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Campaign draws to a close 3 WAYS TO VOTE EARLY: Vote in person at the Allen County Courthouse until noon today.

ADVANCE: Return your advance ballot by mail or use an official drop box. Must be postmarked by Tuesday.

Go to allencounty.org for details.

AT THE POLLS: Polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday.

Early voting turnout sets records By the Register staff

About 18% of registered Allen County voters have already cast their ballots for Tuesday’s election.

In all, a record 1,663 early votes have been cast.

The county clerk’s office has sent out 1,121 advance ballots and 950 have been returned.

That’s a return rate, so far, of 85%.

PHILADEPHIA (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden have one last chance to make their case to voters in critical battleground states on Monday, the final full day of a campaign that has laid bare their dramatically different visions for tackling the nation’s pressing problems and for the office of the presidency itself.

The candidates are seeking

to lead a nation at a crossroads, gripped by a historic pandemic that is raging anew in nearly every corner of the country and Trump a reckoning over race. More than 93 million people have already voted and each campaign insists it has a pathway to victory,

though Biden’s options for picking up the required 270 Electoral College votes are more plentiful. Trump is Biden banking on a surge of enthusiasm from his most loyal supporters.

The Republican president’s final day has him sprinting

through five rallies, from North Carolina to Wisconsin.

Biden, meanwhile, was devoting most of his time to Pennsylvania, where a win would leave Trump with an exceedingly narrow path. Biden was also dipping into Ohio, a show of confidence in a state where Trump won by 8 percentage points four years ago.

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Students deliver anti-drug message

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Students at Humboldt Middle School are paying closer attention to the problems caused by drugs and alcohol, in part because of a national campaign and also because of the coronavirus, HMS coun-

selor Darcie Croisant said.

The school celebrated Red Ribbon Week and Spirit Week last week. All classes, 6th through 8th, participated in a campaign to decorate doors.

Students enjoyed the program and worked together as teams to come up with creative ways to promote drug awareness.

Students seemed to take

the program more seriously this year, Croisant said. She attributed part of that to the coronavirus pandemic, because students appreciate being in school. Last spring’s closing of school buildings taught them to not take school for granted, she said, and they are more engaged in all facets of education.

“I think they take more pride in being in the school setting. It opened their eyes to what could be, and they realize this is a great environment,” she said.

The students also seem to have a better understanding of the dangers of drugs, inSee HMS | Page A2

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IHS runner gets medal at state

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Trump threatens to fire Fauci

By ZEKE MILLER The Associated Press

OPA-LOCKA, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is suggesting that he will fire Dr. Anthony Fauci after Tuesday’s election, as his rift with the nation’s top infectious disease expert widens while the nation sees its most alarming outbreak of the coronavirus since the spring.

Speaking at a campaign rally in Opa-locka, Florida, Trump expressed frustration that the surging cases of the virus that has killed more than 231,000 people in the United States this year remains prominent in the news, sparking chants of “Fire Fauci” from his supporters.

“Don’t tell anybody but let me wait until a little bit after the election,” Trump replied to thousands of supporters early Monday, adding he appreciated their “advice.”

Trump’s comments on

Dr. Anthony Fauci Fauci less than 48 hours before polls close all but assure that his handling of the pandemic will remain front and center heading into Election Day. It’s the most direct Trump has been in suggesting he was serious about trying to remove Fauci from his position. He has previously expressed that he was concerned about the political blowback of removing the popular and respected doctor before Election Day. Trump’s comments come after Fauci leveled his sharpest criticism yet of the White House’s response

to the coronavirus and Trump’s public assertion that the nation is “rounding the turn” on the virus.

Fauci has grown outspoken that Trump has ignored his advice for containing the virus, saying he hasn’t spoken with Trump in more than a month. He has raised alarm that the nation was heading for a challenging winter if more isn’t done soon to slow the spread of the disease.

In an interview with The Washington Post this weekend, Fauci cautioned that the U.S. will have to deal with “a whole lot of hurt” in the weeks ahead due to surging coronavirus cases.

Fauci said the U.S. “could not possibly be positioned more poorly” to stem rising cases as more people gather indoors during the colder fall and winter months. He says the U.S. will need to make an “abrupt change” in See FAUCI | Page A2

COVID a financial burden to 25% of Kansas households

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — One-fourth of Kansas households experienced serious problems during the COVID-19 pandemic covering essential costs of food, utility and medical bills and dealing with obligations of loans and credit card debt.

