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Celebrating history with a dance

By KAREN INGRAM The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — The halls of Humboldt High School echoed with the sounds of a fiddle and rhythmic clapping, pulsing from the heart of the gymnasium where more than 150 people gathered in swirls of fabric and laughter. It was a curious mix of people from all over southeast Kansas ranging in ages from 3 to 93 wearing anything from Tshirts and sneakers to lavish ballroom gowns. This was the sixth annual Civil War Dance.

Debbie Lake, president of the Humboldt Civil War Days, said larger venues have had to be found over the years.

The dance began in the high school cafeteria, then moved to the grade school, until this year’s event in the high school gym.

“I don’t know where we’re going to go if this gets too small,” she said.

The Civil War Dance is held every year while their biggest event, Civil War Days, is every three years. The next Civil War Days will be next summer. Civil War Days includes a historical re-enactment of the day Humboldt was attacked and burned to the ground in 1861. The re-enactment has been celebrated since 1993.

“We want people to become

familiar with their own history,” said Eileen Robertson, secretary of Humboldt Civil War Days.

The dance was free and open to the public, drawing people of all ages to dance or sit on the sidelines and clap and cheer for them. There were a lot of familiar faces guiding the entertainment; Robert Thomas, Fort Scott, acted as prefector and guided people in the dances and activities while live music was provided by Camp Hunter String Band.

“Our band is award-winning musicians. We contacted See HUMBOLDT | Page A4

Above at right, Hannah Keyes, 8, Fort Scott, dances with Philip Day, 6, Altamont. For both children, it was their third time attending the Humboldt Civil War Dance. “I really like dressing up, but I don’t know what dance I really like,” Keyes said. The dance featured scores of participants wearing Civil War-era attire, including the woman at left. Additional photos of the Civil War Dance are available via the photos link at www.iolaregister.com. REGISTER/KAREN INGRAM

Itchy nuisance returns with wet weather SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A wet summer is spawning an outbreak of mosquitoes across Kansas.

The Salina Journal reports that mosquitoes are again bringing with them diseases, viruses and itching.

Last year, 91 cases of West Nile virus were reported in Kansas, seven of which were fatal. So far this year there have been no reported cases of West Nile in Kansas.

Aimee Rosenow, spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, suggested three things people can do to minimize harm from mosquitoes.

“We really advocate the message of dress, drain, and DEET,” Rosenow said.

“Whenever possible, try to wear loose-fitted clothing with long sleeves and long pants. Make sure to drain any standing water. Finally, protect yourself with an insect repellent that contains See PESTS | Page A4

Local business thrives

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

Iolans gathered at See, Hear Iola on Friday to learn more about community businesses and programs.

Kelly Sigg, Audacious Bou-

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tique owner, was the commercial speaker. She told the crowd how her business was started. Sigg toyed with the idea of opening a shop in Iola in 2010. The shop originally See AUDACIOUS | Page A4

Former Iola city commissioner Lee Gumfory brought a chunk of old water line, ravaged by corrosion and mineral deposits, into the Register office after city crews replaced a portion of the old water line near his home Friday. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

The threat of rain may have kept numbers down Saturday at LaHarpe PRIDE’s third annual Patriots Challenge/ Color Splash, but it did little to dampen the enthusiasm of those who participated.

Above, the runners and walkers doused themselves with powdered paint upon completion of the 5K run and 3K walk.

At right, LaHarpe resident Savannah Flory, her daughter, Leanna, and their dog, Cooper, near the finish line. PHOTOS BY

Extent of water line damage surprises former commissioner

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

A broken water main Friday afternoon caught Lee Gumfory’s eye.

Crews replaced a decayed portion of the 100-plus-yearold water line near the intersection of Buckeye and Douglas Streets, where a leak had sprung, not far from the former city commissioner’s home.

Gumfory stopped by to check out the repair work and broke off a chunk of the

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old water line to illustrate the state of the city’s aging water infrastructure.

Looking more like a piece of rock, the iron water line had corroded to the point a little punch with a hammer broke it in several pieces. Beneath the surface was a century’s worth of mineral buildup.

“And just think, you drink from this line,” Gumfory said.

Gumfory said he thought the city should make replumbing the city’s water lines a priority.

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Obituary Christy Walden Christina Marie “Christy” (Bennett) Walden, 32, Iola, passed away Thursday, June 26, 2014, at Overland Park Regional Medical Center.

Christy was born Sept. 25, 1981, in Iola, the daughter of Robert and Mary (Dietrich) Bennett. She grew up in Iola, Kincaid and Texas before returning to Iola.

She graduated from Iola High School in 2000.

On June 23, 2013, Christy married Mitchal Walden. She was a CMA/ CNA at Fountain Villa Assisted LivChristy Walden ing in Iola.

Her husband survives, as does a son, Phoenix Rayne Walden; her parents, Bob and Mary Bennett, Iola; her mother-in-law, Shelly Walden; a brother, Robert Bennett, Iola; a sister-inlaw, Kimberly Sigler, Iola; and her grandparents, Les and Rita Dietrich, Colony.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Seth “Andy” Bennett and Morgan Bennett.

Cremation has taken place.

Memorial services will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Colony City Hall Community Building. Memorials are suggested to the Christina Walden Memorial Fund.

Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel, Iola, assisted the family. To sign the guest book online or leave a condolence, go to www.iolafuneral.com.

Teens accused of kid-napping OVERLAND PARK (AP) — Five teenagers are accused of stealing a goat from a popular suburban Kansas City children’s farm and taking it into a McDonald’s restaurant.

The Kansas City Star reports the goat was stolen from Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead in Overland Park, and spotted around 2 a.m.

Sunday in a McDonald’s parking lot in Olathe.

The teens took the goat into the restaurant but were asked to leave.

Officers found the goat outside when they arrived and contacted Overland Park police when they learned the animal was from the farm, a popular family attraction.

Police spokesman Gary Mason says he doesn’t know how the teens managed to pull off the kidnapping.

Arson caused by arachnophobia HUTCHINSON (AP) — A 34-year-old Hutchinson woman who says she lit a fire to kill a spider has been charged with aggravated arson after firefighters had to put out a small blaze in her half of a duplex.

