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Becoming Buster Keaton

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Sometimes nature itself seems to herald the birth of something magnificent.

The date was Oct. 4, 1895, and tornadic winds were rising and beginning to whip and tear near the Woodson-Allen County border.

A vaudeville troupe of actors suddenly found themselves stuck at the rail junction in Piqua, including Myra Keaton, who was multiple months pregnant.

Perhaps it was stress brought about by the weather, or was simply his time, but that night Myra gave birth to her son Joseph in a hotel not far from the railroad tracks.

One imagines a strange nativity there, with curious actors still in stage dress crowded around windows and doorways to catch a glimpse of the child who would become perhaps the greatest star in all American film history.

Was Joseph Frank Keaton crying and bawling when he came into the world, or was his face already made of stone?

HE DEFINITELY wasn’t “Buster” yet.

Legend has it that the name was given to him by the illustrious Harry Houdini, at least in Keaton’s version of the story.

Supposedly the young lad took a fall down some stairs in the world-famous magician’s presence, upon which Houdini roared “That was a real buster!”

It wasn’t the only time he

Trump signs COVID relief package WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package, ending days of drama over his refusal to accept the bipartisan deal that will deliver longsought cash to businesses and individuals and avert a federal government shutdown.

The deal also provides $1.4 trillion to fund government agencies through September and contains other end-of-session priorities such as an increase in food stamp benefits.

The signing Sunday, at his private club in Florida came as he faced escalating criticism over his eleventh-hour demands for larger, $2,000 relief checks and scaled-back spending even though the bill had already passed the House and Senate by wide margins. The bill was passed with what lawmakers had thought was Trump’s blessing, and after months of negotiations with his administration.

His foot-dragging resulted in a lapse in unemploy-

Above, a sneak peak inside the Buster Keaton museum in Piqua. At right, historical photo of the young Buster Keaton. earned the title, either.

As part of their family’s vaudeville performance, Buster’s father, Joe, would wildly toss the young lad around the stage, against the scenery, and into the orchestra pit/audience.

Meanwhile, Myra would play saxophone.

The perceived violence of the show was so great that audiences often called the police, and the Keatons would have to explain that it was only stagecraft.

TODAY, few traces remain of the Keaton family’s short but monumental stay in Piqua.

The hotel Buster was born in is long gone, yet there are multiple subtle reminders of what happened there.

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Grant will extend broadband internet to remote areas

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

LAHARPE — Armed with a state grant made available because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, LaHarpe Telephone’s New Wave Broadband is extending its broadband internet access to remote areas of Allen County.

Construction wrapped up last week on the second of a pair of 190-foot towers, this one in the Geneva Township in the northwesternmost regions of the county. The first was finished earlier this month just east of Mildred.

“There are a lot of areas out there that don’t have decent internet,” noted Harry Lee Jr., owner of LaHarpe Telephone and New Wave.

That’s because of their remote location from faraway transmitters, and just enough topographic obstructions, such as hills and trees.

Invariably, those residents

depend upon satellite-based internet services, which can often be problematic, he continued. “They’ll have latency problems or data caps,” Lee said.

As a result, “It’s really difficult for kids doing online schooling, parents trying to work remotely, or people doing telemedicine.”

And if 2020 has proven anything, it’s that the demand for broadband access is greater than ever.

With that in mind, the Kansas Department of Commerce announced earlier this year the Connectivity Emergency Response Grant, which funds 75% of projects geared to improve connectivity to unserved and underserved areas of Kansas “to address the needs of telework, telehealth, distance learning and other remote business services.”

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Obituaries Carl Heinlein Carl R. Heinlein died on Dec. 11, 2020. He was born May 31, 1931.

Carl was a great husband, father and grandfather, and was beloved by all who knew him. He passed away quietly at home after a prolonged illness. Carl is the son of Memie and Beecher Heinlein of Colony, and is a graduate of Colony High School Carl Heinlein where he excelled in academics, football, baseball and basketball. Carl attended Iola Junior College until the outbreak of the Korean War. In December 1950, he entered the U.S. Navy, serving aboard the USS Orleck (DD-886) and saw action in Korea. He earned the National Defense, Korean Service, United Nations and Good Conduct Medals.

Upon discharge from the Navy, Carl became a private detective in San Francisco. There, he met Norma Siliznoff, whom he married in Reno, Nev. in 1955. Later, Carl and Norma moved to Southern California and lived in El Monte before retiring to Apple Valley and later Hesperia, Calif. Carl worked for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for most of his career.

