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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

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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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ELECTION DAY

By PAUL WESTTribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON — After a final

cross-country campaign whirl by both candidates, President Barack Obama heads into Elec-tion Day riding a slim lead in enough key states to secure a sec-ond term, while Mitt Romney re-mains competitive and could yet unseat him.

National polling showed late voter movement toward Obama, raising the possibility that the election might not drag out for days and weeks of wrangling over disputed ballots, as some feared. The president continued to maintain a slight edge in the vast majority of swing-state opin-ion polls, though his advantage typically remained within the surveys’ margins of error.

An Obama re-election win would mean continued divided government in Washington. If Romney prevails, 2012 would be-come the fourth national change election in a row, including the Democratic takeover of Congress in 2006, Obama’s 2008 victory and the Republican return to power in the House in 2010.

“I actually think the question of this election comes down to

this: Do you want four more years like the last four years. Or do you want real change?” Romney said Monday to chants of “Mitt! Mitt! Mitt!” at a rally in the Northern Virginia suburbs outside Wash-ington. The Republican asserted, as he has throughout a six-year quest for the presidency, that his record as a successful business-

man, Winter Olympics chief and one-term governor of Massachu-setts qualified him for the na-tion’s highest office.

Obama answered back, telling supporters on what he said would be his last day as a candidate, “I know what real change looks like” and “we’ve got more change to make.”

Today’s vote, the president said in Madison, Wis., on Monday,

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SAFE BASE goes presidential

Register/Steven SchwartzAbove, Coterie Theatre’s comedy act, The Presidents!, perform “44 presidents in 45 minutes.” At right, the SAFE BASE boot camp students display their marching skills to the guests during Monday’s blue plate dinner.

Students prepare dinner

Drivers beware: Rut is on By BOB JOHNSON

[email protected] mating season for deer has

begun, causing them to throw caution to the wind when it comes to motorists.

Last weekend four vehicle-deer accidents occurred in Allen County, an uptick in such acci-dents. Often the rut extends into December.

Gilbert Covey, rural Elsmore,

Brenda Clark and John Hutton, both of Humboldt, and John Raw-lings, Pleasanton, all had vehicles damaged in collisions with deer on roadways.

During 2011, when nearly 9,200 deer crashes occurred in the state, two Kansans were killed.

HERE ARE some tips for driv-ing in deer country:

Register/Allison TinnSisters, Emily, left, and Erin Klubek, learn how to make ginger-bread houses during the gingerbread house class Monday at the Flewharty-Powell Annex.

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Decorating with imaginationBy ALLISON TINN

[email protected] kids and the young at

heart went to the Flewharty-Pow-ell Annex Monday evening to get their hands a little dirty and learn how to decorate gingerbread hous-es.

The class, hosted by the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce, was held to get people prepared for the Gingerbread Walk, a contest where submitted gingerbread cre-ations are placed in different store fronts around town to be voted on.

The most important rule of the contest is everything must be ed-ible.

This will really test the imagi-nation.

Some of the tricks of the gin-gerbread house making trade are: Royal icing is used as glue, Sour-patch Kids can be people, upside-down waffle cones can be decorat-ed Christmas trees, Jolly Ranchers can be glass windows and pretzels can be a fence.

Dry foods are the best and are slow to disintegrate.

The contest will run Dec. 7-22. For more information contact

the Chamber of Commerce at (620) 365-5252 or visit iolachamber.org.

By STEVEN [email protected]

SAFE BASE children had the opportunity to give their friends and family the “presidential” treatment at Jefferson Elemen-tary Monday night.

As a part of the program’s weekly blue plate dinners, the children spent weeks prepar-ing a meal to serve to visitors in the gym. Due to today’s election, this week’s meal had an electoral spin to it. Meals normally have a theme, however, this week the students went all-out to provide an extensive meal, with multiple ingredients.

The kindergarten students

cooked single-serving apple pies. Loretta Ellis, a kindergar-ten teacher from McKinley, and Linda Johnson, a kindergarten teacher from Jefferson, said the kids worked hard to make sure their part of the meal was ready for Monday’s program.

“It took four weeks to cook 190 pies,” Ellis said, “But the pies ended up being really yummy, they (the students) loved it.”

The first-grade students took on the challenge of making a Mexican dip for their contribu-tion. SAFE BASE teacher Jen Tarter said they were a bit ap-prehensive in their decision, but it ended up being the right one.

“They weren’t sure, but then they tried it,” Tarter said. “Then they decided that’s what they were going to make.”

Second- and third-graders made a fresh salad and fourth- and fifth-graders put together the healthy potato bar for the meal. SAFE BASE director An-gela Henry said fresh produce from the garden at Lincoln El-ementary was used whenever possible.

OVERALL, Henry said the idea of the program was to en-courage the voting process to both students and their parents.

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Register/Bob JohnsonJamie Smail prepares to vote for the first time ever this morning at Iola’s North Community Building. Clerks facilitating his effort are Ginny Hawk and Gary Garver. Polls opened at 7 a.m. and will remain open here and in LaHarpe, Moran, Gas and Humboldt until 7 p.m.

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Arrests madeBrandson Tatman, 25,

and Valarie Landell, 20, both of Elsmore, were ar-rested early Sunday morn-ing for domestic battery and disorderly conduct when Allen County officers responded to a 911 call.

John H. Stranghoner, 45, Iola, was arrested for disor-derly conduct in a domes-tic setting Sunday evening by Allen County officers. The disturbance that led to Stranghoner’s arrest occurred outside Iola po-lice headquarters during a child exchange. Officers said they heard “yelling and profanities,” which

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Vehicle crashesA vehicle driven by Jor-

dan Dillingham, Iola, ran off an Allen County road two miles southwest of Iola Sunday morning. The ve-hicle ran into an embank-ment and then struck a tree before slamming into a util-ity pole, which was snapped in two.

Vehicle hits deerA vehicle driven by Jan-

ice Colvin struck a deer on an Allen County road two miles southeast of Hum-boldt Wednesday morning.

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ObituaryElaine Horsch

Norma “Elaine” (Koe-nig) Horsch died Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012 at her daugh-ter’s home in Yates Cen-ter.

Elaine was born Sept. 2, 1912, the daughter of Hattie Belle (Stevens) and August Adolph Koe-nig in Yates Center.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at First United Methodist Church, Yates Center.

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Thursday, Marmaton Valley will be holding a veterans recognition lunch and matinee.

The lunch will be be-gin at 11 a.m., followed by a school theater pro-duction.

For more information contact Marmaton Val-ley at (620) 237-4251.

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Marmaton Valley will be holding its 20th annual senior citizens dinner, Nov. 20 at noon.

Debbie Barnes Snod-grass, former Miss Amer-ica for 1968, will be the en-tertainment, provided by Thrive Allen County.

FCCLA students will cook and serve the tradi-tional Thanksgiving food.

All USD 256 senior citi-zens are invited.

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By ELAINE WOOLos Angeles Times

Gae Aulenti, an Italian architect who attained in-ternational prominence turning old buildings into modern museums, includ-ing Paris’ Musee d’Orsay and the Asian Art Muse-um of San Francisco, died Wednesday at her home in Milan. She was 84.

Her family told Italian media that she had been ill for some time.

One of the few women working in postwar Ital-ian design, Aulenti began her career designing fur-niture, lamps and other accessories. One of her most famous pieces is the Tavolo con Ruote (Table With Wheels), an elegant postmodernist work con-sisting of a thick square of glass on industrial casters that is in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

She also designed show-rooms for Olivetti and Fiat, opera sets for Milan’s La Scala, the garden at a Tuscan villa, and a Rodeo Drive boutique for fashion designer Adrienne Vitta-dini.

But the work that brought her the widest acclaim was refashioning historic structures into museums.

Musee d’Orsay, her most

famous project, was a 1900 Beaux Arts train station that she transformed over a period of several years into a sleek and glamor-ous home for Impression-ist masterpieces and other art.

San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum had been a library in its previous life, defined by a mock-classical style popular in the early 20th century. In Aulenti’s hands it became an open, light-filled space with un-expected touches, such as a courtyard with volcanic stone floors and seating.

“Gae Aulenti had a very profound understanding of classical architecture ... but also an extremely modern sensibility,” said Emily Sano, who worked with Aulenti as director of the Asian Art Museum when the renovation was launched in the late 1990s. “She was also deeply hu-mane. She really did un-

derstand how objects af-fect people both physically and emotionally.”

Aulenti, who also de-signed museum spaces in Barcelona, Istanbul and Venice, often provoked ex-treme reactions with her architectural adaptations. When the Musee d’Orsay opened in 1986 the crit-ics’ reactions ranged from “fabulously eccentric” to comparisons with “a fu-neral hall ... an Egyptian burial monument.”

The architect, whom Sano described as a “tough, really brilliant woman,” brushed off the attacks by noting the pub-lic’s response: In its open-ing days, 20,000 people lined up to get in.

“We looked at the old station as a contemporary object, without history,” Aulenti, referring to the old Gare d’Orsay railway station, wrote in Architec-ture and Urbanism maga-zine some years ago. “We regarded the original ar-chitect, Victor Laloux, as a companion in the meta-morphosis of the station into a museum.”

Aulenti was born Dec. 4, 1927, in Palazzolo della Stella, near Trieste, where her father worked as an economist.

Paris’ Musee d’Orsay architect dies

By Sheera FrenkelMcClatchy NewspapersJERUSALEM — Israel's

military leaders refused two years ago to put the country's army on alert for immediate action against Iran, telling Israeli Prime Minister Ben-jamin Netanyahu and De-fense Minister Ehud Barak that Israel was not ready to take on Iran alone, accord-ing to a new documentary that aired here Monday.

In an hourlong investiga-tive report, the Israeli tele-vision program "Uvda" said that Netanyahu had ordered the heightened military alert during a meeting in late 2010. The report described the country's top military and intelligence leaders, Israel Defense Forces chief Gabi Ashkenazi and the director of the Mossad spy agency, Meir Dagan, as "shocked" by Netanyahu's move and said they both argued strongly against the measure.

Dagan argued that plac-ing the military on height-ened alert could lead to "an illegal decision to go to war," the program said. Ashkenazi

argued that putting the mili-tary on alert for an immedi-ate strike would be a step that the country could not easily back way from, the program said.

"This is not something you do unless you are cer-tain you want to use it at the end," Ashkenazi was quoted as having said. "This is not something you step down from."

In an on-camera interview for the program, Barak con-firmed that Netanyahu is-

sued the order, but he said it was not carried out because Ashkenazi said the military couldn't carry out an attack on Iran. Ashkenazi denied that, however, and said the decision not to go forward had been a political one.

Israeli news organiza-tions reported at the time that there had been a dispute between Barak and Ashke-nazi, but the details had nev-er been revealed.

