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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Developers eager to move on hospital site

No COLA hike for Iola employees

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Several dominoes must fall in order for construction to begin next spring on a grocery store at the old Allen County Hospital site.

With demolition of the hospital essentially complete — crews are in the midst of removing debris — talk at Monday’s Iola City Council meeting centered on the next steps for developers, and for the city.

Allen County Counselor Alan Weber briefed Council members on G&W Foods’ upcoming itinerary.

Engineers representing the grocer should be on site within the next two weeks, the first step in order to develop a site plan.

The plan is to split the land into three lots; one for the existing medical office building; one for the grocery store; and the third for a proposed housing development.

“There are lots of moving parts,” Weber said. “G&W is eager to get started.”

In order to get started, however, several details must still be ironed out, City Administrator Carl Slaugh said.

Developers must determine whether new facilities would require additional infrastructure: water connections; sewer and storm water drainage and traffic flow, chief among them.

Weber noted G&W is familiar with those types of requirements, and was ex-

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

The photos at left and below show the various stages of demolition of the old Allen County Hospital building.

Crews from Remco Demolition, above, continue to remove debris from the demo site this morning. REGISTER/RICHARD

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While Iola city employees will continue to receive merit raises, City Council members agreed to not pay any form of across-theboard cost of living pay hike.

The decision came after a brief discussion Monday about the city’s 2015 budget, which City Administrator Carl Slaugh said, “was as tight as any budget we’ve had in the four years I’ve been here.”

The Council had considered a COLA hike even though the Consumer Price Index (which sets Social Security rates) carried no similar increase for 2016.

Iola also uses CPI to determine whether COLA raises should be given.

Council members wondered if the city should give an across-the-board hike anyway, because of a 2014 wage study that revealed Iola employees earn less than their counterparts in similar-sized communities.

Adding a 2 percent COLA hike would have cost the See COLA | Page A2

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GIVING SPIRIT LaHarpe Thanksgiving set LAHARPE — The LaHarpe Community Thanksgiving Dinner will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday at LaHarpe City Hall.

The traditional Thanksgiving meal is being prepared and will be served by Light of LaHarpe Church.

Santa’s Toy Shop seeks help Tracy Keagle is in the giving spirit once again.

She’s hopeful others are, too.

Keagle is opening a Santa’s Toy Shop at 7 E. Madison in the days leading up to Christmas.

The premise is simple.

Any child, regardless of need, is given a free toy from the shop. All they have to do is stop by Dec. 18-20.

To ensure she has enough toys to meet demand, Keagle is accepting donations of all sorts of toys, new or used, provided they’re in good shape.

“If they’re new, we’re just going to open them anyway, so that we can set them out,” Keagle said.

Keagle will clean any used toys donated for the effort.

Donations can be dropped off at Keagle’s home at 410 E. Madison Ave. Donors in Chanute can take the toys to Spirit Aerosystems, 615 W. Cherry St. Meanwhile, Humboldt residents can hand toys off to USD 258 school nurse Wendy Froggatte.

“See, you don’t even have to come to town to donate,” Keagle said with a laugh.

Others can arrange for donations to be picked

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Lori Maxwell, right, Jefferson Elementary School principal, speaks at Monday’s USD 257 Board of Education meeting. Also participating were Brad Crusinbery, fifth- and sixth-grade principal at Iola Middle School, left, and Angie Linn, McKinley Elementary School principal. REGISTER/SUSAN LYNN

School board tackles Title I goals

By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register

Local administrators apprised USD 257 Board of Education members of the district’s Title I program Monday night and the challenges they face with the implementation of new goals.

“The bar is set higher, but that’s what we need if we expect our students to meet state standards,” said Angie Linn, who serves as principal for pre-

schoolers and kindergarteners at Lincoln Elementary. Linn also oversees the Age-to-Age Preschool at Windsor Place and is director of curriculum for the district.

The new standards are a combination of federal and state guidelines.

Monday’s presentations involved just the language arts curriculum and how well students are learning to read and write.

“Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.”

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About 40 percent of students from kindergarten through fifth grade receive some level of Title I services, which help students who are falling behind their expected learning levels. Of that 40 percent, 20 percent are special needs students.

The 40 percent, “is not unusual for our region,” said Jack Stanley, principal at Iola Middle School, referring to the area’s See BOE | Page A3

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Students tackle meaty topic Culinary classes at Iola High School received $150 from the Kansas Beef Council for the purpose of teaching students how to prepare beef to enhance the tenderness and flavor.

The funds sent to schools to purchase beef come from the checkoff dollars that producers pay when they sell cattle. Producers pay $1 for each head of cattle sold.

Thirty-five Iola High students participated in a pan broiling lab where they learned the differences between the 80 percent and 93 percent lean beef.

Using their math skills they figured the percent of loss during cooking of the two types of ground beef.

In the pan frying lab they prepared Easy Diane Steak and tested the difference between pan broiling and pan frying.

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Police reports Elsmore burglary investigated The Allen County Sheriff ’s Department is investigating a burglary that occurred sometime Wednesday at Allison’s Country Liquor in rural Elsmore.

Items valued at $1,970 were either damaged or stolen.

Arrest reported

Deer causes wreck

Vickey L. Thompson, Humboldt, was arrested Thursday for alleged drug possession.

Stacy Cuerden, Bronson, was eastbound on West Virginia Road, about 5 miles west of Mildred, when she struck a deer, hydroplaned and left the roadway to the south.

Her vehicle overturned in the ditch.

Cuerden was uninjured.

Deer hit Ruth Tucker, Gas, was eastbound on U.S. 54, just east of Iola, when she struck a deer.

She was not injured.

Kappa Alpha in holiday spirit Iola High School student Sierra Cunningham demonstrates pan broiling during a recent class. PHOTO COURTESY OF SHARON FRANKENBERY

Roasts from the chuck were used in the braising lab and roasts from the top round were used in the roasting lab.

The meat left from the braising and roasting labs was used in a stew.

The instructor prepared beef tongue and a

majority of the students tasted it and declared that it tasted much better than they thought it would.

The Kansas Beef Council is directed by a board of volunteer cattle producers from across the state.

Christmas was on the mind of the Phi Tau Omega Kappa Alpha Chapter members at their meeting Nov. 16.

Collene Ellis and Gwen Tefft served apple cider and snacks to 16 members.

Members enjoyed a silent auction of white elephant gifts to raise money for the treasury.

They also provided new

socks and underwear for area elementary schools.

Kappa Alpha members will again help with the Breakfast with Santa Dec. 12 at the Riverside Park Community Building. Children and their parents are welcome to enjoy breakfast and visit with Santa that morning. While the event is free, donations

of canned goods or cash are encouraged to help with the Iola Food Pantry.

The next business meeting will be Dec. 7 at a location to be announced at a later date. The Kappa Alpha Social is Dec. 21 at Mary Lou Byers’ home.

Christmas gifts will be exchanged and Secret Sisters revealed.

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pected to include them with its site plans.

Still to be determined is how much of the infrastructure improvements would cost the city. Slaugh noted Walmart footed the bill for a similar project when the retail giant built its supercenter at the intersection of North State Street and Miller Road in 2006.

Because of the lot split, G&W must first submit its plans to Iola’s Planning Commission.

Typically, such a process would take about six months, Slaugh said, although David Toland of Thrive Allen County said G&W was expected to request an expedited process. The grocer’s desire is to begin construction in the spring. “We want to give a heads up that they want to move quickly,” Toland said.

Slaugh also noted the possibility that while adding a grocery store may not tax the city’s utilities, further development — such as an apartment complex — may.

The ideal situation would be for all potential developers to approach the Planning

Commission at once so the city would know early on whether streets or utilities would need to be redesigned.

“As far as having a single development plan, I don’t know mechanically how that would work,” Toland said, noting the parcels would be owned by different entities.

