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Iola teen injured in accident

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Iolan Scout Henry, 18, remains hospitalized at the University of Kansas Medical Center after a single-car accident left her stranded on a creek bed for about seven hours in near Scout Henry freezing temperatures early Sunday morning.

The Allen County Sheriff ’s Department said Henry had apparently fallen asleep while traveling along Nebraska Road, about four miles east of Moran or two miles west of Bronson, just See HENRY | Page A4

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Wings of Warriors help fight cancer

By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register

The steep medical costs awaiting a cancer patient are well documented.

Less examined, though, are the menacing accumulations of day-to-day expenses — gas for the car, utility bills, groceries, kids’ clothes, home repair — whose demands take no notice of a person’s potentially terminal diagnosis or the fact that her mind, instead of fretting about an overdue bill, might now be vibrating with the pangs of a deeper worry.

A local volunteer organization, Wings of Warriors Cancer Foundation, understands this distress and is pledging its help. Formed in September, the foundation seeks to “aid cancer patients in Allen County that are in need of financial assistance.”

“We just need to know who needs help,” said Carla Capper, the group’s chairman.

“We have a form they can fill in with their name, what type

of cancer they have, what they’re going through, and what help they need.”

“And it doesn’t have to be the person who has cancer,” Wings’ secretary, Jessica Oswald, pointed out. “A lot of them don’t want to ask for help. But a friend will say ‘Hey, they can’t pay for their kids’ lunches’ or maybe they need a gas card, pretty much anything to lessen the stress on that person.”

Oswald recalled a story she’d heard from a member of Friends for Life — an analogous aid group based in Yates Center — in which a woman who, in traveling to and from the treatment clinic each week, had, over time, worn the tires on her car bald. The group bought the woman new tires.

“All of this extra stuff just wears you down,” said Capper. “You can’t function the way you would normally function. Things slip. You’ve still got a cable bill and the utility bill and all of this. And so, for

Jessica Oswald of the Wings of Warriors Cancer Foundation, models the group’s new T-shirt. Proceeds from sales of the shirt go to assist local cancer patients. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY us, we want to be able to help them keep their day-to-day life going.”

The organization has been recognized as a 501(c)(3) and

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Rotarians step in to help elementary children

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

On a chilly early December day a little boy showed up at McKinley Elementary in need of a coat.

In days gone by a staff member might have dashed downtown and found a wrap at a reasonable cost. Today, however, the school’s Rotary Closet had a coat just the tyke’s size.

“His eyes were filed with tears,” said Jaime Westervelt.

“He never had had a new coat before.”

That is among a growing number of success stories

because of the Rotary Closet project, where a child can be clothed from head to foot at no expense to the student’s family.

McKinley was the first to have closet outfitted soon after Thanksgiving and just in time to help the little boy. Since then closets have opened at Lincoln and Jefferson schools.

Iola Middle School also is on Rotary’s radar.

The closet idea came from a presentation given local Rotarians by a Chanute member, where a similar project has been in place for several years.

Embracing the concept also

Obama mulls lethal assistance to Ukraine WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is reconsidering sending lethal assistance to Ukraine, a senior administration official said today, but continues to have concerns about taking that step.

This official, who requested anonymity to speak because the person wasn’t authorized to talk publicly about internal deliberations, said the president is worried about starting a proxy war with Russia and that he’s also concerned about the Ukrainian military’s capacity for effectively using highpowered weaponry.

The official said Obama worries that no amount of arming the Ukrainians would put them on par with Russia’s military prowess.

The U.S. accuses Russia of

supplying the pro-Kremlin separatists that are stirring instability in eastern Ukraine.

The official said the recent escalation of violence in eastern Ukraine has caused the White House to take a fresh look at lethal aid options. The U.S. currently supplies the Ukrainian military only with non-lethal assistance, such as gas masks and radar technology to detect incoming fire.

A decision on escalating aid is not imminent, the official cautioned, and this person said that Obama would want to first discuss the issue with European leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She is scheduled to visit Washington next week. Secretary of See UKRAINE | Page A4

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Last July’s Rotary barbecue cook-off and car show in conjunction with Allen County Fair generated $1,000, which Rotary International matched two-to-one. Next came a $1,000 contribution from Walmart Foundation.

Westervelt, chairman of the closet committee, went on a buying spree.

required raising funds to put new clothes, shoes and coats into the proposed closets.

THE CLOSETS also serve the purpose of providing emergency clothing.

Judy McIntosh, Lincoln counselor, pointed out occasionally students have accidents and afterward fresh

clothing is in order. It may be a shirt, pants and even underwear.

First approach is to contact parents, but it isn’t unusual for working parents to be unavailable. That’s when the closet becomes a godsend.

“Even a bloody nose can require a change of clothes. No kid wants to go around with blood on his shirt or pants,” McIntosh said.

Clothing also is made available to students without, such as the boy at McKinley School.

In the past McIntosh has used discretionary funds from

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Students take a stand for sitting down

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

MORAN— Marmaton Valley High School FCCLA students are taking a stand for sitting down. For dinner that is.

The students are promoting a healthier family environment with the Stand Up for Sitting Down to Dinner campaign.

Senior Payton Wilson said there has been a 33 percent decline nationally of families who dine together. The organization decided to take on family dining habits as their own project for an FCCLA STAR event. A STAR event stands for Students Taking Action with Recognition.

“To encourage students to eat with their families we challenged the elementary students to send photos of them eating or cooking with their families to an email address ,” sophomore Emily Plaschka said.

Emily Plaschka, left, Payton Wilson and Ashley Cary are encouraging fellow students to sit down with their families for dinner.

