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Vol. 113, No. 209 75 Cents Iola, KS

Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

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

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

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

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

By SUSAN [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By RICHARD [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

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

By BOB [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

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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. 200 75 Cents Iola, KS

County voter turnout highBy RICHARD LUKEN

[email protected] a number of contested

races decided locally, a greater percentage of Allen Countians voted than did voters statewide.

According to unofficial election results from Tuesday’s primary election, nearly 34 percent of the 8,580 registered Allen County vot-ers did so.

Meanwhile, roughly 24 percent of the 1.7 million registered vot-ers in Kansas took part in the pri-mary vote.

Allen Countians had several

undecided races, with multiple Republican candidates running for sheriff, two county commis-sion seats, the Kansas House of Representatives and the state Senate.

In addition, Iola voters in wards 1 and 4 also cast ballots in the recall of councilmen Kend-all Callahan and Ken Rowe. The turnout in Ward 1 was slightly more robust than the rest of the county. More than 42 percent of the voters from Ward 1 cast bal-lots. Conversely, the Ward 4 turn-

Parents petition for bus pickup By RICHARD LUKEN

[email protected] — A group of par-

ents hope to take advantage of a new state law allowing school buses from neighboring dis-tricts to enter USD 257 to pick up students.

Angelia Roney, one such par-ent, asked LaHarpe City Council members Wednesday for permis-sion for Marmaton Valley-USD 256 buses to pick up students at

LaHarpe City Hall.Roney said she was prepared

to submit a petition to USD 256 Board of Education members asking for the buses to enter La-Harpe.

In years past, parents in and around LaHarpe wishing to have their children transported to Marmaton Valley schools in Moran had to meet a school bus a mile east of town near the Al-len County Landfill at the inter-

section of Nebraska Road and 2800 Street, or the dividing line between USD 256 and USD 257. That was because buses were prohibited from encroaching neighboring districts.

Legislators changed a state law this year to allow buses to enter neighboring districts if a student lives at last 2.5 miles from his appointed school.

Roney told LaHarpe council-

NOW, VERY CAREFULLY

Register/Bob JohnsonGene Myrick, left, and son Joseph helped straighten light fixtures at Trinity United Methodist Church Tuesday afternoon.


How many people does it take to straighten a light fixture?

Several, if the fixture is about 25 feet from the floor at the peak of the sanctuary’s ceiling in Trinity United Methodist Church, 228 S. Kentucky St.

A handful of members and friends gathered at the church

Tuesday afternoon.One fixture needing attention

was directly above the pulpit, another off to one side.

Jim Smith and Bob Henry, with assistance from Gale Ritter and Gary McIntosh, set up three sections of scaffolding before Gene Myrick and son, Joseph, arrived. The Myricks, younger and agile, positioned a fourth

section and topped it off with a lightweight aluminum and wood plank.

From there the Myricks, with advice from others watching from floor level, repositioned parts of the rectangular light fixture to make it look factory fresh.

Forensics champsto greet teachers

By ROB [email protected]

Colton Schubert and Cody Cokely are the defending champs in state forensics.

This might not be new news, but for faculty come Monday, it will be just as much funny as true.

The duo took home the state crown in improvised duet acting at the State Speech and Drama Championships in May. What that means is the two know how to think on their feet.

“We don’t really do any kind of rehearsing,” said Cokely. “We feel

like we do best when we are loose and just in the moment.”

The two have chemistry which is undeniable. Spending 10 min-utes with them proves that as the two continually feed off of each other, practically finishing each other’s sentences.

“I’ve known Colton since we were in the sixth grade,” Cokely said. “We used to have two classes back-to-back together and I would always get in trouble for Colton talking in class and stuff like

Register/Rob BurkettColton Schubert, front, and Cody Cokely practice on a piano in the practice room of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. The two were riffing on a possible melody to use for a song parody they plan to perform Monday for teachers and staff of USD 257. The two won a state title in improvisational duet acting last spring.

July sets record for hottest month By NEELA BANERJEE

Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON — July was

the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, beating the previous record set in the 1930s Dust Bowl era, according to new data from the National Oceanic

and Atmospheric Administra-tion.

The average temperature in the contiguous 48 states last month was 77.6 degrees, 3.3 de-grees warmer than the average for the 20th century under a sys-tem of recordkeeping that began

in 1895 and is part of NOAA’s monthly State of the Climate Overview.

The superlative now attached to July 2012 only sharpens the de-tails of a relentlessly grim sum-mer. More than 60 percent of the

Shoe distribution for families in need

BBQ grill causes house fire

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Register/Terry BroylesThick plumes of smoke emanate from the home of David Hauser in rural Humboldt Wednesday as Humboldt volunteer firefighters battle the blaze. The home was destroyed in the fire.

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HUMBOLDT — A barbecue grill was believed to be the cause of a fire that destroyed the rural Humboldt home of David Hauser Wednesday.

Humboldt Fire Chief Kent Bar-foot said firefighters responded to the fire in the 1700 block of Delaware Road to find the home ablaze. Thick plumes of smoke billowed from the structure as crews sprayed the house with wa-ter.

There were no injuries.Barfoot said firefighters res-

cued four Yorkshire terrier pup-pies from the home.

The fire was doused before it could spread elsewhere, but the home was considered a total loss.

The fire marks the fourth con-secutive day Barfoot and other members of the Humboldt Volun-teer Fire Department have been summoned to calls throughout Allen County.

“We’ve been keeping busy,” Barfoot said.


Struggling families in need of footwear for the upcoming school year may be in luck.

Free Shoes For Kids, spon-sored by the Iola Nazarene La-dies Ministry, will distribute the shoes Saturday morning at the First Church of the Nazarene, 1235 N. Walnut St.

The distribution runs from 9 a.m. to noon.

Organizer Mickey Kinzle said any family in need is welcome. No proof of income is required.

“Just show up,” she said.Dozens of shoes have been

collected.Leftovers will be kept in storage in case of emergencies through-

out the upcoming school year.Kinzle said an honor system is

preferred so that only families in need take advantage.

“We certainly don’t want somebody claiming 15 pairs of shoes,” Kinzle said. “We want those who need the shoes to get them.”

Register/Richard LukenMickey Kinzle, left, and Sharon Lane show some of the shoes available for local children Saturday.

Church gets assist with light project

By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZAssociated Press

MIAMI (AP) — Do an Internet search for mi-crocredit, and images of colorfully dressed women in Africa, South Asia and Central America pop up. But the international trend that began more than three decades ago in Bangladesh is increasingly finding a home in the United States.

In cities like Miami, New York, Houston and Los Angeles, a small but growing group of mostly immigrant and minority entrepreneurs are turning to microfinancing. These loans, generally provided by nonprofit groups, can serve as stepping stones to more traditional sources of credit and are often the difference between success and failure for small busi-ness owners who may have nowhere else to turn for the money they need to build a business.

“You know this ‘Buy Lo-cal’ movement? There’s starting to be this ‘Lend Local’ movement,” says Premal Shaw, president of the nonprofit Kiva, which allows individual donors to select a micro entrepreneur online, a process he likens to Match.com meets micro-finance.

For smaller start-ups, especially those owned by minorities, it can be tough to get the financing needed

to expand and grow a busi-ness. Just under a quar-ter of non-minority firms whose total revenue was less than $500,000 received loans, compared to 17 per-cent of minority firms, ac-cording to government fig-ures. Making things worse, banks have become pickier about who they lend to since the financial crisis began in 2008.

Activity among micro-lenders, however, has been gaining steam. The number of microloans disbursed in-creased 25 percent between 2008 and 2010, according to a study by Washington, D.C.-based think tank The Aspen Institute’s FIELD program. Women entrepre-neurs are the most likely to turn to microloans.

Lynette Tyner was a struggling African Ameri-can fashion designer from New York. She used $10,000 in loans from nonprofit mi-crolender Accion to buy machinery and open a stu-dio and retail store to sell her denim outfits and bags. She now sells her designs online and through New

York wholesalers.For some microlenders,

the relationship with the entrepreneurs goes beyond the loan. Financial literacy classes, mentoring and oth-er training is often part of the program.

“I was able to meet some great people and get price-less advice for my business like the editor-in-chief of Glamour Magazine and the CFO of Ralph Lauren,”

says Tyner of the addition-al support Accion provided. She even got to attend a workshop with fashion de-signer Tory Burch.

Microloans tend to range from $500 to $10,000, but can be as much as $50,000, with interest rates varying from 3 percent to 18 percent. Loans usually are repaid within six months to sever-al years, and often they go to businesses that employ just one or two people. Re-quirements differ, but cred-it standards tend to be low-er than those of banks and other financial institutions, and the loans are processed quickly. Individual donors who lend to entrepreneurs on Kiva don’t earn interest, or profit, from the loans.

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Congratulations Ed on an important win in the race for State Representative of the 9th District. This is a new era with new

boundary lines drawn, and I look forward to the work you will accomplish for the benefit of District #9 constituents. As we

pledged to each other early on in the campaign, I will work with you to find the commonalities in Allen and Neosho counties and

assist you in your endeavors to do the work of the people. I want to thank all of my supporters who have been so faithful to my campaign, and ask that you stay involved, stay faithful to your

causes, and move forward with Representative Ed Bideau to make southeast Kansas a great place to work, live, and thrive.

Judy Brigham

At the Parsons Live-stock Market sale Wednesday, 307 cattle were sold.

Choice cows 60-78; canners & cutters 41-61; shelly cows, 41 & back; choice bulls 90-97; lower grades 84-90.

Steers: Up to 400# up to 170; 400# to 500# 130-157; 500# to 600# 130-150; 600# to 700# 125-141; 700# to 800# 120-140; 800# and over 115-130.

Heifers: Up to 400# up to 145; 400# to 500# 120-138; 500# to 600# 120-136; 600# to 700# 120-136; 700# to 800# 115-131; 800# and over 110-121.

Markets

Jeanette WeselohJeanette Kathryn Penno Britt We-

seloh, 76, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, at her home in Wood-son County. She was born Nov. 25, 1935, in Trego County to Daniel and Kathryn (Klusener) Penno.

She graduated from Erie High School in 1953, then attended one year at NCCC in Chanute. She was united in marriage to Dale E. Britt on Nov. 5, 1954 and later divorced. In 1968 she moved to Iola with her four children. She was employed by H.L. Miller & Son, IMP Boats and retired in 1997 af-ter 23 years of service as dispatcher for the Iola Police Department.

On Aug. 9, 1992, she was united in marriage to John S. Weseloh and later moved to the farm in Woodson Coun-ty.

She was a member of Grace Lu-theran Church and LWML, Iola.

She loved family gatherings, play-ing cards, dominoes and working puzzles, as well as playing the piano and reading. She also enjoyed the company of her cat, Topper, and her three bichons.

She was preceded in death by her parents, brother, Everett Penno, and sisters Mayme Murphy and Mildred Sumner.

Survivors include her husband John Weseloh of the home; children, Daryl Sigg and husband Jerry, Iola, Diane Audiss and husband Mike, Benedict, Michael Britt and wife Vickie, Iola, Mark Britt and wife Gie, Chanute, Jay Weseloh and wife Con-nie, Yates Center, and Justin Weseloh, Le Roy; 11 grandchildren, Ryan and Danelle, Heather, Hailey and Alicia, Jennifer, Kendra and Michelle, Tai, Jaylee and Jordan; and 11 great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Grace Lutheran Church, Iola. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the church. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery,

Iola.Memorial gifts to Grace Lutheran

Church, Friends For Life at Yates Center or Allen County Hospice may be left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel, Iola.

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

Carole RobertsCarole Roberts of rural Yates Cen-

ter passed away Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012, in her home.

She was born Dec. 27, 1953, to Ruddy and Jerri Roberts, Belton Mo. She is survived by her companion of 13 years, Kendal Thompson of the home; her two sons James and Steve, both of Wichita; four grandchildren; and a brother, Joe Roberts, Florida.

