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Brownback talks budget, taxes, schools Governor defends legacy, says ‘modest’ revenue increases possible By the KANSAS NEWS SERVICE

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback began a quest to preserve his legacy with Tuesday’s State of the State address.

Facing an immediate budget crisis and a Legislature rendered more oppositional with the ouster of dozens of allies in last year’s elections, Brownback used the 30-minute speech to try to reassure Kansans that the right-wing policy path he has blazed the last six years is worth maintaining.

“Our state has record population, record new businesses, record grain production and record income,” Brownback said.

The governor acknowledged the budget problems but blamed them on downturns in the state’s agriculture and oil and gas sectors. He called on legislators to send him a bill within a month that wipes out a $350 million deficit in the current fiscal year.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback delivers his annual State of the State address on the floor of the Kansas House of Representatives Tuesday. Behind Brownback is the Speaker of the House Ron Ryckman, left, and President of the Senate, Susan Wagle. WICHITA EAGLE/BO RADER/TNS After Brownback’s speech, Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley delivered the response from a Democratic caucus that increased this year from eight to nine in the Senate and 28 to 40 in the House.

Hensley called for major changes to Brownback’s signature 2012 income tax plan.

He said years of budget problems that followed have compromised disability services, education, highways and the state’s credit rating.

“This is not fiscal responsibility,” Hensley said. “This is poor leadership. And the people of Kansas are tired of it.”

In addition to the new Democrats, the House and Senate also include a batch of new moderate Republicans who are skeptical of the governor’s policies. Reaction to the speech in the chamber was generally subdued.

Brownback acknowledged the challenges to come, calling Tuesday’s speech “the beautiful ritual conducted

just before the real battle begins.”

Here’s what he — and others — had to say about the state budget, health and education as the legislative session begins.

A Budget Awash In Red Ink

For returning lawmakers the state’s budget problems are like a persistent nightmare. For newcomers, they’re just plain scary.

The state could be awash in nearly $1 billion of red ink by

the end of the coming budget year if nothing is done to balance revenues and expenditures.

The most urgent challenge is the $350 million deficit projected in the current budget year. With the fiscal year more than half over, lawmakers must move quickly.

But so far, they have received little guidance from Brownback. In his speech, the governor said he would deliver a balanced budget proposal today but provided no detail about what it would contain and seemed to indicate that he was prepared to have lawmakers do most of the heavy lifting.

“As a first step, I encourage the Legislature to put a bill adjusting the 2017 budget on my desk by the end of the month,” Brownback said.

“Working with the relevant chairs and the leadership, we have many suggestions as to what that measure should look like. But as the Legislature is the spending branch, that work appropriately begins here.”

Brownback said the spending blueprint that Budget Director Shawn Sullivan will detail today will call on lawmakers to adopt several budget-cutting recommendations See GOVERNOR | Page A3

Fair board seeks help

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

After earning re-election to their respective posts in November, several Allen County officials were administered the oath of office Monday afternoon by Daniel Creitz, Chief Judge of the 31st District. Those being sworn in are, from left, Allen County Commissioner Jim Talkington, County Attorney Jerry Hathaway, County Clerk Sherrie Riebel, Register of Deeds Cara Barkdoll and Sheriff Bryan Murphy. COURTESY OF DAREN KELLERMAN

Allen County commissioners Tom Williams and Jim Talkington put off consideration of how they specifically might assist Allen County Fair Board members in making roof repairs and other upgrades to livestock buildings in Riverside Park.

Chairman Jerry Daniels was absent.

Jerry Middendorf, fair board member, gave a rundown of what has transpired in recent months, following a request for a five-year, $150,000 investment in fair board properties. Immediately, and in time for the August

2017 fair, the preference is to replace roofing and perhaps find a way to vent heat that builds up under peaked roofs in the livestock structures.

Repairs aren’t the only thing on board members’ minds. “We’re trying to do more than maintain,” Middendorf said. “We want to esthetically improve the buildings,” which are in the fair board’s care from a 99-year lease negotiated in 1965. Iola owns the park and technically the buildings fair board members constructed years ago.

“We’re all getting older now and we need help” with chores such as roofing and See COUNTY | Page A2

Obama bids nation farewell CHICAGO (AP) — Conceding disappointments during his presidency yet offering vigorous encouragement for the nation’s future, Barack Obama issued an emotional defense Tuesday night of his vision to Americans facing a moment of anxiety and a dramatic change in leadership.

Obama’s valedictory speech in his hometown of Chicago was a public meditation on the trials and triumphs, promises kept and promises broken that made up his eight years in the White House. Arguing his faith in America had been confirmed, Obama said he ends his tenure inspired by America’s “boundless capacity” for reinvention, and he declared: “The future should be ours.”

His delivery was forceful for most of his speech, but by

President Obama delivers his farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago Tuesday. CHIC-

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the end he was wiping away tears as the crowd embraced him one last time.

Reflecting on the corrosive recent political campaign, he said, “That potential will be realized only if our democracy works. Only if our politics See OBAMA | Page A2

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Mighty Minions Iola High School faculty members donned outfits depicting characters from the animated movie “Despicable Me” Monday as part of Spirit Week, in the runup to Friday evening’s Winter Homecoming basketball games. In the foreground are school administrators, fromleft, Scott Crenshaw, Martin Bambick and Stacey Fager. The teachers, in the background, are dressed as Minions. PHOTO COURTESY OF PERSEPHONE MEANS

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Obama: Farewell

Edna Elmenhorst

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Edna Marie Elmenhorst, 83, Moran, passed away Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, at Allen County Regional Hospital.

Edna was born Sept. 14, 1933, in Okarche, Okla., to John Alphonse and Teresa Coletta (Smith) Wittrock. She grew up in Okarche and graduated from Holy Trinity High School there. After graduation, she moved to New York City Edna and worked as a telephone opera- Elmenhorst tor for a time before returning to Oklahoma. She married Joseph H. Elmenhorst on Nov. 18, 1953 in Okarche, Okla. Together they made their home in El Reno, Okla., where they were blessed with their four children. They later moved to Moran in 1966, where they continued their life together raising their children on the family farm. Edna worked hard as a homemaker, and developed many skills in gardening, sewing, cooking, painting, flower arranging and many other creative pursuits. She was a diligent mother and grandmother who taught her children and grandchildren many of these talents as well as important life lessons.

Survivors include her husband, Joe (Okie Joe) of the home; her children, Karen Sager and husband Bob, Moran, Chris Elmenhorst and wife Sherry, LaHarpe, Carla Metcalfe and husband Jim, Chanute, and Julie Hammes and husband Chris, Oklahoma City; 13 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren; four brothers and four sisters, Harold Wittrock, Joan Wittrock, Henry Wittrock, Raymond Wittrock, Mark Wittrock, Irene Garrett and Clare Borelli, all of Oklahoma, and Anita Webb of Ohio.

Edna was preceded in death by her parents, a sister, Ruth Knecht, and a granddaughter, Nicole Sigg.

Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:30 a.m.

Thursday at St. John’s Catholic Church, with burial following in St. John’s Cemetery, Gas. A Rosary service will be at 6 o’clock tonight at the church. Visitation will follow in the Parish Hall from 6:45 to 8. Contributions in memory of Edna may be made to Catholic Charities or Hope Unlimited and left in care of the funeral home.