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The students who sent in photos received a prize such as a movie pass or a cooking utensil. This semester the students will receive a free slushy

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Obama budget would tax trillions in offshore funds Closes loopholes for private jets; free tuition for community college

Republicans believe that we should be building our infrastructure. The question’s how we should pay for it. That’s a negotiation we should have.

— President Obama

By ANITA KUMAR and KEVIN G. HALL Tribune News Service

WASHINGTON— President Barack Obama will propose a $3.99 trillion federal budget today that would tax trillions of dollars kept offshore by U.S. business and use the proceeds to help finance the rebuilding of roads, bridges and mass transit at home.

The proposals are among the highlights of a budget Obama will use to urge a fundamental shift of the nation’s wealth, taxing the wealthy to help the poor and middle class, who have stagnated even as the economy has rebounded.

“This budget shows what we can do if we invest in America’s future and commit to an economy that rewards hard work, generates rising incomes, and allows everyone to share in the prosperity of a growing America,” Obama said. “It lays out a strategy to strengthen our middle class and help America’s hardworking families get ahead in a time of relentless economic and technological change.”

The proposed budget for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1 includes a long list of spending and tax increases, many of which have been offered in the past but rejected

by Congress. This year’s

President Obama plan is expected to be no different in a newly Republican-controlled Congress, where lawmakers will propose their own budget this spring.

“It seems to be more of the same policies that have resulted in the lowest, slowest economic recovery out of an economic downturn in the history of the country — more taxes, more spending, more borrowing,” House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, R-Ga. said on “Fox News Sunday.”

While all but certain to die in Congress, Obama’s budget could provide Democrats with a platform in the 2016 elections for the White House and Congress. His proposals would help more than 44 million households with an average benefit of $600 per household, according to the White House.

One proposal will be the six-year, $478 billion infrastructure program focused on roads, bridges and transit systems.

About half, $238 billion would come from a one-time 14 percent tax on the roughly $2 trillion that U.S. companies have offshore, senior administration officials said Sunday.

The other half of the money — $240 billion — would come from the federal Highway Trust Fund, which is financed with a gasoline tax.

FINDING money to pay for the nation’s crumbling infrastructure has been debated with little success for years. Washington has occasionally debated “tax holidays” for companies to voluntarily repatriate offshore earnings at lower tax rates than the current maximum corporate tax rate of 35 percent.

Obama opposes such programs and his plan would be mandatory.

believe that we should be building our infrastructure. The question’s how we should pay for it,” Obama said in an interview with NBC. “That’s a negotiation we should have.”

The Obama budget will urge Congress to throw out spending caps adopted in 2011, and allow a 7 percent increase in spending that’s not already on autopilot such as Social Security and Medicare.

Obama will propose increasing military spending by $38 billion, to $561 billion for fiscal year 2016.

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Included:

— The “necessary resources to degrade and ultimately defeat” the Islamic State terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

— Money to provide “political, economic, and military support to NATO allies and partner states in Europe” to push back against Russian aggression.

— $14 billion to “strengthen U.S. cybersecurity defenses and ... more rapidly protect American citizens, systems, and information from cyber threats.”

— $1 billion to promote “prosperity, security and good governance” in Central America.

Obama will also propose increasing domestic spending by $37 billion next year, to $530 billion.

Included:

care tax credit. To help pay for his proposed spending and middle class tax cuts, Obama proposes more than $1 trillion in taxes over the next decade.

OBAMA IS proposing tax increases on the wealthy totaling $320 billion over 10 years, atop those last year, which will total about $600 billion over the next decade. About $210 billion would come from the higher taxes on the estates and investment income of the wealthy, and $110 billion from fees on finance and Wall Street.

He is also proposing $640 billion in increases on the wealthy recycled from an earlier plan.

In addition, he will propose closing a tax loophole on corporate jets and eliminating a provision allowing hedge-fund and privateequity profits to be taxed at a lower rate, the officials said.

“THE PRESIDENT believes that it’s possible — and, in fact, I think that he’s proved that it’s possible — for us to make

— Free community college for 9 million students.

— Paid leave.

— $3 billion on science, technology, engineering, and math education.

— $1 billion in additional money for Head Start early childhood programs.

— $100 million to reduce the abuse of prescription opioids and heroin.

The president will urge new tax breaks for the middle class, such as a tripling of the child-

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Murder trial begins for commune ‘seer’ Sedgwick County. The bizarre case led investigators through a web of false identities and money that stretched through Texas, South Dakota, Missouri, Kansas and Tennessee.

Its members lived together in one large home or in houses in close proximity, and moved from state to state. They have apparently dispersed since Perez, who had assumed the false identity of Lou Castro, was first arrested in 2010 on identity theft charges and sent to federal prison for two years. Kansas authorities unsealed the state charges in 2012 as soon as he finished that sentence and he has been jailed awaiting trial ever since.

Investigators initially believed Hughes drowned while trying to rescue her 2-year-old daughter from a swimming pool. But they reclassified it a homicide after a woman came forward and said it had

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The woman, who was 12 years old at the time, testified during a pretrial hearing that right before she died, Hughes kissed her 2-year-old daughter goodbye and reassured another child that she would return from the dead.

The woman, whom The Associated Press isn’t identifying because she is allegedly a victim of sexual assault, said Hughes helped unfurl the pool vacuum to make her death look accidental, and that Perez and Hughes then told her to wait in a nearby shop office with Hughes’ daughter. She said she heard a splash and a scream, and that she trembled while she was holding the toddler.

