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Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

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

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

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

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

By SUSAN [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By RICHARD [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

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

By BOB [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

See EGO | Page B6

By JOE [email protected]

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

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

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Temps for runlook inviting

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

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

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

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

Pekarek finds home at USD 257

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

Cheating scandal detailed

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Vol. 114, No. 208 75 Cents Iola, KS

FROM ONE EXTREME TO THE OTHER

U.S. Drought Monitor August 14, 2012Valid 7 a.m. EDT

Intensity:D0 Abnormally DryD1 Drought - ModerateD2 Drought - SevereD3 Drought - ExtremeD4 Drought - Exceptional

Iola

2007 flood gives perspective to current dry spell

Tax would mean better streets By BOB JOHNSON

[email protected] — Dan Julich,

city councilman, laid out plans Monday night for how returns from a half-cent sales tax would improve Humboldt streets. About 25 residents attended the special meeting.

The tax will be decided in a mail-ballot referendum. Ballots went out this week and must be returned to the Allen County clerk’s office by noon Sept. 11, in person or by mail.

With Allen County’s assis-tance, streets will be milled, bases rebuilt where necessary and over-laid with asphalt, Julich said.

By RICHARD LUKENand BOB JOHNSONRegister reporters

It seems like only yesterday when Iolans were forced out of their homes when the swollen floodwaters of Elm Creek burst past their banks.

Much of the southern regions of town were evacuated for sev-eral days — and more than 100 homes ultimately destroyed — from the Flood of 2007, dubbed

by many as Iola’s “Storm of the Century.”

Fast forward five years.A statistical anomaly from

late June 2007 flood illustrates just how long the 2012 drought has persisted.

Over a five-day stretch, from June 27 through July 1, 2007, Mother Nature was relentless, dropping more than 17 inches of rain in Iola.

That five-day storm exceeds

Iola’s total rainfall since Jan. 1 this year — by nearly 2 inches. Since the start of 2012, only 15.73 inches of rain has fallen, nearly 9 inches below normal.

The shortage is exacerbated by the searing heat that blanket-ed the region in June and July.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-ministration’s Climate Predic-tion Center, it would require a storm similar to the 2007 deluge

for much of eastern Kansas just to escape the drought.

An NOAA map released last week indicated eastern Kansas would require about 12 to 15 inches of rainfall to revert to a “normal” year, based on the Long Term Palmer Drought Se-verity Index (or PDSI), which also considers such things as soil conditions and air temperature in addition to rainfall totals.

Humboldt council sets water limits


HUMBOLDT — Beginning Fri-day Humboldt residents will be restricted in use of water for out-doors.

At the behest of the Kansas Water Office, council members approved a resolution at a special meeting Monday night outlining the restrictions, brought about by the ongoing drought and low flow in the Neosho River.

Watering of lawns and flowers may be done between 9 p.m. and 10 a.m. on even-days for residents with even-numbered street ad-dresses and on odd-numbered days for those with odd-numbered addresses. Washing vehicles also will be affected.

Outdoor watering may be done with hand-held hoses or buckets, no sprinklers or soaker hoses.

The golf course will be restrict-ed to watering tee boxes only; greens are sand. Private swim-ming pools may be refilled once a week and only after sunset.

John Hodgden, water plant su-pervisor, told council members a water watch had been in effect since June, when rainfall began to subside.

The restrictions are part of a water warning, he added, and is the second step taken when water concerns arise.

“Next is the emergency stage, when we would start looking for alternative sources of water,” Hodgden said. “Hopefully people will go by the stage two warning restrictions and cut back dur-ing peak usage,” during daylight hours.

Humboldt’s plant processes and sells about 3 million gallons of water a week.

Water for processing is drawn

Peeper takes a trip through US history By ROB BURKETT

[email protected] Peeper, Iola High School

social studies teacher and head coach for the boys basketball team, is ready to return to the classroom after a summer of boning up on American history.

For each of the last five years Peeper has taken advantage of a grant from the National Endow-ment for the Humanities to ex-plore his homeland.

This year Peeper studied the life, impact and times of Samuel

“Mark Twain” Clemens and his book, “Huckleberry Finn.” A na-tive of Missouri, Clemens also strayed east. Peeper attended a weeklong conference in Hart-ford, Conn., where the author, steamboat captain and some-times journalist built a home in what was at the time, an affluent area.

“The home is located in an area called, ‘The Author’s Nook,’” Peeper said. “Many fa-mous authors had homes right in that area. Harriet Beecher

Stowe, who wrote ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ lived right there so we had a chance to tour her home as well.”

Peeper, who describes himself as a history nut, made his way to Connecticut via cemeteries starting in Ohio. Of particular interest, are the grave sites of presidents.

“I’ve managed to visit many of the presidential grave sites,” Peeper said. “It’s amazing the

By ROB [email protected]

When a teacher is in front of a classroom he expects stu-dents to listen to what he is say-ing. For Melissa Stiffler, Iola High School guidance counsel-or, in most cases the opposite is true.

“Kids can feel left alone,” Stiffler said. “I don’t have all the answers, but then again sometimes they just want someone to talk to.”

Stiffler thinks she will be able to relate to the students at IHS. Her background is, in many respects, similar to that of the students she serves. Stif-fler grew up in Macon, Mo., a small town in northeast Mis-souri. Like Iola, Macon is a

town of less than 6,000 resi-dents.

“I grew up in a less well-off neighborhood,” Stiffler said. “I had 114 in my graduating class

New to the district

Melissa Stiffler

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Register/Bob JohnsonDan Julich, Humboldt councilman, talks about how streets will be improved if a half-cent sales tax issue is successful.

By RICHARD [email protected]

Iola City Council members will meet Wednesday to discuss two va-cancies on the council.

Mayor Bill Shirley scheduled the special meeting for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the New Communi-ty Building in Riverside Park.

The eight-member council is down to six following the recall of former Councilmen Ken Rowe and Kendall Callahan.

Shirley declined to say who he was going to nominate. Calla-han represented Iola’s first ward, which consists of much of the northwest part of town. Rowe represented Ward 4, the southeast part of Iola.

Nominations must be approved by the remaining six council mem-bers. The replacements would hold office until the next city elec-tion in April, at which time the entire council is up for re-election.

Council meets Wednesday

Counselor joins Iola High team

Woman arrestedRachel Noyes, 24, Maple-

ton, was arrested Saturday afternoon for domestic battery after Allen County deputies were dispatched to 1012 S. Broadway, LaHarpe, to deal with a disturbance. Officers said they found that Ricky Noyes, 47, LaHa-rpe, had been battered.

Arrests reportedDylon Trembly was ar-

rested by Iola police officers Friday for allegedly firing a BB gun within city limits and obstructing the subse-quent police investigation for a disturbance in the 200 block of White Boulevard.

On Saturday, Jessica Maple, 27, Kansas City, was arrested in the 500 block of North Kentucky Street for a warrant out of Woodson County.

Assault caseunder investigation

Iola police officers are in-vestigating a reported case of child sexual assault.

The officers were called to Allen County Hospital Sunday.

A suspect was identified.

Walmart employeecited for theft

Iola police were told Tra-cy Draper, 29, had been al-legedly stealing items from Iola Walmart, where she worked.

A citation for theft was mailed to the suspect.

Driver injured inchain-reaction wreck

Joshua C. Clark, 24, was crossing Lincoln Street from North Jefferson Av-enue Wednesday when his vehicle struck an east-bound pickup driven by Van T. Tucker, 19. Tucker’s car struck a pedestrian sign before hitting a westbound car driven by Vickie Snave-ly, who was waiting on Lin-coln to turn onto Jefferson.

A passenger in Clark’s vehicle, Glen M. Manches-ter, was injured and taken

via ambulance to Allen County Hospital.

None of the drivers were injured, nor was a passen-ger in Tucker’s pickup.

All involved in the wreck were wearing seat belts, ac-cording to the Iola Police Department.

Attack reportedDavid Rogers, 30, Iola,

told Iola police officers Saturday a pair of sus-pects “forcibly removed” his shoes, then burned his hand with a cigarette in the 10 block of North State Street.

Charges against the sus-pects are pending. The sus-pects were not identified.

Tools stolenJames Cotton Jr., 39, Cha-

nute, told officers Saturday somebody entered his ve-hicle while it was parked in the 300 block of West Street and stole more than $1,000 worth of tools.

Tank cover damaged

Susan Hawk, 49, Iola, re-ported Saturday a propane tank cover on her camper had been damaged while the camper was parked be-hind her residence in the 800 block of North Chest-nut Street.

Cement post hitLyslie A. Shifflett, 28,

was backing from a park-ing stall in her sport utility vehicle when she struck a cement post, Iola police of-ficers reported.

Pickup hitA pickup owned by Jan-

ice K. Buckjune was struck while it was parked near the intersection of East and First streets Aug. 13. The driver of the other vehicle left without reporting the accident.

Yard items stolenClifton Heskett, 22, told

Iola police officers Wednes-day evening somebody stole a number of items from his yard, including a 75-foot

garden hose, iron metal arched gazebo and a 55-gal-lon barrel. The items were valued altogether at $110.

Bikes stolen,another recovered

Kelley Tindel, 44, Iola, reported Friday somebody stole his bicycle while it was parked in the bike rack at Allen Community Col-lege.

On Saturday, Curt Grif-

feth reported his Mongoose mountain bike, valued at $150, was taken from 301 S. Second Street.

Todd Underwood, 41, Iola, reported his yellow and blue Mongoose bicycle was taken from the 10 block of South Jefferson some-time within the past month.

Meanwhile, Seth Brown-ing, Iola, told officers Fri-day he had located a girls’ 20-inch bicycle at his resi-

dence in the 500 block of South Buckeye Street. The bike was taken to the police department, where it can be claimed by its owner.

Gasoline takenEmployees at Casey’s

General Store told police Saturday a suspect drove away without paying for $15.78 worth of gasoline. The suspect was driving a black car.

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Alan SleeperIola native Alan Roy

Sleeper died Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012.

Sleeper was born in southeast Kansas in Iola to Nora Edith Wright and Al-lan Roy Sleeper on Sept. 4, 1917. After finishing school in Iola in 1935, he followed his brother, John to KU, pledged Phi Delta Theta as John had done, and studied history. He was a scholar of Winston Churchill. While at KU, he obtained a law de-gree and met many lifelong friends, the most important being Sara Fair.

After having served on Navy flagships during World War II in North Af-rica during the invasion of Italy and France, Alan returned to Kansas and married Sara Fair of Al-den. Sara’s father was in the farming and ranching business and Alan joined him, embarking on a life he neither trained for nor had any experience with. Alan could not have imagined he would have such a passion for the land. He loved hunt-ing with a favorite bird dog, planting old farm ground back to native grass, main-taining pastures by burn-ing and buying and herding cattle with local men. While he often flew to far away places in his own plane, he was always happiest to re-turn home. He wanted ev-erything he was involved in to be the best it could be. His standards could be de-manding of those around him, but they produced im-portant results. He was a pioneer in pasture manage-ment and educated himself and those around him on

the subject.Various boards in Kansas

benefited from his thought-ful ideas: the Alden School Board, the Alden United Methodist Church Build-ing Fund, the Sterling Col-lege Board, the Alden State Bank Board, the Kansas Banking Board, the Kansas City branch of the Federal Reserve under Paul Vogel and the KU Endowment Fund. In remembrance of his mother, father and brother, he established the Sleeper Family Trust at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center in Iola.

His family and friends never lacked for entertain-ment. Alan always found the best restaurant, the newest play, latest movie or a baseball game on their many travels.

