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Enrollment this week for Iola, area schools

Mud run fun

Summer is winding down as students prepare for the upcoming 2014-15 academic school year.

Enrollment for all Iola USD 257 students runs from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Thursday at the Iola High School commons area.

Enrollment at Humboldt USD 258 runs from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday and from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Humboldt Elementary School.

Marmaton Valley USD 256 enrollment runs from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday at the Marmaton Valley High School commons area.

Crest USD 479 students enroll Tuesday and Wednesday,

Scores of competitors delighted hundreds of fans Saturday at the inaugural Allen County Fair Mud Run at Wide Open Speed Park south of Iola.

Above, Iolan Mark McFadden plows through the 200-footlong mud pit in his customized Chevy pickup. At right, Jason Garner rides his four-wheeled all-terrain cycle across a jump in a smaller mud pit. REGISTER/

while new students enroll Thursday.

Enrollment at Southern Coffey County USD 245 runs from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Wednesday in Gridley and from 1 to 8 p.m. Thursday in Le Roy. Yates Center USD 366 students will enroll Tuesday and Wednesday, at either Yates Center Elementary or Yates Center High schools, while enrollment for new students at both attendance centers is Thursday.

School for students resumes Aug. 21 at Iola, Humboldt and Marmaton Valley schools, while Crest’s begins Aug. 15. Yates Center and Southern Coffey County students return to classes Aug. 13.

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Labette braces for cost of murder trial OSWEGO, Kan. (AP) — Officials in a southeast Kansas county are preparing to add about $150,000 to the 2015 budget to cover the likely expenses of a capital murder trial.

David C. Bennett Jr. is charged in Labette County with multiple counts in the

killings of Cami Umbarger and her three children in Parsons last Nov. 25.

The Parsons Sun reports the Kansas attorney general’s office is prosecuting the case, but Labette County must pay for juror fees, witness travel, jury summonses and printing and mailing jury question-

naires. If the jury is sequestered during the trial, the expenses could be even higher.

The County Commission was told at a recent meeting the county’s total costs could reach $350,000 or more, but some of those expenses probably wouldn’t be incurred until 2016.

Don’t forget to vote Tuesday. Polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Hot rods rev up for Hirschsprung’s disease A gleaming combination of chrome, horsepower, music and marksmanship will fill the Iola area Aug. 16 with the Haunt For Hirschsprung’s Hot Rod Run. The event kicks off at 11 a.m. at the Masonic Lodge parking lot, 213 W. Madison Ave., with registration for a poker run at various area stops, beginning at 1 p.m.

The poker run will be a game of skill. Participants will earn their hands by throwing darts at playing cards.

A “Show-N-Shine” car show starts at 2 p.m. with several categories open for classic hot rods of all types.

Iola Mayor Joel Wicoff will be on hand to present the Mayor’s Choice, starting at 4 p.m.

Plaques and prizes will be awarded at 6:15.

Meanwhile, the gleaming beauties will migrate to the courthouse square from 5 to

7 p.m.

Several vendors will be on hand, while drawings and a silent auction are in the works.

T-N-T DJ Service will be there for musical accompaniment. The event will be broadcast live on 97.7 KSNP FM Radio.

Proceeds will go to Haunt For Hirschsprung’s.

For more information, call (620) 380-1212 or (620) 363-1742.

Hirschsprung’s disease is a genetic disease in which a person is born without necessary nerve cells or muscles in part of the infant’s colon.

A newborn with Hirschsprung’s is typically unable to have a bowel movement in the first few days after birth. In some cases, the condition may not be detected until later in childhood.

Hirschsprung’s is treated with surgery to bypass or remove the diseased part of the colon.

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In honor of First Baptist Church’s 155-year celebration MIKESCHAIR, above, will play at the church on August 22.

Christian band to play at church First Baptist Church, Iola, is celebrating a milestone birthday. In honor of the church’s 155 year birthday the church is giving back to the community.

There will be a free car wash at the church from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday. Donations will not be accepted.

On Aug. 22 contemporary Christian band MIKESCHAIR will perform at the

church at 7 p.m. The concert is free to the public.

MIKESCHAIR has been nominated for 12 Dove Awards and is on Christian radio stations.

Kristina Palmer said tickets are free but advance tickets are required due to limited space. A donation of any amount of non-perishable foods on the night of the concert to be given to the

“When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.”

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, novelist 75 Cents

Iola Area Ministerial Alliance food pantry is appreciated.

Tickets can be reserved by calling the church at 365-2779 or on the church’s website, fbciola.org. Tickets may be picked up starting Wednesday at the church office from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Tickets must be picked up at the church office by Aug. 14.

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Mother’s Ebola could spark push for cure ATLANTA (AP) — Missionary Nancy Writebol, one of two known Americans stricken with Ebola, wasn’t looking to abandon her overseas work. But Jeremy Writebol believes his 59-yearold mother can yield a greater good from her impending return to the United States amid West Africa’s worst-ever outbreak of the often-deadly virus.

The attention focused on her case “might help develop a cure and resources to help those who are suffering,� the younger Writebol said. “I am sure hopeful for that.�

A Liberian government official has confirmed that a medical evacuation team is scheduled to fly Nancy Writebol back to the United States early Tuesday. She will receive treatment at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital alongside one of her mission partners, Dr. Kent Brantly, who was admitted Saturday.

The American cases make headlines as dozens of African heads of state converge on Washington for the Monday opening of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, a three-day gathering hosted by President Barack Obama. Among the stated purposes: discussing how to help African nations overcome systemic challenges, including disease.