“In that case, it would amount to the ones coming in later potentially having to bear more burden,” Slaugh responded. “There’s still a lot we don’t know.”

“I think we need to do whatever we can to move G&W along as fast as we can,” Council member Beverly Franklin said.

FROM THERE, talk centered on traffic along U.S. 54 and the hospital curve.

Council member Donald Becker noted the old hospital site is at a slightly higher elevation than adjoining blocks, and thus has a retaining wall along the southeast edge of the street. That makes visibility an ongoing issue.

“That looks like a problem, and this is the time to resolve it,

to improve visibility or straighten the curve,” Becker said. “I could just see potential problems if we had a grocery store with the added traffic.

Weber noted changing the grade may hamper efforts to add an apartment between the planned grocery store and U.S. 54. Initial plans are to build the complex adjoining the street.

Meanwhile, Councilman Aaron Franklin noted the curve also serves as a popular

long-term solution. A “road diet,” in which the four-lane traffic is reduced to three, with single lanes in opposite direction, a turning lane in the middle, and swaths along the edge for bicyclists.

Such a design was recommended by civic planner Mark Fenton during his visit to Iola in October.

That measure also could potentially reduce wear and tear on the highway because it funnels large semi trucks to

the middle of the road, where asphalt is thicker.

Having heavy trucks on the edge of the street makes the pavement more prone to failure, he noted.

Slaugh noted the city could take steps in short order to address the road safety, but little can be done regarding the rest of the plans for the site.

“We just have to wait for the developers to present their plans,” he said.

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city about $23,000, Slaugh noted.

A closer look at the budget douses those thoughts quickly.

The city’s general fund is nearly $600,000 in the hole as of Monday, Slaugh said.

That figure does not yet account for infusions from the city’s water and electric funds — the city typically uses both funds to supplement its general fund — but therein lies the rub.

The city plans to transfer $1.4 million from the electric fund before Dec.

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crossing point for school children headed home at the end of the day.

“I’m really concerned we’re going to have an accident,” Aaron Franklin said. “Right now, it’s a free-for-all.”

Franklin suggested huddling with Iola Middle School officials — the source of much of the pedestrian traffic — for an informational session to stress upon the youngsters the hazards of crossing U.S. 54 at the hospital curve.

Toland noted another

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31, and another $150,000 from the water fund, but neither fund has enough cash on hand yet to accommodate the transfers.

Slaugh rattled off a list of reasons for the deficit. A mild and wet 2015 has curtailed sales of both electricity and water, so revenues are down for both of those utilities.

Sales tax revenues are coming in below projections as well.

While the budget looks “tight,” Slaugh said he was confident the city would have enough money to properly close the books at the end of the year.

But, he agreed with Councilman Jon Wells, skipping any sort of across-the-board pay raise would be the most prudent course of action.

“We were hoping the numbers wouldn’t pan out this way,” Wells said.

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really can manage in a warm winter.”

“I’d agree,” Council member Beverly Franklin said.

COUNCIL members approved 14 paid holidays for city employees in 2016, for New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan. 18), Presidents’ Day (Feb. 15), Good Friday (March 25), Memorial Day (May

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The Council also announced there will not be a Dec. 28 meeting because all but a handful of members likely will be unavailable.

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BOE: District targets higher Title I goals Continued from A1

high level of poverty.

A “snapshot” of student learning levels is taken during the first two weeks of the school year. This year showed that of 584 students in kindergarten through fifth grade, 45 percent is at a high risk of needing special education services; another 28 percent are at some risk of requiring remedial services; and 28 percent are at their appropriate learning level.

While those statistics seem daunting, Linn said she was not alarmed, coming off of summer break.

“If these numbers are the same at the end of a school year, then yes, we’ve got problems,” she said. “But many kids don’t pick up a book over the summer.”

Title I funds also are used to pay for the district’s summer school with the purpose of helping those behind in their studies to catch up.

Last summer 130 elementary students were deemed in need of summer school. Attendance averaged 55-80 students.

Attendance is not mandatory.

The district is in its second year of a new language arts curriculum and in the first year of new assessments to

Next year we’ll be able to see if we need to tweak either the curriculum or teaching methods to yield better results. Or we may discover significant progress, reinforcing we’re doing things right.

—Angie Linn, McKinley Elementary School principal

measure student progress.

“So next year we’ll be able to see if we need to tweak either the curriculum or teaching methods to yield better results,” she said. “Or we may discover significant progress, reinforcing we’re doing things right.”

Each elementary principal oversees the Title I program in his or her school. Altogether there are six Title I teachers and four paraprofessionals trained to implement the federally funded program.

In just the last couple of years the program has been expanded to go up to fifth grade. It previously concentrated on children in kindergarten up through third grade.

Its funding has been cut every year for the past several years. Also meant to enhance Title I was the Kansas Read-

ing Initiative, a pet project of Gov. Sam Brownback’s to instill strong reading skills.

Originally, districts were to receive five years of funding for the Lexia Learning program. After one year, , funding is now available for only another year of the program, said Jack Koehn, USD 257 superintendent of schools.

Each grade level has certain criteria students are tested on at the beginning of the year.

Kindergarteners, for example, are expected to know 29 letters of the alphabet.

“They go from learning their letters, to sounding out words to reading words,” said Lori Maxwell, principal of first- and second-graders at Jefferson Elementary.

If a student struggles with a certain concept, he or she is paired with a Title I teacher or para to

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receive extra help.

Sometimes that help occurs right in the classroom, other times groups of five or six students receive 30 minutes of instruction every day.

With so many students in need of this special instruction, the group sessions are tightly orchestrated throughout the day.

The value of the Title I program is to catch a student’s stumbling blocks early before they become lifelong problems, Linn said.

“As you identify the gaps in a child’s learning process, Title I helps plug those holes. It helps us identify what skills they are missing.”

IN OTHER business, board member Dan Willis told of the search for a new director of the ANW Cooperative, which oversees special education services for eight school districts.

Because of the tight market for school administrators, Willis expressed concern of having a deep pool of candidates from which to choose.

Currently, 12 Kansas school districts are looking for superintendents, with 30 to 50 positions expected to open up in the next year, Koehn said.

Willis said at a recent job fair at Emporia State University, only 50 candidates appeared compared to a more typical number of 200 or more.

And at a University of Kansas job fair for educators, “more administrators than applicants showed up,” he said.

USD 257 faces the same dim prospects for new teachers, Koehn said. “We’re expecting 30 teachers to retire in the next year, with another 50 stepping down in just a few years down the road. That’s why we need to do everything we can to make our pay and benefits packages as attractive as possible.”

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LEAVITT,

school board president, said those interested in seeing a career and technical education program implemented in the region met recently.

Yet to be measured is student interest in such a curriculum, Leavitt said, and is next on organizers’ agenda.

Big questions about the viability of such a program exist including who the major funders would be. It is hoped community colleges also get on board with the program’s implementation.

Even so, the majority of board members were enthusiastic about the program’s prospects and what it could mean to area students.

Learning skills such as welding, plumbing, and how to operate sophisticated machinery “better equips our children for the future,” said Willis. “It would give them the skills to earn a good living.”

Leavitt saw the program as providing ready recruits for prospective industries. “By having an employable workforce gives the county a better chance of attracting an industry this way.”

AFTER an executive session board members announced the acceptance of the resignation of Chris Weide as assistant track coach at Iola High School.

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Don’t be a holiday sap: How to pick the best Christmas tree If you are like me, a real Christmas tree is a must have. There is just something about picking out a real tree and the wonderful smell that fills your home. However, they can be a mess if you pick out a tree that is “too far gone.” Here are some tips to keep in mind as you look for that perfect tree whether it is purchased from a tree farm or a retail store.

According to my husband, the first thing you must do is measure the height and width of the space you have available.

