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Legislature inches toward center with leadership

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Moderate Republicans regained some of the power they had lost in the Kansas Legislature during Rep. Don conservative Hineman GOP Gov. Sam

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Brownback’s tenure, capturing key leadership jobs ahead of tough debates next year over education funding and the state’s persistent budget problems.

While Republicans picked conservative Rep. Ron Ryckman Jr., of Olathe, as the next House speaker, they named one of the chamber’s most visible moderates, Rep. Don Hineman, of Dighton, as the new majority leader.

In the Senate, President Susan Wagle, of Wichita, easily beat back a challenge from the right, and fellow Republican Sen. Jim Denning, of Overland Park, was unopposed as the new majority leader. Both are conservatives but have broken with Brownback on fiscal issues.

Of local note, Rep. Kent Thompson, R-LaHarpe, was elected as the House majority whip.

Thompson, too, has bucked Brownback and the conservatives when dealing with the state’s financial matters.

The results of the secret balloting at the Statehouse by returning legislators and l aw m a ke r s to-be elected last month re- Rep. Kent Thompson flected the sig-

Passion feeds Christmas craft

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Shirley Scheer’s seventh crocheted bedspread brings a holiday flavor to her Iola home.

Scheer, who finished the piece a few years ago, pulls it out of storage each Christmas season. She and husband Floyd brought it by the Register Monday to show off the ornate piece.

The 31-inch by 52-inch bedspread shows Santa and his pack filled with toys aboard his sleigh being pulled by a team of reindeer across the night sky.

Almost unnoticed at first glance is the single red dot on the lead reindeer’s snout. Yes, she confirms, it’s Rudolph.

Scheer declined to estimate how long it took to finish the quilt — “I don’t keep track of time” — but crocheting has been a pastime of hers since childhood.

Her mother, the late Geneva Sinclair, got her started as a youth.

“I was the only one of my See SCHEER | Page A3

Report: U.S. productivity rises 3.1%

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The productivity of American workers rose in the July-September quarter at the fastest pace in two years while labor costs slowed after a big jump in the spring.

Productivity increased in the third quarter at a 3.1 percent rate, the Labor Department reported today. That followed three quarterly declines and was the best showing since a 4.2 percent increase in the third quarter of 2014.

Labor costs edged up at a 0.7 percent rate in the third quarter following a much faster 6.2 percent jump in the second quarter. The productivity figure was unchanged from an initial estimate a month ago while the 0.7 percent rise in unit labor costs was slightly higher than an initial estimate of a 0.3 percent gain.

The rebound in productivity was expected to be temporary.

Economists believe the See GROWTH | Page A3

nificant losses in this year’s election by conservative Brownback allies. Hineman said the election resulted in voters engineering “a return to the center.”

“That’s traditionally where Kansas is governed from,” Hineman said. “Folks thought we had veered too hard to the right.”

Kansas is facing a projected See STATE | Page A3

Poll: Some in GOP skittish of ACA repeal

By JORDAN RAU KHI News Service

Iolan Shirley Scheer shows off a large crocheted bedspread she made depicting Santa and his team of reindeer — Rudolph included — on their Christmas Eve journey. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

With their party gaining control of both the White House and Congress, some Re p u b l i c a n voters are growing hesitant about outright abolition of the Affordable Care Act and instead favoring a more circumspect approach of scaling it back, according to a poll released Thursday.

Republican opposition to the ACA remains strong among voters for Presidentelect Donald Trump, with 81 percent of his supporters viewing it unfavorably, according to the survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation that was conducted after the election. (Kaiser Health See POLL | Page A2

Jeweler reflects on fashion, shopping trends

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Joanne Butler never figured a career in the jewelry business was her destiny, nor did she ever contemplate being a fixture in the Iola retail community for nearly 50 years.

“I was just looking for a job,” she said with a laugh.

Butler, owner of Jones Jewelry, is in the midst of her 48th Christmas shopping season on the east side of Iola’s downtown square.

She, like several other merchants in downtown Iola, will be open for extended hours Friday evening as part of the Sixth Annual Spirit of Christmas Downtown event.

Jones will be open until 7 p.m. Friday, while Butler will greet customers with warm cider, or some other refreshments.

Even better are the treats for the customers’ pocketbooks. Merchandise will be sold at a 30-percent discount.

Butler also has adorned her picturesque front window with assorted Christmas decorations, and a pair of gingerbread house creSee JONES | Page A3

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Joanne Butler has been a fixture in the Iola retail community at Jones Jewelry for 48 years. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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An aerial view of the “Ghost Ship� warehouse Monday. The warehouse burned in a weekend fire that killed at least 36 people in the Oakland, Calif. neighborhood of Fruitvale. LOS ANGELES TIMES/JAY L.

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Tales of heartache emerge from Oakland warehouse fatal fire OAKLAND, Calif.

(AP) — Some people managed to text loved ones goodbye and “I love you� before they died in an Oakland warehouse fire that claimed three dozen lives, officials said, as heart-rending reports of victims’ last moments emerged from the most lethal building fire in the U.S. in more than a decade.

Officials said early today that there was no charge in the number of bodies recovered overnight, with the death toll remaining at 36.

Alameda County Sheriff ’s Deputy Tya Modeste said of the 36 bodies recovered 26 of their families have been notified. Modeste said another nine bodies have been “tentatively identified.� Officials are still lacking any type of identification for one individual.

Fire crews resumed search and recovery operations this morning.

Oakland Fire Battalion Chief Robert Lipp said today that crews have cleared 85 percent of the “Ghost Ship� building with one corner still inaccessible because it is unstable. Crews hope to stabilize it today.

Alameda County Sheriff Gregory Ahern told The Associated Press Monday that he didn’t believe there would be additional bodies found.

Officials said they would turn next to investigating the fire, which erupted late Friday during a dance party. It’s unclear how it started.

The district attorney warned of possible murder charges as she determines whether there were any crimes linked to the blaze. “We owe it to the community and those who perished in this fire, and those who survived the fire to be methodical, to be thorough, and to take

the amount of time it takes to be able to look at every piece of potential evidence,�

Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley said.

Alameda County sheriff ’s spokesman Sgt. Ray Kelly said that some of the victims texted relatives, “I’m going to die,� and “I love you.�

Rescue crews found bodies of people “protecting each other, holding each other,�

Kelly said.

