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Commissioners OK changes to hospital demolition

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

Allen County commissioners bowed to a plea by potential contractors, all of whom said during a walkthrough of the old Allen County Hospital Thursday that including salvage rights with a demolition contract would be to the county’s advantage.

Their reasoning was that if salvage were sold separately by auction, removal of copper wire and pipe, as well as other things of value, likely would scatter asbestos that would have to be removed before demolition

College loses state funding for GED

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

Allen Community College’s adult education program is coming to an unexpected halt due to a cut in state funding.

Jon Marshall, vice president of academic affairs at ACC, said though the program has served its last group of students, he has hopes of resur- Jon Marshall recting it.

Two years ago the Kansas Board of Regents set its sights on seeing 60 percent of Kansans at-

taining a higher education certificate or degree by 2020, Marshall said. It also wanted to see the number of General Educational Development recipients greatly increase.

Data from the 2010 U.S. Census showed the Regents that the number of people without a high school diploma was growing in Allen County.

As part of an effort to raise the diploma-in-hand ratio, the Board set a goal for the state’s community colleges to increase the number of GED graduates, or risk losing their funding.

Allen’s goal was set at 80 students last year, an increase of more than 20 students over the past several years. Allen

could start. Asbestos remediation would be costly, they opined.

Also, to give each contractor ample time to prepare a proposal, commissioners agreed to move the deadline for bid acceptance from Monday to July 10. Bids will be opened during the July 14 commission meeting.

Commissioners each said they had thoughts about what cost would be acceptable, but deferred from mentioning any in public session. In a chat after the meeting, Commissioner Jim Talkington did say that See DEMO | Page A4

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missed the mark, serving a little more than 50 students.

Now the school won’t be able to serve any students.

Adult education is a program funded by the state with the college contributing a small match. In previous years Allen submitted a grant every other year, but for the last two years the grant has not been funded. Marshall plans to apply for the grant funding again in the spring.

But even if Allen had met the 80-student mark, the goal for the next year would increase to 150 people. Marshall said the experience has been exasperating.

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

While new lights eventually will greatly increase illumination of the Oregon Road and U.S. 169 intersection just east of Allen County Regional Hospital, new and larger signs alerting motorists of its location may not be erected any time soon.

Bill King, director of Public Works, said a Kansas Department of Transportation representative said the state agency wasn’t inter-

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ested in permitting the larger signs. Small signs now point the way to ACRH and Allen Community College.

“Might help to contact your legislator (Kent Thompson),” King said. “I have,” rejoined Commissioner Tom Williams.

As for concrete refuse, King said he envisioned no problems in the county’s landfill accepting that created by demolition of the old Allen County Hospital.

“It may not go to waste,” he added, saying the conSee SIGNS | Page A4

June collections fall $22 million short of projections

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas collected about $22 million less in taxes than anticipated this month, ending the fiscal year Tuesday with less of a cushion for its next budget, for which lawmakers boosted sales and cigarette taxes to

keep it balanced.

The state took in a little more than $529 million in taxes in June, the state Department of Revenue reported, a 4.1 percent shortfall from the official prediction of more than $551 million.

For the entire 2015 fiscal year, the department reported tax collections of $5.5 billion

— $33 million short of expectations, or about 0.6 percent short. That doesn’t include taxes on insurance premiums, which were running about $3 million ahead of expectations through May. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and the GOP-dominated Legislature had expected the state to end its fiscal

year with about $73 million in cash reserves. With those reserves and the $384 million in new tax increases, the state would retain about $36 million in reserves at the end of June 2016, keeping the budget narrowly balanced.

Lawmakers expected Brownback to trim the spending they approved for the next

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By ADAM TSCHORN The Los Angeles Times

What with Grumpy Cat and therapy goats, $150 granite cat food bowls and $2,600 Gucci dog carriers, it’s easy to think that a society that has dedicated pet bakeries, canine-only cable channels and a cat with more Twitter followers than the Dalai Lama has (forgive us) seriously gone to the dogs in recent years.

Even a cursory look at the statistics would indicate that something is afoot: According to an annual survey conducted by the American Pet Products Assn., 65 per-

fiscal year by $50 million to boost those cash reserves. If state tax collections don’t rebound, Brownback will face pressure to cut more deeply.

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Tractor-trailer hitches could be faulty BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) — On a twisty, snowlined hill that the locals call “Devil’s Backbone,” a 12-ton semi-trailer came loose from its tractor and plowed into an oncoming line of predawn commuters.

At 40 miles per hour, the trailer struck the side of one pickup truck and careened head-on into another, killing the drivers of both vehicles.

At first the Jan. 24, 2014, crash on U.S. 50 in Cincinnati’s eastern suburbs drew only the attention of Ohio authorities, who faulted the semi driver for not properly inspecting the hitch that holds the trailer to the tractor. But 17 months later, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has raised the possibility that the hitch was defective.

On June 9, the agency began investigating a potentially high rate of trailer separations for the hitch involved in the crash — the “Ultra LT” made by Fontaine Fifth Wheel of Trussville, Alabama. Fontaine says it is cooperating with the probe.

The Ultra LT could be in use on as many as 6,000 semis across the nation.

Given the nearly 1 ½-year gap between the crash and the investigation, the safety agency could face renewed criticism for failing to analyze its own data to uncover a safety problem — the same failure that delayed recalls of defective General Motors ignition switches and

faulty Takata air bags.

Although the agency’s new administrator says reforms are underway, one frequent critic of NHTSA sees remnants of an old problem. “(The Fontaine case) sounds like an artifact of what we used to see from the agency over time, an inability to connect the dots,” says Sean Kane, president of Safety Research and Strategies.

Kane says the agency needs to move quickly given the number of semis using the Ultra LT hitches.

The agency says it acted properly, opening the investigation after Fontaine said it wanted to replace all 6,000 hitches for unspecified “nonsafety” reasons.

The agency investigated the hitches once before, in 2011, after Fontaine issued a service bulletin. NHTSA found 12 complaints about the hitches, plus one crash with no injuries. NHTSA said Fontaine made a design change at that time to prevent the problem from occurring in future products.

In 2012, Fontaine revealed another problem with the Ultra LTs in a second service bulletin.

As required by law, Fontaine notified NHTSA of the Cincinnatiarea crash in August of last year, as did the truck’s maker, Navistar.

Fontaine subsequently submitted reports that blamed the crash on an improper hookup by the driver, so the agency didn’t pursue the matter further.

Once Fontaine said

Economic report affirms slow growth in Midwest OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A report on a June survey underscores previous survey signs that slower economic growth likely is ahead for nine Midwestern and Plains states.

The survey report issued today says the overall Mid-America Business Conditions Index rose to 53.0 from 50.4 in May and 52.7 in April.

Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the survey, and he says “improvements at the national level in housing, retail sales

and hiring pushed supply managers to raise their expectations about future economic conditions.”

The survey results from supply managers are compiled into a collection of indexes ranging from zero to 100.

Survey organizers say any score above 50 suggests economic growth, while a score below that suggests decline.

The survey covers Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.

Public notice (First published in The Iola Register on July 1, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Plaintiff, vs.

Sabrina J. Hurst, et al.

Defendants.

Case No. 15CV20 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 July 22, 2015, at 10:00 AM, the following real estate: Lots Nine (9) and Ten (10), Block Sixty Four (64), of the Original Townsite of the City of Humboldt, Allen County, Kansas., commonly known as 612 Mulberry 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 Bryan J. Murphy, Sheriff Allen County, Kansas Prepared By: SouthLaw, P.C. Mark Mellor (KS # 10255) 245 N. Waco, Suite 410 Wichita, KS 67202 (316) 684-7733 (316) 684-7766 (Fax) Attorneys for Plaintiff (179681) (7) 1, 8, 15

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The Fontaine case sounds like an artifact of what we used to see from the agency over time, an inability to connect the dots.

—Sean Kane, president of Safety Research and Strategies

it wanted to replace the hitches, NHTSA decided to act. Agency spokesman Gordon Trowbridge says the investigation will “determine if the service bulletin, the fatal crash and the plan to replace all of the fifth wheels (hitches) have a common safety-related root cause.”

Fontaine has until July 24 to turn over communications on the Ohio crash and other information.

Steve Mann, vice president of engineering for Fontaine, which is part of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., says in a statement that the company analyzes data to help ensure “safety and reliability.”

