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All systems grow Toland addresses SEK, Inc.

By TREVOR HOAG The Iola Register

“Growth.

Growth.

Growth.” This was Secretary of Commerce David Toland’s refrain Thursday evening, as he gave the keynote address at the annual meeting of Southeast Kansas, Inc., at the Kansas Crossing Casino south of Pittsburg.

Southeast Kansas, Inc. (SEK, Inc.) is a regional alliance of business leaders focused on economic development. The organization represents manufacturing, retail, and service businesses along with county and

Kansas Secretary of Commerce David Toland explains the importance of promoting economic growth and forming regional partnerships. “We can be proud of southeast Kansas,” he said. Toland spoke at the annual meeting of SEK, Inc. in Pittsburg Thursday evening. REGISTER/TREVOR HOAG city governments from 12 counties in the region.

Toland began his presentation by talking about past

branding and marketing for the state of Kansas, recalling slogans like “Kansas: Land of Ahs.” Later in the talk, he

emphasized looking at what strategies have been successful and creating a new marketing campaign for the state’s image and identity as a whole.

Throughout his address, Toland also highlighted successful moments across the history of Kansas commerce, featuring leaders from both major political parties such as governors Carlin (D), Hayden (R), Finney (D), Graves (R), and Sebelius (D).

One of those moments, Toland argued, came in the form of the Redwood-Krider Report in 1986, which “laid out a roadmap for how the state of Kansas was going to invest, its resources and economic development.”

This report suggested pursuing growth in sectors like agriculture, manufacturing, life sciences, and technology, and under the administration of Gov. Laura Kelly, toSee GROW | Page A3

Let it snow McKinley Elementary School’s preschool and kindergarten students celebrated a snowman-themed Family Fun Night, featuring the book “Sneezy the Snowman,” which was illustrated by Iolan Stephen Gilpin. At left, Matt Kerr watches as his daughter, Charley, ties an icicle bracelet around his wrist. At right, Munchkinland preschool student Havick Westerman collects cotton “snowballs” and reacts as he’s hit during a snowball fight. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Kern earns spelling crown

Patton

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Fugitives in custody following standoff

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

William Patton and Kaitlyn McMurry, who eluded capture after a crime spree and multiple close calls with authorities in southeast Kansas over the past few weeks, are in custody.

Patton, 28, and McMurry, 21, were arrested in Mulberry, following a nine-hour standoff that ended Thursday night.

Officers from several agencies, including the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, surrounded a house at the edge of the small town on the Kansas-Missouri border for several hours before reportedly firing tear gas and a flash bang grenade and entering the residence.

The suspects were found hiding in the attic.

The couple’s trail of havoc included an incident on Jan. 8 in Neosho Falls, which precipitated a police chase that ended when the suspects crashed a stolen vehicle in northern Allen County.

An extensive manhunt came up empty before the suspects found their way sometime overnight to a barn owned by Darren Cleaver, not far from where they crashed.

There, they ransacked the barn, a pickup, a feed truck, an all-terrain cycle and other outbuildings and tractors. They also stole several See STANDOFF | Page A3

Grocery stores — a precedent for partnerships

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

By TREVOR HOAG The Iola Register

Raiden Kern wasn’t about to let anything like foolhardiness or a flamingo keep him from the state spelling bee.

The Iola Middle School seventh-grader bested 17 other competitors Friday in the Allen County Spelling Bee. Kern correctly spelled 10 Raiden Kern hoists a trophy words, including the afore- he earned Friday by winning mentioned foolhardiness and the Allen County Spelling Bee

Allen County commissioners have helped support the creation of local grocery stores in the past, and may be poised to do so again in the case of Our Hometown Market in Humboldt.

At Tuesday’s Commission meeting, Scott and Amy Welch, proprietors of the new store, told commissioners they were worried about being overrun by electrical bills. In discussions Thurs-

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day with Scotty Welch and Cole Herder, Humboldt City Administrator, they said the main drivers behind these expected bills are the store’s outdated refrigeration units

including coolers and freezers.

According to Herder, the price associated with making the equipment at Hometown Market more energy-efficient is estimated at $219,000, but if a Rural Energy Assistance Program (REAP) grant is successfully obtained, which will cover 25% of costs, the final bill for new equipment will total approximately $169,000.

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Deputy settles K9, cow dispute

Steven Cole A graveside service for Steven R. Cole, age 76, of Gas, will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Highland Cemetery in Iola.

He died Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, at his home in Gas. He was born Jan. 12, 1944, in Iola to Neil R. and Ella M. (Looney) Cole.

GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — A sheriff ’s deputy responding to a burglary call in South Carolina was forced to settle a beef between his K9 and a spooked cow by using a stun gun.

Georgetown County sheriff ’s deputies were dispatched to the Pleasant Hill community on Wednesday when a K9 that was brought to the scene reportedly became “distracted” and bit a cow belonging to the property owners, a statement from the agency said. The officer was forced to stun the dog to prevent the cow from being seriously injured, the office said.

Reacting to the bite, the cow charged at the deputy and property owner, hitting them and causing minor injuries.

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Pastor Steve Traw McIntyre discussed “The 1,000 Years” — taken from Revelation 20 — during 365-0365 Sunday’s service.

The Scripture says that at the end of 1,000 years of Christ’s reign prelude and “Special there will be a series Delivery” for the offerof judgments and those tory. whose names aren’t Randy Bevard is celwritten in the book of ebrating his birthday life will be judged ac- today. cording to their works Church Fellowship and cast into the lake dinner followed the of fire. Satan, his de- morning services at mons and death (since noon, followed that afdeath is a spirit) will be ternoon with a congrecast into the lake of fire gational/corporation as well (Rev. 20:14). meeting.

David Loomis was Communion will be songleader for the morn- served Sunday. ing worship service.

Bible Study with PasPianist Myrna Wild- tor Steve on the book of schuetz played “Awak- John is at 3 p.m. Tuesening Chorus” for the day.

Prairie Rose 4-H Club members learn about the World Food Prize

By GRACE YOHO Prairie Rose 4-H Club

Twenty-four members and one Cloverbud attended Sunday’s Prairie Rose 4-H meeting.

President Zoi Yoho led the business meeting. Reports from officers were approved as read. Kendall Scharff, secretary, read the minutes from last month’s meeting.

Committee reports were given by project leaders. Kelci Botts, leader of the Cloverbuds, reported that there will be a meeting at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 11. Kim Schomaker, food leader, reported that there will be a food meeting at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 8.

There was no new or old business to take care of.

Community Leader Kim Schomaker

reminded members about model meeting practices, and encouraged members to attend Campference, and to watch the Youtube videos from Jenner Murphy and Makayla.

Kelci Botts reminded members and parents to pick up their Tshirts.

Talks were given by Allison Heim, Sophia Heim and Gracie Yoho.

Allison gave a talk about the World Food Prize project she had participated in. Sophia gave a talk about how to prepare your cat for the vet, and Gracie demonstrated how to show a rabbit at the fair.

The next meeting will be at 5 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Methodist Church. Following the meeting the club will enjoy pizza and a movie.

Conference crew Eight Iola High School students will give a presentation on the school’s internship program at the Kansas Annual CTE Conference at 9:30 a.m. Feb. 4 in Manhattan. The topic is “Intro to the Future: IHS Work-Based Learning.”

Participating, front row from left, are Haley Carlin, Ella Taylor, Mayte Breithaupt, Gaby Lampe; back row, Bella Duke, Lexie Vega, Lauren McDermeit, Allie Fager. The conference is sponsored by the Kansas Association of Education Service Agencies. COURTESY PHOTO

Court news DISTRICT COURT Judge Daniel Creitz Civil cases filed: Kyle Sutton vs. Allen County Sheriff’s Office, other civil John P. Kent vs. Allen County Sheriff’s Office, other civil Butler Construction LLC vs. B&M Energy & Infrastructure LLC, other civil MAGISTRATE COURT Judge Tod Davis Convicted of no seat belt and fined $30: Casey J. Tush, Iola James K. McDermed, Uniontown Brandon L. Whittley, Gas Kenneth R. Steele, Yates Center Janet Crabtree, Welda Gary D. Crabtree, Welda Lourdes Dunn, Iola Tina M. Dixon, Iola Dwayne E. Lansdown, Chanute Cheryl A. Marlow, Iola Lon J. Wilks, Iola Convicted of speeding: Ronald S. McMahon,

Richland, Mo., 75/65, $153 Noah J. Cole, Osawatomie, 75/65, $153 James D. Davis, Prairie Village, 75/65, $153 Donna S. Steinman, Lecompton, 75/65, $153 Jason J. Williams, Garnett, 75/65, $153 Oscar Aldrete, Wichita, 75/65, $153 Derek Hallaway, Bartlesville, Okla., 75/65, $153 Deborah A. Ekman, Lake Elmo., Minn., 79/65, $177 Dylan M. Turen, Shawnee, 110/65, $650 Denton A. Ross, Chanute, 68/55, $171 Kinsley T. Manns, Kansas City, Mo., 83/65, $226 Convicted as follows: Stanley J. Lundin, Mayetta, gross weight limit for vehicles, $379 Tiffany J. Edwards, Fredonia, interference with law enforcement officer, $608 Jeffrey S. Hambleton, Burlington, DUI, $1,593 Joseph A. Beaman, Humboldt, driving while

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Iola police officers arrested Benjamin Reeder, 34, Humboldt, for suspicion of possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia after they were called to investigate an incident in the 300 block of North State Street Wednesday afternoon.

Joseph Myrick told police Wednesday morning somebody stole a key ring and several keys from his residence in the 100 block of South Kentucky Street.

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license revoked, $208 Joumar Rivera Lopez, Keene, Texas, failure to yield, $183 Cases deferred with fines assessed: Jeremy L. Quarles, Kansas City, Kan., possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, $583 Brig R. Merritt, Iola, distribution of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, $868 Warrick Jenkins, Yates Center, possession of drug paraphernalia, $533 Schurrilla Darnell, Iola, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, endangering a child, $933 Failed to appear: Kaitlynn N.J. Harjo, Henryetta, Okla., 83/65, no driver’s license, no insurance Criminal cases filed:

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Orion C. Nicholas, LaHarpe, domestic battery Seth O. Pace, Humboldt, criminal threat Jamie J. Hermreck, Humboldt, burglary, theft Steven L. Heimberg, Iola, domestic battery, criminal damage Ciara M. Neufeldt, Humboldt, interference with law enforcement officer Steven L. Rice, Iola, interference with law enforcement officer Kody L. Wright, Burlington, possession of oxycontin, no registration, no insurance Contract cases filed: LVNV Funding LLC vs. Janet Church Kansas University Physicians Inc. vs. Anastasia F. Haugen-Sigfusson Galt Ventures LLC vs.