That was among findings of a sweeping statewide survey by the Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University conducted annually to check the pulse of Kansans on economic, political and social issues. Amid the coronavirus crisis factoring in the death of more than 1,000 Kansans, the survey was adjusted to include examination of the financial stability of individual households and to drill down on public attitudes about vaccines, masks and political leadership.

“Fairly sobering results,”

Brett Zollinger, director of the Docking Institute, said on the Kansas Reflector podcast.

“We have overall about 25%, around a quarter of Kansans, you know express that … at some point since the start of the coronavirus they’ve had a serious problem in affording food, affording medical care, paying utilities, paying credit cards and loan debt.”

Zollinger said more than 19% had challenges dealing with car payments and nearly 19% struggled to make rent or mortgage payments.

In addition, 37% of respondents revealed household members had wages or hours reduced since the start of the outbreak in March.

Twenty-three percent said an individual in the household had lost a job, 14% were furloughed and 13% compelled to take unpaid leave. The survey showed 5% said they had See SURVEY | Page A2

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painted the other as unfit for office and described the next four years in near apocalyptic terms if the other were to win.

“The Biden plan will turn America into a prison state locking you down while letting the far-left rioters roam free to loot and burn,” Trump thundered Sunday at a rally in Iowa, one of the five he held in battleground states.

Biden said America was on the verge of putting “an end to a presidency that’s fanned the flames of hate.”

“When America is heard, I believe the message is going to be clear: It’s time for Donald Trump to pack his bags and go home,” Biden said in Philadelphia, the biggest city in a state that could decide the presidency.

As the candidates close out the campaign, the pandemic, which has killed more than 231,000 people nationwide and caused nearly 20 million to lose jobs, reached a new peak in infection rates, threatening yet another blow to lives and livelihoods of voters.

The election caps an

extraordinary year that began with Trump’s impeachment, the near collapse of Biden’s candidacy during the crowded Democratic primary and then was fully reshaped by the coronavirus outbreak.

A record number of votes have already been cast, through early voting or mail-in ballots, which could lead to delays in their tabulation. Trump has spent months claiming without evidence that the votes would be ripe for fraud while refusing to guarantee that he would honor the election result.

In the starkest terms yet, Trump on Sunday threatened litigation to stop the tabulation of ballots arriving after Election Day. As soon as polls closed in battlegrounds such as Pennsylvania, Trump said, “we’re going in with our lawyers.”

It was unclear precisely what Trump meant.

There is already an appeal pending at the Supreme Court over the counting of absentee ballots in Pennsylvania that are received in the mail in the three days after the election.

The state’s top court

ordered the extension and the Supreme Court refused to block it, though conservative justices expressed interest in taking up the propriety of the three added days after the election.

Those ballots are being kept separate in case the litigation goes forward.

The issue could assume enormous importance if the late-arriving ballots could tip the outcome.

Under the shadow of possible legal battles, Pennsylvania loomed as most important battleground.

For Biden, who lives in neighboring Delaware, Pennsylvania has long been the focus of his campaign, a bulwark to block Trump from securing the electoral votes needed for reelection. Both he and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, and their spouses will crisscross the state Monday — hoping to deliver a knockout blow to Trump without potential Pennsylvania legal challenges.

Trump once led comfortably in Ohio. Biden’s trip there comes after his ticket’s pushes into other formerly reliable Trump strongholds including Georgia, where

the Democrats’ most popular surrogate, former President Barack Obama, was campaigning Monday.

But even as Biden enjoyed strong poll numbers, the move to expand the map revived anxiety among Democrats scarred by Trump’s 2016 upset over Hillary Clinton, whose forays into red states may have contributed to losing longtime party strongholds.

Biden planned a Pittsburgh drive-in event with Lady Gaga on Monday night, reminiscent of Clinton’s rallying with Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi in Philadelphia on the eve of an election she was favored to win but didn’t.

Short on campaign cash, Trump has been unable to compete with Biden over the airwaves and has relied on rallies to fire up his base.

Those events, arguably the most dominant political force of the last five years, could draw to a close Monday with stops in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and two in Michigan.

The last will be in Grand Rapids, the same city where Trump held his finale four years ago.

Survey: Virus causes financial hardships Continued from A1

lost a business in the first six months of the pandemic.

The survey indicated these financial hardships were experienced more frequently by women, people under age 45 and in households with annual incomes below $50,000, Zollinger said.

“It‘s not necessarily surprising, but something that we ought to I think keep an eye on for sure. Our elected officials at the state level need to know this and need to be thinking about it,” he said.

The 2020 edition of Kansas Speaks was conducted online from Sept.

