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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

County apprised of area economic efforts

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

The Kansas Department of Transportation said some as-yet-unidentified road resurfacing, highway reconstruction and bridge repair and replacement projects could be delayed. REGISTER/FILE PHOTO

KS: Budget bill misses mark

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A shortfall in Kansas’ current budget wouldn’t be fully covered under a plan being quickly pushed toward passage by Republican lawmakers, new figures from the Legislature’s research staff showed Tuesday.

The report said tax collections from the start of the current fiscal year on July 1 through January were almost $66 million short of expectations — a little higher than the

ACC choir can win over every sweetheart Allen Community College is offering an opportunity for loved ones to treat their valentines with songs from the heart.

The Allen Music Department is accepting orders for its annual Singing Valentines promotion.

The college’s concert choir will travel from place to place Feb. 12 and 13 for a live serenade, box of candy, rose and a personalized card.

The cost is $25, with a 10 percent discount if orders are placed by Friday. (Payment must accompany the order).

Telephone valentines also are available for $10 each.

The singers will travel anywhere in the Iola area, and will go as far as Moran or Humboldt, provided it’s within a 20-minute drive.

For information and booking, contact ACC music director Ted Clous, 365-5116, extension 258.

Come with your ideas. If somebody has a better idea of how to work through the situation we’re in, great.

— Gov. Sam Brownback

state Department of Revenue reported last week.

Earlier Tuesday, the Kansas House gave first-round approval to a bill aimed at eliminating a projected $344 million

shortfall in the current budget. Legislative researchers had estimated the plan would leave the state with cash reserves of almost $65 million See BUDGET | Page A4

Gates Corporation’s announcement of substantial expansion of its Iola plant was the highlight of an economic development report David Toland gave Allen County commissioners Tuesday morning.

Iola, the county and Iola Industries jointly fund countywide economic development efforts, to the tune of $20,000 each. Commissioners renewed their financial commitment at the same level for 2015.

While the Gates announcement — reported in Tuesday’s Register — was the plum of Toland’s report, several other items were of interest to commissioners.

Toland is executive director of Thrive Allen County.

GATES IS the largest private employer (about 650) in southeast Kansas. Meanwhile, Humboldt’s B&W Trailer Hitches has taken second place in the county at about 400, just ahead of Russell Stover Candies.

Broadband connectivity is a concern for many companies, those here and others that might consider the area.

LaHarpe Communications has wired LaHarpe with fiber optic cable and the next step is to find ways to extend that to Iola and Humboldt.

Several local companies have headquarters elsewhere and high-speed Internet service is important.

During 2014, Thrive, the economic group’s umbrella, responded to three proposals from industries seeking sites, though none found local opportunities to meet their needs. A variety of retail inquiries also surfaced, with 17 of them given assistance.

A supermarket for Iola has been a priority the past two years and 11 companies have been contacted. G&W Foods was on the cusp of building here, but its preferred site ran afoul of environmental contamination and plans were scuttled by the Environmental Protection Agency. Save-A-Lot announced its desire for an owner-operator to open an Iola store, but to date a suitable fit has been found.

To help with recruitment, demographic profiles have been produced for Gas, Humboldt, Iola, LaHarpe and Moran.

Thrive has proposed a housing study of Iola, Gas and LaHarpe that would help developers when they consider construction or rehabilitation of existing structures.

Industrial sites are in short supply in Allen County, with none “shovel ready.”

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School programs in funding crosshairs TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Cutting $39 million in supplemental school funding would result in immediate reductions to school programs and staff, education officials told a Senate panel Tuesday.

Several school superintendents testified to the Senate Ways and Means Committee that the bill, which would overhaul the calculation for a type of supplemental school funding, would put many districts in the red for the fiscal year ending June 30.

Topeka public schools may be forced to cancel summer school programs and lay off custodial staff should the bill pass, Superintendent Julie Ford said. As it is, the district plans to spend $3 million from its reserve fund to cover this school’s year’s expenditures, according to Larry Robbins, deputy superintendent of operations for Topeka schools.

“When we look at our cuts, it’s pretty tough to decide where we can make this cut of $897,000. Our teachers are under contract, our social workers, our counselors. We’re obligated to them,” Ford said.

Johnson County’s six school districts would take the largest hit under the bill, making up about 28 percent of the reduction. Overall, they’d lose

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Each local district can levy as much as $2,340 per student in property taxes to supplement state dollars. In poor areas, the levies generally must be higher than in wealthy areas to raise the same dollars, and the state provides additional money so districts don’t fall behind others.

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$11 million, with Blue Valley and Shawnee Mission surrendering their entire allotment of $3.3 million and $4.1 million respectively.

Sen. Ty Masterson, the Andover Republican who chairs the committee, repeatedly mentioned those districts’

funding levels as an example of why he believes the current calculation is unfair.

Each local district can levy as much as $2,340 per student in property taxes to supplement state dollars. In poor areas, the levies generally must be higher than in wealthy ar-

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eas to raise the same dollars, and the state provides additional money so districts don’t fall behind others.

But some wealthy districts, such as Shawnee Mission and Blue Valley, also have large populations of students, so See SCHOOL | Page A4

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Anxiety reigns as court tackles ACA again

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALVIDAR The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly five years after President Barack Obama signed his health care overhaul into law, its fate is yet again in the hands of the Supreme Court.

This time it’s not just the White House and Democrats who have reason to be anxious. Republican lawmakers and governors won’t escape the political fallout if the court invalidates insurance subsidies worth billions of dollars to people in more than 30 states.

Obama’s law offers subsidized private insurance to people who don’t have access to it on the job. Without financial assistance with their premiums, millions of those consumers would drop coverage.

And disruptions in the affected states don’t end there. If droves of healthy people bail out of HealthCare.gov, residents buying individual policies outside the government market would face a jump in premiums. That’s because selfpay customers are in the same insurance pool as the subsidized ones.

Health insurers spent millions to defeat the law as it was being debated. But the industry told the court last month that the subsidies are a key to making the insurance overhaul work.

Withdrawing them would “make the situation worse than it was before” Congress passed the Affordable Care Act. The debate over “Obamacare” was messy enough when just politics and ideology were involved. It gets really dicey with the well-being of millions of people in the balance. “It is not simply a function of law or ideology; there are practical impacts on high numbers of people,” said Republican Mike Leavitt, a former federal health secretary.

The legal issues involve the leeway accorded to federal agencies in applying complex legislation. Opponents argue that the precise wording of the law only allows subsidies in states that have set up their own insurance markets, or exchanges. That would leave out most beneficia-

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The president will say, ‘With one line of legislation, you could save 5 million people from losing their health insurance,’ and the Republicans need to have a unified response. If they don’t, then it creates a problem for them.

— Mike Leavitt, former Health and Human Services secretary

ries, who live in states where the federal government runs the exchanges. The administration and Democratic lawmakers who wrote the law say Congress’ clear intent was to provide subsidies to people in every state.

While predicting a victory, the White House has not prepared consumers for the consequences of a reversal.

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell repeatedly said that “nothing has changed,” even as other supporters of the law grew alarmed when the Supreme Court unexpectedly took the case.

Burwell has dodged questions about contingency planning.

With oral arguments set for March 4 and a decision expected early in the summer, here’s what’s at stake: RED STATES IN THE PATH

Insurance losses would be concentrated in Republican-led states, many of which have resisted “Obamacare.”

Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, and New Jersey are among those with the most to lose. Residents of blue states that are running their own markets, including California and New York, would continue to receive benefits.

Because the health law’s 2015 sign-up season is still underway, it’s unclear how many millions of people could become uninsured. Two independent studies put the number at around 8 million. That includes consumers who bought individual policies outside of HealthCare.gov, but would drop coverage if premiums jump.

The federal government is currently running the insurance markets in 37 states, but not all may be affected.

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Faced with constituents at risk of losing coverage, some congressional Republicans may be willing to make fixes to the subsidies in exchange for concessions from Obama. Republicans have a long hit list of health law provisions, including employer requirements to cover workers, a tax on medical devices and a Medicare cost-control board.

But other Republicans will not want to lift a finger to bail out the program they’ve railed against.

“The president will say, ‘With one line of legislation, you could save 5 million people from losing their health insurance,’ and the Republicans need to have a unified response,” said Leavitt, the former HHS secretary. “If they don’t, then it creates a problem for them.”

Yet in the five years since the health law passed, Republicans have failed to find consensus on an alternative, and remain hard-pressed to do so. The GOP’s 2016 presidential hopefuls will be hounded for answers.

To complicate matters, budget experts say a congressional fix restoring some or all of the subsidies would have to be paid for with either spending cuts or tax increases.

The last time the Supreme Court ruled on the health care law, the result was a 5-4 decision upholding its central requirement that virtually all Americans must carry health insurance.

This time, it won’t just be political junkies holding their breath before the announcement, but many consumers as well.

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Some states have made progress toward setting up their own exchanges.

INSURER ESCAPE CLAUSE?

Even if the Obama administration has no Plan B, insurers appear to have been thinking ahead.

The federal government acknowledges in contract language that insurers “could have cause to terminate” their agreements with HealthCare.gov if the subsidies cease.

TIME TO SCRAMBLE

If the Supreme Court rules in late June, that would leave about three months before the start of the next sign-up season for coverage.

If the ruling goes against the subsidies, it’s unclear whether the courts can delay the effects for more than a few weeks, and most state legislatures are not in session during the summer. Meanwhile, insurers are supposed to have their rates for 2016 locked down.

There’s speculation that the White House could quickly roll out an administrative fix, but Obama could also toss the whole mess into the lap of the GOP-led Congress.

Technically, a few tweaks from Congress would fix the problem.

But after repeated votes to repeal “Obamacare,” would any Republicans be willing to facilitate its rescue?

“We don’t see fixes the administration can make and we don’t see Congress acting to fix this,” said Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, a public policy center aligned with the White House.

