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Iola’s annual Veterans Day celebration and parade drew a large crowd to the courthouse square Saturday. Above, members of the National Guard 891st Engineer Battalion carry a giant flag along the parade route. At middle right, Iola Becky French sang the national anthem and “God Bless America.” At bottom right, Brig. Gen. Roy Windham provides the keynote address. At bottom middle, Northern Star Girl Scouts wave their flags while riding a parade float. At bottom left, Lillian Orzechowski holds a sign supporting veterans. REGISTER/BOB JOHN-

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Community foundation passes baton to new director

By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register

An optimistic temper runs through the Allen County Community Foundation these days, ever since the organization named a new executive director late last month.

Jeff Cokely, a former pastor at Fellowship Regional Church in Iola, takes over from Susan Michael, who, while relinquishing her title as director, will continue as the group’s administrative lead.

Started in 2012, ACCF is a tax-exempt public charity that pools and leverages the community’s resources for the benefit of local non-profits and allows individual or group donors to establish endowment funds with the aim

of helping to sustain various civic institutions or charities in perpetuity.

The foundation began as a fundraising mechanism for the Allen County Regional Hospital, and, in the minds of many in town, ACCF still bears the imprint of that association. Part of Cokely’s role, then, will be to impress upon the wider community the broad advantages — beyond health care — that a philanthropic foundation can offer to donors large and small.

The perks of giving to a community foundation are numerous, argue Cokely and Michael: a small group can obtain the benefits of 501(c)3, non-profit, status without enSee ACCF | Page A4

Jeff Cokely, left, is the new executive director of the Allen County Community Foundation. He will continue to work in league with former director Susan Michael, who will remain with the organization. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY

Trucking company opens Iola headquarters

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Dennis Nassir, left, and Jeff Keithly

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A trucking company’s decision to expand means a new business for Iola.

Black Gold Energy Carriers LLC hauled its first load of crude oil from its Iola dispatch center Nov. 2.

Iolans Jeff Keithly and Dennis Nassir are optimistic the company’s reach will grow rapidly in Kansas.

“They’ve predicted for us to be hauling about 5,000 barrels a day by March of 2016,” which would require at least 15 trucks, said Keithly, who serves as Black Gold’s head

of logistics for Kansas.

Black Gold has shipped petroleum-based products throughout Colorado and Wyoming for more than 20 years, and recently partnered with Shell Oil Company to deliver crude oil in Kansas.

“Shell is trying to get a better market for everybody,” Keithly said.

The first truck was ready for business at the start of the month. By the end of Thursday, Nassir — the driver — had delivered loads ranging from Medicine See HAULERS | Page A4

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Property taxes on rise statewide

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Patrons of most Kansas school districts will see property taxes rise this year amid an ongoing legal battle over whether public schools are underfunded, preliminary state data shows.

The increases, which are expected to average 1.8 mills, come one year after an influx of court-ordered school aid led to a reducSee TAXES | Page A4

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Obituary Joy Houk Joy L. Houk, 79, rural Moran, passed away Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott.

Joy was born Nov. 23, 1935, east of Chanute, the daughter of Clarence and Helen Louise (Tennis) Rinehart. The family moved to a farm west of Humboldt where she attended Prairie Center School.

She graduated from Humboldt High School in 1954 and Iola Junior College in 1956. Joy worked for the Allen County Extension Office and McKean Feed Store in Iola.

On April 3, 1960, Joy married Har- Joy Houk old W. Houk at the Humboldt United Methodist Church. They have always made their home and farmed west of Moran. She was the secretary at Marmaton Valley Elementary School from 1980 until she retired in 2008.

Joy was a member of the Moran United Methodist Church and was active in the Women’s Service there. She was also a member of the Sunshine Club, Daughters of the Nile and the Moran American Legion Auxiliary.

Harold W. Houk, her husband of 55 years, survives, as do a daughter, Brenda Armstrong and husband, Jim, Moran; one granddaughter, Jenni Armstrong, Moran; two stepgrandsons, J.D. Armstrong and Andrew Armstrong, both of Topeka; three brothers, Vaughn Rinehart and wife Margaret, Humboldt, Mark Rinehart, Independence, Mo., and Lyman Rinehart and wife Nanci, Goodyear, Ariz.; one sister-in-law, Ann Houk, Moran; and aunts and uncle, Florence Carlburg, Wichta, Laurilla Tennis, Chanute, and Dean Tennis, Meade.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her brother-in-law, Richard Houk.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Moran United Methodist Church. Burial will follow at the Moran Cemtery. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday Waugh-Yokum and Friskel Chapel in Iola.

Memorial gifts to the Moran United Methodist Church or the Joy Houk Memorial Scholarship may be left with the funeral home. To sign the guest book online or leave a condolence, go to www.iolafuneral.com.

Elsmore Ruritan schedules benefit for local couple ELSMORE — Elsmore Ruritan Club will sponsor a benefit supper from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Elsmore Community Building.

Proceeds will help club members Darla and Eddie Henderson with medical expenses.

Ruritan members will serve pancakes, sausage, eggs, biscuits and gravy. The supper, which includes a drink, is for a freewill donation.

Darla was diagnosed with cancer this summer and is undergoing treatment. She has been a Ruritan member since 1995 and Eddie since 1979.

The Hendersons have been longtime residents of the Elsmore and Humboldt communities and remain active in the community.

Darla was treasurer of the Elsmore club for many years and Eddie has held club officer positions as well as been a Ruritan National officer and Middle America District officer.

In addition to the dinner, the club will sell

tickets for dessert drawings throughout the evening. There will also be tables with a variety of craft and Christmas items for sale.

Books from an assortment housed at the community building can also be purchased.

All proceeds Saturday will go to the Henderson family. Persons wishing to make donations can send checks to Elsmore Ruritan Club, P.O. Box 114, Iola, KS 66749.

Elsmore Ruritan Club, a community service organization, has served the Elsmore and Savonburg areas for the past 48 years. The club’s 36 members help community residents with daily chores as well as assisting families with medical, fire or weather-related disasters.

