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By STEVEN SCHWARTZsteven@iolaregister.com

Many peoples’ day-jobs have stresses and challenges. Reed Timmer’s day-job takes him into the eye of a tornado.

“It’s important to follow your passion,” Timmer said. “Mine is weather.”

But he is no meteorologist.Timmer, a storm chaser

who has appeared on Discov-ery Channel’s original show “Storm Chasers,” made a pre-sentation at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center Tuesday night.

He spent two hours describ-ing his efforts to venture as close as possible toward the eye of a tornado. His goal is to study a tornado’s properties close to the ground in an effort to understand how to avoid its damages in populated areas. While he started storm chas-ing in a compact car during his college days, his team now has much more sophisticated instruments at their disposal.

Over the past several years, Timmer has developed two storm-chasing vehicles — dra-matically named Dominator I and Dominator II (there is currently a Dominator III be-

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Storm Chaser Reed Timmer speaks to an audience at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center Tuesday evening. Timmer has been featured on Discovery Channel’s “Storm Chasers.”

USD 257 gets new superintendent

By ALLISON TINNallison@iolaregister.com

After two months of search-ing, USD 257 has found its new superintendent, Jack Koehn.

Koehn will be taking over for Brian Pekarek who turned in his resignation mid-January. Pekarek’s contract ends June 30 and Koehn will begin his two-year contract on July 1.

Koehn is currently principal at Canton-Galva High School, where he himself graduated in 1978. Koehn attended McPher-son College where he played basketball and got his degree in history.

Koehn began his career in Hoisington as a middle school social studies teacher. In 1984-85 Koehn returned to his home-town of Canton to take the po-

sition of head b a s k e t b a l l coach.

“I’ve been in Canton-Gal-va ever since in a variety of positions,” he said.

K o e h n jumped on the technology wag-on in its infancy.

“I became the technology co-ordinator and that lasted about four years. Then I started get-ting interested in administra-tion. I started to see the district as a whole in a new perspec-tive,” Koehn said.

To broaden his career’s hori-zons Koehn went back to school at Emporia State University to

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Register/Susan LynnMembers of Uniting For Excellence give Ron Baker, center at right, a check for $800,000. From left are Jan Kershner, Mary Kay Heard, Mary Ann Arnott, Don Copley, Baker, Gary McIntosh, Karen Lee, Susan Michael and Karen Gilpin.

Campaign directs $800,000 to hospital

By SUSAN LYNNsusan@iolaregister.com

Trustees of the new Allen County Regional Hospital ac-cepted a gift of $800,000 Tues-day night from members of the Uniting for Excellence Hospital Campaign.

“I am overwhelmed,” said Ron Baker, chief executive of-ficer of the hospital.

The gift comes from an ac-cumulation of large and small donations alike received over the course of the fundraising campaign for the new hospital and will be used to purchase new equipment.

“It all adds up,” said Mary Ann Arnott, who has been in-volved with the fundraising arm.

To date, the fundraising campaign has raised $1,796,997 in cash and pledges, said Su-san Michael, executive direc-tor of the Allen County Com-munity Foundation, which oversees funds raised in the campaign. The goal is $3.2 mil-lion.

AT THEIR meeting, trust-ees did not approve the con-struction of a canopy that was to extend over the loading dock at the back of the new hospital. Its price tag, in the

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Highway work a concern for county roadsBy BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

Rebuilding U.S. 54 from Iola to the east edge of LaHarpe later this year will involve more than just ripping up the old pavement and pouring nine inches of new concrete.

Bill King, director of Pub-lic Works, told Allen County commissioners Tuesday morning he turned back a

proposal to dispose of ripped up pavement at the landfill. If it were to be deposited there, it would have to be ground to manageable size, a process that the county’s rock crush-er can’t handle because of re-bar in the concrete.

Wherever the material is put, it will be of concern to the county.

Darrin Petrowsky, Kansas Department of Transporta-tion district engineer, told the Register the contract for rebuild of the four-lane high-way’s concrete pavement called for 11,363 square yards of concrete, which at nine inches of thickness would weigh about 5,750 tons.

Anywhere the old pave-

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Gas gets bargain on playground equipment

By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

GAS — A new playground toy called an Orbitron costs about $2,500. A device quite similar will be installed in Fees Park on the west edge of Gas at a fraction of the cost.

City Superintendent Steve Robb told council members Tuesday night he would fash-ion the toy from materials on hand at a “lot less than that.” The toy will be an open disc made of tubing mounted at a slight angle atop a pivot on a standard, which kids can grab and swing around on.

Robb said areas under playground equipment in the park would be replaced with

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It was reported in Tuesday’s Register that to make up for Iola school district’s deficit of 39 minutes of contact hours with stu-dents due to snow days, that a minute would be added to the end of each Friday school day for the rest of the school year. There will be one minute added to the end of every school day begin-ning Friday. The Register regrets the error.

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Mike Myer, Humboldt, wasn’t kidding when he said stargazers would have an even better shot at seeing PanSTARRS, a comet visible shortly after sunset this week on the western horizon. Myer shared a photo he took Monday night (see Tuesday’s Register) with the admonition that Tuesday night’s viewing would be even more spectacular with the nearby crescent moon. The comet will remain visible shortly after sundown through this week, although its appearance will quickly fade each night. Using binoculars is the best way to spot the comet, Myer said.

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Be Aware of Risks of Not Investing

You’ve no doubt heard about the risks associated with investing. This investment carries this type of risk, while that investment carries another one. And it is certainly true that all investments do involve some form of risk. But what about not investing? Isn’t there some risk associated with that, too? In fact, by staying on the investment sidelines, or at least by avoiding long-term, growth-oriented investments, you may incur several risks. Here are some to consider: • You might not keep up with inflation. If you put all

your money under the proverbial “mattress,” or, more realistically, you keep it all in “cash” instruments and very short-term investments, you might think you are “playing it safe.” After all, you might reason, your principal is protected, so even if you don’t really make any money, you’re not losing it, either. But that’s not strictly true, because if your money is in investment vehicles that don’t even keep up with inflation, you can lose ground. In fact, even at a relatively mild three percent annual inflation rate, your purchasing power will decline by about half in just 25 years.

• You might outlive your money. For a 65-year-old couple, there’s a 50 percent chance that one spouse will live past age 90, according to the Society of Actuaries. This statistic suggests that you may need your investments to help provide enough income to sustain you for two, or even three, decades in retirement.

• You might not be able to maintain your financial independence. Even if you don’t totally run out of money, you could end up scrimping by — or, even worse, you could become somewhat dependent on your grown children for financial assistance. For most people, this prospect is unacceptable. Consequently, you’ll want to make appropriate financial decisions to help maintain your financial independence.

• You might not be able to retire on your terms. You would probably like to decide when you retire and how you’ll retire — that is, what sort of lifestyle you’ll pursue during retirement. But both these choices may be taken out of your hands if you haven’t invested enough to retire on your own terms.

• You might not be be able to leave the type of legacy you desire. Like most people, you would probably like to be able to leave something behind to your family and to those charitable organizations you support. You can help create this type of legacy through the appropriate legal vehicles — i.e., a will, a living trust and so no — but you’ll still need to fund these mechanisms somehow. And that means you’ll need to draw on all your financial assets, including your investments.

Work with your financial advisor to determine the mixture of growth and income investments you need during your working years and as you move toward retirement to help you meet your retirement goals. However you do it, get into the habit of investing, and never lose it — because the risks of not investing are just too great.

Robert WestRobert Logan West,

91, Colony, passed away peacefully in the presence of his family at Anderson County Hospital on Sat-urday, March 9, 2013.

Robert was born Aug. 9, 1921, on a farm in rural C o l o n y, the son of Logan and Gertrude West. He grew up in rural Colony and graduated from Le Roy High School in 1939.

On April 24, 1946, he married Roberta McGhee in a parsonage in Le Roy. After their marriage they moved to their lifelong home in rural Colony where they raised their three children. Robert

was a proud serviceman, spending three years in the Army, from 1942 to 1945. Robert also spent most of his life farming before he retired in 1997. During that time he spent many years serving on the Le Roy cooperative board. He enjoyed hunt-ing, fishing and the out-doors, with many house-hold pets bringing him joy through the years.

He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Roberta West of the home; three children, Ronda West, Randall West and his wife, Karon, and Kylie Moon and her husband, Jonathan; six grandchil-dren, Marilyn Cuch and her husband, Cameron, Eric West and his wife, Shay, Ryan West, Blake West, Brooke Connell and her husband, Kipp,

and Piper Moon; and sev-en great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by parents Logan and Gertrude West, sis-ter Avis Richards and brothers Lawrence and Paul West.

Visitation is from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at First Chris-tian Church in Le Roy.

Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Christian Church in Le Roy.

Burial will be at Logue Cemetery east of Le Roy.

Memorial choice is Wounded Warrior Proj-ect and may be left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola, which is in charge of arrangements.

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

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Obituaries

Gene SauderGene David Sauder,

77, Le Roy, passed away Monday, March 11, 2013, at Allen County Hospital in Iola.

Gene was born Jan. 10, 1936, on the family farm in Coffey County, the son of Chester Arthur and Helen Eugenia (Elder) Sauder.

He graduated from Le Roy High School and spent the rest of his life in the Le Roy area farm-ing and raising livestock for many years.

On Aug. 5, 1956, he and Patricia JoAnn “Patty” Wright were married in Le Roy.

Gene had served as

president of the Le Roy cooperative board of di-rectors.

He was a member of the Le Roy Assembly of God.

In earlier years he was an avid quail hunter.

His wife, Patty, preced-ed him in death on Aug. 17, 2001.

He was also preceded by an infant son on Sept. 5, 1957, his son David Eu-gene Sauder on March 30, 2004; and two infant brothers.