21 to Oct. 1. A panel of 417 adult residents of Kansas age 18 and older participated in the poll.

Zollinger said 93% of people involved in this survey said they wore a mask when they went into stores, three of 10 didn’t believe a face covering would alter the course of coronavirus.

In addition, one third of people in the poll felt the danger of the virus had been severely exaggerated. And 27% endorsed the idea of “herd immunity,” an idea challenged by medical professionals because it contemplates the bulk of the U.S. population contracting the virus and potentially

Fauci: Targeted Continued from A1

public health precautions.

Fauci added that he believed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden “is taking it seriously from a public health perspective,” while Trump is “looking at it from a different perspective.” Fauci, who’s on the White House coronavirus task force, said that perspective emphasizes “the economy and reopening the country.”

In response, White House spokesman Judd Deere said Trump always puts people’s well-being first and Deere charges that Fauci has decided “to play politics” right before Tuesday’s election. Deere said Fauci “has a duty to express concerns or push for a change in strategy” but instead is “choosing to criticize the president in the media and make his political leanings known.”

Trump in recent days has stepped up his attacks on Biden for pledging to heed the advice of scientists in responding to the pandemic. Trump has claimed Biden would “lock down” the nation

once again. Biden has promised to heed the warnings of Fauci and other medical professionals but has not endorsed another national lockdown.

Trump has recently relied on the advice of Stanford doctor Scott Atlas, who has no prior background in infectious diseases or public health, as his lead science adviser on the pandemic. Atlas has been a public skeptic about mask wearing and other measures widely accepted by the scientific community to slow the spread of the virus.

Other members of the White House coronavirus task force have grown increasingly vocal about what they see as a dangerous fall spike in the virus.

Trump’s aggressive approach to Fauci carries some risks this close to Election Day, A Kaiser Family Foundation poll in September showed 68% of Americans have a great deal or a fair amount of trust in Fauci to provide reliable information on the coronavirus. That compares with 52% of Americans who trusted Biden to do that and just 40% for Trump.

overwhelming hospitals and escalating the death total.

“In one way, it’s heartening I suppose from a public health perspective,” he said. “Potentially, you know, there’s some disturbing news there from a public health perspective, in a relatively small percentage who disagree.”

He said younger people were less likely to agree that a mask was

necessary, but that group could have fewer secondary health issues making them vulnerable to COVID-19.

In terms of a vaccine for the coronavirus, 28% said they were unwilling to take the vaccine.

Forty-one percent said they would get vaccinated when a treatment for the virus was approved.

Nearly one-third of respondents were undecided on the subject.

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Allen County currently has 8,994 registered voters.

Those who want to vote but haven’t already done so can vote in person at the polls from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Tuesday.

Those who have requested advance ballots can drop them in official drop boxes before 7 p.m. Tuesday.

The boxes are located

on the north side of the courthouse at 1 N. Washington in Iola and at the Allen County Ambulance Station at 808 Osage, Humboldt.

Advance ballots also can still be mailed but must be postmarked

by Tuesday and received at the clerk’s office by Friday.

Early, in-person voting at the courthouse ended at noon today.

Around Town Community Calendar

Events may be canceled, postponed or modified because of the coronavirus crisis. Check with organizers.

MONDAY — Moran City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Moran City Hall.

— Iola Public Library board meeting, 5:30 p.m., Iola Public Library.

TUESDAY — ELECTION DAY. Polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

— Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse.

— Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Townhouse West.

— Knights of Columbus, 7 p.m., K of C Room, St. John Parish Center.

THURSDAY — Rotary Club, noon, Los Potrillos, 1303 N. State St. — TOPS No. KS 880 4:30 p.m. weigh in, 5 p.m. meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church.

Police report Fight reported

Vehicles collide

Iola police officers were called to Iola High School Wednesday morning for a fight. A suspect has been identified.

Melissa S. Grenoble, 31, was backing her van from a parking stall at Iola High School Oct. 9, when she collided with a southbound car driven by Caiden E. Cloud, 15. Neither was injured.

Charges requested Iola officers did a welfare check Tuesday afternoon in the 200 block of North Elm Street. Following the investigation, police said they will request charges be filed for suspected possession of drug paraphernalia.

Parked pickup hit Ethan A. Owens, 18, was backing from a parking stall in the 1900 block of North State Street Oct. 24 when he struck a parked pickup owned by Roy Jones, officers said.

HMS: Good choices Continued from A1

cluding vaping. Many students know peers who use vaping products, and educational campaigns in recent years have helped them understand the dangers.