On Monday night, hundreds of people holding candles and flowers honored those who died in the fire at a vigil at Oakland’s Lake Merritt.

Those in the crowd embraced each other or held up candles as they said aloud the names of people they lost in the blaze.

Several people in the crowd held signs offering “free hugs.�

Terry Ewing learned Monday what he already knew in his heart: His girlfriend, Ara Jo, was among the dead in the fire that broke out during an underground dance party at a building known as the “Ghost Ship.�

Earlier, Ewing said Jo’s friends and family had already started talking about the vibrant 29-year-old Oakland artist in the past tense, but needed confirmation. He went through photographs as he waited. Friends remembered her as someone who could fit in anywhere, he said. “If you take her somewhere, she’ll make friends with the surly punks in the corner as well as the elderly grandparents,� he said.

The cluttered warehouse had been converted to artists’ studios and illegal living spaces, and former denizens said it was a death trap of piled wood, furniture, snaking electrical cords and only two exits.

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Trump voters, however, also support many of the individual consumer protections in that law.

Trump and the Republican Congress have vowed to repeal the 2010 health care law and replace it with a not-yetspecified alternative.

Lawmakers are mulling a variety of approaches, from immediate repeal to keeping the law operating until a substitute is designed, even if that takes several years.

A smooth transition is important for the 20 million people who gained health insurance through the law, and Republicans do not want to be blamed for lapses in coverage.

The poll found that of those who want the law replaced with a Republican alternative, there is twice as much support for devising a replacement plan before repealing the law as there is for getting rid of it first.

The public overall remains essentially split on the Affordable Care Act, the poll found, with 43 percent wanting it repealed or scaled back and 49 percent wanting to keep or expand

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Among supporters of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, 79 percent hold favorable views of the law.

With diminishment of the health reform law now a political likelihood, the portion of Republicans who want to repeal the law has decreased to 52 percent from 69 percent in October. The poll identified a “slight uptick� in the share of people who want the law scaled back but not eliminated. That view is now twice as popular among Republicans: 24 percent want to scale it back, up from 11 percent in October.

The poll found strong Trump voter support for some of the consumer protections that were part of the law, including allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ insurance until age 26, reducing the amount Medicare beneficiaries have to pay

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ations as part of the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce’s Gingerbread House Walk, where customers can vote on their favorites.

“Technically, one of them is a gingerbread church,” Butler said in correcting a Register reporter earlier this week. “The other one is a Gingerbread Snoopy house,” made famous from the “Peanuts” comic strip canine, with the pooch sprawled on his back on the house’s roof.

Friday’s activities aside, Butler said business tends to stay moderate until the waning days before Christmas.

“It used to be on Christmas Even, I’d have men lined up in here, patting themselves on the back because they ‘barely made it in time’ once again,” she said with a laugh.

“I’d have to remind them they were about to run out of time.”

Those days have changed, she said forlornly, indicative of a still stagnant economy, and the evolution of online shopping.

“People get online and they want something, they’ll have it the next day,” she said.

But downtown shopping offers several advantages over those who do their buying via the

Internet, particularly with consumer control.

“Here, they see and hold the piece before they buy it,” Butler said. “I have the option, if she doesn’t get what she wants, she can come in and pick out something she likes better.

That’s an important option they don’t have online.”

JONES Jewelry opened its doors in 1962

by Durwood Jones, the store’s namesake.

Butler, fresh out of college in 1968, was in search of a job, but not yet a career.

“I needed to find something,” she recalled. “I didn’t really have any ambition to get out and do anything yet. I just needed a job.”

She found what she thought was a temporary position at Jones, where another employee was away on maternity leave.

“The plan was for her to have her baby, then come back,” Butler said.

“She never did.”

Butler’s part-time gig became full time shortly thereafter. She worked alongside Jones, her mentor, for the next 30plus years.

He died in February 1999; Butler bought the store that July.

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and other kinds of jewelry, such as class rings, mother’s rings, gemstone rings, gold chains and bracelets, silver trays and gift items.

She also handles service and repair for watches and jewelry, battery installation, ring sizing and stone setting.

Butler also is trained in repairing clocks of all styles, having learned the artisan craft from Jones.

shortfall of more than $345 million in its current budget, and gaps in funding for existing programs totaling $1.1 billion through June 2019. Also, legislators are awaiting a Kansas Supreme Court ruling on whether they are providing enough aid to the state’s public schools to provide all children with a suitable education.

The state has struggled to balance its budget since Republican legislators slashed personal income taxes in 2012 and 2013 at Brownback’s urging in an effort to stimulate the economy. Even some GOP voters concluded that the tax-cutting experiment has been a bust, though Brownback blames slumps in agriculture and energy production for the state’s budget woes.

Brownback issued a statement congratulating the new leaders, adding, “I look forward to working with all legislators.”

Each full chamber must ratify Republicans’ choices for House speaker and Senate president once lawmakers convene their annual session in January.

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TRENDS have come and gone.

“When I started, everybody was using white gold,” she said.

“That went on for 10 or 15 years, when people switched to yellow gold, which I guess, looked richer to them.”

In recent years, the trend has returned to white gold. Sterling silver jewelry also has become more popular, in part because of the high price of gold.

Butler’s fashion sense also has changed.

“I guess I like necklaces pendants,” she said with a chuckle. “I used to wear a lot of rings, but as I got older and my hands got to looking funnier, I figured I didn’t need them as much.”

have been mere formalities for decades.

The House speaker’s job was open because incumbent Ray Merrick, a conservative Stilwell Republican and Brownback ally, did not seek re-election to the Legislature.

Ryckman has been the House Appropriations Committee’s chairman for two years, making him part of Merrick’s leadership team.

Ryckman has played a big role in budget and school funding legislation, and his supporters in the speaker’s race portrayed him as a pragmatic deal maker who can work with lawmakers of different philosophies. House Republicans chose him on a 57-28 vote over moderate GOP Rep. Russ Jennings, of Lakin.

The vote suggests that with 40 Democrats in the 125-member House, they and GOP moderates could form governing majorities on some issues. But Ryckman pledged to have an open leadership, take ideas from a wide range of sources and allow a debate on rethinking some of the Brownback tax cuts.

The incoming speaker pointed to school funding legislation

jump in productivity in the summer will be short-lived. They are forecasting that productivity will return to the anemic gains seen over the past nine years.