He leaves his wife of 68 years, Sara Fair, Alden; daughter Barbara Hulsizer, Lexington, Mass.; son Jim Sleeper, Santa Fe, N.M.; grandson, Noah Hulsizer and his wife, Nikita Max-well, and their children, Marsh and Echo, Brooklyn, N.Y.; granddaughter, Eva Hulsizer, Dallas, Texas; and nieces Janet Kerr and Jill Hemphill. He was preced-ed in death by his brother, John Lyman Sleeper, and his sister-in-law, Virginia Maupin Sleeper.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Alden United Methodist Church. Burial will follow in the Alden Valley Cem-etery. Visitation is this eve-ning from 5 to 7 o’clock at Birzer-Sillin Funeral Home in Sterling. Donations are suggested to Alden United Methodist Church.

Mark ShinnMark Leroy Shinn, 62,

Iola, died Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012.

M a r k was born June 10, 1950, in Iola, the son of J a m e s and Thora (Nichols) Shinn. He graduated from Iola High School, Iola Junior College and served six years in the Kansas Army National Guard.

Mark worked for H & M Market in Iola, where Glen Thompson taught him to cut meat. He later worked as a meat cutter for Food-town in Fredonia, Neode-sha, Independence and Iola. He recently worked at Bol-ling’s Meat Market in Iola.

Mark married Judy Col-lins and they divorced. He then married Susan Whal-ey and they later divorced.

He was a member of the Iola American Legion and Iola Elks Lodge.

He is survived by a son, Brett Shinn and his wife, Miriah Feather, Tulsa, Okla.; three daughters, Crystal Shinn, Kenosha, Wis., Tabitha Shinn and her husband, Brian Schwermer, Broken Arrow, Okla., and Amber Sanchez and her husband, Matt, Tulsa; his mother, Thora Shinn, Iola; two brothers, Alan Shinn and his wife, Becky, Union-town, and Jack Shinn, Pittsburg; four grandchil-dren, Blade Feather, Aiden Feather, Nicole Schwermer and Shi Anne Sanchez.

He was preceded in death

by his father, James O. Shinn.

Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at Tur-key Creek Cemetery north of Uniontown.

Memorial gifts to the Iola American Legion or Iola Elks Lodge may be left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola, which is in charge of ar-rangements.

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

Melvin RossMelvin Lynn Ross, 62,

Humboldt, passed away Friday, Aug. 17, 2012 at his home.

He was born Feb. 5, 1950, in Iola, the son of Melvin and Virginia (Rosebaugh) Ross. He graduated from Iola High School. Melvin had lived most of his life in the Iola and Humboldt area.

In 1970, he was united in marriage to Linnie Whis-nant. They later divorced. He married Jackie Zehner in 1996. They later divorced.

Melvin worked as a maintenance worker for Iola USD 257, before becom-ing an equipment operator for Allen County, a position from which he subsequent-ly retired.

He is survived by his sons, Rick Ross and his wife, Lisa, Humboldt, and Rockey Ross, his compan-ion, Rae Everett, and her daughter, Hope, Humboldt; and three granddaughters, Jaci Ross, Krissy Ross and Emily Ross; all of Hum-boldt.

It was Melvin’s wish to be cremated. No services

will be held. The family will memorialize Melvin at a later time.

Penwell-Gabel Humboldt Chapel is in charge of ar-rangements.

To leave a special mes-sage for the family online, visit www.PenwellGabel-Humboldt.com.

West servicesFuneral services for

Emma Jean West (Scully), whose death Thursday was reported in Saturday’s Register, will begin with rosary at 10 a.m. Friday at St. John’s Catholic Church in Iola. Mass is at 10:30. Fol-lowing Mass, lunch will be served. Interment follows at Bronson Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 103 E. Sixth St., Truth or Consequences, NM 87901-2360.

Bill HindeWilliam Lee “Bill” Hinde,

83, Iola, died Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, at Windsor Place Nursing Center.

Bill was born Feb. 5, 1929, in Haxtun, Colo., the son of Harold and Katherine Hinde. He grew up at Hax-tun and graduated from high school at Dailey, Colo.

On Aug. 12, 1950, Bill married Gladys J. Micheli in Denver. They made their home in a number of states before moving to Iola in 1963. Bill’s father-in-law, F.A. Micheli, purchased the M&M Bakery and renamed it the F&F Bakery. When Bill bought out his in-laws, they renamed it Renee’s Bakery, which is still in the

family. Mrs. Hinde preceded him in death Feb. 11, 1975.

Bill enjoyed bowling when he was younger. He loved watching baseball and was a die-hard Royals fan.

He is survived by five children, Regina Cochran and husband Dan, Iola, Su-san Walters and husband, Ron, Iola, Garry G. Hinde and wife Sandy, Jefferson City, Mo., Renee Strawder and husband Mark, Le Roy, and Angie Alexander and husband Mike, Lenexa; three siblings, Zola Riley, Sterling, Colo., Jim Hinde and wife Dottie, Colorado Springs, and Dick Hinde and wife Pearl, Haxtun, Colo.; a brother-in-law and close friend, Phil Micheli and wife Ellen, Marietta, Calif.; eight grandchildren, Brian, Michael, Jeffrey and wife Kim, Eric and wife Shara, Kara, Alicia, Emily and husband Dustin and Grant and wife Kelly; seven great-grandchildren, Travis, Hanna, Alec, Alex-andria, Alexia, Layten and Addison.

He was preceded in death by three siblings, Wayne Hinde, Elaine Wilderman and Rebecca Hinde.

Cremation has taken place. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel, Iola. Inurnment will be in Highland Cem-etery. Memorials may be left at Waugh-Yokum Me-morial Chapel for Allen County Animal Rescue Fa-cility (ACARF). Online con-dolences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.

Obituaries

Mark Shinn

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By TERRY BROYLESHumboldt Correspondent

HUMBOLDT — Ques-tioning Carrol Baker about whether he plans to drive the school bus again this year seems like a waste of time to him.

“People at church or places will ask me and I say ‘sure, why not?,’” Bak-er said.

After driving for Ruan Transport for 28 years, Baker retired in 1997.

“I thought I’d join the spit and whittle club, but Jack Ellis caught my wife in Corner Post one day and asked her if she thought I’d be a substitute bus driver,” Baker said. “I told Rita, ‘we’re staying out of the Corner Post.’”

Baker did agree to be a substitute driver later in 1997. His name also ended up on Iola’s substitute drivers list and he was eventually hired as Iola’s activities driver.

In 2000, a regular bus route in Humboldt became available. Baker has driven the route every year since.

“I look forward to the kids,” Baker said. “I en-joy it. If I didn’t have this to do, I might be a bum and not get out of bed ’til noon.”

He has driven the east-of-town route morning and evening for 12 years, mak-ing his first stop at 6:50 a.m. He picks up an aver-

age of 20 students on a 37 -mile path.

“I don’t lay down the law on the first day,” Baker said. “We do have a set of rules prepared by USD 258 that we go over. Sometimes the older kids will ask for the rules and then read them to the younger ones, but I have a good bunch of kids.”

Baker and his six chil-dren are life-long residents of Humboldt. All of them grew up as bus riders when they attended school.

“Back when I rode, the bus driver could stop the bus and put you off if you were causing trouble,” Baker remembered. “We can’t do that nowadays.”

Besides the daily route, Baker drives the bus oc-casionally for groups go-ing to special activities, games or on trips. Teach-ers, coaches or sponsors accompany the group and it’s their job to take care of the kids, Baker said.

One of his favorite sto-ries involves transporting a stowaway with the cross country team to Chicken Annie’s in Girard.

“This kid wasn’t on

the team that year, but he sneaked onto the bus and ducked down behind the seat,” Baker said. “To this day, when I see him he’ll say ‘Let’s go to Chicken Annies.’ The kids got a big kick out of that.”

“I really didn’t think I could be a bus driver at first, but I enjoy it and there’s a purpose in doing it; it gives me a reason to get up and get going,” Bak-er said.

THE STUDENTS on the route get to know him and regularly invite him to school programs and grad-uation.

“The little ones espe-cially will ask me if I’m coming to their program,” Baker said. “I try to go and to the older ones’ gradua-tions.”

“He’s nice,” Zach Korte on the east route described Baker. “He lets us be kind of rowdy, as long as we don’t make loud noises. I would describe him as su-per nice.”

Baker and wife, Rita, also have 14 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchil-dren.

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meeting, 6:30 p.m., Board of Education office; Biblesta Chorus practice, 7 p.m., United Methodist Church; Adult water aerobics, 7-8 p.m., swimming pool.Wednesday

Virginia Circle, 1:30 p.m., First Baptist Church.Thursday

First day of classes for USD 258; Mary Martha Circle meeting, 7 p.m., First Baptist Church.Friday

Downtown Action Team, 1:30 p.m., library.Sunday

Community Singspira-tion and covered dish meal, 5:30 p.m., United Methodist Church.Tuesday

Biblesta Chorus practice, 7 p.m., United Methodist Church.Aug. 30

Last day to sign up for the fall city-wide garage sale.Sept. 8

Paper drive; Citywide ga-rage sale.

Calendar

Anyone who likes to sing is encouraged to join the Biblesta choir. Rehearsals for the choir’s Biblesta celebration per-formance on Oct. 6, will be on Tuesday evenings at the Methodist Church at 7

p.m.Jim Palmer will direct

the choir and needs ad-ditional male and alto voices. There is no cost to be involved in the choir, except the commitment of time.

Biblesta choir recruiting

Friends of Stacy Criss, wife of K.B. Criss, USD 258 superintendent, have organized a benefit to help with Stacy’s medical ex-penses in her fight and re-covery from cancer.

There will be a 5K run/walk, a washers tourna-ment, food and music Sept. 15 in city square. There is a $25 entry fee for the run/walk and wash-ers tournament, which includes a T-shirt. Regis-trations should be made by Sept. 5. Forms may be

picked up at the Board of Education office, McReyn-olds Dentist office, Ashley Clinic or Community Na-tional Bank and Trust.

The run/walk and the tournament start at 6 p.m. on the square. The band, Subject to Change, is scheduled to perform at 7 p.m.

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Register/Terry Broyles

Carrol Baker has been picking up and delivering students to Humboldt schools since 2000 and is eager to see the students on his regular route Thursday. Except for Transportation Supervisor, Jack Ellis, Baker has the longest driving record of Humboldt drivers.

Baker keeps ‘drive’ in life

RYE BROOK, N.Y. (AP) — Two brothers from a New York City suburb have an advertising concept that’s on a roll — a roll of toilet paper.

Bryan and Jordan Silver-man are creators of toilet tissue printed with ads, and sometimes with coupon codes that can be read by cellphones. The Journal-News says in a story Sun-day that the brothers expect their product to appear this fall in the Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library.

Twenty-two-year-old Jor-dan Silverman came up with the idea for Star Toilet Paper in 2010. His 18-year-old brother tells the news-paper that he was initially skeptical but came to see it as advertising to “a really captive audience.”

The brothers from Rye Brook have entered their concept in a contest run by Entrepreneur magazine.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hispanic population growth and improved high school completion rates helped Latino young people become the largest minority group on college campuses and a fourth of the public school popula-tion last year, according to a Pew Hispanic report released Monday.

The center’s analysis of Census data shows more than 2 million Hispanics ages 18 to 24 were enrolled in college last year, mak-ing up a record 16.5 per-cent share of enrollments in that age group at two-year and four-year univer-sities.

Simultaneously, for the first time, one fourth of the pre-K through 12th grade population was La-tino, the center said.

