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GOP-led council extends Kelly’s disaster order

By MARGARET STAFFORD and ANDY TSUBASA FIELD The Associated Press

LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A mostly Republican state council voted Friday to extend Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's emergency declaration providing services to combat the coronavirus in Kansas, but only after language was added clarifying that the governor doesn't intend to use her authority to close businesses as she did in the spring.

The State Finance Council's unanimous vote came after a lengthy, contentious meeting during which Kelly, a Democrat, and the GOP members accused each other of playing politics with the declaration.

The resolution, which

Just Prairie There’s something satisfying in that there’s no marker for John Brown’s Cave by the roadside, or even on the trail itself.

The path forks in multiple directions upon one’s approach, flanked by worn farm buildings and limestone fences, so without a map or prior knowledge, it’s possible to walk right by without knowing it.

It makes this landmark that supersedes all human history into a clandestine treasure, something that requires a bit of intimacy to encounter despite being in a public space.

The stone that comprises this “solutional” cave is perhaps over 250 million years old, and the structure itself about one-fifth that age, which means its memory is vast beSee CAVE | Page A4

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At 1650 Street, between Nebraska and Montana Roads, on the Lehigh Portland Trail system south of Iola, is the natural feature known as John Brown’s Cave. The view from inside John Brown’s Cave reveals a prehistoric setting. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG

Online utility portal draws interest

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Iola’s new online portal for Iola’s utility customers has drawn significant interest in the first month since it was activated.

More than 350 Iolans have signed up for the online service, which allows customers to view or pay their bills online, along with other benefits.

Customers can see their utility usage history, going back to as far as when they first began buying services.

Customers also can sign up for auto pay plans through the portal, and/ or enroll in text, phone or email reminders before their bills are due, noted City Clerk Roxanne Hutton.

The service has been a boon because City Hall remains closed due to the

From left, Chelsey Beasley, customer service representative from Iola’s utility office, presents Greystone Residential Care Center’s Tina Kelley with $25 in Chamber Bucks along with City Clerk Roxanne Hutton Thursday. The Chamber Bucks were awarded following a drawing as part of a promotion of the city’s new online utility portal. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN COVID-19 pandemic, Hutton said. (The portal is accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week.)

To sweeten the pot, the city is offering a pair of drawings, the first of which was last week, with the win-

ner receiving $25 in Chamber Bucks, spendable at any participating Iola Area Chamber of Commerce member business. (Or, the winners can turn around and use their winnings to help pay their next month’s bill.)

The winner of the inaugural drawing was Greystone Residential Care Center.

Tina Kelley, a Greystone representative, received the Chamber Bucks certificate Thursday at City Hall.

The next drawing — for another $25 worth of Chamber Bucks — will be held Sept. 30.

Of note, those who do pay their bills online will be assessed nominal fees for the service, Hutton noted.

To register, or gather more information, visit www.cityofiola.com, or call 365-4910.

New storm targeting Gulf Coast WAVELAND, Miss. (AP) — Storm-weary Gulf Coast residents prepared for a new weather onslaught Monday as Tropical Storm Sally slowly churned toward them, with forecasters predicting landfall as a hurricane.

Jeffrey Gagnard of Chalmette, Louisiana, was spending Sunday in Mississippi helping his parents prepare their home for Sally — and making sure they safely evacuated ahead of the storm.

“I mean, after Katrina, anything around here and anything on the water, you’re going to take serious,” he said, as he loaded the back of his SUV with cases of bottled water in a grocery store parking lot in Waveland, Mississippi. “You can’t take anySee STORM | Page A2

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Events may be canceled, postponed or modified because of the coronavirus crisis. Check with organiz-

MONDAY — Iola USD 257 Board of Education meeting, 6 p.m., school board office.

— Marmaton Valley USD 256 Board of Education meeting, 7 p.m., school board office.

— Humboldt USD 258 Board of Education meeting, 7 p.m., school board office.

— Iola City Council meeting, 6 p.m., New Community Building, Riverside Park.

— LaHarpe VFW & Auxiliary, 6 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. meeting, 206 E. Hwy 54..

— Humboldt City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Humboldt City Hall.

— Crest USD 479 Board of Education meeting, 7 p.m., school board office.

TUESDAY — Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse.

— Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Townhouse West.

THURSDAY — Rotary Club, noon, Los Potrillos, 1303 N. State St. — TOPS No. KS 880 4:30 p.m. weigh in, 5 p.m. meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church.

— Allen County Farmers Market, 5:30 to 7 p.m., southeast corner of the square. Enter from the north on East Street.

FRIDAY — Senior Citizens Card Club potluck dinner, 5:30 p.m., senior citizens center.

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thing lightly.”

Gagnard said he planned to head back across the state line to prepare his own home for winds and rain Sally was expected to bring to the New Orleans area.

Forecasters from the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sally is expected to become a hurricane today and reach shore by early Tuesday, bringing dangerous weather conditions, including risk of flooding, to a region stretching from the western Florida Panhandle to southeast Louisiana.

“I know for a lot of people this storm seemed to come out of nowhere,” said Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards. “We need everybody to pay attention to this storm.

Let’s take this one seriously.”

Edwards urged people to prepare for the storm immediately. He also said there are still many from southwestern Louisiana who evacuated from Hurricane Laura into New

Orleans — exactly the area that could be hit

by Sally, which is a slow-moving storm.