They are supporters of Marmaton Valley High School, Allen County Fair and Humboldt Ministerial Alliance food distribution, which occurs the fourth Friday monthly at Elsmore.

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— Iola City Council meeting, 6 p.m., New Community Building.

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

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

— Marmaton Valley USD 256 School Board meeting, 7 p.m., BOE office.

— Humboldt USD 258 Board of Education meeting, 7 p.m., BOE office.

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

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

— Allen County Regional Hospital trustees meeting, 7 p.m., meeting room at Allen County Regional Hospital.

— Marmaton Valley High School veterans programs, 10 a.m., at the high school.

— Dirt Diggers Garden Club meeting, 2 p.m., Dorothy McGhee’s home, 13 Alamosa, Circle.

— ACARF annual board election meeting, 7 p.m. , Community National Bank basement, enter east door, public invited.

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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.

— Iola High School presents “Cinderella: A Play for children,” 7 p.m., Bowlus Fine Arts Center, admission $5, free for USD 257 students.

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

— Iola High School presents “Cinderella: A Play for children,” 7 p.m., Bowlus Fine Arts Center, admission $5, free for USD 257 students.

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— Elsmore Ruritan benefit meal for Darla and Eddie Henderson, 5-7 p.m., Elsmore Community Building.

Analysis: Politics dictated Obama’s Keystone call WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s decision to block the Keystone XL oil pipeline has exposed an endlessly polarized Washington, and likely hardened its divides.

Obama is now being praised to the skies by environmentalists and most Democrats, and denounced in apocalyptic terms by Republicans and the business community. And although environmental issues once produced bipartisan agreement in Congress, consensus on action to increase energy production or deal with climate change looks farther away than ever.

“This became a tribal issue of bizarre proportion,” said Jason Grumet, president of the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Grumet said voters support Keystone and infrastructure projects, as well as action on climate change. “And unfortunately rather than recognizing the

Erica Werner An AP news analysis opportunity to do both, we now have a country that’s essentially doing neither,” he said.

Seven years in the making, Obama’s decision to reject the Keystone pipeline to carry crude oil from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast was not a foregone conclusion, at least not initially. From one perspective the pipeline is merely an infrastructure project, unlikely to cause major lasting impacts on jobs or the environment, according to government analyses.

In 2010, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said her department was inclined to sign off on it.

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Democrats lost control of the House after infuriating Republicans by forcing through a bill cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Legislative efforts on climate change were declared dead, and environmentalists began shifting their focus onto the executive branch, seizing on Keystone as a place to make their stand.

As environmentalists staged protests and chained themselves to the White House gates, Keystone transformed into a litmus test for both sides. In the Republican view, opponents of the project were backing environmental extremism over jobs. Ask Democrats, and the project meant environmental destruction and a giveaway to the fossil fuels industry in place of sensible action to curb climate change.

Clinton announced her opposition to the project in September as she campaigned for president, and in the wake of that announcement Obama may have had little choice but to follow suit, given the intense pressures he faced.

Those pressures would only have intensified heading into international climate talks that being in Paris on Nov. 30.

In the view of some, the debate became unchained from reality, an

election-season wedge issue that forced Republicans and Democrats into their corners, each denouncing the other as extreme. Not so long ago legislation like the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Air Act won bipartisan support on Capitol Hill, but in today’s atmosphere such cooperation looks almost unimaginable.

“The polarization is extreme. There was a time when there was a bipartisan consensus on the environment,” said Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii.

“Our voters want us to work together on these issues, but the political ecosystem surrounding the Congress benefits from these issues as litmus tests rather than as urgent problems that require our leadership.”

Despite the corrosive politics, Keystone commanded the support of nine Senate Democrats when it came up for a vote at the beginning of this year. That includes some lawmakers in states on or close to the pipeline route and standing to benefit from construction jobs. Several of them, including Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, will face voters in 2018, when she will have to explain away her support for a president who rejected the project — or

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In an interview, Heitkamp complained about the ability of the environmental movement in successfully converting the issue into a political campaign, which they won.

“If in fact the model now is that you exert a tremendous amount of pressure in ways that are factually incorrect to stop any development of critical infrastructure for energy in this country, this is a bad, bad, bad decision,” Heitkamp said. “I don’t think this is a decision based on facts. I think it’s a decision based on politics.”

On the other side, Republicans who might be inclined to cross the aisle and support Democrats on environmental issues risk accusations they are throwing their lot in with extremists.

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tion aimed at blocking the power plant plan, as he’s promised to do.

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But Republicans led by McConnell from coaldependent Kentucky intend to press their attacks on administration environmental regulations — in the absence of any agreement on positive steps to take on energy and the environment.

Said McConnell: “Republicans have no intention of giving up on common-sense jobs ideas like Keystone.”

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Think Kansans will ever get an apology?

Slim to none.

When news is released on a Friday afternoon, you know it’s not good.

Journalists refer to it as the Friday “news dump.”

Bad news that politicians hope will get buried as people get out and tune out to enjoy the weekend.

That could have been the case this most recent Friday, if Shawn Sullivan, Kansas’s budget director, could have found some way to sugar-coat the bomb he dropped.

His news? The state’s bank balance is “basically at zero,” and in need of $159 million in “adjustments.” That’s how much state revenue expectations have dropped since July.

And, if you remember, that estimate was dropped from April’s.

THE FIRST target, of course, is the Department of Transportation, for a $48 million “transfer.”

They’ll never see that money again.

And when legislators convene in January, their first order of business will be to eliminate $14 million in programs and services.

The other $100 million or so will come from taking money from what the governor deems as flexible.

Such as $9 million from the

Children’s Initiative Fund, which supports programs such as Head Start.

If Kansas would just fit Gov. Brownback’s model, we wouldn’t need programs like that anyway.

Month after month, and year and after year now, Kansas is not living up to the governor’s expectations.

We’re sorry, gov.

But when you raise the state sales tax to the second highest in the nation, that makes it hard to buy groceries, and shoes, much less any big-ticket items like appliances or a car.

