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Ag outlook: Cautiously optimistic The first time he climbed on a tractor back in the mid-1950s, Garry Daniels learned there’s more to the real thing than the toy ones. As he approached the end of a field, he wasn’t strong enough to turn the manual steering wheel. Front tires dug and kept the tractor going straight ahead. But, he did get it stopped before crashing into a hedge row.

Sixty years later, he’s still farming south of Humboldt.

Things are much different.

By BOB JOHNSON The Iola Register

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arry Daniels shook a handful of chest-high soybean plants and smiled when no worms fell at his feet. That’s the cherry on top of a year that has been resplendent with good news.

About the only negative at this point is that corn borers and a little green worm are appearing in some soybean fields. Crop dusters acrobatically mark the beans that are infested.

“We’d thought about spraying, but so far we haven’t had a problem,” said Daniels, 70.

Wheat harvest produced good yields. Corn, on the verge of harvest, appears bound for good yields — although commodity prices are a concern — and soybeans may be on the cusp of setting records.

Farmers soon will know more about corn. Though a smidgen has been cut farmers are waiting for the weather to turn warm and sunny for the combines to start to roll.

Of a cautious nature, Daniels is not prepared to announce 2016 an unqualified See SOYBEANS | Page A6

Garry Daniels, rural Humboldt, inspects the chest-high soybeans in one of his fields. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON

Tiny homes to benefit homeless KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Members of a Kansas City group are building a tiny house duplex to be used as transitional housing for homeless people in Pittsburg.

The house is tiny, but once completed, its builders have big plans for it.

YouthBuild KCK members are building the tiny house as part of the “Bring Kansas Home” Kansas Housing Conference, according to The Kansas City Star.

The tiny house duplex, which will have two separate 64-square-foot homes, will be able to provide shelter for 90 days while people look for permanent housing. The duplex will be donated to the Wesley House program in Pittsburg.

Each home will have a platform bed and storage underneath. The duplex will also have a refrigerator and microwave, and the residents will share a bathroom.

The complex is expected to be mostly completed by the end of the conference.

“One thing that is exciting about building a tiny house is that you can see the project from beginning to end in a fairly quick time,” said Spark Bookhart, executive director of YouthBuild KCK, which provides an opporSee TINY | Page A2

EPA shares plans for lead cleanup project

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Man survives, spider bite, lightning and now snakebite LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Kyle Cook can’t decide whether he’s really unlucky or incredibly fortunate.

Over the past four years, the 31-year-old Florida man has survived a lightning strike, a bite by a venomous spider and — most recently — an attack by a rattlesnake in his backyard in Lakeland, southwest of Orlando.

“I need to get a (protective) bubble,” Cook told The Ledger.

His father, Mike Cook, sees it another way. “He’s a walking Murphy’s law,” the elder Cook said. “I walk on the other side of the mall.”

On Aug. 11, the younger Cook was almost finished cutting the grass at his family’s rented house when he heard a loud rattling sound. First he thought it was the buzzing of See LUCKY? | Page A6

Soil cleanup can be a lengthy process.

It’s been more than a decade since the Environmental Protection Agency first targeted Iola’s properties as in need of remediation, contaminated from when zinc smelters operated a century ago.

Now, with end of the first phase of the soil cleanup project in sight — nearly 500 “time critical” properties with unsafe levels of lead will have been cleared by then — the EPA can start planning for its next phase.

A crowd of about 50 gathered at the Iola Public Library Thursday to hear EPA’s proposal for its final remediation plans.

The session is necessary to gather public comment before phase 2 planning can begin, explained Don Bahnke, EPA’s remedial projects manager.

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Iola was the home of several zinc and lead smelting plants in the early 1900s, at the height of the local gas boom.

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Gene Gunn of the Environmental Protection Agency fields a question from Iolan Gary Hoffmeier following a public meeting Thursday on EPA’s soil remediation plans for Iola. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN the east edge of town — just west of Jump Start Travel Center — while the Lanyon Smelter was on the west side of town on land that eventually became the IMP Boats plant.

The smelters shut down about 20 years later because the local natural gas supply had been depleted, but not before depositing lead-filled pollutants throughout Iola.

The lead tailings wafted in

every direction, contaminating nearby properties. In addition, large slag piles near the smelters were popular among townsfolk as a cheap source of fill material. That also spread pollution.

As a result, almost 1,500 residential properties were left with varying levels of lead, Bahnke said.

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volved in 2005, with a preliminary study of properties near the old smelter sites.

Of those, 129, including the McKinley Elementary School property, were found to have unsafe lead levels, more than 800 parts per million.

The tainted soil was excavated, replaced with “clean” dirt, and resodded.

However, the $2 million See EPA | Page A6

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Court report (Editor’s note: Allen County Magistrate Court cases are being handled on an interim basis by Judge Leo Gensweider and other senior judges appointed by the Kansas Supreme Court until Tod Davis is worn in Monday.)

DISTRICT COURT Judge Daniel Creitz Domestic cases filed: Marie Slife vs. David L. Slife, other domestic relations Janelle M. King vs. Kyle J. King, divorce Kristin N. Kumalae vs.

James A. Kumalae, other domestic relations Kansas Dept. of DCF vs.

Reeva J. Lindsey, other domestic relations Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. vs. Brek Ulrich, et al, real estate Marriage licenses: Garry E. Bradley and Melissa S. Adams Serena Drago and Jeremy W. Daniels Daniel Smith and Carla Baker

By BILL DRAPER The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Defense attorneys who represent inmates at a privately run federal prison in Kansas were livid after learning that their meetings with clients had been recorded on video, despite repeated assurances from the penitentiary that the conversations were private.

The recordings that came to light this month had no audio, but the complaints raise the question of whether nonverbal interactions such as body language or the exchange of legal documents are protected under attorneyclient privilege.

“We never had any idea we were being recorded,” said Laine Cardarella, a federal public defender in Missouri whose clients include detainees at the Leavenworth prison.

“This has had a chilling effect.”

A federal judge said the recordings might have violated the Sixth Amendment rights of hundreds of inmates and ordered them stopped.

The company that runs the prison, Corrections Corporation of America, insists that si-

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tunity for at-risk youth to complete their high school education while earning a construction certification. They also learn job skills through community service.

Funding was provided by the Kansas Housing Resources Corp. and private donors.

YouthBuild KCK partnered with Kim Wilson Housing Inc. to build the duplex The group allows atrisk youth to complete high school while earning construction certification.

Seventeen-year-old Mario Picazo has been working on the project.

“It makes me feel good that I’m actually helping other people get housing — a roof over their head,” Picazo said. “It’s the best feeling anybody really could have, knowing that you are doing something good.”

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battery, $433 Juvenile convictions: Marissa N. Orr-Dryden, Iola, disorderly conduct, $406, sentenced to 30 days in jail, suspended for six months probation Criminal cases filed: Johnathan M. Geiler, Iola, possessing stolen property (firearms) Casey A. Bryant, Strong City, forgery Craigory S. Gibson, Iola, felony theft by deception Brenna J.M. Huff, Iola, possessing methamphetamine, possessing marijuana, driving while suspended Maisy J. Hale, Burlington, distributing methamphetamine, theft Contract cases filed: Manning Music, Inc. vs.

Jesse L. Folk Jr. Ransom Memorial Hospital vs. Mark C. Byers Bank of America N.A. vs.

Terry L. Ellis

IOLA MUNICIPAL COURT Judge Patti Boyd Convicted as follows with fines assessed: Anthony T. Smith, Wichita, interfering with law enforcement, driving while suspended, no liability insurance, $1,560 Christopher W. Genoble, Iola, improper registration, driving while suspended, $360 Rebecca A. Stewart, Humboldt, theft, $962.65.

Jacob N. Wise, Elsmore, violating basic speed rule, $300 Tina Hartman, Iola, environmental code nuisance violation, $180 Jerry A. Tindel, Iola, driving while suspended, $300 Rebecca A. Stewart, Humboldt, assaulting a law enforcement officer, $906.99

Diversion agreements with fines assessed:

Taylor J. Evans, Iola, theft, $300

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Mindy Payne, 31, Neosho Falls, was arrested Thursday in the 400 block of South Second Street for a Woodson County warrant, Iola police officers said.

Deanne Delaplain, 54, Iola, was arrested for suspicion of domestic battery and disorderly conduct after police were called Thursday to the 800 block of North Street.

Trevor Hockaday was arrested Wednesday for suspicion of domestic battery after Iola police were called to an altercation near Iola Walmart.

Rebecca Stewart, 23, Chanute, was arrested Tuesday on three Iola Municipal Court warrants, police officers reported.

Katrina M. Holman was cited for theft Tuesday at Iola Walmart.

Cans stolen Robert Bennett, 32, told police Wednesday afternoon somebody stole three plastic gas cans from his front porch. One was a fivegallon can, another a two-gallon can and the third a one-gallon can. All had the name “BENNETT” written on them with black magic marker.

Bicycle taken Michael Waldon told police Tuesday a black Mongoose bicycle was stolen from his property in the 500 block of North Chestnut Street.

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James G. Millaway, Tulsa, Okla., 75/65, $153 Leslie K. Hansen, Alex, Okla., 85/65, $213 Yuriy Hardzeyevskyy, Chicago, 98/65, $348 Eddie D. Henderson, Humboldt, 60/45, $183 Angel R. Preston-Chapman, Tulsa, 87/65, $231 Reality McHargue, North Kansas City, Mo., 80/65, $258 Convicted as follows with fines assessed: Karren L. Juarez, Overland Park, driving while intoxicated, $918, sentenced to 90 days in jail, all but 48 hours suspended for 12 months probation Yenifer Vargas-Macedo, Tulsa, failure to dim headlights, $183 Trey A. Colborn, Iola, theft, $458, sentenced to 90 days in jail, suspended for six months probation Cases deferred with fines assessed: Eric M. Helman, Moran,

MAGISTRATE COURT Convicted of no seat belt and fined $10: Levi T. Schneider, Iola Rachael M. Taylor Convicted of speeding: Cooper A. Link, Kansas City, Mo., 75/65, $153

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lent video recordings of inmate-attorney meetings “are a standard practice” throughout the country and are used solely to enhance the prison’s safety and security.

Unlike prisons controlled by the federal Bureau of Prisons, which generally forbids any recording in attorney-client meeting rooms, private facilities set their own standards.

Concerns about prison recordings of attorney-client conversations are not necessarily new, but nobody has a real grasp of the extent of the problem, said Barry Pollack, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

“I certainly hope that this sheds light on a situation that has not gotten sufficient attention and is an impetus for change,” Pollack said. “Criminal defense attorneys have been aware of this problem for years, but it’s a difficult one to address.”

City and county jails are not governed by Bureau of Prisons policies either, he said. Several

Kansas and Missouri jails that house federal prisoners have acknowledged recording attorney-inmate meetings before the judge told them to stop.

