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Monday, October 19, 2015

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By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is unique among U.S. states in recently granting its top elections official the power to prosecute alleged voting ir re gularities himself, and Repub- Kris Kobach lican Secretary of State Kris Kobach is looking to move a contentious national debate past tough voter identification laws.

Kobach’s office earlier this month filed three election fraud cases in two counties, accusing the defendants of illegally voting in Kansas while casting ballots in the same elections in other states. The law allowing his office to do so — instead of forwarding evidence to prosecutors — took effect in July, and Kobach has promised to pursue more cases in the next two months.

It’s not yet clear whether other states will follow Kansas’ example, though Alabama’s secretary of state broached the subject with top lawmakers in his state earlier this year. The Re p u b l i c a n - d o m i n a t e d Kansas Legislature, which heeded Kobach’s call to give the state some of the nation’s toughest voter identification laws, took four years to expand the power of his office.

“We’ve made an important innovation in Kansas, and it’s one that would help other states as well,” Kobach said, adding that he’s “happy to help” other states pursue similar laws.

A conservative former law professor, Kobach first won his office in 2010 by portraying election fraud as a major problem. Kansas started requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls in 2012, and since 2013, new voters have been required to prove their U.S. citizenship when registering.

Kobach argues that the policies he’s championed give Kansas the most se-

Clockwise from top, doing a dance routine at Saturday’s Farm-City Days parade were, from left, Morgan DelaCruz, Hailei Gregg, Emma Weseloh, Harper Gregg, Justice Wilson and Taylor Korte of the Supernova Dance Academy; John Stranghoner donned a KISS costume as part of the Iola High School Class of 1985’s float; the band Pompous Jack entertains the crowd; Adalie Boisvert, Moran, pets a goat Saturday at the Allen County Farm Bureau petting zoo; Iola High School marching band member Glen Riddle performs in the parade; Katie Womelsdorf, 8, “milks” a cow at an ACFB demonstration Sunday at Strickler’s Dairy; Micah Vogel, 6, gives his all during the pedal pull Sunday at Strickler’s; Emily Atwell, 9, does an acrobatic flip during Saturday’s parade for the Spirit Nation Dance and Cheer Academy. Debbie Morris, Coffeyville, does a square dance number with Vern Crawshaw, Altoona, during Sunday’s festivities at Strickler’s. More photos from the weekend activities are on the Register’s Facebook page.

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Officer, councilwoman escape injury

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

An emergency worker notes the location of vehicles involved in a two-vehicle accident near Baldwin City. Iola Police Officer Mike Ford, his wife, Iola City Councilwoman Nancy Ford, and their daughters came away with minor injuries in the wreck. PHOTO COURTESY OF MIKE FORD

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BALDWIN — Iola Police Officer Michael Ford, his wife, Iola City Councilwoman Nancy Ford, and their family escaped serious injury following a head-on collision just outside Baldwin City on Sunday afternoon.

Mike Ford told the Register they were in his pickup when the other driver, a 20-year-old Baker University student, veered into their lane on U.S.

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“I saw her coming into our lane,” he recalled, as the other driver clipped the side of a trailer being towed in front of them.

Ford attempted to veer to the side to avoid the oncoming vehicle, but the vehicles collided head-on, sending both into the ditch.

The Fords, two of their daughters, McKinley Jackson and Reagan Ford, and their son-in-law, Shawn Jackson, were checked out at a lo-

“We are all alike, on the inside.”

cal hospital.

“We’re all pretty sore,” Ford said. “My pickup, is a three-quarter-ton Dodge, and I’m sure that had a lot to do with us being OK.” The other driver, whose name has not been released, was held overnight at the hospital for observation.

Ford said daughter McKinley has been keeping updated on the other driver’s condition.

“She thinks she fell asleep,” he said.

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Monday, October 19, 2015

Obituaries

Police reports

Colleen Pearman

Driver crashes, is arrested

Colleen Kay Pearman, 70, Colony, passed away Friday, Oct. 16, 2015, at Iola Nursing Center.

Colleen was born Jan. 23, 1945, in Iola, the daughter of Eugene Samuel and Esther Mabel (Sutterby) Robb. She grew up in Iola and graduated from Iola High School in 1963, Iola Junior College in 1965 and Pittsburg State University, earning her bachelor’s degree in music education. In 1982, she received her Colleen master’s in music from PSU, featur- Pearman ing pipe organ performance.

Over her teaching career she taught music at Crest, Moran, Le Roy, Chanute, Stockton and Cottey College as an adjunct professor in piano and organ. She gave private organ and piano lessons over the years in Colony, Iola, Humboldt and Chanute.

She has also served as church organist for Humboldt United Methodist Church, First Presbyterian Church in Iola, First United Methodist Church in Independence and First Presbyterian Church in Chanute.

Besides music, she also enjoyed quilting all of her life, quilting special items for Porthaults Ltd. of New York and Paris. Gardening and growing flowers was another one of her hobbies. Family was very important to Colleen and she enjoyed family reunions and being with her loved ones.

Colleen was a member of Grace Lutheran Church in Iola and the American Guild of Organists.

On May 29, 1964, Colleen married Gerald L. Pearman at First Baptist Church in Iola. He survives.

She also is survived by her daughter, Sarah Coltrane and husband Nathan, Independence; her son, Morgan Samuel Pearman, Iola; three brothers, E.S. Robb and wife Joan, Iola, Carl Robb and wife Sandra, Iola, and Roger Robb, Hockley, TX; sister-inlaw, Margaret Robb, Iola; and three grandchildren, Jonathan, Maurin and Matthias Coltrane.

She was preceded in death by her parents, and two brothers, Don Wayne Robb and John Robb.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Grace Lutheran Church, 117 E. Miller Rd., Iola.

Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery, Iola. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the church.

Memorial gifts to Grace Lutheran Church or the Fisk Organ Fund at PSU may be left with WaughYokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola, which is in charge of arrangements.

To sign the guest book online or leave a condolence, go to www.iolafuneral.com.

Deborah L. Kaufman Deborah Lynn Kaufman, 59, Humboldt, died Monday, Oct. 12, 2015, Cremation has taken place.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Humboldt United Methodist Church.

Memorials may be made to the Multiple Sclerosis Society or Humboldt United Methodist Church and sent to 320 S. Fifth St., Humboldt, KS 66748.

California roads reopen LOS ANGELES (AP) — Crews on Sunday pulled dozens of stranded cars and trucks free and reopened some Southern California roads that were buried in tons of mud during flash flooding.

Los Angeles County crews reopened stretches of five roads in mountain communities about 40 miles north of Los Angeles.

The reopening “comes well ahead of original forecasts” with more than 40 bulldozers, dump trucks and other heavy equipment working through the weekend to shift an estimated 200,000 cubic yards of mud, according to a Los Angeles County Public Works statement.

Work continued on two other roads in the Lake Hughes and Lake Elizabeth areas that

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In nearby Kern County, more than 100 cars, buses, RVs and big-rig trucks were trapped on State Route 58.

As of Sunday afternoon, only 2 big-rigs and five cars were left to free, although efforts to remove the tons of nowhardened mud covering the highway were just beginning, said Florene Trainor, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Transportation.

Officials hoped to reopen the lanes by Thursday at the latest.

Geologists determined that nearby hillsides were stable so there was no fear of another mudslide should it start raining again, Trainor said in an email.

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Allen County sheriff ’s deputies said James C. Williams, 21, Iola, was eastbound on Oregon Road, about one-half mile west of 2200 Street late Saturday when he lost control of his vehicle.

The vehicle entered a sideways slide, crossed both lanes of travel, entered the north ditch and overturned.

Williams, the sole occupant, exited the vehicle and allegedly fled on foot, deputies said.

He was returning to the crash scene when a deputy arrived.

Williams was arrested for allegedly failing to report an accident and leaving the scene of an accident.

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sheriff ’s deputies reported Sunday the arrest of Iolan Jeffrey A. Heinrich for suspicion of driving while intoxicated.

Charges follow theft report

restrictions, not having liability insurance and speeding during a traffic stop in the 1400 block of East Street.

Window damaged Kevin Rush told officers Tuesday that somebody broke out a window to his residence in the 700 block of East Garfield. Damage was valued at $50.

Darvin Willard, Iola, told police officers Wednesday that a pair of his shoes, valued at $125, were stolen. The shoes were recovered, and Brandon Mixon, 24, Iola, was cited in Iola Municipal Court on a charge of allegedly possessing stolen property cited.

Wallet found

Tobacco possession charge filed

Door damaged

Jacob Wiggans, 15, Bronson, was cited Wednesday for allegedly possessing tobacco as a minor, driving against driver’s license

A wallet was found Thursday in the Iola Walmart parking lot.

The owner was identified, Iola police officers said.

Iola SEK-CAP employees reported criminal damage to a door in the 500 block of Kennedy Drive.

Bike stolen, vehicle entered Dorothy Danielson, 33, Iola, told police Thursday that her bike was stolen and her vehicle entered while it was parked in the 300 block of South Kentucky Street.

Bicycles found On Friday, a bicycle was found in the 900 block of East Street.

On Tuesday, Iola’s Parks Department employees brought in a 12-inch NEXT bike, along with a Kryptonics skateboard to the Iola Police Department.

Both were found in Riverside Park.

Meanwhile, Ray’s Mini Mart employees reported finding a woman’s 26-inch NEXT bike sometime in the past two weeks.

Schools rethink student punishment

By AMIE STENGLE The Associated Press

DALLAS (AP) — The recent arrest of a 14-year-old Muslim boy whose teacher mistook his homemade clock for a possible bomb led to widespread ridicule of school officials and accusations that Islamophobia may have played a part.

It earned Ahmed Mohamed an invitation to the White House, where the Irving teen will attend an astronomy night today. But it also got him a threeday suspension, which he says the district insisted he serve even after it was clear it was just a clock.

Ahmed’s suspension — his parents have since withdrawn him from the school — reflects the rigid disciplinary policies that many U.S. schools adopted in the 1990s.

But many districts, including some of the nation’s largest, have been softening their approach, foregoing automatic suspensions, expulsions and calls to the police for one-on-one counseling and less severe forms of punishment.

“When we can’t tell the difference between a serious problem and a non-serious problem with a kid in school, the problem is not the kid: It is us,” said Michael Gilbert, who heads the San Antoniobased National Association of Community and Restorative Justice, which advocates a focus on dialogue instead of punishments.

The school districts in New York, Los Angeles and Denver are just some of those that have moved away from discipline policies that relied heavily

on suspensions. State governments have also been taking action: This year, Connecticut limited out-of-school suspensions and expulsions for students up through the second grade, Texas decriminalized truancy and Oregon limited when suspensions and expulsions can be applied to students up through the fifth grade.

Last year, the Obama administration asked schools to abandon policies that send kids to court, issuing guidelines encouraging training school personnel in conflict resolution.

“We’re seeing a lot of change at the federal, state and local level that I think is moving us in a new direction,” said Russell Skiba, director of The Equity Project at Indiana University. But, he added, “There are still a lot of schools that don’t have the resources or are afraid to move to something else.”

Denver Public Schools started implementing a so-called restorative discipline program in 2008. District leaders were concerned about the high number of suspensions and expulsions, which the grassroots group Padres & Jovenes Unidos pointed out were being disproportionately used to punish minority students.

