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CROSS COUNTRY ACC cross country teams compete at Wichita See B1 Locally owned since 1867 www.iolaregister.com Tuesday, September 4, 2012 101/72 Details, A6 The IOLA REGISTER Vol. 114, No. 217 75 Cents Iola, KS By BOB JOHNSON [email protected] Hannah Platt considered teaching when she was a stu- dent. Platt is a new fourth grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary. During her senior year at Iola High School, 2005-06, Platt mentored students at McKin- ley Elementary and found the experience so rewarding that it decided her course of study in college. Following two years at Al- len Community College, she enrolled in elementary educa- tion at Ottawa University, a col- lege she picked because it was small and gave her an at-home feeling. “I learned a lot” during the mentoring experience, Platt said. She spent her senior semes- ter at Ottawa student-teaching in the Central Heights (Rich- mond) district, which fortified Platt’s decision to make teach- ing her career. Being able to return home to teach was icing on the cake. “WE DO a lot,” Platt ob- served of her daily routine. Platt said this age group has a good handle on most of the core subjects. Even so, on- going review of what they have learned is very much a part of the educational process. So are some things that a few years ago might have come as a surprise in an elementary classroom. “We’re learning to write from 1 to 10 in Japanese,” she said. “It’s part of Grandfather’s Journey,” the textbook for lan- guage arts, Platt said. Foreign language interludes are meant to pique the students’ interest beyond everyday occurrences. New to the district Hannah Platt See PLATT | Page A6 Taste of teaching led to career SATURDAY WAS COLONY’S DAY Register/Bob Johnson Gary Garretson, Coffeyville, demonstrated blacksmithing tech- niques at Colony Days. Register/Bob Johnson Left, Amy Shannon and son Creed, part of the Allen County Rough Riders contingent in the Colony Day parade, wave to spectators. Right, Charlene Tinsley, Colony Day grand marshal, is surrounded by kids on her parade float. Register/Bob Johnson The Colony Day parade filled several blocks of Broad Street, the town’s main thoroughfare, Saturday. By BOB JOHNSON [email protected] COLONY — Mother Nature smiled on Colony Saturday, pro- viding cloud cover from the out- er edge of tropical storm Isaac to keep summertime temperatures at bay much of the day. Festivities included a 30-min- ute parade, volleyball and inflat- able toys. Vendors offered funnel cakes, curly fries and a variety of sand- wiches. Two luncheon specials drew crowds to downtown’s Col- ony Diner. Smoke swirled in the breeze from Gary Garretson’s forge, prompting the Coffeyville black- smith to urge spectators to “stand back a bit, you don’t want a nose full of smoke.” Garretson heated ends of a small horseshoe to cherry red and then changed its configura- tion with a small sledge on an anvil. Someone had asked him to make a card holder. In self-deprecating humor, Garretson referred to the piece of curled iron as “more of a mis- take.” He was one of several artisans who took advantage of the event to show off their skills. Garretson, a welder by trade, got his start in blacksmith- ing with Sam Shaw, the “last real blacksmith to work in Cof- feyville.” “I spent 1982-85 working with Sam as an apprentice,” he said, who allowed he got a taste of the process as a kid pounding iron on his dad’s anvil. In a demonstration, Garretson noted “the more you hammer on a horseshoe, the harder it gets.” Isaac remnants keep temps down during festivities High-schoolers enjoy second breakfasts By RICHARD LUKEN [email protected] Nutrition comes in a hurry for Iola High School students these days. Nearly 100 high-schoolers have taken advantage of “second breakfast,” a 10-minute break midway through their morning schedules in order to grab what amounts to nutritious snacks be- fore they return to class. Offerings include breakfast bars, Pop-Tarts, slices of zucchini bread or other similarly packaged items, as well as milk or juice. The program was developed through the encouragement of the United States Department of Agriculture, which is looking for ways to increase breakfast partic- ipation among students. Register/Richard Luken Iola High School students, from left, Garrett Tomlinson, Duncan Brookes, Gage Tomlinson and Devon Simpson sort through their drink options during a “second breakfast” session at the school. Assisting is food service employee Peggy Bain. See BREAKFAST | Page A6 Bomb threats thwart businesses By RICHARD LUKEN [email protected] An investigation continues into a series of bomb threats phoned into Iola businesses Friday night and Saturday. The first threat, called into Iola Walmart, prompted store officials to order a mandatory evacuation Friday. Iola police officers, assisted by Allen County sheriff ’s deputies, closed off a portion of North State Street until a pair of Kansas High- way Patrol dogs capable of detect- ing explosives were summoned to the scene. Dogs were brought in from To- peka and Independence to search for explosives. After none was found, the scene was cleared at about 11 p.m., Iola Police Chief Jared Warner said. Store officials at Orscheln Farm & Home and Dollar General also shuttered their businesses when notified of the threat. Three more threats were phoned See BOMB | Page A6
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CROSS COUNTRY ACC cross country teams compete at
WichitaSee B1
Locally owned since 1867 www.iolaregister.comTuesday, September 4, 2012
101/72Details, A6
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Vol. 113, No. 209 75 Cents Iola, KS
Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —
At the bandstand Jim Garner, directorThursday, July 7, 2011 8 p.m.
PROGRAMStar Spangled Banner ..................................................arr. J.P. SousaAmericans We — march .......................................... Henry FillmoreRock, Rhythm and Blues — medley ......................arr. Jack BullockArmy of the Nile — march ...................................Kenneth J. AlfordBegin of the Beguine ...................................................... Cole PorterInvercargill — march ...................................................Alex LithgowHymn to the Fallen.................................... John Williams/SweeneyMen of Ohio — march ............................................. Henry FillmoreA Sixties Time Capsule — medley .............................. arr. JenningsThe Washington Post — march ...................................John P. Sousa
Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.
Register/Richard LukenMules Pat and Pete pull an antique sickle bar mower piloted by Ray Whiteley of Le Roy. Whiteley was joined by Greg Gleue in cutting an 18-acre prairie hay field Tuesday.
By SUSAN [email protected]
If you’ve got enough of it, Fri-day night is the night to let your hair down.
One sure test is to participate in the “Drag Race” as a runup to the Charlie Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life race.
Men and women alike are en-couraged to dress in a cross-gen-der manner and then “compete” in teams of four in a relay. Last
year a woman’s garter was trans-ferred from one participant’s leg to another.
“It’s better than a baton,” said David Toland, executive director of Thrive Allen County and one of the organizers for Friday’s events.
If you don’t have a thing to wear — no worries.
Dresses, hats, purses, jewelry and other accoutrements will be available at Elizabeth Donnelly’s
The Shirt Shop, 20 W. Jackson, where participants will have a wide selection from which to choose. Doors open at 10 p.m.
Registration to participate in the drag race is $5. That also gains participants entrance to a 9:30 p.m. pre-party at the Thrive office, 12 W. Jackson. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Thrive office or Friday night on
By RICHARD [email protected]
LE ROY — Unlike the mecha-nized behemoths of today, Ray Whiteley’s mowing outfit was considerably quieter.
His “engine” — a pair of 1,200-pound mules — needed only an occasional break from the sti-fling summer heat as Whiteley traversed his way around an 18-acre prairie hay meadow.
“It’s a little warm, so we’ve been taking it easy,” Whiteley said. “It’s our little hobby.”
The mules were pulling White-ley’s antique sickle bar mower, a small wagon with cutting bar
attached. The bar was triggered through a gear box engaged as its wheels roll.
With no mechanical engine to speak of, the only noise emanat-ing from his unit was from the teeth of the seven-foot cutting bar rotating back and forth.
Joining Whiteley was neighbor and friend Greg Gleue, with his own mowing outfit, another sick-le bar mower pulled by a pair of Percheron draft horses.
“We’re having some fun with it,” Whiteley joked. “Greg’s kind of a wimp about it. He needs a
Mowing effort recalls yesteryear
Ray Whiteley
Register/Susan LynnThese men are ready to leave their inhibitions at home as they participate in Friday night’s favorite race, the drag race. From left to right are Matt Skahan, Brian Wolfe, Nic Lohman, David Toland and Fred Heismeyer. The race begins at 10:30 p.m. on the courthouse square.
By BOB [email protected]
Calls to the 911 dispatch center average one almost every 10 min-utes.
And while that may sound a lit-tle slow, played out over 24 hours a day and every day of the year, the total comes to 55,000.
“That’s what we received last year,” Angie Murphy, dispatch center director, told Allen County commissioners Tuesday morn-ing.
The call total — she figures half or more are for true emer-gencies — wasn’t the point of her appearance, but the magnitude of the number captivated commis-sioners.
Murphy was before commis-sioners to request a 20 percent increase in the department’s bud-get for 2012, up $126,000 over this year’s $490,000.
The increase seemed pretty hefty. Murphy reasoned health insurance will cost an additional $50,000 and another $6,000 was expected for Kansas Public Em-
Put that ego on the shelf, boys
See EGO | Page B6
By JOE [email protected]
When Brian Pekarek was hired as superintendent of the Iola school district in February, he saw an opportunity to “reinvigo-rate” USD 257.
With a focus on academic achievement and public transpar-ency, Pekarek hopes he can fur-ther success for the district and the more than 1,300 students rely-ing on it.
Pekarek walks his talk. A na-
By BOB [email protected]
An anticipated field of a thou-sand runners and walkers, who will flee Iola’s downtown busi-ness district early Saturday as Charley Melvin did in 1905, can be thankful that Melvin chose to do his dastardly deed in the mid-dle of the night.
Had the event being commemo-rated occurred in mid-day, par-ticipants would battle oppressive heat and humidity, with both forecast at the upper end of the discomfort scale during daytime Friday and Saturday. As is, they will run and walk in somewhat more inviting temperatures pre-dicted for the low 70s by 12:26 a.m. Saturday.
The race — many walkers will be out for a stroll — will cap activ-ities that start late Friday after-noon and will go on throughout the evening. Included will be the much-awaited “drag race,” fea-turing some of the area’s finest men and women dressed in drag.
Chris Weiner at Thrive Allen County, co-sponsor with Allen County Crimestoppers for “The Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run for your Life,” said total of partic-ipants was approaching 450, with about 200 signed on for the 5-kilo-meter run. The walk will follow a 3-kilometer course.
“Registration, including prob-ably a fifth online, has really
picked up,” Weiner said Tuesday afternoon. As in the past, “we ex-pect a lot of people to sign up Fri-day night.”
Cost is $12 for the walk. Run-ners’ fees are $14 for youth to age 17, $20 for adults and $17 each for members of teams.
Runners in the third annual event will aim for best times of 15.40.06 for males and 20.44.78 for females, set last year.
Sticks of “Melvin Dy-No-Mite” will be awarded the first three places for males and females in each of five ages groups, 15 and under, 16-30, 31-45, 46-60 and 61 and over.
All participants will break from in front of the post office. Runners will follow a course that will take them on West to Wash-ington, then Jackson, Jefferson and East to Cottonwood. They
Temps for runlook inviting
See TEMPS | B6
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
See CHEATING | Page A5See MOWING | Page A5See COUNTY | Page A5
See PEKAREK | Page A5
Vol. 114, No. 217 75 Cents Iola, KS
By BOB [email protected]
Hannah Platt considered teaching when she was a stu-dent. Platt is a new fourth grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary.
During her senior year at Iola High School, 2005-06, Platt mentored students at McKin-ley Elementary and found the experience so rewarding that it decided her course of study in college.
Following two years at Al-len Community College, she enrolled in elementary educa-tion at Ottawa University, a col-lege she picked because it was small and gave her an at-home feeling.
“I learned a lot” during the mentoring experience, Platt said.
She spent her senior semes-ter at Ottawa student-teaching in the Central Heights (Rich-mond) district, which fortified Platt’s decision to make teach-ing her career.
Being able to return home to teach was icing on the cake.
“WE DO a lot,” Platt ob-served of her daily routine.
Platt said this age group
has a good handle on most of the core subjects. Even so, on-going review of what they have learned is very much a part of the educational process.
So are some things that a few years ago might have come as a surprise in an elementary classroom.
“We’re learning to write from 1 to 10 in Japanese,” she said.
“It’s part of Grandfather’s Journey,” the textbook for lan-guage arts, Platt said. Foreign language interludes are meant to pique the students’ interest beyond everyday occurrences.
New to the district
Hannah Platt
See PLATT | Page A6
Taste of teaching led to career
SATURDAY WAS COLONY’S DAY
Register/Bob JohnsonGary Garretson, Coffeyville, demonstrated blacksmithing tech-niques at Colony Days.
Register/Bob JohnsonLeft, Amy Shannon and son Creed, part of the Allen County Rough Riders contingent in the Colony Day parade, wave to spectators. Right, Charlene Tinsley, Colony Day grand marshal, is surrounded by kids on her parade float.
Register/Bob JohnsonThe Colony Day parade filled several blocks of Broad Street, the town’s main thoroughfare, Saturday.