He leaves his daughter, Ginger West, and hus-band Wayne, rural Col-ony; five grandchildren, Alexandria Cox, Gene Sauder, Spencer West and wife Amy, Miles West and

wife Kerri and Ember West; three great-grand-children, Parker Gene West, Connor Miles West, and Adayrean Patricia West; his significant oth-er, Jo Lynn Kistner, Iola; a brother, Darrell Sauder and wife Sharon, Rapid City, S.D.; and three sis-ters, June Hannah and husband Morris, Pegram, Tenn., Shirley Johnson, Amarillo, Texas, and Mary Kurtz, Eureka.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Jones Fu-neral Home in Burling-ton. Burial will follow in Le Roy Cemetery.

The family will meet with friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the fu-neral home.

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Shelton Sifers, 79, p a s s e d a w a y Dec. 24, 2012, at his home. He was born Feb. 1, 1933 in Kan-sas City, Mo., to Earl Iba Sifers and Elizabeth Shel-ton Sifers.

Don grew up in Iola, and graduated from Iola High School in 1951. He was a graduate of the University of Kansas and was a member of Phi Del-ta Theta.

Over the years, he maintained an active interest and valued his many friendships. Don enjoyed his friends as they did him. An avid hunter, he was a found-ing member of Fontana

Farms in LaCygne. He and another friend also founded a breakfast club known as the Wednesday Morning Study Group. These 14 men are good friends and have gath-ered weekly for the past 25 years.

Don was predeceased by his parents, brother and sister. He is survived by a daughter, niece and nephews. Services were private.

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ing constructed in Michi-gan).

These armored beasts are the remains of Chevy Tahoes plated with 16-gauge steel armor. They are built as close to the ground as possible.

“It’s the opposite of an airplane wing, meant to cancel out lift,” Timmer said.

The Dominator II has hydraulics that can lower it to the ground during a tornado, and four-inch hydraulic spikes that can shoot into the ground to anchor it down — they can even penetrate con-crete and asphalt. He told the audience he never informed his auto-insur-ance company that he transformed his vehicle into a storm-chasing ve-hicle.

“I would drive it up to 7-11, it was my personal vehicle,” Timmer said with a smile.

In addition to the ve-hicle, Timmer’s team can make use of rockets, small remote-controlled helicop-ters, and parachutes shot out of air cannons to get

sensors into a tornado. All of his equipment is de-signed to withstand a tor-nado’s titanic power.

His current project is studying “suction vor-tices.” They are smaller tornado funnels that are precipitated quickly on the ground from the par-ent tornado, and cause se-vere damage due to their focused wind energy. He estimates that winds can reach 500 to 600 mph eas-ily in a suction vortex and can carry debris over 50 miles from the storm.

“That’s why we’ll often-times see a house that is destroyed, standing next to a house that is com-pletely intact,” Timmer said.

Timmer showed sever-al videos of his early days as a storm chaser, all the way to a video taken dur-ing last year’s season of “Storm Chasers.” He said tornado science has come a long way in the past few years, and people are beginning to understand how serious a tornado can be. Several large tor-nados, F4 and F5 on the Fujita scale, have plowed through populated areas

with little to no fatalities. He said this is due to bet-ter warning systems and better understandings.

“People are taking tor-nadoes more seriously than ever,” he said.

During a chase, how-ever, if any storm chaser encounters a person with injuries or who needs help, he said “their chase is over.”

“Every storm chaser needs to have some level of first aid training,” he said.

His team enjoys chas-ing storms in unpopulated areas, where no damage to cities can be done. During a tornado chase in a city, their job is limited to re-porting the tornadoes to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) and warning lo-cal authorities.

But, if they are chasing the funnels in a rural area — caution is thrown to the wind, no pun intended. It seems to be Timmer’s comfort zone.

“I’m more afraid of public speaking events than any tornado, hon-estly,” Timmer said with a smile.

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neighborhood of $42,000, hit the trustees as too high.

“I’d rather spend the money on equipment that will generate rev-enue,” said Baker, when asked for his opinion.

The building project is under budget by al-most $10,000 with about $2.7 million left in the pot, as well as another $770,000 in the owners’ contingency fund, said Sheldon Streeter, project manager with Murray Construction.

A PROGRAM to have fourth-year medical students and students fairly along in their resi-dency programs to work alongside physicians at the hospital is being ex-plored. Baker said rep-resentatives from the University of Kansas Medical School visited with him about rural residency rotations. Students would spend a month at a time working at the hospital to get the

feel of a rural setting. “All we’d be out is

room and board,” he said.

The program would be a good way to recruit physicians, on both ends of the stick, he said.

“They’d see what our area is like and we’d see how they practice

medicine before any de-cisions were made,” he said.

TRUSTEES will meet again next week begin-ning at 6 p.m. The ear-lier meeting is to discuss signage and promotional materials. The meetings are open to the public.

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ment is taken will in-volve some travel on a county road, an out-come that has King a bit nervous.

Depending on how the concrete is hauled, trucks will carry be-tween 15 tons (for a 10-wheeler) to 20 to 25 for a semi-unit support-

ed by 18 wheels.“State highways are

designed to handle those kinds of loads re-peatedly day after day,” King observed. “County roads aren’t.”

If loads were to av-erage 25 tons, hauling 5,750 tons would mean 230 loads.

King allowed that

might cause structural problems to roads, but “we’ll work with the contractor and do what we can to help out.”

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gravel and a large round picnic table also would be installed.

In the restroom, a sta-tion on which to change a baby’s diaper is also be-ing installed.

Volunteers and Gas employees have upgraded the park since it opened several years ago and have made it a destina-tion not only for residents but also for people from neighboring communi-ties.

Streets also will be up-graded this summer.

“I’ve talked to Bill King (Allen County director of Public Works) about chip-seal,” Robb said.

About 7 1/2 miles will be treated, with Gas pro-viding hot oil and the county equipment and rock.

“We also have some potholes to fix and cracks to fill,” Robb said.

COUNCIL members agreed to enroll all of Gas in the Neighborhood Revitalization Program for another three years when the current edition expires May 31.

In the program im-provements or new con-struction of $5,000 or more are eligible for a property tax abatement of 95 percent for five years, which then de-clines by 20 percent over the next five years.

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Council members also approved an insurance set-aside policy, which will have the city attach 10 percent of insurance proceeds when a home is substantially damaged by fire, explosion or wind. Money retained will be returned once a property is cleaned up to the city’s satisfaction.

OTHER NEWS:— Gas learned its

property, casualty and worker’s compensation EMC insurance premium increased about 4 percent to $13,118. The previous year’s was $12,645.

— A pet clinic will be Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m. at the city shop. Owners may have their pets vac-cinated and registered.

— City Hall is closed to-day through Friday while Hill attends a city clerks conference in Wichita.

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get his master’s degree. He then took the position of principal.

In 2007 yet another op-portunity presented it-self. The current superin-tendent at Canton-Galva suggested Koehn get his district level certification because he would be re-tiring soon and thought Koehn would make a good replacement.

“But he hasn’t retired yet. It’s not anyone’s fault,” Koehn said.

Koehn took his certi-fication and began his hunt for a superintendent position. The move is not only to benefit his career but his family’s agenda as well.

He and his wife, Kathy, became first-time grand-parents 14 months ago. Kylee, their oldest daugh-ter, lives in Kansas City, so it was only fitting that when he and Kathy chose

to move they would look to eastern Kansas.

They also have another daughter, Allison, who is in Melbourne, Australia, doing a study abroad pro-gram and a son, Taylor, who recently started at the University of Kansas.

Iola wasn’t a stranger to Koehn though. Koehn is a curriculum consultant for the Curriculum Leader-ship Institute (CLI), with which Iola is involved.

“I am very familiar with the process Iola is go-ing through,” he said. “I was very drawn to Iola.”

The familiarity with Iola was not the only en-dearing factor for Koehn.

“I also liked that Iola had a community col-lege,” he said, and its study arrangement with high school students.

The biggest take-away for Koehn was the Bow-lus Fine Arts Center and its collaboration with the school district.

“It’s another feature of Iola that I think is unique. A feature I wasn’t quite prepared for,” he said. “I wasn’t aware Iola had such a fine arts center. That was really cool.”

Though the move will bring him closer to his family it will be taking him away from other fam-ily. He and Kathy will be leaving behind parents and siblings.

“Our folks are still in Canton-Galva, but other siblings are around too. They will be well taken care of I’m sure,” he said.

Canton-Galva school district as a whole is a little smaller than Iola, however, Koehn doesn’t see that as a challenge.

“I have a good feel for the size of Iola and the teachers and the overall complexity of the dis-trict,” he said. The schools “function about the same, have the same process.”

From now until July 1 Koehn said he plans to be-gin building relationships with the district mem-bers, such as the board members and central of-fice personnel.

“That will be my goal,” he said.

Koehn said he doesn’t have any plans in his back pocket for Iola, only that he wants to “get to know Iola and have Iola get to know me and my family.”

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K-12 Education50.0%

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As Kansas policymakers work to produce a fiscal year 2014 budget, they face a huge gap between expected revenue and expenditures. The official estimate for state general fund (SGF) revenue in FY 2014 to-tals $5.464 billion, but SGF ex-penditures currently exceed that amount by more than $700 million. Can deep spend-ing cuts close most of the gap? It’s not likely, and here’s why.

Look at the chart at right,

which shows how the current $6.198 billion SGF budget is being spent.

Half of the money goes di-rectly into the public school fi-nance formula, but even with-out further cuts, those dollars do not cover as much as they used to. In FY 2009 the formula was based on $4,400 per pupil. Today it is based on $3,838 per pupil. Plus, a lawsuit be-

fore the state Supreme Court could easily require the state to add much more into school finance.

Almost 20 percent of the SGF pays for the state share of Medicaid. With the new KanCare system now in place, the state is contractually obli-gated to pay for these services. Not only is this area of the budget safe from reductions, but it will need to be increased in order to accommodate ris-ing health costs and growth in the number of people receiv-ing Medicaid services.

Postsecondary education takes 12.3 percent, or just un-der $800 million. Big cuts here hurt state universities and will lead very directly to tu-ition increases.

