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County agency Health hears to do more eager budget requests By BOB JOHNSON bob@iolaregister.com

DeeDee Martin told Allen County commissioners Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Department wanted to expand services By it offered in Allen, AnBOB JOHNSON derson,bob@iolaregister.com Bourbon and Woodson counties. Calls to the 911 dispatch center Martin, co-interim administraaverage one almost every 10 mintor for nursing, and Sara Frederutes. ick,And co-interim administrator while that may sound afor litfinance, gave commissioners a tle slow, played out over 24 hours brief look into the future, as well a day and every day of the year, as brochure theatotal comesoutlining to 55,000. services available. “That’s what we received last Martin said among services the year,” Angie Murphy, dispatch agency soon may lab center director, toldoffer Allenwas County commissioners Tuesday morning. The call total — she figures half or more are for true emergencies — wasn’t the point of her appearance, but the magnitude of the number captivated commissioners. Murphy was before commissioners to request a 20 percent increase in the department’s budget for 2012, up $126,000 over this year’s $490,000. This Hear pretty Iola!” The month’s increase“See, seemed will Friday atreasoned the community heftybe . Murphy health building at will Riverside Park. insurance cost an additional The meeting will $50,000 and another begin $6,000 with was audience with aEmseexpected participation for Kansas Public ries of quirky questions| Page rewardSee COUNTY A5 ed with prizes. The featured speaker is Susan Raines, executive director of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, who will talk about the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Bowlus. She will present a short slide

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work, blood tests that to date were available only at a doctor’s office or Allen County Hospital. Cost would be $40. “We want to promote healthy living,” said Martin. That’s a piggyback with Thrive Allen County’s theme, and meant to be, Martin said. The agency is working with Thrive on a grant to create a community drive to promote healthy living. Components, she said, would Register/Richard Luken be to monitor health Mules Pat andcommunity Pete pull an antique sickle bar mower piloted by Ray Whiteley of Le Roy. Whiteley was trends encourage eat-an 18-acre prairie hay field Tuesday. joinedand by Greg Gleuehealthy in cutting ing and exercise.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Former Atlanta schools Superintendent Beverly Hall knew about cheating allegations on standardized tests but either ignored them or tried to hide them, according to a state investigation. An 800-page report released Tuesday to The Associated Press by Gov. Nathan Deal’s office through an open records request shows 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 reattached. The bar was triggered ports and sometimes retaliated through a gear box engaged as its against the whistleblowers. wheels roll. The yearlong investigation With no mechanical engine to Register/Richard shows educators at nearly Luken four speak of, the only noise emanatIolan Steve Orcutt surveys the charred remnants of a vacated farmhouse owned by his sister and dozen Atlanta elementary and ing from his unit was from the brother-in-law, Betty and Bob and other buildings were middle schools cheated on stanteeth of the seven-foot cutting bar Becker of Kansas City. The farmhouse destroyed Thursday’s grass fire in southern Allen County. dardized tests by helping sturotating back in and forth. dents or changing the answers Joining Whiteley was neighbor once exams were handed in. and friend Greg Gleue, with his The investigators also found a own mowing outfit, another sick“culture of fear, intimidation and le bar mower pulled by a pair of retaliation” in the school district Percheron draft horses. By RICHARD LUKEN 3200 Street. glected. over the cheating allegations, “We’re having some fun with richard@iolaregister.com Several other area homes were which The fire the two-story led turned to educators lying it,” Whiteley joked. “Greg’s kind In between a pair of tragedies saved in the fire, thanks in large about home to rubble. A stone foundathe cheating or destroying of a wimp about it. He needs a Whiteley 70 years apart was an idyllic Ray part to the efforts of volunteer tion, masonry siding and ash are See CHEATING | Page A5 MOWINGin | Page A5 piece See of farmland southern firefighters from Humboldt and all that remain. Allen County. other departments and quickSteve Orcutt, Betty Becker’s The farmstead, owned by Bob thinking and helpful neighbors. brother, surveyed the damage, and Betty Becker, was destroyed Unoccupied structures such snapping photos to send to his in Thursday’s raging grass fire as the empty home and barns at sister and brother-in-law so they that burned more than 2,500 the Becker farm, had to be neSee FARM | Page A5 acres across a two-mile swath of

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By RICHARD LUKEN richard@iolaregister.com

LE ROY — Unlike the mechanized behemoths of today, Ray Whiteley’s mowing outfit was considerably quieter. His “engine” — a pair of 1,200-pound mules — needed only an occasional break from the stifling summer heat as Whiteley traversed his what way around anthe 18show and tell is new at acre prairie Bowlus, suchhay asmeadow. the sound syslittle warm, so we’ve tem“It’s andadrapes, along with disbeen taking it easy,” cussing the progress ofWhiteley a new said. “It’s our little hobby.” fountain. The mules were pulling WhiteMary Martin will discuss the ley’s antique sickle bar mower, upcoming Buster Keaton celebraa small wagon with cutting bar tion.

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Donna Houser will speak on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce highlighting the events around town, such as Farm City Days and football games.

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Teens get a statistics lesson By RICHARD LUKEN and ALLISON TINN

Area middle and high school students sat through a different type of lesson Tuesday. It was noisy and lively. Sometimes funny, sometimes not. A group of singers performed “Stand Up! Change Teen Statistics” at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. “Stand Up!” is a musical focused on issues facing teens, such as pregnancy, bullying, self mutilation, drugs and alcohol abuse. Register/Susan Lynn The musical presented These men arewas ready to leave by their inhibitions at home as they participate in Friday night’s favorite Reach, Educate, Inspire, nonrace, the drag race. From aleft to right are Matt Skahan, Brian Wolfe, Nic Lohman, David Toland and profit arts and education founFred Heismeyer. The race begins at 10:30 p.m. on the courthouse square. dation from Chicago, dedicated to enhancing communication among teenagers. The show was created after interviewing more than 60 students of all agesBytoSUSAN share real-life LYNN situyear a woman’s garter was trans- The Shirt Shop, 20 W. Jackson, ations.susan@iolaregister.com Register/Allison Tinn a ferred from one participant’s leg where participants will have The themegot of enough the musical actors from R.Edi. perform for area middle and high school If you’ve of it, was Fri- The to another. wide selection from which to to literally “stand up” and notyour be- students, day night is the night to let at the Bowlus Fine said Arts Center Tuesday. Theat musical “It’s better than a baton,” choose. Doors open 10 p.m. come part of the statistics. hair down. focuses on the executive issues teens face eachRegistration day such as bullying, David Toland, director to participate Teen bullying drug and drugs, One sure test isand to participate of Thrive Countyand andpeer onepressure. in the drag race is $5. That also teenAllen pregnancy STAND Page A5 in the See “Drag Race”UP! 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 Men and women alike are en- wear — no worries. be purchased in advance at the couraged to dress in a cross-genDresses, hats, purses, jewelry Thrive office or Friday night on der manner and then “compete” and other accoutrements will be See EGO | Page B6 in teams of four in a relay. Last available at Elizabeth Donnelly’s

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Meltdown will go live Discovering By ALLISON TINN allison@iolaregister.com

nutrition and circuit training. Incentives are offered for parFall and winter are usually ticipants who stick with the prothe seasons when people put gram. on a few extra pounds. It’s Planning is still in progress — cold, Since 1871 — people eat heavier foods and for the healthy living program. At the bandstand Jim Garner, director stayThursday, indoors more. Thrive Allen Damaris Kunkler is its director. July 7, 2011 8 p.m. County will help battle that tenRight now, her main focus is dePROGRAM dency its fourth annual Al- veloping a website that J.P. willSousa give Starwith Spangled Banner ..................................................arr. lenAmericans County Meltdown. participants the opportunity to We — march .......................................... Henry Fillmore The meltdown is an eighttrack not only their own goals Rock, Rhythm and Blues — medley ...................... arr. Jack Bullock week, county wide— march program and progress but also allJ. of AlArmy of the Nile ...................................Kenneth Alford beginning Sept. 10. The goal is len County . Begin of the Beguine ...................................................... Cole Porter forInvercargill participants lose................................................... a few Any personal Alex information — to march Lithgow pounds, form healthier logged inJohn is private. Hymnortobetter, the Fallen.................................... Williams/Sweeney lifestyles. “No one else will be able to see Men of Ohio — march ............................................. Henry Fillmore With a $10 registration your weight or hours of Jennings activity, A Sixties Time Capsule —fee, medley .............................. arr. participants get a T-shirt and ac- ...................................John but it will take all the informaThe Washington Post — march P. Sousa cess to classes such as dancing, tion people in and calculate Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for log Friday evening. for Allen County as a whole,” Kunkler said.

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Temps for run look inviting

Bridge engineering to start By BOB JOHNSON bob@iolaregister.com

An anticipated field of a thousand runners and walkers, who By BOB will flee Iola’sJOHNSON downtown busibob@iolaregister.com ness district early Saturday as Replacing a bridge over InCharley Melvin did in 1905, can dian Creek just west of Geneva be thankful that Melvin chose to will cost about $740,000, Bill King do his dastardly deed in the midtold Allen County commissioners dle of the night. Tuesday. Had the event being commemo“That’s the engineer’s estirated occurred in mid-day, parmate,” said King, director of ticipants would battle oppressive Public Works, of the project that heat and humidity, with both isn’t expected to be done for two forecast at the upper end of the or three years. discomfort scale during daytime Discussions about the Geneva Friday and Saturday. As is, they bridge and one west of Humboldt will run and walk in somewhat over Owl Creek, referred to as more inviting temperatures prethe Hegwald bridge because of a dicted for the low 70s by 12:26 a.m. nearby neighbor, have cropped up Saturday. several times, but construction of The race — many walkers will either awaits Kansas Department be out for a stroll — will cap activof Transportation funding. ities that start late Friday afterKing wants to prepare now for noon and will go on throughout the Geneva bridge, which has the evening. Included will be the been in the hopper for years. much-awaited “drag race,” feaCommissioners approved an turing some of the area’s finest engineering contract for cost plus men and women dressed in drag. $7,200, not to exceed $65,000. Also, 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 probably a fifth online, has really

King said geology work would cost about $7,000 and the county would be responsible for acquiring right of way. The county’s 2013 budget contains about $420,000 in the special bridge fund. “The state (KDOT) will get involved financially when construction starts,” said. picked up,” King Weiner said Tuesday afternoon. As in the past, “we exJOE HURLA, 360toEnergy pect a lot of people sign up EnFrigineers, Lawrence, said tracked day night.” energy from Cost savings, is $12 for the courthouse walk. Runimprovement projects doneto with ners’ fees are $14 for youth age American and 17, $20 for Recovery adults and $17Reinvesteach for ment (federal stimulus) funding, members of teams. was $11,700 for year. Runners in the thepast third annual Thatwill exceeds guaranteed savevent aim for best times of ings of just under $8,000, he noted. 15.40.06 for males and 20.44.78 for Hurla set pointed out that since females, last year. savings guarantees, Stickshad of exceeded “Melvin Dy-No-Mite” 360 satisfied the measurement will had be awarded first three and verification places for malesrequirements and females of in its engineered savings contract. each of five ages groups, 15 and under, 16-30, 31-45, 46-60 andA6 61 See BRIDGE | Page 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

