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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

The Abilene

Commission approves classic car warehouse

By GREG DOERINGGreg.doering@abilene-rc.com

More history will be packed into downtown Abilene in the coming months after the Abilene City Com-mission approved a conditional use permit for Dustin De-Weese to operate a classic car dealership and ware-house.

DeWeese and Larry Dalton expect to be up an running at 209 Texas St., when the receive their dealer’s license from the state in about a month.

For now, the groundwork is being laid building out a website and stock-ing up on inventory — specializing in ’67 to ’72 Chevy trucks.

Some improvements are also com-ing to the building, according to De-Weese.

“It’s a good, old brick building,” DeWeese said after Monday’s regu-lar commission meeting. “It fits well with what we’re doing.

DeWeese said the primary focus, when warmer weather returns, will be cleaning up the building’s north side exterior and redoing the electri-cal and lighting on the inside.

While the permit is for warehous-ing cars that will be sold on the In-ternet, DeWeese and Dalton envision the building becoming a museum of sorts.

“How we do that, we’re not sure yet,” DeWeese said. “We’d like it to be something that everyone can en-joy.”

In addition to the classics stored in-side, DeWeese said vintage signs will also be used to decorate the interior.

“I like the old downtown area,” De-Weese said. “Who knows what kind of fun we can have.”

In other business Monday, com-missioners approved a contract with Pottberg, Gassman and Hoffman of Manhattan for the city’s annual audit of financial statements.

Abilene will pay $13,000 for a pri-mary audit and $2,500 for an audit of the city’s public building commis-sion.

Commissioners also approved the

Photos by Tiffany Roney • Reflector-ChronicleAbove: Local artist Karen Cooper shows printmaking workshop students how to correctly sign a print. While drawings and paintings bear signatures on the pieces themselves, prints are signed on the paper matte.

Right: Lincoln Mills (left) and Leighton Bathurst survey prints cre-ated by other students in the Heartland Home Educators.

Home-schooled students get printmaking experience

By TIFFANY RONEYtiffany.roney@abilene-rc.com

Press the pencil into the metal sheet to indent a design, roll paint onto the design, press the carving onto paper and — voila — a print is created.

Karen Cooper, local artist, taught these steps of printmak-ing to home-schooled students while their parents, who are members of Heartland Home Educators, watched their chil-dren craft masterpieces.

“It’s great to give them some exposure to art lessons and dif-ferent types of art they may not know as much about,” home-schooling mother Kristen Bathurst said. “They’ve really

enjoyed it, and they definitely learned something different than what they have done before, so it was very beneficial.”

Cooper said Johannes Guten-berg, inventor of the movable-type printing press, used the first printmaking materials to make a copy of the Bible so people could learn God’s word for themselves.

“Back then, you could only learn the Bible from a priest, so to have your own Bible in your own language was revolution-ary,” she said.

With her fist to the sky, she concluded her presentation with this statement: “So, printmaking is a revolutionary art.”

Fit to print

Holloway inspiration for AHS blood driveBy TIFFANY RONEY

tiffany.roney@abilene-rc.com

Red Cross was considering dropping Abilene High School from its list of do-nors because the participation numbers were so low. Six years ago, the school had never collected more than 10 pints of blood.

Molly Burton stepped forward to turn the drive around.

As an anatomy and physiology teacher, Burton said the project fit well with her job. Though she has worked on her own to encourage students to donate, and she reminds them they can get community service hours if they donate or volunteer, the real kicker this year was not an adult or organizational authority. Instead, what drew students to donate was a little boy named Cooper Holloway.

Holloway has an immune disease called hypogammaglobulinemia. He has had more than 10 surgeries, and he continues to receive weekly blood transfusions.

“At first, it was like we didn’t even have enough students to have one blood drive, but then, after we watched the movie about the little boy, so many more people signed up,” sophomore and blood drive volunteer Alex Scott said. “Now,

we have to have three blood drives.”Burton said March 11 was the date of

the original blood drive. After the school showed the short video about Holloway,

the participation count reached 120, so Burton added an express drive, by ap-pointment only, on March 12. Then, she

Farm interests want voice

on power linesThe Associated Press

TOPEKA — A bill before the Kansas House would re-quire proposed transmission lines to undergo more regu-latory scrutiny before they are approved.

Under the bill, the Kan-sas Electric Transmission Authority would review all proposed transmission line projects before they are con-sidered by the Kansas Cor-poration Commission.

Supporters said the bill would give landowners more input into projects that of-ten are placed on farmland. Others suggested the state’s process for approving such projects is already sufficient.

Rep. Sharon Schwartz, a Republican from Washing-

ton, said the bill was partly a response to the KCC’s ap-proval of a proposed project by Clear Line Energy, which wants to build a 700-mile transmission line to carry wind energy to the east, The Topeka Capital-Journal re-ported.

About 370 miles of the lines would be in Kansas, where the project has met some resistance, particu-larly in the northeast corner of the state. The Clean Line project still needs approval from Missouri, Indiana and Illinois.

“The ground they were go-ing across is prime farmland ground and the people that it’s affected didn’t know

Tiffany Roney • Reflector-ChronicleAlex Scott (left), sophomore at Abilene High School and volunteer for the upcoming Red Cross blood drive, shares a moment with friend Jullesa Ellidge, sophomore and registered donor for the drive. Scott originally tried to recruit Ellidge to volunteer with her, but after seeing a video about Cooper Holloway, a local boy in need of blood transfusions, Ellidge chose to donate instead.

“We’d like it to be something that everyone can enjoy.”

Dustin DeWeese

See: Commission, Page 6

See: Drive, Page 6 See: Power, Page 6

Easy Green Chile with porkAccording to Janet, “This

is an old family recipe that everyone makes. I could do it by the time I was 10.” For Allen family gatherings she and her sisters-in-law make green chile burritos—spread-ing the pork green chile over tortillas and sprinkling with cheese before wrapping them burrito-style. Although any pork roast, even pork loin, will work, Janet generally uses pork butt—an economical and flavorful cut of meat.

Ingredients:Small pork roast, cooked

and shredded (should not take whole roast), reserve juice from roast

Butter: 1 or 2 tablespoons-plus

1 garlic clove, minced½ fresh jalapeño, chopped

with seeds removed1 cup chopped onion2 (4 oz.) cans chopped

green chiles1 or 2 (10 oz.) cans Rotel

tomatoes, depending on amount of pork (regular or mild)

All-purpose flour for thicken-ing

Instructions:Melt butter and saute garlic,

chopped jalapeño and onions until tender. Add green chiles and Rotel tomatoes. Add mixture to shredded pork roast in large saucepan; cook over medium heat for at least 20 minutes.

Thicken juice from roast by adding a little flour to make a roux and then add to green chile mixture. If the roux seems too thick add chicken broth.

Suggested Additions: Add cilantro and cumin to chile as it cooks for added flavor.

Tex-Mex PosoleThis stew begins with a

base of pork, tomato sauce, and hominy.

