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Tower project inches forward

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

A long-awaited communications tower to improve law enforcement’s ability to talk to each other is getting closer to reality.

Allen County commissioners are moving ahead with plans to build a tower. If everything works in their favor, it could be ready as soon as the fall.

On Tuesday, they discussed funding options and heard a presentation from a tow-

er-building company that submitted one of two bids for the project.

It’s been about four years since Sheriff Bryan Murphy asked commissioners to construct a 500-foot tower at the landfill, which is essentially the center of the county.

The tower is needed to solve the problem of “dead spots” where radio communication with first responders is difficult or non-existent.

Since then, commissioners have been trying to figure out how to pay for the estimated

$1 million cost.

“Finding a million dollars has been the holdup,” Chairman Jerry Daniels said.

They’ve pursued multiple grants, spending time to do the research and submit applications. Time and again, those grants fell through.

Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, and the county became focused on how to keep services running in the middle of a 100-year health crisis.

But in some ways, the pandemic also brought a potential See COUNTY | Page A6

Snow in sight Snow falls at the Veterans Memorial on the square in downtown Iola early this morning. A winter storm moved into the area Tuesday night. Snow is expected to continue today until Thursday morning, with bitterly cold temperatures and accumulations between 5 and 8 inches. REGISTER/SUSAN LYNN

Curtis Utley plays a game of pinball this week at Utley’s Iola Auto Body on North State Street. Utley recently restored the 1977 machine. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Let’s have some flippin’ fun

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

I thought I was the Bally table king.

But I just handed my pinball crown to him.

— “Pinball Wizard,” The Who Curtis Utley’s latest addition to his workspace has nothing to do with car restoration.

But it sure is fun.

Utley and friends recently

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restored a 1970s era pinball machine that now sits prominently in the front office at Utley’s Iola Auto Body on North State Street.

Most notably, the machine features one of Utley’s childhood idols, renowned daredevil Evel Knievel.

“It’s been a joy to get this going,” Utley said. “A lot of people come in just to see it.”

The pinball machine is a perfect pairing of two of Utley’s childhood passions: Playing arcade games, and

watching Evel Knievel.

Born Robert Craig Knievel, the motorcycle stunt performer gained worldwide acclaim in the 1970s for his ability to successfully (and occasionally unsuccessfully) clear various obstacles such as cars or trucks.

“My parents spoiled me, and allowed me to get some of his toys,” Utley recalled, such as an Evel Knievel figurine atop a toy motorcycle. (That very toy is now on display at See PINBALL | Page A4

Kansas could spend $1B to land mystery manufacturer

By JIM MCLEAN Kansas News Service

TOPEKA, Kansas – Republicans in the Kansas Legislature aren’t eager to give Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly any big wins ahead of her campaign for reelection.

Even so, many are backing her effort to close a potentially transformative business deal offering at least $1 billion in tax breaks and other incentives to lure a mystery manufacturer to Kansas.

Lt. Gov. and Commerce Secretary David Toland calls it “the largest economic development project in

our history.”

The enhanced subsidies, Toland said, would go to a company promising to spend $4 billion on a 3 million-square-foot plant employing 4,000 people.

If the firm picks Kansas, Toland said several of the target company’s suppliers would follow, drawing another 4,000 jobs to the region.

Non-disclosure agreements signed by state officials and legislative leaders prohibit them from divulging the name of the company or the possible location of the plant. That bothers lawmakers who say they See KANSAS | Page A3

Opie’s restaurant in Humboldt to close

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

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HUMBOLDT — Opie’s will be serving up its last slice of pizza in downtown Humboldt on Sunday, Feb. 13.

Owners Nobby and Terra Daniels said the decision to close the family-style restaurant after 4½ years was difficult, but unavoidable.

“It’s been a nightmare ever since the pandemic arrived,” in spring of 2020, Nobby Davis said.

Staffing has been their biggest challenge.

“Employees have had to be See OPIE’S | Page A3

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Obituaries

Gov. Kelly in Alma Tammi Tharp

Jerry Harris Jerry Lealand Harris of Iola went to Heaven on Jan. 19, 2022.

Jerry was born in Kansas City, Mo., to LenaBelle Wetzel Harris and Jerrold Harris on Nov. 29, 1956.

Jerry attended schools in Kansas City, Mo., Arma and Mulberry. After moving to Walnut, he attended Girard High School.

Jerry began work at an early age with the local farmers, he later did factory work, as well as water towers and construction before finding his career in being an over-the-road Jerry Harris trucker.

He spent many years up and down the highways breaking for home every chance he could to spend time with his children and grandchildren. Jerry hung up his mic in 2021.

Jerry enlisted in the Army National Guard on March 27, 1978, with an Honorable Discharge on March 2, 1993.

In 1976 on March 9, Jerry was united in marriage to Joyce Paisley. The two had two daughters together.

They later divorced in 1982.

In 1984, he married Angela Lessly. After having one son together they divorced in 2000.

Jerry knew no stranger. His love for others will surpass his time here on earth. He enjoyed his family, fishing and gifting others in need, while passing time playing card games, dominoes and Chinese checkers.

He also loved to get lost in the pages of a good book.

Jerry could not be found without his Bible at hand.

He was known to speak and share the love of God into the ears and hearts of others.

Survivors include his daughter Johanna Harris of Iola, his son Christopher Harris and future daughter-in-law Elizabeth Brittain of Oklahoma; grandchildren Nathan Stevens, Brent Stevens, Braden Stevens, Chase Edwards, Chance Edwards, Aiden Edwards, Legacy Harris, Lilly Henderson, Mason Sutton, Dalton Sutton and Brodie Sutton; sisters Donna Harris, Jennifer Harris, Pam Strong and Gracie Harris; brother Don Harris; and many nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews and friends to count.

Jerry was preceded in death by his mother LenaBelle Wetzel, father Jarrold Harris, daughter Debra Harris, brothers Daniel Harris and Rodger Harris; and son-in-law Josh Stevens.

Memorial services will be at noon Saturday, Feb. 5, at First Christian Church, 1608 Oregon Rd., Iola. Lisa Creamer will read the eulogy. Dinner will be served following the service.

Burial will take place in the Mulberry Cemetery at a later date with military honors, Cobey Clarkson officiating the graveside service.

Donations for his daughter and son can be left at the church the day of memorial services.

Tammis L. Tharp (Tammi) age 69 of Carmel, Calif., lost her fight with cancer Dec. 7, 2021. Tammi graduated from Iola High School then continued her studies at the University of Kansas and graduated with a bachelor of science in journalism. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority and received an MBA in Women Executive Development from Smith College.

Tammi Tharp Tammi spent decades working in the newspaper industry as a publisher, regional director, regional manager, and supervisor for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, a Gannett newspaper, in Little Rock; sales in the Gannett National Newspaper, Dallas, the Gannett Retail Advertising Group in Chicago, and the Monterey Herald, Monterey, Calif. The past several years Tammi was director of sales and marketing for Brookdale Senior Living in Redwood City, Calif.

Tammi loved her dog Luvy who passed five years ago. She enjoyed traveling the world and was involved in her Carmel community (the City by the Sea) Rotary Club, president of Carmel Art Festival and ASPCA. She was preceded in death by her parents, Dale and Romaine Tharp, sister Nancy Tharp and her dog Luvy. She is survived by two sisters, Debbie Wagne and husband Phil, San Antonio, Texas, and Jan Tharp-Drimmel and husband John of Overland Park; a niece, Shannon, a nephew, CJ Tharp and wife Lindsey, and their four children, Gabrielle, Alexandra, Ryan and Olivia.

At Tammi’s request she was buried at sea with her dog Luvy’s ashes at Lovers Point, Monterey Bay, Calif.

Tammi’s smile and kindness will be missed by friends and family.

KS revenues still strong TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Tax collections in Kansas exceeded the state’s expectations in January for the 18th month in a row and created a 14.5% surplus for the month.

The state Department of Revenue reported Tuesday that Kansas collected $944.5 million in taxes last month when the official forecast had predicted

$824.9 million. The difference was $119.6 million.

Since the current 2022 budget year began July 1, the state’s tax collections have been 4% above expectations, with a surplus of $203 million. The state has collected more than $5.2 billion over the past seven months when it anticipated taking in about $5 billion.