One such student, Margarita Atencio, said her Denver school suspended her in seventh grade — before the new policies were fully in place — after other girls beat her up and blamed her for the incident. When she returned, she couldn’t concentrate on her studies because she

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was afraid it would happen again. It did, and this time she was expelled, she said.

“I was just done. I thought since nobody was on my side that nobody cared about me really,” said Atencio, who had to repeat the seventh grade. Now 19 and a recent high school graduate, she has volunteered as a youth leader for Padres & Jovenes Unidos for three years.

Eldridge Greer, who runs the Denver district’s Whole Child Supports program, said the school year before the policy changes began taking effect, there were about 11,500 out-of-school suspensions and 167 expulsions. He said last school year, those figures were down significantly, to about 5,400 suspensions and 55 expulsions.

Before the change, students involved in incidents like shouting matches would receive out-of-school suspensions, but nothing would be done to address their behavior, Greer said. Now, such students might meet with a school official instead to discuss the reasons for the spat and to try to address them.

Daniel Kim, director of youth organizing for Padres & Jovenes Unidos, said that while the change in school discipline policies is benefiting all students, there are still disparities in the punishment rates for minorities when compared to whites — especially for blacks.

Outgoing U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said last month that suspensions and

expulsions “track too closely with race and class.”

“This is not just about explicit, obvious bias. Indeed, sometimes, when a genuinely transparent moment of bias arises, the whole country stops and takes a break. A child holds a clock. And we see a bomb,” he said.

“But more often, it’s far subtler stuff.”

After Ahmed’s arrest, the police chief said there was no evidence that he meant to cause alarm. But the school district has declined to explain its handling of the incident, citing student privacy laws.

A spokeswoman has said the district could provide “a different viewpoint” if given permission by the family to release his school records.

Dan Losen, director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at UCLA’s Civil Rights Project, said his group’s report looking at the most recent U.S. numbers found out-of-school suspension rates leveling off and racial gaps narrowing slightly.

Philip Carney said that three years after starting a restorative discipline program as principal of Ed White Middle School in San Antonio, out-of-school suspensions have dropped by 72 percent.

“We even got to the point where students are handling their own conflicts, now with us just observing and setting up the process,” said Carney, now the restorative discipline coordinator for his school district.

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New hospital not a guarantee for success By building a new hospital, Allen County took an important step in securing a strong medical presence.

The new facility is an attractive place for both patients and employees.

When you’re sick, it’s important to feel you are getting the best of care and certainly being in a stateof-the-art facility helps bolster that feeling.

That said, a new facility does not guarantee success, especially in rural areas where people suffer what is called “small-town syndrome,” as described in an article appearing in Sunday’s Kansas City Star about the closure of Mercy Hospital in Independence.

Small-town syndrome is a disease whose main symptom is the feeling that services, including health care, are better in bigger cities. So instead of using the local hospital for even standard procedures such as a colonoscopy or mammogram, locals travel to metropolitan hospitals.

In the case of Independence, 49 percent of its population went elsewhere for medical care; most traveled 40 miles south to Bartlesville.

The outcome, of course, was a loss of vital revenue for the Independence hospital.

Other things contributed to its closure, including the state’s refusal to expand Medicaid, the federal program that helps a state take care of its poor and disabled.

Had Kansas expanded Medicaid, it would have boosted Independence’s bottom line by $1.7 million annually. Instead, the hospital had to absorb into its budget the care of more people who could not pay their hospital bills.

A hospital benefits most from patients who have private health insurance, usually from their places of employment, because their insurance pays more for costs incurred than those who rely on Medicare or Medicaid.

In Independence, about 51 percent of its patients have private insurance, compared to the state average of 65 percent.

The same ratio applies to Allen County and, as with Independence, is exacerbated when that segment with private insurance goes out of town for its care.

With a population of 9,400, Independence is almost twice the size of Iola, and seemingly in a more secure position to weather the ups and downs of today’s rural communities.

ACRH’s only buffer is that it is designated as a critical access hospital, which guarantees a higher reimbursement rate compared to hospitals without.

That said, the federal government’s sequestration program of 2014 has cut the benefits of Medicare and Medicaid. Those lower rates are likely to continue with a Congress that can’t agree to fund a budget.

In the five years, 56 rural hospitals have closed across the United States.

When an area loses its hospital, a community has to try extra hard that a domino effect does not ensue. Without a hospital it is not only more difficult to recruit health care professionals, but also industries.

We all have a role in keeping Allen County Regional Hospital healthy. It starts by going there when we’re sick.

— Susan Lynn

Fannie Mae’s new rules will help, until they hurt New mortgage regulations promise greater transparency in what consumers pay for a home loan. Unfortunately, one change may let some people acquire mortgages with payments they may not be able to afford in a few years. Deja vu, anyone?

The Federal National Mortgage Association, also known as Fannie Mae, now considers income from all residents in a home, not just the person applying for a loan through its new HomeReady program. This means money earned by an adult son living in the basement, or a mother-in-law occupying a suite over the garage, counts toward the debt-to-income ratio that determines the amount of a loan.

Fannie Mae, which provides mortgages for people with low or moderate income, trumpets the change as good news, saying it helps “multi-generational and extended households qualify for an affordable mortgage.” But what happens when the grown son moves out, or the mother-inlaw passes away? That’s not only possible but likely in some families, since about two-thirds of U.S. mortgages span 30 years.

Other new rules governing home loans are better for both the consumer and the nation. They require that homebuyers receive disclosure documents three days before a closing, ensuring that consumers have ample time to read the fine print and dispute questionable charges. They also make lenders pay the difference if costs change during the application process.

And buyers must be told the closing costs at least a week ahead of the closing date.