She was employed at Coffey Coun-ty Hospital in Burlington.

She enjoyed spending time with her family, friends, and dear dog, Kitty.

A celebration of her life will be at 6 p.m. Friday at the City Park in Neo-sho Falls.

Obituaries

JeanetteWeseloh

Josie Weiland and Jen-nie Laymon attended sup-per with Anna Laymon at Windsor Place in Iola the evening of Aug. 2.

Jana, Danton and Cora Malone and friends Jacob and Jarod Weber, all of Wichita, spent the week-end with David and Diane Bedenbender.

Sympathy goes out to the family of Dorothy Sherwood. Dorothy lived northwest of Neosho Falls as a girl and taught in a one-room school.

She and her fam-ily never missed com-ing back to Geneva Cemetery once a year to place flags on graves for Memorial Day. Dorothy married Delmar Sher-wood in 1944.

Neosho Falls newsThelmaBedenbender

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Concert Fridayat Hope Chapel

The Stevens family will perform a free concert at 6 p.m. Friday at Hope Cha-pel Assembly of God three miles east of Moran along U.S. 54. For information call 620-939-4828.

Mass timeis changed

Sunday morning’s mass at St. John’s Catho-lic Church will begin at 10:30 a.m., not 10 o’clock as normally scheduled, to accommodate the arrival of a new bishop.

Church briefs

Entrepreneurs turn to microloansYou know this ‘Buy Local’ movement? There’s

starting to be this ‘Lend Local’ movement.

— Premal Shaw, Kiva

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Ameri-cans applying for unem-ployment benefits fell by 6,000 last week to a sea-sonally adjusted 361,000, a level consistent with mod-est gains in hiring.

The Labor Department said Thursday that the less volatile four-week average rose by 2,250 to 368,250 in the week that ended Aug. 4.

Weekly applications bounced around in July, skewed by the difficulty of accounting for tempo-rary summertime layoffs in the auto industry. The seasonal distortions had faded by last week.

Applications measure the pace of layoffs. When they consistently fall be-low 375,000, it typically suggests hiring is strong enough to lower the un-employment rate.

Paul Dales, senior U.S. economist at Capital Eco-nomics, said fewer un-employment applications suggest that job market is fairly stable.

“The pick-up in jobs growth in July may there-

fore be sustained in Au-gust,” Dales said.

The economy added 163,000 jobs in July, the biggest increase since February. From April through June, employers had created a lackluster 73,000 jobs a month, not enough to keep up with a rising population.

“The improvement in jobless claims has been a most welcome develop-ment,” said Dan Green-haus, chief global strat-egist at BTIG. But he noted that unemployment claims were still high considering the recession ended more than three years ago. Claims aver-aged 328,000 in November 2004, three years after the 2001 recession: “So clearly more work needs to be done,” he says.

The total number of people receiving some kind of benefits also fell. Nearly 5.8 million re-ceived aid in the week that ended July 21, the most re-cent data available. That’s 200,000 less than a week earlier.

Despite the improve-ment in hiring in July, the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3 percent from 8.2 percent in June.

Report: Weeklyjobless claims down

VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — Tropical Storm Ernesto neared a collision with Mexico’s flood-prone southern Gulf coast today after hurling rain across the Yucatan Peninsula but causing little major dam-age.

Ernesto spun through the southern Gulf of Mexico overnight, across waters dotted with oil rigs operated by the state oil company.

The U.S. National Hur-ricane Center said the storm’s sustained winds had increased to about 70 mph after getting over the water. It had grown into a hurricane shortly before landfall Tuesday night near the cruise ship port

of Mahahual, but it weak-ened as it crossed the pen-insula.

Forecasters said Ernes-to was expected to come ashore in Veracruz state’s lush Los Tuxtlas region, roughly 50 miles (80 kilo-meters) northwest of oil port of Coatzacoalcos, and it could dump as much as 10 inches of rain, creating the threat of flooding.

At dawn, it was cen-tered about 40 miles east-northeast of Coatzacoal-cos and was moving to the west-southwest at 13 mph.

Officials in Veracruz readied storm shelters, said Victor Hugo Ceron of the state civil defense agency. The port captain for Veracruz city, Enrique Casarrubias, said the port there was closed to small-er vessels. The Carnival Elation cruise ship can-celed a Wednesday stop, he added.

Petroleos Mexicanos, the state oil monopoly, an-nounced it had evacuated 61 people workers from a drilling platform and had taken other safety precau-tions, but it said produc-tion had not been affected.

The federal Communi-cations and Transporta-tion Department closed two of the three main oil-exporting ports in the Gulf of Mexico because of the stormy conditions.

Ernesto has been the strongest storm to form in the Atlantic Ocean since the hurricane season be-gan June 1, though stron-ger hurricanes hit Pacific coastal communities in May and June, causing at least three deaths, said Da-vid Zelinsky, a meteorolo-gist at the U.S. hurricane center in Miami.

“Up to this point, most of the systems have been relatively weak,” he said.

There were no reports of storm deaths or major damage, though Ernesto ripped down billboards, toppled trees and cut elec-tricity as it hit land well south of the region’s main resorts of Cancun and the Riviera Maya and then passed near the Mayan ru-ins of Calakmul.

“In many places the windows were shattered,” said Flori Cruz, a 27-year-old cook in Mahahual.

In the Pacific, Hurri-cane Gilma gained some strength but was not seen as a threat to land. Early this morning, it was about 730 miles southwest of the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Penin-sula, with maximum sus-tained winds near 80 mph.

Wednesday- Lions Club, United Methodist Church basement, 7 p.m.; Thurs-day- county bus to Iola; phone 24-hours before for a ride any weekday, 785-448-4410.School Calendar

Sunday- Fall sports meeting, 7 p.m.; Monday- Crest Board of Education meeting, board office, 7 p.m.; Monday and Tues-day-Teacher Professional Day; Thursday-teacher workday; Aug. 17-first day of school.Meal Site

Monday-chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes,

gravy, summer veggies, wheat roll, apricots.

Wednesday- fried chick-en breast, mashed pota-toes, gravy, green beans, roll, cake and ice cream.

Friday- lasagna, tossed salad, Italian veggies, bread stix, pineapple man-go. Phone 852-3479 for res-ervations.

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Church news

Mrs.Morris Luedke

852-3379

Christian ChurchSunday’s scripture was

Revelation 3:15-22. Pastor Mark McCoy presented sermon titled “Five Needs You Can’t Afford to Ignore.” Men’s Bible study 7 a.m. Tuesday; Infusion group at Randy Riebel’s 7 p.m. Mon-day. Aug. 12- Back to School Appreciation and Dedica-tion service for teachers, administration, staff and

families during worship; pool party, 4-6 p.m. at Iola Municipal Pool, Riverside Park; family cookout, 6 p.m. at Riverside Park, food pro-vided.

UMC

Sunday’s scripture was Psalm 51:1-17, II Corinthi-ans 9: 6-15 and John 6: 16-35. Pastor Leslie Jackson gave the sermon.

105th annual alumni meeting set for September

Tickets may still be pur-chased tickets at the door Sept. 3 for $12. This covers the alumni fee and the ban-quet. Crest school doors open at 5 p.m. for visitors and registration. Chicken Mary’s will cater the meal in the Crest auditorium at 6:30 p.m. A 50/50 pot will be available. Proceeds will go to the Alumni Scholarship Fund. A business meeting will follow along with some

entertainment.This year’s officers are

Debbie Barnett Troxel, president, Linda Weather-man Hess, vice president, Linda Barnett Ellis, secre-tary and Arvin Clemans, treasurer. Questions can be referred to Hess at 785-242-1338 or write her at 1872 Haskell Road, Ottawa, KS 66067, Troxel at 620-365-5941 or Clemans at 620-365-2790.

Backpack Brigade stuffing bags for school year

Several years ago Melis-sa Hobbs and her mother Kloma Buckle began the Backpack Brigade pro-gram. They continue this year, handing out back-packs with school sup-plies included to quali-fying Crest Elementary student’s kindergarten through 5th grade who need them. An additional

supply is kept in the el-ementary school office for students who join the district during in the year. More than 70 bags are prepared every year. Donations to help finance the project are collected through an account that is set up at Garnett State Savings Bank, Colony branch.

Misc.Story Hour

The last story hour for the summer was held July 31. Nine children attended. Debbie Wools read stories. Blaine King won a Dream Big inflatable ball for re-turning his reading list. All the children took a bag of goodies home.

Lions Club

Twelve members at-tended the Aug. 1 meeting. The Lions participation for Colony Day will start with the annual breakfast at the City Hall community room and continue with a taco stand during the day’s events. The benches in the business district will be repaired by the Lions, with one being dedicated in memory of Bill Michael. Another director’s meet-ing will be held Aug.13, 6:30 p.m. at the United Method-ist Church basement. Next regular meeting is Aug. 15.

Weather Alert

Colony residents who want to get National Weath-er Service severe weather warnings by phone via the county’s Code Red system should register online at www.andersoncountyks.org and click Public safety/emergency management, or pick up registration forms at the city office. You must be registered to receive the severe weather warnings by landline or cell phone. For more information con-tact Allen County Emer-gency Management at 785-448-6797.

Birthday and Wedding Anniversary

Let us know of upcom-

ing celebrations by email-ing [email protected], phoning 852-3379, sending or bringing to 702 Pine St., Colony, 66015. For those dropping off a note, please leave in the box in the car-port. When received by Aug. 20, it will appear with others in your Aug. 23 pa-per.

Birthday

Cards can be sent to Vera Comstock. She will be 96 on Aug. 29.

She is doing fairly well and tells everyone that Colony is her home. Her ad-dress: Country View Nurs-ing Home, 301 E. Miller St., Prescott, KS 66767.

Around Town

Shirley has returned home from a four-day visit in Washington, DC where she attended the Delta Kappa Gamma Education Foundation Seminar and saw many historical sights. The group then spent a week in New York City for the Delta Kappa Gamma International Convention where almost 2000 mem-bers representing 16 differ-ent countries and the Unit-ed States attended. The group saw many sights and attended two plays while there.

Mark and Cheryl Luedke took their parents, Morris and Allene Luedke to Col-by and Atwood where they visited relatives. Returning home Saturday they visited Kenneth Luedke and his daughters, Lois and Gail in Atchison. Cheryl returned to her home in Florida on Tuesday.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri voters Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amend-ment that supporters said will protect religious free-dom.

The measure — Amend-ment 2 — says Missourians’ right to express religious beliefs can’t be infringed. It protects voluntary prayer in schools and requires public schools to display a copy of the Bill of Rights.

With all but two precincts statewide counted, 779,628 voted yes on the measure and 162,404 voted no, rough-ly a 5-1 margin.

Many supporters referred

to the measure as the “Right to Pray” amendment.

Missouri voters believe “religious liberty is pretty important to them and a high priority,” said Kerry Messer, president of the Missouri Family Network, as the votes were counted. “The public feels like the Su-preme Court took this away from them over 50 years ago” with a ruling against mandatory school prayer.

Alex Luchenitser of Americans United for Sepa-ration of Church and State, a Washington D.C.-based group opposing the amend-ment, said he was disap-pointed but not surprised

at the vote.“This amendment pro-

motes unconstitutional conduct,” he said. “It’s go-ing to result in a whole lot of litigation.”Any immedi-ate impact of the amend-ment, which takes effect in 30 days, is still unclear.

The new amendment broadly expands the protec-tions in the state’s constitu-tion by adding new sections on religious issues.

In addition to protecting voluntary prayer in school, the amendment:

—Ensures the right to pray individually or in groups in private or public places, as long as the prayer

does not disturb the peace or disrupt a meeting

—Prohibits the state from coercing religious ac-tivity.