Other human services — 7.3 percent of SGF — covers state hospitals and health programs not funded through Medicaid. Most public safety spending — 6.1 percent of SGF — supports the state corrections system but also the Kansas Highway Patrol and Kansas Bureau of Investigation. General govern-ment — 4.5 percent — includes the Legislature and court sys-tem. Finally, agriculture and natural resources spending

takes up less than 1 percent of the budget.

With more than 89 percent of the current budget — or over $5.5 billion — directed to-

ward education or human ser-vices, where would more than $700 million come from?

Gov. Sam Brownback did not propose any deep SGF cuts

in the FY 2014 budget that he recommended to the Legisla-ture. It appears as though his proposed FY 2014 budget is $115 million lower than cur-rent spending, but he achieves that by shifting costs like school transportation to other funds, not by actually cutting much.

Likewise, as the House and Senate budget committees have reviewed the budget, they have made changes and applied cuts. However, the committee reductions do not even begin to approach the $700-plus-million required to balance the budget with cuts alone.

Goossen, M.P.A., vice presi-dent for Fiscal and Health Policy, oversees KHI’s research and analysis of state fiscal pol-icy, health reform, and other health policy issues. Goossen is a former member of the Kan-sas House of Representatives (1983-1997), and served as state budget director for 12 years in the administrations of three governors — Republican Bill Graves and Democrats Kath-leen Sebelius and Mark Par-kinson.

Cuts can’t fix gap between revenue and expenditures

DuaneGoossen

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My mom used to have a small, three-legged wooden stool. I don’t remember the stool being used for any rea-son, just something to set a newspaper or magazine on for a minute.

It was small and thus not sturdy enough to hold any-thing of weight.

But no matter if it was strong and sturdy, the three-legged stool was no good if something happened to one of the legs. It couldn’t stand on just two.

You’re probably already wondering what a three-legged stool has to do with the newspaper business.

Open government is a three-legged stool.

It takes open meetings.It takes open records.It takes public notices.Any of the three being ab-

sent you don’t really have open government.

I would wager that the news side of newspapers

thinks all of government can be “open” if just its meetings and records are kept public. And I would wager an equal amount that the advertising/business side would argue without public notices, gov-ernment really can’t be open.

Like the old Certs breath mint ad, “Stop. You’re both right.”

It takes all three. Together. If one of the three is missing, any one of the three, open government is off-balance.

Open meetings: lots can go on behind closed doors and lots does. The law gives pub-lic agencies the right to enter into closed meetings under certain conditions. The law limits the presence of people at those meetings and noth-ing can be finalized. Any final action must be done in public. Open meetings also give citi-zens the right to speak on a particular subject. Much like lobbying in some respect but the comments play an impor-tant part of a public agency’s decisions on most items.

Open records: much like open meetings, most records are open. Those records can be closed under certain con-ditions but the records are important for a variety of reasons.

Often, those records will reveal what has happened behind the scenes, with agen-

cies trying to restrict knowl-edge of what has happened in certain situations. Maybe it’s a financial settlement with a fired public agency employee. Maybe it’s what happened in a court proceeding. Maybe it’s just simple communica-tions between agencies.

Open records are much more than that, I know, but open records are an impor-tant part of that three-legged stool.

Public notices: these prob-ably get overlooked when compared to open meetings and open records. Editorial departments won’t under-stand the reason for them, why government agencies should pay to have informa-tion published. Advertising departments will favor this one over open meetings and open records. Those are good but with public notices cer-tain information has to be published and that informa-tion could be very revealing.

On their own, each is im-portant and each plays a role in open government — gov-ernment of the people, for the people and by the people. True open government can only be open with the three-legged stool in perfect bal-ance.

Thompson is executive di-rector of the Kentucky Press Association.

Three steps to open government

DavidThompson

A look back in time

60 Years AgoWeek of March 10, 1953A six-week course in Bible

study, known as the Leader-ship Training School, will be opened next Tuesday in the senior high school under the auspices of the Iola Junior College and Ministerial Alli-ance. All interested persons in the county are invited to en-roll. The program will include two courses designed particu-larly for Sunday School and Vacation Bible School teach-ers and two for adults who want a deeper knowledge of important religious ques-tions. Judge Spencer A. Gard will lead a course in the Old Testament, Content and Val-ues. Judge Gard has made a particular study of the Old Testament. A second class for adults will be taught by the Rev. E. E. Tillotson, pastor of First Methodist Church. His subject will be “How We Got our Denominations.”

*****Iola’s Teen Town is expected

to be open for business on the night of March 21. The project has been jointly completed by a group of students with the support, financial and other-wise, of the Iola Jaycees and Jaynes. Among the student volunteers are Marita Ford, Patty Fox, Howard Sellman, John Layle, Virginia White,

Eddie Abbott, Bennie Wright and John Openhaver. The Teen Town Club will use three rooms in the Brigham Build-ing on East Madison, directly over the Penney store. The Key Club and the Kayettes, student organizations, pro-vided many of the volunteers and have also provided some furnishings.

***** A plan to warn Iolans and

those living in this vicin-ity of approaching tornadoes will soon be put into effect by Mayor Charles Wilson and his fellow commissioners. Its suc-cess will depend on the coop-eration of volunteer observ-ers living within a radius of 10 miles. The observers will noti-fy the police department when a funnel cloud is spotted and the fire department will then sound a five-minute continu-ous blast on the siren. When the danger is past, an all-clear signal consisting of three one-minute blasts with two min-utes of silence between them will be sounded.

*****Ivan Strickler of Iola, presi-

dent of the Allen County Farm Bureau, will be in a group of farm leaders from Kansas who will visit Ezra T. Ben-son, secretary of agriculture, and other national officials in Washington, D.C., next week.

U.S. debt clockAs of March 13, 2013, the U.S. debt is

$16,710,247,091,106.The estimated population of the U.S. is 314,584,138.

So each citizen’s share of the debt is $53,119.www.brillig.com

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CalendarSaturday - Free Game

Night, United Method-ist Church basement, 6-8 p.m.; Walk Kansas, March 17-May 11; Mon-day - Seekers Not Slack-ers 4-H Club, Lone Elm community building, 7 p.m.; Jolly Dozen Club, 7 p.m.; Tuesday - Li-brary Board meeting, city hall, 5:30 p.m.; Lions Club, United Methodist Church basement, 7 p.m.School calendar

Spring break is next week.Senior meals

Friday - tuna and broccoli bake, baby bak-ers, country blend veg-gies, bread, apple salad; Monday - Mr. Rib, baked beans, cucumber and onion salad, hamburger bun, peaches; Wednes-day - fried chicken breast, mashed pota-toes, gravy, green beans, roll, cake and ice cream. Games played each meal day. Phone 620-852-3479 for reservations.Christian church

Scripture presented at Sunday’s church service was Matthew 5. Pastor Mark McCoy presented the sermon “Road to Re-covery — God’s Role in

Confession and Trans-formation.”

March 24 - Easter Egg

Hunt, 2 p.m. at the city ballpark; March 29 - Good Friday Service at the Community Church, 7 p.m.UMC

Scripture read at the United Methodist Church service Sunday was Luke 15:1-3 and 11-32. Pastor Leslie brought the sermon. Palm Sun-day breakfast, 8:30 a.m. in fellowship hall at the church.VBS

The first Vacation Bible School meeting was Sunday afternoon at the United Methodist Church. June 17-21 was tentatively set for Vaca-tion Bible School classes.

The next organiza-tional meeting is in April.PTO

LeAnn Church con-

ducted the March 5 meeting. Chrissy Powell, secretary read the min-utes. Treasury balance is $2,312.68 — Book fair and carnival proceeds to be added. Box tops submitted totaled $320 last month. The box top drive will end in April. Middle school students will sell Little Caesar’s pizza starting March 15 and ending April 2 with an assembly held on the 15th. Pizzas will be deliv-ered April 17 from 3 to 6 p.m.

Undergarments are still needed, please bring them to the of-fice. Susan Jones asked about having juice for students during state assessments. Around $1,600 was made at the book fair, possibly $700 in free books are to be received.

The part for the play-ground slide is expect-ed to arrive in three or four weeks. Cost is $1.50 per student for the Body Venture and will take two hours to set up. We need 12-24 volunteers and Richard Burkdoll, principal, will put in an application to see if this can be obtained next

year. PTO will continue to find a later date for school assembly.

April 19 at 6:30 p.m. is reading night. It is strongly encouraged an adult be with the child. Theme is “Let’s Go Camping.”

Ideas for playground equipment are to be brought at next meet-ing, March 25. A grill out may be held at teacher appreciation May 10.

End of year cookout will be checked on for May 20.4-H

Seekers Not Slackers 4-H Club participated at Regional 4-H Club Day. Placing in Project Talk was Tyler Gillespie with a Blue; Hailey Gillespie, Top Blue in Junior Dem-onstration; Makayla Jones, Red in Intermedi-ate Demonstration and Dal Lacey, Top Blue in Senior Demonstration.Lions club

President A.J. Sil-vey opened the March 6 meeting. The annual pancake and soup feed was reported profitable with amounts to go to-ward good community causes. A donation of $125 was made to Crest

School and $50 to the Junior/Senior prom. A contest is in the pro-cess for the elementary school kids to name the Lions Club aluminum can recycling drop-off box. The winning class will win a pizza party, compliment of the Li-ons. All aluminum cans are accepted from the community. A special thanks to Rick Horn, Halfway House Saloon owner, for his continu-ous contribution of cans. A good service the Lions provide is tree trimming for communi-ty residents. If you need trees trimmed, contact an officer for a bid. Next meeting is March 20.Aluminum cans

The Lions Club has placed an aluminum can collection bin in the business area. It is a little white build-ing set between the Rural Water office and the doctor’s clinic, be-tween Pine and Cherry Streets. Kenton and De-nise King deliver these pop tabs to Ronald Mc-Donald House and Chil-dren’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. Your time and efforts in sav-

ing these pop tabs are very much appreciated.Photography Exhibit

A photography dis-play by Phyllis Lued-ke may be seen at the Works of Art Gallery, Humboldt, east side of the square during the month of March. On the 16th from 2-4 p.m. a reception will also be held. Phyllis’ photogra-phy work has been on display at several loca-tions in the past few years. Her work has been viewed several times in the Register.Around town

Word has been re-ceived of the death of Jack Finley, 89, Atwood on March 10. He is the husband of Doris Lued-ke Finley and brother-in-law of Wayne, Mor-ris and Stanley Luedke. Doris Finley’s address is 305 N. 2nd St., Atwood 67730. Doris is a Colony native graduating from Colony High School.