Brantly and Writebol contracted Ebola after working on the same medical mission team treating victims of the virus around Monrovia, Liberia. More than 1,300 people have been strick-

en, killing at least 729 of them in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Ebola has no vaccine or antidote. Contracted through close contact with bodily fluid and blood — as opposed to an airborne virus like influenza or the common cold — Ebola causes hemorrhagic fever that kills at least 60 percent of the people it infects in Africa, where substandard health care makes it easier to spread the virus and harder to treat it. Yet medical experts say recovery prospects are much greater at modern hospitals that follow strict controls for infection control.

Emory, where Brantly already is quarantined, boasts one of the nation’s most sophisticated infectious disease units.

Patients are sealed off from anyone not in protective gear. Lab tests are conducted inside the unit, ensuring that viruses don’t leave the quarantined area. Family members see and communicate with patients through barriers.

Brantly’s wife released a statement Sunday saying she had gotten to see her husband, a physician with the international relief group Samaritan’s Purse. “Our family is rejoicing over Kent’s safe arrival, and we are confident that he is receiving the very best care,� Amber Brantly said.

Writebol and her husband, David, had been in Liberia since August 2013, sent there by the Christian organization SIM USA and sponsored by their home congregation at Calvary Church

in Charlotte, North Carolina. “They take the Great Commission literally,� said their pastor, the Rev. John Munro, referring to the instruction from Jesus Christ to “make disciples of all nations.�

At the hospital where Brantly treated patients, Nancy Writebol worked as a hygienist whose role included decontaminating those entering or leaving the Ebola treatment area. Munro said David Writebol fulfilled administrative and technical duties.

A few weeks before she was diagnosed, Jeremy Writebol said, a doctor visited the Monrovia hospital where she worked and praised the decontamination procedures as the best he’d seen. Jeremy Writebol said she was “really pleased by knowing that� and never thought she would be infected, despite her proximity to the virus.

David and Nancy Writebol have engaged in foreign missions for 15 years, spending five years in Ecuador and nine years in Zambia, where Munro said they worked in a home for widows and orphans.

Munro recalled speaking with the couple when the Ebola outbreak began. “We weren’t telling them to come back; we were just willing to help them come back,� he said. “They said, ‘The work isn’t finished, and it must continue.’�

After talking with his father Sunday, the younger Writebol said it’s clear his mother “is still suffering,� but said

Mysterious illness affecting oaks WICHITA (AP) — A mysterious condition has been hitting sawtooth oaks in Wichita.

The Wichita Eagle reports that cracks have been showing up in the bases of many sawtooth oaks. Extension agent Bob Neier says some of

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TOPEKA (AP) — Westar Energy and Kansas City Power & Light want to charge customers for plant upgrades sooner than anticipated.

The two companies share ownership of the coal-fired plant at La Cygne and presented the Kansas Corporation Commission Thursday the reasons they should approve a different approach to recovery costs.

The companies normally couldn’t begin charging for the additional costs without filing a full rate case.

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The Lawrence Journal World reports Kansas Department of Health and Environment employees have been traveling across the state to train doctors and nurses to perform the screening and raise awareness about its importance.

Some advocates for screening, however, say the state should mandate the testing, which costs about $4 per test.

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LAWRENCE (AP) — Kansas is one of 10 states that don’t require newborns be screened for a critical heart problem, but state health officials have been working to educate health care providers about the benefits of the testing.

Despite not being required to, most hospitals and birthing facilities in Kansas screen newborns for critical congenital heart disease. But about a third, mostly in rural areas

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Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Controls and Prevention, also in Atlanta, say they’ve gotten some blowback for bringing Ebola cases to an American hospital. But Dr. Tom Frieden, CDC director, emphasized again Sunday that there is no threat to the public in the United States. “We know how to control it: hospital infection control and stopping it at the source in Africa,�

Frieden said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.�

Frieden’s agency is ramping up its effort to stem Ebola’s spread. He promised “50 staff on the ground� in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone “in the next 30 days.�

Some airlines that serve those nations have suspended flights, while international groups, including the Peace Corps, have evacuated some or all representatives in the region.

But the Writebols, their pastor predicted, won’t be away from the stricken land for any longer than they have to be. “They knew that Liberia was a tough assignment,� he said, comparing their vocation to the Bible’s stories of leper colonies. “Followers of Christ went into those colonies, knowing they would die,� Munro said. “I certainly wouldn’t judge them if they didn’t go back, but I don’t think this will deter them.�

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Social Security changes would ensure solvency With the recession a factor, Social Security ran a deficit in 2010, spending $49 billion more in benefits than it received in revenues. Funds were drawn from its trust fund to cover the deficit. The trend has continued.

At the end of June of this year, the trust fund contained $2.8 trillion, according to the Social Security Administration. With baby boomers reaching retirement age and retirees living longer, actuaries predict the fund will be depleted by 2033.

When it began in 1935 full retirement payments were accorded at age 65, when life expectancy was a tad over 60.

Today the expectation is to live to age 80 or beyond, prompted by advances in medicine and emphasis on wellness.

From both pragmatic and philosophical viewpoints, many people in their mid-60s and well into their 70s are perfectly capable of continuing to work.

And, it is not unusual for those who study aging to postulate that there are advantages to continuing to pursue a vocation.

The Register editorially has proposed in the past logical fixes to ensure the solvency of Social Security.

They are just as true and forthright today.

The age for full retirement has increased in recent years, to 67 today.

Pushing that even higher would benefit the program and slow dependence on its trust fund.

Altering early retirement benefits also would be beneficial.

As is, a person may start receiving monthly Social Security payments at age 62, with a 30 percent deduction in benefits. That drops to 25 percent at age 63 and continues at 20, 13.3 and 6.7 through age 66.

Increasing those percentages, even doing away with a year or two of early benefits, would be advantageous.

That probably should have been done by a corresponding year when age for full benefits was raised.

Social Security is funded by a tax of 6.2 percent paid by both employees and employers on annual incomes of up to $117,000.

The threshold has been increased a few thousand dollars in recent years and should be increased more.

