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Monday, March 7, 2016

Students show their LifeSmarts

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

A team of Iola High School students has shown once again just how much they know about being smart consumers.

Ryan Eyster, a junior, and seniors Taylor Heslop, Yohon Sinclair, Abigail Taylor and Clara Wicoff won the State LifeSmarts Challenge Feb. 29 in Wichita, beating out 11 other regional champions.

Next, they’ll compete against other state champions at the national competition in Denver April 9-12.

The competition is geared as “the ultimate consumer challenge” and focuses on five key topic areas: consumer rights and responsibilities, the environment, health and safety, personal finance and technology.

Not only did Iola win the team competition, each of its five competitors won their individual area of expertise.

Eyster, for example, earned the top score in technology.

Heslop was tops in health and safety, Sinclair bested all comers in personal finance, Taylor took first in environment, and Wicoff scored best in consumer rights and responsibilities.

“But each student has to know all the subject areas,” team adviser Jean Johns said.

The competition consisted of a series of quiz bowl-style events, individual tests and other activities to gauge con-

Clara Wicoff

Iola High senior takes National Merit honor Iola High School’s LifeSmarts team has won the state competition for the second year in a row and will travel to Denver April 9-12 to compete at nationals. Team members are, from left, adviser Jean Johns, Clara Wicoff, Ryan Eyster, Taylor Heslop, Yohon Sinclair and Abigail Taylor.

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sumer awareness.

“They may have to identify acronyms or properly read a drug label,” Johns explained.

That the students are so well versed in all areas should serve them well at nationals.

That’s because national competitors are prohibited from competing in the same individual areas of expertise in consecutive years.

“That’s why each of these students had majors and minors,” Johns said.

Before heading to Denver April 8, the students have plenty on their plate to keep them busy.

They must design a LifeSmarts T-shirt and produce a minute-long video about LifeSmarts. Teams are rated by the number of page views their videos receive.

Iola’s video will be posted March 14.

THE IHS students dodged a bullet with the scheduling.

They had to forego participating in prom last year because Prom Night fell on the first day of the national competition in Seattle.

This year’s prom isn’t until April 16, four days after the students return.

“That was the first thing I checked,” Heslop said.

The LifeSmarts Challenge is sponsored by the Kansas Council For Economic Education, AT&T and the Kansas Bank Commission.

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Clara Wicoff is accustomed to academic excellence.

Now, it’s paying off.

The Iola High School senior added the latest feathers to her scholastic career after learning recently that she was named a National Merit Scholarship finalist, one of 7,400 nationally and of fewer than 200 in Kansas. She also was named a recipient of the Kansas State University Presidential Scholarship.

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Lawmakers consider property warrants bill TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Legislature is considering a bill that would require cities and counties to obtain a warrant to inspect rental properties.

The House Commerce, Labor and Economic Development Committee conducted a hearing on the bill Wednesday.

The bill would prohibit cities and counties from adopting local laws that allow periodic inspection of

rental housing without a search w a r rant, and w o u l d declare any existing ordinances that don’t meet the bill’s standards null and void, The Lawrence Journal-World reported.

The bill would also allow tenants to retain the right See WARRANTS | Page A4

Emojis join food talks

By ROXANA HEGEMAN The Associated Press

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The smiling, blissful and confused-looking emojis dotting the electronic landscape may hold the key to ferreting out grade-school children’s true feelings about foods, Kansas researchers say, and could help schools across the nation cut down on lunchroom food waste.

Most school lunch programs in the U.S. already do taste tests, but their efforts pale in comparison to the scope of the research project at the Sensory and Consumer Research Center

at Kansas State University Olathe, which is developing a scientific methodology to measure children’s faceemoji responses to food.

So far, kids in Kansas and Ghana have been the guinea pigs.

The goal is to create an “emoji ballot” that’s “applicable internationally across cultures, across countries,” said Marianne SwaneyStueve, who manages the center. “And there really is no language barrier.” The researchers also hope it will help schools pick foods that children will eat and help See EMOJIS | Page A4

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GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz addresses his supporters at a rally during the Kansas GOP caucus at Century II in Wichita Saturday. WICHITA EAGLE/BO RADER/TNS

Kansas voters favor Sanders, Cruz

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

Area caucus-goers reflect state

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas voters embraced challengers in presidential caucuses, giving Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders big victories to boost their campaigns against Republican front-runner Donald Trump and Democratic leader Hillary Clinton.

Voters on Saturday defied leading Kansas voices who had endorsed Clinton for the Democrats and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio for the Republicans. The GOP opted instead to stay on the right of the political spectrum in backing Cruz, the Texas senator, while Democrats moved left to embrace Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist.

Both Cruz and Sanders won by 2-to-1 margins over Trump and Clinton, with Rubio a distant third in the Republican

PARSONS — Nearly 120 Allen County Republicans traveled to Parsons Saturday to participate in the GOP caucus.

They, too, favored Cruz over the other presidential hopefuls.