Ingredients:1 to 1 ½ lbs. boneless pork

loin, cubed to bite size All-purpose flour for coating

pork3 tablespoons vegetable oil,

such as canola1 onion chopped2 cloves garlic, minced1 (15 oz.) can tomato sauce

(Janet prefers using half regular tomato sauce & half El Pato Mexican hot tomato sauce for added spice & heat)

½ cup water1 ½ cups chicken broth1 to 2 teaspoons chili

powder1 teaspoon dried crushed

oreganoOptional, carrots, celery,

potatoes, just as you would put in a regular stew, or use vegetables of your choice

2 (15.5 oz.) cans hominy, drained

Two tablespoons all-purpose flour

Instructions:Coat pork with flour set

aside.In frying pan heat oil over

medium high heat, add onion and garlic, sauté until tender; remove vegetables to large saucepan. Add pork to remaining oil in the frying pan and brown on all sides; trans-fer pork and all drippings from frying pan to large saucepan.

Stir in tomato sauce, water, chicken broth, chili powder and oregano. If using carrots and celery add now and

cook uncovered until carrots are soft, add potatoes and hominy. Cook until potatoes are done.

Thicken soup with a roux made from roast drippings and a little flour.

Frito SaladA great dish for potluck

dinners.Ingredients:

1 cup chopped green bell pepper

1 cup chopped green onion½ cup shredded Cheddar

cheese2 (11 oz.) cans Mexicorn —

drain well¾ cup mayonnaise10 oz. pkg. Fritos® chili

cheese flavored corn chipsInstructions:

Mix together everything except corn chips. Chill until ready to serve.

Just before serving lightly crush bag of chips and mix into salad.

Jalapeño Deviled Eggs

While these could be served as a side dish, Janet often uses them as party fare, mak-ing them for Greyhound Hall of Fame cocktail parties.

Ingredients:8 to 10 hard cooked eggs —

cool and remove shell 1/3 cup mayonnaise 1/3 cup sour cream (If you

do not have sour cream just use 1/3 cup mayonnaise)

½ teaspoon prepared yellow mustard

Salt to taste

1/3 cup finely chopped onions

1 tablespoon finely chopped pickled jalapeños

2 teaspoons of the juice from a jar of pickled jalapeños

Garnishes: paprika & pick-led jalapeño rings

Instructions:Remove shells from hard

cooked eggs and slice in half lengthwise.

Place egg yolks in bowl and mash with fork. Stir in mayon-naise, sour cream + remain-ing ingredients except those for garnishes; mix well. Add one rounded tablespoon of the egg mixture to each egg white half and garnish each with a sprinkle of paprika and a jalapeño ring.

Red Chile Sauce Ingredients:About ½ lb. dried guajillo

red chiles – these usually come in l lb. bags and can be purchased in Mexican grocery stores or grocery stores with specialty sections

½ cup dried onion1 clove minced garlicSalt to tasteFinishing Ingredients (for

every 1 ½ cups of sauce):1 small (7.75 oz.) can El

Pato Mexican tomato sauce2/3 cup chicken brothShredded pork, beef or

chickenSauce

Cut the stem end off the

chile peppers and scrape out seeds. Place chiles in a pot of boiling water. Add ½ cup dried onion, 1 clove minced garlic and a little salt. Boil until chiles are soft, usually takes about 1 hour.

With slotted spoon trans-fer chiles to blender. Skim off some of the dried onion and garlic from the cooking water and add ½ cup of the skimmed water to the blender. Put blender on liquefy and blend to create a thin paste. Sauce may be frozen at this point.

FinishFor every 1 ½ cups of sauce

add 1 small can Mexican tomato sauce and 2/3 cup of chicken broth.

Add 1/3 cup of finished sauce to shredded roast pork; continue to add until you have the preferred consistency. Don’t overdo it.

Other Uses:• Transfer some of your

meat and sauce mixture to flour tortilla, add shredded cheese and roll up.

• Thin sauce with additional chicken broth and use for enchiladas. Quick & Easy SalsaThis salsa keeps for 3 to 4

days in the refrigerator. For a quick guacamole dip Janet adds about ½ cup of drained salsa to 3 to 4 mashed avo-cados, ½ cup of sour cream and 1 tsp. lemon juice.

Ingredients:1 (14.5 oz.) can stewed

tomatoes2 (4 oz.) cans chopped

green chiles1 cup chopped white onions½ teaspoon saltDash of black pepper1 to 2 teaspoons white

vinegar 2 teaspoons vegetable oil

Instructions:Put into blender, hit blend

for only a second or two.

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Janet Allen: A blending of culturesBy META NEWELL WEST

Home Cooking—Dickinson County Style

When Janet Allen told her mom that she was going to be featured in a cooking column, Mrs. McNeil said, “You better not put in any recipes that call for canned soup or instant pudding!”

Janet explained, “My mother, grandmother and aunts all cooked from scratch. I never saw them use anything canned, except things they canned themselves.”

Obviously their examples had an effect on Janet because she also pre-fers to cook “from scratch” and uses ingredients she has on hand or that are readily available. And, “It has to be easy,” she added.

Any recipe that is overly compli-cated won’t be considered.

She also identified other major fac-tors that have influenced her cook-ing style.

“I was born in Arizona to a third generation Mormon family. After coming south from Salt Lake, my family went all the way down to Mexico but eventually homesteaded in what is now Show Low (north-eastern Arizona).”

“Everyone I know in Arizona cooks Mexican food. I grew up us-ing tortillas as we now use bread. Staples in our diet included red and green chiles, jalapeños and Mexi-can-style tomato sauce. I still put these things in almost every main dish I cook,” she said.

She prepares the tamales, enchila-das, tacos, tostadas and green or red chile burritos that she grew up eat-ing. Although her family often puts its own spin on traditional Hispanic food, she noted, “I had never seen Mexican food made with hamburger until I moved to Oklahoma. It was

always chicken, shredded beef, or pork, mostly pork.”

Besides developing an apprecia-tion for simple foods made from scratch, Janet’s Mormon back-ground taught her to cook in quan-tity and to never waste anything. Leftovers were used to create other dishes — rice was used in rice pud-ding, ends of the bread loaf became bread pudding, extra pork roast went into green chile or into hearty stews, such as posole. Casseroles were pre-pared using seasoned white sauce as a binder rather than canned soup. “My mom and grandmother could also do amazing things with flour,

shortening, sugar, milk and eggs. Our house was located in the middle of an apple orchard so mom fixed apples every way possible.”

Although Janet is proud of her Mormon heritage, she never joined the church. She mentioned, “I am frequently asked why I am not a Mormon.” My usual response is, “My dad has been deceased so long I do not remember him at all. When I was around 2 years old, my mom remarried. My stepdad was not a Mormon and while he allowed my sister and me to attend Sunday school, primary and mutual, he re-fused to allow us to be baptized

into the church. Later on I went to college and eventually married; my husband was not a Mormon. After that I never gave it much thought; it was simply a road not taken.”

After owning and operating grey-hound farms in Arizona and then Oklahoma, Janet and husband Ken-ny moved to Abilene. “It was a good move and we are quite happy here,” she stated.

