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By SUSAN LYNN susan@iolaregister.com

What if you gave $10 for a good cause, and you received $7 back as a tax credit? All of a sudden, you’re out only $3, but the good cause will reap the full gift.

That will be the rate of return for gifts made to the new Allen County Hospital through an 18-month giftgiving program funded by the Kansas Department of Commerce.

Iolans Karen Gilpin and Mary Ann Arnott and John Robertson of Thrive Allen County wrote theLuken proRegister/Richard posal for the taxRoy. credit grant. They Mules Pat and Pete pull an antique sickle bar mower piloted by Ray Whiteley of Le Whiteley was joined by Greg Gleue in cutting an 18-acre prairie hay field Tuesday. learned Friday of their success.

Calls to the 911 dispatch center average one almost every 10 minutes.

And while that may sound a little slow, played out over 24 hours a day and every day of the year, the total comes to 55,000.

“That’s what we received last year,” Angie Murphy, dispatch center director, told Allen County commissioners Tuesday morning.

The call total — she figures Register/Bob

By RICHARD LUKEN attached. The bar wasJohnson triggered half or more are for true emerDan Yuran brought this restored 1970 Elrichard@iolaregister.com Camino to Iola’s Chevelle Cruise-In Picnic Saturday. through a gear box engaged as its gencies — wasn’t the point of her LE ROY — Unlike the mecha- wheels roll. appearance, but the magnitude of nized behemoths of today, Ray With no mechanical engine to the number captivated commis- Whiteley’s mowing outfit was speak of, the only noise emanatsioners. considerably quieter. ing from his unit was from the Murphy was before commisHis “engine” — a pair of teeth of the seven-foot cutting bar sioners to request a 20 percent 1,200-pound mules — needed only rotating back and forth. increase theJOHNSON department’s bud- Springs By in BOB and is driven restore but weWhiteley still hadwas 18 neighbor cars an occasional break to from the sti-away,Joining get for 2012, up $126,000 over this cars bob@iolaregister.com — sometimes to an even betand more than 60 people,” said his fling summer heat as Whiteley and friend Greg Gleue, with year’s $490,000.

In the late 1950s, when most ter state than when they came Danny McKarnin, its organizer. traversed his way around an 18- own mowing outfit, another sickThe increase seemedtogethpretty offacre 12-year-olds were putting theprairie assembly “But, no mower one complained.

We of hayline. meadow. le bar pulled by a pair hefty . Murphy reasoned health er plastic models of airplanes “I“It’s just love cars,warm, always have,” the rain.” a little so we’veneeded Percheron draft horses. insurance will cost spent an additional and cars, Dan Yuran $15 on Yuran Saturday, while rain Even though some owners been said taking it easy,” Whiteley “We’re having some fun with and1941 another was pelted a$50,000 rundown Chevy. $6,000 When he Riverside Park and interkept their spiffy show cars un-kind said. “It’s our little hobby.” it,” Whiteley joked. “Greg’s expected Kansas Public Em- rupted, turned 16,for a sophomore in high but didn’t postpone, the der cover at home, “several came The mules were pulling White- of a wimp about it. He needs a | Page A5 fifth annual Chevelle Cruise-In in their everyday cars to take in school andSee oldCOUNTY enough to drive, ley’s antique sickle bar mower, See MOWING | Page A5 the car was ready to go.

Picnic. a small wagon with cutting bar See CHEVELLE | Page A4 Yuran, 65, lives in Bonner “The rain kept some owners

“It’s huge,” Gilpin said of what it can mean for the hospital’s Uniting for Excellence campaign to raise funds to buy equipment for the new hospital.

Almost 80 (AP) proposals were ATLANTA — Former submitted for the tax credit proAtlanta schools Superintendent gram.

Of those, only 27 were Beverly Hall knew about cheatfunded — none for original ing allegations on their standardized amounts. tests but either ignored them or “Wetowill $190,000, a to cut tried hidereceive them, according a from $250,000 we asked for,” Gilstatethe investigation. pinAn said.800-page report released If the other recipients don’tPress comTuesday to The Associated pletely use up their funds, they can

by Gov. Nathan Deal’s office be directed to the hospital’s efforts, through an open records request Gilpin showssaid. several educators reported cheating in their schools. But the report says Hall, who won the national Superintendent of the Year award in 2009, and other administrators ignored those reports and sometimes retaliated againstswooped the whistleblowers. ducks into the refuge Thetheyearlong while rains filledinvestigation nearly every shows Rattlesnake educators atCreek, nearlywhich four basin. dozenthe Atlanta elementary and feeds wetlands, was flowing middle schools cheated stanagain after not flowing foron months. dardized testsvery by little helping stu“There was drinking dents or changing the answers water,” Jones said, “Things have oncedry exams were handed in. been for so long.”

The investigators also a The rain comes at a found critical “culture fear, intimidation time.

Not of only will it be a boostand for retaliation” school district area farmersinasthe they prepare the over theforcheating allegations, grounds the fall wheat crop, which ledwildlife, to educators but also for countlesslying critabout the cheating or destroying ters and birds who bulk up for the fall andSee winter.

CHEATING | Page A5 Allen County residents remain under a water restrictions alert.

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Mowing effort recalls yesteryear Rains are welcomed

Rain doesn’t dampen Chevelle show

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — More than 5 inches of rain fell over the weekend in some parts of Kansas. In Iola, almost 2 inches fell, quenching dry plants, trees and grasses and putting smiles on faces upturned to feel the refreshing moisture.

The rains brought the parched Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in Stafford County back to life.

Barry Jones, a specialist at the refuge in Stafford County, says the basins there held no water until Rayrains Whiteley the began on Thursday and fell through Sunday.

Jones says more than 8,000

Temps for run Isaac spares South Florida, but is expected to gain strength in Gulf look inviting

By CURTIS MORGAN, CAMMY CLARK and SUSAN COCKING The Miami Herald

Panhandle to Louisiana, including the city of New Orleans, was under a hurricane watch.

KEY WEST, Fla. — Big but not At 11 p.m., forecasters said bad.

Isaac continued to move westTropical Storm Isaac huffed southwest after slipping just unand puffed but blew little down der Key West into the warm Gulf other than palm fronds, branches of Mexico. Its sustained winds and random trees. It frustrated remained at 65 mph, but it was exfliers with hundreds of canceled pected to strengthen. flights, sunk a few boats in the For South Florida, under a Keys and sparked scattered power flood watch through this evening, outages across South Florida, im- Isaac’s broad tail of rain could periling the chili-pepper-flavored continue to remain a headache. ice cream at one Homestead shop. But the storm largely amounted But there were no reports of seri- to what Miami-Dade Mayor Carous damage or flooding. los Gimenez called a practice run Unfortunately, Isaac was not for a region that dodged its first expected to remain meek. The hurricane strike since Wilma in Register/Susan Lynn National Hurricane Center ex- 2005. Forecasters had predicted it These the men sprawling are ready tomess leave of theirmight inhibitions at home as they participate in Friday night’s favorite pects hit the Keys as a Category 1 race, the drag race.

FromFlorida left to right are Matt Skahan, Brian Wolfe, Nic Lohman, David Toland and squalls that swept South hurricane. to morph into a wicked 100-mph Fred Heismeyer.

The race begins at 10:30 p.m. on the courthouse square.

“It’s a good thing. We prepared storm, possibly stronger, bearing for the worst,” Gimenez said. down on the Gulf Coast by Tues- “Obviously we’re not going to get day. Its target remained uncertain the worst. It’s a relief.” but a swath of vulnerable lowThough damage appeared to lying coastline from the eastern See ISAAC | Page A4

By SUSAN LYNN year a woman’s garter was trans- The Shirt Shop, 20 W. Jackson, susan@iolaregister.com ferred from one participant’s leg where participants will have a If you’ve got enough of it, Fri- to another. wide selection from which to day night is the night to let your “It’s better than a baton,” said choose. Doors open at 10 p.m. hair down.

David Toland, executive director Registration to participate One sure test is to participate of Thrive Allen County and one in the drag race is $5. That also in the “Drag Race” as a runup to of the organizers for Friday’s gains participants entrance to a the Charlie Melvin Mad Bomber events.

9:30 p.m. pre-party at the Thrive Run For Your Life race.

If you don’t have a thing to office, 12 W. Jackson. Tickets can

By RICHARD LUKEN Men and women alike are en- wear — no worries. be purchased in advance at the richard@iolaregister.com couraged to dress in a cross-genDresses, hats, purses, jewelry Thrive office or Friday night on A musical program that adder manner andsuch then “compete” and other accoutrements will be dresses issues as bullySee EGO | Page B6 in teams of four in a relay .

