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By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

Caitlin Dreher, left, will serve as Southeast Kansas FFA treasurer and Clara Wicoff will serve as president. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET

Wicoff, Dreher slated for FFA district office Iola High School juniors Caitlin Dreher and Clara Wicoff will represent IHS as Southeast Kansas FFA district officers for the 2015-16 school year.

Wicoff will serve as the district president. She is the daughter of Joel and Lisa Wicoff. Dreher will serve as treasurer. She is the daughter of Jerry and Cathy Dreher.

Their responsibilities include registering delegates to the state convention, attending the district officer conference, leadership training, developing and presenting workshops for the Greenhand conference, helping chapters in the district and preparing the district banquet.

Charles Kerr is the Iola FFA advisor.

Fifty Iolans piled in to the USD 257 district board office Monday to hear the district’s proposal for attendance centers.

Currently McKinley Elementary houses kindergarten through third grade; Jefferson and Lincoln have kindergarten through fifth grade.

At the Feb. 23 board meeting administration proposed turning elementary schools into attendance centers.

McKinley would have preschool and kindergarten; Jefferson first and second; and Lincoln third and fourth.

The fifth-graders would move to the middle Jack Stanley school.

Iola Middle School Principal Jack Stanley and Jefferson Principal Brad Crusinbery presented the plan.

Stanley said administrators have looked to see if the

In recent weeks USD 257 has peeled back the district budget layer by layer to find possible budget cuts. At Monday night’s school board meeting, board members and Superintendent of Schools Jack Koehn evaluated which actions should be taken and which should be left in place.

Kansas school districts currently are being presented with a block grant by the

Brownback administration.

The block grant bill would make cuts this school year.

For Iola, it will affect the Local Option Budget (LOB) and capital outlay but would leave the general fund alone for the current year.

Koehn said the grant affects poorer districts the most. Iola is looking at a cut of $62,000 for LOB and $59,000 for capital outlay, totaling $121,000 in cuts.

The Legislature is working quickly to pass this grant; it could be approved by the end

Board discusses 4-day school week

By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register

MORAN — There is at least some interest within USD 256 for a four-day school week.

While the school board has been discussing the costsaving measure seriously in recent weeks — and off and on for years — this latest con-

versation took place in light of surveys mailed to the community.

Superintendent of Schools David Hardage presented the results of the tally to the board Monday night.

The district mailed 175 surveys. Of the 175, 58 were returned. Of these, there were 42 “yeses,” 13 “nos” and three “maybes.”

of the week.

“What will happen is capital outlay and LOB will be frozen for years two and three. There will be a slight increase in the general fund,” Koehn said.

There is still a hole in the state budget that needs to be filled. It will be filled through sin taxes, highway funds, and, possibly, by delaying tax cuts.

It also depends on whether revenue matches each month.

Koehn said it would be beneficial to look at the things the board could cross off the

budget matrix. The first and most important thing placed into consideration concerned how the cuts would affect the students.

Many area schools are considering moving to a four-day school week but board members agreed this isn’t the best fit for the students.

“I don’t think it’s a great option for Iola,” Koehn said.

“I don’t think it’s great for kids in terms of staying home on a Friday and parents havSee USD 257 | Page A3

City loosens rules Iola council eyes ways to trim spending for campaign signs

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Iola City Council members will continue to look for potential budget saving measures, with two big ticket items — cutting manpower, and altering the city’s consultant contract with a federal lobbying group — garnering most of the attention.

The measures were brought to the table Monday by City Administrator Carl Slaugh.

The subsequent discussion showed how difficult some cuts may be.

Because such a large portion of the city’s budget goes toward salaries, any significant cuts in funding would

obviously require fewer employees.

Slaugh noted the city already has cut staff in the past.

For example, the city had 119 employees in 2004, a number which dropped six out of the next eight years.

Even with the Fire Department’s recent expansion — necessary to operate a countywide ambulance service — they still have 12 fewer employees now than 11 years ago, Slaugh said.

The city also has changed full-time positions to parttime for seasonal work in the Parks Department and water and electric departments.

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Block grant will effect schools budget

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

middle school would hold the classes. Fifth grade would run more of an elementary school schedule on the third floor. Specials would be served and classrooms designated for the special classes.

Stanley there were things that need to be tweaked and looked at but it can be done.

Some potential roadblocks include organization for assemblies. The gym would not be able to hold all the students. Also, parking around the building would need to be changed to one-way streets to

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Campaign signs can be posted earlier in the election season, Iola City Council members decided Monday.

The council unanimously approved changes in the city’s codes, allowing campaign signs up to 45 days in advance of an election, and seven days afterward.

The existing code limits signs to 21 days in advance of an election, a problematic number, City Administrator Carl Slaugh admitted, because advance voting begins 20 days before Election Day. The new ordinance also

regulates pole signs for businesses in Iola’s downtown business district and for businesses in residential areas. Those signs are limited to 100 square feet.

Iola had no such ordinance for those signs, Code Enforcement Officer Shonda Jefferis said.

The changes will take effect April 8, one day after the upcoming city elections.

Council members were told earlier by Virginia Macha that she and others unwittingly posted campaign signs too early this year.

Those signs can remain, provided they aren’t on city rights-of-way.

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“I have to admit, I was surprised,” Hardage said. “I thought there would be more ‘nos.’”

The survey also asked: “Do you need daycare services on the day that school is not in session — yes or no?”

As Hardage circulated the completed surveys among the See MVHS | Page A2

USD 258

Hudlin to become principal

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — Staci Hudlin, an instructor at Humboldt Middle School, will be the new principal at Humboldt Elementary School starting next year.

Hudlin’s hiring was approved Monday by the USD 258 Board of Staci Hudlin Education.

She replaces Kay Bolt, who was appointed in February to replace the outgoing Superintendent of Schools K.B. Criss.

