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Fort Scott to reopen hospital Active cases............255 Total cases*............3,740 Deaths...................37

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By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

FORT SCOTT — Fort Scott will once again have a hospital.

Drew Solomon, chief executive officer of Noble Health Corporation, announced the non-profit will reopen as an acute care facility in what had been Mercy Hospital.

The announcement came at a press conference Monday in the former hospital, which closed its doors in 2018.

“We will be issuing in the coming weeks and months our queue for construction services for the revitalization

and restoration of a community hospital in Bourbon County. That is our mission and our focus,” Solomon said.

The new medical center will be called Noble Health Bourbon County Community Hospital.

The announcement came at the conclusion of a monthslong feasibility study funded in part by Bourbon County and Fort Scott dona-

Noble Health Corporation announced Monday it will soon begin converting the old Mercy Hospital building into what will become Noble Health Bourbon County Community Hospital.

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tions, who took advantage of $1 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, made available by the federal government to help governing bodies cope with the

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By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

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Wintry mix heads this way tonight By the Register staff

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Kansas needs a fix for 29 dams

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Old Man Winter is expected to make his presence known with some emphasis starting tonight.

The National Weather Service has put all of southeast Kansas in a winter storm warning, effective from 9 o’clock through noon Thursday.

A wintry mix of rain and sleet tonight is expected to quickly transition to moderate to heavy snow

by Wednesday morning.

Snow accumulation of 5 to 8 inches is expected, coupled with gusty north winds to create near whiteout conditions at times.

COVID-19 pandemic.

Solomon gave no timeline for when the renovated hospital will open its doors.

“It is a long process,” he

Tammy Dieker is renovating The Market Place, a flea market in downtown Iola. She hopes to reopen by the end of February. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Unearthing old treasures

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Tammy Dieker’s labor of love has been equal parts renovation, exploration and perspiration.

Dieker, who took over management of The Market Place Flea Market on Jan. 1 from Laura Rasa, has spent the past month overseeing a number of changes, inside and out.

Most passersby on the south side of the Iola square have noticed the scaffolding local contractor Keith Keller is using to refurbish and repaint the building’s facade, most notably around the second-story popout windows.

Once finished, the exterior will fit in perfectly with its similar-styled buildings along the 100 block of East Madison Avenue.

Keller took advantage

of Monday’s unseasonably warm temperatures by spraying a base coat of paint on the brick exterior around the first window.

If tomorrow’s winter storm passes quickly enough, Keller hopes to return to finishing the windows.

By then, he will have plastic sheeting in place so crews can continue working outSee MARKET | Page A3

TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Agriculture briefed a legislative committee Monday on legal challenges of compelling action to repair 29 dams in unsatisfactory condition and considered a hazard to homes, businesses or infrastructure.

Earl Lewis, chief engineer with the agriculture department, said the state has regulatory control of about one-third of the state’s 6,695 dams. Overall, more than 600 dams in Kansas have been identified as significant or high hazards if breached.

The state has jurisdiction over 400 of these dams.

“There are 29 out there where we need to have action,” Lewis said. “Some of these we’ve known about for a number of years. We don’t have the enforcement tools.”

He told members of the Kansas House committee devoted to water issues that the Department of Agriculture lacked authority to enforce safety standards designed to correct problems at weakened dams. In these cases, he See DAMS | Page A6

Bill would limit Kansas National Guard’s role in armed conflicts

By NOAH TABORDA Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — A measure to limit when the Kansas National Guard can go into active duty and prevent the guard from being subject to COVID-19 vaccine mandates drew disagreement Monday about its legality and the message taking such action Sen. Rob Olson. (NOAH TABORDA/ KANSAS REFLECTOR) would send.

Senate Bill 370, known as they are needed for disaster the Defend the Guard Act, response. The bill also exwould prevent the state Na- empts any guard members tional Guard from leaving from COVID-19 vaccine rethe state for active duty un- quirements or potential disless Congress has passed an cipline. official declaration of war or Supporters of the bill told Vol. 124 No. 85 Iola, KS 75 Cents

legislators on the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, led by Sen. Robert Olson, R-Olathe, that National Guard members are unfairly asked to fight in endless armed conflicts despite there being no declaration of war since 1942.

“When Congress declares war, it changes the state of our nation, and it becomes the law,” said Sgt. Dan McKnight, of the Defend the Guard movement. “The National Guard can and should be on the tip of the spear. They should be activated into federal service to fight and win and then come home. Without

a declaration of war, though that last part never seems to happen.”

Lawmakers in more than 30 states have introduced similar legislation, but the act has yet to pass anywhere.

If the Legislature approves the measure under consideration, Kansas would become the first state to pass this type of law.

While the fiscal note indicated no budgetary impact, a representative of the Kansas Adjutant General’s Department said the effect on future funding and message it would send to the federal government is concerning.

Maj. Kari Beth Neuhold told legislators that the Kansas National Guard’s dual membership in the National Guard of the United States has allowed the federal government to provide 99% of its annual budget.

“If passed, this legislation could signal to the Pentagon and to the Department of Defense an unwillingness to uphold our sworn federal obligation,” Neuhold said.

“Without a federal mission, there’s little incentive for the federal government to continue funding the Kansas National Guard, and this could See GUARD | Page A6

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Skip Williams Jimmie Dean “Skip” Williams, age 70, of Iola, Kan., passed away peacefully on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, after a long battle with cancer at his home in rural Allen County.

Skip was the oldest of two children. He was born in Joplin, Mo., on July 2, 1951.

Skip graduated from Shawnee Mission North, class of 1969. Skip Williams He kept in touch with many of his childhood friends from the neighborhood he grew up in and also high school friends. He attended several of his class reunions. In his youth he enjoyed fishing with his grandfather, Hobe Williams.

Skip came to Iola after a transfer from Inter-Collegiate Press in Kansas City. Iola became his lifelong home. Jim worked for Merchants Supply in Iola and Genery Novelty for over 10 years. He later became a self-employed carpenter and also worked at Allen County Hospital for both the new and old facilities as a contracted employee. He also had several evening part-time janitorial jobs that he and his wife, Jan Williams, did for several years.

Skip and Jan recently celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary on Jan. 19, 2022.

Skip is preceded in death by his mother, Helen Williams, on Feb. 18, 2004; grandparents, Mildred and O.R. Arrowood, and Hobe and Gertrude Williams, all of Joplin.

Skip is survived by his wife, Jan Williams, and son, James Williams of the home; grandson, Jace Christian Williams of LaHarpe. James and Jase were the loves of his life.

Skip is also survived by his father, Jim F. Williams of Overland Park; sister, Susie (Tom) Rice of Overland Park; nephews, Jacob (Kyla) Rice of Overland Park, and Seth (Ashley) Rice of Fort Scott; niece, Nicole (Phil) Heifferon of Denver; brother-in-law, Neal (Mary) Weatherman of Eudora; and sister-in-law, Ramona Applegate, of Edmond, Okla.

A funeral service to honor the life of Skip will be at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 4, at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service in Iola. Burial will follow at Gas City Cemetery. Family will greet friends from noon to 1 at the funeral home prior to the service.

Memorials in honor of Skip are suggested to Wings of Warriors or the American Cancer Society and may be left with the funeral home at 1883 U.S. 54, Iola, KS 66749. Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Public notice (Published in The Iola Register Feb. 1, 2022) RESULTS OF THE MARKET STUDY ANALYSIS FOR ALLEN COUNTY FOR THE ASSESSMENT YEAR 2022 JANUARY 1, 2022 PURSUANT TO K.S.A. 1995 SUPP. 79-146a RESIDENTIAL MARKET: “A study of the residential real estate market of new houses, i.e. built after 1945, indicated that there is an overall inflationary trend of 3.5% per year,” the residential real estate market indicated that there is an overall inflationary trend of 6% per year for houses built before 1946.

COMMERCIAL MARKET: Because of the Pandemic the study of the Commercial Market does not show a negative or positive trend overall due to different structures be-

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VACANT LAND MARKET: A study of the real estate market for vacant lots indicated that the market is stable with no general upward or downward trend.

Values on specific properties may not follow the general trend because of changes in the property, correction of descriptive information or adjustment of values based on sales of similar properties.

In accordance with the provision in K.S.A. 79-1476, the Kansas Division of Property Valuation is required to annually furnish each county with the results of its study relating to changes, if any, of the use value of agricultural land. Changes can and do occur as a result of several factors including change in cropping practices, commodity prices and production costs.