Kansas Senate OKs Gold Star memorial

By NOAH TABORDA Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Kansas senators approved a series of bills Tuesday, including one allowing the construction on Statehouse grounds of a permanent memorial honoring the immediate families of those who lost their lives in the line of duty.

Senate Bill 330 comes in response to a unanimous decision by the Capitol Preservation Committee to add a Gold Star Family monument to the Veterans’ Walk outside the Capitol building in Topeka. The memorial will be funded entirely though donations and private funds.

“We are very anxious to erect and have a dedication ceremony for this Gold Star memorial later on this year,” said Sen. Jeff Longbine,

R-Emporia. “The Capitol Preservation Committee has given preliminary approval. The design has been done and fundraising is getting ready to be started.”

The Senate approved the bill 40-0, and an identical measure has a hearing Thursday in the House Veterans and Military Committee.

Perry Wiggins, executive director for the governor’s Military Council, said Kansas is one of few remaining states yet to have one of these memorials established on Statehouse grounds.

He said the bill would rectify this oversight and emphasize Kansas’ military support.

“As a father of two servicemen myself, I can tell you that’s one of the hardest things you can do. Standing on point for this nation in uniform for me was not difficult

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ALMA — Gov. Laura Kelly was in Alma Monday to celebrate a project that converted a downtown building into affordable apartments for eight families.

Frontier Property Management partnered with Kansas Housing Resources Corporation officials to convert the historic Limerick building into apartments. Rent will begin at $500 for single-bedroom apartments, according to WIBW news.

Kelly said the affordable housing quandary is what is holding back economic development in rural counties.

“It’s one of the state’s biggest barriers to growth,” she said.

Tyler Holloman of Frontier Property said the need for housing in Southeast Kansas is critical.

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“These are Kansans that we need in our communities.

These are our police officers and our firefighters, our teachers and healthcare workers,” he said.

Kelly said the state is willing to work with developers.

“The state needs to be a good partner with our developers to encourage them because the need is there, they are interested in doing it, we just had to make it work for them.”

The Alma project tapped available funds through the Moderate Income Housing Program.

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Financial Focus

What Should You Do With a Tax Refund?

Are you expecting a tax refund this year? If so, what will you do with it?

Of course, the answer largely depends on the size of your refund. For the 2020 tax year, the average refund was about $2,800, according to the Internal Revenue Service. But whether your refund this year will be about that size, smaller or larger, you can find ways to benefit from the money.

Here are some possibilities: • Contribute to your IRA. You’ve got until April 18 to fully fund your IRA for the 2021 tax year. But if you’ve already reached the maximum for 2021, you could use some, or all, of your refund for your 2022 contribution. Assuming you did get around $2,800, you’d be almost halfway to the $6,000 annual contribution limit. (If you’re 50 or older, you can contribute up to $7,000.)

• Invest in a 529 plan. If you have children or grandchildren, you might want to invest your refund in a 529 education savings plan. A 529 plan’s earnings can grow federal income-tax free, and withdrawals are federal income-tax free provided the money is used for qualified education expenses. If you invest in your own state’s plan, you might get a tax deduction or credit. A 529 plan can be used to pay for college, vocational training and even some K-12 expenses in some states. Plus, if you name one child as a beneficiary, and that child’s educational journey does not require the funds from a 529 plan, you may change the beneficiary to another eligible family member of the original beneficiary.

• Add to the “cash” part of your portfolio. It’s generally a smart move to keep at least a portion of your overall investment portfolio in cash or cash equivalents, because the presence of cash can help you in two ways. First, since its value won’t change, it can help cushion, at least to a degree, the effects of market volatility on your portfolio. And second, by having cash available, you’ll be ready to take advantage of attractive investment opportunities when they arise.

• Boost your emergency fund. You could use your tax refund to start or supplement an emergency fund. Ideally, this fund should contain three to six months’ worth of living expenses, with the money kept in a liquid, low-risk account. (If you’re already retired, you might need this fund to cover a full year’s worth of expenses.) Without such a fund, you might be forced to dip into long-term investments to pay for costly housing or auto repairs or large medical bills.

• Reduce your debt load. It’s not always easy to minimize your debt load, even if you’re careful about your spending habits. But the lower your debt payments, the more money you’ll have available to invest for your future. So, you may want to consider using some of your tax refund to pay off some debts, or at least reduce them, starting with those that carry the highest interest rates.

• Donate to charity. You could use part of your refund to donate to a charitable organization whose work you support. And if you itemize on your tax return, part of your gift may be deductible.

A tax refund is always nice to receive – and it’s even better when you put the money to good use.

This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

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Once again, crime doesn’t pay

By DAVID PITT The Associated Press

Eddie Harner takes advantage of the buffet at Opie’s in Humboldt.

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away because of illness either by them or their families at one time or another,” he said.

“We’ve been perpetually short-staffed.”

The Davises also own Opie’s Pizza & Grill in downtown Chanute. After almost 22 years, the

couple will continue that business.

“It’s a lot easier to sustain and staff a business in a population of more than 9,000 like in Chanute than in a smaller town,” said Davis, who serves as Humboldt mayor.

The Davises have a

staff of about 20 employees, mostly parttime, at each restaurant.

“They, and our customers, are like family,” he said. “We’ve appreciated everyone’s loyalty over the years, especially during this rough patch.”

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need to know more about the company’s ownership and what it produces before signing off.

“It could be a wildly profitable, foreign-owned company coming in and doing an environmentally dirty business,” said Sen. Mark Steffen, a Hutchinson Republican.

Like it or not, said Paul Hughes, the head of business development at the Kansas Department of Commerce, secrecy is part of the negotiation process.

“It would cause financial harm to the company if word got out that they were planning this,” Hughes said when responding to questions during Senate hearings.

Secrecy isn’t the only issue. Some lawmakers question the need for an incentive package significantly more generous than what the state has offered in the past.

Sen. Caryn Tyson, a Parker Republican, said a small business owner who contacted her suggested the name of the bill be changed to “crony capitalism kicks existing Kansas businesses in the face.”

Despite such objections, most Republican senators joined with Democrats in a 32-7 Senate vote to approve the incentive bill after it was amended to use money generated by the economic impact of new businesses to gradually lower the state corporate income tax.

Republican Senate President Ty Masterson said he generally doesn’t like subsidies, but that “this is a little different than your typical subsidy.”

“A project of this magnitude,” he said, is “something that can change the state for generations.”

If passed, the bill would authorize the following incentives for companies that agree to invest at least $1 billion in the state: • A tax credit up to 15% of a company’s investment.

• A 10% payroll refund for up to 10 years.

• A 100% sales tax exemption for construction materials.

• A 50% property tax exemption for companies that locate in a foreign trade zone as long as local governments agree.

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• Up to five suppliers of a target company would qualify for similar incentives if they also locate facilities in Kansas.

Dave Trabert, president of the Kansas Policy Institute, a conservative think-tank that lobbies for reduced government spending, estimated the cost of recruiting this one company could exceed $1 billion over 10 years. That money, he said, would be better spent on policies that benefit all businesses in the state.

“We could give one big lollipop to one company, or we could wipe out the income tax liability of all the corporations in Kansas,” Trabert said.

That’s a false choice, said Toland. The beefedup incentives, he said, are needed to make Kansas competitive for what he calls “megaprojects” that now go to other states.

Since 2017, he said, Kansas is zero for 11 when competing for companies looking to invest $1 billion or more.

The proposed incentives are generous, Toland said, but the company must earn them.

“The company gets the investment tax credit after they invest,” he said. “The company gets the payroll rebate after

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they’ve hired and paid people. This is performance-based.”

The bill also would allow the state to claw back benefits if the company fails to live up to its agreement with the state.

Mark Williams, president of a site-selection company that helps negotiate deals for businesses around the world, said the importance of incentives goes beyond dollars and cents.

“It’s psychological,” Williams said. “Many companies feel that they’re taking risks to make big investments and they like it when … they feel a state is embracing them and somehow taking some risk with them.”

Toland said the administration supports the amendment added by the Senate that would use proceeds generated by businesses locating in the state to buy down corporate income taxes. But he said a change to ensure the tax credit wouldn’t result in the state making payments to companies could be a deal killer.

“The states that are winning on these projects have refundable tax credits,” Toland said.

“We don’t and that’s one of the reasons why we have never won a billion-dollar project.”

