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34 Pages • Four Sections

Volume 24 • Number 7

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Published in Scott City, Ks.

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Getting to the truth

Sports Beavers are back on track with rout of Cimarron Page 19 Opinion Gawkers are a problem for local emergency responders Page 7

Penifer Salinas Keller, Scott City, wipes away tears while talking about Sherree Smith who died of a drug overdose in 2014. She appeared on the witness stand during the opening day of the jury trial in which Rick Heberlee is facing three felony counts, including the distribution of meth which led to Smith’s death.

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Circumstances behind GC woman’s death finally emerge during jury trial Saying that it was time to “tell the truth,” Kevin LaPlant offered the most detailed account yet of the events leading up to the death of Sherree Smith during the third day of testimony given in the trial of Richard Heberlee.

Heberlee, of Scott City, is facing three felony counts, including the distribution of methamphetamine that led to her overdose death on Jan. 17, 2014.

LaPlant, Heberlee and one other individual were the last

three to reportedly see Smith alive before she was transported to the Scott County Hospital where efforts to revive her were unsuccessful.

LaPlant, formerly of Scott City but now living in Lawrence, spent

Community Magistrate Judge Jim Collins retiring after 18 years Page 10

Index

Opinions...................4-7 Calendar...................... 7 LEC report................. 12 Public notices.......12-13 Whimmydiddle........... 14 Deaths....................... 15

nearly four hours on the witness stand in Scott County District Court on Monday afternoon undergoing extensive examination by prosecuting attorney Lyndzie Carter, an assistant attor-

Church services......... 15 Health care...........16-17 Sports...................19-26 Pigskin Payoff............ 24 Farm.....................28-29 Classified ads.......31-33

(See TRIAL on page nine)

Deaths

Helen Harper

Heberlee waives 5th; testifies in his own defense

(See HEBERLEE on page eight)

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In somewhat of a surprise move, Rick Heberlee waived his Fifth Amendment rights and took the witness stand in his own defense during the final day of testimony on Thursday.

Heberlee is charged with three felony counts, including the death of Sherree Smith from an overdose of methamphetamine.

J. Scott Koksal, Heberlee’s defense attorney, focused his questioning on an approximately six hour time frame that began from the time Heberlee left his home for Garden City, shortly after midnight on January 17, until he returned at about 6:45 a.m.

Heberlee said that when he left his home, possibly about 1:00 a.m., the only other people there were Kevin LaPlant, Elliott Schuckman and Smith.

He said his original reason for going to Garden City was to take Smith back to her home, but “she didn’t want to go.”

Because he’d made plans to meet friends in Garden City, Heberlee said he left without her.

Health Researchers aim to improve health of those with disabilities Page 16

Sports Late catch gives returning champ catfish derby title Page 27 Agriculture Ogallala isn’t the only fresh water aquifer in danger Page 28

Rick Heberlee gives testimony at the witness stand in his defense on Thursday morning.

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Vision team reviews community center outline A multi-purpose facility that could be utilized by the community and the school district remains a high priority for the Scott City Vision team which reviewed progress on different projects earlier this week.

Several members of the Community Center Committee

reported on a tour of a similar facility in Hoisington.

When it was originally built in 2002, following a tornado that cut a large swath through Hoisington, the gymnasium/community center cost $5.6 million. Today, it’s estimated the 60,000 square foot building would cost about $10

million.

The Hoisington school district owns the building and it’s used by the school and community.

The recreation commission leases the facility for $20,000 a year and they keep it staffed and open to the public 100 hours per week.

The school district, however, provides the custodial staff.

The only cost for patrons to use the facility is to purchase a lifetime ID badge for $5.

Higher Property Taxes Rich McEachern, who is on (See CENTER on page two)

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Center the Vision team, objected to the prospect of putting a bond issue of that size on the tax rolls. He questioned whether it would be worth the cost just to have a facility capable of hosting regional wrestling and sub-state basketball tournaments.

“Tournaments are only a part of it,” explained board of education member Mark Davis. “We need the gym space for our youth, rec and school sports.”

Supt. Jamie Rumford

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said the school district is seeing a huge demand on its facilities because of higher enrollment.

“People are going to other places because they have the facilities,” he noted. “We can be a hub for sports and tournaments if we choose to be.”

However, the district is wanting to gather more input from the community regarding its facilities.

Board members are taking community members on tours of each attendance center.

“We want feedback good and bad,” Rumford said. “We don’t want to do anything the community isn’t interested in doing.”

At the same time, he acknowledged that higher property taxes are the “elephant in the room.”

“Taxes are a big worry for a lot of people I talk to,” noted McEachern.

If the district decides to pursue a community center, Rumford emphasized the need to have a clear outline of how it would look and the guidelines

for use by the public.

“It’s my understanding that promises were made when the high school was built about opening the weight room to the public and allowing people to walk indoors (the main hallway),” he said. “Those promises weren’t kept and we don’t want that to happen again.”

County Commissioner Jim Minnix said it will also be important to get a full listing of costs, including maintenance and utilities.

Whimmydiddle is Saturday

Final preparations are being made to host nearly 300 exhibitors and several thousand shoppers during the annual Whimmydiddle arts and crafts festival in Scott City on Saturday.

The show opens in Patton Park at 9:00 a.m. and continues until 4:00 p.m.

Maps of all exhibitors are available at the shelterhouse. There will also be a number of food and concession booths.

Tag renewal deadline Friday

Persons whose last name begins with the letters P, Q or R are reminded that license tags must be purchased

by Fri., Sept. 30, to avoid a penalty.

Tags are due for autos, light trucks, motorcycles and motorized bikes. License tags can be purchased at the county treasurer’s office.

Tags must be renewed during October for persons whose last name begins with S.

Sept. 26 - 30

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Community Living

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Page 3 - Thursday, September 22, 2016

Make sure you’re prepared for unexpected Are you prepared for a disaster should it strike you or your family?

If not, then this is the time to get that way.

September is National Carol Ann Preparedness Month. The fed- Crouch Family and eral government Consumer and FEMA is Sciences using this month Agent for to inform people Scott County of what they can do to ensure the safety of their families, homes, businesses, pets and other properties in case of a natural catastrophe.

Not in Kansas? You’d better think again.

This past year, Kansas felt substantial tremors from earthquakes, in addition to major

wildfires and flooding. If any of these should strike, are you prepared?

If you had to leave your home within only 10 minutes, would you have everything that your family would need?

Yes, our loved ones are the only “things” that are not replaceable, but consider how much easier it would be to deal with any issues pertaining to your home and life if you have a plan in place.

The American Red Cross, Homeland Security and the U.S. government have many tools to help us prepare for the unexpected. They all agree that the first step is to get a plan in place for all members of your family.

The next step, is to have a kit ready to go with the most

important supplies. Another suggestion that they have is to have a paper/financial kit put together that you could gain access to immediately.

Don’t forget that our actions should include being prepared for replacement of our tangible items.

Each member in your household should know what to do when a disaster hits.

There are different plans for different types of disasters.

For example, a fire plan would vary greatly from a tornado plan, so have one for each disaster and share with extended family.

Have a plan in place so that if family members are not together during a crisis, there is a meeting point.

Be sure to review your

plans often, especially those that are seasonal. Make sure that your out-of-county family has a number that they can call for information on your family, like a friend or another neighbor.

Emergency Kit Once your plan is in place, prepare a kit. In your kit, you should have emergency supplies. This includes a gallon of water for each person in the family (including pets), prescription drugs, non-perishable foods, flashlight and extra batteries, a first aid kit, a whistle to signal for help, moist towelettes, garbage bags and plastic ties for personal sanitation, pliers, radio and batteries, manual can opener, and important family documents.

‘Walk with spirits’ on Sept. 27

Anyone who would like to “walk with the spirits” is invited to a historical presentation at Battle Canyon on Tues., Sept. 27, 4:00 p.m.

Members of the Scott County Historical Society will tell the history of the famous battle, which occurred on Sept. 27, 1878.

The program can last 1-2 hours, depending on whether people want to walk along the canyon and see the rifle pits, etc. For more information, contact the El Quartelejo Museum in Scott City.

A personal finance kit or family documents are other important items to have in a secure place that you could take with you. In the very least, have copies of these items stored off site of your home that you would be able to have access to.

It would not be a bad idea to have a small amount of cash stashed in your kit as well.

There are many publications on the web that you could research and use to develop a plan for a natural disaster. One publication that I came across that I thought was important was a publication from Ready. gov, a website that promotes being ready and prepared in a natural disaster.

(See PREPARED on page 10)

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Steve and Lois Fenster, Healy, announce the engagement of their son, Kurt Adam Fenster, to Sarah Marie Tomek, Rochester Hills, Mich., the daughter of Tom and Barb Tomek, Greenville, S.C. The prospective groom graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in economics and a minor in theatre. Kurt works as a scenic carpenter at the Tony Award-

Winning Regional Theatre, Hartford Stage, in Hartford, Conn.

The bride-to-be graduated from Kansas State University with a Master’s degree in drama therapy. Sarah works as a program director for Unified Theatre, Hartford, Conn., a non-profit organization which supports theatre for youth with and without disabilities.

The couple is planning an October 1 wedding in Manhattan.

Births PARENTS OF SON David and Amanda Post, Scott City, annouce the birth of their son, Gannon James Post, born August 11, 2016.

He weighed 7 lbs., 11 oz. and was 18.5 inches long.

Gannon was welcomed home by his big sister, Paige Lillian.

Maternal grandparents are Ron and Debbie Murphy, Scott City.

Paternal grandparents are Steve and Sandra Post, Manter.

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Editorial/Opinion

Page 4 - Thursday, September 22, 2016

editorially speaking

Short-sighted:

Budget cuts to KDOT will eventually come at a cost

Our state’s highways are in much better condition than Kansans have been led to believe.

Or so the Kansas Department of Transportation recently declared.

In a recent report, KDOT noted that 96.7 percent of our interstate highway system is ranked “good” while 91.7 percent of our non-interstate system is also rated in good condition.

The scores are well above the “targets,” according to KDOT interim Secretary Richard Carlson.

The news release is troubling on three fronts.

First of all, the “targets” cited by Carlson are the “minimum performance thresholds of 85 percent “good” for interstate highway and 80 percent “good” for non-interstate highway. We would hope that our quality standards are a little higher than simply to achieve the bare minimum.

Secondly, by not identifying these targets as minimum performance thresholds, Carlson is deceiving the public while acting as a shill for the Brownback Administration. KDOT’s job is to not just oversee our state’s transportation system, but to assure the safety of the public which utilizes that system. Carlson seems to have overlooked the fact that KDOT’s responsibility to the citizens of Kansas should be non-partisan.

Finally, the premise for this debate is nonsense.

Governor Sam Brownback and ultraconservative lawmakers are responsible for decimating the state’s budget, which has pulled hundreds of millions of dollars out of KDOT and delayed highway improvement and maintenance projects. Now they’re using this data from KDOT to establish the false narrative that it really doesn’t make any difference. We’re being told that any change in the quality of our highways over the last couple of years is so insignificant as to hardly be noticeable.

The 2015 KDOT survey had 97.7 percent of our highways rated “good” and it only slipped to 96.7 percent in 2016.

So, what’s everyone complaining about?

That’s like skipping your heart medication for a day, maybe two, and saying, “I still feel fine. I guess I never really needed to be taking those pills after all.”

Eventually, it will catch up with you. You will suffer the consequences.

It’s no different with the maintenance of your vehicle, your home, our schools and our state highways.

Cutting funds and delaying projects may not have an immediate impact, but there is a cumulative effect.

Minor repairs that should have been made eventually become major, costly repairs that are unavoidable.

The state has cut funding for highway construction and maintenance by the equivalent of $1 million per day.

Maybe that loss of funding isn’t evident after one year. Maybe Kansans won’t notice a major decline in their highway system after two years. But, there will come a day when we pay a price . . . a steep price . . . for short-sighted budget maneuvering by Brownback and state lawmakers.

Brownback and KDOT are misleading the public into thinking there’s nothing to worry about. The Administration and like-minded lawmakers want to lull you into believing nothing bad will come of their drastic budget cuts.

Brownback wants Kansans to remain complacent for another two years until he’s out of office and he can pass the problem onto someone else.

The problem is that neither we, nor our eventually deteriorating highway system, can afford to wait that long . . . despite whatever propaganda KDOT is selling.

Busted:

Brownback, Republicans caught in school funding lie

For the last few months, Gov. Sam Brownback and legislative leaders have been boasting that funding for public education is at a record-setting $4 billion-plus in an attempt to quiet critics of the block grant funding plan.

Of course, the administration’s claims have been less than honest and that came to light last week when an audit revealed state spending for education dropped by $13.6 million. The real story, however, is why. It’s because the state deferred a $79 million contribution into KPERS for school employees.

The significance of this is that the Administration has refused to acknowledge that its figures for school spending include KPERS and other non-classroom funding. It punches a huge hole in Brownback’s claim that overall school funding had increased by eight percent in the six years that he’s been governor. A report from the Kansas Association of School Boards shows that actual money for the operation of schools has increased by just one percent while the inflation rate has been nine percent.

It’s not the $13.6 million difference in funding. It’s the lie that it represents.

Competition is tough for No. 1

The Governor B r o w n b a c k Administration has begun damage control in response to a new poll which ranks the Kansas governor as the least popular in the nation.

“It’s all a matter of how you choose to look at the numbers,” said an anonymous spokesman from the governor’s office.

“As members of the media, you are choosing to say that the governor is No. 50. But, if you look at it another way, he’s actually No. 1.”

It’s not just that he has a 23 percent approval rating among Kansans, but even more noteable is who Brownback has beaten in the race to be No. 1.

He narrowly defeated Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy (26 percent) who is under fire for possible campaign finance violations and for eliminating thousands of government jobs.

No. 3 on the list is Gov. Chris Christie (29 percent approval) who verbally attacks the media and constituents when he’s not retaliating against may-

ors who don’t endorse his candidacy. He’s also being investigated for his role in “Bridgegate.”

Next is Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder who poisoned an entire city’s drinking water supply in order to save a few bucks.

And No. 5 is Maine Gov. Paul LePage who claims that black men come into the state to sell drugs, impregnate Maine women and leave the state’s taxpayers to take care of the consequences. Afterwards, LePage explained that he was “going impromptu in my brain, didn’t catch up to my mouth.”

Yes, it’s hard to believe that LePage isn’t any higher on the list, but it also speaks to the quality of the field that’s ahead of him.

While they aren’t pleased with the governor’s 71 percent disapproval rating, spokes-

people within the Administration say it has led to intense discussion as to how Brownback can move a little lower on the list.

“It would appear that poisoning the drinking water for a city isn’t near the negative that we originally thought,” says a spokesperson. “We’ve begun putting together a list of potential cities. Actually, it’s a very short list. The only city on the list right now is Lawrence.”

When asked why Lawrence, the spokesperson reminded reporters of the jeers that greeted Brownback when his image was shown on an arena screen when Wichita State University and KU played against each other in the NCAA basketball tournament in Omaha.

“We knew it wasn’t about the shirt he was wearing,” admits the spokesperson. “The governor has a very long memory.”

As for overtaking Gov. Malloy on the list, the spokesperson said that

plan is in effect.

“We’ve already slowed job and economic growth in Kansas to a snail’s pace.

We thought that would be enough, but apparently we have to actually eliminate thousands of jobs,” the spokesperson said.

The Administration feels it is already on the road to higher approval numbers with funding cuts to KDOT that are cutting road construction jobs and by cuts to school funding that it hopes will force teachers to go outside the state for employment.

“The policies are already in place, but people can’t expect to see results overnight,” the spokesperson insisted. “It takes people awhile to realize that when we cut funding for road projects or schools, we’re serious.

If they’re waiting around for us to start funding them again and bring more jobs, or higher pay, then they are sadly underestimating the resolve of this governor and his administration.”

There are even more (See NO. 1 on page six)

Irony of Kobach’s voter fraud

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is still pressing his campaign to suppress voter registration now festering in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.

At issue is his plan to keep Jim Crow alive and well in Kansas. He insists that Kansans who register at motor vehicle offices have documents that prove they are U.S. Citizens, the kind of papers people don’t usually carry around with them - a birth certificate (not a copy), or a passport, for example.

Things that once were good, such as a driver’s license, or a utilities bill, or a social security card, now aren’t, not under Kobach’s law.

You can see the trouble.

Not many people carry, or have, a passport. And not everyone old enough to vote has a driver’s license.

Where to Write

another view by John Marshall

In effect this leaves out a good number of college students, the poor, minorities, the elderly and the infirm, for starters. Thousands of them 18,000, 20,000? - are currently in limbo, with registrations on hold or ballots labeled “provisional,” while Kobach drags his crusade through a labyrinthine maze of appeals.

The idea is to keep these people away from the coming election.

Lower courts have twice ruled against him.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the League of Women Voters are supporting five Kansans who sued in Federal Court, claiming the requirement vio-

Gov. Sam Brownback 2nd Floor - State Capitol Topeka, Ks. 66612-1501 (785) 296-3232

lates the National Voter Registration Act. Last February, at a meeting of Kansas Republicans in Johnson County, Kobach called the League, and the ACLU “communists,” for daring to challenge his authority. * * * The dubious matter of “voter fraud,” in Kansas at least, is more about control than rigging elections. Voter fraud is so infrequent as to be fiction in this state, where most polling stations are manned by people who’ve been around for awhile, people who know most everyone in their precinct and who can spot a stranger, if not a phony, the moment one walks in the door. And that rarely if ever happens, even in the heavily traveled city wards or the sprawling suburbs.

Sen. Pat Roberts 109 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-4774 roberts.senate.gov/email.htm

So far, Kobach has nailed fewer than a handful of “criminals,” elderly, dual-state residents who committed innocent mistakes, hardly the hardbore felons he has insisted were teeming through the precincts to overthrow the system.

The problem is that we’ve become a society in which a birth certificate and two photo IDs will be required to purchase a soft drink, or go for a stroll in the back yard. There is no real evidence that elections in Kansas are corrupt, but they are a soft target for control freaks, another way for power mongers like Kobach to push people around under the threadbare banner of “security.”

But, Kobach’s mission has nothing to do with security; it’s about (See FRAUD on page 6)

Sen. Jerry Moran 141 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-6521 www.moran.senate.gov/public/

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Wells Fargo: too arrogant to admit it’s failures

by Dana Milbank

The 2008 financial collapse was eight years ago this month - and the big banks are back to their old shenanigans.

Venerable Wells Fargo has engaged in behavior that would have made a robber baron blush: It pressured low-wage workers with unrealistic sales targets, so these workers created 2 million bogus accounts over five years, causing customers to be hit with fees and damage to their credit ratings. Some 5,300 workers have been fired and $185 million in penalties assessed to the bank, but not a single high-level executive has been sacked or even forced to give back the tens of millions of dollars in pay earned based on the fraud.

When Wells Fargo chairman and chief executive John Stumpf sat before the Senate Banking

Committee on Tuesday, he represented a bank too big to fail, too sprawling to manage and too arrogant to own up to its failures.

Can’t Wells Fargo take back some of the executive payouts?

“I’m not an expert in compensation,” Stumpf said.

Would he commit to investigate whether the fraud began in earlier years?

“I can’t tell you that today.”

Did he learn about the fraud before reading about it in the Los Angeles Times?

“I don’t remember the exact time frame.”

Did the bogus accounts hurt customers’ credit scores?

“I don’t know the algorithms.”

Stumpf informed the senators that what Wells Fargo did “was not a scam,” disputed that “this is a massive fraud,” and said he

had no idea “why people did this.”

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) encouraged Stumpf to “make certain that the employees are not the scapegoat for behavior at higher levels.”

Stumpf repeated that “the 5,300, for whatever reason, they were dishonest, and I’m not scapegoating.”

The CEO even defended his decision not to tell investors earlier about the widespread fraud, because “it was not a material event.”

If high-level bankers didn’t go to prison for the subprime hijinks that caused the 2008 crash, it’s a safe bet that none will in the Wells Fargo scandal, either. But, if arrogance were a criminal offense, Stumpf would be looking at a life sentence.

It really matters to Americans this year.

The bank’s fraud, and the executive’s insolence, may have one salutary result: It takes off the agenda any plan to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, one of the post-2008 regulatory creations and a top target of Donald Trump and congres-

sional Republicans. The Los Angeles city attorney and the Los Angeles Times may deserve more credit for exposing the wrongdoing, but the audacity at Wells Fargo shows that the industry isn’t about to police itself.

(See FAILURES on page six)

America’s characteristic optimism has disappeared

by Sebastian Mallaby

Union-made Miracle on the Hudson

by Jim Hightower

In their ongoing, all-out assault to crush labor unions, corporate forces have fabricated a cultural myth to undermine popular support for labor: Unions, they insist, are no longer needed. They tell us that in today’s entrepreneurial economy, workers must compete with each other, not cooperate.

Before swallowing that wad of hornswoggle, let’s revisit Flight 1549.

As it took off from New York City in 2009, the jet hit a flock of geese, lost all power, and had nowhere to try a crash landing. But, Captain Sully Sullenberger knew what to do. He used the Hudson

River as a landing strip. Amazingly, it worked. Dubbed the “miracle on the Hudson,” all 150 passengers were saved.

But, no supernatural powers were at work. Captain Sully himself is not only a member of the Airline Pilots Association, but also served on that union’s national governing committee and was its former safety chairman. Indeed, he and the APA union have had to fight airline chieftains who keep trying to cut back on the safety training programs that teach crews how to save lives.

The cool-headed flight attendants who quickly moved over one hundred panicked people off the plane were members of the Association of Flight Attendants, another union that

trains its workers to avert disasters.