Since 2007, annual productivity increases have averaged just 1.3 percent. That is just have the 2.6 percent average gains turned in from 2000 through 2007 when the country was benefiting from the increased efficiency from greater integration of computers and the internet into the workplace.

Productivity, the

amount of output per hour of work, is the key factor that supports rising living standards.

Rising productivity means increased output which allows employers to boost wages without triggering higher inflation.

The revised estimates for productivity and output follow the government’s revisions to the gross domestic product, the economy’s total output of goods and services, last week.

The revision boosted GDP growth in the third quarter to 3.2 percent, up from an initial estimate

of 2.9 percent.

Productivity growth has been weak since the Great Recession. The 1.3 percent average gain from 2007 through 2015 compares to 2.6 percent from 2000 to 2007 and a 2.2 percent average from 1947 through 2015.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has pointed to the slowdown in productivity growth as a key challenge facing the country.

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approved with large, bipartisan majorities during a special session in June, and said, “I think we modeled how to work together.”

House Democrats also signaled that they’ll be more aggressive by ousting Rep. Tom Burroughs, of Kansas City, as minority leader in favor of Rep. Jim Ward, of Wichita. The vote in Ward’s favor was 21-19, even though Democrats had gained seats.

Ward has long been a vocal critic of Brownback and Republican initiatives, and he’s often been more visible than Burroughs.

In the Senate, Wagle faced a challenge from Ways and Means Committee Chairman Ty Masterson, a conservative Andover Republican who’s been a reliable ally of the governor and a strong defender of his tax cuts. The vote among GOP senators and senators-elect was 23-7, with one abstaining.

“We have a distinctly different body than we had last year, both in the House and the Senate,” said moderate Republican Sen. Jeff Longbine, of Emporia, elected Senate vice president.

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sisters who showed an interest in it,” she said.

That interest soon became a passion, to the point she took her yarn and hooked needles on car trips to Emporia, Branson or other extended family trips.

She shows no signs of slowing down. In her home is one crocheted piece depicting the Last Supper. Another shows a copy of the Lord’s Prayer.

Scheer also has done several bedspreads, caps

and other gifts for children, grandchildren and now great-grandchildren.

Scheer, who turns 82 in January, is uncertain how much longer she’ll keep up her crocheting, but not because of lack of interest.

Rather, she’s almost out of yarn.

A friend gave her a large spool a few years ago.

“I’ve almost gone through it,” she said with a chuckle. “I’m not sure what I’ll do then.”

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Low-cost seedlings offer fresh start

By KRISTA HARDING Southwind Extension

The Kansas Forest Service is offering lowcost conservation tree and shrub seedlings for purchase again this year. These seedlings are to be used in conservation plantings, such as home/livestock windbreaks, living snow fences, Christmas tree plantations, firewood lots, habitats for game birds and wildlife, barriers to reduce noise pollution, blocking ugly views, marking property lines and creating habitat for songbirds.

These plants are 1 or 2 years old, and their sizes vary from 5 to 18 inches, depending on species.

Most of the trees are bare-root seedlings, however some are available as container-grown seedlings such as Ponderosa pine and southwestern white pine. Some of the deciduous trees that are available include bald cypress, black walnut, bur oak, cottonwood, hackberry, redbud, and sycamore. Shrubs available include American plum, choke cherry, lilac, and sand hill plum.

This is not a complete listing of available trees and not all trees are recommended for this area.

The Kansas Forest Service also offers tree “bundles” for purchase.

The bundles offer a va-

riety of trees designed to attract songbirds or quail. For example, the Songbird bundle contains 18 trees and shrubs selected for their attractiveness to songbirds.

The Songbird bundle

does not contain sufficient plants to meet all of the needs of songbirds, but once established, the bundle will create a small island of plants that will provide some year-round cover and supplemental food during late summer, fall and winter. This will attract birds for your enjoyment.

Not certain what you would like to order?

Then stop by the Extension office and pick up a brochure that has color pictures of various trees and shrubs at maturity.

Orders for conservation trees are accepted now through the first full week of May, with shipments beginning in March. However, I recommend that you order early to ensure availability of trees. Order forms and price sheets are available at the Southwind District Extension Office in Erie, Iola and Fort Scott, or can be mailed or e-mailed.

Krista Harding is a K-State Research and Extension Agricultural agent assigned to Southwind District. She may be reached at 620-244-3826 or kharding@ksu.edu.

School officials ambivalent on rural internet plan SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Some school administrators in north-central and northwest Kansas are expressing mixed feelings about a new plan to improve high-speed internet access in rural districts.

State officials announced a plan this week called Kansas Connect and Learn, with a goal of expanding internet access to up to 20 percent of Kansas school districts. Under the plan, the state would partner with Educational SuperHighway, a California-based organization that will coordinate with districts and internet service providers to plan upgrades of system.

“It would definitely help us,” Larry Lyder, superintendent of the Golden Plains School District in Selden, said last Wednesday. “It would help students achieve more and research more.”

Lyder says the district’s internet provider, NexTech, is slow for the district’s needs.

“We’ve become accustomed to it,” he said.

“Connections in Hays and Colby are faster, but we struggle with it in rural

areas.”

Dave Hale, Weskan superintendent, said he was skeptical of the plan because of the cost of extending fiber-optic

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cable to Weskan. But he acknowledged his district could use higher-speed internet service, even after the district recently changed internet providers.

“We have more speed, but it’s still pushing the limit for what we can get out here in far western Kansas,” he said.

The Hoxie School District has up to 1 gigabyte speeds but experiences technology problems caused by funding and infrastructure, Superintendent Jim Howard said.

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas farmers who are facing some hard decisions due to another down year for farm income and a pessimistic outlook for 2017 are getting help from agricultural experts at Kansas State University.

The school will hold a series of eight workshops across the state starting next week called the “Top 10 Considerations to Navigate a Struggling Farm Economy” as a way to help producers handle the

if it is a dry year or if there is an increase in interest rates it could get “pretty ugly and pretty challenging” for a lot of producers who have debt.

A national survey to be released later this month will show 60 percent of surveyed bankers and other farm credit system lenders indicating they are seeing more farmers falling behind on their payments, Featherstone said.

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[The] average net farm income of families ...fell to $4,568 in 2015. That’s about 95 percent less than 2014’s $128,731 average and down from $120,000 for the five-year average. downturn. Farm operating loans for the past growing season typically come due Jan. 1, and agricultural experts say many growers can’t make the payments.