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man serving a 25-year prison sentence for rigging computers to win lottery jackpots for himself, friends and family will be released from an Iowa prison on parole after serving nearly five years, but he could be forced to return to prison in another state if he doesn’t pay required restitution.

Eddie Tipton appears to owe about $1.6 million in restitution in four states and said in court documents filed in January 2020 that he couldn’t pay. As of a 2019 court document, he had paid less than $2,000 toward the states’ restitution.

The Iowa Board of Parole granted release to Tipton on Jan. 20 because of good behavior, and he will be allowed to live in Texas, a board document said.

An Iowa Department of Corrections spokesman did not immediately respond to questions about how soon Tipton would be released.

Tipton pleaded guilty in 2017 to ongoing criminal conduct and was ordered to repay $2.2 million in ill-gotten winnings from lotteries in Colorado, Wisconsin, Kansas and Oklahoma. He shared some of the restitution obligation with his brother in Texas, Tommy Tipton, who collected some of the winnings.

An Iowa jury also convicted Eddie Tipton of attempting to take $16.5 million from a rigged Iowa Lottery game in December 2010, but the Iowa Supreme Court in 2017 overruled the decision, saying the state took too long to prosecute him.

Eddie Tipton owes no restitution in Iowa because Iowa Lottery officials never paid him for the Hot Lotto ticket he attempted to redeem in December 2010 after suspecting misconduct. He also agreed to a plea deal in Wisconsin that requires him to repay $409,600 to that state.

Court documents from 2019 show that Eddie Tipton had paid $463 and still owed the state $409,137.

In Wisconsin, Ed-

die Tipton must pay restitution to the state by the end of his sentence there. His four years in prison was ordered served concurrently with the Iowa sentence but he has parole to complete in Wisconsin, which would end in September 2026.

If he hasn’t paid his full restitution by then, a judge could order him back to prison there, according to information provided by Wisconsin officials to Iowa Auditor Rob Sand, who was an assistant attorney general who prosecuted Tipton’s case.

“Eddie may be done with this term, but under his plea agreement, he needs to get restitution paid to avoid serving more time in Wisconsin. I wish him luck in getting that done,” Sand said.

The 2019 document shows that Eddie Tipton still owed Colorado more than $568,300, Oklahoma $643,700 and Kansas $30,700 in restitution. It’s not clear whether he could be returned to prison if he hasn’t paid restitution in those states.

Eddie Tipton worked at an Urbandale, Iowa, organization that provided random number drawing computers to several lottery states.

Investigators said he installed code on lottery computers that allowed him to predict the winning numbers on specific days. He, his brother and others played the numbers he predicted and claimed winnings.

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Eddie Tipton, at his 2017 Iowa sentencing hearing, told the judge he “wrote software that included code that allowed me to understand or technically predict winning numbers, and I gave those numbers to other individuals who then won the lottery and shared the winnings with me.”

It’s not clear what happened to the money Eddie Tipton and his associates won between 2005 and 2011. Out of the seven known winning tickets that netted more than $2.2 million, Eddie Tipton claimed to have ended up with only $351,000.

Eddie Tipton, 58, has filed a lawsuit in state court claiming he was placed under duress to plead guilty. He also alleges that Iowa officials charged him for restitution in states for which it has no jurisdiction, and he says he can’t pay.

Assistant Attorney General William Hill asked a judge in November to dismiss the case, saying the lawsuit was barred by the statute of limitations and it should be dismissed as frivolous. Hill also said by filing the lawsuit Tipton is violating the terms of his plea agreements and that the violation “provides the opportunity for all jurisdictions to re-initiate criminal charges against him. A trial is set for Aug. 17.

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the body shop.)

Not long ago, Utley decided to add another relic, an old motorcycle helmet he painted as an exact replica of the ones Knievel wore during his career.

It was when Utley showed off the helmet to family friend Gary Lang, who sells body shop supplies, that talk about adding to the collection surfaced.

“You really need an Evel Knievel pinball machine,” Lang said.

“Wouldn’t that be awesome,” Utley said with a grin.

“I’ve got one,” Lang replied.

Utley went over to Lang’s to get a closer look.

“It was a mess,” he said. “Nothing worked on it, but he gave me a good deal, and some buddies of mine helped haul it home.”

ASSISTING with his labor of love was Iolan Eric Anderson, an electronics wizard who brought the electrical components back to life, most importantly the pinball machine’s power amplifier.

A power amplifier is best described as a pinball machine’s brains and central nervous system all in one, providing power to each circuit board, flipper and light.

And, as Utley noted, this amplifier was toasted long before he purchased the machine from Lang last summer.

Utley scoured the internet for a suitable replacement, but found nothing.

Undaunted, Anderson rebuilt the amplifier from scratch, a task easier said than done.

“Eric took it and counted all the copper windings on each of the solenoids,” Utley said.

“And then he rewound it as he rebuilt it. I don’t know how many times he had to wind that thing up, but it was a

Curtis Utley has several pieces of Evel Knievel memorabilia on display at Utley’s Iola Auto Body, including a replica helmet and a lunch box recently donated by Iolan Ted Noble.

Curtis Utley, left, and Eric Anderson worked together over the summer to restore a 1977 pinball machine. COURTESY PHOTO bunch.”

And the rebuild received a big early boost once they opened the machine for the first time, to find the owner’s manual and electrical schematics still intact.

“When I saw the owner’s manual and owner’s schematic, I felt really good about it,” Utley said. “I might not be able to figure this out, but somebody out there could.”

That somebody was Anderson.

“I don’t know much about electronics,” Utley admitted. “But that kid should be working at NASA. I know if it wasn’t for Eric, I probably wouldn’t have been able to get this thing going.”

It took more than a month of evenings and weekends to bring the machine back to life.

With Anderson tackling the electronics, Utley dedicated his energies to repairing any broken pieces.

“And this machine was filthy,” Utley noted.

But beneath the dirt and grime, the machine remained in remarkably

good condition, aside from the dried, crumbling rubber bands that wrap around the various bumpers and pinball components.

“I found an exact kit to replace those,” Utley said.

THE REBUILD culminated with an eventful evening last fall, when Utley finally had everything reassembled and put together.

“We started about 7 o’clock, and as time went on, the lights would start coming on, and then the bells would start flashing,” Utley said.

Then, once Anderson connected the flippers to the rest of the circuitry, the machine was ready to go.

“We played our first game at about 11 o’clock,” Utley said. “We had a blast.”

Even better, aside from a flickering light on the player 4 scoreboard, every part of the machine works just as well as the day the machine came off the assembly line in 1977.

Utley originally in-

tended to repaint and fully restore the machine, to make it look like it just came out of the factory, but friends convinced him to do otherwise.

“Just clean it up,” they said, to preserve the aged, rustic appearance.

“I’m glad I listened,” Utley said.

UTLEY kept the machine in his garage for a few weeks, to let visiting relatives try it out, before agreeing it would be a better fit at the office.

(For the record, daughter Allie regularly beats her father whenever they compete.)

Then, as word spread about Utley’s new acquisition, his memorabilia collection grew as well.

Family friend Ted Noble donated an Evel Knievel lunch box after Allie told him about the family’s project.

“He had it with his display and didn’t bat an eye and gave it to us,” Utley said. “It was pretty neat.”

Even the owners of the Evel Knievel Museum in Topeka have been in town to check out the pinball machine.

They were so impressed that they donated tickets to the museum. Utley, never shy to pay it forward, figures he’ll use them as prizes at the next Farm-City Days car show in October.

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aside, Utley has a perfect way to unwind at the end of each day, even though he admits he’s hardly a pinball wizard.

Utley recalls the days of his youth, when he spent many nights down at Krazy Kleaves, the retrofitted rail car that served as a popular arcade in Iola in the early 1980s.

Utley also frequented another arcade just off the square when he was in school.

“We’d go down to the arcade, play a game or two, then go to the Self Service grocery store to get something to eat so that we could get back to school before we were tardy,” he recalled. “Those days were great.”

There are no more hurried lunches on his daily to-do list, but it’s still fun to reminisce, he admitted.

Utley also confessed to another secret. He’s really not that good at pinball.

“I’ve found out there’s a certain spot on this game, where the ball will roll straight down dead center, and you have no chance to get it,” he chuckled. “I don’t care what you do. It’s just tough luck, I suppose.”