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Cruz touted his strong conservative record on social issues and in opposing President Barack Obama’s federal health reform law to secure votes from the state’s large conservative Christian community. Some voters said the Texas senator was more in tune with their views and

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backed him, even though billionaire businessman Trump is leading the national race and had a last-minute rally in Wichita.

“God bless Kansas.” Cruz declared while campaigning in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, after the result.

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Obituaries

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Bradley Cook

The monthly City Slickers 4-H meeting was called to order by Caitlin Dreher.

The flag salute and 4-H Pledge were led by Carly Dreher and Ty Shaughnessy. Roll call was answered by “what is your favorite color?”

The song was “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean,” and was led by Rohan Springer.

For a parliamentary lesson, Carly Dreher gave a quiz over proper parliamentary procedure. Under new

Bradley Jay Cook, 56, rural Iola, died Friday, March 4, 2016, at his home.

Brad was born Feb. 8, 1960, in Yates Center. He grew up in Bronson and Gas. On March 10, 1979, Brad married Susan E. Tanner in Iola. They made their home in Gas before moving north of Iola. He has worked in the oil fields since he was 16. He was part owner of M.A.E. Resources, Inc., in Colony.

Brad enjoyed his grandkids and drag racing. He was a member of the Bradley Cook Iola Masonic Lodge.

Survivors include his wife of almost 37 years, Susan Cook; three children, Jeremy Cook and wife Casey, Moran, Billy Cook and wife Tava, Blue Springs, Mo., and FayAnna Hastings and husband Jared, Iwakuni, Japan; his mother, Elsie Weast, Iola; two brothers, Wesley Cook and wife Donna, Lawrence, and Larry Wayne Weast, Iola; and and grandchildren, Jadrian, Quinlan and Milo Hastings, Clara Cook, Athena and Augustus Cook and Ryker and Ramsey Tanner. He was preceded in death by his father, Lawrence “Larry” Weast.

Visitation will be tonight from 5 to 7 at WaughYokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Wesley United Methodist Church in Iola. Burial will follow in Gas City Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to Wings Of Warriors Cancer Foundation or the American Red Cross and may be left with the funeral home. To leave a condolence online, go to www.iolafuneral.com.

Rita Wilper Rita R. Wilper, 79, Garnett, died Friday, March 4, 2016, at Richmond Healthcare Center, Richmond.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Emerald, with burial to follow at St. Patrick’s Cemetery. Family will greet friends following a rosary at 7 p.m. today at St. Patrick’s Church. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Patrick’s Church building fund.

Online condolences may be sent to www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Georgetta Foxx Georgetta Browning Foxx, 88, lifelong resident of Garnett, died Thursday, March 3, 2016, at Overland Park Regional Medical Center.

Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel, Garnett. The family will greet friends at the funeral home on Thursday evening from 6 to 8. Memorial contributions may be made to American Legion Baseball or Little Peoples Learning Center.

Online condolences may be sent to www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Calendar business, members discussed changing their meeting times. After some discussion, members said Monday evenings or Sunday afternoons might work better for most families. More discussion is planned.

Brennen Neussen called for the division of the house because the motion to recess failed.

The decision was reversed.

After recess, members moved to adjourn the meeting.

— Brennen Neussen

Locals featured in Fort Scott art show FORT SCOTT — The Bourbon County Arts Council will open the 24th Annual Fine Arts Exhibit and Sale with a reception honoring the artists at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Danny and Willa Ellis Family Fine Arts Center on the campus of Fort Scott Community College.

Allen County artists participating include Thelma Cook, Elizabeth Corbett, and Lori

Moran. Bob Cross, retired art educator from Chanute, will serve as juror for the exhibit.

Artists from Kansas, Missouri, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Vermont will have their work on display and for sale in this multi-media exhibit.

The exhibit will be open to the public from noon to 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday.

Admission is free.

Lutheran women host annual prayer meeting The Grace Lutheran Women’s Missionary League hosted its annual prayer service Feb. 25 at the church.

Ladies from Iola, Humboldt and Chanute enjoyed lasagna, followed by the prayer service, “Wanted: Work-

ers in God’s Harvest Field.”

The lesson was a comparison of plowing, sowing, nurturing and reaping the seed of God’s word in biblical times and modern times.

The next meeting

Symphony to offer ‘Out of Africa’ experience ELMDALE, Kan. (AP) — Well-heeled patrons can sign up for a luxury, weekend-long encampment when the Kansas City Symphony makes its annual journey to the Flint Hills.

The “Out of Africa” experience will run $5,000 per couple, The Kansas City Star reported. Up to 20 15-foot, airconditioned tents will

KU to cut land lines LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas University's Lawrence campus is getting ready to completely drop landline telephones in two years.

Information technology department spokesman David Day says the university is about a year in to a three-year process of replacing the campus' traditional phone service with the Internet-based Skype for Business service.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that with the new service, all faculty and staff will make calls through the Internet using their computers or cellphones.