Without uniform standards in place, inmates and attorneys are subject to a patchwork of policies that sometimes threaten their privacy, Pollack said.

The recordings came to light when federal prosecutors tried to force a defense attorney off two cases using footage subpoenaed by a grand jury in a contraband probe.

The subpoena sought all surveillance footage at the prison as part of an investigation into a conspiracy involving as many as 95 inmates and 60 people outside the facility. Of the thousands of hours of video turned over to investigators, some included footage of attorneys meeting with clients.

Defense attorney Jackie Rokusek said two prosecutors told her they had video of her meeting with a client in another case, and that they intended to re-

view it. She asked to see the video and observed not only her meeting with a client, but also footage of other attorney-client visitation going on at the time.

In court documents filed Wednesday, prosecutors said the only people who have seen that video were the defense attorney, her investigator and possibly another attorney assigned to the case. Because the recordings have no sound, they said, it’s unclear whether the videos include privileged communication.

“There is very little case law on the issue of whether nonverbal interaction can be protected by the attorneyclient privilege,” prosecutors wrote.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson ordered the company and any jails holding federal detainees in Kansas and western Missouri to cease recording attorney-client conversations and to turn over any footage.

The judge said she hoped to appoint a so-called special master by mid-September

who would oversee the investigation, which could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In addition to reviewing the videos, investigators will look into why dozens of recorded phone calls between attorneys and their clients were provided to other lawyers representing inmates in the contraband case.

In Wednesday’s filing, prosecutors said unless an inmate provides an attorney’s phone number in advance or tells prison staff that a call is being placed to an attorney, there’s a good chance the conversation is being recorded.

Lawyers should realize their call is being monitored if they hear a recording telling them it is, prosecutors said.

Kansas Federal Public Defender Melody Brannon called the intrusion into attorneyclient privilege “unprecedented.”

“We couldn’t find anything even comparable to the degree of invasion and misconduct by the government that is before the court,” she said.

FDA expands Zika screening to all US blood centers WASHINGTON (AP) — The government told all U.S. blood banks Friday to start screening for Zika, a major expansion intended to protect the nation’s blood supply from the mosquitoborne virus.

Previously, blood testing was mostly limited to parts of Florida and Puerto Rico, where there is local transmission. Screening will initially extend to states along the Gulf Coast and a few others.

“There is still much uncertainty regarding the nature and extent of Zika virus transmission,” Dr. Peter Marks said in a Food and Drug Administration release.

“At this time, the recommendation for testing the entire blood supply will help ensure that safe blood is available for all individuals who might need transfusion.”

Blood banks already test donations for HIV, hepatitis, West Nile virus and other bloodborne viruses. The Zika virus stays in the blood for about one week, but is thought to remain in

other bodily fluids longer.

While Zika is primarily spread through mosquito bites, there have been reports in Brazil of Zika transmission through blood transfusion. No such cases have been reported in the United States. One Zika-positive blood donation, though, was recently intercepted in Florida, Marks disclosed Friday.

“The donation was identified while the blood bag was still in quarantine, before it was released,” Marks told reporters on a media call. “The system worked correctly.”

Zika can also be spread through sex, and Marks said that played into the decision to expand testing.

Current evidence suggests that infected men can spread the virus for several months through sex, and women can transmit it for several weeks.

Adding to the challenge is that four out of five people infected never develop symptoms, such as fever, joint pain

and rash.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reported the first U.S. case of a man spreading Zika through sex even though he never had any symptoms.

The Maryland man had traveled to the Dominican Republic, one of the many countries in the Caribbean and Latin America hit with a Zika outbreak.

There have been nearly 2,500 cases of Zika in the U.S. linked to travel to outbreak areas. Since February, blood banks have turned away people who had recently visited those regions, under a previous FDA directive.

While the virus causes only a mild illness in most people, infection during pregnancy can lead to severe brain-related birth defects.

Blood testing began last month in parts of Florida after the first cases of homegrown Zika occurred in Miami. So far, there have been about 40 cases of Zika caused by mos-

quito bites in Florida.

Health officials, however, don’t expect widespread outbreaks to occur in the U.S. The FDA has authorized use of two experimental blood screening tests for Zika, one made

by Roche and another from Hologic Inc. and Grifols. Several testing sites are already voluntarily using the technology, including blood centers in Texas.

The cost of adding Zika testing to the screening process is less than $10 per blood donation, according to officials at South Texas Blood and Tissue Center.

FDA officials said they do not anticipate any problems supplying the tests throughout the U.S. The tropical mosquito that spreads Zika and other viruses is found along the southern U.S. Friday’s directive lists 11 states that will need to begin screening blood in the next month because of their location or because of the influx of travelers from Zika outbreak countries.

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At Gitmo, prison staff outnumbers inmates, 33-1

By CAROL ROSENBERG Miami Herald

MIAMI (TNS) — Last week 100 or so Military Police from California and Maryland were overlapping with departing troops at the most expensive prison on earth — a routine Army rotation that meant there were at least 33 soldiers and civilians at the prison complex for each Guantanamo captive.

In Indianapolis earlier this month, family and friends bade farewell to 60 National Guard infantrymen bound for Fort Bliss, Texas, to train for a nine-month Guantanamo prison tour. And at Fort McCoy, Wis., a unit of Puerto Rican Army Reserve MPs trained last week at a mock prison camp compound for a spring 2017 call-up to Guantanamo Bay. Even as the Obama administration expects to empty its wartime prison of all but the last 40 or so detainees, the military has declined to downsize the staff that surged past 2,000 in 2013 when more than 100 captives waged a mass hunger strike.

Today the prison holds 61 detainees, 10 of them charged with war crimes, in at least four different sites in the sprawling Detention Center Zone. Fortyfive or fewer are held in two penitentiary-style buildings, Camps 5 and 6, capable of housing 300 prisoners. But until one of those buildings is shut down, commander Rear Adm. Peter Clarke doesn’t think it’s wise to reduce the guard force. “What drives the number of personnel, specifically the number of Military Police companies and the number of medical personnel that we have for detention operations, is the number of facilities that we have to operate,� he told reporters the morn-

Soldiers assigned to the Guantanamo prison staff held riot control training recently. The prison spokesman’s office said troops assigned to the now 61-detainee prison underwent a range of training “from simple protests to events that turn to full-scale riots. The U.S. military blurred name tapes of the troops in this picture before releasing the images. STAFF SGT.JESS WILLIAMS/U.S. ARMY/TNS ing after his troops put 15 captives on an Air Force cargo plane to the United Arab Emirates.

He also noted that the 2,000-strong prison staff at the 6,000-resident Navy base was all alone down there with no State Police or National Guard outside the gate to help in “some type of mass riot or mass noncompliance.�

At least a quarter of the detainees these days are already kept in single-cell captivity.

They include 15 former CIA captives segregated in a clandestine maximum-security compound; the clearedfor-release author of “Guantanamo Diary,� who has spent years in Camp Echo segregation and a “handful of non-religious fasters,� low-value detainees on hunger strike.

In 2013, when more than 100 of 166 captives went on a hunger strike in communal captivity, Marine Gen. John F. Kelly surged the force to about 14 staff per prisoner to put every captive in single-cell detention. Those still on hunger strike remain there because it’s easier to watch whether they eat and throw it up, eas-

Soldiers with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 96th Military Police Battalion, U.S. Army Reserve, board a flight from Fort Bliss to Guantanamo on July 20, 2016. ISMAEL ORTEGA/FORT BLISS/TNS

ier to offer them a can of Ensure through a slot in their cell door, and easier, if they refuse to drink it, to tackle and shackle them into a restraint chair for a tube feeding.

A succession of officers who refused to be named in this article said no commander willingly returns forces unless they’re getting in trouble or their leaders can’t keep them occupied. On July 29, for one unit, that meant training in a field, not one of the many empty cellblocks, on how to put down riots. And last week 250 troops toured a warship that stopped by the base on the way to its commissioning in Philadelphia.

A wallet-sized card tells each arriving troop, “What you CAN’T talk about,� notably “political/legal discussions� and “speculation on detainee releases.�

Each new troop also gets a “Welcome Aboard!� letter from the admiral, calling the prison staff an “elite group of men and women who excel in this critical ‘no fail’ mission.�

So, while there could be 41 or fewer captives in Guantanamo by the time Barack Obama leaves office, commanders won’t comment on GOP nominee Donald Trump’s vow to “load it up with some bad dudes� if he’s elected president. Speaking in February, Trump also condemned the high costs of running the prison and floated the idea of outsourcing prison operations to Cuba.

Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and author of “Rogue Justice� on the war on terror, called today’s staff-to-prisoner ratio “ridiculous,� and suggested there could be a politically motivated lack of will to downsize the staff by the Obama administration. “It’s yet another

piece of money in the war on terror that we don’t need to be expending, at least not for the reasons stated,� she said. “When was the last time they needed to put down a revolt?�

In 2015, the White House estimated annual prison costs at $455 million. Divide that figure by the 61 detainees there today and that works out to nearly $7.29 million per prisoner. But the costs include not just caring for, feeding and putting detainees on trial. It also covers caring for, feeding and supervising the revolving forces who, according to spokesman Navy Capt. John Filostrat, get monthly bonuses of $275 to $375 in hazardous duty and family separation pay. The deployment generally gets soldiers new gear and Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary medals.

Without downsizing the troops, the price per prisoner goes up and up, Greenberg said, fueling a key talking point in the White House argument to close the prison as a waste of resources. “If you go to Congress

with a $10 million price tag per detainee it looks so absurd that they finally have to shut it down.�

The Detention Center Zone these days would be a sleepy place but for its big military force to maintain essentially a base inside the base. It has its own chapel, cinema, weekly newsletter, mental health and dining facilities as well as a mini-mart and internet cafe — all for the troops.

The prison has staff lawyers, guards, engineers, computer techs, analysts, doctors, nurses, medics, supply officers, photographers, escorts, personnel specialists, chaplains, commanders and censors — the majority of them pulled from civilian life for nine-month visits after specialized training in U.S. bases. They wrap up their time with what the military calls rightseat, left-seat training, weeks of doing side-byside duties with their replacements.

Twice-weekly Periodic Review Board hearings are winding down.

Obama ordered them set up in 2011 to give each uncharged prisoner a hearing every three years. The first round finishes on Sept. 8 when the prison’s youngest captive, Yemeni Hassan Bin Attash, born in 1985, goes before the

board for the first time.

Soon the guard force won’t be delivering a captive twice a week to a video teleconference site to address the parole board in Washington, D.C. Contractors are building a new $12.4 million dining facility, off-limits to other base residents, for the prison staff. Also under construction: An $8.4 million health clinic to care for low-value detainees. Former CIA captives have their own medical facility. So the new clinic will care for at most 46 prisoners, 20 of whom are cleared for release.

