronald E. McNair on the city's West Side. "We have to remain mindful that this is something for now ... like a Band-Aid and the issue is not resolved." Had there been a strike, Emanuel would have had to face residents who already are upset over major increases in property taxes and other fees. It would also complicate his bid to restore public trust in his leadership and the city's police force due to this year's dramatic increase in shootings and homicides and last year's release of a video of a white officer fatally shooting black teenager Laquan McDonald. The result seems to have been a markedly different tone during CTU and CPS negotiations than in 2012, when Emanuel cancelled a teachers' pay raise and Lewis called Emanuel "the murder mayor" because of violence in the city. After the agreement was reached, Lewis said it was "good for kids, is good for clinicians, is good for paraprofessionals, for teachers, for the community and we're very pleased that we were able to come to this tentative agreement."
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By Yvonne Miller Yesterday afternoon, Burlington’s Board of Education held a 10-minute special meeting to open bids for the $210,000 General Obligation Transportation Equipment Bonds. Board members Terry Graham, Robert Hill and Allison Armbruster attended. Members Aaron Smith and T.J. Rockenbach were absent. Superintendent Glen Elliott, Principal Shane Feely, Minutes Clerk Tamre McGinnis and Stephen McDonald Inc. representative Matt Reichert were also present. The board adopted the written policies and procedures for postissuance compliance on the 2016
General Obligation Transportation Bond issue. Since the obligation is under a million no discussion was needed on the continuing disclosure obligations. Bids for the $210,000 General Obligation Transportation Equipment Bonds were opened. The lowest bidder received board approval. That was BancCentral, N.A., Alva, Oklahoma in association with The Baker Group, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma with a net interest cost of $4,830 and an average rate of 1.15 percent. Then the board approved a resolution provided for the issuance of General Obligation Transportation Bonds in the sum of $210,000 by the
school district, authorized at an election called and held for such purpose; prescribing form of bonds; providing for registration thereof; providing for levy of an annual tax for the payment of principal and interest on the same; and fixing other details of the issue. A resolution designating the general obligation bonds of 2016 as “Qualified Tax-Exempt Obligations” pursuant to Section 265(b)(3)(B) of the Internal Revenue code of 1986 received board approval. The bond will purchase a bus with a handicap lift, a new Suburban and also a 14-passenger bus that will be used for trips when a Suburban is too small and a full-size bus is too big.
BancCentral is lowest bidder for Burlington Transportation Bond
Hughbanks sisters headed to state tennis for South Barber By Yvonne Miller Sisters Sabrina and Savannah Hughbanks are statebound in No. 1 Doubles after going 3-1 at the Class 3-21A Regional Tennis Tournament hosted at South Barber High School (SBHS) in Kiowa, Kansas, Saturday. Sabrina is a senior and Savannah a sophomore at SBHS. They are coached by elementary teacher and tennis coach Katy Hughes who was on South Barber’s tennis team when she was in high school. Playing No. 1 Doubles, the sisters are 24-7 heading to state at Wichita this Friday and Saturday. They are the daughters of Kyle and Dr. Trina Hughbanks. She said this is the fourth sport for both of their daughters to qualify in for state. The other sports are softball, basketball and track. At a meet Oct. 1 in Dodge City the Hughbanks sisters took second place in a tiebreaker against Scott City, a 4A team.
Playing No. 1 Doubles for South Barber, Sisters Sabrina and Savannah Hughbanks are 24-7 as they head to the Kansas Class 3-2-1A State Tennis Tournament in Wichita Friday and Saturday.
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Autopsy: Tulsa police victim had PCP in system when he died By Justin Juozapavicius TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An unarmed Oklahoma man shot dead by a police officer after his car broke down on a city street last month had the hallucinogenic drug PCP in his system when he died, a medical examiner said Tuesday. Terence Crutcher, 40, had "acute phencyclidine intoxication" when he died Sept. 16. Officer Betty Jo Shelby was charged with first-degree manslaughter after his death, with a prosecutor saying she reacted unreasonably when Crutcher disobeyed her commands. Medical literature says PCP, also known as Angel Dust, can induce euphoria and feelings of omnipotence as well as agitation, mania and depression. Videos from a police helicopter and a dashboard camera showed Crutcher walking away from Shelby on a North Tulsa street with his arms in the air, but the footage does not offer a clear view of when Shelby fired the single shot. Tulsa police had said previously that they had found a vial of PCP in
Crutcher's SUV — and the police officer's lawyer said she had completed drug-recognition training and believed Crutcher might have been under the influence of drugs. According to an eight-page report from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Oklahoma City, Crutcher suffered a "penetrating gunshot wound of chest" and noted both of Crutcher's lungs were pierced and that he had four broken ribs. In addition to saying Crutcher had PCP in his system, it said he was obese and had too much cholesterol in his gallbladder. The examiner recovered a bullet fragment from Crutcher's left chest. Lawyers for Crutcher's family have said previously that even if drugs were present, the shooting wasn't justified. Shannon McMurray, one of Shelby's defense attorneys, said the report helped provide an early "snapshot" of evidence in the case and that as more is released, "it will be clear in my mind as the case unfolds that the officer was justified in her use of force." Another Shelby lawyer, Scott Wood, had said previously that the officer was so fo-
cused on Crutcher that she didn't hear other officers near her before she fired her service weapon. Almost simultaneously, another officer fired a Taser at Crutcher as he moved toward his SUV. In a text message to The Associated Press on Tuesday, Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said his analysis of the case anticipated that Crutcher would have a positive test for some type of substance in his system to include PCP. Shelby, 42, has pleaded not guilty. She faces between four years to life in prison if convicted. Tulsa has a history of troubled race relations. Four months before Crutcher's death, a white former Tulsa County reserve deputy, Robert Bates, was sentenced to a four-year prison term on a second-degree manslaughter conviction. He said he confused his stun gun with his handgun when he fatally shot an unarmed black man in April 2015. That shooting led to the temporary suspension of the reserve deputy program after a report found poor training of the volunteer officers, a lack of oversight and widespread cronyism.
Government rejects time extension to comply with REAL ID Act OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety says the government has rejected the state's request for an extension of time to comply with the federal REAL ID Act. But the agency said Tuesday the U.S. Department of Homeland Security won't begin enforcing the act until after Jan. 29.
Public safety officials say that afterward, federal agencies will be prohibited from accepting driver's licenses and identification cards issued by non-compliant states, meaning those without identification that complies with the REAL ID Act won't be admitted to a federal building, military base or courthouse. The act was passed to ensure the reliability of driver's licenses, but legislators in Oklahoma and elsewhere believe the government is overreaching. Gov. Mary Fallin says she will work with state and federal officials to minimize any adverse effects.
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Oklahoma Historical Society to sell sites it can’t maintain OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Historical Society is selling some significant sites it can no longer afford to maintain to two Indian tribes. Kathy Dickson, the society's director of museums and historic sites, told The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/2eoBjwH ) that a law approved this year allows it to sell historic property to organizations that agree to pay fair market value and to preserve the sites. Dickson said the society had asked for the legislation to ensure it could find
good homes for the properties, explaining that their budget is down 40 percent in the last six years. "We had already cut everything we could, looking for a way we could protect some of these properties," Dickson said. According to Dickson, the society is working out an agreement with the Chickasaw Nation to buy Fort Washita in the Durant area. The appraised value of the property is unknown. "Fort Washita is one of our better-vis-
ited sites, but it has gone down some since the barracks burned," Dickson said, alluding to a fire six years ago that ruined the main interpretive setting at the site. "We haven't had the funds to fix it. The Chickasaw Nation plans to rebuild it." The Cherokee Nation is buying Sequoyah's Cabin and nearby land in the Sallisaw area. The property has been appraised at $537,000. The cabin was protected in a stone cover building as part of a project of the Works Progress Administration.
Group that backs casinos projects $122M tax revenue boost By Andrew DeMillo LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Legalizing casinos in three Arkansas counties would create an additional $122 million in annual tax revenue and thousands of new jobs, according to a study commissioned by supporters of the proposal that opponents of the ballot measure criticized as "political propaganda." The study paid for by Arkansas Wins in 2016 projected that 3,200 new jobs would be created at the three casinos proposed in Boone, Miller and Washington counties, as well as more than 3,400 construction jobs if the proposed constitutional amendment is approved by voters in November. The study was conducted by Oklahoma-based Economic Impact Group. The state Department of Finance and Administration has not conducted a similar study.
"Based on our findings, we believe the passage of Issue 5 will result in significant Arkansas investment, creating or supporting thousands of jobs while providing a new source of tax revenue for the state and local communities," economist Kyle Dean said in a statement released by the pro-casino group. Casino campaign spokesman Robert Coon said the study assumed the Boone and Washington county casinos will be comparable in size and amenities to the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tulsa in Oklahoma, which employs roughly 1,500 people. The Miller County casino will be comparable to the Cherokee Casino Roland in Oklahoma which has a staff of 500 people, Coon said. The numbers are based on market estimates on feasibility studies for each location that have looked at revenue from
casinos in similar markets, Coon said. If approved by voters in the Nov. 8 election, the casinos would be operated by companies owned by supporters of the measure, who could transfer licenses to whomever they choose; the pro-casino group has said the Cherokee Nation would operate the one in Washington County. Under the proposal, 18 percent of each casino's net gambling receipts would go toward the state, another .5 percent would go to the county and 1.5 percent would go to the city. Protect Arkansas Values/Stop Casinos Now, the group opposed the measure, dismissed the study and noted that the consultants who worked on it also did research for the Cherokee Nation. The anti-casino group is funded by a Hot Springs horse track and a West Memphis dog track that offer video poker and other electronic gambling games. "This 'study' is political propaganda and not worth the paper it's printed on," chairman Chuck Lange said in a statement. Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who opposes the measure, said he believes it's "far from" being about job creation. "This issue will most certainly have a negative impact on our communities, and it will no doubt create out-of-state monopolies," Hutchinson said in a statement. "This is a bad deal for our state."