NHTSA said in documents that Fontaine believes operator error caused the Devil’s Backbone crash.

Before he drove on the hill that frigid January morning, Michael Simpson tried to hook his grocery trailer to a tractor at a truck yard north of Cincinnati. Three times, it didn’t latch, he told police. It locked on the fourth try, and Simpson drove a short distance to make sure. He checked again while en route to an IGA store, saying he was “concerned.”

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as he was climbing Devil’s Backbone, the trailer came loose. It tore across the side of Michael Brown’s Chevy Silverado, killing the 43-yearold father of three. Then it hit Shawn Wilson’s Dodge Ram head-on, killing the 39-year-old father who had one daughter.

“It was a terrible accident. Just so sad,” said Kathy Sabo, who saw it happen while driving to work and tried to help victims.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol investigated, finding that the hitch didn’t lock due to a combination of the minus 4 degree temperature and a buildup of frozen grease on the pin and receiver.

Days after the crash, tests showed the hitch worked just fine. Sgt. Charlie Scales, a reconstruction expert, says Simpson would have spotted the loose connection if he had properly inspected the hitch.

Simpson, now 62, was convicted earlier this year of vehicular manslaughter, a misdemeanor. His commercial driver’s license was suspended for 90 days and he got a year’s probation. His attorney in a lawsuit stemming from the crash wouldn’t comment.

WWI museum in KC hosts Australia exhibit KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City is hosting an upcoming exhibit about Australian War Art. The museum says “A Centenary of Australian War Art” opens in Kansas City on July 17 and features the most comprehensive collec-

tion of Australian war art outside Australia.

The Australian ambassador to the United States, Kim Beazley, is also scheduled to visit the museum on July 16.

Producer Marian Bartsch will also attend the U.S. premiere of the documentary The Waler: Australia’s Great War Horse on July 23 at the museum.

Parking citation tossed out for missing comma M I D D L E T OW N, Ohio (AP) — An appeals court has agreed with an Ohio woman who said her parking citation should be tossed because the village law was missing a comma.

Andrea Cammelleri says she shouldn’t have been issued a citation in 2014 based on the wording of the law enacted by the village of West Jefferson.

The law lists several types of vehicles that can’t be parked longer than 24 hours,

including a “motor vehicle camper,” with the comma missing between “vehicle” and “camper.”

Cammelleri says her pickup truck did not fit that definition.

The village says the law’s meaning was clear in context, but Judge Robert Hendrickson of the 12th Ohio District Court of Appeals says in last week’s ruling that West Jefferson should amend the law if it wants it read differently.

Today in history In 1863, the pivotal, three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, resulting in a Union victory, began in Pennsylvania.

In 1867, Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain as the British

North America Act took effect.

In 1946, the United States exploded a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

In 2004, actor Marlon Brando died in Los Angeles at age 80.

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The family of Gordon Ulrich thanks the community, family & friends for the outpouring of friendship during the loss of our loved one. Thanks for the food, paper products, cards, hugs and words of encouragement.

It’s so great to see how many lives Gordon touched. Thanks again for all the wonderful things everyone did for us during our time of sorrow. He will be missed.

Jeanne Ulrich Lori & Kris and family Brek & Liz and family

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We all make excuses. Most of the time, they’re pretty harmless. But you could be hurting yourself if you make excuses for not taking action in some areas — and one of those areas is investing.

Not investing, or not investing enough, can have serious consequences. In fact, a lot of people are poorly prepared financially for retirement. Consider these figures from the Federal Reserve: The median retirement account value for individuals between 35 and 44 is just $42,700; for people 55 to 64, the corresponding figure is $103,000. These figures are frighteningly low, especially when retirement can easily last two or three decades.

In short, you need to invest. So, what’s stopping you?

Here are some common excuses: • “I’ll do it later.” The longer you wait before you start investing, the less time you have to accumulate money, and the less likely it may be that you’ll achieve your goals, such as a comfortable retirement lifestyle. If you haven’t begun investing, do it today.

• “I don’t have enough money to invest.” The cost of living is unquestionably high, and you may feel that you have just enough money to pay your bills before your next paycheck. But if you look for ways to economize, you may well be able to free up even a little money to invest each month. And then, when your salary goes up, you can increase the amount you invest.

• “I’ll have Social Security.” Social Security benefits generally account for only about 40% of an individual’s pre-retirement income, according to the Social Security Administration. Unless you want to scale back your lifestyle greatly during your retirement years, you’ll need to supplement Social Security with your employer-backed retirement account, such as a 401(k), plus your own investments, such as those that go inside an IRA. • “Can I really invest enough money for my retirement?”

Consider this: Going back to 1990, if you had invested $10,000 in the stocks that make up the S&P 500, and simply held on to these stocks, you would have amassed more than $76,000 after taxes by the end of 2013. Of course, past performance of the market is not a guarantee of how it will perform in the future, and the S&P 500 is an unmanaged index and is not meant to depict an actual investment — but this illustration still shows that patient, diligent, long-term investing can produce positive results.

• “I don’t know where to begin.” If you work for a company that provides a retirement plan such as a 401(k) or something similar, you’ve already got a great place to begin. You only need to sign up for the plan and start deferring a part of your salary, and you’re an investor. It’s also quite easy to open an IRA, another popular retirement savings account. In any case, if you have doubts about how to get started investing, you will find it valuable to meet with a qualified investment professional.

Don’t let excuses get in the way of developing good investment habits. With time, determination and effort, you can overcome many of the obstacles you thought prevented you from becoming a full-fledged investor.

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July 4-Community picnic, 6:30 p.m., ball park. Bring covered dish. Drinks and hot dogs furnished, followed by fireworks display at dark. 6-cemetery board meeting, city office, 7 p.m.; 7-Story hour, city hall community room, 10-11 a.m.; 8-Rural Water District No. 5 board meeting, 8 p.m.

Mrs. Morris Luedke 852-3379

18:7-10; Luke 19:4 and Ephesians 4:30. Interim Pastor Charlie Towne’s gave the sermon, “God’s Response to the News.”

Sunday - breakfast at the church at 9:30 a.m.

Summer ball

Girls-July 6-T-ball tournament at Redfield.

Boys-July 6-10-T-ball tournament at Kincaid.

Northcott Church

Meal site

July 12-Kim Douglas will preach followed by fellowship luncheon.

Birthdays-Lora Crouch, July 6, and Bill Otto, July 17.

Friday-Picnic lunch available, kitchen closed; Monday-chicken lasagna, rollup, Caribbean blend, bread, apricots; Wednesday-Swiss steak, au gratin potatoes, Brussels sprouts, bread, plums. Phone 620-852-3459 for reservations.

UMC

Scripture presented at Sunday’s United Methodist Church morning service was Psalm 130:18, 2 Corinthians 8:6-15 and Mark 5:21-3. Pastor Dorothy Welch presented the sermon, “Finding Hope When All Seems Lost.”

Christian Church

Scripture presented Sunday was Matthew 19:4-6; Genesis 6:6; Isaiah 63:10; Jeremiah

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The Iola Register

KS rabies cases on the rise

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Vacation Bible School with all three churches was June 15-19. This year’s theme was “Exploring Mount Everest.”

Leaders and helpers were Linda Ludlum, Sue Colgin, Debbie Wools, Judy Henderson, Donna Kimmell, Jo Lowe, Janice Ward, Pastor Dorothy Welch, Lola Webber, Emily Weber, Amanda Welch, Kassie Bowen, Lynette Prasko, Ben Prasko, Marla Bain and Pastor Steve Bubna.

A picnic on Friday followed the week’s activities. An average of 30 children attended each day.

Story hour

Seventeen children and two youth helpers, Makayla and Jerrick Jones, attended the June 23 story hour. Debbie Wools read several stories. Kloma Buckle assisted and Charlene Tinsley provided refreshments.

Several mothers also assisted.

The story hour theme

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Evelyn Wedeman holds the distinction as the oldest resident in Colony. She will be 99 on July 11. Her daughter, Donna Powell, also lives in Colony. Evelyn was born at Braddock, N.D., where she met and married her husband, Chet, when he was working there. They moved to Lone Elm in 1948. She worked as a cook for the school in Lone Elm from 1948 to 1970. When the school unified with Crest USD 479 in Colony, Evelyn cooked here until she retired in 1986.