My son and I have a ten-

Krista Harding Extension Agent for Agriculture

dency to underestimate the size of the perfect tree. My husband is then left with the task of figuring out just how much will have to be cut off to make it fit. But it has always seemed to work out.

Once you know the size, what about determining freshness? Watch

for these signs that the tree is past prime condition: * Needles are a dull, grayish-green color * Needles fail to ooze pitch when broken apart and squeezed * Needles feel stiff and brittle * Needles pull easily off the tree After you have the tree home, recut the trunk about one inch above the original cut. This will open up clogged, waterconducting tissues. Immediately place the trunk in warm water. If you are not going to put the tree

up right away, store it in an unheated garage or some other area out of the wind and cold (freezing) temperatures.

Decide on where you will place the tree. Will it be seen from all sides or will some of it be up against the wall? If the tree is displayed in front of a large window, then all four sides should look as good as possible. If the tree is displayed against a wall, then a tree with three good sides would be okay. A tree with two good sides would work well in a corner. Be sure to choose a spot away from

State seeks increase in engineering graduates TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is moving toward a goal of increasing the number of college graduates majoring in engineering.

The state has a multiyear plan to increase college degrees in engineering to 1,365 annually by 2021. That compares with 875 in 2008.

The initiative includes more than $100 million in funding by the Legislature for Wichita State, Kansas State University and the University of Kansas. The money is given

Kansas has a multiyear plan to increase college degrees in engineering to 1,365 annually by 2021.

That compares with 875 in 2008.

out over a decade with includes matching university funds.

The effort got a recent boost from Spirit AeroSystems, a Wichita-based flight technology manufacturer, that said it’ll invest more than half a million dollars in college scholarships, particularly for engineering majors.

heat sources such as TVs, fireplaces, radiators and air ducts. Place the tree clear of doors.

Make sure the base of the tree is straight and 6-8 inches long so it will easily fit into the stand. Keep the water reservoir filled.

If it loses enough water that the bottom of the trunk is exposed, a resin will form over the cut end and the tree will not be able to absorb water and will quickly dry out.

Adding aspirins, copper pennies, soda pop, sugar and bleach to the water reservoir have not been shown to prolong the life

of the tree.

If you choose a living Christmas tree, be sure to dig the planting hole before the ground freezes. Mulch the hole and backfill soil to keep it from freezing. Live trees should not be kept inside for more than three days.

Longer periods may cause them to lose dormancy resulting in severe injury when planted outside.

Krista Harding is a KState Research and Extension Agricultural agent assigned to Southwind District. She may be reached at 620-244-3826 or kharding@ksu.edu.

Southwind learns to ‘think big’

Back row, left to right, Klair Vogel, Erin Klubek, Mallory Westhoff, Ryann Allison, Emily Smart and Shelby Yoho; front row, Delaney Umholtz, Cassidy Westhoff and Jenna Wilks.

Last weekend, Southwind Extension District 4-H youth and volunteers attended the Kansas 4-H Leadership Weekend held at Rock Springs 4-H Center near Junction City. The Kansas 4-H Leadership Weekend includes activities for both youth and adults — the Kansas 4-H Volunteers Forum and the Kansas Youth Leadership Forum. Out of more than 250 present from across the state, there were 10 delegates, one Youth Council Member, and two volunteers representing the Southwind Extension District.

The theme of the

2015 4-H Leadership Weekend was “Think BIG.” Youth and volunteers built their leadership skills and potential through workshops, consulting groups, and inspirational speakers.

As well, they helped elect the 2016 State Youth Council Members. This year, the keynote speaker was Brandon Lee White, a former ballroom dance instructor. He encouraged youth to be confident in who they are and “own the moment.” With his presentation, White demonstrated leadership through ballroom dancing.

Each youth and vol-

unteer was provided with a wealth of leadership information to take back to their communities, and a themed T-shirt. The Kansas 4-H Leadership Weekend is open to any youth 14-18 years of age. You do not have to be a 4-H’er to attend. And the Kansas 4-H Volunteer Forum is open to any 4-H’er over 18 years of age.

For more information about State 4-H Events, contact Jennifer K. Murphy, District 4-H Youth Development Agent, Southwind Extension District – Erie office at 620-244-3826 or jen07m@ksu.edu.

Make your own plan: Charting the wise course in farming

By JOHN SCHLAGECK Kansas Farm Bureau

The vocation of agriculture began thousands of years ago when the first farmer dug a hole in the soil and planted the first seed. Way back then others began working with and domesticating animals that have evolved into present-day hogs, cattle, sheep, chickens and other livestock.

With this evolution in agriculture, today’s producer faces many new and sometimes unexpected challenges. Profit margins and production costs are in a constant state of flux. Weather patterns change while farmers

and ranchers continue looking for ways to make profits and stay in this business.

Here are 11 ways to cut your profit margins.

Think long and hard before implementing any of these in your operation.

1) Blindly follow seasonal trends or patterns.

If the market is going up, do not sell. It may go higher. If the market falls — do not sell. It may turn around and go up.

2) Never trust a U.S. Department of Agriculture crop or livestock report.

From all the information available these reports are “strictly legit.” But never mind; discard these reports at all costs.

3) Blame the big grain

companies.

Everyone knows they manipulate the farmer and make all the profits.

4) Blame the big cattle packers. Everyone knows they manipulate stockmen and make all the profits.

5) Assume prices and costs are related. No place is it written that because you spend $1,000 an acre to produce irrigated corn you are guaranteed a profit on your grain.

6) Hold the short crop because less corn, wheat or beans must mean the price of these commodities will increase. In reality, by the time you hear a crop is in short supply, everyone else has heard the news too and the price has

already gone up.

7) Follow the majority.

If your neighbor sells his corn, it is probably the right time for you to sell yours. Ignore most conversation in the local coffee shop or coop. Figure out your own marketing strategy.

8) Ignore the futures market and basis because everyone knows that a bunch of speculators are rigging the market. Remember, speculators lose money too and provide liquidity for the market.

9) Never sell until you have a crop. Oftentimes, before you harvest a crop is the best time to lock in profits. Take a hard look at future contracting.

10) Shoot for the mar-

ket high. Smart marketers have abandoned this philosophy for the goal of, “shooting for higher.”

11) Blame the banker or your wife. Again, everyone knows a banker lends you money when he/she shouldn’t. And if all else fails, who has any broader shoulders than your spouse.

You may just want to take a hard look at yourself. Operating a farm or ranch is as tough a profession as there is going these days. It takes all the wisdom, knowledge, technology, dedication and determination, luck and the blessing of Mother Nature to grow a profitable crop or market outstanding livestock.

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Dose of humility not in governor’s Rx plan Just watch. The news that Sam Brownback is the most unpopular governor in America will backfire.

Instead of making Kansans angry that their governor is so poorly regarded, the ranking will rally the troops and drive an outpouring of public support.

Those whose job it is to make unpopular decisions are never appreciated, they’ll say. Just wait. History will tell a different story.

The national poll surveyed more than 75,000 residents about their state leaders. Most gave their governors high marks. Brownback, however, was one of 10 governors with negative ratings, coming in dead last with 26 percent approval.

What most Kansans find particularly irksome is Brownback’s refusal to about-face failing policies.

Instead, he maintains a decidedly sunny determination that giving the wealthy a tax break will spark the economy; that robbing the schools will spur them to greater efficiencies; that refusing to expand Medicaid will incite the disabled to find work.

Every year, Allen County Regional Hospital loses $1 million for treating patients who lack health insurance.

If Kansas were to expand Medicaid, more of those patients would receive health

insurance and the future of our hospital would be more secure.

Instead of heeding the advice of those who have studied the issue in depth, Brownback regards them as personnae non gratae. Earlier this month two moderate Republicans, Reps. Don Hill, Emporia, and Susan Concannon, Beloit, were removed from a health committee because they favor the expansion of Medicaid.

