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PROGRAMStar Spangled Banner ..................................................arr. J.P. SousaAmericans We — march .......................................... Henry FillmoreRock, Rhythm and Blues — medley ......................arr. Jack BullockArmy of the Nile — march ...................................Kenneth J. AlfordBegin of the Beguine ...................................................... Cole PorterInvercargill — march ...................................................Alex LithgowHymn to the Fallen.................................... John Williams/SweeneyMen of Ohio — march ............................................. Henry FillmoreA Sixties Time Capsule — medley .............................. arr. JenningsThe Washington Post — march ...................................John P. Sousa

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

Register/Richard LukenMules Pat and Pete pull an antique sickle bar mower piloted by Ray Whiteley of Le Roy. Whiteley was joined by Greg Gleue in cutting an 18-acre prairie hay field Tuesday.

By SUSAN [email protected]

If you’ve got enough of it, Fri-day night is the night to let your hair down.

One sure test is to participate in the “Drag Race” as a runup to the Charlie Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life race.

Men and women alike are en-couraged to dress in a cross-gen-der manner and then “compete” in teams of four in a relay. Last

year a woman’s garter was trans-ferred from one participant’s leg to another.

“It’s better than a baton,” said David Toland, executive director of Thrive Allen County and one of the organizers for Friday’s events.

If you don’t have a thing to wear — no worries.

Dresses, hats, purses, jewelry and other accoutrements will be available at Elizabeth Donnelly’s

The Shirt Shop, 20 W. Jackson, where participants will have a wide selection from which to choose. Doors open at 10 p.m.

Registration to participate in the drag race is $5. That also gains participants entrance to a 9:30 p.m. pre-party at the Thrive office, 12 W. Jackson. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Thrive office or Friday night on

By RICHARD [email protected]

LE ROY — Unlike the mecha-nized behemoths of today, Ray Whiteley’s mowing outfit was considerably quieter.

His “engine” — a pair of 1,200-pound mules — needed only an occasional break from the sti-fling summer heat as Whiteley traversed his way around an 18-acre prairie hay meadow.

“It’s a little warm, so we’ve been taking it easy,” Whiteley said. “It’s our little hobby.”

The mules were pulling White-ley’s antique sickle bar mower, a small wagon with cutting bar

attached. The bar was triggered through a gear box engaged as its wheels roll.

With no mechanical engine to speak of, the only noise emanat-ing from his unit was from the teeth of the seven-foot cutting bar rotating back and forth.

Joining Whiteley was neighbor and friend Greg Gleue, with his own mowing outfit, another sick-le bar mower pulled by a pair of Percheron draft horses.

“We’re having some fun with it,” Whiteley joked. “Greg’s kind of a wimp about it. He needs a

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

Register/Susan LynnThese men are ready to leave their inhibitions at home as they participate in Friday night’s favorite race, the drag race. From left to right are Matt Skahan, Brian Wolfe, Nic Lohman, David Toland and Fred Heismeyer. The race begins at 10:30 p.m. on the courthouse square.

By BOB [email protected]

Calls to the 911 dispatch center average one almost every 10 min-utes.

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

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

The call total — she figures half or more are for true emer-gencies — wasn’t the point of her appearance, but the magnitude of the number captivated commis-sioners.

Murphy was before commis-sioners to request a 20 percent increase in the department’s bud-get for 2012, up $126,000 over this year’s $490,000.

The increase seemed pretty hefty. Murphy reasoned health insurance will cost an additional $50,000 and another $6,000 was expected for Kansas Public Em-

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

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By JOE [email protected]

When Brian Pekarek was hired as superintendent of the Iola school district in February, he saw an opportunity to “reinvigo-rate” USD 257.

With a focus on academic achievement and public transpar-ency, Pekarek hopes he can fur-ther success for the district and the more than 1,300 students rely-ing on it.

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-

By BOB [email protected]

An anticipated field of a thou-sand runners and walkers, who will flee Iola’s downtown busi-ness district early Saturday as Charley Melvin did in 1905, can be thankful that Melvin chose to do his dastardly deed in the mid-dle of the night.

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

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

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

“Registration, including prob-ably a fifth online, has really

picked up,” Weiner said Tuesday afternoon. As in the past, “we ex-pect a lot of people to sign up Fri-day night.”

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

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

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

All participants will break from in front of the post office. Runners will follow a course that will take them on West to Wash-ington, then Jackson, Jefferson and East to Cottonwood. They

Temps for runlook inviting

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ATLANTA (AP) — Former Atlanta schools Superintendent Beverly Hall knew about cheat-ing allegations on standardized tests but either ignored them or tried to hide them, according to a state investigation.

An 800-page report released Tuesday to The Associated Press by Gov. Nathan Deal’s office through an open records request shows several educators report-ed cheating in their schools. But the report says Hall, who won the national Superintendent of the Year award in 2009, and other administrators ignored those re-ports and sometimes retaliated against the whistleblowers.

The yearlong investigation shows educators at nearly four dozen Atlanta elementary and middle schools cheated on stan-dardized tests by helping stu-dents or changing the answers once exams were handed in.

The investigators also found a “culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation” in the school district over the cheating allegations, which led to educators lying about the cheating or destroying

Pekarek finds home at USD 257

Brian Pekarek, center, visits with Barb Geffert and Marcy Boring at the USD 257 board office.

Cheating scandal detailed

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Walmart associates hold up a symbolic check written to the community in the amount of $86,111, an accumulation of grants, volunteerism and donations. Front row from left are Shandie Wrench and Jeff Livingston. Second row from left are Berdean Wall, Betty Shaffer, Kristin Page, Melody Forman, Josie Shaughnessy, Dinna Salava and Victoria McKinney. Third row from left are Kathrine Rakes, Amber Grewing, Jim Wildschuetz, Pam Bennette, Brian Tremain, Pam Adams, Duane Hibbs, Paula Miller and Allison Chapman.

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Walmart donates $86,111 to local community

Moran council members discuss library, sewers

By ALLISON [email protected]

Large corporations oftentimes carry a stigma that local com-munity is low on their priority list. Iola’s Walmart is trying to change that view.

For 2012, the Walmart founda-tion gave the area community $86,111 through an accumulation of donations, volunteerism and grants given to non-profit organi-

zations in Allen County and sur-rounding areas. For 2011, such acts were valued at $30,000 by Walmart officials.

Volunteerism Always Pays (VAP) is a Walmart program that gives to eligible nonprofit orga-nizations based on the time a Walmart associate spends volun-teering at the organization.

Individual associates who

complete at least 25 hours of un-compensated volunteer service with a qualifying organization may apply for VAP, which can re-sult in a $250 award.

In addition to benefiting an organization, Walmart employ-ees also see the upside to their efforts, said Shandie Wrench, Walmart asset protection man-

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BY STEVEN [email protected]

Moran city council members discussed various topics in Mon-day night’s meeting, the major-ity of which concentrated on fundraising for a new public li-brary and the sewer repairs and renovations being done in town.

Council members request-ed the presence of the library board members in order to dis-cuss fundraising for the future building. Mayor Phillip Merkel cited the cost between $300,000 and $400,000 depending on which type of building material is used — concrete or QSI aluminum siding.

He said the council has been researching grants for a new building, but the process has been slow and cumbersome. The next round of grants released by the state is in February, however City Clerk Lori Evans said more time is needed to submit grant requests. The next available

time will be in August.“There’s just not a whole lot

out there, not a lot of money,” Merkel said.

Council member Jim Muel-ler said some of the legwork has already been done on the build-ing site, including soil testing. However, he said the city needs a “spark plug” type of person to head up anything else that needs to be done.

The council discussed various ways to begin raising funds, in-cluding fundraisers, utility rate increases and sales tax increas-es. At the time of the meeting no decisions had been made.

TWO MOTIONS were passed in order to make payments to the Shafer, Kline & Warren engi-neering firm and the contractor, Reed Dozing & Contracting LLC, for Moran’s wastewater collec-tion system improvements, but not without some contention.

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By JULIE PACEAssociated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing an end-of-the-month deadline, the Obama administration is calling gun owner groups, victims’ or-ganizations and representatives from the video-game industry to the White House this week for dis-cussions on potential policy pro-posals for curbing gun violence.

President Barack Obama has ordered an administration-wide task force to send him proposals by the end of January. The group, led by Vice President Joe Biden, was formed in response to last month’s horrific massacre of 20 children and six adults at a New-town, Conn., elementary school.

Biden will meet Wednesday with gun violence victims’ groups and gun safety organizations, a White House official said. On Thursday, he will hold talks with gun ownership groups, as well as advocates for sportsmen. The vice president also plans to meet this week with representatives from the entertainment and vid-eo-game industries. The official

was not authorized to discuss the meetings before they were public-ly announced and thus spoke on condition of anonymity.

Obama has called the Dec. 14 shooting in Newtown the worst moment of his presidency. It cata-pulted gun control to the top of his priority list for the first time in his presidency and also led some pro-gun lawmakers on Capi-tol Hill to express a willingness to consider new measures.

But less than a month after the school shooting, gun control already has taken a backseat in Washington to economic issues. The president and lawmakers were consumed at year’s end by

efforts to avert the combination of spending cuts and tax hikes known as the “fiscal cliff.” And Congress will face another set of equally pressing economic dead-lines in March.

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McCon-nell, the top Republican in the Senate, said the next round of fis-cal deadlines will occupy the at-tention of Congress and push off the consideration of gun legisla-tion for at least three months.

“There will be plenty of time to take a look at their recommenda-tions once they come forward,” McConnell said of Biden’s up-coming proposals during an in-

Obama ramping up gun violence discussions

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I believe most Americans would dis-agree with the idea that in the wake of what happened in Newtown, Conn., that we should put off any action on the is-sue of violence. It’s certainly not a senti-ment the president supports.

— Jay Carney, White House spokesman

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By LINDSAY WISE and KEVIN G. HALLl

McClatchy NewspapersWASHINGTON — Almost 4

million homeowners might re-ceive cash compensation and mortgage relief in a multi-billion-dollar settlement with 10 major banks, government regulators an-nounced Monday.

Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and seven other mortgage-servicing compa-nies have agreed to give borrow-ers $3.3 billion in direct payments and $5.2 billion in the form of loan modifications and other as-sistance to settle allegations that they wrongly foreclosed on home-owners in 2009 and 2010. The oth-er lenders are Citibank, MetLife Bank, PNC, Sovereign, SunTrust,

U.S. Bank and Aurora.Eligible homeowners may re-

ceive payments that range from hundreds of dollars to $125,000, depending on the type of error.

The settlement amounts to a mea culpa by mortgage servicers, which are effectively bill collec-tors for investors who collectively

own mortgages that have been pooled together, often by Wall Street firms, into complex bonds called mortgage-backed securi-ties.

Many servicers were first set up by Wall Street banks, such as Bear Stearns and Lehman Broth-ers, that disappeared or collapsed during the U.S. financial crisis in 2008. Wall Street banks infamous-ly looked past poor underwrit-ing, particularly in boom states such as Florida and California, because the buck was passed to unsuspecting investors, who thought they were buying AAA-rated mortgage bonds, prompting the slogan, “A rolling loan gathers no loss.”

But as more and more borrow-ers failed to meet their mortgage commitments or saw their home values plunge, a housing crisis

Iola Police Chief Jared War-ner reported that several coun-terfeit $20 and $50 bills have been used in area businesses, and urges citizens in the area to keep on the lookout.

Three area merchants, who were not mentioned at the time of publication, found the coun-terfeit money after making de-posits with their banks.

Warner said incidents such as this are uncommon in Allen County, but not unheard of.

“For us, it is not very common, we usually have two to three in-stances per year,” he said.

Generally, counterfeit money strikes an area locally or on a larger scale, depending on how the money is distributed. War-ner said he is not sure at this

time whether the fake money was transferred to Allen Coun-ty unintentionally or if it was printed and distributed in the area.

Warner said counterfeit mon-ey can be identified in a couple different ways. Markers can be bought at retailers that will help identify the fake bills. However, he said that the bills in this case can be identified with just a lit-tle bit of inspection — these are printed on a different type of pa-per than a legal bill.

“The feel can usually be a dead giveaway,” Warner said. “It’s just about taking a little ex-tra time.”

He said if a fraudulent bill is found, contact the Iola Police De-partment right away.

Iola police report counterfeit money

Mortgage settlement will send billions

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We have helped near-ly 1 million homeown-ers avoid foreclosure over the last four years and will continue to help others who may be struggling to make their payments.

— JPMorgan Chase spokes-woman Amy Bonitatibus

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pe, passed away Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 at his resi-dence.

R a y was born at South M o u n d on Sept. 30, 1925, the son of Oliver and Anna (Beecher) Aikins.

He married Zana Nea-gle on June 29, 1945 in Girard. To this union, his children were born. They later divorced. On Feb. 5, 1982 he married Helen Christy in Miami, Okla. She preceded him in death on May 14, 2001.

When Ray was young he and his family moved to a farm near Shaw and he attended South Valley School. Ray and his twin brother, Roy, joined the Navy. During WWII he served in the South Pacif-ic and was at the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He was awarded the WWII Victory Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal with two stars, and the Philippine Victory Bar. After the war he worked at the Army Ammunition Plant in Parsons. In 1955 he started working for the Chanute Fire Depart-ment and later he worked for the Chanute Police Department as a patrol-man. After his retirement in 1976 he drove a bus for USD 413 for several years.

Ray is survived by six children, Steve and Glenda Aikins, Altamont, Linda and Leon Heer, Pittsburg, Rita and Rick Berntsen, Iola, Richard and Lisa Aikins, Mound

City, Scott and Ellen Ai-kins, Humboldt, and Nancy and David Axtell, Wichita; 17 grandchil-dren, 19 great-grandchil-dren, several step-grand-children and one brother, Dean Aikins, Chanute.

He was preceded in death by his parents; five brothers, Clarence, Carl, Forrest, Harry, and his twin, Roy Aikins; one sis-ter, Babe Thompson; one grandson, Steve Aikins, Jr.; and his first wife, Zana Aikins.

The family will receive friends today from 6 to 8 p.m. at Penwell-Gabel Johnson Chapel.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednes-day, at Iola Baptist Tem-ple, 426 N. Second, Iola. Burial will follow in Mt. Moriah Cemetery in rural Stark.

Memorials may be made to the Ray Aikins Mission Fund and will be used for Christian mis-sion work and may be left with Penwell-Gabel John-son Chapel, which is in charge of arrangements.

David MooreDavid H. Moore, 74,

passed from this life to his eternal reward on Dec. 31, 2012 in Iola.

A remembrance cel-ebration will be at 2 p.m., Saturday at Carlyle Pres-byterian Church, 29 Co-vert St.

In lieu of flowers the family is requesting me-morial gifts be made to the Voice of The Martyrs or Freedom Ministries and left with Waugh-Yo-kum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola, which is in charge of arrangements.

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Pat Heinz celebrated her birthday Saturday.

Pauline Hawk entertained the Carlyle Country Club on Dec. 13 with a covered dish luncheon. Thirteen members attended. A short business meeting was held before the opening of Christmas gifts. Pat Shields will be the host-ess in January.

Christmas Eve guests of Joanna McIntyre for a carry-in supper were Judy, Bruce and Ryan Cochran, Michelle, Breail and Baylea Thompson, Mike, Dora, Coby and Rach-

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SEATTLE — An Arctic drilling rig beached for sev-eral days on a remote, rocky shore in southern Alaska was refloated early Monday and towed toward safe har-bor in a sheltered bay on Ko-diak Island.

The Kulluk, which ran aground New Year’s Eve af-ter it broke free of its tow lines during severe weather, was hooked up to new lines and hoisted off the rocks toward safety during a high tide.

Officials with the U.S.

Coast Guard and Shell Alas-ka, which operated the rig during offshore oil opera-tions this summer, were tak-ing the vessel to a location in Kiliuda Bay, where it could be carefully inspected for dam-age.

Towing operations began at about 1:45 a.m. local time, and the vessel by late morn-ing had nearly arrived at the bay, located about 50 miles away from where the Kulluk was grounded, officials said Monday morning.

“Once they get there, they’re going to do some more assessments. It will be

in an area where they will have options, either to get div-ers down or use some kind of remotely operated vehicle — they’ll do a full assessment,” Coast Guard Petty Officer Matt Schofield told the Los Angeles Times.

A decision will be made at that time whether to try to continue to tow the rig, as originally planned, to Se-attle for maintenance and repairs.

Emergency response offi-cials said the refloating over-night was accomplished by applying increasing tension on a tow line as the rising tide

allowed the rig to rise from the rocks.

“I think everybody was yelling and screaming and very, very happy. ... When I got the email last night and was half asleep, I did the same thing,” Steven Russell of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conserva-tion, said in a briefing Mon-day.

“I won’t say anyone was high-fiving. I would say there was ... a sense of relief. But recognizing that we have a lot more work ahead,” said Capt. Paul Mehler III of the Coast Guard.

Troubled oil rig headed for safety in Alaska

By JUAN O. TAMAYOThe Miami Herald

MIAMI — Sen. John Ker-ry, nominated as the next secretary of state, held a secret meeting with Cuba’s foreign minister in 2010 in a failed bid to win the release of jailed USAID subcon-tractor Alan Gross, accord-ing to a published report.

A senior State Depart-ment official also met in se-cret with Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez to discuss the Gross case, but the for-eign minister lectured the U.S. official for an hour, added the report in the re-spected magazine Foreign Affairs.

Jose Cardenas, a former top official at the U.S. Agen-cy for International Devel-opment, wrote that the ar-ticle amounted to a “lesson on the folly of attempting to appease dictators.”

A knowledgeable Sen-ate aide also challenged

the article’s description of the role that Fulton Arm-strong, a senior staffer in the Senate Foreign Rela-tions Committee and for-mer CIA analyst, played in the campaign to free Gross.

Gross was arrested in Havana in late 2009 and sentenced to 15 years for giving Cuban Jews sophis-ticated communications equipment paid for by US-AID’s “pro-democracy” pro-grams, outlawed by Cuba as designed to bring about “regime change.” His con-tinued detention has been a key block in efforts to im-prove U.S.-Cuba relations.

The report authored by R.M Schneiderman, an edi-tor at Newsweek, includes previously unknown de-tails of a U.S. effort to win Gross’ freedom by cutting back funding for the pro-democracy programs and making them less provoca-tive to Cuba.

In September of 2010, Spanish government of-ficials helped arrange a secret meeting between then-Assistant Secretary of State Arturo Valenzuela and Rodriguez to discuss a possible release of Gross, according to Schneider-man.

“The Cubans were far less flexible than the Amer-icans expected. The U.S. ... wanted Cuba to release Gross, and only then would it press ahead on any other policy changes,” he wrote. “Rodriguez allegedly lec-tured Valenzuela for rough-ly an hour on Cuba’s his-tory of grievances.”

A month later, at the re-quest of Cuban diplomats in Washington and with State Department approval, Kerry met with Rodriguez at the home of Cuba’s am-bassador to the United Na-tions in New York, accord-ing to the report.

“There was no quid pro quo, but the meeting seemed to reassure the Cubans that the democracy programs would change, and the Cu-bans expressed confidence” that Gross would be freed after his trial, which was held in March of 2011, the report noted.

President Barack Obama has nominated Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat and backer of improving relations with Cuba, to suc-ceed Hillary Clinton. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which Kerry chairs, is expected to easily approve the nomination.

Schneiderman wrote that in early 2010, the State De-partment and USAID asked Armstrong, who had long criticized the programs as inefficient and wasteful, to help them make the pro-grams less offensive to Ha-vana — hoping Cuba might then free Gross.

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By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent

LEANNA — A former member of the Leanna Christian Church is lead-ing efforts to breathe new life into the church after it has been closed for more than five years.

“I was so disappointed to hear that it closed and when I would come home to visit my parents, it was sad to see it sitting empty and not being used,” Joyce Al-len said.

Allen, 58, and her broth-er, Jerry, grew up in Leanna and attended the Christian Church there until leaving home to attend college. Her parents, Gene and Leona Pool, have lived a quarter mile north of the church since 1955. Allen and her husband, Mike, returned to the area in March 2010 after her retirement as director of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology at Cof-feyville Regional Medical Center for 35 years.

