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Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

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

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

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

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

By SUSAN [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By RICHARD [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

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

By BOB [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

See EGO | Page B6

By JOE [email protected]

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

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

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Temps for runlook inviting

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Countyhearsbudgetrequests

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

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

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

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

Pekarek finds home at USD 257

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

Cheating scandal detailed

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Vol. 114, No. 233 75 Cents Iola, KS

TRUSTEES GET TOUR OF NEW DIGS Housing authority’s budget hit

New hospital spacious, easy to navigate By SUSAN LYNN

[email protected] the skies broke loose

Tuesday night, hospital board trustees walked the grounds of the new Allen County Hospital.

Safely inside its skeleton, the rain, hail and high winds were deafening against the metal roof.

Still, the tour was illuminat-

ing of how spacious the new fa-cility will be and how easy it will be to navigate between depart-ments.

After the hour-long tour, trust-ees resumed their meeting at the current hospital.

Cris Rivera, chief executive officer of ACH, gave an overview

of a business plan for 2013 de-signed by Hospital Corporation of America administrators, the current management organiza-tion.

The business plan can serve as a blueprint to follow when local trustees assume management of the hospital at the first of the

year. Trustees agreed the plan

seemed to work. For the year so far, the hospi-

tal has more than doubled its projected profits.

Rivera noted an increase of services for 2012 including those


Iola Housing Authority stands to lose $151,000 in reserve funds, now being reduced as lower monthly rent subsidies from the Department of Housing and Ur-ban Development.

The only opportunity to re-coup the money, Executive Direc-tor Carol Ross told Allen County commissioners Tuesday morn-ing, is to join a class action law-suit against HUD. To do so she must come up with $2,000 by Mon-day to pay Iola’s share of lawsuit expenses.

Commission-ers agreed to provide $1,000, if another en-tity, such as Iola, paid the remain-der. Iola council members turned down Ross’ re-quest Monday night. If Iola Housing Authority doesn’t participate in the lawsuit, it has no chance of recovering the money.

Ross has money in reserve that could be used for lawsuit partici-pation — if it were legal. Federal dollars may not be used to pay for a lawsuit against the government.

The lawsuit will be filed by National Association of Hous-ing and Redevelopment Officials and Public Housing Authorities Directors Association. The deci-sion to recover money from local housing authorities by reducing reserve funds affects all public housing groups drawing HUD support.

Ross said she was being judi-cious in watching her budget which led to a healthy reserve

Bulldozer, raccoon headache for countyBy BOB JOHNSON

[email protected] man driving a bulldozer and

a raccoon gave Bill King some grief.

King, director of Public Works, told Allen County com-missioners Tuesday the huge bulldozer was driven over a county road, apparently being taken from one pasture to an-other to clean out stockwater ponds.

“It tore up the road,” he said.Commissioners told King to

contact the person and make

it clear county roads are not built to carry bulldozers. If that doesn’t work, Sheriff Tom Wil-liams said he would instruct deputies to deal with the matter.

A raccoon, apparently looking for a snug place to sleep, crawled into the engine compartment of a Bomag compactor at the land-fill.

When the operator started the machine, the startled animal be-came entangled in moving parts of the engine, including its fan.

King said repairs cost $1,500.

KING ALSO told commission-ers two full-time employees had left his department for opportu-nities elsewhere.

He proposed hiring one re-placement in November or December and a second in the spring, to the advantage of his budget.

“I’ll be able to get along for a while to help out my budget,” King said. “We’ll just take up the slack in other areas.”

A third public works employ-ee will be gone six months for National Guard basic training.

Register/Richard LukenBuster Keaton Celebration Committee members Mary Martin, left, and Bruce Symes are among the planners for the upcoming Keaton celebration Friday and Saturday at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

Keaton celebration 20 years and going


As Buster Keaton fans from around the world descend upon Iola this weekend to celebrate the silent film legend’s life and ca-reer — for the 20th straight year — Mary Martin couldn’t help but reflect on the gala’s humble be-ginnings.

“I didn’t think we could make it go the first year,” Martin said. “I had no idea so many people loved silent film. I barely knew who Ke-aton was.”

That the annual celebration has grown to become a reunion of sorts for fans both of Keaton and the silent film genre is testimony

to the organizers who have dedi-cated countless hours through the years to ensure the proceed-ings go off without a hitch.

Martin considers that the Ke-aton Committee’s greatest attri-bute.

“We’ve been complimented at how organized and seamless these weekends are,” Martin said with a chuckle. “A lot of years, we’ve been flying by the seat of our pants.”

Martin, one of the charter members of the Keaton Celebra-tion Committee, and Iolan Bruce Symes, whose involvement with the Keaton gala also dates back to its premiere in 1993, gathered this week to reflect on the annual cel-ebration and their hopes for the

Chicken and noodlesbig draw for Jefferson

Get a flu shot — from car


Area residents can get a flu shot Friday morning without get-ting out of their car.

The Southeast Kansas Multi-County Health Department is hosting a flu shot clinic at the Iola Fire Department headquarters at 408 N. Washington Ave.

There, patients can simply pull up in their cars, roll down a win-dow and get a shot.

“That’s really it,” said DeeDee Martin, interim co-administrator for the Health Department.

The health department will send bills to Medicare, Medicaid and Blue Cross Blue Shield-en-rolled patients.

Those without some form of insurance can pay $25 by cash or check.

“We’ll make you stay long

By RICHARD [email protected] orders are be-

ing accepted for chicken and noodle dinner sales affiliated with the upcoming Jefferson Elementary School Carnival Oct. 5.

Orders can be placed by calling the “Chicken Noodle Hotline,” 228-0807.

“Just leave a message if you don’t get an answer,” said Mandy Middleton, president of the Jefferson Parent Teach-er Organization, which is or-ganizing the carnival.

The chicken and noodles — traditionally the signature attraction for the annual car-nival — will sell for $7 a quart.

The carnival will feature an assortment of games and oth-er activities from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at the Recreation Community Building at Riverside Park.

Inflatable attractions will fill the inside of the build-

ing, while other games, both indoors and outdoors, are planned, Middleton said.

Wristbands granting access to each of the games will sell for $7 in advance or $10 the night of the carnival. Wrist-bands are available at the school office.

Scores of local businesses and other patrons have donat-ed items for a series of draw-ings, featuring such prizes as a laptop computer, tickets to upcoming cultural attractions and sporting events and other assorted goods and services.

Tickets for the drawing are available from Jefferson stu-dents.

A second drawing makes participants eligible for a playground pirate ship struc-ture built by maintenance em-ployee Mike Barnes.

Those tickets are available at the weekly Farmers Market

Register/Susan LynnAllen County Hospital trustees tour the grounds of the new facility Tuesday evening. At left, Cris Rivera, ACH chief executive officer, stands with trustees Jay Kretzmeier and Helen Gilpin at the hospital’s entrance. Also in the picture is Larry Peterson, hospital CFO. At right, Sheldon Streeter, project developer for Murray Company, is in the hospital’s storm shelter with Kretzmeier.

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David KippDavid Charles Kipp,

50, son of Hank and Jane Kipp, Piqua, died Thurs-day, Sept. 20, 2012, in St. Louis, Mo.

He is survived by wife Debbie, son Jason and daughter Nikki; and a brother, Dean, Piqua.

Cremation has taken place.

ObituaryArrests reported

Frank D. Logan III, Els-more, was arrested by Iola police officers Friday morn-ing for allegedly driving while suspended. The traf-fic stop was triggered for an expired license plate.

Anthony Hurtado, 23, was arrested Saturday morning during a traf-fic stop in the 300 block of East Broadway Street for allegedly driving while in-toxicated and driving with a suspended license. A pas-senger, Mitchell Mason, 27, was arrested for suspicion of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Christopher Headley was arrested early Sunday for allegedly driving while in-toxicated following a traf-fic stop in the 200 block of West Garfield Street. Head-ley also is accused of con-suming alcohol as a minor, running a stop sign and ex-

cessive acceleration. A pas-senger, Ezra Bartlett, was arrested for suspicion of transporting an open con-tainer of alcohol and con-suming alcohol as a minor.

Improper cellphone use alleged

Iola police officers said Lori Gregory, 31, was al-leged to have used a stolen cell phone while she was at work Friday at Guest Home Estates.

The case is being investi-gated as a theft report.

Parked vehicle hitLauren E. Heslop, 24,

was backing from a park-ing stall near North State Street Sept. 18 when she struck a vehicle driven by Roger W. Bland, 59, who was pulling into a separate parking stall.

Iola police officers said

Heslop left the scene and was found later in the 800 block of North Washington Avenue.

Medicine missingDarvin Willard told Iola

police officers Thursday he was missing several dosage units of a prescription nar-cotic medication from his residence in the 10 block of South Jefferson Avenue. The prescription was dated Sept. 14.

Cyclists locatedIola police officers were

called Thursday to assist the Allen County Sheriff’s Department in an attempt to locate what were de-scribed as “suspicious sub-jects” in the area of 1330 U.S. 54 west of Iola.

The subjects were locat-ed in the woods, where they were stopping to sleep after a long bicycle ride. The sub-

jects were granted permis-sion by the landowner to camp on the property.

Dog bite reportedMary Wallace, Welda,

told Iola police officers she was bitten by a dog while at the home of Cheryl Can-field in the 1000 block of North Cottonwood Street Friday.

Wallace said she was trimming the dog’s toe nails when the bite occurred.

Flower stolenCommunity Living Op-

portunities, 201 West St., reported Saturday an un-known female had stolen a mum flower plant from the yard in front of the build-ing. An off-duty employee witnessed the theft.

Citations issuedA traffic stop Saturday af-

ternoon in the 1400 block of North Kentucky resulted in citations issued to Deborah Haen, 49, and William Haen, 49, both of Parsons. Both are accused of transporting open containers of alcohol.

Vehicle vandalizedTyler Miller, 19, 316 W.

Jackson Ave., reported Sun-day somebody put sugar into the gas tank of his pickup. An investigation continues.

Tire cutIolan Johnny Cox, 42,

told police Sunday some-body cut the tire to his sis-ter, Mellisa Schenck’s car, while it was parked at Iola Walmart. Schenck, 46, is from Wisconsin.

A video surveillance camera picked up two suspects, who have subse-quently been identified. An investigation continues.

Police reports

Reunion SundayThe annual Baker fam-

ily reunion will begin at noon Sunday at the Cha-nute Central Park pavil-ion.

Harmony Societymeeting Monday

Harmony Society members will gather at 11 a.m. Monday at Pizza Hut in Iola.

Unity Clubdiscusses books

Unity Club’s fall lun-cheon was Monday at the United Methodist Church in Humboldt.

Rose Mary Riley had several books she rec-ommended. Selections ranged from fiction, non-fiction, biographies and memoirs.

