December 19, 2013

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Volume 21 • Number 19

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Published in Scott City, Ks.

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one step at a time

Latest surgery will help Dawson Fox to become more mobile and pain-free

Dawson Fox is back on his feet and looking forward to celebrating Christmas with his family.

(Record Photo)

Dawson Fox is just like any other 10-year-old.

He enjoys four-wheeling with his grandparents and he loves football.

When he flashes a huge smile it doesn’t begin to reveal that being a typical 10-year-old doesn’t come easy for the Scott City youngster. Even before he was born, life took an unexpected turn when he suffered a prenatal stroke.

The stroke left Dawson with a condition known as spastic hemiplegia cerebral palsy in which half the body is paralyzed. While Dawson’s left arm and hand function normally, he must cope with the effects of some paralysis in his legs and the right side of his body.

What can make a prenatal stroke even more complicated and difficult to deal with than strokes that affect an adult is the fact that a young person’s body

is continuing to develop. Bones are growing and muscles are stretching.

Due to his limited mobility, not all of Dawson’s bones and muscles are developing at the same rate. In addition, bones in his hips, knees and feet haven’t formed as they should and, in some instances, have even been working against each other when Dawson walks.

That’s made life even more difficult for a youngster who wants to be active.

Of course, the problems with his development have been monitored closely by his family.

“We’ve been watching the curvature of his spine for some time,” says his grandmother, Sharon Powers.

Because the stroke left one side of his body significantly weaker than the other, that has led to scoliosis - or curvature of the spine.

(See DAWSON on page two)

Council weighs multiple meters for large property owners In order to get around the sharp increase in water rates should the owners of multiple lots be allowed more than one water meter?

That is the question that the Scott City Council will be pondering during the next few weeks as they begin hearing complaints about their new rate structure.

Scott City Councilman Josh Gooden said at Monday’s meeting that individuals with larger

lots in town have approached him about the possibility of getting a second meter. Under the new rate structure, once a residential or commercial customer exceeds 40,000 gallons a month, their cost will increase significantly.

Customers are paying $1.70 per thousand gallons for usage under 40,000 gallons, but that jumps to $2.72 for usage between 40,000 and 60,000 gallons. Between 60,000 and

80,000 gallons the rate jumps to $3.72 per thousand, and once usage exceeds 80,000 gallons the rate is $5.44 per thousand gallons.

The rate structure doesn’t recognize that a person who has a home or commercial lot located on three or four lots may actually be using less water than someone with a single lot, based on the square feet involved, says Gooden.

That reasoning didn’t

get much sympathy from Councilman Fred Kuntzsch who said the same argument could be made for water usage by a family of five compared to a single-person household.

“That’s the way it is,” Kuntzsch said.

“It doesn’t matter how many meters you have when most of the water is going on grass,” said Public Works Director Mike Todd.

Gooden wondered about the

possibility of allowing those with large lots to purchase an additional meter. By breaking up usage between two meters they might be able to avoid the 60,000 gallon threshold.

“We quit allowing a second meter a long time ago,” noted Todd.

“Their thinking is that they already own a bigger house and they’re paying more in property taxes,” Gooden said.

(See METERS on page 8)

Gifts for needy families has become holiday tradition

As more than a dozen women were sorting, wrapping and boxing up Christmas gifts for local families on Wednesday morning, Deb Lawrence couldn’t help but recall how the gathering of all these volunteers for a common cause got its start.

It was 10 years ago that a local individual saw a family he knew could use some assistance.

“They weren’t going to have a Christmas,” says Lawrence.

He contacted the former pastor of the First Christian Church and gave him $300 to purchase some Christmas presents and other necessities for the family.

At the time, Lawrence and her family

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were already assisting another family in town in a similar way, so the pastor passed along the $300 donation. But after buying items for the family, she still had some money left over.

“I could either keep buying more for the same family, but I didn’t feel that was right, or I could try to help someone else,” recalls Lawrence.

That’s when it became a little more complicated.

Lawrence went to the Thrift Store where she was given the names of five families, including 19 children, who could use some extra help during the holiday.

(See TRADITION on page 16)

Valinda Payne (left) and Kay Mohler sort and wrap Christmas gifts that will be distributed to families in Scott County. (Record Photo)

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Dawson “We knew some type of surgery would eventually be necessary,” she says.

“His bones have been getting twisted,” says his mother, Leasha Fox. “We were seeing a difference in his walk.”

However, a curved spine was only one health issue affecting the youngster. Dawson’s hip bones were no longer sitting properly in the sockets and neither his toes nor his kneecaps were pointing forward.

That not only made walking difficult, but painful.

“He couldn’t walk any distance before he would start hurting,” says Leasha.

Planning Surgery Surgery for Dawson was inevitable. And while Dawson understood that surgery would make him feel better and improve his ability to walk, it didn’t prevent him from wondering why he’s had to go through so much.

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“Before the surgery he would ask why he had a stroke and ‘Why do I have to do this?” says his grandmother.

Some questions are difficult to answer.

Dawson and his family met with a group of orthopedic surgeons and therapists at the Children’s Hospital Colorado, in Denver, in late April. It was decided that surgery would be the next step, but it would be a major procedure in which surgeons would cut into the femur bone just below his hip bones on both legs and rotate the bones outward.

At the same time, they would carve out the hip bones so they would rest properly in the sockets.

“I was kind of scared at first,” recalls Dawson.

Pediatric orthopedic surgeon Dr. Frank Chang’s schedule was so packed that Dawson’s procedure couldn’t take place for another five months. That was fine with Dawson

since it meant he’d still be able to swim, which is his favorite summer activity.

The family was told that the surgery, which took place on Oct. 4, could last up to six hours.

Everything went smoothly and Dawson was back in his hospital room after only four hours.

The only complication to what was termed a “typical” surgery was a pressure sore that Dawson complained about in his foot. On the Monday following Friday’s surgery, the cast was cut open to relieve the pressure.

A bigger issue for Dawson was the pain caused by muscle spasms.

“That was something we were told to expect,” Leasha says. “They had to rearrange Dawson’s muscles.”

That was perhaps the most difficult part of the entire procedure for Dawson and his family. Dawson slept in a hospital bed in his living room and

Sharon would sleep on a cot beside him at night so Leasha could get a few hours of sleep.

“Dawson was dealing with a lot of pain, especially at night, because of the muscle spasms,” Sharon says.

But once the casts came off his legs after six weeks, the improvement was immediately noticeable.

“The flexibility that Dawson has is like nothing we’ve seen before,” Leasha says. “He’ll sit in the couch and he’ll raise his left foot way in the air.”

While he has to use a wheelchair most of the time because he tires quickly, Dawson is able to get around with a walker to help build his strength.

Unfortunately, his visits to the Children’s Hospital aren’t over. He’ll return in October to have plates removed from both sides of his hips and his lower right leg. This will be an out-patient procedure.

“And they say we won’t have to worry about his hips anymore,” Leasha says.

Muscle development will be an ongoing issue.

Because his muscles aren’t growing fast enough, they will become tight which can have an impact on his bones, along with being painful. Dawson will need to return to the hospital to have his muscles lengthened so that his legs can grow at the same rate.

Dawson is excited about what the surgery means.

“I’ll be able to kick a football better and run better,” he says with a grin.

“This is going to make me better at stuff.”

And by having the surgery done during the winter it won’t interfere with his swimming.

That makes this a pretty good Christmas for a 10-year-old whose toughness and determination make him anything but typical.

First half taxes due Friday

Scott County residents are reminded that the first half payment of their personal property and real estate taxes is due on Fri., Dec. 20.

Payments are made to the Scott County treasurer’s office in the courthouse.

The second half payment is due by May 10.

Holiday hours at Post Office

The Scott City Post Office will observe shorter hours at its service window over the holidays.

On Christmas Eve and on New Year’s Eve the customer desk will be open from 8:30-11:15 a.m.

There will be normal mail delivery on both days.

The Post Office will be closed on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

Early copy deadline

Because of the Christmas holiday, deadline for all advertising and news copy for next week’s Scott County Record is 5:00 p.m. on Monday.

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Community Living

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Freezing cookies can be a great time-saver When making your cookies, try making a double batch and freeze half. Cookie dough freezes well. Then, you are only making one mixing mess.

You can also freeze cookies after baking too.

This would eliminate yet another step in having fresh homemade cookies in a snap.

Here’s some advice for freezing cookies. Let’s start with dough.

Cookie dough can be refrigerated if wellwrapped for 2-3 days or

frozen for one month or more. Discard cookie dough that has not been refrigerated for more than two hours.

Please note that a manual defrost freezer will keep your cookies longer than the frost free type the defrost cycle thaws small/delicate items and

then re-freezes them causing ice build up.

Only freeze like cookies (by recipe or crispiness) together in one container and then combine them at serving time.

Crisp cookies, the ones with loads of butter and sugar, freeze better than soft cookies. Bars and brownies are an exception to this rule since they freeze extremely well.

The only cookies that won’t survive very well are those with fresh fruit fillings, but jam ones are fine.

First, cool the baked cookies completely before freezing. Second, separate cookies by recipe. If you can’t, separate the crispy cookies from the soft ones for storage.

Third, use airtight containers; don’t use cardboard containers because they pick up freezer odors.

When doing so, first put a piece of waxed paper or foil in the bottom of the container. Then, place the cookies so they aren’t touching and separate the layers with waxed paper or foil to protect. Seal

Becker completes first year of certification

Ruth Becker, assistant city clerk for the City of Scott City completed the first year of the 2013 Municipal Clerks Certification Institute Nov. 11-15 in Wichita.

The four-year certification program is sponsored by the Center for Urban Studies, Hugo Wall School of Urban and Public Affairs, Wichita State University and the City Clerks and Municipal Finance Officers Association of Kansas.

The Certification Institute provides 120 hours of instruction.

Participants receive instruction in public administration, leadership, interpersonal and technical skills.

The program aids municipal clerks and finance officers in improving job performance.

Upon graduation, participants may apply the institute training hours toward qualifying to become a “Certified Municipal Clerk” with the International Institute of Municipal Clerks (IIMC).

Park Lane Christmas party is Sat.

Park Lane Nursing Home will host its annual Christmas party for residents and their families on Sat., Dec. 21. This will be a come-and-go event from 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Refreshments will be served.

Check with Scott City merchants for last minute gift ideas!

tightly. Then, thaw cookies in their original container at room temperature so that condensation forms on the wrapping, not on the cookie.

With the exception of meringue based cookies or those with very thin batters, you can freeze cookie dough and it will last for four weeks. They also keep well in the refrigerator for 3 days.

Freeze all dough in a heavyweight plastic bag to prevent dough from absorbing freezer odors.

Don’t even bother thaw-

ing the dough before baking, because frozen cookie dough will not flatten as easily when baked. That’s especially a problem for chocolate chip cookies.

If you choose to, defrost in refrigerator prior to baking.

Before freezing cookies such as sugar and butter, first divide dough into small sections (to allow for quicker defrosting) and form each into a log.

Then, double wrap it with plastic wrap to prevent freezer odors.

(See TIME on page seven)

Births PARENTS OF SON Greg and Stefanie Harris, Wichita, announce the birth of their son, Laykin, born Dec. 13, 2013, at Wichita.

He weighed 6 lbs. 6 oz. and was 20 inches long.

Maternal grandparents are Dan and Twilla Snell, Claremore, Okla.

Great-grandparents are Dean and Ruth Riedl, Scott City.

Great-great-grandfather is Malvin Wells, Ordway, Colo.

In 1973 . . .

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hundertmark

. . . and in 2013

Couple to celebrate 40th anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hundertmark, Scott City, will celebrate their 40th wedding anniverary on Dec. 22.

Walter Hundertmark and Carolyn Wright were married Dec. 22, 1973, at Scott City.

The couple has a son, Jason Hundertmark and wife, Robbie, and a daugh-

ter, Janelle Woods and husband, Jamie, both of Scott City.

They will have a celebration with their family hosted by Jason, Janelle and kids.

Cards may be sent to the couple at 1618 Church, Scott City, Ks. 67871.

City on a Hill program for High Plains Study Club

O n Dec. 12 the High Plains Study C l u b members were welcomed to Norma the sights Cunningham and sounds of Christmas at the home of Kami Rosin. Co-hostess Betty LaToush presented goodies, including sugar plums and their history from the 1600s.

President Barbara Dickhut called the meeting to order with the reading of the club collect and the flag salute. Twentythree members shared diverse answers to “Who can you help during this Christmas Season?”

A devotional reading was shared by Patsi Graham from a favorite book “Kneeling in Bethlehem.”

Treasurer Betty LaToush gave a report. Bar-

bara Hutchins moved to approve the payment of an invoice presented by Sue Pammenter for a book presented to the Scott City Library in memory of Merilyn Krause.

Winner of the lucky dip was Barbara Hutchins.

Ann Hawkins will bring a gift for the next meeting’s drawing.

Patsi Graham encouraged members to participate in the upcoming Christmas Open House at the El Quartelejo Museum.

The next meeting will be Jan. 16 at the home of Thelma Miller followed by an excursion to the Scott City Eye Center.

Norma Cunningham, Masters of Education, Licensed Clinical Additions Counselor, gave a passionate report on the mission and therapy involved at City on a Hill drug/alcohol treatment center for women.

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Editorial/Opinion

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editorially speaking

Fighting wind:

Kansas Congressmen are blocking wind tax credits

Kansas could, and should, be an undisputed leader in wind energy.

Unfortunately, Kansans are standing in the way of making that possible.

Congressman Tim Huelskamp has staunchly opposed extending the wind tax credits which have contributed significantly to the development of wind energy. It is the uncertainty of these credits, which are extended on a year-to-year basis, which have made it impossible for wind energy companies to make long-range plans.

These credits have played a significant role in seeing the expansion of wind power in Western Kansas and could be significant in the development of wind farms in Scott County.

But Huelskamp isn’t alone in blocking the tax credit program. He is joined by fellow Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-Wichita). Pompeo is in the back pocket of the Koch brothers who don’t mind being on the receiving end of billions of dollars in tax subsidies for the oil and gas industry, but oppose “handouts” to wind.

The fact is, Kansas has the second highest potential for wind energy production in the country.

It has already attracted $5 billion in wind energy investments and, last year, wind was responsible for generating 11.4 percent of our electricity.

Apparently, that makes the Koch brothers a little nervous.

Congressmen like Huelskamp and Pompeo aren’t acting in the best interest of Kansas when they opposed wind energy tax credits. Perhaps, someday, these credits won’t be necessary for an industry that’s capable of standing on its own two feet.

Then again, one would have thought the same of the oil and gas industry.

Government assistance is a terrible thing unless it’s lining your pockets and the pockets of your lackeys in Congress.

A hand up:

Government can’t ignore its role in helping the poor

In war, it is said, there are casualties and in the ongoing budget battle in Washington, D.C., that is certainly true.

Unfortunately, the victims are those who can least afford it.

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted to cut nutrition aide to our poorest citizens by $40 billion over the next 10 years. The latest “bipartisan budget plan” also proposes cutting the pension benefits of federal workers and military retirees.

The defense industry and the wealthiest citizens can rest easy. You won’t have to endure any pain and suffering.

Republicans who vote against nutrition programs and other assistance for low-income Americans claim that private charities can make up the difference.

That’s in between claims that by helping the poor the government is only encouraging their continued dependence.

Of course, both claims are false.

Each year, a group of volunteers in Scott City prepares Christmas gifts and provides some cash to more than 30 local families. The need has not diminished over the years and, despite what some like to claim, these are not people expecting a handout.

“Nearly everyone we give to has a job, maybe two jobs,” says Deb Lawrence, who has organized the effort over the past 10 years. “They aren’t looking for a handout. They just need some help.”

But she says there’s a limit to what they - and local churches can do. While churches, through the Breadbasket and Thrift Store, have been generous they can’t begin to meet the need on their own.

While the federal government looks at cutting SNAP benefits, the state is delivering another blow to the poor by cutting benefits as well.

It is redirecting money from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.

And, unlike claims by conservative lawmakers, those who work directly with the program say that it doesn’t create long-term dependence for taxpayer handouts. The average length of time that people receive TANF benefits is 14 months “when they are experiencing difficulties.”

In addition, 45 percent of those receiving benefits already have a job.

But that doesn’t keep the Brownback Administration and conservatives from shaping their own reality while denying help to those who need it most.

Christmas ghost visits Huelskamp

It’s Christmas Eve in the Tim Huelskamp home as he crawls into bed. He begins counting quietly to himself, but not so quiet that his wife doesn’t hear.

“Counting sheep, dear?” she wonders.

“No,” he replies, stopping briefly after 15. “I’m counting the number of times I voted against Obamacare.”

By the time he gets to 40, his wife is already alseep and Huelskamp is nodding off when he feels a chill in the air. He pulls the blanket up to his chin, but hears a voice telling him it won’t do any good.

“The chill you’re feeling right now can’t be turned away by a blanket,” said the voice.

“You’d better not get any closer,” warns Huelskamp as he tries to peer through the fog that has begun to fill the room. “Do you know who I am?”

“And just who might you be?” asked the voice.

“I’m Mr. Tea Party and nobody messes with me,” said Huelskamp. “Any time Fox News or any cable show wants to know the pulse of the Tea Party

I’m the one they talk to.”

“I’m impressed,” says the voice as a shape began to emerge from the fog.

“But I’ve seen your kind come and go for centuries.”

“And just who are you?” asks Huelskamp.

“I’m the Ghost of Christmas Future.”

“Oh, yeah, I’ve heard about you and your friends,” Huelskamp says.

“Mitt Romney said that you visited him last year, but we thought that he was going through some kind of post-election meltdown. What do you want with me? I’m not the President or running for the presidency.”

“That doesn’t mean I haven’t been paying attention to you,” said the ghost. “Anyway, I think it’s time we took a little trip.”

Before Huelskamp could protest, he felt himself being carried into the

fog and he’s standing on Main Street in downtown Fowler, but he doesn’t immediately recognize where he is.

“Look familiar?” wonders the ghost.

“This looks like a thirdworld country,” he said.

“Don’t people know how to take care of things around here?”

“It’s your home town,” said the ghost.

“Boy, Hutchinson really went to hell, didn’t it?” said Huelskamp.

“No, it’s your first home town, Fowler,” the ghost said, shaking his head in disbelief.

“Well, so it is,” Huelskamp says. “So why are we here?”

“Doesn’t this bother you?” wondered the ghost.

“I’m not surprised,” Huelskamp says. “I knew this would happen when they passed Obamacare. It ruined the country.”

“Not quite. There’s the reason,” said the ghost, pointing to a billboard on the outskirts of town. It was asking voters to reelect Ted Cruz and Huelskamp to a second term in the White House.

“You mean Cruz is president and I’m vice president?” Huelskamp asked as the ghost nodded his head. “I can’t believe I settled for the number two spot on the ticket.”

“The bigger issue is that the Tea Party has been in control of the government for the past 18 years and this is what it’s doing to the economy,” said the ghost. “Wind energy has disappeared because it couldn’t compete with the subsidies you were granting the oil and gas industry.

“Trickle-down economics has wiped out the middle class. Because of free trade agreements the best jobs in the United States are as a Wal-Mart greeter and working at fast food restaurants for $5.50 per hour, which is the new minimum wage. And only the top one percent can afford to send their kids to college. The only good thing about the 34 percent unemployment rate is that a lot of people have plenty of time to wait outside hospital emergency rooms (See GHOST on page six)

Lessons from the auto bailout

When will the criticism of Obamacare finally end?