Carl’s passion was his family. He spent his lifetime doing projects, camping and raising his sons to be people of character. From taking the boys to professional football and basketball games to teaching them about sports, camping, and horses and farming, Carl was always involved. A great role model, all his children served in the military. He spent his life with his adored wife, Norma. After the children left, Carl and Norma spent their lives with travel from Alaska and Hawaii and all across the Lower 48. Normally these travels included visits to family where, as with their children, Carl and Norma devoted themselves to knowing and loving their grandchildren.

He is survived by his three sons, Bill, Bruce, and George, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He will be interned at Riverside National Cemetery alongside his beloved wife.

Jay Dutton Jay M. Dutton, of Colony, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. He was born Jan. 25, 1927, in Iola to William George Dutton and Marietta (Gillispie) Dutton, during the Great Depression. Jay grew up on the family farm west of Neosho Falls.

He graduated from Neosho Falls High School in 1945 and then attend- Jay Dutton ed Pittsburg State University for a time. In 1945, Jay enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving two years near the end of World War II, earning the rank of Yeoman Third Class.

Upon discharge he returned to Neosho Falls where he married his high school sweetheart, Virginia P. George, on April 11, 1948.

Jay received his BS in Education from Pittsburg State University and his MA in Administration from Colorado State College of Education, Greeley, Colorado. In 1952, Jay began teaching at Longton.

Over his 37-year teaching career Jay taught business subjects in Longton (1952-56), Burlingame (1956-59), Kincaid, and Colony (1960-89). Jay was the superintendent of schools in Thayer, 1959-60, before moving to Colony in the fall of 1960. Jay retired from teaching in 1989.

Jay was an active member of the communities in which he lived. He was a member of Colony Community Church, where he served many roles, including Trustee and Treasurer. Jay was a longtime active member of the Colony Lions Club. He served three times as president and was District Governor 1970-71. Jay was proud of the club’s accomplishments while he served as president. Some of their projects included constructing Colony’s first heated fire barn and the Committal Building in the cemetery. Jay also served on the City Council and as a member of the V.F.W. and American Legion.

Jay was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Everett, Lynn and Orville; a sister Wilma Johnson; a daughter-in-law Marinda Dutton; and great-grandson, Knox Jay Dutton.

He is survived by his wife of 72 years, Virginia, of the home; two sons, Jerry Dutton and wife, Elizabeth of Meadow Valley, Calif.; David Dutton of Granger, Ind.; daughter, Jayne Miller and husband, Jim of Garnett; eight grandchildren; 12 greatgrandchildren; three step-great grandchildren; two step-great-great-grandchildren; and a number of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Jay’s greatest love was spending time with the grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will take place at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 30, at Colony Community Church. The family will greet friends from 1 p.m. until the start of the service. Internment will follow in Colony Cemetery.

Memorial contributions are recommended to the Colony First Responders or the Colony Lions Club.

The family requests that everyone wear a face covering while attending the services. For those unable to attend the service, it will be available for viewing via www.feuerbornfuneral.com. Condolences to the family may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

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Kelly objects to ‘patchwork’ virus response

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly said Wednesday that Kansas should stop giving local officials the final say over the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic because experience has shown “a patchwork approach” does not work.

Kelly made the comments during an Associated Press interview a day after she and her top health administrator argued that Kansas is now controlling the spread of COVID-19 despite its high case numbers. They argued that the state is seeing the benefits of a “unified” state strategy to boost testing and an increased willingness by the state’s 105 counties to require people to wear masks, which she has pushed for months.

The governor also said she would like legislators to rewrite a law that allows people exposed to COVID-19 to avoid providing information that would allow health officials to trace their close contacts. The law was enacted to protect people’s privacy, but health officials said it hinders disease tracking.

The Republican-controlled Legislature already has committed to considering changes in emergency management laws after opening its annual 90-day session Jan. 11. Lawmakers enacted a law in June covering the current pandemic, but its provisions and a state of emergency for the pandemic expire Jan. 26 if lawmakers do nothing.

“I would hope that rather than look at this through a political lens, that they would really look at it through lessons learned,” she said. “Well, if they look back, one of the things we learned is that a patchwork approach to a pandemic does not work.”

Kelly is likely to face strong resistance from Republicans for returning power to manage a pandemic to the governor’s office, particularly the authority to close businesses or impose statewide re-

strictions such as mask mandates. GOP leaders have argued repeatedly that local officials are best positioned to decide what works.

A top Republican in the GOP-controlled Legislature suggested Wednesday that the state is seeing success now in battling COVID-19 because Kelly adopted a softer, GOP-backed approach Gov. Laura Kelly to dealing with the pandemic. In late Oc- ping if it is sustained ferent approach,” Kelly tober, Kelly contem- over time. Norman said. there Her comments came plated forcing out-of- acknowledged are still virus hotspots as doses of coronavirus session legislators to reconvene to impose a generating new cases, vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna are bestatewide mask man- though.