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Influencing children a big reward

the 8 Wonders Pekarek of Iola area finds home at USD 257 By ALLISON TINN allison@iolaregister.com

SNEVEplace Iola can By be aJOE wondrous joe@iolaregister.com for people young and old, Becky When Brian Pekarek was hired Nilges notes. as superintendent of the Iola Just how wondrous is up school district in February, he for debate, one Nilges hopes to saw an opportunity to “reinvigospark with the “8 Wonders of rate” USD 257. the Iola Area” campaign. With a focus on academic The promotion coincides with achievement and public transparMarci Penner’s presentation of ency, Pekarek hopes he can furher travel guide “The Wonders ther success for the district and of Kansas Guidebook.” the more than 1,300 students relyPenner, director of the Kaning on it. sas Sampler Foundation, crePekarek walks his talk. A naated the guidebook from the 8 | Page A5 WondersSee of PEKAREK Kansas campaign from 2007 to 2008, in which Kansans voted on unique, historic See WONDERS 75 Cents| Page A6

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The new third grade teacher at McKinley elementary is Sherise Maness, but she is not new to the Iola school district. Maness taught at Jefferson Elementary for four years but decided to take three years off when she had her son, Michael. Maness graduated from Emporia State University with a bachelor’s degree in education. She grew up in Iola and though she attended classes in Emporia she never left her home town. “I would commute back and forthPekarek, every day,” she said. Brian center, visits with The 257 drive was office. worth it for the USD board Maness because teaching had been her passion for as far

Sherise Maness

back as she could remember. “I had a teacher who had a big influence of me,” she said. “I wanted to do that for someone else.” She enjoys with at Barb Geffert andworking Marcy Boring the younger kids but said she is careful not to treat them See MANESS | Page A6

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Concealed carry class is Sept. 22 A daylong concealed carry handgun class is at 7:30 a.m., Sept. 22 in the Allen County Courthouse assembly room in the basement. The class is geared to educate and qualify participants who wish to carry a concealed firearm. The class is also open to anyone wanting to become more familiar with the use of handguns and safety issues related to shooting, as well as storing and cleaning a handgun. The class consists of an

introduction to firearms, basic care and maintenance, legal issues, use of deadly force, handgun manipulation, followed by a written test and qualification course on the range. The class is mandatory for those who wish to obtain a concealed carry permit, but is open to all who are interested in these topics. Registration costs $75. Those with questions should contact the Allen County Sheriff ’s Department at 365-1400.

Nursing home news Iola Nursing Center

Kirby Byers, Iola, visited Marilyn Byers. Ruth Ann Yoder, Garnett, Dora Beachy and Barbara Stewart, Mapleton, visited Lila Church. Charles and Kathryn Tilman, Humboldt, visited Elmer Nichols. Elton and Myrtle Francis and Michael and Marsha Metters entertained residents on Sunday. Windsor Place

Eldon Wright stopped by to perform several musical numbers for residents last week.

Thelma Manbeck was visited by Beth Prock, Richard Manbeck, Sherry Manbeck, Shildow Caudell, Ruth Caudell, Mary Clay Clyde and Marilyn Manbeck. Elizabeth Compton was visited by Finrey Compton and Mary Compton. Leroy Ewing was visited by Jadyn Keel and Jastin Keel. Jean Capell was visited by Polly Sarver. Iola Middle School students will stop by a few times this week to play games and spend time with residents.

Residential care news Guest Home Estates

Bettey and Richard Weidner and Michael Conger, Topeka, visited Althea Buckle. Betty Meadows, Iola, visited Fayette Walters. Tara Gardens

Plans are taking shape for Assisted Living Week Sept. 9-15. A balloon liftoff will be at 5 p.m. Sept. 9. Lloyd Houk of Moran will sing afterward, followed by a cookout at 6 o’clock. Families are asked to bring a salad or dessert. Visitors during the

week were Don and Maryann Rehmert, Mindy Rehmert, Fred Nicholas and Austin Rehmert. Visiting Mae Morris were Tamara, Scott, Tonya and Tabi Graham. Visiting Johnie and Ithyl Newman were Tamara, Scott and Tonya, Tracy and Loki. Glenda Creason and Vinnie Wille visited Joan Creason. Mark, Carolyn and Hana Westgate visited Helen Wells. Visiting Lois Heinrich were Judy and James Heinrich, Glenda Creason and Frances and George Poffenbarger.

Special election settles House race TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Topeka physician still leads a Republican primary race for a Kansas House seat following a special election for a single polling place where some voters had received the wrong ballots. The Topeka CapitalJournal reports Tuesday’s special election left

Shanti Gandhi 46 votes ahead of former naval and U.S. State Department officer Dick Jones with more than 4,100 ballots cast. Gandhi led after the state’s Aug. 7 primary, but some voters at the Light of the World Christian Center had received the wrong ballots. Officials expect to certify the results today.

Ed funding trial nears end TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A three-judge panel is set to hear final arguments in a lawsuit by parents and school districts challenging the way Kansas funds public education. Today’s hearing was expected to last all morning in Shawnee County Dis-

trict Court. Attorneys for a coalition of 54 school districts and parents filed suit in 2010. They contend the state has failed to live up to its promises to increase K-12 funding as ordered by the Kansas Supreme Court in 2006.

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Convention hits high gear Ann Romney: Mitt ‘will not let us down’ By CALVIN WOODWARD and DONNA CASSATA Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Republican National Convention is finally in fullthroated roar, cheering presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s name at every turn in a long-sought show of unity and mocking the man he is out to defeat in November. A soft-sided portrayal of the Republican candidate as husband and father, painted by his wife on the stage in a direct appeal to women, combined with a parade of gleeful Obama-bashers Tuesday as the GOP seized its moment after days of worry about the hurricane that simultaneously roared ashore in Louisiana — well out of sight of the gathering, and mostly out of mind for the night. The convention’s keynote speaker, the unpredictable New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, issued a broad indictment of Democrats as “disciples of yesterday’s politics” who “whistle a happy tune” while taking the country off a fiscal cliff. “It’s time to end this era of absentee leadership in the Oval Office and send real leaders to the White House,” he said. “Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to put us back on the path to growth and create goodpaying private-sector jobs again in America.” Romney made his debut at the convention two days before his own speech, rousing the crowd into cheers as he took the stage briefly to share a kiss with his wife after she spoke. Ann Romney’s prime-time speech was in large measure an outreach to female voters as she declared her husband “will not let us down” if elected president. Her tone was intimate as she spoke about the struggles of working families: “If you listen carefully, you’ll hear the women sighing a little bit more than the men. It’s how it is, isn’t it? It’s the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.” Mrs. Romney’s mission was clear. For all the hundreds of speeches he’s given and the years he’s spent

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Ann Romney waves to the crowd after finishing her speech at the second day of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Tuesday.

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It’s time to end this era of absentee leadership in the Oval Office and send real leaders to the White House. — N.J. Governor Chris Christie

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reaching this moment, Romney remains largely inscrutable, a man in a business suit whose core remains a mystery to most of the nation. And he consistently lags behind President Barack Obama among women in polls. Republicans have a little more than two months to change that and build upon his greatest perceived strength, as an economic fixer, in an election that by all indications is tight. Elbowing in on the Republican’s big week, Obama summoned a large campaign crowd of his own, 13,000 on the campus of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo., and tried to convert their boos for the Republicans into Election Day results for him. “Don’t boo, vote,” Obama said when his reference to the GOP agenda brought derision from the crowd. “That’s the best response. Vote and get some of your friends to vote.” Despite the respite from the preoccupation with Isaac, the storm continues to cast uncertainty into a convention that scrubbed the first day of events out

Neosho Falls news Neosho Falls’ annual parade will begin on Main Street at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Head north over the bridge to the city park for the annual bean feed beginning at noon. Crochet lessons are starting at the Senior Center. If interested call (620) 963-7260 or 963-2592. There was a great group at church Sunday. The Rev.

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Kinzle, Kristin and Josh Winner, Maicy and Henry, and Chuck Shafer; from Altoona, Teresa (Tippie) Crawshaw, Alfred and Paul; from LaHarpe, Shelby Miller and Spencer and Kimberly Ivy and Jayna; from Savonburg, Darrell Walters; from Fredonia, Damon and Dae Walters, Karly and Dean; from Colony, Christopher and Kathleen Ivy; from Kincaid, Diana and Gene Townsley; from Blue Mound, Kelley Jackson; from Chanute, Tesa Knowles, Brett, Aaron, Ryan and Taylor; from Fort Scott, Sheryl Miller and Ava and Dale and Charlotte Johnson; from Girard, John and Kristy Tippie, Tyler, Alexandria, Rianne and Aislinn DeGruson; from Pittsburg, David Tippie; from Galena, Michael Tippie; from Topeka, Daniel and Heather Wilson

and Sean; from Lawrence, Todd and LeAnn Miller, Rachel and Lucy; from Solomon, Mike and Pam Clark; from Eudora, Josh and Karla Luchsinger, from Fort Worth, Texas, Earnie and Kristine Rock, Jeremy and Ashlynn; from Mandeville, La., Milton and Shawna Ivy; from Lancaster, Calif., Michael and Wendy Jackson, Elyssa, Amanda and Michael Jr., David Rock and Kayla and Ray and Elizabeth Sadler; and from Palmdale, Caif., Roy and Alberta (Tippie) Rock.

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Anderson gave the message “What’s in Your Heart” from 1 Samuel 16: 6-7 and Matthew 8: 5-10.

Misc. Tippie-Hallam families reunite

Descendants of Earl C. and Maria L. (Searles) Hallam, William E. and Jessie M. (Eastham) Tippie and John and Addie Tippie gathered for a family reunion over the weekend of July 20. Ninety-three family members attended the main reunion July 21 at the Iola Elks Lodge. Pictures and memories were shared, connections were made and re-established and a book of Tippie ancestry was available for

viewing. Eric and Judy Weide hosted reunion attendees at their home July 20 and 22. Family members shared memories of their childhood and their ancestors and managed to fit in some karaoke. Attending the main reunion were: from Iola, Dorothy (Tippie) McGhee, Linda Sigg, Francis Kinzle and Aaron, Steve and Jeannie (Tippie) Weide, Eric and Judy Weide and Emily, Chris and Alicia Weide, Megan, Hannah and Landon, Amber Weide, Bayleigh and Khloeigh, Dosha Walters and Michael, Mathew and Ashley Yocham, Richard and Sheila Ivy, Jeremiah Ivy, Lloyd

Sorority to meet

Kappa Alpha chapter of Phi Tau Omega will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Townhouse Apartments.

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks at the Republican National Convention. of fear it would swipe Tampa, which it didn’t. Any scenes of destruction along the Gulf Coast were sure to temper the celebratory tone, and further compression of the schedule was possible if the storm proved disastrous, making politicking unseemly. The list of speakers is to be topped tonight by Romney’s running mate, Paul Ryan, before the candidate himself speaks Thursday night to bring down the

curtain-closing balloons. Obama’s Democratic National Convention follows next week in Charlotte, N.C. Republicans uncorked the anti-Obama rhetoric from the outset Tuesday. The Democratic president has “never run a company,” declared Reince Priebus, the Republican chairman. “He hasn’t even run a garage sale or seen the inside of a lemonade stand.” House Speaker John Boehner said.

