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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

County approves Monarch permit Site north of Humboldt to be used for shale mining

Commission makes use of assessment windfall

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

Allen County commissioners unanimously accepted a recommendation Tuesday from its planning commission to issue a condition use permit for Monarch Cement Company to excavate shale north of Humboldt.

The decision, which came in a flat eight minutes, was preceded in previous weeks by two long, occasionally contentious, hearings, first before the planners and then in front of commissioners. The planners voted 5-0 to recommend the conditional use permit.

Commissioners did attach several conditions to the permit, which was their prerogative — Haul trucks, under contract with Monarch by Curt Whitaker, may carry shale and any other material only on paved roads. Monarch’s preference is for trucks to use old U.S. 169, now a county

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

the right to designate a second route if the first route proves problematic. The alternative would be south of K-224, east to U.S. 169, south to Delaware Road (better known as Tank Farm Road) and west to Monarch’s plant. While Ninth Street through Humboldt is a county road and its responsibility, if K-224 were used the

Allen County commissioners approved a 2016 spending plan that has an overall levy slightly lower than this year’s at an even 68 mills. This year’s was 68.09. A public hearing on the budget will be at 10 a.m. at the commissioners’ Sept.

1 meeting.

This year’s levy may change. In late September the county will learn precise assessment of Enbridge Pipeline’s property and utility interests in the county, which are calculated by the state. The anticipation is those assessments will total about $40 million, which would propel 2016’s assessed valuation to $136.66 million, or $37 mil-

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David Bideau, attorney for Monarch Cement Company, speaks Tuesday in front of Allen County commissioners after they voted unanimously to allow Monarch to mine for shale north of Humboldt. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN road, directly south through Humboldt. A Monarch-built access road will connect borrow pits to the old highway.

— The speed limit will be reduced from 55 mph to 45 mph, starting north of Humboldt Hill, past the access road and on to the north edge of Humboldt, where posted speed is 30 mph.

— Inclement weather — rain, fog, ice or snow — may

result in haul trucks being shut down. Commissioner Jerry Daniels pointed out state regulations take inclement weather into consideration for wide loads and some other truck traffic. A decision on whether weather conditions are unsuitable will be up to Mitch Garner, director of Public Works, and Sheriff Bryan Murphy.

— The county will reserve

Calling all job-seekers

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

The impending shutdown of Iola’s Herff Jones is the catalyst for an upcoming job fair, organized by Shelia Lampe, Iola Area Chamber of Commerce director, and KansasWorks, the state’s economic development engine.

Lampe said the job fair is intended not only for Herff Jones employees but for all area job-seekers.

“I wanted to do this fair before the first layoff so peo-

ple can have a job to go to,” Lampe said. “This is home for so many people and we don’t want them to have to uproot.”

The job fair will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Aug. 28, at the Bass Community Hall, formerly known as the North Community Building, at 505 N. Buckeye St. More than 24 employers from the southeast Kansas area will participate in the job fair.

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Aubry Keller is eager to meet her new students after being hired over the summer as a science instructor at Iola High School. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Passion for science, teaching pays off

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Spikes investigation continues Allen County sheriff ’s deputies and Iola police officers continue to investigate reports regarding makeshift spikes causing damage to tires throughout Iola and the surrounding area.

Spikes have been left in yards, roadways and business parking lots.

The spikes have multiple sharpened edges and should be handled with caution, officers said.

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pers also is getting into the act. Anybody with information regarding the spikes, and/or the person responsible, should call (800) 222-TIPS or text “ALLEN” and the information to 274637. All tipsters will remain anonymous and eligible for a potential cash reward.

Information also can be sent to the Allen County Sheriff ’s Department, 365-1400, or the Iola Police Department, 365-4960.

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Aubry Keller sees several similarities between Iola and her native Pittsburg.

“It seems like they both have the same types of homes,” she said. “Pittsburg has a nice strip downtown.

Iola has a nice downtown, maybe even a little better.”

The familiarity extends beyond the scenery.

Keller recalled her first visit to Iola over the summer, when she arrived to interview for a teaching position at Iola High School.

“When I did my interview,

I came an hour early and drove around town to get a feel,” she recalled. “I turned the corner, and a guy in the truck waved at me. I’m like, ‘Yes, this is exactly the kind of place I want to be.’ It’s a very friendly town, something I looked for.”

The rest of the pieces fell into place, and Keller — who celebrates her 23rd birthday Thursday — greets her students next week as an IHS biology and anatomy and physiology instructor. She’ll teach biology to ninth-graders; anatomy and physiology to 11th- and 12th-graders.

“Life is short, the art long.”

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KELLER SEEMED to know all along a teaching career beckoned, even as she went to college to become a physical therapist.

“My mom’s a nurse,” she said. “I used to go to work with her sometimes as a child. The human body itself, and disease, interested me.”

As part of her schooling, Keller shadowed physical therapists, “and it was all right,” she recalled. “I liked getting to help people with mobility issues and trying to teach them how to regain their motor skills, which was See KELLER | Page A4

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Obituary Russell Zornes Russell R. Zornes, 88, Iola, passed away Monday, Aug.17, 2015, at Windsor Place in Iola, surrounded by his family.

Russell Roy Zornes was born on Oct. 20, 1926 to William and Emma (Hess) Zornes on the family farm north of Moran. He was the fifth of six children. He was preceded in death by brothers, William (Wes), Wyman (Cap), Marvin (Ike) and two sisters Evelyn Zornes and Lucille Catron.

Russell left the family farm and joined his brother Wes in California doing construction. In 1946 he met Russell Zornes his future wife Jessie Lee Adams at a street mission meeting in San Diego. Russell returned to Kansas and Jessie to her hometown, Old Joe, Ark. The love story continued as he and his brother Ike traveled with no map to Arkansas stopping in the nearby town of Mountain Home to ask for directions at a local diner. As fate would have it, who was there but Jessie! He brought her back to Iola, married her and they made their home together for 54 years in the community. She preceded him in death in 2001.

They were members of the First Assembly of God Church and helped construct the present building.

He and Jessie did the fiberglass work on the baptismal. He also supported the local schools, little leagues, 4-H, Cub Scouts and was a member of the Elks.

Russell was a devoted employee of Lehigh Cement Plant for nearly 25 years until its closure in 1970. He then was a committed employee of IMP Boats and later Gates Rubber Company until his retirement in 1990. He worked part-time for C&S making cattle oilers for 28 years.

Relaxation came when the hard work was done.

Russell enjoyed hunting and fishing with brothers, brother-in-laws, sons, grandsons, nephews and friends. He was an avid hunter known for his western Kansas pheasant hunting trips and quail hunts around the Moran area. He loved to run trot lines with his brother Cap on the Neosho River with bragging rights of a 62-lb. catfish. He enjoyed years of camping and boating, teaching many to water ski behind his 1960 IMP Redfish boat. He was able to water ski over five decades. He was a devoted St. Louis Cardinals fan spending many hours listening to Harry Caray on the radio while working in his barn. One of Russell’s famous quotes was “never give up on your team.” Gospel music was of great joy to him. Time was spent around the family piano and organ singing and playing band instruments with family and friends.

Russell’s pride and joy was his children and their families. He spent time visiting them in their homes and traveling with them on vacations. He was a true Dad wanting the best for his kids. He valued education and hard work and was always happy to share their accomplishments. Jessie and Russell had five sons and two daughters, 13 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

He is survived by David and wife Cindy, Edmond, Okla., Donna Zornes, Ottawa, Bill and wife Patty, Kearney, Mo., Robert and wife Susan, Kansas City, Mo., Janice Wing and husband Dave, St. Joseph, Mo., Terry and wife Sandy, Iola, and Thomas Tracy, Fort Worth, Texas; grandchildren, Greta, Gregory, Eric, Carl, Bobby, Josh and Brett Zornes, Elizabeth Cummins, Jeremie, Jack, and Jommel Wing, Travis and Landon Boyce; great-grandchildren, Pryia, Allison, Genevieve, Nathan and Bennett. He is survived by one sister-in-law; Nettie Jo Whiteaker and many nieces and nephews.

He will also be remembered by his wonderful caretakers who he fondly thought as his adoptive family.

Their home on south Kentucky was a warm gathering place where friends and family were always welcomed and cherished. Russell and Jessie were generous and loving, sharing gifts of meals and garden produce with all. Anyone walking through the back door into the warm kitchen will always remember the smells, the hugs and the love. Russell was the loving head of a beautiful family and will be greatly missed.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola.

Funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m., Friday, at First Assembly of God Church in Iola.

Burial will be at Highland Cemetery, Iola.

Memorial choices may be made to Mother’s Refuge (a safe haven for homeless, pregnant and parenting teenagers and their babies. Robert Zornes is the executive director) or Windsor Place Activity Fund.

Memorial gifts may be left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola. To sign the guestbook online or leave a condolence, go to www.iolafuneral.com.

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Kappa Alpha’s enjoy scavenger hunt at social The August social for the Kappa Alpha Chapter of PTO Sorority was Monday evening at the Townhouse West meeting room.

Jolene Boeken and Barbara Anderson served as hostesses.

During a short business meeting the chapter voted to host a food booth at FarmCity Days in October.

Proceeds will be used for philanthropic donations, especially cancer victims, in the

Iola area. The group also agreed to make a donation to help with funeral expenses for a local cancer victim who passed away recently.