Among the books she recommended were “Abundance: The Fu-ture is Better Than You Think,” by Peter Dia-mandis and Steve Kotler, “Escape From Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom,” by Blaine Harden, “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope,” by Jeffrey Zaslow and “The Wives: The Women Behind Russia’s Literary Giants,” by Al-exandra Popoff.

Hostesses were execu-tive board members Kar-en Lee, Ellie Walburn and Charlene Levans and the program committee, consisting of Helen Am-bler, Shirley Ashford and Ellen Thompson. Nine-teen active and two asso-ciate members attended.

Misc.

On Sept. 21, 32 Bron-son senior citizens met in the Bronson Method-ist Church annex for a covered dish luncheon. Orval Shinn cooked hot-dogs for the seniors with Loris Wilson and Erma Eastwood as hostesses.

Richard and Barbara Woodward celebrated a wedding anniversary this month. Richard is recov-ering from heart surgery.

Baptist pastor Tom Waters, Connie Snow and Jackie and Allen Warren were returning guests. Rhetta Smith was in charge of the program. The TV game show “Minute to Win It” was played with Elvis Reeder, Allen Warren, Phyllis Dites and Erma Eastwood.

Kathy Kuns and Loris Wilson will host the Oct. 19 gathering.

Bronsonseniorcitizensgather

Wednesday evening the senior center had a great group come to the potluck supper. Beans and corn-bread were served.

Saturday, Dee and Sheila Bedenbender took Thelma Bedenbender to Pittsburg to see her great-grandson, Drake Kirby, 5, play tag football.

The Rev. Russ Anderson’s children’s time message was “Sharing not all me.”

Scripture Sunday was Mark 8:30-35, and James 3:13, 4:35 and 7:78. The ser-

mon was “The Devil Made Me Do It.”

The potluck Sunday will be at 12:30 p.m.

Members will prepare for the church conference and for a group supper and auc-tion Oct. 9.

ThelmaBedenbender

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Neosho Falls news

Iola Nursing CenterPastor Melinda Spon-

seller visited Dee Hagman. Barbara and Cameron, Mapleton, visited Lilia Church. Helen Dorsey vis-ited James Dorsey. Pastor Marion Sponseller visited Doris Rogers. Gene Lucas visited Delia Hageman. Ro-berta West, Colony, visited Rosi Neal. Ralph Beachy, Garnett, visited Dora Beachy.

Several Iola Middle School students stopped by to join in activities.

The Barnhart fam-ily entertained residents Sept. 19. Pastor Gene McIntosh led church ser-vices Thursday. Saundra Upshaw sang to residents Tuesday.

Windsor PlaceStaff member Casey

Tush brought in a Wii video game system for residents

to enjoy.Residents put up deco-

rations for the Iola High School homecoming foot-ball game Friday.

Four residents went to the Bowlus Fine Arts Cen-ter the weekend of Sept. 15 to see the program “Willy Wonka Jr.”

Richard Pearman en-tertained residents, which he’s done for more than 40 years.

Beth Prock, Laura Roush, Joann Beck, Phil Andrues, Ida Andrues, Cindy Green-hofu and Charles Baker and family visited Thelma Manbeck. Anna Reese, Alli-son Baker, Stacy Nesbit and family, Allen Johnson and Barbara Johnson visited Ruth Caudell. John Hart-man was visited by Rone Werlltyx, Jean Capell’s visi-tors were Polly Sarver and the Slurtidyes. Leroy Ew-ing was visited by Jess Ew-ing.

Nursing home news

Guest Home EstatesBill and Patty Zornes,

Kearne, Mo., visited Rus-sell Zornes. The Rev. Paul Miller led church service Thursday.

Royce Smith, LaHarpe, visited John Fursman. Jane Sneed visited Evelyn Calhoon.

Several Iola Middle

School students stopped by to join in activities.

The Barnhart family en-tertained residents Sept. 19. Gene Lucas visited Delia Hageman. Pastor Gene Mc-Intosh led church services Thursday. Saundra Upshaw stopped by to sing Tuesday.

Kirby Byers is new to the facility.

Residential care news

In Monday’s issue of the Register a name was mis-spelled in the Calling for Support photo depicting

two girls hula-hooping. It should read Abygail Roett-gen. The Register regrets the error.

Caption correction

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Andy Williams, the silky-voiced, clean-cut crooner, whose hit recording “Moon Riv-er” and years of p o p u l a r C h r i s t -mas TV s h o w s b r o u g h t him fans the world over has died, his publicist said. He was 84.

Williams died Tuesday night at his home in Bran-son following a yearlong battle with bladder can-cer, his Los Angeles-based publicist, Paul Shefrin, said today.

With an easy style and a mellow voice that President Ronald Rea-gan once termed “a na-tional treasure,” Wil-liams proved ideal for television. “The Andy Williams Show,” which lasted in various for-mats from 1957 to 1971, featured Williams alter-nately performing his stable of easy-listening ballads and bantering casually with his guest stars. He received 18 gold and three platinum albums over his long ca-reer and was nominated for five Grammy awards. He released an autobi-ography in 2009, “Moon River and Me: A Mem-oir.”

It was on that show that Williams — who launched his own career as part of an all-brother quartet — introduced the world to the original four sing-ing Osmond Brothers of Utah. Their younger sib-ling Donny also made his debut on Williams’ show, in 1963 when he was 6 years old.

Four decades later, the

Osmonds and Williams would find themselves in close proximity again, sharing Williams’ theater in Branson, Mo., during the 2003 season.

The singer’s unflappa-ble manner on television and in concert mirrored his offstage demeanor.

“I guess I’ve never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be,” he once said. “My trouble is, I’m not constructed tem-peramentally along those lines.”

Williams’ clean-cut per-sona, which made him a popular act in conserva-tive Branson, also carried over into his personal life. He was connected with scandal only once — indi-rectly — when his ex-wife, former Las Vegas show-girl Claudine Longet, shot her lover, skiing champi-on Spider Sabich, to death in 1976. The Rolling Stones mocked the tragedy in the song “Claudine.”

Longet, who said it was an accident, spent only a week in jail, and Williams provided support for her and their children, Noelle, Christian and Robert.

Born in Wall Lake, Iowa, on Dec. 3, 1927, How-ard Andrew Williams be-gan performing with his older brothers Dick, Bob and Don in the local Pres-byterian church choir when he was 8. Their fa-ther, a postal worker, was the choirmaster.

Soon after, the Wil-liams Brothers Quartet landed a regular spot on Des Moines radio station WHO’s Iowa Barn Dance. The show quickly brought attention from Chicago, Cincinnati and Holly-wood.

‘Moon River’ crooner, Williams, dies at 84

Andy Williams

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By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The

presidential election is Nov. 6, but it could take days to figure out the winner if the vote is close. New voting laws are likely to increase the number of people who have to cast provisional ballots in key states.

Tight races for Congress, gov-ernor and local offices also could be stuck in limbo while election officials scrutinize ballots, a sce-nario that would surely attract le-gions of campaign lawyers from both parties.

“It’s a possibility of a complete meltdown for the election,” said Daniel Smith, a political scientist at the University of Florida.

Voters cast provisional ballots for a variety of reasons: They don’t bring proper ID to the polls; they fail to update their voter reg-istration after moving; they try to vote at the wrong precinct; or their right to vote is challenged by someone.

These voters may have their votes counted, but only if election officials can verify that they were eligible to vote, a process that can take days or weeks. Adding to the potential for chaos: Many states won’t even know how many provi-sional ballots have been cast until sometime after Election Day.

Voters cast nearly 2.1 million provisional ballots in the 2008 presidential election. About 69 percent were eventually counted, according to election results com-piled by The Associated Press.

New election laws in competi-tive states like Virginia, Florida, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin will probably increase the number of provisional ballots in those states this year, according to voting ex-perts, although the new laws in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are being challenged in court.

New voter ID laws in states like Kansas, Mississippi, South Caro-lina and Tennessee could affect state or local elections, though some of those laws also are being challenged.

Provisional ballots don’t get much attention if an election is a landslide. But what if the vote is close, as the polls suggest in the race between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Rom-ney?

Most of today’s voting night-mares go back to Florida in 2000, when the results of balloting and thus the winner of the presiden-tial contest were not known for weeks after Election Day. Ques-tions about recount irregularities and the validity of ballots with hanging chads — paper fragments still attached to punch-card bal-lots — preceded the eventual dec-laration that George W. Bush had won the state by 537 votes and was the next president.

“In a close election, all eyes are going to be on those provisional ballots, and those same canvass-ing boards that were looking at pregnant chads and hanging chads back in 2000,” Smith said.

“It’s a potential mess.”The federal election law passed

in response to the 2000 presiden-tial election gives voters the op-tion to cast a provisional ballot, if poll workers deny them a regular one. New voter ID laws could slow the count even more.

In Virginia and Wisconsin, vot-ers who don’t bring an ID to the polls can still have their votes counted if they produce an ID by the Friday following Election Day. Pennsylvania’s law gives voters six days to produce an ID.

In Ohio, which has competitive races for both president and the Senate, provisional voters have up to 10 days following the elec-tion to bring an ID to the county board of elections.

If voters in Florida don’t bring an ID to the polls, they must sign a provisional ballot envelope. Can-vassing boards then will try to match the signatures with those in voter registration records, a process that conjures up images of the 2000 presidential election in Florida.

“Americans have gotten used to the expectation that you could turn on the TV and you would know that night who won the elec-tion, even after Florida in 2000,”

said Edward B. Foley, a law pro-fessor at Ohio State University. “But this could be an election in which we don’t know the answer for several days.”

Florida could see a big increase in provisional ballots because the state has tightened its change-of-address requirements. This year, voters who move from one county to another in Florida without up-dating their voter registration will have to cast provisional bal-lots. In previous elections, they could change their address on Election Day and cast a regular ballot.

Four years ago, Florida vot-ers cast about 36,000 provisional ballots. About half of them were eventually counted, though the percentages varied greatly from county to county.

This year, Florida could have 300,000 provisional ballots, said Michael McDonald, an election expert at George Mason Univer-sity.

“You want to see chaos in Flor-ida? There it is,” McDonald said.

In Ohio, address changes were the biggest reason voters cast provisional ballots in 2008, said Ohio Secretary of State Jon Hus-ted. Ohio voters cast about 207,000

provisional ballots in the 2008 presidential election — second only to California. About 130,000 of them were cast because voters moved and didn’t update their voter registration, Husted said.

In 2004, the number of provi-sional ballots cast in Ohio was larger than President George W. Bush’s margin of victory over Democrat John Kerry. Kerry didn’t concede until the following morning, when the provisional ballot picture became clear.

In 2008, the number of provi-sional ballots cast in North Car-olina was larger than Obama’s margin of victory over Republi-can John McCain. The Associated Press didn’t declare the state for Obama until the day after Elec-tion Day, though Obama had al-ready won enough states to claim the presidency.