With his humility comes a dose of humor.

“I have fun doing it,” he said. “It’s a blast, but somehow even when I play by myself, I still lose.”

Curtis Utley kept his restored Evel Knievel pinball machine briefly in his garage before putting it on display at Utley’s Iola Auto Body on North State.

Leaked text suggests possible US-Russia missile arrangement BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States could be willing to enter into an agreement with Russia to ease tensions over missile deployments in Europe if Moscow steps back from the brink in Ukraine, according to a leaked document published in a Spanish newspaper on Wednesday.

The daily El Pais published two documents purported to be written replies from the United States and NATO last week to Russia’s proposals for a new security arrangement in Europe. The U.S. State department declined to comment on them.

In reference to the second document, NATO said that it never comments on “alleged leaks.”

But the text closely reflects statements made to the media last week by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg as he laid out the 30-nation military organization’s position on Russia’s demands.

The U.S. document, marked as a confidential “non-paper,” said that the United States would be willing to discuss

in consultation with its NATO partners “a transparency mechanism to confirm the absences of Tomahawk cruise missiles at Aegis Ashore sites in Romania and Poland.”

That would happen on condition that Russia “offers reciprocal transparency measures on two ground-launched missiles bases of our choosing in Russia.”

Aegis Ashore is a system for defending against short- or intermediate-range missiles.

Russia argues the site in Romania could be easily adapted to fire cruise missiles instead of interceptors, which ram their target and do not carry warheads, a claim that Washington has denied.

Russian President Vladimir Putin again

mentioned the possibility Tuesday, saying that “there are MK-41 launchers there that could be configured for firing Tomahawks.” He said they “are offensive systems that could reach thousands of kilometers into our territory. Isn’t that a threat to us?”

The U.S. document said Washington would have to consult with

NATO allies on the potential offer, particularly with Romania and Poland.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on the leaked documents, saying only that “we didn’t release anything.” In comments to the state RIA Novosti news agency, Russia’s Foreign Ministry also refused to

confirm or deny that the documents published by El Pais were authentic.

Fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine have mounted in recent months, after Putin deployed more than 100,000 troops to areas near Ukraine’s borders, including in neighboring Belarus, backed by tanks, artillery, helicopters and warplanes.

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In this file photo, hundreds of Trump supporters and counter-protesters gather near the Capitol Building for the Stop the Steal Rally in Atlanta, GA. (JASON ARMOND/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS)

The officials who refused to bullied

By MARK BOWDEN and MATTHEW TEAGUE Los Angeles Times/TNS

When Donald Trump and his allies set out to alter the results of the 2020 election, they targeted local election officials and legislators all over the country. Very often the people in these critical positions, and most vulnerable to Trump’s influence, were Republicans. Many were his supporters.

Time and again, those officials refused to be cajoled or bullied into altering their election results, or to decline to certify them.

Clint Hickman, president of the Maricopa County, Arizona, Board of Supervisors — over the opposition of his own party, and with protesters calling for his arrest on the front lawn of his home — shunned last-minute phone calls from the president himself and voted along with his majority-Republican board to certify the vote count he knew was accurate.

Aaron Van Langevelde, a little-known Republican member of the Michigan Board of State Canvassers, ignored intense pressure to cast the deciding vote to certify the count in that state. Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, famously stood up to Trump’s demand that he “find 11,780 votes.”

One of the more remarkable instances happened in tiny Antrim County, Michigan, where County Clerk Sheryl Guy refused to lie in order to advance Trump’s cause.

Her case is of particular interest. On election night, Guy made a mistake tabulating the presidential vote.

She accidentally transferred thousands of Trump votes to Biden. Antrim County, fingertip of the mitten shape made by Michigan’s lower peninsula, is almost all white and almost all Republican. It is solid Trump country. Guy voted for him.

She promptly recognized her tabulation error, and, horrified, fessed up to it, and corrected it. Trump’s victory was duly recorded. But she did not move fast enough to beat the Klaxon warnings that sounded across the country. Antrim’s brief flicker of blue was exactly the kind of red flag Trump and his allies were looking for.

Private jets brought his campaign lawyers and activists to the peninsula, determined to prove that the error had not been Guy’s, but the county’s voting machines’. Here, at last, was proof that the machines had been rigged.

Except Guy refused to budge.

The mistake, she insisted,

was her own.

Her case illustrates three things often overlooked by those who believe the American election system can be rigged.

First, in little Antrim County the switch of only a few thousand votes — not the millions alleged by Trump — tripped immediate alarm countrywide. Voting patterns in the U.S. are well known and closely watched.

Voter data are public. Legislators, reporters and scholars are intimately familiar with it. When any voting district veers dramatically off course, everyone notices.

Second, there is little chance that widespread fraud could happen. The voting system in America is completely decentralized, and therein lies its strength. Elections are orchestrated not by a single agency in Washington, but by hundreds of thousands of local officials in every district, county and state in the union. Elections are run not by some faceless deep state bureaucrats, but by your friends and neighbors.

The notion that a significant number of these people, most of whom have never met, could be enlisted in a plot to alter enough votes to change a national election is absurd.

BUT THE THIRD and most important point is this: The American people are not as dishonest or cowardly as Trump would like them to be. Clint Hickman, Aaron Van Langevelde, Brad Raffensperger, Sheryl Guy and hundreds of others like them did not let their personal preference for Trump interfere with their duty or their integrity. Many have paid a price.

Van Langevelde has been dumped from the Michigan canvass board. Raffensperger faces a difficult primary challenge in Georgia from a Trump loyalist who enjoys the ex-president’s endorsement. Hickman notes with

dismay that his own party in Arizona has made denial of the 2020 election results a requirement for its support.

Guy suffered so much abuse that she had decided not to run again for the office that she loved.

Election workers all over the country endured similar persecution and worse. In Atlanta, for instance, police reports show that part-time election helper Ruby Freeman received hundreds of messages — too many for police to read — including death threats. Strangers turned up at her home. Trump himself urged Raffensperger to have her investigated, and Trump’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, testifying before the state legislature, accused her — without evidence — of orchestrating an enormous election scam. She went into hiding.

In key states, legislators still espousing Trump’s groundless and destructive theories are supporting efforts to ensure that they can set aside the popular vote entirely and appoint a slate of electors for their preferred candidate.

Democracy is not automatic. It rests on the integrity of ordinary Americans who supervise and certify votes in every county of every state. In 2020, despite intense pressure, these people in case after case, under duress, did their duty. We should take heart from that, but Congress should also act to protect them from harassment, and to ensure that the outcome of every election is determined not by partisan officials, but by the vote. This is so basic that it is hard to imagine an American who would not support it.

About the authors: Mark Bowden, the author of 15 books including “Black Hawk Down,” and Matthew Teague, a former Los Angeles Times reporter, are the authors of “The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and The People Who Stopped it.”

Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger continues to be the target of threats for refusing President Trump’s request to “find 11,700 votes” to swing the state’s votes in his favor.

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Keil Hileman survived a slow-growing brain tumor that ate his pituitary gland and left the Kansas middle school teacher immunocompromised. A bout with COVID-19 would likely incapacitate or kill him, he says, or even worse in his mind, burden his family with his care. So of course, as soon as he could, he got the vaccine and a booster shot. He wears a mask every day at work, and so do his 160 students.

“I will do whatever it takes to be here, to do my job,” said the 52-year-old Hileman, who teaches social studies at Monticello Trails in the De Soto district. He loves teaching, so of course he would.

When he was at his sickest from the tumor, “my students, being in school with them, they saved my life.”

He should also be getting support right now from state and federal lawmakers. They should want what Hileman wants, which is to keep him and others like him safe.

Instead, through their anti-mask, anti-vax words and actions, even some GOP lawmakers who are doctors are putting his life and many others at risk.

Though most modern medical schools do not require students to swear to any version of the Hippocratic Oath, this is still in clear violation of common sense, and an offense against the common good.

“It’s frustrating,” Hileman said, that some lawmakers who should know better continue to spread misinformation that’s putting folks like him at particular risk.

COVID-19 has already killed nearly 900,000 people in the U.S. That’s more people than the number of US citizens living in the state of South Dakota, and more than the common estimate of military casualties in the American Civil War. Once more we stand in a house divided, and again over an issue in which both the stakes and the moral issue are clear.

