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HOBBY: FULL STEAM AHEAD

By ALLISON TINN allison@iolaregister.com

For some people, the sound of a passing train is loud and irritating. For Steve Anderson and Ken Groves that sound brings excitement.

But Steve and Ken are not most people; the two built a 24 x 18-foot model railroad that will be showcased as part of the Molly Trolley Railroad tours today as part of the Farm-City Days celebrations.

Throughout this afternoon, the trolley will take ticketholders on a railroad-themed tour of Iola, including the home of Ken and Gladys on Missouri Road.

“WHAT DO YOU THINK Steve, are we ordinary?” Ken asks. “No Ken, we’re extraordinary, meaning weird,” Steve jokingly replies.

“I grew up on a farm right next to railroad tracks and at times we would have 70 trains pass by,” Steve said. Down the road was a railroad yard, where Steve’s father would take him to watch the trains go in and out.

“My parents gave me a windup train when I was young,” Steve said. “I have been fascinated with trains ever since I can remember.”

Ken on the other hand found his love for trains when he was a little bit older. His wife Gladys’ foster father was an avid model railroad train enthusiast and passed the interest onto Ken.

people to look out of.

“It might not be the most efficient way to travel, but it is the prettiest,” Steve said.

Register/Allison Tinn

Ken Groves puts a steam engine on the model railroad train tracks. The model will be showcased during the Molly Trolley Railroad tours today. In front is Steve Anderson. Ken’s wife, Gladys, is in back.

The railroad model they have recreated is the original Denver and Salt Lake City Railway, which winds through the mountains from Colorado to Utah.

Eventually an alternative route was built that would go through the mountains in tunnels, called the Moffat Tunnel Route, named after David H. Moffat, the man who built the original line.

This made the trip faster and more efficient because it cut a substantial number of miles out of the route.

The original route might have been more work, but Steve and Ken both agree it was the most scenic.

Most of the original DenverSalt Lake City line is used today as part of the Union Pacific’s Central Corridor, which is mostly used for freight and the California Zephyr.

The California Zephyr is a passenger train that runs along more scenic routes. These passenger trains have more windows and glass ceilings for

STEVE, a librarian at Allen County College, found out about Ken’s interest in railroads through coworker Gladys Groves.

This led to a great partnership because it sparked the project that has taken them roughly five years and it still is not done.

“With railroad modeling, nothing is ever done,” Gladys said.

Even though railroad modeling was originally Ken and Steve’s hobby, their wives have been just as much a part of the project.

Ken, who is retired, finds the model railroad a great hobby.

“Our wives like it because it keeps us away from the wild women and bars,” Steve said jokingly.

Jean, Steve’s wife, also helps with

See RAILROAD | Page A7

Program looks to clarify federal healthcare reform

By STEVEN SCHWARTZ steven@iolaregister.com

Register/Allison Tinn

Wednesday, Allen County Hospital held a free Lunch and Learn session where a four-person panel spoke about breast cancer experiences, risks and reductions. On the panel was, from left, Lisa Haney, Andrea Hottenstein, Judy Works and Carolyn Murphy.

Fighting breast cancer with support

By ALLISON TINN allison@iolaregister.com

When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer there is no way to prepare for all she will have to cope with. That is why knowledge and a strong support system are necessary pillars for successfully getting through the hardship ahead.

Allen County Hospital is working to create that avenue for

breast cancer patients with its free Lunch and Learn sessions.

The first session was Wednesday at the hospital.

During the session, a four-person panel discussed cancer risk factors, preventatives, the importance of mammograms and personal experiences.

The panel consisted of Judy Works, a nurse practitioner, mammographer Andrea Hot-

Ambulance talks handed back to governing bodies

By BOB JOHNSON bob@iolaregister.com

After realizing current city and county leaders have never met to discuss the possibility of forming one ambulance service, members of an advisory committee threw the ball into their court.

The decision Friday afternoon also eliminated the need for the Ambulance Advisory Committee, which over the course of many months has tried to come with a solution for

a combined service with no success.

Dick Works, county commission chairman, noted “the two governing bodies never sat down together” to discuss ambulance service after the split several years ago that left the county with two services.

Former county commissioner Kent Thompson, and a member of the advisory commission, was adamant that no solution is possible unless either the county or city yields control of their ambulance service.

Generally, about $2.5 million See AMBULANCE | Page A7

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tenstein, breast cancer survivor Carolyn Murphy and director of food and nutrition service for the hospital Lisa Haney.

Works, a breast cancer survivor, explained what makes some women more at risk for breast cancer.

Some factors include late pregnancies, poor diet and nutrition and increased levels of horSee LEARN | Page A7

Myths were dispelled and facts became clearer about health care reform in a program held Thursday in the West Townhouse Community Room.

The program, sponsored by the Kansas Health Consumer Coalition (KHCC) and organized by Thrive Allen County, focused on the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. The speaker was Sheldon Weisgrau, the director of the Health Reform Resource Project out of Topeka.

Weisgrau said the goal of his project is to inform and educate Kansans on their healthcare.

He said as people become more informed, they can take better advantage of the benefits and options they are given through the new healthcare act.

“We (the United States) have by far the most expensive health care in the entire world,” Weisgrau said. “We need to get what

Happy dog prompted park name

By BOB JOHNSON bob@iolaregister.com

Casey McKarnin’s dog Lilly is a fun-loving pooch.

When he takes her out for a romp, Casey, a third-grader at Jefferson Elementary School, noticed how much Lilly wagged her tail.

“A happy tail,” he called it.

With Iola’s new dog park about to open, Sonic Equipment Company asked for help in naming the park, scheduled to open before long. Casey remembered how much Lilly wags her tail when playing and thought Happy Tail Dog Park would be a good name.

So did judges deciding from among 278 entries.

“There were five ‘happy tail’ See DOG | Page A6

we pay for.”

Weisgrau said his goal is not to promote President Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act or to refute its policies, but to give an objective perspective on what sort of options Kansans can take advantage of. He said U.S. healthcare deals with some major issues including: healthcare access, inconsistent health service quality, lack of recommended care and the overall cost of American healthcare.

Of the 50 million people uninsured in the United States, more than 365,000 of those live in Kansas. This number represents 13 percent of the state’s population.

For Allen County, 15 percent of its residents are uninsured, which Weisgrau said was better than many other counties in the state.

According to a report provided by the KHCC, being uninsured can be costly to a citizen and the See REFORM | Page A7

Gallery switches to auctions

By BOB JOHNSON bob@iolaregister.com

Register/Bob Johnson

Casey McKarnin, with his dog Lilly, was recognized by Sonic Equipment Company’s April Desocio Friday.

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Matt Korte will cry his second auction ever tonight at State Street Gallery, 320 W. Garfield.

He opened the business as a retail outlet 11 months ago and in late summer decided a twicea-month auction might go over better.

“When we were in retail, we’d have one person in one day, maybe 20 the next,” he said. “I’m looking for more consistency with an auction.”

See AUCTION | Page A6

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Energizer said in a statement that the problem appears to be with UltraMist’s spray valve, which is over applying the product. As a result the lotion is taking longer to dry, which raises its flammability risk.

“If a consumer comes into contact with a flame or spark prior to complete drying of the product on the skin, there is a potential for the product to ignite,” the company said.

Consumers who purchased the products are being told not to use them.

More information is available from the manufacturer at 1-800-SAFESUN. Energizer said it has notified the Food and Drug Administration about the voluntary recall.

Amtrak passenger train briefly hits 111 mph

By JON HILKEVITCH Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — An Amtrak train made an historic run at 110 mph on Friday through Illinois’ breadbasket.

The train, packed with dignitaries and high-speed rail fans, actually briefly clocked 111 mph near Dwight, Ill., on the way to Pontiac.

The entire 110 mph segment — 15 miles — took only about 6 minutes.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and others monitored the train’s progress to top speed on a TV that displayed a speedometer and a GPS map of the train’s movement.

Boosted by two locomotives, the Amtrak test train hit 110 mph Friday for the first time while carrying passengers in Illinois in the modern era.

Quinn has said he wants to live long enough to see 220 mph bullet trains race across the state connecting Chicago, college towns downstate and neighboring Midwest states.

The 15-mile trip at high speed was on new rails and new concrete ties between Dwight and Pontiac along

the 284-mile Union Pacific Railroad corridor from Chicago to St. Louis.

Dwight is about 80 miles southwest of Chicago and Pontiac is about 20 miles further to the southwest.

The train was continuing on to Normal at top speeds of 79 mph before heading back to Chicago Union Station, officials said.

The 15-mile section that has been completed for 110 mph operations features a new signal system as well as fencing and a four-gate system at railroad crossings to keep vehicles and trespassers off the tracks, officials said. Standard crossings are equipped with only two gates.

Test runs were conducted in recent months leading up to Friday’s demonstration, which follows the inauguration of 110 mph Amtrak service earlier this year in western Michigan and northwest Indiana.

The Chicago-to-St. Louis rail project, paid for primarily so far through $1.2 billion in grants from the Obama administration and $400 million from the state, is being carried out by the Illinois Department of Transportation, Union Pacific and the Illinois Commerce Commission.

NEW YORK (AP) — The release of Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system is a week away, and consumers are in for a shock. Windows, used in one form or another for a generation, is getting a completely different look that will force users to learn new ways to get things done.

Microsoft is making a radical break with the past to stay relevant in a world where smartphones and tablets have eroded the three-decade dominance of the personal computer.

Windows 8 is supposed to tie together Microsoft’s PC, tablet and phone software with one look. But judging by the reactions of some people who have tried the PC version, it’s a move that risks confusing and alienating customers.

Tony Roos, an American missionary in Paris, installed a free preview version of Windows 8 on his aging laptop to see if Microsoft’s new operating system would make the PC faster and more responsive. It didn’t, he said, and he quickly learned that working with the new software requires tossing out a lot of what he knows about Windows.

“It was very difficult

to get used to,” he said. “I have an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old, and they never got used to it. They were like, ‘We’re just going to use Mom’s computer.’”

Windows 8 is the biggest revision of Microsoft Corp.’s operating system since it introduced Windows 95 amid great fanfare 17 years ago. Ultimately, Windows grew into a $14 billion a year business and helped make former Chief Executive Bill Gates the richest man in the world for a time. Now, due to smartphones and tablets, the personal computer industry is slumping.

Computer companies are desperate for something that will get sales growing again. PC sales are expected to shrink this year for the first time since 2001, according to IHS iSuppli, a market research firm.

The question is whether the new version, which can be run on tablets and smartphones, along with the traditional PC, can satisfy the needs of both types of users.

“I am very worried that Microsoft may be about to shoot itself in the foot spectacularly,” said. Michael Mace, the CEO of Silicon Valley software

By RICARDO ALONSON-ZALDIVAR Assoicated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare is coming under scrutiny in the meningitis outbreak that has rekindled doubts about the safety of the nation’s drug supply.

The giant health insurance program for seniors long ago flagged compounded drugs produced for the mass market without oversight from the Food and Drug Administration as safety risks. In 2007, Medicare revoked coverage of compounded inhaler drugs for lung disease.

But Medicare doesn’t seem to have consistently used its own legal power to deny payment, and critics say that has enabled the compounding business to flourish.

Now program officials are scrambling to find out how many Medicare benefi-

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By compounding drugs on a large scale, a company may be operating as a drug manufacturer within the meaning of (federal law), without complying with requirements of that law — Medicare’s coverage manual

ciaries are among the more than 250 people sickened in 16 states in a still-growing outbreak that has claimed 20 lives.

The illnesses have been linked to an injectable steroid used to treat back pain, made by the New England

Court report DISTRICT COURT Judge Daniel Creitz Civil cases filed:

State of Kansas (DCF) vs.

Anthony D. Sweeney, et al, other domestic relations.

MAGISTRATE COURT Judge Thomas Saxton Convicted of speeding or other violations with fines assessed: Kenneth R. Criss, Humboldt, 79/65, $167. Thomas E. Graham, Greeley, 84/65, $197. Michael J. Miller, Iola, 69/55, $167. Jerry Joseph Dale Rose, Chanute, driving without liability insurance, $498, 24 hours in jail suspended for six months probation. Jennifer L. Westerman, Chanute, 75/65, $143.

Zachary A. Busby, Chanute, 45/35, $143. Shaun M. Williams, Skiatook, Okla., 80/65, improper child passenger safety, $233. Charles E. Perkins III, Leavenworth, 76/65, $149. Blake D. Cochran, Ft. Worth, Texas, basic rule governing speed of vehicles, $173. Richard P. Santana, Independence, 75/65, $143. James Aaron Ping, Ochelata, Okla., parking illegally on a bridge, $143. Darrell J. Applegate, Le Roy, 67/55, $155. Thad D. Trahan, Iola, consumption of alcohol in a public place, six months probation, $260.