By BOB [email protected]
COLONY — Mother Nature smiled on Colony Saturday, pro-viding cloud cover from the out-er edge of tropical storm Isaac to keep summertime temperatures at bay much of the day.
Festivities included a 30-min-ute parade, volleyball and inflat-able toys.
Vendors offered funnel cakes, curly fries and a variety of sand-wiches. Two luncheon specials drew crowds to downtown’s Col-ony Diner.
Smoke swirled in the breeze
from Gary Garretson’s forge, prompting the Coffeyville black-smith to urge spectators to “stand back a bit, you don’t want a nose full of smoke.”
Garretson heated ends of a small horseshoe to cherry red and then changed its configura-tion with a small sledge on an anvil.
Someone had asked him to make a card holder.
In self-deprecating humor, Garretson referred to the piece of curled iron as “more of a mis-take.”
He was one of several artisans
who took advantage of the event to show off their skills.
Garretson, a welder by trade, got his start in blacksmith-ing with Sam Shaw, the “last
real blacksmith to work in Cof-feyville.”
“I spent 1982-85 working with Sam as an apprentice,” he said, who allowed he got a taste of the
process as a kid pounding iron on his dad’s anvil.
In a demonstration, Garretson noted “the more you hammer on a horseshoe, the harder it gets.”
Isaac remnants keep temps down during festivities
High-schoolers enjoy second breakfastsBy RICHARD LUKEN
[email protected] comes in a hurry for
Iola High School students these days.
Nearly 100 high-schoolers have taken advantage of “second breakfast,” a 10-minute break midway through their morning schedules in order to grab what amounts to nutritious snacks be-fore they return to class.
Offerings include breakfast bars, Pop-Tarts, slices of zucchini bread or other similarly packaged items, as well as milk or juice.
The program was developed through the encouragement of the United States Department of Agriculture, which is looking for ways to increase breakfast partic-ipation among students.
Register/Richard LukenIola High School students, from left, Garrett Tomlinson, Duncan Brookes, Gage Tomlinson and Devon Simpson sort through their drink options during a “second breakfast” session at the school. Assisting is food service employee Peggy Bain.
See BREAKFAST | Page A6
Bomb threats thwart businesses By RICHARD LUKEN
[email protected] investigation continues into
a series of bomb threats phoned into Iola businesses Friday night and Saturday.
The first threat, called into Iola Walmart, prompted store officials to order a mandatory evacuation Friday.
Iola police officers, assisted by Allen County sheriff ’s deputies, closed off a portion of North State Street until a pair of Kansas High-way Patrol dogs capable of detect-ing explosives were summoned to the scene.
Dogs were brought in from To-peka and Independence to search for explosives.
After none was found, the scene was cleared at about 11 p.m., Iola Police Chief Jared Warner said.
Store officials at Orscheln Farm & Home and Dollar General also shuttered their businesses when notified of the threat.
Three more threats were phoned
See BOMB | Page A6
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TodayAllen County Historical Society Board of Directors meting, 7
p.m., ACHS Museum, 20 S. Washington Ave.Knights of Columbus, 7 p.m., St. John’s Parish Center.
WednesdayPrenatal classes, 6 p.m., Mary Ellen Stadler conference room
at Allen County Hospital, to register for session call Sharilyn Lamb at (620) 365-1054.
ThursdayRotary Club, noon, The Greenery.Take Off Pounds Sensibly No. KS 880, Iola, 5 p.m. weigh-in,
5:30 meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church, 118 W. Jackson.Farmers Market, 5:30 p.m., southwest corner of Iola square.Iola Public Library board meeting, 6 p.m., Flewharty-Powell
Annex.
FridayAllen County Hospital Auxiliary meeting, 1:30 p.m., hospital
conference room.Senior Citizens Card Club potluck dinner, 5:30 p.m., senior
citizens center, 204 N. Jefferson.
SaturdayBreakfast for military retirees, veterans and their spouses, 8
a.m., B & B Cafe in Iola, Sgt. David McCord will speak about his experience serving in Afghanistan.
SundaySons of the American Legion meeting, 2:30 p.m., Post Home.Cancer Support Group, 10-11 a.m., Parish Hall at St. John’s
Catholic Church.
MondaySorosis Club, 9:30 a.m., Community National Bank meeting
room.Iola City Council meeting, 6 p.m., New Community Building at
Riverside Park.USD 257 school board meeting, 6:30 p.m., Iola High School
lecture hall.Marmaton Valley USD 256 school board meeting, 7 p.m., dis-
trict office in Moran.Humboldt City Council, 7 p.m., Humboldt City Hall.USD 479 school board meeting, 7 p.m., Crest board office in
Colony.Allen County Chapter American Cancer Society, 7 p.m., confer-
ence room at Allen County Hospital.USD 258 school board meeting, 7:30 p.m., school board office
in Humboldt.
Saturday and SundayElsmore’s 43rd annual Rural-Town Days celebration, Satur-
day’s events include an 11 a.m. parade, barbecued pork dinner at noon, kids games, baby contest and free bean feed at 4 p.m., golf tournament is Sunday at Cedarbrook Golf Course in Iola, call Loraine Price, (620) 754-3487 to register.
George HardwickGeorge William Hardwick, 82,
Iola, died Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012, at Moran Manor.
George was born Feb. 4, 1930, in Fort Scott, the son of Mon-tie Leonard and Helen Elizabeth (Schmidt) Hard-wick. He grew up in Fort Scott where he gradu-ated from high school and received his business degree from Fort Scott Junior College.
He worked for the railroad in Kansas City, for Lindy Gas in Neosho, Mo., and was office man-ager for Union Carbide in Omaha before being transferred to Hous-ton. George returned to Kansas after he retired in 1991.
George attended St. John’s Catholic Church in Iola and Knights of Columbus before en-tering the nursing home.
He is survived by a brother, Robert “Bob” Hardwick and wife Fay, Iola, and a host of nieces,
nephews and great-nieces and great-nephews. He was preceded in death by three brothers, Har-old, Don and John Hardwick, and a sister, Louise Meyer.
Cremation has taken place with inurnment in West Plains Cemetery near Fort Scott. Family services will be later.
The family wishes to thank the Moran Manor Family and Dr. Bri-an Wolfe for the wonderful care they gave George.
Memorials may be left at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memori-al Chapel for the Multiple Sclero-sis Society, American Cancer So-ciety, Moran Manor or St. John’s Catholic Church.
Online condolences for the fam-ily may be left at www.iolafuner-al.com.
Fred AndersonFred E. Anderson, 90, Iola, died
Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012, at his home.Funeral arrangements and
complete obituary information will be available later.
Online condolences for the fam-ily may be left at www.iolafuner-al.com.
Riley MooreRiley E. Moore, brother of Hel-
en Moore Gilpin, was born Oct. 13, 1914, in Topeka, to Riley R. and Birdie O. (Greenough) Moore. He died of complications from pros-tate cancer on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, at 97 at his home in Lacey, Wash., with his family around him.
Riley had two siblings, George (deceased) and a sister, Helen, 96, currently residing in Iola. Ri-ley spent his early childhood in Topeka and Chicago, where his father worked as an advertising and marketing manager for Cap-per Publications.
Riley attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence from 1932 through 1937 where he studied pre-medicine and was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
In 1935 he married his long-time sweetheart, Winifred Rafter, whom he had known since grade school. Their only child, Riley R. Moore II, was born in 1936.
Riley was employed with the In-ternational Harvester Implement Company from 1937 until his re-tirement in 1974. Riley worked in
the Overseas Division of Interna-tional Harvester in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1951-1955) and manag-er in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1955-1963). Leaving Brazil, Riley and his family returned to Chicago, working in the corporate head-quarters of the Overseas Division until his retirement.
After retirement, Riley and his wife settled in Corpus Christi, Texas, and traveled extensively throughout Central and South America, especially enjoying spending their winters in the Manzanillo, Mexico, area.
With the death of his beloved wife in 2011, Riley moved from Texas to Lacey to be near his im-mediate family. He is survived by his sister, Helen Gilpin, Iola; his son, Riley R. Moore II and wife, Patricia Ann (Powers) Moore, Lacey; his grandsons, Walter Ja-cob Moore and Riley R. Moore III and wife, Anna Knudson, their children, Riley James Moore and Patrick Lars Moore, and several nieces and nephews, including Joan Gilpin Golden, Lawrence, and Ken Gilpin and Jim Gilpin, Iola.
Woodlawn Cemetery of Lacey handled funeral arrangements and cremation. Riley’s wishes were that his remains along with those of his wife be scattered on the Bay of Corpus Christi.
Alene GardnerAlene M. Gardner, 91, Iola,
passed away Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012, at Iola Nursing Center.
Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Trinity United Methodist Church, Iola, where visitation will follow the service. Burial will be in Highland Cem-etery, Iola.
Memorials may be left at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memo-rial Chapel for Trinity United Methodist Church or St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. Online con-dolences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.
Colleen HayesA graveside ash-burial service
will be held in memory of Colleen Cady Hayes at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, at Iola’s Highland Cemetery.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Clarke Duncana, a former bodyguard turned actor, died Monday at age 54.
Duncan died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for a heart
attack, said his fiancée, re-ality TV personality Rev. Omarosa Manigault, in a statement released by pub-licist Joy Fehily.
Duncan “suffered a myo-cardial infarction on July 13 and never fully recov-ered,” the statement said.
“Manigault is grateful for all of your prayers and asks for privacy at this time. Cel-ebrations of his life, both private and public, will be announced at a later date.”
Tom Hanks, star of 1999’s “The Green Mile” — the film that earned a then-little-known Duncan a sup-
porting-actor nomination at the Academy Awards — said he was “terribly saddened at the loss of Big Mike. He was the treasure we all discovered on the set of ‘The Green Mile.’ He was magic. He was a big love of man and his passing leaves us stunned.”
Duncan, the ‘Gentle Giant’ actor, dies at 54
CalendarToday-Biblesta com-
mittee meeting, 6:30 p.m., Humboldt library; Biblesta chorus practice, United Methodist Church, 7 p.m.
Friday-Downtown Ac-tion Team meeting, 1:30 p.m., Humboldt library.
Saturday-Healthy Eco-systems community work day at Neosho River Park, 8 a.m.; paper drive; citywide garage sales; combine der-by, 4 p.m., Humboldt Speed-way.
Monday-Chamber of Commerce meeting, noon, Humboldt library.
Sept. 15-Miles for Stacy run/walk and washers tournament, 6 p.m., city square.G.A.L.S.
Christy Suefert hosted the Aug. 20 meeting of GALS FCE in her home with 15 members in atten-dance.
Linda Leonard gave the planning schedule for the December arts and crafts show. Janie Works remind-ed members of the fall ses-
sion of Story Hour at the library and Carol Bauer said the Halloween Parade would most likely take place on Oct. 31.
Plans for revamping the annual arts and crafts show are in the works, in-cluding the selection of a new name for the event. Following discussion of several name ideas, the decision on the final selec-tion will be left to the show committee.
The fall Story Hour will utilize the library’s Sum-mer Reading Program re-sources for 3- to 5-year-olds on Oct. 9, 11, 16 and 18. Ses-sions will be for one hour beginning at 10 a.m.
G.A.L.S. will not take part in the Biblesta win-dow decorating this year. Terry Butts reported 37
volunteer hours were re-corded for the month and election of officers will be at next month’s meeting.
Dee Ann Parsons pre-sented the lesson on men-tal health issues and the advocacy for them sharing information on numerous disorders seen in everyday life in many families.Car wash stays open
A car wash owned by Mike Hofer was notified Friday it could operate as a business without any water restrictions under the current Stage 2 water warning. An e-mail from City Administrator Larry Tucker gave Hofer the OK. All other water restric-tions are still in effect.Mary Martha Circle
Mary Martha Circle of First Baptist Church met Aug. 23. Twelve ladies an-swered roll call with their favorite book of the Bible.
Joyce Hudson gave devo-tions, “The Wisdom of Hot Chocolate.”
The Southeast Area An-nual Gathering will be at the church Sept. 16. Dona-tions of cleaning supplies and paper products will be accepted during the month and plans made for ABW Sunday.
Juanita Lundine gave
the program, a Bible study, “Jesus Enters My World.”Sales galore
Shoppers and bargain hunters will traverse the city Saturday as part of the citywide garage sale event sponsored by Chapter AM, PEO.
Shoppers can organize their route by picking up a free map at local con-venience stores, Moon’s Hometown Market, Terry’s Flowers or the library list-ing all sale participants with addresses and fea-tured sale items.
Balloons and a sign in the yard will also mark the location of the 21 garage sale locations, PEO mem-ber Judy Middendorf said. Miles for Stacy
Registrations are still being taken for the Sept. 15 fundraiser 5K run/walk and washers tournament that will benefit local resi-dent Stacy Criss, who is fighting cancer.
Forms are available at Dr. Sean McReynold’s den-tist office, Humboldt Phar-macy and USD 258 Board of Education office.
