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December receipts $15 million wanting

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press

Jerry Hathaway, sworn in as Allen County attorney Wednesday afternoon, asked county commissioners to make his and the assistant attorney’s positions better paid.

Hathaway, who served as attorney from 2002 to 2011, said at the time of his nomination on Dec. 21 his intention was to fill the end of Wade Bowie’s term and not seek election in 2016.

Salaries today are $57,000 for the attorney, $49,000 for his assistant. Hathaway urged commissioners to increase them to $65,0000 and $55,000.

His rationale is most attorneys in private practice earn far more than the public attorney positions and incentive is needed.

“I know that will affect me,” said Hathaway, who plans to commute from Springfield, Mo., but submitted that the higher salaries would be important in attracting an assistant, whom he hopes would be his successor.

The county attorney’s 2015 budget includes $22,000 for raises, part of which Bowie meant to use to enhance salaries for the office staff of five.

Hathaway said he also would reward the staff, “all of whom are very good at what they do.”

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas collected $15 million less in taxes than anticipated in December, potentially hindering efforts to close state budget shortfalls and generating more debate about aggressive tax cuts engineered by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback.

But the state Department of Revenue said Wednesday that the month’s disappointing figures resulted from volatile corporate income tax collections, which fell significantly short of expectations.

Brownback concentrated efforts in 2012 and 2013 to boost the state’s economy on cutting personal income taxes.

The department said the state collected $553 million in taxes during the month when it expected to take in $568 million, a difference of 2.7 percent. Corporate income tax collections for the month were $56 million, nearly $20 million — or 26 percent — less than anticipated.

“We’ve always recognized that corporate income taxes are volatile and hard to predict,” Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan said in a statement.

“This month is evidence of that.”

The department said tax collections since the current fiscal year began July 1 were $2.73 billion — $12 million, or 0.4 percent short of expectations. Corporate income tax collections were also significantly short of expectations.

The agency’s report capped a two-week stretch of unpleasant fiscal news for Kansas.

The state Department of Labor reported earlier this month that 4,400 fewer Kansans were employed in private-sector, non-farm jobs in November than in November 2013. And a three-judge Shaw-

COMMISSIONERS agreed to pay $15,000 for remodeling of the medical office building attached to the shuttered Allen County Hospital.

Commissioners approved end-of-year budget transfers and put off making any changes to how county employees — mainly dispatchers and sheriff officers — are compensated for holidays. They asked Sheriff Bryan Murphy to bring information about how Iola Police Department and area sheriff offices handle holiday compensation.

The Kamanga family is from Johannesburg in South Africa. Bruce and his daughter Hope, pictured, and his wife Ursula and 3-year-old daughter LeBogang Zoe reside in Humboldt.

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By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register

In 2008, as Thabo Mbeki was entering his final year as president of South Africa, the country was still feeling its way toward a racially integrated economy after decades of apartheid rule. Mining — gold, platinum, diamonds — remained the country’s industrial backbone. And Sandvik, a 150-year-old Swedish-owned supplier of mining equipment, held on as one of that industry’s major corporate players.

Bruce Kamanga, then 34, worked in the company’s Johannesburg office as a low-level clerk in the accounts payable department.

It wasn’t a bad job. In fact, it was an advance of sorts;

a generation earlier his grandparents had come to Johannesburg — the “City of Gold” — not to work in the mining offices but to labor in the hard rock mines themselves, extracting the city’s namesake mineral while reaping almost nothing of its resale profit.

“It was hard work,” says Kamanga, recalling his grandparents’ lives. “Even today, mining is not easy.

People are not paid according to how much they put in.

When you see what an average mine worker makes — it’s like $300 to $400 a month.

You can’t send your child to school for that.… When you hear that platinum is selling at $1,700 and then they tell you they will pay you $300 a month, it means those people are cheating us. That’s

what you saw in the recent massacre” — in 2012, 34 miners were shot and killed by police during a strike at a mine near Marikana; the worst incident of state violence since apartheid — “these workers were saying ‘That’s enough. We don’t want peanuts anymore. We need better wages. We need to feed our families.’

“See, if I work in a mine in Johannesburg, it’s not just about my wife and kids who are looking to me. It would be my cousins, my brothers, my parents — the same paycheck has to go very far.”

Although Kamanga wasn’t working in a mine in 2008, the obligations to his extended family were the same.

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Fetal heartbeat legislation expected in Kansas WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators may soon consider proposals to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected early in a pregnancy and to require women to wait three days before obtaining abortions.

Chairman Steve Brunk of the Kansas House Federal and State Affairs Committee expects the panel to have informational hearings on fetal heartbeat legislation after lawmakers open their annual 90-day session on Jan. 12, the Wichita Eagle reported.

The Republican-dominated Legislature has strong antiabortion majorities in both chambers, but fetal heartbeat legislation previously has split even abortion opponents.

Kansans for Life, the most influential anti-abortion group at the Statehouse, has not endorsed the idea, fearing it could result in lawsuits and court rulings that set back attempts to restrict abortion.

Since Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, a strong abortion opponent, took office in January 2011, the state has enacted a wave of new restrictions and regulations for abortion providers. But GOP legislative leaders have blocked debate on fetal heartbeat proposals, and lawmakers haven’t considered a proposal to increase the state’s waiting period for an abortion from 24 hours to 72 hours.

“As a general topic, heartbeat legislation is on the ta-

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ble,” said Brunk, a Wichita Republican.

Brunk also said a 72-hour waiting period could be considered after the GOP-controlled Missouri Legislature enacted such a law in September over Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto.

Kansans for Life has not yet set its agenda for the session, said Kathy Ostrowski, its legislative director. In the past, the group has pushed for incremental change.

Abortion rights groups are bracing for debates over more sweeping proposals after lawmakers last year considered technical changes in laws approved in previous years.

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poration, Sandvik draws a number of foreign executives to its offices in South Africa. One afternoon Kamanga was sitting with one of these men, a Brit. “I asked the man: ‘The business development people are all white — when are we going to see black people coming in here?’ He was honest with me. He explained exactly how he got his education, his mining engineering degree. How he had worked his way up in England.

“I remember when (Nelson) Mandela said, on TV, in maybe ’95 or ’96: ‘People, you need to go to school.’ But the time for me, then, wasn’t right. [In 2008], though, I knew that the only way to have a breakthrough in South Africa was to get a better education.”

From that point Kamanga began quizzing visiting executives about their training. “Most of the things I’ve ever done have come from talking with people,” says Kamanga.

Eventually Kamanga met an American businessman. “He told me he went to school at the University of California, and I said ‘How many universities are in the U.S.?’ He told me ‘Oh, well, Bruce, the book is this thick.’” Kamanga holds his thumb and index finger about four inches apart. “And when I went to the American Library,” Kamanga says, smiling, “they gave me a book of universities and it really was that thick.”

And so, in early 2009, after a lot of deliberation and perhaps some portion of wry, divine intervention, the Kamangas — Bruce; his wife, Ursula; and their 7-year-old daughter, Hope — having at last decided on Neosho County Community College, arrived at their new home, in Chanute.

“We didn’t know what we were getting into. It was a gamble, a risk.”

The Kamangas are a devout family: “Maybe, putting it in a nutshell,” Bruce says, “God planned for us to end up in Kansas.”

NEARLY SIX years later, after having transferred his credits from NCCC, Bruce is now a graduate of Kansas

at B&W Trailer Hitches, while Ursula finishes up her master’s degree, also at K-State. Hope, now 12, is a popular student at Humboldt Middle School. And, since their arrival in Kansas, the family has added another Kamanga: Lebogang Zoe, an energetic 3-yearold with a pronounced American accent and bottomless fervor for sing-a-long YouTube videos featuring Barney the Dinosaur.