“The choices you make now can affect your future,” Croisant said. “If you start vaping, it can affect brain function and start addiction processes that lead to other drugs.”

STUDENTS also collected canned goods and non-perishable items to stock Humboldt’s food pan-

try. They called the program “Community Heroes.”

“You can do something to promote good within your school and community,” Croisant said.

Eighth graders created videos to promote drug awareness. The videos were shown on a daily student-operated news channel.

“All the students watched them. They’re more likely to listen to their peers,” she said.

“Overall we’ve been generally pleased with how much pride and how seriously they’ve taken the topics.”

Sedgwick County official says he won’t serve if reelected WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Republican county commissioner in Kansas said Saturday that he’ll resign if he is reelected after being secretly recorded with two other officials plotting to cover up their part in a false ad against a mayoral candidate in the state’s

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largest city.

Sedgwick County Commissioner Michael O’Donnell has faced calls from Republicans to resign from the commission following the release last week of a recording made in November 2019, just two days before then-Democrat-

Tuesday

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ic state Rep. Brandon Whipple won the Wichita mayor’s race.

O’Donnell said Saturday in a Facebook post that he realized that his candidacy for

reelection is “too much of a distraction” and he will not serve a second term if he wins. Local Republicans would pick his replacement if he is re-elected.

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A commitment to civility Civility in politics is now sufficiently rare that when Utah’s gubernatorial candidates appeared in a joint ad to urge Republicans and Democrats to treat one another with respect, it was considered news from coast to coast.

Republican Spencer Cox has a big lead over Democrat Chris Peterson, and Utah hasn’t elected a Democratic governor in 40 years. Those dynamics may make it easier for both men to show grace and class.

Still, we should applaud.

Politics don’t have to be a toxic brew of anger and hate.

It’s just easier — and often more effective — to take the low road.

At some point this fall, someone on Twitter shared video of the 1996 debate between vice presidential candidates Jack Kemp and Al Gore.

In the video, Kemp says he and Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole did not view Gore and President Bill Clinton as their enemy, but as opponents.

Kemp said all four candidates had the opportunity to show the nation and the world how a great democracy could operate with civility, respect, decency and integrity.

Certainly, Dole, Kemp, Gore and Clinton didn’t always succeed in meeting Kemp’s high standard.

As a journalist who sometimes covered Dole when he was a U.S. senator, I can verify that his quips could be dipped in vitriol and his rhetoric injected with anger. He could be unfair, and during the primaries of 1996, at least one opponent accused him of political smears.

Yet, compared to today’s lies and smears, his behavior seems almost bland.

It’s easy to understand why politics have grown more dishonest and mean.

Negative politicking works.

It’s why you get five nasty attack fliers in your mail for every one with a positive message.

And in other arenas, businesses have figured out how to make money by feeding voters’ anger, fear and hate.

Social media and other online ventures, for example, make money by engaging you: getting you to click on

Julie Doll A Kansas Contributor things and spend more time on their site. This is true of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and so on.

They know what kind of content gets your attention because they continuously collect data about your online activities and interactions. They know what has engaged you in the past.

And they know many of us pay attention to sensational and provocative content that aligns with our interests and biases.

So they feed us more of that stuff.

Cable TV and talk radio also have figured out that they get bigger audiences with nasty smears and angry attacks.

All this anger and hate don’t improve the quality of your life — or the quality of our national discourse.

That’s why we should take a cue from Utah. Let’s vow that we’ll do better.

We won’t listen to those who try to frighten and anger us with unsupported claims that warn of doom if we elect their opponents.

When online, we won’t engage with those who inflame, provoke and insult. We will block, ignore or unfriend. We won’t feed the beasts.

We won’t reward politicians who base their campaigns on smearing their opponents.

When we come across sensationalist gossip and dubious “news,” we’ll ensure that it’s from reliable sources before spreading it further.

Taking the higher road will undoubtedly improve the journey.

The alternative is to stay on the road that deteriorates more each day, and which subjects us to ever more bumps, mud, rocks and ruts.

A native of Garden City, Julie Doll is a former journalist who has worked at newspapers in California, Indiana and New York, as well as across Kansas.

“Restoring our democracy is a huge piece. I have not been happy with the election of Trump since the day he was elected. I’m very concerned that we’re no longer using science and facts to solve our problems,” Joyce Peralta of Beverly Hills said at her home on Sept. 17, about her thoughts on the upcoming presidential election. DETROIT FREE PRESS/RYAN GARZA

Suburban women flex their strength President Donald Trump tried begging suburban women to vote for him. Then he tried wooing them with a weird Don Draper, timewarp strategy, telling women at a Lansing, Michigan, rally last week: “We’re getting your husbands back to work.” Because, really, all suburban women care about is whether their husbands are employed and fulfilled.

