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Police response questioned as Baltimore unrest rises BALTIMORE (AP) — National Guard troops fanned out through the city, shieldbearing police officers blocked the streets and firefighters doused still-simmering blazes early today as a growing area of Baltimore shuddered from riots following the funeral of a black man who died in police custody.

The violence that started in West Baltimore on Monday afternoon — within a mile of where Freddie Gray, 25, was arrested and placed into a police van earlier this month — had by midnight spread to East Baltimore and neighborhoods close to downtown and near the baseball stadium.

The streets were calm this morning.

Monday’s rioting was one of the most volatile outbreaks of violence prompted by a po-

A Maryland Transit Authority patrol car burns at North and Pennsylvania avenues Monday in Baltimore. BALTIMORE SUN/JERRY JACKSON/TNS

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District gets break for Bowlus

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

The Bowlus Commission, an advisory committee for the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, offered a price break of $40,000 to the local school district, in light of the state’s budget cuts to education.

Susan Raines, Bowlus executive director, apprised USD 257 Board of Education members — who double as Bowlus trustees — of the commission’s endorsement for the 2015-16 school year. The district will pay the Bowlus $103,000 for the center’s use in 2015-16.

THE ALUMNI Endowment Association is hoping to lead the district to an innovative opportunity.

Brett Linn, association

board president, told school board members Monday the association’s goal is to get students career and college ready.

To do this, the association is seeking donations to purchase computer numerical control (CNC) equipment, a plasma router and cutter for the vocational department.

Dana Daugharthy, Iola High School chemistry and physics teacher, said the association would like to integrate Project Lead the Way into the school system.

PLTW is the largest provider of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) programs in the country.

“It applies math and science to engineering projSee 257 | Page A3

Iola team takes eighth at nationals

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

While their classmates danced the night away at the 2015 prom the Iola High School Life Smarts team was across the country at its national competition.

This is the first time Iola has won state and qualified for nationals.

Iola finished eighth out of 34 teams, easily topping adviser Jean Johns’ goal of making the top 16.

The Iola squad is made up of juniors Clara Wicoff, Taylor Heslop, Abigail Taylor and Yohon Sinclair and sophomore Ryan Eyster.

The students were given a series of tests to gauge their knowledge on consumer rights and responsibilities, the environment, health and safety, personal finance and technology.

Taylor Heslop earned the top individual healthy and safety category score in the nation. With the honor, Heslop also earned a $500 scholarship.

The Iola Life Smarts team that placed eighth at a national competition April 17-20 in Seattle is, front from left, Ryan Eyster and Yohon Sinclair; back, Clara Wicoff, Taylor Heslop and Abigail Taylor. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET Team member Abigail Taylor said the team owes a big thank you to the Kansas state coordinator Angela Howdeshell for helping them study.

“I felt very prepared because of her help and we re-

City Council votes against grant application

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Iola City Council members have decided against filing for a federal grant they hoped could have funded reconstruction of U.S. 54 through town and other potential improvements, such as trail extensions.

Council members Monday cited the looming deadline as they rejected, 5-2, a motion to apply for a federal TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grant.

The first paperwork to outline targeted projects, and projected costs, is due next Monday. A more extensive deadline, complete with an economic impact study, is due June 4.

“I’m not against it,” Councilman Bob Shaughnessy said.

“We just need to be more pre-

lice-involved death since the days of protests that followed the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black man who was shot and killed during a confrontation with a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer.

At least 15 officers were hurt, including six who were hospitalized, police said.

There were 144 vehicle fires, 15 structure fires and nearly 200 arrests, according to numbers provided this morning

by Howard Libit, a spokesman for the mayor’s office.

Aerial footage this morning from Baltimore station WJZTV showed a firefighter spraying the burnt out shell of a large building as an American flag fluttered nearby on an untouched building.

State and local authorities pledged to restore order and

ally appreciate her,” Taylor said. “Other states weren’t as prepared for the quiz bowl portion.”

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Lights plan proceeds

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

Iola Council members, from left, Bob Shaughnessy, Jon Wells, Austin Sigg and Aaron Franklin are sworn in with City Clerk Roxanne Hutton at Monday night’s meeting. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN pared if we apply. I’m afraid if we get it too soon, we’re going to kick ourselves.”

“We’d be more prepared next year,” agreed Councilman Austin Sigg, who along with Aaron Franklin, was

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sworn into office at Monday’s meeting. “We still have a lot more questions than answers right now.”

City Administrator Carl Slaugh first spoke publicly about the TIGER grant at

the April 13 council meeting.

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Iola is willing to work with Allen County to add street lights along South State Street.

Council members voted, 8-0, to instruct staff to work with the county to put the lights between Iola’s city limits and the Elm Creek bridge.

Bassett paid to install lights south of the bridge years ago.

Having that area lighted, but nothing between the bridge and the city creates “an awkward dark spot,” Councilman Jon Wells said.

County commissioners last week said they would ask for the city’s cooperation See LIGHTS | Page A3

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Kansas faces criticism for cost of sex offender program

Joseph Hicks

LARNED, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is among a number of states facing questions about whether its program that commits sex offenders to involuntary treatment rehabilitates them or, as critics claim, merely warehouses them indefinitely due to public safety concerns.

At a time when Kansas legislators are seeking to find a mix of cuts and tax increases to fill roughly $422 million in budget shortfalls, Republican Gov. Sam Brownback has recommended increasing funds for the sexual predator program from $13.9 million in 2014 to $20.4 million by 2017 to accommodate its growing population. Since its inception in 1994, the number of offenders confined has grown to 258 and only three have been released back into public, according to the Department for Aging and Disability Services, which runs the program.

Supporters of the program argue that the funding increases are necessary to keep dangerous offenders off the street, but some lawmakers have expressed concern as its costs and population balloon. A state audit report is due out Tuesday, looking at ways to address costs and comparing Kansas’ program to those in 19 other states and the District of Columbia.

The report “won’t be a pretty thing to look at,” said state Rep. John Carmichael, a Wichita

Joseph Z. Hicks, Jr., 56, McLouth, passed away Friday, April 24, 2015.

Joseph was born Sept. 5, 1958, in Iola. He was the son of Joseph and Shirley (Martin) Hicks. He served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps.

He recently retired as manager from McGraw Fertilizer Co., Tonganoxie.

He was preceded in death by his father, Joseph Z. Hicks, his sister, Beverly Arbuckle, and his sister-inlaw, Christina Hicks. Survivors include his mother Shirley L. Hicks, LaHarpe; brother Jon Hicks, LaHa- Joseph Hicks rpe; sister Mona (Joe) Spurlock, El Dorado; wife Bonny Hicks, McLouth; and his children, Joseph D. Hicks and Jamie Hicks, both of Tonganoxie. Nieces include Alyssa Hicks of Portland, N.D., Hannah Keagle, Iola, and Amy Arbuckle, Cross Timbers, Mo. Joe’s stepchildren include Dustin Schubert, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Michael Hochard, Topeka.

Funeral services will be at 6 p.m. Friday at the Quisenberry Funeral Home, Tonganoxie. The family will receive friends from 4 to 6 p.m. before the service. A memorial tree dedication will be at 11 a.m. May 9 at the Tonganoxie VFW Post No. 927. In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials to Tonganoxie VFW Post No. 9271.

Ferguson Commission endorses police reforms ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Ferguson Commission has endorsed reforms for training police officers that seek to reduce racial bias and the use of force while enhancing what commissioners call a “climate of care and accountability.”

The training reforms were endorsed during a meeting Monday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the recommendations include having officers spend eight hours a year in anti-bias classes.

Police are now required to take three hours of anti-bias classes in three years.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon appointed the commission in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black and unarmed, by a white Ferguson police officer in August. A St. Louis County grand jury and the U.S. Justice Department declined to prosecute the officer, Darren Wilson, who resigned in November.

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Although the constitutionality of Kansas’ program was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1997 and isn’t currently being challenged, a pending judgment in a federal class-action lawsuit over Minnesota’s sex offender program could have ripple effects if it reaches the nation’s highest court, said Kim Lynch, senior litigation counsel for the aging and disability department. In neighboring Missouri, a U.S. District Court started a trial last week over allegations its sex offender program is a prison in disguise.

In Kansas, those who have served criminal penalties and are deemed by a court to be a sexual predator are committed to Larned State Hospital — a sprawling complex of prison-like buildings on the plains about 100 miles west of Wichita.