These changes, which took effect Oct. 3, make for a longer application process, but they give buyers muchneeded time to understand their financial obligations.

For most people, a house is the biggest purchase they will ever make; it’s not a decision to be made in a hurry.

Nor should consumers get a mortgage based on anyone’s income but their own. With the mortgage bubble that led to the Great Recession still in the nation’s rearview mirror, both buyers and lenders should be extremely wary of this option.

Remember: Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear.

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Kobach’s crackdown is voter discrimination Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach had himself quite a time last week.

• There he was, finally announcing the first fruits of his investigation into what he had billed as widespread voter fraud in Kansas centered around illegal aliens.

The targets: three U.S. citizens, all of them in their 60s, who allegedly voted in two states in the same election.

• Next thing, Kobach was sparring with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who took time out from campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination to criticize him for “harsh voting restrictions” on Kansas residents. That would be the “proof of citizenship” requirement that has prevented at least 36,000 would-be Kansas voters from obtaining registrations.

“Every time an alien votes, it cancels out the vote of a U.S. citizen,” Kobach shot back.

“But Hillary doesn’t seem to care about that.”

Maybe because, for all of his bluster, Kobach has yet to produce evidence that an undocumented immigrant has actually voted in Kansas.

• And far from Kansas, the small city of Hazleton, Pa., was ordered to pay $1.4 million in attorney fees and court costs to the American Civil Liberties Union and other lawyers who successfully argued that a 2006 ordinance the city drafted upon Kobach’s advice was unconstitutional.

The law penalized businesses that hired illegal immigrants and landlords who rented to them. Courts ruled that it wrongly usurped federal immigration law. Hazleton is now trying to work out a payment plan with the opposing attorneys to avoid large tax increases or bankruptcy.

Hazleton learned the hard way about the consequences of following the supremely confident but often mistaken Kobach down his anti-immigrant rabbit hole. The Kansas Legislature, unfortunately, never seems to figure out that leading the nation in voter suppression at Kobach’s behest is a terrible idea.

To be fair, plenty of lawmakers, including some Democrats, were on board with Kobach when they passed a

2011 law requiring people to produce a birth certificate or other proof of citizenship in order to complete their voter registrations.

At the time, no one realized the tough new requirement would clash with the federal “motor voter” law, which requires states to make voter registration forms available at motor vehicle offices. Those forms don’t require proof of citizenship.

Kansans have also run into barriers while trying to register at places like the Kansas State Fair. This being America, most people don’t carry birth certificates or passports around with them in the off chance they’ll have to prove their citizenship.

And so first-time voter registration in Kansas essentially has become a two-step process. You can fill out a form on the spot, but you’ll have to go through additional steps to prove your citizenship to local

anywhere in the nation.

Analyses of the rolls of suspended voters show that younger people are most affected. More than 40 percent are younger than 30, according to the Wichita Eagle.

Kobach and his defenders argue that these people could complete their registrations easily enough by visiting their county election office or emailing a copy of a citizenship document. But by erecting that bureaucratic hurdle, they are ensuring that voter registration rates will be lower than if the onerous requirement did not exist.

Kansas lawmakers this year also allowed Kobach to become the nation’s only secretary of state with the jurisdiction to prosecute voter fraud cases.

That resulted this week in misdemeanor charges being filed against Betty M. Gaedtke and Steven K. Gaedtke, who allegedly voted in Johnson

Legal questions aside, there is something fundamentally wrong when a state and elected officials go out of their way to make voting difficult for citizens.

election officials.

Until recently, at least 36,000 persons in Kansas were listed as having voter registrations “in suspense,” and requiring more documentation. But this month, under orders from Kobach, county election officials began removing people from the rolls if they’d been there more than 90 days. If they want to vote, they’ll have to start the process over again.

Kobach and Kansas are facing a federal lawsuit brought by two voters who did not compete their registration.

They argue that Kansas is violating federal law by purging would-be voters from the rolls.

Legal questions aside, there is something fundamentally wrong when a state and elected officials go out of their way to make voting difficult for citizens. The hurdles the state has enacted since 2011 are far out of proportion to any voter fraud problems that have been detected in Kansas or

County and Arkansas in the 2010 general election. The couple apparently now lives in Arkansas, and Johnson County officials had declined to prosecute their case.

The other case involves felony charges brought against Lincoln W. Wilson, who is accused of voting in both Kansas and Colorado in three separate elections.

Americans only get one vote per election, and it is rather surprising that other authorities didn’t crack down earlier on Wilson, who has acknowledged voting in both states.

But nothing Kobach has produced so far justifies the draconian measures the Legislature has passed to suppress voting in Kansas. By pandering to anti-immigrant sentiment — Kobach’s specialty — the state of Kansas is discouraging thousands of U.S. citizens from claiming their right to vote.

— The Kansas City Star

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Glen and Marion Kunkel, who have operated the Ralston-Hutton Chapel in Moran since May of 1974, have purchased full interest in the mortuary, they announced today. Kunkel said the funeral home will be known as the Ralston-Hutton-Kunkel Cha-

pel.

***** The Iola Jaycees completed construction of a basketball goal and cement apron for use by boys living at the Circle B Boys Ranch north of Iola Saturday. The Jaycees started the project a month ago and finished the concrete work Saturday afternoon, after pour-

ing the slab in the morning.

Working on the project yesterday were Gary Hoffmeier, Bob Leftwich, Larry Crawford and Don Boyer. Donating materials and equipment for the project were Shannon Hardware, Sell Construction, Iola Ready Mix, Boyer Oil, B & W Equipment and Walton Foundry.

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A lesson in America’s pastime

By JONATHAN CZUPRYN The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — Phil Dixon first had to address the elephant in the room before speaking to a room full of Kansas City Royals fans.