The Hispanic share of the public school popula-tion had been inching up as the enrollments of chil-dren in pre-K and kinder-garten reached one quar-ter Hispanic over the past six years.

The elementary school population also became one quarter Hispanic last year, nudging the overall pre-K through 12th grade to about one quarter His-panic last year, up from 23.3 in 2010.

Mark Lopez, associate director of the Pew His-panic Center, said in the next few years the high school population will also reach that mark.

Hispanics are the larg-est minority group in the United States numbering about 52 million last year, according to the Census.

More Hispanicsattending college

I enjoy it. If I didn’t have this to do, I might be a bum and not get out of bed ’til noon.

— Carroll Baker, school bus driver

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In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an ex-ecutive order making Hawaii the 50th state.

In 1961, country singer Patsy Cline recorded the Willie Nelson song “Crazy” in Nash-ville for Decca Records.

In 1992, an 11-day siege be-

gan at the cabin of white sepa-ratist Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, as government agents tried to arrest Weaver for failing to appear in court on charges of selling two ille-gal sawed-off shotguns; in the resulting shootout, Weaver’s teenage son, Samuel, and

Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan were killed.

Thought for Today: “Para-doxical as it may seem, to be-lieve in youth is to look back-ward; to look forward we must believe in age.” — Dorothy L. Sayers, English author (1893-1957).

Today in history

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Democrats are trying to reclaim the state’s Populist tradition, at-tacking conservative Republican tax-cutting policies in hopes of avoiding a wipeout in legislative races. They’re battling frustra-tion in a GOP-leaning state with Democratic President Barack Obama.

Brownback and other conser-vatives have enjoyed the backing of the Kansas Chamber of Com-merce and Koch Industries Inc., the multibillion-dollar Wichita-based company. But they’ve also positioned themselves as champi-ons of entrepreneurs in promot-ing massive income tax cuts en-acted this year as a way to boost the state economy.

Democrats contend the tax cuts are reckless, likely to create an ongoing, artificial budget crisis endangering aid to public schools and spending on social services. But they’re also arguing that the tax cuts are unfair to middle-class and poor Kansans, particularly wage earners.

“In a law firm, the partners pay no tax, but the clerical person-nel remain fully taxed,” Martin Dickinson, a longtime University of Kansas law professor who spe-cializes in tax issues, said during a recent Statehouse news confer-

ence organized by the Kansas Democratic Party. “On the farm, the farm owner is tax-free. The hired hands — who are employ-ees, of course — will all continue to pay tax.”

Many Kansas Democrats have seen themselves as heirs of the Populists of the 1880s and 1890s, but some centrists and liberals have had misgivings about such a link, particularly in the 1990s when Gov. Joan Finney pushed the Progressive Era idea of allow-ing voters to bypass legislators to enact laws and constitutional changes. Govs. Kathleen Sebelius and Mark Parkinson tried to dis-play pro-business leanings to woo moderate Republicans.

Meanwhile, conservatives’ takeover of the state GOP had a Populist undercurrent, even as their anti-tax, small-government ideas appealed to corporate lead-ers. Abortion opponents and oth-er social conservatives derided Republican moderates as a coun-try club establishment, while oth-ers portrayed government as an oppressive behemoth.

Brownback’s administration has repeatedly touched on the last theme. Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan suggested last week that critics wanted to turn back the clock to save big government.

The Legislature’s staff has es-timated that the income tax cuts will be worth $231 million dur-ing the current fiscal year, with the figure growing to $934 million annually after six years. Brown-back’s administration describes the relief as broad, because all individual income tax rates will drop for next year.

The tax cuts also exempt the owners of 191,000 partnerships, sole proprietorships and other companies from income taxes, and supporters are trying to send a message that Kansas values en-trepreneurs.

“It’s pure economics. Three-fourths of Kansans work for somebody who employs 10 or fewer people,” Brownback said in an interview with The Associated Press. “What we’re trying to es-tablish is the best business envi-ronment in the country for small business.”

But Dickinson, a registered Democrat who’s taught at the University of Kansas since 1967, noted that the tax law doesn’t lim-it owners’ ability to avoid taxes based on the size of their busi-nesses, so wealthy enterprises can benefit, too. Brownback coun-tered that he favored such limits in the first years of the plan but accepted what lawmakers passed to get the state on a new economic path.

The state also is dropping its top rate to 4.9 percent from 6.45 percent while ending a rebate for poor and working-class families for the sales taxes they pay on groceries.

Earlier this year, the Washing-ton-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy concluded that the law would result in a small tax increase on average for Kansas residents earning less than $20,000 a year, while people earning more than $400,000 would receive the biggest percentage cut. Brownback called the analy-sis “wholly unfounded,” but the institute’s numbers generally tracked with Department of Rev-enue figures on the collective in-come tax changes for groups of taxpayers.

Still, Kansas Democratic Party Chairwoman Joan Wagnon ac-knowledged last week that critics’ arguments are more complicated than the simple and beguiling message that big income tax cuts will make the state more prosper-ous.

However, she and fellow Demo-crats have compelling reasons to make their pitch.

Conservative Republican can-didates and their allies, including the tea party movement, are all but certain to attempt to make the 2010 health care overhaul Obama has touted a major issue. They can flood the state with mailings and broadcast advertising.

Much of the debate is about largely symbolic proposals in the Legislature to protest a fed-eral mandate to require most Americans to purchase health insurance, starting in 2014. In Re-publican primaries for the state Senate, voters appeared to side with conservatives who argued that moderate incumbents were too soft in opposition — or down-right sympathetic — toward the federal health care law.

And ahead of the November general election, Democratic can-didates must worry about conser-vatives exploiting their party tie to the president.

Many Democrats would rather turn the election into a referen-dum on the income tax cuts. Crit-ics of the reductions don’t think the primaries were a true test of voter sentiment about the admin-istration’s policies because of the focus on Obama and health care.

“Do you want a tax system in which the employees pay tax, but the boss does not? I think the answer to that is no,” Dickinson said. “The question, then, is one of getting the word out.”

___Political writer John Hanna

has covered Kansas politics and government since 1987. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/


Opinion

Cut your 2013 budget by 10 percent, Gov. Sam Brownback told state department heads last week.

Gov. Brownback explained his decision to the people by saying that “Kansas is a high tax state. In order to get taxes down we must cut spending.”

In last week’s interviews with newsmen he didn’t repeat his now-hackneyed phrase, “We can either grow govern-ment or grow the private sec-tor.”

But the message was there.What the governor did not

do was talk about the conse-quences of cutting back state programs. He did say he would try to hold spending on the public schools at current levels and would “protect” planned highway projects.

He didn’t say he would pro-tect state jobs.

Across-the-board spend-ing cuts logically will lead to across-the-board cuts in per-sonnel. The meat ax approach will also rule out salary and benefit increases.

At a time when the Kansas farm sector is flat on its back because of the drought, a deci-sion to add to unemployment by chopping off 10 percent of the jobs that state government creates will raise eyebrows.

Keeping state employee wag-es frozen is another whack in the gut to the middle class. In-flation has been very low. But it still erodes the purchasing pow-er of the dollar by a penny or two every month. The inflation rate for 2011 was 3.16 percent. It has been above 1 percent every month this year, with the Janu-ary rate over 1.9 percent. Freez-ing wages amounts to cutting wages because the effect of in-flation is ignored.

It should not be necessary to point out that reducing the state payroll and cutting back the purchasing power of the wages earned by those who do not lose their jobs will slow the growth of the state’s economy. A dollar spent by a highway pa-trolman has exactly the same stimulating effect as one spent

by a newspaper reporter, or any other private sector worker.

BAD ECONOMICS is not the main flaw in the governor’s as-sault on state government. It is wrong-headed to order across-the-board spending cuts be-cause that approach assumes all state functions are of equal value to the people of Kansas. This is obviously not the case.

Perhaps Gov. Brownback’s office will not suffer if he and the administrative staff re-maining take a 10 percent sal-ary cut.

But let’s be fair and say that there are many state govern-ment offices that are well run and have important jobs for all of their employees to do. If that is the case, as it certainly should be, then slashing those department budgets will result in a reduction of services to the public. Ten percent fewer highway patrolmen and KBI agents, 10 percent fewer court clerks, 10 percent fewer depart-ment of agriculture employees and so on through the state’s organization chart.

If the Legislature follows Gov. Brownback’s instruction, it will also reduce appropria-tions for the state’s regional libraries, its community col-leges, the subsidies it provides private colleges and the fund-ing of the state universities — and, of course, the money it spends on itself.

Such reductions would be justified if they were needed. They are not. Kansas, like the rest of the nation, is recover-ing from the Great Recession. Budget crises loom in Topeka only because this year’s Leg-islature passed irresponsibly huge tax cuts that now threat-en to reduce our state govern-ment to caretaker status.

The only remedy that lies in the hands of the people is to elect a Legislature and a gover-nor dedicated to efficient, effec-tive government — with excel-lence and progress as its goals.

The road ahead must start with a 180-degree turn.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Kansas needs toreverse course

Dems favor Populist approach

John Hanna

AP analysisTopeka bureau

The tax cuts slash state coffers by $934 million over the next six years.

To hear Mitt Romney tell it, President Barack Obama is a thief. The Republican presi-dential candidate says Obama “robbed” $700 billion from Medi-care. This campaign rhetoric is a reference to changes made in the health reform law. Before Romney calls the cops, he should do a little more research. Then he might ac-tually commend Obama.

That’s because the president did exactly what needs to be done: take steps to address Medicare’s fiscal problems. Everyone knows spending in the program is un-sustainable. There are two ways to tackle that reality: spend less money or find more money to spend. The reform law does both.

It will lower reimbursements to hospitals and nursing homes. It creates an independent advisory board, a panel of health experts, charged with making recommen-dations to slow spending in the huge program. What the panel proposes will be enacted unless Congress intervenes. That is ex-actly what was needed, since Con-gress has proven itself unable to stand up to special interests and make necessary reductions by it-self.

The law also raises taxes on wealthy Americans to help shore up the hospital insurance funded by payroll taxes. The government has estimated “Part A” of Medi-care will be depleted within a de-cade. Yet as the cost of care has grown and more people signed up for coverage, Congress has re-fused to increase the payroll tax rate to cover the expense.

Our elected officials have starved Medicare. They added costly benefits, such as prescrip-tion coverage, without increasing the revenue to pay for such chang-es. People like Romney insist the program is structurally and fun-damentally flawed. It’s not. But in choosing Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, it’s clear how Rom-ney wants to “fix” Medicare.

It doesn’t get much worse than the congressman’s plan.

In a nutshell, Ryan proposes providing subsidies so seniors can sign up for commercial in-surance. Instead of Medicare directly paying your doctor, the government would send a check to the private insurer who is supposed to be managing your care. Such an arrangement has been a proven fiscal failure in “Medicare+Choice” plans in the 1990s and in Medicare Advantage plans today. It costs taxpayers more than basic Medicare, and it creates confusion for seniors. Some health providers would not accept these plans.

But some politicians just keep pushing the idea. They keep say-ing that the private sector is bet-ter than the government at de-livering health care. They keep hoping Americans will believe

it’s true. Fortunately, Americans didn’t just fall off the turnip truck.

Who owns the most luxuri-ous buildings in town, pays sky-high CEO salaries and spends a fortune on “administrative ex-penses”? Private insurance com-panies. Where do they get their money? From the increasingly expensive premiums their cus-tomers pay. That money spent on board member salaries and coun-try club memberships for execu-tives is money not spent on health care.