In Mandeville, a city about 35 miles north of New Orleans, resident Chris Yandle has purchased a week’s worth of groceries and moved all his patio furniture into his family’s house and shed in preparation for the storm.

“I’m mostly trying to stay calm — especially with a family of four and a dog to worry about,” Yandle said.

“I’ve lived through many hurricanes growing up in Louisiana, but I haven’t felt this anxious about a hurricane in my life.”

Mississippi officials warned that the storm was expected to coincide with high tide, leading to significant storm surge.

“It needs to be understood by all of our friends in the coastal region and in south Mississippi that if you live in low-lying areas, the time to get out is early tomorrow morning,” Gov. Tate Reeves said late Sunday.

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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is forecast to harvest a record soybean crop this fall, but corn production in the state is expected to be down from last year, the National Agricultural Statistics Service said Friday.

The agency said in its monthly crop update that the state’s corn expected corn production of 782 million bushels is down 2% from a year ago.

Kansas is projected to harvest 5.75 million acres of corn this sea-

son, with yields averaging 136 bushels per acre.

Soybean production in the state is forecast at a record 231 million bushels, up 24% from last year. Kansas farmers planted a record 5.25 million acres into soybeans this year.

Kansas growers are also expected to harvest 217 million bushels of sorghum for grain, up 6% from a year ago. About 2.55 million acres are forecast to be harvested of sorghum.

Cotton production

Soybean pods is forecast at 320,000 bales, up 14% from last year.

The forecasts are based on conditions as of Sept. 1.

Judge orders Julia Lynn removed from ballot

By TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — A Shawnee County District Court judge reversed a decision of the Kansas secretary of state by granting a request Friday from Sen. Julia Lynn to be removed from the November election ballot due to a medical hardship.

Secretary of State Scott Schwab, a Republican and former legislator, had rejected the petition from Lynn because the document was signed by a licensed practice nurse rather than a doctor as required under Kansas law. Lynn appealed.

In Topeka, Judge Thomas Luedke declared Lynn’s withdrawal application valid. His order said the licensed practical nurse’s signature on Lynn’s petition attested to authenticity

of the printed name of the physician consulted

by Lynn.

In court documents, Lynn’s attorneys and the secretary of state’s office agreed the medical confirmation of a medical hardship had been “signed” by a doctor and submitted to the secretary of state prior to the Sept. 1 deadline.

Lynn, who has served in the Legislature since 2006, sought to be dropped from the ballot to care for a sister in failing health.

Schwab said his office was dedicated to making certain election documents and filing timelines complied with state law. Lynn’s application for withdrawal was presented to the secretary of state’s office minutes before the deadline by an employee of Senate President Susan Wagle, a Wichita Republican.

“For some odd reason,” Schwab said, “Senate staff and the candidate failed to coordinate with our office to guarantee compliance with state law and, instead, waited until the last minute to submit the required documents.”

Clay Barker, deputy general counsel for the secretary of state, said Lynn showed up at the office and asked to withdraw around 4:50 p.m. on Sept. 1. She provided a handwritten explanation.

Lynn asserted that the signature of a nurse was sufficient, Barker said, but state law requires the signature to be from a medical doctor. As part of Lynn’s lawsuit, the doctor provided an affidavit saying the nurse had provided his electronic signature, which is acceptable under state law.

“If somebody would have explained it to us,” Barker said, “we would have approved it that day.”

Schwab said the controversy was made “unnecessarily complicated with unsolicited opinions from outside entities and supplemental information being provided to our office well after the September 1 deadline.”

He expressed appreciation for the court’s prompt action on Lynn’s appeal and “remain committed to serving the citizens of Kansas in upholding state election law.”

Republican leaders in Lynn’s district in Johnson County are responsible for selecting her replacement for the Nov. 3 ballot. Stacey Knoell, an educator in public schools, is the Democratic nominee in the district.

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had been scheduled to expire Tuesday, will now be in effect until at least Oct. 31, when Kelly could seek another extension.

Kelly and Adjutant General David Weishaar warned before the vote that letting the declaration expire would stop the state from providing many services, including the delivery of personal protective equipment and assistance with community-based testing.

Republican members insisted on stipulating that the extension had to clarify that Kelly would not close businesses as she did in April.

Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning, a Republican from Overland Park, said conditions have changed since the early days of the pandemic and that residents need to know the

Please do not let your ideology or your dislike for me as governor or the fact that I’m a Democrat (affect the vote). Please, let’s vote for the people, let’s not vote for politics.

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governor’s and lawmakers’ intentions to “calm everything down.”

“We need to let the folks back home, the businesses, know that we have no intention of shutting down and if there’s a hot spot, the local folks will handle that hot spot. ... They’re not comfortable right now, they’ve lived through a nightmare. And we need to give the some common sense assurance,” he said.

Kelly said repeatedly during the meeting that she would not order businesses to close again because state and

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health officials have better data, information and procedures than they did in the spring and most businesses had cooperated with efforts to slow the virus.

When GOP members continued to push for new language in the resolution, Kelly accused them of using the issue for political gain in an election year, rather than ensuring the state can continue to provide services without interruption.

“There is so much at stake here,” she said.

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At a news conference after the meeting, House Speaker Ron Ryckman Jr. said the inserted language was important.

