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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

City to help pay for hotel study

By RICHARD LUKEN The Associated Press

Iola will help cover the cost of a study to determine whether an additional hotel should be built locally.

City Council members agreed Monday to pay $2,475 to Hospitality Marketers International for a comprehensive feasibility study for a new hotel property in Iola.

Iola Industries already has agreed to pay the other half of the $4,950 study.

The funding request from

Thrive Allen County came after its executive director, David Toland, noted he has been in contact David Toland with a pair of national hotel chains — Choice Hotels and Best Western — about developing a new property in Iola.

Toland also serves as economic development direcSee HOTELS | Page A6

County commissioner joins Humboldt PD

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — During a special session Monday night city council members unanimously approved changes in the police department’s lieutenant classification and job description, making it a salaried position rather than paid hourly. Responsibilities will include assist-

Job fair Friday

ing Chief Brian Dillow with administration and supervision of officers.

J e r r y D a n i e l s , Jerry Daniels former Allen County undersheriff and Highway Patrol See DANIELS | Page A6

Grass clippings strewn into Iola’s city streets are prone to clogging the city’s stormwater inlets. CITY OF IOLA PHOTO

Wayward clippings stick in Iola official’s craw

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Carl Slaugh is always eager to see Iolans maintain their lawns.

He’s not as enthusiastic, however, when grass clippings get kicked out into the street.

“Not only does it look bad,

but it has a bad effect,” Iola’s city administrator told City Council members Monday.

Those clipping eventually wash into stormwater inlets, which tend to clog and cause flooding during torrential rains, such as the storm that hit Iola early Sunday.

The Southeast Kansas Job Fair will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at the Bass Community Hall, formerly known as the North Community Building, 505 N. Buckeye St. The fair is open to the public. Organizers urge participants to bring their resumés and to dress for success.

Employers attending the job fair are Tramec, Hi-Lo, Russell Stover Candies, Niece Product, H&R Block, Allen County Regional Hospital, Ward/ Kraft Inc., B&W Trailer Hitches, Caristar Company, LLC, Tri-Valley, Contractors Cartage, Modern Woodmen, Lang Diesel, Gates Corporation, SERJobs, Emprise Bank, Manpower, Country Place Living, Sonic Equipment, Fort Scott Community College, Peerless Products, Allen Community College, Bolling’s Meat Market and Deli, Kansas State University Global Campus, Taco John’s and Neosho Community College.

The job fair is sponsored by the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce and KansasWorks.

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Panel approves lower aid amounts for Kansas schools TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A state panel on Monday allotted less than half the emergency aid several Kansas school districts had requested.

The state set aside $12.3 million for districts’ extraordinary needs during the current school year under a new law that jettisoned Kansas’ old per-student formula for distributing more than $3.4

billion in aid. The 38 school district applying for emergency aid represented more than 13 percent of the state’s 286 districts, and their requests exceeded the dollars available by nearly $2.8 million.

The State Finance Council, which includes Gov. Sam Brownback and eight legislative leaders, granted about $2 million total on Monday

to 13 school districts experiencing considerable growth in student enrollment this year.

The panel granted $4 million to 22 districts that lost local revenue for this school year because of declines in the valuation of oil and gas properties. Most of those districts are in western Kansas, See PANEL | Page A3

State: Don’t release voting data

By ROXANA HEGEMAN The Associated Press

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The top election official in Kansas has asked a Sedgwick County judge to block the release of voting machine tapes sought by a Wichita mathematician who is re-

searching statistical anomalies favoring Republicans in counts coming from large precincts in the November 2014 general election.

Secretary of State Kris Kobach argued that the records sought by Wichita State UniSee DATA | Page A3

USD 257 enrollment higher

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

An investor looks through stock information in the trading hall of a securities firm in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province Monday. China stocks nosedived Monday although prices rebounded today. JI CHUNPENG/XINHUA/SIPA/TNS

Global markets rebound after heavy losses BEIJING (AP) — Global markets rebounded today after China’s central bank cut its key interest rate to support growth in the world’s second-largest economy. Earlier, China’s main stock index closed sharply lower for

a fourth day.

European markets recovered almost all their losses from Monday, with most rising at least 4 percent, while U.S. stocks were expected to open higher and oil prices traded higher.

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Enrollment numbers are up in USD 257 for the 2015-16 school year.

At the district meeting Monday, Superintendent of Schools Jack Koehn presented a current enrollment report stating the district currently has 1,360 students enrolled, up 19 from the 201415 school year.

Final enrollment numbers will not be reported to the state until the Sept. 20 deadline.

“We had a fear of losing kids because we went to attendance centers but our numbers are up,” Koehn said.

Fewer students are enrolled at the three elementary schools, but Koehn viewed this as a positive.

“We have more space in elementary schools and that was the point,” Koehn said.

The enrollment numbers could change once school begins this week.

“Nothing happens unless first we dream.”

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A district wide open house is tonight from 5:30 to 7:30. The open house is intended for students to tour their new facilities and meet faculty.

On Wednesday, Pre-K, 6th grade and freshmen will begin the school year with a full day of school. On Thursday, the rest of the district will start classes.

THE BOARD approved the hiring of Danielle Crane, Susan Cook, Lisa Womelsdorf, Lois Brueseke as paraprofessionals; Chad Turner as a bus driver, Korenne Grzybowski as Iola Middle School assistant volleyball coach, Amanda Thompson as junior class sponsor and Watona Parker as custodian.

The board accepted the resignation of Mark Whisler as custodian.

Koehn’s contract as superintendent of schools was approved for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 school years.

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Time capsules allows memories to live forever

Obituaries Julia Ann Rhoton Julia Ann Camac Rhoton, 78, longtime resident of Bronson, and more recently of Fort Scott, went to join God, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015.

She was born Nov. 8, 1936, on her family farm near Bronson, the daughter of John C. Camac and Lula Elsie Ermel Camac. She graduated from Bronson High School in 1954 and attended Iola Junior College.

Julia Ann married the love of her life, Charles William “Bill” Rhoton on Jan. 30, 1955, at Bronson. They were married 59 years and were proud residents of the Bronson and Blue Mound areas where they were Julia Ann Rhoton farmers and ranchers. She generously gave of her time and efforts to her church and clubs. She was a 50-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Bronson Ruritan, Order of Eastern Star Culture Club, Neighborhood Club and member of Bronson United Methodist Church.

Survivors include her three children, Bob Rhoton and wife, Debbie, Lawrence, Kathy Garlow and husband, Gary, Derby, and Terri Williams and husband, Brian, Fort Scott; eight grandchildren, seven greatgrandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. Also surviving is a sister, Mary Louise Wilson, Bronson.

She was preceded in death by her husband, parents and brother, John F. “Bud” Camac. Julia Ann was loved by her family, many friends and her community.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Friday, at Bronson United Methodist Church. Burial will follow in the Bronson Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday at the Cheney Witt Bronson Chapel. Memorials are suggested to the Rhoton Memorial Scholarship Fund for agricultural students at Uniontown High School and may be left in care of the Cheney Witt Bronson Chapel, 501 Pine, P.O. Box 16, Bronson, KS 66716.

Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com.

Averil Henry Averil Jean (Hawes) Henry, 87, passed away on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015. She formerly lived in Wichita.

She was a homemaker. She is survived by her husband, Dwight Henry, Stillwater, Okla.; daughters Mary Snyder, Dallas, Texas, Carolyn Henry, Stillwater, Okla. and Lora Holeman and husband Bill of Bronson; grandsons, Will and Justin Holeman, Bronson; a sister, Donice Kelly Pruitt, Lubbock, Texas, and sister-in-law, Margaret Yates and husband Larry, Wichita.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, at Green Road Church of Christ. Visitation will be at the church from 11 a.m. until service time. Burial will be at Green Valley Cemetery.

Memorials may be left to the American Heart Association or American Diabetes Association in care of Lamb Funeral Home, 120 S. Main, Whitewater, KS 67154. Condolences may be sent to www.zeinerfuneralhomes.com.