Chet passed away in 1981. PHOTO BY ALLENE LUEDKE is “Every Hero has a Story.” This week’s theme was “Animal Heroes.”

The children made horse puppets. Children are encouraged to bring pictures of who they think is a hero.

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Heather Lynnette Webber, Colony, recently graduated with a master of science in nursing with a concentration in education from Fort Hays State University.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas residents are being warned to be cautious around skunks during an uptick in rabies cases.

Kansas State University’s veterinary diagnostic laboratory says 70 rabies cases have been reported this year — the same number as all of last year.

The Wichita Eagle reports skunks accounted for almost 75 percent of the rabies cases. A Kansas State lab diagnostician says most of the other cases probably began with a rabid skunk biting another animal.

Starting in 1997, the Kansas State lab saw a rise in rabies cases, peaking at 164 cases in 2003 before declining over the past decade.

The last time someone in Kansas died from rabies was in 1968.

California governor signs tough new vaccination law SACRAMENTO, Calif.

(TNS) — Adopting one of the most far-reaching vaccination laws in the nation Tuesday, California barred religious and other personal-belief exemptions for schoolchildren, a move that could affect tens of thousands of students and sets up a potential court battle with opponents of immunization.

California’s weakened public health defenses against measles and other preventable diseases led to the adoption of the measure, signed Tuesday by Gov. Jerry Brown, intended to stem the rising number of parents opting not to inoculate their children.

Public health officials said a proliferation of waivers, many sought because of unfounded health concerns, helped fuel a measles outbreak that started at Disneyland in December and quickly spread across the West, infecting 150.

“I think it’s a great day for California’s children. You’re living in a state that just got a little safer,” said Dr. Paul Offit, chief of the division of infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an advocate of immunization.

California joins Mississippi and West Virginia as the only states to ban vaccination waivers based on religion. All 50

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tion is without risk, the evidence shows that immunization powerfully benefits and protects the community.”

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The science is clear that vaccines dramatically protect children against a number of infections and dangerous diseases.

— California Gov. Jerry Brown

2016 school year, the new law could affect more than 80,000 California students.

Only medical exceptions will be allowed for those entering day care and kindergarten.

Children with physician-certified allergies and immune-system deficiencies, for example, will be exempted.

Parents can still decline to vaccinate children who attend private home-based schools or public independent studies off campus.

“The science is clear that vaccines dramatically protect children against a number of infectious and dangerous diseases,” Brown said.

“While it’s true that no medical interven-

as recently as 2012, and faced criticism because of it.

This year, hundreds of people opposed to vaccination descended on the Capitol to protest the new legislation. They argued that it would violate parents’ rights to make decisions about their children’s health and interfere with their children’s right to a public education.

“I’m heartbroken,” said Rebecca Estepp of Poway, who belongs to the advocacy group California Coalition for Health Choice, which opposed the legislation.

“It’s so coercive. It’s so punitive.”

Estepp, who said her 17-year-old son was injured by a vaccine, said

opponents would be likely to challenge the law in court.

Dotty Hagmier, a mother of three from Orange County who also criticized the measure, said many families may choose home schools or move out of the state.

“These moms are strong,” she said. “And they’re not going to just give up. They’re not going to give up their rights.”

Health officials say declining immunization rates have led to a loss of “herd immunity” in some schools and communities, a situation in which high local vaccination rates against a contagious disease suppress it from spreading.

“When you get really close to immunizing everybody ... the less you’ll see of those diseases,” said Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, interim health officer for Los Angeles County.

Until recently, many preventable diseases, including whooping cough and mumps, were thought to be largely eradicated due to widespread inoculation. The United States declared measles to be eliminated from the country in 2000.

Fueled by persistent

assertions that vaccines were linked to autism, a growing number of parents began declining immunizations for their children.

Vaccination rates in California’s kindergarten classes steadily declined between 2001 and 2013, particularly in affluent and coastal areas of the state.

As immunization rates dipped, there were flare-ups of measles.

The Disneyland outbreak — the worst in California in 15 years — was a catalyst for further legislative action.

Public health officials warn that California remains at high risk of another outbreak because immunization levels in some communities remain so low. Dr. Gil Chavez, the state epidemiologist, said in April that immunization rates in some schools are at 50 percent or lower, creating an ideal environment for the virus to spread.

Last fall, 13,592 kindergarten students — 2.54 percent of California’s kindergarteners — had personal-belief exemptions on file. That is a sharp increase from 1998, when 4,032 kindergarteners, or 0.77 percent, had them.

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$60.59 billion in 2015.

Has our relationship with domestic animals fundamentally changed in the last few years?

“The answer is yes and no,” says Stanley Coren, psychology professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia and author of several books about dogs, including “The Pawprints of History: Dogs and the Course of Human Events.”

“They’ve found a grave from the Natufian era — about 11,000 years ago — on the border between Israel and Syria in which an elderly man was buried with his hand resting on what appears to be the skeleton of a 9-weekold puppy. Obviously that dog was precious.”

Coren says human history is full of pets that have been treated as well as — or better — than members of the family by those who had the means to do so. This includes Frederick the Great of Prussia, who had a wing of his Sanssouci palace designed for his beloved Italian greyhounds. “When the dogs destroyed the furniture or the drapes,” says Coren, “he simply

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had it all replaced. This was for his dogs, yet he never let his wife come and visit the palace.

She had to stay in Vienna.”

He says that the willingness to spend dovetails with a need to nurture in a changing family demographic.

“Nowadays, we no longer have the extended family all living within a half hour’s drive from us ... and furthermore, we’re living a lot longer. So there’s a whole lot of people who live well into an era of life where the kids have gone away and they have empty-nest syndrome.”

Megan Mueller, associate director of the newly formed Tufts Institute for Human-Animal Interaction, which focuses on human-pet relationships, says, “If you look at the statistics, yes, people have more animals that they consider pets than they used to.

“The increase in this area of research is certainly indicative of these relationships becoming important,” Mueller said.

Here’s one thing about the relationship that’s crystal clear: We’ll do just about anything to make our animal companions happy.

Continued from A1

Speaker Ray Merrick, a Stilwell Republican, said in a statement, also noting that lawmakers authorized a $3 million multiyear efficiency study of state government.

The state’s budget problems arose after legislators slashed personal income taxes in 2012 and 2013 at Brownback’s urging in an effort to stimulate the economy.

Democrats have called the tax cuts a failed fiscal experiment.

“Until Brownback accepts responsibility and we change course, Kansas will continue to

be on unstable financial ground,” said House Minority Leader Tom Burroughs, a Kansas City Democrat.

In previous months, Department of Revenue officials noted that personal income tax collections were both growing compared with the previous fiscal year and running ahead of expectations. But personal income tax collections fell about $14 million short of expectations in June, leaving them slightly lower than anticipated for the entire fiscal year, at about $2.3 billion.

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anything above $400,000 might give him pause.

For comparison’s sake, razing the one-story Anderson County Hospital in Garnett cost $250,000.

Two factors will work in the Allen County’s favor. First, will be including salvage rights; second, a change in plans on the county’s part not to have the demolition contractor fill and compact the hole left from removal of basement walls and flooring and stabilizing piers. Commissioners, on County Counselor Alan Weber’s advice, agreed to hire a local excavator to deal with the hole according to engineering specifications that the county expects to have from G&W Foods before demolition is completed.

G&W has agreed in principle to purchase 70,000 square feet of the old hospital site for $29,000 for construction of a full-service gro-

cery store. While a sale contract has not been drawn, commissioners have said at every turn that is their intent. G&W also has filed a letter of intent with the county to build the store.

A second project may come about earlier than originally expected.

Tom Carlson, a Springfield, Mo., developer, was in Iola Tuesday to survey the hospital site, with the expectation of filling what land G&W didn’t purchase with several apartment buildings. If that materializes, full development of the site would be completed more quickly that originally thought.

John Brocker, on behalf of Allen County Realty, agreed to the county shifting gears on salvage rights, which he originally planned to include with an auction of personal property and other things, such as doors, that could be removed easily from the

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“Believe me, we tried,” Marshall said.

“There are a lot of factors to this program.

Folks need to be served when they are ready to be served. They need a motivating factor to want to obtain a higher education.”

Also staff was cut from two and half down to one person working 20 hours a week, which makes it difficult to teach 60-plus students.