Hudlin is an Iola native, having graduated from Iola High School in 1997. She taught briefly at Morris Hill Elementary in Fort Riley, then in Eureka before coming to Humboldt.

She’s in her 10th year at Humboldt, where she teaches sixth-grade math and seventhand eighth-grade science.

As an aside, Hudlin is the daughter of USD 257 school board president Tony Leavitt.

A PROPOSED change in how schools are funded could be costly for USD 258, Criss said.

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group, the board fell into a discussion of the plan, directing the lion’s share of their questions toward the elementary and junior/ senior high school principals — Kenneth McWhirter and Kim Ensminger, respectively — who, according to Hardage, were the figures in the room most knowledgeable regarding the ways such a project would play out in Moran.

So far, no specific academic calendar corresponding to a fourday week has been devised, because prior to the survey results, the district didn’t know if there was enough interest to proceed, Hardage said.

There are certain numerical imperatives that the district must meet: “One thing we do want to do is keep the number of teacherstudent contact hours the same,� explained McWhirter. “Right now our students go 1,148 hours. We’re trying to keep that. State law says you have to go 1,116 hours. So we already go quite a few more.�

The savings gained by reshaping the schedule would be, estimated McWhirter, “conservatively speaking, about $40,000 - $45,000,� the largest portion of which would come from reduced transportation costs and a lesser outlay of wages for noncertified personnel.

Not all of the board members were convinced that the projected savings would justify what might be lost in the bargain.

Board member John Booth was the most vocal in his sympathy for families whose daycare arrangements may go pear-shaped in the wake of the proposed change to the schedule. “I’m worried that we might lose kids with this deal,� said Booth, “and not gain any money. We might be putting an undue burden on somebody that can’t afford it. ... You get these families on the border,

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like in LaHarpe, where we’re kind of pulling a few of those kids. What if their parents decide ‘No, it doesn’t work for me; I’m going someplace else’? “I mean, in theory, it’s a great deal,� Booth continued, flashing a smile, “as long as it all works, you know, perfectly.�

The strongest arguments in favor of the abbreviated school week were voiced by board member Joshua Herrmann, who recounted his recent conversation with a teacher from Southern Coffey County, a district that made the shift to the shorter week five years ago.

According to this teacher, not only had the students become accustomed to the new schedule in short order, the teachers’ morale was at an all-time high and they had become more productive in their work.

Echoing Herrmann, Principal Ensminger relayed her own conversations with her colleagues at various four-day schools. Not only was teacher morale improved at these schools, she said, “but the students really got after it, and they didn’t have nearly as many attendance problems.�

Hardage made mention of a family friend whose high school aged daughter had used her one extra weekday to pursue college classes at the local university.

While no decision has been made, the board reached an agreement, given the evidence of public interest in the issue, to pursue an up or down decision on the matter — barring a snafu — sometime next month.

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enough employees to do work in summer, without having so many you don’t know what to do with them in the winter,�

Slaugh said.

The explanation didn’t hold water for Councilman Gene Myrick, who said he’d like to see each department cut its budget by 3 percent. “School districts across the state are having to save money,�

Myrick said. “There’s going to come a time when cities and municipalities will have to do the same thing. I think 3 percent is a workable number.� “If you’re a department that already cut your own department down, it may be harder for you to make those savings,� Councilman Jon Wells responded. “I hate to manage blanket statements like that. “Our electric and water departments have fixed costs,� Wells said. “It’s a bit hard to reduce 3 percent of your electric department when you have those fixed costs.�

Councilman Steve French, meanwhile, was leery of winter furloughs for seasonal employees because of the high de-

mand for jobs elsewhere. “We’ll be very hardpressed to find trained individuals to work with us in the summer, and it may be even more costly,� he said. urged the council to end its consultant contract with Van Scoyoc Associates. The city has hired Van Scoyoc as its lobbying firm since 2007.

The initial fee of $60,000 annually was cut to $45,000 in 2013.

Slaugh said that money can be spent elsewhere now that federal earmark funds have largely been eliminated. “It’s time to cut the losses and move on,� he said. “To me, it’s a waste of money.�

French disagreed, noting Van Scoyoc was integral in Allen County Regional Hospital’s recent pact to provide a sleep study clinic for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. “The next step is pursue a full VA clinic at Allen County,� French said.

He said Van Scoyoc has continued to work behind the scenes in finding housing grants. “This is just a tidbit,�

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be given to candidates in future years noting the sign regulations. “I wish we had something to deal with garage sale signs after the fact,�

Councilwoman Beverly Franklin said. “They’ll leave a sign out for two weeks after the sale. It’s pretty disgusting.�

Council members also briefly discussed cutting the days after an election before signs should be removed before agreeing seven days is ample time. “That gives them the following weekend� to remove the signs, Councilman Jon Wells said.

THE COUNCIL scheduled April 27 public hearings for owners of properties at 321 S. Washington Ave. and 802 N. Cottonwood St. to discuss why those structures are considered unfit or dangerous.

Councilman Steve

French noted a pair of investors are considering buying the property at 321 S. Washington. If so, that public hearing would be rendered moot. “That will give the investors plenty of time to decide� whether to purchase the structure, French said.

THE CITY renewed its contract with the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility for stray or abandoned dogs and cats.

The city pays ACARF $90 for each animal taken to the shelter.

Iola paid $15,795 in shelter fees in 2014, while recouping $4,885 for animals claimed by their previous owners.

The 2015 contract terms will remain unchanged.

The city also allowed ACARF and Second Chance host a craft show at the Bass Community Building on Nov. 21.

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“WE’RE still making efforts to cross-train our employees,� Slaugh said. “A number of cases where, depending on what’s going on, we share our workload, which helps us get things done.�

For example, electric department employees assisted with installation of the recently completed sidewalk along North State Street.

