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Lawmakers gravitate toward sales tax hike

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republicans who control the Kansas Legislature gravitated Tuesday toward proposals that would increase the state’s sales tax to help eliminate a projected budget deficit but also considered lowering the

tax on food.

GOP lawmakers remained split over whether to repeal an income tax break for business owners and farmers enacted in 2012, as the antitax group Kansas Club for Growth launched a statewide

cable television advertising campaign to preserve it. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback champions the tax break as a “small business accelerator” but wouldn’t say Tuesday whether he’d veto a tax plan that repeals it.

The House and Senate tax committees reviewed multiple proposals Tuesday for raising

new revenues to close a projected $406 million shortfall in the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. If legislators repeal the tax break for farmers and business owners, they’ll rely less on boosting the sales tax or other taxes.

The state’s budget problems arose after legislators cut personal income taxes in 2012 and

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2013 at Brownback’s urging as an economic stimulus. Brownback and many Republican legislators want to keep the state headed toward phasing out income taxes even as they fill the budget hole.

“I want to continue to move the cost of government onto See STATE | Page A3

Allen plagued by loan defaults

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

Allen County commissioners deferred until their June 2 meeting whether to sell or tear down the old Allen County Hospital.

Arlyn Briggs, Kincaid area farmer, has proposed to convert the hospital to a care center for patients with Alzheimer’s disease as well as other health care services. By June 2 he must have not only assurance of $157,000 to purchase the building, as is, but also business and financial plans to ensure success.

The alternative is to raze the structure on the promise that G&W Foods will set up shop on a cleared portion of the two-acre site. Remainder could be location for apartments and a town-

Student loans have grown in popularity over the years to help students pay for college.

However, ACC trustees learned Tuesday night many of their students are defaulting on their loans and the college is suffering the consequences.

ACC has the second-highest default rate for community colleges in Kansas. In three years the rate jumped from 16.8 percent to 23.4.

There are 19 community colleges in the state. Colby Community College has the lowest rate at 5.6 percent.

“We’re not in crisis yet but we need to do something about this,” vice president of student affairs Cynthia Jacobson said.

Lincoln Elementary School students partook in their annual Field Day activities. Above, Drake Mathew, center, strikes with his foam noodle during one activity. At left, Conor Andres carries a bucket during a relay race stacking game.

At right, Phillip Khang tries to jump past an obstacle in another activity. The last day for USD 257 students is Friday.

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Macha scores in class and field

Walden follows father’s footsteps

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

Kaden Macha’s found just as much success on the football field, basketball court or golf course as in the classroom at Iola High School.

The avid golfer will be calling Warrensburg, Mo., his home for the next four years.

Macha will play golf for Central Missouri State University.

While at Iola, Macha has made many memories on all fields of play — depending on the season. For basketball, it was a state tournament appearance during his junior season.

On the gridiron, it was a 40-20 loss to very good Coffeyville team as a sophomore.

“I’m going to miss football and basketball because I’ll prob-

Shane Walden is looking forward to following the footsteps of his father, Bill Walden, an owner of Iola Pharmacy.

Though the journey to become a pharmacist is arduous, his first step is just a mile down the road from Iola High School to Allen Community College.

“I’m trying to follow in my dad’s footsteps and some o t h e r owners at the pharm a c y, ” S h a n e s a i d .

“Three of the four owners started at Allen. I plan on attending KU to finish up school.”

He wants to major in

Kaden Macha ably never get to play them again,” Macha said. “Especially with the same kids that I’ve played with my whole life.”

Also as a sophomore, Macha won the Class 4A State Golf Tournament as an individual.

This season, he’s won two golf tournaments and the team has a chance at the state title.

At Central Missouri,

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Macha is happy a b o u t b e i n g able to continue p l ay i n g golf.

“I’m excited about playing on a different team,” Macha said. “I’m going to miss See MACHA| Page A3

Shane Walden pre-pharmacy and minor in business. His brothers, Drew and Seth, also attended the University of Kansas.

His mother is Becky Walden.

During his time at IHS, Shane made his second home on the football field... or basketball court... or golf course. It depends on the season, but Shane was always involved with sports. At the same time, he was

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taking challenging classes such as calculus, physics and a college English class. Walden is one of 10 valedictorians, having maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average throughout high school.

“I’ll miss [playing sports and doing school work] because it really pushed me. I really love sports, but I wanted good grades,” Shane said. “I See WALDEN | Page A5

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Nobel Prize winner’s new novel impresses audiences Only a handful of Americans have ever won the Nobel Prize for Literature. When the only living one publishes a new novel, then, it’s worth noting. Such is the case with Toni Morrison and her new book “God Help the Child.�

It’s about Bride, the dark-skinned daughter of a light-skinned African American mother who rejected her. Bride is not the only character dealing with childhood trauma. Her boyfriend Booker disappears from her life while dealing with his own. Bride’s mother comes to admit

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“What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.� But while the damage that’s done to children matters, it doesn’t necessarily destroy their chance for a good life. Bride is damaged, but she is also creative and successful.

I’ve never before had the opportunity to write

about two new books where the same person is the author of one and the subject of the other.

However, that’s the situation with Anne Perry.

Perry is known for mystery series set in Victorian England. The latest in the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series is “The Angel Court Affair.� Thomas is assigned to protect Sofia Delacruz, who has returned to England to spread her unique religious views. He’s not happy with the assignment, and when Sofia disappears and two of her followers are mur-

dered, things get tense.

Perry was already an established mystery author in 1994, when it came to light that she was Juliet Hulme. As a 15-year-old in 1954, she and her best friend had murdered that friend’s mother. Both this event and her writing career are covered in the biography “The Search for Anne Perry,� by Joanne Drayton. Drayton reveals Perry as a religious and caring person who can’t forget the horror of what she did as a teenager 60 years ago. “Two Strangers,� by Beryl Matthews is a good

choice for those who like their stories heartwarming. In 1920 London, 14-year-old Vicki is thrown out of her home by her violent father.

Alone and penniless, she survives starvation only with the help given her by two complete strangers. Vicki finds work and is adopted by two kind people, but she’s obsessed with finding those two strangers who aided her when she needed it most.

Next to the Titanic, the sinking of the passenger ship “Lusitania� by a German U-boat in World War I is perhaps

the best known maritime disaster. Coinciding with the centennial of the sinking, Erik Larson has written “Dead Wake: the Last Crossing of the Lusitania.� Larson continues to show the sharp writing and interesting historical detail shown in such previous books as “Isaac’s Storm� and “The Devil in the White City.�

Interestingly, from today’s column, “God Help the Child� and “Dead Wake� are each No. 5 on the current New York Times best seller lists for, respectively, fiction and nonfiction.

Gas will consider having full set of building codes

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

GAS — Construction and remodeling in Gas soon may require more scrutiny, including inspections of key components such as wiring and plumbing.

How construction work is done in Gas was a topic for Gas City Council members Tuesday evening. The result: They asked Ross Albertini, their attorney, to research and then give them details on how they might put in place standard building codes for the city.

What Gas has is “real vague,� said City Superintendent Steve Robb, and no inspections are required for any phases of either construction or remodeling.

Councilman Larry Robertson cited construction practices he had noticed that might lead to problems in later years. Other councilmen also mentioned concerns.

Albertini said he would visit with Iola officials about codes they employ. He expects to have information for review at the June 9 council meeting.

Meanwhile, possible

Librarians attend workshop Kansas libraries and their role in preserving Kansas memories was a focus of a recent workshop of the Southeast Kansas Library System.

Lesa Cole and Rachel Chambers, Iola Public Library, Kathy Hale, Savonburg library, and Connie McWhirter and Ruth Spangler, Moran library, were among about 100 staff and board members at the daylong retreat.

Roy Bird, author and retired consultant for the State Library of Kansas, talked about his books concerning Kansas, along with memories of working in a library.

Other workshop sessions included Kansas Memories and Kansas digital newspapers from the Kansas Historical Society, and inspiration for young adult and adult summer reading programs.

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sale of lots owned by the city will be put on hold until surveys give exact boundaries. That also may mean any new construction likely would fall under revised codes.

With only Robertson deferring, councilmen voted to send a letter of objection to Allen County’s Planning Commission for review when it meets to consider a zoning change to permit Terry McDonald to open a salvage yard north of U.S. 54 and just east of Gas. Gas objected earlier when the salvage project first arose and was brought up again because McDonald’s plans changed and county planners have not yet reviewed his zoning application. “It’s an eyesore for anyone driving into Gas� on U.S. 54 from the east, Mayor Darrel Catron said.

ing City Hall, a project that would be funded through 2016 budget expenditures. Preliminary plans call for new siding and floor coverings, as well as making the office more customer-friendly.

