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Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

At the bandstand Jim Garner, directorThursday, July 7, 2011 8 p.m.

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

See EGO | Page B6

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-


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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VETERANS REMEMBERED

Iolans honor veterans with ceremony, parade By BOB JOHNSON

[email protected] soldiers “just fade away,”

Gen. Douglas MacArthur fa-mously said 60 years ago, but two of Iola’s most prominent are still very much on the scene.

Saturday Alfred Link, the soul of Iola’s Veterans Day obser-

vance since it was resurrected in 1989, again moderated the pre-parade program. Nearby in a wheelchair but as outgoing as ever was Bob Lane.

The two men haven’t missed a Veterans Day event on the square and neither ever is at loss when

it comes to showing their patrio-tism. Both were in uniform Sat-urday, Link’s accentuated by his trademark red socks.

Lane beamed at the pomp and circumstances associated with remembering the roles soldiers, sailors and marines have played

in keeping America the “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave,” as did Link, still mobile with help of a cane and occasional as-sistance from friends.

“We started this in 1989 after it was discontinued,” in about 1960,

Superior is moving ahead


When Mark Burris purchased Superior Products in 2011, he said the going likely would be slow. He didn’t anticipate adding to his crew of three.

The plant’s output then was pipeline closures, assembled here from parts made elsewhere.

But Burris and plant manager Randy Misenhel-ter aren’t ones to dally. Today, the plant has seven full-time em-ployees, and has plans to expand, Burris said.

Superior Prod-ucts now more closely resembles Burris’ previ-ous venture, Precision Pump, the down-hole pump manufacturer which he sold to Cameron Indus-tries in 2008.

“You can grow in a down mar-ket,” Burris said of today’s mar-ket conditions.

Oil is selling in the mid-$80s per barrel, while natural gas is hovering at about $3.50 per 1,000 cubic feet.

Superior has added chokes and chemical pumps to its inventory, but the closures remain its flag-ship product.

Closures give access to a pipe-line to insert pigs — tight-fitting devices — for cleaning and as an isolation barrier so two products may be moved at one time, such as diesel fuel and gasoline.

Most of Superior’s products are sold for the Pennsylvania-Ohio, North Dakota and in Kan-sas-Oklahoma fields.

“We’ve had our first interna-tional sale,” to one of the repub-lics in the former Soviet Union, Burris said. The international market constantly is being ex-plored.

Helping expand the market is Iolan Fred Apt, sidelined when Haldex Brake closed, who is do-ing contract engineering work for Superior.

While assembly was the initial role of Superior Products, Burris

Register adds Texan to staffBy SUSAN LYNN

[email protected]’s to the Register’s advan-

tage that Steven Schwartz comes to the news department with a wealth of talents.

A top student, gifted writer and strong athlete, Schwartz, 24, came on board in early Septem-ber as a staff writer.

Truth is, he had many oppor-tunities for other pursuits.

A native of Denton, Texas, Schwartz attended Texas Tech University, graduating in 2010 with a degree in journalism.

With strong math and writ-ing skills, Schwartz debated be-tween architecture and journal-

ism as a college major. After a year in the school of

architecture, Schwartz said he knew it was not his calling and switched to journalism.

“It’s the best of all worlds because it couples analytical thinking with a love of writing. The goal is to take a lot of infor-mation and turn it into a short story, what I call big funnel, lit-tle spout.”

Schwartz worked as a staff re-porter at the university’s news-paper, The Daily Toreador.

A detour of sorts pre-empted Schwartz’s debut into journal-ism as a career.

ACC to invest in technology roadmap

By STEVEN [email protected]

Allen Community College is looking to venture into the 21st century, and they hope the infor-mation technology company Peak Uptime will help them get there.

ACC board members unani-mously voted to approve a $36,000 fund to bring in Peak Uptime to create a “technology road map” that will illustrate plans for new phone lines and communication systems.

John Masterson, president of the college, said the company has

had success with other organiza-tions and he believes they will help ACC get on the right path.

“The scope of what we are try-ing to do exceeds our ability to do it,” Masterson said. “I was also really impressed by their refer-ences.”

Masterson said Peak Uptime will begin meeting with faculty and administration to determine what the college needs in its class-rooms and offices. The company will then do an assessment of the

ACC looks to ignite ‘The Flame’

Register/Steven SchwartzFrom left, ACC communications students Taylor Easum, Nikia Stewart, Amber Rucker and Cheyanna Colborn make up the report-ing staff for The Flame. Writer Emily Steimel was not present.

By STEVEN [email protected]

Allen Community College has been without its voice, now a group of communication stu-dents are working to get it back.

The Flame, an online news source, was started by Terri Pi-azza and the communications de-partment in the fall of 2011. After completing its first year, students want to build upon the content they already have created.

Bruce Symes, instructor for the one-hour independent study class, said it is in the early stages.

“It’s a work in progress,” Symes said. “We were dipping our toe in the water, now we are somewhere between the ankle and the knee.”

The news website is on the ACC portal, and is available only to people who are affiliated with the college and have log-in infor-mation. Symes said the goal is to move the news source from “in-tranet” to “Internet” — making the information available to the general public.

Both Piazza and Symes said

they are working “kinks” out of the system, so students’ work can be easily accessible.

“Unless you are looking for our stories, you are probably not go-ing to find anything,” Taylor Ea-sum, a student writer for the web-site said of its accessibility.

Amber Rucker, also a commu-nications student, said they have been working hard to “get read-ers involved” in the information, and one of the best ways to get them to read the news is to cover the events that they are involved with.

Steven Schwartz

Register/Bob JohnsonSoldiers of the 891st Engineer Battalion carried an oversized flag in Saturday’s Veterans Day Parade. In second row, from left, Connie Prock, left, and Wanda Lytle released balloons representing 37 Kansans missing in action; Scarlett Higgason, 8, came dressed as a patriot; Alfred Link saluted during Becky French’s singing of the national anthem. Below, at left, Lt. Col. Eric Blankenship recalled the sacrifices of veterans; World War II veterans rode on a float sponsored by Iola Elks.

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See SCHWARTZ | Page A4

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See ACC | Page A2

FOOTBALL Humboldt players

earn all-league honors

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Mark Burris

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for Wayne Steinman

who was wounded from a grenade in Afghanistan & is currently undergoing treatment for his injuries.

Saturday, November 17, 2012 Saturday, November 17, 2012 Sign up starts at 11 a.m. Sign up starts at 11 a.m.

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is holding its annual meeting to elect Board Members for 2013.

The meeting will be held Wednesday, The meeting will be held Wednesday, November 14 at 7 p.m. in the basement of November 14 at 7 p.m. in the basement of

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Obituary Jack Works

John Robert “Jack” Works, 94, of Humboldt, died peacefully Friday morning, Nov. 9 at his home.

He was born Dec. 4, 1917, in Hum-boldt, the son of George C. and Amelia (Tholen) Works.

He graduated from Humboldt High School in 1936, Iola Junior College in 1938 and Kansas State Agricultural College, now Kansas State University, in 1940.

After college, Jack returned to Humboldt, where he farmed in partnership with his brother George for 40 years.

In January of 1958, he married Mary Ruth VanSkike of Arkansas City. The couple had one son, John Lee, prior to her death in December 1961.

In February of 1963, Jack married Marguerite McAd-am Walters, who died in September of 1997. On May 15, 1999, he was united in marriage to Anna Mae Robinson Weilert.

Jack was an active member of the Humboldt com-munity, serving on the board of directors of Humboldt Brick & Tile Co., Allen County Hospital Board, USD 258 Board of Education, and Humboldt City Council.

In addition, he was a lifelong active member of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church.

He is survived by his wife Annie; his son, John Works of Wichita; 10 step-children, Richard Weilert, Hum-boldt; Michael Weilert, Wamego; Dr. Stephen Weilert, Humboldt; Dr. David Weilert, Humboldt; Martha Hef-fron, Eureka; Daniel Weilert, Humboldt; Barbara Hess, Humboldt; Sharon Barton, Humboldt; Karen Jarred, Chanute, and Dr. Tim Weilert, Chanute; his brother, Charles Works, and wife Mary, of Gloucester, Mass.; a sister-in-law, Jane Works of Iola, and 29 step-grandchil-dren, 32 great-step-grandchildren, numerous nephews and nieces.