Last available at Elizabeth Donnelly’s ing, peer pressure and prejudice among teenagers will be presented to area middle- and high-school students Tuesday.

“Stand Up! Change Teen Statistics” will be shown at 9:30 a.m.

By JOE SNEVE and about 1:15 p.m. in the —Bowlus Since 1871 — joe@iolaregister.com Fine auditorium.

AtArts the Center bandstand Jim Garner, director When Brian Pekarek was hired The morning show will be in Thursday, July 7, 2011 8 p.m. as superintendent of the Iola PROGRAM front of Marmaton Valley’s high school district in February, he Star Spangled Banner ..................................................arr.

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A SixtiesisTime Capsule — medley .............................. arr. Jennings Admission free of charge.

Pekarek walks his talk. A naThe Washington Post — march ...................................John P. Sousa See STAND UP | Page A4 Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

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Teens stand up against bullying

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An anticipated field of a thousand runners and walkers, who will flee Iola’s downtown business district early Saturday as Charley Melvin did in 1905, can be thankful that Melvin chose to do his dastardly deed in the middle of the night.

Had the event being commemorated occurred in mid-day, participants would battle oppressive heat and humidity, with both forecast at the upper end of the discomfort scale during daytime Friday and Saturday. As is, they will run and walk in somewhat more inviting temperatures predicted for the low 70s by 12:26 a.m.

Saturday.

The race — many walkers will be out for a stroll — will cap activities that start late Friday afternoon and will go on throughout the evening. Included will be the much-awaited “drag race,” featuring some of the area’s finest men and women dressed in drag.

Chris Weiner at Thrive Allen County, co-sponsor with Allen County Crimestoppers for “The Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run for your Life,” said total of participants was approaching 450, with about 200 signed on for the 5-kilometer run. The walk will follow a 3-kilometer course.

“Registration, including probBOB JOHNSON ably a By fifth online, has really

picked up,” Weiner said Tuesday afternoon. As in the past, “we expect a lot of people to sign up Friday night.”

Cost is $12 for the walk. Runners’ fees are $14 for youth to age 17, $20 for adults and $17 each for members of teams.

Runners in the third annual event will aim for best times of 15.40.06 for males and 20.44.78 for females, set last year.

Sticks of “Melvin Dy-No-Mite” will be awarded the first three places for males and females in each of five ages groups, 15 and under, 16-30, 31-45, 46-60 and 61 and over.

All participants will break from in front of the post office.

Runners will follow a course that will take them on West to Washington, then Jackson, Jefferson and East to Cottonwood. They

New to the district

Faith brought back music teacher See TEMPS | B6 bob@iolaregister.com

Kristina (Johnson) Palmer has returned home to serve as the new music teacher at Lincoln and McKinley elementaries.

She grew up in Iola’s First Baptist Church, earned a degree from Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, Mo., and says her faith in God led her and husband Jonathan to Iola earlier this year.

After graduating from SBU, Palmer took a position teaching elementary music in Warsaw, Mo., had a boyfriend and figured she’d stay put.

The romance didn’t work out, Pekarek, but she did stay invisits Warsaw.

Brian center, with It was her particithe USD 257through board office. pation with an instrumental

Pekarek finds home at USD 257

Kristina Palmer

group that she met Jonathan Palmer, a fellow musician.

Things worked out, they married and phase two of forever in Warsaw seemed their future.

“We had a good church, good Barb and Marcy Boring at jobs, Geffert and there was nothing bad about Warsaw,” Kristina See PALMER | Page A4

Iola, KS

75 Cents Vol. 114, No. 212

By BOB JOHNSON bob@iolaregister.com

75 Cents

Iola, KS

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Poll: More back higher taxes for Social Security but if that would be the only way to go, I guess I’d have to be for it to preserve it. It’s extremely important to me. It’s most of my income.

— Marge Youngs 77-year-old widow, Toledo, Ohio

of money in 2033. At that point, Social Security will only collect enough tax revenue to pay 75 percent of benefits, unless Congress acts.

Lawmakers from both political parties say there is a good chance Congress will address Social Security in the next year or two — if the White House takes the lead. Yet so far, Social Security has not played a big role in the presidential election.

In previous polls, Democrats have typically scored better than Republicans on handling Social Security.

But the AP-GfK poll shows Americans are closely divided on which presidential candidate they trust to handle the issue.

Forty-seven percent said they trust President Barack Obama to do a better job on Social Security, and 44 percent said they trust his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney. The difference is within the poll’s margin of sampling error.

Charles McSwain, 69, of Philadelphia, said he trusts Obama because he thinks the president is more likely to stick up for the middle class.

“He at least gives the appearance of trying to help people that aren’t super rich, and Romney doesn’t,” said McSwain, who works part time selling real estate.

But Jeff Victory of Nashville, Tenn., worries that Obama doesn’t have

the stomach to cut benefits to help rein in the program.

“Barack has already shown he’s going to give anything free out to everyone he possibly can, so I’m going to have to go with Romney on that one,” said Victory, a 26-year-old electrician.

Romney has said he favors gradually increasing the retirement age, but he opposes tax increases to shore up Social Security. For future generations, Romney would slow the growth of benefits “for those with higher incomes.”

Obama hasn’t laid out a detailed plan for addressing Social Security.

But during the 2008 campaign, he called for applying the Social Security payroll tax to wages above $250,000. It is now limited to wages below $110,100, a level that increases with inflation.

Obama says any changes to Social Security should be done “without putting at risk current retirees, the most vulnerable or people with disabilities, without

slashing benefits for future generations and without subjecting Americans’ guaranteed retirement income to the whims of the stock market.”

Romney’s running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, has been a leading proponent in Congress of allowing workers to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal investment accounts. Romney has not fully embraced the idea, but Democrats are using it to accuse Republicans of trying to privatize Social Security.

Romney put Ryan on the ticket Aug. 11. The AP-GfK Poll was conducted Aug. 1620.

About 56 million people get Social Security benefits. Monthly payments average $1,236 for retirees.

The options for fixing Social Security fall into two broad categories — raising taxes or cutting benefits, or some combination of the two. But there are many options within each category.

For example, raising the retirement age is a benefit cut for future generations, because they would have to wait longer to qualify for full benefits.

Retirees now can qualify for full benefits at age 66, a threshold that is rising to 67 for people born in 1960 or later.

In previous polls, most of the options for addressing Social Security scored poorly among the public, which helps explain why

“Barack has already shown he’s going to

give anything free out to everyone he possibly can, so I’m going to have to go with Romney on that one.

— Jeff Victory, 26-year-old electrician Nashville, Tenn.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans say go ahead and raise taxes if it will save Social Security benefits for future generations. And raise the retirement age, if you have to.

Both options are preferable to cutting monthly benefits, even for people who are years away from applying for them.

Those are the findings of a new Associated PressGfK poll on public attitudes toward the nation’s largest federal program.

Social Security is facing serious long-term financial problems. When given a choice on how to fix them, 53 percent of adults said they would rather raise taxes than cut benefits for future generations, according to the poll. Just 36 percent said they would cut benefits instead.

The results were similar when people were asked whether they would rather raise the retirement age or cut monthly payments for future generations — 53 percent said they would raise the retirement age, while 35 percent said they would cut monthly payments.

“Right now, it seems like we’re taxed so much, but if that would be the only way to go, I guess I’d have to be for it to preserve it,” said Marge Youngs, a 77-yearold widow from Toledo, Ohio. “It’s extremely important to me. It’s most of my income.”

Social Security is being hit by a wave of millions of retiring baby boomers, leaving relatively fewer workers to pay into the system. The trustees who oversee the massive retirement and disability program say Social Security’s trust funds will run out

“ Right now, it seems like we’re taxed so much,

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By JENNIFER AGIESTA and STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press

Death toll from traffic accidents hits 56 BEIJING (AP) — A commercial van slammed into a truck today in northwest China, killing nine people and bringing the overall death toll to 56 in three big accidents on the country’s notoriously dangerous roads over the past two days.

The latest crash happened in Shaanxi province just after dawn, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

It did not immediately give any other details.

On Sunday, 36 people were burned to death when a double-decker bus rammed into a tanker loaded with high flammable methanol on another highway in Shaanxi, causing both vehicles to burst into flames.

Xinhua said 39 people were on the long-distance sleeper bus when it crashed, and that only three survived. It said the survivors were hospital-

ized, but didn’t describe their condition.

In another accident on Sunday, Xinhua said 11 people were killed and another was seriously hurt when a van crashed into a truck in southwest China’s Sichuan province. It did not give any other details The tanker had just returned to the highway after a rest stop when it was apparently rear-ended by the bus at around 2:40 a.m.

close to the city of Yan’an in Shaanxi, the official China News website said.