And this idea of giving the super wealthy super tax cuts — which was really generous of you — isn’t working.

Does that make you mad?

You go easy on these big cheeses and what do you get in return? Crumbs.

Which is exactly why income taxes do work. The more you make, the more you’re taxed, and that’s what keeps schools open, police forces staffed, and roads passable.

In Kansas, however, things are screeching to a halt.

Now whose turn is it to say they’re sorry?

— Susan Lynn

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9 — Humboldt voters passed a $3.35 million school bond issue in Tuesday’s election, 631 to 615, and agreed to close the Zillah Middle School, 636 to 609. The bond money will be used to build a new middle school in Humboldt and improve other schools.

10 — Alan Weber, a Humboldt attorney, has been hired as a special le-

gal counselor by the Allen County Commission.

11 —Allen County Community College officials expect charges to be filed against students who started a fire with bottle rockets yesterday at Horton Hall, a college dormitory, leaving Spring Hill student Richard Hanser in critical condition. Four students helped pull the unresponsive Hanser from his burning dorm room.

3 steps to financial health Kansas is in a perpetual budget crisis! In October, general fund revenue fell below estimates — again. The October results mean that Kansas will not have enough money to cover expenses in the approved FY 2016 budget. Without more revenue, Kansans face mid-fiscal year cuts to an already beleaguered budget.

If the state’s general fund was actually healthy, what would that look like?

Step 1: Programs for which the state is responsible would be adequately funded. Public schools are a prime example.

A financially healthy state provides enough resources for schools to allow them to grow and improve. Kansas, however, hovers on the verge of losing a court case for inadequate funding. School funding has been switched to a block grant, not because that’s a more equitable way to distribute funding, or because it is what students need, but because it limits state spending on schools. The same kind of story pervades other parts of the budget-human service programs, higher education, the arts, the state workforce, and economic development.

Step 2: Ongoing revenue would at least equal expenses.

When yearly, ongoing revenue equals expenses, a budget is in “structural balance.”

Kansas lost structural bal-

Duane Goossen Senior fellow for the Kansas Center for Economic growth

ance with the income tax cuts of 2012, and has not regained it, even after subsequently eliminating income tax credits and deductions, raising the sales tax rate twice, and upping cigarette taxes. The FY 2016 budget is still heavily dependent on one-time money transferred in from the highway fund and many other funds in state govern-

end of FY 2014 was 9.9 percent of expenditures. According to the National Association of State Budget Officers that average was projected to be a slightly lower figure of 7.1 percent at the end of FY 2016.

Kansas law does have a requirement that the year-end carryover balance be 7.5 percent of expenditures. If Kansas actually met that requirement the ending balance would be at least $475 million, not zero. Without a rainy day fund or an ending balance, Kansas is ill-prepared to face the next recession.

KANSAS is a long, long way from financial health.

Hundreds and hundreds of

50-state average of reserves — 7.1% of expenditures Kansas — 0% ment.

Step 3: Kansas would have a rainy day fund and a healthy ending balance. Almost every state has a rainy-day fund, but not Kansas. Plus, states also normally carry a balance from fiscal year to fiscal year.

Across the 50 states, the average total balance — ­ rainy day fund plus carryover — at the

millions of dollars away. The state lives from paycheck to paycheck, with no reserves.

All of the state’s energy goes to cutting back, downsizing, and trying to make a growing set of expenses fit within an anemic revenue stream, rather than investing in the future.

If that’s the new normal, Kansans should be very concerned.

Congress should work five days a week WASHINGTON — Paul Ryan has two goals. He can accomplish both with one move.

The new speaker of the House wants to make sure the big job doesn’t keep him from spending time with his wife and three children, who live in Janesville, Wisc.

He also wants to restore “regular order” in the House, the time-consuming process in which all legislation goes through committees and all members have a chance to amend bills on the House floor.

The more he does of the latter, the less time he’ll have for the former. But he can achieve both simultaneously by doing what lawmakers did for generations until about 20 years ago: He can move his family to Washington.

Were he to do this, and encourage his colleagues to do the same, Congress could scrap the three-day workweek that is the cause of much of Washington’s dysfunction.

Lawmakers would all have more time with their families, and they would have more time to conduct the people’s business.

It was a gradual and pernicious trend, cemented around

Dana Milbank

Washington Post Writers Group the time of Newt Gingrich’s Republican Revolution of 1994: Lawmakers, worried that they would be perceived as out-of-touch with their districts, decided to leave their spouses and children at home and commute to Washington.

The arrangement was supposed to keep them from going native and succumbing to Washington’s backslapping ways.

Ryan is emblematic of this.

He’s the first speaker who came to office after 1994, and he has spent the last several years sleeping on a cot in his office in the Longworth building. He plans to stick to the routine.

“I live in Janesville, Wisc., and I commute back and forth every week,” he told CNN’s Dana Bash last week. “I just work here. I don’t live here.

So, I get up very early in the morning. I work out. I work

until about 11:30 at night. I go to bed. And I do the same thing the next day. It actually makes me more efficient. I can actually get more work done by sleeping on a cot in my office.”

Ryan may not realize that his efficiency comes at a terrible cost. Lawmakers’ commuting obsession has essentially made theirs a Tuesday-to-Thursday job before they dash home or go off to raise money. It’s no coincidence that in the time this trend has taken hold, much of what had previously existed in Washington disappeared: civility, budget discipline, big bipartisan legislation and just general competence. In place of this has come bickering, showdowns, shutdowns and the endless targeting of each other for defeat in the next election.

The cause is fairly simple. Lawmakers have ceased to know each other as colleagues, friends and human beings. Because they are in such a hurry to get out of town, there are no more dinners or card games with counterparts from across the aisle. Their spouses don’t socialize, and they don’t know

Lawmakers’ commuting obsession has essentially made theirs a Tuesday-to-Thursday job before they dash home or go off to raise money. each other’s kids. These were the social interactions that made Washington function for generations — the casual encounters where the political and the personal mix.

