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THE IOLA REGISTER

Moran talks raises, new library

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

MORAN — Monday night Moran City Council members voted to increase employee wages by 25 cents an hour.

They also approved a $25 a month increase to employees’ health insurance premiums, bringing them to a total of $325 a month.

Moran employees also will get a second personal day each year and one day of sick leave a month, which may accumulate to 560 hours, or 14 weeks.

Their previous sick leave accumulation was 12 weeks.

Council members voted unanimously to increase Municipal Court fees from $60 t0 $70 for each fine, with $5 of the increase going to a fledgling campaign to raise money for a new library.

Nelda Cuppy, a library board member, told the Register the long-range plan was See MORAN | Page A3

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New chair in social services appointed

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GINGERBREAD WALK 2013

Building tradition together

By STEVEN SCHWARTZ The Iola Register

Making gingerbread houses has become somewhat of a family tradition in the Dunne home — no matter how messy the outcome is.

“That was probably the hardest part,” Lisa Dunne said, while holding her four-year-old son Eli as they looked at their creation. “It was super messy.”

Their family made two gingerbread displays this year for the Gingerbread Walk. One is on display in Kwi-Kom and the other at Town & Country.

Eli and his sister Makayla, 6, worked with their cousins Chloe, Emma and Grace to craft a train station depot and a farm-house scene. Lisa said they used everything from gum bricks to build the depot to Fruit Roll-Ups as siding for the farm home.

Above, Lisa Dunne and Eli Dunne survey their gingerbread creation at Kwi-Kom Communications Monday morning. At right sits another of their family’s creations, a railroad depot displayed at Town & Country. Both gingerbread houses are part of the annual Gingerbread Walk in Iola. The winning creation will be selected on Dec. 23. REGISTER/

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See DUNNES | Page A3

Creation a family affair

By DAVE RANNEY KHI News Service

TOPEKA — Rep. Ron Ryckman Jr., a Republican from Olathe, has been named chair of the House Social Services Budget Committee.

Ryckman succeeds Rep. Brian Weber, a Republican from Dodge City, who resigned his seat earlier this year to spend more time with his family and to pursue business interests.

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

It’s put me in a difficult position because I don’t want to pit social services against education. But at the same time, I can’t assure people that it won’t happen because we’re in a situation where anything could happen.

— Rep. Ron Ryckman Jr.

The nine-member committee — seven Republicans, two Democrats — is charged with assembling the budgets for the Department for Children and Families, Department for Aging and Disability Services, and the Division of Health within the Department of Health and Environment. It also has a hand in overseeing KanCare, the state’s Medicaid managed-care program operSee CHAIR | Page A3

At top, Cindy Chalker and Ben Bockover’s prairie scene is displayed at the Allen County Historical Society. Above is Barbara Chalker Anderson’s winter village she built with her grandchildren, displayed in Flynn Appliance. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET

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Gingerbread creations are beginning to pop up in Iola store windows as the 7th annual Gingerbread Walk begins.

Barbara Chalker Anderson and her family have designed gingerbread structures every year for the walk.

“We always try to do one over the Thanksgiving break,” Anderson said.

“This is the first year we’ve made two.”

Anderson created a little village with her three granddaughters. It is displayed at Flynn Appliance.

“We made little presents for under the tree and used lots of red and green,” she said.

Her sister, Cindy Chalker, and son Ben Bockover, made a prairie scene. It is displayed in the Allen County Historical Society’s window.

“They wanted to make something simple,” Anderson said.

Their gingerbread creations took them about nine See ANDERSONS | Page A3

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School accused of free speech violation

Dorothy McKean

BONNER SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) — An Arizona group has filed a federal lawsuit accusing a suburban Kansas City middle school of violating a student’s First Amendment rights by prohibiting the student from handing out fliers promoting a prayer event.

The Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian group based in Scottsdale, Ariz., that advocates for religious rights, contends a counselor at Robert E. Clark Middle School in Bonner Springs violated the student’s rights to free speech and equal protection by refusing to allow the student to post fliers promoting the Sept. 25 “See You at the Pole� event, a national event in which teens pray around their school flagpoles.

The group contends in the lawsuit filed Nov. 26 in federal court in Kansas City, Kan., that the counselor told

Dorothy Evelyn McKean, 88, Gardner, passed away Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013, at Kansas City Hospice House. Â Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Grace Baptist Church, 650 E. Madison, Gardner.

Burial follows at Gardner Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 9:30 a.m. before the service at the church.

Memorials may be made to Grace Baptist Church or Gideon Bible Society. Arrangements are through Bruce Funeral Home, Gardner. Condolences may be left at www.brucefuneralhome.com

Trolley ready for Santa, light tours Families can ride the Molly Trolley for free when Santa comes to town. The rides will be from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday evenings up through Dec. 19.

The rides will start from the southeast corner of the square on Jef-

ferson Avenue. The free Santa rides are sponsored by PSI. The Holiday Lights Tour is at 7 p.m. Dec. 15, 21 and 22. The tour for Dec. 14 is sold out. To buy advance tickets contact the Chamber office at 365-5252.

Today in history In 1828, Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States by the Electoral College.

In 1967, surgeons in Cape Town, South Africa led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkan-

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the student the fliers, which contained Bible verses, could not be posted or distributed at school because of their religious content. The ADF, which filed the

tion, which is unconstitutional in any type of form,� the lawsuit said.

Dan Brungardt, superintendent for the Bonner Springs/Edwardsville schools, said

icy prohibiting distribution of religious materials on school grounds because “different entities request to distribute information to students constantly. If all entities who requested were allowed it would be disruptive to the school environment,� Brungardt said in an email.

Doug Bonney, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, said he was not familiar with the lawsuit, but he questioned whether the counselor had the authority to stop the student from handing out the fliers. But Bonney said the school could be faulted if the student’s posters were singled out because of their content. “If in fact the school did prohibit the student from posting a religious message because it was religious, where a secular message would be allowed to stay up ... then the school might have some problems,� Bonney said.

This denial of K.R.’s religious materials while permitting secular posters, flyers, and materials from other students, constitutes viewpoint discrimination, which is unconstitutional in any type of form. —excerpt from lawsuit

lawsuit on behalf of the student identified only as “K.R.,� also said the district has a policy banning distribution of religious materials on school grounds but allows other types of materials to be posted and distributed. “This denial of K.R.’s religious materials, while permitting secular posters, flyers, and materials from other students, constitutes viewpoint discrimina-

Monday he had not seen or heard about the lawsuit. He also said the district had not received any complaints from parents or students about anything regarding posting fliers before the prayer event. Brungardt said the event was announced over the school’s intercom system. “We can’t encourage students to go, but we did announce it,� Brungardt said.

The district has a pol-

Burglars get $3,400 in liquor from Wichita WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Thieves who hit a Wichita store apparently knew their liquor.