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By SHERMAN SMITH Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — An attorney for death row inmate Kyle Flack on Monday pointed to unidentified DNA, cellphone evidence, an unlawful police interrogation and rushed trial as reasons to overturn the capital murder conviction.

A Franklin County jury in 2016 convicted Flack in the 2013 killing spree of three adults and a toddler, whose body was found in a suitcase floating in a creek. Flack shared a residence with the victims and owned the shotgun that was used to kill them.

Flack was captured in Emporia, where video showed him disposing of victims’ belongings in a dumpster.

In arguments before the Kansas Supreme Court, Flack’s appellate attorney, Clayton Perkins, said cellphone data showed someone else moved Andrew Stout’s body at the same time Flack was seen on video in Emporia. Other cellphone data showed Stout and Kaylie Bailey exchanged more than 50 text messages when prosecutors claimed they were both already dead.

Perkins said DNA evidence of an unidentified man was found in pubic hair, under fingernails and on the handkerchief used to gag Bailey.

Flack repeatedly asked police to take him to jail during a prolonged interrogation.

Perkins said a “reasonable officer” would have understood Flack was exercising his right to end the interrogation.

At one point, Perkins said, Flack pointed to a detective’s handcuffs and told him to “put these motherf***ers on me.”

“Who the f*** do we talk to, Kyle,” the detective asked.

“I don’t f***ing know,” Flack answered. “You know what? Wrap these up, take me to f***ing jail, because obviously you’re just going to keep going. So I can’t give you information I don’t f***ing have, so do what you do.”

Kristafer Ailslieger,

deputy solicitor general for the Kansas Attorney General’s Office, said Flack never explicitly told police to stop.

Flack’s comments could be interpreted as mere hyperbole, or outbursts of anger, Ailslieger said.

“He has a right to say, ‘I want to quit the interview,’” Ailslieger said.

“But the problem here is he never said that. He made these references — ‘Well, take me to jail,’ ‘If this is the way we’re going to be, take me to jail,’ ‘Yes, do what you’re going to do,’ stuff like that — that did not really fully indicate that he wanted to stop.”

Flack eventually told police he was at the house when the killings occurred.

“Without that confession,” Perkins said, “the state is left with a case built upon circumstances and weak inferences, where the state cannot place Mr. Flack in that room.”

Perkins said the trial judge allowed a miscarriage of justice when he refused to provide the appointed defense attorney more time to prepare for trial. The attorney already had been assigned 30-50 other active cases and had no prior experience with a homicide case. He wasn’t finished reviewing evidence, had no time to complete his own investigation and didn’t prepare a strategy for the penalty phase.

Before jurors considered the death penalty, Perkins said, they should have known Flack’s childhood was permeated with physical and sexual abuse, that he lived in poverty, that he was conceived from a sexual assault on his mother and never knew his father, and that he suffers from mental illness.

Other issues raised during the appeal include comments by the prosecutor, who mentioned Mother’s Day during closing arguments in an appeal to the sympathies of the jury, and whether the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment applies to capital punishment for someone who is bipolar and schizophrenic.

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side, rain or shine (or snow).

Meanwhile, Keller and Dieker have been working in league on the building’s interior.

The ornate tin ceiling is being repainted white, which brightens the storeroom considerably.

“You can really see the difference,” Dieker said.

And much of the building’s carpeting is being torn out, and the tile flooring beneath cleaned.

“It’s been going well, but it’s an old building,” Dieker said. “And that’s like an old house. You do one thing, and discover two other things that need fixed.”

Ripping out the carpet was a good example. While the old gray carpet came out rather easily, leftover adhesive will need to be treated and cleaned off the tile surface.

The store has several rooms on the first floor connected by a long corridor, built as part of a previous renovation project.

A portion of the corridor wall has been removed, to give the font showroom a more open layout.

Dieker hopes to set up a small coffee bar at the front — not necessarily to sell coffee, but just for her to relax while she’s in the store, she said with a chuckle.

It also will make an ideal waiting area for husbands to frequent while their wives go shopping.

Once the Market Place reopens, Dieker will have at least 10 vendors on hand to sell their goods.

“I rented out my first booth today,” Dieker said Monday.

“My first official rental. I’m so excited.”

Even Dieker will have a booth.

The building is large enough to accommodate vendors large or small. Dieker has sufficient space if somebody wants to rent a full room, half a room, or even individual shelves for those looking for a less expensive way to hawk their wares.

WHILE the work has been grueling, Dieker notes it’s also been fun.

“I just love old buildings,” she said.

“I can remember coming here with my mom when it was still J.C. Penney. I would go upstairs and try on clothes in their changing rooms.

“That was in the 1970s,” she noted.

Since then, the store became Saturday’s, a Farm Bureau office,

and finally the Market Place.

Dieker estimates she sorted through more than four decades worth of “stuff ” when she moved in, including clothes, shelves, displays.

Anything that can be used, or cleaned up and sold, has been saved.

Much of the clothing has been either trashed or donated to Iola Senior Citizens, Inc. But a funny thing happened on the way to the landfill.

Dieker noted her granddaughter stopped by one weekend as she was sorting through the old garments.

“Grandma, don’t throw that away,” she implored Dieker.

“This is in style now.

It came back.”

Who knew?

HUSBAND Jeff has been integral to the renovation, Dieker added, spending many a night and weekends at the store to help.

She compared Jeff ’s creativity to that of the aforementioned Keller’s.

“I can show them a picture of what I’d like, and they make it happen,” Dieker laughed. “They both have really good ideas.”

The store’s bathroom is one example.

Tammy painted the floor, and Jeff installed new fixtures.

He then worked up a customized toilet paper holder, utilizing an old hammer and shelf.

(The holder has a small metal plate, designating the bathroom as “A (B.S.) Station.”

“We couldn’t really sell that,” she laughed, “But I told him what I wanted and he created it. It has an industrial look, and that’s what I like.”

DIEKER hopes to have the store open for business by the end of February.

“But we have a long way to go,” she noted.

Dieker even floated the idea of converting the upstairs mezzanine into an apartment or airbnb, but that would require extensive work, including adding a second entrance.

“I mentioned it to Jeff and he just stared at me,” she laughed.

In the meantime, she’s hurriedly cleaning every nook and cranny, though likely won’t make it to one of the upstairs rooms or the building’s basement.

“There’s just too much,” she said. “I’m finding all kinds of fun stuff,” which impedes her progress.

By TRACY WILKINSON Los Angeles Times/TNS

WASHINGTON — A stormy, angry session of the United Nations’ highest body on Monday heightened deep global rifts and raised new accusations about the Russian troop buildup around Ukraine, with the American and Russian sides harshly accusing each other of escalating the conflict.

The United States, backed by most Western countries on the 15-nation U.N. Security Council, requested the meeting and quickly came into bitter confrontation with Russia, backed by China. Russia accused Washington and its Western allies of “whipping up hysteria” and contending that Russia had no aims to again invade Ukraine.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., characterized the crisis over the former Soviet republic as dangerous for Europe and the United Nations.

“Russia’s aggression today not only threatens Ukraine,” she told the assembly. “It also threatens Europe. It threatens the international order this body is charged with upholding.”

Thomas-Greenfield revealed that in addition to the more than 100,000 forces that Russia has amassed along its border with eastern Ukraine, Moscow has begun to deploy what will amount to some 30,000 troops, armed with ballistic missiles and heavy weaponry, into Russian ally Belarus — just two hours north of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.

That information, State Department officials said later, is based on U.S. intelligence reports but the officials would not publicly elaborate. While Russia has confirmed moving troops into Belarus for drills, the number Thomas-Greenfield gave was higher than previously mentioned.

“What would it mean for the world if former empires had license to start reclaiming territory by force? This would set us down a dangerous path,” Thomas-Green-

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A good time will be had by all.

A silver lining in the gloomy forecast notes temperatures may rebound to near 40 by Saturday.

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Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, attends a U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss the situation between Russia and Ukraine on Monday, at the United Nations in New York City. (SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES/TNS) field said. Her use of the term “former empire” might have been a dig at Russian President Vladimir Putin, for whom reestablishing his nation as a Soviet-style power is said to be the dream that motivates many of his actions.

Russia quickly, and angrily, denied the report of thousands of troops pouring into Belarus.