“We’ve got to a situation where we’re picking winners and losers, determined who was essential and who wasn’t, allowing a lot of our large stores remain open when our small ones couldn’t. We couldn’t have that repeated,” Ryckman said.

Some Republicans accused Kelly of breaking rules by vetoing a motion that sought to add different language to the declaration.

Republican Attorney General Derek Schmidt, who attended the news conference, said he’s “sure there will be a large group of lawyers” looking into whether Kelly’s veto was legal.

As of Friday, Kansas health officials had reported 48,386 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 511 deaths from the disease since the start of the pandemic.

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Facing financial facts about urban Kansas Depending on the definitions you use, the residents of Kansas’s rural counties and small towns make up less than a third, and perhaps as little as a quarter, of the state’s total population.

Despite our reputation as a rural farming state, Kansas is surprisingly urban.

For this reason, it’s important to do what hasn’t been done often enough, and think seriously about the fate of Kansas’s cites, both their limitations and their strengths.

Chase Billingham, a professor of sociology at Wichita State University, recently reviewed the effects covid-19 has had on cities across America, focusing on matters of particular concern to Kansans. Foremost among them is that our largest cities are in many ways both overbuilt and underfunded, making them more susceptible to the current financial crises than they ought to be.

That the pandemic has hit cities hard isn’t anything new — that’s where the people are, after all. But the economic importance of those cities isn’t simply because people are there: rather, it is because the people there can work and create and play in heterogeneous mixings which some scholars have seen as the root of the “creative class” economy.

Entrepreneurship, investment, and experimentation in financial, technological, and service sectors, rather an manufacturing, is what has built most urban wealth over the past 30 years, and what continues to make cities attractive.

Obviously, social distancing rules, restrictions on large gatherings, and people choosing not to commute and working from home has halted much of that mixing.

While some of it will likely return, much may not, especially since the tax revenues that paid for the services and amenities which enabled that mixing in the first place have been severely reduced.

Some speculate that the cities best positioned to adapt to the post-pandemic world will be small or midsized ones, since they might be able to re-create urban mixing in a safer context,

Russell Fox Insight Kansas

and thus appeal to those who are doing their creative work remotely anyway. (Billingham mentioned Tulsa, OK, as an example; potentially Topeka or Lawrence could be the same.)

But that re-creation will depend upon having the resources to do so, and that will depend upon not having been overly burdened by financial liabilities — such as massive infrastructure and public works projects, which almost always increase in costs and almost never pay for themselves.

In Kansas’s two largest urban areas, Kansas City and Wichita, activists have long warned about the costs of the “just build something” mentality. Whether it be the Northland Sports Complex in KC or the Riverfront Legacy Plan in Wichita, both cities have grand — and incredibly expensive — ideas for attracting and holding onto “creatives.”

Whatever the arguments for those plans, though, the debate over them has been happening while the governments of these same cities have been forced to re-allocate, delay, or just plain cut from the budget money for all sorts of urban basics — road maintenance, sewer repair, public transportation, and more The solutions to these problems aren’t obvious.

Charting alternative paths is difficult even in the best of times. But being serious about what can be achieved in Kansas’s cities today–by focusing on incremental and sustainable growth, rather than grand, top-down plans — is essential. We owe it to one another to not let the unique post-pandemic possibilities of Kansas’s small and mid-sized cities slip away from us, all because we were blind to the financial facts before our eyes.

Russell Fox runs the History & Politics major and the Honors program at Friends University in Wichita.

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Members of the Kansas City Chiefs lock arms and stand for the playing of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a song considered by many as the Black national anthem, during pregame ceremonies Thursday before the Chiefs took on the Houston Texans at Arrowhead Stadium. (Tammy Ljungblad/ The Kansas City Star/TNS)

Chiefs opener calls for soul-searching On separate occasions in the past year, my wife gifted me an American flag and a bust of George Washington.

She clearly gets my abiding love for this country, even if her wonderful presents come nowhere near describing it.

So, it’s no surprise, then, that this right-of-center writer once proudly carried the banner in opposition to national anthem protests. I oppose police brutality and racism with everything in me. But I’ve always considered America to be family, and I felt the protests, especially on such a stage and at such a patriotic moment, were an indiscriminate insult to a vast majority of Americans of good heart who actually support the protesters’ aims.

Now, not so much.

It still hurts me to see the protests. I think it’s counterproductive to flip off the nation you should want on your side. But really, the NFL didn’t ask fans to buy into the Black Lives Matter organization Thursday night when the Kansas City Chiefs hosted the Houston Texans in the season opener. And the two teams’ moment of silence for equality was hardly a middle finger. How could you boo such a thing, as so many fans did?

The bizarre booing shamed Kansas City, and was the talk of the sporting world from coast to coast Thursday. What in the world were the boobirds thinking — “Shut up and play ball”? As if the lifeand-death matter of racial inequality and generational disadvantage and neglect can’t be allowed to get in the way of our entertainment?

Or were those fans who booed simply tired of the message, feeling it’s overkill? If so, I have to ask: Really? When we see fellow Americans being brutalized and even killed — often needlessly — and others too often denied justice by a system that has failed them?

Is the message to just get over it?

This embarrassment tells

Michael Ryan The Kansas City Star me my country, and my city, still has some soul searching to do.

I recommend it highly. This anti-anthem-protest writer has done it. After this year’s stunning sequence of combustible killings of Black Americans by law enforcement officers — the beginning of which is marked in the collective mind by George Floyd’s headstone — how could I not soften my opposition to the protests?