Husted said his office is trying to reduce the number of provi-sional ballots in Ohio by using change-of-address information from the Postal Service to send out more than 300,000 postcards to Ohio voters, reminding them to update their registration.

“If we can potentially reduce the number of ballots cast provi-sionally, then you lessen the like-lihood that there will have to be a prolonged process as it relates to those ballots,” Husted said. “Un-derstand, a provisional ballot is a second chance because you didn’t do it right the first time, meaning that you didn’t update your address, you didn’t bring in the proper form of ID, there’s something that the voter didn’t do at the onset that prevented them from voting a regular bal-lot.”

By FRANK SHYONGLos Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles firefighter Greg Pascola spotted a column of smoke from the corner of his eye — a fire burning on a distant hillside.

He looked east from his vantage point on a moun-taintop road near Mulhol-land Drive and felt wind at his back. It was 3 p.m. on a September Friday that would see record-breaking heat, and cars choked every lane of the 405 Freeway for miles.

He and his partner gunned their motorcycles.

They are part of the Los

Angeles Fire Department’s pilot motorcycle response team, a five-man unit that can speed to the side of an injured victim, provide in-formation to dispatchers and skirt traffic to scout fires and other problems. The unit first rode during last year’s “Carmageddon” closure of the 405, and its next deployment will take place during the follow-up closure this weekend, when workers will demolish the other half of the Mulhol-land Drive bridge overhead.

Fire departments serv-ing traffic-snarled cities around the nation have ad-opted similar motorcycle

teams to improve response times, staff special events and, in some cases, save lives and resources. As the L.A. department faces bud-get cuts and intense scruti-ny over response times that lag behind national stan-dards, some believe that a roving motorcycle unit could help the department.

The pilot unit features five off-road-capable motorcycles on loan from the Kawasaki Motor Corp. Each bike re-tails for about $6,300 and is outfitted with a defibrillator, a small fire extinguisher, var-ious medical supplies and a handlebar-mounted GPS system. A dozen firefighters have undergone the neces-sary training, and a perma-nent unit could have up to 10 motorcycles and 28 riders, said Capt. Craig White, who first proposed the unit to the department.

White said he’d thought about creating a motor-cycle unit for years, and last year’s 405 closure — shutting down 10 miles of one of the nation’s busiest freeways — presented the ideal test. The department already had a bicycle medic unit for events such as the L.A. Marathon.

Though the nightmare Carmageddon traffic jams that officials feared never materialized, the motorcy-cle unit had an opportunity to show what it could do earlier this month.

As a 70-acre brush fire

stopped traffic on the 405 and caused the evacuation of the Getty Center, Pascola and his partner reached the com-mand post within three min-utes — even before helicop-ters could reach the site. They were handed radios and be-gan to map the blaze, weaving between cars, hopping side-walks and navigating narrow, curving mountain roads.

“At the time, we were the only ones out there to scout,” Pascola said.

In addition to scouting fires, advocates say the motorcycle response team could also help save lives. When a heart attack oc-curs, the American Heart and Lung Assn. says, irre-versible brain damage can begin after four minutes.

Motorcycle-borne medics equipped with defibrilla-tors in Miami cut response times from an average of seven minutes to less than three in some places, said Capt. Roman Bas of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

“Absolutely it saved lives,” Bas said. “And it saved money too.”

Bas said deploying mo-torcycles instead of ambu-lances and trucks reduced fuel consumption and ex-tended the working life of more valuable emer-gency response vehicles, which were used less. He had planned to expand the program to 12 battalions, with a roving motorcycle response unit to cover mul-tiple areas of the city.

But Miami’s motorcycle medic unit was dismantled in 2008 after department-wide budget cuts. Though the program was relative-ly cheap — the fleet of 10 donated motorcycles cost $36,000 a year to maintain — Bas said it wasn’t a priority.

“Putting firefighters on motorcycles is just not tra-dition,” Bas said. “You still have departments where all they do is handle fire. They need to look into new ways of using these units.”

The Seattle Fire Depart-ment has also explored mo-torcycle response units, but a program never got off the ground. Austin, Texas, has a program with four motor-cycles, but it is run sepa-rately from the Austin Fire Department.

The units are more com-mon overseas in Japan and Europe, where some mo-torcycle units tow cars and fight fires with specialized attachments.

Cummings said. “They each have a role. They’re each tools in the toolbox.”

White, a motorcycle en-thusiast since high school, said the unit’s biggest sell-ing point is its flexibility.

“Right now,” he said, “we just want to see what we can do with them.”

New voter I.D. laws could delay election resultsPotential exists for ‘complete meltdown,’ oneobserver warns

Americans have gotten used to the expectation that you could turn on the TV and you would know that night who won the election, even after Florida in 2000. But this could be an election in which we don’t know the answer for several days.

— Edward Foley, law professor at Ohio State University

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Fire department gives motorcycle response unit a shot

Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/MCTLos Angeles Fire Department motorcycle medic unit supervisor Capt. Craig White shows off the Kawasaki KLR 650 enduro bikes ridden by team members along dirt roads keeping en eye out for fires and bikers need-ing medical attention near Los Angeles.

BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman has been jailed on charges she bonked police officers with beer thrown from an upstairs window when they answered a domestic dispute call at her home.

Police say Diane, Pusateri, 48, was argu-ing with another woman as three police arrived at their home about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh on Sunday night. That’s when police say she threw a 30-pack of beer out a second-floor win-dow, hitting two of three responding officers in the head, shoulder, neck and thigh with the cans.

She remained jailed and faces charges includ-ing aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and resisting arrest.

Beer assault lands Pa. woman in jail


Opinion

First, a personal account. When I voted in the August pri-mary I not only had to show my driver’s license to an election clerk I had known personally for about 30 years, I also had to sign a statement swearing that I was, indeed, a citizen and eli-gible to vote. I rolled my eyes, but didn’t complain. She was only following instructions.

But the oath-signing was onerous. The requirement as-sumes that at least some of us who come to do their civic duty are cheating. That is an insult. Kansas should put an end to that part of the protocol.

Now to the bigger picture. Several states have passed legislation its authors say is designed to root out illegal vot-ers. In every case, the authors were Republicans and it took Republican majorities to put the laws on the books. With the presidential election drawing nigh, officials are now using those laws to weed the illegals from voter registration rolls.

They are finding that the laws are solutions for problems that don’t exist.

Searches in Colorado and Florida have discovered that less than one-tenth of 1 percent of all registered voters in ei-ther state are ineligible to vote for one reason or another.

Colorado and Florida are both swing states. An exami-nation of the states which adopted punitive election qualification laws shows most are toss-ups in the up-coming election.

In each, state election offi-cials sent letters to those they suspected might be ineligible to vote asking they demon-strate their eligibility to regis-tration officials. All but a hand-ful of those notified proved their eligibility.

But in the process, many of those questioned were deeply offended. One can expect them to vote Democratic as a reac-tion to the Republican offen-sive. The effort, in other words, is likely to backfire.

Colorado, for example, ques-tioned 3,903 registered voters. Of those, only 141 had a ques-tionable status — or .004 per-cent of the state’s nearly 3.5 million voters. And the 141 are dwindling. A person-by-person check done by the Denver clerk and recorder’s office looked at eight of them and found all

eight eligible to vote. One oth-er said he had never voted and still another is an immigrant from Canada who is now a U.S. citizen and has moved from Denver.

In Florida, the state began questioning 180,000 registered voters. That number was quickly reduced to 2,600. In the end, only 207 weren’t citi-zens. Florida has 11.4 million registered voters. The illegals amount to .001 percent of the total.

A search in North Carolina, another battleground state, discovered only 12 instances in which a noncitizen had voted. The state has 6.4 million voters.

Last week, Iowa’s Division of Criminal Investigation filed election misconduct charges against three noncitizens who voted in gubernatorial and city elections in 2010 and 2011. Among the three are Canadi-ans who thought they were barred from voting only in presidential elections.

KANSAS SECRETARY of State Kris Kobach is a national leader in the effort to make vot-ing more difficult by compli-cating the registration process and requiring identification papers that some do not have and find difficult to obtain. It is not a coincidence that many of those who don’t have a pass-port or a driver’s license are likely to vote Democratic.

While Kobach doesn’t make the argument out loud, his crusade has the effect of help-ing Republican candidates. As was previously noted, ALL of the initiatives to tighten elec-tion laws have been Republi-can initiatives. They have the effect of reducing the number of citizens who can qualify to vote who are poor, disabled or have become citizens recently.

As was mentioned at the beginning, the stringent iden-tification procedures put into place also cast a dark shadow of suspicion over the election process.

Kris Kobach lives in a sepa-rate world populated by liars and cheats. Most of the rest of us assume that the guy or gal in the next voting booth is just like we are — an ordinary citi-zen who votes because that’s what good citizens do.

I like our world better.— Emerson Lynn, jr.

States discoververy little fraudin voter lists

By NAJAH DIMASHQIEHIThe Institute for

War & Peace ReportingDAMASCUS, Syria — The Syr-

ian revolution that erupted in March 2011 and is still continuing tends to be interpreted too super-ficially by the international com-munity.

Many characterize the situa-tion as a civil war, implying that the civilian population is caught up in a sectarian bloodbath.

In fact, Syrians are paying a high price for attempting to oust the most vicious and authoritar-ian regime that has ever ruled their country. A people who re-mained silent until the flames of freedom, coming from Tuni-sia and Egypt, made it possible to hope for change launched a peaceful movement that was met by brutal repression.

To understand what has been going on in Syria over the last 17 months, you need to know the country’s recent history and how the Baathist regime ruled for more than 40 years.

In contrast to Libya, Syrian in-dependence in 1946 brought free elections — women had the vote by 1949 — a judiciary, parliament and political parties in which many people became engaged. In the 1950s, numerous secular parties became popular, includ-ing the Baath Party, which seized power in 1963.

In 1971, the Baath Party in-

stalled Hafez al-Assad as presi-dent. In time, what had begun as a state governed by a party with a socialist agenda was transformed into a brutal dictatorship. Backed by top army officers, President Assad sidelined civil institutions by the 1980s and turned the coun-try over to the security agencies that operated hand in hand with a small business elite.

The current regime came out of a coalition of Sunnis, Alawi-tes and other groups. The Assad family gained privileges that also extended to some of the Alawite community, thus creating the false impression that it was only Alawites who were in power.

The Syrian army was trained to be loyal only to Assad and his family. On the orders of the re-gime, it carried out a series of massacres. One of these, in 1979, came in response to a coup at-tempt against Assad. In 1982, the Hama massacre is believed to have left 20,000 to 40,000 civilians dead.

These massacres consolidated the Assad regime’s grip in power.

As one commentator said of the 1980s, “It is not Assad who rules Syria now, it is fear.” The year 2000 brought hope of change. The late president’s son, Bashar al-Assad, came in with talk of reforms, promising political and economic changes that never ma-terialized.