The Biden administration is “whipping up tensions and rhetoric and provoking escalation,” said Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian ambassador to the U.N. “There is no proof ” that Moscow is planning aggressive military action, Nebenzia said, turning to Thomas-Greenfield. “You are almost calling for this, you want it to happen, you are waiting for it to happen.”

Russia has repeatedly portrayed the military buildup, now flanking two sides of Ukraine, as routine exercises.

Nebenzia also condemned the U.S. over a 2014 popular revolt in Ukraine against a pro-Russia president who finally fled the country. U.S. support led to the installation of “true Nazis, radicals and Russophobes” in the Kyiv government, Nebenzia said. Russia portrays the protests and political upheaval of 2014 as an illegal, anti-Moscow coup.

After all the Security Council members gave statements, the American and Russian envoys asked to retake the floor, where they continued sparring.

“The provocations are from Russia, not from us,” said Thomas-Greenfield, who contended she could not let Nebenzia’s falsehoods go unchallenged.

The Russian criticized what he said was Washington’s re-

fusal to look at past years of Moscow’s diplomacy involving Ukraine, such as 2014 protocols meant to establish a cease-fire with Russia-backed separatists who seized parts of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. But the rebels remain in the area and continue to battle Ukrainian government forces.

Then Nebenzia said he had a scheduling conflict and walked out — just before the Ukrainian ambassador spoke as the council’s invitee.

The acrimonious Security Council session wasn’t expected to produce a resolution or even a joint statement, but it was a chance to portray unity among allies supporting Ukraine and the search for a diplomatic path to ease tensions. It followed several weeks of intense meetings of officials from the United States, Russia, Ukraine and most of Europe.

Another such effort happens Tuesday when U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will speak by telephone with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

They will discuss U.S. responses to Russian demands, and Moscow’s reaction to them. Russia submitted written responses to Washington on Monday, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the diplomatic efforts.

But U.S. officials all but admit that many of the diplomatic steps underway are empty motions until Putin weighs in. “His response is the response that matters the most to us,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said Monday.

The Biden administration, seconded by the United Kingdom, is planning to levy harsh sanctions against Russia if it invades Ukraine, as it did in 2014 when it

illegally annexed the Crimean Peninsula.

This time, U.S. officials say, the punishments will hit the pocketbooks of Putin’s closest oligarch cronies and possibly the president himself, and rather than be ratcheted gradually will go full-bore from the start.

“We have developed specific sanctions packages for both Russian elites and their family members if Russia further invades Ukraine,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday. “The individuals we’ve identified are in or near the inner circle of the Kremlin and play a role in government decision-making, or at a minimum complicit in the Kremlin’s destabilizing behavior.”

She said many of the targets were “particularly vulnerable” because of deep financial ties with the West. Some of the sanctions being considered would bar targeted Russian people and entities from international banking systems.

Washington sanctioned senior Russian figures after the 2014 invasion, including the heads of some of the country’s largest oil and minerals firms, all tightly allied with Putin.

Nothing has forced Putin to back down.

At the start of the Security Council session, Nebenzia argued against opening the meeting to public view, saying airing the proceedings only played into the West’s “propaganda.”

Thomas-Greenfield scribbled notes furiously as he spoke.

“This is not about antics; this is not about rhetoric,” she shot back.

Ten countries voted to open the meeting, and two wanted it held in secret: Russia and China.

Three in the 15-country group abstained.

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Extension Agent for Agriculture

The first seed catalog of the year arrived in my mailbox right before Christmas. The catalogs seem to arrive earlier and earlier every year. I do enjoy flipping through the pages looking at all the pretty pictures and dreaming of warmer temperatures.

Even though we are in the middle of winter, the time to start many of our vegetable and flower transplants from seed is approaching.

If you have ever tried to start plants from seed, you know it can be tricky. But is very rewarding when you have success! Here are eight steps to help ensure you have nice healthy transplants when planting time arrives.

1. Purchasing Seed — obtain your seeds from a reputable source including garden centers and seed catalogs. If choosing seed from a business that does not specialize in plants, pay special attention to the package date to make sure the seed was packaged for the current year. Though most seed remains viable for about 3 years, germination decreases as seed ages.

2. Determine the Date to Seed — there are two pieces of information that needs to be known in order to determine the date to seed transplants: the target date for transplanting out-

All plants require adequate amounts of light once emergence occurs. PIXABAY.COM side and the number of weeks needed to grow the transplant. Then do some counting.

3. Sowing Seed — do not use garden soil to germinate seed as it is too heavy and may contain disease organisms.

Use a media made especially for seed germination.

4. Keep Seed Moist — seed must be kept moist in order to germinate.

Water often enough that the media never dries.

Using a clear plastic wrap over the top of the container can reduce the amount of watering needed. Remove the wrap after the seedlings emerge.

5. Light — most plants will germinate in either darkness or light.

All plants require adequate amounts of light once emergence occurs.

South facing windows will not provide adequate amounts so fluorescent or LED fixtures should be used. Regard-

less of the type of light used, leave the light on for 16 hours each day.

6. Temperature — the temperature needed for best germination is often higher than what we may find in our homes.

A heat mat is best for consistent germination.

Once plants have germinated, they can grow in cooler temperatures (65 to 70 degrees during the day and 55 to 60 degrees at night).

7. Plant Movement — plants react to movement.

Brushing over the plants with your hand stimulates them to become stockier and less leggy.

Try brushing 20 strokes per day. But keep in mind that brushing will not compensate for lack of light or over-crowding.

Plants grown under inadequate light will always be spindly.

8. Hardening Plants — plants grown inside will often undergo transplant shock if not hardened off. Plants are

hardened off by moving them outside and exposing them to sun and wind before transplanting occurs. Start about two weeks before transplanting and gradually expose the plants to outside conditions.

Increase the number of hours and degree of exposure over the twoweek period.

I can’t stress enough how important it is to have adequate light to ensure the growth of healthy plants. It is fairly easy and inexpensive to make a homemade grow light using a fourfoot shop light and PVC pipe. Here is a link to a YouTube video I made on building a grow light yourself: https://youtu. be/R0B-RUNtx9I Krista Harding is a K-State Research and Extension Horticulture agent assigned to Southwind District. She may be reached at kharding@ ksu.edu or 620-244-3826.

The air in rural areas may be just as toxic as the pollution in cities

By DANA CRONIN Harvest Public Media

A new study suggests the notion of clean, country air might be misleading.

Traditionally, air quality has been measured by the size of pollution particles or, more scientifically, particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or less. Considered that way, urban air tends to be more polluted than rural air because the size of pollution particles is generally larger.

But a University of Illinois team looked at the toxicity of those particles, scientifically

known as the oxidative potential, and found that pollution particles in rural areas can be twice as toxic even though they may be smaller.

“The health impacts attributed to these particles in the rural areas is almost the same as in the urban areas,” says Vishal Verma, professor of civil and environmental engineering and one of the study’s authors.

Verma grew up in India where he was exposed to high levels of air pollution throughout his childhood. Some of his previous research has focused on the relationship between small particles’ mass and tox-

icity — which remains unclear.

To determine the toxicity of air pollutants in urban areas, Verma’s team collected samples from Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago. For rural areas, the team chose a site in Bondville, Illinois, and one on the side of the road outside their home base in Urbana, Illinois.

The results showed that while the mass of the particles differed, the potential lung damage they could cause was more severe in the rural samples.

And while the team didn’t look specifically at the source of that pol-

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lution, Verma says rural air pollution is primarily caused by the agricultural industry.

“We saw a clear increase in the toxicity of the particles during summer, which is the time period when we have a lot of intense agricultural activity,” he says.

Air pollution on a farm mostly stems from livestock production (which generates methane) and fertilizer (which, when it breaks down, produces nitrous oxide).

Verma says there’s been a trend away from measuring air pollution based on particle mass, and that his team’s study supports that.

He argues federal agencies that track air quality, like the Environmental Protection Agency, should use different measurements to paint a more accurate picture of air pollution across the United States.

The process used in the study was laborious. So Verma says his next project will focus on developing machine learning models that can measure and predict the toxicity of air pollution across the country.

The regular monthly meeting of the Prairie Rose 4-H Club was called to order by President Mallory Heim on Jan. 9 at Moran United Methodist Church.