—Protects the right to pray on government prop-erty.

—Protects the right of legislative bodies to spon-sor prayers and invoca-tions.

—Says students need not take part in assignments or presentations that violate their religious beliefs.

That last provision may soon become the subject of litigation, some critics warned. They said it could lead to students skipping

science classes or assign-ments when they disagree with teaching about the ori-gins of man.

Supporters said those fears are overblown.

Missouri amends state constitution, protects prayerThis amend-

ment promotes unconstitutional conduct. It’s go-ing to result in a whole lot of litiga-tion.

— Alex LuchenitserAmericans United for Separation of Church

and State

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By SEEMA MEHTALos Angeles Times

DES MOINES, Iowa — Mitt Romney doubled down on his welfare attack against President Barack Obama on Wednesday, and outlined his five-point plan to help the middle class.

But what was most nota-ble was what he didn’t talk about — his opposition to a wind energy tax credit that is roiling Republicans in Iowa, a leading produc-er of wind power.

Iowa Gov. Terry Brans-tad, as well as other top GOP politicians, has of-fered harsh words for the presumptive Republican nominee’s position, with Branstad telling Radio Iowa that Romney’s po-sition was shaped by a “bunch of East Coast people that need to get out here in the real world to find out what’s really go-ing on.”

Branstad, an honorary co-chairman of Romney’s Iowa effort, did not attend the rally in Des Moines on Wednesday or a fundraiser in the suburbs Tuesday night. His staff said he had previous commitments in northwest Iowa. But Branstad said he planned to press the matter with Romney.

“I want to talk to him personally,” Branstad said in a telephone interview on Tuesday. “I talked to his aide. I can understand why he objects to Solyndra and all the boondoggles Obama has supported

with the stimulus, but re-member, the wind energy tax credit (was proposed) by Sen. (Charles) Grassley and way preceded Obama. It’s a tool that’s helped us grow this energy. ... We love it.”

But he also softened his words, saying he didn’t think the issue would swing Iowa voters, be-cause their top concern is the economy and the defi-cit. He pledged that Iowa’s wind energy industry would continue to flour-ish, whether or not there is a federal tax credit.

“I don’t think you want to read too much into this,” he said. “I think the overriding issue is clearly the mismanagement of the economy, the fact that the president’s adminis-tration is the most divisive in our history.”

Romney was introduced by Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa, who has also spoken out about Romney’s posi-tion. He didn’t mention the matter, and when one of his aides was asked about it, she covered her ears with her hands, said “I can’t hear you” and

walked away.It’s unclear how much

Romney’s position will hurt him. Iowa is a leading wind energy producer, but the industry only employs a few thousand people. But every ballot will be criti-cal here. Iowa only has six electoral votes, but it is a critical battleground in this election.

“Every road to the White House runs through Iowa,” Latham said.

It’s the state that made Obama during the 2008 caucuses, and he handily won it in the general elec-tion. But success here is far less certain this time around, which is reflected by how much time the can-didates are spending here.

On Monday, Obama kicks off a three-day, seven-city bus tour of Iowa. It’s an unprecedented amount of time — the president has not spent three consec-utive days campaigning in any state this year.

Romney, speaking to a few hundred supporters in a stuffy high school audi-torium in downtown Des Moines, spoke glowingly about the state.

Romney avoids wind energy tax talk

I can understand why he objects to Solyn-dra and all the boondoggles Obama has supported with the stimulus, but remember, the wind energy tax credit (was proposed) by Sen. Charles Grassley and way preced-ed Obama.

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Among the moderate Re-publicans defeated Tuesday in the successful campaign by the hard right to put the Kan-sas Senate in Gov. Sam Brown-back’s hip pocket was Dwayne Umbarger of Thayer.

Sen. Umbarger was chair-man of the Senate Transporta-tion Committee and was one of those who fiercely resisted tak-ing fuel tax dollars dedicated to highway maintenance and construction and moving them to the state general fund. His defeat by Sen. Jeff King is bad news for KDOT.

It would be a stretch to label Sen. Umbarger or the other seven moderates who were de-feated in Tuesday’s purge as liberal. They are, rather, Re-publicans who, like Bob Dole, Nancy Kassebaum, Bill Graves and Jim Pearson before them, are public officials with a posi-tive attitude toward state gov-ernment. They believe that the purpose of government is to serve the people. As a conse-quence, they supported — and still support as citizens — good highways, an independent jus-tice system and an education system dedicated to excellence.

In order for government to do those things for Kansans, the money must be raised to ac-complish them. This year the Legislature approved massive reductions in taxes that Gov. Brownback signed into law, which will make it impossible to continue the present level of state services to the people from 2014 forward, unless the lawmak-ers reverse course — or Kansas experiences absolutely unprec-edented economic growth.

As a consequence of Tues-day’s election, Gov. Brownback and his captive Legislature will speak as a single voice and be responsible alone for what happens next.

As the saying goes, things

will have to get worse before they can get better.

Things are going to get worse very soon.

The 2013 Legislature will get a good look at the writing on the wall. The monstrous tax cuts that made conserva-tives puff up with pride will turn into equally monstrous revenue losses when they go into effect. When the revenue stream slows and shallows, state appropriations for the public schools, the community colleges and the rest of higher education will be cut back.

School districts will have a choice: reduce the quality of the education they provide to students or make up the differ-ence by raising district proper-ty taxes. Colleges and universi-ties can fire teachers, enlarge classes or raise tuition.

KDOT can stop construction and cut back on maintenance when the Legislature contin-ues its past practice of siphon-ing off fuel tax revenues to the general fund to keep from raising revenues in traditional ways.

And there are other places to trim state spending when state revenues fall. All of them will result in fewer and less ad-equate services to the people of Kansas.

When the people realize that you get what you pay for in gov-ernment just as you do at the department store, the voters will send a repair crew to To-peka to mend the mess today’s wrecking crew is so gleefully creating.

It’s a crying shame that so much damage must be done be-fore the common good can once again become our state govern-ment’s guiding light. But per-haps these are the difficulties through which we must pass to reach the stars.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Brownback winscomplete controlof Legislature

Letter to the editor,I’m not too pleased with hav-

ing to show my driver’s license in order to be allowed to vote.

I realize the people manning the voting places are doing what they are required to do, but I’ve lived in Iola all of the 75 years of my life and I’m pretty well-known. I believe if the fine peo-ple that man the voting place have known you for many years, they should not have to ask us for a picture ID.

I’m not the only voter that feels this way. I have always voted but this irritates me that my citizen-ship is questioned in a town that I have lived in for 75 years.

Everyone should vote or not gripe about how every thing is done. I’ve made the decision that this election will be the last time I vote after a lot of discussions with other voters. Some feel as I do. The amount of legal voters will drop more than it has, as to the low turnout that was stated in our local newspaper

I’m all for seeing that the votes are legal, but to ask a resident who is well-known is just ridicu-lous.

If you people agree, voice your opinions pro or con.

Respectfully,

Carl Letsinger,Iola, Kan.

Letter to the editor,We listen to politicians decry

President Obama’s declining to support the Keystone Pipeline from Canada to the Gulf. It ap-pears that our refineries are on the Gulf and subject to attack by land, air and sea.

Many of us have wondered, why not build the refineries in North Dakota and/or Canada? Therefore, doing so you would not have to pipe oil all the way to the Gulf. It would also create lots of jobs, which appears to be an issue versus jobs for pipeline.

Current predictions are that oceans will rise between 13 and 20 feet if the major ice shelves melt. However, most are predict-ing this would actually be a cen-tury away, but short-term rises will be in the 1- to 5-foot range. The other predictions from glob-al warming is that storms will be more severe, especially hurri-canes and typhoons. So, you get the double whammy having our refineries between 4 and 10 feet of sea level, plus coastal storms are asking for major disasters.

We also had another thought, why do we have all these refiner-

ies close to the shore? Shipping.We don’t know if you’ve seen

the recent news, but the United States has recently been a major gasoline exporter. When petro-leum companies can sell refined gasoline overseas for twice what they can get for it here, THEY SHIP! While we are not major conspiracy theorists, we suspect the international oil companies want to maximize their profits, and they are rarely interested in the security or service to the American market. It seems a bit ironic to think that we are go-ing to lower our gasoline prices here in the United States by ship-ping Canadian crude to the Gulf, where it actually will be sold on the world market.

One of our families has two pipelines running through our farm in southeast Kansas. We are not against the pipelines. We have not heard any discussion on this within the media. Are we missing something?

Respectfully,Jim Shetlar,

Kansas farm owner and resident of Kansas

and David Shetlar,

Kansas farm owner and professor at Ohio State

Letters to the editor

WASHINGTON — My daugh-ter has not yet reached her ninth birthday, but I already have her pegged for a job at Bain Capital.

My evidence for this is the ease with which she has embraced “Tiny Tower,” a business-simula-tion game that millions of people are using their iPhones and tab-lets to play capitalist, attempting to build ever larger towers with ever more businesses that gener-ate ever more coins and “tower bux.”

My daughter’s 12 businesses include a casino, a bank, a dough-nut shop and a soda brewery. But in this game it doesn’t matter what type of business she oper-ates — only that she operates it with maximum efficiency, firing and evicting her “bitizens” at will and benefiting from the help of “VIPs” to bring her more busi-ness and accelerate construction.

The game is devoid of business ethics; the goal is to maximize value by boosting output. Tiny Tower functions, in other words, strikingly like Bain Capital did under Mitt Romney.

I thought of the similarity as I

read a powerful report by Bloom-berg News this week on Romney’s adventure with Bain in the Ital-ian yellow-pages business. The news service revisited Bain’s ex-perience in the privatization of the Italian phone directory Seat Pagine Gialle SpA, which gener-ated $1 billion in profits for Bain (and $50 million to $60 million for Romney) when Bain’s investment group sold the company for about 25 times the original purchase price two years after buying it.

That’s a lot of tower bux. According to the Bloomberg

account, Bain invested 36 mil-lion euros as part of a group that bought a majority of Seat for 853 million euros in late 1997. In Feb-ruary 2000, during the dot-com bubble, Telecom Italia bought back the Seat shares it didn’t own for 14.6 billion euros— generating a windfall for Bain.

Three years later, according to the report, Seat’s value had col-lapsed to 3.7 billion euros, and today it’s worth just 57 million. The plunge didn’t matter to Bain, however; it had moved its profits into subsidiaries in Luxembourg, avoiding taxes in Italy.

More troubling than the Bain windfall were the responses to Bloomberg from Bain and the Romney campaign. Bain noted that it was “in full compliance with all tax and reporting re-quirements.” A spokeswoman for the Romney campaign argued that Romney and Bain “partnered with a new management team to transform this company, and grow it into a tremendous suc-cess.”

A tremendous success that quickly toppled, like a child’s tower.

Both responses relied on Tiny Tower-style ethics: Romney and Bain followed the rules of the game, and the business grew, so all’s fair. That may have been true, at least in the short run, but it gets at Romney’s larger prob-lem with Bain and his personal income taxes: The question is not whether he did well, or whether he did it legally, but whether he

did it with any sense of ethics. Romney almost certainly didn’t

break the law by putting his mon-ey in Switzerland or the Caymans, or by paying an income tax rate of 15 percent. He didn’t necessar-ily break any laws by creating a $100 million 401(k).

The question is whether such things are fair, or whether Rom-ney has exploited a system that allows rich people like him to get richer at the expense of less wealthy taxpayers — Italian, in the most recent case, or Ameri-can, in other cases. Of more con-cern is that, as president, Romney would further expand the advan-tages of fellow rich people.

Romney encouraged that worry on Tuesday, when he announced at a campaign stop that he would be tough on welfare — “we will end the culture of dependency and restore a culture of good hard work” — and then went to a pair of fundraisers where high-rolling donors paid as much as $75,000 for access to him.

