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As many as 12 upstairs apartments have been refurbished in downtown Iola in recent years, most recently the loft apartment on East Madison Avenue (at left). Iola native Ryan Sparks, who continues to rehab homes and apartments in Iola, noted other opportunities exist in downtown Iola and Humboldt.

Upstairs apartments along Madison Avenue, above, and West Jackson Avenue are part of an effort to spur a downtown renaissance in Iola.

Developer eyes downtown rebirth

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

W

hen a nationally regarded civil engineer and community health advocate rattled off a list of recommendations for Iola and Humboldt last month, Ryan Sparks’ eyes lit up like a Christmas tree.

Foremost among Mark Fenton’s suggestions — to enhance both communities’ downtown business districts by dedicating second-story floor space for housing — happens to be in Sparks’ proverbial wheelhouse.

Sparks has renovated four second-story apartment complexes in down-

These are business owners and people in the community who share this vision, that there could be nice living units in a prime location in Iola, Kansas.

— Ryan Sparks, a developer who has rehabbed four apartments in downtown Iola in recent years

town Iola in recent years, most recently the Garlinghouse Building on North Jefferson Avenue earlier this year.

He rattles off a list of others who have done similar upgrades.

“I count 12 downtown units in the past few years that have been upgraded,” Sparks said. “Those were

nonexistent units that are now nice living spaces added to the square.

“And this effort is not as organized as you might think,” he continued.

“What happens, somebody does a project and people like it, so somebody else says, ‘I’m going to do it, too.

And that’s the thing I love about this effort; it’s not

just one person. These are business owners and people in the community who share this vision, that there could be nice living units in a prime location in Iola, Kansas.

“These people have done it on their own, with their own private investment to make this vision a reality.”

With the right combination of teamwork and “outside-the-box” thinking, Sparks envisions much more improvement downtown.

“I’ve talked to four people in the past month about continuing this vision,” he said. “I see 12 nice units now. I foresee 30 units around the square, or maySee REBIRTH | Page A6

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Governor: State does not want refugees

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has issued an executive order forbidding any state agencies or organizations that receive state grant money from helping relocate Syrian refugees in his state.

Brownback said Monday the action was necessary because the federal government can’t guarantee Syrian refugees coming to America aren’t terrorists.

He says refugees fleeing persecution in their own country might be better served by resettling in a friendly country closer to their homes.

Brownback acknowledged that many people seeking refugee status are peaceful and looking for a better life, but said Kansas can’t allow an influx of Syrian refugees while the Islamic State group is threatening to infiltrate the refugee process.

Patients speak out on ‘right to try’

By ANDY MARSO KHI News Service

Signs of the toll amyotrophic lateral sclerosis has taken on Kelli Johnsen’s body are scattered throughout the living room of her Emporia home.

A wheelchair in one corner. A lift in another. A walker near the television.

Next to her chair there’s an Eyegaze system — a screen that tracks her eye movement and blinks — that she uses to control the See PATIENTS | Page A3

Trains on display Thursday Train-Lover’s Special will be presented at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Iola Public Library.

Steve Anderson has been collecting model trains since he was 5.

Ken Groves had to put up a building to house his collection.

They will show some of their collection and share the romance, history and how-tos of building and collecting model trains, from early windups to the latest computerized Command Control System.

Classroom shower Iola PTO held its first Classroom Shower Monday evening. The event recognized members of the community as well as area civic organizations that donated games, puzzles, cards and toys to the local schools for their use during indoor recess. The group also received cash donations toward the purchase of similar items. Pictured, left to right, are: Jefferson principal Lori Maxwell; McKinley principal Angie Linn; Lincoln principal Andy Gottlob; middle school principal Brad Crusinbery; Karen Gilpin, representing Rotary, which donated more than $300 to the effort; Jaime Westervelt; and Melody Snesrud of H&R Block. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY

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Obituary Clay Bettis F. Clay Bettis, 72, Humboldt, died Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, at his home.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home with burial to follow in Mount Hope Cemetery in Humboldt. Memorials are suggested to Castaways Animal Shelter in Chanute or the Humboldt Volunteer Fire Department. Memorial gifts may be left with the funeral home. To sign the guest book online or leave a condolence, go to www. iolafuneral.com.

Police reports Truck crashes Anthony S. Moser, 45, Lexington, Okla., was northbound on U.S. 169 Monday morning, about 2 miles north of Colony, when his tractor-trailer rig droped off the side of the highway.

Moser over-corrected, causing the semi to flip onto its passenger side.

Moser was transported to Anderson County Hos-

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pital in Garnett for possible injuries, the Kansas Highway Patrol said.

He was wearing a seat belt.

Arrest reported Allen County sheriff ’s deputies arrested John Zeno III, 23, Kansas City, on a warrant for failing to appear in court to face charges of driving while suspended and speeding.

Plenty of authors have tackled writing a book using characters from the Sherlock Holmes stories, but the latest is unusual.

For one thing, it’s about Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s older and smarter brother.

For another, its author is possibly the most unusual person to write such a book: former NBA superstar Kareem AbdulJabbar.

In “Mycroft Holmes,” someone is killing children on the British owned island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. The bodies are left drained of blood with mysterious backward-facing footprints nearby. The islanders believe supernatural creatures from Caribbean folklore are involved. Mycroft’s best friend, a native Trinidadian named Cyrus Douglas, is sent to investigate, and Mycroft comes along.

The biracial friendship between the two is handled realistically; given the time, Douglas must at times pose as Mycroft’s butler.

The book is getting great reviews and looks to become a series featuring the duo.

“Best Boy” by Eli Gottlieb is told from the perspective of Todd Aaron, an autistic man.

He’s lived in the Payton Living

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Center for 40 years and passes his time working with the center’s grounds crew or serving lunches at a school. His routine is upset when he gets a new roommate and a new staff member appears who reminds him of his dead abusive father.

He develops a yearning to leave the center and return “home,” meaning the hometown where his older brother lives. Coping with many indignities, Todd finds comfort in the memories of his wise and kind departed mother.

In 1933, a baby boy disappears from the estate of his wealthy English family during the annual midsummer ball in “The Lake House” by Kate Morton.

In 2003, Detective Sadie Sparrow is visiting her grandfather in Cornwall. She’s been suspended for speaking out about a recently closed missing person

Higher home prices boost economy WASHINGTON (AP) — The costs of food, gasoline, shelter and medical care rose last month, yet inflation continues to run at low levels ahead of a December Federal Reserve meeting to consider raising short-term interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade.

The consumer price index rose 0.2 percent in October after falling the prior two months, the Labor Department

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said today. Prices at the pump advanced 0.4 percent last month, but gas costs have plunged 27.8 percent from a year ago.

“October’s inflation numbers are just the sort of confirmation the Fed is looking for that domestic strength is generating inflationary pressures,” said Leslie Preston, an economist at TD Bank.

Inflation has been held in check over the past year because of

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cheaper energy prices and a strong dollar that has made imports such as clothes and cars more affordable.

The entire consumer price index has risen a mere 0.2 percent from a year ago. But core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, advanced 0.2 percent from September and 1.9 percent from a year ago.

Clothing and shoe expenses fell in October, as did prices for new autos. But grocery shoppers paid more for bread, bacon, chicken, turkey and fruits and vegetables increased last month.

The cost of hospital services shot up 2 percent from September, the largest monthly increase recorded for this category. Airline fares soared 1.5 percent in the past month.

Much of the inflation within the economy stems from higher rents and home values.

Shelter accounts for roughly a third of the index. Housing costs increased 0.3 percent in October and 3.2 percent in the past year.

Fed officials have been carefully moni-

toring the economy for an upturn in inflation as part of its plan to eventually raise shortterm interest rates from historic lows.

The U.S. central bank targets inflation at 2 percent, enough to encourage a healthy level of consumer spending while also warding off risks of deflation that could cause the economy to stall.

The unemployment rate has improved to a healthy 5 percent, compared to 5.7 percent a year ago. The strong job market has traditionally justified higher Fed rates, except that the level of inflation associated with a stable economy has yet to materialize.

As a result, Fed policymakers have continued to hold the key federal funds rate — the interest banks charge each other overnight — at the near-zero levels set during the financial meltdown in 2008.

