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THE IOLA REGISTER Locally owned since 1867
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Monday, August 14, 2017
Opposition to white nationalists takes shape
BORN TO BALE Ed Born cranks up his stationary baler at the Southeast History Show in Chanute. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON
By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
CHANUTE — Ed Born gave the crank a couple of twists to put a little fuel into the one-cylinder engine sitting at the front of his 76-year-old Case stationary baler. Nothing. He tried again. And again. Nothing still. “Guess the filer (on the fuel line) needs replaced,” he said. “I started it yesterday, when I got it out of the barn, but it didn’t run long.” Born had the baler in Chanute as part of a how-and-tell at Katy Park in an open-air
event billed as the Southeast Kansas History Show. For whatever reason, only a handful of spectators came, but that didn’t perturb Born, or half a dozen other exhibitors. The stationary baler drew the most attention, it being large and unusual. Other displays were of photos, postcards and hand tools. The Case machine preceded pick-up balers, those pulled by a tractor and snatch windrowed grass. Stationary means exactly that. Farmers and their hands,
often neighbors, would rake up mown grass — after giving it a bit of time to cure — and fork it into the top of the baler. A plunger coursed the grass into a square shaft to make bales. “Some stationary balers were fed by one man, this one was for two,” Born pointed out, which meant four robust men were needed for the process. “Two men fed grass from either side and two more pushed in wires (to secure bales) and tied them,” with a practiced twist, he explained. The baler could process 200
bales, weighing close to 100 pounds each, in a day’s time. BORN, 73, of St. Paul, had experience with the baler, which his father, Amos Born, purchased 1941. “I was just a boy, but I could push in wire and tie it,” he said. When a more sophisticated model came on the market, Amos Born covered the old one with a tarp and stored it in the shed. “Back before the war (World War II) you couldn’t buy one of these balers unless you had enough land to See BORN | Page A4
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Clergy in robes. A woman handing out flowers. Black L i v e s Matter activists. Ar med militia members. Students. Angry anti-fascist protesters. The diverse group of people who came to oppose a weekend gathering of white nationalists in this Virginia college town seemed to outnumber the rally-goers. The counterprotesting groups didn’t organize collectively. Instead, it was a largely organic effort among groups who shared the same mission: showing that hate wasn’t welcome. “They just wanted to come out and say no. They wanted to come out and show a robust love for community and what America is meant to stand for,” said Lisa Woolfork, a University of Virginia professor and 17-year Charlottesville resident. “And I find that very heartening, very encouraging.” Officials have not provided a crowd estimate, but there appeared to be at least 500 people supporting the rally sparked by Charlottesville’s decision to remove a Confederate monument. At least twice as many appeared to be there to oppose them. The violence between the See GROUPS | Page A4
Joint Chiefs: US military ready for North Korea By FOSTER KLUG The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The top U.S. military officer told his counterparts in South Korea today that the United States is ready to use the “full Gen. Dunford range” of its military capabilities to defend itself and its allies from any North Korean provocation. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is visiting South Korea, Japan and China after a week in which President Donald Trump traded threats with North Korea. Trump declared the U.S. military “locked and loaded” and said he was ready to unleash “fire and fury” if North Korea continued to threaten the United States. North Korea, meanwhile, has threatened to lob four intermediate-range missiles into the waters near Guam, a tiny U.S. territory about 2,000 miles from Pyongyang, North
Korea’s capital. This would be a deeply provocative act, from the U.S. perspective, and there has been widespread debate about whether Washington would try to shoot the missiles down if they’re fired. The U.S.-North Korea standoff, which has simmered since the end of the Korean War in 1953, has grown more tense in recent months over worries that the North’s nuclear weapons program is nearing the ability to target the U.S. mainland. Pyongyang tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles last month. Dunford, who met with senior South Korean military officials and President Moon Jae-in, “stressed that North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs threaten the entire global community,” according to U.S. military spokesman Capt. Darryn James. “He conveyed America’s readiness to use the full range of military capabilities to defend our allies and the U.S. homeland,” James said. Moon separately called today for a peaceful solution to the nuclear standoff, saying
Eric Enzbrenner, left, of Atchinson Paranormal, with Kurtis Russell, Allen County Historical Society.
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Quote of the day Vol. 119, No. 202
The ghosts of Allen County By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
JUNE 29, 1870 — E.G. Dalson, in jail on charges of murder … was taken from jail at midnight by a mob and hanged. Dalson had confessed to the unplanned murder of an adopted son while disciplining him. … It was estimated 50 to 60 men took part in the lynching. Dalson lived in the southern part of the
county and it is assumed that the mob came from that neighborhood and not from Iola. (The Annals of Iola and Allen County, 1868-1945, Vol. 1.) Saturday evening two teams that specialize in investigating paranormal occurrence set upon Allen County’s old jail in search of spirits — ghosts in the vernacular — that might reside in the stone structure.
“I’m sure wherever my dad is he’s looking down on us. He’s not dead, just very condescending.”
The guests came at the invitation of Kurtis Russell, Allen County Historical Society director. As nightfall approached they were completing installation of electronic listening and video devices. “Some of it is like a home security system,” said Jason Kupzyk, spokesman for Mid-Continent Paranormal Research Society of Lenexa. An electronic command cen-
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