Today in History In 1718, hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some settling in present-day New Orleans.

In 1825, Uruguay declared independence from Brazil.

In 1916, the National Park Service was established within the Department of the Interior.

In 1921, the United States signed a peace treaty with Germany.

In 1965, former baseball player-turned-doctor Archibald “Moonlight” Graham, who’d briefly played in only one major league game (for the New York Giants), died in Chisholm, Minnesota, at age 87.

Dodge City man not guilty in girl’s death DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Dodge City man has been found not guilty in the death of a 3-year-old girl.

After 10 days of testimony, a Ford County jury on Monday found Brock Cunningham not guilty of child abuse and first-degree murder.

He was charged in 2013 in the death of Natalie Pickle, who died in 2008 while in Cunningham’s care. At the time,

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Cunningham was the boyfriend of the girl’s mother.

The Dodge City Daily Globe reports Cunningham said the girl was jumping on a bed and hit her head when she fell off. She was flown to a Wichita hospital, where she died.

An autopsy found the girl died of blunt force trauma and her death was classified as a homicide.

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LAS VEGAS (TNS) — Dennis McBride’s first time capsule was an amateur affair.

The year was 1966 and he was just 11, a scrawny kid whose family lived outside Las Vegas in suburban Boulder City. His father, a truck driver at the Nevada Test Site, had dug up a backyard cottonwood tree, and the boy decided to bury something in the chasm as a record of himself, proof that he existed.

So he placed a few of his favorite Matchbox cars — a Volkswagen and flatbed truck — beneath an upside-down flower pot and covered his little vault with dirt.

For all he knows, it’s still there.

McBride now heads the Nevada State Museum, a curator and historian for whom time capsules remain relevant and, well, just a boyish blast to plan, plant and retrieve.

He’s filled time capsules with coins, magazines and personal journal entries. And he’s known the childlike surprise of opening others, always mystified at what’s inside, like a pair of showgirl’s shoes or personal letters intended for some future descendant.

McBride, 60, says these well-provisioned

Dennis McBride, head of the Nevada State Museum, shows a newspaper from a 1954 time capsule. TNS/JOHN M. GLIONNA packages of time and space have fascinated mankind for eons — whether it’s the earthly sounds and images of surf, wind, thunder and animals placed aboard the 1970s Voyager spacecraft, jewelry and chariots left in a pharaoh’s tomb, or the age-old castaway’s practice of slipping a note in a bottle and throwing it into the sea.

“Capsules let people in future generations know about us and our

time, who we were, what was gong on,” he says. “Maybe it’s egotistical, but many people, including me, don’t like the idea that when they die, it’s over. They want a piece of themselves to live on.”

Not only that, historians like McBride know the types of artifacts that his ilk in generations to come will find useful conversation pieces. A decade ago in Boulder City, he took part in planting a time

capsule beneath the large public clock downtown for its opening in future decades.

Rather than settle on newspapers, he wanted something personal.

So he included pages of his own journal on a controversial construction project of the day, with portrayals of “the behind-the-scenes story that include the notso-nice antics of local politicians you won’t find in any newspaper account.”

French-American is new hero in train attacks PARIS (AP) — Mark Moogalian and wife were seated facing each other on the high-speed train when she saw only his expression and the urgent “Get out, this is serious.” Then, Isabelle Risacher Moogalian said, she ducked behind some seats as he lunged to grab the assault rifle from the gunman’s hands.

“When my husband collapsed, I saw across the seats. He looked at me and he said ‘I’m hit, I’m hit.’ He thought it was over and he was going to die,” she told Europe-1 radio. The bullet struck him in the back and exited through the neck.

The American teacher and artist who has lived in France for more than two decades has emerged as another hero in the high-speed

He looked at me and he said “I’m hit, I’m hit.” He thought it was over and he was going to die.

— Isabelle Moogalian, wife of Mark Moogalian, an American teacher and artist

train attack thwarted by a group of quickthinking men. According to French President Francois Hollande, a Frenchman was the first to encounter the gunman as he left the toilet, alerting others in the area. That person, Hollande said, wished to remain anonymous.

Moogalian remained hospitalized today in the northern city of Lille, and his sister in Virginia said his role in trying to stop what French authorities are

calling a terror attack was in character.

“Mark would give anything for anybody,” Julia Allen told NBC News. “He’s just that kind of person.”

Risacher said U.S. Airman Spencer Stone came across the wounded Moogalian and stanched the bleeding by holding his finger on the wound until paramedics could take over.

Moogalian runs a language school from a houseboat in the outskirts of Paris, accord-

Ferguson judge announces sweeping changes FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson’s new municipal judge ordered massive changes Monday in the city’s muchcriticized municipal court, a move he said is aimed at restoring confidence in the system and easing the burden on needy defendants.

Changes announced

by Judge Donald McCullin include withdrawing “close to 10,000” old arrest warrants and giving defendants new court dates and payment options. The new

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plan allows for community service or fines to be commuted for the indigent. McCullin will also reinstate driver’s license for all defendants who lost their license for failing to appear in court or failing to pay a fine, pending final disposition of the case.

The changes come after a critical U.S. Department of Justice report cited racial profiling among Ferguson police and a municipal court system that often targeted blacks, who make up

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ing to the school’s website. Music and art are clearly his passions, as his personal website attests, with its range of sculpture, paintings, photos and downloads of music he performs in a duo with his wife.

In the duo’s biography, they describe themselves as “largely bicultural, bringing the best of both worlds.”

“My husband is among the heroes of this story, and he nearly paid with his life, because just a few millimeters closer and the bullet would have sliced his carotid in exiting,” Risacher said.

Moogalian and the Frenchman will receive the Legion of Honor, as did Stone, U.S. Army Spec. Alek Skarlatos, their friend Anthony Sadler and British businessman Chris Norman.

about two-thirds of Ferguson’s 21,000 residents.

Municipal Judge Ronald Brockmeyer resigned in March, and McCullin was appointed in June.

“These changes should continue the process of restoring confidence in the court, alleviating fears of the consequences of appearing in court, and giving many residents a fresh start,” McCullin said in a statement. “Many individuals whose license has been suspended will be able to obtain them and take advantage of the benefits of being able to drive.

Moreover, defendants will not be disadvantaged in being afforded pretrial release because of the inability to make bond.”

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since Dec. 15 — the central bank swung into action.

It cut its interest rates for the fifth time in nine months in a renewed effort to shore up economic growth. The central bank lowered the benchmark rate for a one-year loan by 0.25 percentage points to 4.6 percent and the oneyear rate for deposits by a similar margin to 1.75 percent.

The bank also increased the amount of money available for lending by reducing the minimum reserves banks are required to hold by 0.5 percentage points.

The move came as Beijing appeared to be abandoning a strategy of having a state-owned company buy shares to stem the market slide.

Analysts say that while today’s actions by the central bank may calm the stock market turmoil for now, the country faces a long period of uncertainty that will create

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more volatility.

“The Chinese economy is going to be on this bumpy road for a while and it will have ebbs and flows that will no doubt have a serious impact on the global economy,” said Kamel Mellahi, professor at the Warwick Business School.

Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 earlier closed down 4 percent after sliding 4.6 percent Monday.

But other markets in Asia posted modest recoveries. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index rose or 0.7 percent, while Sydney’s S&P ASX 200 gained 2.7 percent and Seoul’s Kospi index and Singapore’s Straits Times index also rose.

In morning trading in Europe, France’s CAC40 jumped 4.3 percent after tumbling 5.4 percent Monday while Germany’s DAX was up 4.1 percent after dropping 4.7 percent the day before.

Britain’s FTSE 100 was 3.3 percent higher.

Dow Jones and S&P 500 index futures were both up 3.7 percent, an

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Police take aim at synthetic drug

indication the U.S. market is set to open higher.

Wall Street had a stomach-chur ning day Monday, when the Dow plunged more than 1,000 points at one point before finishing down 588.40 points, or 3.6 percent, at 15,871.35.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index slid 77.68 points, or 3.9 percent, to 1,893.21, and is now in “correction” territory, Wall Street jargon for a drop of at least 10 percent from a recent peak. The last market correction was nearly four years ago.