“I bet you’re wondering whey I’m wearing a Chicago jersey, huh?” asked Dixon, who traveled to Humboldt on Saturday as part of the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit, “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shapes America.”

He explained how George Sweatt — one of Humboldt’s most famous athletes of all time — played two seasons with the Negro League’s American Giants in Chicago after making his mark on the game with the Kansas City Monarchs in the mid 1920s.

After that, the crowd of about 35 strong forgave Dixon for his choice in apparel and allowed the baseball historian to continue his presentation on Sweatt, the Monarchs and baseball’s history in southeast Kansas.

Humboldt marked Dixon’s 94th city in his nation-wide tour spanning 11 states. The author of the Best Baseball Book in 1992 brought along dozens of the game’s artifacts as well as his multiple books that chronicled some of baseball’s most cherished moments and players.

Although the majority of his presentation dealt with an era that predated many of the audience members, Dixon found numerous ways to bring a fresh perspective to the crowd.

ACC women’s XC dominates meet EL DORADO — Despite having the bare number of runners in order to qualify for a team score, the Allen Community College women’s cross country team had no trouble earning a first-place finish at the Ollie Isom Invitational on Friday.

The Lady Red Devils, who are ranked No. 10 in the country, finished the meet with 38 points, which was nine points better than second-place finisher No. 6 Butler.

Kaitlin Shoemaker

Phil Dixon (left) speaks with an audience of about 35 people in Humboldt on Saturday morning. REGISTER/JONATHAN CZUPRYN “Back in those days, players had real nicknames,” Dixon joked. “There was Daffy, Dizzy, Turkey. Today what you do you got? What’s Salvador Perez’s nickname?”

Someone in the audience answers, “Salvy.”

“That’s no nickname,” Dixon exclaimed. “It’s just his name shortened.”

Dixon’s personal interactions with the subjects of his presentation also brought some life to the history lesson.

“Call waiting just became a thing,” Dixon recalled, “and I remember talking to John “Buck” O Neil. I said, ‘Hey, I got to put you on hold for a sec.’ After that, he told me,

‘Son, don’t put me on hold again.’ And I never did.”

He also discussed his correspondence with Sweatt and his wife from about 30 years ago, providing the letters from the exchange as proof.

Dixon ended his well-received hour-and-a-half speech with a poem entitled, “The Stars that Did Not Shine,” which discussed the forgotten heros of Negro League Baseball that Dixon spent so much time researching.

Henry Thomas was scheduled to provide his own unique perspective on his late grandfather, Walter Johnson.

However, Thomas was unable to attend Saturday’s event.

led the team with a firstplace overall finish after recording a 19:23.

Kristina Silvers crossed the finish line 15 seconds after Shoemaker to earn second place.

Allen also placed the fourth and sixth overall runners in Vicky Ibarra and Taylor Jameson, respectively.

Coach Vince DeGrado’s fifth and final runner was Asha Alvarez, who competed in just her second collegiate cross country meet.

Historical society presents “The History of Baseball” The Allen County Historical Society will hold its annual business meeting tonight at 7 o’clock in the North Community Building, 505 N. Buckeye St. But in addition to the meeting, Dr. Chris Lovett, who is a history professor at Emporia State University, will present “The History of Baseball” to any and all who wish to attend the free event.

Lovett and the historical society encourage all baseball and softball teams in the area to attend in order to learn more about the sport’s storied past.

The presentation comes after Humboldt held its Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit, “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shapes America.”

Refreshments will be provided.

Arrieta roughed up, Mets now 2-0 in NLCS NEW YORK (AP) — Somewhere between Pittsburgh and Chicago, Jake Arrieta lost his unhittable aura.

He didn’t find it in New York, that’s for sure.

Arrieta gave up base hits to his first three batters — including D a n i e l Mur phy’s latest postJake Arrieta season homer — and the Chicago Cubs were unable to recover Sunday night in a 4-1 loss to the New York Mets that left them down 2-0 in the NL Championship Series.

“I put us in a pretty big hole there at the start, one that was a little too hard to overcome,” Arrieta said.

The good news for the wild-card Cubs is they’re headed home to Wrigley Field, with Game 3 in the best-of-seven set scheduled for Tuesday night. But they’ll need quite a comeback to claim their first pennant in seven decades as they try to end that World Series championship drought that dates to 1908.

“We’ve got work to do,” Arrieta said. “Two tough games here, but the series is not over. We feel good where we’re at.”

Arrieta led the majors with 22 wins and was so dominant after the All-Star break, his second-half performance ranks as one of

the best in baseball history.

He went 11-0 with a 0.41 ERA in 12 starts from Aug. 4 through the end of the season, then pitched a fivehit shutout at Pittsburgh to win the NL wild-card game.

But with his 2015 total now approaching 250 innings, the Cy Young Award contender has been much less effective in his last two outings.

“I physically felt fine. I knew the high-end (velocity) wasn’t necessarily there tonight. Threw quite a few changeups to offset that,” Arrieta said.

Cubs manager Joe Maddon was asked if he thinks Arrieta’s workload has taken a toll.

“I can’t deny that it might be. I don’t know that,” Maddon said. “If that (radar) gun was correct on the field, he might have been down a mile an hour or two.”

“From the side, delivery was good. He was not laboring to throw the ball. It’s just, it wasn’t as crisp as it had been, that’s all,” the manager added.

After a long string of sensational starts, Arrieta finally got touched up at home by St. Louis in Game 3 of the Division Series.

He yielded four runs and five hits in 5 2-3 innings of an 8-6 win that left him 2-0 with a 2.45 ERA and 20 strikeouts in two playoff outings.

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Fillies volleyball held without win GARNETT — The Iola High volleyball team competed in the Anderson County Invitational on Saturday.