The Hutchinson News reports the woman was arrested early Friday after five Hutchinson Fire Department trucks responded at 1:36 a.m. to extinguish the fire.

Deputy Fire Chief Doug

Hanen says firefighters found light smoke coming from the woman’s half of the duplex and some clothing smoldering inside the doorway.

They also found multiple points of origin for the fire, but the duplex sustained only minor smoke damage.

A police summary of the incident says the woman told officers she used a cigarette lighter to ignite some towels to kill a spider.

Writing on the wall With the hopes of securing more names for the Veterans Wall on the courthouse square, the Allen County Veterans Day Committee is doing some serious networking Thursday.

Committee members will be at the weekly Farmers Market before hosting the ice cream social during the Iola Municipal Band concert.

They hope to hear

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from anybody who knows of military veterans whose names are not yet on the local wall.

The group also is accepting $15 donations, but a donation is not necessary for the name to be placed on the wall.

The activities will include another fundraiser for the evening, with a fireworks giveaway, a U.S. flag and a party box for Independence Day.

Library closes for July 4 The Iola Public Library will be closed on Friday due to the holiday. It will re-open at 9 a.m. on Saturday.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas teachers who watched over the past two years as legislators made changes to their profession are getting politically active this summer, hoping to persuade voters it’s time for a change in Topeka.

After seeing laws enacted restricting paycheck contributions for political activities, eliminating administrative due process and easing the requirements for obtaining a teaching license, educators say they are fighting back.

“They are going after teachers and destroying the profession,” said Mark Desetti, government relations director for the Kansas National Education Association.

“You add all this stuff up and it’s just hit a raw nerve.”

All 125 Kansas House seats are up for election this cycle starting with the Aug. 5 primary.

Education groups plan to make their endorse-

ments and campaign donations soon. Desetti estimated KNEA, the state’s largest teachers union, had more than $400,000 to spend in primary and general election races.

“That’s a pretty good balance. We’re feeling that we’ve got resources,” he said.

Desetti and leaders of other organizations, such as Kansas Families for Education, said money was the key to fighting against groups like Americans for Prosperity, an organization founded by the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch, which lobbied for many of the changes in teacher laws.

State AFP director Jeff Glendening said conservatives “chipped away” regulations viewed as protecting the institution of public schools, rather than helping students.

“I think Kansans are ready for a change in

the education system.

Kansans want their kids to succeed in life,” he said. “It’s not just about throwing money at the system. It’s about reforms.”

The changes were attached to a school finance bill legislators approved in April to comply with a Kansas Supreme Court ruling.

Hundreds of teachers wearing red T-shirts camped out at the Statehouse in a show of force in opposition to the policy changes.

Topeka special education teacher Stephanie Hansin was among them. She’s been spending her vacation attending forums and knocking on doors for candidates in northeast Kansas. “I figured if I wanted to have a state that respected teachers and children I needed to do something,” she said.

Judith Deedy, executive director of Game On For Kansas Schools, said the group will en-

Tallgrass preserve troubled STRONG CITY (AP) — It’s been a year of trial and tribulation at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in central Kansas, ranging from flooding, termites, federal budget cuts and even surly buffalo.

“Everything hit at once,” said Wendy Lauritzen, superintendent of the 10,483-acre preserve in the Flint Hills in Chase County.

Some of the places on the preserve that were closed are expected to reopen, but other buildings and roads remained closed, The Wichita Eagle reported.

Heavy rains last summer caused much of the troubles, closing one of the roads that carry guests to the preserve and springs bubbling up in strange

places, such as the visitors center parking lot. And while workers were cleaning mold caused by the rains at the ranch house, they found electrical problems and termites in several of the 13 historic buildings, along with boards “so rotten the contractors could stick their fingers through,” Lauritzen said.

The house was closed because of safety concerns. It would take “a couple million or more dollars” to fix the house, which is not in the preserve’s annual operating budget of about $947,000, she said.

“We are barely covering the permanent personnel salaries and fixed utility costs,” she said.

A planned project to replace the barn’s

floor boards and joists is underway, along with the installation of permanent exhibits in the visitors center.

Handicapped parking by the barn is closed during construction, so access to the park is restricted to walking.

And some of those walkers are being charged by a few of the younger male buffalo that live on the preserve. Hikers are being told to keep at least 100 yards from the herd, stay on the trails and to not attempt to pet the animals.

“We think they are teenagers who are charging,” Lauritzen said. “We don’t know yet if it is out of curiosity or truly an aggressive behavior. But it is something to be cautious of.”

Plane makes emergency landing CHICAGO (AP) — An evacuation slide inflated inside a United Airlines plane as it flew from Chicago to California, filling part of the cabin and forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in Kansas, the airline and passengers said.

Mike Schroeder said he was flying to Orange County, California, late Sunday when he heard a hiss and pop. Schroeder said he turned around and saw the plane’s evacuation slide — which would normally go outside the plane during an emergency — inflating inside the cabin.

United Airlines officials said in a statement today that no one aboard Flight 1463 was injured.

Passengers remained calm and took pictures of the inflated slide with their phones, Schroeder said. The Boeing 737-700 pilot announced to passengers that they would be landing at Wichita’s MidContinent Airport.

“When the pilot came out right after landing he said, ‘Oh golly, I’ve never seen that before,’” Schroeder said.

Christen David, a spokeswoman for the Chicago-based airline, said the slide “acci-

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dentally deployed” and that all 96 passengers were seated when the slide inflated. The airline provided passengers hotel rooms and planned a flight this morning from Wichita to California.

United’s maintenance team will inspect the aircraft to find out what happened, David said.

Elizabeth Cory, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said agency investigators were at the scene in Wichita, but that the investigation would take weeks. She did not have further information.

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dorse candidates but not make contributions. Much of the focus, Deedy said, was on getting parents and others to the polls.

“A lot of people are just waking up in a way that hasn’t caught their attention before,” she said. “We can pontificate all we want but we have to vote.”