It isn’t anti-police to decry violence

The fact is, even while watching the pre-game proceedings with trepidation before the Kansas City Chiefs’ nationally televised game Thursday night, I not only was ready to not be offended by a protest, I took a knee in my own heart.

It is not anti-police to decry the death toll or to pine for solutions and, yes, to seek reforms in policing. My support for law enforcement now is more qualified than before, to be sure, but no less passionate. I don’t believe Black Americans should be profiled as a group, and neither should cops.

Yet surely even my friends in the law enforcement community would agree that things have to change — on all sides. To borrow the NFL’s current phraseology, “It takes all of us.” It takes law enforcement worthy of respect.

It takes a citizenry willing to give it. And most importantly it takes a comprehensive, concerted effort to eliminate the vestiges of social injustice bequeathed to us by an inglorious past.

As a devotee of legendary Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, I’m a big proponent of

personal responsibility — and that has to include doing the right thing, no matter one’s circumstances. So yes, obey lawful police commands. I absolutely get that. It shouldn’t be glossed over. At some point, personal responsibility needs to take the stage as well.

But that social media meme that says you’ve got nothing to worry about from police if you don’t break the law? Conversations with Black friends, and my own eyes and ears, have convinced me that’s not always the case for the minority community.

Poll shows 56% of Americans OK with protests

In addition, although we’ve made gigantic strides in recent decades, I suspect many of us who are white truly didn’t know how maddeningly intractable our historic injustices still are. This, despite the fact that Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. were seeking redress of racial grievances in the Oval Office a full 100 years apart.

That kind of lumbering progress in equality, so glowingly promised by our Founders and our Constitution, never was acceptable, and certainly isn’t today. Yet some Chiefs fans can’t “suffer” through a moment of silence to stand, or kneel God forbid, against inequality?

I, for one, can — though I know I am not alone: A Washington Post poll shows 56% of Americans are OK with the anthem protests for racial equality. That’s almost the exact opposite of a poll from two years ago.

The choice is ours. The year 2020 can be remembered as the year of COVID-19 and racial division. Or this poor beleaguered year, so pilloried in deprecating memes on social media, might yet be redeemed — if we can just see our way clear to finally making good on our nation’s promise and on the era of inclusion.

This year has changed everything. How could it not change us?

How to contact your elected officials

President Donald Trump, (Republican) 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington D.C., 20500; phone (switchboard): (202) 456-1414; (comments): (202) 456-1111

Gov. Laura Kelly, (Democrat) Capitol, 300 S.W. 10th Ave., Suite 212S, Topeka, KS 66612-1590; phone: (785) 2963232; www.governor. ks.gov/comments/comment.htm

U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, (Republican) 109 Hart Senate Office Building Washington D.C., 20510; phone: (202) 224-4774; Email: www.roberts. senate.gov/public/index. cfm?p=EmailPat

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, (Republican) Russell Senate Office Building, Room 354, Washington D.C., 20510; phone: (202) 224-6521; Email: moran.senate. gov/public/index.cfm/email-jerry

Rep. Steve Watkins, (Republican) 130 Cannon House Office Building, Washington D.C., 20515; phone: (202) 225-6601; Email:watkins.house. gov/contact/email

Sen. Caryn Tyson, (Republican) State Capitol-236 E Topeka, KS 66612 phone: (785) 2966838; e-mail: caryn. tyson@senate.ks.gov

Rep. Kent Thompson, (Republican) House District No. 9, phone: (620) 496-7200 State Capitol, Room 050-S 300 SW Tenth Ave. Topeka, KS 66612, email: kent.thompson@ house.ks.gov

Rep. Kenneth Collins, (Republican) House District No. 2, phone: (785) 296-7698;State Capitol, Room 043-S, 300 SW Tenth Ave.Topeka, KS 66612, email: ken. collins@house.ks.gov

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yond what human memory and imagination can comprehend.

Instead there are only trembling echoes of ancient indigenous peoples and fearsome creatures swimming in the inland depths.

Over eons, the layers of soft sediment flowed into place granule by granule, hardened and hollowed, then became exposed.

What sacred significance was given it by the people of the wind and plains?

By how many other names has it been called?

EVEN before stepping inside the diagonal vault of the cave, you can feel the temperature start to drop and time begin to rapidly rewind.

Recently, I attuned myself to the precise moment so as to feel it — I had crunched through the recently fallen leaves, descending toward the mouth, when stealthily it struck me, enlivening my skin and filling my lungs.

That mineral smell of cold rock and earth that signals the cave is not merely an interior but an entire surrounds, something with the power to envelop.

The cave is a phenomenon that reaches out to greet you, as it has to its guests for an epoch, and its magnetic force actively draws one to its uncanny mystery.

A world of ghosts erupts therefrom, surrounds you and fills you, questioning: Do I dare to touch the stillborn stalactites,

A map of John Brown’s Cave reveals a complex structure 200 yards in length, with many spieliographic features. with their alien, crystalline veins?

Do I dare to crawl the distance in the wet, rocky dark to emerge beneath bluffs in daylight?

Or do I hide, and disappear within the geometric folds of time?

INDEED, the cave evokes images of hiding and disappearance, and not merely because it is a place of concealment.

It’s all in the name.