The Fillies did not earn any wins on the day and picked up three losses.

Independence handed Iola its first defeat of the meet when it won in two straight

sets (25-22, 25-11).

Iola then fell to the host team, Anderson County, in two sets as well (25-12, 25-19).

In the third and final game for the Fillies, coach Emily Sigg’s team lost to Fort Scott in two sets (25-22, 25-17).

Ashlie Shields led her team

in kills on the day with 14 total in three games.

“This is a really tough tournament, and we didn’t end up with a win, but we competed.

I saw a lot of improvement in defense and there were some tremendous hustle plays throughout the day,” Sigg said.

Royals name ALCS Game 4 starter TORONTO (AP) — Royals manager Ned Yost has chosen Chris Young over Kris Medlen as his starter for Game 4 of the ALCS. Young has only made two starts since July 28, but they were good ones.

He allowed one run in 11 1-3 innings over those two outings, with his final start coming Oct. 2.

"He's got really good numbers against these guys," Yost said. "They're both great choices, but,

you know, Chris Young, his last two starts of the year were really, really good for us. We feel like he gives us a good chance to win."

The 6-foot-10, thirdround draft pick out of Princeton in 2000 appeared as a reliever in Game 1 of the ALDS, giving up a run in four innings. Overall, he was 11-6 in 34 appearances — 18 starts — this year.

Young faced the Blue Jays once this year, a 7-5 loss on July 11. Edwin En-

carnacion hit a two-run shot and Young yielded five hits and three runs over six innings. But over his 11-year career, Young has held current members of the Blue Jays to a .229 average (22 for 96) with two homers.

Medlen was 6-2 with a 4.01 ERA in 15 appearances, including eight starts, this year. He returned from Tommy John surgery on July 20 and hasn't pitched since Oct. 1.

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The Kansas route starts near Girard and ends near Tribune after winding through the Flint Hills and the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge. It includes portions of U.S. 54, Kansas 19 and Kansas 96.

The roads will become part of the U.S. Bicycle Route 76, which supporters hope will eventually stretch from Virginia to Oregon.

The Kansas City Star reports the route totals 2,013 miles from Virginia through Kansas.

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Big whoop STAFFORD, Kan. (AP) — Two adult whooping cranes have been reported at a wildlife refuge in central Kansas, marking an early fall return for the endangered birds.

The two whooping cranes were seen this weekend at Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in Stafford County.

Barry Jones, visitor services specialist at the refuge, says the earliest record of the birds arriving at Quivira was in 2000. The first sighting this fall was Oct. 10, when another pair of the whooping cranes rested in refuge’s south end of the Little Salt Marsh.

About two dozen of the large birds pass through Quivira and nearby Cheyenne Bottoms in Barton County each fall migration.

KC firefighter deaths followed by innovations KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Some Kansas City blazes that claimed the lives of firefighters over the past half-decade have led to safety innovations that became commonplace nationally.

Two Kansas City firefighters were killed last Monday when the wall of a burning, multistory brick building collapsed onto them and two others.

A rapid intervention team, or RIT team, rushed in and pulled the four men from beneath the rubble. Two of the firefighters survived but two others — 43-yearold Larry J. Leggio and 39-year-old John Mesh — didn’t make it.

The Kansas City Fire Department developed the RIT teams after the 1999 death of Battalion Chief John Tvedten, who became disoriented, got lost and ran out of air after an evacuation ordered during a fouralarm warehouse blaze, The Kansas City Star reported.

Rescuers could hear the alarm bells ringing on his air tank but could not find the 47-year-old father in time to save him.

Tvedten was known for promoting firefighter safety and had suggested Kansas City develop such teams, which are now standard in the industry.

Two of the worst days in the fire department’s history also sparked innovations that have helped improve safety for firefighters.

In 1959, five firefighters and a civilian died

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The fire spread and enveloped larger tanks.

More than 200 firefighters worked for hours to control the blaze.

Firefighters were using 12 streams of water on the blaze when the biggest tank exploded, sending out a fireball that injured scores of firefighters from Kansas and Missouri.

Afterward, departments across the country developed better and safer techniques for fighting fires involving flammable liquids. The tragedy also led to new safety standards for the storage and handling of hazardous materials.

In 1988, a burning trailer full of ammonium nitrate exploded at a south Kansas City construction site, killing the six firefighters who were there to extinguish the blaze.

The firefighters were aware that explosives were stored in the area, but they didn’t know what the trailer contained. After the incident, placement of placards indicating the presence of hazardous materials inside buildings and vehicles became standard.

The city also passed a sales tax as a result of that tragedy to fund a hazardous materials response team. The unit was called HazMat 71, after Pumpers 30 and 41, the two crews killed in the explosion.

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SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A Salina theater was evacuated after a man apparently shot himself in the leg with his concealed handgun.

The Salina Journal reports the theater was evacuated Friday after the handgun went off in the man’s pocket, hitting him in the upper leg.

Tim Coleman says he was sitting nearby when he heard a pop, smelled gunpowder and the man said “Oh my God! I shot myself.�

Coleman, an Army mechanic now with the Kansas National Guard, says first he checked to make sure his 14-yearold daughter and her friends were safe. He says people evacuated calmly, and several people called 911.

Coleman fixed a tourniquet to stop the man’s bleeding and made sure the weapon was secured.

Police say the incident remains under investigation. The man’s condition is unclear.

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By Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health

protection against flu.

There are six different types of FDA-approved flu vaccines available for the 2015-2016 season. In addition to the standard- and high-dose trivalent and quadrivalent, there also are two trivalent vaccines made without eggs (particularly useful for those

with an egg allergy); an intradermal vaccine that uses a tiny needle (90 percent smaller than regular needles) for people who really don’t like shots; and, unlike all other flu vaccines (which are inactivated virus), a live attenuated vaccine given via a nasal spray, which may

be better in children, and is approved only for ages 2-49.