The motor pool has one government vehicle for every four staff members, from big vans that used to shuttle most staff to work to the military version of golfcarts, called “mules,� that enlisted soldiers now use to shuttle from their quarters to their offices.

Military judges have scheduled three different sets of pretrial hearings at the war court for September — each in a single-defendant case.

The five alleged Sept. 11 plotters are due back at Camp Justice in October, but trial won’t start before the next president takes office. Air Force engineers on temporary duty maintain a mostly empty tent city there.

Soldiers train outside Guantanamo prison’s empty Camp Delta cell blocks in a photo released by the prison Public Affairs staff this week. JOINT TASK FORCE GUANTANAMO/TNS

Runner reunited with lost stray LONDON (AP) — An ultra-marathon runner has been reunited with the stray dog that accompanied him through part of a grueling desert race in China and then went missing.

Dion Leonard says the stray befriended him as he took part in the 155-mile Gobi March race, part of the 4 Deserts race series.

The dog followed him for much of the race.

He vowed to take the dog, named Gobi, home to the U.K. Leonard, who lives in Scotland, says the dog was preparing to go into quarantine in China before traveling to the U.K. when she

disappeared.

Having learned that she ran away, he returned to China to find Gobi with the help of a crowdfunding appeal, using posters and the power of social media to track her down. “On Tuesday night, I received a phone call around 9 p.m. at night saying, ‘We’ve got Gobi.

We think it is her. It looks like her in the posters, come round and have a look,’ “ he told the BBC. “Thankfully we went over and as soon as I walked into the lounge she came running across the room and into my arms.� “She was so excited to see me,� he said. “I knew it was her

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On Friday, the Allen County Substance Abuse Task Force delivered recreational balls — soccer, basketball, football and dodge — to all of Iola’s elementary schools. In previous days, they did the same in Humboldt and Moran. The balls are printed with positive reminders to avoid tobacco and other harmful substances. In addition to these purchases, the task force’s grant funding has allowed it to make purchases that further aid the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center, Head Start, the Pregnancy Resource Center and many other local institutions. Pictured, from left, are: McKinley Principal Angie Linn, Carol Olson task force member, and Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy, who also serves as task force chairman. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY

Jump Start Travel Center donated $5,000 to the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility, in LaHarpe, on Thursday. The donation represents the proceeds from Light ‘Em Up Fireworks. The Allen County Community Foundation was on hand to present the check. Pictured, from left, are: Robyn Porter, Jeff Cokely, Janice Porter, Kelly Macha, Virginia Macha and Susan Michaels. “We are all big pet lovers,” said Virginia Macha, who organized the gift. “We have a strong attachment to ACARF and want to see it succeed.” For the dogs’ names or to donate to ACARF call 620496-3647 or visit www.acarf.org. REGISTER/RICK DANLEY

U.S. wants to force lower speed limits on trucks, buses DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. is seeking to forcibly limit how fast trucks, buses and other large vehicles can travel on the nation’s highways.

A new proposal Friday would impose a nationwide limit by electronically capping speeds with a device on newly made U.S. vehicles that weigh more than 26,000 pounds. Regulators are considering a cap of 60, 65 or 68 mph, though that could change. Whatever the speed limit, drivers would be physically prevented from exceeding it. The proposal does not force older heavy vehicles to add the speedlimiting technology, but regulators are still considering it.

The government said capping speeds for new large vehicles will reduce the 1,115 fatal crashes involving heavy trucks that occur each year and save $1 billion in fuel costs.

While the news is being welcomed by some safety advocates and non-professional drivers, many truckers say that such changes could lead to dangerous scenarios where they are traveling at much lower speeds than everyone else.

The rule has been ensnared in a regulatory maze in the decade since the nonprofit group Roadsafe America issued its first petition in 2006. The group was founded by Atlanta financial adviser Scott Owings and his wife Susan, whose son Cullum was killed by a speeding

tractor-trailer during a trip back to school in Virginia after Thanksgiving in 2002. The nonprofit was later joined by the American Trucking Associations, the nation’s largest trucking industry group.

Owings said he will continue to push NHTSA to force older heavy vehicles to limit their speeds.

“We are dismayed and outraged to learn the proposed rule will be for newly manufactured trucks and will not apply to the millions of trucks with which we continue to share the roads today,” he said.

NHTSA said retrofitting vehicles made after 1990 with the speed-limiting technology could be too costly, and it is still seeking comments and additional information. NHTSA said it could cost anywhere from $100 to $2,000 per vehicle, depending on when the vehicle was made. Changes to some engines could also be required, increasing the costs, NHTSA said.

To James Chapman, a big rig driver from Spartanburg, South Carolina, 68 mph would be the best option and he’d accept 65. But 60 would be too big of a difference from cars that go 75 or more.

“To me it would be a safety hazard unless it slowed everybody else down,” he said while refueling his truck Friday along interstate 75 near Findlay, Ohio.

The agencies said that limiting the speed of heavy vehicles to 60

mph could save as many as 498 lives annually.

Limiting it to 65 mph could save as many as 214 lives, and limiting it to 68 mph could save as many as 96.

The agencies said the proposal is based on available safety data and the additional benefit of better fuel economy. The cost would be minimal because all of the 3.6

million big rigs on U.S. roads have speed-limiting devices installed already, but some don’t have the limits set, according to agency documents.

But Norita Taylor, spokeswoman for the 157,000-member Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association, said her group has opposed the speed limit-

ers because they create dangerous interactions between vehicles as faster cars slow down for trucks. “Differentials in speed increase interactions between vehicles, which increases the likelihood of crashes,” Taylor said.

Yet there is another compelling reason to limit truck speeds. An investigation last year

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Then, he thought the push mower might be making the noise so he shut it off.

That’s when he saw the snake coiled about 3 feet from his right foot. He estimated it was about 5 feet long and had a girth the size of a soda can.

After briefly freezing in fear, Cook said he moved his left foot back and stepped on a stick.

The noise apparently provoked the snake, which struck his ankle.

He says it happened fast. “I didn’t even see it bite me,” Cook said. “I just screamed and ran to my wife.”

His wife, Sara, said she washed the wound and called the poison control hotline. She then drove him to the emergency room at a Lakeland hospital.

Cook, a self-professed “bigger guy,” said doctors told him the snake’s fangs didn’t penetrate beyond a layer of fatty tissue.

“They said the tissue saved my life because it didn’t allow (the venom) to go into the bloodstream,” he said. He said he spent one night in the hospital and received one dose of antivenin.

He’s still experiencing soreness and walks with a slight limp.

Reactions to snake bites can vary wildly, according to Dr. Alfred Aleguas, director of the Florida Poison Information Center in Tampa.

He said an average of 11 venomous snakebites have been reported to the center in the past five years, including a high of 17 in 2013.

But back to Cook’s other tales of survival.

On Aug. 12, 2012, he was driving a sweeper truck for a construction crew. A storm approached, and the truck’s sweeper got stuck. He left the cab to free it as lightning struck about 10 feet away. Cook said the electricity moved through a puddle, up the sweep-

Maybe the higher up ... is trying to get your attention that maybe something is going wrong.

— Kyle Cook, Lakeland, Fla.

er’s metal bristles and reached his left hand.

He said he was knocked backward about 6 feet and rendered unconscious for up to a minute.

“It was like Mike Tyson hitting me with a jack hammer in the jaw,” he recalled.

Doctors said he had a mild heart attack. He said he still suffers a combination of nerve pain and loss of sensation on his left side.

“Lightning scares me so bad now,” he said.

The spider bite happened in April, when he was working as a truck driver. He was sitting on a pallet when a recluse spider bit his left hand.

Not wanting to miss a paycheck, he kept working until his hand swelled and became extremely painful. He went to the hospital and doctors performed surgery to drain the buildup of toxins.

He still has limited use of his hand, and is unemployed because the company fired him due to his absences.

Even before the latest incidents, Cook said he’s had many misadventures. He once got bitten by an alligator that he “accidentally” caught while fishing.

And he was bitten by his friend’s Burmese python, which he was trying to feed.

“It’s been a rough four years,” he said. “Maybe the higher up ... is trying to get your attention that maybe something is going wrong. Or maybe I’ve simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time my whole life.”

project ran out of money, Bahnke said, with EPA officials certain additional properties were contaminated.

In order to trigger additional federal funding, EPA placed Iola on its National Priorities List, designating Iola as a “Superfund” site.

In 2013, EPA began testing and targeting another 350 time-critical properties for immediate cleanup.

That work should be done by mid-2017, Bahnke said.

Meanwhile, testing has found another 900 or so properties with lesser levels of lead — 400 ppm or above — that require some remediation.

That leads to today.

The EPA will continue to seek public input through Sept. 7. In addition to Thursday’s meeting, residents may go online to https:// semspub.epa.gov/src/ collection/07/AR6756 to leave comments.

After that, the agency will determine the best course of action to handle Phase 2, of which there are three options.

WHAT’S NEXT?

Researchers have targeted three potential routes to follow for Phase 2: — Do nothing and leave the properties alone. While it obviously would cost much less than excavation work, it does nothing to remove potential dangers of lead in the soil, Bahnke noted.

— Continue in much the same manner as the first phase, by excavating soil and replacing it with untainted dirt before adding sod, planting grass or adding other vegetation. Early estimates peg the cost at $19 million.

— Utilize phosphate injection, by tilling phosphoric acid into the lead-tainted soil.

The phosphate interacts with the lead, making it less hazardous

Soil excavation has begun on these properties on East Street in Iola to clear them of lead-tainted dirt. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Public input wanted for EPA Plans Iolans are invited to post comments about the Environmental Protection Agency’s plans for soil remediation in Iola starting in the summer of 2017 via the Internet at https://semspub.epa.gov/src/collection/07/AR6756. to humans, although there are drawbacks, Bahnke noted. For one, the long-term benefits of such a practice still are not known. (The phosphate will eventually degrade, but the lead will not.) The second hurdle is the price.

Phosphate injection over such a wide area would cost about $36 million, Bahnke said, not counting the cost of further monitoring.

With that in mind, EPA officials favor the second alternative, continuing the excavation and replacement. The tainted land is taken to the Allen County Landfill and covered.

After deciding which course to pursue later this year, Bahnke expects the second phase work to start about this time in 2017.

After the second phase is complete, EPA will shift its sights to commercial properties, which like the residen-

tial land, is probably contaminated, noted Gene Gunn, an EPA official at Thursday’s meeting.

He anticipated the third phase planning to occur sometime in 2019.

THE EPA officials fielded a number of questions from the public, including the number of properties that still have not been tested (about 250), to whether the heightened lead levels posed a danger to animals and birds (they were uncertain, but promised to find the answer.)