This isn’t argument for removal of the cap, but pushing it higher would make a huge difference.

The final recommendation is to make benefits means tested.

Instructive statistics are kept for each individual by the Internal Revenue Service and for those with ample retirement incomes, there is good reason to consider ending Social Security payments once what that person has paid in taxes, plus appropriate interest, is paid out.

WILL ANY of these things occur?

Probably not anytime soon, unless there is a sea change in the composure of Congress, which has been so polarized of late it might be a stretch to expect a unanimous vote that the sun rises in the east each morning.

— Bob Johnson

Remember, cross is a Christian symbol There has been a disturbing willingness on the part of some judges in recent years to treat the Christian cross as a symbol that isn’t, well, just Christian. The most high-profile and problematic example of this was Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s suggestion that a large cross that had been erected on public land in the Mojave Desert wasn’t really the symbol of one religion, but could be considered a fitting symbol for all Americans honoring the war dead.

That’s ridiculous. There is no clearer symbol of Christianity than the cross, as both Christians and non-Christians can agree.

And yet there are times when displaying a cross, or any religious symbol, can be appropriate in a public setting. A federal appeals court properly remembered that this week when it ruled that a cross known as the “Cross at Ground Zero” could remain on display at the National Sep-

How one-third of 1 percent rules (Throughout American history,) states in which leaders required support from a larger proportion of the population developed faster. Such states build more extensive canal, rail and road networks. They also achieved higher educational attainment and were more attractive places for other Americans to migrate into.

— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alestair Smith, “The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics” Call it the one-third of 1 percent revolution.

It took 8,081 votes for Governor Sam Brownback’s allies to gain effective control of the Kansas Senate, and therefore the entire state government, in the 2012 Republican primary election.

Before, a tenuous moderate Republican-Democrat alliance was staving off Brownback’s proposals for sweeping tax cuts and other legislation. Now passed, those tax cuts eventually will eliminate about onethird of the entire state general fund budget, including tens of millions of dollars going to schools and human services.

Brownback’s allies targeted moderate Republican incumbents, defeating eight: Pete Brungardt of Salina, Bob Marshall of Fort Scott, Tim Owens of Overland Park, Roger Reitz of Manhattan, Jean Schodorf of

Michael Smith Insight Kansas Wichita, Ruth Teichman of Stafford, Dwayne Umbarger of Thayer and then-majority leader Steve Morris of Hugoton.

Primaries have notoriously low voter turnout: busy voters may be unaware that there is an election before November. It may get worse due to Kansas’ recentlytoughened “closed primary,” allowing primary participation only by voters registered in that party. Championed by Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the new laws complicating voting and registration also spell trouble.

These districts being heavily Republican, the primary winner would later run unopposed or face a hopelessly outclassed Democratic opponent. The combined margin by which these eight moderates were defeated was 8,081 votes: 0.32 percent of the state’s adult population.

Massive, sweeping changes should require careful scrutiny and a broad, public debate. The lives of over 2 million people are being transformed, but hardly any of them voted for the changes. Instead, Kansans could heed California’s example.

Long plagued by uncom-

petitive in-district elections, the Golden State is heavily Democratic on its coasts and Republican inland. A few years ago, voters approved the state’s new “top two” primary, replacing an earlier system which was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.

California voters do not register as members of political parties. All primary voters receive one ballot listing the candidates of all parties seeking each seat, with party labels next to names.

More than one candidate can list the same party. Each primary voter chooses one candidate per race, and the top two vote-getters for each seat advance to the general election, even if both are from the same party. Thus a heavily Democratic or heavily Republican district can still have a real, robust competition in November, when voter turnout is much higher.

In Kansas, across-theboard decisions are being forced through with minimal public input. Smart political consultants have figured out how to game the system. It is time to reconsider.

In the meantime, don’t forget to vote in the primary elections Tuesday. If only one third of 1 percent can make a difference, you might as well be one of them.

Smith is an associate professor of political science at Emporia State University.

tember 11 Memorial & Museum in New York.

In this case, the cross was not built and pressed on the museum to add a religious aspect to the commemoration of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Rather, it was part of the story of the attack, a found object created when a column was transected by a crossbeam. Workers on the rescue and demolition crews that cleared the rubble saw that it resembled a cross and began going to it to pray and leave notes. The cross is an artifact of the site’s history and deserves a place at the museum. It is part of a larger exhibit about how people tried, some through religion and others in different ways, to find meaning after the attack. Also in the exhibit are gifts from foreign nations that include symbols of other religions.

There was some disturbing wording in the ruling by a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, especially the assertion that the cross had become a “symbol of hope and healing for all persons.” Crosses are symbols of hope and healing for Christians, not for the Americans who hold other beliefs and

make up 23 percent of the U.S. population. It is demeaning to non-Christians for judges to contend that the symbol of the dominant religion is meaningful to all; that’s practically the definition of government establishment of one religion over another.

The judges were on firmer ground when they concluded that the presence of the cross would clearly be understood by visitors as a symbol of “how some people used faith to cope with the tragedy,” and as one artifact among many to help tell the complete story.

Similarly, a cross at the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton appropriately marks the site of the first baptism in California in 1769.

Just as the courts shouldn’t allow crosses to dominate public landscapes only because someone wanted to erect one, they should not allow people who are uncomfortable with such symbols to suppress them when they are a valid part of our collective history.

There is no clearer symbol of Christianity than the cross, so why are some judges giving it broader meaning?

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Letter to the editor Dear editor:

Why do we vote for politicians and policies who are clearly anti-woman? It makes no logical sense. I am tired and irritated of anti-choice policies that make it harder for women to get safe abortions. I am tired of “pro-life” groups, like Kansans For Life, blatantly lying and handing out damaging misinformation about abortion and birth control. And I am tired of politicians, especially those without vaginas, who try to (and sometimes succeed) in taking away my right to choose what happens and what grows in my body. Those people and policies are killing women and denying us our bodily autonomy and freedom.