Sympathy is ex-pressed to Roberta West at the death of her hus-band, Robert West, 91, Colony who died March 9 at the Anderson Coun-ty Hospital. Funeral ser-vices are pending.

Mrs.Morris Luedke

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By JOHN HANNAAP Political WriterTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) —

Democrats in the Kansas Senate will push to de-crease the state’s sales tax and provide additional tax relief for the state’s poorest residents when the chamber debates tax legislation, their leader said Tuesday.

Minority Leader An-thony Hensley of Topeka outlined proposals that would expand the scope of tax legislation the Sen-ate will debate this week. He said Democrats will seek to preserve two ma-jor key tax policies that Republican Gov. Sam Brownback wants to scrap so that the state can

stabilize its budget and still pursue further per-sonal income tax cuts.

Brownback and many GOP legislators want to follow up on massive personal income tax cuts enacted last year by en-acting a second round of rate reductions and posi-tioning the state to phase out individual income tax cuts. To lessen potential budget problems, the Sen-ate bill includes Brown-back’s proposals to cancel a drop in the sales tax scheduled for July and eliminate an income tax deduction for the interest on home mortgages.

Hensley said Demo-crats will propose keeping the deduction for home-owners and allowing the sales tax to decrease to 5.7 percent from 6.3 percent, as planned. In addition, Hensley said Democrats will offer amendments to the bill that would restore tax breaks eliminated last year for renters and fami-lies using child care, and restore a rebate poor fam-ilies receive for the sales tax they pay on groceries.

Hensley said shared the details of the Demo-crats’ plan with The Asso-ciated Press and said his party’s goal is to ensure that this year’s tax legis-lation doesn’t benefit only wealthy Kansans.

“You’ve got clear choic-es here to make,” Hens-

ley said. “Do you want to lessen the burden for low-income people or cut taxes for the rich?”

Hensley acknowledged that Democrats, who are outnumbered 32-8 by Re-publicans in the Senate, won’t propose any off-setting revenue-raising ideas. That’s certain to open them to criticism that adopting their mea-sures would cause budget problems.

“We knew it was com-ing,” said Senate Assess-ment and Taxation Com-mittee Chairman Les Donovan, a Wichita Re-publican. “I don’t consid-er it constructive at all.”

Hensley outlined the Senate Democrats’ pro-posals hours before the House Taxation Commit-tee took up a plan from Chairman Richard Carl-son, a St. Marys Republi-can, as an alternative to the governor’s package.

Carlson also wants to allow the sales tax to drop as planned in July, some-thing legislators prom-ised three years ago when they boosted the sales tax to help balance the bud-get. He also proposes to phase out all income tax deductions as rates drop.

Unlike Brownback, who would guarantee a decline in income tax rates over the next four years, Carlson’s plan wouldn’t allow rates to drop each year unless state revenues grew by 2 percent first.

Kansas Democrats outline tax proposals

By MARGERY BECKAssociated Press

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The amount of water released into the lower Missouri River will in-crease this month as expected but will be less than the amount usu-ally released in March, a move that could af-fect river shipping and offers mixed news on whether drought will ease or worsen this year.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Tuesday stood by last month’s prediction that winter runoff from melting snow and rain into the river above Sioux City, Iowa, will be 80 percent of normal this year. That forecast helped the corps deter-mine how much wa-ter to release from the Gavins Point dam on the South Dakota-Ne-braska border.

The corps announced in a conference call from Omaha that starting Monday, the amount of water will be increased from about 14,000 cubic feet per second to be-tween 23,000 to 28,000 cubic feet per second to help support barge traffic on the river. The corps said it plans to increase water releases over several days until the river’s navigation channel reaches the 8-foot-by-200-foot mark.

But that amount will provide only enough water for a minimal

channel. A normal navigation channel is 9 feet deep and 300 feet wide, so barges may not be able to carry full loads this spring. Cur-rently, the river is at a level that does not allow barge traffic.

The corps also an-ticipates shortening the Missouri River naviga-tion season by four days

this year, based on the runoff forecast, said Jody Farhat, chief of the corps’ Water Man-agement Division for the Northwestern Divi-sion.

“But if we get much less runoff and things really dry out, our low-er basin study indicat-ed that the navigation study could be short-ened by as much as 27 days,” Farhat said.

The decision on whether to shorten the season will be made on July 1, based on the vol-ume of water stored in the Missouri River res-ervoir system.

Typically, the corps releases enough water to allow barges to navi-gate the river until Dec. 1. This year, that could end as soon as early No-vember if the drought worsens.

While the drought persists in most of the river basin that covers large parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska,

Iowa, Kansas and Mis-souri, recent rains and snow have improved drought conditions in the basin, said Doug Kluck, regional climate services director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-tration.

Temperatures should remain below normal for the next two weeks

and the region could see more precipitation through the end of March, Kluck said. But temperatures in the late spring and summer are expected to be above normal, and experts are unable to predict whether the region will get more or less precipi-tation than normal in that time.

“We’re really not able to key on any strong cli-mate signal that would help us narrow that down,” Kluck said. “As time goes on, we’ll be able to do a little bit bet-ter.”

The unpredictabil-ity of spring rains has plagued the corps be-fore. Melting snow and heavy rains in 2011 led to historic flooding along the Missouri Riv-er. The onslaught lasted for more than 100 days, flooding farmland in Kansas, Missouri, Ne-braska and Iowa. Only a year later, the same area was plagued by drought.

Missouri River releases will continue to increase

We’re really not able to key on any strong climate signal that would help us narrow that (precipitation amounts) down. As time goes on, we’ll be able to do a little bit better.

— Doug Kluck,Regional Services Director for the National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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PREP STANDOUTS EARN POSTSEASON HONORS

Two of Iola High’s leading con-tributors on the court this season earned recognition by the Pioneer League.

The Mustangs’ Tyler Powelson and Mason Coons were voted to the all league squad.

Powelson was named to the first team; Coons to the second.

Powelson, a 6-2 junior, averaged 8.6 points and 7.9 rebounds per game. He also had 31 steals, 1.6 per contest, and 28 blocked shots, which accounted for all but eight of Iola’s blocks as a team.

Powelson scored in double figures in eight games, including a season-high 19 on Dec. 4 against Burlington.

TylerPowelson

MasonCoons

NathanWhitcomb

NoahThornbrugh

Tanner McNuttThree of Humboldt High’s signature

players earned recognition for their ex-ploits on the hardwoods this season.

Fresh off a state championship game appearance, Humboldt’s Noah Thorn-brugh, Tanner McNutt and Nathan Whitcomb were named to the Tri-Val-ley League all-league team.

The senior triumvirate led the way as Humboldt rolled through a perfect undefeated season, then captured the Class 3A substate crown in thrilling fashion, defeating Burlington in dou-ble-overtime and Eureka in overtime to earn a state playoff berth.

The fun continued at state, with the Cubs overcoming a five-point def-icit down the stretch to defeat Salina-Sacred Heart before thumping Silver Lake 47-35 to earn the title shot.

Humboldt lost the title game Satur-day to three-time 3A state champion Scott City, 74-55, to end the year at 25-1.

The 6-6 Thornbrugh led Humboldt with 15.8 points and 7.6 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game. He also ranked second on the team with 2.7 assists and third with 1.8 steals per game. He reached double figures in every game but three, including a 31-point out-burst against Neodesha in December.

McNutt, 6-2, was second in scoring

for the Cubs at 14.8 points per game. He was second on the team in steals with 52 — one fewer than Whitcomb — while also averaging 3 rebounds and 2.3 assists per contest. McNutt saved his best for last, pouring in 28 points against Scott City.

Whitcomb, at 6 feet, was Hum-boldt’s third leading scorer at 8.8 points per game. He led the team with

Pioneer League recognizes Iola tandem

Cub, Wildcat players noted

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INDEPENDENCE — Iola High’s tennis opened the 2013 sea-son on the right foot Tuesday.

Each of the Mustang competi-tors picked up at least one win.

Iola took third among five teams, head coach Lyle Kern reported. Other schools participating were Pittsburg, Chanute, Fort Scott and the hosts from Independence.

In singles action, freshman Ty-ler Heinrich went 2-2 on the day, while senior Jordan Strickler went 1-3.

The doubles team of junior

Bryan Mueller and Colby Works went 2-2. The tandem of senior Stephen McDonald and freshman Mason Key went 1-3.

“We did well,” Kern said. “We need some improvement in areas, but I was pleased.”

The Mustangs get right back into action at 3 p.m. Thursday with a home meet against Inde-pendence, Columbus and Par-sons.

The match is the only home competition of the season for Iola.

IHS tennis season opensThis week’s races at Humboldt

Speedway will be on Saturday night to begin the first points competition of 2013. An article in Monday’s Register incorrectly reported the races would be Fri-day.

The Friday night races will not begin until April.

Next week is the third an-nual King of America races, March 20-23, followed by an-other Saturday night race on March 30.

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Races SaturdayBY TIM REYNOLDSAP Basketball Writer

MIAMI (AP) — Only a few minutes after the Miami Heat’s winning streak reached 19 games, Erik Spoelstra laid down the next challenge.

And it wasn’t to win a 20th straight game.Instead, it was to simply win today.Dwyane Wade scored 23 points and on a

night when the stat sheet would suggest a struggle, the Heat rolled once again, extend-ing their winning streak and leading wire-

Heat stay hot

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Coons, a 6-3 senior, averaged 10.5 points per game, the only Mustang player to average dou-ble figures for the sea-son. He also was Iola’s leading 3-point shooter, draining 32, while con-necting on 70 percent of his free throws. Coons averaged 5.8 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.3 steals per contest.

