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Monday, July 31, 2017

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By CATHERINE LUCEY The Associated Press

Finger lickin’ good For many, BBQ judging centers on community

By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register

Dennis Polson is a pleasant, genial man in a cowboy hat, tasselled boots and a turquoise neckerchief, who doesn’t mind smiling on occasion but who is dead serious about his barbecue. He’s the sort of kindly stickler given to the phrase “the rules are the rules.”

The 73-year-old Lebo native — whose duties as a Kansas City Barbeque Society representative have taken him to 11 states already

The Iola Rotary Club hosted its annual barbecue contest on Saturday. The event is officially sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbeque Society and draws some of the country’s best cooks to Riverside Park. Pictured, at top, KCBS-certified judges noshing ribs. Below that, KCBS’s Dennis and Linda Polson. this year — was in Iola over the weekend to oversee Iola Rotary’s annual KCBSsanctioned barbecue competition at the Allen County Fair.

The 34 judges gathered at four tables in the New Community Building in Riverside Park. A “Do Not Enter” sign was plastered across the building’s front door.

It’s a serious undertaking, judging barbecue. A reverent, hushed mood pervaded the room where the judges considered their particular meats. At one point, a young man — a fair worker, in fact — tried to gain entry into the building.

“You can’t come in here,” said Polson. “I’m sorry.”

“I just need to get to the office back there,” said the young man.

“We’re in a judging right now, son,” said Polson, closing the door on the man’s befuddled face.

That was during the chicken portion of the competition. During pork butt, an elderly man opened the front door and let a big gush of wind blow through the entryway. Another KCBS volunteer rushed to the scene. “You can’t come in See BARBECUE | Page A2

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s new chief of staff is entering a West Wing battered by crisis.

Retired Gen. John Kelly, previ- John Kelly ously the Homeland Security secretary, takes over Monday from the ousted Reince Priebus. Trump hopes Kelly can bring some military order to an administration weighed down by a stalled legislative agenda, a cabal of infighting West Wing aides and a stack of investigations.

Still, Kelly’s success in a chaotic White House will depend on how much authority he is granted and whether Trump’s dueling aides will put aside their rivalries to work together.

Also unclear is whether a new chief of staff will have any influence over the president’s social media histrionics.

Former Trump campaign manager Cory Lewandowski, who was ousted from the campaign in June 2016, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he expected Kelly would “restore order to the staff ” but also stressed that Trump was unlikely to change his style.

“I say you have to let Trump be Trump. That is what has made him successful over the last 30 years.

That is what the American people voted for,” LewanSee KELLY | Page A4

Reports of disturbance at Kansas prison disputed EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) — A spokesman for the Kansas Department of Corrections says it has found no evidence of a significant episode of unrest at a state prison reported earlier by a union for state workers.

Department spokesman Todd Fertig said Saturday it investigated whether a group of inmates refused to follow orders Friday evening at the El Dorado prison and did not find that such an incident occurred.

The report that such an incident occurred came from the Kansas Organization of State Employees in a tweet Friday evening. Executive Director Robert Choromanski said the information came from an employee monitoring emergency communications.

Choromanski said Saturday that the incident ap-

peared to be resolved within a half hour.

Fertig did report that there were two separate inmate-on-inmate altercations Friday, each resulting in an inmate injury.

Meanwhile, Fertig confirmed Saturday that James Heimgartner left his job as warden of the El Dorado prison Thursday. Fertig had no further information about Heimgartner’s new position in the department.

He did not comment on what led to the change.

The new acting warden at El Dorado is Dan Schnurr.

He is warden at a maximumsecurity prison in Hutchinson, about 60 miles to the northwest.

Fertig said Schnurr will keep his duties at Hutchinson while the department looks for a permanent warden for El Dorado.

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Another coat Volunteers and elders with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Cody Morgan, left, and Forest Felling apply a fresh coat of paint to fire hydrants Friday along the courthouse square perimeter in downtown Iola. The effort is part of an ongoing downtown beautification project. The paint was supplied by the city. Morgan and Felling learned about the effort through working with Thrive Allen County. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

“Leadership is practice not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”

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Obituaries Luther Webster

Doug Ford

Luther P. Webster, 78, Iola, died Friday, July 28, 2017, at Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel, 16 N. Buckeye, Iola. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery, Iola.

The family will greet friends from from 6 to 8 tonight at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to ACARF. Condolences to the family may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Iola native Douglas Eugene Ford, 52, brother of Carmen (Chet) Huse, Humboldt, and Shawn (Mike) Manbeck, Moran, died at his home Thursday, July 6, 2017, in Yuma, Ariz.

A military graveside service will be at 9:30 a.m.

Aug. 19 at the Mulvane Littleton Cemetery, east of Mulvane.

Memorials may be made to K9s for Veterans, NFP, 5430 West Roosevelt Road Chicago, IL 60644.