Wichita police say the thieves took close to $3,400 in liquor during a break-in overnight Sunday at the

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Woman almost dies from bacteria

By LESLIE BARKER Dallas Morning News

Soltero; he was told she’d have to wait until later that night or the morning.

“She may not be here tomorrow,” he said.

Soltero, 39, relays heart-stopping details calmly, but hardly sounds detached. How she gave power of attorney to her father before the first surgery. How terrified she was to see a team of nurses and doctors gather in her hospital room. How her doctor said he didn’t know how much of her leg he’d have to take in order to remove the infection.

The disease, which affects about one in a million people, is usually close to the skin — thus its “flesh-eating bacteria” moniker. But, says Soltero, co-owner of Crowbar Cardio in Lakewood, “Mine was almost to the bone. They cut into my quads, hamstring, IT band. I had a hole in my hip joint. Antibiotics helped control it, but the treatment is to get it out of your body.”

Two days after her first surgery, while the group she trained with was running the half-marathon, Soltero went into the operating room a second time. She had a third surgery, a fourth, a fifth — a total of 10 during her three-week hospital stay.

Ten days after she finally went home, she needed No. 11.

“Every time they went in, they’d take out the sponges and stitch an inch or two at the top and bottom,” Soltero says. “I had to heal from the inside out.”

Teaching classes, eating right — even owning a fitness studio — didn’t protect her from getting sick. But Soltero thinks her fitness helped her heal.

DALLAS — Karen Soltero doesn’t mind the scar that wends its way 22 inches from her knee to just above the waistband of her workout shorts.

She handles the constant discomfort in her left leg. She still keeps Neosporin handy but has stopped assuming that every bug bite, blister or everyday scratch is a gateway for potentially deadly bacteria to return.

The visible signs and the silent ones are the price she pays for this blessing called life. She almost lost it, almost had it snatched away, almost became a statistic.

On March 21, three days before Soltero was to run a half-marathon, the intruder that almost took her down — necrotizing fasciitis — introduced itself with seemingly innocuous symptoms. Who, after all, hasn’t had chills and fever? Plus, the pain in her left leg and hip felt familiar, as if she’d just completed a tough training run.

By the middle of the night, though, her symptoms included vomiting and diarrhea. Early the next morning, her parents took her to the emergency room at Baylor University Medical Center Dallas. Blood tests showed her white blood cell count at two to five times higher than what’s considered normal. Her pulse wouldn’t drop below 150. Soltero was alert and lucid but was in kidney failure and septic shock.

Endless questions ruled out possibilities.

When necrotizing fasciitis took the forefront, her attending doctor ordered an MRI. Four or five patients were ahead of

After Karen Soltero started Crowbar Cardio with a childhood friend she contracted a flesh-eating bacteria that almost took her life. She has a 22-inch scar on her left leg. Rex C Curry/Dallas Morning News/MCT “My body fought in ways someone else’s might not have,” she says.

“What if I hadn’t been in shape?”

When she finally did go back to work in July, she sat at the front desk because her gluteus muscles couldn’t hold her up.

She refused to look at her leg.

“I had to imagine it as healthy,” she says.

Being fit has always been part of Soltero’s life.

A former competitive swimmer, she took barre classes while living in Los Angeles, did her first triathlon in 2006, ran her first half-marathon in 2011.

While training for another half with childhood friend Molly Setnick, the two hatched the idea for their low-impact studio.

Barely two months after it opened, Soltero underwent an emergency appendectomy. And now this.

She could have lost her leg; she knows that. She could have died; she knows that, too.

Thirteen years ago, Wendy, her younger sister and only sibling, was shot and killed during a robbery. She was 22.

“I didn’t think I’d have another lesson in mortality,” Soltero says. “It’s very different to go through the loss of someone else and to feel your own.”

Touching death, however reluctant or tentative or vigorous her tap on its door, has affected her in ways other than the expected.

Yes, she is beyond grateful. But it hasn’t made her immune to life’s annoyances.

“There will always be little things,” she says.

Yes, her physical therapist advised her to think of recovery in terms of seasons, not days and weeks.

But she’s teaching classes again.

Yes, she could ask “Why me?” But she’d rather ask, “What am I going to do about it?” And then answer, “Use this to make myself better.”

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ated by three private insurance companies.

Ryckman, 41, said his goal as chair was “…not to come in and find ways to slice and cut” spending.

Instead, he said he hopes to find ways to “increase efficiency” and make sure the departments’ budgets are generating the “best services for the people of Kansas.”

He said he’ll also be looking for ways to “make KanCare work,” noting that he was aware of ongoing provider complaints about the complexity of the new system and the difficulties they’ve had obtaining treatment authorizations and timely payments from the managed care companies.

“When I talk to people about KanCare, the message I’m getting it that they realize it’s here and that they’re going to have to deal with it,” Ryckman said. “So the challenge now is: How do we make it better? How do we solve the problems we’re having?”

Ryckman, who’s still in his first two-year term in the House, is a member of the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell Joint Committee on Home and Community Based Services and KanCare Oversight. He also serves on the House Appropriations Committee.

In addition to his legislative duties, Ryckman serves on the Olathe City Council, a position he’s held for the past five

years.

Ryckman said he expects much of next year’s budget deliberations to be driven by a Kansas Supreme Court decision that could force lawmakers to spend an additional $500 million a year on public schools.

“As long as the ruling on school finance is up in the air, everything is in play,” Ryckman said.

“It’s put me in a difficult position because I don’t want to see the court pit social services against education. But at the same time, I can’t assure people that it won’t happen because we’re in a situation where anything could happen.”

Rep. Barbara Ballard, a Lawrence Democrat and the committee’s ranking minority member, said Ryckman should expect a full agenda.

“There are so many issues to deal with, I wouldn’t know where to begin,” she said. “We have people on waiting lists for services, we have DCF (Department for Children and Families) making it more difficult for people who are truly struggling to be eligible for services, and KanCare has become a huge concern. We have all kinds service providers saying they aren’t being paid, and then we have consumers saying they can’t get services. So there’s a lot for the committee to talk about.”

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to build the new library on Cedar Street, the town’s main north-south avenue, and raze the old library so it could be made into a parking lot for the new structure.

No formal campaign has been organized to raise funds for the library, but council members said they would discuss fundraising at their Jan. 6 meeting.

Catalyst for the project was a $20,000 donation to the library by Union Pacific Railroad following a massive derailment south of Moran two years ago.

“They (Union Pacific officials) came to town looking for a storm shelter their employees might use during the cleanup,” Cuppy said.

“When they found out

there wasn’t one, they made the donation to help build a library with a storm shelter.”

Cuppy said Librarian Connie McWhirter had “some great ideas for the library that could be done with a new building.”