Feuerborn Family Funeral Service of Iola assisted the family with arrangements. Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Jeannette Hegwald Jeannette Bell Hegwald, 56, Colony, passed away Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017.

Jeannette was born in Garnett on May 26, 1960, and grew up in Kansas and Colorado. She was the daughter of the late Herbert and Shirley Osborne. She returned to Colony in 1976. On Aug. 20, 2004, she married Landon Hegwald. Jeannette worked at Haldex and Spirit Aerospace, where she made countless life-long friends.

Jeannette is survived by her husband, son Dustin Murry, Salina, son and daughter-in-law Clayton and Colleen Hegwald, Humboldt, sister Susan Dunn, Iola, and her cherished grandchildren, Summer, Zachary and Jayden.

She is preceded in death by her parents and brother, Glenn Osborne, Iola.

Jeannette was an incredible woman who enjoyed spending time with her dogs, working in her flower garden, watching Sunday football games, listening to her wind chimes and spending time with family and friends.

A celebration of Jeannette’s life will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday at United Methodist Church in Humboldt.

Memorials are suggested to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Dortha Castleberry Dortha Agnes Castleberry, 88, Garnett, died Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, at Olathe Medical Center in Olathe.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel in Garnett. Burial will follow at the Fairview Cemetery in Mildred. The family will greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Condolences may be sent to www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

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reflects the decency of our people. Only if all of us, regardless of our party affiliation or particular interest, help restore the sense of common purpose that we so badly need right now.”

He made no mention of Republican Donald Trump, who will replace him in just 10 days. But when he noted the imminence of that change and the crowd began booing, he responded, “No, no, no, no, no.” One of the nation’s great strengths, he said, “is the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next.”

Earlier, as the crowd of thousands chanted, “Four more years,” he simply smiled and said, “I can’t do that.”

Soon Obama and his family will exit the national stage, to be replaced by Trump, a man Obama had stridently argued poses a dire threat to the nation’s future.

His near-apocalyptic warnings throughout the campaign have cast a continuing shadow over his post-election efforts to reassure Americans anxious about the future.

Indeed, much of what Obama accomplished over the past eight years — from health care overhaul and environmental regulations to his nuclear deal with Iran — could potentially be upended by Trump. So even as Obama seeks to define what his presidency meant for America, his legacy remains in question.

Even as Obama said farewell to the nation — in a televised speech of just under an hour — the anxiety felt by many Americans about the future was palpable, and not only in the Chicago convention center where

he stood in front of a giant presidential seal.

The political world was reeling from new revelations about an unsubstantiated report that Russia had compromising personal and financial information about Trump.

Steeped in nostalgia, Obama’s return to Chicago was less a triumphant homecoming and more a bittersweet reunion bringing together Obama loyalists and loyal staffers, many of whom have long since left Obama’s service, moved on to new careers and started families.

They came from across the country — some on Air Force One, others on their own — to be present for the last major moment of Obama’s presidency.

Seeking inspiration, Obama’s speechwriters spent weeks poring over Obama’s other momentous speeches, including his 2004 keynote at the Democratic National Convention and his 2008 speech after losing the New Hampshire primary to Hillary Clinton.

They also revisited his 2015 address in Selma, Alabama, that both honored America’s exceptionalism and acknowledged its painful history on civil rights.

After returning to Washington, Obama will have less than two weeks before he accompanies Trump in the presidential limousine to the Capitol for the new president’s swearing-in.

After nearly a decade in the spotlight, Obama will become a private citizen, an elder statesman at 55. He plans to take some time off, write a book — and immerse himself in a Democratic redistricting campaign.

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structural repairs, he added.

“The county has a huge role in the fair,” said Williams. Commissioners have been in the habit of providing $11,000 a year to aid in the fair’s conduct, although $5,000 of that annually goes to support 4-H programs.

Middendorf allowed attendance and participation aren’t what they once were — a condition that affects all small county fairs because of a loss of population in rural parts.

In recent years fair leaders have attempted to cope by adding such things as a car show and barbecue, sponsored by Iola Rotary Club, and tweaking other components.

Another recent addition, a mud run at Wide Open Speed Park south of Iola, has proved popular. That event generated $2,500 for the fair board

last August.

Talkington suggested the county might provide in-kind assistance, through labor, materials or equipment, in building projects. “I’m not sure it’s our place to give money for a city building,” he said. Also, “we might increase our annual support,” rather than earmark a contribution for building improvements.

Regardless of the outcome, “You’ll find a lot of love up here for you guys,” Talkington told Middendorf.

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Kappa Alpha gathers Sixteen members of the Kappa Alpha Chapter of Phi Tau Omega sorority met Jan. 3.

Reports were given on food pantry baskets, the Santa Breakfast and a contribution to assist KVC. Members have clipped $36,665 worth of coupons.

The Cancer Fund

Committee reported there had been requests for fuel cards to help patients get to and from treatments.

Kappa Alpha also was able to assist with a utility bill.

Members will again collect socks and other items to go toward the Rotary Closet at area schools.

A social is Monday.

Today in history In 1861, Alabama became the fourth state to withdraw from the Union.

In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the Grand Canyon National Monument (it became a national park in 1919).

In 1913, the first enclosed sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, went on display at the 13th National Automobile Show in New York.

In 1935, aviator Amelia

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Oh, yes, the breakfast table at the Doc house. There are the usual 2 humans, 4 dogs and, far off in the corner, one cat, whose main job is to keep everyone else in line.

As always, Mrs. Doc is chatting away as she and Doc get the day started (he may or may not be listening).

Since they are both over the age of being able to pretend that their rugged good health will continue indefinitely, they have a morning routine of lining up various tablets alongside of breakfast to keep the body parts perking.

Baby aspirin, vitamins, and Mrs. Doc’s blood pressure medicine all must be removed from the “childproof” containers. The funny thing about these containers is that, although they may stymie an adult and the occasional child, dogs are masters at opening these tiny puzzlers. Watching Mrs. Doc attempt to push, pull, twist and bend to open the innocuously named “pill bottle” leads Doc to discuss some of the recent cases that have been seen at Red Barn.

The first case that Doc mentioned involved a small dog who found a tablet on the floor of Mrs. X’s home and ate it. This rapidly caused a desperate, but mysterious, illness. After a lot of questioning, Mrs. X remembered accidently spilling her medications that morning. Once the identity of the offending medication was pinned down, appropriate lifesaving treatment was started.

Later the same day, a large breed puppy tried to cut some teeth on an NSAID bottle (large breed puppies can reach countertops…and do!). The pup did not bother opening the lid, he merely chewed it off and then taste-tested the contents. The smart owners, when they found the mangled bottle, came immediately to the office. Because of their timely arrival, soon after ingestion, the veterinarian was able to cause the puppy to vomit the medication, preventing fatal liver damage.

The following day emergencies adversely affected the scheduled appointments, with a highly disoriented dog presented for exam in one room, while in the next exam room a dog with seizures was being diagnosed. Those animals had managed to sniff out recreational drug stashes in the households. Scattered in among the unusual pharmacologic ingestions, were the normal cases of holiday disease, garbage gut and the more professionally named “pancreatitis”.