Recent flubs aside, Trump’s steep popularity slide with suburban women has been years in the making. Polls indicate those women have been paying close attention to lots more factors than male employment rates. They look at Trump’s attitudes toward women, his coarse language, his approach to racial issues, how public education has fared, and perhaps most impactfully, how he has managed the coronavirus pandemic.

It turns out the more they see, the less they like. And the more they look at his enablers in Congress, including suburban Republicans like Rep. Ann Wagner of Ballwin, the less inclined they are to send them back to Washington.

Pandemic shows Trump’s inability to lead More than 225,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. Many more have been infected, with long-term health consequences yet unknown. Lost jobs, savings, businesses, and homes are widespread. Americans are exhausted, anxious, and depressed.

President Trump isn’t to blame for the virus reaching the U.S., nor for longstanding shortages in stockpiled medical supplies. Under another president, it’s almost certain that some Americans would have died from COVID-19.

It’s just as clear, however, that the number would have been far lower.

The Trump administration took a bad problem and made it immeasurably worse.

For months it has refused to take the virus seriously as a public health threat. Again and again its political operatives have sidelined health experts, with disastrous results. Trump himself has used his public stage not to model responsible behavior but to undermine and ridicule it — even after he himself was infected — and so has led the way in transforming simple public health mea-

sures into yet another front in the culture war. It has been a stunning abdication of the fundamental responsibilities of governance.

Americans have long had honest disagreements about the rightful role and scope of government. Fighting a pandemic, how wever, is on the very short list of things the federal government exists to do, by almost any ideological measure. There is no cogent conservative argument against it. It wasn’t controversial until Trump made it so. Creating controversy, after all, comes far more naturally to him than governing does.

Some conservatives don’t like Trump yet remain unconvinced that he is as bad as a Democrat would be. Some liberals were reluctant to embrace im­ peachment for fear that Mike Pence, with his hard-line social positions, would be even worse. Both views assume that Trump is fundamentally a conventional politician who should be evaluated on his policy positions. They focus on ideology rather than on Trump’s basic performance of his job.

This is a mistake, made

clearer than ever by the administration’s utter failure on COVID-19. In the two major parties alone, more than two dozen people ran for president in 2016. Some were no doubt more prepared to handle a pandemic than others.

But it is hard to imagine any of them doing less to fight the virus — or more to exacerbate it — than Trump has done. His administration’s malfeasance, negligence, and incompetence are in a class of their own.

Like many of our readers, we work for a faith-based nonprofit organization that does not make partisan endorsements in elections. We support this federal restriction, not least because it dovetails with the Christian call to keep our other loyalties at arm’s length.

But it isn’t partisan to say that a president who can’t or won’t do his job should be replaced by one who can and will. Whatever our politics, we all need elected officials who will actually govern. If there were such a thing as noncontroversial, baseline norms anymore, this would surely be one of them.

— The Christian Century

At least two congressional races in the St. Louis suburban radius are attracting national attention, with the women’s vote likely to sway the outcome. Trump’s toxicity emerges as the main source of headaches for Republican incumbents like Wagner struggling to keep their seats.

Among suburban voters nationwide in 2016, Trump held a 2 percentage-point advantage over Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

By 2018, Democrats held a 7 percentage-point advantage in the suburban vote, according to Pew Research. Men are holding steady in their support for Trump, but according to the polling-analysis firm Fivethirtyeight.com, the numbers have flipped because white suburban women are abandoning the GOP in droves.

National Public Radio recently spoke to a group of women, Republicans and Democrats, in the Ohio suburbs to ask why. The women interviewed were part of a vast network of Trumpthemed social media groups.

They cited turnoffs that are echoed in national polls: Trump’s harsh treatment

of immigrants and his policy of separating migrant children from their parents.

They don’t like the effect Trump has had on their own children’s language and behavior, or the example set by his lax attitude toward pandemic precautions. They’re concerned about growing racial divisions. And they don’t like Trump and male-dominated lawmakers telling them what they can and cannot do with their own bodies.

These are among the reasons why Wagner and Rep. Rodney Davis of Taylorville face an uphill struggle on Tuesday. Davis has been blunt in stating that Trump hasn’t helped. The same calculations could even affect the outcome of the tight contest between Republican Missouri state Sen. Andrew Koenig and his Democratic challenger, state Rep. Deb Lavender, for the 15th District seat in southwest St. Louis County.