The ferry crews that zipped into action, skillfully maneuvering their boats within four inches of the plane’s wings to rescue passengers they’re in the Seafarers International Union, which gave them the safety courses that enabled them to respond as they did.

The cops, firefighters, and air traffic controllers also performed marvelously - all union trained.

At a time when corporate interests in all sectors of our economy are trying to eliminate unions, remember Flight 1549, the union-made miracle on the Hudson.

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

A con man among heroes Birtherism is over; Trump rolls out two new lies

At long last, Donald Trump has set himself free.

At a highly choreographed event Friday, the Republican nominee for president of the United States finally issued his verdict on the birthright of our two-term president, who, it turns out, is a real American!

“Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period,” Trump intoned to the great relief of no one.

Well, howdy-do. Welcome to planet Earth, son.

But, Trump’s announcement was merely a curtain call on a theatrical production otherwise known as Free Publicity for Trump. For the preceding 24 hours, Trump gleefully baited and dragged the media through Con Man’s Swamp, first refusing to answer the question posed by The Washington Post’s Robert Costa about whether Trump

behind the headlines

by Kathleen Parker

still thought Obama wasn’t born in the United States, then building suspense Friday morning that he would make a “big announcement.”

As reporters drummed their fingers and cameramen shifted their feet, Trump dilly-dallied, finally arriving late to the venue, which happened to be his very own new hotel in Washington. Awaiting him on the dais was a gathering of war heroes, who spent 20 minutes extolling Trump’s virtues, many of which one has never before associated with the nominee - his intellectual curiosity, his great temperament and his raw intelligence.

Only Trump could believe such things about himself - and he obviously did. Nearly glistening from the mist of blown kisses, he beamed like a boy with a brand new toy.

Now, I don’t doubt that those on the stage sincerely support the Republican nominee. And nothing I

say about Trump is intended to reflect on these extraordinary Americans, especially not on Michael Thornton, a retired Navy SEAL, whom I single out because he happens to be a friend. I commend his remarkable story to anyone seeking perspective and inspiration.

My heart sank just a little when I saw Thornton standing behind Trump, even though I’m aware that it’s difficult for many battlefield veterans, especially those from the Vietnam era, to find a Clinton acceptable as commander in chief.

Although no American women engaged in direct combat in Vietnam, thereby eliminating any expectation that Hillary Clinton should have served (we were saner then), she still bears the burden of Benghazi, justified or not. But, Bill Clinton dodged the draft, while 58,000 members of his generation fought and died. To many Trump-supporting veterans, once a twofer always a twofer.

Seeing Trump wedged among men who had served heroically, several of whom risked their own lives (See CON MAN on page six)

I arrived in the United States in 1996 as a foreign correspondent for the Economist. Like many young journalists from Europe, I was instantly won over by the country’s infectious optimism. By most objective measures, the United States was as unequal, class-bound and divided as my own Britain; but it differed fundamentally in its outlook.

If Trump For some strange reason, and his ilk nearly all Americans perceived want to make themselves as “middle class.” America They believed, without asking great again, for evidence, that things were they should not talk it improving - or that if they down. They weren’t, they would. should not It was as though the entire paint immination had been subjected to a gration as a mortal threat particularly uplifting course of to the nation cognitive behavioral therapy. - not when Smother feelings of resent- the country ment. Will yourself to be was built by migrants . . . upbeat.

Two decades later, Americans are in danger of succumbing to the opposite mentality. The sunny affability of Ronald Reagan has been displaced by Donald Trump’s dystopian rants about the United States “losing”; the nation’s real challenges are blown out of all proportion by a toxic public discourse that accentuates the negative.

Suddenly, privileged, cosmopolitan Americans are obsessed with how much they are resented by their compatriots. A supposedly classless society is seized by its internal divisions.

Up to a point, the new mood is bracing. It is past time that Americans confront the long stagnation of middle-class incomes stretching back to the 1970s; it is vital to reckon with the research of Nicholas Eberstadt, whose forthcoming book documents the travails of the seven million prime-age men who have dropped out of the workforce.

But, it is also essential to resist a willful pessimism that can infect the culture. Americans should not want to become like Britons, who agonized that class was destiny even when their prime minister was John Major, who quit school at 16.

If Trump and his ilk want to make America great again, they should not talk it down. They should not paint immigration as a mortal threat to the nation - not when the country was built by migrants, not when every study shows that their presence is a boon to the economy and not when the alleged flood of Mexicans is a fiction.

Between 2009 and 2014, fewer Mexicans migrated to the United States than returned in the opposite direction. Trump has incited fury about a problem that does not exist.

Equally, Trump and his backers should not rant that trade is destroying livelihoods - not when imports as a share of the U.S. economy have been roughly flat over the past decade, and not when the nation’s trade deficit with other countries has been halved as a share of its economy.

Or consider the core grounds for populist resentment: the stagnation of middle-class incomes. Since a peak in the late 1990s, the (See OPTIMISM on page six)

The Scott County Record • Page 6 • September 22, 2016

Victims of ‘whatever the market will bear’

by John Schrock

When Mylan Pharmaceuticals CEO Heather Bresch raised the price of the allergicresponse life-saving EpiPen six times, the public was outraged. Mylan backed off to offering a “generic” for just a 3-fold increase.

Before that, Martin Skreli had taken over as head of a drug company and raised the price of an HIV drug 5,556 percent (from $13.5 to $750 per

tablet). His actions and attitude gained him few supporters.

Closer to home, many Kansans were victims of the Western U.S. Energy Crisis of 2000 and 2001.

In that case, it was the Texas energy conglomerate Enron that illegally shut down pipelines to cause a fake shortage and drive up natural gas costs by 500 to 800 percent, an outrageous overnight hike.

Poor families could barely afford to keep their

Optimism median U.S. household has experienced no income gain whatsoever.

There is a real issue here.

But, the Census Bureau just reported that last year median household income was up 5.2 percent, the largest one-year jump on record. The gains were highest in percentage terms among poorer households. The number of people living in poverty fell eight percent.

In the 1990s, this progress would have been celebrated wholeheartedly. The national mood embodied by the youthful President Bill Clinton was bubbly and positive - as was the mood embodied by his political nemesis, Newt Gingrich, another Southern baby boomer.

Clinton understood the pain of New England’s hard-pressed textile workers, but he believed he had solutions: He embraced technology, trade and the opportunities of globalization; he used U.S. power to bring the war in the Balkans to a peaceful end.

Today, Trump disparages the nation and scorns international engagement.

For her part, Hillary Clinton struggles to find the words to challenge

No. 1 plans in place by the governor and Republican leadership in the legislature to improve Brownback’s approval ratings.

“Lawmakers have already assured us they are prepared to introduce a bill that will make I70 a two-lane highway.

If New Jersey wants to know what a traffic bottleneck really looks like, let them come to Kansas in another year,” the spokesperson said. “That should improve the governor’s approval rating by at least two, maybe three, percentage points.”

While Administration officials are optimistic about plans to improve Brownback’s ranking among governors, they also caution against expecting too much to happen too quickly.

“That’s like expecting people to change their thinking overnight about broccoli or of having a radioactive storage site in their backyard,” says a spokesperson.

The bigger problem, continued the spokesperson, is that the media is ignoring all

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him.

So here is an appeal to Trump and Clinton: Do not talk the United States into a self-feeding depression. Part of the solution to the nation’s challenges is to be found in better policies; the government should do more for those who live paycheck to paycheck.

But, only part of the solution is to be found there, for the truth is that government has already done more than it gets credit for, and yet the national malaise continues. In the past several years, tax tweaks have helped low-income workers, and Obamacare has extended health coverage to millions.

Given the gridlock that possesses Washington, it is unlikely that the next few years will see greater advances for hard-pressed families.

And so it is time to ask the question: If Americans can’t fix all their problems, can they at least rediscover their old talent for living cheerfully with them?

Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations

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the good things that this Administration has done.

“We’ve prevented the state’s constitution from being replaced by Sharia Law, but you don’t hear the media giving us any credit,” says the spokesperson. “Instead, all we hear about is tax revenue and the budget. People complain that we don’t have enough money for schools or highways or the poor. You’d think that’s all we have to worry about.”

Not to say there aren’t some concerns within the Brownback camp.

“Despite our best efforts, there’s no guarantee that we can accelerate our budget deficit at a faster pace or lose jobs fast enough,” says the spokesperson. “And, in a worst case scenario, maybe we won’t be able to contaminate Lawrence’s water supply.”

What then?

“If nothing else works, then at least we can say we’re No. 1 at something,” the spokesperson conceded.

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

houses warm enough to prevent pipes from bursting. Some children slept in their coats in nearfreezing conditions.

These CEOs and shareholders only care about the bottom line. Why sell a product to 10 customers at one dollar each when they can charge $20 and only one customer can afford it? Under handsoff capitalism, outrageous profits are simply “good business.” They raise prices to whatever the market will bear.

The public outrage that resulted from these three cases was due to the hikes occurring virtually overnight. To avoid that pushback, they could have followed the model of public universities. Tuition at Kansas public universities - and nationwide has been rising faster than inflation or even medical costs.

“What the market will bear” is very much a factor in the hyperinflation of public college tuition.

But, by raising tuition

Con Man to save others, had an effect more minimizing than elevating. Trump avoided the draft, too, with a doctor’s excuse, often available to sons of the rich, and otherwise isn’t qualified to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Medal of Honor recipients.

As I watched them dutifully take turns saluting Trump, I recalled something I had read several years ago about heroes. It was a column by military scribe W. Thomas Smith Jr., who was writing about Thornton and three other Medal of Honor recipients. Smith, also a vet,

domination, supremacy.

He is the first chief election officer in this state to establish his own political action committee, to funnel cash only to the candidates he likes - an odd thing for an official charged with maintaining free and fair elections.

And it’s peculiar, and menacing, that he would charge two venerable and esteemed institutions, the League of Women Voters and the ACLU, as being “communist,” as though shilling for the ghost of Joe McCarthy, rather than arguing law.

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seem that qualities, values and virtues that we expect from our military troops and commanders and that we recognize in our heroes - are no longer required of our political leaders.

In making his announcement, Trump also repeated two familiar refrains that are factually false. One, that Hillary Clinton first raised the question of Obama’s birthright. Even though it was raised by at least one of her supporters in 2008, it was Trump who, for years, led the birther movement and then used the notoriety to launch his campaign.

Trump also said that, thanks to him, Obama was forced to provide his birth certificate. Wrong again. And, by the way, does anyone think that the Clinton machine wouldn’t have produced contrary evidence of Obama’s citizenship had it existed?

It’s good that Trump has finally owned up, if way too late to make any difference. But, one should keep in mind that the birther movement was racist to its core. And the man who would be president led the charge.

Kathleen Parker is a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist who writes on politics and culture

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Keep in mind, too, that our Secretary of State has reached beyond the Kansas borders to campaign against the Affordable Care Act and the Lesser Prairie Chicken.

He is a solid Trumper, and was a prime contributor to the Republican Party platform, having penned multiple pages of sharp antiimmigration policy, and a plank condemning the Supreme Court’s ruling in 2015 that legalized same-sex marriage.

He also helped write planks firmly opposing any ban on assault rifles

Failures Stumpf also managed to create rare bipartisan unity on the Banking Committee - in condemnation of his actions.

Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) was “stunned,” Dean Heller (R-Nev.) compared him to Sgt. Schultz of “Hogan’s Heroes,” Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) called the actions “despicable,” and Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.) told Stumpf: “This isn’t cross-selling, this is fraud.”

Populist firebrand Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said the Wells Fargo chief should resign, return his payouts and be subject to criminal investigations. “If one of your tellers took a handful of $20 bills out of the crash drawer, they’d probably be looking at criminal

1980s, to student tuition now providing the majority of university instructional cost.

Additional culprits include the local school administrators as well as our state and national educational leadership who are placing a guilt trip on any high school student who does not continue on to college. ACT scores show that 38 percent of high school students are college ready.

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was describing what it takes to be a hero - and those characteristics that would be antithetical to the heroic impulse.

He wrote: “Selfish men, bullies, and braggarts don’t perform well in battle. And those believing in their own extraordinariness rarely if ever accomplish feats worthy of the MoH.” Indeed.

Obviously, the commander in chief doesn’t necessarily have to have participated in war to be effective. Nor will he or she ever physically act in war once elected, except in movies. But, it does

Fraud

gradually, you do not dramatically reduce the number of students. And they can be seduced into taking out larger and larger student loans.

So why is tuition going up?

The number one reason is clearly state legislators who now view a higher education as a private good. The student benefits so the student pays.

State tuition support has moved from two dollars for every one dollar in student-paid tuition in the

and large-capacity ammunition magazines. * * * Kobach’s megalomania aside, the nagging problem with our elections is that nobody comes to them. There was a time, 30 years ago, when Kansas Secretaries of State, with Jack Brier and Bill Graves leading the charge, were at the front of campaigns to increase voter registration, not suppress it.

In many counties, a 20 percent turnout in primary elections was considered a blazing success; for the general election, 60 percent was cause for a

holiday. (Last August, the primary turnout was 23 percent.) When you figure that only half the citizens eligible to vote are even registered, the numbers are even more discouraging.

But, Kobach has at least answered one question, why he trumps up an issue of voter “fraud” when the real issue is voter absence. The longer voters are absent, the longer Kobach will be present, and in power.

John Marshall is a longtime Kansas editor and current columnist for the Rural Messenger

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charges for theft,” she said.

But, “you kept your job, you kept your multimillion-dollar bonuses and you went on television to blame thousands of $12-an-hour employees who were just trying to meet cross-sell quotas that made you rich.”

Stumpf blinked rapidly while listening to his accusers, as if sending Morse-code distress signals. His right hand, when he raised it to take the oath, was heavily bandaged. He offered obligatory statements of remorse (“I am deeply sorry that we’ve failed to fulfill on our responsibility. . . . I accept full responsibility for all unethical sales practices. We should have done more, sooner”).

But, how is it fair for executives to take home millions after thousands of workers defrauded customers?

“It’s a good question,” Stumpf allowed.

Why didn’t he bring in somebody to investigate?

“That’s a good question.”

Why didn’t the bank detect the fraud earlier?

“That’s a good question.”

Answers, however, were hard to come by.

Would he recommend taking back some of the $125 million payout to the head of the division that committed the fraud?

“I’m not on the human resources and compensation committee.”

Was she at least fired over this?

“No, Carrie (Tolstedt) chose to retire.”

Half a dozen times, Stumpf repeated that the 5,300 workers fired were only one percent of his workforce - much like an airline executive arguing after a plane crash that 99 percent of his planes landed safely.

A fraud involving only 5,300 people? “Every time you say that, you give ammunition to the folks who want to break up the big banks,” Jon Tester (D-Mont.) told him.

And here’s more ammo: Stumpf, who presided over the whole thing, took home $19.3 million last year.

Dana Milbank is a Washington Post staff writer and author

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Gawkers a hindrance to emergency responders You can’t imagine my frustration regarding the way the public involved itself during a recent fire at Second and College.

The public has no respect for the victims or first responders attempting to assist during this fire. This was a “non ya” - none of your business John Q. Citizen!

Your unquenchable thirst to observe someone else’s misfortune is unbelievable! You “gawkers/ busybodies” made it difficult and delayed response to this fire.

editor’s mail . . .

Did any of you watch for children or other “gawkers” in the area?

What if you had struck a child causing injury or even worse, a death? How would you deal with it, not to mention the family of the child you might have run down?

You, the public, always have a desire to see and insert yourself into any situation requiring an emergency response. Shame on

Victims But, the President, the governor, the Lumina Foundation, and the state boards of both K–12 and higher education want twice that percent in college. As a result, a growing number of noncollege-able students are sitting in community college and public university classrooms, diverting state funding from the college-able.

The educational technology industry is also

you! Why don’t you put yourself in the shoes of the person and their family who are going through this situation? I assure you, it is not a place anyone wants to be in.

When the public inserts itself into one of these situations and first responders are forced to engage with you, it takes away from their ability to deal with a true emergency.

Scott City and Scott County is well-known by first responders as a community that has very little regard for emergency re-

sponse vehicles. Rarely does traffic yield for fire trucks, law enforcement or EMS vehicles.

All-too-often, citizens ignore, speed up or stop in the road way. Your responsibility is to move to the right of the street or highway and stop. Do not impede the responders.

The few minutes that you cause a delay might make a difference to those who called for help.

It might even be you waiting. Think about it.

The stories that citizens invent as to what hap-

pened, according to them, are unbelievable. Whatever happens, it’s none of your business. How would you feel having half-truths and lies being told about you? What about the families of a victim? How would the “stories” affect them?

Again, it might be you.

As to the gawkers and busybodies driving around the area of the fire.

Most, if not all, of you do not reside in that part of town. Do everyone a favor and get out of the way.

Emergency responders have a job to do. Why do you make it even tougher?

Please keep your distance and stay back.

I am writing this as a citizen of the community.

These are my opinions and observations and, in no way am I representing my agency. But, I feel I speak for a lot of people fed up with the way the public behaves in situations that are not directly affecting them.

CJ Davis Scott County Assistant EMS Director

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consuming massive funding as schools move from effective print textbooks and conventional classroom materials to expensive digital devices with unproven effectiveness and rapid obsolescence.

Having the latest electronics in every classroom is not driven by better educational outcomes, but by the desire to look “state-of-the-art” to students and parents. It is marketing.

And until recently, only the online for-profit schools spent more on marketing than on their cheap hire-a-prof adjunct faculty.

Today, public universities nationwide are hiring more adjuncts to cut costs while spending far more on marketing, especially to out-of-state students who pay higher tuition.

This spring, the Kansas Legislature removed the tuition cap and public universities are raising tuition

as much as the market will bear, concerned only that total enrolment does not drop. It does not take many years of annual tuition inflation to produce cost hikes that are as exorbitant and outrageous as the overnight EpiPen or Enron affairs.

Administrator glut.

Tech glut. Marketing glut.

But, not one word about “frugality.”

John Schrock trains biology teachers and lives in Emporia

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Rick Heberlee consults with his attorney, J. Scott Koksal, during his trial in Scott County District Court.

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that only lasted about 15 minutes, assistant attorney general Lyndzie Carter questioned Heberlee’s concern for the victim.

“I had concerns with taking Sherree to the hospital,” he said.

“But, you didn’t take her immediately to the hospital,” Carter reminded him.

Upon further questioning, Heberlee said he wasn’t concerned about Smith while he was in Garden City because he wasn’t aware of any health issues. Again, Carter reminded him of her behavior before Heberlee left, such as standing naked in the hallway.

“I wasn’t concerned from a clinical point of view,” he said.

“Were you concerned when she said she was going to eat a bag of dope?” Carter asked.

“A little,” replied Heberlee.

Carter also asked what was meant in a text message when Heberlee asked, “How’s it going?”

Heberlee said he was wondering about Smith’s “frantic state” when he left for Garden City.

LaPlant answered that she was sleeping, but running a fever.

Heberlee insisted that once he returned home and saw Smith’s physical state he wanted to get medical care. Again, Carter questioned Heberlee’s sincerity given that he chose to drop her off at Speer’s home rather than taking her to the hospital himself.

Carter asked Heberlee what he thinks caused Smith’s death.

“I don’t know exactly what happened. I don’t know what caused it,” he said.

“Who do you blame?” she asked.

“I don’t know the answer to that,” he said.

When asked if he knew where Smith got the meth she was smoking, Heberlee said he didn’t know.

The cross-examination lasted 15 minutes, after which the defense rested Concern is Questioned and both sides prepared Following the initial for their closing remarks examination by Koksal, in the afternoon.

At the time, however, he didn’t consider her to be in “critical” health.

“She was erratic, but nothing to be concerned about,” he said.

It was at about 4:15 a.m. that Heberlee said he initiated text messages with LaPlant. According to Heberlee, LaPlant’s responses were that Smith “might have gotten sick,” but he felt she’d be fine.

When he returned home at about 6:45 a.m., Heberlee says Schuckman was in the living room, he believed he was playing an X-Box game on the television. He said LaPlant came out of the bedroom “dressed, like he was ready to leave.”

He reportedly grabbed LaPlant and the two of them went back to the bedroom where Smith was lying face down, covered by a sheet. When Heberlee rolled her to her back he said her lips were blue and she “possibly wasn’t breathing.”

“I checked for vitals.

We found none,” he said.

Koksal asked if there had been another incident in which Heberlee had called an ambulance to his home and he told his attorney it had occurred several years ago when a friend fell down the stairs and was injured. He claimed it took 20-25 minutes for the ambulance to arrive.

Koksal was seemingly trying to help Heberlee explain why he chose not to call the ambulance upon seeing the condition that Smith was in.

“We were pretty freaked out about the situation,” noted Heberlee.

Heberlee, LaPlant and Schuckman had a conversation about getting Smith to the hospital, but none of the three wanted to be responsible for taking her. That’s when Heberlee contacted Magen Speer, who agreed to transport Smith to the hospital.

In earlier testimony, it was acknowledged that Heberlee and LaPlant took Smith to Speer’s home and she then transported her to the hospital.

Forensic pathologist Dr. Erik Mitchell, who performed the autopsy on Sherree Smith, testifies on Tuesday afternoon.

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Forensics experts: meth level in Smith ‘off the charts’ Two forensics experts with decades of experience in the field were shocked at the level of methamphetamine found in the body of Sherree Smith during the autopsy and subsequent lab analysis.

According to a forensic toxicologist, Smith had at least three times the meth level that’s typical for an overdose death.

During Wednesday’s testimony in the murder trial of Rick Heberlee - the fifth day of testimony in the Scott County District Court - forensics experts confirmed the cause of death and also offered a possible time line of when the meth was taken into Smith’s body in such a quantity as to cause her death.