Work to be done by the city crew. — Approved use of Fees Park, at the west edge of town, by the Iola Amateur Radio Club on June 27-28 to join with other amateurs worldwide for an annual field day. IARC has participated in the event since

IN OTHER NEWS, councilmen: — Asked Robb to prepare plans and cost estimates for remodel-

the club’s founding in 2008, first at Riverside Park in Iola and the past two years at Fees Park.

The amateurs will operate with power from batteries and generators, to ensure they are prepared for emergencies, and “also have a good time that’s open to anyone,� said Ralph Romig, a club veteran. He and Dale Roberts, another member, approached the council about using Fees Park. —Authorized City Clerk Rhonda Hill to contact Peggy Lucas, owner

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This â&#x20AC;&#x153;canine influenzaâ&#x20AC;? is believed to be a combination of viruses coming together to create a more complex disease known as Canine Infectious Respiratory Disease or CIRD. There have been outbreaks of CIRD in the past, but they have never reached the magnitude of the current outbreak, which now involves more than 1,000 dogs. Most of the dogs affected are falling ill quickly, and taking longer to recover from their symptoms despite treatment. The most common symptoms include fever, lethargy, and cough that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to go away. Dogs with CIRD may transmit the disease even though they have no symptoms, which is why so many dogs can become affected so quickly. The virus is very contagious among dogs, but will not affect you or your feline friends.

Another problem, is that the virus can survive on surfaces â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like your couch or your petâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food bowl for up to 48 hours, making it easy for other dogs that make contact with those surfaces to become affected. Like many respiratory infections, dogs with the weakest immune systems â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like the very young and the elderly â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are most severely affected.

Very few cases of CIRD have been reported in Kansas.

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Colony

Calendar

Today-Rural Water District No. 5 board meeting at board office, 8 p.m.; Monday-Seekers Not Slackers 4-H Club, Lone Elm Community building, 7 p.m.; Jolly Dozen does not meet until June; TuesdayLibrary board meeting, City Hall, 5:30 p.m.

School Calendar

Thursday-high school league track at Jayhawk Linn, 10 a.m.; SaturdayHigh School Graduation, 2 p.m.; MondayPre-K graduation, 1:30 p.m.; May 20-Last Day of school, dismissal, 11:45 a.m.

Meal Site

Today-chicken lasagna roll-up, salad, Caribbean veggies, wheat bread, peanut butter pie; Friday-tuna salad, broccoli and cheese soup, bun, pineapple; Mondaytaco salad, black bean salad, lettuce, tortilla chips, plums. Phone 620852-3450 for reservations.

Christian Church

Scripture presented Mother’s Day was John 10:10; 31:17, 20-21; and Psalm 23:13. Pastor Mark McCoy’s sermon “Ten Essentials for Happiness on Mother’s Day.” On Sunday, Women only Celebrate Recovery

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invited to the Garnett Methodist luncheon June 3.

Big sister is to be contacted on co-sponsoring the fall conference with Trinity United Methodist in Iola. Sue Colgin shopped for flowers for the Mother’s Day service.

For the May challenge, members discussed purchasing supplies for Vacation Bible School June 15-19. The June 4 Tea Party was titled “Seeds of Faith” and will be at 6:30 p.m. in the United Methodist Church fellowship hall. May 28 was designated “Cleanup Day,” beginning at 10 a.m. in the basement.

Any and all are urged to help.

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meeting will be at 6 p.m. at the church. Church members will honor our graduates during morning worship: Kolbie Gilliland, college; Haley Freelove, community college; Braden McGhee, Trevor Freelove and Christian Troxel, high school; and Abigail Riebel, eighth grade.

UMC

Scripture presented for Mother’s Day Sunday at the United Methodist Church was Psalm 98:19, Acts 10:44-48,1 John 5:1-6 and John 15 8-17.

Pastor Dorothy Welch presented the sermon, “Break Down The Wall.”

Every mother received a flower.

Memorial Day

The annual Memorial Day service will be at 9 a.m. May 25 at 9 a.m. at the Colony Cemetery.

The public is invited.

Fundraiser

Gregory Hardwick, son of Tim and Sandra Hardwick, rural Colony, still needs $972 for his trip to the Junior National Young Leadership he was nominated to attend in Washington, D.C. An account has been set up for Hardwick at the Goppert State Ser-

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Six members met for the Thursday meeting.

Pastor Dorothy Welch opened with prayer.

Claudette Anderson presented the lesson on “Mothers” and each gave a fond memory of her mother.

Members have been

State: Sales tax hike on table Continued from A1

the consumption side of the equation,” Brownback told reporters Tuesday. “The consumption side is paid partially by people traveling through our state.”

No tax plan emerged from either committee Tuesday, and the House panel rejected three plans to raise the 6.15 percent sales tax. But both committees expected to debate more proposals this week to increase the sales tax while also dropping the tax on packaged and unprepared food.

Senate committee Chairman Les Donovan, a Wichita Republican, outlined a $470 million tax plan Tuesday that would hike the sales tax to 6.5 percent but drop the tax on food to 6 percent. The House committee expects to consider dropping the tax on food to 5.9 percent.

Kansas is among a handful of states imposing its full sales tax on food, and advocates for the needy have long sought to decrease it or eliminate it. Democrats often have been ardent advocates of the idea — but they don’t want to boost the sales tax on all other consumer goods, arguing it would hit poor and working class families harder than wealthier ones.

The House committee rejected two proposals to raise the sales tax by a full penny on the dollar, to 7.15 percent.

Rep. Tom Sawyer, of Wichita, the committee’s ranking Democrat, called those proposals “scary,” and even some GOP members said the increase would be too much.

Democrats and some Republicans want to repeal the 2012 break championed by Brownback, which ex-

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Please consider helping this young boy. He most certainly will fully appreciate it.

Citywide Community Yard Sales

Citywide Yard Sales will be May 29 and 30.

To register, call 620852-3321, or send an email to colonygaragesales@hotmail.com. Include the address of sale, which day(s) you will be open, start time, items you wish to be listed, and last name (optional).

The deadline to be on the list and map is May 27. The list and map will be available starting at noon May 28 at local businesses or by emailing the above address.

Colony Day

Correction: Colony Day will be Sept. 5.

This year’s theme is “Take Me Out to the Ballgame!” The next committee meeting is tonight at 6:30 at the City Hall, community room.

Committee members need all the help they can get to make the day successful.

Lions Club

The May 6 Lions Club meeting was held

at the United Methodist Church basement with the United Methodist Women cooking and serving the dinner.

Nine members and one guest, Zaq Ulrich, guest of member Brian Ulrich, attended. President Kenton King conducted the meeting. Jay Dutton reported on a paint sale.

Members agreed to buy the paint for the cemetery committal building.

Gene Anderson reported the Jolly Dozen Club needs two halfbarrels in which to plant flowers in the business district. Two barrels will be purchased.

The next regular meeting is May 20.

Around town

Mother’s Day guests of Rosemary Gillaspie were her daughter Nancy, Independence, Mo.; daughter Mary and children Ian and Megan, Lawrence; son Kevin, Lawrence; and son Scott and wife Tina and children Brenden and Sarah, Lenexa. Following a delicious carryin dinner the afternoon was spent visiting and playing with the grandchildren.

On Mother’s Day Wilma and Weldon Goodell enjoyed dining at Jean-

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ie’s in Colony. Their daughter Carolyn and husband Terry, Newton, and the Goodell’s son Dean Goodell, Ottawa, hosted.

Mother’s Day also fell on Weldon’s 90th birthday. Their children hosted his birthday on the prior Sunday at his farm lake which was reported in last week’s items.

Mother’s Day at the City Hall community room was misreported earlier.

Sympathy is expressed to Garry and Kathy Holloway at the death of his father, Neil Holloway, 86, who died May 2 at the Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola. Funeral services were Friday at the Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel in Garnett, with burial in Lone Elm Cemetery.

Sympathy is also expressed to Michelle Hendrix and children at the death of her husband, Scott Hendrix, 45, May 4. Among the survivors are their four children, Arlynna (Arli), Jordan, Austin and Jamison, all of Colony. A celebration of Scott’s life was Saturday at the Garnett Church of the Nazarene, followed by burial in the Colony Cemetery.

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empted the profits of 281,000 business owners and 53,000 farmers from personal income taxes. Critics argue that the policy is unfair because business owners can escape income taxes while employees’ wages are still taxed.