The GOP’s biggest mistake was taking the suburban women’s vote for granted. Tuesday’s election result promises to serve notice that every vote must be earned instead of assumed.

— St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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60 Years Ago November 1960

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vice President Richard M. Nixon today formally conceded the election to Sen. John F. Kennedy. The dramatic concession announcement came at 9:47 a.m.

Wednesday a few minutes after Kennedy had cinched election by winning Minnesota’s 11 electoral votes.

Kennedy became the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic ever elected to the nation’s highest office. The unofficial popular vote gave Kennedy 50.4 percent and Nixon 49.6 percent. With California and Illinois still undecided it was possible for Kennedy to wind up with a wide electoral vote margin.

After all votes were counted, Kennedy won a 303 to 219 Electoral College victory and won the popular vote by 112,827, a margin of 0.17 percent. ***** Republicans did well in state and county elections.

John Glades of Yates Center was elected state senator, defeating Iola Democrat Clar-

ence Robinson; Bob Finney of Humboldt became state representative, defeating Iola Democrat D.A. McDonald. Other Republicans running unopposed were District Judge Spencer Gard, Mrs. Maxine Abbott, county clerk, Robert Talkington, county attorney, Dr. Gerald Pees, coroner, Ena Ammon, register of deeds; Frances Anderson, treasurer; Leslie Norton, probate judge; Ray Emmons, sheriff; Jeanne Smith, clerk of the district court; Charley Burrows, commissioner; Lloyd Baxley, commissioner. Democrats John Franklin wasn’t up for re-election, County Clerk Maxine Abbott didn’t have an opponent and Mrs. Mabel Sage won re-election with a solid 600-vote margin.

Kansans approved constitutional amendments that will give cities home rule authority and allow them to design their own governments and another that provides for continuity in case of enemy attack. They turned back a third amendment that would have raised legislative pay and expense allowance.

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Iola’s Adams takes state medal, as do Humboldt’s Wilhite and Crest’s Billings

WAMEGO — Jack Adams was eyeing a school record, but had to “settle” for a state medal.

The Iola High senior was gunning for Keil Regehr’s 1997 school record at the Kansas Class 4A State Cross Country Meet.

Regehr had run the 5K course at the Wamego Country Club in 17 minutes, 2 seconds.

Adams, contending with a brutal south wind and one of the most competitive races of his career, finished in 17:24.

While expressing disappointment he couldn’t catch Regehr’s mark, Adams expressed relief his cross country days are complete.

“It still hasn’t sunk in that it was my last race,” Adams said this morning.

Adams took 11th in the race, which featured three runners eclipsing the 16-minute mark, to lead the Mustang contingent.

Marv Smith, IHS cross country coach, said “had the weather cooperated, I have every confidence Jack would have broken 17 minutes.”

On the girls side, Iola was led by junior Josie Plumlee, who finished 54th at 23:39.00 Adams and Plumlee noted the hilly course in Wamego proved a challenge.

“Going up every hill was like going into a brick wall,” Plumlee said, particularly with the wind, which featured gusts of over 20 mph.

“We don’t even see a hill all season.”

Regardless, Adams counts the Wamego course as his favorite.

Adams spent most of the race in a cluster of three runners, before making his typical late-race charge to finish ahead of both of his nearest challengers.

“This is definitely one of

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the more competitive races,” he said. “I like having runners to go against.”

Other finishers for the Mustangs were sophomore Jesse Taylor in 43rd, senior Riley Jay in 57th, sophomores Kaster Trabuc and Eli Adams in 65th and 75th, respectively, senior Nathan Louk in 82nd and junior Drake DeLaTorre in 92nd.

For the girls, junior Elanie Sturgeon came in 80th and senior Averie Sharon in 85th.

“I definitely didn’t meet the personal goals I’d set,” said Plumlee, who also qualified for state in an injury-plagued sophomore season. “For some reason, state’s just not my thing.”

Still, she has opportunity to improve upon her mark as a senior.

“This builds my fire,” she See STATE | Page B4

Iola High’s Josie Plumlee, foreground, and Elanie Sturgeon, left, climb a hill in the Girls Class 4A State Cross Country Meet Saturday in Wamego. REGISTER/TIM STAUFFER

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KC soars past Jets KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes threw for 416 yards and five touchdowns, the Kansas City defense shut down Sam Darnold and the inept Jets offense, and the Chiefs romped to a 35-9 victory over winless New York on Sunday.