Deborah A. Reese, Fredonia, 84/65, $278. Frederick C. Kupfer, Olathe, 79/65, $167. Amy D. Vining, Thayer, Kan., 75/65, $143. Allison May Stockebrand, Chanute, possession of stolen property, $445. Rachel Eileen Noyes, Mapleton, disorderly conduct, 14 days jail suspended for six months probation, $485. Shane U. Parker, Iola, criminal trespassing, license suspended, $320. Richard C. Freimiller, Humboldt, improper child passenger safety, $298. Jennifer L. Lower, Iola, 46/35, $149. Tryston R. Ingle, LaHarpe, 45/35, license suspended, $243. Mitchal Shane Walden, Iola, improper child passenger safety, $158.

Convicted of no belts and fined $10:

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Heather E. Vandenberg, LaHarpe. Orval D. Murray, LaHarpe. Travis R. Farren, Chanute.

Entered Agreements:

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Patrick Joseph Short, Overland Park, 75/65, $168.

Drew Ashton Shepherd, Iola, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, $385. Sergio J. Hernandez-Luna, Lee’s Summit, Mo., 75/65, $168.

Paige E. Clinton, Parker,

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I’m very worried that Microsoft may be about to shoot itself in the foot spectacularly.

— Michael Mace, CEO of Silicon Valley software startup Cera Technology and former Apple employee

startup Cera Technology and a former Apple employee. Windows 8 is so different, he said, that many Windows users who aren’t technophiles will feel lost, he said.

Microsoft is releasing Windows 8 on Oct. 26, and it doesn’t plan to cushion the impact. Computer companies will make Windows 8 standard on practically all PCs that are sold to consumers.

Speaking to Wall Street analysts on Thursday, Microsoft’s chief financial officer Peter Klein said he isn’t very concerned that user confusion could slow the adoption of Windows 8. When Microsoft introduces new features, he said, people eventually

realize that “those innovations have delivered way more value, way more productivity and way better usability.” That’s going to be true of Windows 8 too, he said.

Instead of the familiar Start menu and icons, Windows 8 displays applications as a colorful array of tiles, which can feature updated information from the applications. For instance, the “Photos” tile shows an image from the user’s collection, and the “People” tile shows images from the user’s social-media contacts. (Microsoft is licensed to use AP content in the Windows 8 news applications.)

The tiles are big and easy to hit with a finger — convenient for a touch screen. Applications fill the whole screen by default — convenient for a tablet screen, which is usually smaller than a PC’s. The little buttons that surround Windows 7 applications, for functions like controlling the speaker volume, are hidden, giving a clean, uncluttered view. When you need those little buttons, you can bring them out, but users have to figure out on their own how to do it.

Questions for Medicare in outbreak

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of Banana Boat sunscreen is recalling some of its spray-on products after reports that a handful of people have caught on fire after applying the lotion.

Energizer Holdings is pulling nearly two dozen formulations of UltraMist off store shelves due to the risk that the lotion can ignite when exposed to open flame.

The recall includes products like UltraMist Sport, UltraMist Ultra Defense and UltraMist Kids.

A company spokesman said there have been five reports of people catching fire after applying the sunscreen in the last year.

Four burn cases were reported in the U.S. and one in Canada.

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Early look at Windows 8 baffles consumers

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Kan., 75/65, $168. Crystal L. Pacheco, Kansas City, 81/65, $204. Meghan M. Hendrix, Humboldt, 79/65, $192. Bengji T. Beeman, Iola, driving under the influence, $1273.

Failed to appear:

Brandon Lee Vaughn, Benedict, driving without a valid license, license suspended. Clarissa Jo Evans, Copan, Okla., no seat belt.

Gunnar T.G. Klein, Tulsa, Okla., 86/65, license suspended. Linda K. Killen, Cleveland, Texas, 78/65, license suspended.

Juvenile dispositions:

Chealsae Michelle Hanson, promotion of obscenity, 50 hours community service, 1,000 word essay on the dangers of sexting, $281. Caleb D’Armond, criminal trespassing, theft of property or services, 40 hours community service, 1,000 word letter of apology.

Criminal cases filed:

Marita Rose Lehman, Iola, possession of marijuana, possession of paraphernalia. Levi Keith Martin, Iola, possession of marijuana, possession of paraphernalia. Dennis Clark, Iola, disorderly conduct. Summer N. Salzwedel, Iola, domestic battery. Mason Keith Mitchell, Iola, possession of

hallucinogenic drugs, possession of paraphernalia, transporting an open container. Shea Donovan Cox, Iola, possession of hallucinogenic drugs, possession of paraphernalia. Robert C. Coble, Savonburg, interfering with a public business, disrupting a public meeting. Shane U. Parker, Iola, criminal trespass.

Civil contract cases:

Capitol One Bank TSYS Debt Management vs.

Grace Jepkorir. Ballard Aviation, Inc. D/B/A Eaglemed vs. Athen Lehman, et al.

Small claims filed:

Storrer Implement, Inc. vs. Dan Stitt. Storrer Implement, Inc. vs. David Klumpp. Sigg Financial Services LLC vs. Julie Arneson.

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MUNICIPAL COURT Judge Thomas Saxton Convicted of speeding or other violations with fines assessed:

Kaylyn N. Handshy, Parsons, 39/25, $164. Chadley M. Mueller, Kincaid, disorderly conduct, 10 days jail suspended for six months probation, $200 attorney fees, $180. Brian Rutherford, Piqua, inattentive driving, $180.

Compounding Center, a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy. The medication was contaminated with a fungus.

A senior lawmaker and consumer advocates are raising questions about Medicare’s role, including an apparent lack of coordination between Medicare and the FDA, the two most powerful agencies within the federal Health and Human Services Department.

In response, a department spokesman says Congress needs to provide the FDA with stronger powers.

The meningitis outbreak has called attention to the role of compounding pharmacies in supplying medications routinely used by hospitals and doctors to treat patients. Regulated primarily by states, the pharmacies specialize in customizing doses for individual patients who have allergies to ingredients in

an FDA-approved drug, or who might need a smaller dosage than what’s available commercially. But some pharmacies have pushed into full-scale manufacturing.

Medicare has long been aware of the risks.

“By compounding drugs on a large scale, a company may be operating as a drug manufacturer within the meaning of (federal law), without complying with requirements of that law,” Medicare’s coverage manual, a reference for contractors that handle payments, says in a section dealing with compounded drugs.

Community Dinner Wed., Oct. 24 5-7 p.m.

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Ambassadors already thinking holidays I can already hear the collective groans, but there are just five weeks until Thanksgiving. Why am I bringing that up? Because the Chamber Ambassadors have been working hard at sprucing up Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House and finding the reindeer (they are in pasture as of now). We are working on all the fun things that go with the holiday season.

I want to plant the seed to start planning and working on your gingerbread creations. The Chamber will once again host a class. The date will be announced in the near future.

Santa coming to town and the lighting ceremony will also have some changes. We are planning and working for a great holiday season. Watch for future announcements.

Thank you to all who helped with Farm-City

Shelia Lampe Chamber Musings Days. It has come together nicely and we are so excited about the new and the old blend of functions that has taken place. Even with the cooler weather the Family Fun night went well and the Little Miss Iola Pageant was well attended.

The next event will be the Veterans Day parade on Nov. 10.

Even with all the wind and the drought we have had, if you get a chance to get out and look at the fall foliage I would encourage you to do so. It is absolutely beautiful right now.

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Myrtle Francis shared her love of quilting at Iola Nursing Center on Oct. 13.

She has been quilting since 1972 and she still does all her quilts by hand.

She displayed 45 of 60-some quilts that made.

One of the quilts raffled and the winner Dorothy McGee, Iola.

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Rec calendar Iola Recreation Department, 365-4990, brad.yoder@cityofiola.com.

Sunday

Kansas Old Time Fiddlers, Pickers and Singers, 1-4 p.m., Oct. 21, North Community Building, all ages welcome, call Rosalie Rowe, 365-5709.

Monday-Friday

Pickleball Club, 6:30 p.m., Meadowbrook Park tennis courts, ages 15 and older.

Open walking, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Recreation Community Building, when no other activities are being held.

Monday

Seniorcise class, 9 a.m., Recreation Community Building.

Quilting group, 6-8 p.m., second and fourth Monday of each month, North Community Building, 505 N. Buckeye St., call Helen Sutton, 365-3375.

Horseshoe Pitching League, 6:30 p.m., Riverside Park horseshoe pits, all ages and skill levels welcome.

Tuesday

Water exercise class, 9-10 a.m., Super 8 Motel, Pauline Hawk instructor, call 365-5565.

Wednesday

Seniorcise class, 9 a.m., Recreation Community Building.

Thursday

Horseshoe Pitching League, 6:30 p.m., Riverside Park horseshoe pits, all ages and skill levels welcome.

Friday

Water exercise class, 9-10 a.m., Super 8 Motel, Pauline Hawk instructor, call 365-5565.

Coming events Youth Futsal Indoor Soccer League, Recreation Community Building, register online or at the rec office through Oct. 31, grades kindergarten through sixth grade may participate.

Girls Volleyball League, Recreation Community Building, register online or at the rec office through Oct. 31, girls in grades 3-7 may participate.

Reduced rate tickets available at the rec office for Silver Dollar City.

Contact the Iola Register staff at news@iolaregister.com

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Opinion

Kansas economics: Money determines available services Joe Aistrup was asked to years Kansas policy makers talk about government, poli- had maintained a tax structics and the Kansas economy ture in which roughly equal amounts of government reveat KU Thursday.

“All I would have to do to nue were raised from the sales alienate everyone in the room tax, the income tax and the would be to add religion to that property tax. list,” he said.

Today that three-legged revAistrup is professor of po- enue stool is more like a two litical science at Kansas State and one-half legged stool, he University. He was the lead said, because income taxes had speaker at the 37th annual been reduced so much. The efKansas Economic Policy Con- fect of tax reductions made ference at the University of since 1995 has been to reduce Kansas on Wednesday. state income by more than $8 “First, the good news. Com- trillion dollars. modity prices are strong, the Some of those reductions crop insurance program works were made by increasing the well and the oil and gas indus- number and magnitude of extries have been profitable for emptions and credits. years,” he said. Rural Kansas is “If all of the sales of goods doing well, despite the drought. and services were taxed, the On the flip side, the aircraft in- state could lower the sales tax dustry which used to be a pillar to two cents without losing of the state’s economy is weak. revenue,” he said, and added Boeing is leaving Wichita. The that eliminating all of the worldwide demand for corpo- deductions, exemptions and rate jets has dropped because credits on all taxes — sales, of the recession. income and property taxes — But un“might be a employment good place Cutting taxes to stimulate to start on in Kansas is just a little a particular economy is like restructurover 6 per- pouring gasoline on the top of ing.” cent, while your car and hoping at least A i s t r u p projected the national rate is 7.8 some of it will end up in your Kansas will be forced to p e r c e n t . gas tank. reduce state The state — Joe Aistrup, KSU professor of spending wasn’t hit political science significanthard when ly unless the housing new revbubble burst in other states because there enues are found because the never was a housing boom tax cuts now in place would reduce income below this year’s here.

The Kansas economy is grow- spending level.

He said the shift to the right ing and disposable income per capita is about $38,000, which has changed the way the adis almost exactly the national ministration thinks.

“It used to be that our govlevel.

The outlook, Prof. Aistrup ernor and legislators would said, is worrisome because decide what the state should do of the uncertainty. First, the to meet the needs of the people nation faces the so-called fis- and then decide how best to cal cliff. Unless Congress acts raise the money needed to acbefore the first of the year, complish those things. Today government spending will be the approach is the opposite. slashed deeply and tax rates The lawmakers decide what will go back to Clinton-era lev- the level of taxation should be els. Nationally, economists say and then see what needs can the combination will shrink be met with the money raised. the U.S. economy by about 5 The contrast between those appercent and toss the country proaches is profound,” he observed. back into recession.

“I also look at the price of AISTRUP TOLD a questiongasoline as a forecaster. When the price of gas approaches $4 er that cutting taxes does stima gallon, the economy slows ulate the economy because it down. It is about at that level puts more money in the hands now. High gas prices suck of the public. The question is money away from other pur- whose economy is stimulated. chases. Retail sales slump. Un- When a Kansan gets an extra employment rises,” he said, il- dollar he or she isn’t required lustrating the correlation with to spend it in Kansas. It can be spent anywhere in the world. a chart.

Or it can be socked away and TURNING TO politics, Ais- a bank may invest it in New trup noted that Kansas gov- York, Paris or Hong Kong, he ernment had shifted sharply intimated.

“Cutting taxes to stimulate to the right. He contrasted the administrations of Bill Graves a particular economy is like and Kathleen Sebelius to that pouring gasoline on the top of Sam Brownback and said of your car and hoping that at the difference can be seen in least some of it will end up in the effect of the latest tax cuts. your gas tank,” he said.

Aistrup noted that for many — Emerson Lynn, jr.

Not exactly romantic, but run was fun At mile 9, Brian looked over and winked, “Happy anniversary, hon.”

It was a welcome pick-me-up.

By then the fun of the half-marathon was beginning to wear thin.

Still, we did it, along with 4,600 others who ran in a variety of races around downtown Wichita, including the 26.2-mile marathon.

