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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 LYNNsusan@iolaregister.com

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 LUKENrichard@iolaregister.com

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 JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

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By JOE SNEVEjoe@iolaregister.com

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

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

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-

By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

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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Countyhearsbudgetrequests

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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Vol. 114, No. 254 75 Cents Iola, KS

HOPE SPROUTS WITH AUTUMN RAINSFarmers get reprieve on beans; look to wheat

By BOB JOHNSON bob@iolaregister.com

PIQUA — “I’m amazed,” said Marvin Lynch, after checking in a load of soybeans at the Farmers Cooperative elevator here late Wednesday morning. “I would have bet on Sept. 1 that we wouldn’t dump a bushel of beans this year.”

Several showers in Septem-ber and more than two inches of rain a couple of days late in the month made the difference.

Dave Bedenbender, who farms north of Piqua, agreed an hour later while he munched a cheeseburger at Silverado’s, Piqua’s only lunch counter.

“My early beans didn’t do anything, but the later ones, they just hung on and came back when the rain finally came,” he said.

Lynch figured 30 percent of acreage devoted to beans had been harvested by mid-week, including those likely to yield the most.

“I imagine 40 percent of the bushels have been cut,” he

said, in expansion of his har-vest estimate.

“I’ve cut 200 acres and have about 400 to go,” Bedenbender said, in harmony with Lynch’s assessment.

“Up on the prairie they’re making 15 to 20 bushels and probably 30 in the creek bot-tom,” he said. “I disked under about 200 acres of after-wheat beans. They weren’t going to make anything.”

“The beans we’ve taken in so far are averaging 30 to 40 bushels (an acre),” Lynch said, with most of them coming from “good dirt and ones that caught a shower or two” ahead of the late September down-pour.

“Last year the better beans were north of Piqua, this year they’re south,” he said.

“Some of our best beans have come from customers west of Humboldt,” said Ken Smail, who is succeeding Lynch as elevator manager.

“What we’ve gotten also are good quality,” Lynch observed. “They’re big and have nice

color.”Technology has caught up

with the elevator.Not long ago, Lynch or an-

other employee would manual-ly pull a sample of beans from

the bed of an incoming truck and then weigh and test the sample to determine quality.

Now, a test sample speeds through a suction pipe dropped in a truck at the push of a but-

ton and analysis is done by computer. The readout tells weight per bushel and mois-ture content to determine if

Register/Bob JohnsonMarvin Lynch checks condition of a load of soybeans carried to the Piqua Farmers Coopera-tive elevator Wednesday morning. The process, once hands-on, now is computerized.

Iolans get first-hand look at new Garnett school

Register/Allison TinnAbove, Garnett Elementary School Principal Krista Hedrick gives the USD 257 Facilities Planning Committee, commu-nity members and staff a tour of the new attendance center. At right, a submitted photo shows the front of the new facility.

By ALLISON TINNallison@iolaregister.com

GARNETT — The new Garnett Elementary opened its doors in August. The outside alone is a wow factor, but as principal Kris-ta Hedrick said, “it is all in the details.”

USD 257 Facilities Planning Committee, community members and staff went to Garnett Wednes-day evening to tour the new atten-dance center.

This was the fourth planning meet-ing of the year. Committee members are considering action plans for the future of USD 257 schools.

At the end of August, commit-tee members took a look at Cha-nute’s new elementary school. By touring newly built schools, they can get an idea of what they would recommend if a new school was proposed in Iola.

Garnett Elementary School, built by Nabholz Construction Services, sits on 35.5 acres and cost about $11.5 million. The building is a mix of red glazed brick, meant to increase visibil-ity, and two types of metal — one more expensive than the other.

“The visibility is a key ele-ment,” USD 257 Superintendent of Schools Brian Pekarek said. “It gives the community a sense of pride.”

Only one door is unlocked dur-ing the day and parents must first go to the central office after enter-

See FARMERS | Page A5

Allen County elementary school students showcased their writing tal-ent in a very different way during a program at the Bowlus Fine Arts Cen-ter Tuesday.

The program brought in a chil-dren’s entertainment group, The Story Pirates, based out of Los Ange-les. The basis of the group’s show is to take submitted stories written by young students, and perform them on stage in front of a live audience.

Three local students had their work represented by the Story Pirates — they submitted stories and were selected from other local students.

Overall, five students’ work was rec-ognized as top selections by the Story Pirates.

Students whose work was re-en-acted by the group were Brie-Anna Winner, Iola Middle School and Carlie Payne and Dylon Reiter, both of Jef-ferson Elementary School.

The other students whose work was recognized were Mickayla Genn, Mar-maton Valley Elementary School, and Clay Shannon, Humboldt Elementary School.

The Story Pirates have been nation-ally recognized for their work across the country. One of their more no-table fans is comedian Jon Stewart, who praised their work as “crazy en-tertaining.”

Elementary students showcase writing talent

Register/Steven SchwartzAllen County Young Authors pose with the Story Pirates Tuesday. The authors, from left, are Dylon Reiter, Carlie Payne and Brie-Anna Winner.

By ELY PORTILLOThe Charlotte Observer

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Fed-eral prosecutors in Manhattan sued Bank of America Corp. on Wednesday, alleging the bank de-frauded government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of $1 billion.

The lawsuit is the latest chap-ter in the Charlotte bank’s long-running legal woes, which have pummeled the bank’s earnings and stock price. Bank of America has already lost billions of dol-lars in write-downs and legal set-tlements related to lending prac-tices at Countrywide, which Bank of America acquired during the financial crisis, and the acquisi-tion of Merrill Lynch.

New York-based U.S. Attor-ney Preet Bharara said Wednes-day that Countrywide generated thousands of fraudulent home loans through a process known as the “Hustle,” which involved pro-cessing home loans at high speed and without quality checkpoints.

And the lawsuit contends that the “Hustle,” or HSSL — which stood for “High Speed Swim Lane” — continued after Bank of America completed the Country-wide acquisition.

The loans were sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and later defaulted at a far higher rate than normal, causing more than $1 bil-lion in losses and numerous fore-closures, the U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement. Both Fannie and Freddie were bailed out by taxpayers in 2008 at a cost of bil-lions of dollars.

“The fraudulent conduct al-leged in today’s complaint was spectacularly brazen in scope,” Bharara wrote. “Countrywide and Bank of America made disas-trously bad loans and stuck tax-payers with the bill.” Prosecutors also accuse Bank of America of failing to repurchase bad loans.

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US sues Bank of America

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By ROXANA HEGEMANAssociated Press

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge rebuffed a city clerk’s plea for leniency Wednesday, sentencing the 50-year-old woman to a year and a day in federal prison after saying anything less would not “reflect the mag-nitude” of a crime that drove the small southeast Kansas town to the brink of bankruptcy.

Laura Whittley cried as U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten rejected a passionate defense bid for probation. He also ordered her to repay $120,000 in res-titution.

Thayer is a town of 500 people with just 183 house-holds and a median family income of $35,288 a year, court filings show. Whittley was its city clerk from 2000 until 2012.

Mayor Anthony Vin-ing told the court that his small community has been forced to raise its mill levy, has twice boosted its water rates and soon might have to raise its local sales tax because of the embezzle-ment. The town has no money to repair chuck-holes in its roads. Its list of needs grows longer by the day, he said.

“We are just struggling at this time,” Vining said. “And it does hurt. It hurts a lot.”

The embezzlement drove the town to near bankrupt-cy because it has such a small tax base, he said.

“To put you on probation would be inappropriate,” Marten said. “It wouldn’t reflect the magnitude of what you have done.”

“If this was Wichita, Kan., it would be just as bad — but the impact in Wichita wouldn’t be as bad as the impact on your com-munity,” Marten said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mona Furst said Whittley used a city credit card at a home decoration outlet to buy items for her personal use and for her children. She submitted fraudulent bills for cleanup work done after a large storm in May 2009. She wrote extra pay-roll checks to herself. And, when residents came in to pay their water bills, she recorded the accounts as paid but kept the money for herself.

“I just want to say I am sorry and I will do the best I can to pay it back,” Whit-tley told the judge, her words punctuated by sobs.

Defense attorney Kurt Kerns argued that his cli-

ent has since tried to do the right thing and worked to-gether with her husband to propose a restitution plan. He cited her early accep-tance of responsibility, her lack of criminal history and the support from her family and many others in the community.

Outside the courtroom, Kerns declined comment except to say today was a sad day for everyone in-volved.

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Tonight, partly cloudy. Much colder. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to 15 mph.

Friday, mostly sunny. Cool-er. Highs 50 to 55. North winds 10 to 20 mph.

Friday night, mostly clear. Widespread frost through the night. Lows 25 to 30. North winds 5 to 10 mph.

Saturday, mostly sunny. Widespread frost in the morning. Highs 50 to 55. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

Saturday night and Sunday, mostly clear. Lows near 30. Highs in the mid 50s.

Sunrise 7:41 a.m. Sunset 6:30 p.m.

TemperatureHigh yesterday 82Low last night 53High a year ago 85Low a year ago 42

Precipitation24 hours ending 7 a.m. .01This month to date 3.66Total year to date 25.99Def. since Jan. 1 7.29

Helen Ambler gave a program on the book, “The Big Picture: Getting Perspective on What’s Re-ally Important in Life,” by Ben Carson and Gregg Lewis and Monday’s Uni-ty Club meeting at Shirley Ashford’s.

Ashford presented a

wonderful array of re-freshments in her festive-ly decorated home.

Present were 19 active members.

The next meeting will be Nov. 12 at Donna Lower Nord’s home at 1:30 p.m. Mary Martin will present the program.

Unity club focuses on ‘The Big Picture’

Twenty-six seniors were present Oct. 19 in the Meth-odist Church Annex for a covered dish dinner.

Loris Wilson and Kathy Kuns were hostesses.

Geraldine Reeder, Dee Eastwood and Lucile Ba-con celebrated their birth-days. Raymond and Marga-ret Hartman were honored for their October anniver-

sary. Maxine Dickerson read

several jokes. The hostesses, Ms. Wil-

son and Kuns, put on a skit.They were waiting for

the train. They asked the tomatoes not be thrown at them.

The Thanksgiving din-ner will be Nov. 16 in the annex.

Bronson seniors meet

Cindy Clark passed away Tuesday after a long illness. Our sympathy to her family.

Wednesday evening the Senior Center held its an-nual supper where chili and vegetables along with cookies and ice cream were served.

Amber Jewel was guest speaker at Sunday’s church service.

Oct. 28 the youth group will go bowling at Coun-try Lanes, Iola, at 5:30

p.m. It will cost $9 per per-son for three games and shoe rental.

Nov. 17 is Bishop’s round-up for hunger. Bring canned food items to donate to the local food pantry.

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Fred Nilges Fred J. Nilges, 88, passed away at his home in Empo-

ria Tuesday morning, Nov. 23, 2012.Fred was born in rural Garnett on Aug. 1, 1924, the

son of Samuel and Mary (Peine) Nilges. He married Lorrine Armstrong at Emporia on Feb. 26, 1972. She died Nov. 5, 2006.