Kelly kept a stateing given to front-line date, but top lawmakwide stay-at-home orhealth care workers. ers pushed her instead der in place for five Kelly’s staff has said to work with local ofweeks in the spring the 70-year-old goverficials. Efforts since to check the spread of nor won’t get her first have included a promask public relations COVID-19. Top Republi- dose until it’s her turn. can lawmakers thought But she said Wednescampaign.

“We asked the gov- she was too slow to re- day that the state is ernor to take a new open the economy and looking at giving shots approach — one that later forced her to ac- to some officials for appealed to Kansans to cept local control over “continuity of operatake care of each oth- mask rules and restric- tions.”

The health care er instead of invoking tions on businesses.

“If they look back workers who’ve refear and mandates,” and they’re honest ceived shots include House Speaker Ron Ryckman Jr., an Olathe about what worked Kelly’s 71-year-old husRepublican, said in a and what didn’t work, I band, first gentleman text to The Associated think they’ll take a dif- Dr. Ted Daughety.

Press. “We’re optimistic that this new approach is working.”

Data released by the state health deCommunity partment showed that Calendar Kansas averaged 2,160 new cases a day, along Events may be canceled, postponed or modified because with 53 new COVID-19 of the coronavirus crisis. Check with organizers. hospitalizations and 36 deaths a day for TUESDAY the seven days ending — Veterans Administration representative Wednesday. But Kanavailable for health care and claims, 9:30 to sas’ new case counts 11:30 a.m., clerk’s office at courthouse. have been trending — Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Townhouse West. lower since peaking at an average of 2,767 for the seven days that WEDNESDAY ended Nov. 18.

Kansas added 5,089 — Allen County Commission meeting, 1 confirmed and probap.m., Allen County Courthouse. ble coronavirus cases since Monday, pushing its pandemic total to THURSDAY 209,689. It added another 59 deaths, raising its — Rotary Club, noon.

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Kelly and Dr. Lee Norman, head of the state health department, are now citing Wednesday Today Tuesday another statistic that relies on complex data and the accuracy of reported case numbers.

It is seeks to measure how many other people an infected person is 41 48 39 32 32 19 infecting in turn. Kelly and Norman said for Kansas, it has dropped to a statewide figure Temperature High a year ago 59 low enough to keep High yesterday 56 Low a year ago 32 Low last night 24 Precipitation new case rates drop-

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Trump’s craving for drama puts country in grave danger In an exasperating bit of theater, President Donald Trump seemed to delight in bringing the country to the brink of disaster only to rescue it with his John Henry.

Since early last week, legislation to fund the government as well as provide a second round of stimulus had been awaiting the president’s signature.

Instead, the president left town, tweeting the package was “a disgrace,” and a threat to veto it.

Central to the bipartisan legislation was $1.4 trillion to keep the wheels turning through the fiscal year as well as $900 billion in economic stimulus to address the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

If the legislation were not passed by midnight tonight, the federal government wound grind to a halt.

The president waited until late Sunday to sign the measure.

Because the legislation passed with overwhelming majorities in both the House and Senate, Republicans, especially, expected the president to sign the bill posthaste.

After all, the measure saves the country from certain disaster.

Unemployment remains a daunting 6.7%, more than double that of a year ago.

Some businesses — especially those in the hospitality industry — are still waiting to regain their footing upended by the pandemic.

The aid includes unemployment benefits to an estimated 14 million Amer-

icans for another 11 weeks with an enhancement of $300; another round of funding to cash-strapped small businesses; and protection from eviction for the estimated 17 million who are behind on their rent.

Among his complaints, Trump singled out the plan’s $600 direct payments for those earning up to $75,000. Instead, Trump proposed more than tripling the stipend to $2,000 a person — the sum championed by Democrats — and a deal-breaker for Republicans.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, supposedly with the president’s blessing, whittled the stipend to $600 to appease Republican demands.

Not willing to miss out on their own political theater, Democrats on Thursday misguidedly took Trump’s lead and called for a vote by “unanimous consent,” on a standalone bill to raise the direct payments to $2,000, to which Republicans predictably balked.

Better had Democrats stayed to the side.

IF TRUMP had held out, Republicans were in a quandary as to how to deal with a president who not only sides with their opponents but also gives no guidance.

Were it not for Trump’s insatiable thirst for drama, conflict, and the spotlight, none of this had to happen.

After four years, you’d think we’d know the script.

Even so, it’s exhausting.

— Susan Lynn

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Foodtown, Inc., has completed its move to its new location at the corner of State and West Streets. Foodtown first operated in the former Kroger building on the east side of the square. It is part of a 24-store chain of supermarkets located in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.