Jack was preceded in death by his brother, George, and numerous cousins and friends.

Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Friday at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Humboldt. Friends will be received immediately following the Rosary at St. Joseph’s Parish Hall.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Humboldt on Saturday at 11 a.m. with Fr. Bernard Gorges and Fr. Thomas Scaletty co-celebrating the mass.

Burial will follow at St. Joseph’s Catholic Cemetery in Humboldt.

Donations may be made in Jack’s memory to: Mis-sion Outreach Fund, St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, 424 S. Central, Chanute, KS 66720.

Memorial gifts may also be left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola, which is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences for the family may be left on www.iolafuneral.com.

Jack Works

Deadline: Notify the Register about calendar announcements by 7 a.m. Mondays in order to have your event listed.

Today Unity Club meeting, 1:30 p.m., Donna Lower-Nord’s residence,

1109 Meadowbrook Rd. W., program by Mary Martin. USD 257 School Board meeting, 6:30 p.m., Iola High School. Women’s Ministry Fellowship meeting, 6:30 p.m., First Assembly

of God Church 1020 E. Carpenter. USD 479 Board meeting, 7 p.m., Crest Board Office, Colony. Allen County Chapter American Cancer Society meeting, 7 p.m.,

Allen County Hospital conference room. USD 256 board meeting, 7 p.m., district office in Moran. Humboldt City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Humboldt City Hall. USD 258 school board meeting, 7:30 p.m., school board office

in Humboldt.

Tuesday Iola City Council meeting, 6 p.m., new Community Building at

Riverside Park. Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County

Courthouse. Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Allen Community College Student Cen-

ter meeting room. Grief Support Group meeting, 3:30 p.m., 501 N. State St. American Legion meeting, 7:30 p.m., American Legion auxiliary

unit 15.

Wednesday Dirt Diggers Garden Club, 2 p.m., Shirley Robertson’s residence

318 N. Main St., Gas. Prenatal classes, 6 p.m., at the Mary Ellen Stadler Conference

room in the basement of the Allen County Hospital. LaHarpe City Council meeting, 7 p.m., LaHarpe City Hall. Iola BPDE No. 569, 8 p.m., Elks Lodge. Vespers rehearsal, 8:15 p.m., choir room at the Bowlus Fine Arts

Center.

Thursday911 Advisory Board meeting, 10 a.m., Iola 911 Center, 401 N. State

St. Rotary Club, noon, The Greenery. Take Off Pounds Sensibly No. KS 880, Iola, 5 p.m. weigh-in, 5:30

meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church, 118 W. Jackson. Jefferson PTO meeting, 6 p.m., Jefferson library.

Friday Senior Citizens and Card Club potluck dinner, 5:30 p.m., senior

citizens center, 204 N. Jefferson. Marci Penner, author of “8 Wonders of Kansas,” speaker series

event, 7 p.m. in Creitz Recital Hall, Bowlus Fine Arts Center.Thrive Allen County Annual Dinner, Parish Hall at St. John’s

Catholic Church, 6 p.m.

SaturdayIola Reads Festival, Allen Community College, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cancer Support Group, 10 to 11 a.m., Parish Hall at St. John’s

Catholic Church.

Sunday Sons of the Legion, 2:30 p.m., Post Home.Birdhouse Factory, 3 p.m., Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

Nov. 19 Happy Hearts FCE meeting, 7 p.m., Humboldt Public Library.

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current technology and provide the best sugges-tions for the situation.

Board member Jim Talkington recommended that the board create an IT committee that would work with Peak Uptime to ensure the best and most appropriate systems will be put in place.

BOARD members ap-proved holiday vacation dates for the college.

Board member Spencer Ambler proposed the col-lege should close Dec. 21 and open on Jan. 2.

Due to a federal man-date, students will now be required to answer four screening questions in relation to tuberculosis every year. Answers to the questions will determine if testing will be needed. Students who take solely online courses will be ex-cluded from the screen-ings.

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and Misenhelter grew impatient with the slow delivery of parts. That prompted the duo to manufacture many of the parts locally.

Closures components still are made in Canada and China, but “we’re looking at what we can do to bring that in-house,” Burris said.

Parts for chokes and pumps are made here.

A bump in employee numbers is expected as oil and gas production ramps up in the United States.

“They’ve quit drilling for natural gas right now, but that will be back,” Burris said.

New procedures in hori-

zontal drilling, especially, will increase oil produc-tion, Burris said. That method of extracting oil from formations far un-derground is reaching the point where all of a large lease may be tapped from a single rig.

OIL AND GAS produc-tion is nothing new to Burris, 51.

“I’ve been involved in the business since I was old enough to crawl into Dad’s pickup truck,” he said.

Dad is Richard Burris, who in a partnership with Ed Noland, Chanute, sup-plies about 20 percent of the natural gas Iola pur-chases.

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By MELANIE MASONTribune Washington

BureauWASHINGTON — Two

senators are revisiting a comprehensive immigra-tion plan that they dropped two years ago.

Sen. Charles E. Schumer, R-N.Y., said he and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., “are talking to our col-leagues about this right now, and I think we have a darn good chance, us-ing this blueprint, to get something done this year. The Republican Party has learned that being anti-immigrant doesn't work for them politically, and they know it.”

Immigration reform has received renewed focus since the election. President Barack Obama specifically mentioned the issue in his victory speech on Tuesday.

Exit poll data showed that President Obama won 71 percent of the Latino vote. The shellacking has prompted many Republi-cans to consider how they can do better with voters.

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sun-day, party strategist Steve Schmidt said “the Repub-

lican Party needs to get it together on its outreach to Latinos. And it’s good to hear that Lindsey Graham and Chuck Schumer are going to start advancing comprehensive immigra-tion reform again because we have to get this off the table as a political issue for the party.”

On the program, Schum-er offered a brief rundown of the plan.

“Our plan, just to be quick, does four things. First of all, close the bor-der. Make sure that’s shut,” Schumer said. “Second, make sure that there is a non-forgeable document so that employers can tell who is legal and who is il-legal. And once they hire someone illegally, throw the book at them. That will stop illegal immigration in its track. “Third, on le-gal immigration, let in the people we need, whether they be engineers from our universities ... or people to pick the crops. And fourth, a path to citizenship that's fair, which says you have to learn English, you have to go to the back of the line, you’ve got to have a job, and you can’t commit crimes.”

Shelved immigration proposal may be revived

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Obama salutes veteransBy MORGAN LITTLE

Los Angeles Times“After a decade of war, our

heroes are coming home,” President Barack said Sun-day, marking Veterans Day by highlighting the first such day in 10 years without American troops fighting in Iraq.

In a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, Obama applauded the efforts of ser-vice members and celebrated the diminished number of U.S. military involvements.

“This is the first Veterans Day in a decade in which there are no American troops fighting and dying in Iraq. Thirty-three thousand of our troops have now returned from Afghanistan, and the transition there is under-way,” he said.

“When I spoke here three years ago, I spoke about to-day's generation of service members. This 9/11 genera-tion who stepped forward af-ter the towers fell, and in the years since, have stepped into history, writing one of the greatest chapters of military service our country has ever known,” Obama said.

“You toppled a dictator and battled an insurgency in Iraq. You pushed back the Taliban and decimated al-Qaida in Afghanistan. You delivered justice to Osama bin Laden. Tour after tour, year after year, you and your families have done all that this coun-try has asked – you’ve done that and more.”

“Today, a proud nation ex-presses our gratitude. But

we do so mindful that no cer-emony or parade, no hug or handshake is enough to truly honor that service. For that, we must do more. For that, we must commit — this day and every day — to serving you as well as you’ve served us,” Obama said.

He highlighted the needs of veterans returning home. He stressed the importance of efforts to rehire and re-train veterans, maintaining the post-9/11 GI Bill and ad-dressing mounting medical issues.

“If you find yourself strug-gling with the wounds of war — such as post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injuries — we’ll be there as well, with the care and treatment you need,” he said. “No veteran should have to wait months or years for the benefits that you've earned, so we will continue to attack the claims backlog.”

Today, a proud nation expresses our gratitude. But we do so mindful that no ceremony or parade, no hug or handshake is enough to truly honor that ser-vice.