David Toland, executive director of Thrive Allen County, expressed frustration after hearing commercial properties won’t be targeted for cleanup until 2019. He noted recent proposed economic development projects along U.S. 54 have been derailed because the EPA is resistant to al-

lowing others to do the cleanup early.

Gunn said the agency may be open to working with individual commercial property owners to find a quicker solution.

He said EPA will remain persistent in convincing property owners to allow inspections, and if necessary, remediation.

Those who continue to resist are at risk of having their properties tagged as potentially hazardous, which could affect property values.

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most susceptible to lead poisoning, from direct exposure to tainted soil or by ingesting dust from lead paint in older homes.

Lead poisoning can lead to a host of issues affecting the central nervous system, behavioral disorders and learning disabilities, health experts have said.

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combines to start to roll.

Of a cautious nature, Daniels is not prepared to announce 2016 an unqualified success. He remembers other years when a good harvest seemed all but assured only to have nature intervene at the last minute and sour expectations.

Early August 1986: The inland hurricane roared through Allen County and left crop fields a maze of twisted plants and dashed hopes. July 2007: Almost unparalleled rainfall sent the Neosho River surging from its banks, in places sweeping corn and soybean plants from fields as if they had been cut with a sickle.

Looking back further, Daniels, who has farmed since his pre-teen years, recalls 1957 and 1967 being so wet the wheat harvest didn’t occur until fair time in August 1957, two months later than usual. Ten years later the fields were a sloppy mess.

This year is different; rain by and large has fallen at the right times and in the right amounts.

Even with the benefit of experience, this year

than 100 acres of soybeans. At its east edge is a buffer of Johnson grass, partly dead from spraying, the rest taller than any man. Next comes a strip of what Daniels calls pig weed that sneers at Roundup, the universally favored herbicide, and embraces low spots where water stands.

A few bean leaves have a smattering of irregular holes, the product of worms; others have had their tops snipped off by hungry deer. But overall, no signs of danger.

DANIELS

Small green worms, such as this one, and corn borers have been a problem in some soybean fields. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON

Daniels is bordering on optimistic.

“This is a growing year and could be a real good one,” Daniels said, as he relaxed in his is office.

Though the worm problem does nag at him.

After checking the chest-high soybean

plants on some of his best ground, a river bottom field south of where U.S. 169 snakes from Allen County to Neosho, and finding it absent of worms, he announced: “Let’s check the Monarch bottom.”

That field south of Monarch Cement’s original quarry holds better

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it costs about $120 an acre to plant soybeans, not including property taxes on the land, labor and equipment depreciation. Corn input is another story, $300 an acre or more.

Consequently, beans this year are the better investment, though even in good years their yields seldom reach half that of corn.

In short order, commodity prices tell why.

Daniels brought up the latest figures onto his computer: Soybeans were bringing $9.96 a bushel in Chanute, corn $2.86.

He fears “a lot of

guys are going to lose their tails on corn this year,” unless yields are 150 bushels or more per acre, a likelihood on prime bottom ground but far from a sure thing on upland. The reality: Corn making 100 bushels and selling for $2.86 ($286 an acre) would fetch less than input costs, leaving nothing for long hours of labor. Seems an anomaly, Daniels allowed, to lose money on corn making 100 bushels.

Beans, on the other hand, will make money, and perhaps quite a bit if yields follow appearances and get to 60, 70 or more bushels per acre.

Even after-wheat beans look more like a full-season variety.

Shawn Geffert, who farms south of Iola, recently agreed. “I put all my wheat ground back to beans,” Geffert said.

He picked the right year to do it.

Last year Daniels’ beans averaged around 50 bushels, with some small spots in fields rolling up to 70 or more.

With computerized readouts, yield is measured by each stroke of the complicated devices in a combine that strip pods

from plants and extract beans before auguring them into a behind-cab bin.

Daniels always hedges his bet on corn.

Last year his crop produced about 9,000 bushels, 4,000 of which he marketed as feed for his cattle.

This year, he went heavier on beans, with the correct assumption corn prices would be low. Another reality is that when the corn harvest hits high gear the price often slips.

A year ago his corn averaged 100 bushels, while in 2014 its was 150. He is confident this year’s will be closer to 2014, but he’s still banking on beans to pay the bills.

Trading his billed cap for a Stetson, Daniels, as cattleman, is flush with enthusiasm.

Rainfall has pastures green, lush and still growing, and the ponds are full.

“If it doesn’t snow, we won’t have to feed hay until January,” he said, and even if winter turns harsh, the hay crop, with rainfall again the catalyst, has been as productive as any in many years.

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Give Donna a call “I get my photo in the newspaper too much,” Donna Houser lightheartedly lamented this week, after a photo Monday showed her leading a tour of improvements at the football complex in Riverside Park.

If anything, Houser probably doesn’t get enough recognition for all she does. She is a workhorse for the Allen County Historical Society, designing and arranging window displays and conducting well researched and informative tours of any number of historical things by way of the trolley. Recently she raised $44,000 for the football stadium project.

The football gig was special.

Husband Ray, who died March 20, 2015, was the love of her life, and special to scores of kids who played football for Iola High School — perhaps even more so with his captivating presentations in the classroom. He coached the Mustangs nine years and also had a hand in basketball and golf.

I’ve known Donna and Ray since they moved here in the 1960s, at first because I then wrote sports for the Register and later because they were good friends. So good, in fact, that Ray, much more skillful than me, installed a cabinet top and sink in our kitchen when we lived just a stone’s throw from each other on the east side of town.

We also were invited to get-togethers for coaches and their wives after home games on Friday nights. We felt hon-

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ored.

Donna has always been very much her own person and involved with community service. She was a dental technician — the first licensed in Kansas after attending Temple University — before becoming an English teacher at the middle school.

Her activities in school should have been a dead giveaway to what was to come with retirement. Not only did she prepare students for the transition to high school, she also organized and put on stage productions that opened a window for many kids to embrace that facet of education.

With retirement the Housers traveled before Ray’s health became an insurmountable hurdle, and she always was eager to share their experiences from far-off lands.

The stadium project is nearing its conclusion — at least the first phase. What’s next is yet to be decided, but you can bet your bottom dollar Donna will come calling in her charming and persuasive way. It’s next to impossible to say no.

We need more folks like Donna.

I’ve lived in the Midwest my entire adult life. By temperament, I’m a Midwesterner — relatively pragmatic, optimistic within reason, and generally kind (I hope).

I’ve lived in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, and Kansas the past 37 years.

Traveling through this region I see both similarities and differences among the states and their cultures. The geography of the region reinforces the notion of space, whether in the rolling hills of Wisconsin or the flat expanses of downstate Illinois or western Kansas. Small towns differ, to be sure, but there’s a similar struggle and pride that pops up, town after town.

Over time, Midwestern states have been reasonably well governed, although there is a range.

My initial intent for this column was to contrast Minnesota, a high-tax, high-service state with a Democratic governor to Kansas, a state with declining income taxes, declining services and a GOP governor. I expected Minnesota to shine, but while its economic performance has exceeded that of Kansas, the comparisons are more mixed than I anticipated.

Driving through Minneapolis, there is an overwhelming sense of energy and enterprise — lots of building and increasing high-tech investments. Indeed, overall a new economic assessment by Governing magazine ranked Minnesota 15th in the nation, while Kansas came in at 38th. But in terms of jobs created, the two states were similar, although recent Kansas losses may have pushed

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the state a bit farther behind.

More generally, across our region, economic conditions have muddled along, with no state ranking higher than Minnesota (tied with Nebraska) and the rest of our neighboring states coming in between 20th and 30th.

The weakest states in the recent rankings all have their own stories, often revolving around the decline in energy prices. The strongest reflected a mix of relatively high tax (Massachusetts) and low tax (Colorado) states, although in general higher taxes accompanied greater prosperity in our weak-oil economy.

What the most prosperous states have done, however, is to have vigorous discussions about tax and spending policies.

And they have adjusted their policies when problems have emerged.

Minnesota income tax rates are relatively high and progressive, which have not kept high-income individuals from moving there. At the same time, Minnesotans pay no sales tax on food (compared to more than 9 percent in many Kansas communities), nor on over-the-counter drugs. And most clothing is exempted. Thus, families spending $10,000 on food, drugs, and clothing over the course of a year pay around

Letter to the editor Dear editor,

I think we have a great person among us in this little town. She does a lot behind the scenes that we probably don’t even know about.

She takes a lot upon herself that she really does not need to do but she does it anyway. The things she

does for this town should be something we should be thankful for.

Keep up the good work, Donna Houser.

We are glad to call you our friend forever.

Terry and Karen Johnson, Iola, Kan.

Is Rudy Giuliani OK? Caring for ‘America’s mayor’ We are a little worried about Rudy Giuliani, the Republican former mayor of New York. Is “America’s mayor” OK? During his 15-minute speech at the GOP convention last month in Cleveland, it was notable that when he said Donald Trump loves “all people, from the top to the bottom,” Mr. Giuliani animatedly gestured toward his knees as he said “top,” and above his head as he said “bottom.” Also, why did he say that he and his wife, Judith, have been friends with Mr. Trump for 30 years, though he met his wife in 1999, only 17 years ago?

Also — we’re noting this purely out of concern — during his speech he often licked his lips, indicating dry mouth, which, according to the Mayo Clinic, can be a symptom of nerve damage, stroke or Alzheimer’s disease. At the end of his address, beads of sweat were visible on his pate — did that not suggest heart disease?

Mr. Giuliani is just 72, but he seemed slightly stooped as he walked to the lectern, where his wide stance made us wonder if he’s unsteady on his feet. Then there was his slurred diction, as when

he referred to “jushtified” police shootings and Syrian “refyoongees.” More evidence of a stroke?

Yes, all of the above is ludicrous — as ludicrous as Mr. Giuliani’s own loathsome smears and innuendo about Hillary Clinton’s health, which follow Mr. Trump’s.

In recent days, indulging a grudge he has evidently held for years, he has urged people to watch Internet videos that purport to prove Ms. Clinton is ill. He doubled down after that, saying the Democratic presidential nominee ap- ciently forthcoming about his and her medical history. In peared “tired” and “sick.”

Of course, Mr. Giuliani fact, Ms. Clinton has released hasn’t a speck of evidence for more (and more relevant) information than Mr. Trump, his blather, a whose own damning fact p hy s i c i a n , considering he If elected, Mr. Trump, I H a r o l d was once a fedcan state unequivocally, B o r n s t e i n , eral prosecuwill be the healthiest in- a gastroentor, and proof positive of his dividual ever elected to t e r o l o g i s t , quackishly impaired charthe presidency. asserted acter, if not that, “If health.

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detailed study Dr. Bornstein has devoted to every previous president’s health, including that of Theodore Roosevelt, an accomplished boxer, hunter and outdoorsman who, when he became president, was 28 years younger than Mr. Trump.)