“We built a house not far from my parents so I could be around to help keep them on their farm as long as they could,” Allen said.

The youngest of Allen’s three children, Kayla, was married in the Leanna Church in 2010 after some sprucing up took place.

“Some past members, George and Mary Alford’s daughter, Dorothy, even wrote a letter to my mom after she saw the engage-ment announcement in the paper,” Allen said. “She wrote that she was glad that someone else thought as much of the church as she

did and she thought it was really nice that we wanted to have the wedding there.”

Kayla and her husband, Cole, currently live in Os-wego. The Allen’s son, Flint, and his family re-turned to the Leanna area in 2005 and their daughter, Carissa Brannon and her husband followed suit in 2011.

“This has always been one of my dreams to have all my family living around me,” Allen said. “I’m going to have to work on getting Kayla and Cole to the Lean-na community.”

Allen has fond memories of attending services at the Leanna Christian Church and hopes families in the area will take part in bring-ing it back to life.

“I see a church filled with people wanting to grow and build a closer relationship with God,” she said, “enjoy-ing fellowship while caring and loving all.”

Singing as a youth in the church is a favorite memory of Allen’s, along with summer vacation Bible school classes, lunch picnics in the church yard and breakfast before Easter sunrise services.

“I would come home for Easter even after I moved away so I could attend ser-vices,” she said.

Construction of the pres-ent church was started in 1908 and it was dedicated in May 1909. Records indicate the cost was $3,300. It sits north of the Leanna Cem-etery on land the congre-gation acquired by trading the previous church build-

ing (built in 1876) to Amos and son Earl Reed, which was west of the cemetery.

Volunteers who had a hand in the church con-struction included Marion Alford, Curtis Hunter, Ross Tolbert and Si Elliott. Pews for the sanctuary were planed at Koenig Planing Mill in Chanute, gas lights were used and later fixtures such as the piano, hym-nals, communion table and service and a lighted cross were provided with memo-rial funds.

Generations of the Breiner, White, Ingels, Boggs, Crawford, Oshel, Low, Rice, Cottle, Roberts, Pugh, Pool and Fewins families were regular at-tendees throughout the church’s history.

Attendance varied through the years with numbers typically around 40. As families aged and children left home, num-bers dwindled until there were only about 10 mem-bers attending on a regu-lar basis. Ted Ohmart was the last pastor to serve in Leanna and upon his retirement, the church closed.

Since returning to the area, seeing the empty church has been a con-stant reminder of its idle state for Allen. Knowing that besides her own chil-dren, there are at least five other families in the immediate area, she be-gan to pray for guidance in utilizing the building. She approached Ozark Bible College, in Joplin, and suggested a graduate come to Leanna, but had no “takers.”

“I prayed and told my-self God is in control and if it was God’s plan it would happen,” she said.

It was after that a class-mate, Tom Oliphant, came to her home asking about

the Leanna church and ex-pressing thoughts similar to Allen’s that the church needed to be used.

“I guess Tom’s visit mo-tivated me even more,” Allen said. “I decided to plan a chili dinner at the church and a meeting af-terward for individuals interested in the future of the church. I passed out flyers in the community

and visited with some in-dividuals. There were 35 that came to the chili din-ner.”

Following that meeting, a Sunday evening Bible study was held with 17 people attending, where plans were made to start the New Year with regular scheduled Sunday evening Bible studies. David Broy-les, Humboldt, was asked to lead the meetings and Sunday evening 23 attend-ed the first gathering.

“I just know there are people looking for a church home or that need a place that just makes them feel good and wel-come,” Allen said.

From Humboldt, Leanna Christian Church is 7 miles east on Delaware Road, then 5 miles south on 2400.

(Information regarding the church history was taken from “The Church at Leanna-The Beginning” written in 1983 by Mary McCollough Alford.)

By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT — Librar-ies are keeping up with the electronic age by pro-viding access to high tech “electronic books,” or e-books, as an alternative to conventional books from the shelf.

“People like the conve-nience of having a book in an electronic format that they can stick in a purse when they’re traveling,” Librarian Melinda Herder said. “If a book is real big, an e-reader is much light-er weight and multiple e-books can be stored on an e-reader.”

With a Kansas Library card, the cardholder has access to books from the Kansas State Library EZ Library, where e-books can be checked out and downloaded for free.

“Our library doesn’t own any e-books, but we can help people sign up for the Kansas card here,” Herder said. “It requires only their name and date of birth.”

Cardholders are as-signed a pin number that allows them access to the state library databases, like the 3M Cloud eBooks. The state library website, www.kslib.info, gives in-formation on which elec-tronic devices are compat-ible. Books borrowed and downloaded from the state library 3M Cloud eBooks stay on the reader device for two weeks and then expire to allow another reader an opportunity to borrow the e-book. Like a conventional book, each e-

book can only be checked out by one person at a time.

Roger Carswell, di-rector of the Southeast Kansas Library System in Iola, explained the e-book service currently being used, saying most regional libraries can’t afford an electronic book service, so librar-ies across the state con-tribute to the Kansas Library System’s e-book platform.

Herder pointed out that not all publishers make their books available for electronic devices. “The publisher has control,” Herder said. “Some pub-lishers only make their books available to spe-cific e-readers and the person is required to purchase the book (as op-posed to borrowing).”

Kansas EZ Library currently has 4,734 e-books and 7,588 down-loadable audio books.

Today — Chapter AM PEO meeting, 7:30 p.m., li-brary meeting room, Jean-ice Cress hostess.

Friday — Downtown Ac-tion Team meeting, 1:30 p.m., library meeting room.

Saturday — County-wide paper drive.

Jan. 17 - PRIDE meeting, 9 a.m., library meeting room.

Joyce Allen stands on the steps of the Leanna Chris-tian Church building that has stood north of the cem-etery more than 100 years. The church has been closed for more than five years, but after Allen invited mem-bers of the community to discuss the church’s future recently, regular Sunday evening Bible studies have resumed.

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Sheri Middleton, 17, signed up Friday for a Kansas Library card with librarian Melinda Herder.

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I just know there are peo-ple looking for a church home or that need a place that just makes them feel good and welcome.

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Kansas, under Gov. Sam Brownback, is reducing the services it provides to the poor in order to shrink state gov-ernment and justify last year’s huge tax cuts.

An extensive article in Sun-day’s Kansas City Star gave the details.

“. . . Roughly 384,000 Kansans, 13.8 percent of the population, live at or below the poverty line, which is $23,050 a year for a family of four. That number has risen by nearly 80,000 since before the recession began in 2008. Of those, 34,000 were chil-dren, whose poverty rate has increased from 14.5 percent to nearly 19 percent.”

Rather than responding to these facts by increasing aid to the poor, the state is doing the opposite.

Under the federal health care law, a state can expand its Medicaid program — which provides health care to the poor — and the federal gov-ernment will pick up the tab. Gov. Brownback has refused to enroll Kansas in that pro-gram. As a result, somewhere between 120,000 and 140,000 low-income people may soon be without health insurance.

Critics also point out that the administrative decision to turn its Medicaid program over to three private health in-surers rather than continue to provide it with state employees is almost certain to result in providing a lower level of care to a smaller number of the poor. Their logic is convinc-ing: the for-profit companies which make up the KanCare group must make a profit. That profit can only be produced by cutting costs. Costs can only be reduced by serving fewer people and providing fewer services. The KanCare profits will be made, in other words, by squeezing the state’s poor-est residents, Kansas hospitals and the other health care pro-viders.

The state denies these charg-es. Using private companies will increase efficiencies, re-duce the growth of Medicaid and save the state $500 mil-lion over five years, the state contends. This estimate of the savings was pulled out of thin air and is almost certain to be proved mythical. Health care costs continue to rise. Introduc-ing an additional cost by hiring private companies to adminis-ter the program will increase the Medicaid bill unless the

services provided are reduced.Using logic and arithmetic

to analyze the effect of policy changes is not a course fol-lowed by the administration.

The administration can therefore claim that eliminat-ing food stamps for families in-volving 2,200 Kansas children didn’t make those children hungrier with poorer diets and that eliminating long-standing tax breaks available for 430,000 children and other dependents in poor families will have no ill effects on those families.

The Star story also report-ed that the Temporary Aid to Needy Families program — also known as welfare — has been reduced. TANF provides cash assistance to those whose annual incomes are no greater than 20 percent of the federal poverty level, or about $6,500 a year for a family of four. TANF checks average around $280 a month. About 39,000 severely poor Kansans were receiving TANF when Brownback took office. After his administra-tion instituted stricter rules, about 38 percent of those par-ticipants — or nearly 15,000 of them — were cut off.

“ . . . One of the most dras-tic TANF rules is one that took welfare payments away from the entire family if any child in the family was not attending school.”

The state’s own numbers show that the monthly denial of benefits went from 66 per-cent to 74 percent. In compari-son, only about 35 percent of TANF applications in Missouri are denied each month.

Phyllis Gilmore, secretary of the Kansas Department for Children and Families, insists that the reduced number of poor Kansans receiving state assistance indicates that the poor are finding jobs and don’t need state help. She agrees that she doesn’t have proof that this is happening but that “it is a natural assumption.”

THE NATURAL assump-tion is, rather, that the poor in Kansas will continue to get poorer, that their children will live stunted lives and that the money that had been spent lift-ing them up is now going to the wealthy in tax reductions they don’t need.

Shame on the Kansans in power for showing such heart-less contempt for the poorest among us.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Welfare ‘reform’makes Kansaslook heartless

WASHINGTON — As a new Congress convenes, it has become an unquestioned truth among Re-publicans that their party has as much of a mandate as President Obama because voters returned them to power in the House.

The mantra has been intoned by John Boehner, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Newt Gin-grich, Grover Norquist and many other party eminences, and there is a certain logic to saying that the voters, by giving Republicans the House, were asking for divid-ed government.

But the claim to represent the voters’ will doesn’t add up.

The final results from the No-vember election were completed Friday, and they show that Demo-cratic candidates for the House outpolled Republicans nation-wide by nearly 1.4 million votes and more than a full percentage point — a greater margin than the preliminary figures showed in November. And that’s just the beginning of it: A new analysis finds that even if Democratic congressional candidates won the popular vote by 7 percent-age points nationwide, they still would not have gained control of the House.