All the same, Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, a

Garden City, Kansas physician, is leading the charge to block vaccine mandates in schools and other workplaces. Kansas state Sen. Mark Steffen, also a physician, pushed state lawmakers to support legislation that would force pharmacists to fill COVID-19 prescriptions for drugs that do nothing to fight the virus. Yes, even when it goes against their better judgment — and even when they know it could be harmful.

That legislation would prohibit the Kansas Board of Healing Arts from punishing physicians who prescribe ivermectin, a drug commonly used as a livestock dewormer, or hydroxychloroquine, usually prescribed for autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. That’s clearly a measure that would protect only the doctors, not the health of the general public.

Steffen is already under investigation by the state licensing board for prescribing ivermectin for COVID-19.

He called the investigation “overreach,” and said it’s “an attempt to silence,” him.

Yes, it is. Not politically, but medically, to prevent him from prescribing treatments that are known not to work.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned against ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 therapy because neither has been proven to work against the disease.

As for Hileman, like millions in this country with compromised immune systems, including cancer survivors and transplant patients, he’s doing the best he can to ignore the political noise and to follow the science. “I wash my hands, I wear my mask.

I can’t control the rest of the world. If I get it it could kill me, yes. But dying then would be easy for me, because I’m gone. It’s my family that’s left to suffer.”

Every time a politician undercuts the proven efficacy and importance of vaccines, he or she is putting his personal ambition ahead of care for all such families. When that politician is a doctor, it’s not just cruel but unforgivable.

— The Kansas City Star

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75 Years Ago February 1947

Miss Grace Acers, the only direct descendant of one of Iola’s most prominent pioneer families, died at her home at 24 Acers Park. She was 80. She was the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson F. Acers who came to Kansas immediately following the Civil War. In 1865, the family moved to Iola which then had a population of about 150. Mr. Acers, a former county attorney, discovered the water from a spring at Acers Park contained minerals and built a sanitarium there. It did not prosper long.

Miss Acers lived her entire life in Iola. ***** Howard Immel opened a law office at 2½ S. Washington, over the Globe Shoe and Clothing Co.. ***** A reorganized Iola Municipal Band received a new

contract for 12 concerts during the summer. Harold Remsburg, trombonist of the band, is president of the organization. Royal Cox is vice president and Clifford Harding is secretary-treasurer.

Other officers are J. L. Maffitt and Russell McHenry, directors. Dale Creitz, high school instrumental music supervisor and band director, will conduct the municipal band in the summer season. ***** Plans to secure Congressional approval of the Cottonwood-Neosho flood control dams, recommended by the U.S. Army engineers, were submitted by members of the Neosho-Cottonwood Valley Flood Control Association. John Redmond, president of the association, outlined the present status of the flood control project which has been given approval by the Corps of Engineers.

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Wildcat coronation Marmaton Valley High School will crown its 2022 Winter Homecoming King and Queen Friday evening, when MV hosts Yates Center. The crowning ceremony will be prior to the girls varsity basketball game, approximately at 5:30.

Candidates are, front row from left, Aly Ard, Kamryn Boyd, Cadence Cook and Carissa Mattox; second row, Quincy Adams, Ian Bostick, Bryce Carman and Robert Cook. PHOTO BY HALIE LUKEN/MVHS

Lancer pride Crest High School will celebrate its homecoming on Friday at a basketball game against SE-Cherokee. Candidates are, front row from left, Lindsey Godderz, Vivian Noah, Lonna Yoder; back row, Keaton Davis, Ethan Prasko and Tucker Yocham.

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solution to the tower problem.

Federal relief funds through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) will bring $2.4 million to the county, with flexibility on how it can be spent.

Commissioners quickly realized they could pay for all or part of the tower project.

Sounds simple enough, right?

But if the county can get a grant to pay for part of it, after all, commissioners would have more ARPA money to spend on other projects.

Turns out, there is a grant that could potentially fund up to half of the project, Jonathon Goering, economic development director with Thrive Allen County, told commissioners.

He asked if they wanted him to apply, but that would mean construction on the project couldn’t start until May. Commissioners were torn between the desire to pursue the grant and moving forward with the project, whatever the funding may be.

The chance of winning the grant is pretty low, they learned.

They still want Goering and Thrive to pursue the grant on the assumption that the start of construction is still months away. And if they don’t get the grant, they still have ARPA money.

“This project has been delayed because we were waiting on grants and they fell through.

It’s nobody’s fault. But I don’t want to keep kicking the can down the road,” Daniels said.

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from Tower Systems Inc. of South Dakota spoke with commissioners via speaker phone on Tuesday to review their bid.

They submitted a bid for $969,269. Last week, representatives of Hayden Tower Service were on hand to talk about their bid of $875,000.

Both bids are very similar, Daniels said.

“It’s great that we have two parties that are interested,” he said. “A lot of times these days, it’s hard to find even one party for a project of significance.”

Commissioners will review both bids and plan to make a decision in the next couple of weeks.

Once a bid is approved, it could take time for the contractor to begin work. Construction could begin this spring or summer with a completion of early fall, Hayden Tower’s project manager said last week.

“It’s a significant purchase. We want to make sure we do our due diligence,” Daniels said.

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• Approved a bid from Eagle Airport Marking, Inc., of Kilgore, Texas, to mark stripes on the airport runway and taxiway at a cost of $36,249.04. Another bid was received from Cillessen & Sons, Inc., of Kechi, for $63,835.

• Reviewed a list of chip sealing projects for county roads in 2022.

• Received the first draft of a proposal for establishing a land bank in Allen County.

• Learned the steering committee had met to prioritize ARPA funding requests. That list will be presented next week.

• Asked Chelsie Angleton, 911 director, to revise a bid for personal protection equipment.

Jason Trego, emergency management director, had presented the proposal last week but commissioners wanted it cut in half. They wanted to revise the bid, again, to see if it was possible to take out some of the requests for children’s masks unless those were needed to help school districts. If the school districts need the masks, the districts should reimburse the county, commissioners said.

• Approved a zoning variance for Heritage Holdings, which would allow Feuerborn Family Funeral Services to renovate a house into a monument showroom and office space.

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President Joe Biden is committing to reduce the cancer death rate by 50% — a new goal for the “moonshot” initiative against the disease that was announced in 2016 when he was vice president.

Biden has set a 25-year timeline for achieving that goal, part of his broader effort to end cancer as we know it, according to senior administration officials who previewed Wednesday’s announcement on the condition of anonymity.

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Iola’s comeback bid vs SFT falls short late

By REESE BECKER The Iola Register

Iola High School’s boys basketball team came up just short against Santa Fe Trail. The Chargers topped the Mustangs 62-59.

Iola got off to a great start, going up 4-0 early, forcing turnovers and capitalizing on mistakes. Santa Fe Trail went on a short run to tie the game at 6-6. Iola went on a big 7-0 run fueled by six points from Tyler Boeken to go up 13-6. The Chargers responded and tied the game with a three at the end of the first quarter.

Santa Fe Trail came roaring back in the second quarter as both teams swapped the lead. The Chargers scored late to take a 25-24 lead heading into the break.

Coming out of the half, Iola had problems with ball control, allowing Santa Fe Trail to stretch its lead out.

Iola came back within two points as the third ended after Cortland Carson hit a

big trey.

Iola pulled back the lead in the fourth, but every time the Mustangs got close, the Chargers would pull ahead a little more.

The Mustangs got as close as 58-57 with 1:30 but the Chargers were deadly from the free-throw line, making 9-11 shots from the line in the fourth to preserve the win. Sam Fager had a look from beyond the arc late but was fouled while shooting and missed.

As a team, Iola hit 10-15 from the free-throw line.

Boeken was a perfect 3-3 from the line.

Iola’s junior varsity won 36-34. Casey Rowe led the way with nine points.

Japheth Rutoh and Cody Wille had six. Eli Adams and Carson had four. Travis Wanker had three.

Gage Skahan and Isaac McCullough had two.

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Iola’s Maci Miller is guarded by Santa Fe Trail defenders near the hoop during the game Tuesday.

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Mustangs struggle vs SFT

By REESE BECKER The Iola Register

Iola High School’s girl basketball team could never shut the door when Santa Fe Trail paid a visit Tuesday night. The Mustangs lost 6924.