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

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Isaac pummels Gulf Coast

BY MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and STACEY PLAISANCE Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Isaac pushed water over a rural levee, knocked out power and flooded beach-front roads in Louisiana and Mississippi early today as it began a drenching slog inland from the Gulf of Mexico with a newly fortified New Orleans in its path. Wind gusts and sheets of rain pelted the nearly empty streets of New Orleans, where people watched the incoming Isaac from behind levees that were strengthened after the much stronger Hurricane Katrina hit seven years ago to the day. Water driven by the large and powerful storm flooded over an 18-mile stretch of one levee in Plaquemines Parish south of New Orleans, flooding some homes in a thinly populated area. The levee, one of many across the low-lying coastal zone, is not part of New Orleans’ defenses. As rain continued and winds pushed across the Gulf Coast, it remained far too soon to determine the full extent of the damage. Parish authorities believe some people may be trapped but were not sure how many may have remained despite an earlier evacuation. Rescuers were waiting for the strong winds to die down later in the day before moving out to search. “We did have two parish police officers that were stuck in a car there. We just found out they were rescued and are safe,” said emergency management spokeswoman Caitlin Campbell. Two other parish workers in a boat rescued them. Isaac was packing 80 mph winds, making it a Category 1 hurricane. It came ashore at 8:45 p.m. Tuesday near the mouth of the Mississippi River, driving a wall of water nearly 11 feet high inland and soaking a neck of land that stretches into the Gulf. The storm stalled for several hours before resuming a slow trek inland, and forecasters said that was in keeping with the its erratic history. The slow motion over land means Isaac could be a major soaker, dumping up to 20 inches of rain in some areas, and every storm is different, said Ken Graham, chief meteorologist at the National, Weather Ser-

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Dam Ny, front, and his wife Kheav Simo wait for Hurricane Isaac to approach Tuesday at Belle Chasse Auditorium in Plaquemines Parish, New Orleans. The area where they live is under mandatory evacuation.

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It’s not too bad (now), but the whole coast is going to be a mess. — Chipper McDermott Pass Christian, Miss., mayor

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vice office in Slidell, La. “It’s totally up to the storm,” he said. Isaac’s winds and sheets of rain whipped New Orleans, where forecasters said the city’s skyscrapers could feel gusts up to 100 mph. Power was knocked out to 482,000 customers across southern Louisiana, about 157,000 of them in New Orleans, utility Entergy said. In Mississippi, the main highway that runs along the Gulf, U.S. 90, was closed in sections by storm surge flooding. At one spot in Biloxi, a foot of water covered

the in-town highway for a couple of blocks and it looked like more was coming in. High tide around 9:30 a.m. was likely to bring up more water. In Pass Christian, a Mississippi coastal community wiped out by hurricanes Camille and Katrina, Mayor Chipper McDermott was optimistic Isaac would not deal a heavy blow. “It’s not too bad, but the whole coast is going to be a mess,” he said early today. McDermott stood on the porch of the $6 million municipal complex built after Katrina, with walls of 1-foot-thick concrete to withstand hurricane winds. As he looked out toward the Gulf of Mexico, pieces of a structure that had stood atop the city’s fishing pier washed across the parking lot. The state transportation department said Mississippi Highway 43 and Mississippi Highway 604, both in Hancock County, were not

passable because of storm surge driven inland. In largely abandoned Plaquemines Parish, Campbell said an 18-mile stretch along the thinly populated east bank was being overtopped by surge. The levee had not broken. Campbell said officials believe some people may be trapped in their homes by water from the overtopped levee but were not sure how many might still be in the area. Strong wind was hampering efforts of rescuers to get into parts of the area. She said officials expected the water to recede to the Gulf as wind direction changes with the storm’s movement. Tens of thousands of people had been told ahead of Isaac to leave low-lying areas of Mississippi and Louisiana, including 700 patients of Louisiana nursing homes. Mississippi shut down the state’s 12 shorefront casinos.

Koreans brace for a second typhoon By SAM KIM Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Korean Peninsula cleaned up today after one powerful typhoon and girded itself for another that could be particularly damaging to North Korea, which is still recovering from earlier floods. The first storm, Typhoon Bolaven, left at least 12 people dead in South Korea, including eight fishermen killed in wrecks off the southern coast. Damage in North Korea, which was hit late Tuesday and early today, wasn’t completely clear, though state media reported that the storm knocked out power, submerged roads and houses, and ruined farm land. Typhoon Tembin, meanwhile, was expected to reach South Korea on Thursday, with its outer bands hitting North Korea later in the day. Tembin is expected to weaken as it reaches North Korea. Heavy rain, however, often means catastro-

phe in the North because of poor drainage, deforestation and decrepit infrastructure. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said some areas of Hwanghae and Kangwon provinces would receive up to 2.8 inches of rain on Thursday and Friday. Weather officials had warned that Bolaven would be the strongest typhoon to hit the region in several years, but its gusts in other parts of Asia weren’t as powerful as predicted. KCNA reported that Bolaven tore off a power station’s roof, cut power lines in Kaesong city and damaged more than 21,000 acres of maize fields, hurting the chances of a successful harvest. The typhoon tore roofs off several public buildings in South Hwanghae province and damaged TV relay facilities in North Hwanghae province, KCNA said. Many houses and roads were submerged or destroyed and railroads were covered by landslides in

South Phyongan, Kangwon and South Hamgyong provinces, KCNA said. Strong winds and rain lashed Pyongyang, the North’s capital, Tuesday, but there was little apparent damage there. Thousands of young people had been brought to Pyongyang to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the country’s main youth political organization. The young delegates toured various places in Pyongyang on Tuesday, state media said, and leader Kim Jong Un visited a military unit on the country’s eastern border with the South, despite torrential rain. In South Korea, Bolaven temporarily left hundreds of thousands without power, canceled flights, left nearly 100 families homeless and damaged farm land. The storm also churned up rough seas that smashed two Chinese fishing ships into rocks off southern Jeju island, killing eight and leaving seven

missing. Coast guard ships were still searching for the missing fishermen after an eighth dead body washed ashore this afternoon, coast guard spokesman Ko Chang-keon said. The coast guard rescued 12 fishermen from the ships on Tuesday, and six others swam or were washed ashore. The storm killed at least four other people across South Korea, officials said. The storms come as North Korea tries to help people with food, shelter, health care and clean water after heavy flooding in July, according to a recent United Nations situation report. More than 170 died nationwide, and tens of thousands of homes were destroyed in the floods, according to official North Korean accounts. Many flood victims still live in tents with limited access to water and other basic facilities, the U.N. report said, and there is worry about increased malnutrition in coming weeks.

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Opinion

Planning ahead is prudent in regard to disaster relief As tropical storm Isaac heads toward land at nearhurricane force on the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the nation is in better shape to deal with the disasters it may create. With Katrina in mind, the Obama administration proposed and Congress approved a new system. Money would be appropriated for disaster relief in advance. It would then be available when it was needed. There would be no competition between disaster relief and other budget needs. Call it the rainy day approach. Because of it, there is now $1.5 billion in the emergency kitty. Already, the states of Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Louisiana have declared states of emergency, knowing full well Isaac is going to create untold hazard. But the new plan wasn’t adopted without opposition. Paul Ryan voted no. It would be much better, he said, to make Congress find the money needed to help stricken areas after the fact by cutting other programs. Disasters then would become another opportunity to trim the federal budget rather than an additional burden. Ryan, perhaps, had recalled that earlier in the year efforts

to beef up disaster fund balances drew strong opposition from tea party House Republicans who demanded that appropriations be at least partly paid for by cutting programs favored by the administration. Before federal spending to repair New Orleans and help Katrina’s victims recover was completed, that disaster cost the nation about $60 billion. Needless to say, Congress couldn’t find savings of that magnitude to pay for the next Katrina disaster. Planning ahead — appropriating ahead — is a prudent approach. That said, let it also be noted that Rep. Ryan will be vice president of the United States if Mitt Romney wins the election in November. He can be depended upon to be a determined advocate for his budget and his priorities. The fact that he was chosen for the No. 2 spot is also a forecast that a President Romney will support the Ryan budget fundamentals. In November, the nation will have a choice on how to deal with natural disasters: plan ahead or wait till it happens and play it by ear. — Emerson Lynn, jr.

US Debt Clock $15,980 trillion Debt per person — $50,815 US population — 314,485 million www.usadebtclock.com

Quote of the day When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. — John Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)

‘Conversion therapy’: futile and harmful By LARA EMBRY Los Angeles Times

California is poised to play an important role in banning the dangerous practice of anti-gay “conversion therapy” for minors. The state Senate has already passed a ban, and as early as this week, the state Assembly will consider a bill that would prohibit mental health practitioners from trying to change a minor’s sexual orientation or gender expression. It is not as though the jury is still out on this kind of “therapy.” The consensus of leading professional associations is not only that conversion therapy doesn’t work; it is also potentially harmful. The American Psychological Association, the American Counseling Association and the American Psychiatric Association all declared long ago that being gay, lesbian or bisexual is not a form of mental illness or defect, and they have issued statements criticizing the practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation. Recently, even the president of Exodus, one of the most prominent national groups advocating conversion therapy, announced that he no longer believes a person’s sexual orientation can simply be changed. He also said he no longer supports so-called “reparative” therapy, which is based on a belief that same-sex attraction results from emotional traumas in childhood. Mental health therapy is not a wholly standardized practice, but there are many research-based approaches for helping with the myriad mental health issues with which people struggle. In contrast, conversion therapy has no reputable research to support its use, no well-designed studies demonstrating its efficacy and no research-based protocols for administering it. Without these tools, it is difficult even to get a sense of what these therapists are doing to children. Techniques dis-

Many parents struggle to accept their children as they are, and this makes them vulnerable to the misrepresentations of therapists who offer false reassurances that “no child is really gay.” cussed publicly include the use of shame, verbal abuse, exposure to pornography and even aversion training with electric shock and nausea-inducing drugs. Not only can these techniques cause significant harm, their stated goal — changing a gay kid into a straight kid — cannot be achieved. So why would professionals with advanced training and degrees offer such therapy? Our profession is no different from any other. Some mental health practitioners are bigoted, uneducated or self-loathing. In this case, these characteristics are commonly cloaked in the shroud of deeply held religious conviction. It is easy to enjoy a chuckle when “formerly gay” therapists or advocates of conversion therapy are caught in gay bars or hire “rent boys” to carry their bags on holiday. We need to stop chuckling at these scandals and do something to stop the real and serious harm the proponents of these practices are doing. These “experts” will not stop selling this useless and harmful product until we ban it. As evidenced by clinical accounts, as well as reported suicides, conversion therapy can be extremely harmful, especially to children. Having a mental health professional label a child’s sexual attractions as wrong and abnormal contributes to problems rather than alleviating them. Many parents struggle to accept their children as they are, and this makes them vulnerable to the misrepresentations of therapists who offer false reassur-

ances that “no child is really gay.” As long as there continues to be a market for these fraudulent treatments, they will be offered, and children will be harmed — unless the law is changed and parents are better educated about how to cope with a child who may be gay or gender nonconforming. When I was a practicing psychologist in Florida, I helped patients, and at times their families, recover from this sort of therapeutic assault. The “treatments” administered in those cases left the individuals ashamed, confused and often alienated from their families. Most strikingly, many families ended up angry with the purported experts for leading them down a path that caused harm to their families and children. Families struggling with revelations that their children are attracted to those of the same sex, or identify as another gender, do often need help. But the help they need is in understanding that there is nothing wrong with their children. Their child can grow up to be an astronaut, Olympic athlete, television star, lawyer, firefighter, teacher or whatever he or she wants to be. The family may need help in shifting its thinking or in finding available resources to smooth the child’s road. And the child may need help in identifying heroes and forging a path through sometimes difficult circumstances. As a society, we need to step up and help protect these families from being harmed by therapists who claim to be experts, but are really just peddling hate.