Abolitionist John Brown, who came to Kansas about the same time as the founding of Allen Woodson Counties, had been a conductor on the underground railroad, ferrying former slaves to freedom.

Though it may only be “mere” legend, one dreams him there all the same.

Sitting near the mouth of the cave, I first heard an almost inaudible voice along with the parting of the undergrowth nearby.

They emerged almost

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noiselessly, the young Black family, accompanied by an older white woman in masculine dress.

I watched as she whispered instructions, then left almost as soon as she’d come, disappearing to the south in tattered overalls.

Exhausted, the parents and children collapsed against the cave’s mossy olive walls nearby, their breathing still labored.

Then everything became motionless, save the buzzing gnats and purple butterflies tossed about by the wind. ...

When the middle-aged man with sharp features arrived at the cave that evening, I immediately remarked on his gray eyes, and how he seemed to stoop when walking.

He bore no feature that would mark him out as a saint or madman, devil or visionary.

Nothing to say he was an armed killer who “bled” Kansas.

He wasn’t even a giant in stature, despite enormous deeds that would earn him the reputation as a terrorist.

His ghost simply appeared, gathered the young family, and dispersed into the waiting stars.

A B O U T half a century later, other people began visiting the cave, though mostly for pleasure and leisure as opposed to subverting the scourge of slavery.

One early exception, however, came during the prohibition years (1910), when the cave’s reputation as a hiding place was once again earned: “Chief of Police John J. Creed, Undersheriff Hoover Kerr and Marshal Jim Frederickson of Bassett, secured information yesterday that a barrel of whiskey was being hauled from a Gas City depot to the John Brown cave.”

“They got into a wagon and drove out to the cave but there was no liquor there. They did, however, find an empty barrel in the vicinity, and it is possible that the owners of the booze anticipated trouble, emptied the barrel and made away with the goods.”

Indeed, the cave seems to bear a fascinating link to illegal activities, and in the previous two cases, those bound to legal changes and social upheaval.

It’s almost as if the cave is a gestation-place, where that which is not

Deep inside John Brown’s Cave, one finds formations akin to those that eventually transform into stalactites. yet ready to become the norm, must first undergo a period of growth.

Speaking of gestation, many young people over the years have enjoyed coming-of-age experiences at the cave, especially the girl scouts and boy scouts.

They hiked and fished and camped and cooked s’mores over open fires, in a time before American culture entombed itself in caves of air conditioned, digitized housing, away from the peskiness of neighbors and Nature.

Like scout troops, Sunday schools used to make regular excursions to the cave as well, perhaps premised on trying to envision a certain brown-skinned Palestinian carpenter making his postmortem emergence therefrom.

For instance, during

the early 20s, young girls from the Methodist Episcopal church not only picnicked there, “they cooked a breakfast of bacon and eggs with buns.”

“Each one carried a pillow along and plenty of magazines were read during the rest hour.”

“Swimming in Rock Creek was a popular feature of the outing and explorations of the cave made interesting occupation.”

AND it occupies us still: this strange formation indicated by a tunnel through time.

It carries one from sunbonnets to whip scars to bison-hunts.

From the love of Jesus to Freedom to the Land.

To a time of monsters, predators under the Kansas sea.

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Cubs edge ’Jackets HUMBOLDT — Humboldt High’s Cubs improved to 2-0 on the young season Friday.

But unlike their season-opening trouncing of Bluestem, the Cubs had to sweat out a 30-26 win over visiting Fredonia in Humboldt’s home-opener.

Gavin Page proved lethal both in the air and on the ground. He ran for 130 yards and two touchdowns on 20 carries, while completing 4 of 8 passes for 52 yards and two more scores. (He also picked off a Yellowjacket passion defense).

Drew Counsil carried nine times for 79 yards, while Trey Sommer had 35 rushing yards and 41 receiving yards for the Cubs.

Trayce Slocum led the defense with 10 tackles, while Dakota Slocum had seven tackles, for tackles-for-loss, and two sacks.

The Cubs will hope to keep up their winning ways on the road next Friday at Neodesha.

CREST kept its record See ROUNDUP | Page B4

Iola High’s Brett Willis bursts past a series of Parsons Vikings on his way to an 85-yard kickoff return for a touchdown Friday.

The score gave the Mustangs an early boost, but was not enough in a 25-20 defeat. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

COSTLY MISCUES Vikings stun ‘Stangs

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A week ago, Iola High was able to cut down on costly mistakes after halftime to coast to an easy victory to start the 2020 season.

There was no such reprieve on Friday.

In an exasperating night that saw both teams miss out on multiple scoring opportunities, visiting Parsons High was able to right its ship just

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enough down the stretch for a back-breaking 96-yard touchdown drive.

The Vikings’ Ethan Houk found Tanner Barcus on a 13-yard touchdown pass with 5:19 left in the game to provide the decisive points in Parsons’ 25-20 victory.

Iola had one final shot to retake the lead, marching well into scoring range, before Parsons slammed the door with a ferocious pass rush.

The Vikings sacked Iola quar-

Fillies go Wildcats, Jayhawks 2-2 at IHS falter Invite Iola High’s Fillies rebounded from a disappointing start to win its last two volleyball matches of the day Saturday, and in doing so, took third place in the IHS Invitational.

The Fillies looked to get the day off on the right foot, taking an early lead in its opening-round match and nabbing the first set against Parsons, 25-20.