In that sense, Romney seems to be playing a real-life version of Tiny Tower. By day, he warns the bitizens that they must work harder and produce more. By night, he courts the VIPs, whose support brings him more coins. Tiny Tower players are not con-cerned about the very poor, and they like being able to fire people.

Like Bain, Tiny Tower nods to corporate responsibility: You improve your efficiency if you place bitizens in their “dream jobs.” But savvy players have dis-covered that you generate more tower bux if you fire people from their dream jobs and evict them from the tower after their birth-days pass.

Cold and heartless, yes, but within the rules — and in Tiny Tower, that’s enough. In real life, other considerations should ap-ply.

Playing Romney’s Bain gameDana Milbank

WashingtonPostWriters Group

The question isn’t whether Romney did well, or wheth-er he did it legally, when an Italian phone directory’s value plummeted after Bain Investment helped privatize the company. It’s whether he did it with any sense of ethics.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Live-stock farmers and ranchers see-ing their feed costs rise because of the worst drought in a quarter century are demanding that the Environmental Protection Agen-cy waive production require-ments for corn-based ethanol.

The Obama administration sees no need for a waiver, siding with

corn growers — many of them in presidential election battleground states Iowa and Ohio — who con-tinue to support the mandate.

“If not now, when?” Randy Spronk, a Minnesota pork farm-er, said of the EPA’s authority to defer the ethanol production re-quirement when it threatens to severely harm the economy of a

state or region. “Everyone should feel the pain of rationing.”

Spronk, who is president-elect of the National Pork Producers Council, said livestock produc-ers will have to reduce their herds and flocks because feed is becoming scarce and too ex-pensive. Cattlemen and chicken farmers have the same concern.

Livestock producers target ethanol

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By BRIAN BAKST and DAN SEWELL

Associated PressCINCINNATI (AP) —

President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies aren’t waiting for Republi-can Mitt Romney to reveal his vice presidential choice. They’re already trying to scuff up those considered by political insiders to be most likely to join the GOP ticket.

The president’s cam-paign started swinging at the potential Republican running mates this week while urging home-state Democrats to chime in about the shortcomings that — as emails to donors and supporters put it — “Americans need to know.” The pre-emptive strikes are an effort to define a possible No. 2 in a negative light and reflect a sense that time is precious to sway opinion in a stubbornly close presi-dential race dashing quick-ly toward November.

Tim Pawlenty? The for-mer Minnesota governor is a fee-raiser whose record “is painful for the middle-class families who lived under his leadership,” the Obama campaign argues.

Rob Portman? The Ohio senator is “one of the archi-tects of the top-down Bush budget” that the Obama team blames for “crashing our economy.”

Marco Rubio? The rookie Florida senator has “led the way on almost every extreme position Mitt Rom-ney has embraced,” accord-ing to the missive that seeks examples of “the good, the

bad and ugly” of Rubio.And Chris Christie?

There’s “no lack of mate-rial to work with” about the pugnacious New Jersey governor.

It’s not just the Obama operation that’s trying to tar the Republicans. Local Democratic officials in con-tested states aren’t letting visits by the would-be vice presidents go unchecked. In conference calls they try to draw attention to what they say are the Republicans’ flaws, then quickly deliver biting assessments when one of them campaigns in a battleground state. Inde-pendent groups sympathet-ic to Obama are piling on as well.

American Bridge 21st Century, a Washington-based super PAC, has al-ready dumped a combined 1,651 unflattering pages of so-called opposition re-search on Pawlenty, Port-man and Rubio as well as Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan. The five electron-ic briefing books, including two released Wednesday, rake over the Republicans’ voting records, proposals, public statements and slip-ups. The rundowns are so detailed that a politician’s taste for expensive wine is even noted in one of the books.

American Bridge Presi-dent Rodell Mollineau said the group started months ago compiling the informa-tion — much of it’s drawn from media reports, public records and speeches — and decided against waiting to

trickle out the juiciest bits when the vice presidential pick becomes known.

“You don’t want to start too soon, but you don’t want to be in a situation where there’s 80 days until the election and everything is being jammed in so much that things are being lost,” Mollineau said.

The findings are likely to buttress criticism from top Democrats, feed into TV ads and show up as part of fall campaign mailings. The group also has video trackers in key areas eager to capture possible miscues or shifting positions.

Romney’s campaign crit-icized Obama for seeking the critiques. They are little more than “negative smear campaigns against the pos-sible GOP vice presiden-tial nominees,” Ohio-based spokesman Chris Maloney said.

Natalie Baur, a confi-dante of Portman, went so far as to issue a rebuttal to fellow supporters defend-ing Portman as a problem-solver. The message called the Obama push for feed-back on him a “desperate” move and a sign that “the

president’s friends are more interested in playing political games than work-ing together to create jobs, fix the economy and pass a budget.”

Romney has said little about whom he favors or when the choice will come, although it’s expected well before the Aug. 27 start of the Republican National Convention.

So far, Vice President Joe Biden has had the No. 2 space all to himself, which has given the Obama cam-paign a second high-level voice to tour the country, raise money and hammer their fall rival. Obama’s aides deny he has a prefer-ence, but they admit they’re watching closely for Rom-ney’s decision.

“Any way you cut it, whomever they pick, we’d much rather have Vice President Biden on our side, campaigning across the country, in the debates, out there standing up for the president, than any of the motley crew that Mitt Romney is choosing be-tween,” Obama campaign spokesman Jen Psaki said Wednesday.

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By GILLIAN WONGAssociated Press

HEFEI, China (AP) — The wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xi-lai lured a British busi-nessman to a hotel in the southwestern mega-city of Chongqing, where she got him drunk and poi-soned him, testimony re-vealed Thursday in one of China’s highest-profile murder trials.

The secretive trial of Gu Kailai and a household aide, who are accused of murdering Bo family asso-ciate Neil Heywood, ended in less than a day at the In-termediate People’s Court in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei. The defen-dants did not contest the murder charges; a guilty verdict is all but assured and could carry a death sentence.

The tightly orchestrated court proceeding marks a step toward resolving the messiest scandal the Com-munist leadership has faced in two decades.

Bo was one of China’s most powerful and charis-matic politicians until he was ousted in the spring as the scandal surround-ing Heywood’s death un-folded. Observers say the party’s main objective is to keep the focus tightly on the murder case and not on larger allegations of corruption that could further taint the regime.

International media were barred from the courtroom, so details of the case against Gu were provided afterward by Tang Yigan, the court’s deputy director.

He said prosecutors told the court that Gu sent her aide, Zhang Xiaojun,

to meet and accompany Heywood from Beijing to Chongqing, where Bo was the Communist Party boss.

Gu and Heywood were business associates but had had a dispute over eco-nomic interests, according to Tang, whose account matched details from the indictment reported in of-ficial media several weeks ago. Gu t h o u g h t Heywood was a threat to her son, 2 4 - ye a r -old Bo Guagua, and de-cided to have him killed, said Tang, who did not specify what sort of threat Heywood posed.

On the night of Nov. 13, Gu went to Heywood’s ho-tel and drank alcohol and tea with him.

“When Heywood was drunk and vomited and wanted to drink water, she then took pre-prepared poison that she had asked Zhang Xiaojun to carry, and poured it into Hey-wood’s mouth, killing him,” Tang said.

Heywood’s friends and family have said he was never a heavy drinker, and they rejected investi-gators’ initial conclusion that he drank himself to death. His body was cre-mated and no autopsy was performed.

Tang said the prosecu-tors believed the facts of the crime were clear and the evidence sufficient, and that “Gu Kailai is the main culprit and Zhang is the accomplice.”

Gu Kailai

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JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania Depart-ment of Transportation of-ficial says a crew couldn’t avoid painting over a dead raccoon when they put new double-yellow lines on a western Pennsylvania road

last week.But the Tribune-Demo-

crat of Johnstown reports Thursday that a motorist pointed out the mistake be-fore it could be cleaned up.

Sean McAfee tells the newspaper he almost

wrecked his motorcycle because he was laughing so hard when he saw the freshly painted road kill in Johnstown on Aug. 2.

PennDOT spokesman John Ambrosini says paint crews know to avoid such animals and usually have a foreman on the job who clears any dead animals off the road before the paint-spraying truck equipment passes by. This crew didn’t have a foreman and the equipment was too big to turn around in traffic, re-move the animal and repair the paint.

Roadkill serves as more than speed bump

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The ailing U.S. Post-al Service is reporting quarterly losses of $5.2 billion.

From April to June, losses were $2.1 billion more than during the same period in 2011.

The mail agency said it is being hurt signifi-cantly by mounting costs for future retiree health benefits. Those expenses made up $3.1 billion of the post office’s quarter-ly loss.

Declining first-class mail volume also con-tributed to losses.

The Postal Service for months has been urging Congress to pass legisla-tion that would allow it to eliminate Saturday mail delivery and reduce the annual health payment of $5 billion. The post office defaulted on that payment last week after the House failed to take action.

The mail agency says it will miss a second $5.6 billion payment due next month as cash runs low

Postal Service loses $5.2 billion

MIAMI (AP) — A home-less man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bi-zarre assault alongside a busy South Florida highway told police that his attacker “just ripped me to ribbons.”

In a recorded interview with investigators, Ronald Poppo said the man who approached him initially seemed friendly. Then the man, Rudy Eugene, seemed to become angry about something that had happened on Miami Beach, where thousands were partying through the Memorial Day weekend.

“For a while he was acting nice. Then he got flustered. He probably re-membered something that happened on the beach and was not happy about it,” Poppo told investiga-tors in the interview that was taped July 19 and first reported Wednesday by Mi-ami news station WFOR-TV

Poppo said Eugene then “turned berserk” and

attacked with his bare hands, screaming that both men would die.

“He just ripped me to rib-bons. He chewed up my face. He plucked out my eyes. Ba-sically, that’s all there is to say about it,” Poppo said.

Poppo, 65, remains in a long-term care facility af-ter losing an eye, his eye-brows, his nose and parts of his forehead and right cheek in the May 26 at-tack. His other eye was se-verely damaged.

Doctors at Jackson Me-morial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center said last month that Poppo was in good spirits, talking and walking around, but would need several more surgeries before he could explore the options for re-constructing his face.

Eugene, 31, was shot and killed by a Miami police officer during the attack on the Macarthur Causeway just off down-town Miami. Lab tests found only marijuana in Eugene’s system, but no other drugs or alcohol.

Poppo said Eugene had said something about not being able “to score,” adding that Eugene “must have been souped up on something.”

In the police interview, Poppo sometimes seems confused about some de-tails of the attack. He de-scribed Eugene wearing a green shirt and getting out of a car, but surveil-lance video recorded from security cameras on The Miami Herald building showed a naked Eugene walking up to Poppo as cars and bicyclists zipped by. Poppo was reclining on the sidewalk near the parking garage where he lived.

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out was slightly lower, 32 percent, than the county average.

TUESDAY’S PRIMARY election also meant the end of the road for Rep. Bill Otto, R-Le Roy, who for-merly represented most of Allen County in the Kansas House. Otto was defeated in the GOP primary by Peggy Mast in a three-way contest that also featured Willie Prescott.

Otto’s district was among those reconfigured in the latest round of redistrict-ing handed down by a team of three federal judges.

Sen. Jeff King, R-Inde-pendence, whose Senate district also was pushed out of Allen County in the redistricting, won the GOP nod against another incum-bent, Dwayne Umbarger of Thayer.

IN ANOTHER vote of lo-cal interest, former Hum-boldt Police Chief Daniel Onnen was favored by Woodson County Republi-cans in the sheriff ’s race against incumbent Shan-non Moore. Moore was a former Allen County un-dersheriff and sheriff ’s deputy. She is the daughter of retired Allen County Sheriff Ron Moore.