Donovan’s plan replaces the break with an income tax credit equal to 1 percent of a business owner’s total payroll. The House committee approved a bill Monday to tax most of the now-exempt business profits at 2.7 percent.

Kansas Club for Growth plans to run its cable ads for at least a week, and GOP conservatives argue that the state shouldn’t abandon Brownback’s favored tax break.

“It leaves money in the hands of our job creators,” said Rep. Steve Brunk, a Wichita Republican.

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this team, but I think it will be good for me. I’ll have better practice facilities and a different coach.”

Although he will now focus on one sport, he doesn’t know what he wants to major in yet. He said that he is looking at business like his dad, Bob, but will wait to make a decision. His mother

is Kelly Macha.

Although not comfortable talking about himself, Macha was captain for both the basketball and football teams during his senior year. He played both sports with the same energy, whether diving into the endzone or after a loose ball on the court.

That will to win also transferred over to the classroom. Macha is one of 10 valedictorians in

this year’s graduating class.

The National Honor Society student is proud that he was able to put up good grades at the same time as padding his statistics.

“I’m proud of it because you have to work really hard to make all ‘A’s’ all four years,” Macha said. “Hopefully I don’t blow it here at the end of the school year.”

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home complex.

If commercial and residential development is in the cards, commissioners will seek bids to raze the aging structure.

At Tuesday’s meeting they agreed to hire John Brocker of Allen County Realty to auction surplus equipment still in the old hospital. Brocker will receive a 15 percent commission with guaranteed payment of $600.

Brocker’s bid was the better of two.

Commissioners toyed with the idea of bidding removal of the structure in two stages, one for salvage, such as copper wiring, and a second for demolition. They leaned more, though, to including salvage in the demolition contract, which they thought likely would draw a better bid.

A 50-kilowatt generator may be sold ahead of an auction of such things as commercial kitchen equipment and even doors and cabinets.

But, commissioners’ decision awaits what Briggs’ June 2 presentation.

THE NEW bridge over Owl Creek about two miles west of Humboldt may not open for another month.

Bill King, director of Public Works, told commissioners the latest word was guardrails would not be installed until late this month or early June. The bridge originally was expected to open in late March.

“That’s the issue, the guardrails,” King said, with a hint of disgust in his voice.

County crews are about to embark on two major seasonal projects, he said: Chip and seal treatment of roads will start about June 1; dust control material will be applied to roads near homes where residents paid for the process a week earlier.

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“You could be the first county in Kansas to provide the insurance” for residents, Guiot said, at a cost of $57,000. Eagle Med has policies for individual families starting at $65 a year.

“We’ll think about it,” said Commissioner Jerry Daniels, who once flew Eagle Med helicopters.

Commissioners Tom Williams and Jim Talkington agreed.

Commissioners agreed to purchase four sizes of aluminized culvert pipe from Welborn Sales, Salina, at costs ranging from $24.96 to $29.82 per foot, depending on diameter and length. They also purchased two sizes of steel culvert pipe from Rail Road Yard, Stillwater, Okla., for $10.95 and $13.50 a foot.

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did both because I didn’t want to sacrifice one for the other.

Academics comes first, but that’s why I had to stay up late and do my homework.”

During the fall, Walden played as a wide receiver and halfback. In the winter, he was a point guard. Now, he’s on a golf team that has a good chance at vying for a state championship.

“I really enjoyed the sports teams I was on, but I’ll really miss the golf team more than anything,” Walden said. “Not because it’s golf season right now, but I have grown up with this group of guys since I was in preschool. It’s going to be hard leaving them, plus we’ve been pretty succesful as a golf team. We’re pretty close-knit.”

The golf team is a perfect 7-0 during the

regular season tournament. It’s their 12th win as a team in a row — excluding a third place finish at last year’s state touranment.

“Everybody says that it’s hard to do both sports and school, while being successful in both of them,” he said. “But, really, you’ve just got to manage your time.

There has been a lot of sleepless nights to stay up late and study.”

The studying has paid off, as the National Honor Society student makes his way toward graduation.

Looking to college, Walden is excited about the prospect of having more time to focus on his studies.

“I’ll have a little bit more free time,” Shane said “I’ll have more time to focus on the classes that I really need, and am going into as a major.”

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ELSMORE — Dennis Aiello would love to see more people trade in their Xboxes for tackle boxes.

Aiello is one of the proprietors of 5th Street Bait N More, which opened its doors in March.

A few conversations about the lack of bait shops in the area led to Aiello’s business venture.

Elsmore’s lone bait shop closed about three years ago, leaving visitors to the nearby Bourbon State Fishing Lake with few opportunities to secure bait, tackle or other equipment necessary for the sport.

“It usually meant driving about an hour to get it,” he said.

So Aiello, his family and friends spent the winter converting an old

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When students default on their loans, even if they move to a university, it penalizes the college. After a student leaves a school they have six months to start paying the loan back to the lender.

Jacobson proposed hiring an outside company who handles loans and default prevention solutions.

“We could hire a parttime person but they wouldn’t have all the resources,” Jacobson said.

The two companies she presented were TG and Inceptia. They work with students to pay back their loans.

The board agreed to work with Inceptia for $16,254.

ACC president John Masterson told the trustees about an online athletic fundraising program. ETeam Fundraising notifies people via email and social media about a fundraiser a student athlete is doing.

Students enter names of who they want to make aware of the fundraising. The money would help fund out-of-state scholarships.

The board approved to replace furniture in the dorms. The bid from Contract Supply, Prairie Village, was approved for $14,477.35. The school has used their products in the past.

utility shed into the new venue.

The shop is open seven days a week — Paul Green runs things when Aiello’s not on duty — from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., except on Sundays. (It closes at 3 p.m. those days).

Aiello stressed those hours can be flexible.

If somebody calls ahead, Aiello or Green can stay late.

“We want to serve our customers’ needs,” Aiello said.

5th Street Bait offers a full variety of live bait, including nightcrawlers, minnows, goldfish, chicken livers and shad.

Aiello also carries assorted tackle, from hooks and line to rods and reels.

“We’re starting small, but we should have pretty much anything you need to keep you going,” Aiello said. “And if we don’t have it, we can try to find it.”

He also sells snacks and drinks, and has plans to offer camping equipment.

“We’re not selling guns or ammunition — yet,” he said.

Those items are part of Aiello’s long-range plan. Within the next five years, he hopes to build a larger building in a nearby vacant lot.

“But this suits our needs just fine,” he said.

“We’ve gotten quite a few compliments, especially from people who knew what this building looked like before. You couldn’t walk through here.”

The reception already has been encouraging.

“We’re getting quite a few regular customers, with new people in from time to time,” Aiello said. “I think most people are just glad there’s a bait shop open again.”

The desire, Aiello said, is to be “budget

friendly.”

“We’ve gotten quite a few good comments about how affordable our bait is,” Aeillo said.

The Bourbon County lake — referred to unofficially as “Elsmore Lake” — is a popular destination for fisherman, campers and other outdoor enthusiasts.

“It’s a nice little lake,” Aiello said. “You’d be surprised at the number of visitors it gets.”

Aiello also promises to reach out to area youth.

He is helping sponsor an Elsmore Ruritan fishing derby June 6, as well as an upcoming “Cat Catchers” fishing tournament.

He keeps customers abreast of upcoming activities via 5th Street Bait N More’s Facebook page.

The business is at the intersection of Fifth and Railroad streets in Elsmore and can be reached at (620) 473-0076.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The size of the winter wheat crop in Kansas was forecast Tuesday at 272 million bushels, a low estimate that comes amid a global surplus that has already driven down prices.

The estimate released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service for winter wheat production in Kansas is 10 percent higher than last year’s crop, but is somewhat less optimistic than the 288.5 million bushels forecast by participants during last week’s three-day winter wheat tour across the state.

The agency’s estimate surprised Aaron Harries, marketing director at the industry group Kansas Wheat.

But he was quick to point out the Department of Agriculture data used to compile the first production forecast of the season was collected before recent heavy rains throughout Kansas.

“People on the tour saw the impact of the rain, saw that fields were muddy, saw the weather forecast and took that into account when they did their estimate — and USDA didn’t necessarily have that benefit,” Harries said.

He said he expects the updated production forecast in next month’s report to be higher.

Both the estimates compiled by the government and wheat tour participants are more than the 246.4 million bushels cut last year in Kansas amid the drought. But neither forecast comes

close to the 328 million bushels the state has averaged during wheat harvests in the past decade.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service also is forecasting the average Kansas yield this year will be 32 bushels an acre, harvested from 8.5 million acres.