The Skype for Business service cost isn't expected to be significantly different than the traditional phone service.

Day says that in the past several years, the number of calls to and from university landlines has decreased 55 percent, from 6.9 million calls in 2008 to 3.1 million calls in 2015.

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be erected in a remote prairie a few miles from the concert site near the Chase County town of Clements. The all-inclusive camping experience will begin on Friday, June 10 and wrap up that Sunday.

Lodging is an ongoing challenge for the event, which each year draws 7,000 people to an area where accommodations are few.

Symphony in the Flint Hills’ website says $1,500

of the price will be a taxdeductible donation to “heighten appreciation for the tallgrass prairie.”

Randy Wolf and John O’Brien of Kansas City, Mo., will outfit the tents with queen-size beds.

There also will be woodand-leather camp chairs handmade by Wolf, and rustic furniture and ethnic rugs from O’Brien’s business in Independence, Mo. The pair also are bringing in a covered chuck wagon for prepar-

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— Moran Public Library meeting, 5 p.m., Moran Public Library — Iola USD 257 Board of Education meeting, 6 p.m., school board office.

— Moran City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Moran City Hall.

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— Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse.

— Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Allen County Regional Hospital.

— Allen Community College Board of Trustees meeting, 6 p.m., ACC student center.

— Gas City Council meeting, 7 p.m., City Hall.

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— Grief Support Group, 1 p.m., Allen County Home Health and Hospice.

— Dirt Diggers Garden Club, 2 p.m., Evelyn Lay’s home, 403 Alamosa, Dr. — “How Does Your Garden Grow?” workshop, 7 p.m., Iola Public Library.

— Jones Hardy American Legion Post No. 385, 7 p.m., Post Home, Moran.

— LaHarpe City Council meeting, 7 p.m., LaHarpe City Hall.

— Iola BPOE No. 569, 8 p.m., Elks Lodge.

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— Rotary Club, noon, The Greenery.

— TOPS No. KS 880 5 p.m. weigh in, 5:30 p.m. meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church.

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— Senior Citizens Card Club potluck dinner, 5:30 p.m., senior citizens center.

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School finance debate shaping into class warfare How to fund Kansas’s schools is turning into class warfare with the battle lines being drawn between legislators who represent wealthy school districts and those who do not.

Rep. Ray Merrick, speaker of the House, is against returning to the old school finance formula. With a goal of making schools across the state as balanced as possible, the formula hit hard at Blue Valley, the wealthy school district situated in Merrick’s territory.

Helping poorer schools off the back of Blue Valley, in Merrick’s opinion, is a “clear illustration of the unfairness of the old school finance formula,” as quoted in Sunday’s Kansas City Star.

Of the state’s 286 school districts, only 79 are considered well off. Schools and communities fortunate enough to be near a power plant such as Wolf Creek, for example, were born with a silver spoon in their mouth.

Increasingly, wealthy school districts are located in metropolitan areas such as Overland Park, Olathe and Shawnee Mission where there are large shopping districts and founts of entertainment that enrich a tax base.

It’s all about location.

In Blue Valley, for example, 1 mill of property tax raises $116 per pupil; while here in Iola, 1 mill raises $32 per pupil.

Property taxes on the Prairie View power plant in Linn County provide handsomely for its schools.

One mill in property taxes there raises $177 per pupil. Just down the road in Pleasanton, 1 mill raises $37.

The question is should Prairie View be made to share the wealth?

Those sitting pretty, say no.

WHICH IS WHY the issue is before the Kansas Supreme Court and will be the other shoe to drop sometime this year. Because all things are not equal across this vast state it’s incumbent our education be tailored to provide the same opportunities to every Kansas child, no matter where they live.

First, though, is the high court’s ruling that our schools are underfunded by an estimated $73 million.

Several things contribute to the current state of affairs, including in no small measure Gov. Sam Brownback’s cutting $28.3 million from K-12 last year, a growing student base, inflation, and a frozen funding mechanism that cannot address any of these changes.

The governor and his legion maintain it’s not their job to raise taxes — but they’ve been more than happy to cut them, regardless of their damage.

What’s truly worrisome is that legislators chose to ignore the court’s decision when drawing up next year’s budget. Not one red cent was pledged to address the ruling. But they did tack on $50,000 for legal counsel in regards to school finance.

IT’S THREE weeks before the legislative session is over but as yet no one has openly discussed school finance.

While it boggles the mind this is the case, legislators must put their focus on all of Kansas, not their individual districts.

Otherwise, such decisions would further rend Kansas as a state of the haves and have-nots.

— Susan Lynn

Plot to gut state services on track Gov. Sam Brownback’s master plan has unfolded as intended — ugly fallout and all.

In a state already running on fumes due to our ultraconservative governor’s ridiculous “trickle down” economic strategy of massive incometax cuts, February tax revenue came in a staggering $53 million short of estimates.

And revenue projections actually were lowered in November after months of falling short.

