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Area residents will have an opportunity to discuss education with Kansas officials next week.

Kansas Commissioner of Education Dr. Randy Watson and Deputy Commissioner Brad Neuenswander will meet with local educators, parents and others from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Monday at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

The event is part of a tour of about 50 communities

across the state, giving residents a chance to discuss various issues related to education.

It’s part of the Kansas Can Dr. Randy Watson Success Tour, a community listening event similar to one done six years ago.

The Iola visit coincides with a staff in-service day, arranged so teachers and faculty can attend, USD 257 Su-

perintendent Stacey Fager said.

“They’re taking the time to access the state and get input from Brad citizens on Neuenswander how do we do things better,” Fager said.

The state education officials began the tour on July 26 and will continue through Sept. 9.

The previous listening tour, in 2015, led to recommenda-

Marrying ourselves to adventure Trevor Hoag Just Prairie “America, probably because it is the most civilized place in the world, is the most dangerous.”

Such was the observation by adventurer/film-maker Martin Johnson during his final interview, not long before perishing in a tragic plane crash in 1937.

Perhaps he’d been reminded of something he’d seen more than a decade earlier, on a visit to Chanute with his wife and fellow explorer Osa, namely, a Ku Klux Klan march.

Upwards of 5,000 Klan members had rallied there with white robes and blazing crosses, and as Martin put it, “I did not like the way they looked in my direction as they marched past.”

He also wondered if his efforts at depicting African life and the lives of other people of color across the globe had made him a target for their rage, for not only did most Americans not understand the indigneous people that he and Osa had encountered, many actively despised them for doing so.

The pair were bringing the

tions that USD 257 has since adopted, including options to embed credits in some of the Career and Technical Education programs, and a switch from block scheduling to a seven-hour school day, reducing the number of credits needed to graduate.

“Our local board has been very open to recommendations,” Fager said. “We’re always looking for more information on how we do things here in Iola.”

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Senators push infrastructure closer to finish

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators hoisted the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package over another hurdle late Sunday, a coalition of Democrats and Republicans pushing it closer to passage despite a few holdouts trying to derail one of President Joe Biden’s top priorities.

The rare bipartisan momentum was holding steady, a reflection of the bill’s popularity and the eagerness of senators to show voters back home they can deliver. One of the biggest investments of its kind in years, the package promises to unleash billions of dollars to upgrade roads, bridges, broadband internet, water pipes and other public works systems undergirding the nation.

Senators easily overcame another 60-vote hurdle on a vote of 68-29. Final votes could drag into early Tuesday as a single GOP senator, Tennessee’s Bill Hagerty, refused to relent on the mandatory debate time.

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., stressed to colleagues that they could proceed the “easy way or the hard way,” as the Senate

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Martin and Osa Johnson strike a pose with indigenous people around their Spirit of Africa aircraft. One finds many indigenous artifacts from around the globe at the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum in Chanute. (ABOVE, COURTESY KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY)

so-called “dark continent” and elsewhere into the light of the public eye, precisely where many folks believed such “savage” places didn’t belong.

‘Nowhere to run’: UN report says global warming nears limits

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Earth’s climate is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a “code red for humanity.”

“It’s just guaranteed that it’s going to get worse,” said report co-author Linda Mearns, a senior climate scientist at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research. “Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.”

But scientists also eased back a bit on the likelihood of the absolute worst climate catastrophes.

The authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which calls climate change clearly human-caused and “unequivocal,” makes more precise and warmer forecasts for the 21st century than it did last time it was issued in 2013.

Each of five scenarios for the future, based on how much carbon emissions are cut, passes the more stringent of two thresholds set in the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

World leaders agreed then to

try to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above levels in the late 19th century because problems mount quickly after that. The world has already warmed nearly 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) in the past century and a half.

Under each scenario, the report said, the world will cross the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming mark in the 2030s, earlier than some past predictions.

Warming has ramped up in recent years, data shows.

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Obituary

By ALLISON KITE Kansas Reflector

Ted Minor Theodore C. Minor, 75, of Yates Center, passed away on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, at St. Francis hospital in Wichita.

Ted was born on April 20, 1946, in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., to Theodore F. Minor and Gloria H. (Wagner) Minor. Both parents and a brother, RanTed Minor dy, proceeded him in death.

In 1972, Ted married Sharon Russell in Yates Center. She survives, as do son Kelley and wife Callie of Neosho Falls; brother Jon and wife Pam of Yates Center; grandsons Tyler of Nevada, Mo., and Rydlee of Neosho Falls; and nephew Thealvin of Iola.