The object of the above paragraph is to point out that most dogs and many cats are not at all discriminating about what they will put in their mouths and swallow.

Human medications, even in small amounts, can cause dire consequences, including organ failure. Narcotics and alcohol can easily overwhelm an animal’s respiratory function. It takes nearly nothing to cause an overdose. Bones, mold, yeast and bacterially spoiled foods can kill your pets and rich, fatty food treats can cause painful and expensive-to-treat pancreatitis. Your pet’s mouth can get them in big trouble fast and it is your job to monitor what goes in there. If you spill medications, crawl on the floor with a flashlight and find every last one. Keep medications in an area or cabinet your pet cannot access. Keep glasses of alcohol and other items away and up where they cannot be reached. Keep trashcans tightly closed. Don’t feed junk.

Meanwhile, in the Doc family kitchen, the cat, looking superior, points out that dogs don’t seem to be very bright. Doc looks back at him and says “Come to breakfast tomorrow and I will talk about boneheaded cat cases!”

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Club, 7 p.m.; TuesdaySmall groups meet Library board meeting, about “Learning how to City Hall Community study the Bible” TuesRoom, 5:30 p.m.; Jan. day 6:30 p.m. at the par18-Lions Club, United sonage or Wednesday 7 Methodist Church base- p.m. at the church. ment, 7 p.m.; 19-County Cowboy Church bus to Iola, phone 24 Scripture at Sunday’s hours before you need High Point Cowboy a ride, 785-448-4410 any Church by Pastor Jon weekday Petty was Romans 8:11Calendar 17 and Colossians 1:9-10, T h u r s d a y - m i d d l e reminding the crowd of school basketball at their identity as a child Crest vs. St. Paul, 5 p.m.; of God and a joint heir Friday-no school, high of the Kingdom with Jeschool basketball at sus. Many new friends home vs. Altoona-Mid- attended for the second way; Monday- Jan. 21- service of the year. Serhigh school basketball vice begins at 9 a.m. and tournament at Liberal, all are welcome.

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Scripture presented at Sunday’s church service was Revelation 1:48. Pastor Andrew Zoll’s sermon was “The One Who Is and Was and Is to Come.” Cross training classes are at 9:30 a.m. each Sunday; worship service, 10:45 a.m.;

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Sunday’s Scripture at the United Methodist Church was Psalm 29:111, Isaiah 42:1-9, Acts 10:34-43 and Matthew 3:13-17. Pastor Dorothy Welch presented the sermon.

United Methodist Women’s January chal-

lenge is “Fill the Pantry.”

Crest agriculture

While not attached to the main school, students have been busy in the Ag Department.

Ag Mechanics classes are in the shop working on arc welding skills to get ready to make projects once they pass their skills sheet.

Junior/senior ag communications students worked on their job interview skills, making resumes, cover letters and business cards to compete in the Job Interview Career Development Event held last November.

Students did not place in the top 10, but all gained valuable skills for the workforce.

The eighth-grade exploratory ag class watched safety videos, did “Tool ID” presentations, and worked to pass the safety test before they were allowed in the shop to start arc welding.

Horticulture students are learning about the various aspects of landscape design.

This unit carried over into the spring semester, and now students get a chance to design their own landscape.

Animal science will soon wrap up its digestive system unit. Students will dissect a lamb’s stomach with Mrs. Lee’s anatomy and physiology and biology classes.

Finally, the freshman agri-science class just finished

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research papers over various topics in agriculture, and now back from Christmas break, students are learning about the dairy industry in order to compete in the milk quality career development event in February.

– Hannah Boehm, vocational agriculture teacher

Lions

Thirteen members attended the Jan. 4 meeting.

President Al Richardson recommended to wait until warmer weather before completing the casket stand.

Gene Anderson, Jay Dutton and Ron McMullen delivered 16 poinsettias around town for Christmas.

A short discussion was held about the upcoming the Spring All Day Dinner. Lion Dee Dee McMullen will check about the availability of the City Hall Community Room.

Community helpers

The community should be proud and thankful for all that the Lions Club members do.

They not only help people in need, they donate to schools, Colony Day, Colony’s annual Christmas celebration, the Little League ball field, etc.

Keep in mind all their fundraiser proceeds go right back to our community to assist the very

things our people need and enjoy throughout the year.

Did You Know?

In September 1983 the City of Colony opened the New City Hall building. The Colony City Library was included.

The Mid-America Council on Aging meets there three times a week for senior meals in the Community Room. The Community Room is used for Cemetery Board, Library board and other meetings, private gatherings and as the voting poll. The building to the south was completed in 1985. This building housed the Fire Department until their new building was built on Pine Street. This building is now used for the city’s equipment.

Each March Colony City Clerk and Water Superintendent attend the Kansas Rural Water Association (KRWA) Association in Wichita.

Birth

Dustin and Rochelle Smart, Iola, are the proud parents of a baby girl born Jan. 7, Jayden Ruth.

Grandparents are Darren and Cindy McGhee, Westphalia, and Jerald and Vickie Smart, Scipio. Greatgrandparents are Marvin and Rita Stanley, Elsmore, Thelma Culler, Colony, Ron and Wilma Atchison, Princeton, and Shirley McGhee, Colony.

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Around town

Dale Luedke, Dodge City visited Allene and Mark Luedke, Jerry and Susan Luedke recently.

He also visited his aunt and uncle, Claudette and Gene Anderson.

Sympathy is extended to the families of Glen Weldin, 101, rural Colony, who died at the Anderson County Hospital, Garnett, Jan. 2. Services will be held at a later date.

Bob Skillen, 89, a coach and teacher at Colony High School from 1960 to 1963, died Jan. 3.

Funeral services were Saturday in Norwich.

Sympathy is extended to friends of Francis Fursman, 91, who died Friday at the Franklin Home Assisted Living in Fort Scott. She and husband Bob lived on the Fursman Ranch near Welda many years, moved to Colony (where the McMullens reside today on Cherry Street), before moving to Fort Scott. Her husband died in 2014. Her brotherin-law is John Fursman Jr., who resides at Greystone Manor, Iola.

Doris Church celebrated her 92nd birthday Sunday at the home of her daughter, Patty Jo and Dean Ramsey, Kincaid. Susan and Jerry Luedke, Colony, attended, as did other relatives.

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from an efficiency report commissioned last year.

“The days of ‘tax first, cut never’ have come to an end,” Brownback said to tepid applause.

Still, Brownback said his budget also would include “modest, targeted revenue measures.”

Legislative leaders expect him to propose borrowing from a state investment fund that now contains about $360 million.

Many lawmakers don’t like the idea, but House Majority Leader Don Hineman said they have little choice but to go along.

“That’s not something any of us would choose to do,” Hineman said.

“But it’s a reflection of the fact that we are truly out of options.”

But Hineman said he believes a coalition of moderate Republicans and Democrats who campaigned on “fixing the mess in Topeka” want to to take a different financial approach than continuing to do just enough to limp from one year to the next.

“We need a long-term structural fix to this imbalance we have between revenues and expenditures,” he says.

A bill already has been introduced to kick-start that structural fix by repealing a controversial business tax exemption. The exemption, part of Brownback’s 2012 income tax cut bill, has allowed more than 300,000 business owners and farmers to stop paying taxes on their passthrough income.