The American public is sup-posed to believe that if we hand these same companies billions of dollars from citizens and tell them to take over the care of mil-lions of seniors, they are going to make better use of the money than the government-run Medi-care program?

Romney and Ryan want Ameri-cans to think government can’t be trusted. Instead, we are sup-posed to trust — and give more tax money — to private insurers. Miraculously, that will cure what ails Medicare. It should be hard for seniors, or any American who plans on growing old, to get excit-ed about that idea.

— The Des Moines Register

Public rightly skeptical of Medicare ‘fix’

Our elected officials have starved Medicare. They add costly benefits, such as prescription coverage, without increasing the revenue to pay for such changes.

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Family time is impor-tant and there’s no better place for the family to gath-er than around the kitchen table. The following article says it well.

The Family Dinner Tableby MARIANNE

JENNINGSI cut out my wedding

dress at the same place where I memorized my spelling words. It was in that same place that I ate Archway cookies every day after school. And it was there I prepared for my SAT. My husband-to-be was grilled mercilessly in that same spot. Much of what I have learned and hold dear is inextricably intertwined with the kitchen table. This 4-by-6 scratched and worn piece of furniture was a small physical part of my home. Yet as I look back on what we did there, I realize it was a key to the life I now have.

Each night during my youth it was the kitchen table where I was held ac-countable for the day’s events. “When is the next report card?” “Did you clean up the mess in the basement?” “Did you prac-tice your piano today?”

But that kitchen table was not just a source of fear, it was my security

blanket. No matter how rough the day’s taunting had been and no matter how discouraged I was over long division, the kitchen table and its adult caretakers were there ev-ery night to comfort and support.

Regardless of the day’s schedule or demands, the kitchen table brought us all back together for roll call at 6 o’clock every night.

And following my dis-mal task of doing dishes at a time when automatic dishwashers were country club novelties, I returned to the kitchen table to sweat bullets over home-work. I read “Dick, Jan, and Spot” stories aloud to my father, who then did his “homework” while I wrote and rewrote the math tables I carry in my mind even today.

Each morning that table sent me off fed and duly inspected for clean finger-nails and pressed Bobbie Brooks. No one left that ta-ble without a review of the

day’s events and assigned chores. That kitchen table nurtured. It was my con-stancy amid the insecuri-ties of crooked teeth, more freckles than skin, and ge-ography bees on state capi-tals.

Years have gone by since my days of Black Watch plaid and white anklets. Life has given me more challenges, joy and love than I could have fathomed as my legs shook beneath that kitchen table when faced with parental inqui-ries. When I return to my parents’ home to visit, I find myself lingering af-ter breakfast to enjoy their company around the kitch-en table. After dinner, the dishes wait as my father and I discuss everything from the Jackie Onassis estate auction to potty-training.

And then shortly after we restore the kitchen to its spotless pre-dinner state, my children return. We sit together, three gen-erations, as Breyer’s ice cream and Hershey’s syr-up melt, drip and stick to new tiny faces at that old table.

Perhaps it is in the genes. Or perhaps it is that kitchen table. That magi-cal simple place where I learned responsibility and

felt love and security.As I struggle each night

to get dinner on my kitch-en table and round up my children from the four cor-ners of our neighborhood, I wonder why I just don’t send them to their rooms with a chicken pot pie and Wheel of Fortune. I don’t because I am giving them the gift of the kitchen ta-ble.

A recent survey revealed only half of our teenagers eat dinner on a regular ba-sis with their parents. Last year my daughter said she could only find one other student in her home room who had dinner each night at the kitchen table with her family. They are both honor students. The oth-er kids, my daughter ex-plained, “make something in the microwave and then head to their rooms to watch TV.” They have no company, no questions–just Wheel of Fortune, and the grades to show for it. How sad that not all chil-dren’s lives are touched by the miracle of childhood. There’s something about a kitchen table.

(Note: Jennings’ article appeared in the Deseret News in February 1997 and was republished in the book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families.”

Kitchen table: what was once important AnneLudlumExtensionAgent forFamily andConsumer Sciences

Within the next month, there will be opportunities for to improve your heifer development practices, gain information and advice on the continued drought and its effects on our farms and ranches, and to brush up on your bovine diseases and dis-ease regulations. Below are four events of interest:

• A “Building Better Heif-ers – Selecting, Growing and Breeding Heifers Using To-day’s Science” field day has been set for Aug. 28 at Dale-banks Angus, 1021 River Rd., Eureka.

Registration will be at 4 p.m. with the program start-ing at 4:30. Presentations and speakers include: heifer development systems by Rick Funston, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; reproduc-tive technologies by Sandy Johnson, K-State; proper col-lection of DNA samples by Kara Wilson, CAB and Tonya Amen, American Angus As-sociation; heifer selection tools by Bob Weaber, K-State; post-breeding nutrition and early pregnancies by Scott Lake, University of Wyo-ming; and healthy heifers to healthy cows by Dale Grotel-ueschen, veterinarian, Pfizer Animal Health.

To participate in the field day and free evening meal, send an RSVP to Anna Curry at 620-583-7455.

• With the continued drought in mind, an infor-mal meeting has been set for producers to visit with County, District and Area Extension personnel on in-creasing forage supply, crop system considerations, ad-verse livestock health con-cerns, and reducing forage demand.

Join us Aug. 29 at the Southeast Ag Research Cen-ter in Parsons for a com-plimentary meal and open discussion at 6 p.m. Send an RSVP to 620-223-3720 by Aug. 28.

• Patch burning will be the main focus of the Bressner Pasture Field Day Aug. 30 in Yates Center (see below). Registration will begin at the Woodson County Fair-grounds at 8 a.m., with the buses heading to the Bress-ner pasture site at 8:30.

Topics will include the effect of patch burning on forage composition, limited pond access with a tire tank demonstration, weather, ero-sion control on cattle trails and a discussion on the cattle gains during the 6 years of patch burning research.

Lunch will be included, but a RSVP is necessary to the Woodson County Exten-sion Office at 620-625-8620.

• Cattle producers want to mark their calendars for a cow calf workshop Sept. 18 at the Function Junction, south of Erie.

Presenters and topics for the evening will include Dr. Larry Hollis, DVM, K-State Research and Extension Beef Vet, cattle and drought concerns; Dr. Cody Garten, DVM, US Department of Ag-riculture, Bovine Trichomo-niasis; and Dr. Don Coover, DVM, SEK Genetics, Neos-pora Abortions.

Producers in attendance will receive a voucher for 5 free BioPRYN blood preg-nancy tests, or 5 free IDEXX PI BVD tests or 5 free IDEXX Neospora tests.

The complementary meal and program will begin at 6. For more information and to register, contact SEK Genet-ics at 1-800-443-6389.

Additional information will be released as this event nears.

Upcoming farm and ranch events

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YATES CENTER — Six years of research on patch burning will be highlight-ed at the Bressner Pasture Field Day in Yates Center.

The event begins at 8 a.m. Aug. 30 at the 4-H building in the Woodson County Fairgrounds. Bus-es will depart from the fairgrounds to the Bress-ner pasture site from 8:30 to 9:15 a.m.

Willie J. Bressner do-nated 640 acres of tall-grass prairie in Woodson County to the Kansas State

University Foundation in 1988. A committee of KSU specialists, county agents and area ranchers was es-tablished to develop a plan and oversee the research.

In 2011, water improve-ments were made on the pasture and a limit water access was installed. These water projects will be high-lighted by Herschel George and Jeff Davidson at one of the stops.

Other presenters:Mary Knapp, state cli-

matologist, will highlight

the weather station on the Bressner pasture.

Dale Kirkham will dem-onstrate how to control cat-tle pathways — a potential major source of erosion.

Dr. Walt Fick and Cade Rensink will discuss the impact of patch burning on plant populations and plant compositions.

The pasture tour will highlight the differences in plant growth between continuous burn and patch burn after two years of ex-treme drought.

After returning from the pasture, lunch will be provided in the air-condi-tioned 4-H building. Dave Kehler, will discuss cattle gains over the life of the patch burn study.

Deon van der Merwe, author of “Identifica-tion and Management of Blue-Green Algae in Farm Ponds,” will cover this timely topic.

Attendees should RSVP to the Woodson County Ex-tension Office at (620) 625-8620 by Aug. 28.

Field Day looks at patch burning

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Vending machinedamage reported

Somebody damaged the top of a Wichita Eagle news-paper vending machine in front of the Pump N Pete’s store at 709 N. State St., po-lice were told Saturday.

Leg brace foundAn Iola police officer

found a black foam and

metal leg brace in the front yard of 923 N. Chestnut St. Saturday. The brace can be claimed at the police de-partment.

License plate sticker missing

Iolan Mike Folk, 35, told Iola police officers Monday the license plate decal for his pickup was missing.

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in high school. I know what it’s like living in a town this size so I can understand a lot of the things that students are faced with.”

After high school, Stiffler earned a bachelor’s degree in English education and then later finished up a mas-ter’s degree in counseling and biblical counseling. She spent 15 years teaching in the Kansas City area before moving to Burlington to take a counseling position. That lasted two years before bud-get cuts pushed her out.

“The district had to cut six positions there,” Stif-fler said. “I was the last one hired of the six, so of course I was the first to go.”

After spending a year liv-ing as a stay-at-home mother in the Yates Center area she started searching for a new job.

“I was just about to go cra-zy,” Stiffler said. “I wanted to get back doing something with myself professionally. When I started looking in the spring I was looking as far away as Wichita but then this opened up.”

In coming to Iola, Stiff-ler knows her first order of business is getting the kids comfortable with her and trusting her. She plans on spending the first few weeks volunteering for lunch du-ties and seminar times so she can spend more time amongst students.

“Unlike teachers who get a classroom where students come to them, I’ll have to get out there and be visible and get to know students,” Stiffler said. “I want them to know me so they can start to build that trust with me.”

Stiffler also has an agen-da that she wants to pur-

sue through her position. Knowing that her predeces-sor, Jodi Grover, laid a good foundation of work, Stiffler wants to build on what is al-ready in place.

“The school has been identified as a school of character award winner,” Stiffler said. “That is great and I want to keep building on that reputation. One of the things we have done here is talk about anti-bullying. I really want to take that and build it up more. Anymore now, it’s hard for young peo-ple. It used to be when you left school at the end of the day the bullying ended. Now with Facebook and email it’s become a continuous issue.”

School isn’t the only thing that drives Stiffler.

When not at work, the mother of three likes to spend time with her hus-band, Todd, and two chil-dren who still live at home, Reid, 15 and Emmie, 11. Her eldest son, Austin, 20, lives in

Columbia, Mo. Among her personal pur-

suits, Stiffler enjoys tending to her garden, cooking and rooting for the Kansas City Royals. She also writes for “EC Squared,” a magazine.

“I used to write devotion-als for teens on a weekly basis,” Stiffler said. “I don’t do that as much now that I work full time again but when they ask for me to, I still write occasionally.”

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Unlike teach-ers who get a classroom where students come to them, I’ll have to get out there and be visible and get to know students.

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$ 169 $ 169difference in some of them. Some presidents have very normal looking ones and others have whole giant structures built.”

Among the seven presi-dential resting places, the two that he enjoyed the most were Franklin D. Roo-sevelt and William McKin-ley. McKinley, who is buried in Canton, Ohio, was even more impressive than Peep-er was expecting.

“It’s like a temple almost,” Peeper said. “Some presi-dents have really modest burial sites but his was re-ally neat.”

In comparison, Roos-evelt’s is a more understated plot. The only four-term president in American his-tory rests in Hyde Park, N.Y., marked by a white marble tomb on the grounds of the Roosevelt estate.