“The community here has made the difference for us,” Ursula said. “Arriving here, being in a different environment, it can be very overwhelming. But the reception we got from the people, first in Chanute, it was really mind-blowing, because they just accepted us. Everyone wanted to help, I must say. I thought it was a great environment to bring up our kids.

“Since you do not have family members, to have this community being so helpful — that was very influential. We felt at home, if I can put it like that.”

The family’s plans, however, have always been to return to South Africa, equipped with degrees. “The U.S. doesn’t need my skills,” Bruce explains. “But South Africa, and Africa, needs my skills. It’s what Africa needs most right now: human capital.”

Ursula, who hopes to work for a non-governmental organization promoting equitable education, agrees: “With the education that we’ve attained, I think we need to use it wisely, so that it can benefit other people.

For that, I think it is necessary to go and give back to your own country, if you can.”

For Bruce, it’s unlikely he’ll return to the mining sector: “My aim is one day to work for myself. Maybe doing steel fabrication. I wish I could do what B&W is doing; something where I would be able to create jobs for others through my entrepreneurship skills, which I’m learning every day from Joe Works (the company’s owner). I see how he does his thing, and I want to make use of the wisdom he is giving to me on a daily basis, so that I’m able to make a difference in my own community.”

We didn’t know what we were getting into. It was a gamble, a risk. Maybe, putting it in a nutshell, God planned for us to end up in Kansas.

— Bruce Kamanga

State University and recently received his MBA from Washburn, in Topeka. The family currently lives in Humboldt, where Bruce works in inventory management

Bruce’s referring to Joe Works in this way isn’t incidental, and the Kamanga’s relocation to Humboldt last August wasn’t the first time the two men met. A framed

photo of Works and his wife hangs in the family’s living room on New York Street.

“OK,” Bruce says, looking toward Ursula then back again. “I’ll tell you how I met him.

“Joe was actually the one that helped us to stay and get an education in the U.S. Him, his wife Janie, and actually the whole Works family.”

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Kamangas found themselves within hours of returning to South Africa without the American education they sacrificed so much to obtain. The U.S. was in the early days of what would become the Great Recession. Jobs near the Neosho County campus were hard to come by.

Scholarships, which the Kamangas had counted on, were suddenly unavailable. Less than a

work. They wanted to know what was going on. When I was telling them about my story, they were like: ‘Wow, Bruce. Wow, you are a lucky bastard.”

BOTH URSULA and Bruce will return to South Africa with advanced degrees and the menu of skills acquired during their years in the U.S., and will likely, in time, be in a position to lend a hand to a young person, just as a hand was lent to them.

“If I see a chap in the village, and he’s smart and he wants to further his studies — I think it’s the responsibility of me and my wife that we help that child.”

“For me, to be honest,” Bruce says, “I’m very proud of what I’ve achieved. I’m the first person in my family to have a college degree.

The United States doesn’t need my skills.

But South Africa, and Africa, needs my skills. It’s what Africa needs most right now: human capital.

— Bruce Kamanga

year after arriving in Kansas, the family was out of money.

They packed their boxes and had their return tickets to Johannesburg in hand. “We were convinced by then,” says Bruce, “that the devil had lied to us, telling us to come to the U.S. We thought we had made a mistake in coming here; we needed to get back home.”

Bruce approached his church in Chanute, asking whether any member would be willing to drive the family to the airport.

“That’s when the youth pastor was interested to know why we wanted to go back. We explained to him. Then he said, ‘Let’s pray. Maybe God will help us out.’ It was a miracle, you know. It was the youth pastor who got in touch with Joe and Janie, and said ‘There’s this couple from Africa and they’re on their way back.’ And so Joe and Janie wanted to hear our story, why we are here, and why we are going back. That’s when they said ‘OK, we’re going to help you go to school here. So that’s how we ended up staying here and that’s how, again, I ended up knowing Joe and Janie Works.”

“So, yeah,” Bruce concludes, “everything changed from requesting a ride to the airport.

And then comes this miracle. But if you tell the story like this to people here, they don’t believe it. But people at home — they believe it.”

Bruce concedes that fortune, too, may have played its part. “In 2011, when I visited South Africa, I went to see my old colleagues from

I have little nieces who now say, ‘Us, too. We want to come and go to school in the U.S.’ “One may not see the full benefit at the moment. But in the near future, we will say ‘Look what we did,’ you know.

To be honest, God has been good. When I go back, I’ll still be the same Bruce. The same Bruce as before 2008 and the same Bruce as after getting my master’s degree.

“You know, I recently phoned my old boss in South Africa when I finished getting my MBA. I still have his number.

When I worked there, he was the guy everybody was always scared of. He was the CFO of Sandvik. Everyone was scared of him; if they wanted something, they would push me to go and speak to him. He was very intimidating.

He was an Afrikaner.

He told me, ‘Bruce, I’m a Boer’” — the white ethnic group that ruled during the apartheid era — “And I say, ‘Yes, sir, you are.’ But I didn’t have a grudge against him, you know. Instead, I thought I could become him. I can get an education like him. I said, ‘I can be like this white boss of mine.’ And when I graduated here with my MBA, I phoned him.

I said, ‘Hey, Mr. Scholtz.

I’m done. I’m done — I’ve got an MBA.’ And you know what? He was happy. He said, ‘I’m very happy for you, Bruce.

I’m very happy.’ He said: ‘Next time, when you come back, tell them that you need better wages.

Don’t ever take just anything.’ That’s what he told me, Mr. Scholtz.”

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Memorials may be left to The Ann Marie Partlow Memorial Fund at Waugh-Yokum &Friskel Memorial Chapel, Iola.

Blood drive results The New Year’s Eve community blood drive had a good turnout at the Bass Community Hall.

The blood drive had 59 registered, collected 57 and deferred four.

Those who donated received two free tickets to a Royals game for the 2015 season.

Bono gets titanium elbow LONDON (AP) — Bono says he now has a titanium elbow and may never play guitar again due to injuries suffered in a New York City cycling accident.

The 54-year-old U2 frontman suffered multiple injuries, including fractures to his left eye socket, shoulder blade and left elbow, when he crashed his bike in Central Park in November. He required hours of surgery after what doctors called a “high-energy bicycle accident.”

On the band’s website Thursday, Bono said the “recovery has been more difficult than I thought. As

I write this, it is not clear that I will ever play guitar again.”

“I personally would very much miss fingering the frets of my green Irish falcon or my ... Gretsch,” Bono wrote. “Just for the pleasure, aside from writing tunes. But then does the Edge, or Jimmy Page, or any guitarist you know have a titanium elbow, as I do now?”

The Edge is U2’s principal guitarist.

Bono said he hadn’t “been able to move around physically” since the accident, and would “have to concentrate hard” to be ready for a U2 tour due to start in May.

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Abortion rights groups believe a fetal heartbeat law could ban abortions as early as the third week after conception — before many women know they’re pregnant. A bill introduced in 2013 would have prohibited non-emergency abortions before a doctor searches for a fetal heartbeat and informs a patient that one exists.

Laura McQuade, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri said the ultimate goal of anti-abortion legislators to eliminate

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Mario Cuomo, a giant in NY, liberal politics, dies ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Mario Cuomo had a loud and liberal voice that inspired a generation of politicians to turn to public service, and a story of humble beginnings that he wove into calls for social justice during his three terms as New York governor and years as a national figure and hesitant presidential candidate.

Cuomo died Thursday of natural causes due to heart failure, just hours after his son Andrew began his second term as New York’s chief executive. He was 82.

The son of Italian immigrants, Mario Cuomo played minor league baseball before embarking on a legal and political career. His oratory and his dedication to progressive policies made him a political star, but despite calls to seek the White House, he never made a run for president.

Hours before his father’s death, the younger Cuomo delivered an inaugural address in which he honored the Democratic stalwart.