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men 65 to 70 students living in USD 257 attend Marma-ton Valley schools, many of whom require busing.

“We’ve outgrown our bus stop,” Roney said, adding cars often flood the bus stop near the landfill, creating hazards for chil-dren.

Allowing the bus to pick up and drop off students at city hall provides a safe, centrally located spot for the students, Roney said.

A covered patio provides protection from the weath-er.

The council’s reaction was mixed.

Councilman Harry Lee Jr. worried about a lack of adult supervision for that many students. He recommended Roney visit with parents to ensure at least a handful were avail-able at the start and end of each school day to respond to any issues that might arise.

Council member Mae

Crowell asked how bus stops in the afternoon would affect business at City Hall.

“We’re still open at that time,” Crowell said.

Meanwhile, Mayor Cyn-thia Carr noted USD 257 taxpayers were the ones supporting LaHarpe City Hall. She expressed reser-vations about allowing an-other district to encroach USD 257’s boundaries. Carr is a USD 257 employ-ee.

“Yes, but safety of La-

Harpe citizens, including children, should be a con-cern,” Roney responded.

Lee made a motion to al-low Marmaton Valley bus-es to use City Hall, but lat-er rescinded it, suggesting Roney approach the own-ers of the new LaHarpe Baptist Mission on Main Street for permission to use its property.

Roney said she would, but noted she may be back to ask the council for per-mission if other options fall through.

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Next, a couple of pews had to be put out of the way — after bolts fastening them to the floor were re-moved — so the scaffolding could be taken apart and re-assembled a few feet away.

McIntosh noted that Danny Ware, an Iola con-tractor, provided the scaf-folding and that the project

took more than two hours to complete. Helping with directions during the proj-ect were Keith and Beverly Locke and Mary Ann Ritter.

Trinity members were eager to have their 110-year-old church looking spiffy.

They have invited mem-bers of United Method-ist Church, Colony, to join them for services Sunday, and meal afterward.

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Register/Bob JohnsonJim Smith, lower left, Bob Henry, upper left, Gene Myrick, center, and Joseph Myrick erected scaffolding so work could be done to light fixtures at Trinity United Methodist Church.

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The teachers becomes the studentsFrom left, Kendra Britt, Melissa Stiffler, Kim Robertson, Dana Daugharthy, Kris-tina Palmer, Jessica Dvorak, Samntha Branson and Daneille Schooler listen while different benefits packages that USD 257 offers are explained during new teacher orientation. The new faculty spent the day getting a crash course in all aspects of Iola schools, taking a tour of Iola High School as well as the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

that.”The two will take their

act to the small stage as Brian Pekarek, USD 257 superintendent of schools, asked the two to perform during the opening faculty and staff meeting to help provide some lightness to an otherwise more serious venue.

“They’re great kids who have a lot of energy,” Pe-karek said. “Even if they

aren’t a big hit, you have to give them credit for put-ting themselves out there.”

The format for their comical antics will re-volve around a skit called, “Who’s In the Hat?,” a set-up that’s in the style of the popular television show, “Whose Line Is It, Any-way?” This edition will take aim, albeit in a fam-ily-friendly tone, at mem-bers of the school district staff and teachers.

“We want to keep it

clean,” Schubert said. “I mean some of our comi-cal influences are people who can be funny with-out using a lot of foul language like Jim Gaf-figan. Guys like George Carlin are funny, but if you can be funny with-out that, then what’s the point of using that kind of stuff.”

A song will also be part of the lineup as the two thought about a parody in the vein of Weird Al

Yankovic, renowned for lampooning famous tunes throughout his career.

“We’re still working that one through,” Cokely said. “We feel pretty con-fident that we’ll do fine. A huge part of what we do has to do with confidence. If you have it then you are fine and we’re going to do well.”

Curtain, so to speak, goes up on the act at 8:30 a.m. Monday at Iola High School.

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the country is in the grip of “moderate or excep-tional” drought, according to NOAA, an increase of 7 percent from the end of June.

Crops and livestock have been devastated. Much of the nation faces the threat of wildfire.

“Over 2 million acres were burned nationwide during July due to wild-fires, nearly half a mil-lion acres above average,” NOAA reported.

The NOAA data arrive in the wake of a new re-search paper published Monday in the Proceed-ings of the National Acad-emy of Sciences. That paper argues exceedingly high summer tempera-tures, longer summers and related catastrophes, such as wildfire and drought, are poised to be the norm _ and that they’re driven by climate change.

Before 1980, sharp ab-normalities from normal temperature variance over a given month occurred very rarely. Now, they are occurring 10% of the time, according to James E. Hansen, the paper’s lead author and the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

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“We probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.” — Olin Miller, American humorist and poet (1918-2002).

Thought of the day

By JOCELYN [email protected]

Fall sports practices get under way Monday. High school coaches of fall sports are hoping tempera-tures drop by Monday.

Iola and the rest of Kansas have been under high 90s and tri-ple-digit heat for way most of this summer. Those coaches who have outdoor sports will be mindful of the heat as the 2012 fall athletic season kicks off next week with a full practices.

Iola High fall sports’ coaches have set their first day practice schedule.

The Fillies’ volleyball team will hold a Blue and Gold scrimmage on Aug. 21 at Iola High’s gym. It starts at 6 p.m.

The Mustang football team’s Blue and Gold scrimmage is Aug. 23. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. at the foot-ball stadium in Riverside Park.

All athletes must have a com-pleted physical form, signed by a parent or guardian, on file with the high school. No athlete will be able to practice without one.

Mustang FootballBright and early Monday — 6

a.m. — the 2012 IHS Mustang foot-ball team hits the practice field.

“We’ll go from 6 to 7:30 a.m. and 6-8 p.m. for the first three days,” said Doug Kerr, new Mustang

head coach. “The schedule will be adjusted on Thursday and Friday with school starting. The players will be told.”

Players are to come to practice Monday with helmets, practice jerseys, shorts and cleats. The football players go to full pads and gear on Thursday.

Equipment check out is tonight at 5 o’clock at IHS.

IHS Cross CountryIHS cross country coach Mar-

vin Smith announced the first practice will be at 6:30 p.m. Mon-day. He said boys and girls, grades 9-12, interested in competing should meet at the parking lot on the northeast side of Lake Bas-sola.

Lake Bassola is south of Iola on State Street. Turn left on Bassett Street which curves to the left to become Washington.

For more information contact Smith at 363-4343.

Fillies’ VolleyballIola High’s volleyball team led

by new head coach Emily Sigg will have two-a-days starting Monday. First practice is at 8 a.m. then at 3:30 p.m.

Fillies’ TennisFor practice times for the 2012

girls’ tennis team, those inter-ested contact Jennifer Bycroft at 620-228-3090.

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LONDON — Isiah Young’s first Olympics ended in disappoint-ment Wednesday. The former Al-len Community College standout track athlete’s bid for a medal in the 2012 London Summer Olym-pic Games came up short.

Young, who is from Junction City and ran for Ole Miss in Ox-ford, Miss. as a collegian, finished last in his semifinal heat race Wednesday. Also in that heat was Jamaica’s Usian Bolt, who is the reigning Olympic champion in the 200 plus just won the 100-me-ter Olympic gold medal this week.

Young ran the 200 meters in 20.89 seconds in the semifinals. He had posted a 20.55-second run in the qualifying heats on Tues-day.

Yohan Blake of Jamaica had the fastest qualifying run in the semifinals at 20.01 seconds. The lone American to reach the 200-meter final is Wallace Spear-man, who ran his semifinal in

20.02 seconds.Highlights of Day 12 of the

London Olympics By The Associated Press

— Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings won their third con-secutive Olympic beach volleyball gold medal, beating April Ross and Jenni-fer Kessy in an all-American final. The Athens, Beijing and now London gold

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Kerri Walsh Jennings of the United States, right, blocked a spike from Jennifer Kessy of the United States, left, in Wednesday’s gold medal match of women’s beach volleyball at Horse Guard Parade during the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, England. Walsh Jennings and her partner, Misty May-Treanor, won their third straight gold medal.

Usain Bolt of Jamaica, center, cruises to a win in a men’s 200-meter race semifinal Wednesday at Olympic Stadium during the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, England. The USA’s Isiah Young, left, runs in lane 8. Young finished last in the semifinal.

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At left, the USA’s Isiah Young checks the scoreboard after his run in a 200-meter semifinal Wednesday at Olympic Stadium during the 2012 Summer Olym-pic Games in London, England Young finished last in his semi-final, and did not qualify for the final.

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Young comes up short; USAathletes pile up gold medals

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By JOCELYN [email protected]

The Iola American Legion AA Indians play in the American Le-gion Baseball Division 2 Central Plains National Regional in Wah-peton, N.D., today.

Iola takes on Grafton, N.D., at 2 p.m. Ely, Minn., played Las Vegas, Nev., at 11 a.m. in the other game in Iola’s side of the bracket.

As of today, there was no radio

station in Wahpeton set to broad-cast or live stream all the games. If Iola fans go to www.wahpeton-baseball.org, the website has a live scoring option which is sup-pose to give updated scoring dur-ing the games.

Wisconsin Dells, Wisc., plays Plato, Minn., at 5 p.m. followed by Wahpeton taking on Groton, S.D., at 8 p.m. The opening ceremony for the regional tournament is at

7:30 p.m.Iola is the 2012 Kansas Ameri-

can Legion AA State Champi-on, after beating Hays-TMP 6-2 Sunday in Sabetha. The Kansas champion advances to the Central Plains regional, which is hosted by Wahpeton, N.D.

Games begin today. The cham-pionship game is on Sunday.

If the Register learns more,

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS

SIGG FINANCIAL SERVICES, L.L.C., Plaintiff,

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DEREK ALAN DIX Defendent.

) ) ) ) CASE No. 2012 - LM 40 ) ) )

NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued out of the

District Court of Allen County, Kansas, case number 2012 LM 40, in which Sigg Financial Services, L.L.C., is Plantiff, and Derek Alan Dix is Defendent, I will, on the 29th day of August, 2012, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., offer at public auction at 1721 East Street, Iola, Kansas, and sell, free and clear of all liens to the highest and best bidder for cash in hand, the following described personal property: 2005 Chevrolet 4 door cab pickup truck, VIN 1GCHK29U35E292249, judgment having previously been entered in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendent in the principal sum of $12,005.26, plus interest and costs from and after January 13, 2012.

Provided, that the terms of the sale shall be cash or certified check. Successful bidder must pay the total bid price in cash or by certified check within two hours of the end of the sale.

Thomas R. Williams Sheriff of Allen County, Kansas

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medalists have never lost a match at the Olympics. They won in straight sets, 21-16, 21-16. It was the Olympic farewell for May-Treanor.

— Denied twice on the world’s biggest stage, Allyson Felix finally won the Olympic gold medal she’s been yearn-ing for: the 200 meters. Felix won the race in 21.88 seconds, topping Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who won the 100 four nights earlier, by 0.21 sec-ond. American Carmelita Jeter got the bronze.

— Brittney Reese won the long jump, becoming the first U.S. woman to win the Olympic long jump since Jackie Joyner-Kersee in 1988. The two-time world champion went into the competition with the best jump of the season and posted the best mark in the final with 7.12 meters on her second attempt.

— Aries Merritt led a 1-2 finish for the United States in the Olympic 110-meter hurdles, winning in 12.92 seconds, with world champion Jason Richard-son finishing second.

— Caster Semenya made her Olympic debut three years after being forced to undergo gender tests, finishing second in her 800 heat.

— Usain Bolt won his semifi-nal heat in 20.18 seconds, mov-ing closer to becoming the first man with two Olympic golds in the 200 meters. The Jamaican already successfully defended his 100 title from Beijing on Sunday.