“He was such an impor-tant figure in American his-tory being our only presi-dent that served so long over such hard circumstances,” Peeper said. “His grave and the area around it is really impressive.”

“Huckleberry Finn” also prompted discussions about race relations and their ad-vancement in the United States.

“People don’t realize that he was born into a slave-holding state in Missouri and by the end of his life held some opinions that ran against a lot of the beliefs he grew up with,” Peeper said.

Coming back to Iola, Peep-er looks for ways to incorpo-rate his travels into his les-sons. He is already posting the author’s quotations on the wall, updating them ev-ery few days to give students

a better understanding of who Clemens was. While stu-dents might think of history as old people doing things a long time ago, Peeper won’t rest until he manages to flick the switch on a student’s broader understanding.

“I’m going to hook them,” Peeper said. “Even if someone doesn’t like history, I will work hard to make sure they find something that they can at least appreciate about our history.”

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Even worse, NOAA’s long-term forecast predicts the drought conditions will persist through much of middle America at least through November.

THIS YEAR has a chance of being the driest ever, or at least since the Register began recording weather statistics well over a cen-

tury ago.This year’s 15.34 inches is

nearly 7 inches shy of 1936’s 22.31, the dry-year record for Iola. Normal rainfall for a year is 37.74 inches.

In 1936, 7.77 inches fell in September and rescued the year from being even more desert-like.

The 10-day forecast pre-dicts rain toward the end of this week and into the weekend, with a 50 percent

chance of rain Saturday night and Sunday.

But, as the National Weather Service noted, it’s going to take more than a couple of rainy days to do more than provide brief relief from drought condi-tions. What’s needed are several gully washers of several inches each, some-thing that seldom occurs in the fall hereabouts even during wet years.

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That would be a radical change from the past, when Humboldt depended on pe-riodic chip-and-seal treat-ment to maintain roads.

“Asphalt will last 20 years or more, while chip-and-seal has to be done every five years,” Julich said.

“And chip-and-seal is just to keep water” from seep-ing into a street’s base and causing it to deteriorate, said Bill King, director of Public Works for the county.

Other work that would be done in the 15-year program costing about $1.7 million would be reconstruction of curbs, guttering and failed culverts.

“There won’t be any new curb and guttering,” Julich said.

Money would come from $88,000 a year raised by the sales tax and about $50,000 Humboldt receives annu-ally from fuel tax distribu-tions. Money also would be set aside each year for maintenance of streets awaiting rebuild.

Julich stressed the coun-ty’s assistance was an im-portant part of the project.

The county “always has helped us with street

work,” he added.“We have the rock, ma-

chinery and men (with road-building expertise),” chimed in King. “We’ll build up the base where it’s needed.”

In response to an obser-vation from Richard Wei-lert that with economic problems “this is the worst time” to start such a project, King countered, “There’s probably not a better time. The cost of asphalt is only going to go up,” along with oil used in chip-and-seal.

Not all streets will be re-built from the ground up, King added. With some, leveling and smoothing courses of asphalt may be all that’s needed.

A side benefit, he added, is that material ground from roads may be available for driveways and alleys, which, when compressed by use, would become much like asphalt.

What if the referendum fails?

“We’ll continue with chip-and-seal,” Julich said. “We wouldn’t have the mon-ey to do anything else.”

ABOUT 300 blocks of residential streets, essen-

tially all in the town not now up to snuff, would be rebuilt.

A brochure notes the sales tax is collected from anyone who shops in Hum-boldt, and thus is deemed “the fairest way to raise the needed revenue.”

The half-cent tax would increase what Humboldt collects to 1.75 cents for lo-cal use, and puts the overall sales tax in Humboldt at 9.3 cents for each $1 spent.

Of the current 1.25 cents collected for Humboldt, proceeds from 1 cent go for general operations for city and a quarter cent levy pays for an addition to the swimming pool.

“The No. 1 concern when I ran for office was what could we do with the streets,” said Mayor Nobby Davis. “After I was elected we formed the street com-mittee,” which developed the improvement plan.

“We’re trying to do the best we can,” he said.

City Administrator Lar-ry Tucker observed that of 600 cities in Kansas, 70 have a higher sales tax today than Humboldt’s, including several in southeast Kan-sas.

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from a reservoir in the riv-er created by a dam at the west edge of town. When runoff shuts off, as it has for several weeks because of the dry spell, water is

released daily from John Redmond Reservoir, a flood control complex and reser-voir north of Burlington, fed by the Neosho and Cot-tonwood rivers. That keeps the Neosho flowing at least

at a trickle.Hodgden said last word

from the Corps of Engi-neers, which controls wa-ter released from Redmond, was the reservoir was at 62 percent of normal.

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Courtesy of NOAAThis map from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association shows how much rainfall would be needed for eastern Kansas to return to “normal” by using the Long Term Palmer Drought Severity Index — as much as 12 to 15 inches for Iola and Allen County.

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Defensive, offensive options stronger for ACCBy JOCELYN SHEETS

[email protected] year ago it seemed to head

coach Jessica Peters that her Red Devils only had one option — one person on offense and defense as go-to players. Not so in 2012.

“We’ve seen so much improve-ment defensively on the court this year and I feel comfortable rotat-ing people in more than I did last year. We were inconsistent on the back row,” Peters said.

“We had one or two players we counted on offensively a year ago. This year we’ve got four sopho-mores returning who can hit the ball and we have some freshmen who are showing potential.”

Allen Community College’s volleyball team opens the 2012 season this weekend. The Red Devils play in the Neosho County Invitational at Chanute Friday and Saturday.

The Red Devil head coach’s con-fidence is buoyed by her team’s showing in last weekend’s scrim-mages at Butler Community Col-lege. The Red Devils went 3-1, los-ing to Hutchinson to start the day.

Allen would go on to beat Fort Scott, Coffeyville and Indepen-dence.

“We had the typical freshman jitters against Hutchinson but played two close sets. We were able to mix up offensive and de-fensive options during the scrim-mage matches,” Peters said.

“It really allowed us to see how we can use people and gave our players a lot of confidence as we go into this season.”

Consistency is always a factor in sports. One constant factor for the Red Devils is the return of set-ter Jacqui Ortiz. Ortiz had 714 set assists a year ago as a freshman. She also is one of the team’s top defensive players, coming off of a 368-dig season.

“We were always better when Jacqui was on the court for us. She is such a strength for our team. She runs the offense well and is a dig machine,” Peters said.

Leading the Red Devils up front and at the net are sophomores Hayley Mertens, Randi Billings, Autumn Douglas and Kaitlyn Speer. All have shown improve-

ment in their hitting and block-ing skills along the net.

“Hayley is one to watch. She has come so far but can go even fur-ther with her skills on the court. I’m certain she’ll set a record for kills per set this season,” Peters said. “Right now, she is working to let the game come to her and just play to her potential.”

Mertens showed some of that potential as a freshman. She put down 272 kills as an outside hitter and made 43 blocks at the net. She also came up with 271 digs defen-sively.

Billings and Speer are Allen’s middle hitters and blockers. Bill-ings was an even worker at the net a year ago with 91 kills and 91 blocks. She had 96 digs. Speer rotated in and made 23 kills, 38 blocks and had 60 digs.

“Randi is one of our go-to play-ers on offense this year. She and Kaitlyn have put in a lot of hard work to develop as the middles we need,” Peters said. “Kaitlyn is a vocal leader out there for us.

“That’s one thing we do much better than last year — communi-

cate. This team really talks a lot on the court and that’s what we need.”

Douglas has been moved from a middle hitter/blocker to a right-side hitter. Peters said Douglas is making the transition pretty well.

“Autumn came in and worked during the summer before school started. She’s growing and adapt-ing into her new role,” Peters said. “Autumn is a force at the net blocking for us.”

Douglas downed 38 kills and had 31 blocks a year ago. She was credited with 39 digs.

Peters said one of the strengths shown by the Red Devils at last week’s scrimmages was serving. She said the team didn’t have many service errors.

Last year, Ortiz was a strong server and had 39 service aces for the Red Devils. Mertens had 16 ace serves and Billings had 13 ace serves.

Shoring up the defense, Peters has three freshmen defensive specialists. Tayler Shook from Uniontown, Sarah Charbonneau of Corpus Christi, Texas and Re-nee Reichard of DeSoto.

“With these three girls, we have the defensive options. They are challenging each other every day in practice. We can put in any of them on the back row and they’ll make the play. We need consistent play on the back row to get a good pass to our setter.”

Adriee Munoz, freshman from San Antonio, Texas, is the backup setter. Peters said Munoz is a mir-ror image of Ortiz as a freshman.

“Adriee was a late signing for us. We went on recruiting web-sites and found her and we’re glad we did,” Peters said.

Freshmen expected to provide strength to the front row are Dan-ielle Goodman of Mount Vernon, Mo., Sierra Morgison of Perry, Sidney Keith of St. Joseph, Mo. and Cheyanne Miller of Moran.

“They all are making the tran-sition to college level speed and doing a good job of it,” Peters said.

“Katelyn Rogers is from Grid-ley and she’s our manager this year. She played volleyball at Southern Coffey County and is a great addition to our program.”

Allen Community College2012 Volleyball Schedule

Aug. 24-25 — Neosho County Invitational, ChanuteAug. 29 — Butler, 6:30 p.m.Sept. 5 — Independence, 6:30 p.m.Sept. 7-8 — Highland tournamentSept 12 — Highland, 5:30 p.m.Sept 14 — Northeastern Oklahoma, 6:30 p.m.Sept 15 — Ottawa University triangular, 3 p.m., 5 p.m.Sept. 19 — Hesston, 6:30 p.m.Sept. 21-22 — Allen InvitationalSept. 26 — Kansas City, Kan., 6:30 p.m.Sept 28 — Cottey College, 6:30 p.m.Oct. 3 — Fort Scott, 6:30 p.m.Oct. 10 — Coffeyville, 6:30 p.m.Oct. 12-13 — Lincoln Land tournament, Springfield, Ill.Oct. 15 — Labette, 6:30 p.m.Oct. 17 — Johnson County, 5:30 p.m.Oct. 22 — Cowley, 6:30 p.m.Oct. 24 — Neosho County, 6:30 p.m.Oct. 29 — Northeastern Oklahoma, 6 p.m.Nov. 3-4 — Region VI, Division II tourna-mentHome matches in bold.

Allen Community College 2012 Volleyball RosterNo. Name Position Class Hometown1 Tayler Shook DS/S Fr. Uniontown2 Danielle Goodman OH Fr. Mount Vernon, Mo.3 Sierra Morgison OH/RS Fr. Perry4 Sidney Keith OH/MH Fr. St. Joseph, Mo.5 Adriee Munoz Setter Fr. San Antonio, Texas6 Sarah Charbonneau DS/S Fr. Corpus Christi, Texas7 Renee Reichard DS Fr. DeSoto8 Jacqui Ortiz Setter So. El Paso, Texas9 Cheyanne Miller MH/RS Fr. Moran10 Hayley Mertens OH So. Kingman12 Randi Billings MH So. Silver Lake13 Kaitlyn Speer MH So. Valley Falls15 Autumn Douglas R/MH So. Toronto Head coach: Jessica PetersAssistant coaches: Whitney Falkenstien, Todd FrancisManager: Katelyn Rogers, Fr., Gridley

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Injuries could already keep two defensive starters out of the Chiefs’ season-opener against Atlanta. Now, a suspension has side-lined their best pass rusher.

