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Enbridge effect helps shape county spending

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

The wooden skeleton of the Eastgate Lofts apartment complex is in place at the old Allen County Hospital site. Weather permitting, the apartments should be ready for occupancy by the end of September. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Eastgate Lofts project hits high gear

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Work has hit high gear on the Eastgate Lofts apartment complex at the old Allen County Hospital site.

But with the wooden frame for the two-story complex in place, the upcoming work will be much less visible.

“They’ll be working as hard,” said Fred Apt of Iola Industries. “You just won’t

be able to see it.”

Subcontractors handling plumbing, electric, HVAC and emergency sprinkler systems should begin their respective installations within the next two weeks, Apt said. Nearly all of that work will be done indoors, “and it will take a while,” he said.

Weather permitting, concrete slabs and blocks, used to build stairwells at opposite

ends of the complex should be going up soon as well.

From there, the focus will shift to putting up the roof, Apt said, and front balconies.

Once those are in place, work should quicken because crews will be able to access the top floor without having to use ladders, Apt said.

The construction project is being overseen by developer Tom Carlson, working

on behalf of Iola Industries, which is paying for the apartment complex’s construction.

The first units should be available for occupancy by the end of September. Rent is $685 a month, plus electric.

Apt also has been pegged to manage the apartment complex after it is complete.

To inquire about living in the apartment complex, call Apt at (620) 202-1026.

Humboldt woman has seen ‘bottom of the bottom’

By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register

Amanda Sydik dropped out of high school on the third day of her freshman year. She was 14. This was in Chewelah, a small mining town buried deep in the forests of northern Washington.

Here’s Sydik’s curt summary of that decision, one which would prove to have a lasting effect on her life: “A teacher and I didn’t get along. I looked at her, said a few things, they suspended me, and I never went back.”

Instead, she hung out in town, falling in with a group with a “bad reputation.”

Many of them were homeless, living in the local park or camping on the edges of town. They experimented with drugs and chased other

Amanda Sydik and her son, D.J. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY illegal thrills, which sometimes earned them a warm bed in the local jail. “They kind of adopted me,” remembers Sydik. “They told me: ‘Come with us.’”

There was young man, Shawn, who floated on the margins of the group. He came to Amanda’s attention early. He was charming, said all the correct things. “He

was Mr. Right,” says Sydik.

He told her he was 17. Sydik thought: “Three years difference? No big deal.” Later, she See SYDIK | Page A4

While the windfall from Enbridge P i p e l i n e ’s valuation keeps blowing our way, the overall benefit is negligible.

That’s because commissioners must make up for cuts by the state.

The second, though not final, draft of Allen County’s 2017 budget showed a $35 million increase — this year’s was about $38 million more than before Enbridge went online — in assessed valuation, due to the construction of the pipeline.

At first glance, the additional revenue would have allowed a sizable decrease in property taxes, from 44.048 mills to 32.728 mills.

Instead, commissioners raised the levies on several smaller funds, resulting in a net decrease of 1.5 mills in property taxes.

Still, they have about $2.5 million socked away in a capital outlay fund, courtesy of the pipeline.

Funding for road and bridge work will see the biggest increase, going from 10.8 to 15.9 mills, a jump of $2.2 million. Kansas Department of Transportation funds have been drawn on repeatedly by Gov. Sam Brownback to keep the state’s budget in balance. That means matching money for county and municipal projects has fallen on hard times.

The county has delayed work on several bridges and some road projects.

A week ago Mitch Garner, director of Public Works, was asked to develop a list of infrastructure improvements.

Overall, 2017’s assessed valuation stands at $138.23 See COUNTY | Page A3

LaHarpe in line for property tax hike Iola Municipal Band — Since 1871 —

At the bandstand Jake Ard, director Thursday, July 21, 2016 8 p.m.

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Quote of the day Vol. 118, No. 184

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

LAHARPE — Property owners in LaHarpe will want to pay close attention to what their home values are this year.

If values are the same, those property owners will have to fork over a bit more when they pay their 2017 property taxes later this year, according to the city’s proposed spending plan.

LaHarpe City Council members, in a special meeting Monday, scheduled an Aug. 10 budget hearing for the city’s 2017 budget. (A summary of the budget appears on Page A3.)

The budget is supported by an ad valorem tax levy of

about 59.291 mills, roughly 4.6 mills higher than what taxpayers spent this year.

The higher levy comes even though spending would remain largely flat, accountant Phil Jarred noted.

Jarred explained the quirk to the Council at Monday’s meeting, and to a Register reporter Tuesday.

The city projects to spend $83,645 in its general fund in 2017, which is a shade higher than the $81,000 or so in general fund spending this year.

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However, LaHarpe’s expected drop in assessed valuation means it requires a higher levy to spend the same dollars next year, Jarred explained.

LaHarpe’s assessed valuation will be finalized later this fall, but it is expected to drop from $1.49 million to $1.41 million in 2017. LaHarpe’s valuation will be more than $100,000 lower in 2017 than it was in 2015 ($1.515 million.)

The general fund levy also is affected by carry-over balances from other funds, Jarred explained.

With the higher levy, the owner of a $50,000 home will spend about $340 in properSee LAHARPE | Page A3

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Details emerge of KC police captain’s killing

By BILL DRAPER and JIM SUHR The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City, Kansas, police officer was shot and killed while searching for a suspect in a drive-by shooting, police said.

Capt. Robert Melton was searching for the suspect when he drove up to someone who matched that person’s description just before 2 p.m. Tuesday, police spokesman Tom Tomasic said. Before Melton could get out of his vehicle, the person opened fire, hitting the officer multiple times, Tomasic said. The alleged shooter was caught five minutes later about a block away, he said.

A police spokeswoman said the suspect was being questioned Tuesday evening along with

Robert Melton another person suspected in the initial drive-by shooting. Police weren’t releasing the suspects’ names because charges hadn’t been filed. A news conference was planned for this morning.

A third person who had been taken into custody was determined not to have been involved and was released, police said.

It’s the second time a Kansas City, Kan.,

police officer has been shot and killed this year.

In early May, detective Brad Lancaster was fatally shot near the Kansas Speedway, and Melton had served in the police honor guard at Lancaster’s funeral.

The shooting also comes as police departments across the country are on edge after ambush attacks left eight officers dead in Texas and Louisiana.

“There’s a lot of pain and brokenness in our community and our nation right now, and we just want to ask everyone to be prayerful and thoughtful right now,” Mayor Mark Holland of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County said.

Ida Ford, 87, was watching television in her two-story brick home when gunfire erupted just outside.

Ford said she thought someone was knocking on her air conditioner until her son rushed downstairs and told her the three loud noises she had heard were gunshots. Ford said she looked through her window and saw the officer sprawled and unresponsive on the asphalt road in front of her home.

She watched for a few minutes as paramedics worked on the officer.

“I’m just so sorry for

his family,” she said.

Melton was brought to the University of Kansas Hospital just before 2:30 p.m., but resuscitation efforts did not work, trauma surgeon James Howard said at a news conference.

The shooting happened after police responded to a report around 1:30 p.m. from a person who said several people in a car were firing shots. The suspect vehicle took off as police arrived, but it crashed into a fence and the occupants bailed out at 1:36 p.m., Tomasic, the police spokesman, said. Two people were taken into custody within three minutes of the wreck, he said.

Melton, 46, was driving around looking for a third person when he came upon someone who matched the suspect’s description, Tomasic said.

Melton was a 17-year veteran of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department. According to his LinkedIn profile, he had also served in the Kansas Army National Guard and was deployed to Afghanistan from September 2010 to March 2012.

Outside the hospital where Melton died, local Baptist preacher Jimmie Banks — a friend of the city’s mayor — sat dejected on a bench, head lowered, after attending the news conference announcing the officer’s passing. He said it was painful to sit in that room and see the grief-stricken faces.

“The contributions that peace officers make to protect and serve — they deserve better,” said Banks. “When they leave home, the family expects them to return.

It’s shameful this happened.”

Federal government removes lesser prairie chicken protections ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Facing an uphill court fight, the U.S. government announced Tuesday it was formally removing the lesser prairie chicken from a federal protection list under the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the move follows recent court rulings in Texas that stripped the lesser prairie chicken of federal protection. However, federal officials say the removal didn’t mean authorities had concluded the lesser prairie chicken didn’t warrant federal protection for biological reasons.

“The service is undertaking a thorough reevaluation of the bird’s status and the threats it faces using the best available scientific information to determine anew whether listing under the ESA is warranted,” the agency said.

The previous rulings found that Fish and Wildlife failed to make a proper evaluation of a multistate conservation plan when it listed the lesser prairie chicken as threatened.

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the threatened listing.