It didn’t take Janet long to get in-volved in the community. Both she and Kenny previously served on the National Greyhound Association Board of Directors. Currently Janet is a member of the Greyhound Hall

of Fame Board of Directors, and a member of Historic Abilene’s Board of Directors, where she works as the volunteer manager for the consign-ment gift shop that is connected to the Hitching Post restaurant. In the past she has helped manage the res-taurant but now just volunteers to cook for special occasions, includ-ing preparing meals for her PEO chapter and other groups. At least once a week she makes something special for the restaurant’s custom-ers.

While Janet readily agreed to share her recipes for this article, she had to come up with written instructions. “I can’t remember my mom, grand-mother or aunts ever using a recipe. They just cooked, and that’s what I do, too.” Consequently, as she pre-pared her recipes for this column she measured and tested them before at-tempting to list ingredient quantities and directions. For several Sundays she even made desserts (rice pud-ding, apple pudding, peach and cherry cobblers) for Sunday diners at the Hitching Post. “When people started asking for the recipes, I knew my efforts were successful.”

For Janet, who grew up cooking for large groups, all this cooking is en-joyable work. “It gives me a feeling of satisfaction. Besides, I can’t sit still and need something worthwhile to do,” she admits. Always up for a challenge, she adds, “What inspires me is trying to come up with some-thing different. I often take someone else’s recipe and experiment with it. And, I would certainly encourage others to do that with mine. For ex-ample, if you don’t like hot food, cut out some of the seasonings or pep-pers. Or, just play around with the recipe and make it your own.”

Greg Doering • Reflector-ChronicleJanet Allen stirs a pot of her Easy Green Chile, a recipe she’s been making since she was 10 years old.

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fense<=10over,$150.JeremyGray,littering,$150.RamseyA.Harwood,speeding1stof-fense<=10over,$150.KennethHazlett,speeding2ndoffense<=10over,$180,seatbeltviolation,18andover,$10.CanaceR.Heinecke,passingonright,improper,$150.MarthaJ.Holt,failtostoporobeyRRcrossing,$150.DaltonJ.Hosie,speeding1stoffense<=10over,$150.ScottA.Hottman,speeding3rdoffense<=10over,$240.MichaelaD.Howard,licensecarried/exhibited,$155.CharlesL.Huse,Sr.,disorderlyconduct,$180.ReneeL.Lapointe,dogatlarge,$150.DavidJ.Lewis,disorderlyconduct,$180.KristopherJ.Lewis,drivingonsidewalk,$150JonathanLuffman,speeding1stoffense<=10over,$150.LauraMaxwell,dogatlarge,$150.LoreneL.Neaderhiser,inattentivedriv-ing,1stoffense,$180.MatthewC.Nestler,harassmentbyphone,$240.JacobA.Picking,speeding2ndoffense<=10over,$180,licensecarried/exhib-ited,$60.JohnathanS.Richardson,allterrainvehicle,operation,$150.ChristyL.Rothchild,speeding1stof-fense<=10over,$150.DavidRowell,speeding1stoffense<=10over,$150.MarissaD.Sellers,inattentivedriving,1stoffense,$180,noproofofliabilityinsurance,$300.ChelseyN.Sims,speeding2ndoffense<=10over,$180.PamelaS.Sims,speeding1stoffense<=10over,$150.CodySteele,speeding1stoffense<=10over,$150.RyanStout,criminaltrespass,$180.GeraldineD.Taylor,inattentivedriv-ing,1stoffense,$180,transportingopencontainer,$200.RachelL.Thompson,dogatlarge,$210.Dale.A.Thornberry,disobeytrafficcontroldevice,$150.KyleM.Willer,simplebattery,$590,bat-teryonlawenforcementofficer,$1,000.CliffordD.Withee,speeding1stoffense<=10over,$150.KennethL.Wondra,speeding1stof-fense<=10over,$150.

OctoberFinedoesnotreflectprobation.GeniceN.Archer,pedestrianundertheinfluence,$180.KatlynM.Brunett,licensecarried/exhib-ited,$150.JustinT.Carroll,disobeystopsign,$150.

BettyE.Chindamo,disobeytrafficcon-trolsignal,$150.CieraN.Cody,improperbacking,$150.JenniferL.Cross,speeding1stoffense<=10over,$150.ClintonR.Davidson,speeding1stof-fense<=10over,$150.TerryL.Deines,speeding1stoffense<=10over,$150.DustinJ.DeWeese,speeding1stoffense<=10over,$155.LaceyL.DeWeese,speeding1stoffense<=30over,$195.EricW.Enslow,speeding1stoffense<=20over,$305.VickieR.Gadberry,dogatlarge,$60,dogatlarge,$150.JoseR.Garcia,noDI/expiredDIorclassviolation,$180.BriceA.Grizzle,failuretoyieldturningleft,$150,inattentivedrive,1stoffense,$90.SusanL.Hanback,seatbeltviolation,18andover,$10.MeganL.Hand,speeding1stoffense<=10over,$150.CandaceR.Heinecke,licensecarried/exhibited,$150.ChristopherJ.Hoyte,speeding2ndof-fense<=10over,$185.ChristopherJ.Huff,noproofofliabilityinsurance,$390.BoydJ.Johnson,Jr.,pedestrianundertheinfluence,$180,pedestrianundertheinfluence,$180.KelseyA.Keller,dogatlarge,$150.TristenT.Keyser,speeding1stoffense<=20over,$180.ReginaldL.Knight,disobeytrafficcon-trolsignal,$150.DonaldG.Ladd,speeding1stoffense<=10over,$150.CarilynnN.Lewis,speeding1stoffense<=10over,$150.GregoryJ.McDonald,impropertag/registration,$150.RandyW.McDonald,impropertag/registration,$150,noproofofliabilityinsurance,$309.MatthewL.Mead,seatbeltviolation,18andover,$10.JamesT.Mullen,noDL/ExpiredDlorclassviolation,$185.KayleneR.Payne,speeding3rdoffense<=10over,$245JohnathonS.Richardson,speeding1stoffense<=20over,$185.MelissaA.Rickford,speeding1stoffense<=20over,$270.BillyJ.Robertson,dogatlarge,$150.AndreaTaylor,failtoyielduncontrolledintersection,$150.PaigeJ.Westfall,inattentivedriving,1stoffense,$180.AutumnL.Fox,speeding1stoffense<=10over,diversion.JessicaL.Roush,theft,theft,diversion.RussellD.Stout,criminaltrespass,$120.

ObituariesNoah Gene Lohman

Noah Gene Lohman, 15, of Abilene, passed away Satur-day, Feb. 15, 2014, at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. He was born Dec. 10, 1998, in Wichita, the son of Shad and Darla (Henry) Lohman.

Noah was a member of the Sutphen Mill Church of rural Abilene, and he was home-schooled.

Noah is survived by his parents, Shad and Darla Lohman; two broth-ers, Talon Cotton of Independence, and Ethan Lohman of Abilene; two sisters, Paula Cotton of Salina and Shadra Lohman of Abilene; grandpar-ents, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Funeral services for Noah will be at 1 p.m. March 1, 2014, at Emmanuel Church, with Pastor Erik Graefe officiating. Public visitation will be from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, at Martin-Becker-Carlson Funeral Home in Abilene.

The family suggests memorial contributions in his name be made to the Noah Gene Lohman Memorial fund and may be dropped off or mailed to Martin-Becker-Carlson Funeral Home, 414 N.W. Third St., Abilene, KS 67410.