Xinhua photos showed the charred metal skeleton of the bus rammed up against the back of the tanker.

Road safety is a serious problem in China. According to Xinhua, poorly maintained roads and bad driving habits result in about 70,000 deaths and 300,000 injuries a year.

Afghani revelers beheaded — for dancing KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Insurgents beheaded 17 civilians in a Taliban-controlled area of southern Afghanistan, apparently because they attended a dance party that flouted the extreme brand of Islam embraced by the militants, officials said today.

The killings, in a district where U.S. Marines have battled the Taliban for years, were a reminder of how much power the insurgent group still wields in the south — particularly as international forces draw down and hand areas over to Afghan forces.

The victims were part of a large group that had gathered late Sunday in Helmand province’s Musa Qala district for a celebration involving music and dancing, said district government chief Neyamatullah Khan. He said the Taliban slaughtered them to show their disapproval of the event.

All of the bodies were decapitated but it was not clear if they had been

The victims were part of a large group that had gathered late Sunday in Helmand province’s Musa Qala district for a celebration involving music and dancing, said district government chief Neyamatullah Khan. He said the Taliban slaughtered them to show their disapproval of the event. shot first, said provincial government spokesman Daoud Ahmadi.

Information was only trickling out slowly because the area where the killings occurred is largely Taliban controlled, Khan said. The Taliban spokesman for southern Afghanistan could not be reached for comment.

Many Afghans and international observers have expressed worries that the Taliban’s brutal interpretation of Islamic justice will return as international forces withdraw.

Under the Taliban, who ruled the country from 1996 to 2001, all music and film was banned as un-

Islamic, and women were barred from leaving their homes without a male family member as an escort.

Helmand is one of the areas seeing the largest reduction in U.S. troops, as the force increase ordered up by President Barack Obama departs. The U.S. started drawing down forces from a peak of nearly 103,000 last year, and plans to have decreased to 68,000 troops in country by October.

One of the most worrying trends to accompany the drawdown has been a surge in attacks by Afghan forces against their international allies, and

another shooting came this morning, though it appeared to be accidental.

Two American soldiers were shot and killed by one of their Afghan colleagues in the east, military officials said, bringing to 12 the number of international troops — all Americans — to die at the hands of their local allies this month.

But Afghan officials said Monday’s attack in Laghman province was a separate case from the rash of recent insider attacks on international forces, because it appeared to have been unintentional.

The incident unfolded when a group of U.S. and Afghan soldiers came under attack, said Noman Hatefi, a spokesman for the Afghan army corps in eastern Afghanistan. When the troops returned fire and ran to take up fighting positions, an Afghan soldier fell and accidentally discharged his weapon, killing two American soldiers with the stray bullets, he said.

Maxine Cuppet

Congress hasn’t embraced them. But the AP-GfK poll forced people to make a choice: Raise taxes or cut benefits? Raise the retirement age or cut monthly payments?

Democrats, Republicans and independents all favored raising the retirement age over cutting monthly payments. But there was a big divide on raising taxes. Sixty-five percent of Democrats and 53 percent of independents supported higher taxes, compared with just 38 percent of Republicans.

Maxine Cuppet, 89, Savonburg, passed away Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, at Wilson Medical Center, Neodesha.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Savonburg Bible Church with burial at Mount Moriah, Savonburg.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel, Moran.

Memorials may be made to the Savonburg Library.

Online condolences may be sent to www.feuerbornfuneral.com

Man with local ties loses home in fire Carl Claus, a former employee at Utley’s Iola Auto Body, lost his home in a grass fire Thursday in rural Wilson County.

Claus, who lived in a mobile home east of Fredonia for 54 years, managed to escape the fire on his motorized scooter. He lost everything else, including his eyeglasses, dentures and hearing aid.

Claus, 83, has a number of health issues, said Donna Culver, a Red Cross vol-

unteer who traveled with fellow volunteer Mary Lacy to interview Claus following the fire.

He is living with his son in Neodesha until he can relocate to a permanent home, Culver said.

The prairie fire burned more than three square miles in Wilson County.

Those wishing to send assistance, or any other notes of support to Claus, can do so at 1222 N. 15th St., Neodesha, KS 66757.

Calendar Deadline: Notify the Register about calendar announcements by 7 a.m. Mondays in order to have your event listed in that week’s schedule. The calendar is published every Monday.

Today

Iola City Council meeting, 6 p.m., New Community Building, Riverside Park.

USD 257 school board meeting, 6:30 p.m., Iola High School lecture hall.

Tuesday

Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse commissioners’ room.

American Red Cross office, 9-11:30 a.m., Emprise Bank.

Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Allen Community College Student Center meeting room.

Allen County Historical Society Board of Directors meting, 7 p.m., ACHS Museum, 20 S. Washington Ave. Knights of Columbus, 7 p.m., Knights of Columbus Room in the St. John’s Parish Center.

Container Gardening presentation, 10 a.m., at the Iola Public Library.

Wednesday

Prenatal classes, 6 p.m., Mary Ellen Stadler conference room at Allen County Hospital, to register for a session call Sharilyn Lamb at (620) 365-1054.

Thursday

Rotary Club, noon, The Greenery.

Take Off Pounds Sensibly No. KS 880, Iola, 5 p.m. weigh-in, 5:30 meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church, 118 W. Jackson.

Farmers Market, 5:30 p.m., southwest corner of Iola square.

Friday

Senior Citizens Card Club potluck dinner, 5:30 p.m., senior citizens center, 204 N. Jefferson.

Sept. 3

Moran Public Library Board of Directors meeting, 5 p.m., at the library.

Iola Community Theatre board meeting, 7:30 p.m., Warehouse Theater, 203 S. Jefferson, open to public.

Sept. 4

Moran City Council, 7 p.m., Moran City Hall.

Coming events Saturday

Colony Day activities, all day.

Heat returns Tonight, clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

Tuesday, sunny. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs 90 to 95. East winds 5 to 10 mph.

Tuesday night, clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.

Wednesday, sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds around 5 mph.

Wednesday night and Thursday, mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Highs near 90.

Temperature High yesterday Low last night High Saturday Low Saturday High Friday Low Friday

82 61 80 61 84 69

High a year ago Low a year ago Precipitation 72 hours ending 7 a.m.

This month to date Total year to date Def. since Jan. 1

Sunrise 6:48 a.m.

98 68 1.83 2.22 17.56 7.99

Sunset 7:58 p.m.

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Monday, August 27, 2012

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State should pay cash instead of issuing bonds for upgrades A new visitor center will be built in the basement of the Kansas Statehouse and additional work will be done on the Capitol grounds at a total cost of about $17.4 million, the AP reported Saturday.

Where will that money come from?

The good news is that $5 million is on hand from savings realized in the renovation project, which has already cost $320 million and won’t be completed until next year. The other $12.5 million will come from stealing another $7.5 million from Kansas Department of Transportation funds and $5.4 million from new state bonds, which will be retired over the next 10 years or more with tax funds.

This three-part finance plan was proposed by the Brownback administration.

Earlier this year, Gov. Sam Brownback said it was time to stop stealing money from KDOT and using it in lieu of general fund appropriations.

This case is different, for reasons thus far unexplained.

Well, it isn’t really different.

There would be plenty of money in next year’s general fund to pay for such a small project if the Legislature hadn’t slashed the state’s income tax by a record amount and made other revenue-reducing decisions.

Issuing bonds is borrowing the money. Interest will be owed. The interest cost will be many thousands more than paying cash. Stealing the money from KDOT is taking money that motorists paid as fuel taxes with the understanding that it would go to maintain and construct highways. This is, as the governor has tacitly agreed, a kind of legal fraud.

Using KDOT funds as a piggy

bank may allow the Legislature to slash taxes on the rich and still keep the budget in balance, but the practice will have the long-term effect of turning the first-rate highways of Kansas into a second-class system.

Welcome to tomorrow’s pothole network.

WHEN THE STATE’S lawmakers assemble for the 2013 session in January, their first assignment should be to make certain that the state’s books really balance: That there is enough money coming in from taxes to pay what they intend to spend. Dedicated taxes, such as the tax on highway fuels, should only be spent on highways, airports and other KDOT budget items. Money needed for the rest of the state budget should be collected through other taxes, without fudging.

Lawmakers also should amend tax cuts the legislature approved this winter and insert reforms that will provide enough revenue to fund K-12 schools as they were funded before the recession and allow the state universities to operate without a tuition increase, as well as fund the rest of the budget adequately.

These are modest goals which seek only to return to a level of excellence in education that was agreed upon by lawmakers and administration alike five short years ago.

