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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Allen County attorney submits resignation

By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register

Allen County attorney Wade Bowie submitted his resignation Tuesday to the county commission, effective Dec. 31 of this year.

Bowie graduated from the Washburn School of Law in 2004 and arrived in Iola the following year to serve as Assistant Allen County Attorney. In 2011, following the departure of Jerry Hathaway, Bowie assumed the position he holds to date. In 2012 he took over as municipal court prosecutor of Iola.

Bowie thanked the commissioners for their support over the years. “It’s been a pleasure working with each

Fa la la la la Jefferson Elementary School students perform their annual holiday program for family and friends at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center on Tuesday night. Each grade level performed their favorite holiday tunes.

McKinley students will next take the stage at 7 p.m. on Thursday.

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More part-timers to receive health benefits

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TOPEKA — Beginning in January, more than 80 percent of workers currently eligible for part-time benefits within the Kansas state employee health plan will be eligible for full-time benefits under changes mandated by the federal Affordable Care Act. The ACA, also known as Obamacare, establishes 30 hours as the threshold for full-time employment. Starting next year, large employers – those with 50 or more employees – will be required to offer health coverage to all full-time workers. The threshold for state employees to be considered “full-

and every one of you.

“It’s a very bittersweet time for me. It’s going to be tough to leave.

I’ve been here over nine years. I feel like I’ve done a lot of good things since I’ve been here.

I’ve Wade Bowie learned a lot.

I’ve grown a lot.”

Commissioner Tom Williams was quick to point out a few of those good things.

“He was instrumental in making sure the Child Advocacy Center became a reality.

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Holiday toppers Teresa Ross, left, owner of Funkie Monkey, says handwarmers and leggings make great Christmas gifts. Below, Brooklyn Rollett, left, and Paige Steinforth, show off a camouflage jacket on sale at Town & Country. Both stores will be participating in Friday’s 4th Annual Downtown Block Party where 11 merchants will have specials and a grand prize drawing worth $220. The shopping spree is from 4:30-7:30 p.m. REGISTER/SUSAN LYNN

time” for health insurance purposes in Kansas previously was 36 hours per week.

The 30-hour threshold is one of the facets of the ACA that Republicans have targeted for repeal after gaining control both houses of Congress in the midterm election. President Obama has said he will veto any GOP-backed legislation that undermines core elements of the reform law. But the Republican proposal has the backing of powerful business groups.

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Rebel Works makes a business move

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

A local business now has a storefront. Rebel Works Mfg., has moved to 502 N. State in Iola.

Jeff and Kristy Richards have been in the metal business for 10 years. They bought the State Street building in October from the county, which had used it for storage purposes. They opened for business in November. For years the couple had worked out of their home shop at 301 S. Elm St. Steady business prompted the couple to expand.

Now customers can order a custom piece of metal work or shop around the storefront and purchase already made items.

The company creates a variety of metal products, signs

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for decor, business signs, fire pits and more.

“Customers can put their name on anything they want in the store and make it personal,” Jeff said.

Jeff said if a customer has their own idea he can also create that for them. Nothing is too crazy.

Jeff got his start in the welding business by attending welding school in Tulsa.

He and Kristy then moved to Missouri for a welding job.

The couple moved their family back to Kansas to be closer to Jeff ’s family who resides in Iola and Kristy’s father who lives in Colony. They have four children.

Christmas time has always been busy for them. The Richardses work hard to get the

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. workers’ productivity increased in the July-September quarter at a slightly faster pace than previously estimated while labor costs declined for a second straight quarter.

Productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, increased at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the third quarter while labor costs fell at a rate of 1 percent, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.

In its first estimate, the government had put productivity growth at a slightly slower 2 percent and said labor costs had risen a tiny 0.2 percent. The strengthening of productivity growth combined with a faster drop

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Judge boots science standards suit TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit alleging that science standards for Kansas public schools promote atheism and violate the religious freedoms of students and parents.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree ruled that a nonprofit group, parents and taxpayers challenging the standards did not claim specific enough injuries from adoption of the guidelines to allow the case to go forward.

The State Board of Education last year adopted standards developed by Kansas, 25 other states and the National Research Council.

The guidelines treat both evolution and climate change as key scientific concepts to be taught from kindergarten through 12th grade.

The guidelines replaced evolution-friendly standards that had been in place since 2007, and most board members believed they will improve science education by shifting the emphasis in classes to hands-on projects and experiments. The board sought the lawsuit’s dismissal.

The lawsuit was filed

by Citizens for Objective Public Education, a group based in the small, Wichita-area town of Peck. It had criticized the standards as an attempt to indoctrinate

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students into a “nontheistic” world view and said their adoption was a “message of endorsement” telling some parents and students that they are outsiders. The group was joined by parents and taxpayers in challenging the standards.

But Crabtree said the aggrieved group and individuals didn’t say how they were directly harmed by the standards, other than asserting an “abstract stigmatic injury” that isn’t enough to sustain a lawsuit. He also not-

The City Slickers 4-H Club met Nov. 6 at the Riverside Park Community Building. Members voted in Emily Luedke as the club secretary again for this year.

The club’s community project was discussed. Ringing the bell for the Salvation Army outside of Walmart tops the list if the club is asked to do it again. The club will perform a model meeting for 4-H Club Days in February.

Kami Luedke gave a talk on how she prepares her horse before she rides. Brooke Storrer spoke on agriculture aquatic farming.

Members were reminded that the Southwind District skating party would be from 6 to 8 p.m. on Dec. 29 at Skate City in Chanute. Members also were able to enroll online at the meeting using the new 4-H online enrollment website.

The meeting was adjourned after a game of Heads-Up Seven-Up was played.

The next meeting for the City Slickers will be at 7 p.m. on Thursday at the Riverside Park Community Building.

ed that even under the guidelines, local school districts still directly control what’s taught in classrooms.

Doug Patterson, a Leawood attorney representing the group and individuals opposing the standards, said he was reviewing the ruling and couldn’t comment.

Officials in the Kansas attorney general’s office, which defended the board and its members in the case, did not immediately return telephone and email messages seeking comment.

Police reports Iola house fire under investigation Iola firefighters and police officers were called to a house fire at 515 S. Fourth St. in Iola Thanksgiving Day. The cause of the fire has not been announced, although Iola Fire Chief Tim Thyer’s suspicions were aroused enough to ask for further investigation.

Owner Chris Glukowski told firefighters the house had been unoccupied for about a month, Thyer said.

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state fire marshal’s office are investigating.

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Juvenile arrested

Disturbance probed

Iola police arrested a 12-year-old boy for suspicion of shoplifting at Iola Walmart Nov. 25.

A theft charge is being pursued through the Allen County attorney’s office.

Iola police were called to a suspected domestic disturbance in the 800 block of Wilson Lane Nov. 25. No arrests were made, officers said, nor where charges being pursued.

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Johnie Newman A memorial service for Johnie Cullan Newman will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 1001 W. Chestnut St., Gas. Johnie Cullan Newman, 92, a long-time resident of Alabama, passed away on Friday, Nov. 28, 2014, in Iola. He was born on Jan. 7, 1922, in Winston County, Alabama, to John Henry and Birdy Johnie Newman. He married Ithyl Carr Newman on July 17, 2002, and soon thereafter moved to Iola. Johnie was baptized as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1974 and was a beloved member of the Iola congregation, attending Kingdom Hall in Gas. He was the last surviving sibling of 14 children. Johnie is survived by his wife, Ithyl Newman, a son, Phillip Newman, and his wife, Anne, Homewood, Ala.; a daughter-in-law, Connie Nail; six grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his first wife of 49 years, Stealeen Pierce Newman, and stepson, Jimmy Nail.

David Shannon David Rodney Shannon, 66, passed away on Nov. 26, 2014, in Humboldt.

David was born March 6, 1948, in Kansas City, Mo., the son of Norman Rodney and Mary Lou (Dorsey) Shannon.

David grew up in Wellsville, attending Wellsville schools and eventually graduating from Wellsville High School. He was preceded in death by his parents, and is survived by his children: Derrick Shannon and wife Amy L. and Dalton Shannon, Humboldt, and Trevor Shannon and wife Amy D., Iola; and his sister, Nancy Trober, Lawrence.

Cremation is planned. Graveside memorial services for David Rodney Shannon are planned for 10:30 a.m. Friday at Wellsville Cemetery in Wellsville. The family will meet with friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Countryside Funeral HomeHumboldt Chapel.

The family suggests memorials to Allen County Animal Rescue Facility in LaHarpe. The memorials may be sent in care of Countryside Funeral Home, 101 N. Highland St. Chanute, KS 66720.

Online condolences may be left at www.countrysidefh.com.

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Financial Focus Charitable Giving Pays Off ... for Everyone

Americans are pretty generous — in fact, 83% of us donated money to charitable organizations last year, according to a Gallup survey. And now that we’re entering the holiday season, charitable giving well may be on your mind. Your key motivation for making charitable gifts, of course, is to help those organizations whose work is meaningful to you. However, by supporting these groups, you can also make life less “taxing” for yourself.