The Permian Basin Petroleum Association said it would impede operations and cost companies hundreds of millions of dollars in oil and gas development in one of the country’s most prolific basins, the Permian Basin in the Texas Panhandle and eastern New Mexico.

Ranchers also opposed the listing.

The lesser prairie chicken’s Great Plains habitat has shrunk by more than 80 percent since the 1800s, and its population by 99 percent. It lives primarily in Kansas, but also in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Colorado. About 95 percent of the bird’s range is on private lands.

To keep the bird off the endangered species list, the five states organized their own conservation program, offering economic incentives to landowners and companies that set aside land. Still, the Fish and Wildlife Service last year designated the lesser prairie chicken as threatened, one step beneath endangered status. The classification means federal

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“The storied prairie landscape of the Southwest is of tremendous economic and cultural importance. It is also a critical area for the birds, mammals, reptiles and other animals that rely on this unique habitat,” Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe said Tuesday. “Responding to this court ruling by removing the bird from the Federal List does not mean we are walking away from efforts to conserve the lesser prairie-chicken.

Far from it.”

Caren Cowan, executive director of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association, said she’s worried the agency still is re-evaluating the bird’s status. “The agency did choose not to appeal the listing in this particular case, but it is not precluded from trying to list a second time,” she said.

Still, state officials where the lesser prairie chicken roamed praised the Fish and Wildlife Service decision. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said it was “good news for private property rights, the rural Kansas economy and

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The most common bait used in rodenticides is known as anticoagulants. This means, that if your pet ingests an anticoagulant, it will deplete the body of Vitamin K. Vitamin K is used in the clotting cascade. Without proper and immediate treatment your pet could potentially bleed out internally over 57 days. Signs of rodenticide ingestion with an anticoagulant include lethargy, white gums, difficulty breathing, bruising and visible blood loss. Treatment includes making them vomit (immediately after ingestion), blood work with a coagulant panel, Vitamin K therapy and blood transfusions when needed.

The second most common bait used in rodenticides is known to cause neurotoxicity. The active ingredient is called Bromethalin. Ingestion of the neurotoxin can cause cerebral edema and seizures. The problem with ingestion of a neurotoxin is, if you don’t catch it quick enough, treatment would be supportive and prognosis is poor. Immediate treatment, if you see your pet eat this, would include making the dog vomit and activated charcoal. If you are seeing seizures, it is too late for your vet to do anything but supportive care and hope.

There are several different rodenticides not discussed in this article. We cannot differentiate types of rat baits based on color and shape. Therefore, you must bring the package of rodenticide with you, to your vet. Regardless of the type, if you see your pet eat rat bait, your vet needs to know immediately, not tomorrow, not when you see symptoms 3 days later.

Waiting until your pet shows clinical signs can be deadly.

Possums In The Barn (Russ Baxley, DVM)

Don’t feed or harbor possums, or any other wildlife for that matter, in your barn or feeding facility. Possums, in particular, carry a protozoa, S. neurona, which causes most cases of EPM (equine protozoal myeloencephalitis) in horses. S. neurona is passed in the fecal material of possums, which then contaminates the feed, water, hay, and environment (including pastures) where horses are kept. The live possum and an infected carcass (raccoon, armadillo, skunk, bird or domestic cat) are two hosts through which the S. neurona must cycle before the fecal contamination occurs and the exposure may occur to a horse. Horses that are infected cannot shed protozoa, and therefore are an end-host, non-infective. Keep your barn areas clean, free of spilled feed, keep feed in containers with lids and put away cat food (possums favorite!) at night when possums are most active. EPM can be an expensive illness to treat, so practice avoidance instead. Also, be aware that non-domesticated animals in your barn area may be sources of rabies exposure. Be safe and smart.

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In 2014, Kansas enacted a law saying the state has the sole power to regulate the lesser prairie chicken — along with the larger, darker and more abundant

greater prairie chicken — and their habitats within Kansas. It authorizes the attorney general or county prosecutors to sue over federal attempts to impose conservation measures.

Financial Focus Be Aware of Challenges to Managing Retirement Income

When you retire, will your cost of living decline?

Some of your expenses may indeed drop, but others won’t. Plus, you may have some new ones to consider. So, all in all, it’s a good idea to think about ways to boost your retirement savings now, before you’re retired. And once you do retire, you’ll need to be adept at managing your income. But whether saving today or planning for tomorrow, you should familiarize yourself with the key financial challenges you will face during your retirement years.

Specifically, consider these areas: • Longevity – Obviously, the longer your retirement lasts, the more money you’ll need. And you could be retired for quite some time. A 65-year-old man, on average, is expected to live another 17.9 years, while a 65-year-old woman can anticipate another 20.5 years, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. With this type of potential longevity in mind, you’ll want to contribute as much as you can afford to your retirement plans, such as your IRA and 401(k), while you’re working. Then, when you are retired and start tapping into your investment portfolio, you will need to create a sustainable withdrawal rate – one that doesn’t push you into the “danger zone” of possibly outliving your resources.

• Health care – Once you enter your retirement years, your health care costs are all but certain to rise, even with Medicare. In fact, the average annual out-of-pocket health care cost for a household between 65 and 74 years old is $4,383 – about 11% of total household spending, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute. And these costs rise substantially for those over 74. To help cope with these costs, you’ll need a reasonable amount of liquidity in your portfolio.

• Long-term care – You may never need to stay in a nursing home or receive services from a home health care worker. But you are taking somewhat of a gamble if you don’t prepare for these long-term care costs – because they are high. In fact, the annual average cost for a private room in a nursing home is more than $92,000, according to the 2016 Cost of Care Survey produced by Genworth, a financial services company. Medicare typically pays very little of these expenses, but a financial professional can help you find an appropriate way of coping with these types of costs.

• Inflation – We’ve had low inflation the past several years, but it hasn’t gone away entirely, and it won’t disappear when you’re retired, either. Even a mild rate of inflation can, over time, seriously erode your purchasing power. To combat the effects of inflation, you’ll need to own at least some growth-oriented investments.

• Market volatility – The financial markets will bounce up and down during your retirement years, just as they did when you were working. The big difference? You have less time to recover – and you don’t want to withdraw from your investments when their price is down. However, you can help avoid this necessity by maintaining enough income-producing vehicles in your portfolio; these types of investments usually fluctuate much less in value than stocks and stock-based vehicles.

• By being aware of these issues, both before and during your retirement, you can prepare for them – and preparation is key to managing your income, as it is in all walks of life.

This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

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Thursday-County bus to Iola, phone 24 hours before you need a ride.

785-448-4410 any weekday; Tuesday-Last Summer Story Hour, City Hall Community Room, 10-11 a.m.; July 27-Fire Department fire meeting, fire station, 7 p.m.; City Council meeting, City Hall Community Room, 7 p.m.; Allen County Fair, Riverside Park, Iola, July 29-Aug. 6

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Scripture Sunday at the United Methodist Church was Amos 8:112, Colossians 1:15-29 and Luke 10:38-42. Pastor Dorothy Welch presented the sermon, “To God Be The Glory.”

Colony Day

Games will kick off the 20th annual Colony Day Celebration one day early, at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2. Games will be at City Hall. Everyone is invited.

Gift prizes are needed for winners. If you can donate gifts such as pies, brownies, cookies, cupcakes, crafts, gift certificates or anything else, contact or bring items to Mary Scovill, 608 E. Sixth St., 620-365-9175 or to the Goppert State Service Bank in Colony.

Those wishing to donate a Colony Day basket for the auction should contact Denise

Mary A. Luedke 852-3379

King, 620-852-3017. The baskets are displayed at Jeanie’s a week or so prior to Colony Day.

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Tadd Goodell was elected July 11 as Crest USD 479 Board of Education president and Bryan Miller as vice president.

The resignation of Bailey Myers as sophomore class sponsor was accepted.

Board members also approved 1.9 percent pay raises for Superintendent of Schools Chuck Mahon, Principal Travis Hermreck and Board Clerk Leanne Trabuc, as well as all classified employees.

Mahon reported summer weights have started. The fall parents meeting will be Aug. 14.

Enrollment is Aug. 1719. An open house will be at 6 p.m. Aug. 31.

Carpet will be laid soon in three classrooms. Uniforms for middle school and high school cheerleaders need to be purchased.

Story Hour

Twenty-four children and three helpers attended the July 12 Story Hour.