The woman said Perez’s forearms were wet and he was out of breath when he came into the office, and that he told her to wait 20 minutes before going to the pool and getting into it with the toddler. She said he told her to then call the police and to tell investigators that Hughes fell and hit her head while trying to rescue her daughter.

In addition to the murder charge, Perez faces charges of sexually exploiting a child, rape, sodomy, making criminal threats and lying on life insurance and auto credit forms. If convicted of the murder charge, Perez could be sentenced to life in prison. His attorney, Alice Osburn, did not respond to a phone message left Wednesday

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Witnesses have portrayed Perez as a domineering leader who kept a tight rein on his young, mostly female followers.

Although he claimed to be able tell the future and possess other mystical powers, none of the preliminary testimony in the case has pointed to any religion or other social agenda uniting them. Several of the women testified about alleged sexual violence and their fear of him.

Prosecutors say Perez and his followers lived lavishly off of life insurance payouts following the deaths of other commune members.

Nobody has been accused of wrongdoing in those other deaths.

Among them were a 2001 plane crash in South Dakota that killed a group member, her boyfriend and her 12-year-old daughter. Hughes’ husband was killed in 2006 when a car jack failed and he was crushed in South Dakota. And a 2008 traffic accident killed another group member who had legal custody of Hughes’ orphaned daughter.

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The leader of a Kansas commune that prosecutors say lived off of insurance payouts following the deaths of group members is set to stand trial for murder in the 2003 drowning of one of them — a young mother whose death he allegedly foretold weeks before it happened.

Daniel U. Perez, a 55-year-old self-proclaimed seer, is charged with first-degree premeditated murder in the death of 26-year-old Patricia Hughes at the group’s compound in the Wichita suburb of Valley Center. Jury selection begins today in Sedgwick County District Court.

Authorities have investigated several deaths linked to the group, but the Wichita trial will deal only with Hughes’s death and other crimes that allegedly occurred while its fewer than a dozen members lived communally in

smart decisions with the budget to make our tax code fairer and more simple, and do it all in a way that’s fiscally responsible,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Friday.

Republicans have long indicated that changing the tax code is one area where they hope to compromise with the White House.

“We want to work with this administration to see if we can find common ground on certain aspects of tax reform and we want to exhaust that possibility,” Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Obama’s budget would cut projected annual deficits by $1.8 trillion over 10 years. The plan also stabilizes the national debt as a percentage of the economy, the start reducing it relative to a growing economy.

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Measles outbreak: a medical crisis without merit An outbreak of measles is sweeping through southern California and beyond.

Seems an increasing percentage of young parents are refusing to have their children inoculated against the highly contagious disease.

They are convinced the effectiveness of the customary MMR vaccine does not work and in fact, may be harmful.

The facts say otherwise.

Before the measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations became the law of the land, between 3 and 4 million Americans contracted measles annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those, 400 to 500 died, another 48,000 were hospitalized and 4,000 experienced encephalitis, swelling of the brain.

The backlash to the vac-

cine could be because these young parents grew up in a time post-measles, mumps and polio.

They have no visceral memory of a parent’s constant worry their children could contract one of the potentially deadly diseases.

In the year 2000, measles was declared eradicated in the United States. In 2014 however, 667 cases were reported. In January of this year, 84 cases in 14 states have been reported. At this rate we will likely surpass the number of cases reported last year and the risk of death rises.

How does this happen?

People choose to believe pseudo-science over real science. Or they believe vaccinations are not “natural,” and think an uber-healthy

Budget realities roadblock to Brownback’s ‘march to zero’ John Hanna

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback and his top aides can’t predict when Kansas will meet his stated goal of eliminating income taxes, An AP now that he has slowed the news implementation of promised analysis reductions to stave off predicted budget cuts.

The Republican governor promised in his annual State it is spurring job creation.

But under Brownback’s latof the State address that Kansas will continue a “march est proposals, the state would to zero” income taxes even if abandon its promise to drop some critics “consider this its top personal income tax course too bold.” But his new rate — once 6.45 percent and tax proposals abandon most now 4.6 percent — to 3.9 perof the cuts in personal income cent for 2018. The lowest rate tax rates scheduled for the next was set to go to 2.4 percent for three years, divert revenues to 2016 and to 2.3 percent for 2017.

A tax law enacted in 2013 rea rainy day budget fund ahead of future reductions, and al- quired automatic income tax low future governors and law- cuts after 2018 if the state’s general tax revenues grew by makers to delay cuts.

The governor and many more than 2 percent in a given of his allies contend he’s be- fiscal year.

Brownback’s new proposal ing practical in the face of budget problems that arose would require that when reveafter legislators aggressively nues are growing year-to-year, cut personal income taxes at part of the growth go first into his urging in 2012 and 2013 to a rainy-day fund. If revenues boost the economy. The state grow more than 3 percent, adis facing predicted shortfalls ditional tax cuts would be an totaling more than $710 mil- option — but state officials lion in the current budget and could let the funds accumuthe one for the next fiscal year, late, unspent, rather than reducing rates. which begins July 1.

“You have to make your After dropping its top personal income tax rate 29 per- budget balance, and you have to take care cent over of your core three years, services,” the state B r ow n b a c k won’t reIt seems like a crawl to me. said last duce it week. “Many again for at We might never get to zero.

Kansans are least four — Jeff Glendening, Americans for p r a g m a t i c years. The Prosperity state director, on c o n s e r v a lowest rate, Gov. Brownback’s pledge to tives — ‘I’m which dephase out the state income tax conservative; clined 23 I don’t want percent this tax, but during the it’s got to same period, to 2.7 percent, would decline only to 2.66 per- work.’”