The game started well for Iola when Maci Miller hit two free throws to put the Mustangs up 2-0. But min-

utes later, Santa Fe Trail went on a 5-0 run to take a 12-6 lead.

The Mustangs struggled from there, turning the ball over in spades and missing shots when they had chances.

The Chargers were electric from deep and sank a ton of threes early to build a big lead before the half.

At the break Santa Fe Trail

stretched the lead to 20.

At the half, Iola trailed 4619.

The Chargers’ dominance continued in the second half.

A running clock was triggered in the fourth quarter, the Chargers up 50-19.

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Jayhawks win minus Agbaji

By ANDREW LOGUE The Associated Press

AMES, Iowa (AP) — David McCormack and Dajuan Harris each scored 14 points, and No. 10 Kansas defeated No. 20 Iowa State 70-61 on Tuesday night.

McCormick made all seven of his shots and had 14 rebounds for the Jayhawks (183, 7-1 Big 12), who were without Ochai Agbaji. The Big 12’s leading scorer at 20.9 points per game, Agbaji didn’t play due to COVID-19 protocols.

Jalen Wilson scored all 13 of his points in the second half. Christian Braun also finished with 13.

“We learned a lot about our team today,” Braun

said. “We learned a lot of guys can step up. Obviously, we lost a big scorer and a great player, but we knew we could get the win.”

Izaiah Brockington led Iowa State (16-6, 3-6) with 24 points.

Kansas again struggled with turnovers against the Cyclones. The Jayhawks committed 16 in a 62-61 win over the Cyclones on Jan. 11. They had 16 in the first 20 minutes on Tuesday.

Despite those struggles, Kansas built a 19-10 lead when Braun made a layup midway through the first half.

Iowa State used an 8-0 run to trim the margin to 24-22 but trailed the Jayhawks 30-24 at the break.

“David shot the ball great,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “And Dajuan made some ridiculously hard layups. It was a good team win.”

A Wilson layup pushed the margin to 40-28 early in the second half. A McCormick jumper kept Kansas in control 56-44, with 6:34 remaining.

“I just kind of went into a free mentality, knowing coach put a lot of faith in me and my teammates put a lot of faith in me,” McCormick said. “I just made it an emphasis to dominate the game.”

Kansas shot 56% for the game, while holding Iowa State to 41%.

Former OU QB transfers to USC

By GREG BEACHAM The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Quarterback Caleb Williams is transferring to Southern California, following head coach Lincoln Riley from Oklahoma to the Trojans.

Williams posted his long-awaited announcement on social media Tuesday with a video that included the former five-star recruit in a USC uniform and famous Trojans fan Snoop Dogg rapping.

The 20-year-old Williams started seven games as a freshman last season for Oklahoma, passing for 1,912 yards and 21 touchdowns. After taking the Sooners’ starting job from Spencer Rattler, Williams confirmed his status as one of the most promising quarterbacks in college football under the tutelage of Riley, who has also mentored

Heisman Trophy winners Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray.

Williams entered the transfer portal on Jan. 3, five weeks after Riley’s stunning move from Norman to Los Angeles. Williams was immediately linked to USC, but he kept fans waiting until February — although Riley and the Trojans tipped their hand when they weren’t linked to any other quarterbacks in the transfer portal despite the departures of last season’s top two USC passers.

Williams is the biggest name yet to join Riley with the Trojans, who have added elite talent from across college football in the transfer portal to participate in Riley’s rebuilding project at the West Coast’s marquee program. USC went 4-8 last season under Clay Helton and interim coach Donte Williams

in its worst season in three decades.

Gifted Oklahoma receiver Mario Williams transferred to USC last month, along with experienced Pac-12 wideouts Brenden Rice (Colorado) and Terrell Bynum (Washington).

Prolific Oregon running back Travis Dye also transferred home to his native Southern California last month, joined by veteran Stanford running back Austin Jones.

Cornerback Latrell McCutchin also made the move from Oklahoma to USC along with cornerback Mekhi Blackmon (Colorado), offensive lineman Bobby Haskins (Virginia) and defensive linemen Tyrone Taleni (Kansas State) and Earl Barquet (TCU). USC also added edge rusher Romello Heights (Auburn) and See WILLIAMS| Page B5

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MV falls vs Lebo

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

LEBO — Marmaton Valley High’s grueling schedule will lighten up eventually, right?

Fresh off a tough loss against unbeaten St. Paul, the Wildcat girls hit the road Tuesday to face another Class 1A power in 13-1 Lebo.

The Wolves forged ahead by double digits at halftime and never looked back in a 55-32 victory.

The defeat drops the Wildcats to 7-5 on the season.

Lebo led 15-10 after one quarter and 30-20 at the break before putting the game away with a 10-5 run to span the third quarter.

Janae Granere scored 16 to lead the Wildcats, followed by Aly Ard with eight, Payton Scharff with six and Pauline Thery with two.

Brooklyn Jones scored 16 to lead a triumvirate of

Lebo players in double figures. Abby Peek added 14 and Audrey Peek had 13.

The Wolves held a decided advantage at the line, hitting 15 of 26 charities. The Wildcats hit 8 of 12 from the line.

Lebo also prevailed, 2412, in a two-quarter junior varsity game. Lexi Lowder scored seven and Haylee Lanham five for the Wildcat JV. Marmaton Valley returns to action Friday against Yates Center for MV’s winter homecoming.

Marmaton Valley (1010-5-7—32) Thery 1-0-3-2, P. Scharff 2-2-3-6, Sutton 0-02-0, Newman 0-0-2-0, Ard 3-2-2-8, K. Scharff 0-0-5-0, Granere 6-4-2-16. TOTALS: 12-8-19-32.

Lebo (15-15-10-15—55) (FG/3pt): Hadley 1-0-2-2, Au. Peek 4-5-2-13, Ab. Peek 5-4-314, Jones 5-6-3-16, Ott 0-0-2-0, Crouch 1-0-1-2, Moore 1/2-02-8. TOTALS: 17/2-15-15-55.

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MIAMI (AP) — Peacocks could be on the outs in some South Florida neighborhoods after the Miami-Dade commission agreed to loosen a law protecting the birds.

While the 20-yearold law still protects peacocks from harm, commissioners agreed Tuesday to allow cities to opt out if they present appropriate plans to humanely remove the divisive birds from areas where they’re not wanted, the Miami Herald reported.

“Mating season is when we get the most complaints. They get very aggressive,” said sponsor Raquel Regalado, whose district includes neighborhoods in Coral Gables and Miami where peacocks roam freely. “They

lay their eggs, they build their nests, they peck the cars.”

Neighbors often clash over the peacocks. Some love the colorful birds while others complain of droppings, noise and the damage they cause by roosting on cars or houses.

“In my district, we learn to live with these peacocks,” said Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins, representing Palmetto Bay, which has designated itself a bird sanctuary. “They almost become a part of the community. I know our residents lose it when anyone harms any of these peacocks.”

Non-native species have a tendency to wear out their welcome in sunny Florida, where the state wildlife com-

mission has encouraged the killing of iguanas and Burmese pythons.

The county’s 2001 peafowl ordinance was adopted following a petition drive to save a flock of peacocks in south Miami-Dade, forbidding their killing or capture.

An exemption allowed homeowners to remove them, and one neighborhood did so in 2020 after an amendment allowed for removal of excess peacocks.

State laws on nonnative species prevent them from being released back into the wild, however, and many sanctuaries won’t take them.

“We searched statewide for a sanctuary or zoo that would accept them,” said Assistant Director Kathy Labrada.

“The alternative is humane euthanasia.”

Regalado initially tried to repeal the ordinance entirely, but other commissioners resisted to avoid killing the birds, the Herald reported.

“Are we talking about sentencing peacocks to death now?” asked Commissioner Oliver Gilbert.

Commissioners finally agreed 5-4 to water down the law, allowing cities to opt out after submitting peafowl “mitigation” plans.

Regalado said the challenge for municipal leaders will be finding places to relocate the peacocks, since euthanizing them likely won’t win support.

“This really is not about killing,” she said.

“This is about moving.”

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Mustangs: Fall behind early needed to improve. Offensively, we came out strong, but we have to continue that.”

Iola’s junior varsity won 32-19. Reese Curry led the way with 12 points. Keira Fawson scored seven. Tatum Boyd scored five. Jackie Fager and Karingten Hall scored three. Alana Mader had two.