Efforts to roll back the exemption failed in each of the last two sessions, but this year’s repeal bill appears to have widespread support despite Brownback’s con-

tinued opposition.

“I look for the loophole to get closed,” said Sen. Jim Denning, an Overland Park Republican whose efforts to repeal the exemption last year helped him survive an election in which several conservatives were defeated by more moderate Republicans or Democrats.

Hensley said repealing the LLC exemption alone will not be enough to provide a long-term budget fix.

He said the Legislature would have to consider restoring a third income tax bracket for “wealthy Kansans.”

KanCare Touted, Obamacare Doubted

Brownback’s remarks on health policy can be summarized as “KanCare is good, Obamacare is bad.”

He said KanCare, the state’s move to privatize all Medicaid services since 2013 under three insurance companies, was an unqualified success.

“Thanks to the leadership of Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, we have seen more Kansans served than ever before, steady or improving health outcomes for (KanCare) beneficiaries and dramatic cost savings to taxpayers of $1.4 billion,” Brownback said.

An outside consulting group’s report on KanCare commissioned by hospitals and other stakeholders found that the program was having a limited effect on health outcomes and delivering on cost savings largely by squeezing providers.

Legislators on both sides of the aisle — and Brownback himself — have said that reversing a 4 percent cut to most KanCare providers should be one of the first

priorities this year.

Rep. Chuck Weber, a conservative Republican from Wichita who gave the speech generally high marks, said he wished Brownback would have included a few words on restoring the 4 percent Medicaid cut.

“We’re going to get that taken care of,” Weber said.

Brownback also panned any attempt to expand Medicaid coverage to low-income Kansans under the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare.

He predicted Republican majorities in Congress would work with President-elect Donald Trump to repeal the law, and likened joining the 32 states that have expanded Medicaid eligibility to “airlifting onto the Titanic.”

“Kansas was right,” Brownback said of refusing Medicaid expansion. “Kansas should stay the course.”

But new House Speaker Ron Ryckman has said the chamber’s more moderate makeup means it should at least have an open discussion about ways to access the federal money that expansion would bring to the state’s health sector.

During his speech, Brownback also highlighted ideas to increase the number of health care providers in a rural state in which 92 of 105 counties are considered medically underserved.

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House makes good on threat to target LLC tax exemption House members, a good number elected two months ago on promise of taking immediate steps to deal with current and ongoing budget shortfalls, got with it surprisingly quickly on Monday.

Legislation proposed would repeal personal income tax exemptions for 330,000 farmers and business owners. If the measure flew through the two chambers, and Gov. Sam Brownback passed it into law, the repeal could generate about $260 million in revenue if made retroactive to Jan. 1.

All that sounds well and good, but don’t bet the farm on it occurring.

House leaders likely can muster enough votes in a coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans for passage, and perhaps find enough conservatives to make the measure veto-proof. The Senate is another matter. Passage may occur, but finding 27 senators willing to buck Brownback will be an immense chore.

The alternative, unless something drastic such as selling off tobacco settlement proceeds meant to fund children’s programs occurs, is cuts to education, social and safety net programs, law enforcement and highways, through yet another sweep of KDOT’s reserves — what little remains.

The current fiscal year today projects a $342 million deficit; through 2019, with nothing done, the shortage would grow to better than $1 billion to fill funding gaps for existing programs.

Something must be done before June 30. The cashbasis law requires by force of law the state balance its budget.

OVER THE years we have found Gov. Brownback to be a hospitable and decent person, but for some reason only he can illuminate, the governor has locked himself into economist Arthur Laffer’s supply-side economics.

The theory is that if job producers — business owners, including farmers, and specifically those at the top of the income heap — are given financial opportunity, they will create jobs.

Rather than pocket money saved through advantageous income tax laws, they will expand business and industry, requiring additional workers. Those workers, the theory goes, will make up and add to income tax revenue deferred with what they pay in state income taxes.

The postulation is fetching, but doomed. From time immemorial, the theory has failed.

With every hope of avoiding cynicism, we have doubts if the concept would work with the possible exception of post-World War II’s economic revival — those halcyon days of the 1950s when Ike played golf and the country’s economic engines hummed along.

Even then, not all was right with the world. The Cold War intervened and many overseeing industrial and business growth discovered they could become filthy rich on the backs of workers, men delighted to have a “goodpaying” job after suffering through the 1930s and the war and women happy to dash through the door Rosie the Riveter opened to them.

In a perfect world, Laffer’s theory might work.

The world never has been perfect.

— Bob Johnson

No excuses: Find a school funding formula Lawmakers have done precious little in the past two years to figure out how to fund our public schools.

However daunting the task may be, Kansas legislators must put forth a school-funding plan this session. There simply is no reasonable excuse not to do so.

In 2015, Kansas lawmakers repealed the existing school funding formula, replacing it with a block-grant system that effectively froze funding in place for the next two years. During the two-year period, lawmakers were to write a new formula. That timetable is now less than six months away and little progress has been made.

That has to change. Now. The 2017 Legislature and its 50 new members owe it to Kansas’ taxpayers to develop and approve a new formula.

There isn’t a legislator who didn’t know this was necessary when he or she decided to run. Many were elected largely on their promise to address school funding.

It won’t be easy. The Kan-

sas Supreme Court has established a new legal standard for judging whether overall funding is adequate. In the school finance lawsuit Montoy v. Kansas in 2005 the court ruled funding must be based on the cost of providing the educational services the state required. In 2014, in the current lawsuit Gannon v. Kansas, the court set a new legal standard, one based on educational outcomes. Funding must be sufficient to ensure that when students graduate, they have sufficient knowledge and skills in specific areas.

And there is the enormous political problem of writing a formula that is both equitable and acceptable to a majority of the state’s 286 school districts. The state’s wealthiest school districts, which theoretically have the most to lose in developing a new formula that makes funding more equitable, also

have the most political influence and historically have wielded that influence very effectively to limit or quash plans that reduce their level of state funding.

The 1992 school funding plan provided a base amount of funding per pupil for each district, with additional funds made available for difficult to educate populations such as low-income students and English language learners. That continues to be the most logical foundation for a schoolfunding plan.

In recent years, there has been a significant lack of pragmatism and compromise during Kansas legislative sessions. But if this group of legislators is going to write a school finance formula in six months, they need to acquire a healthy dose of both pretty quick. Because failing to approve a plan simply isn’t excusable.

— Lawrence Journal World

Cutting Planned Parenthood funding The right way to fight drunken driving wrongheaded move Utah has never been a drinker’s paradise. Most residents belong to the Mormon Church, which forbids the use of alcohol, and the state has notoriously strict liquor laws.

Beer on tap at a bar, for example, can have no more than 4 percent alcohol by volume. So it’s no surprise that the Beehive State could be the first to adopt a DUI standard tougher than the current norm.

State Rep. Norman Thurston has introduced a bill to lower the legal blood-alcohol content for drunken driving from the current .08 percent to .05 percent. “Impairment starts with the first drink,” he told the Los Angeles Times, “and we want to establish this state as one where you simply do not drink and drive.” Note: not one where you don’t get drunk and drive, but where you don’t drink at all before driving.