And yes, it was fun. Rock n’ roll bands were stationed along the course. Neighbors still in their robes nursing hot coffee came out to cheer the steady stream of early morning runners.

In one neighborhood two little girls had a lemonade stand and worked every bit as hard as those manning the fuel stations along the course. Other kids would line along the streets holding out their hands to give you a slap-slap-slap of high fives.

“You’re looking good!” “Great pace!” “Keep up the good work!” were welcome words of encour-

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September was the driest on record with only .47 of a inch of moisture. The average for the month is 4.64 inches. Total precipitation for the year thus far was 20.37 inches, 10.29 inches below the recorded average. A high temperature of 99 on Sept. 16 made it the hottest day on record for this late in year. ***** A carload of Iolans will go to Pittsburg tomorrow to get information that would be helpful in presenting an Allen County bid

for the new tuberculosis hospital the state plans to build somewhere in southeast Kansas. Dr. A. R. Chambers is chairman of the Chamber of Commerce committee working on the project. ***** Workmen of the city electric department, aided by other city workers, have been busy more than a week installing a new whiteway system for the courthouse park side of the downtown streets. The county is buying the equipment and the city is furnishing the labor and will provide the electricity when the lamps are installed.

Susan Lynn Register editor

agement as the miles wore on.

Others had wry senses of humor as they held signs that read, “Toenails are for sissies.” or “Run like UR naked.”

The sheer volume of the crowd provided constant entertainment and welcome distractions. Two women wore shocking pink wigs.

A man ran in striped leotards equipped with a tail. Many had Tshirts that bore inspirational sayings. At our pace, you had plenty of time to read the fine print.

It also felt good to know somewhere in that vast crowd - we never spotted each other were fellow Iolans Nicolle Hoepker and Jason

IT WASN’T UNTIL this spring that I considered getting back into running. Joyce Heismeyer, now of Wichita, was my inspiration to try a 10K in June. I barely had a chance to feel satisfied with crossing the finish line before Joyce said the half-marathon was next. “Maybe for you,” I thought.

Before long, Brian and I were out on the rail trail Saturday mornings building up our distances from that six-mile foundation.

Training for the longer distance was the first time Brian and I had run together. Usually, we do our own thing. He has seven marathons under his belt; I had two half-marathons from more than 20 years ago. Needless to say, he could leave me in the dust at any point.

But that wasn’t the point, as his companionship of now six years has so aptly proved.

Stimulus funding nothing new At Monday night’s Humboldt council meeting, the future of Walter Johnson Park came up when members agreed to extend water lines to the east edge of town to accommodate the new USD 258 sports complex.

When the complex opens, Walter Johnson Field, named after the Hall of Fame pitcher born north of Humboldt, will be abandoned by the district. Other uses will be found, likely by the local recreation group.

The older field, ringed by a laidup rock wall and with a stadium also made of local limestone, has a historical presence: It was a Works Progress Administration project. The original swimming pool, stadium, north shelter house and levee at Riverside Park also were WPA projects.

Several people at the council meeting were unaware of the WPA. Simply put, it was a stimulus program not unlike what President Obama encouraged during

A look back in time From the Register annals of October 1952

Franklin pounding the pavement.

***** Mr. and Mrs. Hazen McAtee of Pratt announced in Iola today they have leased the former St. John’s Hospital east of Iola and will convert it into a nursing home for elderly persons. It is being leased from Dr. Frank Lenski, who bought it about a year ago when it was closed by the Sisters of Joseph and kept it in operation until the new Allen County Hospital opened in August. Mr. and Mrs. McAtee said today they expect to open the home about Oct. 10. It is believed capable of accommodating about 50 elderly persons and will be licensed by the state.

At Week’s End Bob Johnson the recent recession. It was part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal to fend off financial difficulties of the Great Depression.

In 1935, $4.9 billion was appropriated to the WPA. That represented 6.7 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP).

Millions of unskilled workers carried out public works projects, such as those in Iola and Humboldt. The WPA also employed artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media and literacy projects.

IOLAN Jim Gilpin called up Friday morning after listening to a National Public Radio report about the release this week of confidential files kept by Boy Scouts of America on men suspected of child sex abuse.

Gilpin said the commentary made it appear the abuses had oc-

curred recently. In fact, he said, the organization changed the way it operated in the 1980s to assure, as much as humanly possible, that no future abuse would occur.

An abuse lawsuit mentioned in the report was filed 30 years ago, Gilpin noted, when he was a leader.

Changes since then require at least two adults to attend meetings, campouts and any other Boy Scout activities. Also, potential leaders undergo extensive background checks to ensure that they pose no threat, a process that has become more thorough with evolution of technology.

Gilpin remembers the changes because they were accompanied by increases in individual and troop registration fees to deal with the lawsuit.

“We have a small but very good troop in Iola,” Gilpin observed, one that involves itself in many activities to the good of the community.

He doesn’t want it or the many other troops that give boys opportunities to learn leadership and a multitude of other skills to be tainted by misunderstanding.

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Republican ad blitz hits Congressional campaigns WASHINGTON — For Rep. Leonard L. Boswell, an eight-term Democrat from Iowa, the first hint of the ad war to come appeared in summer 2011. Almost a year and a half before Election Day, Crossroads GPS, the conservative nonprofit cofounded by Karl Rove, was on the airwaves in the congressman’s district, chewing him out over the deficit.

“The Republicans have been trying to buy this race from the get-go,” said Kevin McTigue, who manages Boswell’s campaign against nine-term GOP Rep. Tom Latham in a redrawn district that stretches from Des Moines to Council Bluffs.

But the biggest onslaught arrived last week, when

Crossroads bought $850,000 worth of ads in the district.

The buy, part of an $8.1 million offensive in 11 House districts, coincides with a nationwide swell of ad spending by conservative groups.

Sound familiar? It was at this point two years ago that Republican outside groups unleashed a flash flood of spending, catching Democratic House candidates off guard.

This year, the spending strategies by Republicans and Democrats illustrate just how differently the two sides have adapted to court decisions two years ago that upended campaign finance limits and launched an era of top-dollar spending by outside groups.

Republicans are largely following their 2010 script,

banking on a last-minute blitz. Democrats are spending more money earlier in the cycle, hoping to build a firewall to withstand the GOP’s final push.

The inverse battle plans have echoes in the presidential race, where Mitt Romney, who trailed President Barack Obama on the airwaves through spring and summer, now has the on-air advantage.

Outside groups spent $114 million in 2010 House races, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. This season’s tab is to be even higher, as both sides embrace the new campaign finance landscape, which allows individuals, corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts, independently of parties and campaigns.

“ Clearly, in 2010, the Republicans adjusted

to the new landscape much faster, more efficiently and more ruthlessly.

— Craig Varoga, with Patriot Majority

So far, outside groups have spent and booked more than $104 million in television time, according to a Democratic ad tracking source.

That will almost certainly grow.

Before last week’s GOP offensive, Democratic outside groups held a slight edge in spending.

“We made this conscious decision to go in early to serve as a bulwark,” said Andy Stone, spokesman for House Majority PAC, a Dem-

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By MELANIE MASON Tribune Washington Bureau

ocratic “super PAC.” The group, founded in response to the Democrats’ 2010 walloping, has spent about $30 million so far this cycle and plans to spend an additional $5 million or so. It has also served as a clearinghouse where other reliable liberal allies, including labor unions and environmental groups, can share strategy and divvy up the political map.

“Clearly, in 2010, the Republicans adjusted to the

new landscape much faster, more efficiently and more ruthlessly,” said Craig Varoga, whose group, Patriot Majority, has been supporting Democrats since 2005.

Cooperation among liberal groups “happened more slowly, but it happened effectively,” he said.

The Democrats’ initial spending advantage has been wiped away with the latest Republican barrage.

GOP outside groups now have a margin of about 2 to 1.

Five groups — Crossroads GPS, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the YG Action Fund, the American Action Network and its super PAC affiliate the Congressional Leadership Fund — have committed at least $35 million to help Republican candidates in the final three weeks of their House races.

Week starts strong, then fades For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, & whoever calls upon His name shall not perish but have everlasting life.

John 3:16

Calvary United Methodist Church Jackson & Walnut St. Iola

“The Cross Shines Brightly at Calvary”

Sunday worship: 9:15 a.m.

Sunday school: 10:30 a.m.

Rev. Gene McIntosh, Pastor Office: 365-3883 Parsonage: 365-3893

Carlyle Presbyterian Church

Sunday Worship: 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School immediately after service

Pastor Steve Traw

Only God Is Perfect

We all have to realize that each of us has flaws and shortcomings, and we should accept others as they are, and in turn, hopefully, others will accept us as we are. However, this does not mean that we should not try to continually improve ourselves. We should always act and behave as God would want us to, and treat others as we would want to be treated.

It is really a blessing from God to know oneself; however, it seems that we can usually find fault with others much easier than we can with ourselves. Seeing faults in others should induce us to correct our own weaknesses and help us strive to be more understanding and patient with those around us.

Only God is perfect, but if we seek His will and try to be the best that we can be, we can each become better persons and more pleasing to our Heavenly Father.

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

Salem United Methodist Church “The Little White Church in the Country”

3 miles west, 2 miles south of Iola Sunday school: 10:00 a.m.

Sunday worship: 11:00 a.m.

Rev. Gene McIntosh Pastor (620) 365-3883

St. John’s Catholic Church (620) 365-3454

Saturday evening.................5:30 p.m.

Sunday Worship.....................10 a.m. (at St. Joseph’s, Yates Center). . . .8 a.m.

Wednesday P.S.R. Classes....6:30 p.m.

(September through May) Confessions Saturday 4:30-5:00 p.m.

Father John P. Miller

R.S.V. Luke 6:41

Community Baptist In KJV Church depeden t

First Baptist Church

124 N. Fourth Iola Sunday School............10:00 a.m.

Sun. Morning Service. .11:00 a.m.

Sun. Evening Service.....6:00 p.m.

Wed. Prayer Meeting......6:00 p.m.

Marion Sponseller, pastor Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Home (620) 365-6811 (620) 365- 3150

7th & Osage Humboldt (620) 473-2481 Sunday School..............9:45 a.m.

Sunday Worship..........10:50 a.m.

Sunday Evening Kids Bible Club........5:30 p.m.

Evening Service.................7 p.m.

Wed. Night Bible Study. . . . . .7 p.m.

Rev. Jerry Neeley, pastor

Community of Christ

First Christian Church

East 54 Hwy Iola Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship: 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Evening Prayer as announced Gary Murphey, pastor Phone: (620) 365-2683

Covenant of Faith Christian Center 407 N. Chestnut Iola

Sunday worship.....10:00 a.m.

Sunday evening. . . . . . .6:30 p.m.

Tuesday Bible study. . . . .7 p.m.

Wednesday service........7 p.m.

Rev. Philip Honeycutt (620) 365-7405

Fellowship Regional Church Saturday: CRUX...................7 p.m.

Sunday: Worship.........................10:30 a.m.

1608 Oregon Rd. Iola (620) 365-3436

“ Lead-Feed-Tend ” (John 21:15 - 17)

Sunday School:..............9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship:..........10:30 a.m.

Bible Study...............6:00 p.m.

Wed, prayer....................6:30 p.m.

Pastor Dave McGullion

Youth Pastor Travis Riley fcciola@aceks.com

First Presbyterian Church – Iola

302 E. Madison Iola Sunday Worship ......9:30 a.m.

Sunday School . . . . . .10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Kids Club . .3 p.m.

Rev. Kathryn Bell Interim Pastor (620) 365-3481

Friends Home Lutheran Church Savonburg

Sunday Worship...............11 a.m

Pastors, Jeff Cokely Jared Ellis & Luke Bycroft 365-8001

PMA Sidney Hose 620-754-3314

First Assembly of God

Grace Lutheran Church

1020 E. Carpenter Iola Sunday School, All Ages........9 a.m.

Sunday Worship..............10 a.m.

Sunday Afternoon Teens FIRST.......2:30 Sunday Praise & Prayer. . . . . . . .6 p.m.

Wednesday Kids FIRST.........6:30 Wednesday Bible Class...........7 p.m.

(620) 365-2492 iolafirstag.org Pastor Paul Miller

First Baptist Church

801 N. Cottonwood Iola, 365-2779

Sunday School......9:15-10:15 a.m.

Sunday Worship. . .10:30-11:30 p.m.

on 1370 KIOL 11-11:30

Sunday Evening Bible Study Youth/Adult........................6 p.m.

Wednesday Prayer Meeting.....6:30 Dr. Michael Quinn Pastor

117 E, Miller Rd. • Iola (620) 365-6468

Sunday School 9:00 a.m.

Adult Bible Class 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

Rev. Bruce Kristalyn

Harvest Baptist Church

401 S. Walnut Iola (620) 365-3688 (620) 228-2522 Adult Small Group (no childcare provided) 9:15 a.m. & Fellowship Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.

Pastor: Tony Godfrey

Humboldt United Methodist Church

806 N. 9th Humboldt (620) 473-3242 Sunday School..............9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship. . . . . . . .11:00 a.m.

