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QUICK NEWS CHS Fine Arts Festival scheduled Sunday The second annual CHS Fine Arts Festival will be 2 p.m. Sunday at the Creston Middle School commons area. (This is a change in location from last year.)

Attendees will hear performances of CHS jazz band, CMS jazz band, solo and ensemble winners, winterguard and award-winning CHS drumline.

Student art and woodworking projects will be on display. Admission is $5. Desserts and drinks will be served.

Dorothy Peak, a home economics teacher in Creston for almost 40 years, turns 100 years old today. An open house is planned for Saturday. See page 5A for details.

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County: Park Ranger house bids drafted Union County Conservation Director Doug Jones presented three bid packages to the Union County Board of Supervisors for a modular home, walkout basement and septic system for the Three Mile Lake park ranger residency project. The park ranger — who is currently Joe Mayhew — serves as a full-time supervisor for the heavily-used recreational area.

Jones said the Union County Conservation Board plans to review the three bid packages. Contractors will have 25 days to respond and a formal bid opening process will be scheduled with the Supervisors. Final figures on the cost of the new residence will be available after the contracts for the three bids are signed. Construction is expected to start in July.

MEMORIES FROM STUDENTS ABOUT MRS. PEAK CNA photo by JAKE WADDINGHAM

Longtime teacher Dorothy Peak holds up a picture of the first class she taught during the 1934-35 school year in Nevinville. Peak went on to teach home economics in Iowa for more than 40 years.

By KYLE WILSON | kwilson@crestonnews.com

hrough her pink-rimmed eye glasses, you could see Dorothy Peak’s blue eyes spring to life during an interview last week at her home on North Sycamore Street in Creston.

County: Hog confinement public hearing slated Union County Board of Supervisors will have a public hearing at 10 a.m. April 14 in the Union County Courtroom for an expanding an existing swine confinement facility.

Rockin G Ranch Site in section 6 of the Spaulding Township is proposing a 2,480 head, deep pit swine finisher barn. Supervisors were notified March 21 of the hog confinement expansion by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

A public notice, matrix evaluation and county recommendation is required by the county, but a public hearing is not.

Adair County Board of Supervisors was also informed of a swine confinement expansion for Circle G Pork Site in section 34 of the Orient Township. There will not be a public hearing for this proposed expansion.

The public can submit written comments to supervisors by 4:30 p.m.

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Peak — who turns 100 years old today — sat in her rockerreclining chair and tirelessly shared story after story about her life over the past century.

Those stories included the light-hearted “frozen underwear” struggles of the 1920s, importance of her education at Iowa State University and her immense love for teaching home economics in Iowa for more than 40 years.

There were even some stories that were off the record.

“Now, shh, that’s a secret.

Don’t tell anyone that story,”

Peak would say.

1920s lessons Peak’s life starts in the small town of Nevinville — 13 miles northwest of Creston.

At 6 years old, she attended a one-room school in Nevinville heated by a potbelly stove. Her first teacher was Dorothy Williamson.

“She had a bell,” Peak recalled about Williamson.

“She would ring the bell three times — turn, rise and pass.

You did those on command when she wanted you to come up front. That’s the only time

you were allowed up. Otherwise, you stayed in your seat. If you had to go the bathroom, you raised three fingers.”

A new consolidated school was later built in Nevinville where she attended second grade.

“That one had a water fountain,” Peak said, laughing.

Peak said this was a big upgrade from the one-room Please see PEAK, Page 10

Please see QUICK NEWS, Page 2

MORE INSIDE Grass fire in rural Union County burns 80 acres Four area fire departments respond to 80-acre fire in rural Union County Monday afternoon.

The changing direction and force of wind gusts, which exceeded 35 mph, spread the fire quickly. “It was Krantz a very dangerous situation with the high winds,” said Jim Krantz, Afton fire chief. See more on this story on page 5A.

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Pictured is Dorothy (Kralik) Peak, center, with the first class she taught in the 1934-35 school year in Nevinville. Pictured from front left are: Kenneth Smart, Warren Everling, Frankie Tink, Glenn Ahnen and Allan Pickerell. Second row: Margaret Luella Ripplinger, Ruby Ahnen, Mary Rita Ripplinger, Maxine Bowerbank, Rosie Kosar and Eva Slaybaugh.

Back row: Mildred Rivenburg, Velma Smart, Peak, Wilma Hansen and Mary Louise Stanley.

Betty Wallace — a 1957 graduate of CHS — makes daily visits to Dorothy’s house on North Sycamore Street in Creston. Both are CHS Hall of Fame members and both have a love for reading.

“She goes through at least two books per week,” Wallace said. “I just delivered four more to her today (Monday).

She likes the large-print books and now that I’m Wallace getting older, I’m kind of looking that direction, too.”

Wallace calls Peak the most patient teacher she had at any level of her schooling. Wallace also mentioned her class meets every five years and Peak has yet to miss one of their reunions.

“I just don’t know anyone who hasn’t had a positive experience with her,” Wallace said. “Her stories, to this day, are just a scream. She also takes immense pride in knowing dates and gets aggravated when she can’t recall someone’s name.”

Jeff Mostek was a student in Dorothy Peak’s “Bachelor Living” class. He said about 14 years ago — during the 100th anniversary party for Creston Elks Lodge #605 — he came clean to Mrs. Peak about an instance when he cheated in her class.

“I had waited a long time to tell her this story,” said Mostek, a 1977 graduate of CHS. “We had an assignment to sew a button on a swatch of clothing. She had stood in front of the class and showed an example, but she accidentally left it on my desk when she was done. I did complete the sewing assignment, but when done, I decided her (sample) swatch looked better than mine so I turned hers in. She gave me an A minus.”

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Deaths Gary I. Fry Atlantic

Gary I. Fry, 74, of Atlantic died March 25, 2014.

A memorial service will be held 11:30 a.m.

