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Senate panel endorses tax hikes

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A budget-balancing plan to raise Kansas’ sales tax and repeal an income tax break championed by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback cleared a state Senate committee Tuesday, but GOP legislators are split and influential business groups oppose it.

The Assessment and Taxation Committee’s plan would raise $496 million during the fiscal year that begins July 1 to close a projected budget shortfall and leave the state with a small financial cushion. The measure also would increase tobacco and gasoline taxes.

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The big move Essence Owens, a fourth-grade paraprofessional at Lincoln Elementary School, fills a box this morning, part of a week-long effort to pack supplies from each of the affected rooms for USD 257’s upcoming move to grade-level attendance centers. District employees will spend most of the next two weeks moving supplies to their appointed classrooms. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Banks fined $2.5 billion for market rigging WASHINGTON (AP) — Four big banks will pay $2.5 billion in fines and plead guilty to criminally manipulating the global currency markets going back to 2007.

JPMorgan Chase, Citi-

group, Barclays and The Royal Bank of Scotland conspired with one another to fix rates on U.S. dollars and euros traded in the huge global market for currencies, according to a settlement announced this morning

between the banks and U.S. Justice Department. Currency traders allegedly shared customer orders through chat rooms and used that information to profit ahead of their clients.

The criminal behavior took

County outlines hospital demolition plans

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

The site of the old Allen County Hospital will be ready for development about Nov. 1, if an auction and razing of the building can be done in a timely manner.

John Brocker of Allen County Realty told Allen County commissioners Tuesday morning that he will arrange an auction of left over equipment as well as for salvage material, such as copper wire. Salvage of scrap metal likely would fetch more in an open auction than through sealed bids, Brocker said, or as an addendum to a demolition contract.

Anything sold at the auction, planned for the third week in June, must be removed within 30 days . By then a demolition company will have been identified and will be expected to start razing the structure no later than Aug. 1.

County Counselor Alan

Allen County commissioners hope to have the old Allen County hospital building removed by Nov. 1. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN Weber said demolition likely would take about 90 days, a timeline re-enforced by a conversation with a representa-

tive of one of four companies that have expressed interest. As for cost, based on the $250,000 contract for remov-

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New roof coming for law enforcement center

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

Allen County will spend nearly $68,000 to put a new roof on the Allen County Law Enforcement Center.

The decision came after Sheriff Bryan Murphy and Ron Holman, courthouse maintenance supervisor, as-

sured commissioners the leaking roof would only get worse, and threaten internal equipment if nothing were done.

“It’s leaked since the day it opened (2004),” said Commission Chairman Tom Williams, who as former sheriff has first-hand knowledge, and said repairs had been in

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constant need.

The roof was under warranty by Groh and Sons, Emporia, which installed it, but provisions limit responsibility to repairs, not a new roof.

A new roof would strain the sheriff ’s budget, Murphy said, noting about $40,000 for computer software had already been spent.

Enter Bill King, director of Public Works. On request from commissioners, King said landfill reserves, mainly from tipping fees, could support a transfer to pay for the roof. The landfill fund contains about $1.5 million, with $765,000 earmarked for the See ROOF | Page A6

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place between December 2007 and January 2013, according to the agreement.

Another bank, UBS, has agreed to plead guilty to manipulating key interest rates and will pay a separate $203 million criminal penalty.

Iola pool reopens Area youngsters will trade in their textbooks and pencils for swimming trunks and sunscreen starting Monday, with the annual reopening of the Iola Municipal Pool.

Summer Splash 2015 will feature a number of contests, prizes and live radio from KIKS 101.5 for Monday’s celebration.

The pool hours will change slightly from years past. The pool opens at 1 p.m. closing at 6 p.m. each Sunday, 7 p.m. each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday and 8 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday. Adult swim sessions are from noon to 1 p.m. Sunday, 7 to 8 p.m. Monday and Wednesday and 8 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday.

The pool is open for private swim parties from 7 to 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

Call the Iola Recreation Office at 365-4990 for details.

Some special dates: Free admission will be offered June 24 and July 22 for swimmers of all ages, while the pool will close at 4 p.m for swim meets June 17 and 24 and July 15.

Season passes and discount admission tickets can be purchased at the rec office during normal business hours.

The pool will not open during inclement weather or if the temperature dips below 70.

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Obituaries

Ledbetter helps turn women into leaders

May Bennett Baby May Bennett, Iola, passed away Wednesday, May 13, 2015, at Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola. May was the daughter of Donald Bennett and Angel Boan, Iola.

She was preceded in death by her grandmother, Sarah Ann Peterson and great-grandfather, Robert Alvin Peterson Sr. May is survived by her parents; brother, Cayton Bennett; grandfather, Lenny Boan; grandparents, Kevin and Linda Spunagle; and great-grandmother Sarha Peterson.

A graveside service will be at 1 p.m. on Thursday, at Highland Cemetery in Iola.

Countryside Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be left at www. countrysidefh.com

Susan Shannon Susan Rae Shannon, 63, Topeka, passed away Sunday, May 17, 2015. She is survived by her parents Raymond and Wanda Shannon, Iola.

Private services will be held. To view the full obituary visit www.dovecremation.com

Lincoln Elementary readers honored Lincoln Elementary School Accelerated Reader top point earners were awarded for their reading success at the end of the year assembly.

Top point earners for the last quarter are:

Kindergarten: Kinsey Jelinek, first place; Franklin Kerr, second place; Abigail Jerome, third place.

First grade: Bethany Miller, first place; Isaac Velazquez, second place; Briley Prather, third place.

Second grade: Shepard Smith, first place; Alana Mader, second place; Brooklyn Ellis, third place.

Third grade: Japheth Rutoh, first place; Kennedy Maier, second place; Drayk Farrill, third place.

Fourth grade: Eli Adams, first place; Thomas Chapman, second place; Destinee Wade, third place.

Fifth grade: Hannah Ander-

sen, first place; Katlyn Melton, second place; Isabella Richards, third place.

Top point earners for the year are: Kindergarten: Keysha Smith, first place; Abigail Jerome, second place; Franklin Kerr, third place.

First grade: Briley Prather, first place; Bethany Miller, second place; Brandi Taylor, third place.

Second grade: Shepard Smith, first place; Mariah Jelinek, second place; Alana Mader, third place.

Third grade: Japheth Rutoh, first place; Drayk Farrill, second place; Kennedy Maier, third place.

Fourth grade: Eli Adams, first place; Destinee Wade, second place; Deacon Wells, third place.

Fifth grade: Justice Wilson, first place; Elizabeth Baker, second place, Katlyn Melton, third place.

State Fair to have smoking areas HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Smokers who attend the Kansas State Fair will be required to use designated smoking areas, beginning in 2016.

The state fair board narrowly approved the change after a lengthy debate Tuesday. The policy will not be in effect this year to give state fair staff time to sug-

gest the designated areas and determine how the policy will be implemented.

Currently, smoking is banned only inside fair buildings and the grandstand seating area.

Kansas will join more than 15 other state fairs in the country that restrict smoking on the fairgrounds.

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— The gig: Bernice Ledbetter, 57, is a faculty member at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. Ledbetter was recently awarded $150,000 to start the Malibu, Calif., university’s Center for Women in Leadership, which will open in the fall semester. One of the center’s aims is to help prepare female students for successful careers through skills development, mentoring and roundtable discussions with industry leaders. Ledbetter said she intends to call on the approximately 37,000 graduates of the Graziadio school to provide some of that mentoring and business executive expertise.

— Learning to think: Ledbetter was born in San Jose and raised in Fresno. She was the first member of her immediate family to go to college, earning a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies at Cal State Fresno. She next went to Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena for a three-year master’s degree in divinity she finished in 1987. “I learned about the classic philosophers. I took my first foreign language, which was Greek, and also Hebrew. I learned how to think there. I learned to look for nuance in everything.”

— Strong women: Ledbetter’s mother, Binnie, was a single parent who worked seven days a week as a waitress at

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two restaurants to keep the family afloat. “She taught me that hard work was not something to shy away from; it was something to embrace. I do her honor by working hard because that is what she did for me.” Grandmother Bernice took care of the daily child care while Binnie was working.

“She instilled a sense a duty, that we owe things to certain people, gratitude and obligation,” Ledbetter said. “She’d say, ‘You have a duty to succeed because of how hard your mom is working for you.’”

— Mentor Max: In 1995, Ledbetter was invited to help put together the Max De Pree Center for Leadership in Pasadena. That gave her the opportunity to work directly with De Pree, the former chief executive of Herman Miller Inc., the furniture and design company, and author of books including “Leadership is an Art.” “He taught me that every person is special and valuable and unique and equal, whether it’s the CFO or the guy who makes sure the lights are turned on,” Ledbetter said. “He made sure everyone felt they were valued, and I think that encouraged them to work harder and contribute more.”

— Leadership niche: Ledbetter stayed on to be director of the De Pree Center but felt she needed a stronger foundation in leadership to do her job. She pursued a doctorate in organizational leadership from

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Dr. Bernice Ledbetter has been awarded a grant from Pepperdine University to start the Center for Women in Leadership. (Genaro Molina/TNS) Pepperdine University, which she completed in 2005. Her focus was on women in leadership.

Ledbetter’s doctoral study of female leaders found a running theme.

All of them, whether they were business or political leaders, were able to “combine benevolence and achievement. They were able to show compassion and empathy while still being able to achieve organizational results.”

— Powerful obligation: When Ledbetter talks about the goals of the new Center for Women, she mentions a Chinese student at Pepperdine who asked her, “How can I, as a woman, change my country?”

Then there’s the Saudi student who began an essay with the statement, “As fate would have it, something terrible happened to me at the beginning of my life, I was born a girl.”

Ledbetter said those

young women and others convinced her that “we have such a moral obligation to help these women. I can’t let them leave here without being fully equipped to lead well.”

— Advice: Don’t worry about the past because every experience helps to lead to the person you have become, Ledbetter said. “I always tell my students who think, ‘Oh that was a dumb job’ or ‘I took too long to finish that’ ... (that) no, every single thing you did was needed. I can trace my opportunities to things that happened long ago and see the necessity of that job or that decision instead of wishing I had done things differently.”

