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Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

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

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

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

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

By SUSAN [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By RICHARD [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

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

By BOB [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

See EGO | Page B6

By JOE [email protected]

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

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

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Temps for runlook inviting

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

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

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

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

Pekarek finds home at USD 257

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

Cheating scandal detailed

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A HOLIDAY ‘TAIL’

Family and friends packed the Bowlus Fine Arts Center auditorium Tuesday afternoon and again that evening for Lincoln Elementary School’s Christmas holiday program, “Silent Mice, Holy Mice.” Students were grouped in choruses for acting and singing, and several had individual parts, in-cluding, below right, third-grader Donald Lepard II. Below left, from left, Taurus Granderson, Asha Kilby and Tristan Mittelmeier, also third-graders, get into the action.

Register/Bob Johnson

Hospital open tonaming suggestions

By SUSAN [email protected]

It could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and Allen County Hospital trustees are open to sug-gestions for a new name to go with a new hospital.

Hospital staff and administra-tors have put forward the names Southeast Kansas Medical Center, Allen County Regional Medical Center, Allen Regional Medical Center and Allen Regional Health Center in addition to retaining the current name.

“But if there are other sugges-tions out there, we’d like to hear them,” said Harry Lee, chairman of the trustees, at their meeting Tuesday night.

The Register will put the cur-rent suggestions up to vote in its weekly opinion poll. Participants can weigh in their thoughts either by calling the Register at 365-2111, or by posting online on the Regis-ter’s Facebook page, by emailing [email protected], or on the Register’s front page online edition, iolaregister.com, where the question will be posted Thurs-day.

HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION remains on schedule, reported Sheldon Streeter, project devel-oper with Murray Construction.

“I’d just ask that if you’re want-ing a white Christmas, that you postpone your request for a year,” he said, saying the pouring of curbs and pavement is beginning. Next on tap for the massive build-ing is to install the heating and air conditioning systems, as well as individual doors.

Fixing the drainage from the pond to the southeast of the hos-pital is in order, directing the wa-ter to flow to the ditch on the east and away from property owned by Bob Macha. A berm between the two properties will be construct-ed, Jay Kretzmeier, hospital trust-ee, reported. The construction of the hospital interfered with the

pond’s previous drainage pattern.Trustees also filed papers to

seek public commission bonds of $5 million for operating capital to begin the first of the year when they quit their lease agreement with Hospital Corporation of America and undertake control themselves.

Larry Peterson, hospital chief financial officer, walked through the hospital’s budget with trust-ees and gave his “best guesses” as to how it will be able to be a suc-cessful operation.

The transition to new owner-ship is “a lot of work,” Peterson said. Added to the effort is learn-ing the electronic medical records system, where patient data is en-tered by health professionals into an electronic database that can be accessed over the Internet.

Trustees, too, are entering a critical learning stage as they understand how hospitals are re-imbursed by the federal Medic-aid and Medicare programs, how hospitals write off many costs in-curred by the indigent, how insur-ance reimbursements fall short of actual costs, and how hospitals are a “capital-intensive as well as people-intensive,” enterprise.

“It’s the worst of both worlds,” Peterson said. “We need incredi-bly expensive machines that need

Jingle Bell Jog all inthe spirit of Christmas

No - 45.5%Yes - 48.5%

Undecided - 2%

All Schools- 78%

Elementary - 22%

Look in Thursday’s issue of the Register for next week’s question.

And the poll winner is....Does Iola need a new school cam-pus? If yes, should it be all schools or just an elementary school?


GAS — Darrel Catron, Gas mayor since 1997, will seek re-election for another four years in the spring city-school election. He made the announcement at Tues-day evening’s council meeting.

Two council seats also will be filled, one held by Mark Henry — he was not at the meeting — and a second vacated when Iris Neuen-swander moved from town. Coun-cil members also serve four years.

Catron is completing a four-year term on the USD 257 Board of Edu-cation, as well. He has not decided whether to seek re-election to that governing body.

In yearly appointments, the Iola

Gas mayor will seek re-electionBy ALLISON TINN

[email protected] perfect Christmas Day

includes a feast of comfort and food. There’s no better way to better prepare — and feel less guilty — about the indulgence, than to partici-pate in the Jingle Bell Jog on Christmas Eve.

It’s the 15th year for the 5K jaunt or 3K walk around Iola streets, sponsored by Thrive Allen County.

The gun sounds at 1 p.m. on the north side of the court-house square.

The Iola tradition is more of a time for people to visit with friends than to beat the race clock. Each participant is given bells to tie onto their shoes, so they can “jingle

all the way,” said Damaris Kunkler, Thrive program di-rector. Frequently holiday at-tire is worn including Santa hats and brightly colored clothes. Entire families use the jog as a way to make holi-day memories, including lots of picture-taking.

“The jog is a fun run, the perfect kind of run,” Thrive Executive Director David To-land said. The jog won’t be chip timed. The jog route will be the same as the Mad Bomb-er Run, weaving through Highland Cemetery on north Cottonwood and then back on Washington Avenue.

The registration fee is $15 and participants will receive a basic T-shirt. For $5 more,

Senior center upgrade not on county’s radar By BOB JOHNSON

[email protected] Finney came Tuesday

morning to plead with Allen County commissioners to pony up funds to restore the front of the Humboldt Senior Center to how it looked in the early 1900s.

He never got a chance.Commissioner Gary McIntosh

was pre-emptive, saying the is-sue was “timing. We don’t have the time to dig as deeply into” what it would cost to remove a metal front and then redo brick, mortar and windows under-neath.

Chairman Dick Works was more to the point.

“I think the issue is it doesn’t need done,” he said. “I think it’s one of the more attractive build-ings” in downtown Humboldt.

Also, McIntosh said, he and Rob Francis were lame ducks with few meetings left and “it will be up to the new guys to de-cide priorities.”

Tom Williams and Jim Talk-ington will fill Francis and Mc-Intosh’s seats at mid-January.

Finney led a small delegation of Humboldt Downtown Action Team members to the meeting. They think if the county does

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I’d ask that if you’re wanting a white Christ-mas, that you postpone your request for a year.

— Sheldon Streeter, project developer with

Murray Construction

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Casey Harris and other friends of Robbie and Brandi Grisier, whose home in Gas was destroyed by fire Monday night, are collect-ing money to help out.

Harris said she thought cash

would be an effective means of assistance, not knowing what all the Grisiers might need.

Donations and cards with ex-pressions of support may be mailed to Harris at 802 1/2 W. Main St., Apt. 4, Chanute, KS 66720.

Help is sought for Gas fire victims

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I think the issue is it doesn’t need done. I think it’s one of the more attractive buildings (in downtown Humboldt).

— Dick Works, county commissioner

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It was reported to the Register that C.J. Stiffler had stolen a bow from West Side Bait Shop. The suspect’s last name was printed as Spiller in Sat-urday’s paper. The Regis-ter regrets the error.

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ObituaryLeah Spear

Leah June Spear, 53, Arma, died Nov. 22, 2012, at Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Mo.

She was born June 14, 1959, in Iola, the daugh-ter of Lyle and Patricia Doyle.

She grew up in Iola, and was a graduate of Iola High School. She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond Cup-py Spear, and a son, Jacob Spear.

Mrs. Spear spent much of her life in a nursing home.

She was a graduate of Fort Scott Community College in 2000. As a child she was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Iola.

She was a caring single mother, friend and nurse to all who needed her.

Survivors include her brother, Lyle Jr., Shawnee; a son, Jeffery A. Spear, Ly-ons; two daughters, Jessi-ca Spear, Joplin, Mo., and Sarah Jane Spear, Arma; and seven grandchildren, Bailey, Megan, Jeff Jr., Bethany, Brittney, Destiny and Hannah.

A memorial service will be at Iola’s First Presbyterian Church by Katherine Bell at 11 a.m. Saturday.

Warrants servedTashinda Riedinger,

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Activists said problems in a Wichita-area school dis-trict have convinced them to renew their efforts to convince the Kansas Legis-lature to expand the defini-tion of bullying and cyber-bullying.