Debbie Wools read a yoga story (children did the yoga pose when she read the name of the pose in the story). She

Happy 100 The families of Evelyn Wedeman, fourth from left in the second row, helped her celebrate her 100th birthday July 9 at the City Hall Community Room. Her daughter, Donna Powell, far right on the second row, lives a block from her mother. Wedeman’s birthday was July 11. Eighty-four family members attended her special day, including eight of her nine grandchildren from Washington, California and Kansas (Burlington, Colony, Halstead and Tonganoxie); 15 great-grandchildren; and 15 of her 30 great-great-grandchildren. Two daughters, Zona and Zola, are deceased. PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRISSY POWELL also read three books, “The Great Fuzz Frenzy,” “Miracle Mud” and “Good Night Yoga.” The craft was painting sun catchers. Charlene Tinsley provided Rice Krispies treats and Kool-Aid.

City Council

At the May 25 meeting the city council made an approval of a water extension until June 1.

Richard Fisher was appointed as Colony’s new city judge at the May 25 City Council meeting, Ace Goodrich as the new dog catcher and Judy Henderson was appointed as the newest member of the city library board.

August Celebrations

Anniversaries: Aug. 4-Brant and Danelle Mc-

Ghee; 5-Larry and Bev Wittmer; Birthdays: Aug. 1-Dale Swift; 2-Nate Berry; 3-Gene Anderson and Cory Robert Davis; 7-Arlyn Briggs; 8-Ronnie McGhee; 9-Rose Samson and Rosemary Gillaspie, 11-Kevin Ray; 12-Callie McGhee; 14-Linda McAdam; 15-Levi Ashmore; 16-Francette Veteto, Sheldon Caudell; 17-Garry Decker; 18-Easton Walker King; 19-Jerry Luedke, Jerry Jones; 20-Stacy Jones; 24-Keith Babcock.

two and they decided to take their daughters and families.

Mark and Allene Luedke dined out Sunday for their birthdays.

They are three days and 28 years apart in birth dates, and have always celebrated birthdays together.

Jack Spillman, 90, Kincaid, died July 10 at Richmond Healthcare Center. Sympathy goes to his wife, Darline, Kincaid, and his brother, Decker and Sandra Spillman, Colony. Funeral services were Thursday at the Kincaid-Selma United Methodist Church, Kincaid. Interment followed in the Kincaid Cemetery.

Around Town

In last week’s items it was unintentionally omitted that the Leonard and Debbie Wools families enjoyed a vacation at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Mo. She had won the pass for

Blaine King, a Seekers Not Slackers 4-H Club member, showed a sign 4-H club members had made to add to the Colony Lions Club’s “Welcome to Colony” sign.

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million, just a smidgen less than this year’s $141.1 million but significantly greater than 2015’s $99.5 million.

A BUDGET consideration that surfaced Tuesday morning was from a proposal by Extension Agent Carla Nemecek for the county to fund a five-year improvement plan for fair buildings in Riverside Park, first mentioned without as much detail three weeks ago.

Nemecek gave a structure-by-structure outline of what could be done for about $150,000, funded in a lump sum or by yearly advances of $30,000 to $35,000.

The county provides $11,000 annually to the fair board, with the money mostly eaten up by the annual events. Such things

as utility and insurance costs take much of the allowance. “We have a building fund,” and Fair Board Member Larry Crawford, “but it mostly goes for repairs, a board here, a board there,” not major improvements.

Nemecek suggested a special committee be appointed to oversee what would be done. Some outside money might enter the equation. “We have gotten a $2,000 grant,” she said.

“I like the idea,” Commissioner Tom Williams said. “I see some individual possibilities,”

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compatibility between the two offices, I cannot offer an opinion on how a court might rule on the matter,” Weber wrote. “Until such a ruling is obtained, Commissioner Daniels remains a county commissioner until he either resigns or a court orders his of-

fice vacated because of his acceptance of the city position.”

Williams asked for the opinion after he removed himself from a committee to pick a new magistrate judge, saying at the time he thought it was a conflict he being a commissioner.

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Dubious record for Court nominee WA S H I N G T O N (TNS) — Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court is set to become the longest ever without action by the Senate.

Today is 126 days since President Barack Obama selected the D.C. appeals court jurist to succeed Antonin Scalia, who died in February.

His nomination has been an election-year lightning rod with Republicans refusing to give him a hearing, much less a vote.

One group with a lot at stake in the composition of the court, NARAL Pro-Choice America, is marking the milestone with “awards” for Republican senators blocking the Garland vote.

Until now, the longest it took for a Supreme Court nominee to be confirmed was 125 days. That was in 1916 for Justice Louis Brandeis.

While Garland is setting a record for a nominee, the opening to replace Scalia is not the longest Supreme Court vacancy. That one was nearly a year for Abe Fortas in 1969.

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Turkey widens crackdown after botched coup ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey today intensified a sweeping crackdown on the media, the military, the courts and the education system following an attempted coup, targeting tens of thousands of teachers and other state employees for dismissal in a purge that raised concerns about basic freedoms and the effectiveness of key institutions.

The Turkish government focused in particular on teachers suspected of backing Friday’s failed uprising, taking steps to revoke the licenses of 21,000 teachers at private schools and sacking or detaining half a dozen university presidents. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whose followers run a worldwide network of schools, of fomenting the insurrection, which was quashed by security forces and protesters loyal to the government.

Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania and has denied the coup accusations, is increasingly becoming a source of tension between the United States and Turkey, which has requested the cleric’s extradition. The two NATO allies cooperate in the U.S.-led war against the Islamic State group,

Fethullah Gulen with American military planes flying missions from Turkey’s Incirlik air base into neighboring Iraq and Syria.

Erdogan today was helming an emergency meeting of Turkey’s National Security Council, the highest advisory body on security issues. The president, who has said he narrowly escaped being killed or captured by renegade military units, previously declared that an “important decision” would be announced after the meeting.

While Turks speculated on what the new measure might be, it was almost certain to bolster an aggressive campaign against perceived enemies across a wide spectrum of Turkish society, from schools to the courts to the highest levels of government.

The government of Erdogan, accused of increasingly autocratic conduct even before the

coup attempt, revoked the press credentials of 34 journalists because of alleged ties to Gulen’s movement, Turkish media reported. A satirical magazine, Leman, said authorities blocked the distribution of a special edition over its cover featuring a caricature in which two mysterious hands play a game of strategy, one pushing soldiers onto the board and the other responding by sending civilians.

In addition to its moves against private teachers, Turkey has already announced the firing of 15,200 workers at state schools, demanded the resignations of 1,577 university deans and halted all foreign assignments for state-employed academics. A total of 50,000 civil service employees have been fired in the purges, which have reached Turkey’s national intelligence service and the prime minister’s office.

Authorities have

rounded up close to 9,000 people — including 115 generals, 350 officers and some 4,800 other military personnel — for alleged involvement in the coup attempt. The coup has led to public anger and calls for the government to reinstate the death penalty, a demand that Erdogan has said he will consider.

Anadolu, Turkey’s state-run news agency, published what it said were excerpts from the testimony to prosecutors of the closest aide to the Turkish military chief, in which he allegedly confessed to being a follower of Gulen and of knowing of the coup plans.

Lt. Col. Levent Turkkan allegedly told interrogators that coup plotters wanted to detain top civilian and military leaders, a plan that largely failed. Turkkan allegedly asserted that the coup failed because the military chief, Hulusi Akar, rejected an offer to lead the coup attempt.

“When he didn’t accept the offer, other force commanders could not be convinced.

We can say that by not accepting the offer, he paved the way for its failure,” the agency quoted Turkkan as saying. Turkkan reportedly said he “started to regret it after I saw the bombs explode and the civilians being

harmed.”

Officials today raised the death toll from the violence surrounding the coup attempt to 240 government supporters. At least 24 coup plotters were also killed.

The purges against suspected Gulen supporters follow earlier aggressive moves by Erdogan’s administration against Gulen loyalists in the government, police and judiciary following corruption probes targeting Erdogan associates and family members in late 2013 — prosecutions the government says were orchestrated by Gulen.

In a separate conflict, Turkish jets carried out cross-border strikes against Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq, killing 20 alleged militants, state media reported today.

F-16 jets pounded targets belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Iraq’s Hakurk region, the Anadolu agency reported. The Turkish military has been regularly hitting suspected PKK hideouts and position in Iraq since last year, but today’s strikes were the first since the failed coup.

The military appeared to be at least partly attempting to show that the forces are on top of security matters.

Sydik: From a life on the streets to struggling motherhood Continued from A1

would find out he was in his mid-twenties.

A year into their romance, Shawn convinced Sydik to leave Chewelah, and her family, for good. The pair lived in the mountains for a brief period, where Shawn began a systematic, daily pattern of physical abuse that would last the duration of their seven years together. Soon after, they moved to Spokane.

They were homeless during their years in the city, too, sleeping under bridges, in bus stations, in tents in the midst of transient camps. Shawn refused to stay at shelters, because house rules would have prevented him from laying his hands on Sydik.