Glendening said the election of conservative Republicans in the past two election cycles has changed the tone of education debates. Legislators are now openly talking about charter schools and scholarship programs to funnel resources directly to students instead of just increasing base spending for public schools.

“Education groups have been using an old (election) playbook that hasn’t worked for more than a decade,” he said.

“It’s not about protecting the institution. It’s about preparing kids for life.”

Garden City floods GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — Heavy rains Saturday night flooded Garden City’s streets and caused the roof of a local business to partially collapse.

The Wichita Eagle reports more than 4 inches of rain fell in Garden City in a matter of hours just after midnight Saturday, stranding motorists and prompting officials to briefly close several roads.

The National Weather Service says water was reported to be entering cars and some businesses were flooded.

Meteorologist Jesse Lee in Dodge City says the overnight rain was on top of 3 inches of rain that had fallen on the drought-stricken area earlier in the week.

Garden City emergency management coordinator Mike PazTorres says the water started receding from the streets around 5 a.m.

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It’s time to teach active citizenship ByMICHAEL SMITH and BOB GRAHAM

Currently, we are experiencing the consequences of a long decline in citizenship: one that has afflicted our politics with incivility, intolerance, excessive partisanship, and gridlock.

This has cascaded to cynicism, as Americans withdraw from a political system from which they have disconnected. Americans are less likely to belong to civic organizations than were their grandparents, choosing instead to spend more time in activities at home or with informal groups. The result is a decrease in group membership, along with less participation and lower voter turnout.

What can teachers and professors do? We argue that students be required to undertake hands-on activities aimed at changing or enhancing the status quo.

After all, a basketball team that spends the preseason in the coach’s office learning the rules and strategies of the game but never practicing would almost certainly have a dismal record. Why would it be any different with politics and government? Why learn the rules of the game if you cannot practice? This does not mean requiring them to engage in partisan politics.

Michael Smith teaches this new curriculum in his Introduction to Political Science class at Emporia State. Many students complete astonishing work.

One of the first happened in 2009, when PO 100 student (now Emporia State alumnus) Levi Poindexter enlisted the help of Norwicharea fire chief Tab Turner and former state representative Vincent Wetta (DWellington). Together, they persuaded KDOT to lower the speed limit on a dan-

gerous stretch of highway near Suppersville, where a friend of Levi’s had been killed in an accident. At first, Levi was like most Americans: he could not identify his state representative, much less explain how the legislature functioned. However, by working on an issue that was important to him, Levi mastered far more sophisticated lessons than that.

He learned about the committee system by approaching Wetta, who was a member of the Transportation Committee. Levi also studied the oversight of agencies by the legislature: he convinced Wetta, who then persuaded KDOT officials to lower the speed limit without requiring any new legislation. Finally, Levi learned to make allies: he could not have done this without Turner and Wetta.

Since then, PO 100 projects have expanded disabled accessibility on campus and in the community, gotten new water lines installed, pressured the city of Emporia to ramp up rental-housing code enforcement, and so on.

The typical success story comes from a student that starts at the “B” level, who fully commits once she realizes that this curriculum will engage her in the real world, not just the classroom.

It is easy for teachers to fall into the trap of treating what we do in the classroom as a routine, forgetting that what we know and do can build social capital and enrich lives. This is a wake-up call.

About the writers: Smith is an associate professor of political science at Emporia State University.

Graham is a retired U.S. Senator, former Florida Governor, and author or coauthor of many books, including “America: The Owner’s Manual,” on which this curriculum is based.

A�look�back�in�time � 50 Years Ago Week of June 29, 1964

Former pastors of Iola’s First Presbyterian Church are here to celebrate its centennial. Included are, the Rev. and Mrs. Kenneth Miller, now of Dallas, pastor here 19501959; the Rev. Donald Leavitt, a former member of the local church and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Leavitt of Iola. He is now Westminster Founda-

tion director and university pastor at the University of Arizona. Dr. Thomas Shellenberger, Wichita, pastor here from 1938 to 1950, and Dr. Harris Hilscher, Sioux City, Iowa, son of Dr. Solomon Hilscher, Iola pastor, 1907-1918. A centennial booklet prepared by Mrs. Florence K. Belding, who teaches English at Iola Junior College, will be distributed.

Boehner lawsuit an embarrassment

By DANA MILBANK The Washington Post

Republicans, after years of squabbling with President Obama, have decided to resolve their differences with him according to a time-honored American tradition.

They are going to sue him.

“What we have seen clearly over the last five years is an effort to erode the power of the legislative branch,” House Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) said Wednesday, confirming his plans to take Obama to court . “I believe the president is not faithfully executing the laws of our country, and on behalf of the institution and our Constitution, standing up and fighting for this is in the best long-term interest of the Congress.”

The Prince of Orange is mostly right about the problem, if not the time frame. The executive has been amassing power at the expense of the legislative branch — not just for the past five years but for a generation or more. Yet Boehner’s proposed legal remedy will accomplish nothing, in part because it misidentifies the nature of the problem.

To sue the president, Republicans are tying themselves in ideological knots. After howling about excessive lawsuits, they are embracing long-shot litigation. After lamenting activist judges, they are now insisting that judges be more activist and shed their longstanding reluctance to adjudicate disputes between the elected branches.

Even some conservative scholars argue that lawmakers probably don’t have a legal standing for such a suit.

If Republicans persuade the courts to grant them standing, the case could take years to work its way through the system, at which point Obama

The real problem: congressional dysfunction. Lawmakers, hamstrung by disagreement, have created a power vacuum, and presidents have stepped in to fill it. will be gone. Adding to the charade, the taxpayer-funded legal fight would be waged under the authority of the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, which is known by the acronym “BLAG” and is bipartisan only in name because it is controlled by the House majority.

But the real problem with the lawsuit approach is that it misunderstands the cause of the problem: congressional dysfunction. Lawmakers, hamstrung by disagreement, have created a power vacuum, and presidents have stepped in to fill it. The solution is not to sue, but to legislate, which means to compromise — and this is something Boehner’s troops have been unwilling to do.