— President Barack Obama

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Kansas is a study of con-trasts.

On the one side, it has hopes of becoming Silicon Prairie — the hub of incredibly fast fiber optics thanks to Google Fiber willing to invest millions in Kansas City, Kan.

A KC Startup Village is of-fering short-term rent-free fa-cilities to prospective clients — typically very young en-trepreneurs — to attract like-minded people to get the ball rolling.

Kansas City, Kan., the poor stepchild of Kansas City, Mo., is working very hard to pro-mote itself as the hot spot of interconnectivity where high-tech products are launched. KC competed with 1,100 cities around the world to be host to the lucrative Google Fiber ini-tiative. Now it’s selling itself as a mecca for creativity, where forward- and fast-thinking en-trepreneurs will feel not only welcome but also they are in like company.

THE FLIP SIDE to this syn-ergy and energy is the growing sentiment that Kansas is in-creasingly hostile to business.

No amount of tax breaks can overcome the negative vibes being sent out by an admin-istration that courts harmful policies to education, the el-derly and the poor. People and businesses locate to an area because it is welcoming in all aspects.

Already, all state agencies have had to deal with a 10-per-cent cut to their budgets, re-sulting in fewer mental health workers, fewer social workers and fewer case managers for seniors who receive home-based care and reduced staff and services at county health departments and early child-hood services, just to name a few. Today, 2,200 Kansans who are developmentally disabled are on a waiting list to receive services.

State agencies are again bracing for another round of cuts because the current bud-get is on track for a $237 mil-lion deficit due to Gov. Brown-back’s tax cuts.

TO PICTURE the situation, imagine yourself a young, sin-gle mother working part time at Herff Jones while trying to complete your GED at Allen Community College.

Currently, you can receive a few hundred dollars a month in state assistance to help with childcare as long as you work 20 hours a week.

For 2014, the Kansas Depart-ment for Children and Families is proposing you must work 30 hours to receive state aid.

The result? You can’t cut it. There are

simply not enough hours in the day to juggle all three re-sponsibilities. So you forgo the state aid because you cannot work that many hours at Herff Jones. Which forces you to drop out of school because you can’t afford the childcare with-out the state assistance.

Today, 8,800 young Kansas families are in this kind of a situation. It’s projected the lon-ger work weeks will force 1,900 of them to drop out of the pro-gram.

In its report, the DCF record-ed that as “saving” the state $4.8 million.

So yes, if we look at forcing people into abject poverty as a savings, we’ve got a bigger problem than just reconciling an insufficient budget.

NEED ANOTHER example?Gov. Brownback continues

to say he will not participate in an expanded Medicaid pro-gram. That’s six years of 100 percent federal dollars to cover an expected 130,000 Kansans whose incomes fall below 133 percent of the federal poverty level and who have no health insurance. Beyond the initial six years, states would assume 10 percent of the responsibility to provide the services.

Kansas already ranks among the lowest of states in provid-ing Medicaid benefits. Eligi-bility is currently 30 percent of the federal poverty level, or individuals who make $5,964 or less a year. Shameful.

Under the Affordable Care Act’s expanded Medicaid pro-vision, a family of four that makes $29,327 or less would be eligible for assistance.

A rally in Topeka on Friday in support of the Medicaid expansion program held plac-ards aimed at Brownback, say-ing, “What would Jesus do?”

Indeed.

THERE ARE THOSE who say if you don’t like the direc-tion Kansas is moving, then leave. Kris Kobach, Kansas at-torney general, recently was quoted as saying, “Americans can vote with their feet, and choose a state that reflects their values and the way of life they’d like to enjoy. If a person wants to live a San Francisco lifestyle, they can go there. If they want to live a Kansas life-style, they can come here.”

Boy, that’s inviting. Truth is, most of us want

Kansas to be a place where anyone would want to come be-cause we are honorable people who provide a good place to raise families and do business.

But until we get the mes-sage straight in our own heads, we’re going to have a tough time selling it to others.

— Susan Lynn

Pulling back thewelcome mat

Last Tuesday afternoon, while a distracted public awaited the day’s election results, a group of Kansas officials announced that the state was about to fall into a deep financial hole.

The numbers announced by the Consensus Estimating Group, while not unexpected, are shock-ingly bad. The state is projected to receive $707 million less in revenues next year than it is cur-rently spending.

Part of that hole could be filled by spending down a reserve fund of $470 million, although extin-guishing the reserve balance to meet routine expenses is a sure sign of a fiscally ill state. Even with that contingency, after fac-toring in some new budget as-sumptions, analysts anticipate the state’s leaders will have to find about $328 million in either cuts or new revenues to come up with a balanced spending plan for the fiscal year beginning July 1.

That number strikes fear in the hearts of school superintendents, university leaders, state workers and the people who care for the state’s disabled and vulnerable citizens. They have weathered cuts and shortages for years and face the prospect of more.

But not everyone was dismayed by the findings of the economists and state officials who analyze state finances. Giddy with elec-tion night victories, some conser-vative Republicans told reporters they’d like to cut taxes — and thus revenues — even more.

Talk about a state of denial.Kansas’ financial wound is self-

inflicted. Gov. Sam Brownback and conservatives in the Legisla-ture this year sharply cut income tax rates, despite warnings that expected business growth could

not make up for the lost revenue.The income tax cuts will cost

the state about $400 million in next year’s budget, and $4.5 bil-lion over the next six years.

Compounding the immediate problem is the scheduled rollback of a one-cent sales tax increase that Brownback’s predecessor, Democratic Gov. Mark Parkinson, signed into law to get the state through the worst of the Great Recession. Unless the Legislature extends the sales tax, the state will lose $262 million a year be-ginning in July.

The obvious fix is for Brown-back and lawmakers to raise in-come tax rates when the Legisla-ture resumes in January. But that is virtually certain not to happen.

Apart from that, there are no good options. Here are some possi-bilities for what could be in store:

An extension of the entire one-cent sales tax. (Four-tenths will remain in any case, to fund high-way projects.) Brownback has said he might recommend such a move, though many lawmakers are likely to object.

Leaving the tax in place might be preferable to gutting schools and services, but sales taxes dis-proportionately hurt the poor and middle-income households. Make no mistake, if the tax increase stays on the books, Brownback will own it. His legacy will be to lower income tax rates for wealth-

ier Kansans while raising the costs of goods and services for all the state’s residents.

Spending the reserve fund down to zero. Unlike many states, Kansas has no constitutional re-quirement to maintain a “rainy day” fund. Using the $470 million currently in the bank would pro-vide a temporary partial fix, but for one year only. Kansas’ struc-tural budget imbalance won’t go away unless the state finds more permanent sources of revenue. Eventually the imbalance and ab-sence of a reserve fund could af-fect the state’s bond rating.

Borrowing from designated accounts, such as state highway fund. This is another one-time fix, and another sign of a state’s des-peration.

More cuts. Conservatives say it can be done. But schools have been laying off employees and cutting programs for years. Kan-sas state employees are among the lowest-paid in the nation. The number of developmentally dis-abled Kansans awaiting services is close to 5,000.

The state is failing to meet its responsibilities now. Lawmakers who think more cuts are possible either have no conscience or are operating in blissful ignorance. The state is in bad shape and without a show of courage it will quickly get worse.

— The Kansas City Star

Kansas conservatives own financial mess

Kansas’ financial wound is self-inflicted. Gov. Sam Brownback and conservatives in the Legislature this year sharply cut income tax rates, despite warnings that expected business growth could not make up for the lost revenue.

The Consensus Revenue Esti-mating Group completed work Tuesday and issued its forecast. The group predicts fiscal year 2014 state general fund receipts at $5.464 billion, a whopping $707 million less than current spend-ing levels. That makes the next round of budgeting very hard work for policymakers.

Fortunately, the SGF will begin FY 2014 with about $470 million in the bank. However, even adding that healthy beginning balance to the estimated revenue does not provide enough resources to cov-er current programs. To simply keep the ending balance at zero, $237 million would still need to be cut.

Let’s look more closely at the budget math in the table at right.