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To give away: ‘The world’s worst cat’ BAKERSVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The “world’s worst cat” is available for adoption — just ask the Mitchell County Animal Rescue organization in North Carolina.

The shelter is waiving adoption fees in the hope that someone will take the cat named Perdita off their hands.

The group says on its Facebook page, “We thought she was sick.

Turns out she’s just a jerk.”

A tongue-in-cheek profile of the foul-tempered feline says her dislikes include “dogs, children, the Dixie Chicks, Disney movies, Christmas and last but NOT least ... HUGS.” It says she likes lurking, pretending to be sick and “staring into your soul until you feel as if you may never be cheerful again ...”

It adds, “She’s single and ready to be socially awkward with a socially awkward human who understands personal space. “ Shelter Director Amber Lowery says 4-yearold Perdita came to the facility on Christmas Eve, The Charlotte Observer reported. Since then, the shelter has had to warn visitors that Perdita’s attempts to draw passersby to

her cage are actually a ruse that will not end well.

“I’m looking at her right now, and she’s rolling around in her little bed, looking all sweet and cute, but the minute you try to rub her, she slaps you.

We thought she was in pain and took her to the vet and he said: ‘No, this cat is just a jerk’,” Lowery told the newspaper.

Standoff: Fugitives taken into custody Humboldt Elementary School fifth-grader Harlowe Rush competes Friday in the Allen County Spelling Bee. Rush took third among 18 competitors. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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flamingo, to clinch the victory.

Raveyn Kegler, an eighth-grader at Marmaton Valley Junior High School, correctly spelled eight words, but was done in by “pagan,” inserting an O in place of the second A. Friday’s competition featured students from

schools in Iola, Humboldt and Moran.

Kern will advance to the state spelling bee March 21 at Newman University in Wichita.

If he cannot attend, Kegler will compete in his stead.

Placing third was Harlowe Rush, a fifthgrader at Humboldt Elementary School.

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ask the county for a specific amount.

One precedent for partnership between the county and Our Hometown Market is the Marmaton Market Cooperative in Moran, which received $100,000 in 2017 in the form of a matching grant to secure other grants and loans in order to purchase and refurbish the former Stub’s Market.

Allen County also provided $180,000 to assist with construction of G&W Foods in Iola.

Also contributing to G&W locating in Iola were Iola Industries and the City of Iola with inkind labor to build its parking lot. Altogether, assistance totaled about $400,000.

Towns and counties alike are trending more and more toward providing such support, with places like St. Paul even having a grocery store that is city-owned, St. Paul Supermarket.

This is because grocery stores are increasingly being viewed as vital infrastructure that support community health and wellness, and in rural communities especially, such infrastructure often cannot be paid for through private funds alone.

As Herder explained, infrastructure is not simply about “putting pipes in the ground ... it is also about communities having the right services.” In this light, a grocery store is approached as a service that will eliminate a food desert crisis and support a thriving town.

Part of helping a community as well, supporters of Our Hometown Market emphasize, is focusing on locally owned businesses. Stores like Dollar General and Walmart provide goods, but profits from these businesses for the most part do not remain within a local economy.

Regardless, before funding is distributed, say commissioners, a viable long-term business plan must be in place for the county to make an investment.

Commissioners also consider what businesses will bring into the community in terms of property taxes and sales taxes.

As for what will happen next in the case of Our Hometown Market, back in March 2019 commissioner Jerry Daniels said “I’m committed to keeping a grocery store in Humboldt. We’re going to have one no matter what.”

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thousands of dollars in tools, a pair of guns, ammunition and one of Cleaver’s tractors.

The tractor was recovered the next day in Neosho Falls; the guns and tools were not.

PATTON escaped capture once again Sunday afternoon, when police officers spotted him and another acquaintance in a pickup in Pittsburg.

An acquaintance surrendered, but Patton did not. He instead drove away in a maroon pickup, striking an officer in the process. The officer was not hurt.

Another officer fired his weapon at the fleeing vehicle, but apparently did not strike Patton.

The pickup was spotted again shortly after midnight Wednesday morning in Jasper County, Mo., where Patton and other occupants led officers on a chase.

That chase ended after officers deployed spike strips, deflating multiple tires on the pickup. The suspects, according to media reports, drove to a wooded area and abandoned the vehicle.

Another massive manhunt that followed came up empty.

Fast forward to about noon Thursday, when authorities surrounded a home at the south edge of Mulberry, about 15 miles northeast of Pittsburg in rural Crawford County.

Officers were heard over a loud speaker, ordering Patton and McMurry to exit the home.

When they did not, officers eventually stormed the residence.

Media reports said the house may have been a family rental home.

PATTON, who was released from prison last year after serving five years for his conviction in 2014 in Crawford County for aggravated assault and aggravated battery, had been wanted in connection for an assault Dec. 31 in Pittsburg, in which he allegedly held a handgun at a female victim’s head before eluding police and abandoning his vehicle in Pittsburg. A firearm was found inside the vehicle.

THE JAN. 8 incident in Neosho Falls started after a man later identified as Patton asked a local business owner for a ride to a local residence, where he quickly got into a fight and brandished a gun.

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day a similar assessment is currently underway.

Toland also focused on workforce development, educating and connecting people looking for work with businesses and industries looking to hire and train them. He further highlighted the importance of getting people back to work, despite life circumstances, whether it’s loss of a driver’s license, a criminal conviction, not having access to childcare, and so on. “It’s good to work. There’s dignity in work,” he said.

Part of previous workforce develop-

ment, he pointed out, had been positioning Kansas recruiters across the United States. This system was dismantled, however, and so both national and international recruitment for Kansas businesses and industry diminished.

By contrast, following efforts by the Kelly Administration, today this system has been reestablished, with recruiters now positioned in six regions covering the entire country.

One striking slide from Toland’s presentation was labeled “Our Most Valuable Export: Educated Talent.” Only 39 percent

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missing guns were a .223 long rifle and a .22 rifle that Cleaver said had belonged to his father.

“It’s frustrating,” Cleaver said. “I don’t know how close those guys may have been while we were working.”

Cleaver suspects Patton and the others received assistance from elsewhere after they made off with his tractor.

“There’s no way they could have carried all those tools on their own,” he said.

Cleaver discovered the damage and missing tractor the next morning. The tractor was found later in the day in Neosho Falls.

He’s hopeful his belongings — particularly his guns — are recovered and returned.

Even with Patton and McMurry in custody, officers are eager to connect the dots to determine if any other crimes were committed, or if the stolen items can be returned.

Those with information can contact the Woodson County Sheriff ’s Office at (620) 6258640, the Allen County Sheriff ’s Department at 365-1400 or the Pittsburg Police Department at (620 231-1700.

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notified law enforcement. Woodson County deputies spotted the suspects in a vehicle, leading to the chase into Allen County. During the pursuit, the suspects attempted to turn from Utah Road onto 1000 Street, but instead entered a field and struck a tree.

Patton, McMurry and another occupant, Tanner Adams, then fled the vehicle.

Cleaver, who had been working in a nearby field that day, continued working as a large contingent of law enforcement converged upon the area.

He’s uncertain how close the suspects may have been to him and a nephew as he worked.

By then, the Allen County Sheriff ’s Department, Iola Police Department, Chanute Police Department, Kansas Highway Patrol were arriving, as were K-9 units from KHP and Chanute. A KHP search helicopter was utilized as well.

At the end of the day, Cleaver told the Register he offered the use of his barn, just off the road, to the officers as a staging area.

Turns out, that barn is where the suspects eventually holed up, leading to the extensive damage and thefts. The

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of people educated in Kansas remain to live there after college.

Hence Toland emphasized the importance of changing this trend, moving toward numbers like Texas’, where 71 percent of graduates are retained.

Another statistic Toland mentioned related to the importance of people participating in the upcoming U.S. census. He calculated that it costs the state of Kansas $2,000 per year for 10 years for every person not counted. If 10% of southeast Kansas isn’t counted, he claimed, Kansas loses $38,548,600.

Shifting focus to the Department of Commerce, Toland argued “we need to run [it] like a business,” including developing a strategic plan. This is why he highlighted the 1986 Redwood-Krider Report, since it was the last time a sweeping work-related study of this magnitude had been performed in the state.

Toland lauded the progress of southeast Kansas, noting it is “punching above its weight when it comes to job creation and capital investment … though we don’t always feel that.”

The number of 2019 Community Development Block Grants awarded to the region is also noteworthy, Toland said. In Humboldt, for example, $500,000 was given for sewer improvements, and in LaHarpe, $400,000 was given for electrical improvements.

Yates Center was awarded $1,000,000 to renovate its city pool.

The Kansas Mainstreet program is returning, Toland said, adding “it’s essential that when you bring a business to town [to recruit them], and you drive through your downtown, that it be alive, that you can stop somewhere and buy them a cup of coffee.”

In line with attempting to grow local economies, Toland emphasized how successful states can be when collaborating rather than anyone trying to do things alone, or being factional, engaging in fights between cities or counties.

For instance, if one county excels at providing Internet, and another at education, they can claim strengths and share resources to help one another. “That’s how you win,” he said.

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Snowplow kills 2 near KSU campus KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A snowplow struck and killed two pedestrians in Kansas before sunrise Friday after a winter storm coated parts of the Midwest with snow.

The collision involving a Riley County plow truck happened shortly after 5 a.m., after the National Weather Service issued winter weather advisories across parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin and a large swath of Missouri.

Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Ben Gardner said the victims, who were in their late teens or early 20s, appear to have been crossing a road with a 55 mph speed limit when they were struck north of the Kansas State University campus and near Tuttle Creek State Park.

There are several mobile home parks in the area.

Gardner said the driver, who tried to avoid hitting the victims, wasn’t plowing or salting at the time and was driving with the plow’s blade raised. He said he didn’t know whether it

was snowing but added that road conditions and speed didn’t appear to be a factor.

The victims’ names weren’t immediately released, pending notification of relatives. Gardner said he didn’t know if they were university students.

Marvin Rodriguez, chairman of the Riley County Commission, described the accident as a “tremendous tragedy.”

“Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers go out to all involved in the accident,” he said in a news release.

In neighboring Missouri, roads in much of the north of the state are covered in snow.

The Missouri Department of Transportation urged drivers in a news release to “remain vigilant.”

The University of Missouri’s flagship campus in Columbia and Lincoln University in Jefferson City announced a late start and then called off classes entirely.

Numerous school districts canceled classes, including several in the Kansas City area.

Two killed in warehouse blast HOUSTON (AP) — A massive explosion Friday leveled a warehouse in Houston, leaving at least two people dead, damaging nearby buildings and homes and rousing frightened residents from their sleep miles away, authorities said.

