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THE IOLA REGISTER Locally owned since 1867
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Trump lashes out after health bill falters WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump blasted congressional Democrats and “a few Republicans” today over the failure of the GOP effort to rewrite the Obama health care law, and warned, “we will return.” Trump’s early morning tweet unleashed a barrage of criticism at Congress over the collapse of the GOP’s flagship legislative priority. For seven years, the party has pledged
State faces skeptical high court By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Attorneys for Kansas will try to convince an often skeptical state Supreme Court today that the funding increase legislators approved for public schools this year is enough to provide a suitable education for kids statewide. The high court is hearing arguments about a new law that phases in a $293 million increase in education funding over two years. The justices ruled in March that the $4 billion a year in aid the state then provided to its 286 school districts was inadequate, the latest in a string of decisions favoring four school districts that sued Kansas in 2010. The state argues that the increase is sizable and that new dollars are targeted toward helping the under-performing students identified as a particular concern in the court’s last decision. But lawyers for the Dodge City, Hutchinson, Wichita and Kansas City, Kansas, school districts argue that See COURT | Page A3
to repeal President Barack Obama’s law. “Most Republicans were loyal, terrific & worked really hard,” Trump Donald Trump tweeted this morning, but said, “We were let down by all of the Democrats and a few Republicans.” He added, “As I have always
said, let ObamaCare fail and then come together and do a great healthcare plan. Stay tuned!” Two GOP senators — Utah’s Mike Lee and Jerry Moran of Kansas — sealed the measure’s doom late Monday when they announced they would vote “no” in an initial, critical vote that had been expected as soon as next week. That meant that at least four of the 52 GOP senators were
ready to block the measure — two more than Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had to spare in the face of unani- Jerry Moran mous Democratic opposition. “Regretfully, it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace
the failure of Obamacare will not be successful,” McConnell said in a late evening statement that essentially waved a white flag. It was the second stinging setback on the issue in three weeks for McConnell, whose reputation as a legislative mastermind has been marred as he’s failed to unite his chamber’s Republicans See TRUMP | Page A3
FOR THE BIRDS
Young buzzard finds temporary shelter here By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register
“Yeah, he might get in trouble,” the receptionist at Kansas Wildlife and Parks headquarters in Pratt allowed when asked if a story about a local fellow who rescued a turkey buzzard would put him in jeopardy. According to state law, wild things rescued, from injury or abandonment, must be reported. They then are picked up by a wildlife agent and placed in a refuge. Acquisition or keeping of wild creatures for show and tell or pets must be cleared through the state agency. That would leave our Allen County Good Samaritan at odds with the state — if the Register were to divulge the person’s name. That won’t be the case, although a good number of folks know who rescued the bird when it was newly hatched, and has been feeding and tending to it.
An Allen Countian has cared for this young turkey buzzard after the young hatchling’s mother abandoned it. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON “I’m kind of a bird man,” our mystery intervenor said. He saw a buzzard’s nest in a hay barn while the building was being repaired, and noticed one of the tiny vultures
had just pecked its way out of an egg. When the mother didn’t return after six or seven days, he retrieved the baby, just before workers likely would have squashed
it during their renovation. At his rural home the little refugee ravenously seized a small chunk of raw hamSee BUZZARD | Page A3
Youthful experience leads to success By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Rohan Springer shows one of the pictures he may enter for judging at the Allen County Fair. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
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A wide-eyed Rohan Springer entered the 2016 Allen County Fair not quite certain what to expect. He’d never been in 4-H before joining as a Cloverbud one year prior, and neither had his parents, Job and Katrina Springer. “But his father thought it’d be a good idea to try it, and both of our parents had done 4-H,” Katrina explained. “We were impressed with the people from the 4-H group, so we thought, ‘Let’s do it.’” Young Rohan acquitted himself quite well in his in-
augural fair foray, earning blue ribbons in every category in which he competed. The highlight was earning a class champion rating for his pig. He hopes to build upon that success for the 2017 fair, which kicks off next week at Riverside Park. As a member of the City Slickers 4-H club, Rohan, who will celebrate his 9th birthday on Wednesday, will enter two more pigs, a pair of goats, chickens, a ceramic piece for arts and crafts, photography and gardening. Still to do is building a wood Rolfing table for Cathy Stahl, a neuromuscular massage therapist in town, which Rohan will enter
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as his woodworking project. While the Springer family has raised chickens for several years, this is the first time they’ve entered them in the fair. FAIR PREPS have kept Rohan’s schedule filled most of the summer. On top of the two or so hours a day he spends working with his animals — in particular, his goats, Stripes and Big Boy, and pigs, Tank and Petunia — Rohan dedicates at least two hours a day for the open class entries, such as the wreath quilt, and the ceramic See SPRINGER | Page A3
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