“I don’t look at it as it ending, but I look at it as a restructuring period,” Marshall said.

“We will work together to find a solution.”

How it started

About 10 years ago Allen’s adult education program was all sitebased on the Iola and Burlingame campuses.

Allen also served about 10 to 12 students in Yates Center. The program prepped students for

the GED exam among other life skills such as computer literacy. The GED exam was administered on site as well.

For years there were approximately two full-time employees, a director and full-time teacher, and one parttime instructor. During its highest point the program served 100 but it slowly leveled out to approximately 60.

“This was around the time people were facing economic troubles and wanted to earn their GED and advance their education,” Marshall said.

In 2010, credit recovery programs began to grow in surrounding high schools. School districts were more purposeful in allowing students gain credits to earn their high school diploma instead of a GED. “This was also the rise of the Humboldt virtual school which is

a wonderful, wonderful thing,” Marshall added.

Humboldt’s virtual program is an accredited curriculum that meets state standards for grades six through 12 and students can receive a high school diploma upon completion.

Iola’s school district also serves students by giving adults the opportunity to go back to school to earn their Iola High School Diploma at Crossroads Learning Center.

Out of the 26 two-year schools in Kansas, 16 offer an adult education program.

Plans for future

Those who call Allen to participate in the adult education program will be referred to the closest program to the potential student’s home, but Marshall hopes this is only temporary.

“Hopefully in a year or two we could join

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“Withholding taxes came in lower than expected,” she said.

Sales tax collections, at $2.1 billion for the fiscal year, were about $17 million less than anticipated.

Koranda said the Department of Revenue attributes the shortfall to a softer national economy.

The department also touted the year-to-year growth in total tax collections of 1.3 percent, or $70 million, for the just-completed fiscal year.

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some other colleges and get a program going together,” he said.

Marshall serves as president of a group of college academic administrators.

He continues to meet with academic advisers at other colleges to find a solution at keeping an adult education program alive.

Other colleges with adult programs are Butler Community College in El Dorado, Johnson County Community College in the Kansas City area, and Neosho County Community College is in a consortium with Parsons and Independence.

He envisions working in a consortium with either neighboring schools or schools in the geographic area to come together, save on administrative costs and revive the adult education program for not just Allen but other schools as well.

structure. Commissioners sweetened the deal by raising Brocker’s guaranteed take from $600 to $1,500. The guarantee will become moot if auction commission income exceeds the guarantee.

Weber said he expected eight or more contractors to bid on demolition.

IN DEFERENCE to several citizens who had asked, commissioners agreed to permit the removal of flowers and plants from the old hospital lawn to anyone who wants them.

Also, they asked Weber to contact Allen County Historical Society to see if there was interest in preserving a handful of plaques and information charts still hanging on the building’s walls. None would be expected to fetch much at an auction, and could add to the historical record maintained by the ACHS.

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crete may be used for erosion control in the multitude of areas where small streams and ditches cross county roads. “We may have to crush it up some,” he said, and its use may be limited for things other than water control because of the preponderance of rebar.

Also, the landfill is authorized to accept asbestos, which King described as “special waste, not hazardous waste by KDOT.” Contractors will have to acquire a KDOT permit before removal, however, which King said was little more than a formality.

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The district expects to spend $43,732 during 2016, and have more than $94,000 cash in hand when the year starts.

Actual expenditures depend on conservation practices done on agricultural land throughout the county.

Tri-Valley Developmental Services requested $65,000, the same as it received this year.

TVDS provides services to developmentally challenged individuals in Allen, Bourbon, Neosho and Woodson counties, with each county contributing to its annual revenue.

Currently, it has 87 Allen County residents receiving services, 76 in the county and 11 elsewhere in the four-county region. TVDS has 22 paid staff living in Allen County. Its 2016 budget anticipates expenditures of nearly $5.5 million.

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Checks and balances missing in Kansas government To rid the court system of political influence, Gov. Sam Brownback said he should have power to pack the courts.

On Tuesday, Brownback railed against recent court decisions, both state and national, that he said were clear evidence of a political agenda.

Specifically, were the U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the Affordable Care Act and same-sex marriage.

Locally, was a decision to temporarily halt a law that bans a common method of abortion.

Brownback also can’t move beyond a ruling last year that stated funding for Kansas K-12 schools is not equitable.

The other shoe to fall, of course, is whether school funding is adequate. God help us when that ruling comes down.

TO FIX this “radical” de-

cision-making, Brownback proposes to change how Supreme Court justices are selected, by one of two ways. The first option is by a general election; the second by executive decision, meaning the governor could hand-pick a justice with the only safeguard being Senate confirmation, which is of no comfort.

Currently, the governor picks from three candidates nominated by a commission, comprised of five attorneys and four lay members representing each of Kansas’ congressional districts.

Because the nominees are grilled by fellow attorneys, those who make the cut are held in high esteem.

And, with no insult to the public, to put these candidates on a November bal-

lot introduces wholesale politics into their selection. With money and influence to spare, Brownback’s power at the polls should not be underestimated.

The state constitution is a beautiful thing in that it is designed to prevent one faction of government usurping control over another.

The Legislature can pass laws, but it must pass the muster of the executive branch and, likewise, not violate the constitution, as interpreted by the judicial branch.

It’s critical that each branch is independent, yet interdependent, to maintain not only checks and balances but also impartiality. For justice to prevail, justices must be able to remain impartial to the whims of the executive and legislative branches.

BUT THREATS from those two branches are making that more difficult.

In what is perceived as retaliation to the court’s decision on school funding, a law was passed in 2014 that strips Supreme Court justices of the power to manage the state’s district courts, including how chief judges are appointed, as provided in the constitution.

That new law is to be challenged in Shawnee County District Court.

If the court finds the new law violates the state constitution, the Legislature has threatened to defund the entire judicial branch.

Which puts the court in a catch-22 situation. Either it knowingly violates the Kansas Constitution or it commits suicide.

Insane, right?

— Susan Lynn

Time now to improve health law Like it or not, Obamacare is the law of the land. The Supreme Court issued a decision Thursday that supported the health insurance reform law that is President Obama’s main domestic accomplishment. On a 6-3 vote, the court ruled that tax subsidies are legal in states — including Kansas — where the federal government is running the marketplaces for health insurance. That’s a central part of Obamacare.

We believe the court’s decision is the right one. We also think it’s time to move on to improving the law — in particular, to trying to bring down health costs.

In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the concept of requiring people by law to buy insurance. The latest decision cements the concept of subsidies. Opponents in this case had focused on an obscure provision that seems to say that subsidies are available to people buying insurance on “an exchange created by the state.” An “exchange” is an online marketplace where

Ruling hands voters a big victory The sentence cannot be found in the Constitution, but it best captures one of the fundamental democratic principles the Constitution exists to protect: “Voters should choose their representatives, not the other way around.”

That quote — from a decade-old law review article — comes at the end of the Supreme Court’s decision on gerrymandering, a two-century-old term that refers to drawing legislative districts to achieve political advantage. On the grounds that this is an essentially political process that falls under the purview of the legislative branch, the court has long refused to intervene in the practice.

On Monday, however, in a major victory for grass roots efforts to reshape election laws, the court ruled that the people have the right to give it a go themselves.

FOR DECADES, legislatures have used sophisticated computer mapping programs to weave district lines in and out of streets and stitch together far-flung communities, usually to protect incumbents. The result

is often a bizarre patchwork that helps smother competition.

In some states, voters have rebelled against gerrymandering through initiative or referendum. In 2000, Arizona’s voters gave an independent commission the power to draw district lines, a model that California’s voters have since adopted. But after the 2010 census, the state’s Republican legislators were unhappy with the commission’s work and sued, arguing that the elections clause of the U.S. Constitution gives state legislatures the exclusive authority to draw district lines.

They had a reasonable argument. Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 of the Constitution is pretty straightforward: “The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof.” This wording led Justice Antonin Scalia, in his dissent, to call the majority opinion “outrageously wrong” and “utterly devoid of textual or historic support.”

As the majority opin-

ion noted, that clause continues: “But the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations.”

The purpose of the clause is not to limit the power of citizens but to place state election laws under federal supervision. The ruling rests on century-old precedents upholding the use of referendums to enact laws, including laws drawing legislative districts.