The run/walk, washers tournament, food and mu-sic will take place in the city square beginning at 6 p.m.
Criss is the wife of Humboldt USD 258 Su-perintendent of Schools K.B. Criss.
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HUMBOLDT — Carissa Bran-nan enjoys assisting in the first- grade classroom with teacher, Julie Weilert. As a first-time para-professional, Brannan, 30, said she likes being around the stu-dents.
“I enjoy this age group and seeing the transformation they make at this age,” she said. “They can come up with the funniest things.”
Brannan graduated from Pitts-burg State University in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and was a substi-tute teacher for USD 506 in La-bette County for two years while attending college.
Returning to the area a year ago, her family relocated from Dennis, west of Parsons.
“We live southeast of Hum-boldt in the country, close to my parents, grandparents and my brother and his family,” she said.
She and husband Jason have two daughters, Alyvia, 7, in the second grade at Humboldt El-
ementary, and Kynna, 4, attends the Growing Place Child Care Center.
“It’s a plus for me to be in the same building with my daugh-ter,” Brannan said.
During a typical day, Brannan will give first-graders extra help when needed and help them stay
on task throughout the day.“I’m patient with the students
and try to be understanding of their needs and differences,” she said. The challenge is “getting to know each child’s learning habits to ensure they succeed.”
LORI GOODELL is back as a paraprofessional at Humboldt Elementary School after a period with the Crest School District and several years at Iola Vision Source.
“I was a para with ANW Co-op in 2003-04 at Humboldt Elemen-tary where I worked with kin-dergarten to fifth-grade students and enjoyed every minute of it,” Goodell said.
In the Crest-Colony district for two and half years, Goodell worked with students in middle school before she took time off to stay home with her second son for a year.
The Goodells moved back to Kansas from Missouri almost nine years ago. They located in rural Colony where both sons attend school, Bryson in third
grade and Brayden in first.This year Goodell, 39, is a para
for third-grade teachers Darcie Croisant and Linda Honas.
“I work with children in all subjects and at times may work with a student one-on-one helping them understand a subject that may be tricky or giving them a pat on the back when a job is well done.”
Other duties include grading papers, running copies, assisting in physical education class and lunch duty.
“I work with both third-grade classes in a group together with phonics, reading comprehen-sion, study island and have a ‘fun Friday’ to end a good week with treats and computer games,” she said.
Goodell graduated from Iola High School in 1992 and attended Allen Community College for two years.
“I have a passion for seeing children succeed,” she said. “When you see a child struggle in school and this child gets as-sistance, knowing I had a part of
helping a child succeed is an awe-some feeling. It gives me a feeling of knowing I have gone above and beyond expectations.”
Goodell also likes the challeng-es that come with teaching.
“If there were not any chal-lenges, it would be a boring day,” she said. “I am honored knowing I was chosen to be a district para at Humboldt Elementary.
“It is a great day to be a Cub!”
Love and patience perfect mix for paraprofessionals
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Members of the Westar Green Team joined the Humboldt Healthy Ecosys-tems committee Aug. 27, for a walk-around at Neo-sho River Park. The group mapped out areas designat-ed for grass and flowers giv-ing the Westar Green Team a visual estimate of size.
Local Westar employee and Green Team member JoAnn Roether introduced Ben Postlethwait, member of the Green Team and Sustain Coordinator, who listed specific assistance the Team could offer, in-cluding grass and flower seeds, plants, pedestals for identification signs, as well as blue bird and bat hous-es.
The ecosystems group will place identification signs on the different va-riety of trees in the park and the Green Team will provide the pedestals to hold the signs. Once HHE is ready to construct a kiosk/
shelter, maybe next spring, Postlethwait said the Green Team could also provide signage. He set Nov. 10 as a Green Team work day in the park, with Dec. 1 as a rain date.
Preparing the grounds for planting will take place Saturday with a commu-nity work day at the park in order to remove certain trees, debris and rocks.
“Workers should meet at the River Park at 8 a.m. with rakes, trimmers and chain saws,” HHE member Vada Aikins said. “We en-courage everyone to come.”
Sunny Shreeve, HHE member, reported the Part-ners In PRIDE grant appli-cation has been submitted and if awarded to Hum-boldt, would be used for the purchase of picnic tables.
A city must be selected as a “City of Excellence” within the PRIDE program in order to apply for the PIP grant.
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New signsCity employees, Chaz Sanchez, right, and Bob Krone, rake over the dirt around one of nine directional signs erected last week, while Justin Houk operates the skid steer. Humboldt’s PRIDE committee teamed up with B&W Trailer Hitches, the city and Humboldt High School to design and manufacture the signs featur-ing the arch bridge at the Neosho River. This sign is at Cannon Park on North Ninth Street.
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“There are two great days in a per-son’s life — the day we are born and the day we discover why.” — William Barclay, Scottish theologian (1907-1978).
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State Sen. Jean Schodorf, a moderate Republican who chairs the Senate Education Committee and has held her of-fice since 2001, has announced that she is leaving the Republi-can Party. She hasn’t made up her mind whether to become a Democrat or an independent, she told the Wichita Eagle.
Sen. Schodorf was one of the victims of Gov. Sam Brown-back’s war on moderate Repub-licans in the Legislature. She was defeated in the August pri-mary by Michael O’Donnell, a Wichita City Council member who was backed by the anti-tax, anti-government Ameri-cans for Prosperity (read David and Charles Koch), the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, which is also heavily supported by the Koch brothers, and Brown-back.
In her statement, Sen. Schodorf said:
“My family has been Repub-lican since Lincoln — since the party started. My parents, my grandparents, my great-grand-parents were all Republicans But it’s changed. There’s no room for people who actually think in moderation.
“I kept thinking, ‘We’re in the same party. Why are we crucifying ourselves?’”
That’s a good question with an apparent answer: Gov. Sam Brownback wants a Legisla-ture that will pass his legis-lation. The Kansas House of Representatives became very conservative before Brown-back became governor and
welcomed his hard right agen-da. The Senate was different. It was led by moderate Steve Morris and enough other mod-erates that the governor felt frustrated.
He responded by breaking all precedent and organizing challenges in the primary elec-tion to the senators he saw as roadblocks to his efforts to re-shape Kansas government. He found well-heeled allies in the Koch brothers and the state Chamber of Commerce.
So Kansans were treated to the ugly spectacle of Republi-cans attacking Republicans in the August election.
CHANCES ARE Schodorf ’s decision to leave the party will be welcomed by the new GOP majority, which sits far to the right of the Republican leaders who went before the present batch. She has been dismissed with a smear as a RINO — a Re-publican in name only.
Name-calling aside, tradi-tional Republicans like Bill Graves, Nancy Kassebaum, Bob Dole, James B. Pearson and, before them, Alf Landon, put Kansas on the national political map. Those leaders had national reputations as solid thinkers. Not one of them would win a Republican Party nomination in today’s political climate.
Today, the only Kansas poli-tician of national standing is Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat who made her reputation as a progressive moderate two-term governor who was also an expert on health care issues.
Optimistic RINOS — who think things will get better after they get much worse — will not leave the GOP, but will stick with it until the rebirth. On some even-numbered year ahead, Kansas voters will come to the realization that a teensy-weensy state government gets teensy-weensy results and de-cide to rebuild Kansas from the wreckage now being made in Topeka.
Then the party will need to move back toward center and elect a band of builders to move into the Capitol and go to work.
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Party) has c h a n g e d . There’s no room for people who actually think in moderation. I kept thinking, ‘We’re in the same party. Why are we crucifying our-selves?’
— Jean Schodorf,state senator from Wichita
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Republi-cans wrapped up their “trust me” convention, sending presidential nominee Mitt Romney into the final weeks of a campaign that is long on promises and strikingly short on details.
When his wife, Ann, kicked things off by declaring “you can trust Mitt,” she summed up the three-day theme, intentionally or not.
Take it on faith, the message was. Because Romney is not spell-ing out how he intends to restore fiscal responsibility while cutting taxes, expanding the military and standing by — for now, at least — as lawmakers from both parties jealously protect countless gov-ernment programs.
Allies promised Romney will tell “hard truths” and not duck tough issues. But so far he has specified little about the pain Americans would have to accept to tame deficit spending and cure other ills he blames on President Barack Obama.
Republicans are quick to note that Obama, too, pushes ideas that fall well short of putting the gov-ernment back on a track to bal-anced budgets in the foreseeable future, and he has not offered a plan to put entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security on a sustainable long-term path.
But Obama has gone further than Romney, if for no other reason than presidents submit proposed budgets to Congress. Obama has proposed tax hikes — mostly on wealthier Americans — and targeted spending cuts, including a bid to trim Medicare spending by $716 billion over 10 years, in part to finance his health care law.
If Obama glosses over impor-tant details at the Democrats’ convention next week, he’ll open himself to the same tough scruti-ny that Romney invited in Tampa.
Curiously, Republican conven-tion speakers cast an even sharp-er light on Romney’s stinginess with eat-your-broccoli details, by painting him as a gutsy politician unafraid to anger voters.
“Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the torrent of debt that is compromising our future and burying our economy,” New Jer-sey Gov. Chris Christie said in the keynote address. “Our problems are big, and the solutions will not be painless.”
But who, specifically, will suf-fer pain, and what kind of pain? Romney has not said.
On Medicare, for instance, he calls for eventually shifting the popular-but-costly program to a voucher-like program, which
almost certainly would reduce costs and benefits. But the change wouldn’t start for 10 years, and by then Romney would be an ex-pres-ident, even if he wins two terms. Meanwhile, details of the benefit changes are impossible to know.
On the spending side, Romney would restore the 10-year, $716 bil-lion in Medicare cuts, or savings, that Obama wants.
A casual TV viewer of the GOP convention might wonder why the party that calls for less gov-ernment has nominated someone who wants to restore billions of dollars in spending cuts pushed by a Democratic president.
ROMNEY is no more specific about which tax breaks, or “loop-holes,” he would eliminate so he can reduce tax rates without big drops in revenue. Perhaps the mortgage interest deduction? The charitable gifts deduction? The tax break for employer-provided health insurance?
“I know our Democrat friends would love to have me specify one or two so they could amass the special interests to fight that effort,” Romney told Time maga-zine.
Indeed, such tax breaks have powerful friends with well-paid lobbyists. But so does virtu-ally every government spending program, agency and tax quirk. That’s why almost any effort to cut spending or raise revenues faces stiff, sometimes ferocious, resistance in Washington.
Having an electoral mandate helps. But that requires a nomi-nee to campaign on a specific is-sue, so if he wins, he can tell the naysayers he has the voters’ en-dorsement for change.
On the spending side, Romney promises to cut $500 billion per year by 2016 to bring spending below 20 percent of the U.S. econ-omy. He says he will balance the budget by 2020.
Not only does he provide few specific targets for spending cuts. He also calls for big increases in military spending, along with the restored Medicare money, plus lower income tax rates.
The few specifics Romney of-fers include repealing Obama’s health care law, cutting federal payrolls, weaning Amtrak from subsidies, trimming foreign aid and curbing the Medicaid health care program for the poor and dis-
abled. Those steps would not get him close to his overall goals. But he’s offering few other details.
“I’m going to take a lot of de-partments in Washington, and agencies, and combine them,” Romney told Florida campaign donors in April, in remarks over-head by reporters. “Some elimi-nation, but I’m probably not go-ing to lay out just exactly which ones are going to go,” he said. To date, he has stuck to that strategy.
House Republican leaders rou-tinely force the Defense Depart-ment to keep spending money on programs and weapons systems it wants to scrap. The GOP-led House recently rejected efforts to trim Pentagon spending on mili-tary bands and sponsorships for sports organization such as NAS-CAR.
If a debt-ridden government can’t reduce spending on military musicians, critics say, how can it hope to make much deeper and more painful cuts in programs such as Medicare and Social Se-curity?
Lawmakers defend existing programs, of course, because their constituents — the Ameri-can people — want them, some-times desperately.
Christie was right to say vot-ers should hear “hard truths” and brace for pain if the nation is to control deficit spending. Of course, voters often reject politi-cians who peddle such medicine.
In a National Journal poll, three-fourths of Americans said Social Security should not be cut at all, and four-fifths said the same about Medicare.
A CBS News poll found that 45 percent of Americans say they will accept less local government if it means significantly lower taxes. As Romney and other poli-ticians know, however, the appe-tite for smaller government drops as the debate becomes more spe-cific.
Eighty percent of those polled by CBS said they would not ac-cept fewer firefighters and police officers, for instance.
Sen. John McCain used the word “trust” seven times in his convention speech lauding Rom-ney.
“I trust him to lead us,” said McCain, who defeated Romney and others to become the party’s 2008 nominee.
Romney, a well-financed can-didate who has been running for president for five years, is an at-tractive alternative for millions of voters ready for change.
As for the sliver of undecided voters wondering exactly what he would do if elected? He asks for their trust.
Romney to voters: trust me on details
Having an electoral mandate helps. But that requires a nominee to campaign on a specific issue, so if he wins, he can tell the naysayers he has the voters’ en-dorsement for change.