Douglas Goss is the store manager here. The meat market is managed by Jim Hinson. ***** The Iola Ministerial Alliance reaffirmed today its position favoring Sunday closing of retail establishments. ***** A big rabbit show which is expected to draw state and national political figures as well as officials of national importance in the rabbit business, will be held in Iola

in March said Claude Wagoner of Gas City, who will be superintendent of the show.

The Marmaton Valley Rabbit Club is sponsoring the show. About 700 from about 40 states are expected to attend. ***** The last of the Bowlus brothers, who operated Allen County State Bank here for many years, died Saturday at Sterling Heights Manor. He was George Rex (Doc) Bowlus, 88, who was associated with his brothers, Charles, Leigh and Thomas, in the bank for many years.

He was president of the bank from 1961 to 1963 and retired as an officer in 1964.

He lived here all of his life.

His survivors include a son, George R. Bowlus, Jr., of Iola, and two grandchildren, Judy of Houston, Texas, and Charles of Iola.

Criminals don’t deserve pardons Once again, President Donald Trump has decided to squander the value of the presidential pardon in order to reward allies and score political points. On Tuesday, the White House announced five commutations and 15 pardons, including a full pardon for disgraced former U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.

It’s hard to think of a recent political figure less deserving of a presidential pardon than Hunter.

For years, a growing trail of evidence showed that Hunter had treated campaign donations as personal slush funds to pay for video games, dog food, private school tuition for kids, hotel rooms for his mistress and all sorts of other personal expenses. Even after he was indicted by a federal grand jury for misusing a quarter of a million dollars in campaigns funds, Hunter tried to blame the spending on everybody but himself, or brush off the charges as a politically motivated witch hunt.

And when Hunter finally did plead guilty (after his wife made her plea and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors), he didn’t bother to apologize publicly to his constituents or donors.

The pardon arrives in the nick of time for Hunter; the former congressman was supposed to begin serving an 11-month prison sentence next month. But Hunter was no victim. He was greedy and abused the public trust, which is already pretty fragile. His estranged wife, who is currently serving three years of probation for her role in the misuse of campaign funds, was not given any relief by Trump.

Trump also pardoned another disgraced former Republican House member, Chris Collins of New York, who pleaded guilty last year to securities fraud and lying to investigators. And what do Collins and Hunter have in common? They were the first and second members of Congress to endorse Trump.

It should be no surprise at

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R.-Calif., pleaded guilty in Federal Court on Dec. 3, 2019 in San Diego. (Nelvin C. Cepeda/San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS)

this point that Trump chose to overlook the self-serving crimes of two of his more ardent supporters. This is a man who puts fealty over morality. So much for Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” when he got to White House.

He’s instead given some of the sleaziest characters in D.C. pool floats and cocktails to lounge in a bog of entitled corruption.

The president’s power under the Constitution to grant pardons can be an important safety valve when the criminal justice system fails or when an offender has served his time and turned his life around. Among his latest pardons, for example, Trump commuted the remaining sentences for several women convicted of drug offenses.

(Granted, even these worthy pardons came as the result of advocacy by celebrities and high-profile supporters.)

Far too often, Trump has given pardons to undeserving recipients with whom he shares a personal or political affinity. He’s given clemency to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, an epically corrupt politician who once appeared on Trump’s reality TV series “Celebrity Apprentice”; former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a hero of the anti-immigrant right who’d been convicted of contempt

of court for ignoring an order to stop racial profiling by deputies; and conservative provocateur Dinesh D’Souza, who was pardoned after pleading guilty to campaign finance fraud.

Just as troubling is that Trump has used pardons in an attempt to undermine the justice system. His actions Tuesday included pardons for two men who pleaded guilty to lying to investigators during the the Russia investigation.

These were the latest in a series of pardons he’s given to allies who were successfully prosecuted as part of former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Trump also pardoned members of the U.S. military and military contractors accused or convicted of war crimes.

On Tuesday, he pardoned four former U.S. service members who were convicted on charges related to the killing of Iraqi civilians while working as contractors for Blackwater in 2007.

During Trump’s remaining weeks in office, he is likely to use the pardon power again in offensive and damaging ways. He will test this country and its democratic norms all along the way out the White House door.

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street bears his name.

A black and gold plaque tells his story. And best of all, a small but nonetheless packed museum is tucked inside the water and utilities building near the birthsite.

You’d never know it was there given the absence of signage.

Maybe that’s appropriate, given that Keaton himself seemed to have little regard for the place where he found his way into life.

One story has it that the time Keaton visited Piqua, he had his limo stop only long enough for him to turn his nose up at the scene.

He’d gone too far to ever return.

KEATON eventually went a very long way from the simplicity of southeast Kansas, that’s for sure.

Given his catalog, movie critic Roger Ebert called him “the greatest actor-director in the history of movies.” Orson Welles proclaimed Keaton’s black-and-white masterpiece, “The General,” was not only the greatest comedy of all time, but the greatest film of all time.