(She once gained about four days reprieve from his violence while convalescing in the hospital after he beat her to a pulp with the heavy end of a metal baseball bat.

“He didn’t care that day.

He was just swinging.”)

The pair used drugs for most of those years, especially Shawn. Weed mostly, says Sydik, but stronger things too. On more than one occasion, she remembers Shawn — who was not against afflicting psychological torment as well — holding a loaded gun to her head and telling her to swallow pills, which to this day she can’t identify.

They scrounged for food during their Spokane days, and depended on the kindness of strangers. “There was a McDonald’s downtown, and the guy there felt really bad. He could tell the situation. He would make extra burgers and stuff and give us the last of the fries and the last of the burgers at the end of the night.”

I’ve seen the bottom of the bottom.

— Amanda Sydik

On rare occasions, Shawn would allow Sydik to hitchhike back to Chewelah to visit her mother, but he would insist she return on his strict schedule.

Years into their relationship, as the abuse mounted and the urgency of her predicament set in, Sydik would try to forge the occasional escape. But he always caught up. “He followed me all over the state. Every time I left him. ... I took off for Seattle at one point. He followed.

I still don’t know how he found me in Seattle. I was living on the street — then, one day, there he was. Everywhere I’d go, he’d pop up.”

Sydik’s final emancipation came in the form of a Greyhound bus bound for Topeka. When her misery reached a pitch she could no longer bear, Sydik reached out to her mother for rescue. “It took us being really sneaky,” recalls Sydik. “It took mom” — who was by then living in Osage City, Kan. — “wiring money to the mental health center [in Spokane], so Shawn wouldn’t know I had it.

The people there bought the bus ticket, they put me on the bus, and they stayed there until the bus pulled away.”

That was more than 10 years ago. Sydik is nearing 40 now. She has a 10-year-old son, D.J., from a previous relationship. In all, she’s tried her best to move

on. “But it took a long time for me to start going out,” says Sydik, who recently moved with her mother and son to a small house on the south end of Humboldt, “and to start doing other things than living in fear of whether he’s going to show up at the door.”

ALL OF THIS is to say that Amanda Sydik is well acquainted with the hard edge of poverty.

“I’ve seen the bottom of the bottom,” says Sydik.

So, when a woman standing in line behind Sydik at a local Walmart recently glared at the groceries Sydik was about to purchase with her Vision card and accused the single mother of being “too lazy to work” and of “mooching off the government,” Sydik, if she weren’t so polite, might have told the woman that buying her food with public assistance is actually a step up for the one-time drifter, a move in the right direction.

Instead, recalls Sydik, the stranger’s comments very nearly reduced her to tears.

Sydik, who was diagnosed with bipolar disease years ago, receives $735 per month in disability benefits. She collects $351 per month in child support. Her mother, who has her own set of bills but pitches in on

household expenses, receives $1,080 in disability.

“But that doesn’t stretch very far,” protests Sydik. “There’s not much left over after bills to pay for groceries.” Sydik and her son receive $168 in SNAP assistance on the eighth of every month.

“But that last week going into the eighth is really tight,” says Sydik. “We eat a lot of Top Ramen, a lot of peanut butter sandwiches, stuff like that.” And they’ve thrown themselves on the mercy of area food banks on more than one occasion.

Sydik’s goal, in time, is to transition away from public assistance.

To that end, she recently graduated from Neosho Community College and is currently enrolled in online courses through Kansas State University, where she hopes to graduate in 2017. She’d like to work for the Department of Children and Families or serve as a case manager at a local mental health center.

Currently a full-time student and mom, Sydik has been lashed to the mast of minimum wage jobs for most of her working life. “I worked at a gas station, Pizza Hut, as a delivery driver, at the Dollar Store. Jobs where you don’t make a lot of money and there’s

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no health insurance.

You get sick? Tough cookies.”

D.J., who struggles with his own host of developmental disorders, is the reason Sydik wants to remake her life.

“I needed to do something better than working at gas stations. One, he needed to see that it didn’t matter how old you were, as long as you were determined and put in the work, you could go back to school. And, two, right now, we’re not even surviving — we’re just going day to day. I want to give him more.”

DOES SHE miss her home state? “I miss my mountains. And I miss my snow. And I miss being able to look in a lake and see the bottom.” But a shadow still lurks at the edge of those memories, a specter menacing enough to

keep her out of the Pacific Northwest, at least for the time being. Her life now is with her son, in Humboldt.

Will she ever tell D.J. about her years in Spokane, her life on the streets? “I don’t know yet. I haven’t decided.”

As for her mother, who, on Tuesday morning, slept quietly in the adjacent room — she doesn’t want to know the details of her daughter’s life during that period. “She won’t talk about that time,” says Sydik. “She can’t handle it. It hurts.”

What about Sydik, does she worry, in such a small town, about telling a wider public?

“No. I don’t care. It is what it is, you know. It happened. And if you don’t tell people your story, how are they ever going to change their opinions?”

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County attorney’s race warrants circumspection It’s long been the policy of The Register to keep its opinions in check when it comes to local elections.

Such races typically involve if not friends, at least those we cross paths with from time to time, and we feel uncomfortable putting the qualities of one candidate up against those of another.

Call us chicken, but good neighbors will win out every time over politics.

This election, however, we would be remiss to let the race for Allen County attorney go without comment.

Simply put, Linus Thuston is not a credible candidate by evidence of the fact that he himself can’t stay on the right side of the law.

During his 1997-2001 tenure as Neosho County attorney, Thuston faced disciplinary action for three separate infractions.

The first was for accepting bribes; the second for overcharging Neosho County citizens for his services; and the third for misuse of county funds.

The bribery charge involved Thuston accepting two cell phones, pager equipment (remember, this was in the day before smartphones) as well as nine months of telephone service in exchange for his securing diversion agreements for two Chanute women charged with falsely reporting a crime in 1999.

In his defense before the state’s Board of the Discipline of Attorneys, Thus-

ton said he figured that if community service could be accepted in lieu of being charged with a crime, then his personally profiting by agreeing to drop criminal charges against the women could be viewed in the same manner.

Um no, said the disciplinary board.

In the second case, Thuston billed the county about $34,000, for what commissioners valued at about $9,000, for the handling of three appeals cases.

The disciplinary board agreed with commissioners, saying Thuston’s fees were “unreasonable and excessive” and mandated he repay Neosho County $26,037, including the costs of the disciplinary hearing.

The third case, while not so egregious, is an example of poor judgment.

In 2001, Thuston used county funds to purchase five paintball guns and ammunition for $524. Thuston said the recreational equipment would help him better understand what it is like for law enforcement personnel to be in hostage situations.

For real.

THUSTON lost his bid for re-election in 2000.

Why he was re-elected as Neosho County attorney in 2012 can only be attributed to the short memories of voters.

A vote for Jerry Hathaway is a vote against Linus Thuston.

— Susan Lynn

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The century-old Seven Arch Bridge four miles east of Humboldt came tumbling down Thursday. A new bridge will be built over Slack Creek where the older one was. The old bridge was condemned and closed in 1996. ***** HUMBOLDT — A fourday youth baseball tournament to commemorate Humboldt’s baseball icons, Walter Johnson and George Sweatt, winds up this weekend. It was organized by Dick Davis. Sponsors were able to get Henry Thomas, a grandson of Johnson, and Bill Clounch, a descendant of Sweatt, to throw ceremo-

nial pitches in the tournament games. **** Beth Ludlum, daughter of Joe and Ann Ludlum of Uniontown, was recently elected state president of FFA from a field of 21 candidates at the state conference in Manhattan. She is a 1999 graduate of Iola High School. In August she will attend the national state presidents conference in Washington, D.C. and will spend the next year conducting conferences for FFA leaders and chapters throughout Kansas. The headquarters is on the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan, where she is enrolled so she can attend classes while conducting her FFA duties.

Letter to the editor Dear editor,

I am writing you this letter in regards to my situation.

Not only is it my situation, but it is one that many Kansans have as well.

I am a convicted felon trying to get a job. The job market isn’t that great in smaller communities like Iola, but there are enough businesses locally that one would think a job wouldn’t be hard to come by.

I knew my past was going to play a factor in my finding employment. I am not being picky about where I turn in applications. I have over 10

applications turned in at this time.

One of the applications was through Manpower. They didn’t care about me being a felon. They contacted me within 15 minutes of completing my application. Manpower then contacted a local business but due to me being a felon they wanted nothing to do with me.

I am not sure if the local businesses in the area are aware of the tax write-off they can receive for hiring a convicted felon. But it is available.

I am not going to give up

in my pursuit of gaining employment. My second chance is coming. I believe God doesn’t put us in situations we can’t handle.

I am going to continue pushing forward.

As long as I continue to put forth the effort a job will present itself.

