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Monday, August 17, 2015
Back in the classroom again By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
When Autumn Peeper decided to get back into teaching she didn’t want to take the comfortable route. She decided to go full force. Peeper will have a full plate this school year teaching high school English, journalism and coaching the Iola High School cheerleading squad. She and her husband, Bill, IHS history teacher, met at Oklahoma State University. Upon graduating they moved to Syracuse. Both taught while they were there. At the time Peeper was teaching elementary school but decided to become a stayat-home mom for the last 10 years to raise her two children BriAnna, 11, and Mason, 7. Outside the classroom she taught about 65 students dance lessons at her own studio for nine years. In 2010 the Peeper family decided to relocate to Iola. “We wanted to stay in Kansas but also wanted to be
Autumn Peeper will teach English and journalism at Iola High School this year. closer to our family in Oklahoma,” she said. For the last 10 years she has cheered on her family in all
Jet’s wreckage located JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — An airplane with 54 people on board that crashed in the mountains of eastern Indonesia was carrying nearly half a million dollars in government cash for poor families to help offset a spike in fuel prices, an official said today. Smoldering wreckage of the Trigana Air Service turboprop plane was spotted from the air this morning in a rugged area of the easternmost province of Papua, rescue officials said. There was no immediate word of any survivors from Sunday’s crash, which happened in bad weather. Four postal workers aboard the plane were escorting four bags of cash totaling $468,750 in government fuel aid, Franciscus Haryono, the head of the post office in Jayapura, the
the IHS boys basketball team until retiring from coaching last year. She also worked at Wesley United Methodist Church part time. “I started substitute teaching off and on the last few years,” she said. “I did some subbing long term and I was ready to go back. My kids are at a good age and I wanted to teach high school this time.” Peeper said she was excited to get back into a classroom and was looking forward to working with her husband, too. “We will be on separate floors but we are really excited about having the same schedule,” she said. “It’s also comforting to teach here because I’m familiar with a lot of the staff already.” When she moved to Iola she taught dance lessons at the recreation department. She hopes to use her experience and knowledge in dance to guide the 14 IHS cheerleaders this year. “My background in dance
provincial capital, told The Associated Press. The ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane was flying from Jayapura to the city of Oksibil when it lost contact. Transportation Ministry spokesman Julius Barata said there was no indication that the pilot had made a distress call. The cash from the Social Affairs Ministry was to be distributed among poor people in remote areas to cushion the jump in fuel costs, Haryono said. “They were carrying those bags (of cash) to be handed out to poor people in Oksibil through a post office there,” Haryono said. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s administration raised fuel prices late last year and slashed governSee JET | Page A4
their endeavors, her daughter with her dancing, her son in his sports activities and her husband, who coached
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LaHarpe citywide boil order still in effect LAHARPE — A citywide boil order, in effect since Aug. 3, will continue at least until the latter portion of this week. LaHarpe City Clerk Michelle Altis said the city received word from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment Thursday that one of four water samples submitted to KDHE still registered too high with certain contaminants. (The other three samples came back clean.) The boil order has been in place since a water main leak Aug. 3 caused an outage throughout the city. Service was restored late that afternoon, but the boil order has been in effect since then. Crews are prepared to submit their latest samples Tuesday, with KDHE’s next ruling due around Thursday, Altis said.
Neosho Falls’ Oasis reopens doors By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register
NEOSHO FALLS — After a period of fallow months, the tavern in Neosho Falls is open again. New owners Gary and Tracy Schainost cut the ribbon on the Main Street bar last week in the company of a nearly packed house. If reality merges with the Schainosts’ hopes, in time, the “The Oasis” will help to inject a bit of civic energy into the historic, but commercially barren, riverside town. “I like to call it a tavern,” said Gary, “and not a bar, because we’re trying to cater to the whole community. We’re kid-friendly, pet-friendly. We want to keep a clean, bright, friendly place. Say you just want to stop in for a glass of iced tea, that’s great.”
The Oasis The Oasis — which retains its name in memory of the well-loved former owner, Donnie McCullough, who died last summer — opens its doors at
7 a.m. during the week and 10 a.m. on Saturday, and serves coffee, ice, breakfast sandSee OASIS | Page A4
Beef prices fuel rustling revival Traffic deaths up By MICHAEL GRACZYK The Associated Press
By JOAN LOWY The Associated Press
GIDDINGS, Texas (AP) — Doug Hutchison wears a badge and carries a gun but his most effective weapon in the pursuit of livestock thieves in the nation’s largest cattle-producing territory may be his smartphone. With it, Hutchison, one of 30 Special Rangers with the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, photographs suspected stolen livestock, accesses the association’s databases of livestock brands and reports of missing animals and consults with sheriff ’s offices. “I think it’s one of the greatest tools in the world,” said Hutchison, wearing a cowboy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Traffic deaths were up 14 percent nationally in the first six months of this year and injuries were up by a third, according to data gathered by the National Safety Council. An improved economy and low gas prices have encouraged Americans to put a record number of miles on the road, said Deborah A.P. Hersman, president of the council. But, she said, that’s not the whole explanation for the increase in deaths and injuries. All told, nearly 19,000 people across the country
hat and jeans, his boots mired in the mud and manure of noisy auction stockyard corrals filled with nervous cattle. Cattle prices have been at record levels, and reports of missing or stolen cattle have followed. The nearly 5,800 livestock reported as such in Texas in 2014 was the most in
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five years, and the value of the animals — in excess of $5.7 million — the most in a decade. “Any time you see the price of any commodity go up, you see the theft of that commodity rise,” says Larry Gray, See THEFTS | Page BX
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lost their lives in traffic accidents through June, and the tally doesn’t include two of the historically highest months for traffic deaths, July and August, said the council, a nonprofit organization created by Congress to promote safety. If the trend continues, traffic deaths this year could exceed 40,000 for the first time since 2007, when there were nearly 44,000 deaths, Hersman said in an interview. The increases began in the last quarter of 2014 and have been recorded consistently through each month of this year, Hersman said. See DEATHS | Page A4
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