IN OTHER business, council members: — Authorized two purchases: $5,885 for a large mat-mounted transformer that will be used as a backup, and about $800 for a bullet-proof vest for the police department.

— Approved cereal malt beverage licenses for Pump-N-Pete’s convenience store and Stub’s Market.

— Put off review of city codes until January.

Clerk Lori Evans said the codes hadn’t been reviewed for five years.

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She said the cousins are a bit older, and have a bit more creative independence, but her kids are creative in their own way.

“Mostly we let the kids do it,” she said. “It’s all their imagination, they’re getting more creative.”

The kids spent around

three hours crafting their structures, and they have been participating for the past four years. Her mother, Vickie Tholen, helped along with the children, perhaps as an excuse to have some fun, too.

“I think grandma enjoys something like that to do with the kids,” Lisa said.

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to 10 hours to make. Anderson recalls last year it took her about 19 to 20 hours because she designed the Molly Trolley.

The idea of the Gingerbread Walk came from Clyde Toland when he was traveling. Iola got involved when Anderson was director of the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce. The Gingerbread Walk is a good way to

have people come together, she said.

“I’ve always told people every generation can do it,” she said.

“Pre-schoolers can do it, grandparents with their grandkids, nursing homes and industries.”

The creations will be on display around town until Dec. 23. Spectators are able to vote for their favorite inside each store.

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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Retailers rely increasingly on weather forecast Word has it we’re in for a cold winter.

Area schools will likely cancel classes at some point.

The thought of being stranded at home inspires parents to think ahead.

Are supplies of hot chocolate and marshmallows adequate. Locate the snow boots, hats and mittens.

Perhaps a few movies will be needed just in case it’s a three-day white-out.

All that, from the mere mention of a possibility of inclement weather.

Turns out, weather is a key factor in what promotes sales.

You don’t have to convince us. Here at the Register we just bought a fireplace heater for the break room. We figure it’s as close to the real thing as practical and will provide a nice ambiance to guard against the cold and gloomy days ahead.

Media strategists at The Weather Channel, now called The Weather Company, have confirmed local weather plays a big role in a consumer’s purchasing preferences.

An area’s precipitation, temperature and even dew point all influence what

people buy. More to the point, the three factors tell marketers what they should be promoting.

A balmy forecast should bring discounts to outdoor grills and fans. Window displays should feature gauzy clothing, hats and sunglasses.

With snow in the forecast, you can bet Glen Coffield of Town & Country will put his Carhartt jackets in one window and Justin, Red Wing and Timberline work boots in the other.

Weather channel experts can also be very helpful to specific industries and market their services as such.

Knowing a hailstorm is on its way, for example, can be helpful to the insurance industry. A mass email and text message telling policy owners to move their cars to cover could save millions of dollars in claims.

On a larger scale, energy and crop traders base their economic forecasts on longterm weather trends.

TALKING ABOUT the weather is now more than just a way to make small talk. It’s part and parcel of big businesses.

— Susan Lynn

A look back in time

50 Years Ago Week of Dec. 1, 1963

Vonco Corp. has been declared bankrupt on a petition for voluntary bankruptcy filled by C. M. Vaughn, president of the firm, on Nov. 22, according to a notice sent to creditors by Robert Moton, referee in bankruptcy. Work at the Vonco plant went on a standby basis last week and will continue this way until the operating receiver makes his report. ***** Walter S. Fees, 76, a major Iola oil producer for more than 40 years, is retiring from the oil business and has sold his oil properties to James E. Russell of Abilene, Texas. The sale included approximately 3,000 acres of oil-producing leases in the Colony and Welda areas of

Anderson County with 140 oil-producing wells, 84 water input wells and three water supply wells. The sale will bring to a pause, at least, one of the longest active careers in the oil business in Kansas.

Fees first entered the business in 1912 as a drilling contractor in the fields around Chanute and Fredonia. He moved to Iola in 1922 and has lived here since. ***** James Russell, purchaser of the Fees oil properties, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl S. Russell of Iola and he, himself, lived in Iola about a year in 1948-49. Born in Chanute in 1917, he is a graduate of Kansas University and has been active in the oil industry in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Kansas since that time.

Tax credits come with a cost Last week I made one of my sons return a delightful but ridiculously expensive birthday present he got me. Not because the gift and the thought behind it weren’t welcome, but because he just joined the working world, New York is an expensive city to live in, and he’s got school loans. Our family will be better off once that debt is repaid.

Rekha Basi The Des Moines Register I’m likewise tempted to ask the Iowa treasury to keep the extra $54 it plans to refund me and other Iowa income taxpayers when we file our returns for this year. Not because it isn’t fun to have free money fall into your lap, but because that money isn’t free, and in our individual laps it will do a lot less good than it could if pooled together and put toward something that benefits us all.

Whatever state you live in, be wary of the short-sighted crowd-pleasing tax giveback.

Iowa lawmakers from both parties approved the credits last spring as part of a compromise package adding up to the largest tax cut in Iowa history.

Its most expensive and controversial feature was a business property tax break described by one liberal economic think tank official as “Christmas for Wal-Mart and McDonald’s.”

The cuts in revenues hit local governments hard.

But these $54 refunds to individuals who earn enough to

Not only could our small refunds take care of critical infrastructure repairs, but they’d create jobs in the process. Wouldn’t you forgo $54 to create jobs to the roads? pay income taxes also come at the expense of people and projects that need the money more. They cost $120 million, and Iowans are slated to get them every year that the Taxpayers Trust Fund exceeds $30 million. When you realize how little they amount to, you have to ask if it’s worth it.

Your 54 bucks might get you a dinner out, a pair of jeans, a couple of sideline tickets to a college football game, or some fancy bottles of wine. If your income is low enough that you don’t have an Iowa tax liability you don’t get it.

Now consider what it could do for a state. Iowa’s budget for fixing roads and bridges falls $215 million short of need every year. Not only could our small refunds take care of critical infrastructure repairs, but they’d create jobs in the process. Wouldn’t you forgo $54 to create jobs to fix the roads?

Doling out money piecemeal is a gimmick that may bring smiles to some faces but it can’t take the place of sound, outcome-oriented action. To make an analogy: The United States has pledged a generous $37 million in emergency relief aid to the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan, which is estimated to have cost 5,200 lives and more than $5 billion in damage.

But no sum of money after a cataclysmic event can outweigh the need for us to cut the carbon emissions believed

to be driving extreme weather events like the typhoon. They weigh heaviest on developing countries that don’t use fossil fuels the way we do.

Some of us may give our $54 to a charity to put Band-Aids on our social problems like hunger, homelessness and drug abuse. But $120 million could make a dent in preventing those problems. Iowa has polluted waterways that need cleaning, libraries that needs funding, education _ beginning in early childhood and on up through university _ that needs more support. We need more inspectors to make sure vulnerable people dependent on institutional care are being properly looked after. From the elderly on fixed incomes to the school kids dependent on backpacks with food distributed before each weekend so they’ll get nutrition at home, there’s no shortage of need.