So, Kansas has yet another budget shortfall after public education, infrastructure, law enforcement and social services already have been hard hit.

You’d think the dismal trend would have those responsible shaken and determined to undo a self-inflicted revenue problem. Instead, the governor smacked the state’s universities with $17 million in cuts. Even the planned stunt in delaying $100 million in payments to the state workers’ pension fund won’t be enough to make ends meet.

His sidekicks, meanwhile, responded with still more ineptitude.

Senate President Susan Wagle called for across-the-board cuts to state agencies — a lazy, thoughtless approach.

She claimed businesses

would do the same, but no prudent company would intentionally slash its income in the first place. Responsible business operators also know such recklessness would make them more vulnerable once uncontrollable economic pressures arise — steep declines in oil-and-gas prices, for example.

Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan also had no idea what was going on.

“It doesn’t seem right,” he said of February’s figures, even though the miss was

claimed economic “experiment” of huge income-tax cuts wasn’t devised to spur significant job and economic growth (which, as predicted, didn’t happen.)

It was a deliberate way to bankrupt Kansas and shrink state government through deep spending cuts — and then create opportunities to privatize wrecked state programs and line the pockets of ultraconservatives’ corporate cronies.

Kansans understandably disgusted — and that’s

You’d think the dismal trend would have those responsible shaken and determined to undo a selfinflicted revenue problem. Instead, the governor smacked the state’s universities with $17 million in cuts. Even the planned stunt in delaying $100 million in payments to the state workers’ pension fund won’t be enough to make ends meet.

the seventh in the last eight months.

But knowing it’s all by design would be most disturbing of all.

Lower taxes always should be the goal, but not at the expense of state programs Kansans want and need.

Try as he might to deny it, the governor’s self-pro-

many, considering a new poll showed Brownback’s approval rating at just 21 percent — have to seize the opportunity in this year’s elections to sideline extreme-right legislators helping the governor perpetuate his ideology-driven disaster.

— The Garden City Telegram

If Bernie fades, his young supporters will play hard to get Editor’s note: This piece was written before Saturday’s caucuses, but considering the strong showing by Bernie Sanders, Cook’s points are even more relevant. S.L. (TNS) Super Tuesday highlighted an ongoing problem with Democrats of a certain set.

You know the type: romantic idealists who’ve fallen for their candidate’s no-nonsense attitude and bold progressive agenda; starry-eyed optimists who want it all, who vehemently defend their candidate’s pie-in-the-sky chances, evidence be damned.

I’m writing, of course, about Hillary Clinton voters.

Over the last couple of months, I’ve watched the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination grow increasingly heated — most often along generational lines.

Clinton is leading with baby boomers and seniors, who seem to value her foreign policy experience and poise.

Challenger Bernie Sanders is winning handily among millennials like me, who admire his grassroots fundraising and rejection of monied interests.

Electability has been an important chip in that debate.

I can count on eight hands

the number of older, wiser friends I’ve heard decry Sanders’ nonexistent appeal. Clinton’s a less divisive candidate, they say. Sanders is, after all — and let us here clutch our throats like proper Victorian ladies — a socialist.

He’s less experienced (true), he’s less eloquent (arguable) and he looks like a cantanker-

ous old muppet (to me, this is a selling point).

No, a Clinton nomination is the Democrats’ best chance to keep the White House blue in 2016.

The trouble is, that doesn’t seem to be true. A Real Clear Politics average of recent polls shows Clinton losing to Republican challengers Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich.

The same polls show Sanders beating those Republican contenders and beating Donald Trump by a wider margin.

Another problem? Clinton trails Sanders by a sizable margin in most favorability polls.

Making fun of millennials is admittedly a cherished American pastime. (So entitled! So naive! So plaid!)

But when our chosen candidate fares better against the potential Republican nominees, it’s hard not to argue we’ve made the politically savvier choice.

That doesn’t, of course, mean our choice is popular.

After his anemic performance on Super Tuesday, a Sanders nomination looks increasingly unlikely.

Precision is difficult in a primary system more poorly conceived than a Dan Brown novel, but current counts show Sanders trailing Clinton

by more than 600 delegates. left on some key millennial Making up that margin isn’t issues — college affordability, impossible, but it would re- income inequality, cannabis quire an improbable shakeup legality — but many of us are in remaining races. skeptical that she’ll stay there.

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Emojis: Experts pursue ways to curb food waste among children Continued from A1

manufacturers make products that schools will want to buy.

Food waste has been more of an issue in the United States since new federal nutrition regulations were implemented in 2012 that mandated healthier products in school lunches. For example, more than 26 percent of the food budget at Boston’s middle schools was discarded by students, according to a study cited by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association. If translated nationwide, that would be more than $1.23 billion of school food wasted each year.

Already, about threequarters of U.S. school districts are doing taste tests with students and nearly all have implemented initiatives such as nutrition education or locally grown foods in an effort to make meals more appetizing, according to an association survey of 1,100 schools conducted last year.