MS/HS Youth...............5:00 p.m.

– Nursery provided – Pastor Marge Cox

Independent & Fundamental

Lincoln & Second Streets, Iola Sunday School (all ages). 9:45 a.m.

Morning Worship.........10:50 a.m.

Evening Worship...........6:00 p.m.

Wed. Prayer & Worship..7:00 p.m.

(Nursery provided, all services) Roger R. Collins, pastor church 365-2833

LaHarpe Baptist Mission

901 S. Main LaHarpe (620) 228-1829 Sunday School............10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship. . . . . . . .11:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening............6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Service. . . . . . .7:00 p.m.

Pastor Duwayne Bearden

Moran United Methodist Church First and Cedar Streets Moran (620) 237-4442

Sunday School

8:45 a.m.

Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m.

EVERYONE WELCOME Rev. Young-Gil Bahng

Northcott Church 12425 SW Barton Rd Colony, KS (620) 852-3077

Sunday School.....................9:00 a.m.

Sunday Worship.................10:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening...............6 p.m.

Pastor Sharon K. Voorhees

Poplar Grove Baptist Church

305 Mulberry Humboldt (620) 473-3063 church Come Let Us Worship The Lord

Sunday School.....................9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship.................10:45 a.m.

Thursday Service...............6 p.m.

Rev. James Manual

St. Peter ’ s Lutheran Church

910 Amos St. Humboldt Sunday Worship............8:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School..............9:30 a.m.

Pastor David E. Meier (620) 473-2343

St. Timothy ’ s Episcopal Church 202 S. Walnut Iola Holy Eucharist & Sermon at 9 a.m. followed by coffee and fellowship

Rev. Jan Chubb (620) 365-7306

Trinity Lutheran Church 430 N. Grant Garnett, KS

Saturday: Women Bible Study 9a.m.

Sunday School......................9 a.m.

Sunday Worship..................10 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study.........7 p.m.

Pastor: Ervin A. Daughtery Jr. 785-448-6930

Trinity United Methodist Church

Broadway & Kentucky Iola (620) 365-5235 Sunday Worship 11 a.m.

Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

All Are Welcome!

Pastor Leslie Jackson

Ward Chapel A.M.E.

By MATTHEW CRAFT AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Poor corporate earnings reports pounded the stock market Friday in a sour end to an otherwise strong week of trading. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 200 points for its worst day in four months.

Disappointing results from three giants of the Dow — Microsoft, General Electric and McDonald’s — were partly to blame.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fared even worse, as widespread worries about companies’ ability to keep churning out better profits drove the broader market down.

Through Thursday, with 115 companies in the S&P 500 reporting, earnings have dropped 3.7 percent compared with a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters, a financial data provider, and ING, a financial company.

“And once you get one quarter of negative earnings, it’s a precursor,” said Doug Cote, chief market strategist at ING Investment Management in New York. “It’s the cockroach

theory: If you find one, there’s probably many more.”

Heading into this earnings season, financial analysts had estimated that corporate profits for July through September would fall compared with the same period a year ago. That would be the first such decline in three years.

The Dow sank 205.43 points, or 1.5 percent, to close Friday at 13,343.51.

The S&P lost 24.15, or 1.7 percent, to 1,433.19. The Nasdaq composite index, hammered by a second ugly day for Google, lost 67.25 points to 3,005.62, a 2.2 percent decline.

The big drops Friday left the Dow and S&P clinging to gains for the week.

All 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 fell, led by technology and materials stocks.

Google continued its slump, losing $13.21 to $681.79, a day after its earnings report was accidently hours ahead of schedule.

The report raised questions for Google and other Internet companies about ads that target mobile devices.

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Though the water will be not be hazardous to your health; it could stain your laundry.

Lincoln and Buckeye Streets Iola Sunday School.........10:00 a.m.

Sunday Worship.......11:00 a.m.

Pastor: Barbara J. Miniefee

Wesley United Methodist Church Madison & Buckeye 365-2285

Sun...................Worship 9:00 a.m.

Sun. School...................10:15 a.m. ..............Middle School UMYF 6:00 .................High School UMYF 7:00

Rev. Trudy Kenyon Anderson

KICKS COUNTRY IN IOLA Trading Post — 8 a.m. - 9 a.m.

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While he will accept consignments, at a charge of 20 percent of sale price, Korte said he planned to accumulate as much merchandise as he could on his own, including from storage unit sales in such places as Kansas City.

“I want good merchandise,” he said, allowing he was convinced that was the way to draw and maintain a crowd of buyers.

“We’ll have appliances, furniture, household items, electronics and tools,” but no antiques, which often come with reserve bids at-

ICT play canceled Iola Community Theatre’s production of “Dixie Swim Club” has been canceled for the second straight year.

“We had two actors come down with illnesses and they wouldn’t have been able to get back by next week,” when the play was to have started, said Richard Spencer, its director.

Refunds have been made for some tickets, but others were purchased with cash and “we have no way of knowing who bought them,” Spencer said. Tickets may be returned to Sophisticated Rose for a refund.

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tached, Korte said.

People who might have consignments are encouraged to call a week or so ahead of auctions, at 620363-1717, “so I can advertise what they have to sell,” he said.

Potential bidders may preview merchandise starting at 3 p.m. today. The sale starts at 5 o’clock.

While this is his second auction, Korte thinks he has his self-taught chant down pat.

“I watched a lot of video and also practiced a lot,” he said.

Helping with sales are

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Matt Korte

Angela Byars and Korte’s sisters, Haleigh Curry and Lauren Korte.

Matt is the grandson of Loren and Janet Korte.

variations in the entries,” said April Desocio, Sonic employee and one of the judges. “But, Casey’s was the first entry we got with that name on it.”

Casey and Lilly will ride in today’s Farm-City Days parade, in a Sonic vehicle driven by Desocio. He also received four tickets to Sterling Six Cinema and a $20 gift card for concessions in a brief ceremony

Friday morning at Sonic Industries.

Lilly’s happiness no doubt comes from how she became Casey’s best fourlegged friend.

The dog was abandoned in the Walmart parking lot and taken in by Casey when she was just a tiny pup, said his grandmother, Jeanne McKarnin.

“We think she’s part rat terrier, but we don’t know

what else,” said Jeanne, noting that Lilly’s too large to have just rat terrier in her ancestry.

Judges for the naming contest in addition to Desocio were Iola Councilman Don Becker, Ray Shannon, member of the Dog Park Committee, and citizens Angel Liberty and Jessica Morgan.

Casey is the son of Rob and Karen McKarnin.

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Ron Conaway, city director of EMS, and Jason Nelson, county director, both said individually their services could provide service for all of the county for $1.3 million.

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from either birth control pills, getting older and a family history of breast cancer.

Those risks account for only 20 percent of breast cancer cases, most are “spontaneous within the woman,” Works said.

Works said there are many more risk factors that affect different women but the important thing to remember is to be informed and to “be your own advocator.”

Once women are diagnosed with breast cancer Works suggests doing as much research as possible, talk to doctors and search online.

Men can be diagnosed with breast cancer but “out of all the breast cancer victims something like less than 1 percent are men,” Works said.

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sized the importance of getting annual mammograms.

Most women cringe at the sound of the word mammogram, Hottenstein said, because of what can

“Let’s look at dollars and cents and do what’s best for all of the county,” said advisory committee member Tom Williams.

Williams followed with a motion for “the two governing bodies to sit down and talk at their earliest convenience.”

is warm up the plate.

— Andrew Hottenstein, Mommographer in regard to the new mammogram machine at Allen County Hospiral

RISK REDUCTION was another topic of discussion.

Haney said limiting alcohol intake for women, good diet and nutrition, exercise

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the railroad and the hobby has spread throughout the family.

During the holidays Gladys and Ken’s children help build some of the models. modeling can seem like a lot of work, but it is relatively inexpensive, if aggregated over a period of time.

“We have found things at garage sales,” Gladys said.

“It’s not an overly expensive hobby because we get things here and there.”

The bulk of the expense goes into the tracks and the train cars, which can cost on average $20 to $30 per car. Additional costs come with the scenic material.

“It is a very multi-dimensional hobby,” Ken said.

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The tours are free but people interested have to have a ticket prior to boarding the trolley.

Tickets can be picked up starting at 10 a.m. in front of the Allen County Historical Society. The tickets will be given on a first-come first-serve basis.

There will be four tours beginning after the parade at 2, 3, 3:45 and 4:30 p.m.

The tours will give a history on the railroads in Iola then will be stopping at the Groves residence to see the model.

Because passengers will be required to walk roughly the length of two blocks on uneven grounds the tours will not be handicap accessible.

GOP pounces after news of CIA cables

By KIMBERLY DOZIER Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sensing a moment of political vulnerability on national security, Republicans pounced Friday on disclosures that President Barack Obama’s administration could have known early on that militants, not angry protesters, launched the attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya.

Within 24 hours of the deadly attack, the CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington that there were eyewitness reports that the attack was carried out by militants, officials told The Associated Press. But for days, the Obama administration blamed it on an out-of-control demonstration over an American-made video ridiculing Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

The vote was unanimous, 6-0, with two members, Mike Russell and John McRae, absent.

Carl Slaugh told the Register later he would arrange a meeting at a neutral site and outside a meeting of either body soon, probably in early November.

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be a painful procedure.

But mammograms have come leaps and bounds compared to what they used to be like, she said.

The machines have become more pressure sensitive.

“The only thing the machines don’t do now is warm up the plate,” Hottenstein said.

The recommended time for women to start getting annual mammograms is 40, but women should always consult with their doctors to make sure they are not at a higher risk and should start getting them earlier, Works said.

Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential nominee, led Friday’s charge.

“Look around the world, turn on your TV,” Ryan said in an interview with WTAQ radio in the election battleground state of Wisconsin. “And what we see in front of us is the absolute unraveling of the Obama administration’s foreign policy.”

As a security matter, how the Obama administration immediately described the attack has little effect on broader counterterrorism strategies or on the hunt for those responsible for the incident, in which the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed.

And Republicans have offered no explanation for why the president would want to conceal the nature of the attack.

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and not smoking all reduce the chances of breast cancer in women.

Murphy shared her experience with breast cancer and said the only time she let the cancer get to her was when her hair had begun falling out.

“It was the only time I cried,” she said.

But she picked herself back up, with the help of her support system — family and friends — and made a decision to beat the cancer.

A SECOND Lunch and Learn session will be from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday at the Iola High School lecture hall.

For more information on the sessions or to schedule a mammogram call (620) 365-1250.

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government as well. Those without insurance are less likely to receive • preventative and prenatal care; • to be hospitalized for preventable reasons; and • to be more likely to have an overall higher likelihood of early death.

The report estimates that 20,000-50,000 people died in 2011 due to a lack of proper insurance.

Weisgrau said the Affordable Care Act is outlined in over 900 pages of documentation, and its goal is to help more people receive proper insurance.

Under the law, the government now requires insurance companies to provide standardized, easy-to-read outlines of their policies to help people decide which policy is right for them.

Also, the law requires that insurance companies cannot exclude insurance for children and adults with pre-existing medical conditions — a major problem for many in the U.S. Weisgrau said the act will also expand to include coverage for more people under Medicaid, stipulating that people who have an income 138 percent or lower than the federal poverty level are eligible to receive Medicaid.

The aspect of Obamacare that Weisgrau said is most unpopular with critics of the law is the “individual mandate” reform.

This section requires that every citizen have health insurance. He said the reason for this mandate,

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Sheldon Weisgrau, director of the Health Reform Resource Project, speaks to people looking to better understand how Obamacare has changed health care in the United States. is to create profit for the insurance companies and reduce high costs.

With elections coming up on Nov. 6, the reform can change quickly, and he said people need to be informed about what those changes can bring.

“The election is really going to determine where this law goes and what it is going to do,” Weisgrau said.

Paul Sorenson, an attendee of the program, said he appreciates the efforts of the KHCC and Thrive Allen County.

“Everybody is looking for information,” Sorenson said. “It helps to know that they are not trying to sell anything.”

Sorenson said while Obamacare will not change much of his healthcare as a veteran, he believes it is important to know how the healthcare laws and reforms will affect everyone.

He said the information that Thrive provides can be extremely valuable.

Weisgrau said it is important for people to realize that our healthcare system is not the best in the world. He said the government is doing its best to try and build upon the existing system, which can create some complications overall.

The report states, under the act, the government will spend over $1 trillion on the healthcare reform by 2019. Weisgrau said if Gov. Mitt Romney were elected president in November, he has stated that he will seek to repeal the act.

For more information about the Affordable Care Act and Thursday night’s presentation, visit the KHCC website at kshealthconsumer.com or call the Health Reform Research Project at (785)-408-8008.

Jobless rate falls in most battleground states

By C. RUGABER and JULIE PACE Associated Press

CLEVELAND (AP) — Unemployment rates fell last month in nearly all of the battleground states that will determine the presidential winner, giving President Barack Obama fresh fodder to argue that voters should stick with him in an election focused squarely on the economy.