The Cloverbuds led in the Pledge of Allegiance and the 4-H Pledge. Roll call was answered by 20 members, three Cloverbuds, and two leaders.

There were no guests and a quorum was present. The secretary’s minutes were approved as read and the officer reports were all approved as given including the treasurer’s report, reporter’s report and the County Council report.

Community leaders, Angelea Heim and Kelci Botts, reminded the club of upcoming

events and the upcoming deadline for District 4-H Day. There was no old business and no new business to come before the club.

The program included a talk by Jenni Armstrong about types of breads, different pans to bake bread in, and she demonstrated how to braid bread using tea-towels.

Gracie Yoho gave a talk about GMOs. Junior recreation leader, Doug Dix, led the club in a game of Heads-Up-7-Up. The meeting concluded by reciting the 4-H motto.

The Armstrongs were the host family.

The next meeting will be at 4 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Moran United Methodist Church with a Cloverbud project starting prior to the meeting at 3:30.

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The quake was 4 miles northwest of Medford, not far from the Kansas state line.

The threshold for damage usually starts at 4.0. Oklahoma’s strongest quake was a magnitude 5.8 recorded near Pawnee in 2016.

Many of the thousands of earthquakes in Oklahoma are due to the underground injection of wastewater from oil and natural gas extraction.

State regulators have directed producers to close or reduce volumes in some wells after quakes.

On Monday, the

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Monday was a red-letter day for Fort Scott It’s a man-bites-dog news story. Fort Scott announced Monday that it will once again have a hospital.

The welcome news bucks a 20-year trend of shuttering rural hospitals.

Since 2005, almost 200 rural communities in the United States — nine in Kansas — have lost their hospitals due to flagging profit margins.

Fort Scott’s Mercy Hospital closed in December 2018.

Sweeping in to save the day is Noble Health Corp., a small Kansas City-based non-profit formed in 2019 that also owns hospitals in Fulton and Mexico, Mo. Like Fort Scott’s, the Missouri hospitals were operating beyond their means.

MAKING it all happen

were Bourbon and Fort Scott officials.

When Noble Health said last June a feasibility study was necessary to determine whether the Fort Scott area could support an acute care hospital, the county contributed $800,000 and the city $200,000 to the study.

And now that the results are favorable, county officials say they will fork over at least another $2 million to help finance the transition.

The Noble Health Bourbon County Community Hospital will hire about 100 employees when it opens in 2023. That’s a $6.5 million payroll right there.

So yes, that $3 million in-

Editor’s note:

In Saturday’s column about Russell Stover Candies first coming to town in 1995, I said I didn’t know what it pays in property taxes, but that it’s a sure bet it is more than the $400 a year the county was get-

vestment will be recouped in short order by having a multi-million dollar business back online.

It’s also important to note that a hospital is a key recruitment tool to prospective manufacturers and industries.

SINCE MERCY’S closing, city officials have done a great job in seeing their 7,800 citizens continue to receive health care.

With only a 90-day advance notice of Mercy closing, Ascension Via Christi out of Pittsburg was contracted to keep the hospital’s emergency room running and the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas set up shop in another part of the hospital. Those leases expire in December.

For CHCSEK, the experience has been so positive it is now building a new clinic in Fort Scott at the site of the former Price Chopper grocery store on South Main Street.

Fort Scott Community College also took advantage of the hospital’s vacated space and is leasing the western part for student housing.

IT’S SAFE to say Noble Health would have had only a passing interest in Fort Scott had local officials held back.

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ting when it was zoned for agricultural purposes.

Jonathan Goering, economic director for Iola, Humboldt and Allen County, informed me the candy plant paid $271,593.20 in property taxes last year.

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Letter to the editor Dear editor,

I am writing in support of rezoning the area on North Walnut to allow the old Arkhaven site to be converted into 51 one- and two-bedroom apartments.

I attended the zoning meeting on Jan. 18 and heard the statements from some of the residents of the area and understand their concerns.

However, the only one that I thought merits any real consideration is how the increased traffic might be mitigated. I think that with planning by city officials, the “traffic problem” could be moderated.

Several years ago, I was involved in the recruitment of an individual who had a proposal for senior living apartments in Iola. This individual had a stellar reputation with other projects that he had completed in several other communities in Kansas. The residents living near the proposed area came out in force

and caused him to take his project for Southeast Kansas to Chanute, where I understand it is doing quite well today. I have driven by the Chanute site, and it certainly isn’t the shoddy, dilapidated buildings that the residents who protested its construction in Iola predicted.

Opportunities like this do not come often to Iola.

I am a member of the Allen County Economic Development Committee sponsored

by Thrive Allen County, Iola Industries, Allen County and Iola and Humboldt.

As a member of that group, my sentiments are certainly with Mary Kay Heard’s at the rezoning discussion.

Our community desperately needs housing. Our industries have trouble filling positions because the workers have no place to live. Oneand two-bedroom apartments would not only be attractive to individuals moving to Iola to work, but would provide

another source of housing for college students, as well.

This year, Allen Community College began the fall semester with eight residence halls whose rooms were built to accommodate two students each, but instead were assigned three students each.

We also had to rent motel rooms for an additional eight students who arrived needing housing.

New college hires also struggle to find available rentals.

I realize that the planning committee voted against recommending rezoning. However, it was my impression that they did so more from the pressure they felt from the residents who attended the meeting than from any indication that the individual who is proposing the renovation is not on the up and up.

Sincerely, John Masterson, ACC president, Iola, Kan.

Where are the hearings, already

By Jonathan Bernstein Bloomberg Opinion

Where are the hearings?

It’s been eight weeks since Liz Cheney, the top Republican on the House select committee investigating the attack of on the U.S. Capitol of Jan. 6, 2021, promised “multiple weeks of public hearings” to detail everything the committee has learned about the riot and former President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn an election he lost.

Not only do we have no hearings yet, but we still have no idea when they will begin.

The one-year anniversary of the attacks has come and gone. Legislation to address some of the procedural weaknesses that Trump tried to exploit is moving ahead in the Senate before the committee reveals any of the evidence it has compiled. Eight weeks ago, the select committee was already slower than initial investigations of Watergate, Iran-contra, and the TrumpUkraine scandals.

Each week, the committee’s case that it is investigating an urgent threat to the republic is harder to make. Every week, it becomes easier for Trump and his allies to argue that the insurrection is ancient news, and that Democrats are just digging it up now to embarrass Republicans before the elections in November.

The threat is indeed urgent, and Democrats — and the two committee Republicans — are quite right to want to accumulate every detail of what happened. Doing so is not partisan; it’s patriotic. But the longer the lawmakers wait, the harder it will be to convince anyone open to convincing. And there aren’t all that many of those folks to begin

Rep. Bennie Thompson, right, and Rep. Liz Cheney, center, joined by fellow Jan. 6 select committee members. (CHIP SOMODEVILLA/POOL/AFP/GETTY IMAGES/TNS)

with.

There’s been little public information about what’s taking so long. My speculation is that the committee is determined to wrap up its full investigation, which involves hundreds of interviews and huge numbers of documents as well as numerous fights over subpoenas, before moving to the public phase. The work away from the cameras is certainly important. But so are public hearings.

And it’s not just for the story-telling process. Public hearings can put pressure on reluctant potential witnesses. People who have been subpoenaed already have a legal obligation to testify.

However, compelling compliance (whether through the courts or through Congress’s own powers) isn’t quick, and while the House should follow through on forcing cooperation, it can do so while the the public portion of the investigation is underway. After all, if new information is turned over — as it was after a recent court decision that upheld the

House’s position — that might actually increase the drama if the public hearings revisit something that was already covered once new revelations are obtained.

There’s a necessary caveat: No one should expect too much of a congressional hearing. Even the Senate Watergate Committee hearings only did limited damage to President Richard Nixon. He had already been weakened by information that emerged before that committee got started, and serious impeachment momentum didn’t happen until the Saturday Night Massacre of Oct. 20, 1973, when Nixon fired the key federal officials supervising the Watergate probe, and that came after the Senate hearings had ended.

No one should expect the Jan. 6 committee hearings to deliver large public-opinion effects. But giving a public accounting of what happened from Election Day 2020 through the Jan. 6 attack is still essential. Let’s get it started.