The Fed’s preferred measure of inflation, personal consumption expenditures, has less of an emphasis on housing costs and has risen just 0.2 percent from a year ago.

case which she believes has not really been solved. Wandering through the countryside, Sadie stumbles across the long abandoned mansion where the child disappeared 70 years earlier. She begins to investigate the case, making contact with the surviving sister of the family, now 86 years old. The story moves back and forth in time as Sadie uncovers what happened to baby Theo so many years before, while also resolving her current missing person case.

The 50th Super Bowl is just a couple of months away, and a new book looks back at the first one. Since the Kansas City Chiefs played in that first Super Bowl (losing to the Green Bay Packers), the book should be of particular interest in this area.

“When It Was Just a Game” by Harvey Frommer uses oral interviews of players, coaches, and league officials to give a behind-the-scenes look at how the Super Bowl came into being, and how it unfolded. It covers the controversial merger of the two leagues, the push to surpass baseball as the national pastime, and the unique characters of the two coaches involved, Vince Lombardi and Hank Stram.

US manufacturing up

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER The Associated Press

U.S. manufacturing output rose in October for the first time in three months as factories cranked out more steel, cars and computers.

The Federal Reserve says that manufacturing production increased 0.4 percent last month, after slipping 0.1 percent in September.

The rise suggests that manufacturers may

be overcoming several headwinds they have faced for most of this year. Many retailers and wholesalers have been cutting back on their stockpiles after ordering too many goods this winter. That has weighed on output. And the strong dollar has cut into exports by making U.S. goods more expensive overseas.

The gains were widespread across many sectors, including machinery, electrical equipment, and textiles.

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South Logan FCE unit meets The South Logan FCE met Tuesday for Fall Follies in Bronson, led

by Heather and Nancy.

Six members attended.

The club’s next meeting will be at 1:30 p.m.

Dec. 8 in Humboldt for a Christmas party. Members will plan for 2016.

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TV, lights and other devices. She can still move her hands, but not much.

Before she got sick, Johnsen, 45, was a critical care emergency veterinary technician and had a paper on tracheal trauma published in a veterinary trade magazine. Then she began struggling to hoist 60-pound animals onto operating tables. Then she started slurring her speech. Seven years ago a neurologist explained why, diagnosing her with ALS, which also is known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Though Johnsen now struggles to move and talk, her mind remains sharp. She spends six to eight hours a day using the Eyegaze to scour the Internet while researching medical breakthroughs that could save or at least prolong her life.

That’s how she heard about Eric Valor, a man with late-stage ALS who is in a trial for a drug made by a company called Genervon.

Her face lights up when she talks about the improvement he reports in his breathing and swallowing.

“Last I heard, he had held on to the gains,” Johnsen says.

Johnsen would like to try the drug too, but it is in the middle of U.S. Food and Drug Ad-

Once you get the drug onto the market and once you find out it has devastating consequences that weren’t researched, it’s hard to put the genie back in the bottle.

— John Parisi, Kansas Ctiy attorney on “right to try” treatment proposals

ministration clinical trials. In fact, so many ALS survivors and their caregivers are interested in the medication that Genervon issued a news release in March updating them on its status.

The company has applied to fast-track the drug through an accelerated approval FDA program. But if that’s not granted and it remains in Phase 3 clinical trials, it could be three more years before the drug hits the open market.

Johnsen doesn’t believe she can wait that long. People with ALS, statistically, are expected to live two to five years after their diagnosis.

Kansas lawmakers are promoting bills at the state and federal level intended to streamline the FDA approval process or let people like Johnsen bypass portions of it and access experimental drugs sooner.

But some fear those efforts could allow profitseeking drug companies and medical device manufacturers to rush products to market before anyone knows the potential risks or side effects.

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Don Hill grabs a chair from the kitchen and pulls it across the hardwood floor to where Johnsen and her mother, Vicki Triemer, are sitting.

Hill is a pharmacist.

He’s also Johnsen’s representative in the Kansas House.

He’s considered a moderate Republican, but last session he joined with three of his more

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Libertarian-leaning colleagues to promote a “Right to Try” bill on Johnsen’s behalf.

House Bill 2004 seeks to give Kansans with terminal illnesses access to drugs in the early phases of FDA clinical trials.

It’s based on model legislation from the Goldwater Institute, a smallgovernment advocacy think tank.

The bill did not get a House vote last year. But Kansas is in the middle of a two-year legislative cycle, Hill explains, which means the bill remains eligible for a vote after the Legislature reconvenes in January.

Johnsen wonders what the holdup is. She’s watched as other states enact aid-in-dying laws and wonders why some Americans with terminal illness are being given the right to die while she’s not allowed the right to try a potentially lifesaving medicine.

“I have a big problem with that,” Johnsen says.

Hill — one of the calmest, most measured speakers in the Kansas Legislature — slowly and carefully explains the political landscape.

The “Right to Try” bill in Kansas is crafted for a narrow set of very sick people, he says. But the fear is that other legislators will try to broaden it with amendments if it comes up for a House vote.

For example, Hill says Rep. Mario Goico, a Wichita Republican, would like to extend access to experimental drugs to patients like his wife, who has late stage

cancer.

Hill says he understands Goico’s position, but some of his House colleagues already were concerned about the medical ethics of the bill. Opening untested drugs to a wider patient population only would have increased those concerns.

“It would have no doubt drawn more opposition and controversy,” Hill says. “The bottom line is the speaker — and I didn’t necessarily disagree — decided to hold it.”

‘Protect the public’

In a phone interview a few days later, Goico says he has decided to introduce his bill as a standalone measure next session, rather than an amendment.

He says he believes the current version of Right to Try proposed in Kansas is too broad because it allows any medical provider with prescribing power to approve their patients’ access to drugs early in the FDA testing process.

He would like a bill that allows only those working at the University of Kansas Cancer Center to prescribe drugs that are well into clinical trials.

That would provide more protection for patients like his wife, he says, who is going through her second bout with cancer.

“It seems to me that we need to protect the public,” Goico says. “By being in the last stage of testing, you already know it will work. You know there won’t be any negative consequences.”

Back at Johnsen’s house, Hill says medical marijuana is another issue “playing in the background” of the Right to Try bill. He’s not sure medical cannabis advocates could shoehorn a germane amendment into the legislation, but he’s guessing they could try. That’s an issue with enough political baggage to sink the whole

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By the end of the conversation, it’s clear there are varied opinions at the state level about who should be able to access treatments not approved by the FDA — and when.

Johnsen is disappointed but not deterred.

She will keep pushing for Right to Try, but it’s only part of the battle.

Even if the bill passes, it still requires a drug company to agree to provide her experimental drugs against the wishes of the FDA. She’s read about patients still unable to access unapproved medications in other states that have passed similar legislation.

Hill says he’ll keep working on it anyway.

More than 20 states, including Missouri, have passed some version of Right to Try. The more states that push back on the FDA, he says, the more pressure there will be for federal changes.

“The action on the federal level, that would be the best fix,” Hill says.

21st Century Cures Act

Earlier this year, Kansas Congressman Kevin Yoder made national headlines as a relatively conservative Republican pushing for more government spending.

Yoder was quick to point out he’s advocating not for an overall spending increase but for a funding bump with a specific purpose: medical research.

He has pushed to double the annual budget of the National Institutes of Health, a federal research agency that has doled out millions in grants to KU medical facilities in his Kansas City-area district.

Increased funding for research that could cure terrible diseases is an economic and moral imperative for the country, Yoder says.

The legislation Yoder is co-sponsoring, the 21st Century Cures Act, would put more money into research for new treatments and smooth the regulatory pathway for those treatments to get to market.

It would infuse the FDA with about $550 million in cash while requiring the agency to make changes that would speed the approval of new antibiotics and medical devices. The bill passed the U.S. House 344-77 and awaits action in the U.S.

Senate.

Supporters of the legislation say it will modernize a ponderous FDA approval process, get treatments to patients sooner and encourage companies to invest in more research and development.

Some have hailed it as a rare beacon of bipartisanship in an increasingly polarized Congress.

But others have asked whether it has bipartisan support not because it’s good legislation but because both political parties have been bought through campaign donations by drug companies and medical device manufacturers who would benefit from it.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee, which originally passed the bill, is chaired by U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican who is the House’s top recipient of campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical and health care products industries.