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County health departments in Oklahoma to offer flu clinics
Iowa company recalls cookie dough sold to other firms
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — County health departments in Oklahoma are offering the flu vaccine as the flu season approaches. The Oklahoma State Department of Health says flu vaccination is recommended each year for everyone over six months old. They say that the more people who are vaccinated, the less opportunity there is for flu to spread. State Health Commissioner Terry Cline says vaccination is particularly important for pregnant women and newborn babies. Cline says flu vaccination is safe during pregnancy, after delivery and for breastfeeding women. The department says that people older than 65 and those with chronic health conditions should also ask their doctor about also being vaccinated against pneumococcal pneumonia, a common and potentially serious complication of the flu.
GARNER, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa company is recalling the cookie dough it sold to Blue Bell Creameries and other food companies because it may be contaminated with listeria bacteria. Dough-maker Aspen Hills notified customers about the recall on Sunday, but it wasn't immediately clear whether any of this cookie dough had reached consumers because the Garner, Iowa, based company doesn't sell directly to consumers. Aspen Hills did not say the companies or states where the dough was sold. Aspen Hills' cookie dough was implicated in last month's Blue Bell recall because the Texas-based ice cream-maker said its tests confirmed the presence of listeria in the product. Aspen Hills spokesman Jon Austin said the cookie dough was voluntarily recalled because the company found lapses in its food safety system — such as inadequate documentation and failure to wear proper uniforms — that could have allowed the product to become contaminated. "Any one of these issues is a matter we would take seriously, but collectively they represent to us an unacceptable lapse in the standards our customers — and we — expect," Austin said. The company discovered the problems after reviewing its practices after the recall announced last month. Austin said no illnesses have been linked to the company's products and none of the cookie dough it is recalling this week tested positive for listeria. The recall includes 22,000 cases of cookie dough made between July 15 and September 30. Austin said the dough was sold to about 27 food manufacturers, and those companies will determine whether additional products that used the cookie dough as an ingredient should be recalled. One of those clients, Blue Bell Creameries, announced a recall Monday night of all of its products con-
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taining Aspen Hills cookie dough. The Blue Bell recall involves half-gallons and pints of Blue Bell Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Blue Bell Cookie Two Step sold to retailers and three-gallon packages of Blue Bell Blue Monster, Blue Bell Chocolate Chip Cookie and Blue Bell Krazy Kookie Dough sold to food-service clients. They were produced between Feb. 2 and Sept. 7 and distributed in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Aside from last week's recall because of suspect cookie dough, Brenham, Texas-based Blue Bell halted sales, issued a voluntarily recall of all its products in April 2015 and shut down its three plants due to bacteria contamination that was linked to 10 listeria cases in four states, including three deaths in Kansas. The company resumed selling its products about four months later. Before resuming production, the company said it had implemented new cleaning and sanitizing procedures at its facilities, as well as new testing programs and new employee training. The ice cream brand is beloved in Texas, where people impatiently awaited its return to store shelves after the recall. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that listeria causes roughly 1,600 illnesses and 260 deaths ever year in the United States. Listeria can cause serious, sometimes fatal infections in young children and frail or elderly people, as well as those with weakened immune systems. Healthy people may suffer short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, but the infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among expectant mothers.
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Haskell employee sues KS traffic fatalities up over school’s treatment of rape victim 16 percent so far in 2016 TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas transportation officials say more than 300 people have died in traffic accidents this year, a 16 percent increase over the same period in 2015. Kansas Department of Transportation traffic safety manager Chris Bortz says there was a 25 percent increase in traffic fatalities last year, with nearly 360 deaths. Bortz says the increase is a national phenomenon and that distracted driving is likely one of the causes. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2dhVhHV ) reports 50 percent of traffic fatalities in Kansas involve people who weren’t wearing a seatbelt. About a third involve people driving while distracted, and another third involve people driving while drunk or otherwise impaired. Interim transportation secretary Richard Carlson says that even looking down at one’s cellphone for what seems like a short amount of time is dangerous.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Haskell Indian Nations University employee alleges in a lawsuit that she was demoted from her job as a student counselor after trying to help a student who said she was raped. The Lawrence Journal-World (http://bit.ly/2dSI4EC ) reports that Angelina Adams sued Monday in Douglas County District Court. Adams says Haskell leaders improperly expelled the female student after she became involved in an alter-
cation with a male Haskell student in March. Adams protested and said the female student hadn't been given due process. The female student said she was a 19-year-old freshman when she was raped last November in a university dorm. Both of her accused attackers also were expelled, and their trials ended in hung juries. Haskell spokesman Stephen Prue didn't immediately return a phone message from The Associated Press.
Dakota Access pipeline work resumes near site of protest By Blake Nicholson ST. ANTHONY, N.D. (AP) — Construction on the four-state Dakota Access pipeline resumed Tuesday on private land in North Dakota that's near a camp where thousands of protesters supporting tribal rights have gathered for months. In turn, protesters said they're discussing nonviolent opposition measures, including chaining themselves to equipment. And nine people were arrested Tuesday attempting to shut down pipelines in other states as a show of solidarity with the Dakota Access protesters. Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners resumed digging trenches and laying pipe, Morton County Sheriff's Office spokesman Rob Keller said, a move that comes in light of Sunday's federal appeals court ruling that allowed construction to resume within 20 miles of Lake Oahe. That Missouri River reservoir is the water supply for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's reservation. "We reiterate our commitment to protect cultural resources, the environment and public safety," the company said in a statement earlier Tuesday. The $3.8 billion, 1,200-mile pipeline from
North Dakota to Illinois is otherwise largely complete. The work area is a few miles from two protester camps, where scores of people have gathered in recent months and say they intend to stay through the winter. Energy Transfer Partners still needs approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to work on a separate parcel of federal land bordering and under Lake Oahe, which the agency manages. The Corps said Monday it was not ready to give that approval because it is still reviewing whether reforms are needed in the way tribal views are considered for such projects. The Standing Rock Sioux wants construction halted because of concerns about potential contamination of its water supply and says the pipeline will encroach on tribal burial sites and other cultural artifacts. A state archaeologist's inspection found no such artifacts on the private land where construction will resume. The tribe disputes that, and is still appealing a lower-court ruling from Sep-
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Justices raise doubts about $399M judgment against Samsung By Sam Hananel WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court raised serious doubts Tuesday about a $399 million judgment against smartphone maker Samsung for illegally copying parts of the patented design of Apple's iPhone. Justices hearing arguments in the long-running dispute seemed troubled that Samsung was ordered to pay all the profits it earned from 11 phone models, even though the features at issue are just a tiny part of the devices. But some justices struggled over how exactly a jury should be told to compute damages if the case is sent back to a lower court. "If I were a juror, I wouldn't know what to do," said Justice Anthony Kennedy. Justice Stephen Breyer appeared to embrace a test proposed by a group of internet companies including Facebook and Google that would outline new limits on such damage awards. Other justices seemed to favor a different test proposed by the Obama administration. The outcome could have ripple effects across the high-tech industry as the court balances the need to encourage innovation against a desire to protect lucrative design patents. The case is part of series of highstakes lawsuits between the technology rivals that began in 2011. None of the early generation Samsung phones involved in the lawsuit remains on the market. Cupertino, California-based Apple sued over South Korea-based Samsung's duplication of a handful of distinctive iPhone features for which Apple holds patents: the flat screen, the rounded rect-
angle shape of the phone, and the layout of icons on the screen. The companies are wrangling over how much Samsung is required to compensate Apple under an 1887 law that requires patent infringers to pay "total profit." At issue is whether that means all the profits from phone sales, or just the profit related to the specific components that were copied. Samsung says the hefty award ignores the fact that its phones contain more than 200,000 other patents that Apple does not own. Apple argues that the verdict is fair because the iPhone's success was directly tied to its distinctive look. The federal appeals court in Washington that hears patent cases has ruled that Apple was entitled to all the profits. Samsung's lawyer Kathleen Sullivan told the court that total profits should be limited only to the sliver of the product that was copied. She said the parties could use consumer surveys and other expert testimony to show how much the design affected sales. The justices seemed open to the idea, but several kept wondering how it would play out using the example of the Volkswagen Beetle, a car with a quirky design that surged to popularity in the 1960s. "It may be that the body accounts for only 10 percent of the cost of the car, but 90 percent of the profits are attributable to the shape of the car," Justice Sonia Sotomayor said. But Justice Samuel Alito said the Beetle example was not that helpful. "I can't get over the thought that nobody buys a car, even a Beetle, just because they like the way it looks," he said.