(This column was hatched this week with Geoff Earle of the New York Post at one such function, a Capitol Hill book party.) The familiarity created goodwill. It’s harder to savage a colleague on the floor if your kids are friends.

Would voters punish politicians who moved their families to Washington? Maybe.

But the notion that parents — fathers as well as mothers — want to spend more time with their families carries more weight now than it did a generation ago. Lawmakers could also make a solid case that they’re fixing Washington. The place is busted not because members of Congress spend too much time here but because they don’t spend enough time here work-

ing on problems.

This week showed the benefits of patience. Ryan, making good on his promise of “regular order,” let the House work its will on a major transportation bill. Some 125 amendments were ruled in order, and the House spent three days debating them before passing the bill, which included the controversial renewal of the Export-Import Bank, by an impressive 363-64. That’s how Washington should work. Ryan let the process play itself out; nobody felt jammed, and just about everybody liked the result.

Ryan could do a lot more of this if he extended the House to the five-day workweek most of America endures. And lawmakers, if their families were in Washington, would have no reason to object. They would find the arrangement better for kids, for Congress and for country.

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ACCF: Iolan chosen as foundation’s new executive director Continued from A1

during the lengthy and expensive process of registration; a donor can support multiple charities via a single foundation; the donated dollars remain in the community; the foundation can improve the return on an investment; a group that enlists the foundation can qualify for otherwise out-ofreach grants and matching funds; as well as the ease and peace of mind of having your books kept professionally.

COKELY, who has made his home in Iola for nearly 20 years, grew up the son of a factory worker in a small farm town outside Lawrence — a city “otherwise known as Mecca,” jokes the University of Kansas grad.

He is a naturally gifted speaker, with a warm, ebullient personality — traits that served him well in his 34 years in the ministry, and ones he’ll bank on in his new role leading the community founda-

My vision is to make your vision a reality. I see myself a lot in people’s living rooms, or around the table in somebody’s office with my blank legal pad, saying ‘Just talk to me. ... Tell me what you’d like to see happen.’

— Jeff Cokely, Allen County Community Foundation executive director

tion.

“He now becomes the guy that can go out there and sell us in a big way,” admits Michael. “Which was desperately needed because I was back here doing all the back office stuff. We needed that missing piece to the puzzle.”

“My vision,” says Cokely, a self-described student of leadership strategy, and someone who wrote his doctoral dissertation on the ways small groups can determine the success of fledgling organizations, “is to make your vision a reality.

“In being out [in the

Wichita to send home unvaccinated students WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita students who aren’t up to date on required immunizations will be excluded from school next week.

The Wichita Eagle reports that beginning Nov. 16, students in the Wichita school district will be pulled out of class and told they are not allowed to return to school until their immunizations are up to date.

Wichita Public Schools Health Services Coordinator Kimber Kasitz says 2,000

students were not in compliance with vaccine requests as of Friday.

Officials say school nurses have been notifying parents about the requirements through letters, phone calls, emails and parent-teacher conferences.

Kansas schools will allow an unvaccinated child to attend class if the child’s health is threatened by receiving a vaccine or if one is opposed to vaccinations because of religious beliefs.

community], I see myself a lot in people’s living rooms, or around the table in somebody’s office with my blank legal pad, saying ‘Just talk to me. There’s no preconceived notion.

You tell me what you’re passionate about. You tell me what you’d like to see happen.’”

The chasm separating his past career and his current one is narrower than appearance would suggest. “As a pastor,” remembers Cokely, “I got to do great things for great people. Here, that is multiplied by the 30plus organizations we serve.”

The foundation has been an important buoy in the lives of organizations as various as the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility, Haunt for Hirschsprung’s, Farm-City Days, the Iola Public Library, the hospital, the Kiwanis Playground Fund, Wings of Warriors (a cancer support group), Rotary and many more. “And that [work] just feeds me. I really live for that.”

COKELY has worked professionally in the secular world, too — as an investment representative for Edward Jones, for example — and was even, for eight years, on the board of a similar foundation in Salina.

“Good leadership principles are good leadership principles,” insists Cokely. While the core values of any orga-

nization should remain consistent, how you deliver on those values in an ever-shifting environment should remain “constantly in flux.”

“All in all,” said Cokely, “we want to be the finest service organization anywhere around.”

To do that, says Cokely, the organization, besides needing to dispel the occasional misunderstanding — like: if something fatal ever befalls the foundation, will donors lose their contributions? Answer: no — the foundation needs to continually harness the trust of the community it serves.

In this respect, the continued tenure of Susan Michael is key.

“When you’re dealing with funds that are donated,” said Cokely, “[accountability] is a huge thing. … What we’ve found is that some of [Susan’s] real strengths are my real weaknesses.

Bookkeeping, say. Susan already knows how the funds work; she’s a detail person. Jay Kretzmeier handles our taxes, and Jay says our books are as good as any he’s ever seen. And that’s her area of expertise.”

The foundation adds to its level of proficiency by having its larger funds and endowments serviced by one of the country’s most prominent philanthropic institutions, the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation.

Part of Cokely’s mission, as he begins a campaign to reintroduce ACCF to the community, is to help stoke the desire to give among the area’s civic-minded citizens.

“Sometimes there are people with a lot of financial resources but by virtue of that, they don’t have a lot of time.

Then you have people who may have more time, but not a lot of fi-

nancial resources. You know what? A group of 10 people who are passionate about something could easily get together with us, each of them put in $10 a month — and [with that] you could make a real difference in the thing you’re passionate about.”

And another thing we like to do, reminds Cokely — “we like giving out funds.” For example, ACCF is the site of a recent pilot program funded by Kansas State University — and matched by a local donor — that offers a $1,000, 3-year renewable scholarship through KState’s online learning program.

IN HIS first two weeks on the job, Cokely’s brain is fizzing with new ideas. One stands out as a possible first step. “We would love to create a database of volunteers,” he said.

“So, instead of having to start from scratch every time, wouldn’t it be great if you had a database of a couple hundred volunteers?