Boehner demonstrated the vacuum on Wednesday in his weekly news conference. His thoughts on a Senate highwayfunding bill? “We’ll await — let the Ways and Means Committee do their work.” Any suggestions about what to do in Iraq? “It’s not my job to outline for the president what tools he should use or not use. It’s not my job to outline the strategy for the president when it comes to the overall fight against terrorism. I don’t have as many tools at my disposal as the president does.”

How about legislation on the Export-Import bank? “We are just going to have to sort our way through this.” But surely Boehner has a view? “No, I’m not going to answer the question. You know, you’ve tried to do this on immigration for the last two years. . . . I want to get our members to a place where

they are comfortable, whatever that is.” As for what to do about the flood of children emigrating north from Central America, Boehner said that he named a “working group” that eventually will “suggest to the administration things that we think can be done.”

Is it any wonder that the president takes executive action in response to such legislative inaction? The only positions the speaker took with any confidence were his criticisms of Obama: “The president has no plan for economic growth.”

“The White House won’t lift a finger to provide the truth to the American people.”

“Not only does the president regularly ignore the law, he brags about it.”

Hence, the lawsuit. “You know, the Constitution makes it clear that a president’s job is to faithfully execute the laws, and in my view the president has not faithfully executed the laws,” Boehner said.

CNN’s Deirdre Walsh asked whether the lawsuit is really “more about energizing your base right before the election?”

“This is about defending the institution in which we serve,” the speaker said.

After Boehner left, Walsh pointed out to his spokesman, Michael Steel, that the legal challenge could outlast the Obama presidency. “What does this achieve?” she asked.

Before Steel could answer, The Washington Post’s Paul Kane offered one droll hypothesis: “It sets the parameters for President Clinton — what she is allowed to do.”

Same-sex marriage bans not holding up across country Nine years ago, Kansans overwhelmingly voted to amend the state constitution to leave no doubt that samesex marriage and civil unions were unlawful. But it’s getting difficult to see that bulwark holding, especially after the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel’s ruling last week that Utah’s ban is unconstitutional under federal law.

The 2-1 decision — stayed for now — matters to the state because Utah and Kansas are in the same federal circuit. Seventeen state and federal judicial rulings have now sided with advocates of same-sex marriage since last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision struck down parts of the Defense of Marriage Act. But last week’s ruling out of Denver was the first by a fed-

eral appellate court. Experts think it moves the constitutionality question closer to the Supreme Court steps.

“A state may not deny the issuance of a marriage license to two persons, or refuse to recognize their marriage, based solely upon the sex of the persons in the marriage union,” the court said in the decision written by Judge Carlos Lucero, a Clinton nominee whose opinion was shared by Judge Jerome Holmes, a nominee of President George W. Bush.

Yet Kansas not only prohibits gay marriages but bars same-sex couples who married elsewhere from filing state income taxes jointly, treating legal spouses as if they are strangers.

The judges pointed to the

due process and equal protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution, not to polls.

But the court of public opinion is moving even more rapidly and decisively regarding same-sex marriage, with Americans’ opposition having plunged from 54 to 39 percent in just five years in Pew Research Center polling.

RELIGIOUS VIEWS also are shifting, with the Presbyterian Church (USA) assembly recently voting to recognize same-sex marriage as Christian and with support among Catholics having soared to 59 percent (up 23 points since 2009).

What about Kansas? Public Policy Polling found 44 percent support in the state this year for legalizing same-sex

marriage, up 5 points in a year, and 59 percent opposed to the controversial Housepassed bill that would have enabled public and private employees to refuse service to same-sex couples based on religious beliefs.

Kansas’ marriage amendment always seemed like a panicked invitation to litigation and confusion unlikely to have a fortifying effect on marriage and families. In the view of The Eagle editorial board at the time, it also offended by using the state constitution, a source and guarantee of freedoms, as a vehicle for the majority to spell out a denial of rights to a minority.

The 10th Circuit panel had a similar problem with Utah’s ban, saying the court may

not “defer to majority will in dealing with matters so central to personal autonomy.

The protection and exercise of fundamental rights are not matters for opinion polls or the ballot box.”

There is still a long legal road for the Utah case, and the 10th Circuit’s decision on Oklahoma’s ban is pending. Religious opposition on moral grounds is still fervent and heartfelt in Kansas and elsewhere, especially among evangelical Christians.

But last week’s ruling made it less likely that Kansas will be able to wall itself off as a sanctuary for “traditional marriage” and a place where gay marriage is banned and same-sex partners are second-class citizens. ­— The Wichita Eagle

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Court: Employers don’t have to offer contraception

By MARK SHERMAN The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.

The justices’ 5-4 decision today is the first time that the high court has ruled that profitseeking businesses can hold religious views under federal law. And it means the Obama administration must search for a different way of providing free contraception to women who are covered under objecting companies’ health insurance plans.

Contraception is among a range of preventive services that must be provided at no extra charge under the health care law that President Barack Obama signed in 2010 and the Supreme Court upheld two years

Our decision should not be understood to hold that an insurance-coverage mandate must necessarily fall if it conflicts with an employer’s religious rights.

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later.

Two years ago, Chief Justice John Roberts cast the pivotal vote that saved the health care law in the midst of Obama’s campaign for re-election.

Today, dealing with a small sliver of the law, Roberts sided with the four justices who would have struck down the law in its entirety.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion. The court’s four liberal justices dissented.

THE COURT stressed that its ruling applies only to corporations that are under the control of just a few people in

which there is no essential difference between the business and its owners.

Alito also said the decision is limited to contraceptives under the health care law. “Our decision should not be understood to hold that an insurance-coverage mandate must necessarily fall if it conflicts with an employer’s religious beliefs,” Alito said.

The administration said a victory for the companies would prevent women who work for them from making decisions about birth control based on what’s best for their health, not

Police reports Vehicle crashes

Aimee Jones, 21, Colony, lost control of her vehicle late Saturday afternoon when it ran through water on an Allen County road about two miles north of Iola.

The vehicle struck a tree, Jones was not injured.

Iolan arrested

Garrett R. Tomlinson, Iola, was arrested

Friday night in the 1600 block of Georgia Road for suspicion of possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, minor in possession and consumption of alcohol and an outstanding Allen County warrant for probation violation.