As far as delaying routine maintenance, sometimes you can do that effectively,� Slaugh said. “You can delay vehicle purchases if they’ve been maintained well.�

IOLA’S property, general and liability insurance premiums will go up 3 percent this year.

Council members renewed the policy with EMC Insurance, effective April 1, for $366,945.

The higher premiums are affected by a number of factors, explained Debbie Taiclet from Iola Insurance Associates, including property values and the number of workman’s compensaAS OUR tion claims over theORN past three years.

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The Solomon bid of $239,140 for materials was the lowest of three received.

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Russell Owens, 51, Iola, was arrested Friday by Iola police for suspicion of battery after police were called to a disturbance at 19½ S. Jefferson Ave.

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The board also agreed to keep the school nurses off of the budget cut list.

It would impact the students and cause a large liability for the district if a nurse was not present. The board will also hold on to elementary counselors and will not outsource payroll. Summer school will also continue.

Some items will continue to be looked into.

The Bowlus Fine Arts Center is a big item on the cut list. The board members have considered no longer using the Bowlus for classes and instead having the high school band students walk to the middle school and use the band room there. Clyde Toland, an Iola attorney, has suggested the decision be made in court.

Also, the University of Kansas should be contacted. The board members wish to evaluate the payment further.

The board will continue to look into eliminating district librarians.

This could save the district $160,000 with salaries. However, elementary teachers expressed dismay at this possibility. Many stated the librarians do more than just check out books.

They also help teach the children and work within the curriculum.

Replacing block scheduling with a seven-period day was weighed on the budget scale. Some parents felt that block scheduling allowed their children to explore extra-curricular activities.  “Most of the block schedules have a good mix of lecture and assignments,� Lisa Wicoff said. “If they have 20 minutes of homework a night for seven periods that is a lot of stress on them. There is a benefit to the electives.� “I want to see our math scores go up and a sevenperiod day would help,�

Koehn said. “There’s a benefit to seeing kids every day as opposed to a hit or miss thing.�

IN OTHER news SAFEBASE director Angela Henry spoke to the board about funding for the after-school program.

SAFEBASE is funded by grants and the organization will not have a summer program this summer. Henry asked the board for approval to apply for a $75,000 grant. The grant would help fund a summer program for 2016.

The deadline for the grant is April 2. Henry will return to the next meeting with more information on what the 2016 trip would be.

The board accepted the resignation of Greg McCullough as custodian, Krystal Henderson as a high school teacher and Bill Peeper, high school boys basketball .

The board approved the hiring of Heather Jones for transportation and Lewis Clark as custodian.

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Mary Akerstrom of Topeka told the committee that she believes the bill’s supporters want more children to be born into poverty to provide a “cheap labor force of young people with desperate situations.”

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Is lower-priced oil here to stay?

Not long ago the spot price for WTI (West Texas Intermediate) crude oil was in the neighborhood of $100 a barrel, with crude pumped from local wells fetching in the $80-plus range because of deductions for quality.

Today WTI crude oil is bringing a few cents less than $50 a barrel.

The decrease in price — a pleasant surprise for most folks — has occurred because U.S. production and imported oil each day are about 1.1 million barrels more than is being consumed.

The extra oil is flowing into storage, especially tanks at the country’s trading hub in Cushing, Okla., and has pushed U.S. supplies to their highest point in about 80 years, according to a report from the Energy Department quoted by the Associated Press.

Speculation is that crude prices may dip as low as $20 a barrel. If that occurs — probably well before — production likely would slow until the glut eased off. At the same time, motorists would rejoice from the benefit of lower prices at the pump.

Technology surely has a role in increased production. Horizontal drilling has been an advantage, as has improved fracking methods — although that means of oil recovery has draw fire from many who think toying with any phase of nature can have unforeseen and unwanted results.

Eventually oversupply will rectify itself, in part no doubt when highway driving increases with summer activities and vacations.

An interesting aspect, even with adjustments, will be whether crude oil will

continue to flow from wells at a rate that would keep prices low. When prices hit rock-bottom several years ago, locally into single digits, recovery occurred at a steady rate and eventually even led to fears of per-barrel prices climbing as high as $150. Some “experts” predicted prices of $200 and above.

Whether this is part of a similar cycle won’t be known for some time, but there are factors that may contribute to long-range and perhaps somewhat permanent less expensive crude oil.

The green movement has a foothold in the nation.

Hybrid cars and others propelled entirely by battery power are being produced in greater numbers, which with proliferation will bring down unit costs and make them more available.

Natural gas, nearly a bargain basement commodity at $2.80 per thousand cubic feet, also increasingly is replacing gasoline as motor vehicle fuel.

How quickly these things coalesce into a cleaner and more environmentally friendly means of transporting people and goods is fodder for a guessing game.

Lower crude prices, though, just might be an indicator.

Meanwhile, consumers may be on the cusp of taking advantage of what could be described as trickle-up economic theory. Instead of those at the upper end of the scale having more to spend — or invest according to the oft-failed trickle-down theory — multitudes on the lower side may have more money to put a definitive end to the recent recession.

— Bob Johnson

Consumers going green at a cost Caring for the environment used to be tough duty. However, during the last couple of decades, it’s become a marketing opportunity.

Manufacturers are churning out more and more environmentally friendly products and retailers are finding in many cases they can be sold at a premium. But beware — not everything sold in the green garden is all roses. Over the long haul, selling “green” may be a lot more difficult than selling soap flakes.

Phosphate-free detergent, lead-free gas, aerosol sprays minus the chlorofluorocarbons and other green garden goodies have been available in some form or another since the early ’80s. Today, they are nearly as common, or in some cases, more so than farmfresh eggs, free-range chickens, hogs and cattle, fresh vegetables — you name it.

During this nearly 30-year growing period, consumers embraced the notion of buying green with a zeal that was almost patriotic. As they become more environmentally tuned in day by day, week by week, month by month and year by year, greenies bought

John Schlageck Kansas Farm Bureau beyond what was even required by law in a religious frenzy.