The report renews ques-tions about whether Israel would be able to take uni-lateral action against Iran over that country's nuclear enrichment program, which Israel claims is intended to develop a weapon but that Iran says is for peaceful pur-poses only.

Publicly, Israel's leaders have always said that "every option is on the table" when it comes to stopping Iran's nuclear program. Defense analysts, however, have argued that it would be ex-tremely difficult — if not im-possible — for Israel to carry out an attack without U.S. support.

Report says Netanyahu, military were split

This is not something you can do unless you are certain you want to use it at the end. This is not something you step down from.

— Gabi Ashkenazi, Israel Defense Forces

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By P. MCDONNELL and RIMA MARROUCHLos Angeles Times

BEIRUT — A car bomb exploded Monday in a Da-mascus district that is home to many security personnel and members of President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect, killing 11 people and wound-ing dozens of others, the offi-cial state media reported.

The attack was part of a wave of violence reported Monday across Syria, includ-ing a massive car bomb ap-parently targeting a military post in the central province of Hama and aerial bombard-ment of rebel held towns in northwest Syria. Scores were reported killed.

Monday's car bombing in Damascus' Mazzeh Jabal 86 district, with a large concen-tration of Alawites, is the lat-est in a series of explosions in the Syrian capital that could inflame sectarian ten-sions. Mostly Sunni Muslim rebels have been fighting to oust Assad, whose Alawite sect is considered an offshoot of the Shiite branch of Islam.

Other Damascus-area bombs in recent weeks have detonated near a revered Shi-ite shrine, Sayyida Zainab, and in the Bab Touma dis-trict, a historic Christian neighborhood in Damascus' Old City.

Assad has depicted his ad-ministration as a defender of Syria's minority groups. His government, deeply unpopu-lar with much of the Sunni

majority, maintains consider-able support among Alawite, Shiite and Christian minori-ties.

The government blames the attacks on "terrorists," its label for armed rebels.

It remained unclear if the Damascus bombings repre-sent part of a coordinated opposition campaign, are the actions of autonomous rebel groups, or whether there is some alternate ex-planation. The disparate rebel factions fighting to oust Assad lack a central chain of command.

Also in the Damascus area, the government news service reported five people were killed when rebels launched a mortar attack on a public transportation mini-bus in the Yarmouk camp, home to many Palestinian refugees.

Claims by both sides of the

fighting are difficult to verify because the government has limited the access of outside media to conflict zones.

The Associated Press re-ported that pro- and anti-Assad Palestinian factions clashed Monday in the capi-tal. Syria's civil conflict has divided Syria's huge Palestin-ian refugee community.

Meanwhile, opposition representatives said among the rebel-held areas bombard-ed Monday by government aircraft was of Kafarnabel, in northwest Idlib province. The town has achieved a measure of international no-toriety because of residents' witty protest banners, some penned in English, that have been posted on YouTube, usu-ally following Friday prayers and demonstrations. Resi-dents also displayed elabo-rate caricatures assailing the Assad government.

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By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT — Once the voting polls opened to-day at 7 a.m., Sherrie Rieb-el, county clerk, no doubt breathed a guarded sigh of relief knowing volunteers she had recruited to work at the polls were on duty and voting could proceed.

Citizens who choose to exercise their privilege of voting probably haven’t thought about the time it takes to find volunteers who will go through train-ing and commit to a 13-hour day for minimum wage.

“I need 15 (volunteers) in Humboldt,” Riebel said. “There is one Supervising Judge and 14 Clerks.”

The Supervising Judge is there to see that things run smoothly and that board workers are doing their jobs correctly. Sev-en clerks handle the poll books, three hand out the ballots, three make sure marked ballots are placed in the cans and one is an auto-mark per-son.

“Each of these posi-tions has an extra person so that the others can have a break or take a break if they need to, other than eating,” Riebel said.

Although volunteers aren’t required to have

elaborate qualifications, Riebel looks for those who can be “fairly quick” and are “kind and consider-ate.”

“I found several who wanted to work, but not on a computer,” Riebel said.

Mandatory training of approximately three hours the day prior to election is required of volunteers and additional special training for those running the electronic poll books.

“I had extra training on them mainly because they are new and I wanted board workers to be com-fortable running them,” she explained.

Riebel is grateful for workers who return year after year, like Ginger Roberts, who has been on the election board more than 40 years. She started when Cottage Grove and Salem Townships voted at Zillah School east of town when the polls were moved to town.

In those early years, she was on the counting board eventually working her way up the ladder of responsibility to Supervis-ing Judge.

“Now I am back to being a clerk,” Roberts said. “I’m getting up there in years and I don’t do computers.”

She looks forward to vol-

unteering when an elec-tion is called for.

“It’s great to see all the people in your neighbor-hood and your friends,” she said. “But, I always felt it was my duty to help. I enjoy all aspects of it and the companion-ship of the people on the board. I’ve really enjoyed it. I’ve been there quite awhile.”

Several years ago, “it’s in a file somewhere,” Roberts received a certifi-cate from the Secretary of State for 35 years of service on the election board.

There are 1,957 regis-tered voters in Cottage Grove, Salem, Logan, Humboldt Township and the two Humboldt wards. All mark their ballots in new four-way booths at the First Baptist Church here.

“The City of Humboldt set up booths forever and a day until we got the new four-way booths,” Riebel said. Set-up is now handled by the county clerk’s office.

Roberts feels like it will be a busy day at the polls, which confirms Riebel’s observation, “Voters make our Elec-tion Day and Advanced Voting a successful elec-tion.”

Clockwise from left, G.A.L.S. member Nancy Weilert leads the fourth grade group in the Halloween Parade, Hadlee Allen, 7 months, looks serious in her Strawberry Shortcake costume, and Jacob Grzybowski, 10, is dis-guised as a scary zombie.

Gals and ghouls on parade Terry Broyles/Register

CalendarToday - VOTE, 7 a.m. - 7

p.m.Wednesday - American

Baptist Women’s Mission meeting, 9 a.m. White Cross work, covered dish lunch at noon, business meeting, 1 p.m., at the church; Hum-boldt Planning Commission meeting, 7 p.m., City Coun-cil room.

Sunday - First Baptist Church family night dinner and program, 5:30 p.m.

Monday - Veterans Day Nov. 13-Chapter AM, PEO

meeting, 7:30 p.m., library meeting room.Downtown Action Team

Members of the Down-town Action Team (DAT) traveled to Olathe Oct. 19 where they met Matt Just, Civil Engineer LLC.

Just reviewed a list of the scope of projects al-lowed, community sup-port needed and interim financing requirements noted in the KDOT grant application. The applica-tion deadline has been ex-tended to Feb. 15, 2013.

The DAT recommended the scope of the downtown streetscape project be nar-rowed and requested Just to identify costs associ-ated with narrowing the

sidewalk replacement on the east side of the square in order to allow for diago-nal parking.

Members determined arch cuts or vegetation would be removed from the project, but asked Mr. Just to provide two cost estimates for narrowing the sidewalk; one with additional street lights and one without.

Several merchants and building owners have been approached and indicated they would write letters of support for a USDA grant to fund the project. Plans are to present the grant application and project to the City Growth Commit-tee in November.

There will be a Christ-mas lighting ceremony at the bandstand in the square on November 26 at 6 p.m. and DAT members, Larry Tucker and Sunny Shreeve will attend the Public Square Communi-ties conference in McPher-son, Nov. 9 - 10.

Election volunteers prepareBy TERRY BROYLES

Humboldt CorrespondentHUMBOLDT — The

House of Prayer gift shop at the corner of 9th and Bridge streets is once again observing regular business hours after being closed for the past eight months.

“Right now, we’re doing a lot of cleaning,” Corliss O’Neill, staff member, said.

The gift shop building is associated with the Con-fraternity of Our Lady Queen of Peace House of Prayer located a block east at 102 S. 10th and the upstairs is used as resi-dence for staff members.

“Basically, we were short

of staff,” O’Neill said, “We have enough staff now to be open and we’re always recruiting other staff mem-bers.”

Volunteer staff mem-bers are responsible for praying in the House of Prayer chapel from 10 to 6, seven days a week, as well as maintenance of the Confraternity proper-ties.

“The staff will clean or do whatever is needed,” O’Neill added. “We did have staff who came in for prayer of novena on Satur-days while we were short-handed.”

A native of Canada,

O’Neill manages the gift shop that offers religious articles such as Rosaries, pictures, books, DVDs and candles to the public and visitors — who come into town to pray at the chapel.

The chapel is “open to the public,” O’Neill said. “Although we say Catholic prayers, anyone may put in a petition for prayer and we’ll pray for it. You don’t have to be a Catholic.”

The House of Prayer was dedicated six years ago in November 2006 and O’Neill has been on staff here at numerous inter-vals returning to Canada every six months.

The House of Prayer re-opens

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Board of Regents will consider re-quiring the six state uni-versities to put in place procedures for conducting periodic performance re-views for tenured faculty members.

Board of Regents Vice Chairman Fred Logan said faculty would be part of planning the process for “post-tenure” reviews and he envisions them being conducted by the faculty members’ peers.

“I think that post-tenure review — when it’s done by faculty and by university leaders, it’s a very affirm-ing process for tenured professors,” Logan said.

Logan said the regents could consider the policy at their December meet-ing but he doesn’t expect it to be implemented un-til at least next year, The Lawrence Journal-World

reported.Andrew Torrance, a law

professor who is Faculty Senate president at the University of Kansas, said he believes most faculty would support the pro-posal if it is handled fairly and is not strictly punitive.

“Sometimes faculty may get off track, and we think this could be an opportu-nity to get faculty back on track,” Torrance said.

Faculty members who earn tenure gener-ally are protected from dismissal except for ad-equate cause, unless a program is discontinued or a financial emergency occurs.

Torrance said it’s im-portant to maintain ten-ure protections because they insulate faculty from outside influences on their research.

“Tenure actually back-stops the objective search

for the way the world real-ly is,” Torrance said, “and it’s important to know that if you drop an apple, grav-ity pulls it down. It doesn’t send it back up.”

Associate special edu-cation professor Sandra Gautt, a former Kansas administrator, said it’s a myth that tenure gives lifelong employment to undeserving faculty. At the University of Kansas, tenured faculty must un-dergo an annual evalua-tion process that is more rigorous than reviews faced by typical private-sector employees, she said.

Mary Lee Hummert, Kansas’ vice provost for faculty support, said the university would ask fac-ulty governance leaders for input on the post-ten-ure review policy and a special faculty committee will create a plan.

Tenure faculty to be reviewed

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — State wildlife officials have found invasive zebra mussels in an eastern Kan-sas lake.