Deer hit Brian Schneider, Mission, was southbound on U.S. 169 Tuesday, on the outskirts of Iola, when he struck a deer. Schneider was not hurt.

Residential care news Tara Gardens

Residents enjoyed a Super Bowl party Sunday with barbecued little smokies and chips with cheese dip, cookies and soda.

Residents voted on who they thought would

win the game. Nine correctly chose the New England Patriots.

Residents played bingo Thursday and trivia games on Jan. 28.

Oleata’s friend stopped by for several games of Uno Monday.

The family of Chet Bishop thanks everyone for the cards, calls, food, flowers, visits, prayers, love and support that we received during the loss of our loved one. Special thanks to the Community Care employees, Windsor Place employees, Dr. Brian Wolfe and employees, Pastor Roger Collins and members for the Iola Baptist Temple, Allen County Regional Hospital employees and Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel employees. We appreciate every act of kindness that you have shown our family at this difficult time.

May God Bless you all!

Doris, Stephen and Rita, Terry and Susie, Kenny and Judy

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Obituary Kaleb Morton Kaleb Ryan Morton, 3-year-old son of Justin Pritchard and Tabitha Morton of Iola, died Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, at Allen County Regional Hospital.

Kaleb was born July 28, 2011, in Iola, and has always lived here. He enjoyed playing with his helicopter and liked SpongeBob, Spiderman and Thomas the Train.

His parents, Justin Michael Kaleb Morton Pritchard and Tabitha Renee Morton, survive, as do three sisters, Austyn Paulie, Addisyn Pritchard and Izabelle Morton; a brother, Joshua Pritchard; and grandparents, Sandra Morton, Iola, and Betty and Charlie Pritchard, Hutchinson.

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery, Iola. He will lie in state Thursday at the funeral home.

Memorial gifts to the Kaleb Ryan Morton Memorial Fund may be left with the funeral home.

To sign the guestbook online or leave a condolence, go to www.iolafuneral.com.

Snoozing thief loses PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a Florida man suspected of stealing a car took off on foot from a traffic stop and briefly eluded deputies while he grabbed a nap under a nearby trailer.

The Pensacola News Journal reports that deputies followed the sound of 37-year-old Kevin Lee Barbour’s snoring — described as a “snorting wild boar” — to discover him Sunday night in Santa Rose County.

Officials say deputies tried to stop Lee, of Pensacola, after noticing his vehicle didn’t have tag lights. They say that when the deputy activated his siren, Barbour pulled off the road and ran.

The deputy gave followed but lost sight of Barbour.

It was in the Santa Rosa County Jail on Tuesday, accused of driving with a suspended license, vehicle theft and resisting an officer.

Financial Focus When Investing, Use The "Power if Three"

Many factors will affect your results as an investor — and some of these factors are beyond your control, such as interest-rate movements or the eurozone debt crisis or the sales results of the companies in which you invest.

However, as you work toward your financial goals, you will find that you actually have control over three of the most important drivers of investment success: time, money and return.

Let’s look at these three elements: • Time — Time can be a big asset — if you use it wisely. However, many young people, just starting out in their working lives, think they can wait until “later” to begin investing, as their retirement is so far away. But this could be a mistake. The earlier you start to invest, the more money you will put away, and the greater the potential for your money to appreciate. If you do wait until mid-career before you start seriously saving and investing for retirement, you will still have options, but you may need to make some trade-offs, such as possibly retiring later than you had originally planned. So here’s the key: Start investing as early as possible — and keep investing.

• Money — Not surprisingly, the more money you invest on a regular basis while you are working, the more money you’ll likely end up with when you retire. Suppose, for example, that you invested $3,000 per year and earned a hypothetical 7% annual return. After 30 years, you’d have accumulated about $303,000 (assuming the investment was placed in a tax-deferred account, such as a traditional IRA). But if you put in $5,000 per year, instead of $3,000, and earned the same hypothetical 7% annual return, you’d end up with about $505,000 after 30 years, again assuming the investment was placed in a traditional IRA. The difference between $3,000 per year and $5,000 per year isn’t all that much — just about $40 a week — but after 30 years, these relatively small differences can add up to a big sum of money. Of course, this is just a simple illustration that shows how saving more can possibly put you in a better position in the future. Keep in mind that there are no guarantees and that the value of your investments will fluctuate.

• Return — You might think that your investments’ rate of return is the one variable over which you have the least control. However, “least control” doesn’t mean “no control.” You can control your potential return to the extent of selecting a mix of stocks, bonds, government securities and other investments that reflects the level of risk you’re willing to tolerate in exchange for the potential growth you’d like to achieve. By creating this mix, you can help yourself avoid the biggest investment risk of all — not reaching your long-term goals.

By investing for as many years as you can, putting in as much as possible each year and choosing an investment mix that provides you with the greatest potential reward given your risk tolerance, you can take command, to a significant extent, of your own investment success. And that’s a type of authority you won’t want to relinquish.

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Thursday-high school Scholars Bowl at regionals; high school basketball at Crest vs. Chetopa; Monday-middle school Scholars Bowl at Uniontown, 4 p.m.; Crest school board meeting, board office, 7 p.m.; TuesdayPTO assembly, “Science of Sound” show, 9 a.m.; Pre-K-12, public invited; high school basketball at Olpe; Feb. 11-high school FFA to Ottawa.

Meal site

Friday-baked chicken, scalloped potatoes, mixed veggies, bread, lemon medley; Mondaychicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, broccoli, pineapple; Feb. 11-meatloaf, baby bakers, winter blend veggies, roll, blueberry mix.

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Christian Church

Scripture presented Sunday was Acts 10-11.

Pastor Mark McCoy brought the message, “Sharing the Fire.”

Feb. 11-Working Wonders Christian Women’s Council at the church, 7 p.m., Christy McGhee hostess; Amanda Beebe, devotion leader. All women are welcome.

UMC

Scripture presented Sunday at the United Methodist Church Sunday was Psalm 111, Deuteronomy 18:15-20, 1 Corinthians 8:1-13, and Mark 1:21-28. Pastor Dorothy Welch presented the sermon, “Who Shut off the Lights?” The February UMW Challenge is the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility.

Crest Taco Bar

The Crest High School Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter will host a taco bar Friday in conjunction with the Oswego basketball games, beginning at 5 p.m. in the Crest cafeteria. The bar will remain open until the start of the third quarter of the varsity boys game. Donations will be used to send members to a summer leadership camp and to purchase items to place in care packages for military service personnel overseas.

Crest FFA

Twenty-seven active members, an increase over last year, are enrolled in agriculture education classes at Crest High School.

Students learn agricultural practices and develop leadership skills.

Among the group’s recent activities were the National FFA Convention, Greenhand Conference, land, horse and dairy cattle career development events, leadership school and job interviews.

Students taking agriculture mechanics have been successful in learning and sharpening their skills in ARC, MIG and TIG welding. They have done a nice job completing bale rings, panels and even built a bale bed from scratch.

The spring semester looks to be as busy. Students are already working on upcoming career development events as

well as keeping their record books up to date in pursuit of proficiency awards and state degrees.

The Crest chapter is in the process of starting up an alumni association for past FFA members or anyone who would like to help this organization and the students. Brett Brownback is the instructor.

Crest kindergarten

At the beginning of the school year, Brenda Stephens and her kindergartners began counting the days of school and planning a party when the 100th day was reached. That day was Jan. 27. The students did several things to celebrate. They made a crown that said “I survived 100 days at Crest,” did a dot-to-dot with 100 dots, counted 100 items by making piles of five and 10 and made a snack by counting out 100 items to eat.

There are 15 kindergartners this year.

They are Tyson Benjamin, Preston Blaufuss, Tristan Boone, Alexander Fuller, Alecia Gonzalez, Gage Jones, Kamryn Jones, Caden Milam, Devyne Moore, Hanna Schmidt, Jaycee Schmidt, Truett Vermillion, Phillip Warren, Ben Whitcomb and Lane Yocham.

City Council

At the December meeting the street and alley report was made on the filling of holes in streets that are in process; acid levels were a bit high in the water system, and the shelter roof was completed at the city park.

Rick Horn’s Halfway House cereal malt beverage license was approved for 2015. City employees will receive a 1.7 percent

vehicles for them, along with paying for veterinarian bills and food.

A police officer says Lawrence is one of 10 largest cities in Kansas that doesn’t have its own canine unit. He says the department has depended on requesting dogs from neighboring law enforcement agencies

when needed.

The city’s police chief says the department will interview officers to select who will serve as the dogs’ handlers.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports officers will purchase the dogs from a Texas breeder used by the Kansas Highway Patrol’s Police

Hutchinson officer loses appeal HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A former Hutchinson police officer who was fired for lying lost his appeal to be returned to his job.

The Hutchinson City Council on Tuesday upheld the firing of Charles Malvo for lying during an internal affairs investigation.

He was the second officer who lost an appeal of his firing for lying during the investigation. The second officer, Lorenzo Bohringer, has taken his case to court.

The Hutchinson News reports Malvo, Bohringer and Jamin Raigoza were fired in December 2013 after

a woman complained Raigoza was harassing her, including showing up at her job and house and asking for sex and showing her an inappropriate picture.

Malvo and Bohringer are accused of lying during the investigation into the woman’s complaint.

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80th Birthday

A card shower has been requested for former resident, Marilyn (Lay) Veteto, who will be 80 on Feb. 13. Marilyn was raised here and is a graduate of Colony High School’s class of 1953.

Her address is 11735 Pebbleton, Houston, TX 77070.

Around town

Congratulations to Crest High School Winter Homecoming King Austin Green and Queen Madison Covey.