And, in that, they say

‘I’m passionate about ACARF and animals’ or ‘I’m passionate about cancer — when you need volunteers, call me.’”

“That will be huge,” agrees Michael. “Because that’s going to be their greatest gift to the community, and our greatest gift to them is to find out what those people are passionate about and match those passions with what they really want to do.”

The modest, graypainted building in the shadow of the old Miller’s dress shop at the corner of Madison and State streets is preparing, in the words of its enthusiastic director, for “a new day.”

“I think, in a relatively quick time, we’re going to be able to really get close to the vision of what the foundation was meant to be in the beginning. And that,” says Cokely, “is exciting.”

For additional information, or to participate, contact the Allen County Community Foundation at 620-3806154.

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Lodge to Osawatomie.

“We’ll go across state lines but stick to the Midwest region,” Keithly said. “We’ll try to get at least two loads a day delivered.”

Nassir has held his Commercial Driver’s License since 2006, and has been certified to haul hazardous materials — crude oil, for example — since 2012.

Keithly is dispatching out of his home in Iola until a suitable location for a truck-

ing terminal can be found in the area.

It shouldn’t take long.

Nassir said Black Gold’s plan is to have four or five trucks shipping out of Iola by the end of the year.

“We want to haul as much as we can,” Keithly said.

And while Black Gold has a contract in place with Shell, the company is available to haul crude oil for all takers.

For more information, contact Keithly at (620) 363-6043.

Taxes: Districts seeing levies rise with block grant formula Continued from A1

tion for most homeowners, The Topeka Capital-Journal reports. Late year, the average drop in property taxes among 286 school districts was 2 mills.

Some superintendents say a controversial change in the state’s financing of K-12 education is the reason for the hike. For school leaders in western Kansas, the oil and gas industry gets part of the blame.

“The state giveth and the state taketh away,” said Steve Pegram, superintendent of the Santa Fe Trail school district, where patrons are expected to see property taxes climb 3.2 mills this year.

Santa Fe Trail, in Osage County, lost more than $60,000 in state aid from its annual budget when the Legislature rolled back this amount late in the fiscal year, Pegram said. The district’s reserves and local property taxes made up for the change, he said.

Adrian Howie, superintendent of the Hugoton school district in southwest Kansas, said his district is suffering from a sustained drop in the value of oil and gas properties. Hugoton’s property tax rate

has increased nearly 24 mills in seven years, he said, primarily because oil and gas properties make up 80 percent of the district’s local tax base.

“That becomes the hard part, as a superintendent, to budget,” Howie said.

Today, a panel of state leaders will consider requests from Hugoton and two dozen other districts that argue they are facing extraordinary

situations that warrant a boost in dollars. The request comes even as the state faces a budget deficit of more than $100 million and an ongoing court battle over school funding. The Kansas Supreme Court heard oral arguments Friday in the case.

Steve Karlin, superintendent of the Garden City school district, where property taxes are poised to increase nearly 4 mills this year, blamed

lawmakers scrapping the two-decades-old funding system last spring. The plan is to design a new funding system.

Had the Legislature retained Kansas’ previous school finance system, he said, “we would have more dollars avail-

able to educate our kids, and we would not have had a mill levy increase at all.”

Rep. Ron Ryckman Jr., head of the House’s budget panel, said Kansans should ask questions of their local school boards to understand whether tax increases are justi-

fied.

“We can’t control that,” said Ryckman, an Olathe Republican.

“We allocate money to a school board, and they decide how much goes to administration, how much goes to the teacher, how much goes to whatever.”

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Ashley Sally (right) led the Lady Red Devils with 19 points Saturday during Allen’s first loss of the year. REGISTER/JONATHAN CZUPRYN

Jermaine Long (center) has recorded double-digit scoring performances in all three of Allen’s games so far this season. REGISTER/JONATHAN CZUPRYN

Lady Red Devils fall to 2-2

Red Devils still undefeated

After opening the season with a quick 2-0 start under new head coach Todd Buchanan, the Allen Community College women’s basketball team has since lost its last two contests to fall to 2-2 on the year.

The Lady Red Devils lost 82-72 to Northern Oklahoma College-Tonkawa on Saturday.

Ashley Sally led Allen with 19 points on 7-of-15 shooting, including 4-of-6 from beyond the three-point arc.

But the rest of the Lady Red Devils weren’t as effective in finding the bottom of the net as Sally was on

After an 0-4 start to the 2014-2015 season, the Allen Community College men’s basketball team essentially needed the rest of November just to dig itself out of the hole and reach .500 again.

This year, the Red Devils aren’t wasting any time finding success on the court. After three games, coach Andy Shaw’s squad is 3-0.

The team’s third straight victory came Friday night after it defeated Oklahoma Wesleyan JV, 106-76.

Once again, Allen came out on top thanks to a balanced offensive attack.

Saturday.

Without counting Sally’s standout performance, Allen’s offense combined to shoot just 29.8 percent from the floor and 20 percent from three-point range.

In addition to their shooting woes, the Lady Red Devils are struggling to find a balanced offensive attack that served them well during their two-game winning streak to open the season.

In its two defeats, Allen has recorded just 16 assists compared to the 33 assists it had in its two victories.

Five Red Devils finished the night with double-digit scoring performances.

No player was more effective on offense than freshman Jah-Kobe Womack, who recorded a team-high 24 points on 8-of-11 shooting. He also went 4-of-7 from three-point range.

Sophomore Jermaine Long, who led Allen in scoring in the first two games, finished the night just behind Womack with 14 points on 5-of8 shooting.

Long has now reached double-digit scoring figures in each of Allen’s first three games of the year.

Heat Check: AP Top-25 teams (AP) — Clemson finally persuaded enough voters in The Associated Press college football poll to make the Tigers No. 1 this week.

It's about time.

Ohio State has been No. 1 since the preseason, but has played like a team deserving of the top-ranking only on and off against a schedule that was far from daunting.