I hope all convicted felons will be given a chance. We could be the greatest employee a business ever has, but they won’t know unless we are given a chance.

Sincerely, Jeremy Smith Iola, Kan.

Republican Party retreats on trade Perhaps nowhere has the Republican Party’s accommodation of Donald Trump been more awkward and more shameless than on the issue of trade. And nowhere has the GOP’s retreat on a core principle — that free and competitive commerce across national borders is a fundamental element of capitalism — been more complete and humiliating.

Over the weekend, Trump again denounced the North American Free Trade Agreement as “the worst economic deal in the history of our country” and “a horror show” — all while introducing his NAFTA-backing running mate, Mike Pence. And on Monday, the GOP convention in Cleveland approved a platform that reads like a criminal indictment of China’s economic practices and is considerably more hostile to trade than the one adopted four years ago.

Republican leaders in Congress have already given up on scheduling a vote this year on the 12-nation trade pact known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which excludes China and would help American movie makers, software designers, drug companies and other industries that benefit from international com-

merce. The party platform says TPP approval shouldn’t be rushed or undertaken in a lame duck Congress.

Such a message no doubt goes down well in hard-hit Rust Belt communities where the presidential election will be contested. In recent decades, certain manufacturing industries, such as textiles, have contracted severely, and most government programs to retrain displaced workers have been a shambles.

Even so, a message that focuses only on the casualties of trade is misleading and manipulative. It is a bad idea for a party that has long branded itself as the party of free enterprise. It is even worse news for the nation as a whole. Trade is a major force behind innovation and improvements in quality that help keep the American economy on its toes.

Without competition from Japan, Detroit would probably still be making the shoddy cars that were its hallmark in the 1970s. And without the ability to sell globally, companies such as Apple, Facebook and Google would probably not be the iconic brands they are today.

Trade gets a bad rap — from progressive Democrats as well as Trump backers —

because its benefits are taken for granted, its beneficiaries are hard to identify and organize, and its victims are readily recognizable when a plant closes. But it does have clear upsides that include lower costs and more choices for consumers, and thriving exports in agriculture, technology, health care, financial services and even many areas of manufacturing.

A STRONG CASE can be made that technology, and not trade, is the major disruptive force (for good and bad) in employment. This can be seen in the fact that manufacturing output has continued to grow even as 5 million manufacturing jobs have been eliminated since 2000. It can also be seen in the declines in employment in retail, travel, media and other industries not impacted by trade.

Yet, to hear Trump talk, one would think that China, Mexico and a few other countries are responsible for all disruptions in the workforce, and that Americans get nothing out of trade. If the GOP seeks a vibrant future — for itself and for the U.S. economy — it will turn away from Trump’s defeatist trade policies.

— USA Today

How to contact your elected officials

President Barack Obama, (Democrat) 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington D.C., 20500; phone (switchboard): (202) 456-1414; (comments): (202) 4561111

Gov. Sam Brownback, (Republican) Capital, 300 S.W. 10th Ave., Suite 212S, Topeka, KS 66612-1590; phone: (785) 2963232; www.governor. ks.gov/comments/comment.htm

U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, (Republican) 109 Hart Senate Office Building Washington D.C., 20510; phone: (202) 224-4774; Email: www.roberts. senate.gov/public/index. cfm?p=EmailPat

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, (Republican) Russell Senate Office Building, Room 354, Washington D.C., 20510; phone: (202) 224-6521; Pittsburg: 306 N. Broadway, Suite 125, Pittsburg, KS, 66762; (620) 232-2286. Email: moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-jerry

Rep. Lynn Jenkins, (Republican) 130 Cannon House Office Building, Washington D.C., 20515; phone: (202) 225-6601; Pittsburg: 701 N. Broadway, Pittsburg, KS 66762; phone: (620) 231-5966. Email: lynnjenkins.house.gov/ contact-me/

Sen. Caryn Tyson, (Republican) State Capitol-236 E Topeka, KS 66612 phone: (785) 2966838; e-mail: caryn. tyson@senate.ks.gov or 19984 County Rd. 1077 Parker, KS 66072 phone: (913) 898-2366

Rep. Kent Thompson, (Republican) House District No. 9, phone: (620) 496-7200 State Capitol, Room 050-S 300 SW Tenth Ave. Topeka, KS 66612, or phone: 620-496-2255 1816 2800 St., LaHarpe, KS 66751 email: kent.thompson@ house.ks.gov

Rep. Adam Lusker, (Democrat) House District No. 2, phone: (785) 2967698 State Capitol, Room 043-S 300 SW Tenth Ave. Topeka, KS 66612, email: adam.lusker@ house.ks.gov

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Donald Trump’s children, Donald Jr., above, and Tiffany, far right, praised their father at Tuesday night’s convention. Center is Carol Sides, delegate. Jessica Griffin, Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS

It’s official: Donald Trump is Republican nominee CLEVELAND (AP) — The art of the coronation has taken something of a beating at the Republican National Convention. Nevertheless, Donald Trump now has the crown — and a final chance to summon unity from the party’s restive ranks in the ritual’s closing days.

The roll call of the states Tuesday night delivered Trump the nomination, which he welcomed from afar in a videotaped message saying “This is a movement, but we have to go all the way.” House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that Trump had amassed 1,725 delegates, more than triple the number of his nearest competitor, the fruits of a political phenomenon without parallel in modern times.

Day 3 of the convention will bring two conservative stalwarts to the stage: Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, a favorite of evangelicals; and the nominee’s most tenacious challenger in the primaries, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the man Trump used to call “Lyin’ Ted.” Pence is heartily on board the Trump bandwagon; Cruz isn’t yet, nor are many of his supporters in Cleveland.

The senator’s scheduled prime-time address will be keenly watched as a

barometer of the party’s loud if short-lived profighting spirit as the test on opening day GOP turns to the fall over convention rules campaign against Dem- aimed at tamping down ocrat Hillary Clinton, any remaining threat to who accepts her nomi- Trump’s triumph.

Tuesday night, speaknation next week.

Trump, the in-your- er after speaker stepped face outsider, won at the forward to denounce cost of alienating many Clinton, none to greater traditional Republicans effect with the crowd both on the right and in than New Jersey Gov. the center, and the di- Chris Christie. vide has spilled over into The governor, a dropthe convention, though out in the GOP presiwithout overwhelming dential race who ended it. The roll call unfold- up on the short list for ed largely according to Trump’s running mate, plan after a day domi- energized the hall as nated by unwelcome at- he ticked through nutention over passages merous accusations of from an eight-year-old wrongdoing against Michelle Obama speech Clinton and implored to shout that made their way into delegates Melania Trump’s ad- “guilty.” They not only dress to the convention, did that, but interruptalmost word for word, ed him with shouts of “Lock her up.” the night before.

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the crowd scandal follows Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton “like flies.”

Two of Trump’s children testified to his character. “For my father, impossible is just the starting point,” said Donald Trump Jr., eldest of the nominee’s five children. Tiffany Trump, 22, said her dad is a “natural-born encourager” and she recalled the notes he wrote on her report cards.

Questions about plagiarism surfaced for a second day in a row, this time in the eldest son’s speech. But F.H. Buckley, the writer behind the original work in question this time — an article in The American Conservative — said he was a principal speechwriter for the younger Trump and said the cam-

paign did nothing wrong.

On the convention floor, Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina was feeling the fighting spirit, telling reporters, “It’s all starting to gel.” Not so for Colorado delegate Kendal Unruh, a leader of the outmaneuvered antiTrump contingent, who said it’s time to “cancel the convention, stop the sham,” and who warned Trump might run into a “show of displeasure” in his acceptance speech ending the convention Thursday night. Colorado cast most of its votes for Cruz.

Cruz was not expected to offer a full-throated endorsement in his speech, nor to rock the boat too much, given that his remarks were being vetted by Trump’s people.

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Sunflower Games:

American Legion Baseball: Iola 12, Fort Scott 11

Mustangs’ 8U baseball team wins gold medal

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

Iola’s Kane Rogers takes a swing during the Indians’ 12-11 win over Fort Scott on Tuesday at Humboldt in the Zone 4 American Legion playoffs. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

WALK OFF

Indians rally late to advance to Zone championship game

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — At 6:15 on Tuesday evening, it appeared as if the season was coming to an end for the Post 15 Indians.

Iola had played just one half of an inning against Fort Scott, but the Fort Scott lineup jumped all over Iola starter Isaac Vink — who had thrown 31 pitches two days before in relief — and put up five first inning runs to jump out to an early lead.

Two innings later, the lead had ballooned to 8-1 and it appeared that

Iola’s season would end with a thirdplace showing in the zone tournament.