A birthday party was held at El Charro’s in Iola for Ethel Beckmon’s 91st birthday the evening of Jan. 20. Attending were Randal and Marsha Beckmon, Kincaid; Bill and Misty Hobbs, Iola; Bob, Mary and Brianna Scovill, Bill Beckmon, Cale Goodman and Rose Samson, Colony. Birthday cake, coffee were enjoyed at Ethel’s home. She had a lot of phone calls and cards. Her daughters Rose and Mary entertained her with card playing and sharing humorous stories.

Mary Decker has been hospitalized in Wichita but is back home, doing well and gaining strength.

Virginia Weatherman was recently hospitalized for a few days, is home and doing better.

Sympathy is expressed to Beth Prock at the death of a family member, Marilyn Prock, 61, who died Jan. 14 at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Funeral services were Thursday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel, Iola. Inurnment will be at Highland Cemetery at a later date.

Lawrence OKs dogs for police force LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence police officers will soon be able to call two dogs their partners in fighting crime.

The City Commission approved funds to create the new K-9 unit on Tuesday night. The money will be used to purchase the animals and equip

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Service Dog Unit.

Cost is estimated at $19,000 to purchase the two dogs, plus equipping vehicles for them and paying for their vet bills and food.

Rather than purchase new vehicles for the two K-9 units — at an estimated cost of $126,000 — the police department will retrofit two existing fleet vehicles for the dogs.

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How to prepare your car for travel While it’s impossible to shield yourself from every danger on the highway, emergency response experts do recommend a list of practical tackle that may lessen your mortal risk in the event you are involved in an accident this winter. Among the items suggested for your car: Water; non-perishable food; blankets; flashlight and batteries; a whistle or air horn canister to alert any passersby in the event your car has slipped from view; mittens or gloves, socks and a cap; chemical hand warmer packets, which, when placed in a shoe or boot, can be used to warm cold toes, too; first aid kit; many online retailers sell a combination seat belt cutter/glass breaker utensil small enough to link to your key chain; one Iolan recommended the Trucker’s Friend, a trademarked, medieval-looking, all-in-one tool with a curved ax blade, spanner, hammer, nail puller, tire chain hook, pry bar and lever, which promises to fit under most passenger-side seats; road flares; waterproof matches; pocketknife; kitty litter, a sprinkling of which

provides traction for ice- or snow-stuck tires (not the “clumping” cat litter, though, which is made from clay); fire extinguisher; nylon cord; and maybe a pair of waterproof boots.

If you are stranded alone in or near your vehicle, you’re meant to stay with the car and not wander off in search of help. If possible, run the engine for 10-15 minutes every hour for warmth, but first make certain your exhaust pipe is free of snow or debris. Turn on your dome light to alert any distant cars.

Tie a brightly colored cloth to your antenna.

If you’re without an extra blanket or coat, wrap yourself in the car’s floor mats, or towels, or the contents of your gym bag, anything to slow the escape of body heat.

If you’re still in possession of your cell phone, and are able to make contact with the authorities but don’t know your exact location, activate the GPS function on your phone.

Men make up the majority of winter fatalities, according to the National Weather Service, because they tend toward greater, and often unwise, risk.

Gov. calls on business owners to expand TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican Gov. Sam Brownback is encouraging Kansas business owners to expand their enterprises and create new ones.

Brownback met with entrepreneurs from around the state Tuesday at the annual Small Business Day event organized by National Fed-

eration of Independent Business. The association includes 4,000 Kansas companies.

Brownback says the state’s economy is still recovering from downturns in small aircraft manufacturing but is on a strong footing for growth.

The governor has been lauded by some pro-business groups for

urging the Legislature to drastically lower state income taxes and eliminate the small-business tax in 2012 and 2013.

However, the current legislative session has been dominated by work to fill a budget shortfall of $344 million in the current fiscal year, which arose after the state’s massive tax cuts.

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— Wichita officials say a city employee is in critical condition after being injured at the city’s pumping station at Cheney Reservoir.

The 59-year-old man was found unconscious about 2 a.m. Tuesday by another employee who was checking on him.

Public Works director Alan King says it’s possible the man fell between

20 and 30 feet and could have been lying there for hours before he was found.

The incident is under investigation. The man’s name has not been released.

The city is working to repair a leak in the water treatment plant but it’s not clear if the injured person was involved in that project.

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Seven die in N.Y. train, car crash NEW YORK—Seven people were killed after a Metro-North commuter train struck a stalled SUV on the tracks with the gates down in the Westchester County community of Valhalla, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Tuesday night, describing the crash scene as a “truly ugly and brutal sight.”

“You have seven people who started out today to go about their business and aren’t going to be making it home tonight,” Cuomo said at a news conference from the scene. He said six of the dead were on the train and the seventh fatality was the driver of the SUV on the tracks.

“The third rail of the track came up from the explosion and went right through the car,” Cuomo said.

Officials said 12 others were injured. The National Transportation Safety Board was en route to the scene early Wednesday.

Twelve people were taken to Westchester Medical and one to a hospital in Sleepy Hollow, the MTA said.

The Metro-North Train 659, typically packed with more than 600 passengers at rush hour, left Grand Central Station at about 5:44 p.m, MTA officials said.

At about 6:30 p.m. and nearly 26 miles north of Grand Central, the train hit a stalled Jeep

Cherokee, officials said.

Witnesses described seeing a giant ball of flames immediately after the crash.

According to the MTA, the train struck the SUV at the Commerce Street railroad grade crossing in Valhalla, adjacent to the Kensico Cemetery. It was unknown how fast the train was traveling at impact but officials said they can hit speeds of 60 mph.

Gilliam said he was driving toward Commerce Street when the train struck the vehicle.

“It was just this fireball moving along the tracks, pushing the vehicle. The whole first car of the train was just a big ball of fire. . . . It was a direct hit,” he said. “just a tremendous, tremendous impact.”

Shauna Marcus, 34, who had just left a rock climbing gym near the crash scene, was headed toward her parked car when she says she saw a black Jeep Cherokee get struck by the lowering railroad bars at the crossing.

“The woman got out . . . to look at the SUV and see what was wrong . . . like, to assess the damage.

But she was right on the tracks.”

“I turned and saw the fire and I knew what happened,” she said. “She just stopped or got stalled on the tracks at the worse possible moment.”

County: Economic development Continued from A1

Ray Pershall Industrial Park at the north edge of Iola is built out, with one remaining site spoken for. Humboldt’s industrial park also is full. A commonality for industrial expansion is a large site with utilities and often rail service. Humboldt and Moran have rail; Iola does not. A study to determine cost of developing an industrial/business park is on the horizon.

With Allen County’s unemployment rate at 3.8 percent — well below the state level — finding employees for current industries, much less new ones, is difficult.

Filling third (night) shifts is difficult.

Nine tours of the old Allen County Hospital, including one Monday, have occurred, with prospects ranging from the Veterans Administration to nursing home

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on June 30, but that was calculated before the final report on tax collections. Factoring in the new tax collection numbers, the bill would leave the state with an $800,000 deficit.

The House advanced the bill on a voice vote, and Republicans who control the chamber expect to pass the measure Wednesday. The GOP-controlled Senate

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Lack of success is laid to the facility being too large, too costly to renovate and its large number of small rooms. Realistically, Toland said, the majority of the building might need to be razed so the site could be developed for housing or commercial purposes.

While three of Allen County’s four largest employers — Gates, Russell Stover and Herff Jones — were sold in 2014, results so far have been positive. Gates announced its expansion and Russell Stover’s new owner, Lindt, has been positive about its Iola plant.

Recruitment of medical professionals continues. A family practice physician is expected to move to Allen County later this year. A dentist and his family are considering Allen County.

The Veterans Administration and Allen County Regional Hospital are negotiating an agreement that would provide some services for veterans, save patients from driving to Topeka, Wichita or Leavenworth and enhance ACRH’s income. Sleep studies and cataract surgery are among services being considered.

A graph Toland handed commissioners showed the lion’s share of the development group’s budget, about $44,000 (of $61,00 spent) went to staffing. Travel came in at nearly $7,500, printing, data and marketing, $6,700.

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commissioners: — Approved purchase of a John Deere road maintainer from Murphy Tractor for $213,342 with trade-in of an older unit.

— Heard a presentation from Susan Galemore, Southeast Kansas Regional Planning representative, about Community Development Block Grants and services the group provides in grant writing and administration. Grants may be used for such things as community infrastructure work, economic development and commercial rehabilitation.

— An engineering firm will be engaged to plan the county’s next bridge project northwest of Petrolia. Construction, with Kansas Department of Transportation support of as much as $120,000, is expected in 2016. Bill King, director of Public Works, said a low-water bridge northeast of Petrolia would be removed from the county’s official system; the road that runs over it dead ends shortly thereafter.

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also must consider the measure, but GOP leaders hoped to take an up-or-down vote on the House’s plan by the end of the week.

The new figures mean that if lawmakers pass the bill quickly — as Republican Gov. Sam Brownback wants — they may be forced to follow up with other adjustments later.

“Nothing precludes us from making further adjustments,” said Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairman Ty Masterson, an Andover Republican. “The thing about budgeting is that the horse is never all of the way out of the barn.”

The bill includes Brownback’s proposal to divert $158 million in highway funds into the state’s main bank account, where the shortfall occurs.

The measure also sweeps up $12 million earmarked for future spending on early-childhood education, children’s mental health and programs to diagnose autism early. It also diverts $4.6 million in unspent disaster-relief

funds — a move that some lawmakers were troubled by given spring tornado season hasn’t yet arrived.

Brownback’s budget director has said lawmakers need to rewrite the current budget by Feb. 13 to ensure Kansas pays its bills on time.

But the state also faces an additional projected $436 million shortfall in the 2015-2016 budget, beginning July 1.

The state’s budget problems arose after lawmakers aggressively cut personal income taxes at Brownback’s urging in 2012 and 2013 to stimulate the economy, dropping the top rate 29 percent and exempting 191,000 business owners altogether. Brownback has proposed slowing down future tax cuts and boosting tobacco and alcohol taxes — solutions that won’t help the current budget’s deficit.