A casual TV viewer of the GOP convention might wonder why the party that calls for less government has nominated someone who wants to restore billions of dol-lars in spending cuts pushed by a Democratic president.
By The Associated Press“I am terribly saddened at the
loss of Big Mike. He was the trea-sure we all discovered on the set of ‘The Green Mile.’ He was magic. He was a big love of man and his passing leaves us stunned.” — Tom Hanks after the death of actor Michael Clarke Duncan, who died Monday morn-ing at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was being treat-ed for a heart attack.
___“On first down he hikes taxes
by nearly $2,000 on the average family with kids in order to pay for massive tax cuts for multimillion-aires. ... Sounds like unnecessary roughness to me.” President Barack Obama in a campaign appearance in To-ledo, Ohio, saying Republican challeng-er Mitt Romney should be penalized for
“unnecessary roughness” on the middle class and accused him in a ringing labor Day speech of backing higher taxes for millions after opposing the 2009 auto in-dustry bailout.
___“I dare say, before Katrina
there’s no way that you would have the president and Romney here within days of one another in a storm of this relatively small mag-nitude — not to diminish the impact of it (Isaac).” — Robert Mann, director of the Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs at Louisiana State University as presidents, and would-be presidents, can’t afford to get panned like George W. Bush after his decision to observe Hur-ricane Katrina’s flooding of New Orleans first in a flyover in Air Force One instead of putting his feet on the ground, giving critics an opening to argue that he was indifferent to the suffering below.
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Medicare will many times deny ambulance claims the first time they are billed.
This is a reaction to fraud and abuse in the Medicare system dealing specifically with ambu-lance claims. Unfortunate-ly, all are punished for the actions of a few bad apples.
A famous example from the SHICK Education and Outreach Coordinator is of a doctor in western Kansas who ordered an ambulance for each one of his patients who needed to go to the hospital from his office. The hospital was directly across the street from his practice, but since he owned the ambulance company he ordered it so that he could bill Medicare for the ride.
Most ambulance rides will be paid if the Medi-care beneficiary or their advocate takes the time to appeal the denied claim. It
is not a difficult task, but will take some time.
Here are the steps you should follow:
1. Contact the doctor who treated you and ask for a letter to describe your condition when you were transported.
2. You or someone pres-ent at the time also may write a letter to describe the situation.
3. Medicare pays when it would have been danger-ous to your health or life to have been transported in a regular vehicle.
4. Be specific in your let-ter as to what you couldn’t do at the time of transport.
5. You will need a Medi-
care Summary Notice with EMS transport listed. Those who have not re-ceived the notice should call (800) 633-4227.
A voice-activated sys-tem will guide the caller through the billing plans. Make sure you say “am-bulance” or press 6 when so instructed. Callers also must indicate they are calling from Kansas.
Those with Internet ac-cess can visit the Medicare website, www.Medicare.gov. Click on “my.medi-care.com’ to register, at which time you can re-ceive a copy of your Medi-care Summary Notice.
Keep copies of the no-tice at home and mail a second copy to Medicare. The address is on the front page.
Most responses take six to eight weeks.
DO NOT RELY on the ambulance or EMS com-
pany to file this appeal for you. You must file your own appeal. If EMS bills are ignored many times the EMS company will file with the IRS and at tax time the money will be col-lected from your refund.
Continue to stay ap-prised of Medicare news and issues by visiting an Extension blog at www.shickinajiff.wordpress.com.
Don’t forget about the upcoming Part D Prescrip-tion Drug Plan Open En-rollment Period, Oct. 15-Dec. 7.
Tara Solomon is a K-State Research and Ex-tension Family and Con-sumer Sciences and 4-H Extension agent assigned to Southwind District. For more information, consult www.southwind.ksu.edu, or visit Tara’s blog at ex-tensionmatters.wordpress.com, call (620) 244-3826 or email [email protected].
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Peonies are one of my favorite perennial flow-ers.
Like most perennials, the blooms don’t last long but they are beautiful and smell wonderful. They are a favorite of many gardeners because of their low main-tenance.
Though peonies can be left in place indefinitely, many gardeners wish to in-crease their plantings and use a process known as di-vision to gain more plants. Perennials also need to be divided just to maintain health.
The flowers themselves give signals to let you know that they would like to be divided.
You’ll know when there is reduced flowering; flowers getting smaller; plants start to flop or open up needing staking; or may have just outgrown their space.
Fall is the traditional time to divide peonies.
The first step is to re-move the foliage. Peonies are essentially dormant by Sept. 1 even though the foli-age is still green.
Dig out the entire plant. Shake and wash off as much soil as possible so that the pink buds or “eyes” are visible. Use a sharp knife to cut the roots into separate pieces. Make sure each division has three to four buds.
When replanting, make certain the location chosen receives at least a half-day of full sun; the more sun, the better.
Space the plants so that there is at least two feet between dwarf types and four feet between the stan-dard types. Plant the roots so that the pink buds are about an inch below the soil surface. If they are set more than two inches deep, flowering may be delayed or prevented alto-gether.
As the plants are set in the ground, firm the soil of-ten. If the soil is not firm, it can settle and pull the plant down with it. Water the roots well after planting.
Mulch should be added after planting to protect it from heaving. The alternate freezing and thawing that commonly occurs during Kansas winters can “heave” weakly rooted plants out of the ground. Add a mulch of straw, leaves, compost or other material after the soil freezes. Remember, it is not the cold that harms these plants but the alter-nate freezing and thawing of the soil.
Peonies will often take about three years to return to full bloom and size after division. So don’t panic next spring when your peo-nies don’t look as good as they once did. Give them some time to recover.
It’s time to splitthose peonies
KristaHarding
ExtensionAgent forAgriculture
Prairie Dell 4-H Club met Aug. 3 at the River-side Park shelter house following Allen County Fair week.
“Happy Birthday” was sung to Annika Hobbs and Henry Wicoff.
Isaiah Wicoff reviewed how to make a motion for his parliamentarian’s re-port.
Committees reported the club placed third in the Barnyard Olympics, received a blue on its hay bale, and received Reserve Grand Champion with the club’s banner at the fair.
Following the meet-ing club members went swimming at the Iola Mu-nicipal Pool.
Horticulture excellenceAllen County 4-H members, from left, Zoey Rinehart, Kolbyn Allen, Ben Yarnell and Kim Yarnell competed Aug. 25 in the State Horticulture Judging Contest in Manhat-tan. Competitors were required to identify 50 different plants, rank eight categories of plants from best to worst, and were tested on their knowledge on various aspects of plant science. Allen and Ben Yarnell competed in the senior division. Kim Yarnell and Rinehart were in the intermediate group. Accompanying them was their coach, Terri Kretzmeier.
4-H news
Photo by Terri Kretzmeier
Be patient; Perennials will be back sooner than you think
By ALICIA CHANGAP Science Writer
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Thirty-five years after leaving Earth, Voyager 1 is reaching for the stars.
Sooner or later, the workhorse spacecraft will bid adieu to the solar sys-tem and enter a new realm of space — the first time a manmade object will have escaped to the other side.
Perhaps no one on Earth will relish the moment more than 76-year-old Ed Stone, who has toiled on the project from the start.
“We’re anxious to get outside and find what’s out there,” he said.
When NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 first rock-eted out of Earth’s grip in 1977, no one knew how long they would live. Now, they are the longest-oper-ating spacecraft in history and the most distant, at bil-lions of miles from Earth but in different directions.
Wednesday marks the
35th anniversary of Voy-ager 1’s launch to Jupiter and Saturn. It is now flit-ting around the fringes of the solar system, which is enveloped in a giant plas-ma bubble. This hot and turbulent area is created by a stream of charged particles from the sun.
Outside the bubble is a new frontier in the Milky Way — the space be-tween stars. Once it plows through, scientists expect a calmer environment by comparison.
When that would happen is anyone’s guess. Voyager 1 is in uncharted celestial territory. One thing is clear: The boundary that separates the solar sys-tem and interstellar space is near, but it could take days, months or years to cross that milestone.
Voyager 1 is currently more than 11 billion miles from the sun. Twin Voyag-er 2, which celebrated its launch anniversary two weeks ago, trails behind at 9 billion miles from the sun.
They’re still ticking de-spite being relics of the early Space Age.
Each only has 68 kilo-
bytes of computer memo-ry. To put that in perspec-tive, the smallest iPod — an 8-gigabyte iPod Nano — is 100,000 times more powerful. Each also has an eight-track tape recorder. Today’s spacecraft use dig-ital memory.
The Voyagers’ original goal was to tour Jupiter and Saturn, and they sent back postcards of Jupiter’s big red spot and Saturn’s glittery rings. They also beamed home a torrent of discoveries: erupting volcanoes on the Jupiter moon Io; hints of an ocean below the icy surface of Europa, another Jupiter moon; signs of methane rain on the Saturn moon Titan.
Voyager 2 then jour-neyed to Uranus and Nep-tune. It remains the only spacecraft to fly by these two outer planets. Voyager 1 used Saturn as a gravita-tional slingshot to catapult itself toward the edge of the solar system.
“Time after time, Voy-ager revealed unexpected — kind of counterintuitive — results, which means we have a lot to learn,” said Stone, Voyager’s chief sci-entist and a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology.
These days, a handful of engineers diligently lis-ten for the Voyagers from a satellite campus not far from the NASA Jet Pro-pulsion Laboratory, which built the spacecraft.
The control room, with its cubicles and carpeting, could be mistaken for an
insurance office if not for a blue sign overhead that reads “Mission Control-ler” and a warning on a computer: “Voyager mis-sion critical hardware. Please do not touch!”
Voyager 1 ready to see stars
Time after time, Voyager revealed unexpected — kind of counterintuitive — results, which means we have a lot to learn.
— Ed Stone, professorCal Institute of Technology
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Rain with a side of heatHeat advisory in effect until 8
o’clock this evening.Tonight, partly cloudy in the eve-
ning then becoming mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of thunder-storms. Lows near 70. South winds around 5 mph. Highest heat indices 105 in the evening.
Wednesday, partly sunny. A chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then a slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
Sunrise 6:55 a.m. Sunset 7:46 p.m.
TemperatureHigh yesterday 101Low last night 72High Sunday 93Low Sunday 69High Saturday 89Low Saturday 62
High Friday 76Low Friday 68
Precipitation96 hours ending 7 a.m. 1.12This month to date 1.12Total year to date 18.68Def. since Jan. 1 8
Iola’s goal was to increase breakfast sales by 10 per-cent, said Food Service Di-rector Colleen Riebel.
The biggest hurdle was that only a small number of students were hungry when they woke up or arrived at school, Principal Stacy Fag-er said.
“But by the end of the first period, they’re starv-ing,” Fager said.
The end of that first pe-riod, 9:27 a.m., provided the most opportune time for a second breakfast.
“Second breakfast is a program that’s been around for a while, but this was our first chance to set up our schedules to make it work,” Riebel said.
The students understand the urgency. They have 10 minutes to get their food, wolf it down, and clean up any mess before heading to their second-period classes.
“They understand this is a privilege,” Fager said, pointing to the commons area shortly after the ses-sion ended. All of the tables were clean, save for a va-grant wrapper apparently missed by one of the stu-dents.
“The students have done a great job of cleaning up after themselves and getting to class on time,” Fager said.
The idea has quickly become a popular high-light of the students’ busy morning, Riebel said, to the point that the numbers for second breakfast have met or exceeded most days the school’s regularly served breakfast.
Prices for second break-fast cost the same as the nor-mal breakfast meals before school starts, Riebel said.
The school still offers a full breakfast before school starts for students who pre-fer sit-down meals.
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In science, Platt has in-troduced cell structures of plants and animals. In math, “we’re studying polygons,” she said, “but we still prac-tice the basics in math.”
Social studies discus-sions include state and na-tional events, but, Platt said, “We’re keeping politics out of it.”
PLATT REVELS in unex-pected positives that surface in the classroom, and enjoys
opportunities to share.“When we started work-
ing on the Japanese num-bers, one of my students — one that’s usually quiet — remembered learning the numbers in third grade and counted from one to 10,” a nice surprise.
Platt also noted the wel-coming atmosphere at Lin-coln.
“I’ve been made to feel like one of the staff from the first day here,” she said. “They’ve given me a lot of support.”
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Suicide bomber hits U.S. vehicle in Pakistan By SAEED SHAH
McClatchy NewspapersISLAMABAD _ A bomb
injured two Americans employed at U.S. consulate in Peshawar Monday when a suicide attacker rammed their vehicle, officials said. Two local staff members of the mission also were injured.
Two Pakistanis were killed at the site of the ex-plosion, while a further 19 were injured. The local police escorting the Ameri-can vehicle were among the victims.
The ability of militants to hit the consulate staff at all was unusual. Extreme security measures guard the movement of U.S. dip-lomats and other Ameri-
can staff based at the heav-ily fortified consulate in Peshawar, a city in north-west Pakistan close to the lawless tribal area and the border with Afghanistan.