“The crazy thing is we go out there and give up five unearned runs in the first two innings and fall down 8-1,” Iola coach Rick Vink said. “I was thinking, we have given these guys eight runs, we just need to chip away and chip away.”

And that is what Iola did. They scored a run in the third and tacked on two more in the fourth on a tworun single from third baseman Derek See INDIANS | Page B3

Racing: Humboldt Speedway

Barksdale shines in debut at Humboldt

By JEFF FEHR The Humboldt Speedway

HUMBOLDT — Sheldon Barksdale had not set foot on Humboldt Speedway before Friday night. But it did not take the Norman, Oklahoma native long to learn the fast way around the tight 3/8’s mile oval.

Barksdale led from start to finish and picked up his second-straight and fifth-overall Ameri-Flex Hose and Accessories / OCRS sprint car main event.

In Out Pace/McCarthy Auto Group USRA Modified action Nevada, Mo.-native Chase Domer jumped out to an early lead and held off Tad Davis and Cody Schniepp for the win in a caution filled A-Main. Gene Hogan and Dennis Bishop rounded out the top five.

In Ray’s Metal Depot/ USRA B Modified action Japser, Mo.’s Cody Jolly rebounded from a runner up finish last week to get See RACING | Page B4

Iola’s Ethan Tavarez throws a pitch in Iola’s 12-11 win over Fort Scott in the American Legion Zone 4 playoffs on Tuesday in Humboldt. REGISTER/JON

DYKSTRA

TOPEKA — The Iola Mustangs’ 8-and-under baseball team wrapped up its season in style by capturing the gold medal at the Kansas Sunflower State Games in Topeka last weekend.

The games represented the last time the team was able to play machine pitch baseball and they were able to play at the Bettis Sports Complex on turf fields, which was an exciting opportunity for the boys.

The Mustangs were coming off of a state championship victory just two weekends ago, but in the Sunflower Games the team faced an entirely new slate of teams.

Iola cruised to a pair of quick wins by topping the Coffey County Mudcats 16-0 and the Lawrence Venom 18-0.

“It was nice to witness them play that hard to kick off the tournament,” Iola coach Jeff White said. “We could just tell that they wanted it from the get-go.”

With the playoffs beginning, the top-seeded Mustangs had a rematch with the Mudcats and again they cruised to a lopsided win. They won 14-4.

In the semifinals, they punched their ticket to the championship game by beating the Topeka Titans, 14-3.

In the championship game, the Mustangs were finally challenged.

The Carbondale Bombers jumped out to an 8-6 lead in the third inning, but White was confident in his team as they came to bat.

“The boys huddled up between innings and you could just tell from the look in their eyes that something big was going to happen,” White said.

The Mustangs scored six runs in the inning and took a 12-8 lead. They added four more runs in the fifth inning and held on for a 16-13 win to claim the gold medal at the Sunflower Games.

The performance capped the team’s big season that also saw them claim a state title.

Major League Baseball: Indians 7, Royals 3

Cleveland powers past Kansas City

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

The Royals’ Paulo Orlando breaks his bat on a fly ball out to end the sixth inning against Cleveland on Tuesday at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City.

John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals’ search for a fifth starter evidently will continue after two of the favorites for the job did little to help their cause Tuesday.

Brian Flynn gave up three runs while failing to make it through three innings, Dillon Gee entered and gave up three more runs, and the Royals lost to the Cleveland Indians 7-3 on

a hot, muggy night.

“We’re just looking for a guy right now,” said manager Ned Yost, who shuffled Chris Young off to the bullpen weeks ago. “We’ve got time to think about it. We’ve got an off day on Thursday, so we’ll be able to skip that spot the next time around. We’ll probably take advantage of that and consider all of our options.”

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‘Pretty Woman’ director Garry Marshall dies at 81 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Garry Marshall knew how to tug at moviegoers’ heartstrings, whether with unlikely love in “Pretty Woman” or sentimental loss in “Beaches.”

But it was goofy, crowd-pleasing comedy that endeared the writer and director to generations of TV viewers in hit sitcoms including “Happy Days, “Laverne & Shirley” and “Mork & Mindy.” Marshall, who died Tuesday at 81, said in a 1980s interview that humor was his necessary path in life.

“In the neighborhood where we grew up in, the Bronx, you only had

York. He caught the eye of comic Joey Bishop, who brought him to Los Angeles to write for “The Joey Bishop Show.”

Sitcoms quickly proved to be Marshall’s forte. He and then-writing partner Jerry Belson turned out scripts for the most popular comedies of the ‘60s, including “The Lucy Show,” ‘’The Danny Thomas Show” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”

Marshall and Belson detoured into screenwriting in 1967 with “How Sweet It Is,” starring Debbie Reynolds, and followed it up with “The Grasshopper” (1970) with Jacqueline

I believe that television was, and still is, the only medium that can truly reach society’s lowest common denominator and entertain those people who maybe can’t afford a movie or a play. So why not reach them and do it well?

— Garry Marshall, from his autobiography, “Wake Me When It’s Funny”

a few choices. You were either an athlete or a gangster, or you were funny,” the New York native said.

Marshall also had a memorable on-screen presence, using his hometown accent and gruff delivery in colorful supporting roles that included a practical-minded casino boss untouched by Albert Brooks’ disastrous luck in “Lost in America” and a crass network executive in “Soapdish.”

He died at a hospital in Burbank, California, of complications from pneumonia following a stroke.

“A great, great guy and the best casino boss in the history of film,” actor-filmmaker Brooks posted on Twitter.

Richard Gere, who starred opposite Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman,” said in a statement that “everyone loved Garry. He was a mentor and a cheerleader and one of the funniest men who ever lived. He had a heart of the purest gold and a soul full of mischief. He was Garry.”

Henry Winkler, who starred as Fonzie on “Happy Days,” saluted Marshall in a tweet as “larger than life, funnier than most, wise and the definition of friend.”

He rejected retirement, serving as a consultant on CBS’ 2015 reboot of “The Odd Couple,” starring Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon, and appearing in an episode this year as Oscar’s father, Walter.

Among his final credits was “Mother’s Day,” a film released last April starring Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Roberts.

Marshall, the brother of actress-director Penny Marshall, earned a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and worked at the New York Daily News. But he found he was better at writing punchlines.

He began his entertainment career in the 1960s selling jokes to comedians, then moved to writing sketches for “The Tonight Show” with Jack Paar in New

Bisset. But the two men kept their hand in TV. In 1970, they turned Neil Simon’s Broadway hit, “The Odd Couple,” into a sitcom starring Jack Klugman and Tony Randall and produced by Marshall. It ran for five seasons and proved the beginning of a TV sitcom empire that lives on in unending 21st-century reruns.

In January 1979, Marshall had three of the top five comedies on the air with “Happy Days,” which ran from 197484; “Laverne & Shirley” (1976-83), which starred Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams, and “Mork & Mindy” (1978-82) with newcomer Robin Williams.

“The New Odd Couple,” a reboot with African-American actors Ron Glass and Demond Wilson in the lead roles, aired from 1982-83 but was less successful.

Marshall defended his body of TV work, which won more viewers than honors, in his 1995 autobiography, “Wake Me When It’s Funny,” written with his daughter, Lori Marshall.

“Critics have knocked me for targeting society’s lowest common denominator,” he wrote. “I believe that television was, and still is, the only medium that can truly reach society’s lowest common denominator and entertain those people who maybe can’t afford a movie or a play. So why not reach them and do it well?” he said.

Penny Marshall told The New York Times in 2001 that her brother “has a life. He’s not into the show business glitterati. If he has a hot movie, that’s great. But if he has something that doesn’t do great, he’s not around those people who won’t speak to you or will make you feel terrible.”

After cranking out what Marshall once estimated to be 1,000 sitcom episodes, he switched his focus to the big screen with 1984’s “The Flamingo Kid,” a coming-ofage story starring Matt Dillon, which Marshall wrote and directed.

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Indians: Iola advances to zone championship tonight at 6 Continued from B1

Bycroft. Iola had life again with the score cut to 8-4.

Fort Scott quickly erased that progress when they scored three runs in the top of the fifth inning off of Iola relief pitcher Ethan Tavarez.

Tavarez entered the game in the third inning in relief of Vink who surrendered only one earned run in his two innings of work. Tavarez allowed five runs in three innings pitched and with only nine outs remaining for Iola they face an 11-4 deficit.

“Honestly some times you never know what you are going to get, but I knew if they were throwing strikes and the way we were hitting we were going to have a chance,” Iola catcher Nic Zimmerman said.

The Post 15 offense kept fighting back and posted three runs in the bottom of the fifth to pull back within four runs.

The Iola coaching staff inserted Kane Rogers to pitch in the sixth inning. With Vink and Tavarez having already pitched in the game and Bycroft and Daylon Splane having started games on Sunday, the game belonged to Rogers the rest of the way regardless of his performance.