Specifically, by making charitable contributions, you may be able to receive some valuable tax breaks. To claim a deduction, though, you need to itemize your taxes, and you need to make sure that the organization you’re supporting is qualified, from a tax-deductibility standpoint. If you’re unsure whether a group is qualified, just ask to see its letter from the IRS. (Many organizations now post these letters on their websites.)

Here’s how the charitable tax deduction works: If you give $200 to a qualified charity, and you’re in the 25% tax bracket, you can deduct $200, with a tax benefit of $50, when you file your 2014 taxes. Consequently, the net “cost” of your donation is just $150 ($200 minus the $50 tax savings).

Of course, you are not confined to making cash gifts. In fact, if you donate certain types of noncash assets, you may be able to increase your tax benefits. Suppose you give $1,000 worth of stock in ABC Company to a charitable group. If you’re in the 25% bracket, you’ll be able to deduct $250 when you file your taxes. And by donating the ABC stock, you can avoid paying the capital gains taxes that would be due if you had eventually sold the stock yourself.

Keep in mind that if you want to deduct your contributions for the 2014 tax year, you’ll need to make your gifts by Dec. 31. One more reminder: Retain your paperwork. If you made gifts totaling over $250 to any single charity — or noncash contributions of any items worth over $500 — the IRS requires written acknowledgments for your contributions.

If you want to take a longer-term approach to charitable giving, while incorporating your gifts in planning for your estate, you might want to consider establishing a charitable remainder trust. Under this arrangement, you’d place some assets, such as stocks or real estate, into a trust, which could then use these assets to pay you a lifetime income stream. When you establish the trust, you may be able to receive an immediate tax deduction based on the charitable group’s “remainder interest” — the amount the charity is likely to ultimately receive. (This figure is determined by an IRS formula.) Upon your death, the trust would relinquish the remaining assets to the charitable organization you’ve named. This type of trust can be complex, so to create one, you’ll need to work with your tax and legal advisors.

While the tax benefits associated with charitable giving are significant, they should not, ultimately, drive your gifting decisions. You should also consider the effect your gift will have on the other areas of your estate considerations — so make sure you communicate your plans to your family members.

In any case, though, be as generous as you can this holiday season and in the years to come. Your generosity will be a rewarding experience — for everyone.

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Calendar

S at u rd ay - C o u n t r y Christmas, Lone Elm Community Building, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; 20th annual Colony Christmas parade themed “A Christmas Wish” 4-6 p.m., including a chili/ soup supper at the City Hall community room, parade lineup at 6 p.m.; “Our Community Cares” tree lighting, 6:15; Parade, 6:30; Santa will be at the bank following the parade. Sunday-Cemetery Board meeting, city office, 7 p.m.; Dec. 9-Rural Water District No. 5 board meeting, board office, 7:30 p.m.

School calendar

Thursday-High school basketball at Crest vs.

Southern Coffey County, 4 p.m., FCCLA will serve supper; Monday-Middle school basketball at Crest vs. Marmaton Valley, 5 p.m.; Dec. 9, 11 and 12-High school basketball tournament at Humboldt.

Meal site

Monday-Swiss steak, au gratin potatoes, Mediterranean veggies, wheat bread, apricots; Wednesday-Hot turkey sandwich, mashed potatoes, California blend veggies, wheat bread, blueberry crisp; Dec. 12—Hot turkey sandwich, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, roll, cake and ice cream.

Phone 620-852-3450 for reservations.

Christian Church

Sunday’s Scripture focused on John 17:20-26.

Pastor Mark McCoy presented the sermon, “Are You KID Enough...to BE PURE?” Celebrate Recovery Sunday evening was titled “Hope for Recovery is only found in Christ.”

Babysitting

Parents in the area who want to go Christmas shopping will be offered babystitting services from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Dec. 13 at the Christian Church. Contact the church at (620) 852-3200 for more information.

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raiser for the Colony Christian Teen Youth to attend the North American Christian Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, next summer.

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Scripture presented at United Methodist Church Sunday service was Psalm 11, Jonah 1:1-17 and Isaiah 64:1-9.

Pastor Dorothy Welch presented the sermon, “Just Say Yes!” Services included the confirmation of Makayla and Jerrick Jones.

Christmas Tea

The annual Ladies Christmas Tea will be from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Community Church. Derrick Gates, a 1997 Crest High graduate who now pastors a Kansas City church, will be the guest speaker. Music will be provided by Lloyd Houk. The theme is an “Old-Fashioned Christmas.”

Everyone is welcome.

Senior banquet

The 4-6 grade and 7-12 grade youth groups will host a senior citizens Christmas banquet at 6 p.m. Dec. 14 at the City Hall community room.

Along with feasting on dinner, guests will be treated with Christmas music and Christmas readings.

4-H

The Seekers Not Slackers 4-H club met Nov. 17 at the Lone Elm Community Building. Roll call was answered by “Your Favorite Thanksgiving Leftover.” Song leaders Hayden Newton and Logan Walter led the group in singing “Albuquerque Turke.”

Reports were given by the Christmas, 4-H Promotion, Community Service, and Fruit Basket committees.

Members will participate in the Adopt an Angel program and adopt

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one boy and one girl.

Members voted to pay $25 monthly for cleaning supplies for use of the community building facility. Members will bring canned goods and toys to the December meeting to donate to the 4-H Council community service project. For the evening program, Tyler Gillespie read a poem, “Pig Won’t Let Me Watch TV.” Brooklynn Jones demonstrated how to make a Thanksgiving cornucopia table decoration.

After the program the recreation leader Brooklyn Jones led the group in playing musical chairs.

The meeting concluded with members stating the 4-H motto, “To Make the Best Better.” The next club meeting and Christmas party will be at 12:30 p.m. Dec. 14 at the Lone Elm community building.

Around town

Colony welcomes a new resident, Judy Henderson. She moved a double-wide home on the lot where the late Robert and Ruth Luedke lived for many years.

Gary and Shirley McGhee recently went on the 50-Plus tour group from Ottawa to Branson, Mo., for a weekend.

Doris Church’s family held a carry-in Thanksgiving dinner at the home of her son, Jody Church. Doris’ daughters, Susan Luedke, Colony, Patty Jo Ramsey, Kincaid, and Linda Ellis, LaCygne, and their spouses and extended families attended.

Gareld and Shirley McGhee hosted their family Thanksgiving dinner at their home.

Attending were Darren and Cindy McGhee, Westphalia, Joe and Vicki Atwood and Chad Atwood, LaCygne, Derick McGhee, Wellsville, Dustin and Rochelle Smart, Iola, Tyler Atwood and Stephanie Willis, Lawrence, and Dale Fooshee, Topeka.

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and visited with her folks, Morris and Allene and brother Mark on Thanksgiving Day. Greg, Terri and Tiffany Jackman celebrated Thanksgiving with guests Dollene Jackman, Humboldt; Dean Hamm, Decker and Sandy Spillman, Jeff, Missy, Katrina and Kaden Strickler, Colony; Tanner Strickler, Wisconsin; Luke, Jessica, Kallie, Kamrie and Karlie Feuerborn, Garnett; Andrew, Crystal, Arabella, Aydan and Mathew Dunbar, Richmond; and Shane, Rita, Kayla, Hannah and Erin Drybread, Buffalo.

Craig Luedke, Memphis, Tenn., his sister and family, Julie and Dirk Nichols, Bryce and Kimberlyn, Beloit, were Thanksgiving holiday guests of their mother, Phyllis Luedke. They also visited their dad, Stanley Luedke, and their brother and family, Brent and Angie Luedke, Kamryn and Trewitt.

Bonnie Decker hosted a Thanksgiving meal for her family. Attending were Connie and Rick Thompson, Kincaid; Justin and Erin Zook,

Garnett; and Brylee, Brekyn, Britni, Garry and Paula Decker, Luke, Welda; Garry and Kathy Holloway, Westin and Elaine Holloway and Nash, Lone Elm; Nancy and Ed Ellington, Arden and Thelma Culler, Roger, Ryan Culler and Skylar Slife, Colony; Justin and Sarah Ellingon, Jaylee and Layla, Tulsa, Okla.; Jeremy and Holly Ellington, Gunner, Lizzy, Gracyn and Aubrey, J.D. and Jamie Wilson, Tucker and Lane, Iola; Erick and Kelcey Jesse, Columbus; and Nick Thompson, Manhattan.

Thanksgiving evening Paul and Cathy Stephens, Caleb and Sydney, Kincaid hosted Thanksgiving with Dick Crabtree, Colony; Gary and Janet Crabtree, St. Louis; Amanda Crabtree, Emporia; Charles and Betsy Stephens and Mary Decker, Colony; and Garry and Paula and Luke, Welda, attending.

Mary Clemans enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner with her son, Arvin, and wife Kathy at their home in Iola.