After the business meeting members played a scavenger hunt.

The next meeting is Sept. 21 at the Community National Bank meeting room.

— Barbara Anderson, Kappa Alpha Scribe

Police report Arrests reported

Michael W. Jensen, 50, Iola, was arrested Monday after Allen County sheriff ’s deputies executed a search warrant at his residence. Jensen was arrested on suspicion of aggravated battery and felony interference with a law enforcement officer.

Deputies arrested John C. Chambers, 31, Newton, for allegedly battering a corrections officer Tuesday.

Deputies arrested Kristen L. Michael, 32, Olathe, Tuesday for an outstanding warrant

alleging aggravated child endangerment.

Shawn W. Pulliam, 48, Bronson, was arrested Tuesday on an outstanding warrant for probation revocation.

Rodney R. Clark, 24, Neosho Falls, was arrested Tuesday on a pair of warrants, one alleging driving while suspended, the second for failing to appear in court in an unrelated case, deputies said.

Misty L. Buchanan, 40, Toronto, was arrested Tuesday on a warrant alleging domestic battery.

Group says KU teacher’s emails not protected LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A state faculty organization says a University of Kansas business teacher does not warrant academic protection to keep his emails private.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the Kansas Conference of the American Association of University Professors says in a brief in the case of Art Hall v. the University of Kansas that Hall isn’t a faculty member entitled to academic protection.

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Hall is a lecturer and director of the Center for Applied Economics in the University of Kansas School of Business. He previously was chief economist for the Public Sector Group of Koch Industries Inc. A University of Kansas student organization filed an open records request for Hall’s email correspondence.

Hall sued to temporarily block the university from releasing the records.

The case is set for trial in November.

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ACC trustees approve raise for administrators Allen Community College trustees held a special meeting Monday.

The board approved the hiring of Todd Buchanan as the ACC head women’s basketball coach and athletic fundraising specialist.

Buchanan will replace Katie Mahoney who joined ACC in 2013.

Mahoney will be moving to Oklahoma with her husband Ryan, who was the men’s basketball assistant coach at ACC. Ryan took a job at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma City.

Buchanan has coached at Houston University in Texas from 2010 to 2013 and

at Houston Baptist University from 2005 to 2010. Along with coaching he will help raise funds for athletic scholarships for ACC students.

Also during the meeting trustees approved a 2 percent raise for non-instructional and administrative staff.

Negotiations with faculty are still a work in progress. John Masterson, ACC president, said the board had met with a mediator earlier this year but did not come to a conclusion.

Staff and trustees have agreed to use a fact finder for the negotiating process.

The next board meeting will be Sept. 15.

City of Lawrence picks new mayor LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence commissioners have named a new mayor after the city’s former leader resigned.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Lawrence City Commissioner Mike Amyx became mayor Tuesday night. This marks the sixth time he has served in that role in a political career that stretches back to the 1980s.

Amyx succeeds former Mayor Jeremy Farmer, who stepped down last week. Farm-

er’s departure followed his resignation from his food pantry job, where about $50,000 in federal payroll taxes had gone unpaid.

Farmer says it was an oversight that the taxes weren’t paid.

Under Lawrence’s form of government, the office of mayor is a rotating seat, and the person chosen serves a one-year term. The mayor chairs meetings and is authorized to sign certain documents but otherwise has no day-to-day administrative duties.

Financial Focus No Secrets to Investment Success Many people look for the “secrets” to investment success. Is it timing the market just right? Is it finding those hot stocks or getting in on the “ground floor” of the next big thing? Actually, these types of moves have little relevance to the vast majority of investors — even the most successful ones. So let’s take a look at some steps you can take that can be effective in helping you work toward your financial goals.

• It’s time in the market…not market timing. Some investors think they can succeed at “market timing” — buying when the price is low and selling when the price is high. And this would indeed be a good strategy if they could predict highs and lows. No one can accurately forecast these peaks and valleys, though. So, instead of ducking in and out of the market in a vain attempt to catch the highs and lows, simply stay invested. The more time you spend in the market, the lesser the impact you’re likely to feel from short-term price swings. And if you’re always invested, you’ll always be in a position to benefit from the next market rally.

• It’s “buy and hold” — not “buy and sell.” Even if you aren’t trying to time the market, you may be tempted to buy and sell frequently as you look for new and better opportunities. Yet, this constant buying and selling can be costly. Frequent trading, with all the additions and subtractions from your portfolio, can make it hard for you to follow a consistent, unified investment strategy. You’re better off purchasing quality investments and holding them for the long term, until either your needs change or the investments themselves no longer possess the same attributes they did when you purchased them.

• It’s building a strong foundation — not getting in on the “ground floor.” Many people regret not being one of the initial investors of a company that has done spectacularly well. But most new companies don’t achieve anywhere near that level of success. So, instead of looking for the next big thing on the “ground floor,” try to build a strong “foundation” consisting of a mix of quality investments suitable for your risk tolerance, goals and time horizon. This type of investing may not sound glamorous, but a strong foundation is better equipped than a possibly shaky ground floor to withstand the shifting winds of market forces.

• It’s cool-headed thinking – not chasing “hot stocks” — If you browse the internet or watch one of the investment shows on cable television, you are bound to read or hear about “hot” stocks. But by the time the news reaches you, these stocks may already be cooling off. Even more importantly, they might not be right for your needs in the first place. Instead of chasing after hot stocks, which, by their nature, carry a strong emotional component (namely, the desire for quick, big gains), try to coolly and dispassionately analyze your situation to determine which investments are really most appropriate for your goals.

There really aren’t any shortcuts to reaching your desired financial destination. But by taking the slow and steady path, you can work toward getting there.

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Calendar

Thursday-County bus to Iola, phone 24 hours before you need a ride 785-448-44410 any weekday; Friday-Aug. 31-Citywide cleanup; Aug. 26Municipal Court, City Hall community room, 6 p.m.; City Council meeting, 7 p.m.; Fire meeting, fire station, 7 p.m.

School calendar

Aug. 26-Enrollment for children whose last names begin with A-M. Aug. 27-Enrollment for children whose last names begin with N-Z. Aug. 28-Enrollment for Pre-K and new students.

Aug. 29-High School volleyball at Pleasanton, 9 a.m.

Friday-pulled pork, raw veggie salad, bun, apple pie bite; Mondaychicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, broccoli, peaches; Aug. 26live music, Vision cards accepted-turkey roast with gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, roll, pear and cranberry crisp. Phone 620-852-3450 for reservations.

Christian Church

Scripture presented Sunday was Joshua 7:126. Interim pastor Charlie Towne presented the sermon, “The High Cost of Low Living.”

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9-Working Wonders CWC, 7 p.m. at the church. All women are welcome; Sept. 13-breakfast at

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Pastor Dorothy Welch of the United Methodist Church presented the sermon, “What If ?”

The United Methodist Women’s challenge for August is health kit supplies for UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief.) They will serve ice cream and cookies at the back-to-school meet and greet Sept. 9.

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The Colony Day baskets are on display at Colony Foods, with new ones arriving every day.

People should stop in and check them out!

They will be auctioned off at 3 p.m. Sept.

5 at the trailer next to the registration tent.

Decorated cookie jar contest judging will be at 2 p.m., drop off jars at Colony Foods. Awards will be given at 3 p.m. before they are auctioned with the baskets. Prizes are awarded for best cookies and decorated jar.

If anyone would like to donate a basket or has questions about the cookie jars. They can contact Denise King, 620-852-3017 or Cathy Allen 785-448-3625.

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Field work

Work to renovate the Little League ball field at Colony City Park began Aug. 12. At left, Kevin Nilges, rural Colony, uses a skid loader to work over the dirt as crews remove the top layer of chat with red shale out of Oklahoma. At right, Travis Hermreck, from left, A.C. Modlin and Gerry Jones discuss the project. Not pictured, but also involved with the renovation, is Colony Little League president Seth Black. Those wishing to donate to the project should contact Colony Little League treasurer Angela Black at (620) 757-6782. PHOTOS COURTESY

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to donate baked goods for the cake walk, please drop them off at Rural Water Office before the cake walk at 1 p.m. Colony Day, Sept. 5. Contact Arlene Gilliland at 620852-3210.

Colony Day shirts are on sale at GSSB, Colony branch. There are two colors (black or gray) available with a Lancer sports theme.

An inflatable bounce house and water slide are coming again this year.

Fire Department

Fire calls in 2015 thus far are 47 medical and 36 fire. Last year approximately same time they were medical, 44; fires 63, and one dive team call.

Kincaid Free Fair

This year’s Free Fair is Sept. 17-19. The 19th is the big day with the parade.

4-H

The Seekers Not Slackers summer meetings of June and July were held June 17 and July 20 at the Lone Elm Community building.

Song leaders Gunner Ellington and Trevor Church sang “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and “BINGO.” Points of interest from the meetings included announcement of a club trip to the Valley View Elk Ranch West of Garnett July 24. Club record books are due Sept. 11.

The program for the two meetings were a demonstration by Trevor Church on “How to make a Three Ingredient Cookie,” a demonstration by Jerrick Jones on

“How to make Ice Cream in a Bag,” a demonstration by Kendra Hermreck on “How to make a Pom Pom Pen” and a demonstration by Cassie Bowen on “How to make a Colored Mug.” Recreation at the meetings were freeze tag and musical chairs. After recreation the meetings were adjourned by saying the 4-H motto.