Prosecutors must take Open Meetings Act seriously Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor and his staff have determined any violations of the Kansas Open Meetings Act by legislators who attended dinners hosted by Gov. Sam Brownback at Cedar Crest were “technical” in nature and “borne of ignorance.” No legal action will be taken in the wake of Taylor’s investigation. In essence, that means legislators violated the law by discussing public business at the dinners but will not suffer any consequences because they didn’t know any better. Maybe some of them didn’t know any better, but some did. And Kansans now must be wondering how long their elected officials will be able to wink at, or turn a blind eye to, the Kansas Open Meetings Act and receive nothing more than an admonish-

Kansans now must be wondering how long their elected officials will be able to wink at, or turn a blind eye to, the Kansas Open Meetings Act ... ment and a recommendation they become more familiar with the law’s particulars. We really didn’t expect Taylor to prosecute all the offending legislators — more than 90 Republicans were invited to the dinners — and seek the maximum fine. We did expect more than a report citing “technical” violations “borne of ignorance” and toughsounding language about what may happen the next time. The Kansas Open Meetings Act was adopted to ensure elected officials at the local and state level

conduct the public’s business in full view of the public. The law prohibits a majority of a quorum of a legislative body from meeting behind closed doors to discuss business. Multiple local governing bodies have violated the law, and many legislators did so during the dinners at Cedar Crest. Allowing some elected officials to violate the law without consequence sends a signal to all that KOMA need not be taken seriously and that they can get away with conducting the public’s business behind closed doors.

Our form of government requires an informed electorate, but voters can’t become informed if plans and decisions are being made without their knowledge. It’s time all our elected officials begin taking the law more seriously. Many of the legislators who attended the Cedar Crest dinners said they viewed them as social gatherings, which is difficult to believe. House Speaker Mike O’Neal, RHutchinson, said he was pleased with Taylor’s report and “had nothing but confidence that our legislators adhered to the guidelines laid out in KOMA while at the governor’s residence.” That statement must have been borne of ignorance of what was in Taylor’s report, because the report makes it plain violations did

occur. And a violation is a violation, whether it be technical or substantive. Taylor’s report also noted most of the legislators questioned during his investigation were represented by the Kansas attorney general’s office and many legislators couldn’t remember the substance of much of the discussion at the dinners. What Taylor’s report didn’t say is that in law enforcement circles that’s known as “lawyering-up” and “dummying-up.” The prosecutors on Taylor’s staff are familiar with the tactics, but they aren’t in the habit of allowing ignorance of the law as an excuse, or defense. It’s time Taylor and other prosecutors across the state begin treating KOMA violations more seriously. — The Topeka Capital-Journal

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Ballet at Sterling Six H Farm “Giselle,” a renowned ballet presented from the historic Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, will be broadcast Saturday at Sterling Six Cinemas in Iola. “I’ve had several people asking about when we are starting our alternative content and it starts now,” Sterling Six manager Nic Olson announced in a press release. The 10:15 a.m. broadcast will be shown in 3-D. Admission is $11 for adults and $10 for students

ages 12 to 18 or with a college I.D. Seniors 65 and older will pay $9.75. Children ages 3 to 11 will pay $6.50. Children 2 and under will be admitted free of charge. Giselle is the story of a village girl who falls deeply in love with a prince disguised as a peasant. The idyllic pastoral scene is shattered by an act of betrayal and the ensuing heartbreak. The 96-minute production stars Natalia Osipova and Leonid Sarafanov.

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“We want to work with people,” said Martin. “We want to be proactive.” In response to a question from Commissioner Rob Francis, Martin said the agency had a private setting to test for sexually transmitted diseases, but “we have no medical support for treatment,” done through a physician. SEK

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Health Department helps with family planning; has a walk-in immunization clinic on Mondays in Iola; and does Kan Be Healthy Screenings. The Kan Be project is for Medicaid-eligible children up to 18. They receive full physicals, hearing and vision tests and lab work. Staff members do home visits to mentor and help pregnant mothers and par-

ents of newborns. They provide parents with resources and referrals for assistant programs. Other services are basic adult physicals for employment, as well as foster care and adoptions; school physicals, except for athletic participation; blood pressure and blood sugar checks; and pregnancy tests. The Iola office is open from 8 a.m. to noon and 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to noon on Fridays. Blue Cross Blue Shield and Medicaid coverages are accepted, Medicare for flu and pneumonia immunizations. Frederick pointed out that full explanation of services was available on the agency’s website, www. sekmchd.org, or at the Iola office, 221 S. Jefferson Ave.

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substance abuse were major themes. “Every year we change the show to stay up to date with current issues,” actor Dakota Rhodes said. “It also changes depending on the area that we are performing in.” Which skits they emphasize often are decided after visiting with teachers about prevalent issues in their schools.

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The show opened my eyes to what is going on. I see it going around our school, and what some people go through at home and how they deal with it at school. I can’t think off the top of my head if I have ever been a victim of any of this, but if I thought about it then I’m sure I have been.

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THE SKITS offered plenty of statistics for the students to absorb. One out of six teens selfinjures himself and one out of three teens is a victim of bullying. Sometimes the actors have students stay after their performance and ask for their advice on how to deal with certain circumstances. “If someone is being bullied we tell them everything is going to be OK and that it is not OK to stay quiet. We tell them that they need to talk someone,” actor Cory

Connor said. “The repercussions will be a lot worse if you don’t say anything.” Each day 160,000 students miss school for fear of being bullied. EVEN IF students only enjoyed the performance to get out of school for an hour, the actors know they are walking away with a message. “Sometimes you will hear the audience laughing, but it is an awkward laugh because they know the situations we’re talking about are true,” Mercado said. The main goal of the actors is to have the students walk away knowing they aren’t alone. Instead of showing them some out of date video they “give it to them real,” Rhodes said. “Our motto is we’re not Nickelodeon, we’re more like HBO,” Connor said. TUESDAY one brave student stayed behind and asked to speak with one of the actresses she felt she could relate to. That student is not the only one who knows the issues are prevalent in the Iola school district. “The show opened my eyes to what is going on. I see it going around our school, and what some people go through at home and how they deal with it at school,” Iola High student Micheala French said. “I can’t think off the top of my head if I have ever been a victim of any of this, but if I thought about it then I’m sure I have been.” “It was cool how they acted out situations to try to help people out,” Tyler Powelson, 11th-grader, said. Others offered similar sentiments. “It was inspiring,” senior Danielle Venter said. “They shared with us different perspectives.” “I thought it was powerful, intense, motivational,” classmate Jordan Garcia agreed. “They taught us real stuff,” added Fryendz Wallace.

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can grasp the full extent of the damage. “We still remain in shock,” Betty Becker wrote to the Register. “We are thankful to God no lives were lost and that others’ homes were saved. Whoever or whatever started the devastation was not mindful of the anguish and pain caused to us and the community.” THE BECKERS’ affiliation with Allen County began in 1941. Bill and Freda Becker, then living in LaCrosse, a modest town about 20 miles south of Hays in western Kansas, were looking to relocate. They found their dream home along a tree-laden farm near Big Creek, about 5 ½ miles west of Savonburg. The farm needed some work. There were no barns, for example, a necessity if they were to make a living in eastern Kansas. So Bill pulled his youngest son, 14-year-old Bob, out of school to help with a number of construction projects. They stayed in the farmhouse with the farm’s former owners. They were working on a sheep barn — one that stood until last week’s fire — when one of their housemates had come rushing out with dire news: Pearl Harbor had been attacked. The news, obviously, was a shock to an entire country. For the Beckers it was worse. Their three eldest sons, Wesley, Marvin and Harvey, were stationed in the Navy aboard the USS Arizona. Bill and Bob immediately loaded up their truck and hurried home to western Kansas. They completed their trip in total darkness when their headlights went out. Neither said a word the entire trip back. They arrived in LaCrosse to learn Wesley and Marvin were aboard the ship when it sank. They remain entombed with 1,175 fellow sailors. Fate intervened on Harvey’s behalf. He had gone ashore earlier that morning.

DEVASTATED BY their loss, the Beckers completed their move in 1942 to Allen County. The kindness shown by townsfolk convinced the family they made the right choice. Bob stayed out of school another year to help around the farm, then enlisted about two years later, refusing a deferment offered by the federal government. Like his brothers, Bob enlisted in the Navy. He was stationed in the Great Lakes. He and his fellow cadets were urged to learn what they could as quickly as they could in case the United States invaded Japan. Becker would have been a part of the amphibious landing on Japan’s mainland, Betty Becker wrote. “They were told half of them would be killed by Christmas,” she said. Fate, accompanied by a pair of atomic bombs, however, ended the war. Bob completed his service in Guam and then returned to Allen County, where he attended Humboldt High School, and met and married Betty Orcutt. BETTY’S

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brother, Steve, remembers the farm well. “The place was just a natural habitat for everything wonderful,” Orcutt said while inspecting the charred remnants. “This was my heaven on earth when I was a boy.” The nearby Big Creek offered myriad activities to hunt arrowheads, spend a day fishing, hunting, dreaming, or simply go exploring as young boys are wont to do. “Whenever I hear ‘Over the river and through the woods,’” this is what I think of,” Orcutt said. “My mind goes here and to Bill and Freda Becker, the couple that were makers of my dreams, that fed me Thanksgiving dinners on any given Sunday. “Those things became who I am and were a major part of what I have passed along to the children in my classrooms.” The Beckers opened their

A pair of antique tractors were reduced to little more than metal and ash following Thursday’s grass fire that destroyed the southern Allen County farm owned by Bob and Betty Becker. farmland to most anybody in the area. AFTER MARRYING, Bob and Betty Becker moved to the Kansas City area, considering at some point relocating back to southeast Kansas after Bob’s parents died. They purchased the farm with the intention of slowly refurbishing the home and outbuildings to create a perfect retirement home. “We learned very soon country life was not without thievery,” Betty wrote. Their first loss came when somebody stole several parts of Bill Becker’s old John Deere Model B tractor. The next theft included nearly everything of value from within the house. About all that remained was a mounted painting of Jesus. That eventually was taken, too.

Doors were kicked in; windows broken. Woodwork was stripped. “In despair, we let the house deteriorate,” Betty said. “Thieves had ruined our dreams.” The thefts weren’t limited to the farmhouse. The tractor continued to be a magnet. Every outbuilding on the property was entered at various points. Two old bicycles, belonging to Bob’s lost brothers, were among the items taken. “No Trespassing” signs were ignored; “no hunting” signs were riddled with bullet holes. A Quonset building was barred up so its remaining items, including two collectible tractors could not be further tampered with. A 1955 Chevrolet pickup was barricaded inside another building. All were destroyed in the fire. “The tractors and truck were being saved for grandchildren’s restoring to help recall the good memories,” Betty wrote.