The analysis, by Ian Millhiser at the liberal Center for Ameri-can Progress using data compiled by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, finds that even if Demo-crats were to win the popular vote by a whopping 9 percentage points — a political advantage that can’t possibly be maintained year after year — they would have a tenuous eight-seat majority.

In a very real sense, the Repub-lican House majority is impervi-ous to the will of the electorate.

Thanks in part to deft redistrict-ing based on the 2010 census, House Republicans may be pro-tected from the vicissitudes of the voters for the next decade. For Obama and the Democrats, this is an ominous development: The House Republican majority is durable, and it isn’t necessarily sensitive to political pressure and public opinion.

According to the Jan. 4 final tal-ly by Cook’s David Wasserman af-ter all states certified their votes, Democratic House candidates won 59,645,387 votes in November to the Republicans’ 58,283,036, a difference of 1,362,351. On a per-centage basis, Democrats won, 49.15 percent to 48.03 percent.

This in itself is an extraordi-nary result: Only three or four other times in the last century has a party lost the popular vote but won control of the House. But computer-aided gerrymandering is helping to make such undemo-cratic results the norm — to the decided advantage of Republi-cans, who controlled state gov-ernments in 21 states after the 2010 census, compared to 11 for Democrats.

TO BE SURE, Democrats tend to be just as flagrant as Republi-cans when they have the chance to gerrymander. But the Repub-lican advantage isn’t entirely be-cause of redistricting; Democrats have lopsided majorities in urban clusters, so the overall popular vote overstates their competitive-ness in other districts. An analy-sis by FairVote found that non-partisan redistricting would only partially close the gap, which also comes from the disappearance of ticket-splitting voters who elect-

ed centrist Democrats. But the 2012 House results

show the redrawing of districts to optimize Republican represen-tation clearly had an impact. Con-sider three states won by Obama in 2012 where Republicans domi-nated the redistricting: In Penn-sylvania, Democrats won just five of 18 House seats; in Virginia, Democrats won three of 11; and in Ohio, Democrats won four of 16.

Using Wasserman’s tally, Mill-hiser ranked districts by the Re-publican margin of victory and calculated that for Democrats to have won the 218 seats needed for a House majority they would have had to add another 6.13 percent-age points to their popular vote victory margin of 1.12 points.

To put the Republican advan-tage in perspective, Democrats could win the House only if they do significantly better than Re-publicans did in their landslide year of 2010 (when they had a 6.6-point advantage). That’s not impossible — Democrats did it in 2006 and 2008 — but it’s difficult. Republicans don’t have a perma-nent House majority but they will go into the next several elections with an automatic head start. For many, the biggest political threat comes not from Democrats but from conservative primary chal-lengers.

In theory, the Supreme Court could decide before then that this rigged system denies Americans fair and effective representation. But this won’t happen anytime soon. For now, Democrats need to recognize that the Republican House majority will respond only sluggishly to the usual levers of democracy.

For GOP, the numbers crunch

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In a very real sense, the Republican House majority is impervious to the will of the electorate. Thanks in part to deft redistricting based on the 2010 census, House Republicans may be protected from the vicissitudes of the voters for the next decade.

A look back in time50 Years Ago

Week of Jan. 6-12, 1963The United States Postal De-

partment is initiating one basic change in its regulations, and will hike most charges effective Jan. 7, Everett Harlan, postmas-ter, is reminding customers. The new rule, which went into effect this morning, is that any thing smaller in size than three inches by four and a quarter inches is unmailable. This rules out cute cards, with or without envelopes, which have been popularly used for birth announcements and invitations to parties. It is un-derstood that automatic devices now being used more and more will not handle smaller pieces

of mail. Effective Jan. 7, every type of mail, with the exception of parcel post, will cost a penny more. For example, first class let-ters will advance from 4 cents per ounce to 5 cents.

*****The Kansas Farm Bureau an-

nounced this morning that Frank Boyd Jr., well known Moran farmer, has been appointed to a two-year term as a director of the state association, succeeding Lee Perkins, Richmond, who died a short time ago. Boyd will repre-sent the Farm Bureau Second dis-trict, which includes nine eastern Kansas counties.

*****Charles Hatton, John Masque-

lier Sr. and William Masquelier have purchased Robinson Gro-cery, 709 East St. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Robinson have owned the store for over a decade, build-ing it into one of the best known suburban stores in the communi-ty. The name of the store will be changed to Model Grocery, No. 2. The new owners have been in the grocery business here for many years and also operate the Model Grocery, 7 N. Jefferson, and the H and M Grocery, 401 S. State.

***** The temperature dropped to

five below zero at the water plant last night, the lowest reading here since Jan. 4, 1959, when the mercury slumped to nine below.

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Last week Carla Nem-ecek, Southwind Exten-sion District Director, highlighted many of the services provided through your local extension office that are geared more to-ward the agriculture side, but we also provide a mul-titude of services geared toward family and con-sumer sciences. Together, the Southwind Extension District truly has some-thing to offer everyone.

Was your garden overly abundant and you want to preserve some of the bounty? Got a question about the proper cooking temperature for pork? Did your new red shirt turn everything in the laundry pink? Need to save money or stretch your family budget? We can help an-swer all those questions.

Family and consumer sciences (FCS) encompass a broad spectrum of essen-tial life skills. FCS agents can provide research-based information for all those skills required for everyday life, including human development, per-sonal and family finance, budgeting, housing and interior design, cooking, foods, nutrition, health and wellness, textiles and apparel, and consumer is-sues.

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available include up-to-date publications for food preservation, and infor-mation on most of the homemaking skills listed above. We offer free test-ing of pressure gauges for home canning and recom-mend that this be done at least once a year. We also have water testing kits available and radon test-ing kits for a small fee.

Southwind FCS agents are available for presenta-tions, as offered through the “speakers bureau” brochure, as well as class-es and presentations on many topics upon request.

As you move into the New Year, make the South-wind Extension District offices your “go to” re-source for agriculture and Family and Consumer Sci-ences topics.

For questions or more information, contact Kathy in the Iola office at (620) 365-2242 or by email at [email protected]. Visit our website www.southwind.ksu.edu.

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Extension office has something for everyone You know the scenario —

you purchase a nice plant for the perfect spot in your home. It looks good, does well and then it outgrows its intended space. Once it’s outgrown the space in your house, you might try to pawn it off to someone else. Unfortunately, they probably don’t have enough room for it either.

When plant gets too big, you might want to try bringing the plant down to size by way of air-layering.

Air-layering is a pro-cess by where a branch or the main stem of a plant is encouraged to form roots while still attached to the parent plant. After rooting, the parent plant is discarded and the newly rooted one is potted as the replacement.

Though this propaga-tion technique cannot be

used on all houseplants, it does work well on many that tend to outgrow their space. This includes dra-caena, dieffenbachia, rub-ber plant, schefflera and croton.

To start the air-layering process, choose wood that is about one year old. Older, more mature wood often roots poorly, if at all. Any place on the stem that is of the proper maturity can be used, but a convenient loca-tion is about 12 inches from the tip.

Remove leaves around the

area to be air-layered. Wound the stem. This can be done by making a slanting cut upward, an inch or more in length and halfway through the stem. Place a portion of a toothpick in the cut so it cannot close and heal. If the stem is seriously weakened, use a stick to splint the area to prevent breakage.

Apply rooting hormone to the wounded surface of the cut. Place a base-ball sized wad of moist, unmilled sphagnum peat moss around the wounded area so it forms a ball. This is where the new roots will form. It is important to use the long, stringy unmilled peat moss rather than the more common milled mate-rial so the peat moss does not fall off of the stem. Even then, unmilled peat moss may need to be se-

cured with a string to keep it in place.

Wrap the ball of peat with clear plastic wrap. Be sure to use enough wrap so the plastic overlaps and prevents the ball from dry-ing out. Secure the top and bottom edges of the wrap closed with electrical tape or any other type of mate-rial you can fasten.

Roots may appear in as little as a month although it may take much longer for the plant to be ready for transplanting. Fall and winter propagation will be slower because of less sun-light. Check periodically to be sure the peat moss remains moist and water if needed. When the roots have filled the peat moss, the plant is ready to be sev-ered from the parent and transplanted.

Bringing house plants down to sizeKristaHarding

ExtensionAgent forAgriculture

A weed resistance lun-cheon has been sched-uled for Tuesday, Jan. 22 at the Yeager Building on the Bourbon County Fair-grounds. The program will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., lunch provided by AgVen-ture.

Topics to be covered are:• Weed Resistance: how

we got here, what to do now, and where to go from here — Dallas Peterson, K-State Weed Specialist.

• Southeast Kansas Agronomy Update — Doug Shoup, Area Agronomy Specialist.

Registration is requested by Jan. 18 by calling the Southwind Extension Dis-trict — Fort Scott office at (620) 223-3720.

Weed resistance workshop to be held

gained steam in 2008 and 2009. Servicers were over-whelmed with requests for loan modifications, and the problem of homes that now are worth less than the mortgages they carry con-tinues to bedevil the hous-ing market.

The agreement an-nounced Monday ends an “independent foreclosure review” of 4 million loan files mandated in a 2011 enforcement action by the Office of the Comptrol-ler of the Currency and the Federal Reserve. The costly and time-consuming process required banks to hire independent consul-tants to review the files on a case-by-case basis to iden-tify mistakes such as lost paperwork, miscalculated payments, illegal fees and other slipshod mortgage servicing and foreclosure practices.

The Government Ac-countability Office reported in July that the review was too complex and borrowers “might not be motivated to participate.”

Regulators said the settle-ment announcement Mon-day would provide more speedy relief to borrow-ers, who now will receive compensation regardless of whether they’ve filed re-quests for review.

Bank officials said they were pleased to have the independent foreclosure re-view behind them.

“We have helped nearly 1 million homeowners avoid foreclosure over the last four years and will contin-ue to help others who may be struggling to make their payments,” JPMorgan Chase spokeswoman Amy Bonitatibus said.

Consumer advocates welcomed the decision to replace the failed review process with a settlement that will return at least some cash to victims of un-fair banking practices. But they said many problems remained.