In addition, Dr. Erik Mitchell, a forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy, also showed photos of bruising that was evident on the wrists and lower arms of the victim.

He characterized the level of methamphetamine intoxication as “uncommonly high.”

The meth concentration, in my opinion, is not survivable,” he concluded.

While noting that death was not instantaneous, he couldn’t offer a conclusion as to how the drug was taken into Smith’s body.

During cross-examination by defense attorney J. Scott Koksal, he initially focused on the level of bruising that was evident on Smith’s wrists and lower arms.

“Looking at them, they appear to be significant,” said Koksal.

“They may be related to some activity in the investigation,” confirmed Dr. Mitchell.

Koksal also questioned the forensic pathologist about signs of “pinpoint punctures” that were evident on the hands.

Dr. Mitchell said these were more common with medical care which could have occurred in the emergency

(Smith) wouldn’t have been alive for 10 hours after taking this quantity (of meth). (She) would have been alive an hour, maybe two.

Dr. Christopher Long forensics toxicologist

room, rather than as a means of injecting the meth into the body.

“With a cardiac arrest, pinpoint punctures are very common,” said Dr. Mitchell.

Referring back to the level of bruising, Dr. Mitchell described some as “traumatic” which would have resulted from “the application of force.”

“You saw this in other places other than the wrists?” asked Koksal.

“The arms and legs,” answered Dr. Mitchell.

He added there were also three minor bruises to the head, but that the brain was not damaged.

Dr. Mitchell, however, didn’t have an answer as to how Smith could have reached this level of meth in her body or the length of time it took for that to occur.

“It would not be easy to reach this toxicology level by smoking,” said Dr. Mitchell, who added he hadn’t seen an overdose case where the victim had swallowed meth.

“There’s no indication of anything that kills her other than methamphetamine,” he concluded.

‘Off the Charts’ Dr. Christopher Long, a forensic toxicologist and assistant professor of pathology at St. Louis University, was equally stunned at the findings in lab work conducted by his staff.

Long, who said he has done hundreds of thousands of toxicology reports, described the level of meth present in Smith’s body as “off the charts.”

He said that 2-3 micrograms per milliliter is typical for most overdose deaths. Prior to seeing Smith’s lab work, the highest he’d seen in a victim was 3-4 micrograms.

Smith’s body contained nine micrograms - or more than three times the typical level in an overdose victim.

Given that level of meth, Long said the victim couldn’t have lived more than 2-3 hours after taking the drug into her body.

Given the time of death at 8:30 a.m., Long’s testimony seems to indicate that the meth was taken by Smith no more than 2-3 hours prior.

“The dose would have been (taken into her body) very close to the time of death,” he emphasized. “(Smith) wouldn’t have been alive for 10 hours after taking this quantity,” he said. “(She) would have been alive an hour, maybe two.”

How the meth would have been taken into the body was less definitive. Long said there would be a “lag time” with swallowing and “you’d have to swallow a lot.” He noted that the number of overdose deaths from smoking are rare.

When asked if a week of meth usage would have eventually led to such an alarming level of meth in the body, Long said it wouldn’t. He attributed the huge concentration of meth that led to Smith’s death as a “one-time acute dose.”

While Long did acknowledge that reaching this level of toxicity would be possible by swallowing meth, it would also depend on the amount ingested. He said if an individual were to swallow 20-30 grams, he would expect to start seeing the effect in 30-60 minutes and “it would build until the person expired.”

He estimated death would occur in approximately another 30 minutes.

“That’s my best estimate,” he added.

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ney general with the State of Kansas, and Heberlee’s defense attorney, J. Scott Koksal, Garden City.

When Smith’s death first occurred, it was originally reported that the 20-year-old’s body had been found near the former Cowboy Cabins motel on east K96 Highway in Scott City. But, during his extensive testimony, LaPlant said that was the story which was fabricated for law enforcement.

The first two days of the trial included testimony from Heberlee’s friends and acquaintances who established the regular use and availability of methamphetamine while also establishing that Smith was frequently seen in the company of Heberlee in the days leading up to her death.

Most of LaPlant’s testimony focused on the afternoon of January 16 and continuing through the following day.

At the time, LaPlant considered himself a “good friend” of Heberlee - a relationship that he says has since ended. When in Scott City, LaPlant said he would regularly visit Heberlee’s home, which he did following his job on the afternoon of January 16.

He made a couple of visits to the home during the afternoon and evening to “hang out” while smoking marijuana and meth. It wasn’t until the second visit to the home that LaPlant says he saw Smith.

LaPlant said that he, Smith, Heberlee and Shelby Salinas went into the garage to smoke marijuana and cigarettes.

Heberlee reportedly left the premises for about 30-60 minutes and when he returned, LaPlant says that the same four individuals started smoking meth.

“It started with me and Sherree smoking. She had a pipe. I don’t know where the meth came from. She initiated it,” says LaPlant.

He said Heberlee then joined them in smoking meth.

At the time, LaPlant says he could tell that Smith was “intoxicated.”

Carter asked if Heberlee had his own meth, to which LaPlant replied, “Yes.” When asked if Smith also had some meth, he again responded, “Yes.” ‘Very Erratic’ Behavior LaPlant described Smith’s behavior as “very erratic.” She said repeatedly that it appeared the people around her were “wearing masks” while the two of them were alone in the garage smoking a “blunt” (marijuana).

Afterwards, LaPlant said Smith commented, “I’ll eat this whole bag of dope and I won’t wake up tomorrow.”

“I could tell she was down and I was trying to be positive,” he said.

Further describing Smith’s behavior during the evening, LaPlant said she had locked herself in the bathroom several times. After she had made the remark about eating a bag of dope, LaPlant said he refused to let her lock

herself in the bathroom again.

“After she made that comment I started paying more attention,” he said.

On one occasion when he tried to stop her, LaPlant says she pulled him into the bathroom with her and they started making out.

“She took her clothes off. We had sex on the floor,” said LaPlant.

Then Smith got up and indicated she was going to take a shower. As she grabbed the shower curtain, she pulled it down and fell into the bath tub.

She also pulled the shower handle off the wall.

During that time her clothes became soaked, so LaPlant says he put them in the drier. When he returned, Smith “was naked in the hallway.”

LaPlant says he and Heberlee each told her to get some clothes on and they took her to Heberlee’s bedroom where they put her in bed and tried to get her to “calm down.”

“She was not wanting to lay down. We were in the living room and we could hear her pounding on the walls,” LaPlant claims. “The first time Rick and I checked on her she was being crazy.”

Rick?” Carter asked.

LaPlant hesitated for a few moments as he nearly broke down.

“I was concerned about Sherree,” said LaPlant, who noted that he texted Heberlee “a few times” during the 5-6 hours that he was gone.

Conscious or Unconscious?

LaPlant says he laid down next to Smith and Heberlee left for Garden City. He was in the bedroom with Smith for 30-45 minutes and during that time they had sex again.

“She was breathing just fine. She went to sleep,” says LaPlant.

However, that differs slightly from what LaPlant told investigators shortly after the incident in 2014.

“You told the investigator at the time she may have lost consciousness,” Koksal reminded LaPlant.

“To this day, I believe 100 percent she was conscious,” responded LaPlant.

“But, did you recall saying she may have been unconscious during sex?”

Koksal asked.

“I was concerned,” LaPlant replied.

At the time, he doesn’t believe anyone else was still in the house, with the exception of Elliott Schuckman who was living in the basement.

LaPlant said he went into the basement to play guitars with Schuckman, but would check on Smith every 30-60 minutes.

He says that the second time he checked on her he noticed she had a fever so began putting washcloths on her to cool her down.

“She told me to go away, that she didn’t want to be bothered,” he says.

When asked by Carter how many times he had checked on Smith during the night, he replied, “Quite a few.”

The State entered as evidence a number of text messages that were exchanged between LaPlant and Heberlee the night of January 16 and over the next few days.

During the time when Smith was in the bedroom, LaPlant had sent text messages to Heberlee.

“What did you tell

Condition Deteriorating Concern with Smith’s deteriorating health was also shared with Schuckman. LaPlant said he asked Schuckman to go upstairs and see if she had a pulse. LaPlant said that years of doing construction work had made his fingers numb and unable to determine if Smith had a pulse.

“We put a mirror to her nose to see if she was still breathing. At that time she was,” said LaPlant.

During his testimony on Monday morning, Schuckman said he recommended calling an ambulance, but LaPlant said it was decided to do nothing until Heberlee returned. Schuckman said Heberlee left sometime between 10:00 p.m. and midnight.

According to text messages that had been retrieved from LaPlant’s phone, Heberlee informed him at 6:04 a.m. that he would be arriving in 15 minutes.

In the meantime, LaPlant says he went back into the garage “to smoke a blunt.”

When asked if CPR was performed on Smith, LaPlant said it was by him.

“When?” asked Carter.

LaPlant began breaking down. After regaining his composure, he said that nothing happened until after Heberlee arrived.

“We rolled her over and she wasn’t responsive,” said LaPlant. “I started performing CPR.” “Why did you wait until Rick got home?”

Carter asked.

“I didn’t think it was that bad,” answered LaPlant.

“Why were you scared?” she continued.

“Because I was on drugs,” he said. “I let Rick know through text messages I was concerned.”

LaPlant said he thought Smith’s breathing had been restored after CPR

Kevin LaPlant gives testimony during the trial on Monday afternoon.

and then he began putting her clothes back on.

LaPlant said Heberlee then asked if he knew of anyone who would take Smith to the hospital.

When asked if he would take her to the hospital, Schuckman said he declined because of his prior criminal history.

LaPlant said that Heberlee carried Smith over his shoulder to the vehicle and she was put in the backseat. She was laid across LaPlant’s lap while he continued performing CPR. It took about five minutes for them to take Smith to Magen Speer’s house where she was transferred to Speer’s van.

‘Just Wanted to Help’ When Speer appeared on the witness stand on Tuesday morning she described Heberlee as a friend she’d known for about six months prior to Smith’s death. She recalled getting a call from Heberlee at about 7:20 a.m. on January 17 asking if she “could do a huge favor for him.”

According to Speer, Heberlee said a “girl just ate a bunch of dope. She needs to go to the hospital. Can you take her to the hospital?”

Speer agreed, saying, “I just wanted to help.” “(The medical staff) is going to ask questions,” Speer says she told Heberlee. “I’m just not going to tell them the truth.”

When asked why she decided to lie about what happened, Speer replied, “I was afraid of the unknown.”

Speer told Heberlee she would tell authorities that Smith was found at the Cowboy Cabins since it was near where her daughter attended school.

When Heberlee and LaPlant arrived at Speer’s house, Heberlee entered the home while LaPlant remained in the car with Smith. When they came out a few moments later, Heberlee opened the side door on the van and went to the car to get Smith, who he carried to the van and put in the back seat.

“He was crying real hard,” Speer testified. “He put her seat belt on and her head fell forward. Her hair was in her face. He

tilted her head back and wiped her hair from her face. He said, ‘Please get her some help.’”

Speer described Smith as appearing “very thin, unconscious, very blue.”

“I stuck my hand on her chest, but couldn’t feel any breathing.”

After taking Smith to the hospital, she remained and later spoke to Police Officer Reggie Ford, where she gave the story about finding Smith leaning against a building at the Cowboy Cabins. She claimed that she stopped to check on her, that Smith didn’t respond, so she loaded her into the vehicle.

She later accompanied the officer to the former motel and pointed to where she had allegedly found Smith.

During his testimony, Ford said that after securing the scene and further investigating the site, he could find no evidence to indicate anyone had been there.

Ten days later, Speer was contacted by the KBI. “KBI agents called me and said my name had come up and they needed to ask me questions. I told them the truth,” says Speer.

Referring back to the events on January 17, Speer said that she had met with Heberlee at about 11:30 p.m. During a conversation in his vehicle, he asked what happened to Smith.

“I told him I drove her to the hospital where she didn’t make it,” said Speer. “He said he knew what happened and he really, really wanted to tell me. I begged him not to.”

Smith also confirmed that she has been granted immunity from prosecution in connection with this case.

“My understanding is that if I tell the truth or do not change my statement, I was not supposed to have any action taken against me,” she noted.

At the Hospital Medical staff reported that Smith arrived at the emergency room at 7:50 a.m.

She was dressed in jeans, a shirt and socks, but had no undergarments.

(Record Photo)

She was transferred into the trauma room, but had no pulse or respiration. A “code blue” was immediately initiated.

According to Dr. Elizabeth Hineman, there were “no track marks.

No evidence of drug use on the body. No needle marks were observed.”

However, “posturing” had taken place. This is when both arms and legs are extended with hands turned out and legs turned inward.

Posturing, said Dr. Hineman, indicates brain damage, which can be caused by a drug overdose.

After the code blue lasted for about 30 minutes, Dr. Hineman reported the time of death at 8:30 a.m.

Dr. Hineman added that had the situation been addressed earlier, a meth overdose can be treatable with “supportive care.”

Gather Belongings After leaving Speer’s house, LaPlant says they had kept Smith’s phone, which LaPlant tossed out of the vehicle as they drove by the former motel.

Once the two returned to Heberlee’s home they began gathering all items that belonged to Smith.

LaPlant said they threw a number of items out at the Cowboy Cabins and “stashed everything else” at a shop building east of Scott City belonging to LaPlant’s father.

Upon returning to Heberlee’s home a second time, they found more of Smith’s items - primarily clothes that had been in the drier - which had been overlooked. Those were put into a bucket and LaPlant took them back to his father’s storage building.

Later that morning (January 17), LaPlant left for Wichita to be with his two daughters. Before leaving, he and Heberlee had agreed on a coded text message.

“If he texted me and asked how my grandmother was doing, that meant (Smith) didn’t make it,” explained LaPlant.

A text at 11:41 a.m. from LaPlant to Heberlee advised him to “give me a heads up before you go to (See TEXTS on page 10)

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Collins retiring after 18 years on the bench In more than 40 years of public service as a counselor, a court services officer and as a magistrate judge, Jim Collins hasn’t always seen society and people at their best.

“In this field, you can get immersed in the human condition,” he observes.

But, it’s always been with a sense of optimism that Collins has tried to help those looking for a better life, or resolve conflicts in the courtroom.

Magistrate Judge Collins, 67, will be passing the gavel to his successor when his retirement from public service becomes official on Fri., Sept. 30.

It will mark the end of a career in public service that began with the now defunct Neighborhood Youth Corps in Wichita immediately following graduation from Wichita State University in 1971.

The program targeted disadvantaged high school youth in the Wichita public schools. The goal was to “break the pattern of poverty and welfare dependence.”

“We’d help set them up with jobs with non-profits and provide counseling,” says Collins.

When that federal program folded, he joined Sedgwick County Mental

Texts the shop to work on your car.”

LaPlant said he was telling Heberlee to let him know if he needed to get back into the quonset building again so he could make sure it was unlocked.

That night, he received another text: “How’s your grandmother doing?”

That was Heberlee informing LaPlant that Smith had died.

LaPlant confirmed that he understood by responding: “Not good. I’m kind of tore up about it.”

In additional text messages, it was agreed that no one would say anything should there be any inquiries about Smith.

After returning to Dallas, Tex., where he was living at the time, LaPlant and Heberlee still maintained contact.

“At one point, I told him I’d have to tell the truth,” says LaPlant. “He said, ‘Do what you have to do.’”

According to LaPlant, he has cooperated with law enforcement from the time he was initially con-

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Come-and-Go Reception Honoring District Magistrate Judge Jim Collins Fri., Sept. 30 • 3:30 p.m.

Scott County Courthouse

Health as a counselor working with youth and families. At the time, they also had the first comprehensive drug treatment program in Kansas, which included the administration of methadone.

“That was a real eyeopener for someone from Western Kansas,” said the Scott City native.

Collins returned to working primarily with young men at Judge Riddell Boys Ranch where he would spend six years as a counselor. The ranch was a “last chance” for youth offenders with fairly significant criminal records.

“When diversion programs and probation didn’t work, they came to us,” notes Collins, who was a counselor for individuals, groups and families. “You do this because you’re trying to make a difference in the lives of young people.”

However, Collins began looking to get back to his Western Kansas roots and he accepted a position with court services in the 17th Judicial District, which includes

Magistrate Judge Jim Collins of the 25th Judicial District. (Record Photo)

Phillips County where his parents had moved. Four years later, in 1988, he and his family moved to Scott City where Collins continued working with court services in the 25th District.

In 1999, when Magistrate Judge Gordon Goering announced his retirement, Collins submitted his name for con-

sideration and was sworn in as the new magistrate judge in July 1999.

“I felt that with my background in social sciences, and the exposure I’d had to such a variety of people seeking court services over the years, that it gave me a unique perspective that would be valuable as a judge,” says Collins.

“When people come into the courtroom it’s because a conflict needs to be resolved. People want to feel that they’ve had a chance to tell their side of the story and that the court has been fair to them,” says Collins after 18 years on the bench.

“That’s always been my goal and I feel I’ve accomplished that.”

January 16, LaPlant said he recalled seeing Smith with her own bag of meth, what he estimated to be about one gram.

LaPlant says the first time he, Smith and Angel Salinas went into the garage, it was to smoke marijuana. The second time they began smoking meth. It was at that time Smith “pulled out her own pipe and we smoked out of it.”

Later in the night, Smith, Heberlee, LaPlant and Shelby Salinas were smoking meth in the bedroom.

“What she smoked wasn’t enough to kill her,” LaPlant insisted.

“What makes you say that?” Koksal asked.

“It’s what I saw,” answered LaPlant.

When asked if Smith appeared suicidal, LaPlant said, “Not in the garage when we were talking.”

He said it wasn’t until Smith made the comment about eating a bag of dope that “I became really concerned.”

“Did she have a bag of dope she was pointing to?” Koksal asked.

“No,” said LaPlant, who then said he “didn’t take it that seriously.

When people are down (depressed) they say a lot of stupid things.”

He added that after Smith had initially locked herself in the bathroom a couple of times, another individual in the house at the time made the comment that she tried to take meth into the bathroom with her.

“We weren’t going to let her go in the bathroom anymore,” said LaPlant, who added he didn’t have any meth to give her. He also added that he didn’t see Heberlee give any meth to Smith.

“There wasn’t any concern that she had dope to eat,” he said.

While Heberlee was in Garden City, LaPlant recalled he began texting him about Smith’s health at about 4:30 a.m. He described her as “sleeping kinda,” but “running a fever.”

Heberlee reportedly advised LaPlant that if Smith woke up and asked for more meth to tell her it was gone.

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tacted by KBI Agent Clint Hawkins.

“I was called. I wanted to come back,” he told the court. “Just to tell the truth.”

He took Hawkins to the storage building where some of Smith’s personal belongings had been hidden. Everything was recovered but a black bag that LaPlant says had been placed under a tarp covering a boat. He is uncertain what became of that.

LaPlant says no promises were made by the State in exchange for his cooperation.

“Why are you doing this?” Carter asked.

“I just want to tell the truth. I have two daughters.”

In fact, LaPlant has been given “use and derivative use immunity.”

It means that evidence or testimony given by LaPlant in the prosecution of Heberlee may not be used at a later time to prosecute LaPlant for any crimes that have been committed.

However, this does not prevent LaPlant’s potential prosecution based on

earlier interviews he’s had with law enforcement or as a result of evidence that’s gathered without his testimony.

Granted Immunity Immediately during cross-examination, Koksal quizzed LaPlant about whether promises had been made by the State. LaPlant said he had been granted immunity from prosecution.

“Isn’t that a benefit?”

Koksal asked.

“Not at all,” LaPlant answered.

Koksal then tried to determine what, if any level of friendship, still existed between LaPlant and Heberlee. LaPlant said they were no longer close friends as a result of what friends were saying that Heberlee told them about Smith’s death.

“He was putting the blame on you?” Koksal asked.

“Yes,” LaPlant said.

“Do you feel you have any blame in this?” asked the defense attorney.

“No,” answered LaPlant.

During the evening of

“If she comes to, she gets nothing,” was the message that LaPlant says he received.

“Was there any clue that Sherree had taken too much meth?” Koksal asked.

“I don’t think anyone knew,” said LaPlant.

However, it came out during the testimony that there was a bag of meth which couldn’t be accounted for. LaPlant says it was common for meth to be kept in a night stand in the living room.

LaPlant says that Heberlee asked him about the bag of meth that he had left for him in the night stand prior to leaving for Garden City. LaPlant said he didn’t recall Heberlee leaving him any meth.

“I didn’t have a bag,” he said.

Again, LaPlant was asked why he and Schuckman didn’t take Smith to the hospital when they had concerns about her health rather than waiting for Heberlee to return.

“I ask myself that every day,” he quietly answered.

Youth/Education

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KSU considers concealed carry policy Kansas lawmakers - at least the majority of them - think college campuses will be safer starting next July. That’s when a law they approved will allow people to carry concealed handguns on Kansas Board of Regents campuses.

But Joey Paz, a student at Kansas State University, said he’ll feel less safe.

“If this law would have been passed three years ago . . . I would

have seriously considered not going to school in Kansas,” he said.

Paz spoke last Thursday during a forum at K-State. The forum, which drew about 60 people, was meant to address the university’s proposed policy to implement the law. However, many in the audience wanted to talk about the law itself.

Michael McGlynn, who teaches in K-State’s School of Architecture, said after the forum that

students aren’t the only ones worried about safety.

“Faculty have made it clear that they will check themselves at the door, that they will change the nature of their classes in response to this,” he said.

McGlynn said that if faculty and students are afraid to engage in a free and open exchange of ideas, the culture of the university will be jeopardized.

But Joe Hancock, who teaches animal science at

K-State, thinks concerns about the new gun law are overblown.