The declines, however, were modest. It’s unknown whether they will do much to sway undecided voters who are considering whether to back Republican Mitt Romney or give the Democratic president four more years.

The statewide data released by the Labor Department on Friday provide one of the last comprehensive looks at the health of the U.S. economy ahead of Election Day, now a little more than two weeks away.

Voters will get one more update on the national unemployment rate just days before the election.

But the state reports matter greatly to the Obama and Romney campaigns, which believe the public’s

impressions of the economy are shaped mostly by local conditions rather than national ones.

In Ohio, perhaps the most crucial battleground state for both Obama and Romney, the unemployment rate ticked down last month to 7 percent from 7.2 percent, below the national average of 7.8 percent.

“I knew a lot of people who were laid off and now they’re working,” said firefighter Matt Sparling, an Obama supporter from Parma Heights, Ohio. “So something good is happening here.”

Obama’s team is banking on the president getting credit for improvements in Ohio’s economy, particularly for the bailout of the auto industry, which has deep roots in the Midwestern swing state. But Romney has opportunities to run on the economy in Ohio, too. The state actually lost nearly 13,000 jobs in September and the drop in the unemployment rate was probably due in part to people dropping out of the job market.

The president didn’t mention the state jobless

“I knew a lot of people who were laid off and now they’re working, so something good is happening here.

— Matt Sparling, Obama supporter from Parma Heights, Ohio

numbers during a campaign stop Friday in Virginia, one of two battleground states where the rate didn’t drop. It held steady at the relatively low level of 5.9 percent.

Spirited on other topics, Obama quipped in a raucous rally at George Mason University that a case of “Romnesia” was preventing his opponent from remembering his own stances on health care, energy and a slate of policies.

“He’s forgetting what his own positions are — and he’s betting that you will, too,” Obama said.

“We’ve got to name this condition that he’s going through. I think it’s called Romnesia.”

Romney was headlining a rally in Florida Friday evening after spending much of the day in New York meeting with advisers.

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stepping off the campaign trail this weekend for debate preparations ahead of Monday’s third and final face-off in Boca Raton, Fla. Romney was staying in South Florida to practice, while Obama and top aides headed to Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, to prepare for the foreign policy-focused debate.

International issues competed with the economy for voters’ attention Friday, as fresh questions arose over what the White House knew when about the deadly attack on Americans in Libya.

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan accused Obama of stonewalling, telling Milwaukee radio station WTMJ that the president was refusing to answer even basic questions.

“His response has been inconsistent, it’s been misleading,” Ryan said.

Beirut car bomb kills top official, 7 others

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press

BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb ripped through Beirut on Friday, killing a top security official and seven others, shearing the balconies off apartment buildings and sending bloodied residents staggering into the streets in the most serious blast the Lebanese capital has seen in four years.

Dozens of people were wounded in the attack, which the state-run news agency said targeted the convoy of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, the head of

the intelligence division of Lebanon’s domestic security forces.

Many Lebanese quickly raised the possibility the violence was connected to the civil war in neighboring Syria, which has sent destabilizing ripples through Lebanon for the past 19 months. Al-Hassan led an investigation over the summer that implicated a pro-Syrian Lebanese politician and one of the highest aides to Syrian President Bashar Assad in plots to carry out bombings in Lebanon.

Frizay’s blast was also a reminder of Lebanon’s grim history, when the 1975-1990 civil war made the country notorious for kidnappings, car bombs and political assassinations. Even since the war’s end, Lebanon has been a proxy battleground for regional conflict, and the Mediterranean seaside capital has been prey to sudden, surprising and often unexplained violence shattering periods of calm.

“Whenever there is a problem in Syria they want to bring it to us,” said Karin Sabaha Gemayel, a secratary

at a law firm a block from the bombing site, where the street was transformed into a swath of rubble, twisted metal and charred vehicles.

“But you always hope it will not happen to us. Not again,” she said.

The blast ripped through a narrow street at mid-afternoon in Beirut’s mainly Christian Achrafieh neighborhood, an area packed with cafes and shops. Doors and windows were shattered for blocks, and several blackened cars appeared to have been catapulted through the air.

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Hank Thomas Stanton Tony and Kaylene Stanton, Wellsville, are the proud parents of Hank Thomas Stanton.

Hank was born on Oct. 11, 2012, at Olathe Medical Center. He weighed 8 pounds, 11½ ounces and was 21 inches long.

Hank joins two siblings, Will, 6, and Hudson, 2.

Maternal grandpar-

Grace Lutheran LWML met at Grace Lutheran Church on Oct. 4 at 7 p.m.

Nancy Lassman was the hostess.

They made plans for Trunk or Treat on Oct. 31 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the church parking lot, and for the annual Grace LWML

ents are Tom and Sandra Adams, Kincaid. Paternal grandparents are Dave and Susan Stanton, Garnett.

Great-g randparents are Vernon Sprague and the late Coletta Sprague, Kincaid, Richard and Marguerite Adams, Kincaid and Cleta McDonald and the late Jim McDonald, Garnett.

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Sunday night, warmer. Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Lows 65 to 70.

Monday, mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs near 80.

News from Carlyle Sunday morning Rev. Steve Traw’s morning message was “God’s Calendar/Daniel’s Seventy Sevens” from Daniel 9:2027.

This Sunday Rev. Traw will continue teaching from the Book of Daniel at the 9:30 a.m. service. David Loomis will lead Sunday school at 10:30 a.m. followed by church dinner at noon.

Bible study is at 3 p.m.

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Billy and Barbara Clay Friends and relatives are invited to join the children of Billy and Barbara Clay of Iola in celebrating the couple’s 50th wedding anniversary from 2 to 4 p.m. on Oct. 28 at the North Community Building in Iola.

Billy R. Clay and Barbara E. Hobert were united in marriage on Oct. 27, 1962 at the LaHarpe Christian Church.

Rev. Marvin Platt officiated the union and a reception was held at the annex.

This union has been blessed with four children; Kent and his wife Monica, Lee’s Summit, Mo., Audra Rose and her husband George, with grandchildren Kendra and Zack, LaHarpe,

Aaron and grandson Henry, Parkville, Mo., Matt and his wife Missy, and granddaughter Hailey, Kansas City, Mo. The couple has celebrated their special occasion by taking an Alaskan cruise.

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Iola native Mike Wilmoth, left, visits with San Diego Chargers head coach Norv Turner during a recent game. Wilmoth worked six NFL games as a replacement official.

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Iola native hits Tigers strike early in 34-7 win big time, briefly Iola High’s Tyler McIntosh (10) carries the ball against Fort Scott High Friday evening. The visiting Tigers scored 20 first-half points en route to a 34-7 win over Iola.

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In the past two weeks, Iola High has stood toe to toe with a pair of the toughest high schools in southeast Kansas.

While the Mustangs lost both contests, and were eliminated from postseason contention Friday with a 34-7 loss to Fort Scott High, Iola again showed off a hard-nosed edge indicative of team eager to join the cadre of Class 4A powerhouses.

But an early offensive explosion by Fort Scott, coupled with a handful of missed chances for Iola, shows the Mustangs aren’t there yet.

The Tigers scored on their first three drives of the game to open a 20-0 lead before Iola seized momentum.

The Mustangs’ Zeph Larney recovered a muffed punt by Fort Scott’s Marques Floyd early in

the second quarter, setting Iola up at the Fort Scott 12.

But the drive came up empty when Iola fumbled the ball right back four plays later.

Iola snuffed the ensuing Tiger drive when Jacob Rhoads recovered a fumble at the Mustang 17.

The recovery led to a mammoth, 19-play, 76-yard drive. But the 8-minute possession came up empty when Floyd intercepted a Mason Coons pass into the end zone with less than a minute left in the second quarter.

“We told the kids that we had two or three opportunities right there that we couldn’t capitalize on,” Iola head coach Doug Kerr said. “When you’re going up against a good team like Fort Scott you have to take advantage of those chances.”

Iola was hardly dissuaded, taking the opening possession of the second half 79 yards on 13 plays,

capped by a three-yard touchdown run by John Whitworth with 6:56 left in the period.

Fort Scott responded, showing why it’s the fourth-ranked Class 4A team in the state.

The Tigers went 63 yards on 14 plays — even though Iola thought it gained possession at one point on what was ruled an incomplete pass, but many thought was a fumble.

Floyd’s 20-yard run with 1:05 left in the third stretched the lead to 28-7.

Iola went three-and-out on its next possession, before Fort Scott capped the scoring with an eightyard touchdown run by Floyd — his third of the game — with 9:32 left on the clock.

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Former Iolan Mike Wilmoth, 54, has dipped his toe into the big time.

Earlier this season, Wilmoth worked three pre-season and three regular season games as a replacement referee for the National Football League. He calls it “an experience of a lifetime.”

Everything seemed larger than life.

The first game he officiated in regular season included Peyton Manning, a lock for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, suited up for the Denver Broncos.

Wilmoth worked games in San Francisco’s Candlestick Park, and wandered into “the same dugout where Willie Mays once sat.” He refereed in Lambeau Field in Green Bay, where Vince Lombardi coached and legends such as Bart Starr, Paul Hornung and, more recently, Brett Favre won championships.

“Everything was first-class, top of the line,” Wilmoth told the Register in a telephone interview from Wellington, where he teaches high school history and American government.

“The intensity of the players and coaches is almost beyond belief,” he said. And TV doesn’t do justice to their enormity.

When Wilmoth stepped on the field for a pre-season game between the Carolina Panthers and Houston Texans, one of the first players he saw up close was Panther quarterback Cam Newton.

“What a physical specimen,”

Wilmoth said. “I wouldn’t want to hit him with my pickup truck.”

Wilmoth also enjoyed a sizeable stipend as a replacement referee, though it paled to those who referee pro football games.

“I got a $5,000 signing bonus and was paid $2,000 for each preseason game, $3,000 for regular season games,” he said, including the same amounts when he was alternate and watched games from the sidelines. Training sessions paid $500 a day and $75 for meals.

That’s a far, far cry from what Wilmoth has earned during 36 years of officiating public school and college sports and arena football games.

THE JOURNEY that led Wilmoth to the NFL started in 1976 with the first game of the season in Colony.

“I was playing softball at Humboldt that summer and George Cunningham asked if I’d be interested in replacing Dad (Don Wilmoth) on an officiating crew that fall,” Wilmoth recalled. “Dad had officiated for years,” and retired when named Iola Middle School principal.

Cunningham, then guidance counselor at Humboldt High, scheduled local officiating crews.

“I remember I was with Don Martin (also an Iolan) and Larry Gleue and Wilfred Lehmann from Le Roy,” he said.

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Humboldt High’s Nathan Whitcomb, above, and Tanner McNutt, at right, were a lethal combination for the Cubs, who downed visiting Fredonia High 44-14 Friday to clinch a playoff berth.

Cubs soar over Fredonia, 44-14

By BOB JOHNSON bob@iolaregister.com

HUMBOLDT — Hayden Boring boomed a 39-yard field goal as time expired in the first half here Friday night to give Humboldt’s Cub a 37-0 lead over Fredonia and invoke the mercy rule.

But, it was a charitable act — and one of a veteran coach looking to the future — by Cub Coach K.B. Criss that kept the game from being more of a rout than it

was.

As the fourth quarter raced to an end — the mercy keeps the field clock running throughout the second half — Fredonia scored a couple of meaningless touchdowns while the Cubs celebrated a 44-14 district victory.

The two scores came after Criss had given the game to the Cub junior varsity, both on offense and defense. Cub coaches continued to insert players as the game wore

down, giving all 36 suited for the game a chance to play in the last regular season game at home.

Humboldt journeys to Burlington Thursday, with both teams assured a postseason berth in the postseason playoffs.

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Today High School Volleyball 4A Regional at El Dorado Iola vs. Towanda-Circle, 3 p.m. (semifinals and finals to follow) 3A Regional at Fredonia Humboldt vs. Wellsville, 3 p.m. (semifinals and finals to follow) 2A Regional at Uniontown (games begin at 1 p.m.)

Yates Center vs. Bishop Seabury (semifinals and finals to follow) 1A Regional at Moran Marmaton Valley vs. Heritage Christian Academy, 1 p.m. (semifinals and finals to follow) 1A Regional at Le Roy Crest vs. Elk Valley, 1 p.m.

Le Roy vs. Crest-Elk Valley winner (finals to follow) Cross Country Iola at 4A regional in Garnett, girls 1:30 p.m., boys 2 p.m.

Humboldt at 3A regional in Burlington, girls 10 a.m., boys 10:30 a.m.

Yates Center at 2A regional in Burlington, girls 11 a.m., boys 11:30 a.m.

Marmaton Valley, Crest at 1A regional at Wichita’s Cessna Activity Center, girls noon, boys 12:30 p.m.

Monday Jr. College Volleyball Cowley County at Allen, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday Jr. College Volleyball Allen at Neosho County, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday High School Football Iola at Anderson County, 7 p.m.