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Mary’s granddaughter, Stacey and Jeff Billingsley and children, Stephanie and Kristin, Joplin, Mo., attended. On Friday Mary’s granddaughter, Karrie Brown, and daughter Payton, Kansas City, Mo. visited. Mary’s son, Dwight, Marshall, Texas, will visit the first week of December.

Leonard and Debbie Wools hosted the Johnston Thanksgiving gettogether at their home Saturday.

All their children and families attended — about 40 in all.

Rosemary Gillaspie and family met at the Colony Community room Saturday for their Thanksgiving get-together. Attending were Rosemary’s daughter, Nancy, and family, Independence, Mo., Mike and family, Leawood, David and family, Ottawa, Dennis, Topeka, Kevin and Angel, Mary and family, Lawrence, Scott and family, Lenexa, and Daniel, Colony. All enjoyed being together, eating, visiting and catching up on family news.

4-H’ers recognized at banquet GARNETT — The Anderson County 4-H Achievement Banquet was Nov. 16 at Anderson County High School.

The Seekers Not Slackers 4-H club, under community leaders Gerald Jones, Stacy Sprague and C.J. Lacey, was awarded a Purple club seal.

Members receiving achievement pins were Gunner Ellington, membership pin; Trevor Church and Brooklyn Jones, bronze pin; Tyler Gillespie and Karson Hermreck, clover pin; Jerrick Jones and Hayden Newton, emerald pin; Cassie Bowen, Hailey Gillespie, Makayla Jones and Rebecca Sprague, silver pin; Kendra Sprague, silver guard pin; and Dal Lacey and Brock Peters, gold pin.

Record book awards were received by members in the following areas: Clothing — Brook Peters, Dal Lacey, Kendra Sprague and Rebecca Sprague–Beef, Gunner Ellington–Bucket Calf, Rebecca Sprague and Kendra Sprague Dairy goats — Lanie Walter and Logan Walter Entomology — Trevor Church Fiber arts — Cassie Bowen Foods and nutrition — Ty-

Seekers Not Slacker 4-H Club membes are, front from left, Tyler Gillespie, Logan Walter, Lanie Walter, Brooklyn Jones, Kendra Hermreck, Hayden Newton and Hank Newton; and second from left, Hailey Gillespie, Cassie Bowman, Makayla Jones, Kendra Sprague, Dal Lacey and Jerrick Jones. ler Gillespie, Hailey Gillespie, Makayla Jones and Trevor Church Geology — Trevor Church Horse — Tyler Gillespie and Hailey Gillespie Leadership — Dal Lacey and Kendra Sprague Meat goat — Kendra Sprague, Hailey Gillespie, and Rebecca Sprague Pets — Brooklyn Jones Photography — Rebecca Sprague and Kendra Sprague Plant science — Dal Lacy, Jerrick Jones and Karson Hermreck Reading — Hayden Newton Sheep — Hailey Gillespie,

Tyler Gillespie and Hayden Newton Swine — Karson Hermreck and Tyler Gillespie Visual arts — Makayla Jones and Hayden Newton Achievement — Landon Stephens To finish the program, Brock Peters was awarded an Outstanding Senior Record Book award. Kendra Sprague, Hailey Gillespie, and Cassie Bowen earned an Outstanding Junior Record Book awards. Makayla Jones received Outstanding Officer Book for her role as Reporter.

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NBC’s Snyderman returns with apology NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News medical reporter Nancy Snyderman apologized on the “Today” show this morning for violating her quarantine for Ebola exposure, saying she failed to appreciate how frightened Americans were of the disease.

It was Snyderman’s first on-air appearance in a month and a half, and she followed her talk with Matt Lauer by reporting a story on women and depression. NBC had kept her off the air following an angry public reaction to her broken promise: After saying she’d stay in her New Jersey home until the danger for symptoms of the disease had passed, she was spotted

Nancy Snyderman in a car getting takeout food.

“I’m very sorry for not only scaring my community and the country, but adding to the confusion of terms that came as fast and furious as the news about Ebola,” said Synderman, a surgeon who has worked for NBC News since 2006 after a

long stint at ABC. Snyderman had been reporting on the Ebola outbreak in Liberia in October and worked briefly with cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, who came down with the deadly virus.

Mukpo came back to the United States for treatment and has since recovered, and no one else from NBC was infected.

Snyderman said she and fellow crew members were taking their temperatures several times a day to check to see if they were developing symptoms. But within 72 hours of agreeing to a 21-day quarantine, Snyderman left her home, compelling New Jersey authorities to then make her quarantine mandatory.

I’m very sorry for not only scaring my community and the country, but adding to the confusion of terms that came as fast and furious as the news about Ebola.

—Nancy Snyderman

“We knew the risks in our heads,” Snyderman, “but we didn’t really appreciate and frankly were not sensitive to how absolutely frightened Americans were.”

She said “good people make mistakes and I stepped outside the boundaries of what I promised to do and what the public expected of me, and for that I’m sor-

ry.”

Snyderman said she would be willing to go back to Africa tomorrow to cover Ebola. Left unsaid was whether NBC would take her off the story given the furor over her violation. There was genuine doubt among NBC executives about whether Snyderman would be allowed to return at all.

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of the Hope Unlimited project.”

The former sheriff was keen to highlight a specific initiative that Bowie spearheaded four years ago. According to Williams, it was Bowie’s idea to have body cameras placed on each and every police officer in the county – a move President Obama, in a series of White House meetings only the day before, was urging police departments across the country to take up in the wake of the recent unrest in Ferguson, Mo. “Wouldn’t it be nice,” Williams said, “if every place had those, because here they’ve paid for themselves over and over again.”

“We were one of the first places in Kansas to have that,” Bowie confirmed.

The commissioners of-

fered unmixed praise for the job Bowie has done over the last nine years.

“Sitting in this seat,” said outgoing commissioner Dick Works, “I’ve always appreciated your professionalism, and the fact that you’ve been here for almost 10 years and I can’t remember a single controversy – I appreciate that very much. It sure makes my job easier.”

“It’s been a tough decision to make,” said Bowie. “I’m leaving behind, especially downstairs (in the County Attorney’s office), what I consider a family. They spend more time with me than they do their own families.

They’re very loyal to me.

I’m very loyal to them. I can only hope that whoever ends up in that position continues to be loyal to them – that’s very important to me.”

Bowie recently won

the Kansas Prosecutors Foundation’s Community Service Award, which “recognizes a Kansas prosecutor who has rendered outstanding service to his or her community in addition to the performance of the duties required by the position of a prosecutor.”

“It’s well-deserved,” noted Williams. “You have been a huge asset to the people of Allen County. You’ve been an advocate to victims.

You’ve been a friend to law enforcement. I can’t thank you enough for the things you’ve done for the citizens of Allen County.

I don’t think general citizens always know what a county attorney does.

I can assure all of them that you have earned every penny of the littlebit of salary that we give you. Thank you so much.

It was an honor to work

with you, and I hope for you the very best.”

IN OTHER NEWS, at what was a comparatively brief meeting, commissioners: — Were asked to consider Gary McIntosh’s request to install an electric car station at Allen County Community College, so that drivers passing through town in their low-energy cars can charge their vehicles overnight.

— Approved the reappointment of John McRae to the board of Tri-Valley Developmental Services.

— Approved a motion to pay $7,500 to Southeast Kansas Mental Health, $2,500 to the drug court program and $1,000 to the newest of the three programs, the Allen County Substance Abuse Task Force.

— Were asked by Bill

King, Director of Public Works, to sign off on an agreement with Kansas Department of Transportation to get the ball rolling on a new bridge project located “north of Geneva, right on the county line.” King then, noting receipt of the new fuel truck, went on to advocate putting two of the department’s older vehicles up for auction.

— Were briefed by Allen County EMS billing clerk Terry Call on the “numbers for the year.” As of Nov. 20 Allen County ambulances were dispatched 1,640 times, with an average of 5.07 calls per day, at a cost of $491.96 per transport. Total receipts for 2014 so far are listed at $655,201.15.

Call and the commissioners discussed ways to improve the department’s ability to collect on outstanding ambulance bills.

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drop in labor costs should reassure the Federal Reserve that there is little threat of unwanted inflation pressures harming economic growth any time soon.

Greater productivity is the key factor determining rising living standards. It enables companies to pay their workers more without having to increase prices.

The slightly faster productivity growth compared to an initial estimate one month ago reflected revisions the government made to the gross domestic product, the economy’s total output of goods and services.

Last week, the government revised GDP for the third quarter up from its first estimate of 3.5 percent to a stronger 3.9 percent. Greater growth in output translated into stronger growth in productivity and lower labor pressures.

In the five-and-a-half years since the recession, when millions of workers lost their jobs and found it difficult to secure new ones, labor costs have remained well contained.

Over the past year, labor costs have risen 1.2 percent, a modest increase that is well below the long-run average of 2.8 percent in annual gains. That suggests that wages and salaries are not rising fast enough to spur inflation.