Undoubtedly some founders, suspicious of direct democracy, would have been horrified at the initiative and referendum process. And undoubtedly voters are capable of approving ill-considered laws. But two centuries of experience have shown that legislators routinely manipulate election laws in their favor and oppose laws that might subject them to greater levels of competition.

The court’s 5-4 decision saves not only Arizona’s redistricting commission but potentially hundreds of other election laws around the country. Democratic expression has prevailed over constitutional literalism.

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customers can shop for their own health insurance plans.

Opponents argued that the word “state” meant that the federal government’s involvement was illegal.

But for the court to have ruled otherwise would have used a technicality to block the obvious intent of Congress and the administration in creating the law. That would have wreaked havoc in the marketplace, where about 85 percent of customers nationally using the exchanges qualify for subsidies based on their income.

It’s a good decision.

The question with Obamacare is now no longer whether it’s legal. It is whether it is good for the country. Kansas’ representatives in Congress clearly think that it’s not, and we think their arguments have some merit.

Expanding health insurance to cover all Americans is clearly a worthy goal. But the unintended consequence of the reform law has been to jack up health insurance rates. Think about it — more

people covered means more customers getting medical care, buying medicines and paying for trips to the hospital.

There aren’t any more doctors or hospitals, really, so prices are going to go up. And meanwhile, insurers are boosting rates because they’re required to cover more people and more conditions than before.

So: How to fix that problem?

Once we’re into the business of a national health-care system — and we’re obviously into it fully now — that’s the real question. We don’t have the answer, but we like the concept behind the Extension service operated so effectively

by Kansas State University, among others. Educating people, sharing best practices, and making changes over time has helped agriculture produce more effectively and efficiently, and that’s what we need from health care now, too.

The Supreme Court has made it clear: It’s time to accept the law but to move on to improve it, too.

— The Manhattan Mercury

Put the death penalty on trial Having issued landmark rulings on gay marriage and the Affordable Care Act last week, the Supreme Court on Monday tackled another complex legal and social question: the death penalty.

This time, however, the majority’s 5-4 decision didn’t prompt the wild celebrations and anguished condemnations sparked by its rulings last week.

The court turned away concerns by Oklahoma death-row inmates who contended the use of the sedative midazolam will leave them at risk of severe pain during executions, in violation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

In Glossip v. Gross, the justices affirmed lower court rulings that said the prisoners hadn’t gone far enough to prove the risk of severe pain. The majority also took the disappointing step of making inmates’ lawyers responsible for identifying available, less risky alternative methods.

“Because it is settled

that capital punishment is constitutional,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority, “(i)t necessarily follows that there must be a (constitutional) means of carrying it out.”

But Justice Stephen Breyer, in a long, impassioned dissent, raised the question growing numbers of Americans are asking: Given the mounting evidence of its many flaws, is it time for America to abandon the death penalty?

If we can’t exercise this most profound form of government power fairly, accurately and without torturing the accused on their deathbeds, how can we still call it constitutionally valid?

There is mounting evidence to suggest the system is failing.

Breyer, in his dissent, noted that the number of exonerations in capital cases has now risen to 115, with six inmates exonerated in 2014 alone based on actual innocence. Among them: the North Carolina case of Henry Lee McCollum and Leon

Brown, two mentally disabled half-brothers who have been pardoned in the rape and murder of an 11-yearold girl.

Justice Antonin Scalia once used that crime’s horrors as justification for the death penalty. Now, Breyer’s dissent cites McCollum’s innocence in arguing the unreliability of capital punishment, and the long, unsuccessful efforts by states to weed out problems.

“We now have plausible evidence of unreliability that (perhaps due to DNA evidence) is stronger than the evidence we had before,” Breyer wrote.

“I believe it is highly likely that the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment.

At the very least, the Court should call for full briefing on the basic question.”

Indeed. The late Justice Harry Blackmun said two decades ago that he would no longer “tinker with the machinery of death.”

It’s becoming clear that we can’t fix it, so neither should we.

— The Charlotte Observer

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Kansas opens doors to same-sex unions But throws up roadblocks ByJOHN HANNA The Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Same-sex couples could get marriage licenses in all 105 Kansas counties Tuesday, but the state wasn’t yet allowing gay and lesbian spouses to change their last names on driver’s licenses or file joint income tax returns.

Several officials said Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration is still studying the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared same-sex marriage legal across the nation. The conservative Republican governor supports Kansas’ ban on gay marriage and has noted repeatedly that voters in 2005 overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the state constitution to reinforce it.

Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said the state will have to comply with the high court ruling but, “We’re

going to carefully review this and what it means, and what the net effect is.”

Tom Witt, executive director of Equality Kansas, said Brownback is pandering to his political base and “playing politics with our lives.”

He said the Supreme Court ruling is straightforward in directing states not to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

“How hard can this be? It’s not rocket science,” Witt said. “The excuses coming from the administration are ridiculous and offensive.”

The first marriage license for a same-sex couple in Kansas was issued in October, after the Supreme Court refused to review lowercourt orders striking down five states’ bans.

District court clerks in 21 of Kansas’ 31 judicial districts — covering 61 counties — were issuing such licenses before last week’s high court ruling in a case in which a lower court upheld bans in other four states.

As of late Tuesday,

Same-sex marriage A Supreme Court decision will require all states to start issuing same-sex marriage licenses.

Same-sex marriage legal

Implementation in progress

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same-sex marriage licenses were allowed in all 31 judicial districts, according to interviews with court personnel or orders issued by their chief judges.

“Now that the Supreme Court case is out, it’s pretty clear that’s what we’re supposed to do,” said Norton County District Judge Preston Pratt, the chief judge for the six-county 17th District in northwest Kansas.

But spokeswomen for

the Department of Revenue and the Department of Health and Environment said their agencies want to be thorough in assessing how their policies could be affected.

Health department spokeswoman Sara Belfry said the biggest issues for the agency are whether it will have to change policies for employees’ health insurance plans and eligibility rules for the Medicaid health program for the needy.

Chris Christie launches 2016 campaign

By MARK BARABAK Los Angeles Times

LIVINGSTON, N.J. — In 2011, a draft-Chris Christie movement rippled across the country, fueled by Republicans dissatisfied with their presidential field and captivated by the brash personality of New Jersey’s combative governor.

After a splashy trip to early-voting Iowa, however, Christie begged off.

“Now is not my time,” he said.

The question this year is whether his time has come and gone.

On Tuesday, Christie formally launched an uphill bid for president with a forceful attack on the two major political parties, blaming them for Washington’s chronic polarization and promising to deliver unvarnished straight talk.

“We’re going to tell it like it is today, so we can

N.J. Gov. Chris Christie and his family. TNS/Anthony Behar

create greater opportunity for every American tomorrow,” Christie told a raucous crowd stuffed into the gymnasium at Livingston High School, where he served as class president. “The truth will set us free, everybody.”

He spoke without notes, roaming the stage with a hand-held microphone in a scene reminiscent of the town hall meetings that have yield-

ed some of the most colorful and confrontational moments of his political career. There were no hecklers, but Christie suggested he was prepared to make some voters uncomfortable with his blunt-spoken style.

“You’re gonna get what I think, whether you like it or not,” he said, “and whether it makes you cringe every once in a while or not.”

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For all the characteristic brashness, however, Christie enters the Republican field as a distinct longshot among the 14 major declared candidates.

A relative moderate in a party grown increasingly conservative, unpopular at home and trailing far behind other Republicans in both fundraising and opinion polls, Christie has seen his political star badly fade since the heady days four years ago.

Perhaps most damaging, the assertive style that once so animated audiences is no longer an unalloyed asset. A scandal involving political payback and a nowfamous traffic tie-up on the George Washington Bridge reinforced the image of Christie as something of a bully, even as the governor steadfastly has denied involvement in any wrongdoing.

KS to join suit against EPA water rule

By ANDY MARSO Kansas Health Institute

Fresh off a win in one multi-state lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced he will join another.

Schmidt’s office said Tuesday morning he was joining attorneys general from eight other states in fighting the “Waters of the U.S.” rule intended to expand the scope of the Clean Water Act to smaller tributaries.

“Congress never intended for the federal government to regulate ditches or farm ponds,” Schmidt said. “This regulation grossly exceeds the authority granted to federal agencies by the Clean Water Act — authority that rightfully belongs to the states and that is limited by private property rights protected by the Constitution.”