Deceptive economic growth figures concealed the fact that the new business elite was the principal beneficiary. Activists striving for political reform were repressed as the regime employed

the rhetoric of Arab nationalism and resistance against Israel and the West to maintain its hold.

People realized they were un-der the same regime as before, just with different personali-ties in charge. Even so, many re-mained hopeful and waited for reform.

In 2011, peaceful demonstra-tions were met with ferocious, violent repression. Moreover, the regime started to generate an armed conflict by allocating weapons to its supporters — Ala-wites in particular, but other communities as well. The pretext was that they were fighting Sun-ni jihadists who were out to kill minorities and establish Islamic rule.

AT THIS POINT, many Syrian intellectuals from all faith groups lost any hope of reform. They no longer believe that change can come from a regime that is pre-pared to engulf the country in a conflagration either to ensure its survival or to avenge its own de-mise.

The revolution cannot now re-treat. People know that if they back down, they will have to en-dure an even more repressive po-lice state that deploys bands of thugs empowered to take punitive action against them.

———About the writer

Najah Dimashqiehi is a report-er in Syria who writes for The Institute for War & Peace Report-ing, a nonprofit organization that trains journalists in areas of con-flict.

President Assad is catalyst of Syrian revolt

The anti-American violence in the Muslim world demanded a firm push back from President Obama, who finally delivered it on Tuesday in the last United Na-tions General Assembly speech of his term.

Since the protests, attacks and flag burnings erupted two weeks ago over an anti-Islam video made in California, administra-tion officials have condemned its crude depiction of the Prophet Muhammad and explained that the government had nothing to do with it. Mr. Obama made a simi-lar point at the United Nations.

But he also gave a full-throated defense of the First Amendment right that, in this country, pro-tects even hateful writings, films and speech. “We do so because in a diverse society, efforts to re-strict speech can quickly become a tool to silence critics and op-press minorities,” Mr. Obama said. He added that “the strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression; it is more speech — the voices of tolerance that ral-ly against bigotry and blasphemy, and lift up the values of under-standing and mutual respect.”

Mr. Obama was right to deliver that message, however foreign it

is in much of the Muslim world. The assembled leaders applauded when Mr. Obama said he accepts that, as president, people will call him “awful things every day” and that he will defend their right to do it. But a number of Islamic leaders have recently revived a push for an international ban on blasphemy, which would move in exactly the wrong direction.

Mr. Obama’s more pragmatic challenges to Arab Spring coun-tries trying to build new demo-cratic societies may have more impact. He said all leaders must speak against violence and ex-tremism out of obligation to United Nations norms as well as self-interest. “Burning an Ameri-can flag does nothing to provide a child an education,” he said, and popular outrage can be turned as easily against Muslim lead-ers, ethnic groups and tribes as America.

Mr. Obama also bluntly warned that the politics of anger could damage international coopera-tion. The United States intends to stay engaged with the struggling Muslim democracies, even after the killing of the ambassador to Libya and three other Americans on Sept. 11. But efforts to deepen

trade, economic and other ties “depend on a spirit of mutual interest and mutual respect,” he said.

Six weeks before the election, the speech to an audience of world leaders in the United Na-tions General Assembly hall was as much a domestic political ap-peal as anything else. President Obama used the commanding venue of the General Assembly to offer a reasonable defense against Mitt Romney’s incoherent cri-tique of his response to the revo-lutions in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen and to Iran’s nuclear program.

There were two fairly big omis-sions in Mr. Obama’s visit to the General Assembly. He spoke only briefly on areas that need more debate in this campaign — the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Syrian civil war, Afghanistan and Iraq. And while it’s reasonable for Mr. Obama to be in campaign mode, just like Mr. Romney, he is the president. He could have used some of his time in New York to meet privately with world lead-ers, as presidents usually do.

It’s not like he doesn’t have a lot to talk to them about.

— The New York Times

Obama: Free speech critical to Muslim democracies

Opposition is to a tyrant, notsectarian difference

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GENESIS for the Keaton celebration began in 1991 following a presentation on Keaton by the late Gene De-Gruson, curator of special collections at Pittsburg State University.

A handful were aware Keaton had special ties to southeast Kansas — he was born in Piqua, while his fam-ily was traveling through the region as part of a vaude-ville troupe — but few real-ized the Great Stone Face’s cultural impact on the world of silent film and entertain-ment in general.

Talking casually with Iola attorney and historian Clyde Toland afterward, DeGruson quickly embraced the idea of a local celebration of Kea-ton, particularly because of Iola’s proximity to Piqua.

The group began planning for the celebration to start the following fall, in 1992.

“But none of us had ever done anything like this be-fore,” Martin said, “so we had to learn quickly.”

A committee took shape and traveled to the William Inge Film Festival in Inde-pendence to gather ideas about how to celebrate Kea-ton’s work.

But DeGruson became sick and was unable to assist with the efforts.

“It became apparent we weren’t going to be ready,” Martin said, “and we knew we wanted to do this thing right.”

So plans were delayed to September 1993.

Activities were planned around Keaton’s birthday — Oct. 4 — but pushed up a week on the calendar because his birthday invariably falls on or near the same weekend as Humboldt’s wildly popular Biblesta celebration.

Toland solicited the help of Fred Krebs, a former col-lege classmate at the Univer-sity of Kansas, and a well-known humanities scholar and history instructor at

Johnson County Communi-ty College.

Krebs eagerly joined on, bringing with him film scholars John Tibbetts at KU and Wes Gehring of Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.

Tibbetts also provided an-other vital contribution.

A talented artist, he de-signed the posters for the first Keaton — and 19 subse-quent — celebrations.

AS THE planners were ready to begin publicizing the inaugural celebration that September, a bit of ser-endipity led to Symes’ in-volvement.

Then wire editor for the Iola Register, Symes hap-pened to be the only reporter in the office when Toland stopped by to talk about the upcoming Keaton activities planned that year.

“I didn’t know much about Buster Keaton, ei-ther,” Symes admitted.

He had recalled seeing only a single film clip of Keaton’s, the iconic scene from “Steam-boat Jr.,” in which the facade of a house falls on Keaton, only to see him emerge un-scathed because he was stand-ing in the precise location of the wall’s window opening.

As Symes began to learn about Keaton’s work, he, too, became a fan.

Symes penned several ar-ticles in the lead up to the inaugural event but was un-able to attend that day’s ac-tivities because of a sched-ule conflict.

Little worry.Organizers quickly real-

ized the celebration could become an annual affair.

Sure enough, the second Keaton celebration in 1994 became a two-day event, drawing scholars, silent film buffs and Keaton fans from across the country.

Symes wrote frequently about the Keaton celebra-tion as each annual event neared, then was asked to become a committee mem-ber himself in 2009, shortly after leaving the Register to become director of the writ-ing center at Allen Commu-nity College.

“I grew to love Buster’s work,” Symes said. “It was fun to write about it.”

ORGANIZERS knew they were on to something.

Both Martin and Symes recounted the number of times they’d see folks enter the Bowlus, see a familiar face, then rush for a warm

greeting or hug.“It’s almost become a

family reunion,” Martin said. “This might be the only time these people see each other all year.”

The first three celebra-tions focused solely on Kea-ton, then soon expanded to incorporate other silent film legends, such as Char-lie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Kansas native and Kea-ton friend Fatty Arbuckle.

As the celebration’s prominence grew, so did the number of noteworthy visi-tors.

Long-time film and tele-vision actor James Karen, a friend of Keaton’s, gave the celebration a significant boost when he attended in 1994. Eleanor Keaton, Bust-er’s widow, was at the 1995 event, which coincided with Keaton’s 100th birthday.

THE COMMITTEE’S suc-cess is testament to the abili-ties of each member, Martin stressed.

Film scholars and histo-rians develop the theme for each year’s celebration and work to find capable speak-ers on the various topics.

Others handle logistics, such as fundraising and so-cial gatherings surrounding the two-day celebration.

Martin and Symes spoke glowingly of the dedication all have put into the plan-ning and execution of each event.

“To me, the best part is that not only are you enter-tained during the film show-ings, but if you listen to the guest speakers, you can’t help but learn a few things in the process,” Martin said. “It’s entertaining and educa-tional.”

THE 20TH annual Keaton celebration begins Friday morning at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center and features a number of returning special guests, such as Karen, Kevin Brownlow, a historian, film-maker and 2010 Academy Award film preservation award recipient; Melissa Talmadge Cox, Keaton’s granddaughter; and David Shepard, prominent preser-vationist and film restorer of the silent film era.

Several other guest speak-ers will be on hand.

Martin, meanwhile, will gather both Friday and Sat-urday for a pair of group dis-cussions with other “Found-ers Panel” members, Toland, Amy Specht, Krebs, Tibbetts and Frank Scheide.

The Mont Alto Orches-tra of Boulder, Co., will be on hand for live musical ac-companiment of the evening screenings “Our Hospital-ity” Friday and “The Gen-eral” Saturday.

THE CELEBRATION again is funded from gener-ous donations by the Kan-sas Humanities Council, Sleeper and Clopton family trusts, the Iola Convention and Tourism Committee and with help from private dona-tions.

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But none of us had ever done anything like this before, so we had to learn quickly.

— Mary Martin,Buster Keaton

Celebration Committee member

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enough to make sure you’re OK,” Martin said.

A station also will be set up for those who prefer to get out of their car.

The clinic runs from 8 a.m. to noon.

Two sets of nurses will be on hand to ensure pro-ceedings go smoothly.

The health department

has about 1,000 doses of flu vaccine available for the public.

The clinic is open to pa-tients of all ages.

Children ages 6 months to 36 months will get a slightly smaller dose. First-time recipients at those ages must get a sec-ond vaccination about a month later.

“All adults and elderly

patients will get the same (one-time) dose,” Martin said.

For more information, call 365-2191.

Martin said other flu shot clinics are planned elsewhere in Iola, Bour-bon, Woodson and Ander-son counties.

Information on those events is available at www.sekmchd.org.

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ket held Thursday eve-nings along Iola’s court-house square.

Modern Woodmen has pledged to match up to $2,000 from revenues gen-erated from the carnival.

Proceeds from the ac-tivities will go toward PTO’s efforts to purchase a new sound system for the Jefferson gymnasi-um.

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fund. “We’ve done things

ahead of time to save mon-ey and have found good buys anytime we could,” she said.

To help its budget, HUD reduced allowable reserves of housing au-thorities from 10 months of their operating budgets to six months — meaning reserve funds may be no more than 50 percent of projected annual operat-ing expenses.

That required Iola and others across the nation to return part of their reserves, built up over years, to HUD. The upshot is that Iola may have no more than $324,000 — half its operations budget of $648,000 — in the bank on March 31, the end of the federal fiscal year.

Beginning in Janu-ary, the housing author-ity’s monthly subsidy pay-ments were reduced from $29,500 to just less than $17,000 to reduce reserves.