AS EXPECTED, the estimate reduces tax receipts to reflect the expiration of the current 6.3 percent sales tax rate and lowers individual income tax receipts to account for the full effect of the new income tax law. The SGF would collect about $400 million

more in FY 2014 if the 6.3 percent sales tax rate remained in place and about $800 million more if the income law had not been passed. Together, that’s a $1.2 billion rev-enue swing in one year.

Interestingly, the new FY 2014 revenue forecast closely matches the estimates that the Kansas

Legislative Research Department made in May when trying to pre-dict the effect of the income tax law. Page 2 of the attachment shows the much-quoted Legisla-tive Research SGF profile that projected the effect of the tax cut through FY 2018. The column for FY 2014 looks a lot like what the state now faces.

Goosen served as the state’s budget director under the admin-istrations of Bill Graves, Kathleen Sebelius and Mark Parkinson. To-day he oversees KHI’s research and analysis of state fiscal policy.

FY 2014 State General Fund(Dollars in Millions)

Beginning Balance $470FY 2014 Revenue Estimate $5,464Total Available $5,934Current FY 2013 Approved Spending $6,171

Ending Balance -$237

Revenue estimate frames FY 2014 budgetDuaneGoossenKansasHealth Institute

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“but we need some help keeping it going,” Link said in his annual plea for vol-unteers.

The Veterans Commit-tee, also instrumental in establishing the Veter-ans Memorial Wall on the courthouse lane, meets the third Wednesday of each month at his home, 623 S. Sycamore.

“We’re down to about six of us and we need some young blood to keep things ago,” Link said.

LT. COL. Eric Blan-kenship followed Becky French’s rendition of the national anthem to open this year’s services.

“The word veteran may bring to mind someone who is now elderly and long retired, who may have served in World War II, Korea or Vietnam,” said Blankenship, com-mander of the 891st Engi-neer Battalion, which has its headquarters company and full-time detachment stationed in Iola. “With the events of Sept. 11, 2001, our veterans are a lot younger, many are still serving their country and the state in the National Guard.

“The new veteran is the man or woman next door, who may be a home-maker, a college student or someone working at the desk next to you — some-one who left one day and returned a year later,” he said.

During the past year

more than 73,000 citizen-soldiers have been de-ployed in support of op-erations around the world.

Blankenship recalled how World War I was to have been “the war to end all wars,” but “we know history turned out differ-ently. In every age since, freedom has been threat-ened and new generations have stepped forward to safeguard our freedom.”

He noted how Guards-men have “become an op-eration force on the front lines, and in hometown America across the na-tion.”

Not all return, he added, and some face personal and family trauma.

“All who served and sac-rificed deserve our thanks and respect,” he said, on the day set aside each year to remember them and show appreciation for all they have done.

“If you meet a veteran — whether a parent, a sibling, a friend or even a stranger — thank them for all they have done for all of us, for our military and our country,” he con-cluded.

IOLA ELKS had a bean feed following Blanken-ship’s speech and the re-lease of 37 black balloons, each representing a Kan-san missing in action. The Elks also treated veterans to lunch after the Veter-ans Day Parade, featuring a huge U.S. flag carried by 891st Engineer Battalion soldiers.

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An outdoors enthusi-ast, Schwartz joined the Outward Bound program and worked for a year as a guide at its base outside of Yosemite National Park in northern California. Schwartz had worked with Texas Tech’s outdoor pro-gram for two years while attending school. That job involved taking groups of students on adventurous excursions including cav-ing, backpacking and rock climbing.

Schwartz is certified as a wilderness first responder, which included 80 hours of first aid training.

His experience in Cali-fornia was enlightening he said, perhaps as much for the exposure to people as the elements.

“We’d have some kids whose parents enrolled them in a three-week camp because they thought they needed to be ‘toughened up,’ or that they needed to be pushed to try new things.

“The kids weren’t al-ways responsive. Some-times they’d try to get kicked out.”

“On the other hand, we also had students who wanted to come so bad-ly that they applied for scholarships to come to the camps. Typically they were from urban environ-ments, and the experience changed their lives.”

Schwartz said he per-sonally likes to “push the envelope,” when it comes to outdoor activities. He especially enjoys winter

camping and rock climb-ing, definitely not activi-ties for the faint of heart. He’s also run three mara-thons, the most recent in early September.

On a more relaxed note, he’s an avid fly fisherman and enjoys tying his own

flies.As a youth, Schwartz

ran track and cross coun-try.

“I was OK in sports, but my brother Nic was better. I was good at cross country and track because I could run a straight line. In bas-ketball, I was on the good side of mediocre. In foot-ball, I warmed the bench a lot.”

Academically, the twin brothers both ranked in the top 10 percent of their class which gave them en-trance into any Texas pub-lic university. They both opted for the Lubbock loca-tion.

SCHWARTZ’S LIFE has not been exactly typical.

Born in Modesto, Calif., Schwartz and his two sib-lings were the children of a surrogate mother who was implanted with their

father’s sperm. “Legally, I’m adopted.

But my mother, the woman who raised me, was in the hospital when I was born,” he said. He never knew his birth mother intimately, knowing only of his birth circumstances and that she has since died.

He and Nic are fraternal twins. Their sister, Kelly, is four years their senior.

The family located to Denton where their father was a pilot in the Air Force for 12 years, followed by a career with American Air-lines. Schwartz’s mother taught art until her chil-dren were born.

“They were older than my friends’ parents,” he said. “Kind of like having young grandparents.”

When Schwartz was five, his nine-year-old sis-ter contracted a rare form of viral encephalitis which ravaged her brain.

From then on, life would never be the same for his sister, or for her family.

“It was pretty devastat-ing,” Schwartz said. Ste-ven and his brother were taken out of public school so the family could travel to various hospitals across the country seeking help for Kelly, whose symptoms included severe epilepsy and a diminished brain function.

Today at 26, she lives in a group home where she has “good days and bad days,” Schwartz said. “On a bad day, she’s withdrawn and like a vegetable. On good days, she has the IQ of an eighth-grader.”

For the boys, home-

schooling was not ideal. “We were pretty social kids and it was hard be-ing around our parents all the time,” he said. “Home-schooling was more of a necessity than a choice.”

That changed when Ste-ven and Nic were enrolled as fifth-graders in Denton Cavalry Academy, a pri-vate Christian boarding school.

“We were in the inaugu-ral class, so they had some kinks to work out, but it was a nice change,” he said.

When the boys were freshmen, they moved to a ranch outside of Aubrey, Texas, population 1,500.

“That was great,” he said. “We got to know ev-eryone in town. Everyone was friendly. It was much like Iola.”

ANOTHER REASON Iola seems “like home,” is that Schwartz’s grandpar-ents, Kenneth and Clara Schwartz, live in Fort Scott. As a youth, Schwartz and his brother spent their summers with their grand-parents. Steven recalls par-ticipating in swim meets in Iola and Humboldt when he swam for the Fort Scott Hurricanes.

The senior Schwartzes are 101 and 91, and Steven makes a point of visiting them often.

“It’s good to be here. I have family close by, my girlfriend is up at K-State, and I have lots to learn about Iola.”

To contact Schwartz, email him at [email protected].

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It’s good to be here. I have fam-ily close by, my girlfriend is up at K-State, and I have lots to learn about Iola.

— Steven Schwartz

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“It’s just like a high school yearbook,” Rucker said. “You don’t flip the page to your friend’s pic-ture first, you flip to your own.”

However, Symes said he doesn’t think “egocentric-ity” is the best way to get to the heart of the reader. With news progressing with the digital age, his class has made an effort to evolve with the times. He said this is why Piazza chose to restart the paper in digital format.

The print edition of the college newspaper was shut down several years ago, Pi-azza said. She said she was uncertain of the reason, but knew this time would need to be different.

“Now we are seeing a connection between digital media and journalism,” Pi-azza said.

She said the college’s plan for The Flame is to test it through the portal system for two years, before publishing on a public In-ternet source.

EITHER WAY, writer Cheyanna Colborn said the student body needs to be

informed, and the online news source will be the best way to get informa-tion across. After graduat-ing from Humboldt High School, she said she was used to being involved with journalism, and wanted to be involved with ACC.

“I’m really passionate about journalism, and working in different me-diums,” Colborn said. “It think this (The Flame) is an obvious step. It was odd not to have news to produce.”