“I mean, you’re talking about suicides and gunfights in classrooms, and (how) I’m not going to be able to discuss anything controversial,” Hancock said. “I think you’re way underestimating the quality and the caliber of our students at Kansas State University. They’re not a bunch of idiots.”

Hancock, who has a concealed carry permit,

said he’ll probably carry a gun on campus from time to time once it’s legal.

He said supporters of gun rights shouldn’t have to demonstrate that concealed carry will make the campus safer - just that it won’t make it any less safe.

“And if it doesn’t, you can’t prove that it makes things worse, then leave people alone. Let ’em do what they want to do,” he said.

The proposed K-State policy would require guns to be under the direct control of their owners, unless securely holstered and stored in a residence or vehicle. The university will not provide gun storage and faculty will not be allowed to leave guns in their offices. They also won’t be permitted to designate their offices as gunfree zones.

English professor James Machor said Texas (See POLICY on page 18)

Class of ‘66 to Branson for 50-year reunion The Scott Community High School class of 1966 celebrated its 50-year reunion in Branson, Mo., from Sept. 8-11.

Twenty-two class members, plus spouses, took part in the trip.

Steve Payne and David VanPelt conducted the service.

A “Saturday Night Live” roast was held on Friday evening, presented by Kate Macy and Roxie Berning.

Class of 1966 members are (front row, from left) David VanPelt, Roxie (McIntyre) Berning, Trudy (Riner) Eikenberry, Kate (Strickert) Macy, Karen (McDaniels) Roberts, Jane (Owen) Hanchett) and Lucille (McPherson) Matthews. (Back row) Bill Moore, Steve Payne, Joann (Huseman) Riemann, Rick Brittan, Linda (Mulch) Debey, Stan Gruver, Deandra Bishop, Darrell Faurot, Pam (Kitch) Gruver and Gary Goodman.

Also attending, but not pictured, were Betty (Marmon) Thomas, Judy (Brandfas) Morris, Leanna (Litton) Webb, Mark Weinmann and Delbert Ratzlaff.

Miss Kansas to speak at SCHS on Sept. 27 Adrienne Rosel Bulinski will deliver an entertaining, uplifting and motivating message to the students at Scott Community High School on Tues., Sept. 27, at 9:00 a.m.

Bulinski is an award winning motivational speaker, author and entertainer.

“My mission as a speaker is to motivate students to believe in themselves and their selfworth, to believe in their passions and their goals, and to believe in their capabilities of reaching many great achievements in their lifetime,” Bulinski

says.

Bulinski’s messages are designed to help students realize their potential and then turn that potential into a reality. Her messages are also known to energize adults, helping them stay “fresh” with their approach in shaping young leaders.

Bulinski’s stories are influenced by an array of experiences including time wearing the Miss Kansas crown, performing with the USO Show Troupe, New York City auditions and rejections, re-learning how to walk at the age of 24 and coping with depression.

Opposing sides clash over school funding Opposing sides of the school finance dispute clashed Wednesday before the Kansas Supreme Court but seemed to agree if the court declares the funding system unconstitutionally inadequate then it should give the Legislature a full legislative session to fix it.

Alan Rupe, lead attorney for school districts suing the state, said the state was $800 million or more short in funding schools and one third to one half of students were floundering in the system, unable to reach grade-level standards.

“We are leaving massive numbers of kids behind in our public education,” Rupe said.

But Kansas Solicitor Stephen McAllister argued Kansas schools performed well in comparison to other states and the court should defer to elected legislators on education funding.

Under questioning from court justices, Rupe said he wanted the court to declare the school funding level unconstitutional and give the Legislature the 2017 legislative session, which starts in January and runs through May, to fix the system.

McAllister agreed it would take a full session for legislators to come up with a new plan. And both attorneys said if the court declares the current system unconstitutional, the court should provide guidance on how to remedy it.

Legislators were already set to tackle school funding next session because the current block grant system, which essentially froze the school funding level for two years, is set to expire July 1, 2017.

Much of the more than two-hour Supreme Court hearing was spent dis(See CLASH on page 18)

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For the Record Kansas expected to end fiscal year with $5M The Scott County Record

Kansas’ budget will have an estimated leftover balance of just $5 million at the end of the fiscal year, a memo from legislative researchers shows, making it likely the state will have to make cuts.

The $5.6 million projected ending balance doesn’t take into account monthly revenue misses that have already

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occurred. Even if Kansas were to meet revenue projections every month for the rest of the fiscal year, the state would likely still be in the red.

Additionally, revenue forecasters will meet in November to issue a new forecast. The estimating group has downgraded projections each time it has met over the past two

years.

According to the State General Fund Profile released by the Kansas Legislative Research Department, dated Sept.

21, an end balance of $5 million represents 0.1 percent of all expenditures.

By law, Kansas is supposed to have an end balance of 7 percent.

Tax collections missed

estimates by $14.3 million in July, and $10.5 million in August. Figures for September will be released October 1.

Taken together, the state is already $26 million off projected revenue collections during the first two months of the year. If estimates are met the rest of the fiscal year, Kansas would face an approxi-

mately $20 million shortfall.

Gov. Sam Brownback’s office wouldn’t say if the governor anticipates cutting spending during the current fiscal year.

“The governor will present his budget proposal to the Legislature when it returns in January,” Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said.

The administration has taken steps indicating it is contemplating reductions during the coming fiscal year, which begins July 1. In August, state agencies were asked to submit budgets that included a 5 percent cut.

Hawley has previously said no decisions on funding levels will be made (See FISCAL on page 13)

‘No call’ list doesn’t stop all calls Kansas joins

“I’m on the Do Not Call list, so why do I keep getting these phone calls?”

This is one of the most common questions received at the Attorney General’s office. While placing your number on the Do Not Call list is a great way to reduce the number of unsolicited telemarketing calls you receive at home, it’s not perfect and won’t stop the worst actors from calling you.

Kansas enacted the No Call Act in 2002 to give consumers the ability to opt out of receiving unsolicited telemarketing calls. In 2014, the legislature updated the state law

consumer corner office of the

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to allow the AG’s office to enforce the No Call Act when telemarketers call cell phones.

Individuals can register their phone number either by visiting the AG’s consumer protection website at www.

InYourCornerKansas.org or by calling (888) 3821222 from the number they wish to register.

Once a number has been registered, telemarketers have 30 days to remove that number from their calling lists.

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Sept. 8, 2016; last published Thurs., Sept. 22, 2016)3t IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT DISTRICT COURT, SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT WASINGER BROTHERS, A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP plaintiff vs MELVINA W.KUEKER, and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, and assigns, of and deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors, and assigns, of any defendants that are existing, dissolved, or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors, and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners in a partnership; the unknown guardians, conservators, and trustees of any defendants that are minors, or are under any legal disability; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, and assigns of any person alleged to be deceased defendants Case No. 2016-CV-000012 TITLE TO REAL ESTATE INVOLVED Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SUIT THE STATE OF KANSAS TO: Melvina W. Kueker and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any defendants that are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of any person alleged

Even if the call says to press a number to be removed from their list, don’t do it. This will just confirm to the robocaller that your number is connected to a real, live person, and will probably result in more calls.

to be deceased; and any other person or entity having or claiming an interest in the minerals in and under the following described real estate, to-wit: Southwest Quarter (SW/4) of Section 11, Township 20 South, Range 33 West of the Sixth P.M., Scott County, Kansas You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in the District Court of Scott County, Kansas, by Wasinger Brothers, A General Partnership, praying for an order quieting the title to the following-described real estate, to-wit: Southwest Quarter (SW/4) of Section 11, Township 20 South, Range 33 West of the Sixth P.M., Scott County, Kansas the “subject land.”

The Petition further seeks an order holding the plaintiff to be owner of the subject land burdened only by an undivided one-half (l/2) perpetual mineral interest owned by Hamlin Group 29, LLC, and holding the plaintiff to be the owner of the interests that may be claimed by said defendants in and to the subject lands; that the court determine the adverse claims of each of the defendants to any estate or interest therein; that the plaintiff’s title to the interests of said defendants in and to said real estate be quieted against the defendants and that said defendants and all persons claiming by, through or under them be forever barred and excluded from any estate or interest in or lien upon or claim against the said mineral estate, and for such other and further relief as plaintiff may be entitled to either in law or in equity, and you are hereby required to plead to the Petition on or before the 19th day of October, 2016, in this court at Scott County, Scott City, Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

DEPEW, GILLEN, RATHBUN & McINTEER, LC 8301 East 21st St. North Suite 450 Wichita, Ks. 67206-2936 Office: (316) 262-4000 Fax: (316) 265-3819 Joseph A. Schremmer, #25968 Attorneys for Plaintiff

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Registration does not expire, so once you’ve registered, you don’t need to do it again, unless you get a new phone number.

Registering your number will stop legitimate telemarketing companies - those that follow the law - from calling. But, it won’t stop fraudsters and criminals who have no regard for the Do Not Call list.

These are the ones who especially get on our nerves. Often, these are pre-recorded “robocalls” made from telemarketers

and computers in foreign countries, which makes it hard - often impossible for us to track them down for violating the law.

The best advice when you get these types of calls is to hang up immediately.

Even if the call says to press a number to be removed from their list, don’t do it. This will just confirm to the robocaller that your number is connected to a real, live person, and will probably result in more calls.

(See NO CALL on page 13)

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department Sept. 16: Joe Hall, 30, was arrested on a warrant and transported to the LEC. Sept. 16: Mike Smith, 50, was arrested for DUI and driving on the wrong side of the roadway. He was transported to the LEC. Sept. 16: Levi Prince, 24, was arrested for possession of a depressant, transporting an open container and a flashing red light. He was transported to the LEC. Sept. 16: Jonathan Crain, 23, reported domestic battery and disorderly conduct by Shawna Castaneda, 26.

She was arrested and transported to the LEC. Sept. 16: Lisa Conner was arrested on an out-ofcounty warrant and transported to the LEC. Sept. 19: David Lauber, 57, was arrested for reckless driving, criminal damage to property, unlawful obtaining of a prescription drug and transporting an open container. He was transported to the LEC. Sept. 19: Leo Vardo, 47, was arrested for driving on a suspended or revoked license. He was transported to the LEC.

lawsuit over expansion of OT Kansas has filed a federal lawsuit over a new nationwide overtime rule.

The Sunflower State is now one of 21 states across the country challenging a change that would allow employees who make less than $47,476 a year to be entitled to overtime pay if they work more than 40 hours a week. The previous threshold was $23,660, according to the White House.

In the lawsuit, the states allege that the new rule “exceeds constitutional authorization.”

“The cascade of unauthorized rules and regulations continuing to pour out of Washington in the final months of this presidential administration is truly breathtaking,” Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said in a statement. “In this case, the unauthorized federal mandate affects not only private businesses but state taxpayers, who will bear the added cost imposed on state government.

Our legal objection is that any power to impose this mandate on states rests with Congress, which has not delegated that power to the bureaucrats at the U.S. Department of Labor.”

The change will impact roughly 40,000 private employees in Kansas, according to the announcement from the attorney general’s office.

The rule is slated to go into effect Dec. 1. The change will extend overtime protections to 4.2 million workers, according to the White House.

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Kobach, ACLU clash over proof of citizenship Secretary of State Kris Kobach said in court Wednesday an elderly couple challenging Kansas’ proof of citizenship voting law hadn’t demonstrated they are citizens - and therefore eligible to sue.

At the same hearing, a Shawnee County District Court judge suggested an earlier order allowing some individuals who haven’t provided proof to vote in state and local races would extend into the general election.

Judge Larry Hendricks heard oral arguments from Kobach and the American

Civil Liberties Union over whether he should order individuals who have registered at Department of Motor Vehicle locations or using a federal form to vote in all races - federal, state and local - regardless of whether they’ve provided proof of citizenship.

Days before the August primary election, Hendricks said voters who had registered at Department of Motor Vehicle locations could vote in all races, not just federal contests, even if they hadn’t proven citizenship. Subsequently, a federal appeals court held

No Call There may be good news on the horizon for stopping these types of calls. Recently, the Federal Communications Commission adopted new rules allowing phone companies to adopt technology which will allow

you to block robocalls.

The AG’s office is hopeful the phone companies will work quickly to implement this service to give you the power to decide which calls you want to accept.

The No Call Act does

The appointed member will serve until the next general school board election.

Such vacancy exists by reasons of the resignation of Ben Taylor.

By order of the Board of Education, Unified School District No. 466, Scott County, Kansas, this 12th day of September, 2016.

District Patrons interested in filling the position should contact the USD 466 Central Office, 704 S. College Street, Phone 620-872-7600, for application procedures.

Susan Carter, clerk Board of Education

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Sept.

15, 2016; last published Thurs., Sept. 29, 2016)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ELLIS COUNTY, KANSAS ROOFMASTERS ROOFING AND SHEETMETAL CO., INC., Plaintiff vs.

JEFF NIX, individually and JEFF NIX d/b/a AMERICAN ROOFING, Defendants Case No. 2015-LM-000788 NOTICE OF SUIT To JEFF NIX, individually and JEFF NIX d/b/a American Roofing and all other concerned persons: You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in Ellis County District Court

by ROOFMASTERS ROOFING AND SHEETMETAL CO., INC. praying for judg-

ment against the Defendant in the amount of $15,226.88 for goods and services received; for its costs and expenses incurred in pursing this suit; and for such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and equitable; and you are hereby required to plead to the petition on or before 3:00 p.m. October 26, 2016, in the Ellis County District Court in the City of Hays, Ellis County, Kansas.

If you fail to plead, judgment will be entered upon the Petition.

Curtis Brown, #24007 Glassman, Bird, Brown and Powell, LLP 200 West 13th Hays, Kansas 67601 (785) 625-6919 (785) 625-2473 fax jcbrown@haysamerica.com Attorney for Plaintiff

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Sept.

15, 2016; last published Thurs., Sept. 29, 2016)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS In the Matter of the Estate of Francis James Hess, deceased Case No. 2016-PR-000023 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that a Petition has been filed in this Court by Nancy J. Hess, spouse and one of the heirs of Francis James Hess a/k/a Jim Hess, deceased, requesting: Descent be determined of the following described real estate situated in Scott County, Kansas: Lot Two (2), Three (3), Six (6), and Seven (7) in Block Eleven (11), in Eastman Addition to Scott City, Kansas.

During oral arguments, Kobach raised issues of standing related to two of the plaintiffs, Marvin and JoAnn Brown. Marvin Brown is a 90-year-old Army Air Corps veteran, and both had registered using the federal form but didn’t provide documents proving citizenship.

Kobach argued that for the purposes of the lawsuit, the Browns should demonstrate they are citizens, and therefore have standing to sue over the law.

“At this point, we don’t even know these individu-

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Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., Sept.

15, 2016; last published Thurs., Sept. 29, 2016)3t NOTICE OF VACANCY ON THE USD NO. 466 BOARD OF EDUCATION Notice is hereby given pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 25-2022 of a vacancy in the membership of the Board of Education of Unified School District No. 466, Scott County, Kansas, and that such vacancy will be filled by appointment of the Board of Education not sooner than fifteen (15) days following publication of this notice.

that people who registered using the federal form but who hadn’t proven citizenship could vote in federal races.

Hendricks indicated he might expand a temporary order he issued right before the August primary while he mulls his final ruling. Presumably, that would allow individuals who hadn’t proven citizenship to vote in all races in the November general election.

Hendricks said after the hearing that the current temporary order remains in effect for the general election.

and all personal property and other Kansas real estate owned by decedent at the time of death. And that such property and all personal property and other Kansas real estate owned by the decedent at the time of death be assigned pursuant to the laws of intestate succession.

You are required to file your written defenses to the Petition on or before October 12, 2016, at 10:00 a.m., in the City of Scott City in Scott County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail to file your written defenses, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

Nancy J. Hess, Petitioner WATKINS CALCARA, CHTD. 1321 Main - Suite 300 P.O. Drawer 1110 Great Bend, Kansas 67530 (620) 792-8231 Attorneys for Petitioner

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not apply to a company you’ve done business with within the past 18 months.

They are allowed to call, unless you’ve requested them to stop.

There are also exceptions for charitable solicitations and political calls,

Fiscal until after the November revenue forecast.

Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, said Brownback is mistaken if he believes he can wait until January to alter the budget. Hensley predicted Brownback will have to make adjustments before the Legislature convenes.

“This is Sam Brownback’s race to zero.

He’s referred to his tax plan as the glidepath to zero, and this is the race to zero,” Hensley said.

The memo’s emergence comes as the general election season begins to heat up. A number of conservative Republicans were ousted or defeated during the August primaries, and budget and fiscal

so long as those calls are not also trying to sell you something.

To register for the Do Not Call list, file a complaint or learn more, visit the consumer protection website at www.

InYourCornerKansas.org.

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issues are driving much of the dissatisfaction among voters.

Budget problems have confronted lawmakers the past two years. The Legislature passed the current year budget to close out its regular session at the start of May. The budget approved by lawmakers didn’t balance and assumed cuts

by Brownback. The deal, however, anticipated an $81 million end balance during the current fiscal year - a figure that appears optimistic in retrospect.

Brownback made his cuts later in May, slashing university spending and imposing a 4 percent reduction on reimbursement payments to Medicaid providers.

als are citizens,” Kobach said.

He also noted it is possible for noncitizens to serve in the U.S. military.

Kobach also provided a spreadsheet with names from Sedgwick County of naturalized citizens who had been registered to vote prior to becoming citizens and noncitizens who had attempted to vote. In total, the document contained about 25 names, gathered over the past decade.

ACLU attorneys argued that, of the names on the list, just three had ever voted. During the same time period, thou-

sands of people had registered to vote, they said.

The evidence of noncitizen voting is nominal, they argued.

“The risk here of disenfranchising voters is very real and we would submit outweighs the nominal evidence of noncitizen registration,” ACLU attorney Sophia Lakin said.

Hendricks didn’t set a timeline for his decision. But his comments appeared to indicate if he doesn’t issue a final decision he will at the least issue some sort of order before the November election.

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2016 Whimmydiddle Exhibitors and Sponsors Welcome the more than 150 vendors to Scott City!

New vendors to this year’s Whimmydiddle are listed in BOLD.

Exhibitor Name

Connie Albin Jesse Janes Designs by L Paula’s Pieces Angelbee’s Wood P & L Enterprises/Gourmet Farms of CO Designs on Signs Sawdust Dreams Seven and a Half Sisters Pot Pals Pottery Monica’s Menagerie Cute As A Button Sawdust & Stitches Mutton Hollow Herb Farm JAM’s By Judy/JR’s Food Service Whims Kay’s Krafts Debbie Hayes Onita Pond B & PJ Silver Gail Korf Pitter-Patter-Creation Ike’s Place Little A This Little A That A Wild Hair Finishing Touches R Litson Leathercraft The Added Touch, LLC Memories of Home LLC R Designs Simply Kmazing Bling This Glitz That SandSinc Keepsake Art, LLC Stitch N Knitwits Holmes Made Salsa Styria Bakery II Fox’s Crafts Deer Land Delights LLC Country Sudz Rughooking 101 & Applique JR Designs M&M’s Purses Diana McDaniel Prairie Song Diamond K Leather Country Chic Creations By NJV Picture the Words Photography In A Reverie Studio Linda or Leroy Hetrick Babylee By Steph I Wish I Knew…..