Keaton worked with Fatty Arbuckle and started his own production unit, and he became one of the most death-defying stuntmen in movies (often destroying dozens of his signature pork pie hats in the process).

Eventually Keaton would star in films with sound and color, commercials, short cuts, educational pieces and

The Piqua Farmers Coop flanks Buster Keaton’s birth place, a hotel long gone. At right is the former Piqua depot. television series (including an episode of “The Twilight Zone” where he was a time traveler).

My personal favorite is “Speak Easily,” a “talkie” where a mild-mannered professor, falsely believing he’s inherited a vast fortune, decides to quit his day job and embark on various misadventures.

YET AS with so many stars in film and other creative endeavors, Keaton led a very troubled and tumultuous life.

His creativity and drive for artistic perfection seemed to have led to a whole host of troubles, which, all too often, have been glazed over to create a more wholesome and whitewashed version of the man.

He was enraged after

A black and gold plaque celebrates the life of Buster Keaton near his birth site.

being stripped of creative control following “The General.” His later contract with MGM was a disaster. And his divorce from wife Natalie Talmadge led him to a place of nihilistic despair characterized by life-threatening alcoholism.

Keaton would eventually be institutionalized, where legend has it he escaped a straitjacket thanks to a trick learned from Houdini.

In 1933, he married

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residents in both areas, two of whom, Virginia Latta and Paul Knight, agreed to allow construction of the towers on their respective properties.

“There are limitations, as with everything,” Lee noted.

Wireless internet, after all has slightly less capacity than fiber-optic cable, but the grant mandates “carrier grade” equipment be used, “which is highly reliable and allows you to give good, robust packages in terms of internet speeds,” Lee said.

“This is the wireless product in the most cost-effective way to serve a huge area,” he said. “ Probably, the rea-

Crews erect a tower near the intersection of 1000 Street and Texas Road in Geneva Township in northwest Allen County. son it hadn’t happened previously was the economics. Because of the grant, economics made more sense.”

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his nurse, Mae Scriven, during an alcohol binge, and afterward claimed to remember absolutely nothing.

And perhaps strangest of all, he began collecting Saint Bernard dogs, all of which, inexplicably, were named Elmer.

DESPITE, OR more likely due to these eccentricities, Keaton would nonetheless emerge triumphant after a period of agonizing loss, even

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ployment benefits for millions and threatened a government shutdown in the midst of a pandemic. But signing the bill into law prevents another crisis of Trump’s own creation and ends a standoff with his own party during the final days of his administration.

It was unclear what, if anything, Trump accomplished with his delay, beyond angering all sides and empowering Democrats to continue their push for higher relief checks, which his own party opposes.

In his statement, Trump repeated his frustrations with the COVID-19 relief bill for providing only $600 checks to most Amer-

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House, immediately vowed to prevent any cuts. Democrats “will reject any rescissions” submitted by the president, said Rep. Nita Lowey of New York, chair of the Appropriations Committee.

Lawmakers now have breathing room to continue debating whether the relief checks should be as large as the president has demanded. The Democratic-led House supports the larger checks and is set to vote on the issue Monday, but it’s expected to be ignored by the Republican-held Senate, where spending faces opposition. For now, the administration can only begin work sending out the $600 payments.

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icans instead of the $2,000 that his fellow Republicans already rejected. He also complained about what he considered unnecessary spending by the government at large.

“I will sign the Omnibus and Covid package with a strong message that makes clear to Congress that wasteful items need to be removed,” Trump said in the statement.

While the president insisted he would send Congress “a redlined version” with items to be removed under the rescission process, those are merely suggestions to Congress. The bill, as signed, would not necessarily be changed.

Democrats, who have the majority in the

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AS VEHICLES sped by along Highway 54 near the Piqua Co-op silos, I stood near the place where Keaton was born and simply listened.

The winter wind was still and the sky snowy white.

Though buried in the Hollywood Hills hundreds of miles away, did Joseph Frank maintain any power in this place?

Were his two stars on the Boulevard shining?

Not that one could ever glean such a thing from the immortal clown with the immovable face.

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if he never returned to his former level of stardom.

And by accident of his birth, his legacy is ours to claim in Woodson and Allen counties, if we are brave enough to embrace his strangeness.

Certainly we can watch Keaton’s films, even hold festivals in his name, though to me the most interesting question is, once we’ve done so, how does this transform standing on the edge of Piqua? How does memory change the place?

If Keaton entered the world there, does that spot retroactively bear a haunting trace of his specter or his work or its influence?