The bill does make some limited spending cuts, but focuses more on moving money around to cover spending on other government programs, including prisons, education and

social services.

The diversion of highway funds drew bipartisan protests during Tuesday’s debate in the House. Rep. Don Schroeder, a Hesston Republican, called it “pretty obscene.”

The Kansas Department of Transportation said some as-yet-unidentified road resurfacing, highway reconstruction and bridge repair and replacement projects could be delayed.

Backers of the bill said the state’s highway system would remain in good shape.

And Brownback, directing his comments to critics of the highwayfunds diversion, said after the debate: “Come with your ideas. If somebody has a better idea of how to work through the situation we’re in, great.”

The bill’s supporters also said capturing unspent disaster relief funds isn’t a problem because state law gives the governor and legislative leaders the authority to set aside $10 million at any time to cover such expenses.

School: Programs could suffer Continued from A1 their potential tax revenue per student can be low enough to qualify for state aid.

“To say that we’re going to disproportionately affect the poor districts is just false, quite frankly,” Masterson said, adding that high energy prices temporarily increased property values in some rural counties, which then saw their state allotment fall due to small schools.

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Anthony Hensley, a Topeka Democrat, testified against the bill, saying the current formula was effective, but the Legislature had failed to adequately fund it.

Dave Trabert, president of the conservative Kansas Policy Institute, was the only person who testified in favor of the bill, saying schools could make up for the lost funding by restructuring, outsourcing and reducing extra services.

To say that we’re going to disproportionately affect the poor districts is just false, quite frankly.

— Sen. Ty Masterson, Andover (R)

But Trego County School District Superintendent George Griffith said his district and others in western Kansas have already pursued most options to improve efficiency and cut costs, so any move to change the formula should be made in the future instead of affecting current budgets.

“I feel that the current legislature is antischools and isn’t interested in adequately funding education. It has put bigger emphasis on giving tax relief to those who can afford to pay,” he said.

Gov. Sam Brownback, who has said he wants

to scrap the current school funding system and instead fund each school directly with block grants, defended the timing of the move and said it can’t wait because of the current multimillion-dollar budget gap.

The revenue shortfalls and automatic increases in education spending due to the funding formula have combined to create a situation “you’ve got to address somehow in this fiscal year,” he said. “You can do more planning out for ‘16 and ‘17 but we’ve got an issue that we’ve got to pass this year.”

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Budget deadline forces hard decisions Even for an upbeat guy, Rep. Kent Thompson was having a hard time drumming up enthusiasm for the challenges facing the Kansas Legislature.

“We’ve got 10 days to pass a budget,” he said Tuesday morning. “If not, we won’t be able to pay our bills.”

The pervasive mood in the state capitol is pretty glum, according to reports.

“I’m always the optimist,” Thompson. “But I’m not sure that attitude is widespread these days.”

HERE’S THE challenge: Tax collections to date fall $66 million under projections. The state is now more than $330 million short on cash.

Come mid-February, health care providers are due about $95 million for Medicaid reimbursements and public school districts are due another $45 million.

To make these payments Gov. Brownback has recommended legislators pass a stop-gap budget by robbing Peter to pay Paul.

For those in the transportation department, be wary of new “friends.”

What was supposed to be a massive 10-year program to bring the state’s roads and bridges up to snuff, the T-Works program is now being ogled as a cash cow.

Brownback has proposed transfer of $160 million from the T-Works program to the general fund to address immediate needs. TWorks is funded by a combination of sales and motor fuels taxes. Currently, almost $263 million is shifted from its fund to other areas of the budget.

Thompson said he’s being “inundated” with calls from road construction contractors complaining of the transfers that surely will translate into reduced and eliminated projects.

“I can’t blame them,”

Thompson said. “But it’s the only agency with money.”

KPERS is also in the crosshairs.

Brownback proposed reducing payments into the state’s retirement program by about $48 million.

As vice chairman of the committee on Pensions and Benefits, Thompson takes especial umbrage at the hit.

“We’ve gone from 11.2 percent funding to 8.6 percent,” he said of the state’s contribution to the retirement program.

To add insult to injury, the governor has requested legislators extend borrowing to support KPERS by another 10 years, from 2033 to 2043, to get the “advantage” of a lower rate. This is akin to a homeowner opting for a 30-year mortgage, knowing full well he’ll pay more in the long run. In Kansas’s case, we’ll be borrowing $1.5 billion to cover the additional 10 years. The debt service on the bonds is expected to be more than $90 million per year for 30 years, costing state taxpayers an additional $2.7 billion.

LAWMAKERS want us to feel they have no choice but to make such expensive decisions.

“I inherited these problems,” Thompson said, referring to his junior status in the House.

Maybe so.

But it’s within his power to fight the good fight and pay down debts on KPERS; maintain the state’s infrastructure; adequately fund education to grow a competitive workforce; and, of course, to keep a modest tax structure to fund these needs in an equitable fashion.

Is that the easy course?

Not in this Legislature. But it’s certainly the most responsible.

— Susan Lynn

Thought for the day “Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.”

— Edith Wharton, American author (1862-1937)

Christie’s ‘Oops’ moment on measles vaccine

By JOHNATHAN BERNSTEIN Bloomberg News for TNS

This week’s tempest on the trail of possible Republican presidential nominees has been New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s seemingly weak defense of vaccinating American children. By calling for “balance” in government policy, and saying that “parents need to have some measure of choice,” Christie was blasted by both liberals and conservatives. By late Monday morning he seemed to be backing off his comments.

But Christie’s apparent attempt to appeal to vaccination opponents, while a surprising strategy for a governor in a densely populated state, is consistent with a plausible Iowa caucus strategy: an attempt to lock up a small faction of voters.

It’s hard to know exactly why a presidential contender makes any particular comment. Yet one challenge for candidates, especially in a large field in a mostly unified party, is how to differentiate themselves if they share positions with their rivals on every important issue — as most Republicans do in the 2016 cycle. This devolves into petty arguments about which candidate is most adamant on, say, opposition to Obamacare.

That situation is even tougher in Iowa. Mike Huckabee, for example, may have won the Republican primary

Adjust sentences for pot convictions Punishment for possession of marijuana is extreme and costly to state Kansas legislators are paying little attention to a call for legalization of medical marijuana use. And champions of recreational marijuana use — basically decriminalization at the state level — won’t find sympathetic ears in the Statehouse.

However, there is one bill floating around the Capitol regarding marijuana that legislators should seriously consider.

The bill would reduce the penalty for first and second convictions on possession of marijuana.

Scott Schultz, executive director of the Kansas Sentencing Commission, said the change would remove more than 400 marijuana possession cases annually from the state’s felony docket

and divert about 46 people from state prisons in the fiscal year that begins July 1.

Schultz estimated the cost savings at $1.1 million.

Legislators already have reviewed proposed bills that call for creation of new crimes with presumptive prison sentences and assigning longer prison sentences to some existing crimes.

Those things come at a cost at a time when the state doesn’t have a lot of money to toss around.

The best course of action would be to reject calls for new crimes and stiffer sentences and still adopt the law reducing the penalty for simple marijuana possession on the first and second convictions. That would create real savings.

Absent that, legislators should at least consider changing the penalty for first and second convictions of simple marijuana possession as a way to pay for other changes they might make.

Now, a first possession conviction is a Class A misdemeanor and the second conviction is a level five felony, which calls for a sentence of 10 months to 42 months.

A third conviction also is a felony.

Under the proposed bill, a first conviction would be a Class B misdemeanor and a second conviction would be a Class A misdemeanor. Third and subsequent convictions would remain felonies.

Jennifer Roth, legislative chairwoman for the Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, notes the sentence for a second marijuana possession conviction under the current law is stiffer than that for someone who burglarizes a home.

Given the state’s financial condition, and the fact Kansas prisons are crowded and headed toward overcrowding, adjusting the sentences for some marijuana possession convictions makes a lot of sense.

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in the state in 2008 by winning the support of Christian home schoolers — not a huge constituency, but big enough when 34 percent of the vote (and only 41,000 voters) was enough for a solid victory.

The problem with that strategy, however, is that finishing first in Iowa over a fractured field isn’t enough to propel a candidate to the nomination.

more of the same from the large Republican field. The candidates are going to be desperate to find a way to stand out from the pack, and they may try some pretty nutty gambits to do so.

Old-timers will recall a spirited fight between Walter Mondale and Gary Hart in 1984 over which of them declared his support for a U.S. embassy

Christie’s apparent attempt to appeal to vaccination opponents ... is consistent with a plausible Iowa caucus strategy: an attempt to lock up a small faction of voters.

The parties, not the voters, are the major players. Doing well in early contests can matter to party actors, but only if they are otherwise open to the candidate and if their main concern is electoral success. (Thus, Democratic party actors were especially impressed with Barack Obama’s Iowa victory in 2008, while being convinced that Howard Dean’s failure there in 2004 showed he had no special electoral magic.)

Still, differentiation is a solid strategy — so long as it increases a candidate’s chances with one group but doesn’t risk alienating the bulk of the party. Whatever happens with Christie and measles, expect

in Jerusalem first, a particularly silly argument given that neither of them would have carried out that pledge (which is always embraced by candidates, but not by presidents) had he been elected. In the 1970s, when the nomination system was new and party actors hadn’t learned how to deal with it, things were different.

Jimmy Carter’s Iowa “win” (he actually finished behind undecided voters) was central to how he won the Democratic nomination in 1976. But, those days are long gone.

Bernstein is a Bloomberg View columnist.

Readers may send him email at jbernstein62@bloomberg.net.

Don’t use private emails for public business Don’t use private email accounts to conduct government business. And don’t give lobbyists insider access and information.