Iola is 2-11 and hosts Burlington on Friday

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them all game. Ball control also hurt any chance Iola had of bringing the game closer.

“It was tough for us because no matter how good our defense was, they scored,” said Iola head coach Kelsey Johnson. “I feel like my girls did a good job but it was the little breakdowns we had that we

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Cubs romp Eureka 59-10

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ing through transition, and racked up 15 steals in the win.

Eureka’s four points in the first quarter also marked the Tornadoes’ high-water mark for the game. Humboldt outscored their hosts 20-3 in the second quarter, 15-1 in the third and 6-2 in the final eight minutes.

Eight Humboldt players scored on the night, with four players scoring at least eight.

Leading the way was Trey Sommer, who tallied 20 points. Drew Wil-

EUREKA — With a winter storm on the way, Humboldt High’s boys weren’t in much of a mood to dawdle Tuesday.

The Cubs blitzed host Eureka 18-4 after one quarter, and didn’t look back in a 59-10 romp to improve to 8-4 on the season.

Humboldt shot a blistering 73% from the floor, with an abundance of scoring com-

hite scored 10, pulled in seven rebounds and had five steals. Gavin Page scored nine, and Levi McGowen chipped in with eight points and seven boards.

Colden Cook and Colton Slocum both scored four points. Logan Page and Jacob Harrington scored two each.

Wilhite, Slocum and Logan Page all had two assists. McGowen, Logan Page and Slocum notched two steals each.

Humboldt is at Caney Valley Friday.

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Commanders new name for Washington past traditions, history, legacy and the greats that came before us. We continue to honor and represent the Burgundy and Gold while forging a pathway to a new era in Washington.”

Washington joins Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians among North American major professional sports teams abandoning names linked to Native Americans.

The NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs, NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks and baseball’s Atlanta Braves have said they are not planning to make a similar change.

By STEPHEN WHYNO The Associated Press

Washington’s NFL team is now known as the Commanders.

The new name unveiled Wednesday comes 18 months after the once-storied franchise dropped its old moniker following decades of criticism that it was offensive to Native Americans and under fresh pressure from sponsors.

The organization committed to avoiding Native American imagery in its rebrand after being called the Washington Football Team the past two seasons.

“As an organization, we are excited to rally and rise together as one under our new identity while paying homage to our local roots and what it means to represent the nation’s capital,” owner Dan Snyder said.

“As we kick off our 90th season, it is important for our organization and fans to pay tribute to our

From 1932 until two seasons ago, Washington had used the name Redskins — which offended Native Americans and others.

As the Commanders, Washington keeps the same burgundy and gold colors that were around for the three Super Bowl championships in the 1980s and early ‘90s glo-

ry days. It follows the desire of team president Jason Wright and coach Ron Rivera for the new name to have a connection to the U.S. military.

Commanders was chosen over other finalists such as Red Hogs, Admirals and Presidents. Red Wolves, an initial fan favorite, was ruled out earlier in the process because of copyright and trademark hurdles.

The rebranding process had been going on since the summer of 2020, when team officials opted for the temporary Washington Football Team name that lingered into the 2021 season.

The change comes amid the organization’s latest controversy: dozens of former employees describing a toxic workplace culture, which caused Snyder to commission an investigation that was taken over by the NFL. After the investigation by attorney

Beth Wilkinson’s firm, the league fined Washington $10 million and Snyder temporarily ceded day-to-day operations of the team to his wife, Tanya, while he focused on a new stadium agreement.

The league did not release a written report of Wilkinson’s findings, a move that sparked criticism. The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform is holding a roundtable discussion Thursday with a handful of former team employees to discuss their experiences.

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Weather changes ACC schedule Allen County’s basketball games scheduled for tonight against Johnson County Community College have been postponed due to weather. At this time, there is no makeup date scheduled. The two teams were previously scheduled to play at Johnson County on Feb. 23.

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Getting a stadium deal done is next on the agenda for Snyder and his front office. The team’s lease at FedEx Field expires after the 2027 season and momentum is building for an agreement in Virginia, though sites in Maryland and the District of Columbia are still under consideration.

Allen’s men’s team is on a seven-game winning streak and are undefeated in conference play. The Red Devils are 17-4 overall.

The women’s team is 7-10 overall and 3-3 in conference play.

Allen County is scheduled to host Labette Community College this weekend.

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Rams vs. Bengals: The Super Bowl nobody saw coming

By MARK BRADLEY The Atlanta Journal Constitution (TNS)

Just when these NFL playoffs were beginning to settle down, the sleek Chiefs bungled what should have been a half-ending field goal. This gave their opponents, who’ve been known as the Bungles for much of their unassuming history, a lift they didn’t deserve. But, to borrow from “Unforgiven” and the gunfighter Will Munny, “ ‘Deserve’s’ got nothing to do with it.”

After a quarterfinal weekend that defied credulity, semifinal Sunday began in predictable fashion. The raging Chiefs hurtled to a 21-3 lead. Owing to Patrick Mahomes’ unfortunate decision not to throw into the end zone from the Bengals’ 1, the half ended with Kansas City’s lead sliced to 11 points. Still, you figured Mahomes would throw three more touchdown passes in the third quarter and that’d be that.

What happened wasn’t that. A Bengals’ defense that ranked 18th-best in a 32-team league held the Chiefs to three second-half points, those coming at the end of regulation to force overtime. In OT, a deflected Mahomes pass became an interception.

The Bengals – who entered this postseason having last won a playoff game on Jan. 6, 1991 – drove for the winning

Los Angeles Rams fans cheer as defensive lineman Aaron Donald leaps in the air while taking the field at the start of the NFC Championships with the San Francisco 49ers Sunday. LOS ANGELES TIMES/ALLEN J. SCHABEN/TNS field goal, which means they now get to fly to Los Angeles for the Super Bowl.

The Bengals went 10-7 and won the AFC North with a week to spare. They have Joe Burrow, the first player drafted in 2020. They have Ja’Marr Chase, the fifth player drafted in 2021. They have a youngish coach who worked under the Rams’ Sean McVay, the new paradigm of NFL coaches, though Zac Taylor is 38 to McVay’s 36. Did anyone expect the Bengals, who’d gone 0-7 in playoff games under Marvin Lewis, to take down

top-seeded Tennessee in Nashville and the Chiefs in Kansas City after falling 18 points in arrears?

Nah. But that’s the story of these playoffs, which have seen six games over two weekends decided by 3, 3, 3, 6, 3 and 3 points. Only Sunday’s second game, in which the Rams came from 10 down in the fourth quarter to beat the 49ers – yep, another blown postseason lead for poor Kyle Shanahan – didn’t see the final snap yield the winning points. The most obvious Super pairings – Packers-Chiefs, Buccaneers-Bills – have been

For sale: One NFL football team ENGLEWOOD, Colo.

(AP) — The Denver Broncos are looking for a new owner in what’s expected to be the most expensive team sale in U.S. sports history.

The Pat D. Bowlen Trust announced Tuesday it’s in the “beginning of a sale process” for a franchise that’s valued at $4 billion and is expected to draw heavy bidding that could push the sale price well beyond that figure.

The highest price paid for a U.S. sports franchise is the $2.35 billion that Alibaba Group cofounder and Canadian billionaire Joe Tsai paid for the Brooklyn Nets in 2019. The last NFL team that went on the market was the Carolina Panthers, whom David Tepper bought for $2.275 billion.

The trustees who run the Broncos hope to have a new owner in place by the start of next season, said team president and CEO Joe Ellis.

Ellis, who is one of three trustees of The Pat Bowlen Trust, said Steve Greenberg of Allen & Company was retained as financial advisor and Joe Leccese of Proskauer Rose LLP as legal advisor for the ownership transition.

“Selling an NFL team is a complex process involving numerous parties and league approval procedures.

Nonetheless, the trustees hope to have the sale completed by the start of the 2022 NFL season,” Ellis said in a statement.

NFL franchise values have skyrocketed with new broadcast deals and the league’s embrace of sports betting, which is now legal in many

states, including Colorado. And teams rarely go on sale.

The Broncos are a regional team with a great history including three Super Bowl titles, seven Super Bowl appearances and 21 playoff berths since Pat Bowlen purchased the team from Edgar Kaiser in 1984.