The explosion happened about 4:30 a.m. inside a building at Watson Grinding and Manufacturing, which makes valves and provides thermal-spray coatings for equipment in various industries, authorities said. The building was reduced to burning rubble and debris, and some of the surrounding buildings suffered heavy damage to parts of their walls and roofs.

Police Chief Art Acevedo confirmed the deaths Friday and said it was likely both people worked for the company.

He said a family member of one of the people suspected to have died was a U.S. Marine currently training at Camp Lejeune, North Caro-

lina, and called on the Marines to let the man return to Houston.

Authorities don’t believe the explosion was intentional though a criminal investigation is underway, Acevedo said.

“Do a search around your own home and your own neighborhood, even if you’re a mile away from this location,” Acevedo said. “Look for any debris, any body parts, anything that may be related. If you find anything in your immediate home, in your yard, don’t touch it. Just call the Houston Police Department so we can respond.”

Houston Fire Chief Samuel Pena said hazardous materials crews have secured the valve on a 2,000-gallon (7,571-liter) tank of propylene that had been leaking. Propylene is a colorless gas used to produce chemicals in plastics, synthetic rubber and gasoline.

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Jim Lehrer of NewsHour fame dies NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Lehrer, longtime host of the nightly PBS “NewsHour” whose serious, sober demeanor made him the choice to moderate 11 presidential debates between 1988 and 2012, has died, PBS said Thursday. He was 85.

Lehrer died “peacefully in his sleep,” according to PBS. He had suffered a heart attack in 1983 and more recently, had undergone heart valve surgery in April 2008.

For Lehrer, and for his friend and longtime partner Robert MacNeil, broadcast journalism was a service, with public understanding of events and issues its primary goal.

“We both believed the American people were not as stupid as some of the folks publishing and programming for them believed,” Lehrer wrote in his 1992 memoir, “A Bus of My Own.” “We were convinced they cared about the significant matters of human events. ... And we were certain they could and would hang in there more than 35 seconds for information about those subjects if given a chance.”

Tributes poured in from colleagues and watchers alike, including from Fox News’ Bret Baier, who called Lehrer “an inspiration to a whole generation of political journalists — including this one.”

Dan Rather said “few approached their work with more equanimity and integrity than Jim Lehrer.” And Jake Tapper of CNN called Lehrer “a wonderful man and a superb journalist.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called him a “champion for truth and transparency.”

Many Americans knew him best for his role as debate moderator. For seven straight presidential elections, he was the sole journalist sitting across from the candidates for the first debate of the general election campaign.

In 1996 and 2000, he moderated all of the debates — five of them — and a vice presidential contest to boot.

He told The Associ-

Jim Lehrer in his office in Shirlington, Virginia. It is adorned with memorabilia of bus lines from across the United States. Lehrer was the host of The News Hour on PBS. (KRT) ated Press in 2011 that his goal was to probe the candidates’ thinking and avoid “gotcha” questions. He felt his best debate performance was in 2004, with George W. Bush and John Kerry, not because of anything he did, but because the candidates were able to state their positions clearly.

“I didn’t get in the way,” said Lehrer, whose book “Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates” told stories of his experiences. “Nobody was talking about what I did as a moderator. I didn’t become part of the story.”

The half-hour “Robert MacNeil Report” began on PBS in 1975 with Lehrer as Washington correspondent.

The two had already made names for themselves at the then-fledgling network through their work with the National Public Affairs Center for Television and its coverage of the Watergate hearings in 1973.

The nightly news broadcast, later retitled the “MacNeil-Lehrer Report,” became the nation’s first one-hour TV news broadcast in 1983 and was then known as the “MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour.” After MacNeil bowed out in 1995, it became “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.”

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cherished for decades,” said Judy Woodruff, anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour, in a statement.

Politics, international relations, economics, science, even developments in the arts were all given lengthy, detailed coverage in their show.

“When we expanded to the hour, it changed from being a supplement to an alternative,” Lehrer said in 1990. “Now we take the position that if you’re looking for a place to go every 24 hours and find out what’s happened and get some in-depth treatment, we’re the place.”

Lehrer moderated his first presidential debate in 1988 and was a frequent consensus choice for the task in subsequent presidential contests. He likened the job to “walking down the blade of a knife.”

“Anybody who would say it’s just another TV show is a liar or a fool,” he once said. “I know how important it is, but it’s not about me. It’s what the candidates say that matters.”

He also anchored PBS coverage of inaugurations and conventions, dismissing criticism from other TV news organizations that the latter had become too scripted to yield much in the way of real news.

“I think when the major political parties of this country gather together their people and resources in one place to nominate their candidates, that’s important,” he told The Associated Press in 2000. “To me, it’s a non-argument.

I don’t see why someone would argue that it wasn’t important.”

Naturally, Lehrer came in for some knocks for being so low-key in the big televised events.

After a matchup between George W. Bush and Al Gore in 2000, David Letterman cracked, “Last night was probably the first and only that time Jim Lehrer (was) the most exciting person in the room.”

But the real-life Lehrer — who had a tradition of buying a new tie for good luck before each debate — was more colorful than he might have seemed on PBS. On the side, he was also a novelist and sometime playwright.

His debut novel “Viva Max!” was made into a movie starring Peter Ustinov. He did a whole series of novels about the adventures of an Oklahoma politician known as The One-Eyed Mack.

“Hemingway said this, too: If you paid attention as a reporter, then when the time came to write fiction you’d have something to write about,” Lehrer told The Associated Press in 1991.

“And it turned out I did. And I’ve got all these stories stored up after 30 years in the news business. And they’re just flowing out of me.”

As Lehrer turned 75 in spring 2009, PBS announced that the show would be retitled as “PBS NewsHour” later in the year, with Lehrer pairing up on anchor duties with other show regulars.

He said he approved of the changes, telling The New York Times that having a pair of anchors would “shake things up a bit,” even as all sectors of the news business struggled to meet changing reader and viewer demands.

LEHRER WAS BORN

in Wichita, Kansas, in 1934, the son of parents who ran a bus line. In addition to titling his memoir “A Bus of My Own,” he collected bus memorabilia — from station signs to a real 1946 Flxible Clipper bus.

After graduation from college in 1956, he served three years in the Marines, later calling the experience so valuable that he thought all young people should take part in national service.

“I had no close calls, no rendezvous with danger, no skirted destinies with death,” he wrote. “What I had was a chance to discover and test myself, physically and emotionally and spiritually, in important, lasting ways.”

He went to work from 1959 to 1970 at The Dallas Morning News and the now-defunct Dallas Times-Herald. Lehrer jumped to television for a Dallas nightly newscast.

Lehrer wrote that it was ironic that the Watergate hearings helped establish the importance of public TV, since President Richard Nixon hated public broadcasting. He also recalled that the lengthy hearings gave him the chance to practice his new craft, and MacNeil, already a veteran, gave him valuable pointers on how to speak on camera clearly and conversationally.

He is survived by his wife, Kate; three daughters: Jamie, Lucy, and Amanda; and six grandchildren.

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Impeachment trial: Trump’s lawyers prepare a blistering defense

By ELI STOKOLS Los Angeles Times

WA S H I N G T O N — Over the last two days, House Democrats have presented compelling evidence in the form of snappy video clips, punchy PowerPoint slides and impassioned oratory, building a case that convicting President Donald Trump and removing him from office is imperative to protect the Constitution and the country.

Next up, Trump’s lawyers will get their say.

Beginning this morning, the president’s legal team will have 24 hours, split over three days, to argue his defense. And while it’s not yet clear if they will use all their allotted time, the outlines of an expected blistering defense moved into sharper focus Friday.

If there is a theme, it may be from Trump’s top liaison to lawmakers, Eric Ueland, who was overheard vowing “revenge” as he left the Senate chamber after one of the House presentations.

Alan Dershowitz, the veteran defense attorney who has joined Trump’s defense team, won’t appear until Monday. He is preparing his hourlong argument in Miami Beach, poring over old legal texts to find support for his position that abuse of power is “too vague” to constitute an impeachable of-

Jay Sekulow, personal lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks to the media in the Senate Subway at the United States Capitol in Washington D.C., U.S., on Thursday as the Senate continues to hear arguments in the impeachment trial. (Stefani Reynolds/CNP/Sipa USA/ TNS)

fense.

“I’ve been sniffling from the dust,” he said Friday in a phone interview.

In his view, Democrats have misinterpreted the writings of Alexander Hamilton, who House managers have cited numerous times to make their case that Trump’s efforts to seek help from a foreign power — in this case Ukraine — in a U.S. election is the classic definition of an impeachable offense.

“His gravest concern was what happened here: a strictly partisan vote in the House. That’s not the way he thought impeachment should go,” Dershowitz said.

Republican lawmakers claimed to be enthusiastic Friday after House managers had spent a good part of Thursday trying to knock down unsub-

stantiated allegations that former Vice President Joe Biden engaged in corrupt activity in Ukraine to protect his son, Hunter, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company.

Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, who is running for president, is key to the article of impeachment for abuse of power, and Democrats clearly sought to inoculate Biden— and undermine the president’s defense— before Trump’s lawyers get to make their case.

Trump’s lawyers are expected to argue that Trump’s demands to Ukraine to investigate a political rival were legitimate, publicly tarring Biden from the Senate floor days before the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses sound the starting gun on the Democratic nom-

Pentagon says 34 troops suffered brain injury in Iran missile strike \ WA S H I N G T O N (AP) — The Pentagon disclosed on Friday that 34 U.S. service members suffered traumatic brain injury in Iran’s missile strike this month on an Iraqi air base, and although half have returned to work, the casualty total belies President Donald Trump’s initial claim that no Americans were harmed. He later characterized the injuries as “not very serious.”

Eight of the injured arrived in the United States on Friday from Germany, where they and nine others had been flown days after the Jan. 8 missile strike on Iraq’s Ain al-Asad air base. The nine still in Germany are receiving treatment and evaluation at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the largest U.S. military hospital outside the continental United States.

Jonathan Hoffman, the chief Pentagon spokesman, said the eight in the U.S. will be treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland, or at their home bases. The exact nature of their injuries and their service and unit affiliations were not disclosed.

Trump had initially said he was told that no troops had been injured in the strike, which Iran carried out as retaliation for a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad that killed Iran’s most powerful general, Qassem Soleimani, on Jan. 3.

The military said symptoms of concussion or traumatic brain injury were not immediately reported after the strike and in some cases became known days later.

Many were in bunkers before nearly a dozen

The Defense Department has said more than 375,000 incidents of TBI occurred in the military between the years 2000 and 2018.

Iranian ballistic missiles exploded.

The question of American casualties took on added important at the time of the Iranian strike because the degree of damage was seen as influencing a U.S. decision on whether to counter-attack and risk a broader war with Iran. Trump chose not to retaliate, and the Iranians then indicated their strike was sufficient for the time being. Tensions have since eased.