The August meeting was Monday evening in Lone Elm and will be reported later.

— Hailey Gillespie, reporter

Cigarette purchases steady in Kansas as new tax added

By ANDY MARSO Kansas Health Institute

The cigarette tax increase legislators approved in June to help close a budget gap has not dissuaded many people from buying smokes in Kansas — at least not yet.

The state cigarette tax climbed from 79 cents per pack to $1.29 per pack on July 1, an increase of 63 percent.

Tax revenue from cigarette sales for July 2015 was up 64 percent over July 2014, which means people purchased about the same amount of cigarettes in Kansas as they did before the tax hike, if the underlying cost of a pack of cigarettes stayed relatively close to last year’s price. Data on the average price of

a pack of cigarettes in Kansas last month is not yet available.

Frank Chaloupka, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who has studied cigarette taxes in many states, cautioned against drawing conclusions based on one month of tax receipts.

“I’d be careful about making too much out of the month-to-month changes in the tax collections,” he said. “The monthly figures tend to have a lot of variability.”

Chaloupka said the July 2014 cigarette tax revenues might have been lower than normal, which would mask any reduction in smoking rates in the July 2015 receipts when the two are compared.

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collections from July 2014 were 7.3 percent lower than July 2013 despite no change in tax rates, which would support his hypothesis.

The prospect of higher taxes spurring Kansans to quit was used as an argument both for and against the tax hike.

tax increases in Kansas and other states show us that the smoking rate will decline — especially among youth — and the state will benefit from increased revenue,” he said. “This is exactly what we projected would happen when discussing this with lawmakers, and we are confident our projections will play out as predicted.”

Too early to assess

Public health advocates had hoped for a tax increase of $1.50 per pack, saying the higher increase would reduce smoking rates. But legislators looking to balance the budget long-term worried that driving down smoking rates too much ultimately would cost the state tax revenue.

Others argued against using the tax code for “social engineering” and expressed concern that cigarette shoppers in border counties would head to Missouri.

Kansas’ neighbor to the east has the nation’s lowest cigarette tax rate at 17 cents per pack, although efforts are under way there to increase the tax.

The American Heart Association’s Midwest branch was one of several high-profile health

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On July 1, the cigarette tax in Kansas increased from 79 cents to $1.29 per pack. But it’s likely too soon to tell whether the tax increase has affected cigarette sales in Kansas. Photo by KHI groups that pushed for the $1.50-per-pack cigarette tax hike but still hope to see some reduction in smoking rates from the 50-cent increase that passed.

Kevin Walker, the association’s regional vice president of advocacy, said it was far too early to assess whether that will happen.

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The first month’s cigarette tax collections under the new rate were almost precisely on par with what the Kansas Department of Revenue estimated would come in.

The surprise came in revenue from smokeless

Public health advocates had hoped for a tax increase of $1.50 per pack, saying the higher increase would reduce smoking rates. But legislators looking to balance the budget worried that driving down smoking rates too much ultimately would cost the state tax revenue. late at this point.”

The proposal to raise the cigarette tax by $1.50 was based on research in Kansas and other states that showed an increase of that magnitude would bring significant health benefits by dissuading smoking while still bringing in more tax revenue year after year than the state would have received if the tax had not been raised.

Walker said his organization expects that to be the case in the long run with the 50-cent increase.

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tobacco products.

Revenues from those products — which did not see a tax increase — was 22 percent higher than predicted, at $763,000 last month.

While products like chewing tobacco and snuff remain a small piece of the state’s tobacco puzzle, use of them is growing in Kansas and the rest of the country.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, use of smokeless tobacco products bottomed out in 2000 and has since been on the rise.

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city would have responsibility for the portion east to the old Santa Fe Railroad tracks.

— The county will request Monarch to aid in any road repairs that can be shown to be caused by its haul trucks. Weber noted that when Delaware Road was resurfaced several years because of damage attributed to trucks hauling rock to the plant from quarries southeast of Humboldt, Monarch footed more than $100,000 of the cost. He also said Monarch paid about $850,000 in property taxes annually, a large portion of which goes to Public Works.

KENNY MILLER, Monarch’s vice president for cement production, said the company’s first step would be to design the access road, and give the county opportunity to sign off on it. Once done, construction likely will take most of the fall.

He expects first excavations to start in late December or early January.

The site that will be opened for shale extraction is on a 320-acre tract owned by Monarch two miles north of Humboldt, on either side of the Southwind Rail Trail.

Core drilling found about a shelf of shale 30-feet thick on the property, or enough to meet Monarch’s production expectations for the next 60 years.

Initial work will be on 128 acres west of the trail, with enough shale there to last about 40 years. The second site, east of the trail, contains 53 acres. Eventually, the two parcels will be linked by a tunnel under the trail.

The trail will be protected by trees and vegetation on either side, as well as a buffer zone that will keep borrow pits 100 feet from any Monarch property line. The only houses within a quarter of a mile of the proposed mining are owned by Monarch.

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lion more than this year’s. For budgeting purposes, the $136.66 million valuation was used.

A capital outlay line item of about $2.5 million was added to the general fund to take advantage of the assessment windfall, while also lowering the overall levy. Commissioners have no immediate plans for the additional revenue, though it may come in handy in 2018 when state-imposed limits are put on tax dollar collections — any above a certain level will require a referendum.

If the inflated assessment fails to materialize or does so in fractional manner, commissioners can eliminate all or part of the capital outlay fund and make whatever adjustments to the levy.

A levy of 1 mill raises $1 for each $1,000 of assessed valuation. Put in perspective, a levy of 68 mills will raise $782 in taxes on a $100,000 home.

All told, the budget projects expenditures of nearly $16.4 million, including $8.225 million in the general fund.

Commissioners also appointed Patti Boyd, rural Moran, to the Reach Healthcare Foundation Community Advisory Board.

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Families mourn Yosemite accident victims

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LOS ANGELES (TNS) — They were musicians and water polo players — two longtime friends on a camping trip to Yosemite National Park just before heading back to school in Orange County, Calif.

But as they slept at a popular campground early Friday, Dragon Kim and Justin Lee, both 14, were killed when a falling tree limb crashed into their tent.

Dragon’s parents announced his death in a message to members of the Northwood Water Polo Club in Irvine and expressed gratitude for their support.

“Thank you for taking him onto your team and loving him back,” they said in a letter.

The Kims said their family’s “hearts are forever broken.”

“We are in deep sorrow and mourning,” the Kims said.

In a final message to their son, his parents said, “Dragon, we love you so much. Thank you for bringing so much love, laughter, and music to our lives. You are our precious son and you will live on with us.”

Dragon would have been a sophomore and Justin a freshman at the Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana, where classes resume next week. They would have been reunited on campus after their time together at Tustin’s Pioneer Middle School.

Dragon, who lived in Tustin, and Justin, a resident of Irvine, were

members of the performing arts school’s wind studies program.

“Every student and family contributes in no small measure to the community we create together at OCSA,” Dean of Arts Conservatories Teren Shaffer said in a statement. “The loss of any student, particularly in such a tragic and senseless manner, grievously wounds us all.”

On Friday, the youths were at the Upper Pines Campground, a popular site with families seeking a view of the Yosemite Valley’s Half Dome.

Witnesses heard a loud bang and a woman screaming, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Park rangers found the boys dead. Later, Mariposa County Assistant Coroner Andrea Stew-

art said an autopsy determined that they died of injuries from being crushed.

Park officials said Tuesday that the incident remains under investigation and declined to release more details. It is unclear why the black oak limb fell.

As preparations were being made Tuesday for memorial services for the boys, teachers and students were in mourning.

Grief counselors were at Pioneer Middle School, Orange County School of Arts and Beckman High School in Irvine. Many of the boys’ friends attend Beckman.

“It just hits close to home,” said Mark Eliot, spokesman for Tustin Unified School District, calling the deaths a tragic loss.

Escaped wallaroos on the loose in Arizona TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say one or two wallaroos, a type of kangaroo, have escaped from a Tucson home.

Pima County Sheriff ’s Department spokesman Tracy Suitt said a person

reported that at least one pet wallaroo went missing Monday afternoon.

A video captured the kangaroo-type animal hopping down a far north Tucson street. Suitt said that a second animal may

also have escaped.

He said it’s legal in Arizona for the animals to be kept as pets and that they are not considered aggressive.

The breakout mirrors one by two llamas

who escaped from an assisted-living facility in the Phoenix area in February, causing a social media spectacle as live video footage showed the animals averting authorities numerous times.

Wanted: Iola Area Chamber of Commerce to host job fair Continued from A1

from manufacturers to small business owners,” Lampe said.

The KansasWorks bus, a mobile unit with six to eight computers, will be available for people to print resumes or get help with their resumes.

Information on trade programs for individuals looking to go back to school to receive a vocational certificate will also be available. Allen, Fort Scott and Neosho community colleges will be present as well as Kansas State University.

Susie Ellis of the Kan-

sasWorks program said she strongly advises jobseekers to dress for success. She said there have been numerous times people arrive at their interviews in sweatpants or house slippers.

“If they come in like that for an interview, it really hurts their chanc-

es,” Lampe added. “You can’t take back a first impression.”

Ellis said it’s the soft skills many people are lacking when looking for a job.

“If there’s a company at the fair you know you want to work for, do your research on them to im-

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a kind of teaching.

