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County buys Diebolt parcel

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

Allen County more than doubled its land holdings Tuesday morning.

Commissioners, on a unanimous vote after a 10-minute executive session, agreed to purchase 255 acres from Don Diebolt for quarry operations. At $3,000 per acre, cost is $765,000.

The county owned 240 acres prior to the purchase, including 160 acres for its landfill and quarry operations.

The county quarries and crushes limestone, which is used extensively in maintenance and rebuild of nearly 1,000 miles of county roads.

Large quantities of dirt are required for landfill cover.

Nearly 100 acres of Diebolt’s land is directly west of the county’s quarry.

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Donors give lifeline to ACARF shelter

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

LAHARPE — The Allen County Animal Rescue Facility will remain open.

Janice Porter, ACARF,’s director, shared the good news Friday in an email to fellow ACARF directors and other supporters.

Porter lauded the financial support of several local businesses, civic groups and private individuals.

“Here’s the great thing,” Porter wrote. “ACARF was saved largely by individuals. People who love animals (both local residents and friends in other places) stepped up to donate with generous one-time donations, periodic donations, or monthly automatic withdrawals.

That is what has kept us going. It is a wonderful example of community: people coming together to accomplish

Showing off dogs Tuesday they have adopted from the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility are, from left, Shannon Beach, Brittni Israel, Toby and Kennedy Shaughnesy, Nathan Patterson, Kendall Anderson, Cody Long, ACARF Director Janice Porter, Zack Osborn and Nate Rodriguez. Porter announced last week the facility has received enough in private donations in recent weeks to stay open “for the foreseeable future.” REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN something good.”

In its 4½years, ACARF has been responsible for 1,261 adoptions, 219 dogs or cats transferred to rescue shelters and 250 other pets returned to their owners.

Porter noted ACARF is one of 21 no-kill shelters in the state.

“Our shelter has given animals who are neglected, abused, lost, or homeless a place to go for protection,

care, comfort and love,” Porter wrote. “Our spay and neuter policy has reduced the population of stray and unwanted animals. Farmers are See ACARF | Page A4

City: Odoriferous scent may stay a while The smell of natural gas persisted into its second straight day this morning, and may stick around for a while.

The smell comes from a tank that contains an odorant injected into natural

gas supplies. Natural gas — “the silent killer” — has no smell.

A tank sprang a leak.

City crews repaired the leak Tuesday morning.

The tanks are near the Prairie Spirit Trail along

the 300 block of North State Street.

Weather conditions — cold, dense air — mean the odoriferous smell might remain in the area longer than it otherwise would have.

Assistant City Adminis-

trator Corey Schinstock said city crews are researching methods to treat a portion of the spilled odorant — peroxide was mentioned — to help dilute the smell.

The odorant poses no danger.

MV senior named scholarship finalist

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

MORAN — Forgive Emily Boyd if she wants to stop and catch her breath now and then.

She’s earned it.

Boyd, a senior at Marmaton Valley High School, learned last week she was named a National Merit Scholarship finalist, putting her in some elite company across the country.

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Tasty feast Scores of worshippers gathered at Wesley United Methodist Church this morning for Ash Wednesday, and the beginning of Lent. Above from left, Edna Donovan, Wanda Lytle and Dave Donovan wait to be served. At left, the Rev. Trudy Kenyon Anderson addresses the group. Future Lenten breakfasts will be at First Presbyterian Church Feb. 25, St. Timothy’s March 4, St. John’s March 11, First Baptist March 18, Calvary United Methodist March 25 and First Christian April 1.

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Piazza behind recall effort

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

An unofficial online petition proposing the recall of Gov. Sam Brownback has been sweeping the state since Feb. 1. The petition so far has collected 34,453 signatures.

The origina- Tony Piazza tor behind the petition is Iolan Tony Piazza, a communications and theater instructor at Allen Community College. Piazza said he created the petition out of frustration.

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“I am frustrated with the way things have gone for Kansas,” he said. “Our choice was either sit around and watch the state slowly get dismantled or go and say something about it.”

Piazza said he wants to give his fellow Kansans a public platform that will hopefully change the state’s situation.

“I think a lot of people are not sure our voices are being heard by legislators,” he said.

“And I’m not sure if the voters are aware what he’s done.”

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Obituaries Berkley Kerr

Wayne Gilham

Berkley Wayne Kerr, 76, passed away Friday, Feb. 13, 2015, at Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Mo. Berkley was born Aug. 16, 1938 in Boone County, Mo., the son of Elvin and Elizabeth (Forbis) Tennyson. His parents later divorced, and when Berkley was 14 he was adopted by his stepfather, Johnny Kerr.

He graduated from Coffeyville High School and then attended his freshman year at Kansas State University. Berkley struggled to come up with his tuition and actually slept in his car to save money. He ended up Berkley Kerr giving up on that dream, due to finances.

In 1957 he married Patricia Gambill, and to that union came three children, Deborah, Diane, and Berkley II. They later divorced.

On March 23, 1966, he married Margaret Carder, and to that union were born two children, Bret and Becky.

Berkley and Margaret lived in Iola when they married, and the family moved numerous times. He worked at various jobs from the State Highway Department, to construction, and in his later years he and Margaret moved to Wyandotte, Okla., where he raised show dogs until his retirement.

Berkley was an avid hunter and fisherman and provided many meals for his family with his hunting and fishing skills. He was elected as a member of the school board while living in Silver Lake and he and his wife Margaret were foster parents for children who needed homes.

He is survived by his children, Deborah Kaufman and husband Greg, Humboldt, Diane Spear and husband Dick, LaHarpe, Berkley Kerr II and wife Pam, Iola, and Bret Kerr and wife Brenda, Rogers, Minn.; grandchildren, Cisha Wallace, Humboldt, Vanessa Eichorst and husband Randall, Junction City, Ashley St. Clair and husband Aaron, Olathe, Dalton Kerr, Iola, and Breanna, Braxton and Bryant Kerr, all of Minnesota; and great-grandsons, Peyton Wallace, Drake Guillory, Skylar Eichorst and Trevor St. Clair.

Berkley was preceded in death by his parents; wife Margaret, daughter Becky and sister Gail Riley.

Funeral services were Tuesday at Countryside Funeral Home-Johnson Chapel, Chanute. Burial will be at a later date in Silver Lake.

Wilfred Wayne Gillham, 89, passed away at Diversicare in Chanute on Feb. 14, 2015.

Wayne was born Jan. 28, 1926 in Bayard, the son of Walker Albert and Martha Viola (Stark) Gillham.

He was raised in Bayard, attending country school for eight years and then high school in Mildred.

Shortly after high school Wayne was drafted into the U.S. Army, serving in World War II. When he returned from his tour of duty he married Ruth (Spillman) on Sept. 1, 1948 in Mapleton. They shared 66 years Wayne Gillham of marriage. The couple was blessed with three sons, Terry, Rex and Charles. The family made their home in Humboldt, and Wayne began working for Monarch Cement Company doing various jobs in the quarry. He was with the company for nearly 41 years before his retirement. During his time at Monarch, Wayne belonged to the United Cement Lime and Gypsum Worker’s Union, serving as their financial secretary. He was also a member of First Baptist Church of Humboldt, where he served as a deacon.

Wilfred Wayne Gillham was preceded in death by his parents, his siblings, Eileen Gillham, Velma Lucas, Vera Kamping, Gilbert Wells and Wendell Gillham.

He is survived by his wife Ruth (Spillman) Gillham, of the home in Humboldt; his children, Terry Gillham and wife Beth, Taylor, Texas, Rex Gillham and wife Peggy, Haughton, La., and Charles “Chuck” Gillham and wife Linda, Plevna; five granddaughters and their spouses, Tammy Burden, Jennifer Anderson, Alisha Blankenship, Becky Diller and Colette Dahmer; eight great-grandchildren and two great-great-granddaughters; and by many nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Humboldt First Baptist Church; burial will follow in Mount Hope Cemetery. The family will meet with friends from 4 to 6 p.m. today at Countryside Funeral Home-Humboldt Chapel. Memorials are suggested to First Baptist Church of Humboldt and may be sent in care of Countryside Funeral Home, 101 N. Highland Chanute, KS 66720.

Online condolences may be left at www.countrysidefh.com.

Lawmakers settle dispute over rules TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers will limit a common but much-criticized practice used to rush legislation to passage in the final days of their annual sessions under new rules approved Tuesday.

The two chambers disagreed about restricting the bundling of multiple bills into a single package of legislation on a broad subject such as taxes, agriculture or insurance. The Senate has not debated any bills since Feb. 5 because Majority Leader Terry Bruce, who controls its calendar, held off while the rules disagreement persisted.