Coons’ high-water mark was a 20-point out-burst Jan. 15 in a win over Sabetha, including a perfect 4-for-4 from 3-point range.

After a number of close losses to start the season, the Mustangs hit January on a high note,

winning five straight at one point. But the Mus-tangs tailed off from there, dropping nine con-secutive to end the year at 7-13. Iola finished 3-6 in its inaugural season in the Pioneer League, taking fourth.

League champion Anderson County (Eric Tastove and Drew Mech-nig) and runner-up Wellsville (Carter Mann and Shamus Kearney) each placed two players on the first team. Central Heights’ Jordan Hor-stick also earned first-team honors.

Joining Coons on the second team were Tan-ner Erhart of Central Heights, Luke Miller of

Prairie View and Riley England and Morgan Soucie of Osawatomie.

NONE OF THE IHS Fillies earned all-league recognition.

Earning first-team honors on the girls side were Emily Feldman and Madie Griffin, Prai-rie View, Jaime Mers-man, Anderson County, Brianna Erhart, Central Heights, and Darcy Bon-zo, Wellsville. Second-team honorees were Erica McTaggart, Wells-ville, Britnie Wright, Osawatomie, Macy Ad-ams, Anderson County, Sydney Meyer, Central Heights, and Brittney Diehm, Prairie View.

High School TennisThursday, vs. INDEPEN-

DENCE, PARSONS AND COLUMBUS, 3 p.m.

High School Baseball/Softball

Thursday, vs. CHA-NUTE, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, JV baseball at Chanute, 4:30 p.m.

Iola

SportsCalendar

BaseballlFriday, vs. COWLEY,

4p.m.Saturday, vs. COWLEY,

2 p.m. Softball

Today, at Highland, 2 p.m.

Friday, vs. BROWN MACKIE, 3 p.m.

Saturday, vs. CLOUD, noon

Allen

BasketballBig 12 Tournament at

Kansas City, Mo.Thursday, vs. Texas Tech/ West Va. winner, 2 p.m.

TV: ESPN 2 (Ch. 33)

Kansas

BasketballBig 12 Tournament at

Kansas City, Mo.Thursday, vs. Texas/TCU

winner, 6 p.m.TV: Big 12 Network

KansasState

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points per game. He led the team with 3.3 as-sists and was second with 3.4 rebounds. He twice scored 17 points, including in Humboldt’s substate opener against Jayhawk-Linn.

Humboldt ran through TVL play with a 10-0 mark.

ALSO EARNING all-

TVL status was Yates Center’s Cameron Brown.

Brown, a 6-2 junior, averaged 17.8 points. He also led the Wildcats with 8.3 rebounds, 5.1 as-sists and 2.1 blocks per game. His 2.2 steals per game ranked second.

With Brown as the cat-alyst, Yates Center went 4-16 on the season.

Others earning all-

league honors were Jus-tice Baird, Neodesha, Ryan Redding, Burling-ton, Tanner McIntosh, Caney Valley, Derek Rob-ertson, Cherryvale, Bran-don Voth, Fredonia, and Colton Pitko, Eureka.

Earning honorable mention were Burling-ton’s Grant Shell, Joe Siegele of Fredonia and Logan Hays and Wes Moots of Eureka.

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to-wire in beating the Atlanta Hawks 98-81 on Tuesday.

Next up: The Heat are in Philadelphia tonight.

“It’s a privilege for us to get in our cars and hop on a plane and get into Philly at 4 a.m. after this win and do this again to-morrow night,” Spoels-tra said. “That’s the way we’re going to approach it. No excuses.”

For about six weeks now, no excuses have been needed — not even on nights where things went far from perfectly for the reigning NBA champions.

The Heat shot only 43 percent and LeBron James was just 3 for 11 from the field, with the field-goal total match-ing his lowest from any regular-season game in more than three years.

And they won by 17.“Let’s be honest,

guys,” said James, who scored 15 points. “We’re not sitting here and say-ing this is not something special. This is an un-believable streak that we’re on. We’re playing great basketball. We’re winning in different phases of the game, we’re playing different styles, we’ve won every game, on the road, at

home, double-overtime games, end-of-regulation games, whatever the case may be.”

Chris Bosh and Ma-rio Chalmers added 14 apiece for the Heat, who matched the fifth-longest streak in NBA history.

Josh Smith scored 15 for the Hawks, who got 12 apiece from Al Hor-ford and Jeff Teague.

“Miami is playing very well right now. You have to give credit where credit is due,” Hawks coach Larry Drew said. “Coach (Erik) Spoels-tra and his staff over there are doing a great job. Their team is really

By STEVEN WINEAP Sports Writer

MIAMI (AP) — Gio Gonzalez gave Team USA its best start yet, and David Wright pro-vided a big finish.

Gonzalez pitched five scoreless innings and the Americans beat Puerto Rico 7-1 in the World Baseball Classic on Tuesday night.

Wright drove in five runs, the last three with a bases-loaded double in the eighth. That prompted chants of “U-S-A! U-S-A!” from the crowd of 32,872.

The United States fell behind in all three games in the opening round, but led from the first inning against Puerto Rico. The Ameri-cans will play Thursday night against the Domin-ican Republic, which re-mained unbeaten in the WBC by rallying past Italy 5-4 on Tuesday.

Puerto Rico plays Italy in an elimination game today.

Gonzalez (1-0), who grew up in nearby Hia-leah, struck out five for the hometown team and departed with a 3-0 lead. Manager Joe Torre then went to his bullpen, and five relievers combined to allow one run over the final four innings.

Gonzalez lowered the ERA of the U.S. rotation to 4.00.

Wright had an RBI groundout in the third

and a run-scoring single in the fifth. He’s 7 for 16 (.438) with 10 RBIs in four games.

Joe Mauer’s two-out RBI double scored Ryan Braun with the first U.S. run in the opening in-ning. The Americans added a run in the third on singles by Brandon Phillips and Braun and

Wright’s RBI groundout.Adam Jones had a

two-run RBI single in the seventh.

Marlins right field-er Giancarlo Stanton earned a big cheer from the Miami crowd when he made a running catch at the warning track to rob Martin Maldonado of a two-out, two-RBI

hit in the fourth inning. Stanton also singled twice and walked.

Braun and Mauer each reached base four times.

Puerto Rico starter Mario Santiago (0-1) al-lowed three runs in 4 1-3 innings. Angel Pagan’s drove in Puerto Rico’s run in the eighth.

U.S. tops Puerto Rico in WBC

David Santiago/El Nuevo Herald/MCTThe United States’ David Wright hits a three-run double during the eighth in-ning in the World Baseball Classic’s second round at Marlins Park in Miami Tuesday. The U.S. defeated Puerto Rico, 7-1.

H HeatContinued from B1 moving the basketball,

they are playing togeth-er, they are playing at a very, very high level right now, and they’re really good right now. We just got beat by a really good basketball team.”

Ray Allen scored 12 and Udonis Haslem grabbed 11 rebounds for the Heat. The crowd was 20,350, a record at Amer-icanAirlines Arena.

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Saturday Scooter’s will have a

band Cowgirl’s Train Set performing at 10 p.m.

Cowgirl’s Train Set describes its style as “gypsy folk swing from the Midwest.”

There will be drink specials. The cover will be $5 for members and $6 for non-members (prices are subject to change).

SundayCorleone’s will host a

St. Patty’s Day block par-ty from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Corleone’s Pizza, Pas-ta and Pub restaurant on North State Street.

There will be drink specials and pizza sold by the slice.

Two bands will be playing, DB Cooper with Hard Cash and Low Wa-ter. Damaris Kunkler also will perform.

There will also be a beer pong tournament.

St. Patrick’s DayBy MIKE SHIELDSKHI News ServiceTOPEKA — Repre-

sentatives of most of the state’s community developmental disabil-ity organizations Tues-day testified against a Kansas Senate proposal that would modify their role in the state’s care system for the develop-mentally disabled.

No one spoke in sup-port of Senate Bill 194. Shawn Sullivan, secre-tary of the Kansas De-

partment for Aging and Disability Services, said his agency was neutral on it. And members of the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee had little time for ques-tions after hearing tes-timony on the measure, so it remained unclear what had prompted its introduction.

Most of those who spoke or gave written testimony at the hear-ing made it obvious they thought it was a bad idea.

“This Senate bill has been taken up without reasonable study of any facts about assessment trends and funding dis-tributions. It offers no beneficial changes to the (developmental disabil-ity) system for individu-als served or for state administration,” said Mary Rose Sudbeck, di-rector of the Nemaha County Training Center in Seneca, the smallest of the state’s 27 Commu-nity Development Dis-ability Organizations

(CDDOs).The proposal would

bar CDDOs that make “functional assess-ments” of the needs of person with develop-mental disabilities from also providing direct services for them, end-ing what some system critics see as a potential conflict of interest.

One of the bill’s op-ponents, Mark Hinde, chief executive of Southwest Developmen-tal Services, Inc., said

he was against the mea-sure because it didn’t go far enough to eliminate the potential conflicts which he said arise when an organization both assesses a develop-mentally disabled per-son’s need for services and then turns around and provides them. That could lead to either too much or too few ser-vices being delivered, depending on what best suited the service pro-vider as opposed to the client.

“It does not benefit the system to make mi-nor changes such as proposed in SB 194 when the overall problem is the inherent conflict of interest allowed to exist under current statute,” Hinde told committee members.

Hinde said he would rather see legislation barring CDDOs from providing any direct services, limiting their responsibilities to “re-ferrals and other ad-ministrative functions,”

which is essentially what his organization already does.

After listening to him, Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook, the Shawnee Re-publican who chairs the committee, said she would count Hinde as a supporter of the bill even though he opposed “the way it currently is written.”

The system the bill would change has been in place for years with relatively minor altera-tions since the 1995 De-velopmental Disability Reform Act, the major goal of which was to move developmentally disabled persons out of state institutions into homes or home-like set-tings. All agree it helped accomplish that.