Online donations may be sent to k9forveteranwarriors.org.

A solar eclipse will be visible across much of North America Aug. 21, and if the weather cooperates, Iolans will get a pristine view.

In preparation for the celestial oddity, Humboldt’s Mike Myer will talk about all things astronomical at 7 p.m.

Tuesday with “The

Eclipse Is Coming” at the Iola Public Library.

The public is invited.

Myer will demonstrate ways to safely view the upcoming eclipse.

Additionally, the public is invited to watch the eclipse together at 1 p.m. Aug. 21 at the library.

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here sir,” the volunteer said.

“I’m looking for Frances,” the man said.

“No one is named Frances,” the volunteer said.

The man seemed not to hear. “Is Frances in there?” he asked, looking over the volunteer’s head.

“No,” the volunteer said, “no Frances.” The volunteer shut the door and the congregation returned to its solemn assignment of evaluating smoked meats — a tableau of highly-trained eaters turning rib bones over in their hands with the lavish attention of jewelry appraisers.

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Barbeque Society is in its 32nd year and is the largest national cookout organization of its kind.

According to Polson, the group hosts more than 500 contests per year and has a presence in nearly every state and is even gaining a reputation overseas.

Whether a particular KCBS contest is held in Lubbock or whether it’s held in Liverpool, the rules remain the same.

Every barbecue team is required to cook four meats: chicken, ribs, pork and brisket.

Australia, for instance, explained Polson, wanted to smoke lamb. Not happening.

Norway wanted to cook fish. Nope. “If you want to play our game, you use our rules.”

“Now, if you want to cook lamb as an ancillary or extra contest,” said Polson, “that’s fine.

But you must first cook our four.”

Each team is allowed their choice of marinades, rubs and spices, however, and can choose the type of wood used for smoking. “You go farther south, you’re getting more into pecan trees. Up here, we use more of the other fruit trees. In Texas, they like mesquite.”

On the day of the competition, during a designated 10-minute window, each team hands their meat product — transported in standard-issue polystyrene clamshells — to a KCBS volunteer, who sees that the clamshell is labelled via an intricate

An organizer from the Kansas City Barbeque Society presents a container of ribs to a KCBS-certified judge during Rotary’s Smokin’ Hot BBQ competition. double-blind numbering system that ensures the temporary anonymity of each team. From there, the clamshells are dispatched to the judges’ tables, where their contents are set upon by thousands of qualified tastebuds.

The meats are evaluated on three KCBSspecified criteria, which also happen to be decent criteria for selecting a romantic partner: pleasing appearance, good taste and sufficient tenderness. “Looks, taste and tenderness,” said Polson, “that’s the name of the game.”

“With around 25 teams, this contest is considered a small contest,” explained Linda Polson, Dennis’s wife and — as the one in charge of inputting the scores — a crucial partner in administering the KCBS contests.

“Still, though, there are 10 of the best teams in the country right here in Iola.”

Dennis agreed. “It’s going to be a tough ‘who wins this darn thing?’ contest, I’ll tell you that.”

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ways been a big deal.

Writing from the International Barbecue Cooking Competition in Memphis in 1985 — the birth year of KCBS, as it happens — the New Yorker correspondent and Kansas City native Calvin Trillin clapped eyes for the first time on that species of human for whom barbecue is life: “There are so many barbecue-cooking contests that in the summertime a competitive barbecuer can haul his

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rig from fairgrounds to fairgrounds, like a man with a string of quarter horses.”

And that was about the cut of it on Saturday in Riverside Park, too. Expensive-looking smokers and trailer rigs dotted the greens. Typically, the team name is stenciled somewhere on the rig: Spicy Spitfire, Smokin’ Dan, Smooth Smoke, Pork Pullers, Pig Newton, Fire & Spice, Caveman Cuisine, 4 Legs Up, and an Olathe-based team called Hunka Hunka Burnin’ Rub. Plus 19 others.

Who are these people who’ve transformed a happy backyard pursuit into a form of obsession? I asked Polson.

Barbecue is an entirely democratic endeavor, said the barbecue rep.

“Take Dave Qualls, for example, who is part owner of a casino down in Oklahoma. He just loves to cook. We have doctors and lawyers but we also have the redneck from right up the road.

When it comes to barbecue, they’re all putting their pants on the same way. And it’s the same with judges.”

HUSBAND AND WIFE Robert and Thel-

ma Hill have judged more than a hundred contests in their 10 years with KCBS. (They were acting volunteers at Saturday’s Iola event.) As it happens, Robert and Thelma both grew up in Kansas City’s Roundtop neighborhood, the undisputed Valhalla of Midwest barbecue.

“When we were kids,” remembered Robert, “we would go to Arthur Bry-

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ant’s and get a sandwich.

This guy behind the counter had hands big enough to swallow up a basketball. He’d pull the meat down and he’d slam it on the bread. We’d say thank you, and then run right up to Gates and get Gates’s sauce because we liked it better.”