I was disappointed in seeing just how many lies were in the Kansans For Life’s pamphlets at the Allen County Fair. Let me correct some of them.

Abortion is like any other medical surgery. There are always risks to a surgery, but done safely, will not cause internal bleeding or sterilization. Studies have disproved the claim that abortion causes breast cancer, and the American Cancer Society has stated publicly there is no correlation between abortion and breast cancer. And finally, women have depression after an abortion not because of the procedure, but instead because of

the stigma and unsupportive anti-choice society we live in that says a women should feel guilty in ending a pregnancy.

Women have abortions for many reasons. It’s not an easy decision, nor is it as simple as anti-choice people believe.

Sometimes the mother-to-be could die from giving birth.

Sometimes the fetus could suffocate upon birth. Both scenarios are good reasons to abort.

Some women are in no financial situation to have children, let alone pay the medical bills to carry the fetus to term and put it up for adoption.

Abortions will always happen, just as they have had for centuries. Making them illegal will not stop them. It only kills and harms women who have been turned to back-alley butchers to save their lives and livelihoods. Making abortions safe helps and saves women I wish “pro-lifers” would understand this and quit hiding behind false propaganda, cherry-picked religious verses and discredited science. You aren’t saving “babies.” You’re killing and damaging the lives of innocent women.

Let’s take back our state and protect women. Vote for politicians who actually care about protecting women and women’s lives.

Cora O’Brien Elsmore, Kan.

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Tennessee lab rolls out ideas for future vehicles KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (MCT) — Nestled in the rolling Tennessee hills and forests, the secretive lab that developed power for the Manhattan Project is working to change the auto industry and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign fuel.

Projects under way at Oak Ridge National Laboratory include: —An oil additive that may reduce any vehicle’s fuel consumption at least 2 percent and cut U.S. oil consumption by billions of gallons a year.

—A way to slash the cost of carbon fiber so everyday cars and trucks can use the strong, light material that’s currently reserved for exotic sport cars.

—A charging system to eliminate the batteries that currently account for much of electric cars’ cost and weight.

The labs and research centers here have worked with the auto industry since the energy crises of the 1970s and 1980s. Oak Ridge helped develop materials, fuels and systems used by millions of vehicles.

The Department of Energy has final approval over all projects with private companies, said Ron Graves, director of the lab’s sustainable transportation program.

Here’s some of what’s in the works: The oil additive Oak Ridge developed could be the poster child for government research. Se-

nior research scientist Jun Qu worked on it for 10 years, longer than a private company would likely support a project, but the result is a low-cost additive that appears to reduce the fuel consumption of any engine at least 2 percent. That would amount to two billion gallons of fuel a year, a massive decrease in emissions and U.S. energy imports.

Qu tested the liquid additive with General Motors, Shell Oil and Lubrizol.

“This technology holds tremendous potential,” said Michael Viola, the GM staff research engineer who tested the lubricant at the automaker’s Tech Center in Warren, Mich.

“We’re very pleased GM is working hard to improve the fuel economy and emissions of our vehicles. This is exactly what we wanted.”

Qu said the additive reduces the oil’s viscosity with no increase in engine wear. Even greater improvements in fuel economy are possible by combining it with other additives already in use, he said.

Oak Ridge will license production to industry, said Jennifer Tonzello Caldwell of the lab’s technology transfer division.

“We give preferential licensing to small U.S. companies, if they have the wherewithal to produce it,” Caldwell said. “We want job creation in the United States.”

The laboratory will get a roy-

alty from production, like universities do when their discoveries are commercialized.

“GM is pushing to have the additive produced,” Qu said. “It could be in production within five years.”

A new process to make carbon fiber could cut the exotic lightweight material’s cost nearly 50 percent.

“We’re exploring lower-cost raw material to move carbon fiber from niche vehicles to the mass market,” said Lee McGetrick, director of Oak Ridge’s carbon fiber technology center.

The center has cut the cost to $7 a pound from $12 a pound today in cars like the $1.4-million La Ferrari. The center is working with supplier Faurecia and the Composite Vehicle Research Center at Michigan State University to get carbon fiber into wider production.

“This material has a lot of promise in mass production,” said Mahmoodul Haq, Michigan State assistant professor of mechanical engineering. “The Oak Ridge fiber makes it easier and to manufacture parts. Carbon fiber has been a rich man’s game. The fiber from Oak Ridge and the new machine can change that.”

Oak Ridge has developed a system that makes inductive charging, which charges batteries without physically connecting to an outlet, as efficient as charging through a plug,

Wireless charging receiver installed under the floor of a Toyota Prius at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville, Tenn.

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said Madhu Chinthavali, team leader of Oak Ridge’s power electronics group.

“We’re working on dynamic wireless charging,” where the charging coils are buried in the road and the car doesn’t need expensive batteries to store electricity, Chinthavali said.

That would cut the cost and energy consumption of electric vehicles radically.

The lab is also developing electric motors that don’t use rare-earth minerals. The U.S. is dependent on other countries, primarily China, for most rare earths.

“Our goal is to get these technologies into the world so

the taxpayers benefit,” he said.

“Show the technologies to automakers and let them adapt it to their needs.”

Oak Ridge is also the largest domestic battery lab. It’s developing less-expensive, morepowerful batteries for electric cars.

“We don’t want to be dependent on importing battery technology in a similar way we are dependent on importing foreign oil,” said David Wood, fuel cell technologies program manager. “We need to build up our manufacturing processes and materials supply chain here in the U.S. so that we don’t have to import batteries from Asia.”