After the Pentagon reported on Jan. 17 that 11 service members had been evacuated from Iraq with concussionlike symptoms, Trump said, “I heard they had headaches and a couple of other things ... and I can report it is not very serious.” He said he did not consider the injuries to be as severe as those suffered by troops who were hit by roadside bombs in Iraq.

Traumatic brain injury, or TBI, has become a bigger concern for the military in recent years as medical science improves its understanding of its causes and effects on brain function.

It can involve varying degrees of impairment of thinking, memory, vision, hearing and other functions. The severity and duration of the injury can vary widely.

The Defense Depart-

ment has said more than 375,000 incidents of TBI occurred in the military between the years 2000 and 2018.

Jefferson Kinney, a neuroscience researcher at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, where he is chair of the department of brain health, said Friday that much remains to be learned about TBI, including its effects on behavior.

“It depends a lot on how severe the damage is and where the damage is,” among other factors, he said. “There is huge variability across individuals. Some people will undergo a trauma that they seem to recover from very quickly and others seem to be much more impacted by it for a longer duration.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a severe TBI may lead to death or result in an extended period of coma or amnesia.

Hoffman’s disclosure that 34 had been diagnosed with TBI was the first official update of the number injured since the Pentagon announced the evacuation of the first 11. On Jan. 21, officials said more had been sent out of Iraq for further diagnosis and treatment, but the Pentagon declined to provide firm figures or say whether any had been returned to duty.

Hoffman said that of the 34 with TBI, 18 were evacuated from Iraq to U.S. medical facilities in Germany and Kuwait, and 16 stayed in Iraq.

The one American sent to Kuwait has since returned to duty in Iraq.

All 16 who stayed in Iraq have since returned to duty there, Hoffman said.

ination battle.

“It’s been a lot about Joe Biden and Burisma,” Jay Sekulow, the president’s outside counsel, said of the House managers’ case.

“They kind of opened the door.”

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, one of Trump’s most ardent defenders, urged the president’s legal team to go after the Bidens’ dealings in Ukraine.

“When the (House) managers tell me this has been looked at and debunked — by who?”

Graham said. “That’s becoming relevant because they talked about it almost fifty times that the president had no reason to believe that anything improper occurred in the Ukraine with the Bidens. The question is, will that withstand scrutiny?”

He added: “You’re going to hear more about that.”

During their presentation, the House managers sought to preempt likely defense arguments: that Trump’s actions were warranted, that Trump did not commit a crime, and that impeachment is a political vendetta by Democrats seeking to overturn the 2016 election and worried about next fall.

“When the president’s counsel now gets up and makes those arguments, every Republican senator and the American

people would’ve heard already why they’re utter nonsense,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, DN.Y., told a news conference Friday before the trial resumed.

Schumer said impeachment was “too important” for White House attorneys to resort to “name-calling” and “conspiracy theories” when it’s their turn.

He also lay down a challenge for Republican lawmakers to allow for witnesses, noting that four Republicans would have to switch sides and vote with the 47 Democrats to make that happen.

“We’re seeking the truth at a momentous time in the American republic,” Schumer said. “It is on the shoulders of four Republican senators to join us in demanding it. Will four Republican senators, just four, rise to the occasion, do their duty to the constitution and to their country to seek the truth?”

Trump, who is intensely focused on media coverage and its effect on public opinion, has tried to counterprogram this week’s impeachment proceedings.

He spent two days at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, returning on Wednesday night after firing off 142 tweets and retweets, a personal record for the presi-

dent, mostly about the impeachment. He will speak Friday at the March for Life on the National Mall, the first president to do so.

In an unusual flurry of activity, administration issued new rules that weakened water protection for the nation’s wetlands and streams, and threatened to cut federal funds to California over its mandate that insurers cover abortion.

And next week, as the Senate trial continues, he will play host to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, and will sign a revised trade pact with Canada and Mexico on Wednesday.

But even as he seeks to divert public attention, he remains intensely focused on the trial, eager for a robust in the Senate and on TV. In a tweet Friday, he complained about the Saturday morning opening slot for his lawyers, although the schedule was set by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.

“After having been treated unbelievably unfairly in the House, and then having to endure hour after hour of lies, fraud & deception

by Shifty Schiff, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer & their crew, looks like my lawyers will be forced to start on Saturday, which is called Death Valley in T.V.,” Trump tweeted.

GOP plan helps rural areas TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republicans in the Kansas House on Thursday outlined a plan aimed at revitalizing rural areas, helping people to buy their first homes and lowering income taxes for seniors.

GOP leaders said they will pursue five bills. They announced that they have launched a new website, makekansaswork. com, and discussed the details of their plan during a Statehouse news conference.

The package includes a proposal that would allow taxdeductible deposits to a savings account for buying or building a first home. Parents and grandpar-

ents also would be able to contribute, as they can to a college-savings account.

Another proposal would create a $30 million fund to help rural hospitals hire consultants and plan for overhauling their operations to remain open in changing markets. The state would set aside $10 million and provide tax breaks to encourage private foundations, businesses and individuals to contribute another $20 million.

The package also includes a proposal to exempt an additional 80,000 seniors from paying state income taxes on their Social Security benefits.

They’d be able to earn up to $100,000 annually and still avoid such taxes.

The package also includes proposals to help high school graduates seeking job training and to boost employment for the disabled and people on public assistance.

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Saturday, January 25, 2020

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Grocers’ request lit up social media — for all the wrong reasons We in the newspaper business view social media as a mixed blessing.

At times, it’s a great source for news tips.

At others, it’s extremely frustrating when people use it to fan the flames of rumors.

THIS WEEK, we got burned. As did a lovely young couple, Scotty and Amy Welch of rural Moran.

On Wednesday, we ran a story about the Welches meeting with Allen County Commissioners about their new business venture in Humboldt called Our Hometown Market.

As has been reported, this is a huge undertaking by the Welches. And their plans to not only revive Humboldt’s only grocery store but also add a butcher shop is eagerly anticipated by especially Humboldt residents.

At Tuesday’s meeting the Welches and Cole Herder, Humboldt city administrator, told the commissioners of their concerns about the high utility costs that come with operating the market and asked whether the county could help in some manner.

“We have our finances all laid out and are ready to go, but we’d just really appreciate some help from you, too,” said Amy, who teaches special education at Humboldt Elementary.

All the concerned parties then met in private to discuss the particulars.

When they emerged, the commissioners did not take any action on the Welches’ unspecified request and the Welches left the meeting.

When the Register published the story on Wednesday, Facebook lit up with either negative comments about how everyone is a freeloader these days or how the Register smeared the Welches’ reputation.

On Thursday, Register Reporter Trevor Hoag put the Welches’ request in perspective, noting how in recent years the county as

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well as the City of Iola and Iola Industries have helped other similar enterprises get established.

County officials, for example, in 2017 gave the Marmaton Market in Moran $100,000 to help with renovations and the purchase of new refrigeration units.

About the same time they also provided $180,000 to assist with the construction of G&W Foods in Iola.

Without those funds, neither business could have launched.

For the Welches, their biggest need is energy-efficient refrigeration units, which they didn’t specify in public on Tuesday. Rather, they merely said the cost of utilities was proving daunting.

It’s all the same. They’d appreciate some financial assistance so their utility costs won’t be as high. And yes, they’re looking into other financing opportunities, including grants.

Herder noted a town’s grocery store is an important building block to its future. It also helps keep people healthy by providing fresh fruit and vegetables and other less-processed options. A locally-owned grocery also keeps its profits local, reinvesting in local efforts and causes.

As any farmer who depends on federal crop subsidies knows, they look at it as an investment, not a handout. And they know their success depends on the sweat of their brow.

Such is the case of the Welches. We can all be their angels, by helping them get afloat and investing in the future of our communities.

Letter to the editor Dear editor,

When Title IX hit our school system in 1974, I happened to be the girls P.E. teacher at Iola High School and Don Bain was our principal.

Mr. Bain skillfully informed me the district would have a girls basketball team and I would be its first coach.

In that era, the girls teams were differentiated from the boys by inserting the word “Lady” before the mascot

name. While searching for a name more creative and unique than Lady Mustangs, I came across the definition of a filly. Perfect. The Iola Fillies were born.

I choose not to discuss the recent decision that sends this old mare and her beloved fillies to a rendering works. My politically correct response is “whatever.”

GO MUSTANGS! Nancy Yokum, A Filly forever, Iola, Kan.

President Donald Trump with John Bolton when he served as National Security Secretary.

Unbolting John Bolton Today we are focusing, for once, on a ray of good news in the midst of this very ugly time.

As the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump root-canals its way into our living rooms, one of the most tortuous dilemmas that the deciders are arguing about is whether or not former national security adviser John Bolton will be summoned to testify.

Today we are happy to report that this key dilemma is indeed solvable, after all. But it requires a bit of a workaround.

So far, the deciders in the Senate and House (and all of us who cover them) have been focusing on what turns out to be a fallacy of false alternatives. It really began to intensify in early November, when Bolton landed a huge $2 million contract to write a tell-all book for publisher Simon & Schuster. Bolton has made it clear that he has lots to say — after all, he has reportedly labeled what Trump was doing in Ukraine as “a drug deal.”

After making it clear that he would sue if the House tried to subpoena him, Bolton flip-flopped on Jan. 6 and announced on his website he was now willing to testify, if subpoenaed, at Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.

Wednesday, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump explained why he doesn’t want Bolton testifying. “You don’t like people testifying when they didn’t leave on good terms,” he said.

Trump added Bolton’s White House departure was “due to me, not due to him.”

Meanwhile, Washington has assumed there are just two diabolically opposite outcomes: (1) Senate Republicans might somehow see the wis-

Martin Schram Tribune News Service dom of ending their subservient complicity to Trump’s cover-up and subpoena Bolton to testify. But, absent that unlikely occurrence, (2) Senate Republicans will apparently continue to block Bolton’s testimony, gift Trump with a “not guilty” vote — and then risk political disaster this summer when Bolton’s book comes out. Will Bolton reveal things Trump told him that validate the Democrats’ charges against him? If Bolton indeed reveals evidence of criminal wrongdoing that could have led to Trump’s impeachment conviction, the Republicans who covered up Trump’s conduct will find their no longerGrand Old Party shattered, perhaps irreparably.

But there is still another alternative that is plausible — indeed it is more plausible as each day passes. It starts not with the Democrats or Republicans, but with Bolton.

(And I should say at the outset that I have known Bolton for decades. I first met him, eras ago, at the home of my friend, the late Ben Wattenberg, a Lyndon Johnson speechwriter who became an outspoken neo-conservative. Bolton has always been a proudly patriotic public servant.)