Thelma’s home joint was Rosedale’s, a longstanding barbecue restaurant on Southwest Boulevard, where every Friday evening Thelma’s dad would pile Thelma and her 11 siblings into the back of his pickup truck and drive crosstown for a mountain of burnt ends and a stack of hot pulled pork sandwiches.

The Hills met when Thelma was 14 and Robert 16. After 50 years of marriage the pair has a teasing, sometimes sardonic, relationship.

For instance, Thelma remembers her first, teenaged encounter with Robert like this: “With six brothers, Bob had to fight to get on my block.

My brothers wouldn’t let him come over.”

“What!” said Robert, throwing his head back in mock exasperation.

“This story changes every day. In fact, let me tell you something.”

Thelma grabbed Robert’s arm. “Don’t you tell him that. Bob, don’t you start that lie.”

Robert continued.

“They had 12 kids in that family, you understand?

Her daddy was giving them away like kittens.

I’m serious. ‘Here, son, take two or three.’ ‘No, sir, one’s fine for me.’”

“Oh, you lie,” said Thelma, “and you know you lie.”

and seals across a section of West Texas that stretched from Odessa to El Paso, had a similar recommendation: “You come for the people. The food is a plus.”

Nearly every judge echoed the sentiment.

Organizers, too. And cooks. There seems to be a conspiracy of goodness in the ranks of the KCBS. To talk to anyone associated with Saturday’s barbecue, you’d forget that the point of these events is the seasoned meat.

“Look, we enjoy the food,” explained Polson, “but really the passion with barbecue societies is for the people you meet, the friendships you make. It’s cutthroat, yes, but it’s community.”

BRUCE BUBACZ is the head of the philosophy department at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. He is also a KCBS-certified master judge. He was in Iola on Saturday. “The New York Post rates Joe’s Kansas City the best barbecue joint in the country. Now, what does the New York Post know about barbecue? Hell, I don’t know. But, for me, in Kansas City, there are three: Joe’s, Q39 and Jack Stack BBQ. Now, if you want a funky place, the Woodyard is just bizarre. Go there.”

Originally from Chicago, Bubacz has been at UMKC for nearly 45 years. He teaches the history of philosophy, but his specialty is medieval philosophy. He’s written a book on St.

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BY 3 P.M. on Saturday, most of the judges had vacated the Community Building and the cooks had flooded in. It was awards ceremony time. Everyone awaited the results. In the end, Smooth Smoke was named grand champion. The room cheered and three guys from Springfield, Mo., moved toward the front to collect their trophy.

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barbecue pedigree, the Hills insist that the value they derive from competitive barbecue is the warmth and camaraderie that permeates every event. Jo Lasher, a widow from Liberty, Mo. — who, on Saturday, gave a thumbs up to her chicken and a thumbs down to her ribs — said much the same: “Eighty percent of the people here I’ve judged with before, and it’s always so nice to see their faces.”

George Gustafson, an 80-year-old master gardener from Tulsa, who in his prime sold bearings

Augustine’s theory of knowledge.

A garish question, but an irresistible one: After seven years as a KCBS judge, has he developed a philosophy of barbecue?

Bubacz pauses. He’s taking the question seriously. “I’ve thought about it a bit,” he says.

He speaks for a few minutes on the link between barbecue and jazz. Both are distinctly American phenomena brought to Kansas City by way of the AfricanAmerican migration from the South, and both depend on a standard blueprint — the recipe, the song. But each jazz number, each barbecue dish, says Bubacz, takes its individual flavor from the “freewheeling, ad lib” stamp that a particular musician or cook applies to his product. They’re both, essentially, riffs on a style.

“But the best part of all this stuff,” said Bubacz, re-joining the chorus of other KCBS members, “is the people you meet. It’s all a kind of fellowship.”

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Monday, July 31

Open Class Exhibits Released Baby Barnyard Open 4-H Livestock Judging Contest 4-H Indoor Exhibits Released 4-H Purple Ribbon Pictures, Show Arena Non-Sale Livestock Released 4-H Clean Up Of Fairgrounds Set Up For Livestock Sale Livestock Buyers’ Appreciation Dinner 4-H/FFA Livestock Sale

Saturday, August 5

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Gubernatorial race likely to be a dandy Assuming the U.S. Senate confirms Sam Brownback’s nomination as ambassador at-large for religious freedom — a post he’s wellequipped to fill — dynamics of the 2018 gubernatorial race will be altered.

Brownback leaving Cedar Crest will put Lt. Gov. Colyer in the catbird seat, and enrich his support among those who pray at the altar of conservatism.

In most years that would make Colyer the odds-on favorite to succeed Brownback as elected chief executive of the state. Not this time around.

Kris Kobach, an ultraconservative clone now residing in Topeka as Secretary of State, has announced he wants to be governor, and has adopted Trump’s outlandish (though successful in no small measure) means of campaigning on Twitter.