Breyer relied on other examples to suggest that a test limiting damages to just one component that was infringed, and not the entire product, could work. "You know, wallpaper, you get the whole thing. A Rolls Royce thing on the hood? No, no, no. You don't get all the profit from the car," he said. Arguing for the Obama administration, Justice Department lawyer Brian Fletcher said the justices should adopt a multi-factor test that includes how prominent are the design features in the product, and to what extent consumers buy an iPhone or other device based on how it looks instead of what it can do. Both Sullivan and Apple's lawyer, former solicitor general Seth Waxman, seemed open to the court adopting a version of the government's test. Technology giants, including Facebook and Google, are backing Samsung. They say upholding the lower court ruling would value a single design patent at the expense of all other things a smartphone can do, leading to excessive windfalls not intended by the law. On the other side, companies including sportswear manufacturer Adidas and jewelry maker Tiffany & Co. say allowing recovery of total profits will discourage "design pirates" and protect companies that invest in creative designs. The argument comes at a rough time for Samsung. The company announced Tuesday that it is halting sales of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones after reports that even the replacements for problem-plagued recalled models were catching fire. That model was not part of the patent litigation. A ruling in the case is expected by June.
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Unshackled, Trump unleashes aggressive attacks on own party By Steve Peoples, Jonathan Lemire And Jill Colvin WASHINGTON (AP) — The "shackles" gone, Donald Trump stepped up his fierce attacks on his own party leaders Tuesday, promising to teach Republicans who oppose him a lesson and fight for the presidency "the way I want to." Exactly four weeks before Election Day and with his campaign floundering, the businessman reverted to the combative, divisive strategy that propelled him to victory in the GOP primary: Attack every critic — including fellow Republicans. Those close to Trump suggested it was "open season" on every detractor, regardless of party. "It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to," Trump said in a tweet that brought new concern — near panic in some cases — to a party trying to stave off an all-out civil war before Nov. 8. In another series of tweets, the Republican nominee called House Speaker Paul Ryan "weak and ineffective," Sen. John McCain "very foul-mouthed" and "disloyal" Republicans "far more difficult than Crooked Hillary." "They come at you from all sides," Trump declared. "They don't know how to win — I will teach them!" Rage against fellow Republicans from the face of the 2016 GOP exposed a party slipping from mere feuding into verbal warfare with advance voting already underway in roughly half the states. Polls suggest Trump is headed toward a loss of historic proportions if he doesn't turn things around. His scorched-earth approach, days after his sexual predatory language caught on tape triggered a mass Republican defection, threatened to alienate even more supporters. "Fighting for the sake of fighting is not really very helpful," said former Trump adviser Barry Bennett. Trump has acknowledged the possibility of defeat in recent days, but on Tuesday he tried to shift the blame for his struggles on Republican defections and an election system that may be "rigged" against him. On Monday, he warned of potential voter fraud in heavily African-American Phila-
delphia, a claim for which there is no evidence but one that could challenge Americans' faith in a fair democratic process. At the same time, Trump's campaign is considering whether to feature Bill Clinton accusers at his upcoming rallies. Trump shocked the political world before Sunday's debate by appearing with several women who had accused the former president of sexual impropriety decades earlier. The aggressive shift is in line with the philosophy of recently hired campaign chaiman Steve Bannon, whose conservative website has long fueled attacks on Republican leaders and perpetuated popular conservative conspiracy theories. The approach has done little to endear Trump to anxious party leaders. At least 40 Republican senators and congressmen have revoked their support for the embattled Republican nominee — with nearly 30 of them urging him to quit the race altogether. Republican Speaker Ryan, in a Monday conference call with congressional Republicans, said he would no longer campaign with Trump. He said he would focus instead on ensuring Clinton doesn't get a "blank check" with a Democratic-controlled Congress, all but conceding that Trump would lose the presidential contest. Trump's running mate Mike Pence said in an interview with NBC Tuesday that he was "disappointed" by the defections and "respectfully" disagreed with Ryan. Yet Trump's aggressive shift is popular among his most loyal supporters who continue to flock to his rallies by the thousands. "He's fighting for us," said Megan Johnston, 54, who was among an estimated 2,000 people who packed into a high school gym to see him on Monday near Pittsburgh. She shrugged off his sexually aggressive comments in the 2005 video and pointed at Democrat Hillary Clinton's shortcomings. "He said what he said and he apologized. She should be in jail," Johnston said. At a rally in Newton, Iowa, Pence received multiple standing ovations and was thanked at one point for sticking with
Trump — a sign of just how badly Trump has faltered. "You ... just got my respect for not jumping and bailing out on Donald Trump," the questioner said. Another woman told Pence she was concerned about widespread voter fraud and warned that, if Clinton wins, "I am ready for a revolution." "Don't say that," Pence responded. As the GOP battled itself, Clinton focused on climate change in swing state Florida alongside former Vice President Al Gore. Gore, whose 2006 documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" focused on global warming, said Clinton would "make solving the climate crisis a top national priority." While Trump devoted much of his fire to fellow Republicans on Tuesday, he did not ignore his Democratic opponent. His campaign released a new ad that focuses on Clinton's recent bout with pneumonia. The ad features images of masked gunmen and nuclear weapons as a sick Clinton stumbles toward a vehicle. "Hillary Clinton doesn't have the fortitude, strength or stamina to lead in our world," the narrator declares. Meanwhile, Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee declared that hacked emails released by WikiLeaks on Tuesday showed collusion between the Clinton campaign and the Department of Justice during a civil investigation into the former secretary of state's email server. The evidence does indicate there was communication between the two about a court hearing date. But such dates are not inside information. They would have been publicly posted in advance on the court's docket. The emails show that in May 2015, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon alerted other staffers that the Justice Department was proposing to publish Clinton's work-related emails by January in response to requests by news organizations. Fallon, a former Justice Department spokesman, wrote that unspecified "DOJ folks" told him there was a court hearing planned soon in the case. The name and email address of the person who shared the information with Fallon had been deleted.
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North Carolina braces for more flooding in downstream towns By Jonathan Drew And Emery P. Dalesio GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A state trooper shot and killed an armed man during a search for flood victims in a tense and dispirited North Carolina, and thousands more people were ordered to evacuate as high water from Hurricane Matthew pushed downstream Tuesday, two days after the storm blew out to sea. Matthew's death toll in the U.S. climbed to 33, more than half of them in North Carolina, in addition to the more than 500 feared dead in Haiti. In Greenville, a city of 90,000, officials warned that the Tar River would overwhelm every bridge in the county by sundown, splitting it in half before the river crests late Wednesday. Evacuations were ordered there and in such communities as Goldsboro and Kinston, as rivers swelled to some of the highest levels ever recorded. Tens of thousands of people, some of them as much as 125 miles inland, have been warned to move to higher ground since the hurricane drenched the state with more than a foot of rain over the weekend during a run up the East Coast from Florida. An angry Gov. Pat McCrory asked people to stop ignoring evacuation orders and driving around barricades on flooded roads: "That is unacceptable. You are not only putting your life danger, you are putting emergency responders' lives in
jeopardy." In the hard-hit town of Lumberton, along the bloated Lumber River, sporadic looting was reported, and a North Carolina trooper searching for people trapped by the floodwaters killed a man who confronted officers with a gun Monday night, police said. Authorities gave few details, but McCrory said the shooting happened in "very difficult circumstances," adding: "Tension can be high when people are going through very, very emotional circumstances." In Lumberton, patience was wearing thin. Ada Page, 74, spent two nights sleeping in a hard plastic folding chair at a shelter put together so hastily there were no cots and people had to walk outside in the back to use portable toilets. She complained she didn't even have her children's telephone numbers with her. "I left at home all my clothes, everything. The only thing I have is this child and what I was driving," said Page, who was with the 8-year-old granddaughter she takes care of. The full extent of the disaster in North Carolina was still unclear, but it appeared that thousands of homes were damaged. Many likened Matthew to Hurricane Floyd, which did $3 billion in damage and destroyed 7,000 homes in North Carolina as it skirted the state's coast in 1999.
McCrory said thousands of animals drowned, mostly chickens on poultry farms, and he was deciding how to dispose of the carcasses safely. The flooding extended to South Carolina, where 150 people had to be rescued Monday from the tiny town of Nichols, downstream from Lumberton. On Tuesday, some residents returned in boats to survey the damage. Also flooding were the Neuse River, which reached a record crest in Goldsboro on Tuesday, and the Tar River, which threatened Princeville, a town founded in 1865 by freed slaves and destroyed by Floyd's flooding 17 years ago. After that, the river flows into Greenville, where Danita Lynch wasn't taking any chances. She helped her 59-year-old mother load nearly all her belongings into a box truck and get to higher ground. "We decided to pack her up yesterday. The water is right across the street," Lynch said. East Carolina University in Greenville canceled classes for the rest of the week for its more than 28,000 students. Mary Schulken, the school's executive director of communications, said that as the Tar began flooding over the weekend, she had to move her 98-yearold mother and her belongings out of her retirement community next to the river. "She was fearful, upset, anxious, and when she's that way, I'm that way," Schulken said. "I know that is a personal experience that is being repeated and has the potential to be repeated many times over in this community." Not everyone was obeying the evacuation order. Angie Hamill was still serving drinks Tuesday afternoon at the Players Retreat Bar next to the river in Greenville. Brown muck from Floyd could still be seen above the chair rail, though the water wasn't forecast to rise quite that high this time. The gambling machines and an ATM were removed from the bar to keep them safe. "We don't have any games, but we have beer and we have soda," Hamill said, "and as long as I can keep it cold, we'll be OK."