Saturday, Fry April 19, at Lincoln Memorial Funeral Home, 6800 South 14th St., Lincoln, Neb., with a reception to follow. No visitation is planned. Memorials may be given in care of the family for future designation. Online condolences may be left at lincolnfh.com.

Gary I. Fry, son of Alice “Wilma” (Hall) and William “Bill” Fry, was born Aug. 12, 1939, in Van Wert.

He spent several years living and raising his family in Lincoln, Neb. He worked 39 years at Meadow Gold Dairy.

Gary is survived by his wife Lora A. (Owens) Fry; children, Mark (wife Debbie) Fry of Denver, Colo., and Rebecca (husband John “Matt”) Carey of Beatrice, Neb.; stepchildren, Sandy (husband Scott) Lange of Mount Pleasant and Rhonda (husband Brian) Behnken of Massena; nine grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren; siblings, Marie (husband Gordon) Harmon of Springfield, Mo., and Gale (wife Barbara) Fry of Creston; many nieces and nephews.

Gary was preceded in death by his parents and first wife Bonnie J. (Tucker) Fry.

‘Merican pride:

Junior Bree Daggett, left, and Senior Kimber Alley dress in red, white and blue for ‘Merica day, a themeddress day leading up to the TWIRP BIRP dance at CHS Saturday. To keep with the theme, Daggett embelleshed a pair of denim shorts with acrylic paint and eyelet lace trim. Alley drew inspiration for her outfit from WWII cultural icon Rosie the Riveter and her grandfather, Louis Boekman, whose U.S. Army uniform top she is wearing.

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and laughed” when he told her that story, and told him: “I forgive you my son.”

————— Mary Sid McDonald — a 1953 graduate of CHS — recalls Peak being well-liked by her students, so much so that they invited her and business teacher Clyde Bailey (now deceased) to ride with them in the Creston Fourth of July Parade for their 50th class reunion.

Both teachers accepted.

They traveled in front of the classes’ float in a red and black Chevrolet from the 1930s era. On the side of the car — provided by Bill Stuart of Hi-Crest Auto — a sign from the class read” “we cherish our mentors.”

McDonald calls Peak a wonderful storyteller and mentor and was always willing to give advice and suggestions.

—————— Dora Coen — a 1943 graduate of CHS — visits Peak every two or three months, and Peak always reminds Coen of the time in 1924 that she pushed Coen’s husband (John) around Creston in a baby buggy.

“She couldn’t have been more than 10 years old then,” said the 89-year-old Coen. “But there is never a time she doesn’t tell me that story. That must have really pleased her.”

—————— Lisa (Crago) Chapin — a 1980 graduate of CHS — wrote this note inside a birthday card to Peak: “Dorothy, I had you as a teacher. I don’t even remember what year! ... I’m

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sure you don’t remember me, as you had so many students over the years.

But, I’ve never forgotten you and what a wonderful teacher and person you are.

Happy, happy birthday!

Thanks for being an influential part of my life.”

As of this morning, Peak has already received 54 birthday cards. Several more are expected when the mail comes at noon today.

————— Patricia (Miller) Hoffman was Dorothy Peak’s student. She wrote this note inside a birthday card to Peak: “Mrs. Peak, How well I remember my home ec classes with you. You also taught two of my daughters. My, wasn’t life simple in those days. One of my daughters teaches first grade in Indianola. I am currently finishing an anniversary quilt for her. I hope you know how fondly you are remembered.”

—————— Rose (Miller) Henry — a 1973 graduate of CHS — recalls an assignment in Peak’s home economics class whereby she was to make a full meal for her family.

“Then we were to invite Mrs. Peak to come to the meal,” Henry said. “I made Thanksgiving dinner and she said no other student had ever done that. She still has a very sharp memory.

Even the last time I saw her — which was about three years ago — she still remembered me making that Thanksgiving meal and remembered my name.”

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Iowa senator says state settlement payments reveal ‘systematic problem’ DES MOINES (MCT) – A Senate leader of the Legislature’s Oversight Committee said Monday that initial information she has received about department heads that made secret pay settlements to former state employees indicates a “systematic problem” in hiding the payments.

Sen. Janet Petersen, DDes Moines, said requested documents she received Monday show various funding streams that were tapped by eight state agencies to pay settlements as part of confidential agreements with eight former employees. Responses included operations, discretionary funds and a utility fund in the state Department of Administrative Services as the sources of money for the payouts.

“I think it shows we’ve got a systemic problem on our hands and dollars were

hidden,” said Petersen, who released the documents she received to Statehouse reporters Monday afternoon.

“I think the story keeps growing.”

In the case of the DAS utility fund, Petersen said the head of the budget subcommittee that oversees the state’s administration and regulation functions had repeatedly tried “to cut back a carry-over utility fund from DAS and got word back from the director that those funds can’t be cut or we’d need a supplemental and it would be unfortunate if you cut.”

“Well, we found that for four years, they’ve been taking from that fund to pay settlements and never word one to people on that budget sub,” she said.

One week ago, Branstad announced his administra-

tion’s internal review found that 12 separate state agencies had entered into 24 secret settlement agreements with emp l o y e e s Branstad that carried a cost of at least $427,000 – a practice that he called unacceptable and declared would not happen again in his administration.

The governor signed an executive order that he said would increase accountability, openness and transparency of employee settlements.

On Monday, Branstad told reporters he could not say what government functions may have been curtailed or what functions may have may have been affected

within the state agencies that used part of their budget allotments to secretly pay employee settlements, although he noted that savings from some agency reorganizations were used to cover the settlement costs.

Petersen said she is awaiting responses from more requests for information she made to Branstad administration officials so she is uncertain what the appropriate response by the Legislature may be. “We’re going to have to figure that out,” she said.

The Oversight Committee has scheduled hearings on Wednesday and Thursday to gather more information on the confidential employee settlements.