Survivors include a step-daughter, June Delgado, and her husband, Larry, Emporia; adopted son, Mark Wayne Nilges; son-in-law Jim Spillman, Eureka; broth-er, Bernie Nilges, Iola; six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Others who preceded him in death were step-son Randy Swanson, step-daughter Janis Spillman, as well as three brothers and four sisters.

Mr. Nilges was a truck driver for 35 years, and owned and operated Fred J. Nilges Trucking until he retired in 1988. He also owned and operated Fred’s Tavern in Emporia for 27 years, retiring from there in 1989.

Graveside services will be at the Number Eight Cem-etery, east of Madison, at 10 a.m. Friday. The service will be conducted by Rev. Kenneth Baker, United Meth-odist Church, Eureka. The family will receive friends at the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home Thursday evening from 6:30 to 8.

A memorial has been established with Friendship Meals, Emporia, with gifts to be sent to the funeral home, P.O. Box 175, Emporia.

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

Ethel WatsonEthel P. Watson, 83, Iola, passed away

Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012, at Allen County Hospital.

Ethel was born Sept. 30, 1929, in Iola, the daughter of Levi and Ruby (Jar-rett) Miller. She made her home in Iola.

She is survived by two sons, Henry Henderson, St. Joseph, Mo., and Emery Lee, Iola; five daughters, Diane Hyden, Galt, Calif., Cheryl Lee Thompson, Denver, Terri Lawrie, Iola, Toni Lee, Denver, and De-dra Lee, Iola; two sisters, Patricia Pulley, Iola, and Joan Hooker, Denver; and a number of grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, Norman Hender-son, and two sisters, Betty Lee and Carol Chaney.

Cremation has taken place.Memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Ward

Chapel A.M.E. Church, Iola. Inurnment will be in Iola’s Highland Cemetery.

Memorials to Alzheimer’s Association may be left at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel. Online con-dolences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.

Obituaries

Ethel Watson

Two are arrestedBrenda Smith and

Franklin Smith were ar-rested for domestic bat-tery when officers went to a residence in the 500 block of South Street Tuesday night to deal with a disturbance.

LaHarpe man arrested

Roger L. Dewees, rural

LaHarpe, was arrested Tuesday evening for do-mestic battery, criminal damage and interference with law enforcement of-ficers when Allen County deputies responded to a call in the 700 block of 2400 Street, southeast of Humboldt.

Officers said Dewees barricaded himself in a tool shed, but surrendered soon after they arrived.

Police report

The team of Duwayne Bearden and Craig Mentzer was first in the cow-milking contest Saturday as part of Farm-City Days activities.

The two milked 9.55 pounds of milk in one minute. For their efforts they received T-shirts with the F-C Days logo and the slogan, “Above All the Ud-ders.”

Teams from Personal Service Insurance placed second and third with 8.72 pounds and 7.62 pounds.

In the hay bale tossing contest, Travis Bearden was first with a toss of 9 feet 8 inches into the front end loader of a tractor. Sec-ond was Casey Bishop with a toss of 9 feet.

Six 10-man teams com-peted in the tractor pull, in which a 10,000-pound trac-tor was pulled 50 feet down the street.

Each team pulled two times.

PSI won first with a pull of 12.19 seconds, followed by The Farm Boys, 12.69 seconds, Udder Guys, 13.53 seconds, Iola High School football blue squad, 13.62 seconds, IHS football white squad, 13.88 seconds, and in sixth place, IHS football gold squad, 14.28 seconds.

Of the decorated hay bales placed on the court-house lawn, Emprise Bank was the favorite of the 85 who cast votes.

Farm-City Days results

At the Parsons Livestock Market sale Wednesday, 881 cattle were sold.

Choice cows 80-91; canners & cutters 68-81; shelly cows, 68 and back; choice bulls 91-96; lower grades 78-91.

Steers: Up to 400# 170-200; 400# to 500# 145-182; 500# to 600# 135-167; 600# to 700# 130-151; 700# to 800# 121-145.

Heifers: Up to 400# 160-170; 400# to 500# 145-156; 500# to 600# 130-144; 600# to 700# 125-137; 700# to 800# 120-132.

Livestock market

Allen County Hospi-tal and Relay for Life will collaborate to coordinate their fall festival and haunted house Friday and Saturday.

The festival, to raise money for the cancer awareness organization Relay for Life, will run from 5 to 8 p.m. each day. Admission to the festival

will be a donation to Re-lay for Life, no particular amount specified. The haunted house is free of charge and will run from 7 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday.

The festival will have food, games and prizes for adults and children. It will be next to the hospital at 201 S. Second St.

Hospital holds fall festival

By PETER SVENSSONAP Technology WriterNEW YORK (AP) — Sub-

scriber trends are turn-ing south again for Sprint Nextel as it struggles to compete with Verizon Wire-less, the juggernaut of the industry.

The country’s No. 3 wire-less carrier on Thursday said it lost overall subscrib-ers for the first time in two and a half years in the third quarter, as customers gave up on the moribund Nextel network and the company failed to sign up enough of them on the Sprint net-work.

It’s the first time Sprint Nextel Corp.’s is report-ing quarterly results since agreeing to sell 70 percent of itself to Japanese cell-phone company Softbank Corp. for $20.1 billion. The deal hasn’t closed yet, but Sprint has already bor-rowed money from Soft-bank.

Sprint lost an overall 423,000 subscribers in the July to September period, as trends across its product

lineup were weak.Excluding recaptured

Nextel customers, it lost contract-signing subscrib-ers from the Sprint network for the first time in years. Customers on contract-based plans are the most lu-crative, and keeping them has been a linchpin of CEO Dan Hesse’s turnaround plan.

For non-contract plans, the Overland Park company added just 19,000 custom-ers, the smallest number in more than three years.

Sprint’s report follows a blow-out performance by Verizon Wireless, the coun-try’s largest carrier, which added 1.8 million overall subscribers, and a more lackluster report from No. 2 AT&T Inc., which added 228,000 (both figures ex-clude devices connected through wholesale agree-ments).

All three carriers start-ed selling the iPhone 5 in the quarter, but while the bigger two saw a jump in iPhone activations, Sprint did not.

It activated 1.5 million iPhones in the quarter, flat with previous quarters.

Sprint bought the Nex-tel network in 2005, and it’s been a major reason for Sprint’s consistent quar-terly losses for the last five years.

Nextel phones are known for their push-to-talk ca-pability, but the network doesn’t support the kind of data rates that smart-phones require, and it’s not compatible with the Sprint network. Sprint is shutting it down next year.

Sprint’s loss was $767 million, or 26 cents per share, for the July-Septem-ber quarter, from a loss of $301 million, or 10 cents per share, a year ago.

Revenue rose 5 percent to $8.76 billion.

Analysts polled by FactSet expected a loss of 43 cents per share on $8.81 billion in revenue for the Overland Park company.

Sprint shares rose 4 cents to $5.66 in premarket trad-ing.

Sprint suffers third quarter loss

Thayer city clerk to serve time

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic leaders in the Kansas Legislature are pre-paring to outline what they describe as a proposal for creating jobs.

Senate Minority Lead-er Anthony Hensley and House Minority Leader Paul Davis scheduled news conferences Thursday at la-bor union offices in Kansas City, Topeka and Wichita. They expect to be joined by other Democratic lawmak-ers.

Their offices declined to give details about the plan except to say Democrats will pursue it during next year’s legislative session.

The proposal comes less than two weeks before the Nov. 6 election.

Gov. Sam Brownback and fellow Republicans are touting massive income tax cuts enacted this year as a way to create new jobs. Democrats contend the re-ductions will lead to big budget cuts.

Jobs proposal is due To put you on proba-tion would be inappro-prite, it wouldn’t reflect the magnitude of what you have done.

— Judge J. Thomas Marten

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on Madison Street in 2012!

Ways You Can Donate —

• Designated or Undesignated Gift

• Memorials • Insurance Beneficiary

• Buy-A-Chair — a $500 donation entitles you or your family to a name plate on the

back of a chair in the auditorium.

Thank You To All Who Joined Us For A Night Of Fun At The 20 th Annual Meeting

October 6, 2012

Spencer & Helen Ambler - Jim & Mary Ann Arnott - Diana & Bill Asher - Kendall & Shirley Ashford - Dr . John & Pat Atkin - Jean M. Barber - Don & Donna Bauer - Jim & Shelby Bauer - Rick & Rita Berntsen - Shirley Breiner - Mary Lou Brown - Brenda Bumgardner - Bob & Maude Burns - Roger Carswell - Bob & Jackie Chase - Carol Chrisenberry - Bruce & Judy Cochran - Travis & Jessy Coffield - Ron & Irene Coltrane - Community Nat ional Bank & Trust - Neil & Roberta Crane - Dan E. & Jeannene Creitz - Dan & Shaila Creitz - Maynard & Jea nice Cress - Donna Culver - Ruby Davis - Bill & Jennifer Delich - Barbara Diehl - Jerry & Cathy Dreher - Maxine & Stanley Dreher - Bill & Cathey Ellis - Emprise Bank - Dave & Lisa Fontaine - Lillian M. Franklin - Paul & Betty Friskel - Prudence Fronk - Helen E. Gilpin - Jim & Karen Gilpin - Ken & Bobbie Gilpin - Ken & Gladys Groves - Stephen & Patty Haen - Mary Anna Haney - Larry & Pamela Hart - Joe & Flo Haynes - David & Mary Kay Heard - Raymond & Donna Houser - Sarah Huskey - Gregg & Roxanne Hutton - Elizabeth R. Immel - Jim & Carol Immel - Iola Insurance Associates - Alberta Jeffery - Ronald & Sylva Jenkins - Lorenzo & Jackie Jenson - Dan & Linda Johnson - Lavon Johnson - David & Evelyn Jordan - Jeff Jordan & Rhi Hess - Dr. Richard & Jan Knewtson - Loren & Janet Korte - Lonnie & Stephanie Larson - Tony & Barbara Leavitt - Dr. & Mrs. Vernon Lee - Ellen L. Lee - Harry & Joyce Lee - Bob & Lenora Lind - Charyl Link - Frank Link - Ann Loewe - Donna Lower-Nord - Larry Manes & Nelda Cuppy - Mary Martin - John & Georgia Masterson - Joann Maxwell - Duane & Betty McCammon - Kathleen McCollam - Bud McCrate - Duane & Judy McGraw - Ken & Kit McGuffin - Mike & Susie McKinnis - JD & Candace McRae - John & Merryl McRae - Ken & Connie McWhirter - Ed & Betty Miller - Don & Lois Murray - Deanie Olinger - Lillian Orzechowski - Wade Park - Gary & Janice Parker - Dr. & Mrs. Max H. Patterson - Brian & Robyn Pekarek - Vic & Maxine Perkins - Mark & Virginia Peters - Phoenix Geology, Trent & Regina Chriestenson - Tony & Terri Piazza - Brian & Traci Plumlee - James & Beverly Potter - Ron & Pam Powers - Susan Raines - Maxine Redfearn - Walt & Mary Ann Regehr - Dennis & Beth Ringwald - Dave & Debbie Roe - Howard & Peggy Ross - Larry & Peggy Ross and Family - Cecilia Sanaie - Delmer & Pauline Sarver - Dee & Paula Sell - Ken & Ann Shetler - Robert, Patricia & John Shields - Bill & Roberta Shirley - EJ & Barb Siefker - Jerry & Daryl Sigg - Steve & Kelly Sigg - Jerry & Betty Skidmore - Steven Smith - Paul Sorenson - Mrs. Amaryllis Specht - Ted & Norma Stahl - Tom, Julie & Jordan Strickler - Jim & Joyce Tarter - Van & Ellen Thompson - Jay & Sharon Thyer - David & Beth Toland - Beverly M. Tomlinson - John A. Travers Jr., DDSPA - Glenda Turner - Max & Beth Ann Turner - Paul & Saundra Upshaw - Larry & Sharon Utley - DeWayne Vance - Dr. & Mrs. Earl Walter - Carroll & Faith Weber - Judy Welch - Marianne Westerman - Dotti White - Jerry & Sharon Whitworth - Don & Kathy Wilmoth - Dr. Brian Wolfe & Susan Lynn - Dr. Eric & Casiee Wolfe - Steve & Annette Womack - Dick & Karen Works - Fred & Judy Works - Joe & Jane Works - Walter Wulf, Jr. - Paul & Judy Zirjacks