— American Ashton Eaton broke Bill Toomey’s 44-year-old record in the 100-meter dash and built a 105-point lead over teammate and world champion Trey Hardee after the opening three events in the decathlon. Eaton won the 100 in 10.35 seconds, just 0.14 off his time at the trials but beating Toomey’s 10.41 at Mexico City in 1968.

MEDALS— China completed the

sweep of all four table tennis titles with a 3-0 victory over South Korea in the men’s team final. China also won the wom-en’s team gold as well as the men’s and women’s singles.

— China has the most gold medals so far in London, with 36, followed by the United States with 34, host Britain with 22 and Russia with 11. The U.S. has the most overall medals

with 81, followed by China with 77, Russia with 52 and Britain with 48.

NOT THEIR FINEST HOUR— The United States won’t

win an Olympic sailing medal for the first time since the Berlin Games in 1936. The Americans have won 59 Olympic sailing medals, the most of any na-tion. Anna Tunnicliffe was the last American skipper with a chance, and her run ended in failure. U.S. Sailing President Gary Jobson called the failure to medal “a heck of a wakeup call,” adding: “In essence, we weren’t competitive in any class.”

— The U.S. men’s volleyball team — the defending Olympic champions — were knocked out of the London Games in straight sets by Italy in a quar-terfinal match.

ON TRACK FOR HISTORYThe first Saudi woman to

compete in track and field at the Olympics finished last in the 800 meters — more than a half-minute slower than her nearest competitor — yet Sarah Attar got cheers as she crossed the finish line. Attar said she wanted to inspire women in her country “to get more involved in sports, to become more athletic,” Cov-ered in clothing from head to toe, except for her smiling face poking out from her hood, Attar made her debut five days after a Saudi judo fighter became the ultraconservative country’s first female competitor at any Olym-pics.

TODAY’S SCHEDULE HIGHLIGHTS

— Track and field: gold medal finals in men’s 200 me-ters, decathlon, men’s 800 me-ters, men’s triple jump.

— Women’s diving: plat-form gold medal final.

— Men’s beach volleyball: gold medal final.

— Men’s cycling: BMX quarterfinals.

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it will provide information to the community. All tour-nament games are played at John Randall Field.

There was a banquet for players and coaches along with parents on Wednesday evening.

Iola American Legion baseball tidbits:

— 2012 was the first time Iola American Legion Leslie J. Campbell Post 15 qualified an AA and an A baseball team to respective state tournaments. The A team program has been on-again, off-again and on-again over the past 20-plus years.

— The last time, and only other time, Iola AA Indians won a state championship in 1988, Iola Register City Editor Bob Johnson was the head coach. The 1988 Indians were 37-1. That year Iola had to play the Kansas AAA champion Salina for the right to advance to re-gional American Legion play. Iola’s AA team lost 3-2 and 4-2.

The same team went back in 1990 and finished second with a 41-7 mark, losing to Marys-ville.

— In 1983 and 1984, Iola AA’s team went to the Kan-sas American Legion AA state tournament back-to-back with 2012 head coach Mike Taylor as a player. The 1984 team fin-ished second, forcing a second championship game and losing to Marysville.

— Another connection to the 2012 and 1988 champion-ship teams from Iola is the Col-lins family. Current assistant coach Roger Collins’ brother Gary was an assistant coach and nephew Jerry Collins played right field. Kris Collins, Roger’s son, is designated hit-ter and back-up first baseman.

— Dalton Smith, who was the winning pitcher for Iola in Sunday’s 2012 championship game, is from Yates Center. Yates Center American Legion AA team won three straight Kansas championship in 1968, 1969 and 1970 beating Marys-ville, Hays and Ransom.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt calls Kev-in Kolb’s injury minor and expects the quarterback to play in Friday’s preseason game against Kansas City.

Kolb left Sunday’s Hall of Fame game with bruised ribs and was limited in prac-tice Tuesday.

Kolb is locked in a tight battle with John Skelton for the starting job.

He started but was inter-cepted on his first throw in Sunday’s 17-10 loss to New Orleans in the Hall of Fame game. His lone completion came on his final throw, the first play of his third series, and the play on which he was injured.

The Cardinals worked out jointly with the Chiefs on Tuesday at Kansas City’s practice facility at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph. They chose to go to Missouri rather than travel all the way from Can-ton, Ohio, to Arizona, then

back to Kansas City for a game just five days later.

Skelton will start against the Chiefs, a decision that was made before Kolb was hurt.

The Cardinals also acti-vated running back Beanie Wells from the physically unable to perform list prior to Tuesday’s practice. Like Kolb, Wells participated in the walk-through portion of practice but did not take part in any drills.

Coming off his first 1,000-yard season, the fourth-year pro from Ohio State has not practiced while recovering from surgery on his right knee.

Whisenhunt said Wells probably won’t play against Kansas City.

The Chiefs have three key players back from long-term injuries: running back Jamaal Charles, safety Eric Berry, tight end Tony Moeaki.

In other NFL preseason games this week:

Peyton Manning is wear-ing No. 18 and throwing passes. The uniform might look strange, though.

And yes, that’s a female line judge making calls in the Green Bay at San Diego game.

As for those two good-looking youngsters with the Colts and Redskins, they’re the top picks from this year’s draft making their NFL debuts.

The first full weekend of preseason games kicks off tonight with Manning lead-ing the Denver Broncos at Chicago, his first action since the playoffs after the 2010 season for the once-in-destructible quarterback.

On the same night, Shan-non Eastin makes history when she officiates in the Packers-Chargers matchup — on national television, no less. Eastin is one of the re-placement officials hired by the league while the regulars are locked out after their con-tract with the NFL expired.

Also tonight, second over-all selection Robert Griffin III leads the Redskins at Buffalo. Top overall pick QB Andrew Luck must wait un-til Sunday for the Colts’ first exhibition game, at home against St. Louis.

The rest of tonight’s schedule has New Orleans, already 1-0 after beating the Rams in the Hall of Fame game, at New England; Pittsburgh at Philadelphia; and Baltimore at Atlanta.

On Friday, it’s the Super

Bowl champion New York Giants at Jacksonville; the New York Jets at Cincinnati; Tampa Bay at Miami; Arizo-na at Kansas City; Cleveland at Detroit: and Minnesota at San Francisco.

Saturday’s matchups have Houston at Carolina and Tennessee at Seattle.

Dallas at Oakland finish-es off the weekend on Mon-day night.

Denver at Chicago Imagine the anticipation

Manning is feeling about get-ting back on the field after neck surgery forced him to miss all of last season, then the Colts let him walk as a free agent. The four-time MVP can’t possibly be treat-ing this as another friendly.

Washington at BuffaloAnticipated rookie de-

but No. 1. Griffin’s throw-ing motion is poetry, but he might not be making many rhymes against Buffalo’s revamped defense that fea-tures end Mario Williams, the only $100 million defen-sive player in NFL history.

St. Louis at IndianapolisAnticipated rookie debut

No. 2. Luck won’t want to force things and knows com-parisons to Manning will be coming regardless of how he fares.

Major League BaseballAt A Glance

The Associated PressAll Times EDT

American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBNew York 64 46 .582 —Baltimore 60 51 .541 4½Tampa Bay 58 52 .527 6Boston 55 57 .491 10Toronto 53 57 .482 11

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 60 50 .545 —Detroit 60 51 .541 ½Cleveland 51 60 .459 9½Minnesota 49 62 .441 11½Kansas City 47 63 .427 13

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 65 45 .591 —Oakland 60 51 .541 5½Los Angeles 59 53 .527 7Seattle 51 62 .451 15½

Wednesday’s GamesCleveland 6, Minnesota 2Texas 10, Boston 9Oakland 9, L.A. Angels 8N.Y. Yankees 12, Detroit 8Baltimore 9, Seattle 2Tampa Bay 3, Toronto 2Kansas City 2, Chicago White Sox 1

Thursday’s GamesN.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 10-8) at De-troit (Fister 6-7), 1:05 p.m.Toronto (H.Alvarez 7-8) at Tampa Bay (M.Moore 8-7), 1:10 p.m.Boston (Doubront 10-5) at Cleve-land (Jimenez 8-11), 7:05 p.m.Kansas City (W.Smith 2-4) at Balti-more (W.Chen 10-6), 7:05 p.m.

Friday’s GamesBoston (Buchholz 9-3) at Cleveland (Seddon 0-0), 7:05 p.m.Kansas City (Hochevar 7-9) at Balti-more (Mig.Gonzalez 3-2), 7:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (F.Garcia 5-5) at To-ronto (R.Romero 8-8), 7:07 p.m.Detroit (Scherzer 10-6) at Texas (Feldman 6-6), 8:05 p.m.Oakland (McCarthy 6-3) at Chicago White Sox (Floyd 8-9), 8:10 p.m.Tampa Bay (Hellickson 6-7) at Min-nesota (De Vries 2-2), 8:10 p.m.Seattle (F.Hernandez 10-5) at L.A.

Angels (E.Santana 5-10), 10:05 p.m.

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBWashington 68 43 .613 —Atlanta 64 47 .577 4New York 53 58 .477 15Miami 51 60 .459 17Philadelphia 50 61 .450 18

Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati 66 45 .595 —Pittsburgh 63 47 .573 2½St. Louis 60 51 .541 6Milwaukee 51 59 .464 14½Chicago 43 66 .394 22Houston 36 76 .321 30½

West Division W L Pct GBSan Francisco 61 50 .550 —Los Angeles 60 52 .536 1½Arizona 56 55 .505 5San Diego 49 64 .434 13Colorado 40 69 .367 20

Wednesday’s GamesMilwaukee 3, Cincinnati 2San Diego 2, Chicago Cubs 0Pittsburgh 7, Arizona 6Atlanta 12, Philadelphia 6Miami 13, N.Y. Mets 0Washington 4, Houston 3San Francisco 15, St. Louis 0L.A. Dodgers 6, Colorado 4

Thursday’s GamesMiami (Jo.Johnson 7-7) at N.Y. Mets (Dickey 14-3), 12:10 p.m.San Francisco (Bumgarner 12-6) at St. Louis (Wainwright 9-10), 1:45 p.m.Arizona (J.Saunders 5-8) at Pitts-burgh (W.Rodriguez 7-10), 4:05 p.m.Cincinnati (Leake 4-7) at Chicago Cubs (Volstad 0-8), 8:05 p.m.Washington (Zimmermann 8-6) at Houston (Harrell 9-7), 8:05 p.m.

Friday’s GamesCincinnati (Bailey 9-7) at Chicago Cubs (Germano 1-1), 2:20 p.m.San Diego (Volquez 7-8) at Pitts-burgh (Ja.McDonald 10-5), 7:05 p.m.St. Louis (Lohse 12-2) at Philadel-phia (Halladay 5-6), 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Maholm 9-7) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 1-2), 7:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 9-6) at Mi-ami (Buehrle 9-10), 7:10 p.m.Milwaukee (M.Rogers 0-1) at Hous-ton (B.Norris 5-9), 8:05 p.m.Washington (Strasburg 12-5) at Ari-zona (Cahill 9-9), 9:40 p.m.Colorado (Chatwood 1-2) at San Francisco (Lincecum 6-11), 10:15 p.m.

CHICAGO (AP) — It looked like the Chicago White Sox would break out of their mini-hitting slump on Wednesday night as Kan-sas City starter Jeremy Guth-rie entered the game with a 7.71 ERA and an 0-3 record since he came to the Royals in a trade with Colorado.

But with two of its top hit-ters, Paul Konerko and Alex Rios, out the White Sox just didn’t have enough firepower to contend.

Guthrie picked up his first victory since late May, scat-

tering five hits over eight innings in Kansas City’s 2-1 win over Chicago.

Guthrie (1-3) got his first win with the Royals and im-proved to 4-12 overall since arriving in the trade. He struck out five and walked none.