I’ve done some research on the question, and by my calculations, judging from current trends, this will happen approximately . . . never.

I base this on the criticism of the auto bailout of early 2009. Almost five years later, the industry is healthy again and large swaths of the Midwest have been spared what would have been certain economic devastation.

All this was achieved for a relatively modest sum: When the government’s last shares of General Motors were sold last week, the total cost to save GM and Chrysler came to about $12 billion. It would seem that the argument against the bailout has been settled.

Yet opponents continue to argue their case - if anybody will listen.

Where to Write

another view by Dana Milbank

On Monday, I resolved to listen. I went to the National Press Club, where the National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative group, was arguing that the GM bailout was a big mistake. When I arrived two minutes before the start of the news conference, I was the only reporter in the room; eventually, two others joined me.

Peter Flaherty, the group’s president, stared into a lone camera. “At its most fundamental level, the auto bailout is a failure,” he proclaimed.

“There’s only been a modest culture change” at GM, he said, and “the bailout did not save jobs.”

What’s more, he said, GM’s reorganization “was

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government-orchestrated theft.”

When Flaherty finished speaking, he asked for questions. Nobody stirred.

Feeling pity, I asked if he really thought the auto bailout had no impact on U.S. employment.

“Yes,” he replied.

And the Troubled Assets Relief Program which the auto bailout was part of - that returned a profit to taxpayers of $11 billion overall?

“I think it was a mistake,” he said.

Flaherty was offering a pre-buttal to GM’s chief executive, Dan Akerson, who spoke at the press club two hours later.

Unlike Flaherty, Akerson had some concrete evidence to show why the bailout had been worth the cost: a $21.3 billion initial public offering for GM, 15 profitable quarters and total profits of nearly

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$30 billion, $10 billion invested in U.S. facilities (including $1.3 billion announced Monday), a return to an investmentgrade rating for its bonds, and 26,000 jobs preserved.

Akerson - who is soon to be replaced by Mary Barra, GM’s chief of product development and the first woman to run a major industrial company - was a private-equity guy who joined the company after the bailout.

But asked his opinion of the bailout decision, he cited a study by the Center for Automotive Research that concluded that overall it saved the government $36 billion to $38 billion in costs such as unemployment benefits, and that didn’t include $26 billion in pension liabilities that would have been dumped on taxpayers.

(See BAILOUT on page six)

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Undeserved applause for new budget deal

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by Katrina Vanden Huevel

As a novelist once put it, President Calvin Coolidge “aspired to become the least president the country had ever had; he attained his desire.”

Last week, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) managed to negotiate what may be considered “the least” budget the House has ever passed.

Yet ever since the deal was announced, Washington has been patting itself on the back for the deal, which - at least temporarily - halts a two-year war waged by GOP obstructionists that has paralyzed, and even shut down, the government.

President Obama, even while acknowledging the deal’s shortcomings, said that its mere existence was “a good sign that Democrats and Republicans in

Congress were able to come together and break the cycle of shortsighted, crisis-driven decision making to get this done.”

The Economist put it more plainly: “What is in the deal . . . is perhaps less important than the fact that there is one.”

Yet this excessive affection for dealmaking - any deal at all - obscures the truth: Simply doing something doesn’t mean that you’re doing the right thing.

Consider the salient details.

The deal finances the government for the next two years and reduces the effects of sequestration, the across-the-board cuts Congress imposed on itself to force a budget deal (which, of course, it failed to reach).

In other words, we’re supposed to congratulate Congress for reaching a bipartisan agreement that partially fixes something it broke.

Most Americans living in poverty experience hunger or the pervasive fear of it. The USDA reported that 49 million Americans, including 16 million children, lived in food-insecure households last year.

In a joint appearance with Murray on Sunday’s “Meet the Press”, Ryan said “You gotta, you know, crawl before you can walk before you can run.”

Indeed.

There’s something troubling, even farcical, about lawmakers applauding their own mediocrity, handing themselves medals of participation for showing up to work on time. These days, it may be noteworthy when elected officials engage in the most basic functions of government. But a smoothly operating Congress is not necessarily moral, humane or even economically smart.

In fact, while pundits debate whether Republicans or Democrats won the negotiations, the real losers are the American people, on whose backs the deal was brokered.

Never mind that it makes none of the crucial investments in education, infrastructure and research that will secure our future.

This budget is a lousy deal for the millions of Americans still out of work, for the one in five children growing up in poverty, for the countless families still struggling to make ends meet.

It cuts the pensions of federal workers and military retirees while keeping wide open egregious tax loopholes that benefit the wealthiest. It reduces domestic discretionary spending to Bush-era levels. It does absolutely nothing to create jobs at a time when unemployment

remains our biggest economic problem.

Negotiators didn’t even extend unemployment benefits - set to expire three days after Christmas - for 1.3 million longterm unemployed workers (and millions of their children), but they managed to boost Medicare fees for already wealthy doctors.

Meanwhile, conservatives and progressives agree that letting unemployment benefits lapse would further imperil our fragile economic recovery. In addition to being needlessly cruel, this deal is just plain bad policy.

Advocates of compromise for compromise’s sake argue that everybody sacrifices something in a tough negotiation. This is an easy mantra to toss around when you’re talking about sacrificing political cover as opposed to, say, a roof over your head.

(See APPLAUSE on page six)

Town hall gives Hannity a dose of Obamacare reality

by Bob Cesca

A warning about populism

by Jim Hightower

Here’s a jarring headline: “Economic Populism Is a Dead End for Democrats.”

That’s the title on a recent op-ed piece written by a couple of longtime political flacks for Wall Street and published, naturally, in the Wall Street Journal.

When the Barons of Big Money start rolling out such scolding screeds, it’s not because they really think Populism is a loser, but because they’re terrified by the fact that it has already gained mass appeal and is on the move all across grassroots America.

Indeed, to put a thin veneer of legitimacy on this op-ed, they had to resort to the fiction that it is a political warning written to

Democrats by Democrats - specifically by an inside-the-Beltway outfit calling itself Third Way. But this group is to authentic Democratic Party principles what near beer is to stout - only, not as close. Third Way is just the same old Wall Street way.

While it wears a Democratic mask, it pushes for policies that are Wall Street dreams, including gutting and privatizing Social Security.

Why would a group wanting you to believe that it has genuine Democratic genes be an advocate for further enriching Wall Street’s Republican elite at the expense of America’s middle class and the poor?

To find out, just peek behind Third Way’s organizational cur-

tain. You’ll see that its funders and governing board include no one from labor, senior citizens, consumers, environmentalists, small farmers, students, African-Americans, Latinos, and other core Democratic constituencies.

Instead, of its 29 board members, 20 are Wall Street bankers, hedge fund hucksters, or venture capital vultures.

Third Way dead ends at Wall Street. So, fronting for the selfish interests of its backers, it doesn’t want any party championing economic Populism.

But the people do, and that’s who Democrats should heed.

Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker and author

During a healthcare “town hall” episode of Fox News Channel’s Hannity, Christian Dorsey from the Economic Policy Institute blasted a gaping hole through Sean Hannity’s anti-Obamacare bubble. Toward the end of a segment, Hannity repeated the same old whiny “Obama lied” meme about keeping your plan if you like it.

Dorsey interrupted Hannity and reminded him that many parts of the law are wildly popular, and began to name those parts: ban on discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions and so forth.

Then Dorsey said, and accurately so, that the things Americans don’t like as much were indeed Republican ideas which the Democrats incorporated into the law: the exchanges and high deductible plans.

By the way, he didn’t mention the individual mandate, which is also a Republican idea.

Hannity smiled and mocked, “Wildly popular?”

The invasion of reality into Hannity’s rickety tree fort of mendacity must’ve been too much to swallow, so Hannity, his world collapsing around him, decided to awkwardly throw to commercial.

But then he suddenly backtracked and asked the audience, “Who here thinks this is wildly popular?” Another audience member shouted out, “In two years, you’ll be taking credit for it, Sean.”

In the early 1990s, Republicans such as Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich, Orrin Hatch, Chuck Grassley, Richard Lugar and Alan Simpson proposed a counter-measure to Hillary Clinton’s healthcare proposal. The GOP legislation contained an individual mandate and government subsidies.

Hannity pointed at the man and continued his mockery, “Wildly popular? Wildly?!”

Then Alan Colmes piled on and named more parts of the bill that happen to be wildly popular.

It was a totally unscripted audience revolt against Hannity’s disinformation campaign. So he turned to the camera, grinned and shrugged his shoulders as if to say, These people are nuts.

Cut to commercial.

To answer his question directly, yes. You can silence your audience all you want, Sean, but you can’t escape the reality that most of the Affordable Care Act is wildly popular . . . among Republicans.

Let’s do this again.

•80 percent of Republicans yes, Republicans - like the idea of health insurance marketplaces, also known as “exchanges.”

•Likewise, 57 percent of Republicans like the idea of the government helping to pay the cost of premiums via insurance subsidies.

•54 percent of Republicans like the employer mandate - the same mandate which the congressional Republicans almost universally oppose, including and partly because of Sean Hannity.

(See REALITY on page six)

Benjamin Franklin was right about the NSA In 1975, I was invited to join the US Senate’s Church Committee that was formed after the Watergate scandals. Its goal was to investigate massive illegalities committed by the CIA, National Security Agency and FBI. As a then staunch Republican, and having worked on President Nixon’s reelection campaign developing Mideast policy, I declined.

With the wisdom of hindsight, I should have joined the investigation.

Sen. Frank Church warned: “If this government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable

behind the headlines by Eric Margolis

it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. “ The Church Committee revealed Washington’s role in the assassinations of foreign leaders, CIA collaboration with the Mafia, wide scale subversion around the globe, mail and phone intercepts, spying on Americans by the US Army and intelligence services, collusion with right-wing terrorist groups

like Gladio, and much, much more.

Edward Snowden’s revelations of NSA malfeasance have done much the same thing today.

Both Church and Snowden were branded traitors by rightwing zealots and flag-wavers.

Government security agencies were reined in for decades. But it’s now clear they are not only back to their old tricks, but are out of control.

The gigantic rock lifted by the courageous Snowden revealed the chilling global reach of US electronic domination and intrusion.

Take operation “Stateroom.”

NSA reportedly used the embassies and consulates of Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand to spy on Asian targets.

This was part of the “Five Eyes”

system in which Anglo-Saxon intelligence agencies act as subsidiaries of US intelligence.

One reason we have so far heard little about NSA spying against these nations is that they spy on their own citizens using NSA technology, then pass the data to Big Brother in the US. It seems that data on US citizens hoovered up by NSA is also routinely passed to Israel’s intelligence services, a double violation of US law. Israel has long tapped into the US communications networks and even, it is alleged, the White House phone system - installed by an Israeli electronic firm.

Sen. Church’s prescient warning was made 38 years ago when electronics were still in their infancy, compared to today’s high-tech gear. Not

only do we see US intelligence agencies again spying on their own citizens, but a total failure in controlling them by their ostensible “masters,” the US Congress and White House.

Clearly, neither Congress nor the president know what’s going on behind CIA and NSA’s wall of secrecy - not to mention the 14 other US intelligence agencies.

The cowardly acceptance

by Congress of the evil Patriot Act has removed any reins from intelligence/security, allowing them to spy on everyone, anytime, anywhere by simply invoking the magical mantra, “terrorism.”

There was little difference between America’s post9/11 hysteria that produced the (See NSA on page six)

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Kansas facing a qualified admissions train wreck

by Richard Schrock

In two years, Kansas could see a 20-45% drop in freshmen enrollment at regent’s universities.

The problem is simple.

Currently a student can get into a state university by meeting any of several Qualified Admissions criteria, such as an ACT of 21 or completion of the QA high school curriculum with a certain GPA, etc.

By 2015, the “or” changes to “and” with big ramifications.

Each regents school is calculating how much of this last fall’s entering class would have been

excluded if their entering students had to meet the full set of QA requirements rather than just one. These figures are not public but the extent state universities used their prior exemption window is public.

The University of Kansas will take the least hit because they have higher admissions requirements. And KU used very little of their earlier “window” to admit students who could not make even one QA requirement. For our other state universities, losing one-third of their incoming freshmen is probably an optimistic estimate.

Applause

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Compromise is being treated not as a means to a better end, but as an end in itself. Much of the national media feeds this narrative by churning out one process story after another, emphasizing bipartisanship above all else.

“A compromise federal budget plan . . . represented rare convergence between the two parties,” CNN reported. “The House ended 2013 on a rare bipartisan note by passing a budget deal supported by a nearly equal number of Republicans and Democrats,” said Politico.

At the same time, there has been no shortage of breathless analysis about whether Democrats or Republicans “won” the negotiation, whether Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is breaking up with the extreme right wing of his party and how all of this will impact the 2014 midterm elections - signs of the Beltway’s unrelenting insularity.

Outside of Washington, local and regional media around the country are taking it upon themselves to cover what’s most important - the very real consequences of this deal for the lives of Americans.

As Wisconsin papers such as The Reporter and the Daily Tribune reminded Ryan, there are 99,000 Wisconsinites who stand to lose their unemployment benefits.

This week, the Senate will take up the Ryan-Murray budget deal - and though few GOP Senators will support the deal, it seems likely to pass. This “least” budget is literally the least they can do. And that’s too bad, especially during the holiday season, because the people this budget hurts most are the least among us.

This will be a tremendous windfall for community colleges, and stretch their staffing beyond current capacities. But our state universities that have become addicted to evergrowing tuition-driven enrollments will face a crisis.

What can Kansas universities do to avoid the massive 2015 drop-off in enrollment?

With the new QA criteria in place, some officials are praying that Kansas high schools will boost their student enrollment in the full QA college curriculum overnight. But this raise-the-bar-and-theywill-come optimism is

Ghost because they can’t afford health insurance or health care.”

“What are you trying to tell me?” asks Huelskamp. “It looks to me as though the free market is working and we’ve eliminated government from our lives. Besides, the people wouldn’t be electing us for all these years if they didn’t agree.”

“Voter ID laws have made it impossible for anyone but white people on Social Security to vote,” says the ghost.

“My kind of people,”

Bailout

“The automotive industry in this country is somewhere between 3.5 and four percent of total GDP,” he said. “To have ceded that to foreign competition - in my opinion, as an American - would Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of The Nation have been a serious mismagazine take.”

The study Akerson cited calculated that the bailout saved 1.2 million (continued from page five) to 2.6 million jobs in 2009 alone. But the National •78 percent of Republicans support the ban on deny- Legal and Policy Center’s ing insurance to people with pre-existing conditions. Flaherty offered a breezy •This one is an eye-opener. 29 percent of Republicans dismissal of that report: think Obamacare “doesn’t go far enough.”

The only aspect of the ACA that Republican voters dislike is the individual mandate. But I’m sure they’d feel differently if they were informed that Republicans invented the mandate.

•Richard Nixon, in his 1974 “Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan,” proposed to make it manda- Patriot Act and Germany’s tory for businesses to provide health insurance for all frenzy after the burning full-time employees. down of the Reichstag in •In the early 1990s, Republicans such as Bob Dole, 1933, an act that opened Newt Gingrich, Orrin Hatch, Chuck Grassley, Richard the way to Hitler’s dictaLugar and Alan Simpson proposed a counter-measure torship. to Hillary Clinton’s healthcare proposal. The GOP In both cases, civil legislation contained an individual mandate and gov- rights were swept away ernment subsidies. supposedly to fight “terOn top of everything else, here are two more not rorism.” President George insignificant benefits of the ACA that no one’s really W. Bush doubled the size talking about, but which would also be “wildly popu- and budget of America’s lar.”

Intelligence State.

•An additional 1.3 million people in their 20s are America’s intellinow insured thanks to the law allowing them to stay on gence establishment has their parents’ insurance policy until they’re 26.

•And this past summer, $500 million in rebate checks were mailed to eight million customers from their insurance providers due to the law mandating that the companies spend no more than 20 percent of each premium dollar on profit and overhead, technically known as the Medical Loss Ratio.

Weird, how Republicans seem to love the Democratic parts of the law but aren’t so keen on the Republican parts of the law. But I suppose that’s where guys like Hannity come in: to twist and distort reality so that these uncomfortable and irritating truths don’t get injected into Fox’s take on reality.

Reality

NSA

Bob Cesca is the editor of BobCesca.com and The Daily Banter

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unrealistic. Many Kansas schools can’t staff it and many Kansas students are not college-ready or college-able.

A few of the Kansas schools that applied for the recent innovative school waivers asked that middle school math be counted toward the high school QA requirements.

The additional math in the revised QA is a real hurdle that some schools can’t schedule and some students can’t pass.

And admitting a middle school course for Qualified Admissions blurs the whole QA curriculum. That is not going to happen.

Over these last few years, regents staff have likewise resurrected some weak science courses (integrated general science, physical sciences, animal sciences, etc.) that were clearly not collegepreparation courses and were removed for 2001 high school graduates.

But these actions are trivial. No last minute changes in Kansas high schools can boost QA curriculum completers by the needed numbers.

Unless there are eleventhhour changes in Kansas QA requirements, a drop in university freshman enrollment two years from now is unavoidable.

Many Kansas high schools have been pressuring students with hallway banners that assert “Where all students attend college!” They need to sober up and get honest with students. We need good plumbers and auto mechanics and they often make more money than college graduates.

Recent figures from both ACT and SAT show that nationwide, barely 25-30 percent of high school seniors are college ready.

Kansas Tech Schools have good tech faculty and need to focus on that expertise.

(See WRECK on page 7)

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Huelskamp says. “And what about the wall across our southern border. Did we get it built?”

“You had to. You did such a good job of tanking the U.S. economy that a wall was the only way to stop the mass exodus of Hispanics back into Mexico.”

“This is what our Founding Fathers envisioned,” says Huelskamp as he surveys the desolate landscape of abandoned buildings. “Freedom and a free market without any government oversight

don’t come cheap. Someone has to pay the price.”

“This doesn’t bother you?” asks the ghost.

“Why should it?” replies Huelskamp. “This is evidence that the Tea Party is saving this country from itself.”

“So, there’s nothing you see here that will change your mind about what you and the Tea Party are doing?” the ghost asks.

“Not a thing,” says Huelskamp as he suddenly finds himself back in his bed.

His wife sleepily turns to him and asks, “Are you still up?”

“You won’t believe what just happened to me . . . ,” he starts to say, but he’s interrupted.

“Honey, you need to get your sleep,” she says before dozing off. “You have a country to ruin.”

“You mean a country to run,” Huelskamp says.

“What’s the difference?” says his wife as she falls asleep.

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

(continued from page four)

“Not surprising, in light of the fact that the center is substantially funded by the government.” (The Center for Automotive Research reports that 16 percent of its money comes from the government.)

Few people have heard of Flaherty or are likely to care what he thinks of the bailout. But his undiminished opposition to it, a position many conservatives share, is worth examining because there is apparently no pattern of facts that would change

it. This, I suspect, is what Obamacare is up against.

Flaherty was sure the bailout didn’t work because his theory says it couldn’t work.

“The massive misallocation of capital to an inefficient market purchase can only cost jobs in the long run,” he argued.

But in the long run, we’re all dead. And the dramatic, and rapid, collapse of the American automotive industry in 2009 could have rippled across the economy, set-

ting off panic and perhaps a depression. Again, Flaherty scoffed.

“These dire stories . . . about a depression being triggered or the economy of the Midwest collapsing were just totally overblown and wrong,” he said.