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County: New sheriff’s vehicle discussed Three bids were discussed for a new vehicle for the Union County Sheriff’s Department during the Union County Board of Supervisor’s meeting Monday. All bids were from local businesses — Creston Automotive, M&M Motors and Stalker’s

Chevrolet — and all bids included 2014 models. Supervisors approved the lowest of the three bids from M&M Motors for a 2014 Dodge Ram 1500 for $12,000 with the trade in of another vehicle.

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Schedule of driver’s license examiners: Bedford: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., treasurer’s office, Taylor County Courthouse, 407 Jefferson St. Corning: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., treasurer’s office, Adams County Courthouse.

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Creston: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., treasurer’s office, Union County Courthouse, 300 N. Pine St. Driving tests Wednesdays. Call 782-1710 for an appointment.

Greenfield: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., treasurer’s office, Adair County Courthouse, 400 Public Square.

Mount Ayr: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., treasurer’s office, Ringgold County Courthouse, 109 W. Madison St. Osceola: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., treasurer’s office, Clarke County Courthouse, 100 S. Main St. Winterset: Monday through Friday, 8:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., Madison County Courthouse, 112 N. John Wayne Drive.

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Obama, the least transparent president in history “My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.” So wrote President Barack Obama, back on Jan. 29, 2009, just days into his presidency. “Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.” Now, six years into the Obama administration, his promise of “a new era of open Government” seems just another grand promise, cynically broken.

As the news industry observed its annual “Sunshine Week” in mid-March, The Associated Press reported that “[m]ore often than ever, the administration censored government files or outright denied access to them last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act [FOIA].” The AP report continued, “The government’s efforts to be more open about its activities last year were their worst since President Barack Obama took office.”

This comes as no surprise to Ryan Shapiro, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who just filed

King Features commentary Amy Goodman

a federal lawsuit against the FBI, the CIA and the National Security Agency, seeking public records pertaining to the U.S. role in the 1962 arrest of Nelson Mandela, which would land him in prison for 27 years. When his FOIA requests on Mandela were denied, he sued. “I’m pursuing these records,” he explained to me, “mostly because I’m interested in knowing why the U.S. intelligence community viewed Mandela as a threat to American security and what role the U.S. intelligence community played in thwarting Mandela’s struggle for racial justice and democracy in South Africa.”

Shapiro filed a FOIA request with the NSA, seeking details on the arrest of Mandela over 50 years ago. The NSA wrote in reply, “To the extent that you are seeking intelligence information on Nelson

Mandela, we have determined that the fact of the existence or non-existence of the materials you request is a currently and properly classified matter.” Half a century later?

Shapiro also is seeking information on Mandela’s placement on the U.S. terror watch list until 2008, which was years after he had served as South Africa’s first democratically elected president, years after he had won not only the Nobel Peace Prize, but the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal and U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. I asked Shapiro why he was chasing down all these documents.

“The answer,” he replied, “has to do with this blinkered understanding of national security, this myopic understanding that places crass military alliances and corporate profits over human rights and civil liberties.”

Shapiro has an interesting history, and a personal stake in the government labeling activists “terrorists.” In 2002, Shapiro engaged in an act of civil disobedience, infiltrating a farm where ducks are raised for the production of foie gras, exposing what he calls “hor-

rific conditions which are the absolute norm on factory farms.” He said he and other activists “openly rescued, or stole, animals from a factory farm, made a movie about it. I did it as an act of civil disobedience, but it’s a real crime ... I did 40 hours of community service, and that was it.” Since that time, state after state has passed so-called AgGag laws, which equate some animal-rights activism with terrorism, and which can include incredibly harsh prison sentences.

He says his dissertation in progress, titled “Bodies at War: Animals, the Freedom of Science, and National Security in the United States,” looks “at the use of the rhetoric and apparatus of national security to marginalize animal protectionists from the late 19th century to the present.” Shapiro is seeking a wealth of public documents to answer the question. He has close to 700 FOIA requests before the FBI, seeking 350,000 documents, leading the Justice Department to call him its “most prolific” requester. The FBI has labeled part of his dissertation a threat to national security.

In 2008, when campaigning, Barack Obama was often touted as a constitutional-law professor.

As such, we can assume he studied writings of one of that document’s authors, James Madison, the fourth president of the U.S., considered the “Father of the Bill of Rights.” Madison wrote, in 1822, “A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both.” With Edward Snowden’s revelations of massive NSA spying and surveillance, and the administration’s abysmal record on transparency, President Obama has tragically moved well beyond farce. *** Denis Moynihan contributed research to this column.

Amy Goodman is the host of “Democracy Now!,” a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on more than 1,200 stations in North America. She is the co-author of “The Silenced Majority,” a New York Times best-seller. (c) 2014 Amy Goodman Distributed by King Features Syndicate

President Obama and Pope Francis discussed income inequality HOLLYWOOD — God bless America, and how’s everybody?

The London Guardian reported Thursday that French farmers have begun feeding their cows two quarts of red Burgundy wine every day. The idea of the wine is to produce tender and top quality French beef. Unfortunately all the cows end up doing is texting their ex-milkers.

Kim Jung Un ordered all college men in North Korea to have the same haircut as his. He’s so overthe top dramatic. His CIA profile says when Kim Jung Un was a kid he wanted to be an actor, but of course it’s hard to do dinner the-

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ater in a country that has no theater and no dinner.

President Obama said he and Pope Francis discussed income inequality in their meeting Thursday. However, the pope said they argued over religious liberty. The question is, whom do you believe-the man recognized by his flock as the Vicar of Christ and infallible, or the pope?

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It is hard to respond logically to your “touchy-feely” response that is lacking in facts. And that is part of the problem with anti-CAFO advocates. Logic isn’t important.

“A half truth is a whole lie.” You gave no information on the two children’s problems. Were they city or county kids, was the ailment of undetermined origin or genetic, was it one of those unfortunate things that just happens and only God knows why? I really hate to be blamed for that. I’ll bet if you did a little research, there are more babies born with problems in cities and towns than in rural Iowa. Research says town kids have more allergies than country kids. Farming gives you a realistic attitude toward life. All things born are not perfect, all things born will not live and nothing we did or can do will change the above. We feel compassion for those with problems but realize life is not fair. But we have to believe that life is good.