Tom Laing, executive director of Interhab, an association that repre-sents most of the state’s CDDOs, told the com-mittee that the 1995 law should be left intact and that it was written, “in part to establish a strong community/state part-nership . . . necessary to protect the interest of vulnerable Kansans against the potential that future governors and legislators could sell off the interests of publicly supported (de-velopmental disability) services to powerful ex-ternal interests.”

Laing said if SB 194 were adopted, among other things it would, “cause confusion” and “add new frustrations to those who have al-ready been frustrated on the medical side of KanCare, and will cause chaos in the most conservatively administered and best state/community part-nership in the state’s array of human ser-vices programs.”

KanCare is the name

given Gov. Sam Brown-back’s remake of the state Medicaid pro-gram. Effective Jan. 1, it moved virtually all the state’s 370,000 Medicaid beneficia-ries into health plans run by three, for-profit managed care compa-nies. The Legislature last year delayed un-til Jan. 1, 2014, adding long-term, living assis-tance services for the developmentally dis-abled to KanCare. But medical services for the developmentally disabled were included in KanCare from its outset.

A KDADS pilot pro-gram designed to pave the way for including the other DD services in KanCare in 2014 is being put together. State officials say 19 service providers have expressed interest in participating. But most of the CDDOs continue to oppose the end of the so-called temporary KanCare “carve-out” they were granted by lawmakers last year.

Rep. Jim Ward, a Wichita Democrat, ear-lier this session intro-duced House Bill 2029, which would have ex-tended the carve-out indefinitely while also excluding medical ser-vices for the develop-mentally disabled.

The CDDOs did not and have not opposed KanCare medical ser-vices but said the man-aged care companies lack experience in pro-viding long-term, liv-ing assistance servic-es. HB 2029 was heard last month by the House Committee on Social Services Budget but was not advanced.

The Senate panel took no action Tuesday on SB 194.

Groups oppose new disability care system

It does not benefit the system to make minor changes such as proposed in SB 194 when the overall problem is the in-herent conflict of interest allowed to ex-ist under current statute.

— Mark Hinde,chief executive of Southwest Developmental

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By JOHN HANNAAP Political WriterTOPEKA, Kan. (AP)

— A legislative com-mittee on Tuesday ap-proved its Republican chairman’s plan for cut-ting Kansas’ sales and income taxes, advanc-ing an alternative to the governor’s proposal that more aggressively slashes income taxes.

The plan drafted by Rep. Richard Carlson, chairman of the pow-erful House Taxation Committee, would re-duce individual income tax rates over the next four years only if state revenues grow by at least 2 percent each year. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s pro-posal calls for cutting income tax rates each of those years regardless of state revenue.

But Carlson’s pro-posal also would allow the state’s sales tax to decrease to 5.7 percent in July, as scheduled by state law. The governor wants to keep the tax at its current 6.3 percent rate.

The committee’s voice vote sent the measure to the entire House for debate, a day before the Senate was to debate its own tax legislation. Sen-ators are considering a bill that contains most of Brownback’s plan, including his proposal to continue the sales tax rate at its current rate.

Brownback and many Republican legislators want to follow up on massive individual in-come tax cuts enacted last year to stimulate the economy, but they also need to stabilize the state budget. Re-publican leaders in the House, including Carl-son, have said they don’t think their chamber will support keeping the current sales-tax rate.

Carlson’s plan also would phase out all in-dividual income tax de-ductions as tax rates de-cline, rather than target specific deductions for homeowners, as Brown-back did. In addition, Carlson is proposing to divert $370 million over two years from highway

projects to the rest of the budget.

“The path that we’re on, to me at least, is the path that is the right direction,” Carlson, a St. Marys Republican, said just before the com-mittee’s vote. “Perhaps none of us get there as fast as I want to go ei-ther, but we have to go there, I believe, in a re-sponsible fashion.”

The governor has said he wants to position the state to eventually phase out individual income taxes. Many GOP legislators have endorsed that goal, and some want to eliminate corporate income taxes as well.

Brownback spoke briefly Tuesday evening to Senate Republicans, pitching his plan as a series of measures that

“make things balance.”“This works and it

fits together, but it’s not without difficulty,” he said. “It’s not with-out a lot of moving parts.”

After Brownback spoke, GOP senators closed their meeting to discuss tax and budget issues, and Majority Leader Terry Bruce, of Hutchinson, said they were discussing strate-gy and airing “gripes.”

Later, hearing of the closed meeting, Sen. Tom Holland, a Bald-win City Democrat, said: “That just shows you that they don’t have a consensus on how to move forward.”

Brownback has re-ceived national atten-tion for seeking ag-gressive income tax cuts, and the Missouri Senate on Tuesday ap-proved income tax cuts prompted by a desire to keep up with Kansas.

Panel OKs tax plan alternative

This works and it fits togeth-er; but it’s not without difficulty. It’s not without moving parts.

— Gov. Sam Brownback

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Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, meaning Roman Catholic cardinals have not elected a pope on the second day of the conclave at the Vatican today.

Holy smoke!Eric Vandeville/Abaca Press/MCT

On March 13, 1933, banks in the U.S. began to reopen after a “holi-day” declared by Presi-dent Franklin D. Roos-evelt.

In 1639, New College was renamed Harvard College for clergyman John Harvard.

In 1781, the seventh planet of the solar sys-tem, Uranus, was dis-covered by Sir William Herschel.

In 1862, President

Abraham Lincoln signed a measure prohibiting Union military officers from returning fugitive slaves to their owners.

In 1901, the 23rd President of the United States, Benjamin Harri-son, died in Indianapolis at age 67.

In 1925, the Tennessee General Assembly ap-proved a bill prohibiting the teaching of the the-ory of evolution. (Gov. Austin Peay signed the measure on March 21.)

In 1938, famed attor-ney Clarence S. Darrow died in Chicago.

In 1943, author-poet Stephen Vincent Benet, 44, died in New York. Financier and philan-thropist J.P. Morgan, Jr., 75, died in Boca Grande, Fla.

In 1964, bar man-ager Catherine “Kit-ty” Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her Queens, N.Y. home; the case generated controversy over the

supposed failure of Genovese’s neighbors to respond to her cries for help.

In 1969, the Apollo 9 astronauts splashed down, ending a mission that included the suc-cessful testing of the Lunar Module.

In 1996, a gunman burst into an elementa-ry school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opened fire, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.

Today in history Mostly clearTonight, mostly clear.

Not as cool. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 5 to 15 mph.

Thursday, sunny and warmer. Highs near 70. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the morning.

Thursday night, mostly clear. Lows 40 to 45. Friday, mostly sunny. Highs 75 to 80.

Sunrise 7:35 a.m. Sunset 7:27

TemperatureHigh yesterday 52Low last night 22High a year ago 77Low a year ago 43

Precipitation24 hours ending 7 a.m 0This month to date .28Total year to date 3.91Excess since Jan. 1 .02

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Licensed day care has open-ings, Jefferson District, Cindy Troxel, 620-365-2204.

Poultry & Livestock

BOTTLE CALVES, beef dairy crosses, starting mid February, Nichols Dairy 620-344-0790, 785-489-2456.

Farm Miscellaneous

LOOKING FOR HAY TO BALE, on shares or cash rent, 620-496-2229 leave message.

Merchandise for Sale DISH Network: Starting at $19.99/month (for 12 months) & High Speed Internet start-ing at $14.95/month (where available). SAVE! Ask about SAME DAY installation! CALL now! 1-866-691-9724

PERSONAL CREATIONS, De-luxe All-In-One Easter Bas-ket! Includes wicker keepsake basket with polka dot liner, personalization, plush bunny and many Easter treats. To re-deem this offer, visit www.Per-sonalCreations.com/Joy or call 1-888-716-1329.

MEDICAL ALERT FOR SE-NIORS, 24/7 monitoring. FREE Equipment. FREE Shipping. Nationwide Service. $29.95/Month CALL Medical Guardian Today 877-531-3048.

NICE SOFA $150, 620-380-6059.

Pets and Supplies

CREATIVE CLIPS BOARDING & GROOMING Clean, Afford-able. Shots required. 620-363-8272

FREE: 2-year-old female, 7-month-old male, (2) female, mixed breeds, all neutered/spayed, up to date shots, 620-496-5117.

Pets and Supplies

MORKIE PUPPIES FOR SALE, males/females, multicolored, shots/wormed, 620-473-3323.

Wanted to Buy

WANTED: OLD CARS/TRUCKS (1960s models & old-er), not running, 620-431-0134.

Garage Sales

IOLA AMERICANLEGION GARAGE SALE

will be Saturday April 6th, 24 tables left! $10 to reserve

your table before March 31st. Call Durenda Frye

620-365-2321.

21 S. PRESTON KINCAID fol-low the signs! Too many items to list! 14th -- 15th -- 16th MULTI FAMILY!

330 S. 4TH ST in Iola Garage Sale Saturday 9-5.

Apartments for Rent

IOLA, 321 N. WASHINGTON, 1-BEDROOM, cable/water in-cluded, 620-496-6787.

Real Estate for Rent

409 S. COLBORN, like new inside, CH/CA, appliances, at-tached garage, $795/Month 620-496-6787.

QUALITY AND AFFORDABLE HOMES available for rent now, www.growiola.com

IOLA, 313 N. VERMONT, 2- BEDROOM, very nice, CH/CA, appliances, single attached garage w/auto opener, $695 monthly, 620-496-6161 or 620-496-2222.

608 S. WALNUT, 2-BED-ROOM, 1-bath, CH/CA, new flooring, $425 monthly, $425 deposit, 620-228-7510.

HOMESTEAD TO SHARE, seeking individuals, couples or families interested in self-sufficient living on land I own between Iola and Garnett. Email only trailheadsolutions@gmail.com

121 S. OAK, 2-BEDROOM, 2- car garage, 620-228-8200.

610 S. BUCKEYE, 2-BED-ROOM, 1-bath, 620-365-0468.

Public Notices

Autos & Trucks

2005 BUICK LESABRE, 98K miles, good condition, new tires and remote start, $6800, day-time 620-875-1288 or 620-431-3926, evenings and weekends 620-473-2840.