We will never know for sure. But we can believe either opponents of the bailout, or our lying eyes.

Dana Milbank is a Washington Post staff writer and author

(continued from page five)

been trying to excuse its malfeasance by the old “everyone else does it” adage. Untrue. No other nation we know of so thoroughly sifts through the world’s communications, bugs 35 key leaders, targets individuals for assassination by CIA drones or US special forces and stores every word its citizens ever sent.

No other case where the spy agencies are so

uncontrolled. Besides, the US, which claims “exceptionalism,” should be setting a good example.

We should hold Congress almost as liable.

Its members have been too busy using insider information to make money in the market, and too busy boot-licking donors to do their job of supervision.

They should all be fired, starting with intelligence committee chair, Diane

Feinstein and the chief Republican dolt, Mike Rogers.

Ben Franklin, that great thinker and sage, put it perfectly when he said that government (read spy agencies) is like fire - a useful tool, but a terrible master.

Eric Margolis, an American journalist, is a contributing editor to the Toronto Sun chain of newspapers, writing mainly about the Middle East

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When you are ready to use the dough, simply slice off the dough about 1/4 inch thick (thinner for crispier cookies, a meat slicer works well) with a serrated knife or a really sharp knife, so it won’t pull through the dough.

For drop cookie dough, freeze it in an airtight container. If you have the time, drop the actual cookie dough in spoonfuls or a cookie scoop to portion balls of dough onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Place the baking sheet in the freezer for about an hour, or until the dough balls are frozen. Then place them into a re-sealable plastic freezer bag.

When you want freshbaked cookies, all you have to do is bake the frozen dough balls without thawing, at the usual temperature, adding a few minutes to the baking time.

For cookies that require rolling, freeze the dough in a flattened disk, so it’s easy to roll out when thawed. Or, if you have the time, precut the cookies and place them on cookie sheets to harden.

After that, double wrap the shapes and place them in an airtight container in

layers with waxed paper placed in between them (just like frozen ravioli).

No need to thaw before baking.

Baking Advice When baking, make sure you pre-heat your oven for best results.

Don’t open the oven door; the escaping heat will make your cooking time longer. When cookies are done, let them set on the pan a few minutes, but then remove to a rack to cool.

If cookies are stored properly they will retain their freshly baked taste and texture. Always store cookies after they have cooled completely. If they are still warm, they will get too soft and moist from the condensation and you’ll wreck them.

Always separate soft and crisp textured cookies before storing, if you mix the two, the soft cookies will make the crisp ones soft. Crisp cookies should be stored in a cookie jar or container with a loose fitting lid in a dry climate so any excess moisture can escape.

In a humid climate, store crisp cookies in a tightly covered container to keep out the moisture.

You can also “recrisp” cookies in a cool oven.

Cookies with very moist fillings should be stored in a loose covered container.

Refrigerate if desired.

If fillings contain dairy products, they must be refrigerated. Cover with foil before doing so.

Store fragile cookies in a shallow tin instead of a deep cookie jar or crock as extra weight will break the delicate treats. Refrigerate cookies if they contain cream cheese, cream frosting or custard, and other dairy products.

Cookies will last for up to 3-5 days there, loosely wrapped in foil.

Most baked cookies and brownies can also be frozen, if they are wellsealed in airtight containers.

Decorated cookies or those low in fat, unfortunately, do not freeze well.

Cookies with a high butterfat content will usually stay fresh for a week or longer in a tightly covered container.

To ship cookies, keep in mind that it is not a good idea to send perishable food. Durable foods that ship well include baked goods that are moist and firm or hard, but not brittle. These travel well and should arrive whole, not in crumbs.

Examples are pound cakes, cookies, fruitcakes, brownies and fudge. If you’re not sure how well a food will ship, test it.

Place the food in a container and shake it a few times. If it holds its shape, it should mail well.

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Tech schools should never have been allowed to offer academic general education beginning in 2005.

That is the job of our universities and community colleges.

There are many additional problems in Kansas higher education that arose in 2005 and will take years to resolve.

But this Qualified Admissions train wreck will not wait.

John Schrock trains biology teachers and lives in Emporia

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He said some individuals are considering putting in private wells so they don’t have to worry about the city’s rates. Gooden said those who have looked into the possibility say the cost of drilling a well is about $13,000.

“That will buy you a lot of water,” observed Kuntzsch.

“Just because you have the money, the huge house and you have the wherewith all, does that give you the right to use more water?” asked Councilman Jack Schmitt.

“I’m more concerned that our wells were pumping 22 percent less last year.”

Gooden reminded the council that all water uses outside of irrigation for agriculture account for just three percent of the groundwater being pumped in Groundwater Management District No. 1, which includes Scott County.

“Whatever we use or don’t use isn’t going to make that much difference,” he said.

Mayor Dan Goodman said that if the district didn’t take the initiative to form a Local Enhanced Management Area (LEMA) then they run the risk of the state stepping and forcing regulations upon all water users.

“Do we really want the state to come out here?” he asked.

He felt the city’s action to set higher rates in hopes of encouraging conservation was appropriate.

“I think we have a good middle-of-the-road policy,” Schmitt said. “Do we allocate water for everyone based on how many acres of grass they have?

I think that people rather than grass should be our priority.

“We have a situation where a small percentage of our meters are using a large percentage of the water,” Schmitt added.

Goodman said they will discuss water rates at the next council meeting on Jan. 6 “and invited public input.”

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Kindergarten students at Scott City Elementary School began preparing for the holiday with their annual “Spirit of Christmas” event.

(Left) With some assistance from Joyce Lewis, Brodie Holstein and Valerya Castillo make snowman hats out of cans.

(Below) Tatum Brown makes a snowman snow measuring stick.

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Numrich completes degree requirements from KU

Morgan Numrich has completed his degree requirements this fall at the University of Kansas and is a candidate for graduation.

There were nearly 1,350 students earning degrees during the fall semester at KU. He has earned a bachelor’s degree in business and accounting. He is the son of Skip and Tonni Numrich, Scott City.

Because KU conducts only one formal commencement ceremony each year, many of these graduates will return on May 18 for the university’s 142nd commencement.

Sharpe graduates with industrial technology degree

Garrett Sharpe graduated from Black Hills State University, Spearfish, S.D., on Dec. 14 with a bachelor’s degree in industrial technology-construction, advanced manufacturing.

He is the son of Karla Sharpe and Dale Sharpe, Scott City.

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The members of the New Horizons 4-H Club celebrated Christmas by having a get-together at the Shapland home. Everyone brought some yummy food to eat.

The club then had a short business meeting and then went shopping in town. Our club shopped for an Angel Tree person and a Park Lane Nursing Home resident.

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We’ve all had these moments: You’re at a romantic restaurant and the evening went great.

But just as you and your date are readying to leave, an embarrassed waiter appears and whispers, “I’m afraid your card has been denied.”

So much for romance.

The same thing can happen at the grocery store, when shopping online or worst of all, when you’re traveling

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and don’t have a back-up means of payment. Why do credit card transactions get denied and what can you do to prevent it?

Banks and other credit card issuers have developed complex algorithms that track credit card behavior and highlight unusual usage patterns commonly associated with card theft or fraud.

“Unusual activities” that jump out to card issuers include: •When you ordinarily use your card only rarely,

but suddenly make several charges in one day.

•Making multiple purchases at the same store (or website) within a few minutes of each other.

•An unusually large purchase - say for a major appliance, furniture or jewelry. Alert your card issuer before making large purchases.

•One small purchase quickly followed by larger ones. Thieves will test the waters to see if a small purchase is denied; if it’s not, they’ll quickly run up

major charges.

•Exceeding daily spending limits. Some cards limit how much you can charge per day, even if you have sufficient remaining credit.

•Making large purchases outside your geographic area.

•Multiple out-of-town purchases in short succession. (Always tell your card issuer when you’ll be traveling.)

•International purchases, whether online or while traveling. In fact,

Advisory council gives dire warning of court’s budget crisis The Court Budget Advisory Council delivered to the Kansas Supreme Court this morning its report identifying strategies to consider for addressing an $8.25 million shortfall in the Judicial Branch base budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, 2014.

Although 11 strategies were considered, only seven were recommended and prioritized for their ability to provide immediate, short-term savings with the least amount of disruption to Kansans and their statewide court system.

The strategies include maintaining and possibly increasing job vacancies (which strains already

The report makes it abundantly clear that if the Legislature does not appropriate more money, tough decisions - including closing Kansas courts - will need to be made.

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understaffed courts), eliminating court services officer positions that perform necessary but not statutorily required duties, and furloughing nonjudicial employees.

Also included was a recommendation to delay filling judicial openings, which would require changes to Kansas statute, and to reduce a grant that historically has been awarded to Kansas Legal Services to promote access to justice by those with few financial resources.

State receives $510,000 in settlement funds from 7 insurance companies Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has announced today that her department will receive $510,146 in settlement funds from seven insurance companies following a review of the companies’ death benefit practices.

The department has or will receive the following amounts from these insurance companies: ING, $114,726; New York Life, $110,255; Lincoln National, $78,182; TransAmerica, $67,668; TIAA-CREF, $67,620; Aviva and Global Atlantic, $48,057; and Midland, $23,638.

The funds are the Kansas portion of the national settlements for each company.

Previously, life insurance companies used the Social Security Death Master File to search for and stop payments to deceased annuity holders, but they hadn’t used the database to identify deceased life insurance policyholders in order to pay beneficiaries promptly.

Under the settlement agreement, they now have to.

The settlement money, under Kansas law, goes to the state’s general fund budget.

The insurance department has received similar settlements from other insurance companies during recent years as part of a general industry reform brought about by state insurance regulators.

The report was received by Chief Justice Lawton Nuss on behalf of the Supreme Court, who shared it with Judicial Branch employees and judges statewide, noting that the Supreme Court would continue to advocate for more funding for fiscal year 2015.

“The report makes it abundantly clear that if the Legislature does not appropriate more money, tough decisions - including closing Kansas courts - will need to be made.”

The report was presented to Nuss by Court of Appeals Judge Karen Arnold-Burger, chair of the 10-member Council that met over six weeks to study the consequences the budget shortfall will have on Kansans and their courts.

“The recommendations in this report reflect the gravity of the Council’s task given the potential for court closures, staffing cuts and resulting delays if additional appropriations are not added to the court system,” ArnoldBurger said.

“To the extent that we could, we tried to minimize the effect the proposed strategies would have on the people and businesses of Kansas.”

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department Dec. 17: Donald Graham was written citations for driving on a suspended license, making false information, criminal deprivation of property, improper parking and driving the wrong way on a one-way road.

Dec. 17: Tasha Torres was arrested on a Scott County warrant and transported to the LEC. Dec. 18: Larry White reported a theft that occurred on Dec. 13.

Dec. 18: Ronald Valdenar was arrested for possession of opiate, narcotic or certain stimulant and possession with intent to drug paraphernalia. He was transported to the LEC.

some card issuers automatically decline international transactions because of the high potential for fraud, so learn your issuer’s policy before attempting one.

Other common triggers for credit card denials include: •Outdated or incorrect personal information - for example, when you’re asked to enter your zip code at a gas station. Always alert your card issuer whenever you move.

Also, make sure you don’t mistype your credit card number, expiration date, security code, address or other identifying information.

•Expired card. Always check the card’s expiration date. You should receive a replacement card several weeks beforehand.

It’s often mailed in a plain envelope, so be careful what you toss. If the new card doesn’t arrive, contact the issuer to ensure it hasn’t been stolen.

(See DENIED on page 11)

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•You’ve reached your credit limit. For the sake of your credit score, try to keep your overall and individual card credit utilization ratios (credit available divided by amount used) as low as possible - ideally below 50, or even 30, percent.

•A temporary hold has been placed on your card - say for a rental car or hotel reservation - that puts you over your credit limit. Always ask whether a hold will be placed, how much and for how long, and factor that into your remaining balance calculations.

•You miss a monthly payment. Card issuers may let this slide once or twice, depending on your history with them, but eventually if you don’t make at least the minimum payment due, your card will probably be frozen.

•The primary cardholder made changes on the account and forgot to tell other authorized users. For example, reporting his or her card stolen, lowering credit limits or removing you from the account.

On last thought: If your card is denied, don’t shoot the messenger - he’s only following instructions.

Rather, call the card issuer and find out what happened. Embarrassment aside, it’s nice to know that someone is trying to ensure your card isn’t being used fraudulently.

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Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Dec. 19, 2013) 1t

SCOTT COUNTY COMMISSIONER’S PROCEEDINGS NOVEMBER 2013 GENERAL FUND SALARIES ............................................ $ 82,635.11 COMMODITIES ....................................

11,657.55 CONTRACTUAL SERVICES .................

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14,876.03 6,788.92 1,806.69 0.00 0.00

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4,565.49 1,083.78 218.31 0.00

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30,502.52 31,456.49 2,403.60 0.00

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389.28 288.50 1,153.00 0.00

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2,923.40 155.73 44.61 0.00 387.51

JAMES M. MINNIX Chairman

PAMELA J. FAUROT Scott County Clerk

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State’s ability to prevent infectious diseases questioned Jim McLean KHI News Service

Kansans could be more vulnerable to infectious disease threats than residents in many other states, according to a report released this week.

The report - produced

by Trust for America’s Health, a nonpartisan public health advocacy organization, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - ranked Kansas near the bottom of states for its ability to prevent and control infectious disease outbreaks, giving it passing grades on only four of 10 indicators.

The report said the

state’s low ranking was due to several factors, including cuts in public health funding, low vaccination rates and a lack of planning for how to deal with infectious disease threats posed by climate change.

Kansas was one of 19 states that received a score of four or lower.

Miranda Steele, a spokesperson for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, downplayed the report saying that measuring a limited number of indicators does not constitute a “comprehensive look” at the state’s public health system.

Kansas received points for having a state laboratory capable of handling “a significant surge in testing” in response to a disease outbreak. But it fell well short of targets for vaccinating children against whooping cough and vaccinating Kansans of all ages against the seasonal flu.

The report cited the state for failure to plan for potential increases in infectious diseases due to climate change.

“Small changes in temperature, a half a degree here and there, can greatly affect the ecosystem and can cause increases in mosquitos and ticks and

other carriers of infectious disease,” said Rich Hamburg , TFAH’s deputy director, explaining why the controversial indicator was included in the report.

Acknowledging the politics surrounding the issue, Hamburg said states didn’t need to have a finished climate change adaptation plan to meet the requirement. If they had taken any steps to formulate a plan - which 15 states had done, according to the report - that was good enough.

Kansas also received zero points for its efforts to combat the spread of the human papillomavirus, (See PREVENT on page 13)

Kansas Med Center is ranked among 9 best in the nation Medicare has begun tracking the outcomes of hip and knee replacement surgeries, identifying 95 hospitals where elderly patients were more likely to suffer significant setbacks. The government also named 97 hospitals where patients tended to have the smoothest recoveries.

The analysis is the latest part of the government’s push to improve quality at the nation’s hospitals instead of simply paying Medicare patients’ bills.

Medicare already assesses hospital death rates, how consistently hospitals follow basic medical guidelines and how patients rate their stays. The evaluation of hip and knee surgery outcomes is significant because for the first time, Medicare is rating hospitals’ performance on two common elective procedures.

Many patients needing joint replacements want to know a hospital’s record when choosing where to have the procedure done.

(See KU MED on page 13)

Kansas is making it harder for needy to get aid Mike Shields KHI News Service

A new report by a Johnson County group takes aim at the Kansas Department for Children and Families saying the agency should do more with federal block grant dollars to help combat the state’s growing poverty rate instead of adopt-

ing policies that make the assistance harder for needy families to get.

“Every time I look around, this administration is doing something to make it harder for people who are struggling economically to survive and I think this report captures some of that,” said Tawny Stottlemire, executive director of

Holiday depression is real, but correctable by the American Counseling Association

While the holiday season is a happy time for most people, it can also be a time of sadness and despondency for some. Holiday depression can be a very real, but correctable problem.

There are numerous reasons why the holidays can have us feeling blue. One is the unrealistic expectations we may have for ourselves and the season. Constant media images of the “ideal” holiday can create fantasy goals impossible to achieve.

We may start feeling low because we aren’t invited to all the best parties or aren’t having the “perfect” holiday we imagine others are enjoying.

This comparing ourselves to how things “ought to be” leaves us feeling that we’re missing out and being cheated for some reason.

The holiday lifestyle can also contribute to holiday depression. Our diets may change, usually including more candy, cake and alcohol than normal. We also often exercise less.

Busy holiday schedules, coupled with less daylight and colder temperatures, can make it harder to stick to our regular workout regimen.

Combine the mood swings that go with a highcalorie, high-sugar diet with a lack of exercise and colder weather and depression can easily occur.

We may feel more sedentary and lethargic, and perhaps guilty as extra pounds show up around our waistlines.

Fortunately, correcting the holiday blues can be relatively easy. Simply recognizing that the mediapromoted “perfect holiday” images aren’t realistic is an important first step.

Refuse to compare yourself to that TV “family” or the neighbors you imagine having that rosy “ideal” holiday. Instead, focus on the good and positive in your own life and those things you really enjoy during this season.

Making a conscious effort to get back to a healthier diet and to increase your amount of exercise can also do a great deal to overcome holiday depression.

Lastly, don’t wallow privately when you’re down. Go meet with friends, not to discuss your feelings, but just to enjoy them socially. Friends and family can do a great deal to lift your mood.

You might also find volunteering, at a local soup kitchen, animal shelter or library, can be a real mood lifter.

Make a realistic effort and you should find your holiday depression abating. But if it’s not, despite your best efforts, try talking with a professional counselor. Depression can be a serious health problem and not one to be ignored at any time of the year.

“Counseling Corner” is provided by the American Counseling Association. Comments and questions to ACAcorner@counseling.org or visit the ACA website at counseling.org

the Kansas Association of Community Action Programs.

The report is titled: “Kansas Could Do More for Poor Families with Children.” It is the group’s analysis of how the state has been spending the federal aid it receives through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF).

Each year for the past several, Kansas has received a set amount of federal TANF dollars as a block grant with relatively few restrictions for how the money is spent.

The annual total has been $101.9 million.

The Kansas TANF program is available to those eligible for a maximum of five years. Benefits

are figured according to a formula that accounts for family size, income and county of residence.

Cash assistance payments range from $224 to $497 per month.

The report, based in part on budget figures collected from the Kansas Legislature’s research arm, found that the number of people served by

the program has dropped dramatically in the past three years from a high monthly average of 38,963 in fiscal 2011 to 21,887 in fiscal 2013.

Policy Changes The drop coincides with policy changes by the administration of Gov. Sam Brownback that (See NEEDY on page 13)

Increase in obesity rate drops Kansas health ranking Kansas is slipping in a widely publicized annual health ranking as its residents grow fatter.

The report puts Kansas as the 27th healthiest in the nation in the rankings released by the United Health Foundation, which has published its annual “America’s Health Rankings” report each year since 1990.

And the report makes one trend clear: Kansans are getting fatter faster than the residents of most other states.

Seven years ago, less than 24 percent of Kansans were obese, placing the state among the least obese in the nation.

That year, Kansas was ranked 17th healthiest in the nation.

This year, according to

Nearly 30 percent of adult Kansans are obese.

Only 13 states are fatter and most are in the South and Midwest.

the report, nearly 30 percent of adult Kansans are obese. Only 13 states are fatter and most are in the South and Midwest.

Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi have the highest obesity rates, in excess of 34 percent of their populations.