They must a complete a seven-phase treatment program to be released.

Tom Kinlen, Larned’s superintendent, estimates that an offender should be able to complete the treatment program in four to five years if all goes well, but acknowledged that 30 percent to 40 percent of patients have refused to participate.

“It’s going to be hard to do when you’re disengaged from the program and actively engaged in inappropriate behavior to say that you’re the one that deserves to be number four or five or

When I first got here, I worked the program, but when people see that no one is going anywhere, they just give up. They realize this is our situation for life.

— Steven Islam, Larned patient

six” who gets released, he said, adding that many patients have severe mental problems and may never be safe for release.

But current patients and a former psychologist with the program told The Associated Press that the requirements are nearly impossible to achieve.

Steven Islam, 43, has been at Larned for 12 years and was convicted of child molestation in 1994. Islam, who suffers from schizophrenia, said he committed his crimes while he was off his medication and high on crack cocaine, and believes he wouldn’t reoffend because of the counseling and addiction treatment he’s received.

He is currently at phase three and says he fully participates in treatment, but still expects to die at Larned.

“When I first got here, I worked the program, but when people see that no one is going anywhere, they just give up. They realize this is our situation for life,” he said.

Tapatha Strickler counseled about 90 Larned patients from

2012 to 2014, and said she believes only a handful are too dangerous to be released.

Instead, most get stuck in a “vicious cycle” due to organizational problems and because patients can be punished to repeat stages, leading many to boycott treatment out of frustration.

She said she eventually resigned because she felt the program was unethical and the facility had staffing problems because few professionals “are willing to bet their life and their license on working there.”

During Strickler’s time at Larned — which has five psychologists and one psychiatrist for 230 patients — those in the program received one to three hours of professionally led group therapy per week and a 30-minute session with a psychologist once per quarter.

Lynch defended its treatment regimen as constitutionally adequate before a House panel in March, adding that patients also take part in educational courses and other activities that aid in their rehabilitation.

Tulsa County undersheriff resigns after memo, fatal shooting time in the more than three weeks since the shooting that the sheriff publicly acknowledged potential problems with the department’s operations.

Albin, a 26-year veteran of the office, declined to comment to The Associated Press when reached on his cellphone Monday. Agency spokesman Shannon Clark said Albin’s last day is Friday.

A 2009 special inves-

tigation found that Albin was, at a minimum, aware that Bates was inadequately trained but pressured officers in the department to look the other way.

After the internal report was leaked to the media last week, Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler raised the possibility of an outside investigation into sheriff ’s office, though he didn’t elaborate. His office and the

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said Monday they weren’t doing an investigation, and the local federal Department of Justice office didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment. A spokesman for Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said that office “continues to monitor and assess what appropriate measures, if any, are warranted.”

The sheriff ’s office had initially denied the

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ects,” Daugharthy said.

“Hands-on learning leads to higher scores on the state science and math assessments.”

These high school graduates typically land higher paying jobs as compared to their peers, Daugharthy said.

Careers in the STEM field are expected to grow 17 percent by 2018.

Iola can keep up with demand by bringing the engineering program to the classroom.

There are no PLTW programs in USD 257’s geographic area, which

would make the district a leader.

The curriculum would include computer science and software design, aerospace engineering and architecture.

“We definitely need this as a district,” Daugharthy said.

The cost of purchasing equipment for the program is $40,000. The association would foot the bill. Teachers would be trained to teach courses for the 2016-17 school year.

The board voted to help with the $3,500 an-

nual cost of the program.

“This is the most exciting time for USD 257,” board member Buck Quincy said. “This is something that will benefit our kids.”

at each center is May 6.

On Aug. 25, the day before school starts, the district plans to host a district-wide open house from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The board accepted the resignations of Julea Decker as a McKinley Elementary School third grade teacher; Matt Hoffman as assistant principal at Iola High School and Stacie Smail as a paraprofessional at Windsor Place Preschool.

The board hired Cody Hager as part of the summer technology

JACK KOEHN, superintendent of schools, said the transition of the elementary schools to attendance centers is going smoothly. Teachers have been assigned their rooms at each building and district meetings have been held.

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team; Aubry Keller as a high school science teacher; Sharon Frankenberry as the first semester family consumer science teacher; Breanna Esslinger as the second semester family consumer science teacher; and Jay Applegate as high school boys head basketball coach.

Board members approved administrative contracts for 2015-16 for Stacey Fager, Martin Bambick, Jack Stanley, Brad Crusinbery, Angie Linn, Lori Maxwell and Jason Marciano.

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If mailing, the payment must be postmarked by May 10 to be receipted without penalty.

Please bring in or mail the payment stubs when making the payment, County Treasurer Criket Maley said.

Lights: City agrees to help county install fixtures south of town Continued from A1

seven poles north of the bridge. The county will pay for materials, estimated at about $6,500, if the city handles the labor, projected at about $3,000.

Council members tabled discussion on adding streetlights on North Kentucky Street, between Strickler Road and Allen County Regional Hospital.

That’s because the street almost certainly

will need to be refurbished or replaced, because of increased traffic.

Today, the road is too narrow, Assistant City Administrator Corey Schinstock said. If the city were to install new lights, they’d have to be erected wide enough to accommodate any street improvements.

But that, in turn, leads to right-of-way issues with adjoining property owners, he said.

Mayor Joel Wicoff encouraged council

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members to keep the Kentucky Street lighting issue on the front burner.

“It’s pretty dark, especially in the winter,” Wicoff said. “If we get a snowstorm, you can’t see the road. We all know North Kentucky is going to need to be rebuilt. It’s just not going to last. We should consider putting the lights in, and we do only it one time. We need to get a right-of-way wide enough. It seems economically intelligent.”

COUNCIL members voted, 7-1, to hire Poor Boy Tree Service, Inc., Fair Play, Mo., to handle the city’s annual tree

trimming contract. Poor Boy’s bid of $78.90 per hour, was the only one received. Inquiries were sent to three other companies.

The city spent $50,961.96 for tree trimming services in 2014, and expects to spend a similar amount this year.

Councilman Austin Sigg, in casting the lone dissenting vote, asked why the city does not handle the tree trimming in-house.

To do so would take up too much of the city employees’ time, City Administrator Carl Slaugh said.

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At a house at 321 S. Washington, council approved a motion to allow new owners, David Toland and Job Springer, 180 days for repairs. The house faces condemnation. Repairs do not have to be complete in 180 days, Code Enforcement Officer Shonda Jefferis said, although progress must be made.

Council members scheduled hearings on June 8 to consider condemnation of three other structures, at 616 South St., 210 S. Chestnut St. and 1209 N. Sycamore St. The 210 S. Chestnut St. property is undergoing repairs, Jefferis said.

The hearing would consider time for additional repairs. The house at 1209 N. Sycamore was destroyed by a fire last summer. All that remains is a pile of debris yet to be cleared.

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Southwind Extension — your source for all things horticulture Extension has been helping people for over 100 years. A lot has changed since the Extension service was created in 1914, but the one thing that remains the same is the mission of Extension.

Extension means “reaching out.”

Extension agents reach out and extend their knowledge and resources to the public. Extension is for everyone to use!

The Extension philosophy is to help people help themselves by taking university knowledge to where people live, work and play. We strive to be very attentive to the needs of the people and provide quality information and problem-solving tactics for everyday concerns.

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Although you can find tons of information on the Internet, it is often difficult to determine what is true and what is not. Many times we get calls from people that have found information online, tried it and it actually made things worse. The environment in southeast Kansas is much different than in, say, Ohio — but your internet search isn’t going to know that. It’s kind

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Also, a flower demonstration will be at the Neosho County Courthouse in Erie. The flowers will be in the beds at the front entrance of the courthouse.

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Salina biz helps day care providers plan healthy meals As director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Child and Adult Care Food Program, Shalonda Smith heads one of the few minority-led businesses in Salina.

But Smith doesn’t want that to be the reason potential clients choose to use their services.

“I want to have a reputation based on great customer service and what we can provide for clients,” she said.

What Smith and her staff provide through the food program is reimbursement to licensed at-home day care providers for serving healthy meals and snacks to children under their care. With the majority of funds provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the federal program is intended to promote positive eating habits in kids from the earliest stages of childhood and to reduce future health care and education costs due to lack of proper early development.