Pro Bowl linebacker Tamba Hali will miss the Sept. 9 game against the Falcons without pay after violating the NFLs sub-stance-abuse policy, the league said Monday. Hali will be fined an additional game check and be eligible to return in Week 2.

The league did not dis-close the nature of the violation and Hali did not speak to the media after practice, instead issuing a one-paragraph statement through the team.

“I accept the discipline from the league and will return Week 2 of the NFL season with a commitment to erase this mistake with my play on the field and my conduct off of it,” Hali said.

The Chiefs are already missing starting corner-back Brandon Flowers, who has been sidelined by a nagging foot injury, and safety Kendrick Lewis, who hurt his right shoulder in Friday night’s preseason game against St. Louis. It’s unknown when either of them will be back.

It’s perfectly clear when Hali will return: at Buffalo on Sept. 16.

“Tamba’s situation is un-fortunate,” Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli said in a statement. “Obviously

we are disappointed and will miss him during the suspension, but the NFL’s policies are very clear and we respect the league’s de-cision in this matter.”

Hali long ago established himself as the Chiefs’ best pass rusher, reaching his first Pro Bowl last season alongside fellow linebacker Derrick Johnson.

The former first-round draft pick has started every game he’s played the past six seasons. The past two years have been his best — Hali had 14½ sacks two years ago and 12 last sea-son, when he helped a team ravaged by injuries to the doorstep of the playoffs.

“We’re disappointed. We’re disappointed for him, for the team, for the organi-zation and the fans, but it is what it is,” Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel said. “He’s a guy who is very prideful, he’s been a very good team member for this team, and I think the team will rally around him.”

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Members of the 2012 Allen Community College volleyball team are, left to right, front row, Sarah Charbonneau, Jacqui Ortiz, Tayler Shook; middle row, Danielle Goodman, Adrianne Munoz, Sierra Morgison, Renee Reichard, Katelyn Rogers; back row, assistant coach Todd Francis, assistant coach Whitney Falkenstien, Cheyanne Miller, Autumn Douglas, Randi Billings, Hayley Mertens, Sidney Keith, Kaitlyn Speers, head coach Jessica Peters.

HUMBOLDT — A loyal fan base is vital to all sports.

Humboldt Speedway owners and promoters Ron, Rhenda and Ryan Whitworth have always had their fans in mind. They’ve upgraded the facili-ties at the Speedway throughout the 20-plus years they’ve owned the local dirt track.

So last Friday, the Whitworths threw the gates wide open as fan ap-preciation night. There was no charge for general admission at the nightly races and the fans “Jammed the Stands.”

According to the race report, more than 3,600 people packed the grand-stands and the bleachers on the pit area side. Drivers had fans cheering them on all the way around the track all night.

And the drivers, who also have been taken care of over the years by the Whitworth family’s work to make Humboldt Speedway one of the best dirt stock car tracks in the area, gave the fans a show.

John Allen used all of his consid-erable driving skill in winning the USRA modified feature, passing and being passed numerous time before

settling into a comfortable groove that lead to victory. Allen had intense pressure from runner-up Steven Bow-ers, Jr., who was actually on Allen’s back bumper at the finish line.

Justin Folk slipped into the driver’s seat of his brother’s car for the race. Folk drove Jesse Folk Jr.’s car from near the back of the 21-car field to claim third. Both Jessy Willard and Scott Daniels ran strong early, before finishing fourth and fifth respectively.

USRA B-Mod action was dominat-ed by Tim VanGotten taking a wire-to-wire win. Jeremy Chambers was sec-ond in the event, followed by Jimmie Davis, Curt Drake, and Blake Kisner.

And while Scott Stuart rolled on to another feature win in factory stock, it was door-to-door racing for second place. On the final lap, Steve Stuart got the edge for second ahead of Da-vid Matlock. Tim Phillips ran fourth and Dusty Marvin was fifth.

Jeremy Willard, the defending pure stock points champion, returned to the winners circle. He held off Tyler Kidwell for the win.

Willard also passed a post-race en-gine teardown performed by tech of-ficials. Levi Phillips claimed the third

spot, followed by Mike Aiello and Mat-thew Kay.

This Friday the mechanic’s races will be a highlight in addition to the regular show.

Humboldt SpeedwayRace Results

Friday, August 17, 2012Whitworth Construction Pure Stock

HEAT 1 — Tyler Kidwell, Derek Michael, Rob-ert Shaughnessy, Matthew Kay, George Reimer, Mike Churning

HEAT 2 — Mike Aiello, Jeremy Willard, Levi Phillips, Bryon Wunschel, William Habiger, Tony Morris

FEATURE — Jeremy Willard, Tyler Kidwell, Levi Phillips, Mike Aiello, Matthew Kay, Mike Churning, Tony Morris, George Reimer, Dakotah Stewart, Robert Shaughnessy, William Habiger, Bryon Wunschel, Derek Michael

Factory StockHEAT 1— Scott Stuart, Steve Stuart, Dustin

Marvin, Rick Aiello, Clint Drake, Patrick KayHEAT 2 — David Matlock, Tim Phillips, John

Rosson, Brandon Weide, Derrick WilsonFEATURE — Scott Stuart, Steve Stuart, Da-

vid Matlock, Tim Phillips, Dustin Marvin, Rick Ai-ello, Patrick Kay, John Rosson, Brandon Weide, Clint Drake

Ray’s Metal Depot USRA B-ModHEAT 1 — Tim VanGotten, Curt Drake, Blake

Kisner, Jeremy Wilson, Jason Thurman, Jon Westhoff, Mike Letterman

HEAT 2 — Andy Bryant, Craig Mintz, Ray Ma-

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A full house watched races at Humboldt Speedway last Friday for the fan appreciation night.Dayton Sutterby/FinishLine Photography

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By DOUG FERGUSONAP Golf Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Don’t overlook the two biggest winners in Augusta Na-tional’s decision to invite women to join the club.

Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore are now mem-bers of one of the most exclusive golf clubs in the world. They will be present-ed green jackets when the golf course opens for a new season in October. They can attend the members-only parties, including the Jam-boree each spring. Members are discouraged from play-ing too much at the home of the Masters, though they can bring guests and stay in the white cabins along the 10th fairway.

If their schedules allow, they will be assigned a com-mittee during the Masters. They will be at the mem-bers-only dinner in an up-stairs chalet at the end of the tournament to toast the newest Masters champion.

But they weren’t the only winners.

The only thing Augusta National ever says about membership issues is that it doesn’t discuss them. Nothing spoke to the histor-ic nature of Monday’s deci-sion more than club chair-man Billy Payne issuing a press release to confirm Rice and Moore as the new-est members.

He called it a “joyous oc-casion,” which could be in-terpreted many ways.

Perhaps the joy is know-ing that he won’t be fielding any more questions why Augusta National hasn’t had a female member in its 80-year history. Or that the focus at the Masters can return to white dogwoods, pink azaleas and lightning fast greens.

It does seem strange that keeping up with the times — some argue Augusta was a century behind — by add-ing female members would constitute a “joyous occa-sion.”

Even so, Augusta Na-tional comes out a winner because it called the shots.

Former chairman Hoo-tie Johnson said as much 10 years ago when he felt Martha Burk and her wom-en’s advocacy group were threatening the Masters be-cause the club had no wom-en as members.

“There may well come

a day when women will be invited to join our mem-bership, but that timetable will be ours and not at the point of a bayonet,” John-son said.

In an interview in his office later that year, John-son distributed a historical summary of the club and the Masters, the highest-rated golf telecast in the world.

“Our society is changing, and it is only natural that our club should reflect these changes in contemporary society,” Johnson wrote in the one-page summary. “We are finding more and more, our existing members’ sug-gestions for new members have broadened to include a varied cross section of this society. We expect this trend to continue.”

It seems as though Au-gusta was headed in this direction all along.

A person with knowledge of club operations said Rice and Moore first were considered as members five years ago. The person, who spoke on condition of ano-nymity because club mat-ters are private, suspects Payne knew in April dur-ing the Masters that two women would be fitted for a green jacket by the end of the year.

The announcement was not at the point of a bayo-net. It was done in typical, understated Augusta Na-tional fashion.

And it nearly left Burk speechless, but only for a moment.

“Oh my God. We won,” she blurted out.

“This is a good turn of events,” Burk said. “It came sooner than I expected. I thought they were going to try to outlast me. And I real-ly thought they would wait until the women’s move-ment would get no credit. But if we had not done what we did, this would not have happened now.”

Augusta National invites women

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Kan-sas City Royals opened a seven-game road trip on a high note before Jeremy Hellickson put a quick stop to it Monday night.

Hellickson pitched seven strong innings for his first home win in three months and the Tampa Bay Rays won 5-1, handing the Royals only their fourth loss in 13 games.

“We’re playing well, but it’s a tough place to play and they’re play-ing very, very well,” said Royals manager Ned Yost of the Rays, who have won five straight.

“Their starting pitch-ing’s outstanding, and we come in and face Hellickson and (Da-vid) Price and (James) Shields. That’s a tough go of it, and coming into this park, it takes you a game to kind of get used to the surroundings and see the ball.”

That was particularly true of Alex Gordon, who had two of the Roy-als’ six hits. Gordon came into the game hit-ting 2 for 53 at Tropicana Field.

“We knew (Hellickson) had a good changeup and that’s what we were look-ing for and he mixed it up, kept us off-balance,” said Gordon, who drove in Kansas City’s only run with a single in the third inning.

Hellickson (8-8) al-lowed one run and six hits in ending a stretch of seven consecutive winless starts at home,

dating to a 2-1 victory over Boston on May 16.

The Rays went ahead 4-1 in the fourth on Jose Labaton’s RBI single and a run-scoring double from Desmond Jennings off Will Smith (4-5).

Smith lasted just 3 2/3 innings, giving up four runs and eight hits. The left-hander had won his previous two starts, al-lowing two runs over seven innings in games against both Baltimore and Oakland.

“After the first inning, I was just bad,” Smith said. “No location, no breaking ball today, which really hurt. I was falling behind too much. You have those days but you hate having ’em.”

Tampa Bay reliever J.P. Howell worked a scoreless eighth to ex-tend his team-record scoreless streak to 25 2-3 innings. Kyle Farn-sworth got the final three outs in a non-save situa-tion.

Elliot Johnson put the Rays ahead 1-0 on a run-scoring single in the second. Jennings hit a third-inning triple and scored on Smith’s wild pitch as Tampa Bay took a 2-1 lead.

Keppinger extended the Rays’ advantage to 5-1 with a fifth-inning solo homer.

Kansas City tied it 1-all on Gordon’s RBI infield single. The Royals com-pleted a 5-1 homestand Sunday, which included a three-game sweep over the AL Central-leading Chicago White Sox this past weekend.

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Darla Moore Condoleezza Rice

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Our society is changing, and it is

only natural that our club should reflect these changes in con-temporary society.

— Hootie Johnson, former chairman of the

Augusta golf club

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By JIM SALTERAssociated Press

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Rep. Todd Akin vowed to fight on in his embattled Senate campaign, but a significant deadline loomed today that was bound to intensify pressure on the Missouri congressman to abandon the race over his comments that wom-en’s bodies can pre-vent preg-n a n c i e s in cases of “legiti-mate rape.”

Akin spent Monday try-ing to salvage his once-promising bid against in-cumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill in a race long tar-geted by the GOP as crucial to regaining control of the Senate. But ominous signs were mounting against the six-term legislator from suburban St. Louis, mostly

notably the apparent loss of millions of dollars in cam-paign advertising money.

Akin went on two conser-vative radio shows Monday, pledging to keep the cam-paign alive, even as some people in his own party urged him to step aside.