Colorado has the lowest obesity rate: 20.5 percent.

Dr. Tony Sun - market medical director for UnitedHealthcare Heartland States - said that while Kansas slipped relative to other states in obesity rates, it has shown improvement in other areas.

“While 2013 marks the first time since 1998 that

America did not get worse in this key metric (obesity), Kansas did fall a bit here,” Sun said.

But, he said, “Kansas was among five states with the most significant change in smoking rates among adults, dropping from 22.0 percent in 2012 to 19.4 percent this year.”

Another bright spot is that more Kansans are physically active.

“In the past year, the prevalence of physically inactive adults decreased almost four full percentage points,” Sun said. “However, almost 490,000 adults are still physically inactive in the state, which no doubt con-

tributes to the state’s high rate of obesity.”

Sun said changing the course of health in Kansas and the U.S. is “very much in our own hands.”

“Fifty percent of a person’s health status is a result of behavior. So at the end of the day, while it seems simple, it’s about grabbing a banana instead of a doughnut for a snack.

And quitting smoking.

And going for a 30 minute walk instead of parking yourself on the couch after work.

“It’s the collective result of making healthy decisions that can bring about big changes to population health,” he said.

Other challenges facing Kansas, according to the report: (See OBESITY on page 13)

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Needy tightened eligibility for the program and established various penalties for failure to comply with the new guidelines.

As the number of people served has dropped, state use of the block grant to fund other social services or initiatives that historically would have been paid for from the state general fund has grown. For example, Brownback officials have earmarked $9 million in TANF dollars for Kansas Reading Roadmap, a program aimed at boost-

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ing fourth grade reading scores.

When Brownback ran for governor in 2010 one of his campaign pledges was to improve fourth grade reading levels.

Officials have said Reading Roadmap meets federal guidelines for using TANF dollars because the money will go to after-school programs to improve literacy, which in turn will lead to lower incidence of teen pregnancy. Reducing teen pregnancy is one of the federally sanctioned uses

Obesity •Low per capita public health funding •Low immunization coverage among children and adolescents The three strengths cited by the report were: •Low rate of drug deaths •High rate of high school graduation •Few mental or physical sick days per month

This is not usually the case for treatment of conditions Medicare has evaluated previously, such as heart attacks.

Of the 95 hospitals where knee and hip surgery patients experienced difficulties after the operation, nine were rated as

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or HPV. The 24 states and the District of Columbia that scored better either required teenagers to be vaccinated against HPV or funded vaccination and education efforts.

KDHE’s Steele said the TFAH report - while generally correct - ignores the fact that Kansas uses some of the money it receives for a cervical cancer screening program to educate Kansans about HPV and how to prevent it.

“These activities focus primarily on screening but do include some information on HPV vaccination,” Steele said.

Dr. Gianfranco Pezzino - a senior fellow at the Kansas Health Institute said there is no consensus on the best indicators to use in assessing a state’s capacity to deal with infectious diseases. Even so, the former Kansas state epidemiologist said the TFAH report is valuable because “it raises important issues that we should be talking about.”

Hamburg said he believes the report fairly measures states’ overall capacity to deal with infectious diseases.

the state is on the rise.

But Brownback officials have said they fear the welfare programs foster dependence on government and have been ineffective reducing poverty.

‘Self-Sufficiency’ “Employment is the most effective way out of poverty,” said DCF Secretary Phyllis Gilmore.

“The number of individuals enrolled in the TANF cash assistance program is a reflection of individuals choosing not to work in

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The percentage of Kansans who are obese has climbed from 13 percent in 1990 to 30 percent this year.

The report’s authors said obesity is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. “Obesity is one of the greatest health threats currently facing the United States. It contributes sig-

KU Med

for TANF dollars.

Officials at United Community Services of Johnson County and other anti-poverty groups said the TANF grant would be better spent on “core” needs of families temporarily on hard times. They say the essentials are: child care subsidies so parents can work, money so they can pay bills, and help with job training or placement.

According to the report, spending in each of those categories of aid is going down even as poverty in

nificantly to a variety of serious diseases including heart disease, diabetes, stroke, certain cancers, as well as poor general health.”

While obesity rates nationally have been leveling off, the percentage of obese Kansans could double in the next 15 years or so, according to a recent analysis.

Adults are considered obese if their body mass index is 30 or higher.

A report commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that if Kansas could lower its collective body mass index by five percent, it likely would save 7.7 percent in health care costs - almost $6 billion - between now and 2030.

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having both high readmissions and high complication rates (none were in Kansas).

Two of the five Kansas hospitals that were tracked had high complications following surgery. They were:

•Overland Park Regional Medical Center •University of Kansas Hospital Out of the 97 hospitals that did better than average in avoiding either readmissions or complications, 25 were rated as being better at both

measures - including Kansas Medical Center in Andover.

Two other Kansas providers were ranked highly for fewer complications after surgery: Kansas Surgery and Recovery Center in Wichita and Olathe Medical Center.

order to meet the requirements. Children have not been kicked off the cash and food assistance programs. The decline in numbers is related to adults and the decisions they have made.”

That view that the aid programs foster dependence is starkly at odds with the community groups that work with the poor, Stottlemire said.

“Our position is that the safety net programs do exactly what they’re supposed to do,” she said, “which is help people in

hard times.

“Another thing that really annoys me about this administration is that it continues to push the concept that the only thing people need to do is get a job. But when we don’t have jobs that are paying wages sufficient to help people meet their basic needs, then getting a job isn’t the only answer. Fortyfive percent of the people we see come through our doors are working people, someone in the household is employed.”

Pastime at Park Lane We offer our sympathy to the family of Kathy McKellips who passed away on Dec. 13. She will be missed by many.

We welcome Merlin Gardner to Park Lane.

We thank the family of Barbara Knipp for the flowers brought to Park Lane in her memory.

The First Christian Church led Sunday afternoon services. They gave each resident a Christmas present and served cookies and punch.

Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon. Game helpers were Madeline Murphy, Dorothy King, Joy Barnett and Mandy Barnett.

Residents played Wii bowling on Monday evening.

Pastor Bob Artz led Bible study on Tuesday morning. Doris Riner and Elsie Nagel led the hymns.

Residents played trivia games on Tuesday evening.

The Scott Mennonite Youth sang for residents on Tuesday evening.

Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran services on Wednesday morning.

Residents played bingo on Wednesday afternoon.

Helpers were Barbara Dickhut and Madeline Murphy.

Fr. Bernard Felix led Catholic Mass on Friday morning. Rev. Warren

Residents make holiday ornaments

The Immanuel Baptist Church hosted crafts on Tuesday afternoon. Residents made Christmas ornaments.

Helpers were Joy Barnett, Sue Barber, Dana Steffens, Eva Smith and Mandy Barnett.

Chorus sings Christmas songs

The Over 50 Chorus sang on Thursday afternoon. Singers were Irma McDaniel, Betty Mast, Neva Jacobus, Gladys Soodsma and Madeline Murphy. Dorothy Milburn accompanied on the piano.

The group sang a variety of Christmas songs.

Students read to Golden Listeners

Gina Ramsey brought her Scott City Elementary School third grade students to read to their Golden Listeners on Friday afternoon. Readers and listeners were: Golden Listener Ann Tedford Mildred Van Pelt Carol Auten Lorena Turley Verlene Mohler Vivian Kreiser Cliford Dearden Christine Evans Jake Leatherman Phyllis Trembley Robin Day Lorine Yeager Arlene Taylor Verene Dearden Pat Palen Cecile Billings Edna Uppendahl Dona Dee Carpenter

Golden Reader Jaden Lewis Gisselle Aguilar Zoe Barnhart Eliana Ayala Evelyn Lozano Leslie Macis Luis Medellin Lawson Bailey Adrian Elder/Joshua Kasselman Joel Ortega Yanet Ramirez Katie Smith Brandon Smyth Aiden Schwindt Garrison Turner/Jace Thomas Hope Wiechman/Grace Beaton Corbin Wilkinson Elizabeth Nguyen

Prochnow led Lutheran services on Friday afternoon.

Residents played Wii bowling on Friday evening.

Sr. Citizen Lunch Menu Week of December 23-27 Monday: Beef and noodles, Scandinavian vegetables, whole wheat bread, strawberries and pears.

Tuesday: Chicken Parmesan, baked potato, peas and carrots, whole wheat bread, orange slices.

Wednesday: Closed for Christmas Thursday: Roast turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, broccoli, whole wheat roll, pumpkin pie cake.

Friday: Spaghetti and meat sauce, corn, tossed salad, French bread, applesauce. meals are $3.25 • call 872-3501

The Blue Steele Band performed on Saturday afternoon. Band members are Keith Steele, Mike Steele and Dr. Daniel Dunn.

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Bud Berry was visited

by Sondra Berry, Wayde Berry, and Harold and Shannon Berry.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane and Mark Fouquet.

Jim Jeffery was visited

by Nathella Humburg, Ness City; Wade Jeffery, Pastor Dennis Carter, Hugh McDaniel, and CJ and Charlene Sharpe.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Mary Ann Unruh, Bill John, Hugh McDaniel, Ann Hawkins, Clare Hawkins, Darby, Gina Ramsey, Fritzie Rauch and Gloria O’Bleness.

Delores Brooks was visited by David Perry, Jane McBroom and Charles Brooks.

Hilda Gruver was visited by Tina Turley.

Joyce Bohnert was visited by Tina Turley and Janet Gallardo.

Pat Palen was visited

by Nancy Holt, Jack and Sheri Rapier, and Jace and Garrison.

Nella Funk was visited by Sheila Boyd, Roy Boyd and Tami Turley.

Edith Norman was visited by Ron and Sue Riner, Kim Smith, Tom and Sara Shane, and Doris Riner.

Earl Gorman was visited by Loretta Gorman, Charlene Becht, Connie Gruver and Jane McBroom.

by Jason Storm

Christine Evans was visited by Kathleen Moore, Pastor Dennis Carter and Lawson Bailey.

Boots Haxton was visited by Rod and Kathy Haxton.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Jim and MaryAnn Unruh, Lorena Turley, Gloria Wright, Larry and Philene Pickett; Jenny, Rylie and David Wright; Margie Stevens and Prairie View Church carolers.

Lula Dirks was visited

by Darla Luebbers, Willetta Payne, Jim and Mary Unruh, Charles and Phyllis, and LaNora Dirks.

Albert Dean was visited by Carol Davey and Nancy Holt.

Lorena Turley was visited by Neta Wheeler, Kay Mohler, Margie Stevens and Marilyn Waters.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Larry and Sharon Lock and Kai Beaton.

Jim and Yvonne Spangler was visited by Les and MaryAnn Spangler and Yvette Mills.

Cliford Dearden was visited by Luis Medellin and Janet Ottaway.

Jake Leatherman was visited by Jim and MaryAnn Unruh, Rod Leatherman and Connie Bryan.

Harriet Jones was visited by Marcia Chyba, Wes Campbell, Travis Jones, Nancy Holt, and Rev. Don Martin from St. Luke’s Church.

Mildred VanPelt was visited by David VanPelt, Pastor Dennis Carter and Connie Bryan.

Geraldine Graves was visited by Charlene Becht and Joel and Connie Bryan.

Phyllis Trembley was visited by Pastor Dennis Carter.

Ann Tedford was visited by Doris Riner, Teena Winter and Georgia Plum.

Herb Graves was visited by Emily Wright, Tina Turley, Kelsi Schwartz, Michael McEachern, Ben Blood, Austin Wilson and Lucas Engel.

Darlene Richman was visited by Janelle Caspar and Denise Unruh.

Mike Leach was visited by Linda Dunagan and Rev. Don Martin.

Cecile Billings was visited by Ann Beaton, Delinda Dunagan, and Larry and Donita Billings.

Ruth Holland was visited by Charlene Becht, Debbie Bush, Lance Bush and Monica Rowton.

Thelma Branine was visited by Sherri Smith.

Judy Redburn was visited by Wendy Derstine, Carol Ellis, Mary Torson, Teena Winter, Mary Plum, Timothy Derstine, Dana Edwards, LaNora Dirks, Mary Torson and Tina Turley.

Melva Rose was visited

by Bob and Irma McDaniel and Tina Turley.

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Deaths Billie Kathryn McKellips

Ann Christine Moore

Billie Kathryn McKellips, 79, died on Dec. 13, 2013, at Park Lane Nursing Home, Scott City.

She was born Oct. 16, 1934, at Colby, the daughter of Alex and Marion E. (Donovan) Keller.

She was a retired cook and restaurant owner/operator.

On Feb. 18, 1975, she married Dale McKellips at Julesburg, Colo. He died on Aug. 10, 1996.

She is survived by three daughters, Kay Percival, Scott City, Kathy Nieman and husband, Raymond, Hays, and Lee Percival, Andover; two sons, Loren, and wife, Candy, Grinnell and Tim and wife, Pat, Scott City; three sisters, Bernice

Ann Christine (Woelfle) Moore, 54, died Dec. 10, 2013, at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita.

She was born on Feb. 5, 1959, in Colorado Springs, Colo., the daughter of William Levi and Phyllis Mae (Harnden) Woelfle.

In 1983, she married Joe Osborn and they made their home in Horace.

They divorced. On Feb. 20, 1998, she married Don Moore and they continued to live in Horace.

Ann was a certified nurse aide (CNA) for Greeley County Long Term Care and a butcher for Gooch’s Foods, both in Tribune.

Survivors include: her mother, Grand Junction, Colo.; husband, of Hor-

Nickel and husband, Roy, Oakley, Elsie Wolf and husband, Joe, Norton, and Jennie Wolf and husband, Daryl, Monument; 11 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren; She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; a son, John Percival; and a sister, Twila Hawkins.

A memorial service was held on Dec. 17 at the First Baptist Church, Scott City. Inurement was in the Oakley Cemetery.

A memorial has been established in her name to the First Baptist Church, 803 S. College, Scott City, Ks., 67871.

Condolences can be sent to www.cochranmortuary.com

Nancy Brueggeman Nancy L. Brueggeman, 74, died Dec. 12, 2013, at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Kearney, Nebr.

S h e was born Aug. 3, 1939, in A m b o y, Ill., the daughter of EdNancy mund and Brueggeman Isabel (Harvey) Bradley.

On Feb. 24, 1982, she married Albert Brueggeman in Ness City. She drove truck with her husband across the United

States hauling cattle and grain.

Nancy was a member of the Lutheran Church.

Survivors include: a sister, Julia Lightner, Lady Lake, Fla., and a brother, Robert Bradley, Sterling, Ill. She was preceded in death by her husband, parents and one brother.

Services will be held at a later date with burial of ashes at the Scott County Cemetery.

Condolances may be left at www.hlmkfuneral. com.

Neva Fern Duncan Neva Fern Duncan, 91, died Dec. 11, 2013, at the Wichita County Health Center Long Term Care, Leoti.

She was born April 27, 1922, at the family homestead in Wichita County, the daughter of Roy E. and Helen E. (Graham) Elder.

A lifetime resident of Wichita County, she was a secretary for several businesses in Leoti as well as a homemaker.

Neva was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, VFW Auxiliary and the Rebekah Lodge, all of Leoti.

On Sept. 19, 1940, she married Lee Kiefer in Leoti. He died on Sept. 29, 1980. On April 5, 1984, she married Leland Duncan at Wichita. He died on March 25, 1997.

Survivors include: a son, Lee Kiefer, and wife, Marcia, Redmond, Ore.; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, six brothers and five sisters.

Funeral service was held Dec. 18 at the First Presbyterian Church, Leoti, with Rev. Charles Ayers officiating.

Burial was in the Leoti Cemetery.

Memorials may be given to the Wichita County Health Center or Wichita County Health Center Long Term Care, both of Leoti, in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 202 N. 4th, Leoti, Ks. 67861.

Condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at priceandsons.com.

John Elba Steele John Elba Steele, 75, of Stanley, died Dec. 8, 2013, at Kansas City Hospice House.

John was born on March 6, 1938, on a farm southeast of Grigston.

The country doctor only sent births to the State of Kansas once a week, so his official birthday was March 12, 1938. This was discovered at the age of 14 when a copy of his birth certificate was necessary for participation in Ban Johnson baseball.

He graduated from Kansas State University in 1962 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree.

Survivors include: his wife of 51 years, Marsha McDonald Steele; one brother, Harold Steele, Scott City; two sons, Douglas, Cypress, Tex., and Bradley, Stilwell; and seven grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a sister, Maxine.

There was a gathering of family and friends on Dec. 14 at Porter Funeral Home, 8535 Monrovia, Lenexa, Ks. The family would like to have contributions made to Kansas City Hospice House, 12000 Wornall Road, Kansas City, Mo. 64145.

ace; one son, William E. Moore, Tribune; one step-son, Joshua Osborn, Scott City; three brothers; Steve Woelfle, Colorado Springs, Colo., J o h n Woelfle, Grand Junction, Colo., and Frank Woelfle, Colorado Springs, Colo.

She was preceded in death by her father.

Memorial service was held Dec. 19 at the United Methodist Church, Tribune.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the Ann Moore Memorial Fund in care of Fellers Funeral Home and Monuments, Box 1253, Syracuse, Ks. 67878.

Condolences may be sent to fellersfh@yahoo. com

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The Gift

Think about this, you come down the stairs or out into the living room and there under the Christmas tree is a lot of wrapped packages with your name on them.

They are beautifully wrapped with big bows and colorful paper and all different sizes from big to small. Your excitement is out the roof and you can’t wait to start unwrapping them to see just what is in each one of them.

You get ready to unwrap them and see that they are numbered and you have to start with the one that says open this one first. As you start you discover that all of the other gifts relate back to that first one you opened and that they only work or make sense in relationship to the first gift.

God sent us the gift of His Son and when we see this gift in all of His glory, The Son of God, Jesus the Christ we are changed forever.

The more we unwrap this gift and understand who He is and the depth of God’s love for us we quickly learn that there are other gifts waiting to be unwrapped. We learn that all of the gifts of God relate and operate only in the light of His Son and that those gifts are too numerous to count.

My plea to all who read this “Please listen to the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God and respond, unwrap this GIFT.” I promise you that your life will never be the same; it will be filled with a joy and a peace that you can’t explain. The gift of Jesus comes with grace, mercy and a promise that as you receive Him into your life you shall never die but have everlasting life. Oh and did I tell you, “You get to see Him one day face to face”? You will see Him and it is going to be GLORIOUS. Steve Payne First Christian Church, Scott City

Scott City Assembly of God

1615 South Main - Scott City - 872-2200 Ed Sanderson, Senior Pastor 9:00 a.m. - Pre-Service Prayer 10:00 a.m. - Sunday Worship Service and Children’s Church Wednesday: 7:00 p.m. - Bible Study and Prayer

St. Joseph Catholic Church

A Catholic Christian Community 1002 S. Main Street - Scott City Fr. Bernard Felix, pastor • 872-7388 Secretary • 872-3644 Masses: 1st Sunday of month - 8:30 and 11:00 a.m.

Other weekends: Sat., 6:00 p.m.; Sun., 11:00 a.m.

Spanish Mass - 2nd and 4th Sundays, 1:30 p.m.

Pence Community Church

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

4855 Finney-Scott Rd. - Scott City - 276-6481 Pastor Jon Tuttle Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Men’s Fellowship • Wednesday mornings Breakfast at 6:30 a.m.

Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water

Holy Cross Lutheran Church

1102 Court • Box 283 • Scott City 620-872-2294 • 620-872-3796 Pastor Warren Prochnow holycross-scott@sbcglobal.net Sunday School/Bible Class, 9:00 a.m.

Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m.

Wed.: Mid-Week School, 6:00-7:30 p.m.

Community Christian Church

8911 W. Road 270 10 miles north on US83; 2 miles north on K95; 9 miles west on Rd. 270 Don Williams, pastor • 874-2031 Wednesdays: supper (6:30 p.m.) • Kid’s Group and Adult Bible Study (7:00 p.m.) • Youth Group (8:00 p.m.)

Sunday School: 9:30 • Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

12th & Jackson • Scott City • 872-3219 Shelby Crawford, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday: God’s High School Cru, 7:30 p.m.

First Baptist Church

Immanuel Southern Baptist Church

803 College - Scott City - 872-2339 Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor

1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264 Robert Nuckolls, pastor - 872-5041

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. • Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Sunday morning worship: 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Gospel Fellowship Church 120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water Larry Taylor, pastor Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

First Christian Church

1st United Methodist Church

5th Street and College - Scott City - 872-2401 Dennis Carter, pastor 1st Sunday: Communion and Fellowship Sunday Services at 9:00 a.m. • Sunday School, 10:30 a.m.

All Other Sundays • Worship: 8:30 and 10:45 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

MYF (youth groups) on Wednesdays Jr. High: 6:30 p.m. • Sr. High: 7:00 p.m.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

701 Main - Scott City - 872-2937 Scotty Wagner, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Worship, 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday is Family Night Meal: 5:45 p.m. • Study: 6:15 p.m.

Website: www.fccscottcity.org

Elizabeth/Epperson Drives • Scott City • 872-3666 Father Don Martin Holy Eucharist - 11:45 a.m.

St. Luke’s - 872-5734 (recorded message) Senior Warden Bill Lewis • 872-3347 or Father Don Martin - (785) 462-3041

Scott Mennonite Church

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

12021 N. Eagle Rd. • Scott City Franklin Koehn: 872-2048 Charles Nightengale: 872-3056 Sunday School Worship Service: 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

9th and Crescent - Scott City - 872-2334 Bishop Irvin Yeager • 620-397-2732 Sacrament, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School, 10:50 a.m.

Relief Society and Priesthood, 11:20 a.m.

YMYW Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

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Scott City Elementary School fourth graders perform “Christmas in the City” during their holiday presentation of “It Happened in the Country.”

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She found donations to help every family on the list and, from that humble beginning, a holiday tradition was born.

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Lawrence and her husband, Shorty, shop for bargains throughout the year as they accumulate toys and clothing. One of the big tasks is sorting the clothing and making sure that each youngster gets toys and clothes that are age appropriate.

“It probably takes a month just to sort all the clothes,” she says.

It was about 5-6 years ago that the project expanded to include all the volunteers who gift wrap. Once all the packages are gift-wrapped and boxed according to family, about 3-4 volunteers will begin delivering them.

“The people who deliver can tell you some pretty heart-warming stories,” Lawrence says. “They’ll walk into a home and there isn’t a gift under the tree except for what we bring.

“And everyone is so appreciative. These aren’t people looking for a handout. Many of them have a job, sometimes two, and they’re working hard just to make ends meet,” she says. “But sometimes it’s just not enough, especially at Christmas.”

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Sports

Page 17 - Thursday, December 19, 2013

emotional win

SCHS head coach Shelby Crawford and his bench celebrate a basket by Kelly Wycoff during the fourth quarter of Saturday’s tournament win over Denver South.

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It was more than a win for the long-struggling Lady Beavers There were tears of joy and hugs for everyone on the Scott City bench after the final seconds ticked off the clock in Saturday’s win over Denver South.

It’s the kind of emotion normally reserved for a

tournament title - perhaps a sub-state championship.

Saturday’s game was neither. It was only their third game of the season.

But that didn’t make it any less significant for the Scott Community High

School girls.

Games this early in the year aren’t supposed to be so emotional. Then again, when you’ve experienced the frustration and futility that the Lady Beavers have, a win over a Class

4A program (enrollment 1,349) from Denver means a little more.

These Lady Beavers haven’t had a winning record since the 2009-10 season (13-8) which was before any of the current

team members were in high school. All they’ve experienced is a team that’s struggled to win just 15 games over the last three seasons.

“It feels good to have the first win. It’s great

to see the girls happy,” says first-year head coach Shelby Crawford.

Don’t let him fool you. This win wasn’t just for the girls. Crawford was enjoying every fist(See BEAVERS on page 18)

Southwest Kansas Classic

Beavers play big, and smart, against South

Nickel scores 34 against Denver So.

When Denver South jumped out to a 5-0 lead against the Scott Community High School girls it could have been another “here we go again” moment.

Not this time.

Led by a careerhigh 34 points Denver So. 39 from seScott City 54 nior Bailey Nickel and a very effective full-court press, SCHS pulled away for an improbable 54-39 win on the home floor during the final night of the Southwest Classic.

Head coach Shelby Crawford got a glimpse of what the Lady Beavers were capable of the previous night when they finished strong against Wichita Trinity, cutting an 18 point halftime deficit into 12 points by the end of the game.

“We saw last night the intensity that it took to be successful,” says Crawford. “We didn’t start at quite that level tonight (against Denver South), but it rose throughout the game.

Nickel carried the Lady Beavers in the first half when she scored 20 of the team’s 25 points. The (See NICKEL on page 26)

SCHS junior Brett Meyer drives past Denver South’s Lorenzo Snoddy during the final night of action in the Southwest Kansas Classic.

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When your opponent has a huge size advantage in the paint one way to eliminate that problem is to make sure they spend more time on the bench than on the floor.

The undersized Scott Community High School boys were able to put Denver So. 58 Denver South’s big Scott City 68 boys on the bench with early foul trouble in a surprisingly easy 68-58 win on the final night of the Southwest Classic.

The Rebels (2-5) provided the Beavers (2-1) their biggest test of the young season, literally, with a lineup that featured six-foot-seven Ibrahim Sylla and Metise Moore, whose sixfoot-five, 250-pound frame occupied a lot of space in the paint.

“Coach (Glenn O’Neil) emphasized boxing out and getting their big guys into foul trouble,” says sixfoot-one junior forward Sloan Baker. “We knew we had to keep their tall guy off the basket and force him to take his shots farther out. We felt he didn’t have a good shot if we kept him off the rim.”

Scott City’s patience on offense and their ability to draw fouls began to take its toll on the Rebels.

Trailing 13-10 late in the first quarter, SCHS put together an 11-2 scoring burst that put them on top, 21-15, with just under five minutes left in the half. Chantz Yager’s threepointer, followed by a basket from Brett Meyer would extend the lead to 30-20 before a late basket by Denver South cut the lead to eight points just before halftime.

(See SOUTH on page 25)

The Scott County Record • Page 18 • Thursday, December 19, 2013

Outdoors in Kansas

WCHS boys get first win over Deerfield

by Steve Gilliland

Indians fall to Satanta in Whitetails, 5th place tournament game Wichita County for a 48-38 win. shotguns HighTheSchool boys finally While the Indians into the win column struggled to find any scorand turkey broke with a 61-36 thumping of ing in the first half, it apBucklin in the consolation peared they might be getshoots semi-finals of the Bluejay ting untracked when they One of the perks of having had an interesting and memorable childhood full of interesting and memorable characters is having a treasure chest full of stories at one’s disposal should all other inspiration elude me as I sit down to pen a weekly column…

Translated, that means I didn’t get a deer yet so I’ll tell you a story from my past.

I’ve often mentioned that during our first several years of deer hunting my brother and I were part of a neighborhood group of landowners and farmers that often hunted deer together.

We would converge on a property, “post” two or three guys along one edge, then walk through from the other side as a group and attempt to run the deer out past the “posters” for a shot.

We had some colorful and amusing individuals in our assembly. As in every group, we had Dave, the local cop who always shot straight, looked sharp and made no mistakes.

Many deer were spotted from his kitchen window as we all sat around warming up with a hot drink.

Someone (usually Dave) would spot a deer crossing the road, and coffee cups and chairs would fly as we headed for the trucks.

The Beck clan, brothers Don and Paul and most of Paul’s kids made up the bulk of the group.

As I talked with my brother the other evening, he reminded me that the first advice I gave him when he began hunting with us was “When the Becks start shootin’, just get on the ground!”

I remember standing beside Don one day in the woods when a big buck erupted from a brush(See SHOOTS on page 22)

Invitational at Cimarron.

It was, by far, Leoti’s best offensive performance of the season as they jumped out to a 25-7 first quarter lead and were on top, 39-14, at the half.

“We executed and we knocked down our shots early,” says Hayden Parks who got his first win as the WCHS head coach. “We played well as a team.”

Senior guard Jantz Budde, who was 6-of-13 from the field, finished with a team high 14 points in addition to six rebounds and five assists.

Sophomore forward Gabe Fletcher added 10 points and eight rebounds.

The Indians dominated the boards with 44 rebounds and also turned in a solid defensive effort with eight steals.

Fall to Satanta Offense was in short supply for both teams in the fifth place game on Saturday as Satanta pulled away in the second half

erased a five point deficit and took a 14-13 lead on a three-point basket by Treven Burch with 1:38 left in the half. Satanta was able to close out the half with four unanswered points and pull away for the win.

Budde, who was 4-of6 from three-point range, finished with a game high 23 points. Fletcher and senior Chris Wilson each added four points.

Senior center Brock Sheppard and senior guard Casey Day added seven and six rebounds, respectively.

“It’s not that we don’t have good shots, we just can’t get them to fall,” says Parks. “Unfortunately, the second half wasn’t any better than the first.”

Wichita County senior Chris Wilson puts up a shot between two defenders during tournament action against Satanta on Saturday.

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Lose to Cimarron The Indians were dropped into the consolation bracket following a team high 11 points while 67-21 loss to Cimarron in Day added five. the opening round.

“After the first quarter Budde finished with a they turned up defensive

intensity,” says Parks. turn that into points.”

“They played full-court Cimarron also domiman defense the rest of nated the boards with 14 the game and were able to offensive rebounds.

SCHS girls finish strong against Trinity in Classic Trailing Wichita Trinity by 18 points at halftime, the Scott Community High School girls played a second half that may have been the start of a major turnaround in their season.

The Lady Beavers lost to Trinity, 50-38, in the second round of the round-robin tournament, but the second half effort was encouraging to head

coach Shelby Crawford and his players.

“We finally caught up with the speed of the game,” says Crawford. “It took us 1-1/2 games to do it.”

The 1-1/2 games included the previous night’s 64-31 loss to Pueblo East.

“One thing we’re learning is to be patient with our offense. Too often we were making one pass and

Beavers pumping moment down the stretch as his squad refused to fold and seemed to gain confidence with every basket and every turnover they forced by the Lady Rebels.

Still, Crawford knew this was a moment the girls deserved to enjoy.

“They’ve been down for so long there were tears in the locker room tonight,” he said afterwards.

looking for the score and that’s not how our offense is designed,” says Crawford.

“We have to move the ball side to side and get the defense moving with us. We didn’t do a good job of that against Pueblo East, but we showed improvement against Trinity.

“In the second half we did a great job of looking for our teammates, es-

pecially Bailey (Nickel), down low.”

That was evident in Nickel’s 23 point performance against Trinity to go along with six rebounds.

Senior guard Kelly Wycoff grabbed a team high 10 rebounds while sophomore guard Nicole Latta added 10 points, eight rebounds and five steals.

“If we’re the aggressors we’re a better team than if

we let the game come to us,” says Crawford.

Perhaps the bigger key for the Lady Beavers was finding success with their full-court pressure.

During Thursday’s season opener the defense was slow in getting back up the floor and recognizing their matchups.

“Too many times the ball went right by us,” Crawford says.

defense where the Lady Beavers had a season high 13 steals while committing a season-low 23 turnovers. Scott City’s pressure defense was having an effect.

“We know we’re going to get beat some, but we’re also going to get a lot steals and deflections,” says Crawford. “And our press is going to get better.”

Add in that intangible component - the fact

that these Lady Beavers are starting to believe in themselves - and that makes them even more dangerous.

It’s too early to project how good the Lady Beavers will be or how many wins they might be able to get. Right now, they want to enjoy their first win.

“We took a step forward tonight,” said Crawford. “Now we can’t take a step back.”

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There were tears on the bench as well as the SCHS girls knew nothing could steal this win from them.

“When I saw the second five come into the game at the end it felt awesome. I haven’t seen that before,” said senior Bailey Nickel who exploded for a career high 34 points. “This was my happiest basketball moment . . . ever.”

Actually, Saturday’s win could be traced back to Friday when the Lady

Beavers put together a very solid second half against Wichita Trinity in a losing effort. What Crawford saw in that game was enough to convince him this team was on the verge of doing some very good things this season.

“We played with intensity in the second half (against Trinity) and we carried that over into tonight’s game,” he said.

That intensity level was particularly evident on

The Scott County Record • Page 19 • Thursday, December 19, 2013

Lady Hornets survive lackluster offensive night against LaCrosse The sign of a good team is the ability to find a way to win on a night when you’re not playing your best.

The Dighton High School girls weren’t at their best on Tuesday LaCrosse 24 night when Dighton 36 they hosted LaCrosse in a non-league game, but they still managed to come away with a 36-24 win.

Blame it on the hangover from three days of tournament play at Quinter the previous week. Or perhaps the Lady Hornets were looking past LaCrosse to the key Northwest Kansas League game on Friday at Sharon Springs.

“It was probably a combination of the two,” says head coach Amy Felker.

“We were a little tired from the weekend, we weren’t focused and we were pretty confident we could beat LaCrosse.

You put all that together and you’re setting yourself up for a bad night,” she says. “We did enough to get by.”

The offense struggled for most of the game. In fact, four unanswered points by the Lady Leopards gave them a brief 7-6 lead with 1:33 remaining in the first quarter.

“I called a time out and I emphasized to the girls that they have to play defense. When our shots aren’t falling we can still play defense,” Felker says. “We

Dighton junior Jordan Speer gets ready to pull down a rebound during Tuesday’s win over LaCrosse.

(Record Photo)

made a couple of big stops, got some layups and we were able to blow the game open.”

During an 11 minute stretch the Lady Hornets went on a 19-2 scoring blitz that saw them opening up a 25-9 lead early in the second half.

Senior center Leslie Speer,

who finished with a season high 16 points, took over the game when she scored nine of the team’s 11 points during one stretch midway into the second period and early in the third.

Speer’s double-double included 12 rebounds, two steals and a blocked shot.

Dighton extended its lead to 20 points, 36-16, following senior guard Diamond Brown’s basket midway into the fourth quarter.

Brown finished with six points on 3-of-4 shooting from the field. Shambrey Budd added four points and five rebounds.

DHS falls to top-ranked Hoxie in semi-finals When the Dighton High School girls and perennial powerhouse Hoxie met in the Castle Rock Classic it was a game worth of the championship finals.

Too bad it was in the semifinals.

That didn’t take away from the intensity or the caliber of play as Dighton went toe-to-toe with the Lady Indians before losing, 64-56.

“It was a great game. It had the feel of a state game and our girls handled it really well,” says Dighton head coach Amy Felker.

The Lady Hornets handled Hoxie’s relentless press and trapping defense.

“For the most part they

played half-court man-to-man and they tried to trap us a lot, but they didn’t have much success with it,” says Felker. “We were ready for their press and we were able to attack at the other end of the floor.”

Hoxie jumped out to a 35-25 halftime lead, but both teams played on even terms in the second half.

“There are so many times in the past that they’ve beaten us by 30 points that it felt good to go out there and show we can compete with them,” Felker says. “I felt like the girls gained a lot of respect.

“We can compete with anyone and the girls know it.”

Sophomore guard Kiara Budd led the team with 14 points on 5-of-12 from the field.

in third place with a 40-33 win over Golden Plains in the consolation finals.

“Putting all energy and emotion into the Hoxie game and having less than 24 hours to get focused on the next game was extremely hard,” says Felker.

“On defense, instead of moving feet we were reaching. In the first half we had three starters on the bench with two fouls.”

Dighton grabbed an early 13-7 lead and made that hold up the rest of the night.

K. Budd led the team with 11 points, followed by Leslie Speer (9) and S. Budd (8).

“It was a battle, but our defense stepped up late when Golden Plains was making a Defeat Golden Plains The Lady Hornets finished push,” says Felker.

“Kiara did a nice job of attacking their defense and creating opportunities,” says the head coach.

Liz Heath, who was 5-of-8 from the field, added 12 points and 10 rebounds.

“Liz continues to gain confidence with every game. She’s such a hard worker,” Felker says. “You can tell her to guard someone who may be quicker or better and she’ll get it done.

She knows she’s not the go-to girl on offense, but she has the confidence to take shots and make them.”

Senior forward Shambrey Budd also had a double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds.

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Schedule has been good for Jayhawks Bill Self has done many smart things since he became head basketball coach at Kansas University and one of the wisest was creating a challenging nonconference schedule for this season’s rookies.

Self could by have schedMac uled a bunch Stevenson of patsies and gone into the regular season unbeaten or with one or two losses, but he chose to take the road less traveled.

KU has played Wake Forest, Villanova, Colorado, Florida and New Mexico away from the friendly confines of Allen Fieldhouse.

Colorado and Florida were true road games on the Buffs’ and Gators’ home floors.

Even though the Jayhawks have already lost three games, the freshmen have learned what a difference there is between playing in high school and a howling horde of 15,000 that has no love for KU. Kansas has 14 practice days between the New Mexico game and Toledo on Dec. 30. The only game in that stretch is Georgetown in Allen Fieldhouse on Dec. 21.

Finals week is from Dec. 16-20 and practice time will be limited. After finals week, Self will have the squad all to himself for nine full days with no distractions.

That’s when KU always improves the most under Self’s coaching.

How far the Jayhawks will progress during the semester break is impossible to predict because Self is playing so many freshmen, but the talent is there.

Center Joel Embiid’s improvement after just 10 games as a true freshman has been improbable. He gets better every time he’s on the floor.

Embiid dominated play - particularly in the second half - against New Mexico.

He scored a career high 18 points with six rebounds, four blocks and three steals while playing 25 minutes in the Jayhawks’ 80-63 victory.

(See SCHEDULE on page 23)

Lady Indians snap skid against Deerfield Full-court pressure and fastbreak scoring opportunities added up to a 59-22 rout for the Wichita County High School girls in the seventh place game at the Bluejay Invitational on Saturday.

The Lady Indians (1-3) were never threatened, turning a brief Deerfield 22 Wichita Co. 59 2-2 tie into a 15-4 romp following Katie Bailey’s basket at the 2:13 mark of the second period.

Bailey, a senior, had a huge game for WCHS with 27 points.

She was joined in double figures by senior Tailar Bremer (16) and Anna Leigh Whitham (14).

Bremer set the pace early with fastbreak scoring opportunities and taking the ball inside when in the half-court game.

She scored 13 of her team’s 19 first quarter points as Leoti built a 19-8 cushion.

Whitham enjoyed the best game of her career, scoring her first basket in the closing moments of the first quarter and adding six more points in the second quarter. Her three-point play early in the second half stretched the WCHS lead to 44-13.

Fall to Sublette The Lady Indians were sent into the consolation bracket of the Cimarron tournament with a 45-31 loss to Sublette in the opening round.

That was followed by a narrow 54-49 loss to South Gray in the consolation semi-finals.