CalendarSunday - Christian Church

Harvest for Him, Maple Street south from church to Broad Street, 5-7 p.m.; Nov. 1 - county bus to Garnett, phone 24 hours before you need a ride, 785-448-4410 any week-day; Community Church Missionary, church annex, 1:30 p.m.; United Methodist Women, United Methodist Church fellowship hall, 1:30 p.m.School calendar

Sunday - Middle school basketball at Southern Coffey County, 5 p.m.; Tuesday - high school football bi-districts; Wednesday - Halloween Pa-rade, 2 p.m.; Thursday- middle school basketball at Pleasan-ton, 5 p.m.; Friday - picture retakes, 8:30 a.m.Meal site

Monday - Polish sausage, cabbage, green bean salad, bun, plums; Wednesday - pork loin, sweet potato, Key Largo veggies, wheat roll, brownie; Friday - chicken burger, au-tumn blend veggies, macaro-ni salad, bun, Jell-O with fruit. Games played each meal day. Phone 852-3479 for meal reser-vations. For prescription drug program, phone Area Agency at Ottawa, 800-633-5421.Churches

Scripture read Sunday at the Christian Church ser-vice was Luke 7:36-50. Pas-tor Mark McCoy’s sermon was “Not a Fan: Choosing Intimacy.” Men’s Bible study at the church 7 a.m. Tuesday; Infusion groups - studying “Not a Fan” by Kyle Idleman. Contact Mark McCoy. Sunday - Har-

vest for Him; Nov. 4 - picnic and hayrack ride at Kend-all McGhee’s, 3 p.m., bring a side dish or dessert, hot dogs and drinks provided;

Ava Marney, Big Sister, Humboldt was guest speak-er at the United Methodist Women’s October meeting. Susan McCollam was wel-comed as a new member. Pat Heldebrant reported on monthly challenges. October’s challenge is to fill shoeboxes with toys for different age groups from five to 12 years old. These will be sent to a mission that distributes worldwide. The November challenge is to fill Santa sacks for teen-agers. The chicken noodle supper is Saturday; serv-ing is 5:30-8 p.m. The menu also includes vegetables, salads and desserts. Bazaar items will also be for sale. Quilt drawing will be made. Thursday’s meeting will be-gin 12:30 with a Thanksgiv-ing luncheon.

Scripture at Sunday’s United Methodist Church service was Psalm 104:1-9, Proverbs 3:9-10 and Mark 10: 35-45.Vote

Nov. 6 is Election Day. Polls open at 7 a.m. at the City Hall community room and close at 7 p.m. Ozark

and Indian Creek town-ships vote here.CEF

Crest Education Founda-tion is hosting a chili supper at the Lancer lunchroom this evening beginning at 5:30 p.m. The meal will in-clude chili, cinnamon roll and a drink. Price is $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and under. This will be held in conjunction with the home football game and parent teacher conferences.

Crest “Lancer Country” yard signs are for sale! They are $12 each. The signs are 24”x18” and come with a metal stake. Order forms are available in both Crest offices or they can be purchased at the chili sup-per as well. Dec. 11 - Taco bar at the basketball game.Christmas Parade

Dec. 1 has been set for the 8th annual Christmas Pa-rade in Colony. This year’s theme is “A Picture Perfect Christmas.” The event held in the business area begins with the parade lineup at 6 p.m. Other events and times will be announced later. Plan on having a float this year! Contact Trena Golden at the bank 852-3512 for an entry.4-H

The Seekers Not Slack-ers 4-H club met Oct. 15 at the Lone Elm community building. Roll call was an-swered by 22 members and two leaders with what they were dressing for Halloween. Community leader CJ Lacey reported the 4-H Achievement ban-

quet would be Nov. 11 at 12:30 p.m. at the Anderson County Jr-Sr High School. All families are to bring two covered dishes, a main and a side dish. Officer training will be held imme-diately following the ban-quet and awards program. Enrollment forms are due next month. The next coun-cil meeting will be Nov. 5. Community project leader Kathy LaCross reported she will hold a project meet-ing in November on prepar-ing goats for kidding.

A Halloween party was held. Members split into four teams and decorated pump-kins while blindfolded. They also bobbed for apples and had a costume contest. Kar-son Hermreck won most orig-inal, Lanie Walter most cute, Jerrick Jones most funny and Hailey Gillespie most scary. The next meeting is Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Lone Elm com-munity building. Program led by Hailey Gillespie, Aus-tin Louk and Cassie Bowen, refreshments by the Bowen and Louk families. The club sang “Happy Birthday” to Tanner LaCross. The meet-ing was adjourned by saying the 4-H motto.Library

The library board met Oct. 16. Notebooks for DVD storage have been ordered. Charlie Ward is building a shelf for the notebooks. LaNell reported on the Westminister Woods Annu-al Inservice she and Donna Westerman attended. Clubs

Vice President Ronald Mc-

Mullen opened the Oct. 17 Lions Club meeting, follow-ing a great meal served by the United Methodist Women. There were eight members in attendance. Bill Ulrich, trea-surer reported a good crowd showed up to the Alzheimer’s walk and auction held at the Iola square, despite the heavy rain. Prior Lion member Bill Michael had been a special contributor to the cause and fellow Lions wanted to honor his memory by showing their support and attendance.

The Colony Lions are still taking children’s book donations at various loca-tions, one being Garnett State Savings Bank of Colony, to be contributed to Kansas Children’s Hos-pital. The next regular Li-ons meeting will be Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. in the Methodist church basement.

Jolly Dozen Club mem-bers met at the city hall com-munity room Oct. 15. Seven members attended. Claudette Anderson took a plant to member Virginia Weather-man. Next year’s Colony Day was discussed. Member Del-ma French’s birthday was Oct. 21 and members planned to send a card. Debbie Wools received the hostess gift. Jane Ward will host the November meeting at the community room. Hostess Charlene Tin-sley served refreshments in a Halloween theme.Around town

Dalton Luedke celebrat-ed his 9th birthday at a piz-za party in Garnett. Attend-ing were his grandparents Jerry and Susan Luedke,

Colony, Gene and Anita Pe-ine, rural Garnett, aunts, uncles and cousins and his dad and wife Justin and Angie Luedke and Dalton’s brother Clay.

A story in last Saturday’s Iola Register featured Mike Wilmoth, Wellington, son of Don and Kathy Wilmoth, Iola, former residents of Colony, who hit the “big time” briefly. Mike teaches high school history and American government at Wellington and is a referee there also. He was chosen as one of the replacements for the National Football League for a short time. His dad, Don, taught at Colony and coached football and basketball several years.

The drought has not yet been broken. Oct. 23 marked the 144th day of drought. Some water is in branches, but subsoil moisture re-mains low and springs are not running.

Sympathy is expressed to Beth Prock and Ruth Caudell at the death of their mother, Thelma Manbeck, 96, on Oct. 17 at Windsor Place, Iola. Funeral services were held Saturday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel, Iola; burial followed at LaHarpe Cem-etery.

Sympathy is also extended to Les and Rita Dietrich at the death of their grandson, Andy Bennett, 26, Iola. He died at Overland Park Re-gional Medical Center Oct. 15. A memorial celebration was held Saturday at the Community Building in Riv-erside Park, Iola.

Mrs.Morris Luedke

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The strategy was laid out in a 1969 memo from a vice president of marketing for the Brown and Williamson tobacco company: “Doubt is our prod-uct since it is the best means of competing with the body of fact which exists in the mind of the general public.”

Robert Proctor, Stanford professor of the history of sci-ence, notes that there are few, if any, examples of an industry more successful in the high art of creating doubt to create value. The tobacco companies have made billions of dollars in profits — and still do — and Mr. Proctor estimates that over 100 million people have lost their lives as a result.

But the story is not one con-fined to the tobacco compa-nies. The creation of doubt has spread to other industries as well. Mr. Proctor has coined a term for the pursuit: Agnotol-ogy. It’s defined as the “art of spreading doubt.” The purpose being “to distort the skepti-cism of research to obscure the truth.”

This distortion can be found in everything from tobacco, to global warming, to food, to pol-itics. Anytime a company has a lot invested in a product or a service, there is the perceived need to protect that invest-ment. The greater the invest-ment, the further a company will go to protect what it has.

What the tobacco companies did was to show others how to use science against itself. Doubt is the key element cen-tral to all scientific inquiry, the very lifeblood of the pro-cess. Nothing is accepted, ev-erything must be proved. The public may not believe the cor-porations themselves, but they are susceptible to third-party reviewers with Ph.D.s behind their names.

What “agnotologists” un-derstand is that there is an ele-ment of doubt in all scientific inquiry. As one scientist put it, “Risk assessment data can be like a captured spy. If you torture it long enough, it will tell you anything you want to hear.”

Simply put, the task then is for companies to find academ-ics to create and then substan-tiate those areas of doubt, thus allowing the spinmasters to exploit them. According to Mr. Proctor’s research, often those academics don’t know what it is they are researching or what the “big picture” is behind the need for their research. Other times they do, and Mr. Proctor opines as to how easy it is to buy some of his academic col-leagues.

As regards to cigarettes, he

calls it a “calamity of global proportions.” There are 6 tril-lion cigarettes smoked each year, and we continue to do nothing.

True, it shows the power of addiction. But it also shows how easily duped the system is and how progress of any sort, on any fundamental issue, is so easily thwarted.

Scientists can determine that sugar contributes to obe-sity, but the sugar industry can find academics that say the science is inconclusive. The in-dustry then uses the research to create the doubt necessary to allow consumers to continue their purchases.

The climate change debate has been influenced to an enormous degree by the use of “experts” on both sides of the debate. Where has it left us? Confused. And a confused public is one that is difficult to mobilize.