Brownback used the same strong-arm maneuver with an education committee, giving the boot to Republican Reps. Diana Dierks, Salina, and John Ewy, Jetmore. Their crime? They were against block grant funding for schools.

Since the Legislature eliminated the school finance formula, the budget for our local USD 257 has been cut by $1.1 million.

The same can be said for mental health services, our prison system, state roads, and services for the disabled.

NOW THAT he’s been re-elected, Brownback may feel he can afford to act in so cavalier a manner. Even so, a dose of humility sure would be appreciated by fellow Republicans facing 2016 races.

Don’t hold your breath.

— Susan Lynn

They’re refugees, not politican pawns This week Americans will sit around overflowing dinner tables and stuff themselves in celebration of how Native Americans greeted the Pilgrims, who came here as religious refugees from England. Think about that within the context of the current demonization of Muslim refugees from Syria and Iraq.

The House last week voted to suspend the federal resettlement program for refugees from that war zone over fears that Islamic State has salted the human tide — 4 million people and growing — with terrorists targeting the United States. The Senate is expected to take up the bill next month, and President Obama has rightly pledged to veto the measure if it gets to his desk.

Given that political posturing is the way House Republicans legislate these days, it would be easy to just shake our heads and move on. But nearly 50 Democrats joined them in last week’s vote, either succumbing to fear or, worse, crassly politicizing the desperate straits of refugees. Facing that likely veto, some in the House want to embed the measure in a must-pass spending bill, setting the stage for a possible government shutdown. This misguided effort requires a forceful and unambiguous response: No. The measure would suspend resettlement of Syrian and Iraqi refugees until new security checks are emplaced, and would require the heads of Homeland Security, the FBI and national intelligence to vouch for each person admitted. Under the current resettlement process, potential refugees come almost exclusively through referrals from the office of the

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which vets their backgrounds before deciding which country to refer them to for resettlement. Those recommended to this country are then scrubbed by U.S. security officers through interviews overseas and biometric background checks, a process that can take up to two years. The Washington Post, citing a State Department spokesman, reported that “only about a dozen” of the nearly 785,000 refugees admitted to the U.S. since the September 2011 attacks have been arrested or deported for preexisting links to terrorism. None was from Syria. Three refugees have been convicted of abetting terror attacks elsewhere.

That’s hardly sufficient grounds to indict the program. It’s also hard to imagine Islamic State investing more than two years of a terrorist’s time trying to con refugee officials when a forged passport could gain instant access — especially since getting referred for resettlement to the U.S. is like winning a lottery. The U.N. estimates that about 10 percent of the 3.2 million displaced Syrians need resettling, and the Obama administration has offered to take a small fraction — up to 10,000 — in the next year. Those are pretty long odds to successfully plant a terrorist. And the measure pushed by Congress doesn’t address the broader reality that the Paris attackers where overwhelmingly French citizens. Would lawmakers bar the door to European tourists as well?

Times of crisis require level heads and cool reasoning. Now would be a good time for elected leaders to begin showing some.

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IS defeat won’t end Mideast chaos Sunnis, Shiites, Alawites, Christians and Kurds are a stew of ancient discontent WASHINGTON (AP) — The chaos and violence gripping the Middle East are not likely to evaporate even if the forces arrayed against the Islamic State group manage to crush the brutal army and its drive to establish an Islamic caliphate in Iraq and Syria and beyond.

Why? The national structures and boundaries created by European colonial powers after the Ottoman Empire was dismantled at the end of World War I are collapsing or already have disintegrated.

That has unleashed powerful centrifugal forces that are melting the glue that was holding together increasingly antagonistic religious and ethnic populations.

The mix of Muslims — Sunnis, Shiites, Alawites — Christians and the big ethnic Kurdish populations in the north of both Syria and Iraq are a stew of ancient discontent, sectarian frustration and flagrant injustice.

Those social explosives were detonated by the upheaval unleashed by the U.S. war in Iraq and the civil war in Syria.

“The level of damage that has been done by the United States in Iraq and the civil war in Syria is probably irreparable,” said Wayne Merry, senior associate at the American Foreign Policy Council.

In Iraq, Saddam Hussein and his fellow Sunni Muslims — a minority in that country — ruled brutally over the majority Shiite Muslims. The United States removed Saddam and eradicated his Baath Party structures, most famously the army. Washington then oversaw the establishment of a new government that is fundamentally controlled by the Shiites. That new structure subsequently disregarded the needs and rights of the Sunnis.

While the U.S. military still controlled the country, radical Sunnis came together under the banner of al-Qaida in Iraq in a force arrayed against American forces, moderate Sunnis and the Shiites majority. Shiite militias formed to attack from the other side and a civil war erupted. That was only tamped down when Washington instituted the surge of more troops and began paying Sunni tribal leaders and their fighters to turn their guns on fellow Sunnis in al-Qaida.

With the departure of U.S. forces in 2011, al-Qaida regrouped in the Sunni regions of Iraq and became

Steven Hurst An AP news analysis the Islamic State group, the extremist organization that spread as well into the void created in neighboring Syria by the civil war there, now in its fifth year. Estimates have put IS control of territory as high as one third of both countries. Particularly important is the terror organization’s control over the cities like Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq.

For months, the United States has bombed IS positions with some success and now France and Russia have joined that effort. Russia turned its attention to IS after a bomb, claimed by the

jority in Syria, much as Saddam killed and brutalized the Shiite majority in Iraq.

And none of that deals with the complication added to the chaos in both countries by the ethnic Kurdish drive for a homeland. The Kurds have big populations in northern Iraq, Syria and Iran. And they have periodically been at war with Turkey, where they live in huge numbers in the southeast of that country. The Kurds have been the strongest American partners in the fight against IS, battling — often with significant success — as a U.S.allied ground force against IS. They also have created a virtually autonomous, selfgoverned region in Iraq and control significant Iraqi oil reserves. U.S. backing for the Kurds puts the United States at odds both with NATO ally Turkey, which is also an enemy of Assad in Syria and the

A final political solution likely will require the resettlement of large populations driven from their home territories by the Iraq war, the Syrian civil conflict and the expansion of IS. It will require compromises that haven’t been made for centuries.

Islamic State group, brought down a Russian airliner over Egypt. The French reacted after the IS attacks in Paris.

Military and intelligence experts had said, before the airliner bombing, that Russia had primarily targeted opponents of Syrian leader Bashar Assad who are not allied with IS but deeply involved in the civil war, fighting to overthrow Assad. The Obama administration insists Assad must be removed.

Russia and Iran say he must be part of a political solution, at least temporarily. Regional powers Saudi Arabia and Turkey want him gone.

Many analysts saw Russian involvement in Syria as an attempt to save the Assad regime. Syria was a last outpost of Russian influence in the Middle East, home to Russia’s only Mediterranean port and a big customer for Russian weapons.

THE APPEAL of IS in Syria grows from the same root as it does in Iraq. And that is the sense of Sunni disenfranchisement. In Syria, unlike Iraq, it is longstanding.

Assad is an Alawite Muslim, a subset of Shiism. He and his father before him ruled brutally over the Sunni ma-

Shiite-dominated U.S.-backed Iraqi government in Baghdad.

Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that a military victory over IS will not end the chaos in the Middle East unless the United States, other countries in the region, Russia, Europe and Iran join together to create a “platform of political stability.”

But how can such a platform be created in a region that has been unable to overcome a 1,300-year schism in Islam, the Kurdish drive to create a country that the ethnic group has never had and the attendant complications mixed in by a plethora of other religious and ethnic minorities. The defeat of IS, if it happens, will not solve those deep and underlying divisions.

A final political solution likely will require the resettlement of large populations driven from their home territories by the Iraq war, the Syrian civil conflict and the expansion of IS. It will require compromises that haven’t been made for centuries. It is a huge mission that will take a long time to accomplish — if it ever can be.