Trailing 26-24 at the half, the Lady Indians rallied to take a 41-36 lead into the final period. However they couldn’t

Wichita County High School junior Autumn Smades chases down a loose ball during tournament action at Cimarron on Saturday.

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hold off a late rally by the Lady Larks.

Nudged by Syracuse Leoti was outscored by two

points in the second half and that proved to be the difference in a 34-32 non-league loss at Syracuse on Tuesday.

The game was tied 17-17 at

halftime Bremer and Bailey accounted for 17 and 13 points, respectively, for the Lady Indians (1-4).

Charles is putting up record-setting stats With 26 coaches on the Kansas City Chiefs’ staff (including head coach Andy Reid) the most difficult thing might be making sure everyone has their own job title.

Obviously, head coach is taken.

So you work down the list with offensive line coach, linebackers coach, special teams, wide receivers, etc.

Eventually, however, you run out of job descriptions.

That appeared to be the case last spring when Reid hired former Philadelphia assistant Brad Childress last spring and gave him the job title of “spread game analyst/special projects” which left everyone scratching their heads.

Exactly what does that mean?

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At the time, the Chiefs explained that Childress will “conduct thorough research on the spread offense, benefitting not just the offense but also helping the Chiefs defense.”

While we still aren’t exactly sure what Childress does with the team, he may have provided a glimpse during last Sunday’s game against Oakland.

After the Chiefs had seen a 3510 lead nearly disappear following three straight Oakland touchdowns, Kansas City was faced with third-and-one at

their own 28 with the Raiders’ fans going nuts.

Reid sent in a play, but Childress quickly sent him another that he said they (which we interpret to mean the special projects division) had been working on. Reid changed the play to what was essentially an extended screen to Jamaal Charles who was wide open with nothing between him and the goal line except a wall of blockers and two safeties.

The 78 yard pass play sent the Oakland faithful into mourning as the Chiefs scored the game’s final three touchdowns in a 56-31 rout.

It’s not just Kansas City’s “special projects” division that came up huge at Oakland.

Charles put himself into the Kansas City record book and

earned a spot in the NFL record book. The four receiving touchdowns is a single game record for a runningback. The five total touchdowns ties the Chiefs’ franchise record (Abner Haynes, 1961), and is within one of the all-time NFL record, owned by Gale Sayers, Dub Jones and Ernie Nevers.

And some say the Chiefs don’t have offense.

For those who still doubt Kansas City’s offensive capabilities, we’ve moved into third place in scoring in the NFL with the 101 points we’ve put on the board during the last two weeks.

And even though the defense isn’t what it was earlier in the year, we’re still No. 4 in points allowed. Look for our (See CHARLES on page 24)

Late rally not enough for DHS in loss to Leopards

A furious fourth quarter rally wasn’t quite enough for the Dighton High School boys in a 48-41 non-league loss to LaCrosse on the home floor Tuesday night.

Tr a i l ing by 18 points, 41-23, with just u n d e r LaCrosse 48 s e v e n Dighton 41 minutes left in the game the Hornets finally found their shooting touch which had eluded them for most of the first three quarters.

“Our shot selection in the second half was better. We were getting more shots in the paint,” says head coach Dean Cramer.

Freshman forward Tyler Lingg, who scored six of his 10 points in the fourth quarter, jump-started an 8-1 scoring burst with a short jumper on the front side and a 10-footer on the back side of the scoring run that cut the deficit to 42-31 with 4:40 remaining.

Dighton (3-2) added a 10-2 scoring surge that began at the 3:56 mark with a basket by Matthew Mulville. When senior center Sam Moomaw drained a six-footer with 1:16 remaining that cut

the margin to six points, 46-40, the Dighton fans began to believe that maybe they could pull off the huge comeback. However, the Dighton rally ran out of steam during a 60 second stretch that began with 1:16 to play when the Hornets had four possessions but only had a single free throw to show for the effort. That charity toss by Mulville with 59.9 seconds remaining cut the lead to 46-41.

“If we could have hit just one of those field goals down the stretch it would have made it a one possession game and would have put a lot more pressure on (LaCrosse),” says Cramer. “We had our chances.”

It wasn’t the final two minutes that proved costly for the Hornets so much as the first 16 minutes when they scored only 10 points, trailing 22-10 at the half.

“For some reason we seemed out of sync in the first half,” Cramer says.

The Hornets were ineffective getting the ball into the paint and attacking the basket, even with their size advantage, and they allowed the Leopard guards to repeatedly drive the lane and score or dish

off to a post player for an easy basket.

“We have to do a better job of getting the ball to the basket,” Cramer says.

“We have to post up stronger and show that we want the ball inside.”

Moomaw finished the night with seven points, collecting just six in the paint, while Mathew Barnett added a lone basket.

Senior guard Isaac Alinor was the team’s leading scorer on limited shot opportunities, hitting 3-of-7.

“The boys have to realize that when we’re being pressured and we’re not hitting baskets, that when we have to stay under control and work the ball more so we can get better shots,” says the head coach.

Perhaps the most glaring stats for the game were just two offensive rebounds and one assist for the Hornets.

“Those numbers aren’t going to win many games against good teams,” noted Cramer. “We have to set good picks and sprint to our next spot on the floor when running our offense. That will allow us to get better shots and to get in better position for assists and rebounds.

“Bottom line is that we have to crash the boards

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Dighton senior Isaac Alinor hits a floater in the lane against LaCrosse on Tuesday night.

(Record Photo)

harder and show that we want the ball.”

Dighton never led in the game and, following a basket by Alinor with 3:49

Dighton boys fall to Hoxie in semis; bounce back against Buffs

A day after being handed their first loss of the season at the Castle Rock Classic, Dighton High School head coach Dean Cramer was wondering how his team would respond.

“It was a chance to see what we were made of,” says Cramer.

Overall, he was pleased with what he saw in a 54-46 win. The Hornets pounced on Atwood for an early 20-6 lead, only to let the Buffaloes cut the lead to a four points, 28-24, at the half.

Dighton regained control and momentum by

outscoring Atwood 15-9 in the third period.

“We had a good game plan and executed it well in the first quarter,” Cramer says. “It was probably the best quarter we’ve played this year. We quit playing defense in the second quarter, which is what happened the night before.

“One thing we’ve been emphasizing is the need to play better interior defense and not feel that we have to block everything,” he says.

and never recovered in a 54-28 loss to Hoxie in the tournament semi-finals last Friday. Hoxie owned a 22-11 halftime lead and seized control of the game with a 17-8 scoring surge in the third period.

“We didn’t handle the press very well and we had an off night shooting. That wasn’t a good combination,” says Cramer. “Hopefully, the boys learned that we need to work the ball awhile.

When the outside shots aren’t falling we need to get the better shot inside.

Fall to Hoxie “Hoxie went with the The Hornets were slow smaller, quicker lineup. coming out of the gate When we have a advan-

tage we need to work the ball around and get the better shot,” says Cramer.

The game was also costly for the Hornets who lost starting guard Ryan Horn for an undetermined length of time due to a dislocated shoulder that occurred during the game.

Isaac Alinor, who was just 3-of-7 from the field, finished with a game high six points and five rebounds. Wyatt Habiger, Matthew Mulville and Mathew Barnett each added four points.

Barnett added five rebounds (four offensive).

The Hornets had just two assists.

left in the opening period that cut the lead to 7-4, they were never closer than five points the rest of the night.

As a team, the Hornets shot 16-of-36 (44%) from two-point range and missed all four of their three-point attempts.

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Shoots pile in front of us. I was behind the pile and couldn’t see well enough for a shot, but Don emptied both barrels of his old double barrel at the fleeing buck.

The buck danced away unscathed and the next day Don had a different gun.

His brother Paul (known to all of us as junior) had a live-in girlfriend named Elaine. They were both pretty course and crude around the edges, and the best way I know to describe Paul is to compare him to Jackie Gleason’s character Ralph Cramden; always grousing and whining over something.

Elaine hunted with us too and when they were dressed in hunting garb, the only way to tell them apart was that Elaine was the bigger one. Her fa-

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vorite line, uttered often as we stood somewhere loitering and planning our assault, was “I’m goin’ deer huntin’ you pansies!”

Of the Beck’s, Ralph, who was my age, was my favorite. He was a big, hairy guy (that earned him the nickname wolf) who didn’t know his own strength.

Turkey shoots were popular back in those days and sponsored by numerous organizations. For a fee you were given one shotgun shell and stood in a line in front of a row of paper targets. After everyone had shot, the targets were pulled down and the number of pellets was counted in each target.

The winner was obviously the person putting the most pellets in their target and the prize was a turkey or a ham.

The Becks were very poor and hunted often out of necessity, so the artillery they carried was never very pretty. Ralph had an old single-shot 12 gauge shotgun that broke open to load.

The mechanism that allowed it to hinge open had long since ceased to function, so to load it, he simply pulled the pin and the gun became two pieces.

He’d load the shell, reinsert the pin and close the gun. It was worth going with him to turkey shoots just to watch.

All other shooters up and down the firing line sporting expensive custom built shotguns would sneer and snicker as he walked up and broke the battered old 12 gauge in half and loaded his shell.

The reactions became quite different, though as

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he fired the old cannon and walked away with the turkey every time.

As with most childhood stories, everything has changed now. I moved to Kansas and have lost touch with most of the old hunting gaggle. My brother and I and our families remain active deer hunters and trappers, I’d say in part because of those early experiences. Back then, we harvested few deer, but I learned respect for nature and for my elders. I learned hunter safety without a book or video to teach me.

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Schedule

SCHS sophomore Abe Wiebe (left) locks up with a Hutchinson wrestler as he attempts to throw him for a takedown during dual action at Colby last weekend.

(Record Photo)

Tough weekend in dual action for SC grapplers Between injuries and junior varsity wrestlers being pushed into varsity competition, Scott City head coach Jon Lippelmann knew his Beavers might be in for a tough weekend at the Colby dual tournament.

In that respect, there were no surprises.

The Beavers were 1-5 in dual matches with their only win coming against St. Francis (57-6).

In Friday’s duals the Beavers lost to Hutchinson (55-17), Pine Creek, Colo.

(75-3) and Hays (60-21).

They followed up with losses to Burlington, Colo. (39-35) and Oberlin

(47-33) to go along with Saturday’s win over Sainty.

Even though the Beavers were able to fill 11 weight classes, Lippelmann noted it’s not an ideal situation for his young wrestlers.

“You want to give boys some experience, but going up against Hutchinson and Pine Creek isn’t the way you’d like to do it.

“It’d be a much better situation if we can give these boys a chance to gain confidence wrestling against JV kids. That’s where a lot of these boys should be,” says Lippelmann.

At the same time, he’s hoping that he can see something from his squad when they travel to Goodland for dual tournament action on Saturday.

“More than wins, I’d like to see a little fire in their belly and a gleam in their eye that tells me they are grasping what we’re teaching and that they want to go out and win,” he says.

“As a coach, what’s tougher than losing matches is not being able to get a read on these boys and whether we’re getting through to them. Maybe we’ll learn a little more this weekend.”

After the win Self said, “We need to play him all the time, but the more he plays, the less time he’s going to spend in Lawrence. He’s got so much talent he’s going to continue to get better and better. . . he just needs opportunities.”

What may have gone unnoticed in the New Mexico game is that reserve center Landen Lucas played very well in relief of Embiid. Lucas’s play against the Lobos was significant because it appears that he has taken over that spot in the rotation.

Kansas righted their ship against the Lobos.

The Jayhawks have a crackerjack team - a surprise in every game. KU fans can hope that from now on most of the surprises are pleasant; it looks like they will be.

Shocks Make History Wichita State is 10-0 after their impressive 7061 win over Tennessee last Saturday. That’s the best start in the history of Shocker basketball. Coach Gregg Marshall has it going in Wichita.

Tennessee had been outrebounding their opponents by an average of 10 boards a game and Wichita beat the Vols 36-31 on the boards.

All of the Shocker starters have been playing well, but Darius Carter (67, 235) is adding a new dimension to the team. Carter had 14 rebounds and

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11 points against big and physical Tennessee; he’s going to play a key role from here on for Coach Marshall.

Wichita is going to be better, barring injuries, than last season’s Final Four team. That’s not to say they will finish in the Final Four or better, but they might.

College basketball has more parity than ever and there are many, many talented ball clubs throughout the nation. Wichita State is one of them.

Do you think there would be much interest among state basketball fans if the Shockers collided with the Jayhawks in the NCAA Tournament?

The only downside to the Shockers’ run is that Gregg Marshall will be the hottest head coaching commodity in the nation at the end of the season.

Every big-time program looking for a new head coach will be knocking on his door.

But Marshall might be one of the smart ones: He’s proven he can win with the big boys at Wich-

ita and he might decide to stay put and become a Shocker legend.

Record Payroll Second base is the only position that appeared to be a potential problem for the Kansas City Royals and management has seemingly solved that issue. GM Dayton Moore reached an agreement with free-agent second baseman Omar Infante.

Infante accepted a fouryear offer for $30 million that pushed KC’s payroll to $90 million, a franchise record. Owner David Glass has done his part to make the Royals’ 2014 season one to remember.

Infante had an excellent 2013 season at Detroit, hitting .318 with 10 homers and 51 RBIs in 118 games. In his 12-year career in the majors, Infante has batted .279 and he’s a big league second baseman on defense.

With Infante taking over at second, KC is all set with their everyday players. The major goal in spring training will be to keep players healthy.

Charles

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defense to regain its earlier season dominance when linebacker Justin Houston returns this week from his elbow injury.

Playing for No. 1 While the Chiefs guaranteed themselves a spot in the playoffs with last week’s win, we still have a chance at a bigger prize.

Denver has left the door open for us to still win the AFC West title.

They still have to play Oakland on the road and they travel to the Houston Texans who, you have to figure, are about due to end their losing streak.

Whether or not we can move into the No. 1 spot, or stay in the No. 5 position, one thing we do know is that the Chiefs are playing some terrific football at the right time.

In last week’s game, Alex Smith had a quarterback rating of 158.3. Now I don’t know all the particulars of how they arrive

at those numbers, but that’s as good as a quarterback can score in the NFL. In essence, it’s a perfect game.

He’s gone from being a game manager to a quarterback who can win games.

It’s amazing that Andy Reid was 4-12 with Philadelphia last year and people were questioning whether he had what it takes to coach in the NFL. The Chiefs turned around a 2-14 season. This has been quite a marriage between the two.

More important than those numbers, the Chiefs are humble . . . and hungry. You hear Reid and the players say time and again how important it is to be humble.

When you’ve been through a 2-12 season you’ve been humbled.

Humility is an important part of the foundation that it takes to become a champion.

That’s something that Dez Bryant may want to keep in mind.

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Beavers get bounce-back win over Trinity What a difference a game makes.

O n e night after losing their Trinity 51 season Scott City 67 opener by 18 points to hot-shooting Pueblo East, the Scott Community High School boys dismantled Wichita Trinity, 67-51, in the Southwest Classic on Friday.

It didn’t matter so much that Trinity was the No. 3 ranked team in Class 4ADivision 2. The Beavers were anxious to prove they are a better team than the one that showed up on Thursday.

If it’s possible to have a bounce-back game in only the second game of the season, this was it.

“We had the first game jitters behind us and we were playing smooth tonight,” says junior guard Brett Meyer who finished with 14 points. “We played smarter and we talked a lot more on defense. That’s something we weren’t doing very well against Pueblo East.”

If there were any lingering effects from the previous night’s loss it wasn’t evident.

SCHS (1-1) never trailed in the game and after Trinity (1-2) tied the score at 2-2 the Beavers put together an 11-1 scoring run that was characterized by patience on

South The Rebels scored the first basket of the third quarter, cutting the deficit to six points, but that was as close as they would get the rest of the night. The fourth quarter turned into an offensive free-for-all with the Beavers holding a 26-23 advantage.

“We wanted to attack the rim and force them to foul and put us on the line,” says junior guard Trey O’Neil who finished with a game high 29 points and eight rebounds.

Twelve of Scott City’s final 14 points came at the free throw line.

Senior Brayden Strine (six-foot) scored 12 points in the post and pulled down four rebounds. He was 8-of-11 at the charity stripe.

Baker had a team high 11 rebounds and was 3-of4 from the field.

“Brayden is really explosive. He’s got a quick

Southwest Classic Recap • Boy’s Division Holcomb 48 - Denver South 46 Holcomb 70 - Pueblo East 72 Holcomb 57 - Wichita Trinity 50 Garden City 58 - Wichita Trinity 38 Garden City 52 - Denver South 62 Garden City 58 - Pueblo East 52 Scott City 51 - Pueblo East 69 Scott City 67 - Wichita Trinity 51 Scott City 68 - Denver South 58

offense and defensive intensity.

Scott City doesn’t have a true big man in the paint which they enjoyed while claiming state championships during each of the past three years. But that doesn’t mean the Beavers are content with sitting on the perimeter and knocking down outside shots.

Three consecutive scoring possessions provided a glimpse of what this team is about.

Meyer scored on a steal and layin, junior guard Trey O’Neil drove into the paint to lay one off the glass and senior guard Brayden Strine pulled down a rebound and scored on a putback.

The Beavers showed they are going to find different ways to score, though there’s little doubt that most of the offense will run through Meyer and O’Neil, who finished with a game high 26 points, including three treys.

“On offense we have to

be patient and wait for the opportunity if we aren’t able to get the basket in transition,” Meyer says.

O’Neil repeatedly slashed his way through the Trinity defense, scoring eight of the team’s final 10 points in the first quarter as they built a 15-8 lead. But O’Neil isn’t hesitant about putting up the outside shot if the defense lays off in order to stop him from driving. He drilled a pair of treys, sandwiched around a rebound and putback

by Meyer, that extended Scott City’s lead to 25-10 with 6:00 left in the first half.

Strine (6-foot) and Sloan Baker (6-foot-1) are Scott City’s “big men” in the paint and, despite their lack of size they each contributed eight points.

Baker unveiled a baby hook that accounted for four of his six points in the second period. The last hook shot with just under a minute left in the half gave the Beavers a 38-16 lead.

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second jump,” says Coach O’Neil. “And Sloan did a real nice job on the boards.”

Junior guard Brett Meyer had his best offensive game of the round-robin with 17 points, including 8-of-11 free throws.

As a team, the Beavers shot 18-of-32 from two-point range. More impressively, they were outrebounded only 33-30.

Playing their third game in as many nights to start the season, Coach O’Neil was concerned with whether the Beavers would be playing with tired legs on Saturday evening.

“We shot a pretty good percentage from threepoint range in all three games, but in the final game we realized our legs weren’t there,” says O’Neil. “We drove into the lane and created shots or got to the line. That’s

going to happen when a team is trying to block every shot and we were able to take advantage of it.”

Saturday’s win felt particularly good to the Beavers after a shaky 69-51 loss to Pueblo East in the season opener on Thursday.

“At that point we were looking at a strong possibility of starting the season 0-3,” says Coach O’Neil. “The things we were doing wrong in the first game were correctable and once they saw on film what we’d been telling them since the first day of practice they made the adjustments. They cleaned things up pretty good after the first game.”

“It feels good to come out of this tournament with two wins,” added T. O’Neil. “That was our goal. Now we know where we’re at and what we need to work on in practice.”

Rough start for SC against Pueblo East The opening round game in the Southwest Classic wasn’t the start to the season that the Scott Community High School boys were hoping for.

But it wasn’t completely unexpected either.