Kansas is not an impoverished state. It is not a high-tax state. The cry of poverty heard from the administration is not based on facts, but on ill-founded, untested ideology.

The Brownback administration has pinned a poor-boy label on the Sunflower State that it does not deserve and should loudly reject.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Today in history From the Associated Press Today is Monday, Aug. 27, the 240th day of 2012. There are 126 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Aug. 27, 1962, the United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew past Venus in December 1962.

In 1770, German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in Stuttgart.

In 1859, Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful oil well in the United States, at Titusville, Pa. In 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa blew up; the resulting tidal waves in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait claimed 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra.

In 1942, the Times of London published an editorial calling on the British government to promote the production of penicillin, the first mention of the antibiotic by a newspaper.

Ten years ago

President George W. Bush met at his Texas ranch with Saudi Ara-

bia’s ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan; a White House spokesman said Bush told the Saudi diplomat he had not yet decided whether to attack Iraq. A Tokyo court acknowledged for the first time Japan’s use of biological weapons before and during World War II, but rejected demands for compensation by 180 Chinese who claimed they were victims of the germ warfare program.

Five years ago

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation after a controversy over the firings of nine U.S. attorneys.

One year ago

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Akin row shows GOP’s social-fiscal rift TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Every now and then, an event awakens the ever-slumbering tensions between the Republican Party’s two core wings: social conservatives and corporate interests.

A Missouri congressman’s comment about rape and pregnancy was one such moment, and it came just as Republicans were hoping for a united front at their convention to nominate Mitt Romney for president.

A full-blown rupture — such as the one at the 1992 convention, when a defeated candidate declared a national “culture war” — seems unlikely. But even a modest squabble between key party factions might raise concerns in a tight presidential race.

Romney joined other mainstream Republicans in denouncing the Aug. 19 remarks by Rep. Todd Akin, the party’s Senate nominee in Missouri. Akin said rape victims can generally avoid pregnancy because “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

Romney called Akin’s comments “offensive and wrong.” He unsuccessfully urged Akin to quit the Senate race.

Like many other top Republicans, Romney stopped short of criticizing Akin’s stand on abortion, as opposed to his comments about rape and conception. Akin opposes abortion in all cases, including rape.

Romney would allow abortions in instances of rape and incest.

He showed no interest, however, in picking a fight with his party’s most ardent abortion opponents, a crucial source of GOP votes and volunteers. And he downplayed the fact that his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, has often joined Akin in anti-abortion measures, including some that sought to differentiate between forcible and non-forcible rapes.

It’s hardly surprising that Romney, who’s running mainly on economic issues, is trying to maintain a quiet balance between fiscal and social conservatives.

The Republican Party cannot win national elections without an alliance between the two groups.

Corporate titans know they must hold hands with anti-abortion crusaders to elect politicians who will keep government regulations and taxes low. Evangelicals and other social conservatives realize they must join ranks with business executives — even if they would never mingle at a country club — to elect champions of public prayer, abortion limits and so on.

Romney, who made a fortune heading the private equity firm Bain Capital, comes from the corporate wing. He seems less convincing when talking about the social issues that animate many on the right.

As Massachusetts governor, Romney supported abortion rights, gun control and gay rights.

He abandoned those positions as he prepared to run for president

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AP news analysis Charles Babington in 2008, but many “movement conservatives” remain wary of him.

Romney had to struggle for their support during the Republican primaries, when Newt Gingrich briefly depicted him as a “vulture capitalist.” Romney’s most persistent rival was Rick Santorum, a hero to anti-abortion activists and home-schoolers.

Now that the primaries are over, and unaffiliated voters are crucial this fall, Republican leaders would rather keep the abortion debate to a simmer, not a boil.

Last week, the party’s platform committee approved a provision that backs the “Human Life Amendment,” a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban abortion, with no exceptions for rape or incest. The Republican platforms in 2004 and 2008 did the same. That might surprise some GOP-leaning centrists, who rarely hear Republican presidents or congressional leaders make loud, full-bore pushes to outlaw abortion.

“Ronald Reagan used to talk about the party’s three-legged stool: fiscal conservatives, social conservatives and national-security conservatives,” said Dan Schnur, a former Republican adviser who now teaches political science at the University of Southern California.

“At best, it’s a three-legged stool,” Schnur said. “At worst, it’s three scorpions in a bottle.”

The party’s factions usually coexist peacefully, he said, but “the Akin matter makes it a lot harder.”

The visibility and prominence of national-security conservatives have waned in recent years, partly because of widespread disillusionment with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But business-oriented fiscal conservatives remain vitally important, as do social conservatives, who play big roles in swing states including Iowa, Florida and North Carolina.

The Akin episode ignited new tensions between the groups.

Mike Huckabee, the Baptist minister and former Arkansas governor, ripped into establishment Republicans for trying to force Akin from the Senate race.

Huckabee, who ran for presi-

Corporate titans know they must hold hands with anti-abortion crusaders to elect politicians who will keep government regulations and taxes low. dent in 2008, likened the National Republican Senatorial Committee to “union goons” trying to kneecap rivals.

Romney needs as much peace between the factions as possible.

Corporate conservatives provide a disproportionate amount of funding for the GOP. Casino owner Sheldon Adelson, for instance, has pledged more than $10 million for groups opposing President Barack Obama. The wealthy industrialist brothers David and Charles Koch have donated and helped raise millions more.

Religious conservatives, meanwhile, provide thousands of foot soldiers to knock on doors and make phone calls for candidates they support.

Akin’s remarks gave Democrats new ammunition to accuse the GOP of encouraging zealots who operate on the political fringe. Democrats note, for example, that convention speakers in Tampa will include Donald Trump and others who still question whether Obama was born in the United States.

“The Akin case shows that the Republican establishment will pander to the social conservatives until they become a liability,” said Democratic strategist Doug Hattaway. “But the Wall Street/ country club set still rely on the right-wing religious vote to prop up the party at the polls.”

Even some veteran Republican operatives question why Romney maintains ties with Trump, whom they view as a distracting glory hound.

A hard, clean break with Trump, however, might alienate a small but fervent group of conservatives who, for now, are in Romney’s corner. In a presidential race that conceivably could turn on a few votes in one or two states, the loss of a tiny faction — led

by Donald Trump, Todd Akin or someone else unloved by the Republican establishment — could prove crucial.

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the picnic,” McKarnin observed. “We had a good time, good food from Jamie Rourk’s barbecue and we saw Don Nichols’ classic cars,” warehoused at 224 N. Washington.

The 18 cars that showed up weren’t far off McKarnin’s estimate of 25 for the fifth annual event. An aside was a downtown shopping spree organized for women coming from out-of-town.

“Mom (Jeannie McKarnin) always has something for the ladies to do,” McKarnin said. “Owners of the downtown shops have gotten to know about it and do some special things for them.”

be minimal, school and other closures in MiamiDade, Broward and Monroe counties remained in place. Emergency managers urged residents to head out cautiously, if at all, so workers could clean up debris and check equipment.

“We always have people get injured or killed poststorm,” Broward Emergency Operations Director Chuck Lanza said.

Outside Key West’s ramshackle Schooner Wharf Bar, a bearded bicyclist pedaled by, wearing a rain poncho and hooting a sentiment about Isaac widely expressed across the Keys, where locals shrugged off the threat.

“It’s not a hurricane,” the cyclist called out. “It’s a windy day in paradise.”

The single damage report to the Monroe County Sheriff ’s Department: a tree that fell onto the stairs of an unoccupied home on Big Pine Key. At St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Key West, home of the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, where locals have long gone to pray to be spared from hurricane devastation, the Rev. John Baker said, “All we know is, it wasn’t what it could have been. I’m so grateful.”

Isaac left scattered power outages in its wake: In Miami-Dade, 9,730 customers were without power

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Mr. Chevelle in this part of the country.

Not only has he had a lifelong affection for his own cars and their care, he also worked 40 years restoring others’ autos. He retired three years ago to pursue his passion, restoring Chevelles.

The first Chevelle came out in 1964.

“I have 40,” from fully restored and ready to show to others just retrieved and towed to his huge shop — 56 by 150 feet — in Bonner Springs.

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Rain didn’t keep several Chevelle owners from bringing their cars to Iola Saturday.

All 40 were manufactured between 1966 and 1972. The body style changed in 1973, but Yuran prefers the older version.

“I’m looking for 1964, ’65 and ’68 models” to complete his run of early Chevelles, Yuran said. None of the Chevelles are for sale.