“I just knew that I had to throw strikes and let my defense do some work and that is what they did,” Rogers said.

“They played very well

Iola’s Nic Zimmerman takes a swing during Tuesday’s game against Fort Scott in Humboldt in the Zone 4 American Legion playoffs. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA behind me.”

Rogers allowed two singles in the sixth frame, but was able to get out of the inning without any harm done.

Splane and Bycroft each scored runs in the sixth inning and Iola kept the pressure on Fort Scott by trimming the lead to 11-9.

Rogers didn’t allow a hit in the seventh inning and got the game back

to the offense with the deficit at two and three outs left to make up the margin.

Fort Scott opened the inning by inducing a groundout.

Two outs left.

Second baseman Blake Ashmore drew a one-out walk against Fort Scott closer DeVonte Robinson.

The tying run stepped to the plate with leadoff

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hitter Bycroft up. Bycroft drew a four-pitch walk.

Robinson buckled down and got another Iola groundout.

One out left.

Vink was up next. He sent a hard ground ball to shortstop which resulted in an error and allowed Ashmore to score and the lead was cut to one.

Clean-up hitter Zimmerman was up next.

Zimmerman hit a ground ball to short.

Zimmerman ran hard out of the batter’s box.

He knew if he didn’t make it to first safely, Iola’s season was over.

“I knew the game relied on my wheels,” Zimmerman said with a smile. “I don’t have much in terms of wheels, but I had an odd feeling before the game that I had to actually get some pregame warm-up ankle weights just for that situation so I thought I came in prepared.”

After a bobble by the Fort Scott shortstop and with Zimmerman coming down the first-base line as hard as he could to put pressure on the throw, the throw to first sailed to the home-plate side of first and pulled the first baseman off the bag and Zimmerman hit the bag just in front of a sweeping tag from the first baseman.

“It is funny with Nic,” Coach Vink said. “Al-

though he isn’t a very fast runner, he is a very smart runner and he always runs hard and that paid off on that play for sure.”

While the action was taking place at first base, 90 feet away, Bycroft crossed home plate to tie the game.

Now all the pressure transferred from the Iola dugout to Robinson on the pitcher’s mound.

Instead of trying to prevent extra innings, now he was left hoping he could send the game there by recording another out.

Robinson walked left fielder Keanen Badders and Rogers stepped to the plate with the bases loaded with Indians. Robinson couldn’t find the strike zone and walked Rogers on four pitches to give Iola the 12-11 win and send the Indians to the zone championship game.

“Coach told me to take a of couple pitches, so that is what I did,” Rogers said. “(Robinson) fell behind and eventually just walked me and that is what did it.”

The Iola coaches were pleased with how their batters handled the last inning.

“We told the kids to be patient and they did a great job of making sure they got a strike before they swung,” Coach Vink said. “When (Robinson) got the bases loaded there, he just couldn’t find the zone and we got the walk-off win.”

RAMIFICATIONS By virtue of hosting the state tournament, Fort Scott is guaranteed one of Zone 4’s two spots in the state tournament despite its third-place finish.

In order for Iola to qualify for the state tournament, it will have to win the zone championship tonight against Garnett.

“It was a good comeback (against Fort Scott,)” Iola coach Rick Vink said. “But our guys know they have to play better (against Garnett.)”

If the Indians are to

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emerge with the zone title, they will have to top the Muddogs twice tonight. The Muddogs beat Iola on Sunday and enter the championship showdown undefeated in the tournament, while Iola has a 2-1 tournament record entering tonight’s game.

The playoff bracket appears on page B6 of today’s Register.

PITCHING With Isaac Vink, Ethan Tavarez and Kane Rogers all pitching on Tuesday, the Indians enter tonight’s game with a very tired pitching staff.

Daylon Splane and Derek Bycroft will be the starters for tonight’s games.

“We will probably go Daylon in game one and if he gets in trouble, bring in Derek,” Iola coach Rick Vink said.

“If we make it to the second game, it will be whoever’s arm can stay on.”

Both pitchers started games for the Indians on Sunday and will be coming back on short rest to try to secure the state berth for their team.

Splane pitched seven innings to beat Fort Scott on Sunday, while Bycroft pitched five innings in a no-decision against Garnett.

Rogers, Vink and Tavarez are all available out of the bullpen if needed.

“We all just got to go in throwing strikes,” Rogers said.

UP NEXT Iola plays Garnett tonight at 6 o’clock in Humboldt with the American Legion Zone 4 championship and a berth in the state playoffs on the line.

If Iola wins the first game, it will need to top Garnett a second time because of Garnett’s win over Iola earlier in the tournament.

“We got to think about last time and figure out how we are going to improve on that,” Iola’s Nic Zimmerman said.

Iola and Garnett split a doubleheader the only time they played in the regular season.

Youth football camp upcoming The “Blue Chips” football camp will be next week at the Riverside Park football stadium.

The camp is free for all children in the

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The camp will run from 6:30 p.m., until 8:30 p.m., on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week.

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Local Scoreboard Friday’s Racing Results At Humboldt Speedway USRA Modifieds A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 227-Chase Domer[2]; 2. 75-Tad Davis[15]; 3.

21C-Cody Schniepp[13]; 4. 77JRGene Hogan[12]; 5. 1-Dennis Bishop[9]; 6. 30-Dalton Kirk[6]; 7. 9D-Scott Daniels[14]; 8. 18JRChase Sigg[3]; 9. B-Allan Broers[8]; 10. 747-Colton Eck[7]; 11. 21BBryce Schniepp[1]; 12. 8X-Robby Love[10]; 13. 40-Jesse Williard[11]; 14. 17-Jeremy Chambers[5]; 15.

9D8-Paden Phillips[4] Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 227-Chase Domer[2]; 2.

21B-Bryce Schniepp[7]; 3. 30-Dalton Kirk[3]; 4. 747-Colton Eck[4]; 5. 8X-Robby Love[1]; 6. 40-Jesse Williard[6]; 7.

21C-Cody Schniepp[8]; 8. 75-Tad Davis[5] Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 18JR-Chase Sigg[1]; 2. 9D8-Paden Phillips[3]; 3. 17-Jeremy Chambers[5]; 4. BAllan Broers[2]; 5. 1-Dennis Bishop[6]; 6. 77JR-Gene Hogan[4]; 7.

9D-Scott Daniels[8] USRA B Modifieds A Feature 1 (16 Laps): 1. 00-Cody Jolly[1]; 2. R63-Riley Whitworth[9]; 3. X2-Brian Bolin[4]; 4. 121-Tim Phillips[2]; 5. 98-Dylan Allen[7]; 6. 54-Tyler Kidwell[8]; 7. 42-Jerry Morgan[5]; 8. 01-Jimmie Davis[12]; 9. 10-Jerry Reeves[11]; 10. 44V-Trevor Vann[18]; 11. 37Tim Van Gotten[3]; 12. 101-Matt Rose[6]; 13. D86-Eldon McIntosh[14]; 14. 24-Tyson Young[16]; 15. 12W-Chris Wander[17]; 16. H1Mark Hunzinger[13]; 17. 7C-Codi Winningham[15]; 18. 31-Luke Phillips[10]; 19. 21J-Jeremy Bennett[19] Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 101-Matt Rose[1]; 2. 121-Tim Phillips[6]; 3.

54-Tyler Kidwell[5]; 4. 31-Luke Phillips[2]; 5. H1-Mark Hunzinger[3]; 6. 7C-Codi Winningham[7]; 7. 24-Tyson Young[4]; 8. 00-Cody Jolly Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. X2-Brian Bolin[2]; 2. 37-Tim Van Gotten[6]; 3.

R63-Riley Whitworth[1]; 4. 10-Jerry Reeves[4]; 5. D86-Eldon McIntosh[3]; 6. 21J-Jeremy Bennett[5] Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 00-Cody Jolly[3]; 2. 42-Jerry Morgan[5]; 3. 98-Dylan Allen[6]; 4. 01-Jimmie Davis[4]; 5.

12W-Chris Wander[2]; 6. 44V-Trevor Vann[1] Pure Stocks A Feature 1 (16 Laps): 1. 6X-Matthew Kay[1]; 2. 3-Derrek Wilson[4]; 3. 23JR-Bryce Weldon[3]; 4. 4-Brayton Skaggs[8]; 5. 114-Wayne Johnson[2]; 6. 61-Joey Decoster[9]; 7.

13-Ethan Vance[5]; 8. 99-Aaron Farwell[6]; 9. 9-Scott Lucke[7]; 10. 85NK-Kris Dupuy[14]; 11.