Road taxes are rising, even in tax-averse states JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — For nearly a century, Missouri has taxed drivers to pay for its roads. That’s always provided enough — until now. On Tuesday, voters will decide on a historic change that would tax virtually everything they buy in order to yield more money for roads and bridges.

With Congress stymied over long-term highway funding, many states are taking it upon themselves to tackle the politically uncomfortable task of raising revenue for their aging transportation systems.

In the past year and a half, one-fourth of the states have hiked taxes, fees or fines, and at least a dozen others are studying options, according to an Associated Press review. The push comes as the traditional revenue sources — federal and state fuel taxes — have deteriorated because of more fuel-efficient vehicles, more people driving less, and stagnant tax rates.

Support for the hikes has come from Democrats and Republicans

alike, even in tax-averse states such as Missouri, where the Legislature has been cutting income taxes.

“Tax increases are very, very hard to pass,” said Missouri Sen. Mike Kehoe, a Republican who supports the measure on Tuesday’s ballot for a three-quarters cent sales tax increase. “But I think that people do look at infrastructure differently ... as an investment.”

Congress agreed Thursday to a 10-month funding patch for the federal Highway Trust Fund, which was running out of money to cover all of its commitments to the states. But a long-term plan remains unresolved, and the stalemate already has caused delays for some projects such as highway improvements in Tennessee and bridge replacements in Arkansas.

Federal money accounts for more than a quarter of states’ total spending on highways and transit infrastructure, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts.

“I just don’t think we

can count on any more federal dollars coming in than what we’re currently getting, and we should assume that money is going to drop,” said Rep. Dave Hinson, a Republican who sponsored Missouri’s proposed transportation sales tax.

States are already facing shortfalls in their own transportation revenue.

The U.S. Department of Transportation estimates governments would need to spend as much as 50 percent more to pay for all of the work needed on roads, bridges and mass transit.

In Michigan, twothirds of the roads are projected to be in poor condition by 2020, yet a proposed tax hike has stalled.

Missouri’s highway budget is projected to plummet from a recent high of $1.3 billion annually to $325 million by 2017. There is no Plan B to replace that money if voters don’t approve a sales tax is projected to raise at least $540 million annually.

Construction contractors, labor unions, engi-

neering firms and others have poured more than $4 million into the Missouri sales tax campaign and have outspent opponents by a more than 100-to-1 ratio. The advertising blitz is a necessity because Missouri voters have a history of rejecting tax increases.

Opposition is coming both from staunch conservatives, who oppose most tax hikes, and strident liberals, who fear the sales tax would hit the poorest the hardest while demanding nothing from the heaviest highway users. The sales tax hike wouldn’t apply to tractor-trailer rigs, which were exempted under a 2012 law.

“The absurdity of it is if you go out and buy your child a toy truck, and then you go out and buy an 18-wheeler, you’re going to pay more road tax on the toy truck than you are for the 18-wheeler,” said Thomas R. Shrout Jr., a St. Louis consultant who is treasurer of the opposition group.

Transportation tax increases already have run into problems in some

The absurdity of it is if you go out and buy your child a toy truck, and then you go out and buy an 18-wheeler, you’re going to pay more road tax on the toy truck than you are for the 18-wheeler.

— Thomas R. Shrout Jr., treasurer of opposition group

states. Last year, voters in nine of Georgia’s 12 transportation districts defeated a sales tax hike, and Seattle area voters rejected a transportation sales tax and vehicle fee increase in April.

Other states have pushed ahead with increases without putting them to a vote of the people.

New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, signed a 4-cent-agallon fuel tax increase that took effect in July, the first such increase since 1991. Republican Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead signed legislation last year raising the fuel tax to 24 cents a gallon from the 14-cent rate.

Significant transpor-

tation funding measures were enacted recently in Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Texas voters will decide in November whether to divert about $1 billion annually from the state’s Rainy Day Fund to transportation.

In many states, the funding plans have taken several years of bipartisan coalitionbuilding, said Tony Dorsey, spokesman for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.

“States are realizing that they have to fund transportation projects in big ways — you know, our system is aging,” Dorsey said.

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Selzer top Kansas fundraiser in race TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican Ken Selzer has raised nearly $235,000 through July for his campaign for Kansas insurance commissioner, leading the five GOP candidates in fundraising.

Finance reports show Selzer loaned his campaign an additional $33,100 and spent $264,000 through July 24.

He is a Leawood accountant and reinsurance company executive.

His nearest rival in fundraising is Eudora health care consultant Beverly Gossage, who

collected nearly $116,000 in contributions and loaned herself an additional $65,000. She spent nearly $167,000 through July 24.

State Sen. Clark Shultz, Lindsborg, raised about $102,000 in contributions and spent $80,000.

El Dorado insurance agency president David Powell raised $19,000 and spent $9,000.

Johnson County Commissioner and former state Rep. John Toplikar of Olathe raised nearly $13,000 and spent about $9,500.

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Stoy ‘rejuvenates’ ACC baseball for upcoming season

‘Human Shield’

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

Allen County Community College’s new baseball coach Clint Stoy has been here for a month and has already gotten to work.

“I’ve just been trying to put together a roster, contacting teams on the fall and spring schedule, ordering equipment and trying to get the field ready,” Stoy said.

Before the fall season starts, Stoy wants to get the team on campus to go over the basics of being a player for Allen.

“I want to have an orientation for the players to discuss expectations of them on and off the field as well as do some fundraising and things of that nature,” he said.

He has already brought seven players to the team, all of which are from out of state. Players come from Arizona, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa.

“I’ve seen a couple of them play,” Stoy said. “Then, through a lot of networking with other coaches that I know, for one reason or another, have said, ‘Hey, this kid’s looking to transfer.’

Each of the late additions is a transfer from another college, Stoy said.

Stoy’s top priority for his first season with the Red Devils is to develop better players and men.