State budget director Shawn Sullivan ignored both of these commonsense principles of open government when he sent a working version of the governor’s proposed state budget to several top administration officials and two lobbyists.

Sullivan sent the budget from his private email account, and it went to the private email accounts of most of the recipients.

Sullivan said he used the private email accounts because he and other administration officials were at their homes for the Christmas break. It wasn’t an attempt to circumvent state open-records laws, he contended.

Why did the two lobbyists, both former Brownback administration officials, have

input to the budget process before most lawmakers saw the plan? Eileen Hawley, the governor’s spokeswoman, said, “We sought the counsel of a lot of people in that process.”

Hawley also denied that the use of personal emails had any connection to The Eagle’s filing of an open-records request in October for email correspondence and phone communication between the governor’s office and one of the lobbyists, David Kensinger. Last April, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported that Kensinger was the subject of a federal probe for influence peddling at the Capitol.

Hawley and Sullivan would not directly tell The Eagle how often the governor’s staff used private emails for public business.

Even if Sullivan didn’t deliberately try to circumvent the law, he should have known that it would look that way.

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Crashed Taiwan plane hoisted from river; death toll expected to rise TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Rescuers used a crane to hoist a wrecked TransAsia Airways plane from a shallow river in Taiwan’s capital today as they searched into the night for 18 people missing in a crash that killed at least 25 others.

Flight GE235 with 58 people aboard — most of them travelers from China — banked sharply on its side shortly after takeoff from Taipei, clipped a highway bridge and then careened into the Keelung River.

Rescuers in rubber rafts pulled 15 people from the wreckage during daylight. After dark, they brought in the crane, and the death toll was expected to rise once crews were able to search through previously submerged portions of the fuselage, which came to rest a few dozen yards from the shore.

Dramatic video clips apparently taken from cars were posted online and aired by broadcasters, showing the ATR 72 propjet as it pivoted onto its side while zooming toward a traffic bridge over the river. In one of them, the plane rapidly fills the frame as its nowvertical wing scrapes over the road, hitting a vehicle before heading into the river.

Speculation cited in local media said the pilot may have turned sharply to follow the line of the river to avoid crashing into a high-rise residential area, but Taiwan’s aviation authority said it had no evidence of that.

Taiwanese broadcasters repeatedly played a recording of the plane’s final contact with the control tower in which the pilot called out “Mayday” three times. The recording offered no direct clues as to why the plane was in distress.

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jian province.

Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration said 23 people were confirmed dead, 15 were rescued with injuries and 20 were still missing.

Wu Jun-hong, a Taipei Fire Department official who was coordinating the rescue, said the missing

It was the airline’s second French-Italianbuilt ATR 72 to crash in the past year.... [The international consortium] ATR said it was sending a team to Taiwan to help in the investigation.

second French-Italianbuilt ATR 72 to crash in the past year. The flight had taken off at 11:53 a.m. from Taipei’s downtown Sungshan Airport en route to the outlying Taiwanese-controlled Kinmen islands. The pilot issued the mayday call shortly after takeoff, Taiwanese civil aviation authorities said.

TransAsia director Peter Chen said contact with the plane was lost four minutes after takeoff. He said weather conditions were suitable for flying and the cause of the accident was unknown.

“Actually this aircraft in the accident was the newest model. It hadn’t been used for even a year,” he told a news conference.

Thirty-one passengers were from China, Taiwan’s tourism bureau said. Kinmen’s airport is a common link between Taipei and China’s Fu-

people were either still in the fuselage or had perhaps been pulled down the river.

“At the moment, things don’t look too optimistic,” Wu told reporters at the scene. “Those in the front of the plane are likely to have lost their lives.”

Rescuers could be seen pulling luggage from an open plane door to clear the fuselage. Ten inflatable dinghies also searched for the missing.

As a drizzle fell around nightfall, military crews took portable bridges to the scene, where rescue workers were building docks for easier access to the wreckage. About 300 rescue personnel and members of the media stood along the banks of the narrow river.

Part of the freeway above it was littered with debris and was closed after the crash.

Relatives of the victims had not reached the scene by dusk Wednesday but

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The plane’s wing hit a taxi on the freeway, and the driver and a passenger were injured, Chen said.

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said it had sent 165 people and eight boats to the riverside rescue scene, joining fire department rescue crews.

Another ATR 72 operated by the same Taipei-based airline crashed in the outlying Taiwan-controlled islands of Penghu last July 23, killing 48 at the end of a typhoon for reasons that are still under investigation.

ATR, a French-Italian consortium based in Toulouse, France, said it was sending a team to Taiwan to help in the investigation.

The ATR 72-600 that crashed Wednesday is manufacturer’s best plane model, and the pilot had 4,900 hours of flying experience, said Lin Chih-ming of the Civil Aeronautics Administration.

Greg Walden, Asia managing editor at Flightglobal magazine in Singapore, said the ATR 72-600 is the latest iteration of one of the most popular turboprop planes in the world, particularly favored for regional

short-hop flights in Asia.

It has a generally good reputation for safety and reliability and is known among airlines for being cheap and efficient to operate.

While it’s too early to say what caused the crash, engine trouble or weight shifting were unlikely to be causes, Waldron said. Other possible factors include pilot error, weather or freak incidents such as bird strikes.

The accessibility of the crash site should allow for a swift investigation, and an initial report should be available within about a month, Waldron said.

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Fillies charge past Santa Fe Trail to 53-21 win

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

CARBONDALE — It took a bit longer than last week, but Iola High’s Fillies were able to decimate Santa Fe Trail for a second time. Iola beat the Chargers 53-21 Tuesday night.

This time, Santa Fe Trail was prepared to defend the Fillies’ 3-point shot. On Jan. 24, during the Burlington Midseason Tournament, Iola beat Santa Fe Trail 69-26 behind a 10-10 3-point shooting bonanza.

“I don’t think that the last time their coach was aware of how good of a 3-point shooting team we could be,” coach Becky Carlson said. “He took that away from us tonight. We chipped away at them, we only had about 10 or 11 turnovers.

It was a well-played game.”

Also missing was starting point guard Sydney Wade, who is out sick. Filling in was Ashlie Shields, who contributed in a major way.

Shields lived up to the insurance company Blue Cross Blue Shield’s name. She was all over the floor, forcing turnovers and running the team in transition. She also scored 10 points.

“She did a great job. Lexie Long started, she does a good job at the point,” Carlson said.

“But, that takes Lexie away from her spot. So, Ashlie came in and did a good job. When you put Shields in, the pace of the game picks up.”

The Fillies started the first quarter down 10-9. The Chargers had the hot-hand from beyond the arc, hitting two in a row to take a 6-2 lead. Emma Piazza had two steal-layup combos for four points. Toni Macha had a putback and was fouled on the play. She made the free throw, which got Iola to within one point by the time the quarter was over.

Emery Driskel shined in the second quarter. She scored the first six points, giving Iola a 15-10 lead halfway through the second half. Shields followed with her first jumper of the game. Long then had blocked a shot on defense and stole the ball. That eventually led to a putback basket from her. Macha ended the half with three points.

Iola held the Chargers to one point in the second quarter and had a 22-11 lead at the half. And then the Fillies started to roll.

The Fillies outscored the Chargers 31-10 in the second half. Iola had six players score more than four points and eight players score overall.

Iola (8-6) travels to Central Heights on Friday.

Iola 53, Santa Fe Trail 21 Iola (9-13-12-19—53) (FG/3pt-FT-FTP): Long 3-0-1-6, Piazza 2-0-1-4, Moore 0-0-1-0, Lohman 1-0-0-2, Bannister 1-00-2, Shields 3/1-1-2-10, Haar 3-0-1-6, Platt 0-0-3-0, Driskel 3-6-3-12, Macha 4-3-1-11 Santa Fe Trail (10-1-7-2-19) (FG/3pt-FTF-TP): Dunnaway 0-2-2-2, K. Johnson 0-01-0, Costlow 1-0-3-2, DeShazer 0/1-2-5-5, Watson 0-2-1-2, Lankton 0-0-1-0, Herren 0/1-0-1-3, P. Johnson 2-0-1-2, Workman 0/1-0-4-3, Heneyman 1-0-0-2

Ashlie Shields cuts through two Santa Fe Trail defenders. She scored 10 points in Iola’s 52-21 win.

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Lady Cubs lose on late Eureka run

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — Visiting Eureka High ended Tuesday’s showdown with Humboldt High’s girls on a 14-2 run, the decisive rally in a 39-28 victory.

The loss drops the Lady Cubs to 11-4 on the season.

Humboldt entered Tuesday’s affair having won eight of its previous nine,

but could never find its offensive footing.

Makaylah McCall drained a pair of field goals in the first quarter for Humboldt.

Problem was, she was the only Lady Cub to score in the period. Eureka led 7-5.

Lakota Wilson followed suit to start the second period, draining a pair of early field goals to give Humboldt a 9-7 lead, before the Tornadoes ended the half with five

straight points.

Humboldt made some noise in the third quarter, courtesy of its three-quarter-court trap.

McCall drained a 3-pointer late in the period to draw the Lady Cubs within 23-20.

Breanna Kline followed with a pair of field goals in the last 23 seconds to give Humboldt a 24-23 lead.

See LADY CUBS | Page B3

Humboldt downed by Eureka 51-42

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Ben Cooper (11) releases a 3-pointer over the hands of Santa Fe Trail’s Dakota Boyd. Iola won 56-37. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

Mustang redemption

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

CARBONDALE — The Mustangs were a different team on Tuesday night against Santa Fe Trail. Iola earned a huge 56-37 win after losing 64-61 to Santa Fe Trail on Jan. 24 in the Burlington Midseason Tournament.

“We were certainly a much

improved team tonight and our intensity level was much better,” coach Bill Peeper said. “They (Santa Fe Trail) were a different team tonight, too. They were missing a guy that scored 27 points on us last time. I don’t think that’s the entire story, but it’s part of it.