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Leaks show Clinton inner circle grappling with email issue By Michael Biesecker, Julie Bykowicz and Chad Day WASHINGTON (AP) — Hacked emails show that Hillary Clinton's campaign was slow to grasp the seriousness of the controversy over her use of a homebrew email server and believed it might blow over after one weekend. Two days after The Associated Press was first to report in March 2015 that Clinton had been running a private server in her home in New York to send and receive messages when she was secretary of state, her advisers were shaping their strategy to respond to the revelation. Among the emails made public Tuesday by WikiLeaks was one from Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill, who optimistically suggested that the issue might quickly blow over. "Goal would be to cauterize this just enough so it plays out over the weekend and dies in the short term," Merrill wrote on March 6, 2015. It did not, and became the leading example of Clinton's penchant for secrecy, which has persisted as a theme among her campaign critics and rivals throughout her election season. Clinton did not publicly confirm or discuss her use of the email server until March 10 in a speech at the United Nations, nearly one week after AP revealed the server's existence. WikiLeaks began releasing on Friday what it said were years of messages from accounts used by Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. He has acknowledged his emails were hacked. Podesta warned that messages may have been altered or edited to inflict political damage but has not pointed to any specific case of this. Months after Merrill's message, the campaign was still preoccupied with emails. In May 2015, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon alerted other staffers that the Justice Department was proposing to publish Clinton's work-related emails by January in response to requests by news organizations. Fallon, a former Justice Department spokesman, wrote that unspecified "DOJ folks" told him there was a court hearing planned soon in the case. The name and email address of the person who shared the information with
Fallon had been deleted. Donald Trump on Tuesday called Fallon's email "unbelievable," and his supporters said it showed collusion between the Obama administration and Clinton's campaign. The dates of court hearings would have been publicly posted in advance on the court's docket. Fallon did not respond to a request for comment from AP. The Justice Department declined to discuss Fallon's email. It wasn't immediately clear who hacked Podesta's emails, though U.S. intelligence officials last week blamed the Russian government for a series of breaches intended to influence the presidential election. On Tuesday, Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak dismissed the accusations as untrue. "We are watching very carefully the election campaign in this country," Kislyak said at a discussion of bilateral affairs at Johns Hopkins University's campus in Washington. "We don't interfere (in) the internal affairs of the United States, neither by my statements nor by electronic or other means." The messages stolen from Podesta's account describe how Clinton's closest advisers considered responding to key events during the campaign, including the discovery of her email server and her congressional testimony over the deadly 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. In emails from March 2015, Merrill suggested a strategy — ultimately nixed by Clinton herself — of having comedian Larry Wilmore and Bill Clinton joke during an event for the Clinton Global Initiative charity in Coral Gables, Florida, before having Clinton join them on stage. Merrill laid out the scenario in emails to Podesta and other aides: "Wilmore could sit down with WJC and Chelsea and say something like 'Thanks for having me here, it's a pleasure. And I should tell you, I just emailed HRC (I hear she's a big emailer), and asked if she'd join as well. (Laughter).'" He added that Hillary Clinton could then walk out "to applause." "It would be just light-hearted
enough while giving her the opportunity to address this seriously, be a little conciliatory as discussed, and then get back to a discussion about CGI etc.," Merrill wrote in the email. In the end, Hillary Clinton's team drafted talking points Clinton used at the news conference at the United Nations. Clinton said she "fully complied with every rule that I was governed by" and that "there is no classified material" among her work-related emails. Both of those statements were later proved false. The State Department's internal watchdog concluded in an audit released that Clinton ignored clear written guidance that her email setup broke federal record-keeping rules and could leave sensitive material vulnerable to hackers. The FBI's recently closed investigation concluded that more than 100 emails exchanged through Clinton's private server contained information that was later determined to be classified. As the email controversy escalated in the summer of 2015, Clinton herself seemed slow to grasp the continuing political damage. Communications director Jennifer Palmieri in August expressed concerns that Clinton "wasn't in the same place" on the issue as some on her campaign staff. At the time, the political aides were working out details of revealing that Clinton had directed her staff to hand over her server and a thumb drive with copies of her emails to the Justice Department. Palmieri was writing other campaign aides to arrange for a Univision reporter to ask "a few questions on emails" during an interview that would otherwise focus on college affordability. "As you all know, I had hoped that we could use the 'server moment' as an opportunity for her to be viewed as having take a big step to deal with the email problem that would best position us for what is ahead," Palmieri wrote. "It is clear that she is not in same place." Clinton's email practices were not the only controversy her campaign's brain trust was addressing. On October 2015, speechwriter Dan
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Schwerin circulated among top Clinton advisers a draft of her opening statement to the House Select Committee on Benghazi, to be delivered the following week. The draft itself wasn't attached in the emails published Tuesday, but other messages showed how it was shaped, including a section referring to Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, who was killed in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack. "We might consider softening the 'Chris did not believe retreat was an option — and neither do I' line," wrote Katherine Turner, a law partner of Clinton's personal attorney David Kendall. "I don't think we want to suggest that there was a commitment to be there at any and all costs." Following Clinton's tense Oct. 22 testimony, Podesta proposed in an email that she could publicly joke, "I used to be obsessed with Donald Trump's hair, that was until I got to spend 11 hours staring at the top of Trey Gowdy's head," a reference to the slicked-back white coif of the South Carolina Republican who chairs the committee. Other Clinton aides shot down the idea. "I love the joke too but I think HRC should stay above the committee," adviser Jake Sullivan replied, "and especially above personal insults about it. She's got every inch of the high ground right now." Palmieri replied: "Wow. You people are a bunch of ninnies."
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Airstrike in Yemen deepens war, puts pressure on US By Maggie Michael And Ahmed Al-Haj SANAA, Yemen (AP) — More than 1,000 mourners were packed into the funeral hall, including some of the most powerful figures in Yemen's rebel movement. Ali al-Akwa, who was just about to start reciting the Quran, heard warplanes overhead — but that wasn't strange for wartime Sanaa. Surely a funeral would be safe, he thought. Moments later, a huge explosion struck, tearing bodies apart. The ceiling collapsed, walls fell in and a fire erupted. As people scrambled frantically to get out, a second missile struck, killing more of them. Nearly 140 people were killed and more than 600 wounded in Saturday's airstrike — one of the deadliest since Saudi Arabia and its allies began an air campaign in Yemen in March 2015. The coalition is trying to uproot the Shiite Houthi rebels who took over the capital and much of northern Yemen from the internationally recognized government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. The coalition seems to have been hoping to take out a significant part of the Houthis' military leadership and its allies, who were expected at the funeral. Instead, the attack is likely to deepen the stalemate in a war that has already pushed the impoverished country into collapse.
The bloodshed has eclipsed new U.N. efforts to secure even a brief cease-fire. Amid popular anger, the coalition has lost potential tribal allies. In an attempt to expand the war, the Houthis have retaliated by firing rockets into neighboring Saudi Arabia and at U.S. warships. The only hope for progress toward a resolution, many Yemenis say, is if the strike prompts Saudi Arabia's top ally, the United States, and other Western nations to halt arms sales, pressure Riyadh to ease the war and move toward negotiations. After the strike, the White House said it will immediately review its assistance to the coalition and stressed that the support is not a "blank check." The Obama administration is sensitive to criticism from human rights groups and some in Congress but has limited leverage with the Saudis, especially as Riyadh's assistance is also needed in the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. has warned the Saudi coalition about strikes on civilians in Yemen, but the weekend attack on the funeral appeared to have touched a nerve. "In light of the attack over the weekend, with the scrutiny that that attack legitimately calls for, we are going to undertake additional reviews of aid and assistance that goes to Saudi Arabia," State Department spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday. "We take this very seriously, and we have been nothing but candid and forthright with the Saudis about our concerns over civilian casualties and collateral damage and our concerns about lack of precision in the conduct of some of these strikes." The U.S. and Britain have sold billions of dollars in weapons to Saudi Arabia for use in the conflict. Washington also has been giving logistical and intelligence support, although this year it withdrew some personnel who it said were not linked to the coalition's actions. Farea al-Muslimi, the co-founder of Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies, said the West's response will determine if the war deepens or moves toward a resolution. "Such sudden turns either end the war or end the country," he said. "Yemen
is a country where peace is born out of huge agonies." Three days after the attack, investigators are still recovering human remains amid the scattered chairs and personal belongings in the sooty, smoky hall. The roof was almost completely shredded, with chunks of metal, concrete and chandeliers dangling. Pools of blood mixed with water from broken pipes. Senior Health Ministry official Mokhtar Sharaf Eddin said the confirmed death toll as of Tuesday was 135 — but likely to rise. The missiles, which punched two large holes in the floor and opened the room up to a parking lot below, blew some bodies up to 200 meters (yards) away, officials said. Survivors recalled fleeing over the dead and wounded. Al-Akwa, the Quran reciter, said he picked up a boy whose foot was nearly severed and carried him out. "It was like the end of days, where everyone ran for his life," al-Akwa said. "In the name of God, until now I am in disbelief." The funeral was for Sheikh Ali al-Rawishan, the father of the Houthi government's interior minister, Galal al-Rawishan — members of one of Yemen's most powerful tribes, the Khawlan. In attendance were senior members of the Houthi movement and military and political figures linked to the rebels' ally, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Among the dead was Abdel-Qader Helal, the mayor of Sanaa who was widely popular and had been appointed by Hadi before the Houthi takeover. Considered a moderate who did not support either the Houthis or the coalition, he had tried mediating between the two sides. Also killed were several senior military commanders and soldiers. The strike sparked a wave of outrage. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called it an "outrageous violation of international humanitarian law." Saleh and top Houthi leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi both
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US Supreme Court reverses Oklahoman’s death penalty ruling By Tim Talley OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday reversed a state appeals court ruling that affirmed the death sentence for an Oklahoma man convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of a 25-year-old woman and her two children. The nation's highest court ruled that a McClain County judge should not have allowed relatives of the victims to tell members of a 12-member jury their opinions on an appropriate sentence for Shaun Michael Bosse, 33. Bosse was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 23, 2010, deaths of Katrina Griffin and her children, 8-year-old Christian and 6-year-old Chastity. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Bosse's conviction and death sentence last year. But the Supreme Court said Bosse's attorney objected when prosecutors asked three of the victims' relatives to recommend a sentence to the jury. All three recommended death, and the jury agreed.