Nikia Stewart, writer for The Flame, said it is a challenge to get the word out to students, especially with the accessibility is-sues. But, she said, she and her classmates have done a good job choosing the content of their stories. She wrote a feature story on sports superstitions and why athletes choose to follow them. Other story subjects mentioned were a fall sports preview and an investigative piece on the “cricket infestation” in the college.

Easum said the class showcases many talents from each of the students.

“We are all really differ-ent,” Easum said. “We are good at seeing what people

have to offer.”Symes said he has been

impressed by the group of five girls, including another writer, Emily Steimel. He said they have been work-ing hard to get The Flame off the ground.

“I am pleased and hum-bled that they have picked Allen and they are willing to invest their time,” Symes said.

As for now, The Flame is still in the test stages of its intranet phase. Symes said their class mantra is “make it matter,” and that is what they intend to do before they make The Flame pub-lic in the fall of 2013.

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SALINA — Hot shooting from the outside keyed Allen Commu-nity College’s fate over the week-end.

The Red Devil men pulled away from Kan-sas State-Salina Friday, 100-64, in the first of two games in the Brown Mackie Classic.

Allen’s hosts from Brown Mackie, mean-while, returned the favor Satur-day with torrid shooting in a 77-61 victory.

The split gives Allen a 2-3 mark. The Red Devils travel to Pratt Tuesday before opening its home portion of the schedule Saturday evening against Hutchinson.

On Friday, K-State Salina stayed within shouting distance of the Red Devils before Allen’s Cameron Blue heated up from outside.

Blue wound up hitting 4 of 7 3-pointers — and 8 of 12 from the field — as part of a 22-point, 10-re-bound effort.

The Red Devils pulled away in the second half, outscoring KSC 55-35 after the break.

Andrew Rountree connected on 8 of 10 field goals for 17 points and five boards, while DeAndree Barnette had 11 points. Ricky Roberts dished out five assists, while Rountree accounted for four steals.

Seth Walden chipped in with nine points, as did Bryce Schip-pers. Diallo Wesley and Alex Keiswetter added eight points each.

Allen shot at a 50 percent clip — 38 of 76 — for the game and held a 46 to 39 rebound advantage.

Allen’s touch turned cold on Saturday, while Brown Mackie’s was red hot. The Lions hit on 8 of 19 3-pointers to lead. Conversely, Allen shot 32 percent from the field.

“Allen led the majority of the first half, but careless turnovers

By RICHARD [email protected] — A record-

breaking offense, coupled with an equally impressive defense, led Humboldt High to a bi-district championship and the second round of the Kansas Class 3A postseason playoffs this year.

Seven Cub players were rec-ognized with postseason hon-ors over the weekend, being named to the All Tri-Valley League squad.

E a r n i n g first-team of-fense hon-ors were Cub q u a r t e r b a ck Nathan Whit-comb, who ac-counted for 44 touchdowns on the season.

“Nathan had an outstanding year,” Hum-boldt coach K.B. Criss said in an email.

W h i t c o m b passed for 2,773 yards and 34 t o u c h d o w n s , while running for 471 yards and 10 more scores to key a Cub squad that averaged 38 points a game in the bruis-ing Tri-Valley League.

A pair of frequent targets were senior receivers Tan-ner McNutt and Noah Thorn-brugh. McNutt ended the year with 40 catches for 874 yards — more than 21 yards per catch — and 13 touchdowns. He earned first-team honors.

Thornbrugh received hon-orable mention, catching 28 passes for 594 yards — also at 21 yards per reception — and 10 touchdowns.

“Tanner was a big play threat every time he touched the ball,” Criss said. “Noah was a big target who really

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By STEPHEN HAWKINSAP Sports Writer

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Kansas State is so close. With two more wins, the Wildcats al-most certainly will be headed to Miami for the BCS champi-onship game and a shot at their first national title.

So imagine the excitement and euphoria for the Wildcats following their victory at TCU, which came af-ter defending national cham-pion Alabama lost at home.

“It’s good for us,” receiver Tramaine Thompson said mat-ter-of-factly after the Wildcats won 23-10 on Saturday night. “We’re doing something that’s special and doesn’t come around a lot in any program. We’re just taking it in and we’re just mov-ing forward.”

OK, so coach Bill Snyder’s message clearly permeates through this team. Don’t wor-ry about what any other team does, or what can happen in two months. Focus instead on what’s immediately ahead.

“I am just going to ask my guys as I always do to try to get better at practice on Monday,” Snyder said.

The Wildcats (10-0, 7-0 Big 12) will go to practice Monday as the No. 1 team in the BCS rankings that determine who plays for the national championship.

They replaced Alabama at the top when the new Bowl Cham-pionship Series standings were released Sunday night. They moved up one spot, staying

ahead of No. 2 Oregon.Kansas State also moved up a

spot in the new AP Top 25 earlier Sunday, going from third to sec-ond. Oregon, which was already ahead of the Wildcats in the AP poll, was the new No. 1 there.

Alabama slipped three spots to fourth in both rankings.

“We don’t pay too much (atten-tion) to the rankings,” defensive back Jarard Milo said. “Coach Snyder does a good job of stress-ing that’s not something we con-trol. We control our family and we control what we do out there on the field in practice.”

Kansas State plays next Sat-urday night at Baylor, where the Wildcats have lost their last two trips but now could clinch at least a share of its first Big 12 ti-tle since 2003. They get Thanks-

giving week off before ending the regular season at home Dec. 1 against 18th-ranked Texas.

The last time the Wildcats were this close to a possible na-tional championship was 1998, when they went 11-0 in the regu-lar season before being upset by Texas A&M in the Big 12 cham-pionship game. The league no longer has a title game.

Maybe the Aggies have finally provided some payback, and helped their old league.

Texas A&M, now in the SEC, won 29-24 Saturday at Alabama. That game ended only minutes after K-State kicked off at TCU (6-4, 3-4).

Snyder insisted he didn’t know about the Crimson Tide’s

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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Bruce Weber now has his debut out of the way.

The first-year Kansas State coach started his tenure with an 85-52 victory over North Dakota on Friday night.

Angel Rodriguez and Thomas Gipson each scored 13 points as Kansas State won its 10th straight season opener.

Weber had taken the floor in front of the home crowd in Bram-lage Coliseum twice already in exhibition games against Wash-burn and Emporia State, but that did not detract from the thrill of coaching his first regular season game.

“It’s still the real thing,” We-ber said. “Obviously exhibitions don’t count on the record, so you’re excited. I hope the kids are excited. We talked about en-ergy, enthusiasm, playing at a high level.”

The coach said after the Wild-cats’ second exhibition game that he thought the team came out flat, but he was satisfied with the in-tensity on Friday.

A veteran North Dakota team gave the Wildcats all they could handle in the first half and trailed just 36-27 at halftime, but Kansas State widened the gap quickly af-ter the break.

“Our physicality, our depth just kind of took a toll on them,” We-ber said.

“Kansas State to me was a two-point field goal type team,” said North Dakota coach Brian Jones. “They were going to throw it in-side early and often, and they did exactly that.”

“It really wore us out in the sec-ond half,” Jones said.

The Wildcats shot 35.3 percent from the field in the first half and 53.1 percent in the second half, beginning with eight straight points from Rodriguez to begin the second half. He sank a pair of 3-pointers and sliced into the lane for a layup.

“I think that really sparked them,” Jones said. “We felt if we could make them a jump shooting team we’d at least have a shot, but in the second half they were mak-ing their jump shots.”

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Southeast Missouri State coach Dickey Nutt approached old friend Bill Self before Friday night’s game and asked him why the team was in Lawrence, play-ing seventh-ranked Kansas.

Nutt felt his team had no busi-ness inside Allen Fieldhouse.

By the end of the game, his Redhawks proved they belonged.

They pulled within six points midway through the second half, silencing the crowd, but the Jay-hawks eventually created enough separation to finish with a 74-55 victory.

“We just couldn’t hold the gate,” Nutt said. “We played well enough to keep it competitive.”

Despite scoring only four points in the opening 10 minutes, the Redhawks stayed within strik-

ing distance. They held the Jay-hawks to 39 percent shooting and 2 for 21 from beyond the arc.