Unfortunately, Mr. Trump, 70, has taken the same nondisclosure stance on his health records as he has on his taxes, asserting there is nothing to hide while hiding everything.

That hasn’t stopped Mr. Giuliani from trading in scurrilous and debunked theories about the Democratic candidate. Come to think of it, he should see a doctor.

— The Washington Post

$900 less in Minnesota than in Kansas.

In short, Minnesota is a high-tax state, but its burdens fall disproportionately on the upper middle class and the wealthy. Equally significant, Minnesota legislators and its governor have had lengthy, substantive discussions about economic policy. For example, they are currently arguing about extending the Minneapolis light rail system, debating its prospective distribution of costs and benefits.

Conversely, since 2012 Kansas tax policy has been made willy-nilly. The governor and the Legislature bought the Laffernomics promise of low-tax prosperity, passed a jury-rigged bill in 2012, and then subsequently increased sales taxes that disproportionately affect the least affluent. Astoundingly, there has been little serious deliberation about tax policies; rather, they have been hastily packaged at the end of legislative sessions.

Likewise, spending cuts have been ad hoc and themeless, as funds are sliced here or there, time and again, to avoid deficits.

States all do things differently and sometimes make poor policy decisions, but Kansas has been especially reckless and thoughtless.

It’s time we elect legislators who can have actual policy discussions and produce sensible legislation that seeks to benefit all our citizens.

Is making careful decisions too much to ask?

Burdett Loomis is a professor of political science at the University of Kansas.

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50 Years Ago Week of Aug. 22, 1966 Ambulance service in the Iola area is scheduled to terminate Aug. 31 due to lack of public funds to subsidize the service. Iola City Commissioners voted to end their contract with Bill Widman, when Widman appeared before them yesterday and said he would need $300 a month to continue the service. The city had been paying him $175 a month.

Efforts to persuade the Allen County commissioners to share in the expense have been fruitless, city officials said. It was pointed out that a similar service in Neosho County is costing the City of Chanute $500 a month.

Unless a means to finance the service is found prior to the cutoff date, the only ambulance services in Allen County will be in Humboldt and Moran. An ambulance also operates out of Colony. ***** Louie Kinman, Iola native and long-time resident of Estes Park, Colo., is issuing a new record album under the Drum and Dot labels titled “Crepes Suzettes.”

Kinman’s dance band plays throughout the summer at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park and moves to Palm Springs in the winter to ply its trade there. An open house at the Stanley was held Sunday to ballyhoo his new album. ***** Thompson’s Poultry, Inc., Iola’s third largest employer, is now processing 17,000 fryers a day, Corbett Thompson, president of the firm, told Iola Kiwanians last night. He said the firm is still expanding. It has 75 employees now.

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No serious injuries

A Moran woman escaped serious injury after the pickup she was driving was struck by a semitractor-trailer unit northeast of Iola Friday morning.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Teresa Stewart, 54, Moran, was turning from U.S. 169 onto North Dakota Road when her pickup was struck by a semi driven by Dewayne H. Games, 44, West Plains, Mo., who was northbound on the highway. Stewart was transported via ambulance to Allen County Regional Hospital for what KHP deemed was “possible” injury. Games was unhurt.

Both drivers were wearing seat belts, KHP reports said. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Bill and Gayle Campbell On Sept. 4, 1966, William E. (Bill) Campbell, of Kansas City, Kan., and Gayle L. Scoville, of Kansas City, Mo., eloped and drove to Oklahoma and were married by Judge Leslie Stalcup in the Nowata Courthouse.

Bill and Gayle have been blessed with two wonderful sons and a wonderful daughter-inlaw, Thomas and Juliana, College Station, Texsa, and Terry, Iola.

The Campbells and

their children will celebrate this joyous occasion with an open house from 1 to 4 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, at the Silas Bass Center, 505 N. Buckeye St. Family and friends are invited.

Car bomb kills 11 ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Kurdish suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden truck into a checkpoint near a police station Friday in southeast Turkey, killing at least 11 police officers and wounding 78 other people, the prime minister

said.

The attack struck the checkpoint 50 yards from a main police station near the town of Cizre, in the mainlyKurdish Sirnak province that borders Syria. Television footage showed black smoke rising from the truck.

Pokemon Go crash WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities said a Pokemon Go player crashed his car while playing the mobile game.

The crash happened Thursday morning on Wichita State University’s campus in Maize.

Maize police said the man had been playing Pokemon Go while driving when his car collided with a pole in a parking lot.

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High School:

KSHSAA rules designed to help prevent head injuries

High School Tennis: Fillies open season in Chanute

By ANDY MARSO KHI News Service

Familiar sounds filled the air at Blue Valley Northwest High School’s first football practice of the year.

Rock music playing over the sound system. Whistles blaring. Coaches yelling instructions.

But one sound wasn’t present: Helmets colliding.

That’s because the Kansas State High School Athletic Association, or KSHSAA, approved new rules last year limiting full-contact football practice.

Players aren’t allowed to go all-out until the fifth practice.

Once games start, full-contact practices are limited to an hour and a half, and contact isn’t allowed the day after games.

The new rules — formed with help from the National Federation of State High School Associations Concussion Summit Task Force — are meant to reduce players’ head injuries and brain trauma that have parents increasingly asking whether football is right for their kids.

Not everyone is a fan.

“I personally don’t like the limited contact setting because you’re not allowed to go 100 percent, basically, and I just can’t play football like that,” said Garret Tierney, a senior running back and linebacker at Blue Valley Northwest in Overland Park.

But Tierney said his mom and grandparents are concerned about the connection between football and head injuries.

Tierney doesn’t think he’s ever had a concussion. But concussions aren’t the only worry when it comes to football.

Researchers at Boston University have studied the brains of people who played See KSHSAA | Page B3

Iola sophomore Jennifer Tidd returns a ball during Thursday’s tennis match against Labette County in Chanute. Tidd and her doubles partner junior Carley Cescon went 2-2 on the day. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

PROMISING START Iola doubles gets season rolling with solid showing

By JON DYKSTRA The Iola Register

CHANUTE — With all the new faces around the Iola tennis program, Thursday’s season opening varsity matches at the Chanute Invitational were a key gauge to see where the team would be going into the season and its home event next week.

Coach Jenn Bycroft was very happy with the results her athletes were

Major League Baseball: Royals 5, Marlins 2

Royals keep closing playoff gap

By CHRISTOPHER STOCK The Associated Press

MIAMI (AP) — Alcides Escobar is the latest player to make an impact at the plate for the Kansas City Royals.

Escobar homered, doubled, and drove in two runs to lead the surging Royals past the

Miami Marlins 5-2 on Thursday night. “ E s k y had a great game,” Royals manager Ned Yost said.

“Just had a great game. Defensively, offensively,

On Monday, the Register published an article from the Associated Press detailing complaints filed with the NAACP over a rule the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference that limits the number of athletes the confer-

National Football League:

See ROYALS | Page B6

Allen leaders respond to NAACP complaint Red Devil women’s basketball coach Todd Buchanan, left, stands with an official during a game last winter. Buchanan’s team is one of the teams affected by the out-of-state rules. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA

See TENNIS | Page B4

the home run was big to give us a two-run lead at that point.”

Escobar is hitting .388 (19 for 49) with four doubles, a triple, and a home run in his last 13 games.

Salvador Perez and Ken-

Jayhawk Conference Athletics:

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able to turn in. Both doubles teams finished the day with 2-2 records and showed plenty for Bycroft to work with as the season proceeds.

“All the kids I have are really coachable kids and that really helps a lot,” Bycroft said.

One of the players that Bycroft was very interested in watching perform was Carley Cescon. The junior is go-

ence’s football and basketball programs can recruit from out-of-state.

The conference requires its football teams to stay at under 20 scholarship out-of-state players while men’s and women’s basketball can carry up to eight See KJCCC | Page B3

Kansas City Chiefs running back Charcandrick West (35) is tripped up in the second quarter against the Seattle Seahawks during preseason action on Aug. 13, at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS

Key Chiefs battle injuries

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The third preseason game is usually the dress rehearsal for the regular season, the one time in the four-game series when starters play into the third quarter as if the outcome mattered.

It will be hard for the Kan-

sas City Chiefs to approach Saturday’s game in Chicago that way.

Chiefs coach Andy Reid said after the final practice of the week Thursday that several starters and backups will not play due to injuries and their rehab situation. Among them are pass rusher Tamba Hali, See CHIEFS | Page B8

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For 10 years, the 75-pound pearl was hidden in a bag under a bed. The fishermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family would rub it with their hands before going out to sea in the belief it would bring them luck, said relative Aileen Amurao.

Amurao, who is also Puerto Princesa cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tourism officer, said Thursday that the man gave her the pearl last month for safekeeping because he was moving to a new place.

The pearl was sitting on a bench in her home for weeks until she found time to check the Internet, and she was shocked to learn that it could be the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest at 2.2 feet long and 1 foot wide.

The fisherman, his father and brothers found the irregularshaped pearl inside a giant clam that stuck to their boatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anchor when they sought refuge from a squall on a reef, Amurao said.

The fisherman did not want to be identified, she said.

She said that she, the fisherman and his family decided to turn over the pearl to the city mayor, who had it displayed in a glass case in Puerto Princesaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s city hall to attract tourists. The fisherman will receive a still-unspecified reward from the local government, Amurao said, adding that he never intended to sell it.

Experts from the University of the Philippines have expressed interest in inspecting the pearl, but she said no date has been set for their visit.

It would not be the first time giant pearls have been found off Palawan.

A 20-pound pearl, called Pearl of the King, was found in Palawan in 1939, and is on display in a hotel at the central island resort of Boracay. Local media have reported that fishermen had recovered other huge pearls in the province, including one reportedly weighing 54 pounds.

The Guinness World Records lists a 718.50 carat baroque abalone pearl as the biggest of its kind, measuring 5.5 inches in length, 3.1 inches wide and 1.6 inches thick.

Woman jostled on NYC subway loses grip on bugs NEW YORK (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; New York City subway riders are likely to get bugged over a lot of things â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but a recent incident was one for the books.

The New York Post says a woman trying to sell crickets and worms lost her grip on her odd cargo when she got jostled Wednesday evening on a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; train.

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out-of-state players.

Among those filing a complaint was Garden City Community College football coach Jeffery Sims who told the Associated Press that: “Out-ofstater is a code word for minority.”

Allen Community College President John Masterson says that he never anticipated anyone reacting that way to the rule.

“The action that Garden City took, took me by surprise because I’ve been associated with the conference and its athletics since 1973 and I have never heard anyone respond to the out-of-state limitations as any kind of racial quota,” Masterson said.