Provisions in the bill that allow the FDA to approve drugs and devices based on evidence outside of randomized, controlled clinical trials drew concern from physicians in an op-ed published in June in the New England Journal of Medicine.

A former FDA medical officer, an orthopedic surgeon and a professor of clinical medicine teamed on a separate op-ed in September arguing that, if anything, the FDA’s current approval process is too lenient and already allows too many potentially dangerous products to market.

Unintended consequences

John Parisi sits in his downtown Kansas City, Mo., law office and scrolls through a long list of pending multidistrict litigation.

These cases combine similar lawsuits filed across several legal jurisdictions. Some are related to things like airplane crashes or asbestos exposure, but many are related to pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices.

Parisi is a personal injury attorney who, over the years, has represented many plaintiffs who claim they or their loved ones were injured or even killed by prescription drugs or devices.

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Heifer development on tap The Southwind Extension District and the Marais des Cygne Extension District will host a meeting focused on heifer development on Dec. 8 at the Fort Scott Livestock Market located at 2131 Maple Rd., Fort Scott. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. followed by the program at 6:30.

Dinner is being sponsored by the Sunflower Supreme Replacement Heifer Program and is free to the first 50 preregistered attendees.

Please RSVP by Dec. 1 to Chris Petty at 620-2233720 or Megan Westerhold at 913-294-4306 so we can be sure to have a meal for you.

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The evening’s program will feature speakers from K-State Research and Extension, including Dr. Jaymelynn Farney, Beef Systems Specialist, and Dr. Bob Weaber, Cow/Calf Specialist, and a producer panel with Sunflower Supreme Replacement Heifer Program participants. Farney will discuss the Sunflower

Supreme Replacement Heifer Program guidelines while Weaber will present on using EPDs for Heifer Development.

Our producer panel will feature both Dr. Don Coover and Dr. Clem Neely from Galesburg.

Coover and Neely are veterinarians with SEK Genetics and cattle producers with extensive experience raising and breeding heifers for the Sunflower Supreme Heifer Development Program.

The evening will conclude with a “town hall” style question and answer session. Producers are encouraged to bring their questions.

Kansas aquifer over-tapped MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Over-pumping of the High Plains Aquifer beyond its recharge rate peaked overall in 2006, while the aquifer’s rate of depletion in the portion underlying Kansas reached its high point in 2010, a study released Monday shows.

The Kansas State University study also projected the aquifer’s use would decrease by about half over the next 100 years.

Researchers studied the water depletion in 3,200 Kansas wells and 11,000 wells from the other seven states where the aquifer is located, looking at histor-

ic and projected future groundwater use rates.

The High Plains Aquifer — which underlies parts of Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas — provides 30 percent of the irrigation water for those key agricultural states.

“We tried to understand how aquifer depletion has manifested itself across the aquifer as well as that has changed over time and how aquifer depletion would be extended into the future,” said David Steward, a civil engineering professor and a researcher on the proj-

ect.

Steward and doctoral student Andrew Allen found that the aquifer’s depletion followed a south to north progression, and that some portions of the aquifer are depleting, while others are not.

In Texas, the depletion peaked in 1999. In New Mexico, that point was reached in 2002.

In Oklahoma, it was 2012. Depletion of the portion of the aquifer underlying Colorado is projected to peak in 2023. Three states — Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming — are not projected to reach their depletion peaks before 2110.

Assessing your health insurance’s financial risk Open enrollment for the Marketplace Health Insurance and Prescription Drug Coverage (Medicare Part D) is happening right now. Health insurance is a complex product and requires investing time to educate yourself how it works and the financial costs.

The insurance industry is a business, which follows a business model, pooling their risks together — and their goal is profit. As a consumer, you, too, should be working hard for yourself to understand the financial costs, risks, and rules of your insurance coverage.

First, you need to know your enrollment opportunities. How you

Joy Purkeypile Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences

get your health insurance will determine when your initial, annual (general), or special enrollment period will be. This is your opportunity to review coverage and make changes to best meet your needs.

Missing your enrollment opportunities could leave you with high healthcare costs, no healthcare coverage, tax penalties, or lifetime premium penalties.

An insurance company is not going to voluntarily let you know that they have a cheaper product or that another company could give you better coverage. Each year, you should review, determine your options, and look at the “big financial” picture. Often people base their decision on the monthly premium and what their copay is to see the physician. It is important to look at the Maximum out of pocket level, too.

Often a low premium is associated with a larger maximum out of pocket cost. Again, look at everything (premium, co-pay, co-insurance, deductible, and maximum out of pocket costs) to

determine what you may have to pay out financially on a yearly basis. Consider how much healthcare you usually use to help determine the level of coverage you may need to determine what is right for you and your family.

Where and what your insurance covers should also be considered. Double check that the healthcare services you use are in-network providers in your plan or adjust where you use healthcare services to fit the plan you choose.

In Kansas, if you live along the state border or near the Kansas City area, you may need to “increase” coverage for one that covers the

Greater Kansas City area or a multi-state to avoid paying out of network or uncovered services. Also, make sure your medications are covered on the policy drug formulary.

One plan does not fit all.

Insurance companies come and go, policies change and so does coverage and costs.

Remember, insurance is about minimizing the financial costs that you may not be able to cover without it. You can’t buy care, home, or life insurance just when you need it or after the incident happened. Many people go for years without making a claim, helping to pool risk together for those who do make

claims. Healthcare insurance operates similarly. You can’t purchase it just when you need it; it requires that you contribute to the risk pool when you are younger and healthier.

The Southwind Extension Office has a Marketplace Health Insurance Navigator to help you apply, review, and enroll in a plan until January 31, 2016 and a Senior Health Insurance Counselor for Kansans (SHICK) to assist in Medicare Part D plan comparisons and enrollment until December 7th. If you have questions or would like to make an appointment call 620-223-3720 or email jpurkeyp@ksu.edu.

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The current list of pending multidistrict defendants includes the makers of Prempro, an estrogen supplement; the Zimmer NexGen knee implant; Pradaxa, a blood thinner; NuvaRing, a birth control device; and the Biomet M2a Magnum hip implant. More than 1,000 lawsuits have been filed related to each of these products.

Others — like the birth control pill Yasmin, the anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx and several pelvic repair products — have more than 10,000 suits filed

against them.

“This is a list of unintended consequences, if you will,” Parisi says.

In some cases Parisi says those consequences were not known prior to the product’s FDA approval, but in other cases the companies involved shaded their research reports to hide evidence of potentially harmful side effects and federal regulators didn’t do enough independent checking.

Either way, patients end up being harmed, he says.

“Once you get the drug onto the market and once you find out it has devastating con-

sequences that weren’t researched, it’s hard to put the genie back in the bottle,” Parisi says.

Drug and device companies are under pressure to get their products to market quickly to maximize profits before patents expire, he says. And the “revolving door” of people going from working for drug and device companies to working for the FDA has created a cozy regulatory relationship.

Parisi has not read the 21st Century Cures Act in detail. But in general he says he believes more FDA funding is a good thing, although quicker drug and device

approvals might not be.

“I think we need more scrutiny, not less,” Parisi says. “That would be the bottom line.”

Parisi says he understands the position of people like Johnsen. If he or anyone in his family had ALS, he would want access to new treatments too.

The question is how to create a regulatory environment that provides access to drugs for people like Johnsen who are seriously ill but also provides rigorous oversight.

“It’s a balance, right?”

Parisi says. “Where is the fulcrum on that seesaw?”

Tips on starting fires and saddling horses: Topics at Square B meeting The Square B 4-H club met Nov. 9 at Iola’s First Church of the Nazarene.

The meeting was called to order by President Klair Vogel. The flag salute was led by Ashley Riebel and Abigail Meiwes. Roll call was answered by answering, “Would you rather eat pumpkin pie or apple pie?” Fifteen members and two community leaders were present, as well as John, a guest invited by

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Ashley Riebel read a poem about success. The float committee reported on their participation with a float in the Veterans Day Parade.

During project reports the club decided to have a project day including foods and visual arts.

Other project leaders are welcome to join.

Presenting the program for the evening were Klair

Vogel, who gave an illustrated presentation of her photos and how judges scored them for ribbons, Jacob Riebel, who gave a demonstration on how to start a fire with flint and steel, and Katelyn Hicks gave a project talk about

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Back at Johnsen’s house, her meeting with Hill is wrapping up.