Tyreek Hill had 98 yards receiving and two touchdowns, Travis Kelce finished with 109 yards and another score, and Mecole Hardman and Demarcus Robinson also reached the end zone as the Chiefs (7-1) gave Andy Reid his 229th win to move into a tie with Hall of Fame coach Curly Lambeau for the fifth most in NFL history.

Le’Veon Bell, getting a crack at the Jets just a few weeks after they released him, was held to just 7 yards rushing with three catches for another 31 yards — though it wasn’t as if Kansas City needed him.

Darnold, who was without top receivers Jamison Crowder and Breshad Perriman because of injuries, was just 18 of 30 for 133 yards as the Jets fell to 0-8 for the first time since the 1996 team of Rich Kotite.

New York went threeand-out on five of its first six second-half possessions and finished with 221 yards total offense.

The Chiefs were astounding 19-point favorites coming into the game, and the opening series made it clear that wouldn’t be nearly enough. Mahomes was 5 of 5 for 85 yards, and he finished off the 90-yard drive with a 30-yard pass to Hardman.

While the Jets answered with the first of three firsthalf field goals, the Chiefs kept scoring touchdowns.

Mahomes threw a dart over the middle to Tyreek Hill for a 36-yard touchdown on their next drive, then he flipped a nifty pass underneath the Jets coverage to Kelce for his third TD pass of the half and a 21-9 lead at the break.

Second quarter outburst propels West Virginia past KSU MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Inconsistent for most of the season, West Virginia finally put together an allaround performance to boast about against a ranked opponent.

Jarret Doege threw two touchdown passes, Dylan Tonkery returned an interception for a score and West Virginia beat No. 16 Kansas State 37-10 on Saturday.

Leddie Brown rushed for 102 yards and a score as the Mountaineers (4-2, 3-2 Big 12) knocked the Wildcats from their solo perch atop the

league standings.

Kansas State freshman Will Howard was intercepted three times and the Wildcats (4-2, 4-1) went scoreless after halftime to see their four-game winning streak snapped.

The Big 12’s top defense held Kansas State to 225 total yards, including 73 after halftime.

“I thought our players competed. I told them all week, that’s how you’re going to be evaluated: on how you compete, how you strained,” West Virginia coach Neal Brown said. “I thought they just had

a businesslike approach, really from the beginning. Without a doubt, that’s the most complete game we’ve played in our two years here.”

West Virginia linebacker Tony Fields had 15 tackles and a pass breakup a week after being ejected in the second quarter at Texas Tech for targeting.

“We just knew there was a lot at stake,” Fields said. “We were playing the No. 16 team in the nation and they’re a very good team. We respected See KSU | Page B4

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Dear Carolyn: I’m a late-40s professional woman with a drinking problem. I keep a job and have a successful career and happy family, but I drink too much and have for some time.

Corona lockdown really made things worse. I struggled with quitting and with shame, and I’m now 23 days sober.

I haven’t told any of my friends or family — except my husband — because of shame, the worry that it will alter all of my relationships, and that certain folks won’t choose to spend time with me anymore.

At this point, my plan is to just tell them I’m doing a Sober October and kick the talk down the road a bit.

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First, urgently, the shame. You have a problem, and all people have one or many. No shame there. This feels unique to you, but it’s not unique.

In fact, with substance abuse as your specific problem, your struggle is among the least exotic out there, especially now with so many people stressed out and hemmed in. So no shame there, either.

You are working on your problem, certainly no shame in that. On the contrary, what you’re doing takes courage and discipline.

That’s why any pity would be misplaced, by the way; don’t be shy about responding that way.

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Or they’re in alcohol trouble themselves and looking for excuses in numbers.

Please consider it safe to assume you are, by a long shot, the only one who gets to care what you don’t have in your glass. Bring yourself back to that thought as needed, like a mantra, especially when people take “friendly” jabs at your seltzer orders. Get used to the idea that peo-

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ple just say stupid things when they’re adjusting to something new (and maybe projecting and getting defensive). Nobody’s comments confer an obligation on you to change what you’re doing or why. And truly, nobody cares to the negative. Nobody healthy.

That said, you are making changes to your social behavior, so you’re right to expect those changes to ripple out into your friendships. And for that inevitability I urge this response: So what. It’s not as if any of these social side effects would justify reversing your sobriety, right? Any goodbyes you’re forced to say will be hard, of course, but also necessary. Real friends rally, not just at their convenience.

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said. But Plumlee and Adams spoke of the significance of Saturday’s competition, the final meet under long-time head coach Smith, who announced his retirement at the conclusion of the cross country season.