He says that the original purpose of the rule had much more to do with dollars and cents.

The limit was made with competitive balance in mind.

“Many, many years ago, out-of-state tuition had to be three times the amount of your in-state tuition,” Masterson explained. “In order for our conference to be competitive, top-tobottom, with the 19 community colleges that were in the conference and for Allen to be competitive with Johnson County or Hutchinson or colleges with substantially more assets than we did, they put limitations on the number of students that they could go outside of the state to bring in.”

Masterson says the rule has evolved over the years to adjust the leveling out of finances across the conference institutions.

“When I first started, the allowance was five basketball, so there were five basketball players that you were paying three times as much for a scholarship as you were

Red Devil sophomore Da’Ron Mims drives during a game last winter. Mims is one of the eight allowed out-of-state players on the men’s basketball team.

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your Kansas kids,” Masterson said. “That was doable for Allen County Community College at the time, the same way it was for Johnson County.

It was a parity, competitive-balance thing within the conference. The genesis of the thing was substantially different than what Garden City is pointing to.”

Masterson points out that in his many years at Allen, he has never heard the rule associated with race.

“When they try to make it a racial thing, my thought is: ‘So there are no minority students that play sports in the state of Kansas?’ I’ve been dealing with it a long, long time and this is the first time I’ve ever seen anybody link the out-of-state description to racism,” Masterson said. “It offended me.”

RED DEVIL women’s basketball coach Todd Buchanan has been work-

ing under the limits of the out-of-state rule since he took the position at Allen before last season. He has coached at every level of college basketball except Division-III — where they don’t allow athletic scholarships — and says he doesn’t see an issue with the rule.

“Obviously at the Division-I level at Houston, East Carolina, Oral Roberts or anywhere else I’ve been there isn’t a restriction on where kids come from, but obviously everyone has their limitation. When I was at Houston Baptist and we were NAIA, we had 11 scholarships, but I could divide them up any way I wanted to. But it is different at the junior college level for good reasons.

“If you look at it and see what every junior college is called it is just that simple, it is a ‘community’ college. I believe the rule being instated the way that it is, is a positive.”

Buchanan emphasizes that colleges’ most important responsibility is to lift up its surrounding area and provide opportunities for players in that area.

“The reasoning I see behind it is that we are trying to build up as much as we can within our own community,” Buchanan said. “Everybody wants to see a winner in whatever sport it is, but at the end of the day, I think there has to be opportunity and fair opportunity for kids within the state of Kansas and certainly kids within our Allen County community.”

In the final part of the Associated Press story, it referenced a complaint made by Garden City Community College student Jordan Johnson and the story describes the out-of-state rule as a “cash-cow” for Kansas community colleges, because coaches “typically recruit far more players than they can possibly place in their limited out-of-state roster spots,” according to NAACP representative Eric Pettus.

Buchanan assures the community that those sorts of practices do not happen at Allen.

“That is the individual college, program or even coach,” Buchanan said.

“We have 15 scholarships and I am going to play within those rules and perimeters. I am going to do it the right way and that is how we are all going to do it here. I’m not going to promise a kid anything that I don’t keep and mean. We are going to say what we mean and mean what we say.

“I’ve been at every level you can be at and I have never, nor will I ever, tell a kid something and then it is ‘fool’s gold’ or ‘smoke and mirrors.’”

KSHSAA: Former NFL player speaks out Continued from B1

football at several levels — high school, college and pro — and found some indication of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease, at all levels.

One of the brains came from Zack Langston, who about 10 years ago was a hard-hitting linebacker at Blue Valley Northwest who went go on to play at Pittsburg State University.

Langston fatally shot himself in the chest in 2014 after years of battling mood swings and rage characteristic of severe CTE. He was 26.

Acute concussions are the most obvious types of brain injury. But CTE like Langston had builds slowly, over time, and so far can only be diagnosed after death. That makes it hard for high school players, and their parents, to know exactly what risks they’re facing.

Little research NFL kick returner and wide receiver Josh Cribbs held a room full of reporters riveted when he spoke as part of a panel discussion about head trauma at the April conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists.

Cribbs talked about gaming the NFL’s concussion tests to stay on the field, even after he’d been hit so hard he blacked out temporarily. He talked about being knocked out for multiple commercial breaks, then coming to and looking to the scoreboard to see who his team was playing.

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Cribbs who also was on the panel, shook his head.

“Even though I’m hearing this for probably the 10th time, I’m sitting here like ‘Wow,’” Sanders said.

Cribbs said a neurology specialist told him he has “unspecific change in my white brain matter,” but neither the specialist nor anyone else could tell if it’s the buildup of tau protein that causes CTE. “I had a brain MRI and CAT scan and everything recently with the clinic, and I had my doctor tell me I have a healthy brain for a person in their late 50s,” Cribbs said. “I’m 32 years old.”

But Cribbs has played a decade in the NFL, following four years at Kent State University.

How much risk he would have faced if his football career ended after high school is hard to evaluate.

Charles Bernick, associate medical director for the Cleveland Clinic’s Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, said during the panel discussion that there’s scant research on CTE among student-athletes.

“There’s just not a lot on that,” he said, “and that’s why in these decisions and discussions of youth football, we don’t have a lot of hard facts to guide that or to absolutely say, you know, it’s dangerous.”

Bernick said the number of blows to the head is the biggest contributing factor for CTE, but other factors likely are at play as well: genetics, lifestyle, environment. Two people who get hit the same num-

ber of times aren’t likely to react the same way.

“We know trauma is necessary, but we don’t know the other risk factors,” Bernick said. “We don’t have any consensus in the diagnosis of CTE, and we don’t have any way to really diagnose it in imaging at the moment. All these things people are working on, but you have to understand at this level there’s a lot of unknowns in work on CTE.”

Other sports also carry risks

More research on head trauma is underway at places like Boston University, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense.

Since 2011, Bernick has been studying the brain function of athletes — not just football players, but boxers and mixed martial arts fighters as well.

He said CTE has affected hockey players, while veterans of recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who survived blast injuries also could be susceptible.

Former pro soccer player Brandi Chastain has agreed to donate her brain for research after death, providing more insight into studies that thus far have focused almost exclusively on the brains of male athletes.

KSHSAA officials like Brent Unruh, a certified athletic trainer who is the association’s sports medicine liaison, said the focus on football shouldn’t obscure the fact that all sports carry some risk of head injury.

“Girls’ soccer this past year actually has their overall concussion rate the same or even a little higher than football,” Unruh said, citing data collected by athletic trainers nationwide. “It’s the first time that it’s reached that level. So it’s definitely not just football.”

Still, football has taken the brunt of CTE awareness, with youth participation numbers dropping for several years before a slight rebound last year.

The head football coach at Blue Valley Northwest, Mike Zegunis, said he thinks the sport has not received enough credit for safety improvements, whether it’s the new contact limits or coaching that emphasizes proper blocking and tackling techniques.

“There’s so much good that can come from kids playing football, I think it would be a tragedy if we started losing more and more people because of what the game of football can do for teaching boys to become men,” said Zegunis, who’s entering his 12th year coaching the Huskies.

Mark Lentz, KSHSAA assistant executive director, said the contact limitation rules are in place so kids can enjoy the benefits with fewer risks.

“We’re not guaranteeing that someone’s not going to get a concussion, which no one can do,” Lentz said. “But we’re minimizing the risk. …

Does this mean it’s the perfect system? I don’t know. But is it something we believe that can be built upon? Absolutely.”

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Stanford picks QB for Kansas State opener STANFORD, Calif.

(AP) — Senior Ryan Burns will start at quarterback for Stanford in the No. 8 Cardinal’s opener against Kansas State.

Coach David Shaw announced the decision after practice Wednesday, also saying junior quarterback Keller Chryst would see action against the Wildcats at home Sept. 2.

“Ryan Burns will start and play a good chunk of the game,” Shaw said. “Keller Chryst will play as

well. We’re going to play both guys and try to win a game. There hasn’t been a huge separation between the two. Both guys have played extremely well. Ryan has been enough ahead to get the nod.”

Burns played in four games last season, but did not throw a pass. He rushed for 13 yards.

Kevin Hogan, the winningest starting quarterback in school history, is now a rookie with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Chiefs release two KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs released veteran wide receiver Mike Williams and safety Stevie Brown on Wednesday.

Neither had played much during training camp and the preseason.

Williams was trying to rejuvenate his career in Kansas City after his career fizzled

with Tampa Bay and Buffalo. Williams had three straight 60-plus reception seasons with the Buccaneers after he was chosen in the fourth round out of Syracuse.

Brown was also trying to make a comeback. He had eight interceptions with the New York Giants in 2012, but has only appeared in 16 games over the past three seasons.

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Upcoming events Reduced Rate Tickets, Available at the Recreation Office for Silver Dollar City, White Water, Schlitterbahn Water Park and Worlds/Oceans of Fun. Quilting group, 6-8 p.m., second and fourth Monday of each month, Bass Community Hall, 505 N. Buckeye St. Kansas Old Time Fiddlers, Pickers and Singers, 1-4 p.m. Sept. 18, Bass Community Hall, 505 N. Buckeye St., call 380-1647 for more information.

Pickleball Club, at the Meadowbrook Tennis Courts, N. Cottonwood St., Iola. Week nights (weather permitting), 6 p.m. Ages 15 & older may participate. For first time players, equipment will be available.

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Bike Riding Group, meet at Cofachique Park, N. State St., Iola. Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Leisure rides on the Southwind Rail Trail for all ages, 10 and younger must be accompanied by an adult. Bring your own bike and helmets are recommended.

Youth Flag Football Program, Register online or at the Recreation Office by Sept. 2. Boys & girls in grades 1-2 and 3-5 may participate. Games on Saturdays, beginning Sept. 17, at Ball Field No. 3 in Riverside Park.

PiYo Class, at the Recreation Building, Riverside Park, 500 Park Ave., Iola. Monday and Thursday evenings beginning Aug. 29, 6 week session. Register at the Recreation Office by Aug. 29. Ages 18 and older may participate.

All City of Iola Offices will be closed on Monday, Sept. 5, in observance of Labor Day! Fall Soccer Academy, Register at the Recreation Office by Sept. 9. Ages 4-10 years old (age as of Sept. 1) may participate.

Sunday afternoons, beginning Sept. 11, at Ball Field #3 in Riverside Park.

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ing out for tennis for the first time this year and paired with sophomore Jennifer Tidd to form Iolaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No. 2 doubles team.

Cescon and Tiddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first match-up was against Neodesha and they cruised to an 8-1 win. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The very first match you ever do in varsity, it is going to be scary,â&#x20AC;? Tidd said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People fast-serve to you, but then you realize you can actually hit these and as you feel better, you are going to play better.â&#x20AC;?