The Wichita Eagle re-ported Tuesday that par-ents from the Wichita area and state Board of educa-tion member Walt Chappell are pushing modifications to a bullying law passed in 2007. The law requires dis-tricts to implement anti-bullying plans but doesn’t say how districts should handle or track reports of bullying.

“There’s a lot going on behind the scenes. There’s a firestorm, actually,” said Chappell, who leaves the board in January but has raised the bullying issue for the past three years.

Chappell said he would bring up the topic again when the state board meets this week in Topeka.

“The response (from school district officials) so far has been, ‘It’s fine. Don’t worry. We’re covered,’ and that’s not even close to re-ality,” Chappell said. “We need to do something to se-cure the safety of children, and yet we can’t get past

the denial stage.”Calls for legislation were

prompted by bullying in-cidents in the Haysville district. Parents say they want districts to make sure students are safe.

The parents of a 14-year-old Haysville Campus High School student led a pro-test at the school last week, saying the school didn’t re-spond appropriately when their daughter was severe-ly bullied.

About 50 students staged a counter protest with signs reading “Honk if you love Campus” and chant-ing, “Campus is safe.”

Miranda Miller said school officials agreed to transfer her daughter to an alternative high school. The family said the school initially denied the request because the girl is a fresh-man. Her daughter, who

had threatened suicide, is doing better and is seeing a counselor, she said.

Miller says she will help with the statewide efforts and has heard from other parents who are concerned that bullying goes unre-ported or is “brushed off as kids being kids.”

The Kansas Association of School Boards has op-posed the law proposed by Chappell and debated dur-ing the 2012 legislative ses-sion because it would have required districts to spend more time working on bul-lying when they lack staff and money.

“We could require more reporting, more paper-work, more things to turn in than ever before. But I’ve not seen any evidence that suggests those things actually make the situa-tion better,”said Mark Tall-

man, associate executive director of KASB.

Chappell’s proposal would require districts to investigate bullying re-ports in a short time frame, use state-mandated options for discipline and report the incidents to the state.

“This is one of a long list of places and issues where people feel our schools aren’t doing well enough: ‘Why aren’t they taking care of this?’” Tallman said. “The challenge is, how do you balance those needs with all the other needs?”

Liz Hames, spokeswom-an for Haysville public schools, declined to discuss the Miller incidents. She said Haysville takes bully-ing seriously and has in-stituted several education and prevention measures.

School handbooks define bullying and potential con-sequences, which range from temporary removal from the classroom and loss of privileges to sus-pension or expulsion.

Hames said Haysville recorded 97 bullying inci-dents among the district’s 5,200 students. In compari-son, there were 356 cases reported in the Wichita school district, which has more than 50,000 students.

Push continues for school bullying policy The response (from school district officials)

so far has been, ‘It’s fine. Don’t worry. We’re covered,’ and that’s not even close to real-ity. We need to do something to secure the safety of children and yet we can’t get past the denial stage.

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Kansas education officials to provide cursive update

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Cursive handwriting is on the agenda again during this month’s Kansas Board of Education meeting.

Today, the Kansas Depart-ment of Education will pro-vide the board with a range of possible recommenda-tions on the issue of teach-ing cursive. Last month, the board heard a report that in-terest in teaching the subject has begun to wane.

A survey found 90 percent of state school districts are teaching cursive writing, generally beginning in third grade. Teachers typically spend from 15 minutes to an hour a day instructing stu-

dents on cursive script.But nearly 23 percent of

districts responding said teaching handwriting is not a high priority, and about 6 percent said they antici-pate eventually reducing the amount of class time spent on it.

KU seeking $30 million for new medical building

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas is asking the state for millions of dollars to help construct a $75 million medical building at its Medical Center in Kan-sas City, Kan.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports Steve Stites, a medical center official, plans to meet with Gov. Sam Brownback to discuss the proposed education and

training facility.The university is asking

the state to provide $30 mil-lion in bonds over 10 years. It also wants the state to release $26 million of a fed-eral refund related to payroll taxes.

The university’s budget request also includes nearly $3 million for improvements at the School of Medicine’s Wichita campus.

Last month, Brownback said a general increase in funding for higher education is unlikely but additional dollars for specific projects at the universities could be available.

Foundation gives $1 million for cancer

LAWRENCE, Kan.

(AP) — A $1 million gift from the Kansas Masonic Foundation will be used to provide counseling to people who have been treated for cancer and those who love them.

The foundation’s gift to the University of Kansas Endowment, which was announced Monday, will fund a therapist position for Susan Krigel, a post-doctoral fellow in clinical psychology.

She’ll provide services for members of the Mid-west Cancer Alliance, a network of 19 hospitals

and research institutions across Kansas and the Kansas City, Mo., area.

Krigel says cancer pa-tients sometimes suffer through emotional trau-ma after they complete their treatments and start reflecting on what happened to them.

The Lawrence Journal-World reported Krigel will use interactive tele-vision systems to provide individual and group therapy for cancer pa-tients and their caregiv-ers.

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NEW DELHI (AP) — With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and spearheaded the first rock benefit concert as he intro-duced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over nearly a century.

From George Harrison to John Coltrane, from Ye-hudi Menuhin to David Crosby, his connections re-flected music’s universal-ity, though a gap persisted between Shankar and many Western fans. Some-times they mistook tuning for tunes, while he stood aghast at displays like Jimi Hendrix’s burning guitar.

Shankar died Tuesday at age 92. A statement on his website said he died in San Diego, near his South-ern California home with his wife and a daughter by his side. The musician’s foundation issued a state-ment saying that he had

suffered upper respiratory and heart problems and had undergone heart-valve replacement surgery last week.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also con-firmed Shankar’s death and called him a “national trea-sure.”

Labeled “the godfather of world music” by Har-rison, Shankar helped mil-lions of classical, jazz and rock lovers discover the centuries-old traditions of Indian music.

“He was legend of leg-ends,” Shivkumar Sharma, a noted santoor player who performed with Shankar, told Indian media. “In-dian classical was not at all known in the Western world. He was the musi-cian who had that training ... the ability to communi-cate with the Western audi-ence.”

He also pioneered the concept of the rock benefit with the 1971 Concert For Bangladesh. To later gener-ations, he was known as the estranged father of popular American singer Norah Jones.

His last musical perfor-mance was with his other daughter, sitarist Anoush-ka Shankar Wright, on Nov. 4 in Long Beach, Califor-nia; his foundation said it was to celebrate his 10th decade of creating music. The multiple Grammy win-ner learned that he had again been nominated for the award the night before his surgery.

“It’s one of the biggest losses for the music world,” said Kartic Seshadri, a Shankar protege, sitar vir-tuoso and music professor at the University of Cali-fornia, San Diego. “There’s nothing more to be said.”

As early as the 1950s, Shankar began collaborat-ing with and teaching some of the greats of Western music, including violinist Menuhin and jazz saxo-phonist Coltrane. He played well-received shows in con-cert halls in Europe and the United States, but faced a constant struggle to bridge the musical gap between the West and the East.

Describing an early Shankar tour in 1957, Time magazine said. “U.S. audi-ences were receptive but oc-casionally puzzled.”

His close relationship with Harrison, the Beatles lead guitarist, shot Shan-kar to global stardom in the 1960s.

Harrison had grown fas-cinated with the sitar, a long-necked string instru-ment that uses a bulbous gourd for its resonating

chamber and resembles a giant lute. He played the instrument, with a West-ern tuning, on the song “Norwegian Wood,” but soon sought out Shankar, already a musical icon in India, to teach him to play it properly.

The pair spent weeks to-gether, starting the lessons at Harrison’s house in Eng-land and then moving to a houseboat in Kashmir and later to California.

Gaining confidence with the complex instrument, Harrison recorded the In-dian-inspired song “Love You To” on the Beatles’ “Re-volver,” helping spark the raga-rock phase of 60s mu-sic and drawing increasing attention to Shankar and his work.