“He is in the heart and mind of every person who is here,” Andrew Cuomo said. “He is here and he is here, and his inspiration and his legacy and his experience is what has brought this state to this point. So let’s give him a round of applause.”

President Barack Obama telephoned Cuomo Thursday and offered his condolences. In a

Former New York governor Mario Cuomo dies at 82. statement, the president called Mario Cuomo “a determined champion of progressive values, and an unflinching voice for tolerance, inclusiveness, fairness, dignity, and opportunity.”

Cuomo served as New York governor from 1983 through 1994 and became nationally celebrated for his ability to blend the story of his humble upbringing with ringing calls for social justice.

He was also known for the presidential races he stayed out of in 1988 and 1992. Cuomo agonized so publicly over whether to run for the White House that he was dubbed “Hamlet on the Hudson.”

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He left the door open for a lesser-known governor, Bill Clinton of Arkansas.

Cuomo’s last public appearance came in November, when Andrew was re-elected governor of New York. The fraillooking patriarch and his son raised their arms together in victory at the election-night celebration.

Andrew Cuomo said he showed his second inaugural speech to his father, who declared it was good, “especially for a second-termer.”

Mario Cuomo’s big political break came in 1982 when, as New York’s lieutenant governor, he won the Democratic nomination for governor in an upset over New York Mayor Ed Koch. He went on to beat conservative millionaire Republican Lewis Lehrman.

His reputation for eloquence was secured at the 1984 Democratic National Convention when he delivered his “Tale of Two Cities” keynote address, in which he told of the lessons he learned as the son of a grocer in New York City.

“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both his hands work 15 and 16 hours a day,” Cuomo told the crowd.

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The electrified delegates in San Francisco cheered, “Mario! Mario!

Mario!” and some wondered whether they had chosen the wrong presidential candidate in Walter Mondale.

While Mondale’s candidacy stumbled, Cuomo took his oratorical skill to Notre Dame University, where as the nation’s most famous Roman Catholic supporter of abortion rights, he argued the church should not expect him to press

ing how old he was and then pressing the child on how he could be sure of that.

In early 1987, he was leading in the polls among prospective White House contenders when he said he would not be a candidate. A more protracted dance in 1991 ended with the filing deadline for the nation’s first presidential primary 90 minutes off. Cuomo walked into a packed news conference in Albany and cited a continuing budget battle with New York’s Republicans in declining to run.

Before the news conference had even ended, the national TV crews were packing up their cameras.

Cuomo easily won re-

I didn’t come into this business to be bland.

— Mario Cuomo

for outlawing abortions, given that many Catholics themselves were having them.

Cuomo was an unusually cerebral politician, given to musing at length about anything from fiscal policy to the Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

He was prickly as well as eloquent. Cuomo regularly sparred with reporters, Republicans, fellow Democrats and even children. He once said “I didn’t come into this business to be bland,” and he rarely was. Complaining about what he saw as anti-Italian stereotyping, Cuomo once said the Mafia was “a word invented by people” and “a lot of baloney.” He once had a little boy near tears after ask-

election for governor in 1986 and 1990. He repeatedly vetoed legislation that would have restored the death penalty in New York, and he closed down the Shoreham nuclear power plant on Long Island. He also built 30 new prisons. Under Cuomo, the state budget grew from $28 billion to $62 billion.

In 1993, he turned down an opportunity to be nominated by Clinton for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, telling the new president in a letter that “by staying active in our nation’s political process, I can continue to serve as a vigorous supporter of the good work you are doing for America and the world.”

Nineteen months later, with voters tired of him,

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Cuomo lost his bid for a fourth term to George Pataki, a GOP state lawmaker who had promised to cut taxes and bring back the death penalty.

“I wanted to win this more than any political contest I ever had,” Cuomo said as he prepared to leave office. “I’m not good at wanting things in life. I’ve made a habit of not wanting things too much.”

Mario Matthew Cuomo was born on June 15, 1932, and grew up behind the small grocery store run by his parents in Queens.

He attended St. John’s University in New York City, and after graduating with honors in 1953, he spent a summer playing minor league baseball in Georgia for a Pittsburgh Pirates farm team. His professional baseball career ended after he was hit in the head by a pitch and spent several days in a hospital.

Cuomo graduated from St. John’s Law School in 1956, tied for top class honors, and soon after went into private practice. He came to the attention of New York City’s political community in 1972 when he successfully mediated a housing dispute in Queens for then-Mayor John Lindsay.

In 1974, Cuomo made his first run for public office, losing a Democratic primary for lieutenant governor. Hugh Carey, the newly elected Democratic governor, appointed Cuomo as New York’s secretary of state.

He lost a race for mayor of New York City to Koch in 1977. During the campaign, posters that read “Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo” mysteriously appeared in some neighborhoods. Cuomo denied any responsibility, but the bachelor Koch never forgave him.

Cuomo was elected lieutenant governor in 1978.

Following his tenure as governor, Cuomo joined the prestigious Willkie Farr & Gallagher law firm in Manhattan. He continued to give speeches across the country.

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Rose Parade warms cold spectators Assaults on Border Patrol agents drop The Los Angeles Times

PASADENA, Calif. — Pasadena flaunted its annual floral extravaganza Thursday, as it narrowly missed a Rose Parade record for cold weather and carried on after the death of World War II legend and grand marshal Louis Zamperini.

The theme for the 126th Tournament of Roses Parade, “Inspiring Stories,” spawned creations poignant and whimsical: One float paid tribute to those who have died fighting Ebola, another featured a cast reunion of the 1970s TV series “Love Boat.”

Amid ice-blue skies and temperatures that bottomed out at 36 degrees — four degrees above the low set in 1952 — children gasped as the petal-encrusted floats began sliding down the 5½ -mile route.

“There they are!” exclaimed 3-year-old Jack LaVine, cradled in his father’s arms.

“He’s cold, but he’s excited,” said his father, Mark LaVine, 48.

Zamperini — the USC track star from Torrance who became an Olympic runner, prisoner of war and subject of Laura Hillenbrand’s book and the movie “Unbroken” — died last summer of pneumonia at age 97,

The Zappos.com “Serving with a Smile” float during the 126th Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday. ALLEN SCHABEN/TNS/LOS ANGELES TIMES/ two months after he was named to lead the parade.

Zamperini’s son, Luke, described the parade as a cathartic experience — one more chance to honor his dad.

“We kept coming across people jumping up and down and screaming, ‘Louis! Louis! Unbroken!’” he said.

“We were nearly to the point of tears.”

Other entries paid tribute to survivors and heroes of international

disasters.

Teenagers who lived through Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami shared American Honda Motor Co.’s float with U.S. military service members who assisted them.

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation sponsored a float memorializing those who have died fighting the Ebola virus in Africa.

A Wells Fargo executive presented a giant red key to a new home to retired Army Sgt.

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nee County District Court panel ruled Tuesday that state spending on public schools is inadequate under the Kansas Constitution and suggested annual aid to school districts needs to increase by at least $548 million.

The state faces projected budget shortfalls totaling $714 million through June 2016 following tax cuts that dropped the top personal income tax rate 26 percent and exempted the owners of 191,000 businesses from income taxes. Some GOP legislators have floated revenue-raising proposals, but their leaders are not enthusiastic about backtracking on Brownback’s policies after lawmakers open their annual session Jan. 12.

“You’ve got the mad scientist still carrying on his experiment, with the same bad results,” said Kansas Democratic Party Chairwoman Joan Wagnon, a former revenue

PHOENIX (AP) — Assaults against U.S. Border Patrol agents dropped again even as apprehensions of immigrants illegally crossing the border increased.

Figures from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol's parent agency, indicate that there were 373 assaults against agents in the 2014 fiscal year ending Sept. 30.