The House approved, 83-38, a final, compromise version of rules governing interactions between the two chambers. The Senate approved them Monday on a 27-7 vote.

Bundling occurs because lawmakers become pressed for time at the end of their annual, 90-day sessions and the same senators and House members negotiate over multiple bills on the same subject. They’ve occasionally bundled as many as a dozen bills on a single subject together in a package and presented

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it to each chamber for an up-or-down vote. Critics say the practice leads to sloppy law making.

The new rules will allow up to five bills to be bundled into a single measure, with no limit for tax legislation. The House wanted to allow no more than two bills to be bundled; the Senate initially sought no limit, though its leaders said they were willing to consider some restrictions.

“It seems like a pretty solid compromise between the two chambers,” said Senate Vice President Jeff King, an Independence Republican and chairman of his chamber’s rules committee.

But Rep. Jim Ward, a Wichita Democrat, said the rules will still allow too much bundling, particularly because tax legislation is exempt from the limit.

Rep. John Rubin, a Shawnee Republican who had pushed for the tougher restrictions, acknowledged that he wanted to go further but added, “We have come a long way. This is at least a partial victory.”

After the House’s vote, Bruce, a Nickerson Republican, said the Senate would resume debating bills today.

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voting for our Valentine King and Queen and, on Friday, we had a party with cookies, candies and punch.

All hail Carl Abbe, our king, and our queen, Judy Powell. Resident James Brownrigg brought his guitar and we all sang as he played. The residents had a lot of fun. On Friday, Saundra Upshaw came and sang for us, which, again, we all enjoyed. We hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine’s Day!

This week was so much fun. We took the residents to the Dollar General on Monday, so they could finish their Valentines shopping.

Oliphant arrived on Tuesday to sing for the residents, which they absolutely loved. We made homemade Valentines on Wednesday, which was a blast. We also did some Valentine trivia this week, which was fun, too.

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Norman Shackelford Norman Shackelford, 93, died Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, in Iola. He was born May 2, 1921 in Platte County to William and Barbara (Tull) Shackelford.

Norman was an electrician and retired from Kansas City Power and Light Company. In his spare time he enjoyed hunting and fishing and was Past Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge in Farley, Mo. Norman was proud to be a veteran of the U.S. Army, and served during World War II. He was preceded in death by his parents, his first wife, Viola, and nine siblings.

Survivors include his wife of 25 years, Ruby Stubbs-Shackelford; Norman’s children, John Shackelford and Linda Shackelford, both of Kansas City North, Catherine Farphing, Denver, and Tom Stubbs, Gas; two brothers; and a sister.

Funeral services were Feb. 7 in Riverside, Mo.

Wesley UM Women help missionaries Regina Woodworth presented a program on the mission work of United Methodist Women at the Wesley United Methodist Women meeting on Thursday.

Woodworth said it is important to support the workers in the mission field financially as well as with prayer.

The prayer and self denial offering was received. Money collected this year will go to assisted retired missionaries. Each person received a name of a missionary and were encouraged to correspond with them.

The group will sponsor a prayer vigil on March 6. The church will be open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and all are welcome.

It was reported that yarn, shampoo and other toilet articles have been delivered to the Women’s Prison in Topeka.

Hostesses were Donna Grigsby and Lois Kerns and cohostess was Lori Cooper. There were 13 members present.

The meal was provided by the hostesses.

The next meeting will be at 6 p.m. on March 12, at Wesley United Methodist Church.

Financial Focus What Do Low Oil Prices Mean For Investors?

As you’ve no doubt noticed, your trips to the gas station have been a lot more pleasant these past several months.

There’s not much doubt that low oil prices have been welcome to you as a driver. But when oil is cheap, is that good for you as an investor?

There’s no clear-cut answer. But consider the following effects of low oil prices: • Positive impact on economy — When you spend less at the gas pump, relative to recent years, what will you do with your savings? Like most people, you’ll probably spend most of it on goods and services. If you multiply the amount of your increased spending by the millions of other Americans who are also saving money on gas, you can see that you and your fellow consumers are likely adding billions of dollars to the economy. Typically, a strong economy is also good for the financial markets — and for the people who invest in them.

• Different results for different sectors — Different sectors within the financial markets may respond in different ways to low oil prices, even if the overall effect is generally positive. For example, businesses such as consumer goods companies and auto manufacturers may respond favorably to cheaper oil and gas. But the picture might be quite a bit different for energy companies.

You could spend a lot of time and effort trying to adjust your investment portfolio in response to low oil prices. In fact, you may well want to consult with your financial professional to determine which moves might make sense for your individual situation. Yet there’s actually a bigger lesson to be learned here: Don’t overreact to temporary developments. The recent decline in oil prices has certainly had an economic impact, but no one can predict how long these prices will stay low or what other factors may arise that would affect the financial markets. That’s why you can’t reconfigure your portfolio based on particular events, whatever they may be — oil price drops, interest-rate fluctuations, political squabbles at home, natural disasters in faraway lands, and so on.

If you can keep from being overly influenced by specific events, you may be able to gain at least two key benefits: First, by not making trades constantly in reaction to the headlines of the day, you can avoid piling up heavy fees and commissions —costs that can reduce the return rate on your investments. Second, you’ll find that if you aren’t always thinking about what’s going on in the world today, you can focus your investment efforts more intensely on where you want to be tomorrow. The most successful investors set long-term goals and don’t focus on factors they cannot control, such as oil prices, interestrate changes or other economic events. Instead, these investors make adjustments, as necessary, to accommodate changes in their goals as well as other changes, such as revisions in tax laws — but they basically stick to their same approach for the long term.

So be aware of low oil prices, but don’t get so “pumped” about them that you sludge up your consistent investment strategy — because that strategy has the energy to keep you moving toward your important objectives.

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Colony Calendar

Thursday-County bus to Iola, phone 24 hours before you need a ride, 785-448-4410, any weekday; Feb. 25-Court, City Hall community room, 6 p.m.; City Council meeting, 7 p.m.

School calendar

Today-Parent-Teacher conferences; Friday-No school; Saturday-League forensics at Crest; Monday-Middle school scholars bowl at Westphalia, 4 p.m.; Parent-Teachers Organization (PTO) meeting, Crest Elementary Library, 7 p.m.; Tuesday-high school basketball at Crest vs.

Madison; Feb. 25-League music at Uniontown; Feb. 26-high school basketball at Crest vs. St. Paul, Senior Night

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Friday-macaroni and cheese, Caribbean blend veggies, wheat bread, applesauce delight; Monday-barbecue beef patty, Brussels sprouts, scalloped potatoes, bread, pears; Feb. 25-live music, Vision cards accepted, beef stew, cottage cheese, onions, radishes, crackers, Jell-O with fruit. Phone 620-852-3450 for reservations.

Christian Church Scripture presented Sunday was Ephesians 3:20-21 and John 2:1-12.

Former Pastor Charlie Towne’s sermon was “Experience a Miracle.”

Motive Matters Seminar, 7-9 p.m. Feb. 27 and

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and Shirley McGhee and Donna Westerman won the championship prize of a dozen pink roses.

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9 a.m.-3 p.m. Feb. 28; March 11-Working Wonders CWC, 7 p.m.

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Working Wonders Christian Women’s Council was Feb. 11 with Danelle McGhee in charge. Seven members answered roll call with a Valentine exchange. Genna Gallaher deferred being elected president and Danelle said she would continue as president for the next two years. Christy McGhee served refreshments. Amanda Beebe gave the devotion by Brooke Keith, “The Prefect Love.” Members voted to send $100 to ECKan as has been done each year for Christmas.

Sweetheart Supper The Christian Church annual sweetheart supper was well attended Sunday at the City Hall community room. The men prepared and served a delicious supper for the women. Following the meal, they played a trivia game led by Brant and Danelle McGhee with six teams. The “Fabulous Five” team consisting of Sid and Melissa Hobbs, Gareld

Scripture presented at Sunday’s United Methodist Church service was Psalm 50:1-6, 2 Kings 2: 1-12, 2 Corinthians 4:36 and Mark 9:2-9. Pastor Dorothy Welch gave the sermon, “Transformer or Transformed? Transformed or Transfigured?”

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Six members attended the Feb. 5 United Methodist Women meeting. Jane Ward, lesson leader, presented “Calling To Act.” Scripture was Joshua 6:22-25. The March challenge is sowing seeds.

Supplies are needed for Methodist Camp Chippewa located near Ottawa. Youth, ministers and Boy Scouts rent this camp.