With only a few practices behind them due to the late football season and with only one returning starter, the Beavers never could find their stride in a 69-51 loss to Pueblo South.

“The boys got a chance to see themselves on film and the mistakes they made,” says head coach Glenn O’Neil.

He had a long laundry list of areas where the team needed to improve.

He cited a lack of ball movement, poor screens which led to the cutters not doing their jobs well and poor defense - at least

by SCHS standards.

“It’s not the first time they’ve heard us talk about these things.

They’ve been hearing it since the first day of practice,” says O’Neil. “But they’re like anyone else.

They don’t think they’re actually messing up until they see it on film.”

Trey O’Neil, who was 3-of-9 from beyond the arc, finished with a team high 19 points, 10 rebounds and four assists.

Junior guard Brett Meyer added 14 points and a pair of assists.

Senior center Brayden Strine, who was 3-of-3 from the field, finished with eight points and seven rebounds.

SCHS was 11-of-27 from two-point range.

Pueblo East didn’t shoot that much better as a percentage, but put up nearly twice as many attempts, hitting 23-of-48.

They added another 6-of-15 from beyond the three-point line.

“We didn’t trap anybody and we didn’t extend the pressure like we will when we’re in better shape,” added O’Neil. “A lot of things can be fixed with our defense and will be fixed.”

Scott City senior Chris Pounds drives past a Wichita Trinity player during first round action in the Southwest Kansas Classic.

(Record Photo)

With a 40-19 halftime lead, the Beavers seemed content with playing solid defense and, if necessary, exchanging baskets with Trinity for the final 16 minutes. Scott City’s defense didn’t allow the Knights to score more

than four consecutive points in the game until the final 1-1/2 minutes.

It was the kind of defensive effort that the Beavers have been known for under head coach Glenn O’Neil.

But, more than any-

thing, it felt good for this team to get their first win.

“It feels pretty good because they’re ranked third in state and it shows what we’re capable of doing, even though it’s still early in the season,” says Meyer.

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SCHS senior Bailey Nickel drives to the basket for a field goal during Saturday’s round-robin tournament action against Denver South.

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Nickel senior forward provided some much-needed perimeter offense with a pair of first quarter treys.

“We set that play at the top (of the key) for her and when the defense comes out that allows us to take it inside,” notes Crawford.

“Bailey had a lot of confidence in her shot and I expect to see that from her all season.”

Nickel didn’t slow down in the second quarter as Scott City scored nine unanswered points.

Kelly Wycoff’s basket at the 7:16 mark tied the game at 13-13 and the Lady Beavers quickly followed with a steal from full-court pressure that led to a Nickel basket just 13 seconds later and they never trailed again.

Two more baskets by Nickel extended the lead to six points, 19-13, but Denver South sliced the deficit to three points late in the half. Nickel then delivered a huge trey at the buzzer that gave Scott City a 25-19 lead entering the locker room.

“I have a lot more confidence in my shot, especially from the outside,” says Nickel. “But that third (three-pointer) was pretty exciting. They started playing tighter defense on me in the second half.”

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Any hopes of a Denver South comeback were erased early in the fourth quarter when Hawker scored on consecutive baskets and Wycoff added a field goal that extended the SCHS lead to 15, 4631.

Nickel scored the team’s final eight points in the last 2:10 - six of those at the charity stripe.

Her final two points of the night gave the Lady Beavers their largest lead, 5436.

“That’s the kind of scoring we need on the inside from Riley. Tonight her shots were falling and that should give her the confidence to shoot more,” says Crawford. “We can’t expect Bailey to score like this every night. She’s going to attract a lot of attention from teams now that she’s scored 23 and 32 points on back-to-back nights.

“This should open up opportunities for other girls, but they need to be aggressive.”

Even though she was limited to six points in the third quarter, Nickel didn’t feel it was the defense so much as it was a conscious effort to get an offensive contribution from all her teammates.

“In the past we’ve had one or two girls doing most of the scoring and I don’t want to see that happen with this team,” she says. “I want to make sure that everyone is involved.”

Crawford also feels the pressure defense, which had been inconsistent in the first two games, finally paid dividends against Denver South.

“There are times when we’re going to get beat on the press, but if we can speed a team up and force them to play out of control we’re going to get some steals and some easy baskets as a result,” Crawford says.

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Balanced Scoring Perhaps what was most impressive in the second half was Scott City’s ability to get offensive contributions from the other four starters, including a career high 10 points from senior Riley Hawker.

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by Nickel with 3:27 on the clock built a 37-25 cushion.

The Lady Rebels were unable to get closer than eight points the rest of the night.

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Letters submitted by Busy Beavers Pre-School * * * Dear Santa, I would like a toy kitty that has batteries for Christmas. Baylee and Daddy don’t know what they want yet, but Kaitlyn wants a rainbow lion with rainbow batteries. Mom wants an elephant because she is allergic to cats.

Santa, we have baby kitties that you can see when you come to our house.

Love, Clara Wolkensdorfer, 3 * * * Dear Santa, Can you bring me a Buzz, a Woody, and a Rex from Toy Story? I really like that movie. Jazelle just wants a doll house.

Mom wants Toy Story toys to play with me. My dad wants a Steelers blanket.

Where do your reindeer stay at?

Love, Brody Rios, 4 * * * Dear Santa, I really want some dress-up jewelry and a music box to put my jewelry in. Sully would like a remote control lion. Mommy needs a make-up box and Daddy wants a motorcycle with stripes.

I will leave you milk, cupcakes and chocolate chips cookies.

Love, Odessa Cline, 4 * * * Dear Santa, Can I please have a play gun with bullets for Christmas? My sisters would like dolls and Dre wants a T.V. Mom wants a vacuum because she likes cleaning the house. My dad needs a wooden clock so he knows what time it is.

Everyone has been good at our house this year.

Love, Dominic Allen, 4 * * * Dear Santa, Please bring me super hero and fairy stuff, like maybe Tinker Bell.

Conner wants video games for when he is older.

Santa, I have a new puppy at my house. Could you also bring my mommy fairy stuff and me some more fairy stuff too?

Love, June Gardner, 4 * * * Dear Santa, I really, really want a dirt bike to go racing. Dalton just wants to race me on his blue 4-wheeler. You can bring my sister a slow Barbie car. Dad wants the biggest, brown pick-up there is.

Mom might want a big pick-up too, just not as big as Dad’s. Santa, does your sleigh go really fast?

Love, Chaysston Rose, 4 * * * Dear Santa, I want a turbo sword, a Halo costume, and a Spiderman toy this year.

Hudson loves footballs and trucks.

Dad needs a blue bicycle because he doesn’t have a bicycle at all. My mom says she wants new, clean coasters, not dirty ones.

Kringle, the elf, keeps an eye on me, so I HAVE to be good.

Love, Easton Eisenhour, 5 * * * Dear Santa, I would like a playhouse that you can play in inside. Libbie likes science, so science stuff would be good for her.

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Sharing a few ideas for his Christmas wish list during Santa’s visit to Scott City is three-year-old Colborn Trout.

(Record Photo)

Dear Santa, I have tried to be good all year. I would like an air hockey table, baby lions and some games.

I will leave cookies and milk for you.

Love, Avery Radke, 5 Dear Santa, I have tried to be a good boy this year. I would like some little cows, a green motorcycle and a green 4-wheeler.

I will leave some cookies and milk for you and some carrots for the reindeer.

Love, Aaren Radke, 3

ble, too.

I want a 3D DS and some games.

Will you get my nana some sewing stuff and my papa some fishing stuff.

Oh, ya, my dogs would like some chew bones, too.

Love, Zackery Proctor P.S.: I will have milk and cookies for you.

Dear Santa, My name is Jordan and I have been good this year. I would really like a Doc McStuffins Check-up Center.

I love you!

Jordan Rufenacht, age 4

We will leave you cookies and milk.

Love, Abigail Colbary, 4 P.S.: I want a baby pinecone.

Dear Santa, I really want a Zoomer for Christmas. I know for a fact that I’m on the nice list. I’ll leave you extra milk and cookies this year.

Love Bruce Colbary, 12

Dear Santa Claus, I have been somewhat good this year. I try real hard, but get in trou-

Dear Santa, I would like a doll and a mermaid for Christmas. I have been good this year!

Dear Santa, I would like an American Girl doll, a fairy that flies and cuddly monkey.

My brother Liam wants tractors, trucks and books. We have been good this year Santa.

We love you, Millie and Liam

My daddy would like tools for fixing things and maybe some new movies for Mommy, like Superman.

Does Rudolph shine his nose to find the North Pole?

Love, Caraline Beaton, 5 * * * Dear Santa, Can you please bring me a motorcycle and a remote control airplane?

Crissa might want a Barbie doll and Jaisa always plays with babies. Dad wants a BIG garage. You can bring Mom a pretty necklace.

Everyone is good at our house on Sundays, Mondays and Saturdays.

We are all good enough for presents.

Love, Cooper Irvin, 4 * * * Dear Santa, I have been waiting for a REAL unicorn my entire life. So, could you PLEASE bring me one?

Jack wants a fire truck and my little sister just plays with baby toys.

Mom and Dad just want me to sleep in my own bed, but the dark is soooo scary.

Everyone has been good at our house, except when Jack bites me.

Love, Grayce Morgan, 4 * * * Dear Santa, I want a green Power Ranger costume, a red Power Ranger, and a Power Ranger cup. Maile and Mom want new outfits, but Mom wants some crayons too.

Dad needs a new gun for shooting

birds high up in the sky. My house is brick and we don’t have a chimney, so I can just let you in the door when you get there.

Love, Max Depperschmidt, 4 * * * Dear Santa, Can you please bring me a Buzz Lightyear and a Potato Head? John John wants Woody from Toy Story.

Mommy wants a toy wind-up mouse and Daddy likes stuff to work in his workshop with.

Are there any baby reindeer at the North Pole?

Love, Aiden Ford, 4 * * * Dear Santa, I would like a toy gun to shoot big deer, but not Santa’s reindeer! Dad needs a new hard puzzle. Mommy likes camera stuff for pictures.

Sprinkles, the elf, is at my house, and he is magic! I will leave you some Christmas tree cookies, milk and carrots for the reindeer.

Love, Bretton Thomas, 4 * * * Dear Santa, I want a green airplane and a bacon clock with numbers on it for Christmas. Could you bring my sisters some pillows to go with their blankets?

My brother wants a knife, but it should probably just be a play one.

Mom wants a monkey sweater and all Dad wants is a jacket with green squares on it.

Do you help the elves make the toys?

Love, Evan Heili, 5 * * * Dear Santa, I would like a dinosaur with a circle head, a rectangle neck, little baby hands and feet that stomp when I push the button. Kristina wants a doggie.

Betty needs her own toys so she stops taking mine. Mom and Dad don’t want anything this year. Thank you for the surprises you leave us!

Love, Sebastian Selfridge, 5 * * * Dear Santa, Can you bring me my own Christmas tree? Jaxson wants a Thomas the Train, that’s what he likes to play with.

Mommy wants some coconuts.

Daddy can have coconuts too because he doesn’t like Christmas trees as much as me.

Could you also bring Jaxson a little Santa toy too?

Love, Bentley Thurston, 3 * * * Dear Santa, I would like a kitty cat hat this year for Christmas. Brody really likes Buzz from Toy Story.

Mommy wants a warm, fuzzy, green coat. I think Daddy wants another Steelers hat.

Everyone is good at our house all the time.

Love, Jazelle Rios, 5

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KLA policies are set at convention

Policy on trichomoniasis, animal care, countryof-origin labeling (COOL), taxes and other issues important to the livestock industry was approved

by Kansas Livestock Association (KLA) members during the group’s annual convention in Wichita.

Policy discussions started at regional roundtable meetings earlier this fall, progressed through committee and council meetings at the convention and concluded with final approval by the general KLA membership.

An existing resolution was amended by members to support the harmonization of trichomoniasis regulations among states. The intent is to make rules for interstate livestock commerce more consistent as they relate to this costly disease.

Members amended policy to support producer implementation of cattle care guidelines contained in the Beef and Dairy Quality Assurance programs.

The organization supports regulatory and/or statutory changes to the current COOL labeling program that will achieve World Trade Organization compliance and avoid trade disruptions or retaliatory action by beef trading partners Canada and Mexico.

The membership retained a resolution supporting voluntary, incentive-based efforts to preserve and enhance the population of the Lesser Prairie Chicken in Kansas. Environmental groups have attempted to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through citizen lawsuits and legal threats, to list the Lesser Prairie Chicken under the federal Endangered Species Act.

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Clock is ticking on some drugs in livestock production News that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to help phase out the use of certain antimicrobial drugs as growth promoters in livestock means there’s now a timeframe in place for livestock producers to adjust production practices, said Kansas State University veterinarian Mike Apley.

The guidelines apply to drugs considered “medi-

cally important,” which the FDA describes as being important for treating human diseases.

Cattle production will be less affected than swine because cattle growth promoters are typically ionophores, which are not considered medically important, said Apley, a professor of clinical sciences in K-State’s College of Veterinary Medicine.

“This news means the

clock is ticking. Livestock producers and pharmaceutical companies have three months and three years to get it done,” he said, referring to a threemonth comment period which will be followed by a three-year period for drug companies to voluntarily revise FDAapproved labeled use conditions.

“In swine, our estimates indicate that this

will remove about 16 percent of the use of medically important antibiotics in feed for growing swine,” Apley said, citing studies conducted in the past six years.

“In cattle, the primary growth promotant antibiotic use is with ionophores, which are not considered medically important so the cattle industry (See CLOCK on page 29)

No break in drought this winter Drought is creeping back into the country, proving that it will take more than one or two wet systems to get rid of persistent dryness.

According to the latest “Drought Monitor” report, nearly one-third of the contiguous U.S. is in moderate or worse drought as of Dec. 17. As has been the case for the

past several months, the worst of the drought continues in many western states.

In California, 94 percent of the state is in moderate to extreme drought.

Drought has dominated the state since late April, when conditions jumped from 48 percent in moderate or severe drought to 63 percent. Within two

weeks, the drought intensity spread to 98 percent.

Now, officials from four San Joaquin Valley (Calif.) water agencies have joined state and federal lawmakers to pressure the president and governor to declare a drought emergency as the state faces another dry winter, according to The Bakersfield Californian.

Other states further to the east are also facing persistent drought.

Though conditions were cooler than average, the Texas panhandle and southwestern Oklahoma in particular are battling drought conditions.

“Scattered pockets of increases and/or introductions of (moderate (See BREAK on page 29)

Countdown to end of farmland price bubble A drop in corn prices may be good news for livestock producers, but it could mean bad news for farmland prices, according to a Bloomberg report.

Bubble “I can see the fear in farmers’ eyes when they think of all the moving pieces around the world gutting the value

Cattle report again dropped

by USDA The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Dec. 13 lifted a temporary ban on domestic horse slaughter, opening the door for three companies in New Mexico, Iowa and Missouri while an appeal of a lawsuit filed

by HSUS, Front Range Equine Rescue and other animal rights organizations proceeds.

In 2006, by eliminating funding for USDA inspections at horse processing facilities, Congress effectively banned horse slaughter.

In 2011, Congress restored the inspection funding, but USDA did not approve the first permits for horse processing until summer 2013, making these the first horse processing facilities eligible to operate in the United States since 2007.

In response, the animal rights groups filed a lawsuit in a New Mexico federal court to permanently enjoin inspectors from USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service from carrying out inspections at three horse slaughter facilities, Valley Meat Co. in Roswell, N.M., Rains Natural Meats of Gallatin, Mo., and Responsible Transportation in Sigourney, Ia.

ag commentary Dan Murphy

contributing columnist

Drovers CattleNetwork

of next year’s crop,” said David Kohl, agricultural economist and president of consulting firm AgriVisions, who last

week spoke at several farming conferences in northern Nebraska. “Most of them know the boom in corn prices and farmland prices is coming to a screeching halt.”

Farmland prices have soared by an average of 72 percent over the last three years, but experts

warn that the value of the $2.5 trillion of U.S. farmland could plummet by as much as 30 percent within the next three years as the corn rush ends.

“The increase in land prices was caused by the increase in corn prices,” Gary Ash, chief executive officer for 1st Farm Credit

Public confused about pink slime Brent Wessler Drover’s Cattle Network

Consumers are more concerned with staying within budget than avoiding pesticides, added hormones and antibiotics, but a monthly survey shows they continue to be misinformed about the issues.

Animal welfare, GMOs and sustainability endure in discussions about food, but none of the topics gained as much public attention, or had more of an impact in 2013, than LFTB. Lean finely textured beef, more commonly known to consumers as ‘pink slime,’ gained media attention in regards to food safety and public knowledge about what’s in the U.S. food supply. Concerns about food safety were raised and the beef industry responded, but it seems consumers weren’t convinced or never made an effort to learn about the product.

The December Food Demand Survey by Oklahoma State University asked about LFTB in an online survey of over 1,000 respondents. A True/False section measured their belief of the product.

The statement most people in the survey believed to be true was ac-

knowledging LFTB lowered the price of ground beef. Only a small portion (25%) recognized beef was the only ingredient in LFTB. Other statements most of the respondents believed to be true are a concern to the beef industry.

Almost 58 percent thought LFTB led to several illnesses in the U.S. and almost 52 percent believe it is unsafe to eat. More than 46 percent of people in the survey thought the product was never approved by the USDA. Information from BeefisBeef.com is seeking to educate those consumers who are misinformed. The website communicates that LFTB is 100% USDA inspected beef and confirms LFTB is the same beef that’s always been used to make ground beef. The website describes the safe process used to make LFTB and includes a FAQ section.

Most of the consumers are comfortable buying the product, likely because it assists in lowering the costs of ground beef.

A second set of questions in the survey found consumers preferred beef without LFTB, but ranked juicy, flavorful beef with LFTB as more desirable than dry, flavorless beef without LFTB at the same price point.

Services in Normal, Ill., told Bloomberg. “The reverse is going to be true.

The drop in corn is going to result in a drop in land value.”

Such a drop ignites fears of the last time an agricultural land-price bubble burst in the 1980s when prices fell 27 per-

cent within four years after a peak in 1982. Some areas in the Midwest saw prices drop by more than 50 percent.

Not everyone is convinced farmers should expect a hard landing when the farmland price bubble finally bursts.

(See BUBBLE on page 29)

Market Report Closing prices on December 17, 2013 Winona Feed and Grain Bartlett Grain Wheat..................

$ 6.46

Milo ....................

$ 4.04

White Wheat .......

Corn ...................

Soybeans ...........

$ 6.76 $ 4.32 $ 12.72

Scott City Cooperative Wheat..................

White Wheat .......

Milo (bu.).............

Corn....................

Soybeans ...........

Sunflowers..........

ADM Grain

$ 6.46

$ 4.04

Corn....................

$ 4.34

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46

3

Dec. 11

34

16

$ 4.32

Dec. 12

53

8

Dec. 13

52 17

Dec. 14

50 20

Dec. 15

59 23

Dec. 16

65 27

$ 4.04 $ 12.72

$ 16.45

Corn....................

$ 4.39

Sunflowers..........

Milo (bu.).............

Dec. 10

$ 6.46

Soybeans............

$ 6.46

$ 6.76

Wheat..................

Milo (bu.).............

Wheat..................

$ 4.09 $ 12.68

$ 17.00

Moisture Totals December

0.00

2013 Total

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Countdown to end of the farmland price bubble With temperatures bouncing all over during the past couple of weeks, some producers might be wondering what is this going to do to the wheat.