“But it’s not this,” Keller said, motioning to her classroom.

“It’s not impacting the lives of kids and molding them for the future.

That’s really what I knew in my heart I wanted to do.”

Keller recalled forcing her two younger siblings to play school with her. She would write up lesson plans for math and English assignments.

She was in the first grade.

“I always liked school and admired my teachers,” Keller said. “As I got older, my teachers

would point out my personality traits, how I had plenty of patience and enjoyed working with others.”

Fortunately, the basic courses for becoming a physical therapist and teaching biology are remarkably similar, she noted with a laugh.

“It didn’t take any longer to complete my degree.”

“I was on my lunch break one day and Stacey (Fager, IHS principal) called me and said the school had sent them my information.”

That led to Keller’s successful interview, and her fateful drive around town.

“What’s meant to be is what’s meant to be,” she said. “This is where I’m supposed to be.”

KELLER earned her bachelor’s of science degree in education at Pittsburg State University in May, with an emphasis in biology.

She applied for a few teaching positions out of school, but not Iola.

OUTSIDE the classroom, Keller is more often than not also outside her home.

“I’m very outdoorsoriented,” she said.

“I love to fish. This is great knowing I can drive five minutes and

be at the Neosho (River) and catfish. That’s one of my favorite things.”

Keller also is an avid hunter. She bought her own bow a year ago.

“I’m still not quite good enough to take it out and hunt,” she said.

“My goal is to be out there this season.”

KELLER is eager for school to start, and to become more familiar with her colleagues.

“I feel very well supported here,” she said.

“Everybody’s been helpful. I know I can ask questions, and get answers. I feel like I’m already part of the team.”

press them,” Ellis said.

“It will be a great benefit to you.”

Ellis oversees Allen, Neosho, Woodson and Labette counties for KansasWorks. Currently, Neosho has the highest unemployment rate, 8.1 percent as of June 2015, while employment in Labette County is booming.

“Jobs in Parsons are growing fast and employers are looking for people to fill them,” Ellis said. “The jobs are available. We are just needing people who are willing to work.”

Many employers tell Ellis that if an applicant is missing a certain skill, they are more than willing to train them.

“They tell me ‘I can train them to do A through D but I can’t train them to show up,’” Ellis said.

Employees who have been with a company for a long time often struggle to find a new job, Ellis said. And if they do find a new job, they have trouble settling for a lower wage.

“It’s hard on them because they’ve given their whole life to a job

and it’s hard to accept a lower wage. It truly breaks my heart,” she said.

Another factor is the way the application process has been transformed. Thirty years ago, jobs were listed in newspapers. Now, the move is toward online applications. This can be convenient but sometimes applicants never hear back from employers.

At www.kansasworks. com people can search jobs in their region for free.

Lampe said many people struggle with writing a resume to promote the skills they have. “A lot of people have employable skills but they are unsure how to market themselves.”

Ellis said that is why job fairs are beneficial.

“At a job fair you have a chance to directly talk to the human resources person and talk about yourself,” Ellis said.

“It’s all about networking.”

For more information on the job fair contact Ellis at 620-431-2820 ext. 634 or Lampe at the Chamber at 620-365-5252.

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Social Security: Is it government gone soft?

Social Security, the federal government’s retirement and disability program, is in the cross hairs of Republican presidential candidates.

The wealthy view it as an entitlement program that after 80 years should be drastically revamped, if not eliminated. It’s big government gone soft, they claim.

And because it’s the super rich who contribute to their campaigns, most Republican candidates are maintaining Social Security should be changed by either pushing the retirement age from 67 to 70, privatizing the system or reducing benefits — or a combination of the above.

LIFE FOR working Americans has changed considerably in the past 25 years. Most today cannot depend on a private pension from their workplace and look to Social Security to help take them into retirement.

U.S. demographics since Social Security’s inception 80 years ago have put it at a disadvantage.

Today the worker/retiree ratio is not as great. If left unchanged, benefits will need to be reduced beginning in 2033.

Age 65 used to be the magic number for U.S. workers to hang up the apron. In 1983, Congress voted to extend that age limit to 67 over an extended period. People live longer, goes the argument.

Today’s 65-year-old male can expect to live to 84.3; female, 86.6.

Extending the retirement age to 70, as proposed by candidates Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz and Ron Paul, is all well and good for those who sit behind a desk, but for those who do manual labor for a living, it’s another story.

Maneuvering patients takes a toll on health aides, standing on concrete floors and lifting heavy loads is the bane of factory work, and the physical labor re-

quired by farmers is legion.

Yes, Americans may be living longer, but for many, their quality of life has been compromised by their jobs, which for many began right after high school.

As far as privatizing Social Security, as endorsed

by Cruz, Bush and Paul, the idea is to divert a portion of a retiree’s SS contributions into private accounts on the stock market.

Not only does that mean the program will receive less to work with, but it also will subject retirees’ benefits to the whims of the stock market. In the economic downturn of 2008, the average 401(k) retirement portfolio lost 37 percent of its value on the U.S. stock exchange.

The same logic can be applied to Kansas legislators wanting to privatize KPERS, the state’s pension program: Not a good idea.

The idea to adjust, if not eliminate, the cap at which earnings are taxed, has the most merit.

Today, the payroll tax for Social Security extends up to $118,500. For those who earn more, those additional earnings are not taxed at what would be a rate of 6.2 percent.

So your multi-million dollar entertainer pays no more toward Social Security than your factory manager.

Candidate Christie proposes eliminating benefits for all those who earn $200,000 and above, even if they’ve paid into the system all their lives.

Candidate Cruz, on the other hand, wants to tether SS benefits to the rate of inflation, instead of to the cost of living index, which he said is the higher of the two. For 2015, benefits increased by 1.7 percent.

AS THE campaigns further unfold all eyes will be on Social Security and whether it’s viewed as a handout or a leg up for America’s workers.

— Susan Lynn

Trump’s deportation plan a costly farce Donald Trump reiterated his desire last weekend to deport undocumented immigrants, conceding that “we have to keep the families together, but they have to go.”

Lest you fear his policy would be draconian and disruptive, however, Trump assured the audience of NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “the

Insurance companies believe married people are better drivers — until death do they part. Then, a widow automatically becomes a higher risk, justifying a premium increase of up to 20 percent.

That’s the troubling finding of a Washington-based consumer group that surveyed insurers in 10 cities and found most levy a “widow’s penalty,” the result of disparate charges for married and single drivers. The practice is wrong and rekindles concern about insurance companies setting rates based on factors unrelated to driving. To continue to do so, insurers should provide proof that a marriage certificate makes for a responsible driver and that risk spikes after the death of a spouse.

The Consumer Federation of America obtained rates for

a hypothetical driver in 10 cities, comparing the premium for a married woman and a widow, at both 30 and 50 years old. It found that four of six insurers ­ — Geico, Farmers, Progressive and Liberty Mutual — charged the widow an average of 20 percent more than the married woman. Nationwide did in some cities; State Farm did not change its rates based on marital status.

In response to a report by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Tim Grant, the Pennsylvania Insurance Department will investigate and ask insurers that raise rates for widows and widowers to justify the increase or lower the rates. In the past, insurers have cited old studies to demonstrate correlation between marital status and risk, including one based on data collected in

At the earliest ages in sports, learning to play is most important. Winning becomes paramount along the way — too much so sometimes. Presumably, Harrison wants his sons to earn trophies for victory.

That’s fine. But let’s not lose sight of how challenging it is for the younger ones to put on a uniform and start playing for the first time.

As for the older ones, Harrison may have a point. Let’s stop giving participation trophies and use the savings to reduce the fees for playing. That would be a winwin for everyone.

— Newsday

New Zealand in 1990, the CFA said.

In recent years, the group has lobbied against pricing that unfairly burdens low- to middle-income drivers, including using a person’s education, occupation and credit score to set rates. A fair system, consumer advocates say, would consider only a person’s accident record, speeding tickets and the number of miles driven.

If married people are truly better drivers, and the bereaved worse, let’s see recent and definitive data. Otherwise, consumers should demand better treatment and effect change by choosing insurers that don’t ask for their marital status. There are more than 200 that serve the state.

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milyvalues, as he puts it — would have been more productive. Their age, too, is an issue. His sons are 6 and 8.

Harrison said they are not entitled to trophies just because they tried their best. We disagree. That is a good message to impart to our youngest athletes. But it doesn’t need to be sent to, say, a 12-year-old. Kids that age might still be young, but they’re not stupid. They get it. The excitement of being handed that first piece of hardware fades quickly and the importance of always giving maximum effort becomes ingrained as the sports seasons pass.

admit that the number of rapists and other criminals he’s highlighted is a quite small proportion of the total.

Second, it might reveal what a costly farce the process would likely be, deporting millions and then letting most of them back in on an expedited basis.

— The Denver Post

Widows charged unfairly for insurance

Some feel-good trophies have merit Does your child play sports? Then you know the curse of the participation trophy. Every kid on every organized team gets one.

They multiply like rabbits in bedrooms and basements.

And in the end, they are ingloriously discarded.

Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison’s solution is to not let them in the house. He ignited a controversy over the weekend with an online post saying he is going to return participation trophies given to his Harrison two sons.

While he said he’s proud of his boys and always will encourage them, he feels the trophies were given for “nothing.” Only a “real” trophy they had earned had value.