“School nutrition professionals are always looking for new ideas to promote healthier choices to students ... to find ways to get more student feedback so they can develop kid-approved menus that are healthy and also appealing to students,” association spokeswoman Diane Pratt-Heavner said.

They are at an age where they have opinions, and sometimes they don’t feel like they are being heard.

— Katy Gallo, doctoral student studying child nutrition

Despite those efforts, government data shows more than 1 million fewer students are choosing school lunches.

The emoji methodology research, which began in 2014, first started with focus groups of children ages 7 to 11 in Olathe.

Children in the focus group tasted and rated three foods: plain oatmeal, pepperoni pizza Lunchables and Japanese Ramune soda. The premise was to have food that was boring, familiar and an “out-ofthe-box” item that participants had not likely encountered — the sweet, strawberry-flavored soda is packaged in a bottle with a marble that releases carbon dioxide — to provide a baseline comparison for testing responses to other foods.

The Lunchables were well-liked, but the soda was “polarizing” be-

cause some thought it tasted like medicine, doctoral student Katy Gallo said. The children also rated the oatmeal disappointing because it lacked flavor, though some were hungry and ate all of it anyway.

Researchers used those results to determine which emojis and words the children used and which ones were confusing, then questioned them about their favorite foods and how those made them feel. They narrowed down students’ choices to 28 face emojis and 28 words.

In a later taste test, researchers had the children emoji-rate other foods. They had particularly positive emoji responses, pointing to the grinning face, smiling face with smiling eyes or a smile with the tongue out, to the chocolate graham snacks, orange juice, white bread and white grapes. The least-liked food tested, earning a worried face, confused face or confounded face: fresh spinach.

Brenan Kuzmic, an 11-year-old, said the emojis made it easier for him to communicate. Chocolate graham snacks won a smiley face from him, while the fresh spinach earned just a “normal face,” he said.

Similar polling was done with 12-year-old

students at 10 schools in Accra, Ghana, to see if cultural differences existed in emoji use.

“They are at an age where they have opinions, and sometimes they don’t feel like they are being heard,” Gallo said of all the students.

“And so they really appreciate being able to give that kind of feedback.”

Researchers will return to Ghana for the next phase of testing this month, followed

request an inspection as long as they are not subject to an eviction order.

Ed Jaskinia, president of the Associated Landlords of Kansas, expressed his support for the bill, citing the protection of privacy rights

of property owners and tenants.

“They’re opening refrigerators or cabinet doors, drawers,” said Jaskinia. “What kind of code violation are you looking for there? It may be a rare thing, but it can and does happen.”

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“The scream you hear, the howl that comes from Washington D.C., is utter terror at what we the people are doing together,” he said.

Sanders supporters clearly outnumbered Clinton backers at caucus sites in Wichita, Lawrence and east Topeka. At a union hall in Wichita, they were so numerous that they had to congregate outside so their numbers could be counted.

“People used to ask, ‘What’s the matter with Kansas?’” Sanders said in a statement from Warren, Michigan, where he was campaigning. “It turns out that there’s nothing the matter with Kansas when you give people a clear choice and involve them in the

democratic process.”

Turnout was high for both parties, although the surge was greater for the GOP, which is the dominant party in the conservative-leaning state.

The state GOP said more than 81,000 people sought to cast ballots at 103 sites, though more than 8,000 remained uncounted Saturday night.

That exceeded party officials’ most optimistic projections. Turnout for the 2012 caucuses was about 30,000.

The Democratic Party said about 40,000 participated in the caucuses at 47 sites. That exceeded the 33,000-plus who caucused in 2008 — another bad day for Clinton, as Barack Obama supporters overwhelmed caucus sites to give him a re-

Wicoff: National Merit finalist Continued from A1

Merit finalist opens the doors for a number of scholarships, usually enough to allow the student to attend college for free.

But while the National Merit scholarships are limited for K-State students, her Presidential Scholarship more than picks up the slack.

The Presidential Scholarship is worth roughly $20,000 a year.

To earn National Merit honors, Wicoff had to score well on the Scholastic Aptitude Test and the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Tests.

She also had to write an essay.

A face-to-face interview was part of the application process for K-State’s Presidential Scholarship.

All the while, Wicoff has maintained a sterling academic record at IHS, and is part of its

LifeSmarts team that recently qualified for nationals (see related story on Page A1.)

“I’m excited about it,” she said. “These are the scholarships I wanted.”

Wicoff plans to attend K-State — she also strongly considered attending Oklahoma State University — to study ag economics, global food distribution and pre-law.

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The committee took no action on the bill.

sounding victory then.

Sanders supporters were enthusiastic about the self-declared democratic socialist.

Thirty-three Democratic delegates were at stake in Saturday’s caucuses, and Sanders captured 23, and Clinton, 10. The state has another four party leaders who are designated as superdelegates and can support any candidate. One of them has declared for Clinton.