And Iowa already has nearly $1 billion in reserves, plus a surplus of up to $700 million.

There’s a term for sudden windfalls and the frivolous ways they can be spent. It’s called “mad money.” But when it comes at the expense of investing in systemic solutions, like better educated kids and safer roads, it’s not so madcap; it’s fiscally irresponsible.

Which is ironic, since the tax cutters tend to be the ones claiming fiscal responsibility.

Sometimes it’s better to keep the money in the coffers and spend it right.

Winter driving: Ease off if your knuckles are white

By JOHN SCHLAGECK Kansas Farm Bureau

When I think about the perils associated with winter travel, I think about my dad’s simple, but sound advice, “Stay off the roads.”

Dad has lived by this creed for more than 70 years in northwestern Kansas. He’s seen his share of blowing and drifting snow. When he talks about western Kansas blizzards, the years of ’31 and ’57 are singled out.

The ’31 blizzard hit on April Fool’s Day and killed hundreds of cattle. One of Dad’s neighbors lost 80 head of cattle in a pasture less than a quarter mile west of their small community of Seguin.

I was just a youngster, but I remember the blizzard of ’57.

Snow drifted as high as the

roof on my friend, Vernon Rietcheck’s two-story home. We sledded down the drifts and played in the snow all day.

Our parents weren’t as lucky. There were roads to open and cattle to feed and water. Our homes were without electricity for five days.

My father and those hearty souls who lived on the High Plains learned from these storms. He learned to travel only when necessary ­ — to feed, water and care for his livestock. He never traveled anywhere in his pickup without several pairs of gloves, a scoop shovel, a log chain and chains for the rear tires.

Dad always wore a cap with ear protection and carried a couple extra on the front seat of his pickup in the winter. The trunk of our car also had extras. He knew a per-

son couldn’t last long outside in freezing weather with all of your body heat escaping through the top of a bare head.

If we traveled anywhere during the winter months, the trunk of the family car was always packed with extra warm clothes, blankets, overalls, gloves, a flashlight, fresh batteries, chains and a shovel to clear the snow from in front of the tires.

Dad had been stuck in snow before. He’d heard of, and known of, people who were stranded and froze to death in some of the fierce northwestern Kansas blizzards. Before every winter season began, and often throughout, he’d remind us of these stories.

My father always topped off his fuel tanks for winter travel. He believed a full tank provided extra weight on the

rear wheels.

“It runs better on the top half (of the tank),” he always said.

Although Dad never carried sand bags in the back of his car or trucks, he did carry extra weight during the winter.

He always lugged around tractor tire weights while some of his neighbors preferred sand and sprinkled the gritty stuff in front of their tires for extra traction in snow and ice.

If someone absolutely had to go out during a winter storm, Dad preached extra time and patience. If you’re frightened or overly concerned about weather conditions — don’t drive. Wait the storm out.

Remember, it takes a while to find your “driving legs” each new winter season, he’d say.

Relax. Sit back in the seat.

From time to time take deep breaths. Don’t grip the wheel until your knuckles turn white.

Try to anticipate what other drivers intend to do. Let them speed, spin, slip and slide. Allow at least twice as long to reach your destination. Concentrate on the road ahead, behind and on your right and left.

While driving during hazardous weather brings out the worst in some drivers, it can also bring out the best in others. Some welcome the chance to brave the elements. To drive safely under such conditions can provide a feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment.

Drive safely and know your limitations. Remember, if you have to take a chance that could result in an accident or worse, “Stay off the road.”

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Think less fat, sugar and sodium at your holiday gatherings this fall and winter to keep your health in check, said Tanda Kidd, associate professor and extension specialist in human nutrition for K-State Research and Extension.

Kidd, who is also a registered dietitian, has developed a set of guidelines to help people make healthier holiday meal choices for their events surrounding Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s and even the Super Bowl.

“People need to be reminded that the choices they make during the holiday season could stick with them well after the season is over,” Kidd said.

Even minimal weight gain can be damaging to a person’s health, par-

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ticularly if that person doesn’t lose the weight after the holidays, Kidd said, which is why a combination of good food choices and exercise is especially important this time of year.

Traditional holiday food items that might contain more fat, sugar and sodium than the acceptable amounts per person include turkey with the skin on, storebought cranberry sauce, gravy, biscuits, sweet rolls, cornbread, fried foods, creamy salad dressings, eggnog and, of course, those favorite

desserts and pies.

Serving turkey without the skin and making many of the sides from scratch using low-fat, low-calorie and lowsodium ingredients can help make those holiday favorites much healthier.

Other tips to consider for healthy eating at holiday gatherings, Kidd said, include: • Avoid overeating. Enjoy a small meal or snack that might include fruits, vegetables, a whole-grain sandwich or low-fat yogurt, to keep you from feeling overly hungry at mealtime.

• Make time to be physically active. Exercise, even a brisk walk, can help relieve stress that can come with the holidays.

• Choose your favorite foods, and skip your least favorite ones. Try to fill

your plate with fruits and vegetables.

Keep your health in check into the New Year

Many New Year’s resolutions have to do with losing weight or living a healthier lifestyle, and Kidd said people shouldn’t let those beginning-of-the-year parties interfere with their health.

Snack foods such as chicken wings, sour cream or mayonnaisebased dips, chips and high-calorie alcoholic beverages are examples of popular items for New Years and Super Bowl parties. Many of these and other items can be prepared with healthier ingredients, Kidd said.

Whole-grain and baked snacks are healthier options, as are items such as salsa, guacamole, fruit kabobs and vegetable platters.

U.S. home sales stabilize; up 12.5% from 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of U.S. home prices rose only modestly in October, adding to signs that prices have stabilized after big gains earlier this year Real estate data provider CoreLogic said today that prices increased 0.2 percent in October from September.

Big gains in previous months, along with higher mortgage rates, may be pricing some buyers out of the market.

Home prices have risen 12.5 percent from a year ago. The increase could encourage more sellers to put their homes on the market, easing a shortage of homes for sale.

The shortage of inventory has slowed sales. Home re-sales fell in October for a second straight month to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 5.12 million, the lowest since June, according to the National Association of Realtors.

That pace is still 6 percent higher than it was a year earlier.

Some sales were delayed in October due to the 16-day partial government shutdown, the Realtors’ group said.

The shutdown prevented the IRS from verifying incomes, a critical part of the mortgageapproval process. Those

sales may have been pushed into November or December.

But a measure of signed contracts to buy homes fell for a fifth straight month in October. That points to weaker final sales in the coming months. Final sales typically occur one to two months after contracts are signed.