But Parsons responded quickly, taking advantage of a brief lapse in Iola’s execution, securing the second set, 25-12. The Vikings maintained that momentum in the decisive third set, 25-19.

Becca Sprague led Iola’s charge with seven aces and eight assists. Lauryn Holloway knocked home six kills.

The pattern was different in match two against River-

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terback Bradyn Cole three times over a four-play stretch, the last of which came on fourth-and-9 from the Viking 20 with 44 seconds remaining “It’s frustrating because I firmly believe we beat ourselves tonight,” Iola head coach David Daugharthy said. “We made too many mistakes, and they capitalized.”

The last, missed chance capped an exasperating eve-

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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Jonathan Adams Jr. caught a career-high three touchdown passes, including the game-winner with 38 seconds remaining, and Arkansas State defeated Kansas State 35-31 on Saturday for the Red Wolves’ first win over a Power 5 opponent in a dozen years.

Just down I-70 later in the day, Coastal Carolina picked up its second win over Kansas in as many years, 38-23.

In the early game, Layne Hatcher threw a 17-yard pass to Adams for the winning score after the Wildcats (01) had taken a 31-28 lead on a Blake Lynch 35-yard field goal with 2:30 remaining.

Arkansas State (1-1) scored 21 unanswered points after trailing 21-7 midway through the second quarter.

Most of the offense flowed through the 6-foot-3 Adams.

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NEW YORK — Second seed Dominic Thiem came back from twosets-to-love down Sunday to defeat German fifth seed Alexander Zverev 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6) and clinch a maiden grand slam title at the U.S. Open.

Thiem, who looked in pain and called the trainer late in the decider, is the first Austrian to be crowned singles champion at the U.S. open and the first since Pancho Gonzales in 1949 to successfully rally back from a two-sets-tolove deficit in a final in New York. “It’s amazing how far away our journey brought us to share this moment with you and I really wish we could have two winners today,� a gracious Thiem told Zverev during his victory speech.

Men’s tennis finally has its first new grand slam winner since 2014 and crowns its first major champion born in the 1990s.

Thiem, 27, trailed Zverev 2-6, 1-5, was down a break early in the third, and limped his way back from 3-5 down in the deciding set en route to a heroic four-hour comeback to end a three-match losing streak in grand slam finals.

The Austrian’s victory ended the streak of the Big Three — Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic — who had won the last 13 consecutive majors.

This was the first U.S. Open championship match to be decided by a final-set tiebreak and it left Zverev heartbroken

during the trophy ceremony. “There are some special people missing in the crowd today. I want to thank my parents, they’re always with me at every tournament I go to; unfortunately my dad and my mother tested positive (for coronavirus) before the tournament and they couldn’t come with me. I miss them,� Zverev, 23, said fighting back tears.

Zverev was playing his first grand slam final and is now 2-8 against Thiem in career meetings. The pair are both good friends and rivals, and are among the top four on the leaderboard for most matches won on tour since 2016, alongside Djokovic and Nadal.

NAOMI OSAKA captured the third Grand Slam title of her career Saturday with a 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory over Victoria Azarenka to lift her second US Open trophy in three years.

The Japanese fourth seed rallied from a set and a break down to snap Azarenka’s 11-match winning streak and maintain her perfect record in major finals.

Osaka proved her mettle with a gutsy 112-minute win at an empty Arthur Ashe stadium.

This was Osaka’s third win from four meetings with Azarenka, who has now lost all three of her US Open finals. Osaka was pushed to the brink by the twotime Australian Open champion and was quick to give her credit during her victory speech. “Firstly, I want to congratulate Vika. I actually don’t want to play you in more finals, I didn’t really enjoy that. It was

a really tough match for me,� joked Osaka.

The Belarusian Azarenka, one of the best returners in the game, handled Osaka’s serve brilliantly from the start, and extended the rallies with great variety to break twice for an early 4-1 lead.

The former No. 1, now 27 in the world, closed out the set in 27 minutes, dropping just four points on serve.

At the start of the second set, Azarenka picked up right where she left off and leapt to a 2-0 advantage. But as the sport’s famed Billie Jean King once said, “champions adjust� and Osaka did just that.

Down 1-6, 0-2, the 22-year-old raced to take seven of the next eight games. She broke Azarenka for 3-1 in the decider but squandered four break points for a shot at going up 5-1.

Azarenka swung the momentum back her way after surviving the sixth game and broke to get back on serve at 3-4. But her comeback was short-lived as Osaka marched towards victory to deny her 31-yearold opponent a third Grand Slam.

Osaka has been wearing a different mask emblazoned with a different name of a police shooting victim for each of her seven US Open matches.

For the final, she had the name Tamir Rice on her mask, in honor of the 12-year-old African American boy that was shot by police in Cleveland, Ohio in 2014. “I feel like the point is to make people start talking,� Osaka said when asked why she wore the masks.

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Mustang volleyball drops heartbreakers BURLINGTON — If only Iola Middle School’s eighth-graders were playing horseshoes.

The volleyball team came so close, but dropped a pair of heartbreakers Saturday against Royster and Burlington, before losing in straight sets to Humboldt to end the day at the Burlington Invitational.

“We didn’t get the results we were hoping for, but we were competitive,” IMS head coach Terri Carlin said.

“The first two matches could have gone either way. We just didn’t come through in the end. The

girls played hard, and I saw some great things.”