The April challenge is Wesley House at Pittsburg. This is an outreach for homeless, with hot meals and showers, but not for overnight stays.

Many supplies are needed for the UMW pantry in Colony — nonperishable foods, napkins, paper towels, etc. June will be UMW’s annual churchwide tea meeting with invitations to Colony, Iola and Garnett churches. July’s challenge is school supplies.

Members discussed rotating their pantry of

Parents push to legalize hemp oil TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Parents of children suffering from seizure disorders are asking Kansas lawmakers to legalize hemp oil.

The Wichita Eagle reports that the House Health and Human Services Committee had a hearing Tuesday on a bill sponsored by Demo-

cratic Rep. John Wilson of Lawrence.

Parent Ryan Reed testified that he and his wife feed their 4-yearold son Otis hemp oil with a spoonful of apple sauce three times a day so that he can sleep soundly.

The Reeds once lived in Wilson’s district but

moved last year to Colorado Springs last year, because medical marijuana is legal there. The Kansas bill would be limited to hemp oil.

But the Kansas police chiefs’ association opposed the measure and argued it could lead to a broader legalization of marijuana.

Hawk recovering after flying into KC window KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A hawk is recovering after crashing through a window earlier this month at a south Kansas City home.

Drew Arnold tells the Kansas City Star he was at home Feb. 6 when he heard a crash in a bedroom. Arnold says he

went to investigate and found a large red-tailed hawk sitting on the room’s floor and with a dazed look on its face.

He called the city’s animal health and public safety division, requesting an animal control officer to remove the bird.

The hawk is now recu-

perating at the Lakeside Nature Center in Swope Park. The center’s director says the hawk suffered some cuts to her legs and broken feathers.

Larry Rizzo of the Missouri Department of Conservation says hawks often hit windows but seldom break through them.

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Reports made at the Feb. 9 meeting were from Connie Edgerton on the Title I program, Carmen Wolfe and Kinley Edgerton on the first grade everyday math lesson and Patricia JuAire on grades 8-12 English.

Alan Newton was appointed high school head track coach and Alex Nuss as assistant high school track coach, if at least 15 students sign up.

The Board accepted the resignations of Peggy Rogers as food service cook and Beverly Wittmer as elementary secretary, effective at the end of the school year. Contracts for Superintendent of Schools and Crest High Principal Chuck Mahon, Crest Elementary Principal Travis Hermreck and Board Clerk Leanne Trabuc through 2016-17, with salaries to be determined at a later date, were made.

Mahon reported work on reseeding the football field has begun.

The district will receive $18,000 less in funding than previously expected due to the governor’s proposed allotment. Bids are being sought for a school bus; the Crest track meet will be in Humboldt; staff inservice on Google Documents was held in January; the district website

is being updated; next year’s school schedule is being reviewed by a committee with the possibility of changing to an eight-period day; and league forensics meet will be Friday and Saturday.

Hermreck reported dental screenings are this week for pre-K through 12th grade. The middle school Scholars Bowl season is underway and will continue through March; the PTO Book Fair runs through Friday; and the school carnival is Feb. 28.

The next board meeting is March 9.

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Three Crest Family, Career and Community Leaders of America members competed at the STAR Events competition at Iola High School Feb. 4. Freshmen Austin Hendrix, Makayla Jones and Savanna McCulley competed in “National Programs in Action,” receiving a bronze rating. Laurel Godderz and Karlee Hammond were the chapter’s voting delegates for the District H elections held in the afternoon.

The FCCLA week was last week to raise awareness of all that the organization does, as well as to promote individuals, organizations and businesses that support the Crest chapter.

4-H

The Seekers Not Slackers 4-H Club meeting was Jan. 19 at the Lone Elm Community Building.

Members answered roll call by saying their favorite winter activity. Song leaders Hayden Newton and Logan Walter led the group in singing “Old Dan Tucker.”

Club members are selling Blue and Gold sausage, bacon and chicken strips through Friday.

District Club Days will be in Pomona March 7; Crest’s chapter will compete in model meeting.

Rebecca Sprague showed the club how to make a Valentine bomb out of Rollo candies.

Lanie Walter played three pieces on the piano, “Auld Lang Syne,” “Duke of York Strut” and “Sounds from the Gumdrop Factory.” During recreation, they played a game of Doctor Tangle.

Details from the Feb. 11 club meeting were not available at press time.

— Hailey Gillespie, reporter

Around town

Sympathy is expressed to the family of Oscar Madrid, 37, who died Feb. 11. Funeral services were Monday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel, Garnett. Burial was at Colony Cemetery.

Powder Keg Legislators consider ban of powdered alcohol

By ASHLEY BOOKER KHI News Service

Legislators are looking to ban the sale of powdered alcohol in Kansas — before it even hits liquor store shelves.

“We as an industry want you to go ahead and help us take care of this powdering product before it becomes an issue,” Spencer Duncan, a lobbyist for the Kansas Wine and Spirits Wholesalers Association, told the House Federal and State Affairs committee Tuesday.

The proposed legislation, House Bill 2208, would prohibit the sale of powdered alcohol, known as Palcohol, by licensed liquor stores and distributors.

The powdered alcohol comes in 4- by 6-inch one-shot pouches, and when mixed with water produces alcohol that comes in six varieties: rum, vodka, cosmopolitan, mojito, lemondrop and powderita.

The developers of Palcohol hope to begin selling their product this spring.

Last spring, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) approved Palcohol, but the federal agency later said the approval was issued in error and revoked it because of labeling issues.

Rep. Broderick Henderson, a Democrat from Kansas City, said Palcohol should have federal approval before it’s allowed in Kansas.

“I think we need to do something about it, and then probably end up in the near future go-

ing back to make sure that was enough regulation,” Henderson said.

Phil Bradley of the Kansas Licensed Beverage Association said 24 states are considering banning Palcohol. Alaska, Delaware, South Carolina, Vermont and Louisiana already have banned it.

Proponents of the bill are concerned Palcohol will be slipped unknowingly into drinks or food, increase underage drinking or be snorted like cocaine.

It’s also easy to conceal, which raises other concerns for bars, which are responsible for alcohol consumed on site.

“We are very concerned that if it becomes legal, or even if it comes from our surrounding states, that it will start being brought into our establishments and used in an inappropriate manner and will endanger our customers,” Bradley said.

Rep. Steve Brunk, a Republican from Wichita and chairman of this committee, asked if bars were worried about losing revenue from customers who will bring their own Palcohol to mix with free water.

Bradley said the bigger concern is if a bar patron is sold or given four waters in a row and officers find that person inebriated, then hold the location liable although it never provided alcohol.

Dean Reynoldson of Alcoholic Beverage Control said TTB must approve Palcohol before it could be sold in Kansas.

During questioning, Rep. James Todd, a Republican from Overland Park, asked Reynoldson whether ABC would allow sales of Palcohol at liquor stores or distributors that request it.

“If that would occur, then Kansas has the opportunity to not approve that label, and that’s the position that we would take at this time,” Reynoldson said.

Reynoldson said the bill would ban Palcohol sales by retailers and distributors but not on-premises locations like bars, clubs or restaurants. That would require an amendment to the Club and Drinking Establishment Act, which isn’t in the proposed bill.

No one testified Tuesday in favor of Palcohol, but Mark Phillips, the Arizona entrepreneur who invented Palcohol, has posted a statement on his website to states considering bans of the product.

The website says those at his company, Lipsmark LLC, are “disheartened” because states aren’t asking Phillips to testify about his product.

“Banning powdered alcohol is the most irresponsible action a legislature can take,” according to the statement.

The statement also said that because Palcohol is in high demand, there will be a place for it on the black market if states ban it.

Phillips said he developed Palcohol as a convenient way to carry alcohol with him on outdoor hikes and camping trips.

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N.Y. town: Head south to Florida ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — The tourism office of Ithaca, N.Y., is waving the white flag on winter and advising visitors to its website to check out the Florida Keys instead.

VisitIthaca.com’s home page displays Sunshine

State vacation photos and provides links to the website for tourism information about the Florida Keys and Key West.

The top of the Ithaca page reads: “That’s it.

We surrender. Winter, you win. Key West any-

one?”

Referring to “this ridiculously stupid winter,” the Ithaca website suggests visiting the Florida Keys this week and returning “when things thaw out.”

Ithaca and the rest of

upstate New York have been in the grips of a snowy and brutally cold winter. The most recent cold snap sent temperatures plunging as low as 28 degrees below zero in the Adirondacks Tuesday.