Both Kobach and Colyer subscribe to Arthur Laffer’s trickle-down approach to winning an economics gold star for Kansas, although that failed to materialize after the dreadful income tax cuts of 2012-13 and led to upheaval in the Legislature’s composure last November. Then, when the session convened, reason prevailed.

Kobach for years has contended that illegal voting is rampant — his is a solution looking for a problem — which has made voter registration and subsequent voting something of an ordeal in Kansas.

In early gubernatorial campaigning, he has gone so far as often to tweet profoundly incorrect predictions that income tax restoration would lead to economic disaster for rankand-file Kansans. Re Trump: He has tweeted taxes would take food from Kansans’ tables and have the state’s poor and elderly deciding between necessities of life or paying income taxes.

Kobach also has a forum in having snuggled up to Trump in the president’s ill-founded declaration — as so many seem to be — that his loss of the popular vote could be laid to illegal voting.

Meanwhile, Colyer, a medical man of more than common note and treasure, has been a little coy in openly underpinning the trickle-down road to despair. Nonetheless, he has found purchase at Brownback’s side in support of

the governor’s fiscal policies and apparently would favor ultra-conservate approaches to taxes and spending, if he were to have the wherewithal to decide.

The change in election dynamics is found in Colyer and Kobach appealing to the same crowd of folks who squeeze dollars until the eagle screams.

(Statisticians claim those populating the hard-core right wing of the Republican Party amounts to 20 percent — 30 percent at the very most.)

Colyer has not officially announced a run for the governorship, but likelihood is high. Nearly seven years in the wings would seem to be enough for him; no doubt having been promised support of Brownback and his advocates when he stepped down (as had been predicted, and as he is just a Senate vote away from doing) or completed his two fouryear terms.

Kobach and Colyer appealing to the same base would seem to give an opening for a moderate Republican to seize the nomination. For that to occur, those who think they are so disposed must avoid being set upon by greed. If two or three or more toss their hats into the ring, the disadvantage of numbers could work to Kobach’s or Colyer’s favor.

Kobach basks in his current arena, and looks like a schoolboy who just had his first kiss when chumming with Trump in Washington. The exposure is something of an advantage when it comes to a campaign. (Trump rip-snorted through Kansas in last November’s election.)

Colyer has the financial wherewithal — remember he loaned Brownback’s campaign half a million dollars — to mount a fierce campaign, and his supporters also are well-heeled.

Then, there is the Democratic side of the equation.

Paul Davis came close to unseating Brownback in 2014, and several of his political persuasion, including former Wichita mayor Carl Brewer who has announced, will put forth far more than cursory efforts.

The months ahead will be both interesting and exciting in Kansas as all the parts and pieces of the gubernatorial race unfold.

— Bob Johnson

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Forty years ago July 1977

Two new instructors at Allen County Junior College were hired by trustees.

Darene Street, former USD 257 music instructor, was employed as the college’s vocal and instrumental instructor. Val McLean was employed as a guidance counselor and baseball coach. Trustees also were told the Army Reserve Officers Training Program at the college has been discontinued because of declining enrollment.

Shannon Hardware has been sold to Dan Creitz by Mr. and Mrs. David Shannon as of Aug. 1. The sale brings to close 80 years of opera-

tion of retail businesses in Iola by the Shannon family. Leslie Norton, executive secretary of the Iola Chamber of Commerce, has chosen David Shannon for his weekly column subject as the change of ownership occurs. Norton’s history of the Shannon businesses in Iola is in this issue.

Mrs. Pauline Flynn was the guest of honor at an open house in the chapel at the Southeast Kansas Tuberculosis Hospital in Chanute yesterday. Mrs. Flynn retired after 43 years of service with the Welfare Department. She was born in Iola and began her work with social services as a case worker in 1935.

And so the tall tales continue The recently overturned Kansas tax experiment was sold to Kansans with a tall tale: “Big income tax cuts bring economic prosperity without any pain.” Eventually most Kansans realized the story was false, and their legislators ended the experiment with a bipartisan veto override.

Then, very quickly, a new story began to circulate: “The tax experiment failed because Kansas spends too much.”

Legislators on the losing side of the override vote made speeches claiming Kansas had a spending problem, not a revenue problem. Sam Brownback denounced “excessive spending” even as he signed the newly-passed state budget.

Tax cut apologists at places like the American Legislative Exchange Council began arguing that tax cuts work, it’s just that in Kansas spending was not reduced enough to match revenue losses. And just days after the override vote, Kris Kobach entered the governor’s race, blasting the vote as an effort to “feed” state government spending.

It’s easy to discern that the too-much-spending rhetoric is the old tall tale morphed into a new form. Here’s the test: If the talk was credible, the talkers would be able to provide a coherent list of spending to be cut from the state budget. But they don’t.