The biggest gains were in Nevada (25.9 percent), California (22.4 percent), Georgia (14.2 percent), Michigan (14.1 percent) and Arizona (14 percent).

Ninety-six of the 100 largest metro areas reported price gains.

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However, right now is actually the perfect time to winterize your home and prevent air leaks or frozen water pipes.

Air leaks are often found in the attic, as holes around plumbing and electrical lines, and other gaps in framing. If this is an existing home, move the insulation out of the way to find many of these. Using a foam sealant, regular caulk and small pieces of foam board, seal all the penetrations possible.

Look for other openings in both exterior and interior walls, including plumbing openings behind bath and kitchen cabinets.

Residents should be sure to replace the insulation and avoid leaving gaps between fiberglass batts. In homes with a basement, owners should look for, and seal, the same kind of holes in the ceiling and floor framing that open into the interior cavities of the house.

After sealing is done, consider adding insulation to the attic. An attic should be insulated to an R-38, or about 12 inches fiberglass or cellulose.

When adding attic insulation, cellulose can be blown directly on top of either fiberglass or cellulose.

Another option for many residents is applying plastic sealing over a window. Properly applied, a plastic covering can make a window almost airtight. This is one of the most effective ways to seal a leaky window. Window plastic can be installed on the inside window surface or on the outside, however it will be more difficult to maintain window plastic applied to the outside.

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Cold temperatures make the plastic brittle, and winds whip the plastic in and out, reducing the seal’s effectiveness and sometimes even tearing the plastic.

Fall is also a good time to have your furnace checked and cleaned by a professional. Start the winter off with clean furnace filters and check them monthly thereafter.

A dirty filter reduces efficiency by impeding air flow and can also be a fire hazard in extreme cases.

No one wants to wake up on a cold winter morning to find they cannot flush the toilet or fill the coffee pot because the water pipes have froze overnight. To prevent this nightmare, insulate pipes in crawlspaces or basements with pre-molded foam rubber sleeves or fiberglass insulation. Pipes have that more exposure to the elements can also be wrapped with heating tape that emits electrical heat.

According to residential energy specialists at Kansas State University, temporary or seasonal steps to weatherproof a home’s windows during winter can often pay for themselves within one heating season.

In the Aesop fable of “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” the Ant works all summer to prepare for the long winter months while the Grasshopper sings and relaxes only to find himself starving and cold in the winter.

Naturally, preparing your home in advance of the winter months will have you living more like the Ant.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback has named a deputy Kansas secretary of agriculture to lead the department.

Brownback said in a release Monday that Jackie McClaskey will succeed Dale Rodman as secretary of the state’s Agriculture Department after Rodman steps down Dec. 10.

McClaskey has been with the department since January 2011, when she became an assistant secretary. She was named deputy secretary of the department in July. McClaskey, who grew up on a family farm in Girard, was assistant dean of the Kansas State University College of Agriculture before joining the Agriculture Department.

Rodman was appointed secretary of agriculture in January 2011. In July, he was elected chair of the Board of Directors of the Kansas Bioscience Authority, where he will continue to serve.

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Storage units catch fire Iola firefighters put out the flames Monday night as storage units owned

by American Self Storage burst into flames.

The units are at the corner of East Monroe and Kansas Drive in Iola.

The units were built in 2007. They are owned by Dana Watson and Benny Buerskens.

By this morning, total damage was not known.

Cause of the fire is unknown and under investigation.

Freelance photographer Mark Dunlap captured this shot at about midnight and provided it to the Register.

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WASHINGTON — Congress’ unfinished business threatens to leave millions of Americans — including the unemployed, Pentagon contractors and even supermarket shoppers — in the lurch this holiday season.

With partisan dysfunction unlikely to subside in coming weeks, lawmakers appear ready to punt several issues into the new year. But many Americans could start feeling the effects of inaction as early as this month.

An estimated 1.3 million Americans will lose federal emergency unemployment benefits after Christmas if the program is not renewed.

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Rebecca Dixon, a policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project, said cutting food stamps as millions of Americans lose their unemployment benefits “would really be like a one-two punch for the most vulnerable.”

Progress toward a broader government budget compromise to avoid another possible shutdown next month has also slowed. Republicans are rejecting any tax increases to close a budget gap, while Democrats reject more spending reductions unless new revenues are on the table.

Hopes for a grand budget compromise have evaporated. Even a more modest package to avoid

the next round of automatic “sequester” cuts seems out of reach.

The bipartisan budget committee that is trying to stave off another shutdown appears no closer to reaching an agreement by its Dec. 13 deadline.

Without a deal by Jan. 15, funding for the government will run out.

Under the sequester law, the Pentagon and almost every other government agency will see budgets slashed to lows that will chisel away at the nation’s fragile economic growth.

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With the winter sports season just days away from starting, postseason assignments for area high school basketball teams and the Iola High wrestling team have been announced.

Iola will have to get past only three other opponents in order to earn a state playoff berth in basketball, because of the split of Class 4A into two divisions.

The three opponents are Burlington, Anderson County and Prairie View. The Class 4A, Division II substate tournament will run March 6-8 at Anderson County. The winner advances to the state tournament March 12-15 at Park City in suburban Wichita.

Mustang wrestlers will head to Burlington Feb. 22 for the Class 4A Regional Tournament. Other teams are Baldwin, Burlington, Chanute, Columbus, Fort Scott, Frontenac, Anderson County, Prairie View, Louisburg, Osawatomie, Ottawa, Paola, Parsons, Santa Fe Trail and Spring Hill.

The Class 4A state tournament is Feb. 28-March 1 in Salina.

Katie Weide couldn’t have picked a better time for her only basket of the night Monday.

Weide’s shot from inside with about 10 seconds left in overtime lifted the Iola Middle School seventhgrade B team to an 11-10 win over visiting Independence. Her bucket came after Independence had made up a late three-point deficit to force overtime.

In other action, the Ponies fell in the seventhgrade A team contest, 2713; in the eighth-grade A team affair, 50-21; and in the eighth-grade B team matchup, 23-11.

Monday’s games begin a frenetic week for the IMS squads. They’ll travel to Coffeyville today to take on Roosevelt Middle School.

The Iola teams host Fort Scott Thursday before traveling to Burlington for a tournament Saturday.

Another home game follows next Monday against Royster of Chanute.

OTHER SCHOOLS’ designations in basketball: — Humboldt will compete in the Class 3A Substate in Wellsville to take on the likes of Council Grove, JayhawkLinn, Osage City, West Franklin, Kansas City Christian, Central Heights and host Wellsville. The state tournament is in Hutchinson.

IOLA’S eighth-grade A team led 10-8 after one quarter before Independence responded with an 18-4 run in the second period and an 18-3 explosion in the third.