On the Republican side, Cruz captured 24 of the state’s 40 delegates and Trump, nine. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio won six and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, one.

Rubio finished third in Kansas results, despite having endorsements from Gov. Sam Brownback and U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts.

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Domokos-Bays, who’s also president-elect for the School Nutrition Association, was intrigued by the Kansas research, saying she would “absolutely” be interested in using that emoji methodology with her students.

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Late surge keys Kansas

Iola senior Mikaela Platt shoots a three-pointer in front of her own bench with 1:39 left in the fourth quarter of Iola’s 40-36 loss to Burlington in Saturday’s substate final. The shot brought the Fillies within one point. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

GAME OF INCHES

Fillies’ rally falls just short in substate final

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

BURLINGTON — At the end of every high school basketball season only one team in each class truly ends their season fully satisfied.

Saturday’s 40-36 loss to Burlington

in the substate championship will leave a sour taste in the mouths of the Fillies’ basketball team, but they have plenty to be proud of, even in defeat.

The first quarter could not have gone worse for the three-seeded Iola team. In their quest to knock off the top-seeded Burlington Wildcats, the Fillies fell behind 15-3 with their only basket coming on an early Sydney Wade three-pointer.

In addition to the poor start on the scoreboard, senior guard Ashlie

Shields quickly got into foul trouble and nearly everyone on the floor seemed like they were in a funk shooting the ball.

“We had some great looks and missed them,” Carlson said. “They made some great shots (in the first quarter) and then after that it was a ball game.”

In the second quarter, Iola began to regain the groove that they’d started to See FILLIES | Page B4

Crest’s six seniors finish careers

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

HARTFORD -- Saturday night in Hartford marked the end of six seniors’ careers for the Crest basketball team.

The Lancers fell 76-52 to Hartford and Crest coach Travis Hermreck had to deal with the fact that it would be the final time he gets to coach the group of Hunter Frazell, Evan Godderz, Colton Strickler, Brandon

Brallier, Garrett Sipe and Kellen Ramsey in a competitive basketball game.

“No matter whether we were laughing or crying or fighting or laughing or whatever we were doing, I always loved coming to practice with them every single day and, basketball aside, on a personal level, I love those six guys. It will be tough to gear up and go without them next year.”

The Lancers fell behind early and were never able to string

enough three pointers together to make a comeback, but the team never gave up as they continued to try to shoot their way back into the game.

“For everything that those kids are as basketball players, or for everything they are not,” Hermreck said. “(Their fight) is something I’m incredibly proud of. They did that all year for us.

They came back when there reSee CREST | Page B4

Crest coach Travis Hermreck embraces Evan Godderz, 12, and Garrett Sipe at game’s end. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

Chiefs cut ties with Hali KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press the Kansas City Chiefs voided the contract of veteran linebacker Tamba Hali, who took a pay cut with a reworked deal to remain with the team last season.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity Saturday because the Chiefs aren’t allowed to discuss contract matters.

Hali had four voidable years added to his one-year contract

so that the team could spread out his signing bonus, thereby creating additional salary cap space last offseason. But the contract also stipulated the Chiefs had until Friday to sign Hali to an extension, otherwise he would become a free agent.

Despite dealing with a bothersome knee much of last season, Hali had 6 1-2 sacks and was voted to his fifth consecutive Pro Bowl.

The 10-year veteran will turn 33 in November.

The Kansas City Star first reported that Hali’s contract was voided.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas coach Bill Self remembers a time early in Perry Ellis’ career when the senior forward couldn’t speak in front of a crowd.

It felt like a lifetime ago on Saturday afternoon.

Ellis, the often-reserved senior forward, charmed the crimson and blue faithful at Allen Fieldhouse with an emotional farewell speech that spanned laughs and tears.

“People say I’ve been here forever, and they’re right. I got to play with Wilt Chamberlain and Danny Manning,” Ellis joked. “Since I supposedly have unlimited eligibility, why don’t I come back next year?”

Based on his performance Saturday, Kansas fans wouldn’t have any objections.

Ellis scored 22 points, including a hook shot over Iowa State’s Georges Niang to ice the game, and No. 1 Kansas stretched its nation-leading home winning streak to 42 games with a 85-78 victory over the No. 21 Cyclones.

“I’m proud of this team,” Self said. “I’ve been proud of teams before, but when you have lottery picks or guys like that where you know you have better players who perform at a very high level, the chances are you’ll be successful. This team I think we have terrific players, but I think this team has earned its stripes as much as any team we’ve had here.”

Devonte Graham and Wayne Selden Jr. finished with 16 points apiece. Kansas (27-4, 15-3) has now won 33 straight home finales.

Ellis, playing in his final game at Allen Fieldhouse, spearheaded an 11-0 run in the final 4:45 by diving across the floor to save a possession.

He ended it with an emphatic dunk and 16,000 fans cheering his name one last time.

“You’re just thinking about so much,” Ellis said. “All last night you’re just thinking one more. One more. This was the last go around. There was a lot of thinking, but it was great to come out with the win.”