That's down 20 percent from the previous year and two-thirds from 2008, the Arizona Republic reported Thursday.

Meanwhile, apprehensions of people crossing the border illegally were up 16 percent from the previous year.

Nearly all the assaults occurred along the Southwest border.

The Border Patrol’s Tucson sector in Arizona had 99 assaults, the most of any sector, but that number was down 37 percent from the previous year.

Despite the decline in assaults, some agents say they are encountering people crossing the border who are more aggressive than in the past, according

secretary.

Wagnon said corporations may have restructured so their owners can avoid taxes. But she said it’s also harder to make predictions about revenues because numerous changes under Brownback created “a destabilized tax system.”

But Department of Revenue spokeswoman Jeannine Koranda said filings for 2013 from businesses whose owners received an income tax exemption are on track to be about the same or slightly lower than for 2012. She said federal tax laws prevent corporations from restructuring.

She also said corporations pay income taxes quarterly and adjust their projections of how much they’ll owe between payments. Corporate income tax collections could bounce back in the spring.

“We’re going to have a better picture when we get the next payments,” she said.

Dominic Perrotte III, a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq who received a Purple Heart after his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb. For many parade-goers, the early chatter focused on the cold weather, even if it failed to break the record. In the early morning darkness, it was still plenty bitter.

A Florida woman, Alla Lazareva, 43, said Pasadena was as cold as her native St. Petersburg — the one in Russia.

to a union representing agents.

“Agents out there are saying that the people we arrest are less likely to listen to verbal commands,” said Art Del Cueto, president of the Tucson local of the National Border Patrol Council. “They tend to want to run more, to push back against the agent, to be verbally aggressive.”

Juanita Molina, executive director of the Border Action Network, a Tucson-based human rights organization, said some agents' perceptions are exaggerated.

“Do agents have a hard job? Absolutely.

Do they encounter danger in the desert? Absolutely. But not to the level many agents think exists,” Molina said.

Two Border Patrol agents died while on duty during 2014, both in vehicle accidents.

The last agent to die in a confrontation, Nicholas Ivie, was accidentally shot and killed by another Border Patrol agent in October 2012 while investigating a suspected illegal crossing near Naco, Arizona.

Boy skipped pop for a year to win $500 LIVINGSTON, Mont.

(AP) — As people across the United States struggle to stick to their New Year’s Resolutions, an 11-year-old Montana boy is offering lessons in self-discipline and delayed gratification after winning a $500 prize from his parents for skipping sugary drinks for a year.

A year ago at Christmas time, Jon Sarisky’s parents offered the then-10-year-old and his older brother Andrew a choice — a guaranteed $100 then or $500 in a year if they avoid all pop, milkshakes, hot chocolate and other sugary beverages.

Andrew took the sure thing. Jon, a sixthgrader, took the challenge. He drank his last pop on Jan. 3, 2014 — a Fanta Orange that he savored.

“I didn’t brush my teeth until I couldn’t taste it anymore,” he

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The “No Pop Challenge” was a zero-tolerance agreement with no second chances and noted that: “Attempts to circumvent the spirit of this agreement are fraudulent and strictly prohibited.”

Jon said the challenge wasn’t that difficult, with the exception of remembering not to accept a pop at a friend’s house.

When the family dined out, he had to remember to order water to drink. Milk also was allowed.

Sugary beverages were not a major problem in the household, but Renee Shifley of Livingston said the family wanted to offer a big challenge to demonstrate how selfdiscipline and delayed gratification can offer big rewards. She said meeting the challenge

I would tell them to keep trying and think about the money they could spend on whatever they wanted.

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has helped her son’s self-confidence.

“He’s kind of grown up from the whole process,” she said.

Jon said he’s not sure yet what he’ll do with the money.

“I could buy 500 pops,” he quipped.

Jon’s mom says he’s very responsible and likes to save his money, and that’s why the challenge offered such a big prize.

Jon will have the opportunity to pop open a cold one on Sunday.

“I might have just one pop, but I’m not going to overdo it,”

he stated, adding that pop might just become something that’s “OK for a splurge now and then.”

Jon had some advice for other kids if they found themselves facing a similar challenge.

“I would tell them to keep trying and think about the money they could spend on whatever they wanted,” he said.

Jon said that the big prize made all the effort worth it.

“If it was just $100, I don’t think I would have done it,” he said.

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Country of two views I found inspiration in reading New Year resolutions posted by fellow readers in Wednesday’s Register. I could relate to several, in particular Lisa Wicoff ’s desire to de-clutter. It’s been several years since we’ve seen the top of the ping-pong table in the basement; it’s the perfect catchall place.

All of the comments were thoughtful, reflecting on the precarious nature of this Earthly life and wanting to make the most of it.

Not a one mentioned wanting more — possessions or money — as a goal. Jacki Chase wrote: “I’m at the point that things don’t really matter but people and experiences do.” And Deb Tynon listed taking a trip.

That sentiment took me to our Christmas vacation this year. As a family we journeyed to El Salvador, the homeland of my daughterin-law Violeta. In my brief travels, I’ve found it ironic how some of the most beautiful countries are marred by inept leadership.

El Salvador is blessed with beautiful beaches and lush mountains. Pineapples, coconuts, papaya, lemons, limes and avocados are plentiful. The mountainsides are lush with coffee trees. Sugar cane is now being harvested from the fields.

The climate is temperate year-round by the fact it’s about 950 miles from the equator, compared to our 2,500 miles farther north.

Daytime temperatures were in the mid-80s; nights down to mid-60s. It’s the dry season now. From May to October it’s wetter; annual rainfall is an average 72 inches, compared to our relatively arid 38 inches.

Susan Lynn Register editor To our eyes (and bones), it was paradise.

And perhaps if you never ventured beyond the grounds of a private resort you would be none the wiser.

My daughter-in-law grew up when her country was still divided by war, 19791992. Violeta, now 31, witnessed a violence few of us have ever experienced. And though the country is no longer at war, per se, gang violence is rampant as well as widespread government corruption.

The outcome is a people whose majority live in abject poverty while the elite live like royalty. The gross domestic capita divided by the number of Salvadorans is $7,500 per person. In the United States, the same ratio is $52,800.

After a trip to a grocery store to buy provisions for 10, my son Tim remarked we had just spent more than the average family makes in a month. The poverty, the inequities, are more extreme than here in the United States, but certainly are not foreign to us, including here in Iola, and did nothing to dampen our enthusiasm for learning about the country.

Our hope, in fact, is to learn more about El Salvador until it feels like a second home. Acceptance comes from understanding a person, or a country, one step at a time.

Running trapline in my blood Let’s step back in time to just after World War II, to a December setting along Coal Creek east of Humboldt.

Limbs bare of leaves fork into an overcast sky like bony, arthritis-ridden fingers; underground tangles grab at legs. The stream, its water dark from decomposed hardwood leaves, flows at a snail’s pace, its nature in the doldrums of winter.

A man dressed in overalls and with hip waders pulled high trudges along, followed by a lad warmly dressed, topped by a woolen watch cap that was a gift from his dad, just home from the war.

At a shallow spot, the man hoists the little boy onto this back and wades across to the other bank, where a drowned muskrat is held by a single spring steel trap.

Thus was born my infatuation with trapping.

My great-granddad Oliphant spent several months a year buying pelts along the Mississippi River in the late

Finding joy in the times of crisis “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. ... It’s an opportunity to do things you think you couldn’t do before.”

— Former Obama Chief of Staff

Rahm Emanuel

In American politics, major policy change comes in two ways. First, your party can capture the legislative and executive levers of power, with majorities producing a new policy direction.

This occurred in 2012, when Kansas Republican majorities enacted radical reductions in the Kansas income tax structure, both across the board and especially for almost 200,000 small businesses and individual proprietorships.