“The money is grossly inadequate for homeown-ers, and the program will require careful oversight to ensure that all home-owners harmed get a fair chance at benefits,” said Ed Mierzwinski, the consumer program director for U.S. PIRG, a nonprofit advocacy group.

“Finally, of course, we need strong federal mort-gage-servicing standards to protect all homeowners from the unfair and in-competent servicing and foreclosure practices that have driven many out of their minds due to lost, wrong or even illegally prepared paperwork and forced far too many more out of their homes,” Mier-zwinski said.

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The money is grossly inad-equate for home-owners, and the program will re-quire careful over-sight to ensure that all homeown-ers harmed get a fair chance at benefits.

— Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program

director for U.S. PIRG, a nonprofit advocacy

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By BETSY BLANEYAssociated Press

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Attention, bread shoppers: A Texas company could have the answer to some consumers’ unwelcome dis-covery that just-purchased loaves contain mold.

MicroZap Inc. claims its technology allows bread to stay mold-free for 60 days. The bread is bombarded with microwaves for about 10 seconds, which kills the mold spores, said chief ex-ecutive officer Don Stull said.

The process could elimi-nate bakers’ need for pre-servatives and ingredients used to mask preservatives’ flavor, as well as reduce food waste and increase bread’s shelf life, he said.

Researchers at Texas Tech University also see us-ing the technology in bread made in developing coun-tries, where there are fewer food safety standards and spoilage is a problem.

“It could help us provide an abundant food source for those in need,” said Mindy Brashear, director of the Lubbock university’s Center for Food Industry Excellence. The prospect of helping people in develop-ing countries is what mo-tivated the microbiology

professor to help develop the technology over the last eight years.

After 60 days, researchers found the treated bread that remained packaged had the same mold content when compared to a freshly baked loaf, Stull said. In the end, though, he knows it comes down to consumers’ palates.

“The consumers saw no discernible quality differ-ence in the breads,” Stull said of testers who found the treated bread’s taste and texture unchanged.

An Associated Press reporter found the same. Though slightly warm from the microwaves, a piece of whole-grain white bread was soft and tasted like one that hadn’t been zapped. Sixty-day-old bread was not available to taste.

Estimates from the Nat-ural Resources Defense Council this year indicated that in 2008, in-store food losses in the U.S. totaled an estimated 43 billion pounds — 10 percent of all foods supplied to retail outlets — most of which are perish-ables, including bread.

Unrefrigerated bread in plastic packaging will suc-cumb to mold in about 10 days, so keeping it at bay for 60 days presents a fresh proposition.

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how it directly benefits the community,” which in turn makes the associates feel more invested in their com-munities, Wrench said.

Many of the fund raising activities are child-friendly, such as hula-hooping in the Walmart parking lot, and al-low for associates to include their children.

“By volunteering my time I can also spend time with my kid,” Wrench said.

That’s a win-win for em-ployees as they instill im-portant values in their chil-dren, said Jeff Livingston, Walmart manager.

A total of 27 non-profit or-ganizations have benefited from the individual VAPs, including Crest High School and the Kiwanis Club, which each received grants.

WALMART employees who volunteer in groups of five or more for at least 25 hours also are effective.

Maximum awards of $5,000 are available if at least 50 associates work a com-bined 250 hours for a cause. Five $5,000 events are allot-ted per store, which Iola’s Walmart maxed out in 2012.

Hope Unlimited, Iola Po-lice Department, Thrive Allen County, Muscular Dystrophy Association and SAFE BASE are the local or-ganizations that have bene-fitted from the group efforts.

The associates decide what organizations they will work toward.

“We don’t do it if it doesn’t benefit our community,” Liv-ingston said.

Donations under $100 and for non-profit organizations can be applied for at the Walmart service desk.

An example: Coaches bought fresh fruit for ath-letes to eat, instead of visit-ing a fast food restaurant af-ter games.

Another example: Teach-ers can purchase food items that relate specifically to an area of study.

LOOKING forward, Walmart associates are fo-cusing on maintaining mo-mentum.

“We already maxed out all the goals that had limits, now we need to find new and

creative ways to (generate) money for our community,” Livingston said.

“I would like to see us hit $100,000,” Wrench added. “I know $86,000 is a lot, but if we could get a handful more associates to participate in the individual VAPs, we could do it.”

Livingston and Wrench said they would like to see more surrounding area orga-nizations put in applications for grants. A few organiza-tions in Humboldt applied the past two years, but they would like to see organiza-tions in Le Roy, Colony and even farther away take ad-vantage of the grants.

“We want to help ben-efit the organization that we benefit from,” through sales, Livingston said.

Iola’s Walmart has given the most to Muscular Dys-trophy Association and Chil-dren’s Miracle Network in all of Southeast Kansas.

Other organizations Walmart has given grants or volunteer time to have in-cluded Adopt a Family, the Charley Melvin Mad Bomb-er, teacher appreciation and Allen County Animal Res-cue Facility.

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I would like to see us hit $100,000. I know $86,000 is a lot, but if we could get a handful more associates to par-ticipate in the in-dividual VAPs, we could do it.

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Due to confusion surround-ing the bills presented be-fore the council, discussion was made about how much in particular the city owes the firm, as well as what their contract stipulated. Ultimately, the council vot-ed on two different motions to pay $7,786.92 for the first phase of the project, and an additional $26,069.35 to the contractor for the amount of work completed thus far.

Council member War-ren Johnson, along with the rest of the council, had some reluctance on paying the bill, due to a confusion over a duplicate invoice that was given to the city in November.

“I can’t vote for a bill that I don’t hardly know what it is,” Johnson said.

After some discussion, the council decided that the amounts voted upon were accurate up to this point,

and will wait on clarifica-tions from the engineering firm and the contractor be-fore making any more pay-ments.

In other business:• A motion was passed

to allow the Department of Transportation to con-struct an additional en-trance to their facility. The entrance, complete with a gate and culvert, will be put in place on the west side of

Oak Street. Council mem-bers requested that the entrance be placed at the location farthest from any residential housing.

• Council members passed a motion to allow four volunteer firefighters funds needed to attend the State Capital Area Fire-fighter’s Associate training in Topeka. The amount, in-cluding meals, transporta-tion and board, is approxi-mately $1,000.

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terview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

Obama aides say the president still plans to act quickly on Biden’s propos-als. They worry that as the shock of the Newtown shooting fades, so, too, will the prospects that pro-gun lawmakers will work with the White House to tighten restrictions.

“I believe most Ameri-cans would disagree with the idea that in the wake of what happened in New-

town, Conn., that we should put off any action on the is-sue of gun violence,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday in re-sponse to McConnell’s com-ments. “It’s certainly not a sentiment the president supports.”

Biden’s recommenda-tions are likely to include proposals for legislation, as well as executive action Obama can sign into law without lawmakers’ ap-proval.

The president already has called on Congress to rein-

state a ban on military-style assault weapons, close loop-holes that allow gun buyers to skirt background checks and restrict high-capacity magazines. While the presi-dent may consider addition-al gun control measures, he also has ordered his admin-istration to examine ways to improve mental health cov-erage and consider cultural issues like violence in video games and movies.

Pro-gun lawmakers on Capitol Hill have said any comprehensive effort to respond to the Newtown

shooting must include more than just tighter gun con-trol.

In addition to Biden’s meetings this week, Educa-tion Secretary Arne Dun-can will meet this week with parent and teacher groups, while Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will meet with mental health and dis-ability advocates.

The White House said oth-er meetings are also sched-uled with community orga-nizations, business owners and religious leaders.

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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A sunset wedding ceremo-ny aboard a hot air bal-loon got off to a bumpy start when a gust of wind forced the pilot to make a crash landing in the yard of a San Diego home.

San Diego Fire-Rescue Department spokesman Maurice Luque says one of the 14 people onboard suffered a minor back in-jury Monday.

The marrying couple told KGTV the gust caught

the balloon just after they exchanged their vows, causing it to sway over the Rancho Penasquitos neighborhood.

The landing on a hill-side fence behind the house was filmed by a member of the wedding party. Video showed the blue-and-yellow balloon draped over trees near the house afterward.

The couple continued to their reception.

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Members of the Allen County Wrestling Club continue to rake in all sorts of hardware for the excellence on the mats.

On Saturday, the wrestlers brought home nine first-place fin-ishes, while 15 wrestlers finished in the top five of their respective divisions at the Mike Holsinger Memorial Tournament.

Earning first place were Curt Shannon, Jaaron Griffin, Ale-jandro Vargas, T.J. Taylor, Adam Atwell, Jeremy Ridge, Trenton Jones, Logan Brown and Seth Sanford.

Ryan West took second in his group, while Clay Shannon and Hunter Mittlemeier were third. Tripp Chapman finished fourth, as did Payton Houk. Creed Shan-non nabbed fifth place.

“Our kids wrestled hard to-day and it showed,” Coach John Taylor said. “It was probably the best tournament we have had as a team. The dedication from the kids and parents is really starting to show on the mat, and the sup-port from the community and our sponsors has helped us grow into a competitive club.”

The wrestlers also brought home a trophy Dec. 29 at the

By RICHARD [email protected]

Iola Middle School’s seventh-graders picked up a pair of vic-tories Monday against visiting Independence, while the eighth-graders went 0-2 on the night.

The seventh-grade A team downed Independence 22-10, while the B team prevailed 23-9.

The A team squad was led by Ethan Holloway’s 11 points and five rebounds, followed by Evan

Sigg’s six points and 10 boards. Matt Komma had two points and 13 rebounds. Nick Vaughn added two points and Dalton Ryherd scored one.

Iola led 6-0 after one quarter and 12-5 at halftime. The lead stood at 19-10 after three quar-ters.

“This group hasn’t lost a game and I still don’t think we are play-ing our best,” Pony coach Marty Taylor said. “The big kids did a

good job of keeping Indy off the boards. Ethan played much bet-ter tonight.”

The eighth-grade A team fell behind 20-7 before a furious rally closed the Ponies to within four points, 35-31, after three quar-ters. Independence closed the game with a 15-3 run to win 50-34.

“After the first quarter, we played the best basketball that we’ve played,” Taylor said. “But we have to come ready to play

against good teams like Indepen-dence.”