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Americans still in the grips of inflation

By MIKE DORNING and ERIK WASSON Bloomberg News/TNS

American families are feeling the financial squeeze of soaring inflation and a persistent pandemic as fractious Democrats return to Washington this week no closer to a deal on a tax and spending bill party leaders hoped would by now provide relief.

Despite gangbusters growth at a 6.9% annual rate during the final quarter of 2021, other economic measures tell a very different story.

Average wages are falling behind inflation and consumer sentiment plummeted in January to the lowest in more than a decade.

More Americans are having trouble paying their bills than at any time since last March, shortly before the Biden administration began

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden. (ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAGES/TNS)

distributing stimulus checks and other relief measures. Hunger is rising again.

It’s an ominous start to a midterm election year for Democrats struggling to hold on to razor-thin majorities in Congress. President Joe Biden began his term with ambitions to address long-festering economic inequalities and lift prospects for the poor and middle class but an intra-party rift has halted progress on his centerpiece tax and

social spending plan.

“We’re learning once again the pandemic is hitting families hard financially,” said Claudia Sahm, director of macroeconomic research at the Jain Family Institute and a former Federal Reserve Economist.

“It’s the people who have the least that continue to suffer the most.”

The financial squeeze many families feel may ease once the omicron wave subsides. But new progress remains vulnerable to COVID-19

variants, continued supply chain snarls and the Federal Reserve’s ability to reduce inflation without choking off growth too much. The public isn’t optimistic, with only a third in the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index survey expecting the economy to improve in the year ahead.

Senators expect informal conversations to resume this week on Biden’s Build Back Better package, which was stymied in December after West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin said he opposed it. With Republicans uniformly opposed and the Senate divided 50-50, Democrats need Manchin’s vote.

Senate Democratic vote-counter Dick Durbin of Illinois said he is urging Manchin and another holdout, Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, to make a deal.

Hospital: Noble Health offers services Continued from A1

said. “And I am a realist and an economist.”

Solomon said Noble Health has retained the services of HD Design to oversee the structural changes to the old Mercy building.

“There are a lot of months between now and then, a lot of processes to go through,” Solomon said.

Since Mercy closed, the building has been used as a clinic by the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas and the Via Christi Ascension Emergency Department. Their leases end in December 2022.

Fort Scott Community College also rents out rooms in the hospital for

student housing.

THE HOSPITAL is west of U.S. 169 on the southern edge of Fort Scott at 401 Woodland Hills Blvd.

On top of the feasibility study, the county has agreed to contribute at least $2 million to finance certain costs related to the hospital.

Also on hand for the press conference were U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, Rep. Jake LaTurner and Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt.

Both Solomon and Fort Scott Mayor Kevin Allen spoke about the vitality of having access to healthcare in rural communities.

“The redevelopment

and revitalization of a community hospital is a very critical way to support our growing community’s future,” Allen said. “This is a great example of the dedication everyone has to Fort Scott and Bourbon County.”

Solomon agreed, lauding local officials for their efforts in the aftermath of Mercy’s closing.

“It’s not Noble Health that makes things like this happen,” Solomon said. “It’s the will of the community, it’s the people who lived here, people who have suffered, the people who have sacrificed, and quite frankly, the people who have endured.”

Solomon noted Fort

Scott is not unique from other communities in that population losses have led to things like hospital closings.

“When we look at communities like Bourbon County and Fort Scott, we see our aunts and uncles, our mothers and fathers,’’ he said.

“This way of life is under indictment. This way of life is harder and harder to live with each generation. That’s the American fabric, That’s what matters. We look at what we do to restore and revitalize the community hospital, and it’ll be with those folks in mind.”

Twenty and counting Debbie Taiclet, left, and Chrissy Womelsdorf, center, of Iola Insurance Associates, hosted a Chamber coffee this morning, and took advantage of the occasion to also celebrate their 20 years in business. They were joined by Chamber members, customers and friends.

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said, the state must convince a county attorney to take court action.

One option would be for the Legislature to grant the department ability to impose civil fines on landowners who decline to repair unsafe dams on their property, he said.

Lewis said the agriculture department had 3.5 full-time equivalent employees to deal with oversight of dams in the state. That breaks down to 700 dams per employee, he said, compared to the national average of 200 dams per staff member.

Gov. Laura Kelly included in her recommended state budget enough funding

to hire three more people devoted to regulatory work on dams in Kansas, which has the second-most dams in the United States.

The state’s regulatory work on dams relies on a combination of state and federal funding.

“We’re not here saying we should be where the national average is, but we do want to make sure we meet our statutory obligations,” Lewis said.

He also said the state should create an emergency fund to address dams in immediate jeopardy of failing and change state law to allow people to conduct dam inspections under the supervision of a professional engineer.

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result in the removal of federal units, jobs and equipment.”

Neuhold said a loss of federal funding would have a dire ramifications for troops and Kansas. For example, the Kansas National Guard fought the wildfires in western Kansas last month with the federally owned aircraft, in high demand across the National Guard, which would be relocated to another state if Kansas had no federal mission.

Lauren Shiffman focused instead on the COVID-19 portion of the

bill. She repeated the argument that denying the COVID-19 vaccine mandates was a matter of personal freedom.

“If we cannot protect our troops from this medical tyranny and this forced medical procedures, then they absolutely have no reason to fight for us,” Shiffman said.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported 7,846 new COVID-19 cases and 14 new deaths since Wednesday.

Sen. Jeff Longbine, R-Emporia, echoed concerns about the poor

message this act would send to the Department of Defense. He reaffirmed his opposition to vaccine mandates but was dubious this bill would accomplish what proponents desired.

“The commander in chief of the military has decided that that is currently being litigated in federal court, and Kansas passing a law is not going to supersede federal action in a federal court,” Longbine said.

“It’s unfortunate that that mandate has come down, but this bill will do absolutely nothing for that.”

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IMS tops Prairie View

By REESE BECKER The Iola Register

Iola Middle School’s boys basketball teams took on Prairie View Monday night, just two days after a tough performance in their home tournament. Iola went 3-1.

The B teams played half games due to a shortage of players. The seventh grade B team lost 15-4. The seventh grade A team won 24-14. The eighth grade B team won 2013. The eighth grade A team won 28-24.

Iola struggled to score in the seventh grade B game, lacking production from the bench and fundamentals on defense. Iola went 2-8 from the free throw line. The Mustangs failed to hold the Buffalos back on defense and offense.

James Hunt led the way for Iola with two points. Caden Coltrane and Kaeden Vega had one each.

JASE HERRMANN dominated the seventh grade A game with double-digit points and went 6-8 from the free throw line to spur the Mustangs to victory..

Iola’s defense held the Buffalos at bay, while the offense heated up. Iola rebounded very well against Prairie View, giving the Mustangs extra shots.

The Mustangs looked much improved from their game on Saturday, despite a shortage of players for a variety of reasons. The Buffalos were never quite able to

Iola Middle School’s Jase Herrmann goes up for a shot Monday. REGISTER/REESE BECKER

Baseball talks set to resume NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball labor negotiations are set to resume Tuesday, just over two weeks before the scheduled start of a spring training that’s threatened by a lockout.

The sport’s ninth work stoppage began Dec. 2 after the expiration of a fiveyear labor contract, and the sides did not meet again on the central economic issues until Jan. 24, when players withdrew their proposal for more liberalized free agency.

Management responded the following day by withdrawing its proposal for more limited salary arbitration. Clubs also accepted the union’s framework to funnel additional money to pre-arbitration-eligible players from central revenue, offering a $10 million pool based on awards and WAR. The union has asked for $105 million for the group, usually about 30 players annually.

Tuesday’s session will be the first on the central issues since then, and the sides don’t agree on many economic proposals, leaving very little time to end the See BASEBALL | Page B4

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A different kind of Olympics

By STEPHEN WADE The Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) — The first so-called modern Olympics took place in 1896 in Athens.

But the inaugural Winter Olympics were not held until 1924 in Chamonix, France.

Calvin Coolidge was the American president at the time, and Vladimir Lenin died that year in the newly established Soviet Union. A new car in the United States cost as little as $300.

From 1924 through 1992, the Winter and Summer Olympics were the same year. In ‘92 the Winter Games were celebrated in Albertville, France, followed by the Summer Games in Barcelona.

Then change came.

Since 1994, an Olympics has been held every two years. The ‘94 Winter Olympics took place in Lillehammer, Norway, followed by the Summer Games in 1996 in Atlanta. Nagano, Japan, was next in 1998 with the Winter Games. That pattern was broken by the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Beijing Winter Games open on Friday, just six months after Tokyo closed.