— Get it done: “You’ll hear things like, ‘I have to work twice as hard as the men,’” Ledbetter said. “Fine, so do it. The more time you spend whining about it, the less time you have to spend getting it done.”

Financial Focus Goodbye, Child Care Costs...

Hello, College Savings Opportunities If you’re a working parent, you know firsthand about the difficulties of finding quality, affordable care for your children. But eventually, your kids head off to school, and those child care bills go away, or at least diminish greatly.

When that happens, you could start putting away money for another one of your children’s milestones: college.

Just how expensive is child care? Costs vary greatly among the 50 states, but the national average for a 4-yearold at a child care center is approximately $7,880 per year, according to Child Care Aware of America, a child care resource and referral agency sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. What could you do with this money once your child enters kindergarten?

Of course, not all schools provide all-day kindergarten, so you still may have some child care costs. For the purposes of illustration, let’s presume you can finally say “goodbye” to child care costs when your child is in first grade, and let’s also assume your child is attending a public school. If you invested that $7,880 every year for 12 years, until your child reaches 18, you could accumulate more than $150,000 in a tax-advantaged college savings account, such as a 529 plan — assuming the money was placed in a hypothetical investment that earned 7% per year. (Keep in mind, though, that the word “hypothetical” means exactly that, because whenever you put money in any variable investment, there are no guarantees.)

Actually, earnings in a 529 plan accumulate and are distributed tax free, provided they are used for qualified higher education expenses. (529 plan distributions not used for qualified expenses may be subject to federal and state income tax and a 10% IRS penalty on the earnings.)

Also, your 529 plan contributions may be deductible from your state taxes. However, 529 plans vary, so be sure to check with your tax advisor regarding deductibility.

A 529 plan offers other benefits, too. For one thing, the lifetime contribution limits are generous; while these limits vary by state, some plans allow contributions well in excess of $200,000. And a 529 plan is flexible: If your child decides against college or vocational school, you can transfer the unused funds to another family member, tax and penalty free.

A 529 plan is a widely used choice for college savings, but it is not your only option. You could also consider a Coverdell Education Savings Account, which, like a 529 plan, can generate tax-free earnings if the money is used for higher education expenses. You can typically only put in a maximum of $2,000 per year to a Coverdell account, but it lets you use the funds on K-12 and college expenses.

Whichever college-savings vehicle you choose, it will take discipline on your part to continue investing in it, year after year. And after freeing yourself from those child care bills, you can certainly think of other ways to use this “found” money. That’s why you might want to automatically move money from your checking or savings account to your 529 plan, Coverdell account or other investment earmarked for college. As your income rises over the years, you can increase the amount of these automatic transfers.

In any case, once those child care bills stop, you can put that money to work on your children’s behalf. Make the most of this opportunity.

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Today-Lions Club, United Methodist Church basement, 7 p.m.; Thursday-County bus to Iola, phone 24 hours before you need a ride 785448-4410 any weekday; Monday-Memoral Day service at Cemetery, 9 a.m.; May 17- City Council, City Hall community room, 7 p.m.

School Calendar

Friday-Regional track at Burlington; TuesdayMay 29-FFA State Convention at Manhattan; May 28-29-State track at Wichita.

Summer Ball

With the rainy weather, it has been slow in getting ball practice worked in when field’s not wet. On Tuesday, the boys play Prescott at Colony Meal Site Fridaychicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, California blend veggies, pineapple mango; Monday, closed for Memorial Day; May 27-live music, Vision cards accepted –meatballs, creamy noodles, winter mix, roll, blueberry mix.

Christian Church

Pastor Mark McCoy’s sermon Sunday was “Ephesians.� Scripture came from Ephesians 1:1-23.

On June 14 is the church potluck dinner at the City Hall community room following morning services.

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Scripture presented Sunday at the United Methodist Church service was Psalm 47:1-9, Acts 1:1-11, Ephesians 1:15-23, and Luke 24 4453. Pastor Dorothy Welch presented the sermon “Don’t Just Stand There, Get on with the Work!�

Yard Sales

Colony’s Citywide Garage Sales are scheduled for May 29 and 30.

There is also an auction in town on May 30 so a several people will be in the area.

It would be a great time to clean your garage/house/yard and have a sale. Marla Bain would like to put everyone on the list and map which helps out-of-towners find sales easily. If you wish to have a sale, please email her the address of sale, day or both days you will be set up, start/end time, some items, and last name (optional). Crest Awards and

The May 13 meeting Scholarships was conducted by PresiReceiving Senior Acadent Danelle McGhee, demic Awards at the May with six members an- 12 assembly were: Govswering roll call by list- ernors Scholar, Regan ing their summer plans. Morrison; Kansas Board McGhee served refresh- of Regents Curriculum ments.

Completer and State Connie Reiter pre- Scholar- Regan Morrisented the devotion from son; Outstanding Math “Extraordinary Wom- and Science-Rene Rodrien,� based on John 1:16. guez; National Honor Added to the list of grad- Society Induction-Nate uates are Alan Young- Berry, Karlee Hammond high school graduate and Laurel Godderz. and Haley Freelove-AlReceiving schollen Community College arships were: Allen graduate.

County Community ColMembers worked lege-Tiffany Jackman, on the September pro- Trevor Freelove, Madigram and decided not son Covey and Krystal to provide ice cream at Cooper; Labette ComColony Days. They will munity College-Brianna encourage another or- Scovill; Crest Education ganization to provide ice A s s o c i a t i o n - T i f f a n y cream.

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Arvin Clemans, treasurer of the Crest Alumni Association, presents awards to Crest High School seniors Tiffany Jackman, daughter of Greg and Terri Jackman, and Austin Green, son of Gilbert and Kathy Green, at the Crest Senior Awards Assembly May 12. Jackman plans to become a teacher and Green will attend Coffeyville electrical lineman school. REGISTER/ALLENE

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2015 Seniors

Best wishes to our graduating seniors: Lynda Bradshaw, daughter of James and Francis Bradshaw; Alyssa Boeck, daughter of William and Viola Boeck; Kyler Bowen, son of Jay and Tammy Bowen; Krystal Cooper, daughter of Craig and Brenda Cooper; Madison Covey, daughter of Tanya Covey and Kenneth Covey; Trevor Freelove, son of Christine Freelove and Mark Freelove; Austin Green, son of Gilbert and Kathy Green; Preston Henson, son of Kem and Rebakah Colgin; Tiffany Jackman, daughter of Greg and Terri Jackman; Braden McGhee, son of Kendall and Christy McGhee; Regan Morrison, daughter of Gary and Lori Morrison; Rene Rodriguez, son of Juan and Graciela Rodriguez; Brianna Scovill, granddaughter of Bob and Mary Scovill; Christian Troxel, son of Melissa Belosic; Codi Vermillion, son of Travis and Dawn Vermillion, and Emily Wyant, daughter of George and Lori Wyant. Valedictorian was Regan Morrison and Salutatorian, Tiffa-

ny Jackman. Congratulations to all.

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At the Crest Board of Education May 11 meeting, Craig Frazell, Tisha Hug and Alex Nuss showed examples of student projects and lessons in their classrooms to the board members.

Science textbooks from Pearson Education for $7,638 was approved; Title 1 Parent Involvement policy was adopted.

Board members approved a 30-percent local option budget levy, with David Miller and Terry Ellis abstaining. The summer driver’s education was discussed and the resignation of Shelly Strickler as school counselor and supplemental duties (she accepted a position at Ottawa High School) and Craig Frazell as middle school boys basketball coach were accepted.

Board members hired Craig Frazell as school counselor and middle school science teacher and adjusted Alan Newton’s 2015-16 technology contract to 130 days, contingent on Southern Coffey County’s technology agreement.

Principal Travis Hermreck reported middle school track season ended May 5 with several students earning league champions and the eighth-grade girls winning the team competition.

The middle school attended a music festival in Fort Scott and 11 students received a I rating. The elementary school’s track and field day was today.

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Kacie Nilges, owner/ operator of Platinum K, hired workers to put a new roof on her salon last week.

Amanda Strickler, daughter of Garret and Shelly Strickler grad-

uated Saturday magna cum laude Kansas State University’s commencement ceremony. She majored in agriculture education.

Family attending were her parents, great grandfather H.A. Richardson, grandparents Dian Prasko, Wallace and Delores Strickler, uncles, aunts, cousins and friends.

Mark and Sharon Wiley attended the K-State graduation services as well. Their son, Dexter, graduated with a degree in wildlife and outdoor enterprise management.

The Wileys are now living in Mark’s parents’ home, the late Clair and Zona Wiley on North Pine Street. They sold their home on Catalpa Street to Leo and Katheryn Ramsey.

One of our old-timers, Maynard Belvoir, died Saturday, May 16. Funeral arrangements are pending.

Brownback signs fantasy sports bill TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a bill clarifying the legality of fantasy sports leagues.

Brownback’s office announced he signed the bill into law Tuesday, along with seven other measures.

The legality of fantasy sports leagues has been in dispute because the Kansas Constitution allows only the state to administer games fitting a broad definition of a lottery.

The state’s gambling regulator announced in August that it viewed fantasy sports as illegal lotteries, though there have been no known prosecutions.

Attorney General Derek Schmidt released an opinion in April saying legislators could legalize fantasy sports leagues by declaring that the outcomes depend upon the knowledge and skill of the players. The bill that does so passed with large majorities in each chamber.

Meanwhile, the Kansas Senate approved a compromise on regulations that ride-hailing company Uber says will allow it to stay in the state.

The Senate passed the legislation 37-0 on Tuesday after the House approved it 119-3 earlier in the day.

Uber announced in early May that it had ceased operations in Kansas after the Legislature overrode the governor’s veto on regulations the company opposed.

Under the new measure, Uber and other ride-hailing companies could do private background checks on their subcontracted drivers under the bill. But they could face lawsuits from the attorney general if drivers were found to be operating with a criminal background.

The compromise will now go to the governor. Republican Sen. Jeff Longbine says he believes the governor will sign it.

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dle school awards, Pre-K graduation and eighth grade promotion were Monday.

Students have complete MAP and state assessments.