Clint Stoy “Wins and losses are wins and losses. At the end of the day, you can’t define a program by wins and losses,” Stoy said. “You’ve got to define it by kids coming into your system, growing up, and learning the right way to do things and focus on the things that get that accomplished. Wins and losses will take care of themselves at the end of the year.”

Stoy said his biggest challenge will be changing the team’s mindset, “to get the culture to where I think it needs to be. I want to change some attitudes and change the culture, and really try to get people rejuvenated, excited and have a continued interest in the program.”

Stoy comes from NJCAA national champion Western Iowa Community College, where he was the pitching coach. Jake Kraft will remain as ACC’s assistant.

Iola’s Ashmore stars in National Baseball Congress World Series WICHITA — Levi Ashmore’s first ever National Baseball Congress World Series already has been a memorable one.

The former Iola High standout delivered a walk-off single in the bottom of the 11th inning to lead the Valley Center Diamond Dawgs to a 6-5 win Sunday over the Everett (Wash.) Merchants.

The hit capped a 5-for-6 day at the plate for Ashmore, who also doubled in the fourth inning while smacking singles in the second, sixth and eighth innings. He scored a run with two RBIs. The win keeps Valley Center alive in the NBC World Series, a double elimination tournament.

The Diamond Dawgs could not hold an 8-3 lead in the ninth inning of Saturday’s opener, a heartbreaking 12-8

loss to Arvada, Colo.

Another former IHS standout, Jerrik Sigg, also plays for the Diamond Dawgs. He went 1-for-4 with a pair of runs Sunday. On Saturday, Sigg went 2-for-5 with a pair of RBIs. Ashmore did not play Saturday.

Ashmore will play in the fall at Neosho County Community College after starring last season at Allen Community College. Sigg, who also was a standout at ACC his freshman year in 2013, is entering his redshirt sophomore season at Wichita State University.

Valley Center returns to action tonight to take on the St. Joseph, Mo., Mustangs at 7 o’clock at Wichita’s Lawrence-Dumont Stadium.

The tournament runs through Saturday.

Osborne football coach injured in crash TIPTON, Kan. (AP) — A state championship football coach has been hospitalized after a motorcycle accident in north-central Kansas.

Osborne County Sheriff's Deputy Danny Miner told WIBW Osborne football coach Steve Tiernan was injured early Sunday in a

motorcycle accident west of Tipton. He was hospitalized in Wichita.

Tiernan won two state championships in 8-Man football with Baileyville B&B in 2008 and 2010 and last year's 8-Man Division One championship with Osborne.

Kansas City Royals pitcher James Shields pitches against the Oakland Athletics in the second inning of their game at O.co Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., Sunday. The Royals took the victory, 4-2.

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Shields sharp in Royals win

By MICHAEL WAGAMAN Associated Press

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — James Shields pitched quite a gem for Kansas City. It certainly helped that Oakland abandoned its usual patient approach at the plate.

Shields pitched eight sharp innings for his first win in nearly a month, and the Royals beat the Athletics 4-2 on Sunday.

“This team was a free-hacking team today, which is not really their game,” Shields said.

“They have a bunch of hitters over there that were being aggressive and I was able to execute my pitches early in the count.”

Shields retired his first 15 batters before Josh Reddick hit a leadoff homer in the sixth. Alberto Callaspo then had a one-out single before Sam Fuld lined into a double play.

The 32-year-old Shields (106) allowed two runs and four hits. He walked none for the fifth time this season.

“You watch the way that he’s pitching, it’s like, ‘OK boys, let’s just give him a couple runs and he’ll take it from there,’” Kansas City manager Ned Yost said. “A good indicator for him was he was managing his pitch count.”

Shields threw 102 pitches

while helping the Royals to their ninth win in 12 games.

“As far as I’m concerned we can match up with anyone, any team, any starting rotation,” Shields said. “As long as we go toe to toe with those guys we’re going to be in every game.”

Reddick homered twice, getting to Shields again in the eighth.

The A’s have the best record in baseball at 67-43, but have sputtered offensively since trading cleanup hitter Yoenis Cespedes to Boston on Thursday in a deal for ace Jon Lester. They lead the stacked AL West by one game over the Los Angeles Angels, who beat Tampa Bay 7-5 on Sunday.

Oakland was without injured leadoff hitter Coco Crisp, though it hardly mattered the way Shields was pitching.

Shields allowed only three balls out of the infield through the first five innings. One of them was a deep fly to center

by Josh Donaldson in the first, the closest Oakland came to getting a man on base before Reddick’s home run.

“We just haven’t been our best offensively here,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said.

“Shields was using all his pitches, going to the change, to the cutter, and he had good command.”

Shields got his first win

since he beat his former team, Tampa Bay, on July 7. Greg Holland pitched the ninth for his AL-leading 31st save.

Nori Aoki’s RBI single in the fifth gave Kansas City a 1-0 lead. Omar Infante followed with a two-run double and later scored on a single by Salvador Perez.

All the runs came against Scott Kazmir (12-4).

Reddick has four home runs since coming off the disabled list July 22. It’s the sixth multihomer game of his career and second this season.

Kazmir lost at the Oakland Coliseum for just the second time this season. It’s also the first time since June 24 that the left-hander allowed more than two earned runs.

It was Yost’s 798th win as a manager, moving him one ahead of Melvin for 76th on the career list.

The Athletics’ infielder Nick Punto was placed on the 15-day disabled list after he strained a hamstring rounding third base on Saturday. ... Crisp (neck) took swings in the batting cage but there is still no timetable for his return. Crisp has not played since July 26.

The Royals left-hander Danny Duffy (5-10) pitches the series opener in Arizona on Tuesday. Duffy’s 2.42 ERA is the fourth-lowest in the AL among pitchers with at least 100 innings.