Triemer is talking about some of the other people in town who have ALS. The illness seems to be more prevalent in Emporia than elsewhere — or maybe she and Johnsen just hear from more families who are dealing with it than most people.

Johnsen’s willingness to be open and upfront about her illness has made her a magnet for other ALS sufferers in need of support and information about what to expect as the disease

progresses.

It’s a role she embraces, with a strength and courage that impresses Hill and others.

Before the visit ends, Johnsen is asked if she has anything more she would like to say about the FDA. She nods. Her mother gets her a drink of water, so she can speak as clearly as possible.

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Brownback making party in his likeness House Speaker Ray Merrick, R-Stilwell, made two major changes in his Chamber last week when he removed members from health and education committees who hadn’t followed the party line as dictated by Gov. Sam Brownback.

Banished from the committee that oversees education were Reps. Diana Dierks, Salina, and John Ewy, Jetmore. They voted against block grant funding for public schools, the convoluted mechanism that purports to put more money into the classroom, but doesn’t. (More about that later.)

Sent packing from the Health and Human Services Committee were Barbara Bollier, Mission Hills, a retired physician; Susan Concannon, Beloit, who has a background in rural health; and Don Hill, Emporia, a pharmacist. All are considered moderates.

Their unforgivable error was favoring expansion of Medicaid in Kansas to give the indigent a chance for comprehensive health care.

In another shift meant to tighten the ultra-conservative stranglehold of Brownback and his toadies, Rep. Willie Dove, Bonner Springs, was moved from Education to Health, and made its vice chairman.

In essence, the governor and his supporters are saying there’s no room for discussion, much less dissent.

It’s their way, or the highway. This is a heck of a way to operate a state.

But we shouldn’t be surprised. Once Brownback was elected governor he made no bones about working to see other ultraconservatives win office.

In what is considered a rarity in partisan politics, Brownback actively campaigned to unseat moderate Republicans in the 2012 elections.

Now he and his ilk are

tailoring committees to enhance voting pluralities.

Next might be some effort to shift Kansas to a one-party system, except Democrats have fallen so far out of favor with voters they pose no threat.

THE LOCAL school budget is a graphic example of how the block funding short shrifts schools.

For USD 257, the general fund budget projected expenditures of $12,495,893.

In the 2014-15 general fund expenditures were figured at $9,087,638.

That additional $3.4 million is only on paper.

In reality the extra funding is going to shore up KPERS (teachers’ retirement) and special education, whose funding passes on through to the ANW Cooperative.

And money to the classroom? Down $1.1 million from the previous year, to $7.9 million.

Also, revenue earmarked for supplemental general fund (commonly called local option budget or LOB) partly is being used to lower property tax support for the fund, an admirable effort on behalf of property owners if schools weren’t so financially beleaguered.

KENT THOMPSON, Republican who represents our region in the House, considers himself a moderate and often has railed about the Machiavellian approach that is being taken in Topeka.

Recently, he told the Register that last year the House had shown more moderate tendencies from the previous session.

These recent actions, however, don’t bode well for the 2016 session.

If not, voters must muster the courage and conviction to make a statement themselves on Election Day next November.

— Bob Johnson

Border lockdowns exacerbate refugee crisis Before the staggering terrorist attacks on Paris, Europe was struggling with a refugee crisis: tens of thousands of Syrian refugees seeking shelter as they fled war in their homeland.

By Sunday, as details emerged on the terrorists who had assaulted one of the world’s grand capitals, Europe had a vastly more profound refugee crisis.

Authorities say that one of the suicide bombers was carrying a Syrian passport, issued in Greece on an emergency basis. He arrived as a refugee with no papers and left with a passport that allowed him to travel from Greece to Serbia, Macedonia and eventually to France.

The attacks, and the news that one perpetrator apparently was embedded among refugees, fueled angry rightwing protests in France over the weekend. Pressure grew on political leaders across Europe to slam the door on a European Union plan to shelter 160,000 refugees among member states. Poland’s new government announced after the attacks that it won’t accept the refugee quotas set by the EU. The debate leapt across the Atlantic. Republican U.S. Rep. Peter King of New York urged the White House to suspend

Feds should use body cameras, too In the wake of the fallout from the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., last year, President Barack Obama announced a three-year, $263 million community policing initiative, which included $75 million to help local law enforcement agencies purchase 50,000 body cameras. The Justice Department doled out $19.3 million in such grants this year, which, along with a 50 percent match by the local police agencies, will purchase an estimated 21,000 cameras.

We agree with the use of police body cameras, although we strongly disagree with federal involvement and the use of federal tax dollars.

Policies of local police agencies should be determined by the jurisdiction’s taxpayers and political leaders, not cross-subsidized by taxpayers nationwide.

The oft-cited experiment of the Rialto Police Department with body cameras in 201213 illustrates why their use is good for protecting both police officers and the wider community. The department found that after the body cameras were instituted, officers

used force nearly 60 percent less often, and the number of citizen complaints against officers dropped by 88 percent.

Since then, numerous police departments across the country have adopted body cameras.

But in yet another case of “Do what I say, not as I do,” the Obama administration has so far refused to adopt body camera policies for federal agencies. This prompted the U.S. Marshals Service, an

enforcement agency in the nation, recommended against widespread use of body cameras, according to a report recently obtained by the Los Angeles Times. This is especially alarming considering a new American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona report that documents pervasive Border Patrol abuses of people’s constitutional rights and a lack of basic record keeping, oversight or accountability.

What is good for the goose

A recent report shows pervasive Border Patrol abuses of people’s constitutional rights. These law officers should be required to wear body cameras that record their actions while on duty.

agency of the Justice Department that frequently teams with local police to track fugitives and violent criminals, to announce that it will not allow local police wearing body cameras to serve on Marshals task forces.

And an internal review for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the largest law

is good for the gander. In the interests of public safety, transparency and accountability, the Obama administration must stop dragging its feet and adopt body cameras for federal law enforcement officers who come into contact with the public.

— The Orange County Register, Santa Ana, Calif.

its plan to accept up to 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year. He disputed the administration’s contention that “robust vetting procedures” would screen out potential terrorists. “There’s virtually no vetting because there are no databases in Syria,” he said.

“There are no government records. We don’t know who these people are.”

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citizens, two of whom had been living in Belgium. Few details have been released about the rest of those involved.

The humanitarian crisis created by tens of thousands of people fleeing Syria won’t neatly resolve itself by closing national borders. Winter approaches. The refugees need to be sheltered and fed.

As French warplanes on

The humanitarian crisis created by tens of thousands of people fleeing Syria won’t neatly resolve itself by closing national borders. Winter approaches. The refugees need to be sheltered and fed.

Syria with their papers up to date and perfectly authenticated. They’re fleeing for their lives, with the possessions that they can carry or wheel behind them.

The nucleus of the assault on Paris may turn out to be homegrown terrorists, though.

The suspect with the Syrian passport, apparently under a false identity, was one of as many as two dozen jihadists in what the Associated Press says was a sleeper cell. Three of the suspects were French

Sunday pounded Raqqa, the Syrian center of Islamic State operations, with more concerted efforts to come, the prospects grow that even more refugees will flee.

Many of them will have to be sheltered on foreign soil.

The changing dynamic might give more impetus to a complicated task: establishing a safe haven on Syrian soil.

The prospects for the refugees grow more grim — shelter in place or take a long trek to an increasingly hostile Europe.

— The Chicago Tribune

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An organizational meeting to start a new regional library system for southeast Kansas will be Friday at the Hotel Kelley, with representatives of more than 30 libraries expected. Iola will serve as the center for the Southeast Kansas Library System and Miss Lucile Wagner, Iola librarian, will also serve as the librarian for the regional system. A new truck has been purchased for distribution of books among the libraries and it will be based in Iola.

