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THE IOLA REGISTER Locally owned since 1867
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
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Nature’s fury seen up close LaHarpe woman recalls near miss with tornado
By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Celebration links Keaton, Marx Bros. By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register
Film enthusiasts around the globe can’t keep silent about their love for Buster Keaton. The 22nd annual Buster Keaton Celebration will begin Friday morning and run until Saturday evening at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. This year’s program will also feature the notable Marx Brothers. “Buster Keaton and The Marx Brothers: Celebrating American Laughter,” will bring in several speakers on Keaton, silent film and the famous Marx Brothers. There also will be a Q&A session after each speaker. FRIDAY
At 10 a.m. is the annual Buster Keaton Museum tour in Piqua, Keaton’s birthplace.
The first session will begin at 1:30 p.m., Friday with an analysis from Lisa Stein Haven on “Keatonesque humor in Three Marx Broth- Lisa Stein Haven ers Films.” Haven is an associate professor of English at Ohio University, Zanesville. She specializes in silent film comedy, especially the work of Charlie and Sydney Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Haven organized and put on the “Charlie in the Heartland: An International Charlie Chaplin Conference” in Zanesville in 2010 and has been a member of the Buster Keaton Celebration Executive Board since 2009. Frank Scheide will follow See KEATON | Page A6
LAHARPE — Marilyn Boyd has lived all her life in Kansas and had never seen a tornado. Until Friday. The former LaHarpe mayor and Marilyn Boyd city councilwoman was returning from a trip to a doctor in Nebraska to her home in LaHarpe when she was caught up in a series of storms peppering northeast Kansas. By the time she reached Olathe, the rain was at its fiercest, coming down in sheets, but with brightening
LaHarpe’s Marilyn Boyd snapped this shot of a tornado Friday afternoon shortly after it crossed U.S. 169 near Paola. skies on the horizon. “It’s getting better, right?” she asked herself, as the son began to peek through the clouds.
Wrong. The excitement started between Osawatomie and Paola See TORNADO | Page A3
GOP hopefuls scramble after Walker exits By STEVE PEOPLES and JULY BYKOWICZ The Iola Register
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even before Scott Walker dropped out of the race for president, his Republican rivals for the White House were chasing after the remnants of his once high-flying campaign. Walker’s opponents openly gossiped about the Wisconsin governor’s political challenges as they gathered in California for last week’s presidential debate. Once he formally left the race Mon-
Scott Walker, former presidential hopeful. TNS PHOTO day afternoon, the jockeying only intensified. As Walker was calling it quits during a news conference at home in Wisconsin,
his national finance co-chairman, Anthony Scaramucci, was fielding calls from five See WALKER | Page A3
Congress links funding bill, Planned Parenthood By ANDREW TAYLOR The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans are racing to avert a government shutdown next week when the budget year ends and a temporary funding bill is required to keep agencies operating. But the once-routine job of passing a stopgap measure known as a continuing resolution has been drawn into a battle over Planned Parenthood and its involvement in the practice of procuring tissue from aborted fetuses for research purposes. Some conservatives want to use the must-pass funding bill — and the threat of a government shutdown if it doesn’t pass — to try to take away taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, which receives about $500 million a year from the government for providing health services at almost 700 clinics across the country. The idea is reminiscent of a failed attempt by Republicans two years ago to use a
A group of Elsmore residents gather at the city’s community building for morning coffee. A group of volunteers has opened the building for coffee and other refreshments each morning. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
Elsmore coffee drinkers find new home By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
ELSMORE — When Elsmore Grain closed its doors in August, the community lost more than a business. Many locals lost their favorite gathering spot for morning coffee. So Dick Fewins, Karen Price and a group of other
residents found an easy alternative. For the past few weeks, the Elsmore faithful have gathered each morning at the city’s community building for coffee, snacks and fellowship. “We knew quite a few people liked meeting for coffee,” Fewins said. They’ll open the doors
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each morning by around 5:30, with coffee brewing by 6. “And it’s probably the best coffee you’ll get in southeast Kansas,” added Elsmore Mayor Loraine Price. For those with other tastes, the group also has hot chocolate, apple cider or tea. Different volunteers bring See COFFEE | Page A3
“Flowers grow out of dark moments.”
— Corita Kent, American artist 75 Cents
must-pass measure to try to block implementation of the health care law. That showdown led to a 16-day partial shutdown that GOP leaders are keen to avoid this time, especially as the presidential campaign draws closer. Hanging over it all is the weakened political standing of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who is under fire from some tea party conservatives who say he is not tough enough in battling President Barack Obama. WHY IS A STOPGAP FUNDING BILL NEEDED?
Congress has failed to pass a single one of the 12 annual appropriation bills, which are caught in a stand-off between Democrats and Republicans over the amount of spending. So, with the new fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, a stopgap bill is needed for the daily operating budgets of almost every federal agency. Such measures used to be routine but have become more challenging since See CONGRESS | Page A3
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