You said we have five billion gallons of liquid manure in Iowa.

In 2012, there were 13.7 million acres of corn harvested in Iowa.

This amount of manure will provide about 15 percent of the nitrogen needed for all the corn acres in Iowa. And I did not include the acres that we also need nitrogen for such as beans, hay, oats, wheat and pasture. Farmers have to buy commercial fertilizer to fill the 85 percent of their needs. So ... do we need more hogs?

Ever since the industrial revolution man has been figuring out how to make more for less so consumers (you) can buy more for less. Farming was a little slow, but we now can produce more for less — for your benefit. And sometimes this means raising livestock under contract for Smithfield, Cargill, Tyson, Hormell or Smart Chicken. Why do you feel that raising livestock under contract is any different than you working at Gummy Bear, local retail stores, the John Deere dealer, the fire department, the post

office, etc. We own our hogs, but contract raise poultry. I don’t feel either “job” is demeaning. Honest work for an honest wage should be an honorable goal for everyone.

As I said previously, water quality has been improving for years. I get my water from the same lake that you do. It is safe. I do not buy bottled water. And until you explain why someone has to buy bottled water spring and fall, I’ll ignore that comment.

As for watershed pollution, did you note the front page picture of Monday’s (March 24) Creston News Advertiser of the geese and their “pit stop at Mitchell Marsh?”

“You and your suffering people” do have a say in their government.

It is called the ballot box. We who are livestock producers and farmers have a much harder time being heard because we are so few compared to town dwellers.

I will close with a quote, “No man should be president who does not understand hogs.” - President Harry Truman

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PEOPLE/NEWS Four departments respond to 80-acre fire

By SARAH BROWN CNA staff reporter sbrown@crestonnews. com

Blustery conditions were of no help to Afton Fire Department, who responded to three grass fires Monday.

According to Afton Fire Chief Jim Krantz, a grass fire started at approximately 3 p.m. Monday at a property owned by Pat and Bob Kerrigan, 1480 Grand River Drive.

“It was a very dangerous situation with the high winds,” Krantz said.

T h e changing direction Krantz and force of wind gusts, which exceeded 35 mph, spread the fire quickly, burning more than 80 acres.

Krantz said a burn pile from days early was believed to be the culprit. High winds picked up the pile, reignited and spred the ambers to neighboring pasture and timber.

“We had some pretty tense moments with the wind bringing the fire right toward the fire trucks and personnel,” Krantz said.

Fire crews extinguish the fire by 7 p.m. with brush trucks, tankers and fire-

Dorothy Peak

Peak open house, card shower planned

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Bailey Poolman and Taner Morey — Creston volunteer firefighters — arrive to a grass fire at 1480 Grand River Dr., north of Afton. The fire burned more than 80 acres of pasture and timber.

fighters walking the perimeter with water pack on their backs.

A second grass fire was reported at 11:30 p.m. Monday at the residence of Steve Haight, 2731 Trout Ave., in Ellston.

According to Krantz, a controlled burn occured in the days before and were ignighted by high winds Monday. Afton and Murray firefighters were on scene for just over an hour.

A third fire was reported

just before midnight north of Afton, just north of Highway 34.

Krantz said the fire along Highway 34 appeared to be caused by a cigarette that may have been thrown from a passing car.

Damage estimates for the three fires are unknown at this time.

Fire safety Krantz said a Union County burn ban has been discussed, but, one does not currnetly exist.

“We recommend people use common sense and not burn during high winds,” said Krantz. “Stay with the fire, don’t abandon them and pay attention to the wind.”

Krantz said it is really common for controlled burns to occur at this time of year, especially on calm weather days.

“We know people are going to burn,” said Krantz.

“But, people need to take care and watch. It can get out of hand so fast.”

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The family of Dorothy Peak is hosting an open house and card shower for her 100th birthday April 1.

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Geis card shower planned

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TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Like Aries, you, too, feel rebellious, but in a quiet way.

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CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Avoid confrontations with authority figures today, because their response will be quick and unexpected. You might get slapped down so fast you won’t know what hit you.

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Be careful if you are taking care of someone else’s property or you are responsible for what is not yours.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Someone you know will throw you a curveball today, so be ready to dodge it. Surprises with partners and close friends are likely. In fact, an argument could break out.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Your work routine will be interrupted by computer crashes, staff shortages, power outages, equipment breakdowns or other unexpected events.

Give yourself extra time for wiggle room.

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All-Americans NEW YORK — Senior forward Doug McDermott from Creighton was a unanimous choice for The Associated Press All-America team on Monday. He is the first three-time choice in 29 years and the 11th player overall.

McDermott, who led the nation in scoring at 26.9 points a game, joins Oscar Robertson, Lew Alcindor, Pete Maravich and Bill Walton among others. The last threetime All-Americas were Patrick Ewing of Georgetown and Wayman Tisdale of Oklahoma from 1982-85.

McDermott was one of four seniors on this year’s team, which included freshman Jabari Parker of Duke. The other seniors all came from the firstyear American Athletic Conference: Russ Smith of Louisville, Shabazz Napier of Connecticut and Sean Kilpatrick of Cincinnati.

Nick Johnson of Arizona was the leading votegetter on the second team and was joined by freshman Andrew Wiggins of Kansas, Nik Stauskas of Michigan, Melvin Ejim of Iowa State and T.J. Warren of North Carolina State. DeAndre Kane of Iowa State received honorable mention.

Going pro LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas freshman Andrew Wiggins made official Monday what he’s been telling folks all along: He’s headed to the NBA after his only season with the Jayhawks.

The 6-foot-8 forward, who was voted secondteam All-America earlier in the day, is expected to go in the top three picks in the June draft. Many believe he could go first overall.

“It wasn’t an easy decision because the fans showed me so much love here,” said Wiggins, choking up briefly during a news conference at Allen Fieldhouse. “I just wish I had more time. College goes by so fast. I can see why people stay all four years.”