Shankar’s popularity ex-ploded, and he soon found himself playing on bills with some of the top rock musicians of the era. He played a four-hour set at the Monterey Pop Festival and the opening day of Wood-stock.

Though the audience for his music had hugely ex-panded, Shankar, a serious, disciplined traditionalist who had played Carnegie Hall, chafed against the drug use and rebellious-ness of the hippie culture.

“I was shocked to see people dressing so flamboy-antly. They were all stoned. To me, it was a new world,” Shankar told Rolling Stone of the Monterey festival.

While he enjoyed Otis Redding and the Mamas and the Papas at the festi-val, he was horrified when Hendrix lit his guitar on fire.

“That was too much for me. In our culture, we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God,” he said.

In 1971, moved by the plight of millions of refu-gees fleeing into India to escape the war in Bangla-desh, Shankar reached out to Harrison to see what they could do to help.

In what Shankar later described as “one of the most moving and intense musical experiences of the century,” the pair or-ganized two benefit con-certs at Madison Square Garden that included Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr.

The concert, which spawned an album and a film, raised millions of dollars for UNICEF and in-spired other rock benefits, including the 1985 Live Aid concert to raise funds for famine relief in Ethio-pia and the 2010 Hope For Haiti Now telethon.

Sitarist Ravi Shankar, then 91, at a recital in Walt Dis-ney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sept. 29, 2011.

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to be replaced every few years, and we have a high volume of employees.”

Nevertheless, Peterson projects the hospital will be a profitable enterprise in a relatively short turn-around period, “at least go-ing by historical data.”

GLENN BUCHHOLZ, president of Emprise

Bank, was appointed by Al-len County commissioners to fill the vacancy of Tom Miller, who resigned last fall as a trustee.

Trustees also approved paying Murray Construc-tion $2,683,804 for the in-stallation of mechanical and electrical equipment at the new hospital.

Trustees next meet next Tuesday.

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Register and Citizens Bank remained the city’s official newspaper and bank, and George Grisier will contin-ue as president of the coun-cil, which mainly means he takes charge when Catron is absent.

An old mobile home owned by the city and situ-ated on South Main Street was purchased by Bill Hill-brant. His bid of $501 was the higher of two. Hillbrant said he intended to convert the 26-foot-by-36-foot struc-ture to a workshop.

Catron noted Iola would raise wholesale water rates on Jan. 1 by 1.7 percent,

based on the Social Security cost of living adjustment in-dex. Council members said they likely would pass along the increase early in 2013.

City Clerk Rhonda Hill said she had an inquiry from a resident about pur-chase of a half lot belonging to Gas directly behind City Hall.

“Let’s think about that,” Catron concluded, after brief discussion.

The only other action was to issue a 2013 cereal malt beverage license for Pump-N-Pete’s convenience store and approve the city bear-ing the cost of a Christmas dinner for employees.

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a trial is nec-essary to decide claims brought against Boeing by two unions over pension and retiree medical ben-efits arising from the com-pany’s 2005 sale of its com-mercial aircraft operations in Kansas and Oklahoma.

In a 49-page decision, U.S. District Judge Monti Belot rejected for the most part requests by both sides for summary judgment, although he did side with Boeing on some minor claims.

Among issues to be de-cided is the meaning of

“layoffs” as it relates to ear-ly retirement and retiree medical benefits stemming from the sale. Belot also ruled that the question of whether Boeing breached its collective bargaining agreements should be de-cided through trial.

The litigation was first filed in August 2005 by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace stemming from Spirit AeroSystem’s purchase earlier that year of Boeing Co.’s commer-cial aircraft operations in Wichita. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers joined the case in January

2007. A year later, the court consolidated into the litiga-tion a similar case brought by several workers.

Tuesday’s development comes just two weeks af-ter Belot preliminarily ap-proved the voluntary dis-missal of all claims against Spirit AeroSystems after the unions agreed there wasn’t enough evidence to support the class-action lawsuit over pension ben-efits. A fairness hearing on that decision is set for June 17.

The case has languished in the federal courts for more than seven years, with filings in it exceeding 500 documents.

Judge: Trial necessary over Boeing sale

By KEN MILLERAssociated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Pushing a measure to al-low cities and towns in Okla-homa to pass anti-smoking ordinances that are more restrictive than state law will be the Oklahoma State Department of Health’s top priority in the upcoming leg-islative session, state health officials said Tuesday.

Oklahoma law currently prohibits local anti-smoking ordinances that are more re-strictive than state law and a

recent report from the Cen-ters for Disease Control sin-gled out Oklahoma City and Tulsa for not having indoor smoking bans.

Oklahoma Health Com-missioner Terry Cline noted that bill that would have al-lowed for stronger local or-dinances passed the House during the legislative ses-sion earlier this year but died in the Senate Health and Human Services Com-mittee.

“What’s so ironic about that is the bill focused on

simply returning the deci-sion-making to local com-munities,” Cline said. “At the same time we hear a group of individuals railing against ‘we “don’t want deci-sions made in Washington, D.C., we want those deci-sions made closer to home,’ we’re not applying that same principal when it comes to tobacco,” in Oklahoma.

Okla. to push anti-smoking bill

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Last week House Speaker John Boehner removed Kan-sas First District Congress-man Tim Huelskamp from the House Agriculture and Budget committees because Huelskamp had voted against Boehner on key issues.

Specifically, Huelskamp voted against the agreement in the summer of 2011 to raise the government’s debt ceiling and took other extreme right-wing positions.

Three other Tea Party types were disciplined similarly. This week Huelskamp wrote to the speaker asking he be given his important commit-tee positions back.

None of the four should have been surprised. Speaker Boehner shouldn’t even think about reinstatement.

Huelskamp should be de-nied plum committee assign-ments. Not because party

members should toe the of-ficial line and banish all thoughts of independence, but because he is a danger to the Republic.

Our First District represen-tative was perfectly willing to see the United States of Amer-ica go bankrupt and be unable to pay its bills. He apparently thought it would serve his country right to be so humili-ated and damaged by its own Congress before the rest of the world. His core beliefs are so radical that he should be denied any position of signifi-cance.

It was for that very persua-sive reason that he was ban-ished from those key commit-tees and left to dangle until the Kansans who elected him find a man or woman to take his place who more accurately represents Kansas good sense.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

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Last Friday the U.S. Su-preme Court agreed to consid-er two cases on same-sex mar-riage. If our wonderful nation is lucky, their decision, or de-cisions, may take this subject off the front pages at long last and relegate it to religious col-umnists and letters to the edi-tor, where it belongs.

One of the cases comes from California where Theodore B. Olson and David Boies filed an action asking that the right to marry should be constitu-tional and should apply to all citizens, regardless of gender or state laws.

The court could rule in fa-vor of Olson and Boies and end the argument. Or it could rule that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconsti-tutional and that the question must be resolved by the states.

At present, eight states give gay and lesbian couples all of the benefits and responsibili-ties of marriage — but with-hold the name, marriage. They are California, Delaware, Ha-waii, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon and Rhode Is-land.

The other case it accepted considers the less sweeping question of whether the fed-eral government can discrimi-nate against same-sex couples married in those states where their marriages are allowed.

In our nation of written laws, the institution of mar-riage grants privileges and establishes responsibilities. A husband must be allowed to see his wife in the hospital. Each of a married couple is re-sponsible under the law for the other. Married couples find it much easier in most states to adopt a child than do same-sex couples or singles. The law, in short, discriminates between married and unmarried cou-ples in these and other ways.

That is the reason for the lawsuits and one of the rea-sons why a growing majority of U.S. citizens under 40 favor legalizing same-sex marriage nationally and why a major-ity of voters in at least eight states have done so.

The other reason is that treating all people alike is a good thing to do.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

High court tacklessame-sex marriage

Former Kansas U.S. Sen. Bob Dole certainly needs no in-troduction to the vagaries of politics or the whims of today’s elected officials. And presumably he wouldn’t want anyone feeling sorry for him in the aftermath of what no doubt was a personally disappointing vote in which the Senate rejected a United Nations treaty on the rights of the dis-abled.