The decision has some urgency. Missouri election law allows candidates to withdraw 11 weeks before Election Day. That means the deadline to exit the Nov. 6 election is 5 p.m. today. Otherwise, a court order would be needed to remove a name from the ballot.

“I was told the decision has to be made by 5 p.m. to-morrow, but I was calling you and letting you know that I’m announcing today that we’re in,” Akin told ra-dio host Sean Hannity.

In a radio interview with former Republican presiden-tial candidate Mike Hucka-bee, Akin repeatedly apolo-gized for the remarks but also vowed to stay in the race.

“The good people of Mis-souri nominated me, and I’m not a quitter,” Akin said.

The uproar began Sun-day, when St. Louis televi-sion station KTVI aired an interview in which Akin was asked if he would sup-port abortions for women who have been raped.

“It seems to me, first of all, from what I under-

stand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legiti-mate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,” Akin said.

Later Sunday, Akin re-leased a statement saying that he “misspoke” during the interview.

In the interviews with Huckabee and Hannity, he apologized repeatedly, ac-knowledging that rape can lead to conception.

“Rape is never legitimate. It’s an evil act. It’s commit-ted by violent predators,” Akin said. “I used the wrong words the wrong way.”

But the damage had al-ready been done. The com-ments drew a sharp rebuke from fellow Republicans, including presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his vice presi-dential choice, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.

The Senate’s top Republi-can said Akin’s comments about rape might “prevent

him from effectively rep-resenting” the Republican Party. Mitch McConnell called on Akin to “take

time with his family” to consider whether he should continue in the Missouri Senate race.


By DAVE HELLING and STEVE KRASKE

The Kansas City StarKANSAS CITY, Mo. —

U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder, R-Kan., apologized to his constituents Sunday night after a published report revealed the freshman law-maker swam nude in the Sea of Galilee during a pri-vate fact-finding trip to the Mideast last August.

Politico reported the in-cident in a story on its web-site Sunday. The website said the FBI investigated the trip, which included other lawmakers and their spouses, as well as staff members.

“I feel incredibly re-morseful that I have caused embarrassment to my con-stituents and I have caused folks who believe in me to be disappointed,” Yoder told The Kansas City Star Sunday night.

“The gravity of the situ-ation and the actions I’ve taken are not lost on me, and I feel certainly regret at what has occurred, and I just want to apologize to my constituents for a momen-tary lapse in judgment.”

It was not immediately clear what the FBI might have examined in relation to the trip. Yoder and his chief of staff, Travis Smith, said neither the Republican congressman nor any mem-bers of his staff had talked to the FBI.

But the revelation of the incident could prove em-barrassing for Yoder. In its story, Politico said it was told privately that alcohol may have been involved in the incident, which took place the evening of Aug. 18, 2011. Smith said the con-gressman had wine at din-ner but was not drunk.

Yoder, 36, admitted he dove into the sea “without a swimsuit.”

Christians consider the Sea of Galilee a holy site; it is where the Bible says Je-sus walked on water.

“Part of the reason I

made that decision at that moment was there was re-ally nobody in the vicinity who could see me,” he said. “I dove in, hopped right back out, put my clothes on and, regardless, that was still not the behavior people expected out of their con-gressman.”

He said it was dark out with visibility limited to only a few feet, and said he was in the water for about 10 seconds before climbing out.

Politico said Yoder was the only person to remove all his clothes. His wife, Brooke, accompanied him on the trip, but she did not swim.

The trip, said to have been open only to those 18 and over, was sponsored by the American Israel Educa-tion Foundation, according to a database of travel re-cords maintained by Legis-torm.com. The trip lasted from Aug. 13 to Aug. 21 last year, the records show, and cost the foundation $20,087 for Yoder and his wife’s travel, lodging, meals and other expenses.

The foundation, a chari-ty, says its mission is to pro-vide grants for educational programs and conferences and to “help educate politi-

cal leaders and influentials about the importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship through first-hand experi-ences in Israel.”

The foundation is con-nected with the American Israel Public Affairs Com-mittee, which is connected with many conservatives in Congress.

Yoder is running unop-posed for re-election in Kansas’ 3rd District.

Deadline intensifies pressure on Missouri’s lawmaker

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I was told the decision has to be made by 5 to-morrow, but I was calling you and letting you know that I’m announc-ing today that we’re in.

— Todd Akin in an radio interview

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Todd Akin

Part of the rea-son I made that decision at that moment was there was really nobody in the vi-cinity who could see me. I dove in, hopped right back out, put my clothes on and, regardless, that was still not the behavior people expect out of their congressman.

— Rep. Kevin Yoder

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Yoder admits nude swim

U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) apologized to his con-stituents Monday morning, at the “Up To Date” radio show on KCUR-FM in Kansas City, Mo. after a pub-lished report revealed the freshman lawmaker swam nude in the Sea of Galilee during a private fact-finding trip to the Mideast last August.

MCT/David Eulitt

WASHINGTON (AP) — At the first ever White House “kids state dinner,” first lady Michelle Obama told America’s top junior chefs Monday that the dishes they created are proving that fun eating can be “healthy and tasty at the same time.”

“Your recipes truly stood out,” she said to an East Room filled with kids who won a nationwide recipe competition. “You came up with dishes that were packed with nutri-tious, delicious ingredi-ents — dishes that are good for you but more im-portantly they taste good, too. See? It can happen.”

The event was the lat-est effort in Mrs. Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign to combat childhood obesity with more exercise and a better diet.

Mrs. Obama listed some of the winning entries, calling them “amazing stuff ”: Kickin’ Chicken Salad, Power Pesto Pasta, Miss Kitty’s Egg Salad Sensation and Secret Ser-vice Super Salad, dreamed up by one youngster who hopes one day to join the presidential protective de-tail.

The 54 winners, ages 8 to 12, were chosen from more than 1,200 entries.

“I was just experiment-ing and being creative in the kitchen,” said Haile Thomas, 11, of Tucson, Ariz., whose original rec-ipe of quinoa, black bean and corn salad was one of six winning entries prepared by White House chefs at the luncheon. “It’s just an honor. I never thought my recipe would go national.”

Thomas, who’s been cooking since age 5, hopes one day her YouTube cooking show will make it on commercial TV.

Other kid-inspired dish-es served at the luncheon included cabbage Sloppy Joes and baked zucchini fries that resembled ham-burgers and French fries, “strawberryana” smooth-ies and fruit skewers called “summer fruit gar-land.”

Kyle Moore, 12, of Leba-non, Mo., created his win-ning recipe by using what-ever ingredients he could find in his cupboard and refrigerator.

“I didn’t want sand-wiches for lunch one day in the summer, so I went into the kitchen to see what we had,” he recalled. “I put them together and made chicken spinach pasta.”

Mrs. Obama called the luncheon the “hottest tick-et at the White House.”

“You guys inspire us here at the White House to keep doing what we need to do to keep this message

at the forefront,” she said about her initiative.

President Barack Obama also dropped by to applaud the winners and thank them for “spreading the word about healthy eating.”

“Usually, I get invited to state dinners,” he said. “This time I had to crash.”

“I’m an OK cook,” Obama added. “I make a very good chili.”

He also warned the youngsters not to drop any table scraps because first dog Bo is on a diet.

The children, who got to bring a parent or grand-parent to the White House, were also treated to a per-formance by Nickelodeon stars Big Time Rush and a tour of the White House kitchen garden.

The contest is a part-nership with Epicurious.com and the departments of Education and Agricul-ture.

Kids shine at state dinnerChefs take noteof youth’s recipes

First Lady Michelle Obama huggs Kendall Schmidt and James Maslow, two members of the Nickelode-on music band Big Time Rush during the first ever Kids State Dinner at the White House on Monday.

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The Associated Press“The good people of Missouri nominated

me, and I’m not a quitter. To quote my old friend John Paul Jones, I have not yet begun to fight.” — Rep. Todd Akin fighting to salvage his Sen-ate campaign even as members of his own party turned against him over his comments that women are able to prevent pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape.”

___“We are transitioning to Afghan security,

and for us to train them effectively we are in much closer contact — our troops are in much closer contact with Afghan troops on an ongoing basis. Part of what we’ve got to do is to make sure that this model works but

it doesn’t make our guys more vulnerable.” — President Barack Obama declaring he is sticking to his war strategy of using U.S. troops to advise and men-tor Afghan forces.

___“These accomplished women share our

passion for the game of golf and both are well known and respected by our member-ship. It will be a proud moment when we present Condoleezza and Darla their green jackets when the club opens this fall.” — Au-gusta National chairman Billy Payne after Augusta National invited former Secretary of State Condoleez-za Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore to become the first female members since the club was founded in 1932.

Quotations of the daySuspect found in jail

WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Police say they’ve found a stolen car suspect in the last place they expected: in a southwestern Pa. jail, us-ing another name.

Canonsburg police tell the Observer-Reporter of Washington, Pa. they found 18-year-old Christo-pher Thomas on Monday after an anonymous tip-ster told them he’d already been arrested in another

pizza delivery robbery in another town.

Canonsburg police have now charged him with driving the stolen car and almost hitting three people with it when police chased him Aug. 11.

The hills are aliveVIENNA (AP) — In one

part of Austria, the hills are again alive with a par-ticular sound of music — yodeling.

The Alpine country has inaugurated a new hiker’s path where participants are invited to let loose with an occasional melod-ic mountain yell.

Organizers say it’s push-button easy: at rest stops along the way, hikers press a knob and hear a recorded yodel in two-part harmony. They can also listen to each part sepa-rately and decide which one to try.

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MARIKANA, South Af-rica (AP) — Two men who survived a mass shoot-ing by police that killed 34 striking miners say a traditional healer told the strikers that police bullets would not harm them if they used traditional medi-cine, a South African news-paper reported today as the mining company postponed an ultimatum for workers to return to work.

No striking miners will be fired in the week that South Africa officially mourns the killings of 44 men at a platinum mine, including 34 strikers shot by police last Thursday, a spokesman for the presi-dency told The Associated Press today.

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country’s Eastern Cape where many miners come from. “They were then told when they confront the po-lice they must not look back and must just charge for-ward. If you look back then the muti will not work.”

Miner Bulelani Malawa-na said he was offered the muti for $125 but turned it down, as did Zimanga.

“After they got the muti people were so aggressive. They just wanted to fight. They felt so invincible,” Malawana said.

Harold Molaka said an inter-ministerial commit-tee led by Minister in the Presidency Collins Cha-bane convinced managers of Lonmin PLC platinum mine not to act on the ul-timatum during a week of national mourning that be-gan Monday.

The argument made was that “this is a period of mourning and they should be sensitive to that, and the management of Lonmin is part of that nation, and they agreed there would be no ultimatum so that the mourning process can be observed,” Maloka said.

The mine’s executive vice president Mark Mun-roe told TalkRadio 702 FM early today that those who did not report for work will be punished, but not neces-sarily dismissal.

“It won’t help if Lonmin goes out and dismisses a whole lot of people for not coming to work today,” he said. “It will set us back sig-nificantly in terms of vio-lence, in terms of building trust.”

Sue Vey, a public rela-tions specialist represent-ing Lonmin, said about 33 percent of workers expect-ed for the morning shift reported for work today, up only slightly on 30 percent who reported Monday in response to an earlier ulti-matum. Another publicist for Lonmin, Gillian Find-lay, said that only 19.5 per-cent of rock drill operators showed up today. Some 3,000 rock drill operators started the strike on Aug. 10, de-manding higher wages.