The Iola library board will serve as the executive board for the regional system during the transition after which a regional board will be created. ***** The name of the AllenNeosho County Mental Health Center at Humboldt has been changed to the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center to provide for the inclusion of other counties in the area. The center now operates in a small

house in Humboldt. A fulltime psychiatrist, Dr. Lloyd Brannon, has been assigned responsibility for the management of services. Mrs. Betty Johnson, Humboldt, is the center’s secretary. ***** The Rev. Perry O. Hanson will be honored on his 90th birthday Sunday with a reception at First Methodist Church and Helen Lu-Sheng Wang of Chicago will be among those present. Miss Wang is a student at the University of Chicago and is also the granddaughter of a resident of Shantug Province in China who was one of Rev. Hanson’s close friends when he was a Methodist missionary there for many years. Miss Wang also wrote a tribute to Rev. Hanson and a brief history of his years in China. The Rev. Hanson’s wife and his four oldest children will attend, the other three were unable to come. Among the congratulatory greetings were messages from 15 Methodist bishops and from Vice President Hubert Humphrey.

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no immediate comment on the news from the Egyptian government.

State-owned television carried the news from Moscow, but had no official comment either.

Egypt had resisted British and U.S. assertions that an explosive device was the likely cause of the Russian plane’s crash. Later, government officials and the pro-government media shifted their focus away from the cause

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Of the 120 surveys, 104 (87 percent) favored a single-family home over living in an apartment complex or duplex. Roughly 10 percent (13 votes) had no preference.

“This doesn’t discourage my attempt to add (apartments), but it does show me if we’re going to hit the core of the housing problem on its head, we’re going to have to focus on providing more single family homes,” Sparks said.

Because quality and affordability rank so much higher than location, Sparks is optimistic apartments in downtown will fill up as renters learn about the opportunities locally.

“Almost 90 percent want an affordable, decent quality home,” he said. “If that’s Humboldt or Iola, that’s where they’re going to go.”

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“Renters in these towns are crying out for help,” he concluded.

“They listed frustrations with quality and affordability. If anything, if this town can look at this problem and say, it’s all of our problem, then they can establish a plan together. We need Iola, Humboldt, Allen County, and investors with skin in the game. We need to get together and say, how can we fix this.”

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WHILE SPARKS remains excited about downtown developing more apartments, he understands more must be done to meet the ongoing housing crunch throughout Allen County and southeast Kansas.

To that end, he recently asked area renters to fill out an anonymous survey via Facebook on an assortment of issues related to living in Iola or Humboldt; 120 responded.

“My hunch going into this was renters would tell us what they need, what they expect,” he said. “They did.”

With a few mild surprises, many of the results confirmed his suspicions.

For example: — Nearly 80 percent of renters pay less than $600 a month for rent; the median rent among those completing surveys was between $400 and $500.

— Affordability (55 percent) and quality of the home (28 percent) were by far the two most important factors for selecting a place to live.

— Renters, by and large, have an “average” rating for their overall experience renting in the area (37.5 percent), while nearly three times as many reported a somewhat or very negative experience (47 percent) vs. a somewhat or very positive experience (15 percent).

— Nearly 80 percent of renters would like to own a home in the area in the near or distant future.

— Lack of available financing (57 percent) was the biggest barrier preventing those from buying a home now.

rent. That just doesn’t work.

“If Iola and Allen County are really going to try and solve this problem, it’s going to take a team approach,” he continued. “It’s not fair to ask a single investor to do this all himself.”

That’s where one key element makes downtown development possible.

“When these downtown buildings were built, they were designed to have multiple units in them,” Sparks explained. “There may have been office space upstairs in some of them. In some cases, they were living quarters.”

A building owner with no upstairs apartments essentially depends solely on revenue from the downstairs business to pay for all of its revenue.

“That gets expensive when you’re talking about $300 a month alone just to insure a building,” Sparks said.

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“There’s no statute of limitations for this. We need to know all of their names,” Putin said.

“We’re going to look for them everywhere wherever they are hiding. We will find them in any place on Earth and punish them.”

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“According to our experts, a homemade explosive device equivalent to 1 kilogram of TNT went off onboard, which caused the plane to break up in the air, which explains why the fuselage was scattered over such a large territory. I can certainly say that this was a terrorist act,” FSB head Alexander Bortnikov said.

He said tests showed the explosives had been produced outside of Russia, but gave no further details.

All of the people on board, most of them Russian tourists, were killed when the Metrojet Airbus 321-200 crashed over the Sinai Peninsula on Oct. 31, about 23 minutes after taking off from the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh.

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Putin vowed to hunt down those responsible for the attack, which the Islamic State group claimed to have carried out. Two U.S. defense officials said Russia struck Raqqa, the Islamic State group’s self-declared capital in Syria, with missiles and bombs today.

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Edwards, Wade help Kansas State top Columbia MANHATTAN, Kansas (AP) — Kansas State knew it needed a quick start against Columbia on Monday night after watching film of the Lions take an 11-0 lead against top-ranked Kentucky last season.

The Wildcats made sure the urgency was there when they took the court.

Justin Edwards scored a career-high 19 points, Dean Wade connected on a 3-pointer down the stretch, and Kansas State (2-0) outlasted Columbia 81-71.

“I told our guys before that we’re going to get a win and people will say you should win, and people won’t appreciate it,” Wildcats coach

Bruce Weber said. “But I think if you were here, you understand how good they were. It was a good win.”

Wade finished with 17 points on 7-of-10 shooting, and Wesley Iwundu had 16 to go along with four rebounds and four assists. The Wildcats made 30 of 60 field goals.

Columbia (1-1) hit three straight 3-pointers to get within 64-61 with 5:45 left, but Wade, playing in his second colligate game, buried a 3-pointer to give the Wildcats some distance. It also spearheaded a 9-0 Kansas State run.

Kamau Stokes sealed it with five of his career-high 11 points coming from the free throw line with less than a

minute to play.

“We got the lead to 13 and we came to the huddle pretty excited,” Weber said. “Then boom, they hadn’t made 3s the whole time and you knew they were going to make some. ... But that’s how you win at home — you make plays.”

Kansas State jumped out to a 21-12 lead midway through the first half. The Wildcats stretched their lead to 13 points before Luke Petrasek converted on a dunk and two free throws to pull the Lions within single digits. Petrasek’s effort was part of a 9-0 run late in the half to cut the deficit to 40-35 at halftime.

Edwards scored 9 of the Wildcats first 11 points after

Texans knock off Bengals CINCINNATI (AP) — Texans cornerback Charles James stopped in a corner of the tigerstriped end zone and cupped a hand to his right ear, seeing what the crowd had to say about this outcome.

Not much. They’d seen it before.

T.J. Yates came off the bench in the second half and rallied Houston to a 10-6 victory on Monday night that knocked the Bengals from the ranks of unbeaten and added to the Texans’ legacy of tormenting the team from Cincinnati.

“Yes, it was a little nostalgic,” said Yates, who threw a 22-yard pass to DeAndre Hopkins in the fourth quarter for the game’s only touchdown.

Nostalgic for the Texans (4-6). Miserable for the Bengals (8-1), who struggled on offense all game and then let a chance to pull it out slip away in the end.

“We just didn’t play well,” Tyler Eifert said.

halftime to give Kansas State a 51-39 lead. But Petrasek made back-to-back field goals midway through the half to keep it close.

Petrasek led Columbia with 19 points and eight rebounds, while Alex Rosenberg scored 16 points.

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IMS Ponies host Bulldogs The Iola Middle School girls basketball team returned home after a string of road games to host Anderson County Junior High on Monday afternoon.

Both the eighth-grade teams (A and B) picked up victories over the Bulldogs.

The A team won 25-22.

Gabby Richards led the Ponies with eight points while Kelsey Morrison dominated the boards by grabbing a

team-high nine rebounds.

“We did a good job late in the game of holding on to the lead,” coach Marty Taylor said. “That’s something that in the past we’ve struggled with.”

The B team won 27-12. Elysia Kunkler’s 10 points were the most for Iola.

Both the seventh-grade teams (A and B) lost their matchups with Anderson County.

The A team lost 32-17.

Jenna Miller had the most points (eight) and rebounds (10) on the team.

“We’re getting better as a team, we still make some silly mistakes but the improvement is there,” Taylor said.

The B team lost 20-14. Britain Folk had a team-high six points.

Iola’s next game will be Thursday at Chanute starting at 3:30 p.m.

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“He’s a difference maker,” Columbia coach Kyle Smith said of Iwundu. “He makes a lot of plays, like a Scottie Pippen at this level. He’s a 6-foot-7 guard who can get his hands on the ball and get rebounds.