Battery reported

Michael A. Vile, Savonburg, told Allen

County officers Friday night he was the victim of a battery in the 1800 block of Georgia Road. A suspect was named and charges are being sought through the Allen County attorney’s office.

Property damaged

Earl J. Riebel, rural LaHarpe, reported criminal damage to property at his place. He put damage at $75.

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opened in a small space where Around the Corner Coffee Shop is currently located.

“We carry a little bit of everything,” Sigg said.

“New arrivals come in every day.”

Social media has been a big help in Sigg’s business. Employees model clothing once a week and post it on the store’s Facebook page, Instagram and email list. In March, Audacious launched its website www.shopaudacious.com.

Customers can view the clothing and accessories and have it reserved or purchase it online.

“Customer service is our main priority,” Sigg said.

S i g g said the c o m munity is lucky that U.S. Highway 54 runs t h r o u g h Kelly Sigg I o l a .

Many of her customers drive through town and stop to shop. On Saturdays, out-of-town shoppers make a beeline to the little boutique.

“We carry a lot of brands they do in the city, but it’s priced at lower,” Sigg said.

Guest speaker, Georgia Masterson, explained how the Circles program works. Iola is one of nine Circle sites in the state and there

are pending sites in Chanute, Pittsburg and Ottawa. Masterson said Circles works to help end poverty in communities one family at a time.

“The best way to understand poverty is to know a poor person,” Masterson said. “Once you get to know them and understand why they are in poverty you can have a better understanding.”

Community members are paired with Circles members as Allies to help encourage the Circles members.

Circles will start its third class in August.

The next See, Hear Iola meeting will be at 10 a.m. July 25 at Bass Community Hall.

Pests: Mosquito numbers rise Continued from B1

at least 23 percent DEET.” KDHE tests mosquitoes found in Sedgwick County for viruses, including West Nile and the new virus Chikungunya which can cause fever, joint and muscle pain in people it infects.

Don Sauber, city of Salina landscape supervisor, told the newspaper that he and his crew have seen quite a few mosquitoes around Salina this year.

“We always see a lot around dawn,” Sauber said. “I usually wear jeans and long sleeves, but I still get bit from time to time.”

Joe Conlon, entomologist and technical adviser for American Mosquito Control Association, suggested people clean out stagnant water where their larva

can be found.

“These mosquitoes breed in man-made containers,” Conlon said.

“I’ve seen eggs in beer cans on the ground. I’ve even seen some in a plastic bottle cap. They don’t need a lot of water to breed.”

Bird ponds and kid-

die pools be cleaned out every five days since it generally takes 10 to 14 days for mosquito eggs to reach adulthood, he said.

Another option is using larvicides which target the mosquitoes without harming pets or children.

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wh e t h e r they can afford it.

The gover nment’s suppor ters pointed to re- Samuel Alito search showing that nearly onethird of women would change their contraceptive if cost were not an issue; a very effective means of birth control, the intrauterine device, can cost up to $1,000.

The contraceptives at issue before the court were the emergency contraceptives Plan B and ella, and two IUDs. Nearly 50 businesses have sued over covering contraceptives.

Some,

like those involved in the Supreme C o u r t case, are willing to cover m o s t John Roberts m e t h ods of contraception, as long as they can exclude drugs or devices that the government says may work after an egg has been fertilized. Other companies object to paying for any form of birth control.

There are separate lawsuits challenging the contraception provision from religiously affiliated hospitals, colleges and charities.

A survey by the Kai-

ser Family Foundation found 85 percent of large American employers already had offered such coverage before the health care law required it.

It is unclear how many women potentially are affected by the high court ruling. The Hobby Lobby chain of arts-andcrafts stores is by far the largest employer of any company that has gone to court to fight the birth control provision.

Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby has more than 15,000 full-time employees in more than 600 crafts stores in 41 states.

The Greens are evangelical Christians who also own Mardel, a Christian bookstore chain.

New revenue figures due today TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Department of Revenue is preparing to release figures for June’s tax collections, with officials hoping recent shortfalls have subsided.

Revenues in April and May fell $310 million short of expectations, raising questions about whether personal income tax cuts cham-

pioned by Gov. Sam Brownback were more generous than advertised and threaten to create a budget shortfall.

June’s figures will be released this afternoon.

Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan already has said they’re expected to be $10 million to $20 million below expectations.

Brownback’s administration has attributed the shortfalls to uncertainty created by disputes in Washington over federal spending and tax policies that affected how investors claimed capital gains.

Democrats blame the lower collections on Brownback’s tax cuts in 2012 and 2013.

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them and got them to form a band for us,” Lake said. “They research the music from that time and use authentic instruments.”

One of the games involved a hat. Men formed one line on the side of the gym and women on the other while Thomas stood by three chairs in the middle. A woman would sit in the middle chair with a hat in her hand and two men would

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Michaele Day, Altamont, came to the dance with her husband and children. This was their third year attending.

“We love history already, so this is just ic-

ing on the cake,” she said. “It’s a great way to finish the school year.”

Day’s son, Nathanael, wore a Confederate soldier’s uniform that he’d made himself. He’d also sewn his sister Hannah’s dress.

Eileen Robertson said she loved seeing the wide mix of people having fun together.

“Nobody in costume is offended by those not in costume and vice versa,” Robertson said. “Everybody just has fun.”

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Indians easily handle Osawatomie with sweep

By SPENCER MICHELSON The Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — Iola’s American Legion baseball team handled a less than stellar Osawatomie Sunday afternoon, only allowing one hit combined in both games.

“I think everything is starting to come together,” coach Roland Weir said. “We're hitting the ball better up and down the order now. The pitching has been great all year long, defensively we've been great for most of the part all year long.”

The bats were hot for the Indians in game one’s 11-1 win.

Sports Calendar AA Legion Today 6 p.m. — vs. Wellsville (doubleheader at Humboldt) Wednesday 6 p.m. — vs. Paola (doubleheader at Humboldt)

Iola Rec Dept.

Swim Team Wednesday 6 p.m. — vs. Chanute at Riverside Park Baseball T-Ball Tuesday 6 p.m. — Family Physicians vs.