His last victory was an 11-5 decision over Houston on May 31. He struggled through nine losses in his next 13 ap-pearances.

“It didn’t seem like we could get anything going,” White Sox manager Robin

Ventura said.Solo home runs by Mike

Moustakas and Salvador Per-ez provided all the runs for Kansas City.

Greg Holland gave up a run-scoring single in the bot-tom of the ninth but picked up his third save.

Jose Quintana (4-2) worked seven innings and gave up five hits. He walked two and struck out five.

Kansas City took two of three in the series. Chicago had won its last four series and five straight at home.

Kansas City took a 1-0 lead in the second on Moustakas’ 17th home run of the season. With two outs, the third base-man lined Quintana’s first pitch deep in to the seats in right.

Perez made it 2-0 with a two-out homer to right on a 2-0 pitch from Quintana. The home run was his sixth of the season.

Baseball

NFL opens preseason tonightChiefs hostCardinalson Friday

Guthrie records his first win for KC

H Iola AAContinued from B1

Taking care of the hot corner — third base — for the Iola American Legion AA Indians is Braden Larson. The Indians are at the American Legion national regional baseball tournament in Wahpeton, N.D., this week.

Register/Jocelyn Sheets


By GINA SMITHMcClatchy NewspapersCOLUMBIA, S.C. (MCT)

— Forty-four states require legislators to disclose who they work for. Many also require some disclosure about how much those leg-islators are paid by their employers.

Not South Carolina. Palmetto State politi-

cians only must disclose money earned from govern-ment agencies and from contracts between their employers and government agencies. There is no re-quirement to disclose the private companies that leg-islators work for, some of which may stand to gain fi-nancially by laws passed by the General Assembly.

Recent events have ex-posed many weaknesses in South Carolina’s ethics and open-records laws, weak-nesses that leave taxpay-ers in the dark whey they try to watchdog what leg-islators are doing and hold them accountable for their actions.

Case in point: A recently completed

ethics investigation into Gov. Nikki Haley that cleared the Lexington Re-publican of wrongdoing, reaffirming state law that the former state represen-tative was not required to tell anyone that, as a S.C. House member, she had a consulting contract with a Midlands engineering firm that did millions of dollars worth of work for the state. And that was not an isolat-ed case.

S.C. ethics regulations are so weak — so watered down and riddled with loopholes — that the state was given an “F” grade this year and a ranking of 45th among the 50 states from the State Integrity Inves-tigation, a project of the Center for Public Integrity, Global Integrity and Public Radio International.

CRITICS say the failing

grade was well-deserved. “We have no idea who

pays these guys (legisla-tors),” said Ashley Landess, director of the S.C. Policy Council, a conservative Co-lumbia think tank that es-pouses limited government and libertarian-leaning pol-itics. “Therefore, we have no idea whether there are conflicts of interest.”

Landess and other advo-cates of open government say the state’s weak ethics laws limit accountability and transparency.

“The recipe for corrup-tion is concentration of

power and secrecy. And we have both in this state to a high degree,” Landess said. Her group just released an eight-point plan to increase transparency, including re-quiring full income disclo-sure from legislators.

Most states are work-ing to become more trans-parent, said Peggy Kerns, director of the Center for Ethics in Government at the Washington-based Na-tional Conference of State Legislatures.

“Nationally and in-ternationally, we’re see-ing changes that increase transparency, which means more disclosure” from legislators and lobbyists, Kerns said.

South Carolina could fol-low suit.

State Sen. Wes Hayes, R-York, chairman of the Sen-ate Ethics Committee, and the House Ethics Commis-sion, the S.C. Ethics Com-mission and state Attorney General Alan Wilson began talks in July on overhaul-ing the state’s ethics laws. The group hopes to prefile legislation in December, prior to the January start of the Legislature’s new session.

State ethics laws were last overhauled in 1991 following Operation Lost Trust, an FBI sting that snared more than two doz-en S.C. lawmakers, lobby-ists and others in one of the largest legislative pub-lic-corruption scandals in U.S. history. The laws ham-

mered out in that scandal’s aftermath were a national model at the time, Hayes recalled. He was chairman of the House Ethics Com-mittee then and served on a conference committee that hashed out the post-Lost Trust ethics laws.

“We made some big changes,” Hayes said. Those included requiring lobbyists and groups that did business at the State House to publicly disclose some information and re-quiring lawmakers to dis-close income that they re-ceived from the state.

“But we didn’t take the final step of (requiring lawmakers to disclose) all sources of income,” Hayes said. “It was just one of those things that we were hammering out a compro-mise and taking it one step at a time. “Now, I think we’re ready to take that fi-nal step.”

It could be a hard fight. In the years since Lost

Trust, including the legisla-tive session that just ended, many legislators and public officials have pushed for in-creasing government ac-countability and opening up public access to govern-ment information.

But changes never hap-pened.

Instead, politicians, in-cluding most recently Hal-ey, talked about the need for change.

“It makes good campaign rhetoric, and that’s why you get so much talk about

transparency,” said John Crangle, a lobbyist and di-rector of the S.C. chapter of Common Cause, a gov-ernment watchdog group. “But a lot of public officials like that what they’re doing is hidden because they’re making money off of those undisclosed transactions.”

A series of recent ethics scandals — from Haley’s undisclosed consulting work to legislators’ sweet-heart pensions to a court decision that cleared the way for unlimited dona-tions to the state’s political parties to confusion over paperwork that led to more than 250 candidates being thrown off the ballot this year is setting the stage for big changes, Hayes said.

“The silver lining is it is creating an atmosphere where people are realizing the importance of changing our ethics laws,” he said.

Legislators’ income isn’t the only issue. Others range from cronyism and nepo-tism to government secrecy.

State law, for example, has little to say about law-makers and other elected officials who help family and friends get taxpayer-paid jobs. State law only bars a public official from hiring a family member for a position that the pub-lic official supervises or manages. That leaves lots of room for jobs once- or twice-removed from the person in power. This sum-mer, for example, Haley’s

14-year-old daughter landed a part-time job with a state agency, whose director is named by and reports to Haley. Last year, the wife of the governor’s chief of staff also landed a job with that same agency.

This year, Senate Presi-dent Pro Tem John Cour-son, R-Richland, also de-fended the 2007 hiring of his sister-in-law by the Sen-ate Education Committee, which Courson chairs.

HERB Hayden, director of the S.C. Ethics Commis-sion, said it is time to more specifically define crony-ism and what is allowed — a topic that will be discussed by Hayes and the others as they prepare new leg-islation to strengthen the state’s ethics laws. Courson also has expressed interest in updating the state’s eth-ics laws, Hayden said.

“I don’t know what the answer is right now,” Hayden said. “But, at the very least, those kinds of situations create appear-ance issues.” As an exam-ple of a conflict, Hayden suggested the scenario of a supervisor at a state agen-cy who must decide wheth-er to hire the child of the agency’s director.

“How does a supervi-sor, getting ready to hire someone, say, ‘No, we’re not going to hire the son or daughter of the agency head’ or ‘Yes, we are’? And how should the supervisor discipline that employee if they don’t do a good job? What if they have to fire them?” Hayden asked.

“There are lots of issues here whether the agency head is involved in the (hir-ing) decision or not. It puts

that supervisor in a very precarious position.”

The public also can have a difficult time getting ac-cess to documents, corre-spondence and other public records from state agencies and public officials.

That difficulty illus-trates the need to update the state’s Freedom of In-formation Act, open-gov-ernment advocates say.

They cite several prob-lems with the law. State agencies can deny access to records; there is no ap-peals process if access is denied; and state agencies can charge excessive fees for gathering information, making it too expensive for the public to get informa-tion.

Also, lawmakers are ex-empt from following the law.

“There is no good rea-son for them to be exempt,” said the Policy Council’s Landess.

But a majority of legis-lators do not want to make it easier for the public to find out what they and gov-ernment are doing. Instead of improving the open-re-cords law, this past legisla-tive session featured politi-cal fireworks about it.

A proposed bill — offered by state Rep. Bill Taylor, R-Aiken, and backed by the S.C. Press Association, of which The State newspaper is a member — would have shortened the time period that state agencies get to re-spond to FOIA requests. It also would have prohibited agencies from charging fees for staff time spent to com-ply with FOIA requests and set limits on the amount that those agencies can charge for copying records.

Ethics laws face uphill battle in South Carolina

S.C. ethics proposalsKey lawmakers, the S.C. Ethics Commission and the

state attorney general are working now to overhaul state ethics laws. Four main areas they are reviewing:— Cleaning up language to clarify the financial-disclosure requirements for candidates seeking office. This year, more than 250 candidates were booted off the ballot be-cause of confusion over filing those requirements.

— Requiring lawmakers to disclose who employs them to expose any conflicts of interest before they vote on proposals that could benefit their employers.

— Defining “committee.” A 2010 federal ruling de-clared unconstitutional the state’s definition. That threw out regulations limiting contributions to politi-cal parties. The result? Unlimited fundraising by and donations to political groups that do not have to dis-close where the money came from.

— Beefing up the investigative ability of the S.C. Eth-ics Commission. Limited staff and resources hobble the commission’s ability to look into charges of ethical wrongdoing. One possibility: The state attorney gener-al could lend investigators to the commission.Gerry Melendez/The State/MCT

Forty-four states require legislators to disclose who they work for. Many also require some disclosure about how much those legislators are paid by their employers. Not South Carolina. Palmetto State politicians only must disclose money earned from government agencies and from contracts between their employers and government agencies. There is no requirement to disclose the private companies that legislators work for, some of which may stand to gain financially by laws passed by the General Assembly.

JOHN HANNAAP Political Writer

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brown-back awoke Wednesday with a majority in the state Senate all but guar-anteed for his fellow conserva-tive Repub-licans to help him p u r s u e new lim-its on annual government spending, further cuts in income taxes and greater influence over who sits on the state’s appellate courts.

Conservatives scored big in the Kansas GOP prima-ries, shattering a bipartisan coalition that had slowed or blocked fiscal and social pol-icy initiatives from the polit-ical right. Voters tossed out seven moderate GOP sena-tors, and an eighth, Senate President Steve Morris of Hugoton, trailed enough in final results that he’s likely to lose as well.

If Republicans retained their current 32 seats in the 40-member Senate, con-

servatives would hold 27 of them. Democratic legisla-tive leaders said their party offered an alternative in the November general election to a conservative takeover, but Democrats weren’t likely to see a net gain of seven seats in GOP-leaning Kansas. The state House already has a conservative majority, thanks to a simi-lar political wave in 2010.

Brownback’s office wasn’t ready to spell out what policies he’ll pursue next year. But in the past, he’s advocated limiting the annual growth in state spending so Kansas can build on income tax cuts approved this year, and he’s publicly called to change the process for choosing ap-pellate court judges. Those policies also are top priori-ties for the governor’s al-lies, including the anti-tax, small-government group Americans for Prosperity.

Conservatives have been stymied on other issues as well. They’ve included proposals to restrict how labor unions raise politi-cal funds from members’ paychecks, prevent even

indirect state subsidies of abortion, regulate sexually oriented businesses more strictly, reverse statewide restrictions on smoking in bars and restaurants, and overturn a state Board of Regents ban on concealed weapons on higher educa-tion campuses.

There hasn’t been a se-rious recent discussion of giving parents more alter-natives to public schools.

“There’s a lot of things that will be considered that haven’t gotten con-sidered before,” said state Rep. Larry Powell, the con-servative Garden City Re-publican who successfully challenged Morris in the primary. “It will be a com-plete switch-over.”

Kansas was part of a larg-

er trend in which conserva-tives attempted this year to push GOP moderates out of Republican-controlled states in a large section of the country, but results were mixed in other places, in-cluding Missouri and Texas.