THE HOUSE and farm were fully insured. But since they weren’t living their full time, there as no reimbursement. “They could have lied and told the insurance agent they came down every two weeks to check on the place, but they didn’t do that,” Orcutt said. “They would not lie like that.” The burglaries continued through the years. Locks were changed repeatedly. Neighbors kept a close eye on the place, but its remote location meant catching somebody was close to impossible.

ORCUTT bristled when he heard reports that only “abandoned” homes had been destroyed in the fire. “The Becker Farm was no more abandoned than our family grave sites,” he said. “This farmstead belongs to the Becker family and was my ‘amazing field of dreams.’ Pray that none of you or nothing that you love is ever tagged as being ‘abandoned.’”

Elsmore and Moran residents can register at the festivals, Elsmore Days and Moran Days. Booths will be set up where people can register and get measured. At registration there will be a weigh in and a waist measurement. Both are optional, but a good way to keep track of progress.

THIS YEAR committee members are brainstorming to see how they can become more gender friendly with the program. More classes, such as circuit training are being given to attract both sexes. For more information on the meltdown contact the Thrive office at (620) 365-8128.

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The website is a helpful tool to trace individual progress, but not the answer. “The answer will come when you are weighed at the end of the program,” Kunkler said. For those without Internet, the Thrive office will offer a weigh-in station and Thrive members will

record weight and minutes of exercise. REGISTRATION for the program will be Sept. 10 -14. “Though we are having certain days where people can register, we will have open enrollment throughout the program,” Kunkler said. “We will not turn anyone away.”

From Grandpa’s Garage to market By ALLISON TINN allison@iolaregister.com

David Shelby is a pastor turned police officer with a hobby in music. At Thursday’s Allen County Farmers Market he and his son Kyle will showcase their original music. “Ninety percent of our music is original,” Shelby said. “Most of everything is written by either me or my sons.” Granddad’s Garage, the name he and his sons gave themselves, play a mixture of Christian and folk music. Shelby plays guitar and Kyle the sax and also guitar. When Shelby was younger he and his family would get together at his grandfather’s house and if anyone had an instrument they were welcome to play. “Everyone would play a different instrument. Whoever showed up with a musi-

cal instrument would jump in and play,” Shelby said. Shelby grew up in the Kansas City area, where he met his wife. They moved to Denver in 1999 where he was an investor adviser. In 2006 he became pastor for the Harvest Baptist church. A few years later he became a police officer. “I always wanted to be a police officer and the opportunity came up,” Shelby said. “You would be surprised how similar being a pastor and a police officer is.” His restless nature has brought him to a lot of different places, but being a musician has stayed consistent. “We used to just play in front of family,” Shelby said. “But we decided to start stepping out of the house.”

On Oct. 6 they will perform at the Iola’s First Presbyterian Church. Thursday’s performance

will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Allen County Farmers Market at the southwest corner of the square.

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young. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Third grade is the highest level McKinley offers and my students are the big kids in school,â&#x20AC;? she said. Not much has changed in the school district during her time off, Maness said, although since her return she has been introduced to a new teaching concept through the KAGAN program. KAGAN is a developmental course that works with teachers to get students more engaged. The techniques are mostly driven by teachers taking a hands-off approach and having the students be more hands-on. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is really neat to see

and learning, so â&#x20AC;&#x153;once I have gone through the curriculum this year it will make it that much easier next year,â&#x20AC;? she said.

them engaging,â&#x20AC;? Maness said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always had a wellstructured class, so to step back can be a little scary. But it is working really well.â&#x20AC;? The program encourages students to work together in groups. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This way no one can hide, everyone has to participate,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not calling out just one student at a time. It takes the fear off, and it makes the kids more confident.â&#x20AC;? The students also tend to retain more information by talking among each other as opposed to listening to a teacher give a lecture, Maness said. Through KAGAN Maness said she has seen her students really engaging

MANESS enjoys teaching and being in front of the classroom. When she isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t being an educator, Maness spends time with her â&#x20AC;&#x153;little guy,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Family time is my stress relief,â&#x20AC;? she said. When Maness was in high school she picked up a hobby she still keeps up with today, scrapbooking. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have always liked photography and scrapbooking was a way to showcase photos to myself,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It also is something I did with my mom and still do.â&#x20AC;?

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Straight-set wins the norm to open 2012 US Open NEW YORK (AP) — Over the first two days of the U.S. Open, the world’s largest tennis stadium turned into the world’s biggest bore. There were 10 matches in 23,000-seat Arthur Ashe Stadium, all of them decided in straight sets. There were 24 sets, only three of them as close as 6-4. There were 191 games, 144 of them won by the players who advanced. After one of Tuesday’s more emphatic blowouts, defending champion Novak Djokovic summed up the No. 1 mission for favorites in their early matches at the year’s final Grand Slam. “It’s important for me,” he said, “to try to be as economical with the time I spend on the court as possible.” Not a problem so far. The No. 2 seed defeated Italian Paolo Lorenzi 6-1, 6-0, 6-1 — a match in which Djokovic lost serve in the first game, then rolled off the next 12 to turn it into a laugher. It was so bad that when Lorenzi broke through again to start the third set, he raised his hands to celebrate as if he’d just won the tournament. A brief moment of levity in an otherwise predictable night. “It was very difficult to get into a point,” Lorenzi said. “If I tried to go forward, he passed very well. When I tried to play defense at the baseline, he missed very little. He always got the ball back. And so I never had anything to go on. And when he got going with his winners, he caused me other

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The Register did not receive reports from Yates Center, Crest or Marmaton Valley from Tuesday’s volleyball action hosted by Yates Center. The Iola High junior varsity home quadrangular volleyball results were not reported to the Register.

Sports calendar Today Jr. College Volleyball Butler at Allen, 6:30 p.m. Jr. College Soccer Allen women at Butler, 7:30 p.m. Thursday High School Football Anderson County at Iola JV, 4 p.m. Crest at Pleasanton High School Volleyball Iola, Fort Scott at Prairie View, 4:30 p.m. Southern Coffey County, Eureka at Olpe Girls’ Tennis Parsons, Independence, Columbus at Iola, 3 p.m. Cross Country Iola, Humboldt at Anderson County Invitational, Garnett, 4 p.m. Marmaton Valley, Yates Center, Crest at Burlington Girls’ Golf Yates Center at Caney Valley Jr. High Volleyball IMS at Independence, 3:30 p.m. IMS jamboree, 3:30 p.m. 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.

problems.” Serena Williams followed the Djokovic match with a 6-1, 6-1 pasting of CoCo Vandeweghe. That capped off an evening that featured a grand total of 2 hours, 8 minutes of tennis on the main court. The last ball was hit shortly before 10 p.m. in a stadium famous for matches that often run well past midnight. Williams, her hair jutting wildly from her headband, said it was hard to gauge how well she played given the blustery conditions on this brief night of tennis. “I couldn’t really play my game. She couldn’t really play her game. It’s not the best opportunity to grade yourself,” she said. Today, the search for drama continues when No. 23 Kim Clijsters, and No. 3 seeds Maria Sharapova and Andy Murray — who lost a combined 15 games in their first-round matches in Ashe — return to the show court. No. 9 seed John Isner plays his first-round match in the stadium while fourth-seeded David Ferrer opens his tournament next door, in Louis Armstrong Stadium. As it turned out, the build-up to Tuesday’s first-round matches was more interesting than the matches themselves: — How would Venus Williams look in her return to Flushing Meadows after withdrawing abruptly last year, diagnosed with strength-sapping Sjogren’s syndrome? Fine. She defeated American Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-3, 6-1. “Everybody has their lot in life, and I’ve had mine,” Venus Williams said. “I’ve had an unbelievable lot. I’m living my dream every day for the last 15 years, so I can’t complain.” See OPEN | B2

Iola High’s Allie Cleaver makes a dig from the outside line to save the volleyball during a match against Columbus Tuesday in junior varsity play. The junior varsity Fillies defeated Columbus in three sets in their home meet. Results from the home quadrangular were not available at press time.

IHS cheerleaders are tops at camp By JOCELYN SHEETS jocelyn@iolaregister.com

Iola High’s cheerleaders made a change this summer. They got the same results. The past two years the IHS cheer squad has left their summer camp with top honors. That was in Emporia. In July, the Iola cheerleaders changed it up and went to the Universal Cheerleaders Association (UCA) camp at Coffeyville Community College. Iola raked in the top awards from the Top Banana, the tradition award, the cheer competition championship trophy, camp champs award, the spirit stick each day and blue ribbons on every eval-

uation during the camp. “We were encouraged last year at camp by our instructor and camp officials to try the camp at Coffeyville instead of Emporia State. It’s another UCA camp like the one at Emporia so I decided to change it up,” said Penny Herder, who is in her 15th year as cheer coach at IHS. The 2012 camp was the fifth straight year an Iola High cheer squad has come away with the Top Banana award. Camp champs award includes a trophy and a Gatorade water cooler. Iola was awarded a new award “the Red Shirt,” given by the trainers to the team that gave

more each day not only in performances but also helping at the end of the day to pick up and keep the camp clean and organized. The Iola squad received a Gatorade cooler on wheels full of Gatorade products. “Our young ladies have worked hard since March tryouts and held fundraisers. They had 6 a.m. practices until camp then took a break following camp,” Herder said. “We were off for three weeks then practices began again. “They represented Iola High and the community well at camp. I’m very proud of them.” Iola seniors Tori Snavely, Chanel Coyne, Caitlyn Callaway and

Danielle Venter went through the All-Star Cheerleader tryouts during camp. They all received medals and the opportunity to pay their own way to London to perform with cheerleaders in the New Year’s Parade. Coyne earned her third consecutive “Pin-It Award.” “They give the Pin-It Award to girls the staff members believe embodied the definition of a cheerleader. They look at leadership qualities,” Herder said. “Tori and Chanel were extended offers to work for UCA in future camps. That’s always a great honor and a job opportunity if they choose to try out and make it.”

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Iola High’s 2012-13 cheerleading squad claimed the top awards at their July cheer camp in Coffeyville. The IHS cheerleaders are seen here with their awards and staff members of the Universal Cheerleaders Association camp. They are, from left, front row, seniors Danielle Venter, Brooke Maley, Chanel Coyne, Tessa Rowe and squad captain Tori Snavely; second row, UCA staff member, freshmen Caitie Venter and Olivia Bannister, junior Mackenzie Weseloh, senior Caitlyn Callaway, junior Katie Kelley, sophomore Torrie Lewis, senior Paiton Combs, senior Libby Shay; back row, two UCA staff members, yell leader junior Quinton Morrison, freshman Clara Wicoff, sophomore Trilby Bannister, sophomore Hannah Stout, two UCA staff members and IHS coach Penny Herder.