Ted graduated from Iola High School in 1966 and spent four years with the U.S. Navy from 1967 to 1971, stationed on the USS aircraft carrier Ticonderoga. He attended Allen County Community College where he received an associates degree in 1973.

Ted was a truck driver and was the animal control officer for Yates Center police department most of his life.

He was also an avid collector of military items, knives and Civil War memorabilia.

Ted was a fan of area youth baseball and enjoyed listening to the Iola Municipal Band play at the courthouse bandstand.

Funeral services are at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 12, at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, 1883 US Hwy, Iola. Burial with military honors will follow at Highland Cemetery, Iola. Memorial contributions in Ted’s honor may be made to ACARF and left in care of the funeral home.

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slogged through its second consecutive weekend session.

“We’ll keep proceeding until we get this bill done,” Schumer said.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act would provide what Biden has called a “historic investment” in public works programs, the first part of the president’s his rebuilding agenda. As many as 20 Republicans are expected to join Democrats in the evenly split Senate for what would be a robust final tally. If approved, it would go to the House.

“We’re on the cusp of seeing that move through the Senate,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on “Fox News Sunday,” citing “a remarkable coalition” that includes business, labor and lawmakers from both parties. “I think we’re about to get this done.”

Once voting wraps up, senators immediately will turn to the budget outline for a $3.5 trillion package of child care, elder care and other programs that is a much more partisan undertaking and expected to draw only Democratic support.

Despite the momentum, action ground to a

halt over the weekend when Hagerty, an ally of Donald Trump, forced the Senate to run out the clock on debate time, refusing to consent to speeding up the process.

Hagerty, who had been Trump’s ambassador to Japan, was leading the effort to take as much time as needed to debate and amend the bipartisan bill, in part because he wants to slow the march toward Biden’s next big bill, which plans $3.5 trillion for child care, an expansion of Medicare for seniors and other so-called soft infrastructure needs.

Trump called Hagerty on Sunday morning, said a person familiar with the call who requested anonymity to discuss it. Hagerty said later Sunday in a speech on the Senate floor that he was trying to prevent a “socialist debt bomb” of new government spending.

The former president has been publicly critical of the bipartisan bill and criticizing Biden and the senators from both parties who support it, though it’s unclear whether Trump’s broadsides will have much sway with Republican senators. He celebrated Hagerty’s stand in a statement Sunday.

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Many of the staff and residents in Shunda Whitfield’s St. Louis County, Missouri, nursing home were sick before they even realized what was going on.

It was April 2020, and masks weren’t yet standard practice. Little was known about COVID before it swept through nursing homes, and as a certified nursing assistant, Whitfield said she “didn’t have time to duck or dodge.”

She contracted COVID-19 in late April and had to take a month off work to recover.

She took another two months to battle a flareup of Lupus, an inflammatory autoimmune disease with no cure that Whitfield, 51, was diagnosed with five years ago.

Her doctor called nearly every day, worried she might take a turn. Her grandkids couldn’t understand why they could only speak to her through the door.

“What if something goes wrong during the night, and no one hears me? Or I go to sleep and my breathing gets really funny and nobody knows it?” Whitfield recounted thinking.

“Would my system fight this off ?”

When Whitfield eventually recovered, she said she was paranoid to return to her job and worried the virus still lingered in the facility.

But despite her fears, and the fact that as a nursing home employee she was eligible for a vaccine back in December, it wasn’t until

three months ago that Whitfield felt comfortable enough to receive her first dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine.

“All the way to sitting in the chair,” she said, “I was asking questions.”

The uncertainty Whitfield wrestled with — how would the vaccine interact with her underlying conditions, did she already have immunity from having COVID, what exactly did the vaccine consist of — encapsulates the difficulty nursing homes across Kansas and Missouri face in persuading vaccine hesitant staff to get the shot.

Whitfield is among the almost 47% of Missouri nursing home staff who have chosen to get the vaccine — still a minority despite being among the very first eligible for the shot.

Missouri’s vaccination rate for nursing home staff is 3rd worst out of all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Guam and Puerto Rico, according to data compiled by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Only Florida and Louisiana trail Missouri.

In Kansas, just over 56% of workers are vaccinated. The state ranks 35th on that list.

Both states trail the national average of 59.3%.

Nursing home residents, isolated for months from their loved ones, have gotten the shot far more readily. In both states, more than 80% of residents are vaccinated against COVID-19.