We sympathize with Harrison — to a degree. But this public display seems unnecessarily embarrassing to his boys. Explaining to them his thinking — #harrisonfa-

good people can come back.”

The “good people” will be very glad to hear it. How many of them are there among the 11 million who might qualify for deportation? Perhaps Trump will enlighten us in the coming weeks. But probably not.

Putting a figure to it would undermine his demagogery.

First, it might force him to

The lives of a woman and her unborn baby, killed in a wreck south of Iola this morning, might have been saved had Allen County Hospital been operating a properly equipped and manned ambulance, in the opinion of Dr. Gerald B. Pees, district coroner. Pees said that the local ambulance service is not to be blamed, that it did what it could do, but that the situation called for a different sort of service than a privately operated ambulance can provide. He said an emergency ambulance should be operated by the hospital as an extension of its emergency room, should be available 24 hours a day with trained personal and proper equipment for handling emergencies. ***** A crash program in an effort to halt the spread of Dutch Elm disease in Iola was announced today by city commissioners, who noted that “the tree removal situation now going on is not adequate to make a dent in the problem that exists.” Mayor Jack

Hastings said the city fathers have decided to raise money from other sources if necessary to proceed at a much faster pace with the removal of the dead trees. Diseased trees on city property will be removed first, he said. Then property owners will be informed that if infected trees on their property are not removed by a certain date, the city will have the work done and then add the cost of removal to their taxes, which will be payable next year. The commissioners said they do not like having to make the ultimatum, but the situation appears to be of such emergency nature that the action is justified. ***** The City Ambulance Service operated in Iola by Warren Fultz will be discontinued Sept. 1, Fultz said today.

He said the statement by Dr. Pees stating that the hospital should operate an emergency ambulance helped him make up his mind. “We don’t care to carry this responsibility to the community any longer,” he said.

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Later, he served on the Iran-Contra investigative committee, where he drew attention with his unflinching interrogation of Lt. Col. Oliver North.

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Stokes was elected to the House in 1968, becoming Ohio’s first black member of Congress and one of its most respected and influential. Just a year earlier, his brother, Carl, had been elected mayor of Cleveland — the first black elected mayor of a major U.S. city.

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uitable process,” and called such proceedings “a common practice in correctional systems to hold prisoners accountable to facility rules.”

The prison infractions include possession of prohibited property in the form of books and magazines while under administrative segregation; medicine misuse over the toothpaste; disorderly conduct for sweeping food onto the floor; and disrespect.

All relate to alleged misconduct on July 2 and 9.

“When I spoke to Chelsea earlier today she wanted to convey the message to supporters that she is so thankful for the thousands of people from around the world who let the government know that we are watching and scrutinizing what happens to her behind prison walls,” Strangio said.

Strangio credited public support for keeping Manning out of solitary confinement. Petitions signed by 100,000 people were delivered Tuesday to the U.S. Army by digital rights group Fight for the Future and others.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes, a 15-term congressman from Ohio who took on tough assignments looking into assassinations and scandals, has died. He was 90.

He died peacefully with his wife, Jay, at his side, a month after he announced he had brain and lung cancer, his family said in a statement.

“During his illness, he confronted it as he did life — with bravery and strength,” the family said.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Convicted national security leaker Chelsea Manning was found guilty Tuesday of violating prison rules and will receive three weeks of recreational restrictions at the Kansas military prison where she’s serving her 35-year sentence, her attorney said.

The transgender Army private was accused of having a copy of Vanity Fair with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover and an expired tube of toothpaste, among other things.

Her attorney, Chase Strangio of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a news release that Manning was convicted of all charges after a closed four-hour disciplinary board hearing in which she had no counsel.

Manning received 21 days of recreational restrictions limiting access to the gym, library and outdoors.

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Beaty faces big challenge

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — After being locked up for 10 months for killing his girlfriend, doubleamputee runner Oscar Pistorius is scheduled to be released from prison and go into house arrest on Friday, unless the Department of Justice intervenes.

What Oscar Pistorius his steps a f t e r that will be are less clear. The first amputee to run at the Olympics might race again. Or he might wind up behind bars again if he is found guilty of murder. Prosecutors are seeking that verdict, saying his manslaughter conviction was insufficient.

They appealed to the Supreme Court, which is to consider the case in November.

For killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day in 2013, Pistorius got a five-year sentence.

Steenkamp’s parents and several other people gathered on a beach in Port Elizabeth for a ceremony on Wednesday, their daughter’s 32nd birthday.

Footage from South African broadcaster eNCA showed them throwing red and pink roses into the Indian Ocean and embracing. The family asked journalists to keep a respectful distance and

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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — There is no easy way to describe the magnitude of the task facing David Beaty, who was hired last year to rebuild a Kansas football program fallen on hard times.

There are numbers, though.

Start with 64, the number of players he had on scholarship coming out of the summer. Poor planning by former coach Charlie Weis, coupled with a couple lean years recruiting, left the Jayhawks with a perilous lack of depth at just about every position.

Then try five, the number of head coaches that Kansas has churned through in six years.

Beaty not only has to wash away the memory of Weis’s failed tenure, he also must get players that in many cases were recruited by coaches long gone to buy into his vision.

Finally, there is one — the number of wins Kansas managed in conference play last season, the most the Jayhawks have won in Big 12 play since going 4-4 during the 2008 season.

“The focus has been very, very direct on how we get better,” said Beaty, a former Kansas assistant who had been on Kevin Sumlin’s staff at Texas A&M. “We talk about straining and effort and attitude are a minimum expectation. You hear it said all the time: That’s the price of admission.

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Kansas City Royals Jarrod Dyson scores the go-ahead run against the Cincinnati Reds in the 13th inning of Tuesday’s game in Cincinnati. ASSOCIATED PRESS

Error paves way to win Royals take advantage of Reds’ late mishaps to win 3-1 in extra innings CINCINNATI (AP) — Jarrod Dyson wasn’t even in Kansas City’s original starting lineup Tuesday night.

Dyson, who started after Omar Infante was scratched with back spasms, scored the tie-breaking run from first base on pitcher Ryan Mattheus’ throwing error and the Royals went on to a 3-1, 13-inning victory over the Cincinnati Reds.

“That’s why, every day, you’ve got to show up ready to play,” said Dyson, who went 2 for 5 with a stolen base. “The unexpected can happen, and you’ve got to prepare for it.”

Ben Zobrist tied the game 1-1 with a homer in the ninth inning off Reds closer Aroldis Chapman who had converted 56 consecutive save opportunities at home since blowing one against Houston on Sept.

7, 2012.

“I didn’t do anything different,” Chapman said through assistant trainer-interpreter Tomas Vera. “All I can tell you is I had a bad day. I made a

mistake.”

Dyson led off the 13th with a single and scored when Mattheus (1-4) threw a sacrifice bunt by Kris Medlen (1-0) down the right field line.

Greg Holland finished for his 27th save.

Zobrist, who scored the winning run in the 10th inning of Kansas City’s 4-3 win over the Angels on Sunday, stunned the crowd of 28,719 by leading off the ninth with his 10th homer of the season on a 2-1 pitch from Chapman.

“He’s made a pretty big difference,” manager Ned Yost said of Zobrist, acquired from Oakland on July 28. “He’s become a pretty big piece for us.”

Zobrist’s approach was the key, Reds manager Bryan Price said.

“The thing about Zobrist is he knows the strike zone, and he didn’t get behind,” Price said.

Lorenzo Cain followed Zobrist with a single and stole second and third while Eric Hosmer was striking out. Cain

was ruled safe on the rundown that started with Salvador Perez’s grounder to second baseman Brandon Phillips, but Cain was ruled out after a replay review that lasted just under 3 1-2 minutes.

Reds starter Raisel Iglesias allowed one runner past second base while scattering three hits and a walk with three strikeouts over seven innings. He extended his streak of consecutive scoreless innings to 12, dating to the first inning of his last start on Aug. 12 in San Diego.

Eugenio Suarez homered off Kansas City right-hander Edison Volquez with one out in the first, giving Cincinnati a 1-0 lead with his eighth home run of the season.

Volquez, who played for the Reds, allowed four hits and one walk with seven strikeouts in six innings.

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Kansas City Chiefs running back Charcandrick West (35) hauls in a pass during the team’s training camp practice Aug. 7 at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Mo. DAVID EULITT/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — In an otherwise sloppy training camp practice, little-used running back Charcandrick West gave Chiefs coach Andy Reid a moment to smile.

The diminutive backup headed out on a passing play, and quarterback Chase Daniel lofted a pass to him.

But the throw wobbled off to the right, and West had to reach back

with one hand to snare the ball. Then, in one fluid motion, he spun up field and ran for a touchdown.

Not only did Reid smile, the crowd watching let out a collective, “Oh!” “Charcandrick, he can do everything,” Reid said.

The Chiefs need him to do a little bit of everything, too.

The former un-

drafted free agent out of Abilene Christian fought his way onto the team a year ago and played in six games.

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Cowboys, Rams end their joint practice after fights break out OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — The Cowboys and St. Louis Rams cut short the second of two joint practices at training camp Tuesday after several fights broke out, including one where Dallas receiver Dez Bryant was punched in the face.

The workout at the Cowboys’ camp facility ended about 30 minutes earlier than expected after the skirmishes on the field where the St. Louis offense and Dallas defense were scrimmaging.