In currency markets, the dollar rose to 120.12 yen from Monday’s 118.69 yen. The euro fell to $1.1494 from the previous session’s $1.1591 Oil rebounded from Monday’s steep declines.

Benchmark U.S. crude gained $1.02 to $39.26 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract plunged $2.21 on Monday to close at $38.42.

By TONY RIZZO and GLENN E. RICE The Kansas City Star

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It’s a new drug. And it’s a killer.

Known on the street as “flakka,” the synthetic concoction is hitting hard in Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and other parts of the country. It’s causing a rash of emergency room visits and overdose deaths.

In one highly publicized Florida case, a man reportedly high on flakka gnawed on and disfigured another man’s face before he was shot to death by police. Another user tried to break down the door of a police station in Fort Lauderdale, and a few weeks later, a man impaled himself while trying to climb a fence around the same station.

“This is the worst drug I have ever seen in my 18 years of law enforcement across the board,” said Johnny Bivens, sheriff of Lewis County, Ky. “Nothing

Alpha-PVP, also known as flakka, has caused a rash of ER visits and overdose deaths. NA-

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compares to this.”

Also known as alphaPVP, it has a similar chemical makeup to other drugs commonly known as “bath salts,” according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

It typically comes in a white or pink crystalline form and is foul-smelling. It can be eaten, snorted, injected, or vaporized in an electronic cigarette device, according to the national institute, which has included flakka on a list of emerging trends.

It is particularly potent when vaporized, sending the drug into the bloodstream quickly, and making the user

particularly susceptible to overdose.

“Alpha-PVP can cause a condition called excited delirium that involves hyper-stimulation, paranoia and hallucinations that can lead to violent aggression and self-injury,” the institute warns. “The drug has been linked to deaths by suicide as well as heart attack.”

Authorities say flakka is easily accessible.

It can be purchased online from China and in some parts of the United States has replaced crack cocaine.

Police locally say flakka hasn’t been found here yet. They have dealt with other similar drugs that have led to hospitalizations and deaths.

“The dangerous thing about synthetic drugs is that the chemicals used to make them are always changing,” said Sgt. Chris Cesena of the Kansas City police drug enforcement unit. “The user doesn’t realize what they’re taking. These are harsh chemicals.”

Data: Secretary of state says records should not be released Continued from A1

versity mathematician Beth Clarkson are not subject to the Kansas open records act, and that their disclosure is prohibited by Kansas statute. His response, which was faxed Friday to the Sedgwick Coun-

ty District Court, was made public Monday.

Clarkson, chief statistician for the university’s National Institute for Aviation Research, filed the open records lawsuit as part of her personal quest to find the answer to an un-

explained pattern that transcends elections and states.

She wants the hardcopies to check the error rate on electronic voting machines that were used in a voting station in Sedgwick County to establish a statistical

model.

Clarkson said in an email she did not have any comment about Kobach’s answer to her lawsuit yet because she hadn’t done more than skim it.

“I don’t see anything in there about why I

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shouldn’t be allowed access other than there is no official channel for private citizens to get access to those records.

Therefore, no access allowed,” Clarkson said.

Clarkson, a certified quality engineer with a Ph.D. in statistics, has analyzed election returns in Kansas and elsewhere over several elections that indicate “a statistically significant” pattern where the percentage of Republican votes increase the larger the size of the precinct. The pattern could be voter fraud or a demographic trend that has not been picked up by extensive polling.

In response to her lawsuit, Kobach also contended he is not the custodian of records kept by the Sedgwick County Elections Com-

missioner Tabitha Lehman.

Lehman told a Sedgwick County District Court judge in a separate filing last week that production of the tapes would be “unnecessarily burdensome” because the material cannot be easily copied. Each person’s vote in the 2013 election takes up about 27? inches of the electronic machine’s paper trail. Each roll from the 2014 election is 385 feet long, and stored in 42 boxes that are not segregated by precinct or voting district.

Kobach and Lehman also both argued in their separate filings that the identical issues were presented by Clarkson and were previously rejected in a 2013 open records lawsuit that she had filed.

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“I’m disappointed with the result,” said Steve Karlin, superintendent of Garden City USD 257, which sought more than $1 million in emergency aid and received less than $60,000.

“I think given what happened with schools over the last several years, any further reduction in revenue creates an extraordinary need.”

Karlin was referring to earlier cuts to certain types of school aid, in particular funding for operational expenses.

The Legislature created the emergency aid in March as part of legislation that scrapped Kansas’ two-decade-old school finance formula and trimmed more than $50 million in courtordered funds that had been earmarked for school districts with weaker local property tax bases.

The first round of emergency requests reached the State Finance Council in May, and the council approved about $500,000 in extra aid for five districts: Louisburg, Concordia, Skyline, Waconda and Lebo-Waverly.

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Prepare for the worst, Kansans A variety of natural disasters can affect Kansans — tornadoes, floods, fires. The Southwind Extension office is helping citizens prepare for disasters through Prepare Kansas, a free online K-State Research and Extension program.

It is designed to help Kansans prepare in advance in order to ease the effects of disasters after they’ve happened and allow for a quicker recovery.

Prepare Kansas coincides with September’s designation as National Preparedness Month, a program instituted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Participants complete weekly activities and, by the end of September, they will be better prepared to recover from any disaster that strikes. This year’s topics will include education about various weather conditions such as tornadoes, temperature extremes (including drought), floods, and fire. Tasks will include creating communication plans, fire drills, emergency

Joy Purkeypile Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences

supply kits, and a grab and go bag.

For example, a family may not be together when a crisis happens, so it’s important to think ahead about how you’d communicate in an emergency. Think of different scenarios — different types of disasters as well as methods of communication. What if cell phones aren’t working?

How about landlines?

Would your 12-year-old know who to call if he couldn’t reach you?

Something as simple as making contact cards with email addresses and telephone numbers of family members and close friends and colleagues and making sure every member of the household has a copy, can be important.

Younger children can keep the card in a back-

pack or school bag.

Another example is to start assembling a disaster supply kit that may include such items as: ·One gallon of water per day per person for at least three days; ·A three-day supply of non-perishable food; ·A battery-powered or hand-crank radio and an NOAA Weather Radio (with tone alert and extra batteries); ·Flashlight and extra batteries; ·First aid kit; ·Whistle to signal for help; and a ·Wrench to turn off utilities.

Prepare Kansas focuses on helping individuals, families, and businesses help themselves. For more complete information, sign up for Prepare Kansas at http://bit.ly/1pwiiFE or contact me at 620-2233720 or jpurkeyp@ksu. edu. More tips are also available at the Prepare Kansas blog, at https:// blogs.k-state.edu/preparekansas/. This is available to everyone, whether participating in Prepare Kansas or not.

Be in haste to cut your waste

By JOHN SCHLAGECK Kansas Farm Bureau

Any idea how much packaging we throw away in every household across the United States?

The volume of plastic waste and packaging amounts to approximately 75 billion pounds per year, according to the Butte Environmental Council, an education, advocacy and recycling organization in northern California.

In this country, plastic represents roughly one-third of municipal waste. Fifty to 80 percent of the litter collected from roads, parks and beaches and 90 percent of floating marine litter is plastic.

During the last decade, Americans wasted 7.1 million tons of cans — enough to manufacture 316,000 Boeing 737 airplanes.

Figures like that make my head hurt, not to mention the harm to our planet.

And the irony of this?

It’s estimated the global food packaging industry is worth approximately $115-billion-a-year and growing 10-15 percent each year.

As the amount of packaging increases, so does waste and environmental costs, not

to mention the added costs to consumers.

The plastic bottle containing your favorite soda or the aluminum can that holds your favorite brew costs more than the cola or beer.

On average a beer can or bottle costs five,

in packaging.

Another contributing factor is the desire for convenience food. You know that processed, tasteless food you can pop out of your freezer, microwave and eat in a jiffy.