Dole, himself a disabled World War II Army veteran, was on the Senate floor, in a wheelchair, to support adoption of the treaty, which is modeled on the Ameri-cans with Disabilities Act. Thirty-eight members of Dole’s Republi-can Party, including both Kansas senators, Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran, were among those who defeated adoption of the treaty. Only eight Republicans voted for it, although it was supported by veterans organizations and the disabilities community.

A number of reasons were giv-en for not favoring the treaty. “I do not support the cumbersome regulations and potentially over-zealous international organiza-tions with anti-American biases that infringe upon American so-ciety,” offered up Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe. Others cited conced-ing America’s sovereignty to in-ternational control, or possibly overriding state laws dealing with disabled children, and even a fear the treaty would interfere with home-schooling children.

Much of the emotional reac-tion to the vote, however, has been focused on the perceived slap at Bob Dole. Dole, once referred to as “the abominable no-man” by a

Kansas editor upset with his vot-ing record when Dole was in the House of Representatives, knows the rough-and-tumble of politics. The quick-witted, genuinely hu-morous Russell native who was his party’s presidential nominee in 1996 also has demonstrated he knows how to work for what’s best for the American people, and how to get along with lead-ers in both parties. In Lawrence, we take particular pride in hav-

ing the Dole Institute of Politics at Kansas University. The former senator is regarded fondly and fa-vorably by most Americans, and especially, it’s fair to say, fellow Kansans. They admire his service to our country and his growth as a statesman.

Let’s hope others now in the Senate but not yet capable of filling his shoes experience that growth as well.

— The Lawrence Journal-World

Kansas leaders need lessons in empathy

A narrative gaining currency among Rick Snyder’s defenders explains his flip-flop on right-to-work legislation as a reluctant response to labor unions who put Proposal 2 on the November bal-lot over the governor’s objections, then refused to bargain with good faith with him afterward.

But the truth? Snyder hasn’t got-ten much respect from the groups backing right-to-work, either.

Americans For Prosperity, founded by billionaire Tea Party titans David and Charles Koch, is heralding Michigan’s imminent passage of right-to-work legis-lation laws in Michigan as “the shot heard around the world” in the fight to weaken unions.

But the group was also a sig-nificant financial backer of Pro-posal 5, an effort to amend the Michigan Constitution to bar tax increases without a two-thirds legislative supermajority.

So why would Snyder turn from labor unions to a group that was behind a constitutional amend-ment he described as “bad public policy”?

The answer may lie in another Koch-funded group, the American Legislative Exchange Council, which promotes a radical right-wing agenda in states across the country, supplying “model legisla-

tion” to sympathetic lawmakers.The organization boasts more

than 2,000 legislative members. It also has corporate members, who weigh in on the model leg-islation before it’s approved by the group’s public-sector com-mittee, the group’s national chairman said in an interview he gave after dozens of pieces of ALEC-written model legislation were leaked last year in a joint project by The Nation and the Center for Media and Democracy.

Michigan’s proposed right-to-work bills mirror the ALEC lan-guage practically word-for-word.

It’s unclear how many Michi-gan lawmakers are members of ALEC; the group doesn’t make its membership rolls public. But at least one of the lawmakers who introduced Michigan’s right-to-work legislation has been associ-ated with ALEC.

Certainly, there are a large number of Michigan legislators who are beholden to Americans for Prosperity, or the Koch broth-ers.

Word is the groups threatened Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville’s leadership post, and promised him a primary challenge in 2014, if he refused to move right-to-work forward.

But none of this explains why

the seemingly pragmatic Snyder would hitch his wagon to an or-ganization that has already dem-onstrated more interest in its own ideological objectives than in Snyder’s priorities. What have ALEC’s sponsors done for Michi-gan, and how did a governor who seemed dedicated to the middle path end up in bed with them?

Snyder says right-to-work was put on his agenda. But he owes his constituents more detail about who put it there, and how they got his ear.

— The Detroit Free Press

Drinking the Kochs’ Kool-AidLANSING, Mich. (AP) — In a

dizzyingly short time span, Re-publicans have converted Michi-gan from a seemingly impreg-nable fortress of organized labor into a right-to-work state, leaving outgunned Democrats and union activists with little recourse but to shake their fists and seek ret-ribution at the ballot box.

The state House swiftly ap-proved two bills reducing unions’ strength Tuesday, one dealing with private-sector workers and the other with pub-lic employees, as thousands of

furious protesters at the state Capitol roared in vain. Republi-can Gov. Rick Snyder signed the measures into law within hours.

“Workers deserve the right to decide for themselves whether union membership benefits them,” Snyder said. “Introduc-ing freedom-to-work in Michi-gan will contribute to our state’s economic comeback while pre-serving the roles of unions and collective bargaining.”

House Speaker Jase Bolger exulted after the vote that Mich-igan’s future “has never been brighter,” while Democrats and union activists said workers had been doomed to ever-lower liv-ing standards. Lacking enough votes to block the measures or force a statewide referendum, opponents set their sights on the 2014 election.

“Passing these bills is an act of war on Michigan’s middle class, and I hope the governor and the Republican legislators are ready for the fight that is about to en-sue,” said Gretchen Whitmer, the Senate Democratic leader.

Supporters say the laws give workers freedom of association and promote job creation, while critics insist the real intent is to drain unions of funds need to bargain effectively.

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Thirty-eight members of Dole’s Republican Party, in-cluding both Kansas senators, Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran, were among those who defeated adoption of the treaty for the rights of the disabled.


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historical restoration of the senior center’s front, private owners of downtown build-ings will follow suit.

“We’re looking for pri-vate owners who are willing to participate,” said Larry Tucker, Humboldt adminis-trator, noting they might be able to attract grant money that isn’t available to govern-ment-sponsored groups such as the DAT.

“The answer,” Works said decisively, “is ‘no’ for now,” to restoration work.

McIntosh approved of Works’ comment.

Francis also said he was more concerned about interi-or improvements to the cen-ter. New carpet, roof repairs, paint touch-up and window repairs should take priority, he said.

DAT members earlier said restoration of the build-ing’s facade would cost about $35,000, a number that Works then thought likely was low.

“Probably more like $60,000,” was his estimate.

County Clerk Sherrie Riebel said expenditures to benefit the Humboldt center had totaled $28,000 in the past two years, including work to level and shore up its floor. Riebel said that number in-cluded utilities costs. Exact costs of repairs would take some time to pull from the

Humboldt account, she said, and allowed utilities costs probably weren’t too large a portion.

Commissioners also point-ed out that senior centers in Iola, Moran and LaHarpe had needs, as well as the Se-nior Citizens Center, 223 N. State St., where clothing and household goods are sold.

“We have money (in the se-nior services budget), but just because we have it doesn’t mean we have to spend it,” Works observed, and that the commissioners’ lack of enthusiasm for the histori-cal preservation shouldn’t be considered just as frugality.

“We’ve frozen wages the past several years,” Francis added. “If we were to fix the front of the senior center, what would that tell our em-ployees.”

Contrary to Francis’ re-marks, on Jan. 10, all county employees received a 3.6 per-cent wage increase, the first in three years.

An hour before Finney and DAT members arrived, com-missioners denied a request from a private party who wanted to use the Humboldt center for a name-brand ap-parel sale.

Works said he didn’t think a tax-supported structure should be used as a site for someone to compete with es-tablished merchants.

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Register/Richard LukenThe Hooligans, Iola High School’s raucous student cheering section, helped add to the festivities Tuesday with cheers, songs and occasional dance moves during Iola’s basketball games against visiting Fredonia. Full coverage of the Mustangs’ win and the Fillies’ close loss begin on B1.

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Iola High head coach Bill Peep-er wasn’t sure if it was simply playing on the home court for the first time in the 2012-13 season, or if it was a group of seniors who have taken it upon themselves to provide leadership to their fellow teammates.

Regardless, Peeper said the Mustangs may have found the right elements in correcting what had been a pain in the keester so far this season — slow starts of-fensively.