Online condolences may be left at www.martinbecker-carlson.com.

Wynona GreenoughWynona Greenough passed away Feb. 19, 2014, after a

sudden illness at her Grand Junction, Colo., home with her loving husband by her side. Wynona was born on Feb. 25, 1930 from the union of Clyde Ellis and Myrl Edna Kolling in Sut-phen Mill (Abilene).

She attended school at Chapman and married Dale. T. Greenough in Salina on Oct. 29, 1947. He survives.

Wynona was a true homemaker, she loved to embroider and make baby quilts for each new grandchild and great-grandchild. She enjoyed travel-ing the U.S. to visit her son’s and fam-ily.

She leaves behind her husband of 66 years, Dale T. Greenough of Grand Junction; sons David (Kathy) Greenough of Abilene, Gary (Cindy) Greenough of Clifton, Colo., Dwayne Greenough of Somerset, Mass., Mark (Carol) Greenough of Denver, Colo., Rod (Ginny) Greenough of Valley Springs, Calif; a sister, Betty Jean Nipper, 12 grandchildren, and 17 great grandchildren.

Wynona was preceded in death by her parents, a brother and daughter-in-law; Pauline Greenough. A memorial ser-vice will be held at a later date. Friends and family may leave their condolences at www.martinmortuary.com.

Jack E. CraigFuneral services for Jack E. Craig, 55, of Abilene, will

be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 1, 2014, at the First Pres-byterian Church in Abilene with Pastor Lewis Smith and Pastor Robert Frasier officiating. Mr. Craig passed away Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014 at his home near Abilene.

He was born Oct. 12, 1958, in Clay Center, the son of Ed and Vanda (Olson) Craig. After moving from Clay Center to Abilene, Jack’s family owned the Craig’s Ben Franklin and also raised greyhounds. Jack graduated from Abilene High School and attended Fort Hays State University.

Jack was a salesman for Holm Automotive in Abilene for many years before becoming the commercial manager for Auto Zone in Abilene. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and enjoyed hunting, fishing and riding his Harley.

On Dec. 1, 1989, he married Cindy Henry in Abilene. She survives of the home. Jack is also survived by his sons Jesse Craig of Manhattan, Nicklas Craig of Abilene, Dalton of the home, his daughter Madison of the home; and his sister Rhonda Norton of Winona, Minn.

He was preceded in death by his parents.Cremation is planned. There is no visitation.Memorial contributions may be made to the Jack Craig

Memorial Fund to be designated at a later date and may be sent in care of the Martin-Becker Carlson Funeral Home, 414 N.W. Third St., Abilene, KS 67410. Condolences may be left for the family at www.martinbeckercarlson.com.

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PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20)-- You should use discretionwhen dealing with others to-day.Manypeoplerespectyouropinions and will look to youforguidanceandadvice.Yourempathy and compassion willhelp them find the answerstheyarelookingfor.

ARIES (March21-April19)--Keep your opinions and ideastoyourself.Itisnotnecessaryto reveal your secrets to oth-ers.Aconversationwithanoldfriendmayprovide inspirationforanewproject.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)-- Information you have re-centlyreceivedmayhavehadanegativeeffectonyour life.Dwelling on the issue is notproductive. Swallow your dis-appointment. Keeping busywill help to avoid emotionaloutbursts.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)--Youmaybetemptedbyanappealinginvestmentoffer.Doyour research thoroughly be-fore you commit to anythinginwriting.Youhaveaninnova-tiveideathatcanbenefityourfriendsandfamily.

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LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23)--Familyandfriendsmaynotbetotally honest with you. Findsomeone impartial to providetheanswerstoyourquestions.Aself-improvementprojectwillturn out better than you ex-pected.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.21)--Youshouldconsiderpreviousoutcomesbeforetak-ing action. If your tried-and-truemethods haveworked inthe past, there’s no need tochangeyourapproach.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.19) -- Formulate a concreteplan for an important discus-sion. Have a clear idea ofyour own responsibilities, andconsider the expectations ofothers.Youcanbeoutspokenwithoutbeingargumentative.

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DEAR DOCTOR K: How of-ten should I have my eyes exam-ined? What will the doctor check for during the exam?

DEAR READER: Routine examinations in people without known eye diseases, and who don’t have hereditary eye diseas-es in their families, usually are done by optometrists. They also can be done by ophthalmologists (doctors who specialize in eye diseases). You should have your eyes examined every two to four years between the ages of 40 and 64, and then every one to two years after that.

But this is just a general rec-ommendation, as no one size fits all. You may need more frequent eye exams depending on your personal or family medical his-tory. (On my website, AskDoc-torK.com, I’ve put a table show-ing how often you should see an eye doctor.)

The exam usually starts with vision tests. First, you’re asked to look at rows of letters and numbers that keep getting small-er until you can no longer see them clearly. If you do not have optimal vision (20/20), the doc-tor will test whether different lenses can sharpen your vision and make it 20/20. That’s the ba-sis for fitting you with corrective lenses (normal glasses or contact lenses).

The doctor will also evaluate your peripheral, or side, vision. Your color vision and depth per-ception may also be evaluated.

After testing how well you see, the doctor will begin to examine your eyes themselves. First comes an examination of your outer eye. The doctor will look for signs of any underly-ing problems, such as infections, sties, cysts, tumors or lid muscle weakness. Do your pupils react normally to light? Do your two

eyes move together in a coordi-nated fashion?

Then comes an examination of the inside of your eye as seen through your pupil. The more wide open the pupil is, the easier it is to see inside the eye. For that reason, the doctor will apply eye drops to dilate your pupils.

First, the doctor examines the lens, which sits just behind the pupil. Is it crystal clear or does it have areas that are cloudy or opaque -- called cataracts? Then there’s the fluid inside the eye. Does it have foreign particles or floaters?

Next comes the retina, a flat layer of cells in the back of the eye. The image formed as light enters your eye is focused on the retina. Does it have deposits or hemorrhages? Does it have ab-normal fragile young blood ves-sels? Is the nerve that connects the retina to the brain normal?

Finally, eye pressure is mea-sured to detect signs of glau-coma. This can be done with an “air puff” test. Alternatively, after your eye is numbed with anesthetic drops, the doctor will gently touch your cornea with an instrument to measure the eye’s internal pressure.

A regular eye exam is simple and painless. It can protect your sight by improving your vision through prescription lenses and by catching eye diseases early.

(Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. To send questions, go to AskDoctorK.com, or write: Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.)

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Big Nate

Try to misconstrue the deal for west

BRIDGE by PHILLIP ALDER

Stonewal l Jackson, the Confederate general who died of pneumonia at only 39, said, “Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possi-ble.”

That certainly applies to bridge players, especially when the declarer. (It is usu-ally dangerous for a defender to mislead his partner.)

In this deal, South is in four hearts. Which card should de-clarer play at trick one after West leads the spade ace and East drops the four?

South knows that East has just played a singleton (unless West made an unusual overcall in a four-card suit). But West does not know that.

Suppose South plays his spade seven. Then West will know it is safe to cash his spade king, because East would not have dropped the four from 10-4-2. And the same applies if South follows suit with his 10.