Kansans voted, and elected officials responded with a sharp change in policy.

A second cause of major change comes with the onset of a crisis, such as the Depression or 9/11, which generates wholesale policy changes that would have likely proved impossible in ordinary circumstances. When a crisis appears, policymakers often respond not with agenda items that directly address the situation; rather, they resuscitate pet proposals that previously could gain little political traction.

Thus, the 9/11 tragedy produced, above all, a mish-mash of law enforcement policies and the creation of the huge and unproductive Department of Homeland Security.

In Kansas, the governor and the legislature face a real crisis: the collapse of state revenues in the wake of the 2012 tax cuts. Unlike 9/11 or the Depression, this crisis is self-im-

Burdett Loomis Insight Kansas posed; indeed, it flows directly from Governor Brownback’s tax-cutting agenda.

And despite many expressions of cheery sentiments, the cold fact is that Kansas must find a way to live within a general fund budget that will decrease by 11 percent or so in the next 18 months. Predictably, House Speaker Ray Merrick sees no revenue problem, just a spending problem, although it’s unclear where the cuts will come from.

For others, however, Rahm Emanuel’s words ring true.

It’s time to trot out various ideas that heretofore have found precious little support.

Exhibit A here is the idea that the state’s school finance formula should be thoroughly revised. This was a non-starter for Governor Brownback in 2011, but the 2015 budget crisis gives this initiative new legs. Brownback notes: “… we ought to just open the whole thing up. It’s just that the formula has grown very complex, convoluted (and) questionable. ... you ought to open it up, redo it and sunset it in four years so you’re having a regular discussion about where half of your state general fund goes.”

In many ways, the governor is right, but unstated here is the intense dislike by many

Republicans of a system that equalizes spending across the state, based on a host of categories. This week’s Gannon decision on school funding has upped the ante. Not only will the formula likely be rewritten, but the Legislature might well put forward a constitutional amendment to revise the wording that requires equalization.

In addition, the tax revenue decline has opened the doors to reconsideration of the venerable — and so far discredited — proposal to replace KPERS, a fixed-benefit retirement plan, with a fixed contribution, IRA-like plan, at least for future beneficiaries.

State government has long underfunded KPERS, and such a change would dramatically change the state’s role, despite not resolving current shortfalls.

Other issues, such as limiting the scope of teachers’ negotiations with school districts and further privatization of social welfare services, might also surface, all within the “crisis” context.

Many of these issues deserve serious consideration.

But let’s be clear why they are on the 2015 agenda. The post2010 Republican majority created a major budget/revenue crisis. And now, this same majority can re-introduce its favored policies, arguing that they are absolutely essential to react to a crisis that “no one could have anticipated.”

Rahm Emanuel would be proud.

Burdett Loomis is a professor of political science at the University of Kansas.

At Week’s End Bob Johnson

1800s and granddad Oliphant, who first introduced me, began trapping muskrats and possums when he was a kid in southern Missouri. Dad never had a hand in trapping until after the war, but caught on quickly.

In the 1950s muskrats seemed to take up residence in every farm pond in the country and were such a nuisance some farmers offered a bounty to anyone willing to deal with the pests. Muskrats are burrowing animals and when they dig dens it weakens a pond dam. Also, cattle have been known to suffer leg injuries from stepping on dens, shallow enough that they collapse under the animals’

weight.

Then, raccoons were relatively rare, and it was unusual to catch more than a few in a season. That changed when farming became big business and scores of farm houses — quarter-section farms became a rarity — were abandoned.

Given access to easy living, the animals’ numbers quickly increased.

I TRAPPED for years after Beverly and I were married, and often Christmas gift-giving depended on the size of my fur check.

Nowadays a bum back and arthritic shoulders have taken me from the trapline, but I still recall seasons of catching a good many bobcats, coyotes, fox and mink, as well as muskrats and coons.

Even so, when cold weather arrives, trees shed their leaves and gray skies are the norm, I still have a hankering to pull on a pair of waders, throw some traps in the truck and head for the country.

‘Lesser resolutions’ easier to keep

By JOHN SCHLAGECK Kansas Farm Bureau

Before we all become buried in the new year, let’s look at this new beginning with a bit of humor. Plenty of people trot out their lists of resolutions. Often, such lists are as long as their arms and last as long as their pinky.

I’ve all but given up on New Year resolutions. Seems I can’t keep them either. This year I’ve decided to do something different. I’ve compiled a list of “lesser” resolutions — some things I believe I can accomplish in 2015.

Here’s what I will try to work in my new year: • Remember that no time spent with your children is ever wasted.

• Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

• Never laugh at anyone’s dream.

• Don’t wash a car, mow a yard or select a Christmas tree after dark.

• When traveling, take two big safety pins so you can pin the motel drapes shut.

• Accept (always) a breath mint if someone offers you one.

• Keep the porch light on until the family is in for the night.

• Rehearse a joke before you tell it.

• Always try the house dressing.

• Believe in love at first sight.

• Send your mother-in-

law flowers on your spouse’s birthday.

• Buy ladders, extension cords and garden hoses longer than you think you’ll need.

• Steer clear of any place with a “Ladies Welcome” sign in the window.

• Once in a while invite the person in line behind you to go ahead.

• Exercise patience when behind the wheel of your vehicle — hand gestures are out of the question.

• Own a hammock and use it.

• Never be photographed holding a cocktail glass.

• Give people more than they expect and do so cheerfully.

• Be as friendly to the janitor as you are to the board chairman.

• Overestimate travel time by 15 percent.

• Never wear a white bathing suit.

• Don’t miss a good idea simply because you don’t like the source.

• When you say, “I’m sorry,” look the person in the eye.

• Trust in God, but always lock your car.

• Have a wonderful 2015.

John Schlageck is a leading commentator on agriculture and rural Kansas. Born and raised on a diversified farm in northwestern Kansas, his writing reflects a lifetime of experience, knowledge and passion.

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BETTENDORF, Iowa (AP) — When Jim Foster opened his piano store 30 years ago, he had 10 competitors selling just pianos.

When he closed Foster Family Music in late December, not one was still selling pianos in the Quad-Cities area of Iowa and Illinois.

“We did try hard to find a buyer,” Foster said. There were no takers.

Stores dedicated to selling pianos like Foster’s are dwindling across the country as fewer people take up the instrument and those who do often opt for a less expensive electronic keyboard or a used piano. Some blame computers and others note the high cost of new pianos, but what’s clear is that a long-term decline in sales has accelerated.

The best year for new piano sales in the U.S. was 1909, when more than 364,500 were sold.

But after gently falling over the years, piano sales have plunged more recently to between 30,000 and 40,000 annually.

Larry Fine, a Bostonbased piano technician, consultant and author, said it is an indication of a changing society.

“Computer technology has just changed

Kara Catlin and Sean Regehr Kara Catlin, Littleton, Colo., and Sean Regehr, Prescott Valley, Ariz., are happy to announce their engagement to be married.

The couple will be married on May 25, 2015, in Littleton.

Kara is the daughter of Joel and Margaret Catlin, Littleton. She received her bachelor’s in criminal justice from the University of Denver in 2009 and her MBA from Hawaii Pacific University in 2010. She is working on

Landon Morrow Susan and Timothy Morrow, Emporia, announce the birth of their son, Landon Dale Morrow.

Landon was born Dec. 5, 2014, at Newman Regional Health Hospital in Emporia. He weighed 7 pounds and 11 ounces and was 21 inches long.

Landon is the mater-

nal grandson of Connie and Ken McWhirter and the paternal grandson of Theresa and Tim Morrow.

Great-grandparents are Irena and Quentin Kilgore, Sterling, James McWhirter, New Wilmington, Pa., Mary Alice Lassiter, Ottawa, and Mary Morrow, Ottawa.

her master’s in physician assistant studies at Midwestern University, Glendale, Ariz.