“Marv has impacted so many people,” Plumlee said. “It’s cool to just be part of that era, to have Marv as a coach.”

Adams agreed, noting Smith promised him and his classmates as middle-schoolers he would stay until their senior season was complete.

“I feel pretty special to be a part of that,” Adams said. “Our eighth grade year, he said he’d finish it out, because the next coach will probably kill me.”

ELSEWHERE, Crest High’s Ursula Billings and Humboldt High’s Drew Wilhite also picked up some state hardware.

Billings took seventh in the Class 1A Meet at Victoria, finishing the Sand Plum Nature Trails 5K route in 21:03.

“I was happy because I moved my placing up from 14th last year to seventh this year,” Billing said. “However, I was really hoping to get in the top five.

“Since there were so many girls in the race, getting out in the beginning was tough,” she continued. “It took me a while to find my best stride and get into position. But the biggest challenge I faced on the course was a tall, steep hill that I had to run twice. The

At left, Crest High’s Ursula Billings runs to a seventh-place medal at the Class 1A Girls State Cross Country Meet in Victoria. At right, Iola High’s Jesse Taylor (840) had the second-fastest time for the Mustangs in the Class 4A Boys State Cross Country Meet in Wamego. COURTE-

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Among the runners for Iola at the state cross country meet in Wamego were, from left, Riley Jay, Averie Sharon and Kaster Trabuc. REGISTER/TIM STAUFFER and RICHARD LUKEN

wind had also picked up just before our race started, and there were hardly any trees along the trail to block it.”

Wilhite finished 17th in the Class 2A boys state meet, also at Sand

Plum, with a time of at 17:12.5.

For the girls 2A race, Humboldt’s Lulu Melendez placed 52nd.

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KSU: Falls to W. Virginia Continued from B1

them. We made sure we went in and practiced every day as hard as we could. We turned up the intensity in practice and it paid off.”

Howard’s short pass went through the hands of wide receiver Chabastin Taylor.

Tonkery grabbed the carom and went 18 yards for a touchdown to put West Virginia ahead 34-10 midway through the third quarter.

Casey Legg’s 45-yard field goal for the Mountaineers early in the fourth handed Kansas State its largest deficit of the season.

Howard managed a 35-yard touchdown throw just before halftime but was given little room to do anything else against West Virginia’s swarming defense.

“I thought our effort was good; we didn’t have good execution,” Kansas State coach Chris Klieman said.

“Like I told the guys, we all will take ownership in this.”

Brown scored on a 9-yard run in the second quarter and went over 100 rushing yards for the fourth time this season. West Virginia sophomore Bryce Ford-Wheaton caught

three passes for 104 yards, marking the first 100-yard effort of his career.

Doege finished 22 of 34 for 301 yards.

Both teams let early touchdown chances slip away.

Nicktroy Fortune intercepted Howard on the first series of the game, but West Virginia missed a field goal.

On two other drives, the Mountaineers settled for short field goals after twice getting inside the Kansas State 10. Kansas State kicked a short field goal after it couldn’t reach the end zone from the 2 on its second series.

Boys 11. Jack Adams 17.24.29 43. Jesse Tayor 18.27.77 57. Riley Jay 18:46.93 65. Kaster Trabuc 19:07.70 75. Eli Adams 19:25.27 82. Nathan Louk 19:43.81 92.

Drake DeLatorre 21:00.52

Girls 54. Josie Plumlee 23:39.00 80.

Elanie Sturgeon 24:46.76 85. Averie Sharon 25:58.39

17. Drew Wilhite 17:12.5 Girls 52. Lulu Melendez 22:43.9 Class 1A State Meet Victoria Girls 7. Ursula Billings 21:03.3

Class 2A State Meet Victoria Boys

Iowa State rolls past Jayhawks, 52-22 LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Breece Hall matched a career high with 185 yards rushing and two touchdowns, Brock Purdy threw two TD passes and had another score on the ground and No. 23 Iowa State coasted to a 52-22 victory over winless Kansas on Saturday.

Purdy finished with 239 yards passing and Kene Nwangwu also hit the end zone for the Cyclones (4-2, 4-1 Big 12), who bounced back from a tough loss to No. 6 Oklahoma State by beating the Jayhawks for the sixth straight time.

The only bright spot for Kansas (0-6, 0-5) came

on a 100-yard kickoff return by Kenny Logan in the second half. Otherwise, quarterback Jalon Daniels and the rest of the offense was woefully inept, the defense gave up gobs of yards on the ground and the special teams missed a short field goal and nearly surrendered a kick-return touchdown.

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