Instead, South must play his two. Then West will wonder if East started with 10-7-4. Yes, West might still get it right,

thinking that East would have raised to two spades with three trumps and forgetting that the auction suggests East has a very weak hand. But West will be nervous about leading the spade king at trick two, lest South ruff it and later get a critical discard on dummy’s spade queen.

As you can see, if West con-tinues spades, the defenders take two spades, one spade ruff and the club king to defeat the contract. If West does any-thing else, the contract makes.

If declarer is trying to dis-rupt the opponents’ signals, he should copy their methods. He should play low to try to dis-courage a continuation, or vice versa.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORSTHE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:You are hereby notified that a Petition for Appointment of Administrator Under Kansas Simplified Estates Act, dated January 30, 2014, has been filed in this Court by Jerald R. Jones, praying that the estate of Maureen G. Jones, deceased, be admitted to probate, and for the appointment of Jerald R. Jones as Administrator of said estate.You are further advised that the Petitioner in this matter has requested administration pursuant to the Kansas Simplified Estates Act, and if such request is granted the Court may not supervise administration of the estate and no further notice of any action of the Administrator or other proceedings in the administration will be given, except for notice of final settlement of the decedent’s estate. Should written objections to simplified administration be filed with the Court, the Court may order supervised administration to ensue.You are required to file your written defenses to the admission of the decedent’s estate to probate on or before March 7, 2014, at 9:30 o’clock A.M., in this Court in the city of Abilene, in Dickinson County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.All creditors are notified to exhibit their demands against the estate within four months from the date of the first publication of this notice, as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited they shall be forever barred.

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creation of an ad hoc public facilities committee to review the current and future uses and needs of the Dwight D. Eisen-hower Municipal Building.

The committee is charged with making a non-binding recommendation on the facil-ity to the commission. The committee will be dissolved once its recommendation is made.

Kelly Cooper, Cybil Luea, Jared Waite, Terry Tietjans, Deby Wilson, Ben Smith, Ber-nie Nogle, Nanc Scholl, Sabri-na Holland, Doug Smart and Matt Holm were appointed to the committee.

Commissioner Dennis Weis-haar will serve as the official liaison for the commission on the committee.

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received so much interest from colleagues and parents that she added another ex-press drive for March 7.

As of Friday, 169 people were signed up for the drive. Burton said every donation saves three lives, so the school plans to hopefully save 500 lives. To make an appoint-ment to give on March 11, call the school at 263-1260.

“At this point, we’re so full that I don’t know that I could take anyone if they walked in on the day of the drive,” Bur-ton said. “It’s a good problem to have.”

Burton said the school is competing in its fourth annual challenge against Clay Cen-ter High School to see which school collects the most pints of blood. AHS is 2-1 against Clay Center, with Abilene

winning last year’s contest.“We’re hoping to blow them

out of the water this year,” she said. “The real reason why we’re working so hard this year is because we have a little boy — the son of one of our teachers down at Dick-inson County Learning Ex-change — who is having to get a plasma donation. Cooper Holloway is our inspiration this year.”

Jullesa Ellidge, AHS sopho-more and registered donor for the upcoming drive, said Holloway is a personal in-spiration to her. Ellidge said she had never participated in a blood drive before, but after learning about Holloway, she wanted to give.

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about it until basically Clean Line had been granted their Certificate of Convenience,” Schwartz said during a hear-ing on the bill last week before the House Energy and Envi-ronment Committee. “Obvi-ously, I think if they had been granted some input, it might have made a difference.”

The line is projected to spur $7 billion in wind energy proj-ects and Gov. Sam Brownback supported it when the KCC approved the Kansas portion in 2011.

Michael White, manager of Topeka-based utility compa-ny ITC Great Plains, said his company is neutral on the bill but is concerned that it doesn’t clearly define what types of transmission lines would be affected. He also noted that the KCC and utilities already provide open houses and town hall meetings on proposed transmission projects.

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Congress skeptical about shrinking militaryTheAssociatedPress

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s push for a smaller, nimbler military must now face the scrutiny of a Congress that has spent years battling the Pentagon’s vision for a new security strategy.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is proposing to shrink the Army to its smallest size in three-quarters of a century, hoping to reshape the mili-tary after more than a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan and roped in by fiscal constraints set by Congress.

The plan unveiled Monday is al-ready raising red flags among leading Republicans and Democrats.

“What we’re trying to do is solve our financial problems on the backs of our military, and that can’t be done,” said Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., the House Armed Services Committee chairman.

“There’s going to be a huge chal-lenge,” Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, conceded.

Having backtracked just this month on cutting veterans benefits by less than 1 percent, lawmakers appear in little mood to weigh difficult, if nec-essary, decisions on defense reduc-tions, especially as the nation gears up for midterm elections in Novem-ber.

They have resisted cutting tanks and aircraft the military doesn’t even want, or accepting base closings that would be poison in their home dis-tricts. They have consistently advo-cated bigger pay increases for service members than the government has requested.

And although Congress has agreed

on an overall number for the military budget in 2015, at just under $500 billion, there are still major decisions to be made on how that money should be spent.

“We are repositioning to focus on the strategic challenges and opportu-nities that will define our future: new technologies, new centers of power and a world that is growing more volatile, more unpredictable and in some instances more threatening to the United States,” Hagel said Mon-day at the Pentagon.

President Barack Obama will sub-mit the budget to Congress next week.

At its core, the plan foresees the U.S. military as no longer sized to conduct large and protracted ground wars. Instead, more emphasis will be on versatile, agile forces that can project power over great distances, including in Asia.

The active-duty Army would shrink from 522,000 soldiers to between 440,000 and 450,000. That would make it the smallest since just before the U.S. entered World War II.

Other contentious elements include the elimination of the Air Force’s A-10 “Warthog” tank-killer aircraft and the Cold War-era U-2 spy plane; Army National Guard reductions; and domestic military base closings that Congress has roundly rejected since Obama became president. Mili-tary compensation will also decline slightly. Another flashpoint could emerge over the fleet of 11 aircraft carriers that the Pentagon insists it is maintaining.

“We are on a path to repeat the mistakes we’ve made during past at-tempts to cash in on expected peace dividends that never materialized”

and “caused our allies to question America’s staying power and encour-aged our enemies to test us,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said the cuts don’t reflect a world Obama’s own advisers say is getting “more dangerous.”

The last time the active-duty Army was below 500,000 was in 2005, when it stood at 492,000. Its post-World War II low was 480,000 in 2001, ac-cording to historical tables provided by the Army. In 1940 the Army had 267,000 active-duty members, and it surged to 1.46 million the follow-ing year as the U.S. approached entry into World War II.

In Congress, the issue could come up as early as Tuesday when the Sen-ate Armed Services Committee con-siders the nominations of six senior Pentagon officials, including a new deputy secretary of defense.

Both parties are divided on defense funding levels. GOP hawks don’t see eye-to-eye with some tea party sup-porters and fiscal conservatives who say all sectors of federal spending must be reined in. For every Demo-crat supporting the Obama adminis-tration, there’s another in a military-heavy district or state worried about the fallout.