Encouraging sus-

During the last decade, Americans wasted 7.1 million tons of cans — enough to manufacture 316,000 Boeing 737 airplanes.

six, seven maybe 10 times the cost of the beverage. The same is true for sodas. It depends on the company and the product.

Convenience, marketing and profit come with a price — additional waste for this nation’s landfills and the rest of the globe.

In this country and other wealthy nations, a decrease in the size of households has resulted in more people purchasing smaller portions of food and that means more packaging.

A higher living standard around the globe has also resulted in the desire to acquire and eat “exotic” foods from other lands. Transportation of such food and the ability to keep it fresh also costs more

tainable packaging requires changes not only in our lifestyles but in our habits.

While it’s only a start, as consumers we can buy more local product that is better tasting, has less of an impact on the environment through reduced transportation costs and supports our local economies.

Support companies that use packaging most efficiently. Avoid buying disposable items, such as nonrefillable razors, alkaline batteries, etc.

Recycle. Buy in bulk.

Reuse shopping bags and buy only recycled products.

Change comes with personal responsibility and the ability to look in the mirror and say, “It’s up to me.”

Report: Kansas corn crop maturing slowly WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A new government report says that 8 percent of the Kansas corn crop is now mature.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that is near the 12 percent that had matured by this time a year

ago, but is behind the 20 percent average for this late in the season.

The agency was upbeat about the condition of the crop with 12 percent rated as excellent and 47 percent as good. About 31 percent was said to be in fair shape, with 10 percent rated in poor to very

poor condition.

Other major Kansas crops are also making progress.

About 71 percent of the state’s soybeans are setting pods and 1 percent of its sorghum crop is now mature.

The fourth cutting of alfalfa is 28 percent complete.

Southwind Extension District 4-H members from Allen County competed Saturday in the State Horticulture Judging Contest at Throckmorton Hall on the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan. They had to identify 50 different plants, place eight different categories of plants with regard to quality, and were tested on their knowledge of various aspects of plant science. Representing Southwind Extension District were, from left, Zoi Yoho, Zoey Rinehart, Kahlan Roloff, and Shelby Yoho. Accompanying them was their coach Terri Kretzmeier.

Photo courtesy Terri Kretzmeier

Grazing school registration still open Cattle prices have been very positive for quite some time. With this in mind, farmers and ranchers should maximize the potential of their grazing and pasture lands. One method to get the most out of your land is through Management Intensive Grazing (MiG).

This method utilizes temporary fencing to section pasture land into smaller and more manageable areas, causing grazing animals to utilize more of the available forage in a given area.

If you would like to learn more about these concepts, join us for the Eastern Kansas Grazing School. The school will be Sept. 9-10 beginning with registration at the Allen County Fairgrounds located at Riverside Park, and with hands-on exercises at the Allen Community College Farm.

A collection of speakers from K-State Research & Extension,

Christopher Petty

Extension Agent for Agriculture

Natural Resource Conservation Service and University of Missouri Extension will present on several timely topics related to rotational grazing and the implementation of Management Intensive Grazing (MiG). Topics to be covered may include: Grazing Arithmetic, Pasture Watering Resources, Fencing for Rotational Grazing, Matching Animal Needs to Pasture Production, and an overview of a Crabgrass and Teff Research Plot.

Several of the discussions will involve, in pasture, hands-on learning opportunities, including determining forage availability, and

allocating pastures. The fencing and watering discussions will include time for attendees to view and evaluate different types of equipment to determine if they could be used in their operations.

Adult learners are the target audience for the Grazing School. Registration is $50 for the first person from a farm or ranch, and includes proceedings, snacks, and three meals. Additional persons from the same operation are $25 each, which includes snacks and three meals. Registration will be limited to 35 farms on a first-come basis. Send registration information by August 31 to Southwind Extension District, P.O. Box 845, Iola, KS 66749-0845.

A printable registration form and flier is available at www.southwind. ksu.edu. Questions may be directed to Chris Petty, Southwind Extension District Agent, cgp@ksu. edu or 620-223-3720.

Wheat smut re-emerges in Kansas after decades TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A fungus called wheat flag smut has re-emerged in Kansas after not being seen since the 1970s.

The Kansas Department of Agriculture says the fungus is not a danger to humans or animals and doesn’t effect grain quality.

Jeff Vogel, of the KDA, says the main concern is that 15 countries have some restrictions on imports that might be infected with the fungus.

He says the infestations found so far have been very low.

The Topeka CapitalJournal reportsfarmers are being encouraged to choose wheat varieties resistant to fungi, apply fungicides to their seeds before planting winter wheat, and delay planting.

The fungus has been found in Phillips, Smith, Rooks, Graham, Wallace, Logan, Trego, Ellis, Lincoln, Wichita, Scott, Ness, Rush, Barton, Pawnee, Edwards, Stafford, Kiowa, Pratt and Dickinson counties.

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Heroes thwart train attack, yet Europe remains vulnerable The four men — three American and one British — who received France’s highest honor, the Legion of Honor, on Monday from President Francois Hollande richly deserved it. Their courage in tackling an attacker wielding an AK-47 and other weaponry inside a packed high-speed train traveling from Brussels to Paris last Friday prevented a possible blood bath.

Yet along with gratitude and relief there was, in France and in Europe generally, a deep sense of vulnerability — the realization that in an open society where citizens enjoy freedom of movement, people cannot rely on the lucky presence of tourists.

Europe’s vast rail system is particularly open to terrorist attacks on a continent where

thousands have left to join the Islamic State and other Islamist militant groups in Syria and Iraq. Though his history and allegiances are still being pieced together, this appears to be the case with last Friday’s attacker, Ayoub El Khazzani, a 26-yearold Moroccan-born legal resident of Spain whose activities had already put him on a French security-threat list and who may have traveled to Syria this year.

Khazzani claims he found his weapons in a suitcase and was bent only on robbery. No one is buying this tale, but even so the fact that he was able to lug his arsenal unhindered onto a crowded train is deeply troubling.

More than 40 million Europeans travel by train every day on more than 100,000 trains. Unlike airports, ma-

jor train stations are open areas, accessible to all. Many trains serve smaller stations that are little more than platforms along open track. Passengers’ identification and luggage are not regularly checked before boarding for travel within Europe.

An exception to this is the Eurostar service between Paris and London, but European rail experts say it would be much too expensive and time-consuming to set up routine security checks for all of Europe’s trains.

Since the attack, the Belgian and French governments have announced that they will increase random luggage checks and armed patrols. That is some comfort, but there is more that both countries can do. Spain, for instance, instituted baggage checks on long-distance

trains after the terrorist attacks in Madrid in 2004, and Italy began performing regular security checks on passengers leaving from some stations in May. Whatever the cost in terms of added personnel and inconvenience, such security checks make sense for passengers boarding all of Europe’s long-distance and international trains. Personnel on these trains must also be better trained and equipped to handle a security emergency, something they are not prepared to do now and were clearly not prepared to do on Friday.

Enhanced security measures may never be enough, given the sheer number of militant suspects on the Continent as well as a wide field of potential targets embracing not only the railways but

any number of public spaces. Yet however formidable the task, renewed efforts to increase public safety must be made.

— The New York Times

Motorists: slow down, school is in session Now that school is back in “It’s that time again,” said session, we’re all reminded Reno County Sheriff ’s Paof what we need to do every trol Captain Darrian Campyear at this time. Slow down, bell. “Be vigilant. Watch out keep an eye out and be aware for pedestrians. When a stop of our surroundings while sign is out on a bus and kids we’re driving. It’s common are crossing the road on the sense, but unfortunately, opposite side and drivers are there’s not always a lot of in a hurry, the results can be that out there on the roads devastating.” and streets of Hutchinson That’s similar to advice and Reno County. given every year. But CampSchool started mid-week bell added a new twist this last week, and with it there year — watch out for young was plenty of change. For and inexperienced drivers students, parents, teachers both in the county and city. and others diGood point. He rectly involved especially cauwith educationed about tion, that’s in the Be vigilant. Watch those one thing. For county where out for pedestrians. the new drivall motorists, it’s another.