Kansas still is expected to lead the nation this year in winter wheat production. Texas is anticipated to come in second with 131.2 million bushels, compared to the 67.5 million bushels the state harvested last year.

Oklahoma is expected to be third in winter wheat production with 118.9 million bushels, more than double the 47.6 million bushels farmers there cut a year ago.

“It certainly doesn’t help the fact that Oklahoma and Texas are looking at good crops — which we are happy for them — but that also is going to have an impact on price,” Harries said.

The government estimated this year’s overall U.S. winter wheat crop will top 1.47 billion bushels, an increase of 7 percent compared to last year.

The average yield nationwide is expected to be 43.5 bushels per acre, from more than 33 million harvested acres.

The larger anticipated U.S. winter wheat crop is “not going to help” boost low wheat prices, Harries said.

Wheat prices are being driven down by a global surplus of wheat and anticipated good harvests in wheatproducing countries, he said.

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Amanda M. Johnston, 33, Fort Scott, was arrested Sunday in the 100 block of North First Street for suspicion of disorderly conduct and three active warrants from other jurisdictions.

Justin Witt, 29, Iola, was arrested Sunday in the 200 block of East Garfield Street for allegedly driving with a suspended license, not having liability insurance and no seat belt.

Carol Christy, 76, Iola, was arrested Sunday morning for suspicion of domestic battery, in the 300 block of North Fourth Street.

Alexandra Zimmerman, 27, Iola, and Tyler Barker, 28, Grain Valley, Mo., were both arrested Sunday for suspicion of domestic battery after police were called to the 800 block of East Broadway Street.

Matthew Allen, 26, Humboldt, was arrested Saturday in the 700 block of North State Street after officers learned he was wanted on two Allen County warrants. Officers said they also found what they described as drug paraphernalia.

Connie Channel and Carol Christy were both arrested for suspicion of disorderly conduct after an alter-

cation was reported in the 300 block of North Fourth Street Saturday.

Samantha Burgett, 30, Iola, was arrested Friday following a traffic stop in the 800 block of North Walnut Street for a pair of warrants out of Anderson County. Iola officers claimed Burgett also had expired registration and did not have liability insurance.

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Door damaged Employees at B’s Tax Service told Iola police officers Friday somebody damaged the front door to the building in the 1200 block of East Street.

No injuries from Saturday accident Emily Plaschka, Moran, was westbound Saturday on Texas Road,

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Burglary reported near Humboldt A burglary, theft and criminal damage to property report was filed in rural Humboldt. Total loss was valued at $350, Allen County sheriff ’s deputies said.

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Latest bids to burden farmers with more taxes unwarranted State Sen. Jeff Melcher, R-Leawood, is at it again, attempting to get more tax money from the agriculture sector to help offset the lingering multimillion-dollar shortfall in the state’s budget. For some reason, Melcher doesn’t think farmers pay their fair share.

“The folks in the highpopulated areas, we have borne the burden of the government,” Melcher said, adding that agriculture producers “don’t know how easy they’ve had it.”

Really? Obviously, he doesn’t understand the unique situation farmers are in or their role in feeding not just Kansas but the world cheaply and efficiently. He also doesn’t know what the lingering drought has done to farm income or how a farmer’s livelihood can be wiped out with just one hailstorm.

He eyes those vast acres of farmland as the means to plugging the $400 million hole that the Legislature created when it did away with income tax for many businesses and individuals. And, yes, that includes farmers.

But Melcher doesn’t realize the difference in taxes on land. His latest get-richquick scheme for the Legislature calls for a $3-an-acre excise tax on land, which would generate $150 million. That would cost his urban friends who have an acre of land just $3 more, while it would cost a farmer with 1,000 acres $3,000.

He already has proposed legislation that would

change how land is appraised, which targets 46 million acres of farmland that would raise $173 million in property taxes for the state and $717 million for counties, school districts and local communities. It would put on the backs of farmers a 473 percent increase on farmland values.

What he fails to realize is that farmers earn their income off that land. If they don’t harvest a crop or harvest a bad one because of drought, hail, various diseases or insects or whatever, they don’t have any money to pay those increased taxes. Those are problems urban areas don’t have.

Pawnee County farmer Tom Giessel contends just that and also offers an easy solution.

“What I hate is when you start shifting tax on property especially farmland.

It creates problems. Farmland doesn’t always produce,” Giessel said. “They need to reinstate income taxes. Lawmakers need to close this chapter on that great experiment.”

Melcher counters that farmers need to “step to the plate.” Maybe so, but his approach illustrates that property doesn’t generate income, and it’s the income tax that makes the most sense for farmers as it does for other businesses and individuals.

If the plethora of tax increases proposed occurs, Melcher and his cohorts might just find their plates are empty.

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Kansas Legislature

Marijuana bill attracts GOP TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Supporters of a broad bill that would ease marijuana laws wending its way through the Kansas Legislature claim it’s a narrow enough set of reforms that conservative Republicans can vote for and demonstrates a shift in the long-running discussion.

Kansas’ GOP-dominated House passed the bill by a wide margin Thursday, making it the most serious push to liberalize Kansas’ marijuana policies in decades. The bill would decrease penalties for marijuana possession, order a state study of industrial hemp and allow limited production and sale of hemp oil to treat seizures.

Democratic Rep. Gail Finney from Wichita, who for many years has supported comprehensive marijuana legislation, said efforts to “educate” the Legislature have “paid off.”

“I think that the visibility and the acceptance of medici-

“absolutely surprised” by the vote and said it shows legislators “are listening to the people of Kansas.”

The original version of the bill would keep first- and secAn AP ond-time marijuana offendnews analysis ers who don’t have serious prior convictions out of jail — a reform that is expected to Kansas’ neighbor to the decrease overcrowded prison west, Colorado, has legalized populations and save more recreational marijuana as of than $1.7 million over the 2014, a move that prompted next two fiscal years, accorda lawsuit from the attorneys ing to state estimates. general in Nebraska and The bill also would allow Oklahoma. Kansas Attorney state-licensed producers to General Derek Schmidt said make hemp oil with no more in January that the state was than 3 percent of the com“assessing its options” on the pound THC, which gives marpossibility of joining the suit, ijuana its intoxicating effects. but his office has declined to Only about 24,000 residents comment further. with severe seizure disorders Recreational marijuana would be allowed to purchase use is also legal in Alaska, the hemp oil, according to Oregon, Washington state, Rep. John Wilson, a Democrat and the District of Columfrom Lawrence. bia. Twenty-three states have Wilson crafted the medical comprehensive medical marimarijuana language and said juana laws. Twenty-two states he intentionally made it as have initiated studies of innarrow as possible to make it something that the 97 Republicans in the 125-member chamber could vote for, callI think that the visibility and the acing it an “un-sexy, health-receptance of medicinal marijuana lated bill,” on the floor.

Despite that, many conis more in the forefront today and I servative Republicans still couldn’t be more ecstatic. oppose the bill, saying they worried that it conflicts with Rep. Gail Finney, D-Wichita federal laws and would be difficult to enforce. Republican Rep. Dick Jones from Topeka warned that even with its nal marijuana is more in the dustrial hemp and 14 have leforefront today and I couldn’t narrow focus, the measure galized some medical use of would be “a foot in the door” be more ecstatic,” she said. hemp oil, as the Kansas bill to full legalization.

Republicans provided most would do.

Senate Majority Leader of the 81 votes the measure The state’s first moveTerry Bruce said he has not needed to move to the Senment on loosening pot laws had time to review the bill ate, and Shawnee Republican happened last month, when and was “pretty well surRep. Brett Hildabrand sayWichita voters approved a ing partisan lines are now prised” it passed in the House. ballot initiative last month blurred on marijuana policy, Senate Republicans would be that drops penalties for firstreluctant to reduce criminal which he views as “not a Retime marijuana possession to penalties, he said, but the bill publican issue or a Democrat a $50 fine. The ordinance has would have some support. issue.” And Republican Manot yet gone into force as the Even if it is rejected, jority Leader Jene Vickrey state Supreme Court reviews from Louisburg said the bill Finney said, the conversawhether it unconstitutionally was successful because it was tion has changed. “Kansas conflicts with state law. “very guarded, very carefully is always behind the book, Although the House bill and this is one of those baby drafted” and “Republicans would not resolve the legal steps,” she said. “We’ve got to are companionate toward conflict, initiative co-organizcontinue making baby steps.” individuals that have health er Esau Freeman said he was concerns.”