Brownback could have issued line-item vetoes to knock out

Duane Goossen Insight Kansas the spending he considered excessive. But he didn’t.

If Kansas spends too much, what should be cut? Name it. Education? Highways?

Health services?

Realistic spending cuts are produced by getting rid of inefficiencies, or finding less expensive alternatives to current practices, or convincing constituents that something does not need to be done anymore. That happens through the grind of the annual budget process, through vigorous and detailed debate. It can be hard, tedious work, far different from just declaring that spending is too high.

In the just completed legislative session, lawmakers created a reasonable budget.

The process was open. They grappled with the recommendations from an efficiency study and seriously worked to address the school finance court case. The result they produced was not lavish.

Many needs were left unmet.

Even so, revenue had fallen so low as a result of the Brownback tax cuts that Kansas was almost a billion dollars short of meeting expenses. Law-

If Kansas spends too much, what should be cut? Name it. Education?

Highways?

Health services?

makers had no choice but to end the tax experiment.

Expenses in the Kansas budget almost all go to education, human services, highways, and public safety. No easy cuts there. Citizens want and expect those services.

Certainly lawmakers should always be on the lookout for ways to keep spending as low as possible, but future expenses are far more likely to go up than down as lawmakers work to get school funding back to an adequate level and undo the damage from raiding the highway fund.

Kansas has lots of work ahead to regain financial stability, but excessive spending isn’t one of the problems requiring a solution.

Those complaining of overspending in Kansas without offering specific places to cut lead the state nowhere. They tell a tall tale.

Duane Goossen formerly spent 12 years as Kansas budget director.

No plan, but lots of anxiety with N. Korea The tensions between the United States and North Korea grew more ominous and urgent last week. Americans should be rightfully concerned about the nuclear ambitions of the hermit state and diplomatic pratfalls in the Trump White House.

A leaked new assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency speeds up the anticipated date for assembly-line production of nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the West Coast and beyond.

The Washington Post last week reported that North Korea is now anticipated to have that capacity “sometime in 2018,” not years from now, as has been assumed.

As if that’s not enough to induce midnight sweats, one of the regime’s last major technical barriers to a “War Games” scenario is the capacity for long-range North Korean missiles to survive atmospheric re-entry. Kim Jong Un’s military is now anticipated to break that barrier as early as “this week,” the Post reported.

U.S. options for addressing the growing North Korea

nuclear threat are all bad.

Successive presidential administrations, from Clinton onward, have unsuccessfully pressured China to use economic leverage to rein in North Korea. Trump added bluster to that strategy, but he has been equally unsuccessful so far.

Diplomatic sanctions, expanded under Obama, leave North Korea on an economic island. Yet Pyongyang has undergone such a building boom that it has been dubbed Pyonghattan, with 18 towers at least 48 stories tall built in 2012 and “a grand, new apartment complex nearly every year since (Kim Jong Un) assumed power,” according to the North Korea-watch blog 38north.org.

Those failed strategies lead to talk of a military strike to wipe out the North Korean nuclear program.

That is much easier to propose than execute. As retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey wrote in a Seattle Times op-ed this year, North Korea is “an army wrapped in an impoverished nation,” with 24 percent of its GDP devoted to the military and 21,000 artillery weapons

aimed at the 25 million residents of Seoul.

U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, the senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said it would be impossible to destroy that capacity in a single strike, and could trigger catastrophic retaliation against South Korea and Japan, as well as the 25,000 U.S. soldiers still based on the Korean Peninsula. Smith essentially recommends a new Cold War with North Korea: assure Kim Jong Un of his regime’s destruction if he ever uses his nukes.

Trump adds to the anxiety with his Twitter antidiplomacy and naivete about the geopolitics of the Korean Peninsula. North Korea is clearly on course to be his administration’s first crisis.

Disturbingly, his administration has not laid out a clear plan to address it. That could mean another effort at international diplomacy, such as the Six Party talks. A military strike must be the absolute last option.

The nation waits, as the doomsday clock ticks closer to midnight.

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4-H boost The Allen County 4-H Council received a $1,000 donation Friday from Modern Woodmen agent Josh Oberley as part of Modern Woodmen’s Matching Grant Program. Proceeds will be used to help with maintenance of the livestock facilities at the Fairgrounds at Riverside Park. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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dowski said. “And anybody who thinks they’re going to change Donald Trump doesn’t know Donald Trump.�

Kelly’s start follows a tumultuous week, marked by a profane tirade from the new communications director, Trump’s continued attacks on his attorney general and the failed effort by Senate Republicans to overhaul the nation’s health care law.