Sean is the son of Walt and Mary Ann Regehr, Iola. He is the grandson of Betty Friskel, the late Paul and Pat Friskel, the late Walt Sr., Kathryn and Donna Regehr.

He received his bachelor’s in exercise science from the University of Kansas in 2007.

He is a helicopter pilot instructor for Guidance Aviation.

Quotes in today’s news By the Associated Press “An Italian Catholic kid from Queens, born to immigrant parents, Mario paired his faith in God and faith in America to live a life of public service — and we are all better for it. He rose to be chief executive of the state he loved, a determined champion of progressive values, and an

unflinching voice for tolerance, inclusiveness, fairness, dignity, and opportunity.”

Military Partner Association, which represents partners, spouses and families of LGBT service members. *****

— President Barack Obama, praising former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who died at 82. *****

“I think we could do very well without Hillary.” — Dick Harpootlian, the former

“There is no valid reason that our transgender troops should continue to be prohibited from serving openly and honestly.” — Ashley Broadway of the American

chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, on the possibility that Hillary Rodham Clinton might not run for president.

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Wednesday P.S.R. Classes...6:15 p.m.

September thru May Confessions Saturday. . .4:30 - 5 p.m.

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Sunday Worship...............10:28 a.m.

Wednesday Evening...........6:28 p.m.

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Paul Miller, pastor

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Sunday School...................9:15 a.m.

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Sunday School.........................9 a.m.

Adult Bible Class....................9 a.m.

Worship Service...............10:30 a.m.

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Sunday Worship....................11 a.m.

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Sunday Worship...............10:30 a.m.

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Grace Lutheran Church

1020 E. Carpenter, Iola

Sunday School (All Ages). . . . . . . .9 a.m.

Sunday Worship....................10 a.m.

Sunday Praise & Prayer...........6 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Class......6:30 p.m.

Kids First Wednesday.........6:30 p.m.

Teens First Wed. @ The One.....6:30 p.m.

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Bible Study................Tuesday 3 p.m.

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everything about what kids are interested in,” said Fine, who also publishes a website offering consumer information on new and used pianos. “People are interested in things that don’t take much effort, so the idea of sitting and playing an hour a day to learn piano is not what kids want to do.”

When Dennis Saphir recently closed his piano store in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, it was the end of a business his family started six generations ago in Vienna.

Saphir said new piano sales are challenged by fewer parents requiring youngsters to take lessons as part of their upbringing and a glut of instruments already in homes.

“We actually found ourselves competing with our own pianos that came back on the market and, frankly, nothing was wrong with those pianos,” he said. “We had serviced them and made sure customers took care of those pianos. There were lots of really excellent pianos on the market for a fraction of what the new piano would cost.”

Well-maintained pianos can make music for 50 to 70 years.

Sunday School...................9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship...............10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Service...........6:30 p.m.

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Trinity United Methodist Church Kentucky & Broadway, Iola

Sunday School...................9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship ...................11 a.m.

Dorothy Welch, pastor (620) 365-5235

Wesley United Methodist Church Madison & Buckeye

Sunday Contemporary..........9:15 a.m.

Sunday Blended Worship. . . .9:30 a.m.

Wednesday After School. . . .2:50 p.m.

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Oregon players mock Winston — B4

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First playoff sends Ducks, Buckeyes to title game

By RALPH D. RUSSO Associated Press

Oregon won by 40? I gotta go. We gotta go get ready for that one.

Ohio State is looking for its first national title since 2002.

Oregon is seeking its first, period.

Pac-12 champion Oregon and Big Ten champion Ohio State will meet in Arlington, Texas, at the home of the Cowboys on Jan. 12 in the first College Football Playoff championship game.

“It’s perfect,” Oregon linebacker Derrick Malone Jr. said. “I need another game.

I’m glad I can still be a part of this. If we didn’t have another game I wouldn’t know what to do with myself.”

The Ducks (13-1) and Buckeyes (13-1) last played in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, in 2010. Ohio State won that game 26-17. Now the Rose Bowl comes to Texas, but with so much more at stake.

Cardale Jones, Ezekiel Elliott and fourth-seeded Ohio State rallied, and then held on for a 42-35 victory over No. 1 Alabama at the Sugar Bowl on Thursday night.

Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota and Oregon had it much easier. The second-seeded Ducks crushed Florida State 59-20 at the Rose Bowl.

“Oregon won by 40?” Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said, startled when he heard about the results during his postgame news conference in New Orleans. “I gotta go.

We gotta go get ready for that one.”

The oddsmakers have installed the Ducks as sevenpoint favorites.

The College Football Playoff, a four-team tournament that replaced the Bowl Championship Series, has provided a jolt to the sport.

The BCS matched the top two teams and didn’t allow

— Urban Meyer, Ohio State coach, on hearing final score of Oregon vs. Florida State

much room for error. An early slip often could spell doom for a team’s national title hopes.

In the old system, it would have been very difficult for Ohio State to recover from a September home loss to Virginia Tech. The Buckeyes were a team looking for an identity back then. They had lost star quarterback Braxton Miller to a preseason injury and redshirt freshman J.T. Barrett was still developing.

Ohio State lost by 14 to the Hokies on the same day Oregon beat Michigan State.

Two weeks into the season, the Big Ten was already being counted out for the first playoff.

But a funny thing happened. Ohio State just kept getting better.

Barrett turned into a Heisman contender, but then in the season finale against Michigan, he broke his ankle.

In stepped Jones, who helped Ohio State blast Wisconsin in the Big Ten title game to earn the final spot in the playoff.

It was no fluke. The Buckeyes beat Alabama, eliminating the Southeastern Conference from title contention.

After winning seven straight national championships in the BCS, it’s now two straight seasons in which the SEC won’t wear the crown.

Oregon’s loss came at home, too, in early October against Arizona.

The Ducks have been a juggernaut since, winning nine straight games, all by double digits and scoring at least 42 points in each. Ohio State can put up some points, too. The

Buckeyes haven’t scored less than 31 since losing 35-21 to Virginia Tech.

The Ducks and Buckeyes run similar spread offenses.

“We know Oregon. I’ll probably be able to call Oregon’s plays because we study them and they study us,” Meyer said. “There’s a mutual respect.”

For what it’s worth, Ohio State is 8-0 all-time against Oregon.

And think about this: Alabama and Florida State were Nos. 1 and 2 in the final regular-season Associated Press and USA Today coaches’ polls.

There’s a good chance that in the BCS the championship game would have been Tide vs. Seminoles with Oregon and Ohio State playing a traditional Big Ten-Pac-12 Rose Bowl for nothing but pride.

Now they’ll take it to Texas for a championship game with which no one can argue.

Above, Ohio State's Ezekiel Elliott celebrates the Buckeyes’ 42-35 win over Alabama in the Sugar Bowl on Thursday at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. TNS/AKRON BEACON

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Right, Oregon wide receiver Darren Carrington (87) and wide receiver Chris Tewhill (89) celebrate after winning the Rose Bowl College Football Semifinal game against FSU on Thursday in Pasadena, Calif.

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Houston embraced more vocal role during career year for Chiefs

By TEREZ A. PAYLOR The Kansas City Star

(TNS) — Before the Chiefs’ 19-7 victory over the San Diego Chargers in their season finale, Justin Houston stood in the middle of approximately 15 teammates and delivered a message.

“This may be the last chance you play this year, bruh,” Houston began. “You’ve got to love this (stuff), bruh. You’re gonna be without this (stuff) for six months, bruh.”

Houston was just getting started.

“Bro, it ain’t going to be because of this game,” he said.

“We’re leaving it all out there, every play, every snap, bruh.

We’re giving it our all out there, every play, every snap ... play with your heart; we need it.”