The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism says a recent sur-vey found both larval and adult zebra mussels at the 407-acre Wyandotte County Lake. The agency says there are now 17 Kansas reser-voirs and lakes infested with the aquatic nuisances.

Zebra mussels are bean-sized mollusks with striped shells that have been spread around the world via cargo ships.

In Kansas, the communi-ties of Council Grove and Osage City have both had water shortages because of zebra mussel infestations.

Zebramusselsfound

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Republicans looked to repeat their sweep today of the state’s four congres-sional districts, keeping the U.S. House seats in the party’s hands for the second straight election cycle.

The races follow a trend in Kansas politics in recent years that has seen Republi-cans and the party’s conser-vative wing gain a tighter grip on elected offices, de-spite increases in the num-ber of unaffiliated voters. Democrats have struggled

over that time to field candi-dates in all of the districts, or have had to rely on rela-tive political newcomers to step forward.

That’s the case in the 2nd District where Rep. Lynn Jenkins, a Topeka Republi-can, is seeking a third term and faces Democrat Tobias Schlingensiepen, a Topeka pastor making his first run at public office. The district covers much of eastern Kansas. Because of new boundaries drawn in June the district includes all

of Lawrence and Douglas County which had previous-ly been in the 3rd District.

Jenkins campaigned on jobs and the economy, vow-ing to continue to fight back government regulations on small businesses, including blunting the effects of the new health care act. Schlin-gensiepen, in his first politi-cal campaign, won a three-way Democratic primary in August. The last Democrat to hold the seat was Nancy Boyda who lost to Jenkins in 2008.

Republicans look to sweep house


Opinion

Against my better judgment, I voted for a candidate for sher-iff of Allen County and for the rest of the county offices on the ballot.

The only wise vote in the batch was for county commis-sioner. County commission-ers make policy. They should therefore be elected. None of the other officials up for elec-tion do. The others hold jobs that are best done by people trained in the knowledge and skills required by the position. They should be hired by the county commission from qual-ified applicants for the jobs. Or, better yet, picked by a trained county manager.

The model for staffing Al-len County lies just across the street in Iola City Hall. Iola, like every other city in Kansas and most of America, doesn’t elect its law enforcement offi-cers, its attorney, its clerks and other department heads. They are all hired by the city coun-cil, usually with the advice of the city administrator.

It is particularly important that law enforcement depart-ment heads, such as the chief of police, be hired rather than elected. Elected officials quite naturally seek to make them-selves liked by the voters.

Hello, out there. Popular sheriffs are not al-

ways good sheriffs. A chief of police who set out every morn-ing to please the public might decide to have fewer parking violation tickets written, take a prominent businessman home rather than toss him in the clinker as a drunk and put people-pleasing over law en-forcement in other ways.

Following the pattern set by municipalities would make for better county government for other reasons, as well. When selections are made in the elec-tion process, candidates with outgoing personalities have a

natural advantage. The quiet, inward-looking guy or gal doesn’t even try to win those offices, even though they might do a whale of a job as register of deeds, treasurer or county clerk. Slapping backs and kiss-ing babies doesn’t appeal to them.

Advantage number three is that competent, hard-working employees should be kept on the job as long as they can do the work and want to stay. That is all but automatic in munici-pal government. Thirty-year pin parties are commonplace events in city halls.

There would be more of them in county courthouses if the jobs were appointive rather than elective — and the taxpay-ers would benefit from the ex-pertise those faithful servants develop and the loyalty they demonstrate.

TO BE SURE, the good sense of the voters in counties like Allen make the system work despite itself. Republican Allen County sometimes puts a Dem-ocrat in an elective county job and then keeps them there for term after term because they perform well. The voters, in ef-fect, decide not to play politics and play good government in-stead.

To its good fortune, Allen County has had quite a few ca-reer county clerks, treasurers and registers of deeds.

But depending on the voters to act as though they were the county commission sometimes has painful results. If they turn out to be duds, elected of-ficials can’t be fired until the next election. And that may be the very best reason to junk the system and adopt the city model.

Will it happen? When pigs fly and every hen lays two eggs a day.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Counties should copy cities inpicking personnel

The presidential election will decide not just who leads the ex-ecutive branch but who appoints federal judges. With four justices in their 70s, the next president likely will make at least one ap-pointment to the nine-member U.S. Supreme Court, impacting the law for a generation. Presi-dent Barack Obama’s court picks would be moderate and humane, as they have been so far, while Republican Mitt Romney prom-ises to nominate conservative ac-tivists who would turn back the clock on a swath of progressive advances and rights.

We already know the kind of justices President Barack Obama would choose. He appointed two, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, who have since ruled to limit corporate money in political campaigns, protect wom-en from discrimination, shield consumers from corporate harm, and uphold the Affordable Care Act, the greatest safety net expan-sion since Medicare. Romney, who has denounced Sotomayor, would look for a very different set of values in his justices. His models are Justices Antonin Scalia, Clar-ence Thomas and Samuel Alito, the court’s fiercest conservatives, who are pretty dependable votes to limit civil rights, economic jus-tice and environmental regula-tions, as well as decimate church-state separation.

Romney sent a powerful signal to economic and religious conser-vatives by tapping Robert Bork as a key judicial adviser. Bork was the Reagan Supreme Court nomi-nee rejected in 1987 by a bipartisan U.S. Senate as too radically con-servative and out of mainstream legal thought. Bork notoriously said there is no right to privacy in

the U.S. Constitution. He accepted state laws banning contraception even for married couples, while rejecting parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that desegregated lunch counters. Despite these ex-treme views, Romney has said he wishes Bork “were already on the court.”

Women should be particularly concerned. The oldest liberal members of the high court are Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg. who is 79, and Stephen Breyer, who is 74. Scalia and Justice An-thony Kennedy, the court’s sole centrist, are 76. All it would take is for one Romney nominee to replace Kennedy or one of the court’s liberals for Roe vs. Wade to be overturned. Romney has said he rejects Roe, the 1973 rul-ing that guarantees women the right to choose an abortion, and would leave abortion regulation to the states. This would wipe away decades of reproductive

freedom rights and progress in women’s health.

But Roe’s demise is just the start of the precedents at risk by an activist conservative court that would seek to strike down federal regulations, expand states’ rights and roll back long-standing civil rights and liberties.

Romney’s judicial picks would be out of touch with the values of most Americans. They would like-ly set back the rights of women, side with states that want to inter-fere with minority voting rights, allow more taxpayer money to fund religious activities, protect polluters and shut the courthouse door to little-guy consumers, workers and gays seeking equal rights. This legacy would last for decades after Romney left office, and voters should reflect on the long-term implications for the na-tion as they cast their ballots for president.

— The Tampa Bay Times

A Romney court would set back the clock

This is politics: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie shows up at a Republican function in late Octo-ber and bashes President Barack Obama as someone who’s “clutch-ing for the light switch of leader-ship.”

This is real life: Barely a week later Christie goes on national TV to praise Obama, saying, “I can-not thank the president enough for his personal concern and com-passion for our state.”

Why the abrupt change?Because superstorm Sandy had

slammed into New Jersey and much of the Northeast with hor-rific force, killing dozens of peo-ple, destroying homes, crippling transit, shutting off electricity and leaving a swath of destruc-tion that demands the most he-roic relief and rebuilding efforts the nation can muster.

New Jersey doesn’t have nearly enough resources — from money to qualified personnel — to do that right now. Neither do New York, Connecticut or the other badly damaged states.

So Christie, other governors and mayors of affected commu-nities are looking to the entity best suited to rush in and help in times of crisis.

It’s called the federal govern-

ment.While criticizing most every-

thing that Washington does these days is a popular activity for some politicians, its size and reach are crucial during national disasters.

Compassionate, knowledgeable leadership helps, too. Obama and the federal forces he leads dis-played that quality early on in the wake of Sandy.

The Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency quickly moved badly needed power generators into many affected areas, helped with emergency transit and brought in massive amounts of water and pre-packaged meals.

Given the tremendous extent of the damage, emergency respond-ers were still scrambling over the weekend to restore electricity to many people in New York City and New Jersey, and get sufficient amounts of gasoline to the North-east.

Talk of self-sufficiency and states’ rights make for nice sound bites when the sun is shining.

But Joplin residents found out after a tornado ripped through their city in 2011, it’s far better to have national, state and local pub-lic employees ready to respond.

In Sandy’s aftermath, the Red Cross, other nonprofit groups and utility crews from around the country are providing excellent assistance.

Still, natural disasters tend to show Americans we’re all in this together. It’s encouraging that an empathetic president has helped lead a massive federal response to the megastorm.

— The Kansas City Star

Hurricane Sandy shows continued need for federal aid

Talk of self-sufficiency and states’ rights make for nice sound bites when the sun in shining. ... But Joplin resi-dents found out after a tornado ripped through their city in 2011, it’s far better to have national, state and local public employees ready to respond.

A look back in time50 Years Ago

November 1962First Methodist Church will

present Miss Florence Hobart, lo-cal organist, in recital. A number of organ and piano pupils who have gone into music profession-ally, had their early training with Miss Hobart. She has appeared as organist in many Iola Music Club programs since 1925.

*****The Iola Board of Education

filed a suit against Allen County Bank acting as trustee for the will

of Thomas H. Bowlus, asking the court to require the trustee to ac-cept the first bids to build the Bow-lus Fine Arts Center for $962,981. The bank had had contractors reduce their bids to $863,031 and make nine changes in the speci-fications which, the school board contends, reduces “the artistic appeal and functional use” of the building and were not neces-sary because the trust amounts to $1,329,399 — more than enough to build the center as first bid. The case awaits trial.

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It won’t be long and win-ter will be upon us. But be-fore the bitter cold hits, a couple of lawn tasks still need to be done.

November is the time to give cool-season lawns the last nitrogen application of the season.

Why November? Because it will help the grass next spring. As the top growth slows due to the cool tem-peratures in November, grass plants continue mak-ing food (carbohydrates). Carbohydrates that are not used in growth are stored in the crown and other stor-age tissues in the plant. These reserves help the turfgrass green up earlier in the spring and sustain growth into May without the need for early spring ni-trogen application.

How much fertilizer should you apply? One to 1½ pounds of nitrogen per 1,000 square feet of lawn is sufficient. A quick nitrogen carrier such as urea or am-monium sulfate should be used.

Weeds are probably the last thing on your mind right now. But think back to last spring. Did you have a pur-ple cast to your lawn from henbit or a good crop of dan-delions? If so, believe it or not, they were already grow-ing in your lawn last fall.

Cool season broadleaf weeds such as henbit, dan-delions and chickweed all germinate in the cool moist periods of September and October. They overwinter as small plants, barely vis-ible unless you get down close to the ground to look. Once warm weather arrives in the spring, the plants grow rapidly and flower.