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That doesn’t account for long-term care facilities that are licensed by the states, like assisted living facilities. Vaccination rates in those facilities aren’t tracked in either Kansas or Missouri.

It was a simple decision for Joe Faver, a resident at The Neighborhoods by TigerPlace in Columbia, Mo., who received his first vaccine dose Friday.

“I don’t want to spread it to anybody,” Faver said.

Nursing homes were some of the first places to bear the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing residents into isolation, only able to see family from a distance as outbreaks haunted seniors.

Now, the vast majority of nursing home residents are vaccinated, allowing some homes to reopen communal dining rooms and return to less restrictive visitation policies.

But as the Delta variant spreads uninhibited among the unvaccinated and, in rare cases, breaks through COVID

vaccines, unvaccinated workers in long-term care facilities raise the risks of a return to the darkest days of the pandemic.

“We’re surrounding our most vulnerable residents with a lot of people who are unvaccinated, which is very scary,” said Marjorie Moore, the executive director of VOYCE, a St. Louis nonprofit that advocates for quality living across long-term care.

It’s difficult to discern a pattern among the health care workers who don’t get vaccinated.

Some, like Whitfield, are older workers with underlying health conditions who worry about how they’ll react to the vaccine. Several homes reported they were struggling to convince their young female employees who worried the shot would affect their fertility.

Doctors and experts have said the science doesn’t support that and there is no evidence that the vaccine causes infertility.

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into that level of warming in the coming decades. But we can avoid further levels of warming by acting on greenhouse gas emissions,” said report co-chair Valerie Masson-Delmotte, a climate scientist at France’s Laboratory of Climate and Environment Sciences at the University of Paris-Saclay.

In three scenarios, the world will also likely exceed 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times — the other, less stringent Paris goal — with far worse heat waves, droughts and flood-inducing downpours “unless deep reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions occur in the coming decades,” the report said.

“This report tells us that recent changes in the climate are widespread, rapid and intensifying, unprecedented in thousands of years,” said IPCC Vice Chair Ko Barrett, senior climate adviser for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The 3,000-plus-page report from 234 scientists said warming is already accelerating sea level rise and worsening extremes such as heat waves, droughts, floods and storms. Tropical cyclones are getting stronger and wetter, while Arctic sea ice is dwindling in the summer and permafrost is thawing. All of these trends will get worse, the report said.

For example, the kind of heat wave that used

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to happen only once every 50 years now happens once a decade, and if the world warms another degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit), it will happen twice every seven years, the report said.

As the planet warms, places will get hit more not just by extreme weather but by multiple climate disasters at once, the report said.

That’s like what’s now happening in the Western U.S., where heat waves, drought and wildfires compound the damage, Mearns said.

Extreme heat is also driving massive fires in Greece and Turkey.

Some harm from climate change — dwindling ice sheets, rising sea levels and changes in the oceans as they lose oxygen and become more acidic — is “irreversible for centuries to millennia,” the report said.

The world is “locked in” to 6 to 12 inches of sea level rise by mid-century, said report co-author Bob Kopp of Rutgers University.

Scientists have issued this message for more than three decades, but the world hasn’t listened, said United Nations Environment Program Executive Director Inger Andersen.

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Working-class roots steer Biden’s course Of all U.S. presidents in recent memory, Joe Biden comes closest to representing working class Americans.

That’s because those are his roots.

Biden is the first president since Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989, to not have an Ivy League pedigree.

To date, his first seven months in office have been spent primarily passing laws that either create jobs for the middle class or see to their needs.

Biden’s coronavirus relief law signed in March is now sending direct payments of up to $1,400 to a majority of Americans and extends $300 a week in unemployment benefits up through September.

The bill also is giving $30 billion to restaurants and $120 billion to K-12 schools.

The legislation passed with no support from Republicans, who, in February, said the pandemic was in the rear view mirror.

On Friday, Biden once again extended a moratorium on student loan debts to Jan. 31, 2022.

Former President Donald Trump initiated the freeze with a deadline of January 2021.

The measure affects some 36 million Americans saddled with $1.3 trillion in student loans now held by the federal government.

Republicans criticized the extension, saying the economy has rebounded enough for debt-holders to start paying back.

“There is no rational excuse for continued extensions of non-payment on student loans,” said North Carolina’s Sen. Richard Burr, the top Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

On the other side of the coin, some Democrats are urging the president to cancel $50,000 in student debt for all those hit hard by the pandemic.