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Turkey shoots down Russian jet as tensions rise We will never tolerate such atrocities as happened today and we hope that the international community will find the strength to join forces and fight this evil — Russian President Vladimir Putin

nomic relationship, including in the energy field, is important to Moscow. And Russia and the West appeared to be moving toward an understanding of their common strategic interest in eradicating the Islamic State group following the bombing of a Russian airliner over Sinai and the attacks in Paris.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry invited diplomats from the five U.N. Security Council member countries for a meeting to brief them about the incident. Separately, the Russian charge d’affaires was also invited for a meeting during which Turkey “conveyed its sensitivities� over border violations.

Turkey has complained repeatedly that Russian planes supporting Syrian President Basher Assad were straying across the border — a complaint repeated to the Russian ambassador only last Friday.

Turkey and Russia have long been at odds over the crisis in Syria.

Turkey has been concerned over Russia’s bombing of Turkmen areas and the fact that the Russian operations have complicated the possibility of creating a safe zone in northern Syria to protect civilians as well as moderate rebels fighting Assad.

The creation of a safe zone has been a longterm Turkish goal.

Turkey has long been seeking the ouster of Assad — an important Russian ally.

The Russian plane was supporting Syrian troops which have been on the offensive in an area controlled by several insurgent groups including al-Qaida’s branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, and the

2nd Coastal Division and the 10th Coast Division that includes local Turkmen fighters.

Jahed Ahmad, a spokesman the 10th Coast Division, said its forces fired at the Russian pilots as they descended. One died, Ah-

mad told The Associated Press.

A Turkish military statement said the plane entered Turkish airspace over the town of Yayladagi, in Hatay province.

Turkish officials released what they said was the radar image of the path the Russian plane took, showing it flying across a stretch of Turkish territory in Turkey’s southern-most tip, in the region of Yayladag, in Hatay province.

Three Russian journalists working in Syria suffered minor injuries when a missile landed

near their car on Monday, Russia’s Defense Ministry said. They were being treated in a military hospital.

Last month, Turkish jets shot down an unidentified drone that it said had violated Turkey’s airspace.

Turkey changed its rules of engagement a few years ago after Syria shot down a Turkish plane. According to the new rules, Turkey said it would consider all “elements� approaching from Syria an enemy threat and would act accordingly.

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intrusion into Turkish airspace, the U.S. European Command on Nov. 6 deployed six U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters from their base in Britain to Incirlik Air Base in Turkey to help the NATOmember country secure its skies.

Sarah Lain, an analyst at the Royal United Services Institute, said the last time she could remember a NATO member country —the United States — shooting down a Russian/Soviet plane was the 1950s. “But the Soviets appear to have shot down more U.S. planes amid the Cold War,� she added.

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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane today — a longfeared crisis in Syria’s civil war and apparently the first time a NATO member has downed a Russian plane in a halfcentury. At least one of the pilots was reported killed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called Turkey’s action a “stab in the back by the terrorists’ accomplices� and warned of “significant consequences,� and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov cancelled a visit to Turkey which had been planned for Wednesday.

At Turkey’s request, NATO’s governing body called an emergency meeting.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu insisted his country has the right to take “all kinds of measures� against border violations, and called on the international community to work toward “extinguishing the fire that is burning in Syria.�

Turkey said the Su-24 ignored several warnings that it was nearing, then intruding, into Turkish airspace.

Russia insisted the plane stayed over Syria, where it was supporting ground action against rebels. “We will never tolerate such atrocities as happened today and we hope that the international community will find the strength to join forces and fight this evil,� Putin said.

Rebels said they fired at the two parachuting pilots as they descended, and that one had died. A rebel spokesman said they would consider releasing the body in exchange for prisoners held by Syria. The fate of the second pilot was not immediately known.

Despite harsh words, some analysts believe that Russia and Turkey have reasons not to let the incident escalate. “Relations have been very strained between Russia and Turkey of late so Moscow will be trying its utmost to contain the damage this might cause,� said Natasha Kuhrt, lecturer in International Peace and Security at King’s College London. “It’s a serious incident in anybody’s book,� added Ian Kearns, director of the European Leadership Network, a London think-tank.

But Kearns said the Russian-Turkish eco-

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ACC loses 66-42 to Johnson

By JONATHAN CZUPRYN The Iola Register

Ariyah Sorrells attempts a shot Thursday against Crowder College at home.

Sorrells led Allen with 13 points on Monday. REGISTER/JONATHAN CZUPRYN

OVERLAND PARK — The Allen Community College women’s basketball team lost 6642 to Johnson County Community College on Monday night.

It was the Lady Red Devils fourth straight defeat as they now fall to 4-6 on the young season.

Once again, coach Todd Buchanan’s team was plagued with a poor shooting performance that led to Allen’s worst

offensive game of the year.

The Lady Red Devils were 14-of-43 from the floor (32.6 percent) and just 4-of-15 from beyond the three-point arc (26.7 percent).

Johnson County, the reigning NJCAA D-II national champions, did not fare much better as it shot 35.3 percent from the floor and 28.6 from three-point range.

However, the Cavaliers sunk 10 more buckets than the Lady Red Devils, including twice as many three-pointers.

Allen also struggled

on the glass. Addie Haar was the squad’s leading rebounder with five boards.

Four different Cavaliers had at least five rebounds and Johnson County as a whole outrebounded Allen, 47-27.

Ariyah Sorrells was the Lady Red Devils’ leading scorer with 12 points.

Monday night’s contest was the last for the Allen women’s basketball team before the Thanksgiving break.

Once the team returns, it will begin conference play.

Chiefs trying to be first 1-5 team to make playoffs KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — What the Kansas City Chiefs have accomplished this season is hardly rare. What they can still accomplish is nearly unprecedented.

With their 33-3 rout of the San Diego Chargers on Sunday, the Chiefs have followed up a five-game losing streak filled with discord and disappointment with a four-game winning streak that has pushed them back into playoff contention with six games left in the season.

It was just last season that Carolina lost at least five straight before rattling off four wins in a row. But you have to go back to 1970 and the Bengals to find a team that started 1-5 — or worse — and managed to make the playoffs. Cincinnati was 1-6 before winning its last seven.

No other team has started 1-5 and made the playoffs, according to STATS. “I’m proud of the guys for

Kansas City Chiefs outside linebacker Tamba Hali (91) celebrates with the team’s fans after the 33-3 win on Sunday in San Diego. DAVID EULITT/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS the character they have,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said.

“Very easily could have gone the other way. Coaches and

Kansas crushes Chaminade in the Maui Invitational LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Kansas doesn’t seem to understand that you’re supposed to treat your host well.

The fifth-ranked Jayhawks had seven players score in double figures in a 123-72 victory over Chaminade, the Division II host of the Maui Jim Maui Invitational, in the opening round Monday night.

It was the worst loss in the 32 years of the tournament

for 73).

“We made shots and everybody looks better when you make shots,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “The defense got better as we went along.”

Kansas (2-1) will play UCLA, a 77-75 winner over UNLV, in the semifinals on Tuesday. The Jayhawks bounced back from a 79-73 loss to then-No. 13 Michigan State last week in the Cham-

players, for that matter. And they didn’t do that. They played their hearts out. And they’ll continue to do that be-

cause that’s the way they’re wired.”

The Chiefs (5-5), still three games back of Denver in the

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas State still views Missouri as one of its rivals, even though the two schools separated by a long drive down Interstate 70 haven’t been members of the same league for years.

The Wildcats sure looked like the more motivated team Monday night.

Dean Wade had 14 points and 13 rebounds in his fourth college game, Justin Edwards added 13 points and the Wildcats pounded the

Tigers 66-42 in the semifinals of the CBE Classic.

“I knew back then, M i z z o u was a part of the Big Wesley Iwundu Eight, Big 12 before they left, and it was kind of a rivalry game,” said Wesley Iwundu, who finished with 10 points for the Wildcats.