Fall control is ideal for

these cool season broad-leaf weeds. The weeds are storing food in their roots and will send a leaf-applied herbicide to their roots as well. The herbicides will translocate to the roots and will kill the plants from the roots up. These plants are also small and easily con-trolled right now.

There are several prod-ucts on the market that are effective on these fall ger-minating weeds. Herbicides such as 2,4-D or combina-tion products that contain 2,4-D, MCCP and Dicamba, sold under the trade names of Trimec, Weed-B-Gon, or Weed-Out, can be used. A product called Weed Free Zone is also an option. It contains the three active in-gredients mentioned above plus carfentrazone.

Newly planted lawns should not be treated with an herbicide until the new grass seedlings have been mowed two or three times depending on the product. Read and follow label direc-tions closely.

Herbicide drift can be a problem during the spring when warm temperatures prevail along with winds. The cooler fall tempera-tures and the dormant state of most plants reduce this problem considerably, mak-ing it an ideal time for ap-plication.

Take action now to have a beautiful, weed-free lawn next spring.

KristaHarding

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Time to fertilize and control lawn weeds

The Logan Pals 4-H meet-ing was held on Oct. 22 at the Lutheran Church. Roll call was answered by what superstition you have. Mi-chelle Umholtz brought up committee sign-up sheets and welcomed new mem-bers, and Catherine Sharp gave results on the baked goods raffle.

For new business, new of-ficers were installed during a ceremony.

Members also made a trail mix snack. Gabriella Sharp gave a talk about how

to show your goat, Jessica Sharp gave a discussion on her lamp project, Delaney Umholtz gave a demonstra-tion on how to decorate pumpkins. Clay Shannon gave a talk on parts of a saddle.

The November meeting will be held at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church on Nov. 26 and will coincide with Logan Pals achievement night.

Zoey Rinehart,club reporter

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By JOHN SCHLAGECKKansas Farm BureauThis weekend the hills,

fields and woods will once again awaken to the sound of booming shotguns as hunters and their dogs swarm the countryside searching for pheasants, quail, ducks and other wildlife.

It goes without saying that Kansas farms and ranches have always been a handy, ready-to-use out-let for many urban dwell-ers in search of recreation-al hunting. On opening day of the upland game sea-son the interstate and U.S. highways will be a steady stream of pickups, SUVs and cars headed for central and western Kansas.

If you’re one of these hunters who plan to hunt on private land, remem-ber one key word when your thoughts turn toward hunting — consideration.

Translated, consider-ation means thoughtful and sympathetic regard.

In this country, wildlife belongs to the people, but

landowners have the right to say who goes on their land. If you are interested in hunting, make arrange-ments before you hunt.

Don’t wait until the day you plan to hunt someone’s land and then pound on their door at 6 a.m. Once you’ve secured permis-sion, here are some sug-gestions to follow that will ensure a lasting relation-ship between you and the landowner.

Agree on who, and how many, will hunt on the land. Specify number and furnish names. Talk about specific times and dates you plan to hunt.

Phone each and every time before you plan to hunt, and let the landown-er know your intentions. The landowner may have forgotten about your origi-nal conversation. It’s just common courtesy to say hello before hunting and ask again for the opportu-nity – or privilege, as I con-sider it – to hunt on some-one’s property.

Determine exactly

where on the land you have permission to hunt. Some areas may be off-limits be-cause of livestock or crops.

Always, and I can’t stress this enough, leave gates the way you find them. If they are open, leave them that way. If they are closed, shut them after you pass through.

If you ever leave a gate open and a farmer’s cow herd gets out of the pas-ture, “Katie bar the door.” You’ll never be invited back to hunt.

Once you’ve enjoyed a successful hunt, stop by to thank the landowner for his generosity. Offer to share the game you bag.

AFTER THE SEASON ends, write a note express-ing your appreciation for the opportunity to hunt. You may also find out what the landowner and his/her family enjoys eating or drinking and drop by later with a gift.

Leasing of land by the hunter from the land-owner is becoming more

popular in Kansas. Such agreements allow hunters a guaranteed hunting site. It also provides the land-owner income to recoup some of the investment he needs to leave habitat suit-able for wildlife to survive and prosper.

If you enter into such a lease, make sure it is writ-ten and includes all provi-sions both parties deem necessary. This should in-clude a clause for the land-owner and his or her fam-ily to hunt on the land.

Remember that the hunter and landowner should always discuss the terms of the hunt before hunting begins. This is extremely important. And hunters, never forget you are a guest and it is a privi-lege to hunt on the owner’s land.

John Schlageck is a lead-ing commentator on agri-culture and rural Kansas. Born and raised on a diver-sified farm in northwestern Kansas, his writing reflects a lifetime of experience, knowledge and passion.

Hunt with sympathy and regard

comes down to “a choice be-tween returning to the top-down policies that crashed our economy, or a future that’s built on providing op-portunity to everybody and growing a strong middle class.”

More than 30 million Americans already have vot-ed and by the time all polling places close, more than 130 million are expected to have cast ballots across the coun-try. Most will be in places, including California, Illi-nois, Texas and New York, where the presidential elec-tion is not in doubt, because most states reliably favor the nominee of one major party or the other.

Insiders in both cam-paigns say they will be closely watching three states—Ohio, Wisconsin and Virginia—for clues to the outcome of the election.

On Monday, as the sun set on their prolonged and bitter campaign battle, Obama and Romney converged on Co-lumbus, Ohio, the key swing area of the nation’s most cel-ebrated battleground state, which has gotten more can-didate attention than any other.

Obama also campaigned in Wisconsin and Iowa, while Romney appeared in Florida, Virginia and New Hampshire.

Romney has sought to add Pennsylvania to that mix, scheduling an Election Day stop in Pittsburgh, along with another in Cleveland. Obama planned to spend to-day in his hometown of Chi-cago, where he cast an early ballot last month.

Carrying Ohio—which he won four years ago—would open up a clear path to 270 electoral votes for the presi-dent. To win re-election, Obama would need to add only Wisconsin, assuming his advantage holds in Ne-vada and other states re-garded as likely to go Demo-cratic. But Wisconsin, the home state of Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, is not a given. Re-cent polling shows Obama ahead by three or more

points, though a recent cam-paign poll had his lead down to a single percentage point. Another had him ahead by five.

If Obama loses Ohio, he’ll need to make up the differ-ence by carrying Colorado, Iowa and New Hampshire; late polling showed him with at least a marginal lead in all three. A Virginia win would give him breathing room and could be an early sign that he is headed for victory.

Romney’s electoral math is more complicated, but almost certainly requires winning Ohio. A loss there would force him to pick up other states, including Wis-consin, Colorado and New Hampshire. He’d also have

to carry Virginia and Flor-ida.

Under the system laid out in the 1700s by the framers

of the Constitution, a presi-dential election is actually a series of separate elections, rather than a single na-tional one. The 538 electoral votes represent the sum of winner-take-all results in

48 states and the District of Columbia; also included are individual electoral votes from districts in Maine and Nebraska, which may differ from the statewide result un-der laws in those states. As recently as 2000, the winner of the nationwide popular vote (Al Gore) lost the elec-toral vote.

In the battlegrounds with the most electoral votes this time, demographics, local issues and competing voter-turnout operations could make the difference.

—OHIO (18 electoral votes): Polls indicate that Obama leads by about 3 per-centage points in the state

that decided the 2004 elec-tion. Since mid-October, Romney has led in just one of past 30 Ohio surveys.

“This election reminds me very much of 2004 in Ohio,” said John Green, who directs the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. “We had the in-cumbent president, George W. Bush, coming in with a lead, a small lead, and he ended up being able to sus-tain that and he ended up winning.”

Early voting appears to favor Obama in the state, though not by the same mar-gins he built four years ago, when he carried it by 5 per-centage points. Across the Midwest, the 2009 auto bail-out has given Obama an ad-vantage, but nowhere more than Ohio.

—FLORIDA (29 electoral votes): Florida, the decisive state in 2000, has shown more divergence in recent public polling than any other major state. One survey put Romney ahead by 6 percent-age points; others showed Obama leading by a point or two. Obama carried the state by less than 3 percent-age points four years ago, and it might be a surprise if he won by even that much again. Democrats won’t be shocked if he loses it.

Susan MacManus, a Uni-versity of South Florida political scientist, said the result could come down to generational politics: if vot-ers over the age of 50, who favor Romney, turn out more heavily than the younger voters who put Obama over the top in 2008, the Republi-can ticket will prevail.

The Latino vote is a wild card in Florida. Projections by the nonpartisan survey firm Latino Decisions are that Obama will carry the Latino vote by at least 40 percentage points over Rom-ney nationwide. Co-founder Matt Barreto, a University of Washington political sci-entist, said that if Latinos turn out at the high rates his firm is expecting, they could help Obama carry Florida and three other states, Ne-vada, Colorado and Virginia.

H ElectionContinued from A1

This election reminds me very much of 2004 in Ohio. We had the incumbent presi-dent, George W. Bush, coming in with a lead, a small lead, and he ended up being able to sustain that and he ended up win-ning.

— John Green , director Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics and the Univer-

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• Keep a close eye on the road ahead, as well as its shoulders. Usually deer are seen with enough time for drivers to react. Also, remember that deer often move in groups. If one deer is seen, expect others to be nearby.

• When a deer is spotted, slow and sound the horn to scare the animal away from the road.

• If a collision is inevi-table, apply brakes firmly and don’t swerve. A head-on collision is better than

swerving and losing con-trol of a vehicle.

• Dawn and dusk are when deer move about the most. But deer don’t ob-serve time schedules, par-ticularly during the rut. Two of the weekend ac-cidents occurred about 8 a.m., the other two about 8 p.m.

• Wear a seatbelt.• Deer aren’t bound to

any particular areas, but they usually prefer brush and timbered areas and frequently travel along streams and draws. Be ex-tra careful when approach-

ing any of those landscape features.

• Don’t depend on fend-er-mounted whistles to repel deer. According to the Kansas Highway Pa-trol, extensive studies have found that whistles do not work. The only way to avoid striking a deer, the KHP cautions, “is to drive defensively.”

• If an accident occurs, immediately contact au-thorities by calling 911. Give an preliminary as-sessment of the accident, including whether anyone is injured.

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By STEVEN [email protected] Allen County His-

torical Society is starting a program that will get Allen County residents directly in-volved with the museum for the holidays.

Elyssa Jackson, executive director for the society, said the museum will be provid-ing two trees for the window displays. On one tree, Allen Countians will display their own holiday traditions on an ornament. On the other tree, they will display an orna-ment to honor the veterans in their family.

For the holiday tree, Jackson suggested that people send a 6 by 8-inch

card with a holiday tradi-tion that is special to their family to the museum. She said the holiday does not need to specifically pertain to Christmas.