Tholen’s Heating & Cooling 6:45 p.m. — Dairy Queen vs. A&W Restaurant Bitty Ball Monday 6 p.m. — Cameron vs. Allen County Chiropractic 7:15 p.m. — Iola Elks vs. A&W Restaurant Tuesday 6 p.m. — Sonic Drive-In vs. Iola Insurance Association 7:15 p.m. — Iola Vision Source vs.

Iola Insurance Association Thursday 5:45 p.m. — A&W Restaurant vs.

CLO 7 p.m. — Iola Insurance Association vs. Cameron 8:15 p.m. — Iola Vision Source vs.

Sonic Drive-In PeeWee Today 6 p.m. ­ — First Title Service vs.

Johnson Law Office (field #1) 7:30 p.m. — Superior Products vs.

Johnson Law Office (field #1) 6 p.m. — Sonic Drive-In vs.

Young’s Welding 7:30 p.m. — Iola Vision Source vs.

Young’s Welding Thursday 6 p.m. — Sonic Drive-In vs. First Title Service 7:30 p.m. — Superior Products vs.

Iola Vision Source Little League Tuesday 6 p.m. — Dairy Queen vs. Humboldt (doubleheader) Wednesday 6 p.m. — Humboldt II vs. Emprise Bank (doubleheader) Softball T-Ball Today 6 p.m. — A&W Restaurant vs. Stephens Pest Control 6:45 p.m. — Johnson Law Office vs. Iola Pharmacy Pixie Today 6 p.m. — J&W Equipment vs. Stephens Pest Control 7:15 p.m. — Fellowship Regional Church vs. Sonic Drive-In Tuesday 6 p.m. — Fellowship Regional Church vs. Tholen’s Heating & Cooling 7:30 p.m. — Tholen’s Heating & Cooling vs. Fellowship Regional Church Pigtail Thursday 5:45 p.m. — Cameron vs. H&R Block 7:15 p.m. — A&W Restaurant vs.

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Humboldt I (doubleheader)

Iola got on the board with four runs coming in the top of the fourth. With bases loaded, Caleb Vanatta hit a single, scoring two runs. Jacob Carpenter followed with a ground out to the pitcher, which scored a run. Grayson Pearish then hit an RBI-single for the final run of the inning.

Not satisfied with a fourrun lead, the offense plated in five more runs in the second inning. Hunter Murrow started the scoring with an RBI-single. Trent Latta hit him in with a triple to rightcenter field. Weir continued the trend, with an RBI-single to score Latta. Vanatta had another RBI on an infield single.

Carpenter ended the scoring with an RBI-double, giving the Indians a 9-0 lead.

Iola scored two runs in the fourth inning. Drew Faulhaber had an RBI-single and the other run scored on an error.

The Indians would win the game 11-1 after the inning because of the run limit being reached.

Caleb D’Armond started the game strong, pitching two solid innings to earn the win.

He had four strikeouts, allowing no hits.

Carpenter came in to pitch for the first time this year in the third inning. He had five walks, walking in the only Osawatomie run with the bases loaded. He did have two strikeouts. Vanatta finished off the game, with one inning of work. He walked two, allowing no runs.

Trent Latta squares up and swings through a pitch for an RBI-triple in the second inning of game one. The Indians won 11-1. REGISTER/SPENCER MICHELSON Carpenter led the offense with three RBIs, and a single.

Vanatta had two singles and two RBIs. GAME TWO resulted in a 4-2 Indian win. Iola got on the board first again. Latta plated in a run on a ground out to second base in the first inning for a 1-0 lead. In the second inning, Carpenter had an RBIsingle and Faulhaber had a sac fly to center field to score another.

The bottom half of the second, tensions began to rise.

With one out and a 2-0 count, catcher Alex Murrow threw down to third to pick off the baserunner. This led to a run down, with the runner eventually slamming into Faulhaber at home plate to score. A scuffle ensued, that was quickly broken up. After deliberation by the umpires, the runner was ruled out for not sliding. Both Faulhaber and the Osawatomie player played the

rest of the game.

Iola added one more run in the third off a sacrifice fly by Latta. The Indians would win 4-2.

Faulhaber got the win, pitching 1 2/3 innings. He struck out three and walked one. Hunter Murrow finished the second inning for him, pitching two more innings after the incident. He struck out two, allowing only one hit.

Eric Heffern came into See LEGION | Page B4

Baseball

Alijah Christy, left, fields a ball at first base for the Iola Elks during a Bitty Ball game against Cameron on Friday. Henry White, above, hits the ball despite closing his eyes for Cameron.

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Chambers claims USRA modified win

By SCOTT L. STEWART

HUMBOLDT — On the eve of one of the season’s biggest races at Humboldt Speedway, promoters Rhenda and Ryan Whitworth threw open the track gates Friday for Pack The Stands Night, where all spectators got in free.

It was a spectacular turnout, and the crowd was treated to a stellar performance by Jeremy Chambers, winner of the USRA Modified main event.

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Pittsburg’s lack of a prescription ordinance for pseudoephedrine has made the city an “island” where pharmacies sell more of the popular cold and allergy medicine than in larger cities like Emporia, Police Chief Mendy Hulvey told the city commission at a recent special session on the issue.

“To an allergy sufferer, there’s no better drug to treat your symptoms. The downside is it’s absolutely essential to making methamphetamine. There is no other way to make it,” Hulvey said.

Missouri communities that require prescriptions include Joplin, Branson and Springfield, The Morning Sun reported. In southeast Kansas, prescriptions are required in Chanute, Parsons, Girard, Arma, Iola, Baxter Springs, Galena, Columbus, Fort Scott and all of Cherokee County.

Hulvey said the problem is not pharmacy customers who buy pseudoephedrine for their own use, but so-called “smurfs” — straw buyers for meth makers who purchase the monthly legal maximum of 9 grams per month at one store, then at others in the region.

Hulvey acknowledged that requiring residents to get a doctor’s prescription for pseudoephedrine would be an inconvenience, but contended it would help police fight what she called the city’s “huge” meth problem.