The new rule is based on a January EPA report on connectivity of smaller bodies of water to the interstate “navigable” waterways that the EPA traditionally protects from certain levels of contaminants.

Environmental groups like the national Waterkeeper Alliance praised that report, saying it more realistically accounted for the damage caused when waste is

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“The report finds that buried and ditched streams have eliminated aquatic habitat, increased downstream export of runoff and contaminants, and eliminated stream functions that could benefit downstream water quality,” Foster said.

The EPA has said that under the new rule most ditches will remain exempt and the water supply necessary for farming and ranching will not be disrupted.

Still, agricultural groups have largely opposed the rule, and more states are likely to join the lawsuit against it. By Tuesday afternoon, the number of states involved had grown to 13. The Republican-controlled Congress also is mulling a rewrite of the rule.

Schmidt and other attorneys general narrowly prevailed in a suit against a 2011 EPA rule regarding power plant emissions. The 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision in that case was announced Monday.

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Above, Kierah Green of Sonic Drive-In throws to first in a Pixie League contest Tuesday.

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Alex Smail, left, makes it to first base safely as Colton Thompson awaits a throw Tuesday.

Tuesday’s results Pixie League Erbert Electric 10, Fellowship Regional Church 1.

Hits for Erbert Electric: Faith Warden, s; Lexi Lee, 2 s; Shyla Preston, 2 d; Zoie Hesse, t, 2 HR; Katelyn Erbert, 2 s, d; Madison Karns, d; Kameryn Erbert, s; Kayreen Measles, 2 s; Maya Shaughnessy, s; Ava Freimiller, s. Hits for Fellowship Regional Church: Kyndal Bycroft, s; Peyton Weast, d; Kamry DeLaTorre, s.

Sonic Drive-In 8, A&W 4. Hits for Sonic: Dally Curry, s, d; Jayden Leavitt, d; Kealie Keeler, s, d; Addie Fudge, s, HR; Kierah Green, d, t; Brianna Barnett, s; Alisha Trainor, d; Ashley Trainor, s. Hits for A&W: Harper Desmarteau, s; Emilia Wilkerson, d; Maddy McVey, 2, s; Kaitlyn Hicks, s; Alana Mader, 2 s.

Iola baseball Tuesday’s results Bitty Ball League A&W 10, Nelson Quarries 6. Hits for A&W: Nick Bauer, 2 s; Drake Weir, d, HR; Noah Schowengerdt, s, t; Easton Weseloh, d, HR; Grady Dougherty, s; Hayden Kelley, 2 s; Tripp Chapman, d, HR. Hits for Nelson Quarries: Reed Clift, s; Brigg Shannon, s, d, HR; Brennen Coffield, s; Alex Smail, s, d; Kale Godfrey, 2 s, d; Everett Glaze, 2 d; Mason Lampe, s.

KwiKom 8, Sonic Drive-In 6.

Hits for KwiKom: Henry White, s; Jensen Barker, 2 d; Zander Dickerson, 2 s; Bradyn Jones, HR; Jordy Kaufman, HR; Shaun McLaughlin, d; Austin Crooks, s, d; Kolton Northcutt, s; Wyatt Dickerson, 2 s; Matt Drago, s. Hits for Sonic: Roper Curry, 3 s; Logan Yocham, d; Alijah Christy, 2 s, d; Ashton Hesse, HR; Kaiden Rutherford, s; Kale Pratt, s, d; Thomas Cash, s; Brett Heinrich, s.

PeeWee League Nelson Quarries 4, ACE Refrigeration 2. Hits for Nelson

Quarries: Rogan Weir, s; Trevor Church, d; Korbyn Fountain, d; Jake Skahan, HR; Isaac Burton, s. Hits for ACE: Landon Weide, s; Isaac McCullough, s; Will Talkington, s; Mateo Angrade, t; Wyatt Westervelt, s.

First Title Service 7, Allen County Chiropractic 3. Hits for First Title: Avery Blaufuss, s; Jack White, HR; Jordan White, 2 s; Josh Perez, 2 s; Benjamin Kerr, s; Jackson Ulrich, s. Hits for Allen County Chiropractic: Eli Adams, 2 s; Carton Hutton, d; Gage

Scheibmeir, s; Briggs Michael, s.

Little League Iola Elks 6, Chanute Hitmen 2. Hits for Iola Elks: T.J. Taylor 3 s; Trevor Church, s; Cooper Riley, s; Zane Griffeth, s; Levi Meiwes, s; Jeremy Ridge, s; Grant Luedke, s.

Iola Elks 17 Chanute Royals 1. Hits for Iola Elks: Levi Meiwes, s, t; Grant Luedke, 2 s; Trevor Church, 2 s; Jeremy Ridge, 2 s; Cooper Riley 2 s; TJ Taylor, s; Henry Wicoff, s; Jacob Wight, s; Zane Griffeth, s; Garvin Morris, s; Xaiviyan Channel, s.

HOUSTON (AP) — Dallas Keuchel probably could have thrown a second straight complete game on Tuesday night.

Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch decided it would better not to overwork his ace.

Keuchel allowed seven hits in eight innings to lead the Astros to a 4-0 win over the Kansas City Royals. His latest gem came after tossing a sixhit shutout in a victory over the New York Yankees in his previous start. Keuchel struck out seven and didn’t walk a batter to lower his ERA to an American League-leading 2.03.

Pat Neshek allowed one hit in the ninth after Hinch decided to Keuchel (10-3) had done enough after throwing 106 pitches.

“I’ve got to balance the short term and the long term,” Hinch said of pulling Keuchel. “We know he likes to finish games. The complete game shutout would have been cool for a lot of people but it’s a tough call all the time.

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By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

On the court, Allen Community College’s women’s basketball team struggled through injuries, slumps and a brutal schedule, winning only 5 of 31 games.

Off the court was another story.

The Red Devil women were recognized by the NJCAA as its women’s academic team of the year.

The squad’s cumulative grade-point average of 3.84 was the highest for any athletic team — men or women — in the NJCAA. “I’m extremely proud of our players for this achievement,” Red Devil head coach Katie Mahoney said.

“For an entire team to have a 3.84 GPA is pretty unheard of and is something See ALLEN | Page B3

U.S. women topple Germany, earn World Cup title berth

By ANNE PETERSON The Associated Press

MONTREAL (AP) — Julie Johnston thought she had blown it.

Handed a yellow card for a foul in the box on Alexandra Popp, Johnston’s heart sank when German striker Celia Sasic stepped up to take the penalty kick.

It missed.

The United States went on to beat Germany 2-0 on a penalty kick from Carli Lloyd and a late goal from Kelley O’Hara, erasing Johnston’s fear that she had cost her team the game and sending the Americans to the title match of the

Women’s World Cup. “The team definitely lifted me up after that happened and finished the chances. Definitely an emotional roller coaster,” Johnston said. “But it’s a team sport and the team today really stepped up for me. I really can’t thank them enough and I’m sure I’ll thank them all the way to the final.”

Goalkeeper Hope Solo posted her fifth straight shutout, continuing a dominant run for the American defense. The second-ranked U.S. women have gone 513 minutes without conceding a goal.

The United States is seeking its third World Cup title, but first since 1999. The Amer-

icans went to the final in Germany four years ago but fell in the end on penalty kicks to Japan.

Now the Americans wait to learn their opponent for the final: Defending champion Japan, ranked fourth in the world, faces sixth-ranked England in the other semifinal tonight.

The title match is set for Sunday at BC Place in Vancouver. Germany will play the loser of the second semifinal in the third-place game in Edmonton on Saturday.

“In a way maybe it’s good for us,” German coach Silvia Neid said through a translator about the consolation game.

“We can have another match and maybe we can win one more.”

Tuesday night’s match was billed as the biggest of the tournament so far, a clash between the two highest-ranked teams in the world. More than 51,000 mostly pro-American fans filled cavernous Olympic Stadium.

Germany was coming off a hard-fought quarterfinal victory over No. 3 France, prevailing on penalty kicks after a 1-1 draw.

The United States, which had struggled to find its offense earlier in the tournament, had found success in a 1-0 quarterfinal victory over

China by moving Lloyd to the top and allowing her to play more freely.

The tactic worked again against Germany; the United States kept its opponent on its heels for much of the match.