For the veterans tree, it will also display a 6 by 8-inch card. She said families should send the name of the veteran, which branch they served with and how long they served.

She said with both trees, the more information the families can give, the better the ornament will be. Pho-tos are encouraged along with the information pro-vided for either ornament.

Allen County residents will vote on their favorite

traditions on the holiday tree, and the winner will re-ceive a year membership to the museum, along with a subscription to the society’s newsletter, “The Gaslight.”

Jackson said her goal for the display is to get Allen Countians involved in their “current history.”

“We want people to take ownership in the museum and make connections in the county,” Jackson said.

Jackson requested cards be submitted by Nov. 17, be-fore the lighting ceremony on the square. Cards may include drawings, stories or photos. The trees will be on display from Nov. 23 to Jan. 5.

Museum looks to honor family traditions

The Bowlus Fine Arts Center contributed to the evening by providing a chil-dren’s comedy act from the Coterie Theatre out of Kan-sas City. The act, called “The Presidents,” performed a short profile of each U.S. president in a minute or less — with singing and dancing involved, of course.

Henry said the focus of the evening was to get the children involved in making the meal and to shed light on the presidential office.

“We really want to see the kids being a part of the vot-ing process,” Henry said. “It’s something we always did in my family.”

She said she encourages parents to bring their chil-dren with them when they vote because it will encour-age them to vote when they are legally able to.

“Take your children to the polls,” Harris said to the parents, “Give them the little sticker that says ‘I Voted.’”

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A card shower has been requested for Ralph and Dolores Wilson in honor of their 60th wedding anniver-sary Saturday.

They were married Nov. 10, 1952, in Piqua. They had two children, Sharon Bland

and husband Roger, Iola, and Debbie Hill and hus-band Rick, Parker, Colo.

They have four grand-children and eight great-grandchildren.

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Sports New Orleans topsPhiladelphia

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KU defeats Washburnin exhibition play

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Iola High’s wildly successful foray into the Pioneer League has brought postseason honors to 10 Mustang football players.

Senior offensive lineman Eli Grover was joined by junior of-fensive lineman Derek Weir and wide receiver Adam Kauth on the first team offense.

Meanwhile, junior Bryce Misenhelter, manning the defen-sive line, earned first team recog-nition on defense.

Junior John Whitworth earned second team honors on both of-fense and defense as the Mus-tangs’ starting running back and linebacker. Senior Stephen McDonald, defensive line, sopho-more Kaden Macha, linebacker, and junior Jacob Rhoads, defen-sive back, joined Whitworth on the defensive second team.

Senior quarterback and punter Mason Coons earned honorable mention for both positions. Also earning honorable mention were Rhoads as running back and se-nior wide receiver Jacob Harri-son.

THE MUSTANGS swept past all five of their Pioneer League opponents en route to a 6-3 record overall. Iola finished one game out of the postseason playoffs.

Much of the credit for the league championship goes to the work of the interior linemen. On offense, Grover, 6-feet and 250 pounds, and Weir, 5-10, 210, were mainstays for a line that paved the way for an average of 26 points and 250 rushing yards a game. Iola averaged 361 yards of total offense for the season.

Kauth was Iola’s leading receiv-er, pulling in 21 receptions for 360 yards, more than 17 yards a catch, with two touchdowns. On defense, the 6-foot, 140-pound Kauth had two interceptions, one of which he returned for a touchdown, 39 tackles, including 28 solo stops, three tackles for loss, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery.

On defense, Misenhelter, 6-2, 180, led the Mustangs with 7 1/2 sacks, nine tackles for loss and three fumble recoveries. He also tied for sixth on the team with 51 tackles, 35 of which were unas-sisted.

McDonald, 6-2, 205, led Iola with seven forced fumbles, 51 tackles — six for losses — a sack and two fumble recoveries.

Macha, 6-foot, 180, was sec-ond on Iola with 68 tackles, 1 1/2 sacks, two forced fumbles. He also scored a defensive touchdown.

Whitworth, 5-10, 175, led the Iola rushing attack with 959 yards, an average of 7.6 yards per carry, and eight touchdowns. On defense, Whitworth had 61 tack-les — good for third on the team — with five tackles for losses, two forced fumbles and a sack.

Rhoads, 5-7, 145, led the Mus-tang defense with 72 tackles. His two interceptions tied him with Kauth for the team lead. He also forced a fumble, recovered anoth-er and had two tackles for loss. On

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Mustangs earn postseason honors

TodayJr. High Wrestling

IMS InvitationalJr. College Basketball

ACC at Butler Co., women 5:30 p.m., men 7:30 p.m.

ThursdayJr. High Basketball

Independence at IMS 7th, 8th girls, 3:30 p.m.

FridayJr. College Basketball

Brown Mackie Classic

ACC men vs. K-State Salina, 5 p.m.

SaturdayJr. College Basketball

Brown Mackie ClassicACC men vs. Brown Mackie, 3 p.m.

MondayJr. High Basketball

IMS 7th, 8th girls at Anderson County, 3:30 p.m.

Jr. High WrestlingIMS at Independence, 3:30

Sports calendar

Pioneer League recognizes 10 Iola players

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COFFEYVILLE — Iola Middle School’s eighth-grade girls squad had its defense clicking from start to finish.

The Ponies led 13-6 after one quarter, then allowed only four points after that in a 25-10 victory.

“Defensively, the girls were very good tonight,” Iola head coach Marty Taylor said. “We are still missing a lot of easy shots, but the effort is very good.”

Toni Macha led the way for Iola with nine points and nine rebounds. Sydney Wade added

eight points, six rebounds and six assists. Riley Murry pulled in a whopping 17 rebounds to go with three points. Taylor Stout chipped in with two points and six boards; Brook Storrer two points and two rebounds and Lexi Heslop one point and five rebounds.

The Coffeyville seventh-grad-ers defeated Iola 29-10, breaking open a 9-4 lead after one quarter with a 16-2 run over the second and third periods.

“The girls did a better job to-night,” Taylor said. “We have to

get tougher and more physical, but they are getting there.”

Scout Rush led the seventh-grade Pony squad with four points and two rebounds. Colbi Riley and Karly McGuffin each had two points and four rebounds. Macay-la Bycroft scored two points.

Coffeyville also won the B team contest 25-9. Bycroft scored four points to lead Iola. Savannah McCulley added three and Addy Prather had two.

Iola hosts Independence Thurs-day.

IMS eighth-graders win in romp

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KICKS COUNTRY IN IOLA Trading Post — 8 a.m. - 9 a.m.

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

Community National Bank & Trust. Community National Bank & Trust.

If you are interested in holding a position on the board, please make your interest known by

calling ACARF at 620-496-2453 or send a notice to 305 E. Hwy. 54, LaHarpe, KS 66751.

From SaturdayAllen (39-33—72)No. Central Mo. (40-28—68)

Allen (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Burnes 2-0-0-4, Roberts 1-0-0-2, Fountain 1-0-0-2, Schippers 4/2-2-1-16, Uno 0-0-1-0, Keiswetter 0-1-1-1, Bar-nette 2/3-1-3-14, Blue 4/3-3-2-20, Rountree 5-3-3-13, Walter 0-0-2-0. TOTALS: 19/8-10-13-72.

Assists: Fountain 3, Blue 3, Wal-ter, 1. Turnovers: Burnes 2, Roberts 2, Fountain 1, Schippers 1, Uno 1, Blue 4, Rountree 2. Blocks: Foun-tain 1, Blue 2, Walter 2. Steals: Roberts 1, Walden 1, Rountree 2.

CollegeBasketball

All Pioneer LeagueFirst Team

OffenseQB — Shey Spears, Jr., PV QB — Austin Chisam, Sr., ORB — Blake Barnes, So., PVRB — Shane Hillman, Sr., WWR — Adam Kauth, Jr., IWR — Jr. Carter Mann, WOL — Eli Grover, Sr., IOL — Derek Weir, Jr., IOL — Matt Kellerman, Sr., PVOL — David Ball, Sr., ACOL — Cameron Lyon, Sr., WTE — Willie Jackson, WST — Sheldon Booe, O

DefenseDL — Bryce Misenhelter, Jr., IDL — Matt Kellerman, Sr., PVDL — Richard Alonzo, Sr., ODL — Willie Jackson, Sr., WDL — Eric Tastove, Sr., ACLB — Will Holland, Sr., PVLB — Kenneth Hopkins, Sr., WLB — Weston Gilbreth, Sr., PVLB — Matt Lofing, Sr., ODB — Shane Hillman, Sr., WDB — Drew Beckwith, Sr., CHDB — Austin Chisam, Sr., OP — Carter Mann, Jr., W

Second TeamOffense

RB — John Whitworth, Jr., IRB — Weston Gilbreth, Sr., ACRB — Matt Lofing, Sr., OWR — Jordan Horstick, Jr., CHWR — D.J. Hollman, Sr., OOL — Preston Roedell, Sr., PVOL — Eric Tastove, Sr., ACOL — Ben Dorsett, Jr., OOL — Tanner Foulk, Jr., OOL — Dakota Snow, Sr., CH

DefenseDL — Stephen McDonald, Sr., IDL — Cameron Lyon, Sr., WDL — Dakota Snow, Sr., CHLB — Kaden Macha, So., ILB — John Whitworth, Jr., ILB — Cordell Dunlop, So., PVLB — Jake Bradley, Sr., PVLB — Luke Meyer, Jr., WDB — Jacob Rhoads, Jr., IDB — Levi Clark, Jr., PVDB — Lucas Miller, Sr., PVP — Jake Bradley, Sr., PV

Honorable MentionJacob Rhoads, RB; Mason

Coons, QB and P; Jacob Harrison, WR; Adam Kauth, DB

Pioneer League

offense, he piled up more than 650 yards from scrim-mage on offense, 487 yards on the ground and 153 receiving yards on 15 catches. He had two touch-downs.

Scoring eight touch-downs for the Mustangs on the ground, and throwing

for three more, was the 6-2, 190-pound Coons. Coons completed 73 of 138 passes for 1,005 yards, while rush-ing for 150 more.

Harrison, 6-3, 180, was Io-la’s second leading receiver with 231 yards, coming on 12 catches, an average of 19 yards per reception, and a touchdown.

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MORAN — Marmaton Valley Junior High’s boys split a pair of contests Monday against visiting Uniontown, while the Wildcat girls went 0-2.

The boys A team dropped a 39-14 decision, while the B team squad prevailed 27-24 by eras-ing a 19-12 deficit after the third quarter.

“Our B team had a nice comeback win,” Wildcat head coach Scott Brady said. “We had some injuries to-night, so we had nine or 10 guys to shuffle in and out, but Uniontown was a good team.”