“As an organization, officers come to me and say, ‘Chief, we believe this is critical. We believe this is critical to our investigation. We want to focus on midlevel drug dealers, not low-level cooks that take all (our) time,’” Hulvey said.

Cherokee County Sheriff David Groves told the Pittsburg officials his county typically had 35 to 45 meth busts a year before passing a prescription-only law 11 months ago.

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The city of Joplin also has seen a decline in meth labs since passing its law, according to Hulvey, who said meth use is often connected to property crime.

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Confidant bored with hearing same old tune Dear Carolyn: Someone I’m very close to recently told me, “You know, you talk about [Topic] way too much.

It’s getting really boring.” [Topic] is something that’s very significant to me right now, and while I guess I knew I was talking about it a lot (to this person and others), it still really hurt me to hear that I’m boring others with it.

Now I’m self-conscious about ever mentioning [Topic], which is a lonely feeling. What do you think I should do to keep from hurting friendships by being overly focused on this one thing? — Philadelphia Answer: Your veryclose someone gets points off for tactlessness but still did you a favor. Painful as it is, it’s better to know you’ve maxed out at least one person’s listening capacity than alienate others as you unwittingly prattle on about [Topic].

So, what to do next: 1. Hire someone to

Tell Me About It Carolyn Hax listen to you. Whatever [Topic] is, there’s someone out there with the expertise to help you. If you can’t afford that, then dig a little more. While alternatives to expensive/ scarce professional guidance are inadequate to the need, there are people trying to improve access, be it through slidingscale fees or group care or affiliation with a larger entity that can absorb some of the costs. Start looking for your safe place to unload. Talking about it beyond even one listener’s limits likely means it’s time to find a way to stop talking and start moving forward, whether it’s a persistent problem or a dramatic life change preoccupying you.

2. Don’t banish [Topic] from all conversations

but be mindful of others’ limits, and, ideally, open about them: “I realize I’ve beaten [Topic] to death, but I have something I’d like to bounce off you. May I impose on you for 15 minutes?”

And stick to the time limit you promised, unless the other person is plainly okay with running long.

3.

Avoid [Topic] around the person who spoke up. No point in looking for loopholes there.

Good luck making peace with [Topic], so it’s not always first in mind.

Re: Topic: I had assumed [Topic] was not a problem, but something “Philadelphia” had gotten passionate about — the equivalent of being a parent with a new kid, which takes up a LOT of your brain space, for which others have a loving but finite tolerance.

So you try to stay within that tolerance — even if you have to artificially cap your enthusiasm. — Anonymous

Answer: That’s possible too — and for that, the solution is to save [Topic] for those similarly immersed in it. Diaper talk with other new parents, hobby talk with similar hobbyists, etc.

Re: Topic: I would add: Get really good at listening to other people about their [Topics], so you are reciprocating in your relationships. Ask people, how’s X going for you, or whatever else you want to talk about?

Then people might be more likely to keep listening to you on [Topic].

— Anonymous 2 Answer: “Listen” might be the single most useful bit of advice, for friendship, romance, career, parenting .?.?. even basket-weaving, though at some point you’ll probably have to weave a basket.

Re: Topic: Would you mind letting us know what “[Topic]” was? — Curious Answer: It’s the thing in the briefcase in “Pulp Fiction.”

Don’t confuse sugar alcohols with the sweet stuff DEAR DR. ROACH: I recently was diagnosed as being prediabetic and told to watch my sugar intake. So I now read the nutrition facts on packages. However, I am confused about the listed sugars. Sometimes the label includes both “sugar” and “sugar alcohols.” For instance, a package can read “sugars 1 g” and “sugar alcohols 11 g.” Would my sugar intake be 1 g or 12 g? What is the difference, and what should I avoid/limit? — B.D. ANSWER: First, congratulations on reading labels. There is a lot of good information to be found that can help you decide whether something is a healthy food for you. That being said, sugar alcohols are confusing.

Sugar alcohols have nothing to do with the type of alcohol in beer, wine or spirits, and they aren’t sugars either. A sugar alcohol, such as sorbitol or xylitol, is an incompletely absorbed carbohydrate.

Since they are incompletely absorbed, you get only some of the calories, and your blood sugar goes up less than if you had had the same amount of sweetness with regular sugar. A rough but rea-

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to count about half the grams of sugar alcohol as sugar, for the purposes of counting sugar grams. So in your example, it would be about 6.5 grams of sugar.

You might wonder what happens to the un-

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absorbed sugar alcohol.

It continues through your GI tract and acts as a laxative. Some people are very sensitive and will have diarrhea with just a little sugar alcohol; others tolerate more.

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By ANDY McCULLOUGH lowing his second solo The Kansas City Star home run of the game in

(MCT) KANSAS CITY — The thought flashed in Ned Yost’s mind as the baseball rolled across the infield: “OK, that’s a double play.�

Moments before the last at-bat of a 5-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Yost considered the ripple effects of catcher Salvador Perez’s groundball, which was scooped by Los Angeles shortstop Erick Aybar. Yost had expended his finest relievers. His hitters had slumbered through the majority of the afternoon. A hellish homestand was headed into extra innings on its final day.

Then, a funny thing happened, the sort of occurrence this club had pined for these last nine games at Kauffman Stadium. The Royals caught a break. Second baseman Howie Kendrick dropped the throw. “When Howie missed the ball, it was like, ‘Oh my gosh. We’ve got a shot here,’� Yost said.

The team did not wait long. Omar Infante singled to left score Alex Gordon. The Royals captured their first walkoff victory of the season, and basked in a result that allowed them to escape their own ballpark with peace of mind. The Royals managed three victories in nine games on during this stint at home, a skid that cost them their lead in the American League Central.

On Sunday, Lorenzo Cain tied a career-high with four hits, including three doubles, and helped his team capitalize on a fourth-inning meltdown from Los Angeles starter C.J. Wilson.