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care, comfort and love,” Porter wrote. “Our spay and neuter policy has reduced the population of stray and unwanted animals.

“Farmers are seeing far fewer dumped dogs and cats,” Porter continued.

“We have united with local schools to promote animal care education.

Families can come to us to find wonderful pets, and can feel great about rescuing them.

“ACARF simply makes our community a kinder, safer, and healthier place for everyone. We are very thankful to everyone who has helped us in any way (so) that we can continue in our mission.”

BUT THE shelter’s need for support will remain, notes Toby Shaughnessy of Sam & Louie’s in Iola.

The Italian restaurant

Kennedy Shaughnessy feeds a puppy a dish of vanilla ice cream from her father, Toby’s, ice cream shop, Scoops & More, Tuesday at the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN will donate 15 percent of its proceeds Friday to ACARF. In addition, an ACARF booth will be

set up at the restaurant, and diners will be given a chance to spin a prize wheel, with the top prize free pizza for a year.

Prizes also will be given away Friday next door at Scoops & More Ice Cream, Shaughnessy said.

Boyd: National Merit Scholar finalist Continued from A1

“This is a big deal academically, and financially,” Marmaton Valley Principal Kim Ensminger said.

Boyd was announced as a semifinalist in September, guaranteeing her $10,000 in scholarships to attend the University of Kansas in the fall.

Being named a finalist doubles that scholarship.

That alone will pay half of Boyd’s tuition at KU — she plans on studying chemistry — and she’s in line for sev-

eral other scholarships.

“That should just about take care of all of it,” she said.

The National Merit Scholarship program is open to any high school junior enrolled to take the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT), which Boyd did last fall.

Boyd’s score ranked her in the top 1 percent of all students taking the test. There are more than 16,000 semifinalists nationwide.

Boyd has maintained a 4.0 grade-point average while participating in band, forensics,

the school’s dance team and plays volleyball and softball. She’s also a National Honors Society member.

“This senior year has gone by pretty quickly,” she admitted. “I’m still trying to figure out where January went.”

Boyd credits her parents, Mark and Patti, for instilling her love of reading in particular and education in general.

“They never put any pressure on me to do well at school, but I don’t think you’ll see a surface in our house without an

open book or magazine,” she said.

She also notes time management has been key.

“I try to avoid procrastinating,” she said. “But it’s not like I’m totally driven to do only school.

I like to have fun, plus it’s getting to the end of my senior year.”

Boyd decided recently to study chemistry at KU. “It was my favorite subject in high school,” she said. “I want to explore it, and decide where I want to go with it.”

Piazza: Behind Brownback recall effort Continued from A1

caid, depleted highway funds to the general budget, cut funds to education and social services and created a budget that is woefully underfunded.

“His role as governor is to lead his people and take care of all of them,” he said. “Brownback is supposedly pro business

but he sends a terrible message to businesses who are considering coming to Kansas with a budget like ours.”

For this fiscal year, which ends June 30, Kansas is facing a budget deficit of $370 million. For fiscal year 2016, the state is behind $710 million in projected expenditures.

Massive income tax

cuts to individuals and businesses have helped put the state in the red.

Piazza said these are not political issues, but common sense issues involving the basic rules of governing.

“We will deliver the petition to Brownback and email it to legislators in Kansas,” he said.

“Hopefully, this will influence them to rework

or reshape the way Brownback is taking the state.”

Piazza said he is well aware the recall process of a governor is extremely difficult but he wants to give the citizens of Kansas a public platform.

The petition can be found at MoveOn.org. In the search box type “Recall Sam Brownback.”

County: Portion of Diebolt land bought Continued from A1

clude buildings associated with Diebolt Lumber & Supply, which is in the process of going out of business. The remainder, in two 80-acre parcels, is south of the quarry/landfill complex.

“We won’t need the Diebolt land in the foreseeable future for a landfill,” King said. Current landfill space is expected to be sufficient for at least another 10 years with another quarried area big enough to accommodate landfill needs “for another 70 years.”

THE SALE is the next step in Diebolt Lumber’s imminent closing and

liquidation.

Diebolt told the Register in a telephone interview all of the lumberyard’s indoor merchandise has been sold.

“All we have is what’s outside,” he said, such as ceramic and vinyl flooring, cement siding, tub and shower units and decking lumber.

Diebolt will continue to sell those items — all of the hardware and indoor merchandise was purchased by an out-oftown lumberyard owner — until March 1, when he closes Diebolt Lumber’s doors for good.

Anything left will be sold through an on-

line auction April 11.

The sale includes the remaining ground on which Diebolt Lumber sits, its buildings “and everything else,” such as office equipment and trucks.

With Diebolt Lumber’s closing, Diebolt has since started Diebolt LLC, a manufacturer of custom homes and post frame metal buildings.

“We still get people stopping by for lumber or hardware,” Diebolt said.

HEINRICH PEST Control, now owned by Jerad Larkey, had the winning bid for mowing and lawn maintenance of the

courthouse square and other county properties in Iola, including the old hospital and 911 dispatch center. Larkey’s bid totaled $340 per mowing cycle and was the lowest of four.

Commission Chairman Tom Williams asked County Counselor Alan Weber to look into cost of razing the old hospital.

“We need to know what that would cost if that’s our last option,” Williams said.

Several developers have looked at the abandoned structure, First and Madison streets, but none has made an offer to either buy or lease.

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City senator catches heat for proposing ag land tax increase In the search for revenue, a Kansas City legislator has suggested property taxes be raised on land used for agricultural purposes.

Sen. Jeff Melcher, a Republican from Leawood, contends farmers have had it too easy. “They just don’t realize how good they’ve had it for many years,” Melcher said, referring to the way ag land is taxed, which is by how much a farmer can expect to produce from each parcel.

Melcher proposes the land should be taxed as any other. The result would be a coup for state coffers.

State officials estimate the change would result in an additional $173 million.

Rural communities would especially benefit, Melcher said, because the higher property taxes would mean school districts and municipalities could lower their mill levies assessed to all taxpayers who own property.

ON THE FLIP side, farmers say it would be their ruin. In its current form, Senate Bill 178 would increase land values by about 473 percent, according to the Kansas Department of Revenue.

Of Allen County’s 505 square miles, 313 are devoted to agriculture. Most of the land is for growing soybeans, wheat and corn, while about 40 percent is devoted to pastureland.

Farmers in western Kansas, where the bulk of the state’s agriculture lies, say the property tax increase

would be prohibitive.

THE TRUTH, of course, is somewhere in between.

And Sen. Melcher is targeting his own constituents as much as those in the far reaches of the state.

Because farmland is taxed so low, people find all kinds of loopholes to get what should be classified as commercial or residential as agriculture. Corporations and developers use the tax advantage in their purchase of large swaths of land in and surrounding the metro areas of Wyandotte, Sedgwick, Johnson and Butler counties.

In wealthy subdivisions, owners claim their spacious lots as “farming/ ranchland” to escape higher taxes.

At the very least, legislators need to tighten the noose on what may be classified as agriculture. As it stands, property owners can scatter a few fescue seeds and call it good.

IN THEIR SEARCH for funds, legislators should also reconsider the break they give farmers, who, like small businesses, are exempt from paying income tax on their net earnings.

It’s not right that business owners and farmers are exempt from such taxes, while their employees and hired hands are expected to carry their full share.

These realities become more and more clear as the state’s financial picture becomes more dim.

— Susan Lynn

A�look�back�in�time � 20 Years Ago Week of Feb. 15, 1995

Vernon Maddux, new curator of the Allen County Historical Society and Museum, has been busy organizing the 9,000 items and artifacts owned by the society. The museum will open May 1.

***** More than 100 students’ parents and staff members packed into the Gas gymnasium last night to voice concerns and ask questions about the USD 257 Board of Education’s proposed closing of the school at Gas.

The Cleaver family, circa 2015 A bill introduced in the Kansas Senate would offer higher foster care payments to families that meet the state’s definition of a “good family” — a happily married man and woman who attend church weekly, don’t smoke or drink, and with one of the parents not working outside the home.

The bill’s sponsor, Forrest Knox, R-Altoona, referred to the idyllic lifestyle featured in the 1950s sitcom “Leave It to Beaver,” but maybe this bill should be titled “Leave It to Brownback” or “Governor Knows Best.”

Knox said he introduced the bill after his own experience as a foster parent, having been told by social workers that his was the only “normal” family with which they had worked.

To right that, Knox wants to pay substantially more to families that, at least outwardly, model their lives after a fictional 1950s family that even then didn’t paint a true picture of the American family. In Knox’s mind, every home should have June at home making dinner, Ward coming home from work at 5 p.m. sharp every day, and with Wally and Beaver learning life’s important lessons through cheerful play.