"...The admission of a victim's family members' characterizations and opinions about the crime, the defendant and the appropriate sentence violates the Eighth Amendment" of the U.S. Constitution, which among others things prohibits the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment. The Supreme Court said the state appellate court ruled that the prohibition on opinions about the sentence by victims' family members had been "implicitly overruled" in a subsequent decision by the court. But the high court said that prohibition remains intact and that "it is this court's prerogative alone to overrule one of its precedents." The decision remands the case back to the state appeals court for further review. The ruling does not affect Bosse's conviction on three counts of first-degree murder. District Attorney Greg Mashburn, who prosecuted the case, said he hopes the state appellate court will rule that the admission of the victims' family mem-
bers' opinion about an appropriate sentence for Bosse was "harmless error" and reinstate his death penalty. "My hope is that the Court of Criminal Appeals will look at that in the totality of the circumstances," Mashburn said. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled that Katrina Griffin died from multiple sharp force trauma, while Christian died from multiple stab wounds. The report says Chastity died from smoke inhalation and burns after the family's mobile home in Dibble was set on fire. Authorities say Chastity had been thrown into a closet and a chair was used to block the door. Evidence inside the home linked Bosse to the deaths, according to authorities. Prosecutors said Bosse, Katrina Griffin's boyfriend, had the victims' blood on his clothing and that scratches were on his knuckles and arm. Authorities also found pawn tickets in his wallet indicating he hocked some of the nearly 140 items taken from the family's home.
Corn disease, weather affect crop yields in Kansas HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A corn disease that is new to the heartland is infecting Kansas crops and may be contributing to this year's decline in yield. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed the presence of bacterial leaf streak in a swath of land from Pratt County to Edwards County in
late August, according to The Hutchinson News (http://bit.ly/2ekqgog ). Justin Gatz, a Preston-area farmer and crop consultant, said the disease is probably a factor in this year's lower yield, but weather also had an impact. "It might be one of those deals we see it this year and we won't see it again — just because of the weather conditions we had this year," said Gatz, who added
that because the disease is bacterial, fungicide won't work to kill it. Edwards County farmer David Wood said other crops are doing well, but his corn yield potential has fallen by 40 to 60 bushels an acre compared with last year. The federal department began a survey of cornfields across the region after the disease was discovered in samples submitted to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2014, Kansas State University said in a statement. The disease is thought to have occurred on corn in South Africa, but it has been more widely associated with gumming disease of sugarcane, according to the statement. It is unknown how it entered the U.S. The disease has been found in about a dozen states, including Nebraska, Colorado and Oklahoma.
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South Barber Volleyball headed to league tournament with a 23-3 record. Under head coach Steve Roberts with the assistance of Sammi Inman, the South Barber High School volleyball team is 23-3. The Chieftains play in the Heart of the Plains League (HOPL) Tournament Saturday at Attica. Sub-state is Oct. 22 at South Central in Coldwater. The team held their first-ever block party. The cheerleaders threw block party T-shirts, courtesy of People’s Bank, to the crowd when the volleyball girls got a block. Volleyball team members are: (back, from left) ReAnna Dunlap, Madison Polson, Adrienne Allison, Idallis Shaffer, Bryn Rathgeber, Bailey Roberts, Makenzie Watts, Kaleigh Velasquez; (front/floor, from left) Emily Rugg, Morgan Polson, Anna Perez, Brianna Duncan.
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Oklahoma Tax Commission hires new auditors, increases salary OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Tax Commission is hiring new auditors and hiking their pay in an effort to improve compliance with tax codes and increase state revenue. The commission hopes to bring in more than $50 million in new revenue by tightening enforcement, The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/2ejiDPg ) reported. The plan comes as state government continues to suffer from budget challenges amid declines in the oil industry. The commission has hired 20 new auditors so far and is seeking 33 more.
Commission spokeswoman Paula Ross said starting salaries have risen from about $2,200 a month to about $2,700. Even so, the annual compensation is considered relatively low for a position meant to attract college graduates who studied business and finance. According to the bill's fiscal impact statement, the new tax code enforcement is expected to result in an estimated $26.8 million increase in state sales tax collections. "For each new auditor we bring on, that much more money can be brought
in," Ross said. "But it's not just looking at tax returns, businesses need assistance. The tax system works on voluntary compliance." The commission is hiring 10 new compliance officers as well. Compliance officers typically contact taxpayers to discuss delinquent taxes. A bill approved this year ordered the commission to find and decrease fraud, increase its audit staff to catch people failing to file their taxes or underreporting what they owe and ensure proper reporting and collection of gross production taxes.
Obama says Trump lacks temperament, judgment to be president By Darlene Superville GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama is harshly criticizing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during a rally in North Carolina, saying he has proven over and over again that he is unfit to lead the country. Obama says in his races with Republicans John McCain and Mitt Romney, they disagreed on policy, but he never thought they weren’t honor-
able. Obama is pitching the current presidential contest as different. He says Trump “doesn’t have the temperament, or the judgment, or the knowledge, or apparently, the desire to obtain the knowledge, or the basic honesty that a president needs to have. Plus, Obama says, “And that was true even before we heard about his attitude toward women.” Obama says the closer the nation
gets to Election Day, the clearer the choice becomes. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below. The White House says 1 million low-income high school students will receive free internet access under President Barack Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative for minority males. The Sprint Corp. will provide students who can’t get on the internet at home with free tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices, and four years of service. Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure says the goal is to complete distribution within five years. Obama launched “My Brother’s Keeper” in 2014. The program is among the topics the president will discuss Tuesday in Greensboro, North Carolina, during a forum hosted by “The Undefeated.” The ESPN website explores the intersection of race, sports and culture. ESPN is broadcasting the forum Tuesday night. Obama plans to campaign in Greensboro for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and North Carolina Democrats.
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called for "revenge" as anti-coalition protesters marched through Sanaa. The coalition initially denied it was behind the strike but then said it was investigating. More than a year of heavy bombardment has wrecked the country of 26 million, with neither side able to gain an advantage. The conflict began when the Houthis swept down from their northern strongholds and captured Sanaa in 2014, then pushed farther south. In early 2015, Hadi's government fled to the southern city of Aden. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations launched their air campaign against the Houthis, accusing them of being proxies of Shiite-led Iran. Coalition support kept Aden from falling into Houthi hands. Since then, Saudi-backed forces — a mix of southern separatists and Sunni militant fighters — succeeded in retaking much of the south, while other local forces are still fighting in eastern and western sections. But the price has been devastating for Yemen, already the poorest country
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in the Arab world. According to the U.N., more than 4,100 civilians have been killed and over 7,200 wounded, mostly from airstrikes. With supplies disrupted by the bombing and a coalition blockade, most of the population is considered by the U.N. as "food insecure," famine has hit poorer areas, and 3 million people are displaced. Infrastructure, factories, hospitals and roads have been destroyed. Three sessions of peace talks have failed. This week, the U.N. envoy for Yemen was trying to patch together a 72-hour cease-fire. Sanaa is surrounded by Yemen's biggest tribes, known as the "ring," because they occupy areas around the capital. The Khawlan is one of those tribes. Previously, it and several others were neutral, with members on both sides of the conflict. But the deaths it suffered in the airstrike threaten to turn it against the coalition. "Winning Sanaa is a battle of hearts. ... The tribes are the key here," said Sanaa-based writer Maged al-Mazhaji.