Conditions have been unusually cold throughout Kansas during most of December. Also, there has been little or no snow cover for most of this period. This means that soil temperatures have been colder than normal.

So the million dollar question is, will this make some wheat fields susceptible to winter die-off? To

States are raising beef checkoff North Dakota is following actions by seven other states with plans to double the beef checkoff at the state level by 2015.

Although a change hasn’t been made on a national scale in almost 30 years, a handful of states have made the move to increase the fee.

The Associated Press reports the North Dakota Stockmen’s Association must prove an increase is necessary in order to as the 2015 Legislature to raise the checkoff fee by a dollar.

The raise would double the per-head fee, but shrinking herd sizes have brought in less money for the checkoff as fewer sales have occurred since consecutive years of drought resulted in herd liquidation.

The checkoff program keeps half of the fee in the state and sends the other half to the national beef checkoff program.

Stockmen’s Executive Vice President Julie Ellingson said falling cattle supplies and inflation mean the dollar collected from every sale has less than half of the buying power it had when the dollar-perhead level was set in 1985.

Checkoff funds promote beef to consumers, an increasingly important action as consumers weigh the value of beef as retail prices continue higher.

The request is likely to be approved if members want it and lawmakers can justify the increase. Record high cattle prices make the dollar increase more manageable.

The increase would send a dollar to the national fund and keep the other dollar within the state.

Alabama, Idaho, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah and Washington have already approved a checkoff increase at the state level.

Down on the Farm Chris Long Walnut Creek Extension Agent

answer that, there are a few factors to consider when evaluating the outlook for winter survival of wheat.

The first question to consider is how well has the wheat cold hardened?

When temperatures through fall and early winter gradually get colder, that helps wheat

Clock will be minimally affected,” he said.

With the use of tetracyclines, he added, research suggests that low concentrations of antibiotic used for growth promotion is probably the least likely to cause alterations in the intestinal tract, while higher prevention/control concentrations have much more of an altering effect.

“We should be clear that this action is about decreasing the use of antibiotics in food animals, not about having clear evidence that growth promotion uses are driving problems in human therapy,” Apley said.

“We have very little knowledge of the rela-

plants develop good winter hardiness. When temperatures remain unusually warm late into the fall then suddenly drop into the low teens, plants are less likely to have had time to cold harden properly and will be more susceptible to winterkill.

This fall, temperatures generally fell gradually. It did not go from unusually warm with strong plant growth to bitterly cold in a single day. As a result, the wheat should be adequately cold hardened in most cases.

The next question to think about is a topic I touched on not long ago, and that is, how well developed is the root system?

Since I devoted an entire article to this fairly recently I will not get into much details here, but rather suggest that producers get out and check their wheat and how developed their root systems are.

So, another factor to consider is how cold is the soil at the crown level?

This depends on snow cover and moisture levels in the soil. Winterkill is

(continued from page 28)

tive effect of magnitude and duration of antibiotic exposure on bacterial populations, regardless of some who think they do,” he said.

“So, the result is lopping off the most politically acceptable antibiotic use category, with no evidence that it is more, or even as much of a problem than other higher exposures. This is a troubling precedent when we eventually evaluate some prevention and control uses in the future.”

“While the new rules mean some antimicrobial drugs will be removed from livestock production, no one should think that it’s removing a sub-

stantial amount,” Apley said, adding that “the public perception of the amounts of such drugs used in food animals for growth promotion has been intentionally inflated for purposes of agenda advancement by some groups.”

To help phase in veterinary oversight of drugs that move from over-thecounter to VFD status, the FDA released a proposed rule for public comment that updates its existing regulations relating to VFD drugs. The proposed rule allows for changes to the VFD to attempt to decrease the load on veterinarians and feed mills, the veterinarian said.

Higher beef production is still two years away Short beef supplies in the coming years will likely cut beef consumption and a solution is more than two years away according to a university beef economist.

Darrell Mark, Adjunct Professor of Economics at South Dakota State University, says beef consumption is forecasted to fall about five percent next year to average 53 pounds per person, with another drop the following year to 52 pounds each.

The decline in consumption is a result of tighter quantities and continued demand resulting in higher beef prices. Cheap feed costs and record beef and cattle prices have producers retaining heifers in the years ahead, further

Break

(continued from page 26)

to extreme drought] are noted in both states given the continued dryness of late on top of longterm (12- to 36-months) dryness, which has left behind dry stock ponds and slowed winter wheat and pasture growth/recovery,” the report said.

shrinking beef production next year.

Mark says even if beef cow numbers are modestly higher at the beginning of 2014, beef production resulting in more beef consumption won’t be expected until 2016.

In the meantime, analysts wonder if continually higher beef prices could price consumers out of the market.

Consumers have been willing to spend more for beef so far in 2013.

Mark says a review of this year’s market shows beef demand has been better than would have been expected, but he considered a list of factors affecting demand in 2014.

“A number of factors will determine the

demand for beef in the year to come, including consumer tastes and preferences, consumer disposable income, prices of competing meats, general economic conditions in the U.S. and around the globe, and foreign exchange rates,” he said in a release.

Despite potential setbacks, strong domestic and global demand for U.S. beef portrays an optimistic outlook for the industry next year.

Mark noted the three percent rise in demand for all fresh beef in the first three quarters of 2013 compared to a year earlier and an increase in restaurant traffic, where 40-50% of beef is purchased.

possible if soil temperatures at the crown level fall into the single digits.

If there is at least an inch of snow on the ground, the wheat will be protected and soil temperatures will usually remain above the critical level.

Also, if the soil has good moisture, it’s possible that soil temperatures at the crown level may not reach the critical level even in the absence of snow cover.

Looking to see if the crown is well protected by soil. If wheat is planted at the correct depth, about 1.5 to two inches deep,

and in good contact with the soil, the crown should be well protected by the soil from the effects of cold temperatures.

If the wheat seed was planted too shallow, then the crown will have developed too close to the soil surface and will be more susceptible to winterkill.

Also, if the seed was planted into loose soil or into heavy surface residue, the crown could be more exposed and could be susceptible to cold temperatures and desiccation.

Bubble

(continued from page 28)

Terry Kastens, agricultural economist emeritus at Kansas State University, explained in an article here that while prices may tumble, they will not necessarily crash.

Still, according to Reuters, bankers warn farmers that 2014 may be the year to “sober up” from the farmland boom that has lasted for more than six years.

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Education BECOME AN EXPERT in HVAC installation and repair. Pinnacle Career Institute Online HVAC education in as little as 12 months. Call us today: 1-877-651-3961 or go online: www.HVACOnline-Education.com ––––––––––––––––––––– NEED CLASS A CDL training? Start a career in trucking today. Swift Academies offer PTDI certified courses and offer best-in-class training. New Academy classes weekly.

No money down or credit check. Certified mentors ready and available. Paid (while training with mentor). Regional and dedicated opportunities. Great career path. Excellent benefits package. Please call: (602) 714-9455.

Homes

Gene’s Appliance

508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686

Kansas Classifieds Ad Network

The classified ads below are appearing in 147 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 500,000 the classified display ads appear in 142 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 457,000. KCAN line ad is $300 for up to 25 words and $12 each additional word. A 2x2 display ad is $800 per insertion and a 2x4 display ad is $1,650 per insertion. To find out more, contact The Scott County Record at 872-2090.

S P E C I A L GOVERNMENT programs for mobile homes. $0 down for land owners.

Free construction loans. Will match your tax refund up to $8,000.

Used homes $29,900$59,900. All credit types accepted. Habla Espanol!

866-858-6862.

Sporting Goods GUN SHOW. Dec. 21-22.

National Guard Armory, Manhattan (721 Levee Drive). Sat. 9:00-5:00; Sunday 9:00-3:00. BuySell-Trade. For info call (563) 927-8176.

Berning Auction “Don’t Trust Your Auction to Just Anyone”

For all your auction needs call:

(620) 375-4130

Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti

Dining

District 11 AA Meetings

Scott City • Unity and Hope

C-Mor-Butz BBQ

Barbecue, the only sport where a fat bald man is a GOD...

& Catering

Monday, Wednesday and Friday • 8:00 p.m.

807 Kingsley Last Saturday, Birthday Night, 6:30 p.m.

All open meetings, 874-8207 • 874-8118 ________________ A.A. • Al-Anon • Tuesday • 8:30 p.m.

United Methodist Church, 412 College 872-3137 • 872-3343

Kyle Lausch 620-872-4209

Bryan Mulligan & Chris Price 620-874-8301 & 620-874-1285

www.cmorbutzbbq.com • cmorbutzbbq@gmail.com

Dighton • Thursday • 8:30 p.m.

535 Wichita St. • All open meetings 397-5679 • 397-2647

Classifieds

The Scott County Record • Page 32 • Thursday, December 19, 2013

Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009

Classified Ad Deadline: Monday at 5:00 p.m.

Classified Ad Rate: 20¢ per word. Minimum charge, $5.

Blind ad: $2.50 per week extra. Card of thanks: 10¢ per word. Minimum charge, $3. Classified Display Ad rate: $5.50 per column inch.

Services

WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc. Trim smaller trees and bushes Classified advertising must be paid in advance unless too. Call Dean Riedl, business account is established.

(620) 872-5112 or 874If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge.

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Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.

––––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing. Lawn Pine Village ONE OF A mower tune-up and blade Apartments sharpening. Call Vern KIND 300 E. Nonnamaker Soodsma, 872-2277 or Apartments available for 36tfc 874-1412. qualifying tenants 62+ or ––––––––––––––––––––– disabled with rental MOWER REPAIR, tuneassistance available. up and blade sharpening.

Gorgeous custom built Call Rob Vsetecka at 620Hours: home, tons of features, 36tfc 214-1730. storage galore, corner lot, Tuesday, ––––––––––––––––––––– SA garage. $115,000 with 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

ROOFING, appliances and furniture; or METAL by appointment $112,000 without furniture. SIDING and TRIMS at Call Steve 872-2535 or direct-to-the-public pric(620) 255-4824.

BRING THE es. Call Metal King Mfg., KIDS, DOGS 620-872-5464. Our prices 37tfc AND HORSES! will not be beat!

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Home remodeling, new construction, tree trimming and removal, windpump service. Licensed and insured experts.

Call us today!

For your free estimate.

TWH Home Renovations, LLC 251-508-4113 or 620-874-8030

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Agriculture

4 bedroom home with basement! Newer carpeting, steel roof, pressure tank and well!

Lawrence and Associates

Deb Lawrence, GRI Broker Shorty Lawrence, Sales Assoc.

513 Main • Scott City 872-5267 ofc. 872-7184 hm. lawrenceandassocrealty.com Sheila Ellis, Broker Assoc.

872-2056 Kerry Gough, Sales Assoc.

872-7337 Russell Berning, 874-4405 www.berningauction.com

WANTED TO BUY. Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information.

1-800-579-3645.

Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– WANTED TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered.

Call for contracting information. Lane County Feeders. 397-5341. 44tfc

Real Estate

Help Wanted

Rentals

RENOVATED 4 BEDROOM HOUSE for sale.

Brand new kitchen, new wood and tile floors, beautiful lighting throughout, french doors leading to a spacious backyard and patio, DA garage, main floor laundry, partial downstairs with half bath.

Serious inquires call Dale Holterman, 620-8741100.

15tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– STUCCO HOME 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, livingroom, den, laundry and dine-in kitchen. Covered patio off den area. Nice yard and garden area. Detached 2-car garage and extended shop. Nice corner lot. Retirement home or starter home with room to expand! Reasonably priced. Call to see 620214-1434 or 318-23016tfc 3824.

––––––––––––––––––––– FOR SALE BY OWNER 5 bedroom, finished basement, SA garage, 3000+ sq.ft. living space. 402 S. College, Scott City. Call for appointment, 620-2143103 or after 5:00 p.m.

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HOUSEKEEPER parttime at Lazy R Motel. Apply in person, 710 E. 5th, Scott City, 872-3043. 10tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– DIRECT SUPPORT WORKERS are needed in Leoti to work for an individual with a disability in their home. Starting wage is $9.64 an hour. Duties may include personal care, household chores, meal prepartion, etc.

For an application, please contact Caol at LINK, Inc. at 1-800-569-5926 and leave your name and mail18t2c ing address.

HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available.

Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, 41tfc (620)874-2120.

––––––––––––––––––––– 1 AND 3 BEDROOM houses available and storage units. Come fill out an application at PlainJans or 18tfc call 620-872-5777.

––––––––––––––––––––– NEWLY REFURBISHED HOME. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, carport, kitchen appliances included, nice yard space, quiet area. No pets or smokers.

Available for rent in early Dec. Call Fred or Jana Brittan 620-872-2957.

www.scottcountyrecord.com

Business INDIVIDUAL OFFICE SUITES from one to four rooms available for lease. Leases starting at $250/month including utilities. Common areas available for use including reception and break rooms. Perfect for quiet small business or climate controlled storage.

Former location of Scott City Chiropractic, 1101 S. Main. Call 214-3040 for 27tfc information.

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Garage Sales Saturday, Dec. 21 Christmas Sale Inside 1514 Myrtle Saturday: 8:00 a.m. - noon

Baby blankets, crochet towels, doll clothes, jewelry, embroidery machine on clothes, (Everything is made by me) also will have some Vera Bradley items and a few toys.

Coming Soon Garage Sale Friday/Saturday, Jan. 4-5 St. Mary’s Parish 208 N. 2nd St. Marienthal Friday: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Saturday: 1:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Contents of old Marienthal school. Student desks, 100s of books, kitchen supplies, lots of misc.

House for sale in Scott City Price Reduced Well-built home on double corner lot, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, lots of built-in storage, over 2,400 sq. ft., plus 3 season, screened porch, DA garage. Established yard with sprinkler system. Call 620-353-9933.

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COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE

Commercial building for sale. Located at 1317 Main St., Scott City. Call 872-5387, 874-1033 or 620-521-4313.

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BACK ON MARKET

903 Myrtle. This adorable 2+2 bedroom house, 2 baths is perfect and affordable for a first-time homeowner. Just remodeled with new kitchen and stainless steel appliances. All new windows, doors, flooring and roof. Call for appointment: Clinton Construction (Darryl or Virginia) 620-872-5494 or 214-1456.

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In Healy: 3+1 bedrooms, 2+1 baths, dining room, family room in basement, has lots of storage in basement, D/A garage, lovely patio and landscaping, lots of extras, must see to appreciate.

The Scott County Record • Page 33 • Thursday, December 19, 2013

Employment Opportunities OFFICE MANAGER

CASHIER

Full-Time Office Manager for a small non-profit that works with children. Must have good communication and organizational skills.

Working well with others is a must.

Salary dependent on education and experience.

Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center Contact: Kelly Robbins at

Scott County Hardware/Ace is looking for a full-time cashier who is customer service oriented. This is a full-time position including evenings and weekends. We are also accepting applications for part-time, evenings and weekend cashiers. Drug testing mandatory.

Apply in person at: Scott County Hardware 1405 S. Main Scott City 19tfc

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EXPERIENCED CAREGIVER

RNs NEEDED $5000 SIGN ON BONUS Scott County Hospital is looking for full-time Registered Nurses to join our team of dedicated nursing professionals.

We offer diverse nursing opportunites, experienced nursing administrative staff, excellent ratios, competitve wages, shift and weekend differentials, flexible paid time off, call pay and excellent benefits.

Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screen, physical assessment and TB skin test required.

NEVER ALONE LIVING ASSISTANCE is looking for reliable and dependable caregivers for growing company in Scott City and surrounding areas.

Requirements: Minimum of one year experience, HHA, CNA, LPN a plus.

Call: 620-872-7000 to apply.

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Santa’s reading The Scott County Record, you could be too.

Get a subscription for you and that hard-tobuy-for person in your life.

Applications are available through Human Resources Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Ave. Scott City, KS. 67871 620-872-7772 and on our website: www.scotthospital.net www.scotthospital.net

MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST Scott County Hospital has a Medical Technologist position available. This is a day-shift position with one weekend per month daytime duty.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Medical Technology or related clinical degree is required. Must hold or be eligible for registration (AMT or ASCP) as a medical technologist.

Requirements: Pre-employment physical, drug and alcohol screening, physical assessment, immunization titer and TB skin test.

We offer an outstanding work environment in our newlyconstructed facility, competitive pay and excellent benefits.

Reply to: Scott County Hospital, Inc. 201 Albert Scott City, Ks. 67871.

Fax: 620-872-7768

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Western Cartographers Available: Park Lane Nursing Home Has openings for the following positions:

•Scott •Ness •Gove •Lane •Finney

•Logan •Wichita •Wallace •Greeley •Kearny

Pick them up today at:

Full-time/Part-time CNA/CMA Part-time Nursing-LPN/RN Part-time Transportation Aide (M-W-F 1:00-8:00 p.m., must be flexible and have valid DL) Full-time/Part-time Cook/Dietary Aide (experience helpful) Shift differential pay offered for evening and night shifts!

Please apply in person at:

CLASS A DRIVER/ MEDICAL ASSISTANT Immediate Opening Full-time, Scott City based.

Responsibilities: Transport 53’ trailer to medical facilities in NW Kansas, provide patient care on mobile MRI route (paid training).

Schedule: 3 ½ days weekly average, 3 overnights per week, 40 hours weekly guarantee.

Qualifications: Class A CDL, ability to pass physical, drug screen and background check and have a safe driving record.

We offer: Complete benefits package, paid vacation and longevity, paid lodging and per diem and clean working environment.

Application: WWW.SHAREDMED.COM Questions: 608-839-9969

Park Lane Nursing Home

SHARED MEDICAL SERVICES

210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org 406 Main • Scott City • 620 872-2090

“Quality Care Because We Care”

An Employee Owned Company Cottage Grove, WI 53527

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The Scott County Record • Page 34 • Thursday, December 19, 2013 Michigan St.

vs Stanford

South Carolina

vs Wisconsin

K-State vs Michigan

Georgia vs Nebraska

Florida St. Missouri vs vs Auburn Oklahoma St.

Arizona St. vs Texas Tech

Texas vs Oregon

Syracuse Washington Notre Dame vs vs vs Rutgers Minnesota BYU

North Carolina

Michigan St. vs Stanford

Alabama vs Oklahoma

vs Cincinnati

Miami vs Louisville

Virginia Tech

vs UCLA

Virginia Tech vs UCLA

LSU vs Iowa

Miami vs Louisville

LSU vs Iowa

Winterizer - apply now!

The Green Haus

Nursery & Garden Center 507 Ora • Scott City • 872-5309

Time Out! Rib Eye

Roast

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$ 88

lb.

Alabama vs Oklahoma

212 E. 5th St., Scott City 1314 S. Main, Scott City 620-872-3355

North Carolina vs Cincinnati

Florida St. vs Auburn

Notre Dame vs Rutgers

Go rs! e v a Be

Washington vs BYU Missouri vs Oklahoma St.

Michael Trout, Agent 112 W. 3rd St. • Scott City • 620-872-5374

South Carolina vs Wisconsin Syracuse vs Minnesota

Whether on the field or in life, success depends on your game plan.

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Arizona St. vs Texas Tech Texas vs Oregon

Georgia vs Nebraska

Insurance Darren Habiger 620-214-0653 habiger@wbsnet.org

Michelle Habiger 620-214-0652 Michelle.Habiger@wbsnet.org K-State vs Michigan

40 Pitman Lane • P.O. Box 243, Scott City Office: 620-872-7222 • Toll Free: 855-332-7222