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The Martin Luther King Jr. Child and Adult Care Food Program, 204 S. Santa Fe,

Suite 1, serves 13 counties and is open to any at-home day care provider licensed by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

“They can be part of this program with no cost to them and can automatically receive reimbursement for serving nutritious meals,” she said. “We process what they serve for the previous month and pay them at the end of the next month through automatic deposit, so there’s just a onemonth turnaround.”

Visits during mealtime

In her job, Smith processes menus supplied by day care providers to make certain nutritious meals are being served within USDA guidelines.

Smith and her staff also provide technical assistance and mail out required forms, answer telephone or email questions, and make three visits a year to day care homes to make certain providers are following program requirements.

“We go there preferably when they’re serving meals,” Smith said.

“We also try to provide extra training and give them the necessary tools they need to make their business better.”

Smith’s agency also offers workshops on various child-related nutrition subjects, supplies day care business information and provides a library that includes nutrition and cook books for children

and providers. Children also can be taught about fun, edible meals at a “Snack Craft” event during a scheduled home visit.

“Sometimes we’ll en-

cation in 2004.

An electrical engineer

Running a nonprofit food program was not a career path Smith

With the majority of funds provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the federal program is intended to promote positive eating habits in kids form the earliest stages of childhood and to reduce future health care and education costs due to lack of proper early development.

courage them to start a garden, and in the process of creating something, they might learn to like eating it,” Smith said.

Geraldine Briscoe

Smith credited the late Geraldine Briscoe, of Salina, for laying the groundwork for the success of the MLK food program. In the early 1970s, Briscoe founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Care Center and later implemented the Child and Adult Care Food Program at the facility.

In 1998, the food program and day care center were divided into separate organizations. Briscoe left the day care and became director of the food program, which moved to North Ohio Street.

The day care was renamed the Martin Luther King Jr. Child Development Center and is located at 1215 N. Santa Fe. The food program moved to its present lo-

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A native of Ponchatoula, La., Smith has a degree in electrical engineering but said she worked just briefly in the profession.

In 1999, she moved from Overland Park to Salina to join her husband, the Rev. Allen Smith, who had been hired as pastor of St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church.

She worked about three years as a network administrator for the Salina School District when Briscoe, a St. John’s church member, approached her about becoming director of the food program.

“She was ready to retire and thought it would be a good position for me,” Smith said. “I’d helped her out

with various projects before.”

Making a difference

Smith became director in 2003 and has been there ever since. She said she is proud Briscoe’s vision is still being carried out today, especially since the food program still is one of the few minority-led businesses in Salina.

But what really motivates Smith to come to work each day is knowing she is making a difference in children’s lives.

“The satisfying part is knowing you’re helping children, via day care providers, establishing a lifelong pattern of nutritious eating,” she said. “Putting smiles on kids’ faces, seeing them healthy and happy, that’s a great thing.”

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The state’s budget is structurally unsound On track to be $800 million in the hole Kansas legislators have waited until the wrapup session to address the state budget. Traditionally, this is the time of year loose ends are tied off. But state finances are so out of whack that you can’t blame our lawmakers for waiting until the bitter end to decide what we all fear will be drastic measures to make the numbers come out right.

Come Wednesday, the bloodletting will begin.

KDOT” and other one-time transfers, but for fiscal year 2016 and beyond, expenditures outweigh revenue estimates by $800 million.

Had Gov. Brownback’s tax cuts not been enacted, the state would be $1 billion richer today, according to the state’s legislative research department. And we’re only about half way toward his ultimate goal — of eliminating the personal income tax completely.

Instead of backtracking, Brownback is suggesting legislators raise taxes on goods, like alcohol and cigarettes, as well as the statewide sales tax of 6.15 percent. Even if these things were approved — which is a long shot — it would fall far short of what is needed.

Brownback has said he’s offered all he can in terms of raising revenue, leaving it to legislators to take the reins.

Doesn’t matter. We know how we got in this mess in the first place.

— Susan Lynn

THE GOOD news is that not all legislators are living in denial about the numbers. Even Republicans are alarmed by recent figures that show the state’s finance formula is structurally unsound. To wit: Kansas is heading to an annual deficit of $800 million, according to a recent report by the Consensus Revenue Estimating Group.

Yes, we’ve pretty much headed off this year’s $400 million deficit thanks to the generosity of the “Bank of

Letter to the editor Dear editor,

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Mobile blood drives such as the Iola Community drive account for more than 70 percent of the blood needed to keep our hospitals adequately supplied. Without your help, it would be difficult to collect the 580 pints needed each day for our family, friends, and neighbors.

At your blood drive last Wednesday, the CBC staff registered 76 volunteers

and collected 79 units of blood. This, in turn, will save the lives of roughly 237 area individuals going through cancer treatment, car accident victims, burn victims or people with elective surgeries.

Thank you to the volunteers who supported the blood drive.

Thank you for your commitment to the Community Blood Center and patients in need.

Gratefully, April VanBecelaere, Account Manager, Community Blood Center of Kansas City

Quote for the day Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

The important thing is to not stop questioning.

Revised report predicts deeper hole Kansas has a newly revised revenue forecast which further lowers expectations for future general fund receipts.

Take notice of three key things: 1. Revenue has fallen sharply, with no rebound in sight. The 2012 and 2013 tax cuts led to a $688 million drop (10.8 percent) in overall revenue in FY 2014, the first full fiscal year in which the tax cuts were in effect. The tax cuts did not produce anything magical. Revenue did not replenish itself. The economy did not grow any faster than normal. Rather, the new estimate predicts a stagnant revenue stream of about $5.7 billion through FY 2017.

2. The revised revenue estimate may not be low enough yet. Corporate income tax receipts, sales tax receipts, and severance tax receipts underperformed expectations in the first nine months of FY 2015. So, the estimators revised the forecast for those revenue sources downward.

However, individual income tax receipts have trailed last year’s low pace, but the estimators made no change to their previous prediction that

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income tax receipts would grow slightly in FY 2015.

During April, May, and June, income tax receipts must be $147 million higher than that same period last year in order to meet the estimate. That may happen, but it may be too optimistic. Watch closely, because Kansas has very little flexibility left to absorb a revenue shortfall in the last three months of FY 2015.

THE BUDGET that lawmakers are currently working with in a conference committee is far from funded.

Even after converting school finance to a block grant system, state expenses are $6.5 billion and growing, while the revised revenue estimate

Senate - passed FY 2016 Spending: $6.478 Billion New FY 2016 Revenue Estimate: $5.713 Billion Budget Gap:

3. The budget gap became larger for FY 2016. The general fund budget passed by the Kansas Senate sets expenditures at $6.478 billion in FY 2016, but the revised revenue estimate now predicts overall

Individual Income Tax Receipt (Dollars in Millions) FY 2014 FY 2015 First Nine Months Must equal $721 $1,644 $1,559 million to reach $574 $?

April, May, June expectation in $2,218 $2,280 revenue estimate.

Estimated FY 2015 total.

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revenue of only $5.713 billion — a gap of $765 million. Undoubtedly, a portion of that gap will be filled by transferring money from the highway fund and doing some other one-time financial maneuvers still available to lawmakers.

However, with the general fund bank account empty, a large portion of the gap must be filled by passing tax increases, or by implementing even more spending cuts.

$765 Million

shows a revenue stream that is basically flat at about $5.7 billion.

To be financially healthy, the state needs $6.478 billion in ongoing revenue in order to spend $6.478 billion.

If tax policy had been left alone three years ago, Kansas would now have enough income to fund the budget being considered. Instead, deep tax cuts have reduced the state’s revenue stream far below the amount needed to responsibly fund education and other key programs.

United States is in dire need of election reform

(TNS) WASHINGTON — Let’s take a poll. All those who believe there is a dire need for election reform in this country please hold up your hands.

I see, nearly 100 percent. Now do the same if you do not believe that such an overhaul, including significant limits on time and money will ever take place — at least in your lifetime. Hmm. A huge majority for “all those of little faith.”

Finally, how many of you already are sick of the campaign for an election that is 17 months away, despite an appearance that it is imminent, maybe even the day after tomorrow. Right. Nausea seems of epidemic proportions.

Even the thought of all those months of allegations of wrong doing and expressed righteous indignation over one triviality after another; of constant sniping among the competitors to the point an actual duel might be in the public interest; of promises no one in his right mind would keep even if he could; of the boogey man specters created by candidates whose mission in life always seems

Dan K. Thomasson MCT op-ed writer to be to scare the “world is coming to an end” daylights out of all of us.