Nicholas Clayton

Legislators shouldn’t be afraid to use power of veto That period of Kansas’ annual legislative session conducted after most of the work was done and legislators had enjoyed a break in their routine once was commonly known as the “veto session.”

But the veto in “veto session” seemed to disappear over the years. The days before first adjournment became a time to tie up loose ends or address heavy lifting that had been put off, for one reason or another, until the last minute. And “veto” certainly hasn’t been part of the Statehouse lexicon since Gov. Sam Brownback was elected

and teamed with a Republican-dominated Legislature to put their stamp on Kansas and state government.

Until now.

A Legislature thought by most to be in lock step with the governor reared up and overrode his veto of a bill that placed requirements on the ride-sharing company Uber.

At this point, the specifics of the bill and why Brownback vetoed it aren’t nearly as significant as the fact legislators overwhelming rejected the governor’s position. That veto, as much as anything else that has transpired in

the Statehouse this year, indicates the road to a balanced state budget for fiscal year 2016, which begins July 1, could be a very rocky one for Republican legislators and Brownback.

Earlier in the session, many legislators let it be known they weren’t pleased with the governor’s recommendation they increase taxes significantly on cigarettes and other tobacco products and also increase taxes, although less significantly, on alcohol — all to raise about $210 million.

Neither chamber has passed those tax hikes, and the

margin of victory on the veto override indicates legislators might not be opposed to disappointing the governor further.

Republican legislators, who decide what is passed and what isn’t, find themselves planning to do something they really don’t want to do — raise taxes. Yet they have proposed everything from increasing taxes on farmland to hiking the state’s tax on fuel and eliminating some tax deductions for property owners. At each step along the way, they ask the people with sharp pencils how much revenue each move would gener-

ate. So far, they aren’t even close to the $400 million they need to bring the 2016 budget into balance.

Brownback let it be known at the beginning of the legislative session that he would veto any budget bill that included a rollback in the income tax deductions passed earlier in his tenure.

But legislators now know how to use their override authority.

The remaining days of this legislative session could be interesting ones indeed.

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Darlene Redden, owner of Azimuth Solar Energy in Kingman, said most states offer a permanent property tax exemption for solar energy — and some offer other incentives as well.

“We are barely, as an industry in this state, hanging on by a thread,” Redden said. “The costs have come down, but it’s still extraordinarily expensive, and because there’s no other incentives in the state, we’re struggling. If they take away the one thing that keeps us level with the nation, we’re in trouble, and big trouble at that.”

Hedke said he had not studied solar issues thoroughly but was aware Kansas gets a lot of sunshine compared to other states.

“Maybe individual people will be thinking harder about that investment with this legislation,” said Hedke, a contract geophysicist who has worked for oil and natural gas companies. “But again I think the big picture is, it is unfair to the consumer out there to carve out (renewable energy sources) and not have a relatively level playing field on a tax basis.”

Annual reports from the Kansas Corporation Commission have found the renewable energy standards responsible for about 2 percent of rate increases since they went

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Redden lived in the state most of her life before moving to Colorado to get an associate’s degree in solar energy technology. After graduating she spent two years working in Colorado, where she enjoyed rebates and incentives that supported the solar industry.

But the pull of home was too strong, so she moved back to Kansas. For the last two years Redden has tried to build a residential solar business in the area west of Wichita, where the state has some of its strongest solar power potential.

While she said the move wasn’t a smart move from a business perspective, she still believes solar could be a new source of jobs and clean energy for Kansas.

“We’ve got everything,” Redden said. “But the state (government) is not friendly, and that’s kind of heartbreaking.”

into effect in 2010.

Travis Creswell, owner of Ozark Energy Services in Joplin, Mo., said demand for solar installations remains fairly reliant on incentives. For example, he’s ramping up the solar side of his business right now because a local utility company is offering a rebate for customers who install solar.

Creswell said those kind of rebates are more important incentives than property tax relief. The bill under consideration in Kansas isn’t likely to hurt his bottom line, he said, because his company doesn’t do much business in the state.

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“It’s been fabulous growth, it’s been a tremendous investment in the state of Kansas in renewable energy and more to come,” Brownback said.

“This agreement … further solidifies and stabilizes the policy environment so that the investment can move on forward in the state of Kansas.”

During a House debate a few days later, Rep. Boog Highberger, a Democrat from Lawrence, likened the agreement to the kind of compromise that happens when someone is mugged at gunpoint.

“You get your life, and they get your money,” he said. “It’s kind of a compromise, I guess.”

Environmental advocacy groups also panned the deal, saying the wind industry capitulated on measurable policy gains in exchange for promises that may not be kept.

When the hosts of the news conference were asked what assurances the bill gives that the excise tax won’t be proposed again next year if the state has budget problems, there was a lengthy pause.

“We’re not going to have budget problems next year,” Brownback said.

Jeff Deyette is a senior energy analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group that favors renewable energy as a way to ameliorate the effects of global climate change.

If the bill keeps the excise tax off the table, Deyette said, then the Kansas wind industry made a decent deal.

The renewable energy standards, while a symbol the industry wanted to keep, were largely symbolic, he said. And limiting the property tax exemption to 10 years should not kill a wind industry that has gained an $8 billion foothold in Kansas.

“While it’s a step backward for the industry in terms of what they have now, a 10-year grace period is still significant,” Deyette said. “It’s still going to provide long- term certainty. It’s not going to change the economics of a long-term wind project that substantially.”

Deyette said the 10-year limit was more likely to have a profound effect on less established industries, like solar.

“If that doesn’t get extended, that would be the real point where you’d see more of the bust cycle — if there’s going to be one — in any solar activity,” he said.

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When Gov. Sam Brownback announced an agreement last week between the wind industry and opponents of the state’s renewable energy standards, most of the attention focused on the renewable energy mandate becoming a voluntary “goal.”

But rolling back the renewable energy standards largely was a symbolic win for opponents of the standards. The buildup of wind power has most of the state’s utility companies already past the final requirement of 20 percent of peak capacity from renewable sources by 2020.

From a policy standpoint, the more consequential part of the pact is the wind industry agreeing to a 10-year cap on property tax exemptions for devices that generate renewable energy. That change would go into effect Jan. 1, 2017, if the bill, which was in a conference committee Tuesday, passes the Senate.

Under current law, the exemption is good for as long as the device generates energy.

Rep. John Carmichael, a Democrat from Wichita, said the Dec. 31, 2016, deadline for the full exemption could set up Kansas for a temporary turbine-building boom.

“There may be a window here where the wind industry could put some substantial assets and growth into Kansas real quick in order to take care of a lifetime of the project tax exemption,” Carmichael said.

But Kimberly Svaty, a lobbyist for the wind coalition, cautioned against expecting too much of a boom — or the resulting bust afterward.

The Dec. 31, 2016, date was put into place largely to protect seven wind projects already in process.

The developers on those projects signed purchase agreements with public utilities to buy wind energy at a fixed price for 20 years and expect the lifetime exemption.

Other new projects would have to secure a permit from their county or complete a filing with the Kansas Board of Tax Appeals to qualify. Neither is quick or easy, Svaty said, making it unlikely there will be a rush of new builds in the next 18 months.

“Might there be one or two projects that will come under that? Potentially,” Svaty said. “But they will be well-vetted projects and projects that are moving forward.”

property tax exemption was enacted when few expected the state’s wind industry to become its current $8 billion force.

The 10-year tax abatement brings it more in line with what other energy sources enjoy, removing one more grievance for those who say state officials have distorted the market by favoring renewable energy sources over fossil fuels.

Those grievances were voiced frequently at the Statehouse by lobbying groups like the Kansas Chamber and Americans for Prosperity and shared by influential lawmakers like Rep. Dennis Hedke, chairman of the House Energy and Environment Committee, and Sen. Rob Olson, chairman of the Senate Utilities Committee.

The near-annual attempts to repeal the renewable energy standards worried investors as they decided whether to put their capital into Kansas wind projects.

But what really spooked them, Svaty said, was when legislators introduced a bill this session to levy a 4.33 percent excise tax on renewable energy.

Facing a budget crisis, legislators are likely to put together a tax increase package and vote on it with little warning.

In that atmosphere of uncertainty, Svaty said, the hearing on the renewable energy excise tax bill had the effect of “completely destabilizing the investment environment.”

“Developers and investors, where they had been concerned before, were getting very seriously concerned,” Svaty said.