In addition to strain in the West Wing and with Congress, Kelly starts his new job as tensions escalate with North Korea. The United States flew two supersonic bombers over the Korean Peninsula on Sunday in a show of force against North Korea, following the country’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile test. The U.S. also said it conducted a successful test of a missile defense system located in Alaska.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said on CBS’ “Face the Nation� that she hopes Kelly can “be effective,� and “begin some very serious negotiation with the North and stop this program.�

Another diplomatic fissure opened Sunday when Russian President Vladimir Putin said the U.S. would have to cut its embassy

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and consulate staff in Russia by several hundred under new sanctions from Moscow. In a television interview, Putin indicated the cutback was retaliation for new sanctions in a bill passed by Congress and sent to Trump.

Trump plans to sign the measure into law, the White House has said.

After Putin’s remarks, the State Department deemed the cutbacks “a regrettable and uncalled for act� and said officials would assess the impact and how to respond to it.

While Trump is trying to refresh his team, he signaled that he does not want to give up the fight on health care. On Twitter Sunday, he said: “Don’t give up Republican Senators, the World is watching: Repeal & Replace.�

The protracted health care fight has slowed Trump’s other policy goals, including a tax overhaul and infrastructure investment.

But Trump aides made clear that the president still wanted to see action

on health care. White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said on CNN’s “State of the Union,� that senators “need to stay, they need to work, they need to pass something.�

Asked if nothing should be voted on in Congress until the Senate votes again on health care, Mulvaney said: “well, think — yes. And I think what you’re seeing there is the president simply reflecting the mood of the people.�

On Saturday, Trump threatened to end required payments to insurance companies unless lawmakers repeal and replace the Obamaera health care law. He

tweeted that if “a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!�

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Major League Baseball: Royals 5, Sox 3

Gordon completes comeback victory

By RUSTIN DODD The Kansas City Star

Kansas City Royal Alex Gordon follows through on an RBI single on July 7, 2015, at Kauffman Stadium. John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS

MLB: Royals

Cabrera returns to KC in trade

BOSTON — The fastball cut across the middle of the plate, and Alex Gordon’s hand unleashed a compact stroke, taking out his frustrations on a baseball on a Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park.

All season, Gordon has searched for answers, hoping to find the key to becoming the hitter he once was. The struggles have tested his patience and weighed on the mind. On Sunday, in the hour before the game began, the Royals traded for outfielder Melky Cabrera, a player who could strip play-

ing time from Gordon during the season’s second half.

Yet here was Gordon on Sunday afternoon, stepping to the plate in the top of the eighth with runners at second and third and the game tied.

Here was Gordon, roping a two-run triple to right-center field off Boston reliever Robby Scott, capping a four-run deluge in the decisive inning.

Gordon’s triple broke a 3-3 deadlock and secured a series victory here at Fenway Park, 5-3. The Royals (55-48) have won 10 of their last 11 entering a three-game series in Baltimore on Monday.

On Sunday, they received

seven solid innings from starter Jason Hammel, who allowed three runs and seven hits while striking out six.

The offense outlasted Boston starter Drew Pomeranz and went to work in the top of the eighth.

The inning began with a gift when Xander Bogaerts committed an error on a grounder from Lorenzo Cain.

Eric Hosmer followed by ripping a chopper that staggered reliever Matt Barnes and bounced toward first baseman Mitch Moreland for a single.

Moments later, Salvador Perez fought off a two-strike count See ROYALS | Page B4

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Chicago’s Melky Cabrera puts his arm around Royal Eric Hosmer in the first inning on May 4 at Kauffman Stadium. Cabrera is returning to the Royals after being the center piece of a threeplayer deal. John Sleezer/Kansas

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By KEN POWTAK The Associated Press

BOSTON (AP) — Trying to bolster their lineup for a playoff run and beating the trade deadline, the Kansas City Royals got outfielder Melky Cabrera from the Chicago White Sox on Sunday.

The White Sox sent Cabrera and cash to Kansas City for a pair of Single-A pitchers, 22-year-old right-hander A.J. Puckett and 23-year-old lefty Andre Davis. The swap came before Monday afternoon’s deadline for making deals without waivers.

“It’s a quality bat, a switch-hitting bat, a bat we can put in the 2-hole in our lineup,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “It’s a great trade for us.”

Kansas City holds the second AL wild-card spot. The Royals moved to two games behind AL Central-leading Cleveland after beating the Red Sox 5-3 on Sunday.

“I will go there try to help the team win games,” Cabrera said before the White Sox hosted the Indians. “They acquired me for a reason. I hope to help them.”

The Royals had their season-high nine-game winning streak snapped by Boston on Saturday night, losing 9-8 in 10 innings.

The 32-year-old Cabrera was batting .288 with 13 homers and 56 RBIs for the White Sox. He’s also is tied for the majors’ lead with nine outfield assists.

The switch-hitting Cabrera is in his 13th season in the majors. He played for the Royals in 2011.

Alex Gordon knows he’ll fit right back into the clubhouse.