I would recommend the high-dose trivalent for those over 65, and the quadrivalent for those under 65, unless you fall into one of the special situations above (fear of shots, egg allergy).

(First published in The Iola Register, October 19, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY L. MARTIN, DECEASED

Case No. 15 PR 48 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR PROBATE OF WILL AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS (Chapter 59) THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:

You are hereby notified a petition has been filed on October 15, 2015, in this Court by Gregory G. Martin, the named executor of the Will and estate of Mary L. Martin, deceased, and as executor named in her will, praying for admission to probate of the Last Will Testament of Mary L. Martin dated February 18, 2010 which will is filed with the petition, and for his appointment as executor of said Will and estate, to serve without bond, and for the issuance of letters testamentary to

him as executor.

You are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 10th day of November 2015, at 8:30 A.M. of said day, in the district courtroom at the county courthouse, in the City of Iola, Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard.

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

All creditors of the decedent are notified to exhibit their de-

mands against the estate within four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

GREGORY G. MARTIN, Petitioner JOHNSON LAW OFFICE PA Robert E. Johnson II P.O. Box 866 Iola, KS 66749 620-365-3778 Attorney for Petitioner (10) 19, 26 (11) 2

(First published in The Iola Register Oct. 5, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS FIRST CAPITAL CORPORATION, Plaintiff, vs.

TODD A. ANDERSON, MEGAN A. COLTRANE, f/k/a Megan A. Anderson, DOUGLAS A. COLTRANE, and CHERYL A. COLTRANE, Defendants.

Case No. 2015-CV-47 NOTICE OF SUIT TO: TODD A. ANDERSON AND ALL OTHER CONCERNED PERSONS: You are notified that a petition has been filed in the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, by First Capital Corporation praying for in rem judgment against and the foreclosure of its mortgages against the following-described real estate situated in Allen County, Kansas:

The West Half of the Northwest Quarter (W/2 NW/4) of Section Twenty-three (23), Township Twenty-five (25) South, Range Nineteen (19) East of the Sixth Principal Meridian, excluding road and less and except minerals, and for all other legal and equitable relief to which it is entitled. You are hereby required to plead to the petition on or before November 16, 2015, in the Court at Iola, Kansas. If you fail to plead, judg-

ment will be entered upon the petition.

First Capital Corporation, Petitioner Blake Hudson #08541 HUDSON & MULLIES, L.L.C. P.O. Box 866 Fort Scott, Kansas 66701 620-223-2900 620-223-2902- Fax E-mail: blake@hudsonmullies.com Attorneys for Plaintiff (10) 5, 12, 19

(First published in The Iola Register on Oct. 19, 2015) IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Civil Case No. 15-4917-DDC-KGS Plaintiff, v. ROBERT L. WILSON, and SAUNDRA H. WILSON, Defendants.

NOTICE OF SUIT SAUNDRA H. WILSON: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Complaint has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, by the United States, on behalf of Rural Housing Service, United States Department of Agriculture, by and through the United States Attorney for the District of Kansas, praying for in rem judgment against borrowers Rob-

ert L. Wilson and Saundra H. Wilson, in the total amount of $92,925.33, which includes the following: the principal sum of $82,528.91 (including unpaid principal of $78,702.14 and advances as follows: escrow replenish of $1,249.00; title of $125.00; escrow of $2,409.36; and late fees of $43.41); and $10,396.42 interest accrued to July 6, 2015 (including principal interest of $10,222.85 and interest on advances of $173.57); plus daily interest accruing at the contract rate of $12.8889 (including daily interest on principal of $12.6678 and daily interest on advances of $0.2211) per day to the date of judgment herein; together with interest at the

legal rate thereafter; plus the costs of this action; and for foreclosure of real estate mortgages executed on July 1, 2004, covering real property located in Allen County, Kansas, described as: Lots One (1), Two (2), Three (3), Four (4) and Five (5), in Block Six (6) in Savonburg, Allen County, Kansas, and you are hereby required to plead to said Complaint on or before November 24, 2015, in said Court at Topeka, Kansas.

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Pentagon: al-Qaida operative killed

By W.J. HENNIGAN Tribune News Service

WA S H I N G T O N (TNS) — The airstrike that killed Sanafi alNasr, leader of an al-Qaida offshoot, in northwest Syria, was carried out by the U.S.led coalition, the Pentagon said Sunday.

Al-Nasr was in charge of the Khorasan Group and was a primary coordinator for moving money and fighters to militant strongholds in Syria, the Pentagon said.

The 30-year-old Saudi-born fighter, also known as Abdul Mohsen Abdallah Ibrahim al-Charekh, was killed Thursday, according to Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook.

Al-Nasr organized routes for new recruits to travel from Pakistan to Syria and helped manage the group’s finances by moving funds from donors into Iraq and then to al-Qaida leaders.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group based in London, said alNasr was killed near the northern town of Dana, along with another Saudi and a Moroccan member of al-Qaida’s local affiliate, known as the Nusra Front.

Al-Nasr is the fifth senior Khorasan Group leader killed in the last four months. The Pentagon framed his death as a major loss for alQaida — even though the group has a proven ability to replace lead-

ers quickly.

“The United States will not relent in its mission to degrade, disrupt and destroy al-Qaida and its remnants,” Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said in a statement. “This operation deals a significant blow to the Khorasan Group’s plans to attack the United States and our allies.”

Al-Nasr was born in Shaqra in Riyadh province in Saudi Arabia in 1985. His father fought in Afghanistan in the 1980s against the Soviet Union and later encouraged his seven sons to engage in militancy. Two of them later ended up in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, according to the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. The United Nations Security Council named al-Nasr to its al-Qaida sanctions list last year, calling him a “leading terrorist Internet propagandist since 2006.”