Iola dropped a threeset thriller to Royster, 25-12, 20-25, 15-13, to open tournament play.

Alana Mader led the Mustangs with four aces, while Reese Curry had three kills and two aces. Kaysin Crusinbery followed with an ace, two assists and a kill.

Elza Clift had an ace, Shae McCain an assist and Karingten Hall and Mariah Jelenik each had a kill.

“We didn’t get off to a good start, but shook off the loss and came back ready to play. We had match point in the final set, but couldn’t hold

onto the lead and lost a close one,” Carlin said.

The next match against Burlington also went down to the wire, before the Wildcats prevailed, 25-14, 17-25, 15-13.

Crusinbery and Curry led with five kills and one assist each.

“They both were doing great at finding open areas on the other side,” Carlin said. Curry added three ace serves, while Crusinbery had an ace.

Annemarie McCullough had the hot serving hand in this match with six ace serves. She also had a kill.

Clift had three aces, a

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HMS goes 2-1 in tourney MORAN — Humboldt High’s junior varsity volleyball team won two of three matches Saturday at the Marmaton Valley Invitational.

The Lady Cubs defeated Crest and Marmaton Valley before losing to Yates Center.

Humboldt took down Crest, 25-23, 25-9, led by a balanced attack.

Ella Lassman and Emily Ross deliverd

four aces apiece, while Jailynn Goforth had three aces, five kills and a dig. Carsyn Haviland had seven assists.

Lassman also had three assists. Rylan Covey and Raquel Aguilar each had two digs.

Humboldt also defeated host MV, 25-20, 25-21.

Ross had seven aces, followed by Haviland and Goforth with four each. Shelby Daniels

had three kills and three digs. Haviland had four assists.

The Lady Cubs could not complete the trifecta, dropping a pair of hard-fought sets to Yates Center in a 25-22, 25-23 defeat.

Lassman had six kills and four digs, while Haviland had seven assists, two kills and three digs. Goforth had three aces and a pair of kills.

kill, and five assists “Elza is a great allaround player,” Carlin said. “She just does whatever I ask. She did a great job setting us up for some kills.”

Mader added three ace serves and three assists. McCain had 2 assists. Hall had 2 kills.

“It was tough to lose another match in a close third set,” Carlin said.

“Looking at our stats tells me that we should have won this one. We had lots of good things happen in this game.”

Humboldt made sure there was no such drama in the final match of the day, defeating Iola, 25-11, 25-4.

“We had a difficult time with our serve-receive in this game, and never could get anything going,” Carlin said.

Curry had two ace serves and a kill. Clift had an ace.

Kinsey Schinstock and Mader had one assist each. Jelinek and Hall each had one kill.

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Keller (4-2) was in total command, allowing only three hits until the ninth inning.

Making his 55th career start in the big leagues, he struck two, walked one and threw 111 pitches. It was his second complete game in the majors.

Salvador Pérez and Hunter Dozier homered to help Kansas City win its second consecutive series after losing its previous eight. Pittsburgh lost its fourth

game in a row.

The Royals thrived off Chad Kuhl (1-2) who couldn’t find the strike zone. He walked six, helping set up nine runs in 2 1/3 innings.

Only 31 of his 70 pitches were strikes.

Seven Royals starters had an RBI with Merrifield and Salvador Pérez both having a pair.

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spotless by thumping Three Rivers League rival Marmaton Valley, 64-6.

Jacquez Coleman led a familiar cast of characters in the win, tossing a pair of touchdowns and running in another. Stratton McGhee had one rushing

touchdown and another scoring reception.

Ethan Godderz led the Lancer defense with seven tackles.

The Lancers (2-0) will host Marais des Cygnes Valley Friday.

Marmaton Valley (1-1) is at home to face Chetopa.

Elsewhere, Yates

Center High picked up its first win of the season, crushing Altoona-Midway, 56-8. The Wildcats (1-1) will host St. Paul next week.

Southern Coffey County dropped a 52-0 decision to Marais des Cygnes Valley. The Titans host Madison weekend.

Bummers: For KU, K-State Continued from A1

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Grayson McCall threw three touchdown passes and ran for two more scores, the Chanticleers forced the Jayhawks into three early turnovers There were no fans on hand for the Jay-

hawks’ opener because of the coronavirus pandemic. Then again, considering they trailed 28-3 at halftime, there probably wouldn’t have been many left under normal circumstances — and combined with the 9 p.m. kickoff due to television, it meant few people probably saw it.

Miles Kendrick threw

a touchdown pass in relief of Thomas MacVittie, who appeared to leave with a shoulder injury, and Velton Gardner had a 61-yard TD run as the Jayhawks tried to rally in the second half.

But the Chanticleers answered the back-toback touchdowns with McCall’s second on the ground to put the game away.

Iola HIgh’s Becca Sprague (9) is poised to hammer down a kill Saturday against Parsons in the IHS Invitational. Standing by is teammate Aysha Houk (24). REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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ton, which cruised through the first set, 25-10.

But Iola rebounded from there, breaking through with a 25-22 win in the second set.

A back-and-forth final set turned Rivertons’ way, 25-23, giving the Rams the victory.

Sprague, Holloway and Ally Ellis each had four kills. Sprague and Holloway each had 10 digs, and Holloway had four blocks. Jenna Curry had a scintillating passing average of

2.6 in the match.