But Biden, as we are learning, has limits.

During his campaign he said he’d be comfortable canceling up to $10,000 in individual student loan debts, but even then he argued that Congress should pass the legislation.

So no, he’s not a socialist revolutionary, much to the disappointment of a minority of Democrats.

That should come as no surprise.

All along Biden’s told us he’s a middle-of-the-road Democrat whose working class roots would steer his course.

Which brings us to the current negotiations on the $1 trillion infrastructure bill, or, as the president likes to call it, “the jobs bill.”

That’s because if passed, the legislation would create about 2 million jobs a year over the course of a decade, of which “90% do not require a college degree; 75% don’t require an associate degree,” the president said.

Top of the list are jobs that address our country’s aging roads, bridges and railways, inadequate broadband distribution, and decrepit water lines.

Biden also ran on a platform of compromise — as long as it’s productive.

“We’ll be open to good ideas in good faith negotiations,” he has said. “But here’s what we won’t be open to: We will not be open to doing nothing. Inaction, simply, is not an option.”

Republicans have not been willing to sign on with the president.

Until infrastructure.

On Saturday, 18 Senate Republicans — sadly, none from Kansas — joined Democrats, advancing the measure, in part because it’s significantly less expensive than Trump’s $1.5 trillion infrastructure proposal that went nowhere, but more importantly because it’s what the country needs.

If that remains Congress’s objective, there’s hope.

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Burned trees rise above a truck destroyed by the Dixie Fire in the town of Greenville, Calif. on Saturday. (MEL MELCON / LOS ANGELES TIMES)

Climate change cannot be ignored

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GORDON BAY, Ontario — Two weeks ago, one of America’s best-known climate scientists set off onto Ontario’s Lake Joseph for an evening of stargazing, as she had almost every summer of her life.

From her boat, the night sky, which should have been brilliant, was obscured by smoke.

“It was a clear night, but you couldn’t see the stars,” said Katharine Hayhoe, the Canadian-born chief scientist of the Nature Conservancy. “The sky was bronze. The lake was bronze. You could smell smoke. We’re not used to that here.”

In Canada, as in the United States, this has been a summer of catastrophic wildfires, from British Columbia and the Yukon east to Manitoba and Ontario.

More than 13,000 square miles of Canadian wildlands have burned this year, more than twice the 20-year average for this point in the calendar — and more than twice the area that has burned in the United States, according to government statistics.

The smoke has drifted as far east as New York, where the brown haze helped give Manhattan its worst air quality in 15 years.

Environmentalists have long warned that Canada’s vast boreal forest was becoming drier and more flammable, but few had expected a fire season as explosive as this or focused on the degree to which climate change would bring California-scale fire dangers to Canada’s north.

“We’ve paid attention to other signs of warming,” said Hayhoe, who was born in Toronto but now lives in Texas.

“The seasons have been shifting, invasive species are coming in, we’ve seen flooding in Toronto and Ottawa. But nobody’s talked about wildfires before.”

For Canada, the implications are dire: ravaged towns, lost timberlands, unhealthy

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air and lost habitat in North America’s most important breeding ground for migratory birds.

BUT THE IMPACT on the rest of the globe could be greater.

By most estimates, the boreal forests that stretch from Alaska to eastern Canada and across Siberia absorb more carbon dioxide — the main cause of global warming — than the Amazon and other tropical forests.

Fires occur naturally in the north; they’re part of the forest lifecycle. But scientists say this year’s blazes, made more intense by hot weather and drought, are abnormal and more dangerous.

“When fires get intense or burn hot due to drought, combustion often removes most or all organic matter in the ecosystem,” said Merritt Turetsky, director of the University of Colorado’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.

After high-intensity fires, “vegetation is slower to recover,” she said. “We are starting to see happen more, as a result of climate change, the creation of what look like moonscapes.”

Which means some of the capacity of the northern forest to absorb greenhouse gases may be lost for a long time even as smoke from the fires worsens global warming in the short run.

In that sense, Canada’s fires affect Americans as much as Canadians.

There’s no easy solution.

Canada already requires its

timber industry, an important part of its economy, to practice sustainable forestry; loggers replant as many acres as they cut.

The only long-term answer to the problem is the difficult one you already know: serious efforts to slow global warming through reduced emission of greenhouse gases, especially from fossil fuels.

And on that, Canada — even though its economy depends more on oil and gas than the United States — is ahead.

It has a national carbon tax, an idea that once had some bipartisan support in the United States but never enough to pass.