Support for the Buckeyes has been dwindling but voters had not found one team it could rally around until the Tigers beat Florida State 23-13 on Saturday to wrap up a trip to the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game.

Heat Check considDeshaun Watson ers this better late than and the Tigers are never.

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ber with nothing that looks like a truly impressive victory against a high-quality opponent. Clemson's home wins against Notre Dame and Florida State are better than anything on the Buckeyes' resume.

Maybe the AP poll voters were inspired by the College Football Playoff selection committee's faith in the Tigers. The committee had them No. 1 in their first rankings last week and Clemson validated that on Saturday.

Heat checking the rest of the rankings after Week 10 of the college football season:

just as bored with their schedule as we are? Thank goodness we have another week to talk about who will start at quarterback as J.T. Barrett rejoins the team after a suspension.

Heat check: Just right.

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No. 1 Clemson (9-0) Unless something goes very wrong for the Tigers, they should hold on to the top spot for a few weeks.

Heat check: Just right.

Cardale Jones and the Buckeyes are No. 2 in the newest AP poll.

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Missouri football players pressure school leaders over race issues COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Student protests over racial incidents at the University of Missouri escalated over the weekend when at least 30 black football players announced they will not participate in team activities until the university system’s president is removed.

President Tim Wolfe gave no indication he has any intention of stepping down, but agreed in a statement Sunday that “change is needed” and said the university is working to draw up a plan by April to promote diversity and tolerance.

For months, black student groups have complained of racial slurs and other slights on the overwhelmingly white, 35,000-student campus. Their

frustrations flared during the homecoming parade Oct. 10 when black protesters blocked Wolfe’s car Tim Wolfe and he would not get out and talk to them. They were removed by police.

On Saturday night, black members of the football team joined the outcry, and by Sunday, state lawmakers were weighing in.

The athletes did not say explicitly whether they would boycott the team’s three remaining games this season.

The Tigers’ next game is Saturday against Brigham Young

University at Arrowhead Stadium, the home of the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs, and canceling it could cost the school more than $1 million.

“The athletes of color on the University of Missouri football team truly believe ‘Injustice Anywhere is a threat to Justice Everywhere,’” the players said in a statement.

“We will no longer participate in any football related activities until President Tim Wolfe resigns or is removed due to his negligence toward marginalized students’ experience. WE ARE UNITED!!!!!”

Head football coach Gary Pinkel expressed solidarity with the black players on Twitter by posting a picture of the team and coaches locking arms. The tweet said:

We will no longer participate in any football related activities until President Tim Wolfe resigns or is removed due to his negligence toward marginalized students’ experience.

— Missouri football players’ statement

“The Mizzou Family stands as one. We are united. We are behind our players.”

Practice and other team activities were cancelled on Sunday, Pinkel and Missouri athletic director Mack Rhoades said in a joint statement. The statement linked the return of the protesting football players to the end of a hunger strike by a black graduate student who has vowed to not eat until Wolfe is gone.

“Our focus right now is on the health of Jonathan Butler, the concerns of our studentathletes and working with our community to address this serious issue,” the statement said.

Many of the protests have been led by an organization called Concerned Student 1950, which gets its name from the year the university accepted its first black student.

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Increasing wages $1 an hour for uniformed officers at adult prisons would cost the state $968,000, Roberts said.

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A storm brewing in the Pacific Ocean has forecasters warning of possible severe weather, including tornadoes, in the nation’s midsection on Wednesday, with Arkansas and Missouri the most likely targets.

The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, said Sunday that the fast-moving storm is currently expected to collide with moisture and humidity rising from the Gulf of Mexico, creating unstable weather conditions that could lead to tornadoes as strong as EF3, which include winds of 136-165 mph and are capable of severe damage.

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Strong tornadoes in mid-November are not common, but are not unheard of, Hart said.

Forrest Knox, of Altoona, said during a corrections panel meeting last week. “We really see a looming catastrophe.�

But new, more pessimistic revenue projections last week forced Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration into budget adjustments to avert a deficit. The governor has ruled out further tax increases since he and the GOP-dominated Legislature raised sales and cigarette taxes in July to close an earlier shortfall.

Brownback’s stance — and many Republican lawmakers’ lack of interest in another tax debate — could force the Legislature into considering spending cuts elsewhere, perhaps even in aid to public schools, to boost pay for corrections officers.

The Department of Corrections reported last week that its turnover rate for uniformed officers in adult prisons was 29.7 percent during the fiscal year ending in June, compared with 20.8 percent five years before. The turnover rate among officers at the state’s two juvenile correctional centers exceeded 35 percent, and it was 38 percent at the state’s maximum-security prison outside El Dorado.

The Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight recommended last week that the House and Senate budget committees hunt next year for money to raise corrections’ officers pay after Corrections Secretary Ray Roberts said the state’s compensation, starting at $13.61 an hour, is not competitive. In Leavenworth County, where the state has its oldest prison, officers in the county jail start at more than $16, Roberts said.

In Ellsworth, home to another prison, manufacturing jobs can start at $18.

Roberts said staff “churning� at adult prisons means half of the entry-level officers have six months or less experience. The depart-

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Laura Calhoun, a 19year officer who represents fellow corrections department employees on the Kansas Organization of State Employees board, is skeptical that lawmakers can follow through.

Department officials said after beginning officers get a 5 percent pay raise after their first year, there’s no guarantee of additional raises later. Despite her seniority, Calhoun makes less than $18 an hour and she said other issues, such as rising health care costs and a downsizing of the civil service system, add to “a really sad picture.�

The state has struggled to keep its budget balanced since Republican lawmakers followed Brownback’s call to slash personal income taxes in 2012 and 2013 in an effort to stimulate the state’s economy. They’ve preserved most of those past income tax cuts, but the debate leading to the sales and cigarette tax increases earlier this year was bitter — and it split Republicans.

Masterson and many other GOP lawmakers aren’t interested in backtracking on the income tax cuts. The joint corrections committee’s chairman, Republican Rep. John Rubin, of Shawnee, suggested trimming aid to public schools to boost pay for corrections officers.