In the B team contest, Justice Pugh led Mar-maton Valley with eight points. Trevor Wilson followed with seven and Ethan Tavarez with five. Tony Jefferis, Korbin Smith and Derek Nixon scored two apiece. Noah Foster had a point.

Pugh also led the A team with six points, fol-lowed by Nixon with five, Jake Kale with two and Tavarez with one.

“Uniontown had a big height advantage and they used it well,” Brady said. “They were well-coached and had a good feel for the game. Hope-

fully we get healthy.”

IN THE GIRLS A team contest, Uniontown broke open a 4-4 tie with a 6-0 second-quarter run be-fore holding off the Wild-cat girls in a 20-16 win.

Uniontown edged the Wildcats 13-12 in the B team contest.

“The girls showed a lot of improvement from our last game,” head coach Kim Ensminger said. “Defensively, we held a good Uniontown team to 13 points in the B game and 20 in the A game. Offensively, we are still learning. We are missing our open people inside the paint. We had a lot of good looks.”

Kyla Drake paced the A team with 10 points, fol-lowed by Misty Storrer with four and Nalea Alex-ander with two.

Trinitee Gutierrez scored all 12 of the B team’s points.

The Wildcat B team narrowly missed a shot with under 4 seconds left in the contest that would have won the game.

“Unfortunately, the ball rimmed out,” Ensminger said.

The squads travel to Pleasanton Thursday.

Wildcat squadshost Uniontown

BIG 12 CONFERENCE Conference All Games W L PF PA W L PF PAKansas St. 6 0 261 124 9 0 399 167Oklahoma 4 1 210 92 6 2 316 142Texas 4 2 215 236 7 2 363 284Oklahoma St. 3 2 153 123 5 3 340 206TCU 3 3 198 194 6 3 305 217Texas Tech 3 3 195 207 6 3 346 237West Virginia 2 3 184 251 5 3 326 318Iowa St. 2 4 136 161 5 4 220 193Baylor 1 4 196 224 4 4 350 313Kansas 0 6 74 210 1 8 152 282Saturday’s GamesOklahoma 35, Iowa St. 20TCU 39, West Virginia 38, 2OTBaylor 41, Kansas 14Texas 31, Texas Tech 22Kansas St. 44, Oklahoma St. 30

Saturday, Nov. 10Kansas at Texas Tech, NoonIowa St. at Texas, NoonBaylor at Oklahoma, 3:30 p.m.West Virginia at Oklahoma St., 3:30 p.m.Kansas St. at TCU, 7 p.m.

College Football

CorrectionA list of scores from

Saturday’s state football playoffs incorrectly listed Hamilton as the victor in a contest against South Ha-ven, 66-28.

Madison, two-time Kan-sas Eight Man, Division I state champion, defeated South Haven.

By DAVE SKRETTAAP Sports Writer

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The hallmark of Kansas last season was its ability to win ugly.

The Jayhawks would scrap for loose balls, throw a couple elbows under the basket to grab a rebound, clamp down like a vise-grip on opposing offenses and somehow get out in transi-tion enough to put together the kind of game-changing runs that it takes to win games in March.

Already, it looks like this season’s team will be no dif-ferent.

Ben McLemore had 17 points and 10 rebounds, Eli-jah Johnson added 13 points and the seventh-ranked Jay-hawks overcame 24 turn-overs in a 62-50 exhibition victory over Division II Washburn on Monday night.

“There’s going to be nights we don’t play good. We can still win if we play defense and rebound,” Kan-sas coach Bill Self said. “It’s a good lesson you can still win ugly. If last year’s team didn’t win ugly, we would have won 20 games instead of 32.”

Kansas will try to pretty up its performance on Fri-day night, when it opens the regular season against Southeast Missouri State, and certainly before a Nov. 13 date with No. 14 Michigan State as part of the Champi-ons Classic in Atlanta.

“We’ve got to learn some-thing from this. Today could be wasted if you don’t learn something from it,” John-son said. “Today I think we learned that you have to win ugly sometimes.”

Despite returning three starters from the team that pushed Kentucky to the lim-it in last season’s national championship game, the Jayhawks have appeared ragged and unpolished through their first two exhi-bition games against small, in-state schools Emporia State and Washburn.

They needed a 19-1 run to help put away the Hornets last week, and then used a 16-3 run early Monday night before coaxing the game to-ward its messy conclusion.

“Everybody’s thinking too much. There’s too many people trying too hard and not just playing,” Johnson said. “Everybody is making it too complex, and it’s just

confusing each other, rath-er than just rolling with the rhythm and hopping on the same train, building on each play.”

McLemore, who sat out last season as a partial NCAA qualifier, was one of the few players who managed to pro-duce on offense. He combined with Johnson and freshman Perry Ellis to score 29 of the Jayhawks’ first 34 points, al-lowing them to build a 36-24 lead by halftime.

Still, even McLemore gave Self plenty of teach-able moments.

One of them came early in the second half, when he gathered in the ball on the wing. With only one small-er defender in his way to the basket, McLemore opt-ed to take a midrange jump-er rather than go to the rim, leaving Self to scream halfway across the court for him to attack.

Self wound up calling three timeouts in the first 10 minutes of the second half.

“We weren’t executing as well as the first game,” Ellis said. “I mean, we weren’t pushing it as good as the first game. That’s the main thing, I feel. We just weren’t pushing it.”

These are the kind of growing pains that Kansas will no doubt experience through the first part of the season, though. De-spite being picked to win their ninth consecutive Big 12 title, the reality is they have nine freshmen on the roster, seven of whom could contribute.

How steep has the learn-

ing curve been at Kansas? Even the courtside an-nouncer is trying to settle into pronouncing the new-comers’ names, half the time calling Anrio Adams with his full name and half the time shortening the freshman guard’s first name to simply Rio.

Seven-footer Jeff Withey, one of the nation’s premier post defenders, struggled again to get on track. He only had seven points and six rebounds against Em-poria State, and had nine points and eight rebounds against the Ichabods, even though he had a massive size advantage in the paint.

Will McNeill scored 13 points to lead Washburn, a school from Topeka, Kan., that went 25-8 last season and was voted No. 2 in the NABC Division II pre-season poll.

The Ichabods were with-in 53-42 with about 5 min-utes left.

That’s when Withey scored inside, and then made a block at the other to trigger a fastbreak, which Releford finished with a three-point play for a 58-42 lead.

Johnson added a 3 mo-ments later to deliver the knockout blow.

“Kansas is going to be great,” Washburn coach Bob Chipman said, before adding: “Man, if we play re-ally hard, we’re capable of some great things.”

Jayhawks ‘ugly’ in win

Misc.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two teams with the same record. Two teams heading in strikingly different di-rections.

Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints appear to be on the rise again.

Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles are down, and nearly out.

Brees threw two touch-down passes, extending his NFL record streak to 51 games in a row, while Vick was sacked seven times and took an awful beating as the Saints romped to a 28-13 victory over the Eagles on Monday night.

Not that Philadelphia didn’t have its chances. But four first-and-goals re-sulted in two measly field goals, a tipped pass led to Patrick Robinson’s 99-yard interception return for a New Orleans touchdown, and the Eagles messed up a trick play when they had the home team totally fooled, costing them a score.

“As coaches and as play-ers, we obviously have to do a better job,” embattled coach Andy Reid said of the Eagles (3-5), who are mired in a four-game losing streak. “That starts with me.”

The Saints (3-5) revolve around Brees, of course, and he played much bet-ter than he did the previ-ous week in a 34-14 loss to Denver. But his perfor-mance was more efficient than spectacular, as New Orleans seemed intent on proving it’s not just a one-man team.

The NFL’s worst-ranked

running game relied on a trio of backs — Chris Ivory, Mark Ingram and Pierre Thomas — and finished with 140 yards, nearly double its season average. Ivory had a 22-yard touchdown run.

The defense came up with two huge turnovers near its own end zone. There was Robinson’s interception and return, which matched Darren Sharper’s franchise record. Then, with just over 3 minutes left and the Ea-gles down to their last gasp, Brent Celek caught a pass at the New Orleans 8 but fumbled it away.

The Saints recovered, and the Superdome celebra-tion was on.

“There are defining mo-ments throughout a sea-son,” Brees said. “Big plays, big wins, that kind of bring you together and let you see a vision of what you can be, what you can accomplish. Here we are the midway point. It’s gone by fast.

“This,” he added, “is the type of momentum we want going into the second half of the season.”

Vick threw a 77-yard touchdown pass to DeSean Jackson in the third quar-ter, but that was about the only highlight for the visit-ing team. The elusive quar-terback matched his career high for sacks; he also went down seven times when playing for the Atlanta Fal-cons against the New York Giants on Oct. 15, 2006.

“It’s very frustrating,” Vick said. “These are games that we have the opportuni-ty to win, or get back in the

game. At this point, ev-erything has to be dead on. You can’t miss, and you almost have to be perfect on every drive.”

Philadelphia was far from perfect, but sure had plenty of chances. The Eagles outgained New Orleans and fin-ished with 447 yards — the eighth straight team to put up more than 400 on the Saints.

But the offensive line just couldn’t keep Vick upright, a problem that got worse after right tackle Todd Herremans went down in the first half with a strained ankle tendon. He didn’t return.

Rubbing salt in the wound, Philadelphia squandered a chance to get back in the game with a unique trick play on a kickoff return. Ri-ley Cooper laid flat in the end zone, unseen by the Saints, then popped up to take a cross-field lateral from Brandon Boykin.

Cooper streaked down the sideline for an ap-parent touchdown. Only one problem — Boykin’s lateral was actually an illegal forward pass by about a yard, and the of-ficials caught it. Cooper stood with his hands on his hips, in disbelief, when he saw the yellow flag.

Yong Kim/Philadelphia Daily News/MCT New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees (9) throws the ball during the first quarter against the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday in the Saints’ 28-13 win.

Brees, Robinson propel Saints


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1. Put the newspapers you have saved in paper grocery sacks. Plastic cannot be accepted. KEEP NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES SEPARATE. Please DOUBLE SACK magazines and catalogs. ( NO phone books, NO hardback books & NO computer paper will be accepted.)

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Register/Steven SchwartzStudents on Iola Middle School’s eighth-grade princi-pal’s honor roll are, back from left, Benjamin Cooper, Alexis Heslop, Kendall Jay, Riley Murry, Alexandra Peres; front from left, Chase Regehr, Brooklyn Storrer, Aaron Terhune and Sydney Wade.