You already know what happened after that: After breaking his teammates down — and using enough “bruhs” to rival his lymphoma-stricken buddy Eric Berry’s liberal use of the word — Houston proceeded to record four sacks and lift his season total to 22, two more than the previous club record set by the late Derrick Thomas in 1990.

In many ways, it was a fitting end to a history-making season for Houston, who established himself as one of the league’s elite players — in a contract year, no less. On Wednesday, he was named the winner of the Deacon Jones

Kansas City Chiefs outside linebacker Justin Houston (50) celebrates his second quarter sack of San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers in NFL action on Sunday. Houston set the Chiefs' franchise sack record with 22 sacks. The Chiefs won 19-7. TNS/KANSAS CITY STAR/DAVID EULITT Award, given annually to the NFL leader in quarterback sacks.

“I’m very honored and humbled to earn this award named after one of the greatest defensive players and sack masters of all time,” Houston said in a statement. “I’d like to thank my teammates, coaches and our fan base. They rallied behind us all season long and helped fuel our pass rush. To have my name mentioned in the same sentence as a player like Deacon Jones is truly a blessing.”

Houston fell just a half-sack short of the NFL’s single-season record of 22.5, set in 2001 by the Giants’ Michael Strahan.

“I’m proud of him for what he did,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “At no point did you feel like he was going for the record. You felt like everybody around him was pulling for him, but it wasn’t from him.

He was all about winning and trying to be the leader of the defense.”

How so?

“He kept it upbeat and posi-

tive for the guys,” Reid said.

“I would have liked to see him get that other half. It’s got to be out there, somewhere. Doggone it. He brought a great energy to the team.”

Houston’s caliber of play has never really been in doubt.

He was the Chiefs’ best defensive player even last season, as his pass-rushing and runstopping skills — he’s great at setting the edge and keeping contain — set him apart.

In fact, Houston’s Pro Football Focus grade this year of 50.1 ranked first on the Chiefs

and fourth among all defensive players, behind only Houston end J.J. Watt (106.0), Oakland linebacker Khalil Mack (56.4) and Denver linebacker Von Miller (55.7).

Yet Houston had never really been a vocal guy — the last frontier for a great player. Not even back in college.

“I really didn’t say too much,” Houston said. “I really took it on because I know Eric used to do it at the beginning of the season. Then, when he went down ... that’s why I started doing it.”

Berry and Houston are close — Houston even traveled to Georgia to see Berry on off days at least twice after his diagnosis last month.

Houston says he realized his words held some weight with his teammates after Berry suffered a high-ankle sprain in week two against Denver.

“Somebody’s got to do it,” Houston said. “I wouldn’t say (Coach Reid) puts a lot on my plate, but he just feels like I’m the right guy to do it, and a lot of guys listen to me. I try to motivate other guys. Sometimes, somebody’s got to speak up.”

Houston said he doesn’t plan out what he says to his teammates — he just speaks from emotion, how he’s feeling at the time.

“I didn’t have a problem doing it,” Houston said. “We’re all a family around here, so I don’t mind speaking up with See HOUSTON | Page B3

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The Saline County Commission voted 2-1 Tuesday to eliminate the county administrator job, as well as directors of planning and zoning, road and bridge and the county health department.

Commissioners John Price and Randy Duncan said the change would save the county between $430,000 and $470,000 and would not hurt county services.

However, Clayton Short, current chairman of the planning and zoning committee, said Wednesday that Sharp voted to eliminate the positions because of a dispute he had with planning and zoning in 2012, The Salina Journal reported. That year, the commission investigated an accusation that Price did not have the proper permit for his car-crushing business. Price said he was in compliance and was never fined.

Short said the department needs leadership and currently has only two employees, the director and an office coor-

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Price said Wednesday that the planning and zoning director is the least necessary administrative job in the county. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have anything to do,â&#x20AC;? Price said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need him.â&#x20AC;?

Three administrators stopped working Wednesday, while the director of the health department, who resigned in October, will not be replaced. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is somebody in every department that can handle those departments,â&#x20AC;? Price said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have people out there that can do it that are already there.â&#x20AC;?

The controversy might be short-lived.

On Jan. 12, the commission will expand from three members to five.

Duncan lost his seat in the last election and the three new commissioners said Wednesday they disagreed with the decision, with two indicating they will work to reinstate the four administrative jobs.

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Houston: More vocal role with Chiefs Continued from A1

the fam. We treat everybody like brothers around here.”

Houston’s overall body of work this season certainly caught the eye of Chiefs general manager John Dorsey, who admitted Houston didn’t do anything to hurt his stock.

“No, absolutely not,” Dorsey said. “And I applaud Justin for all that he has done.

“The guy is a good player. We all know that.”

Dorsey and Houston’s representatives had discussions regarding a new deal before the season, but a person with knowledge of the situation told The Kansas City Star in August that the two sides were “far apart” on a contract extension.

There was little indication that changed during the season, and when Dorsey was asked where the two sides stood during a recent media session, he declined to give an update on the state of those talks.

“That part of it has been going on, but again, it is conversation,” Dorsey said. “It’s the part of the business side that I don’t want to talk about. No disrespect there, but I don’t think it’s good.

I can say it’s ongoing business. That’s ongoing conversation.”

Houston, 25, made

$1.4 million this season in the final year of his four-year rookie contract. He skipped the entirety of the Chiefs’ offseason training activities, though he reported for training camp on time.

At one point, teammate Tamba Hali’s fiveyear, $60 million extension (with $35 million guaranteed) was considered a starting point in the team’s negotiations with Houston. But it’s safe to say that contract extensions recently signed

by Watt — $51.8 million guaranteed — and St. Louis’ star pass rusher Robert Quinn — $41.2 million guaranteed — have upped Houston’s asking price.

If the two sides cannot reach a new deal, the Chiefs have the option of franchising him for around $13 million next season — that’s the franchise-tag level for outside linebackers — though Houston could get more if he argues he should be labeled as a defensive end. Defensive ends are paid at a higher average rate than outside linebackers.

“In my opinion, he plays outside linebacker in a 3-4 scheme,” said Dorsey, who will have to do some cap gymnastics to carve out a significant chunk of space regardless of how Houston is designated.

Whatever you want to call him — lineback-

er or defensive end — it doesn’t change the fact that in the biggest season of his professional career, Houston not only delivered on the field, he also tried to deliver off of it with his leadership.

“I just feel like it’s a

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Video taken from the field as Oregon celebrated its 59-20 win in the College Football Playoff semifinal showed at least three players chanting “No means no!” to the tune of a chant used by Florida State fans. The

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Reached by The Associated Press, Heiser said the video was taken on the field as Oregon players celebrated the win from a podium. He shared a longer, 27-second video with the AP that showed the chant initiated somewhere off-camera.

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Public notices (First published in The Iola Register on Dec. 27, 2014) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Plaintiff, vs.

Melissa M. Jewell, Dale G. Mathew, Jane Doe, John Doe, and Capital One Bank (USA), N.A., et al., Defendants Case No. 14CV53 Court No. Title to Real Estate Involved Pursuant to K.S.A. §60 AMENDED NOTICE OF SUIT STATE OF KANSAS to the above named Defendants and The Unknown Heirs, executors, devisees, trustees, creditors, and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any defendants that are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; and the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability and all other person who are or may be concerned: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Petition for Mortgage Foreclosure has been filed in the District Court of Allen County,

Kansas by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, praying for foreclosure of certain real property legally described as follows: LOTS ONE (1), TWO (2), THREE (3), FOUR (4), BLOCK TEN (10), REMSBERG’S ADDITION TO GAS CITY, ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS. Tax ID No. GA00291 for a judgment against defendants and any other interested parties and, unless otherwise served by personal or mail service of summons, the time in which you have to plead to the Petition for Foreclosure in the District Court of Allen County Kansas will expire on February 6, 2015. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the request of plaintiff.