Rather than fret, Iola quickly returned to the court against Pioneer League rival Prairie View.

The Fillies had things well in hand this time, rolling to a 25-18, 25-20 straight-set victory.

Hannah Gardner, Holloway and Sprague each had four aces in the win. Sprague also had three kills. Chloe Sell notched six assists.

Iola’s final notch of redemption came in

the third-place match against Parsons.

This time, the Fillies had things well in hand, winning 25-19, 25-23.

Holloway had five aces, while Sprague pounded home 13 kills.

Sell set up her teammates with a teamhigh 11 assists, while Gardner and Curry both were solid in defense with eight digs apiece. Jocelyn Erbert led the Fillies with a pair of blocks.

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ning in which Iola came up empty on at least four golden scoring chances.

Twice, the Mustangs lost fumbles inside the Viking 25-yard line.

But those paled in comparison to a game-changing series of plays starting late in the third quarter.

It began with the Mustangs in the proverbial catbird seat.

A bad snap on a Viking punt set up Iola with first-and-goal at the Parsons 4-yard line and still leading 20-19. But two straight runs up the middle mustered only a single yard. Cole’s third-down pass fell incomplete. The Vikings capped the finished off goal line stand by stuffing Iola running back Trent Jones behind the line of scrimmage on fourth down.

But even though Iola lost possession, the Mustangs still had the upper hand. And when Houk lost three yards on the Vikings’ next play from scrimmage — pinning Parsons at its own 1-yard line — the Mustangs were ready to pounce.

Parsons had other ideas.

A couple of short passes moved the ball to the 13, but still a yard shy of the first down.

Viking head coach Jeff Schib eschewed a punt, instead sending running back Yusil Kindrick up the middle on the fourth-down play.

The risky gambit worked as Kindrick rumbled 15 yards for the crucial first down.

“I don’t think I would’ve” made such a daring call, Daugharthy said. “It was a gutsy call. And the guys made a good play.”

The Vikings methodically marched down the field from there, with the Houk-Barcus touchdown capping the 15-yard drive that consumed nearly 9 minutes of the game clock.

There were other chances for the Mustangs that looked promising early, but fizzled late.

And while Friday’s matchup may not have offered the same fireworks as last season’s 5-overtime classic between these same two squads, the sting of defeat doesn’t hurt any less, Daugharthy agreed.

THE GAME started with a dizzying array of fireworks.

Iola High’s Dylon Reiter (34) pulls down Parsons quarterback Ethan Houk for a sack Friday in the Mustangs’ 25-20 defeat. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN Houk got the show started with a 57-yard touchdown pass to Dion Sylvester on the Vikings’ first possession.

Iola’s Brett Willis promptly returned the ensuing kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown to pull Iola within 7-6.

Iola narrowly missed recovering the ball on the ensuing kickoff, but Parsons retained possession at its own 6.

And Barcus broke free from a Mustang tackler four plays later, turning a 10-yard pass down the sideline into a 67-yard touchdown, and pushing Viking lead to 13-7.

The Mustangs responded with a nineplay, 66-yard drive, finished off by a 10-yard touchdown from Cole to Jones.

A Parsons punt followed, and Iola advanced to the Viking 34 before Parsons ended the drive on a fourthdown sack, followed up a short while later by an 11-yard touchdown pass from Houk to Sylvester early in the second quarter.

Iola threatened once again, but its next drive ended with a fumble at the Viking 20.

A deflected punt led to a 19-yard touchdown run from Jones for Iola’s final score at the 2:29 mark of the half.

The zaniness continued. Iola recovered a fumble on the ensuing kickoff, moving to the Viking 27 before a lost fumble gave possession back to the Vikings with 1:22 left in the half.

Isaac Badders picked off a Houk pass in the waning seconds before intermission, and a Viking penalty on the return gave Iola an untimed down to close out the half. But the Vikings forced Cole out of bounds after a short

rush, sending both teams to the locker room with Iola on top 20-19.

“That pretty much sums it up,” Daugharthy said. “Penalties, mistakes, fumbles.”

Jones led Iola with 183 yards on 34 carries. Cole tossed for 74 passing yards. Isaac Badders, who exited the game in the third quarter with a leg injury, had 42 yards receiving and an interception on defense.

Houk completed 28 of 41 passes for 371 yards.

Barcus had a monster game, with 11 catches for 215 yards. Sylvester had eight receptions for 113 yards.

DAUGHARTHY is confident the Mustangs can rebound.

“We should’ve been victorious, but that’s what happens when you make too many mistakes,” he said. “I think the guys will realize that and we’ll come back from it.”

He also credited both Jones and sophomore Jarrett Herrmann for piling up tough runs against the Viking defense.

“And our offensive line played pretty well, other than with pass protections,” Daugharthy said. ”We can bounce back.”

Parsons 13-6-0-6—25 Iola 14-6-0-0—20 First Quarter Parsons — Sylvester 57 yd pass from Houk (Quinn kick) Iola — Willis 85 yard kickoff return (run failed) Parsons — Barcus 67 yd pass from Houk (PAT failed) Iola — Jones 10 yd pass from Cole (Hutton run) Second Quarter Parsons — Sylvester 11 yd pass from Houk (PAT blocked) Iola — Jones 19 yd run (run failed) Fourth Quarter Parsons — Barcus 13 yd pass from Houk (PAT failed)

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