The powerful bomb left the American SUV a charred skeleton. But it was almost certainly an armored vehicle, which is what could have saved the lives of those riding in-side. Police put the size of the bomb at 100 kilograms, which left a wide crater in the ground.
The consulate employ-ees had “non life-threat-ening injuries,” said Rian Harris, a spokesperson for the U.S. embassy in Islam-abad.
“We can confirm that a
vehicle belonging to the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar was hit in an apparent ter-rorist attack. Two U.S. per-sonnel and two Pakistani staff of the Consulate were injured and are receiving medical treatment,” he added in a statement.
“No U.S. Consulate per-sonnel were killed, but we are seeking further infor-mation about other vic-tims of this heinous act. We stand ready to work with Pakistani authorities on a full investigation so that the perpetrators can be brought to justice.”
Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister of the provincial govern-ment in the northwest, said that the car of the bomber
managed to slip in between the American vehicle and its escort.
“The message of these attackers is that it is not safe for any foreign coun-try to have a consulate here,” said Hussain.
The message of these attack-ers is that it is not safe for any foreign country to have a consul-ate here.
— Mian Iftikhar Hussain
Information minister
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By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent
HUMBOLDT — Monarch Cement has been conduct-ing an experiment for the last two weeks at its quarry located at Delaware and 1600 roads, east of the main plant.
Under the illumination of powerful night lighting, employees operate a crush-er on a second shift, from 4 p.m. until midnight, five days a week, according to Walter Wulf, Jr., Monarch president.
“We are running this sec-ond shift in anticipation of bringing our second kiln online some time in Sep-tember, in order to meet anticipated demand,” Wulf said in an e-mail statement. “We will need additional raw material to feed the kiln, when it is online.”
After completing an “in-ternal forecast” last spring, Monarch personnel deter-
mined it would be necessary to utilize the second kiln.
“I just returned from a meeting of the Portland Cement Association in Chi-cago, where their econo-mist presented his summer forecast,” Wulf said. “He
increased his nationwide expected 2012 consumption growth rate from 3.7 percent (projected last spring) to 6.9 percent.”
The mild and dry weath-er experienced during the first four months of the year
could be a possible basis for the increase in demand, both locally and nationally, said Wulf.
“We, too, are experienc-ing increased demand for our products compared to last year,” he said.
Monarch bumps up production
Register photo/Terry BroylesMonarch Cement Company employees operate a rock crusher at night in the quarry at Delaware and 1600 roads. The first of several lights that are visible from the road is turned on before dusk.
into other businesses Sat-urday.
The first was phoned into The Greenery at about 10:30 a.m.; the second to B & B Cafe at 11 o’clock; and the third to the Monkey Butt Saloon at noon.
Those business owners elected to stay open while store employees and police officers searched together
for possible explosives. Again, none were found.Warner said officers are
investigating whether the threats were related to Fri-day’s call.
He declined to get into specifics because of the ongoing investigation.
Those with information regarding these crimes or any other crime should be relayed to Allen Coun-ty Crime Stoppers, (800)
222-TIPS (8477); www.al-lencountycs.org by click-ing on the tab “Submit a Web Tip” and filling in the blanks; or by sending a text to the word “Crimes” (274637).
There are instructions on how to text a tip located in the “Text a Tip” page. Any tip leading to the res-olution of a crime makes the tipster eligible for a re-ward up to $1,000.
Information also may be phoned into the Iola Police Department at 365-4960.
An aggravated criminal threat, classified by the state as a level 5, person felony, could be punishable by a prison sentence of up to 156 months, depending on the defendant’s prior criminal history. First-time offenders could face a prison sentence of 51 months.
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Sports Races rained out; pointschampions named
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ACC teams place high in WSU meetBy JOCELYN SHEETS
[email protected] — Only four-year
college teams were better than the Allen Community College cross country teams at Saturday’s Wichita State J.K. Gold Classic.
Allen’s women finished third with 103 points behind host Wichita State, 26 points, and Kansas State, 33 points. The ACC men placed fifth in the team standings with 183 points. Wichita State won the men’s title with 33 points followed by Okla-homa Baptist, 71, Southwestern, 79, and Kansas State, 80.
Running in excessive heat, the Red Devil squads turned in good performances, according to head coach Vince DeGrado.
“I told our runners to start out slower. With the heat, running smart at the start needed to be a priority. Unfortunately our men got a little too excited but our women executed the race plan perfectly,” DeGrado said.
The races were a little longer than the Red Devils’ opener a week ago at home. The women ran a 4K and the men’s race was a 6K.
Gabriela “Gabby” Ruiz led the Red Devil women again with a 13th-place finish in 15 minutes, 15.51 seconds. Danae McGee ran 15th in 15:2.20 and Tsianina Whitetree placed 26th in 16:11.45.
Debra Kime was 32nd in 16:30.52 and Kim Boyle took 39th in 16:42.02. Emily Steimel placed 58th in 17:32.31 followed by Kim-berly Cooper in 59th at 17:33.43.
Sidney Owens finished 78th in 18:40.89 and Bianca Ramierz took 89th in 19:04.68.
“I believe our women’s team es-tablished themselves as the con-ference and region favorites with this performance,” DeGrado said. “ Gabby and Danae were the only
members of a non (NCAA) D 1 team to break into the top 20.”
DeGrado said Whitetree is coming back from an injury and Kime and Boyle are working to-gether and keep moving up. He said the team is still searching for the sixth and seventh runners to move up in the finishing order.
“Our men went out a lot faster than I wanted them to and they paid for it. But the guys really showed how much fight we had in us. Last year I feel like we would have given up when people start-ed passing us but this team is
different which gave me a lot of positive from this meet,” DeGra-do said.
Kyle Schauvliege was the No. 1 runner for the Red Devils at Wichita, placing 32nd in 20:06.65. Garrett Colglazier and Brock Ar-tis finished 37th and 38th, respec-tively, in 20:18.96 and 20:20.43.
Evan Adams placed 42nd in 20:26.94 and Josh Whittaker was 45th in 20:32.11. Tegan Michael ran 48th in 20:36.53 with Tucker Morgan in 62nd in 20:55.29. Ryan Pulsifer finished 66th in 21:01.11 and Patrick Rachford placed 78th
in 21:19.54.“Kyle stepped up and moved
into the top spot on our team. What’s nice about this meet, when our team is struggling up front we have guys that can step up and move into other positions,” De-Grado said. “When we learn how to race and put one together, it’s going to be pretty special.”
Allen travels to Joplin this coming weekend for the Missouri Southern Stampede where the races are of college regulation — 5K for the women and 8K for the men.
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At left, Allen Community College’s Debra Kime (21) and Kim Boyle (17) run together during the ACC cross country meet a week ago. The two Allen women stayed close to each other in last Saturday’s J.K. Gold Classic hosted by Wichita State in which Allen took third as a team. At right, Kyle Schauv-liege (9) was Allen’s No. 1 runner for the men’s team in Saturday’s Wichita State cross country meet.
TodayHigh School Volleyball
Iola 9th at Chanute, 5 p.m.Humboldt at NeodeshaYates Center, Eureka at Marma-ton ValleyCrest, St. Paul, Pleasanton at Southern Coffey County
Girls’ GolfYates Center at Fort Scott
Jr. College SoccerAllen at Hesston, women 5 p.m., men 7 p.m.
WednesdayJr. College Volleyball
Independence at Allen, 6:30 p.m.
ThursdayCross Country
Iola, Marmaton Valley, Crest at Fort Scott, 4 p.m.Humboldt, Yates Center at Girard
Girls’ TennisIola at Independence, 3 p.m.
High School VolleyballIola JV/9th at Garnett, 5 p.m.
Jr. High FootballIndependence at IMS 8th, 7th, 5 p.m.
Jr. College SoccerNEO at Allen, women 2 p.m., men 4 p.m.
FridayHigh School Football
Iola at Osawatomie, 7 p.m.Crest at Marmaton ValleyJayhawk-Linn at HumboldtLebo at Southern Coffey CountyYates Center at West Elk
Jr. College VolleyballAllen at Highland tourney
Saturday, Sept. 8High School Volleyball
Iola High Invitational, 8:30 a.m.Iola 9th at Prairie View Inv., 8 a.m.
Iola 2-0-6-14—22Cherryvale 0-0-0-0—0
Iola — Safety (defense tackles ball carrier in end zone)
Iola — Whitworth 42 yd run (kick failed)
Iola — Whitworth 46 yd run (Ma-cias kick)
Iola — Macha 10 yd run (Macias kick) Iola CherryvaleFirst downs 17 5Rushes-yds 57-280 30-56Passing yds 68 55Total Offense 348 111Passing 3-9-1 4-14-1Fumbles/lost 4/2 12/4Punts-Avg 2-8.5 4-38Penalties-yds 4-40 7-65
Individual StatisticsRushing: Iola-Whitworth 8-129,
Rhoads 14-44, Macha 7-39, Kauth 7-37, Heffern 6-24, Walden 3-12, Clubine 1-3, Larney 2-(-4), Zimmer-man 2-(-4). Cherryvale-D. Housel 11-74, Thorton 3-5, John 1-(-2), Robinson 2-(-9), Trim 13-(-12).
Passing: Iola-Coons 3-8-68-1, Kauth 0-1-0-0. Cherryvale-Trim 4-14-55-1.
Receiving: Iola-Harrison 2-53, Morrison 1-15. Cherryvale-K. Housel 2-39, Thorton 2-16.
Punting: Iola- Larney 2-17 (8.5 yd avg.). Cherryvale-John 4-152 (38 yd avg.).
Tackles: Eric Heffern 4 solos, 7 assisted, 1 quarterback sack; Jacob Rhoads 7 solos, 2 assisted; Bryce Misenhelter 5 solos, 2 assisted; Tyler McIntosh 5 solos, 1 assisted; Kaden Macha 4 solos, 3 assisted; Devin Burton 3 solos, 2 assisted, one fumble recovery; Cole Morrison 2 so-los, 1 assisted; Alex Bauer 2 solos, 2 fumble recoveries; Stephen McDon-ald 1 solo, 3 assisted; Adam Kauth, 1 solo, 1 assisted, 1 interception; John Whitworth 1 solo, 1 assisted; Eric Maxwell, 3 assisted.
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By JOCELYN [email protected]
Iola High head coach Doug Kerr knows that weather condi-tions had something to do with 12 fumbles by the Cherryvale High Chargers Friday night. The Char-gers lost four of those fumbles to the Mustangs.
But both teams had to deal with
the rain and soggy field condi-tions. The Mustangs turned the ball over just three times — two fumbles and an interception.
“Our defense held them to just seven yards until that last drive. That’s pretty good for the first game of the season under a new system,” Kerr said.
The Mustangs opened the 2012
season Friday at home with a 22-0 win.
Defensively, Jacob Rhoads re-corded seven solo tackles and two assisted tackles for Iola. Eric Hef-fern had four solo stops and seven assisted tackles plus a quarter-back sack.
Alex Bauer recovered two fum-bles and Devin Burton had a fum-
ble recovery. Adam Kauth made an interception.
Bryce Misenhelter and Tyler McIntosh each had five unassist-ed tackles.
The Mustangs prepare this week for their first Pioneer League game. They travel to Osawatomie Friday to take on the Trojans.
Mustang defense dominates Chargers
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CHERRYVALE — Iola High’s junior varsity football team came up short Monday in its second game of the season. Cherryvale High’s Chargers got past the Mus-tangs 22-14.
Keanen Badders scored on a 78-yard run for the Mustangs and Terrell Smith had a nine-yard touchdown run. Mason Key boot-ed both extra points.
Badders finished with 114 yards on 11 carries. Brice Aeillo carried the football nine times for 87 yards.
Brett Taylor completed 5 of 7 for 65 yards and threw an inter-ception. Cody Conner made two catches for 34 yards and Shane Walden had three receptions for 31 yards.
Aiello led the Mustang defense with 12 tackles and Kaleb Mock made eight tackles. Badders, An-drew Garber and Quinton Mor-rison each had six tackles while Smith and Jake Gumfory each made five tackles.
Iola’s junior varsity (1-1) hosts Osawatomie next Monday.
Cherryvale hands Iolajunior varsity a loss
Rangers hammer RoyalsKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Yu
Darvish did not throw a no-hitter, though there was some concern in the Kansas City dugout that he might.
Darvish retired the first 17 bat-ters, Texas hit five home runs and the Rangers beat the Royals 8-4 Monday in a game that turned testy.
The Royals did not get a bas-erunner until Johnny Giavotella walked on a close pitch with two outs in the sixth. David Lough, the next batter, ended the no-hit-ter with a bloop single to center.
“I turned to (bench coach) Chi-no (Cadahia) in about the fifth in-
ning and said ‘Boy, this guy’s got a shot,’” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “He had a 97-mile-an-hour fastball, a 95-mile-an-hour cutter, a 92 splitter and he’s throwing 68 to 64 on the curve.