Some companies have launched their own label green brands. Many of these companies have grown their green products by the hundreds.

Many of these items are simply repackaged old ideas, you know, what’s old becomes new when introduced to a new generation of consumers especially those who choose to paint themselves green.

One such item is baking soda, which has been marketed as a more environmentally friendly way to scour pots and pans.

Can you believe it?

My mother and her mother before her used and understood that baking soda was the only real way to keep their kitchens clean or green nearly a century ago.

Email ruckus shows again the dangers of secrecy WASHINGTON — So it turns out Hillary Clinton will face a serious challenger in the primaries, after all.

Her name is Hillary Clinton.

Last week’s revelation that she used only private email to conduct her public business as secretary of state is not a knockout blow to the likely Democratic presidential nominee; she has weathered worse. But it is a needless, self-inflicted wound, and it stems from the same flaws that have caused Clinton trouble in the past — terminal caution and its cousin, obsessive secrecy.

In trying so hard to avoid mistakes — in this case, trying to make sure an embarrassing email or two didn’t become public — Clinton made a whopper of an error.

What’s troubling is that she’s been making a variation of this mistake for nearly a quarter-century.

During her husband’s 1992 campaign, she resisted releasing records about the Whitewater land deal. In 1993, she opposed White House adviser David Gergen’s recommendation that she turn over all records. Her Whitewater billing records were mysteriously lost for two years and then turned up in the White House residence.

Her resistance to divulging information caused the scandal to drag on — and the resulting independent counsel

Dana Milbank Washington Post Writers Group investigation metastasized into an all-purpose probe that eventually exposed the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Likewise, her doomed 1993 health care task force needlessly gave critics of the policy an opening with its reflexive secrecy; the task force wouldn’t even provide the names of all the consultants it brought in for advice.

Clinton justifiably criticized George W. Bush’s administration in 2007 for its “secret White House email accounts” — but then she became a key figure in an administration that, in its zeal to limit disclosure, pursued more leak cases under the 1917 Espionage Act than all previous administrations combined. The administration’s efforts to conceal its eavesdropping programs — including false testimony to Congress by the director of national intelligence — ultimately backfired by leading to Edward Snowden’s reckless dump of government secrets.

The Obama administration, and Clinton’s State Department, wound up giving

The reflexive secrecy is a symptom of Clinton’s broader problem, which is her debilitating caution.

ammunition to congressional probes into the Benghazi attack when they kept from congressional investigators a damning 2012 State Department email about administration talking points following the incident. The withheld email, when released later, made it look as if the administration had something to hide.

This is exactly the appearance created by last week’s revelation that Clinton had been exclusively using personal email during her time as the nation’s top diplomat.

Her “clintonemail.com” domain is an unfortunate echo of 2007, when Bush administration officials were discovered to have conducted official business using the “gwb43.com” domain. Clinton clearly violated administration protocol, and she ran afoul of the spirit, if not the letter, of the Federal Records Act. (Since last year’s amendments to the act, Clinton’s actions would, if taken today, be plainly illegal.)

“It’s the kind of step that arouses suspicion, even if it does not violate the letter of the law,” says Steven Aftergood, a specialist in government secrecy with the Federation of American Scientists.

He suggests Clinton could clean up the mess by inviting in officials from the National Archives to examine her private email server to confirm that all official emails have been transferred to the government’s possession.

That would be a good start, but the reflexive secrecy is a symptom of Clinton’s broader problem, which is her debilitating caution. Just as her determination to avoid embarrassing disclosure leads to much bigger problems with secrecy, her efforts to avoid mistakes on the campaign trail make her a plodding and lifeless candidate.

Her unimaginative, play-itsafe 2008 campaign left an opening for Barack Obama.

Clinton’s response so far to the email controversy has been emblematic of that caution: She’s limited herself to a tweet saying she asked the State Department to release her emails.

There is very little standing between Clinton and the presidency, and that no doubt reinforces her instinctive caution and confidentiality.

But the biggest mistake she can make is being afraid to make one.

Some companies who have wrapped themselves in green are finding doing so has not seemed to raise their credibility with consumers.

Another green product that has rocketed off the supermarket shelves are biodegradable garbage bags made from corn extract.

One item that’s become green is dishwasher detergent and it’s worthless. The only way to clean your dishes, knives and forks and pots and pans with today’s detergent is to run your machine half full or a couple times. I know this is the truth, because I’ve had to do so.

I’ve even visited with appliance dealers who have told me today’s dishwasher detergents no longer have phosphates (banned as unsafe for our environment) which cleaned our tableware and did it right. Today’s dishwasher detergents are not formulated to remove hard water minerals during the main wash cycle.

Lemi Shine promises to solve this problem.

Combined with your auto dish detergent, Lemi Shine removes tough hard water spots, stains and film during the main wash cycle, so says the product commercial. You will be pleased to know that Lemi Shine is comprised of 100 percent all natural fruit acids and oils. That’s right, Lemi Shine contains no phosphates or fillers.

Now don’t you feel better?

Even that revered group that I now belong to, the aging Baby Boomers, is boarding the green train.

Just the other day I read U.S. residents older than 55 are opting for unbleached bathroom paper. Not only is it the correct way to help Mother Earth, it’s also softer and easier on the bottom. I swear to God I didn’t make this up, although I kinda’ wish I had.

When will the pendulum swing the other way — toward a common-sense compromise?

Maybe it already is. Some companies who have wrapped themselves in green are finding doing so has not seemed to raise their credibility with consumers. Some in the public who walk among us are skeptical of any large organization that board the green bandwagon, particularly those that have little direct contact with the environment.

Although consumers, myself included, may want to accept social responsibility, few want to forgo quality in the products they buy.

To green or not to green?

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Hudlin: New elementary principal Continued from A1

The block grant proposal developed by a pair of state lawmakers is currently being debated in Topeka.