“The girls came out and really played well for the first 10 minutes,” IMS head coach Marty Taylor said.

“We just couldn’t keep it going tonight.”

Colbi Riley led the Ponies with 15 points and two rebounds. Olivia Taylor followed with two points and three boards. Madison Carlin also had two points. Katie Bauer and Carly Cescon each scored

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Iola Middle School seventhgrader Savannah Puckett, above at center, fights for possession against Independence’s Molly Thompson (25) in the seventh-grade B team contest, won by the Ponies, 10-9. At left, Iola eighth-grader Karly McGuffin, left, drives against Independence defender Terra Daniels in the eighthgrade A team game. Independence won that contest, 50-21.

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Weis expected back at KU Wildcats may be in line for Holiday Bowl

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Nobody was talking about bowl games at Kansas State in mid-October, when the Wildcats were sitting at 2-4 and feeling bruised and battered after a loss to Baylor.

Nobody was giving up on the season, either.

So with the kind of steadfast resolve that has become a hallmark under Bill Snyder, Kansas State flipped the script. The Wildcats ripped off four straight wins to become bowl eligible, and then finished off their regularseason with a 31-10 rout of Kansas on Saturday.

The most likely destination now is the Holiday

Bowl, where the Wildcats are 3-0.

“You know, I’m proud of the fact that they’ve come back,” Snyder said Saturday, “that they didn’t give into it and move in a different direction.”

It could have easily happened.

There was the disheartening loss to North Dakota State on the same day the school dedicated a massive renovation to the stadium that bears Snyder’s name.

There was the underwhelming performance at Texas, and the back-to-back losses to Oklahoma State and Baylor.

None of them were by more than 10 points. But not all of them were close, either.

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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Charlie Weis felt a difference in the culture at Kansas as he stood on the sideline Saturday, the clock melting away in the second half and Kansas State on its way to another win over its rival.

Unlike last season, when the Wildcats blitzed their way to one of the most lopsided victories in the history of the series, Weis thought Kansas was in the game. In fact, until a field goal that made the final margin 3110, the Jayhawks were still within striking distance.

All despite six turnovers, an inept offense and a sometimes porous defense.

So even though the Jayhawks finished 3-9 in his second year in charge, and

last in the Big 12 once again, there are signs — modest though they may be — that there’s been progress.

“I never felt, even when the score was 21-10, the game was getting away from us, and that is a change,” Weis said. “Last year, we were in the second half of that game, it was wide open.

It was like there was nothing you could do about it. I never felt that way.”

Kansas athletic director Sheahon Zenger dispelled any notion that Weis’ job may be in jeopardy on Saturday when he gave the somewhat embattled coach a vote of confidence. Zenger noted that any rebuilding job takes time and he was prepared to give Weis the opportunity to see it through.

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Field Kindley comes up short in Class 4A title bid Coffeyville’s Field Kindley High got off to a rousing start Saturday in the Class 4A state championship game, scoring on its second play from scrimmage.

Destin Downing scored on a 62-yard run to give the Golden Tornado a 6-0 lead over Buhler.

But two other early scor-

ing chances ended with turnovers before Buhler found its footing.

The Crusaders scored 17 points in the second quarter to take control of a 31-14 victory.

The loss ends Field Kindley’s season at 12-2. Buhler (31-1), which knocked off defending state champion

Holton in the semifinals, won its first state title.

Downing rushed for 78 yards to lead the Golden Tornado. James Newton had a 67yard reception from Charles Deffebaugh in the fourth quarter for the other touchdown.

In other action on Championship Saturday: — Derby won the Class 6A

title with a 28-21 win over Shawnee Mission East.

— Blue Valley edged Salina South, 27-26, to win the Class 5A trophy.

— Silver Lake set a state playoff scoring record with its 82-38 win over Beloit.

— Centralia capped its 13-0 season with a 61-0 win over LaCrosse in the 2A state title game.

MVJH squads earn split at Northeast ARMA — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s one-two punch of Justice Pugh and Trevor Wilson led the way to a Wildcat A team victory Monday.

Pugh scored 19 points and Wilson 13 as the Wildcats rolled to a 53-21 win over NortheastArma.

The Wildcats weren’t as fortunate in the girls’ A team contest, despite the efforts of eighth-grader Trinitee Gutierrez. Gutierrez poured in 18 points, but Marmaton Valley had only 22 as a team in a 26-22 defeat.

Marmaton Valley travels to Crest on Monday.

IN THE BOYS’ A team contest, the Wildcats took the lead early and never looked back.

Marmaton Valley led 10-4 after one quarter and 21-9 at intermission. The lead was at 35-19 before the Wildcats ended the game with an 18-2 run.

Tristan Fraker added six points, Korbin Smith and Isaac Heskett added four apiece, Caiden Elliott scored three and Brock Hall had two.

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Seahawks crush Saints, earn playoff bid SEATTLE (AP) — Russell Wilson threw for 310 yards and three touchdowns, and the Seattle Seahawks became the first team to clinch a spot in the NFC playoffs with a 34-7 victory over the New Or-

leans Saints on Monday night.

More important than just wrapping up a spot in the postseason, the Seahawks (11-1) moved two games ahead on the rest of the NFC in the race for home-field ad-

vantage and now hold tiebreakers over New Orleans (9-3) and Carolina (9-3) the team’s nearest pursuers.

Wilson was outstanding, picking apart the Saints’ defense.

He threw touchdown passes

of 2 yards to Zach Miller and 4 yards to Doug Baldwin in the first half as Seattle built a 27-7 lead. He then added a pinball 8-yard TD pass to Derrick Coleman in the third quarter.

The seven points

matched the fewest scored by the Saints since Sean Payton became coach in 2006.

New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees finished 23 of 38 for 147 yards. Graham had three catches for 42 yards.

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Yet a team that had to replace nine starters on defense, not to mention Heisman Trophy finalist Collin Klein at quarterback, somehow managed to turn things

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High School Wrestling Saturday, Caney Valley Invitational, 9 a.m.

Middle School Wrestling Today, at Parsons, 3:30 p.m.

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around. Part of it had to do with the sagely Snyder, who usually knows how to pull the right strings. But a big part of it had to do with the simple stubbornness that comes from a program that’s grown accustomed to success. “What we can take out of this is we never gave in,� wide receiver Tyler Lockett said. “We kept fighting back, fighting back, regardless of the close games we lost.

We came back the next game.

Wildcats: Split

16-16, after three quarters. Makayla Brooks scored the only four points for the Wildcats.

The Wildcat girls rolled to an 18-6 B team win after trailing 4-2 after one quarter.

Marmaton Valley outscored Northeast 16-2 over the final three periods.

Paige Becker scored eight points, Shailee Woods had six and Emily Smart scored four for Marmaton Valley.