“We gave them some open looks, but tonight we just got lucky, because I know they’re a good shooting team,” said Nick Niemczyk, who led the Redhawks with 14 points.

The Jayhawks finished the game on a 31-18 run.

“They are big and strong,” Nutt said, “but I was proud of our team.”

The Redhawks, who have lost seven straight season openers, all on the road, remain winless in six tries against Big 12 schools.

Ben McLemore had nine points, 12 rebounds and five assists in his Kansas debut. Fellow-freshman

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K-State bolsters title shot bid

By BETSY BLANEYAssociated Press

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Kansas’ latest Big 12 loss was particularly painful.

Tony Pierson had a career-high 202 yards rushing on 16 carries, but the Jayhawks lost 41-34 to No. 25 Texas Tech in double overtime on Saturday.

Kansas (1-9, 0-7) has lost 19 straight conference games. Its last Big 12 win came in Novem-ber 2010.

“The locker room is as disap-pointed as it’s ever been,” Jay-hawks coach Charlie Weis said. “Usually you let them sulk for 24 hours. Not today. I told the coaches that before they even get on the bus I want them to

make sure they get to each and every player and make sure that these guys know it’s time to go. We were extremely moti-vated in this game and I think we’ll be even more motivated next Saturday.”

Kansas gained 390 yards on the ground, compared to 63 for the pass-happy Red Raiders. James Sims had 30 carries for 127 yards. But Weis said his team’s reliance on the run also is a burden for the Jayhawks.

“It’s a big challenge,” he said. “We’ve just got to prepare our-selves each week. That’s all it is. If we prepared good enough for that then we should be good

Texas Tech holds off Jayhawks

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Bill Snyder

KU wins opener, 74-55

Weber debut successful

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By DAVE RANNEYKHI News Service

TOPEKA — About 100 people rallied outside the Kansas Statehouse Friday, urging state officials to ex-pand Medicaid eligibility as provided for in the fed-eral health reform law.

A Lawrence pastor cast the expansion as a Chris-tian imperative during a call-and-response exercise with the crowd.

“If Jesus was up in the Capitol would he make a choice to keep 130,000 people without care?” said the Rev. Joshua Longbot-tom, associate pastor at Plymouth Congregational Church in Lawrence.

“No,” the crowd shout-ed.

“If Jesus was up in the Capitol, would he tell fam-ilies that they just need to get better jobs so that they could afford to take care of themselves?” Longbot-tom asked.

Again, the answer was “no.”

“Did Jesus say, ‘I’m sor-ry you can’t get to the well, Mr. Leper, but you need to cultivate some self-reli-ance’?” Longbottom said.

“No,” the crowd yelled.“So I ask the question,

Gov. Brownback, ‘What would Jesus do?’” Long-bottom said. “I thought the mark of his ministry was caring for the ill, car-ing for the sick, caring for the dispossessed, car-ing for the marginalized, caring first for the least.”

Longbottom said he hoped the governor wasn’t a “…politician who puts on his Christianity like it’s a cardigan (sweater), using it to gain access to a constituency.”

Brownback, a conser-vative Republican, has been outspoken about his Christianity and penned a spiritual autobiography titled “From Power to Pur-pose.”

He’s been a consistent political foe of the Afford-able Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, first in the U.S. Senate and later as governor.

He has said repeatedly the majority of Kansans are opposed to the reform law and cites the success of the law’s opponents in recent state elections as the proof.

Last week, the gover-nor announced he would block the state’s partici-pation in a state-federal insurance exchange, one of the hallmarks of the new law. But unlike some Republican governors, he hasn’t ruled out the pos-sibility he would support some sort of Medicaid ex-pansion.

“The Medicaid expan-sion is a separate issue” from the insurance ex-change, said chief Brown-back spokesperson Sher-

riene Jones-Sontag in an email Friday to KHI News Service in response to a question asking if the gov-ernor would oppose open-ing up the program.

“We are continuing to discuss options and alter-natives with like-minded states and with our leg-islative partners in Kan-sas,” she said.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the Afford-able Care Act, but said the law couldn’t oblige states to expand their Medic-aid programs. The law gives states the option of expanding their Medic-aid programs to include adults earning up to 133 percent of federal poverty guidelines.

Currently, the Kansas Medicaid program is re-stricted mostly to poor children, pregnant wom-en, the disabled and the elderly. A non-disabled adult rearing children is currently eligible for Med-icaid, if his or her income is below 32 percent of the poverty level — about $5,200 a year for a young mother with two children. Childless adults are not

eligible for Medicaid re-gardless of their income.

Kansas’ eligibility threshold is among the lowest in the nation.

According to a prelimi-nary estimate by analysts at the Kansas Health Insti-tute, if Kansas were to ex-pand its eligibility to 133 percent of the poverty lev-el, more than 130,000 peo-ple could be added to the program’s rolls by 2019.

Governors in at least six states — Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tex-as — have said they will reject the expansion, cit-ing concerns that it would prove to be too expensive and would expand rather than shrink the role of government.

Governors in at least 13 states have said they will expand the program.

The rally was coordinat-ed by the Kansas Health Consumer Coalition.

“This was about people coming together to talk about what matters, and what really matters is health care,” said the coali-tion’s director, Anna Lam-bertson. If people are cov-ered, they’re healthier.”

Group urges Brownback to expand Medicaid eligibility

Dave Ranney/KHI News ServiceFormer State Rep. Carolyn Weinhold was among those who gathered at the Statehouse on Friday in support of expanding the state’s Medicaid program. In the 1990s, Weinhold was a Democrat representing a Salina district. She now works for the Kansas Dis-ability Rights Center in Topeka.

If Jesus was up in the Capitol, would he make a choice to keep 130,000 people without care?

— The Rev. Josua Longbottom, Plymouth

Congregational Church, Lawrence

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Advocates who led the suc-cessful fight against adding fluoride to Wichita’s water say they will work to get their message out across the state and the nation. Wichi-ta voters on Tuesday reject-ed a proposal to add fluoride to the city’s water by a 60 percent to 40 percent mar-gin. Although three-fourths of the country fluoridates its water, the anti-fluoride movement is gaining trac-tion across the nation, Jon-athan Hall of Wichitans Against Fluoridation said after the vote.

“We’re part of the upcom-ing wave of change,” he said.

Wichita pediatrician Lar-

ry Hund, one of the leading proponents of fluoridation, told The Wichita Eagle that he thought the vote would be closer. But he said the claim that fluoride is toxic played to people’s emotions rather than scientific rea-soning.

“It’s easier to scare people than to teach them about the science involved,” he said.

Both Mark Gietzen, presi-dent of the Kansas Republi-can Assembly, and Hall said that the anti-fluoride forces plan to continue their ef-forts.

“We’re definitely going to take this statewide; we’re not going to quit,” Gietzen said.

Wichita advocates to fight fluoride nationally

The book, “Louise: Amended” has been list-ed among Publisher’s W e e k l y ’ s Best Books of 2012 for nonfiction, a c c o r d i n g to the trade journal used by librarians, publishers and booksellers.

Louise Krug, daughter of Iolan Susan Lynn, wrote the autobiography after she suffered a brain injury.

Publisher’s Weekly de-scribes the book as such:

“Fresh out of college, 22-year-old Krug moves to California with her French boyfriend, ready to begin their gilded lives.

“But just a few weeks af-ter they arrive, Louise suf-fers a massive cavernous angioma, and the best laid plans, etc.

“In elegantly spare prose, Krug details the tragedy that prompted her to relin-quish a dream in order to live her life.”

Today, Krug is married to Nick Krug, a photographer with the Lawrence Journal-World. They have a one-year-old daughter, Olive.

Krug is working on her Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Kansas, where she also teaches Eng-lish and creative writing.

‘Louise:Amended’makes best books list

Today in historyOn Nov. 24, 1987, the Unit-

ed States and the Soviet Union agreed on terms to scrap shorter- and medium-range missiles.

In 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,” which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural selection.