It was the second time in

less than two weeks that a joint practice had to be cut short because of fights. On Aug. 8, Houston and Washington ended the mixed portion of a practice after several fights on both fields.

“I hate it. At the end of the day we know why it happens,” said Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones, who is on the NFL’s competition committee. “I can’t imagine that we can’t continue to have joint practices and get this right just like we do a lot of things. But we’re going to

have to continue to emphasize that stuff is not what we want.”

Most of the St. Louis defensive players left a drill on the other field when the first fight broke out. The second fight ended with several players in a pile on a fence where fans could reach out and touch them, although no fans appeared to get involved.

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Donor may be on hook for child support TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Genetic testing has confirmed that a Topeka man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple is the biological father of the 5-year-old child born to one of the women.

The Topeka CapitalJournal reports that Shawnee County District Judge Mary Mattivi on Tuesday morning ordered that William Marotta’s DNA results be entered in the official record. The testing identified Marotta as the father, with a 99.9 percent certainty.

Kansas wants Marotta declared the father so he can be forced to pay child support. The state started pursuing the case in 2012 after the couple split up and one of the women applied for state health insurance for the child. Marotta claims he signed a contract waiving his parental responsibilities.

IS beheads leading scholar in Palmyra DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Islamic State militants beheaded one of Syria’s most prominent antiquities scholars in the ancient town of Palmyra, then hung his body from one of the town’s Roman columns, Syrian state media and an activist group said today.

The killing of 81-year-old Khaled alAsaad was the latest atrocity perpetrated by the militant group, which has captured a

tired. After retiring, al-Asaad worked as an expert with the Antiquities and Museums Department.

Al-Asaad, who held a diploma in history and education from the University of Damascus, wrote many books and scientific texts either individually or in cooperation with other Syrian or foreign archeologists, SANA said.

Among his titles are “The Palmyra sculptures,� and “Zenobia,

Al-Asaad was “one of the most important pioneers in Syrian archaeology in the 20th century,� [according to a colleague]. IS had tried to extract information from him about where some of the town’s treasures had been hidden....

third of both Syria and neighboring Iraq and declared a self-styled “caliphate� on the territory it controls.

Since IS overran Palmyra in May, there have been fears the extremists, who have destroyed famed archaeological sites in Iraq, would demolish the 2,000-year-old Romanera city at the edge of the town — a UNESCO world heritage site and one of the Mideast’s most spectacular archaeological sites.

The Sunni extremist group, which has imposed a violent interpretation of Islamic law, or Shariah, believes ancient relics promote idolatry. IS militants claim they are destroying ancient artifacts and archaeological treasures as part of their purge of paganism. The destruction IS has wreaked adds to the wider, extensive damage it has inflicted on ancient sites, including mosques and churches across Syria and Iraq.

According to Syrian state news agency SANA and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, al-Assad was beheaded on Tuesday in a square outside the town’s museum. The Observatory, which has a network of activists on the ground in Syria, said dozens of people gathered to witness the killing. Al-Asaad had been held by the IS for about a month, it added.

His body was then taken to Palmyra’s archaeological site and hung from one of the Roman columns, Maamoun Abdulkarim, the head of the Antiquities and Museums Department in Damascus, told SANA. Al-Asaad was “one of the most important pioneers in Syrian archaeology in the 20th century,� Abdulkarim said. IS had tried to extract information from him about where some of the town’s treasures had been hidden to save them from the militants, the antiquities chief also said.

SANA said al-Asaad had been in charge of Palmyra’s archaeological site for four decades until 2003, when he re-

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He also discovered several ancient cemeteries, caves and the Byzantine cemetery in the garden of the Museum of Palmyra, the agency added. “Al-Asaad was a treasure for Syria and the world,� Khalil Hariri, alAsaad’s son-in-law who works at the Palmyra’s archaeological department told The Associated Press, speaking over the phone from the central Syrian city of Homs. “Why did they kill him?� “Their systematic campaign seeks to take us back into pre-history,� he added. “But they will not succeed.�

Hariri, who is married to al-Asaad’s daughter, Zenobia, said his father-in-law had been a member of President Bashar Assad’s ruling Baath party since 1954. Hariri added that al-Asaad is survived by six sons and five daughters.

Since falling to IS, Palmyra’s ancient site has remained intact but the militants destroyed a lion statue in the town dating back to the 2nd century. The statue, discovered in 1975, had stood at the gates of the town museum, and had been placed inside a metal box to protect it from damage.

In early July, IS released a video showing the killing of some 20 captured government soldiers in Palmyra’s amphitheater.

They were shot dead by young IS members, armed with pistols.

Hundreds of people were seen watching the killings.

Also today, an IS suicide bomber targeted a predominantly Kurdish town in northeastern Syria, killing at least 11 people, an activist group said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the explosion happened outside a local Kurdish police station in the town of Qamishli. It also said more than 40 people were wounded in the blast. Syria’s state news agency SANA also reported the explosion, saying it killed 13 and wounded about 50.

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Chiefs: West working to become a more efficient blocker Continued from B1 they were willing to release Cyrus Gray early in training camp, all but giving him the No. 3 running back job. Those carries, catches and yards will still be hard to come by with Jamaal Charles and Knile Davis ahead of him, but like any other player, West is only an injury away from moving up a rung on the ladder.

“He’s got great quickness. So that’s a positive from that standpoint.

It makes him a little bit different from the other two,” Reid said. “He’s a

little bit smaller, so it’s a different look than the other two guys in a positive way.”

West had a chance to showcase that speed in Saturday’s preseason opener in Arizona, when Charles basically got the night off and Davis got banged up.

He responded by hauling in a 20-yard catch to help set up a touchdown, and ran six times for 49 yards. His 92 yards from scrimmage were a teamhigh in the 34-19 victory.

Perhaps most importantly, he proved that he isn’t a liability in the

passing game.

Sure, he has shown that he can catch the ball. But generously listed at 5-foot-10, 205 pounds, West had yet to show the coaching staff that he could pick up a blitz.

“He’s working hard on the pass protection part of it right now, not as far as knowing who to pick up — he’s a smaller guy, so he’s just working on his fundamentals and his techniques,” Reid said. “His pass game, the actual routes and the run game, he’s doing a phenomenal job.”

West has even caught the attention of his fellow running backs.

“He’s learning the playbook. You can tell it’s slowing down for him,” Davis said. “Kind of like myself in my year-two, he’s more confident with the playbook.

He’s playing faster.”

Speed has never been a question, though. West has always had plenty of it, from his boyhood days on Louisiana schoolyards to his college days in West Texas.

It is part of what caught the attention of Chiefs special teams

coach Dave Toub, who is often responsible for deciding the last couple of players on the roster.

If all else is the same, he will put his vote in for the player — wide receiver, defensive back, running back — who can contribute on special teams, whether it’s the return game or on coverage.

It wasn’t only speed that got Toub’s attention, though.

“He’s tough — tough as nails,” Toub said.

“He’ll stick his face in there on any sized guy.

He’s an ankle biter and a

tackler. He gets in there and is a real good tackler.”

He’s proving to be a pretty good runner, too.

NOTES: LT Eric Fisher’s MRI exam confirmed a left high ankle sprain. “He is literally day to day,” Chiefs trainer Rick Burkholder said. ... LB Justin March will have surgery Wednesday. He tore his meniscus against the Cardinals. ... RT Jeff Allen (knee) was back on the sideline with injured players. He was hurt against Arizona and absent Monday.

Fight: Incidents forced both teams to cut practice short Continued from B1 ed the practice, although the Cowboys ran a few more plays with their own players while the Rams huddled with coach Jeff Fisher before walking to their buses.

It wasn’t clear who threw the punch on Bryant. Dallas cornerback Tyler Patmon, who fought with Bryant earlier in camp, had several red marks on his face.

St. Louis linebacker James Laurinaitis said he was trying to make a defensive call when he noticed several teammates had left his field and run toward the first fight.

“There’s a fine line between defending yourself, so to speak, versus instigating it,” Laurinaitis said. “You want to defend your teammates, but you never want it to turn into that. I’m just

glad nobody got hurt.”

Patmon, who threw the first punch in his fight with Bryant on the fourth day of Cowboys camp, said he wasn’t thinking about the fact that he joined the fray without a helmet.

“All you’re thinking about is having your teammate’s back,” Patmon said. “And that’s all that matters.”

Cowboys coach Jason Garrett, who meets with reporters before the afternoon workout at camp, declined to comment after practice.

“The last thing you want when you bring another team in is to have fights,” Garrett said.

“We make that abundantly clear with our team. That’s not why we’re bringing another team in here. It’s to get great work against a different group of players and coaches.”

Players clear the benches during two on-field fights during the joint Cowboys and Rams practice at Cowboys Training Camp in Oxnard, Calif., on Tuesday. MAX FAULKNER/FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM/TNS

Royals: Win 3-1

Release: Pistorius faces house arrest

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ing after a replay review upheld the out call on Alcides Escobar with no outs in the 11th. Escobar was thrown out by center fielder Billy Hamilton trying to stretch a single into a double. Hamilton just missed making a diving catch of Escobar’s sinking liner into rightcenter field.

BUTCHER BOY

Iglesias logged his first career hit in the fifth with Brayan Pena on first and one out.

Iglesias, hitless in his first 19 at-bats, squared to bunt, then pulled his bat back and hit a chopper near second. Shortstop Escobar fielded the ball, but with the defense scrambling to

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Royals: Yost scratched Infante from the original starting lineup after he developed back spasms. Zobrist was moved from left field to second base and left fielder Dyson got the start in Infante’s slot.