We definitely were a different team. It was nice to see us reSee MUSTANGS | Page B3

HUMBOLDT — A highly anticipated showdown left Humboldt High searching for answers Tuesday.

The Cubs were plagued with missed shots, faulty passes and other assorted maladies as visiting Eureka High left town with a 51-42 victory.

The loss drops the Cubs to 12-3 overall and 4-3 in Tri-Valley League action.

The visiting Tornadoes didn’t play particularly well, but did enough on defense to keep Humboldt scuffling.

“We were soft inside,” Cub head coach David Taylor said. “We were off all night.

When the other team makes more free throws (17) than you attempt (16), it tells you you didn’t play very well.”

The Cubs entered Tuesday averaging 68 points per game, but were limited to 24 through three quarters.

Humboldt amped up its defensive pressure in the fourth quarter, leading to its only sustained rally of the game.

Eureka led 35-24 after three, but Humboldt opened the fourth with an 8-2 run to cut the deficit to five, 37-32.

Humboldt High’s Ethan Bartlett (21) goes in for a layup between Eureka defenders Braden Larcom (32) and Colton Pitko (3) Tuesday. Bartlett scored a team-high 12 points in Humboldt’s 51-42 loss. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN Justin Meins’ 3-pointer at the 4:20 mark pulled Humboldt to within 39-35, before Eureka’s Braden Larcom responded with a trey 30 seconds later.

Rhett Smith’s traditional three-point play with 2:12 left

pulled Humboldt within four, 42-38, and a defensive stop returned possession to the Cubs. But Ethan Bartlett was called for traveling as he set See HUMBOLDT | Page B3

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Marmaton Valley sweeps BUFFALO — Marmaton Valley High’s girls dominated from start to finish Tuesday, walloping host Altoona-Midway High, 46-14.

The Wildcats led 23-0 after one quarter, then outscored the Jets 15-1 in the second to lead 38-1 at the break.

Head coach Gavin Cole substituted liberally in the second half, playing exclusively junior varsity players down the stretch.

“It was a good night,” he said. “We got a lot of kids some playing time. I was excited about our defense. We were able to get plenty of rebounds.”

Mackenzie Tynon scored 19 to lead Marmaton Valley, followed by

Kyla Drake with 15. Misty Storrer scored eight, while Magie Stevenson and Brooklyn Newman had two apiece.

Marmaton Valley hosts Uniontown Friday for the rubber match. The Wildcats defeated Uniontown in their seasonopener, but failed to hold a 17-point lead in a heartbreaking loss in January.

“We’re going to be ready for them,” Cole said.

SEVERAL youngsters took a starring role Tuesday for Marmaton Valley High boys, which picked up its second win of the 2014-15 season.

The Wildcats got double-digit scoring from

two freshmen and a junior in a 56-36 win over Altoona-Midway High.

“We played pretty well,” Marmaton Valley head coach Tim Stinnett said. “We shared the ball and moved it around well. The younger kids showed a lot of maturity.”

Five players scored between eight and 11 points.

Freshman Trevor Wilson led the way with 12 points, while junior Gage Adams scored 11. Freshman Justic Pugh was next with 10.

Juniors Keagan Boyd scored nine and Brady Newman had eight.

The Wildcats host Uniontown Friday.

Kohl Endicott (14) goes up for a layup against Santa Fe Trail’s Dakota Boyd (55).

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Mustangs: Team-effort win

Continued from B1

Humboldt High’s Brook Turner, top, scrambles for possession with Eureka High’s Chandler Birkholz Tuesday in the Lady Cubs’ 39-28 defeat. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Lady Cubs: Fall via late run Continued from B1

Annalise Whitcomb’s basket with 5:36 left in the fourth quarter gave the Lady Cubs a 26-25 lead.

The rest was all Eureka.

Ashlee Corns drained a 3-pointer to push the Tornadoes back on top — for good, it turned out.

McCall ended a 4 1/2-minute scoring drought with a driving

layup with 41 seconds left, to pull the Lady Cubs to within 34-28.

Eureka went 7 of 8 from the line to seal the win.

Wilson scored 11 and McCall 10 to pace Humboldt.

Didi Mouer scored 16 and Corns eight for Eureka.

The Tornadoes drained 11 of 14 from the line; Humboldt was 3 of 8.

Humboldt returns to action Friday at Caney Valley.

Eureka 39, Humboldt 28 Eureka (7-5-11-16—39) (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Herb 2-2-4-6, Kelly 0-0-1-0, Corns 1/2-0-2-8, E. Torrey 0-4-0-4, Mouer 7-2-1-16, Boone 1-1-3-3, Dehlinger 0-2-0-2.

TOTALS: 11/2-11-11-39.

Humboldt (5-4-15-4—28) (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Kellar 0-0-1-0, Wells 0-0-1-0, Turner 0-0-2-0, McCall 3/1-1-5-10, English 0-0-1-0, Whitcomb 1-0-3-2, Kline 2-1-3-5, Wilson 5-1-0-11. TOTALS: 11/1-316-28.

spond and build on from the other night.

We continue to push forward. It was a pretty well-rounded game.”

Iola started high on defense the first quarter. The Mustangs held the Chargers to a goose egg after the first eight minutes, while taking the 8-0 lead.

Adam Peterson scored on a mid-range jumper. Brett Taylor then hit Kaden Macha with a pass inside for the easy deuce. Ethan Holloway earned a trip to the line, where he hit one of two free throws. Ending the scoring was a Shane Walden 3-pointer.

The Mustangs’ run continued into the second quarter, where Holloway made two more free throws to give Iola a 10-0 lead.

Santa Fe Trail’s first points came with 6:45 left in the half on a short jumper from Daniel Courtwright.

Iola throttled past the Chargers to end the quarter.

Kohl Endicott nailed a turnaround jumpshot. Ben Cooper scored five straight points — including a 3-pointer.

Humboldt: Eureka makes free throws Continued from B1

his feet to attempt a shot from the corner, giving possession back to the Tornadoes with 1:09 left.

Eureka drained 13 of its final 14 free throws to seal the win.

“Ethan played well for

us,” Taylor said, “and I thought Rhett Smith gave us a spark off the bench.”

The rest of the team struggled against the Tornadoes’ quick defenders.

Bartlett drained 5 of 7 field goals to lead Hum-

boldt with 12 points. The rest of the squad connected on just 9 of 39 attempts.

Humboldt also committed 19 turnovers.

“Eureka was the aggressor,” Taylor said.

“Except for a 2-minute stretch in the fourth

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quarter, it seemed like they got almost every 5050 ball.”

Neither team did much offensively in the early going.

Eureka led by as many as eight in the first half before Bartlett scored on a layup and a 3-pointer to pull Humboldt to within 19-16. Larcom’s trey late in the second gave the Tornadoes a 22-16 lead at intermission.

Markiz Pulliam had 11 points and nine rebounds for Humboldt.

Smith wound up with seven points and two steals. Meins had three steals; Kason Siemens and Jacob Haviland had two steals apiece.

Larcom’s 17 points paced Eureka. DeAllen Nelson followed with 15.

The Tornadoes were a collective 17 of 23 from the line; Humboldt was 11 of 16.

Humboldt travels to Caney Valley Friday.

Eureka 51, Humboldt 42 Eureka (13-9-13-16—51) (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Pitko 2-4-4-8, Talley 0-0-1-0, K. Parmes 1-1-1-3, Nelson 4-7-4-15, Lyon 1/1-1-1-6, T. Parmes 0-2-3-2, Larcom 3/3-2-117. TOTALS: 11/4-17-15-51.

Humboldt (8-8-8-18—42) (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Carpenter 0-01-0, Pulliam 3-5-1-11, Haviland 1-0-3-2, Bartlett 4/1-1-2-12, Meins 1/1-1-5-6, Siemens 1-2-1-4, Smith 1/1-2-5-7. TOTALS: 11/3-11-18-42.

Macha went 2-2 from the line. Walden ended the quarter with five points. On a last-second 3-point attempt by Macha, Walden basically spiked the ball back up and in as time expired.

Iola led 25-10 heading into halftime.

The Chargers came alive in the third quarter. A quick two-minute 8-0 run had the game at 25-18 in favor of Iola.

The Mustangs responded before the quarter ended. With 2:35 left, Iola went on a 6-0 run and had their doubledigit lead back. The Mustangs led 36-25.

In the fourth quarter, Iola outscored the Chargers 20-12. Macha stepped up with seven points.

With the win over Santa Fe Trail and the hard fought contest against Chanute last Friday, the Mustangs appear to be turning a corner.

“Individually, we see that we have to lay it out there,” Peeper said.

“There’s no reason to hold back. For a lot of these guys, their ca-

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reers are coming to an end. We’ve got to start changing now.”

The team is also seeing contributions from more players.

“I think our guys up and down the lineup played really hard.

Our guards stepped up — Shane and Kohl — and played really aggressive,” Peeper said.

“Brett Taylor was all over the ball tonight. He didn’t do a lot of scoring but helped us out in many other ways.”

While Taylor only scored two points, he put up a great stat line, finishing with four assists, six rebounds, four steals and three blocks.

Iola (4-10) travels to Central Heights on Friday.