He’s hard to scout.”

Big 12 has 5 bowl teams (AP) — West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen will finally talk about the Mountaineers’ chances to get into a bowl this season.

“We got five (wins),” Holgorsen said Monday during the Big 12 coaches teleconference.

“When it’s one more, that’s when I feel it’s appropriate to start talking about it.”

Texas Tech on Saturday became the fifth Big 12 team to get the sixth victory that guarantees bowl eligibility. The Red Raiders joined the four Top 25 teams still contending for the league title and a possible playoff spot — No. 4 Oklahoma State, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 10 Baylor and No. 11 TCU. West Virginia (54), which has won two games in a row since an 0-4 Big 12 start against the playoff contenders, has three more chances to get eligible for its 14th bowl in 15 seasons. Texas (4-6) and Kansas State (3See BIG12 | Page B4

Bulls hold on for 96-95 win over Pacers

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Backes leads Blues past Jets ST. LOUIS (AP) — David Backes wasn’t sure what to expect from the St. Louis Blues’ new-look top line.

It turned out to be a winning combination Monday night.

Backes had two goals and assisted on Vladimir Tarasenko’s score to lead the Blues to a 3-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets.

“I think Vladi’s been here three years and I don’t know if I’ve started a game

with him, played a full game with him,” Backes said.

“You don’t know what that’s going to be like and then you’re out there he makes a lot of time and space. (Alexander Steen) was fantastic tonight, creating plays and making plays happen and I was the beneficiary of a few of them.”

Jake Allen made 16 saves and Kevin Shattenkirk addSee BLUES | Page B3

CHICAGO (AP) — With the final seconds ticking away, they stared each other down one last time, Paul George with the ball, and Jimmy Butler right in front of him.

When George went up for a potential winning shot, Butler was right there for the Chicago Bulls.

Butler scored 17 points and played tough defense on George on Indiana’s final possession, helping the Bulls hold on for a 96-95 victory over the Pacers on Monday night.

“Jimmy made some huge plays for us down the stretch,” Chicago coach Fred Hoiberg said. “Not only the last play, but he made some big baskets.”

Butler stayed right with George and challenged his difficult fadeaway shot that was well short as time expired, sending the Bulls to their third straight win and fourth in five games.

“He’s a hell of a player, a tough guard for anybody in the league,” Butler said. “But he went right, pulled up and I was there to contest and got a piece of the ball.”

Chicago Bulls guard Jimmy Butler (21) blocks the last shot of the game by Indiana Pacers forward Paul George (13) on Monday in Chicago. NUCCIO DINUZZO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE/TNS Indiana coach Frank Vogel said the Pacers got the final play they wanted.

“I don’t think there was a foul,” he said. “He just made a good defensive play.”

Derrick Rose had 23 points on 9-for-18 shooting for Chicago, but departed with about

six minutes remaining after he sprained his left ankle.

Doug McDermott scored 11 points.

“My ankle is a little bit sore, but I’m just happy nothing’s tore or broken,” Rose said.

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TRUCKS: 2008 F-150 8’ bed, extended cab, recent new engine; 2000 Sterling A90, day cab, single axle, Cummins ISM 10 sp.; 48’ aluminum/steel, spread axle, straight trailer; 1995 Ford F-350, flatbed, winch and hay spear; 1992 Ford F-150 extended cab, 8’ bed; 1985 Chevy 1 ton dually, flatbed; TRACTOR, SKID LOADER, EQUIPMENT: White 2-85 tractor, cab, new interior cab kit; Polaris 250 Trail Boss, 2 stroke, very low hours; 763 Bobcat skid loader, smooth bucket, tooth bucket; pallet forks, bale spear serial #512213549; JD 345 riding mower 54� deck; Gooseneck brand all steel flatbed 28’x8’ gooseneck trailer, tandem duals; Titan gooseneck 20’x7’ cattle trailer; Hesston 565T big round baler, monitor; WR 22 Vermeer fold up wheel rake; New Holland 114 haybine; Cammond 12’ box blade; Service Rhino 15’ batwing mower, 540; IH 480 disc, manual fold; M&W little red wagon, gravity flow; Blair 3 bale hay trailer, bumper; Shop built hay trailer; Gooseneck trailer w/ramps, rough; shop built hay feeding trailer; (3) 3 pt blades; JD 3 pt. post hole digger; Bar six cake feeder; Preifert cattle chute & dolly; sq. bale hay elevators; utility bed for full size pickup; IH grinder mixer; JD 700 grinder/mixer, parts; 3 pt. JD 272 finishing mower; TOOLS MISC. 220 MIG Airco welder; Craftsman 100 mig welder, good; older Lincoln portable welder; lots of sockets, end wrenches; lots of elec. tools; floor jacks; cherry pickers; motor stand; several mud flaps; shop tool boxes; good shop tables; PU tool boxes; vises; post vises; battery chargers; anvil; forge; ext. cords; cross cut saws; old metal toys; iron wheels; lots of tires and wheels; bundle hard rock maple; horse hames, single trees; RR jacks; several picnic tables; cattle panels; used t-posts; new bug guard/nerf bars for ‘08 F250; COLLECTORS ITEMS: China and porcelain bull collection; belt buckle collection; lots and lots of items too numerous to mention.

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France seeks EU security aid, launches airstrikes on IS PARIS (AP) — France made an unprecedented demand today that its European Union allies support its military action against the Islamic State group and launched new airstrikes on the militants’ stronghold in Syria.

The French government invoked a never-beforeused article of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty obliging members of the 28-nation bloc to give “aid and assistance by all the means in their power� to a member country that is “the victim of armed aggression on its territory.�

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for attacks Friday in Paris that killed at least 129 people and left over 350 wounded.

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said EU partners could help “either by taking part in France’s operations in Syria or Iraq, or by easing

Two brothers linked to the Paris attacks both rented lodgings in the French capital days prior to the carnage, a French judicial official told The Associated Press.

Brahim Abdeslam, who died Friday, and Salah Abdeslam booked a hotel in the southeastern suburb of Alfortville and rented a house in the northeastern suburb of Bobigny several days before the attacks, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak about the ongoing investigation.

Meanwhile, another car with Belgian license plates and a shattered front passenger window found today in northern Paris could be linked to the attacks, officials said. It was the third vehicle identified as having possible links to the investigation.

Belgium said it would

This is Sept. 11 for Europe. — Panagiotis Kammenos, Greek Defense Minister

the load or providing support for France in other operations.�

Arriving for talks in Brussels with his EU counterparts, Greek Defense Minister Panagiotis Kammenos told reporters that the Paris attacks were a game-changer for the bloc. “This is Sept. 11 for Europe,� he said.

French military spokesman Col. Gilles Jaron said the latest airstrikes in the Islamic State group’s defacto capital in the Syrian city of Raqqa destroyed a command post and training camp.

The Paris attacks have galvanized international determination to confront the militants. President Francois Hollande has vowed to forge a united coalition capable of defeating the jihadists at home and abroad. NATO allies were sharing intelligence and working closely with France, the alliance’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said.

Authorities have yet to announce the capture of anyone suspected of direct involvement in the slaughter on Friday, though police have used emergency powers to conduct almost 300 searches that have netted 127 arrests and 31 weapons.

Seven of the Paris attackers died Friday — six after detonating suicide belts and a seventh from police gunfire — but Iraqi intelligence officials told The Associated Press that its sources indicated 19 had participated in the Paris attacks and five others had provided hands-on logistical support.

As an international police manhunt continued for fugitive Salah Abdeslam, German police said three people were arrested Tuesday in the case by a SWAT team near the western city of Aachen, close to the border with Belgium. They were not Germans, police spokesman Werner Schneider said. Local media said two women and one man were arrested as they left a job center.

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In Belgium, a lawyer for one of the two people arrested there said his client admits going to France, but only to pick up a friend. Defense lawyer Xavier Carrette told the APs that his client, 27-yearold Mohammed Amri, was arrested over the weekend and is being held on charges of terrorist acts and being part of a terrorist conspiracy.

Noting that victims of the attacks came from at least 19 nations, Hollande says the international community, led by the U.S. and Russia, must overcome their deep-seated divisions over Syria to destroy IS on its home turf. “(Syria is) the biggest factory of terrorism the world has ever known and the international community is still too divided and too incoherent� in its response, Hollande said, adding that the “acts of war� in Paris were decided upon and planned in Syria.