This “parallel disinforma-tion environment” is as po-litical as it is scientific. When Wall Street took us to the brink of the abyss, the question was raised as to whether the banks were too big. The big banks responded, but they did so by using academics to show the advantages of size and to warn that any disruption could make the country’s problems worse. They created doubt.

We can’t even agree that So-cial Security has a long-term funding problem, that plant-ing corn fence post to fence post throughout the Midwest is a bad idea or that a politician born in Hawaii is an American citizen.

THE SOPHISTICATION of this disinformation process is beyond anything the world has ever seen. The irony is that the amount of information avail-able and the means by which this information can be dis-seminated has made it easier to undermine scientific inquiry, not harder. Victory goes to the party with the deepest pockets.

It’s not a problem attached to any particular political party. It’s a problem borne by both. It’s not a left versus right issue. It’s part of a system that, in no small measure, explains the growing dysfunction of Con-gress. The agnotologists have learned how to control the pro-cess.

If we can be lulled into thinking that it is acceptable to produce 6 trillion cigarettes each year, think how vulner-able we are to the disinforma-tion being spread about other, less lethal issues.

— Emerson K. LynnSt. Albans, Vt. Messenger

Agnotology, anevil science that defeats truth

The headlines from the sec-ond presidential debate focused on President Obama challenging Mitt Romney on issue after issue. There was a less noticed, but no less remarkable, moment when Mr. Obama agreed with Mr. Rom-ney on something — and both were entirely wrong.

The exchange began with a question about the offshoring of American jobs. Part of Mr. Obama’s answer was that federal investments in education, science and research would help to ensure that companies invest and hire in the United States. Mr. Romney in-terrupted. “Government does not create jobs,” he said. “Govern-ment does not create jobs.”

It was a decidedly crabbed response to a seemingly uncon-troversial observation, and yet Mr. Obama took the bait. He said his political opponents had long harped on “this notion that I think government creates jobs, that that somehow is the answer. That’s not what I believe.” He went on to praise free enterprise and to say that government’s role is to create the conditions for ev-eryone to have a fair shot at suc-cess.

So, they agree. Government does not create jobs.

Except that it does, millions of them — including teachers, po-lice officers, firefighters, soldiers, sailors, astronauts, epidemiolo-gists, antiterrorism agents, park

rangers, diplomats, governors (Mr. Romney’s old job) and con-gressmen (like Paul Ryan).

First, the basics. At last count, government at all levels — fed-eral, state and local — employed 22 million Americans, with the largest segment working in pub-lic education. Is that too many? No. Since the late 1980s, the num-ber of public-sector workers has averaged about 7.3 for every 100 people. With the loss of 569,000 government jobs since June 2009, that ratio now stands at about 7 per 100.

PUBLIC-SECTOR job loss means trouble for everyone. Gov-ernment jobs are crucial to educa-tion, public health and safety, en-vironmental protection, defense, homeland security and myriad other functions that the private sector cannot fulfill. They are also critical for private-sector job growth in two fundamental ways. First, the government gets its supplies from private-sector com-panies, which is why Republican senators like John McCain have been frantically warning about the dire effects on job creation if Congress moves ahead with

planned military spending cuts. (Republicans insisted upon the cuts as part of their ill-advised showdown over the debt ceiling.)

Second, government spending on supplies and salaries reverber-ates strongly through the econo-my, increasing demand and with it, employment.

That means the economy suf-fers when government cuts back. A report by the Economic Policy Institute examined the effect of recent cutbacks at the state and local level — including direct loss of government jobs and indirect loss of suppliers’ jobs; the jobs that should have been added to keep up with population growth; and the reduction in purchasing power from other cutbacks. If not for state and local budget auster-ity, the report found, the economy would have 2.3 million more jobs today, half of which would be in the private sector.

The government does not cre-ate jobs? It most certainly does. And at this time of state budget-ary hardship, a dose of federal fiscal aid to states and localities could create more jobs, in both the public and private sectors.

— The New York Times

Government does create jobsTeachers * police officers * firefighters * soldiers * sailors * astronauts *

governors * antiterrorism agents * engineers * park rangers* legislators

Government at all levels — federal, state and local — employs 22 million Americans.

Dear editor,A front-page article in Satur-

day’s Register profiled young Casey McKarnin and his dog Lil-ly, whom he rescued and adopted from being abandoned in the Iola Walmart parking lot.

On Friday evening I drove into the same parking lot where hus-band Stephen and I observed a young gray and white striped cat licking a discarded candy wrap-per. I hurriedly parked and we at-tempted to catch her/him but she was understandably frightened and ran into a drain pipe.

After being unable to coax her out we reluctantly left. We have a house full of rescued animals and it made me so angry that in this day and age there are peo-ple who still feel it’s all right to throw a dependent life away like rubbish.

Along with the anger I am also still heartbroken over every one that cannot be saved from suffer-ing.

Elle R. Dominquez,Moran, Kan.

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A look back in time50 Years Ago

Week of Oct. 21, 1962Royal Cox reported this morn-

ing that he has sold the Piqua Grain Company to a new partner-ship corporation to be known as

the Piqua Grain Company, Inc. The business has been owned by Royal Cox and his father, Roy Cox, for over 30 years. The new firm is composed of Lee Preston, Fred Apt Jr., and Royal Cox, all of Iola; and Albert J. Kress Jr. and Mau-rice Riley, Piqua. Preston, who has been employed by Royal Cox for a number of years, will man-age the business.

*****The Register is observing its

65th anniversary as a daily news-paper today. The paper was first published as a weekly in 1867, but not a daily until Oct. 25, 1897, when Iola was in the gas boom era.

*****A petition asking the Allen

County District Court to instruct trustees of the Thomas H. Bowlus

trust fund to accept the lowest of the construction bids taken Sept. 27 for the proposed Fine Arts and Cultural Center was filed yester-day by the Board of Education. The trust was established by the late Thomas H. Bowlus to pay for the construction of the Fine Arts Center to be erected upon the site of the Bowlus home. The Al-len County State Bank, of which Mr. Bowlus was president, is the trustee of the fund. The land was transferred to School District 10 in 1961. The will provides that if construction is not started by Dec. 17, 1962, the money in the es-tate will go to Kansas University for student scholarships favoring Iola and Allen County residents. The deadline is less than two months distant.

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price paid should be docked.

One of Bedenbender’s samples had a 3.6 percent dock, meaning instead of $15.32 a bushel, he re-ceived $14.77. The base price also changes fre-quently with new prices gleaned from computer connected by Internet to major markets.

SOYBEANS are the talk of the ag community. Wheat isn’t far behind.

Rich green wheat, tall enough already to wave gently in the wind, in a field east of Piqua is ac-centuated by corn stalks, with the farmer eager to get some return from the acreage where drought-plagued corn made maybe 30 bushels. Other fields of wheat, in vari-ous stages of develop-ment, dot the landscape.

Down the road, where soybeans had been har-vested, Mike Kramer wheeled a powerful trac-tor that pulled a field cul-tivator fitted with nozzles to insert nitrogen into the soil from trailing tanks.

“Getting ready to plant wheat?” Kramer was asked.

“Sure am,” he replied, during a brief break in the process.

“Most everyone tells me they’re going to plant more wheat this year,” said Lynch, who last spring noted that with the winter crop doing so well, “We should have planted it wall to wall.”

“People at other el-evators tell me the same thing,” he added. “There’s a lot of wheat going in this fall.”

Corn was a flop, al-though most farmers had sufficient insurance to cut losses to a minimum, and soybeans, even with a better crop than ex-pected, aren’t living up to usual standards.

Wheat is fetching about $8.57 a bushel, and “we’re contracting at $8 for harvest next summer,” Lynch said, which gives the crop good prospects with historic average

yield of about 40 bushels an acre.

Wheat is a dryland crop and seldom does poorly in eastern Kan-sas, which gives farmers some assurance better times are just a growing season away.

CAUTION IS the watch-

word for those who have immersed themselves in agriculture.

Forty bushels an acre and $8 a bushel for wheat translates to $320 for each acre harvested, Lynch al-lowed, but, he reminded that production has costs.

“You’re talking $30 an acre for seed, maybe $100 for fertilizer,” he said. “And then there are land costs, machinery expenses, fuel and taxes. They all affect the bottom line.”

But, there is profit to be made.

The downside is such crops as this year’s corn, even with insurance, left farmers with little or no return for their efforts.

Soybeans look better, but they still are going to be short compared to the average.

“In a normal year we’ll take in 500,000 bushels of beans,” Lynch said. “Last year (also beset by drought) we got in 220,000 bushels and are at about 90,000 bushels right now. We may reach last year’s total by end of harvest.”

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In a normal year we’ll take in 500,000 bushels of beans. Last year (also beset by drought) we got into 200,000 bushels and are at about 90,000 bushels right now. We may reach last year’s total by end of harvest.

— Marvin Lynch

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Bank spokesman Larry Grayson issued a strong denial of the government’s charges.

“Bank of America has stepped up and acted respon-sibly to resolve legacy mort-gage matters. The claim that we have failed to repurchase loans from Fannie Mae is simply false,” said Grayson, in a prepared statement. “At some point, Bank of Ameri-ca can’t be expected to com-pensate every entity that claims losses that actually were caused by the econom-ic downturn.”

While the government is seeking $1 billion worth of damages, the issue of de-fective loans sold to other financial institutions could be much larger. Bank of America has been locked in disputes with firms that buy up mortgages over whether the bank should be forced to buy back soured loans. So-called repurchase demands now total about $25.5 billion outstanding.

Last week, the bank re-ported it lost $33 million for shareholders in the third quarter, down from a $5.9 bil-lion profit in the same quar-ter last year.

The lawsuit comes two

weeks after the same U.S. attorney filed a similar law-suit against Wells Fargo, claiming “reckless” lending standards on Federal Hous-ing Administration-insured loans.

St. John’s University professor Anthony Sabino said that made the lawsuit against Bank of America “expected.”

“The federal govern-ment is ‘rounding up the usual suspects’ and blaming them where it can,” he said in a statement. “Whether the government is right or wrong is yet to be seen — probably some of both.”

Bank of America’s stock price fell slightly Wednesday, down 0.5 percent to $9.31 a share.

Bharara said Wednesday’s case against Bank of Ameri-

ca is the first civil fraud suit brought by the Justice De-partment concerning mort-gage loans later sold to Fan-nie and Freddie.

The “Hustle” program began under Countrywide in 2007 and continued after Bank of America bought the tottering lender in 2008, Bharara said. “After the merger, the Hustle contin-ued unabated through 2009,” Bharara said in a statement.

“Countrywide and Bank of America systematically removed every check in favor of its own balance — they cast aside under-writers, eliminated qual-ity controls, incentivized unqualified personnel to cut corners, and concealed the resulting defects,” Bharara said. “These toxic products were then sold to the govern-

ment sponsored enterprises as good loans.”