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KC ekes out AFC’s top seed

By HERBIE TEOPE The Kansas City Star (TNS)

The Kansas City Chiefs have made games interesting this season despite their winning record, so why should Sunday’s matchup against the Atlanta Falcons have been different?

Kansas City faced a Falcons squad ready to play and the home team had to dig deep with the game very much in doubt well into the fourth quarter.

The Chiefs withstood the Falcons’ best blows and emerged with a 17-14 win, improving to 14-1 and securing the AFC’s No. 1 overall seed and homefield advantage in the postseason.

Sunday’s game, like many for the Chiefs in recent weeks, was far from easy. It was their seventh straight one-possession win.

Atlanta’s defense stifled the Chiefs’ explosive offense and the visitors held a 14-10 lead with less than four minutes remaining.

Too much time on the clock for Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

Mahomes engineered a nine-play, 75-yard drive capped with a 25-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Demarcus Robinson to give the Chiefs the lead for good, although they had to weather the Falcons’ final and frantic late-game drive — and a missed 39-yard field-goal attempt that would’ve sent it to overtime.

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Atlanta Falcons defender Keanu Neal, right, intercepts a pass thrown by Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Sammy Watkins intended for quarterback Patrick Mahomes in the second quarter Sunday. THE KANSAS CITY STAR/RICH SUGG/TNS Here’s what stood out from Sunday’s matchup.

MAHOMES IN THE CLUTCH

The Chiefs’ signal-caller is one of the NFL’s top erasers, meaning his big-play and clutch abilities are enough to compensate for mistakes.

Mahomes was certainly needed in Sunday’s close game. He saved his best for the final quarter, passing for 84 yards and a touchdown to energize his team to victory.

PLAYING DOWN TO THE COMPETITION?

The Chiefs entered Sunday’s game as 10-point favorites and had a juicy matchup facing an Atlanta defense ranked at or near the bottom

of the league in numerous statistical categories, including 31st against the pass.

The Chiefs’ offense, however, looked lethargic through three quarters. Mahomes didn’t top the 200-yard mark until the final period. The offense also converted a woeful 5 of 13 third-down opportunities.

The Kansas City defense did its job despite being down starting linebackers Damien Wilson and Anthony Hitchens, limiting the Falcons to 367 total yards in the game.

Give credit to the Falcons for having a good defensive game plan. But the Chiefs’ offense should’ve had its way against a 4-10 team, espe-

cially coming off a game in which the Chiefs dropped 32 points on one of the Falcons’ divisional foes.

The Chiefs didn’t want this kind of game as a tuneup with the postseason on the horizon.

COMMITTEE APPROACH

The Chiefs were without rookie running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire, who was inactive with an ankle injury, so they utilized a running back-by-committee approach featuring Le’Veon Bell and Darrel Williams.

Of the two, Williams looked the best, especially in the second quarter, when he See CHIEFS | Page B4

Two months ago, Blake Snell got yanked off the mound with a two-hit shutout going in the final game of the World Series.

Now, the Tampa Bay Rays are ready to ship him out of town.

The San Diego Padres are close to completing a blockbuster trade to acquire Snell from the defending AL champions. The teams have an agreement in place and the star pitcher was told he’ll be sent to the Padres — subject to the review of medical records, according to a person familiar with the deal. The person spoke to The Associated Press late Sunday night on condition of anonymity because no announcement had been made.

According to The Athletic See TRADE | Page B4

Steelers storm back to stun Indianapolis in second half PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ben Roethlisberger overcame a month-long malaise to throw for 342 yards and three second-half touchdowns as the Steelers locked up the division title.

Listless and lifeless for weeks thanks to a three-game losing streak that followed an 11-0 start, Pittsburgh (12-3) somehow got it together over the final 25 minutes against the Colts (10-5). Indianapolis missed a chance to inch closer to a playoff berth when it let a 17-point third-quarter lead slip away.

Roethlisberger, who looked uneven at best and ineffective at worst during Pittsburgh’s recent slide, snapped out of it. He ditched the dinkand-dunk approach that had worked during the early portion of the season but became far too predictable during a December swoon.

The 38-year-old quarterback kick-started the comeback with a 39-yard strike to Diontae Johnson and brought the Steelers within a touchdown on a 5-yard pass to Eric Ebron. He gave Pittsburgh its first second-half lead since Dec. 7 when he audibled into a play that ended with Roethlisberger threading the ball between two Colts to JuJu

Smith-Schuster from 25 yards with 7:38 to play.

SEAHAWKS 20, RAMS 9

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seahawks claimed the NFC West title, Russell Wilson throwing a 13-yard TD pass to Jacob Hollister with 2:51 left for the clinching score.

Seattle (11-4) earned its first division title since 2016 and its fifth since Pete Carroll arrived in 2010 behind a stellar defensive effort and a clutch late drive engineered

by Wilson.

