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VETERANS DAY ACTIVITIES
• Iola, starts at 7:30, flag dedication at 9:30 at Jump Start Travel Center, parade at noon downtown, lunch follows at Elks. • Humboldt, starts at 11 a.m., parade at 2 p.m. • Iola Area Symphony Orchestra concert, 3 p.m. Sunday, Bowlus Fine Arts Center
By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register
Ramadi, Iraq. 2006. Houses packed closely together. The streets littered with trash. The sickening, musty smell of dead animals decomposing in the desert heat. The locals, afraid insurgents might see them talking to the military forces that patrolled their city, avoided the Dutch shepherd and U.S. Marine that led troops through the street. The bombs could be anywhere. In the doorway of a house. Under a pile of trash. Even hidden in a rotting carcass to try to throw the dog off the scent. Allan, the shepherd, stopped and sat near a rice bag on the corner of intersecting streets. His tail straightened. He sniffed, and the sound of air going into his nose was different, changed somehow. Only his handler would recognize such subtle cues. At the other end of a sixfoot leash, Cpl. Chase Martin came to a sobering realiza-
Chase Martin, a dog handler with the U.S. Marine Corps who served in Iraq, is shown at his home in Iola, surrounded by memorabilia. At right, he holds back Allan, an explosives detection dog, in 2006. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS tion: “This is real.” “Even with all the training, you’re never ready for that first IED, that first explosion, that first firefight. You don’t know how you’re going to react.” DEPLOYED IN February 2006 as a K-9 unit to hunt improvised explosive devices, Martin said he clearly remembers the first time his dog found an IED in that rice bag during
his second or third week in Iraq. Over the course of his eight-month deployment, Martin and Allan would find two weapons caches and somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 to 30 IEDs. Most were meant for vehicles and posed little danger to an individual. Many were not even set to detonate. Some were decoys. “The really obvious See MARTIN | Page A8
Beverly Sayles: A woman in control
Ted Noble, Army veteran and elite runner. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY
Ted Noble: A running history of service By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register
Ted Noble is too modest to tell you this, but the man very nearly invented Jazzercise. He was in his late 20s, married, living in a little blue-collar logging town in northwest Washington, working during the day and taking classes at the local community college at night. But Ted, at that time, was a tad fat. “Actually,” explained Noble. “I was a twotripper.” What’s a two-tripper? “That’s when you’re so fat,” explained the 77-yearold, “that when they tell you to haul [butt], you’ve got to make two trips.” But Noble is in his bones a man of action, and so he came up with a fix. Each day, Noble would Vol. 121, No. 11 Iola, KS 75 Cents
come home and shut himself in the bathroom. He would fill the bathtub with the hottest possible water, letting the small bathroom fill with steam. He would then put on three or four shirts, turn on the radio, and dance away — a man alone, perspiring, jiggling his heart out in a damp bathroom. This was in the late-1960s. “We’re talking way before Jazzercise,” insisted Noble, who was sweatin’ to the oldies back when the oldies were still new. One day, though, Ted’s wife, Sally, fearing that the chronic moisture would eventually bring the bathroom wallpaper in their old house down around Ted’s head, told her husband to take his aeroSee NOBLE | Page B4
Beverly Sayles, shown at left during her service with the U.S. Marines, moved to Allen County with her late husband in the 1960s. She now lives at Moran. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
Air traffic control job beckoned for Marine By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Beverly Sayles came of age when women, who had stepped forth valiantly a decade earlier to take jobs in factories as their husbands and fathers were fighting in World War II, were being sent back home once peacetime returned. She wasn’t having any of it. Beverly entered the workforce straight out of high school, first in the accounting department of a trucking firm where her father
worked as a driver. Then as a scheduler and receptionist at a health clinic in her hometown, Terre Haute, Ind. Even so, Beverly couldn’t let go of a high school memory when a Navy recruiter said students should consider a career in the armed forces. The Navy was intriguing, she admitted, but her heart lay elsewhere. With the Marines. “I think it was the uniforms,” she said. “It was always going to be the Marines.” Her dreams of the mili-
tary remained just that until she went to California to visit family in December 1954. She was 20. A recruiting station was nearby. Beverly and her travel acquaintance went to the station and volunteered to take a competency test. Beverly passed; her friend did not. “They said I’d gotten the highest number anybody had ever had,” Beverly said, “but they never told me how many questions I missed. It was a hard test. It covered a See SAYLES | Page B3
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