Under the current limit, a 160-pound man needs about four drinks in an hour to qualify as under the influence. Under the lower one, two could be enough to bring a DUI charge.

A 100-pound woman could hit the limit with a single glass of wine. Small wonder that the American Beverage Institute, which represents restaurants, argues that the change would mean “criminalizing perfectly responsible behavior.”

It’s true that every drink raises the risk of impairment

and accidents. At .05, says the National Transportation Safety Board, the risk of a crash is 38 percent higher than at zero.

But that pales next to the risk at .08, which is 169 percent higher.

From an enforcement point of view, each reduction in the BAC limit yields less and less in the way of greater safety.

If law enforcement resources were infinite, the change might be sensible. But the funds and personnel used to crack down on these motorists are not available for other measures that could provide more bang for the buck.

Advocates are confident the change would make a big difference. The NTSB contends that lowering the standard to .05 “changes the drink-driving behavior of drivers at all BAC levels” because of its “broad deterrent effect.” Put another way, it would scare people — including the mildest of tipplers, who already stay under .05 — to drink less. You could call that a deterrent effect or deliberate intimidation of law-abiding drivers. Either way, it would inhibit a lot of people who pose no real risk on the roads.

It’s worth noting that Mothers Against Drunk Driving has declined to endorse the stricter rule, preferring to focus on better ways to assure compliance with the existing one. High on the group’s list

of priorities is requiring all first-time DUI offenders to be barred from driving unless they install interlock devices that prevent their cars from starting if an in-car Breathalyzer determines they’ve been drinking.

Frank Harris, head of governmental affairs for the Utah chapter of MADD, told CNN, “We believe we can save more lives” that way than with the .05 standard. Arresting and convicting drunken drivers is of limited utility if the offenders go back to driving drunk — as most will do if they get the chance, according to MADD’s research. The key is to catch them and prevent them from reverting to their dangerous habits.

So far, 28 states and the District of Columbia have attacked the problem by requiring interlocks for anyone convicted of DUI — with heartening results. A study published in the American Journal for Public Health estimated that states with such mandates cut their alcohol-related traffic deaths by 15 percent compared to the other states.

This approach is a proven success in this country. And it has another virtue, compared to lowering the permissible BAC: It inconveniences the guilty rather than the innocent.

— The Chicago Tribune

A bad idea pasted on top of another wrongheaded move: Cutting federal funding for Planned Parenthood as part of the proposed repeal of Obamacare.

Women across America depend on Planned Parenthood not only for birth control but also for health care.

At 650 health centers across the United States, women, men and teens go to Planned Parenthood for sexual and reproductive health care, HIV testing, mammograms, education and yes, abortions.

But most of the work of this important organization focuses on health care and avoiding abortions: 80 percent of its patients receive services to prevent unintended pregnancies. More than 4.2 million tests and treatments are provided at Planned Parenthood for sexually transmitted infections.

Just 3 percent of the organization’s health services have anything to do with abortion.

Taking federal dollars away from Planned Parenthood is not a strike against abortion. Federal money is already prohibited from paying for elective pregnancy terminations. It’s a strike against

health care and birth control for ordinary Americans.

Anti-abortion groups have been plotting the death of Planned Parenthood for many years. Most recently, a fake biotech company called Center for Medical Progress released undercover videos that tried to paint the organization as callously selling tissue and organs from aborted fetuses.

The practice has since been explained as legal donations to help with medical research, all done with the donor’s full consent. Charges were filed in January 2016 against the makers of the video but eventually dropped. Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit against the Center for Medical Progress in federal court.

Republican leaders in Congress seem to want another ideological fight over medical care for women. Women have enough trouble getting pregnancy prevention services in many communities without eliminating this important resource.

Congress needs to turn its budget-cutting ax in another direction or lawmakers should expect to have their offices inundated with calls from constituents protesting their efforts.

— Seattle Times

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Iola High School students found willing partners Tuesday to wear identical garb as part of Twin Day, one of a series of events as part of Spirit Week. Spirit Week concludes Friday with the IHS Winter Homecoming basketball games at home against Wellsville. The homecoming king and queen will be crowned at the conclusion of the boys game. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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Seeking A School Funding Formula

Of all the vexing problems the Kansas Legislature faces in 2017, perhaps none is more complicated, financially and politically, than how to fund public schools.

The state has funded education through a block grant scheme the last two years. Educators have denounced it and the courts have ruled it unconstitutional. So that’s problem No. 1: a new funding formula. “The most significant task you face is building a new school funding system that puts students first,�

Brownback told legislators in Tuesday’s speech.

Many legislators have called for a return, with some modifications, to the old formula that provided a base per-pupil payment to districts with upward adjustments for students who come from poverty, don’t speak English or even have a long way to travel to school.

While many conservatives lost their seats in the last election cycle, a core group remains that will push for what is known as an outcomes-based formula. That could reward districts for, say, improving graduation rates or ACT scores and penalize districts that don’t improve.

Brownback on Tues-

Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley and the Democratic caucus say repealing a 2012 tax cut is the first step toward improving the state’s budget situation. KANSAS NEWS SERVICE/ANDY MARSO day stated a strong preference for an outcomesbased funding formula, and Weber said that part of the speech appealed to him. “One of the things that I campaigned on and that I’ve been shocked about since I came to Topeka just a year ago is this gap in achievement between low-income people and everyone else,�

Weber said. “If we don’t have accountability in our schools to take care of not just those kids who live in prosperous ZIP codes but everybody, then we’re not going to be able to provide an opportunity for people that are less fortunate to enjoy the American dream.�

Some lawmakers say that before they commit to a funding formula, they need to know what sort of education Kansas kids should get. That’s problem No. 2: adhering to the so-called Rose Standards.

These admittedly vague standards — which include communication skills, civil and social engagement, and career preparation — were cited in the Kansas Supreme Court’s 2014 Gannon school funding case. Since that time, the Kansas State Department of Education has worked to define the curriculum needed to fulfill those standards.

Which brings us to problem No. 3: what the state high court will rule in the adequacy portion of Gannon. The Legislature is waiting for the justices to rulewhether Kansas adequately funds public education. (In the summer the equity portion of the case was settled for $34 million.) By some estimates, a ruling of inadequate funding could cost the state up to $1 billion, which, by the way, is the deficit the state faces over the next 18 months.

On top of that, some

lawmakers will want to funnel more money into early childhood education and others will want to protect higher education, which took a $30 million cut this fiscal year.

Brownback offered no suggestions on higher education funding. But he challenged the state’s colleges to offer a bachelor’s degree to in-state students for $15,000 total tuition or less and offered 50 state-funded full scholarships to the university that can do it first.

With all those moving and expensive parts, some legislators suggest that writing a formula this session will be impossible and that the block grants should be extended for another year.

That seems unlikely because the block grants already have been ruled unconstitutional.

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High School Basketball: Marmaton Valley at St. Paul

Wildcats struggle on the road in St. Paul

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

ST. PAUL — The Marmaton Valley basketball teams hit the road on Tuesday for a matchup with St. Paul.

The Wildcat girls opened varsity action for the night

with a 41-11 loss to the Indians, who improved their season record to 6-1.

The Wildcats were led in scoring by senior point guard Kyla Drake with five.