And this dream world would only cost the state about $26.5 million a year.

Unfortunately — and, to some degree, thanks to the misguided fiscal ideology of people such as Knox — that’s not today’s world. June has to work, Ward has two jobs,

and Wally and Beaver are inadequately educated latchkey kids left to their own devices.

More importantly, however, is what we’re going to do about that two-faced, devious rascal, Eddie Haskell. Because even in the picture-perfect television family, there’s still a reality that people aren’t quite honest in their dealings, and

system, but the solution is not to fragment it and create a different level of foster care. The solution is to find the underlying problem in foster care — or, better still, find the underlying problems that land kids in foster care and address those issues directly.

If unqualified families are taking foster children into

Like “Leave it to Beaver,” Knox’s bill doesn’t tell the whole story and shows only the perfect image scripted for television. Behind the scenes is an attempt to legislate the ideal family ...

there’s at least one person who outwardly smiles and says “Hello, Mrs. Cleaver,” while designing some dastardly scheme beneath a pleasant facade.

That is exactly what we have in Knox and his Eddie Haskell bill. This proposal is not really about improving the state’s foster care system, it’s about social engineering and creating financial incentive to conform to the state’s idea of a perfect family. Just for added measure — and perhaps a touch of school finance spite — the bill also has a provision that shifts public education money to these families if they send the foster children to private school or opt to school them at home.

There may well be a problem in the state’s foster care

their homes, that’s an indication oversight needs to be increased or qualifications need to be tightened. That might pose a challenge, however, since the state’s leaders have failed to uphold their duty to properly manage the household’s finances.

Like “Leave It to Beaver,” Knox’s bill doesn’t tell the whole story and shows only the perfect image scripted for television. Behind the scenes is an attempt to legislate the ideal family, as seen by a small group of conservatives who ironically seem to find freedom in telling others how to live.

Such faulty ideology should remain in the antiquated world of black-and-white TV sitcoms.

— The Hutchinson News

Fire remains a vital management tool on Kansas prairies

By JOHN SCHLAGECK Kansas Farm Bureau

Every spring, the ritual continues. Farmers, stockmen and landowners use fire as a range management tool while maintaining the economic viability of the Flint Hills.

Viewed up close or at a distance, prairie fires are riveting.

Across the vast, open grasslands we call the Flint Hills, fires can be seen for miles. The flames lick at the blue Kansas sky as the brown, dry grass crinkles, crackles and bursts into orange.

These fires aren’t recent phenomena and they aren’t strictly for the viewing pleasure of those traveling up and down our highways. Long before civilization invaded the prairie, fires were ignited by lightning storms and the charred prairie restored the health of the native grasses.

Native Americans were the first practitioners of pre-

scribed fires. They used the fire to attract the buffalo for easier hunting.

The artificially ignited controlled burning of the tallgrass prairie in east-central Kansas is an annual event designed to mimic nature’s match. It has become a tradition, part of the culture of the communities and the people

each year. It is not a procedure that is drawn out and lasts for weeks. However, weather conditions dictate the length of the burning season most years.

Not every cattleman burns his pastures each and every year as is sometimes portrayed. Instead, individual ranchers and landowners sur-

Fire is an essential element of the ecosystem. Burning these pastures is one of the best management tools for maintaining the native prairie.

who inhabit this region of our state.

Fire is an essential element of the ecosystem. Burning these pastures is one of the best management tools for maintaining the native prairie.

This annual pasture burning only occurs for a few days

vey and decide each spring pastures that will benefit and produce a healthier, lush grass for livestock after burning occurs. Often neighbors plan and burn together, giving them more hands to ensure a safe, controlled burn.

Forage quality and ecosystem health are both dependent

on fire. Without fire woodlands take over the Flint Hills and the livestock industry loses a fantastic resource.

Kansas State University recommends burning take place when wind speeds are between 5 and 15 miles per hour, relative humidity is from 40 to 70 percent and temperatures fall in the range of 55 to 80 degrees.

Landowners in all counties must notify local officials prior to planned, controlled burns. This notification is a key to preventing prescribed fires from turning into accidental wildfires and ensuring burning is allowed under the existing conditions.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has a Kansas Flint Hills Smoke management plan to help alleviate air quality issues in urban areas generated by prescribed burning in the Flint Hills region. Coupled with the associated web tools, it should give producers better decision-making abili-

ties when planning and implementing prescribed fires.

Producers now can assess how the smoke from their burns may impact urban areas downwind. Information like this can make a difference in keeping ozone within acceptable levels and keeping regulatory restrictions from impacting ranchers. This website is www.ksfire.org.

Actions to control smoke in the Flint Hills ranching community must remain voluntary. To ensure this continues, the farm and ranch community should tune into everchanging weather conditions and keep prescribed fire in the tall grass prairies confined to a minimum time period.

Prairie fires help rejuvenate the grasses that carpet the fertile Flint Hills. This is good for cattlemen, agriculture, rural communities and the Kansas economy.

John Schlageck is a leading commentator on agriculture and rural Kansas.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

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Obama answers immigration ruling with vow to fight courts (TNS) WASHINGTON — The Obama administration promised Tuesday to fight against opposition from both the courts and Congress to keep in place its expansive new programs to shield millions of immigrants from deportation, a key piece of the president’s effort to shape his legacy in his final years in office.

A federal judge in Texas issued an order late Monday that temporarily blocked the administration from putting into effect President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration.

The ruling touched off a day of cheering by Republicans, logistical and legal scrambling in the White House and vigorous efforts by advocates around the country to reassure potential applicants that they shouldn’t give up.

The administration said it would swiftly appeal the order, which came less than 48 hours before immigration officials were due to begin accepting applications for the first of the programs to defer deportation.

Despite that setback, the president predicted that courts would ultimately uphold his efforts as lawful. “The law is on our side and history is on our side,� Obama told reporters in the Oval Office. “This is not the first time where a lower court judge has blocked something, or attempted to block something, that is ultimately going to be lawful. And I’m confident that it is well with-

ecutive authority to protect millions of immigrants from A total of 26 states are suing the threat of bethe Obama administration ing deported. over the recent executive The largest order on immigration. piece of his plan States suing the federal would be open to government over immigrants who immigration action have lived here for five years, have no serious crimes on their records and are parents of legal residents.

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Judge Andrew S. For now, though, his Hanen issued an injuncadministration put on tion on grounds that the hold plans to start its states had a strong arguexpansion Wednesday ment that the adminisof the 2012 program that tration had not followed has shielded from de- correct procedures in portation nearly 600,000 establishing the proyoung people, so-called gram. A full trial would Dreamers, and a much be needed to resolve the larger effort to defer ac- case, Hanen said, and tion on deportations that his order was intended could apply to about 4 to preserve the status million adults living in quo until that could take the U.S. illegally. place.

The broader initiative Hanen, an appointee had been set to begin in of President George W. May, and its future is Bush who has taken a uncertain for those who hard line on enforcehoped to qualify for it. ment in other immi“We’re asking people gration cases, said the to not be fearful or be Obama administration discouraged. We believe outstripped its authorit will be overturned,� ity in establishing the said Larry Kleinman, a program, which he says co-chair of a national ef- would grant “legal presfort by advocacy groups ence and benefits to to prepare for the pro- otherwise removable gram’s rollout. aliens.�

Saying he was tired of Administration lawwaiting for Republicans yers have not yet decided to fix a broken immigra- whether to ask an aption system, Obama an- peals court for an emernounced in November gency stay of Hanen’s that he would use his ex- order, according to Ce-

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Temporarily at least, the ruling has complicated the administration’s efforts to get ready to handle millions of applications without bogging down the rest of the system.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, which is to oversee the applications, has leased a new processing center and has begun preparing to hire hundreds of workers.

The agency had already posted a list of questions and detailed answers on its website about the ex-

pansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program; it removed the Web page Tuesday afternoon.

Hanen said that if the government were to begin to allow immigrants to stay in the country while the court case proceeded, “the genie would be impossible to put back into the bottle.�

He added that he agreed with the plaintiffs that legalizing the presence of millions of people would be a “virtually irreversible� action.

Some experts in immigration law predicted Hanen’s opinion would be overturned.

“The federal courts have been very deferential to the executive branch on immigration issues,� said Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor at Cornell Law School.

Though the question might ultimately end up before the Supreme Court, he said he expected that the justices would wait to weigh in until lower courts heard the constitutional issues.

Republicans in Congress said the ruling vindicated their opposition to the immigration programs, and leaders gave no indication that they might change course.