So far, many Republicans cent for 2016. in the GOP-dominated LegisBrownback’s administration isn’t projecting when lature are being patient — at Kansas will end income taxes, least publicly — about slowing with Revenue Secretary Nick future tax cuts.

“The way it’s crafted, it Jordan saying there are too many variables, particularly looks to me like that it’s set up future revenue growth. But to keep reducing rates when Jeff Glendening, state direc- we can afford to do it,” said tor of Americans for Pros- Senate Assessment and Taxaperity, the anti-tax, small- tion Committee Chairman government group backed by Les Donovan, a Wichita Rebillionaire political donors publican.

But Glendening said KanCharles and David Koch, said sas risks being left behind if the purported march “would other states cut income taxes take an awfully long time.”

“It seems more like a crawl more aggressively to spur to me,” Glendening said. “We economic growth. He said cutting taxes required Kansas to might never get to zero.”

Brownback is not back- shrink state government — ing off a key part of his poli- which Americans for Prospercies, exempting the owners ity views as a positive move.

“We’re not going to be able of 191,000 businesses from income taxes altogether. Demo- to buy down income taxes if crats and other critics believe we don’t cut spending,” Glenthat measure has cost the state dening said.

As for Brownback, he said: far more in revenues than anticipated, but many Republi- “He needs to own it and stick cans, like Brownback, believe with it.”

lifestyle will serve as a barrier against infection.

THERE’S also a notable pushback against scientific authority these days. Humans don’t like being told they should undergo vaccinations “for the public good,” that they should stop burning fossil fuels, “for the public good,” that they should stop smoking “for the public good.”

“Those are your facts,” they say.

Well, no.

By their very nature, facts are indisputable.

Immunizations can eliminate a person’s chance of contracting measles. That’s a fact — and should be the end of the discussion. But as we know, sadly, won’t be.

— Susan Lynn

Just as it begins to shed its isolationist ways ....

Beheadings a culture shock to Japan

By KEN MORITSUGU

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese, who inhabit one of the safest countries in the world, have been brutally reminded that the world is a dangerous place.

In a shock to a country that can feel insulated from distant geopolitical problems, two of its own have reportedly been killed by Islamic radicals in Syria, the latest apparently beheaded in a video posted online this weekend by militant websites.

This island nation closed itself to the outside world for two centuries under samurai rule. Then rising militarism and occupation of neighboring countries preceding World War II had disastrous consequences, driving Japan back into an isolationist mindset. It has ventured out in fits and starts for the past two decades, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pushing for Japan to play a larger international role, most controversially by seeking to loosen constitutional restraints on its military.

As Japan has learned before, venturing out inevitably has risks. The question is whether those risks will drive Japan back into its shell.

Analysts say it is too early to predict the impact of the Islamic State hostage crisis on government policy and the public psyche. Past experience suggests that Japan may, after some handwringing, continue what has been a very gradual expansion of its military role. A major test could come in the spring, when the parliament is expected to take up Abe’s proposals to allow its Self-Defense Forces to do more.

“Contrary to what some people are arguing, the ongoing hostage crisis will have little to no effect as far as official policy or public opinion is concerned,” predicts Jun Okumura, an independent analyst.

In office about two years, Abe has traveled far more widely than his predecessors, meeting dozens of his counterparts in Latin America,

Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia.

His most recent trip was to the Mideast, where he pledged humanitarian and development aid for the countries battling the Islamic State group. A larger global role includes joining the effort against terrorism, even if Japan cannot contribute troops under a post-World War II constitution that limits its military to defending Japan.

“All that, we shall do to help curb the threat ISIL poses,” Abe said in a Jan. 17 speech in Cairo, using an acronym for the militant group that controls parts of Syria and Iraq. “I will pledge assistance of a total of about 200 million U.S. dollars for those countries contending with ISIL, to help build their human capacities, infrastructure, and so on.”

His words reached the Islamic State group, which in a video three days later accused Japan of donating money “to kill our women and children” and threatened to kill two Japanese men it held as hostages.

It’s not the first time Japan faced such a crisis. In 2004, it sent several hundred troops to Iraq to help in the reconstruction. Though it was a noncombat role, the overseas deployment was a significant break with past policy. It required special legislation and stretched the self-defense limits imposed by the postwar constitution — some say too far.

At home, many opposed the deployment. In Iraq, half a dozen Japanese were kidnapped. One was found decapitated, his body wrapped in an American flag, after then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi refused demands to pull the troops out of Iraq.

Such violence is shocking anywhere, but particularly so in Japan, which has among the world’s lowest murder and gun ownership rates. The troubles of the Mideast can seem farther away than in the United States or Europe. Unlike New York or Paris, Tokyo hasn’t

been attacked by radicalized Muslims. The most infamous terrorist act in recent times was homegrown, the release of poisonous gas in the Tokyo subway system by a religious cult in 1995.

“It is unusual for Japan, which has not participated in the military operations (against the Islamic State group), to be targeted,” the Mainichi, one of Japan’s major newspapers, observed in an editorial. It concluded: “We no longer live in a time when we can feel safe, just because we are Japanese.”

In the decades after World War II, the country focused on economic growth and relied heavily on the United States for protection from global threats.

It still does today, but Japan has been edging its own military overseas for more than 20 years now, though in a very cautious way.

The risks came home early.

Over public opposition, the Japanese parliament passed a law in 1992 that allowed it to dispatch troops and others to U.N. peacekeeping operations. A Japanese police officer was killed in Cambodia the following year.

While the police withdrew from peacekeeping for several years afterward, the Cambodia mission was completed, and the military has continued to join others in the years since, notes Okumura, the analyst.