Wiggins was the toprated recruit when he arrived at Kansas, and his brief career was a bit of a roller coaster. He struggled early in the season, caught fire midway through, and then flamed out when it mattered most in an NCAA tournament loss to Stanford.

Cards win CINCINNATI — Yadier Molina’s homer broke a seventh-inning tie and drew another round of loud boos while he rounded the bases on Monday, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 1-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.

The Reds were blanked on opening day for the first time since 1953, ending the second-longest streak of scoring in at least one run in season openers in major league history.

The Phillies went 62 years without being blanked in an opener from 1911-72.

Adam Wainwright used his refined sinker to finally get the best of the Reds, who have hit him like no other team.

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Emotional swings Panther highs, lows at state cited at banquet

By LARRY PETERSON

of 3.0 to 3.24.

Leith, Adamson, Baker and Frain were all district qualifiers; and Adamson, Baker and Frain earned trips to state. Coach Frain noted that Leith was “knocking on the door” in three district appearances, often hampered by injuries. This year he came back from a separated shoulder in Kansas City to win a John J. Harris Tournament title.

Shiltz, Maitlen, sophomore Joey Huntington and junior Tayler Pettit were other state qualifiers.

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An emotional rollercoaster.

That’s the only way to describe the 2013-14 wrestling season, coach Darrell Frain said Monday night at the team’s postseason awards banquet.

No matter what transpired, this would have been a banquet that pulled on Frain’s emotions, because his oldest son (Trevor) was part of a senior class that began wrestling together as kindergarten and first-grade youngsters at area tournaments.

As it turned out, there were tremendous highlights as well as some disappointing outcomes in this season.

“We had highs and lows,” Frain said. “You look at finishing fourth at state duals, it was a bit of both. Our kids wrestled their tails off, some of the best wrestling we had all year. Yet, a slip-up on my part (penalty point for protesting a call), and we end up in fourth place instead of third. Then, after that at individual state, whether it was injuries or just not wrestling at that level again, we didn’t finish quite the way we wanted. It’s tough to find that balance point between your approach to state duals and the next three days at individual state. It was a tough four days.”

After matching their state rating by taking fourth in the state dual tourney, Creston/O-M was 15th in

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Creston/O-M senior wrestlers honored at Monday’s team banquet include, from left in front, Trevor Luther, Trevor Frain and Gavin Leith. Back row, Zack Peppmeier, Kruz Adamson, Garret Taylor and Adam Baker. These seniors were part of four state dual qualifying teams, including a runner-up finish in 2011.

Class 2A at the traditional state tournament with 36.5 points. Atlantic, which was defeated by the Panthers in the dual regional and the conference tournament and dual race, ended up finishing higher in eighth place with 53 points.

Three medalists The Panthers, 10-0 in league duals and 17-2 overall, qualified seven wrestlers for state. Three were placewinners in runner-up Chase Shiltz (145 pounds), Trevor Frain sixth at 170 and Seth Maitlen eighth at 195.

It was the 12th time in Frain’s 14 years as coach that Creston/O-M had at least one wrestler in the state finals.

No. 7 Kirkwood sweeps Spartans

By LARRY PETERSON CNA sports writer • lpeterson@crestonnews.com

Seventh-ranked Kirkwood showed its strength in a 15-1, 13-2 doubleheader sweep of the Southwestern softball team Monday on a windswept Spartan diamond.

“They’re good,” said SWCC coach Lindsay Stumpff. “ T h e y have every right to be ranked seventh in the n a t i o n . Stumpff We just didn’t hit at all. We were not going up to bat with a purpose. Their pitching was good, but not like last year.”

Stumpff said it was the wrong day to have a shorthanded team, but that was the case as freshman pitcher Sam Strand was unavailable because of an injury suffered Sunday, and shortstop Katrina DeVore left with illness before the second game.

Adding to the problems, outfielder Molly Schimp was hit on the jaw by a flyball. So, Katey Gambrel entered the game in right field, Hannah Murphy moved to the infield at second and Ashley Gibbs filled in at shortstop for DeVore.

Danielle McIntosh had a rough outing in the opener, issuing three walks in the first inning. The second inning started with a walk and one of three Kirkwood home runs on the day.

“Sam Strand split open the ring finger on her pitch-

ing hand on a one-hopper back to her on Sunday,” Stumpff said. “So Jill Vanderhoof (of Villisca), who had pitched s o m e in high school, came in.

I give her tons of credit for doing Vanderhoof what she did without warming up as a pitcher at all.

“McIntosh came back and started the second game. She had a little more control, but it was really tough to pitch in that weather. The wind was right in her face after it shifted. Defensively we did not adjust well to how the wind changed.”

The only hits by Southwestern in the second game were a double by Peyton Russell and singles

by Strand and Emma Ferrin.

B r o o k Wolf doubled in the opener, with De- Wolf Vore and Murphy hitting singles.

Kirkwood improved to 25-5 overall and 8-1 in the ICCAC. SWCC, now 11-6 and 5-5, is scheduled to play at DMACC on Wednesday. That precedes a trip to Columbus, Neb., for a doubleheader against Central Nebraska Thursday and tournament action hosted by Central on Friday and Saturday. Division I Muscatine is the opponent on Friday and a hot Indian Hills team faces Southwestern Saturday.

“It’s a challenging week,” Stumpff said. “Hopefully we can get everybody back on track.”

Shiltz reaching the finals as a freshman and Maitlen getting on the medal stand as a sophomore were highlights, Frain said. On the other hand, second-ranked Trevor Frain getting edged in overtime in the semifinals and ending up sixth, after suffering a torn meniscus in the semifinal match, was “gut-wrenching” coach Frain said.

And, injuries from state duals hampered seniors Kruz Adamson and Adam Baker from performing at top level in their first and only state tournament opportunity, Frain noted.