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Streaking Fillies Iola’s Emery Driskel corrals a rebound, while Toni Macha (25) and Emma Piazza (12) try to box out Osawatomie’s Kayli Laughery (5) and Larissa Harrison (30). Iola won 51-19. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

Iola beats Osawatomie 51-19 to win fifth game in a row

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

Another game, another win.

Iola High’s Fillies won their fifth straight after beating Osawatomie 51-19 Tuesday night.

Although by game’s end the point spread was doubledigits, it wasn’t the strongest of starts for the Fillies. Iola dominated the offensive glass, but couldn’t get anything to fall. It seemed like for every shot in the paint, multiple attempts were needed until the ball dropped into the hoop.

“We had only four turnovers and had 42 rebounds.

We took good shots, but they just wouldn’t fall early,” coach Becky Carlson said. “That’s a good win. Sometimes, if you look past a team, you could throw the ball away a lot and we didn’t do anything like that. We took good shots, we were just rushing a little bit.”

Sydney Wade helped Iola get off to a 9-2 lead after the first quarter. She hit two 3-pointers. Toni Macha scored underneath and Addie Haar made a free throw for Iola’s other points.

Haar dominated after the

first quarter, scoring 16 of her 17 points the rest of the way.

With 4:55 left in the first half, Iola led 12-7. Emery Driskel then scored underneath and was fouled — making the free throw for the three-point play.

She then scored via the same exact play on Iola’s next possession, but didn’t hit the foul shot. The Fillies ended the half on a 9-1 run to take a 21-8 lead at halftime.

Iola held the Trojans in check in the second half, holding them to 11 points. The Fillies’ defense kept Osawatomie in the single digits in each quarter, giving up six points in the second and fourth quarters.

Emma Piazza scored five points to lead all scorers in the third quarter. Haar added three and Macha scored four.

Haar took over in the fourth quarter, scoring 10. The Fillies were able to earn the running clock after getting their 30-point lead.

Iola (12-6) will travel to Wellsville next Tuesday.

The Fillies won the last contest 49-37 on Jan. 16. Iola needed a 14-0 run in the fourth quarter to get the win.

“I’m hoping to get a win,” Carlson said. “We just need to play like we have been. We need to keep our composure and go get them from the start.”

EARLIER, THE JV Fillies won 32-4. McKayli Cleaver led the team with seven points and Taylor Sell followed with six. Riley Murray added five, Colbi Riley scored four and Sarah Gonzales added three.

Toni Macha, Della Lohman and Jayden Sigg each scored two. Ashlie Shields added a free throw.

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won 39-11. Colbi Riley led the team with 12 points. Chloe Gardner scored six. Katie added five points. Karly McGuffin, Macayla Bycroft and Madison Gambill all scored four points.

Carly Cescon and Olivia Taylor both scored two.

Iola 51, Osawatomie 19 Iola (9-12-14-16—51) (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Wade 0/2-0-2-6, Long 1-0-0-2, Piazza 2-11-5, Lohman 1-0-0-2, Shields 0-0-4-0, Haar 6-5-1-17, Platt 1-0-0-2, Driskel 3-1-4-7, Macha 5-0-0-10 Osawatomie (2-6-5-6—19) (FG/3pt-FTF-TP): Wallace 0-0-1-0, Hendrickson 0-0-10, Wendt 1-0-2-2, Laughery 0-0-1-0, Pope 2-1-1-5, Guilfroy 2/2-0-3-10, Lofing 0-0-20, Harrison 0-0-4-0, Block 0-0-1-0, Johnson 0-2-2-2

Addie Haar (22) goes up for a jump shot. Haar led the team with 17 points. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

Mustang comeback bid comes up short

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

Iola’s Shane Walden (24) dives after a loose ball over Osawatomie’s Morgan Soucie (15). Iola lost 57-43. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

Iola High’s Mustangs weren’t able to complete a comeback against Osawatomie in a 57-43 loss Tuesday night.

Trailing 31-14 at the half, it looked as if it was going to be another big win for Iola’s opponent. After beating Santa Fe Trail Feb. 3, the Mustangs are on a four-game skid. But, they didn’t make Tuesday’s loss easy.

“I’m pleased to see what we came out with tonight.

As we’ve talked, we’re at that place where you’re not sure what to expect,” head coach Bill Peeper said. “The easy way out is to fold it up and call it over and start warming up the bats and the golf clubs.

“But, I was pleased to see that we had a little something

inside tonight. We (the coaches) challenged them pretty hard before the game to demonstrate that there’s still value in this season and it’s not done. There’s something to be gained not only for tonight, but next week and the week after that, as well as years down the road with the young guys.”

Iola started the second half on an 11-2 run. Kaden Macha turned things around for the Mustangs with a quick 3-pointer to open up the third quarter. Ben Cooper followed on the next possession by scoring on a drive.

Macha then looked like he was going to connect on a short-range jumper, but an Osawatomie defender hit the ball off the rim. It was called goaltending and Iola was awarded the basket. Peterson scored on his own putback.

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Humboldt’s Makaylah McCall (11) takes a jump shot. McCall scored seven points in Humboldt’s 42-24 loss to Burlington Tuesday. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Lady Cubs have offensive drought

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — Tuesday’s home tilt started ugly, ended ugly and didn’t have much to look at in between for Humboldt High’s girls.

The Lady Cubs saw extended dry spells on offense, and a frenetic, but still out of sync, defense in a 42-24 loss to visiting Burlington High on senior night.

The loss drops Humboldt to 13-6 on the season. The Lady Cubs wrap up the regular season next Tuesday at Cherryvale.

“We just didn’t play our game tonight,” Lady Cub head coach Aubrey Jones said. “We seemed to be jittery all night. We

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Burlington for years has made life miserable on its opponents with a stifling, full-court press.

The Wildcats deployed their press Tuesday, but many of Humboldt’s turnovers were self-inflicted, Jones said.

“It really wasn’t their press that bothered us,” she said. “It was our mistakes that bothered us.”

The Wildcats plowed ahead 13-4 after one quarter before pushing the lead to 15-4 early in the second quarter.

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Burlington pushed its lead to 18 down the stretch.

“We never got into a rhythm defensively,” Jones said.

Humboldt’s Makaylah McCall drilled a 3-pointer and a short jumper for five points late, giving her a team-high seven for the game. Breanna Kline was next with six.

Jones praised the effort of senior Delaney Umholtz, who spent much of the game disrupting Burlington’s offense by harassing ball handlers inside and out.

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After a quick basket by the Trojans, Cooper answered with a 3-pointer. Macha ended the run by draining two free throws. Iola trailed 3328 with 3:30 to go in the half.

After a Peterson turnaround jumper with 10 seconds left, it appeared the Mustangs could go into halftime down four points. However, Osawatomie’s Sheldon Booe hit a 3-pointer as time expired.

After the third quarter, Iola was down 39-32.

With 3:25 left in the fourth, the Trojans led the Mustangs 46-36.

Iola’s Cooper kept the Mustangs in the game with another 3-pointer.

After Peterson hit the front end of a free throw of a one-and-one, Iola was down 46-40 with two minutes left. On the Trojan’s next possession, Morgan Soucie scored underneath the hoop to give Osawatomie an eight-point lead. Soucie lit up the Mustangs for a game-high 21 points.

Iola wasn’t able to get any closer and had to start fouling to stop the clock. The Trojans won 57-43.

It was a much better effort for the Mustangs than the last time these two teams played.

Osawatomie beat Iola 56-36 on Jan. 10.

“I felt like this intensity and effort was so much better. If we play like that, we can still accomplish something,” Peeper said. “Laying down and dying the way we have the last couple of games hasn’t demonstrated that it’s to any

Burlington bites Cubs

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — In a game of runs, visiting Burlington High managed to put enough of them together to keep a feisty Humboldt High squad at bay Tuesday.

The Cubs trailed by as many as 14 in the second half before a ferocious comeback cut the deficit to four.

But Burlington was lethal from the line, hitting 21 of 27 overall in a 72-57 win.

The loss drops Humboldt to 15-4 on the season.

“They were the aggressor the first half,” Humboldt head coach David Taylor said. “Foul trouble hurt us, but them being aggressive had a lot to do with it.”

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boldt an early 5-0 lead, Burlington took the lead for good with a 12-2 run.

Another 7-point Wildcat outburst to open the second quarter pushed the Wildcats up, 19-9.

Markiz Pulliam and Jacob Carpenter scored Humboldt’s first points of the second quarter at the 4-minute mark before Burlington pushed back ahead. The Wildcats led 31-19 at the half.