The 2004 killing of one of the hostages in Iraq increased pressure on the government to pull out its troops, but that mission continued too, until 2006.

A decade later, Abe is trying to push the edge of the envelope. He laid the groundwork when his Cabinet reinterpreted the constitution last year to allow Japan, in some situations, to defend allies that come under attack.

He still needs lawmakers to approve legal changes necessary to empower the military to do that and more. Heated debate is expected, but his party holds a solid majority in parliament and Abe may well get his way.

A�look�back�in�time � 60 Years Ago Week of Feb. 1, 1955

Piqua State Bank was robbed at noon today of $2,140 by a lone bandit who fled after forcing Henry Wille, cashier, and Mrs. Marcella Blakey, his daughter, into a vault. John Wille,

president of the bank, approached the bank as the bandit fled in a 1950 Hudson.

Later the alleged bandit, James E. Howard, was critically injured in a wreck near Eureka. ***** Mrs. Myrtle Pope, 56, coun-

ty school superintendent, died last night at Allen County Hospital. She had been ill with cancer for over a year. In 1944 she was appointed county superintendent of schools and was re-elected every two years until 1954, when she was not a candidate.

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4 casinos submit applications for SE Kansas PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — The bids are in and now it’s up to the state to decide the winning play for a new state-owned casino in southeast Kansas.

Four groups submitted formal applications to the Kansas

Lottery Commission by the deadline Friday to open a casino in either Crawford or Cherokee counties.

The Joplin Globe reports two of the proposals are for casinos in Cherokee County, with the other two are

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served as an incentive for the students.

Senior Ashley Cary said they are trying to publicize the importance of families eating together. Benefits for students include better grades, emotional health and learning better manners.

Cary and Wilson recently recorded a public service announce-

ment at 101.5 KIKS radio station to remind families to eat together.

The PSA will begin running Wednesday.

The students will also have a staff member from the public health department come to the school to talk to students.

The group will present its STAR project this week at Iola High School during the FCCLA district meeting.

for casinos in Crawford County.

Sally Lunsford, spokeswoman for the Kansas Lottery, said the Lottery Gaming Facility Review Board will have up to 60 days to recommend the winning bid. The Kansas

Racing & Gaming Commission would then complete a background investigation and have 10 days to approve or reject the recommendation.

Kansas already has three state-owned casinos.

Sheriff’s Dept. to host concealed carry class The Allen County Sheriff ’s Department is offering a concealed carry class all day Feb. 28 at the Allen County Courthouse.

Participants will need 50 rounds of factory ammunition (no reloads), their firearm, eye and ear protection, a holster and $75 cash or check for registration. Checks should be made to the

Allen County Sheriff ’s Office.

Weapons and ammunition must be kept secured in vehicles until advised otherwise by instructors.

Registration forms are available online at allencosheriff.org.

The class will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the courthouse assembly room in the basement.

Rotary: Closet aids Iola students Continued from A1

her office budget to purchase used shoes, “which I took home, washed and put in new shoe laces,” McIntosh said. Now, she can draw on closet stock.

How about donations to keep the closets full?

“We intend to keep it all new clothes and shoes,” Westervelt said, although monetary contributions would be gladly accepted.

“The concern with taking in used clothing, even if it is in good shape, is that it could lead to bullying,” she explained. “If a boy comes to school wearing a shirt that belonged to another boy in his class, he might hear, ‘Hey, you’re

dation.

The funds for the charity come from local donations and proceeds garnered from the sale of custom T-shirts, which sell for $20 apiece. None of the organizers receive wages; all of the money goes to local patients actively seeking treatment for cancer.

Individuals and businesses wishing to sponsor Wings of Warriors — and have their names appear on the backs of the group’s briskly selling shirts — are invited to pledge $100 a year. From Audacious Boutique to Ulrich Furniture, O’Malley Equipment to O’Shaughnessy Liquor, “the community turnout has been awesome,” said Capper.

IT WAS BRENDA Holloway who, three years ago, after the death of her sister, Patricia Patterson, launched a nascent version of this group in the form of a Relay for Life team — the signature fundraising program of the American Cancer Society — called “Patty’s Posse.”

“But I felt Relay for Life didn’t give enough money back to the county. All their money goes toward their wages and, I guess, research” — a complaint

Continued from A1

State John Kerry is scheduled to travel to Kiev Thursday to meet with Ukrainian officials.

Bernadette Meehan, spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council, said the White House is “constantly assessing our policies in Ukraine.”

“Although our focus remains on pursuing a solution through diplomatic means,” she said, “we are always evaluating other options that will help create space for a negotiated solution to the crisis.”

Ukrainian troops battled today to repel waves of Russianbacked separatists trying to surround a strategic railway hub in eastern Ukraine, while in an ominous sign for peace efforts, the rebels announced plans to boost the size of their armed forces.

Elsewhere, the rebel stronghold of Donetsk came under heavy, sustained shelling once again. City authorities said today 15 civilians had been killed over the weekend in the fighting, while Ukraine authorities said five soldiers had been killed and

29 wounded overall in the east in the past day alone.

Since the unrest in eastern Ukraine surged anew in early January, the separatists have made notable strides in clawing territory away from the government in Kiev. Their main offensive is now directed at Debaltseve — a government-held railway junction once populated by 25,000 people that lies between the rebel-held cities of Luhansk and Donetsk.

Almost 2,000 residents have fled in the last few days alone.

In Budapest, Chancellor Merkel said her country will not provide weapons to Ukraine and supports negotiations and a diplomatic solution to the conflict.

“It is my firm belief that this conflict cannot be solved militarily,” Merkel said today.