Yuran’s connection to cars came from his father, who was a mechanic. His brother specialized in body work. After a stint in the Army ending in 1969, Yuran worked for a dealership as a painter and then fulfilled his dream by purchasing his own shop.

He was so taken with cars that sometimes he broke a date with his future wife, Janice, “because I needed to finish up something with a car,” he said with a smile.

They’ve been married 40 years and have three children and three grandchildren.

Chevelles aren’t his only passion.

Saturday Yuran drove a special 1970 Chevy El Camino to Iola.

“All of its numbers are matching,” a rarity for components of a vehicle 42 years old after it has been rebuilt.

H Palmer said. “In March, Jonathan and I felt like we weren’t where we needed to be.

“We prayed about what we should do and we felt that God was calling us back to our families,” she added.

Jonathan grew up in Kansas City, but Iola seemed a better fit for the young family.

Kristina cashed in sick leave from 10 years of teaching at Warsaw, which provided money to tide them over in the move to Iola. The Palmers came this way “without jobs, just on faith that this is where God wanted us,” Kristina said.

They moved in with her parents, Charlie and Roberta Johnson, at a time when Charlie was battling the last stage of cancer. He died Aug. 1.

“I didn’t realize Dad was as bad as he was until we moved here,” Kristina said.

“I spent the last two months with him and probably got to know him better in that time than any other. We had just an awesome time together.

“We knew God wanted us here and then the pieces of the puzzle started falling in place,” particularly after her mother noted there was a job opening in USD 257 to teach music at Lincoln and McKinley elementaries.

ANOTHER BIG piece of the puzzle came into place when Jonathan was hired as youth minister at First Baptist, an endeavor he shares with Kristina.

The youth group has grown from a single teenager — it’s for youths 12 to 18 — to 10 in less than two months. The Palmers also are worship leaders for Sunday morning services, which entails developing and leading the musical portion of services.

While she gives God the glory for the twists and turns that led her and Jonathan to Iola, Kristina said former Iolans Sean and Brenda Lee also had a role.

The Lees led youth programs at First Baptist when Kristina was a teenager and, she said, were instrumental in her deciding to pursue a career in music

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and attend Southwest Baptist University.

“Sean also was very important to me spiritually,” she said.

The Lees today are affiliated with a church in Roswell, N.M. As the music instructor at two of USD 257’s elementaries, Kristina said her mission is to give students basic music skills and di-

rect them in preparation for a Christmas program.

“We may have another program, but the one at Christmas is the only one for sure right now,” she said.

An aside Kristina finds intriguing is that some of her students are children of friends she had at Iola High, where she graduated in 1997.

“That is helpful in my first year,” she said. “Every once in a while, I say to a student, ‘Yeah, I knew your mother.’”

THE PALMERS, married two years, have a 14-monthold son, Logan.

“When we lived in Warsaw, Mom and Dad would get up to see us and Logan once in a while,” Kristina recounted. “It’s nice for Mom to get to see Logan every day.”

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The hour-long show is based on stories and experiences of more than 90 teens and will delve into sensitive topics such as drug abuse, drinking, teen sex and violence.

The musical will include a number of original sketches.

Bullying, a topic “that seems to have reared its ugly head recently,” is a major point of emphasis, said Susan Raines, Bowlus executive director.

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at 10 p.m. Sunday, the latest update that Florida Power & Light reported on its website. In Broward, 6,250 customers were without power and 2,300 Palm Beach residents lost electricity, too.

It also grounded some 760 flights in and out of South Florida: 550 at Miami International Airport and 160 flights at Fort Lauderdale. Key West’s airport was closed all day, forcing cancellation of about 50 flights.

In Haiti, meanwhile, the death toll continued to grow and officials were still assessing widespread damage.

At least eight deaths were reported in Haiti.

The deaths included a young man killed in a landslide in DonDon, a town in northern Haiti, and a 10-year-old girl who was killed when her home collapsed north of Port-auPrince.

In the tourist town of Jacmel, in Haiti’s southern peninsula, the damage was pronounced. Houses were still standing but crops, and livelihoods,

were washed away.

Isaac’s encounter with Haiti weakened the storm and, tracking near the coast of Cuba for much of Sunday, it failed to pull itself into a hurricane before it approached South Florida. Top wind speed in the Keys was a 70 mph gust measured at 2 p.m. at the Smith Shoal Light about 11 miles northwest of Key West. Gusts of 66 mph were recorded at Virginia Key in Miami and 64 mph at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale.

But the worst was over pretty early, as Isaac’s track shifted to the west and the storm accelerated.

Rather than getting stronger as it moved off Cuba, Isaac weakened a bit as its center skirted just south of Key West after a meandering journey across the Caribbean.

David Zelinsky, a meteorologist at NHC, said the storm hugged Cuba closely enough to disrupt its formation but it will fuel up on the warm Gulf of Mexico and there is nothing in the atmosphere likely to beat it down.

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Raines looked through scores of presentations about bullying and other teen issues before finding information about “Stand Up!” “This just stood out because of how the material is presented,” Raines said.

“They’re not preaching, but they’re doing it in a theatrical mode.”

Study guides also have been distributed to area teachers, school counselors and administrators.

Other literature is available for students, either in

paper form or online.

The musical is presented by Reach, Educate, Inspire (R.Ed.I.), a non-profit arts and education foundation dedicated to fostering communication, providing hope and offering resources and facts to teens on a number of issues they face each day.

“One of our goals is to simply get the conversation started,” Raines said.

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Red Devils dominate home meet

By JOCELYN SHEETS jocelyn@iolaregister.com

Allen Community College Red Devil runners owned their home course Friday. In the second annual duals meet, now ACC King’s Sandwich Duals, the Allen cross country teams dominated in the first race of the 2012 season.

Starting the season in a shortened distance gave the Red Devils along with other teams a good tune-up for the college cross country season. In college, women run a 5-kilometer race and the men go a full 8K distance. On Friday, the Allen races were two miles and three miles.

With three teams running in the women’s competition, Allen placed seven runners in the top 10, winning with 15 points. Hesston finished second with 53 points and Coffeyville was third with 67 points.

Gabby Ruiz won the women’s race for the second year in a row in 12 minutes, 10.99 seconds. Allen runners went to the front of the pack from the starting gun and never backed off.

Danae McGee ran second with a time of 12:14.81 followed by Tsianina Whitetree in 12:35.61.

Debra Kime placed fourth in 12:52.52, with Kim Boyle crossing in fifth place in 12:59.80.

“I wasn’t surprised much by the front three on the team. I kind of expected that, however I wasn’t so sure we’d perfect score the meet let alone make it look fairly easy,” said Vince DeGrado, ACC head coach.

Emily Steimel was eighth in 13:21.10 and Kim Cooper finished 10th in 13:33.88. Sydney Owens was 16th in 14:44.37 and Bianca Ramirez placed 19th in 14:58.89.

Mahalia Soap ran unattached, finishing 17th in 14:51.19.

DeGrado said Ruiz, McGee and Whitetree looked comfortable and at ease throughout. He said he was pleased with the performances of Kime, Boyle and Steimel and “I believe they will only get better with each week of training.”

ON THE MEN’S SIDE, there were five teams and going headto-head with each of the other

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Up front from the opening gun, Allen Community College’s Danae McGee (22), Gabby Ruiz (16) and Tsianina Whitetree (15) lead the pack of women runners in Friday’s ACC King’s Sandwich Shop Duals. Ruiz won the two-mile race followed by McGee and Whitetree. The Red Devil women won the cross country meet. four, Allen won the duals.

“This was a great start for us competition-wise. It’s a meet that isn’t too big but not too small where we can’t get some confidence going into next week’s meet,” DeGrado said of the ACC men. “We closed very strong as a team, which was something we didn’t do well last year.”

Overall, Allen scored 22 points for first place, followed by Highland with 67 points, Coffeyville with 78 points, Butler with 83 points and Hesston with 111. Dual scores were: Allen 17, Butler 46; Allen 15, Coffeyville 48; Allen 18,

Hesston 45; Allen 17, Highland 44.

Tegan Michael, who finished second a year ago, won the men’s race for Allen in 15:36.17 with teammate Josh Whittaker right behind in 15:37.87. Kyle Schauvliege came in fourth in 15:43.13.

Garrett Colglazier led the second grouping for the Red Devils as he finished seventh in 15:58.61.

Evan Adams was eighth in 16:03.86, followed by Brock Artis in ninth at 16:05.93. Jake Spence was 12th in 16:28.30, Ryan Pulsifer placed 15th in 16:38.80, Patrick Rachford was 18th in 16:49.47 and Morgan Tucker was 20th in

16:58.38.

Running unattached were Quentin Fowler and Gerald Christian finishing 31st and 32nd, respectively, in 17:31.44 and 17:38.18.