Marmaton Valley at St. Paul Humboldt at Burlington Altoona-Midway at Crest Southern Coffey County at Waverly Uniontown at Yates Center Friday High School Volleyball State tournaments, TBA Saturday, Oct. 27 Cross Country Kansas state meet, Wamego, TBA Allen at KJCCC/Region VI Championships, Overland Park High School Volleyball State tournaments, TBA

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MAY 5 of this year was a red-letter day for Wilmoth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got an email that said the NFL was looking for experienced officials who might work as replacements if a labor agreement with the regular refs wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t settled,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Wichita friend and

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Iola native Mike Wilmoth, center, served as a replacement official in six NFL games this season. He is shown here with his family and friends, from left, Jennifer Wilmoth, Brandon Wilmoth, Dawn Wilmoth-Barrett, Ben Barrett and family friend Jessica Lucas. At right, Wilmoth gets an earful from Tennessee Titans quarterback Matt Hasselbeck. junior college official told me, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You got to apply.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

He did and was one of 150 invited to interview in Dallas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had physicals, were measured for uniforms and had workouts with Billy â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;White Shoesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Johnson,â&#x20AC;? a former pro player, Wilmoth said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was in the umpires group and the foot drills went well. Then we were told to run a half mile through a series of cones.

At the first turn I was last in my group. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I decided Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d just keep up my pace and at the end someone told me I came in with the first third.â&#x20AC;?

During a subsequent meeting, Wilmoth was one of a group of 18 umpires asked if any would be willing to change to another position. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I raised my hand,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was willing to do whatever gave me the best

chance to make it.â&#x20AC;?

Back in Wellington, Wilmoth heard nothing for more than two weeks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had just about given up when I checked my email and there was a message to come to Dallas for a threeday clinic, to pick up my uniform and shoes and meet with my crew,â&#x20AC;? he said.

A crew consists of seven officials on the field, an alternate and two NFL employees in the replay booth.

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Wilmothâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife, Aleta, grew up in Iola as Aleta Platt, and has an athletic pedigree of her own.

She played basketball at Iola High and is remembered for swishing a basket from the key to hand Yates Center its first loss of the 1975-76 season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was there for my first pre-season game,â&#x20AC;? the Carolina-Houston contest, Wilmoth recalled.

Family always has been a huge part of the Wilmothsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives and he was delighted not only that Aleta, but also their children, Brandon, a teacher in Wellington, and Dawn, who works for Disney in California, and their spouses were on hand at the Denver pre-season game.

His parents, Don and Kathy Wilmoth, and Aunt Mary Dickey, all from Iola, were at Denverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mile High Stadium as well.

Wilmoth started his abbreviated pro career as line judge and switched to head linesman, which required that he spot the ball at the

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conclusion of each play, an exacting and tedious responsibility.

An average game has about 100 plays from scrimmage and each time the ball is snapped, Wilmoth as head linesman had a specific role. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Much of what happened on the field I never saw,â&#x20AC;? he recounted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first thing I did on each play was make sure it was a legal snap and then I read the (offensive) tackle to see if a run or pass play was developing. If it was a pass, I watched the No. 2 receiver and once the play ended, I immediately went to the ball, spotted it and moved the chains, if a first down resulted.â&#x20AC;?

HIS FIRST regular season game was a doozy, Pittsburgh at Denver on Sunday night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was great, getting to call Manningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first regular season game and also have Ben Roethlisberger (Pittsburgh quarterback) on the field,â&#x20AC;? Wilmoth said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I talked to both of them.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re nice guys. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They told us afterward that there were 28 TV cameras on the game and the television audience was about 27 million â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I was glad they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell us before the game.â&#x20AC;?

He also worked a Chicago-Green Bay Thursday night game, which gave him an idea of how well his crew functioned. It was the 185th meeting of the two long-time pro football rivals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After the game we went back to the hotel and in the bar and snack area were a lot of (Chicago) Bear fans,â&#x20AC;?

Wilmoth said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They applauded when our crew walked in. That meant a lot to all of us.â&#x20AC;?

He didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have much time to soak in the adulation. He caught a plane for Wichita that night and was in his classroom at Wellington by 11 a.m. Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My district was real good about working with me on the officiating,â&#x20AC;? he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There never was any problems with me getting off for games.â&#x20AC;?

His last game was Detroit at Tennessee and provided the greatest test of his officiating skills.

The game went into overtime. Tennessee scored on a field goal and Detroit had a fourth-and-one at about the Tennessee 30, close enough

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portunity to stay involved with sports â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he played several at IHS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; appealed to Wilmoth. So did making some extra money to help with college expenses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I also called a lot of games then with George and Buck (Quincy),â&#x20AC;? he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometime weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d do an afternoon JV game and another that evening.

I learned more that first year, and by watching Dad officiate, than I have since, including the NFL.â&#x20AC;?

While at Pittsburg State, he â&#x20AC;&#x153;did anything that paid; football, basketball, junior high, high school, anything to help pay for college.â&#x20AC;?

Wilmoth continued after college. His resume includes Division II and NAIA college games, as well as arena league pro games.

His arena league experience began in 2000 at Wichita, and involved players who resembled the NFLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s behemoths, but for one reason or another never were able to move from the college gridirons to the lavish venue of pro ball.

to try a field goal but the Lions apparently wanted to end the game with a touchdown rather than kick a three-pointer and go into a second overtime, Wilmoth said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They lined up and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure the Lion quarterback was trying to draw the Titans offside with his count, but because of some mix-up the center hiked the ball.

The quarterback tried to sneak for the first down. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I spotted the ball it was short and the play went upstairs for review. I sure was happy when the replay officials confirmed that where I spotted the ball was exactly right.â&#x20AC;?

Ron Baines, an NFL official, made a point to compliment Wilmoth after the game.

UNBEKNOWN to Wilmoth at the time, the Tennessee-Detroit game was his last.

The next night â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in a game without Wilmothâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crew â&#x20AC;&#x201D; there was a controversial play, which accelerated criticism of replacement officials. Before the week was up the NFL and officials union had an agreement.

Wilmoth said he took much from calling the pro games and opportunities to make friends. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have seven new friends (his crewmates) who Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably never see again, but it was great to get to know them and also to have the chance to talk with many of the players,â&#x20AC;? he said, which often occurred during TV time-outs.

In a game involving Cincinnati, he visited with Terence Newman, former Kansas State star defensive back, and met a coach from Elkhart. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had some fantastic interaction with coaches â&#x20AC;&#x201D; some did holler at me â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and players,â&#x20AC;? Wilmoth said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was so amazing to see the level of play in the pros,â&#x20AC;? he continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those guys are so fast and highly competitive. And it was interesting to see that they turned it up a notch from pre-season to the regular season.â&#x20AC;?

In summation, Wilmoth said from start to finish the experience was almost surreal.

But, it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t jade him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone right back to calling high school games,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m loving it just as much as I ever did.â&#x20AC;?

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Split caps Pony season PARSONS — Iola Middle School’s seventh-graders capped a successful season in come-from behind fashion.

The Ponies trailed 6-0 at the break before scoring twice in the second half.

Cale Barnhart’s one-yard touchdown run with 1:37 left on the clock, coupled with his two-point conversion, gave Iola a 16-14 win.

Nick Vaughn then intercepted a Parsons pass to seal the win.

In eighth-grade action, Parsons scored 24 first-half points en route to a 46-14 win.

The eighth-graders ended their season at 3-4. The seventh grade ended with a 5-2 record.

Parsons scored late in the first quarter of the seventh-grade contest and led through the balance of the half 6-0.

“These kids came out flat, but regrouped at halftime and played their best football,” Pony head coach

Marty Taylor said.

Evan Sigg got Iola on the scoreboard with 1:50 left in the third quarter. Sigg’s two-point run gave the Ponies an 8-6 advantage.

Parsons scored with 3:50 left in the game to set up Iola’s game-clinching scoring drive.

Barnhart rushed for 14 yards, while Sigg rushed for 38 and completed 2 of 5 passes for 19 yards, both to Ethan Holloway. Vaughn rushed for 12 yards; Isaac Vink for 10.

On defense, Matt Komma led Iola with seven tackles.

Barnhart and Nick Peterson added six and five tackles, respectively. Vaughn had four stops and the game-clinching pick.

“All year long these boys got better every practice,” Taylor said. “To go 5 and 2 against a tough SEK schedule is something to be proud of.”

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put the eighth-graders on the board late in the first half with a one-yard touchdown run.

Seth Sanford then scored from four yards out late in the third quarter. Sanford also ran in the two-point conversion.

“Parsons is a very good football team, but these kids battled all night,” Taylor said. “This loss doesn’t take away the fact these kids won seven games over their two years. They work hard and are a great group of kids.

“Ethan Scheibmeir played his heart out tonight, just a fantastic effort.”

Scheibmeir ran for 121 yards. Sanford had 14 yards on the ground. Ben Cooper completed 1 of 11 passes, including a seven-yard completion to Garrett Wade.

Chase Regehr and Scheibmeir led the Ponies with six and five tackles, respectively.

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Marmaton Valley High senior Cole Becker (25) breaks through Yates Center High’s defense with the help of senior Carlos Gonzales (32) in Friday night’s 54-0 win.

MV stays perfect with romp

by STEVEN SCHWARTZ steven@iolaregister.com

A bout with the flu could not stop the Marmaton Valley High Wildcats from flexing their offensive muscle in Friday’s rout of Yates Center High.

Senior Night for Marmaton Valley was over quickly as the Wildcats held Yates Center scoreless to end the game at halftime, 54-0. The win lifts Marmaton Valley’s record to 8-0.

Head coach Kent Houk said seven of his eight Wildcat starters were dealing with the flu all week during practice. Some had not fully recovered for Friday’s game.

“We had some sick kids this week, which meant some of our other guys had to step, up ” Houk said.

“I told them ‘No excuses.’”

The Wildcats racked up 229 yards of offense in the game’s two quarters, all of which came on the ground.

Yates Center’s defensive line proved no match for the size and speed of Marmaton Valley’s offensive players.

To open the first quar-

ter, senior Cole Becker broke through a hole for a 23-yard touchdown.

Becker ran once more for a touchdown in the first quarter, followed by a 5-yard touchdown from senior Ryan Smith.

The second quarter started with an explosive 48-yard run from Becker. Senior quarterback Jimmy Frye took back a 55-yard punt return for a touchdown, after another Marmaton Valley defensive stand.

Carlos Gonzales picked off Yates Center quarterback Bryce Leon and ran 50 yards to the end zone.

Leon was picked off once more for a touchdown late in the second quarter with a 40-yard interception return from Becker.

Becker led Marmaton Valley’s ground attack with 13 carries for 126 yards. Senior Daylen Houk rushed 10 times for 57 yards and Smith rushed seven times for 30 yards.

Defensively, the Wildcats held Yates Center to a mere 15 yards of total offense, allowing only one first down. Frye led Marmaton Valley in tackles

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Allen Community College’s Rebekah Zellers slides in an attempt to wrest control of the soccer ball against Garden City Community College’s Lizeth Gomez. Garden City scored two early goals in a 2-1 win.

Red Devils drop season finale

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Allen Community College had more to contend with than its opponent on the soccer field Thursday.

The Red Devil women also had to deal with a ferocious west wind that wreaked havoc on the team’s first-half play at home.

Garden City Community College was there to take advantage, scoring twice early in the first half and holding on in a 2-1 win.

The loss ends the 2012 season for the Red Devils at 2-15.

With west winds frequently exceeding 30 mph, kicks into the steady gusts were complicated substantially for Red Devil players in the first half. On multiple

occasions kicks into the air were headed back toward the players by the time the ball hit the turf.

As a result, much of the early action came with Garden City on offense and the Red Devils on defense.

The Broncbusters scored in the first five minutes on a penalty kick by Dominique Rodriguez. Garden City’s second tally came minutes later when Katherine Hamric’s blast deflected off the hands of Allen goalkeeper Keelie Arbuckle.

Mother Nature’s cruel hand became evident in the second half as well.

While the wind was still blowing, it lost much of its intensity as the sun settled to the west, eliminating what could have been a sub-

stantial offensive advantage for Allen.

The Red Devils scored on a goal by sophomore Marisa Menzo, and peppered the Broncbusters with several shots on goal after that, but could never tie the score.

“That’s why we’ve told our captains if you can ever get the wind advantage, get it early, because you never know when it’s going to go away,” Red Devil head coach Doug Desmarteau said.

While Allen’s season was short on victories, the team’s effort is one worthy of pride, Desmarteau said.

“Obviously we didn’t get the wins we would’ve liked, but the girls never gave up,” he said. “We had a few injuries that set us back during the season, but their effort was unbelievable. They played hard every game.

I’m very proud of them.”

with five. Becker and senior Nathan Smart each had four stops. Senior Jared Kale had two tackles and a sack. Houk, Becker and Gonzales each had one interception.

Coach Houk said his team will need to be prepared to when it travels to a strong St. Paul team Thursday, even though the Indians suffered their first loss of the season Friday, a 52-40 setback to Marais Des Cygnes Valley.