Thought for the dayIt is when power is wed-

ded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983

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HAGAR THE HORRIBLE by Chris Browne

ZITS by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

HI AND LOIS by Chance Browne

BABY BLUES by Kirkman & Scott

BEETLE BAILEY by Mort Walker

FUNKY WINKERBEAN by Tom Batiuk

BLONDIE by Young and Drake

DAILY CRYPTOQUOTES - Here’s how to work it:

Sudoku is like a crossword puzzle, but uses numbers instead of words. The puzzle is a box of 81 squares, subdivided into 3x3 cubes of 9 squares each. Some squares are filled in with numbers. The rest should be filled in by the puzzler.Fill in the blank squares allowing the numbers 1-9 to appear only once in every row, once in ev-ery column and once in every 3x3 box. One-star puzzles are for begin-ners, and the difficulty gradually increases through the week to a very chal-lenging five-star puzzle.

(First appeared in The IolaRegister, November 5, 2012)

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS

CIVIL DEPARTMENTDeutsche Bank National Trust

Company, as Trustee for Meritage Mortgage Loan Trust 2005-1

Plaintiff,vs.Mandy Trester and Clinton L.

Trester, et al.Defendants.

Case No. 12CV38Court Number:

Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60NOTICE OF SALE

Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Allen County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the Front Door of the Courthouse at Iola, Allen County, Kansas, on No-vember 28, 2012, at 10:00 AM, the following real estate:

Lots Eighteen and North Half of Lot Nineteen (18 & N/2 19), Block Two (2), Amos Addition to the City of Humboldt, Allen County, Kansas, commonly known as 620 North 10th Street, Humboldt,

KS 66748 (the “Property”)to satisfy the judgment in the

above-entitled case. The sale is to be made without appraisement and subject to the redemption period as provided by law, and further sub-ject to the approval of the Court. For more information, visit www.Southlaw.com

Thomas Williams, SheriffAllen County, Kansas

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Public notice

Dear Carolyn: We live a long way from my wife’s fa-ther, who lives in his own home but who now needs as-sistance. We’ve been provid-ing financial assistance to my wife’s sister, who other-wise has limited employment prospects, to live with their father and assist him.

My wife’s father and sis-ter have verbal sparring matches pretty constantly, but both would be happy eat-ing pancakes and ice cream every day. To me it seems like they have a right to eat what they want, even if it might be unhealthy. But my wife sometimes spends up to three hours a day on the phone, providing “guidance” to her sister and father on what they should eat, how they should clean the house, and other things.

She gets pretty bossy and demanding at times, and I’m concerned that what she is doing may actually be abu-sive. She claims she is saving

their lives by spending all this time on the phone with them and they should be grateful.

I’m particularly concerned about the potential for abuse because her sister depends on us for financial support and may feel she can’t hang up the phone. Any ideas on how to change this? — Con-cerned spouse

Your concern is that the place for one adult in anoth-er’s choices is a limited one — right?

Well, those are your hand-cuffs. You can’t micromanage your wife out of microman-aging her father’s house-hold, especially since you’ve

already challenged her ap-proach once. (That’s where her “saving their lives” de-fense came from, right?)

That said, you have stand-ing, and good cause, to talk to your wife about it again. And you can calmly hold your boundaries at home when she gets “bossy and demand-ing” with you.

Start by speaking your truth fully: Prepare what you’d like to say, think of examples to support your point, imagine how you’d feel if you were the dad or sister, and imagine how you’d feel if you were in your wife’s position. Then, choose a time when you’re not in a hurry to be anywhere and neither of you is upset about something.

Then, start with any in-sight you gleaned from try-ing to see things from her perspective. For example: “I realize you are worried about your dad and sister, and I realize how hard that is, to

know they’re not taking good care of themselves. I know I’d be worried that if they die prematurely or become ill, I might blame myself for not trying harder to prevent that.”

Then share any conclu-sions you drew from imag-ining yourself in her dad or sister’s place. Maybe: “But I’d realize I can’t make them live the way I want them to. And I know how I’d feel if you spent three hours on the phone with me, dictating my menus and chores. If I were counting on you financially, as your sister is, then I might be afraid to stick up for my-self.”

Then hand the thinking and talking over to her: “Have you thought about how you’d feel, and react, if you got so many hours of such calls?”

If she doesn’t say, “I’d probably hang up on me and go eat ice cream,” then she’s lying, to you or to herself or both.

Excessive concern could be abuseTell MeAbout It

CarolynHax

Dear Drs. Donohue and Roach: About two years ago, I had an anxiety attack. The doctor prescribed Xanax, and I was on it for a short time. He then switched me to respiridone, 0.25 mg. I am trying to go off respiri-done also. Is it better to fight a nervous episode or to take a pill? I have good days and not-so-good days. I have gone as many as eight days without taking a pill, then the nervousness comes back. Will I ever be able to get over these anxiety at-tacks? — B.G.

Answer: Panic attacks are very common, and it seems increasingly common in the

stressful world we live in. I don’t always treat panic at-tacks with medication, but for people with recurrent panic attacks or with high levels of constant anxiety, then treatment is of benefit. Treatment can be with or without medications.

Medications like Prozac or Zoloft are most common-ly used in people with long-term anxiety and panic. However, many people get outstanding results from psychotherapy with a psy-chiatrist or therapist.

I wouldn’t try to taper yourself off the medicine anymore until you get fur-ther help.

Dr. Paul Donohue

To YourGoodHealth

Dr. Keith Roach

To YourGoodHealth

Don’t stop anxiety medication alone

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(AP) — When the fighting stopped, the oil had dried and the last of the wrecked cars had been towed away, Brad Keselowski found himself on the brink of a first Sprint Cup title for himself and team owner Roger Penske.

Only he wasn’t in a cel-ebratory mood.

He entered Sunday’s race at Phoenix International Raceway trailing five-time champion Jimmie Johnson by seven points and had the better car all day. And moments after Keselowski raced his way into the lead, a blown tire caused John-son to crash and take his battered car to the garage for repairs.

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“I wanted to take the points lead by winning a race and not relying on a failure,” Keselowski said.

Johnson’s sudden mis-fortune was a dramatic and stunning turn in the most chaotic race of the year.

It proved to be just the warm-up act in a race that could go down as the one many fans will call the best of the season.

Probably for all the wrong reasons.

And that’s what had Kes-elowski so upset.

“I’m more just disap-pointed in the quality of racing that we saw,” he said. “I thought it was abso-lutely ridiculous, and I was ashamed to be a part of it.”

Kevin Harvick snapped a 44-race losing streak by beating Kyle Busch on a pair of late restarts, the ironic winner on the same weekend news leaked he’s reportedly signed a deal to leave Richard Childress Racing to drive for Stewart-Haas Racing in 2014.

“We have 2012, we have 2013, and regardless of

what happens on a busi-ness side of things, Richard Childress and myself will always be friends, good or bad, and may agree to dis-agree,” Harvick said, “but we still have a lot of racing left to do and we owe it to our sponsors and our com-pany to go out and do exact-ly what we did today and be men and do the best we can for everybody.”

Harvick and Busch crossed the finish line ahead of a melee of crashing cars, a chain reaction caused in part because NASCAR failed to throw a caution when Danica Patrick was spun on the restart. Then others slid in oil, into Pat-rick’s wrecked car, bounced all over the track, and even Keselowski was hit.

“There was a lot of stuff on the race track, there was oil all over it. Ray Charles could see that,” second-place finisher Denny Ham-lin said.

Busch, who finished third, also saw the oil all over the track.

“Not sure if (NASCAR)

had time to react to all that, but granted, you would ex-pect that they would see all of that and see the oil slick,” he said. “I mean, it wasn’t small by any means. It was three feet wide.”

But the carnage was sim-ply the final exclamation point in a sequence trig-gered by four-time cham-pion Jeff Gordon. He in-tentionally wrecked Clint Bowyer, and that led to a full brawl in the garage and a red-flag of nearly 15 minutes for clean up on the track.

Keselowski was tweet-ing during the delay from inside his car — a practice he first did during a jet fuel fire in the season-opening Daytona 500 — and NAS-CAR had officially reached three-ring circus status.

“The sport was made on fights. We should have more fights. I like fights,” Harvick said after the race. “They’re not always fun to be in, sometimes you’re on the wrong end, but fights are what made NASCAR what it is.”