When a stop sign is ers take shortThe streets out on a bus and kids cuts on dirt and roads roads between are crossing the road H u t c h i n s o n have been and drivers are in a and Buhler, less congested lately, espehurry, the results can which is a cially with no known cause be devastating. school buses, of accidents. and there have But inexpebeen no school rienced drivzones to adhere to. ers also signal the need for Those days are over for all motorists to do a couple another nine-month stretch. of things. First, drive deThe students are back and fensively. Second — this so are the buses, school is a chance to provide an zone speed limits and more example to the youngsters traffic. Obviously, there’s on how to drive properly — the need to watch out for slow down. A yellow light increased pedestrian traffic does not mean go faster. around the schools — espe- Quit flying through them cially with youngsters who and instead slow and stop as might not be paying the intended. Stop pulling out greatest of attention. in front of other vehicles, Then there are the motor- another dangerous practice ists themselves who may not that is all too common in be paying attention to the Reno County and Hutch. changed surroundings. It’s Be a good example for all time to slow down, especial- motorists. It would be educaly around school zones and tional for us all. buses.

— The Hutchinson News

Turnpike Authority on the cheap It’s good that the Kansas Turnpike Authority plans to build new culverts along a stretch of the turnpike prone to flooding. But shouldn’t those culverts be designed to meet more than just the minimum standard? After all, seven people have died during heavy rains since 2003.

Kansas Turnpike CEO Steve Hewitt said last week at The Eagle that designing the culverts to a 50-year-flood standard — the recommended minimum design for interstates — was appropriate and prudent. “We don’t want to overdesign,” he said.

He said that KTA has other improvements it needs to make along its 236-mile roadway, so it needs to make “good,

New culverts on Kansas interstates will meet minimum standards, while Missouri and Colorado adhere to higher. sound, sustainable decisions” and take “a holistic view of the entire system.”

In addition to the new culverts, which Hewitt said will be a drastic improvement, KTA plans to improve its warning system, adding additional electronic signs. KTA also is considering adding guardrails but doesn’t want to create a new hazard.

“We’ve taken this seriously,” Hewitt said, adding that “we are committed to do what

we need to do.”

But Missouri and Colorado use a higher, 100-year-flood standard for culverts on their interstates. If that is too expensive for KTA as a systemwide standard, couldn’t it at least use the higher standard for the most dangerous areas of the turnpike, where people have suffered horrible deaths?

“We are not trying to be cheap,” Hewitt said. But it looks that way.

— The Wichita Eagle

How to contact your elected officials

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Hotels: Iola Council agrees to fund half of feasibility study Continued from A1

tor for the city, Allen County and Iola Industries.

The benefits to Iola getting another hotel would be significant, Toland opined, because of the utility purchases and dollars spent by hotel guests elsewhere in the community, such as at restaurants or buying fuel.

The study would involve more than just counting up available rooms, Toland noted.

The group also will visit with local industries, which host corporate guests, vendors and other visitors. Planners also would meet with Allen Community College officials because the college frequently uses local hotels to house students when its dorms and other housing complexes are filled beyond capacity.

Part of the impetus behind asking for the study is Iola’s steadily declining bed tax proceeds, which have

dropped every year but once since 2008, Toland said.

Toland pointed to the opening of a convention style hotel in Fort Scott last November. Since it opened, that community’s bed tax receipts have grown 66 percent. “Their situation is similar to Iola’s,� Toland said, “where they had national brand hotels switch to regional brands.�

Mayor Joel Wicoff asked if the study would take into account the impact of bringing a fourth motel to Iola, and how it would affect the other three facilities: Super 8, America’s Best Value Inn and Regency Inn. Toland countered that an additional hotel would better enhance Iola’s reputation as a destination city for travelers. That adding another place to stay would be “growing the pie,� and not necessarily parsing out smaller pieces for others. “I do know the rule

Clippings: City Continued from A1

The problem is exacerbated in the fall, when others blow their fallen leaves into the street with the assumption the city’s street sweeper will pick up the fallen foliage. “It doesn’t quite work like that,�

Slaugh said, because the city has only one street sweeper, incapable of canvassing all of Iola in one day.

“That causes a lot of issues.�

Slaugh encouraged residents who mow their lawns to plan their first few circuits around their yard so the clippings are blown inward.

Councilwoman Nancy Ford agreed. “It looks terrible� to blow clippings into the street, she said. “It’s just not the best way to mow your yard.

Switch it around.�

of thumb is communities want to have a good hotel market,� Toland said. “The more rooms you have, the more everybody wins. That becomes known as a place you will stop.�

Toland also noted conversations with bringing restaurants to Iola also center on whether a nearby hotel would be a part of the mix.

Council members Jon Wells and Nancy Ford agreed.

Wells noted friends and colleagues who would stay in neighboring communities if a particular hotel chain isn’t in Iola. Ford, too, noted she and her family tended to stay only in name brand hotels when they were on the road.

In response to a query from Ford, Toland noted the study would not begin until after U.S. 54 is reopened west of town.

A railroad overpass near Yates Center is being replaced, with traffic being diverted south to Chanute. The lower traffic flow has adversely impacted business at

Regency Inn, its owners said recently.

The vote to approve the hotel study passed, 6-2, with Austin Sigg and Donald Becker opposed.

Sigg cited the number of vacant rooms already in Iola. Becker said he favored waiting until after inspecting renovations at Regency Inn to determine whether he would support efforts to attract a new hotel.

Funding for the study will come out of the City Council’s budget.

THE CITY will chip in to help pay for new sidewalks at the football stadium at Riverside Park.

Jan Sigg, representing the Iola High School Booster Club, requested the city allow the school to utilize Iola’s sidewalk replacement program to connect the stadium’s five entrances to the parking lot.

Currently, all five entrances are separated from the asphalt by a strip of grass that quickly turns to mud in wet weather.

The sidewalks are

Daniels: Hired Continued from A1

er, will join the department in the revamped lieutenant’s position. He began his law enforcement career with Humboldt in 1991 when he returned from helicopter duty in Desert Storm.

Daniels is an Allen County commissioner.

Council members also approved bids for two homes involved in the city’s rental rehabilita-

tion program: 113 N. 12th St., Larry Ewing Construction, Erie, $20,000, and 1122 Mulberry St., S&A Construction, Wichita, $20,718. A grant from the Kansas Department of Commerce pays 75 percent with the remainder responsibility of the landlord, with the provision the landlord’s part is forgiven after three years if renters during that period meet low- to moderate-income guidelines.

expected to cost about $3,100, Sigg said.

Through the city’s sidewalk replacement program, Iola pays $1.75 per square foot. At 770 square foot, the city’s share will be about $1,350.

THE COUNCIL also: — Approved a resolution encouraging county and state officials to consider stricter regulations for cell phone usage among motorists, such as allowing only hands-free devices while driving. The Council decided against passing a local law because of the difficulty in providing even-handed enforcement, particularly for out-of-town motorists. — Approved an audit engagement agreement with Jarred, Gilmore and Phillips, the Iolabased accounting firm that has audited the city’s books the past three years. The $8,800 fee is equal to what the city has spent for the 2013 and 2014 audits, City Administrator Carl Slaugh said.

— Declined to pursue parking restrictions on North Kentucky Street after Slaugh noted the city received no calls from citizens either supporting or opposed to the parking limitations.

Wells said he received one call, from somebody opposed to the limitations. “It’s not a big concern of mine,� Wells added.

Councilman Aaron Franklin had proposed parking be prohibited along the street because of heavier traffic to and from Allen County Regional Hospital. — Approved an easement for Southern Star, which provides natural gas to Iola and owns a border station on city property near the intersections of the Prairie Spirit and Missouri Pacific trails on the west side of town.

Southern Star officials need to install electronic monitoring devices at the stations, but the company had no easement on which to access the property, Slaugh said.

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Chiefs’ Smith struggling KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — When the Chiefs traded for Alex Smith, one of the reasons that general manager John Dorsey and coach Andy Reid were so enamored of him was his vast knowledge of the game.