“All the fans tweeting at you,

Kansas head coach

See KU | Page B3

kind of hyped us up for the game.”

Kansas State will play No. 9 North Carolina, an 8069 winner over Northwestern, for the title on Tuesday night.

With a frustrating zone defense, the Wildcats (4-0) held the Tigers (2-2) to just 31 percent shooting from the field. They dominated on the offensive and defensive glass, and took care of the See KSU | Page B3

Okafor outduels Towns but Sixers still lose

— Bill Self

pions Classic.

“I think tonight did a lot for some guys’ confidence,” said Lucas, who had 12 rebounds. “Defensively we still have a lot to work on. But it’s always good to see guys shoot like that.”

Chaminade, from Honolulu, dropped to 7-85 in the 32 years of the tournament. The only way to an upset was to beat Kansas from the outside and the Silverswords took almost as many 3-point field goals (33) as 2-point shots (36).

Kansas beat them at their own game, however, finishing 15 of 29 from beyond the arc

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KSU advances to CBE Classic final

We made shots and everybody looks better when you make shots. The defense got better as we went along.

for the Silverswords. The previous worst was a 48-point defeat to Kansas in 2005.

“Why don’t we forget about this game and just play another one?” Chaminade coach Eric Bovaird said. “They were as good as we thought.

They come at you in waves and we didn’t think they would shoot from the outside the way they did.”

Wayne Selden Jr. and Sviatoslav Mykhaliuk both scored 18 points for Kansas while Devonte Graham had 15, Frank Mason III 14, Landen Lucas 13 and Hunter Mickelson and Perry Ellis both had 11 for the Jayhawks, who shot 64.4 percent from the field (47

AFC West but in the thick of the wild-card hunt, welcome the Buffalo Bills to Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday.

The rest of the schedule includes a return game against lowly San Diego, two against struggling Oakland, and games against down-and-out Cleveland and the Joe Flaccoless Baltimore Ravens.

Kansas City likely will be favored in every game the rest of the way.

“You know, 5-5 obviously is not the goal,” Chiefs safety Eric Berry said, “but we have our goals set and we know what mission we’re on, so we’re going to keep striving for that.”

The turnaround has hardly been a fluke.

Start with the defense, which has allowed 18 points or less in six straight games.

That stretch of sustained suc-

Karl-Anthony Towns (32) fouls Jahlil Okafor (8) on Monday. JEFF WHEELER/MINNEAPOLIS STAR

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Through another seemingly interminable losing streak, the Philadelphia 76ers have been done in by some of the NBA’s biggest names.

Tim Duncan rallied the Spurs to a win.

Dirk Nowitzki broke their hearts for Dallas.

Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh blitzed them over the final seven minutes in Miami.

Andrew Wiggins joined that list on Monday night. And the Minnesota Timberwolves believe the 20-year-old star will one day deserve to be mentioned in the same breath.

Wiggins scored 11 of his 32 points in the final five minutes to help the Timberwolves keep Philadelphia winless on the season with a 100-95 victory.

“He’s turning into an unbelievable player right before our eyes every night,” interim coach Sam Mitchell said.

Kevin Garnett had eight points and 10 rebounds and the Timberwolves (6-8) won at home for the first time in seven games this See NBA | Page B4

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Two Kansas lawmakers who lost their health committee assignments because they support Medicaid expansion say the incident has given the issue more momentum.

Interviewed over the weekend for KCUR’s “Statehouse Blend� podcast, Republican House members Susan Concannon, Beloit, and Don Hill, Emporia, said Speaker Ray Merrick’s decision to remove them from the Health and Human Services Committee was a mistake if his goal was to shut down discussion on the expansion issue. “I think the leadership was shortsighted and illadvised,� Hill said. “The response I’ve had from my constituents has been overwhelming. There is a sentiment that they’ve been deprived a voice.�

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In a blog posted recently to the website of the House Republican caucus, Rep. Dan Hawkins, the chairman of the HHS committee, said the state has a “responsibility to provide a health care safety net to the poor, disabled

expansion will at some point force lawmakers to deal with the issue, he said. “The grassroots effort is building, there’s no doubt. And I think the developments of the 11th of November have only increased that momentum,�

Hill said, referring to the date on which he and Concannon were removed from the committee, along with Rep. Barbara Bollier,

I think the leadership was shortsighted and ill-advised. The response I’ve had from my constituents has been overwhelming.

There is a sentiment that they’ve been deprived a voice. — Rep. Don Hill, R - Emporia

and elderly.� But he added, “My concern begins when we expand that to ablebodied adults with other health care options.�

The expansion issue has gained little traction in the Legislature despite a strong lobbying effort

by Kansas hospitals. However, two recent events — the closure of a southeast Kansas hospital and a Wichita forum where Kansas lawmakers discussed a conservative expansion plan implemented by Republican Gov. Mike Pence in Indiana — have generated more serious discussion of the issue, Concannon said.

The health committee changes, she said, were an attempt to blunt whatever progress expansion advocates were making and to warn House Republicans to stop “discussing these hare-brained ideas.�

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Concannon agreed that support for expansion was building. But she said because of the state’s ongoing budget problems and election year politics, it won’t be approved in the 2016 session.

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KU: Jayhawks cruise to victory against host Chaminade Continued from B1

while Chaminade was 8 of 33.

“We have good shooters but tonight we didn’t make them,” Chaminade’s Rohndell Goodwin said. “It wasn’t their height that made us shoot from the outside.

We have good shooters.”

Kiran Shastri had 17 points for the Silverswords (0-3) while Goodwin added 15.

The Silverswords, known for beating then-

No. 1 Virginia and Ralph Sampson in 1982, had a moral victory of sorts.

They pulled to 14-13 with 13:43 to play in the first half on a 3-pointer

by Shastri, forcing Self to call a timeout. The Jayhawks took over from there and led 53-33 at halftime.

“Chaminade is the kind of team that can hang around and that’s what they did at the start,” Self said.

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45 victory over Brown on Jan. 3, 1989. ... The 123 points were the sixthmost in Kansas history and the most under Self.

Chaminade: The Silverswords’ last win in the Maui Invitational was in 2012, 86-73 over Texas. ... Chaminade opened the season with two losses in a road trip to Alaska-Anchorage.

Kansas: The Jayhawks won the Maui Invitational in 1996.

This is their sixth appearance and in 1988 they were led by current Wake Forest coach Danny Manning. ... Kansas was without junior guard Brannen Greene, who was suspended for six games by Self for unspecified conduct detrimental to the team. ...

Kansas’ largest margin of victory came in a 115-

FREE DIALLO

Kansas fans chanted “Free Diallo” at the

start of the second half.

That was in reference to the NCAA still investigating freshman Cheick Diallo, who remains ineligible to participate in games. The NCAA has been investigating the 6-foot-9 Diallo’s classwork from a prep school in New York, along with the forward’s relationship with his guardian, Tidiane Drame. Diallo has been cleared to practice with the Jayhawks, and this past weekend

the NCAA granted a waiver so that he could travel with the team to Hawaii.

“All I know is that our AD was contacted today and they’re working on it,” Self said.

UP NEXT

Kansas: UCLA in Maui Invitational semifinals today.

Chaminade: UNLV in Maui Invitational consolation round today.

Chiefs: No team has started 1-5 and made the playoffs Continued from B1

cess reached its crescendo with Sunday’s game in San Diego, when the Chiefs held the Chargers to a season-low 201 yards and an average starting field position of the 15-yard line.

San Diego never made it into the red zone.

Things were so good for the defense that two of their players scored touchdowns.

Justin Houston returned an interception 17 yards for a score, while 346-pound defensive tackle Dontari Poe got into the game at fullback and scored his first career touchdown on a goal-line plunge.

