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Monday, October 3, 2016
Half-court shot nets student $10,000
A NARROW ESCAPE By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Jeffrey Sigel, Denver, made an emergency landing with his small aircraft on a rural Allen County road Saturday evening. Noticing engine trouble, Sigel guided his plane along 400 Street west of Iola until it skidded to a halt. Even so, he and his passenger, Bethany Brandstatter, Huntsville, Utah, were able to walk away from the wreckage. Sigel, 40, had filled the plane with fuel shortly after 5 p.m. at Allen County Airport and took off headed for Wichita. Minutes into the flight engine trouble developed. Sigel, looking for a place to land the Lancair Evolution kit-built craft, chose the county road, four miles west of Iola. The glide path was on the
mark until the left wing of the plane caught in bush alongside the road. That spun the plane sideways, ensnaring the prop in brush and ripping the engine from the fuselage, which then slid to a stop 50 yards up the road. Landing gear also was torn from the plane during the episode, and fuel cells were ruptured, enveloping the scene with the strong smell of spilled fuel. Sigel and Brandstatter, 38, were fortunate the plane remained upright. They escaped the cockpit with relative ease. Jared Froggatte, an Iola police detective who lives about half a mile away, heard the crash and was first on the scene after he notified authorities. The two were taken by ambulance to Allen County Regional Hospital, with cuts
An airplane ended up alongside 400 Road west of Iola Saturday evening after engine trouble forced the pilot to land on the rock road. He and a passenger escaped without serious injuries. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON
and bruises. Neither was admitted. The spilled fuel was absorbed by an application of
hay. It is uncertain where Sigel and Brandstatter went after leaving the hospital.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A 21-year-old University of Kansas student who won $10,000 in a half-court shot game has plans for the money: help her grandmother who rescued her from foster care when she was 10 years old. “I was just thinking about my Nana and what I was going to do to help her,” said Jordan Stiers, a sophomore from Independence, Mo., who won the money Saturday when Brennan Bechard, director of Kansas basketball operations, made the half-court shot during Bill Self Late Night in the Phog in Lawrence. KU Coach Bill Self cut Stiers the check. Stiers, who is the first one in her family to graduate high school, pointed to her sister in the crowd after the shot went through. After that, she thought of her grandmother, Roxanne Edwards, who also volunteered to raise four of Stiers’ siblings. “She’s my mom. She’s my dad. She’s my grandma — she’s everything,” Stiers said. “She has done so much for me, taught me so much. “There’s nothing I can do to repay her, but this will say thank you a little bit.” Stiers said the money will help her grandmother pay bills. “I don’t think she’s going to believe me,” Stiers said. “This kind of thing doesn’t happen to people like us. She’s probably going to cry, just like I did.”
Friends, floats and fun at Biblesta Court restores voter rights WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Thousands of prospective voters in Kansas who did not provide citizenship documents will be able to vote in the November election under a federal appeals court ruling late Friday that upheld a judge’s order. The decision from the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals affirms lower court’s May order forcing Kansas to register more than 20,000 voters, a number that is expected to swell to 50,000 by the time of the November elections. It noted that the
The 59th annual Biblesta celebration in Humboldt Saturday included four members of the McAdams Golden Age Club, Wichita. They are Lenora Tolbert, seated, and, from left, Edna Trent, Pat Knight and Rose Knox. Jared Lampe was atop the B&W Trailer Hitches float. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
HUMBOLDT — With seemingly blessed weather, Humboldt pulled off its 59th Biblesta Saturday without a hitch. A good-sized crowd enjoyed the Bible-themed floats that came one after another down the 10-block procession. Among those in town were members of Wichita’s McAd-
ams Golden Age Club who enjoyed a cookout on the downtown square. The members travel by bus to attractions around the state “every once in a while,” said Lenora Tolbert, a member of the African American club. Members congregate on Tuesdays for socials and to test the cooking skills of each other. The club has been organized for 50 years and, coincidentally, has 50 members, all
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55 or older. Throughout the day vendors, several affiliated with churches, offered a variety of food and non-alcoholic drinks. Entertainers provided a steady stream of music and spiritual encouragement from a large stage. As the sun fell, a program directed at young people but with a message for older folks as well, unfolded. It featured
‘Joey’s Law’ a first step
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HAYS, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas police officer was justified in the fatal shooting of an autistic man who tried to wrestle away his gun, but the incident might have turned out differently if the officer had known about the man’s mental condition, an attorney for his family said.
“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
Crafting a new law that would allow people with mental or physical disabilities to alert officers of their conditions before confrontations might help others avoid the pain Joseph “Joey” Weber’s loved ones are experiencing, Salina attorney
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