“The variation in speeds was tre-mendous. It was the first time we’ve seen him. It was our first time see-ing him and he was fantastic.”
Lough, playing in just his third major league game, hit it just out of the reach of Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus.
“It takes one hit sometimes and other guys can feed off it,” Lough said. “I saw him going back for it
and I was hoping it would fall in.“He was definitely switching it
up on us. His off-speed stuff was working well, keeping us off bal-ance.”
The only opposing pitcher to throw a no-hitter against the Roy-als at Kauffman Stadium is Dar-vish’s boss, Rangers president Nolan Ryan on May 15, 1973.
Adrian Beltre and Nelson Cruz homered on consecutive pitches in the sixth inning. Cruz watched his drive sail over the wall, then was hit by Louis Coleman’s first pitch leading off the ninth.
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Iola High’s defense scored the first points of the 2012 football season by corralling Cherryvale High’s Hunter Robinson (25) in the end zone for a safety in the first quarter of Friday’s home game. The Mustangs led 2-0 at halftime and the offense scored 20 points in the second half to win 22-0.
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Cruz took a few steps to the mound, but was re-strained by catcher Bray-an Pena. The dugouts and bullpens emptied, but only words were exchanged. Both teams were issued a warning by plate umpire Mike Everitt.
“We were trying to pitch in on him, to keep him from extending his arms,” Yost said. “You saw what he did the last at-bat when he got his arms extended. We were just trying to pitch him in.”
Michael Young answered that by homering on the next pitch.
Josh Hamilton hit his 38th homer and Geovany Soto added a three-run shot as Texas won for the ninth time in 12 games. The AL West leaders moved a season-high 26 games over .500 with some more pop after they hit four homers Sunday in an 8-3 victory at Cleveland.
“They’ve got a big-time offense,” Royals designat-ed hitter Billy Butler said. “They’re a high-powered of-fense and got eight runs on us. Darvish was throwing strikes and mixing it well, pounding the strike zone, and definitely executing every pitch. We got to him and got some hits. We hit some balls well and didn’t get some hits on them, too.”
A day after he homered and doubled in his first two
big league at-bats, 19-year-old Jurickson Profar was not in the Texas lineup. Sec-ond baseman Ian Kinsler, who sat out Sunday with a stiff back, returned to the lineup.
Darvish (14-9), who re-tired the final seven batters he faced in his previous start, tied Wade Miley of Arizona for the most victo-ries by a rookie this season.
Darvish gave up a two-run triple to Tony Abreu and a RBI double to Alex Gordon to cut the Texas lead to 6-3 before the inning ended. Darvish was pulled after the seventh and struck out six, including five in the first three innings, and walked one.
“He was really locked in,” said Lorenzo Cain, who went 0 for 4. “You could tell he wore down a little at the end. He was mixing it up and keeping it down.”
Soto homered in the sec-ond for a 3-0 lead.
Bruce Chen (10-11) al-lowed six runs on six hits, four of them home runs. He lasted six innings as his career ERA against Texas climbed to 8.68.
Abreu also singled in a run in the eighth, giving him six RBIs in two games.
NOTES: The Rangers have hit back-to-back hom-ers eight times this season. ... Beltre is hitting .449 with nine home runs, six doubles and 17 RBIs in his past 12
games. ... Hamilton has hit three homers in five games. In his past 12 games, he is hitting .341 with four home runs, 12 RBIs and 11 runs. ... LHP Everett Teaford, who threw 5 1-3 scoreless innings as a reliever Saturday, will make a spot start Wednes-day for the Royals. Rookie LHP Will Smith, who is 0-3 in his past three starts, will be skipped a start.
By DAVE SKRETTAAP Sports Writer
It was a perfect Week 1 for the retooled Big 12, at least as far as the scoreboard goes. All the league’s members, including newcomers TCU and West Virginia, got off to winning starts.
How they got there varied widely, and in some cases left more questions than an-swers.
Oklahoma scuffled its way to a 24-7 vic-tory at UTEP, but the fourth-ranked Soon-ers were tied at halftime. No. 22 Kansas State needed a late scoring binge to sepa-rate from stubborn Missouri State, which briefly tied the game with a field goal early in the third quarter.
Iowa State trailed Tulsa in the second quarter, Kansas had trouble putting away South Dakota State until late in the game, and No. 15 Texas was underwhelming in a defeat of Wyoming.
Sooners coach Bob Stoops believes it can all be traced back to one thing: parity.
“I mean, it’s been talked about for a long time now,” Stoops said. “There’s more and more good players that go around to every-body, and since they changed the rules that one team can’t get 140 guys — you can only get so many — there’s guys everywhere. And it’ll remain that way.”
Stoops is referring to the scholarship restrictions imposed by the NCAA to pre-vent heavyweights from recruiting players
simply to keep them off the rosters of their rivals.
There were no limits on scholarships until the early 1970s, and for much of the decade the limit was 105. It’s been trimmed twice since then to the present limit of 85, so players that the Sooners might have stocked up on during the heyday of Barry Switzer are going places such as UTEP, where they are guaranteed a scholarship and have a better chance to see the field.
The result is more talented teams from the middle-tier of college football.
Programs that were once the punching bags of the big boys — think Boise State — have a better chance of becoming legiti-mate powers, and all of those early season blowouts that became a hallmark of the non-conference portion of the schedule have become a rarity.
“Every time someone has a close game, they say, ‘Oh, they overlooked them,’” said Stoops, whose team beat Air Force by a field goal in 2010. “That’s not always the
case.”The trickle-down of talent extends be-
yond divisions, too.Schools such as South Dakota State that
play in the Football Championship Subdi-vision are getting recruits that two decades ago would have been backups at a power school such as Nebraska, and the result are more scores like this: Youngstown State 31, Pittsburgh 17.
Kansas State coach Bill Snyder certainly understands such peril.
Missouri State won two games a year ago and even had an assistant coach quit 10 days before the season, but showed enough moxie that the Wildcats didn’t get control until 20 minutes were left.
“That’s going to be a good football team. They were picked last in their conference,” Snyder said. “You have to realize that their defense kept us out of the end zone for the entire first half and into the second half. I think they are going to be fine.”
Not everybody in the Big 12 had a tough time squeezing through Week 1, though.
Bookmakers made No. 19 Oklahoma State a nearly 70 point favorite on Savan-nah State, a line so preposterous that most people figured the Cowboys couldn’t possi-bly cover the spread.
Then they scored five touchdowns by the end of the first quarter, yanked the major-ity of their starters in the second, and did everything but kneel on the ball the entire
second half to keep the game from getting out of hand. Oklahoma State still won 84-0.
The victory demonstrated another chal-lenge of early season games.
Cowboys coach Mike Gundy said it was never his intention for the game to get that one-sided, but he also pointed out the chal-lenge in setting up schedules. Savannah State had to be added late once Big 12 re-alignment had been sorted out — “I think Savannah State was maybe the 17th school they called,” he said — and other schools are often a shadow of what they were when the game was made.
“This debate could go on forever with scheduling. It’s hard to predict,” Gundy said. “For example, you may schedule a team three or four years out, where they’re doing very well, and then by the time you play them, they’re having a really tough time. And when you schedule that game, it may not end up being what you thought. And it could work the other way.”
Regardless, Gundy said he’d prefer beat-ing up on a patsy — even if there are fewer now than ever — rather than playing some-one that could give the Pokes problems.
“I’m not a big fan of opening against what would be a tradition-rich national power, because it makes your preseason so much more difficult,” he said. “Would you like to keep (starters) in through the third quarter? Yes, but I wouldn’t trade it for having to play into the fourth.”
Big 12 teams win but have struggles doing so
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NEW YORK (AP) — Didn’t take long for Ser-ena Williams to show her fourth-round opponent at the U.S. Open where things were headed.
“The first point of the whole match,” 82nd-ranked Andrea Hlavackova ex-plained, “when I served, and she returned, like, a 100 mph forehand return, I was like, ‘OK, I know who I’m playing. You don’t have to prove it to me. I know.’”
Monday’s match was less than 15 seconds old. It might as well have been over.
Dominant from the mo-ment she ripped that re-turn of an 88 mph second serve, forcing Hlavackova into an out-of-control back-hand that sailed well long, to the moment she powered a 116 mph service winner on the last point, Williams extended her 2½-month stretch of excellence with a 6-0, 6-0 victory to get to the quarterfinals at Flushing Meadows.
Those two big zeros pret-ty much tell the story; it’s the fifth time in her career Williams won with what’s commonly called a “double bagel.” Some other impres-sive numbers: Williams won 60 of 89 points, built a 31-9 edge in winners and improved to 23-1 since los-ing in the first round of the French Open. That run in-cludes singles and doubles titles at both Wimbledon and the London Olympics.
Next for the fourth-seeded Williams, who won the U.S. Open in 1999, 2002 and 2008, is a match against former No. 1 Ana Ivanovic, who reached a Grand Slam quarterfinal for the first time since winning the 2008 French Open by de-feating 55th-ranked Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria 6-0, 6-4.
Williams — who lost in the third round of doubles with older sister Venus on Monday night — is 3-0 against Ivanovic, including a straight-set victory in the
fourth round at Flushing Meadows last year.
In the semifinals, the Wil-liams-Ivanovic winner will meet either No. 10 Sara Er-rani or No. 20 Roberta Vin-ci, doubles partners who both eliminated higher-seeded women Monday and now face the uncomfortable prospect of trying to beat a best buddy.
No. 1-seeded Roger Fe-derer, owner of a record 17 Grand Slam titles, includ-ing five at the U.S. Open. As he attempts to add to those numbers, Federer got some extra rest Monday, because his fourth-round opponent, 23rd-seeded Mardy Fish of the United States, withdrew hours before their scheduled match for precautionary rea-sons, citing medical advice.
The man Federer beat in July’s Wimbledon final and lost to in August’s Olympic final, Andy Murray, muted 15th-seeded Milos Raonic’s big serve and won 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 Monday night.
HUMBOLDT — Hur-ricane Isaac proved to be too much for local stock car racing on Thursday and Friday.
The remnants of the hurricane brought rains to the Humboldt area and wiped out the final night of Humboldt Speedway’s 2012 racing season.
The 2012 Point Cham-pions were announced by the Speedway on Friday afternoon. Tyler Kidwell claimed the pure stock championship and Scott Stuart is the factory stock champion.
Jimmie Davis claimed the USRA/B-Mod divi-sion title. John Allen was
crowned the points cham-pion in the USRA modi-fied division.
Saturday is the Shri-ners’ combine derby at the Speedway.
Humboldt Speedway has a two-day special, Oct. 5-6, for modified, B-mod, factory and pure stock di-visions.
Humboldt Speedway names 2012 points champions
Serena Williams rolls, Fish withdraws in US Open play
GARNETT — Humboldt High cross country run-ners opened the 2012 season at Thursday’s Anderson County High Invitational.
Nick Keazer was the lone Humboldt runner in var-sity action. He finished 66th in the boy’s 5K race in 23 minutes, 22 seconds.
Here are the rest of the HHS results:
Boys’ junior varsity race
(5K): 6. Ethan Bartlett, 21.49; 61. Andrew Keazer, 26:13; 86. Rayden Goltry, 31:10; 89. Layne Gonzalez, 31:25; 95. Jud Hawley, 34:43; 99. Jimmy Mangold, 42:01; 100. Dawson Mauk, 45:04.
Girls’ junior varsity race (4K): 70. Brook Boatwright, 25:24; 76. Christian Sallee, 26:03; 86. Kristin Todd, 27:35; 87. Kolbyn Allen, 27:35.
Freshman boys’ race (4K): 3. Tanner Orth, 16:51.93; 16.
Dillon Aikins, 19:52; 25. Ronny Jarred, 21:02; 36. Bryce Isaac, 23:28.
Eighth-grade boys (2-mile): 6. Jules Jones, 14:23.
Eighth-grade girls (2-mile): 6. Paydne Durand, 19:41.
Seventh-grade boys (2-mile): 2. Wyatt Suefert, 6:28; 5. Josh Vanatta, 6:54; 16. Brady Slo-cum, 8:18.
Seventh-grade girls (2-mile): 12. Brooklyn Kuhn, 10:25; 13. Camron Goltry, 11:00.
HHS runners compete in meet
HUMBOLDT — Hum-boldt Middle School’s Lady Cubs won two A-team vol-leyball matches Thursday to begin their season.
The Lady Cubs defeated Eureka 25-20, 25-14 and 25-22, 26-24. Sydney Houk had six kills and two ace serves in the two matches for Humboldt. Kassie Angleton had four kills and Makay-lah McCall had one kill and three ace serves.
Kailey Wolken had five ace serves. Tilar Wells served up seven aces and had one kill for Humboldt. Rylan Wilhite had six ace serves and one kill and An-nalise Whitcomb had two ace serves and six set as-sists. Kira McReynolds had two ace serves and Cara Bartlett had one kill.