Bailey Griffith, Taryn Covey and Misty Storrer each scored two points to round out

the rest of the Marmaton Valley scoring in the girls’ game.

The Wildcats dropped to 0-7 this season.

The Marmaton Valley boys also had their struggles with St. Paul, losing 61-31.

The Wildcats hung in the game through the first quar-

ter trailing by 12-8 after eight minutes of play.

Caiden Elliott had a pair of three pointers to keep the Wildcats close.

The second quarter saw the wheels come off for the WildSee WILDCATS | Page B3

Marmaton Valley senior Kyla Drake makes a pass earlier this season in Moran. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

College Basketball:

Girls’ High School Basketball: Humboldt 58, Fredonia 42

Jayhawks take care of business against Sooners

By CLIFF BRUNT The Associated Press

Humboldt senior Makaylah McCall drives toward the basket against Fredonia senior Mackenze Altis during Tuesday’s game in Humboldt. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

MAKING THE LIST Cubs’ McCall cracks career points top-10 in home win

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — At some schools, a person really has to hunt around to find certain records. Sometimes they are on a plaque hidden in some dark hallway’s trophy case, sometimes they aren’t even displayed at all.

Humboldt doesn’t have that problem.

From the time future Cubs are able

to walk into the high school gymnasium, they are able to see the top-10 alltime scorers for the Cubs boys’ and girls’ teams displayed prominently on the east wall of the court. Those records might as well have been a target for Makaylah McCall, because the minute she put on a high school uniform, those 10 women’s names have given her the motivation to be the best she can on the court.

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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Ready or not, Kansas is poised to jump to No. 1.

Frank Mason scored 19 of his 28 points in the second half, and the second-ranked Jayhawks rallied to beat Oklahoma 81-70 on Tuesday.

With No. 1 Baylor losing at West Virginia earlier in the night, Kansas will be in position to top the AP poll for the first time this season if it beats Oklahoma State on Saturday.

“We don’t deserve that,” Kansas coach Bill Self said.

“I’ve coached for a while, and I’ve felt like there’s some teams that put in the time and the effort and the toughness to earn that, but I don’t feel like this team quite has.”

Josh Jackson scored 16 points for the Jayhawks (151, 4-0 Big 12), who have won 15 straight. Devonte’ Graham added 13 and Landen Lucas had 10 points and 13 rebounds.

Rashard Odomes and Kameron McGusty each scored 13 points for the Sooners (6-9, 0-4), who lost their seventh in a row.

Oklahoma trailed 21-14 before closing the first half on a 22-6 run to take a 36-27 lead at the break. Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger called it his team’s best half of the season.

“Given the opponent, certainly, no question,” he said.

“Kansas is a terrific ballclub.

To be down a little bit early and come back and tie it and take the lead into the half was a good stretch, a very good stretch.”

Mason said Self was fired up at halftime.

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Boys’ High School Basketball: Humboldt 72, Fredonia 43

Cubs’ supporting cast steps up in rout of Yellowjackets

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — The Fredonia Yellowjackets seemed to have two common basketball sayings going through their heads on Tuesday night in Humboldt.

The first was “Make somebody else beat you.”

This has to be the mindset of all teams that face senior sharp-shooter Rayce Hoepker and the Cubs. Hoepker went into the game averaging nearly 28 points a game, so the Yellowjackets knew that to have any chance of pulling

an upset, they had to limit him somehow.

The “how” appeared to be another saying, “If you foul enough, they won’t call it every time.”

This strategy also seemed to apply to Hoepker. The Yellowjackets made him work for nearly every basket and held him to five points below his season average at just 22 points.

“I thought we were really sloppy early,” Humboldt coach David Taylor said.

The flip-side for Fredonia was that with all the attention going to Hoepker it allowed

Humboldt to get into the bonus — Fredonia committed 30 fouls — and give Humboldt’s supporting cast a chance to flourish in a 72-43 Humboldt victory.

“I was really happy to see the balanced scoring,” Taylor said.

The Cubs lived at the free throw line with a grand total of 39 foul shots attempted.

“We didn’t come out making our free throws at first,” Humboldt senior Joe Kline said. “We got it figured out though and the free throws reSee BOYS | Page B4

Humboldt senior guard Rayce Hoepker puts up a shot against Fredonia on Tuesday in Humboldt. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

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By SHEFALI LUTHRA Kaiser Health News

Judy Keller, 69, has always relied on Highlands Hospital for medical care, just as her parents did before her.

When she walks through the halls, she recognizes faces from the community and even from her days working as a school teacher. The 64-bed facility, she says, is a mainstay of this rural Southwest Pennsylvania town.

“This hospital all my life has been here,” said Keller, now retired. “[It] helps a lot of people who don’t have adequate health care coverage — and I don’t know what they would do without it.” Aside from providing health care to a largely poor population, it provides hundreds of jobs in a town that locals say never recovered after industries such as coal mining and glass manufacturing disappeared.

But in the wake of this fall’s presidential election, Highlands — like many other rural hospitals — will likely face new financial challenges that will intensify longstanding struggles, experts say. The Affordable Care Act, which President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to repeal, threw a number of life-savers to these vital but financially troubled centers. And its full repeal, without a comparable and viable replacement, could signal their death knell.

Highlands provides one window into how some of these shifts could reverberate in

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small towns across the country. And ironically, 64 percent of people here in Fayette County — one of the state’s poorest — voted for Trump. Pennsylvania, which has the third largest rural population in the nation, played a pivotal role in his upset victory this fall.

The health care law expanded Medicaid to tens of thousands of previously uninsured patients, providing new revenue streams for rural hospitals, which often serve a poorer, sicker patient population. The law also created a program that allowed some of these facilities to buy prescription drugs at a discount, though Highlands qualified for that program independently of Obamacare.

“All these rural hospitals are operating on thin margins. The removal of any income source or coverage, or expansion of bad debt, is going to create significant financial hardship,” said Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association.

Rural hospitals have long operated on the edge. In the past six years, more than 70 such facilities have closed, citing financial duress. Almost 700 more have been deemed at risk of following the same path. Meanwhile, the need for reliable health care remains pressing.

Conditions such as heart and lung disease are widespread in rural areas. Addiction to the prescription painkillers known as opioids is acute.

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Girls: Cubs pull away from Fredonia late Continued from B1

Makaylah McCall

Humboldt High School All-Time Scoring Leaders Girls’ Basketball 1. Kelci Owens, 06-09 ...................... 1,082 2. Julie Woods, 85-89 ....................... 1,060 3. Paula Stanley, 75-79 ..................... 1,044 4. Mona Scantlin, 86-90 .................. 1,037 5. Jessica Edwards, 96-00 ................... 965 6. Loretta Ellison, 78-82 ..................... 911 7. Mallory Mueller, 02-06 ................... 832 8. Vickey Stanley, 77-81, ..................... 730 9. Kendy Kaufman, 92-96 .................. 643 10. Makaylah McCall, 13-present ..... 634 11. Jana Woods, 86-90 ........................ 626

Wildcats: Swept Continued from B1

cats. St. Paul outscored Marmaton Valley 16-4 in the second period to grab a comfortable 28-12 halftime advantage.

Justice Pugh led the Wildcats in scoring with 16 points while Elliott was second with his six first-quarter points.