If you elect this person, he will: A., do away with Social Security, B., let the poor starve.

C., abolish IRS, D., start World War III, E., take away all our guns, F., change the balance of the Supreme Court to favor all (a. right or b. left) policies, or G., all of the above ... and plenty more.

The billions of dollars (that’s right, I said “billions”) expected to be spent before it’s over in November of next year is not only disturbing, it leaves all of us guessing who actually owns the country.

Might it not be better to form a coalition of special interests who can just name the winner without going to all the trouble of actually balloting?

Are the chief proprietors

of the United States the Koch brothers, the Wichita wonders, or some guys from Las Vegas or Hollywood with great bankrolls? Is it the National Rifle Association, the dozen anti- this or that organizations on both ends of the political spectrum? Seriously, who owns this nation? It’s increasingly difficult to believe it’s the people these days.

Also, I personally have developed a serious allergy about lawmakers who in the midst of their first term decide they are capable of tell-

ty, judgment and unequalled understanding of statecraft both foreign and domestic that it takes to run the world’s largest enterprise is doubtfully gained in only 43 years of life. The Oval Office is hardly the place for on the job training in this volatile world.

IF THE NEW crop of youngsters in the Republican ranks don’t excite you, I’m hardly surprised given the announced or about to be so amalgam of fat boys, libertarians, hybrids of one philoso-

I personally have developed a serious allergy about lawmakers who in the midst of their first term decide they are capable of telling the rest of us what is good for us.

ing the rest of us what is good for us. Two or three years in the Senate does not an expert make.

Electing Freshman Senator So and So has not served us particularly well. The maturi-

phy or another, screw looses, and scions of political dynasties one of whose mother has given him permission to run albeit reluctantly.

Well then you can place your hopes for a few more

years of survival on Hillary Clinton whose ethical baggage is beginning to rival that stored in the overheads of a transcontinental flight. She at least has had more experience than nearly any politician on the presidential horizon. And her amassed wealth over decades of public service gives her at least an aura of success when it comes to raising money on a government salary even if some critics are questioning the propriety of her good fortune. So what if she and Bill were or weren’t broke when she left the White House? They sure ain’t now.

Just think of all the sacrifices they made in our behalf.

So don’t hold your breath until this country shows even a semblance of common sense and adopts the British system, which puts strict limits on the amount that can be spent and the length of campaigning.

In fact, it may not be possible under our Constitution given the recent Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United ...you know, the First Amendment and all that.

About all we can do is take a bicarbonate and suffer through ... I guess.

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calm to Baltimore, but quickly found themselves responding to questions about whether their initial responses had been adequate.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie RawlingsBlake was asked why she waited hours to ask the governor to declare a state of emergency, while the governor himself hinted she should have come to him earlier.

“We were all in the command center in the second floor of the State House in constant communication, and we were trying to get in touch with the mayor for quite some time,” Gov. Larry Hogan told a Monday evening news conference. “She finally made that call, and we immediately took action.”

Asked if the mayor should have called for help sooner, however, Hogan replied that he didn’t want to question what Baltimore officials were doing: “They’re all under tremendous stress. We’re all on one team.”

Rawlings-Blake said officials believed they had gotten the unrest that had erupted over the weekend under con-

Baltimore firefighters battle a three-alarm fire at Gay and Chester streets Monday.

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trol “and I think it would have been inappropriate to bring in the National Guard when we had it under control.”

But later on, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts made it clear events had become unmanageable.

“They just outnumbered us and outflanked us,” Batts said. “We needed to have more resources out there.”

Batts said authorities had had a “very trying and disappointing day.”

Police certainly had their work cut out for them: The rioters set police cars and build-

ings on fire in several neighborhoods, looted a mall and liquor stores and threw rocks at police with riot gear who responded occasionally with pepper spray.

“I understand anger, but what we’re seeing isn’t anger,” RawlingsBlake said. “It’s disruption of a community.

The same community they say they care about, they’re destroying. You can’t have it both ways.”

Gov. Hogan was temporarily moving his office to Baltimore today.

A spokeswoman for the governor said Hogan would be visiting sites

City: Drops pursuit of grant Continued from A1

metropolitan areas or for state departments of transportation.

New provisions in the grant qualifications, such as reducing the minimum project cost from $10 million to $1 million, have made it more appealing to rural communities such as Iola, Slaugh said.

Council members spoke about the TIGER grant for about 45 minutes before voting down Nancy Ford’s motion to apply for the funds.

“I’d hate to miss an opportunity” to receive federal funding, Ford said, pointing to comments from David Toland, executive director of Thrive Allen County, who said Thrive would be able to assist the city with economic impact services if the city were to file an application.

“I can’t speak to workload and time” involved with filing an application this soon, Toland said.

Toland noted the city was notified about the potential grant by Van Scoyoc Associates, a federal lobbying firm hired by the city.

“Van Scoyoc said, ‘You should probably look at this,’” Toland said. “It is unusual to have (a grant with) 100 percent funding. It’s also unusual that they’ve lowered the minimum project size from $10 million to $1 million. There seems to be a general leaning toward rural projects.

Certainly, my recommendation would be to try.”

There would have been some cost for Iola had the city been successful in seeking the grant. The city would have been on the hook for all design costs, and Slaugh noted communities that offered up a matching portion of the project costs — say, 20 percent — have historically been more successful in their applications.

Even so, Slaugh admitted the city’s chance

of being awarded the grant this year was “a long shot.”

Council members Ford and Beverly Franklin voted to apply for the grant. Shaughnessy, Sigg, Aaron Franklin, Don Becker and Sandy Zornes were opposed.

Councilman Jon Wells, who had to leave Monday’s meeting early because of a schedule conflict involving his job as an instructor at Allen Community College, was not at the meeting when the vote occurred.

Zornes, meanwhile, wondered if the city should target potential projects other than U.S. 54 and trails.

“The south end of town needs new streets,” she said.

IN A RELATED matter, Toland was joined by former mayor John McRae, former city administrator Judy Brigham, Allen Community College President John Masterson and local banker Jim Gilpin in speaking on behalf of Van Scoyoc.

Slaugh has proposed on more than one occasion the city terminate its funding contract with Van Scoyoc, at a cost of $40,000, annually.

“If the community doesn’t want to grow, (the $40,000) is a total waste of money,” Gilpin said. “If the community does want to grow, it’s a great investment.”

“It is absolutely right that earmarks are no more, and earmarks were the original reason why the city contracted with Van Scoyoc to begin with,” Toland said.

“But the reality is, that

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money is still out there, and there are different ways to get that.”

McRae admitted he initially was less than enthusiastic about the city’s hiring of Van Scoyoc — until he saw them in action.

“They’ll tell you what’s possible, what’s not possible, and who you need to talk to,” McRae said, adding that successfully applying for federal dollars requires connections to Washington, D.C. “Those people are as connected as it gets. It’s a good deal. If you utilize it, it’s a great deal.”

Brigham pointed to the personal relationships Van Scoyoc has both locally and with Washington officials.

“I treasure those relationships in D.C.,” Brigham said. “It’s important to keep them alive.”

Slaugh, conversely, noted his conversations with other community officials across the state.

“I sent out a question to find out if any other communities used a consultant or lobbyist in Washington, D.C. Four (communities) used them in the past, but no other city in Kansas that I know of still does so.

“They’ve done a good job in the past,” Slaugh continued. “But there are other things we could have used that funding for.”

In light of their comments, Beverly Franklin proposed the council consider forming a committee to work in league with Van Scoyoc to better utilize the company’s services.

No action was taken.

around the city and planned to work out of state offices in downtown Baltimore with cabinet members and senior staffers.

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, in her first day on the job, said she would send Justice Department officials to the city in coming days.

A weeklong, daily cur-

few was imposed beginning tonight from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., the mayor said, and Baltimore public schools closed today.

Maj. Gen. Linda Singh, adjutant general of the Maryland National Guard, said up to 5,000 troops would be available for Baltimore’s streets.

“We are going to be out in massive force, and that just means basically that we are going to be patrolling the streets and out to ensure that we are protecting property,” Singh said at a news conference Monday night.

Singh said they will be acting at the direction of Baltimore police.

Col. William Pallozzi, the superintendent of the state police, said a request for up to 500 additional law enforcement personnel in Maryland had been sent. Pallozzi added that the state is putting out a request for up to 5,000 more law enforcement personnel from around the midAtlantic region.

Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings and about 200 others, including ministers, tried unsuccessfully to quell the violence at one point Monday night, marching arm-in-arm through a neighborhood littered with broken glass, flattened aluminum cans and other debris. As they got close to a line of police officers, the marchers went down on their knees. They then rose to their feet and walked until they were face-to-face with the police officers in a tight formation and wearing riot gear.

But the violence continued, with looters later setting a liquor store on fire and throwing cinder blocks at fire trucks as firefighters labored to put out the blazes.

Monday’s riot was the latest flare-up over the death of Gray and came amid a national debate over police use of force following the highprofile deaths of several black men in encounters with police.

Students: Eighth at nationals Continued from A1

ment category. She enjoyed seeing eco-friendly practices in the Seattle area.

“It is a very green community, both ways,” Yohon Sinclar said, pointing to the environmentally friendly atmosphere and lush foliage.

He also noted how friendly everyone was while they toured the

city.

The group said it didn’t rain once in the stereotypical rainy city.

While there, the Iolans visited the waterfront aquarium and took a ferry to Bainbridge Island, a favorite of team member Ryan Eyster. Johns taught the group seafood etiquette and Heslop said the food was fabulous.

Johns said each squad was paired with a sister team. Iola’s was from New Hampshire.

Both teams visited the Space Needle and had dinner.

The four juniors and sophomore hope to return to the competition next year.

The expenses of the trip was paid for by the state bank commissioner’s office and AT&T.

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Iola golf wins Buck Quincy Invitational Iola High’s golf team won its home tournament, the Buck Quincy Invitational, Monday.

The team started at Cedarbrook Golf Course for the front nine holes, then moved to Allen County Country Club for the final nine.

Iola’s Kaden Macha took first with a 77. Matt Jacobs shot an 81 for third. Shane Walden shot an 82 and took fifth, while Adam Peterson finished with an 83 and in sixth place. Drake Dieker shot an 89 and took ninth. Drake Sell finished in 11th with a 94.

Central Heights’ Matt Percy

Kaden Macha

— son of IHS baseball coach Mark Percy — took second with a score of 78. Humboldt’s Robbie Sellman finished in eighth with an 85, Connor Rosenberry shot a 140 for 29th and Matt Lea finished two spots behind in 31st with a 154.

Iola’s junior varsity team competes May 4 at Independence. The varsity team has three more tournaments until its regional May 18 at Osawatomie.

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Colby Works finishes sixth at Salina tourney SALINA — Iola High’s Colby Works got in extra competition Saturday before the team’s Class 4A Regional May 8 in Parsons. Making up for missing some matches earlier in the season, Works placed sixth at the Salina Central Invitational. There were 36 competitors in Works’ bracket.

Works started the day as the seventh seed.

He began with an 8-1 win

against Gordon Wong of Andover Central. He then beat Salina Central’s Will Hayes, 8-6. In the quarterfinals, Works lost to eventual runner-up Jack Weiner of Salina Central, 8-0. Works moved into the loser’s bracket, where he beat Pitt’s Adrian McAfee, 8-7. In the fifth-place match he lost to Pitt’s Logan Berham, 8-1.

Works finished the regular season at 23-6.

Colby Works finished up the regular season with a sixth place finish at Salina. REGISTER FILE PHOTO

Royals clobber Kluber, win 6-2 CLEVELAND (AP) — Mike Moustakas has done well throughout his career against Corey Kluber. Even so, beating the AL Cy Young Award winner was quite an accomplishment.

Moustakas got four hits, Alex Gordon drove in two runs and the Kansas City Royals kept Kluber winless this season, topping the Cleveland Indians 6-2.

Kluber (0-3) gave up six runs, four of them earned, and 10 hits in 6 1-3 innings.

After going 18-9 last year, he hasn’t won in five starts and has a 4.24 ERA. “He’s one of the best pitchers in the game, if not the best pitcher in the game,” Moustakas said. “We came away with a win against a great pitcher.”

Gordon had a go-ahead double in the sixth. Moustakas added an RBI single in the seventh, and is 11 for 25 lifetime against Kluber.

Despite those numbers, Moustakas has no explanation for his success.

“That’s one of those things that happens in baseball,” he said. “Against a guy like that, every at-bat is tough. You just hope he makes a mistake or what you think is a mistake, but that guy doesn’t make many mistakes.”

The Indians committed a season-high three errors and have lost seven of 10.

Jason Vargas (2-1) allowed two runs in five innings.

The left-hander, who pitched around five walks, gave up a two-run homer to Mike Aviles in the fifth.

Kluber recorded his 500th career strikeout when he

“You got to get into battle mode and put a good swing on it like Moose did all night long and Gordie, too.”

The win ended a two-game losing streak for the Royals, who are 13-6 after coming within one game of winning the World Series last season.

“Teams can go one of two ways when they get a taste

[Kluber’s] one of the best pitchers in the game, if not the best pitcher in the game. We came away with a win against a great pitcher.

— Mike Moustakas

whiffed Lorenzo Cain in the sixth. The right-hander struck out five and walked two.

Errors by shortstop Jose Ramirez and Aviles, playing third base, helped Kansas City score twice.

Eric Hosmer, who had an RBI single in the third, drew a leadoff walk to start the sixth. He took third on Kendrys Morales’ single before Gordon dropped a double near the line in left field for a 3-2 lead.

“You don’t want to give in to a guy like Kluber until you get to two strikes,” Royals manager Ned Yost said.

of winning,” Indians manager Terry Francona said.

“You can go on the banquet circuit and kind of dig yourself or you can come back with a ‘Hey, we got there and we want to do it again.’ They seem to be in that mode. I wish they weren’t.”

Kansas City’s Jarrod Dyson stole three bases, his first of the season.

The gametime temperature of 44 degrees, along with 13 mph winds, forced many in the crowd of 9,668 to bundle up in wintertime clothing.

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TRACTOR & FARM EQUIPMENT: John Deere 4755 diesel tractor with 5225 hours with cab and air and 18.4 x 42R dials 90% clean; AC 185 diesel tractor 4282 hours 18.4 x 30 rears 200 hours on engine; Westendorf loader bucket and hay spike brackets for 40 series John Deere; White 2-88 diesel tractor 5491 hours P.S. cab and air with Westendorf loader bucket and hay spike; 1030 Case diesel tractor open station; Gleaner R50 combine with 20’ flex head and 4wd; Krause 1900 27-1/2’ Tandem disk 21” blades; Keawanee 18’ Tandem disk; John Deere 960 F.C. 27-1/2’ 3 bar Harrow; Glenco F.C. 18’; Ford 5-14 semi mt plow; AC 4-16 semi mt plow, M&M 414 semi mt plow; IHC 55 chisel 13’; Glenco 13’ soil saver 11 shank with harrow; Hesston 5580; Round baler; New Holland 276 sq baler wire; Hesston 1014 Swather center pivot 14’; New Holland 259 rake; 6 bale gooseneck trailer with forks; Great Plain 30’ drill with markers; Glenco 6 row cultivator 3 pt.; IHC 5100 drill 21 hole (Sheded); John Deere HX15 rotary mower hyd fold 250 acres (like new); Servis 6’ 3 pt. rotary mower; 300 bu. gravity trailer with Hyd auger; Kilbros 490 500 bu grain cart 1000 PTO with 23.1 x 26 tires; 180 bu. gravity wagon on trailer (needs tires); 5th wheel gooseneck trailer with hoist; BlairTandem trailer 16’; 2 wheel flat bed trailer; grain auger 6” x 40’ PTO; Jet Flow grain auger 8” x 52’ PTO hyd lift; 300 gal sprayer trailer PTO pump; Servic 3 pt. post hole digger; bush hog speed mover; 6’ 3 pt box blade with rippers; 1000 gallon fuel tank electric pump; 2-500 gallon fuel tanks; American air compressor; 150 PSI (like new); PTO wire winder; platform scales; used tires 18.4 x 30, 8.25 x 20; PU tires; Chevy 366 big block engine; 110’ x 9/16 cable (new); old signs 3 x 6 StarBakery.

DOZER : Cat D7F ROPS 7S hyd dozer with tilt 27 cable control unit dual hyd to rear good under carriage. SOLID MACHINE. VEHICLES: 1986 Chevy C-70 grain truck; 18’ bed GMC diesel with 10sp trans full air; 1969 Chevy C-50 grain truck rebuilt 350 gas engine with 4/2 trans 6 new tires 15-1/2” bed; 1961 Chevy gas engine 1-1/2 ton grain bed metal sides; 2011 Ford F150 XLT pickup 4 door, 4 wheel drive with 27,500 miles. AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Retirement Sale! Seller is selling due to age and health.