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., the House Armed Services Committee’s top Democrat, acknowledged the difficult financial constraints facing the Pentagon. Congress authorized across-the-board spending cuts that went into effect last year and were only eased somewhat by a budget agreement two months ago.

“Under these conditions, our mili-tary leaders are doing their best to

put forward a budget that provides national security,” Smith said

His Senate counterpart, Republican Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, said he op-posed all proposed cuts. “We have been cutting and cutting for the last five years,” he said.

Polls show the American public split. Republican voters are more likely to say defense spending is too low while Democratic voters are more likely to say it’s too high.

Congress’ recent behavior suggests a tough fight ahead for the adminis-tration.

Earlier this month, the Senate voted 95-3 and the House 326-90 to restore full cost-of-living pension increases for younger military retirees just two months after the modest cut was en-acted.

Many prominent deficit hawks joined in the reversal, highlighting the difficulty of making cuts that af-fect veterans in an election year and the chronic challenge facing lawmak-ers as they try to curtail spending.

And Senate Democrats are now trying to push through an expanded health and education bill for veterans that would cost $21 billion over the coming decade.

Beyond military pay, the Obama ad-ministration has struggled to cut costs by eliminating weapons that mean money and jobs where they are pro-duced, based and serviced.

It failed two years ago to shut down the Air Force’s Global Hawk, a high-altitude unmanned aircraft the Pentagon said wasn’t cost-effective. The military now supports the plane, which is built in McKeon’s district.

Polio-like disease appears in childrenTheAssociatedPress

STANFORD, Calif. — An extremely rare, polio-like disease has appeared in more than a dozen California chil-dren within the past year, and each of them suffered pa-ralysis to one or more arms or legs, Stanford University researchers say. But public health officials haven’t identi-fied any common causes con-necting the cases.

The illness is still being in-vestigated and appears to be very unusual, but Dr. Keith Van Haren at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stan-ford University warned Mon-day that any child showing a sudden onset of weakness in their limbs or symptoms of paralysis should be immedi-ately seen by a doctor.

“The disease resembles but is not the same as polio,” he said. “But this is serious. Most of the children we’ve seen so far have not recov-ered use of their arm or their leg.”

But doctors are not sure if it’s a virus or something else, he said. Van Haren said he has studied five cases from Monterey up through the San Francisco Bay Area, includ-ing two that were identified as the disease enterovirus-68, which is from the same fam-ily as the polio viruses. He said there have been about 20 cases statewide.

“We want to temper the con-cern, because at the moment, it does not appear to represent a major epidemic but only a very rare phenomenon,” he

said, noting similar outbreaks in Asia and Australia.

But for some children, like Sofia Jarvis, 4, of Berkeley, rare doesn’t mean safe.

She first developed what looked like asthma two years ago, but then her left arm stopped moving, and it has re-mained paralyzed ever since.

“You can imagine. We had two boys that are very healthy, and Sofia was healthy until that point,” said her mother, Jessica Tomei. “We did not realize what we were in store for. We did not realize her arm would be permanently paralyzed.”

Van Haren, who diagnosed Sofia, said polio vaccines do not protect children from the disease, but he stressed that it is still important for children

to receive that vaccine.Dr. Jane Seward of the Cen-

ters for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said Monday that the research is still underway in California, and there are a variety of infectious diseases that can cause childhood paralysis.

Any of a number of illnesses could be at work, and it’s pos-sible some of the cases had one infection and some had another. Regarding the pres-ence of EV-68 in at least two cases, “it could be an inciden-tal finding,” Seward said.

Until officials get more in-formation, Seward said they are not looking around the country for similar cases of EV-68.

The California Department of Public Health has not iden-

tified any common causes that suggest that the cases are linked, said Dr. Gil Chavez, the deputy director of the Center for Infectious Disease and state epidemiologist.

“Physicians and public health officials who have en-countered similar illnesses have submitted 20 reports to CDPH, and CDPH has con-ducted preliminary tests on 15 of these specimens,” he said.

Rules to limit food marketing in schoolsTheAssociatedPress

WASHINGTON — Even the scoreboards in high school gyms eventually will have to promote good health.

Moving beyond the lunch line, new rules that will be proposed Tuesday by the White House and the Agricul-ture Department would limit marketing of unhealthy foods in schools. They would phase out the advertising of sugary drinks and junk foods around campuses during the school day and ensure that other pro-motions in schools were in line with health standards that already apply to school foods.

That means a scoreboard at a

high school football or basket-ball game eventually wouldn’t be allowed to advertise Coca-Cola, for example, but it could advertise Diet Coke or Dasani water, which is also owned by Coca-Cola Co. Same with the front of a vending ma-chine. Cups, posters and menu boards which promote foods that don’t meet the standards would also be phased out.

Ninety percent of such mar-keting in schools is related to beverages, and many soda companies already have start-ed to transition their sales and advertising in schools from sugary sodas and sports drinks to their own healthier prod-ucts.

The proposed rules are part of first lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move initiative to com-bat child obesity, which is cel-ebrating its fourth anniversary this week. Mrs. Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will announce the new rules at a White House event.

“The idea here is simple — our classrooms should be

healthy places where kids aren’t bombarded with ads for junk food,” the first lady said in a statement released before the announcement. “Because when parents are working hard to teach their kids healthy habits at home, their work shouldn’t be undone by un-healthy messages at school.”

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The nation’s governors emerged from a meeting with Presi-dent Barack Obama on Mon-day claiming harmony, only to immediately break into an on-camera partisan feud in front of the West Wing.

Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal lashed out first, saying if Obama were seri-ous about growing the econ-omy he would approve the Keystone XL pipeline proj-ect and take other executive actions.

Instead, Jindal said, Obama “seems to be waving the white flag of surrender” on the economy by focusing on raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10, up from $7.25. “The Obama economy is now the minimum wage economy. I think we can do better than that,” Jindal said.

Jindal’s statements were the kind that Republicans often make on television appear-ances or at partisan events, but don’t usually come from potential presidential can-didates standing yards from the Oval Office. Other gov-ernors had been instead ex-pressing wide agreement and appreciation for the presi-dent’s time. As Jindal spoke, some of his colleagues began shaking their heads, and Ha-waii Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie began audibly mumbling to others around him.

Connecticut Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy took

over the microphone from Jindal and responded sharp-ly, “Wait a second, until a few moments ago we were going down a pretty coop-erative road. So let me just say that we don’t all agree that moving Canadian oil through the United States is necessarily the best thing for the United States economy.”

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fal-lin, a Republican who chairs the National Governors As-sociation and supports Key-stone, earlier said she asked Obama when the administra-tion would decide whether to allow it and he told her there would be an answer in the next couple months.

Malloy said Jindal’s “white flag statement” was the most partisan of their weekend conference and that many governors support a mini-mum wage increase.

“What the heck was a ref-erence to white flag when it comes to people mak-ing $404 a week?” Malloy snapped. “I mean, that’s the most insane statement I’ve ever heard.”

Jindal did not the back down.

“If that’s the most partisan thing he’s heard all week-end, I want to make sure he hears a more partisan state-ment,” the Louisiana gover-nor responded. “I think we can grow the economy more if we would delay more of these Obamacare mandates.”