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Moustakas powers Royals past the Tigers KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mike Moustakas had three hits and three RBIs and the Kansas City Royals roughed up Justin Verlander in a 9-8 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night. Verlander, the reigning AL MVP and Cy Young Award winner, was charged with eight earned runs, matching his career high, in 5 2/3 innings. It was the third time in Verlander’s career he had surrendered eight earned runs and first since April 6, 2009, at Toronto. Jhonny Peralta hit a tying solo homer for Detroit in the eighth, but the Royals responded in the bottom half. Billy Butler hit a oneout single for his third hit of the game and was replaced by Lorenzo Cain, who swiped second. Salvador Perez then fouled out against Brayan Villarreal (3-4) and Phil Coke came in to face Moustakas, who doubled down the rightfield line to give the Royals a 9-8 lead.

Mike Moustakas went 3-for-4 at the plate helping the Kansas City Royals edge out the Detroit Tigers 9-8 Tuesday in Kansas City, Mo. Aaron Crow (3-1) got the win despite allowing Peralta’s 10th homer and Greg Holland worked out of a jam to earn his eighth save in 10 opportunities. Austin Jackson led off the Detroit ninth with a walk and advanced to third

on a groundout and wild pitch. After Miguel Cabrera struck out and Prince Fielder was walked intentionally, Delmon Young hit Holland’s next pitch just outside the right-field pole. Tigers manager Jim Leyland wanted it reviewed and

after looking at replays, it was ruled a foul ball. Young lined out to left on the next pitch. Jackson went 3-or-3 and scored three times for the Tigers, who stayed two games back of the AL Central-leading White Sox.

Fielder and Young each had two RBIs. After striking out his first two hitters, Verlander allowed seven runs on 10 hits to the next 13 batters, throwing 56 pitches in the first two innings. The Royals batted around in a fourrun second. Alex Gordon doubled and scored in the first, then doubled home two runs in the second. It was his fifth consecutive multi-hit game and gave him a major league-leading 44 doubles. Perez’s second double in the sixth scored Jarrod Dyson and chased Verlander after the right-hander yielded 12 hits, one shy of his career high set Aug. 11, 2006, against the Chicago White Sox in his rookie season. The Royals’ 2-through-6 hitters — Alcides Escobar, Gordon, Butler, Perez and Moustakas — combined for 12 hits and nine RBIs. Moustakas began the day mired in a 1-for-23 skid. Verlander entered with a 9-2 record and a 1.83 ERA in 13 career starts at Kauff-

man Stadium and a 14-2 overall record against the Royals. Detroit scored three times in the first. Andy Dirks doubled in Jackson and scored on Young’s twoout homer off Luis Mendoza. The Royals responded with three runs in the bottom half, capped by Moustakas’ two-run single. Mendoza gave up six runs and seven hits in five innings. NOTES: Royals LHP Bruce Chen will start tonight against the Tigers. Chen received treatment after rolling his right ankle when he stepped on a ball in the outfield Monday at Boston in pregame drills. ... Royals minor league 1B Mark Donato, a 26th-round pick in June, received a 50game suspension from the commissioner’s office after testing positive for an amphetamine. Donato was hitting .253 with three home runs in 38 games for Surprise in the rookie Arizona League.

Managed fields excellent for Kansas dove opener PRATT — Many hunters view Saturday as the opening of hunting season, with dove season beginning on that day. It’s been a blistering hot, dry summer, but mourning doves seem to thrive in hot, dry weather, and Kansas hunters should have no problem finding this acrobatic game bird when the season opens. Hitting them may be another matter, so target practice prior to season is important. Although the mourning dove is the primary quarry, Kansas hunters enjoy pursuing four species of doves in split fall and winter seasons. The season for all doves runs Sept. 1-Oct. 31 and Nov. 3-11. During these segments, two native species (mourning and white-winged doves) as well as two exotic species (Eurasian collared and ringed turtle doves) may be taken. In addition, an exotic species season runs Nov. 20-Feb. 28, 2013. During this time, only Eurasian collared and ringed turtle doves may be taken. To enhance public hunting opportuni-

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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Backup quarterback Tavarius Bender has left No. 22 Kansas State. Wildcats coach Bill Snyder confirmed Monday that Bender is no longer with the program, and indicated that he returned home to Nebraska “maybe a couple weeks ago.” The freshman enrolled early at Kansas State in time to participate in the spring game. Snyder said the backup for Saturday’s season-opener against Missouri State will depend on the situation, but he declined to go into details. Daniel Sams and Sam Johnson are both options. Snyder also said offensive lineman Boston Stiverson will not play against the Bears. Keenan Taylor is the next in line to replace him.

KU long snapper is suspended LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas football team has suspended snapper Justin Carnes for three games. Kansas head football coach Charlie Weis said Saturday in a release that Carnes, a junior long snapper from La Porte, Texas, has been suspended for the first three games of the 2012 season for violating team rules. Weis did not specify what rules Carnes violated. Carnes was the listed as the starting snapper for the Jayhawks entering fall camp

— Would 21-year-old qualifier Rhyne Williams, playing his first Grand Slam match, be awed by No. 20 Andy Roddick to put up a real fight? Not really. Williams’ 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 loss to Roddick was a nail-biter compared to everything else that’s gone on in the

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Major League Baseball At A Glance All Times EDT By The Associated Press American League East Division W L Pct GB New York 75 54 .581 — Baltimore 71 57 .555 3½ Tampa Bay 70 59 .543 5 Boston 62 68 .477 13½ Toronto 57 71 .445 17½ Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 71 57 .555 — Detroit 69 59 .539 2 Kansas City 57 71 .445 14 Cleveland 55 74 .426 16½ Minnesota 52 77 .403 19½ West Division W L Pct GB Texas 77 52 .597 — Oakland 71 57 .555 5½ Los Angeles 67 62 .519 10 Seattle 63 67 .485 14½ Monday’s Games Boston 5, Kansas City 1 Baltimore 4, Chicago White Sox 3 Oakland 3, Cleveland 0 Toronto 8, N.Y. Yankees 7, 11 innings Texas 6, Tampa Bay 5 Seattle 1, Minnesota 0 Tuesday’s Games Baltimore 6, Chicago White Sox 0 Oakland 7, Cleveland 0 N.Y. Yankees 2, Toronto 1 Texas 1, Tampa Bay 0 Kansas City 9, Detroit 8 Seattle 5, Minnesota 2 L.A. Angels 6, Boston 5 Wednesday’s Games Toronto (Happ 2-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 13-3), 1:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Axelrod 1-2) at Baltimore (J.Saunders 0-0), 7:05 p.m.

novice and/or disabled hunters. Some may also require hunters using managed dove fields to obtain and complete a daily hunt permit or obtain access through a drawing. Other areas are open to the general public. Fields within waterfowl management areas require non-toxic shot only. Daily hunt permits are free and located in “iron rangers” (similar to mailboxes) at the field near you. Use the KDWPT website, ksoutdoors. com, to find details on areas specially managed for doves. Click “Hunting/Migratory Birds/Doves/Managed Hunting Areas” for details on a managed dove area. Hunters are reminded that there are no bag and possession limits for Eurasian collared doves and ringed turtle doves. However, during the regular dove season — Sept. 1 through Oct. 31 and Nov. 3-11 — if the take of exotic doves exceeds a hunter’s daily bag of 15 mourning and white-winged doves (single species or in combination), the exotic doves must be transported with a fully feathered wing attached. The posses-

stadium thus far. Roddick broke Williams once in each set but with a serve topping out at 131 mph, Williams made his opponent work to the end for his win. “He has a good base,” Roddick said of the 2011 NCAA runner-up. “He can create something. Now, it’s just a matter of, he has to

be a little bit quicker. ... But if you can win free points off your serve, it’s a good start.” The day’s most dramatic match came on the Grandstand Court, where 68thranked Guillermo GarciaLopez came back against 10th-seeded Juan Monaco for a 3-6, 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (6),

Oakland (Blackley 4-3) at Cleveland (Kluber 0-2), 7:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Cobb 8-8) at Texas (M.Harrison 15-7), 7:05 p.m. Detroit (A.Sanchez 2-3) at Kansas City (B.Chen 9-10), 8:10 p.m. Seattle (Vargas 13-8) at Minnesota (Deduno 4-2), 8:10 p.m. Boston (Z.Stewart 1-2) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 9-9), 10:05 p.m. Thursday’s Games Oakland (J.Parker 8-7) at Cleveland (Masterson 10-11), 12:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Quintana 5-2) at Baltimore (Britton 3-1), 12:35 p.m. Seattle (Beavan 8-8) at Minnesota (Duensing 3-9), 1:10 p.m. Tampa Bay (M.Moore 10-7) at Toronto (Villanueva 6-4), 7:07 p.m. Detroit (Porcello 9-9) at Kansas City (Guthrie 2-3), 8:10 p.m. Boston (Lester 8-10) at L.A. Angels (Greinke 2-2), 10:05 p.m.

Colorado 53 75 .414 18½ Monday’s Games St. Louis 4, Pittsburgh 3 Milwaukee 15, Chicago Cubs 4 Colorado 10, L.A. Dodgers 0 Cincinnati 3, Arizona 2 San Diego 3, Atlanta 0 Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Mets 9, Philadelphia 5, 10 innings Pittsburgh 9, St. Louis 0 Miami 9, Washington 0 Milwaukee 4, Chicago Cubs 1 San Francisco 3, Houston 2 Colorado 8, L.A. Dodgers 4 Cincinnati 5, Arizona 2 Atlanta 2, San Diego 0 Wednesday’s Games L.A. Dodgers (Blanton 8-12) at Colorado (D.Pomeranz 1-7), 3:10 p.m. Cincinnati (Latos 10-4) at Arizona (Corbin 5-5), 3:40 p.m. Atlanta (Hanson 12-6) at San Diego (Stults 4-2), 6:35 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Harvey 2-3) at Philadelphia (Hamels 14-6), 7:05 p.m. St. Louis (J.Kelly 4-5) at Pittsburgh (W.Rodriguez 8-13), 7:05 p.m. Washington (Detwiler 7-6) at Miami (Ja.Turner 0-1), 7:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Fiers 7-6) at Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 8-11), 8:05 p.m. San Francisco (Zito 10-8) at Houston (Keuchel 1-6), 8:05 p.m. Thursday’s Games N.Y. Mets (Niese 10-7) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 7-9), 1:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Marcum 5-4) at Chicago Cubs (Raley 1-2), 2:20 p.m. St. Louis (J.Garcia 3-5) at Washington (E.Jackson 7-9), 7:05 p.m. San Francisco (Vogelsong 11-7) at Houston (Lyles 3-10), 8:05 p.m. Arizona (I.Kennedy 11-11) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 12-7), 10:10 p.m.