Kasey’s Kreations Norenwood Scampering Friends Creations On The Move Vinyl Graphics Creations Blackhorse Creations Mojaxs Nuts & Treats Bash Brothers BBQ, LLC Initial It! Designs Kat’s Kitchen Timeless Trees Trendy Trunk Katie’s Doll Closet Joe’s Little Nut Co. Harvest Of Crafts Handmade See Wood N Things/3Phase Laser Lanterns & More by CC Smoky Hill Vineyards & Winery The Country Oven Schaffer Furniture The Chicken Coop Praisin’ Art K’Dee’s Creations, All Things Useful Wayne’s Wood Shop Cogolfing

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Connie Albin 1-2 Cheryl Womack 3 Bob and Linda Gaines 4-5 Paula Vandenberg White 6 Becky Delimont 7 Lori Miller 8 Grace Giesbrecht 9 Don Bortell 10 Patricia Becker 11 Cheryl Steinert 12 Monica Wagner 13-14 Kerri Traynor 15-16 Jon Howard 17-18 Gerald and Linda Berthot 19 Ludy Laurie 20 Patti Gookin 21 Kay Erickson 22-23 Debbie Hayes 24 Onita Pond 25 Connie Bentjen 26 Gail Korf 27-28 Maria E. Rubalcave 29-30 Ruthy Grinstead 31 Lynne Quint 32 Shari Thomas 33 Bob Litson 34-35 April Turner 36 Debbie Futhey 37 Richard Ricketts 38 Kamille Ratzlaff 39 Marcia Hahn 40 Sue Crowl 42 Mary Lee 43 Martin Enfoeld 44-45 Tricia Holmes 46 Shannon Campbell 47-48 Fox Still 49-50 Rockie Hawley 51 Gwen Urban 52 Vivian Michel 53 Bob or Jane Roulston 54 Mitze Befort 55-56 Diana McDaniel 57 Kenneth Bontrager 58 David Knepp 59 Sandra Myers 60 Nancy Vaughn 61 Cara Drag 62 Shelley L. Lelfridge 63 Linda or Leroy Hetrick 64-65 Stephanie Lee 66 Sharon Bearden 67 Kasey Robinson 68 Charlene Norvil 70-71 Mary Klinge 72 Dee Post or Arlene Neff 73 Becky Fisher 74 Laura Blackhorse-Christie 75 Jeremy Henderson 77 Chris Halloray 80 Steven Gellenbeck 81 Donald Rice 82-83 Tammy Withrow 84-85 Lisa Lobile 86 Katie Herrick 88 Craig Hawkinson 89 Kathleen Kirkland 90 Mike See 93-94 Cindi Cole 95 Brock Ebert 97 Ashlyn Nightengale 98-99, 186 Zack Schaffer 100 Tiffany Harmon 101 Kristin Johnson 102 Julie Rork or K’Dee Hommertzheim 103-104 Kenneth W. Dunn 105-106 Betty-Lou Moon 107

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Palla’s Old Fashioned Glazed Nuts Russell and Sandra Blake “Made It” Dan Wishon Art Darby Dog Designz AandIWear.com Theresa Parsons Custom Sewing By Tonya Pink Ribbon Pottery L & J Crafts Bourgeois Gypsy Bert’s Rustic Creations Offerings LLC Kaiser’s Carvings Simply Sheila J & L Swings and Things Alpha Group 2-B-Restored Creations By JoAnn Inchantables J & L Crafts Double D Wood Crafters K & G Country Crafts Laura Stephie Uniquely Handmade Judy’s Crafts Country Bumpkins Country Keepsakes Sami J. Randle T’s Jewelry Sticky Spoons Jelly Stoneware Pottery by Steve Ashley Small Town Girls Crafts & Bakery Cottonwood Cottage Golden Designs Dakot Crafts Kidstuff Unique Products Theresa’s Three Feathers Creations By Crystal Wonderfully You Humble Beginnings What’s Cookin J B Boutique Miriam’s Creations Oak Reflections Flying Eagle Designs Footprints On The Heart Wooden Feathers Saw Some Awesome Outdoor Furniture Speer Creations Lauren Speer Face Painting Buckbrush & Bittersweet Freeman Pottery Windy Plains Honey Country Barn Candle Company Little Girls M&D Crafts Guy Stewart Little Snouts Studio Eva Louise Buell Pat’s Magnetic Jewelry Deb’s Craftwear Carol’s Birdhouses Antler Addiction Quilting Friends This Is It by Jolene Bits & Pieces by Paulette Plan B Designs Browning Goodies Nana’s Creations Clay Concepts Tadpole Creek Creations Crazy Lady Schale Company Brenda’s Satin & Fleece Foster Designs

Palla Orken Lang Sandra Blake Janet Goodman Dan Wishon Lisa Emberton Karen Stevens Theresa Parsons Tonya Miller Maradith Molstad Joanne Genrich Tamara Glase Bert Nikkel Angie Berens Lynn Kaiser Sheila VonLeonrod Jimmy and Sue Fuller Godwin Uloho Bryant Briggs JoAnn Wells Barbara and Todd Stanfield Jeff Warburton Don or Carrie Driver Ken and Geneva Beckman Stephanie Titus Chad Stroup/Judy Stroup Cyndi Jackson Delma Gerberding Sami J. Randle Theresa Grady Debra Gerard Steve and Carol Ashley Jerrie Jones Tom and Mary Ewing Stacey Golden Joyce Chord Sharon Schwartz Rachel Janzen Theresa Weigel Bill Bunting Crystal Vette Maegan Berry Tim Legleiter Roxie Halpin Jill Brantley Miriam Peregrino Steve Ellsworth Randy Altman Shelby Wheatley Jim Fetty Daniel Dirks Lauren Speer Lauren Speer Sue Appelhaus Mark and Bambi Freeman Ron or Connie Hopkins Sheila Demoret Beverly Jacobson Diane Finkenbinder Guy Stewart Lauren and Lisa Engelken Eva Louise Buell Patricia Petz Debra Williams Bob and Carol Kramer Michael Eckert Linda Finley Jolene Katz Paulette Seib Dan and Lori Leckner Taney Browning Virginia Procter Gary Megilligan Cindy Becker Marty Evans Arlene Schale Brenda Jordan Jaclyn Foster

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108 109-110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118-119 120 121 122 123-124 125 126-127 128 129-130 131 132 133 134-135 137-138 144 146-147 148-149 150 151 152 153 154 155-157 158 159 160-162 163 164-165 166-168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176-179 183 184 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 196 197 198-199 200 201 202-203 204-205 207 208 209 210 211-212 214-215 216-217 218-219 220 221-222 223 224 225 226

Whimmydiddle Food Vendors

Bahama Mama – Shaved Ice

Kelley’s Festival Foods – Kettle Corn, Turkey Legs, Pulled Pork, Roasted Corn, Cheesecake on a Stick

Becky’s Bierocks – Bierocks

Cowboy Kettle Corn – Kettle Corn

Casa de Vallejo – Beef, Chicken and Pork Tacos Keltner’s Concessions – Beef, Lamb, Chicken, Smoked Sausage and Veggie Gyros Capones Famous Shaved Ice – Shaved Ice, Lemonade and Cherry Limeade

Palla’s Funnel Cakes – Hamburgers, Nachos, Funnel Cakes Divine Dips Homemade Ice Cream – Ice Cream

Love’s Travel Stop – Hamburgers, Pulled Pork, Hotdogs

Dairy Queen 1211 Main (620) 872-3215

Faurot Heating & Cooling 910 W. 5th St. (620) 872-3508

ProHealth Chiropractic Wellness Center 110 W. 4th St. • (620) 872-2310

American Implement 807 N. Main (620) 872-7244

Turner Sheet Metal 1851 S. Main, US Highway 83 (620) 872-2954

The Rec (Pool Hall) 318 S. Main

Rodenbeek & Green Agency 601 S. Main (620) 872-5803

Sonic Drive-In 1720 S. Main (620) 874-9655

Safemark 909 W. 5th St. (620) 872-5747

Spencer Pest Control 200 E. Road 140 (620) 872-2870

MTM Siding & Glass 1130 W. Highway 96 (620) 872-2315

Renee A. Cure, CPA 1103 Viola Ave. • (620) 872-5016 cureoak@aol.com

Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Avenue (620) 872-5811

Heartland Foods 1314 S. Main (620) 872-5854

Spud’s Hunting & Fishing 323 Main (620) 872-5667

Dec-Mart Furniture 408 S. Main (620) 872-2449

Price & Sons Funeral Home 401 S. Washington (620) 872-2116

Great Western Tire 1503 S. Main (620) 872-3393

Bartlett Grain 305 W. Bellevue (620) 872-3456

Z Bottling Corp.

907 W. 5th St. (620) 872-0100

KD Accounting & Tax Services (620) 872-5061 • kdats@pld.com

LaFiesta 109 E. Park Lane (620) 872-2777

JF Beaver Advertising 514 S. Main (620) 872-2395

Berning Auction Leoti (620) 375-4130

Michael Trout - State Farm 112 W. 3rd St. (620) 872-5374

Compass Behavioral Health 204 S. College (620) 872-5338

First National Bank 501 S. Main • (620) 872-2143 Member FDIC

Suzy B’s Flowers and More 901 W. 5th St. (620) 872-5336

Scott City Area Chamber of Commerce 113 E. 5th St. • (620) 872-3525

Best Western El Quartelejo Inn & Suites 1610 S. Main • (620) 872-7373

Winter Family Dentistry 130 E. Road 140 (620) 872-8996

Wendy’s 1502 S. Main (620) 872-7288

Pastime at Park Lane The United Methodist Church led Sunday afternoon services.

Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon. Game helpers were Dorothy King, Wanda Kirk, Lynda Burnett, Gary and Janet Goodman, Hugh McDaniel, Madeline Murphy and Bert Lucas.

Residents played Wii bowling on Monday evening.

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

Russell and Mary Webster led Bible study on Tuesday evening.

Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran Bible study on Wednesday morning.

Residents played bingo on Wednesday afternoon.

Helpers were Madeline Murphy, Barbara Dickhut and Mandy Barnett.

Residents played pitch on Wednesday evening.

Denton and Karen Berry helped with the card games.

Ladies received manicures on Thursday morning.

Residents played trivia games on Thursday evening.

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

Lighted globes are craft project

The Immanuel Baptist Church hosted crafts on Tuesday afternoon. Residents made fall lighted globes.

Those helping with the crafts were Jennifer Murphy, Bev Nuckolls, Joy Barnett, Sue Barber and Mandy Barnett. Cookies were furnished by Kendra Kendricks.

Prochnow led Lutheran services on Friday afternoon.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane, Jim Porter and Mark Fouquet.

Delores Brooks was visited by Charles Brooks and Cheryl Perry.

Corrine Dean was visited by Dianna Howard, Mandy Kropp and Kylee Kropp.

Yvonne Spangler was visited by Les and MaryAnn Spangler.

Cecile Billings was visited by Ann Beaton.

Louise Crist was visited by Sue Rose, Jean Burgess, Jerad and Karen Hadley, Terry and Cindy Crist, Patsi Graham and Jon Tuttle.

Cloide Boyd was visited by Karla Glunz, Kathy Harms, and Dick and Jackie Boyd.

Doris Riner enjoyed a visit from her brother, Merl Wait, and his wife, Wanda, of Protection; Larry and Gwen Huck, Ron and Sue Riner, Bill

and Sue Riner, and Trudy Eikenberry. Doris had lunch on Sunday with Mary Lou, Karen, Jane and Alma.

Lowell Rudolph was

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visited by LuAnn Buehler, Tom and Kathy Moore, Rev. Don Martin, Bill and Ennie Buck, Chuck Kirk, Leon Rose, and Rex and Marian Rose.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Larry and Philene Pickett and Gloria Wright.

Boots Haxton was visited by Rod and Kathy Haxton.

Jeanie Rowton was visited by Chuck Rowton, Becky Rowton, Susan Escareno, Debra Eikelberger, Beau

Harkness and Phil Escareno.

Lorena Turley was visited by Tracy Hess, Neta Wheeler, Rex Turley, Lisa Ivey, LuJauna Turley, Karen Harms and Mary Lou Oeser.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Larry and Sharon Lock.

Clifford Dearden was visited by Janet Ottaway from Hays.

Lucille Dirks was visited by Vicki Dirks and Carol Ellis.

Arlene Beaton was visited by Donna Eitel.

Nella Funk was visited

by Donna Eitel and Sheila Boyd.

Kathy Roberts was visited by Donna Eitel, Gary Roberts, Krista Roberts, Morgan Roberts and Kent Phips from Denver.

Loretta Gorman was visited by Charlene Becht and Chuck and Barb Brobst.

LaVera King was visited by Gloria Gough and Carol Latham.

Attend the Church of Your Choice

Worried?

“For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.” Hebrews 4:2, KJV “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7, NIV Someone has said, “Worry blasphemes every promise God has given us.” Worry, inevitable as it is, has its consequences. Worry can lead to stress, which can result in all manner of negative physical manifestations. But, what is the downside of worry from a spiritual point of view? Several times, Jesus used the phrase, “O, you of little faith” to describe people who were worried about the future: their physical needs (Matthew 6:30), their physical safety (Matthew 8:26), their inability to find a solution to a problem (Matthew 14:31), and their lack of resources for ministry (Matthew 16:8).

In each situation, people were worried about their circumstances and Jesus linked their worry to a lack of faith. The writer to the Hebrews says that “without faith it is impossible to please (God)” (Hebrews 11:6), and Paul wrote that “whatever is not from faith is sin” (Romans 14:23). Worry is not from faith, so a lifestyle of worry is certainly not pleasing to God.

Do I worry? I would be lying if I said no. I often rename my fretting with the term concerned. We all have a certain level of anxiety in our lives. We can’t help ourselves. But, Jesus can.

Let me encourage you today to look again into Jesus’s words on the subject in Matthew 6:25-34.

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you, by worrying, add a single hour to your life?

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet, I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you - you of little faith?

So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But, seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Each day has enough trouble of its own”.

Pastor Robert Nuckolls Immanuel Southern Baptist Church, Scott City

Deaths

Scott City Assembly of God

Helen E. Harper Helen E. Harper, 91, died Sept. 19, 2016, at the Keepsake Kottage, Wichita.

S h e was born May 10, 1925, in Hominy, Okla., the daughter of Don- Helen Harper ald Glenn and Mary Maude (Gaines) Varvil.

A resident of Healy since 1951, moving from Albert, she was a homemaker and secretary.

Helen was a member of the Healy Methodist Church.

On Oct. 11, 1951, she married Alvin Harper in Albert. He died May 4, 1978.

Survivors include: two

sons, Glenn Harper, and wife, Raina, Valley Center, and Donald Harper, Park City; five grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Visitation is Fri., Sept.

23, 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., at Price and Sons Funeral Home, Scott City.

Funeral service is Sat., Sept. 24, 2:00 p.m., at the Healy United Methodist Church with Marletta Wilkens officiating.

Interment will be at the Healy Cemetery.

Memorials are suggested to the Healy United Methodist Church, Keepsake Kottage or the Humane Society, all in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 401 S. Washington Street, Scott City, Ks. 67871.

Sr. Citizen Lunch Menu Week of September 26-30 Monday: Chicken parmesan, squash casserole, tomato slices, whole wheat roll, citrus fruit cup.

Tuesday: Barbeque pulled pork, roasted sweet potatoes, zucchini and tomatoes, yogurt parfait.

Wednesday: Chicken fajita, Spanish rice, spinach salad, tortilla, blushed pears.

Thursday: Spaghetti with meat sauce, tossed salad, green beans, garlic bread, cantaloupe.

Friday: Fish sandwich or hamburger, baked beans, deli fixins, strawberries and fruit cocktail. meals are $3.25 • call 872-3501 Visit the Scott County Ministerial Alliance at their facebook site

It includes church activities, ecuminical services and functions open to the community

(i.e., Vacation Bible School, concerts, etc.)

See us at “Scott City Ministerial Alliance”

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

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

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 • Tuesday breakfast at 6:30 a.m. will be held at the church Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m., at the church

St. Joseph Catholic Church

Holy Cross Lutheran 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

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

1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264

Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor

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

1st United Methodist Church

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

5th Street and College - Scott City - 872-2401 John Lewis, pastor 1st Sunday: Communion and Fellowship Sunday Services, 9:00 a.m. • Fellowship, 10:15 a.m. • Sun. School, 11:00 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.

First Christian Church

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

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

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

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.

Holy Eucharist - 11:45 a.m.

St. Luke’s - 872-3666 (recorded message) Senior Warden Cody Brittan • (913) 232-6127 or Father Don Martin • (785) 462-3041

9th and Crescent - Scott City - 872-2334 James Yager • 620-214-3040 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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KU researchers aim to improve Steps to keeping health of Kansans with disabilities youngsters safe Team will use $1.5M grant to focus on oral health, nutrition Andy Marso Kaiser Health News

University of Kansas researchers plan to use a $1.5 million federal grant to help Kansans with disabilities catch up to their non-disabled peers in several health categories.

Jean Hall, director of KU’s Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies, will lead a team of partners from nonprofit organizations and government agencies to improve physical activity, nutri-

tion and oral health for Kansans with disabilities.

Kansas is one of 19 states to get the grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Hall said the CDC required grant recipients to focus some attention on increasing physical activity, and her team members chose nutrition and oral health as the other areas they wanted to address.

“Based on survey data from the state, those are really big issues,” Hall said.

are five times more likely to report that they had a heart attack than non-disabled peers, and 75 percent are overweight.

Additionally, almost 36 percent of Kansans with disabilities surveyed reported having no dental care in the past year, compared with 23 percent of non-disabled Kansans.

Hall said her group will work with partners like Oral Health Kansas as well as disability caregivers and health care providers to make dental care, healthy foods, and workout facilities and equip‘A Good Start’ ment more accessible to Research compiled by Kansans with intellectual Hall’s team shows that and developmental disKansans with disabilities abilities or physical dis-

abilities that limit mobility.

Todd Brennan, a case manager with Jenian in Johnson County, said focusing on those three areas would be “a good start” for his clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Dental care in particular is elusive for that population, because many Kansans with intellectual and developmental disabilities need to be sedated for treatment. That’s expensive work, and most Kansans with intellectual and developmental disabilities are on Medicaid, which pays about 40 cents on the dollar compared to

while on the road Kids in cars. Do parents ever stop worrying?

From the first ride home with a newborn leaving Mindi Edwards the hospital to a Scott Community Foundation freshly-graduatHealthcare Committee ed adult driving off to their first semester at college, a parent never seems to fully let go of their fear until their children are safely on the ground and no longer in a vehicle.

While worrying is completely understandable, there are ways to ease fear and ensure safety for children of all ages when they are riding in a vehicle.

Birth to 3 Years Children under one-year-old should always ride in a rear-facing car seat, and should remain in a (See ROAD on page 17)

(See HEALTH on page 17)

Clinics close due to rejection of Medicaid expansion Jim McLean KHI News Service

Stormont Vail Health of Topeka is closing two regional clinics because of financial pressures created by recent cuts in Medicaid reimbursements and the decision by state leaders not to expand the health care program.

Stormont will close

Cotton O’Neil clinics in Lyndon and Alma. The Lyndon clinic will close Dec. 31. The clinic in Alma will close Jan. 31, 2017.

“The current four percent Medicaid cuts, which totaled $3 million in reduced reimbursements for Stormont Vail Health, along with the impact of the state’s failure to

expand Medicaid makes it difficult to continue to fund these community clinics,” said Randy Peterson, Stormont’s chief executive officer.

Gov. Sam Brownback ordered the cuts in KanCare, the state’s privatized Medicaid program, to balance the state budget in the wake of continued revenue short-

falls. The cuts, which took effect July 1, will save the state an estimated $56.3 million but also will trigger a loss of $72.3 million in federal matching funds.

Combined, the managed care organizations that administer the $3 billion KanCare program and the health care and service providers they have contracts with face more

than $128 million in cuts.

Of particular concern to Stormont Vail and other providers is the proposed four percent reduction in reimbursement rates, which would amount to about $87 million of the $128 million total.

The announced closure of the clinics may create more pressure on Brownback and state

lawmakers to expand KanCare. That pressure already was building due to the closure last fall of Mercy Hospital in Independence.

Brownback and Republican legislative leaders opposed to expansion have blocked debate on the issue for the past three years. But a string (See CLINICS on page 17)

Problems driving insurers from marketplace are fixable Jim McLean KHI News Service

Former Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger says members of Congress should set aside partisan differences and fix problems with the Affordable Care Act. Failing to do so, she warned, could hasten consideration of a single-payer system.

Praeger, a Republican who crossed party lines while in office to support the ACA, says the problems that are causing some insurance companies to pull out of the online

The notion that somehow we would repeal this and go back to a system where people could be denied coverage based on their health conditions, or their age, or their sex, I just can’t imagine that could possibly happen.

- Sandy Praeger, former Kansas Insurance Commissioner

health insurance marketplace are fixable.

“There are some things that could be done if we could get Congress to be willing to come to the table to try to solve problems,” Praeger said during a speech in Topeka. “That really hasn’t been the case now for a few years. But, they could fix it.”

Some of the nation’s largest health insurance

companies have withdrawn from the ACA marketplace, including UnitedHealthcare, Anthem and most recently Aetna.

In addition, many of the companies staying in the marketplace are limiting their offerings to plans that are more restrictive than many offered on the open market.

In Kansas, only three companies are offering

plans in the marketplace for 2017. Medica, a nonprofit company based in Minnesota, agreed to join when United withdrew.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City remain, but have requested large premium increases.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas, which operates in 103 of the state’s 105 counties, has requested a 47.4 percent rate increase. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, which operates in Johnson and Wyandotte (See FIXABLE on page 17)

Specialty Care, Hometown Service

The Outreach Services Clinic at Scott County Hospital If you need a medical specialist, Scott County Hospital offers a variety of options for your care.

Talk with your physician about a referral to meet with one of our visiting specialty doctors.

Dr. Mohammed Janif Cardiology

Dr. Rashmi Thapa Cardiology

Dr. John Ferrell Cardiology

Dr. William Freund Cardiology

Sharon Burgoyne Dietitian

Dr. Julie Munson Ear, Nose and Throat

Dr. Jerod Grove General Surgery

Dr. Charles Schultz General Surgery

Dr. John Faraci Immunology/Allergy

Dr. Rafael Baracaldo Nephrology

Dr. Matthew Henry Neurosurgeon

Faith Ediger, ARNP Neurosurgery

Dr. Restituto Tibayan Oncology/Hematology

Dr. Alex DeCarvalho Orthopedics

Dr. James Gluck Orthopedics

Cameron Snell, PA Orthopedics

Dr. Jeffrey Rosenswieg Pediatric Gastroenterology

Dr. Robert Ballard Pulmonology/Sleep

Mark Love, PA-C Sleep

Dr. Ernesto Lopez Urology

Dr. Kevin McDonald Urology

Call (620) 874-4854 for more information or to schedule an appointment.

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Road rear-facing seat until they have reached the height and weight limits of the seat.

Rear-facing seats use a harness and will cradle and move with a child in the case of a car crash, protecting their developing spinal cord and neck.

Three options exist for these seats: rear-facing only, convertible, and allin-one. Convertible and all-in-one seats will usually have higher weight and height limits, so children can remain rear-facing for longer before they are ready to transition to a seat that is forward-facing.

The best way to keep a child safe is in a rearfacing seat, so they should be kept in this position for as long as the seat’s limits allow.

Health private dental insurance.

Brennan said Johnson County is down to one dentist who will do it, after the state cut Medicaid reimbursements another four percent.

“This is an issue for all types of health care professionals,” Brennan said.

“The best doctors, dentists and psychiatrists often will not take a Medicaid patient. We see it all the time.”

Brennan said the grant “sounds encouraging” but predicted Hall’s group would bump up against systemic problems that would make it difficult to provide disabled people the same health care as their non-disabled peers.

Fixable counties, has requested an increase of 28.1 percent.

