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THE IOLA REGISTER Locally owned since 1867
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Monday, April 24, 2017
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Talk, Read, Play launches By SHELLIE SMITLEY The Iola Register
Families will soon be able to play checkers and read a story on the Allen County Courthouse lawn. Talk, Read, Play Allen County, a collaboration of area agencies involved in serving children and their families, is an early childhood campaign that targets children age 0-3. The goals are to encourage parents, caregivers and children to attend community events, supply information on how to make interactions more meaningful and to provide access to resources and experts. The initiative kicks off April 27 during the Allen County Farmers’ Market. Families will have the op-
The Iola High School Junior-Senior Prom was a sight to behold Saturday. Above, Katie Weide and her date Quentin Mallette arrive in a 1959 pink Cadillac. At top right, Rhett Allen escorts Riley Murry along the sidewalk in front of the high school. At bottom right, Marianne Gifford arrives with Austin Roloff-Tremain. At bottom middle, Mason Snavely is adorned in a leopard print tuxedo with his date, Sydney Houk. Below, Chloe Hageman and Franciso Borria-Foschino pose for a picture as they arrive. Additional photos are available on the Register’s Facebook page. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
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Heavy demand for farm loans to be expected By ROXANA HEGEMAN The Associated Press
Iola firefighters tackle a house fire Friday at 311 S. Chestnut St.
Iolan recovering from injuries in house fire Darrell Cole, injured when his house burned Friday in the 300 block of South Chestnut Street in Iola, remains in serious condition in a Wichita hospital, his mother said. “He just inhaled a lot of smoke,” Ann McBride told the Register today in a telephone interview. “The doctors are trying to get the smoke out of his lungs.” The cause of Friday’s early morning fire has not been announced, Fire Chief Tim Thyer said. Calls to the state fire marshal’s office were unsuccessful. McBride said her son will be kept sedated until his breathing improves. She hopes to set up a GoFundMe account in her son’s name. “He lost everything,” she said. “He’s going to be in the hospital a while.” She wasn’t sure if Cole had house insurance.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas corn grower Tom Giessel talks wistfully about how he was out of debt just four years ago — before backto-back years of low grain prices set his finances back a decade and forced him to borrow again to run his western Kansas farm. The 64-year-old Larned farmer has been able to make his farm loan payments and pay his other bills thanks to record yields the past couple of years that have nearly
doubled the bushels of grain harvested. With commodity prices still low — and crops still piled up on the ground outside bulging grain elevators across Kansas
— Giessel worries that a more normal-sized harvest this season won’t bring in enough money to cover his costs. “I am going to have trouble, everybody is going to have
trouble,” Giessel said. But the latest farm loan delinquency numbers from the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Farm Service Agency, which administers farm commodity loan programs, show that thanks to those past record yields Kansas farmers have fared better than many people had feared. The agency’s direct loan delinquencies in Kansas as of March 31 fell slightly to 6 percent, compared to 6.5 percent at the same time a year ago. “We are very pleased and See LOANS | Page A4
Patrick Haire, left, demonstrates the use of an 1885 axe handle lathe capable of producing 60 axe handles an hour Saturday at Neosho Valley Wood Works, Humboldt, in conjunction with the Allen County Historical Society’s 2017 Spring meeting. At right, Free State Blacksmith Club member Andy Martin demonstrates how to make a wagon bracket during a tour of Humboldt’s Lander Carriage House. REGISTER/SHELLEY SMITLEY
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