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Garage Sales 513 N 3rd. Huge multi-family yard sale. Thursday-Friday 8-5.

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KS AG seeks $450k to defend abortion law TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ attorney general is telling legislators that defending a first-ofits-kind anti-abortion law in court could cost the state up to $450,000, as Republican Gov. Sam Brownback commemorates the measure with events across the state.

The Republican governor announced plans Monday for four reenactments of his signing of a bill banning a common second-trimester procedure that anti-abortion activists describe as dismembering a fetus. Brownback’s events today will be at a Catholic church education building in Lenexa and Catholic high schools in Pittsburg, Wichita and Hays.

Brownback signed the legislation April 7, and the new law takes effect in July. The National Right to Life Committee proposed the measure as model legislation, and Oklahoma enacted its own law days after Kansas.

Abortion providers in Kansas say they’re considering lawsuits.

Attorney General Derek Schmidt told legislators last week that his office could need up to $50,000 by the end of June, another $100,000 to $200,000 during the fiscal year beginning July 1 and up to $200,000 more for the following fiscal year. Schmidt’s office declined to comment Monday on the request, but it was described in a summary of budget proposals from various state agencies prepared

last week for lawmakers by their research staff.

His office already has paid outside attorneys $1.2 million to defend other anti-abortion laws enacted since Brownback took office in January 2011. The state hasn’t lost a lawsuit, and Kansans for Life, the most influential an-

[The attorney general’s] office already has paid outside attorneys $1.2 million to defend other anti-abortion laws enacted since Brownback took office in January 2011.

ti-abortion group at the Statehouse, is confident the new law would survive a challenge.

“We wouldn’t have to pay a penny if nobody sued,” said Mary Kay Culp, the group’s executive director. “Let the people of Kansas speak and leave it alone.”

But Laura McQuade, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri said Schmidt’s request for funds shows his office is “aware that this bill has constitutional problems.”

“They ignored the health, legal and medical implications of this bill,” she said.

The new Kansas and Oklahoma laws ban doctors from using forceps, clamps, scissors or similar instruments on a live fetus to remove it from the womb in pieces. Such instruments are commonly used in

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Abortion rights advocates say the procedure is often the safest for a woman seeking a second-trimester abortion.

Both Planned Parenthood, which performs abortions in Overland Park, and Trust Women, which operates a Wichita clinic, are considering legal challenges.

Julie Burkhart, Trust Women’s founder and CEO, said the new law is the work of officials “with an ideological axe to grind.”

“The anti-choice faction doesn’t believe women are capable of making sound decisions about each pregnancy,” Burkhart said.

But Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said the governor is proud that Kansas was the first state to enact such a ban.

“He will continue to defend the sanctity of life,” she said.

Lynch sworn in as new US AG WASHINGTON (AP) — Loretta Lynch was sworn in Monday as the 83rd U.S. attorney general, the first AfricanAmerican woman to serve as the nation’s top law enforcement official.

Speaking before an audience of family members, Justice Department lawyers and supporters, Lynch said her confirmation as attorney general showed that “we can do anything” and pledged that the agency would “use justice as our compass” in confronting terrorism, cyberattacks and

ceremony, calling Lynch an “incredibly qualified” selection for the position. He said Lynch had shown grace during the months-long confirmation process, in which her nomination became caught up in Congress in a dispute over human trafficking legislation.

“Ladies and gentlemen, it’s about time — it’s about time this woman is being sworn in,” Biden said to applause.

The 55-year-old Lynch was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday. She replaces Eric Holder,

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dilation and evacuation procedures performed during the second trimester.

Kansas bans most abortions at or after the 22nd week of pregnancy, and dilation and evacuation abortions accounted for 9 percent of the total in the state last year.

Later Monday, Lynch issued a statement condemning the violence in Baltimore as a disservice to [Freddie Gray’s] family and peaceful protesters. She said she would dispatch multiple Justice Department officials...to Baltimore in the coming days.

other threats facing the country.

“We can imbue our criminal justice system with both strength and fairness, for the protection of both the needs of victims and the rights of all. We can restore trust and faith both in our laws and in those of us who enforce them,” Lynch said, an apparent reference to ongoing efforts to repair relations between police departments and the minority communities that they serve.

Vice President Joe Biden administered the oath of office to Lynch at a Justice Department

who left the position Friday after serving as attorney general for six years.

Lynch met with President Barack Obama at the White House on Monday afternoon.

The two discussed the ongoing rioting in Baltimore, which came hours after the funeral for Freddie Gray, who died days after he suffered a severe spinal injury while in Baltimore police custody.

The Justice Department is investigating that death, and Lynch told the president that the agency would provide whatever help was needed.

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Later Monday, Lynch issued a statement condemning the violence in Baltimore as a disservice to Gray’s family and peaceful protesters. She said she would dispatch multiple Justice Department officials — including Vanita Gupta, the head of the department’s civil rights division — to Baltimore in the coming days.

She was previously the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, which encompasses much of New York City, and is expected to serve as the top federal law enforcement official for the remainder of the Obama administration.

She inherits a Justice Department that has been at the center of a national debate about police use of force and the role race plays in law enforcement.

The Harvard-educated Lynch grew up in North Carolina during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the daughter of a retired teacher and a fourth-generation Baptist preacher who Biden said would take his child to the courthouse to observe important cases.

“I am here to tell you, if a little girl from North Carolina who used to tell her grandfather in the fields to lift her up on the back of his mule, so she could see ‘way up high, Granddaddy,’ can become the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America, then we can do anything,” Lynch said.

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Bucks avoid elimination

CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Carter-Williams had 22 points and nine assists, Khris Middleton scored 21 points, and the Milwaukee Bucks avoided elimination again with a 94-88 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Monday night in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series.

With a 3-2 lead, the Bulls will try to close it out again Thursday at Milwaukee.

But the Bucks aren’t going

quietly after dropping the first three games.

They took Game 4 on a last-second layup by Jerryd Bayless and withstood several pushes by the Bulls in the fourth quarter of this one.

The Bucks regrouped after a nine-point lead dwindled to three, and they hung on again after a seven-point lead shrunk to four with just over a minute remaining.

Royals: Win Continued from B1

GETTING CLOSER

Royals RHP Greg Holland (right pectoral strain), eligible to come off the 15-day disabled list on May 3, played catch before the game after a pain-free bullpen session Sunday.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Chicago Bulls forward Pau Gasol (16) yells as Milwaukee Bucks guard Michael Carter-Williams (5) takes off with the ball during the second half on Monday at the United Center in Chicago in Game 5 of a firstround playoff series. The Bucks defeated the Bulls, 94-88. TNS/CHICAGO TRIBUNE/BRIAN CASSELLA

Royals: OF Alex Rios (broken left hand) was examined by a specialist and will begin strengthening exercises. Rios was hit by a pitch on April 16.

Indians: OF Nick Swisher, who had surgery on both knees in August, hopes to rejoin the team next week.

He’ll continue his minor league rehab assignment with Triple-A

Columbus on Tuesday.

“It’s been a long road,” he said. “I just want this to be over so I can get back here with my guys.”

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Royals: RHP Jeremy Guthrie, who allowed three runs in the first inning against Minnesota in his last start, is 5-5 lifetime against Cleveland, the team that drafted him in 2002. Guthrie pitched for the Indians from 2004-06.

Indians: RHP Trevor Bauer, who was scratched Saturday because of food poisoning, will start against the Royals. He pitched seven shutout innings against the White Sox in his last start.

Iola recreation soccer scores (4/20-25) April 20th Games 6th-8th Grade League Church Construction 1, Sonic 1 Logan Gray found the back of the net for Church Construction.

Scoring the only goal for Sonic was Ryan Geiler.

A&W 6, Sonic 1 Karson McGraw led the way with two goals, with Nissa Fountain, Lane Bahnsen, Olivia Carney and Audrey Coltrane each chipping in with a goal for A&W. Levi Meiwes of Sonic had the lone goal for his team.

Monarch Cement was Jacob Harrington.

Stacy Cakes 3, Smith Contracting 1 Drake Ratcliff, Avery Works and Anapaula Franco each scored a goal for Stacy Cakes. Judah Stockebrand scored the only goal for Smith Contracting.