“What I loved about Tegan’s race was even when things weren’t looking good for him, he found a way, and that is what champions do. Josh was a big surprise because he doesn’t think he’s a good runner but he finally showed me what I felt he had all along,” DeGrado said.

DeGrado said Schauvliege was Allen’s top freshman as he led the race midway after making a big

move at the 1.5-mile mark.

“The simple fact he made that move has me excited about this young man’s future. Garret stepped up and moved throughout the race. Evan labored with a back issue. Brock ran very well for his first college race,” DeGrado said.

Allen’s runners go back to work this week preparing for Saturday’s J.K. Gold Classic in Wichita.

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Today Jr. College Golf Allen at ICC Dave Dennis Invitational, Independence Tuesday High School Volleyball Iola 9th at Parsons, 5 p.m.

Independence, Columbus, Fort Scott at Iola JV, 5 p.m.

Marmaton Valley, Crest, Madison at Yates Center Wednesday Jr. College Volleyball Butler at Allen, 6:30 p.m.

Jr. College Soccer Allen women at Butler, 7:30 p.m.

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Tegan Michael (3) shows strong form in Allen Community College’s King’s Sandwich Shop Duals Friday. Michael was the No. 1 runner for the Red Devils and won the three-mile cross country race on the ACC campus. Evan Adams (2) finished eighth and the Red Devils claimed first place as a team.

Lady Cubs take fourth, Fillies go 1-3 at tourney

By JOCELYN SHEETS jocelyn@iolaregister.com

LACYGNE — Iola High’s Fillies had growing pains to open the 2012 season. Humboldt High’s Lady Cubs had a growth spurt.

Both teams played in Saturday’s volleyball tournament hosted by Prairie View High, essentially the same tournament they played in last year at Central Heights High School. Then the Fillies beat the Lady Cubs twice, including the seventh-place match.

Saturday had the young Lady Cubs and the young Fillies in the same pool again.

Humboldt moved through its pool play with 2-1 mark, which put the Lady Cubs in the semifinals. Burlington defeated Humboldt 259, 25-7 in the semifinals, then the Lady Cubs

dropped a 25-22, 26-24 decision to place fourth in the tournament.

“I was very pleased with our performance.

The girls played together as a unit and were very scrappy. We learned a lot about ourselves today,” said Stephanie Splechter, Humboldt head coach.

Iola dropped its first two matches in pool play to Wellsville and Humboldt, then notched a 25-21, 26-24 victory over Central Heights. The Fillies fell to host Prairie View 25-20, 25-16 to end their run in the tournament.

“It was tough to start out the season with a tournament. We had a lot of nerves in the first match. I attribute that to it being our first match of the season as well as being such a young team,” said Emily Sigg, Iola head coach.

The Fillies were beaten by Wellsville 25-11,

25-8. Emery Driskel had two kills and one service ace. Addie Haar downed one kill.

Against Humboldt, the Lady Cubs defeated the Fillies 25-15, 25-15. Iola got two kills each from Driskel and Breanna Stout and Katie Thompson served up one ace.

“The girls had a lot of confidence going into this match and we played our game,” said Splechter of the Lady Cubs going up against the Fillies. “This was a big win for us.”

Sheri Middleton delivered seven kills and two blocks at the net for the Lady Cubs and Breanne Kline downed seven kills. Anna Setter was credited with nine set assists. Delancey Umholtz came up with five digs. Kline, Umholtz and Kayle Riebel each had one service ace.

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Crest at Pleasanton High School Volleyball Iola, Fort Scott at Prairie View, 4:30 p.m.

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Jr. High Football IMS jamboree, 6 p.m.

Friday High School Football Cherryvale at Iola, 7 p.m.

Northeast-Arma at Humboldt Chetopa at Marmaton Valley Sedan at Yates Center Southern Coffey County at Burlingame Saturday Cross Country Allen at J.K. Gold Classic, Wichita, 9 a.m.

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Bankrupt Kodak to sell film divisions

By TIFFANY HSU Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Eastman Kodak — once one of the world’s best-known brands, now bankrupt and struggling to compete — is putting its film divisions up for sale.

Remember those little rolls in the yellow canisters? Those photo machines at Six Flags laden with evidence of your roller coaster-induced screams?

Kodak doesn’t want them anymore.

The Rochester, N.Y.-based company is offering its personalized imaging and document imaging businesses, which include “traditional photographic paper and still camera film products” as well as 105,000 photoprinting kiosks and the document-scanning branch.

The sale will also loop in Kodak’s event imaging venture, which provides souvenir photos at theme parks and other venues.

Kodak did not disclose how much it hopes to make off the sale.

But if the company has its way, the deal will go through in the first half of 2013.

The sale, along with “continued cost-reduction initiatives, curtailment of its legacy liabilities, and the monetization of the company’s digital imaging patent portfolio, will be significant milestones toward completing the company’s reorganization and emergence from Chapter 11,” the company said in a statement.

Kodak filed for bankruptcy in January, battered by liquidity constraints and rivals who were much further ahead in the digital photography race. Now the company is wrapped up in the auctioning of more than 1,000 of its patents and crafting a new strategy focused on products such as printers.

Ethanol quotas questioned Should fuel get priority over food?

By RONALD D. WHITE Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — The worst U.S. drought in more than half a century has rallied critics of the federal renewable fuel standard, which will reserve about 40 percent of the nation’s corn crop for ethanol production this year.

Critics have long questioned the commitment of a growing share of a food source for fuel use. But the calls for change have grown louder because the widespread drought has killed more than 50 percent of the corn crop, driving prices to record levels — and U.S. ethanol is made mostly from corn.

To avert a possible domestic and international food crisis, several groups have urged changes to the fuel standard or at least a temporary waiver of the ethanol quota, which annually requires more ethanol be included in the nation’s fuel production.

Among them are members of Congress, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, and the American Petroleum Institute.

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Poor and vulnerable groups in developing countries are hard hit by high and volatile prices of the agricultural commodities they depend on for their primary daily caloric intake.

— Shenggen Fan, International Food Policy Research Institute

The International Food Policy Research Institute has recommended the U.S. immediately stop using corn to make ethanol for fuel “to prevent a potential global food price crisis.”

“Poor and vulnerable groups in developing countries are hard hit by high and volatile prices of the agricultural commodities they depend on for their primary daily caloric intake,” said Shenggen Fan, director general of the think tank, based in Washington.

In letters to the Environmental Protection Agency, 156 members of the House of Representatives and 26 senators requested a temporary waiver of the ethanol quota.

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With the worst drought in 50 years, the USDA has cut the nation’s corn crop estimate 13 percent from 2011, to the lowest production since 2006. conditions continue to push corn yields lower and prices upward,” the lawmakers wrote, “we ask you to adjust the corn grainethanol mandate ... to reflect this natural disaster and these new market conditions. Doing so will help to ease supply concerns and provide relief from high corn prices.”

The EPA director has the right to grant such a waiver, and White House press secretary Jay Carney recently told reporters that the Obama administration is mulling over such a move.

Each call for action on the renewable fuel standard brings a strong response from powerful lobbies such as the National Corn Growers Association and other agribusiness interests and the Renewable Fuels Association. All contend that corn ethanol is important to ensuring American’s energy independence and protecting U.S. companies and jobs.

The real problem, said Brooke Coleman, executive director of the Advanced Ethanol Council, “is our dependence on foreign oil. The (renewable fuel standard), which drives American-made fuel into the marketplace, is part of the solution.”

Jim Greenwood, chief executive of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, argued that “waiving the federal renewable fuel standard even for one year will produce instability in the program for several years, causing uncertainty for companies investing in advanced biofuels and for farmers growing nextgeneration energy crops.”

Under the Clean Air Act, the renewable fuel standard requires a minimum amount of biofuels be included in the U.S. fuel

supply. For 2012, the quota is 13.2 billion gallons of ethanol, or nearly 10 percent of estimated gasoline consumption for the year.

The amount will rise to 13.8 billion next year.

Supporters say corn ethanol is making a difference in fuel supplies, gasoline prices and pollution.

Every gallon of ethanol in U.S. fuel tanks reduces the amount of oil the U.S. needs to import. U.S. dependence on foreign oil has dropped from a high of 60 percent in 2005 to about 46 percent now, they note.

But some experts say those claims discount the value of other changes in America’s energy picture.

The decline in oil imports is because of the increased output of U.S. crude, not ethanol, said Bruce Bullock, executive director of the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University.

“With the amount of oil being produced in the U.S. now, the whole ‘dependency on foreign oil’ argument for corn ethanol is moot,” Bullock said.