The Federal Reserve keeps a close watch on productivity and labor costs for any signs that inflation may be accelerating.

Productivity over the past year has increased by a modest 1 percent, well below the long-run average of 2.2 percent.

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employees but at higher rates than full-time workers. Most of them will now qualify as full-time employees, representatives of the State Employees Health Commission told a legislative committee on Tuesday, making them eligible for lower premiums in the plan.

Mike Michael, director of the state plan, said the change will cost state agencies about $1.5 million annually in increased employer contributions. It will cost local governments that participate in the state plan about $170,000 and school districts that participate about $130,000.

Only about 30 of the state’s 286 school districts use the state employee plan.

Michael said employee premiums did not increase in the 2015 state health plan.

“Rates for employees remain flat,” Michael said. “The members are doing a great job utilizing the services and making some good choices and health care decisions.”

Student employees and adjunct professors who work for the state’s public universities also will be eligible to join the plan starting next year, if they meet the 30-hour-per-week threshold. Actuaries estimate that might cost

the universities an additional $3.5 million.

A public comment hearing on the proposed changes to the state health plan is set for 9 a.m. Monday on the ninth floor of the Landon State Office Building.

Commission staff reviewed the changes Tuesday with state legislators on the Administrative Rules and Regulations Committee, saying they are necessary to comply with the ACA. The legislators had little to say about them but briefly turned their attention to the lower threshold for buying into the health plan as a part-time employee, which is a state regulation.

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orders out in a timely manner. Kristy said a majority of the orders are generated over the Internet.

Now that they have a store the company is working with other local vendors.

“We will showcase vendors who make their own products,” Kristy said.

With 10 years of business under their belts Jeff would like to see his business continue to grow.

“I want to see us expand to where we can hire local employees,” Jeff said. “I’m happy as

long as we get to do what we love to do.”

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Rep. Mark Kahrs, a Republican from Wichita, asked for more information about how long the threshold has been set at 1,000 hours of work per year, which averages out to 19.23 per week.

“That’s less than halftime,” Kahrs said.

Sen. Oletha FaustGoudeau, a Democrat from Wichita, asked about other health coverage options available for public employees who work less than the 1,000 hours a year.

“Most employees do meet that requirement,” said Cory Sheedy, an attorney for the commission. “For those who don’t, there’s the private market, the (ACA online) exchange.”

At the request of state employees, Sheedy said the commission also is proposing to allow married couples who both work in jobs eligible for the state employee health plan to enroll in the plan as one family unit or as two individuals.

Such couples currently are required to enroll as two individuals.

Sheedy said that would remain the most cost-effective option for nearly all employees, but a select few might want to enroll as a family if they are combining a highdeductible plan with a health savings account.

“It’s a rare instance in which it’s actually beneficial,” he said. “But some employees had asked about it, and there was no harm to the plan (in doing it).”

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Local law enforcement ahead of the curve with new technology If the Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown had been equipped as well as Iola and Allen County law enforcement officers, the public would have a much better idea if the action was justified.

As is, a Missouri grand jury considered the testimony of Officer Darren Wilson and multiple eyewitness who all gave contradicting accounts.

Here, area officers are outfitted with miniature video cameras that record what they say and do during every encounter. The recordings are invaluable during court proceedings for both sides of the argument. The truth, after all, is the best offense as well as defense.

In response to Ferguson, President Barack Obama has called for widespread funding for the purchase of body cameras as well as expanding training for police officers. An estimated $75 million would go toward the purchase of 50,000 cameras for U.S. police forces.

Riots erupted in Ferguson after both the Aug. 9

shooting of Brown, an unarmed African-American youth, and again after the grand jury decided last week not to indict Officer Wilson.

Racial tension between the predominately white police force in a community of color is palpable, not only in Ferguson, but in communities across the nation.

Obama didn’t address that issue specifically, reasoning there’s not much he can say that would make a difference.

That’s likely true. Talk is especially cheap in such circumstances.

To bridge the divide between law enforcement officials and those they are sworn to protect will take trust built on a history of positive experiences.

The public can play a role by holding both sides accountable for their actions.

Then maybe one day, we’ll all be on the same side, and able to focus on what we can do as partners.

Put that at the top of your Christmas wish list.

— Susan Lynn

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A large storage unit is being built at Walton Foundry, one of Iola’s oldest industries. The structure will be used to store large patterns used by the foundry in making molds for castings. It is so designed that trucks or forklift vehicles can drive inside to load or unload the heavy wooden patterns. Recent rainy weather has delayed the building’s construction, but it is expected to be completed soon, said R. C. Walton, president of the firm. ***** The University of Kansas Brass Choir will present a concert Monday night at the Thomas H. Bowlus Fine Arts Center as another feature of the Fine Arts Festival, spon-

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DeLane Patrick, principal of McKinley Elementary School, is retiring. Patrick has been a member of the USD 257 faculty since 1938.

He plans to devote more time to his hobby of woodworking. ***** The Iola Music Club will present its 21st Annual Christmas Vespers Sunday at Wesley United Methodist Church. A mixed chorus of 50 singers under the direction of Madge Strickler, will present a varied program of Christmas music. Accompanists will be Marjorie Gard on the organ and pianist Lucile Wagner.

In Egypt, a verdict turns back the clock The Egyptian court that threw out the murder charges against former President Hosni Mubarak may have closed the final chapter on the Arab Spring. After the country’s brief, flawed attempt at democracy, the army and its supporters put in place an even more authoritarian system than the Mubarak regime.

Now, in a final insult to the hundreds of protesters who were killed in the 2011 uprising, Mr. Mubarak apparently will go free, and there will be no justice for those who died or accountability for the decades of human rights abuses by his government.

While legal experts said the dismissal of charges on Saturday against Mr. Mubarak was based on procedural reasons, his security chief and a half-dozen top police officials were acquitted. The court also acquitted Mr. Mubarak, his two sons and a wealthy business associate of corruption charges. In May, Mr. Mubarak was sentenced to three years in prison on a separate corruption case, but experts said his time since being detained in 2011 is likely to be counted as time served.

The public prosecutor could appeal the murder case to the Court of Cassation, Egypt’s highest criminal court. But, on Sunday, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the former army general who overthrew the country’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013, seemed to rule that out. Meanwhile, Mr. Morsi and thousands of his Muslim Brotherhood supporters still languish in prison.

Mr. Sisi said Egypt must “look to the future” and “cannot ever go back.” It appears that the Obama administration feels the same way. In a bizarre response, a State Department spokeswoman offered diplomatic pablum when asked to comment on the ver-

Since Saturday, protests against the ruling have drawn hundreds of participants and involved numerous clashes with security forces. Two demonstrators were killed. While the demonstrations have been smaller than those in 2011, the venues — university campus-

While Egyptians may want stability, repression and a lack of accountability will produce only more discontent. The Mubarak verdict is another shift away from long-delayed hopes for a productive and just society.

dict and referred queries to the Egyptian government.

In what sounds like an effort to tamp down public outrage, Mr. Sisi said there would be a review of government compensation to the families of those killed during the Arab Spring protests. He no doubt hopes Egyptians are so fed up with nearly four years of unrest that they would also be eager to put Mr. Mubarak’s case behind them.

He knows that the justice system, a misnomer by any sensible definition, is susceptible to pressure. That is how Mr. Mubarak got added belatedly to the murder case in the first place. The charges were initially brought against Mr. Mubarak’s security chief and his senior assistants in March 2011; Mr. Mubarak was added as a co-defendant two months later after demonstrations demanded accountability for him as well.

es across the country — suggest that it may be harder for Mr. Sisi to erase the past than he thinks. Among other challenges, Egypt is struggling with a depressed economy, an insurgency in Sinai, and an Islamic State affiliate that late Sunday took responsibility for killing an American oil worker in Egypt’s Western Desert in August.

Half of Egypt’s population is under the age of 25, and many of those young people were at the heart of the Arab Spring movement and its demands for jobs, education, housing and greater freedoms.

Those aspirations won’t go away. And while Egyptians may want stability, repression and a lack of accountability will produce only more discontent. The Mubarak verdict is another shift away from long delayed hopes for a productive and just society.

— The New York Times

State should stay true to NBAF

Brownback’s ‘Chicken Littles’

Kansas legislators are taking care to ensure the state’s financial responsibility for construction of the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan is limited to $307 million.

That’s fine, but they shouldn’t unduly delay in making the necessary state funding available when it’s needed.

Gov. Sam Brownback and legislative leaders voted Monday to postpone voting on the issuance of $231 million in bonds to raise money for NBAF when Senate President Susan Wagle suggested the vote could be taken in December after drafting contract language that formally caps the state’s financial participation at $307 million.

According to Wagle, a legal adviser says the necessary language still is not in a contract with the Department of Homeland Security.

Given the Legislature voted last year to approve the additional funding for NBAF, it seems to be taking a long time

Governor Brownback says that before the election, he didn’t know there was a massive budget deficit projected for Kansas.