Johnson Law Office 2, Stacy Cakes 2 Scoring two goals for Johnson Law was Wyat Bahnsen. Shayann Bushong found the back of the net twice for Stacy Cakes.

April 21st Games 1st-2nd Grade League A&W 3, Gates 2 Jordy Kaufman led the way with two goals, with Brigg Shannon chipping in with one goal for A&W. Henry White found the back of the net twice for Gates.

Monarch Cement 1, Fellowship Regional Church 0, Scoring the only goal for

3rd-5th Grade League Precision International 2, Ashley Clinic 1 Hunter Zimbelman found the back of the net for Ashley Clinic.

Carter Hutton led the way with two goals for Precision.

April 25th Games 1st-2nd Grade League Gates 1, Monarch Cement 0

Scoring the only goal for Gates was Ryun Cole.

A&W 4, Smith Contracting 0 Jordy Kaufman and Eliott Stephenson each found the back of the net twice for A&W. H&R Block 8, Community National Bank 0 Kaiden Rutherford led the way with six goals, with Lucas Maier and Cole Mathes each adding a goal for H&R Block.

Stacy Cakes 2, Gates 2 Jaryt Hess and Anapaula Franco each scored a goal for Stacy Cakes. Henry White and Dreden Ellis found the net for Gates.

Platinum K Salon 3, Community National Bank 3 Kade Nilges found the back of the net three times for Platinum K Salon. Scoring three goals for Community National Bank was Skyler Harris.

A&W 2 , H&R Block 1 Scoring the only goal for H&R Block was Cole Mathes. Jordy Kaufman and Wyatt Williamson each scored a goal for A&W. Monarch Cement 2 , Stacy Cakes 1 Blake Ellis found the net for Stacy Cakes. Jacob Harrington scored two goals for Monarch Cement.

3rd-5th Grade League Allen County Chiropractic 5 , Dude Be Nice 2 Scoring two goals for Dude Be Nice was Brennen Nuessen. Tyler Boeken led the way with four goals, with Skyler Walden chip-

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ping in with one goal for Allen County Chiropractic.

Iola Insurance Associates 4 , B&W 2 Felipe Franco and Melina Hess each scored a goal for B&W. Korbyn Fountain led the way with three goals, with Rogan Weir chipping in with one goal for Iola Ins. Assoc.

Precision International 3, Allen County Chiropractic 3 Jack White scored two goals for Precision, Allen County Chiropractic scored in their own net. Scoring three goals for Allen County Chiropractic was Tyler Boeken.

Dude Be Nice 3 , Ashley Clinic 0 Brennen Nuessen led the way with three goals for Dude Be Nice.

6th-8th Grade League A&W 7, Sonic 2 Lane Bahnsen and Karson McGraw each scored two goals, with Jacob Wight, Nissa Fountain and Cody Bahnsen each chipped in with a goal for A&W. Scoring two goals for Sonic was Ryan Geiler.

Sonic 4, Church Construction 1 Ryan Geiler, Audrey Powe, Korbyn Fountain and Zane Griffeth each found the net for Sonic.

Scoring the only goal for Church Construction was Drake Harrington.

A&W 4 , Church Construction 1 Jessica Myers found the net for Church Construction. Jacob Wight, Nissa Fountain, , Lane Bahnsen and Karson McGraw each scored a goal for A&W.

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Humboldt track team lights up Fredonia Invit.

FREDONIA — Humboldt High’s track team competed at the Fredonia Invitational Friday. The boys took sixth and the girls 19th.

Individual results follow: Girls Britnee Works; high jump, 4’6”, sixth

Boys Bryce Isaac; long jump, 19’4 1/2”, second; triple jump, 40’7”, second Joe Kline; 1600m, 5:01, third Andrew Keazer; 800m, 2:13, third Justin Meins; high jump, 6’, third; 300m hurdles, 44.73, third Isaac, Meins, Keazer, Logan Roseberry (4x400m relay); 3:42.42, third Kline, Meins, Keazer, Anthony Doran (4x800m relay); 9:01, third

Youth shoot Saturday Jakes Take Aim National Wild Turkey Federation will host a youth shoot from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Doug Strickler Farm.

Individuals must be 17 and under, and the cost is $5. There will be lunch, prizes and everything will be provided. Kids can bring

Sports Calendar

Iola Baseball Today, vs. PARSONS (V), 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, at Neodesha (V), 4:30 p.m.

Softball Today, vs. PARSONS (V), 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, at Neodesha (V), 4:30 p.m.

Tennis May 8-9, Class 4A Regionals, Parsons Track Tuesday, at Fort Scott (JV) Thursday, at Osawatomie Golf Monday, at Indy (JV), 3 p.m.

IMS Track Friday, at Burlington IMS Golf Wednesday, at Parsons, 1 p.m.

Marmaton Valley Baseball May 5, vs. ST. PAUL, 3:30 p.m.

Softball May 5, vs. CHETOPA, 3:30 p.m.

Track May 7, Crest Invite at Iola

their own equipment.

To get to Doug Strickler’s Farm, turn left onto West Lincoln Street from North State Street. Turn right on 1300 Street, and turn left onto Farm Road.

For pre-registration contact Don Erbert at mede@cox.net or Neil Crane at 365-7140.

Humboldt Baseball Today, at Cherryvale, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, at Oswego, 4:30 p.m.

Softball Today, at Cherryvale, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, at Oswego, 4:30 p.m.

Track Today, at Burlington Thursday, at Neodesha Golf May 5, at Neodesha

Southern Coffey Co. Track Today, at Burlington

Crest Track Friday, at Madison

Yates Center Baseball Thursday, at St. Paul, 4:30 p.m.

Softball Thursday, at St. Paul, 4:30 p.m.

Track Thursday, at Neodesha, Golf May 4, at Rock Creek

HUMBOLDT FOUNDERS’ DAY 3K/5K WALK/RUN

Sat., May 9 • 8 a.m.

For More Info. Call: 620-704-5573

Route will take rummers past 12 historical markers throughout Humboldt. $

15 before April 29 includes t-shirt with entry. $ 20 after April 29 t-shirt not included.

Registration/Check-in will begin at 7:15 a.m., NW corner of the Humboldt square. (near the historical stone) Funds raised will be for the Smithsonian Traveling Sports Exhibit. Coming to Humboldt this October

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NFL Draft in Chicago for first time in 51 years

By DAN WIEDERER Chicago Tribune

(TNS) — Gil Brandt admits he’s eager to settle into Chicago this week for the NFL draft, intrigued as much as anybody by the pomp and circumstance exploding around downtown.

There’s the mini-city — Draft Town, they’re calling it — that has blossomed in Grant Park.

Giant NFL helmets are being showcased along Michigan Avenue. The waters at iconic Buckingham Fountain will be coordinated to light up with the colors of whichever team is on the clock.

The draft, Brandt knows, has become a super-twister of excitement and hype. And as the event roots down in Chicago for the first time in 51 years, Brandt appreciates how much the show has evolved.

“You can’t believe how far things have come,” he said.

Brandt was in attendance the last time the draft was in Chicago, then a 30-year-old head scout for the Dallas Cowboys, in the early days of his three-decade run as the organization’s vice president of player personnel. That 1964 draft actually was conducted in December of 1963 during an era in which college players were drafted before the NFL’s season was complete.

There were fewer teams (14) back then and far more rounds (20). Brandt paints the picture of a ballroom at the Sheraton-Chicago hotel, hazed in cigar and cigarette smoke with

14 tables spread around and a fraternity of talent evaluators and decision makers just trying to get their picks right.

On a Monday.

Oh, and with no television presence, there was no time limit between picks with teams free to overanalyze and filibuster all they wanted.

That would help explain why the Tribune chronicled the first three rounds of the ‘64 draft as consuming 14 hours and 46 minutes.

And on things went, right through the night.

Round 20 ended at 6:47 a.m.

Harry Hulmes, then the public relations director for the Baltimore Colts before he later became the assistant general manager of the New York Giants, marvels when thinking back on a draft with no time limits.

“They’d wake you up in the conference room during the night to tell you it was your turn to pick,” said Hulmes, now 86 and retired in New Jersey. “And it was, ‘Oh. OK. Thanks. What round is it anyway? And who else has been drafted ahead of us?’ “ Brandt has a deeper explanation for his team’s role in the 1964 delay. Early in the second round, with the Cowboys preparing to make the 17th overall pick, the organization had zeroed in on a cornerback from Oregon. Only word had spread that Mel Renfro was still dealing with a hand injury, possibly a severed nerve — as Brandt remembers it, “from putting his hand through a mirror after he learned of the death of President Kennedy.”