Canada’s tax adds about 22 cents (U.S.) to the price of every gallon of gasoline; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to increase the rate to a whopping $1.22 a gallon by 2030. Most of the revenue is returned to taxpayers; the purpose of the tax is to act as a disincentive to fuel consumption.

Even the opposition Conservative Party has accepted a carbon tax in principle, although it says Trudeau’s proposed increases are too big. Conservative leader Erin O’Toole warned his party this spring that it could not “ignore the reality of climate change” if it hoped to win — a contrast to conservatives in the U.S. Polls suggest that O’Toole’s political judgment is correct: Canadians are more worried about climate change than Americans.

They’ve already absorbed the lesson of this summer’s wildfires: The effects of global warming are no longer confined to a few vulnerable regions.

They’re visible from the Pacific Northwest to eastern Canada, from Siberia to southern Europe and South Asia.

It is a problem that can no longer be deferred — in Canada, California or anywhere else.

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Safari: Osa and Martin Johnson shot historic video footage spected [cultural] differences, even as they found them repulsive.”

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son’s first shared adventure took them to the South Seas, where Martin was obsessed with capturing cannibalistic mourning rituals on film.

Of note, is that just before departing, Osa had undergone surgery on her reproductive system, which likely rendered her incapable of having children. This haunted her throughout her life, but it also set her free from the obligations of traditional motherhood.

After landing and asking the locals for assistance, the pair headed for Malekula, the largest of the New Hebrides Islands, which was home to the Big Nambas (or “Big Numbers”) group, and whose leader Nagapate, was considered “a holy terror.”

Indeed, the people Osa and Martin encountered had already sent chills of terror through Osa, and apparently re-

Osa Johnson and her companion Kalowatt aboard the Spirit of Africa. stop Martin from casually cranking his camera during their first encounter.

THE INDIGENOUS people were fascinated with Osa, especially Nagapate.

He couldn’t stop himself from touching her skin, puzzled by the color, and marveled at her blondish hair as well.

Nagapate momentarily ordered the Johnsons to be seized, but he was

One can visit the graves of Martin and Osa Johnson at the Chanute emetery. inforced certain problematic attitudes, as she said she found “it hard to believe they were men at all.”

When they finally encountered Chief Nagapate after a 3,000-foot climb to the top of a mountain, his appearance was likewise a shock, but that didn’t

made wary by the presence of a British patrol boat nearby.

Though the Johnsons managed to escape, the footage shot by Martin on Malekula deeply unsettled American audiences, reinforcing their racism.

For as historian Kelly Enright explains,

“instead of garnering understanding of indigenous cultures, it testified to the dangers of socalled savages.”

And it certainly didn’t help that racial tensions across the country were already at a boiling point, so much so that, “white-black riots raged throughout American cities.”

N E V E RT H E L E S S , the Johnsons would soon after return to Malekula, after the release of their film “Cannibals of the South Seas.”

This time, Nagapate and his warriors received them warmly, offering gifts and even agreeing to sit down and watch the Johnsons’ film about them.

The indigenous people were especially awe-struck when they viewed footage of a man who’d recently died, as though he’d risen from the dead.

Soon after, Nagapate’s trust in the Johnsons had noticeably grown, which Osa described as “the greatest compliment … that the savage chief could have paid us,” though she had also grown weary from living “among dirt-encrusted man-eating strangers.”

Hence, one can see how, as Enright puts it, “Martin and Osa re-

Lawrence sets mask mandate LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence and Douglas County will require employees and visitors to wear masks inside their buildings, adding to the local mandates aimed at controlling the more contagious COVID-19 delta variant.

The city of Lawrence and Douglas County announced the mask requirements Friday. The rules take effect Monday and apply whether someone has been vaccinated against COVID-19 or not.

Their announcements came the same day the University of Kansas imposed an indoor mask mandate for students, staff and visitors at its main campus in Lawrence and a satellite campus in Johnson County in the Kansas City area.

Manhattan, the northeast Kansas city that is home to the main Kansas State University campus, also is requiring masks inside its buildings, as is Kansas State.

New COVID-19 cas-

es have risen steadily in Kansas over the past six weeks because of the delta variant. Kansas averaged 942 new COVID-19 cases per day for the seven days that ended Friday, state health department data showed. The seven-day average for new cases had dropped below 100 per day in June.

Delta variant cases have been confirmed in 85 of the state’s 105 counties, including 14 this week. The total was approaching 2,000 as of Friday.