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knotted at 36-36 before Northeast outscored Marmaton Valley 7-2 in overtime. Heskett scored 14 and Elliott 13 for the Wildcats. Gage Griffith chipped in with eight. Kiefer Endicott scored four and Trent Vest had one.

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“We have a great coaching staff,� Lockett added, “and they kept believing in us, and that’s all we needed. We just kept pushing and pushing.�

Now, the trick is to finally end a bowl-game losing streak. Kansas State has lost all three that it’s played since Snyder returned from a brief retirement, and five straight going all the way back to his first tenure. Ron Prince lost the only bowl game he coached in 2006.

Incidentally, the Wild-

lead after one quarter and a 12-6 advantage in the A team contest.

Northeast pulled even,

Continued from B1

— Yates Center will host the Class 2A Substate against West Elk, Oswego, Oxford, Pittsburg-St. Marys Colgan, Pleasanton, Sedan and Uniontown. The state tournament for Class 2A is in Manhattan. — Marmaton Valley and Southern Coffey

County will be in Waverly for the Class 1A, Division I Substate. In addition to their hosts from Waverly, St. Paul and Marais des Cygnes Valley will compete for a berth in the state tournament in Emporia. — Crest goes to Chetopa for the Class 1A, Division II Sub-

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state against Argonia, Altoona-Midway host Chetopa and Elk Valley.

The state tournament is in Hays.

OF MORE pressing concern for area coaches is next week’s preseason tournaments.

Iola will be in Baldwin, Humboldt will host its

own tournament, including Crest. Marmaton Valley also will host its own tournament, as will Yates Center. Southern Coffey County also is in the Yates Center tournament.

Preseason tournament information will be published later this week.

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with hunger.

Even as the marching band played the fight song and hundreds of Kansas State fans waited to celebrate a win over their rivals on Saturday, the 74-year-old coach stood in the shadows of the bleachers in Lawrence and lamented the many close calls of this season.

Yes, the Wildcats finished 7-5. But the defending Big 12 champs could have done so much better. “It’s like it would be for anybody, what you really remember, you remember the losses,�

Snyder said. “And the biggest margin was 10 points. There wasn’t a ballgame we played that we didn’t have our chances, so that’s the frustrating experience.

One of our players said last night, they asked to define the season in one word, and one of the players said, ‘Frustrating.’ “It is, but it doesn’t take away from how much I appreciate the young people in our program.�

It also doesn’t take away from the way they kept fighting, either.

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cats’ last victory was in the 2002 Holiday Bowl. “It’s an awesome feeling to be bowl-eligible again, but I haven’t won one since I’ve been here,� said wide receiver Tramaine Thompson, a senior. “I really want to go out with a bang.�

Quarterback Jake Waters, who split time with Daniel Sams most of the season, said there’s a feeling of confidence as the Wildcats begin their month-long bowl preparation. They may have lost to Oklahoma last week, but they rebounded nicely against the Jayhawks.

Running back John Hubert ran for a career-high 220 yards, Waters accounted for three touchdowns and a defense that went through quite the roller-coaster came up with six turnovers. “We’re going into our bowl game with a win instead of two straight losses. That’s huge,� Waters said. “Then not playing as well as we want, that’s going to keep us hungry for bowl prep.�

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Ponies: Iola Middle School goes 1-3 Continued from B1

one point. Bauer pulled in a team-high five rebounds.

Scout Rush’s four points led Iola’s eighthgrade B team. Makayla Bycroft, Cescon and Carlin each scored two points. Taylor added one.

girls have come a long way since the season started,” Taylor said.

Piper Moore was the catalyst, scoring seven points with eight rebounds. Kendra Sprague added four points and seven boards. Mia Aron-

son scored two.

Aronson scored four points for the Ponies in the seventh-grade B team win. Kassy Shelby added three points and Shaylee Sutterby had two.

Weide’s bucket

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marked the only time Iola scored in overtime.

The teams were knotted at 9-9 at the end of regulation after Independence hit a free throw and basket in the waning moments to erase a 9-6 deficit.

IN THE seventh-grade A team contest, Independence led 5-2 after one quarter and 13-6 at halftime. A 10-2 Independence run put the game away after three quarters.

“The score got away from us a little in the third quarter, but these

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Still, despite the signs of progress, there are just as many signs that Kansas is no better off than when it fired Turner Gill two years ago.

After all, Gill was 5-19 in his two seasons in charge, and Weis will be lugging a 4-20 mark into his third season.

While the Jayhawks ended an infuriating 27game Big 12 losing streak by beating West Virginia, they still haven’t won a league road game since 2008, or 22 games.

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“We have a lot of older guys coming back that have been here a couple of years with us,” Weis said. “There are a bunch of them. When you have a bunch of them that have been the same system for a couple of years, even though there are going to be tweaks in the system I think that that usually bodes well in the uptick for performance.”

As for recruiting, Weis planned to hit the road immediately.

His first stops this week will be with the offensive linemen who have already committed to the program. Offensive line coach Tim Grunhard announced this past week that he was leaving the program and Weis wants to make sure that those incoming players are firm in their commitments.

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There are plenty of holes heading into next season, particularly along the offensive and defensive lines.

“I usually feel pretty good about our plan in recruiting,” Weis said.

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“Things didn’t work out our way but I always felt a positive vibe in how our team came together, Linton said. Offensive lineman Gavin Howard, another senior, believes that there’s some momentum within the program for the first time in years. After all, three wins — and a Big 12 victory — trumps the one victory the Jayhawks managed last season.

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‘Singin’ in the Rain’ suit could be pricey DALLAS (AP) — A memorabilia collector is selling the gray wool suit Gene Kelly wore as he joyously danced in a downpour in the Hollywood musical “Singin’ in the Rain.”

The suit is expected to sell for more than $20,000 when Heritage Auctions offers it up Friday in Dallas. Memorabilia collector Gerry Sola has had the suit for more than four decades after buying it for $10 at a 1970 sale of MGM props and wardrobe items following the sale of the studio to financier Kirk Kerkorian.

“I think it’s one of these pieces that people are really excited to see go up on the block,” said Margaret Barrett, director of the entertainment and music memorabilia department at Heritage Auctions. “Even if you’ve never seen this movie, you probably know the scene. You’ve seen Gene Kelly dancing around, singing in the rain, swinging on that lamp post.”

Sola, a retired postal worker, had traveled from his home in Northern California to Los Angeles for the 1970 MGM sale, which progressed from an auction to a garage sale of sorts with racks of clothing for sale

“If there was one thing in my life I could do again, I’d love to go to that auction again. It was the most exciting thing to ever happen to me,” Sola said.

Sola said that he was sorting through racks of clothing when he ran across the gray suit marked as Kelly’s and had a feeling it was the one from the famous scene in the 1952 musical. The jacket’s inside breast pocket has an MGM label with Kelly’s name and the production number.