Superintendent of Schools Chuck Mahon said next year’s preschool class is expected to have 20 students; adjustments to enrollment and transportation may be necessary. On May 12 a special meeting was called for the purpose to discuss personnel.

Following an executive session, Kristin Farnsworth was hired as an elementary teacher by a vote of 4-2, David Milner and Bryan Miller opposed.

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TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a 73-year-old BASE jumper who died after leaping from an Idaho bridge had set his parachute on fire as part of a stunt.

A graphic video of the fatal jump, posted to YouTube on Monday, shows someone engulfed in flames and falling from the Perrine Bridge into the Snake River, 500 feet below.

James E. Hickey had apparently planned to ditch the flaming parachute and deploy a second chute in the May 7 stunt.

Professional BASE jumper Sean Chuma told Twin Falls newspaper The Times-News that he had heard Hickey successfully performed the stunt

skydiving.

The initial report from the Twin Falls County Sheriff ’s Office said only that Hickey’s parachute deployed too late.

The video shows two BASE jumpers climbing over the railing of the Perrine Bridge and leaping at about the same time.

But while one jumper glides safely away underneath a parachute, the other becomes engulfed in a fireball and falls quickly out of view.

The video pans back to the river just after the burning jumper hits the water. A boat arrives seconds later, and the video ends.

A coroner’s report said Hickey, of Claremont, California, died of blunt force trauma.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A longtime confidant of Hillary Rodham Clinton has been subpoenaed to testify before a special House panel investigating the deaths of four Americans at the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, according to an official familiar with the probe.

This official, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said the subpoena was issued by the panel headed by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. The official declined to be identified publicly because he wasn’t authorized to discuss by name an investigation still in progress.

The panel has “a number of questions” for Sidney Blumenthal, the official said, including whether he had any business arrangements that led him to send

emails to Clinton and other officials concerning Libya while Clinton was secretary of state.

Blumenthal was not an employee of the State Department at the time.

Clinton had initially been expected to testify this week on the September 2012 attacks that killed four Americans, including U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens, but her testimony was put off after Gowdy complained that he lacked the necessary State Department documents to thoroughly question her.

Clinton, who is seeking the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, was in Iowa Tuesday for a campaign appearance.

Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, ranking Democrat on the panel, issued a statement today assailing the commit-

McProtests expected OAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) — Labor organizers and workers are expected to protest outside McDonald’s headquarters today to drive home their demand for pay of $15 an hour and a union for fast-food workers.

The start of the twoday demonstration in Oak Brook, Ill,, comes ahead of the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday.

Last year, McDonald’s decided to close a building and let employees work from home because of a similar protest, which later led to more than 100 people being arrested.

Representatives for McDonald’s did not

respond when asked whether the building would be closed again this year.

The campaign for pay of $15 an hour and a union began in late 2012 and has involved a range of tactics, including ongoing demonstrations in cities around the country. Earlier this year, McDonald’s said it would raise its starting pay for workers to $1 above the local minimum wage.

But labor organizers said the move falls short because it only applies to company-owned stores.

McDonald’s Corp. owns about 10 percent of its stores in the U.S., while the rest are run by franchisees.

tee’s GOP leadership for its handling of the subpoena.

“There was no need for the Select Committee to send two U.S. Marshals to the home of Sidney Blumenthal... especially since the committee never bothered to contact him first to ask him whether he would voluntarily come in,” Cummings said. “These heavy-handed, aggressive and unnecessary tactics waste the time of the U.S. Marshal service.”

“These latest moves by the Benghazi Committee — issuing a subpoena without first contacting the witness, leaking news of the subpoena before it was served, and not holding any committee debate or vote — are straight out the partisan playbook of discredited Republican investigations,” the congressman added. “The fact is that we have had these exact emails for three months, and the latest abuses by the committee are just one more example of a partisan, taxpayer-funded

attack against Secretary Clinton and her bid for president.”

Gowdy complained to Kerry last week that the State Department had delayed providing emails and other documents involving Clinton and her top associates.

“Simply put, the committee must have the records of communication requested more than six months ago before the secretary’s appearance can be scheduled,” Gowdy wrote.

The State Department said the department has provided 300 emails from Clinton, 19 witnesses and more than 40,000 pages of documents from the initial departmental investigation.

Democrats have complained that Gowdy and other Republicans are drawing out the Benghazi hearings in order to disrupt Clinton’s presidential campaign, but Gowdy said that the State Department is to blame for any delays.

Jamal Ware , a spokesman for the Benghazi committee, said Tuesday

that “questions about why it will take so long and how much it will cost the department to comply with public records requests due to challenges stemming from former Secretary Clinton’s personal email arrangement are best directed to State and the former secretary.”

Ware added that Gowdy believes it is “imperative” for the sake of transparency that “the complete public record of Secretary Clinton’s time in office be made available for the American people as quickly as possible.” Ware said the committee is focused solely on Benghazi.

The New York Times reported earlier this week that Blumenthal, 66, had written then-Secretary Clinton a host of emails about Libya before and after the death of Col. Moammar Gadhafi. Blumenthal was a White House aide during Bill Clinton’s presidency.

On Tuesday Clinton said she wants the State Department to speed release of her emails.

Roof: Commissioners approve Continued from A1

purchase of 255 acres from Don Diebolt, whose land is adjacent to the quarry/landfill complex.

Boren’s Roofing, Iola, was the only bidder for the new roof, at $67,850.

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decided to cancel next Tuesday’s meeting on recommendation of Commissioner Jerry Daniels, in order to “recognize all in uniform and our veterans.”

Monday is Veterans Day. They learned from Treasurer Darolyn Maley that 94.4 percent of ad valorem taxes had been collected, with the deadline for payment of the second half of property taxes having been May 10. All told, collections are $15,304,692.24 of $16,315,487.54 assessed.

She described 94.4 percent as “about the same as past years,” and said delinquency

usually settles out at about 3 percent.

Maley also noted vehicle owners will be notified of new registration by postcard, starting July 1 for August renewals. Owners need to bring their previous year’s registration or license tag number and insurance information if they register in person at the courthouse.

Registrations also may be done online or by mail.

Plan: Senate panel endorses sales tax increase Continued from A1

ed committee voted 6-4 to forward a bill containing the plan to the Senate for debate without endorsing its contents — showing that members feel some pressure to demonstrate that lawmakers are making progress toward balancing the budget. The Senate could debate the plan as early as Thursday.

The key issues for Republicans are how much to increase the state’s 6.15 percent sales tax and whether to backtrack on a 2012 policy exempting the profits of 281,000 business owners and 53,000 farmers from income taxes. Brownback pushed for the exemption, and he and business groups see it as an economic stimulus, but retaining it would require a larger sales tax increase than some GOP lawmakers want.

“Compromise is not a bad word,” Chairman Les Donovan, a Wichita Republican, told the Senate committee near the start of its meeting.

“Those folks that have these 100 percent opinions — that your idea, your way is the only way that matters — that is so counter-productive, so bad.”

The state’s projected budget shortfall of $406 million for the next fiscal year arose after legislators cut personal income taxes in 2012 and 2013 at Brownback’s urging.

Brownback met Tuesday morning with top Republican legislative leaders. The House Taxation

Compromise is not a bad word. Those folks that have these 100 percent opinions — that your idea, your way is the only way that matters — that is so counter-productive, so bad.

— Sen. Les Donovan, R-Wichita

Committee worked on a plan to increase sales, tobacco and gasoline taxes, while also reinstating taxes on business owners’ and farmers profits but didn’t finish with its debate.

Tuesday was the 93rd day of the Legislature’s annual session, three more than its leaders traditionally schedule.

The Senate committee’s proposal would repeal the exemption for business owners and farmers and replace it with a less lucrative tax credit against their payrolls. It also would freeze existing income tax rates, jettisoning reductions promised for the future.

“There’s nothing about that bill that we would like,” said Eric Stafford, a lobbyist for the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, which is lobbying with the National Federation of Independent Business to retain the exemption for business owners and farmers.

The sales tax would rise to 6.5 percent, though the rate on food would drop to 6 percent.

The cigarette tax would

increase by 50 cents a pack, to $1.29, and the gasoline tax would rise by 5 cents a gallon, to 29 cents.

Republican Sen. Mary

Pilcher-Cook, of Shawnee, a committee member who opposes the bill, said the state shouldn’t raise taxes at all.

“We need to cut more spending, as difficult as that may be,” she said.

But the Republican chairmen of the House and Senate budget committees said they expect only minor adjustments in recommendations that so far would allow spending to grow about 3 percent.

Democrats argue that increasing sales, tobacco and gasoline taxes

hurts poor and workingclass families more than wealthier ones. Democrats have shown no inclination so far to help Republicans pass a budget-balancing plan, having opposed the 2012 and 2013 income tax cuts and having argued that they would wreck the state’s finances.

“Until they can own up and take the responsibility for that, we’re going to continue to see these unfair kind of solutions,” said Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a Topeka Democrat.

in Garnett, Weber said he wouldn’t be surprised if a contract here was $400,000 or more.

As a cost buffer, the county will accept refuse at its landfill.

Also, Bill King, director of Public Works, said his department could provide crushed rock and dirt to fill the hole of where the hospital’s basement lies.

No estimate was made of what those concessions would mean to a demolition bid, but they no doubt will have a positive effect from the county’s perspective.

Arlyn Briggs, who on Friday pulled from consideration plans to develop the hospital building as a health care facility for Alzheimer’s and other patients, came unannounced and fussed a bit with commissioners.

He charged they undercut his efforts in favor of development of the site for a grocery and apartments.

Commission Chairman Tom Williams was abrupt in countering Briggs’ contention, noting commissioners had given him until June 1 to present a formal development proposal, including business and financial plans.

Commissioners at no time violated their verbal agreement to wait until the deadline before moving to another development proposal, Williams said.

Commissioners said they still were open to proposals for the cleared site.

Briggs said he had four sites in mind for his care unit, including about three acres owned by the county just to the northwest of Allen County Regional Hospital and facing Oregon Road.

He envisions a facility containing 7,000 square feet.

