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Bowlus Arts Center nears 50th milestone
Bikers for Kayla
By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
More than 60 bikers showed support for Kayla Genoble, Saturday at the Biker’s for Kayla Benefit Ride. Bikers, above, ride down State Street in Iola from Colony. Michael Genoble, left, speaks with his daughter Kayla, 8, after he rode the benefit route. Merill Lamb, right, moves through the slow ride course. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET
TV show to focus on Ellsworth business ELLSWORTH, Kan. (AP) — An everyday object that likely inspires few people to wonder how it’s made was just the thing to draw a TV crew to a small town in central Kansas. The results of the recent two-day shoot at Maico Industries, where workers manufacture heavy-duty steel poles for traffic signs and other uses, will appear in six to nine months as a segment of the Discovery Channel show “How It’s Made.” “Every employee took a shower last night, combed their hair and wore a nice shirt. It’s kind of a chance of a lifetime,” plant manager Dave Cox told The Salina Journal on the first day of filming by Maj Productions, based in Montreal, Canada. Maico Industries was alerted by the Kansas Department of Commerce about three months ago to the Discovery Channel search for new material. The company was eager to be part of the program. “We’re ecstatic. To show
off the product and what happens in small-town Ellsworth and rural America is pretty impressive,” Cox said. “We’re proud to showcase that.” Impressive as the steel polls may be — they are up to 60 feet long in a single piece and able to withstand hurricanes — steel poles — they might not be everyone’s idea of a fascinating object. But audiences have been watching “How It’s Made” for more than a decade, making it a Discovery Channel mainstay. “The product is the star. We focus on the process from start to finish,” said the director, Yanick Legrand. “It’s about describing and showing different objects of everyday lives and showing how it’s built from scratch,” director of photography Luc Robida said. The crew captured every moment, starting with the transformation of coiled steel into sheets. The sheets are then taken to a machine called a press break — one See TV | Page A4
The Bowlus Fine Arts Center will celebrate its 50th anniversary Sept. 2627. Susan Raines, Bowlus director, gave Iola Rotarians on Thursday a bit of history and what to expect with the anniversary gala. Rotary has been instrumental in the success of the Bowlus, Raines said. Members donated the bronze bust of Thomas H. Bowlus, the center’s benefactor, prominently displayed in the center’s main lobby. Rotarians also helped convert a former piano lab into what is today the Mary Martin Art Gallery. Three events came together to make the Bowlus Center the cultural attraction and educational facil-
ity it is, Raines said. “First, Mr. Bowlus had the dream of a cultural center for Iola,” she said. “Then, Tony Immel prepared the enabling will,” which included a p r o v i s i o n Susan Raines that the center wouldn’t be built if the Iola board of education didn’t accept the offer. “Otherwise, the money would have gone to the University of Kansas.” Board of education members accepted the offer without reservation. Finally, Dale Creitz, as visionary as any, seized on the idea as teacher, band director and eventually director of the center, she said. Planning for the 50th See BOWLUS | Page A4
US sees worst measles outbreak WASHINGTON (MCT) — After declaring in 2000 that measles had been eliminated from the U.S. through a successful vaccination program, government officials now say the number of confirmed cases has reached a 20-year high as people who get the disease abroad bring it back to America. Unvaccinated Americans and foreign visitors who traveled to the Philippines, Europe, Africa and Asia are the main culprits in a growing spike of U.S. measles cases that began several years ago and exploded this year. As of last Friday, 288 cases have been reported in 18 states, the highest year-todate total since 1994, when 963 cases were reported by year’s end. Ninety-seven percent — 280 — of the 2014 U.S. cases were imported from other countries. “Measles is coming in on airplanes from places where the disease still circulates or in where large outbreaks are occurring,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Big jump in measles cases The 288 U.S. measles cases as of May 23 are the highest year-to-date total since 1994; cases by state: Wash. 15 Ore. 5
Mo. 3
Calif. 60
Ill. 2
Va. 2
N.J. 3
Ala. 1
Cases by year
Hawaii 2
Ohio has biggest outbreak, 138 cases
Mass. 8 Conn. 2
Ohio 138 Tenn. 5
Texas 4
52 percent of cases in patients ages 20 or older
Pa. 3 N.Y. 31
Minn. 2 Wis. 2
288
As of May 23
Measles symptoms Fever, runny nose, cough, body rash
© 2014 MCT Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
A highly contagious viral respiratory disease that grows in cells at the back of the throat and lungs, measles is spread through the air by coughing, sneezing and even breathing. It can cause fever and coldlike symptoms, along with a stubborn rash. Fifteen measles outbreaks,
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involving three or more related cases, have occurred in places such as New York City and in California, where six outbreaks were reported in six counties. Forty-three people have been hospitalized nationally, but no deaths have been reported. See MEASLES | Page A4
Medicaid expansion supporters stage Statehouse rally By JIM MCLEAN KHI News Service
TOPEKA — Supporters of expanding Kansas Medicaid eligibility to more low-income adults rallied Friday at the Statehouse to call attention to the issue as legislators formally ended the 2014 session. The federal health reform law initially required states to expand Medicaid eligibil-
ity. But the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June 2012 that upheld the law made expansion optional for states. Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia have or are in the process of expanding their programs, according to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. Kansas is among 19 states that have rejected expansion. The issue remains alive in the remaining five.
Quote of the day Vol. 116, No. 152
It means that you can’t pass policies that rob the poor at the same time as you pad your poll numbers by claiming to be a follower of Christ. — Joshua Longbottom, pastor
“They’re gone until January,” said Sean Gate-
wood, director of the Medicaid Access Coalition, after
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick others have thrown at him.” — David Brinkley, newscaster 75 Cents
the Legislature formally adjourned its 2014 session. “I think it’s a shame that this issue hasn’t been taken up.” Gatewood, a former Democratic legislator from Topeka, said the rally was staged to signal to lawmakers that coalition members would be back at the Capitol demanding action when the 2015 session convenes in January. “I know it takes a while See MEDICAID | Page A4
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