“In some respects, the goal of this conference is to help producers avoid bankruptcy, to make adjustments in their operations while they still can,” Kansas State Department of Agriculture Economics head Allen Featherstone said.

The university also expanded its farm analyst program to provide one-on-one assistance to farmers dealing with financial challenges.

Roughly 200 Kansas families are now working with analysts in the program, up 30 percent from normal years, program director Duane Hund said.

Most farmers will weather this downturn, but Featherstone anticipates an uptick in foreclosures and bankruptcies next year. Commodity price forecasts for 2017 are not good, and Hund worries that

tions such as selling some land in order to reduce debt and save the farm itself.

“This can be a decision that can make or break you, the sooner you can make a decision the better,” Hund said.

The Kansas Farm Management Association has reported that the average net farm income of families it works with fell to $4,568 in 2015. That’s about 95 percent less than 2014’s $128,731 average and down from $120,000 for the five-year average.

Farm income figures for 2016 won’t be released until next year, but they are also expected to be dismal.

Many farm families have been living on credit cards or using farm lines of credit to pay household bills and buy groceries.

“They rob Peter to pay Paul to get by and that only works a year or two,” Hund said.

“And then more serious decisions will have to be made.”

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Promotion of soybeans will boost income Owners of vehicles powered by diesel engines can get an attractive rebate by using biodiesel fuel.

Here’s the deal with the incentive: Fleet owners get a $1 per gallon refund up to 1,000 gallons of consumption a year. For individuals the limit is 200 gallons.

It’s part of the Clean Cities program, a tentacle of the Department of Energy.

Revenue to pay incentives comes from a soybean check-off.

According to the National Biodiesel Board’s website, the closest fueling stations to Allen County offering biodiesel are in Ottawa and Independence.

As the fuel becomes more widely used — result of advertising, incentives such as the per-gallon rebate and realization it has no significant downside — its availability is certain to blossom.

Biodiesel is another renewable fuel, after all.

Similarly, ethanol started slowly as a percentage of petroleum-based fuel and now may be found most everywhere.

Biodiesel is made from vegetable oils and fats left over from conversion of raw soybeans to a wide variety of foods and other products.

Dennis Gruenbacher, an Andale farmer and member of the Kansas Soybean Commission, raves about biodiesel, pointing out using it for fuel reduces greenhouse gases, increases energy security (by replacing conventional petroleumbased diesel) and supports the Kansas farm economy.

The challenge for promoters is to get motorists to try the alternative fuel

for the first time.

KANSAS farmers, including those in our neck of the woods when the opportunity arises, should embrace biodiesel, not just because of the purchase incentive but more so because it offers another opportunity to market soybeans. As with any merchant, farmers are keen on finding new or more compelling sources of income. Here’s one right in front of their combines.

Already local soybeans aren’t far from a biodiesel plant in Deerfield, Mo. Craig Mentzer told the Register at the height of the bean harvest, Deerfield was a viable option, but he was passing because there usually was a long line of trucks waiting to unload.

That would tell us construction of other production facilities isn’t far off.

In Kansas, distilling plants operate in Emporia and Minneola.

Soybeans long have been a cash-crop staple for Allen County farmers. This year soybeans averaged on the upper end of historic yields, with some jumping into the 50- and 60-bushel range. Although handling and transportation cut into the price farmers receive in comparison to large terminal prices, it is instructive to note soybeans are fetching about $10 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Farming always has been something of a gamble, with weather holding the trump card, and if biodiesel becomes more widely consumed, farmers will have another arrow in their economic quivers.

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Kansas’ post-truth fail goes national Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan To prepare for life in posttruth America, just study the example of Kansas politics since 2010, when Governor Sam Brownback and Secretary of State Kris Kobach were elected.

What is post-truth? The Oxford English Dictionary declares it the word of the year, with this definition: Relating or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.

Comedian Steven Colbert beat the OED to the punch.

Several years ago, he named this “truthiness”—if a statement feels true, it is true: no thinking needed. Actual truth requires rigorous analysis and factual verification, while post-truth claims are evaluated based on whether or not they fit with one’s political ideology. Hence the explosion of “fake news” sites this year, which post entirelyfabricated stories on social media, always pushing emotional buttons and frequently

Michael Smith Insight Kansas forwarded to hundreds or even thousands of people without being verified by reliable sources beforehand.

Kansans know all about post-truth. Consider President-elect Donald J. Trump’s recent Tweet stating that the 2016 elections featured “millions of fraudulent votes.” Kobach agrees with the claim, citing a study that he is taking out of context.

Scholars and policymakers have combed through evidence of possible voter fraud for years, finding virtually no confirmed cases. We also have major concerns about the way laws meant to combat this fraud have the actual effect of removing tens of thousands of people from the voting rolls in Kansas alone.

Yet to fact-check Trump’s and Kobach’s claims is to live in the past—under post-truth, the claim sounds right to their supporters, so it’s true.

Trump must loudly, persistently denounce hatred I am a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, one of America’s major research institutions. My field of study is rhetoric, a discipline dating back to ancient Greece that studies persuasion. In particular I am interested in the impact of one’s language on audiences, regardless of the intent of the discourse.

Let me be upfront: I did not vote for Donald Trump and do not support many of things he said during the campaign. Nevertheless, I accept the legitimacy of his election and hold in high respect the office of the presidency he soon will occupy.

Please know that I and many others in academe are trying to be open-by minded and avoid prejudging what Trump may do following inauguration. However, over the course of the campaign we have witnessed a spike in acts of hatred and bigotry (including those aimed at university faculty) that at least in part are attributed to his rhetoric. Moreover, the country is now watching in shock and horror the video of a speech given by Richard Spencer, leader of a white supremacist and anti-Semitic group, who is celebrating Trump’s victory and using the legitimacy of his election to advance and validate the shameful cause of his group.

Trump’s deafening silence in response is profound and saddens me deeply. Simply re-

Richard Cherwitz The Dallas Morning News sponding to a question from the press will not suffice. As the Anti-Defamation League reminds us, our leaders must respond to racism and hatred loudly and persistently.

As the president-elect wisely said moments after declaring victory, he plans to be the president of all Americans.