Now, put yourself in Bolton’s position: Suppose you have written in your upcoming book about things Trump said and did that stunningly show how he used his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to pressure Ukraine’s new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to

investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. Also you confirm Trump indeed withheld $391 million in U.S. military aid to make this political favor happen.

You kept all this evidence secret — and cashed in, bigtime, making $2 million for telling the world what you learned while American taxpayers paid your salary. For that, you now fear, you will be vilified for the rest of your life — and it will be at the top of your obituary.

But you do have a way to avoid all that, even if Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are blocking your testimony. It is a process provided for by the U.S. Constitution. It is called the First Amendment. Use your right of free speech to tell us your tell-all evidence — now!

Reveal the gist of your evidence in an op-ed, based upon your forthcoming book. Or a speech. Or a news interview.

Just do it now.

If it is as important as you have been hinting, the Senate Republican deciders will face more pressure than they can politically withstand. You will be testifying before the Senate next week or the week after that. It will happen.

Senate Republicans may still conclude that this conduct, while abhorrent, does not rise to the level that requires Trump’s removal from the Oval Office. Your book sales won’t suffer even though this one secret tale has been told. Your patriotic reputation will remain intact and unsullied. You will have done your job in a way that will make your family proud.

About the writer: Martin Schram, an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service, is a veteran Washington journalist, author and TV documentary executive.

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How to contact your elected officials

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

Gov. Laura Kelly, (Democrat) Capitol, 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; Email: moran.senate. gov/public/index.cfm/email-jerry

Rep. Steve Watkins, (Republican) 130 Cannon House Office Building, Washington D.C., 20515; phone: (202) 225-6601; Email: stevewatkins. 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

Rep. Kent Thompson, (Republican) House District No. 9, phone: (620) 496-7200 State Capitol, Room 050-S 300 SW Tenth Ave. Topeka, KS 66612, email: kent@iolare. kscoxmail.com

Rep. Kenneth Collins, (Republican) House District No. 2, phone: (785) 296-7698;State Capitol, Room 043-S 300 SW Tenth Ave. Topeka, KS 66612,

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Saturday, January 25, 2020

The Iola Register

Nickell recalls South Dakota days

Armstrong family gives memorabilia to Cosmosphere

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — A big rooster with long spurs held sway on the Mincks place outside Vermillion, S.D., until he became a bit too feisty in the 1940s.

Whenever one of the kids — about half of 13 still living at home then — went to the outhouse the rooster held the occupant at bay.

“I was afraid to leave it,” said Marjorie Nickell, age 81, Humboldt.

“If any of us did, the rooster would try to flog us. We’d yell for Mom. She’d come running with a broom and chase the rooster away.”

One day she ended the siege. Chicken and noodles were on the menu the next day.

Living without indoor plumbing isn’t a complication if you didn’t know better.

“When it snowed, which was often, it sometimes covered the outhouse and we’d run up over its top playing games,” Marjorie recalled.

What did you do when the outhouse was snowed in? “I really don’t remember,” she said, but assured the family got by.

Like so many on the far side of 65, she bemoans that so many youngsters today aren’t playing outdoors during nice weather.

Marjorie and her sibling seldom had an idle moment. “We’d be outdoors all the time finding something to do,” she said. Always barefoot. “I only had one pair of shoes,” for church and school.

One game had them tossing rocks at utility poles, although that halted when she stepped in front of her brother and a missile chipped one of her teeth.

She also played ball with the boys and climbed trees. “Mom didn’t like me in the trees because I always wore a dress, couldn’t wear pants like the boys, and I’d tear my dresses on limbs,” Marjorie said.

When bumble bees sought blooms in alfalfa fields, the Mincks kids raced after the little buzzers, capturing them in jars. How? “We’d put the jar over them and slap on the lid.”

They also walked two miles to a one-room school every day, unless they were lucky enough to intercept the teacher driving by.

When she graduated from Vermillion High in 1956 Marjorie moved to Iola to live with sister Helen Kudlacek. Although the number of children at home was waning, one less helped with finances.

She found a job wait-

Marjorie Nickell grew up in Vermillion, S.D., but has called Humboldt home for 63 years. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON ressing at Menegay’s Restaurant.

Before long a patron, Elmer Nickell, and Marjorie became friends.

On Sept. 6, 1959, they married, he a Baptist, she a Methodist and in a ceremony at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church.

“The priest was a good friend,” as well as a routine customer at Menegay’s.

Elmer had worked at Monarch since 1950.

“He was a wonderful guy,” said Charlie Tilman. “He was in my class (at Humboldt High), we started at Monarch the same time and retired the same

day 43½ years later.”

Marjorie found a job in school food service, and worked many years until her knees began to give out.

She and Elmer raised four children, Doug, who works at Monarch; Keith, who works at Gates Manufacturing in Iola; Aaron, a home entertainment and security systems installer in Manhattan; and Linda, a school speech pathologist in Colorado.

Marjorie spends time nowadays visiting with neighbor Judy Blauer, delivering meals, and being involved in First Baptist Church activi-

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HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — The family of astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to step on the moon, has donated two items that were aboard the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 to the Cosmosphere space museum in Hutchinson.

Armstrong’s two sons donated a 4-by-6-inch U.S. flag and a small piece of fabric from the wing of the Wright Flyer, the first flying machine built by the Wright brothers, the museum announced Wednesday. The piece of fabric was in the lunar module when it touched down on the moon, the

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Neil Armstrong died in 2012.

“When I visited the Cosmosphere in 2019, it was clearly a world-class space museum, but I didn’t see anything from Apollo 11 (mission) on exhibit, and it seemed obvious to me that they should have something from the flight,” Rick Armstrong said in a news release. “We hope these items will complement the inspirational exhibits that are already in place.”

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By CORINNE BOYER Kanas News Service

GARDEN CITY, Kansas — The census determines more than the number of congressional districts in a state. The

number of responses impacts child care, too.

Eighteen of Kansas’ 105 counties don’t have infant or toddler child care available, according to Child Care Aware Kansas. It uses census data to

calculate the state’s child care needs, and every year, the demand grows. “Each year it just continues to really become a little bleaker — especially in rural areas,� said Leadell Ediger, executive

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Kansas is at risk of being undercounted in this year’s 2020 census — eight counties in southwest Kansas are classified as a Hard-To-Count populations by the U.S. Census Bureau. That means a quarter or more households in those eight counties didn’t return the 2010 census.

Census data determines the amount of federal funding that local communities receive for things like schools and roads. The 2019 Child Care Supply and Demand report by Child Care Aware Kansas used census data to calculate the number of spots needed across the state in day cares, private care and most Head Start programs.

It’s why some child

care centers are planning to engage with families, because an inaccurate count could thwart child care expansion efforts or even reduce the number of spots at child care centers.

Ediger said 35% of counties “do not have a child care center at all.

And that is really especially true for the smaller rural areas.�

In western Kansas, the demand for child care in more populous counties like Seward, Ford, Finney and Russell ranges from 50 spots to more than 1,500. Even smaller counties like Morton, Hamilton and Wichita only have enough child care for 15 to 35 kids — but need an estimated 100 openings.

In Garden City, the Kansas Children’s Service League’s Head Start

program will share census videos and handouts with parents. Head Start Grant Development Manager Cecilia Douglass said census data could impact future grant funding that will “either justify program expansion or not.�

In the 2010 census, Finney County was undercounted by as many as 5,300 people. “If we had accurate numbers with the census, it’s very possible that we would have been able to add a few more ‌ Head Start classrooms,â€? Douglass said.

Census responses do not impact Head Start funding, but they capture the number of children, demographics and poverty levels, which can affect Head Start facilities’ grant funding.

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Fillies claim third in Wilson County Classic

By ERICK MITCHELL The Iola Register

Hannah Gardner dribbles to the basket against Fredonia on Friday. REGISTER/ERICK MITCHELL

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FREDONIA — The goal was set and the mindset was clear. The Iola Fillies would not be satisfied with anything less than bronze in the Wilson County Classic.

It took a gritty defensive performance for the Fillies to get past hosts Fredonia. Iola topped the Yellowjackets 3023 to claim third place in its mid-season tournament.

“That was a great game,” head coach Becky Carlson said. “We fought off a couple comebacks, and didn’t finish on offense, but our defense pulls through whenever we

need it.”

Fredonia struck first with an old-fashioned 3-point play to open the scoring, but the Fillies quickly responded.

Becca Sprague gave Iola the lead with a tough finish inside, and opened the scoring in the second with another deuce to make the score 8-5.

While Iola controlled the ball in the half court, it failed to make the most of its possessions. But the slow scoring offense didn’t turn into sluggish defense. The Fillies stood firm, utilizing their athleticism to cause turnovers, and prevent Fredonia from getting good looks at the rim.

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Mustangs take silver

By ERICK MITCHELL The Iola Register

By MAC ENGEL Fort Worth Star-Telegram

FORT WORTH, Texas — By now you know Patrick Mahomes received but three offers to play college quarterback, and what you may not know is that it was a TCU assistant coach who predicted the exact moment the attention was going to come for the kid from Whitehouse.

By the second week of September 2012, the junior threesport athlete from Whitehouse, just outside Tyler, was still regarded as more of a baseball prospect.

On Sept. 14, 2012, that changed when Mahomes led Whitehouse to its first win of the season over Sulphur Springs.

Current TCU offensive coordinator coach Sonny Cumbie, who at the time was on Texas Tech’s staff, attended the game to recruit someone else. He told the Whitehouse coaching staff, “People are going to know who Patrick Mahomes is now. This game is going to start generating attention for him.”

Nope, TCU never offered Mahomes a scholarship. He only received three offers to play football.

Every Super Bowl there are multiple examples of guys who were overlooked, of recruiting rankings that flopped. Mahomes is the case study of the kid who excelled because he didn’t play just one sport, even if it hurt him in the “rankings.”

Mahomes has the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl for the first time in 50 years, and he is on the verge of owning the NFL. It happens every year, a player who develops but had been previously ignored by countless teams, and their fleet of coaches.

Even after Cumbie predicted schools would pay attention to Mahomes, which happened, the offers did not flood

“We are just aggressive, and have good quick athletes,” Carlson said. “If you think about anybody that I put in, they are good athletes.

We may not have the same size as other teams, but we make up for it with our aggressiveness.”

Arguably Iola’s top athlete, senior Elysia Kunkler showcased her athleticism with a steal and fast break that led to a put-back from Josie Plumlee. Minutes later, Kunkler fired from deep to give the Fillies a five-point lead. The Yellowjackets closed the gap with a trey of their own to

Landon Carson connects on a jumper over two Cherryvale defenders on Friday against the Chargers. REGISTER/ERICK MITCHELL

FREDONIA — Ice-cold shooting doomed Iola High’s chances from claiming the top spot in this year’s Wilson County Classic. The Mustangs shot 1 of 14 from beyond the arc as Cherryvale charged to a 68-52 victory Iola head coach Luke Bycroft is not shy in admitting that the Mustangs didn’t achieve their goal.