He argued that schools don’t spend money as efficiently as they could anyway.

But Democratic Rep. Kathy Wolfe Moore, of Kansas City, a House Appropriations Committee member, said lawmakers need to reopen the debate over Brownback’s tax policy.

Calhoun agreed. “I don’t believe stealing from somewhere else like education is right to do,� Calhoun said. “They’ve got to fix their budget before we can say anything about a pay raise.�

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For a few, cholesterol is naturally high Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 68-year-old female with a more-than-40-year history of extremely high cholesterol (350-411 total). I have not been able to tolerate any kind of statin drug, even if I take CoQ10 with it. Welchol and Zetia had side effects that I couldn’t tolerate either. I am not diabetic, and my blood pressure is generally around 120/80.

My total cholesterol is 354, with HDL at 60, triglycerides at 133 and LDL at 269.

Carotid ultrasound, echocardiogram and, finally, a CT scan of my heart were negative for any significant atherosclerosis. My calcium score was 0. My diet is fish, chicken and legumes. How can I have such high cholesterol for over 40 years and have a calcium score of 0? My doctor still insists I take a statin. Why should I take statins for a condition that doesn’t appear to exist? I went to a cardiologist who could not explain how I could have had these numbers for years and not have is-

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(First published in The Iola Register on Oct. 19, 2015) IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Civil Case No. 15-4917-DDC-KGS Plaintiff, v. ROBERT L. WILSON, and SAUNDRA H. WILSON, Defendants. NOTICE OF SUIT SAUNDRA H. WILSON: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Complaint has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, by the United States, on behalf of Rural Housing Service, United States Department of Agriculture,

by and through the United States Attorney for the District of Kansas, praying for in rem judgment against borrowers Robert L. Wilson and Saundra H. Wilson, in the total amount of $92,925.33, which includes the following: the principal sum of $82,528.91 (including unpaid principal of $78,702.14 and advances as follows: escrow replenish of $1,249.00; title of $125.00; escrow of $2,409.36; and late fees of $43.41); and $10,396.42 interest accrued to July 6, 2015 (including principal interest of $10,222.85 and interest on advances of $173.57);

To Your Good Health sues. He agrees that I should take a statin for prevention purposes.

Can you shed some light on this? I don’t want to suffer with constant muscle aches and weakness if there is no need to. — Anon.

Answer: A cholesterol number of 354 with an LDL of 269 is a clear indication for a statin drug.

The odds for not developing heart disease are better with a statin, but some people, even without any medication, will never get heart blockages; some people with cholesterol numbers like yours will never get heart disease. It appears from the many studies you have had that you are one of those who are destined not to, or at least not for quite a few years from now.

The guidelines clearly

state that most people like you should be taking a statin, but not everybody fits the guidelines.

While it is possible that you still have blockages (blockages with a calcium score of 0 are unlikely, but not impossible), in my opinion, the small possible benefit isn’t worth the side effects you have had. I can say that only because of the three tests you took being negative.

Dear Dr. Roach: I was hoping that you could answer a quick question.

I am a 46-year-old female and have hemochromatosis. I can’t get very good medical care where I live.

It’s a small town where I can’t switch doctors, and mine is subpar. Anyway, I just had a blood test, and my ferritin is 39 and my saturation is 0.76. I don’t know if I need a phlebotomy. The doc likes to have me do it when my ferritin is in the 50-75 range. He has NEVER mentioned saturation before. Can you shed some light on this? — A.R.

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Answer: Hemochromatosis is iron overload caused by the body being unable to reduce iron absorption even when it doesn’t need iron. The high iron saturation is a good test for diagnosing hemochromatosis. However, it’s the ferritin that best approximates total body iron stores.

A large proportion of the body’s iron is located in the red blood cells, so by removing these through phlebotomy (literally, “bloodletting” — usually the blood is donated), iron is taken out of the body. Most experts remove iron through phlebotomy until ferritin levels are below 50.

Someone with a ferritin of 39 probably doesn’t need treatment, since the total body iron is nearly normal.

Women who are still menstruating have some degree of protection against iron overload, although it certainly still is possible to develop problems if the iron intake is greater than iron output, in which case phlebotomy is necessary. to said Complaint on or before November 24, 2015, in said Court at Topeka, Kansas. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon said Complaint. BARRY R. GRISSOM United States Attorney District of Kansas s/ T.G. Luedke T.G. LUEDKE Assistant United States Attorney Ks. S.Ct. No. 12788 Federal Building, Suite 290 444 SE Quincy Street Topeka, KS 666833592 Telephone: 785.295.2850 Facsimile: 785.295.2853 E-mail: tom.luedke@usdoj.gov Attorneys for the United States (10) 19, 26 (11) 2, 9, 16, 23

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CFB: AP Top-25 Continued from B1

No. 3 Alabama (8-1) One dimensional is no way to beat the Crimson Tide. Even if that dimension is Leonard Fournette.

Heat check.

Just right.

No. 4 Baylor (8-0) Finally, a big game involving the Bears.

Heat check: Too hot.

No. 5 Oklahoma State (9-0) Cowboys are the big movers this week, going from forgotten unbeaten to a team that demands to be taken seriously.

Heat check. Too cold.

Cowboys should be highest ranked Big 12 team.

No. 6 Notre Dame (8-1) Coming off back-toback road wins against winning teams, and did we mention the Irish lost at Clemson by two?

Heat check: Too cold.

No. 7 Stanford (8-1) That opening loss to Northwestern is still puzzling, but it’s not a bad loss. And now the Oregon game looks like a chance for a solid win.

Heat check: Too cold.

No. 8 Iowa (9-0) It’s hard to poo-poo the Hawkeyes’ record and resume and also rank Ohio State in the top five. But Heat Check continues to do just that.

Heat check: Too hot.

No. 9 LSU (7-1) Hard not to be gloomy about the Tigers after they got roughed up in Tuscaloosa, but they are still one ‘Bama slip up from getting back to the top of the SEC West standings.