Countrywide, a major subprime lender, initiated the “Hustle” in August 2007 to make up for lost revenue after the subprime market started melting down in 2007, the lawsuit said. The “Hustle” involved lower-ing lending standards and removing quality checks in order to generate loans more quickly, according to the law-suit.

At the same time, Coun-trywide indicated to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that it had strengthened its under-writing standards, the law-suit alleges.

Bank of America settled similar claims earlier this year in a side deal accompa-nying the $25 billion mort-gage servicing settlement with state attorneys general and federal agencies. The Charlotte bank agreed to pay $500 million upfront, with the possibility of paying $500 million more if princi-pal forgiveness benchmarks weren’t met.

Bank of America also agreed to pay $2.4 billion earlier this year to settle shareholder claims that it misled investors about Mer-rill Lynch during that acqui-sition.

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Countrywide and Bank of America system-atically removed every check in favor of its own balance — they cast aside underwrit-ers, eliminated quality controls, incentivized unqualified personnel to cut corners, and concealed the resulting defects. These toxic products were then sold to the government sponsored enterprises as good loans.

— U.S. attorney Preet Bharara

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ing the school.Student security was on

the top of Pekarek’s list of positive qualities. Par-ents and guests have to go through a single entrance at the school office.

“The safety and security of our students is most im-portant,” Pekarek said. “I like that there is only one access point, one entrance and exit.”

The most unique fea-ture of the elementary is its space utilization. The school is divided into three pods and attached is the kindergarten.

The pods are divided up by grades and are color coded — purple, blue and green. Within each pod there are classrooms, a rest-room, a commons area and

an outdoor classroom. The rooms have only

identifying numbers and not each teacher’s names.

“Some teachers still wanted to put their names in the windows. That’s OK, they aren’t permanent so they can always be taken down,” Hedrick said.

The pods also have par-tial epoxy flooring, usually found in the cafeteria, so if classes have projects with paint or anything messy, it will not be a problem.

At the front of the school is the library, but unlike Iola schools there are only two computers in the li-brary. There is a separate room for technology.

When the school is not in use, community groups are encouraged to use it. Wednesday, local Girl Scouts were having their meeting.

“We have a janitor here until 7 o’clock, but if a group needs to stay longer we adjust our schedule,” Hedrick said.

An architectural feature is an absence of flat roofs.

“Our community said ab-solutely no flat roofs,” Hed-rick said.

According to Hedrick, in the ’90s a new high school was built in Garnett with a flat roof and within a cou-ple of years it was causing problems, which left a sour taste for patrons.

Flat roofs cause water to accumulate; that prob-lem is avoided with slanted roofs — water spills off be-fore it can accumulate.

A trail was built for stu-dents who walk home so they have a safe route to travel. The trail also meets up with the Prairie Spirit

Trail that runs to Iola. “The location of this

school is wonderful,” Hed-rick said. “It is close to the stadium, it is close to the trail and it’s not too far from downtown for parades.”

THE SEPARATE pods feature was one aspect of the school that Stacey Fag-er, Iola High School princi-pal, found appealing.

Fager said it was nice for the kids because they don’t have to eat breakfast in the gym — the only place they can all fit.

Also, the pods are de-signed to give the students a sense of community.

Pekarek found the idea of pods to be efficient.

“The pods allow for stu-dents to be broken up into instructional nooks and crannies,” he said.

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PARSONS — A bat carried into a Parsons home by the family cat was found to be rabid.

Tests were done Oct. 12 at Kansas State Uni-versity, which revealed the bat was infected, the Parsons Sun reported.

The cat, which hadn’t been vaccinated, was quarantined.

Rabid bat in Parsons By JENNIFER AGIESTA

and NANCY BENACAssociated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — What gender gap?

Less than two weeks out from Election Day, Republi-can Mitt Romney has erased President Barack Obama’s 16-point advantage among women, a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows. And the president, in turn, has largely eliminated Rom-ney’s edge among men.

Those churning gender dynamics leave the presi-dential race still a virtual dead heat, with Romney fa-vored by 47 percent of like-ly voters and Obama by 45 percent, a result within the poll’s margin of sampling error, the survey shows.

After a commanding first debate performance and a generally good month, Romney has gained ground with Americans on a num-ber of important fronts, including their confidence in how he would handle the economy and their impres-sions of his ability to un-derstand their problems.

At the same time, expec-tations that Obama will be re-elected have slipped: Half of voters now expect the president to win a sec-ond term, down from 55 percent a month earlier.

For all of the good news for Republicans, however, what matters most in the election endgame is Rom-ney’s standing in the hand-

ful of states whose electoral votes still are up for grabs. And polls in a number of those battleground states still appear to favor Obama.

As the election nears, Romney has been playing down social issues and try-ing to project a more moder-ate stance on matters such as abortion in an effort to court female voters. The AP-GfK poll, taken Friday through Tuesday, shows Romney pulling even with Obama among women at 47-47 after lagging by 16 points a month earlier.

But now his campaign is grappling with the fall-out from a comment by a Romney-endorsed Senate candidate in Indiana, who said that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape “that’s something God intended.”

Romney quickly dis-tanced himself from the re-mark by Republican Rich-ard Mourdock. But Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the incident was “a reminder that a Re-publican Congress working with a Republican Presi-dent Mitt Romney would feel that women should not be able to make choic-es about their own health care.”

A renewed focus on so-cial issues would be an un-welcome development for Romney: Among female likely voters, 55 percent say Obama would make the

right decisions on women’s issues, compared with 41 percent who think Romney would.

Romney’s pitch to women has been focused squarely on the economy, making the case that what women want most is to ensure their fami-lies and their country are on a solid financial footing. The poll shows that message ap-pears to be taking root.

A month ago, women fa-vored Obama over Romney on the economy 56 percent to 40 percent. Now, the split has shifted to 49 percent for Romney and 45 percent for Obama.

Similarly, Obama’s lead among women as the candidate who better un-derstands the people’s problems has narrowed considerably, from a 58-36 Obama advantage last month to a 50-43 Obama edge now.

Monica Jensen, a 55-year-old independent from Mo-

bile, Ala., says she voted for Obama in 2008 but will shift her vote to Romney this time, largely because of the economy.

“I’m ready for a change,” she said. “I want to see the economy go in a different direction.”

Ginny Lewis, a Democrat and 72-year-old retired dis-trict attorney from Prince-ton, Ky., says she’ll vote for Romney because “I’m tired of the Republicans blaming all the debt on Democrats, so let them take over and see what they do.”

Not that she’s optimistic about how that will turn out, though. “I think things will get worse before they get better,” she said.

Lindsey Hornbaker, a 25-year-old graduate stu-dent and nanny, hasn’t been swayed by Romney’s charm offensive.

Hornbaker, interviewed Wednesday in Davenport, Iowa, where she was attend-ing an Obama rally, said Romney can tweak his tone but not what she sees as a record focused far more on top income earners and out of touch with most working families.

“I heard him go out of his way to sound so moder-ate during the debate,” she said. “And I thought: ‘Who is this? Where did this come from?’ He may sound like he’s focused on the middle class. But where’s the record?”

Romney erases Obama lead among women

I’m tired of the Republicans blaming all the debt on Demo-crats, so let them take over and see what they do.

— Ginny Lewis, Democrat

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and disabled Americans who rely on Medicare may gain new access to care with the proposed settle-ment of a lawsuit that chal-lenged the government’s practice of denying some coverage to patients whose condition was not improv-ing.

Under the terms of the settlement — expected to be approved by a federal judge in Vermont in com-ing months — Medicare would not deny skilled nursing care and various forms of therapy for ben-eficiaries, regardless of their prognosis.

Medicare is required by law to cover health care services that are “reason-able and necessary for the diagnosis or treatment of illness or injury.” But the 47-year-old program does not cover what is called custodial care, including much nursing home care,

delivered by nonskilled aides who perform servic-es such as helping seniors get dressed or feed them-selves.

In practice, Medicare has also at times denied coverage for skilled care for beneficiaries whose condition was not consid-ered likely to improve un-der what came to be known as the “improvement stan-dard.”

Under this standard, someone on Medicare with multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s disease, for example, might have been denied coverage for physi-cal therapy that could help keep them stable or prevent declines in their health.

“These individuals have been denied Medicare cov-erage and access to medi-cally necessary care for de-cades,” said Judith Stein, executive director of the Center for Medicare Ad-vocacy, which represented plaintiffs in the case. “We have finally been able

to eliminate this illegal, harmful, unfair applica-tion of the law.”

The lead plaintiff, 76-year-old Glenda Jimmo, has been blind since she was 19 and uses a wheel-chair because of a below-the-knee amputation. She was denied coverage for

skilled nursing services in her home because she was deemed unlikely to improve.

It is unclear how many Medicare beneficiaries were affected by the im-provement standard.

Patient advocates said they could not determine that, in part because health care providers often told beneficiaries that certain services would not be cov-ered, so claims were never filed.

Health and Human Ser-vices Department spokes-woman Erin Shields Britt said the impact would be minimal. “This settlement clarifies existing Medi-care policy,” she said in a statement. “We expect no changes in access to ser-vices or costs.”

But advocates said they believed tens of thousands, even hundreds of thou-sands, of Medicare benefi-ciaries had probably been denied care over the years, despite efforts to change standards.

Settlement proposed to broaden Medicare coverage

These individu-als have been denied Medi-care coverage and access to medically neces-sary care for de-cades. We have finally been able to eliminate this illegal, harmful, unfair application of the law.

— Judith Stein, executive director of

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Softball sensationsThe Iola Crush, a traveling 8-and-Under ASA softball squad placed third Saturday and Sunday at a tournament in Liberty, Mo. Team members are, front from left, Kailey Schinstock, Morgan Collins, Hanna Jones, Grace Westerman and Karley Wools; second row from left, Lindsey Godderz, Britain Folk, Brooklyn Ellis, Reece Murry, Maci Miller and Lauryn Holloway; and back from left, coach-es Jenny Ellis, Aaron Murry and Corey Schinstock.

Here we go to WamegoIola High’s cross country runners will travel to Wamego Saturday for Kansas Class 4A State Meet. This year marks the first time since 2008 the entire cross country squad has qualified for state. The runners are, front from left, Jeremy Spears, Tyler Powelson, Trent Latta, Blaine Klubek and Michael Wilson; and second row from left, Jacob Cooper, alternate Travis Hermstein, alternate Kohl Endicott, Zach St. Clair and alternate Bryan Mueller. Not pictured are alternate runners Tyler Holloway and Jonathan Tidd. Cross country coach Marv Smith noted the entire squad that will run Saturday will consist of underclassmen, a rare occasion in high school athletics. The Mustangs will race at 11 a.m. Crest High’s Rene Rodriguez also will race in Wamego Saturday as part of the 1A boys’ race, which starts at noon.

Register/Richard Luken

By BEN WALKERAP Baseball Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A roly-poly Kung Fu Panda out-slugged the Triple Crown winner. An October outcast outpitched the Cy Young ace.

With Pablo Sandoval and Barry Zito taking star turns, this World Series is off to a rollicking start.