HUD subsidies are fig-ured by taking into con-sideration utility costs — that’s the biggest com-ponent — occupancy rates, and allowable main-tenance expenses.

“The rate changes from year to year,” and next year’s is questionable de-pending on what Congress does, Ross said.

THE HOUSING author-ity has 158 housing units, including 55 in the Town-house, 217 N. Washington, which was built in 1971.

To categorize the Town-house, or any units, as only for the elderly would be a misnomer, Ross point-ed out.

“They’re for families, and none is designated for the elderly,” she said.

HUD subsidies kick in when rent exceeds a fam-ily’s ability to pay, based on its income with deduc-tions for recognized living expenses.

“Rent is 30 percent of adjusted income,” Ross said.

Ross said keeping re-serves in check won’t be a chore.

Ross said the ongoing drought of 2011 and this year played havoc with foundations of housing units under IHA’s thumb.

“We spent $148,000 on foundation work in Feb-ruary and work we’re do-ing on foundations will

amount to $69,000 by early October,” she said, after reviewing invoices. But, “we can’t contract ahead now because of reduced reserves,” with the fear of not being able to meet un-anticipated expenses.

IOLA HOUSING Au-thority also operates Townhouse East, but its funding is through the U.S. Department of Ag-riculture Rural Develop-ment, and is not affected by these particular deci-sions.

Its 40 units are for el-derly, disabled and handi-capped clients, and it has an annual budget of $98,000.

Minimum rents, de-termined by family in-come, is $280 a month for one-bedroom units, $330 for two-bedroom units. Residents unable to meet minimum rent receive as-sistance from USDA Rural Development.

Townhouse East was built in 1980.

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We spent $148,000 on foundation work in February and work we’re doing on foun-dations will amount to $69,000 by early October. But, we can’t contract ahead now because of reduced reserves.

— Carol Ross, Iola Housing Authority executive director

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By DAVID G. SAVAGE Tribune Washington

BureauWASHINGTON — The

Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether motor-ists suspected of drunken driving who refuse to take a breath test can be forced to have their blood drawn at a hospital.

The ruling in a Missouri case, expected early next year, will help define the powers of the police and the rights of motorists when they are stopped for driving while intoxicated.

In most states, drivers must consent as a condi-tion of obtaining a license that they will submit to a

test of their breath, blood or urine if stopped on sus-picion of drunken driving. Failing to do so can mean their driver’s license will be revoked. Moreover, a jury can be told their refus-al to be tested is evidence of guilt.

But judges in some states have balked at go-ing further and forcing suspects to have their blood drawn against their will. Several state high courts have deemed this an “unreasonable search” in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

The U.S. high court said it would hear an appeal from Missouri prosecu-

tors who argued that be-cause alcohol in the body quickly dissipates, police need to act fast and require suspected drunken drivers to undergo either a breath test or a blood test.

Lawyers for the Ameri-can Civil Liberties Union argued that a police officer must obtain a search war-rant from a magistrate be-fore compelling a suspect to undergo a blood test.

“In the middle of the night, it’s not always easy to get a search warrant. You usually have a delay of a couple of hours,” said John Koester Jr., the Missouri prosecutor who brought the appeal.

Court considers forced DUI test


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The wound care and pain care clinics have been “very fruitful and productive,” Ri-vera said.

The staff has remained steady at the hospital. In the last year the amount of overall employee turnover has decreased from 14.2 per-cent to 8.9 percent.

For registered nurses, turnover has decreased from 7.8 percent to 5 per-cent.

The demographics of southeast Kansas are a concern, Rivera said. The mix of patients – young or old, poor or economically

sound, healthy or ill – is dwindling. To counter the loss of those young and healthy, Rivera said the hos-pital is interested in work-ing with Iola Industries and Thrive Allen County

to recruit new industries to town.

The hospital also is gear-ing itself to recruit a new generation of family phy-sicians and a registered nurse anesthetist for ex-

pected retirements over the next several years. The hos-pital also will beef up its efforts to recruit specialty physicians such as orthope-dic surgeon and oncologist and a urologist.

Recruiting specialists “is harder than I thought it would be,” Rivera said, not-ing the 90-mile drive from Kansas City, for example, “takes a big chunk out of a doctor’s day.”

The hospital’s top three goals for next year, are:

• To acquire on-site on-cology coverage to provide more comprehensive care for those battling cancer;

• To acquire a multi-slice CT scanner; and

• To acquire the appropri-ate software for oncology patient management.

“It’s better to set our sights on a few goals than an entire list,” Rivera said.

A NEW MEDICAL office building to be built adja-cent to the new hospital is in the planning stages, said Harry Lee, trustees chair-man.

Lee said estimates are that the building would be 15,000 square feet and still be a bargain to build, “pos-sibly as low as $165 a square foot.”

David Wright of Health Facilities Group, the archi-

tect for the new hospital, also would be the architect for the medical office build-ing, where visiting special-ists would see patients.

Trustees approved the payment of bills, which were $7,494 to BKD for professional services; two separate bills of $20,600.51 and $23,144.47 to Health Facilities Group; and $3,913.48 to Seigfreid, Bingham, attorneys based in Kansas City.

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Register/Susan LynnWith threatening skies all around, hospital trustees and administrators tour the grounds of the new facility. Project manager Sheldon Streeter, (green shirt), led the tour.

By DIAA HADIDAssociated Press

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Egypt’s new President Mohammed Morsi debuts at the United Nations today with a speech that will be closely watched by world leaders for clues about his democrat-ic inten-tions and plans for lifting his c o u n t r y out of crip-pling pov-erty.

M o r s i , an Islamist and key figure in the once-banned Mus-lim Brotherhood, is the first democratically-elected leader of the ancient land at the heart of the Arab world. He was sworn in June 30.

Another Arab leader making his first appear-ance at the U.N. General Assembly’s annual minis-terial meeting after being swept into power by the Arab Spring revolutions was Yemen’s President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. He took office in February after more than a year of political turmoil and is now trying to steer his coun-try’s democratic transition. Hadi called on the U.N. to grant membership to Pales-tine and support a transfer of power in Syria.

“The only option for our brothers in Syria is to agree on an initiative ... for peace-ful change and transfer of power through ballot box-es,” he said.

Morsi previewed his General Assembly remarks in a speech delivered Tues-day at former President Bill Clinton’s Global Ini-tiative. Addressing the vio-lence that raged across the Muslim world in response to a video produced in the U.S. that denigrated Islam’s

Prophet Muhammad, the Egyptian leader said free-dom of expression must come with “responsibility.”

He appeared to have been responding to President Barack Obama’s General Assembly speech earlier Tuesday in which the U.S. leader again condemned the video but sternly defended

the U.S. Constitution’s guar-antees of free speech.

At least 51 people were killed in violence that erupted last week in Mus-lim countries, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans targeted in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

Morsi did not explain

what limitations he felt should be placed on free speech but said the video and the violent reaction to it demanded “reflection.” He said freedom of expres-sion must be linked with responsibility, “especially when it comes with serious implications for interna-tional peace and stability.”

Egypt’s new president debuts at UN today

Mohammed

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Jr. College SoccerAllen at Pratt, women 2:30 p.m., men 4:30 p.m.

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OSAWATOMIE — It wasn’t a good night on the road in the Pio-neer League for Iola High’s Fillies.

The Fillies dropped both league volleyball matches hosted at Osawatomie High School Tuesday.

Osawatomie defeated the Fillies 25-14, 25-15. Both teams wore pink for OHS Pink Out Night for breast cancer awareness.

For the second week in a row, the Fillies faced Prairie View High’s Buffalos in league action. The two teams battled in a three-set match.

“We played some really amazing spurts where we did everything right,” said Emily Sigg, Fillies’ head coach. “But we just couldn’t put it together for a whole match.

“I was proud of the girls, the ef-fort they showed and their team togetherness.”

Prairie View beat Iola 26-24, 14-25, 25-13.

With the two Pioneer League losses, the Fillies drop to 1-3 in the league and 4-17 overall. Next Tuesday, the Fillies travel to Wells-ville to take on host Wellsville and Osawatomie in Pioneer play.

Iola’s final home matches will be Oct. 4 when Labette County and Coffeyville come to IHS in non-league play. It will be senior night.

Against Osawatomie, Brean-na Stout delivered three kills at the net for the Fillies and Katie Thompson had two kills. Emery Driskel and Addie Haar each had one kill.

Emma Piazza put up two solo blocks. Piazza and Driskel com-bined for a block. Hannah Endi-cott and Piazza each had five digs and Driskel had four digs.

Piazza was credited with five set assists and Kyra Moore had two assists. Moore served for four points while Driskel and Thomp-son each had one service ace.

Driskel racked up 12 kills and two solo blocks against Prairie View. Stout had six kills and Haar had four kills. Piazza downed three kills.

Moore put up three solo blocks

at the net. Stout and Haar had a solo block apiece.

Piazza was credited with 15 set assists and Moore had eight as-sists.

Emma Sigg and Endicott had four digs apiece and Stout had three digs. Haar and Moore each came up with two digs.

Thompson served for six points and one ace. Driskel served two aces in a row. Stout had two ace serves and Moore had an ace.

Coach Sigg said senior Keli Lee was no longer with the team.

Iola junior varsity went three sets with Osawatomie before los-ing 25-20, 25-25, 15-9. Prairie View beat the Fillies’ JV 25-15, 25-10.

For the night, Allie Cleaver served four aces while Katie Shields and Karlie Lower each had three ace serves. Cassie Delich and Torrie Lewis had two ace serves. Halie Cleaver had one ace.

Shelby Smith led the net attack with seven kills and four blocks. Lewis made seven kills while Delich and Paige Miller rang up two kills each. Delich had 10 set as-sists. Halie Cleaver came up with 20 digs.

Iola’s freshmen swept their matches Tuesday against Pioneer League opponents. The IHS fresh-men beat Osawatomie 12-25, 25-16, 15-13 and defeated Prairie View 25-7, 25-10.

Emily McKarnin, Taylor Sell and Taylor Heslop led the serving for the Fillies. Heslop and McK-arnin handled the setting duties and led in assists.

At the net, Makaela Platt, Vala-ree Burtnett and Ashlie Shields were the leading players in kills.

Fillies lose in Pioneer League play

Iola High freshman Bobbi Sinclair goes after the tennis ball in a match at Pittsburg last week. The Fil-lies’ varsity played at Coffeyville Tuesday but results were not received before deadline today.

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DETROIT (AP) — Anibal San-chez threw his first shutout in over a year, and the Detroit Tigers moved into a tie for first in the AL Central with a 2-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals Tuesday night.

Detroit pulled even with the White Sox with eight games to play after Chicago lost 4-3 to Cleveland earlier in the day.

Sanchez (4-6) retired the first 11 hitters he faced and allowed only three hits. He struck out 10 and walked one.