Public Notices

Lost or Found

FOUND: SMALL FEMALE TERRIER MIX, blonde/brown, southside Humboldt, 620-228-9768.

Sealed Bids

Public Notices

Help Wanted

TACO BELL is taking appli-cations for SHIFT MANAGER positions. We offer competi-tive pay, insurance, vacation time, sick time and manage-ment advancement. Please apply at Iola Taco Bell, 1602 N. State St.

RN/LPN. Windsor Place is taking applications for an evening/nightshift charge po-sition. Apply at 600 E. Garfield, Iola. You may send resume to: mhighberger@windsor-place.net

WINDSOR PLACE is taking applications in our DIETARY department. Apply at 600 E. Garfield, Iola. Ask for Andrea Rogers, DSM.

DRIVERS: HUMBOLDT, KS. Excellent wages/ben-efits, great home time. Driver school grads welcome. CDL-A w/tank & Hazmat endorse-ment. Send resume to hr@nbiservices.com, subject line must include job/location.

IT SYSTEM ADMINISTRA-TOR: Chanute bank is looking for an experienced IT System Administrator. Will be respon-sible for installing, supporting, and maintaining servers and network. Assist IT support staff regarding PC, hardware/soft-ware, and network issues. Pre-fer experience with Windows Server 2003, 2008 and VM-ware. Must be able to lift at least 50 lbs. We offer competitive sal-ary, benefits that include 401(k), Medical, Dental, Life, Disability, Vision and Cancer insurance. Mail resumes to: PO Box 628, Chanute, KS 66720.

HIRING IMMEDIATELY: Na-tional companies need employ-ees to assemble products at home for pay, no selling, $500 weekly potential. Info. 1-985-646-1700 Dept. KS-2816.

SUMMER JOBS Children’s Aide

Interviewing Now Great summer job working with youth. Good experience for col-lege students seeking related career. Good role model. 28-30 hours per week. Late May to August 9th. Clean driving re-cord and reliable transportation. Minimum 18 years. Drug screen required. Call Michelle Hoag at 620-365-8641. Send resume to: Robert Chase, Director, South-east Kansas Mental Health Center, PO Box 807, Iola KS 66749. Applications may also be picked up at 304 N. Jeffer-son. EOE/AA

The City of Iola has open-ings for TEMPORARY PARK MAINTENANCE WORKERS. Perform a variety of routine semi-skilled and unskilled tasks associated with the mainte-nance and operation of build-ings and grounds in City Parks & Cemeteries. Pre-employment drug screen required. Qualified applicants must be 16 years or older. Application and job de-scription may be picked up in the City Clerk’s office at City Hall or online at www.cityofiola.com. Positions open until filled. EOE/ADA

SERVE YOUR COMMUNITY on the IOLA PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD. There is an upcoming vacancy, and those interested may fill out an application at the library or the city office.

Services Offered ALL THINGS BASEMENTY! Basement Systems Inc. Call us for all of your basement needs! Waterproofing? Finish-ing? Structural Repairs? Hu-midity and Mold Control. FREE ESTIMATES! Call 1-888-720-5583.

IOLA MINI-STORAGE 323 N. Jefferson Call

620-365-3178 or 365-6163

S & S TREE SERVICE Licensed, Insured, Free

Estimates 620-365-5903

SPENCER’S CONSTRUCTION HOME REMODELING Also buying any scrap

vehicles and junk iron 620-228-3511

STORAGE & RV OF IOLA WEST HIGHWAY 54, 620-365-2200. Regular/Boat/RV storage, LP gas,

fenced, supervised, www.iolarvparkandstorage.com

SUPERIOR BUILDERS. New Buildings, Remodeling,

Concrete, Painting and All Your Carpenter Needs, including replacement windows and vinyl siding. 620-365-6684

Sparkles Cleaning & Painting Interior/Exterior painting and wallpaper stripping Brenda

Clark 620-228-2048

BILL STANFORD TREE TRIMMING,

since 1987, Insured/Licensed, Free Estimates 785-835-6310.

Help Wanted

PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED ADS ONLINE! JUST GO TO www.iolaregister.com

All ads are 10 word minimum, must run consecutive days. DEADLINE: 2 p.m. day before publication ;

GARAGE SALE SPECIAL: Paper & Web only, no shopper: 3 Days $ 1 per word

ADDITIONS Blind Box • $ 5 Centering • $ 2

Photo • $ 5

Paper, Web and Shopper 6 Days • $ 1.85/WORD 12 Days • $ 2.35/WORD 18 Days • $ 3.25/WORD 26 Days • $ 4.00/WORD

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING RATES

(620) 365-2111

MIKE’S GUNS 620-363-0094 Thur.-Sat. 9-2

PSI, Inc. PSI, Inc. Personal Service Insurance Personal Service Insurance

Loren Korte 12 licensed insurance agents to

better serve you HUMBOLDT HUMBOLDT

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IOLA IOLA 365-6908 Life • Health • Home • Auto • Crop

Commercial • Farm

• Custom Cabinetry

• Flooring

• Granite Countertops

Call for your personal in-home consultation. Call for your personal in-home consultation.

Eddie Abbott Eddie Abbott 620-365-9018 620-365-9018

Price Reduced

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Janet Dreher, Crop Agent 365-0375

Crop Insurance

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AgMax Crop Insurance underwritten by Western Agricultural Insurance Company, an equal opportunity provider. C010 (1-10)

PUBLIC HEALTH CLERK Clerk position open at Woodson County

Health Dept. in Yates Center, KS. Daytime position 19 hours per week, Tuesday thru

Thursday. Qualifications: medical billing, WIC & public health experience recommended.

Applications available at: 109 E. Rutledge • Yates Center, KS

or online at www.sekmchd.org Please call for more information:

(620) 365-6602 or (620) 364-6585. Ask for Dee Dee.

EOE

IOLA, 605 N. WASHINGTON,

house & 2 lots for sale, call 620-228-1547.

Iola Dairy Queen

Iola Dairy Iola Dairy Queen will be Queen will be

accepting accepting applications applications

from 1-4 p.m. from 1-4 p.m. Thur. & Fri, Thur. & Fri,

March 14 & 15. March 14 & 15. Please apply in

person within the time frame, not by

phone. Must be 16 or older. EOE

1 Ton Recycled Newspapers

= 17 30’ Trees

Request For Proposals Request For Proposals 2013 Lighting Replacment at 2013 Lighting Replacment at Townhouse East for the Iola Townhouse East for the Iola

Housing Authority Housing Authority Proposal Due Date:...April 8 th , 2013 Proposal Due Date:...April 8 th , 2013 Time:.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . due to the owner by 5 p.m. Time:.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . due to the owner by 5 p.m. (not a public opening) (not a public opening) Submit proposals to: . . Iola Housing Authority Submit proposals to: . . Iola Housing Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 N. Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 N. Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iola, KS 66749 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iola, KS 66749 Pre-Bid Meeting: Pre-Bid Meeting: Date: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 26 th , 2013 Date: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 26 th , 2013 Time: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 a.m. Time: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 a.m. Place: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iola Housing Authority Place: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iola Housing Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 N. Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 N. Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iola, KS 66749 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iola, KS 66749

The Iola Housing Authority will receive Sealed Competitive Proposals until the date and time stated above for the 2013 Lighting Replacement Project referenced above. The work includes replacement of lighting in the corridors and lobby areas of the Townhouse East apartments, a three-story apartment building with primarily elderly residents. Proposals shall include all necessary labor, materials and equipment. Any reference made to “bids or bidders”, in this RFP package, shall refer to the proposal or the proposers. Satisfactory proof of authorization to sign on behalf of the company is required. A description of the Project Scope, Supplemental Instructions to Proposers and a Proposal Form are included with this RFP. Please note that a “Bid Bond” or guarantee is NOT required to submit a proposal. If the contract value exceeds $25,000, the successful Contractor will be required to provide assurance of completion as outlined in section 01300. For any information concerning any part of the proposed work, contact Carol Ross, Executive Director of the Iola Housing Authority, 620-365-5143. Plans and specifications are available as follows: To receive a printed set of plans and specs, send a check for $35.00 made out to the Iola Housing Authority, to their office at the address listed above. This is a non-refundable purchase. Electronic versions of the plans and specs are available by email for free. Plans may also be reviewed at the Plan Rooms of: Kansas Construction News Report. Please refer to the Specifications Section titled Please refer to the Specifications Section titled “Supplemental Instructions to Proposers” for “Supplemental Instructions to Proposers” for additional information on your proposal submission. additional information on your proposal submission. The competency and responsibility of each proposal will be considered in awarding the contract, and the Owner reserves the right to reject any and all proposals and waive irregularity in proposals. The contract will be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible proposal if reasonable, and if it is in the interest of the Iola Housing Authority to accept it. Attention is called to the provisions of equal opportunity. This contract is subject to the conditions of Executive Order 11246, which prohibits discrimination in employment because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin on federal or federally assisted construction contracts. This contract also is subject to the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Owner requests the proposals be valid for a period of thirty (30) days subsequent to the opening of proposal. A notice of Award will be made within that period.

(Published in The Iola Register March 13,14,16, 2013)

C A SE M A N A G E R C A SE M A N A G E R Position available at T ri-V alley D evelopm ental Services, Inc. (T V D S)

T his full-tim e position in the C hanute area w orks w ith persons w ith developm ental disabilities and serves as a liai - son betw een the person and appropriate resources in coor - dinating services delivered. A B achelor’s degree in hum an services field (or equivalent I/D D experience) and a m ini - m um of six m onths experience is required. Starting w age of $11.70/hour. E xcellent benefits. Successful candidate m ust pass drug test, background checks and m aintain a valid driver’s license.

Send resum e to: T ri-V alley D evelopm ental Services, Inc.