Braden Plumlee led the Po-nies with 16 points and seven re-bounds. Ben Cooper added eight points and six assists. Chase Re-gehr had eight points and nine rebounds. Ethan Scheibmeir added three points.

In B team action, Iola’s sev-enth-graders were led by Caden

By GREG LOGANNewsday

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (MCT) — Notre Dame was on the wrong side of history Monday night at Sun Life Stadium. Coach Brian Kelly was trying to awaken the echoes of past greatness as the undefeated, top-ranked Irish reached their first national title game since 1988.

But the shine quickly came off the Golden Dome as Alabama used the Irish as little more than glori-fied straw men on the way to bur-nishing its own rich college foot-ball legacy. The Crimson Tide won its third BCS National Champion-ship Game in the past four sea-sons, 42-14, a performance of such utter dominance that the Irish fans in the stadium-record crowd of 80,120 were rendered mute al-most from the opening drive.

Alabama coach Nick Saban, whose perfect coif is as much of a trademark as the legendary Paul “Bear” Bryant’s hounds tooth hat, might not be a son of the South, but his record sure puts him in a class with that iconic figure. The BCS title was the fourth for Saban, counting the one he won at LSU in 2004, and the Crimson Tide (13-1) became the first team in BCS history that began in 1999 to win three titles.

Saban spent the week before the game brushing off compari-sons to Bryant and shunning all talk of “dynasties,” but that will be impossible now.

“I’m satisfied with this team,” a low-key Saban said on the field seconds after receiving a Gato-rade bath from his players. “I’m proud of what we accomplished, but in two days we’re going to start working on next year.

“Our offense controlled the whole tempo of the game.”

Alabama quarterback AJ Mc-Carron was absolutely masterful, completing 20 of 28 passes for 264 yards and four touchdowns. Eddie Lacy (20 carries for 140 yards) and T.J. Yeldon (21 for 108) each topped the 100-yard rushing mark, and wide receiver Amari Cooper had six catches for 105 yards and two TDs.

Alabama showed textbook bal-ance, rushing for 265 yards and throwing for 264.

Notre Dame was limited to 32 rushing yards, but quarterback Everett Golson hit 21 of 36 passes for 270 yards.

Notre Dame (12-1) came into the game as the top-ranked scor-ing defense in the country, hav-ing allowed only two rushing touchdowns all season and no first-quarter TDs at all. All that was washed away in the blink of an eye thanks to an overpower-ing Alabama offensive line led by All-Americans Barrett Jones, D.J. Fluker and Chance Warmack.

Placing faith in their defense,

Allen County wrestlers find success on mat

Photo courtesy of Jana TaylorAllen County Wrestling Club members who earned a trophy for earning the most points in the 8-and-under divisions at a tournament in Chanute were, front from left, Brandon McKarnin, T.J. Taylor, Eli Adams and Payton Houk; and second row from left, Alejandro Vargas, Gage Scheibmei-er, Adam Atwell and Trenton Jones.

IMS squads go 2-2 against Independence

Register/Richard LukenAbove, Iola Middle School eighth-graders Zane Beasley (15) and Mason Ingle (42) vie for a rebound against Independence Middle School’s Sam Hilger (31). At right, Iola’s Braden Plumlee, left, goes in for a layup against the defense of Independence’s Skyler St. Clair.

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Southeast Kansas Jr. Com-ets Tournament in Cha-nute.

Iola’s 8-and-under wres-tlers earned the team tro-phy for scoring the most points among the partici-pating clubs.

Individuals taking home first-place finishes at Cha-nute were Eli Adams, Tren-ton Jones and Seth Sanford. Sanford also received spe-cial recognition for record-ing the fastest pin in the 14-and-under division. He

pinned his opponent in 12 seconds.

Earning second place for Allen County were T. J. Tay-lor, Casey McKarnin and Logan Brown.

Alejandro Vargas, Payton Houk, Brandon McKarnin and Adam Atwell took third in their divisions.

Landon Boldra, Gage Scheibmeier, Kole Rog-

ers and Cooper Riley were fourth.

Also competing were Conner Sallee, Ryan West, Tripp Chapman and Jer-emy Ridge.

“Winning the (8-and-under) trophy is a great accomplishment,” Coach Taylor said. “It shows the boys are getting better ev-ery tournament.”

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the Irish won the toss but deferred, kicking the ball away. It took the Crimson Tide all of five plays to go 82 yards for the opening touchdown, which came on a 20-yard run by Lacy up the middle right past Notre Dame star lineback-er Manti Te’o.

Alabama’s second drive went 61 yards and ended with a 3-yard touchdown toss from McCarron over Te’o to tight end Michael Williams for a 14-0 lead. The opening quarter end-

ed with Alabama on the Notre Dame 1-yard line. Yeldon scored on the first play of the second quarter.

The Irish had allowed a total of nine first-quarter points all season, but there was no holding back the Crimson Tide, who ex-tended the halftime lead to 28-0 on an 11-yard pass from McCarron to Lacy. By that point, Alabama had 309 yards in perfectly balanced fashion with 153 on the ground and 156 through the air, and the Tide had held the ball for

19:46.McCarron was little

short of flawless as he be-came the first quarterback to win two BCS titles. The junior opened the second half by marching Alabama 97 yards in 10 plays to score on a perfectly thrown 34-yard deep fade to Cooper at the right pylon.

Notre Dame finally sal-vaged a small measure of self-respect by driving 85 yards to score on Golson’s 2-yard keeper, but McCar-ron came right back with a 19-yard touchdown pass to

Cooper at the end of an 86-yard drive.

The Irish later added a 6-yard TD pass from Gol-son to Theo Riddick.

The most exciting mo-ment of the second half might have come when McCarron got into a brief shouting match with his own center, Jones, who pushed him back. But by the time the game ended, the only argument left for college historians was where to place Alabama in the pantheon of all-time great teams.

Allen County Wrestling Club members are Adam Atwell, above, and Trenton Jones, right. Photos by Jana Taylor

Curt Shannon, above at top, wrestles Saturday.

Register/Richard LukenIola Middle School seventh-grader Bryce Andres, above at left, goes up for a rebound against Inde-pendence’s Ethan Pope. At left, Iola’s Mason Ingle puts up a shot in the seventh-grade A team game.

Knavel and Dalton Ryherd with six points each, Alex Morrison with five and Bryce Andres, William

Winner and Cale Barnhart with two apiece.

The eighth-grade B team fell 27-24. Mason Ingle scored 14 points, followed

by Joey Zimmerman with seven and Zane Beasley with three.

“Mason really stepped it up and played well to-

night,” Taylor said.The IMS squads travel

to Chanute Thursday to take on Royster Middle School.

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OSWEGO — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s boys dropped a pair of basketball games Monday evening.

The Wildcat A team fell to Oswego 46-14. Justice Pugh scored 11 points and Ethan Tavarez three for the Wildcats.

MVJH squadstravel to Oswego

The Marmaton Valley B team fell 17-14. Tony Jeffer-is and Robert Muse scored four points each for the Wildcats, followed by Kiefer Endicott, Noah Foster and Brock Hall with two apiece.

IN GIRLS action, Oswego downed the Wildcats 46-9 in A team action and 16-14 in the B team contest.

Leading Marmaton Val-ley’s A team were Misty Storrer with five points, Kyla Drake and Makayla Broooks with two apiece.

In the B team contest, Shayla Brooks scored eight points, followed by Trini-tee Gutierrez with three, Makayla Brooks with two and Megan Ensminger with one.

Marmaton Valley will wrap up its season Thurs-day at Westphalia.

CANEY — Host Caney Valley rode a hot start to victory Friday over visiting Yates Center High.

The Bullpups led 21-9 af-ter one quarter and never looked back, to win 69-37.

The loss drops Yates Center’s record to 3-5. The Wildcats travel to Waverly Tuesday.

Caney Valley led the Wildcats 34-21 at halftime, then put the game away with a 19-10 third-quarter outburst to lead 53-31.

Cameron Brown paced Yates Center with 14 points, followed by Robert Arnold with 12. Caleb De-Noon scored five, Trevor Chism had three, Justin Rossillon two and Austin McNett one.

Tanner McIntosh led Caney Valley with a game-high 29 points. Jonathan Estes had 16.

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Eduroam is a particu-larly useful tool for fac-ulty who travel abroad for research and encounter universities or research labs that closely guard their secure networks, The Lawrence Journal-World reported.

Most of the 6,000 other institutions that use Edu-roam are in Europe, with only about 80 U.S. institu-

tions participating.“Essentially everybody

in Europe is using it,” said James Sterbenz, an associ-ate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Kansas.

Sterbenz is a visiting professor at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and helps with computer networking re-search projects funded by the European Union, which means he travels throughout Europe for meetings and conferences. Before Eduroam, each vis-it meant asking for access to computer networks that are often closed to protect databases and other mate-rial.

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to Europe later this month, he will be able to log on with his Kansas informa-tion whenever he is at a participating institution.

The service cost Kan-sas nothing, requiring only about six months of testing to make sure the university’s network was compatible and secure.

Scholars from abroad or other U.S. institutions who visit the university also will benefit from Eduroam and international students could use the service to connect while in their home countries, said Bob Lim, chief information of-ficer for Kansas’ IT depart-ment.

KU joins international Internet

By KATHY HANKSAssociated Press

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — During the gray and gloomy final hours of New Year’s Eve, Diana Bea-sley was looking toward 2013 — and 19,000 gerani-um cuttings.

Each plant, the size of Beasley’s pinky finger, was given a future as it was gently tucked into soil by employees at Ben-ton’s Greenhouse in South Hutchinson. With sunlight, heat and lots of water, the plants will thrive and grow into full blooming gerani-ums, ready for sale by the first of April.

Even before strings of holiday lights and manger scenes were packed away, greenhouse owners were preparing for the next sea-son in the growing year.

Jason French, manag-er of Stutzman’s Green-house, said he was so over the bright red poinsettia plants.

“We started poinsettias in July,” said French, of the 30,000 plants raised for the holiday season. “We’ve been looking at them for a long time. I’m ready to start over with something new.”