He threw 105 pitches in his first shutout since Sept. 10, 2011, when he tossed a one-hitter for Florida at Pittsburgh.

Bruce Chen (11-13) gave up RBI singles by Prince Fielder and Del-mon Young in the first inning.

The Tigers trailed the White Sox by three games on the morn-ing of Sept. 19, but they’ve made up the ground and will have a chance to win a second straight division title if they can finish strongly enough.

Sanchez pounded the strike zone early in his best start since coming over to Detroit from Mi-ami in a July trade. Only one Royals player hit the ball out of the infield until Alex Gordon and Billy Butler broke up the perfect game bid with consecutive sin-gles in the fourth for Kansas City.

Sanchez got out of that jam when Salvador Perez’s line drive was snagged by third baseman Miguel Cabrera.

The Tigers hit six singles in the first two innings, but Chen was able to limit the damage by getting out of a bases-loaded, nobody-out situ-ation in the second. Omar Infante hit a shallow fly, and Cabrera and Fielder both struck out.

Detroit didn’t really threaten again until the seventh, when re-liever Louis Coleman struck out Young with the bases loaded for the third out.

Chen allowed two runs and 10 hits in 6 2/3 innings.

Detroit blanks KC


Iola High’s Emery Driskel (24) is poised for an attack at the net for the Fillies with Breanna Stout in coverage. The Fillies lost twice in Pioneer League play Tuesday at Osawatomie.

CONCORDIA — Allen Com-munity College’s soccer teams dropped decisions on the road Monday.

The women lost 3-0 to host Cloud County Community Col-lege. Rebekah Zellers was cred-ited eight goal saves.

Johvany Baltazar scored Al-len’s only goal in a 7-1 loss. The ACC men had Jordan Drake in goal and he made 12 saves.

Today, the Red Devil squads are at Pratt for a doubleheader.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs were trailing New Or-leans 24-6, well on their way to a third straight humiliating defeat. Then the defense stiffened, Ja-maal Charles started to gouge the Saints for big yards and Kansas City suddenly has new life.

The Chiefs (1-2) will try to build on the momentum generated by the 27-24 overtime thriller next Sunday when they face the San Diego Chargers in an AFC West tussle.

If they can make it two straight wins, Kansas City would move into an improbable tie atop the division. Oakland and Denver are also 1-2 through their first three games.

“Games like this can build momentum throughout a sea-son,” said wide receiver Steve Breaston, who may take on an in-creased role for Kansas City after an injury to Dexter McCluster on Sunday. “Being able to win a game like that brings a team together.”

Indeed, the Chiefs had preached for two straight weeks — make it

five, if you count three straight losses to finish the preseason — that they were better than they were showing. They told any-one who would listen to have pa-tience, that the season is a mara-thon rather than a sprint.

Hard to make anyone listen fol-lowing lopsided losses to Atlanta and Buffalo.

But the Chiefs managed to con-vince themselves, if not anybody else, and that mindset helped them score 18 straight points to force overtime, and then hold the Saints to get a second try on of-fense — and ultimately, kick the field goal that capped the biggest comeback in team history.

“That’s probably the best way it happens. Guys are put in pres-sure situations and have to prove themselves,” Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel said. “That’s the way chemistry grows.”

There are certainly some shad-ows accompanying the newfound sense of optimism. The Chiefs still have just one victory, and the

team they finally beat is winless.Moreover, the Saints remain

the only win for the other two teams to have played them, Caro-lina and Washington. And they’ve had to make do without head coach Sean Payton and with in-terim coach Joe Vitt, while weath-ering the fallout of a bounty scan-dal that has dominated the news for months.

Then there are the injuries that could make the immediate future far more difficult.

McCluster hurt his left elbow when it bent at a gruesome angle as he was falling to the turf. The Chiefs’ second-leading receiver was in such pain when he hit the floor of the Superdome that he willingly gave up the ball, and the Saints recovered it for a turnover.

McCluster did not return, and Crennel said Monday he’s not sure when he’ll be back.

Perhaps even more disconcert-ing is the knee injury to second-year center Rodney Hudson, if only because the Chiefs are thin

at the position. Ryan Lilja slid over from guard for the remain-der of the game, and rookie Jeff Allen played well in Lilja’s place during the Chiefs’ rally.

“It was impressive,” right tack-le Eric Winston conceded. “He put a lot of work into it. He’s such a reliable guy. If that ends up be-ing our center that ends up being our center.”

Still, Lilja has little experi-ence snapping the ball, and even though he performed the task admirably when pressed into ser-vice, it’s not exactly the ideal sce-nario for Kansas City.

One bit of positive injury news concerns safety Kendrick Lewis, who hurt his right shoulder in a preseason game against St. Louis. He finally worked out in pads last week, and he’s expected to start hitting in practice this week, an indication that he could be ready to play Sunday.

“We’ll have to wait until later in the week to know for sure,” Crennel said.

Chiefs have new life after beating Saints

TORONTO (AP) — The NHL and its players’ union are to re-sume bargaining Friday for the first time since the lockout began, although the talks will concen-trate on secondary economic is-sues.

Deputy commissioner Bill Daly and NHL Players’ Association special counsel Steve Fehr met in Toronto and set up the session, which will be in New York. These will be the first formal nego-tiations since Sept. 12, when the players and owners exchanged proposals.

The lockout, which started Sept. 16, is the league’s third since Gary Bettman became commis-sioner in 1993.

NHL lockoutcontinues


WICHITA — Injuries are never good. With a small squad, they can take a toll.

Allen Community Col-lege’s golf team is down to six members — healthy — after two injuries. Fresh-man Kris Collins broke his foot last week and sopho-more Chad Schmidt severe-ly injured his right hand.

So the Red Devils went into the Jayhawk Confer-ence second designated tournament with four players for the Sunday and

Monday competitions.The Red Devils struggled

and finished 10th with a team score of 719 at Auburn Hills Golf Club in Wichita. Johnson County won the tournament with a 594.

“We did not play well as a team,” said Mike Hayes, ACC golf coach. “It is al-ways difficult when you only have four players and must count every score.

“With five golfers, if someone has a really bad day you can throw their score out.”

Hayes said Corey LaFe-ver had another strong

tournament and is showing improvement each week. Clinton Moore played very well after a poor start in the first round, Hayes said.

Moore finished tied for 24th with a 161 (82-79) and LaFever was tied for 34th with a 169 (86-83) for the 36-hole event.

Seth Walden finished at 46th with a 182 (89-93) and Tyler Voss was 4th at 207 (100-107).

“Hopefully we can get Chad back healthy in two weeks,” Hayes said. “Our next tournament is Oct. 8 at Manhattan Country Club.”

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East W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Jets 2 1 0 .667 81 75Buffalo 2 1 0 .667 87 79New England 1 2 0 .333 82 64Miami 1 2 0 .333 65 66

South W L T Pct PF PAHouston 3 0 0 1.000 88 42Jacksonville 1 2 0 .333 52 70Tennessee 1 2 0 .333 67 113Indianapolis 1 2 0 .333 61 83

North W L T Pct PF PABaltimore 2 1 0 .667 98 67Cincinnati 2 1 0 .667 85 102Pittsburgh 1 2 0 .333 77 75Cleveland 0 3 0 .000 57 75

West W L T Pct PF PASan Diego 2 1 0 .667 63 51Denver 1 2 0 .333 77 77Kansas City 1 2 0 .333 68 99Oakland 1 2 0 .333 61 88

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PADallas 2 1 0 .667 47 54Philadelphia 2 1 0 .667 47 66N.Y. Giants 2 1 0 .667 94 65Washington 1 2 0 .333 99 101

South W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta 3 0 0 1.000 94 48Tampa Bay 1 2 0 .333 60 67Carolina 1 2 0 .333 52 79New Orleans 0 3 0 .000 83 102

North W L T Pct PF PAMinnesota 2 1 0 .667 70 59Chicago 2 1 0 .667 74 50

Green Bay 1 2 0 .333 57 54Detroit 1 2 0 .333 87 94

West W L T Pct PF PAArizona 3 0 0 1.000 67 40San Francisco 2 1 0 .667 70 65Seattle 2 1 0 .667 57 39St. Louis 1 2 0 .333 60 78

Monday’s GameSeattle 14, Green Bay 12Thursday, Sep. 27Cleveland at Baltimore, 8:20 p.m.Sunday, Sep. 30Tennessee at Houston, NoonSan Diego at Kansas City, NoonSeattle at St. Louis, NoonNew England at Buffalo, NoonMinnesota at Detroit, NoonCarolina at Atlanta, NoonSan Francisco at N.Y. Jets, NoonMiami at Arizona, 3:05 p.m.Oakland at Denver, 3:05 p.m.Cincinnati at Jacksonville, 3:05 p.m.New Orleans at Green Bay, 3:25 p.m.Washington at Tampa Bay, 3:25 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 7:20 p.m.Open: Indianapolis, Pittsburgh

Monday, Oct. 1 GameChicago at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Major League BaseballAt A Glance

All times EDTThe Associated Press

American League East Division

W L Pct GBNew York 89 65 .578 —Baltimore 88 67 .568 1½Tampa Bay 84 70 .545 5Boston 69 86 .445 20½Toronto 68 86 .442 21

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 82 72 .532 —Detroit 82 72 .532 —Kansas City 70 84 .455 12Minnesota 65 90 .419 17½Cleveland 64 91 .413 18½

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 91 63 .591 —Oakland 87 67 .565 4Los Angeles 85 69 .552 6Seattle 72 82 .468 19

Tuesday’s GamesCleveland 4, Chicago White Sox 3Detroit 2, Kansas City 0Toronto 4, Baltimore 0Tampa Bay 5, Boston 2Oakland 3, Texas 2, 10 inningsMinnesota 5, N.Y. Yankees 4L.A. Angels 5, Seattle 4

Wednesday’s GamesN.Y. Yankees at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m.Kansas City at Detroit, 7:05 p.m.Toronto at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.Tampa Bay at Boston, 7:10 p.m.Oakland at Texas, 8:05 p.m.Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.Seattle at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

National League

East Division W L Pct GBz-Washington 93 61 .604 —z-Atlanta 89 65 .578 4Philadelphia 78 76 .506 15New York 70 84 .455 23Miami 66 88 .429 27

Central Division W L Pct GBx-Cincinnati 93 61 .604 —St. Louis 84 71 .542 9½Milwaukee 79 75 .513 14Pittsburgh 76 78 .494 17Chicago 59 95 .383 34Houston 50 105 .323 43½

West Division W L Pct GBx-San Francisco 89 65 .578 —Los Angeles 79 75 .513 10Arizona 78 76 .506 11San Diego 74 80 .481 15Colorado 60 94 .390 29z-clinched playoff berthx-clinched division

Tuesday’s GamesPhiladelphia 6, Washington 3Atlanta 4, Miami 3Cincinnati 4, Milwaukee 2Pittsburgh 10, N.Y. Mets 6St. Louis 4, Houston 0Colorado 10, Chicago Cubs 5, 7 in-ningsSan Diego 2, L.A. Dodgers 1Arizona 7, San Francisco 2

Wednesday’s GamesL.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 6:35 p.m.Washington at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.Miami at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.Pittsburgh at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.St. Louis (C.Carpenter 0-0) at Houston (B.Norris 5-13), 8:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.Arizona at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

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CHANUTE — Iola High’s junior varsity tennis play-ers ended up their short season Monday at Chanute. It was the first year of ten-nis competition for most of the six Fillies’ players.