The team has an upand-coming roster under general manager George Paton, who was hired a year ago when John Elway was reassigned to president of football operations. Last week, Paton hired Nathaniel Hackett as the team’s new head coach, replacing Vic Fangio.

Elway, who is in the final months of his contract, and Peyton Manning, who has lived in Denver since his retirement, are expected to get involved as minority partners of billionaires competing to win the NFL’s approval to acquire the franchise.

The Broncos won two Super Bowl titles in the late 1990s with Elway under center and again in 2016 with Elway in the front office and Manning at quarterback in the final game of his Hall of Fame career.

The Broncos haven’t reached the playoffs since then, however, and have churned through 10 starting quarterbacks since Manning retired.

Hackett’s hiring has led to speculation the Broncos could make a play to acquire Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Even if they don’t, Paton has assembled enough draft capital — 11 picks, including five of the top 100 — and has some $50 million in

salary cap space to transform the team this offseason.

Bowlen died in 2019, a month shy of his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, following a long bout with Alzheimer’s.

Several years earlier he had appointed a three-person trust to determine the future of the franchise.

“Pat used to say the Broncos belonged to the fans and that ultimately this was their team. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for this incredible ride. It has been the honor of our lifetime,” the Bowlen family said in a statement. “All of us know that the impact of Mr. B will live on with the Broncos!”

dashed. Instead we get Bengals-Rams, one No. 4 seed against the other.

We get mentor McVay against pupil Taylor. We get Matthew Stafford, once a Georgia Bulldog, and his Hollywood Rams against Burrow, who with LSU twice thrashed the Georgia Bulldogs, and his blue-collar Bengals.

The Rams have been pointing toward this. McVay’s first team made the playoffs but lost to the Falcons in the wild card round in January 2018.

They upset the Saints, with help of the NFL’s most notorious non-call, to reach the Super Bowl

in Atlanta the next year, whereupon they lost 13-3 to Tom Brady. Last year they lost to the Packers in Round 2, whereupon they decided being pretty good wasn’t good enough.

Already star-studded – Aaron Donald, Jalen Ramsey and Cooper Kupp are among the best at their positions – the Rams decided to cut ties with Jared Goff, who wasn’t quite the franchise quarterback they’d believed him to be. They swapped Goff for Stafford, who’d presided over no playoff wins in 12 seasons with Detroit. They traded for

Von Miller, a Super Bowl MVP with Denver. They signed Odell Beckham after he’d been cut by Cleveland.

The Rams went all-in on this season, which is always scary. They have only three 2022 draft picks, the earliest coming in Round 5. They won’t have another Round 1 pick until 2024.

They care nothing about that now. They’re in the Super Bowl, which not incidentally will be staged in SoFi Stadium, their home. This risk was worth its reward.

The Bengals hired Taylor in 2019. They were 2-14 in his first season, which left them with the No. 1 pick that became Burrow. The quarterback tore his ACL as a rookie, which put their rebuild on hold but positioned them to take Chase, Burrow’s LSU teammate.

Chase caught 81 passes for 1,455 yards and 13 touchdowns this season.

Here’s your new Montana-to-Rice.

This will be the Bengals’ third Super Bowl.

They lost the first two to Joe Montana’s 49ers.

The Rams nearly lost – for the seventh time in succession – to Jimmy Garappolo’s Niners in Sunday’s NFC title game. McVay’s team isn’t always as good as you think it should be, but it’s good enough to be favored over the Bengals. Which, given how much these playoffs have traced expectation, means nothing.

Former Dolphins coach sues NEW YORK (AP) — Fired Miami Dolphins Coach Brian Flores sued the NFL and three of its teams Tuesday, saying racist hiring practices have left it racially segregated and managed like a plantation.

The lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court sought class-action status and unspecified damages from the league, the Dolphins, the Denver Broncos and the New York Giants, along with unidentified individuals.

Flores was fired last month by Miami after leading the Dolphins to a 24-25 record over three years. They went 9-8 in their second straight winning season, but failed to make the playoffs during his tenure.

A message sent to the NFL was not immediate-

ly returned.

“God has gifted me with a special talent to coach the game of football, but the need for change is bigger than my personal goals,” Flores said in a release put out by the law firm representing him in the case. “In making the decision to file the class action complaint today, I understand that I may be risking coaching the game that I love and that has done so much for my family and me.

My sincere hope is that by standing up against systemic racism in the NFL, others will join me to ensure that positive change is made for generations to come.”

The lawsuit alleged that the league has discriminated against Flores and other black coaches for racial rea-

sons, denying them positions as head coaches, offensive and defensive coordinators and quarterbacks coaches, as well as general managers.

“In certain critical ways, the NFL is racially segregated and is managed much like a plantation,” the lawsuit said.

“Its 32 owners — none of whom are Black — profit substantially from the labor of NFL players, 70% of whom are Black.

The owners watch the games from atop NFL stadiums in their luxury boxes, while their majority-Black workforce put their bodies on the line every Sunday, taking vicious hits and suffering debilitating injuries to their bodies and their brains while the NFL and its owners reap billions of dollars,” it added.

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Why some headaches never go away Dear Dr. Roach: I have suffered from constant headaches for years.

I have had an evaluation by a neurologist, with all kinds of X-rays and scans. Who in the medical field deals with headaches that never go away? They may get to a dull ache, but I always know they are there.

—C.V. Answer: Chronic daily headache is a concern I hear occasionally. In my experience as a primary care doctor, the No. 1 cause is medication overuse headache. Most people I have seen with this have had migraines that were treated with short-term pain relief medicines for so long that the body became accustomed to the medication. Anytime the medication is stopped, the pain returns, leading to continuous use and continuous headache.

In these cases, the medicine must be stopped, and different types of medications are used to get someone through the process of getting off the medication.

There are other pos-

To Your Good Health Dr. Keith Roach sibilities.

Although chronic migraine can cause very frequent headaches, a person with unrelenting migraine is unusual. Similarly, people can have chronic tension headaches but for them never to relent is outside my experience. If the pain were only on one side, the diagnosis could be an unusual condition called “hemicrania continua,” which can be unremitting.

All neurologists have expertise in migraine and other headaches, but some neurologists make headache their sole focus. Seek out a neurologist with special expertise in evaluation and treatment of headaches.

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A close relative, who is against both vaccinations and mask-wearing, is currently sick with COVID-19. The relative has been insisting on being able to visit with us indoors at our home throughout the pandemic. We have always said no. Now this person believes that after their recovery, they will be as protected against coronavirus as a vaccinated person is and are insisting to visit indoors with us on this basis. My significant other and I are not on the same page about this. We have other health conditions and avoid mixing indoors in general. — Anon.

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linebacker Shane Lee (Alabama).

Williams is all but certain to be the immediate starter for the Trojans.

USC’s top two quarterbacks last season were Kedon Slovis and Jaxson Dart, but both left the school after Riley’s arrival.

Slovis, the Pac-12’s offensive player of the year in 2020, transferred to Pitt. Dart is joining former Trojans coach Lane Kiffin at Ole Miss along with former USC tight end Michael Trigg.

Caleb Williams, who is from Washington, D.C., made a visit to Los Angeles in early January along with Mario

Williams, his close friend. The duo took in a Rams game and a Lakers game during their weekend in LA, fueling speculation they had already made their transfer decision.

Oklahoma quickly filled the vacancy left when Oklahoma quarterback Caleb Caleb Williams de- Williams. (BRIAN BAHR/GETTY IMcided to transfer AGES/TNS) by landing transfer quarterback metroplex. The Trojans Dillon Gabriel from UCF. quickly received comAlong with his prolific mitments from five-star additions in the transfer running back Raleek portal, Riley quickly Brown, five-star cornermade progress in shor- back Domani Jackson ing up USC’s recruit- and cornerback Fabian ing, particularly in the Ross, among other top talent-rich Los Angeles talents.

with. As I write this, the omicron variant is the dominant strain, but by the time this column publishes, a new variant may already have emerged, possibly one that is even better at escaping the protection from vaccination or previous infection. Unfortunately, it appears we are going to be living with COVID-19 for the foreseeable future.

A combination of vaccination and a history of the disease is very high protection, although even that is not perfect.

Given your increased risk due to other medical conditions, I would recommend against seeing your close relative indoors until/unless they get vaccinated.

Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med. cornell.edu or send mail to 628 Virginia Dr., Orlando, FL 32803.

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