Iola never trailed against visit-ing Fredonia High Tuesday, grab-bing the upper hand with an early 8-0 run.

The resulting 63-49 win gives the Mustangs a dose of confidence headed into a weeklong respite.

The 2-3 Mustangs do not return to action until next Tuesday when they host the visiting Chanute High Blue Comets in the squad’s final game before Christmas break.

“There are a lot of little things we need to correct, but tonight we definitely were better at get-ting started,” Peeper said. “We’ve been focusing on coming out with intensity and urgency in our play.”

Iola accomplished just that with a teamwork approach early on. All five starters scored within the game’s first 3½ minutes as the Mustangs zipped to a 10-2 lead.

“Our seniors did a good job of leading us tonight,” Peeper said. “Levi (Ashmore) and Mason

Former Iola High track and field standout Maggie Wilson is the new Emporia State Uni-versity school record holder in women’s pole vault.

Wilson won the pole vault at Saturday’s KSU All-Comers meet in Manhattan by clearing 11 feet, 7¾ inches.

Wilson broke Sonya Sche-ment’s old record by 2 inches. Wilson’s mark ranks eighth in the nation this season in NCAA Division II.

Iola’sWilson sets ESUrecord

Iola Middle School boys bas-ketball coaches will host a par-ents meeting at 6 p.m. Monday at the IMS commons area for parents of seventh- and eighth-grade boys who want to play basketball this season.

All parents and students are encouraged to attend.

For more information, call 365-4785.

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It’s home, sweet home for Mustangs

Register/Richard LukenIola High’s Emery Driskel (24), Kyra Moore (13) and Jo Lohman (13) keyed a second-half rally that came up just short Tuesday against Fredonia High in a 39-30 loss. Defending Emery’s field goal at-tempt is Fredonia’s Danielle Shay.

Register/Richard LukenIola High’s Eli Grover is fouled on a third-quarter field goal attempt by Fredonia High’s Kyle Sommer (2). Grover hit his subsequent free throws in Iola’s 63-49 victory. In the background are Iola’s Tyler Powelson (35) and Fredonia’s Tyler Stephens (10) and Zach Johnson (15).

Photo courtesy of Anna WhitcombHumboldt High’s Nathan Whitcomb, left, drives in for a shot against the defense of Yates Center High’s Cameron Brown Tuesday. The Cubs rolled to an 80-32 victory.

HUMBOLDT — It didn’t take long for Tuesday’s battle be-tween a pair of old rivals to turn in favor of Humboldt High’s boys.

The Cubs took visiting Yates Center High behind the prover-bial woodshed, blasting their way to a 29-3 lead after one quar-ter.

“A lot of things went right for us,” Cub head coach David Tay-lor said.

Boy, did they.

Humboldt’s 80-32 victory was made possible through a stifling defense from one end of the court to the other, a finely tuned offense that produced 25 team assists and a blistering 17 of 21 shooting from the free throw line.

The victory keeps Humboldt’s record spotless at 5-0 on the sea-son. Yates Center drops to 2-2.

“Our team defense was really


After taking their early lumps this season, Iola High’s Fillies have shown signs of steady im-provement.

On Tuesday, Iola showed plenty of grit and determination by cut-ting what had been a 14-point lead by Fredonia High to five in the early stages of the fourth quarter.

The Yellowjackets’ standout guard Shannon Tindle, alas, was there to answer Iola’s charge, scoring Fredonia’s next six points

and spearheading some key de-fensive stops in a 39-30 win.

Iola’s offense, which had found its groove earlier in the half, sputtered down the stretch. By the time the Fillies’ Libby Shay scored inside with just under two minutes left the game, Fredonia had pushed the lead back to nine points.

Still, Iola coach Becky Carlson said the Fillies put forth perhaps their steadiest performance of the season.

“I liked our aggressiveness to-

night,” Carlson said. “Tonight, it looked like the girls were start-ing to play with a purpose. Before now, they’d been afraid of making mistakes. There wasn’t nearly as much hesitation in their play.”

Leading the second-half charge for Iola were a pair of sopho-mores, starter Emery Driskel and reserve Jo Lohman. The duo combined to score eight points in an 11-3 Fillies run to pare a 28-15 deficit to 31-26 with 5:56 left in

MORAN — Marmaton Valley High’s boys picked up their first win of the season, keyed by un-selfish play and improved free throw shooting.

After missing 11 of their first 12 free throws of the night, the Wildcats still were able to gain the upper hand against visiting Jayhawk-Linn High.

Then, when the Jayhawks be-gan fouling in their comeback at-

tempt, Marmaton Valley was able to maintain its lead by hitting 5 of 6 charities in the final two minutes.

The 48-42 victory also marks the first career win for head coach Tim Stinnett.

“It definitely feels a lot better walking off the court with a win than it does otherwise,” Stinnett said. “This was a big win for us. The guys played together very well, and we had a lot of younger

players step off the bench and contribute.”

Marmaton Valley led 14-9 af-ter one quarter and 22-18 at the break. Jayhawk-Linn outscored the Wildcats 16-11 to lead 34-33 af-ter three quarters.

The Wildcats (1-4) closed the game with a 15-8 run to seal the win.

Cubs continueearly season roll

Marmaton Valley boys pick up win

Fredonia holds off Fillies charge

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the game. Kyra Moore’s 3-pointer late in the third quarter started the rally.

Tindle responded for the Yellowjackets, coming out of a timeout with a driving layup. Iola turned the ball over on its next two pos-sessions — a theme for the evening — and Tindle’s off-balance runner put the lead at 35-26 at the 3:49 mark.

Shay scored inside for Iola to trim the deficit to seven, but four straight

missed free throws by the Fillies in the last two min-utes, coupled with two suc-cessful charities by Tindle, put the game out of reach.

Hannah Endicott, Addie Haar and Driskel scored baskets for Iola in a nip-and-tuck first quarter with Fredonia holding an 11-6 lead. Lohman’s bucket in-side for the Fillies dropped before the buzzer sounded to cut the gap to 11-8.

Fredonia opened the sec-ond period with an 8-0 run,

the last six courtesy of Tin-dle, to lead 19-8.

Emma Sigg and Lohman helped end the run with baskets of their own, and Iola’s Emma Piazza drained a 3-pointer with 1:46 left in the half to pull Iola back within single digits, 23-15.

Fredonia held a 25-15 lead at the break.

Lohman came off the bench to pace Iola with 10 points and seven rebounds, while Driskel scored six points. Iola shot 52 percent

from the field (14 of 27) but did not make a free throw in the contest.

Tindle scored a game-high 21 points for the Yel-lowjackets. Shelby Baker scored nine.

Iola’s junior varsity de-feated Fredonia 44-16.

Lohman and Sigg shared high-scoring honors for the Fillies JV with nine points each. Mikaela Platt scored eight and Ashlie Shields and Haar had six points each. Driskel, Paige Miller

and Taylor Sell each had two points.

Iola (0-5) returns to ac-tion next Tuesday at home against Chanute.

Fredonia (11-14-6-8—39)Iola (8-7-5-10—30)Fredonia (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Tin-

dle 7/1-4-0-21, Baker 4-1-2-9, Shay 3-0-1-6, Couch 1-0-2-2, Plummer 0-0-1-0, Van Leeuwen 0-1-0-1. TO-TALS: 15/1-6-6-39.

Iola (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Moore 0/1-0-1-3, Piazza 0/1-0-0-3, Lohm-an 5-0-1-10, Shay 1-0-3-2, Ford 0-0-2-0, Endicott 1-0-1-2, Haar 1-0-2-2, Driskel 3-0-1-6. TOTALS: 12/2-0-12-30.

(Coons) have been working hard to take on a leadership role. Eli gave us a spark off the bench.”

Fredonia bounced back after Iola’s early flurry, propelled by a pair of Kyle Sommer 3-pointers to close the gap to 13-12, but Trent Latta responded shortly thereafter with a 3-pointer of his own to re-establish a four-point lead.