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Bioscience Authority an investment in state’s manufacturers Interstate 70 has been hailed as the “life sciences corridor,” because of startup businesses from Kansas City west to Lawrence, Topeka and Manhattan that concentrate on health care, pharmaceuticals and animal health.

Many have sprouted up under the umbrella of the Kansas Bioscience Authority, a state-backed initiative that helps fund sciencebased enterprises. Think of it as a mini-Silicon Valley.

Since its beginning in 2004, the KBA has helped several entrepreneurs develop full-fledged businesses in Kansas, including those that deal in software for health care, physical therapy services, medical devices, nutrition, and agri-business, including diagnostic techniques.

If growing business is a goal of Kansas legislators, the KBA is proof it can be done.

That is, unless legislators turn off the spigot.

The annual $10 million investment by the state is in the crosshairs of legislators looking to patch a $400 million hole in the budget.

The saying “penny wise, pound foolish” comes to mind.

merce, ROZ gives either tax breaks or helps with student loans if participants are willing to locate to rural parts of the state to set up shop.

The same goes for a whole alphabet of grants by the state to help communities build up “capacity,” repair infrastructure, improve housing and community facilities or revitalize neighborhoods.

To a one, these commendable programs depend on state funds.

THOSE AGAINST the KBA contend the state has no business in being venture capitalists — investors who help sparks of ideas catch fire.

If that’s the case, Kansas should scrap its Rural Opportunity Zone program. Set up by the Kansas Department of Com-

IN RURAL America, particularly, we have to fight for industries to come our way. The Bioscience Authority is a proven success in bringing advanced technology to Kansas.

To close the door now would send the state back in time.

— Susan Lynn

THE MESSAGE is greater than the means but speaks volumes about the willingness of a community or state to invest in its future.

In Iola we need look no further than Iola Industries for proof of how extending a helping hand can launch many successful businesses. Iola Industries was started in 1955 by a dozen men intent on growing the town’s manufacturing base.

Over the years it was instrumental in attracting almost 20 industries, including Columbia Metal, Gates Manufacturing, Herff Jones and Russell Stover Candies.

Its latest endeavor is to help bring G&W Foods to town.

State budget — spread the burden around Kansas legislators walked away from the Statehouse Friday knowing they still had much work to do on the state’s 2016 budget, and that completing the job isn’t going to be easy.

Earlier in the day, House members had rejected a proposal that would have closed the gap — of more than $400 million — between budgeted expenditures and projected revenue with increased consumption taxes, largely a sales tax of 6.85 percent. Kansas’ current sales tax rate is 6.15 percent. The jump to 6.85 percent would have generated about $362 million.

House members, however, wanted none of it. And legislators still haven’t made a serious move to another major revenue source — backing up on income tax exemptions granted limited liability corporations and some other businesses in 2012.

Legislators must stop dancing around the issue and come to grips with the fact a solution to the budget gap isn’t going be found hiding in one dark corner. Relief must come from several areas.

Some have urged legislators to close the gap with spending

North Korea’s horrors abound The news from North Korea is usually nasty and bizarre, especially in the three years since Kim Jong-un inherited the insidious personality cult of his grandfather and father. The 30-something Mr. Kim was said to have fed his disgraced and once-powerful uncle to a pack of dogs for disrespecting him. His latest action, as initially reported

by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, was to have the minister of the armed forces blasted to pieces with an antiaircraft gun, purportedly, among other things, for dozing off while Mr. Kim spoke.

The uncle, Jang Song-thaek, was indeed executed, but the dog story turned out to be the creation of a satirical Chinese blog. And South Korea is now saying that Gen. Hyon Yongchol was purged, not provably killed. That the more lurid versions do not always hold up doesn’t change the fact that Mr. Kim has been purging the top ranks of his regime at a lively clip since he came to power in 2011 — at least 70 senior officials have been killed, according to South Korea. The Kim dynasty, as a United Nations panel reported last year, has committed systematic crimes against humanity, including executions, torture, rape, deliberate starvation and almost total suppression of free thought.

Why Mr. Kim is doing this is a matter of considerable conjecture. One explanation is that he is unstable and threatened, and so needs to fuel the terror that his power rests on.

The simpler explanation is that

cuts rather than additional tax revenue. If there are savings to be found on the expenditure side of the budget, then consider them. But lawmakers have been told reductions that could be made in areas of discretionary spending have

A solution to the budget puzzle is to be found somewhere in the middle, although many in the Statehouse consider “middle” a dirty word. been made. Positions that could be cut have been cut, and positions that could be left vacant are vacant.

The money out there to be found is in higher consumption taxes, favored by Gov. Sam Brownback but feared by legislators who must seek reelection next year, and trimming to some degree the tax exemptions granted LLCs, which Brownback has insisted he will protect with his veto power.

A solution to the budget puzzle is to be found somewhere in the middle, although many in the Statehouse consider “middle” a dirty word.

point, quickly and brutally, and when they do South Korea and its allies must stand ready to rescue a nation that has suffered horribly. In the meantime, the United States and America’s allies must remain vigilant and continue to search for ways to deter Mr. Kim. On Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry, during his visit to South Korea, lambasted the North Korean leader over the reported atrocities and called for greater international pressure. Alas, there are not many sanctions that would have an effect on a regime already isolated and immune to the suffering of its citizens.

Moreover, Mr. Kim has shown no interest in resuming the six-nation talks, suspended in 2008, on putting an end to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Indeed, Pyongyang is said to be working on an intercontinental missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. Despite these obstacles, finding more ways to pressure Mr. Kim, perhaps involving China, is a must.

— The New York Times

roll increases created. Those things would have ensured the exemptions were creating tax revenue from a different source. As it is, no one has yet produced a measure of the benefit received via the exemptions. Perhaps a Legislative Post Audit review is warranted so everyone will know how many jobs and how much payroll the tax exemptions have provided.

But for now, legislators have a big job to do. Finding a way to spread the burden around would be of benefit to legislators and all Kansans.

— The Topeka CapitalJournal

Letter to the editor Dear editor,

this is simply the way the Kim dynasty does things. There is no way to know for sure.

When the “Great Leader” Kim Il-sung, the founder of the dynasty, died in 1994, there were widespread expectations that the regime would collapse.

But he was posthumously promoted to “eternal president” as his son, the “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il, carried on, presiding over the incarceration of 200,000 political prisoners and a terrible famine.

How long can it go on? The history of modern-day dictatorships offers little guidance.

Joseph Stalin, Kim Il-sung’s model, died of natural causes, and the police state he created lived on for almost 40 years.

But when the Soviet state did collapse, along with the Communist regimes it propped up in East Europe, the demise was unexpected and unexpectedly rapid.

With North Korea in possession of nuclear weapons and a well-oiled machinery of oppression, a regime collapse may not happen soon. But the Kims will surely fall at some

Reducing taxes to spur employment was not a bad idea, but it was one to be entered carefully, in steps, rather than one huge leap.

The exemptions should have been, and still can be, tied to actual jobs or pay-

The news in the papers and on TV is all about wages and inequality. If you are a small business and are struggling to make a go of it, I can see not wanting to pay more than the minimum wage. But on a larger scale, most small businesses can pay more and should.

The minimum wage is $7.25 an hour in Kansas. A few years ago that was adequate, but there’s a thing called inflation.

Two years ago a family of two could go to a fast food restaurant and a meal was $12. Today it’s $17. Fuel has almost doubled over the same time. Although it has gone down, it will go back up.

I just bought a car tire for $120. That was $80 three years ago.

Automobiles, houses, rent, food — you name it, it has gone up.

Now Brownback wants to raise consumption taxes.

Income tax is the fairest tax. You have income, you pay tax. No income and you don’t.

I had a fellow tell me well these rich people have loopholes and don’t pay income taxes. If this is the case why

is Brownback removing the income taxes for these guys?

A 6-cent gas tax will cost me $200 more a year; cigarette tax at 55 cents will add $200; an additional half-cent sales tax will add $3,000 to my budget and I haven’t figured how much an increase in property taxes will cost me.

What really makes me mad is I’m one of the 4 million Kansans who didn’t get any income tax cuts because I am poor.

The really bad thing is Brownback is not done cutting income taxes, but getting ready for round two.

Why would any company want to move to Kansas if we don’t want to educate our kids, we don’t want to expand Medicaid for the poor and we don’t want gay marriage. I don’t believe in gay marriage but they do work and pay taxes.

Yes, the sun is shining in Kansas right on you governor and your band of merry men. I believe you will go down in history as the worst governor Kansas ever had because of your reckless experiment.

David Comstock, Colony, Kan.

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Couple wills estate to the US government SEATTLE — Americans often go to great lengths to keep the government off their assets.

But last month, as Peter and Joan Petrasek had wished in their wills, a cashier’s check for $847,215.57 was made out to the Department of Treasury.

The Petraseks had left their total accumulated wealth, of cash in the bank and sale of their West Seattle home, “to the government of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.” The Petraseks had no children.

That’s a sizable chunk of change, although that sum would have accounted for just 7.63 seconds of spending in last year’s $3.5 trillion U.S. budget.

The will had no more specifics, and no next of kin could be found.

Ron Wright, a nextdoor neighbor who knew the couple for 30 years, provided some background. But he was surprised at the will and its one sentence bequeathing it all to the government.

Peter Petrasek had only told him, “It’ll all be taken care of.”

He died on May 5, 2012, at age 85. His heart gave out while he was alone in his home.

He was found after another neighbor called police when she noticed a package delivered to his front door had been untouched for a while.

Joan Petrasek had predeceased him by 13 years. She died at age 79 of breast cancer.

It took three years to have their estate sorted out; the house emptied, their 1977 Ford Granada, gun collection and items such as their collection of paintings evaluated and sold.

Carrie Balkema is the Seattle attorney who ended up administering the Petrasek estate.

She lays out the bits and pieces of old paperwork that were found in various drawers in the Petraseks’ house. The papers perhaps fill a third of a file box.

“When you’re alive, you put your life on a one-page resume,” she says. “In death, it all gets put in one box.”

There is a creased document with an official-looking stamp with a lion and the words, “Ceskoslovenska Republika.” It is a school report card.

Peter Petrasek was born Vlastimil Petrasek in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

He would have been 12 when the Nazis invaded the country.