Infante is day-to-day, Yost said.

Reds: Hamilton left the game after the 11th inning with a jammed left shoulder he sustained while trying to make a diving, backhanded catch on Escobar’s sinking liner. He’ll be re-examined Wednesday, Price said.

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Royals: RHP Jeremy Guthrie (8-7, 5.63) is 4-1 with a 2.30 ERA in eight career interleague starts going into his scheduled appearance on Wednesday at Cincinnati.

Reds: RHP Keyvius Sampson (2-1, 3.18) will take a two-start winning streak into his first career interleague appearance on Wednesday.

would not comment.

“We are still struggling with coming to terms with losing our precious daughter Reeva and her loss is felt even more this week,” parents Barry and June Steenkamp said in an earlier statement.

With a big chunk of his prison time suspended for good behavior, he is set to spend four years and two months under house arrest — some media reports have called it “mansion arrest” — at his uncle’s luxurious home. It boasts a large, cross-shaped swimming pool and is located in an upmarket suburb of Pretoria, the capital.

The Department of Justice on Wednesday cast doubt on an early release, saying it is checking to see if a parole board decision was correct and “in compliance with the law.”

Justice Minister Mi-

chael Masutha is receiving legal advice on whether he has the authority to “intervene” to prevent Pistorius’ release if proper procedure was not followed.

His decision will be announced before Friday, the department said.

If put under house arrest, the Department of Correctional Services will consider allowing him to train on the track, but international and South African sports bodies have already said Pistorius will not be allowed to compete during the remaining period of his sentence. Pistorius will be nearly 33 when that sentence is over.

At the Supreme Court, the second-highest in South Africa, a panel of judges will review Pistorius’ trial and decide whether Judge Thokozile Masipa made an error in acquitting him of murder in September last year.

If the panel finds Pis-

torius guilty on appeal, he will face a minimum sentence of 15 years in jail. South Africa doesn’t have the death penalty.

Prosecutors argue that he should have been found guilty of murder for shooting Steenkamp multiple times through a toilet door in his home. Pistorius said he mistook her for an intruder and fired in self-defense.

Prosecutors, in appeal papers filed Monday, said Pistorius intended to kill whoever was behind the door. During his trial, the prosecution accused the runner of shooting Steenkamp during an argument.

The family of Steenkamp, a 29-year-old model and reality TV personality, has said “incarceration of 10 months for taking a life is simply not enough.”

Family lawyer Tania Koen told The Associated Press that Steenkamp’s parents, Barry

and June, are concentrating this week on Pistorius family spokeswoman Anneliese Burgess confirmed Pistorius would live with his uncle, Arnold. Pistorius will have to live under “strict conditions,” according to the corrections department. He won’t have to wear an electronic device, department spokesman Logan Maistry said, but will be monitored by a probation officer.

The department would not provide other details of Pistorius’ probation conditions, but they would likely include periods of compulsory community service, being allowed to leave the house only at specific times, and a ban on consuming alcohol. Pistorius will have surprise spot-checks to ensure he is not breaking the terms.

If it’s found he is, he could be sent back to prison.

Kansas: Season kicks off on Sept. 5 Continued from B1 Those things are going to happen.”

In other words, the numbers on the roster don’t bother him. Nor do the coaches who have come before, or the records they put together. All that matters is here and now.

“Let me say it this way: There’s a standard that we’ve brought here, and ultimately I’ve brought here, with regard to our team. The best way to say it is it’s not

for everybody,” Beaty said.

“But it’s the standard set, and that standard is based on trying to do something special.”

Beaty has said all the right things since his arrival.

But so did Mark Mangino, Turner Gill and Weis before him.

Beaty knows success on the field is the best way to fill Memorial Stadium, which for years has been empty on autumn Saturdays.

“I feel like everybody has to step up,” running back De’Andre Mann said.

“We have to take our game to another level.

I feel that we’ve been putting in great work in the summer and have come together as a team. We’re excited about the season.”

The season begins Sept. 5 against South Dakota State. Here are some things to watch: BOWEN ON DEFENSE: Beaty retained Clint Bowen as

his defensive coordinator, which has helped to ease his own transition to the program.

Bowen had served as interim coach when Weis was fired last fall, and was a popular choice among players to land the permanent job. “Every coaching staff brings a different style and a different type of energy and plan,” Bowen said.

“Obviously, Coach Beaty’s put an emphasis on our guys working hard, earning it.”

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FDA approves first pill aimed at female libido WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first prescription drug designed to boost sexual desire in women, a milestone long sought by a pharmaceutical industry eager to replicate the blockbuster success of impotence drugs for men.

But stringent safety measures on the daily pill called Addyi mean it will probably never achieve the sales of Viagra, which has generated billions of dollars since the late 1990s.

The drug’s label will bear a boxed warning — the most serious type — alerting doctors and patients to the risks of dangerously low blood pressure and fainting, especially when the pill is combined with alcohol. The same problems can occur when taking the drug with other commonly prescribed medications, including antifungals used to treat yeast infections.

“Patients and prescribers should fully understand the risks associated with the use of Addyi before considering treatment,” said Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA’s drug center, in a statement announcing the approval Tuesday.

Under an FDA-imposed safety plan, doctors will only be able to prescribe Addyi after completing an online certification process that requires counseling patients about Addyi’s risks. Pharmacists will also need certification and will be required to remind patients not to drink alcohol while taking the drug.

Opponents of the drug say it’s not worth the side effects, which also include nausea, drowsiness and dizziness. They point out that the FDA rejected the drug twice, in 2010 and 2013, due to these risks.

“This is not a drug you take an hour before you have sex. You have to take it for weeks and months in order to see any benefit at all,” said Leonore Tiefer, a psy-

chologist and sex therapist who organized a petition last month calling on the FDA to reject the drug.

Patients should stop taking the drug after eight weeks if they do not see any improvement, notes the FDA release.

Sprout Pharmaceutical’s drug is intended to treat women who report

The search for a pill to treat women’s sexual difficulties has been something of a holy grail for the pharmaceutical industry. It was pursued and later abandoned by Pfizer, Bayer and Procter & Gamble, among others. But drugs that act on blood flow, hormones and other biological functions all proved ineffective.

The search for a pill to treat women’s sexual difficulties has been something of a holy grail for the pharmaceutical industry. ... But drugs that act on blood flow, hormones and other biological functions all proved ineffective.

Addyi...is the first drug that acts on brain chemicals that affect mood and appetite.

emotional stress due to a lack of libido. Its approval marks a turnaround for the FDA, which previously rejected the drug twice due to lackluster effectiveness and side effects. The decision represents a compromise of sorts between two camps that have publicly feuded over the drug for years.

On one side, Sprout and its supporters have argued that women desperately need FDAapproved medicines to treat sexual problems.

On the other side, safety advocates and pharmaceutical critics warn that Addyi is a problem-prone drug for a questionable medical condition.

Beginning with the drug’s launch in mid-October, doctors who see patients complaining about a loss of sexual appetite will have a new option.

“Women are grasping, and I feel like we need to offer them something that acknowledges that, and that we can feel safe and comfortable with,” said Dr. Cheryl Iglesia, a surgeon and official with the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Iglesia said she has occasionally resorted to prescribing testosterone creams to boost women’s libido, a use not approved by the FDA.

Addyi, known generically as flibanserin, is the first drug that acts on brain chemicals that affect mood and appetite.

Women and their doctors will have to decide whether the drug’s modest benefits warrant taking a psychiatric pill on a daily basis.

Company trials showed women taking the drug generally reported one extra “sexually satisfying event” per month, and scored higher on questionnaires measuring desire.

Tiefer and other critics said the FDA was pressured into approving the drug by a feminist-themed lobbying campaign funded by Sprout and other drugmakers.

“It’s just a mishmash of politics and science and sex and money,” Tiefer said.

The lobbying group, dubbed Even the Score, began publicizing the lack of drugs for female sexual dysfunction as a women’s rights issue last year.

“Women deserve equal treatment when it comes to sex,” the group states in an online petition to the FDA, which attracted more than 60,000 supporters. Women’s groups, including the National Organiza-

tion for Women, signed on to the effort, though it was funded by Sprout and other companies working on female sex drugs.

At an FDA meeting in June, more than 30 members of the public called for the drug’s approval, frequently citing the Even the Score campaign. They vastly outnumbered speakers who spoke in opposition to the drug. At the meeting’s conclusion, the panel of FDA advisers voted 18-6 to recommend approving the drug, with safety restrictions.

Sprout declined to comment on how much it spent on the campaign.

For now, executives with the Raleigh, North Carolina-based company are setting modest expectations for Addyi, their first and only product. The company will focus its 200 sales representatives on promoting the drug to medical specialists.

“We will be small,” CEO Cindy Whitehead said. “We will be specialty focused among the physicians who already have a familiarity with female sexual dysfunction.”

Women with insurance can expect to pay between $30 and $75 per month for Addyi, depending on the terms of their coverage.

The FDA specifically approved the drug for premenopausal women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder, a lack of sexual appetite that causes distress.

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Mental health community mourns death of advocate

By DAVE RANNEY KHI News Service

David Wiebe, one of the state’s best-known and most active advocates for people with mental illness, died Monday in Fairway at age 76. He had cancer.