“We still haven’t worked out how we want to balance that approach to state duals and individual state,” Frain

said. “We wrestled great in state duals, but then we know we had some situations where we weren’t able to wrestle at our best at individual state. It’s tough.”

Seniors honored at Monday’s event were Trevor Luther, Garret Taylor, Zack Peppmeier, Gavin Leith, Adamson, Baker and Frain.

Coach Frain was informed that Baker, Peppmeier and Taylor were named to the Hawkeye 10 All-Academic Team for wrestling. To be eligible, seniors must have a cumulative 3.5 grade point average or above.

Frain said the team as a whole also qualified for the Iowa High School Athletic Association academic honor for teams achieving a GPA

Trevor Frain, earning the 2014 Mike A b e l Most Outstanding Wrestler Award, finished a stellar 189-41 ca- T. Frain reer with three state appearances (two medals) and the 189 victories ranks second on the all-time wins chart behind four-time champion Jake Marlin. He ended up in front of state champs Kalab Evans (181), Andrew Long (180), Keaton Hulett (178), Quin Leith (175) and Collin Bevins (158).

Frain’s 99 career falls ranks only behind Marlin (147), Boone Hayes (109), Andrew Long (107) and Collin Bevins (104). He tied Please see PANTHERS, page 8A

Fresh start? Same old problems arise for Cubs

By PAUL SULLIVAN Chicago Tribune

PITTSBURGH — Erasing the past is easy in spring training, when every player insists he has forgotten about the previous year.

But then comes another opening day, another lesson in futility, and the same old questions arise about the same old problems.

For the Cubs, it was Samardzija vu all over again Monday in a 1-0, 10-inning loss to the Pirates at PNC Park, a chilling reminder that good pitching is meaningless without an offense behind it.

The Cubs went 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position, knocking out only six hits against Francisco Liriano and four relievers, including four by leadoff man Emilio Bonifacio.

Jeff Samardzija has seen this movie before. He and Travis Wood combined for 43 quality starts last season but wound up with only 17 wins between them.

How can they convince Cubs fans that this year will be different?

“You can only control what you control,” Samardzija said. “We have a bat, too, so we have a say in how it turns out. We need to take advantage of every opportunity we can get.

But ultimately we’re out there pitching, and that’s our job.

“We’re not here to speculate. We’re not here to say this or that. We’re pitchers. We’ve got to go out and pitch. These guys are working hard. They’re doing what they can do and we have their backs 100 percent. The quicker we can get them in the dugout, the better chance we have

to score some runs.”

There were several culprits to point to in Monday’s loss, though Anthony Rizzo stood out, going 0-for-4 with three strikeouts and failing to drive home runners from scoring position in the first, sixth and eighth innings.

Starlin Castro, inserted into the No. 3 spot des p i t e missing almost the entire spring with a Castro h a m string injury, was 0-for-3 and failed to make good contact in any at-bat.

This is supposed to be the year Rizzo and Castro step up and prove themselves again, after contributing to the firing of manager Dale Sveum with subpar performances. Like it or not, the onus is on the two core players to stabilize the lineup, which no longer has Alfonso Soriano or David DeJesus to lean on.

“It’s Game 1 of 162,” Rizzo said. “You learn from it and move on.”

What did he learn Monday?

“You’ve got to slow the game down in those situations,” Rizzo said, adding he wants to be in those situations.

Spring training stats usually are meaningless, but Rizzo had a strong spring and hopes it translates into a successful season. There’s no reason to think he can’t match his 2012 numbers, when he combined for 38 home runs at Triple-A Iowa and with the Cubs.

The addition of power-

hitting rookie third baseman Mike Olt, who was in the No. 5 spot Monday, should benefit Rizzo in the long run. Olt hit five home runs in Arizona to earn a starting spot at third but was 0-for-3 with two strikeouts Monday before being lifted for Luis Valbuena in the ninth.

“There’s definitely a lot of good vibes,” Olt said afterward. “Everyone is excited and we know what we’re going up against. We know we do have the talent in here, so now it’s kind of cool to see everyone jelling together.

There are some big things to come.”

The Cubs know there’s little faith in them in Chicago, even from their own marketing department. The team put giant banners of the numbers “1914” and “2014” on the front of Wrigley Field instead of banners featuring photos of their key players, as they had done the past few years.

They’re promoting 100 years of Wrigley Field as the “Party of the Century,” but which Cubs executive will be left wearing the lampshade in October if they lose 100 games?

“Our goal is to go out and surprise some people,” President Theo Epstein said before the first pitch. “I don’t think expectations are that high externally, and we have a tough schedule early, so we can certainly turn the narrative on its head by going out and having a good first month of the season. That’s the goal, starting today.”

Plenty of time to do that, but the “narrative” already has the upper hand.

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for eighth for most wins in a season (52). Shiltz was right behind with 51, and his 31 falls in a season is tied for 13th.

Adamson ranks 13th among the all-time winners in Creston history with 141 and 13th in falls (66). Baker stands 24th in victories with 110.

Junior varsity and middle school wrestlers were also honored by coaches Cody Downing and Chris Olesen.

Downing said coaching the JV group was “like having another varsity team.”

The Panther JV was fifth among 13 varsity teams at the Lenox Invitational, and

won the Atlantic JV tournament by 150 points.

Assistant Matt Long noted a quotation by Scott Casber of Takedown Radio, that 30 percent of the wrestlers on the U.S. world team or competing to be on the team, had not placed in the national tournament in college or won a state tournament in high school.

“It’s not over until your dream’s over,” Long said.

Frain added that eight AllAmericans at the NCAA Tournament this year were not state champions.

Letterwinners Seniors — Kruz Adamson (113), 36-10 (18 pins); Garret Taylor (145), 2-3 (1 pin); Gavin Leith (152), 22-7 (11 pins); Zack Peppmeier (152), 1-2 (1 pin); Trevor Frain (170), 52-6 (35 pins); Adam Baker (182), 45-12

(27 pins); Trevor Luther (182), 5-2 (4 pins).