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OF COURSE, as people belonging to their own historical moment, the respect the Johnsons exhibited toward other cultural practices was limited.

For instance, on another island near Malekula, Martin found the actual cannibals that he’d been looking for, and couldn’t stop himself from capturing their sacred rituals on film.

He photographed a Native man who was smoking human heads for the purpose of curing them, and who explained that only the heads of family members are given such delicate care.

The experience must have whet Martin’s whistle, for after witnessing a similar ritual on the island of Espiritu Santo, he didn’t stop at only taking photos of “a human head in the embers.”

According to Enright, “he wrapped the head in a cloth and took it with him. [For] finally, he had proof … that cannibal rituals still existed in the South Seas.”

Such an example illustrates well how the Johnsons were both simultaneously forward-looking in their views of Native people, and yet thoroughly embedded in the problematic anthropological assumptions and in-sensitivities of the times.

BY CONTRAST, it’s difficult to overstate the impact of Osa’s life in relation to gender, and what she believed (and demonstrated) that a woman is capable of,

One can view many of the Johnsons’ personal items at the Safari Museum, including Osa’s famous zebra-skin heels. both prior to and after Martin’s death.

She may have cultivated the image of a glamorous and intriguing celebrity, especially given her entrees into the fashion world, but she was so much more than a pretty face and a media curiosity.

Osa Johnson was integral to the couple’s entire operation, which she revealed time and again through everything from hunting animals for food, to driving now-antique Ford motorcars across forbidding landscapes.

Indeed, even following Martin’s death, she proclaimed, “I was scared when we first started these expeditions.

I guess most women would be. But now I love it. I can’t wait to get back in the jungles.”

ALTHOUGH Osa continued to enjoy many successes after Martin’s passing (despite facing widespread sexism), from publishing children’s books to helping with multiple charities, the hole in her heart could not be filled.

For certainly, in many ways, the story of Martin and Osa Johnson is a love story, even if it

contains more “respectful regard” between the pair than passionate romance.

“We are pals and co-workers,” once wrote Martin, “and that is more than a lot of married people can say.”

Is it any wonder, then, why Osa’s drinking and depression began to consume her later in life, and why she found herself in unfortunate and exploitative relationships?

“I don’t quite know what has happened to me,” she once wrote, as though presaging the future, “but I feel so new and different, as if nothing mattered now, and as if my soul was as blank as the Sahara desert.”

Loneliness had already begun to hollow out her world, yet even through the pain, the anxious allure of the “wild” would continue, inexhaustible in its demands.

“The sun is shining so beautifully, and these great waves of deep blue water seem to be so restless and discontented with themselves,” Osa continued. “They seem to be always seeking some new kind of adventure.” … And it is a call that, given ample courage, we too can answer.

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Since then, the state has focused on the needs of individual students, offering more opportunities for vocational and technical education.

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HUMBOLDT — The USMTS Modified Tour brought more than 50 racers from across the country when it paid its annual visit to Humboldt Speedway last weekend.

This season, Jake O’Neil from Tucson was the big winner in Friday’s 50-lap feature.

However, the Speedway also featured a full field of local action heroes in support of the main event. This is their story.

In the Love’s Travel Stops Midwest Modified feature, Jackson McGowen of Humboldt took his third win in as many weeks. Runner-up, from Chanute was Dallas Joyce, while another Chanute driver, Jon Westhoff claimed third. Braden Bowman of Chanute and Ethan Laymons of Savonburg rounded out the top five.

The dominant force in the Home Savings Bank Factory Stock division, Chanute’s Derrek Wilson, racked up yet another 2021 feature win, See RACERS | Page B4

Ryan Gillmore celebrates his victory in the Ray’s Metal Depot B Modifieds feature win Friday at Humboldt Speedway. FINISHLINE PHOTORGRAPHY/ DAYTON SUTTERBY

Fans watch the fireworks for the closing ceremonies outside Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Sunday. LOS ANGELES TIMES/WALLY SKALIJ/TNS

Olympics a showcase of resilience TOKYO — A tropical storm swept into the city before dawn, gusts of wind bringing heavy clouds and drenching rain, as if the Tokyo Olympics didn’t have enough problems.

The COVID-19 pandemic had forced a year’s postponement and, with much of Japan still in a state of emergency, cancellation remained possible to the last moment.

Even as the massive sporting event lurched ahead, spectators were banned, leaving athletes to compete in eerily quiet stadiums and arenas.