Asked what has changed the past four games, Poe replied: “We’re focusing. We’re not waiting for somebody else to make the play. We’re just putting it all on ourselves to

We’re focusing. We’re not waiting for somebody else to make the play. We’re just putting it all on ourselves to make it.

— Dontari Poe Chiefs defensive tackle

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“As long as we keep doing that and playing together, we’ll be all right.”

That may be true, but it helps that the offense

is contributing to the cause.

Despite losing Pro Bowl running back Jamaal Charles to a season-ending knee injury, the Chiefs have strung

together their best performances all season in the past few weeks.

Alex Smith extended his franchise-record streak to 253 passes without an intercep-

tion, throwing seven touchdown passes during that same period.

And while breakout running back Charcandrick West was hobbled by a hamstring injury on Sunday, the Chiefs showed their depth by inserting third-stringer Spencer Ware, who ran 11 times for 96 yards and two touchdowns.

“They have the right nucleus and they’re good at what they do,” said Chargers cornerback Brandon Flowers, who began his career in Kansas City. “They don’t do a lot of stuff, but they

are perfect at what they do well.”

The result? A perfect record over the past four weeks, and an opportunity to live up to the lofty expectations the Chiefs had coming out of training camp in September.

Notes: West was undergoing an MRI exam on his leg Monday, Reid told reporters on a conference call. There was no word on how long he might be out. ... The Chiefs’ 30-point margin of victory was their best in San Diego since a 40-3 victory on Dec. 8, 1968.

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beating the Tigers for the fifth time in their last six meetings.

The last time they played was 2012, before Missouri bolted for the Southeastern Conference.

“I was not surprised at the physicality of the game. I’m disappointed we didn’t match it,” Missouri coach Kim An-

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derson said. “Because we warned them, we told them, ‘This is the game.’”

Things got so bad for the Tigers midway through the second half that Anderson was whistled for a technical foul for arguing with officials. The free throws gave the Wildcats a 58-34 lead with 7:12 left, but at least gave Missouri fans a reason to half-heartedly cheer.

“We just didn’t come out ready,” said Missouri freshman Kevin Puryear, who had a team-high nine points.

“They played harder than us in all aspects of the game.”

The game was mostly decided in the first 20 minutes when Kansas State kept packing into a zone defense and the Tigers were unable to shoot their way over top

of it.

Missouri was just 5 of 27 from the field at halftime.

The Wildcats’ big run came midway through the half, when Stephen Hurt converted a 3-point play to cap a 12-1 run.

The Tigers had missed nine straight shots at that point, helping Kansas State establish a 19-9 lead and energize a heavily purple-clad crowd in the Sprint Center.

The highlight of the half for Missouri came when Terrence Phillips leapt over a courtside table used by the TV crew to save a ball from going out of bounds. Fans were still cheering when his teammate, K.J. Walton, was called for traveling about 25 feet from the hoop.

That was the way things went all night for Missouri, which won the

CBE Classic four years ago — back in its Big 12 days — but has fallen on tough times in the years since.

“I thought we did a poor job of helping. I thought our defense was poor. I thought our whole game was poor,” Anderson said. “I don’t see a whole lot of bright spots.”

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Kansas State coach Bruce Weber hopes that nobody tells Wade, a freshman from tiny St. John, Kansas, how impressive he’s been this season. “It’s a big transition from St. John to here,” Weber said, “but he’s such a good young man. He wants to learn and do well. In a way, he’s a little naive and I just hope we can keep him that way for a little while.”

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Missouri: Wes Clark, who missed the end of last season with an elbow injury, had five points on 2-for-9 shooting. ... Missouri was 4 of 19 from beyond the arc. ... The Tigers did not score off a turnover until the game’s final minute.

UP NEXT

Kansas State plays the Tar Heels for its first CBE Classic championship.

MVJH girls hoops WESTPHALIA — The Marmaton Valley Junior High girls basketball team traveled to play Westphalia on Monday afternoon.

The Wildcats’ A team lost, 29-23.

Rachel Shaffer led the squad with seven points in the game.

The Wildcats’ B team lost, 25-11.

Kaylee Becker led the squad with five points.

Marmaton Valley will next host Northeast on Dec. 1.

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NBA: Timberwolves take down the 76ers Continued from B1

season. They dropped Philadelphia to 0-15 and avoided another embarrassing home loss to the Sixers, who snapped an 0-17 start to last season with a win at Target Center.

Jahlil Okafor had 25 points, 12 rebounds and two blocks for Philadelphia and thoroughly outplayed No. 1 overall pick KarlAnthony Towns, who played just 19 minutes because of foul trouble. The Sixers led by 13 in the first half and by five with 2:30 to play but once again couldn’t hold on and have now lost 25 straight dating to last season.

“I think we’ve taught them how to compete,” Philly coach Brett Brown said. “Now the next layer is we’ve got to teach them how to close out a game with a win.”

One game after letting an 11-point lead slip away in the final seven minutes against Miami, the Sixers led by six with under five minutes to play.

The reigning rookie of the year — coveted by the 76ers in last

year’s draft — scored on a drive, a runner and a three-point play to get Minnesota within two at 91-89.

“My teammates and my coaches trust me down the stretch to make the right plays and win the game for us,” Wiggins said.

“That’s what I’m going to try to do.”

Then Jerami Grant swatted a dunk attempt

by Kevin Martin right into Wiggins’ hands.

He threw down a thunderous dunk to tie it at 91, and then knocked down two free throws a minute later for the lead and fed Martin for a 3 with 28 seconds left.

“He can become MVP one day in this league,” said teammate Ricky Rubio, who had eight points, 11 assists and six rebounds.

The Sixers have taken a beating over the last few years under Sam Hinkie’s plan to tank their way back to the top, but Minnesota holds a special place in their hearts. Last year they were one loss away from tying the league record for consecutive defeats to start a season when they won at

Target Center.

“It’s not a moral victory,” Okafor said.

“Ten games ago we had some pretty close games that we lost. We are doing better, but we’re trying to get our first win.”

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Unlike the 76ers, a team filled with youngsters that is built to lose, the Timberwolves have surrounded their young core with veterans Garnett, Tayshaun Prince and Andre Miller, all in an attempt to insulate the kids from the trauma that can come with mass losing in the NBA. Garnett delivered a throwback performance, scoring six straight points in a 10-0 run to open the third that got a Target Center crowd rendered sleepy by the team’s sluggish play in the first half on its feet.

“When we talk about how valuable Kevin is to our team, he’s not the same player on the court,” Mitchell said.

“He has glimpses of it, flashes of it. But what he does in the locker room, at some point

you hope it catches on.

He gave us a big lift.

He did not want to lose this game tonight.”

Martin made his first start of the season and had 11 points on 4-for11 shooting.

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Timberwolves president and coach Flip Saunders died on Oct. 25 from complications from Hodgkin’s lymphoma. His wife, Debbie, returned to Target Center on Monday night for the first time since he passed away.

She wiped tears from her eyes as she found her normal seat a few rows behind the Wolves bench and watched the game with her daughters while her son, Ryan, served as assistant coach.

76ers: Visit Boston on Wednesday.

Timberwolves: Host Hawks on Wednesday.

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76ers: G Nik Stauskas did not play in the second half because of a sore left knee. He will have an MRI today. ... Robert Covington scored 18 points and Isaiah Canaan added 14.

Timberwolves: Towns had six points and two rebounds. ...

Reserve F Nemanja Bjelica missed his second straight game with a bruised left knee. ...

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Patriots remain undefeated FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — James White filled in for Dion Lewis.

Danny Amendola replaced Julian Edelman.

Tom Brady was just his usual self.

Brady completed 20 of 39 passes for 277 yards, then threw in a personal dig at Buffalo coach Rex Ryan on Monday night as the New England Patriots beat the Bills 2013 to remain on course for their second perfect regular season in nine years.