Juniors — Alex Fargo (126), 22-15 (12 pins); Spencer Wray (132), 37-12 (22 pins); Bryce Briley (138), 5-9 (4 pins); Tyler Helm (138), 3-2 (1 pin); Tayler Pettit (160), 39-23 (19 pins); Jake Gutschenritter (285), 15-13 (8 pins).

Sophomores — Wyatt Thompson (120), 31-20 (18 pins); Cameron Leith (132), 8-8 (3 pins); Joey Huntington (138), 37-15 (9 pins); Seth Maitlen (195), 39-14 (20 pins); Zach Hoffman (220), 5-2 (5 pins).

Freshmen — Brody Frain (106), 28-20 (12 pins); Trevor Marlin (106), 10-15 (5 pins); Jacob Goodson (106), 2-2 (2 pins); Carson Wheat (113), 1-2 (1 pin); Chase Shiltz (145), 51-6 (32 pins); Jackson Mikkelsen (152), 2-5 (1 pin); Kadon Hulett (220), 30-14 (15 pins); Cody Tanner (285), 13-13 (6 pins).

Participation awards — Stone Hammons (Jr.), Chad Lamb (Jr.), Darrian Fischer (So.), Kyle Fenton (So.), Demitrius Campbell (Fr.), Colton Bolinger (Fr.), Keaton Eslinger (Fr.).

Managers — Tanner Webb (Jr.), Nate Haley (Sr.), Matt Hoffman (Fr.).

Statisticians — Alex Chapman (Sr.), Tyson Tucker (Jr.).

Mike Abel Most Outstanding Wrestler Award — Trevor Frain.

Career records (New additions) Wins — 2. Trevor Frain 189; 13. Kruz Adamson 141; 24. Adam Baker 110.

Falls — 5. Trevor Frain 99; 13.

Kruz Adamson 66.

Season records (New additions) Wins — 6. (tie) Trevor Frain and Kalab Evans (2008) 52; 8. (tie) Chase Shiltz, Keaton Hulett (2012), Collin Bevins (2011), Andrew Long (2008), Kaleb Evans (2007) 51; 28. (tie) Adam Baker, Jake Marlin (2010), Boone Hayes (2004), Andrew Hayes (2000) 45.

Falls — 13. (tie) Chase Shiltz, Keaton Hulett (2012), Collin Bevins (2011), Jake Marlin (2011), Jake Marlin (2010), Boone Hayes (2002) 31.

Team points — 7. Trevor Frain 354; 9. Chase Shiltz 349; 22. Adam Baker 261.

Lack of offense stalls Twins

By PHIL MILLER Star Tribune

CHICAGO — Opening Day is about the traditions. The red, white and blue bunting on the walls, the celebrity throwing the first pitch, the giant flag unfurled in the outfield and the introduction of the players along the foul line.

Oh, and the Twins offense fizzling.

Kurt Suzuki drove in three runs Monday in his first game with his new team, but his teammates were blanked by Chicago White Sox ace Chris Sale as the Twins dropped their sixth consecutive season opener 5-3 at U.S. Cellular Field. It marked the seventh year in a row, and ninth time in a decade that the Twins mustered three runs or fewer on Opening Day, which explains the 2-8 record over that time.

“I thought we played pretty decent,” manager Ron Gardenhire said. “Just a couple of mistakes, and they end up in the seats.”

Alejandro De Aza put them there, connecting twice off his former Marlins teammate Ricky Nolasco.

The righthander, the Twins’ $49 million free-agent investment this past offsea-

son, gave up four runs in a messy first three innings, then settled down to retire nine of the last 11 hitters he faced. Nolasco starts the season with a 7.50 ERA, most of it due to De Aza. “That’s what’s going to happen when you leave the ball in the middle against a good hitter,” said Nolasco, who gave up five runs on 10 hits over six innings. “I tried to throw a cutter there in the (second) inning, tried to get him to hit something foul, but it stayed middle, and he did a good job of hitting that ball.”

De Aza did, blasting the ball into a steady gale from right field and still managing to get it a dozen rows deep into the seats. Cuban important Jose Abreu scored in front of him for Chicago, and the Twins found themselves behind from the start.

They rallied, however, thanks to Suzuki, their $2.75 million investment as Joe Mauer’s successor behind the plate. And hitting in Mauer’s old spot in the order — only the second time he has batted second since 2009 — Suzuki produced just as Gardenhire had hoped. He singled twice in four at-bats, each time with runners in scor-

ing position.

“He’s a great contact guy.

(Against Sale), you’ve got to be able to put the ball in play,” Gardenhire said of putting Suzuki near the top of the lineup. “The bottom of the lineup needs to roll over and put some people on, and we need to get them in.”

It worked a couple of times, with Aaron Hicks, the former leadoff hitter now batting eighth, knocking a single and a double to set up Suzuki. The catcher’s two-out hit to left field in the third inning brought home Oswaldo Arcia, who had walked, and Hicks to tie the score. In the eighth inning, Suzuki’s sharp grounder up the middle off reliever Ronald Belisario cashed in on Hicks’ leadoff double.

“I try not to do too much.

I just try to barrel up the ball,” Suzuki said. “You don’t have to hit a homer to drive in runs.”

It worked for De Aza, though. In the sixth, he jumped on a first-pitch fastball from Nolasco, hitting a low liner that carried into the Twins bullpen, the first White Sox player to homer twice on Opening Day since Jim Thome in 2008, and the first to do it in Chicago since

Minnie Minoso in 1960.

In between, Chicago added two runs during Nolasco’s sloppiest inning, when three of the first four hitters in the third collected hits.

Abreu’s single scored one to put Chicago ahead to stay. Adam Dunn then hit a popup that looked like it would land around second base. The gusty wind blew it far off course, however, and shortstop Pedro Florimon finally slid into foul territory in short left field to catch it.

Oddly, the Twins might have been better off if he had dropped it, because Conor Gillaspie tagged up while Florimon slid, and raced home.