So in exchange for assurances that the excise tax would not be enacted, wind industry advocates agreed to soften the renewable energy standards and cap the property tax exemption at 10 years. After 10 years, renewable energy devices will be taxed as commercial property, which is a lower rate than public utilities.

Hedke said the 10-year limit is meant to bring renewable sources more in line with fossil fuels with regards to property taxes.

The threat of an excise tax played a minimal role in the talks, he said.

“Excise tax never really got very far, so I don’t see it as a major component of the agreement,” Hedke said. “I think the balancing of the property tax world was the main driver.”

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By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

OVERBROOK — Being crowned Pioneer League Champions wasn’t in the cards for this year’s Mustangs.

Iola High’s baseball team needed to get two wins against a tough Santa Fe Trail team in order to win the league.

The Mustangs didn’t make the 80-minute drive back to Iola as champions, dropping both games Tuesday, but the regular season will go down as a successful one for a young Iola squad.

“With as young as we are and the inexperience, some of the guys played a lot better this year,” coach Mark Percy said. “I didn’t know what to exactly expect going into the season. Going in, I think most people thought if we were .500 or a little above, it was going to be a pretty good year. To go 12-4 was a really good year so far.”

Iola was going to have to beat Santa Fe Trail without their most experienced pitchers, Ethan Scheibmeir and Drew Faulhaber. Both pitched in Monday’s wins against Wellsville.

“We knew that this one wasn’t going to be easy because we didn’t have our guys who threw the most innings all year,” Percy said. “We threw everybody. So, we were going to have to get some good pitching and I thought we did in the first game.”

Ben Cooper got the nod on the mound in game one.

After each team was held scoreless, Cooper ran into trouble in the second inning.

After walking two batters and a single, the bases were load-

ed with one out. Cooper got the second out via a critical strikeout. But, the next Santa Fe Trail batter hit a double to score two runs. One more run scored on an error, pushing the Chargers’ lead to 3-0.

Cooper found himself in a similar situation in the third inning, bases loaded and one out. This time, he was able to get two strikeouts and limit the damage.

Iola’s bats were held in check the entire game, mustering only four hits. Faulhaber, Scheibmeir, Badders and Isaac Vink each hit a single.

What may have also hurt Iola bats, more so than pitching, was the infield grass. It was Wrigley Field level in height. Instead of balls dying in the outfield, they died three feet in front of the plate.

Santa Fe Trail scored another run in the fifth and would win 4-0.

With the win, the Chargers won the Pioneer League, but Iola did still have to play a second game.

After the first inning, the Mustangs fell behind 8-0. Percy said it was too big of a hole to overcome.

Iola did get the offense going. In the third inning Garrett Wade hit a leadoff single.

Cooper sacrificed him into scoring position. Faulhaber followed with an RBI-single to get the Mustangs’ first run on the board.

In the fourth inning, Keanen Badders scored Iola’s only run of the inning. He also got the RBI, hitting a home run. After an out, Kohl Endicott hit a single. But, two more outs followed.

Santa Fe Trail scored five more runs in the bottom of the frame to take a 13-2 lead.

Santa Fe Trail’s runner sidles past Iola’s Coleson Wiggin’s glove to score the third run of game one’s 4-0 loss. Iola needed to win both games to win the Pioneer League regular season crown.

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Iola scored two more runs in the fifth. Badders hit an RBI-single and another run scored on an error.

With two more runs scoring in the sixth inning, Iola had the lead down to 13-6.

That was the final score.

Ethan Tavarez hit a single and Joey Zimmerman reached on an error. Faulhaber came through with a two-

run single.

“Our number one goal was to win the league,” Percy said. “We didn’t get it. But, our number two goal is to get to state. That’s still out there, so that’s what we’re shooting for.”

Iola travels to Prairie View on Monday for a Class 4A Regional. As the no. 1 seed, they will square off with Prairie

View first. The winner will face the winner of Anderson County vs. Osawatomie. Two wins and the Mustangs can get to state.

“That’s our goal, our plan,” Percy said. “I don’t have any doubt that we can’t do it. We’re just going to have to come out and play a little better than we did tonight, and we’re going to. I think it’s going to be fun.”

Throwing errors doom Fillies

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

CARBONDALE — Iola High’s softball team threw a win away in the second game of a doubleheader against Santa Fe Trail on Tuesday.

“We gave up so many bases.

That to me, is really instinct that they’re missing,” coach Melissa Stiffler said. “You don’t try to bring the ball home when the girl is hitting homeplate [safely]. That’s frustrating to me, stuff that they should know. And no one is talking to each other on the field.”

After losing game one 133, the Fillies offense gave the defense a large cushion. Iola supplied themselves a 6-0 lead after the first inning.

With one out, Sydney Wade hit a single. Katie Shields reached on a fielder’s choice.

Jadyn Sigg followed with an RBI-single. Shelby Reno then hit an RBI-single. Riley Murry kept the inning going with a walk. Taylor Heslop reached on a fielder’s choice. Emily McKarnin walked. Ashlie Shields reached on an error and Wade reached again, this time on a fielder’s choice. After all of that, Iola got six players to touch homeplate.

In the bottom half of the frame, the Chargers answered with five runs. Overall, there were two errors in the inning.

With a 6-5 lead, Iola added another run in the second inning. After the first two batters picked up an out, Murry walked for the second time of the game. Heslop hit her in on an RBI-double.

Iola held a 7-5 lead until the third inning. Santa Fe Trail

Kansas City Royals’ third baseman Alex Gordon is greeted by teammates after hitting a solo home run in the 10th inning against the Texas Rangers on Tuesday. The Royals won, 7-6. TNS/

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Gordon’s late homer enough for Royals win Shelby Reno gets an outfield assist by throwing out a Santa Fe Trail runner headed for second base. Not every throw ended in an out for Iola in game two’s 17-11 loss. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer

scored three runs in the inning, Iola had just as many errors. In the fourth inning, the Chargers added two more runs for a 10-7 lead. Iola had two errors.

Iola’s offense did come back in the fifth inning. Murry led the inning off with a single.

Heslop followed with a single. After an out, McKarnin sacrificed them over. Ashlie Shields followed with an RBIsingle scoring both. Wade then reached on a walk and

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Alex Gordon put the Kansas City Royals back ahead in a flash, and Greg Holland made good on his second chance.

Gordon homered on the first pitch of the 10th inning and the Royals beat the Texas Rangers 7-6 Tuesday night.

“I just said if I get a good pitch to hit, a fastball down the middle or something, I’m just going to get a good swing on it,” Gordon said.

came into score on wild pitches. Iola was up 11-10.

In the fifth and sixth innings, Santa Fe Trail scored seven runs to take a 17-11 lead — which would be the final score. Overall, the Fillies had eight errors in the game. That doesn’t count the ill-timed throws they had. Multiple times, the ball was thrown toward a base, when it was clear the Santa Fe Trail runner See IOLA | Page B3

And he did, greeting reliever Stolmy Pimentel (0-1) by pulling a fastball into the seats down the right-field line.

Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas also homered for the AL Central leaders, who went ahead on an RBI groundout by Lorenzo Cain in the ninth. Adrian Beltre’s two-out RBI single in the bottom half off Holland tied the game for the fourth time.

“The home runs by (Moustakas) and Gordon were big, but just the ability See ROYALS | Page B3

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Royals: Gordon’s late-inning heroics Continued from B1

to come in and trade punches with them was good,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “Now that it’s finally shown itself, the power that we have, it’s huge.”

After blowing his first save in seven chances this year, Holland (1-0) returned to throw a perfect 10th. It was the righthander’s first outing this season that lasted more than one inning.

Gordon also made a nifty defensive play in the seventh. The Gold Glove left fielder picked up Elvis Andrus’ grounder through the infield and threw an offbalance strike to third to get Shin-Soo Choo, who was trying to advance from first base.

“I knew the hit-andrun was going so I just charged the ball as hard as I could,” Gordon said.

“The thing about that play is that I can always make that throw and (Moustakas) just slaps the tag really quick.

That was a big out.”

That was before Kyle Blanks had an RBI single in the seventh that scored Andrus and made it 5-all. The desig-

nated hitter was trying to check his swing when he instead blooped a hit to short right.

After his tying hit in the ninth, with Blanks at the plate, Beltre was picked off first base by catcher Salvador Perez. Beltre initially was called safe by umpire Ted Barrett, but that was overturned on a replay challenge by the Royals.

“Obviously, to beat a team that was in the World Series last year, and is playing well right now, you’ve got to make all the plays you need to make,” Rangers manager Jeff Banister said.

“You can’t give them extra chances.”