Conservatives in Kansas defeated state Sens. Pete Brungardt of Salina, Bob Marshall of Fort Scott, Tim Owens of Overland Park, Roger Reitz of Manhattan, Jean Schodorf of Wichita, Ruth Teichman of Stafford and Dwayne Umbarger of Thayer. Powell garnered al-most 52 percent of the vote in his race against Morris.

One conservative sena-tor, Dick Kelsey of God-dard, lost his primary race after clashing with Brown-back’s administration on several issues. However, his challenger, state Rep. Dan Kerschen of Garden Plain, also is a conservative.

“The people of Kansas have a clear choice: Do we want to grow the govern-ment or grow the economy? Most Kansans want to grow the economy and increase the number of private sector jobs in our state,”

Brownback said in a state-ment Wednesday.

Mark Desetti, a lobby-ist for the Kansas National Education Association, the state’s largest teachers’ union, said he expects the more conservative Senate to defend income tax cuts approved this year, despite concerns about potential budget shortfalls.

“School funding is in jeopardy,” he said. “One way to defend these tax cuts is to never increase funding on schools.”

But many conservatives have ambitions for lower-ing taxes further. For ex-ample, Jake LaTurner, a conservative Pittsburg Re-publican and staffer for U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins who de-feated Marshall, said he’d like legislators to tackle high property, sales and gasoline taxes, particularly in border counties where rates are higher than in Missouri and Oklahoma.

“We just can’t prosper until we get competitive,” he said.

Americans for Prosper-ity state director Derrick Sontag said constraints on

the annual growth in state spending are important, along with a discussion of future tax cuts.

“It won’t be good enough to have what we consider good fiscal conservatives in control of both chambers,” he said.

Sontag’s group, other conservatives and the anti-abortion group Kansans for Life also want to give the governor the power to appoint state Court of Ap-peals judges and Supreme Court justices, subject to Senate confirmation. A nominating commission currently screens applica-tions and gives the gover-nor two or three choices for each vacancy, with no role for legislators.

Supporters of such a change argue that it will make the selection process more open, and many conser-vatives worry that the state’s courts are too liberal. Critics contend the independence of the judiciary is at stake if such a change is made.

“The governor will have control of all three branch-es of state government,” Morris said.

Conservatives take center stage as Senate’s power shifts right

Brownback

There’s a lot of things that will be con-sidered that haven’t gotten consideration before.

— Representative-electLarry Powell,

Garden City

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TAKE DUE NOTICE The following vehicles

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2B3HD46T1SH501186 1999 NISSAN

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3C3XA5637NT300398 1995 OLDS

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123053 (Published in The Iola Register

August 9, August 16 & August 23, 2012)

Before the State Corporation Commission of the

State of Kansas Notice of Filing Application

RE: Roger Kent dba R.J. RE: Enterprises — Application for a permit to authorize the enhanced recovery of saltwater into the Norman Unit 4-NI, Norman Unit 5- NI, Norman Unit 6-NI, Norman Unit 9-NI, Whitcomb 3-I and Stanley 9-I; Section 34, Township 23 South, Range 21 East; located in Allen County, Kansas.

TO: All Oil & Gas Producers, TO: Unleased Mineral Interest Owners, Landowners, and all persons whomever concerned.

YOU, and each of you, are hereby YOU, notified that Roger Kent dba R.J. Enterprises has filed an application to commence the injection of saltwater into the Bartlesville formation at the Norman Unit 4-N-I, located 2,018 FSL, 601 FEL; Norman Unit 5-NI, located 1,703 FSL, 593 FEL; Noramn Unit 6-NI, located 2,619 FSL, 615 FEL; Norman Unit 9-NI, located 2,608 FSL, 326 FEL; Whitcomb 3-I, located 2,983 FSL, 613 FEL; and Stanley 9-I, located 3,786 FSL, 3,764 FEL; Section 34, Township 23 South, Range 21 East; Allen County, Kansas; with a maximum operating pressure of 400 psig and a maximum injection rate of 100 barrels per day.

ANY persons who object to or ANY protest this application shall be required to file their objections or protest with the Conservation Division of the State Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas within thirty (30) days from the date of this publication. These protests shall be filed pursuant to commission regulations and must state specific reasons why granting the application may cause waste, violate correlative rights or pollute the natural resources of the State of Kansas.

ALL persons interested or ALL concerned shall take notice of the foregoing and shall govern themselves accordingly. Roger Kent dba R.J. Enterprises 22082 NE Neosho Road Garnett, KS 66032-1918 (785) 448-6995 or (785) 448-7725 (Published in The Iola Register August 9, 2012)

Student Support and Data Specialist - Student Sup - Student Support and Data Specialist - Student Sup - port Services – Neosho County Community College seeks a port Services Student Support and Date Specialist for the Student Sup - port Services program. This is a full-time grant funded posi - tion. Responsibilities include day to day office duties of sup - porting the Director in serving STARS SSS participants. Associates degree preferred. High school diploma or GED required; minimum 2 years of experience in basic office pro - cedures required, ability to relate well to students, and free - dom from racial/ethnic biases required, background similar to that of participants preferred. Salary range is $9.70- $10.70 per hour with excellent benefits including health insurance and KPERS. To apply send a letter of application, resume, unofficial transcripts, online employment appli - cation, and five reference with phone numbers to: Student Support and Date Specialist Search, Neosho County Com - munity College, 800 West 14th Street, Chanute, KS 66720. Only complete applications packets will be considered. This position will remain open until filled. Employment appli - cation are available at www.neosho.edu.

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COUNTRY HOME, 3-1/2 miles from Chanute, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, CH/CA, 2-car garage with finished room, horse barn & pond, on 8.6 acres, 620-431-4173 or 620-432-1468.

IOLA, 218 CARDINAL DR., 4 BED-ROOM, 3.5 bath, home on large lot, over 3200sq.ft. including a finished basement, 2-car attached garage, 2 fireplaces and an in-ground pool, $199,000, 620-365-3527.

IOLA, 819 N. WASHINGTON, 4 BEDROOM, $14,500, Randy 620-212-6255.

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409 S. COLBORN, 3 BEDROOM, 1 bath, fully remodeled, $795 monthly, 620-496-6787.

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617 S. COTTONWOOD, 3 BED-ROOM, 2 bath, new CH/CA, LR, DR, upstairs remodeled, $500 monthly, $500 deposit, 620-228-7510.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Washington musician who ordered a flat-screen TV from Amazon.com was shocked to receive a semiau-tomatic assault rifle instead.

Thirty-eight-year-old Seth Horvitz says he purchased the 39-inch television from a third-party seller. A box ar-rived from UPS on Tuesday evening, and it seemed too small to contain the TV. He says he initially thought it contained accessories.

But when he opened it, he found a Sig Sauer military-style rifle. He says he had never held a gun before he felt the trigger of the rifle.

An invoice showed that the gun was intended for delivery to a firearms dealer in Duncansville, Pa. Horvitz called police, who took the gun and are investigating how the mistaken shipment occurred. Amazon and UPS had no immediate comment.

Man gets gun, not TV

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A moose was freed from a strange backyard entan-glement thanks to a brave Utah deputy and a pair of cutters.

Sgt. Lane Findlay found himself face to face with the moose whose antlers were wrapped up in a back-yard swing set this week-end.

The Weber County Sher-iff ’s deputy got the call Sunday and responded to a residential community out-side Ogden, about 40 miles north of Salt Lake City. He said the moose appeared in distress, and was bleeding.

Findlay said he handed his mobile phone to an on-looker and asked the person to shoot video, telling him, “If something happens to me, give this to my wife.”

The video shows the moose twisting in an at-tempt to free its antlers from the metal chains of the swing as Findlay cau-tiously approaches with the cutters. He clips the chain links one by one until the moose finally pulls free and wanders off with minor in-juries.

Findlay said he initially called wildlife officials but was told it might take an hour for them to respond.

Moose freed from swing prison


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By MIKE IVESAssociated Press

DANANG, Vietnam (AP) — The United States began a landmark project today to clean up a dangerous chem-ical left from the defoliant Agent Orange — 50 years after American planes first sprayed it on Vietnam’s jungles to destroy enemy cover.

Dioxin, which has been linked to cancer, birth de-fects and other disabilities, will be removed from the site of a former U.S. air base in Danang in central Viet-nam. The effort is seen as a long-overdue step toward removing a thorn in rela-tions between the former foes nearly four decades af-ter the Vietnam War ended.

“We are both moving earth and taking the first steps to bury the legacies of our past,” U.S. Ambassador David Shear said during the groundbreaking ceremony near where a rusty barbed wire fence marks the site’s boundary. “I look forward to even more success to fol-low.”

The $43 million joint

project with Vietnam is ex-pected to be completed in four years on the 47-acre contaminated site, now an active Vietnamese military base near Danang’s com-mercial airport.

Washington has been quibbling for years over the need for more scientific re-search to show that the her-bicide caused health prob-lems among Vietnamese. It has given about $60 million for environmental restora-tion and social services in Vietnam since 2007, but this is its first direct involve-ment in cleaning up dioxin, which has seeped into Viet-nam’s soil and watersheds for generations.

Shear added the U.S. is planning to evaluate what’s needed for remediation at the former Bien Hoa air base in southern Vietnam, another Agent Orange hotspot.

The work begins as Viet-nam and the U.S. forge closer ties to boost trade and counter China’s rising influence in the disputed South China Sea that’s be-lieved rich in oil and natu-

ral resources. The U.S. says protecting peace and free-dom of navigation in the sea is in its national inter-est.

The Danang site is closed to the public. Part of it con-sists of a dry field where U.S. troops once stored and mixed the defoliant before it was loaded onto planes. The area is ringed by tall grass, and a faint chemical scent was evident today.

The contaminated area also includes lakes and wet-lands dotted with pink lotus flowers where dioxin has seeped into soil and sedi-ment over decades. A high concrete wall separates it from nearby communities and serves as a barrier to fishing there.

The U.S. military dumped some 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides on about a quar-ter of former South Viet-nam between 1962 and 1971, decimating about 5 million acres of forest — roughly the size of Massachusetts.

The war ended on April

30, 1975, when northern Communist forces seized control of Saigon, the U.S.-backed capital of former South Vietnam. Some 58,000 Americans died, along with an estimated 3 million Viet-namese. The country was then reunified under a one-party Communist govern-ment. Following years of poverty and isolation, Viet-nam shook hands with the U.S. in 1995 and normalized diplomatic relations.

The Agent Orange issue has continued to blight the U.S.-Vietnam relationship because dioxin can linger in the environment for de-cades, entering the food supply through the fat of fish and other animals.

Although the chemical remains at the Danang site, U.S. officials said today that containment measures im-plemented in recent years temporarily ended the pub-lic health threat to the local community.

In 2007, Vietnamese au-thorities — with technical assistance from the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency and funding from the nonprofit U.S.-based Ford Foundation — poured a 6-inch concrete slab half the size of a football field over the contaminated area where Agent Orange was mixed. Dioxin is not water-soluble and only spreads when rainfall and runoff move contaminated mud.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Defense and the U.S. now plan to excavate 2.5 million cubic feet employing tech-nology used to clean super-fund sites in the U.S.

Workers will first dig down about 6 1/2 feet. The soil will then be heated to 635 degrees in special con-tainers where the dioxin will break down into oxy-gen, carbon dioxide and other substances that pose no health risks.

Vietnam’s deputy de-fense minister, Nguyen Chi Vinh, said today he hopes to receive more support from the international commu-nity and the U.S. govern-ment to help remediate di-

oxin hotspots elsewhere.The former U.S. air base

in southern Phu Cat has al-ready been identified, but he said many contaminated areas in Vietnam have not been adequately assessed.

It is still unclear how much dioxin the U.S. will help clean up in the long term and how much it will allocate for people who claim to be Agent Orange victims.

U.S. begins landmark Agent Orange clean-up effort

newspaper 8/9/12

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