National League East Division W L Pct GB Washington 77 51 .602 — Atlanta 74 56 .569 4 Philadelphia 61 68 .473 16½ New York 60 69 .465 17½ Miami 59 71 .454 19 Central Division W L Pct GB Cincinnati 79 52 .603 — St. Louis 71 58 .550 7 Pittsburgh 69 60 .535 9 Milwaukee 61 67 .477 16½ Chicago 49 79 .383 28½ Houston 40 89 .310 38 West Division W L Pct GB San Francisco 72 57 .558 — Los Angeles 69 61 .531 3½ Arizona 64 66 .492 8½ San Diego 60 71 .458 13

sion limit for mourning and white-winged doves is 30. Doves are excellent table fare. Whether wrapped in bacon and grilled, baked in a pie, or skewered for shish kebobs, this game bird is a favorite of many. But don’t wait until Saturday to get ready. Hunters should be scouting areas and obtaining permission on private ground or planning for a public land hunt now. Shooting clay targets for a couple of weeks will save shells once the season opens, but stock up on shells anyway; this is one of the most difficult game birds to hit. These things done, all that remains is knowing the law and cleaning the grill. All dates and regulations needed for hunting doves may be found online at the KDWPT website, ksoutdoors.com. Printed copies of the 2012 Kansas Hunting and Furharvesting Regulations Summary, as well as the Kansas Hunting Atlas, will be available where licenses are sold the first week in September.

7-6 (3) victory that took 4 hours, 31 minutes. “There’s just this bitter taste right now, I feel awful,” Monaco said. “I had my chances and I let the match slip away. I don’t want to say that I had it in the pocket. But if you don’t shut it down, you’re leaving an opening to your opponent.” Later, Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands bounced 21stseeded American Christina McHale 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. Also falling was eighth-

seeded Caroline Wozniacki, still slowed from a right knee injury she endured last week at the tournament in New Haven. She lost 6-2, 6-2 to 96th-ranked Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania and had little patience for a reporter who asked her how much the injury robbed her of her trademark side-toside speed. On Tuesday, the most telling numbers were on the scoreboard, and those numbers did not lie.

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Food stamp usage explodes across Kansas, nation By DAVE RANNEY KHI News Service

Historical perspective points to ever-higher costs TOPEKA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The cost of the food stamp program has grown dramatically in the past 10 years, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office. After major growth early last decade, according to the CBO, outlays for the program nearly doubled in the past five years alone, going from $30 billion to about $78 billion. CBO attributed that sharp rise in costs to the greater demand for assistance as incomes fell due to the economic recession that started in 2007. The federal economic stimulus law of 2009 also temporarily increased the benefits. That accounted for 20 percent of the cost increase, according to the report. One in seven Americans

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number of people helped by the program soared to a new high of about 45 million, or one in seven Americans. The program, which officially has been called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) since 2008, is what is known as an â&#x20AC;&#x153;automatic stabilizer,â&#x20AC;? which means beneficiaries and costs increase automatically during tough times. People benefiting from the program most often

opted what is called â&#x20AC;&#x153;expanded categorical eligibility.â&#x20AC;? The House plan would eliminate that categorical option for states. It also would eliminate federal incentive payments to states that have improved their food aid programs. Kansas has received at least four of those performance bonuses since 2003, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The agriculture committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bill has yet to reach the House floor. The Senate bill would find its savings by decoupling food stamp eligibility from a federal subsidy program (LIHEAP) that helps poor people with home heating costs. Currently, people who qualify for the energy subsidy also are automatically qualified for SNAP benefits because the income limits are nearly the same. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 62,000 Kansas households qualified for LIHEAP subsidies

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are children or elderly who are poor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most people receiving the benefit have very low income. About 85 percent were in homes earning below the federal poverty guideline, about $18,500 per year for a family of three,â&#x20AC;? the report stated. The average household receiving benefits in fiscal 2010 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the most recent year for detailed data â&#x20AC;&#x201D; had income of about $8,800 a year. The average household benefit nationwide was $287 a month or $4.30 per person per day. Big difference

That help made a big difference for many in the program. For households with children, according to the study, the benefit boosted gross monthly income by 45 percent. Among other the things, the food aid helped many

beneficiaries offset housing costs. According to CBO projections, the number of people using food stamps and the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s costs will begin decreasing in fiscal 2014 as the result of economic recovery and the scheduled Oct. 31, 2013, end of the benefits boost approved as part of the 2009 stimulus law. However, the costs would remain relatively high on the historical trend line unless lawmakers alter the program. Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, a Kansas Republican, in 1973 played a major role in the launch of the food stamp program as it exists today. He partnered with another farm-state senator, George McGovern, a South Dakota Democrat, to help get the authorizing legislation passed and included in the Farm Bill. The law required

each state to participate in the program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am confident that this bill eliminates the greedy and feeds the needy,â&#x20AC;? Dole said at the time. A scaled-down version of the nutrition program had existed since the early 1960s and was preceded by a version that existed between 1939 and 1943 when Henry Wallace was secretary of agriculture under President Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat. Historically, many legislators from agricultural districts have thought it was a good idea to include the nutrition assistance program in the Farm Bill in order to find votes among their urban counterparts for farm supports such as crop insurance. Some in Congress now are pushing to have SNAP considered separately from the Farm Bill.

â&#x20AC;&#x153; I know people like to glom onto the fraud-and-

abuse argument, but I have to say Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been here a long time and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see it. What I see are parents working for minimum wage, trying to pay rent and utilities and still have enough to feed their kids. A lot of them canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it without SNAP. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Steve Lohr, SEK-CAP executive director

in fiscal 2011, but the number of people who also received the food aid or the ramifications of the Senate plan for Kansas havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been determined. Angela de Rocha, a spokesperson for the Kansas Department for Children and Families, which administers SNAP in Kansas, said the agency has a â&#x20AC;&#x153;neutralâ&#x20AC;? stance on the federal proposals to scale back the nutrition program. Stalled for now

For now, both the House and Senate plans are stalled on the SNAP issue despite considerable pressure on Congress to pass a Farm Bill, which includes the food assistance authorization. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Typically, what would happen is that the ag committee would send a bill to the House floor, the House would pass a bill and then â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;conferenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with whatever was in the Senate bill,â&#x20AC;? said Helen Dombalis, a policy associate with the National Sustainable Agricultural Coalition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happened because the speaker (U.S. John Boehner, R-Ohio) has kept the (House) bill off the floor. The speculation is that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have enough votes to pass because the Tea Party-ers donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think $16.5 billion is enough of a cut and the Democrats wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t vote for it because they think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too much.â&#x20AC;? Deliberations, she said, were complicated by the fact that the current Farm Bill expires Sept. 30. Congress is now in the fourth week of a five-week recess and is scheduled to reconvene Sept. 10. Last week, 39 national farm organizations launched â&#x20AC;&#x153;Farm Bill Now,â&#x20AC;? a campaign aimed at getting a Farm Bill passed on or before Sept. 30. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just want Congress to get in, talk about the differences between the House bill and the Senate bill, and get something done,â&#x20AC;? said Patrick Delaney, a spokesman for the Farm Bill Now Coalition. When Congress returns, the agriculture committee may try to push its bill

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TOPEKA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Five years ago, 184,000 low-income Kansans were on SNAP, the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program formerly known as food stamps. Today, the enrollment tops 310,700 people. A program that in 2007 cost the federal government about $190.3 million in Kansas outlays is expected to cost more than $450 million this year. Congress, in recent months, has said SNAP has become too expensive and warrants serious belt-tightening. In July, the Democratcontrolled U.S. Senate passed a five-year Farm Bill that would reduce SNAP spending by $4.5 billion over the next 10 years. The agriculture committee in the Republican-led House earlier this month passed a larger reduction of $16.5 billion over 10 years. Current SNAP spending is about $73 billion a year.

to the House floor, circumventing the speakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would be out of order, but it could be done,â&#x20AC;? Dombalis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also talk of their passing a three- or six-month extension or even a one-year extension.â&#x20AC;? Kansas support for cuts

U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp, a Republican who represents Kansasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 1st District, serves on the 46-member House Agriculture Committee. Earlier this month, he chided President Obama and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for not doing enough to break the deadlock. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Secretary Vilsack, the USDA and President Obama would rather play political games â&#x20AC;&#x201D; amidst campaigning in Iowa for both the president and the secretaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife â&#x20AC;&#x201D; than offer real policy proposals,â&#x20AC;? Huelskamp said in a statement posted on his website. Vilsack, a Democrat, is a former Iowa governor. His wife, Christie Vilsack, is running against Iowa Congressman Steve King, a conservative Republican. Huelskamp also criticized Obama for wanting to â&#x20AC;&#x153;enroll more Americans in food stamps,â&#x20AC;? noting that â&#x20AC;&#x153;more Americans are on food stamps under Barack Obama than any other president. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grown the rolls by over 14 million people. Given the failure of the Obama economy we can only expect this number to get worse.â&#x20AC;? Huelskampâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s district covers the western two-thirds of Kansas and is the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most rural and agricultural. U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, RKan., is the ranking minority member on the 21-member Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. He has said the Senatepassed Farm Bill â&#x20AC;&#x153;strengthens the integrity and accountability of federal nutrition programs.â&#x20AC;? Some conservative Republican lawmakers have said the program suffers from too much fraud and abuse. But according to the

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Brittany Housworth with baby Haylee was among about 50 volunteers helping with food distribution Monday at the Family of God church in Topeka.

Congressional Budget Office, those problems have been marginal since food stamps were replaced in 2005 by electronic debit cards. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it without SNAPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Steve Lohr, executive director at the Southeast Kansas Community Action Program in Girard, said concerns that SNAP recipients abuse the program were off-target. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know people like to glom onto the fraud-andabuse argument, but I have to say Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been here a long time and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see it,â&#x20AC;? Lohr said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What I see are parents working for minimum wage, trying to pay rent and utilities and still have enough to feed their kids. A lot of them canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it without SNAP.â&#x20AC;? The community action program runs a shelter for homeless families in Pittsburg. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has room for about 60 people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; parents and children,â&#x20AC;? Lohr said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always full. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just kids everywhere.â&#x20AC;? The shelter residents, he said, are among those who rely on SNAP. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just them,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Twenty-five percent of the kids in this area are impoverished. So the issue isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really whether somebody is getting food stamps who shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children and families that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have enough to eat. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the discussion we ought to be having.â&#x20AC;? In Kansas, almost 45 percent of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SNAP beneficiaries are children. Almost three-fourths of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 145,000 SNAP households include one or more children. Regulations prohibit SNAP benefits from being used to buy prepared â&#x20AC;&#x153;hot foods,â&#x20AC;? such as a slice of pizza; alcohol, cigarettes, pet food, paper products, cleaning supplies, toiletries or lottery tickets.