“He’s going to help our team a lot,” he said. “He’s See CABRERA | Page B4

The Indians posing with their runner-up plaque after losing to hays 8-4 in the final game of the State Tournament at Feldhausen Field in Marysville. The Indians won four of six games in the tournament. REGISTER/TIMOTHY EVERSON

THE START OF SOMETHING Iola finishes as runner-up in state tournament

By TIMOTHY EVERSON The Iola Register

MARYSVILLE — It was hard to find any truly disappointed faces on the Indians bench on Sunday afternoon.

True, Iola had just fallen in the ‘AA’ American Legion State Championship game 8-4 versus Hays in Marysville at Feldhausen Field. But it was the road the Indians had taken to get there that kept their heads up.

“Two weeks ago we were a 10-13 team,” head coach Rick Vink said. “If you get second in state two weeks later it just goes to show the kids never gave up on each other and never gave up on what they wanted to accomplish.

I’m super proud of them.”

After being the third seed in the Zone tournament, the Indians battled their way toward state, earning a bid for the third year in a row. They faced a tough slate of teams,

Short stop Daylon Splane celebrating a scoring a running in the Indians win over Hays on Sunday at Feldhausen Field in Marysville. REGISTER/TIMOTHY EVERSON

as they were disadvantaged by their age as the youngest team at tournament.

Then the hard part came after rattling off two wins, a loss in the semifinals set up the task of winning three games in 24 hours.

Iola won two of those games easily and made the decision to not wait around for another day, but instead to bear down and end it on Sunday, thus playing their fourth game in 24 hours.

“We made the decision as team early in the day,” Vink said. “For us, pitching, it didn’t matter either way. So as a team we just said let’s finish this thing today… I don’t know if it played a part or not in us not hitting the ball well in that last game. We had 18 hits in the first championship game and only six in the second. We were a little tired but I also think that Hays threw a kid that may not have been any better as the first kid but found a way to get us off balance.”

It did not come nearly as easily.

Five Hays runners crossed the plate in the second inning as for the third time this tour-

nament the Indians had to work their way out of a hole.

The Indians started chipping away.

Starter Isaac Vink found his footing after that second innings, only allowing three more runners.

Vink carried a large load throughout the tournament, going deep into the game throwing more than he normally does out of necessity as one of the last options at the mound for the Indians.

“He gave us all he had,” Vink said.. “I don’t remember the last time Isaac threw more than 80 pitches in a game and he went out there and threw 116. He kept us in the game. They got five runs in one inning and that turned out to be the difference but after that he shut them down.”

Two more Hays runs crossed the plate in the bottom of sixth widening the gap too far for Iola, which went 1-2-3 in the seventh, ending the game.”

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— M.C. Answer: Quetiapine (Seroquel) is classified as an antipsychotic medication, one to help people with disturbed thinking processes, such as in schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. It is a powerful medication with significant potential for side effects — for example, sedation, which can be life-threatening in combination with opiates (morphine-like drugs) or benzodiazepines (like Valium). The sedation effect can be used to treat people with insom-

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resemble Parkinson’s disease, but this is unusual. These almost always go away if the drug is stopped.

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Dear Carolyn: My husband and I have different parenting styles, and each style is perfectly fine by itself. But when we are both trying to parent at the same time, the styles clash.

The kid ends up getting buffeted — blown about, not smorgasbord-ed — by words and different requests or imperatives.

Do we just take turns directing an activity, or should one of us shut up, or do we need to take parenting classes?

Note that this is never violent or argumentative, just annoying to the other parent, and probably the kid. — Different Styles Answer: Why wouldn’t you take a parenting class, given the chaos what you’ve described?

Your kids are suffering. Enough said.

Doing that wouldn’t preclude your working on this yourselves. To start, each of you can ask yourselves why you haven’t yet summoned the grace and maturity to “lose” in a few of these clashes. Your suggestion -- that you “take turns” — comes from a

Tell Me About It Carolyn Hax

similar idea, but it needs to be more than just a surface interaction like the possession arrow in basketball.

For one thing, it may be better for the kids than your clashing, but it’s still destabilizing to go back and forth instead of just being consistent.

More important, though: While you’re in the moment and when

you’re fully aware that either way is truly fine — and when you can actually see that the kids are not sure which parent they’re supposed to heed -- the choice to stick to your “way” versus the other parent’s “way” reveals itself to be little more than just an ego thing. You’re digging in on “mine” instead of yielding to “ours.”

A decision to take turns would only formalize a “mine” mindset — and two parents can’t afford to serve ego above their partnership or their children’s wellbeing.

When you truly believe your co-parent’s way is wrong, as in,

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plished,” Vink said.

“Now, moving forward, just getting the state tournament whether it’s next summer or during the high school season won’t be enough for these boys.

T h e y know now that they can compete with anybody and they know how to win.”

Bench utility player Casen Barker walked away with the sportsmanship award after having a good tournament playing the final four games behind the plate while recording four hits and two RBIs throughout the weekend.