Even back in mid-De-cember when consumers were still preparing for Christmas, growers were thinking about Easter, which will be on March 31

this year.While customers inside

Stutzman’s retail green-houses were shopping for blooming poinsettias, across the road in its grow-ing houses, employees had potted 6,000 bulbs of Easter lilies on Dec. 10.

“One thing leads right into the next,” French said.

Soon, Stutzman’s em-ployees will have planted up to 10,000 geranium cut-tings.

“Spring starts early when you have plants ready for sale,” French said. As-paragus ferns and Boston ferns also are growing. Within a week the green-house will begin full-scale spring production.

Even at Sheila’s Garden Market in Galva, Sheila Wedel has her tiny seedling of osteospermums and as-paragus ferns started.

“Next week I’ll be start-ing onions, pansies and vi-olas and seed geraniums,” Wedel said.

She keeps one of her greenhouses heated through the winter at 65 to 70 degrees.

“We’re always excited about getting started,” We-del said, of the upcoming growing season.

Back at Benton’s, Beas-ley looks at Dec. 14 through Jan. 14 as the window of opportunity for preparing 5-inch pots and hanging baskets started with the

rooted geraniums.“It’s a really busy time,

but a good time,” Beasley said.

All of the geraniums are started in a totally steril-ized environment from the new pots the roots are planted in to the benches they sit upon.

Starting early allows them enough time to pinch back the plants, ensuring a thick growth and large blooms. From now un-til April, workers do five rounds of pinching off, which helps 62 varieties of geraniums flourish.

“The extra time we give to pinching the centers makes for massive plants with lots of branches and lots of blooms,” Beasley said.

In the coming months the plants will spread to five greenhouses.

Over the years, gerani-ums have become Benton’s niche market, Beasley said. She was 17 when she began geranium planting with her parents Farren and Maxine Benton. Now 43 seasons later, she is still at it.

She admits that some years she is,” scared to death,” because a poor economy or a bad ice storm might do them in. But, come spring, people always want their geraniums.

“It’s kind of humbling,” Beasley said.

Greenhouse turns up heat

By JIM MCLEANKHI News Service

TOPEKA — A week into major changes of the Kan-sas Medicaid program ques-tions persist about whether a new consumer advocate will have the freedom and the resources to do his job.

Lawrence attorney James Bart was recently hired as the ombudsman for the new KanCare program being implemented by Re-publican Gov. Sam Brown-back. Officials say the Jan. 1 expansion of managed care to include virtually all the state’s Medicaid en-rollees is intended to slow the growth in Medicaid costs and improve the care provided to the more than 380,000 low-income, elderly and disabled Kansans in the program.

But some legislators and consumer advocates are questioning whether hous-ing the ombudsman’s office in one of the state agencies responsible for KanCare implementation will hinder Bart’s effectiveness. They also question whether he will have sufficient resourc-es to handle what could ini-tially be large numbers of consumer complaints with the new system.

Bart, the only full-time employee in his office at the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Ser-vices, was asked directly about the adequacy of his resources today during a meeting of the KanCare Specialized Care and Net-work Issues Workgroup in Topeka.

Sheldon Weigrau, a workgroup member, said if only 1 percent of the state’s Medicaid enrollees filed complaints with the ombudsman, that would mean at least 10 com-plaints or problems a day to handle. He questioned whether Bart would have the resources to deal with that many of them, “oth-erwise, you’re going to be overwhelmed.”

Bart said 10 issues land-ed on his desk during the first working week of Kan-Care, which ended Jan. 4, and all had been resolved. And he said he had assur-ances from KDADS Secre-tary Shawn Sullivan that he could draw on more of the agency’s resources if needed.

“I can’t solve every is-sue,” Bart said. “But I can be the grease in the wheels. If it gets to the point where I feel I can’t deal with the is-sues with the resources I’ve got, then I’ll go get more re-sources.”

Question of independenceSen. Laura Kelly, a To-

peka Democrat, is among the legislators asking ques-tions about the ombuds-man’s office.

“It’s just beyond me to see how someone who is housed in an agency and who is dependent on that agency for the resources they need to do their job can be truly considered to be independent,” Kelly said after the issue was raised at a recent meeting of the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Health Poli-cy Oversight.

KDADS administers

Medicaid programs that provide support and long-term care services to el-derly Kansans and those with physical and devel-opmental disabilities. The agency also oversees state programs for the mentally ill and the state hospitals.

Anna Lambertson, ex-ecutive director of the Kansas Health Consumer Coalition, said having Bart work at KDADS compro-mises his ability to effec-tively represent consumers in disputes with the man-aged care companies and the state.

“In our opinion, the po-sition that has been cre-ated is not an independent ombudsman,” Lambertson said. “We feel very strongly that for KanCare to work consumers need someone who is independent of the Medicaid program to han-dle their complaints and to serve as an independent

voice for them.”Federal officials also

stressed the need for an independent ombudsman during their review of the state’s application to pro-ceed with KanCare. In a Dec. 27, 2012, letter, officials from the Center for Medi-care and Medicaid Services said the ombudsman “must exist outside of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment,” the state’s primary Medicaid agency. However, they approved the state’s plan to house the consumer advocate in KDADS.

Concerns addressedQuestioned by Kelly and

other members of the over-sight committee, Bart said he understood why people might have concerns. But he said his experience advo-cating for his developmen-tally disabled son had given him a consumer perspec-tive that would help him be effective in the job.

“I come at this with a passion,” he said. “I have a 19-year-old son who is cur-rently a resident of Par-sons State Hospital. I’m living this on a personal and a professional level. My heart and soul is with the consumer.”

Bart also said housing his office in a state agency could be an advantage be-cause it would allow him to forge better working re-lationships with the peo-ple running KanCare and

to more easily advocate for additional resources should they prove neces-sary.

“I feel very strongly that I have the advocacy skills not only to advocate for con-sumers but also to advocate for the resources necessary to do my job,” Bart said. “I don’t think we should an-ticipate that the resources won’t be there.”

Bart has acknowledged some limits on his inde-pendence. He told a KHI News Service reporter he couldn’t answer questions from the media without first clearing it with An-gela de Rocha, the com-munications director for KDADS and the Kansas De-partment for Children and Families.

Initially skepticalBart said the fact that he

had initially been openly skeptical of KanCare also should add to his credibil-ity.

In September 2012, Bart posted a message on a pub-lic comment portion of the CMS website predicting, “KanCare will become a demonstration of how not to reform Medicaid.” He also endorsed a post writ-ten by someone else that read in part: “Nothing good will come of handing Med-icaid over to private com-panies to profit off the poor and elderly.”

Bart said the criticism stemmed more from his frustrations with the Med-icaid system that existed at the time than with the Kan-Care proposal.

“The system had failed me and my son,” he said, explaining that a lack of community services made it impossible for him to care for his son at home.

In the months since his critical postings, Bart said, “I have learned a lot about how KanCare offers hope and promise to my son.”

KDADS secretary Sul-livan said Bart’s personal experiences dealing with the system should help alleviate concerns about whether he could be an ef-fective advocate for con-sumers.

“Who better than the par-ent of a child enrolled in the program to guard the interests of his own child and everyone else,” Sulli-van said.

Despite the assurances, Lambertson and Kelly said they remained concerned about Bart’s ability to free-ly advocate for consumers and to handle the workload. Both said they planned to closely monitor his perfor-mance.

“I don’t think I can rely on the agency to give me that information,” Kelly said. “But I have other sources who can let me know whether the position is working the way that it ought to be. That it truly is a consumer advocacy posi-tion and not just an arm of the agency.”

Bart told members of the KanCare workgroup today that he planned to pres-ent public updates on his work each Friday as part of the daily KanCare tele-conferences state officials are holding with Medicaid providers. The 9 a.m. calls are scheduled to continue through at least the end of the month.

He said he also planned to report his activities to the Legislature.

Independence of KanCare questioned

James Bart

Sen. Laura Kelly, D-Topeka.

I don’t think I can rely on the agency to give me that informa-tion. But I have other sources who can let me know whether the position is work-ing the way that it ought to be. That it truly is a con-sumer advocacy position and not just an arm of the agency.

— Sen. Laura Kelly

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ly a decade after the last al-Qaida detainee was water-boarded, Americans still know little about what the CIA did to its prisoners, or whether it worked.

President Barack Obama decided against an investigation to hold accountable Bush admin-istration and CIA officials who conceived and carried out what he and others be-lieved were acts of torture. And a criminal investiga-tion ended last year with no charges and no public report.

But now, a Hollywood movie has put renewed pressure on CIA officials to reveal whether simu-lated drowning and other harsh techniques elicited valuable intelligence, as the agency has long con-tended.

“Zero Dark Thirty,” made by Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal after exten-sive consultation with CIA officers, is sparking a new quest for answers, in part because it suggests that torture by CIA officers was instrumental in pinpoint-ing Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

A senior CIA official on the short list to be the agency’s next head, acting director Michael Morell, has been caught in the maelstrom in a way that could complicate his bid for the job.

On Thursday, senators on the intelligence commit-tee sent Morell a sharply worded letter demanding he explain his assertion in a Dec. 21 message to CIA employees that “some in-formation” leading to the al-Qaida head “came from detainees subjected to en-hanced techniques.”

Democrats on the com-mittee, who produced their own 6,000-page, still-secret report on the CIA interro-gation program, contend the agency’s records don’t support that conclusion.

CIA officials and Wash-ington politicians care so deeply about the movie’s

depiction because “Zero Dark Thirty” will influ-ence how people under-stand the bin Laden opera-tion, said Tricia Jenkins, an assistant professor at Texas Christian Univer-sity and author of “The CIA in Hollywood,” an ex-amination of the agency’s role in shaping its image through film.

“The CIA has long said that most people in the gen-eral public get their infor-mation about the CIA and its activities from film and television,” she said. “The film will be a key shaper of public opinion and his-torical memory about this event.”

Both critics and defend-ers with knowledge of the CIA program say the movie’s torture scenes are grossly inaccurate — a cartoonish depiction that bears little resemblance to reality.

But defenders endorse the film’s suggestion that harsh techniques, such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation and slapping, yielded clues that helped the CIA find bin Laden. They say detainees subject to duress offered informa-tion that helped the CIA track down Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the al-Qaida cou-rier who was helping hide bin Laden.