If that’s true, he’s about the only one in Kansas who didn’t know it. Warnings started coming out last summer.

Brownback’s opponent Paul Davis certainly was telling everyone who would listen. A majority of voters apparently weren’t listening or didn’t care.

Economists were issuing warnings.

Newspapers were shouting it from the rooftops.

The state’s own budget number crunchers were predicting it.

Credit agencies were sounding alarms and downgraded the state’s credit rating.

“They’re just trying to paint a ‘Chicken Little sky is falling’ situation, which is not true,” Brownback said in October when asked about the alarm messages.

to get a contract drafted.

Kansas initially agreed to provide $105 million for construction of NBAF — a laboratory that will conduct research on deadly, animalborne diseases — but later increased its commitment and last year agreed to provide another $202 million. During legislative debate on the issue, it was decided the construction contract with the Department of Homeland Security should include language requiring the federal government to take financial responsibility for any excess costs.

About three-fourths of the bonding authority for the state’s initial $105 million investment has been used, and it’s important that the state vote to authorize issuance of bonds for the remainder of its commitment.

Granted, the state should take steps to protect itself from continued federal demands for more money. The laboratory’s estimated cost was in the $500 million range

when the federal government decided to close the outdated lab on Plum Island, N.Y., and build a new facility. The estimated cost now is in excess of $1 billion.

The $307 million cap legislators want written into the contract appears to be a reasonable share of the facility’s cost. But state officials shouldn’t do anything to suggest the additional money legislators agreed to provide won’t be forthcoming, especially as the state’s director of the NBAF steering committee says an existing memorandum of understanding between Kansas and Homeland Security protects the state from price increases.

Members of Kansas’ congressional delegation still must work to get the federal government’s share of the funding through the appropriations process. Let’s not make their job more difficult than it already is.

— The Topeka Capital-Journal

He even ignored the advice of his ag economics professor from his K-State days, Barry Flinchbaugh, who is quoted by insiders as saying he told the governor to his face: “You must have been sleeping in my class. You obviously didn’t learn anything.”

Today, with a $715 million hole widening in the state budget, Brownback says he’s “looking at all factors” to fix the problem. Those who have been sounding the alarm have said all along that those “factors” will have to include increasing sales and property taxes, cutting further into education budgets and raiding more from the highway fund.

Maybe the time has come to listen to the Chicken Littles.

But those willing to believe that Gov. Brownback didn’t know — not until six days after the election — that Kansas was swirling down a financial drain, will probably continue ignoring the distant thunder.

— Clay Center Dispatch

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30 years later, disaster still felt Indian government for $470 million, and that all responsibility for the factory now rests with the government of the state of Madhya Pradesh, of which Bhopal is the capital.

In Bhopal, which remains anguished by the disaster, most consider Union Carbide’s settlement with the government an insult.

India’s government is blamed for negotiating what the survivors consider low compensation and then ignoring them. Dow, meanwhile, is heavily criticized because it now owns Union Carbide — the American company that had a majority stake in the pesticide plant that leaked the lethal gas.

Ram Pyari, 90, said the tragedy still haunts her.

“Everything was destroyed,” she said Tuesday during an evening vigil. “And my sons and my daughter-in-law died, my leg was amputated. I have to drag myself. These killers did not heed anything. Why are they not brought to court? Why are they not

hanged?”

IN THE POOR neighborhoods behind the Union Carbide plant, where the worst of the tragedy unfolded, survivors and their relatives and supporters burned effigies of Warren Anderson, who headed Union Carbide Corp. at the time of the leak, and a banner emblazoned with the logo of Dow Chemical Co., which bought Union Carbide.

Anderson died in September in a nursing home in Vero Beach, Fla. Just after the disaster, Anderson traveled to India, where he was arrested.

He left the country while free on bail and never returned.

In 2011, the Indian government made a renewed push to extradite Anderson, then 90, from the United States, without success. Prosecutors wanted to try him on culpable-homicide charges.

Dow Chemical says it has no liability because it bought Union Carbide more than a decade after the cases had been settled.

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BHOPAL, India (AP) — Three decades after lethal gas swept through Bhopal, the central Indian city remains haunted by memories of the world’s worst industrial disaster.

Hundreds of survivors of the gas leak that claimed thousands of lives took to the streets today to mark the 30th anniversary of the disaster.

On the morning of Dec. 3, 1984, a pesticide plant run by Union Carbide leaked about 40 tons of deadly methyl isocyanate gas into the air in Bhopal, quickly killing about 4,000 people. Lingering effects of the poison pushed the death toll to about 15,000 over the next few years, according to government estimates.

In all, at least 500,000 people were affected, according to the Indian government.

Thirty years later, activists say thousands of children are still being born with brain damage, missing palates and twisted limbs because of their parents’ exposure to the gas or water contaminated by it.

American chemical company Union Carbide Corp. has said that the accident — which took place when water entered the sealed tank containing the highly reactive methyl isocyanate — was an act of sabotage by a disgruntled employee, never identified, and not lax safety standards or faulty plant design, as claimed by some activists.

Union Carbide was bought by Dow Chemical Co. in 2001. Dow says the legal case was resolved in 1989, when Union Carbide settled with the

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Ponies bested by Coffeyville

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

Iola Middle School’s girl’s basketball teams fell to Coffeyville in all three games Tuesday night.

The eighth grade A-Team lost 49-33.

“The last couple of games we’ve had a stretch in the third quarter that we don’t handle well,” coach Marty Taylor said. “Tonight we gave up 10 points in about a minute and a half and that killed us.”

Madisyn Holloway led the

Iola’s Madisyn Holloway (21) is fouled while taking a jump shot in the first half of the eighth grade A-Team’s game. REGISTER/SPENCER

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The Ponies’ Piper Moore (20) shoots a one-handed lay-in during the eighth grade A-Team’s game.

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K-State basketball wins big Wildcats beat Omaha 84-66 in first game since playing in Maui Invitational MANHATTAN, Kansas (AP) — Kansas State scored its fewest points in Bruce Weber’s three-year tenure to close the Maui Invitational, so he wasn’t particularly excited to see Nebraska-Omaha, who knocked off Marquette on the road, in the Wildcats’ first game since the tournament.

However, a near-career high performance from Nino Williams and a season-high 23 assists aided Kansas State (4-3) in its first home game in two weeks.

Williams had 19 points and Marcus Foster added 16 points as Kansas State beat Nebraska-Omaha 84-66 in the first-ever meeting between the two schools on Tuesday night.

It is already the fourth 80-point game for the Wildcats. They only surpassed the mark twice during the 2013-14 season.

C.J. Carter had 22 points to pace the Mavericks, who were held to their lowest score of the season.

Nebraska-Omaha (3-3) overcame two nine-point leads just after halftime, but 10 points from Foster in the first eight minutes of the second half never allowed the Mavericks to close within six points through the remainder of the game.

A 3-point play from Marcus Tyus closed Kansas State’s lead to 56-48 with 11:19 left, but Williams scored nine of Kansas State’s next 13 points to open a 69-50 lead.

“We were pretty good defensively,” Weber said of the stretch. “We turned them

over, got some easy baskets off of it and were in the right spots. That first 10-12 minutes of the second half, we were pretty solid and we extended (the lead) to six to 10 and to 15 and kept it going.”

The Wildcats won the rebounding battle 43-25, which led to 38 points in the paint and substantial foul trouble for the Mavericks.

Forward Jake White was out for Nebraska-Omaha and his replacement Tre’Shawn Thurman and starter Mike Rostampour both picked up two early fouls.

“Like I told our team, ‘There are some things you can control and some things you can’t,’” Nebraska-Omaha coach Derrin Hansen said.

“One of those things we can’t control is that they can bring bigger bodies than anyone we’ve played. Whether that be Marquette, Nebraska or whoever, that hurt us tonight.”

It didn’t start well for the Wildcats, as they didn’t lead until a Jevon Thomas 3-pointer with 7:32 left in the first half.

Nebraska-Omaha opened up a 16-10 lead with 11:29 left in the first half, shooting nearly 50 percent during the stretch.

However, the Mavericks’ largest lead opened up the floodgates for Kansas State.

After struggling through his first six games, Justin Edwards followed a Foster basket with a spinning layup through traffic that aided a 12-3 first-half scoring run. He also knocked in his second 3-pointer of the season.

Ponies in scoring with 14 points. Piper Moore scored 10 points and grabbed a teamhigh 6 rebounds. Kendra Sprague had 5 points, while Mia Aronson and Kassy Shelby each scored 2 points.

The seventh grade A-Team lost a close game 23-20. Sydnie Keagle scored 6 points and grabbed 9 rebounds.

Gaby Lampe had 6 points as well and came down with 5 rebounds. Kelsey Morrison scored 4 points and had 5 rebounds. Ella Taylor scored 4 points.

We were pretty good defensively. We turned them over, got some easy baskets off of it and were in the right spots.