A cease-fire between Syria’s government and the opposition — which would allow nations supporting Syria’s various factions to focus more on IS — could be just weeks away, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said. He described it as potentially a “gigantic step,� opening the way for deeper international cooperation.

Kerry flew to France as a gesture of solidarity and met Hollande and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Tuesday.

Standing with Hollande at the Elysee Palace, Kerry said the carnage in the French capital, along with recent attacks in Egypt, Lebanon and Turkey, made it clear that more pressure must be brought to bear on Islamic State extremists.

In Paris, the Eiffel Tower shut down again Tuesday, after opening for just a day Monday, and heavily armed troops patrolled the courtyard of the Louvre Museum.

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B3 B3

Blues: St. Louis earns win

Continued from B1

Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose (1) drives to the basket in front of Indiana Pacers forward Lavoy Allen (5) on Monday. NUCCIO DINUZZO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE/TNS

Bulls: Pacers come up short Continued from B1

“I’ll be all right.”

George had 26 points for Indiana, and Monta Ellis finished with 20 points. C.J. Miles made five 3-pointers on his way to 19 points, and Jordan Hill and Ian Mahinmi each grabbed 12 rebounds.

Indiana had won three straight and six of seven.

“It is my job to help lead this team to a win,” George said. “I failed to do so tonight.”

George was 9 for 20 from the field in his seventh consecutive game with at least 26 points.

He also drew a charge on Tony Snell with 1:02 remaining and Indiana down 96-93, giving the Pacers another chance.

Ellis drove inside for a tough leaner on the other side, and Indiana got the ball back with about 24 seconds left

after Butler missed for Chicago. But the AllStar clamped down on George to help Chicago hold on.

Indiana played without guards George Hill (upper respiratory infection) and Rodney Stuckey (sprained right ankle), and it took a while for the Pacers to get into the game. Rookie Myles Turner also had surgery Monday to repair a chip fracture in his left thumb, sidelining the center for at least six weeks.

Chicago opened with a 15-2 run and led 31-21 after one. Indiana shot 35 percent (7 for 20) in the first period.

The Pacers trailed by as many as 15 in the third, but Ellis scored eight in the period to help them get within four heading into the fourth.

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“We’ve got to learn to build on our leads, but a win’s a win,” Butler said. “I’d rather learn from a win than from a loss.”

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Hoiberg inserted Snell into the starting lineup in place of McDermott. Snell started Chicago’s first five games, but McDermott had started the last four in the small forward spot.

The Bulls are playing without Mike Dunleavy Jr., who is recovering from back surgery in late September.

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Turner was injured during last week’s victory at Boston. Initially, the team said the No. 11 overall pick in the June draft would miss four weeks.

“During the surgery, they found a ligament tear as well and that’s complicated things a little bit and prolonged the timeline,” Vogel said. “Six weeks is the earliest he’ll get back.

It could be longer.”

The 6-foot-11 Turner was off to a solid start, averaging 6.1 points and 2.9 rebounds in his first eight games.

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Bulls: Taj Gibson had nine points and a season-high 11 rebounds. ... Chicago improved to 5-1 at home. ... The Bulls attempted a season-high 32 foul shots, making 20.

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ed two assists as the Blues (12-5-1) snapped a two-game losing skid. Tarasenko, who now has goals in three straight games, also had an assist.

Blues coach Ken Hitchcock moved Backes up to the first line with wingers Tarasenko and Steen on Monday and the trio accounted for three goals and three assists.

“I think the big thing is we win the game and that’s really what matters,” Backes said. “The shake-up, being able to score a couple, if feels good, but if we don’t win the game it’s all for naught. Great efforts by a lot of guys tonight allowed us to win this game.”

Dustin Byfuglien and Bryan Little scored and Michael Hutchinson finished with 25 saves for the Jets, who have lost six straight. They were coming off a 7-0 road loss at Nashville on Saturday night.

Winnipeg coach Paul Maurice saw a lot of things he liked Monday.

“We made plays, moved the puck, had some quickness, had some chances and played a darn good road game in here,” Maurice said. “That was a long way to come from that (Nashville) game and it wasn’t easy for them to do, so you got to give those players credit to be able to come out and

St. Louis Blues left wing Alexander Steen hops between two defenders on Monday. CHRIS LEE/ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH/TNS

get moving again and make plays and try and have some confidence in their game and they found it and looked good doing it. So it was absolutely the bounce back we needed, a better result to feel good about it but certainly we know it’s there.”

The Blues scored twice in the first period. Tarasenko got his 11th of the season on a wrister from the slot, assisted by Colton Parayko and Backes, just 5:33 into the game.

Backes then scored on a power play, assisted

by Shattenkirk and Tarasenko, with 5:47 left in the period.

The Jets answered with two goals early in

the second period.

Byfluglien scored on a long shot that appeared to ricochet off teammate Anthony Peluso and into the net at 2:16. Little then scored from the slot just 36 seconds later, his ninth goal of the season, after a nice pass from Mathieu Perreault.

St. Louis took back the lead late in the period when Backes scored his second of the game on a little backhanded flip after a give-and-go with Steen.

The Jets pulled Hutchinson late in the third period for an extra attacker but weren’t able to tie the game in the final minutes.

Baylor can’t dwell on loss (AP) — Baylor defensive back Travon Blanchard knows there is no time for the No. 10 Bears to dwell on their first loss of the season, even though it likely knocked them out of playoff contention.

“We understand we have to come together.

We can’t break apart right now,” Blanchard said Monday.

“Of course it hurts, but we understand there is more season than just one game.”

The Bears (8-1, 5-1 Big 12) could still win their third consecutive Big 12 championship if they win their last three games and get some help.

After a 44-34 loss to No. 7 Oklahoma that ended its FBS-best 20game home winning streak, Baylor plays

Saturday night at No. 4 Oklahoma State (10-0, 7-0).

Since the Big 12 is no longer declaring co-champions — like last season when Baylor and TCU shared the title — the Bears couldn’t claim a championship this year if they finish tied with Oklahoma. But they could be the champs by beating Oklahoma State, TCU and Texas in their last three regular-season games, and having the Horned Frogs and/or Cowboys beat Oklahoma.

When asked if he felt the Bears could still make the four-team CFP playoff if they win out and other pieces fall into place, Briles wasn’t as specific.

“Really, I hadn’t even thought that far, and

really hadn’t thought that far prior to last week,” he said.

Senior linebacker Grant Campbell said the mood and spirits of the team were still good, and that the Bears were approaching this week like every other one this season.

Briles said freshman quarterback Jarrett Stidham was “bruised and sore” but otherwise fine after taking a hit on the opening series against the Sooners, his first home start since junior Seth Russell’s season-ending neck surgery.

An MRI on Stidham came back clean.

“I feel good. I’m feeling a lot better. Saturday, after the game, I was feeling pretty bad,” Stidham said.

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Broncos better without Manning and other overreactions (AP) — Grab a clipboard, Peyton Manning.

It’s Brock Osweiler’s time.

The Denver Broncos are a better team now that coach Gary Kubiak benched Manning in favor of Osweiler.

A five-time NFL MVP who holds many of the league’s passing records or a guy who has thrown 54 career passes? Take the backup every time in a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business.

Yep, you guessed it.

We’re overreacting.

Manning played the worst game of his career on the same day he became the NFL’s alltime yards passing leader. But he’s injured. He’s not the player he used to be but he didn’t turn into Joey Harrington overnight for no reason.

Manning has a torn plantar fascia in his right foot, a ribcage injury and a lingering sore throwing shoulder.

When he’s healthy, he gives the Broncos (7-2)

the best chance to win.

Here are other overreactions from Week 10: OV E R R E AC T I O N : Sam Bradford has played his last game with the Eagles. Bradford, who is in the final year of a contract, injured his shoulder and sustained a concussion in a loss to the Dolphins.

Mark Sanchez replaced him and moved the offense well, but threw a crucial interception in the end zone.

REALISTIC REACTION: Sanchez is too prone to turnovers.

Once Bradford is healthy, Chip Kelly will play him. He already knows what Sanchez can do; 4-4 last year filling in for Nick Foles.