How best to mitigate such an injury risk? The Cowboys summoned a doctor in Portland, requesting he drive to the Oregon campus in Eugene to fully examine Renfro.

“Held the draft up for five hours,” Brandt said.

“Honestly. Everybody in the room was wanting to throw rocks at us.”

It’s no wonder then that the draft room was littered with cigarette butts and coffee cups and Coke cans. And with the scouting process far less sophisticated, every team’s table, Brandt recalls, had a copy of Street & Smith’s College Football Yearbook plus rolls upon rolls of quarters to be fed into the nearest pay phones.

Said Brandt: “You’d have a team needing an offensive tackle. So they might call ‘Pappy’ Lewis, the coach at West Virginia University and say ‘Hey Pappy, who was the best tackle you played against this year? Who should we draft?’ “ With George Halas at the helm as both owner and head coach, the Bears made Tennessee offensive tackle Dick Evey their top pick in the 1964 draft and later scooped up a group of players with names too old-timey to be made up — Sid Blanks and Larry Rakestraw, Bob Horton and Cloyd Webb.

Hulmes remembers the passion with which Halas operated, at that time leading a ‘63 Bears team that went on to win the NFL championship.

“Halas was a firebrand,” Hulmes said.

“And his acumen about the game was truly impressive.”

Brandt’s Cowboys,

Chicago Bears general manager Jim Finks, right, and head coach Jack Pardee review the first-round draft picks at the La Salle Hotel headquarters on Jan. 28, 1975. Finks and Pardee are pointing at their No. 1 draft choice in 1975, Walter Payton. TNS/CHICAGO TRIBUNE/PHIL MASCIONE meanwhile, had a field day in the ‘64 draft, nabbing three players who went on to make the Hall of Fame. In addition to landing Renfro, they also scooped up receiver Bob Hayes in the seventh round and, yes, quarterback Roger Staubach. In Round 10. (Take that, Tom Brady.)

There was one other twist. The AFL was still alive and had held its own draft — eight

Special needs students to receive letters WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Students who play in a special-needs sports league in the Wichita area scored a victory.

The Wichita Eagle reports the Wichita school board voted Monday to direct schools to award regular varsity letters to students who participate in the Tri-County

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The board voted unanimously to accept new guidelines proposed by the Tri-County league, which has teams from 11 area high schools for students with special needs. The handbook includes criteria for earning an athletic letter.

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teams, 26 rounds — the previous week. So it was common for college standouts to be drafted twice. Which led to Wild West negotiating tactics with teams in both leagues playing tug-ofwar with certain players.

The media coverage of everything, meanwhile, remained minimal. At the ‘64 event, Brandt remembers a half-dozen newspaper

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DETROIT (AP) — When the Detroit Tigers signed Joe Nathan before the 2014 season, they expected baseball’s active saves leader to simply keep rolling. After a few too many bad outings, they traded for a backup plan in Joakim Soria, widely considered the top reliever on the market.

That didn’t work either — Soria had an oblique injury and by the time the playoffs began, it seemed as though the Tigers had accomplished little with their bullpen.

That’s not organizational dysfunction or a problem for only the Tigers. Every team faces the fickle nature of relief pitching — that combination of factors that makes it difficult to predict how late-inning pitchers will perform season to season.

Relievers generally aren’t as consistent as starters or hitters, Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski said.

“You’re doing your best to find them.

Sometimes guys get injured. Sometimes when they’re real good, they pitch a lot,” Dombrowski said. “If they pitch a lot, then the next year they’re not quite as effective.”

A great bullpen can turn a solid team into a pennant winner. The Kansas City Royals last season rode Greg Holland, Wade Davis and Kelvin Herrera to within one victory of a World Series title, encouraging other teams to use a similar approach.

Some of 2014’s top relievers earned big bucks in free agency, closer or

Kansas City Royals relief pitcher Wade Davis (17) closes out the ninth inning for a 4-2 win over the Oakland Athletics on April 19 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. Davis has been slotted into the closer role because of an injury to Greg Holland. TNS/KANSAS CITY STAR/JOHN SLEEZER not. The New York Yankees signed left-hander Andrew Miller to a $36 million, four-year contract. David Robertson ($46 million, four years) and Zach Duke ($15 million, three years) went to the Chicago White Sox, while the Houston Astros added Luke Gregerson ($18.5 million, four years) and Pat Neshek ($12.5, two years).

But past results don’t guarantee success going forward. Grant Balfour had 38 saves for Oakland in 2013, then signed with Tampa Bay and lost his closer role before the All-Star break.

Jim Johnson reached 50 saves in both 2012 and 2013 for Baltimore, then posted a 7.09 ERA last year for Oakland and Detroit.

“Because there’s a lot of variability in performance from one year to the next, and the sample

size is not as big as a starting pitcher, you get players that over 50, 60 innings one year look very different than the next year,” Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow said.

Last season, 41 major league pitchers had an ERA of 2.50 or lower while working at least 50 innings and making no more than five starts, according to STATS. Those same benchmarks were hit by 35 pitchers in 2013 and 34 in 2012. The problem?

Exactly two pitchers made the list all three years — San Diego star Craig Kimbrel while he pitched with Atlanta and Baltimore righty Darren O’Day. Hardly any reliever can string together several great seasons.

That’s what made Mariano Rivera so remarkable.

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bounced back from his injury woes and taken over as Detroit’s closer.

Nathan, on the other hand, is out for the season with a torn ligament in his pitching elbow. Miller is off to an excellent start for the Yankees, but Fernando Rodney — the major league leader in saves last year with 48 — has a 7.36 ERA in the early going for Seattle in 2015.

Dombrowski likened Kansas City’s current bullpen to Cincinnati’s “Nasty Boys” — the trio of Randy Myers, Rob Dibble and Norm Charlton that helped the Reds to a World Series win in 1990. But despite their amazing single season, the Nasty Boys each had a hard time replicating that success.

It remains to be seen how long Kansas City’s

bullpen can dominate.

Rather than just throwing money at the biggest names, the Royals built their relief corps with foresight and creativity.

Davis was a starter as recently as 2013, but moved to the bullpen toward the end of the season. He went 9-2 with a 1.00 ERA last year and is now serving as interim closer while Holland recovers from a right pectoral strain.

Assistant general manager J.J. Picollo said the Royals began emphasizing the bullpen around 2008.

“We didn’t feel like we had the depth in our starting rotation — plus, that was something we could invest in, we could spend money on relievers without blowing out our budget,” he said.

Kansas City began looking at its minor leaguers with relief potential in mind.

“When is the right time to take a guy starting and put him in the bullpen? Holland started a little in A-ball, Herrera was in and out of the rotation,” Picollo said. “We reached a point with those guys — they’re relievers, power relievers. We knew they had good arms.”

Since relief success is tough to predict, a quantity-over-quality approach helps. Teams with more organizational depth have an advantage and it’s important to be flexible.

Tony La Russa helped popularize the idea of a one-inning closer when he managed the Oakland Athletics in the ‘80s and early ‘90s and had Dennis Eckersley.

He didn’t have similar

luxuries when he won World Series titles with St. Louis in 2006 and 2011.

In 2006, closer Jason Isringhausen was injured for the postseason.

Adam Wainwright, then a rookie, filled that role, while Josh Kinney and Tyler Johnson — neither of whom had been in the majors at the start of the season — got crucial outs for the Cardinals all through October.

Five years later, La Russa completely overhauled his bullpen during the season. Jason Motte, who didn’t have a single save that season before late August, was the postseason closer.

“You can’t script a season,” said La Russa, who is now in charge of Arizona’s front office.

“You’ve got to be ready for whatever.”

Teams can be optimistic about their bullpens, but they have to adapt and adjust during the season. Easy for Kansas City a year ago, but the Royals were an exception, not the norm.

No matter who makes the playoffs, chances are some of the most important October pitches will be thrown by relievers who were afterthoughts on opening day.

“The bullpen now is as important as the starting rotation,” La Russa said. “You don’t have to have an October championship bullpen right away. You’ve got to have some guys so you can get a win, but it’s OK to evaluate and tweak and adjust and move guys around. It’s OK. That’s why you play six months.”

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