The Humboldt B-team also won 16-25, 25-13, 15-5 and 25-14, 25-12.
MORAN — St. Paul ran over Marmaton Valley Ju-nior High’s football Wild-cats Thursday night. The Wildcats lost their season opener 42-12.
St. Paul led 20-0 at half-time and 36-0 after three quarters. Marmaton Valley got two touchdowns — one each by Justice Pugh and Trevor Wilson — in the fourth quarter.
Derek Nixon led the Wild-cat defense with five tackles.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion opponents have turned on a Kansas pros-ecutor who abandoned a high-profile criminal case against a Planned Parent-hood clinic, with some pub-licly questioning his expla-nations for why he dropped the most serious charges.
Anti-abortion activists had seen Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe as sympathetic and well-intentioned, and Kan-sans for Life, the group most active in state poli-tics, even endorsed him after he defeated incum-bent Phill Kline, its favored candidate, in the Republi-can primary in 2008. But another group, Operation Rescue, has called for Howe to resign in the weeks since the last charges were dis-missed against the clinic in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park.
The clinic once faced 107 charges, including 23 felonies, accusing it of fal-sifying documents and per-forming illegal late-term abortions, allegations it strongly disputed. Kline filed the case in October 2007, garnering national headlines because advo-cates on both sides of the abortion debate believed it was the first criminal pros-ecution of a Planned Par-enthood clinic.
“This case could have been fully prosecuted a long time ago,” said Troy New-man, Operation Rescue’s president.
Howe, who’s running un-opposed for a second term this year, said he’s not sur-prised by the criticism, nor is he backtracking from the reasons he’s given publicly for dismissing the charges.
As for Newman’s criti-c i s m , Howe said, “ T h o s e who know all the facts know that is ab-solutely in-accurate.”
K l i n e contends Howe didn’t ag-gressively pursue leads that would have bolstered the case or led to a renewed investigation of the clinic, issuing an 1,100-word email statement, in part to de-tail arguments that Howe didn’t understand the case
or abortion law. Planned Parenthood officials con-tend Howe’s actions show the charges were unwar-ranted.
Howe also has described himself as an abortion op-ponent, but anti-abortion groups long considered Kline a leader for their movement. In 2007, Kline addressed the National Right to Life Committee’s annual convention, calling abortion a slaughter of in-nocents and adding that Kansas’ soil was “stained red.”
“Operation Rescue’s alarm is a response to false accusations raised by Mr. Kline,” said Pedro Irigoneg-aray, the clinic’s lead de-fense attorney. “They were misled.”
The criminal case had its roots in an investigation of abortion providers begun by Kline while he served as Kansas attorney gen-eral in 2003. Kline lost his race for re-election to state office in 2006 but served as Johnson County district at-torney from 2007 through 2008, which allowed him to pursue charges against Planned Parenthood’s clin-ic.
“The truth in Kansas is clear for those who want to see it,” said Kline, now a visiting assistant law pro-fessor at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., founded by the late Rev. Jerry Fal-well.
The criminal case’s tor-turous no-trial history was marked by legal disputes and multiple Kansas Su-preme Court rulings. Howe inherited the case from Kline upon taking office in January 2009.
He asked a judge in No-vember to dismiss the 49 most serious charges, in-cluding the felonies. He dropped another 26 misde-meanor charges on Aug. 3, and two weeks later, the re-maining 32 misdemeanors.
The most serious charges alleged that the clinic failed to maintain records on indi-
vidual abortions performed in 2003, as required by law, then fabricated a set when ordered to produce them in 2006 for Shawnee County D i s t r i c t J u d g e R i c h a r d Anderson, who was supervis -ing the investiga-tion of a b o r t i o n providers by Kline, then at-torney general. The clinic said no wrongdoing oc-curred, but a trial likely would have included a com-parison of what the clinic produced for Anderson with copies of the reports submitted to the state in 2003.
Various copies of the reports existed, but Howe contends he didn’t have clean, complete copies of what the clinic submit-ted to the state in 2003. He largely escaped criticism from abortion opponents in November after he said in court that the set of cop-ies he could have used was “destroyed” by the attor-ney general’s office in April 2009, under Steve Six, an abortion rights Democrat.
An external investiga-tion later concluded that the attorney general’s of-fice didn’t destroy any documents involving the Planned Parenthood case, but Howe said last week: “I stand by my previous com-ments.”
Some abortion oppo-nents, including Kline, accept that crucial docu-ments were destroyed but
argue Howe still could have pursued the felony charges. Kline said the situation was “harmful to the case but not fatal,” saying Ander-son had a set of copies that Howe could have used.
Irigonegaray argued months ago that Howe had cloaked his true motives to avoid criticism from abor-tion opponents and had the documents he needed to pursue the felony charg-es. Newman now accuses Howe of lying about his motives for dropping the felony charges.
Peter Brownlie, president and CEO of Planned Parent-hood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said criticism of Howe for dropping the case was inevitable because abortion opponents would accept nothing short of “us being put out of business.”
“What Operation Res-cue and their allies, etcet-era, cannot accept is the fact that’s been true from the beginning, that there’s never been any substance to the charges,” Brownlie said.
Abortion foes question dropped chargesJohnHannaAn AP news analysis
This case should have been prosecuted a long time ago.
— Troy Newman, Operation Rescue president
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What Operation Rescue and their allies, et-cetera, cannot accept is the fact that’s been true from the beginning, that there’s never been any substance to the charges.
— Peter Brownlie, Planned Parenthood of Kansasand Mid Missouri president and CEO
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Veteran moderate Re-publican State Sen. Jean Schodorf has announced she is leaving the GOP after being targeted this year by conservative groups who back Gov. Sam Brownback and losing to a conservative in the pri-mary.
The Wichita Eagle re-ported that Schodorf, the c h a i r -woman of the Kan-sas Sen-ate Edu-c a t i o n Commit-tee, said Saturday she plans to change her voter regis-tration in the near future and become a Democrat or an independent.
“My family has been Re-publican since Lincoln — since the party started,” said Schodorf, who was de-feated last month by Wich-ita City Council member Michael O’Donnell. “My parents, my grandparents, my great-grandparents were all Republicans. But it’s changed. There’s no room for people who actu-ally think in moderation.”
Schodorf has held the seat since 2001 and served 12 years on the Wichita school board. But O’Donnell had the backing of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and benefited from independent ad-vertising by the anti-tax, small-government group Americans for Prosperity.
Schodorf was called a “taxing queen” in one campaign mailer, while her 27-year-old challenger
was portrayed in a mail-ing as “Mikey” the baby.
“I kept thinking, ‘We’re in the same party. Why are we crucifying ourselves?’ said Schodorf, who is look-ing into starting a blog aimed at moderate Kan-sans.
Terese Johnson, the Sedgwick County Demo-cratic Party chairwoman, said she hopes Schodorf becomes a Democrat.
“We would welcome Jean with open arms,” she said. “I think Jean would be an asset to any party. It will be a great loss to the GOP.”
Although she said she knows of no other elected Republicans who have left their party, Johnson said, “from what I understand, there are many moderate-thinking Republicans who think they are no longer welcome in their party.”
Bob Dool, chairman of the county Republican Party, said the party wel-comes moderates.
“We have Libertarians, we have tea party people, and we have moderates,” he said. “We don’t exclude anybody.”
Ousted senator leaving GOP
Jean Schodorf
My family has been Republican since Lincoln — since the party started. My parents, my grand-parents, my great-grandparents were all Republicans. But the party has changed.
— Sen. Jean Schodorf
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ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 49-year-old southern Kansas man is dead after a Jeep rolled over in a grassy field and ejected him.
The Wichita Eagle reported Bret Clark of Arkansas City died in the crash just after mid-night Sunday morning. A 38-year-old Arkansas City man who was riding in the
jeep suffered moderate in-juries.
The Kansas Highway Pa-trol said Clark was driving in the field on private prop-erty in the southeastern part of the city when he lost control of the vehicle.
Arkansas City police said Clark received im-mediate medical attention but died at South Central Kansas Medical Center.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Wichita school district has hired a re-cruiter to scour job fairs and college campuses across the nation to find teachers for hard-to-fill vacancies.
The district also has launched a Facebook page, and school officials are visiting local high schools and community colleges to encourage more students to consid-er teaching as a career.
Much of the district’s efforts are targeted at recruiting special-educa-tion teachers. But it also needs other high-demand teaching areas, including math, science, English as a second language and consumer sciences.
The Wichita Eagle re-ported that the school board last week approved up to $50,000 to hire re-tired administrator Don Dome as its district re-cruiter to find special education teachers. The district, which employs more than 9,000 full and part-time employees, started this school year with 25 special-educa-tion vacancies.
“It’s a huge shortage area for us. We have dif-ficulties getting qualified special-ed candidates,” said Shelly Martin, direc-tor of recruitment and staffing for the district.
Its new Facebook page features job openings, upcoming job fairs, cam-pus visits and other re-cruiting efforts.
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Apex Financial LLC Nations Financial, LLCDefendant(s).Case No. 2012CV29Div. No. K.S.A. 60Mortgage Foreclosure
NOTICE OF SALEUnder and by virtue of an Order
of Sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court of ALLEN County, Kansas, to me the undersigned Sheriff of ALLEN County, Kansas, I will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at the main lobby of the ALLEN County Courthouse at Iola, Kansas, at 10:00 AM on Sep-tember 26, 2012, the following real estate:
LOT ONE (1), BLOCK TEN (10), MORAN CITY, ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS.
more specifically described as 422 N. Birch, Moran, KS 66755
to satisfy the judgment in the above-entitled case. The sale is to be made without appraisement and subject to the redemption period as provided by law, and further subject to the approval of the Court.
Sheriff of ALLEN County, KansasPREPARED AND SUBMITTED
BY:SINGER TARPLEY & JONES,
P.A.Sheldon R. Singer #10915 ss-
[email protected] S. Tarpley #22357 ltar-
[email protected] C. Jones #10907
[email protected] W. Lock # 23330 jlock@
stlaw.net10484 MartyOverland Park, KS 66212Phone: (913) 648-6333Fax: (913) 642-8742ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF(9) 4, 11, 18
(First published in The Iola Register September 4, 2012)IN THE DISTRICT COURT
OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSASJPMorgan Chase Bank, National
Association sbm to Chase Home Fi-nance LLC,
Plaintiff,vs.Jerry Steele,Mary Roe unknown spouse if
anyChristina Steele aka Christina D.
Harvey akaChristina D. Clover aka Christina
D. VolkJohn Doe unknown spouse if
anyState of Kansas Social and Re-
habilitation ServicesDefendant(s).
Case No. 09CV94Div. No.
K.S.A. 60Mortgage Foreclosure
NOTICE OF SALEUnder and by virtue of an Order
of Sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court of ALLEN County, Kansas, to me the undersigned Sheriff of ALLEN County, Kansas, I will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at the main lobby of the ALLEN County Courthouse at Iola, Kansas, at 10:00 AM on Sep-tember 26, 2012, the following real estate:
The tract of land is described as: The West 462.00 feet of the North 187.50 feet of the South-west Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section Fifteen (15), Township Twenty-Six (26) South, Range Eighteen (18) East, Allen County, Kansas.
more specifically described as 373 NE 1200th Street, Humboldt, KS 66748
to satisfy the judgment in the above-entitled case. The sale is to be made without appraisement and subject to the redemption period as provided by law, and further subject to the approval of the Court
Sheriff of ALLEN County, KansasPREPARED AND SUBMITTED
BY:SINGER TARPLEY & JONES,
P.A.Sheldon R. Singer KS #10915Linda S. Tarpley #22357Kenneth C. Jones #10907Jonah W. Lock # 2333010484 MartyOverland Park, KS 66212Phone: (913) 648-6333Fax: (913) 642-8742ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF(9) 4, 11, 18
Publicnotices
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on an Asian tour, condemned a suicide bomber for ram-ming his car into a U.S. gov-ernment vehicle in north-western Pakistan Monday, injuring two Americans.
Clinton said at the out-set of a news conference in Jakarta that she wants to “very clearly condemn the attack on our consul-ate personnel in Peshawar, Pakistan.”
“We pray for the safe re-covery of both American and Pakistani victims and once again we deplore the cowardly act of suicide bombing and terrorism that has affected so many around the world,” the sec-retary added.
Clinton said it was still too early in the investiga-tion of the incident to talk in broad detail. She did tell reporters that it “appears that a van filled with both American and Pakistani personnel, as well as lo-cally employed staff at the embassy site, were targeted by a suicide bomber who drove a vehicle into this van with the consequence that there were injuries of both Pakistanis and Ameri-cans in (the van) and on the ground.”
“The information I have is that the Pakistani au-thorities responded very appropriately to the scene and we don’t have any fur-ther information at this point,” she said. “At this point the injured are being taken care of, some have been airlifted to Islamabad hospitals. But we appreci-ate the support we are get-ting from the Pakistani law enforcement and govern-ment personnel.”