She said she prefers economic sanctions by the European Union and negotiations to “solve or at least mitigate the conflict.”

The conflict in eastern Ukraine has claimed more than 5,100 lives and forced 900,000 to flee since April.

Henry: Accident

Continued from A1

Judy McIntosh, left, Lincoln Elementary counselor, and Jaime Westervelt examine shoes in the school’s Rotary closet. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON wearing my old shirt.’

We don’t want that.”

Rotarians will do

fundraising to maintain the closets, though none specifically is

scheduled at this time.

“We’ll let people know,” Westervelt said.

Warriors: Group helps cancer patients Continued from A1

Ukraine: Assist

that is sometimes echoed nationally — “and so after doing it for three years, I felt we needed to do something for the people here, for the people with cancer in Allen County.”

“Everyone that’s involved with this group has been touched by cancer,” said Capper.

“Our daughter had cancer; my father-in-law passed away, my sisterin-law passed away with cancer.”

In fact, Holloway’s sister and Capper’s sister-in-law were close friends.

It’s worth remembering their names, since the two women, in death, have given stimulus to this organization, which, after weeks spent readying its affairs, is now poised to do good work.

Patricia ‘Patty’ Patterson, of rural Iola, died Nov. 28, 2011, at the age of 48. The next year, her friend Teresa Kay Cook, 51, also of Iola, passed away.

Their friendship drew nearer as their respective cancers advanced. Coincidentally, both women ran their own local day-cares, both married their husbands in the spring of 1988, and both died of breast cancer “They had shirts that said ‘Breast Buddies,’” said Holloway,

currently Wings’ vicechairman.

She recalls the community fundraisers she and her friends organized while her sister was dying — enchilada dinners, garage sales.

“We made just beaucoup amounts of money to pay for her care.”

“That’s right,” added Capper, “around here everyone is willing to help.” She remembers when her own teenage daughter received the diagnosis. “This community really rallied

around us. Now we want to give back.”

In honor of World Cancer Day, Wings of Warriors will be hosting an event at Sam and Louie’s, on Wednesday, beginning at 4 p.m. The public is invited. If you have questions about donating to the group, or wish to purchase a T-shirt, or would like to submit a candidate for financial aid, call 620-228-7146 or visit the Wings of Warriors Facebook page for more information.

south of U.S. 54.

Her sport utility vehicle landed on its side on the creek bed about 2 a.m. Sunday.

The wreckage was just far enough out of view that several motorists passed by without noticing Henry, who climbed from the vehicle with a broken leg until Randy McCall drove upon the scene.

McCall told the Register he was checking on his wheat field, when he saw the Ford Escape on its side.

“It was hidden just enough that if you weren’t really looking for it, you’d miss it,” McCall said. “I glanced at it and thought, shoot, I better go back to check on it. That’s when I saw her sitting there.”

Henry had no shoes or socks on, nor did she have any gloves.

“She had a good coat on,” McCall said.

“I was able to toss

her a pair of my work gloves.”

McCall dialed 911, and then assisted ambulance crews and Allen County sheriff ’s deputies as they treated Henry, then carried her up the 12-foot dropoff from the road.

McCall deflected all praise coming his way.

“I’m not a hero,” he said. “I’d want somebody to do the same if it was one of my kids out there.

“A miracle happened out here,” McCall continued. “The good Lord was with her, or he was at least in the near vicinity.”

Henry, a student at Allen Community College, was transported to Allen County Regional Hospital, and then later transferred to to KU Med Center, for treatment of a badly broken leg and hypothermia, her mother, Angela Henry, said.

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Garber, Toney each earn second place at Fredonia

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

FREDONIA — A pair of Iola High wrestlers each placed second at the Fredonia Wrestling Invitational on Saturday.

Andrew Garber came in second at the 182-pound weight class and Colton Toney came in second at the 285-pound weight class.

“Garber had another good tournament, making it to the finals for the second tournament in a row,” coach Jason Bates said.

Garber won his first match by pinning Rose Hill’s Luke Culberston in 2:51. In the quarterfinal, he again won by pinning his opponent. This time it was Erie’s Rowdy Lahey in 1:52. Garber won his semifinal match in an 8-3 decision over Burlington’s Tyson Breshears. Garber then went to the championship match, but lost in sudden victory in overtime to Wichita South’s Torion Neloms. Garber is now 22-7 on the year.

Toney received a bye in the first match, making his first actual dual in the quarterfinals. He beat Fredonia’s Tristen Jansen by pinning him in 3:24. In the semifinals, Toney pinned Wichita South’s Jeremiah Napier in 1:48. Toney wasn’t able to keep his winning streak alive and was pinned in the championship

Colton Toney had his best tournament this weekend. I saw a lot of offensive attacks from him, which is what we’ve been working on.

— Jason Bates, Iola coach

match. He lost to Eureka’s Grayson Pryce at 4:53.

“Toney had his best tournament this weekend,” Bates said. “I saw a lot of offensive attacks from him, which is what we've been working on.

That first take-down is crucial in any match and we have to give ourselves the opportunity to get it.”

Chandler House also wrestled at the tournament, going 1-4 on the day. His win came in round two of the consolation bracket, when he pinned Erie’s Jacob Linnebur in 4:42.

He placed eighth overall in the 220-pound weight class.

With only three wrestlers, Iola placed 11th out of 15 teams. Garber and Toney each earned 22 points, while House earned the team eight points.

Two of Iola’s wrestlers didn’t compete this weekend due to illness.