IOLA AREA SCHOOLS HONOR ROLLS

Iola Middle School seventh-grade principal’s honor roll students are, back from left, Cale Barnhart, Katie Bauer, Macayla Bycroft, Madison Carlin, Zachary Cokely, Nathan Cunningham; middle from left, Mea DeLaTorre, Camryn Freimiller, Brytni Graham, Dyllan James, Erin Klubek, Sofia Patino; front from left, Addison Prather, Colbi Riley, Zachary Slaven, Olivia Taylor, Sophie Whitney, Chloe Wilson.

Iola Middle School sixth-grade principal’s honor roll stu-dents are, back from left, Mia Aronson, Shaylee Baker, Dustin Bonnet, Derek Bycroft, Jaden Channel, Ashley Crane, Jacob Eyster; middle from left, Elijah Luedke, Mercedes Maple, Christopher McCormack, Jonathan Mill-er, Piper Moore, Cole Regehr, Kassy Shelby; front from left, Makayla Simmons, Hannah St. Clair, Jennifer Tidd, Jeremy Waldman, Emily Weide and Katelynn Weide.

Students on McKinley Elementary School’s all-A honor roll are, front from left, third-grade students, Eve Ard, Tyler Boeken, Colin Long and Anna Tay-lor; back from left, Leslie Ayala, Braxton Curry, Ryker Curry, Corrin Helm, BreAnna Peeper and Sky-ler Shelton.

Photos by Allison Tinn

At right, McKinley Elemen-tary third-grade A-B honor roll students are, front from left, Emily Ator, Deacon Harrison, Ethan Hunter, Nicholas Karns, Shianne Smithback and Hunter Zimbelman; back from left, Aibree Christy, TreVaughn Church, Dakotah Cox, Brooklyn Ellis, Heidi Hibbs, Sammy Holding, Courtney Smutz, Ethan Weide and Brett Willis.

Iola High School first quarter honor roll:

All A’s: Seniors: Caitlyn Cal-laway, Austin Gentry, Brandon Griggs, Elijah Grover, Eric Heffern, Keli Lee, Kandra Manbeck, Abbey St. Clair, Jordan Strickler, Jason Tidd.

Juniors: Rebecca Cunningham, Justice Chalene Hutton, Tyler Mc-Intosh, Ricky Michael, Bryan Muel-ler, Tristan Sigfusson, Mackenzie Weseloh.

Sophomores: Ashley Cary, Ad-die Haar, Colton Heffern, Travis Hermstein, Jo Lohman, Lexie Long, Kaden Macha, Adam Peterson, Emma Piazza, Garrett Prall, Ka-leena Smith, Jonathan Tidd, Shane Walden.

Freshmen: Ricky Dawn, Cas-sandra Delich, Caitlin Dreher, Tay-lor Heslop, Micaiah Larney, Em-ily McKarnin, Clarie Moran, Sager Patel, Mikaela Platt, Zachary St. Clair, Taelyn Sutterby, Abigail Tay-

lor, Brett Taylor, Joie Whitney, Clara Wicoff.

Principal’s honor roll: Se-niors: Shannon Beach, Caleb Burrough, Tyler Clubine, Mason Coons, Jordan Garcia, Jacob Harri-son, Morgan Hensley, Sagel Hens-ley, Cole Morrison, Wyatt Prall, Gerardo Rojas, Libby Shay, Tori Snavely, Danielle Venter.

Juniors: Allison Cleaver, Halie Cleaver, Michaela Ingle, Adam Kauth, Katie Kelley, Trevor Lee

Kress, Carrie Mock, Quinton Mor-rison, Shannon Vogel, Michael Wil-son, Jesse Zimmerman.

Sopmomores: Drake Dieker, Emery Driskel, Joe Dunlap, Sar-ah Gonzalez, Emily Klubek, Tor-rie Lewis, Khrystal Smith, Baylea Thompson.

Freshmen: Olivia Bannister, Va-laree Burtnett, Allyson Hobbs, Han-nah Ingle, Britanie Rogers, Taylor Sell, Bobbie Sinclair, Yohon Sinclair, Colby Works.

Regular Honor Roll: se-niors: Levi Ashmore, Sarah Bea-gel, Angel Boan, Cassandra Boyer, Shelby Brown, Chanel Coyne, Zack Danford, Chloe Friederich, Tayler Hale, Alex Gumfory, Zeph Larney, Brooke Maley, Tyler Michael, Mi-

chael Montgomery, Alicia Pennett, Colton Schubert, Drew Smith, Ka-tana Smith, Audrea Stahl, Katie Thompson, Emily Ware, Alyssa Zimmerman.

Juniors: Levi Baker, Cody Con-ner, Dakota Dozier, Hannah En-dicott, Amber Gerdsen, Brandon Hamilton, Scout Henry, Alexis Hobbs, Ashley Iden, Dakota Jones, Alanna Knavel, Arion Kunkler, Tren-ton Latta, Karlie Lower, Eric Max-well, Paige Miller, Bryce Misenhel-ter, Brittany Porter, Tyler Powelson, Travis Rieske, Emma Sigg, Court-ney Smith, Austin Snyder, Madilyn Vyhlidal, Fryendz Wallace, Derrick Weir.

Sophomores: Felicitas Aguirre, Alex Bauer, Cristofer Harris, Tyler

Holloway, Lauren Hunt, Matthew Jacobs, Brianne Jett, Madison Luken, Torrie Maley, Brittany Martin, Thealvin Minor, Kaleb Mock, Kyra Moore, Brock Peters, Shelby Reno, Austin Roloff-Tremain, Baleigh See-ber, Dalton Skaggs, Cody Smith, Katherine Terhune, Andrew Wald-man, Morgan Wilson

Freshmen: Brice Aiello, Ke-anen Badders, Dodger Beckham, Dareece Bell, McKayli Cleaver, Haleigh Curry, Ankit Gandhi, Aaron Kessler, Toben Kinzle, Ashley Mer-ritt, Jessica Oakley, Alexis Poffen-barger, Isiah Shaughnessy, Ashlie Shields, Ethan Sigg, Chyanne Vaughn, Klair Vogel, Bayleigh Wei-de, Cierra Wynn.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democrats in Republican-leaning Kansas are limited to hoping that they’ll slow the GOP-dominated Legislature’s shift to the right, even as con-servative Gov. Sam Brown-back’s allies work to tie them to President Barack Obama.

Legislative races were the mostly closely watched con-tests because there was no U.S. Senate seat on the bal-lot and all four Republicans representing the state in the U.S. House were favored to win re-election comfortably. Republican Mitt Romney was

expected to carry the state in the presidential race, as every GOP nominee has done since 1964.

Obama had a relatively strong showing in Kansas in 2008, grabbing nearly 42 per-cent of the vote. But there were signs early Tuesday that any momentum the president had created for state Demo-crats was fading.

More than 330,000 people voted early, either by mail or in person at election offices.

Legislative races were in-tense because Democrats have worked with moderate Republicans leading the Sen-ate to stall some of Brown-back’s agenda, even though the GOP had majorities of 32-8 in the Senate and 92-33 in the House. The GOP’s biggest targets were four Democratic senators in northeast Kansas — Minority Leader Anthony Hensley of Topeka, Tom Hol-land of Baldwin City, Laura Kelly of Topeka and Kelly Kultala of Kansas City.

Democrats countered by trying to make legislative rac-es a referendum on Brown-back and massive income tax cuts enacted this year. Legisla-tive researchers estimate that the tax cuts will be worth $4.5 billion over the next six years but also project that the re-ductions will create collective budget shortfalls approach-ing $2.5 billion during the same period.

Democratics look to slow shift

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By Dave Ranney and Mike Shields

KHI News ServiceTOPEKA — Top officials

in the administration of Gov. Sam Brownback said Monday they now have a list they accept as accu-rate of the 2,197 physically disabled persons who are awaiting home- and com-munity-based Medicaid services.

Armed with the updated information, they said, they are ready to begin providing services to 100 people currently on the list by the end of the year.

“We now have a better handle on the waiting list and will be able to make better decisions about how to manage the waiting list and best utilize the fund-ing provided by the Legis-lature for this program,” said Shawn Sullivan, sec-retary of the Kansas De-partment for Aging and Disability Services.

Sullivan, joined at a Statehouse press confer-ence by Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, said his agency won’t pro-pose additional funding to further decrease the wait-ing list but would instead wait to see what legislators would appropriate in 2013 to help deal with the prob-lem.

Kansas has drawn atten-tion from federal authori-ties due to its slow mov-ing and relatively large waiting lists for home- and community-based ser-vices, which advocates for the disabled have said puts the state in violation of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act as de-fined by the U.S. Supreme Court’s so-called Olmstead decision.

It wasn’t immediately clear if Monday’s announce-ment would influence the course of the U.S. Justice Department’s review of Ol-mstead complaints filed by disabled Kansans and their advocates.

“We are continuing to monitor the state’s activi-ties on all issues that may relate to any potential Olm-stead violations,” said U.S. Attorney for Kansas Barry Grissom in an email state-ment to KHI News Service after the press conference

Brownback officials for months have said they doubted the reliability of the lists, particularly the one dealing with the physi-cally disabled. So, Mon-day’s announcement made clear the administration now has a list it considers fully valid.

As of July, the state’s Centers for Independent Living, had reported 3,462 people on the list.

Sullivan and Colyer said

the state hired Answernet, a firm based in Hays, to start making phone calls in July to check the list. After the company was only able to reach 377 of the people, state officials asked the Centers for Independent Living to double check the list.

That process resulted

in 1,226 people being removed from the offi-cial backlog after it was found for whatever rea-son that they no longer needed the services or were not eligible. But it also resulted in another 250 people being added to the list.

Audrey Schremmer-Philip, executive director of 3Rivers, Inc., a center for independent living based in Wamego, said the 250 new names were of people for whom the state’s cen-ters for independent living previously had submitted paperwork to the state but for unknown reasons had never made the state’s list of people needing services.

Rocky Nichols, executive director of the Disability Rights Center of Kansas, a Topeka-based nonprofit

group, was critical of the administration’s handling of the waiting list and its review of the backlog.

“We are extremely con-cerned that the state is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy that is having the net effect of unnecessar-ily kicking people off the waiting list for services,” he said. “The perspective is all wrong here. Not only do you have to wait years to clear the waiting list in Kansas, now the state is saying if they can’t get ahold of you — due to you not having the money to add minutes to your pre-paid cell phone, or you had to move to make ends meet — that they are going to add insult to injury and kick you off services. It makes no sense.”

Nichols said many who seek the services “have only a few hundred dollars a month to live off of.”

“I hope to heck this is not some effort to obfus-cate the extent of the wait-ing-list problem we have here in Kansas, where we have people on the wait-ing list for two and three years,” he said. “The feds have said (Kansas) can have a waiting list, but it has to move efficiently and at a reasonable pace. Kicking people off be-cause you can’t get ahold of them because they’ve had to move or they’re run out of cell phone minutes is totally unrea-sonable. That hurts the people with disabilities who are kicked off the list and it hurts taxpayers by

forcing more people into more expensive nursing homes.”