Josh Wise added four points and Gage Griffith and Brock Hall each had two points.

Isaac Heskett rounded out the Marmaton Valley scoring with one point.

UP NEXT Marmaton Valley will host Pleasanton for a varsity doubleheader on Friday in Moran.

Marmaton Valley sophomore guard Gage Griffith shoots a three pointer earlier this season in Moran. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

On Tuesday, in a 58-42 win over Fredonia, McCall achieved her goal and secured a spot on the wall.

McCall’s 18-point effort in the victory gave her 634 points in her career and puts her in tenth-place on the alltime list with 1990 Humboldt graduate Jana Woods being bumped down to 11th all-time with 626 points.

“It is awesome,” McCall said. “I’ve wanted it since I was a freshman, but now that it actually has happened, I’m hoping to just keep trying to go up and up the list.”

McCall’s next target is nine points ahead of her with Kendy Kaufman sitting at 643. Kaufman starred for the Cubs from 1992 to 1996.

McCall was far from a one-person show on Tuesday, however.

After McCall got the Cubs going with the first four points for Humboldt, her shot stopped falling for her and she looked to become more of a distributor.

“We all have bad days and we never get down on each other because we each understand that happens,” McCall said. “If I am missing, they keep giving me the ball and we will figure it out.”

The teammate that became the main beneficiary of McCall’s assists was junior Rylan Wilhite, who had seven points in the first quarter alone — she finished the game with 12 total.

“If one of us is down, someone else steps up,” Wilhite said. “We don’t really have one person that takes off each time, it switches each time, which is good.”

With Wilhite clicking, the Cubs were able to grab an early 13-7 lead and McCall capped the first-quarter scoring with a basket to drive the margin to 15-10 after eight minutes.

The second quarter wasn’t as smooth for the Cubs.

They struggled to find the bottom of the net early and senior point guard Tilar Wells picked up her second foul and had to go to the bench, leaving the ball-handling responsibilities to be divided among Wilhite, McCall and soph-

Humboldt sophomore Arikah McCall pulls up for a corner three against a Fredonia defender in Tuesday’s game in Humboldt. McCall had 11 points off the bench for the Cubs. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA more Aricah McCall for the most part.

“It is nice to have such a well-rounded team,” Makaylah McCall said.

“When someone goes out, you don’t go, ‘Oh, now what!’... We all practice each other’s positions in case that situation happens.”

The Yellow Jackets cut the lead down to 19-18, but a late bucket for Wilhite and a three-pointer

by Wells — who subbed in late in the quarter — made sure that Humboldt didn’t relinquish their lead. At intermission they were ahead 2418.

A 5-0 run to begin the second half got Fredonia back within one point, but Humboldt quickly answered with a basket from senior Annalise Whitcomb and a triple from Maggie Johnson to extend the lead back to 29-23.

After a Fredonia foul shot and with Makaylah still struggling with her shot, Aricah McCall stepped to the forefront with a three-point shot to give Humboldt its largest lead to that point at eight.

“Arikah and Rylan really stepped up tonight,” Makaylah McCall said.

“They helped us get past that score where it was close and (Fredonia) could still come back.”

The lead was 36-29 when Makaylah McCall got her first basket of the second half to go down. She made it count on a baseline drive that resulted in a three-point play and just like that the lead was 10.

“Makaylah made the first couple and then quieted down,” Humboldt coach Aubrey Jones said. “We were laughing at her, because we said, ‘Hey, you are on the leading scorers’ board now, how about you go knock a few more down?’ And all of a sudden she started knocking shots down again.”

Fredonia didn’t back down though and rallied to cut the lead to 4239 midway through the fourth quarter. Again it was Aricah McCall who had the answer.

“Arikah is huge for us off the bench,” Jones said. “Even though she is only a sophomore, she has far more experience than any other sophomore because we didn’t have many subs last year so she had to play. I don’t feel like we lose anything when we go to her.”

An Arikah free throw followed by a Makaylah basket gave Humboldt some breathing room.

Then Arikah knocked down a corner three and followed that up with a layup to extend the mar-

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After a Fredonia basket, Humboldt closed the game on a 8-0 run to seal the game.

“We beat a good team because we finally did what we need to do late in the game,” Jones said.

The Cubs finished with three in double figures. Makaylah McCall had 18, Wilhite had 12 and Arikah McCall had 11.

“That really helps our confidence going against better teams,” Makaylah McCall said. “We haven’t been playing very much competition lately so we were worried coming out, but we got used to it and it is a very good win.”

JUNIOR VARSITY AND FRESHMEN Summaries of the Cub junior varsity and freshmen girls’ games will be available in Thursday’s edition of the Iola Register.

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Texas Tech Boys: Splane nears triple-double edges past K-State by one point Continued from B1

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Keenan Evans stepped up at a big moment for Texas Tech.

Evans made a goahead layup with 15 seconds left, helping the Red Raiders top No. 25 Kansas State 66-65 on Tuesday night.

“I had to run up there and finish the play,” he said.

Evans’ basket gave the Red Raiders a 63-62 lead.

Aaron Ross and Niem Stevenson then combined for three foul shots for Texas Tech before Barry Brown made a 3-pointer in the final seconds for Kansas State.

“It’s my fault and I got to do a better job at helping them in the game and executing,” Kansas State coach Bruce Weber said.

Evans finished with 18 points. Zach Smith had 16 points and seven rebounds for the Red Raiders (13-3, 2-2 Big 12), who improved to 11-0 at home.

“We knew it was going to be a grind-out game,” Texas Tech coach Chris Beard said. “We talked to our players for the last three days that it was going to be a one possession game, that’s what it ended up being.”

Kamau Stokes led Kansas State (13-3, 2-2) with 17 points. Dean Wade added 12 points, and D.J. Johnson finished with 11.

WORTH NOTING Texas Tech scored 17 points off Kansas State’s 15 turnovers. The Wildcats managed just six points off the Red Raiders’ nine turnovers.

ally helped.”

Guards Bo Bigelow and Daylon Splane each got to the charity stripe the most with Bigelow attempting nine and Splane shooting eight. Each player made five.

They each used that rhythm developed at the line to score nine points with Bigelow hitting 2-of-3 shots from the field and Splane hitting 2-of-4.

Those are the most points Splane has scored since the season opener and for Bigelow, it’s his highest output in the past three games.

“With all the different things we do, there are a lot of opportunities for guys to get easy shots,” Taylor said. “I want guys to step up when the opportunity presents itself, because at some point in the year, we are going to have to have them do some things.”

Splane was all over the court with eight assists and eight steals on top of his point total.

“I thought Daylon played really well,” Taylor said.

The guards weren’t the only ones taking advantage of the Yellowjackets’ focus on Hoepker.

Kline and Lance Daniels combined to shoot 8-of-11 from the field and they each

UP NEXT Texas Tech: Visits Oklahoma on Saturday night. The Sooners lost 81-70 to No. 2 Kansas on Tuesday night, dropping to 0-4 in the Big 12.

Kansas State: Hosts No. 1 Baylor on Saturday. The Bears got their first loss of the season on Tuesday night, falling 89-68 to No. 10 West Virginia.

scored 11 points.