Iola 56, Santa Fe Trail 37 Iola (8-17-11-20—56) (FG/3ptFT-F-TP): Cooper 1/1-2-3-7, Fawson 2-0-0-4, Endicott 1-2-3-4, Taylor 1-0-1-2, Hermstein 1-0-0-2, Walden 3/1-3-0-12, Macha 3-74-13, Holloway 1-4-1-6, Peterson 3-0-4-6 Santa Fe Trail (0-10-15-12—37) (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Watkins 3-0-5-6, Fischer 0-0-1-0, Long 0-0-1-0, Coltrane 1-0-1-2, Courtwright 3-2-28, McPherson 0-2-1-2, Vandevord 6-5-2-17, Hastings 1-0-2-2, Boyd 0-0-3-0

Humboldt High School Basketball Friday, at Caney Valley Tuesday, vs. NEODESHA

Iola High School Basketball Friday, at Central Heights Tuesday, vs. PRAIRIE VIEW High School Wrestling Thursday, vs. OSAWATOMIE, WEST ELK IMS Boys Basketball Thursday, at Fort Scott Saturday, “Winter Classic” Tournament in Chanute

Marmaton Valley High School Basketball Friday, vs. UNIONTOWN Tuesday, vs. NORTHEAST ARMA

Crest Southern Coffey Co. High School Basketball Friday, at Waverly Monday, vs. MdCV

Allen Women’s Basketball Today, vs. HIGHLAND, 6 p.m. (homecoming) Saturday, at Independence, 6 p.m.

Men’s Basketball Today, vs. HIGHLAND, 8 p.m. (homecoming) Saturday, at Independence, 8 p.m.

Kansas Basketball Saturday, at Ok. St., 1 p.m.

TV: ESPN (ch. 32)

High School Basketball Friday, vs. CHETOPA Tuesday, at OLPE

Yates Center High School Basketball Friday, at West Elk Tuesday, at Eureka

Kansas State Basketball Today, at Texas Tech, 8 p.m.

TV: ESPNU (ch. 244)

Wichita State Basketball Today, at Bradley, 7 p.m.

TV: Cox (ch. 22)

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Seattle fans coping with loss

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press

As shocking as it was, the Seattle Seahawks’ last-minute loss to the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl Sunday was probably not even the worst loss in the city’s sports history.

Seattle did lose an entire NBA franchise, after all, when the SuperSonics up and moved to Oklahoma City. At least the Seahawks will be playing again next season.

But the grief, anger and bewilderment felt by many Seahawks fans nevertheless show only mild signs of abating, even days later. Many say they’re certain the decision to pass from the 1-yard line — instead of handing off to bruising running back Marshawn Lynch — will forever haunt the Northwest the way previous sporting gaffes defined other cities.

“I’ll be 90 years old and still thinking about this game,” said Norb Caoili, a longtime season-ticket holder from Renton.

“The history of sports is defined by moments like this, where heroes rise and save the day, or where teams collapse on the biggest stages. It’s always going to be a part of the fabric of Seattle, and

that’s tough to swallow.”

Caoili, 45, is the force behind Norb-Cam, a YouTube channel that features videos of himself — wearing a green wig, Seahawks headband, and blue-and-green face paint — reacting to the action during Seahawks games. The videos have been viewed an improbable number of times, making him a prominent voice among Hawks fans.

For him, the way the Seahawks lost is what makes it so tough: Mo-

that impression.

Caoili’s video from the Super Bowl — tickets $2,700 apiece, airfare and lodging $1,400 — shows him chanting a mantra for Lynch to get the ball: “Give it to him again, give it to him again, give it to him again.”

The decision to pass, then, becomes not just “the worst play call I’ve seen in the history of football,” as Hall of Fame running back Emmitt Smith described it, but an affront to the

It was an epic failure, akin to the ground ball through Bill Buckner’s legs that helped sink the 1986 Red Sox or the “wide right” field goal attempt in 1991 that proved to be the first of four consecutive Super Bowl losses for the Buffalo Bills.

ments earlier, the team seemed on the brink of a miraculous victory, with receiver Jermaine Kearse making an inconceivable, bobbling, falling catch despite great coverage from Patriots rookie Malcolm Butler. It was a gift from the football gods, “divine intervention” that signaled a certain Seahawks victory, he said.

Lynch’s subsequent run, bringing the ball to the 1 with the clock ticking down, only fortified

gods, a sort of cardinal sin punished by instant karma: Butler’s goal-line interception, and New England’s fourth championship of the Tom Brady-Bill Belichick era.

It was an epic failure, akin to the ground ball through Bill Buckner’s legs that helped sink the 1986 Red Sox or the “wide right” field goal attempt in 1991 that proved to be the first of four consecutive Super Bowl losses for the Buffalo Bills.

“Emotionally, it would

have been better to lose 43-8,” Caoili said, referring to the score by which the Seahawks beat Denver in last year’s Super Bowl. “There’s nothing worse than having it in your hand and losing it all.”

Caoili and other fans said that even if the loss sticks with the team, and the region, a few more Super Bowl championships could take the edge off. Odds-makers have Seattle 5-to-1 favorites to win it all next year. In the Seattle suburb of Renton, where the Seahawks are headquartered, fans left balloons and signs for the team in a memorial thanking them for a great season. “We still believe,” said one.

Vu Le, a 33-year-old Vietnamese immigrant who runs a Seattle nonprofit, knew nothing about professional sports when he started cheering for the Seahawks during the team’s Super Bowl run last year. On his blog, he tried to draw lessons from the loss for the nonprofit world, spelling out what he called Seattle’s “stages of grief ”: “Denial, Righteous Anger, Hot Yoga, Organic Juice Cleanse, Bargaining at a Farmer’s Market, Composting, Existential Despair, Biking to Happy Hour, and Acceptance of Marijuana.”

Ian Maynard takes a shot over a Coffeyville player earlier this season. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

Eighth grade Ponies victorious INDEPENDENCE — Iola Middle School’s eighth-graders came away victorious from Independence on Monday.

The A-Team won 4220.

“We did a great job on the boards tonight and that gave us the opportunity to get out and run the floor,” coach Marty Taylor said.

Tayton Driskel led the team with 15 points and

also secured 11 rebounds.

Kane Rogers did the inverse of that, scoring 11 points and grabbing 15 rebounds. Ian Maynard scored 10 points and had seven rebounds. Derek Bycroft score two points and grabbed five boards.

Cole Regehr and Blake Ashmore each scored two points.

“Tayton had a good night for us inside on both ends of the court,”

Taylor said.

The B-Team won 17-12.

Brady Folk scored six points and Dylan Newland followed with five points. Tim Komma, Blake Haar and Hunter Baughn each scored two points.

The seventh grade ATeam lost to Indy 36-8.

“Indy has an excellent seventh grade basketball team and were physically able to out-man us

tonight,” Taylor said.

“But, I thought our kids played hard and never quit.”

Cason Barker scored six points. Brady Wiggin scored two and grabbed eight boards.

The B-Team won 16-6.

Calvin Delich scored 12 points, while Ethan Hamm and Brody Nemecek each scored two.

Iola plays at Fort Scott on Thursday.

Lady Titans win Lancers triumph LE ROY — Southern Coffey County’s Lady Titans grabbed a 52-36 home win against Crest on Tuesday.

After starting the game down 14-6 after the first quarter, SCC dominated the next three quarters. A 24-point third quarter by the Lady Titans is what really separated the teams.

“Our press was the difference in the second and third quarters,” SCC coach Jeff True said. “We were able to create quite a few turnovers that gave us more opportunities to score.”

Avery Hall and Amber Emmons dominated the boards for SCC, each

tallying nine rebounds.

Emmons also scored eight points and Hall finished with a teamhigh 13 points. Erikah Lyons scored five points, had six steals and four assists.

Crest was led by Miranda Golden’s 15 points.

The team played with a short bench, only have six available players.

SCC 52, Crest 36 SCC (6-16-24-6—52) (FG/3ptFT-F-TP): Lehman 0-0-1-0, Deal 3/1-3-9, Emmons 4-0-0-8, Hegwald 0/1-0-1-3, Lyons 2-1-3-5, Kasprzak 2-0-1-4, Brite 4-2-1-10, Meats 0-0-3-0, Hall 5-3-1-13, Parra 0-0-2-0 Crest (14-14-5-13—36) (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): M. Covey 1-0-02, Godderz 3-4-2-10, Golden 6-34-15, Hammond 2-2-4-4, T. Covey 1-1-1-3

over SCC Titans

LE ROY — Southern Coffey County’s boys basketball team was trumped by Crest 62-51.

After a close 33-31 advantage by Crest after the first half, the Lancers pulled away in the third quarter.

The Titans were outscored by the Lancers 15-7 in the third and 14-13 in the fourth.

Chonnor Ludolph had a big game for SCC, scoring 22 points. Jeremiah Witteman followed with 17 points.

The Lancers were

led by Austin Green with 19 points. Evan Godderz added 17 points. Hunter Frazell followed with 16 points, making four 3-pointers.

Crest 62, SCC 51 Crest (19-14-15-14—62) (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Frazell 1/42-3-16, Green 4/2-5-3-19, Godderz 6-5-2-17, Strickler 1-0-3-2, Brallier 0-0-4-0, Troxel 0-0-2-0, Ramsey 4-0-4-8 SCC (15-16-7-13—51) (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Gibson 1-0-1-2, ISch 0/1-0-2-3, Gilbert 0-0-1-0, Meats 1-0-1-2, Ludolph 9-4-2-22, Witteman 4-9-3-17, Harred 2-1-4-5

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Public notices (First published in The Iola Register on Jan. 21, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. Plaintiff, vs.

Michael E. Saucedo; Amber D. Saucedo; John Doe (Tenant/Occupant); Mary Doe (Tenant/Occupant);, Defendants.

Case No. 15CV3 Court Number: Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SUIT THE STATE OF KANSAS, to the above-named defendants and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any de-

ceased 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; the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any person alleged to be deceased, and all other persons who are or may be concerned.