Current Kansas Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer is expected to make rate-setting decisions next week.

Coventry Health and Life, an Aetna subsidiary, withdrew in August after initially indicating it would participate, but sell only exclusive provider organization, or EPO, plans, which pay only for in-network care.

Approximately 90,000 Kansans have marketplace plans, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Pressure for Single-Payer?

Insurance companies are withdrawing from the ACA marketplace because they’re losing money, Praeger said. In part, that is because a high percentage of the people purchas-

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Clinics

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1 to 7 Years Once a child has reached the rear-facing limit of the seat, they are ready to convert to a forward-facing model.

Forward-facing car seats have a harness and tether that limit a child’s movement in the case of a car crash.

As with the rear-facing seats, children should remain in a forward-facing seat in the back seat of the vehicle until they have reached the height and weight limits of that seat.

booster seat, but remaining in the back seat of the car.

Booster seats position a child in a way that allows a seat belt to fit properly over the strongest parts of the child’s body. These seats can be found backless or with a high back.

Backless booster seats will work in vehicles with head rests, while a booster seat with a high back should be used to provide head and neck support in vehicles without high backs or head rests.

4 to 12 Years The final seat a child will grow into is a booster seat. Once a child has outgrown the limits of a forward-facing seat, they are ready to travel in a

12 Years and Older A child is ready to graduate from a booster seat when without the booster seat, a seat belt lays across the upper thigh and is snug on the shoulders and

chest. A seat belt is not fitting the child properly if it is laying across the stomach, neck, or face.

Children and adults of all ages should always wear a seat belt when riding in a moving vehicle.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wearing a seat belt reduces crash-related injuries and deaths by up to 50 percent.

National Seat Check Saturday is September 24.

Visit www.safercar.gov to find information on where to get car seats checked for proper use and safety.

This article is submitted by Scott Community Foundation Healthcare Committee member Mindi Edwards. For more information contact the Scott Community Foundation at 620-872-3790

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For example, Brennan said doctors recently canceled surgery for a client with a broken foot because of her “disruptive behaviors.” He had been trying for months, unsuccessfully, to get that client psychiatric care to address those behaviors.

Dentist Shortage a Factor Hall said a general shortage of dentists in the state makes it challenging for Kansans with disabilities to access oral health care, and that will factor into her team’s work.

“There’s not a lot we can do,” Hall said. “We can only work with the providers that are there.”

For several years, Oral

Health Kansas has pushed for the Legislature to allow licensing for midlevel “dental therapists” who would be allowed to perform more dental work than hygienists but less than dentists.

The Kansas Dental Association, an advocacy group for the state’s dentists, has opposed the legislation.

Hall said the change might improve oral care for Kansans with disabilities.

“To the extent we could advocate for the mid-level providers, if that were a good solution, we’d certainly do that,” Hall said.

Hall also said low Medicaid reimbursements

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ing marketplace plans are older and sicker than anticipated.

She said too many younger, healthier people are choosing to pay tax penalties rather than buy insurance.

“The companies are saying, ‘Wait a minute.

If only the older, sicker group is buying in and the younger, healthier group isn’t, we can’t do this anymore,’” Praeger said.

Congress could help solve that problem by increasing the penalties for not purchasing insurance and allowing companies to charge young consumers significantly less, she said.

Elected officials who ignore the problems and continue to advocate for repeal of the health reform law aren’t being realistic, Praeger said.

“The notion that somehow we would repeal this and go back to a system where people could be denied coverage based on their health conditions, or their age, or their sex, I just can’t imagine that could possibly happen,” she said.

What is more likely, she said, is that pressure will build for converting to a government-run single-payer system.

That is also the prediction of former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, who served in President Bill Clinton’s Cabinet.

In a recent opinion piece, Reich said while “Obamacare can be patched” by increasing subsidies and forcing more healthy Americans to buy insurance, those would be “Band-Aids,” not long-term solutions.

for dental care are “penny wise and pound foolish” if they reduce access to care because studies have shown that unmet dental needs lead to costly medical problems.

People with disabilities who don’t get proper dental care also are much more likely to suffer oral pain, she said, which limits the foods they can eat.

“That ties back to the nutrition,” Hall said.

Hall said her team will encourage more physicians to ask Kansans with disabilities about their activity level and let them know it’s OK to recommend more activity, just as they would for nondisabled patients.

of victories by moderates over conservatives in the August primary election have Medicaid expansion advocates hopeful for the 2017 session.

Expansion opponents say they don’t trust the federal government to cover its share - no less than 90 percent - of the cost of serving an estimated 150,000 additional Medicaid recipients.

They also object to expanding Medicaid to non-disabled adults until

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thousands of people with developmental disabilities are cleared from a waiting list for Medicaid support services.

Supporters of Medicaid expansion say the billions of additional federal dollars it would bring to Kansas are essential to the survival of several financially struggling hospitals.

They say the state’s rejection of expansion has cost the state more than $1.4 billion in additional federal funds.

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Policy allows faculty offices to be considered non-public spaces, where guns could be banned.

“Although the law is phrased differently for Texas - I don’t know what the phrasing is - but the University of Texas has allowed its faculty to do that,” Machor said.

Hancock said that was true, but there are several rules that go along with that exception. Texas requires such restrictions to be announced verbally.

A sign isn’t enough.

“And, if a student wants to meet with you

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that might be a concealed carry participant, and you won’t let him in the office, then you have to make arrangements to meet with him somewhere else on campus,” Hancock said.

Vice President of Student Life Pat Bosco said a survey found that most K-State faculty members generally are opposed to the law, and 60 percent of students are also opposed to it.

Bosco said he won’t know until after fall enrollment next year whether the law may put a damper on enrollment.

“We’ve had emails from parents and students on both sides of the issue,” he said. “There are some who are saying that they would not go to a school in the state of Kansas because of this new law. We’ve had others say they’ll feel safer because of this law.”

Bosco said the Kansas Board of Regents has made it clear that universities must work on implementation of the law, and that’s what K-State is doing.

But between now and

implementation is an election that could change the political composition of the Kansas Legislature.

Stephen Kucera, who is in his fourth year on the K-State Student Senate, said after the forum that people concerned about the law should let their elected leaders know their stance on the issue.

“Ultimately the only way that we can achieve the best policy is if people register to vote, and go to the polls in November in state and local elections,” Kucera said.

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cussing how to fund a system that achieves what are called the Rose Capacities, which are embedded in state law and call for students graduating Kansas high schools to have a well-rounded education that prepares them for the modern economy.

Another frequently discussed issue was whether increased funding should be directed toward only struggling students or to the whole system.

McAllister suggested current school funding could be re-directed. For example, he said, perhaps monies devoted to Advanced Placement instruction could be spent instead in other areas, although he did not advocate such a position.

But Rupe said base state aid for all students needed to be increased to $5,000 per student because that drives funding for special needs. Base state aid was $3,852 per student before implementation of the current block grant system last year.

Rupe’s suggestion the Legislature be given an additional session to work on school finance seemed to run counter to his arguments students had suffered long enough under inadequate funding.

But Rupe said the past special session in June, prompted by the court’s order the Legislature fix equity school funding, proved the Legislature could act on behalf of students. The Legislature increased funding by $38 million and the court accepted the plan.

In his arguments, McAllister several times cited KASB research that showed Kansas ranks high compared with states over a wide array of student outcomes. But the latest KASB report card showed that while Kansas ranks 10th, significant problems have arisen amid funding problems while most other states are improving at a more rapid rate than Kansas. The report also shows that Kansas per pupil spending ranks 29th in the country and every state that did better than Kansas on student outcomes spends more per pupil.

The court gave no indication when a decision would be announced.

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Sports The Scott County Record

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Section C • Page 19

SC preps for Eagle aerial attack

On the third play, junior halfback Jarret Jurgens took a reverse pitch and didn’t stop until he reached the end zone 41 yards later.

“It was important for us to get the fast start,” says Gentry, whose offense hadn’t scored a first quarter touchdown in their first two games.

That statistic became a footnote as Scott City added two

Scott City’s revamped defense will get a real test this Friday when they travel to Hugoton.

T h e Week No. 4 Eagles (2-1) Scott City (1-2) dropped at Hugoton (2-1) out of the state rank- 7:00 p.m. kickoff ings after losing their first game last week to Colby (2421) in the Great West Activities Conference.

For the second consecutive week, the Beavers will face a team that wants to lean heavily on the passing game.

“Last week helped prepare us somewhat for what we can expect from Hugoton,” says SCHS head coach Jim Turner.

He feels that Hugoton quarterback Valentino Degollado (sr., 6-1, 185) is quicker than Cimarron’s Nick Ast, which adds another challenge for the defensive front in containing him.

With all three of their big defensive tackles sidelined by injuries, the Beavers have been forced to make some adjustments. Some of that likely would have happened anyway in an effort to bring pressure on Degollado.

“Hugoton has giant (offensive line) splits which can benefit our smaller, quicker defensive tackles,” Turner says.

(See BLUEJAYS on page 26)

(See AERIAL on page 22)

Scott City juniors Nick Nowak (left) and Reid Brunswig combine to stop Cimarron runningback Josh Seabolt during Friday’s win on the home field.

(Record Photo)

Beavers take control early to give Coach Turner first career win The mistakes that had plagued Scott City in the first two games disappeared on Friday night.

The varsity offense didn’t commit any Cimarron 7 turnovers.

Scott City 52 The SCHS defense forced four turnovers.

And, not surprisingly, the Beavers (1-2) whipped Cimarron, 52-7, in a non-league game.

“We started moving in the right direction,” says head coach Jim Turner, who had to wait a little longer than expected to get his first career win.

Scott City was nearly flawless in the first quarter as they scored on their first three possessions.

“We didn’t commit a penalty on any of those drives. We’d been stressing the importance of being mentally focused,” says Turner.

Then again, you’re not going to commit too many mistakes when you need just 11 offensive plays to score three touchdowns.

With excellent field position at the Bluejay 48 yard line following the opening kickoff, offensive coordinator Brian Gentry had his team’s first series scripted as they went with a no-huddle offense.

It turned out to be a short script.

Lady Beavers are runner-up at Hugoton x-country If there was any question about whether the Scott Community High School girls could compete at the Class 4A level, they put those concerns aside at the rugged Hugoton Invitational last Saturday.

Against a tough field of teams from Kansas, Oklahoma and

Colorado, the Lady Beavers finished second in the team standings while Makaela Stevens earned a fifth place individual finish.

It was a solid follow-up to a fourth place team finish at Wamego a week earlier.

“I was very happy with how

the girls competed. Coming off Wamego, I was worried about having a little bit of a letdown,” says head coach Kevin Reese.

He wasn’t quite sure how well his runners would do after a tough week of practice.

“I’m not going to alter our workout schedule for a meet

at this time of the year. We’re working for a bigger goal,” says Reese.

Tired legs did have somewhat of an impact, admitted Stevens, who led early in the race, but then fell off the pace

by Stanton County’s Rebeca Avelar (19:55). The senior has

been one of the area’s premier runners for the last three seasons.

“I tried to push the pace hard early. I wanted to try to gap the other runners, but I didn’t have quite enough stamina to maintain that pace,” says Stevens, (See SC GIRLS on page 26)

doubles domination

Appel, Price have become a winning combo for SCHS

Scott City senior Emma Price makes a backhand return in doubles action during the home invitational on Monday.

(Record Photo)

Steve Kucharik likes it when a plan comes together.

Okay, maybe putting Krystal Appel and Emma Price together as the No. 1 doubles wasn’t his first plan, but it didn’t take long to realize this was a pretty darn good Plan B. The senior duo was hardly tested in winning the championship of their home invitational on Monday. They only dropped 10 games in six matches and never lost more than three games to an opponent while boosting their record to 14-1 Their only loss came a couple of weeks ago in their very first match together, and that was against the defending 3-2-1A state champions from Central Plains.

“There have been times I’ve put together a doubles team and thought it was a sure-fire bet and it’s fizzled out. They just weren’t right for each other.

“But when it does work out, you look like a genius,” says Kucharik with a laugh.

This is a combination that appears to be working out very well after Appel started the season as the No. 1 singles even though she was on a doubles team that qualified for state a year ago.

(See DOUBLES on page 22)

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Thomas runs away from tough field at Hugoton Invite At times, it appears that Jack Thomas is just toying with the competition.

The Scott Community High School sophomore was content with letting a couple of runners tag along with him for the first mile at the Hugoton Invitational.

And then Thomas began running his own race “I really don’t like to start out too fast. I wanted to stay with the lead pack

at the beginning and see what the pace would be,” says Thomas. “I felt like I could go faster and I pushed it.”

At about the one mile mark, Thomas pulled away and posted his fastest time of the young season at 16:36.67 - 19 seconds ahead of runner-up Caleb Carrasco (Stanton County, 16:55).

In just his third meet, Thomas has shattered his preseason goal of 17:30.

“When Jack told me his goal, I kind of held my breath a little. I knew he was capable of beating that pretty quickly,” says head coach Kevin Reese.

“That’s Jack being modest. He’s a special runner.

He has the potential to break 16 (minutes).”

In a very competitive boy’s field, SCHS finished fourth with 94 points. Lamar (Colorado) won the team title with 75 points, followed by

Hugoton (80), Liberal (93) and Stanton County (93).

Conner LeBeau (16th, 17:55) was the second Beaver to cross the finish line, followed by Austin Rios (27th, 18:47), Drew Duff (28th, 18:49) and Theron Tucker (33rd, 19:06).

“Austin, Drew and Theron all ran strong races,” noted Reese.

“They’ve all been work(See THOMAS on page 26)

8th grade Bluejays rip Colby The Scott City Middle School eighth graders were the model of efficiency in their first road game of the season at Colby.

They had five possessions and turned each of those into touchdowns in a 36-0 romp.

Because of a severe storm that was approaching, the game was called after three quarters.

This Bluejays (2-1) took the opening kickoff and scored moments later on a 41 yard run by Easton Lorg. However, the Eaglets responded with a nice drive of their own and had a first down inside the SCMS five yard line.

Lorg stopped the scoring threat with an interception in the end zone which he returned to the 33 yard line. On the following play, Isaac Trango broke loose on a 67 yard touchdown run.

And, for all intents, that was the game.

“That broke their back.

In a matter of about a minute it went from them maybe tying the game to us being ahead by 14 points,” says head coach Skip Numrich.

Colby then self-destructed on the next possession when a bad snap on a punt attempt gave SCMS the ball at the Colby 21. A five yard run by Tarango extended the lead to 22-0 early in the second quarter.

A deep kick by the Bluejays pinned the Eaglets deep in their end of the field. Following a punt, Scott City again enjoyed great field position and they quickly capitalized on a 15 yard scoring pass from Harrison King to Lorg.

Tarango added a 50 yard scoring run in the third period.

“It was probably the best our line has blocked this season, at least on a consistent basis. Even our backs and receivers were doing a nice job blocking,” says Numrich.

One of those was Kevin Serrano who had a couple of nice downfield blocks that turned a 10 yard run into a bigger play, says Numrich.

“Defensively, we still have some work to do,” he noted. “Our defensive ends and outside linebackers are still learning their responsibilities.

We’re getting by at times with our athleticism, but you can’t do that against good teams.”

Scott City Middle School eighth graders Megan Vance (left) and Lisa Ivey (right) compete at the Hugoton Invitational last Saturday. (Record Photo)

Hawkins continues to lead the pack for another x-country gold For the third time in as many cross-country meets, Clare Hawkins has come away with a gold medal.

The Scott City Middle School seventh grader kept her streak alive at the Hugoton Invitational last Saturday where she posted a time of 6:24.81 over the one mile course.

It was the toughest competition Hawkins has seen this season as she only finished four seconds ahead of the runnerup in a very strong field

of teams from throughout Southwest Kansas and the Oklahoma Panhandle.

In the seventh grade boy’s division, three SCMS runners finished among the top 15. They were led by Eric Shapland (11th, 6:03.69), followed

by Jaxson Kough (12th, 6:04.89) and Julian Lopez (13th, 6:05.29).

SC Girls Second Led by Megan Vance and Lisa Ivey, the eighth grade girls claimed second place in the team standings.

Dodge City (40) won the meet, followed by Scott City (70), Dodge City (76) Stanton County (85), Liberal Eisenhower (102) and Liberal South (117).

Vance (5th, 14:22), finished just 20 seconds out of second place over the two mile course, followed

by Ivey (11th, 14:37) and Taia Waldrop (16th, 15:33).

In the eighth grade boy’s division, Roberto Apodaca finished 11th in 13:40.

7th graders fall to Colby with two late touchdowns With two minutes remaining against Colby, the Scott City seventh graders were protecting an 8-6 lead and needed to make a defensive stand inside the red zone.

“Instead, we kind of hit the panic button,” says coach Shane Faurot. “The boys acted like they were behind by two points instead of ahead.”

Colby scored on a trap play to take the lead for the first time and then added a touchdown in the closing moments to hand the Bluejays (1-2) a 20-8 road loss last Thursday.

“Until we get some things figured out offen-

sively, we’re a team that has to rely on defense to win games,” says Faurot For more than 3-1/2 quarters the Bluejays played well enough defensively to earn the win.

Inside linebackers Lance Miller and Damian Estrella had a huge game and they were joined by Conner Armendariz who turned in a solid defensive effort.

“Our defense is getting better at knowing their responsibilities and where to go. The next thing is learning how to make a play when you get to the right spot,” Faurot says.

Scott City’s only score came on a 67 yard run by

Estrella in the third period. Ronnie Weather added the PAT run to put Scott City on top, 8-6.

However, the Bluejays struggled on offense with just 92 yards rushing - 67 coming on Estrella’s run.

They added 41 yards passing.

“Teams are packing the defense, especially up the middle,” noted Faurot.

“We have to get the ball to the outside and, hopefully, we can develop enough of a passing game to keep defenses honest.”

Defensively, Estrella led the team with eight tackles while Miller added five.

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the Wright stuff SC freshman scores 4 TDs, 181 total yards in JV win When Sterling Wright gets the ball in the open field, the local EMTs may want to get the ambulance ready.

In Monday’s junior varsity game at Cimarron, the Scott City run- Scott City 50 Cimarron 6 ningback left a trail of defenders behind him with broken ankles as he slashed his way to touchdowns covering 39, 52, 20 and 48 yards.

Okay, there were not any actual broke ankles, but the SCHS freshman was nearly untouchable in a 50-6 thrashing of the Bluejays.

“With the way that Sterling ran the ball, and the catches that Parker (Gooden) made the week before, it definitely has us excited about the future with this freshman class,” says head coach Alex Hutchins.

Wright finished with 94 yards and two touchdowns on just nine carries and his only two pass receptions were good for 87 yards and a pair of touchdowns.

A 53 yard run by Gooden highlighted a 70 yard scoring drive on Scott City’s first possession. Freshman fullback Cale Goodman finished off the six play drive with a four yard run.

Less than 30 seconds later, Cimarron answered with a 57 yard pass completion over the top that cut the deficit to 8-6.

After losing four yards on a three-and-out possession, the Beavers were in need of a spark when they got the ball back again at their own 23 yard line.

That came from junior fullback Reid Brunswig (6 carries, 48 yards) who opened with a 17 yard run up the middle in which he was dragging a Cimarron defender for the final 10 yards.

“A lot of that was Reid refusing to be stopped,” says Hutchins. “That’s what you

SCHS freshman Sterling Wright is chased by Cimarron defenders after he catches a pass to complete a 39 yard touchdown in the second quarter of Monday’s junior varsity win.

(Record Photo)

look for from a leader. What he did set us in motion for the rest of the game.”

Brunswig capped the 77 yard drive with a two yard scoring run.

Following a three-and-out by Cimarron, Scott City put together an 87 yard scoring drive in which Thomas tossed a long strike to Adrian Ruelas, who was alone behind the secondary for a 52 yard touchdown.

On their next possession, Thomas tossed a pass to Wright in the flats, who avoided two tacklers initially and then weaved his way through the defense for a 39 yard score that

put SCHS on top, 30-6, at the half.

“We discussed with (Wright) that it was a great run and it worked, but that he needed to be more decisive, making one cut and getting up the field,” Hutchins says. “He needs to do that in order to prepare for faster opponents at the next level.”

Wright followed that advice on the second of his three touchdowns in the fourth quarter. As he was running to the left side of the field, Wright made a sharp cut that allowed two defenders to overrun the play and he ran 20 yards for the score.

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“He read a block, planted his foot and got downfield. It was a great run,” says Hutchins.

Sandwiched around that score was a 52 yard touchdown run by Wright and a 48 yard scoring pass from freshman quarterback Kaden Wren.

The Beavers (1-1) finished with 506 yards of total offense, including 344 on the ground. Gooden was 8-for-88 and Goodman powered his way with 88 yards and a TD on 14 carries.

“After the first couple of drives the offensive linemen did a better job at the point of attack. They made the initial

holes and the backs did a nice job of making moves and cuts once they got into that space,” says the SCHS coach.

The Scott City defense limited the Bluejays to 112 total yards, including minus-18 yards rushing on 24 carries. They had five sacks for a minus 49 yards.

“Our defense is based on the front eight containing everything and the three backs taking care of their responsibility,” Hutchins says. “When we can do that, it allows the guys up front to pin their ears back.

After Cimarron’s first touchdown, we did a good job of attacking.”

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Aerial “Hopefully, that means we can bring more of a pass rush.”

In their first two games, the Eagles’ offense has included 78 passes and 58 rushing plays, though Turner says many of those passes came in a fourth quarter comeback win over Ulysses and late in the game against Colby.

“When they aren’t forced into throwing the ball, I think they’d like to keep the ratio closer to 50-50,” he says.