— Bruce Weber, K-State coach

“We didn’t play to our potential like we should have,” Carter said of letting their foot off the gas pedal. “The first we did, but they’re a great team.

For a six-minute stretch, like coach said, we just fell apart.”

The Mavericks trailed 3731 at halftime, but Carter’s 14 first-half points kept them in range after making only four shots in the final six minutes.

Williams led the Wildcats with eight points in the first half, including the first five points of the game.

Nebraska-Omaha, who was picked sixth in conference preseason polls, leads the Summit League in points per game, field goals made per game, 3-point percentage and total rebounds.

Kansas State is now 36-0 in December home games, dating back to a 76-66 loss to Rutgers Dec. 28, 2004.

Jevon Thomas reached double figures for the first time in his Kansas State tenure, scoring a career-high 12 points.

The performance surpassed a nine-point outing at Kansas on Jan. 11.

Kansas State will go to Tennessee on Saturday.

“The girls gave a great effort tonight,” Taylor said. “Gaby and Ella were active and aggressive on defense. Sydnie, Kelsey and Allie did a good job of keeping their big girls off the glass.”

Iola’s combined B-Team of seventh and eighth graders lost 23-11. Charvelle Peterson scored 6 points to lead the team. Haley Carlin and Carlie Payne each scored 2 points.

Gabby Richards made a free throw.

The Ponies play at Fort Scott on Thursday.

Kassy Shelby (14) dribbles the ball around a Coffeyville defender during the combined BTeam’s game. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

TCU leapfrogs Florida St. into 3rd in playoff rankings

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer

The top four in the College Football Playoff rankings going into the final weekend of the regular season is as follows: Alabama, Oregon, TCU and Florida State.

The question is: Short of a loss by one of those teams, is there anything a team on the outside can do to get in on Sunday when the final rankings are announced and the field for the first playoff is set?

“We’re at the point, we’re

waiting for results now,” selection committee chairman and Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long said Tuesday night. “We’re waiting for teams to complete their body of work. Again, we don’t project out. We’ve all seen games that have different outcomes than we expect.

“We focus on what has been accomplished to this point, and with that regard, the top four teams to this point are ranked where the committee believes they should be.”

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Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston (5) before the start of action against Florida on Saturday. TNS/TAMPA BAY TIMES/EVE EDELHEIT

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Defense argues condemned Texas killer is delusional HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Attorneys for a Texas death row inmate argue his execution set for this evening would provide no retribution or deterrence because prisoner Scott Panetti is too delusional.

Panetti’s lawyers are asking that his scheduled lethal injection be stopped and want the U.S. Supreme Court to examine the broader question of whether executing the mentally ill is unconstitutionally cruel.

Panetti, 56, was convicted and condemned in 1995, three years after he shot and killed his estranged wife’s parents at their home in the Texas Hill Country. At his trial, he acted as his own attorney, dressed in a purple cowboy outfit, attempted to subpoena more than 200 witnesses, including the pope and Jesus Christ, and took on an alternate personality, “Sarge,” to testify.

“Mr. Panetti’s execution would offend contemporary standards of decency,” attorneys Gregory Wiercioch and Kathryn Kase told the Supreme Court. Both visited with Panetti in prison in the past few weeks and said his mental condition had worsened and he should be entitled to a new round of competency tests.

Another appeal before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sought a reprieve to accommodate those tests.

State attorneys said records showed no significant change since Panetti’s last formal examination seven years ago. During his trial and subsequent appeals, no court has found him incompetent or insane.

“Panetti’s assertion of severe mental illness are in doubt when compared to the multiple past findings on his sanity, competency to stand trial and competency to be executed, as well as evidence submitted by the state,” said Ellen Stewart-Klein, an assistant Texas attorney general. “Panetti’s case is an inappropriate one to create a new rule of law.”

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not execute killers whose insanity means they can’t understand why they’re being put to death. In 2002, the justices prohibited the execution of the mentally impaired. Five years later, ruling on an appeal from Panetti, the court said mentally ill condemned prisoners could be put to death if they have a factual and rational understanding of why they’re being punished.

Panetti has insisted Satan is working through Texas prison officials to execute him to keep him from preaching the Gospel.

His lethal injection would be the 11th this year in the nation’s busiest death penalty state and be an “unconscionable execution of a severely mentally ill man who would die without comprehending what his death means,” Kase said.

Stewart-Klein said defense claims of his mental condition were exaggerated and previous tests had indicated some of his behavior could be contrived.

The Hayward, Wisc., native was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1978 and had been hospitalized more than a dozen times for treatment in the decade before fatally shooting Joe and Amanda Alvarado.

Their daughter, who was married to Panetti, and her 3-year-old daughter had moved in with them and she obtained a court order to keep Panetti away.

Enraged, he armed himself with a rifle, a sawed-off shotgun and knives, dressed in camouflage clothing and broke into the home in Fredericksburg, about 60 miles north of San Antonio. Both victims were shot at close range.

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Playoffs: Changing Continued from B1 TCU (10-1) moved up to No. 3, becoming the latest team with a loss to jump past undefeated Florida State, and further distancing itself from Big 12 rival Baylor (10-1). The Bears, who beat TCU 61-58 in Waco, Texas, in October, are sixth and Ohio State sits in between them and the Horned Frogs at fifth.

TCU finishes its regular season at home Saturday against Iowa State, which is winless in the Big 12. Baylor hosts Kansas State, which is ninth in the latest rankings.

Baylor is currently working with a public relations firm to provide “additional support in telling the Bears’ story over the last few weeks of the football season,” said Nick Joos, executive athletic director for external affairs.

The PR firm is sending notes and statistics about Baylor to media members, not committee members.

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No. 9 K-State prepares for Baylor

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The brutal defeat that Kansas State endured two years ago at Baylor is not in the back of the Wildcats’ minds.

More like front and center, every day of every week.

They were barreling toward an undefeated regular season with only the Bears and struggling Texas standing in the way of the BCS title game. They had a Heisman Trophy frontrunner in Collin Klein at quarterback, and a defense that had evolved into one of the nation’s best.

They were run right out of Waco after a humiliating 52-24 loss.

“That’s always on our minds. We always look back at that,” said senior wide receiver Tyler Lockett. “It’s one of those deals where you don’t get too many opportunities to be in that position. Obviously if we would have won, we would have played Texas on that senior night.”

Lockett’s voice trailed off for a moment. Then

he finished his thought.

“We had a chance to go to the national championship and Baylor ruined those plans,” he said, “and us seniors, we remember that. Even the juniors that were freshmen then remember.”

It was no surprise, then, that after rolling to a 51-13 rout of Kansas last weekend, thoughts immediately shifted to the ninth-ranked Wildcats’ trip to No. 5 Baylor on Saturday night.

The winner will earn no worse than a share of the Big 12 championship.

“It’s going to be huge going down there, playing the best team in the Big 12, arguably,” defensive end Ryan Mueller said. “We’re going to be ready to go. We’re going to prepare like we’ve never prepared before.

We know what’s on the line.”

Of course, they knew what was on the line two years ago, too.

Kansas State was 10-0 when it headed to Floyd Casey Stadium, which has since been replaced by a glittering new facility at Baylor. The Bears were stumbling along around .500. But on a

bizarre night in which everything seemed to go awry, the Wildcats allowed 342 yards rushing, 580 yards of total offense and watched Baylor pick off Klein three times.

It was 28-7 late in the second quarter, and the BCS standings started to quiver. It was 35-17 early in the third quarter, and the entire national title picture began to crumble.

By the time the game ended, the Wildcats were left to wonder what might have been.

“I certainly think about it a lot. It left an indelible mark on me,” Mueller said. “It was definitely the most painful loss I’ve had here.

That one hurt, big time.”

Mueller wouldn’t use the word “payback” to describe his feelings heading into Saturday’s game at glitzy McLane Stadium. But not only do the Wildcats (9-2, 7-1 Big 12) have an opportunity to capture a share of the Big 12 title, they can also ruin the Bears’ national title hopes.

Baylor (10-1, 7-1) was seventh in last week’s College Football Playoff rankings, and should jump at least one spot

when the new poll is released Tuesday night. A win over Kansas State and a little bit of help elsewhere could push the Bears into the inaugural four-team playoff.

“It’s going to be a real emotional game, a big game for us, just like every game every week,” Kansas State running back DeMarcus Robinson said. “Two years ago, it hurt. We’re trying to avoid that feeling again. It was terrible.

But you know we have a task at hand. We have another chance. We have to make something happen.”

The Wildcats still have an outside shot at the playoffs, though it would take a monumental amount of help.

A more realistic goal is a share of the school’s second Big 12 title in the last three years, something that Kansas State has never before accomplished.

“They ruined our season two years ago,” wide receiver Curry Sexton said. “It’s going to be a tough game. They’re a really good football team, but we’re looking forward to the challenge.”