The margin swelled to 15 points in the latter part of the second quarter, and Coons drained a pair of free throws with 5 seconds left in the half to give Iola its largest lead of the night at 32-15.

A slow start to the third quarter allowed Fredonia to creep back to within shouting distance.

Sommer’s three-point play capped a 17-8 run for the Yellowjackets to cut the gap to 40-32 with 1:26 left in the period.

Iola’s lead stood at 42-34

with just over seven min-utes left in the game when Levi Ashmore intercepted a Fredonia pass, streaked ahead of the Yellowjacket de-fense and drained a 3-point-er. Another steal seconds later led to three-point play by Mason Coons to push the lead to 14, 48-34 at the conclu-sion of the third quarter.

Momentum swung back and forth down the stretch, with Iola never leading by more than 14 or less than 11 down the stretch. The Mustangs were aided by improved free throw shoot-ing, hitting 6 of 10 charities down the fourth quarter.

Iola opened the game by missing 6 of its first 7 free throw attempts.

“We didn’t start off well with our free throws, but we hit them down the stretch,” Peeper said.

Iola’s post players both narrowly missed double-doubles. Coons led the way for Iola with 17 points and nine rebounds. Tyler Powel-

son followed with 10 points and nine boards, along with four steals on defense. Ash-more poured in 12 points, with five assists and four steals. Adam Kauth dished out four assists.

Sommer (17 points) and Brandon Voth (16) com-bined to score 33 of Fredo-nia’s 49 points.

Iola hosts Chanute next Tuesday.

“We kind of think we owe them one after Fri-

day’s game,” Peeper said, a tournament game in which Chanute raced to a 19-4 lead in a 50-42 win.

Iola’s junior varsity defeated Fredonia 58-52 Tuesday. Jesse Zimmer-man scored 13 points and Fryendz Wallace 12 to pace the Mustang JV. Kohl Endi-cott followed with nine and Shane Walden with seven. Adam Peterson scored five, Kaden Macha and Alex Bauer four apiece, Bryan

Mueller three and Travis Hermstein one.

Fredonia (12-3-17-17—49)Iola (18-14-10-21—63)Fredonia (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP):

Voth 5-6-4-16, Sommer 2/3-4-3-17, Couch 1-0-1-2, Stephens 0-1-2-1, Bass 0/1-0-1-3, Johnson 0-0-3-0, Morris 1-0-3-2, Moya 4-0-5-8. TO-TALS: 13/4-11-23-49.

Iola (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Latta 1/1-1-4-6, Ashmore 2/2-2-2-12, Coons 4/1-6-4-17, McIntosh 2-2-3-6, Clubine 1-0-1-2, Macha 0-0-1-0, Kauth 4-0-2-8, Powelson 4-2-5-10, Grover 0-2-1-2. TOTALS: 18/4-15-23-63.

H MustangsContinued from B1

LE ROY — Coach Jeff True was at a loss for what to do during the first few minutes of his Southern Coffey County High girls’ game with Madison here Tuesday night, when they fell be-hind 12-1.

Then, they “did a good job of fighting back and eventually had a lead at half-time (24-22),” True said, before their for-tunes changed in the sec-ond half.

Madison won the con-test 41-38, and handed the Lady Titans only their second loss in five out-ings.

For the game, “we had too many turnovers (25),” True said, and “the early part of the first and third periods were terrible for us.

“We got down 12-1 at the start and it looked like we were going to get blown out,” True noted, before the SCC girls surged back on the strength of a 23-10 spree for the half-time ad-vantage.

“We still have a lot of work to do to get where we want to be,” True phi-losophized.

The Lady Titans will get a chance of get back on track at Lebo Friday night.

Breanna Isch pulled down 12 caroms from the defensive boards and Chenae Newkirk was quick-handed enough to come up with four steals. Isch also led SCC’s scor-ing, notching 11 points, while Martyna Hegwald dropped in 10, making them the only Lady Ti-tans to reach double fig-ures. Sarah Webb had nine points, and Newkirk netted six. Kalyn Deal got the other two.

Three Madison players hit double figures, led by S. Bund with 14.

Madison also won the jayvee game, 25-8 in two quarters.

Madison (14-8-15-4—41): Casey 0/1-0-3; Farthing 2/1-3-10; Barnard 5/0-10; Melton 1/0-0-2; Bund 6/0-2-14; Buster 0/0-2-2. Totals: 14/2-7-41.

SCC (11-13-3-11—38): Newkirk 2/0-2-6; Deal 1/0-0-2; Hegwald 3/1-1-10; Webb 3/0-3-9; Isch 4/1-0-11. Totals: 13/2-6-38.

H FilliesContinued from B1

LadyTitansfallshort

good, and I was pleased with our rebounding. They usually got one shot only on offense.”

And whether it be from rebounds or steals, Hum-boldt’s transition offense was clicking on all cylin-ders.

Humboldt upped its lead to 50-14 by halftime and 74-25 after three quarters.

The wide margin per-mitted Taylor to substi-tute freely throughout the contest. As a consequence, several players had strong games on the offensive end.

Noah Thornbrugh led the way with 19 points, four as-sists and three steals. Tan-ner McNutt followed with 17 points and three steals, while Nathan Whitcomb had eight points, five as-

sists and three steals. Blake Crawford also had eight points, while Trey Johnson had five assists and five re-bounds. Hunter Murrow had four assists.

Ceaton Cooper and Jus-tin Rossillon each scored seven points to pace Yates Center.

Humboldt returns to ac-tion Friday at Neodesha. Yates Center hosts Eureka.

Yates Center (3-11-11-7—32)Humboldt (29-21-24-6—80)Yates Center (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP):

Chism 0-2-2-2, Cooper 3-1-1-7, Schemper 1-0-2-2, Brown 2-0-0-4, McNett 3-0-2-6, Dice 0-3-2-3, Ros-sillon 2/1-0-4-7, Arnold 0-1-1-1. TO-TALS: 11/1-7-14-32.

HUMBOLDT (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Vanatta 3-3-1-9, McNutt 5/1-4-1-17, Murrow 2-0-1-4, Carpenter 0-0-2-0, Whitcomb 3-2-1-8, Sellman 1-0-0-2, Crawford 2-4-3-8, Johnson 2-1-2-5, Meins 1-0-0-2, Osborn 1-0-2-2, Thornbrugh 9-1-0-19, Siemens 1-2-0-4. TOTALS: 30/1-17-13-80.

H CubsContinued from B1

Cole Becker led Marma-ton Valley with 12 points, five rebounds, three steals and two assists. Carlos Gonzales added 11 points on 4 of 5 shooting from the field with four steals and two assists. Nathan Smart had seven points and five

boards, while Chance Ste-venson had seven points. Lucas Hamlin had two assists and Michael Genn had two steals.

Justin Mark and Ben Rowe scored 16 and 15 points, respectively, to lead the Jayhawks.

Jayhawk-Linn won the junior varsity contest 36-

29. The Wildcat JV was paced by Brady Newman with 13 points and Keegan Boyd with six.Jayhawk-Linn (9-9-16-8—42)Marmaton Valley (14-8-11-15—48)

MV (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Becker 6-0-2-12, Gonzales 4-3-2-11, Smart 3-1-2-7, Stevenson 2/1-0-5-7, Hamlin 2-0-3-4, Ramsey 2-0-3-4, Newman 0-2-0-2, Genn 0-1-1-1. TOTALS: 19/1-7-15-48.

H MVContinued from B1

PLEASANTON — Play-ing without senior stand-out Kyle Hammond (ill-ness), Crest High’s boys picked up a tight victory on the road at Pleasanton.

“It took us a little bit to figure out how to play,” Crest head coach Travis Hermreck said. “Pleas-anton hit a ton of tough

shots, so our defense wasn’t as bad as it seems. The bottom line is the boys found out a way to scratch out a win.”