Yates Center 0-0-x-x—0 Marmaton Valley 24-30-x-x—54 MV — Becker 23 yd run (Smith run) MV — Becker 8 yd run (Becker run) MV — Smith 5 yd run (Houk run) MV — Becker 48 yd run (Becker run) MV — Frye 55 yd punt return (Becker run) MV — Gonzales 50 yd interception (PAT failed) MV — Becker 40 yd interception (PAT failed)

YC MV First Downs 1 10 Rushing 12-10 24-231 Passing-yds 5 -2 Total offense 15 229 Passing 9-14-3 2-2-0 Fumbles 1 0 Punting 5-33 0 Penalties 1-5 3-25

Crest clinches playoff berth LE ROY — Crest High Lancer’s offense struck from the air and the ground in a 58-12 win over Southern Coffey County High’s Titans Friday night.

The Lancers scored 52 points in the first half alone, before ending the game in the third quarter due to the Kansas eightman football mercy rule.

“Defensively we stepped up tonight and played with emotion,” Crest head couch Brent Smith said. “It was a good district win for us, they showed great effort.”

Crest running back Kyle Hammond started the scoring early in the first quarter with a 40yard touchdown run. The Lancers scored three more touchdowns in the first quarter from Brock Ellis, Jordan Morton and another from Hammond.

The Titans attempted to put together a comeback late in the first with

a 30-yard touchdown pass to Turner Anderson from Chism Newkirk, then again with a 12 yard touchdown pass from Newkirk to Josiah Witteman.

Another three touchdowns in the second quarter led Crest to a comfortable lead at half. A 13-yard touchdown run by Kyle Hammond ended the game in the third quarter.

Hammond led the team in passing with 7 completions on 10 attempts for 173 yards. Morton completed 2 passes on 4 attempts for 51 yards. He also led the team in receptions with four catches for 126 yards. Hammond had one reception for 36 yards, and Brock Ellis had one reception for 36 yards. Hammond rushed 14 times for 111 yards.

Dylan Sedlak rushed three times for seven yards with one touchdown.

Defensively, offensive lineman Jesse Boone led

the team with 15 tackles.

Hammond had seven. Ellis came up with the only interception of the evening.

“We played great tonight, but we need to keep moving on,” Smith said.

Crest improved to 5-3 overall for the season, with a 3-1 record in district play — clinching a playoff berth. They travel to Tyro Christian Thursday.

Crest 28-24-6-x—58 Southern Coffey Co. 12-0-0-x—12 Crest — Hammond 40 yd run (PAT failed) Crest — Ellis 15 yd pass from Morton (PAT failed) Crest — Morton 43 yd pass from Hammond (Hammond run) Crest — Hammond 3 yd run (Morton pass from Hammond) SCC — Anderson 30 yd pass from Newkirk (PAT failed) SCC — Witteman 12 yd pass from Newkirk (PAT failed) Crest — Hammond 36 yd pass from Morton (Hammond run) Crest — Sedlak 1 yd run (Sedlak pass from Hammond) Crest — Morton 41 yd pass from Hammond (Miller pass from Hammond) Crest — Hammond 13 yd run

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Fort Scott took the game’s opening drive 83 yards on eight plays, capped by a sixyard Floyd touchdown run.

The Tigers’ Zach Denton followed with a 1-yard touchdown at the 3:48 mark of the first quarter.

Floyd’s 53-yard punt return following Iola’s next possession set the Tigers up at Iola’s 16. Victor Hughes ran off those 16 yards on one play to put the lead at 20-0.

Whitworth rushed 17 times for 52 yards to lead the Mustangs, while Rhoads traveled 46 yards on nine carries. Coons was 3 of 12 passing for 99 yards.

Tyler McIntosh completed his only attempt for seven yards.

Adam Kauth had 61 yards on three receptions, Eric Heffern had 28 yards on two catches and Rhoads had two catches for 21 yards.

On defense, Iola was led

by Kaden Macha’s 12 tackles — eight unassisted — while Rhoads and Heffern had eight tackles apiece.

Whitworth and McIntosh had five stops each.

Iola (5-3 overall and 8-2

in Class 4A, District 6 play) ends the season Thursday at Anderson County High in Garnett. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.

Fort Scott 20-0-8-6—34 Iola 0-0-7-0—7 FS — Floyd 6 yd run (kick failed) FS — Denton 1 yd run (Floyd run) FS — Hughes 16 yd run ((kick failed) Iola — Whitworth 3 yd run (Macias kick) FS — Floyd 20 yd run (Allen pass from Stark) FS — Floyd 8 yd run (kick failed)

FS Iola First Downs 16 13 Rushes-yds 46-285 48-133 Passing yds 79 110 Total Offense 364 243 Passing 5-9-0 8-20-1 Fumbles-lost 3-2 3-2 Punts 0 5/29 Penalties 3-25 5-40

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We will bring it all back together in one tract with $60,000 add to total price for opening bid.

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Terms: Cash or approved check. All items must be settled for and removed day of sale. Not responsible for accidents or theft.

Announcements day of sale take precedence over printed material.

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TO: All Oil & Gas Producers, Unleased Mineral Interest Owners, Landowners, and all persons whomever concerned.

YOU, and each of you, are hereby notified that J.R. Burris has filed an application to commence the disposal of saltwater into the Arbuckle formation at the Alan Kettle SWD1, 85â&#x20AC;&#x2122; from South Line, 3880â&#x20AC;&#x2122; from East Line, section 1, Township 24, Range 18E, Allen County, Kansas; with a maximum operating pressure of 300 psig and maximum injection rate of 800 barrels per day.

ANY persons who object to or protest this application shall be required to file their objections or protest with the Conservation Division of the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas within thirty (30) days from the date of this publication.

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sive and defense.

The offensive line gave Quarterback Nathan Whitcomb ample time to find receivers and opened holes for Whitcomb and tailback Jacob Carpenter to scamper through.

“They played their tails off,” Criss said of his linemen.

When Fredonia blitzed linebackers, which it did often, “we got our heads up and picked them up,” Criss noted. “Our lines battled all night and did one heck of a job pass blocking and stopping the run.

Once Fredonia had the ball, Cub defenders often were in the backfield before plays could fully develop.

On several occasions blackclad Humboldt players converged on Yellowjacket backs as the ball was being handed off.

Those things were contributing factors to the lopsided victory, but more importantly was the speed of Humboldt, completely as a team and individually

with Whitcomb and Tanner McNutt.

McNutt returned the opening kickoff 55 yards to the Fredonia 32 and was just a stutter-step from going the distance.

Four plays later Whitcomb, after a feint to Carpenter, stepped through a huge hole on the right side of his line, side-stepped a tackler at the 10-yard line and darted to the end zone for a 22-yard score. Boring shot the extra point through the uprights.

Just over two minutes had expired.

Fredonia showed some life when it came the Yellowjackets’ turn, but that soured the fourth play of the possession when Isaac Ostrosky, a freshman getting the start at quarterback, lost the ball and Humboldt’s Trey Johnson cradled it at the Fredonia 23.

A 17-yard pass to McNutt advanced the ball to the 6, before a motion penalty moved it back to the 11.

Whitcomb danced his way

Public notice (First Published in The Iola Register October 13, 2012); IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Plaintiff, vs.

Darrell Leon Krone and Susan R. Krone, et al.

Defendants.

Case No. 12CV43 Court Number: Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Allen County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the Front Door of the Courthouse at Iola, Allen County, Kansas, on November 7, 2012, at 10:00 AM, the following real estate: West 1/2 Lot 2 and all of Lots 3 and 4, Block 20 to the City of Humboldt, Allen County, Kansas, commonly known as 519 Osage Street, Humboldt, KS 66748 (the “Property”) to satisfy the judgment in the above-entitled case. The sale is to be made without appraisement and subject to the redemption period as provided by law, and further subject to the approval of the Court.

For more information, visit www.

Southlaw.com Thomas Williams, Sheriff Allen County, Kansas Prepared By: South & Associates, P.C. Kristen G. Stroehmann (KS # 10551) 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 Overland Park, KS 66211 (913)663-7600 (913)663-7899 (Fax) Attorneys For Plaintiff (132432) (10) 13, 20, 27

In the Matter of the Estate of

GRACE M. HARTMAN, deceased.

Case No. 2012 PR 36 NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that on September 19, 2012, a Petition was filed in this Court by the Kansas Estate Recovery Program, an authorized agent of the Kansas Department of Health & Environment, Division of Health Care Finance, praying for the appointment of an administrator.

You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 30th day of October, 2012, at 8:30 a.m. of said day, in the District Court sitting at the Courthouse in Iola, Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

All creditors are notified to exhibit their demands against the estate within four (4) months of the date of first publication of this Notice, as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

Benjamin D. Sherber, Kansas Estate Recovery Program Petitioner Henshall, Pennington & Brake P.O. Box 667 Chanute, KS 66720 (620) 431-2600 (620) 431-1505 Fax Attorneys for Petitioner (10) 6, 13, 20

to the 5 and then on consecutive off-tackle plays Carpenter scored. A rare miss

by Boring left the score at 13-0.

Fredonia was still in the game at that point, but had given no indication it would be able to compete with Humboldt in the longer term.

A three-and-out punt turned disastrous when the center’s pass flew over the punter’s head, giving Humboldt the ball at the fouryard line. Whitcomb quickly scored on the second of two short thrusts, and the rout was on at 20-0.

After a Whitcomb pass sailed over Noah Thornbrugh’s outstretched hand, Whitcomb called No. 88’s number again and this time the 6-foot-6 wideout was able to snag a dart at the Humboldt 47, put a nice move on two Fredonia defenders and outraced two others for 57yard touchdown.

With just under three minutes left in the half, Whitcomb and McNutt hooked up again on a 29yard scoring play.

That upped the Cubs’ margin to 34-0, a point shy of triggering the mercy rule, which requires the field clock to stop only for time-outs in the second half a game.

Humboldt got the ball back with less than a min-

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ute in the half and after a 6-yard run by Whitcomb put it on the Fredonia 28, Criss let time run down to 1.3 seconds before sending in Boring to kick a field goal that split the uprights and cleared them by a good 10 yards.

Humboldt scored its sixth and final touchdown with 3:50 left in the third from 8 yards out when Whitcomb found McNutt prancing across the end zone unattended after the had juked a Jacket defender so badly he tangled his feet and fell.

Humboldt improved its record to 6-2.

Humboldt 20-17-7-0—44 Fredonia 0-0-0-14—14 Humboldt — Whitcomb 16 yd run (Boring kick) Humboldt — Carpenter 2 yd run (kick failed) Humboldt — Whitcomb 1 yd run (Boring kick) Humboldt — Thornbrugh 57 yd pass from Whitcomb (Boring kick) Humboldt — McNutt 29 yd pass from Whitcomb (Boring kick) Humboldt — Boring 39 yd field goal Humboldt — McNutt 8 yd pass from Whitcomb (Boring kick) Fredonia — Stephens 10 yd pass from Ostrosky (2 pt conversion good) Fredonia — Kingery 13 yd pass from Ostrosky (conversion failed) Fredonia Humboldt First Downs 8 8 Rushing yds 38-114 12-52 Passing yds 30 212 Total offense 144 264 Passing 6-12-0 11-18-1 Fumbles-lost 2-2 0-0 Punts/avg.

4/22 1/26 Penalties 2-10 8-73

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Firestorm erupts over Illinois Congressman’s comments on abortion

By BBOB SECTER Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — Controversial new comments on abortion from U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., have raised a new political firestorm over his re-election bid, with abortion rights advocates likening him to embattled Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin.

At a televised debate Thursday with opponent Tammy Duckworth, Republican Walsh declared that abortion should be outlawed in all circumstances, including to save the life of the mother.

But it was his comments to reporters after the event at WTTW-TV that sparked the most attention. Walsh said medical advances had rendered it unnecessary to ever perform an abortion to save a mother’s life.

“With modern technology and science, you can’t find one instance,” Walsh declared.

Asked then if he was saying it was never medically necessary to perform an abortion to save the life of a mother, Walsh responded: “Absolutely, yes.”

He did not elaborate on how he came to that conclusion. But Walsh scheduled a news conference for Friday afternoon in Elk Grove Village to “discuss his comments about his pro-life stance during and after last night’s WTTW debate and to discuss the state of the race,” according to a release from his campaign.

Duckworth says she is pro-choice. Her campaign manager, Kaitlin Fahey, sent an email to supporters condemning Wa l s h ’s c o m ments as “extreme and out of touch.” “ T h i s Joe Walsh is truly shocking,” the statement said. “Politicians shouldn’t ever be involved in a woman’s personal medical decisions — especially when their beliefs about women’s bodies are as offensive as this.”

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By HEATHER HOLLINGWORTH Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Farmers this spring were able to plant all but a few thousand acres of the land deluged by last year’s flooding along on the Missouri River and the intentional breaching of a Mississippi River levee in southeast Missouri, U.S. Department of Agriculture figures show.

When farmers can’t plant their crops because of flooding or other adverse weather conditions, they are able to collect “prevented planting” payments from insurance to help mitigate the loss from not being able to sell a crop.