They’ll be followed by the See OLYMPICS | Page B4

Among playoff flubs, this one stings

By SAM MCDOWELL The Kansas City Star

The clock hit 13 seconds late in the first half Sunday, and a sold-out crowd inside Arrowhead Stadium began to chant the number in unison. A venue that spent more than two decades as the provider of its team’s most cruel heartbreak had progressed to moments so fond that they were stamped onto T-shirts across Kansas City.

You see, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes told us just one week ago that this organization had buried days like these deep into its past.

But those 13 seconds, as they will be remembered now, were more of a set-up than some sort of miracle.

They fooled us into thinking what came Sunday would not come — could not come — as long as No. 15 was here.

We fell for it. Which makes the fall that much harder.

The Cincinnati Bengals beat the Chiefs 27-24 in overtime of the AFC Championship Game on Sunday, erasing an 18-point deficit but rekindling memories of Arrowhead past.

A franchise history that

Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs carries the ball during the AFC Championship against the Cincinnati Bengals at Arrowhead Stadium Sunday. GETTY IMAGES/JAMIE SQUIRE/TNS could be separated into two distinct eras — Pre-Mahomes and Post-Mahomes — now bleeds together more easily than thought.

The Chiefs once spaced 25 seasons between home playoff wins, and not for lack of opportunity. Their defeats came with nicknames, shock

and torture.

This will fit there.

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In 2017, the Chiefs drafted a quarterback from Tyler, Texas, and he squashed whatever evil had cursed this place.

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Philly edges Memphis PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tyrese Maxey scored 33 points, including a driving layup with 26.4 seconds left in overtime that put Philadelphia ahead for good, and the 76ers beat the Memphis Grizzlies 122-119 without Joel Embiid on Monday night.

Tobias Harris added 31 points and Andre Drummond had 16 points and 23 rebounds for Philadelphia, which won its fifth game in a row and 15th in the last 18. The 76ers improved to 4-8 without Embiid, who sat out for rest.

“Just great efforts from everybody,” Harris said. “We wanted this one.”

Ja Morant scored 37 points and Desmond Bane had a career-high 34 for Memphis.

“I love big games,” Bane said.

“They played well. We played well and fought. As long as we’re fighting and playing together, I’ll live with the result every night.”

Neither team led by more than four in a back-and-forth and exciting fourth quarter and overtime.

Maxey’s driving layup put Philadelphia in front 120-119. The 76ers packed the lane as Morant tried to reclaim the lead with a drive on the ensuing possession, and the Memphis star kicked it out to Ziaire Williams, whose corner 3-pointer rimmed out. Matisse Thybulle grabbed the rebound and passed ahead to Maxey, who finished the scoring with a layup.

“I’m happy he’s my point guard,” Drummond said.

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with the 76ers in the locker room afterward.

“He’s a great teammate,” Maxey said.

“He’s our MVP.” Morant reached 30 points for the seventh straight game. Before Embiid’s absence was announced earlier in the day, the game looked to be a matchup of two of the NBA’s top stars.

Embiid rested after a scintillating streak of 21 straight games played in which he raised his MVP profile.

The 76ers big man averaged 33.1 points during the stretch to up his season scoring average to 29.1 points per game, which ranked second in the league behind Kevin Durant’s 29.3 points entering Monday.

Selected as a starter for his fifth straight AllStar Game last week, Embiid was named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week on Monday. Philadelphia coach Doc Rivers said the rest day was prearranged by the team’s medical staff.

“They thought it was the right day,” Rivers said.

After finishing second in MVP voting last season, Embiid has spoken publicly about the slight he has felt the last two seasons by individual award selectors knocking him down their list because of his absences — he played just 51 games in each of the last two seasons — and has made it a priority to be more reliable this season.

Monday marked Embiid’s 12th missed game, nine of which he missed due to health and safety protocols.

The last time he sat out was Dec. 13 when

Philadelphia lost 12691 at Memphis, a game in which the 76ers felt they got out-toughed.

“They like to punk teams and they have punked a lot of teams in this league,” Harris said. “We weren’t going to let that happen tonight.”

Embiid missed a thriller in a game that was tight throughout the fourth quarter.

Morant raced down the floor, scored on a floater with 8.1 seconds left in regulation and was fouled by Drummond. Rivers challenged the call, but it was unsuccessful. Morant missed the free throw, though, keeping the game tied at 111, and Seth Curry’s baseline jumper at the regulation buzzer rimmed out, sending the game to overtime.

Rivers was assessed a technical for arguing that a foul should have been called.

“If there’s anybody you want to be mad at, it can be me,” Morant said. “If I made free throws, we probably wouldn’t have even gone into overtime.”

Morant put on an exciting show in the third quarter, dazzling with shifty moves, awe-inspiring leaping ability and magician-like passing.

He twice zoomed past Drummond with stopon-the-dime change of direction on consecutive layups early in the quarter, assisted Williams’ fast-break layup with a perfectly placed behind-the-back pass and took off like bouncing on a trampoline for a left-handed alley-oop dunk that tied it at 80 with 2:43 left in the period.

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HMS squads go 1-2 at home HUMBOLDT — An up and down night for the Cubs gave way to a 1-2 record on Monday night as Humboldt Middle School’s boys basketball squad played Neodesha.

Humboldt’s A team won 36-27, the B team lost 28-23, and the C team fell 10-8.

The A squad was led by another double-double by Mason Sterling.

Humboldt pounced on the Bluestreaks early. After trailing 8-2 in the opening quarter, the Cubs, fueled by a 14-point second quarter, took a 16-12 lead into the half.

It was all Humboldt from there. The Cubs broke out for a 12-point quarter in the third while the Cub defense held Neodesha down to preserve the win for the A squad.

Sterling had 12 points and 11 rebounds. Collin Cook had 10 points.

Creed Shannon had nine. Braxton Gray had three. Grady Elder had two.

Humboldt started strong in the B game, running out to a 8-3 lead early. The Cub defense forced Neodesha to take tough shots and outrebounded the Bluestreaks. Toward the end of the half, Neodesha started to catch on and closed the Cub lead.

Humboldt led 16-11 at the half.

A sloppy second half, including a one-point fourth quarter, cost Humboldt in the end.

The Bluestreak offense got hot, surpassing Humboldt in the fourth to take the win.

Kreed Jones led the Cubs with seven points.

Hudson Reese had six.

Elder and Thatcher Mueller each had six.

Maxyn Mueller had two.

Humboldt failed to score in the first half of the C game and it bit the Cubs when the final buzzer hit. Though Neodesha didn’t have great offensive output over the first half it was ahead 5-0 at the break.

The roles were reversed in the second half.

Humboldt held the Bluestreaks scoreless in the fourth, but even so, the Cubs were unable to muster enough offense to come back.

Cooper Peters, Jack Works, Carson Peters, and Taner King each had two points.

Barring weather, Humboldt will be back in action on Thursday at Leon-Bluestem.

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Janae Granere —MV Marmaton Valley sophomore Janae Granere is a star in the classroom and on the field. Granere is a three-sport star. Granere is the middle hitter on the volleyball team, starting shooting guard in basketball, and runs the 400 meters and does the long jump in track.

All the while, Granere carries a 4.0 GPA. Granere is integral to the Wildcats’ success in basketball this season including a 35-point game.

Register: How special was it to help basketball coach Becky Carlson get her 500th win on Jan. 21?

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Olympics: A ‘different’ type of games Continued from B1

Summer Olympics in 2024 in Paris. Here’s a breakdown of why things have unfolded as they have.

WHY WERE THE GAMES MOVED TO EVERY TWO YEARS?

Olympic historian Bill Mallon suggests the International Olympic Committee was looking for more revenue. The IOC, he says, “thought they could get more sponsorship money by spreading the Games out more.”

Every two years also kept the Olympics in the public eye, and the move dovetailed with the increasing commercialization and professionalization of the Games. The trend was underlined when, for the first time, professional basketball players from the NBA — the American Dream Team

— were the marquee stars in Barcelona.

BEIJING: FIRST FOR BOTH WINTER AND SUMMER

Beijing is the most unlikely city to be the first to host both Summer and Winter Olympics. Of all the Winter Olympic hosts, it has the least tradition in winter sports.