In their next match, they faced off with Jessica Bradbury and Natalie Woolfolk from Labette County. Bradbury and Woolfolk jumped out with a big early lead, 4-1, but the Fillies battled back and got within 6-4 behind some strong play at the net by Cescon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She is very strong at the net,â&#x20AC;? Bycroft said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She has a lot of natural athletic ability.â&#x20AC;?

The Labette County duo was able to answer the Iolansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; run with twostraight points and escape with an 8-4 victory.

The resilience that Cescon and Tidd showed in that match impressed their coach and would pay major dividends for them just one match later.

(throughout the day),â&#x20AC;?

Klubek said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were able to talk well with each other.â&#x20AC;?

In Bycroft and Klubekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final match of the day, they fell 8-0 against Chanute.

Iola junior Carley Cescon returns a ball on Thursday in Chanute. REGISTER/JON DYKSTRA â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the first time they played together and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little bit of trial and error,â&#x20AC;? Bycroft said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That ended up being a really good match.â&#x20AC;?

The match of the day was Tidd and Cescon against Abby Zahm and Bethany Robinson of Columbus. Zahm and Robinson were able to take an early lead in the match, but Tidd and Cescon by then had their confidence built up and responded immediately to close it

out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By the time they played that third match, I feel like the jitters had gone away a little bit,â&#x20AC;? Bycroft said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt like they clicked together really well.â&#x20AC;?

They topped the Titan duo 8-6 in a marathon of a match.

Tidd and Cescon ended their day with a 2-2 record after losing their final match of the day to Chanute, 8-4. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the first time

we have ever played together, so we are getting a lot better and getting to know each other better,â&#x20AC;?

Tidd said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was really great playing with her.â&#x20AC;?

The No. 1 doubles team for Iola of Macayla Bycroft and Erin Klubek started the day off with a resounding 8-1 victory over Neodeshaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hope Bagely and Ashley Chandler. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Macayla and Erin being at No. 1 doubles, I knew would be a little

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tougher for them, but I think they handled the pressure well,â&#x20AC;? Coach Bycroft said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They never give up and they always hustle, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask for more from them.â&#x20AC;?

They struggled in their next matchup with Labette County and fell 8-1.

They responded against the pair from Columbus â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bri Hosier and Hannah Gideon â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and were able to come away with a hard-fought win, 8-3. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like how we tried

JV FROM MONDAY Iolaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s junior varsity played on Monday at Fort Scott.

Iola only played one singles player with Cassidy Lowell in the No. 2 slot. She finished 0-3. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This was Cassidyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first time playing,â&#x20AC;? Coach Bycroft said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was pretty nervous the first match, but I was pleased to see improvement (throughout the day).â&#x20AC;?

Sloan Geddry and Carlie Payne played No. 2 doubles and picked up Iolaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only win of the day and finished 1-2. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was glad to see them work hard together to beat Fort Scott,â&#x20AC;? Bycroft said.

Carley Cescon and Allie Utley finished the day 0-3 as the No. 1 doubles pair. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They impressed me with their movement on the court,â&#x20AC;? Bycroft said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have some things to work on of course, but they played pretty smart.â&#x20AC;?

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drys Morales also drove in runs for the Royals as the defending World Series champions have won 15 of 18 to pull within four games of the second AL wild card spot.

“We’ve been playing great baseball as of late, but we definitely know we’re a long way from where we want to be,” Royals right fielder Lorenzo Cain said. “We have to continue hopefully winning series — that’s our main goal.”

Kansas City starter Edinson Volquez (10-10) pitched five innings and allowed two runs, both unearned, and three hits.

The Royals’ bullpen, which has been a successful formula for the reigning two-time AL pennant winners, pitched four scoreless innings to push their franchise-record scoreless streak to 38 2-3 innings — the best in the majors since 2002-03 when San Francisco tossed 39 1-3 straight.

“They’ve just been spectacular,” Yost said.

Kelvin Herrera pitched a flawless ninth for his ninth save in 11 chances.

Tom Koehler (9-9) allowed four runs, three earned, and seven hits in six innings for the Marlins.

“It was an interesting game,” Koehler said.

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Kansas City went 4 for 28 with runners in scoring position and scored six runs during the threegame series, but left Miami with two victories.

“We don’t care what we do as long as we win,” Yost said. “As long as we score more runs than they do and it’s a combination of pitching, great defense, and timely hitting and that’s been our recipe for a while now.”

The Marlins also struggled hitting with runners in scoring position during the series going 3 for 26 and leaving 24 men on base including 11 on Thursday.

“We had a few chances, we didn’t have a ton, but we had a few chances but weren’t able to scratch,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said.

The Royals opened the scoring in the third on an RBI double by Perez after the Marlins elected to intentionally walk Eric Hosmer with first base open. Cheslor Cuthbert scored on Perez’s ground ball down the left-field line.

Escobar extended the Royals’ lead to 2-0 on a home run to center field in the fourth. It was his third of the season and second of the month.

“I was looking for a fastball on that pitch,” Escobar said. “(Koehler)

threw me a first-pitch cutter and the next pitch was a fastball and I swung at the bat and hit the ball really good.”

Third baseman Cuthbert had two doubles to go with two errors, one of which led to the Marlins’ two runs coming in the fourth to tie the game at 2.

Escobar’s tiebreaking RBI double off Koehler in the sixth gave the Royals the lead. Morales’ pinchhit sacrifice fly put the Royals on top 4-2.

The Marlins threatened in the sixth loading the bases with two outs, but lefty Matt Strahm entered the game and got Dee Gordon to ground out to escape the jam.

“The bullpen was phenomenal and Strahm probably gets the gold star,” Yost said.

The Royals pushed their lead to 5-2 in the ninth as Raul Mondesi walked, stole two bases, and scored on catcher J.T. Realmuto’s throwing error trying to get Mondesi at third on his stolen base attempt.

“A club like that over there that’s got guys that can hit balls out of the ballpark, a three-run lead is much better than a tworun lead,” Yost said.

Both teams combined for six errors.

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of the best catches ever at Marlins Park when he robbed Christian Yelich of a home run in the first inning.

“That was probably the best play that anybody’s made for me in my entire career,” Volquez said.

Yelich said: “It was a great play. It’s a huge ball park. We play in the worst hitters’ park in baseball so you better get it. I didn’t get enough of it and he made a great play.

You’ve got to hit it to get it out of here. It’s a terrible hitters’ park.”

Dyson ran to make a leaping left-handed grab up against the wall in center field.

“Actually off the bat I thought I was burnt and I had no shot, but as I kept running and got closer I was like, ‘Yeah I got a chance,’” Dyson said.

Many of Dyson’s teammates gave him the Royals’ customary tip of the cap for an impressive defensive play on his way back to the dugout.

“It felt great,” Dyson said. “I think that’s the first one I’ve ever robbed in my career so it was a pretty special moment for me.”

It was the first home run robbed at Marlins Park since it opened in 2012.

“That’s history right there and I love being a part of history,” Dyson said.

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Waylon Ingle, pastor 620-363-5008

Fellowship Regional Church 214 W. Madison, Iola

Sunday Worship...............10:30 a.m.

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First Presbyterian Church 302 E. Madison, Iola

Sunday School immediately after service

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Join us “live” online for Sunday Worship at www.iolapresbyterian.org Linda Whitworth-Reed, pastor 620-365-3481

Light of LaHarpe

901 S. Main, LaHarpe Sunday School......................10 a.m.

Morning Worship..................11 a.m.

Food Pantry 3rd Friday Each Month.......4 p.m.

Duwayne Bearden, pastor 620-228-1829

Northcott Church

PO Box 86, 12425 SW Barton Rd. Colony Sunday School...................9:28 a.m.

Sunday Worship...............10:28 a.m.

Wednesday Evening...........6:28 p.m.

Mike Farran, pastor

Sunday Worship........9:15-10:15 a.m.

� Faith Assembly of God

1019 N. 9th, Humboldt Sunday School...................9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship...............10:30 a.m.

Wednesday Service................7 p.m.

Classes for adults, youth and kids

Steve Traw, pastor

Jon Petty, pastor

Ralph Peters, pastor

Lew Griffith, Pastor

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First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church

7th & Osage, Humboldt

801 N. Cottonwood, Iola

Sunday School...................9:45 a.m.

Sunday Worship...............10:50 a.m.

Sunday School...................9:15 a.m.

Sunday Worship...............10:30 a.m.

Evening Service......................7 p.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Study. .7 p.m.

Wednesday - Youth Outreach..6 p.m.

Wednesday-Adult Bible Study.6 p.m.

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Rev Jerry Neeley, pastor

Randy Johnson, Pastor A.J. Jones, Worship/Youth Minister

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First Christian Church 1608 Oregon Rd., Iola

“Lead-Feed Tend” - John 21.15 - 17

Sunday School...................9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship...............10:30 a.m.

Bible Study.............................6 p.m.

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Kenyon Kaehr, Pastor 620-365-3436

Iola Baptist Temple

Grace Lutheran Church

Harvest Baptist Church

Humboldt United Methodist Church 806 N. 9th, Humboldt

Lincoln & Second Streets, Iola

Sunday School.........................9 a.m.

Adult Bible Class....................9 a.m.

Worship Service...............10:30 a.m.

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Sunday Bible Study............6:30 p.m.

Wed. Youth Group.............6:30 p.m.

Sunday School...................9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship..................11 a.m.

MS/HS Youth...........................5 p.m.

Sunday School...................9:45 a.m.

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Sun. Evening Worship.............6 p.m.

Wednesday Service................7 p.m.

Rev. Bruce Kristalyn

Tony Godfrey, pastor

Rev. Marge Cox, pastor

401 S. Walnut, Iola

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Calvary United Methodist Church Jackson & Walnut St., Iola

Wesley United Methodist Church Madison & Buckeye, Iola

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Restoration Fellowship

716 Bridge St., Humboldt Children’s Church............10:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship...............10:30 a.m.

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“Where Church Is Fun” Kelley Zellner, pastor

620-363-4828

106 W. 4th St., Elsmore

Sunday School........................9 a.m.

Sunday Worship....................10 a.m.

Wednesday Service................7 p.m.

117 E. Miller Rd., Iola

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Elsmore United Methodist Church

Football Friday, at Burlingame, 7 p.m.

Volleyball Tuesday, Olpe at Pleasanton

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St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church 202 S. Walnut, Iola

Sunday Worship 9 a.m.

Followed by fellowship.

Open in spirit - deep in faith rich in worship - active in service reflecting God’s love All are welcome.

JanKent, Chubb Rev.Rev. David Vicar Deacon Oliver Bunker 620-365-7306

Roger R. Collins, pastor 620-365-2833

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Moran United Methodist Church First & Cedar, Moran

Adult Sunday School .........8:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship.................9:30 a.m.

Children’s Sunday School. . . . .10 a.m.