“Typically, we only have three to four wrestlers scorSee MUSTANGS | Page B4

Andrew Garber pins an opponent during a match at the Fredonia Wrestling Invitational on Saturday. Garber took second place in the 182-pound weight class. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

Red Devil men beat No. 21 Coffeyville

Super Finish Quarterback Tom Brady celebrates with his teammates after winning Super Bowl XLIV 28-24 against the Seahawks, marking his fourth Super Bowl win in franchise history. The game was held at The University of Phoenix Stadium, on Sunday, in Glendale, Ariz. TNS/SIPA USA/ANTHONY BEHAR

Patriots edge Seahawks 28-24

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Pro Football Writer

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The final 125 seconds included a perfect possession by Tom Brady for the go-ahead points, a juggling catch that could have been the play of the year, and a victory-clinching, endzone interception on a pass — not run — from the 1.

A Super Bowl that got off to a slow start wound up with a “Whoa!” finish, a lot like the New England Patriots’ entire season.

Brady threw two of his four touchdown passes in the final quarter to erase a double-digit deficit, rookie Malcolm Butler picked off Russell Wilson’s short throw while Marshawn Lynch watched, and the Patriots ended a decade drought without an NFL title by beating the defending champion Seattle Seahawks 28-24 in a

taut classic Sunday night.

“Every team has a journey,” said Brady, who was voted Super Bowl MVP for a recordtying third time, “and a lot of people lost faith in us early.

But we held strong. We held together.”

He was talking about the preceding months, not minutes. But either made sense.

After all, back in late September, when New England lost 41-14 at the Kansas City Chiefs to fall to 2-2, there was a lot of talk about whether Brady was done, whether the Patriots were simply no longer a powerhouse.

Yet Sunday night, when coach Bill Belichick was asked when he knew he had a special team, he pointed to halftime of that poor performance against the Chiefs.

“We weren’t having a good day, but we kept fighting,” Belichick said. “To me, if there was ever a time that we

were not going to compete as hard, that would have been it. ... The fight and the competitiveness was there, and that gave me a lot of confidence going into the next week’s game.

That was a key point in our season.”

And so perhaps these Patriots were prepared to weather the scrutiny that came with an NFL investigation into whether they deliberately deflated footballs in the AFC championship game two weeks ago. They compartmentalized that and focused on the Super Bowl.

Perhaps they were prepared to set aside Brady’s two interceptions that helped dig a 2414 hole in the fourth quarter.

They moved into the lead after Brady connected with Danny Amendola from 4 yards out for one score with about 8 minutes left, then hit Julian Edel-

COFFEYVILLE — Allen Community College’s mens basketball team remained undefeated in Jayhawk East play with a 88-78 win over Coffeyville on Saturday.

The Ravens started the game off with two 3-pointers to take a quick lead, but Allen’s Josh Sweet connected to get the Red Devils started.

ACC took a 35-28 lead at the half.

In the second, Coffeyville couldn’t catch back up and the Red Devils got a win on the road.

“Allen did a great job of taking care of the basketball and getting quality shots deep into the shot clock,” coach Andy Shaw said.

Coffeyville is ranked No. 21 in the NJCAA and this marks Allen’s first win over a ranked opponent during Shaw’s tenure as coach. The Red Devils earned the win with great shooting. Allen shot 58 percent from the field for the entire game. The team was 8-18 shooting from beyond the arc and hit 22-30 free throws.

Sweet led everyone in scoring with 27 points — he made 7 of 10 3-pointers, grabbed

four rebounds and had two assists. Courtney Stockard had a double-double, scoring 24 points and grabbing 11 rebounds. Jermaine Long scored 11 points and had three assists.

Allen (13-9 overall, 5-0 conference) hosts Highland at 8 p.m. on Wednesday for homecoming.

THE RED DEVIL women fell to Coffeyville on Saturday 108-35.

Allen didn’t have any players hit double-figures in scoring. The Ravens had five players score more than 10 points.

Devin Cosper led Coffeyville with 26 points.

ACC shot 28 percent for the game, while Coffeyville finished at 59 percent. The Ravens outrebounded the Red Devils 50 to 18. Allen also had 29 turnovers compared to Coffeyville’s 14.

Rachael Bruce led Allen with nine points and five rebounds. Josie Reilly and Erika Essman each scored six points.

Allen (5-18 overall, 1-5 conference) plays Highland at 6 p.m. on Wednesday.

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Blisters may need medication long term Dear Dr. Roach: A year ago, I broke out with pimples on my back, arms and thighs.

They itched so badly I thought I would go mad.

A dermatologist took a biopsy and told me it was an autoimmune disease called bullous pemphigoid. I was started on prednisone and doxycycline. When it cleared up, I would stop the medication, but it came back. The doctor said she thinks I’ll have to take medication for the rest of my life. I don’t like taking this medication, as it blurs my eyesight and I lose energy. I also have osteoporosis. I do take some vitamins.

— G.B. Answer: Bullous pemphigoid is an autoimmune disease that causes blisters, mostly in older adults. The blisters are large and tense (as opposed to pemphigus, an even more dangerous autoimmune disease, in which the blisters are soft). Bullous pemphigoid tends to come and go over months or even years. Diagnosis is confirmed by biopsy.

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health The usual treatment for bullous pemphigoid is a corticosteroid, either topical or systemic.

Since it was over such an extended area of your body, your dermatologist decided on systemic, at a moderate dose of 20 mg.

Prednisone has many long-term side effects, including making your osteoporosis much worse.

Further, I am concerned that the blurry vision could indicate the onset of diabetes or a cataract, as both are strongly associated with chronic steroid use. Your regular doctor should be testing you for diabetes and treating the osteoporosis, and should make sure that you see the eye doctor.