In late 2008 or early 2009, he traveled to Iran, where he was appointed the Iran-based representative of alQaida, funneling money and fighters for the group. He was arrested

by Iranian authorities in 2009 and was released in May 201. He then traveled to North Waziristan, Pakistan, to develop a new militant network.

A year later, he took charge of al-Qaida’s core finances before relocating to Syria in 2013.

The Khorasan Group is said to be made up of a shadowy cell of veteran al-Qaida members with cutting-edge bomb-making abilities who moved to Syria to work undetected by government authorities preoccupied with the civil war there.

Their capabilities and the group’s Western recruits, who potentially could cross borders with little scrutiny, are a particularly worrisome combination for U.S. officials.

Prairie Dell 4-H members participated in an educational tour of Sam & Louie’s during their October 4-H meeting. Pictured are, from left, Emily McKarnin, Henry Wicoff, Casey McKarnin, Emilia Wilkerson, Kahlan Roloff, Luke Wicoff, Eve Ard and Lane Roloff. PHOTO BY TERRI KRETZMEIER

4-H report Prairie Dell

The Oct. 5 meeting of the Prairie Dell 4-H club was at Sam and Louie’s.

Eve Ard led the club in the Flag Salute and 4-H pledge.

Emelia Wilkerson led the club in singing “John Jacob Jingle-

heimer Schmidt.”

Roll call was answered by “Your Favorite Movie.”

No talks were given.

Before the meeting, club members played “frisbee golf ” at their fall party.

The next 4-H meeting

will be “Bring a Friend Night” at 7 p.m. Nov. 2 at the Riverside Park Community Building. Talks will be given by Isaiah Wicoff, Kalibre Smith, Eve Ard and Henry Wicoff.

— Reporter Kahlan Roloff

German mayoral candidate earns seat after stabbing COLOGNE, Germany (TNS) — Henriette Reker is set to become the new mayor of Cologne, Germany, a day after she was injured in a stabbing attack.

Reker, an independent, won an absolute majority of 51.7 percent of the vote, according to

returns, beating six other candidates. Her outright majority ensures that she can take the job and become Cologne’s first mayor.

Police investigating the attack in Germany’s fourth-biggest city said her assailant was motivated by anger at Rek-

er’s pro-refugee stance.

Reker, 58, who is responsible for organizing refugee accommodation, had been seen as having good chances as voting started, according to polls conducted by the center-right Christian Democratic Union, the

a weekly market in the city.

Reker’s condition was improving after surgery Saturday evening. Doctors said she is likely to make a full recovery, but said she will have to remain hospitalized for the time being.

Greens and the liberal Free Democratic Party, all of whom backed her as their mayoral candidate.

A local CDU politician, an FDP member of city government and two members of the public were also injured in Saturday’s attack at

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cure elections in the nation.

Testifying before a legislative committee earlier this year, Kobach said his office identified 18 cases in which a person voted in Kansas and another state in the same elections in 2010 or 2012; only seven were prosecuted. In 2011, he told legislators there had been 59 reported cases of potential election fraud since 1997, affecting more than 200 ballots.

None of the three cases Kobach filed — or any he cited earlier this year — involved someone impersonating a voter or a noncitizen attempting to vote. Nor did most of the cases cited in his 2011 report.

Critics contend that the policies Kobach champions are politically motivated, pursued by Republicans who want to suppress turnout among Democratic-leaning groups, such as students and minorities. At the end of September, Kansas had nearly 37,700 incomplete registrations, most for people failing to provide proof of citizenship.

Republicans were underrepresented; 56 percent listed no party affiliation, and nearly

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45 percent were under age 30, an AP analysis showed.

Kobach has directed county election officials to begin canceling more than 30,000 registrations that had been incomplete more than 90 days.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Secretaries of States said they know of no other state that grants independent prosecutorial power to its secretary of state. Dale Ho, director of the ACLU’s national Voting Rights Project, worries that Kobach has an incentive to file criminal cases to validate his assertions that election fraud is a problem.

“When there are election irregularities, it’s more frequently due to mistake, misunderstanding or incompetence than it is to malfeasance,” Ho said.

In Kansas, the association representing county prosecutors testified this year against

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the legislation granting the secretary of state’s office the power to pursue criminal cases, suggesting it was “unnecessary and wasteful.”

Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett, a Republican, rejected Kobach’s argument that county prosecutors are too busy to make election fraud cases a priority by noting that his office handles 35,000 traffic infractions a year. Bennett said county prosecutors fall under specific legal ethics rules and are held

accountable by local voters.

“The discretion and power given to elected prosecutors is something to be careful with,” Bennett said.

Ho questions whether other states will emulate Kansas. Only eight, including Kansas, have strict voter photo ID laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, and only Alabama, Arizona and Georgia have proof-ofcitizenship statutes.

In Alabama, Secretary of State John Merrill agrees his office should have the authority to prosecute election fraud cases, spokeswoman Kayla Farnon said. She said Merrill — who considers Kobach a close friend — explored the idea with legislative

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But she said “it was understood it would not be granted” and his office instead reached an agreement with other state agencies on a project to prevent election irregularities.

But asked about a Kansas-style law in his state, Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams, a Republican elected in 2014, said in an emailed statement, “We want to work directly with district at-

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torneys first.”

Missouri’s Democratic secretary of state, John Kander, said he trusts local prosecutors and doesn’t see the need to seek the power Kobach did in Kansas.

“He has gotten a lot of attention, which is his goal,” Kander said.

“I think it’s pretty clear that Secretary Kobach has used his position as secretary of state to an extreme partisan agenda time and time again.”

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