Wonderful! So he should do just that by giving a major address decisively condemning all acts of hatred and racism, regardless of whether he is the cause of these acts. After all, groups like those that Spencer leads explicitly invoke Trump’s name, rallying behind his election to affirm their despicable beliefs.

It is incumbent upon the president-elect immediately to speak directly to the American public, once and for all denouncing this venomous un-American discourse and making clear that hate will not be tolerated during the Trump presidency.

Many have accused Trump and his appointees of being racist and anti-Semitic. I am not leveling that charge.

Frankly, I worry that we spend far too much time arguing about whether the labels racist and anti-Semitic

It is incumbent upon the president-elect immediately to speak directly to the American public, once and for all denouncing this venomous un-American discourse and making clear that hate will not be tolerated during the Trump presidency.

accurately describe Trump and those around him. These debates often degenerate into unproductive and inflammatory name calling, obscuring the more important and troubling issue, namely, how one’s rhetoric encourages, legitimizes and normalizes hateful behaviors and tendencies.

The key is accountability: I teach my students that regardless of intent everyone should be responsible and accountable for the effects produced by their discourse.

History teaches us that the effects of one’s words are more dangerous than what may be in the heart. Therefore, it’s time for Trump and others to acknowledge this reality by forcefully declaring racist behavior deplorable and unacceptable.

If President-elect Trump has time to critique what the cast of “Hamilton” said to Vice President-elect Pence, complain about “Saturday Night Live” parodies of him, rail against the media’s coverage of his campaign, and challenge the recount of the popular vote, then surely he

has time to do the right thing by condemning all horrific acts of hatred that accelerated in the wake of your campaign rhetoric.

We are counting on Trump to reaffirm American values and core democratic principles. This is a teachable moment. It is his chance to be the president of all Americans, uniting the country behind ideas everyone shares, whether we are Democrats or Republicans.

My students, the nation and entire world are watching.

ABOUT THE WRITER Richard Cherwitz is a communication professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the founder of the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Consortium. He wrote this for the Dallas Morning News.

Under post-truth, governing is a disaster. Policymakers each have their own, completely different set of biases and “facts” and with no common standard by which to verify claims, make judgments, or negotiate. Politics becomes a contest of emotional manipulation: whoever can yell louder, frighten more people, make us feel better, or do more to re-animate old prejudices is automatically declared (by themselves) to be the winner. Partisan news media custom-tailor reports to what their audiences want to hear, and if the real facts cannot be spun enough to fit the story, no problem — we can just make some up.

Governor Sam Brownback’s economic policies exemplify post-truth policymaking. At his behest, the state has drained long-held trust funds for highways, children’s health, and employee health care, and has had its bond rating downgraded several times. Medicaid benefits have been cut, and the state has gotten hauled into court over school funding. Brownback supporters responded with a truly post-truth approach: instead of fixing the budget’s gaping wound, they tried to remove the judges who are ruling against them from office, in this year’s retention elections. They failed, as the judges were retained with over 55 percent of the vote. Meanwhile, the promised economic growth from tax cuts has never materialized. Perhaps this is why Brownback’s approval ratings are fiftieth out of 50 among U.S. governors.

Brownback’s reaction?

In a post-election interview with the AP’s John Hanna, the Governor said the voters gave him “good, high marks” because Republicans still have large majorities in the Legislature. In so doing, he ignored not only the seats lost to Democrats, but also the moderate surge in this summer’s Republican primaries.

Many of these successful “mods” explicitly ran against Brownback’s agenda, some even going so far as to put the words “Stop Brownback” on their yard signs, right next to the Republican elephant.

Yet to Brownback, the election feels like a mandate, so it must be one.

Stop Brownback = Support Brownback, and post-truth wins again. Will Presidentelect Trump elevate posttruth politics to the national stage?

Michael Smith is a political science professer at Emporia State University.

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High School Football: Wichita Eagle & Topeka Capital-Journal awards

Three Mustang defenders earn All-State

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

Iola senior defensive back Joey Zimmerman was named to the Wichita Eagle’s All-State honorable mention selections.

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The Iola defense was able to tout stars on every level of the unit this season and those stars were rewarded with AllState honors from Kansas’ two largest newspapers.

Senior linebacker Chase Regehr was a 4A-II honorable mention selection for both the Topeka Capital-Journal and Wichita Eagle.

Regehr led the Mustang defense in tackles for the secondconsecutive season and was

the signal caller for coach Doug Kerr’s defense.

While Regehr racked up the tackles, senior defensive tackle Trea Williams was responsible for doing the dirty work for the Iola defense.

He helped the Mustangs control the line of scrimmage all season and his efforts earned him a spot on the Topeka Capital-Journal’s All-State honorable mention list.

With Williams and Regehr focused on the line of scrimmage and the opponent’s backfield, they knew they could

trust senior Joey Zimmerman to have their backs’ from his free safety spot.

Zimmerman patrolled the middle of the for the Iola defense and had a two-interception game against Prairie View in Week Two to help get the Mustangs’ season on track and propel them to their first playoff berth since 2008.

His exploits earned him a spot among the Wichita Eagle’s All-State honorable mention selections.

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Iola’s Chase Regehr was named to the Wichita Eagle’s and Topeka Capital-Journal’s All-State honorable mention selections.

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Boys’ High School Basketball: Iola 51, Metro Academy 47

LA CYGNE — The Iola Ponies hit the road on Monday when they traveled to La Cygne to face off with the Prairie View Buffalos.

Iola eighth-grade varsity point guard Hannah Gardner’s stellar performance sparked her squad to a 29-15 win over the Buffalos.

Gardner finished the game with 11 points and five steals to lead the Ponies in both categories.

Gardner’s backcourt partner Becca Sprague was a terror on the glass with a teamhigh 11 rebounds to go with six points.

Lauryn Holloway had a well-rebounded game with eight points and seven rebounds. McKenna Orear added four points.

7TH-GRADE VARSITY The Iola seventh-grade varsity fell behind 7-0 in the first quarter and despite a late rally attempt, were unable to defeat the Buffalos.

Prairie View beat Iola 22-18.

Jenna Curry led Iola with eight points while Reece Murry added five.

Josie Plumlee and Chloe Sell each had two points and Maci Miller added one. Plumlee also had seven steals.

7TH-GRADE JV Prairie View’s seventhgrade junior varsity beat Iola 35-13.

Maci Miller led the Ponies with six points.