Turner feels the primary running threat is run-

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ningback Pedro Ordonez (sr., 5-9, 150), who will use his speed to get to the outside. He leads the team with 247 yards rushing (7.1 ypc) in three games.

However, Degollado is a dual threat with 235 yards rushing and 541 yards passing (41-of-80, 7 TDs). At the same time, he’s also thrown six interceptions.

Degollado will be in a shotgun formation on nearly every play. The only time he didn’t line up in the shotgun against Colby was on a quarter-

Doubles “They really complement each other,” says Kucharik. “Krystal likes the net and Emma a player who will stay on the baseline and keep sending the ball back at you.”

He noted that Price has a very effective “offensive lob” which set up a great opportunity for Appel to finish off the point at the net.

“They work well together instinctively,” he says.

back keeper at the goal line.

Most of the time, the Eagles will line up with three receivers and, at times, four receivers.

“If we can get a pass rush I think we can force him into some poor decisions,” Turner says. “If we don’t get pressure on him then that puts more pressure on our secondary.”

The quarterback has some huge targets in Colby Korf (sr., 6-4, 170) and Nathan Leininger (sr., 6-5, 215). However, wide-

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In the home invitational, the duo cruised to wins over Ulysses (6-0), Tribune (6-3), Liberal (6-1), Ashland (6-3), Colby (6-1) and Russell (6-2).

Kucharik had expected Russell to be their toughest match of the day.

“They took care of business and it wasn’t quite the match I expected,” says Kucharik. “But, that’s all right. They can disappoint me like that

all season and I’ll be just fine.”

As a team, Scott City finished second in the tournament behind Tribune.

The SCHS No. 2 doubles team finished second with a 4-2 record. That included Emily Glenn and Karlee Logan.

Stepping into the No. 1 singles spot for the remainder of the season is Jennie Erven while Karen Gonzales played No. 2 singles on Monday.

Zebra mussels are found at Cedar Bluff The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) has confirmed the presence of invasive zebra mussels in Cedar Bluff Reservoir.

In July, the BOR conducted its annual plankton sampling survey which revealed zebra mussel veligers (larvae). The results were reported to KDWPT aquatic nuisance species staff on August 24.

Department fisheries staff began a search on August 25 and found a population of adult zebra mussels near the Muley Boat Ramp on the south side of the reservoir. Cedar Bluff Reservoir is the western-most reservoir in Kansas confirmed to have zebra mussels. There is no known method to completely rid a lake of this invasive species.

While the reservoir is managed by the BOR,

KDWPT manages the fishery. The lake consists of about 6,869 surface acres at conservation level and has a maximum depth of 42 feet.

“Zebra mussel larvae, or veligers, are microscopic and undetectable to the naked eye, so everyone who visits a Kansas lake needs to be aware that transferring water between lakes can lead to more infestations,” said Jeff Koch, KDWPT Aquatic Research Biologist.

Prevention is the best way to avoid spreading ANS. They often travel by “hitchhiking” with unsuspecting lake-goers.

“Everyone who recreates on Kansas lakes should clean, drain, and dry their boats and equipment before using another lake. In addition, don’t transfer lake water or live fish into another

body of water, as this is a main way that all aquatic nuisance species move between lakes,” Koch said.

Cedar Bluff Reservoir and the Smoky Hill River downstream from the reservoir east to Kanopolis Reservoir will be added to the list of ANS-designated waters in Kansas, and notices will be posted at various locations around the reservoir. Live fish may not be transported from ANS-designated waters.

The sharp-shelled zebra mussels attach to solid objects, so lakegoers should be careful when handling musselencrusted objects and when grabbing an underwater object when they can’t see what their hands may be grasping. Visitors should protect their feet when walking on underwater or shoreline rocks.

out Braden Slemp (jr., 5-10, 150) leads the team with 154 receiving yards and three touchdowns.

Turner says this week should give some indication of how much progress the SCHS secondary is making.

Junior Jordan Horn saw his first starting action as safety last week.

“He made a couple of pretty big hits,” says Turner. “(Cimarron) didn’t throw right at him where he had to make a play on the ball, but he made some nice tackles

and, just as importantly, he stayed back and no one got behind him.”

Sophomore Wyatt Hayes, who started his first game at defensive end, could be more of a factor this week.

“He didn’t get a lot of pressure on Ast, but I think he prevented Ast from getting too comfortable in the pocket,” says the head coach. “Wyatt is a pretty good athlete coming off a block when a quarterback tries to scramble. That could be a factor against Hugoton.”

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Wildcats get a quality win over Fla. Atlantic Kansas State played impressive football against a decent Florida Atlantic team, winning 63-7.

The Wildby cats were Mac sharp and Stevenson focused in all areas except penalties (12 for 105 yards).

After the game, Coach Snyder said, “We totally lacked discipline to play this game . . . seven of the penalties were on wide receivers and the rest of them holding calls. That is why I’m angry right now. It’s nothing more than discipline.”

The guess here is that the coach had a hard time keeping a straight face during his tirade.

Most important, Snyder’s offense showed great progress compared to the first game against Stanford. Incidentally, Stanford dominated USC while winning 27-10. That proves the Cardinal is indeed a top 10 team nationally.

Starting quarterback Jesse Ertz was effective and poised. He has a chance to be special. Ertz was aided by a solid performance from the Wildcats’ offensive line, which played very well.

Over the years, Snyder’s better teams have played well against competition similar to Florida Atlantic, while some of his lesser teams struggled in these games. That speaks well for the future of this year’s Wildcats.

This team will be competitive with or better than all of the Big 12 teams with the possible exceptions of Texas, Oklahoma and TCU. Kansas State completes their nonconference schedule with a game against Missouri State this Saturday in Manhattan. This will be nothing more than a warmup before Big 12 play begins the following Saturday at West Virginia.

A Long Way to Go It’s too early in the David Beaty era to say KU’s football team is poorly coached.

However, it’s not too early to say the Jayhawks’ program has a long, long, long way to go before they’re considered a well-coached ballclub.

Six turnovers and poor play by special teams doomed KU (43-7) at Mem(See WILDCATS on page 25)

SC has huge holes to fill on defensive front “Next man up,” has been the mantra for the New England Patriots who seemingly always find a way to replace those who seem irreplaceable.

The Beavers have been forced to adopt that same philosophy, particularly on the defensive front.

At the beginning of the season, it appeared the strength of the defense would be the tackles where they had three players with varsity experience.

Garrett Osborn (sr., 6-3, 230) is wearing a cast on his right foot and likely won’t be on the field again this year.

Jaime De la Rocha (sr., 5-9, 235) has yet to play a down. And Daniel Nolasco (jr., 6-2, 285) saw his season end with a severe shoulder injury during the Cimarron game which will require surgery.

“It’s unfortunate when you have that much beef on the sideline,” says head coach Jim Turner. “You always preach that you have to play through injuries, but sometimes it’s pretty darn tough.”

The defensive tackle spots are now being filled by committee with a couple of new faces.

With the return of offensive guard Chase Cupp (who missed last week due to concussion protocol), that allows Nic Cheney to step into one of the defensive tackle positions. Turner also wants junior Baron Strine (6-0, 210) to get more repetitions.

Giving the Beavers less size, but more quickness, at defensive tackle are Trey Loftis (sr., 5-5, 170) and Kevin Aguilera (sr., 5-8, 160).

During the fourth quarter against Ci-

marron, the coaching staff gave varsity offensive lineman Mikennon Donovan (sr., 6-0, 255) a chance to play defensive tackle and he finished with four tackles and a solid performance.

“We need to see if he can bring that same level of play when the game is still on the line,” says Turner. “He’s earned a shot to get some playing time. He can be pretty good at plugging a hole, especially against a team that likes to run. He may command a double-team at times.”

While Donovan provides some much needed size, which will be valuable down the road, Turner is also cautious about playing his linemen too much on both sides of the ball.

“If we play our big boys too much then something is going to suffer. For the boys who may end up playing some both ways, we’ll have to give them a break whenever we can,” he says.

Hess Makes Progress Turner also gave high marks for the progress he’s seen from quarterback Bo Hess. Sometimes, it’s the things that aren’t visible to the untrained eye in the grandstand.

A point of emphasis this season has been changing plays at the line after seeing the defense.

At times, however, Hess has been forced to change plays because of his offense.

“He’s had to change the call because not all of his players are lined up in the right spot,” explains Turner. “Bo’s done a pretty good job the last couple of weeks of getting us into a play that’s pretty good for the wrong formation that we’re in. It’s something that a quarterback shouldn’t have to worry about, but he’s learning to adapt.”

A Heads-Up Play Turner credited Aguilera with one of the top defensive plays of the night while the senior was playing offense.

In the first half, Hess threw a pass to tight end Kyle Cure over the middle, but it was a high throw that went off Cure’s fingertips and appeared like it would be intercepted.

Just as the Cimarron defender was grabbing the ball he was met from behind by Aguilera in a crushing hit that prevented any possibility of an interception.

“Kevin turned into a secondary player on a dead sprint. It was a good heads-up play on his part,” says Turner.

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2 great organizations with 1 great goal Unless you have spent the last decade or so confined to the top floor of Trump Towers, you have probably heard something of the group named Pheasants Forever. But did you know there is also an organization called Quail Forever?

Quail Forever (QF) exists as a division of Pheasants Forever (PF) but is still an organization of its own. Sort of like whipped cream and pumpkin pie. You can use them separately, but why would you want to?

In 2005, Quail Forever was formed in response to passionate quail hunters and conservationists in areas where there were few pheasants but many quail. Its mission statement became “QF is dedicated to the conservation of quail, pheasants and other wildlife through

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habitat improvements, public awareness, education and land management policies and programs.”

At that time the organization Quail Unlimited still existed but was plagued by financial troubles and closed its doors in 2013 leaving Quail Forever (and Pheasants Forever) as the only and largest non-profit nationwide organization dedicated to upland bird conservation and habitat preservation.

I spoke with Marc Glades, Eastern Kansas Regional Representative for Quail Forever and asked him what makes both PF and QF so successful. Marc told me

Wildcats phis. Starting quarterback Montell Cozart had an inept game. He doesn’t like to run the ball and Cozart is timid going after fumbles.

It’s difficult to understand why Beaty is playing Cozart ahead of Ryan Willis.

After the game, Beaty said, “I still think that we actually have a pretty good football team, if we can just get out of our own way. We’ve just got a lot of things that we’re having to learn right now that we should already know.”

Sometimes it’s best to say nothing.

KU is far from a viable football team and it doesn’t appear that they will be anytime soon.

Lackluster Chiefs The Kansas City Chiefs’ fell to 1-1 following their lackluster loss (19-12) at Houston last Sunday. KC played with a revamped offensive line because their two starting guards were out with injuries.

Alex Smith threw a lot of poor passes and didn’t have very good protection. In addition, Smith’s receivers dropped a number of well-thrown passes that should have been caught.

The Chiefs haven’t looked very sharp in their first two games. They got away with it against San Diego, but not Houston.

Kansas City plays the New York Jets at Arrowhead Stadium this Sunday.

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“The success of these two organizations is unquestionably because of the Local Business Model used by both and because of the scores of dedicated volunteers that run them.”

Again, unless you just recently moved here from Uzbekistan or one of the other “stan” countries, you should be familiar with the ever-popular fundraising banquets held by individual chapters of Pheasants and Quail Forever each spring. As an organization, Quail Forever’s priorities are getting youth off the couch and into the outdoors, and quail habitat creation and conservation.

The local business model that Marc mentioned allows each local chapter to decide entirely how 100 percent of the funds raised at their banquet are used as long as

the projects are youth and habitat oriented.

Marc also pointed out to me the other aspect of the Local Business Model that assures all money raised by each chapter is literally used locally.

Marc told me “After all, the wild pheasants and quail harvested by local hunters and local youth also hatch and grow up locally, some probably just outside of town.”

The first ever Quail Forever chapter began in Missouri. The first chapter in Kansas was in Hiawatha. Kansas now has 10 Quail Forever chapters and 36 Pheasants Forever chapters across the state, totaling over 7,000 members. Those PF and QF chapters have spent more than $5.2 million to complete 9,379 habitat projects, improving over 270,000 acres

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another flat stretch like gratulations well - the negative assessments, not that this year. so good.

Re-evaluating Yost Yost’s decisions conJust as surely as the sun cerning the relief pitchsinks in the west, the Kan- ing during the last 30 days sas City Royals’ chance of of the season have been making the 2016 playoffs incompetent. His constant use of Joakim Soria has vanished.

Manager Ned Yost re- in critical situations has ceived widespread admi- cost KC some games they ration for his managing badly needed to win. Yost ability following the 2015 is stubborn to a fault. KC World Series champion- made the last two World ship. It’s now time for Series despite Yost, not him to accept the justified because of him.

Kansas City needs to criticism for a poor job in make numerous changes 2016.

Yost handles the con- before the 2017 season

and hiring a new manager who would instill plate discipline for the hitters would be a positive start.

But it won’t happen.

KC’s most glaring weakness has been the hitters swinging at bad pitches. In this respect, the Royals were the worst team in MLB. It lasted all season and there’s no excuse for Yost not correcting this obvious flaw.

Kansas City is in danger of sliding back into the pit of mediocrity, where they spent the majority of the last three decades.

for upland birds and other wildlife.

Check out their website, www.quailforever. org to find the chapter nearest you.

The 2016 Upland Bird forecast is posted on the Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism website, www. ksoutdoors.com. Click on “Hunting,” then click on “Reports and Forecasts,” then click “view Upland Bird Forecast” in the middle of the screen.

Overall statewide, both quail and pheasant populations appear to have increased. Ample spring rains improved pheasant nesting conditions dramatically, and even though this year’s brood count survey was lower, thicker vegetation because of the rains made it difficult to detect birds so many probably escaped the count.

Ironically, the same drought that hurt pheasant habitat helped increase quail habitat as weedy brushy species that quail desire continued to grow resulting in increased quail populations now for three years running.

This year’s roadside survey showed a statewide quail population increase of over 40 percent.

So whether you take pleasure in seeing pheasants and quail in the grass, or whether your pleasure is pheasant and quail under glass, this report is good news to all, and is a testament to the hard work of those 7000 Quail Forever and Pheasant Forever volunteers.

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more scores before the period ended.

“Everything clicked,” said quarterback Bo Hess, who had his best game of the season with 174 yards and three touchdowns. “The receivers were running good routes and we were able to connect on several nice passes.”

The first of Hess’s three TD passes came on the second possession when he connected with sophomore wideout Marshall Faurot for 36 yards. Faurot slipped a tackle shortly after making a catch at the 19 yard line and raced down the sideline to finish off a six play drive.

By the middle of the second period, the Bluejays could already sense that the game was quickly slipping away, so they gambled on fourth-and-two at their own 43 yard line. The pass attempt was incomplete and SCHS quickly capitalized when sophomore fullback Wyatt Hayes ran 34 yards off the left side for a score that put Scott City on top, 21-0, with 4:01 left in the period.

The Beavers hit an offensive lull in the second period when they added just one touchdown following an interception by M. Faurot at the SCHS 26 yard line.

Five plays later, Hess tossed a pass to Hayes that resulted in a 61 yard touchdown.

Three more touchdowns in the third period saw SCHS extend its lead to 45-0 and put the running clock into effect.

It was the kind of game Scott City needed after a rocky 0-2 start to the season.

“It was a good win and it’s good for our confidence,” says senior tight end Kyle Cure, “but, we have plenty of things we can do better.”

Loading the Box Scott City’s ability to get big plays in the passing game came as no surprise to the coaching staff which expected Cimarron to put eight players in the box in an effort to shut down the run.

“Based on what they saw on film in our first two games, it made sense for them to load the

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Senior defensive end Kevin Lozano is able to get a hand on the pass attempt by Cimarron’s Dylan Harrison during Friday’s action. The deflection resulted in a pick-six for the Beavers who rolled to a 52-7 win.

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second half with a 68 yard scoring drive on their first possession. Hess completed a 23 yard pass to senior wideout Justin Faurot during the drive and on third-and-10, was forced to scramble. After rolling to his left and then reversing the field and running to the right sideline, Hess found senior runningback Kevin Aguilera all alone in the end zone for a 28 yard TD. “That’s what happens when you have a quarterback who can scramble and still keep his eyes down the field,” notes Gentry.

SCHS quickly regained possession when Cimarron fumbled the following kickoff. The Beavers weren’t able to get into the end zone, but kicker Gustavo Gonzales was successful on a 23 yard line drive field goal that extended the lead to 38-0.

Offense Keeps Rolling Just over a minute later, Cure Scott City continued to find stepped in front of a receivsuccess moving the ball in the er from his outside linebacker

box,” says Gentry. “Bo accepted that challenge and took the step we were looking for in the passing game.

“Bo did a better job of making reads and taking what the defense was giving us. When he can go through the progressions and check down two or three receivers then you have a dangerous quarterback.”

SCHS also capitalized on three Cimarron turnovers, which they were able to convert into touchdowns.

Early in the second period, an interception by M. Faurot stopped a Bluejay drive at the SCHS 26. Five plays later, Hayes turned a short pass into a 61 yard score that put the Beavers on top, 28-0, at halftime.

position and returned an interception 44 yards for a score.

“I made my drop, saw him throw the ball and I broke on it,” says Cure. “After I made the catch there was nothing but an open field ahead of me.”

In the span of 3:42, the Beavers had scored 17 points while building a 45 point lead.

The defense forced one more turnover in the closing moments of the third quarter. Defensive end Kevin Lozano was bringing pressure on the Cimarron quarterback when he tipped a pass attempt that was picked off by linebacker Eddie Tilton. Two plays later, senior runningback Jess Drohman ran to the left side and then tight-roped the sideline for 20 yards to the end zone to open the fourth quarter.

Scott City’s ability to finally have some success with their sweeps was another positive step for the offense.

“Jarret (Jurgens) had a couple of nice moves to the outside and Jess did the same,” says Gentry. “That was a real nice cut he made on the sideline for the touchdown. He had another play like that earlier where he made a great read off a block.

When we can get to the outside with success it opens up a lot of things for us offensively.”

It was, by far, the team’s most productive game offensively this season with 367 total yards - 193 rushing and 174 passing.

Hayes led the balanced attack with 150 yards. The fullback had 88 yards on 11 carries in addition to his 62 yard reception for a score.

Jurgens added 52 yards rushing on just four carries.

Hess spread the ball among several receivers, including J. Faurot (3-for-38), Aguilera (2-for-38) and M. Faurot (1-for36).

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who finished the 3.1 mile layout in 20:37.8. “I’m not at all discouraged. It’s something I’ll keep doing because I know that’s what it will take to win.”

Olivia Prieto (12th, 22:06), Dulce Ayala (13th, 22:06) and Trella Davis (17th, 22:22) ran with each other for most of the race while Paige Winderlin (25th, 23:33) was also among the team’s top five runners.

It was the first varsity competition for Winderlin since being forced to drop out of the Goodland meet because of health reasons.

“It helps to have Paige back and strong. It looked like she was struggling early, but she finished strong,” says Reese.

A powerhouse Liberal team ran away with the team title with 30 points, followed by Scott City (65) and Hugoton (85).

“This is a pretty tough meet. When you’re competing well against Hugoton and Liberal then that’s a pretty good sign,” Reese added.

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ing hard in practice and bringing their times down consistently. The potential is there for this to be a very good team.”

And it should get better with a healthy Jess Drohman in the lineup. Drohman has been slowed by an ankle injury from football and after missing a meet he ran in the junior varsity division at Hugoton where he won a gold medal in 19:00.

“It wasn’t his best race, but Jess is coming off an ankle injury and he’s not used to running with the lead for most of a race,” says Reese. “He wasn’t sure what to do with pacing, but he did what he needed in order to get his varsity spot back.

“He’s kind of our ace in the hole. Other teams may not be aware that he’s still around until they see his time today. It’s nice to have him back on varsity.”

Running together at the Hugoton Invitational are SCHS athletes (from left) Dulce Ayala, Trella Davis and Olivia Prieto.

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(Above) Justin Meireis weighs a 6.94 pound catfish that was caught by derby champion Kent Landon (far right). (Below) Caelen Arendt, 12, Colby, competes in the derby on Sunday morning. (Bottom) Larry White, Scott City, relaxes while fishing on Sunday.

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Late catch gives Herndon repeat title It came down to the wire, but Kent Landon, Deerfield, once again walked away with top honors at the Lake Scott Catfish Derby last weekend.

The seasoned veteran claimed top prize money of $500 with a total weight of 25.36 pounds during two days of fishing.

Richard Harp finished second with 20.84 pounds and Pat Herrera, a fishing partner with Landon, picked up third place money with 19.98 pounds.

Landon also received top prize for the largest fish of the weekend (6.94 pounds) while Jason Foos of Ness City had the distinction of reeling in the smallest fish (.46 pounds).

Landon found success fishing the channel leading into Lake Scott, but with the deadline approaching at noon on Sunday he was in third place.

“The big one I caught only 30 minutes ago,” said Landon as they were weighing his catch.

Like most anglers in the tournament, Herndon had the most success on Saturday when he caught his limit of five fish.

He only added three more fish

on Sunday, but he made the most of them.

“It was great (Saturday), but pretty tough today,” said Landon at the conclusion of the tournament. “I caught 15 or 20 fish on Saturday, but I just couldn’t catch any big ones.

“Normally, I like to drift on the lake, but I didn’t have time.

I fished the channel the whole time,” he says.

There were 59 adults and four youth competing in the tournament. They caught 119 fish totaling 197.42 pounds.

Harp was the only one to catch his limit of five fish each day.

Kim Hall, Scott City, had the largest catch on Saturday with a catfish weighing 6.2 pounds and measuring 25 inches. It was one of three fish she caught on Saturday, but she was unable to add to her total on Sunday, finishing in sixth place with 8.78 pounds.