Kansas looked poise to break the game open with 13:21 left, when Mason slipped his way through two defenders and finished at the rim.

But Iowa State wouldn’t go away, responding with a 13-2 run to grab its largest - and last - lead at 63-59.

Niang led the Cyclones (2110, 10-8) with 22 points, five rebounds and five assists. Jameel McKay added 19 points and nine rebounds.

“Anytime you get to finish your last Big 12 regular season, it’s disappointing to end it on a loss,” Niang said. “Winning in Allen Fieldhouse is See KU | Page B4

Cubs fall in substate title game

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Humboldt High’s Rhett Smith soars up for a shot Saturday against Wellsville. Smith scored 23 in the Cubs’ 77-65 loss. REGIS-

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MOUND CITY — Wellsville High’s 3-point shooting prowess put Humboldt High’s Cubs in a hole Saturday evening.

The Eagles’ free throw shooting completed the job.

Wellsville shot an eye-popping 26 of 29 from the free throw line as the Eagles downed Humboldt, 77-65, in the Class 3A substate championship.

The Cubs ended their season with an 18-5 record.

See CUBS | Page B4

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gather over the past couple of weeks.

Iola outscored Burlington 8-5 in the quarter and cut the lead to 20-13 at the half.

A pair of Shields’ free throws cut the Wildcat lead to just five points — the closest the Fillies had been to the lead since early in the first quarter — and it appeared as if the goal of making it to state may finally be within reach.

Then the Wildcats answered again.

They ran off five straight points to take a double-digit lead at 25-15.

The Fillies refused to go away though and finished the quarter on a 10-2 run with six of those points coming from junior Toni Macha. Reserve guard Colbi Riley scored the other four as she used her cutting ability to slash to the hoop while Wade or-

chestrated the offense.

The third quarter ended with Iola within two, 27-25, and headed to their bench with all the momentum, while Burlington trudged to theirs realizing that they had a fight on their hands.

Then the Wildcats answered again.

Burlington reeled off six straight points to make the margin eight.

Surely they had finally silenced the Fillies.

Della Lohman used her rebounding skills to get a putback and make the margin six.

A Macha basket made it a four-point game.

After a stop, the ball was swung to the right wing and found its way into the hands of Platt with the clock showing 1:39.

The senior had been struggling all night and had just re-entered the game when Shields fouled

out. She didn’t hesitate though and the senior rose and fired a three.

The ball found the bottom of the net and Iola was within one.

“She just needed to settle down a bit and she did,” Carlson said.

Then the Wildcats answered again.

Regan Norton scored four consecutive points and again the Fillies were down five with under a minute left.

Wade responded with a basket with 36 ticks left, to cut the lead to three.

After a miss on the front-end of a one-and-one from Burlington, Riley drove the lane.

The sophomore had just missed another shot in the lane a couple of possessions earlier, but as she was being knocked off balance, she lofted the ball into the air and it found nylon.

One-point game, 21 seconds left.

Burlington’s Kirsten Strong made one of two from the line with 19 seconds to go and Iola had its chance.

The Fillies put the ball in the hands of their star, Wade — the point guard that had just returned from a serious ankle injury a couple of games ago — who drove to the basket.

She put the ball up on the right side of the rim.

The ball spun in toward the cylinder and spun right back out.

Iola was forced to foul and Burlington senior Shelbi Emling hit a pair of free throws and their was no time left for one more rally. Iola’s season was over, after being just inches away from being extended, at least to an overtime.

“I can’t say enough,”

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“I can’t even talk about the game,” an emotional Humboldt head coach David Taylor said. “They’re good free throw shooters.”

The game was knotted at 34-34, following a 7-0 Cub run to tie the score midway through the third quarter when Wellsville’s Caleb Mann and Zach Vance caught fire from beyond the 3 -point arc.

The pair combined to hit all five of their 3-point attempts — and Wellsville’s only 3-pointers in the game — over the next 7 minutes of game time.

Vance started and ended the flurry. His trey pushed the Eagles back in front. Mann then connected three times from downtown over the latter half of the period, including his buzzerbeater to put the Eagles up 50-42.

Humboldt seniors Rhett Smith and Jake Haviland scored on consecutive possessions early in the fourth quarter to pull Humboldt within 52-46, but Vance respond-

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Kyle Powelson’s bucket less than a minute later put Wellsville up by double digits for good.

Wellsville hit 14 of 15 free throws in the fourth quarter to seal the win.

The early going proved to be a game of cat-andmouse. Wellsville got the early advantage before Humboldt — usually sparked by Smith, Haviland or Corey Whitcomb off the bench — clawed back.

The Eagles led 8-2 and 11-4 before Humboldt responded with a quick 7-0 run. Smith’s 3-pointer tied the score at 11 apiece late in the quarter.

The Eagles responded with a 10-0 run to lead 2413. Smith and Haviland combined to score nine of Humboldt’s 11 points in an 11-4 run to cut the halftime deficit to 28-24.