“You can’t tell a fielder not to catch that ball,” second baseman Brian Dozier said. “Pedro made a great play. It just had a bad ending.”

That’s how the Twins felt about the whole day.

After three consecutive disastrous seasons, they felt good about how they played.

It just had a bad ending.

As usual.

——— ©2014 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Distributed by MCT Information Services

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PEAK: Continued from Page 1

school that had no running water. “(At the one-room school) we would get water from the neighbors,” Peak said, “and we would all drink out of the same cup. I don’t know if that would work today.”

Peak said many families struggled financially during the 1920s. She only had two pairs of clothes — school clothes and play clothes.

Laundry was once a week, and she recalls sometimes during winter months her mother giving her frozen underwear off the clothesline to take inside.

“They were stiff and sometimes, depending on the weather, it took a while for them to thaw,” Peak said.

Peak graduated from Nevinville consolidated school in 1932. There were nine students in her graduating class. It took her a couple minutes, but Peak — using her fingers to count — remembered all their names.

“None of them are alive now,” Peak said. “I’m the only one left.”

Tough decisions In the 1930s, Peak said women weren’t supposed to go to college. They were to cook, clean and take care of the kids, but the times weren’t about to stop Peak who enrolled at Iowa State University shortly after high school graduation.

“I wanted to study medicine, but knew I wouldn’t have the chance because — at that time — nobody wanted a woman doctor,” Peak said. “So, I studied to be a teacher.”

Peak received a Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa State University in the mid30s, with additional college credits from the University of Iowa, Iowa State Teachers College (now UNI) and Kansas University.

Her first teaching position after graduation was teaching in Nevinville whereby she was compensated $55 per month. She later taught in Bridgewater and Calmar (near Decorah) before accepting the home economics teaching position in the Creston School District in 1940.

“I think I was paid $110 per month in Creston,” Peak

said.

Dorothy married Eddie Peak in 1941. She remained a teacher in the Creston School District for almost 40 years.

“I mostly taught about cooking, sewing, money management and child care,” Peak said.

Peak said, in those 40 years of teaching, she only removed one student from her classroom. Who was it?

“I’m not telling,” Peak said, “but he was on drugs and I’d dealt with his disturbances for four days. I told him to get his books and leave my classroom, and I didn’t ever let him come back.”

Bachelor living In her teaching career, Peak is probably most remembered for instituting a new course of study into the CHS curriculum called “Bachelor Living.” There were doubters.

Superintendent Gene Hertz was concerned that boys would not be interested in the subject matter, and it would become too much of a discipline problem. “(Gene) thought it was the dumbest thing he’d ever heard,” Peak recalls. “I told him to just let me have one year.”

Twenty-two boys enrolled in the first class of “Bachelor Living.” The second year another section of the class was added. Crestonian Jeff Mostek was a student in Peak’s Bachelor Living class.

“We weren’t all angels,” Mostek said, “but all the boys respected Mrs. Peak and she had control over the class.

We learned a lot of stuff that’s not taught in school anymore like how to run a checkbook, cooking, sewing and other practical life skills.”

Peak retired at CHS in the late ‘70s.

After retirement, Peak was one of the first people involved in organizing Green Valley Hospice, and she continued to help with fundrais-

“I wanted to study medicine, but knew I wouldn’t have the chance because — at that time — nobody wanted a woman doctor.”

— Dorothy Peak

Retired Creston teacher

ers and telephone calls over the years. She was past president of the Catholic Council of Women.

She was inducted into the Creston High School Hall of Fame in 2006.

Birthday celebration Peak still lives at home with the 24-hour assistance of home nurses and family. She receives several visits each week from friends and kin.

Each Tuesday she meets with Contributed photo Dennis Nelson of Creston Pictured is Dorothy with her husband, the late Eddie Peak, who gives her communion who died Feb. 28, 1997. The couple was married for more from Holy Spirit Catholic than 50 years.

Church.

Peak reads anywhere from try and make the trip from two to three large-print books Iowa City to Creston.

“I’ve had a pretty good per week. life,” Peak said. “I don’t “I read anything that isn’t know how much longer it dirty,” Peak said. “There are will last, but my advice to too many authors with dirty minds that use dirty words. everyone is don’t waste your They can’t think of any other time by monkeying around and causing disturbances. words to use?”

She also enjoys television Spend your time being the programs like Lawrence best at whatever you choose Welk, 60 Minutes, Antiques to do.”

(CNA sports writer Larry Contributed photo Roadshow and MASH rePeterson contributed to this This is a baby picture of runs.

Dorothy (Kralik) Peak.

So far, Peak has already story.) received 54 birthday cards from friends, family and former students. Cards can still The Christmas Doctor be sent to Peak at 1003 N. The True Story of Dr. J.P. Weber Sycamore St., Creston, IA, 50801.

Tom Weber Saturday, an open house birthday celebration is slated This book is dedicated to the memory of Dr. John Peter Weber who often risked his for her from 1 to 3 p.m. at her life for others. home on North Sycamore Street. Peak has two cousins The book is available on Amazon.

The softcover price is $14.95, — ages 96 and 92 — who will the hardcover price is $23.99.

About this Book Contributed photo

Dorothy Peak taught home economics at Creston High School for nearly 40 years. “I mostly taught about cooking, sewing, money management and child care,” Peak said.

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Clive Cussler: “A pity men like him aren’t around anymore. He was a giant in his time.”

Russell Baker: “It makes us remember a time when the doctor was a truly heroic figure.”

Hugh Sidey: “His kind made this country great.”

Judy Collins: “Your writing is evocative of my own love of the West.”

Margaret Chase Smith: “It is certainly something that should be read by everyone.”

Julie Harris: “What a wonderful doctor. I wish I had known him.”

Tipper Gore: “Your writing has that special quality that takes a reader to the time, place and mood you describe.”

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Karl Maiden: “A wonderful story!”

Patricia Neal: “If I were a man, I would love to play him on the screen.”

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