Beijing was a longshot for 2022 until six European countries — including favorites Norway and Sweden — dropped out for cost or political reasons.

Germany and Switzerland said “no” in referendums. The IOC was left to choose between Beijing and Almaty, Kazakhstan.

According to Mallon, writing to The Associated Press, the Canadian city of Montreal — the host for the 1976 Summer Olympics —

tried but failed several times to land the Winter Olympics.

Montreal put in bids for the Winter Olympics in 1932, 1936, 1944, and 1956. Montreal finished second in 1936, 1944, and 1956. It also tried for both Games in 1944 and 1956. And Quebec City, not far from Montreal, made a bid for the 2002 Winter Olympics.

A MUCH SMALLER GAMES

The Beijing Winter Olympics are expected to draw about 2,900 athletes from about 90 national Olympic committees. The Tokyo Olympics six months ago attracted 11,000 from just over 200 national bodies.

As with Tokyo, organizers say there will be no fans from abroad and only a smattering of “selected” local fans.

Baseball: Talks resume today Continued from B1

lockout and avoid disrupting the Feb. 16 scheduled start of spring training workouts. Players would need several days to travel to team complexes in Arizona and Florida, plus time to go through COVID-19 protocols.

This is probably the last week to reach a deal that would allow a timely start to spring training. Owners are scheduled to meet from Feb. 8-10 in Orlando, Florida, making it less likely there could be negotiations over those days.

Given the need for at least three weeks of workouts, opening day on March 31 would be threatened if there is not an agreement by late February or early March.

Players want arbitration eligibility extended to those with at least two years of major-league service, its level from 1974-86.

Since 2013, eligibility has included only the top 22% by service time among those with at least two years but less than three.

Clubs say they will not consider changes to arbitration or alterations that would lower revenue sharing. Players have proposed reducing revenue sharing by $30 million annually, a projection management disputes.

Players also want new structures to address alleged service time manipulation

and have proposed raising the minimum salary from $570,500 to $775,000 this season.

Management proposed a $615,000 minimum

for players with less than one year of major league service but with a provision teams couldn’t pay more than that amount.

Public notices (First published in The Iola Register Feb. 1, 2022) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS PROBATE DIVISION In the Matter of the Estate of NINA L. JOHNSON, Deceased AL 2019-PR-000029 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT (Chapter 59) THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified a petition has been filed in this Court by Larry Thompson and Linda Heffern, Co-Executors of the Estate of NINA L. JOHNSON, deceased, praying for final settlement of the estate, approval of their acts, proceedings and accounts as co-Executors, allowance for their

(First published in The Iola Register Feb. 1, 2022) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS PROBATE DIVISION In the Matter of the Estate of JAMES FREDERICK NIXON, Deceased AL-2022-PR-000003 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified a Petition was filed on January 27, 2022, in this Court by Tim Farmer, praying for the appointment of Tim Farmer, as administrator of the estate of JAMES FREDERICK NIXON, and for the issuance of Letters of Administration.

You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or

Executor fees and expenses and the Court determine the heirs of the said decedent and assign the personal property remaining in said estate.

You are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 25th day of February 2022, at 8:30 a.m. , in said District Court in Iola, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon said petition. /s/LARRY THOMPSON, Co-Executor /s/LINDA HEFFERN, Co-Executor ROBERT E. JOHNSON II #18223 JOHNSON SCHOWENGERDT PA P.O. Box 866 Iola, KS 66749 620-365-3778 (2) 1, 8, 15

before the 25th day of February, at 8:30 a.m. of said day, in the District Courtroom, at the Allen County Courthouse, in the City of 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 of the decedent notified to exhibit their demands against the estate within four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred. /s/TIM FARMER, Petitioner JOHNSON SCHOWENGERDT, PA Robert E. Johnson II, #18223 P.O. Box 866 Iola, Kansas 66749 (620) 365-3778 Attorney for Petitioner (2) 1, 8, 15

Both the Winter and Summer Olympics run over 17 days, which means there are many fewer events daily at the Winter Olympics.

As recently as 1980 in Lake Placid, New York — the “Miracle on Ice” year — the Winter Games lasted only 12 days.

Three venues have held the Winter Olympics twice: St. Moritz, Switzerland (1928, 1948), Innsbruck, Austria (1964, 1976), and Lake Placid (1932, 1980).

The Italian ski resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo will get its second in 2026 after holding the Winter Olympics in 1956.

Sapporo, Japan, which held the 1972 Winter Olympics, is a top contender for 2030.

The IOC has not said when it will announce its choice.

BEIJING (AP) — Athletes and team officials are testing positive for COVID-19 at much higher rates than other people arriving in China for the Beijing Olympics, organizers said Tuesday.

Figures released by local organizers showed 11 positive tests for COVID-19 among 379 athletes and officials arriving Monday. They have been taken into isolation hotels to limit the spread of the infection and could miss their events.

The positive test rate of 2.9% for athletes and officials compared to 0.66% for Olympic “stakeholders,” a group which includes workers and media, in the same period. There were 1,059 people in that category.

Over a three-day period from Saturday through Monday, the positivity rate for athletes and officials was 40% higher than other Olympic arrivals.

The rates were confirmed in PCR and other follow-up tests for tens of thousands of people at the Beijing Olympics who will live, work and train in closed-off communities separated from the general public. The Chinese government is pursuing a zero-tolerance public health strategy.

On Monday, the rate of infection from tests of those already inside the Olympic bubbles was 100 times higher for athletes and officials compared to workers.

Five of 3,103 tests from the athletes-officials group were positive compared to only one of more than 60,000 daily tests from “stakeholders.”

A total of 200 positive tests for COVID-19 have now been recorded at the Olympics since Jan. 23. Of those 200, 67 were athletes and officials. “Stakeholders” accounted for the other 133.

Among the athletes testing positive in Beijing is Hong Kong skier Audrey King, who arrived from a training camp in Bosnia-Herzegovina. King told the South China Morning Post she had no symptoms and was optimistic of skiing in the women’s slalom on Feb. 9.

The most senior athlete representative at the International Olympic Committee, twotime Olympic hockey medalist Emma Terho, also is in an isolation hotel after testing positive on arrival.

“Even though this is not the start I envisaged, I was happy to see the protocols that Beijing 2022 has put in place are working well,” Terho, an IOC member from Finland who sits on the Olympic body’s executive board, wrote on her Instagram account. iolaregister.com/archives

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Public notice (Published in The Iola Register Feb. 1, 2022) NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT NOTICE is hereby given that an application has been filed by Vertical Bridge Development, LLC, requesting a Conditional Use Permit for property located in Allen County, Kansas. The property is currently zoned Agricultural. The requested Condi-

tional Use Permit would permit: The construction of a 199’ Self Supporting Tower (150’ will be constructed now).

Following is the description of the property for which the Conditional Use Permit is requested: Legal Description: The east half of the NE Quarter (E/2 NE/4) of S26, T 23, R18 East of the 6th P.M. in Allen Co, KS, also known as 1587 West Virginia Rd. Iola, KS 66749 A public hearing before the

Allen County Planning Board will be held on Thursday, February 24th, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. in the Assembly Room at the Allen County Courthouse, 1 N. Washington, Iola, Kansas, at which time written and oral presentations and comments will be considered by the Board. For further information, contact the Allen County Zoning Administrator at 1 N. Washington, (620) 365-1432.

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Kansas hopes to rebound for key road clash

By AARON BEARD The Associated Press

Kansas’ Bill Self is looking for a strong response after a lopsided home loss, while Texas’ Chris Beard is preparing to face the program he led to within a win of a national championship just three years ago.

That’s part of a Big 12 schedule that sees each of the league’s five AP Top 25 teams face at least one ranked opponent this week.

The 10th-ranked Jayhawks are coming off an 18-point home loss to now-No. 5 Kentucky and are battling through numerous injuries, including starters David McCormack and Remy Martin. The Jayhawks visit No. 20 Iowa State on Tuesday night, then host eighth-ranked and reigning national champion Baylor on Saturday.

Martin, who averaged 19 points in the past two seasons at Arizona State, is battling through a lingering knee injury. Self told reporters Monday that the guard is at “probably 60 or 70%.”

Additionally, freshman guard Bobby Pet-

tiford is still limited and a f t e r retur ning from missing a month with an abdominal injury.