If approved, it would cost USD 258 $113,000 for the existing school year, and another $515,000 in 2015-16, Criss said.

Criss is in Topeka today to visit with lawmakers about the district’s issues.

IN OTHER personnel matters, board members hired Logan Wyrick as the new high school football coach. A Caney native, Wyrick most recently served as an assistant coach at Southwestern College in Winfield.

Wyrick also was hired as a teachers aide.

Board members also accepted the retirement announcement of kin-

dergarten instructor Nancy Weilert and resignation of Janice Elder, an elementary school cook.

Scott Brady was hired as high school golf coach, and Tell Wyrick hired as assistant high school and middle school track coach.

BOARD members approved a salary package for USD 258 certified in-

structors.

The agreement includes a 2.25 percent pay raise for the current school year and a $500 retention bonus for returning teachers.

The figures were recommended at a Feb. 25 bargaining session.

There was no movement on salaries for 2015-16 school year or the school calendar.

Stockpiles up, sales down WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. wholesale businesses increased their stockpiles by a modest amount in January as sales plunged by the largest amount in six years.

Stockpiles held by wholesale businesses rose 0.3 percent in January after no change in December and a 0.8 percent November increase, the Commerce Department reported

today.

Sales dropped 3.1 percent in January following a 0.9 percent December decline.

The January decline was the largest setback since sales fell 3.6 percent in March 2009 when the country was mired in the Great Recession.

January marked the fourth consecutive month that sales have fallen.

Attendance: Centers would reorganize school buildings Continued from A1

handle the increased traffic flow.

Moving fifth-graders to IMS would allow class sizes to be smaller. The administration considered having Jefferson host the third, fourth and fifth grades.

“We could do third, fourth and fifth at Jefferson but class sizes would be bigger,” Crusinbery said. “The options are there. With current numbers class sizes would run from 20 to 23 if kept at Jefferson.”

Jefferson has 14 rooms and there would be a reduction of staff if third, fourth and fifth stayed there. There would be 12 classes on the third floor of the middle school.

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have said attendance centers would benefit the students in various ways.

“When it comes to efficiency what do you believe is the best for the education of the kids,” board member Mark

Burris said.

“I personally and professionally think they can all have the best teachers and we would get away from one school versus another,” Stanley said. “All the resources would be in one place.”

Board President Tony Leavitt pointed out the board considered moving another class during the bond issue.

“When we were talking about the bond election and one building we talked about moving sixth grade back to the elementary school,” Leavitt said. “I’ve heard from a lot of teachers they felt like sixth-graders weren’t quite ready for middle school.”

Crusinbery said fifth and sixth grades could be put into a different schedule. They could have students arrive at different times but the students already ride the bus together.

Darrel Catron asked how it would affect special education.

Bob Coleman, direc-

tor of the ANW Special Education Cooperative, said it would help special education with resources. Currently ANW classes are in a building owned by the housing authority. If attendance centers were created the preschool would move to McKinley and have two classrooms. Kindergarten would have six classrooms.

“Remember there will be a lot of moving of materials that needs to take place over the summer time so we’re ready time school,” Stanley said.

“This decision needs to be made soon.”

Superintendent of Schools Jack Koehn said he would like to have the package together by the first meeting in April.

LEAVITT opened the meeting to questions from the community.

Lisa Wicoff, a parent of four children, said she had a hard time moving fifth grade to middle school. Her youngest son is in fourth grade

and turn 10 in April.

“I’m not against attendance centers.

I think there can be a lot of good come out of it,” she said. “However, when I pictured attendance centers I didn’t imagine my 10-year-old on the third floor of the middle school.”

The board has considered removing classes from the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. There is a possibility band classes would then be moved to the middle school. Wicoff noted this means high-schoolers would be coming in and out of the building.

“I’m not convinced that they wouldn’t see each other,” Wicoff said.

“I would be more supportive of third, fourth and fifth.”

Wicoff said rushing this plan could cause problems in the community.

“This could be perceived as a punishment for not passing the bond issue,” Wicoff said. “By rushing this, we haven’t given the community

This could be perceived as a punishment for not passing the bond issue. by rushing this, we haven’t given the community time to heal.

— Lisa Wicoff

time to heal.”

She mentioned combining school parentteacher organizations and how it’s hard for some to accept change.

“I didn’t expect the legislature to put us in this situation,” she said.

“Every time we rush we make mistakes.”

Iolan Larry Walden asked if the board had considered the number of students lost to other districts.

“Every year we lose at least one family because they don’t get the school they want,” Crusinbery said.

Walden said if the board made the change to attendance centers before the election, the

board will be different.

“The people educating the kids will still be the same even if the board changes,” Burris said. “We look to the administration for advice.”

Julie Strickler taught fifth grade for 31 years.

“I would see them fit in,” she said. “We have kindergarten through fifth right now and we have no problem with a 5-year-old with a 12 year old.”

The board will continue to discuss this issue at the next board meeting. The next meeting has been moved to 6 p.m.

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Alex Lugo — and the Red Devils bench — admires his home run in the seventh inning of the first game against Coffeyville. ACC lost 6-3 and 6-5 in the doubleheader on Monday. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

Coffeyville spoils ACC home opening doubleheader

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

Allen Community College’s baseball team was finally able to get its first home games in this season with a doubleheader against Coffeyville.

Despite close games, the Red Devils weren’t able to get a win, losing 6-3 and 6-5.

“We’re playing 10 games in a seven-day stretch because of what the weather did to us.

So, our bullpen is a premium right now,” coach Clint Stoy said. “Trying to get the most of those guys out of the pen as well as keeping them safe is our number one priority right now. If we have to take a loss on the account of a guy not throwing 125 pitches, I’m not going to be upset about that in March.”

Game one started with a

quick 1-0 lead for Allen. Ryne Martinez’s grounder drove in Jeremy Thomas.