“From what he told me, all their property was confiscated,” remembers Wright. “The Germans hauled off his father to a camp.”

What else did Petrasek say about his past?

That his mom was left in Prague. It’s unknown whether he was ever in contact with her after that.

Petrasek told Wright of a sister who ended up doing forced factory work in Dresden.

He said the sister died in the Allied firestorm bombing of the city.

THERE IS another

piece of paper, from July 1951.

It’s a certificate of marriage from St. Joseph’s Rectory in Ottawa, Canada.

That was where Peter and Joan married.

Peter had ended up in that city after the war, and met Joan.

He was then 25; she was 32.

There are other pieces of paper. There is a letter of recommendation from a pulp-andpaper mill in Quebec, where Peter began working as a laborer and moved up to the technical department.

“Intelligent, conscientious and cooperative,” wrote his boss in 1954.

Within a few years, though, the couple decided to move to Seattle, after Peter researched regions where the couple would like to live, says Wright.

Peter found work at Bethlehem Steel as a metallurgist, says Wright.

Joan, according to union membership cards, worked first as a meat cutter, then as an upholsterer.

After Peter’s death, Wright helped sort through the home’s contents. In a drawer, Wright found a bank statement, which led to a safe-deposit box, which contained the will.

To settle the estate, the home was sold in October 2013 for $241,000. It was then worked on for a bit, and two months later the new homeowner flipped it for $420,000.

After all expenses

House to consider stiffening scrap theft penalties TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Scrap thieves who do more than $5,000 worth of damage when stealing valuable metals would face jail time under a bill before the Kansas House.

The chamber was set to vote today on the measure, which also would create a system to track scrap through dealers.

Supporters of the bill say tougher penalties are needed because scrap thieves often do

thousands of dollars in damage to worksites and agricultural equipment.

Farm organizations testified that the damage frequently hurts crops and cattle because it can take days or weeks to repair.

Some lawmakers expressed concern that the bill could increase the state’s already overcapacity prison population by 20 to 57 prisoners by 2025.

The bill has been approved by the Senate.

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were tallied, from $150 to drill the safe deposit box, to some $15,000 for Balkema’s fees, the cashier’s check was made — the sale of the home, plus $678,459.84 cash.

The U.S. Treasury says the Petrasek money will go into the general fund.

A spokesman for the Treasury says it doesn’t specifically track how many people have willed their estates to the government.

But it happens, with the most famous such person being Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who died in 1935.

In his will, money was left to his maid, driver, cook and other individuals, with what appears to be the major portion willed to the government. It is Holmes who famously said, “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.”

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Yates Center softball advances to state— B3

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Stampeding Buffalos too much for Fillies, 13-3

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

GARNETT — Iola High’s softball season came to an end at the Class 4A-II Softball Regional at Garnett on Tuesday. There were signs of optimism scattered throughout the game, but not enough consistency in the 13-3 loss to Prairie View.

“They were finding some gaps, but we had a few errors that got us down,” coach Melissa Stiffler said. “I think we thought we were in it at that point, then thought we didn’t have a chance. We had some great plays and some great hits. We almost had a few girls put it out of the park.”

After the first inning, Iola was down 3-0. Prairie View’s first four batters reached base. With no outs and a runner on second base, shortstop Ashlie Shields limited the damage.

She fielded a hard hit ball, tagged the runner out heading for third base and rifled a throw to get the out at first.

The next batter grounded it back up to Shields, who again fielded it cleanly and threw out the runner at first base to get out of the inning.

Iola’s bats answered back in the top of the second inning. Righty Jadyn Sigg started it off with an opposite-field ground rule double, only about two feet from leaving the yard. After an out, Taylor Sell knocked Sigg in with a hard hit that Prairie View’s short stop didn’t play cleanly. It was the only run Iola scored in the inning.

The bottom of the second is where momentum really started to shift toward the Buffalos. In the first inning, Prairie View’s three runs were earned off of good hitting. They added three more in the second, mostly due to fielding miscues by Iola — a problem the Fillies have suffered from all season. Still, the lead was only single digits at 6-1.

In the third inning, Wade smacked a double to left-center field with only one out.

It was her second hit of the game; she hit a single in the first inning. Unfortunately Wade was left stranded at second at the end of the inning.

That situation was a common theme throughout the game.

“We left too many runners on base, and when you can’t score those girls, you know you’re going to be in trouble,” Stiffler said.

In the third inning, the Buffalos added four more runs.

The ball honed in on a gap between Sigg at third base and Ashlie Shields at shortstop.

Three identical singles in a row found that sweet spot.

Shields moved closer to Sigg, only to have the next batter hit the ball on a shallow pop fly about 10 feet past second base. Shields dove for it, but came up empty. If she had stayed put, it probably would have been caught. That’s just the way things seemed to be going for the Fillies.

Although they gave up four runs that inning, there were a couple of standout plays in the field. Katie Shields made a nice, diving catch in center field. On a wild pitch, catcher Taylor Sell got to the ball quickly and tagged out a runner going for home plate.

The lead for the Buffalos grew to 10-1.

The Fillies got one back in the fourth inning. Sigg started the inning off with a hit by pitch. She then made it to second base on a wild pitch.

Katie Shields moved Sigg to third base on a fielder’s choice back to the pitcher. After Sell walked, a pinch runner came in for her. On a double steal, the runner at second was out, but Sigg came into score.

Still, for every one run Iola scored, the Buffalos scored three. In the fourth inning, Prairie View added three runs to take a 13-2 advantage.

Iola needed two more runs to keep the game going past the

Taylor Sell blocks the plate and tags out the runner at home. Iola lost to Prairie View 13-3. REGISTER/ SPENCER MICHELSON

Katie Shields makes the diving catch in center field.

Jadyn Sigg makes contact for a ground rule double.

fifth inning. They scored one instead.

Ashlie Shields got a base hit — her first of the game — to start the inning. Wade followed with her third hit, a single. It pushed Shields to third base with no one out.

Chloe Gardner came to the plate. She nailed a ball to left field. Instead of finding a gap, it was hit right at the left fielder. Riley Murry came through with an RBI-single. It was the last hit and run scored for the Fillies on the season.

Iola lost 13-3.

Though there were flashes of great play for Iola throughout the game, nothing consistent was put together. For

ball,” Stiffler said. “If I kept doing it, I would miss a lot of her games. So, I made it clear that I would do it for one year.

I enjoy it, I’ve just been out of it too long and am pretty rusty.”

Stiffler thinks the team has the potential to grow into something more.

“They’re young,” Stiffler said. “We had two freshmen start, four sophomores I think. At the end of the game I only had one senior playing.

So, they have a lot of potential.”

Prairie View ended up beating Anderson County in the championship game 19-4 to advance to state.

REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

Ventura has good outing in Royals 3-0 win KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — It has been 23 years since the Kansas City Royals logged consecutive shutouts.

Yordano Ventura, Kelvin Herrera and Wade Davis combined on a four-hitter and the Royals beat the Cincinnati Reds 3-0 on Tuesday night.

The Royals, who beat the New York Yankees 6-0 on Sunday, had back-to-back shutouts for the first time since Sept. 29-30, 1992, when Dennis Rasmussen and Rick Reed blanked the California Angels.

The Reds have lost four straight, matching their longest streak of the season.

Ventura (3-3), who was 0-3 in his five previous starts since a victory on April 12, allowed four singles, struck out six and walked none. He reached a three-ball count on only four hitters and retired all of them, lowering his ERA to 4.56.

“This is the best I’ve felt this season,” Ventura said with teammate Christian Colon acting as his interpreter.

“All my pitches were sharp.

I was just focused on having my pitches down in the zone and having quality pitches.”

Ventura left his previous start with an index fingernail tear and that flared up again.

“I started to feel something in the sixth inning and Ned (Yost, manager) just told him let’s get your ready for the

Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Yordano Ventura throws in the first inning against the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday. The Royals beat the Reds 3-0. TNS/KANSAS CITY STAR/JOHN SLEEZER next start, let’s take you out of this one,” Ventura said.

Ventura retired 14 on ground balls.

“He went seven innings and got a lot of ground balls,” Reds manager Bryan Price said. “It shows what a plus fastball, plus changeup can do. When he changes speeds like that you have to gear up for the velocity and then adjust when he changes speeds.

He did a good job.”

Herrera gave up a walk in the eighth, but nothing else. Davis worked a spotless ninth, claiming his seventh save in as many opportunities. Yost said Davis finished because closer Greg Holland woke up with a stiff neck.

Mike Moustakas went 3 for 4 with two doubles and drove in two runs. His double in the fifth drove in one run and his seventh-inning double made See ROYALS | Page B3

every great hit Iola had, there would be a quick out to follow. In the field, there were as many errors as their were noteworthy plays.

As for who will coach the Fillies next season, that remains to be seen. Stiffler took the reins on short notice this year after coach Vince Coons was suspended due to an altercation. Neither coach will be back next season.

Stiffler agreed to fill in for only this season. She had coached before and played in high school.

“I have a daughter that is into sports and she’s in Yates Center. She’s going to be in high school and plays soft-

REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON

Humboldt boys win TVL track title HUMBOLDT — Humboldt High’s track season ended on a good note last Friday.

The boys took first in the Tri-Valley League Meet. The girls took sixth.

It was the first home meet hosted by Humboldt at the new sports complex. Earlier this season, the school hosted the Crest Invitational.

The team travels to LeonBluestem on Friday for their Class 3A Regional.