PREP FOOTBALLClass 6A State Tournament

QuarterfinalDerby 42, Dodge City 19Hutchinson 42, Topeka 33Lawrence Free State 28, Olathe

East 17SM West 21, Lawrence 14Class 5A State Tournament

QuarterfinalBishop Miege 38, BV West 37,

2OTSalina South 35, Emporia 20St. Thomas Aquinas 23, Blue

Valley Stilwell 22Wichita Bishop Carroll 49, An-

dover 14Class 4A State Tournament

QuarterfinalEudora 19, Louisburg 0Holton 31, McPherson 27KC Piper 24, Chanute 22Mulvane 15, Buhler 0

Class 3A State TournamentQuarterfinal

Beloit 52, Sedgwick 25Rossville 17, Pittsburg Colgan

7Scott City 49, Garden Plain 0Silver Lake 40, Caney Valley 0Class 2-1A State Tournament

QuarterfinalLaCrosse 20, Oakley 8McLouth 39, Lyndon 6Meade 32, Sterling 14Wetmore 28, Olpe 0

8-Man, Division I State Tournament

SemifinalsNess City 48, Solomon 0Rock Hills 36, Madison 20

8-Man, Division II State Tournament

SemifinalBaileyville-B&B 50, Hanover 20Thunder Ridge 44, Wallace

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loss until being told after his team was done.

But TCU coach Gary Patterson, a Kansas State alumnus who started his coaching career as a graduate assistant for the Wildcats’ first bowl team three decades ago, knew Alabama was losing before his team took the field.

“I was like, just what we needed, Kansas State to have another reason to come out fired up,” Patter-son said.

Heisman Trophy hope-ful Collin Klein, back in the lineup a week after coming out early against Oklahoma State because

of an apparent concus-sion, threw only his third interception of the season on the first drive of the game.

But Klein went on to run for two touchdowns and the Wildcats built a 23-0 lead against the Horned Frogs, a team full of fresh-men and sophomores for the school’s first Big 12 season and already bowl eligible.

“I’m not disappointed in our kids at all. We thought we could win this ballgame,” Patterson said. “That’s where we are right now, just a little bit short against teams like that.”

came on strong at the end of the season.”

One of the unsung stars of the offense was line-man Ryan Gean, who also earned first team honors. The 225-pound Gean was a three-year starter for Humboldt. “He anchored an offensive line that really improved throughout the year,” Criss said.

Gean also spearheaded a Humboldt defense that held five opponents to one touch-down or less in Humboldt’s 8-3 season. The senior led the Cubs with 18 tackles for w loss.

Also earning first-team defensive honors were Thornbrugh at defensive end. He finished the year

with 18 tackles, six sacks “and numerous quarter-back hurries and pres-sures,” Criss said.

Jacob Carpenter, a soph-omore linebacker, led Hum-boldt with 128 tackles.

“He continued to get bet-ter throughout the year,” Criss said. “Jacob has a lot of football moxie.”

Hunter Murrow, a junior defensive back, led Hum-boldt with five intercep-tions, including two he re-turned for touchdowns.

“He did a great job cover-ing the other teams’ receiv-ers,” Criss said “Hunter is also a solid tackler and a very smart football player.”

Rounding up the honors was special teams wizard Hayden Boring. The senior

earned first-team honors as punter and kicker.

The powerful left-legged senior set a school record with a 47-yard field goal against Oswego and repeat-edly set up opponents with lousy field position with his booming punts and kick-offs.

“Hayden is one of the fin-est kickers in school and league history, without a doubt,” Criss said.

Humboldt finished third in Tri-Valley League but qualified for the postsea-son with a perfect district mark. The Cubs defeated Central Heights to win the bi-district championship before losing to Pittsburg St. Mary’s Colgan in the re-gional round of the playoffs.

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against Brown Mackie’s press allowed them to make a run to close out the first half,” Red Devil head coach Andy Shaw said.

The Lions led 34-26 at the break.

The Red Devils stayed close early on in the sec-ond half, “But offensive rebounds and Brown Mack-ie’s perimeter shooting would not allow us to close

the gap,” Shaw said.Rountree’s double-double

paced Allen. He scored 20 points with 12 rebounds, while Bryce Schippers con-nected on 3 of 5 3-pointers to score 16 points. Roberts dished out five assists. Tray Fountain and Barnette each had two steals.

FridayAllen (45-55—100)K-State Salina (29-35—64)Allen (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Heffern

0-1-0-1, Burnes 1-1-3-3, Wesley

2-4-2-8, Roberts 1-0-0-2, Fountain 1-1-0-3, Schippers 1/2-1-3-9, Uno 1-1-2-3, Keiswetter 4-0-2-8, Bar-nette 2/2-1-2-11, Blue 4/4-2-2-22, Walden 0/3-0-0-3, Stockebrand 1-0-3-2, Rountree 8-1-1-17, Walter 1-0-2-2. TOTALS: 27/11-13-23-100.

SaturdayAllen (26-35—61)Brown Mackie (34-43—77)Allen (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Burnes

0-1-0-1, Roberts 1-3-1-5, Foun-tain 1-0-2-2, Schipper 1/3-5-2-16, Barnette 3-0-2-6, Blue 0/1-1-4-4, Walden 0/1-0-2-3, Rountree 5-10-1-20, Walter 2-0-1-4. TOTALS: 13/5-20-15-61.

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coming to the game be-cause they know it’s com-ing and we know it’s com-ing, so we’ve just got to prepare every week.”

Texas Tech used the wildcat to score the win-ning touchdown. Eric Ste-phens took the snap, rolled to his right and threw a 3-yard jump pass to Darrin Moore for the score.

“It’s been hit or miss in practice, but I just had a re-ally good feeling about it,” quarterback Seth Doege said of the play. “I think Eric’s one of those guys when you call his number, he’s going to get the job done.”

Kansas quarterback Mi-chael Cummings couldn’t connect with Tre’ Par-malee in the end zone on fourth-and-9, ending the Jayhawks’ chances.

The Jayhawks, who have lost nine straight, rallied in the fourth quar-ter and sent the game into overtime tied at 27 on a 32-yard field goal by Nick Pro-lago with under a minute remaining in regulation.

Doege completed 45 of 59 passes for three touch-downs and 476 yards for Texas Tech (7-3, 4-3). He

had one interception in the second quarter that seemed to give the Jay-hawks the belief they could upset the Red Raid-ers.

Pierson got the longest run from scrimmage this season for the Jayhawks when he scampered 69 yards to set up Sims’ 3-yard TD that trimmed to Texas Tech’s lead to 27-24 with about nine minutes remaining in the game.

Sims, a junior from Ir-ving, Texas, recorded his sixth game with more than 100 yards on the ground, becoming the first Jay-hawk to accomplish the feat since 1961.

The win ended a two-game skid for the Red Raiders, following losses to Texas and Kansas State.

Doege’s completion to Tyson Williams at the Kansas 20 with six seconds remaining in regulation was called back after a re-view because the quarter-back’s knee hit the ground after he fumbled the snap. Then Ryan Bustin missed to the left by about a yard on a 41-yard field goal at-tempt in high winds that would have won the game.

Perry Ellis added 15 points and eight boards while Jeff Withey finished with 17 points and 12 rebounds as the Jayhawks won their 40th straight season openers at Allen Fieldhouse.

This one was a bit tough-er than expected.

Kansas returns three starters from last year’s na-tional runners-up, includ-ing the 7-foot Withey, a pre-season honorable-mention All-America selection. But

the two guys they lost left gaping holes: Big 12 player of the year Thomas Robin-son, who left early for the NBA draft, and Tyshawn Taylor, a senior guard who also went in the draft.

In their place are a bunch

of newcomers — nine in all — including McLemore and Jamari Traylor, who were forced to redshirt last sea-son after the NCAA ruled them partial qualifiers.

McLemore started the game along with Ellis, a school-boy star from Wich-ita, Kan.

The Jayhawks certain-ly showed some growing pains in their only tuneup before facing No. 14 Michi-gan State next week. They turned it over 13 times and finished 2 for 21 from be-yond the 3-point arc, with top sharp-shooter Elijah Johnson missing all four of his attempts.

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State football playoffs

Sparks fly as Kaselowski takes control

Topsy turvySan Francisco 49ers’ Aldon Smith (99) sacks St. Louis Rams’ starting quarterback Sam Bradford (8) late in the second quarter of their game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco Sunday. The squads wound up battling to a 24-24 tie.

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