After Coffeyville tied it in the top of the second, Allen took the lead back in the bottom of the frame. Derrick Weir hit an RBI single to center, which scored Ben Aslett.

Coffeyville answered with a RBI single in the top of the third and things were knotted up at 2-2 until the seventh inning of the seven inning game.

Coffeyville’s Matt Salamon started the inning with a bloop single that fell into right field. He made it to second on a sacrifice bunt and then wound up at third on a passed ball. After walking the next batter, ACC turned to pitcher Taylor Mah to try and induce a double play.

Instead, Coffeyville’s Alejandro Hernandez roped the

Freshmen boys have another winning season Iola High’s freshmen boys basketball team finished their season with an impressive 14-2 record.

It was the most wins that the freshman team has ever had.

It was also the second year in a row the team won the Iola Freshmen Basketball Tournament.

Each of the team’s losses

came by single digits. Iola lost to Chanute Jan. 30 38-32.

On Feb. 17, the freshmen Mustangs lost to Osawatomie by one-point, 52-51. Iola was down two late, but Osawatomie made a basket to go up four points. Isaac Vink hit a 3-pointer to bring the game to within one point. An Iola turnover sealed that game for Osawatomie.

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pitch to center for a single that brought in both runners.

After a two-RBI double, the Ravens took a 6-2 lead into the bottom of the seventh.

The Red Devil bats didn’t go silently. Alex Lugo started the inning off with a leadoff homer on the second pitch he saw.

Nate Ek followed with a bomb to left field — but, it was foul.

On the next pitch, he drove the ball toward left center.

Instead of extra bases, Coffeyville’s left fielder made a leaping catch right in front of the wall. A ground ball ended the game.

Allen’s luck didn’t get any better in the second game.

Going into the bottom of the third inning, the Red Devils trailed 6-0. Coffeyville had a pair of two-run homers from Trent McMaster and Jonathan Caraballo. They started the game with a solo home run

from Hernandez in the first inning.

The Red Devils got on the board with a three-run third.

Zachary Bickling hit an RBI single to center field. A couple of wild pitches sent in the next two runs and suddenly Allen only trailed by three runs.

Neither team scored again until the sixth. Allen ended the drought in a big way with Thomas’ two-run home run.

Allen was down 6-5.

“That’s just the makeup of this team and we’re never out of a game. They know it, they know we aren’t out of the game,” Stoy said. “We’re down 6-0 and guys come out of the bullpen and throw a lot of strikes. We make it 6-5 and have a chance to win it at the end. That’s all you can ask for.

We kept trying to cut the lead in half and keep grinding and

playing hard.”

In the bottom of the ninth, the Red Devils had a chance to win the game. Coffeyville had a right hander throwing, so Stoy sent up four straight lefthanders.

“They made a move to a left handed pitcher. So, as soon as I saw a right hander come out of the pen, I went left, left, left, left and it worked,” Stoy said.

Weir and Martinez started off the inning with two infield pop-ups. Aslett got things going with a walk and Lugo had a clutch single to right field to put runners at the corners.

“Then, he was a straight fastball guy and the last guy I had on the bench was Luis (Pena) and he hit a one-hop line drive to the shortstop.

Two feet to the left or the right of him and we win that game.”

Allen (2-9) hosts Cowley at 2 p.m. today for a doubleheader.

Big 12 tournament up for grabs KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Perhaps the best indication of just how wide open the Big 12 tournament is this year is the fact that Texas, sitting squarely on the NCAA tournament bubble, will play Wednesday night in a game generally reserved for teams that have had poor campaigns.

After a season full of intrigue, the league that boasts the nation’s top cumulative RPI and five teams ranked in the top 20 of the latest AP poll heads to the Sprint Center for its marquee event. And helping to kick things off will be the seventh-seeded Longhorns, a team once ranked in the top five that will instead be facing Texas Tech on the opening night.

“Every team in our league right now has a chance to play their way in with an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, so in reality, this is part of the NCAA tournament,” Texas coach Rick Barnes said. “The parity in the league is that close.”

The tournament officially begins with eighth-seeded Kansas State taking on No. 9 seed TCU, with the winner advancing to face top-seeded Kansas on Thursday. The winner of the second game between Texas and Texas Tech earns a date with second-seeded Iowa State.

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The quarterfinal matchups already set include fourthseeded Baylor against No. 5 seed West Virginia and thirdseeded Oklahoma against No. 6 seed Oklahoma State.

“You could make a case that there are seven or eight teams that could win the tournament if they get hot,” said Kansas coach Bill Self, whose team won at least a share of the regular-season championship for the 11th consecutive season. “I don’t think there are any other tournaments in America with that type of competitive balance.”

While the Jayhawks have dominated the regular season for more than a decade, history has proven that the Big 12 tournament levels the playing field. Three different schools have captured the crown each of the past three years, including Iowa State’s title run last season.

“That’s just life in the Big 12,” Cyclones forward Jameel McKay said. “There’s no such thing as an easy out. You can’t hide from these guys. If you want to be the best, you’ll have to beat some of the best teams in the country.”

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — It’s not just Gov. Scott Walker.

Republican lawmakers in statehouses nationwide are working to weaken organized labor, sometimes with efforts that directly shrink union membership. Walker’s signing of right-to-work legislation in Wisconsin on Monday puts his defiance of organized labor even more at the center of his nascent presidential campaign. And the inability of unions to exact a price for the first round of legislation targeting them in 2011 is encouraging even more proposals to limit their power.

The Republican wave in the November elections left many unions nationwide looking exceptionally vulnerable. In West Virginia, a union PAC spent $1.4 million trying to keep the statehouse in Democratic hands but couldn’t reverse the cultural trends turning the state red. Exit polls found that even union members were almost evenly split between the Republican and the Democrat in the major statewide race for U.S. Senate.