A ttn: H um an R esources P .O . B ox 518, C hanute, K S 66720

or you can apply online to: w w w .tvds.org E O E

REQUEST FOR BID The Allen County Public Works Department will offer for sale by sealed bid a 1985 Hyster Rubber Tired Roller. Equipment will be sold as is, where is with no warranty implied or oth - erwise stated. Equipment may be inspected by con - tacting the Director of Public Works at 620-365-1422. Write “Bid on Roller” on the outside of a sealed enve - lope and return to Director of Public Works at 1 N. Washington (courthouse), Iola, KS 66749 by Thurs - day, March 28, 2013 at 1 p.m. The Allen County Commissioners reserve the right to reject any or all bids. (Published in The Iola Register March 13 & 20, 2013)

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL The Allen County Public Works Department is requesting proposals for a rubber tired roller. For details or a spec sheet contact the Public Works Department at 620-365- 1422. Proposal deadline is Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 1 p.m. Allen County Commissioners reserve the right to reject any or all proposals. (Published in The Iola Register March 13 & 20, 2013)

Expressions of Interest Sought Expressions of Interest Sought The United States Government currently occupies office and related space in a building under lease in Iola, Kansas. The Government is seeking to lease approximately 5,664 contiguous rental square feet of office and related space. The rentable space must yield a minimum of 4,925 contiguous ANSI/BOMA Office area square feet (OASF) with 32 onsite, paved parking spaces. The lease term requirement is for 10 years. The space must be available for occupancy by September 1, 2013, or sooner. The Government is considering alternative space if economically advantageous. The Government will use the information it receives in response to this advertisement as a basis to develop a cost-benefit analysis and to determine whether to complete the lease requirement or pursue a sole source justification to remain at its current location. In making this determination, the Government will consider among other things, the availability of alternate space that potentially can satisfy the Government’s requirements, as well as, costs likely to be incurred through relocating, such as physical move costs, replication of building interior design requirements and telecommunications infrastructure and non-productive agency downtime.

Please send expressions of interest to: Patricia K. Hageman, Realty Specilist USDA, Farm Service Agency 3600 Anderson Avenue Manhattan, KS 66503 Phone: 785-564-4752 Fax: 785-537-9659 Email: patty.hageman@ks.usda.gov

Expressions of interest must be submitted to the above address by 4:30 p.m. on April 3, 2013.

(Published in The Iola Register March 13, 2013) C ontact the Iola Register staff at

new s@ iolaregister.com new s@ iolaregister.com

By GEOFFREYMOHAN

Los Angeles TimesLOS ANGELES — At-

tention Facebook users: Do you “like” Mozart, science, “The Colbert Report” and curly fries? Chances are, you’ve got a high IQ. Have you clicked the thumbs-up icon for Tyler Perry, Harley Da-vidson and Lady Ante-bellum? Perhaps you’re not quite as cerebral.

What you endorse on the popular social media website may say a whole lot more about you than you intended, research-ers from the University of Cambridge in Britain have found. You may not think twice about your fondness for NASCAR, “The Bachelor” and Oklahoma State Univer-sity, but those affirma-tions fit the pattern of a person who’s conserva-tive and less open to new things, they reported Monday in Proceedings of the National Acad-emy of Sciences.

Even traits that users of social networks may not want to broadcast — including smoking be-havior, drug use or sexu-ality — can be sussed out pretty accurately by their patterns of likes, the researchers found after combing through data from 58,466 Face-book members in the U.S. More than a quar-ter of regular Facebook users click the like but-ton for content they find there.

The study’s conclu-sions may send market-ers deeper into the data mine and prompt some of Facebook’s billion monthly users to adjust their privacy settings.

Others may just scratch their heads. In the report, the research-ers acknowledged that “There is no obvious connection between curly fries and high in-telligence.”

You are what you‘like’

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HAGAR THE HORRIBLE by Chris Browne

ZITS by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

HI AND LOIS by Chance Browne

BABY BLUES by Kirkman & Scott

BEETLE BAILEY by Mort Walker

FUNKY WINKERBEAN by Tom Batiuk

BLONDIE by Young and Drake

DAILY CRYPTOQUOTES - Here’s how to work it:

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

(First published in The IolaRegister, March 13, 2013)

Local Service RatesFor Telephone Service

Craw-Kan Telephone Coop-erative, Inc. is a telecommuni-cations provider who provides basic and enhanced services within its service territory. Basic services are offered at various rates depending on the state and location where you receive service.

Customers have access to long distance, directory assis-tance, and operator service pro-viders of their choice, at rates established by those carriers. Emergency 911 Services are provided and a surcharge is as-sessed at governmental rates.

If you have any questions re-garding the Company’s services you can visit the business office located at: 200 N. Ozark St., Gi-rard, Kan., 66743 or by calling 800-362-0316.

Lifeline ProgramYou may be eligible to receive

a discount on your monthly local telephone bill through the Life-line program. You are eligible if you receive any of the following: Food Stamps, General Assis-tance, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Temporary As-sistance to Families, Medicaid, United Tribes Food Distribution Program, Bureau of Indian Af-fairs General Assistance, Trib-ally Administered Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Head Start (only those meeting its income qualifying standard), Free School Lunch Program, 150% of the Federal Poverty Level. A customer must provide three consecutive months of statements as documentation of income, or provide a copy of their tax return from the previ-ous year. For more information about the Lifeline Program, call your local telephone service provider. Craw-Kan Telephone Cooperative, Inc. customers may call 800-362-0316.

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(First published in The IolaRegister, February 27, 2013)IN THE DISTRICT COURT

OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSASDEUTSCHE BANK NA-

TIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR LONG BEACH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-8 PLAINTIFF

Case No. 13CV9Div. No.

K.S.A. 60Mortgage

Foreclosure

JUDY HENDERSON,DEFENDANTS

NOTICE OF SUITThe State of Kansas to:

JUDY E. HENDERSON, A/K/A JUDY HENDERSON; JOHN DOE (REAL NAME UN-KNOWN); MARY DOE (REAL NAME UNKNOWN); A-1 ELEC-TRIC, INC.

and the unknown heirs, ex-ecutors, administrators, devi-sees, trustees, creditors, and assigns of such of the defen-dants as may be deceased; the unknown spouses of the de-fendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of such defendants as are existing, dissolved or dor-mant corporations; the unknown guardians and trustees of such of the defendants as are minors or are in anywise under legal

disability; and all other persons who are or may be concerned:

You are hereby notified that a petition has been filed in the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, by Deutsche Bank Na-tional Trust Company, As Trust-ee For Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-8 for judgment in the sum of $43,219.24, plus interest, costs and other relief; judgment that plaintiff’s lien is a first lien on the said real prop-erty and sale of said property to satisfy the indebtedness, said property described as follows, to wit:

THE SOUTH FIFTY (50) FEET OF LOT TWELVE (12) AND THE SOUTH FIFTY (50) FEET OF THE EAST FORTY (40) FEET OF THE ELEVEN (11), ALL IN BLOCK EIGHT (8), ALGER’S ADDITION TO THE

CITY OF HUMBOLDT, KAN-SAS. Commonly known as 1022 Neosho Street, Humboldt, Kansas 66748

and you are hereby required to plead to said petition in said Court at Iola, Kansas on or be-fore the 15th day of April, 2013.

Should you fail therein judg-ment and decree will be en-tered in due course upon said petition.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

SHAPIRO & MOCK, LLC, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 6310 La-mar - Suite 235, Overland Park, KS 66202, (913)831-3000, Fax No. (913)831-3320

Our File No. 13-005719/dkb(2) 27 (3) 6,13

Public notices

Dear Carolyn: If it is actually true that the gal [in Monday’s column] has strongly held but extremely uninformed beliefs about politics, then be prepared for her to have strongly held but uninformed beliefs about marriage, parent-ing, child care, etc. And yes, I’d say that if the po-litical affiliations and/or genders were reversed. Anonymous

Such a great point and, yes, it works no matter how you shake up the specifics.

Stubbornness is a pain to deal with in a relation-ship anyway, but when it arises from a place other

than facts or reason, it’s an anger factory.

It’s especially painful to watch when a child is involved, and This Myth or That Myth is applied with extremist zeal to some consequential ele-ment of child-rearing, while the other parent wrestles with the follow-ing choice: Watch help-lessly or touch off epic

fights. Awful. I’ve seen it up close.Re: Politics:

I think where the po-litical differences stem from, and how this af-fects your view of mon-ey and child-raising, is important.

Is it important to you to give to charities, but does she see it as a waste of money?

How will this affect things when you move from your money/my money to our money? Are there personal val-ues that these political views express — and would it bother you if your children were taught hers over yours?

Anonymous 2These are excellent

conversation-starters, thanks.Re: Politics:

I always ask myself when faced with politi-cal differences in a po-tential relationship: “Is this person sufficiently kind?” I find that po-litical differences that turn out to be deal-breakers are evidence that the person is not kind enough for me to want to spend time with them.Anonymous 3

Not just a good sug-gestion, thanks, but one that’s applicable well be-yond politics.

Tell MeAbout It

CarolynHax

Are political differences a deal-breaker?

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Senior Spotlight Marmaton Valley High School

Class of 2013

Kristin is the daughter of Richard and Marsha Kumalae.

She runs track and is in FFA and FCCLA. She enjoys drawing, listening to music and

reading books. After graduation she plans to attend K-State

to study to be a veterinarian. Her high school highlight has been getting

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Kacie is the daughter of Steve and Janet Shadden.

She plays volleyball, basketball and softball. She is on the dance team and is in FBLA, math relays, FCA and is class officer.

After graduation she plans to attend Allen Community College for one year and then transfer to Pittsburg State University.

Cassidy is the daughter of Darren Sellman and Angie Luedke.

She is a cheerleader and is involved in FCCLA, FBLA, FFA, FCA and is student council vice president.

After graduation she plans to go to Fort Scott Community College for general education then transfer to Wichita State University.

Her high school highlights have been becoming cheer co-captain, cheering at games and becoming student council vice president.

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DeeDee Jonrowe arrives in Koyuk, Alaska on Monday during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

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A career worth celebratingIola Mayor Bill Shirley came before the Iola Middle School faculty Tuesday afternoon to present Ona Chapman with an award recog-nizing her teaching career. Today will offi-cially be recognized as “Ona M. Chapman Day” in Iola. Chapman plans to retire from USD 257 at the end of this teach-ing year.

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