Certain medications, such as the doxycycline she started you on, can reduce your need for steroids. Other medications used for autoimmune disease can further reduce

the need for steroids, but azathioprine, methotrexate, mycophenolate and others have serious side effects of their own.

Nicotinamide, also called vitamin B-3, can make the doxycycline more effective.

Although in some cases bullous pemphigoid does go away, I agree with your doctor that you are likely to need some medication long term; however, she may be able to reduce the dosages.

Dear Dr. Roach: In regard to the patient with arm numbness from a December column, I think you are right that the pain described is more likely from the cervical rather than lumbar spine.

However, the symptoms are reported bilateral, rather than unilateral.

Either way, another possibility is thoracic outlet syndrome, which itself might have any one or more of five possible causes, including brachial plexus injury.

Another diagnostic indicator might be to exert compression on the shoulders (something

like Mr. Spock’s trick on the old “Star Trek” program) to see if that provokes a lightheaded or even fainting-type response. The interesting clues to possible TOS are some relief from raising the arms, and the transiency of symptoms.

An X-ray also might be helpful. TOS presents an interesting and unusual diagnostic puzzle, sometimes involving neurology, orthopedic and/or vascular components.

— J.D. Answer: Thank you for writing. Thoracic outlet syndrome is a good thought, one I did not consider.

The thoracic outlet is an anatomic space above the first (top) rib and behind the clavicle (collar bone). The subclavian artery and vein run through the thoracic outlet and can be damaged by compression; however, the brachial plexus, an important nerve bundle to the arm, is the most commonly affected, causing pain, weakness, numbness or pins-and-needles sensations.

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(AP) — Because they didn't go into Beast Mode, the Seattle Seahawks found themselves in Spin Mode.

They were left to explain why they turned Marshawn Lynch — the running back known as "The Beast" — into a decoy with the game on the line and chose instead to pass the ball on secondand-goal from the 1.

Malcolm Butler intercepted that pass with 20 seconds left to preserve New England's 28-24 Super Bowl victory.

Within moments, the second-guessing had begun on what will surely be one of the most debated calls in NFL history.

"I made the decision.

I said, 'Throw the ball,'" coach Pete Carroll said.

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Perhaps they were prepared to not let the game get away when Seahawks receiver Jermaine Kearse made a falling, juggling, bouncing reception on his back for a 33-yard gain that set up firstand-goal from the 5 with 66 seconds to go. It was Butler who was in coverage on that play, although there was nothing more he really could have done.

Perhaps they were prepared for a shotgun pass by Wilson two plays later from the 1, rather than a run by the barrel-chested Lynch, who tied for the league lead in touchdown runs this season with 13.

Butler sure was ready, and his pick sealed the ultimate outcome, even if everyone had to wait while the officials cleared up a field-wide brawl.

“When they passed the ball, I was kind of surprised by it,” Patriots nose tackle Vince Wilfork said. “But at the same time, we made the play.”

Lynch gained 102 yards on 24 carries and scored an earlier TD, leaving many mystified as to why Seattle wouldn’t have handed off to him in that vital situation.

Even some of the Seahawks were bewildered.

“I don’t understand how you don’t give it to the best back in the league,” linebacker Bruce Irvin said. “We were on the half-yardline and we throw a slant. I don’t know what the offense had going on, what they saw.”

With the retractable roof open on a cloudless evening, the Patriots (15-4) won the fourth Lombardi Trophy of the Brady-Belichick partnership, adding to those from the Super Bowls played in 2002, ‘04 and ‘05. They lost their last two trips to the big game, though,

in 2008 and 2012, both times against the New York Giants.

This time, though, Brady and New England pulled it out — and in the process, prevented Seattle (14-5) from the ninth set of back-toback Super Bowl championships.

At age 37, Brady went 37 for 50 for 328 yards and matched his childhood idol, Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Montana, for most Super Bowl MVP awards.

Brady also broke Montana’s Super Bowl record for most career touchdown passes, getting to 13.

On the drive that resulted in the winning points, Brady went 8 for 8 for 65 yards.

“He’s so calm and collected,” Amendola said about his quarterback.

“He’s the best. He gets everybody to play at a higher level. He’s our leader emotionally.”

Didn’t matter that the Seahawks came in with an eight-game winning streak. Or that their defense, led by Richard Sherman and the self-styled “Legion of Boom” secondary, was the first in more than 40 years to lead the NFL

in fewest points allowed three seasons in a row.

This was going to be the Patriots’ day. Belichick’s day. Brady’s day.

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“This one came down to the end, and this time, we made the plays.”

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"Nobody to blame but me."

But there was plenty of blame to go around.

It started with offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell, who may have gotten too cute and, as a result, found his name was a top trender on Twitter.

And the receiver, Ricardo Lockette, who Bevell said, "could have done a better job staying strong on the ball."

Quarterback Russell Wilson wishes he had that pass back.

"I thought it was going to be a touchdown," Wilson said. "But I put the blame on me. I'm the one who threw it."

He also gave lots of credit to Butler, the rookie free agent out of West Alabama who made New England's roster, then saved the Super Bowl.

ing points for us. A team that has a full roster has 14 scoring participants,” Bates said. “Even so, we still placed higher than a handfull of teams at most of the tournaments we've gone to. I think that says something about the work our athletes do.”

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son. The Mustangs host Osawatomie and West Elk on Thursday in a dual match. Iola hasn’t gotten a team win at dual matches because they don’t have enough wrestlers. However, the team has won 18 of 24 individual matches this season.

Iola wraps up the regular season at the Silver Lake Invitational on Saturday.

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