Hadi's government has been embarrassed by the airstrike, making no official statement on the bloodshed. "The government of Hadi is only operating under the shadow of Saudis, and he can't say no. What happened will only diminish any credit he has" in Sanaa, al-Mazhaji said. The Houthis, meanwhile, appear to be trying to escalate the conflict. Two missiles were fired from Houthi territory toward U.S. warships in the Red Sea, and others were fired into Saudi territory, including one targeting an air base that hosts U.S. military personnel training Saudi troops. Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said the U.S. is still investigating the incident, in which the missiles fell harmlessly into the water Sunday. Al-Muslimi, of the Sanaa Center, said it could be a signal to Washington of the danger of escalation. "We are seeing that for the first time there is a direct threat to the Western interests in this Yemeni conflict. Now they will start to feel the heat."
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tember that allowed work on the entire pipeline to proceed. Protesters will discuss nonviolent measures to oppose the resumption of construction, camp spokesman Cody Hall said Tuesday. Methods might include chaining themselves to equipment, as they have done in the past, but nothing had been decided early Tuesday, he said. "The people are going to stay vigilant. They're going to fight this pipeline to the very end," he said. One of the protest sites has a school, which North Dakota's superintendent of public instruction said Tuesday is operating illegally and that students should enroll at other schools until it meets state standards. Kirsten Baesler also said in a letter to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council that it'll likely take "considerable time" to gain needed approval and that the Mandan Public School District is prepared to accept students, as well as bus
them to and from the camp. In early September, tribal officials accused construction crews of bulldozing several sites of "significant cultural and historic value," leading to a clash between protesters and private security guards hired by the pipeline company. No one was arrested, and at least 30 people were pepper-sprayed. Dozens have been arrested at construction sites, including actress Shailene Woodley and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. The nine who were arrested Tuesday were targeting two pipelines in Minnesota, one in Montana, one in North Dakota and one in Washington state, all of which move oil from Canada to the United States, according to Jay O'Hara, a spokesman for the environmental activism group Climate Disobedience Center. "We are joining in support and in solidarity with those folks who are on the front lines in Cannonball, North Dako-
ta," he said. Pipeline company officials say the attempt to disrupt delivery was not successful. Pipelines at four of the sites were temporarily shut down before the protesters could reach the valves, and all resumed operation within hours. In Washington, the Mountain Puget Sound pipeline system wasn't operating at the time of the attempt. Carl Reimer, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, said it takes "a push of a button" to remotely close and open valves along the system and turn pumps on and off to start and stop the flow of oil. He said the protest was a "stupid move" that did not accomplish its goal. The trust "was formed because of a valve that was shut unexpectedly and caused a pressure surge that ruptured a pipeline and killed three kids," Reimer said. "We're pretty sensitive to people shutting valves illegally."
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2, Targeted Intervention (goal is 15 percent of students in that tier); and Tier 3, Intensive Intervention (goal is 5 percent of students in that tier.) With MTSS, the school uses Reading and Math Aimsweb assessments to determine what tier students are. Principal Stoddard said the goal is to have the Elementary MTSS system working in the spring semester. Stoddard said students should see sizable gains in their skills. Cooks Hired and Other SB Board Action, CarniFALL Oct. 20 The board accepted the resignation of high school cook Tammy Angell. Two new women were hired to cook in the school kitchens four hours per day. They are: Alexandria Anderson at K-6; and Evelyn Watson at the high school. Williams said this has 1.5 cooks at the school daily. Matt Thom received the board’s approval as a substitute teacher. Originally from Texas, Thom has connections to the district, the superintendent said. The board approved the use of the school’s athletic facilities for the Kiowa Recreation Commission. A CarniFall at the elementary on
Thursday, Oct. 20, from 6 to 8 p.m. received board approval. This is sponsored by South Barber’s PTO. Parent volunteer Tara Duncan is president of the PTO who said the CarniFall is “a fun family event.” Kids can enjoy a variety of fun carnival-type games like decorating caramel apples, playing pumpkin putt-putt and much more while winning prizes. At the CarniFall you can purchase hot dogs, chili dogs, chili and bottled water. There will be a hayrack ride also. See a separate story with more details. Technology Update for USD255 MacKinney used a PowerPoint presentation to update the board on technology within the school district. “It’s going well this year. We have fewer trouble tickets,” he said. MacKinney said he appreciates Kiowa’s General Store who donated money for more computers. The superintendent said the amount is approximately $4,000. He gave computer totals of USD255: Window Desktops computers and laptops, 125; Chromebooks, 250; ipads, 44; Android tablets, 2. MacKinney listed numerous ongoing projects. One improvement people will really see is a ceiling mounted projection system in the high school gymnasium he hopes to have in place for the Veteran’s Day program. He said they are upgrading Powerschool where teacher enter students’ grades and other information that both students and parents utilize. USD255 still has some technology weaknesses, such as slow upload connection time; and some aging technology. “Overall we’re looking good right now,” MacKinney said. South Barber Student
Achievements and More Principal Shaffer congratulated senior Miss South Barber Emily Rugg for winning first runner-up in the recent Miss Cinderella Pageant at NWOSU in Alva. At Parent/Teacher Conferences Shaffer said they had near 54 percent attendance at the high school and 50 percent at the junior high. He said teachers Mrs. Henry and Mrs. Probst recommended the IXL Program for Language Arts that focuses on grammar for 7-12 students. They said it is an area of need. Shaffer said the SBHS Chieftains Football Team is 5-1. Parents Night is October 27. The SBJH Tornadoes Football Team are 2-4 with only eight players. “I’m proud of those guys,” Shaffer said. See separate stories for the success of the SBHS Volleyball Team who is 23-3; and the tennis team who has Number One Doubles Team Sabrina and Savannah Hughbanks advancing to state. The SBJH Volleyball Team is 10-2 and 9-1 in league. FFA Chapter Advisor Kyle Jacobs had two students make the Top 10 out of 420 at the Greenhand Conference. They are: Trevor Rooks, 7th; and Takira Blick, 10th. The FFA leaves for the National FFA Convention October 18. The FFA is starting a SOCKTOBER Drive to collect socks for area food banks. Boxes will be placed around the community. The FFA held their work auction Monday night will details to follow. Check out southbarber.com for many upcoming events and activities.
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Alfalfa County real estate transactions Real Estate Transfers Book 800, Page 970: Damon Sherrell; conveys unto DKS Properties, LLC. Lots 7-12 in Block 153 in the First Addition to Carmen. Warranty deed. Book 800, Page 979: Neil Roach and Carol Sue Roach, husband and wife, Patricia Ann Shrack and J. Kipp Shrapp, wife and husband; convey unto Bernice K. Burnet as Trustee of the Bernice K. Burnet Living Trust. Undivided 4/15 interst in and to: NE/4 of S13-T29N-R9W;
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R12W. Quitclaim deed. Mortgages Book 801, Page 48: Between Mickey Josh Hutchison and Rachael Hutchison; and Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation. A tract of land located in the NW/4 of S34-T24NR11W. $229,500. Book 801, Page 139: Between Michael S. Keller and Donna S. Keller; and Cleo State Bank. Lots 5-12, in Block 25 in Jet. $45,000.
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it to Enid because of the inclement weather. Enid is where Jones resides. “The whole MS Society has worked real hard on the race. It was disappointing to them and to me. My daughter Ashley called me to make sure I was okay and not too down from most of the race being canceled,” Jones said. Jones rides a hand-powered AMTRYKE that the Enid AMBUCS bought for her. “The horse and the bike is what makes me feel most independent. I want to do a trail ride with my grandkids,” Jones said. Her son Austin resides in Iowa and has a new baby girl born in August. Her daughter Ashley Leming has two boys and a girl, ages 8, 6 and 1 and lives in Sulfur.
Jones lives at Golden Oaks retirement village in an independent living apartment at Enid. She’s on the government-based Advantage Program, “to keep me out of a nursing home,” Jones said. Someone comes in the morning and evening, a total of three hours daily to help with her bath, etc. “I get up early morning – stretch – ride my bike – and go to an exercise class,” Jones said. She works at local food pantry. “It’s a wonderful place ... like a little store where people get to shop. Going there really saves me. We were the first rural one. It’s my outing, something to do. I chose not to be home all day watching TV.” Jones fixes her own meals. She utilizes the (RSVP) retired senior volunteer program transportation service in Enid. This allows her to take in the Enid Symphony, Gaslight Theatre, events at the university, exercise programs at the mall, etc. “I just like to keep active,” she said. When she has the opportunity Jones
likes to walk on a lokomat machine. “It is a robot I’m hooked up to and it’s like I can walk on a tread mill. It feels so good!” She uses this when she goes to Jim Thorpe in Oklahoma City for rehab. She also loves the new lift at the Golden Oaks swimming pool. Jones attended NWOSU’s recent homecoming in Alva and looked forward to returning the next weekend. Her daughter Ashley is the featured artist with paintings at the Graceful Arts Gallery on the south side of the square in Alva during the First Friday Art Walk. “It’s nice to see my children succeed. Ashley teaches art at a public schools. Austin works for John Deere in Iowa as a mechanical engineer,”Jones said. In early September she broke her leg and is recovering from that on top of all the other daily struggles of living with MS. Upbeat as she discussed her latest predicament, Jones said, “My mother always said, `“If I don’t laugh, I’ll cry about it.”
