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THE IOLA REGISTER Locally owned since 1867
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Wednesday, August 9, 2017
ALLEN COUNTY COMMISSION
ACARF hit by budget crunch By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Trees, brush and other debris clog the Neosho River’s flow under the old Marsh Arch bridge at the west edge of Humboldt. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON
A BRIDGE OVER CLUTTERED WATER By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
Joe Weiner came to the rescue Tuesday morning by offering his services to dismember trees wedged against the Marsh Arch bridge west of Humboldt. “I can get out in a boat and ‘limb’ the trees,” he told Allen County commissioners Tuesday morning when they appeared stumped as to how to handle the debris. “I can do it if the city
GAS COUNCIL
Council wades through water topics By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
GAS — Council members here were awash with information about water projects, one to be done in-house after a bid proved too daunting and the other to do with what might occur if they decide Iola’s insistence to increase water rates is too burdensome. Lathrop Construction, Nevada, Mo., proposed to replace 1,800 feet of two-inch steel water line along U.S. 54 with a PVC carrier, with a price tag of $67,800. “Too much,” said Steve Robb, city superintendent, and told council members the work could be done piecemeal, when money was available and the local crew had time. BG Consultants, Emporia, See GAS | Page A4
(Humboldt) and county will help,” Weiner said, and after some thought: “Take a day and maybe $1,000.” Commissioners happily accepted Weiner’s offer. “I don’t care if it takes two or three days, and costs more,” said Commissioner Tom Williams. For a long time neighbors have worried about the integrity of the 85-year-old bridge. Richard Weilert, who lives nearby, frets about transports heavy with grain cross-
ing the span. “You need to lower the load limit,” which was raised a few years ago from 15 to 30 tons. Weilert also doesn’t buy into an occasional engineer’s report the bridge is immune to damage from the debris that accumulates at its base. Years ago county crews did the work using a crane, bulldozer, backhoe and dump trucks. But the crane is gone, and “we don’t have anything” to deal with the rubble, said
Mitch Garner, director of public works. But along with Weiner, who has a background in heavy equipment and construction, the job should seem manageable. A DELEGATION from Allen County Regional Hospital, including Administrator Tony Thompson, Larry Patterson, its finance officer, and board member Loren See BRIDGE | Page A4
LAHARPE — For the past seven years, the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility has provided a vital lifeline for thousands of Fidos and Oscars; 1,947, to be exact. But, much like the furry pets ACARF shelters, the organization is in trouble. “Dire is the best way to put it,” Janice Porter, ACARF director said in a telephone interview this week. Too many dogs and cats and not enough income, has forced the shelter to not only drastically reduce its population but also put a moratorium on accepting new ones. In early June, the shelter had 60 dogs and 60 cats, a combined 40 animals above “full” capacity. “We’re doing what we can to keep our doors open,” Porter said. The first step is now complete. Thanks to assistance from other similar shelters across the state, ACARF was able to transfer out 21 dogs. As of Tuesday, ACARF See ACARF | Page A4
Trump, North Korea trade escalating threats of fire By FOSTER KLUK AND MATTHEW PENNINGTON The Associated Press
Range of North Korean missiles July 4
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In an exchange of threats, President Donald Trump warned Pyongyang of “fire and fury like the world has never seen” and the North’s military claimed today it was examining plans for attacking Guam. The high-level tit-for-tat follows reports that North Korea has mastered a crucial technology needed to strike the United States with a nuclear missile. Despite regular North Korean threats against Guam, a U.S. territory in the Pacific about 2,100 miles from the Korean Peninsula, it is extremely unlikely that Pyongyang would risk the assured annihilation of its revered leadership with a pre-emptive attack on U.S. citizens. It’s also not clear how reliable North Korea’s mid-range missiles would be in an attack against a distant target given the relatively few times they’ve been tested. Even so, the competing threats and Trump’s use of North Korea-style rhetoric — Pyongyang has long
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vowed to reduce Seoul to a “sea of fire” — raise already high animosity and heighten worries that a miscalculation might spark conflict between the rivals. The North Korean army said in a statement that it
is studying a plan to create an “enveloping fire” in areas around Guam with medium- to long-range ballistic missiles. The statement described Andersen Air Force Base on Guam as a “beachhead” for a potential
“Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.”
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U.S. invasion of North Korea it needed to neutralize. It was unlikely the North’s threat was a direct response to Trump’s comments to the camera at his golf course in See THREATS | Page A2
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