“We didn’t expect second place, we expected to win,” Bycroft said.

The lopsided final score was not indicative of the Mustangs’ first-half performance. In fact, the Mustangs held a slim 15-14 lead after a Cal Leonard jumper to close the first period.

Iola continued to flow in its half-court offense with ease.

Four consecutive offensive rebounds led to a Landon Carson put-back jumper, and moments later, Leonard fired from the baseline to give the Mustangs a 23-16 edge.

But the Chargers failed to go away quietly, and battled to make things even at 31-31 heading into the locker room.

The only knock on Iola’s first-half performance was the 10 turnovers it committed that led to more offensive chances for Cherryvale.

“We need to have 10 or less in a game, and we had 10 in the first half,” Bycroft said.

“We got in a little hurry offensively, and instead of running stuff, we wanted to put or head down and get to the rim the first time through.

We forced a couple things, and that led to a couple turnovers and some challenged shots.”

Leonard opened the second half with a steal and finish to give the Mustangs a two-point lead, but that was the final time they stood in front. Cherryvale exploded for a 13-0 run that spanned over six minutes.

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PLEASANTON — A place in the championship game of the Pleasanton Blu-Jays MidSeason Tournament was on the line between the Humboldt High Lady Cubs and Marmaton Valley Wildcats.

While the noise on the scoreboard may have been fairly quiet in the first half, the Lady Cubs roared in the second. Seniors Winter Snyder and Emma Johnson paced the way in Humboldt’s 47-24 win over MV. Snyder finished as Humboldt’s leading

scorer with 14 points, with Johnson tallying with 10.

“We talked about how we weren’t making the right passes and executing how we were supposed to,” Humboldt head coach Aubrey Jones said. “But that is what my seniors do.

They are captains for a reason, and they stepped up and fixed it.”

The Lady Cubs held a slim 6-2 advantage after Johnson’s jumper to close the first quarter.

The Wildcats failed to score a field goal in the first half, but had multiple opportunities that fell just short.

“We just couldn’t get anything to fall, and I think that started to make us panic a little bit,” head coach Sherry Bagshaw said. “But we did so much better breaking their backcourt pressure than we did the first time we played them, and that was one of our main goals.”

An elbow jumper and trey from Snyder gave Humboldt the 13-8 halftime advantage. The lead extended to 10 after a 3-pointer from Johnson, and only continued to rise in the third. The solo bright spot in the third from MV was a 3-pointer from Bailey Griffith, but that trey was canceled out when Snyder fired one of her own. The Lady Cubs led 32-11 heading into the fourth.

Winter Snyder fires a 3-pointer against Marmaton Valley on Thursday in the Pleasanton Blu-Jays Mid-Season Tournament. REGISTER/ERICK MITCHELL The Lady Cubs continued to hold firm in the second, earning the 47-24 win and a place to play for gold. Jones high-

lighted that Humboldt still had adjustments to make before Saturday’s championship contest.

“We just need to fix

our passing,” Jones said. “Defensively, we looked good tonight, but offensively, we just need to get the ball moving a little better.”

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Udoka Azubuike #35 of the Kansas Jayhawks is fouled while shooting by Jase Febres #13 of the Texas Longhorns on Jan. 18. CHRIS COVATTA/GETTY IMAGES/TNS

Youth served: Gauff wins, Serena loses Big 12 and SEC ready to go head-to-head MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Perhaps Serena Williams, now 38, will win a 24th Grand Slam title someday.

And maybe Coco Gauff, still just 15, never will earn her first major championship.

Sure felt, though, as if a generational shift was being signaled Friday at the Australian Open, with a pair of monumentally significant thirdround results hours apart in the same stadium: a surprising first-week loss

by Williams, then a historic victory by Gauff.

First, Williams faltered down the stretch for her earliest exit at Melbourne Park in 14 years, a 6-4, 6-7 (2), 7-5 loss to 27th-seeded Wang Qiang of China. It pushed Williams’ gap between Slam trophies to three years.

“I’m way too old to play like this at this stage of my career,” Williams said. “Definitely going to be training tomorrow, that’s first and foremost — to make sure I don’t do this again.”

Gauff also was planning a practice session for Saturday, but hers was to prepare for a fourth-round match.

That’s because the 67th-ranked Gauff took the latest step in her quick progression, becoming the youngest player in the professional era to eliminate the defending women’s champion at the Australian Open, beating former No. 1 Naomi Osaka 6-3, 6-4.

Only once the last point had been played did the preternaturally poised Gauff turn into a rather typical teen, joking about wanting to take “a selfie for Instagram” with Rod Laver, the 11time major champion after whom the tournament’s main stadium is named.

“Honestly, like, what is my life? Like, oh, my gosh!” Gauff told the crowd. “Two years ago, I lost first round in juniors and now I’m here. This is crazy.”

It certainly is remarkable.

With a booming serve, a top-flight backhand and a winner’s mentality, Gauff reversed the result from the first time she was across the net from Osaka, a former No. 1 who already owns two major titles at the age of 22.

When they played each other at the U.S. Open last September, Osaka won in two quick sets and then consoled Gauff, encouraging her to speak to the spectators who were pulling for her.

One reminder of just how young Gauff is:

Most of the entrants in this year’s junior Australian Open are older than she is.

Another: She is taking online classes and said she’s been given permission to turn in homework late, “considering the circumstances.”

Yet another: She doesn’t have an official driver’s license quite yet, stuck practicing behind the wheel with a learner’s permit.

But put a tennis racket in her hands and move out of the way: Gauff is now 8-2 in her nascent Grand Slam career, with three of those wins coming against women who have multiple major titles. Her next match is against No. 14 Sofia Kenin, a 21-yearold American who beat Zhang Shuai of China 7-5, 7-6 (7).

The most intrigue in men’s action came at the very end of the night — at nearly 1 a.m., actually, when Roger Federer reeled off the last six points to edge 47thranked Australian John Millman 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (8).

It lasted more than four hours in humid conditions, and Federer needed to overcome a hard-to-believe 48 unforced errors from his forehand and an 8-4 deficit in the last tiebreaker, which is first-to-10.

Federer had lost to Millman at the 2018 U.S. Open and it sure seemed this one might be headed that way again.

“Oh, God, it was tough,” Federer said.

Williams vs. Wang was a rematch from Flushing Meadows last season — and the reverse result also happened for them.

At the U.S. Open, Williams won 6-0, 6-1 in 44 minutes.

Wang credited that with prompting her to spend more time in the gym so she could add more oomph to her shots.

“I always believed I could do this one day,” Wang said with a laugh.

“I didn’t know which day.”

Like Wang, Gauff was much better Friday than in New York. Gauff ’s improvement revealed itself in her serving — she put 15 of her initial 16 first serves in play — and her steadiness.

Gauff declared herself more calm for this matchup.

“That,” she decided, “made the difference.”

So did letting Osaka make the mistakes, 30 unforced errors in all, compared to 17 for Gauff.

With that, Gauff became the youngest player to beat a top-five opponent in a women’s tour-

level match since Jennifer Capriati did it at 15 in 1991.

“You don’t want to lose to a 15-year-old, you know?” Osaka said.

So, Naomi, could you have done something differently?

“Put the ball in the court,” came the reply.

Williams had similar issues, and even though she went from a massive deficit to even as can be, she could not do what was required in the late going.

Down to what sure felt like her last chance, Williams came through with a cross-court forehand winner to close a 24-stroke point, then raised her arms, held that celebratory pose and looked over toward her guest box.

FINALLY, on her sixth try, after 1½ hours of action, she had managed to convert a break point against Wang. Soon enough, they were headed to a third set and it appeared that the comeback was on.

It turned out that Williams only was delaying a surprising defeat.

So tough at the toughest moments for so many years, Williams was the one who came undone, often displaying what she later called “the signature ‘Serena frustration’ look.”

Since grabbing major championship No. 23 at the 2017 Australian Open, while she was pregnant, Williams hasn’t added to her total.

She appeared in four major finals over the past two seasons, losing each one.

Williams owns seven trophies from the Australian Open and hadn’t lost as early as the third round at either of the hard-court Grand Slam tournaments — in Melbourne or at the U.S. Open — since all the way back in 2006.

This was the first Grand Slam tournament in 11 years with each of the top 10 seeded women reaching the third round.

Who would have suspected Williams would be the first to lose, followed soon thereafter by No. 3 Osaka?

Williams was only seeded No. 8, on account of how infrequently she has competed since being away from the tour while having a baby in September 2017.

She started 2020 well enough, winning a hardcourt tuneup title in Auckland, New Zealand, this month for her first trophy of any sort in three years — and first as a mom.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Big 12 takes a break from conference play this weekend when its teams match up with members of the Southeastern Conference for the SECBig 12 Challenge. He's a look at those games and the week ahead: GAME OF THE WEEKEND

Third-ranked Kansas will be without big men Silvio De Sousa and David McCormick when they face former Texas coach Rick Barnes and Tennessee on Saturday.

De Sousa was the main instigator and McCormick a big role-player in a melee near the end of the Jayhawks' win over Kansas State on Tuesday night. Kansas still has bruising big man Udoka Azubuike in the paint, but coach Bill Self might have to rely more heavily on his guard play against the Volunteers. Barnes brings in a team that has won four of its last five games, including a rout of Ole Miss earlier this week.

MORE CHALLENGE GAMES

Top-ranked Baylor heads to Florida and No. 18 Texas Tech welcomes No. 15 Kentucky in the other two big showdowns Saturday.

Missouri takes on No. 14 West Virginia, Iowa State heads to No. 16 Auburn, Kansas State visits Alabama, and LSU visits Texas in a match-up of teams that could be on he NCAA Tournament bubble.

Mississippi StateOklahoma, Oklahoma State-Texas A&M and TCU-Arkansas round out the slate of 10 interleague games.

NUMBERS GAME

The Big 12 is 35-25 against the SEC in six previous editions, winning four years with one tie and one loss. ...

Baylor rose to No. 1 this week for the second time in program history. Kansas gives the Big 12 two of the nation's top three teams with only Gonzaga separating them. ... The Bears' 15-game win streak is second-best nationally. ... Four players were suspended a total of 25 games in the fallout of the Kansas-Kansas State brawl. De Sousa got 12 games and McCormack got two, while the Wildcats' James Love got eight games and Antonio Gordon got three. ... The Jayhawks' bench outscored the Wildcats 37-9. It was the most points off the Kansas bench since scoring 43 against Iowa State in March 2016.