“The inside jacket, the lining, was all water stained,” Sola said. “I said, ‘Oh, I know what that is!’ So I bought it.”

Sola, who has stored the suit in his closet over the decades, said he decided it was time to sell.

“I’ve had it for over 40 years. I’m getting older.

It’s time to kind of let this stuff go,” said Sola, 72.

At the entertainment and music auction Friday, Sola also is offering another suit worn by Kelly in “Singin’ in the Rain” that he bought for $75 during the auction portion of the sale. That suit, made of plaid wool that features knickers, is expected to sell for about $6,000.

Delta puts athletes over passengers

By MORGAN WATKINS The Gainesville Sun

Travelers at the Gainesville Regional Airport were forced to reconfigure their plans Sunday afternoon after Delta Air Lines canceled their commercial flight to Atlanta so the University of Florida men’s basketball team could use the airplane.

A maintenance delay grounded the aircraft meant to carry the team from Gainesville to Storrs, Conn., for its Monday-night game against the University of Connecticut, which was scheduled to start at 7 p.m. The airline canceled Delta Connection flight 5059, which had been Atlanta-bound, and used the aircraft for a charter flight for the team instead.

Delta spokesman Michael Thomas told The Sun in an email that the passengers from flight 5059 were accommodated on other flights and given vouchers valid for use through Delta for future trips.

The airplane originally meant for the basketball team required maintenance, he wrote, and, “due to operational need and aircraft routing requirements as a result of the busy travel holiday,” Delta decided to use the other airplane and cancel the commercial flight for which it had been initially scheduled.

“Delta apologizes to those customers on Delta Connection flight 5059, operated by ExpressJet,

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Laura Aguiar, spokeswoman for the Gainesville Regional Airport, said the passengers were booked on different flights, the last of which left Monday. The flight was originally scheduled for around 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

She said the airplane was a 50-seater but wasn’t sure how many people were scheduled to be on the commercial flight before the change in plans. Thomas stated he believed it was a full flight.

Team spokesman Denver Parler wrote in an email he wasn’t aware of the situation a Sun reporter described, which involved passengers being put on later flights so the team could use the other airplane.

Any decision on plane use would be made by Delta, he wrote, not by the team or the University Athletic Association.

He said he didn’t have details on the university’s agreement with Delta on Monday afternoon but estimated there were about 35 people, team included, who went on this trip.

“We generally fly private charters, although we do bus one or both ways for some games that are closer to home,” he wrote.

Passengers were told there was a mechanical difficulty, but some of them noticed the Gators basketball team boarding the plane meant for them out the window.

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‘Moving in’ isn’t a relationship cure-all But being oldfashioned isn’t all it’s cracked up to be either Hi, Carolyn:

Recently, my boyfriend of five months has brought up living together. I’m totally on board, mainly because the couples I know who have made it to the altar (whose relationships I look up to), all recommend doing this before getting married.

My mother, on the other hand, seems to think it’s important to wait at least for an engagement ring before taking that step or else the guy won’t take you seriously enough.

The last thing I want is for someone not to take my level of commitment seriously, since I do see marriage and kids in the future, but how do you know when you’re ready to move in with someone?

Tell Me About It Carolyn Hax

Cohabitating As the squillion questions over the years about infidelity attest, a ring is no guarantee of a commitment taken seriously. In fact, people who hang it all on the ring are training their eyes away from the stuff that does matter.

Your mother sounds like a stealth subscriber to the why-buy-the-cow mentality, which is nothing but a bad deal for women — masquerading as concern for their wellbeing. Yuck.

I mean, why isn’t anyone worried about your taking him seriously enough or your taking advantage of him by using him for sex as long as you can get away with not proposing to him?

The idea that marriage is a one-way gift of le-

gitimacy that men deign to give women is all so much Neanderthal dust that we somehow haven’t managed to shake off.

That said, I don’t think a you!-must!-cohabitate! approach is the antidote to that — and certainly not just because some of your best friends shacked up. That, too, can provide misleading results, because you can live together in reasonable harmony, take that as a green light for marriage, get married and still end up rueing the day you jumped into things.

Here’s what does work: Being patient, being yourself and seeing where that takes you — ideally after you’ve safely left the hormonal fog of new love. When an attraction is new and exciting — at, oh, five months — it works as a rationalizing agent on all the “little” things you don’t love about each other. Your attraction will tell you these things are too minor to matter, but, in the cold light of

your post-pheromonal life together, you will have to live with them at actual size. The biggest favor you can do yourselves and each other is to get good and familiar with each other — when your guard is fully down — before you pack so much as a suitcase.

Other people’s standards mean squat to this process. You have to take your own needs seriously, and see if your boyfriend does the same.

You have to take your boyfriend’s needs seriously, and see if he does the same. You have to see if the result of those efforts is a life you want to live, with a harmony you can sustain without twisting yourself — or his twisting himself — into a person you no longer recognize.

It sounds subtle, but, when you’re successful at tuning out other people’s ideas of how you need to live and tuning into your own, then it’s actually pretty obvious.

And remember: Moving in = easy. Out = agony.

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or the owner fails to diligently pursue the same, the Governing Body of the City of Gas, Kansas will cause the structure to be razed and removed and all costs assessed against the property as provided by law.

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Public notice (First published in The Iola Register, November 19, 2013) RESOLUTION NO. 2013-30 WHEREAS, the Governing Body of the City of Gas, Kansas, on the 12th day of November, 2013, held a public hearing allowing the owners, agents, lien holders and any occupants of record of the structure located on the following described real estate to-wit: Lots Six (6), Seven (7) and Eight (8), Block Three (3), Remsberg’s Addition to the City of Gas, Allen County, Kansas.

Street Address: 606 N. Main, Gas, Kansas Owners: Kenneth E. Beaman, Jo Ann Beaman and WHEREAS, the Governing Body of the City of Gas, Kansas deemed it necessary to hold a public hearing in which the owner or occupant of said structure may appear and show cause why such structure should not be condemned, ordered repaired or demolished; and WHEREAS, the Resolution calling for such hearing was published once each week for two consecutive weeks on the same day of each week in the official city newspaper, and said Resolution was properly and lawfully served on the owners, agents, lien holder or occupants of said structures; and WHEREAS, the Governing Body of the City of Gas, Kansas, heard all evidence submitted by the Building Inspector, and in addition heard evidence submitted by owners or occupants of said structures; WHEREAS, the evidence supports the finding that said structure is unsafe and dangerous.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF GAS, KANSAS: The structure located on the real estate above described in un-

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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF GAS, KANSAS THAT SAID STRUCTURE SHOULD EITHER BE REPAIRED OR CONDEMNED. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF GAS, KANSAS, that said structures shall be repaired and

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