Heat check: Too cold.

No. 10 Utah (8-1) Special teams and turnovers. It might not be the sexiest way to win games, but it is the Utes’ way.

Heat check: Too cold.

No. 11 Florida (8-1) You know Houston didn’t seem to have much difficulty against that Vanderbilt defense.

Heat check: Too hot.

No. 12 Oklahoma (81) Sooners have been rolling since losing to Texas. But now comes Baylor and that has not gone well for OU the last two seasons: Bears 89, Sooners 16.

Heat check: Just right.

No. 13 TCU (8-1) Between Frogs QB Trevone Boykin and LSU’s Fournette, which one has a better chance to get back to the front of the Heisman race?

Heat check’s guess would be Boykin, with a victory against unbeaten Baylor the day after Thanksgiving.

Heat check: Just right.

No. 14 Michigan State (8-1) Spartans have now

lost a game they should have won and won a game they should have lost. Maybe that evens out, but they are still very confusing.

Heat check: Who knows?

No. 15 Michigan (72) An Ohio State victory against Michigan State in two weeks could set up a Michigan-Ohio State game for the Big Ten East title.

Heat check: Too cold.

No. 16 Houston (9-0) Cougars have been really good, but they are the Group of Five version of Baylor. We’re still learning just how good they are.

Heat check: Too hot.

No. 17 North Carolina (8-1) Reminder: Tar Heels are couple of red-zone meltdowns against South Carolina in their opener from being undefeated.

Heat check: Too cold.

No. 18 UCLA (7-2) At the beginning of the season Heat Check was calling for UCLA to be ahead of — or at least on par with — USC. Heat check still believes the two Los Angeles schools are pretty much equal.

Heat check: Too hot.

No. 19 Florida State (7-2) Turns out this is what a rebuilding year looks like at Florida State now. That’s not too bad.

Heat check: Too cold.

No. 20 Mississippi State (7-2) So you want to be a Heisman finalist, Dak Prescott? Here’s your chance.

Heat check: Too cold.

No. 21 Temple (8-1) Beating a 1-8 team doesn’t get you much, but taking care of business on the road with a short week of rest after a huge game shouldn’t get the Owls punished.

Heat check: Just right.

No. 22 Navy (7-1) First time ranked since the final poll of the 2004 season and first regular-season ranking since 1979. Welcome aboard, Middies, whose only loss was to Notre Dame.

Heat check: Too cold.

No. 23 Wisconsin (82) This is what a rebuilding season looks like for the Badgers. Also, not too bad.

Heat check: Just right.

Kansas still without a victory AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Stuck in a winless season, nothing seems to bounce the right way for Kansas. Not the fumbled punts or the field goals that plunk off the uprights.

Even the rule book finds ways to deny touchdowns.

So went another loss for the Jayhawks on Saturday night, this one a 59-20 Texas romp that came just a week after the Longhorns had been shut out by Iowa state.

Jerrod Heard threw an 84-yard touchdown pass to John Burt on Texas’ first offensive play and D’Onta Foreman ran 93-yards for a third quarter score.

Tyrone Swoopes ran for four touchdowns for Texas (4-5, 3-3 Big 12), two in the fourth quarter, and also threw a 40-yard touchdown in mop-up duty in the Longhorns’ highestscoring game in two seasons.

Kansas (0-9, 0-6) has lost 37 in a row away from home. The Jayhawks have given up at least 58 points in three straight games.

But Kansas was within 24-14 with a

chance to make a game of it before the usual bad things started to happen.

A drive ended at the Texas 1 with a fumble in to the end zone. A Kansas player jumped on the ball but there was no touchdown because by rule, on fourth down the player who drops it must recover.

The result was Texas ball.

Minutes later, a 26yard field goal attempt clanked off the right upright as time expired. First year coach David Beaty had rejected a chance to run a last play before opting to kick.

“We have got to be able to convert that field goal right there.

We have got to convert those two drives and maybe the game is a little different,” Beaty said.

Texas then finished off the Jayhawks with 35 straight points in a scoring burst the Longhorns hadn’t seen in a long time.

Heard finished with 201 yards passing and 23 yards rushing, one of his best games since a 527-yard school record effort in a loss

to California back on Sept. 12. Foreman finished with 157 yards rushing after gaining just 16 in the first half.

Swoopes scored two touchdowns on runs of 4 and 1 yards in the first half when the game was still close, then finished off the Jayhawks with a burst in the fourth quarter when the game turned into a Texas romp.

Ryan Willis led Kansas with 214 yards passing and one touchdown.

The Longhorns still need two wins in their final three games to qualify for a bowl in coach Charlie Strong’s second season. The Longhorns play next at West Virginia, host Texas Tech on Thanksgiving and end the regular season at Baylor.

The scoring outburst will be a confidence boost for a Texas team that badly needed one and has struggled to keep up in the wild scoring of the Big 12. The Longhorns jumped to a 17-0 lead against one of the worst defenses in the country and survived the secondquarter surge from

the Jayhawks.

“One week you don’t score anything,” Strong said. “The next week you’re so explosive ... We needed that.”

Heard, who hadn’t passed for more than 53 yards in three of the previous four games, threw over the top of the Kansas secondary for the long strike to Burt, who easily beat one-on-one coverage to haul it in.

Texas poured it on in the second half, starting with Foreman’s long run. Foreman took the handoff, bounced around the left end and suddenly was in the clear all the way to the end zone. His touchdown on Texas’ next drive put the Longhorns up by 24.

Swoopes replaced Heard at quarterback to start the fourth quarter and his first pass attempt was a 40-yard touchdown to Armanti Foreman. He added a 44-yard TD run, then scooped a fumble for another late touchdown.

“They exploded in the second half and you have to take your hats off to them,” Beaty said.

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No. 24 Northwestern (7-2) Coach Pat Fitzgerald re-establishing himself as one of the best in the business after a couple of off years.

Heat check: Just right.

No. 25 Memphis Mississippi is not helping the Tigers’ case.

Heat check: Just right.

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