“We didn’t come here just to make the final. We came here to win it,’” Lloyd said. “So we’ve got to go after it next game.”

The key sequence came over a span of less than 10 minutes in the second half. Sasic’s penalty kick came after Johnston fouled Popp in the box, which might have merited a red card. But the referee See WORLD CUP | Page B3

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gave Johnston a yellow. “The rule says yes,�

Neid said afterward, “but she didn’t get a red card.�

Sasic, who went into the match as the tournament’s leading scorer with six total goals, fooled Solo but her kick went wide left, prompting a deafening roar from the crowd.

Shortly thereafter, Annike Krahn got a yellow card for fouling Alex Morgan in the box, but replays showed it occurred just outside.

Lloyd’s penalty kick was her third goal in three matches.

There was a scary moment in the first half when Popp and American midfielder Morgan Brian collided in front of the U.S. goal following a free kick from about 25 yards out.

Television cameras caught blood in Popp’s hair, and Brian was

prone on the field for several minutes. Both players returned to the match.

The United States improved to 3-1 against Germany in World Cup matches and 19-4-7 overall. “I think inside our environment, we knew we had this in us,� coach Jill Ellis said. “We do a good job of blocking out the distractions.�

The tournament has played out with FIFA embroiled in scandal.

Earlier Tuesday, FIFA confirmed that President Sepp Blatter would skip the World Cup final, as U.S. officials pursue a criminal investigation into the game’s ruling body.

Blatter’s second-incommand, secretary general Jerome Valcke, also will be absent from the biggest event in women’s soccer “due to their current commitments in Zurich,� FIFA said in a statement Tuesday.

Alex Morgan (13) of the United States tries to fend off Germany’s Annike Krahn of Germany in the semifinals of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Montreal, Canada, Tuesday. The U.S. advanced, 2-0. DING XU/XINHUA/SIPA USA/TNS

Sale Ks 11 in win ST. LOUIS (AP) — Chris Sale matched a major league record by striking out at least 10 in eight straight starts, and the Chicago White Sox outlasted the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 in 11 innings Tuesday night on a home run by Tyler Flowers.

Sale struck out 12 in eight innings. The lefthander tied the mark set by Pedro Martinez in 1999 with Boston.

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Most importantly we need to get through the game and get done, and have everybody feel good on the accumulation over the season.�

George Springer had a two-run homer in the third inning.

Jose Altuve drove in a run in the fifth to help Houston to the victory. The Astros have taken the first two games in a matchup of teams with the best records in the American League. Houston is 46-34 and Kansas City is 44-30.

Kansas City starter Danny Duffy (2-4) allowed six hits and four runs in 6 2-3 innings in his second start since returning from the disabled list.

Keuchel has been a workhorse for the Astros, working at least six innings in 28 straight games, the longest active streak in the majors.

Lorenzo Cain had three hits for Kansas City, including two doubles, but the rest of the lineup fizzled.

The Royals produced more than one hit in only one inning while being shut out for the second time in a week. “(Keuchel) utilized both sides of the plate really effectively,�

Kansas City manager Ned Yost said. “He’d get us looking away and then he’d start pounding us in. We couldn’t gauge him.

He was changing speeds. He really did a great job of keeping the ball down.�

Allen Community College’s women’s basketball team compiled the highest GPA of any NJCAA athletic team, men or women, in 2014-15. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

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A former cop who killed shares lessons on deadly force

By MARTHA IRVINE AP National Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It all happened in seconds. But those brief moments would forever change life for David Klinger, a self-described “beach kid” who’d dreamt of being a police officer since he was a kid.

He’d entered the Los Angeles Police Academy in 1981 with a clear motive.

He wanted to try to help make life better for the people of violence-ridden south-central Los Angeles.

Now he was standing with his gun pointed at Edward Randolph, who at 26 was just three years older than himself. Randolph had a butcher knife aimed at the throat of Klinger’s police partner, Dennis Azevedo, who was on the ground trying with all his might to hold back Randolph’s attack.

“Shoot him,” Azevedo cried out to his rookie partner.

Deadly force by police has made headlines from Ferguson, Missouri, to Baltimore. Just this month, a Los Angeles police officer was found “unjustified” in shooting and killing a 25-year-old mentally ill man. Across the country, most officers are exonerated. But more and more people are calling for strategies to make such incidents less common, notably through improved police training.

For Klinger, it has long been a very personal issue — one that led a young cop who entered the “kill zone,” as officers call it, to become a researcher seeking to understand the dynamics of confrontation. In doing so, he hopes to be a voice of reason in an emotional national debate, and an advocate for change.

When Klinger showed up in his ranks on the night shift, Tim Anderson, then an LAPD sergeant, wasn’t sure he was the kind of recruit who’d make it in neighborhoods

plagued with gang warfare.

Klinger, a quiet, devout Christian, whose dad was a classical clarinet player, had moved to California from Miami, at age 13, with his mom and two sisters after his parents split up. “Here’s a kid from a very mild-mannered side of life who ends up here,” Anderson says.

But Klinger was determined. “I actually asked for this to be my assign-

his own gun and fired at close range.

“I blamed myself for 20 years for not being able to wrest the knife from him,” he says.

Investigators ultimately determined the fatal shooting was justified and that the rookie officer had saved Azevedo’s life.

But Klinger still found it difficult to rest easy.

In the year that followed, there were nine more times he says he

their way out of it,” Klinger says. “That’s where I really think we fall down in American law enforcement.”

He uses last year’s police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, as an example.

Though he agrees that Officer Darren Wilson was justified in shooting Brown, he also says that shooting might have been avoided if Wilson had waited and called for backup.

Such assessments anger some. But Klinger says police agencies must ask, “What can we learn from this?’”

Even now, there is disagreement among Klinger’s own former colleagues about whether the 1981 killing of Edward Randolph could have been avoided. They agree that Klinger was justified in the shooting.

But Anderson, their sergeant, says Azevedo should have ignored Randolph and let him take his chances as they pursued the burglar, who ultimately got away. “He should’ve never engaged this suspect by himself,” says Anderson, a former SWAT team supervisor, who’s retired and now advises police departments on tactical operations.

Azevedo, also retired after a long law enforcement career, stands by his decision. He says it was his duty to try to protect a person he thought was an innocent bystander.

Either way, Klinger has let go of his guilt with the help of a counselor who, as he puts it, helped his heart accept that he “did what he had to do.”

Speaking of Randolph, he says, “He’s 26 years old. His whole life was driven by other people besides me. So why should I blame myself for my inability to control him for that one second that I was in physical contact with him?”

It has been, perhaps, the most difficult lesson the professor has learned.

For Klinger, it has been a very personal issue — one that led a young cop who entered the “kill zone,” as officers call it, to become a researcher seeking to understand the dynamics of confrontation.

ment out of the academy,” he says, sitting in a restaurant north of Los Angeles after revisiting the scene of Randolph’s shooting.

That night in 1981, he was teamed with Azevedo when they were called to a home where an armed burglar had been reported. As a police helicopter circled overhead, a large crowd gathered to watch across busy Vernon Avenue.

“Get out of here!” the officers yelled. Most spectators ran, except Randolph.

Azevedo says he didn’t think Randolph could hear him, or maybe didn’t speak English. So he ran across the street to try to get him to move.

“In the blink of an eye,” Azevedo recalls how Randolph lunged forward and stabbed him in the lower chest with a blow stopped — just barely — by his protective vest. Stunned, Azevedo tried to draw his gun, but he tripped on uneven pavement, he says — and Randolph jumped on him with the knife raised.

Rushing over, Klinger grabbed Randolph’s left wrist, but Randolph broke free. Klinger pulled

could have shot a civilian — and believes he would have been justified in doing so. But he didn’t shoot because the suspects dropped guns, or other officers intervened.

Feeling like a “magnet” for trouble, he moved to a smaller department in Redmond, Washington.

But he found no better fit there. It was time for something new.

Today, the 57-year-old Klinger is a professor in the department of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He earned a doctorate and has written a book, “Into the Kill Zone,” telling the stories of officers who’ve shot and killed people.

He also has done research on methods officers can use to avoid deadly force. This spring, testifying at a U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing on deadly force, one topic he discussed was “tactical positioning,” a strategy in which officers keep a safe distance, unless there is imminent danger.