Individual results from the Tri-Valley League Meet follow:

400m dash, 53.3, third (personal record) Kyle Doolittle; 300m hurdles, 43.78, fourth (personal record) 110m hurdles, 18.18, fifth Colin Gillespie; high jump, 5’6”, fifth Robert Navarro; 800m run, 2:16.81, sixth 4x100m relay (Noah Johnson, Jacob Barker, Logan Roseberry, Doolittle); 48.05, sixth 4x400m relay (Bartlett, Isaac, Meins, Roseberry); 3:36, first (season best) 4x800m relay (Navarro, Bartlett, Doran, Kline); 8:41, first (season best)

Boys

Girls

Joe Kline; 1600-meter run, 4 minutes and 46 seconds, first (personal record) 3200m run, 10:50.33, third (personal record) Ethan Bartlett; 400m dash, 52.52, first 200m run, 24.21, fifth Andrew Keazer; 800m run, 2:06, first Bryce Isaac; long jump, 20 feet and 4 1/2 inches, first triple jump, 42’8 1/2”, first Justin Meins; 300m hurdles, 42.66, second (personal record) high jump, 6’0”, second Kalob Cleaver; discus, 129’4”, second (personal record) Anthony Doran; pole vault, 9’6”, third

Britnee Works; high jump, 4’8”, first triple jump, 30’11 1/4”, third (personal record) long jump, 14’2”, fourth Padyne Durand; 100m hurdles, 18.92, fourth Kaiti Carpenter; 800m run, 2:45.41, fifth Sierra Brinkerhoff; long jump, 14’1”, fifth 200m run, 29.32, sixth 4x100m relay (Haylie Yost, Cara Bartlett, Works, Brinkerhoff ); 55.62, fourth 4x400m relay (Lizzie Myers, Annalise Whitcomb, Yost, Carpenter); 4:45.6, sixth 4x800m relay (Yost, Bartlett, Whitcomb, Durand); 11:52, fourth

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I reported that Humboldt High’s Robbie Sellman won third overall at his Class 3A Regional Golf Tournament in Tuesday’s paper.

Sellman, who shot a 78, in fact, came in second place. I’m sorry for the error.

— Spencer Michelson

Sports Calendar

Iola Baseball May 28-29, Class 4A State Tournament, Topeka.

Track Friday, Class 4A Regional at Prairie View, 3:30 p.m.

Golf May 26, Class 4A State Tournament, McPherson

The Big Train The Big Train played in the “Hawaiian Hit Fest” in Kansas City over the weekend. They were runner-up in the 10-and-under AA division. The tournament is the largest amateur baseball tournament in the Midwest with approximately 600 teams competing in all age divisions. The Big Train went 1-1 in pool play on Saturday and 3-0 in bracket play on Sunday. In the championship game, they lost 6-3 to the Kansas City Knights. Front row from left, Jamon Beck, Holden Barker, Eli Adams and Aiden Johnson; back row, Trey Sommer, Maddox Johnson, Jack White, Carter Hutton, Gavin Page and Brandon McKarnin. Coached by Josh Wrestler, Jeff Page and Jeff White. (Not pictured: coach Bob Johnson and player Ethan Godderz)

Yates Center softball to state ROSALIA — Yates Center High’s softball season is still in play.

The Wildcats advanced to the Class 2-1A State Softball Tournament on Tuesday.

The Wildcats were the

one seed in their bracket, therefore received a first-round bye. In the second round on Monday, the team defeated Marmaton Valley 10-0 to advance to the finals against Uniontown on

Tuesday.

Yates Center won again by a score of 10-0 to make it to state.

The Wildcats will play next Thursday at the Green Sports Complex, 2007 E. 6th St., in Pratt.

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it 3-0.

Infante, who had two hits, drove home the other run with a two-out single in the second.

Reds right-hander Johnny Cueto (3-4) allowed three runs and nine hits, while walking one and striking out four.

“They’re a good team.

There are no excuses,” Cueto said through a translator. “I did what I had to do.”

In his four losses, the Reds have scored a total of two runs.

“I did my job and I expect the rest of the team to do their job,” Cueto said. “You want to have a little more run support but there’s nothing you can do.

DOUBLE THE FUN

The Royals collected three doubles bringing their major-league leading

doubles total to 85.

FURCAL RETIRES

SS Rafael Furcal, who signed a minor league contract with the Royals in spring training, announced he is retiring after 14 seasons in the majors. He combined to hit .240 in seven games with Double-A Northwest Arkansas and Single-A Wilmington. Furcal, 37, was the 2000 National League rookie of the year and an All-Star in 2003, 2010 and 2012. He retires with a .281 average, appearing in postseason play 10 times.

some catching drills. He has not caught since April 12. . LHP Sean Marshall will undergo seasonending shoulder surgery Wednesday. Mets medical director Dr. David Altchek will perform the procedure.

Royals: LHP Jason Vargas (flexor strain) threw a bullpen session Tuesday and is penciled in for a simulated game Friday. ... C Erik Kratz (torn left plantar fasciitis) will likely start a minor league rehab assignment at the end of the week.

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Reds: RHP Jason Marquis, who has given up 17 hits and 11 runs in 8 2-3 innings in losing his previous two outings, will start Wednesday.

Royals: RHP Jeremy Guthrie is 2-0 with a 2.15 ERA in five interleague outings.

Humboldt Baseball Wednesday, Class 3A Regional, HUMBOLDT, 2 p.m.

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Track Friday, Class 3A Regional at Leon-Bluestem, 3:30 p.m.

Golf May 26, Class 3A State Tournament, Hestton

Yates Center Marmaton Valley Track Friday, Class 1A Regional at Burlington

Softball Today, Class 1A Regional, at Flinthills Track Friday, Class 2A Regional at Herington.

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Jefferson lists honor students Jefferson Elementary School fifth-graders earning all A’s for the fourth nine weeks of 2014-15 are, front from left, Eve Ard, Maci Miller, Miah Shelby, Ursula Billings, Ryker Curry, T. J. Taylor and Courtney Smutz; second from left, Holly Doolittle, Reece Murry, Laura Newkirk, Braxton Curry, Jenna Curry, BreAnna Peeper, Tyler Boeken and Karson Sigg. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Jefferson fifth-graders earning all A’s and B’s the fourth nine weeks are, front from left, Rain Burleson, Ethan Hunter, Talia Epting, Emma Lammey, Natalie Fees, Andrew Peterson, Nathan Stevens and Caitlin Sallee; and second from left, Austin Morris, Myriah Walls, Sam Fager, Samira Stanford, Colin Long, Josie Plumlee, Logan Ulrich and Mars Westgate; and back from left, Nick Karns, Dakotah Cox, Ember Womelsdorf, Vivian Noah, Kaia Lloyd, Kobe Lord, Brady Atwood and Evan Casner.

Jefferson Elementary School students were presented awards Friday for their academic achievements for the fourth grade quarter by Principal Brad Crusinbery.

The honor roll is academic recognition for students in third, fourth and fifth grades. Lower grade students are given special incentives to encourage quality work on a more regular basis during the nine weeks and, as a result, are not included in the special honor roll recognition.

Fifteen students were given certificates for their outstanding reading efforts on the Accelerated Reader, a computerized testing program that checks reading comprehension.

The top students for Jefferson during the Fourth grade nine

weeks are: Grades K-1: Raeya Keagle (25.2), Stephanie Fees (23.1), Brent Stevens (21.7), Brennen Coffield (21.6), Brody Thompson (18.0) 2nd — Third grade — Kaysin Crusinbery (120.9), Lucas Maier (61.9), Abigail Meiwes (55.3), Keira Fawson (46.2), Rio Lohman (42.2) Fourth grade -Fifth grade — Rain Burleson (172.9), Ursula Billings (161.8), Sam Fager (132.3), Brett Willis (126.1), Miah Shelby (96.6) Top 5 Schoolwide All Grades AR Points: Brett Willis (548.8), Rain Burleson (427.3), Sam Fager (406.4), Miah Shelby (311.6), Kaysin Crusinbery (310.6) Recognition was given to 78 students who had perfect attendance for the fourth quarter.

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Paving project may impact Michael Brown memorial FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The Ferguson, Missouri, street where Michael Brown was shot by a police officer last summer appears headed for repaving, possibly impacting the mid-road shrine to the late 18-year-old.

Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III was to join Brown’s father during a news conference Wednesday at a community center in the St. Louis suburb to announce the resurfacing and repaving of

Canfield Drive.

That’s where Brown, who was black, was shot and killed by white police officer Darren Wilson, touching off often violent protests and a national “Black Lives Matter” movement. Wilson later resigned.

The makeshift memorial to Brown in the middle of Canfield cropped up shortly after Brown’s death and has remained. Knowles has said recently that the city would like it moved.

Missouri Republican power shaken by scandal, tragedy Jefferson Elementary School students earning all A’s for the 2014-15 school year are, front from left, Eve Ard, Miah Shelby, Jesse Taylor, Chris Holloway, Caiden Cloud, Carly Dreher and Abigail Meiwes; second from left, Jenna Curry, Braxton Curry, Laura Newkirk, Maci Miller, Reece Murry, BreAnna Peeper, Shelby Peters and Ryker Curry. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Earning all A’s and B’s for 2014-15 at Jefferson are, front from left, Nathan Stevens, T.J. Taylor, Jack White, Brandon McKarnin, Korbin Cloud, Hallie Sutherland, Jackie Fager, Rio Lohman and Rylie Olson; back from left, Brady Atwood, Ethan Hunter, Samira Stanford, Ember Womelsdorf, Cody Wille, Evan Casner, Tyler Boeken, Karson Siff, Josie Plumlee, Sam Fager, Tyler Crane, Talia Epting, Natalie Fees, Emma Lammey and Holly Doolittle.

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They hold commanding majorities in the Legislature and have helped make this historic swing state Republican-leaning territory in presidential politics.

Yet they seem beset by troubles that have all the makings of a made-forTV drama, and have left some wondering whether the turmoil will hamper the party’s effectiveness in the future. There have been sexual indiscretions.

Political mud-slinging and backstabbing. A highprofile candidate brought down by a verbal gaffe.

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Royals’ Paulo Orlando makes waves in Brazil

By VINOD SREEHARSHA McClatchy Washington

(TNS) SAO PAULO — On a recent Friday night in Sao Paulo, the Brazilian megalopolis where soccer is king, the 20 or so patrons crowded into a small hamburger joint in the Carandiru neighborhood offered a scene seldom witnessed here: fans intently watching a video feed of what in Brazil is definitely a minor sport, baseball.

For this group, however, there was nothing small about the team they were watching, the Kansas City Royals, or the player who had drawn their interest, Paulo Orlando, the Royals’ Brazilian outfielder who, baseball fans hope, will prove to be the star who finally kicks Brazilians’ interest in America’s pastime into high gear.

