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Every vote counts
Roberts holds on to Senate seat
County commission race runs close By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Tuesday’s Republican primary election provided a crystal clear civics lesson for Allen Countians — every vote counts. By the time the last ballots were tallied, Jerry Daniels, Humboldt, led Jim Mueller of Moran by one vote — 251 to 250 — in their campaign to replace outgoing Dick Works on the Allen County Commission. The results are unofficial, and won’t be certified until 8 a.m. Monday, when commissioners will look at eight provisional ballots. Provisional ballots are ones cast in which the voter’s name does not match the registry list. The winner is virtually assured of taking the seat in November; no Democrats filed for the position.
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By JOHN HANNA The Iola Register
Jim Mueller
Jerry Daniels
The vote was so close, Mueller had left the Allen County clerk’s office Tuesday evening thinking he had secured the nomination. Problem was, the tally tabulated on did not account for advance ballots. Mueller led 222 to 220 on votes counted Tuesday, while Daniels had 31 votes to Mueller’s 28 in advance balloting, tilting the
vote in his favor by the slimmest of margins.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Three members of the Kansas congressional delegation overcame tough Republican primary challenges Tuesday, a split outcome for tea party groups who failed to oust longtime U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts but helped a rural conservative survive despite criticism of his agriculture votes. In a busy primary that included several statewide contests, the headliner was Leawood radiologist Milton Wolf ’s challenge against Roberts. Wolf ’s aggressive campaign had tea party conservatives eyeing an opportunity to unseat an incumbent senator for the first time this year. Roberts was shy of a majority of the vote, but across the state, two lesser-known candi-
ELSEWHERE, State Rep. Kent Thompson fended off a challenge from Chad VanHouden of Chanute for his 9th District seat. Thompson garnered 60 percent of the vote — 1,505 to 1,005 — to earn his first full See LOCAL | Page A4
Senator Pat Roberts dates siphoned off part of the anti-Roberts vote from Wolf. “We knew that when we started nearly a year ago it would not be easy, and it hasn’t been,” Roberts told supporters who gathered at a hotel in Overland Park. “My posse did not flinch, even though there were times when their candidate — me — stepped on our message.” See ROBERTS | Page A4
Erie man dies in wreck ERIE — Timothy Wayne Charboneau, 23, Erie, died in a one-vehicle accident Tuesday evening after officers said he fled from police in rural Neosho County. A c c o r d i n g Timothy to the Kansas Charboneau Highway Patrol, Erie police officers were
pursuing Charboneau south of Erie on Pryor Road, when his pickup left the roadway, crashed through a guardrail, became airborne and landed on its top in the Neosho River. He was declared dead at the scene, about one mile south of Erie. The KHP report did not indicate why police were pursuing Charboneau. Charboneau was a 2008 Iola High School graduate.
Accident injures Iolan Iolan Trent Latta is in an Overland Park hospital today, recovering from injuries he suffered in a one-vehicle accident north of Iola Tuesday. Latta was injured when the Trent Latta farm truck he was driving dipped onto the shoulder along U.S. 169, about two miles north of Iola. Latta lost control as he attempted to get back onto the highway. The truck crossed the highway and struck a row
of trees, his father, Randy, told the Register. He was taken to Allen County Regional Hospital, then transferred to Overland Park Regional Medical Center for injuries to his head and leg. Randy Latta said his son suffered broken bones around his eye, and took a blow to the back of his head. He also suffered a cut to his leg. “His eye is swollen completely shut,” Randy Latta said, adding doctors were waiting for the swelling to subside before determining whether surgery was necesSee LATTA | Page A6
From left, Sophia Carney, Olivia Carney and Payton Shaw set up a lemonade stand in Iola Tuesday. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
Young entrepreneurs set up shop By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
A couple of early missteps did little to slow business for a pair of sisters and their friend Tuesday afternoon. Sophie and Olivia Carney and Payton Shaw set up a lemonade stand at the intersection of Broadway and Walnut streets Tuesday. They
quickly sold out of the product, at 25 cents per cup. Sales went well, even though the girls dropped a pitcher of the cool drink, forcing them to quickly mix up a second batch. Then, as a pair of visitors dropped by, Shaw inadvertently dropped a pair of coins in her drink. They were unsure whether
the stand would remain open much longer. Although they were nearly out of lemonade by mid-afternoon, they still had other flavors of Kool-Aid drinks available. Temperatures and chances of rain will play a factor, they admitted, and as youngsters are wont to do, they may have found another activity to pass their time.
COUNTY
Iola EMS gets a hand up from commissioners By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Allen County commissioners, albeit on a split vote, gave Iola a little breathing room Tuesday as the city deals with a projected $378,000 shortfall in ambulance service funding. On a motion made two weeks ago by Commissioner Tom Williams and then tabled, he and Commissioner
Dick Works approved a grant of as much as $189,000 — half of the anticipated funding discrepancy — for Iola. That’s what the city had sought. The county immediately will send a check for $136,000 across Jackson Avenue to City Hall, and will hold in abeyance $53,000, run revenue from the waning weeks of 2013, that will be used to meet half of the shortfall when accounting
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for 2014 is completed. If the shortfall abates, the county’s additional revenue sharing would change to whatever half of it is. The decision was put off until Jim Talkington, commission chairman, returned from a vacation. He proposed the funding motion be amended to make $189,000 in county funding available, but be held in coun-
ty coffers until the end of the year, to see “if city finances improve.” His motion died for lack of a second. The decision came after Williams, for the second time, called for a vote on the original motion. Talkington cast the negative vote. He gave “too many questions” as his reason. Included is the caveat that
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
— Mark Twain
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if Iola returns the service to county control before the fiveyear contract between the two entities expires, the money would have to be repaid. City Administrator Carl Slaugh reiterated that he found the repayment provision unnecessary and perhaps a stumbling block for council support of continuing the service. See COUNTY | Page A4
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