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Raccoon hijacks truck GONZALES, La. (AP) — The Gonzales Police Department says a masked bandit is on the loose after leaping into a garbage truck and causing a crash.

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(First published in The Iola Register on Dec. 20, 2014) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT CitiMortgage, Inc. Plaintiff, vs.

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Defendants, Case No.14CV45 Court No. Title to Real Estate Involved Pursuant to K.S.A. §60 NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Allen County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at the Allen County Courthouse, Kansas, on January 14, 2015 at the time of 10:00 AM, the fol-

lowing real estate: LOT TWELVE (12), BLOCK THREE (3), SUNNYSIDE ADDITION TO THE CITY OF IOLA, ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS. Tax ID No. IA 03172, Commonly known as 417 North Kentucky, Iola, KS 66749 (“the Property”) MS145074 to satisfy the judgment in the above entitled case.

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(First published in The Iola Register on Dec. 27, 2014) IN THE INTEREST OF: NAME: CHEVY WALTON Case No. 2012-JC-27 DOB: XX-XX-2001 A 1 male 0 female NAME: RACE WALTON Case No. 2012-JC-28 DOB: XX-XX-2005 A 1 male 0 female Minor children under the age of 18 years NOTICE OF HEARING TO: Mary West (aka Mary Walton, Mary Welch), [mother] [current whereabouts believed to be in or around Corpus Christi, Texas or Rockport, Texas, or surrounding areas], her parents and adult relatives and all other persons who are or may be concerned: A motion has been filed in this court pursuant to the Kansas code for the care of children requesting the Court to permanently terminate the parental rights of the children identified above pursuant to the Kansas code for the care of children and, thereafter, enter such orders as circumstances and statutes permit and require.

You are required to appear before the District Court, at the Allen County Courthouse,

1 N. Washington, Iola, Kansas, for a formal hearing commencing at 9:30 a.m. on February 2, 2015 and continuing through February 6, 2015, or prior to that time file your written response to the pleading with the clerk of this court. If, after a child has been adjudged to be a child in need of care, the court finds a parent to be unfit, the court may make an order permanently terminating the parent’s or parents’ parental rights. Prior to that date and time, a parent, grandparent or any other party to the proceeding may file a written response to the pleading with the clerk of the district Court.

Each parent or other legal custodian of the child has a right to appear and be heard personally either with or without an attorney. The court will appoint an attorney for a parent who is financially unable to hire one. Daniel J. Schowengerdt, an attorney in Iola, Kansas has been appointed to represent the mother. Charles H. Apt, III, an attorney in Iola, Kansas has been appointed as guardian ad litem for the children.

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Fast-food resolution: Transform the junk food image NEW YORK (AP) — Fast-food chains have a New Year’s resolution: Drop the junk.

As people express distaste for food they think is overly processed, McDonald’s, Taco Bell and other chains are trying to shed their reputation for serving reheated meals that are loaded with chemicals.

— Last month, McDonald’s USA President Mike Andres outlined improvements the company is working on, including the simplification of ingredient labels. Without providing details, he said to

expect some changes in early 2015. The remarks came after the company reported a 4.6 percent decline in U.S. sales for November, capping two years of struggling performance.

“Why do we need to have preservatives in our food?” Andres asked, noting McDonald’s restaurants go through supplies quickly. “We probably don’t.”

— Subway, a privately held company that does not disclose sales, started airing TV ads Thursday for its new chicken strips free of artificial preservatives and fla-

vors. After suffering bad publicity, the company said earlier last year it would remove an ingredient from its bread that an online petition noted was also used in yoga mats. The ingredient, azodicarbonamide, is approved by the Food and Drug Administration and widely used as a dough conditioner and whitening agent.

—Chick-fil-A said in 2013 it would remove high-fructose corn syrup from buns and artificial dyes from its dressings.

A couple months later, it said it plans to serve only chicken raised without

antibiotics within five years.

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It’s not clear how far fast-food companies will go in reformulating recipes. But the nation’s biggest chains are facing growing competition.

In the latest quarter, customer visits to tra-

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Happy Days Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of five stories counting down the top-five Sprint Cup races of 2014.

The Ford 400 at HomesteadMiami Speedway was uncharted territory for NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams and drivers.

For the first time since the Cup Series started in 1949, the highest-finishing driver of the four Chase finalists, who survived three rounds of eliminations, would be crowned NASCAR champion.

The age-old points system to determine a champion had been tossed out the window, and this new format was installed to pump up competition and build more interest in the final months of the season.

Mission accomplished.

Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin, Ryan Newman and Kevin Harvick went to Homestead as the only drivers eligible to win the 2014 Cup Series championship.

All four drivers came loaded for the one-race battle. They stayed in or around the top-five leaders for most of the race, while Hamlin and Harvick led significant chunks of the race.

The determining factor were the four yellow flags shown over the last 30 laps, which had crew chiefs and drivers scrambling on late-race strategy.

Jeff Gordon, who had been booted out of the Final Four when Harvick won the penultimate series race at Phoenix, had the dominant car. Gordon earned the pole and led 161 of the 267 laps. He fell off the chart with a late pit stop for tires and finished 10th.

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Well, at least we’re about to get some sports-car testing, right?

Not so fast. Normally, the first week of the new year brings a busy three days of testing at Daytona for the sports-car teams preparing for lateJanuary’s Rolex 24. But even that longstanding tradition has been changed.

The “Roar Before the Rolex” (officially licensed, so don’t even think about printing your own T-shirts) is scheduled for Jan. 9-11, two weeks before Rolex race weekend.

Why the change?

Ed Bennett, CEO of the sanctioning body IMSA, said it gives everyone involved more time off for the holidays and the holiday hangover (energetically speaking). Bennett also suggests the change would be “welcome news for all of our stakeholders,” and I know what you’re thinking ...

Whatever happened to the “playboy” racer?

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Kevin Harvick used a little pit strategy and strong restarts in the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway to capture the 2014 Sprint Cup championship. caution periods to take four tires and fell to 12th place in the running order. He caught a break when he lined up on the outside row for the double-file restart.

“The seas kind of parted there as I came off of Turn 2 and was about to get four or five of them; I don’t really know, but it was time to go for broke at that

Godwin Kelly is the Daytona Beach News-Journal’s motorsports editor and has covered NASCAR for 30 years. Reach him at godwin.kelly@news-jrnl.com

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particular point,” Harvick said of his rally.

“When the next caution came out, we were fortunate enough again to line up on the outside.

That was pretty much what we needed, to get the run on the outside down the backstretch.”

On the final restart three laps from the checkered flag, it came down to a two-car battle between Harvick and Newman for the race win and championship.

“I was just going to hold the pedal down and hope for the

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Harvick wrestled the lead from Hamlin on Lap 260 and, after his white-knuckle duel with Newman, earned the victory and 2014 Cup Series championship.

“I think this Chase is about the best thing that has happened to this sport over the last decade,” Harvick said. “This is probably going to shorten the drivers’ careers because it’s been so stressful.”

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Good question. Through the years, there always seemed to be a handful of single racers who effectively filled the role of jet-setting, high-rolling, mail-haulin’ men about town. But it’s not just Hank Jr.’s rowdy friends who have settled down. Two of NASCAR’s youngest recently have pulled the shades and tucked themselves in — Joey Logano got married a couple of weeks ago, and just before Christmas it was announced Kyle Larson and future bride Katelyn Sweet became parents of a son named Owen Myata Larson. Assuming Tony Stewart’s leg heals, he’ll continue carrying the torch for racing’s committed bachelors.

Ken Willis has been covering NASCAR for The Daytona Beach News-Journal for 27 years. Reach him at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com

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