Turns out Smith may be too smart for his own good.

After strugg l i n g Alex Smith through two preseason games, Smith said Monday that part of the issue is that he has too good of a grasp of the Kansas City offense. So rather than react to what defenses are giving him, Smith is trying to outwit them, leading to incompletions and interceptions.

“Watching the film with coach, I’m trying to do too much,” he said. “You know where everyone is at. You know the details. I need to go back to the fundamentals. I’m doing too much with my eyes and things like that.”

By that, Smith means trying to lure defenders into a certain spot on the field based on where he is looking, which would allow his wide receivers to run free.

That certainly didn’t work in the first half Friday night against Seattle, when he threw a pass right at Bobby Wagner. The Seahawks linebacker barely had to move to catch the pass — it was so off-target that it was hard to tell exactly who the intended receiver was — and Wagner was able to run untouched 25 yards for a touchdown that gave Seattle the lead.

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Allen volleyball wins opener

Jayhawks find their QB

Freshman Andi Dowell prepares to spike the ball during Allen’s victory over Friends University JV on Monday night. Dowell finished the night with a team-high 11 kills. REGISTER/JONATHAN CZUPRYN

By JONATHAN CZUPRYN The Iola Register

After serving as Allen’s assistant coach for five years, Whitney Shaw was finally able to celebrate her first victory as a collegiate head coach on Monday night — in a high school gym.

Although the Red Devils were not able to open their season in their own gymnasium due to construction, Allen fans still packed the stands at Iola High to watch Shaw and her Allen volleyball squad sweep Friends University JV in three sets (25-19, 25-22, 25-23).

“It feels really good that we saw a lot of things we worked on in the past 20 days and a lot of things we still need to work on,” Shaw said.

Allen’s middle blockers and libero, two positions that Shaw said needed the most work heading into the season opener, both put up good showings after three weeks of practice.

“Our middles stepped it up,” the first-year head coach said.

“They had more kills than

I expected. It was a balanced attack all the way across the board.”

Shaw said she had been looking for a player to step up for the libero position and anchor the Red Devils’ back row.

She ended up starting freshman Joely Roe, who finished the night with a teamhigh 23 digs on defense.

Although the battle for the libero slot is not over, Roe is out in front of the competition after an impressive performance Monday night, Shaw said.

Allen’s offense was led by freshman Andi Dowell and sophomore Carly Jackson, who had 11 and 10 kills respectively. Raquel West, the team’s only sophomore setter, had a team-high 18 assists.

The Red Devils dominated most of the match against the Falcons, trailing only once in three sets. When the Red Devils were behind 23-21 in the third set, they didn’t wait long to regain the lead.

After Shaw called a timeout, Allen notched four straight kills to take the set and the game in a straight

sweep.

Because her team had the lead for the majority of the night, Shaw added that the players may have gotten a little too comfortable at certain points of the match. However, when the Red Devils needed to step up, they did.

“They’re pretty hard on themselves,” Shaw said. “We can’t wait around for them to give us points, we’ve got to continue to earn all of ours.

So it was just that urgency they had at the end.”

With the victory, Allen heads into its first conference match of the year with some much needed momentum. When the Red Devils face off against Labette at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Parsons, they will see a much different opponent than the Friends University JV team they played Monday.

Unlike Friends, Labette has some height in its middle blockers, so Shaw will work with her team creating more combination plays before taking the floor Wednesday.

“Oh my gosh, I hope (this win) helps a lot come Wednesday because we need the momentum,” Shaw said.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Montell Cozart will be under center for new Kansas coach David Beaty when the Jayhawks begin their season Sept. 5 against South Dakota State.

Beaty announced Monday that the junior had won the competition for starting quarterback.

“He is a very bright, hard-working, smart dude,” said Beaty, who was hired to replace Charlie Weis last fall. “He’s what you want. I love the dude that he is. Our team loves him.”

Cozart started three games as a freshman in 2013 and the first five games last season before Michael Cummings took over. But when Cummings sustained a season-ending left knee injury in the spring game, it appeared the job would be Cozart’s to lose.

(Cozart) is a very bright, hard-working, smart dude.

— David Beaty

KU Head Coach

Still, Beaty made him earn it in a competition with talented junior college transfer Deondre Ford and a pair of freshmen, Ryan Willis and Carter Stanley.

Part of the reason Cozart earned the job is he appears to fit Beaty’s offensive scheme, called the “Air Raid.” Cozart may not have the biggest arm in the Jayhawks’ stable of quarterbacks, but he may be the most athletic.

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Royals score 7 runs in 6th inning, beat Orioles 8-3

Kansas City Royals’ Mike Moustakas (8) celebrates his two-run home run in front of Baltimore Orioles catcher Matt Wieters (32) during the sixth inning on Monday at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. JOHN SLEEZER/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — It had been nearly two years since Kris Medlen stood on the mound to start a game, so it was no surprise the Royals right-hander felt a few butterflies Monday night.

He seemed to chase them away in a hurry.

After giving up an early tworun homer to Orioles slugger Adam Jones, Medlen got into a groove and cruised through six innings. His offense put up seven runs in the bottom half of that frame, and the result was an 8-3 victory over Baltimore to open a four-game set.

“I tried not to make it about myself,” said Medlen, whose last start came on Sept. 27, 2013, with Atlanta. “I said from the get-go, I don’t want this to be a, ‘Yay, you made it, kind of thing.’ I wanted to come out and produce.”

Medlen (2-0) did that, allowing just five hits and striking out six without a walk in his first start since replacing Jeremy Guthrie in the rotation.

Still, Medlen was in line for a loss until the Royals broke loose in the sixth inning.

Mike Moustakas hit a tying, two-run homer, and Omar Infante added a two-run triple moments later, scampering home when the throw to third base skittered away. Lorenzo Cain drove in two more, spoiling what

had been a promising start by Ubaldo Jimenez.

Jimenez (9-8) allowed seven runs and 10 hits in 5 2-3 innings.

“He just started elevating some fastballs and they made him pay for it,” Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. “He was really commanding the ball well and just didn’t that inning.”

The loss was the fifth straight for Baltimore and sixth in seven games. It carried a little added sting in that it was the first meeting between the teams since the Royals swept the Orioles in the AL Championship Series on their surprising run to the World Series.

“They pitched well and we didn’t swing the bats well,” Showalter said. “They know that we got to get it going, and that’s not usually a good recipe against good pitchers.”

The two-run homer by Jones and a run-scoring double by Steve Clevenger in the fourth inning got the Orioles off to a good start, and Jimenez was cruising through five. The only run he had allowed was on an RBI groundout by Eric Hosmer in the third inning.

Things completely unraveled for Jimenez in the sixth.

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Kansas officials are reviewing a recent federal appeals court ruling that requires the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Medicaid program to pay in-home care workers minimum wage and overtime.

Officials at the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services issued a statement shortly after the court decision was announced on Friday saying they were attempting to determine its â&#x20AC;&#x153;potential impactâ&#x20AC;? on the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Medicaid program, known as KanCare.

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In part, the statement read: â&#x20AC;&#x153;KDADS is committed to minimizing any negative impact this may have on consumers, direct service workers and providers while ensuring the health, safety and welfare of those who receive services from HCBS programs.â&#x20AC;?

HCBS refers to Medicaid-funded home and community based services.

Previously, KDADS Secretary Kari Bruffett had said that having to pay home care workers more â&#x20AC;&#x201D; particularly those who provide sleep cycle support â&#x20AC;&#x201D; would increase costs and reduce access to services that help frail seniors and people with disabilities live in community-based settings rather than in nursing homes.

Sleep cycle support workers provide overnight care to individuals who need help toileting, taking medications and being repositioned to prevent bedsores.

Having to pay them minimum wage â&#x20AC;&#x201D; $7.25 an hour â&#x20AC;&#x201D; would cost the state an additional $12 million, Bruffett told Kansas lawmakers last spring.

Kansas and eight other states filed amicus briefs opposing a U.S. Department of Labor regulation requiring third-party employers to pay in-home care works minimum wage and overtime.