U.S. oil production has risen nearly 22 percent since 2005. Domestic production is expected to reach 6.7 million barrels a day in 2013, up from 6.2 million in 2012, according to the Energy Department.

Growth in U.S. oil production has been outpaced by an even bigger boom in domestic natural gas, experts say.

Fleets such as the 2,200-vehicle Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus system have proven that natural gas is a reliable transportation fuel.

The MTA retired its last diesel bus in January 2011 and has logged 1 billion miles on natural gas.

Circumcision pluses outweigh risks CHICAGO (AP) — The nation’s most influential pediatricians group says the health benefits of circumcision in newborn boys outweigh any risks and insurance companies should pay for it.

In its latest policy statement on circumcision, a procedure that has been declining nationwide, the American Academy of Pediatrics moves closer to an endorsement but says the decision should be up to parents.

“It’s not a verdict from on high,” said policy coauthor Dr. Andrew Freedman. “There’s not a onesize-fits-all answer.” But from a medical standpoint, circumcision’s benefits in reducing risk of disease outweigh its small risks,

said Freedman, a pediatric urologist in Los Angeles.

Recent research bolstering evidence that circumcision reduces chances of infection with HIV and other sexually spread diseases, urinary tract infections and penis cancer influenced the academy to update its 13-year-old policy.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Convention has estimated circumcision costs range from about $200 to $600 nationwide. Coverage varies among insurers and several states have stopped Medicaid funding for circumcisions.

The new policy was published online today in Pediatrics. It comes amid ongoing debate over whether circumcision is medically

necessary or a cosmetic procedure that critics say amounts to genital mutilation.

Circumcision involves removing foreskin at the tip of the penis. The procedure can reduce germs that can grow underneath the foreskin, and complications, including bleeding and infection, are rare, the academy says.

Despite the U.S. decline, about half of baby boys nationwide still undergo circumcision, or roughly 1 million each year. The country’s overall rate is much higher than in other developed nations, but U.S. rates vary by region and are higher in areas where it is a cultural or religious tradition, including among Jews and Muslims.

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Depression clouds her perspective Dear Carolyn: How do I stop the “Woe is me!” voice in my head? My best friend is expecting, and another good friend engaged. I’m going through a rough divorce and major depression (I’m being treated). Their happy news makes me feel terrible about myself, which also makes me feel terrible. I want to be happy for them. I just don’t know how. — Ending the “Why me?”

Answer: You’re in treatment (yay for you!) so you probably know this: Depression puts everything through the “It’s all about me” funnel. Your friends’ happiness underscores your failures; their struggles are one more thing to worry about; your own bad news proves nothing in your life goes right; your good news proves that even good news can’t cheer you up; the bad weather is just the cosmos piling on; the sunshine is the cosmos flipping you the bird, rubbing

Tell Me About It Carolyn Hax beauty in your face. It is relentless.

But, more important, it’s not true. It’s a deceptive filter through which you receive (and everyone else with depression receives) the random, unrelated messages of the outside world.

When you aren’t depressed, bad things don’t suddenly become good, but you’re able to see them as the isolated incidents they are, as opposed to elements of a vast conspiracy of pain.

Even if you know this — or just take my word for it — that won’t automatically render you able to cheer for your friends, but it’s a start. When you’re forced to process other people’s milestones, keep reminding

yourself that neither bad feelings nor good ones are permanent. Celebration is a moment, as is grief. Everyone gets to happy points through miserable points of their own.

If you find that hard to believe, then force yourself to recall the times these friends have leaned on you.

“Happily ever after” isn’t something that actually exists; it’s just lazy storytelling.

I suppose it’s theoretically possible for someone to get through life without genuine suffering (and not be a psychopath) — but would you even want to be that person, or be close to that person? Who has never felt emotional pain, who can’t sympathize with it, and who will never really know how good it feels to feel good?

This is not to glorify suffering but instead to celebrate the transience of all emotional states.

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your friends’ happy news, it’s okay to concentrate on the small steps of getting through your divorce, depression and days, without apology. The better and more carefully you take those steps (particularly in taking care of your basic health, like diet, exercise and rest, but also in placing an occasional, even scheduled call to your friends to wave the flag for them), the better you will feel about yourself. Just keep moving.

The divorce will eventually be behind you, and the depression, and the low points associated with both — and they will be even if you can’t conjure any mental image of this future besides a gray horizon, so keep reminding yourself of that, too.

Write to Carolyn Hax, Style, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071, or tellme@washpost.com. Subscribe at www.facebook. com/carolynhax.

Hormone imbalance lowers blood sodium Dear Dr. Donohue: I have been diagnosed with inappropriate antidiuretic hormone and have been told to restrict my fluid intake to 1.5 liters (1.59 quarts) per day. What causes this syndrome? What are the short- and long-term consequences? Do I count foods prepared with liquids, such as oatmeal? — G.H. Answer: Most people have never heard of antidiuretic hormone, also called vasopressin or arginine vasopressin. It comes from the pituitary gland at the base of the brain. It preserves body-fluid balance by regulating urine volume.

If the body is low on fluids, ADH secretion diminishes urine production, and body fluid levels rise. If the body has too much fluid, ADH production drops off, urine output increases and body fluid levels drop.

Inappropriate ADH is the situation where the body has more than enough fluid, but ADH secretion continues, and body fluid reaches high levels. Urine production has been shut down.

The expansion of body water dilutes the blood sodium concentration. Low sodium leads to headache, confusion, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting and, in extreme cases, coma. With proper treatment, longterm consequences are minimal and few.

Causes of the syndrome include lung, ovary and pancreatic cancer; multiple sclerosis; neuropathy; some medicines; infections such as pneumonia, tuberculo-

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sis and meningitis; strokes; congestive heart failure; and severe digestive-tract inflammation. These are common illnesses, making inappropriate ADH common. As with all illness, sometimes a cause cannot be found.

A reduction of fluid intake is the first step in treatment. If you’re not making progress, shown by a rise in blood sodium, then you have to adopt stricter fluid restriction. Measure you urine output for 24 hours. Your intake should be 500 ml (16.9 ounces, about 2 cups) less than that amount. Even the most solid of solid food has fluid in it. You don’t have to consider that amount of fluid in a stew. You should in foods like soups.

If fluid restriction isn’t improving the blood sodium level, medicines can be used. Demeclocycline is one. Tolvaptan is another.

Most importantly, treatment of the underlying

cause is the best approach, if an underlying cause has been found.

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Red Devils falter on court CHANUTE — Going 1-3 was not the start Allen Community College’s Red Devils expected to have to the 2012 volleyball season.

“We struggled to maintain in matches. We can play competing to 12 to 18 points but need work on defeating people,” said Jessica Peters, ACC head coach.

“We have a lot to improve upon.”

On Friday, the Red Devils opened the Neosho County Community College Invitational with a 25-23, 25-18, 25-18 loss to the hosting Panthers. Peters said the enemy in the match was not the panthers but “the Red Devils competing against themselves.”

The next match was a hard one to take for the Red Devils. Allen got up on Coffeyville winning the first two sets — 25-20, 2519 — then lost the third set 26-24. Coffeyville took the momentum and ran with it winning 25-14, 15-13 for the match victory.

“We left Coffeyville confused early but the third set allowed the momentum to swing their way. We made a lot of errors. We came home after the first day of play with 16 service er-

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We were ready, but anything that could go wrong, did.

— Jessica Peters, ACC head coach

rors,” Peters said.

Peters said the Red Devils showed back up in Chanute Saturday with new goals, fresh attitudes and a healthy warm-up. “We were ready, but anything that could go wrong did as Butler took advantage of us at the net,” Peters said.

Butler downed Allen 2511, 25-12, 25-17.

“This was a major eyeopener to our team against the team that will be our first conference match Wednesday at home,” Peters said. Butler Community College comes to Allen Wednesday. Match time is 6:30 p.m.

Finishing the tournament against Marshalltown, Iowa, the Red Devils lost the first set. Peters said she changed the lineup moving Sidney Keith to the middle, Danielle Goodman to the outside and Cheyanne Miller to the right side.

“The Devils found chemistry and won the next two sets,” Peters said. Marshalltown tied the match up two sets each and it came down to a fifth set.

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“We wanted to be the first team to eight points and push to finish but a slow start had us down 6-4. Hayley Mertens went on a serving run and we were able to get to 9-6. We played sideout to sideout until Adriee Munoz served for us and Danielle Goodman had a kill to give us the match,” Peters said.

Allen won 19-25, 25-6, 2514, 22-25, 15-10. Goodman had 17 kills in the match and Mertens had 12 kills and 17 digs. Keith had eight kills while Tayler Shook led the team with 19 digs.