“It is deeply regrettable that there are those who pur-sue political goals through terrorism,” she said.
Clinton was in Indone-sia’s capital Monday to offer U.S. support for a regionally endorsed plan to ease rising tensions by implementing a code of conduct for all claimants to disputed islands.
ClintondecriesPakistaniattacks
Tuesday, September 4, 2012The Iola Registerwww.iolaregister.com B5
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DAILY CRYPTOQUOTES - Here’s how to work it:
Sudoku is like a crossword puzzle, but uses numbers instead of words. The puzzle is a box of 81 squares, subdivided into 3x3 cubes of 9 squares each. Some squares are filled in with numbers. The rest should be filled in by the puzzler.Fill in the blank squares allowing the numbers 1-9 to appear only once in every row, once in ev-ery column and once in every 3x3 box. One-star puzzles are for begin-ners, and the difficulty gradually increases through the week to a very chal-lenging five-star puzzle.
Dear Tom and Ray: My daughter has a 2001 Mitsubi-shi Eclipse four-cylinder RS model. Everything electrical died, and she was told that the computer is no good. Since the car is not worth all that much, we wanted to get another computer from the junk yard. However, we were told that would not work. They said each Eclipse com-puter is programmed just for that car, and we would have to purchase a new comput-er, for about $1,200. Is there truth in what she was told? — Mike
RAY: No. In lots of newer cars, you cannot just take
a computer out of one car and drop it into another car; it won’t work.
TOM: That’s partly due to the way the newer com-puters are wired. But mak-ing them difficult to reuse also helps reduce computer theft. As you found out, these computers are kind of pricey.
RAY: There is a method by which you can reuse
these newer computers, but we’re not going to share it here, since that would only encourage computer thieves.
TOM: Which, in turn, would cut into OUR com-puter theft business!
RAY: But on your daugh-ter’s car, Mike, and most older cars, you can buy a used computer. There’s no good reason not to. After all, the rest of the car is 10 years old — what’s wrong with having a 10-year-old computer?
TOM: But first, make sure you know which computer it is — there are several. Cars
have electronic control mod-ules for engine functions, and body control modules for the heater controls, pow-er seat memory and other stuff. Then, once you get the right module, your mechan-ic may have to reflash it, be-cause some modules contain “learned” information about the previous car. But that’s no big deal. “Used” is the way to go, Mike.
Got a question about cars? Write to Click and Clack in care of this newspaper, or email them by visiting the Car Talk website at www.cartalk.com.
Dear Dr. Donohue: Please discuss aneurysms.
My wife, age 62, died of a chest aneurysm three years ago. She had a yearly exam, but the doctor failed to de-tect it. She died in her sleep at an age that I consider too young. An autopsy showed that the aneurysm had bro-ken, and she died from a hemorrhage.
I, too, had an aneurysm. It was in the stomach area. My doctor discovered it on a routine exam and made all the appointments for further testing and treat-ment. The aneurysm was successfully removed.
I can’t ever forgive my wife’s doctor for not recog-nizing her aneurysm. — J.J.
Answer: Aneurysms are bulges of an artery’s wall. They’re weak spots. They can occur on any artery, but they occur most often on the aorta and brain arter-ies.
The aorta runs from the heart, down the chest cav-ity, and then enters the ab-dominal cavity to end at the bottom of that cavity.
Your wife’s aneurysm oc-curred in the chest section of her aorta. Such an aneu-rysm is all but impossible to detect on an ordinary physical exam. I take it she had no symptoms that sug-gested to the doctor that she might have this problem.
Your aneurysm was lo-cated in the abdominal part of the aorta. Here, aneu-rysms are much easier to detect. The doctor might hear a noise created by blood flowing through the dilated aorta, or he or she might be able to feel the pul-sations of the aneurysm. Neither of these is possible in the chest section of the aorta.
You can’t be so hard on your wife’s doctor. His task was an all but impossible one. And I say this not in an attempt to clear a fellow doctor, but in an attempt to explain to you what hap-
pened.
Dear Dr. Donohue: I have a yearly exam, with blood work done before the doc-tor’s exam. He has the re-sults when I see him in the office. This year, for the first time, he told me my electro-lytes were fine. I thanked him. I have no idea what electrolytes are. Will you tell me? — H.L.
Answer: Electrolytes are sodium, potassium, chloride and bicarbonate. They’re called electrolytes because they carry an elec-tric charge. Each of them has important and differ-ent roles to play in the body. They’re involved in the pro-duction of the heartbeat, the transmission of nerve signals, in blood pressure control and the balance be-tween the body’s acids and bases.
Dear Dr. Donohue: I am on two blood pressure med-icines. I read that taking blood pressure medicine is hard on the heart. I want to know how I can get off medicines. — M.S.
Answer: Blood pressure medicines are not hard on the heart. High blood pressure is. The medicines prevent heart and artery damage. Lowering pressure relieves a great burden on the heart and arteries. It
prevents things like heart attacks and strokes.
Most of the time, the commitment to blood pres-sure medicine is a lifelong commitment. However, changing some aspects of life might lower pressure enough that you could stop the medicine. Weight loss is one important step. Daily exercise is another. Walking at a fairly brisk rate counts as exercise. Lowering salt intake is another way to lower blood pressure. Eat-ing foods high in potassi-um brings down pressure. Fresh fruits and vegetables are high in potassium. Po-tatoes and bananas are two
good sources. Don’t go off medicine unless your doc-tor says it’s safe. Do you take your own pressure? You should. Home kits are not expensive or hard to use. Drugstores sell them.
Dr. Donohue regrets that
he is unable to answer in-dividual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Readers may also order health newslet-ters from www.rbmamall.com.
Older cars can take used computersCarTalkTomand RayMagliozzi
Chest aneurysms often hard to detectDr. Paul Donohue
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It’s Time For Our Business, Professional & Industrial
YEARLY PICTORIAL SPECIAL SECTION to be published on Sat., Oct. 30, 2012.
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ACCOUNTANT / TAX SERVICE ACCOUNTANT / TAX SERVICE
Clayton Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A5
H&R Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
B12
Jarred, Gilmore & Phillips, P.A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A10
ATTORNEY AT LAWORNEY AT LAW .A3
AUTOMOTIVE
BANK
CARE HOME
CLEANING / LAUNDRY
COMMUNITY SERVICES
CONTRACTOR
CONTRACTOR ( cont. ) CONTRACTOR ( cont.)
J&J Contractors, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A2
John’s Lock & Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B5
Keim & Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
B2
Kitchens & More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B1
LACO Guttering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B4
Northside Plumbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A6
P ducts Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B2A6
EDUCATION / GOVERNMENT
ENGINEERING
EXERCISE / RECREATION
FARMING / AGRICULTURE
FLORIST / GREENHOUSE
FUNERAL HOME / MONUMENTS
GROCERY / MEAT / CONVENIENCE
HAIR SALON / SPA / MASSAGE
INDUSTRY INDUSTRY B&W Trailer Hitches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . B6
Gates Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A7
Herff Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A
12
Kneisley Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A9
Microtronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A8
The Monarch Cement Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A4
Sonic Equipment Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A9
& E Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A9
INSURANCE / FINANCIAL PLANNERER
JOB SERVICE
LIQUOR
LUMBER COMPANY
MACHINE / REPAIR / WELDING
MEDICAL / HEALTH CARE
NEWSPAPER / PRINTERS
OFFICE SUPPLIES, COMPUTERS &
OFFICE SUPPLIES, COMPUTERS &
COMMUNICATION SERVICES COMMUNICATION SERVICES
Advantage Computer / Jayhawk Software . B9
Cox Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A3
Hawk Business Specialties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B5
KwiKom Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B4
OIL FIELD SUPPLIES OIL FIELD SUPPLIES
JB Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . A7
Oil Patch Pump & Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B8
PEST CONTROLEST CONTROL .... . B3
REAL ESTATE / HOUSING
RESTAURANT / CATERING / TAVERN
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WASHINGTON (MCT) — After months of laboring to define Mitt Romney, Demo-crats head into their na-tional convention this week hoping to fuse his image with that of the Republican Party and its unpopular congressional caucus.
Obama’s team plans to portray the Republicans as an association of ideo-logues hoping to return to power with the election of a pliant White House servant who would follow a conser-vative, “tea party”-driven agenda.
In the Democrats’ ver-sion of the campaign, Rom-ney is a man with little substance who has sub-ordinated himself to the party’s most right-wing forces. Those include his running mate, Rep. Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, and other House Republicans and GOP candidates who espouse views about repro-ductive rights that Demo-crats say put them out of step with a majority of vot-ers, particularly women.
Democratic strategists believe that casting the con-test in such stark terms will animate their core support-ers, while broadcasting a message that will win over the less partisan voters they need.
“Republicans are at the core now an ideologi-cal party,” David Axelrod, Obama’s longtime advisor, said in an interview. “They have a dogma they believe in, and they don’t really want to debate about the future.”
Viewers can expect that the Republican platform, which speakers almost nev-er mentioned at the GOP’s convention, will be cited often at the Democratic Na-tional Convention in Char-lotte, N.C.
The Republican platform plank that calls for outlaw-ing abortion without ex-ceptions for cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother has already become a feature of Demo-cratic rhetoric. Also likely to come up is the GOP docu-ment’s opposition to same-sex marriage.
“If you look at their plat-form, the 2012 platform, it looks like it’s from anoth-er century, or maybe even two,” Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, chairman of the Democrat-ic convention, said on “Fox
News Sunday.” “It looks like the platform of 1812.”
Republicans, for their part, have set up a counter-convention headquarters in Charlotte with plans to repeatedly raise one cen-tral question: Are Ameri-cans better off than they were four years ago?
“They’ve gone through a tick-tock of different strate-gies,” Romney spokeswom-an Andrea Saul said of the Obama campaign. “They don’t have a rationale for re-election. Everything they’re trying is grasping at straws because they’re not able to talk about whether Americans are doing bet-ter.”
Democrats plan to talk more about the federal bud-get plans proposed by Rom-ney and Ryan than either Republican candidate did at their convention in Tampa, Fla. Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, has proposed deep cuts in federal spending and con-version of Medicare into a voucher plan.
Obama strategists say that Romney’s choice of Ryan greatly helps their cause. Ryan not only comes with the baggage of his budget, but he can also be tied to other members of the House Republican cau-cus, including the conser-vative tea party freshmen and Rep. Todd Akin of Mis-souri. Akin, who recently suggested that victims of “legitimate rape” rarely get pregnant from such as-saults, has sponsored anti-abortion bills that Ryan has backed.
“When he chose Paul Ryan to be his running mate, that was the final piece of the merger,” Axel-rod said. “There’s no day-light between him and that Congress.”
Congress — and its GOP members — haven’t been very popular since Repub-licans turned what had been a routine vote to raise the legal limit on the fed-eral debt into a prolonged debate, raising the risk of a default. GOP and Demo-cratic members were even-ly matched in approval rat-ings throughout 2010, and then the Republicans took a dive in August of last year, according to the Pew Re-search Center.
“The Republican Party took a pretty big hit com-ing out of that debate,” said Pew Director Andrew Kohut. “What we saw were large numbers of people saying the Republican Par-ty is a party that takes ex-treme positions, and that Democrats were the ones who were willing to com-promise.”
Because the country is closely divided, the Rom-ney and Obama campaigns have each deemed it critical to ensure that their party’s base turns out to vote, said Stephen Wayne, a professor of government at George-town University and author of “The Road to the White House 2012.”
“What Democrats fear most is extreme Republi-
cans. What Republicans fear is extreme Democrats,” Wayne said. “So that’s why you hear that Obama is a socialist. You paint the op-position in extremist terms because that’s what fright-ens the base the most.”
Akin’s comments about “legitimate rape” fed into the Democratic strategy and prompted Romney to ask him to quit his race for U.S. Senate in Missouri, which seems to have re-inforced Akin’s resolve to stay in.
Romney has tried to make clear that his views on abortion differ from Akin’s, which more close-ly match the party’s plat-form. Romney said during a radio interview last week that he opposes abortion “except for cases of rape, incest and where the life of the mother is threatened,” a statement his campaign says accurately reflects his position.
But Romney agrees with the party in opposing gay marriage and is a vigorous spokesman for the supply-side economic beliefs that power its positions on taxes and regulation.
Democrats argue Rom-ney and his party have more in common than not. On Medicare, the presi-dent’s advisers say voters will judge Romney not only on his statements but on his party’s record.
In the budget he wrote,
Ryan proposed sweeping cuts in future Medicare spending, along the lines of what Obama has already enacted. Romney has dis-avowed the Ryan cuts and criticizes Obama’s.
“They’ve spent the last several weeks since Ryan’s been on the ticket trying to paper over their positions,” Axelrod said. “They’d like to put their party platform in the same vault where Romney’s tax returns are currently reposing.”
Democrats look to tie Romney with far-right
Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT A sand sculpture of President Barack Obama is seen Sunday in Charlotte, N.C., for the Democratic National Convention.