Holly Schomaker, a se-nior, and freshman Ally-son Hobbs combined for the first time as a doubles team. They were 1-2 finish-ing sixth playing as Iola’s No. 1 doubles team Monday.

Schomaker and Hobbs’ win was a 6-3 decision over Coffeyvlle’s Taylor Neal and Jessica Soyoung. They lost 6-0 to Kalei Matthews and Shalie Matthews of Independence and lost 6-1 to Sam Cicero and Lauren Sullivan of Pittsburg.

“Holly and Allyson did a great job working together and we were excited for their win,” said Jenni-

fer Bycroft, Fillies’ tennis coach.

“It’s too bad that we are losing Holly after this year. I wish she would’ve come out for tennis as a fresh-man to have had more time to work with her.”

Khrystal Smith and Chy-anne Vaughn each played singles for the first time. Smith was in the No. 1 singles competition and Vaughn played No. 2 sin-gles.

Smith lost 6-0 to Halei Matthews of Independence then dropped a 6-2 decision to Kenzie Rea of Parsons. Coffeyville’s Alexa Mauls-by defeated Smith 6-3.

Vaughn lost 6-1 to Jenny Angleton of Chanute. Em-ily Gatewood of Parsons defeated Vaughn 6-4 and Vaughn lost 6-3 to Kristian Engle of Fort Scott.

“Khrystal and Chyanne did a great job with their

returns and getting back to the baseline. They each improved with every match they played,” Bycroft said.

Playing No. 2 doubles for Iola were Shelby Brown and Judy Branstetter. Their best match was against Antonella Noguera and Lucianna Pereira of Cof-feyville. The match went to a tiebreaker and Coffeyville won 6-5 (7-5).

Brown and Branstetter dropped a 6-1 decision to Morgan Stevens and Nikita Ghandi of Parsons. They lost 6-2 to Lyndsey Brothers and Jana Diefenbach of La-bette County.

“I was amazed at how well Shelby and Judy did for as inexperienced as they both are since this is their first year of tennis,” Bycroft said. “They came close to winning that sec-ond match (against Cof-feyville).”

Fillies’ JV tennis finish season

Iola High’s Holly Schomaker, front, and Allyson Hobbs are ready for a return shot in a junior varsity No. 1 doubles match at Chanute Monday.

Submitted photo

LACYNE — Gus Hop-kins hauled in an 11-yard pass from Brett Taylor for the game-winning touch-down for Iola High’s ju-nior varsity football team Monday.

Keanen Badders had the two-point conversion to put the finishing touch-es on a 33-32 win over host Prairie View High’s Buf-falos. It was the final scor-ing play in a back-and-forth contest.

Iola opened the game just like it closed it — a touchdown pass from Taylor to Hopkins. Hop-kins caught a 22-yard scoring strike in the first quarter and Mason Key kicked the extra point.

Prairie View answered with a touchdown and two-point conversion in the second quarter. Tay-

lor found Shane Walden for a six-yard touchdown pass to lift the Mustangs to a 13-8 halftime lead.

Brice Aiello broke off a 51-yard touchdown run for the Mustangs in the third quarter. Iola led 19-8 but the Buffalos closed it to 19-16 by the end of the period.

Prairie View grabbed the lead, 24-19, in the fourth quarter. Walden snared a six-yard pass from Aiello for a touch-down to put Iola back in front 25-24.

Back came the Buffalos with a touchdown and two-point conversion. Trailing 32-25, the Mustangs scored on the final play of the game then converted the two-point conversion to get the victory.

Aiello rushed for 83

yards on 12 carries and Badders had 43 yards on 14 carries for Iola. Terrell Smith had a four-yard run.

Taylor finished 8 of 17 passing for 134 yards and Aiello was 1 of 2 for six yards and was intercept-ed once. Aiello caught two passes for 73 yards followed by Hopkins with three catches for 33 yards and Walden had three re-ceptions for 21 yards.

Walden paced the Mus-tang defense with eight tackles while Aiello and Dodger Beckham each had six tackles. Badders and Hopkins made five tackles each. Smith had three tackles and an in-terception.

Iola’s junior varsity is 3-2 overall. The Mustangs host Central Heights next Monday.


YATES CENTER — Hum-boldt High’s Lady Cubs were on the road and open-ing Tri-Valley League play Tuesday.

They took on host and TVL rival Yates Center High’s Wildcats. The Lady Cubs came away with a 21-25, 25-20, 25-20 victory.

“This was a hard fought match. It was the first night of league play and it took us a while to settle down,” said Stephanie Spletcher, Humboldt head coach.

“We were making too many unforced errors but we got in a groove and got the job done.”

Humboldt also played a non-league match against Frontenac and lost 25-22,

25-14.Spletcher said her team

played well in the first set but “lost some momentum when they started adjust-ing and tipping to our open spots.”

Kaylie Riebel powered down 17 kills — 13 against Yates Center — plus had two blocks and one service ace. Sheri Middleton put up 15 blocks — nine against Frontenac — and had 13 kills and four service aces.

Breanna Kline had seven kills and one block. Rachel Taylor had three kills. Anna Setter put up 37 set assists. She and Haley Riebel each had one service ace.

The Register did not re-ceive any other area high school volleyball reports for a roundup story today.

Lady Cubs beatYates Center

Humboldt High’s Rachel Taylor (20) is on the attack at the net with her Lady Cub teammates in coverage mode.


Mustang JV wins late

Allen golf team hit with injuries

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ insurance regu-lator is asking Gov. Sam Brownback to spell out the requirements for health coverage to be sold in a new online marketplace mandated by the federal health care overhaul, but Brownback still plans to make no decisions until after the presidential elec-tion.

Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger made her recommendations public Tuesday, a day after she sent the conservative Re-publican governor a letter containing her proposals for the “benchmark plan” that companies must offer to participate in the online marketplace. The federal health care law says such marketplaces, known as ex-changes, will start operat-ing in 2014.

Praeger’s proposal calls for requiring companies to offer the same coverage Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas does in its com-prehensive plan for small groups, along with addi-tional coverage for chil-dren’s eye and dental care. The commissioner noted in her letter that if Brown-back does not set the state’s

requirements by the end of September, the U.S. Depart-ment of Health and Human Services could do it for the state.

B r o w n -back has s t r o n g l y criticized the federal health care law, enact-ed in 2010 and cham-pioned by President Barack Obama. Praeger, a moderate Re-publican, has praised the law as an important step toward providing universal access to health insurance, and she and Brownback disagree over how aggres-sive the state should be in setting up an exchange.

“My administration will not make any decisions regarding the implementa-tion of Obamacare until after the November elec-tions,” Brownback said in a statement Tuesday, reit-erating the stance he’s long held.

STATES HAVE until Nov. 16 to declare whether they still want to be part-ners in running an ex-change or leave it entirely to the federal government. Kansas hasn’t started to

set one up because Brown-back and Republicans who control the Legislature op-pose the law. Brownback has argued that if Repub-lican Mitt Romney defeats Obama, many require-ments in the law are likely to be waived.

Praeger’s proposal for the exchange’s benchmark plan is designed to give con-sumers who use the online marketplace familiar cov-erage at competitive prices, said Linda Sheppard, the Insurance Department’s project manager for the health overhaul.

“That does help the mar-ket stay stable,” Sheppard said.

The federal government limited Kansas and oth-er states to setting their benchmarks based upon 10 health plans already widely available to their consum-ers.

BLUE CROSS Blue Shield of Kansas provides cover-age for about 900,000 Kan-sans, and Praeger is pro-posing that the exchange benchmark be tied to its most popular small group plan. At the end of March, more than 30,000 people were enrolled in it.

“Selecting this plan will allow for the most continu-

ity in the marketplace as a large number of Kansans already have these benefits through their small busi-ness employer or as indi-viduals,” said company spokeswoman Mary Beth Chambers.

HHS has already said it would base its benchmark for Kansas on the same plan.

But the federal health care law requires that the benchmark include cover-age for children’s eye and dental care, and the big-gest health plans in Kan-sas generally don’t, except through supplemental poli-cies. Praeger proposes that coverage for those plans mirror what’s available through the state for chil-dren of working-class fami-lies that can’t afford private insurance.

Sheppard said that if HHS sets the benchmark for Kansas, it could man-date different coverage for such services, as well as coverage for services such as speech and physical therapy.

“This is all kind of com-ing together in a really short time frame,” she said. “The companies are obvi-ously really anxious to get the benchmark set as early as possible.”

Brownback

Brownback holds out on insurance plans

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Riley County po-lice are investigating at least three recent burglar-ies and attempted break-ins at pharmacies and clinics in Manhattan.

WIBW-TV reports the latest occurred Satur-day, when someone broke a window at Kellstrom Pharmacy and stole $2,400 worth of merchandise. Po-lice haven’t said precisely what was taken.

The burglary occurred

one week after a break-in at the pharmacy at Kansas State University’s Lafene Student Health Center. Authorities say at least $3,000 worth of prescrip-tion drugs were stolen in that case.

And on Sept. 5, two men shattered a window trying to burglarize a pain clinic at the Sunset Campus of Mercy Regional Health Center. The suspects left after being unable to get inside the pain clinic.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kan-sas has opened an office in Lawrence to field and inves-tigate claims of sexual ha-rassment and discrimina-tion at its various campuses in the hopes it will help the university system pursue claims more aggressively.

The new office of Institu-tional Opportunity and Ac-cess provides a central loca-tion for discrimination and harassment complaints to be reported, The Lawrence Journal-World reported Tuesday.

In the past, reports of sexual harassment or dis-crimination were directed to the university’s Depart-ment of Human Resources or were handled internally by an academic depart-ment, said Jane McQueeny, the director of the new IOA office.

“Now we have an office where this is what we do,” McQueeny said. “This is our passion.”

The IOA office will han-dle and investigate com-plaints from all university campuses, including the University of Kansas Medi-cal Center in Kansas City, Kan., related to harass-ment, discrimination or ac-cessibility for people with disabilities.

It cost about $75,000 to open the new office includ-ing adding two new em-ployee positions, Rodriguez said.

This fall, the university began requiring all stu-dents, staff and faculty to

complete an online course training course on sexual harassment. It’s the first university-wide training course for Kansas, said Fred Rodriguez, the univer-sity’s vice provost for diver-sity and equity.