Wellsville threatened to pull away again, leading 34-27 before Anthony Doran scored on a drive to the hoop followed by a Smith 3-pointer and a Haviland layup to knot the score at 34-34.

That led to Wellsville’s closing flourish.

“I thought we handled their pressure,” Taylor said.

Indeed, most of Humboldt’s 13 turnovers were of the unforced variety.

And the Cubs shot a scorching 62 percent from the field, including an astounding 24 of 31 (74 percent) from 2-point range.

But Humboldt managed only five free throw attempts, hitting two, a far cry from Wellsville’s 26 of 29.

“In all honesty, this team over-achieved all year, probably more than any group I’ve ever coached,” Taylor said in a nod to the team’s trademark blue-collar effort and gritty approach.

He carried special praise for his seniors.

Smith scored 23 points to go with four rebounds and two assists in his high school finale; Haviland had 17 points and a pair of steals. Bryce Isaac had 10 points and six rebounds. Whitcomb scored eight, all coming on lightning-quick drives to the basket. He also had two blocks.

“I’m going to miss them,” Taylor said. “They

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ers, seniors Taelyn Sutterby, Olivia Bannister and Taylor Sell also have wrapped up their Iola basketball careers.

“Playing with those five seniors like we did, it was an amazing experience,” Sutterby said.

“Just the teamwork, the positivity and the friendships that have grown from the court are what I am going to take away.

They are going to be lifelong friendships.”

This senior class will leave a solid nucleus for next season, with Macha and Wade leading the team as seniors next year, and they have high hopes for those following in their footsteps.

“I just hope they continue to look up to us as positive influences,” Sutterby said. “I hope they will continue their hard work and outdo us and go to state next year.”

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played their (tails) off.

I’ve enjoyed this group as much as any group I’ve ever coached, and I don’t care how they played. They’re a fun bunch to be around.

They may not understand it now, but five, 10, 15 years down the road, they’re going to understand they’ve joined a special group.

They’ll have a special place with me.”

Five Wellsville players scored in double digits, led by Kyle Powelson and Seth Breithaupt with 15 apiece.

Wellsville (18-10-2227—77) (FG/3pt): Man 0/3-2-0-11, Strawn, 0-0-2-0, Brown 2-8-212, Powelson 4-7-1-15, Husford 0-0-1-0, Vance 1/2-4-5-12, Crist 3-0-16, Breihaupt 5-5-2-15, Smith 3-0-2-6. TOTALS: 18/5-26-16-77.

Humboldt (13-1118-23—65) (FG/3pt): Whitcomb 4-0-2-8, Korte 0-0-2-0, Hoepker 0/1-0-4-3, Haviland 8-1-3-17, Isaac 5-0-4-10, Doran 2-0-5-4, Smith 5/4-1-4-23. TOTALS: 24/5-2-24-65)

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Carlson said. “Most teams would have quit when it was 15-3,but there was no stopping and now we’re down by six and here we come. It could have gone either way.”

The game was the final one for Iola starters Platt and Shields.

“I don’t know if anybody that I have coached for as long a time has spent as much time in the gym,” Carlson said of Platt. “She just spends all her time in that gym after practice trying to make those shots and do whatever she can for our team. We’re going to miss her.”

Shields was an undeniable leader for her team this season.

“She is our spark plug,” Carlson said. “She is our leader. She encourages everyone else and doesn’t really worry about herself.”

In addition to the start-

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ally wasn’t a chance to come back.”

“I always think that 25 years after I graduated from high school, I look back at my last game with a little bit of regret of how I went out,” Hermreck added. “I didn’t want them

to have to live with that and to their credit they went out swinging.”

They finished the year just one game away from the state tournament but for Frazell, he says he will still take one thing away from this season.

“Friendship.”

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something I wanted to do, so losing is real disappointing.”

Kansas also honored fellow seniors Jamari Traylor, Hunter Mickelson and Evan Manning before tipoff.

But Saturday afternoon was all about No. 34.

Ellis was a crucial part of Kansas’ four in-season tournament titles and its lone Big 12 Tournament crown. His still demeanor and consistency made him a fan-favorite.

He lost just twice at Allen Fieldhouse.

All of his attributes were on display Saturday.

Ellis scored 12 firsthalf points and grabbed three rebounds against perhaps the only comparable player in the conference and coun-

try, Niang. Even as Ellis struggled through periods of missed shots, he was a force, grabbing rebounds or diving across the court to deny Iowa State a possession.

The teams traded buckets in quick succession throughout the opening period, with neither leading by more than seven points. Niang matched Ellis’ scoring production but foul trouble limited him to just 11 minutes. McKay stepped up in his place with 17 first-half points and seven rebounds, all while not picking up a foul or sitting out.

He, like Iowa State, was good in the second half. Kansas was simply better in crunch time.

“The reality of it is,” Self said, “I couldn’t be more confident of these guys moving forward.