OVERREACTION: If the Giants couldn’t beat the Patriots, nobody will. New England improved to 9-0 after Stephen Gostkowski hit a 54-yard field goal with 1 second left.

REALISTIC REACTION: Rex Ryan’s Bills will be a tough game

Peyton Manning on the bench Sunday. DAVID EULITT/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS next Monday. They had an extra three days to prepare for the rematch.

And if they already have home-field advantage secured, road games at the Jets and Dolphins to finish the regular season won’t be easy.

OV E R R E AC T I O N : Seven wins will win the NFC East. The Giants lead the division at 5-5.

REALISTIC REACTION: The Giants play the Eagles in Week 17.

Big 12: Bowl teams Continued from B1

6) are the only other Big 12 teams that can get to six wins, but neither can lose another game.

The Mountaineers are at winless Kansas on Saturday, then play Iowa State and Kansas State. The Wildcats, who also play the Jayhawks (0-10) and Cyclones (3-7) need three consecutive wins.

“Yes, we address it, but we can’t belabor the point because it is common knowledge and understood by everybody in our program, or anybody that’s not in our program for that matter,” K-State coach Bill Snyder said. “If we’re thinking down the road for three games, then we’re going to be in trouble.”

Kansas State is 0-6 in Big 12 play for the first time ever, a stretch that includes a 36-34 loss to Oklahoma State and seven-point losses to Baylor and TCU. The Wildcats are home for the Dec. 5 regularseason finale against WVU. Texas Tech ended a three-game losing streak and got bowl eligible Saturday with a 59-44 victory over Kansas State.

The Big 12 has agreements this season with seven bowl games, and might not have enough eligible teams to fill those spots. That doesn’t even count a national semifinal game if the Big 12 champion makes the four-team playoff. If left out of the playoff, the Big 12 winner would instead play an SEC team in the Sugar Bowl.

CONTROL THEIR DESTINY: Either Oklahoma State or Oklahoma can claim the Big 12 title by winning its last two games, which includes their Bedlam rivalry to end the regular season.

Some other notes from the Big 12 call: TCU coach Gary Patterson on the status of banged-up quarterback Trevone Boykin and injured receiver Josh Doctson: “Possibly questionable.”

Baylor coach Art Briles, whose team has to follow its first loss by playing at undefeated Oklahoma State, was asked about the challenge of that kind of turnaround.

Texas Tech averaged 60 points a game at home this season. The Red Raiders are scoring half that on the road.

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They have an outside chance to go 8-8.

OV E R R E AC T I O N : The Jaguars are playoff contenders. A 22-20 win at Baltimore has Jacksonville (3-6) only one game behind Indianapolis in the AFC South and the Colts won’t have Andrew Luck for a while.

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TION: Teddy Bridgewater and company have a tough road ahead. They host the Packers next week and still have road games at Atlanta, Arizona and Green Bay. Home games vs. Seattle, the Bears and Giants won’t be easy, either.

OV E R R E AC T I O N : The Packers won’t make the playoffs. An 18-16 loss to Detroit was Green Bay’s third in a row.

REALISTIC REACTION: They’re only one game behind Minnesota with two games left against the Vikings.

They’re two games up in the wild-card standings. And, Aaron Rodgers is better than he has played recently.

OV E R R E AC T I O N : Kirk Cousins is the long-term answer for Washington at quarterback. He threw four touchdown passes in a rout over New Orleans.

REALISTIC REACTION: Everyone piles up big numbers against the Saints’ defense.

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Public notices (First published in the lola Register, November 17, 2015) GENERAL ORDINANCE NO:1798 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 7, ARTICLE 2, SECTION 7-204 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF LaHARPE, RELATING TO OPEN BURNING. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF LaHARPE,KANSAS: SECTION 1: AMENDMENT. The City does hereby amend Section 7-204 of Article 2, Chapter 7 of the Code of the City of LaHarpe,to read as follows: OPEN BURNING.

(a) It shall be unlawful to burning trash, rubbish, leaves, lumber, straw or any other combustible materials in any street, avenue, alley, or lot within the designated fire limits of the City or within 15 feet of any building unless otherwise provided for in subsections (b), (c), or (d). (b) The City Clerk, or his or her designee, may issue buming permits for a time period not to exceed ten (1O) days, at no charge, for the burning of leaves, grass clippings, brush, limbs and tree stumps. (c) Any permitted bumlng shall take_place between sunrise and

sunset, be attended by one or more adult persons, and be conducted in compliance with all City ordinances and the burning permit restrictions. (d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the burning of wood, coal or other approved fuel in a residential fireplace or stove, nor the ignition and burning of wood or charcoal for the purposes of cooking on private property, whether inside or outside a dwelling at any time, nor an open fire in an approved and identified container sold for home use outside the residential structure.

SECTION 2: REPEAL. All Ordinances and parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed accordingly.

SECTION 3: EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage, approval and publication In The lola Register as provided by law.

PASSED and APPROVED by the council and SIGNED by the Mayor this 10 day of November, 2015.

CITY OF LaHARPE, KANSAS By: ELLA MAE CROWELL, Mayor Attest: Michelle Altis, City Clerk (11) 17

(First published In the lola Register, November 17, 2015) GENERAL ORDINANCE NO:1799 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 8, ARTICLE 3, SECTION 8-302 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF LaHARPE, RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF LaHARPE, KANSAS: SECTION 1: AMENDMENT. The

City does hereby amend the title of Article 3, of Chapter 8 as follows: MOTORIZED VEHICLES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY: AND does hereby specifically amend Section 8-302 of Article 3,Chapter 8 ofthe Code of the City of LaHarpe, to read as follows: DEFINITIONS. (c) Vehicle shall not mean any motorized form of transportation that is being restored and is be-

ing done so in a timely manner nor does it include motorized forms of transportation that are being used in competitive manners, i.e.stock cars or mud trucks.

All of these vehicles may be stored under tarps or upon trailers, but still must be maintained in a reasonable manner.

SECTION 2: REPEAL. All Ordinances and parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed accordingly.

SECTION 3: EFFECTIVE DATE.

This Ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage, approval and publication in The lola Register as provided by law.

PASSED and APPROVED by the council and SIGNED by the Mayor this 10 day of November, 2015.

CITY OF LaHARPE, KANSAS By: ELLA MAE CROWELL, MAYOR Attest: Michelle Altis, City Clerk (11) 17

(First published in The Iola Register, Nov. 17, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT E. SUMMERS, DECEASED Case No. 15 PR 52 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:

You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed on November 10th 2015 in this Court

by Stuart Jeffery Summers, as Petitioner and heir-at-law of Robert E. Summers, Deceased, praying for the determination of descent of personal property and real property in Kansas, real and personal, or interest therein, owned by the decedent at the

time of his death. You are hereby required to file your written defenses to such Petition on or before the 8th day of December 2015 at 8:30 o’clock a.m. of said day in said Court, in the city of Iola, in Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course

upon such Petition. /s/ Stuart Jeffery Summers,

Petitioner BRANDON R. BIEKER JOHNSON LAW OFFICE, PA P.O. Box 866 Iola, Kansas 66749 (620) 365-3778/(620) 380-6230 Fax Attorney for Petitioner (11) 17, 24 (12) 1

(First published in The Iola Register, November 10, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS In the Matter of the Estate of LYMAN DAVID BALDWIN, Deceased 12 PR 47 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT (Chapter 59)

THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified a petition has been filed in this Court

by Sandra R. Flynn, Executrix of the Estate of Lyman David Baldwin, deceased, praying for final settlement of the estate, approval of her acts, proceedings and accounts as Executrix, allowance for her administrator’s

fees and expenses and the Court determine the heirs of the said decedent and assign the real estate and personal property remaining in said estate.

You are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 2nd day of December 2015, at 8:30 A.M., in said District Court in Iola, Kansas, at which time and place

said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon said petition.

SANDRA R. FLYNN,

Executrix DANIEL SCHOWENGERT, #23766 JOHNSON LAW OFFICE PA P.O. Box 866 Iola, KS 66749 (11)10,17,24

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INSIDE FLEA MARKET Furniture, Household Items, Tools, DVDs, Etc. 1801 N. State, Iola Mon.-Sat. 10 to 5 (620) 365-6269

306 N. STATE, IOLA • (620) 365-ROOF (7663) or 1-800-750-6533

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