Brock Ellis led Crest (4-1) with 24 points and 10 rebounds. Jesse Boone fol-lowed with 17 points and 13 rebounds. Jordan Mor-ton had eight points and

nine assists.Pleasanton (13-10-17-14—54)Crest (10-11-20-14—55)

Pleasanton: (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Johnson 2-1-3-5, Bauer 4-0-1-8, Campbell 3-5-0-11, Oberlechner 0-0-3-0, Coffman 4/4-4-3-24, Inaman 2-0-5-4. TOTALS: 16/4-10-17-54.

Crest: Frazell 0-2-4-2, Boone 8-1-3-17, Green 0-1-2-1, Ste-phens 1-1-0-3, Morton 4-0-2-8, Ellis 10/1-1-3-24. TOTALS: 23/1-6-15-55.

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icans clearly want Wash-ington to solve its loom-ing budget crisis, and they clearly reject almost every option to do that, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll.

The only option that vot-ers endorse, by a ratio of 3-to-2, is to raise taxes on the wealthy.

A majority oppose other often-discussed options, in-cluding raising taxes on ev-eryone, cutting Medicaid or Medicare spending, raising the age for Medicare, or tak-ing away tax deductions for charitable contributions or home mortgage interest.

The survey helps ex-plain why it’s so difficult for Washington to solve a problem everyone sees and everyone wants fixed.

President Barack Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner met secretly Sunday but there is still no sign that they’re moving toward a deal that could win support from both the Democrats who oppose any cuts in govern-ment spending or benefits and from the Republicans who oppose all tax increas-es.

“No one is very enam-ored of anything,” said Lee M. Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion in New York, which conducted the national survey of regis-tered voted Dec. 4-6 for Mc-Clatchy Newspapers.

Voters do see the fiscal mess of expiring tax cuts and looming spending cuts as a crisis that needs to be solved.

By 78 percent to 22 per-cent, they say they’re con-cerned about it, and by 75 percent to 21 percent, they say it’s more important for government officials to compromise to find a so-lution rather than stand-ing on principle even if it

means continued gridlock.“They think a deal needs

to be struck and they think it matters,” Miringoff said.

The one thing that voters support is letting the Bush tax cuts expire as sched-uled on Dec. 31 — and thus raising taxes — for individ-ual income above $200,000 and family income above $250,000.

Voters support that 57 percent to 40 percent.

Despite the solid major-ity in favor, the proposal backed by Obama is the most divisive, with Demo-crats supporting it 75 per-cent to 20 percent, and Re-publicans opposing it 68 percent to 30 percent.

If a majority of vot-ers want to raise taxes on higher incomes, they do not want to raise taxes on ev-eryone.

By 74 percent to 20 per-cent, they oppose letting the Bush tax cuts expire — and therefore raising taxes — on all income levels.

And by 50 percent to 33 percent, they oppose letting the Obama cut in the pay-roll tax expire as scheduled at the end of the month. The tax finances Social Se-curity.

A plurality or majority also opposes several other high-profile options to cut government spending:

• Voters oppose, by 59 per-cent to 40 percent, raising the eligibility age for Medi-care from 65 to 67. There’s a gender gap on that issue, with women more opposed to raising the age, perhaps reflecting their longer life expectancy.

• Voters oppose cutting overall spending for Medi-care, by 74 percent to 23 per-cent.

• They oppose cutting spending for Medicaid, the program for the poor, by 70 percent to 26 percent.

• They oppose reducing the federal tax deduction for home mortgage inter-est, by 67 percent to 29 per-

cent.• They oppose eliminat-

ing the tax deduction for charitable contributions, by 69 percent to 28 percent.

“None of these things are attractive to a majority,” Miringoff said.

THERE ARE partisan differences.

Democrats are the most opposed to raising the age for Medicare, which could make it difficult for Obama to sell that to members of his party.

Republicans oppose ev-ery option mentioned in the survey.

“There’s no clear state-ment of what Republican

voters want to happen. There’s opposition to every-thing,” Miringoff said.

“If you’re a Republican in Congress looking for what Republican voters are telling you, they’re not tell-ing you much.”

Voters do signal that they will blame somebody if Washington does not solve the fiscal crisis and taxes jump or spending is slashed — but the forecast is mixed.

Overall, 47 percent of reg-istered voters said they’d blame congressional Re-publicans, 36 percent said they’d blame Obama, 11 percent said they’d blame both, and 6 percent were not sure.

Voters at a loss to stop fall off ‘fiscal cliff’

Defense OKs funds for Fort Riley school

FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) — The Geary County school district will receive $35.2 million in federal funds to build a new middle school at the Army’s Fort Riley.

The Department of De-fense said Tuesday the new building will replace an ex-isting school on the north-east Kansas Army post. The new school will have room for up to 720 students in grades six through eight.

An additional $6.7 mil-lion in non-federal funds will be used for the project. Groundbreaking is sched-uled for January and the school is expected to be ready for classes in 2014.

The Geary County school district, in adjacent Junc-tion City, has seen an influx of students over the past decade with the arrival of thousands of soldiers and families assigned to the Ar-my’s 1st Infantry Division.

Kansas 7th in nation for ag exports

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A new government re-port shows Kansas ranked seventh in the nation last year as an exporter of ag-ricultural products to other countries.

Kansas Agricultural Sta-tistics Service on Tuesday cited a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture pegging the total value of

the state’s 2011 farm ex-ports at $5.3 billion. That’s up 7 percent from the previ-ous year.

Wheat was the top Kan-sas export, accounting for 29 percent of the state’s to-tal farm exports and 14 per-cent of the nation’s wheat exports.

The value of exports in-creased for wheat, corn, pork, beef and veal, hides and skins.

It declined for other cat-egories.

Kansas was second in the nation for wheat exports and third for beef exports.

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TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents will not consider a proposal from Fort Hays State University to create a new training program for mid-level den-tal practitioners until the Kansas Legislature decides whether it wants to autho-rize licensing for the new category of dental worker.

Andy Tompkins, chief executive of the state’s higher education govern-ing board, said Monday the panel’s governance com-mittee had decided to wait and see what the Kansas Legislature would do before taking up the issue.

A coalition of consumer and health advocates have been pushing for the new type of dental technician in each of the past two leg-islative sessions. They say the practitioners would help improve access to den-tal care and help mitigate the shortage of dentists, particularly in rural and other underserved areas. According to the Kansas

Department of Health and Environment, more than a dozen of the state’s 105 counties have no dentist. Mid-level dental workers already are licensed in two other rural states, Alaska and Minnesota, and also are common in many other countries.

But the legislative pro-posals have been fought by the Kansas Dental Asso-ciation, a group that repre-sents about 75 percent of the state’s dentists. The as-sociation has argued that the proposals went too far by proposing that the prac-titioners be allowed to per-form procedures which are, by definition, considered surgery.

The regents commit-tee, which among others includes the full board’s chair and vice-chair, last month had agreed the topic should at least be discussed by the full Regents board, probably before the Legis-lature convened in Janu-ary, though they did not set a date for when it would be on the agenda. The full

board meets monthly.But Tompkins said the

committee members had second thoughts given the ongoing controversy over the issue and decided “we can discuss this after the Legislature takes it up.”

Ed Hammond, president of Fort Hays State, in 2011 told a legislative panel that the university was prepared to launch a pro-gram to train the mid-level technicians as soon as they could be licensed. He said he was confident he could raise enough private dol-lars to launch the program.

ABOUT 60 communi-ty organizers from eight states, including Kansas, met last week in Lawrence to discuss how they could collaborate on advancing licensing proposals in their respective states.

Kansas supporters of the idea have said they will ask the 2013 Legislature to con-sider approving mid-level dental practice.

Kevin Robertson, execu-tive director of the Kansas

Dental Association, has said his members will con-tinue to fight the proposal unless it is more limited than the ones offered in the past two legislative ses-sions.

The bills proposed ear-lier would have allowed the technicians to perform about 30 routine proce-dures, including taking X-rays, extracting baby teeth and administering local anesthetic. A dentist would be required to supervise the work but wouldn’t nec-essarily have to be on the same premises.

The dental association has argued that routine procedures can quickly turn dangerous and pa-tients could be put at risk.