“He’s just a good kid who’s excited to play,” Vink said. “He’s great at what he does. There were a couple games where we sat him and he insisted that he wanted to keep the book because he wanted to do something. He was doing everything he could to show us he wanted to play. He ended up having a great tournament.”

There is a lot to like about the future of this Indians team. Out of the starters from the state tournament, they

only lose Ben Cooper.

The rest are all eligible to return next year.

“When you have 11 players coming back to a team that got second at state, you feel pretty good about that,” Vink said. “The future is very bright for Iola and American Legion baseball. I’m glad that I got to be a part of it the last two years.”

As the players and their parents walked to their cars after a long Sunday it wasn’t known who, including Vink as head coach, would be back next season or how far of a run they’d make next year.

All you could tell was this wasn’t the end.

Those players would make sure of that.

Iola 7, Doniphan County 6 After the the third inning things seemed hopeless. The Indians had given up four runs and had only gotten one back in return.

But, after the Doniphan County took a 5-1 lead in the top of the fourth, Vink took his team aside.

“My message to the boys was, anything that you really want,

whether it’s in baseball or life, anything that’s worth it isn’t going to come easy,” Vink said.

“And today it’s not coming easy but I promise if we stick together and keep doing what we do we’ll be fine.

Then we put four runs on the board and tied the game up.”

Doniphan County added on a go-ahead run in the top of the eighth but it was Splane who would have the last word as he drove home Calvin Delich to end the game.

Hays 7, Iola 4 Indians found itself in a fairly similar hold the next evening as the Indians trailed 4-1 after three innings.

They weren’t able to close it out, though the Indians got within a run in the top of the fifth but two more runs in the next inning proved too much to overcome as they slipped into the loser’s bracket.

Iola 8, Russell 3 The Indians hit the field with a renewed sense of purpose on Sunday morning. It was win or go home time and they respond-

ed as such, giving themselves a 4-1 lead after two innings.

Both teams laid quiet for a while but Iola drove in four insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth to stretch their lead to seven.

Russell attempted a comeback getting two across in the top of the seventh but it was nothing doing as the Indians pulled it together to get their third state tournament win.

Iola 14, Hays 10 If the Indians thought they got a great start in the game right before versus Russell, they were on a different level to start the first championship game versus Hays.

Eight unanswered runs crossed the plate in the first three innings, giving Iola just enough cushion to survive getting outscored 10-6 in the final four innings.

Iola gave up four errors but also recorded 18 hits with Derek Bycroft and Splane leading the way, recording four hits a piece.

Outfielder Isaac Vink celebrates after runs score in Sunday’s game versus Russell in Marysville. REGIS-

TER/TIMOTHY EVERSON

Royals: Victorious Continued from B1

Royals executed another trade before Monday’s deadline, acquiring Cabrera from the White Sox in exchange for minor-league pitchers A.J. Puckett and Andre Davis.

By the end, closer Kelvin Herrera worked around a self-inflicted bases-loaded jam in the ninth, retiring Mookie Betts for his 23rd save.

and poked a single to right field, loading the bases.

Shortstop Alcides Escobar tied the game with a single to right field, which prompted Red Sox manager John Farrell to insert Scott, a left-hander, to face Gordon. Scott missed with a sinker before grooving one in the strike zone.

As the day began, the

Preschool & Kindergarten Screenings for 2017 School Year

(Left) Utility player Casen Barker recieving his sportsmanship award from the umpires of Sunday’s gave versus Hays in Marysville. Barker recorded four hits and two RBIs throughout the tournament. TIMOTHY EVERSON/

Screening will be held at Mckinley Elementary School Wednesday, August 2 • 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. & Thursday, August 3 • 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

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Cabrera: Melky love Kansas City “Honestly, I wasn’t expecting this because I love the city,” he said. “I love the team.”

For the White Sox, it’s another move of regular players, trying to rebuild.

In the last year, they’ve traded starting pitchers Chris Sale and Jose Quintana, along with outfielder Adam Eaton, third baseman Todd Frazier, and relievers David Robertson, Tommy Kahnle, Anthony Swarzak and Dan Jennings.

Continued from B1

having a great year. He’s been here before. A lot of guys have seen him and knows the kind of personality he has — smiling and a happy-golucky guy that brings a lot of energy to the clubhouse so we’re excited to get him.”

With San Francisco, he was the MVP of the 2012 All-Star Game at Kansas City’s Kauffman Stadium.

Cabrera rejoins a few former teammates with the Royals - first baseman Eric Hosmer, shortstop Alcides Escobar, catcher Salvador Perez and manager Ned Yost.

“I played with Hosmer, Salvy, Escobar and I played for the manager Yost,” he said. “They treated me fair there.”

Cabrera said he enjoyed his two-plus seasons with the White Sox.

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“As we’ve made no secret about over the last several months, we’re preparing ourselves for the future,” Chicago general manager Rick Hahn said. “With today’s move, we were able to pick up another couple interesting arms for the organization.”

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