On this particular night, Kansas City would lose, to the Detroit Tigers. Orlando, who started his rookie season with an unprecedented three triples for his first three base hits, would go 0 for 4 at the plate. Still, these fans are not fickle.

Brazil’s baseball community is a small one, and several of the people gathered at The Captain Hamburguer & Conveniencia played with or against Orlando as teenagers. Some have remained friends, and their support runs deep, wishing not only that he sees the success they feel he deserves, but that he and the Royals help catalyze baseball growth in this soccer-crazy nation.

Dan Silva, the 26-year-old who owns The Captain, played with Orlando in 2000 on Nikkey Santo Amaro, one of several recreational clubs in Sao Paulo, the closest thing Brazil has to a proper baseball league. The Captain is Silva’s first restaurant, and this year he’s made Royals baseball its centerpiece.

In February he bought a subscription to MLB.TV. On the five days of the week that he’s open, he shows customers every out of every Royals game live.

Before the first live pitch, he shows the prior day’s game recorded.

He made the decision during spring training.

Seeing Orlando play “brought us happiness, whether he made the team or not.”

It is Orlando’s unusual start and taxing journey to the majors that have won over many here.

As a kid, he was unfamiliar with baseball and instead became a standout in track, in the 200- and 400-meter runs. But a Brazilian physician of Japanese ancestry at the medical clinic where his mother worked as a cleaning woman suggested that Orlando try baseball and paid for his equipment. So as an 11-yearold, Orlando joined the Nikkey Santo Amaro, which like other clubs at that time was made up mostly of Brazilians of Japanese ancestry.

Orlando initially was not a star, even by Brazilian standards.

“At least four others on Nikkey were better than him,” Silva recalls. But, he added, “None of them play

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Kansas City Royals' Paulo Orlando (16) lays down a bunt that he beat out during the third inning on Saturday, at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. Orlando is making many fans from his homeland of Brazil. TNS/KANSAS CITY STAR/JOHN SLEEZER anymore.”

Rafael Ariki, 29, an early teammate, agrees.

“I had more triples than he did,” he said.

Orlando had other skills, however. Ariki recalls that whether he played right field or left field, when the ball was hit into the outfield, teammates would yell “Paulo,” and he would be the one who caught the ball. And while his hits rarely reached the outfield, Orlando often reached first base before the fielder’s throw did.

In 2005, he quit track to focus on baseball, his wife, Fabricia Silva, said in an interview recently. He started playing in the Dominican Republic and then Venezuela. His batting improved. He reached the minor leagues in the United States in

Presbyterian University, founded in 1896 and based in Sao Paulo, fielded a team here in the early 1900s, according to Brazilian journalist Ubiratan Leal, thanks to its the American Presbyterian missionary George Whitehill Chamberlain and his wife.

But the sport died out, and it wasn’t until Japanese immigration to Brazil took off, spurred by World Wars I and II, that the first organized baseball clubs came. There is a record of a national baseball tournament held in Sao Paulo in 1936.

Brazil’s first taste of Major League Baseball came in 1992, when pitcher Jose Pett, from Sao Paulo, signed with the Toronto Blue Jays.

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Brazil’s first taste of Major League Baseball came in 1992, when pitcher Jose Pett, from Sao Paulo, signed with the Toronto Blue Jays.

Though he was a top 100 prospect, according to Baseball America, Triple A was the furthest he got.

2006, shuttling between teams in Kannapolis, N.C., Springdale, Ark., and Omaha, Neb., while also playing winter league baseball in Latin America.

In 2011, he was invited to the Royals spring training, but he got injured and needed surgery.

During his long odyssey, his wife stayed back in Sao Paulo.

When she was expecting their now 5-yearold daughter, Orlando was in the United States almost the entire pregnancy, making it back just for the birth. “It has been very difficult,” she said.

Last year, Orlando even contemplated quitting the sport. “He was tired,” Fabricia Silva said. Yet throughout, she remained his strongest supporter.

She recommended against taking an offer to play in South Korea and sticking with hopes of playing in the big leagues.

Playing with the Royals this season is a victory for Orlando’s family, said Alexandre Nita, 29, who’s known Orlando for a dozen years. “His wife has been very influential,” he said.

Baseball in Brazil is not new. Mackenzie

100 prospect, according to Baseball America, Triple A was the furthest he got.

Another Bazilian prospect, Jo Matumoto, was signed to a minor league contract in 2007, again by the Blue Jays. He was 36 at the time, but his wife had emailed agent Randy Hendricks, pleading with him to give her husband just one shot, MLB.com reported back then.

It was only in 2012 that a Brazilian played for the first time in the major leagues, when Yan Gomes joined the Blue Jays. Gomes, now the Cleveland Indians’ catcher, went to high school and college in the United States, however, and so is not as well known in Brazil as is Orlando.

Major League Baseball is still looking at Brazil. In February, it sponsored its fifth annual Elite Camp here for top prospects. More than a dozen MLB teams sent scouts, Caleb Santos-Silva, coordinator of international game and development for MLB, told McClatchy in an interview. The Tampa Bay Rays and the Arizona Diamondbacks have full-time scouts in Brazil.

While baseball still

has to compete in Brazil with sports such as volleyball, judo and more recently surfing, the hopes are high at The Captain that finally baseball will win a place of respect.

Yet there are reminders of how much of an underdog baseball is. The Captain is in a run-down section of the city, inside a gas station. That’s largely because of economics, Silva said. “Renting in Sao Paulo is very expensive,” he said. And having an establishment specialized in baseball is not how one gets rich.

So Silva embraces almost every customer who arrives. He approaches several women seated on bar stools to take their purses, storing them in the back.

They all hope that Orlando gives them more to celebrate this season. But even if he falls short, their support seems likely to endure.

Leal, the journalist and Brazil baseball historian, recounted an episode on opening night this year in Sao Paulo at a party that ESPN held. Orlando had not yet played a game, but Leal said that most people there were saying in Portuguese that “Big Paulo is the man.”

“Everyone knows all the effort Paulo put in,” he said. “We all want him to succeed.”

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Route 12 — Devon Wilson-Wing, 818 N. Sycamore St., Iola 620-363-0839— (200-600 N. Jefferson Ave., 200-523 N. Sycamore St., 100-500 N. Buckeye St., 100-300 E. Monroe St., 400 block E. Douglas St., 200-506 N. Cottonwood St., 202 E. Jackson Ave., 410-519 N. Oak St.).

Route 13 — Devon Wilson-Wing, 818 N. Sycamore St., Iola 620-363-0839— (600-1400 N. Jefferson Ave., 4-102 E. Buchanan, 4, 116 W. Edwards).

Route 14 — Jessica Tidd, 1418 Virginia Rd., 620-380-1259 — (217 North St., Townhouse East and 217 N. Washington Ave., Townhouse West) Route 15 — Devon Wilson-Wing, 818 N. Sycamore St., Iola 620-363-0839 — (E. Garfield St., Garfield Rd N., Windsor Place, White Blvd., E. Alamosa Cir., W. Alamosa Blvd., 1200-1400 N. Cottonwood St., Mustang Cir.) Route 16 — Tessa Bain, 816 N. Sycamore, Iola, 620-228-2554 — (600-1300 N. Buckeye, 700-1110 N. Cottonwood St., 321 E. Buchanan St., 600-1300 N. Sycamore St., E. Jim St., 120 E. Garfield St.).

Route 17 — Alex Morris, 907 N. Buckeye, 620-228-0197 — (500-700 E. Lincoln St., N. Oak St., N. Elm 300 block on, 400710 N. Colburn St.).

Route 18 — Katie Weide, 1303 2200th St., Iola - 620-794-0759 — (N. 1st St., N. 2nd St., 800 block of E. Jackson Ave., part of E. Lincoln St., 818 E. Carpenter).

Route 19 — Sam Terhune, 706 S. Washington Ave., Iola, 620228-7599— (N. 3rd St., N. 4th St., Tara Gardens, 900-1110 E. Carpenter St., 902-1101 E. Douglas St., 1105 E. Lincoln).

Route 20 — Jennifer Tidd, 1418 Virginia Rd., 620-380-1259 — (The Square, 100-300 South St., 100-220 S. Jefferson Ave., 1102 N. Washington Ave., 9-19 N. Jefferson Ave., 110 East St., 1-108 E. Madison Ave., 1-115 E. Jackson Ave., 2-224 S. Washington Ave., 9-120 W. Madison Ave.).

Route 21 — Katie Weide, 1303 2200th St., Iola - 620-794-0759 — (217 E. Madison Ave. to 1000 block, 700 block East St. on, S. 2nd St.).

Route 22 — Devin Hoadley, 411 S. Chestnut, St., Iola, 785-9691531 — (Low numbers on N. Buckeye, 200-700 E. Jackson Ave., 8-19 N. Sycamore St., East St. thru 700 block, 200 N. Elm St., 200 N. Colburn St., 400-500 E. Monroe St., 100 N. Cottonwood St.).

Route 23 — Emma Neal, 910 North Walnut St., Iola, 620-3632505 — (Meadowbrook Rd. East and West) Route 24 — Jason Garber, 202 S. Main, LaHarpe, 620-363-4280 — (N. Kentucky 700 block on, E. Buchanan St., Redbud Ln., Kenwood Cir., Sterling Heights Addition).

Route 25 — Jason Garber, 202 S. Main, LaHarpe, 620-363-4280 — (N. Kentucky thru 600 block, N. Ohio St., N. Tennessee St., 1200-1300 block E. Carpenter St., 1100-1300 E. Lincoln St., 1100-1321 E. Douglas St., 1200-1300 E. Breckenridge).

Route 26 — Trevor Gray, 602 N. Kentucky, Iola, 620-875-9717 — (N. Vermont St., Kansas Dr., 1500 E. Carpenter St. on, Eisenhower Dr., Wilson Ln.).

Route 27 — Dravin Luttrell, 725 N. Elm, 620-363-2140 — (Dodge Dr., Holiday Ln., Kansas Ave., Holiday Cir. North and South).