Survivors: Miners felt ‘invincible’

MANTON, Calif. (AP) — Aided by a shift in wind di-rection, firefighters made a stand against a huge light-ning-sparked wildfire burn-ing on the edge of three small Northern California towns.

The blaze, which grew to more than 25 square miles late Monday continued to threaten thousands of homes, as fearful residents sought safety miles away at an emergency shelter.

“All we can do is pray,” evacuee Jerry Nottingham told reporters.

Still, with more firefight-ers arriving on the scene and shifting winds helping to keep the blaze away from homes, officials said fire crews were able to improve their lines around the wild-fire.

“We definitely made some good progress today building around this fire,” state fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said late Monday.

The fast-moving Pon-derosa Fire was one of many burning across the West, where lightning, dry temperatures and gusting

winds have brought an ear-ly start to fire season.

Nearly 1,900 firefighters were battling the blaze in rugged, densely forested terrain as it threatened 3,500 homes in the towns of Manton, Shingletown and Viola, about 170 miles north of Sacramento.

“These are the largest number of homes we’ve had threatened so far this year,” state fire spokes-man Berlant said. “The grass, brush and timber up here are so dry, and once the lightning with no rain struck, the flames began to spread quickly.”

The fire has destroyed seven homes and was 30 percent contained after be-ginning Saturday.

Melted satellite dishes, the remains of burned furniture and charred re-frigerators could be seen in some homes in the rural area.

As the wildfire burned, massive amounts of smoke poured up from the forest.

The fire forced the clo-sure of Highway 44 and oth-er roads, and prompted the

declaration of an emergen-cy in Shasta County. The Red Cross set up an evacu-ation center at a sports complex in Redding, where dozens of people, from the elderly to infants, as well as about a dozen dogs, were given shelter.

One evacuee, Bonnie Maloy, who escaped her home in Shingleton, along with her husband Bill, de-scribed the scene as they fled the flames.

“Frantic at first, then I said, ‘Let’s calm down,’ and we got everything that’s im-portant, things we couldn’t replace: animals, kids, pho-to albums,” she said.

Another massive wildfire burning to the south in Plu-mas National Forest since July 29 grew larger over the weekend as strong winds pushed the flames past fire lines established late last week.

The blaze, about 120 miles north of Sacramen-to, has consumed more than 79 square miles and was threatening about 900 homes. It was 37 percent contained.

Wildfire still plague California

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Insurgents fired rockets into an American base in Afghanistan early today, damaging the parked plane of the visiting chair-man of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, the U.S. military said. The general was safe in his quarters at the time and later left the country aboard another aircraft.

The Taliban were quick to claim the rocket strike that hit the C-17 military trans-port plane of U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey as another propaganda coup. The militants also have said their fighters shot down a U.S. helicopter that crashed last week, killing seven

Americans, though U.S. of-ficials cast doubt on both insurgent claims.

Dempsey was in Afghani-stan to discuss the state of the 10-year-old war as well as a string of disturb-ing killings of U.S. mili-tary trainers by their Af-ghan partners or militants dressed in Afghan uniform. Such attacks — which the Taliban also claim to be be-hind — killed 10 Americans in the last two weeks alone, threatening morale and raising questions about the international coalition’s strategy to train Afghan security forces so they can fight the insurgency after foreign troops end their

combat role in 2014.Dempsey “was nowhere

near” the plane when the two rockets landed near the parked aircraft at around 1 a.m. today at Bagram Air Field outside Kabul, said Ja-mie Graybeal, a spokesman for the U.S. military and the international coalition. Shrapnel from the rockets damaged the plane and also a nearby helicopter, a coali-tion statement said.

Two aircraft mainte-nance workers were light-ly wounded by shrapnel, Graybeal said.

The general ended his talks in Afghanistan and departed g on a different plane, the military said.

Rockets strike general’s plane

Dear Dr. Donohue: Will you write about anemia? I am anemic. I started having terrible pains in my arms and legs. I read that anemia starts drawing from your muscles. I’ve been on iron and am feeling better. — P.R.

Answer: The defini-tion of anemia is too few red blood cells, the cells that cart oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body. It’s not one illness; a large variety of anemias exists.

Failure of the bone mar-row to produce red blood cells, many chronic illnesses (rheumatoid arthritis), an immune attack on the red blood cells, chronic kidney disease, a lack of vitamin B-12 and some inherited dis-eases, like sickle cell anemia, all can cause anemia. So can iron deficiency, and appar-ently that’s the kind you have. Quite often, iron defi-ciency develops from blood loss, and the loss may not be visible. A constant dripping of the blood into the diges-tive tract, for example, even-tually leads to a depletion of red blood cells and their iron. Red blood cells are the chief storage place for iron.

Some anemias have dis-tinctive features, but all share some common symp-toms. Shortness of breath on activity is one of those common features. The di-minished number of red blood cells cannot deliver enough oxygen to the body. Listlessness, a fast heartbeat and pallor of the fingernail bed are seen in anemias.

Iron replacement is the treatment for iron-defi-ciency anemia. An attempt should be made to unearth sites of unrecognized blood loss.

I don’t know what you

mean when you say “anemia starts drawing from your muscles.”

Dear Dr. Donohue: I re-cently read of the experi-mental placement of fecal matter from a healthy per-son into the colon of a per-son suffering from colitis after that person’s healthy bacteria had been killed off by antibiotics and replaced by bad bacteria.

Aside from the “ick” fac-tor, what do you think of this treatment? — D.B.

Answer: The colitis you refer to is antibiotic-associ-ated colitis, caused by the Clostridium difficile bacte-rium. As you say, sometimes antibiotics have collateral damage. They might kill the good bacteria in our colons. That gives the clostridium bacteria a chance to become the colon’s supreme rulers. These bacteria produce tox-ins (poisons) that lead to di-arrhea.

Stopping the antibiotics often restores equilibrium to the colon, but not always. When it doesn’t, then antibi-

otics such as metronidazole and vancomycin are brought into play. A new antibiotic fi-daxomicin can be turned to if success eludes the other two drugs.

In a small number of peo-ple, the diarrhea responds to no drugs. That’s when trans-plantation of normal colon bacteria from a healthy do-nor is tried. The bacterial are introduced into the pa-

tient’s colon by enema or by a tube that enters the diges-tive tract through the nose. It works, many times. I think it’s a wonderful treatment when all other treatments fail. Incidentally, a variation of this technique is to raise colon bacteria in the lab and put them in a sterile solu-tion for transplantation into a patient’s colon. That elimi-nates the “ick” factor.


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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.

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Tips for hiding valuables in a carDear Tom and Ray:After some locker break-

ins at the gym, I started leaving my wallet and phone in the glove box of my Volvo S60. The other day, there was a discussion about this in the sauna. Several people claimed that glove boxes are not safe at all, and can eas-ily be opened by a crow-bar. So I ended up getting a little Master Lock 5900D box. It’s not very secure and could be broken into. It does have a metal rope chain that I looped through the metal framing in the trunk, so it hangs down. I figure if someone were to break into the car and then discover this in the trunk, they would have to stand in the parking lot, trunk open, with wire cutters. That’s too much work for your av-erage thief. Plus, I thought

the lock box might be good for travel -- especially over-seas. Any comments or ad-vice? – Sol

RAY: Well, your sweaty, naked sauna friends are correct that the glove box provides almost no securi-ty. Even when locked, most 50-cent glove-box latches can be pulled open with bare fingers -- crowbar or no crowbar.

TOM: It’s also the first place most thieves look for valuables once they break into a car, because it gives the illusion of security.

RAY: So the trunk is a

better bet. It’s considerably harder to break into, unless you have a -- wait for it -- re-mote trunk release in the passenger compartment! Then, if a thief doesn’t find what he wants in the glove box, he can pop the trunk and have a look in there.

TOM: And that’s where he’ll see your dangling lock box. In general, you’re right that by increasing the difficulty of a theft, you make the theft less likely -- because thieves are often in what? A hurry!

RAY: But the danger of chaining a lock box so vis-ibly is that you’re basically putting a big neon sign on it that says: “Hey! There’s Something Really Valuable In Here!!!”

TOM: And then you take the risk that the thief not only will leave with the box (which he can open

later, at his leisure, with a diamond-bladed radial arm saw), but that he’ll damage your car in his determina-tion to remove it quickly, and leave you with (a) a broken trunk hinge and (b) no wallet with which to buy a new one.

RAY: So if I were really worried about theft, I’d put my valuables in the trunk, as you do. But I’d just hide them somewhere out of sight. There may be room in the spare-tire compart-ment, in a toolbox or in a corner behind some less-valuable trunk junk. What you want is for the thief to look quickly, conclude that there’s nothing valuable there and leave.

TOM: Or you can clip your phone to your own spare tire and wear it into the sauna, Sol. It’s up to you.

Anemia comes in many varieties


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By CHRIS TALBOTTAP Music Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — This year’s Grammy Awards nominations will come with a Southern ac-cent.

The Recording Academy is moving its annual live nominations concert spe-cial to Music City. The show will air Dec. 5 live on CBS from Bridgestone Arena. This is the fifth time The Recording Academy has held “The Grammy Nomi-nations Concert Live,” but the first outside Los Ange-les.

“There’s probably no city more renowned as a mu-sic center in America and probably the world than Nashville, Tenn.,” said Neil Portnow, president/CEO of The Recording Acad-emy. “We have had a great experience with the city of Nashville as an organiza-tion.”

Portnow said he likes his staff to examine how the Grammys are presented from time to time. That’s what led to The Recording Academy’s nominations out of a hotel ballroom and onto the concert stage, and taking a year in Nashville seemed like a logical next step.

“It made sense to me that we also review the location and the venues and just the whole flavor of it,” he said.

The Recording Academy will reveal nominees in sev-eral categories for the 55th annual Grammy Awards, to be held Feb. 10 in Los An-geles, during the hourlong special that will feature a handful of performances by former Grammy win-ners and nominees.

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean called the event “a perfect fit” in a Tuesday news release, and Portnow acknowledged Nashville’s

vigorous efforts to lure such a marquee event to the city helped land the show.

Nashville has a long his-tory with the Grammys. It is home to one of The Recording Academy’s old-est and most successful chapters. Grammy win-ners of all stripes — from Taylor Swift and Lady An-tebellum to The Black Keys and Kings of Leon among scores more — call the city home.

And although the event has likely been forgotten by most, the Grammys were once held in Nashville. Andy Williams hosted the 1973 awards from the Ten-nessee Theatre. In the 21st century, city leaders are building a new convention center next to the arena and would like another shot at the big event.

Portnow said he’s open to the idea of moving the show from Los Angeles where it has been held since a 2003 trip to Madi-son Square Garden in New York City.

“Certainly everything is a possibility as we go for-ward,” Portnow said. “At this point it’s one day at a time, one step at a time. We look forward to having the experience of working in town and in sort of mar-shaling the troops.”

Nashville to hostGrammy event

There’s prob-ably no city

more renowned as a music cen-ter in America and probably the world than Nash-ville, Tenn.

— Neil Portnow,president/CEO,

The Recording Acad-emy

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ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) — Police say the two women killed in a Mary-land train derailment were 19-year-old college students.

The women were on the tracks when a CSX train hauling coal derailed and fell from a bridge outside of Baltimore. The train also crushed cars in a parking lot below the bridge.

Howard County po-

lice spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn says the victims were Elizabeth Conway Nass, a student at James Madison University in Virginia, and Rose Louese Mayr, a student at the Uni-versity of Delaware.

Police did not immediate-ly say what the women were doing on the tracks. Author-ities planned a news confer-ence later this morning.

Coal train derails

newspaper 8/21/12

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