IMPACT PERFORMERS

Solomon Young scored a career-high 27 points and pulled down a season-best nine rebounds to help Iowa State beat Oklahoma State this week. He was efficient, too, going 7 of 8 from the field and 13 of 15 from the foul line.

Young has come on after sustaining a groin injury in October 2018 that caused him to take a medical redshirt last season.

ON THE WOMEN’S SIDE

Baylor’s Lauren Cox and DiDi Richards joined Oklahoma State’s Natasha Mack and Texas Tech’s Brittany Brewer on the mid-season watch list for the Naismith Women’s Defensive Player of the Year award this week. ... Iowa State guard Ashley Joens was voted Big 12 player of the week for the third time after averaging 24 points and 12.5 rebounds in games against TCU and Oklahoma State. ... Texas Tech visits secondranked Baylor on Saturday in the marquee game of the weekend.

Another big game comes Sunday when No. 25 West Virginia heads to TCU.

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Australia tries to recover bodies of 3 from US wildfire crew SYDNEY (AP) — A tanker plane that crashed and killed its three American crew members as they fought wildfires in Australia had just dropped liquid to suppress the flames, investigators said Friday.

The crash Thursday killed Capt. Ian H. McBeth, 44, of Great Falls, Montana; First Officer Paul Clyde Hudson, 42, of Buckeye, Arizona; and Flight Engineer Rick A. DeMorgan Jr., 43, of Navarre, Florida, their employer, Canada-based Coulson Aviation, said in a statement.

The deaths came during an unprecedented wildfire season that has left a large swath of destruction in Australia’s southeast. More than 30 people have died, including three Australian volunteer firefighters.

Investigators went to where the C-130 Hercules tanker crashed in the Snowy Monaro region of the state of New South Wales, and a team was working to recover the Americans’ bodies, Australian Transport Safety Bureau Chief Commissioner Greg Hood told reporters.

He said it would be difficult to secure evidence and the remains because the wildfire is still burning and the team faces potential hazards such as aviation fuel.

Upward of 500 aircraft from several countries are fighting Australia’s wildfires, Hood said.

“So, if there are lessons to be learned from this particular accident, it’s really important that not only Australia learns these, but the world learns them,” he said.

Coulson Aviation said McBeth “was a highly qualified and respected C-130 pilot with many years fighting fire, both in the military” and with the company.

McBeth, who is survived by his wife and three children, also served with the Montana and Wyoming National Guards, the company said.

McBeth grew up in Wray, Colorado, a small town on the state’s rural eastern Plains. He learned how to fly in the Wyoming Air National Guard while he was a student at University of Wyoming, his father, Bill McBeth,

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fire season, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.

“We will pay tribute to the brave firefighters who lost their own lives protecting the lives and properties of others,” she said.

People are seen embracing at Numeralla Rural Fire Brigade near the scene of a water tanker plane crash on Thursday in Cooma, Australia. Three American firefighters died after their C-130 water tanker plane crashed while battling a bushfire near Cooma in southern NSW. (Jenny Evans/Getty Images/TNS) said.

Ian McBeth worked as a construction specialist — a jack of all trades trained to build airfields for C-130s — and later as a navigator on the planes, including several tours in Iraq. He did the work after vision problems initially denied him becoming a pilot. He applied again at age 28, a year before his eligibility would run out, and was accepted.

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Probably the most all around capable and competent person I ever knew,” Bill McBeth said.

Hudson graduated from the Naval Academy in 1999 and spent the next 20 years in different positions in the Marines, including as a C-130 pilot, Coulson Aviation said. He is survived by his wife.

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“Rick’s passion was always flying and his children,” Coulson Aviation said.

He is survived by two children, his parents and his sister.

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THE THREE U.S. deaths brings the toll from the blazes to at least 31 since September. The fires also have destroyed more than 2,600 homes and burned more than 40,000 square miles, an area bigger than the U.S. state of Indiana.

Coulson grounded other firefighting aircraft as a precaution pending an investigation, reducing planes available to firefighters in New South Wales and neighboring Victoria state. The four-propeller Hercules drops more than 15,000 liters (4,000 gallons) of fire retardant in a single pass.

Berejiklian said more than 1,700 volunteers and personnel were in the field. Five fires were being described at an “emergency warning” level — the most dangerous on a threetier scale — across the state and on the fringes of the national capital,

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Public notices (First published in The Iola Register on Dec. 21, 2019) IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. TANIKA J. KEAGLE and SHANELE ENABOIFO, and the Unknown Heirs, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Trustees, Legatees, Creditors, and Assignees of the Deceased Borrower, Kim D. Enaboifo, and the Unknown Spouses of the Deceased Borrower and other Defendants; the Unknown Stockholders, Officers, Successors, Trustees, Creditors and Assignees of Defendants as are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; Unknown Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Trustees, Creditors, Successors and Assignees of Defendants as are or were partners or in partnership; and Unknown Guardians, Conservators and Trustees of Defendants as are minors or are in any way under legal disability; and Unknown Heirs, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Trustees, Creditors and Assignees of any Person alleged to be deceased and made Defendants, Defendants.

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The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services awarded 24 licenses in each of Missouri’s eight congressional districts, saying recipients were the top-scoring applicants that met the program’s eligibility requirements. The state received nearly 1,200 applications for dispensary licenses.

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The meeting agenda shall include the following business items: ONE: The supervisors of the Allen County Conservation District shall make full and due report of their activities and financial affairs since the last annual meeting.

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the Whitehouse offices.

“He was not the prototypical quarterback at the time; he was not some five-step drop player,” said one of Mahomes’ former coaches, Adam Cook, in a phone interview on Monday.

“But he would not get invited to these certain showcase events for high school players, and I would get so frustrated. I knew how good he was, and I couldn’t get him into these events.

“The problem was Patrick, when so many other guys were in these showcase events or whatever else, he was competing. He was on the basketball court, competing. He was on the baseball diamond, competing.”

Cook strongly believes the biggest reason Mahomes was not buried in scholarship offers was the fear that he was going to play pro baseball.

Coaching staffs have only so many spots, and they often do not want to offer a kid who was going to accept it, only to later turn around and pursue baseball.

Mahomes, whose father was an MLB pitcher who briefly pitched for the Texas Rangers, was a highly regarded baseball prospect.

“The unknown was baseball. Every coach who saw him recognized the talent that he had,” Cook said. “It was not ever a deal where they thought he wasn’t very good. It was just a matter of what was he going to pursue. They didn’t know if he wanted to do this.”

At one point, Cook thought Oklahoma State had offered Mahomes a scholarship but it was a misunderstanding.

Houston had offered. As did Texas Tech. So did North Texas.

“I think Arizona and Arkansas were in the mix on the baseball side; those are the ones I recall,” Cook said.

“But he got with (then Texas Tech coach) Kliff Kingsbury and he was sold.”

Cook said he has been told by a prominent Texas college coach he hopes to use Mahomes as an example to be used for all high school football players in the state, and not solely because he’s in the NFL. They want to show young quarterbacks how important it is to play other sports.

Ex-Dallas Cowboys head coach and new New York Giants offensive coordinator Jason Garrett once recounted that Steve Spurrier

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) celebrates his 27-yard touchdown run late in the second quarter against the Tennessee Titans during the AFC championship game on Sunday.

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wanted quarterbacks to be shortstops.

Quarterbacks of this era are technically superior because they spend so much time practicing and running drills.

They are vastly inferior when the play breaks down and the game goes off script, because so many of them now play football year round as opposed to baseball, basketball, or something else in the offseason.

That’s why Spurrier, Garrett, and so many others, want quarterbacks who have experience making throws, and plays, when it all goes to hell.

It’s one thing to drop back and throw a pretty pass in 7-on-7. Now do it when your first two receivers run the wrong routes, the left tackle didn’t do his job, and two defenders are two steps away from sending

you to Venus.

There is no quarterback who thrives in those spots better than Mahomes.

“He played all three sports, and you can see the influence of the sports that molded him into the player he is,” Cook said. “The nolook passes you see?

That’s basketball. The elements of throwing it from awkward positions, that’s from him

throwing the ball across the diamond.

“Now, we have to look at God blessed him with abilities and he does things that are hard to mimic, but his experiences in the other sports helped him.”

Patrick Mahomes was but a three-star kid who is now on the verge of owning all of football, in part because he played basketball and baseball, too.

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NCAA president Mark Emmert tries to rally administrators

By J. BRADY McCollough Los Angeles Times

On Thursday night at the NCAA Convention’s annual “State of College Sports” plenary session, Mark Emmert, a president rallying his constituents at a time of crisis, delivered a message that was predictably light on detail but heavy on rhetoric meant to build consensus on a shared mission before the attendees returned to their respective campuses.

With his association under fire from the outside as never before, Emmert moved deftly between the usual talking points — “We’re in the human development business, first and foremost,” he began — and the reality of the mounting issues that have torn down public confidence in this uniquely American institution.

“But I also want to talk about something that’s a hard truth right

now, that many people, too many people, believe that there’s something fundamentally unfair right now about college sports,” Emmert said on a stage at the Anaheim Convention Center flanked by cinema-sized screens flashing his image as he spoke. “We see it and we read it and we hear it all the time. I know for me, and I’m sure for most all of you, that’s really frustrating.”

Earlier in the day, at the NCAA’s Division I Forum, an alarming statistic had been presented to the audience: Seven percent of a group surveyed about college sports have trust in the NCAA to act in the best interest of “student-athletes.”

“I think part of it is, primarily, most people see just a sliver of college sports,” Emmert said. “They see March Madness, the College Football Playoff, ‘College GameDay.’ They see multi-million dollar contracts, they see elaborate facili-

ties, they see big Hollywood productions. … We shouldn’t necessarily be surprised that some people look at this and say, ‘Gosh, what’s changed in the relationship with the students while all of this has been going on?’ Something doesn’t seem quite right when they juxtapose those two things.”

Emmert was alluding to the demands for college athletes, particularly in football and men’s basketball, to be able to receive compensation for contributions that help bring in millions upon millions of dollars to schools. Emmert only referenced the pressure for name, image and likeness reform a handful of times, once pushing aside the NIL issue as a “symptom” of the larger problem of perceived unfairness within the model.

He was here to remind the assembled group of college administrators that it was them — not politi-

cians in Washington and in state capitals across the country; not critics in the media; not the conflicted fans and alumni who pack the stadiums — who are best qualified to make the needed changes.

“Now, we know, everybody here knows, that there is so much more to college sports than just that sliver, right?” he said. “It’s our job to answer those questions.”

It was a call for the NCAA and its membership to fight for continued relevance.

“2020 can’t be a year of business as usual,” Emmert said. “We’ve got to double down on the opportunities that we provide to our students.”

After his 18-minute speech, a toned-down version of Emmert appeared in front of reporters to field questions about developments regarding name, image and likeness.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — NFL free agent Antonio Brown was granted bail on Friday after turning himself in at a Florida jail on charges that he and his trainer attacked the driver of a moving truck that carried some of his possessions from California.