“If you step back and look at how, over the decades, Kansas’ mental health system was developed, created and formed to where it is now, you’ll see that he was one of the pioneers,” said Tim DeWeese, executive director at the Johnson County Mental Health Center.

David Wiebe, one of the state’s best-known and most active advocates for people with mental illness, died Monday in Fairway at age 76.

“His service to both the mental health field and to mental health consumers was invaluable,” DeWeese said.

Wiebe served as executive director of the Johnson County Mental Health Center from 1985 to 2011. He also served as president of the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas from 1996 to 1998.

At the time of his death, Wiebe was president of the Kansas Mental Health Coalition.

From 1988 to 1990, he was an active member of then-Gov. Mike Hayden’s Task Force on Mental Health Reform.

“His mission in life was to bring the best services to people who suffered from mental illness,” said Howard Snyder, who served on the task force with Wiebe. “He succeeded in that.”

Snyder said Wiebe was instrumental in the group’s push to make mental health treatment available in communitybased settings.

At the time, Snyder said, the University of Kansas “came out with some data that showed that 80 cents out of every dollar the state spent on mental health was being spent in the state hospitals. Only 20 cents was being spent on services in the community.”

“That’ll be David’s legacy: moving as many services as possible into communities all across the state,” he said.

Wiebe also championed in-state efforts to help law enforcement of-

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David Wiebe died Monday, aged 76 ficers develop alternate responses for crisis situations involving people with mental illness, now known as Crisis Intervention Training, or CIT. “When we started out, CIT was an idea,” said Steve McCorkill, a sergeant with the Shawnee Police Department and a 10-year member of the Kansas Law Enforcement CIT Council. “A lot of people didn’t have the vision. But David did; he got it. He was 100 percent supportive. He was committed to making it happen not only in Johnson County but all across the state of Kansas.”

At the onset of the initiative, McCorkill said,

Kansas had “maybe a handful” of trained officers. Today, he said, there are close to 1,200.

“You have to understand, we started out with nothing,” McCorkill said.

“David gave us really good guidance. He understood budgeting. He knew how to build something out of nothing.”

Born in Aberdeen, Idaho, Wiebe moved to Newton when he was 12 years old. He later graduated from Newton High School and Bethel College. He earned a master’s degree in social work at KU. Wiebe is survived by his wife, Leslie; three children, and six grandchildren.

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Link between bisphosphonates, hair loss unclear Dr. Keith Roach

Dear Dr. Roach: I took 70 milligrams of alendronate once a week due to the results of my bone mineral density scan performed in April this year. At that time, I was diagnosed with osteopenia. I recently researched the side effects of this drug and decided to discontinue its use.

My first symptom of this drug’s side effect was a sudden increase in hair loss.

My questions are: How long will my body take to get rid of this drug? What can I do to prevent my hair from continuing to fall out?

— M.E. Answer: I found many case reports of hair loss after the use of alendronate (Fosamax) and similar drugs (a class called bisphosphonates). Why it happens isn’t clear — one review from the Netherlands speculated that it might have to do with cholesterol in the hair, since bisphosphonates affect an enzyme that

To Your Good Health is also associated with cholesterol (and some medications to lower cholesterol can increase hair loss).

Your questions aren’t easy to answer. Alendronate binds to bone and is released slowly as the bone is remodeled and rebuilt through natural processes. This takes course over as many as 10 years. However, the amount of medication in the blood — and thus its ability to travel to the scalp — would be very small.

As far as what to do about it, I couldn’t find any specific treatment for hair loss related to this medication. If the Dutch authors are correct, perhaps increasing cholesterol consumption a bit (found in animal fats, like butter) could help, but for over-

all and heart health, I wouldn’t want you to go overboard.

Dear Dr. Roach: I was diagnosed last year with a Hollenhorst plaque. I have a “blue cloud” in the corner of my left eye at all times. My doctors’ only instructions were to notify them of any changes. I am scared.

Am I going to have a stroke in the near future? When I asked one of my doctors, he said to “just keep an eye on it.”

— D.D.M. Answer: A Hollenhorst plaque is a cholesterol crystal that is seen in the blood vessels of the retina. In most cases, the cholesterol plaque had broken off from the carotid artery, the main blood vessel providing blood to the brain. While I understand your concern about its effect on your stroke risk, it seems to be fairly small — in one study of 130 patients with Hollenhorst plaques, none of them had a stroke in the two

years or so that they were followed in the study.

However, all of the patients studied had some degree of blockages in the carotid artery, and your doctor should consider looking for blockages in yours if he hasn’t already. In most cases, carotid blockages are treated with medication, especially a statin medication. Aspirin might be appropriate for some people, but that is a discussion you should be having with an expert, such as your internist or cardiologist.

Warfarin should not be used to treat cholesterol plaques. The manufacturers of warfarin recommend stopping warfarin if a cholesterol plaque is found, as warfarin can increase the risk of further events. However, there might be some situations in which anticoagulants must be used, such as in the case of a pulmonary embolism.

at 8:30 a.m. in the District Court of Allen County, Iola, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail to file your written defenses, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

All creditors of the Decedent are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within the latter of four months from the date of first publication of notice under K.S.A. 59- 2236 and amendments thereto, or if the identity of the creditor is known or reason-

ably ascertainable, 30 days after actual notice was given as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

S. Alan Manbeck Sally L. Manbeck, Petitioners FREDERICK J. WORKS, PA 6 East Jackson Iola, Kansas 66749 (620) 433-5533 Attorney for Petitioners (8) 19, 26 (9) 2

Public notice (First Published in The Iola Register, Aug. 19, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS In the Matter of the Estate of Shirley M. Breiner, deceased No. 2015 PR 35 NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that on August 14, 2015, a Petition for Probate of Will and Issuance of Letters Testamentary was filed in this Court by

S. Alan Manbeck and Sally L. Manbeck, the Co-Executors named in the Last Will and Testament of Shirley M. Breiner, deceased, dated October 26, 2010, requesting that the Will and Memorandum filed with the Petition be admitted to probate and record and that S. Alan Manbeck and Sally L. Manbeck be appointed as CoExecutors without bond and be granted Letters Testamentary.

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First female chief justice of KS dies TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kay McFarland, the first female chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, died Tuesday. She was 80.

McFarland died Tuesday morning at home after an illness, according to Leina Cox, administrative assistant at Penwell Gabel funeral home in Topeka.

McFarland was appointed to the state Supreme Court in September 1977 by Gov. Robert Bennett, becoming the first woman appointed to the high court. In September 1995 she became the court’s first woman chief justice until retiring in 2009.

Her 31-year tenure on the high court is among the longest on record.

Howard Schwartz, the state’s judicial administrator from 1973 to 2012, told The Topeka CapitalJournal that McFarland forged new ground for women in a world that had been traditionally closed to them. “I was always astounded by the number of women who would

Kay McFarland come up to her and say, “You know, I’m an attorney because of you,’ or ‘I’m a judge because of you,’� he said.

He said McFarland was a strong advocate that the court follow time standards to keep cases from “dragging on� too long and helped ensure the justice system didn’t break the “average citizen� financially.

Kansas Supreme Court Justice Marla Luckert, a member of the high court since 2003, said she followed in McFarland’s footsteps and greatly appreciated the way she broke gender barriers. She also

said McFarland was a great storyteller. “She had the ability to take an everyday experience and turn it into a story that had humor and just brought the people and the circumstances to life,� Luckert said.

McFarland was born July 20, 1935, in Coffeyville. She graduated in 1957 from Washburn University with dual majors in English and history/political science, according to obituary information provided by the funeral home. She graduated from Washburn’s law school, and became the first woman elected as a Shawnee County District Court judge in 1972.

McFarland was preceded in death by her parents and her brother, James Warren McFarland. A former sister-inlaw, Pat Hess, survives, her obituary said.

Services are scheduled for Saturday at Penwell-Gabel Southwest Chapel in Topeka, with burial to follow at Mount Hope Cemetery.

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PERRYOPOLIS, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania couple is looking for someone new to live in a home movie fans associate with grisly death.

Scott and Barbara Lloyd are looking to sell the three-story Victorian that was used as the home of psychotic killer Buffalo Bill in the 1991 film “The Silence of the Lambs.�

Scott Lloyd tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that crews spent

three days shooting at the home in Perryopolis.

The basement dungeon where the killer kept one would-be victim, however, doesn’t exist.

Those scenes were shot on a sound stage.

Still, Realtor Dianne Wilk is hopeful someone will pay $300,000 for the home which the Lloyds bought in 1976. “People love to be scared. I could see somebody doing something fun with this.�

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Hendersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attorney, Thomas Haney, repeatedly suggested while questioning defense witnesses that Henderson sometimes isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;politically correct,â&#x20AC;? but that he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make comments or jokes that harassed or demeaned others. Haney asked Schmidt whether Henderson was politically correct.

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A state Commission on Judicial Qualifications panel finished a two-day hearing Tuesday on the latest complaint against Sedgwick County District Court Judge Timothy Henderson. Two retired judges testified as character witnesses for Henderson, saying they have never doubted his honesty.

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Retired District Judge Jean Schmidt, of Shawnee County, said Henderson was a conscientious employee when she supervised his work on juvenile cases in the local district attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office in the early 1990s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always felt like he was very honest,â&#x20AC;? she testified. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I never had any question about what he told me.â&#x20AC;?

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