Hosmer’s sixth homer led off the second.

Moustakas hit his fourth on an 0-2 pitch in the seventh as the only batter to face Rangers lefty Alex Claudio, giving Kansas City a 5-4 lead.

Choo homered for Texas.

He allowed four runs (three earned) with four strikeouts and one walk in 6 1-3 innings. Texas had won each of his first six starts. ... Royals starter Edinson Volquez allowed four runs and six hits in five-plus innings. The right-hander pitched as an opponent in Texas for the first time since the Rangers traded him to Cincinnati in December 2007 for Josh Hamilton.

OUT OF THE LANE

There is a reason for that chalk-marked lane going to first base. Cain wasn’t running inside that lane when he was hit in the back by Martinez’s throw in the third inning, and was called out for interference.

Plate umpire Scott Barry immediately signaled the inning-ending out.

There was no manager’s challenge, and replays showed Cain was out of the lane.

TRAINER’S ROOM

NO DECISIONS

Rangers left-hander Nick Martinez ended his fifth consecutive start without a decision since winning his first two games this season.

Royals: SS Alcides Escobar was hit by a pitch on the arm for the second night in a row, but like Monday stayed in the game. He just returned

to the lineup Friday after missing seven games with a concussion after being hit in the side of the face by a pitch April 29 at Cleveland.

Rangers: CF Leonys Martin was out of the lineup with a sore left hand, though he did appear as a pinch runner. ... LHP Matt Harrison (spinal fusion surgery) is scheduled to throw two innings in an extended spring training game in Arizona on Wednesday. ... LHP Derek Holland (left shoulder), who threw only one inning in the home opener April 10, will have a third scan May 22 that will determine if he can start throwing again.

UP NEXT

Royals: Scheduled starter Yordano Ventura (2-2) beat Texas twice in an 11-day span last season, allowing three earned runs with 13 strikeouts in 12 1-3 innings.

Rangers: RHP Yovani Gallardo (2-5) tries to avoid losing five consecutive starts for the first time in his nine major league seasons.

MLB Standings The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB New York 21 13 .618 — Tampa Bay 18 16 .529 3 Toronto 17 17 .500 4 Boston 15 18 .455 5½ Baltimore 14 17 .452 5½ Central Division W L Pct GB Kansas City 21 12 .636 — Detroit 20 13 .606 1 Minnesota 18 15 .545 3 Chicago 13 17 .433 6½ Cleveland 11 20 .355 9 West Division W L Pct GB Houston 20 13 .606 — Los Angeles 16 17 .485 4 Seattle 15 17 .469 4½ Texas 14 19 .424 6 Oakland 13 22 .371 8 NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB New York 20 13 .606 — Washington 18 16 .529 2½ Atlanta 15 18 .455 5 Miami 15 19 .441 5½ Philadelphia 11 23 .324 9½ Central Division W L Pct GB St. Louis 23 9 .719 — Chicago 17 15 .531 6 Pittsburgh 17 16 .515 6½ Cincinnati 16 17 .485 7½ Milwaukee 12 22 .353 12 West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 22 10 .688 — San Francisco 17 16 .515 5½ San Diego 17 17 .500 6 Arizona 15 17 .469 7 Colorado 11 18 .379 9½

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Above, Jaydn Sigg swings through the ball for a base hit in game two.

Baseball May 18, Class 4A Regional, Prairie View Softball May 19, Class 4A Regional, Garnett.

Tennis Friday-Saturday, Class 4A State, Pratt Track Thursday, PIONEER LEAGUE MEET (at IOLA), 3:30 p.m.

Golf May 18, Class 4A Regional, Osawatomie

Left, Riley Murry draws a walk in game two.

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Iola: Drops final two games of season Continued from B1

would get there safely.

In the first game, Iola trailed 13-0 heading into the fifth inning. They needed to score four runs to keep the game going, but scored three.

Reno led the inning off with a single. Taylor Sell then reached

on an error — she was later out on a fielder’s choice. Micaiah Larney followed with a single.

After another out, Wade hit an RBI-single. Chloe Gardner then walked.

Reno, Larney and Wade scored in the inning.

Of note, Ashlie Shields left game two in the sixth inning. Play-

ing catcher, she tried to catch a flyball behind the plate. It hit off the edge of her glove and in the face. She went to the hospital with blurred vision.

“She’s a leader on the team, too, and once she was out, the rest of the girls didn’t know what to do,” Stiffler said.

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Iola (4-12) heads to Anderson County next Tuesday for a Class 4A Regional. Two wins, and the team can still get to state.

“That’s where we can’t tank now,” Stiffler said. “We were in the last [game] until the last inning tonight. We kind of just gave up.”

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Baseball May 18-20, Class 3A Regional, HUMBOLDT Softball May 18-20, Class 3A Regional, at Mound City Track Thursday, Tri-Valley League Meet at HUMBOLDT, 3:30 p.m.

Golf May 18, Class 3A Regional at Erie, 8:30 a.m.

Marmaton Valley Baseball May 18-19 Class 1A Regional, Yates Center Softball May 18-19 Class 1A Regional, Yates Center Track Thursday, League Meet at Jayhawk-Linn

Yates Center Baseball May 18-19, Class 1A Regional, YATES CENTER Softball May 18-19, vs. Class 1A Regional, at Flinthills Track Thursday, at TVL Meet in Humboldt, 3:30 p.m.

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ACC track athletes sign letters of intent

From left, Hunter Koike signed with the University of North Carolina-Ashville. Alisn Stevens signed with St. Mary’s University. Trail Spears signed with Kansas Wesleyan University. Diego Sanchez signed with Kansas Wesleyan University. Daniel Driskill signed with Rogers State University. Markeen Cain signed with Kansas University. Thomas Broxterman signed with Fort Hayes University. COURTESY PHOTO/VINCE DEGRADO

New record The ACC 4x800-meter relay team broke the school record with a time of 7 minutes and 38.21 seconds. From left, Thomas Broxtermann, Meshach Adams, Markeen Caine and Aaron Miller. They won the conference championship.

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How does your garden grow? (Quite well)

From left, Colony’s Allene Luedke snapped some colorful photos in Colony. The picture at left is is a weigele shrub, complete with dark, burgundy purple leaves. The bush was purchased from TLC Garden Center in 2004. At middle, Luedke snapped a picture of a renaissance spirea, a fountain-shaped shrub bearing cascading branches covered with showy white flowers. The leaves turn to orange red in the fall. The shrub was purchased from Wayne Barnett in 2006.

At right, Lillian Franklin shows her own colorful, pink weigele in Iola. PHOTOS COURTESY ALLENE LUEDKE AND LILLIAN FRANKLIN

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The man behind the mullet

By PAUL SKRBINA Chicago Tribune

Carmelo Preiti can’t help but flash a giddy grin as he opens the second drawer of a gray cabinet in his family’s barber shop on North Rose Street in Franklin Park.

“Wait till you see these,” he says in a thick Italian accent.

Preiti unzips a black case to reveal, among several other tools of his trade, a special pair of scissors with the number “88” on them, which help shape the Chicago’s most famous mullet.

The tradition started as a joke during the 200910 season, when Preiti began cutting Patrick Kane’s hair.

“I’m like, ‘Here’s what we’re going to do,’ “ Preiti said, describing how he showed Kane a picture of Jaromir Jagr.

“He starts laughing.

Then when the playoffs rolled around he’s like, ‘Let’s do it.’ “ Preiti, whose family has owned Preiti Barber Shop since moving from Italy in 1982, never had sculptured a mullet. He turned to YouTube for a crash course and the rest has become history.

Preiti has mastered his technique by now, having done two to three dozen in the last year.

Kane said he became familiar with the ‘do during his junior hockey days.

“I thought it’d be cool to continue it in the NHL because I wasn’t able to grow a beard my first couple of seasons,” Kane said. “It’s pretty cool to see how it’s become so popular.

“One of those things.

I went with it my first year and we ended up winning a Cup, so I figured I’d do it every season since then.”

Preiti, who moved to the United States in 1983 and began cutting hair in 2002, said he attended his first Blackhawks

game in April 1985.

In 2009, he received a text from a friend saying he was going to send somebody to Preiti.

“I knew it was one of the players,” Preiti, 38, said. “I couldn’t resist. I said, ‘Who is it?’ And he said, ‘It’s 88.’ I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’

“At first I was nervous I was going to mess it up.

I kind of sat there like, ‘What do I say?’ “ Turns out, Preiti’s nerves were for naught.