James Stigall, pastor 620-237-4442

St. John’s Catholic Church

310 S. Jefferson, Iola Saturday Evening...............5:30 p.m.

Sunday Worship....................10 a.m. (at St. Joseph’s, Yates Center......8 a.m.)

Wednesday P.S.R. Classes...6:15 p.m.

September thru May Confessions Saturday. . .4:30 - 5 p.m.

Father John P. Miller Deacon Ted Stahl 620-365-2277

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The Iola Register

Surgery best option for ruptured appendix

Dear Dr. Roach: A coworker of mine recently had a ruptured appendix. The doctors did not remove it, but instead gave him heavy doses of antibiotics for three weeks. I thought they had to remove it. What is going on? ­­— D.M. Answer: Surgery remains the preferred therapy for acute appendicitis, the inflammation of the appendix of the

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health large intestine. Nonoperative management can be used in people with uncomplicated appendicitis — which might be valuable for some, especially people with

a history of surgical complications. However, 27 percent of people assigned to antibiotics needed surgery anyway.

Importantly, people with a ruptured appendix have been excluded from most of these studies (rupture is considered a complication). I did find a study in children comparing antibiotics with surgery for ruptured appendix, but the surgery group had

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significantly better outcomes.

I am not sure why your co-worker received antibiotics for a ruptured appendix. There may be a time when we will be better able to identify who can safely be treated with antibiotics and who needs surgery, but for now, most surgeons still recommend surgery. It is a safe procedure for the vast majority of patients with acute appendicitis.

A good friend? Strong feelings? Be honest.

Dear Carolyn: A good friend and I had strong feelings for each other, but I (foolishly) would not break up my long-term relationship for him. He ended up engaged to someone else, and when my relationship ended, my biggest regret was missing my chance with the friend.

His engagement has now been called off.

He’s reached out, and we’ve gone out a few times, which have been wonderful. However, he

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don’t want him to think I’m not choosing him again. I’m terrified of screwing this up! — Anonymous

Carolyn Hax still seems pretty bitter about the fiancee calling things off and I suspect he wants to sow his wild oats a bit.

Any recommendations on how to give him his space without missing my chance again? I

Anonymous: Just say it — all of it. That you want him, that turning him down before is something you regret to this day, that you sense he needs room to get over his fiancee, that you want to give him that space but don’t want him to think you’re turning him

down again.

Losing him might be inevitable, but losing him over a misunderstanding isn’t. That would be an unforced error and a potentially lifelong regret.

Plus, if you’re ever going to be a happy couple, then you need to be able to trust each other anyway at the height of intimacy and honesty.

So not “suspect[ing],” no game-playing. Lay it all out there and see for yourself what you get.

Public notice (First published in The Iola Register, August 27, 2016) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT In the Matter of the Estate of Madelyn M. Fotovich, Deceased No. 2016 PR 40 NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL

PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that on August 24, 2016 a Petition was filed in this Court by Anthony Fotovich, praying that Frederick J. Works be appointed as Administrator and be granted Letters of Administration.

You are required to file your written defenses thereto on or before September 20, 2016, at 8:30 a.m. in the Allen County District Court, Iola, Kansas, at which

time and place the matter will be heard. Should you fail, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

All creditors are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within the latter of four months from the date of first publication of this Notice under K.S.A. 59-2236 and amendments thereto, or if the identity of the creditor is known or reasonably ascertainable, 30 days after actual notice is

given as provided by law. If their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

Anthony Fotovich Petitioner FREDERICK J. WORKS, PA 6 East Jackson Iola, Kansas 66749 (620) 433-5533 Attorney for Petitioner (8) 27 (9) 3, 10

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Chiefs: Charles, West, Mauga, Hali all struggle with injuries Continued from B1

running backs Jamaal Charles and Charcandrick West and linebacker Josh Mauga.

“We were able to get some good work out of some of the guys who were hurt,” Reid said.

“I thought that was important this week. But they have a couple more weeks before we start and we have one more game after this.”

The fourth preseason game is usually the game where starters play the fewest snaps, ensuring that they remain healthy for the games that count.

But in this unorthodox preseason, big names such as Hali and Charles AutoPageNo may find their way onto

the field against Green Bay. Hali returned to practice this week after offseason knee surgery, though the Chiefs are taking a slow approach to working him into the mix. He routinely sits out some of the drills, much like he did last season, when he would only play on Sunday.

Charles has been back for a couple weeks after surgery to repair his ACL last season. But much like Hali, Reid has taken a slow-and-steady approach to getting him back to work.

The common denominator with both of them: They have done this before. Hali is entering his

ly isn’t worried about Charles, who is coming back from a torn ACL for the second time.

“He’s done a great job this entire offseason,” Bieniemy said. “He’s right where he needs to 11th year in the league, be.”

Charles is entering his West has been dealninth. So it’s not as if ing with a mild elbow they need meaningless sprain that he sustained preseason games, even in the Chiefs’ first preif it’s only to shake off season game. He practhe rust. ticed Thursday wearing Asked if they would a bulky brace but, like play at all in the pre- Hali and Charles, is not season, Reid replied: going to be rushed back “Only if I feel like they’re onto the field. right. I think they’re all Mauga continues to right, but I’m not going miss time with a groin to stick them out there if injury. The presumptive there’s a question.” starter alongside DerRunning backs coach rick Johnson in the midPUBNAME Eric Bieniemy certaindle of the Chiefs defense

was also inactive for Kansas City’s first two preseason games, which has raised the importance of the competition between Justin March and Ramik Wilson.

Other players who will be inactive on Saturday include Tyler Bray, who is trying to earn a spot as the third-string quarterback behind Alex Smith and Nick Foles, and Dezman Moses, who is trying to prove he can provide depth at linebacker with Justin Houston out for the foreseeable future.

One name not on the list? Phillip Gaines.

The cornerback is also coming back from a torn ACL sustained last season, and he’s first in line

to start opposite defensive rookie of the year Marcus Peters. Gaines was inactive for the first two preseason games but participated more in practice this week and could play against the Bears.

“There’s a good chance,” Reid said.

“We’ll see how he does today.”

NOTES: Reid said the starters will play into the third quarter, then give way to the backups and third-teamers. He also hopes to get all four available QBs into the game with Aaron Murray and Kevin Hogan also trying to earn a rosAutoTextDate ter spot.

QUESTIONS & ATTITUDE Compelling questions... and maybe a few actual answers

Any NASCAR future for rosin?

Or is it resin?

3 THINGS WE LEARNED FROM BRISTOL 1. Chevy can win Since 2008, Chevrolet has only four wins at Bristol, and one of those drivers, Jeff Burton, was up in the TV booth calling the race last week. Kevin Harvick’s win was the first for StewartHaas Racing at the half-mile oval.

Chevy’s last win at Bristol was 2013 with Kasey Kahne.

Kyle vs. Kez – possibilities?

From my angle, Kyle Busch is eternally petulant, and in racin’, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Brad Keselowski is headstrong and prone to overthinking things. Last Friday at Bristol, these two longtime non-friends had an incident in the Xfinity race, leading Kyle to simply say of Kez, “He’s a dirty racer.” Them’s fightin’ words, assuming anyone fights anymore.

2. Rosin roll In order to give the bottom racing groove at Bristol more grip, the track applied rosin in the turns. It worked pretty well, until Kurt Busch missed the rosin stripe on Lap 373 and ignited an 11-car pileup on the backstretch.

Busch said he missed the groove “by inches.”

So forget about it?

Not entirely, because as the playoffs approach and eventually ensue, these two may do what modern-day racers do: “Get in each other’s way” on the track when the chips are down. This is highly entertaining, of course (recall Logan vs. Kenseth last year), but all the yapping and dented sheet metal always makes you miss the days when racers would take care of these things in caveman fashion.

3. No more Gordon?

Jeff Gordon finished 11th subbing for ailing Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the No. 88 Chevy. Gordon won’t drive for Junior next week at Michigan because of schedule conflict. Alex Bowman will wheel the car in the Irish Hills. We

Bristol winner Kevin Harvick gets out of his No. 4 Chevy to celebrate the win with his car owner Tony Stewart in the No. 14 Chevy at the Bristol finish line. CHEVROLET/HAROLD HINSON may have seen the last of Gordon as a stock-car driver.

— Godwin Kelly, godwin.kelly@ news-jrnl.com

3 THINGS TO WATCH

Jamie McMurray and bubble boy Ryan Newman, who is 35 points up on Trevor Bayne. Behind Bayne are Kyle Larson, Kasey Kahne and AJ Allmendinger.

Look for Larson and Kahne to make a hard run at a Cup victory in the next three weeks.

1. Done deal After being declared the winner of rain-plagued Pocono II a few weeks ago, we all knew it would be just a matter of time before Chris Buescher would go into the “Chase eligible” column. Buescher finished fifth Sunday afternoon to move up into the top 30 in points. Coincidentally, precipitation again was a factor since the Bristol race was rained out Saturday and staged on Sunday. Does Buescher have a rain dance?

2. Chase countdown With Buescher currently in, that

Trends come and go, but the use of rosin on Bristol’s concrete track last week (to improve grip in the bottom groove) was highly interesting. Rosin might not be as versatile as vinegar, but it’s close. The stuff is also used by string musicians, bull riders, ballerinas and a wide variety of others who need grip. Resin, by the way, is the liquid parent of rosin. Resin comes from trees and becomes rosin after heating and vaporizing. That’s it for science class.

3. Johnson blues Jimmie Johnson scored two earlyseason wins and went into summer hibernation. In his past 10 starts, “Six Time” has a pair of top-10 finishes, including seventh at Bristol Sunday. In that 10-race span, he has four DNFs, all race-ending crashes. There is still time left in the season, but it doesn’t look like Johnson in particular or Hendrick Motorsports in general will get its racing genie back in the bottle.

Chris Buescher is riding the rain wave into the Chase playoffs. GETTY IMAGES/BRIAN LAWDERMILK

leaves only four openings for the Chase field. The drivers trying to get in on points look rock solid right now, including Austin Dillon, Chase Elliott,

— Godwin Kelly, godwin.kelly@ news-jrnl.com

Ken Willis has been covering NASCAR for The Daytona Beach News-Journal for 27 years. Reach him at ken. willis@news-jrnl.com

GODWIN’S PICKS FOR MICHIGAN WINNER: Brad Keselowski REST OF TOP 5: Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Jimmie Johnson, Denny Hamlin FIRST ONE OUT: Clint Bowyer DARK HORSE: AJ Allmendinger DON’T BE SURPRISED IF: Ford continues its tradition at Michigan, this time with “Kez” scoring the victory.

Godwin Kelly is the Daytona Beach News-Journal’s motorsports editor and has covered NASCAR for 30 years. Reach him at godwin. kelly@news-jrnl.com

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