Seattle’s quarterback scored on a 4-yard run on the opening drive of the second half for a 13-6 lead. But the final drive was Wilson at his best: Wilson was 5 for 5 for 59 yards on the drive, hitting four different receivers.

Wilson connecting with Hollister was a bit of redemption for the tight end who was stopped inches short of the same end zone on the final play a year ago in Week 17 against San Francisco. That gave the division title to the 49ers.

CAROLINA 20, WASHINGTON 13

LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Dwayne Haskins turned the ball over three times before getting benched, Steven Sims muffed a punt return that turned into a Panthers touch-

down and Washington blew its first chance to clinch the NFC East.

Haskins was 14 of 28 with a fumble and two interceptions after starting in place of injured veteran Alex Smith, despite violating COVID-19 protocols last week. After being stripped of his captaincy and fined $40,000 for partying without a mask, he was stripped of the ball by Marquis Haynes in the first quarter and picked off by Tahir Whitehead and Tre Boston in the second.

COWBOYS 37, EAGLES 17

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Andy Dalton threw for 377 yards and three touchdowns, two to Michael Gallup, and the Cowboys stayed alive in the NFC East playoff race.

The Cowboys (6-9) won their third consecutive game and still have a chance to win the division thanks to Washington’s 20-13 loss to Carolina, which guaranteed that the NFL’s worst division won’t have a team with a winning record.

Dallas can overtake Washington (6-9) with a win at the New York Giants and a Washington loss to the Eagles on the final weekend of the regular season. The Giants (5-10) can get in by beating the Cow-

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger drops back to pass Sunday against Indianapolis. PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE/ PETER DIANA/TNS

boys if Washington loses.

RAVENS 27, GIANTS 13

BALTIMORE (AP) — Lamar Jackson directed four scoring drives during the decisive first half. Baltimore’s fourth straight victory, combined with Pittsburgh’s win over Indianapolis, lifted the Ravens past the Colts in the AFC wild-card hunt. With a victory in Cincinnati next week, the Ravens (10-5) will earn a playoff berth for the third year in a row.

The Giants (5-10) lost their third straight and were left with only a miniscule chance

of making the postseason.

That was more than enough to defeat a struggling Giants team that totaled only 13 points in its previous two games and has scored just two touchdowns over the past three weeks.

The Ravens had six sacks, and Jones was flushed out of the pocket on several other occasions.

JETS 23, BROWNS 16

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — After this loss, the Browns will need to beat the See NFL | Page B4

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NFL: Postseason picture remains cloudy for NFC squads Continued from B1

archrival Steelers next Sunday if they’re going to end the NFL’s longest playoff drought.

On fourth-and-1 with 1:18 remaining and the short-handed Browns (10-5) driving for the potential tying score, Mayfield tried to push forward for a first down.

He lost the ball when Tarell Basham smacked into him. Kareem Hunt

took care of business, losing their 14th consecutive game and then getting some help to secure the No. 1 pick in the 2021 NFL draft.

Hello, Trevor Lawrence!

Mitchell Trubisky accounted for three scores, including two touchdown passes to Jimmy Graham, and the Bears kept control of their postseason path. Chi-

recovered, but by rule, Mayfield was the only one who could advance the ball — and the quarterback was short of the first down.

The Jets (2-13) sealed their second straight victory after an 0-13 start, losing all chance for the top overall draft pick.

BEARS 41, JAGUARS 17

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jaguars

Chiefs: Escape with a win Continued from B1

totaled 46 yards (27 receiving) on six touches. He finished with a team-high 46 yards rushing on 10 carries to Bell’s 30 on seven.

As a team, the Chiefs rushed for 117 yards on 21 carries.

HUSTLE PLAY

A lot of focus will fall on Mahomes making a bad decision with his interception at the goal line, but the spotlight should also shine on wide receiver Tyreek Hill, who arguably saved the pick from becoming a pick-6.

After picking off Mahomes, Falcons linebacker Foyesade Oluokun appeared to have a clear lane to the end zone with blockers in front of him. Hill, however, came out of nowhere to run down Oluokun from behind. Hill also punched loose the ball, but it landed out of bounds at the Chiefs’ 27-yard line.

The Chiefs’ defense held, sacking Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan on back-to-back plays — once each by Frank Clark and Chris Jones — for a combined loss of 12 yards. More importantly, those sacks pushed the Falcons out of field-goal range and

the possession resulted in a punt.

Atlanta’s inability to make something of Mahomes’ turnover is directly attributable to Hill’s hustle play.

SACK NATION

Kansas City’s pass rushers made their presence felt against Ryan throughout the game, recording four sacks and 11 quarterback hits.