Sandoval hit three home runs

and joined Reg-gie Jackson, Babe Ruth and Albert Pujols as the only boppers to do it in the Series, and the San Francisco Gi-ants jolted Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers 8-3 on Wednes-day night in Game 1.

“Man, I still can’t believe it,”

Sandoval said.A boisterous AT&T Park crowd

— a sea of black and orange out-fits — roared as Sandoval con-nected in his first three at-bats. Popular in the Bay Area for his outgoing personality and unusu-al physique, he went 4 for 4 and drove in four runs. A Giant panda for sure.

From the first pitch to last, it

was basically a perfect game by the Giants. Coming off a Game 7 win over St. Louis on Monday night, they looked totally fresh.

“We played our last game only two days ago,” Sandoval said. “We’re still hot. We just came here and played our game.”

Verlander, the reigning Cy Young winner so dominant in this postseason, looked uncom-

fortable from the outset and con-stantly pawed at the mound.

As fans filed out singing along with Tony Bennett’s standard “I Left My Heart in San Francis-co,” the final score raised a nag-ging question for manager Jim Leyland and his favored Tigers: Did too much rest after a playoff

Submitted photo

Mustang MVPsJuniors Isaias Macias and Eric Heffern were named team MVPs for Iola High in its loss to Fort Scott Friday. The recognition came through the Iola Police Department-sponsored Cops for Jocks promotion. On hand for the weekly honors were, from left, Iola Chief Jar-ed Warner and officers Steve Womack, Tom Roush, Bob Droessler, Mike Ford and Mike Aronson. Cops for Jocks is a program between the IPD and the IHS Mustang football team to recognize outstanding play in each of the Iola football games.

By DAVE SKRETTAAP Sports Writer

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — All that Sporting Kansas City needed Wednesday night was a draw against the Philadelphia Union to wrap up its second consecutive Eastern Confer-ence regular-season title.

C.J. Sapong sent the club into the MLS playoffs with a win.

His goal off an assist from Kei Kamara in the 82nd minute ultimately gave Sporting KC a 2-1 victory Wednesday night, pushing the club’s unbeaten streak to 12 games and giving it a massive wave of momen-tum as it chases its first MLS

CHANUTE — This wasn’t the season of firsts Jessica Peters was looking for.

A loss Wednesday to rival Neosho County Community College ensured the Allen Com-munity College volleyball squad will miss the Region VI playoffs for the first time under Peters’ tenure.

“There was a numb feeling on the short drive home tonight,” Peters said. “It’s just so disap-pointing that our sophomores had to end their … conference experience like that.”

The Red Devils entered Wednesday in a three-way tie for the seventh playoff seat, but instead wound up ninth and out of the playoffs, courtesy of a 25-16, 25-14, 25-23 loss to Neosho County.

Allen, 13-18 overall, will wrap up its 2012 season Monday in Miami, Okla., against Northeast Oklahoma A&M College.

PETERS SAID Neosho Coun-

ty’s defensive work was pivotal

Wednesday, effectively shutting down the Red Devil hitters at the net.

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Loss drops ACC from playoff contention

Register/Richard LukenAllen Community College’s Cheyanne Miller and her Red Devil teammates lost on the road Wednesday at Neosho County Community College. The defeat knocks the Red Devils out of Region VI playoff contention.

Allen Community College’s Hay-ley Mertens took home NJCAA Division II Vol-leyball Player of the Week honors Wednesday, the second time this season Mertens has claimed the honor.

Playing in eight sets over two matches, Mertens averaged 4.63 kills and compiled a .390 hitting percentage. She posted 4.25 digs per set on defense.

Mertens, a sophomore from Kingman, will wrap up her Red Dev-il career Monday with a match at Northeast Oklahoma A&M College.

Mertenstakes honor

Hayley Mertens

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sweep of the Yankees mean too much rust?

“I just didn’t execute to-night,” Verlander said. “It was kind of a battle from the get-go. They took advan-tage of that and swung the bat pretty well, especially Pablo and (Marco) Scutaro. A couple of good bounces their way, bad for us.”

Game 2 is tonight, with Doug Fister starting for the Tigers against Madison Bumgarner.

Left off the 2010 World Series roster by the cham-pion Giants, Zito shut out the Tigers until Triple Crown winner Miguel Ca-brera’s RBI single in the sixth. The Giants won for the 14th straight time with Zito starting.

“Just the opportunity alone was mind-blowing. Me and my wife were danc-ing around when I heard,” Zito said of getting the Game 1 start. “And then the boys came out swinging and played great defense.”

Sandoval did his damage with his bat. He donated the wood he used for the first two homers to the Hall of Fame — no need for it anymore, he broke it on the backswing of his second shot.

It was certainly a mo-ment of retribution of San-doval. He was benched dur-ing the 2010 World Series, his production and confi-dence down, his weight up. In the stands on this night, fans wearing furry panda hats celebrated with him.

“You have to keep work-ing. I’ve never lost faith to be here,” he said.

Get this: It was the first three-homer game at the stadium originally known as Pac Bell Park since the very first one, when Kevin Elster did it for the Dodg-ers in 2000. Nope, not even home run king Barry Bonds had done this.

Tagged by Sandoval for

a solo shot in the first in-ning, Verlander could only mouth ‘Wow!’ when the Gi-ants star launched a two-run drive in the third that set off another blast of fog horns. Sandoval reprised his power show from this year’s All-Star game, when his bases-loaded triple

highlighted a five-run first inning against Verlander.

Quite a blast from a team that finished last in the ma-jors in homers.

“We’re not known for our power,” manager Bruce Bo-chy noted.

And if there was any doubt that Verlander was shaky, the clearest sign came in the fourth. That’s when Zito, a career .099 hitter, sliced an RBI single with two outs off the cur-rent AL MVP for a 5-0 lead.

The festive crowd stood and applauded when it was announced that Ver-lander was being pulled for a pinch hitter in the fifth. Sandoval gave his follow-ers another reason to get up moments later when he hit a solo homer off reliever Al Alburquerque in the fifth,

answering the cheers by waving his batting helmet in a curtain call.

The Tigers seemed out of sorts in their first game following a five-day layoff. That was an issue in 2006, too, when Verlander and his teammates had nearly a week off before getting wiped out by the Cardi-nals.

“I’m one that’s been around long enough to know that a lot of things happen in this game. This was a big-hyped game with Justin, probably a lot of pressure on him,” Leyland said.

“But I don’t think it had anything to do with the pressure. His fastball com-mand was not good. He got out of sync. He got on fast forward. He just did not

pitch well tonight. It’s that simple,” he said.

Pujols homered three times last year, Jackson ac-complished the feat in 1977 and Ruth did it in 1926 and again in 1928.

For good measure, San-doval lined a single his last time up.

“We were hoping for a water shot but he got a lousy single. Kind of killed the whole deal for us,” Gi-ants reliever Jeremy Af-feldt kidded.

Sandoval is one of a re-cord nine Venezuelans on the Series rosters, and his power performance attract-ed attention way beyond the ballpark.

“There goes the third! Pablo makes history,” Ven-ezuelan President Hugo Chavez tweeted in Spanish.

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“Allen failed to recipro-cate and apply the same ability as Neosho in sets 1 and 2,” Peters said, which led to several extended Pan-ther point runs through the early going.

“Unfortunately, Allen de-cided it was game time too late in the third set,” she said. “This has become a trend that started roughly around a huge conference loss at home to Coffeyville.”

The Coffeyville loss Oct. 10 instigated a season-end-ing slump in which the Red Devils dropped seven of their last nine matches.

“Since that match, Allen has struggled to find six in-dividuals who make a team that wants to win,” Peters said. “Some season-ending injuries have also hurt us along the way, but we have a roster healthy enough to compete; we just fail to do it as a team.”

The Red Devils have the same Region VI record (3-8) as Hesston Community Col-lege, but were relegated to the ninth spot in the stand-ings after losing to Hesston Sept. 19 — Allen’s first loss

to that squad in five years.Peters cited the effort of

three sophomores on the court, Jacqui Ortiz, Hay-ley Mertens and Randi Billings, ‘who played their hearts out tonight.”

Mertens, who recently was named the NJCAA and KJCCC player of the week for the second time this season, led the Red Devils with eight kills, 11 digs, an ace, a solo block and 10 points overall. Ortiz had eight digs, while Danielle Goodman and Sierra Mor-gison added four kills apice.

Sarah Charbonneau had 12 digs. Billing shad two solo blocks.

Allen 16-14-23Neosho Co.            25-25-25Allen’s results: Danielle Good-

man, 4 kills, 3 assists, 2 digs, 4 points; Sierra Morgison, 4 kills, 1 ace, 9 digs, 5 points; Sidney Keith, 1 kill, 6 digs, 1 solo block, 2 points; Adriee Munoz, 5 assists, 1 ace, 9 digs, 1 point; Sarah Charbonneau, 1 ace, 12 digs, 1 point; Jacqui Ortiz, 2 kills, 7 assists, 8 digs, 2 points; Cheyanne Miller, 1 kill, 1 assist, 3 digs, 1 block assist, 1.5 points; Hay-ley Mertens, 8 kills, 1 ace, 11 digs, 1 solo block, 10 points; Randi Billings, 1 assist, 2 solo blocks, 1 block as-sist, 2.5 points; Autumn Douglas, 1 kill, 1 point

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North W L T PctChicago 5 1 0 .833Minnesota 5 2 0 .714Green Bay 4 3 0 .571Detroit 2 4 0 .333

West W L T PctSan Francisco 5 2 0 .714 Arizona 4 3 0 .571Seattle 4 3 0 .571St. Louis 3 4 0 .429Week 7 ResultsSan Francisco 13, Seattle 6Minnesota 21, Arizona 14Green Bay 30, St. Louis 20Houston 43, Baltimore 13N.Y. Giants 27, Washington 23Dallas 19, Carolina 14New Orleans 35, Tampa Bay 28Indianapolis 17, Cleveland 13Tennessee 35, Buffalo 34Oakland 26, Jacksonville 23, OTNew England 29, N.Y. Jets 26, OTPittsburgh 24, Cincinnati 17Chicago 13, Detroit 7Open: Atlanta, Denver, Kansas

City, Miami, Philadelphia, San Di-ego

TonightTampa Bay at Minnesota, 8:20 p.m.

SundayJacksonville at Green Bay, 1 p.m.Indianapolis at Tennessee, 1 p.m.Carolina at Chicago, 1 p.m.Miami at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.San Diego at Cleveland, 1 p.m.Atlanta at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.Seattle at Detroit, 1 p.m.Washington at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.New England vs. St. Louis at Lon-don, 1 p.m.Oakland at Kansas City, 4:05 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 4:25 p.m.New Orleans at Denver, 8:20 p.m.

MondaySan Francisco at Arizona, 8:30 p.m.Open: Baltimore, Buffalo, Cincin-nati, Houston

NFL Standings

Register/Richard LukenAllen Community College volleyball coach Jessica Peters, center, addresses her team during a home match earlier this week. The Red Devils fell on the road Wednesday to Neosho County Community College.