You are notified that a Petition

has been filed in the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, praying to foreclose a real estate mortgage on the following described real estate: Lots One (1) and Two (2), Block Thirty-nine (39), Original Plat, City of Humboldt, Allen County, Kansas., commonly known as 321 Bridge Street, Humboldt, KS 66748 (the “Property”) and all those defendants who have not otherwise been served are required to plead to the Petition on or before the 3rd day of March, 2015, in the District Court of Allen County,Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

NOTICE Pursuant to the Fair Debt Col-

lection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692c(b), no information concerning the collection of this debt may be given without the prior consent of the consumer given directly to the debt collector or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction. The debt collector is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Prepared By: South & Associates, P.C. Mark Mellor (KS # 10255) 245 N. Waco, Suite 410 Wichita, KS 67202 (316)684-7733 (316)684-7766 (Fax) Attorneys for Plaintiff (176620) (1) 21, 28 (2) 4

(First published in The Iola Register on Jan. 28, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT CitiMortgage, Inc. Plaintiff, vs.

Roy F. Jones, et al.

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 February 18, 2015 at the time of 10:00 AM, the following 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. 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.

Allen County Sheriff MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC By: Chad R. Doornink, #23536 cdoornink@msfirm.com

Jason A. Orr, #22222 jorr@msfirm.com 11460 Tomahawk Creek Parkway, Suite 300 Leawood, KS 66211 (913) 339-9132 (913) 339-9045 (fax) ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC AS ATTORNEYS FOR CITIMORTGAGE, INC. IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. (1) 28 (2) 4, 11

(First published in The Iola Register on Feb. 4, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS In the Matter of the Estate of JAMES W. WYNN, Deceased (Termination of Testamentary Trust for James Larry Wynn, Deceased) Case No. 1990 PR 121 Div. No.1 Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59 and Chapter 60 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO: The unknown issue of James Larry Wynn, deceased; the unknown issue of Jerry Alfro Elarton, deceased; the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of

any such issue who is a minor or under any legal disability; and to Lois Ann Murray: You are hereby notified a Petition has been filed in this court by Randy McGrath duly appointed, qualified and acting Trustee of the Trust for James Larry Wynn under the Last Will and Testament of James W. Wynn, deceased, requesting that his acts be approved; his account be settled and allowed; residuary trust beneficiaries be determined; the Trust estate be assigned to the person(s) entitled to it pursuant to the terms of the testamentary trust for James Larry Wynn; fees and expenses be allowed; costs be determined and ordered paid; the

administration of the trust estate be closed; and the Trustee/Petitioner be released from further liability.

You are required to file your written defenses to the Petition on February 26, 2015, at 10:15 A.M., in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, 111 East 11th Street, Lawrence, KS 66044, at which time and place such cause will be heard. Should you fail to file your written defenses, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

Randy McGrath, Trustee/ Petitioner PREPARED BY: GEORGE L. CATT, P.A.

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Jordan executes two prisoners in reprisal against ISIS AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan executed two al-Qaida prisoners before dawn today, just hours after an online video purported to show Islamic State group militants burning a captured Jordanian pilot to death in a cage.

The gruesome death of 26-year-old Lt. Muath AlKaseasbeh, captured while participating in airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition targeting the militants, sparked outrage across the Middle East and anti-Islamic State protests in Jordan.

King Abdullah II, a staunch Western ally, rushed back to Jordan, cutting short a Washington trip to try to persuade his people to support an even tougher line against the militants. Rallying such backing is pivotal for Jordan’s continued role in the coalition.

Public opinion in Jordan has been ambiguous — growing demands for revenge against the militants have been mixed with misgivings about Jordan’s role in a bombing campaign widely seen as serving Western interests.

The extremists, meanwhile, appeared to be goading Jordan. In Raqaa, the Islamic State group’s de facto capital, the militants gleefully played al-Kaseasbeh’s slaying on outdoor projectors, with some

chanting “God is great,” according to militant video posted online today that conformed to Associated Press reporting of the event.

In the 20-minute video, the pilot displayed signs of having been beaten, including a black eye. Toward the end of the clip, he is shown wearing an orange jumpsuit. He stands in an outdoor cage as a masked militant ignites a line of fuel leading to it.

The video of his purported killing was released on militant websites and bore the logo of the extremist group’s al-Furqan media service. The clip featured the slick production and graphics used in previous Islamic State group videos. It could not

on display. Some said this could trigger a backlash among Sunni Muslims in the region, the main reservoir of potential supporters.

At the same time, Jordan faces increasing internal and external threats from the militants. Jordan borders areas of Islamic State group’s self-declared caliphate. There also have been signs of greater support for the group’s militant ideas among Jordan’s young and poor.

Following the pilot’s death, Jordan launched what it said would be a tough campaign against the Islamic State group.

In a first response, Jordan executed Sajida al-Rishawi and Ziad al-Karbouly, two Iraqis linked to al-Qaida,

The only problem we’re going to have is running out of fuel and bullets.

— King Abdullah, as told to Rep. Duncan Hunter

immediately be confirmed independently by the AP. A wave of condemnation washed across the Middle East on Wednesday, signaling that the Islamic State group militants might have overplayed its hand by putting its brutality toward a fellow Muslim

government spokesman Mohammed al-Momani said. Another official said they were executed by hanging. Authorities said the pair would be buried later in Jordan.

Al-Rishawi had been sentenced to death after her 2005 role in a triple

Merkel refuses weapons to Ukraine BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Germany will not give weapons to Ukraine and supports negotiations and a diplomatic solution to that government’s conflict with Russian-backed rebels, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday.

“It is my firm belief that this conflict can-

quently noted the damage to Hungarian exports caused by the EU sanctions against Russia, said Hungary also backs a peaceful solution and will not provide any weapons to Ukraine.

He also mentioned Hungary’s great dependency on Russian energy supplies that arrive through Ukrainian pipelines.

Fighting in eastern Ukraine has claimed more than 5,100 lives and displaced 900,000 people since it began in April.

not be solved militarily,” Merkel said after meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest.

Merkel said she prefers the pressure exerted by European Union economic sanctions on Russia and negotiations to “solve or at least mitigate the conflict.”

Fighting in eastern Ukraine has claimed more than 5,100 lives and displaced 900,000 people since it began in April.

Orban, who has fre-

Merkel, making her first visit to Hungary since 2009, noted complaints by German companies about the difficulties of long-term planning due to the Orban government’s habit of quick, radical changes to the tax structure.

“Wherever the German economy is present, it values trustworthy, predictable conditions,” Merkel said.

German companies in Hungary, which have 280,000 employees, have

been hit hard by special taxes on the banking, retail, communications and other sectors. Hungary’s new truck tracking system, meant to crack down on tax fraud, has also been criticized

by German companies as increasing bureaucracy.

Merkel also said she had discussed “the characteristics of democracy” with Orban, who last year was widely rebuked after saying he wanted to transform Hungary from a democracy into an “illiberal state.”

“The roots of democracy have always been in liberalism,” Merkel said.

Orban disagreed.

“We don’t believe that every democracy is necessarily liberal,” he said.

In a report Monday, Amnesty International said police raids and “undue audits” by Hungarian authorities against some civic groups “have put at risk the exercise of the rights to freedom of association and expression.”

Merkel also visited the Dohany Street Synagogue and a Holocaust memorial, meeting with leaders from Hungary’s Jewish community.

Monet waterscape nets millions LONDON (AP) — A Venetian waterscape by Claude Monet has sold for more than $35 million at a London auction as the high-end art market shows resilience in a bumpy global economy.

“Le Grand Canal,” fetched $35.6 million at Sotheby’s, though it didn’t reach the top of its pre-sale estimate of 20 million pounds to 30 million pounds.

Monet’s “Poplars at Giverny,” sold by New York’s Museum of Modern Art, fetched $16.2 million.

Tuesday’s Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist auction raised $280.2 million, the highest-ever total for a single sale in Lon-

don.

Sotheby’s said bidders came from 35 countries.

Wealthy collectors from emerging markets such as Russia, China and the Middle East have helped buoy prices amid the aftermath of the global financial crisis.

Helena Newman of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern department said the sale saw “collectors from Asia and Russia asserting themselves as a continued force in the market.”

She said it was “a great night for Monet,” with five works by the French artist netting a total of $83.8 million.

Standouts at the sale included Henri Matisse’s “Odalisque

in a Black Armchair,” which sold well over its upper estimate at $23.8 million, and Pablo Picasso’s maquette for a steel sculpture that stands outside Chicago’s Richard J. Daley Center, which raised $13.4 million.

Henri de ToulouseLautrec’s “In Bed: the Kiss” sold for $16.2 million, the second-highest price ever for the artist.

Sotheby’s rival, Christie’s, holds its own banner sale today in London.

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His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan arrives at the White House to meet with President Obama Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Abaca Press/TNS/ Olivier Douliery hotel bombing that killed 60 people in Amman orchestrated by al-Qaida in Iraq, the predecessor of the Islamic State group.

Al-Karbouly was sent to death row in 2008 for plotting terror attacks on Jordanians in Iraq.

Islamic State group militants purportedly had demanded Jordan release al-Rishawi in exchange for the pilot. Over the past week, Jordan had offered to trade her, but froze any swap after failing to receive any proof that the pilot was still alive.

Al-Kaseasbeh had fallen into the hands of the militants when his F-16

crashed near Raqqa. He was the first airman participating in the U.S.-led bombing raids against militant positions in Syria and Iraq to be captured.

Across the Middle East, religious and political leaders offered angry denunciations and called for blood as some on television wept when talking about the pilot.

The head of Sunni Islam’s most respected seat of learning, Egypt’s AlAzhar, described the militants as enemies of God and the Prophet Muhammad, saying they deserved the Quran-prescribed punishment of death, crucifix-

ion or the chopping off of their arms.

U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr., a California Republican, said after a meeting with the king that Abdullah had been visibly angry and promised to retaliate against the militants.

“They’re starting more sorties tomorrow than they’ve ever had. They’re starting tomorrow,” Hunter told the Washington Examiner in an interview published online Tuesday night.

Hunter added the king also said: “The only problem we’re going to have is running out of fuel and bullets.”

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