Now Republicans, in control of the state legislature for the first time since 1931, are taking advantage of their opportunity, pushing measures to expand nonunion charter schools and scale back requirements that public projects pay higher, unionscale wages.

In Wisconsin, Walker beat back attempts to recall him after he signed a law limiting collective bargaining by public sector workers in 2011. His signature on the rightto-work law now makes Wisconsin the 25th state to ban contracts that force all workers to pay union dues. Both he and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who signed a right-to-work law in 2012 and was also opposed by unions, won re-election in November.

“Their examples were inspiring,” said Victor Joecks of the Nevada Policy Research Institute, a conservative think tank whose ideas for limiting labor power have been embraced by Republicans who have taken over that state’s legislature for the first time since 1929. The message, he said, was, “Hey, this is possible, and it’s better for the state, and the taxpayers appreciate it.”

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With many legislative sessions just beginning, nearly 800 union-related bills have been proposed in statehouses, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

President Barack Obama expressed his concern about the latest Wisconsin move and the general assault on unions.

“It’s inexcusable that, over the past several years, just when middle-class families and workers need that kind of security the most, there’s been a sustained, coordinated assault on unions, led by powerful interests and their allies in government,” Obama said in a statement Monday. “I’m deeply disappointed that a new anti-worker law in Wisconsin will weaken, rather than strengthen workers in the new economy.”

A right-to-work bill passed the lower house of the Missouri Legislature, though it’s likely to be vetoed by the state’s Democratic governor.

Indiana is also moving to eliminate requiring union-level wages on public projects. Nevada is considering a wide range of proposals, including legislation that would let local governments dissolve collective bargaining agreements in times of economic hardship. Illinois’ new Republican governor, Bruce Rauner, signed an order prohibiting government unions from automatically collecting dues from members.

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The proposals’ sponsors say they want to save taxpayers money and create jobs. There is also a political consequence.

Labor provides Democrats with crucial cash and volunteers in campaigns, but its political value to the party extends even farther.

Belonging to a union increases the odds of a voter supporting Democrats, and labor increases the participation of lower-income voters who tend to back Democrats, said Roland Zullo of the University of Michigan’s Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. “If you have more unions, you have higher rates of voting, especially in places that are poor,” he said.

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By LEE ROMNEY Los Angeles Times

(TNS) OAKLAND, Calif. — Faced with possibly losing their NFL teams to the Los Angeles area, civic leaders in St. Louis, San Diego and Oakland are racing to come up with a winning approach to preserve their franchises.

In St. Louis, plans for a new stadium along the Mississippi River have come together quickly, as politicians and business leaders seek to persuade Rams owner Stan Kroenke to rethink a potential move to Inglewood.

In San Diego, the mayor at first lashed out at the Chargers, then gave an advisory committee a much shorter deadline for recommending a plan to replace outdated Qualcomm Stadium _ one that would pass muster with taxpayers reluctant to commit public funds.

Here in Oakland _ where all three major pro teams have talked about fleeing, development pressures spilling over from San Francisco are altering the city’s landscape, and a new mayor recently took office _ the puzzle presents intriguing options but

Oakland Raiders fans pack a planning commission meeting in Oakland, Calif., on March 4 to press for passage of a sweeping zoning plan that would fast-track development of a multi-use sports and entertainment complex at the site of the existing O.co Coliseum. TNS/LOS ANGELES TIMES/LEE ROMNEY might be the most difficult to solve.

For now, hope rests with a sweeping plan being pieced together by — ironically — San Diego County hedge fund adviser Floyd Kephart for a massive “Coliseum City” district, with re-

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Though there is some skepticism about Kephart’s ability to pull together a deal, the city has laid the groundwork for rezoning the area and even completed an environmental impact report, so developers independent of Kephart could easily step into a fast-tracked deal if his fails.

“I’m representing Raider Nation to make sure everyone is on board to get this passed,” Chris Jones, decked out in Raiders regalia, told planning commissioners last week. “We’ve got to get past the fears and not get stuck. ... Let’s hear some good news about Oakland, California, around the world.”

“Oakland Raiders!” chanted dozens of fans in the audience — including the super-fan Gorilla Rilla, his voice muffled by his simian suit. Then came the bellowing response: “Stay in Oakland!”

Boosters say Oakland is on the cusp of a development boom, given the region’s fast-growing wealth and recent influx of residents and companies from across the bay.

A deal to build the stadium the Raiders want, however, involves not just one bureaucracy but three: the city and Alameda County, which co-own the land, and a joint powers authority

that operates the venues.

The formula must also factor in the Oakland A’s, which wants a new stadium of its own. In co-owners John Fisher and Lew Wolff, the A’s have greater wealth and development credentials than the Raiders and have signaled that they may want to steer their own development ship.

The planning commission is scheduled to vote Wednesday on the city’s specific plan for the site and surrounding area, and some are optimistic that Kephart will deliver the goods. “We vetted Mr. Kephart, so we know he’s real,” Oakland City Councilman Larry Reid said in an interview. “We know he has the capacity to do what he’s indicated he can do to help us structure a deal.”

But neither the county nor the Raiders or A’s have committed to a project, and Kephart has not publicly disclosed development or financial partners. He has also remained silent on the plan’s estimated cost.

Kephart is chairman of the board of The Renaissance Companies, which advises hedge funds, investors and private equity. He also serves as chairman of Metis Financial Network, a private financial and real estate advisory firm.

The complex is in the heart of East Oakland, a low-income, high-crime area that has largely been bypassed as development has accelerated in the city’s Jack London

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But it has enviable features: ample land, access to freeways and rail and transit service. Some believe a development anchored by one or two new stadiums could trigger the kind of growth that created a vibrant neighborhood near AT&T Park in San Francisco’s China Basin.

The area is “ripe for the greatest change in the city’s history,” said Andy Dolich, a Bay Area sports consultant who has served as an executive for the A’s and San Francisco 49ers and helped get an NBA arena built in Memphis.