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Paul backers claim fraud By SEEMA MEHTA Los Angeles Times

TAMPA, Fla. — Ron Paul’s fiercely loyal supporters fought until the bitter end on Tuesday, challenging rule changes that weakened their delegate count at the Republican National Convention and made it harder for future candidates to re-create what the Texas congressman did in his third presidential bid. That bid ended Tuesday, when Romney was nominated by the GOP to take on President Barack Obama. Coming into the convention, Paul didn’t have anywhere near the number of delegates necessary to challenge Romney’s nomination. But he was the sole GOP primary candidate not to bow out of the race, endorse Romney and release his delegates. And when he did two swings through the Tampa Bay Times Forum on the opening day of the convention, shaking hands and greeting supporters, Paul seemed as though he were still running for office. Several state delegations tried to put his name into consideration, but were stymied by delegate-seating decisions by the RNC. Paul’s supporters reacted angrily. Several members of the Maine delegation walked out of the arena after the convention affirmed the GOP’s decision to replace 10 of the state’s 24 delegates. “It’s a disgusting, disgusting display of a hostile takeover from the top down,” said Ashley Ryan, 21, a Maine delegate. “It’s an embarrassment.” Paul did not win a single state, however, his ardent followers worked arcane local and state party rules to take over several state delegations, including garnering 20 of Maine’s 24 spots. The RNC decided to replace 10 of them, effectively stopping the state from being able to submit Paul’s name for nomination. (In response, the state’s Repub-

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lican governor, a Romney supporter, decided to boycott the convention.) That seating decision along with others prompted Wiselot Rouzard, a delegate from Nevada and a Paul supporter, to compare the situation to Adolf Hitler taking power in Germany. “There’s nothing American about what just happened,” he said. “This is the death of the Republican Party.” Once Romney was nominated, during the roll call of states, several listed votes for Romney and Paul. When repeating back the count, officials at the podium cited only the Romney votes. In the end, Romney received more than 2,000 votes, easily securing the nomination, while Paul received just under 200. For Paul, this is effectively the end of his political career. After serving in Congress for more than two decades, the 77-year-old is retiring when his term ends in January. Over the weekend, his supporters held a sparsely attended three-day Paul Festival, and Paul headlined a raucous rally that attracted several thousand supporters. While he may be finished, he pledged that his movement — focused on

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strict interpretation of the Constitution, downsizing government and spending, and an isolationist foreign policy — was not. “Don’t they only wish!” Paul said, of the GOP establishment. He told thousands on Sunday that the pursuit of basic liberty was stronger than ever. “It’s coming about, not only because I believe we’re right on the issues, but what is coming out right now is proof positive that their philosophy of government — foreign policy, monetary policy or economic policy — is failing and they need to do something different,” Paul said. The crowd responded by chanting, “President Paul! President Paul! President Paul!” Paul is not speaking at the convention, telling The New York Times that he would have been allowed to do so only if he endorsed Romney and allowed his campaign to vet his script, which he refused to do. But he will stick around for tonight, when the RNC pays tribute to him with a video and for a speech by his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who some believe is the heir to Paul’s movement. “Like” us on Facebook

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An ex-wife with a 15-year grudge Dear Carolyn: I have a close friend whose husband left her over 15 years ago for another woman. At times she threatens the husbands of her friends (who were also friends of the ex) that if they have a relationship with her ex, she will not speak to them. I understand her hurt and anger but don’t think it’s okay to expect others to end their friendship with her ex, especially after so long. I know everyone is different, but at some point, isn’t it healthy to move on? — Trying to Be an Understanding Friend Answer: Her expectations aren’t okay, and of course it’s healthy to move on — more specifically, to release the anger. But your friend is in no way bound by what you and I think. Conveniently, these husbands aren’t bound by what your close friend thinks, either. Where your opinion reigns is in your own response. Next time you witness one of her threats, consider gently reminding her that you understand she’s hurt and angry, and then say — one on one, over coffee, maybe — that you question the utility of her request. Specifically: The people who don’t hold her ex-husband accountable aren’t going to hear her threats and then rush to her side in sympathy. On the contrary: By calling attention

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to a 15-year grudge and holding others hostage to it, she might be ginning up (much) sympathy for the ex. That can’t be what she has in mind. At best they’ll just ignore her. The people who believe her ex-husband wronged her, on the other hand, are her allies here — and the most meaningful thanks she can give them is to trust them to act on their beliefs. Not as she sees fit, but as they do. I have no illusions that a grown woman who threatens people with the silent treatment will respond maturely if you do this — or let you finish your sentences, for that matter. But you say she’s a “close” friend. Since she stands to lose the most from her punitive ways — peace of mind, primarily, but also the respect of these friends, if not the friends themselves — it’s time for somebody who cares about her to have her back. You’ll be less likely to inflame her if you avoid the value judgments of “okay” or “healthy” and stick to the universal language

Public notices (First published in The Iola Register August 22, 2012) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Allen County, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT CitiCorp Trust Bank, fsb Plaintiff, v. Daniel R. Ware Jr., et al. Defendants, Case No.11CV22 Court No. Title to Real Estate Involved Pursuant to K.S.A. §60 NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Allen County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at the Allen County Courthouse, Kansas, on September 12, 2012 at the time of 10:00 AM, the following real estate: LOTS FIVE (5) AND SIX (6), BREWSTER’S SUB-DIVISION OF LOT “E” OF BOUGHTON’S SUBDIVISION OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER (SE/4) OF SECTION TWENTY-SIX (26), TOWNSHIP TWENTY-FOUR (24) SOUTH, RANGE EIGHTEEN (18) EAST OF THE SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, BEING AN ADDITION TO THE CITY OF IOLA, ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS. Tax ID No. IA01268, Commonly known as 716 East Street, Iola, KS 66749 (“the Property”) MS127444 to satisfy the judgment in the

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of effectiveness: Has she asked herself whether her scorched-earth approach to loyalty has yielded anything good? Dear Carolyn: I have a friend who has been using me as a sounding board for issues with his ex. I have no problem with this; I try to offer a compassionate ear, advice, etc. Got together with a group of people, including the friend and his ex, and the ex made a comment about something personal in MY life that I had shared with my friend. I should have realized that if my friend is comfortable sharing details WITH me, he is also sharing details ABOUT me. Do I call him on it or chalk it up to lesson learned? For me, it changes the complexion of our friendship considerably; does he have a right to know why? — Seattle Answer: I think so, but that interests me less than the idea that you have a right for him to know why. A few reasons: 1. These are your secrets. Why not at least try to secure them? You can’t stop him from blabbing if that’s his intent (or if he’s impulsecontrol challenged), but it’s also possible he has no idea that you regard these things as private. If he’s

worth your time, then he’ll regret having spread, even inadvertently, what you regarded as personal news. 2. This is your friendship. Why not at least try to preserve it? If his privacy threshold is just naturally lower than yours, then establishing that could help both of you be better friends — to each other and beyond, by sharpening the way you communicate and by deepening your understanding of the ways people share. 3. The way you treat your friends reflects your character, and it’s just as important to treat people well when no one is looking as it is when you have an audience. But: You do have an audience here, and cutting corners could have consequences beyond this one friendship. Doing the right thing isn’t just good for him and for you, it’s also good for your mutual friends. Last thought: Consider that you do have a problem with his “using me as a sounding board.” You say you don’t, but if the “using” has you feeling a bit used, then that can act as a finger on the scale when you’re weighing the value of the relationship. The first step in acting on your feelings always has to be telling yourself the truth.

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Libyan officials implicated in mosque desecrations By MEL FRYKBERG McClatchy Newspapers

TRIPOLI, Libya — Members of the Libyan government and its military have been implicated in the destruction by Islamists over the weekend of several mosques affiliated with the Sufi branch of Islam, an indication that the government that replaced Moammar Gadhafi after a months-long NATO bombing campaign is having difficulty controlling its extremist elements. On Sunday, the ruling General National Congress summoned Interior Minister Fawzi Abdel Al, Defense Minister Osama Jweili and several other military and intelligence officers for questioning after the Sufi s h r i n e s Osama Jweili were attacked Friday and Saturday. General National Congress speaker Muhammed Magarief slammed the desecrations as “disgraceful acts.” Magarief went as far as to suggest that there may have been official collusion in the attacks, saying that those responsible “are unfortunately aligned with some in the Supreme Security Committee (SCC) and

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Mosque, which housed the shrine of the Sufi mystic of the same name, opposite the Mahari Radisson Blu hotel and overlooking Tripoli harbor. Members of the security forces stood guard as militants, some of them members of the Supreme Security Committee, used

heavy equipment to smash the shrine and then a bulldozer to raze the mosque. Police at the scene failed to intervene but enforced the blocking of the road that leads to the mosque and kept journalists from filming or taking pictures. A moderate imam who tried to reason with the

extremists was beaten and taken away, and a group of Libyans protesting the destruction was violently confronted. Reports allege that Salafist clerics in Saudi Arabia have instructed Libya’s Salafists to destroy religious shrines, which they consider objects of idolatry.

Bulldozers on Monday cleared what remained of the Sidi Shaab Mosque in Tripoli, Libya. The mosque, which housed the shrine of Sufi mystic Sidi Shaab, was attacked Saturday. ex-revolutionaries.” The security committee is responsible for organizing Libya’s armed forces. Abdel Al subsequently handed in his resignation while the positions of the other officials appear tenuous, especially Jweili, whose appointment is widely thought to have been part of a deal with a powerful militia group from the city of Zintan, 90 miles south of Tripoli. Jweili was formerly the head of Zintan’s military committee. The Zintan brigade captured Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, the second son and former heir apparent of Moammar Gadhafi, in November and agreed only last week to allow him to be tried next month in Zintan in exchange for political favors, one of them reportedly being the appointment of Jweili. Sufis believe in a mys-

tical brand of Islam that some conservative Muslims label heretical. The attacks on the shrines began early Friday, when ultraconservative Islamists used bombs and a bulldozer to level the tomb of a 15th-century Sufi scholar, Abdel Salam al-Asmar, in the town of Zlitan, 100 miles east of Tripoli. The radicals also destroyed thousands of historical books when they burned a library in a nearby mosque to the ground. The tomb’s destruction followed fierce clashes between two of Zlitan’s heavily armed tribes that killed several people. Three journalists who covered the assault for a local TV station were arrested as security forces tried to impose a media blackout. As dawn broke Saturday, Islamists emboldened by the success of the Zlitan attack struck the Sidi Shaab

Sect vows fight over Mexican schools NUEVA JERUSALEN, Mexico (AP) — Sprouting out of the corn fields of western Mexico rises a hill crowned with two arches and four towers, marking the gates of an improvised “holy land” that farmers built brick by brick over nearly four decades. The sprawling complex, they believed, would be the only place saved in the coming apocalypse: Nueva Jerusalen, or “New Jerusalem.” A cult has since sprung up around the detailed instructions that Our Lady of the Rosary supposedly left for followers, including how believers should dress and live. No non-religious music, no alcohol or tobacco, no television or radio, no modern dress and, the injunction that has landed them in trouble, no public education. That last rule is at the heart of a confrontation brewing at the complex among the sect’s traditionalists, its more reformist members and the Mexican government. The conflict escalated into a tense standoff this week between the sect and federal and state police. According to traditionalists, the governmentmandated uniforms, school books and lesson plans, not to mention the computers and televisions now used in many Mexican classrooms, would violate the Virgin Mary’s orders, on her own sacred ground.

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Organized squadrons of church followers enforced those beliefs in July when they used sledgehammers and pickaxes to tear down at least two school buildings, doused the school furniture and texts in gasoline and set the whole mess on fire. Authorities in the western state of Michoacan have vowed that public, secular education, one of the few common bonds that hold Mexican society together, would not be sacrificed, and they pledged Monday that about 250 children would be back in class in Nueva Jerusalen. That prompted swift reaction from conservative church followers, who formed a line inside the gates to face down dozens of police who showed up with patrol trucks and an armored vehicle, in what turned out to be a daylong standoff. Federal police commander Miguel Guerrero said he was talking with both sect traditionalists and reformists who believe in the sect’s central tenets but want a modern education for their children, to reach some sort of compromise. “We are simply discussing the community’s situation,” Guerrero said after the talks. But neither side was budging: The reformists rejected a compromise to hold classes in another town, and the traditionalists weren’t going to let gov-

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