Jacqui Oritz put up 23 set assists and had 16 digs. Munoz had 16 assists.

For the four matches, Mertens had 50 kills and 50 digs. Goodman had 24 kills in the tournament and 30 digs. Keith delivered 22 kills and Sierra Morgison had 17 kills.

Randi Billings made 20 kills at the net plus had seven solo blocks and six assisted blocks. Cheyanne Miller had one solo block and eight assisted blocks.

Munoz had 65 set assists and Ortiz had 64 assists.

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Red Sox defeat Royals BOSTON (AP) — Kansas City shortstop Alcides Escobar is proud of what he’s done at the plate so far this season. It was his glove that had him feeling lousy on Sunday.

Escobar booted two ground balls, leading to three unearned runs, and the Royals lost 8-6 loss to the Boston Red Sox. “It’s hard for me right now,” Escobar said, quietly sitting at his locker with his head down. “I try to play hard with my defense. I know I can hit right now. I feel really bad right now, two errors in one game is bad for me.”

Escobar has hit well in his second season with Kansas City. Entering Sunday, he was the second-best hitting shortstop in the majors, batting .304 to trail only New York’s Derek Jeter.

“You don’t see that very often,” Royals manager Ned Yost said of Escobar’s rough day. “We struggled to catch the ball today and we had to pay for it. They were both tough plays, the first one skipped up on him and the second was hit hard.”

Escobar’s first error led

to the go-ahead run in the sixth. The second paved the way for two unearned runs in the seventh that put Kansas City in a 7-4 hole.

James Loney hit a tying single in his Boston debut and Jacoby Ellsbury drove in the go-ahead run as the revamped Red Sox bounced back from a nine-player trade and a 12-inning loss on Saturday night.

Will Smith (4-6) allowed five runs — four earned — and nine hits in five-plus innings for Kansas City.

A day after he was the only major leaguer coming to Boston in a deal that sent Josh Beckett, Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford, Nick Punto and more than $250 million in salary to the Los Angeles Dodgers, Loney went 1 for 5. Pedro Ciriaco had three hits, scored twice and drove in two runs for the Red Sox, who won for just the fourth time in 12 games.

Pedro Beato (1-0) allowed two runs in twoplus innings but got the win on the same day he was called up from TripleA Pawtucket. Mark Mel-

ancon pitched the ninth for his first save.

Lorenzo Cain hit a three-run homer as the Royals scored four times in the fourth to take a 4-2 lead.

Ciriaco hit a solo homer in the fifth, then Ellsbury singled, advanced on a grounder, stole third and scored on Loney’s single to center — his first career AL hit. Ellsbury’s RBI single in the sixth gave the Red Sox the lead.

It was 7-4 in the seventh when the Royals loaded the bases with nobody out to chase Beato. Craig Breslow came in and struck out Johnny Giavotella before Eric Hosmer hit a sinking liner that right fielder Cody Ross lost in the sun.

Billy Butler scored from third to make it 7-5.

Tony Abreu singled in another run, then Cain struck out looking to end the threat.

Dustin Pedroia added a solo homer in the eighth for Boston.

Boston starter Felix Doubront struck out seven in five innings, but was charged with four runs and six hits.

Chiefs struggle in preseason game

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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel (7) hands off to running back Jamaal Charles (25) in the first quarter against the Seattle Seahawks in Friday’s NFL preseason action at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Romeo Crennel was anything but the jolly head coach he so often seemed during training camp, stepping to the podium and tritely dissecting a dismal performance by his Chiefs.

Just down the hallway, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll couldn’t have been happier.

Both of them had just watched rookie quarterback Russell Wilson trash the Kansas City defense for the better part of three quarters, throwing for 185 yards and two scores while leading Seattle to a 44-14 rout of Kansas City in a preseason game Friday night.

“It wasn’t a good showing. I thought we’d do better than we did,” said Crennel, who was elevated to head coach after serving on an interim basis late last season.

“We need to figure out what we do well with this team,” he said. “The regu-

lar season is just right around the corner. We need to see what we can do.”

That was precisely the reason Wilson got the start Friday night.

Carroll wanted to see what the third-round draft pick could do with the No. 1 offense. He’s been competing with Matt Flynn, the former Green Bay backup who signed in the offseason, and had been impressive in the second half of wins over Tennessee and Denver.

When he wasn’t hooking up with one of his wide receivers or handing off to Robert Turbin, who started in place of the injured Marshawn Lynch, the savvy Wilson was gouging the Chiefs for big gains on the ground.

He scrambled twice for 58 yards, both times helping to set up scores.

“We got everything we wanted to get done tonight,” Carroll said. “We were able to work in all phases. You’re

had a dig.

Rossville got past Humboldt in the third-place match. Middleton lined up seven kills and Kline had six kills. Setter was cred-

ited with 12 set assists. K. Riebel had three blocks and Kline had two blocks.

Setter had two service aces. Kline, K. Riebel and Middleton had one ace.

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Humboldt overcame an eight-point deficit in the first set against Central Heights. The Lady Cubs turned things around to win 25-23, 25-18. Setter had eight set assists and two ace serves. K. Riebel had five kills and three blocks at the net and Middleton made two blocks and hit five kills.

Kline put down three kills and made one block.

Middleton and K. Riebel each had two service aces.

Umholtz had one kill.

Wellsville dealt out a 256, 25-21 setback to the Lady Cubs. Middleton delivered three kills and two blocks and K. Riebel had three blocks and one kill. Kline and Umholtz each had a service ace.

Iola recorded its first win of the season over Central Heights after losing to Humboldt.

“We got on a roll against Central Heights and started earning our own points.

That proved to the girls that they have the ability and they just need to use that ability to take charge every game,” said Sigg. “We have the talent. We just have to learn to use it.”

Driskel pounded down 12 kills for the Fillies against Central Heights. Haar had four kills and Stout had

three kills. Kyra Moore were credited with 12 set assists and Emma Piazza put up five assists. Thompson served one ace.

The Fillies lost to Prairie View next. Haar downed four kills and Stout had two kills. Thompson downed two kills and served one ace.

“We sat for three hours before we played the semifinal match with Burlington.

We were lethargic. This was the only bad volleyball we played,” said Splechter.

K. Riebel delivered five kills and made three blocks at the net and Middleton had two kills and two blocks. Kline had a kill and Setter had one assist. Setter, Kline, Umholtz, K. Riebel and Megan Hudlin each

Fillies’ JV plays in home tournament Iola High’s junior varsity volleyball team went 3-5 in four matches at the annual IHS Junior Varsity Invitational Saturday.

The Fillies defeated Humboldt 25-10, 25-17 then split with Prairie View winning the first set 25-17 and losing 25-22. Iola lost to Girard 25-20, 25-23 and to Central Heights 25-22, 25-23.

fortunate when you get that opportunity.”

The Chiefs looked much like the Seahawks in their first preseason game against Arizona, but they struggled last week at St. Louis, and new offensive coordinator Brian Daboll’s attack simply fizzled against Seattle, going three-and-out on three of its first four possessions.

Matt Cassel was 19 of 34 for 168 yards and a touchdown, but also was intercepted by Seattle safety Earl Thomas, who returned it 75 yards for a third-quarter score.

Even the special teams were a disaster for Kansas City, which watched Golden Tate zigzag 95 yards on a punt return with 2:12 left in the third quarter. The touchdown gave Seattle a 44-7 lead and sent the sparse crowd at Arrowhead Stadium streaming for the exits.

“Obviously we have to play better all around. It’s disappointing to come out

here and play like we did,” Cassell said. “I’m glad it’s the preseason right now.”

The Seahawks are unbeaten in the preseason, and looked downright unbeatable against a Chiefs defense that was among the best in the NFL at the end of last year.

Of course, the Chiefs were playing without starting safety Kendrick Lewis, who is out with a shoulder injury, and cornerback Brandon Flowers, who has missed several weeks with a heel injury.

Wilson led the Seahawks to field goals on their first three possessions before finding tight end Kellen Winslow alone for a 21-yard touchdown pass early in the second quarter.

The Chiefs answered with their best drive of the night, going 80 yards and scoring on a short touchdown pass from Cassel to Dexter McCluster. Wide receiver Dwayne Bowe caught his only pass on the drive.

Japan wins LL World Series SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Noriatsu Osaka hit three homers and tripled, and Japan limited Tennessee’s potent lineup to two hits in a 12-2 victory Sunday in the Little League World Series

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title game.

Starter Kotaro Kiyomiya struck out eight in four innings and added an RBI single for the boys from Tokyo.

The game ended in the fifth after Osaka’s third homer made it a 10-run game.

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