“Some were already speaking of a ghost Games,” International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said.

On Sunday, with inclement weather threatening to ruin the closing ceremony, the sky lifted and brightened by late

David Wharton Los Angeles Times afternoon. After 17 rocky days, these Summer Games had once again found a way to get by.

As 100-meter champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy said: “Finally we’ve managed to do it, so that’s a positive way to look at it.”

For their goodbye show, local organizers transformed Olympic Stadium into one of Tokyo’s well-known city parks, covering the field with swaths of real grass and pathways. Kids skateboarded, people did yoga, bicycle

Lopez’s big hit helps avert collapse ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nicky Lopez hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning after a long rain delay and the Kansas City Royals averted a three-game sweep, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 6-5 on Sunday.

Dylan Carlson homered for St. Louis, which has lost four of six.

It was 5-all when Hanser Alberto began the Royals ninth with a single off closer Alex Reyes (5-5). Jarrod Dyson put down a bunt that first baseman Paul Goldschmidt threw wildly trying for a forceout, leaving runners at second and third before play was stopped for 2 hours, 10 minutes.

When the game resumed, Lopez delivered a one-out hit to right to break the tie. He fouled off an attempted safety squeeze bunt on the first pitch before battling back for the two-strike hit — his third game-winning hit of the season.

“He just shortened up,” Kansas City manager Mike

Nicky Lopez Matheny said. “The ball jumps off his bat when he doesn’t try to do too much.”

Lopez was, “a little disappointed,” that he couldn’t get the bunt down.

“But it all worked out,” he said.

Scott Barlow (4-3) got two outs for the win. Richard Lovelady recorded his first save with a perfect ninth.

St. Louis made it 5-all

with a three-run rally in the eighth. Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado capped the comeback with RBI singles.

Jon Lester, in his second start for the Cardinals since coming over in a trade with Washington, gave up five runs on six hits over 5 1/3 innings. He surrendered five runs in the first inning of See ROYALS | Page B4

riders whizzed past.

If the scene attempted to evoke a sense of normalcy, it also reinforced the extraordinary and often contradictory nature of the Tokyo Games.

A hint of sadness marked the last three weeks, with no crowds buzzing outside stadiums, no fans gathering in central plazas, nothing to make it feel special. The Olympic cauldron, displayed on a popular esplanade, was surrounded by blue-shirted volunteers who — because of coronavirus restrictions on crowding — barked over loudspeakers, telling people not to stop, to keep walking.

The competition sometimes felt just as sterile, like sports in a laboratory.

Reverse somersaults, double layouts and 3-point shots were greeted with silence or,

worse, the echoed clapping of a half-dozen teammates.

“I’m not going to lie,” said Lilly King, a U.S. swimmer who won silver and bronze.

“It’s a little strange.”

Making all of this work required masks, daily saliva tests and, in some instances, quarantines. Winners had to pick up their own medal to put around their neck.

Yet athletes continually expressed both gratitude for the chance to compete and a willingness to adapt. “I never surrender to the circumstances,” Russian fencer Larisa Korobeynikova said.

“I always believed that the Olympics would take place and that is what exactly happened and [it was] fantastic.”

For the Americans, swimSee OLYMPICS | Page B4

Manning headlines HOF class CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Peyton’s Place is now in Canton at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

The only five-time NFL MVP and a two-time Super Bowl winner who left the game five years ago with a slew of passing records was enshrined Sunday night with other members of the class of 2021.

Joining Manning in this year’s class were two other first-time eligibles, defensive back Charles Woodson — who beat out Manning for the 1997 Heisman Trophy — and receiver Calvin Johnson. Also in the class were safety John Lynch, a seven-time finalist before getting in; guard Alan Faneca, a premier blocker for 13 seasons, winning a Super Bowl with Pittsburgh and making six All-Pro teams; coach Tom Flores, who led the Raiders to two titles; Cowboys wideout Drew Pearson, a 1970s NFL All-Decade player; and Steelers super scout Bill Nunn.

Manning gave a shoutout

Peyton Manning to Tom Brady, who he invited to the ceremony, noting that it will be 2035 before Brady, now 44, will have been retired long enough to be enshrined.

As for the NFL itself, Manning urged anyone involved in the league to “ignite the future of the sport. If not, we are not doing football justice.

It is about nurturing football to live another day, another year ... The future of this game is ours to shape.”

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mer Caeleb Dressel excelled, as did gymnast Suni Lee and the men’s and women’s basketball teams.