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The Bears and Horned Frogs will end the season having played 10 common opponents. The biggest difference is TCU played Minnesota and Baylor played Buffalo. That combined with Baylor’s loss to West Virginia (7-5) is working in the Horned Frogs’ favor and keeping the head-tohead matchup from being the deciding factor.

“As we pointed out before, TCU has five wins over teams with winning records or .500 records and above, and Baylor has three, if you include Texas at 6-6,” Long said. “I can’t say it’s one thing. It’s a number of things we look at, and we believe TCU is better and deserving of that No. 3 rank over Baylor.”

Further complicating matters, the Horned Frogs and Bears would be co-champions of the Big 12 if both win out.

The conference has said it will not designate a champion via a tiebreaker.

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Stages of griefs come haltingly Becky Gonzalez, mother to the woman Jovan Belcher killed two years ago, tries to cope with her daughter’s murder

By VAHE GREGORIAN The Kansas City Star

(TNS) — Some time Monday, on the second anniversary of the murder of her youngest daughter, Kasandra Perkins, Becky Gonzalez will have gone to Capital Parks Cemetery in Pflugerville, Texas.

At the grave site, she’ll change out Kasandra’s flowers for the winter and place a small Christmas tree nearby.

“The tree is something that I think she would have liked, with its glittery and pink ornaments,” she said in an email interview from Arlington, Texas.

This is just one of many gestures and activities that help Gonzalez feel some consoling ongoing connection to her 22-year-old daughter, the victim of Chiefs’ linebacker Jovan Belcher on Dec. 1, 2012, before Belcher killed himself at the team’s practice facility near Arrowhead Stadium.

Yet all that can only go so far.

“I suppose one day I will accept that she isn’t coming back,” she said, “but I haven’t reached that point yet.”

This is an anniversary of an unspeakable act that few may wish to revisit.

But this isn’t about the inconvenience of the reminder.

It’s about never forgetting and honoring the victims.

It’s about relentlessly striving to seek reforms and clues that make “never again” not a fanciful phrase but a daily point of dedication.

DOMESTIC violence, of course, is a societal problem, but few institutions have been in position to do more by doing less than the NFL could and should have been.

So the NFL has become a prism on the issue because of its tin-eared ineptitude in taking it on, a past that makes for considerable skepticism even as it prepares to announce a new personal conduct policy.

The reinstatement of Ray Rice’s NFL eligibility by a judge on Friday is a poignant reminder of how little progress has been made in the two years since Belcher’s

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rampage that ought to have been, finally, the impetus for an overhaul of the league’s policies and procedures.

If that had happened then, maybe the NFL wouldn’t have botched the Rice case, starting with the farcical initial two-game suspension.

At the heart of the ruling by the arbitrator was, in fact, the arbitrary nature of the NFL’s second punishment of Rice, an indefinite ban, after video of the episode was unearthed by TMZ. “That the League did not realize the severity of the conduct without a visual record also speaks to (its) admitted failure in the past to sanction this type of conduct more severely,” former U.S. Judge Barbara S. Jones wrote.

The news of Rice’s return to eligibility was too fresh to Gonzalez for her to comment on Saturday, but she remains jarred by “the barbaric act” she saw on the video of him striking his wife, Janay.

Seeing him “punch her, watch her drop, and drag her like she meant nothing to him,” she said, showed “no evidence of remorse or concern for her person.

I hope they are both getting the help that they need.”

AT A ONE-YEAR anniversary event last year in Pflugerville, Gonzalez told The Star that she had been striving to avoid a self-destructive bitterness and hoped that day could mark the beginning of healing.

To some degree, it did.

But she’s starting to believe the wounds never heal and that you just learn better how to cope.

“I had a preconceived idea that you go through a list of emotional steps and end in a place of healing, but I’ve found that isn’t true,” she said.

“The ache doesn’t cease and I find myself revisiting phases of emotions that I thought I had moved past.

“It is still hard to believe that she isn’t here, but each day I put a smile on my face and keep going despite what I feel inside.”

It helps to talk about all the “funny, quirky things that she was so famous for,” though it’s not lost on Gonzalez that

I had a preconceived idea that you go through a list of emotional steps and end in a place of healing, but I’ve found that isn’t true. The ache doesn’t cease and I find myself revisiting phases of emotions that I thought I had moved past.

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element of Kasi is the only thing the family seems able to talk about.

It’s helped to immerse herself in her work with Kasi’s Kids, the nonprofit organization that she founded to help children (and their families) who have been orphaned by domestic homicide.

The foundation was “honored,” she said, to help eight children and their families in the last year.

One day, she’d like to expand the foundation to Kansas City, among other places, with an ultimate goal “not to be needed at all.”

It’s helped, too, to have beautiful young reminders of Kasandra.

A few days ago, she was thrilled when her oldest daughter, Angela Moore, gave birth to a baby girl and named her Abigail Kasandra “to honor our beautiful angel in heaven.”

Things, she would only say, “that are important to me as a mother.”

She wishes the NFL would be more motivated to make substantial change than keep prioritizing “damage control.”

“Football is such a big part of the lives of young men,” she said. “Imagine the progress that could be made throughout our society if they were to use their influence to be a leader in this effort.”

She has heard about the plausibility of Belcher having CTE, a degenerative brain disease found to have caused dementia and aggression (among other issues) in people who’ve suffered repeated head trauma.

AND THEN there’s Kasi’s daughter, Zoey, now 2 and in the custody of Kasi’s cousin, Sophie Perkins.

Zoey is a happy and funny “girly girl” who likes fashion accessories and cheerfully sings her ABC’s, Gonzalez said.

“She is,” Gonzalez said, “my heart.”

But there is so much that still presses on her heart, so much that remains so hard to understand or process.

She wishes the NFL and the Chiefs would reach out to her because she has a few questions for them that she said, “I need answered to help with my healing process.”

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Gonzalez declined comment on that, but last year, when the impending study of Belcher’s brain was reported by The Star, she said she was “doubtful it will solve anything.”

Alas, it’s hard to know what really could solve anything now.

Except for cherishing her granddaughters, and working with “Kasi’s Kids,” and smiling even when she doesn’t feel like it ... and taking a Christmas tree to her daughter’s grave.

All the more reasons that Dec. 1, 2012, and Kasi Perkins must be remembered: Never forget is the only path, long as it might be, toward never again.

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Route 4 — Logan Roettgen, 209 S. Tennessee, 620-228-3879— (S. Jefferson Ave., S. Sycamore St., South St. 300 block on, 100-200 E. Irwin, E. Calhoun, 206 1/2 E. Broadway Apartments) Route 5 — Logan Roettgen, 209 S. Tennessee, Iola, 620-2283879 — (S. Buckeye St., S. Cottonwood St., 300-400 E. Irwin St., 200-400 E. Broadway).

Route 6 — Levi Seilonen, 208 S. 2nd St., Iola 620-363-2371 — (S. Colburn St., S. Oak St., S. Elm St., S. 1st St., 400-700 E. Spruce St., 500-800 E. Broadway St.).

Route 7 — Sadie Maple, 305 S. Chestnut, Iola, 620-228-9094 — (S. 3rd St., S. 4th St., 900 E. Broadway St., 1019 E. Madison- S. Kentucky St., S. Ohio St., S. Tennessee St., S. Vermont St.).

Route 8 — Andrew Garber, 416 N. Chestnut, 620-228-1874 — (N. State St., N. Chestnut St., W. Madison 200 block on).

Route 9 — Andrew Garber, 416 N. Chestnut, 620-228-1874 — (10-1100 N. Walnut St., 200 W. Jackson Ave., 200 W. Douglas St., 113-201 W. Lincoln St.).

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Route 11 —Devon Wilson-Wing, 818 N. Sycamore St., Iola 620363-0839 — (N. Washington Ave., North St. to Buchanan St., 2 E. Buchanan St., 10-20 W. Buchanan, and Monroe St.).

Route 12 — Devon Wilson-Wing, 818 N. Sycamore St., Iola 620-363-0839— (200-600 N. Jefferson Ave., 200-523 N. Sycamore St., 100-500 N. Buckeye St., 100-300 E. Monroe St., 400 block E. Douglas St., 200-506 N. Cottonwood St., 202 E. Jackson Ave., 410-519 N. Oak St.).

Route 13 — Devon Wilson-Wing, 818 N. Sycamore St., Iola 620-363-0839— (600-1400 N. Jefferson Ave., 4-102 E. Buchanan, 4, 116 W. Edwards).

Route 14 — Jessica Tidd, 1418 Virginia Rd., 620-380-1259 — (217 North St., Townhouse East and 217 N. Washington Ave., Townhouse West) Route 15 — Devon Wilson-Wing, 818 N. Sycamore St., Iola 620-363-0839 — (E. Garfield St., Garfield Rd N., Windsor Place, White Blvd., E. Alamosa Cir., W. Alamosa Blvd., 1200-1400 N. Cottonwood St., Mustang Cir.) Route 16 — Ryan Geiler, 314 S. Buckeye St., Iola, 620-8759273 — (600-1300 N. Buckeye, 700-1110 N. Cottonwood St., 321 E. Buchanan St., 600-1300 N. Sycamore St., E. Jim St., 120 E. Garfield St.).