“Often times, officers find themselves in too close, too quickly, and they don’t have any option other than to shoot

Episcopalians to vote on allowing gay marriage in churches SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Episcopalians are set to vote today on allowing religious weddings for same-sex couples, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide.

In 2003, the denomination made the trailblazing move of electing the first openly gay Episcopal bishop.

Still, the church hadn’t changed its own laws on marriage.

The proposal would eliminate gender-specific language from church laws on marriage so religious weddings can also be performed for same-sex couples. Clergy could decline to perform the ceremonies. Right now, each bishop decides whether his or her priests may conduct gay marriages.

Among mainline Protestant groups, only the United Church of Christ and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) allow same-sex weddings in all their congregations. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America allows individual congregations to decide on the ceremonies, and the United Methodist Church bars gay marriage.

On the eve of the U.S. vote, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the world’s Anglicans, released a statement expressing deep concern

about the potential impact of changing the definition of marriage in Episcopal church law.

The Episcopal Church is the U.S. body of the Anglican Communion, an 80 million-member global fellowship of churches.

Ties among Anglicans have been strained since

transgender friends. They know the things they are being told by their conservative churches are just simply wrong,” Robinson said. “In increasing numbers, they do not want to belong to a church that condemns their friends that they know to be wonderful people.”

Episcopalians in 2003 elected Bishop Gene Robinson, who lived openly with his male partner, to lead the Diocese of New Hampshire.

“Conservative churches are hemorrhaging young people because young people today have gay, lesbian, bisexual and

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False urinary tract infection tests a mystery to patient Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a woman with recurring urinary tract infections over the years. In my past two episodes, although the urine tested positive in the doctor’s office, when the results came back from the lab, there was no reported infection. In both these cases, I had the usual UTI symptoms of intense burning and urgency to void. In addition to my internist, I’ve seen a urologist, and neither could explain these test results. I’d appreciate knowing what your thoughts are. — Anon.

Answer: The urine dipstick in the doctor’s office looks for an enzyme made by white blood cells in the urine, whereas the lab looks for the bacteria themselves.

Your situation is not uncommon, and there are several possible reasons why this might happen.

Given your symptoms, one likely possibility is that you have an infection in the bladder or urethra (the short tube that drains the bladder), an area that is very sensitive to the inflammation caused by bacteria and white blood cells.

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Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health fection shown on the culture results may be so low that the lab reports it as negative. There are a few infections, such as chlamydia and tuberculosis, that don’t show up on a standard culture.

Treatment with appropriate antibiotics in this situation resolves the symptoms. If it doesn’t, then looking for another cause is indicated.

There are non-infectious causes of the burning sensation. Postmenopausal women can get atrophy, which usually is treated with topical estrogen. Interstitial cystitis is a possibility, and the symptoms in IC usually are temporarily relieved by voiding.

Concentrated urine, small stones and trauma also can cause burning sensation. However, a positive dipstick indicates the presence of white blood cells in the urine, so I think infection, interstitial cystitis and stones are the most likely possibilities.

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Supreme Court to hear teacher’s suit, a ‘life or death’ case for unions ployees who do not join or support the union.

Although the Supreme Court has said workers cannot be required to pay for a union’s political activities, it has concluded that they should contribute something toward a union’s cost of negotiating better wages and benefits for everyone.

The court’s conservatives, particularly Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., have long questioned whether these forced fees in the public sector violate free

The court’s conservatives, particularly Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., have long questioned whether these forced fees in the public sector violate free speech because they require employees to support a union they may oppose.

speech because they require employees to support a union they may oppose.

The dispute does not affect private-sector unions because only the government is required to abide by the First Amendment.

In addition, Alito has suggested that the line between a public-sector union’s collective bargaining and its political activities is blurred because negotiations to increase the size and cost of government payrolls, for example, could also be considered a political issue.

In a case last year involving union fees paid by home health care aides, the majority ruled that Illinois may not force those state-funded workers to pay union fees. The 5-4 opinion, written by Alito, found that although state employees have freespeech rights, the health care workers in question actually worked for the patients, not the state.

That skirted the broader issue of whether all mandatory fees were constitutional, but opened the door for the next case, Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Association, to challenge the forced fees on free-speech grounds.

“Except perhaps in the rarest of circumstances, no person in this country may be compelled to subsidize speech by a third party that he or she does not wish to support,” Alito wrote in that decision.

Although Alito can probably count on most of his fellow conservatives to vote with him against the forced fees, Justice Antonin Scalia may prove to be

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. health care program. He called upon the court to strike down the “multi-

hundred-million-dollar regime of compelled speech” that benefits unions.

“This case is about the right of individuals to decide for themselves whether to join and pay dues to an organization that purports to speak on their behalf,” said Terry Pell, the center’s president. “We are seeking the end of compulsory union dues across the nation on the basis of the freespeech rights guaranteed

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US, Cuba agree on embassies WASHINGTON (TNS) — In the most significant move yet toward normalizing relations between the U.S. and Cuba, the Obama administration said Tuesday that the two had agreed to open embassies in each other’s countries.

The development is the most authoritative move the Obama administration can make without an act of Congress, which still holds the power to lift or retain the Cuban economic embargo that has been in place for decades.

It comes six months after Obama ordered the opening of relations, ending more than half a century of Cold War standoff as he promised to “cut loose the shackles of the past.”

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by the First Amendment.”

Frank Wells, a spokesman for the California teachers union, said only a small percentage of teachers chose to pay the lower nonmember fees rather than full dues. The union has 325,000 members and an additional 31,000 fee payers, he said.

Leaders of the nation’s largest unions of teachers and public employees reacted with anger and alarm to the Supreme Court’s move Tuesday.

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hear and decide cases on several liberal priorities, including college affirmative action, abortion, how voting districts are calculated and, now, how unions are funded.

Although the conservative justices were on the losing side this year in some of the biggest disputes, including housing discrimination and political gerrymandering, their apparent interest in hearing the union case shows they remain determined to set the agenda, even if they do not always prevail.

The California case not only poses a potential existential threat to public unions, but it could also weigh heavily on the Democratic Party, which depends on strong support from public employees and labor.

“This is a very significant case. It may well be life or death for the unions,” said Harvard Law School professor Benjamin Sachs. “Unions are required to represent everyone. And this could mean nobody has an obligation to pay.”

A ruling against the mandatory fees would have a major effect on California’s public employee unions, which are among the most powerful in the country and represent hundreds of thousands of workers.

At issue is the court’s 1977 precedent in Abood vs. Detroit Board of Education, which today allows government worker unions in California and 20 other states to collect “fair share” fees to cover the costs of collective bargaining, even from em-

the toughest vote because he has written in support of the Abood ruling.

Catherine Fisk, a labor law expert at the University of California, Irvine, noted that it takes only four votes to hear an appeal, but five are needed for a majority decision.

“The mystery of Friedrichs is whether there is now a fifth vote,” she said.

“Justice Scalia may be crucial.”

Scalia wrote in 1991 that because public-sector unions had a legal duty to represent all employees who had grievances or other problems, it was reasonable to require all workers to pay their fair share of the cost.

The Supreme Court case comes at a time when public-sector unions are already being targeted

by Republican governors in formerly strong union states like Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin.

About half of the states — including all of the South — have so-called rightto-work laws forbidding collective bargaining and union agreements that require all employees to support the union.

In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker built a national reputation by pushing through legal changes that in effect ended collective bargaining for most public workers in that state.

The latest Supreme Court appeal began with Rebecca Friedrichs and several other public teachers from Orange County who object to supporting the California Teachers Association.

Full dues for California teachers who join the union are about $1,000 a year, but even nonmembers like Friedrichs have to pay about $650 on average for their share of the cost of collective bargaining, her lawsuit says.

“I don’t have a voice or vote in the union, and I’m opposed to forced fees and forced unionism,” she said in an interview when her appeal was filed this year.

The Center for Individual Rights, a small conservative group in Washington, appealed her case to the Supreme Court and is asking justices to overturn the Abood decision.

The appeal was filed by Michael Carvin, the same Washington lawyer who argued this year’s unsuccessful challenge of President Barack Obama’s

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WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Supreme Court put public-sector unions in its crosshairs Tuesday by agreeing to hear a constitutional attack on the mandatory representation fees that nearly all California teachers pay.

As they concluded a memorable term that legalized gay marriage and rejected another attack against Obamacare, the justices set the stage for an equally momentous 2016.

They are expected to

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