Broward County Judge Corey Amanda Cawthon set a $110,000 bond and imposed conditions including a GPS monitor, no possession of weapons or ammunition, a mental health evaluation and surrender of his passport.

Brown also must undergo random drug testing.

The exact timing of his release from jail was unclear.

Brown, 31, appeared via video at a hearing in a green jail outfit, with his wrists shackled. He spoke only to answer the judge’s questions.

Prosecutors had sought no bail, pointing out that the wide receiver is a wealthy sports figure who is a risk of flight if released. They noted that police had been called to his Florida home 18 times since December, for various reasons.

But one of Brown’s lawyers, Eric Schwartzreich, said Brown deserved credit for surrendering voluntarily and had no incentive to flee.

“He could have clearly left. He’s not going to go anywhere,” Schwartzreich said. “He wanted to turn himself in.”

Brown was one of the NFL’s top wide receivers during his nine seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was traded to the Oakland Raiders last year but released before ever playing a regular season game following several off-the-field incidents.

He was then signed by the New England Pa-

triots, who released Brown in September after a second woman in 10 days accused him of sexual misconduct.

A Hollywood police statement said Brown’s arrest warrant included charges of burglary with battery, burglary of an unoccupied conveyance and criminal mischief. Officials responded Tuesday afternoon to a disturbance call where the alleged victim said Brown and his trainer, Glenn Holt, hit him outside Brown’s Hollywood home.

Holt was arrested and charged with one count of burglary with battery, but officials couldn’t make contact with Brown at the time.

According to a police arrest report, the altercation began as an argument over Brown’s refusal to pay $4,000 to the driver to release his household goods. The driver called police and reported vandalism after he said Brown threw a rock as he drove away, causing a small dent and chipping the paint, an officer wrote.

The driver later returned when the manager of his company told him that Brown would now pay the $4,000, and an additional $860 for the damage and the driver’s time. Brown then paid the $4,000, but refused to pay the rest, so the driver returned to the van to call his company, and that’s when Brown “started another verbal argument,” police said.

“Brown stepped up into the cabin of the vehicle and started to physically grab and pull (the driver),” while Holt “entered the vehicle and grabbed the keys from the ignition,” police said. The driver tried to get the keys back and cut his hand in the process, according to the report.

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derway for next Thursday’s matchup at Chanute. With the time off, Iola gets the chance to iron out some wrinkles before its date with the Blue Comets. “We’ve got to be able to play with the focus of rebounding at all cost,� Bycroft said. “I told them if we don’t use this game to get better, then it’s just another wasted day.�

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scoring drought with a fast-break score. Iola trailed 48-40 heading into the final period.

Cherryvale controlled the glass in the second half, holding Iola to 8 defensive rebounds.

The second-chance points eliminated any chance of a Mustang push in the fourth.

The Chargers connected on threestraight 3-pointers, racing to its largest lead of 17 with five minutes remaining in the game.

While Cherryvale connected from long range, Iola failed to make the most of its chances in the paint. Four different Chargers scored 14 or more points as Cherryvale stood strong for the 68-52 victory. “We gave up so many second shots, but it felt like we went a long stretch without getting a defensive rebound, and that was the key to their run,� Bycroft said. “Then in the fourth quarter, they played with confidence, and shot the lights out of it after going on that run in the third. We got uncontested looks, but could not put the ball in the hole.�

The preparation hasn’t fully gotten un-

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Landon Carson and Tyler Boeken were awarded to the Wilson County Classic AllTournament Team.

Carson finished as Iola’s leading scorer in all three contests 18, 18, and 13-point performances. Boeken stepped into the starting role for injured post player Dillon Bycroft, and finished in double figures each game.

BOX SCORE Iola (15-16-9-12—52) (pts): Adams 1, Leonard 13, Cole 6, Carson 14, Delich 7, Boeken 11.

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trail 14-12 heading into the break.

The defensive slugfest continued in the third. After six minutes, Kelsey Morrison scored the first field goal of the period to give Iola a 1712 advantage. Morrison silenced the crowd with a 3-pointer to give Iola an eight-point cushion, its largest lead of the game.

The Yellowjackets buzzed back with three straight makes that carried into the final period. But for every Fredonia push the Fillies had an answer. Morrison connected from beyond the arc once again to give Iola a five-point cushion. Sprague iced the game for the Fillies with a strong put-back off a Lauryn Holloway free-throw attempt, making the score 28-21 with under two minutes

Lady Lancers earn win over Northeast-Arma ing the Vikings 16-9 over the final frame.

Rylee Beckmon and Aubree Holloran each followed with nine points. Holloran also had six rebounds. Beckmon dished out five assists.

The goings were a bit tougher one night earlier, as St. Paul blasted its way to a 78-14 win over the Lady Lancers.

The Indians led 27-3 after one quarter and never looked back. The margin stood at 44-11 at halftime and 57-12 after three quarters.

LIBERAL, Mo. — A dazzling night for Crest High’s Lindsey Godderz propelled Crest High’s girls to victory Friday.

The Lady Lancer sophomore erupted for 22 points, including five 3-pointers, as Crest roared back from an early deficit to defeat Northeast-Arma 47-43 in the Tony Dubray Classic.

Northeast led 13-3 after one period, 23-17 at the break and 34-31 after three quarters.

Crest closed the game with a flourish, outscor-

to go.

Iola connected on its free throws down the stretch, and stood tall defensively to capture the 30-23 victory. Leading the way for Iola was Sprague with 10 points, and Morrison with 9. “It was a great win for us, and it is good to end with two wins in the tournament,� head coach Becky Carlson said.

The Fillies have nearly a week before traveling to rival Chanute next Thursday.

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Iola (6-8-6-10—30) (pts): Gardner 2, Morrison 9, Plumlee 2, Holloway 3, Kunkler 3, Sprague 10,

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room, Emmert spoke matter-of-factly about the biggest issue he’s confronted in his decade as NCAA president. “There’s clearly a narrowing of the options that are available,” Emmert said.

“People are having a better understanding of what an NIL policy would look like across all three divisions. Most folks are worried about whether or not you can have such a system and maintain integrity in your recruitment model.”

Emmert echoed the Wednesday comments

of Dr. M. Grace Calhoun, the chair of the Division I Council, saying there is “consensus” that would allow athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness in a “work product” situation, which removes the student playing a sport as a reason for the compensation.

The questions became harder to answer once athletic prowess is factored into the market for an endorsement deal.

“How do you determine the marketplace if someone is going to do some sponsorship

deal, what’s the real market for that versus what a booster is going to be doing and creating an artificial market, if you will?” Emmert said. “How do you police that? Would that be a national office, would that be a third party, how could you do that in a way that students have confidence in it?

It’s something the association has never done.

“In some ways, it’s not dissimilar from what happened years ago around jobs. People said there’s going to be people paying exorbitant salaries. Well, you can create a market-

place. A marketplace for a journalist is X, if they’re doing that and they’re getting 3X, we know there’s something going on here. Doing that around name, image and likeness is a little more complicated, obviously, but it’s not impossible.”

Emmert said he expects to see legislative proposals in April and those would be shared with representatives of Congress. It’s likely the NCAA would not vote on NIL changes until Jan. 2021 at the next convention, where he will take the stage again.

“College sports is

about students playing other students,” Emmert said. “That’s what people love about college sports.”

CHANGES MADE

The Division I Council voted Wednesday that athletes designated as elite by nationally recognized groups may receive additional developmental training expenses from the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee or national governing bodies, including travel for parents, guardians, coaches, training partners and sport experts.

Those same elite ath-

letes also may work out with coaching staff members without it counting against time limits, but only if the workout is initiated by the student and doesn’t cause missed class time.

“Student-athletes who are training and preparing for elite competitions like the Olympics can face difficult financial choices,” Calhoun said, “and NCAA rules now provide additional flexibility to allow these students to prepare to compete for their country while also maintaining their eligibility for college sports.”

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Larson warms up Chili Bowl win lifts his spirits before Speedweeks

By Godwin Kelly godwin.kelly@news-jrnl.com

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yle Larson captured one major Saturday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma and hopes to add another in less than a month at Daytona International Speedway.

Larson, 27, won the Chili Bowl Midget National in his 13th attempt.

Last year, he saw his Chili championship disappear when Christopher Bell pulled out a last-lap pass for the victory.

This time around Larson passed Bell with 17 laps left in the main event and gapped his younger rival, who will run for NASCAR Cup Series Rookie of the Year honors this season.

Bell had won the Chili Bowl three straight years before Larson broke his streak of triumphs. It was an emotional night for Larson, who let his feelings known after exiting his race car.

“It’s a pretty different range of emotions 365 days later,” Larson said. “I feel like I’m going to pass out.

“I’m sorry NASCAR, I’m sorry Daytona, but this is the biggest [expletive] race I’ve ever won. I hope to win Daytona in a few weeks but this is bad [expletive].”

During a recent visit to Daytona, Larson said his focus was on the Chili Bowl and not on stock-car racing.

“I stay so busy in the offseason that I really don’t think about it [Daytona 500] too much,” he said. “I shift gears after the Chili Bowl.”

While other drivers get away from

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racing during the Cup Series short offseason, Larson embraces it. He has been competing on a regular basis since the 2019 NASCAR season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

“After Homestead, I go do a bunch of dirt racing,” he said. “I’ll probably have done more than 20 races before the Daytona 500.

“It’s hard to think about [Speedweeks] when you have other races you’re looking forward to and are upcoming. I’m shifting back to thinking NASCAR.” Now that he has a Chili Bowl trophy, Larson can look forward to driving a car that promises to be more competitive. Chevrolet updated its body design with the hopes of being a bigger part of the championship

discussion in 2020.

For the last two years, Chevy has failed to get a car into the championship round at Homestead.

“We haven’t been happy that Chevy hasn’t won a championship now in a few years and we’re all working hard to get better,” he said. “It sounds like this new car will benefit us.

“Everything they learned in the wind tunnel has been good. I look for all the Chevy teams to be better this season.”

In all his starts at Daytona, Larson has only one victory. He captured the summer NASCAR Xfinity Series race in 2018.

On deck for Larson will be his seventh attempt at the Daytona 500. He

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came oh-so-close to winning it three years ago.

“I almost won this race in 2017,” he said. “I ran out of fuel on the last lap leading the Daytona 500. That was heartbreaking.”

He will go for his second major of the season on Feb. 16 at Daytona.

“Everybody has an equal opportunity when you come to Daytona and this style of racing,” Larson said. “I haven’t had the best luck here. We’re going to try to change some things up and not be so aggressive. We’ll see. You want to get off to a good start here just to start your season off good.”

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