Route 17 — Alex Morris, 907 N. Buckeye, 620-228-0197 — (500-700 E. Lincoln St., N. Oak St., N. Elm 300 block on, 400710 N. Colburn St.).

Route 18 — Kaitlyn Rogers, 406 E. Lincoln, Iola 620-605-4178 — (N. 1st St., N. 2nd St., 800 block of E. Jackson Ave., part of E. Lincoln St., 818 E. Carpenter).

Route 19 —Joseph Melugin, 303 N. 2nd St., Iola 620-228-4821— (N. 3rd St., N. 4th St., Tara Gardens, 900-1110 E. Carpenter St., 902-1101 E. Douglas St., 1105 E. Lincoln).

Route 20 — Jennifer Tidd, 1418 Virginia Rd., 620-380-1259 — (The Square, 100-300 South St., 100-220 S. Jefferson Ave., 1102 N. Washington Ave., 9-19 N. Jefferson Ave., 110 East St., 1-108 E. Madison Ave., 1-115 E. Jackson Ave., 2-224 S. Washington Ave., 9-120 W. Madison Ave.).

Route 21 — Trevor Gray, 602 N. Kentucky, Iola, 620-875-9717 — (217 E. Madison Ave. to 1000 block, 700 block East St. on, S. 2nd St.).

Route 22 — Brandon Culp, 423 N Jefferson, Iola, 620-212-1132 — (Low numbers on N. Buckeye, 200-700 E. Jackson Ave., 819 N. Sycamore St., East St. thru 700 block, 200 N. Elm St., 200 N. Colburn St., 400-500 E. Monroe St., 100 N. Cottonwood St.).

Route 23 — Emma Neal, 910 North Walnut St., Iola, 620-3632505 — (Meadowbrook Rd. East and West) Route 24 — Jason Garber, 202 S. Main, LaHarpe, 620-363-4280 — (N. Kentucky 700 block on, E. Buchanan St., Redbud Ln., Kenwood Cir., Sterling Heights Addition).

Route 25 — Jason Garber, 202 S. Main, LaHarpe, 620-363-4280 — (N. Kentucky thru 600 block, N. Ohio St., N. Tennessee St., 1200-1300 block E. Carpenter St., 1100-1300 E. Lincoln St., 1100-1321 E. Douglas St., 1200-1300 E. Breckenridge).

Route 26 — Trevor Gray, 602 N. Kentucky, Iola, 620-875-9717 — (N. Vermont St., Kansas Dr., 1500 E. Carpenter St. on, Eisenhower Dr., Wilson Ln.).

Route 27 — Dravin Luttrell, 725 N. Elm, 620-363-2140 — (Dodge Dr., Holiday Ln., Kansas Ave., Holiday Cir. North and South).

Route 28 — Trevor Gray, 602 N. Kentucky, Iola, 620-875-9717 — (1800-2600 N. Cottonwood St., E. and W. Miller Rd., Funston St., Pryor St., Canary Ln, Cardinal Dr.).

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Route 42 — Brandi Gonzalez, 1318 New York St., Humboldt, 620-228-7047 — (Northeast Section - 900-1300 Bridge St., 1200 Osage St., 900-1700 Central St., 1200-1700 Neosho St., 1000-1600 Charles St., 1200 Elm St., 600-1600 Signor St., 100 Amos St.,1000 Kansas St., 400 N. 9th St., 300-1000 N. 10th St., 100-900 N. 11th St., 200-600 N. 12th St., 500 N. 13th St., 400 N. 14th St., 300 N. 16th St.).

Route 43 — Chris Gonzalez, 1318 New York St., Humboldt, 620-228-7047 — (Southeast Section - 900 Leavenworth St., 400 Pine St., 900-1200 Sycamore St., 1300 Pecan St., 1000 Mulberry St., 900-1200 Cherokee St., 900-1300 New York St., 900 Bridge St., 200-1100 S. 9th St., 500-1200 S. 10th St., 500800 S. 11th St., 300 S. 12th St., 200 S. 13th St.).

Route 44 — Travis King, 618 S. 7th St., Humboldt, 620-2281875 — (Southwest Section - 600 Ohio St., 300-1100 Pine St., 100-700 Sycamore St., 400-900 Pecan St., 200-800 Mulberry St., 1900 Cherokee St., 100-800 New York St., 1-500 Bridge St., 500-700 S. 3rd St., 200-600 S. 4th St., 400 S. 5th St., 300-1400 S. 8th St., 200-1100 S. 9th St., 500-1200 S. 10th St.).

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Involuntary ire after girlfriend’s ex moves back Dear Carolyn:

I’ve been with my girlfriend for a year. This is my first serious romantic relationship, and I love her very much.

In the beginning, I did a terrible job at managing the fact that she had been in relationships with other people. I was jealous, and it showed. I thought I had it under control when an ex-girlfriend of hers moved back into town.

During a low moment, I went through my girlfriend’s phone and found out that she’s not sure whether her feelings for her ex are strictly platonic, and that she lied about spending time with her.

We talked it through (I confessed my snooping) and she shared that she had been wondering but there was nothing between them but friend-

Tell Me About It Carolyn Hax ship. Since then, her friendship with her ex has been a source of stress for us. I asked for honesty about the time she spends with her, and that worked for a bit, but after I got upset because she spent a long evening with her, she went back to seeing her occasionally without telling me.

She states that when she tells me they’re hanging out it’s stressful for her.

I’d rather she didn’t spend much time with this ex, but if she does, then I feel she definitely shouldn’t omit that information. I

don’t know how to resolve this.

— Girlfriend Normally the answer when someone is sneaking around on you is to pull the plug. The only reason I’m not advising that here (yet) is that you might each be half of this problem.

So, here’s what you both need to do, even though I’m well aware I have only your attention: She: stops hiding. You: stop getting upset.

If you can’t stop getting upset, then at least stop showing it until you can get it under control . . . or break up. Those are your two choices, either trust her knowing it can come back to bite you, or don’t trust her and recognize that’s game over.

Why? Because you can’t give yourselves to each other fully if you’re

always worried someone will lure her away. You need to believe that her staying with you is her choosing you — and that if she chooses someone else, you’ll eventually find out.

Part 2 of this is accepting this might happen, in any relationship, and you will survive it and heal and someday love again.

Again — if you can’t do this, then you can’t be in a committed relationship, either with the person who burned you, if that’s the issue, or with anyone, if the fallout from being burned is that you can’t trust anyone (yet). As long as you’ve set yourself up to believe the Worst Thing That Could Ever Happen is for your lover to find someone else, you will always burn a good deal of energy worrying.

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Public notices (First published in The Iola Register on Nov. 19, 2014) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association successor by merger to Chase Home Finance, LLC Plaintiff, vs.

Bryan Frame and Jesica Koopman, et al.

Defendants.

Case No. 14CV68 Court Number:

Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SALE 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 Front Door of the Courthouse at Iola, Allen County, Kansas, on December 10, 2014, at 10:00 AM, the following real estate: Lot Fourteen (14), Block One

(1), in Kansas Property Improvement Company’s Sub-division of Lot “U” of Boughton’s Sub-division of Southeast Quarter (SE/4) of Section Twenty-six (26), Township Twenty-four (24), Range Eighteen (18), being an Addition to the City of Iola, Allen County, Kansas, commonly known as 404 North First, Iola, KS 66749 (the “Property”) to satisfy the judgment in the above-entitled case. The sale is to be made without appraisement and subject to the redemption period as provided by law, and

further subject to the approval of the Court. For more information, visit www.Southlaw.com Bryan J. Murphy, Sheriff Allen County, Kansas Prepared By: South & Associates, P.C. Blair Gisi (KS # 24096) 245 N. Waco, Suite 410 Wichita, KS 67202 (316)684-7733 (316)684-7766 (Fax) Attorneys for Plaintiff (110988) (11) 19, 26 (12) 3

(First published in The Iola Register, December 3, 2014) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DAVID AARON GARVER, DECEASED Case No. 13 PR 21 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT

(Chapter 59) THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified a petition has been filed in this Court by Sandra Garver, administrator of the Estate of David Aaron Garver, deceased, praying for final settlement of the estate, approval of her acts, proceedings and accounts as administrator, allowance for her

administrator’s fees and expenses and the Court determine the heirs of the said decedent and assign to her the real estate and personal property remaining in said estate.

You are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 23rd day of December 2014, at 8:30 a.m., in said District Court in Iola, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be

heard. Should you fail therein, judgement and decree will be entered in due course upon said petition.

SANDRA GARVER, Administrator and Petitioner ROBERT E. JOHNSON II JOHNSON LAW OFFICE PA P.O. Box 866 Iola,KS 66749 (12) 3, 10, 17

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