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Sunday Buffet. 11am-1pm. This Sunday Oct 16. Catfish Fillets-Pepper Sterak, sides, Katy’s Puppy Cuts salad bar, desserts. 580-327Shedding or Shaggy Dog. 1359 Large & Small dog. Full Kathy’s Painting/Alva grooms at fair prices. Call Katy at 580-748-8063 Interior, exterior, commercial & residential painting & staining, The Tag Office wall & ceiling repair, texture. will be closed these days next Free Estimates. 405-831-6814 week-Tues, Oct 18 & Thurs Perm Special & Fri Oct 20-21. Thank you Business Services
Don’t Miss Out! Thru Nov $40. Tia and Karen. 580-327Split seasoned oak firewood, 4800. Hair Trenz Salon will deliver, 580-922-1256 Employment Bed & Breakfast Help Wanted on the Web alvacrookedoak. Part-Time Custodian at First com or 580-430-5450 United Methodist Church, 626 NWO Kenpo Karate College Ave., Alva. Come in to Adult & Youth Classes. apply. Call 580-327-2571 for Check us out on Facebook, information North West Oklahoma Kenpo Help Wanted Karate. 580-430-9073 Depot Bar & Grill. 580-327Safe Shower Sale 7011 Easy Access Walk-In Help Wanted Showers & Bathroom Remodels on Sale. Free Experienced Mig Welder for estimates. 580-732-0296 or Cardon Trailers. Don 580-748620-213-2612 1907 Premium Oak Firewood
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Rock Haulers Needed Huge Sale ALVA STATE BANK & in Fairview, OK area. 580- Sat 10/15. 8am-5pm. Alva TRUST COMPANY 747-6965 Fairgrounds Women’s
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200 Round Bales of Grass. Sprayed and fertilized. $40/ bale. 100 Small Bales of Bermuda. Sprayed and Garage Sale fertilized. $8/bale. Contact 1712 Windsor Cove, just N Rick Croft. 580-748-2222 of NW Tech Center. Fri, Oct Garage Sales 14 11am-6pm. Sat, Oct 15 PLUMBING & DRAIN 30 Day Garage Sale 8am-noon Call us today and let us take care of ALL YOUR PLUMBING NEEDS! Wed afternoon, Oct 12 and all Moving Sale day Thur, Oct 13. Everything in the store 1/2 off. Fri, Oct 3 miles N on 281 from Alva. 14 regular prices, new stuff 6 miles E on Jefferson Rd. added. Sack/Box sale on all 25 Thurs & Fri 7:30am to 7pm. cent items, BYOB. 524 Flynn. Sat 7:30am-noon Regular hours M-F 11amNew Friday 4pm. Sat 8am-4pm at the 30 day garage sale. PROUDLY SERVING NORTHWEST Inside Sale Coke stuff, old medicine OKLAHOMA SINCE 2005 OK LIC# 071167 antique salt & pepper 619 11th. Fri 9am-3pm. Sat 580-871-2223 9am-? Craftmatic Electric bottles, shakers. 524 Flynn. M-F Twin Bed,6 Oak chairs, sofas, 11am-4pm. Sat 8am-4pm dressers, TV Armoire, lots of Miscellaneous bedding, linens, dishes, books, Buying all Types home decor & much more. Sale by Rita, 580-430-5210 AUTO • HOME • of Horses. 580-748-0811 LIFE • BUSINESS • WORKERS’ COMPENSATION
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2 small full size pianos. Electric Wheelchair, like Perfect for new or old piano new & new batteries students. 580-761-0260 $1000. Also old barn wood for sale. 620-501-3141 Donate Clean Clothing For Sale Annual Warmth for Winter clothing and blanket Lots of Semi Tires. collection in progress at Fairview, OK area. 580College Hill Church of 747-6965 Christ, Alva. Help those who Real Estate don’t have enough funds by donating your gently used, Mobile Home clean (no repairs needed) For rent 3/2 furnished clothes for all ages. Blankets w/d $500. 620-229-3593 and men’s slacks especially Burlington. needed. Leave at church building in storage trailer For Rent behind. Thanks. Call 580Tired of Stayin in Hotels. 327-0130 with questions. Fully furnished house, Acreage for Sale 2bdrm, complete kitchen, washer & dryer, Internet, Price Reduced. Cherokee, outside deck & grill. Rent OK. 10 acres, new fence, by month, weekly or daily. 4bdrm, 1bth two-story 580-761-0260 house. CH/A. Rural water, detached garage w/carport. Home for Sale 918-225-8678 or 580-596In Kiowa, KS. Sits on lot 2205 size 125’ wide by 140’ General Election deep. Some extras go with this property. Call General Election 580-748-1817. Seriously Registration will close Oct. interested. Excellent rental 14, 2016, in all counties in property Oklahoma for the Nov. 8 General Election. The Woods For Rent County Election Board is 2bdrm w/washer & dryer. located in the Professional 580-732-7181 Bldg. 410 4th St. Suite C, PO. Box 184, Alva, OK. Home for Sale 73717. Hours 8am to 2pm. in Waynoka, OK. 2016 For more information please Santa Fe St. 2 story frame call 580-327-1452 home. 1 room finished on For Sale 2nd floor. 1st floor 2bth, large living and dining Beautiful Cherry Winston area, large kitchen and Ct. TV Armoire, coffee table utility room, lots of closets, with lift out tray, large Sanyo large backyard and small Flat Screen TV. 580-430garage. 580-273-0496 1850
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Community Calendar Wednesday 9 a.m. The Woods County Senior Citizens Center, 625 Barnes, Alva, is open for games and other activities. Exercise is scheduled each day at 11 a.m. Transportation provided upon request. Noon Alva Kiwanis Club meets at Champs Restaurant. Noon Narcotics Anonymous meets at The Wesley House, 1027 8th St., Alva (by the college). 2-5 p.m. The Cherokee Strip Museum in Alva is open every day except Monday. For information or arranged tours, call 580-327-2030. Thursday 9 a.m. The Woods County Senior Citizens Center, 625 Barnes, Alva, is
open for games and other activities. Exercise is scheduled each day at 11 a.m. Transportation provided upon request. 11:30 a.m. Woods County Retired Educators Association will meet at the Homestead Retirement Center, 901 Homestead Drive, Alva, in the activities room. The lunch is the “special of the day.” Greg Highfill, Woods County OSU Extension Director, will speak on State Question 777. Noon Alva Rotary Club meets at Champs Restaurant. 2-5 p.m. The Cherokee Strip Museum in Alva is open every day except Monday. For information or arranged tours, call 580-327-2030. 3-6 p.m. Food distribution every
Thursday, Alva Wesleyan Food Bank, 818 Lane St. 7 p.m. Alva Moose Lodge men’s meeting is held every Thursday. 7 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 1027 8th (Wesley House) in Alva every Monday and Thursday. Friday 9 a.m. The Woods County Senior Citizens Center, 625 Barnes, Alva, is open for games and other activities. Exercise is scheduled each day at 11 a.m. Transportation provided upon request. 2-5 p.m. The Cherokee Strip Museum in Alva is open every day except Monday. For information or arranged tours, call 580-327-2030.