The ruling Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed an earlier district court ruling that had blocked enactment of the regulation.

Deane Beebe, a spokesperson for the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, a national organization that represents home health aides and personal care attendants,

people theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re caring for â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from minimum wage laws.

The decision upheld the Department of Laborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s authority to repeal the exemption, which states had long used to justify paying sleep cycle support workers less than minimum wage.

In Kansas, sleep cycle support workers are paid roughly $25 for a six-hour night or $31 for an eight-hour night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s less than minimum wage,â&#x20AC;? said Ami Hyten, assistant director at the Topeka Independent Living Resource Center, which helps people with disabilities find, hire and train caregivers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That will be the single, most profound effect that this decision is going to have on us because we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the money in our budget to make that happen,â&#x20AC;?

Hyten said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not in KDADSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; budget either.â&#x20AC;?

Hyten said about 25 percent of the 400 people who receive inhome services through the Topeka center rely on sleep cycle support.

Without it, she said, many likely would have to move to nursing homes.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not yet clear when the new regulation will take effect.

The plaintiffs in the case, Home Care Association of America v. Weil, are trade associations representing the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home care providers. They have until early October to ask the appeals court to reconsider. They also have the option of asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case.

William Dombi, vice president for law with the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, last week said he and other industry officials had yet to decide whether to appeal the ruling.

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Royals: Medlen makes start Kansas: Cozart will start Continued from B1 the offense. “Going out there, the plays (are) so simple that you can go out there and be real confident and know exactly what you have to do on each and every play. The simple plays help a quarterback be confident.”

Cozart struggled with inconsistency as a sophomore. He was just 64 of 128 for 701 yards with five touchdowns and seven interceptions.

Beaty has praised the progress Cozart has made not only in learning the system but in growing as a leader, and Cozart acknowledged that he has made

strides in both areas.

“Absolutely, I’m getting better,” he said.

“That’s what it’s all about. I’m getting better every day and am learning new things that are going to give me more confidence.”

It doesn’t hurt that Cummings is still around the program.

He and Cozart have been able to learn the Air Raid offense together, even though Cummings will spend the season on the sideline.

“It was hard seeing him go down in the spring game,” Cozart said. “It was really tough for me because I’ve been under him for

three years, learning under him.”

Cozart is aware that earning the starting nod in late August doesn’t guarantee he will be under center all season. The Jayhawks have churned through a handful of starters in his brief time on campus, from Jake Heaps to Cummings to himself.

That doesn’t mean that Cozart is afraid of a little competition, either.

He made that clear by earning the job in the first place.

“Things are going really well,” Cozart said.

“I’m looking forward to keep competing.”

K-State back to run game Kansas City Royals pitcher Kris Medlen (39) throws against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday at Kauffman Stadium. JOHN SLEEZER/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS Continued from B1 knot the game 3-all.

Salvador Perez singled, Alex Rios hit a double and Infante sent a triple into the gap in left-center, sliding into third base ahead of the throw.

When it skipped away to the third-base dugout, Infante clambered to his feet and chugged on home.

Alcides Escobar and Ben Zobrist followed with hits before Cain’s two-run double made it a seven-run inning, matching a season best for the Royals.

Medlen’s night was done by that point. He threw 69 pitches, one fewer than manager Ned Yost had said was his limit. Bullpen buddies Franklin Morales and Luke Hochevar did the rest.

“He gave up a couple of early runs,” Moustakas said, “but you can’t

ask for much more from someone making their first start in two or three years.”

TWO OUTS, NO PROBLEMS

The Royals went 9 for 16 with two outs, pushing their major league-leading average to .283 in those situations.

CLEVENGER TAKES LEAVE

Clevenger extended his season-high hitting streak to eight games, though No. 9 will have to wait. He’s leaving the team to be with his pregnant wife, who will be induced on Tuesday.

“Hopefully this time tomorrow, we’ll have a nice little addition to the club,” Showalter said.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Orioles: SS J.J. Hardy (groin) went on the

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DL and INF-OF Steve Pearce (left oblique) was reinstated. ... RHP Mike Wright (calf) will start for Triple-A Norfolk on Thursday.

Royals: First base coach Rusty Kuntz was back at work after missing 13 days with a sinus infection and stomach virus.

Kuntz said he lost more than 10 pounds during the illness.

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Orioles: RHP Miguel Gonzalez tries to bounce back from an awful start against Minnesota in which he allowed seven runs in five innings of a 15-2 rout.

Royals: LHP Danny Duffy has dominated the Orioles in three career outings, going 1-1 with a 1.46 ERA. Last May, he retired the first 20 batters he faced.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The approach taken by Kansas State’s offense a couple of years ago was simple: The Wildcats were going to run it right at their opponents, daring them to make a stop.

That all changed last season.

With an accurate quarterback in Jake Waters and a dynamic wide receiver in Tyler Lockett, now with the Seattle Seahawks, the Wildcats all but bailed out on their run game.

The result was a leading rusher who barely broke 500 yards, and an offense that was woefully unbalanced — at least by Kansas State coach Bill Snyder’s standards.

But with plenty of questions at quarterback this season, and a plethora of talented running backs on the roster, Kansas State is poised to get back to its running roots.

“We’re really trying

to emphasize being physical runners, and running downhill, and making guys miss and getting some yards after what we call confrontation, which means either make them miss or run them over,” Wildcats offensive coordinator Dana Dimel explained.

“We’ve been emphasizing that,” he said, “and I think they’ve stepped up.”

Charles Jones, the presumptive leader on the depth chart, led the Wildcats in rushing with 540 yards a year ago. It was the second-fewest yards for any leading rusher since 1989, and a far cry from the 1,000yard seasons that Darren Sproles and others once churned out.

As a team, the Wildcats averaged just 134.2 yards — eighthbest in the Big 12.

Dimel said the reason for that was opposing teams, accustomed to the Wild-

cats winning games on the ground, lined up to take that away.

They would rather watch Waters throw for 400 yards, as he did against West Virginia, than watch Kansas State grind games away, as they did when bruising Heisman Trophy finalist Collin Klein was the quarterback.

There is more talent at running back this year than last year, though, and potentially less at quarterback and wide receiver. At wide receiver, Lockett and dependable Curry Sexton have both graduated.

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Younger sister needs to make her own mistakes Dear Carolyn: My (much) younger sister’s boyfriend is planning to propose on her 21st birthday. I am horrified. My sister still has a year left of college. Neither one has ever lived independently — they both are living with their parents in our small home town.

The boyfriend, while he has a college degree, only recently took his first salaried job — certainly not a job anyone would want to make into a career.

Now, I realize everyone

Tell Me About It Carolyn Hax has a right to live their own life, and the chances of my changing things are slight, but I feel that, as the older sister, I need to have a heart-to-heart with my sister. There is so much to see of life and no rush to get married!

My mom told me to

back off, but I think she has empty-nest syndrome and grandbaby fever. Do I have a right/obligation to give my opinion to my sister? — Va. You have a powerful obligation to bite your tongue. So I’m solidly with your mom here, despite having zero investment in your family’s next generation.

This is your sister’s business. It’s her moment to enjoy (or suffer), and her decision to make.

There are risks to hav-

ing such strong opinions.

While I feel as you do about rushing marriage, I’m also humbled on a daily basis by the complexity of outcomes in life. Even if your sister does say yes (she might not), and even if she does go through with the wedding (she might not), and even if the marriage does fail (it might not), it may end in such a way that matures her, awakens something in her, allows her to notice and appreciate someone really good for her.

Public notices (First published in The Iola Register on Aug. 11, 2015) DISTRICT COURT, ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY NATIONAL BANK & TRUST, f/k/a COMMUNITY NATIONAL BANK, Plaintiff, CASE NO. 2014CV77 v.