USDA numbers show farmers received the payments for only about 4,900 acres of unplanted Missouri River cropland in about 20 counties in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa after the Missouri River basin land flooded in spring 2011, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released massive amounts of water from upstream reservoirs that had been filled with melting snow and heavy rains.

The onslaught lasted more than 100 days, flooding about 207,000 acres of farmland in Missouri alone.

When the water receded, tree branches and other debris were strewn across fields. Some fields were filled with ruts while others contained so much sand they resembled deserts.

The largest amount of unplanted land was in Missouri’s Holt County, with 1,125 acres, followed by nearby Atchison County, with 1,068 acres, the USDA figures show.

“We had a mild winter and it did allow for an early cleanup,” said Mark Sitherwood, presiding commissioner of Holt County. “But most of our ground that didn’t get replanted was due to sand and sand deposits in and along the river where the breaks occurred and where we had the higher currents. We have land that is basically probably ruined.”

Data shows another 5,600 acres went unplanted in southeast Missouri’s New Madrid and Mississippi counties, in part because

they were flooded when the corps used explosives to blow gaping holes in the Birds Point levee. The intentional breaching, which inundated about 130,000 acres, was designed to let water out of the Mississippi River and save the tiny town of Cairo, Ill., on the river’s eastern bank.

“We’ve done a lot of work down there to help the landowners get back into production,” Charlie Rahm, a spokesman for the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Officials stressed not all the unplanted land in New Madrid County was tied to the breaching of the Birds Point flooding.

Other busted levees and overflowing waterways inundated an additional 510,000 acres in 2011 in levee-protected areas in southeast Missouri, said Mark Nussbaum, an engineer for the NRCS. Another 1,703 acres went unplanted this year in Stoddard County, with smaller amounts of land going fallow in other nearby counties, because of that flooding, USDA numbers show.

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“Everybody doesn’t learn the same way,” Neighbor said. “You can’t just go in and teach physics without understanding who you’re teaching it to and how you’re getting across to your students.”

Five of the state board’s 10 seats are on the ballot in the Nov. 6 election, and contests in three districts are contested. Neighbor and Roberts are looking to replace Sue Storm, an Over-

“ Everybody doesn’t learn the same way. You can’t just go in and teach physics without understanding who you’re teaching it to and how you’re getting across to your students.

— Cindy Neighbor, a Shawnee Democrat and forner Kansas House member

that’s simmered for years.

Roberts is running for the open state board seat for the 2nd District, covering populous stretches of northern and eastern Johnson County. His opponent is Cindy Neighbor, a Shawnee Democrat and former Kansas House member who’s served 16 years on the Shawnee Mission school board.

“I’m committed to being a reformer,” Roberts said during a recent interview.

“For someone to teach a music class, would you rather have someone who has training in music or pedagogy? The system says pedagogy.”

Neighbor contends that Roberts underestimates the need for aspiring teachers to have an understanding of different teaching methods, classroom management, child development and basic child psychology.

Education officials contend that the state’s rules, allowing candidates to teach

land Park Democrat who’s not seeking re-election.

For years, residents of the suburban neighborhoods in the 2nd District have seen their schools as an economic magnet.

They’ve been willing to increase local taxes to support them and have chafed at budget constraints imposed by the state.

Neighbor, 63, has had mixed success running as a moderate candidate for the Legislature over the past decade. She won a House seat as a Republican in 2002 but lost her 2004 GOP primary to a conservative. She returned to the House in 2006 as a Democrat who’d tied her fortunes partly to then-Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. But she lost the House seat in 2010 to another conservative Republican.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man who operates an online tutoring service as “Mr. X, Mentor of Mathematics” is running for the State Board of Education in hopes of making it easier for professionals outside the public school system to become teachers.

Steve Roberts argues that state policies still place too much emphasis on ensuring that aspiring second-career teachers go back to college to study teaching methods — instead of quickly tapping their knowledge of subjects such as math and science, particularly in middle and high schools. Roberts, a self-described conservative Republican from the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, is riling educators and renewing a debate

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ment with local schools that started three decades ago as a parent-teacher association “room mother.”

Roberts, 54, has had a varied career that includes stints as a truck driver, radio sports announcer, newspaper sports editor and federal tax examiner. He holds degrees in electrical engineering and education, and his “Mr. X” online tutoring service offers help with algebra, calculus, geometry and trigonometry.

He ran for the state board in 2008 as an independent candidate, garnering nearly 21,000 votes, or about 14 percent. Storm captured the seat with 48 percent of the vote.

This year’s race between Roberts and Neighbor comes amid an ongoing interest among conservative Republicans in turning the debate over education in Kansas to issues other than the state’s level of funding.

Conservative Gov. Sam Brownback appointed a task force last month to examine ways to make schools more efficient in their spending of state dollars, and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Marc Rhoades, a Newton Republican, said he’d like to press reform issues next year. And Rhoades said he’s interested in the policy questions Roberts is raising.

“The education establishment doesn’t want us to talk about it,” Rhoades said. “I think there are plenty of people who are naturally good, naturally gifted at teaching.”

The board’s policies allow someone interested in becoming a teacher to get a license as a “visiting scholar” after documenting advanced studies or extensive training in a particular study, “exceptional talent” or work of “outstanding distinction.” They can teach another two years under restricted licenses as they pursue up to 24 college credit hours of education courses.

Roberts said he agrees that people wanting to teach in elementary grades need such grounding in teaching methods and child development. But he contends it’s far less important when it comes to teaching in middle and high school.

He said loosening the requirements is likely to help poor schools seeking qualified instructors.

But Karen Godfrey, the KNEA’s president, who’s on leave from a job teaching language arts at Seaman High School in north Topeka, contends the rules ensure that all students have qualified teachers.

“We wouldn’t put them under the care of a doctor who maybe is good at it eventually,” she said. “I wouldn’t want a CPA who hadn’t met the standards.”

Quotations of the day By the Associated Press

“If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal.

We’re going to fix it. All of it.” — President Barack

Obama, rejecting criticism that his administration has offered a confused response to the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya. ___

“I just reminded everybody when we took our punches all year, ‘You know what? Let’s just wait till the end, and then if we have underachieved, I will be the first one to admit it.’” — Tigers manager Jim

Leyland, after Detroit swept the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series and advanced to the World Series.

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Sprint Cup Series 1. Brad Keselowski 2. Jimmie Johnson 3. Denny Hamlin 4. Clint Bowyer 5. Kasey Kahne 6. Greg Biffle 7. Martin Truex Jr. 8. Tony Stewart Jeff Gordon 10. Kevin Harvick 11. Matt Kenseth 12. Dale Earnhardt Jr.

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Dale Earnhardt Jr., acting on the advice of doctors, sat out the Charlotte Motor Speedway race and will also miss the next race in Kansas City, Kan. Earnhardt is suffering from a concussion in the last-lap crash at Talladega.

He also took a hard hit a month earlier while testing at Kansas Speedway.

For the first time since May 1961, no natives of North Carolina made the starting field for a Cup race â&#x20AC;Ś and the race was in North Carolina.

It had been since September 1979 that a major NASCAR race had no driver with the last name Earnhardt in the field. David Pearson won the next-to-last race of his legendary career in the Southern 500 at Darlington, driving the injured Dale Earnhardtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chevy.

Carl Edwardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; season-long slump seems to have at least slowed. He has a fifth and a seventh in the past three races after failing to finish better than 17th in five straight.

Charlotte Motor Speedway is famous for its pre-race stunts.

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Qualifying record: Matt Crafton, Chevy, 96.352 mph, Oct. 29, 2011.

Race record: Jon Wood, Ford, 72.069 mph, Oct. 8, 2003.

Last race: Parker Kligerman claimed his first career victory, winning the Fredâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 250 at Talladega after enduring five runner-up finishes, in the past two seasons. Another Toyota driver, Johnny Sauter, finished second ahead of the Chevys of James Buescher and Ty Dillon.

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Qualifying record: Martin Truex Jr., Chevy, 178.938 mph, Oct. 8, 2005.

Race record: Jeff Green, Ford, 129.125 mph, Sept. 29, 2001.

Last race: Joey Logano won his eighth race of the season, but it was the Toyota driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first victory ever at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Had it not been for a disastrous pit-road mistake, Brad Keselowski might have given Logano a run for his money, but Keselowski ended up finishing 18th.

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When: Sunday, Oct. 21.

Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s winner: Jimmie Johnson, Chevy.

Qualifying record: Matt Kenseth, Ford, 180.856 mph, Oct. 8, 2005.

Race record: Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 144.122 mph, April 22, 2012.

Last race: Toyota driver Clint Bowyer emerged from the field late, taking advantage of fuel mileage, and held off another Toyota pilot, Denny Hamlin, to win Charlotte Motor Speedwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bank of America 500. It was Bowyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third victory of the season. Jimmie Johnson finished third in a Chevy.

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David Ragan managed to get through â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Big Oneâ&#x20AC;? at Talladega for a fourth-place finish. The next week, at Charlotte, his Ford gets tangled up with Jeff Burtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chevy on the 16th lap. NASCAR officials later penalized Ragan, who had returned to the race, with a â&#x20AC;&#x153;wave-around infraction.â&#x20AC;?

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Dale Earnhardt Jr., seen after a wreck in 2011, missed Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s race after suffering two concussions. The driver was supported by his peers, many of whom said they had suffered concussions without getting medical attention. The topic was a sobering one at CMS.

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CONCORD, N.C. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The news that hit NASCAR just before its fall weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway was a shocker â&#x20AC;Ś and almost totally unexpected.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., the most popular driver in the sport, wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t racing in the Bank of America 500. Or, for that matter, in the Kansas Casino 400 a week later.

It turned that Earnhardt, one of 12 drivers eligible for the championship through the Chase for the Sprint Cup format, had been hiding a concussion originally suffered while testing at Kansas Speedway a month earlier.

When Earnhardt was involved in another crash, on the final lap of the Good Sam 500 at Talladega on Oct. 7, his difficulties recurred, and Earnhardt thought it best to consult doctors, who determined it would be best for the 38-year-old veteran to sit out at least two Cup races.

Regan Smith substituted for Earnhardt at Charlotte and will do so again in Kansas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just for my own well-being, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ... if I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

need to go get in a race car and get hit again, I needed somebody to tell me that, because I was going to have a hard time making that decision for myself,â&#x20AC;? Earnhardt said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel perfectly fine, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to keep getting hit in the head.â&#x20AC;?

To a man, all of Earnhardtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s peers united in support of his decision. Some revealed that they had suffered concussions themselves without seeking medical attention. It was a sobering week for observers who began considering whether they had been lulled into a false sense of complacency and security over the revolutionary advances in safety that had occurred since Dale Earnhardtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fatal crash in the 2001 Daytona 500.

Shortly after marveling that every driver walked away from a spectacular, 25-car crash at Talladega, many realized that walking away and being OK arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily the same.

Sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than a 500 mile race among 43 cars. Sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a race between speed and safety, and in that competition, safety is a moving target.

Dear NASCAR This Week, I wanted to speak up for all of those who listen to the races on MRN (my local station is in Owensboro, Ky.) I do not have cable TV. I found it hard to believe that the race, with very few cautions, took up all its time that they had to break away and go back to their regular programming that quickly.

I mean, they had just announced that the crash had broken out and that one car was on its roof (they named the wrong driver and car) and that Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car was on fire, and they broke away and started playing music.

I was shocked that they did that! My computer is in the shop, so I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find out what was going on. I used my phone to text the question to Facebook to find out where my driver finished and that he was not the one that finished upside down even though they announced that he was. ... It is sad that they changed so quickly, and with a crash on the final lap of a restrictor-plate race. It reminded me of the Daytona 500 in 2001 when Dale Earnhardt died. â&#x20AC;Ś Dan Meny Newburgh, Ind. The MRN feed continued on for some time after the race ended. Undoubtedly, it was your local station that chose to leave the Talladega broadcast early and return to other programming.

Kansas â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Awesomeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Again Since Denny Hamlin won the STP 400 at Kansas Speedway on April 27, the 1.5-mile track has been repaved and reconfigured. Where once its turns were banked at a uniform 15 degrees, they are now variably banking, â&#x20AC;&#x153;topping offâ&#x20AC;? (i.e., at the top) at 20 degrees. Nine Sprint Cup teams tested the new surface on Aug. 28-29 and, by and large, gave it their blessing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think they did a really nice job repaving,â&#x20AC;? said Matt Kenseth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drivers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t huge fans of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;repaves,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; especially being the first ones at a track, but (at the test) the cars were more comfortable on the track. I think the repave is awesome.â&#x20AC;?

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Trade-offs of age â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mark Martin, gression of realizations about NAS- Vickers, who sometimes drives the NASCAR seasons once began not in Daytona CAR, Charlotte Motor Speedway, No. 55 Toyota in which Mark Martin 53 years old and no longer compet- Beach, Fla., but Riverside, Calif. On Jan. 23, 1972, Grew Richard PettyUp drove his STP Plymouth The Food On! ing full time, put his Toyota on the You the Earnhardt family and the Tar started out front Saturday. to victory in the Winston Western 500 on the outside of the front row at Charlotte.

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