Alfalfa County court filings According to the affidavits and petitions on file, the following individuals have been charged. An individual is innocent of any charges listed below until proven guilty in a court of law. All information is a matter of public record and may be obtained by anyone during
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regular hours at the Alfalfa County Courthouse. The Alva Review-Courier will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper. Misdemeanor Filings Kayla Shayne Smith, 20, Enid, has been charged with possession of controlled dangerous substances and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. ($660.50) Marriage License Filings Ruben Castro Jr. and Linzie Marie
Castor, both of Cherokee, filed for a marriage license with a certificate. ($5) Joshua Ryan McDonald and Andrea Danielle Burkes, both of Cherokee, filed for a marriage license. ($50) Ronald George Kephart and Jacqueline Rae Kephart, both of Carmen, filed for marriage license. ($50) Civil Filings Bank of America vs. Douglas Lee Lavicky: indebtedness. ($242.14) Traffic Filings Juan H. Tovar-Avil, St. John, Kansas, has been cited for passing on the left without sufficient distance or visibility. ($235.25) The following individuals were cited for speeding: Shana Bennett, Glendale, Arizona, has been cited for speeding 15 mph over the speed limit. ($250.25)
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Alfalfa County Sheriff’s Office log Tuesday, October 4, 2016 3:48 a.m. Reporting party (RP) stated lightening had struck the ground starting a grass fire. Paged Nescatunga Fire Department (NFD). NFD requested back up. Paged Cherokee Fire Department (CFD) and Amorita & Byron Fire Department (ABFD). Also paged Jet Fire Department (JFD). Fire out and everyone back at the station. 8:04 a.m. Officer had a traffic stop at the high school. 8:17 a.m. Officer had a traffic stop at Grand and Washington. 9:30 a.m. RP advised there was a dog laying in the middle of the road at the corner of Third Street and Nebraska. Advised officer. Officer advised dog had been moved. 10:30 a.m. Great Salt Plains Clinic (GSPC) needed an ambulance to transfer a patient to St. Mary’s Hospital in Enid. 11:10 a.m. Cherokee High School advised a student had left the campus and asked if an officer could assist. Notified officer and advised of the situation. Officer made negative contact. Officer at the residence of the subject. 11:44 a.m. RP advised her sister wouldn’t let her get her stuff. Advised officer. 5:23 p.m. RP advised his mother punched him in the face and ripped his shirt. Advised officer. Officer en route. 6:23 p.m. RP stated there was a black cow west of the four-way on Highway 64. Contacted owner. Owner advised he didn’t see any cow out. 9 p.m. RP advised his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend are calling him and threatening him. Advised deputy. 9:50 p.m. RP stated there was a barrel on Highway 8 north of Cottonwood bridge. Advised city worker. 10:53 p.m. Alarm company advised an burglar alarm was going off at United. Advised officer. Notified the key holder, left message. 11.22 p.m. RP called to report a theft of a wallet in the Pizza Hut. Officer en route. Officer made larceny report. RP advised she found her wallet in her carport. Officer was advised. Wednesday, October 5, 2016 8:32 a.m. RP stated his wife and children had been threatened by another individual. RP advised if they cut across his property, he was going to throw rocks and beat them in the face. RP was very upset by the threats. Advised deputy of the situ-
ation. Called RP back and asked if the wife was home. RP advised she would be back around three and she would call. 12:21 p.m. Officer had a traffic stop north of Narmon Road. 12:42 p.m. Officer had a traffic stop at Ohio and Washington. 2:03 p.m. RP advised of a controlled burn. 3:23 p.m. RP advised of a controlled burn 2 miles east on Fifth Street. 3:52 p.m. RP advised of a black cow out south of Goltry. Tired to notify possible owner. 7:06 p.m. RP stated there was a fence almost down on Highway 64 between the corner and Ingersoll. Contacted possible owner and he said it was not his fence but he would contact the owner and advised of the situation. 8 p.m. RP advised of a controlled burn on Coal Road and the Jet blacktop. Thursday, October 6, 2016 2:04 p.m. RP advised he was home sick and he heard a gun shot. A white male wearing a black hoodie and jeans with a BB gun was walking away. RP advised he pick up the window that had been shot out. Advised officer and called the parent to advised her. Mother called back and advised the father was going over to check on the situation. 6:44 p.m. Civil papers served. 7:35 p.m. Medic needed for a 79-yearold male who was clammy and disorientated. Requesting to go to Kiowa Hospital. Paged Burlington First Responders (BFR). BFR on scene. Cherokee ambulance on scene. Medic asked dispatch to contact Barber County to see if they could come get the patient. Barber County send an ambulance. 8:50 p.m. RP stated his dog was missing. Advised officer. RP advised he found his dog. 10:34 p.m. RP needed direction on the detour on Highway 11. Checked with deputy on road conditions. Advised RP to go back to Highway 281 due to all the rain. 10:35 p.m. Officer had an individual detained at Texas and Third Street. Officer advised the individual was released to someone else. 10:36 p.m. Deputy had a traffic stop at Highway 64 and County Road 630. Friday, October 7, 2016 12:56 a.m. Deputy out with vehicle with an open car door. Attempting to locate the owner. Deputy advised everything was okay. Deputy reported the owner had forgot to shut his door.
1:35 a.m. RP called to report a vehicle was reeving its engine and squealing its tires. It pulled up at the driveway of an individual, kills the engine for a few minutes and then started it back up and peels away. Advised it had happened 3-4 times already. Deputy was notified. Deputy asked to call the RP back and see if it was still going on. RP advised he had not heard it since he had called and would call back if it happened again. 2:15 a.m. Deputy had a traffic stop at Pizza Hut. 2:28 a.m. RP advised someone was beating on her door and she’s afraid to answer. Officer advised. Officer looked all around the house and no one was found. 8:23 a.m. RP advise she locked her keys in her vehicle and it was running. Officer unlocked vehicle. 9:58 a.m. RP advised of a large black cow out. Called the owner. Owner called back and couldn’t find any cattle out. 10:39 a.m. Carmen First Responders needed to check a blood pressure on a female in Carmen, no ambulance. Carmen Fire Chief advised to send ambulance. Medic was paged. 11:59 a.m. RP advised a lady was following her and flipping her off. He would go around her and then stop in the grass along letting other cars pass and tailgating them. Advised she has two kids in the car. She is slowing down and they were travelling 35 mph. The car was wanting RP to hit her vehicle, she had gotten crossed ways in the road, trying to stop traffic. Advised OHP. RP called back saying it’s her boyfriend and husband ex-wife.
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Barber County real estate transactions Real Estate Transfers Book 141 page 545: Houston land Company, LLC, grantors, unto The Charles Wayne Thom and Velma Mae Thom Irrevocable Trust. A tract of land lying in the northwest quarter of section 12, township 33 south, range 12 west of the 6th P.M. in Barber County, Kansas. Quit claim deed. Book 141 page 549: J.T. Marsh Ranch, Inc., grantor, unto Timothy E. Belt and Lynette D. Belt, husband and wife, grantees. Lots 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in block 2 in Graham and Reynold’s Addition to the Town of Sun City. General warranty joint tenancy. Book 141 page 550: Lance M. Freeman and Sloane M. Freeman, husband and wife, grantors, unto Jay Dohrmann, grantee. Lot 22 in block A in Forsyth Addition to the City of Medicine Lodge. Warranty deed. Book 141 page 552: Anthony M. Farrar and Andrea M. Farrar, husband
and wife, grantors, unto Brian K. Carter and Courtney M. Carter, husband and wife, grantee. The west 68 feet of lot 4 in block B in Forsyth Addition to the City of Medicine Lodge. Joint tenancy warranty deed. Book 141 page 554: Michael B. Sorg, a single person, grantor, unto Edwards Services, LLC, a Kansas Limited Liability Company, grantee. Commencing 210 feet east of the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 12, township 32 south, range 12 west of the 6th Principal Meridian, thence east 70 feet, thence south 128 feet, thence west 70 feet, thence north 128 feet to the place of beginning, in the City of Medicine Lodge. Quit claim deed. Book 141 page 555: Bank of Kansas, formerly known as Citizens Bank of Kansas, grantor, unto Barber County Development, Inc., grantee. Parcel 1: Lot 001 and Lot 1, the south 8 feet of vacated Kansas Avenue, adjacent on the north
side of Lot 1, south Main Street, Medicine Lodge, Kansas, commonly known as 101 S. Main, Medicine Lodge, Kansas. Parcel:2 Kansas Avenue west, lot 2 and lot 4, Medicine Lodge, Kansas. Quit claim deed. Book 141 page 556: Shirley G. Thomas, a single person, grantor, unto Kyle Thomas, grantee. The northeast quarter of the northwest quarter and the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter, and all the remaining part of the east half of section 17, lying east of Gyp Hill road and North of Red Rock Road, in township 32 south, range 12 west of the 6th Principal Meridian, containing 242 acres, more or less. Quit claim deed. Book 141 page 557: Vernon victor Blick, a single person, grantor, unto Christopher Fischer and Brianna D. Fischer, husband and wife grantees. Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 in block 11 in the City of Sharon. Joint tenancy warranty deed.
Barber County Sheriff’s Office log October 3, 2016 Kiowa ambulance transported patient from Kiowa Hospital in St. Francis in Wichita. Kiowa ambulance transported patient from south 5th Street to Kiowa Hospital. Deputy Rodriguez did a welfare check on some dogs in Hardtner. Kiowa ambulance transported patient from south 5th Street to Kiowa Hospital. Kiowa ambulance transported patient from Kiowa Hospital to St. Francis in Wichita. Kiowa ambulance transported patient from Main Street to Kiowa Hospital.
October 4, 2016 At 7:24 a.m. Susan Ricke, Medicine Lodge, driving a Ford Escape, hit a deer west of the Heritage Center. Unknown damage, no injuries, investigated by Undersheriff Gentry. October 5, 2016 Medicine Lodge ambulance transported patient from Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital to Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita. At 7:16 p.m. John Theodore hit a deer on Curry Lane. No damage, no in juries, investigated by Deputy Rodriguez. Kiowa ambulance transported patient from Kiowa Hospital to St. Francis in Wichita. October 6, 2016 At 1523 Sean Hughes, Hoisington, driving a truck owed by Rainbow Oildfield Trucking, struck the crossing arm on Highway 281. Unknown damage, no injuries, investigated by Deputy Rodriguez. October 7, 2016 Deputy Rodriguez investigated trespassing on Main Street in Sharon. October 8, 2016 Medicine Lodge ambulance responded to Whitney Lane. No transport.
Deputy Nygaard investigated a possible traffic hazard in Sharon. October 9, 2016 Medicine Lodge ambulance transported patient from east Washington to Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital. Medicine Lodge ambulance transported two patients from Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital to Wesley in Wichita. During the week officers received seven reports of cattle out, two reports of goats out, three reports of hogs out, one report of horses out, performed three public assists and assisted six other agencies. ARRESTS October 4, 2016 Keshia Emogene Brown, Pratt, W/F, 25. Arrested by BASO. Charges: failure to appear warrant. October 6, 2016 Dusten Patrick Rogers, Mulvane, W/M, 31. Arrested by MLPD. Charges: possession drug paraphernalia, possession drugs. Released Oct. 8, 2016, on $7,500 surety bond. October 8, 2016 Joshua Newton Smart, Medicine Lodge, W/M, 34. Arrested by MLPD. Charges: disorderly conduct.
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