Travis Smith took home the USRA Modified race. FINISHLINE PHOTOGRAPHY/DAYTON SUTTERBY

VanGotten wins intense B-Mod race

By SCOTT L. STEWART

HUMBOLDT — After a week off, Humboldt Speedway action was hotter than ever Friday.

The USRA B-Mod finale featured Andy Bryant and Tim

VanGotten wheel to wheel for multiple laps in pursuit of the lead. Bryant was in front, VanGotten trying to pass and, at the same time, trying to hold off Riley Whitworth, before the trio sailed into lapped traf-

fic.

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Violence wanes, tension still high GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli-declared temporary cease-fire and troop withdrawals slowed violence in the Gaza war today, though an attack on Israeli bus that killed one person in Jerusalem underscored the tensions still simmering in the region.

Several cease-fires have broken down during the 3 1/2 week war — including Friday when an internationally negotiated truce collapsed amid violence and mutual recrimination between Israel and Hamas.

But with Hamas rocket fire tapering off over the last 24 hours and Israel’s ground operation in Gaza winding down, violence in a war that officials say has killed more than 1,800 Palestinians and more than 60 Israelis appeared — for the moment — to be waning.

The lull was broken by the Jerusalem assault, which saw a man ram the front end of a construction excavator into an Israeli bus. Police described the incident as a “terrorist attack,” indicating Palestinian involvement.

The attack occurred on a main thoroughfare near Jerusalem’s lightrail line. The area is located near the unofficial line between Jewish West Jerusalem and east Jerusalem, the section of the city captured by Israel in 1967 and which is home to most of the city’s Arab population.

Israeli media said the attacker came from an Arab area of the city.

Israel’s Channel 10 TV showed cellphone video of what it said was the attack, with the yellow excavator slamming its large shovel into the bus. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a police officer in the area opened fire and killed the attacker. A pedestrian also was killed, said Jerusalem district police chief Yossi Piranti.

In the past, Palestinian attackers have gone on deadly rampages with bulldozers in Jerusalem traffic.

“Because of the quick reaction of the police an even graver incident was avoided,” Piranti said.

Shortly after the excavator attack, Israeli media reported that a gunman on a motorcycle shot and seriously wounded an Israeli soldier.

Before the attacks, a seven-hour Israeli cease-fire in Gaza went into effect. And while Israel continued hitting at selected Palestinian targets, the level of the fighting was much lower than in previous days.

However, the Israeli military said the ceasefire would not apply to areas where troops were still operating and where they would respond to any attack. The southern strip town of Rafah, which saw heavy fighting Sunday, was excluded from the truce, the military said.

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Hypothyroid an autoimmune disorder Dear Dr. Roach: My oldest grandson, 17, was diagnosed with hypothyroidism about three years ago and has been on levothyroxine daily, with good lab numbers since. He was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes mellitus three months ago. He is on insulin three times daily, and his sugars have come down really well. But recent lab work has shown that his thyroid levels are now inadequate. In addition, his testosterone and vitamin D levels are markedly low. He has been placed on medications to correct all of these deficiencies.

He is only about 5 feet, 6 inches tall, and I would be surprised if he weighs 120 pounds. He is pale, thin and truly does not look well at all.

My concern is that he has some sort of an autoimmune disorder that is being missed. I would appreciate any input you may have. I am very concerned. — C.F.

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health Answer: I am sorry to hear what a hard time your grandson is going through. He almost certainly does have at least two autoimmune diseases: hypothyroidism and Type 1 diabetes both are caused by the body attacking itself, and it is not uncommon for the two of them to go together. Likewise, vitamin D levels are low in many, many North Americans, especially those who live above the line from Atlanta to Los Angeles.

What I am concerned about is why his thyroid level, which was normal on treatment, is now not normal. Together with his relatively short height, it puts me in the mind of a serious condition, polyglandular autoimmune syndrome. In

this condition, many of the pituitary hormones are not released normally.

Without stimulation from the pituitary, the target glands don’t function, which may cause hypothyroidism (no thyroid hormone), short stature (no growth hormone), abnormal sexual development (no sex hormones) and, most concerningly, Addison’s disease from having no cortisone.

His doctors can check this by measuring testosterone levels, or by a stimulation test of the pituitary, injecting CRH, a hormone that tells the pituitary to make ACTH, which, in turn, tells the adrenals to make cortisone.

There certainly are other causes for his condition. Type 1 diabetics can experience poor growth.

Adolescents sometimes stop taking their medications, which might account for the thyroid change. But one last consideration is celiac

disease, which commonly (at least 5 percent of the time) accompanies the diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes. Food malabsorption from celiac sprue causes poor growth or weight loss.

Dear Dr. Roach: Would you please address stemcell treatment for a torn rotator cuff ? My son is facing his second surgery for this problem and is considering stem-cell treatment instead. He had such terrible pain from surgery the first time. — L.P. Answer: A torn rotator cuff is a common sports injury in athletes.

Complete tears usually are repaired surgically. A new surgical technique is to inject the body’s own stem cells (obtained from the bone marrow) to help promote healing. It’s too new a technique for me to be able to compare it with standard surgical therapy, but the preliminary studies are very promising.

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For Michael Phelps, there’s no place like home

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer

BALTIMORE (AP) — Sitting on the deck at his beloved Meadowbrook, Michael Phelps glances toward the pool where he was once afraid to put his face in the water. “This is me,� he said, a slight smile curling off his lips. “This is home.�

This is where Phelps put in most of the work to become the most decorated athlete in Olympic history. This is where he’s looking to add to that legacy after an aborted retirement, his eyes firmly on the Rio Games two years away.

And as the world’s greatest swimmer takes his comeback to its biggest stop yet — this week’s U.S. national championships in Irvine, California — it’s important for him to remember where he came from.

Why? Because for all the hoopla over LeBron James returning to Cleveland, there’s no bigger homebody than Phelps.