While he’s a big Blackhawks fan who watches every game, he says the players are customers — whether at his family shop, which he plans to take over when his father and uncle retire, or at 316 Club Barber Spa, where Preiti also has worked.

“It’s weird,” he said.

“You don’t want to talk hockey; it’s like him talking to me about hair.

I leave it alone. The conversations are just standard conversations I’d have with a friend of mine.”

Preiti said he has cut the hair of about 10 Blackhawks through the years, including a mullet for Brandon Saad. Sometimes he goes to them; sometimes they come to him.

While Kane is his most famous client, Preiti also has gone to work on the city’s most famous mustache. As is custom in Preiti’s shop, every haircut comes with optional facial hair service. So after fixing up Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville’s hair, Preiti popped the question.

“He’s like, ‘No, no, that’s all right. I’ve never had anyone trim it,’ “ Preiti said. “I’m like, ‘OK.’ Then he was like, ‘Go ahead and trim it.’ “ While Kane’s tradition has lived on, Patrick Sharp’s lasted 12 hours.

Sharp joined Kane in the mullet club that first year, when Dave Bolland’s girlfriend gave him the cut.

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(TNS) — The foal was barely a month old, and Wayne Sweezey had no time to waste.

The symptoms of colic were unmistakable in the dark bay colt. So Sweezey, then the farm manager and managing partner of Darby Dan Farm, and his team did what good horsemen do: They loaded the ailing foal into their car, took him to the clinic and gave him every chance to be a viable individual.

“It happened after turn-out one morning, we found him out there and he was definitely not feeling good so we took him in,” Sweezey, who now owns and operates Timber Town Stables, recalled of that day in 2006. “We knew he had colic. We didn’t realize at the time he was going to have to have surgery until we got him in there.

His gut was twisted. But they got him sorted out, put back together and I don’t think he’s ever looked back.

“He was a very lucky horse.”

Owner Ahmed Zayat said he always tells his son, Justin, that in the business of Thoroughbred racing and breed-

ing, “you need to be lucky more than smart.

And always somebody has to be watching out for you.”

Such a life lesson helped keep the Zayat family from losing their first-ever homebred nine years ago. By extension, it brought them to the pinnacle of North Amer-

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“I sent a picture home to my parents and my dad wasn’t too happy,” Sharp says with a laugh.

“I didn’t want to disappoint him on national TV, so I chopped it off.”

Preiti pauses for a moment to reflect as he slides the scissors reserved only for Kane back into their case. A

customer is waiting.

“To know I’m in a small way part of it, it’s still a big deal,” Preiti said. “I feel like a little kid about it. Not everybody can say, ‘Hey, I cut his hair, I’m part of this whole mullet thing.’ “ A thing that won’t be going away anytime soon.

American Pharoah’s sire emerges as top stallion

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ican racing on May 2.

In addition to being the first horse bred by Zayat Stables, Pioneerof the Nile became the first to tease of glory when he carried their colors to second place in the 2009 Kentucky Derby, becoming the first of three Zayat runners to take place money in the sport’s

most famous race.

The distinctions continued for the WinStar Farm stallion this year when his champion son American Pharoah ended the Zayats’ streak of futility in the Kentucky Derby, winning the first leg of the Triple Crown See HORSE | Page B8

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Daughter feels left behind by mom in grieving stage Dear Caroyn: I am having a hard time dealing with my mom and her new boyfriend. My dad passed away last year, and I am an (adult) only child.

I know this loss affected her, but I don’t think she’s taken any time to see how the loss has affected ME. I motored along for the first eight months or so taking care of her, the house, the affairs, etc., and never had time to grieve, I guess. Now I think everything is coming to a head for ME and she just isn’t able or interested in being there. She and the boyfriend travel, he’s moved into the house, and I get the occasional phone call (the printer is out of ton-

Tell Me About It Carolyn Hax er, can you change the bag in the vacuum, etc.).

I’m not mad at her for moving on, I’m sad because I guess I was never given the opportunity to miss my dad in my own way and on my own time.

I find it extremely difficult to communicate with my mom beyond responding to specific requests.

Things can’t continue this way. — Mom’s Moved On Answer: Please get

some grief counseling.

Your mom can’t give you what you’re looking for to ease your pain, for whatever reason — and, on top of that, your failure to get what you seek is now a source of a whole other kind of pain.

It’s time to stop doing what hurts (counting on your mom) and start doing what helps (figuring out who or what can meet your needs, which is what the counseling is for).

I’m sorry about your loss. If it helps, it might not be that your mom hasn’t “taken any time to see how the loss has affected ME,” but instead that she is unable to handle both her recovery and

yours. She is moving on, yes, but she might have had only enough strength to manage that. You were stronger, and were able to manage her needs for months — but even then it took so much out of you.

I think this happens to families often, where people expect they can handle logistics and their own grief and also take care of each other — and that expectation eventually proves impossible to meet. If you find a way to get the support you need elsewhere, you might find that you’re able to talk to your mom again — simply because the stakes won’t feel so high.

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Horse: American Pharoah’s sire has humble beginnings A SECOND CHANCE

One of the first major purchases Ahmed Zayat made at public auction was a bay colt named Forefathers that he landed for $680,000 at the 2005 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling Sale. The son of Gone West never did live up to his promise on the track, winning just three of 20 career starts, but Zayat loved his potential enough to buy into more of the family, purchasing Forefather’s dam, Star of Goshen, privately while she was carrying an Empire Maker colt she would eventually deliver on May 5, 2006.

The bout with colic Pioneerof the Nile suffered while a month old luckily didn’t haunt him beyond the length of his recovery. However, Zayat faced the threat of losing his colt again as he had him entered in the 2007 Keeneland September Yearling Sale only to buy him back for $290,000.

“When you are new in the business, people try to tell you, you have to be prudent, you have to sell the good ones, you have to run it as a commercial operation,” said Zayat, who retains an undisclosed percentage of ownership in Pioneerof the Nile. “But I am in it for the passion and we love breeding to race.

Most of our horses are

bred to race, and when I saw (Pioneerof the Nile) in the back sales ring, I said, ‘This is the kind of horse we try to buy. Why are we selling?’ “ Five starts into his racing career, Pioneerof the Nile rewarded Zayat’s second thoughts in the auction arena when he won the 2008 Grade I CashCall Futurity for trainer Bob Baffert. He went on to sweep the Grade II Robert B. Lewis, Grade II San Felipe and Grade I Santa Anita Derby as a 3-year-old and appeared primed for heroics coming off the final turn in the mud-soaked 2009 Kentucky Derby before 50-1 shot Mine That Bird flew along the rail to pull off a win that left Zayat, and most onlookers, gobsmacked.

An injury after his 11th-place finish in the Preakness Stakes sent Pioneerof the Nile into retirement at Vinery to begin his stud career in 2010 for a fee of $20,000.

When he was relocated to his current home of WinStar Farm for the 2013 season, Pioneerof the Nile commanded a modest $15,000 fee.

The hallmark of any significant stallion is its ability to move up lesserquality mares. And from Pioneerof the Nile’s first crop, graded stakes winners like Cairo Prince, Jojo Warrior, Vinceremos and Midnight Storm emerged, followed in short order by increased

marketplace respect.

“It’s amazing what he’s done. Any time you get a horse who stands for $15,000-$20,000, it’s a testament to the stallion to come up with horses like he has,” said Elliott Walden, president and CEO of WinStar Farm.

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“He’s following the same footsteps of (WinStar stallion) Distorted Humor and (leading Gainesway sire) Tapit and those horses who start out with a medium-priced stud fee and then just continue to improve.”

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by a length to become his sire’s first North American classic winner.

Finally tasting Kentucky Derby spoils after a trio of near misses — Pioneerof the Nile in 2009, Nehro in 2011 and Bodemeister in 2012 — brought an outpouring of Zayat passion at Churchill Downs on May 2. That American Pharoah is a homebred product of one of the family’s initial life-altering horses has added to the sentiment.

“How spoiled and lucky can you get?”

Ahmed Zayat said.

“Here’s the first horse I’ve ever bred, that becomes a Grade I winner, and American Pharoah is from his (second) crop ... it’s Zayat blood from A to Z. “It’s kind of fun and exciting because it’s a legacy. Pioneerof the Nile is a hell of a stallion. And this makes it very pleasing.”

Unlike his champion son, Pioneerof the Nile was not garish in his on-track exploits often doing just enough to hit the wire first.

From his life-threatening bout with colic when he was a month old to his workmanlike rise in the breeding industry, the 9-year-old stallion has quietly soldiered forward to become an across-theboard success.

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