Cup title since 2000.“It’s a totally new season

coming up,” Sapong said.Antoine Hoppenot

scored an equalizer early in the second half for the Union (10-17-6), but Sapong answered when Kamara found him open on the wing late in the game. Sapong’s shot past Union goalkeeper Zac MacMath found the back of the net for his ninth goal of the year.

“We knew it would be a very difficult match today. There wasn’t much for them to lose,” Sporting KC coach Peter Vermes said. “The important thing is that we came out to play.”

Jacob Peterson had the other goal after entering the game as a first-half in-jury substitute for Sport-ing KC (18-7-9). Its fran-chise-record point total of 63 is six clear of second-place D.C. United, which has one game remaining in the regular season this weekend.

Sporting KC opens the two-leg conference semi-finals on the road Nov. 3

or 4 against an opponent yet to be determined. The return match is Nov. 7 at Livestrong Sporting Park.

“We know a whole new season starts,” Vermes said, “and it’s a clean slate, and it’s not going to be easy. I think right now we’re ready for it.”

Peterson came on as a substitute when Paulo Nagamura had to limp off with a sprained left ankle in the 33rd minute. He got his chance to make an impact in the 40th, when Sapong swung a pass to Kamara on the wing, and he pushed the ball ahead to Peterson the breakaway.

Peterson out-ran the Union’s Carlos Valdes to reach it first, and then ripped a shot just past the outstretched hands of MacMath to give Sporting KC a 1-0 lead.

It was Peterson’s career-high fourth goal of the year.

Sporting KC had a chance to add to its lead in the final minute of first-half stoppage time when Sapong set up Graham Zusi in front of the net.

The U.S. national team member sent a shot at MacMath that he saved in self-defense, and then an-other on the rebound that he also saved.

The Union attacked early in the second half, and Matt Besler was called for a foul on Danny Cruz in the penalty area. Mi-chael Farfan took the shot and Jimmy Nielsen made a sprawling save to his left before Hoppenot — a second-half substitute — drove home the rebound for the tying goal.

Hoppenot’s fourth of the year was only the 27th that Sporting KC allowed in 34 games this season, but it proved to be a costly one for Nielsen. The goal-keeper was less than a half away from matching Tony Meola’s MLS and club re-cord with 16 shutouts set during the 2000 season.

“He’ll tell you that the number-one thing is htat we won,” Sporting KC de-fender Matt Besler said. “We’ll all replay that one in our minds a little bit, but it’s not the important thing.”

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Kirthmon F. Dozier/Detroit Free Press/MCTThe San Francisco Giants’ Pablo Sandoval celebrates as he rounds the bases after hitting a home run in the first inning against the Detroit Tigers in Game 1 of the World Series at AT&T Park Wednesday.

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“That’s where I want to go!”

Texas-born Ollie Barton has ridden horses since she was four years old,spending many of those years doing what she loved best – barrel racing. She jokingly told people she would quit when she couldn’t climb a ladder toget on a horse.

When she first had surgery to insert a pin in her hip, she thought she wouldhave to give up her favorite pastime.. “It was never right, even after it washealed. I dealt with the pain.”

“Riding was out. It was so excruciatingly painful,” she said.Ollie began asking friends and acquaintances about their experiences.

Through conversations with her hairdresser, dermatologist and dentist,the names of Dr. William Dillon and Labette Health kept coming up. “That’s why I came.”

After consulting with Dr. Dillon, the orthopedic surgeon, Ollie chose tohave a hip replacement – this time at Labette Health. “When I had it doneagain, I wanted it done right!”

After just two weeks of prescribed physical therapy, and another extendedperiod of voluntary exercise on the treadmill to build up the strength in herleg, Ollie was released. She is back on her horse and barrel racing again.

“There’s absolutely no hip pain,” she said. “I’m just glad I found Parsons over here.”

“That’s where I want to go.”

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By Bryan ThompsonKansas Public Radio

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Kansas has done a good job the past couple of years covering more children with health insurance.

In 2009, 8.2 per cent of children in Kansas were un-insured, according to a new report from the George-town Center on Children and Families. Two years later, the figure was down to 6.4 percent.

That 1.8 percentage point change was the seventh best improvement among states over the period, according to the report. Oregon and Texas improved the most, at 3.1 percentage points each. Missouri — which improved coverage by .2 percentage points — was among the bottom 10 states in reducing the percentage of its uninsured children.

Much of Kansas’ in-crease in coverage for children is attributable to the state’s Healthwave pro-gram — which insures chil-dren whose families earn a little too much to qualify for Medicaid — said Suzanne Wikle, director of policy and research for the non-profit advocacy group, Kan-sas Action for Children.

“In 2010, the eligibility

level for our Healthwave program was increased to account for the fastest-growing group of unin-sured children, who were just above the eligibil-ity line at that point. So we made the program avail-able to many more unin-sured children in the state. That’s had a very big im-pact,” Wikle said.

Wikle said the state has also done a better job of

marketing the Healthwave program. She’s worried, though, that when Health-wave is incorporated into KanCare the name change may confuse some families and cause them to miss out on coverage they’re eligible for.

Kancare is Gov. Brown-back’s plan to move most of the state’s 380,000 Med-icaid enrollees into man-aged care plans operated by

three insurance companies.Currently, large man-

aged care companies pro-vide services only to chil-dren and pregnant women from low-income families through HealthWave.

The authors of the Georgetown report say full implementation of the Af-fordable Care Act is the next opportunity to make substantial progress on in-suring children.

State NewsNumbers up on uninsured youth

By GARY DEMUTHThe Salina Journal

ABILENE, Kan. (AP) — Charles Slaughter brought his own hamburger to school to save his brain cells.

Charles, a 16-year-old ju-nior at Abilene Senior High School, sat in the hallway near the cafeteria Tuesday munching on his burger, which he called “real meat made on the grill.”

Charles, along with other like-minded students, was participating in part of a weeklong protest of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, a federal stat-ute signed into law by Pres-ident Barack Obama.

The bill has set new stan-dards for child nutrition programs and free lunch programs in schools. It cre-ates higher standards for the nutritional quality of food served in schools, in-creases the required num-ber of servings of fruits and vegetables and cuts down on the calorie content of food items offered to stu-dents.

The idea for the stu-dent protest originated in teacher Wendy Sherbert’s World History classes. Stu-dents were inspired while studying the life of Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, who led India to indepen-dence from British colonial rule through the practice of nonviolent civil disobe-dience.

The students wondered if they could mount a simi-lar peaceful protest against the new lunch regulations at school.

“We thought we could put what Gandhi taught into real life,” said fresh-man Gehrig Geissinger, 14. “We’re hoping to provoke a response, that someone sees what we are doing and does something about this. I hope other schools do this.”

Gehrig said that if the students don’t buy cafete-ria meals, the school will lose money.

“The biggest way to get into someone’s head is to mess with their pockets,” he said.

Participating in the pro-test was no big deal for se-nior Kae Brown, 17. Kae, who sat in the hallway nursing a soft drink during lunch period, said she usu-ally doesn’t buy cafeteria meals but understands the motivation behind the pro-test.

“People complained there wasn’t enough food before, so I can see why they throw a fit now,” she said.

Sherbert said she’s proud of her students for peace-fully protesting something they strongly disagree with.

“They’ve been very re-spectful and quiet,” she said. “This is not about

food, but about control, and what role the government plays — if the government should be a substitute for parents teaching their own children.”

“Most people have been supportive of what we’re doing,” Sherbert said.

Sherbert said she hopes the protest can continue longer than one short week.

Will Burton, Abilene High School’s assistant principal, said the protest has been a beneficial learn-ing experience for students.

“They learned about Gandhi’s experience and decided to protest in a peaceful way about what they feel is a wrongdoing,” he said. “It’s a current hot topic in the nation, and we felt it was a good way to in-corporate things they had learned in class.”

Despite the protest, freshman Dylan Ford said it didn’t mean they disliked the job being done by the “lunch ladies.”

“They feel bad for us, but they have to follow the rules,” said Dylan, 14.

Food server Kari Beetch said she understood why students were upset about the decreased amount of food offered at lunch.

“We have to serve what we’re told,” she said. “But the amount of food served should be based on the in-dividual. Every kid needs different calories. You have one kid who’s muscular and athletic and another who’s a small, skinny kid and feed them the same calories. You can’t compare them.”

Students protest school mealsWe’re hoping

to provoke a re-ponse, that some-one does some-thing about this. I hope other schools do this.

— Gherig Geissinger

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By ROXANA HEGEMANAssociated Press

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo said he believes abortions should be allowed only when necessary to save the life of the mother, while his Democratic challenger Rob-ert Tillman vows to back abortion rights.

Pompeo, who was swept into office in the Novem-ber 2010 conservative tide that took the House, told The Associated Press that he would not support any other exception that would permit abortions, even in cases where the mother had been raped.

“I believe that that child — however conceived — is a life and I want very much for that life to continue to exist,” Pompeo said.

The conservative Repub-lican said that he voted while in Congress to defund Planned Parenthood, which he called the “largest com-mercial provider of abor-tions in the United States.” Even though no federal money goes to fund abor-tions, Pompeo contended that the clinics use those federal resources to help pay for their facilities.

Republicans hold all four of Kansas’ congressional seats, but Democrats are contesting only two in the fall: the 2nd District held by Rep. Lynn Jenkins and the 4th District held by Pom-peo.

Pompeo faces an election challenge from Tillman, a retired court services offi-cer and an ardent supporter of President Barack Obama who credits the president as his inspiration to seek

public office.“Republicans are not

really serious about the abortion issue,” Tillman said. “They use it as a push-button issue to keep people riled up, keep them angry and keep them voting for the Republican Party.”

Wichita was the site of the 1991 “Summer of Mer-cy” protests, which includ-ed attempts to block Tiller’s clinic and led to more than 2,700 arrests.

Tillman said abortion rights was not a campaign issue for him, because it was resolved with Roe v. Wade, the landmark Su-preme Court ruling legaliz-ing abortions.

But the divisive social is-sue has garnered renewed attention nationally in the presidential race. Obama supports access to abortion. GOP challenger Mitt Rom-ney says Roe v. Wade rul-ing should be overturned, which would allow states to ban abortion.

The 4th District is also home to the state’s aviation industry, where companies such as Cessna, Hawker Beechcraft, Bombardier Learjet, Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems have strug-gled during the economic downturn. Hawker Beech-craft is in bankruptcy, and Boeing is leaving town when it closes its defense work next year.

Pompeo was elected in 2010 to his first term, beat-ing state Rep. Raj Goyle by a 59-36 percent margin. Pom-peo replaced GOP Rep. Todd Tiahrt, who decided not to seek re-election and lost the Republican U.S. Senate pri-mary to Jerry Moran.

Pompeo: abortions not OK in rape cases

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State Uni-versity has received a $200,000 grant to help de-velop solar-powered charg-ing stations for electric and hybrid vehicles.

The money comes from a foundation for Overland

Park-based engineering and construction firm Black & Veatch. The uni-versity says in a news re-lease that solar panels will power charging stations for plug-in vehicles.