He still trains at the pool where he learned to swim, a nondescript building in Baltimore’s inner suburbs, right in the middle of the Jones Falls flood plain.

Drive past the shuttered ice rink with weeds growing up at the edges and there it is, a rectangular cube of gray concrete blocks.

Inside, kids do cannonballs off the side of the pool, teenagers sun on the faux beach with umbrellas stuck in the sand, geriatrics glide slowly through the water looking to ward off the ad-

vancing years.

In the middle of this scene out of Anywhere USA, there’s Phelps and his star-studded training group, an impressive collection of gold medalists, world champions and national record holders. “It’s funny,� said his longtime coach, Bob Bowman. “When I come out here and see kids playing around, that’s just what Michael did every day when he was a little kid. When I first met him, he was just playing around in the pool, playing games with his friends.�

As they wrapped up preparations for the national championships, Phelps and Bowman shared an exclusive look at what goes on behind the scenes with The Associated Press.

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Before the Athens and Beijing Olympics, Phelps would push himself to the brink of exhaustion in practice, swimming up to 16,000 meters a day. Now, he’s putting in about half as many laps in the pool but doing longer sessions in the weight room, resulting in a more muscular physique.

Even though Phelps is only 29, an age that many consider the prime for a male athlete, there’s a lot of mileage on those dangling arms and shorterthan-expected legs (an unusually long torso is one of the anatomical keys to Phelps’ success).

His body doesn’t recover as quickly as it once did, so he’s focused on becoming bigger and stronger, in hopes of going faster

over shorter distances.

No longer will he compete in the 400-meter individual medley, a brutal event that is essentially four races within one. He dropped the 200 butterfly, as well, giving up one of his signature events.

At nationals, Phelps’ longest event will be the 200 IM. He’ll also compete in three 100s — freestyle, backstroke and fly. Still a daunting program, but nothing like rival Ryan Lochte, who’s entered six events, or 17-year-old Katie Ledecky, who put her name in eight.

But perhaps the biggest change for Phelps is those he trains with on the Meadowbrook-based North Baltimore Aquatic Club.

There’s Yannick Agnel, the towering Frenchman who won two golds at the London Games; Allison Schmitt, who captured five medals at the last Olympics; Lotte Friis, a bronze medalist from Denmark; plus Conor Dwyer and Matt McLean, both with a relay gold to their names. “If I want to be the best in the world, I needed to have the best coach and the best group in the world,� Agnel says. “Where else can I find that but here?�

From Bowman’s perspective, this is just what Phelps needed, too — stiff competition, on a daily basis. “It used to be if Michael was on fire, nobody could beat him,� the coach said. “Now, if Michael’s on fire, there are maybe a couple of people who can still beat him.

They’re that good.�

HOME SWEET HOME

When Meadowbrook opened in 1930, it was not designed for competitive swimming. There were fountains in the middle, giant slides and high dives along the sides.

Things changed in the mid-’80s, when a floating deck was installed to mark off the 50-meter racing distance. In 1995, a second pool was built, this one covered by a roof and surrounded by three walls, with tarps that can be lowered on the fourth side to keep it running in the winter.

Phelps’ two older sisters were competitive swimmers at Meadowbrook, so it was only natural for him to take lessons when he was 6. Cathy Bennett was his first instructor. “It sounds pretty important, doesn’t it?� she said, laughing. “It didn’t feel important at the time, I’ll tell you that.�

Phelps, to put it bluntly, was a handful. “I hate to say that about Michael,� Bennett said apologetically, “but he had every excuse in the

world to get out of the pool. ‘I need to go to the bathroom. It’s too cold.’�

Actually, the youngster didn’t feel comfortable putting his face in the water. Bennett told him to swim on his back. Within a few weeks, Phelps flipped over.

He never looked back.

Even as his fame grew, Meadowbrook remained pretty much the same.

When it’s time for training outside the pool, Phelps and his teammates trudge down a rocky path, to a “weight room� that is nothing more than slab covered by a tent. For pull-ups, they grab a U-shaped pipe and yank themselves off concrete blocks. On this day, Schmitt cut the bottom of her foot while walking back toward the locker room without shoes. “It might not be the prettiest or the best facility to train in, but it gets the job done,� Schmitt said, patching up her foot and spraying blood off the deck. “It’s kind of homey.�

Agnel prefers it this

Michael Phelps way. “When you have something so fancy, you forget everything about hard work, the tough life,� the Frenchman said. “In some kind of way, this helps us to be mentally tough, as well. It’s pretty cool.�

For Phelps, it’s more than cool.

It’s home — so much so that he and his coach now run the place. “Who would think the greatest Olympian of all time would come from suburban Baltimore?�

Bowman said. “But he’s got to come from somewhere. It might as well be here.�

Speedway: Wilson takes Pure Stock Continued from B1 and on the ensuing restart, Jimmie Davis blew by Whitworth for second. Van Gotten held on for the win, Whitworth finished third, Larissa Atnip was fourth, and Tim Phillips fifth.

USRA Modified action was wide open as well, though not nearly as dramatic, as Travis Smith led wire to wire from the pole position.

Here, the race was for second, which went to this season’s most improved driver to date, Gene Hogan. Third fell to Jerry Morgan, Jon Sheets took fourth, and Lucas Conley fifth.

Patrick Kay drove hard, trying to win his first USRA Stock Car feature of the year, only to be tracked down late in the race by Jeremy Wilson. With Kay second, Tyler James third and Ken Colston fourth.

Pure Stock action saw outside pole sitter Derrek Wilson trump the field wire to wire ahead of runner-up Mike Churning. Don McIntosh was third.

Mike Aiello returned to action to finish fourth, with Wayne Johnson fifth.

The USMTS Modified tour makes its summer stop at Humboldt Speedway, along with all other classes, in this Friday’s action.

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