“This one feels good because we went through a lot,” NBA star Kevin Durant said.

“COVID, the kind of bubble we were in, no fans, no one expecting us to lose.”

Even Simone Biles, who missed most of the gymnastics competition with a case of the “twisties,” succeeded in raising awareness about mental health.

And Tokyo provided one of the greatest races in track history when Norway’s Karsten Warholm dueled American Rai Benjamin in the 400-meter hurdles. Benjamin broke the world record but Warholm ran even faster, shattering the event’s 46-second barrier.

“The last 20 meters, I couldn’t even feel my legs,” Warholm said. “I just ran for my life.”

Sunday night, the stadium where they raced sparkled with fireworks and lighting that turned the field into a checkerboard of red, blue and yellow. A musical theater troupe dressed in formal kimono and hakama sang, followed

Norway’s Karsten Warholm, left, reacts as he wins and breaks the world record ahead of second-placed USA’s Rai Benjamin in the men’s 400-meter hurdles final at the Tokyo Olympics Tuesday. AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/JEWEL SEMAD/TNS by a brass band playing a ska version of “Sukiyaki.” Unlike the willy-nilly rush at the 1964 Tokyo Games, athletes entered calmly and somewhat distanced, at least until they clumped together on the lawn.

By then, the Americans had won the medals table, an unofficial scoreboard that makes some purists cringe. After a rough first week, they rallied to finish with 39 golds and a total of 113 medals, not as good as in Rio de Janeiro five years ago, but ahead of second-place China.

Third-place Japan fell short of its original goal of 30 golds but managed 58 medals in all. Success on the playing field may

have helped soothe a conflicted populace.

Concerns over COVID-19 had prompted demonstrations amid the crowd that surrounded Olympic Stadium at the opening ceremony; on Sunday, barricades kept onlookers farther away.

But over the course of the Games, residents also gathered for a very different reason on hills and bridges near the sport climbing wall, BMX racing track and other venues — they wanted to get a look.

“I think sport right now, in the world we are living in, is not only important, but necessary,” tennis gold medalist Alexander Zverev of

Royals: Rally to avoid sweep Continued from B1

his initial start against Atlanta on Tuesday.

“Overall, I think he’s shown that he’s more than capable of helping us,” St. Louis manager Mike Shildt said of Lester.

Michael A. Taylor hit an RBI single in the Royals fourth and Salvador

Perez pushed the lead to 3-1 with a sacrifice fly in the fifth.

Ryan O’Hearn’s pinch-hit single in the sixth put the Royals up 5-1.

Kansas City starter Kris Bubic allowed one run on four hits over 4 2/3 innings.

Perez was taken out

of the game after the delay as a pre-cautionary measure, according to Matheny.

“He’s been under the weather,” Matheny said.

“The sun and everything just got to him. He was zapped.”

Perez played on Saturday after sitting out Friday’s contest with flulike symptoms that were not COVID-19 related.

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holding off Brandon Rice of Louisburg, while Humboldt’s Trey Stipp secured the third spot, with Brian Knisley of Coffeyville in fourth and Scott Collins of Humboldt fifth.

It was a good night for Humboldt’s racing community overall.

Brandon Vink scored the USRA Tuner Feature this week. Clint Haigler of Humboldt was second, Colony pilot Johnathan Culler claimed third. Fourth went to Maddy Tyler of

Germany said. “I think it’s necessary for people to have something to watch, something to cheer for.”

Each day, organizers released detailed statistics on COVID-19 cases among 42,000 athletes, coaches, journalists and workers inside the bubble. There were 26 cases on Sunday, bringing the total to 436.

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Though the closing ceremony was mostly light and breezy, officials had no choice but to address the subject. Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee, told the assembled athletes they had “accepted what seemed unimaginable, understood what had to be done and, through hard work and perseverance, overcome unbelievable challenges.”

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with more than 600,00 tests administered, the positivity rate remained below .08%. No major events had to be canceled and no big names were yanked from play because of positive results.

“I think it’s fair to say that the Olympic community here in Tokyo has been the best-tested community anywhere in the world during the last few weeks,” Bach said.

But, surrounding the bubble, the pandemic accelerated through a city of 14 million. New cases in Tokyo started at 1,359 on the day of the opening ceremony and exceeded 5,000 a day by the Games’ final week.

There was concern that people getting together to watch the Games, especially in bars and restaurants, might be to blame. A member of the Japanese government’s coronavirus panel pointed at several factors.

“The rapid surge in

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