Jeremy Guthrie coughed up a one-run lead by al-

the sixth. Betrayed by his defense in the early going, Guthrie still logged 62/3 solid innings. “It was nice to win one of these, finally,� Guthrie said. “It feels like the whole homestand has been close games and late losses. So to get a late win is a huge boost.�

Sunday marked the middle point of the season. After 81 games, the Royals are three games above .500, and still treading water as they fly to Minneapolis for a nine-game road trip starting Monday. On the road, perhaps they can recapture the form that so captivated observers earlier this month.

On the morning of June 19, the Royals stood at the summit of the American League Central. They led the Detroit Tigers by a game and a half. They had won 10 in a row, drubbed Detroit in their own ballpark and announced themselves as contenders.

How quickly the tides turn, even if “it seems like a year ago we came home,� Yost said. As the Royals blundered at home, the Tigers stabilized. Detroit dashed to seven consecutive victories and reclaimed their lead. Inside his office on Sunday morning, Yost shrugged his shoulders at the reversal. “It’s a long season,�

Yost said. “You can’t get frustrated. I know you guys want to whip everybody up into a frenzy,� and here he slapped his hands across his face, and lightened the timbre of his voice, “and say ‘Oh, we’re so frustrated!’ No. It doesn’t work like that.�

For optimists, it was possible to pinpoint positives. The team received a pair of quality starts during the Seattle sweep.

The club stood toe-to-

Kansas City Royals' Omar Infante (14) celebrates with teammates after getting the game-winning hit to score Alex Gordon in the bottom of the ninth inning against the Los Angeles on Sunday at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. MCT/KANSAS CITY STAR/JOHN SLEEZER toe during two losses with the Dodgers. During these nine games, Yost explained, his team lacked luck. They faced tough competition. They “haven’t caught breaks,� he said. The results did not correlate with the quality of their play. “It’s not like we’re fumbling all over ourselves,� he said.

He spoke too soon.

The initial performance on Sunday indicated otherwise. First, Guthrie surrendered a leadoff homer to Kole Calhoun.

With a man on first, Aybar lifted a fly into right center.

From his position in the corner, Cain tracked the baseball and called off Jarrod Dyson in center. At the last moment, though, Dyson flashed in his vision. He backed off and let the ball fall.

Pistorius not mentally ill during killing PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A panel of mental health experts has concluded that Oscar Pistorius was not suffering from a mental illness when he killed girlfriend Reeva Steen-

kamp in his home last year, the chief prosecutor at the athlete’s murder trial said Monday.

Pistorius’ trial resumed after a break of one month during which a psychologist and three

psychiatrists also assessed whether the double-amputee runner was capable of understanding the wrongfulness of his act when he shot Steenkamp through a closed toilet door.

Legion: Wellsville up next Continued from B1 pitch the final inning, his first time on the mound this season. He gave up both runs, walking two and striking out one. Both runs scored on wild pitches. The final play of the game was a nifty strike ’em out, throw ’em out doubleplay. After the strikeout

by Heffern, catcher Alex Murrow threw out the runner leading off too much at third base to end the game.

The Indians (20-1) will face Wellsville tonight in a doubleheader starting at 6 p.m. at Humboldt. “Wellsville should be a good team, they were in high school,� coach Weir said. “They were

the 3A state champions.

Some of their kids went north and played up at Johnson County, so I don't know how many kids they've got from that team.�

“Completely my fault,�

Cain said. “I don’t know.

I don’t know what I was thinking.�

A rare defensive misplay by Eric Hosmer led to another run in the third. But in the fourth inning, Wilson tossed them a lifeline in the form of an 84-mph slider.

The pitch hit Salvador Perez in the foot. Infante doubled and a single by Danny Valencia granted the Royals their first run. Three batters later, Cain stroked of the day to tie the game.

The go-ahead run felt like anticlimax. Manager Mike Scioscia ordered Wilson to intentionally

walk Billy Butler. The move backfired. No longer could Wilson locate the strike zone, and Gordon walked on four pitches to put the Royals ahead.

They would regret not sustaining their rush.

Perez popped up to end the fourth. With two on and two out in the fifth, Alcides Escobar was picked off by reliever Cory Rasmus. The team could have used those extra runs, for in the sixth, Erick Aybar tied the game by parking a 2-0 fastball from Guthrie in the Angels bullpen.

As the innings continued, Yost strategized on

how to break the deadlock. He used Kelvin Herrera to defuse a bases-loaded emergency in the seventh. Wade Davis and Greg Holland handled the next two frames.

When Perez grounded the ball toward Aybar in the ninth, Yost worried about the Angels feasting on the softer underbelly of his team’s bullpen.

Instead, the Royals got lucky. Kendrick made a mistake. Infante came through. This brutal stretch at home was over. “A huge knock,� Cain said. “A big win for us.

We’ve got to keep the momentum going.�

Chambers: Wins modified Continued from B1

ing. Chambers is currently second in national points.

In the early laps of the contest, Paden Phillips was engaged in a wheel-to-wheel duel with John Allen, while Chambers waited in third for a chance to strike. When the lead pair tangled up and effectively took each other out, Chambers took command of the 17-car field, and set sail for victory lane. Second went to Josh Everhart, with Chase Domer coming from deep in the field to finish third. Jerry Morgan was fourth, Gene Hogan fifth.

The bounty hunters — hoping to cash in on a $100 prize — chasing

Pure Stock driver Derrek Wilson were frustrated once again. Wilson smoothly eluded his pursuers, who would have won $100 had they reached the finish line first. This week, it was Mitch Coulter in second place, Wayne Johnson third, Mike Churning fourth and Sean Felkins fifth.

There was a thriller in this week’s USRA Stock Car division feature. Levi McGowen, driving as a “hired gun� for Scott Collins, led the bulk of the feature laps until he was overhauled

by Jeremy Wilson, who was, in turn, passed by winner Tyler James. In the end, it was Wilson as runner-up, David Matlock third, Patrick Kay

fourth, and Ken Colston fifth. Mechanical issues sent McGowen to the pits late in the event.

Andy Bryant captured the USRA B-Mod feature, holding defending points champ Jimmie Davis at bay. Third went to Ethan Isaacs, with Heath Murry fourth, and Tim Phillips fifth.

Independence Day moves this week’s races up a day, to Thursday.

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