“That second quarter hurt,” Taylor said. “And they came out strong to start the third quarter.

The best thing I thought we did was fight back at the end of the third to give ourselves a chance.”

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advantage to us. I was glad to see us respond and do some things positive.”

Iola (4-14) plays at Wellsville next Tuesday.

“It will definitely be a tough game,” Peeper said. “They’re solid and haven’t lost in the league yet. They’re a solid bunch. (Osawatomie) is pretty good and Wellsville is even better. That’s the nature of it. We’ve got to show up to play whoever and wherever.”

IOLA’S JV Mustangs lost 45-37. Cole Regehr led the team with 10 points. Joey Zimmerman followed with nine.

Brice Aiello scored five and Isaiah Fawson added three. Ben Cooper, Rhett Allen and Evan Sigg each scored two points.

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Iola was down two late, but Osawatomie made a basket to go up four points. Issac Vink hit a 3-pointer to bring the game to within one point. An Iola turnover sealed the win for Osawatomie.

Evan Sigg led the team with 17 points, while Vink followed with 16. Matt Komma scored six, Zach Cokely added five and Caden Knavel scored four. Cale Barnhart scored a basket and Ethan Tavarez added a free throw.

Osawatomie 57, Iola 43

Osawatomie (14-17-8-17—57) (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Shadden 0-0-10, Manes 0-2-3-2, Redifer 2-0-1-4, England 4-2-3-10, Wylie 1-0-2-2, Soucie 8-5-1-21, Richardson 1-03-2, Booe 1/3-5-2-16 Iola (11-3-18-11—43) (FG/3ptT-F-TP): Cooper 2/2-1-3-11, Fawson 1-0-1-2, Endicott 1-1-3-3, Taylor 1-0-1-2, Walden 0/1-0-4-3, Macha 3/1-4-3-13, Holloway 2-03-4, Peterson 3-0-3-6

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Southern Coffey Co. High School Basketball Friday, at Lebo Feb. 24, vs. UNIONTOWN (Parents Night)

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Crest High School Basketball Thursday, at Jayhawk Linn Feb. 24, at Madison

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Allen Women’s Basketball Today, at Johnson, 6 p.m.

Saturday, at KCK, 2 p.m.

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Saturday, at KCK, 4 p.m.

Softball Friday-Saturday, at Cowtown Classic in Fort Worth, Texas Baseball Thursday, at Oklahoma Wesleyan JV, noon Friday, vs. IOWA WESTERN (CANCELED)

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Shockers romp SIU 84-62 Lebo edges Crest 46-44

By TODD HEFFERMAN Associated Press

CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Shaquille Morris proved an able substitute to Wichita State starting forward Darius Carter on Tuesday night at Southern Illinois.

Morris, a 6-foot-7, 261-pound redshirt freshman forward, spurred a critical 8-0 run early in the second half to lift the 13th-ranked Shockers over the Salukis, 84-62.

Morris came in for Carter with his team up 13 at the 19:31 mark and delivered four of his careerhigh 17 points during the run to put Wichita State up 20 with 16:28 left. The Shockers led by as much as 27 before settling for their third double-digit win in their last four games.

Morris made 7 of his 8 shots for the Shockers (25-3, 14-1 Missouri Valley), who have won five straight.

“Confidence, and definitely my teammates trusting me and finding me with the ball in good situations,” Morris said.

“My motor is coming on.

I tried to run the floor real hard tonight.”

Fred VanVleet and Ron Baker each scored 13 and Tekele Cotton added 10 for Wichita State.

Deion Lavender’s 15 points led Southern Illinois (10-18, 3-12). Anthony Beane added 14 points and Jordan Caroline scored 10.

The Shockers led by 13 at the half and used a 9-0 run early in sec-

ond half to put the game away. They made 10 of 19 3-pointers and had 18 assists on 28 baskets.

Carter, who scored a career-high 25 points in Wichita State’s first win over Southern Illinois on Jan. 14, made 3 of 5 from the field and finished with six points in 20 minutes. The Salukis rolled the dice on stopping the senior forward, but couldn’t recover to guard Wichita State’s assortment of shooters.

“You gotta figure out what you’re gonna take away,” Southern Illinois coach Barry Hinson said. “We had gotten our butts whipped so bad on the interior by Carter the first time we played ‘em, we were trying not to let that happen again, and we gave up some 3s, and they did a good job.

We had to play, literally, a perfect game.”

Wichita State started quickly in its fourth road game in its last six, hitting its first five shots on the way to an 11-2 lead.

LATE ARRIVAL

Inclement weather forced Wichita State to take its charter flight to the region on Tuesday morning rather than Monday night. Carbondale got about six inches of snow in the first major snowstorm in the region on Monday. The Shockers flew from Wichita, Kansas, to Williamson County Airport in Marion, Illinois, which is about 17 miles from Carbondale.

They left for home after

the game.

Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall said he almost preferred the late arrival.

“Honestly, it’s what I would prefer with my origins being a bus league at Winthrop,” Marshall said. “Having a couple hours on the bus, we would do that the day of the game quite often, so I don’t really think it matters, to be honest. It wasn’t the break of dawn when we left, I think we had wheels up around 9:15 this morning.”

A one-possession game didn’t go Crest High’s boys basketball team’s way. The Lancers lost to Lebo 46-44 on Tuesday night at home.

“It was a nip and tuck game all the way. Both teams had opportunities to win, but Lebo made the right plays down the stretch,” coach Travis Hermreck said. “In the second half they did a good job of getting Barker the ball where he was comfortable. Combined

with porous defense on our part, he took over the game.”

Thane Barker ended up with 19 points to lead Lebo.

Lebo led 23-22 after the first half, on their way to a two-point victory.

Crest was led by Hunter Frazell’s 12-point performance.

Evan Godderz followed with nine points, while Austin Green and Kellen Ramsey each scored

eight points. Brandon Brallier finished with seven points.

The Lancers travel to Jayhawk-Linn on Thursday.

“Our energy and intensity levels were very low tonight. I am having a tough time swallowing this loss,” Hermreck said. “I was sure that after we tasted success against Oswego that we had finally got our ‘edge’ back. I was obviously wrong.”

TIP-INS

Southern Illinois: Jalen Pendleton missed the second half with a concussion. He scored six points and grabbed three rebounds in 12 minutes. Starting forward Jordan Caroline also suffered a blow to his upper body and was checked out on the sideline in the second half.

Caroline returned to the game and finished with 10 points and three rebounds.

Wichita State: Morris’ 17 points beat his previous career high of 10 against Missouri State on Feb. 8. Morris didn’t make a field goal in the Shockers’ win at Illinois State on Saturday, but is now 13 of his last 20 from the field in his last four games.

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Wichita State hosts Evansville on Sunday.

Patterson to stay in jail SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A man charged in the death of the 2-yearold son of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson will remain in jail until his trial in September for violating

conditions of his bond, although his family could still get back the $2 million bond they posted.

Judge Bradley Zell on Tuesday said he does not think Joseph Patterson, 29, is a flight risk, but

that he is a danger to the boy's mother, Patterson's ex-girlfriend. Zell ordered him held without bond and ordered the earlier bond money returned to Patterson's family.

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Burlington — cut the deficit to 46-36.

Pulliam drilled a 3-pointer early in the fourth quarter, followed by a pair of Justin Meins free throws, to cut the deficit to 5248.

But Burlington’s James Beyer drilled a key 3-pointer as part of a 7-2 run to push the Wildcats in front, 59-50.

The lead soon grew to double digits shortly thereafter and never abated.

Markiz Pulliam led the way for Humboldt with 25 points, including 9 of 11 free throws.

Justin Meins overcame early foul trouble to wind up with 14. Jake Haviland came off the bench to score eight points and pull down a team-high eight rebounds.

The Wildcats held Humboldt’s leading scorer Kason Siemens scoreless.

A trio of Wildcat players reached double figures, led by Grant

Shell with 21 points.

Bryson Hatch was next with 15, while Dalton Rankin finished with 10. Cooper Whitworth scored nine.

Burlington (12-19-15-26— 72) (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Dees 1-01-2, Whitworth 2/1-2-5-9, Shell 7-7-3-21, Ranking 1/1-5-3-10, Norstedt 1-2-0-4, Redding 2-14-5, Beyer 1/1-1-0-6, Carrasco 0-0-4-0, Hatch 6-3-3-15. TOTALS: 21/3-21-21-72.