Lining up under center, Brady began barking out an unusual signal: “Rex Ryan! Rex Ryan!” Asked if there was a message in it, the Patriots quarterback struggled to suppress a smile.

“We have a lot of unusual terms,” Brady said. “I think we run the gamut. So we’ve got to get creative and think of different things. That one is pretty unique.”

Ryan was less troubled about any personal slight than losing to his longtime nemesis for the 11th time in 15 games.

“He likes me, I know that,” said the coach,

who was 4-9 against New England as the New York Jets coach before getting swept in his first season with Buffalo.

The Bills (5-5) had their two-game winning streak snapped and lost to Brady for the 25th time in 28 games.

Here are some other things we learned from the Patriots’ victory over the Bills: NEXT MAN UP: Brady hit White for a 20yard score that was the first touchdown of the running back’s career.

White added a 6-yard run in the third quarter to give New England (100) the lead for good.

Amendola, who took over as the Patriots’ No. 1 receiver because of last week’s injury to Julian Edelman, caught nine passes for 117 yards before leaving with a knee injury of his own.

“We were down to two healthy receivers,” Brady said. “You get pretty limited in things you can do pretty quickly.”

The Patriots lead the AFC East by five games with six to play. Buffalo and Miami are each 5-5.

“At the end of the day, they find ways to win,”

Ryan said. “That’s what championship teams do.

We’re not at that level, but I promise you we’ll get there.”

The refs blew one play dead by mistake. Then when Sammy Watkins crawled out of bounds untouched near midfield on the final play of the game, the official signaled for the clock to run.

Referee Gene Steratore told a pool reporter that it was decided that Watkins “gave himself up in the field of play.”

The inadvertent whistle came on a 14-yard pass to Amendola when the official apparently thought Brady stepped out of bounds. After a long discussion, the referee announced that 14yard reception counted, with a 15-yard penalty for interference from the Bills coaching staff.

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What happens when test results are at odds?

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an 85-year-old male in pretty good health. I recently had a stool test by the Veterans Affairs hospital.

They said I had blood in my stool, which indicates colon cancer, and that I should have a colonoscopy ASAP. My insurance company provided me with some eight possible signs and symptoms to consider.

I had none, and no family history.

For the past 15 years, I have had a colonoscopy every five years. The last was in 2010. My results were always “A-OK,” with always one small polyp in the same place.

I had a ColoVantage test. The interpretation came back as negative.

My physician informed me that the negative ColoVantage blood test was a good result. He believed there was no further need

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health for a colonoscopy. — S.M. Answer: When two tests have completely different results, a wise physician, like your wellqualified primary physician, looks at the test characteristics. I’m sure he found that the ColoVantage test, a blood test looking for an abnormal gene associated with colon and other cancers, has a high likelihood of being correct when it says there is no abnormal gene present, and he knows that the fecal blood test has many false-positive results.

I have the luxury of taking things one step further,

and I performed a formal decision analysis using your likelihood of having colon cancer based on being an 85-year-old man, the results of your positive stool blood test and the results of your negative methylated Septin 9 test. Putting all the information together, I find you have a 0.4 percent chance of having colon cancer.

Since the risk of having an adverse event from a colonoscopy at your age is about the same, I would recommend against getting a colonoscopy, as your physician did.

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elevation in Colorado. Is there any possible correlation between A. fib and oxygen deprivation? — D.T.

Dear Dr. Roach: I have noticed that three of my extended episodes with A. fib in the past five years have been after periods of reduced oxygen in my lungs. Two times I have had a head cold, and one time I was at 9,000 feet

Answer: Having low oxygen levels to the heart is indeed a risk factor for development of atrial fibrillation. Lung disease, including sleep apnea, certainly increases risk.

Although it makes sense that high altitudes would worsen existing A. fib or increase its likelihood, that hasn’t been proven.

Treatment for atrial fibrillation can include reversing the underlying cause if possible, and although that isn’t always possible, treating chronic lung disease is one way of doing so. If people have low oxygen levels in the blood (easily checked now in the office), then oxygen may indeed be a useful treatment.

Public notices (First published in The Iola Register, November 10, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS In the Matter of the Estate of LYMAN DAVID BALDWIN, Deceased 12 PR 47 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT (Chapter 59)

THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified a petition has been filed in this Court

by Sandra R. Flynn, Executrix of the Estate of Lyman David Baldwin, deceased, praying for final settlement of the estate, approval of her acts, proceedings and accounts as Executrix, allowance for her administrator’s

fees and expenses and the Court determine the heirs of the said decedent and assign the real estate and personal property remaining in said estate.

You are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 2nd day of December 2015, at 8:30 A.M., in said District Court in Iola, Kansas, at which time and place

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

SANDRA R. FLYNN,

Executrix DANIEL SCHOWENGERT, #23766 JOHNSON LAW OFFICE PA P.O. Box 866 Iola, KS 66749 (11)10,17,24

(First published in The Iola Register, Nov. 17, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT E. SUMMERS, DECEASED Case No. 15 PR 52 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:

You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed on November 10th 2015 in this Court

by Stuart Jeffery Summers, as Petitioner and heir-at-law of Robert E. Summers, Deceased, praying for the determination of descent of personal property and real property in Kansas, real and personal, or interest therein, owned by the decedent at the

time of his death. You are hereby required to file your written defenses to such Petition on or before the 8th day of December 2015 at 8:30 o’clock a.m. of said day in said Court, in the city of Iola, in Allen County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course

upon such Petition. /s/ Stuart Jeffery Summers,

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Kansas lobbyist concerned with state handling of foster care TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A lobbyist for a Kansas police association has expressed concerns over the way state social workers handle foster care.

Lobbyist Ed Klumpp of the Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police told state lawmakers that social workers with the Department for Children and Families can be difficult to contact, supervisors are sometimes unreachable and calls to a hotline to assist with problems may go unanswered.

Klumpp voiced these concerns at a meeting of the Foster Care Adequacy Committee last week.

He said that law enforce-

Where the frustration comes in for law enforcement is where...these kids are more or less dumped on us to find a solution, and we don’t have the tools to be that solution.

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ment officers responding to a situation involving a child in a foster home are left with very limited options, and a last resort is placing the child in protective custody.

Klumpp said that there are many times when law enforcement is called to a home for noncriminal events, where a child isn’t

Wichita offering amnesty program for suspended drivers WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita Municipal Court is offering an amnesty program next month for drivers whose licenses have been suspended for failing to pay or go to court for a traffic citation.

The Wichita Eagle reports the program will run from Dec. 4 to Dec. 30, during which fees and traffic-related warrants will be waived.

Applicants who can’t afford to pay the fines and court costs can

receive credit toward their fines by performing community service with local organizations or attend training offered by Workforce Alliance.

State Sen. Michael O’Donnell, a Wichita Republican, says the pilot program is being watched closely at the state level. If it’s successful, he says legislation will be intruduced in the next session allowing for the waiver of city and state fees.

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in need of care.

“Where the frustration comes in for law enforcement is where we can’t get that cooperative effort, where these kids are more or less dumped on us to find a solution, and we don’t have the tools to be that solution. And that’s where we get frustrated,”

Klumpp said.

Department secretary Phyllis Gilmore says the agency will make any needed corrections. According to the secretary, an email has been sent to regional directors about providing cellphone numbers to law enforcement.

“I, too, found his testimony to be very disturbing this morning. I was very concerned and made several notes to myself to follow up from that,” Gilmore said.

State Rep. Annie Tietze has worked as a court-appointed special advocate for children and says she is familiar with some of the concerns.

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“I have heard concerns about the unavailability of help during (nights, weekends) — so I’ve heard those comments,” Tietze said.

The committee, which met last Tuesday, discussed a wide range of

topics involving the foster care system. It opted to not make any recommendations for now in regards to Klumpp’s concerns, but recommendations could be made in the future if more meeting days are approved.

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