State officials were un-able to provide details of how many of the 1,226 people removed from the list had become ineligible because they were living in nursing homes or had either moved out of state or died.

But Sullivan said 24 per-cent of those struck from the list came off because “the agencies were unable to contact them.”

Colyer said officials had seen evidence that the July waiting list from the cen-ters for independent living had been “inflated.”

And Sullivan said there were egregious examples of list padding from two of the centers, but he wouldn’t disclose which centers they were.

The Brownback admin-istration’s relationship with the centers frequent-ly has been contentious. The centers have been au-dited by state officials in recent months and cited for poor record keeping. At least two have shut down, one as the result of serious financial ir-regularities that state of-ficials said bordered on fraud, though no crimi-nal charges were filed.

Sullivan said people remaining on the wait-ing list would benefit from new case manage-ment focusing on coor-dinated care once the administration’s Medic-aid reforms are in place starting Jan. 1.

Kansas Dept. For Aging and Disability Services Secretary Shawn Sullivan speaks during Monday’s press conference about the waiting list for home and community-based Medicaid services for the physically disabled. At left is Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer.

Photo by Dave Ranney

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City police say a man was shot and killed outside an apartment complex on the city’s northwest side.

Police told reporters officers investigating a report of shots fired late Monday night found he man in the complex’s parking lot with several gunshot wounds.

Police said the man was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.

The man’s name has not been released.

Fatal shooting in OKC

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma voters will decide six state issues today, including one that would wipe out affirma-tive action programs in state government that the measure’s support-ers say are no longer needed.

Under the measure, Oklahoma would not be able to grant preferential treatment in contracts or education programs based on race, gender, ethnicity or national origin. The law change wouldn’t apply to pro-grams in place because of court orders or ones needed to keep or obtain federal funding.

Opponents of the measure say racism and

sexism remain and so should state programs that provide equal op-portunities.

Also on the ballot are proposals to: limit the governor’s role in the parole process, restruc-ture the Department of Human Services, limit property tax increases to 3 percent, exempt intan-gible personal property from the property tax, and allow the Oklahoma Water Resources Board to issue bonds.

The Republican-led Legislature put the affir-mative action measure on the ballot and reject-ed criticism the proposal was intended to drive more conservative vot-ers to the poll.

Ballot to decide issues

“The perspective is all wrong here. Not only do you have to wait years to clear the wait-ing list in Kansas, now the state is saying they can’t get a hold of you.”

— Rocky Nichols

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Facial nerve can cause unbearable pain DEAR DRS. DONOHUE

AND ROACH: I travel a great deal and am thus un-able to read your column regularly. If you have not covered this subject, please tell your readers about tri-geminal neurology. I suf-fered for three years with severe jaw pain before my dentist diagnosed me and sent me to a neurologist. — P.K.

ANSWER: I’m pretty sure, P.K., that you mean trigeminal neuralgia. The trigeminal nerve relays to the brain all the sensations arising on the face. It also controls the chewing mus-cles. Trigeminal neuralgia consists of sudden attacks of unbearable facial pain centered on a cheek, the chin, the jaw or part of the lip or gums. The pain is brief, lasting seconds to minutes. A person with this disorder is in constant fear of another attack aris-ing unexpectedly. A breeze blowing on the face, chew-ing, talking or brushing the teeth can provoke an attack.

Sometimes it happens with-out a recognizable cause.

This nerve problem most often arises in middle ages or older.

One underlying cause of trigeminal neuralgia has to do with an artery that encircles the nerve. Pulsa-tions of the artery often are the root cause of the pain-ful attacks. The pulsations irritate the trigeminal nerve.

A neurologist is the right doctor to see about this problem. Treatment with medicines often can control attacks. Carbamazepine, la-motrigine and baclofen are the names of some of the medicines used for treat-ment. The doctor gradu-

ally increases the dose of medicine until success is achieved.

If medicines are unable to control attacks, then a number of other ways of dealing with the trigeminal nerve are available. One way is to protect the nerve from the encircling artery. A neurosurgeon is the doc-tor equipped to perform this operation.

If you’re on medicine now, how are you doing? I’m interested in knowing what has happened to you.

DEAR DRS. DONOHUE AND ROACH: I finished chemo and radiation ther-apy in September of 2008. In December of 2010, I started bringing up yellow

and green phlegm. After seeing many doctors, one finally suggested a culture of a sputum sample. The germ involved was Pseudo-monas. I was given 21 daily infusions of tobramycin, and after the infusion used a nebulizer containing to-bramycin. The doctor says Pseudomonas never goes away, but it can be con-trolled. Is this so? — M.S.

ANSWER: Pseudomonas (SUE-duh-MOAN-iss) is a bacterium found in waters, soil, plants, hot tubs and many hospital sites. It is difficult to eradicate. Only a few antibiotics are effec-tive against it. Most often, infections with this germ are seen in people who have other illnesses.

In some instances, it can be eradicated. I don’t know if you’re under treatment right now. I imagine your doctor will stop treatment eventually and see how you do on your own. If need be, antibiotic therapy can be restarted if Pseudomonas raises its ugly head again.

Dr. Paul Donohue

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Knowing the right way to rotate tires Dear Tom and Ray: I just

spoke to two different tire shops and got opposite an-swers to the same question. The right-side tire on my pickup is wearing quicker than the left. I have radial tires. I assumed it was nor-mal, due to the way the dif-ferential works. One tire shop told me that I should be rotating in a cross pat-tern, while the other tire shop said that I should be rotating only front to rear. I was always told that revers-ing the tire rotation caused tire separation. Which an-swer is correct? — Eddie

TOM: Well, neither shop gave you the advice you re-ally needed, Eddie. They should have told you that you need a wheel align-ment.

RAY: Right. A right-side tire shouldn’t be wearing any differently from the one on the left side. So if it is, something’s mechanical-ly wrong, and rather than rotate your tires and chew up another (now good) one, you should get that problem diagnosed and addressed first.

TOM: Depending on whether it’s the front or rear right tire and what kind of suspension you have, a single tire can go out of alignment because the frame got bent in an accident, or because one or more of the suspension parts got bent or simply wore out. So the first thing you need is a good, old-fash-ioned four-wheel alignment — along with whatever re-

pairs are necessary to get the wheels to actually align.

RAY: Then, once your truck is properly aligned, you can absolutely cross the tires. You can cross all of them in an “X” pattern, or you can cross just the two you move to the front. Or cross just the two that you move to the rear. If you have a full-size spare, you can add that into the rota-tion, cross three of them, put the spare on the right rear and toss the leftover tire in the trunk. Your op-tions are limited only by your talent for origami and your ability to count.

TOM: There are a few exceptions. You can cross the tires only if you have the same size tires on all four wheels. If you have a muscle car, for instance, in which your rear wheels and tires are larger than your fronts, obviously, you can rotate only from side to

side.RAY: And if you have di-

rectional tires (some high-performance tires have treads that are designed to go only in one direction), you can rotate only front to

back on the same side. TOM: But for most peo-

ple, tires can and should be crossed when they’re rotat-ed to even out the wear pat-terns and the pace at which they wear out.

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By GREGORY KARPChicago Tribune

ABOARD UA1116 — In a trip that was years in the making, United Airlines passengers Sunday got their first chance to experi-ence the Boeing 787 Dream-liner, which made its inau-gural voyage for the airline on a scheduled flight from Houston to Chicago.

The twin-aisle plane, which made its debut three years late because of pro-duction problems at Boe-ing, is said to be far more fuel-efficient and less costly to maintain for airlines, while offering a new level of in-cabin comfort for pas-sengers. Instead of being made mostly of metal, half of the plane, including the fuselage and wings, is made of strong, light composite materials.

“If you want to be the world’s leading airline, you need to have the world’s leading airplane, and we have that today in the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner,” said United CEO Jeff Smisek, who said he hadn’t flown on one until the flight Sunday to Chicago O’Hare International Airport.

United is the first North American airline to receive a 787.

The start of Dreamliner service is a big deal for air-line enthusiasts and also for the two companies, United Continental Hold-ings and Boeing Co., whose headquarters are a few blocks apart in downtown Chicago and who once were part of the same company.

Michael Phillips, 38, a meteorologist from New Jersey, spent $1,900 to fly first-class on four legs on the 787, starting with the Houston-Chicago segment. “It was a great flight,” he said after landing in Chi-cago. “It was a very quiet cabin. The quietness really stood out for me.”

Phillips also found sever-al “hidden gems,” like the way the air nozzles worked, the functionality of the seatback entertainment system and the hands-free features of the bathroom, such as the faucets. He said he was impressed by the lavatory doors, which rotate inward, away from people in the aisle.

“It was not a very air-plane-y experience,” he said.

The flight was important for United, which has had a rough year, with wide-

spread delays and cancel-lations after a reserva-tions system switchover in March and intermittent strife with its unions, es-pecially pilots — although both of those problems have abated in recent weeks. The airline is still working through merger hassles, months after United and Continental combined.

Some observers say the halo effect of being the first North American carrier to fly the Dreamliner is a much-needed boost to the reputation of the world’s largest airline. More tan-gibly, the plane is far more fuel-efficient than planes it will replace — Boeing claims 20 percent more ef-ficient for some replace-ments. Fuel is a huge cost for airlines, so that’s sav-ings that can fall to the bot-tom line for United.

For Boeing, Sunday’s flight represents another step toward repairing its reputation surrounding the 787, which started de-liveries more than three years late due to design and production problems. The near-constant delays were so rampant the plane earned the snarky nick-name “7-late-7.”

But Boeing may have the last laugh. Dreamliners have sold like hotcakes, and early reviews are glowing from customers who have flown the plane on foreign airlines over the past year and from those who flew from Houston to Chicago on Sunday.

Aviation analysts had their criticisms, however.

“The plane is more a game-changer for United and the airlines that run the 787 than it is for passen-gers,” said Henry Harte-veldt, cofounder of Atmo-sphere Research Group. “Only the most frequent of fliers will really notice and care about this.”

United’s Dreamliner takes off for its inaugural flight

Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune/MCTThe United Airlines 787 Dreamliner made its in-augural flight from Houston to Chicago Sunday. Here it is taxiing to the gate at O’Hare International Airport.

Michael Tercha/Chicago Tribune/MCTLaura Belanger, an off-duty United Airlines flight atten-dant, boards with other excited passengers on United Airlines’ inaugural flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft Sunday, from Houston Bush Intercontinental to Chicago O’Hare International.

If you want to be the world’s lead-ing airline, you need to have the world’s leading airplane, and we have that today in the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

— Jeff Smisek, United CEO

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