Mariah Vannice, Vivian Noaj and Jada Cunningham each added two points. Averie Sharon rounded out the scoring with one.

Iola junior forward Ethan Holloway goes by Metro Academy freshman Jonathan Jackson for a reverse layup during the first half of Monday’s win in the Ike Cearfoss Preseason Tournament in Richmond. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

STRONG START Mustangs beat Metro Academy in tournament

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

RICHMOND — The Mustangs were dealt a tough hand to begin the season with a opener in Girard — the fourth-ranked team in Class 4-II — and then opening the Ike Cearfoss Preseason Tournament in Richmond with an 8-1 Kansas City Metro Academy squad.

So far the Mustangs have passed the early-season tests with flying colors by picking up a pair of wins with

the most recent being a 51-47 win over Metro Academy.

“It is awesome to be 2-0,” Iola senior Ben Cooper said. “I can’t remember the last time we were 2-0 against such quality opponents.”

Iola 6-7 post Ethan Holloway rarely faces off against somebody his own size, but on Monday, the junior had a tough match-up with Mavericks’ senior Nick Volz matching Holloway inch-for-inch.

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Girls’ High School Basketball: Metro Academy 46, Iola 31

Fillies battle illness, fall to Metro Academy RICHMOND — The early slate of the schedule has been tough on the Fillies as they fell 0-2 after a 46-31 loss to Kansas City Metro Academy on Monday in the Ike Cearfoss Preseason Tournament in Richmond.

If that wasn’t hard enough, the Fillies have also been battling sickness with their top two secondary ball-handlers Colbi Riley and Toni Macha.

That leaves a lot of the burden on senior point guard Sydney Wade and the Mavericks took a page from the Trojans’ playbook and designed their defense around denying Wade the ball and making someone else try and beat them.

“Teams have been trying to take Sydney and Toni out of our game plan,” Iola coach Becky

Carlson said. “We are going to have to step up and make some shots. And we will. We took a lot of shots, but we just couldn’t get any to fall.”

Wade was held scoreless in the first half and the Mavericks built a 22-16 halftime lead.

“It is frustrating for her, because she is used to running our team,” Carlson said.

Wade was able to free herself up for six points in the third quarter, but her teammates went cold and those were the only six points Iola scored in the period.

The openings for shooters are there, according to Carlson, with Wade being doubleteamed. It is just a matter of time before they start falling.

“If you pull one out, there has to be an opening and that high-

post is open, but we just couldn’t get it there quickly enough,” Carlson said. “We will figure it out.”

Iola cut the lead to ten early in the fourth quarter, but that was as close as they got.

Macha was the team’s leading scorer with eight points but was clearly hampered by her sickness and Carlson kept a close watch to make sure she didn’t push Macha or Riley too hard.

“I’m trying to be careful with them,” Carlson said. “They are the type of girls that aren’t going to back off. They are going to keep trying to fight through it.”

UP NEXT Iola faces K.C. Christian in the consolation bracket on Thursday at 3:30 p.m.

Iola senior Toni Macha drives past a Metro Academy defender on Monday in Richmond. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The bizarre rumors began with a leaked email referencing Hillary Clinton and sinister interpretations of references to pizza parties. It morphed into fake online news stories about a child sex trafficking ring run by prominent Democrats operating out of a Washington, D.C., pizza joint.

On Sunday, it culminated in violence when police say a North Carolina man fired an assault rifle inside the Comet Ping Pong restaurant as he attempted to “self-investigate” the conspiracy theory known in the Twitterverse as “Pizzagate.”

No one was hurt and the man was arrested.

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Edgar Maddison Welch, 28 of Salisbury, North Carolina, was arrested Sunday afternoon outside the popular eatery in an affluent neighborhood of the nation’s capital, police said. At his initial appearance Monday in D.C. Superior Court, Welch was ordered held pending a hearing scheduled for Thursday. The public defender he was assigned didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

Court records made public Monday state Welch fired an AR-15 assault rifle multiple times inside the restaurant but later walked out with his hands up and unarmed, leaving his weapons inside. He told police “he had read online that the Comet restaurant was harboring child sex slaves and that he wanted to see

for himself if they were there.” He said he “was armed to help rescue them” and “surrendered peacefully when he found no evidence that underage children were being harbored in the restaurant.”

Welch was charged on multiple counts, including assault with a dangerous weapon. Authorities recovered the AR-15 assault rifle and a handgun from the restaurant, court paperwork said. Police said an additional weapon was recovered from his vehicle.

One of Welch’s friends told The Washington Post she doesn’t think he intended to shoot anyone.

“He most likely really believes the conspiracy theory,” said Kathy Sue Holtorf, 29, who lives in California and works as a film producer. “He’s a good guy with the best of intentions. He probably saw himself as more on a hero mission to save children than anything else.”

Holtorf produced a nine-minute short called “Mute” that was written

by Welch and they both appeared as victims of vampires in a slasher movie. She said Welch dabbled, but “never wanted to become an actor.”

Holtorf described Welch as “a well-educated man” and “not a conspiracy nut,” saying he would talk about his daughters and how proud he was of them.

His aunt, Tajuana Tadlock, described Welch to The Washington Post as passionate and tenderhearted and a person who loves his family and his children. She said the family hasn’t been able to talk to him so they don’t know “what got him to this level.”

“Maddison is a sweet young man with a big heart,” said, his aunt. “We are all in shock right now.

We are still trying to get our minds around what happened. This is totally out of character for him.”

The precise origins of the conspiracy theory Welch said he went to investigate are murky, though it seems to have started gaining momentum in the week before the election. Some elements trace back to hacked emails from Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta that were released

by Wikileaks that refer to pizza parties, with online

commentators speculating that “pizza party” is a code word for something more nefarious. By Nov. 3, Comet Ping Pong — so named because patrons can play ping pong on tables in the back of restaurant — had been pulled into the conspiracy.

“Let me state unequivocally: These stories are completely and entirely false, and there is no basis in fact to any of them.

What happened today demonstrates that promoting false and reckless conspiracy theories comes with consequences,” Comet’s owner, James Alefantis, said in a statement Sunday night.

At least one person who isn’t ready to give up on the conspiracy theory is prominently connected to Trump’s transition team.