87W-Kenny Shetler[11]; 12. XL7colby carter[16]; 13. 28-Devin Phillips[12]; 14. 89-Jackson McGowen[13]; 15. 28W-Krew Walburn[10]; 16. 13X-Eric Atwood[15] Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 3-Derrek Wilson[1]; 2. 114-Wayne Johnson[6]; 3. 99-Aaron Farwell[4]; 4. 4-Brayton Skaggs[3]; 5. 61-Joey Decoster[5]; 6. 89-Jackson McGowen[7]; 7. 87W-Kenny Shetler[8]; 8.

13X-Eric Atwood[2] Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 6X-Matthew Kay[4]; 2. 23JR-Bryce Weldon[6]; 3. 13-Ethan Vance[5]; 4. 9-Scott Lucke[7]; 5. 28W-Krew Walburn[3]; 6. 28-Devin Phillips[1]; 7. 85NKKris Dupuy[2]; 8. XL7-colby carter[8] Sport Compact A Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 12BSteven Bunton[8]; 2. 4D-Dennis Aiello[1]; 3. 3-Trenton Wilson[4]; 4. 11-Barry Luthi[9]; 5. 18-Marisha Collins[10]; 6. 8C-Cami Bruner[5]; 7. 16-Albert Green[3]; 8. A2-Derek Allen[6]; 9. 4-Courtney Wilson[7]; 10. 7JR-Tevyn James[2] Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 7JR-Tevyn James[4]; 2. 16-Albert Green[2]; 3. A2-Derek Allen[1]; 4. 4-Courtney Wilson[3]; 5. 12B-Steven Bunton[5] Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 4D-Dennis Aiello[1]; 2. 3-Trenton Wilson[2]; 3.

8C-Cami Bruner[3]; 4. 11-Barry Luthi[4]; 5. 18-Marisha Collins[5] Ameri-Flex / OCRS Drive Shafts, Inc. Heat 1 (8 laps) 1, 4X-Robert Sellers[2]. 2, 9$-Kyle Clark[1]. 3, 8-Alex Sewell[5]. 4, 79-Tim Kent[4]. 5, 15D-Andrew Deal[3]. 6, 20-Beau Gastineau[6].

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his first victory at Humboldt Speedway.

Jolly led every lap and held off a hard closing Riley Whitworth for the win. Brian Bolin, Tim Phillips and Dylan Allen completed the top five.

Fastshafts by Axle Exchange Pure Stocks saw Matthew Kay pick up another feature win, outdistancing Derrek Wilson and Bryce Weldon.

The Sport Compact class saw a new winner this week with St. Joseph’s Steven Bunton picking up his first win, holding off Dennis Aiello and Trenton Wilson.

A1 Machine Shop Heat 2 (8 laps) 1, 69-Jamie Passmore[2]. 2, 88SShayla Waddell[3]. 3, 10X-Darien Roberts[5]. 4, P78-Perry Pickard[1].

5, 31-Casey Wills[6]. 6, 88-Terry Easum[4].

Car and Fleet Parts Heat 3 (8 laps) 1, 20S-Sheldon Barksdale[1]. 2, 2W-Whit Gastineau[3]. 3, 4-Shane Sellers[2]. 4, 55-Johnny Kent[4]. 5, 50Z-Zach Chappell[6]. 6, 5-Cameron Hagin[5].

AmeriFlex Hose & Accessories A Feature (30 laps) 1, 20S-Sheldon Barksdale[1]. 2, 2W-Whit Gastineau[2]. 3, 4X-Robert Sellers[5]. 4, 8-Alex Sewell[6].

5, 69-Jamie Passmore[4]. 6, 9$Kyle Clark[8]. 7, 4-Shane Sellers[9]. 8, 50Z-Zach Chappell[14].

9, 55-Johnny Kent[12]. 10, 88SShayla Waddell[3]. 11, 5-Cameron Hagin[17]. 12, 31-Casey Wills[13]. 13, 79-Tim Kent[10]. 14, 10X-Darien Roberts[7]. 15, P78Perry Pickard[11]. 16, 15D-Andrew Deal[15]. 17, 88-Terry Easum[16].

18, 20-Beau Gastineau[18].

Lap Leaders: Sheldon Barksdale 1-30.

Sheldon Barksdale races in his Humboldt Speedway debut on Friday. Barksdale won the Ameri-Flex Hose and Accessories / OCRS sprint car main event for his second-straight victory in that series. FINISHLINE PHO-

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I have a baby’s hernia. Yet I’m an adult.

Dear Dr. Roach: I was diagnosed with a Bochdalek hernia following a lung CT scan. I then saw a surgeon, and he said that surgery could be postponed since I had no symptoms, it appeared that the hernia was fatfilled and there was no movement of my abdominal organs into the thoracic cavity. I didn’t have any symptoms again until earlier this month, and now I am planning to go back and see the surgeon. It has been very difficult to try to find information on the

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internet that might help me to make a decision about whether to have the surgery. From what I understand, this condition is so rare in adults that very few surgeons have ever seen it. I believe it is more commonly found in infants. — T.M.L. Answer: A Bochdalek

hernia is fairly common in newborns (1 in 2,500 or so), and usually is treated surgically within a few days of birth. It is caused by a lack of development of the diaphragm, allowing abdominal contents (stomach, small or large intestine, spleen) to move into the chest. This potentially can prevent the lungs from developing.

They are rare in adults.

A 2010 case report identified about 150 adult cases found in the world’s literature, but noted that as more people undergo CT

scanning for other issues, more cases will be identified.

I have never seen a case.

From what I have read, most people are treated surgically. The pain you had certainly might have been related to the hernia. Symptoms include chest and abdominal pain, shortness of breath and intestinal obstruction. Finding a surgeon with expertise in this issue may be difficult, but I would start at a teaching hospital nearby if you want a second opinion.

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The Kansas City Royals’ Kendrys Morales (25) scores on a pitch in the dirt by Indians pitcher Danny Salazar in the sixth inning on Tuesday at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS

Royals: Indians win Continued from B1

it down.

The Indians’ righthander allowed three runs over 6 2/3 innings while striking out seven, beating the Royals for the third time this season. Salazar (11-3) tossed 7 2/3 shutout innings in a 7-1 victory in early May and allowed one run over eight innings in 6-1 win last month.

“You’re facing an AllStar pitcher in Salazar,” Yost said. “He’s not an All-Star for nothing.”

Mike Napoli hit a tworun homer off Flynn (11), and Carlos Santana drove in two runs off Gee, as the Indians snapped a five-game skid at Kauffman Stadium. Francisco Lindor added a solo shot in the ninth.

“I was just trying to bust him in there, knowing he was going to be swinging two-and-oh, trying to get in and get a soft ground ball,” Flynn said of the first-inning homer

by Napoli. “I just tried to get it in, saw him off or try to get weak contact, but it stayed right over the middle.”

The home run allowed Salazar to pitch with the lead the entire way. He didn’t allow a runner past first base through the first five innings, striking out Alex Gordon twice along the way. And when he seemed to falter in the oppressive weather in the sixth, with Salvador Perez driving in a run and Kendrys Morales scoring on a wild pitch, Salazar still managed to escape the inning.

He gave up a sacrifice fly in the seventh before Kyle Crockett finished the frame.

Most of the Indians’ offense came from the same kind of small ball that carried the AL Centralrival Royals to the World Series title last season.

They scored a run in the second on a single, a walk and two sacrifices, then added three more in the fifth on a double, three singles, a walk and a fielder’s choice.

It was a nice way to rebound after Cleveland blew a late lead in a 7-3 loss the previous night, “I was really pleased the way we handled it,” Francona said.

STATS AND STREAKS Indians OF Erik Gonzalez had a single in the third for his first career hit. ... Salazar has won seven straight, a career best. ... Lindor has hit 24 career homers. Nineteen of them have been solo shots. ... Gee matched the longest relief outing of his career.

HOT SEATS Yost and Francona may change up their lineups for the series finale on Wednesday. Temperatures are expected to approach 100 degrees for the afternoon start with a heat index well into triple digits. “We’re going to see tonight who needs a break,” Yost said.

TRAINER’S ROOM Indians: OF Michael Brantley will have an MRI on Wednesday after experiencing pain in his right shoulder. He had surgery last November and played in only 11 games this season before landing back on the DL. Brantley has been on a rehab assignment at Double-A Akron since July 11.

Royals: RHP Kyle Zimmer, one of the club’s top prospects, has been diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome and will miss the rest of the season. The former firstround draft pick will have surgery in the coming weeks. The Mets’ Matt Harvey had surgery for the same condition Monday.

UP NEXT The Royals’ Ian Kennedy is 3-0 with a 1.45 ERA in daytime starts this season. He goes against fellow right-hander Carlos Carrasco, who is 4-2 with a 1.94 ERA in seven road starts.