Humboldt (9-10-17-21— 57) (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Vanatta 0-0-1-0, Carpenter 3-0-4-6, Pulliam 8-9-4-25, Haviland 3-2-3-8, Bartlett 0-2-4-2, Meins 2/1-7-414, Siemens 0-0-4-0, Smith 0-22-2. TOTALS: 16/1-22-26-57.

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Leading scorer Lakota Wilson was held without a field goal and scored four points.

The Lady Cubs also struggled from the line, hitting 9 of 19 charities.

Burlington’s Malorie Wagner and Shelbi Emling shared scoring honors for Burlington with 10 points apiece. Burlington was a cool 7 of 14 from the line.

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Redundant pre-op procedure avoidable Dear Dr. Roach: Many of our local doctors insist on pre-procedure office visits prior to onemorning outpatient procedures such as rotator cuff surgery, colonoscopy and endoscopy. Since I receive regular checkups from a superb internist, see my cardiologist every six months and tend to schedule my procedures shortly after such checkups, I consider this an exploitative waste of my time and money, and feel they have this requirement only because I have good insurance and they can collect fees by putting me through time-consuming and unnecessary visits. My primary-care physician agrees. Do you have any comments or suggestions on how to get around this growing trend? — L.S. Answer: As a primarycare physician, I also get frustrated by requests for pre-operative visits in patients who have recently been seen. Sometimes, a letter to the surgeon that a recent visit showed no

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health medical concerns prior to the planned surgery will suffice. Other times, the surgeon requires that certain tests be done (even some tests that have repeatedly been recommended against by experts).

While I agree it’s often a waste of time, I don’t think it is the surgeons’ desire to increase health-care costs that perpetuates this behavior. Instead, I think it’s a genuine desire to ensure their patients are in the best possible medical condition for the surgery that makes the surgeons insist on a medical visit.

Telling your PCP or cardiologist about a planned upcoming surgery allows us to get the appropriate tests and write the note in such a way that you often can skip the preoperative visit, if the regular visit

is scheduled soon before the operation (in my hospital, that’s usually within a month).

Dear Dr. Roach: Two separate days in the past month, I woke up in the middle of the night after being asleep for about four hours and realized that my heart was beating extremely fast. I waited a few minutes and, just as I was wondering if I should go to the emergency room, my pulse started to slow down. I had no other symptoms other than my heart racing. I am a 25-year-old female with no other health problems. My roommate said she thought it could have been caused by stress.

I’m scared it will happen again. Should I go to the hospital if it does happen again? If it did happen because of anxiety, is there any way to reduce stress, other than medication or therapy? — S.C. Answer: Waking up with your heart racing can be due to anxiety, but that isn’t a common presentation for anxiety,

which usually is in response to stressful situations (or anticipating one). Waking up with a racing heart is more likely to be due to a heartrhythm disturbance, such as a reentrant AV nodal tachycardia. The most common reason for this is having two pathways from the top of the heart (the sinoatrial node) through the midpoint (the atrioventricular node), which then goes on to the ventricles. A circular pathway can get set up down the abnormal fast pathway and up the slow one (or vice versa) causing a very fast heart rate.

I would not wait for it to happen again but would go see a doctor and maybe get connected to a Holter monitor or event monitor. Both track your heart rhythm for extended periods of time. Once you have a diagnosis, you can be treated, with radio waves to destroy the abnormal fast pathway or with medication if it ends up being the condition I am concerned about.

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College basketball’s leading scorer, just needed a shot

By ZACH HELFAND Los Angeles Times

(TNS) — Fathers see a bit of their own sons in Tyler Harvey.

Harvey was recruited by almost no one, the university where he plays basketball, Eastern Washington, is known by few, and his games are usually not on TV outside the rural region where the school is located.

Yet fathers seek out Harvey’s father to ask for advice.

My son is too short, they say, or too skinny, or not athletic enough to get scholarship offers.

How did your son do it?

Frank Harvey, a longtime college referee, knows how those men feel. He had tried to steer his son away from basketball. You’ll have a better chance in baseball, he told Tyler. Your size will mean less.

So Tyler tried out for and made the baseball team as a freshman at Torrance Bishop Montgomery High.

But before the first practice, he told his father, “I don’t want to play baseball.” Frank supported the decision.

That was a few years, several inches and a lot

When few saw a future in basketball for Harvey, one man, Mike Murphy, Bishop Montgomery’s junior varsity coach, believed in him. You are the best player in this league, he told him.

But then Harvey started growing — fast.

By the time he was a junior, he had shot up to 6 feet — which presented a whole different set of challenges.

“I definitely was tripping over myself a couple times,” Harvey recalled. “Just stumbling a little because my body was in shock.”

As a senior, Harvey was 6-4, but still less than 150 pounds. Good height for a college guard, but not nearly strong enough.

Harvey also had not played the kind of highlevel club competition where the majority of college recruits get noticed.

Then, he got a break.

One night during Harvey’s senior season, while boarding a flight in between officiating assignments, his father ran into Hayford, a longtime acquaintance. At the time, Hayford was coach of Whitworth University, a Division III (nonscholarship) school in Spokane.

I definitely was tripping over myself a couple of times. Just stumbling a little because my body was in shock.

— Tyler Harvey, Eastern Washington guard

of work ago.

Tyler, unrecruited by Division I schools out of high school, is now a redshirt junior who is the leading scorer in major college basketball. And Eastern Washington, which has been to the NCAA tournament once in its basketball history, is 19-6 overall and in first place in the competitive Big Sky Conference.

Suddenly, the young man who people doubted could play basketball at the next level out of high school is looking at an opportunity to play at the game’s pinnacle.

Jim Hayford, Eastern Washington’s coach, says every team in the NBA has inquired about Harvey and an “overwhelming majority” have sent scouts to tiny Cheney, Wash., about a 20-minute drive south of Spokane Years earlier, when Harvey was about to enter Bishop Montgomery, he wasn’t impressive enough to even be picked to play in summertime games.

Each time he was turned away, he spent more hours at the gym — even if the only open court time was at midnight or 1 a.m., his father said.

At the time, Harvey was 5 feet 4, so he sought to develop outside shooting skills that would increase his value. He worked out at a nearby elementary school, his father holding up broomsticks or poles, and Harvey shooting over the obstacles.

Harvey made the freshman team in the winter, then made the junior varsity the next season. He was a starter but still so small that he never thought about playing in college.

“My son plays basketball, and he’s not really getting any looks right now,” Frank Harvey said.

Hayford told him to send a videotape and he’d take a look.

What Hayford saw was a rail-thin player who wasn’t a tremendous athlete _ but who could really shoot.

Whitworth would have a spot for him, Harvey was told.

Soon afterward, though, Hayford accepted a job offer at Eastern Washington.

This time, Tyler saw an opportunity. He called Hayford and asked if he could go with him.

Hayford told him he would have to pay his own way the first year, sit out and use the first season to bulk up.

That first season, Harvey stayed late at practice each morning to shoot. Afterward, he’d go to class, come back to shoot more, and then lift weights. In the evenings, he’d finish his class work, then return to the gym to shoot more.

The coaches had the players log how many shots they made each day, and Harvey was at the top of the list, typically between 2,500 and 3,000 per week.

In his second year at Eastern Washington, Harvey was averaging less than five minutes of playing time per game — usually in situations where the result had been decided.

That was pretty much the situation when he entered a game in February 2013: Eastern Washington trailed Northern Arizona by 13 points with less than four minutes remaining.

As it turned out, thanks to Harvey, that

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Tyler Harvey game wasn’t over at all. He got a rebound and a put-back, then he forced a steal and made a 3-pointer, then made another 3. A late 3 by teammate Parker Kelly sent the game into overtime.

Harvey made five of six shots in the game — four of five 3-point attempts — and Eastern Washington rallied to win.

That was his turning point.

Last season, as a sophomore, he led the Big Sky in scoring with a 21.8 points per game average, and made a schoolrecord 109 3-pointers.

This season, he is averaging 23.4 points and has 93 3-pointers. He is shooting 49.7 percent, including 45.8 percent from 3-point range.

The NBA scouts, Hayford said, are most impressed by Harvey’s shooting range.

In early January, Hayford pulled Harvey aside after practice and told him of an interesting statistic he had just seen.

“You’re the leading scorer in the country,” Hayford said.

“Are you serious?”

Harvey replied.

As Harvey’s story has spread, his father has received emails from other fathers whose sons have struggled to get the attention of college coaches.

Frank Harvey does not always know the best advice. His son had always been disciplined, motivated, he said. Given a chance, Tyler seized it.

So, he tells those seeking wisdom, let it come on its own. Don’t force anything.

“In the end,” he said, “if it’s meant, it’ll happen.”

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