Michael Flynn Jr. is an adviser to his father, Michael Flynn, whom Trump selected to serve as national security adviser. Flynn Jr. has sent numerous posts on Twitter about the Pizzagate conspiracy theories. Flynn Jr., who has accompanied his father to presidential transition meetings inside Trump Tower and lists the presidential transition website as part of his Twitter bio, tweeted Sunday night that, “Until #Pizzagate proven to be false, it’ll remain a story.”

Trump’s team had no immediate response to questions about the conspiracy theory or the younger Flynn’s role in the presidential transition.

On Monday, at an address listed for Welch in Salisbury, a woman drove out as a reporter was approaching and asked him to leave. She then hammered a “no trespassing” sign on a stand by the private driveway.

Comet Ping Pong was closed Monday, but neighbors brought flowers and cards to the storefront saying “We support Comet” and “we love you and stand by you.”

Wiktoria Skrzypinska lives a few blocks from Comet. She said she had heard the rumors about Comet but was shocked to learn that somebody had become so enmeshed in the conspiracy theory to enter the restaurant with an assault rifle.

“I guess we all knew it was fake. It was so obvious I didn’t even bother with it,” she said.

Defeated right-wing candidate vows return VIENNA (AP) — Shrugging off his unexpectedly clear defeat, the right-wing candidate for Austria’s presidency said today he will run again in six years when the term of the left-leaning winner ends and a new election is held.

Norbert Hofer announced his renewed bid in 2022 as a count of absentee ballots ended.

Combined with votes cast Sunday, the total tally slightly widened the margin between Hofer and victor Alexander Van der Bellen. The winner, who takes office in January, had nearly 54 percent of valid ballots cast, compared to just over 46 percent for Hofer.

Pollsters had depicted the election as too close to call ahead of Sunday and the vote had been watched anxiously by Europe’s political middle as a proxy test of popu-

list strength in other EU countries fielding strong euroskeptic candidates in elections next year.

Today, Hofer and other leading figures of his right-wing Freedom Party sought to put a good face on the loss — for Hofer, the second in less than a year to Van der Bellen.

Sunday’s vote was a re-run, scheduled after a narrow victory by Van der Bellen in May was challenged as skewed by the Freedom Party and annulled by a court order as a result.

Asserting that all other political forces in Austria had joined together to prevent Hofer’s victory, party leader Heinz-Christian Strache depicted the vote as a contest “between David and Goliath ... which David almost won.”

“Never before ... has there been this kind of

mobilization against a candidate,” he told reporters.

Hofer, for his part, said he had been unfairly portrayed as someone pushing for Austria’s exit from the European Union. Instead, he said “I support us backing the European Union’s positive development” away from a political union and toward a loose federation of states focused mainly on economic cooperation.

While most Austrians are critical of the EU, the majority wants the country to remain part of it and Hofer’s comments reflected his euroskeptic party’s shifting stance on membership. Shortly after the British vote to leave the EU, Hofer said he could imagine a similar referendum vote similar in Austria within a year “if the union develops wrongly.”

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Iola senior defensive tackle Trea Williams (62) was named to the Topeka Capital-Journal’s All-State honorable mention selections. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

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HUMBOLDT Humboldt sophomore linebacker Dagen Goodner has been a standout ever since he first suited up for the Cubs last season as a freshman, but during his sophomore campaign he took his game to another level.

Goodner’s 112 tackles were a major reason why the Cubs were able to advance to the playoffs this season with an extremely young core of players

to lean on.

This earned him a spot on the Wichita Eagle’s 3A All-State honorable mention list.

Goodner finished the season with 10 tackles for loss.

YATES CENTER Yates Center senior safety Mikey Bruner was named to the Class 2-1A honorable mention selections for the Wichita Eagle.

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“He is definitely a talented kid,” Holloway said. “It is good to get some competition that is actually my size. It gets me better prepared for the future.”

Voltz started the game off strong with eight first-quarter points and Holloway was held to just one point in the opening period.

In the second quarter the game completely flipped with Holloway out-scoring Volz 10-0 and the Mustangs outscoring Metro Academy 16-10 to take a 25-23 halftime lead.

Holloway finished the game with 15 points and 18 rebounds while Volz was had 14 points and eventually fouled out of the game.

The Mustangs built a 33-26 lead midway through the third quarter, but by the early stages of the fourth quarter, the Mavericks cut the Mustangs’ lead to 35-34 on a Volz basket.

Iola quickly responded with a basket from senior Joey Zimmerman and one from Isaiah Fawson with the assist going to Holloway and the lead growing to 39-34.

The lead bounced between three and five points until the final minute with the two teams exchanging baskets.

Fawson hit a pair of free throws with 58 seconds left to grow the lead to six.

Evan Sigg made it seven on the ensuing possession with just 45 seconds to go.

With 36 seconds left, Holloway hit two free throws to make it 50-41.

Metro Academy hit a pair of three pointers in the final 30 seconds to narrow the margin but it was too little, too late, as Iola escaped with a 51-47 win.

Senior point guard Ben Cooper was the team’s second-leading scorer with 13 points af-

Iola point guard Ben Cooper attempts to complete an and-one play after being fouled in the second half of Monday’s win over Metro Academy in Richmond. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

ter having a quiet game against Girard when fellow-senior Fawson went off for 22 points. The Metro Academy defense focused on Fawson and that allowed Cooper to shine.

“I just had to know what my role was today,” Cooper said.

“Last time, it was just to be a leader, but today, I needed to be more of a scorer, because Isaiah wasn’t clicking as much as he was in our last game.”

Winning this preseason tournament has been a goal for the Mustangs all offseason as they want to go 4-0 in their four tournaments this season with preseason, midseason, league and state.

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Cubs’ M.S. struggles in opener HUMBOLDT — Humboldt Middle School’s varsity boys’ team fell 52-19 against Galesburg on Monday.

Gavin Page and Drew Schoendaller shared the team-lead with four points each.

The junior varsity boys lost 50-22 with Drew Wilhite, Hunter Zimbleman and Ethan Doepke each scoring six points.

The C-Team lost 27-9 with Andrew Comstock scoring a team-high four points.

Humboldt’s varsity girls lost 39-14 against Galesburg.