TITLE INVOLVING REAL ESTATE DIEBOLT LUMBER AND SUPPLY, INC., SUSAN H. DIEBOLT, DONALD D. DIEBOLT a/k/a DONALD DARRELL DIEBOLT, UNKNOWN TENANT, KITCHENS AND MORE, INC., LIFETIME SURFACES, INC., BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS, KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF REV-

ENUE, KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, GE CAPITAL COMMERCIAL, INC., LCA BANK CORPORATION, HOUSE ACCOUNT FUNDING, LLC, WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. and all unknown tenants, or persons in possession, heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors and trustees, creditors, and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are unknown; the heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any person alleged to be deceased and any other party claiming any in-

terest in said real property, Defendants.

Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 (REAL ESTATE FORECLOSURE ACTION) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of an Order of Sale issued out of the Allen County District Court in the above-entitled action, I will, on the 2nd day of September 2015 at 10 o’clock a.m., at the South Entrance of the Allen County District Court, 1 N. Washington, Iola, Kansas, to sell at a public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, all rights, title and interest of the defendants above-named in and to the following described real property situated in the County of Allen, State of Kansas, to-wit: Tract 1: Commencing at a point 1165 feet East of the Northwest corner of the Northwest Fractional Quarter of Section 2,

Township 25, Range 19; thence east 760 feet, thence South 725 feet, thence West 760 feet, thence North 725 feet to the point of beginning, Allen County, Kansas, commonly known as 2661 Nebraska Rd., LaHarpe, Kansas 66751.

Said real property is levied on as the property of the defendants above-named and without appraisement to satisfy said Order of Sale.

Sheriff of Allen County, Kansas Robert Minter, #06749 Creath L. Pollak, #21681 MINTER & POLLAK 8080 E. Central Avenue, Suite 300 Wichita, Kansas 67206 Telephone: (316) 265-0797 Facsimile: (316) 618-0058 Email: minter@mintwin.com Attorneys for Plaintiff, Community National Bank & Trust (8) 11, 18, 25

(First published in The Iola Register, Aug. 18, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS In the Matter of the Estate of Daniel D. Christy, Deceased No. 2015 PR 2 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in this Court by Kevin Lee Bowen, duly

appointed, qualified and acting Executor of the Estate of Daniel D. Christy, deceased, praying Petitioner’s acts be approved; account be settled and allowed; the heirs be determined; the Will be construed and the Estate be assigned to the persons entitled thereto; the Court find the allowances requested for attorneys’ fees and expenses are reasonable and should be allowed; the costs be deter-

mined and ordered paid; the administration of the Estate be closed; upon the filing of receipts the Petitioner be finally discharged as Executor of the Estate of Daniel D. Christy, deceased, and the Petitioner be released from further liability.

You are required to file your written defenses to the Petition on or before September 15, 2015, at 8:30 a.m. in the District Court, in Iola, Allen County,

Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail to file your written defenses, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

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Chiefs: Smith feels confident in system Heckler shut down

Kansas City Chiefs Alex Smith (11) during training camp on Aug. 10. DAVID EULITT/KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS Continued from B1 “Trying to hold guys, move guys, doing too much of that,” Smith said. “I really felt looking at the film, I need to get back to moving the ball, executing the offense.”

It’s easy to forgive Smith for trying to stretch his knowledge of the offense.

This is the first time in his 11-year professional career he’s had the same offensive coordinator — Doug Pederson — three straight seasons. In all, Smith has gone through seven coordinators, including a stretch of five in his first five seasons in the league.

In other words, this is the first time that Smith has ever gone through training camp and preseason games where he feels completely confident in the system.

“Yeah, I’m doing too much with things like my eyes and things like that,” he said, “but I’m

very comfortable, without a doubt. We’ve got a lot of the same pieces in place, I’ve been with the same coaches for three years, so it’s a good thing.”

Yet the results haven’t been very good.

Smith was 6 of 10 for 42 yards with an interception against Arizona, and 11 of 18 for 81 yards with a touchdown and pick-six against the Seahawks.

Perhaps drawing more scrutiny to Smith’s uneven performances has been the fact backup Chase Daniel has been dynamic, throwing four TD passes without an interception — albeit, leading the Chiefs’ second-team offense against the opposing team’s backup defense.

Reid remains unconcerned about his starting quarterback, who was given a four-year, $68 million contract extension prior to last season. But he also ex-

pects Smith to clean up things.

“He’s trying to put things in small windows and make plays, (and) we’re asking him to do some different things, and he’ll get all that taken care of,” Reid said. “That’s not his M.O., so I’m not too worried about it.”

Indeed, Smith’s modus operandi is to protect the football. He only threw six picks all of last season, a big reason the Chiefs are willing to put up with his relatively weak arm and penchant for tucking and running the moment the pocket begins to collapse.

Smith’s rough preseason hardly falls entirely on his shoulders, either.

Competition and injuries have left his offensive line in flux, with left tackle Eric Fisher (ankle) and right guard Jeff Allen (knee) missing the Seattle game.

And Smith has had to

grow accustomed to new wide receivers: Jeremy Maclin is here, Dwayne Bowe is gone.

Maclin is confident the offense will be humming by Week 1 against Houston, and that the guy under center will be the biggest reason for that happening.

“I think we’re right where we need to be,” Maclin said.

“The chemistry is good. I think he trusts me, I trust him. He’ll put the ball in a place for me to make plays and I think that’s how it’s supposed to be.”

NOTES: Reid said Pro Bowl NT Dontari Poe (back surgery) is ahead of schedule, though he refused to say whether Poe will be ready for the regular season.

“He’s doing great.

He’s really made big strides,” Reid said.

“He says he’s going to play the first game. I say, ‘OK, we’ll see,’ then the doctors have to evaluate it. We’ll see.”

Bolt, Gatlin in the semifinals for 200 BEIJING (AP) — Usain Bolt was back on familiar territory today, running his favorite event and showing off why he is the greatest 200-meter runner of all time.

After the intense pressure that accompanied his come-frombehind win over Justin Gatlin in the 100 on Sunday at the world championships, Bolt was all smiles as he coasted into the semifinals of the 200. Gone was any worry about injuries, about his rival,

or about stutter-steps that marred his 100 semifinal heat.

“It means a lot more to me,” Bolt said of the 200, the event in which he is a three-time defending champion and two-time Olympic goldmedalist.

Easing up with 50 meters to go and jogging at the end, Bolt crossed in 20.28 seconds, tied for 13th overall. In the heat after him, Gatlin powered to a time of 20.19.

Gatlin also outran Bolt in the 100 heats.

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“I’m tired and my legs are still sore, but I’m going to have another bath tonight and hopefully tomorrow, I’ll be there.”

Like Bolt, David Rudisha has been struggling with injuries for the past two years but still came up golden in Beijing.

The Kenyan won the 800 meters at the London Olympics in a world-record time and had not been back to his best since. At the Bird’s Nest, Rudisha

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Soon, Rudisha was out of reach and finished in a slow 1 minute, 45.84 seconds, almost five seconds off his world record.

Nicholas Bett added to the super night for Kenya with victory in the 400-meter hurdles title, winning in 47.79 seconds.

BEIJING (AP) — Turns out, Justin Gatlin’s mother didn’t need his help putting a heckler in his place.

She did just fine on her own.

On Monday, the camera caught the American sprinter standing on the podium after receiving his 100-meter silver medal at the world championships and gesturing toward someone in the crowd who was bothering his mother.

Later that night when Gatlin talked to his family, he found out his mother actually had the situation under control — that she even made the heckler think twice about the hostility toward her son.

“She explained everything to him, that you can’t read what the headlines say, that you’ve got to know ex-

actly what (the story) is,” Gatlin recounted Tuesday after his qualifying race in the 200 meters. “She made him second-guess what he was talking about.”

Gatlin has become a polarizing figure in the sport since his return from a four-year doping ban in 2010.

But usually, the venom — from the media and a few fans — is aimed at him.

That his mother got dragged into it really got to him. Gatlin was upset at what he was seeing in the crowd that night: A person confronting his mother who wasn’t exactly being warm and friendly. Gatlin glared at the person and then pointed with his right finger. He said he shouted at the person to “chill out” and “be a gentleman.”

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