Supporters of licensing say studies have shown that the mid-level technicians deliver services as safely as dentists.

The licensing proposal has been supported by the Kansas Health Foundation, which is a major funder of the Kansas Health Insti-tute.

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By ANDREW TANGELLos Angeles Times

NEW YORK — British banking giant HSBC will pay $1.92 billion to settle a wide-ranging investigation by U.S. authorities into money laundering at the bank.

In a deferred prosecu-tion agreement, confirmed by the bank Tuesday, HSBC will undergo independent monitoring for five years as it puts in place safe-guards to make sure it does not again become a conduit for illicit transactions.

HSBC said the agree-ment, which the U.S. De-partment of Justice had yet to formally announce early Tuesday, noted the bank had “provided valu-able assistance to law en-forcement,” providing in-formation and employees for interviews.

“We accept responsibil-ity for our past mistakes,” Stuart Gulliver, HSBC’s chief executive, said in a statement. “We have said we are profoundly sorry for them, and we do so again. The HSBC of today is a fundamentally differ-ent organization from the one that made those mis-takes.”

A deferred prosecution

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The bank struck agree-ments with a host of U.S.

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By CHRIS TALBOTTAP Music Writer

Randy Newman’s glad he didn’t have to do any-thing drastic to get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The members of Rush are choosing to let bygones be bygones. And Quincy Jones, well, he’s still mad.

All were among induct-ees announced Tuesday by Flea of The Red Hot Chili Peppers at a news confer-ence in Los Angeles. For most of this year’s induct-ees, inclusion was a long time coming.

“I’m very happy,” the 69-year-old Newman said Monday from his home in Los Angeles. “I thought I’d have to die first, but I’m glad I’m around to see it.”

Newman is joined in the 2013 class by the eclectic group of rockers Rush and Heart, rap group Public Enemy, “Queen of Disco” Donna Summer and blues-man Albert King. Jones and his friend Lou Adler will enter the hall as Ahmet Ertegun Award winners for

their contributions to rock beyond performance.

They will be inducted into the hall of fame April 18 in Los Angeles. The cer-emony will mark the end of a long wait for fans of five of those six acts, who’ve been eligible for entry for some time. Public Enemy was inducted on its first bal-lot appearance, swelling the ranks of hip-hop entries.

In many ways, the 2013 class balances the scales, though not nearly soon enough for some new mem-bers.

“Well, it’s about time, man,” Jones said late Mon-day night in an interview from his home in Los Ange-les. “But I promise you I’m not sitting around worry-ing about it.”

Summer, who passed away at age 63 in May, gains entry after six years as a nominee. King, a deep in-fluence on Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn who died in 1992, now takes his place alongside all the oth-er legendary blues guitar-ists in the hall.

Rush, one of the most-played staples of classic rock radio, gained entry fol-lowing its first appearance on the ballot. But the Cana-dian trio became eligible in 1998 and was repeatedly left off the list, to the great con-sternation of its legion of fans who cried bias against prog rock. Heart also wait-ed a decade to make it on the ballot, gaining entry during its second appear-ance.

Rockers inducted into hallI’m very happy. I thought I’d

have to die first, but I’m glad I’m around to see it.

— Randy Newman,

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Dear Drs. Donohue and Roach: I have a friend, about 57 years old and in good health, who takes a lot of supplements, including yohimbine, horny goat weed, DHEA, vitamin E and amino ac-ids. My question is, What will this do to his body? — F.R.

Answer: One of the most frequent questions I get is about dietary sup-plements. People who be-lieve in them tell me that supplements make them feel better and they’re passionate about them. I research what has been published in quality jour-nals to try to shed some light on whether those supplements are truly ef-fective. Although there is much more good-quality research than there used to be, often there isn’t enough to make a judg-ment. I’d like to make three important points about supplements.

First, anytime you take a medicine, there is a pos-sibility that the medicine can improve the condi-tion it is being taken for due to the placebo effect. That means that, as an individual, you can’t ever

tell whether a medicine is making you feel better due to its effect on your body or its effect on your mind. Placebo effects al-ways are taken into ac-count in studies on phar-macologic medicines, and the Food and Drug Administration demands that a medicine be proven more effective than place-bo. Supplements seldom are subject to this same kind of study.

Second, supplements are not regulated. Nobody besides the manufacturer is saying that what is sup-posed to be in the bottle is in the bottle. Studies have shown that, after chemi-cal analysis, many sup-plements contain none of the active ingredient. Some manufacturers are meticulous about qual-ity; others are less scru-pulous. The FDA doesn’t allow supplements to be

promoted for a specific disease or condition, but manufacturers use lan-guage to get around this while making it clear what they want you to take it for.

Third, supplements, like all medicines, have side effects, and may have unknown effects when taken in combination with each other and with prescription medications. A colleague of mine had a patient with catastrophic liver failure after taking supplements of echina-cea and goldenseal, two of the better-known herb-al medications that usu-ally are considered to be safe.

But just because some-thing is natural does not mean it is safe for every-body. If you are taking supplements, it’s very important to make sure whoever is prescribing

any medications for you knows what you are tak-ing.

In the case presented by the writer above, there were 11 supplements. The likelihood of a sig-nificant interaction just among them, let alone any prescriptions taken, is very high.

A study published in 2012 suggested that, with the exception of vitamin D (which showed some benefit), vitamin supple-mentation either failed to help or seemed to cause harm for those tak-ing them. The study had some flaws, but it certain-ly made me less likely to recommend vitamins, at least for people who get good amounts of vitamins from their diet, meaning people who get the rec-ommended amounts of fruits and vegetables.

My last comment is that yohimbine, at least, certainly has the poten-tial for serious side ef-fects. I certainly have seen both elevated blood pressure and insomnia from this substance, which typically is used to treat erectile dysfunc-tion in men.

In choosing supplements, many facets to considerDr. Paul Donohue

To YourGoodHealth

Dr. Keith Roach

To YourGoodHealth

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HUMBOLDT — Yates Center High’s girls came away with a hard-fought victory Tuesday over their old rivals from Humboldt High, 43-32.

Humboldt coach Sher-ri Nelson was proud of her team’s effort in the loss.

“The Lady Cubs have al-most put it all together, and are so close to where we want to be,” she said. “We just need to tweak a few more things.

“We won three out of four quarters tonight, but we just couldn’t finish,” Nelson continued. “The girls and their effort were great.”

Sherri Middleton paced Humboldt with 10 points, 11 rebounds, four blocks and two steals. Lakota Wil-son followed with eight points, three rebounds and two steals. Kayle Riebel had five points, six re-bounds and a steal. Brea Kline had three points, a rebound and two steals. Delaney Umholtz and Whitney Strack provided three points apiece.

Humboldt travels to Neodesha Friday. Yates Center hosts Eureka.

Wildcat girls defeat Humboldt

Photo courtesy of Mike MyerHumboldt High’s Lakota Wilson, left, drives against the defense of Yates Center High’s Paige Steinforth Tues-day.

MORAN — A slow start plagued Marmaton Valley Junior High’s boys Monday.

The Wildcats fell to Jay-

hawk-Linn 54-12 in A team action. The Marmaton Val-ley B team lost 19-16.

“We went against a good team tonight, but we didn’t come out ready to go,” Wild-cat coach Scott Brady said.

Justice Pugh led the Wild-

cat A team with 10 points. Trevor Wilson scored two.

In the B team contest, Ethan Tavarez scored sev-en points, followed by Rob-ert Muse with four, Tristan Fraker with three and Brock Hall with two.

MVJH drops doubleheader

WESTPHALIA — Crest Middle School’s boys came up with a victory Monday evening, while the A team dropped its road contest.

The B team squad downed Westphalia 15-4, while the A team lost 51-18.

The B team scorers for the Lancers were Chad Classen with six points, Blake Ashmore, five, and Kanon Coberly and Kady Utley, two apiece.

Gage Adams scored nine points to lead the A team. Carter Messenger scored five. Blake Ashmore and Nate Berry had two points each.

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