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ALABAMA R. LUKENS; And the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors, and assigns of any defendants which are existing, dissolved, or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administra-

tors, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors, and assigns of any defendants who are or were partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians, conservators, and trustees of any defendants who are minors or under any legal disability; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, and assigns of any person alleged to be deceased and any person claiming an interest in the described real estate: THAT PART OF LOT 45 IN FIRST ADDITION TO STERLING HEIGHTS, AS PLATTED IN THE NW 114 OF SECTION 25, TOWNSHIP 24 SOUTH, RANGE 18 EAST OF THE SIXTH P.M., DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS TO WIT: BEGINNING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT 45, THENCE

WEST 353.5 FEET, THENCE SOUTH 250 FEET, THENCE EAST 353.5 FEET THENCE NORTH 250 FEET TO POINT OF BEGINNING, Defendents Case No. 16 CV 65 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that a Petition to Quiet Title to certain property have been filed in the above Comi by Plaintiff, praying for an Order of said Court that the Plaintiff be granted judgment against Defendants Alabama R. Lukens and the heirs and title to real prope1iy of the above mentioned property filed for record in the deed records of Allen County, Kansas, previously owned by said

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You are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 10 day of January, 2017 at 9:30 a.m. of said day, in said Court, in the District Comiroom in the Allen County Comihouse in the City of lola, in said county and state, at which time and place said cause will be heard.

Should you fail therein, judgment will be entered in due course upon said Petition.

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(First Published in The Iola Register, December 6, 2016) Intent to File Application The Woodson County Improvement District #2, Piqua KS has filed an application for financial assis-

tance with USDA Rural Development. The specific purpose of this application is to request assistance with minor lagoon discharge piping re-alignment, desludging of lagoons, replacement of control

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(First published in The Iola Register, November 29, 2016) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS JUVENILE DIVISION IN THE INTEREST OF: NAME: ISABELLA MADL DOB: XX-XX-2011 A female Case No. 2015-JC-2 NAME: CHRISTABELL RATCLIFF DOB: XX-XX-2013 A female Case No. 2015-JC-3 Minor children under the age of 18 years

cerned: TO: Colin Sheldon [father of Isabella Madl] [current whereabouts believed to be in or around Iola, Kansas, or surrounding areas], his parents and adult relatives and all other persons who are or may be concerned: TO: Brian Ratcliff [father of Christabell Ratcliff] [current whereabouts believed to be in or around Iola, Kansas, or surrounding areas], his parents and adult relatives and all other persons who are or may be concerned: A motion has been filed in this court pursuant to the Kansas code for the care of children requesting the Court to permanently terminate the parental rights of the children identified above pursuant to the Kansas code for the care

of children and, thereafter, enter such orders as circumstances and statutes permit and require.

You are required to appear before the District Court, at the Allen County Courthouse, 1 N. Washington, Iola, Kansas, for a formal hearing beginning at 1:30 p.m. on December 27, 2016, or prior to that time file your written response to the pleading with the clerk of this court. If, after a child has been adjudged to be a child in need of care, the court finds a parent to be unfit, the court may make an order permanently terminating the parent’s or parents’ parental rights. Prior to that date and time, a parent, grandparent or any other party to the proceeding may file a written response to the pleading with the clerk of the district Court.

Each parent or other legal custodian of the child has a right to appear and be heard personally either with or without an attorney.

The court will appoint an attorney for a parent who is financially unable to hire one. Timothy D. Clover, an attorney in Chanute, Kansas has been appointed to represent the mother. Angela M. Meyer, an attorney in Pittsburg, Kansas has been appointed to represent the father of Isabella Madl. Brandon R. Bieker, an attorney in Iola, Kansas has been appointed to represent the father of Christabell Ratcliff.

Charles H. Apt, III, an attorney in Iola, Kansas has been appointed as guardian ad litem for the children.

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estate records of Allen County, Kansas, related to the following property: THAT PART OF THE EAST HALF OF THE EAST HALF (E/2 E/2) OF SECTION FOURTEEN (14), TOWNSHIP TWENTY-FOUR (24) SOUTH, RANGE TWENTY (20) EAST OF THE SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS, DESCRIBED AS BEGINNING AT STATE 131 PLUS 74.1 ON THE CENTER LINE OF FEDERAL AID PROJECT NO. 328; THENCE NORTH TO A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF SAID SECTION WHICH IS 1093.5 FEET SOUTH OF THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER (SE/4 NE/4) OF SAID SECTION; THENCE WEST (COINCIDENT WITH THE SOUTH BOUNDARY OF THE TRACT CONVEYED BY GRANTOR AND RECORDED IN BOOK 154, PAGE 457, IN THE OFFICE OF REGISTER OF DEEDS OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS), TO THE M.K.T. RESERVOIR LINE, THENCE GENERALLY SOUTH ALONG SAID RESERVOIR LINE TO THE SOUTH BOUNDARY OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER (NE/4)

OF SECTION; THENCE SOUTH 55 DEGREES 37 MINUTES EAST 281 FEET MORE OR LESS TO A POINT WHICH IS NORTH 85 DEGREES 50 MINUTES WEST AND 107.3 FEET MORE OR LESS FROM A POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE SOUTH 85 DEGREES 50 FEET EAST TO POINT OF BEGINNING. You are hereby required to plead to the Petition on or before January 2, 2017 in the court at Allen County, Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the petition.

NOTICE TO BORROWER: If you wish to dispute the validity of all or any portion of this debt, or would like the name and address of the original creditor, you must advise us in writing within thirty (30) days of the first notice you receive from us. Otherwise, we will assume the entire debt to be valid. This is an attempt to collect a debt, and any information obtained will be used for that purpose Signed: Shawn Scharenborg, KS # 24542 Michael Rupard, KS # 26954 Dustin Stiles, KS # 25152 Kozeny & McCubbin, L.C.

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NOTICE OF HEARING TO: Dana Irene Ratcliff [mother] [current whereabouts believed to be in or around Iola, Kansas, or surrounding areas], her parents and adult relatives and all other persons who are or may be con(First published in The Iola Register, November 22, 2016) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff, vs.

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Case No. 16CV54 K.S.A. 60 Mortgage Foreclosure (Title to Real Estate Involved) NOTICE OF SUIT THE STATE OF KANSAS to: William A. Zimmerman and the Unknown Spouse of William A. Zimmerman, Defendants, and all other persons who are or may be concerned: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED: That a Petition has been filed in the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, Case No. 16CV54 by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., praying for foreclosure of a mortgage executed by William A. Zimmerman on 11/19/2004 and recorded in Book A55 Page 429 in the real

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