But Malloy was already walking away from the news conference. He called Jindal a “cheap shot artist” as he departed the White House grounds.

The public dispute came after Obama appealed to the governors for their help to advance his economic poli-cies that stand little chance of winning passage on Capi-tol Hill.

“Even when there’s little appetite in Congress to move on some of these priories, on the state level you guys are governed by practical con-siderations,” Obama told the governors during remarks in the State Dining Room. “You want to do right by your peo-ple.”

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Hagel: Military must shrink to face new eraThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Looking beyond Ameri-ca’s post-9/11 wars, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday proposed shrinking the Army to its smallest size in 74 years, closing bases and reshaping forces to confront a “more volatile, more unpredictable” world with a more nimble military.

The nation can afford a smaller military so long as it retains a technological edge and the agility to respond on short notice to crises any-where on the globe, Hagel said. He said the priorities he outlined reflect a consensus view among America’s military leaders, but Repub-licans in Congress were quick to criticize some proposed changes.

In a speech at the one-year mark of his tenure as Pentagon chief, Hagel revealed many details of the defense spending plan that will be part of the 2015 budget that President Barack Obama will submit to Congress next week. Hagel de-scribed it as the first Pentagon budget to fully reflect the nation’s transition from 13 years of war.

At the core of his plan is the notion that after wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that proved longer and more costly than foreseen, the U.S. mili-tary will no longer be sized to conduct large and protracted ground wars. It will put more em-phasis on versatile, agile forces that can project power over great distances, including in Asia.

Hagel stressed that such changes entail risk. He said, “We are entering an era where Ameri-can dominance on the seas, in the skies and in space can no longer be taken for granted.”

However, budget constraints demand that spending be managed differently from the past, with an eye to cutting costs across a wide front, including in areas certain to draw opposition in the Congress, he said.

He proposed, for example, a variety of chang-

es in military compensation, including smaller pay raises, a slowdown in the growth of tax-free housing allowances and a requirement that retirees and some families of active-duty ser-vice members pay a little more in health insur-ance deductibles and co-pays.

“Although these recommendations do not cut anyone’s pay, I realize they will be controver-sial,” Hagel said, adding that the nation cannot afford the escalating cost of military pay and benefit packages that were enacted during the war years.

“If we continue on the current course with-out making these modest adjustments now, the choices will only grow more difficult and pain-ful down the road,” he said.

Although Congress has agreed on an overall number for the military budget in fiscal 2015 — just under $500 billion — there are still major decisions to be made on how that money should be spent to best protect the nation.

Early reaction from Republicans in Congress was negative.

“I am concerned that we are on a path to re-peat the mistakes we’ve made during past at-tempts to cash in on expected peace dividends that never materialized,” said Sen. Marco Ru-bio of Florida, a possible presidential contender in 2016.

“What we’re trying to do is solve our finan-cial problems on the backs of our military, and that can’t be done,” said Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon of California, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.

Another proposal likely to draw fire on Capi-tol Hill is Hagel’s call for a new round of do-mestic military base closings in 2017. In the years following the last round, in 2005, mem-bers of Congress fought to protect bases in their home districts and states, arguing that the pro-cess does not yield as much savings as adver-tised.

Hagel built his case on what he called a foun-dation of realism. He quoted one of his prede-cessors, the World War II-era secretary of war, Henry Stimson, as saying Americans must “act in the world as it is, and not in the world as we wish it were.”

“This is a time for reality,” Hagel said. He emphasized that the period of explosive growth in defense budgets was over, making it more important to preserve a technological edge as other nations modernize their militaries. He made no direct mention of China or Russia, but both are investing heavily in their military ca-pabilities.

“Budget reductions inevitably reduce the military’s margin of error in dealing with these risks,” Hagel said, adding that a smaller U.S. force “strains our ability to simultaneously re-spond” to multiple global crises.

He and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the Joint Chiefs chairman who appeared with him, both argued strongly against a return to the across-the-board congressional budget cuts known as sequestration that were partially suspended for the 2014 and 2015 budgets. Hagel likened a return to such cuts to “gambling with our mili-tary.” Dempsey, too, said those deeper reduc-tions would have exceedingly harmful effects on the entire military.

“We’re all willing to take risks,” Dempsey said. “None of us are willing to gamble.”

Under the congressional budget deal passed two months ago, the Pentagon’s 2015 budget is set at $496 billion — the same as in 2014. Ha-gel said Obama’s budget proposal will include a government-wide “Opportunity, Growth and Security Initiative” that would provide the Pen-tagon with an additional estimated $26 billion. He said the new money would be used for in-creased training and other partially neglected activities central to making the military ready for combat.

• The active-duty Army would shrink from today’s 522,000 soldiers to between 440,000 and 450,000 — the smallest number since 1940 when the nation was gearing up to enter World War II. The Army currently is scheduled to be reduced to 490,000.

The Army’s post-World War II low was 480,000 in 2001, according to figures provided by the service. In 1940 the Army had just 267,000 active-duty mem-bers, but that number surged to 1.46 million the following year as America pre-pared for war in Europe and the Pacific.

• The Army National Guard would drop from 355,000 soldiers to 335,000 by 2017, and the Army Reserve would drop by 10,000, to 195,000. The National Guard also would send its Apache attack helicopters to the active-duty Army in exchange for Black Hawk helicopters more suitable for domestic disaster relief missions.

• The Marine Corps would shrink from 190,000 to 182,000.

• The Navy would keep its 11 aircraft carriers but “lay up,” or temporarily remove from active service, 11 of its 22 cruisers while they are modernized. The Navy would reduce from 52 to 32 its purchase of littoral combat ships, which are smaller vessels designed to operate closer to shore.

• The Air Force would retire its fleet of A-10 “Warthog” tank-killer planes for an estimated savings of $3.5 billion over five years. It also would retire the venerable U-2 spy plane, which debuted early in the Cold War as a stalwart of U.S. intel-ligence.

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Court divided in climate caseThe Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared divided on Monday over the sole Obama administration program already in place to limit power plant and factory emis-sions of gases blamed for global warming.

The justices took on a small, complicated piece of the politically charged issue of cut-ting greenhouse gas emissions in an extended argument that included references to Dunkin’ Donuts stores, football games and light bulbs. The examples were meant to illustrate the vast potential reach of the program, in its critics’ view, or its limited nature, as the administra-tion argued.

The presence of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky in the court-room underscored the political stakes in Presi-dent Barack Obama’s high-profile effort to deal with global warming — a policy Obama is pursuing after failing to persuade Congress to enact climate change legislation. McConnell is facing a tough re-election fight in which he refers often to the administration’s assault on

the coal industry in Kentucky and elsewhere.The court’s liberal justices seemed com-

fortable with the scope of an Environmental Protection Agency permitting program that applies to companies that want to expand fa-cilities or build new ones that would increase overall pollution. Under the program, the com-panies must evaluate ways to reduce the car-bon they release. Carbon dioxide is the chief greenhouse gas.

However, conservative members of the bench indicated they’re skeptical of the EPA’s authority, with Justice Anthony Kennedy as the probable decisive vote. Kennedy seemed most interested in making clear that EPA would re-tain the ability to combat climate change under earlier high court rulings, regardless of the out-come of this case.