Project leader and chem-ical engineering professor

Larry Erickson says solar-powered charging stations and plug-in vehicles have the potential to signifi-cantly change greenhouse gas emissions. He also said it’s less expensive to oper-ate vehicles with electrical energy and that advantage

is expected to grow.He and others oversee-

ing the project are explor-ing a time line, design and site for the project. The station would be used for research, development, education and charging ve-hicles.

KSU to develop solar car chargers

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SEWING MACHINE SERVICE Over 40 years experience! House calls! Guaranteed!

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Maytag large capacity washer, Amana electric dryer, 3 years old, $275 for both. Serta pillow-top mattress and box springs $130, 620-363-0417.

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FOR SALE: (3) female Japenese Chin puppies, w/2 sets shots, 620-363-0286.

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COMPOSTED COW MANURE, $30 pickup load, Harry 620-365-9176.

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Help Wanted PART-TIME COOK, weekends/nights, experience preferred but not necessary. Apply in person Sil-verado’s, Piqua. DAY/NIGHT COOKS AND CAR HOPS, Sonic Drive In of Iola is looking for a few dependable peo-ple! Good wages for good workers! Must be able to pass drug & back-ground screenings. Apply in person ONLY! No phone calls please. EOE. Chanute bank is looking for an ENTRY LEVEL IT HELP DESK TECHNICIAN to fill a full or part-time position. Previous help desk experience preferred. Will be re-sponsible for responding to inqui-ries and requests for assistance with software and computer hard-ware issues. Must be able to lift over 50lbs. We offer competitive salary, benefits that include 401K, Medical, Dental, Life, Disability, Vi-sion and Cancer insurance. Mail resumes to Attn: HR, PO Box 628, Chanute, KS 66720.

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Help Wanted PART-TIME FRY COOK, at Ameri-can Legion, 712 W. Patterson, apply after 3 p.m.

HOOVERS THRIFTWAY in Burlington looking for help in the

Deli and Meat Department. Experience helpful but will

train right individuals. Please apply in person.No phone calls please.

314 Cross St. Burlington, KS 66039 Pacer Energy Marketing, a crude oil transport company with head-quarters in Tulsa, has immediate opening in the Central and Pitts-burg Kansas area for a CRUDE OIL SALES REPRESENTATIVE. This position will develop customer relationships, purchase and main-tain crude oil lease volumes from area crude oil producers. Requires understanding of deal flow from lease set up to payment to custom-ers. Excellent computer skills and strong communication/customer service skills are a must. Degree required. Email resumes to hr@nbiservices.com or fax to 918-584-4128. CHILDREN’S AIDE. Working with children after school 12-18 hours/Mon-Thur. Requires driver’s license and reliable ve-hicle. Prefer experience w/children. Minimum 18 years old. Drug screen required. Call Michelle at 620-365-5717 if questions. Southeast Kan-sas Mental Health Center, PO Box 807, Iola, KS 66749. Applications at local SEKMHC office. EOE/AA.

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REAL ESTATE AUCTION, nomi-nal opening bid: $10,000, 1221 4600 Street, Moran, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 2,340sf+/-. Sells 1:00pm Fri., Oct. 26 on site, williamsauc-tion.com, 1-800-801-8003. Many properties now available for on-line bidding! A Buyer’s Premium may apply. Williams & Williams KS Broker: Daniel Nelson Re Lic BR00231987; Williams & Williams Re Lic CO90060880.

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1999 PONTIAC GRAND AM, new tires on back, new brakes, red, needs motor, $500 firm, call after 5p.m. 620-380-6212.

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PUBLIC AUCTION PUBLIC AUCTION Sat., October 27, 2012 – 9:30 a.m. Sat., October 27, 2012 – 9:30 a.m.

Personal Property 1453 Violet Road • Piqua 1453 Violet Road • Piqua

Sun., October 28, 2012 – 1:30 p.m. Sun., October 28, 2012 – 1:30 p.m. Real Estate

Piqua Knights of Columbus Hall • Piqua Piqua Knights of Columbus Hall • Piqua Seller: Wallace L. Peine Estate Seller: Wallace L. Peine Estate

FARM EQUIPMENT & FARM ITEMS: AC 180; Case 2670; Ford 8N; FARM EQUIPMENT & FARM ITEMS: Ford F800 dump truck; single axle 4 wheeler trailer; bottom plow; 7’ field cultivator; 7’ 3 pt chisel; 7’ 3 pt blade; BMB 6’ 3 pt rotary mower; Landoll disk chisel harrow 15’; 2 wheel trailer; 125 fuel tank with electric pump; new 5’ 3 pt King Kutter blade; (2) 300 gal. fuel tanks; Krause tandem disk 20’; 4 section harrow on wheels; M & M 5-14 plow semi-mount; Krause field cultivator; 20’ bush hog chisel 3 pt; 4 wheel trailer running gears only; (2) 4 wheel hay trailer; 2 wheel trailer with wench; 3 pt John Deere rotary hoe 4 sections; tandem axle tilt implement trailer ; TOOLS: Pacific Equipment air TOOLS: compressor; air bubble; Campbell Haufeld portable air compressor; Stanley battery pack jumper; 2 small iron tables; gas power washer; Snap On tool chest 4 drawer; Haulmaster electric winch; Jacobson gas mower, Kohler engine 60” cut; Waterloo 10 drawer tool chest; heaters; old furnace; electric planer with table saw; Chicago chop saw; metal desk; chair; wood lathe; metal bolt bin; platform scale; belt sander; Pacific generator diesel 7500 (new); Pacific generator gas (new); pedestal grinder; 20th Century electric welder; sand blaster; Duracraft industrial drill press; scroll saw; gas generator 5000; bench w/vise & grinder; welding helmets; c-clamps; aluminum ladders; Shop Vac; power washer gas; 3 battery chargers; set of aluminum ramps; gas trash pump; Heckendorf mower 36”; front tine garden tiller; PU tool box; table saw; hand clamps; barrel pump; several metal lockers; 2 refrigerators; 4” electric augers; wheelbarrow; 3 metal pickup stock racks; Dodge car, salvage only; metal hay feeders; wood creep feeder small; lumber; wire fencing panels; boxes of misc. hand tools: wrenches, hammers, saw, screwdrivers, and lots more; John Deere riding lawn mower 110 and John Deere riding lawn mower 145; motor lift; ATV POLARIS 500 4X4 AND POLARIS 400 ATV POLARIS 500 4X4 AND POLARIS 400 4X4 AND A YAMAHA ELECTRIC GOLF CART; ANTIQUE 4X4 AND A YAMAHA ELECTRIC GOLF CART; ANTIQUE TRACTORS: Farmall B; Super A; Case VAC; (2) SC; AC B; John Deere B; TRACTORS: ANTIQUES: old equipment 1 row Lister and 2 old Listers; 5’ horse mower; ANTIQUES: (2) bottom plow on steel wheels; old cultivator; disk; 3 pt 1 row cultivator; antique drill press; kerosene lanterns; 2 Maytag square tub washers electric; iron implement seats; old gas stove; McWhite Panama coal stove; Pioneer hand washer with wringer; antique hand tools; wash tubs; wire egg baskets; and lots more antiques; large metal windmill and lots of scrap iron REAL ESTATE: 830 Acres to be sold in 7 tracts all within 2 miles. REAL ESTATE: 830 Acres to be sold in 7 tracts all within 2 miles. We will bring it all back together in one tract with $60,000 add to We will bring it all back together in one tract with $60,000 add to total price for opening bid. total price for opening bid.

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HUGH POLLMAN AUCTION Oct. 13, 2012

rescheduled for Sat., October 27

10 a.m. 702 Pecan,Humboldt

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Sat. 8 am-1 pm 7 mi. N & 1 / 4 mi. W on 169 Hwy. 1631 West Virginia Rd.,

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Garage Sales Farm Yard Sale, 1631 West Vir-ginia Rd., (7 miles north & 1/4 mile west on Highway 169), Friday 4-6, Saturday 8-1.

Colony United Methodist Church, Chicken noodle supper October 27 5:30-8:00 Bizzarre and Quilt Raffle 203 CANARY LANE, Saturday 8-?. Nice women’s and boy’s cloth-ing, coats, toys, antique dining ta-ble, cabana dog bed, lots of miscel-laneous! Rain or shine!

CANCER BENEFIT SALE, Eagle Valley Storage, Hwy 54 in Gas, KS, Friday 8-6 & Saturday 8-2. New stuff, new clothes with tags, desk hutch, entry table, lamps, bed-spread, pool cue, tan hospital chair, dryer, kitchen stand, Wolfgang blender, hide-a-bed, LARGE SALE.

CARLYLE, 28 COVERT, Saturday 8-4. Antiques, duck decor, (6) re-placement windows, tools, lots of miscellaneous.

MORAN, 404 N. PINE, Saturday 8-5. Care Bear & fire truck crib sets, (2) car seats, clothes size 4-10, men’s jeans, toys.

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411 N. Cottonwood — $ 42,000 . 2 BD, 1 BA central H/A, detached garage, fenced in backyard. All appliances go with sale. 410 E. Madison — $ 40,000 . Good solid bones - 2 story - 4 BD, 2 1 ⁄ 2 BA, service basement. New roof, new central H/A, complete reno - vation started, ready to finish. for the ‘Project Lover.’ Selling as-is. 518 E. Jackson — $ 91,500 . 4 BD, 2 BA, 2 car oversized attached garage. Very spacious home. Priced to sell! 420 E. Jackson — $ 69,500 . Very attractive 3 BD home. Lots of character & space. Basement, 2 car detached garage. Central heat. Excellent home for retired couple or small family. 516 N. Jefferson — $ 17,500 . 3 BD, 1 BA, Cent H/A, roof recently replaced - metal. Just appraised for a quick sale. A good investment prop - erty or great for a college student. To see contact Lisa Sigg

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Sandy intensi-fied into the season's 10th hurricane on Wednesday morning as it closed in on Jamaica.

Because the system is expected to bring gusty winds and potentially heavy rain to Florida's east coast today and Friday, a tropical storm watch has been issued from the Bre-vard-Volusia county line south to the Upper Keys.

Sandy is expected to ar-rive in the central Baha-mas this afternoon as a

strong tropical storm, as it should be weakened by wind shear and dry air.

On Friday morning, it is predicted to be about 200 miles east of Miami, its closest approach to Flori-da.

It is forecast to generate sustained winds of 25 to 35 mph with occasional gusts to 50 mph, as well as 1 to 2 inches of rain in South Florida.

The worst conditions are expected to move in tonight and through Friday.

For South Florida, San-dy should be a less rainy-squally event than Hur-

ricane Isaac was in late August — because this time, the region is on the storm's drier side, said me-teorologist Robert Molleda of the National Weather Service in Miami.

Just the same, there still is some potential for mi-nor flooding, he said.

“We’re going to be the far western side of the circulation, so probably the heaviest rain will re-main offshore,” he said. “But if the system nudges just a little to the west or grows larger in size, the rain bands could hug the coast.”

Sandy intensifies into a hurricane