Route 28 — Trevor Gray, 602 N. Kentucky, Iola, 620-875-9717 — (1800-2600 N. Cottonwood St., E. and W. Miller Rd., Funston St., Pryor St., Canary Ln, Cardinal Dr.).

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RURAL MOTOR ROUTES Route 29 — Jimmy Hoggatt, 425 N. 3rd st, Iola, 620-228-4151— (Burris Addition, Country Club Addition, Bennet St. Addition).

Route 32 — Glenda Madison, PO Box 234, Gas, 620-365-7605 — (North side of Gas).

Route 38 — Glenda Madison, PO Box 234, Gas, 620-365-7605 — (South side of Gas).

Route 33 — Gina Veer Kamp, 414 5th St., 620-852-3479 — (Colony).

Route 34 — Mark Bunce, 408 E. 2nd, Moran, 620-363-4654 — (Moran).

Route 39 — Jason Garber, 202 S. Main, LaHarpe, 620-363-4280 — (LaHarpe)

HUMBOLDT ROUTES Route 41 — Travis King, 618 S. 7th St., Humboldt, 620-2281875 — (Northwest Section - 300-800 Bridge St., 500 Osage St., 200-800 Central St., 300 Neosho St., 200-800 Charles St., 600-1200 Franklin St., 300-1100 N. 2nd St., 200-500 N. 4th St., 400 N. 5th St., 100-500 N. 6th St., 300-1100 N. 7th St., 100-800 N. 8th St., 400-1200 N. 9th St.).

Route 42 — Brandi Gonzalez, 1318 New York St., Humboldt, 620-228-7047 — (Northeast Section - 900-1300 Bridge St., 1200 Osage St., 900-1700 Central St., 1200-1700 Neosho St., 1000-1600 Charles St., 1200 Elm St., 600-1600 Signor St., 100 Amos St.,1000 Kansas St., 400 N. 9th St., 300-1000 N. 10th St., 100-900 N. 11th St., 200-600 N. 12th St., 500 N. 13th St., 400 N. 14th St., 300 N. 16th St.).

Route 43 — Chris Gonzalez, 1318 New York St., Humboldt, 620-228-7047 — (Southeast Section - 900 Leavenworth St., 400 Pine St., 900-1200 Sycamore St., 1300 Pecan St., 1000 Mulberry St., 900-1200 Cherokee St., 900-1300 New York St., 900 Bridge St., 200-1100 S. 9th St., 500-1200 S. 10th St., 500800 S. 11th St., 300 S. 12th St., 200 S. 13th St.).

Route 44 — Travis King, 618 S. 7th St., Humboldt, 620-2281875 — (Southwest Section - 600 Ohio St., 300-1100 Pine St., 100-700 Sycamore St., 400-900 Pecan St., 200-800 Mulberry St., 1900 Cherokee St., 100-800 New York St., 1-500 Bridge St., 500-700 S. 3rd St., 200-600 S. 4th St., 400 S. 5th St., 300-1400 S. 8th St., 200-1100 S. 9th St., 500-1200 S. 10th St.).

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Testing is the key to informed health decision Dear Dr. Roach: I am 71. I’m overweight at 300 pounds and have had Type 2 diabetes for 15 years. I haven’t had any chest pain or heart problems, but a recent nuclear stress test lead my doctor to suspect buildup in one of my arteries, and he wants to do a cardiac catheterization.

I do not want to do this, partly because I feel that once you let doctors start messing with your body, you will only experience more problems (like a stent or something) and your life will never be the same.

Is there anything else to clean the arteries? I don’t want to offend the cardiologist, but I really do not want to do this.

Am I completely wrong?

— P.R. Answer: Making a decision after knowing all the pertinent information isn’t wrong, even if it isn’t the decision the doctor recommends. I’d like to be sure you have all the right information.

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health A nuclear stress test uses a radioactive dye to look at blood flow to the heart. Although they are very accurate, like almost every test, they can be mistaken. This is why your cardiologist ordered the cardiac catheterization — the best test we have to look for blockages in the arteries. The risk in a cardiac catheterization, also called an angiogram, is low. If there are no blockages, that information is helpful and might allow your cardiologist to have you stop some medications.

If you do have blockages, you have a choice of medical treatment (such as a statin, beta blocker and aspirin), catheter treatment (such as angioplasty with or without a stent) and surgical treatment. Knowing more about the loca-

tion and severity of any blockage you might have can allow you to make a more informed decision about what treatment is better. Stents and surgery would be less commonly used in someone without symptoms, unless the blockage were very severe or in a critical artery.

It’s not unreasonable, given your medical history, to assume that there is a blockage that might need medical treatment. In addition to the medications I mentioned, taking excellent care of your diabetes, losing some weight, making sure your diet is proper for someone with suspected heart disease and participating in a monitored exercise program all can reduce your risk of a heart attack. In fact, these are important even if you do get a stent or surgery.

I don’t think your cardiologist will be offended if you can give him your reasons for declining an angiogram, even though he and I are

recommending it in order to provide the best information to decide whether further intervention is necessary.

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Roach:

Should your blood pressure go higher as you age? Is the top number or the bottom more important? I don’t like medicine, and my blood pressure was 145/82, but the top number sometimes goes to 150-158. — J.S. Answer: Both the systolic (top number) and diastolic blood pressures are important, and the difference between them is occasionally important (for example, a blood pressure of 160/60 is more worrisome than 160/85). Blood pressure does go up with age, but even in people over 60, the recommendation is still to get the BP down below 150, and I try to aim for 140 if there aren’t too many side effects. It often takes several tries to find a regimen that gets the blood pressure where it should be without affecting quality of life.

Public notice (First published in the Iola Register May 20, 2015) REQUEST FOR BIDS Allen County and the City of Iola are requesting that towing service providers submit bids to provide towing services for all vehicles which are impounded upon order of law enforcement officials.

This bid will not cover towing services for unimpounded vehicles as such vehicles will be towed in accord with existing

dispatch rotation policy. The qualified provider submitting the lowest prices for towing, mileage and per day storage fees will be awarded this contract.

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and City Administrators at their discretion within 15 days thereafter. Acceptance of bids will be made by the County and City within 30 days after opening. The County and City reserve the right to reject any and all bids. For further information and a copy of the agreement to be signed by the prevailing bidder, contact Alan D. Weber, Allen County Counselor at 620-365-1420 (5) 20, 27

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Racial stereotypes a topic post-Waco WA S H I N G T O N (AP) — The prevailing images of protests in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, over police killings of black men were of police in riot gear, handcuffed protesters, tear gas and mass arrests.

The main images of a fatal gun battle between armed bikers and police in Waco, Texas, also showed mass arrests — carried out by nonchalant-looking officers sitting around calm bikers on cell phones.

The firefight in Waco is raising questions about perceptions and portrayals of crime in America, considering the vehement reaction that the earlier protests got from police, politicians and some members of the public.

Media critics, columnists and civil rights activists are complaining that there appears to be little societal concern about the gunplay at a restaurant in Texas, whereas politicians — including President Barack Obama — described violent looters in Baltimore as “thugs,” and the media devoted hours of television and radio airtime to dissecting social ills that affect the black community.

On Twitter, #wacothugs and #whiteonwhitecrime were trending, with columnists around the nation debating the differences.

The shootout at a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco left nine people dead and 18 injured. About 170 bikers have been charged with engaging in organized crime, with bond at $1 million for each suspect. Mugshots show an array of suspects: white, Hispanic, a white woman and a man who looked black.

Police said the fight started because a vehicle rolled over a man’s foot. That caused a dispute that continued inside the restaurant, where fighting and then shooting began,

before the violence spilled back outside, they said. About 50 weapons were confiscated, mostly knives and firearms. However, police said a final count could show there were more than 100 weapons.

Officials said the nine dead were Bandidos and Cossacks members, ranging in age from 27 to 65.

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minority communities get blamed for violence, while no one blames white families or white communities for fatal violence by white men, characterizing such events instead as “isolated incidents.” This despite the fatal school shooting sprees in Newtown, Connecticut, and Columbine, Colorado, and rioting by college students

[It’s] difficult to imagine that if a shootout involving dozens of young black men that ended with nearly 30 casualties had happened in a strip mall in Waco, it would be perceived as an isolated incident involving only the people who drew their guns — or that police would be chatting and friendly with people in the area in gang attire afterward.

— Dan Solomon, Texas Monthly

results showed all nine were killed by gunshots. Police have acknowledged firing on armed bikers, but it was unclear how many of the dead were shot by gang members and how many were shot by officers.

There were no deaths during the Baltimore and Ferguson protests, yet people immediately stereotyped all of the protesters as criminals, said Nicole Lee, a human rights lawyer who worked with protesters in both cities.

“Nine people were killed in Waco, and yet you have not heard the level of disgust and dismay as you did over fires burning in Ferguson and in Baltimore,” Lee said.

“One of the things the protesters always said was that while many of them disagreed with the property destruction, that you can rebuild property.

But you can’t bring back people, and yet you’re not hearing an equal amount of disgust from the media and from people over what happened in Waco.”

Civil rights attorney Charles F. Coleman Jr. said only

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“But when you look at Ferguson, or you look at a Baltimore, when you look at these sorts of incidents, we have a tendency vis-avis the media to actually question why it happened to the victim, and we go further and then we impute liability on the entire community and sort of do this systematic victim blaming of black America,” he said.

Texas Monthly’s Dan Solomon wrote in a column Monday that comparing Waco with Baltimore or Ferguson “was probably not an apples-to-apples situation.”

“But it’s nonetheless difficult to imagine that if a shoot-out involving dozens of young black men that ended with nearly 30 casualties had happened in a strip mall in Waco, it would be perceived as an isolated incident involving only the people who drew their guns — or that police would be chatting and friendly with people in the area in gang attire afterward,” Solomon wrote.

Loaded gun found at Wichita airport WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Security officers have found a loaded handgun in a carryon bag at Wichita’s Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport.

Local media outlets report a .380 caliber Smith & Wesson Bodyguard firearm was found loaded with six rounds on Monday.

Wichita Airport Police took the weapon and interviewed the passenger, who was allowed to continue on his flight.

The Transportation Security Administration says firearms are allowed in checked bags, if declared to the airline and properly packed in a locked,

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