“Rayce is always putting up the big numbers, but it is good (for us) to get into the double digits,” Kline said.

JUNIOR VARSITY The Humboldt junior varsity was also able to pick up a convincing win on Tuesday night with a 51-39 victory over Fredonia.

Freshman Conor Haviland led the Cubs with 14 points.

Colin Gillespie scored 10 of his 11 points in a dominant third quarter performance.

Ryan Sellman had eight points and Zach Korte and Caleb Coronado each had six points.

Edward O’Neal-Wilks,

Kyler Allen and Caleb Klauman each scored two to round out the scoring.

C-TEAM The Humboldt C-Team completed the sweep by notching a 51-40 win.

Cooper Jaro led the Cubs with 12 points while Kyle O’Neal-Wilks had 11 and Briar Orth added 10.

Taylor Lassman and Xavier Bauer each scored six points. Josh Hull had three and Reid Smith had two.

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DOWN THE STRETCH Beard was pleased with Texas Tech's poise in the final part of the game.

“It was good. We talk about those things all the time,” Beard said.

“A lot of these Big 12 games, you know, you try to do everything you can to put yourself in a position where, if it’s a two-minute game, four or five possession game late, if you continue to put yourself back in these situations you know you can win your share.”

BIG PICTURE Texas Tech: The Red Raiders went 20 for 26 at the line, compared to 13 for 18 for the Wildcats.

The difference in free throws helped make up for Kansas State’s 10-for20 night from beyond the arc. The victory could help Texas Tech get into the poll next week.

Kansas State: The Wildcats had won eight of nine, with the lone loss coming against Kansas.

Humboldt senior guard Daylon Splane goes up for a layup over a Fredonia defender during Tuesday’s game in Humboldt. Splane finished with nine points, eight assists and eight steals. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

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A good wound cleaner doesn’t damage skin Dear Dr. Roach: I am a welder, and I often use acetone to wipe minor cuts and abrasions in the workshop. It stings pretty good, but it gets rid of the dirt, grease, etc. What do you think about that? — D.S. Answer: I think that is not a good idea. Acetone is a powerful solvent, and solvents should never be used directly on skin.

They can cause damage to skin — long-term damage. Workers who were frequently exposed to solvents were found to have a higher risk of dementia and hearing loss, among other problems. Also, the grease (and possibly even more-toxic substances you might work with) can penetrate the skin along with the solvent, which further increases the health risks. Some of these toxins can cause kidney damage; others

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are carcinogenic (cancercausing). A 2014 study showed increased breast cancer risk in women who frequently work with solvents.

Gloves and other personal protective equipment are your first defense against chemicals used for occupation or hobbies. There also is a myriad of special products designed to get greasy materials off of hands without damaging the skin or letting the chemicals penetrate your skin barrier. These can be found at hardware and automotive shops, or online.

Dear Dr. Roach: I read

in your recent column that in your experience melatonin is not very helpful. I wonder if you are aware that according to a recent review, it has been effective, but it needs to be taken three to five hours before desired sleep onset. It is not effective when taken at bedtime. I have found that patients are unaware of this. — Anita Kraus Lane, M.D., FACP Answer: I appreciate Dr. Lane’s taking the time to write. I also have found that both dosage and timing of melatonin are confusing, so I reviewed the article Dr. Lane referenced, as well as several comprehensive studies on melatonin for sleep disturbance.

I conclude that melatonin certainly does not work for everyone. The biggest review found that taking melatonin in-

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However, since a few people will get a lot of benefit and some will get none, melatonin is still worth a try, in my opinion.

Secondly, many people are taking a dose that is far higher than the most effective dose; for most people, that’s between 0.3 and 0.5 mg. I see doses of 1 to 10 mg for sale at pharmacies, and the smaller doses are sometimes not sold at all, requiring a person to break a tablet in half. A few people will benefit from higher dosages, but lower doses should be tried first.

Finally, due to the way the drug is metabolized, younger people are most likely to get benefit from taking it several hours before bedtime; older adults are more likely to get benefit when it is taken an hour or so before bed.

Baby pictures: Thank you for not sharing Hi, Carolyn: My husband and I are expecting, and we would really like to keep our baby off social media.

We obviously won’t post pictures ourselves, and our parents agree with our preference. However, I’m not sure how we deal with other relatives and friends who might post pictures.

If it’s only one or two here and there, I don’t want to make a big deal about it, but I also don’t want to set a precedent of being okay with it. Is there a way you suggest telling people our wishes without sounding controlling? I’m sure people will try to be respectful, but it’s the first baby in the family so everyone is also excited. — Expecting Expecting: The best way not to sound controlling is to figure out what you most want and need to control, and to let everything else go — because if you’re announcing expectations on Facebook exposure, sugary foods, preferred colors, acceptable toys, screen

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time, music volume and shoes in the house (and you don’t have special health circumstances to justify it all), then, well, you get what you get.

Pregnancy is a good time to form general priorities, because you have time to think while you await your baby’s birth, but expect the reality of your child — and of the number of fronts on which your relatives and friends push back against your preferences — to force adjustments on the fly. Some parents end up adopting strategies that don’t even resemble their original intent; the goal is to be flexible in setting priorities and focused in living by them.

So. Facebook. Mention to anyone taking the baby’s picture that you don’t want the photos online until s/he is old

enough to consent to it.

For those who don’t hear this and post an image, ask kindly for them to take it down or change their privacy settings (assuming that’s okay with you, that a just-family, closed group has access).

And, like I said, stay loose on the less meaningful stuff.

Re: Baby: When we sent an email announcing our baby’s birth, we said that baby was feeling a little shy and didn’t want to be seen or mentioned for the time being.

People have respected the request. — Anonymous

is what they really care about.

Of course, my motherin-law posted pictures on Facebook anyway after we specifically told her not to, and we had to ask her to take them down. Some people will truly not care what you feel about it, and you just have to roll with it. — Anonymous 2 Anonymous 2: The alternate means of sharing is an elegant solution, thanks.

Re: Baby: What we said was, “We are not posting pictures of the baby on Facebook, but we can invite you to see pictures on (fill in the blank).” This can be a dropbox, a blog, a password-protected site . . . we found a service that is specifically designed for that. This will let people know you don’t want pictures posted while also allowing them to see your little one, which

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We’ve just got to come out better to start the game off the first half.”

Kansas took control and pushed its lead out to 15 in the second half behind Mason, who made 7 of 12 shots after the break.

“He’s terrific, just an outstanding player,” Kruger said. “He’s a winner. He takes things on his shoulders. He makes teammates around him better. He makes bigtime plays in tough parts of games. Just an outstanding player.”

BIG PICTURE Kansas: The Jayhawks took sole possession of the Big 12 lead and maintained their series dominance over the Sooners, winning for the 16th time in the past 18 meetings.

Oklahoma: The Sooners were buoyed by scoring leader Jordan Woodard’s return from a leg injury. Oklahoma lost all four games without the senior guard, who had started 115 straight games before getting hurt. Woodard entered the night averaging 17.6 points. He finished with seven points in 24 minutes, and the Sooners played much better once he took the floor as a substitute.

“I really didn’t expect him to play that many minutes,” Kruger said.

“I thought he got tired a couple of times, naturally, and got out. But I thought overall he was very, very good.”

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