McCormack, who had offseason surgery on a broken bone in his foot, has been dealing with soreness. And Self said freshman forward Zach Clemence is probably at least a week from returning from a toe injury that has sidelined him since Jan. 8.

That’s part of why Self hopes Kansas (17-3, 6-1 Big 12) does more in the “scrap department” with energy and effort plays to offset some of those concerns, particularly with the conference race open regardless of the Kentucky disappointment.

“We missed an opportunity, there’s no question, to play better,” Self said. “But we haven’t missed out on an opportunity to still do what we set out to do” in the league.

As for the Longhorns (16-5, 5-3), they visit No. 14 Texas Tech on Tuesday in Beard’s first trip back to the Red Raiders program he led as head

coach for the previous five seasons. It’s the first of two games this week against ranked opponents, the second coming Saturday at home against the Cyclones.

“Very appreciative of my 15 years there,” Beard said Sunday, adding: “I thought together we did build an undeniable homecourt advantage, and I look forward to playing in that environment.”

WILDCATS’ DOUBLE

Two sets of Wildcats – No. 7 Arizona and No. 12 Villanova – each gave their own doubleheader against ranked opponents this week, too.

In the Pac-12, Arizona (17-2, 7-1) hosts No. 3 UCLA on Thursday followed by No. 19 Southern California on Saturday. And in the Big East, Villanova (16-5, 9-2) visits No. 24 Marquette on Wednesday then hosts No. 17 Connecticut on Saturday.

TIGERS’ STREAK

Auburn held firmly to its grip on the program’s first No. 1 ranking in Monday’s poll, staying ahead of Gonzaga for the second straight week.

The Tigers (20-1, 8-0 Southeastern Con-

ference) have won 17 straight games since losing in double-overtime to UConn in Novermber during the Battle 4 Atlantis. They next face instate rival Alabama on Tuesday, followed by visiting Georgia on Saturday.

to the 2019-20 season.

And last year, neither team was ranked for either meeting in an unusual year for the storied rivalry.

Duke swept the 2020 meetings, while UNC (15-6, 7-3) swept the 2021 series.

The Big Ten, which also has five ranked teams to tie the Big 12 and Big East for the national lead, has one ranked-vsranked matchup with No. 11 Wisconsin (17-3, 8-2) visiting No. 18 Illinois on Wednesday. The Fighting Illini (15-5, 8-2) jumped six spots in Monday’s new poll, second only to Kentucky’s seven-spot jump to No. 5 after the Kansas win.

Alabama (14-7, 4-4) led the list of vote-getters among unranked teams. The Crimson Tide is coming off an upset of Baylor and has two marquee SEC games this week to earn their way back into the poll. After Tuesday’s game against No. 1 Auburn, Alabama hosts Kentucky on Saturday.

Murray State (202, 10-0) is rolling through the Ohio Valley Conference and hasn’t lost since falling to Auburn on Dec. 22. The Racers visit Austin Peay on Thursday, then host SIU Edwardsville on Saturday.

BIG TEN BATTLE

RIVALRY RETURNS

Retiring Hall of Fame Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski makes his final trip Saturday to rival North Carolina, with the ninth-ranked Blue Devils (17-3, 7-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) aiming to earn only their second win in Chapel Hill in the past six tries.

The Tar Heels, playing under first-year coach Hubert Davis, are unranked for the fifth straight meeting with the Blue Devils dating

Chiefs: Painful loss is all too familiar Continued from B1

moment — easy to call last week’s comeback against the Bills the best in team history, for example — but the comparisons here are easy. Yes, there have been larger blown leads. There have actually been games in which the Chiefs were larger favorites than the 7-point closing line against the Bengals.

None of those had Mahomes.

This one did.

The Lin Elliott Game didn’t have Mahomes.

The Marcus Mariota Pass to Himself Game didn’t either. Not the No Punt Game. Nor the Field Goal Game.

The Chiefs had a 97.3% chance to win at one point Sunday, per Next Gen Stats, and the best football player in the world stood on their sideline. They led 21-10, ball at the 1-yard line, ready to play make-it, take-it and seal their flight to the West Coast, where they would’ve been a betting favorite to win their second Super Bowl in three seasons.

With four teams left in the dance, the most in-

triguing bet on the sheet was not who would win the Super Bowl but rather if you’d prefer to take the Chiefs or the rest of the field.

As he stepped to the lectern for a post-game news conference Sunday, Mahomes listed off the finality of the Chiefs’ past four seasons. He wasn’t asked by the way.

The question before him pondered what might be on his mind at that very moment.

He answered: 2018.

2019.

2020.

And 2021.

“A few plays here and there,” Mahomes said, “and you could have four chances at the Super Bowl.”

That’s what makes this difficult.

They have one.

With the guarantee of nothing.

A city that waited 50 years for a parade is entitled to feel as though it deserves to be spoiled with another. A city that sat through six consecutive home playoff losses is entitled to believe it didn’t deserve to sit

through that one.

“This is another great challenge for this team and for this organization,” safety Tyrann Mathieu said.

The Chiefs were the best team still permitted to play football this weekend — Mathieu said that, too. The team that took the field in the first half remains the best team in football.

Where did it go?

Mahomes threw for 220 yards and three touchdowns in the first half, and the Chiefs scored on their initial three drives before only the game clock could halt their next one.

That should’ve been sufficient.

Should’ve been over. An observer of the old Chiefs — the Pre-Mahomes — would know better. An observer of Post-Mahomes Chiefs could have booked a flight for Los Angeles.

The Bengals swear they changed hardly anything defensively.

The results changed significantly. Mahomes managed only 55 yards after halftime, when the Chiefs scored just three

points. He fell into some habits to which he succumbed over the middle part of the season — he passed up short passes in favor of looking for something bigger. The scrambles weren’t there.

The drops returned.

“I mean, I gotta be better,” Mahomes said.

“When you’re up 21-3 at one point in the game, you can’t lose it. I put that on myself.”

What Mahomes and the Chiefs did to the Bills in just 13 seconds a week ago came back at them in full force over 35 minutes.

A slow bleed. More painful. More agonizing.

Far more confounding.

Even for all of the second-half struggles, they still forced overtime. Still won a coin flip. Still had the ball in Mahomes’ hands with a chance to win the game with a touchdown.

Forget 13 seconds.

The Chiefs had all the time in the world.

Incomplete pass.

Incomplete pass.

Interception.

Time of possession: 14 seconds.

WATCH LIST

Tennis greats laud Nadal MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic have offered their congratulations to Rafael Nadal for breaking their threeway tie atop the men’s Grand Slam standings and becoming the first member of the trio to win No. 21.

Federer and Djokovic both missed the Australian Open. Federer is recovering from his latest knee operation; Djokovic is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and he was deported when his visa was revoked after he flew to Melbourne.

Federer posted an Instagram message he addressed “to my friend and great rival.”

IMS: Victorious Continued from B1

find their footing and let Iola run away with the game late.

Iola did a great job of limiting turnovers and taking advantage of mistakes the Buffalos made.

Herrmann led the way with 16 points.

Austin Crooks and Kale Pratt both had four.

The eighth grade B game was high scoring, considering the teams only played two quarters. Iola scored in double-digits in both quarters.

Jayden Beene led the way in the first quarter with six points, while Baron Folk had four in the second including going 2-2 on free throws.

Iola did a great job taking care of the ball and shooting free throws, going 3-4 from the line and capitalized on fouls.

The Mustangs looked the best they have all season, rebounding well and taking advantage of second chances.

Beene led the way with 10 points. Folk ended with nine.

Gannon Hutton and Isaac Velazquez each had two.

The closest game of the night was the

eighth grade A game.

The Mustangs held on to win despite a late surge from Prairie View. Noah Schowendgerdt’s big game propelled the Mustangs to their third win of the night.

Iola led 14-12 at the half after a surge late in the second. The Iola defense played exceptionally and was much improved from Saturday’s outing.

A nine-point third quarter helped Iola withstand the late stampede from the Buffalos but the real game sealer was the Iola defense holding Prairie View to only five points in the third to help extend the Mustang lead in the waning moments of the game.

An attempted comeback by the Buffalos came up just short when Schowengerdt hit a late jumper to put the Mustangs up by four.

Schowengerdt finished with 12 points.

Tre Wilson had eight.

Brennan Coffield and Nick Bauer each had four points.

Iola is back in action Thursday against Santa Fe Trail.

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