Both sides acknowledged on Monday that the result would not impede EPA’s proposal of first-time national standards for new power plants or its regulations for existing plants ex-pected to be proposed this summer. It will then move on to other large stationary sources such as factories.

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spring sports meeting

ThespringsportsparentmeetingwillbeWednesday,February26at7pmintheChapmanHighSchoolCom-monsarea.Baseball,soft-ball,track,tennis,andgolfcoacheswillbetheretovisitwithplayersandparentsafterashortintroductionbyADShaneSundahl.

Freshman boys finish

perfect season TheAbileneCowboyfresh-menbasketballteamwontwobasketballgameslastweek.TheCowboysdefeat-edWamego55-45ThursdaynightandcamebacktodefeatClayCenter50-31FridaynightinAbilene.TheCowboysfinishedofftheRedRaidersinthefourthquarteraftertrailinginthegame.TheCowboydefenselimitedWamegotothreefourthquarterpointswhiletheyscored15togetthewin.“Wecameoutandgotbehind16-4atonepointearly,”coachKyleBeckersaid.Wereallyhadtoplaycatchup.”Abileneled31-29atthebreakbuttrailed42-40headingintothefinaleightminutes.ParkerBaseledtheCowboyswith17pointsandColbyKorfhad10.SamBurtpulleddownninereboundsfortheCowboys.FridayagainstClayCenter,BaseledtheCowboyswith15pointsasallelevenplayersfoundthenet.BenVeachgrabbedeightre-boundandColeBartlettledtheteaminstealswithtwoandhehadfourassists.“Thiswasagamewherewereallywantedtostayfocused,”Beckersaid.“ItwasalongweekwithbusridestoHaysandWamegoandwejustwantedtofin-ishstrong.Iwaspleasedwecoulddothat.Thekidsplayedsolidandtookcareofbusiness.Everyoneinthebooksscoredwhichisalwaysfun.”TheCowboysendedtheseason18-0.“Thekidswehadthisyearwereverytalentedandworkedhard,”Beckersaid.Theywillbefuntowatchastheygrowanddevelopinthefuture.”

WamegoAHS13 18 915 - 55WHS19 1013 3 - 45Abilene(17-0)–Base17,Korf10,Burt8,Wildey6,O’Neal6,Veach4,Anguia-no3,Bartlett1.Wamego–Nordberg19,Blain10,Hobbs6,Mack-eprauns4,Land4,Swan2,Wohler2.

Clay Center CC5 9 611 - 31AHS1418 711 - 50ClayCenter–Folks7,Pfizenmaier6,Ahlberg5,Brinkman4,Liby4,Althisen3,Millies2.Abilene(18-0)–Base15,Schartz6,Bartlett5,Korf5,Veach4,O’Neal4,Burt4,Jurgensen3,Wycoff2,Haug1,Anguiano1.

Florida takes over top spot

in AP pollFloridatookoverthetopspotintheAssociatedPresstop25pollforthefirsttimesincerepeatingasNCAAchampionsin2007.ThelatestpollwasreleasedMonday.Florida(25-2)movedupfromsecondafterSyracuselosttwicelastweek.TheOrange(25-2)fellfromfirsttoNo.4.WichitaState(29-0),theonlyunbeatenteaminDivisionI,movedupfromthirdtoNo.2.Arizona(25-2)climbedfromfourthtoNo.3.Floridareceived47first-placevotes.WichitaStatepickedup14topvotesandArizonagottheremainingfour.

Chapman sending three wrestlers to state

Reflector-ChronicleStaff

COLBY — The Chapman Fighting Irish wrestling team qualified three wrestlers at the Colby Class 4A regional Saturday to participate in the state tournament at the Bicen-tennial Center in Salina this weekend.

Stone Hayden (160) placed third, Zach Witt (170) fin-ished fourth and Jason Zook (285) brought home the sec-ond place medal.

Chapman finished eighth as a team with 77 points.

“It was a tough tournament, I thought,” Chapman coach Jeff Sheets said. “The compe-tition was really pretty tough.

“I am very proud of the three boys that qualified and they are some of the better wrestlers of our team and it showed and their leadership showed during the tourna-ment.”

Hayden wrestled Jack Go-ertzen of Buhler to win a

major decision 11-2. In the second round he pinned Jared Knapp of Concordia and then lost a 3-2 decision to Gabe Ware in the semi-finals.

Hayden then won an eight to three decision over Trey Loftis of Scott City to ad-vance to the third place match where he pinned Koby Unruh of McPherson.

“Stone has been right there on the bubble qualifying for state the last couple of years,” Sheets said. “I am very proud of him. He broke through, qualified and wrestled well this weekend.”

Witt won two matches in the tournament before an in-jury sidelined him in the third place match. He still quali-fied for the state meet with a fourth place finish.

“Zach has been one match away for the last two years and he finally qualified this year,” Sheets said. “I am very proud of him as he has been nursing a sore shoulder all year and

he really got crunched in the third place match.”

Zook placed second in the regional as a sophomore. He won the 4A regional in Abilene last year as a fresh-man. He won his first three matches of the tournament by pins over Michael McKinney of McPherson, Andy Tope of Abilene and Larned’s Kaiden Reed.

In the championship match, Brix Brickey of Smoky Val-ley won a 7-2 decision to take home the first place medal.

“Jason ended up losing a match he could have won,” Sheets said. “I think he real-ized that he made a couple of mistakes against that particu-lar wrestler whom he had de-feated earlier in the season.”

“Overall, I was happy with the results,” Sheets said. “Placing three kids is two more than we did last year, so that is an improvement. I think we will be mentally ready to go for the state meet.”

KU claims 10th Big 12 Title

By DAVE SKRETTAAPSportsWriter

LAWRENCE — Naadir Tharpe finally got to stand in the middle of the court at Allen Fieldhouse, bask in the adulation of another sellout crowd and celebrate a con-ference championship.

The junior guard, who wrapped up his first two Big 12 titles on the road, had 19 points to lead five Kansas players in double figures Monday night, and the fifth-ranked Jayhawks held off Oklahoma 83-75 to ensure a share of their 10th consecu-tive league crown.

“Just a great feeling,” Tharpe said. “To be at home, to hear the fans and all that, it’s a beautiful feeling. It just shows the tradition of Kan-sas and what it means to us.”

Wayne Selden and Andrew Wiggins added 15 points each, and Joel Embiid had 12 points and 13 rebounds

for the Jayhawks (22-6, 13-2), who poured off the bench at the buzzer to celebrate the latest addition to their na-tion-leading 57 conference titles.

It might be the only one for Wiggins and Embiid, the dynamic freshman duo pro-jected to be lottery picks if they come out this season. Wiggins has already stated his intention to do so.

“Winning the champion-ship,” Wiggins said, “just a great feeling on the court.”

Only two schools in men’s Division I basketball have won more consecutive con-ference titles than Kansas: UCLA captured 13 straight from 1967-79 in the Pac-10, and Gonzaga won 11 straight in the West Coast Confer-ence from 2001-11.

“It’s something you know,” Selden said. “When you come in here, that’s the stan-dard.”