Though Dolich has doubts about Kephart’s plans for Coliseum City, he says that as owners of the site the city and county are well-positioned.

“I would hope that people of unified positive strategic thinking can find a middle ground to keep both teams to play in new facilities,” he said. “It’s a tremendous opportunity for Oakland.”

The city’s effort to lure multi-use development to the site predates Kephart. A previous investment group that included a Dubai financier failed to pull it off, costing the city precious time. Former Mayor Jean Quan had launched negotiations without the county at the table, which also ensured delays. The teams grew restive.

The A’s have sought to leave for San Jose but have been blocked by the courts. The Warriors, most concede, are as good as gone.

So when the Raiders expressed interest last month in returning to Southern California, few here were surprised, even if the proposal to share a stadium in Carson with the division rival Chargers was unexpected.

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Fallout continues at Univ. of Oklahoma over racist video

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press

Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination.

The video, which was posted online, shows several people on a bus participating in a chant that included a racial slur, referenced lynching and indicated black students would never be admitted to OU’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

“We are also going to look at any individual perpetrators, particularly those that we think took a lead in this kind of activity,” Boren said.

A top high school recruit de-committed from the university on Monday

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A racist chant by several members of a University of Oklahoma fraternity that was caught on video led to outrage from the school’s president and the organization’s banishment from campus, but fallout from the incident appears far from over.

President David Boren said an investigation is underway to determine if some of the students could be expelled for violating Title VI of the Civil

after seeing the video.

And an online fundraiser has been launched to help support an AfricanAmerican cook who worked at the fraternity for about a decade.

The incident also had a profound effect on many of the roughly 1,400 black students who attend the university’s Norman campus.

“I was shocked they were just doing it openly on the bus, like they were proud of it,” said Jared Scarborough, a junior in construction science who is African-American.

“From the chant, you

could tell they had done it before. It wasn’t a firsttime thing. And it was everybody. And the fistpumping.”

The Greek letters were removed Monday from the side of the sprawling, sand-colored brick house on a street lined with fraternity and sorority houses just west of the center of campus, and members were ordered to have their belongings removed by midnight Tuesday.

The Oklahoma football team decided to protest rather than practice on Monday. At the team’s indoor practice facility,

coach Bob Stoops led the way as players, joined by athletic director Joe Castiglione, walked arm-inarm, wearing black.

Boren attended a predawn rally organized by students Monday morning and lambasted those fraternity members as “disgraceful” and called their behavior “reprehensible.”

“This is not who we are,” Boren said at a midday news conference.

“I’d be glad if they left. I might even pay the bus fare for them.”

National leaders of Sigma Alpha Epsilon

said that its investigation confirmed members took part in the chant and announced it would close the local chapter. The national group said it was “embarrassed” by the “unacceptable and racist” behavior.

The fraternity also said in a statement late Monday that the chant was not a part of fraternity tradition.

Boren said members of the fraternity were “not totally forthcoming,” and he was still trying to find out who was on the bus so the school could consider disciplinary actions.

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Dear Dr. Roach: In October 2014, while on vacation in Florida, I experienced an episode of anaphylactic shock.

Shortly after eating dinner, I reacted with red skin around my eyes, itching throat, completely plugged nose and difficulty breathing. This is how the symptoms progressed. I spent one night in intensive care and one night in a regular room for observation. After returning home, I went to an allergist and had many tests performed, including shrimp and lobster allergens, immune globulin and complement levels, and C1 esterase inhibitors.

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Are there further tests that can be done? Would it benefit me to go to a referral hospital for more-extensive testing?

— M.J.G. Answer: The most common causes of anaphylaxis — a life-threatening allergic reaction — in adults are foods, medicines and insect stings. If you take no medicines and had no insect stings, then foods are the most likely cause.

Alcohol and anti-inflammatory medicines make anaphylactic reactions more likely.

The battery of tests you sent was pretty thorough. However, the identification of the allergen causing anaphylaxis is made, if it ever is, through an exhaustive history and skin testing if appropriate.

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HUMBOLDT — Dan Julich encouraged Humboldt council members to consider a comprehensive upgrade of Humboldt streets Monday evening.

Julich, a former councilman, recalled that a sales tax issue to fund the lion’s share of $1.7 million in improvements to 300 blocks of streets failed in a September 2012 special election. On occasion it takes two, three and even four efforts to pass such an issue, he said, noting school projects that didn’t fly on first ballots.

The city could pursue a general obligation bond issue — retired with property tax assessments — or sales tax funding, Julich said, adding a sales tax would be better and fairer, because it would affect people who come to Humboldt for a variety of reasons and use streets, the same as do residents.

In 2012 a half-cent issues was proposed and if passed would have raised Humboldt’s sales tax to 9.3 percent.

Julich left the meeting after his comments, and

members didn’t respond with more than a couple of knowing nods when he mentioned streets begged attention.

In a brief conversation after the meeting, Mayor Nobby Davis acknowledged that street problems remained, but stopped short of proposing any specific action.

City Administrator Cole Herder said in prepared remarks a project he was considering as part of his certified public manager course had to do with research for a comprehensive street repair and maintenance program. He was absent because of family health concerns.

Council members unanimously accepted a new rate schedule proposed by JKS Sanitation, Erie, for trash collection, putting the charge for a residence with a single poly cart at $9.75 a month. A number of higher rates will be charged for dumpsters.

They also voted to encourage legislators to leave city elections in April, rather than moving them to November.

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— An animal clinic March 7 resulted in 11 dogs and one cat being processed, which included vaccinations and sale of pet tags.

— The city’s new telephone system through Kansas Communications will cost $500 per month after installation of $4,000 worth equipment. Monthly savings are estimated at $1,000.

— Repairs and painting are being done to the municipal pool. Advertisements will be placed for a manager and lifeguards.

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