Caelen Arendt, 12, Colby, was one of the youth trying his luck in the tournament.

“I come here a lot with my mom and dad,” he said, noting it was his first tournament.

He didn’t catch any catfish, “only some bait fish,” he said.

But, he wasn’t complaining.

“I would do this all day if I could,” he said.

Joe Smith and Melanie Niles caught two fish on Saturday, but didn’t have any success on Sunday morning.

“We were in the carp tournament, but this is our first catfish tournament,” said Smith.

The two fish they caught came during a heavy rain early Saturday evening.

“Usually when you get a good rain the cats will start biting,” Smith said.

They just didn’t keep biting.

Also competing in their first catfish tournament were Luke Hertel, Bazine, and Jason Foos, Ness City.

“We bounce between here and Cedar Bluff, but this is probably our favorite,” said Hertel.

“This lake is fun. It’s more peaceful,” Foos noted.

The two friends caught 50-60 sunfish on Saturday, but the catfish were harder to come by.

Foos ended up with six fish weighing 4.48 pounds.

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ag briefs

Cheap feed a problem for carcass weight An incoming bumper crop of corn and soybeans has signaled the market for lower grain prices. But, before cattle feeders get excited about cheaper feed, DuWayne Bosse, a livestock hedger for Bolt Marketing, offers a bit of caution.

“Cheap feed. That scares the heck out of me,” Bosse says, later adding “Cheap feed usually equals higher carcass weights.”

According to him, carcass weights are currently below last year’s level by around 16 pounds for steers, and weights increased by two pounds this week.

However, with added inventory due to quicker than anticipated herd expansion already putting pressure on markets, cattle feeders need to avoid the, “Why not feed them longer, I’m not making money anyway,” marketing plan since it will only hurt prices more.

Bosse says he believes cattle prices have already made a low, however, if carcass weights go up, then the market isn’t finished dropping. According to his estimations, this will be below $100/cwt., to even $90/cwt.

Webinar on Canopeo app Great Plains Grazing will host a free webinar Tues., Sept. 27, 1:30 p.m., to introduce the new Canopeo application for mobile devices. The app is designed to better manage cattle grazing in dual purpose wheat systems common in the southern Great Plains.

Great Plains Grazing is a coordinated effort by a regional network of researchers and extension specialists to adapt beef cattle grazing strategies to changing conditions.

Kansas State University is a collaborator in Great Plains Grazing.

Webinar presenter Andres Patrignani, K-State assistant professor of agronomy with an emphasis in soil water processes, will describe the history, user guidelines, applications, and limitations of Canopeo.

He is one of the creators of the Canopeo app.

Romulo Lollato, K-State assistant professor of agronomy focusing on wheat and forages production, will describe management principles of dual purpose wheat pastures and how to optimize pasture grazing using the Canopeo application.

Lollato’s research studies the effects of wheat grazing on dual-purpose wheat production, looking at both varietal differences in forage production and timing of first hollow stem occurrence and wheat grain yield as affected by variety and production system (dualpurpose versus grain-only).

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Meat supply growth hurts livestock prices Duane Dailey University of Missouri

As a livestock economist, Scott Brown hears the same question every day: “How low can prices go?”

The University of Missouri Extension specialist can’t say when prices will hit bottom, as many factors affect the sharp decline. That includes weather, dollar strength and exports.

“The growing meat supply is a big factor,” Brown told the Agribusiness Policy Symposium, Sept. 8 in Columbia.

“As long as we keep

increasing record amounts of meat each year, prices will decline. A lot more meat is passing through U.S. markets,” he said.

“We added three billion pounds of meat in 2015, and continued that at a rate never seen before. The growth is not over.”

Beef, pork and chicken producers could add another three billion pounds of meat in the coming year. Sow numbers are going up. Beef herd owners saved every heifer they could to add to the cow herd.

“Producers respond a lot faster to rising prices than they do to falling prices. We’re still

expanding breeding herds.”

The problem becomes what to do with the growing meat supply.

“We eat it, export it or cut the price to sell it,” Brown said.

Producers have been through volatile cycles before.

“The old adage that ‘the cure for high prices is high prices’ still applies,” Brown said.

In the 1990s, as supply outgrew demand, the prices fell.

After the turn of the century, exports exploded.

From 2002 to 2014 exports continued to expand faster than the meat supply. Foreign buying was helped by the value of the U.S. dollar.

As dollar value changed, exports dropped. At the same time, the U.S. economy hit a recession and U.S. consumers cut back buying.

When demand outgrew the supply, the prices hit record levels.

With high meat prices, chicken producers built their flocks quickly. Pork producers responded next.

Biologically, it takes longer to expand the cow herd than a chicken flock. But, now beef herd owners are catching up and sending more calves to the feedlots.

(See MEAT on page 29)

What’s around the corner as world’s aquifers disappear?

Sara Brown Drovers CattleNetwork

It’s no secret the world’s struggle for a sustainable supply of water to feed a growing population is also playing out in the U.S. The Midwest’s Ogallala Aquifer spans eight states, supplies 30 percent of the water used in U.S. agriculture and has lost some 300 billion gallons in each of the past 40 years.

What does that mean for U.S. ag? Hydrologist Jay Famiglietti is using NASA satellites to study groundwater. Here’s his take on today’s groundwater challenges: * * *

You have a lecture scheduled at Kansas State University in October, and I anticipate many farmers will be in attendance.

Can you preface what you will be speaking about?

For me, it’s about getting the message out about the disappearance of groundwater in over half of the world’s major aquifers, including the Ogallala Aquifer.

We understand it is a problem regionally - in the High Plains and in California, where I live. Fewer people recognize it as a problem all over the world.

And I hope we can find some common solutions. * * * Tell me about your work.

What can we see from space?

First, the water cycle is actually strengthening - meaning there’s more water moving through it - which shows up as more drought and flooding.

Second, we see a redistribution of water availability all over the globe. There’s a very pronounced pattern developing where wet areas are getting wetter, specifically in the high Arctic, North America, Eurasian Arctic and the tropics.

The in-between places that are already dry, are getting dryer.

Places like California are almost split in half. The northern half is getting wetter and the southern half is getting dryer.

It’s the same issue with the

Ranching Summit at K-State on October 7 Registration is now open for the K-State Ranching Summit. This first-time event is designed to equip managers with the skills to address the challenges of ranching in the business climate of today and tomorrow.

“Market forecasts point to declining revenues for cow-calf producers over the next several years. To ensure profitability, ranch managers will need to make a number of strategic management decisions.” says Dr. Bob Weaber, K-State cow-calf Extension specialist.

“The Ranching Summit was designed from the ground up to bolster the managerial knowledge and skills of beef producers.”

Hosted by the Kansas State University Animal Sciences and Industry Department and K-State Research and Extension, the event

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Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. and the program starts at 10:00 a.m.

The summit will include a wide range of topics that include defining the unit of profit in cow-calf operations, evaluating new and alternative grazing opportunities, how to use a systems approach to solve complex ranch problems, an update on the projected business and farm economic climate, and how to build communities to support ranching in 2050.

The top-flight speaker line-up includes, Burke Teichert, Teichert Consulting; Mykel Taylor and Dustin Pendell, K-State agricultural economics department; Rick Machen, King Ranch Institute for (See SUMMIT on page 29)

Ogallala Aquifer.

Third, we’re seeing massive rates of groundwater depletion in over half of the world’s major aquifers. Aquifers in arid and semi-arid regions - which were already relying on groundwater heavily. Those places are getting dryer, so we’re relying on groundwater even more.

Importantly, these are the aquifers that supply water for irrigation and food production.

There will be great challenges all over the world for producing food for this growing population. * * * Farmers deal with soil all day long. Does soil type play a part (See AQUIFER on page 34)

Weather

Market Report Closing prices on September 20, 2016 Bartlett Grain Red Wheat............ $ 2.78 White Wheat ....... $ 2.78 Milo .................... $ 2.30 Corn ................... $ 2.80 Soybeans (new crop) $ 8.90 Scott City Cooperative Wheat.................. $ 2.79 White Wheat ....... $ 2.79 Milo (bu.)............. $ 2.31 Corn.................... $ 2.86 Soybeans ........... $ 8.90 Sunflowers.......... $ 14.50 ADM Grain Wheat..................

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Food Facts Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza each day, or 350 slices per second. Each man, woman and child in America eats an average of 46 slices (23 pounds) of pizza a year.

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Beef checkoff audits draw legal action In an ongoing lawsuit filed on October 2014 by the Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) against USDA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) has recently announced its involvement to intervene after being made aware attorneys for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) filed on behalf of the plaintiff.

OCM, a non-profit alliance group which brings organizations together on antitrust laws and fair competition, includes members such as HSUS, R-CALF USA and the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, is seeking for findings in audits by the Inspector General on the beef checkoff program and it’s contractors to be published after finding them firewalled.

Matthew Penzer, special counsel for HSUS says the group initially filed a complaint in 2014 after an independent audit and the OIG audit on the beef checkoff were conflicting. Upon a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, thousands of pages were released, but much of it was heavily redacted, he says.

“We are not going to back down until the

American cowboy knows the truth,” Fred Stokes, OCM board member said after NCBA announced its involvement. “This desperate move to block the public’s right to know is to be expected.”

According to NCBA, a contractor of the beef checkoff, audits done at random by the USDA and the two OIG audits listed in the lawsuit found contractors to be in compliance with the law in

appropriate use of the beef checkoff funds, and while they cooperated with FOIA requests, some of the documents contained confidential business information.

NCBA CEO Kendal Frazier says the cooperation hasn’t satisfied HSUS or OCM, and that this is an attempt by HSUS to take a shot at the U.S. beef industry to “open old wounds.”

“Instead of working to

Adding organic matter to improve soil health Fall and winter are right around the corner, right? If you look at the calendar and some of the night time temperatures we have had lately, I would say yes.

However, the day time temperatures will argue, we have been lucky enough to have a few cooler days, but there have been a couple over the last couple of weeks where we have hit highs in the 90s.

Even though we are not quite into fall, just yet, it is not too early to start planning for your garden next year. So, this week I thought I’d share a couple topics in relation to managing your garden as the growing season winds down.

The first topic I would like to touch on has to do with the organic matter in your soil, and this is something I have fielded a few questions on recently.

There are some things, both good and bad, that can be done that affects your soil health, and adding organic matter is one that can definitely help if done right. If the severe summer weather, although we didn’t have it too bad this year, has brought an early end to your garden, consider adding organic materials directly to the soil rather than composting.

Materials such as residue from lawn renovation, rotted hay, or rotted silage can be added and then tilled in. Coarser materials such as tree leaves or garden residue should be shredded.

A lawn mower with a bagging attachment

Meat As foreign demand shrunk, prices declined.

In late 2015, beef prices fell apart.

“What producers fail to remember is that the new low beef prices are better than calf prices were for a long time,” Brown said.

“Cow-calf returns are still

Summit Ranch Management; Trey Patterson, Padlock Ranch; Allen Featherstone, K-State agricultural economics department; and Chuck Schroeder, Rural Futures Institute at the University of Nebraska.

Down on the Farm Chris Long Walnut Creek Extension Agent

can be used to shred this material and collect it in one operation.

Organic materials can be spread to a depth of about 3 inches and tilled in. Be sure the soil is not too wet before tilling. Tilling while it is too wet can leave clumps and clods that make it harder to work with next spring.

During warm weather, the material will decompose quickly and the process can be repeated every two weeks. Later in the fall, it may take longer. This process can be repeated from now until late November to early December.

Improving Your Soil Remember that organic matter helps almost any soil. It improves clay soil by improving tilth, aeration and how quickly the soil takes up water. In sandy soils, it acts as a sponge by holding water and nutrients.

The biggest item to remember when adding the organic matter in such a manner, is to make sure to use only healthy plants.

Often times diseases can be spread from one location to the next, when the gardener was just trying to help.

Another topic to consider this fall is rotating your vegetables in the garden. This seems like something I repeat to gardeners regularly.

So, why is this important to bring up in the fall?

Now is the time to make a sketch of your garden so that the layout is not forgotten when it is time to plant next year.

Rotating vegetable crops is a standard way of helping prevent disease from being carried over from one year to the next.

Rotation means that crops are moved to different areas of the garden each year.

Planting the same crop, or a related crop, in the same area each year can lead to a build-up of disease.

Also, different crops vary in the depth and density of the root system as well as extract different levels of nutrients. As a rule, cool-season crops such as cabbage, peas, lettuce and onions have relatively sparse, shallow root systems and warm-season crops such as tomatoes, peppers and melons have deeper, better developed root systems.

Therefore, it can be helpful to rotate warmseason and cool-season crops.

As mentioned earlier, it is also a good idea to avoid planting closely related crops in the same area as diseases may be shared among them. For example, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers and eggplant are closely related.

Also, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and Brussel sprouts share many characteristics in common. Therefore, do not plant cabbage where broccoli was the previous year or tomatoes where the peppers were.

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at the eighth highest year since 1990.”

Dropping feed prices are helping livestock producers. “Crop farmers don’t like the lower grain prices, but that helps livestock people keep making money.”

The spurt in pig production has tested the

nation’s slaughter capacity. With more pigs arriving, new packing plants are coming on line to take care of the growing pig population.

“We can take care of the pigs,” Brown said. “But, what are we going to do with all of that pork?”

(continued from page 28)

For more details, including registration information and a complete schedule, visit www.

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Early registration deadline is Sept. 30.

Individuals can register for $35 or $60 per couple.

Walk-in registration will be available at $50 per person.

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better our industry, these two organizations and a small handful of cattlemen have chosen a devil’s pact in an effort to weaken the checkoff, which will in turn, weaken beef demand and our entire industry,” Frazier says.

“They will attempt to make this about transparency and say they’re undertaking this effort on behalf of producers.

But let’s be clear: HSUS (See LEGAL on page 34)

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Words cannot express the gratitude that we feel towards all who shared their love and support by prayers, gentle words, food, and donations for our mother.

To all who helped with the funeral by preparing food, mowing the cemetery, and taking care of our needs, your hospitality was overwhelming.

Mom lived a great life, but we were very unaware of just how much of an impact she had on so many.

Our deepest thanks, Fred Penka and Family

Janice Brooks and Family We would like to say thank you for all the calls, visits, cards, food, memorials and prayers received.

Also, a big thank you to the EMTs for their prompt response, the ER staff at Scott County Hospital, Life Team and the staff at Swedish Medical in Denver.

It is wonderful to live in a caring community.

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FEED MILL MANAGER for large commercial feedyard in Perryton, Tex. Competitive salary and benefits. Please contact Keith at 806-282-7588 or David at 806-202-0209.

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DRIVERS: TEAM NEEDED. Earning potential of $105K+. Nice sign-on bonus! Company paid benefits, drivers and family! Out 2-3 weeks.

CDLA with Haz End. Call 1-855-205-6361.

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PART-TIME TRUCK DRIVER wanted to haul hopper loads from Scott City. Home every evening if living in or near Scott City. CDL required.

Must be 23 years old with 2 years experience. Call M&A Barnett Trucking at 785-673-3377.

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Vehicles 2008 SHENKE SCOOTER for sale in Scott City.

Runs. $600. Call 816-5911637.

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Agriculture WANT TO BUY. Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information.

1-800-579-3645.

Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ____________________ WANT TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered. Call for contracting information.

Lane County Feeders, 397-5341.

44tfc ____________________ CERTIFIED SEED WHEAT: TAM 204, TAM 112, Oakley Cl, Byrd, T158, Mint, Joe, Antero, Turkey Red. Also, top grazing and hay/silage triticale varieties. Vance Ehmke, Healy, Ks. Call 620-397-2350.

5216t9 ––––––––––––-–––––––– CERTIFIED SEED WHEAT FOR SALE! Byrd; T158; Mint; KanMark. We have brand new 80 ft. scales to weigh out.

Lundgren Seed and Supply, Gove, Ks. 67736.

Cell-785-673-9047 or home-785-938-4404. 0216t7

Services COMPUTER SERVICES for PC and Mac computers. Computer repair and virus removal. Call or email Josh at OsComp to schedule an appointment. 24-hour help line 620-376-8660 or email josh_4974@hotmail.com.

––––––––––––––––––– WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc.

Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 874-4135.

34tfc –––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing. Lawn mower tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 874-1412.

4015tfc –––––––––––––––––––– MOWER REPAIR, tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Rob Vsetecka at 620-214-1730.

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For Sale YAMAHA CONSOLE PIANO for sale. Walnut in mint condition with delivery and warranty included. Call Pianos Unlimited 1-800-201-4551.

0716t3 Bring the whole family and enjoy the Whimmydiddle this Sat., Sept. 24!!!

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS If you want to drink, that’s your business.

If you want to stop, that’s ours.

Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Tuesday nights at 8:00 p.m. at the United Methodist Church basement (use west door).

412 College, Scott City.

Al-Anon at same time and location.

Contact: 874-0472 or 872-3137. 25tfc GARAGE SALES Lets Make a Whimmydidle of a Deal Garage Sale!

710 W. 10th Corner of Russell and 10th Scott City Fri., Sept. 23 • 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Sat., Sept. 24 • 7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Great home decor and holiday items, Ladies designer clothes, Yard stuff, Paint and much, much more!

50¢ donuts and free coffee!

Yard Sale 710 W. 9th, Scott City Fri., Sept. 23 • 4:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Sat., Sept. 24 • 8:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Clothing: mens, womens and kids; Household and kitchen items; Lawn mower; Seasonal decor

District 11 AA Meetings

Scott City

Unity and Hope Mon., Wed. and Fri. 8:00 p.m.

807 Kingsley Last Saturday of the month Birthday Night • 6:30 p.m.

All open meetings 214-4188 • 214-2877

Dighton Thursday • 8:30 p.m.

535 Wichita St. All open meetings 620-397-2647

We have room for you!

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Employment Opportunities

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Legal

Aquifer in how quickly water is lost or restored to groundwater?

Absolutely, in ways farmers appreciate and work with every day. It’s that balance between having the soil be healthy and fertile enough to produce food, and at the same time, to recharge groundwater while minimizing runoff.

Farmers are doing great.

The general public loses track of how much water it takes to grow food.

We’ve completely forgotten about all the work, science and technology that goes into it. It’s that same science and technology, and the drive of the farmer to sustain operations, which will help us in the long run. * * * What technologies excite you about water conservation?

There is huge potential for precision irrigation and fertilization, down to the individual plant. That could tap into space-based satellite data, aircraft data, drones and data collected on the ground.

Pulling all that together into an optimal frame-

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work for water and nutrients is really exciting. The downside is it’s going to be very expensive to implement. * * * Whenever we start talking about regulating water usage, how do we measure something we don’t even know if we have?

No kidding. You can’t manage what you don’t measure. What do we do? We’re just guessing.

That’s the current strategy - and it is failing. Yes, (in California) we did pass the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act 2014.

There might not be much left to manage by the time we get it implemented. It’s going to go on for decades. People are already talking about pushing deadlines back. * * * Do you think the Midwest will get the same regulation focus?

I don’t know. One reason you would not is because the Ogallala Aquifer spans so many different states.

In California, we think we’ve got this infinite

water supply because no one’s ever told us how much we have.

In the southern High Plains, farmers know they only have a few decades left. They’re trying to use the water judiciously, but they recognize it won’t last forever. * * * What actions on the farm help in water conservation?

Growing the right crops in the right places, being as efficient as they can possibly be. They know that. In California, we’re doing more drip irrigation, (instead of) floodirrigated, for alfalfa. * * * Are there technologies that could convert unusable water to usable water?

We’re talking about everything from treating farm runoff to treating brackish water deep in aquifers to desalination.

In cities we treat sewage water, which is really only cost effective for cities.

That doesn’t help agricultural regions. We just don’t have enough. The

intends to put every cattleman and woman in America out of business.

“By weakening checkoff programs and damaging producer-directed marketing and promotion efforts, they can cause economic harm to our industry and force us out of production agriculture.”

In response for HSUS, Penzer says it was initially asked to be involved since it had experience in dealing with checkoff matters, and all the organization wants is for there to be transparency in the use of producer money in a government program.

“Checkoff programs do a lot of good or a lot of harm,” Penzer says in regards to the impact on additional supply would family farmers and the not make a dent in agriculture water uses. * * * What other countries are experiencing the effects of dire groundwater depletion?

The worst is northwestern India, the Middle East - Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran - China and Argentina. They are all major food producers. * * * Will it affect exports if China’s not growing as much of their own food?

China is outsourcing a lot of energy, mineral and coal production. Their southern half is wetter than their northern half, so they are trying to build aqueducts to move water north. They’re buying a lot of land in Africa for the water to grow food. * * * Any closing thoughts?

We use more water than we have, and are making up the difference with groundwater. Most of our water use is unregulated.

We need to come up with a strategy for sustainable global food production.

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environment. “If NCBA suggests that transparently is going to kill an industry, then we have a much bigger issue,” Penzer says.

“Transparency makes a government program stronger, not weaker. It’s not too much to ask for.”

While additional audits have been done over the beef checkoff program showing contractors in compliance since the initial complaint, neither side plan on backing off.

“We have nothing to hide. We have, and will continue to fully cooperate with all reviews and audits of our contracting activities,” Frazier says.

“However, we will not stand idly by and allow HSUS to kill the checkoff.”

Tired of prairie dogs dining on your grass?

Call Chris with Pro-Ex, Inc. and feed a few more head of cattle next year.

Pro-Ex, Inc. • (620) 874-1879

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$250 for all 8 sessions

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For more information contact Katie Eisenhour scdcdirector@wbsnet.org • (620) 872-3525 ext. 2

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