Jones, Clark, cornerback L’Jarius Sneed and defensive end Alex Okafor each recorded a sack, but it was Jones who applied consistent pressure on Ryan, evidenced by his teamhigh four quarterback hits.

GLIMPSE OF FUTURE

A pair of Chiefs rookies — Gay and Sneed — showed out against the Falcons.

Gay saw extensive duty and he didn’t disappoint. He totaled a career-high nine tackles with a forced fumble and provided a hint of what was to come in the second quarter. He tallied back-to-back tackles on the Falcons’ third possession, a drive on which Sneed’s second sack in as many games dropped Ryan for a 10yard loss.

Sneed recorded sev-

en tackles, the sack and two quarterback hits.

NOTABLE

Tight end Travis Kelce had seven catches for 98 yards, giving him 105 receptions this season. He becomes the first tight end in NFL history to record multiple 100-catch seasons.

He recorded 103 catches in 2018.

Kelce, who recently became the first tight end in NFL history to record five straight 1,000-yard seasons, now also owns the league record for most receiving yards by a tight end in a single season, breaking George Kittle’s mark of 1,377 set in 2018 with the 49ers.

Kelce continues to make a strong case for the NFL Offensive Player of the Year award.

INJURIES

Linebacker Ben Niemann suffered a hamstring injury in the second quarter and did not return to the game.

Wide receiver Sammy Watkins suffered a calf injury in the fourth quarter.

UP NEXT

The Chiefs close out the regular season in Week 17 against the Los Angeles Chargers at Arrowhead Stadium.

In observance of New Year’s,

cago can make the NFC playoffs for the second time in three years by beating Green Bay next week at home — despite having gone through a six-game losing streak in 2020.

The Jaguars (1-14), who set a franchise record for consecutive losses, locked up the top pick for the first time in franchise history when the New York Jets beat Cleveland 23-16 a few minutes later.

CHARGERS 19, BRONCOS 16

INGLEWOOD, Calif.

(AP) — Justin Herbert set the rookie record for most touchdown passes in a season. Michael Badgley tied a career high with four field goals, including the winning kick with 41 seconds remaining.

Herbert’s 9-yard screen pass to Austin Ekeler in the second quarter was his 28th touchdown throw of the

season, surpassing the 27 that Baker Mayfield had for Cleveland in 2018.

Herbert, the sixth overall pick in the April draft and third QB taken, completed 21 of 33 passes for 253 yards. He also became the fourth player to throw for over 4,000 yards as a rookie, joining Andrew Luck, Cam Newton and Jameis Winston.

BENGALS 37, TEXANS 31

HOUSTON (AP) — Samaje Perine ran for two touchdowns, including a 3-yard score late, to give the Bengals their first road win in more than two years.

The Texans (4-11) were driving after Perine’s second score when Deshaun Watson was sacked by Sam Hubbard, who forced a fumble that Margus Hunt recovered.

The Bengals added a field goal to seal the victory.

PACKERS 40, TITANS 14

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Davante Adams caught three of Aaron Rodgers’ four touchdown passes as Green Bay won its fifth straight.

The Packers (12-3) already have clinched the NFC North title and can earn the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs if they win at Chicago (8-7) or Seattle (11-4) loses at San Francisco (6-9) next week.

Green Bay ran wild behind 124 yards and two touchdowns from A.J. Dillon and 94 yards from Aaron Jones.

Tennessee (10-5) squandered an opportunity to clinch its first AFC South championship since 2008. The Titans still can clinch a division title and their second straight playoff berth by winning at Houston (4-11) next week.

Trade: Rays set to deal ace Continued from B1

and ESPN, the Rays would receive 21-yearold pitcher Luis Patiño, catcher Francisco Mejía, pitching prospect Cole Wilcox and catching prospect Blake Hunt in return. The Athletic was first to report the players headed from San Diego to Tampa Bay if the trade is finalized.

Snell, the 2018 AL Cy Young Award winner, was 4-2 with a 3.24 ERA in 11 starts during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. He had 63 strikeouts in 50 innings.

Snell went 2-2 in the American League playoffs, then racked up 18 strikeouts in 10 innings and compiled a 2.70 ERA during the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was pulled from Game 6 by Rays manager Kevin Cash in favor of reliever Nick Anderson after throwing only 73 pitches in 5 1/3 dominant innings — a heavily criticized move that backfired when the Dodgers came back to clinch the title with a 3-1 victory.

“There’s not a day

that goes by that I don’t reflect on it,” Cash said last month after winning the AL Manager of the Year award.

“That decision was not reflective of my confidence in Blake. It was very reflective of my confidence in Nick, and that’s (what) I felt was, at the moment, the best chance for us to win the game.”

Snell has three years and $39 million remaining on a $50 million, fiveyear contract he signed with the small-budget Rays in March 2019.

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