Senate intelligence com-mittee Democrats, howev-er, contend that no signifi-cant information about the courier came from detain-ees after they were subject to coercive techniques.

Morell was among sev-eral senior agency officials who consulted closely with Boal, the screenwriter, as he researched the project. He met with Boal for 40 minutes at CIA headquar-ters, records show. One

email from a CIA public affairs officer says Boal “agreed to share scripts and details about the mov-ie with us so we’re abso-lutely comfortable with what he will be showing.”

Yet CIA officials were troubled by some scenes in the movie, prompting Mo-rell’s message to employ-ees that the film “takes sig-nificant artistic license.” In the message, Morell re-peated what has been the CIA line since bin Laden was killed in May 2011 —that “enhanced interroga-tions” weren’t key to find-ing the terrorist leader. But he also said the CIA learned about the courier in part from detainees who were roughed up.

In their letter, Sen. Di-anne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Sen-ate intelligence commit-tee, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., demand that Mo-rell explain exactly what he meant. But Georgia’s Saxby Chambliss, the pan-el’s ranking Republican, said in a statement that he was perplexed by his col-leagues’ concerns. “It is entertainment, not a docu-mentary,” he said. “What’s next — a Senate inquiry of the Bourne trilogy or ‘24’?”

If Morell wants to be CIA director, however, he will need the support of the intelligence committee — particularly Feinstein. “This could really hurt his nomination process,” said a congressional aide famil-iar with the matter who asked not to be identified to talk about internal dis-cussions.

Morell is in a tough spot. He does not want to repudiate coercive inter-rogations entirely, because “it’s a tool that you might want to use and you don’t want to give it away,” said a former CIA officer. And he doesn’t want to impugn CIA employees who were involved.

Republicans on the in-telligence committee also believe coercive interroga-tions worked, a GOP aide said, and Morell might lose their support should he say otherwise.

Film urges CIA scrutiny

The CIA has long said that most people in the general public get their information about the CIA and its activities from film and television.

— Tricia Jenkins, author, “The CIA in Hollywood”

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By DON MELVINAssociated Press

BRUSSELS (AP) — Un-employment in the 17 EU countries that use the euro rose to 11.8 percent in No-vember, as the number of jobless people in the region rose to 18.8 million, the highest figure since the sin-gle currency was founded in 1999.

According to data re-leased today by the EU’s official statistics agency, eu-rozone unemployment was up 0.1 percentage points over October — but up a full 1.2 percentage points from a year ago. The rate for the 27-member Europe-an Union was 10.7 percent, the same as in October, but up from 10.0 percent a year ago. The number of unem-ployed across the full EU topped 26 million.

The figures illustrate the daunting tasks confronting European Union officials. While the threat of a col-lapse of the eurozone due to too much government debt may have receded, the econ-omies in many EU coun-tries stubbornly refuse to expand and joblessness continues to rise, creating broad social crises.

As part of their efforts

to reduce their debt lev-els, governments across Europe have introduced tough austerity measures, such as slashing spending and raising taxes. However, measures such as cutting wages and pensions hit the labor force in the pocket and reduce demand in the economy.

Other measures taken alongside the auster-ity, such as reforming la-bor practices, and boosting skills and education, are in-tended to promote employ-ment but they take time, both to enact and to feed through an economy.

As unemployment across the eurozone continues to rise, many analysts are con-cerned whether the politi-cal will to continue to cut budgets can be sustained.

The biggest rise in un-employment over the past year took place in Greece, where joblessness soared to 26 percent in September, up 7.1 percentage points over September 2011’s 18.9 percent. But the highest overall rate in the EU was in Spain, where 26.6 per-cent of the workforce was jobless in November, up 3.6 percentage points over last year.

EU unemployment tops11.8 percent for first time

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COOMA, Australia (AP) — Firefighters bat-tled scores of wildfires raging across south-eastern Australia today as authorities evacu-ated national parks and warned that blistering temperatures and high winds had led to “cata-strophic” conditions in some areas.

No deaths have been re-ported, although officials in Tasmania were still try-ing to find around 100 resi-dents who have been miss-ing since last week when a fire tore through the small town of Dunalley, east of the state capital of Ho-bart, destroying around 90 homes. Today, police said no bodies were found dur-ing preliminary checks of the ruined houses.

“You don’t get condi-tions worse than this,” New South Wales Rural Fire Service Commis-sioner Shane Fitzsim-mons said. “We are at the catastrophic level and clearly in those areas leaving early is your saf-est option.”

Catastrophic threat lev-el is the most severe rat-ing.

Wildfires have razed 50,000 acres of forests and farmland across southern Tasmania since Friday.

In New South Wales, the country’s most populous state, the fires had burned through more than 74,000 acres of land. All state for-ests and national parks were closed as a precau-tion and total fire bans were in place with tem-peratures surpassing 113 in some areas.

In Victoria state, fire officials said two people were treated for minor burns and four people for smoke inhalation. Up to 20 properties in the town of Chepstowe west of Melbourne had reportedly been hit by a fire, though officials said it was too early to know the extent of the damage, a Victoria Country Fire Authority spokeswoman said.

More than 130 fires were blazing across New South Wales, though only a few dozen houses were under threat as night fell. One home was destroyed in the village of Jugiong, northwest of the capital of Canberra, fire officials said.

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you’re getting close to some relief — but you’re actually making it harder on yourself by seeing it all as part of a larger narrative.

You know there isn’t some specter hovering over you and stealing your bike just as your workplace is about to move closer, and you know the bank didn’t notify the engine grem-lins that you were down to your last car payment.

It all just broke that way. Well, mostly: If the specter re-ally had it in for you, it would have waited another eight weeks to steal your bike, but it makes a better story to round it all up or down to fit the narrative.

It’s also convenient, since it internalizes randomness — making you the sun in your larger universe — and externalizes fault.

And that’s where you can help yourself the most. Tell yourself — out loud even, like a dork — that things re-ally don’t work this way and you aren’t starring in the Cosmic-Conspiracy Show. What you’re dealing with are just bummers, which are not only better than catastrophes but also make you tougher, more resourceful, funnier (that’s where narrative skills come in handy), more empa-thetic, and more grateful for the good things that come your way — like, say, having your job relocate nearby.

Neither good things nor bad things are permanent, only change is. And with change will always come good breaks and bad breaks — so, another shoe is always about to drop even with peo-ple who appear to have it all.

Tell MeAbout It

CarolynHax

When adversity strikes, here’s how to avoid self-pity

(First published in The Iola Register, January 8, 2013)

NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELEC-TION (Correction)

To the Residents of Allen Coun-ty, Kansas:

A Primary School Election will be held February 26, 2013, if needed. General Election will be held April 2, 2013. School Board Member Positions up for election are as follows:

USD 256 School Board Mem-bers

Board Member Position No. 3 (unexpired term)

Board Member Position No. 4Board Member Position No. 5Board Member Position No. 6The deadline for filing for office

is January 22, 2013, at noon. All other school candidates must file with the Allen County Clerk, 1 N. Washington, Iola, KS 66749.

For publication as per K.S.A. 25-2018(b)

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 13th day of December 2012.

Sherrie L. RiebelALLEN COUNTY ELECTION

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(First published in The IolaRegister, January 8, 2013)

ORDINANCE NO. 34 SUM-MARY

Ordinance 34 amends the pur-chasing policy for the City of Iola, adopted by reference in chapter 2, article 4, section 2-116 of the municipal code of the City of Iola, Kansas, for the purpose of regu-lating the purchasing practices.

The dollar limit requiring formal bids was increased from $15,000 to $20,000. The amount of mer-chandise that may be picked up

from a local vendor without the purchasing agent approval was in-creased from $200 to $1,000. The policy on gratuities and kickbacks was replaced with the existing pol-icy in the personnel manual.

A complete copy of this ordi-nance is available at City Hall, 2 W. Jackson Ave., Iola, Kansas, or may be viewed on the city’s web-site at www.cityofiola.com. This summary has been certified by Robert E. Johnson II, Iola City At-torney.

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF BOURBON COUNTY, KANSAS

JUVENILE DIVISIONIN THE INTEREST OF:Name: K.L.L.,DOB xx/xx/2006 A female

Case No. 2011-JC-0044NOTICE OF HEARING

PublicationPursuant to K.S.A 38-2237TO: Felicia Lane216 S. 4th Street, lola, KS

66749and all other persons who are

or may be concernedYou are hereby notified that a

petition has been filed in this court alleging that the child(ren) named above is a Child in Need of Care. The Court may find that the par-ents are unfit by reason or conduct or condition which renders the par-ents unable to care properly for a child, the conduct or condition is unlikely to change in the foresee-able future, the parental rights of the parent should be terminated, and a permanent custodian should be appointed for the child(ren).

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for the 17TH day of JANUARY, 2013, at 1:30 PM.

At the hearing the Court may is-sue orders relating to the care, cus-tody and control of the child(ren). The hearing will determine if the parents should be deprived of their parental rights and the right to cus-tody of the child(ren).

The parent(s), and any other person having legal custody are

required to appear before this Court on the date and time shown, or to file your written response to the petition with the Clerk of the District Court prior to that time. Failure to respond or to appear before the Court at the time shown will not prevent the Court from en-tering judgment as requested in the petition, finding that the child is a Child in Need of Care, removing the child from the custody of par-ent, parents or any other present legal custodian until further order of the Court, or finding the parents unfit, and entering an order per-manently terminating the parents’ parental rights.

An attorney has been appoint-ed as guardian ad litem for the child:

Vance E. White, Attorney at Law, 120 Osage, Fulton, KS 66738, (620)215-1821.

You have the right to appear before the Court and be heard personally, either with or without an attorney. The Court will appoint an attorney for any parent who de-sires an attorney but is financially unable to hire one. The Court may order one or both parents to pay child support. An attorney has been appointed for you:

Gilbert E. Gregory, Attorney at Law, PO Box 305, Fort Scott, KS 66701,(620)223-5025.

Date and time of hearing: JAN-UARY 17, 2013, at 1:30 PM

Place of hearing: Bourbon County Courthouse, 210 S. Na-tional Ave., Fort Scott, KS 66701.

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