The actions were prompt-ed partly by a letter last April from the U.S. Depart-ment of Education that urged colleges and uni-versities to respond more forcefully to sexual harass-ment and sexual violence, McQueeny said.

The course discusses what constitutes sexual harassment and sexual violence, relationships be-tween students and faculty and publicizes the new IOA office.

So far, McQueeny said, 5,870 students of the 20,240 who were notified have completed the course, and 4,679 of 9,788 staff members have finished. The course must be completed by Oct. 5.

“That’s really a pretty high response rate,” Mc-Queeny said.

Sophomore Miranda Wagner said Monday she doubted the course would change the mind of anyone who doesn’t already take sexual harassment serious-ly. But she said it was good to know whom to contact if she encounters those situa-tions.

“I think it has really good intentions behind it,” Wag-ner said, “but I’m just not sure how much an online course is going to do.”

KU institutes office on harassment

Manhattan suffers multiple robberies

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — It’s Kansas State University, not K-State.

Kansas State Presi-dent Kirk Schulz says the school wants to improve its national recognition, and dropping the K-State nickname would help.

Schulz told Gov. Sam Brownback and business leaders Monday the uni-versity is moving toward having one brand for the school. He says K-State works for athletics, but in Kentucky and other plac-es, K-State refers to differ-

ent schools.He says the univer-

sity needs to be called Kansas State as it seeks to increase its scholarly rankings among national universities.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports the transi-tion might be difficult. The school’s new long-range plan is titled “K-State 2025: A Visionary Plan for Kansas State University.”

KSU seeks to drop ‘K-State’ nickname

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is receiving a fed-eral grant worth nearly $350,000 to promote health-ier meals in schools.

The money from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will help Kansas imple-ment the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Kansas of-fered popular chef-taught culinary classes last sum-mer for school food service

workers. State officials say the grant will pay for more such training to help schools transition to the new federal guidelines.

The Kansas Department of Education says that be-sides the federal grant, the Kansas Health Foundation is providing $50,000 to pro-vide fresh fruits and vege-tables to 25,000 middle- and high-school students.

State schools to receive health grant

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Fountains around the Kansas City m e t r o p o l i t a n area soon will be flowing with pink water to raise awareness of breast cancer.

A ceremony kicking off 10 days of pink fountains is scheduled for 9 a.m. Sat-urday at the J.C. Nichols Fountain near Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza.

Local celebrities and breast cancer survivors will take part in the cer-emony. Other fountains in

Kansas City, Lee’s Summit and communities north of

the Missouri River, along with the Kan-sas communities of Lenexa, Olathe and Overland Park, also will have pink water through the end of the first week in Oc-tober.

It’s the ninth year in which area fountains will be turned pink to mark October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The fountain coloring is spon-sored by the University of Kansas Cancer Center.

Fountains flow pink in Kansas City

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MOSCOW (AP) — It took a weekend road tragedy to jolt Russia into action over one of its most deadly threats: a chronic culture of drunken driving.

Five orphaned teens were waiting for a bus with their guardians in Moscow on Saturday when a car ca-reened into them, killing all seven. Grief turned to outrage when it emerged that the driver was heavily drunk and had a string of traffic violations on his re-cord — including a DUI ar-rest two years ago.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and lawmakers have reacted with propos-als to stiffen penalties on drunken drivers, and parliament debated the measures on Tuesday. But with bribery so common-place and road laws rarely enforced, many wonder whether even the tough-est response can change a deep-set culture of reckless driving.

After the crash, police video shows, Alexander Maximov stumbled out of his Toyota sedan, which he had been driving at 125 miles per hour, bloodied and barely able to stand. He appeared in court Mon-day with his head wounds

dressed, but still wearing the blood-speckled sweat-shirt from the day of the accident.

The punishment for kill-ing while drunken driv-ing in Russia is stiff: The 30-year-old Maximov faces up to nine years in prison. But lawmakers are cur-rently debating whether to make jail sentences even harsher, matching laws in the West.

Even President Vladimir Putin weighed in Tuesday, demanding tougher pun-ishments and condemning Maximov’s apparent blithe indifference after the crash.

“This criminal, he’s a killer in fact, when speak-ing to investigators just said: ‘I always do what I want,’” Putin said. “There are some things for which people just must be pun-ished.”

Many Russians are fu-rious that Maximov, who already had a DUI penalty

on his license from 2010, was allowed back onto the roads in the first place. Drunken driving is pun-ishable here by suspen-sion of the driver’s license for up to two years. In much of the West, by com-parison, drunken driving is punished with jail time, heavy fines and re-educa-tion courses.

It isn’t only irresponsible drinking that makes Rus-sia’s roads dangerous.

Russia’s cities are strug-gling with fast-growing traffic density, which spurs drivers into pulling crazy stunts to get home as early as possible, such as jumping lights, squeezing through every gap in traffic and op-portunistic trailing of rac-ing ambulances. According to a 2007 survey, the number of cars on Moscow’s roads had increased threefold since the early 1990s, while road capacity has increased by only 30 percent.

Crash puts focus on DUI laws“Most of (our accidents) are committed by

drivers who are completely drunk, and in this regard our country is in a worse state than any other.

— Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev

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By GILLIAN FLACCUSand GREG RISLING

Associated PressCERRITOS, Calif. (AP)

— The federal probation violation investigation targeting the man behind the anti-Muslim video in-flaming the Middle East is proceeding slowly and pri-vately, reflecting the explo-siveness of the case.

Federal officials have said nothing publicly about the case, and neither has Nakoula Basseley Nakou-la’s attorney. Nakoula has put his home up for sale and gone into hiding since violence erupted over the 14-minute YouTube trailer for “Innocence of Mus-lims,” a crudely made film that portrays the Muham-mad as a religious fraud, womanizer and pedophile.

Enraged Muslims have demanded punishment for Nakoula, and dozens have died in violent protests

linked to the movie. A Paki-stani cabinet minister on Monday offered a $100,000 bounty to anyone who kills Nakoula.

Meantime, First Amend-ment advocates have de-fended Nakoula’s right to make the film even while condemning its content. President Barack Obama echoed those sentiments Tuesday in a speech at the United Nations.

“We understand why peo-ple take offense to this vid-eo because millions of our citizens are among them. I know there are some who ask, ‘Why don’t we just ban such a video?’” he said. “The answer is enshrined in our laws. Our Constitu-tion protects the right to practice free speech.”

Against that backdrop, federal officials are look-ing into whether Nakoula, 55, violated probation for a 2010 check fraud conviction

by uploading the trailer to YouTube. Nakoula was sen-tenced to 21 months in pris-on and ordered not to use computers or the Internet for five years without ap-proval from his probation officer.

If he’s found in violation, he could be returned to pris-on. If not, he’ll remain free. Either way, federal officials will face criticism, either from those who say Nakou-la’s free speech rights were trampled or from those who believe he should have been punished for inciting vio-lence with the video.

“This case breaks the mold,” said Mark Werks-man, a defense attorney in Los Angeles and a former federal prosecutor. “If the video hadn’t gone viral, and caused the Arabic world to blow up, who would care if this guy is using YouTube? It’s all about politics with this guy.”

Filmmaker’s probation case proceeds

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Twin blasts targeting Syria’s army command headquarters rocked the capital today, setting off hours of sporadic gunbat-tles and a raging fire inside the heavily guarded com-pound, state-run media and witnesses said.

An army statement said no military commanders or personnel were hurt in the explosions, one of which was from a car bomb. But Iranian Press TV said one of its correspondents, 33-year-old Maya Nasser, a Syrian national, died in an exchange of fire in the area following the blasts.

The explosions were the latest to hit the Syrian capi-tal as the country’s civil war intensified and appeared to show the deep reach of the rebels determined to topple President Bashar Assad’s regime.

Syria’s state-run news agency, SANA, said the ex-plosions struck just before 7 a.m. near the landmark Omayyad Square. They

were heard several miles away and shattered the win-dows of the Dama Rose ho-tel and other nearby build-ings.

Rebels from the Free Syr-ian Army claimed respon-sibility for the bombings in a statement signed by the group’s military council, saying dozens were killed in the attack.

The army command building was in flames, sending huge columns of thick black smoke that hung over Damascus for several hours following the blasts.

The blasts caused fear among residents of a nearby upscale district, which has largely been sheltered from the violence that plagues other parts of the city.

“What if a random bul-let killed one of my kids?” Nada, a 42-year-old mother of three who only gave her first name out of security concerns, said, crying over the telephone.

The windows of her apartment were shattered and her furniture was dam-

aged.“I only care about my

children and I’m afraid of the gunfire,” she added.

Gaith, 63, a retired civil servant, said he rushed to lock the gate of his building to keep rebels from hiding in it. “I don’t want my place to collapse on my head,” he said.

Witnesses said the ex-plosions were followed by heavy gunfire that stretched on for hours at the Omayy-ad Square and around the military compound. One witness who managed to get close to the area, which was cordoned off, saw panicked soldiers shooting in the air randomly as they ran.

Blasts hits Syrian army HQ

Dear Dr. Donohue: Why does the medical profes-sion tell us that folks over 70 do not need a pneumonia shot in the fall when they get their flu shots? Why do some say you should get the shot every year, while others say every other year, and some say every five years? Please clear up. — S.M.

Answer: The pneumo-nia shot is a vaccine for one kind of pneumonia, pneumococcal pneumo-nia, the kind caused by the bacterium pneumococcus. It’s a very serious kind of pneumonia, one that often proves lethal for the elderly.

More than 90 different

strains of the pneumococ-cus bacterium exist. The adult vaccine currently in use affords protection against 23 of those strains. The name of the vaccine is Pneumovax 23. A single dose of the vaccine given to people age 65 and older is all the vaccine needed at the present time. No boost-er shots are recommended.

However, if a person re-ceived the vaccine at an age younger than 65, that person does need a booster shot five years after the first shot was given.

These directions were formulated by a board of vaccine experts and are the ones that are promulgated by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Any changes will be passed to the public by this agency.

I will confuse you with additional information.

In 2010, a new pneumonia vaccine was introduced. It works against 13 strains of the bacterium. Its current target population is chil-dren. In December of 2011,

it also was approved for adults older than 55.

In June of 2012, it was approved for people age 19 and older whose immunity is not up to par. Examples are people without a func-tioning spleen or people with cancer. The name of this vaccine is PCV 13, Pre-vnar. This vaccine, while covering fewer strains, elicits a greater antibody response and, therefore, affords more protection to the 13 strains contained in it. An expert panel might decide in the future to have this vaccine supplant Pneu-movax 23 vaccine.

That will not take place this year.

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Dear Carolyn: One of my best friends has strug-gled for years with some very private and emotional issues that stem from some horrific childhood events. I have encouraged her to seek therapy for some time now, because her struggles have progressed to a point that are beyond what her friends can help with.

I was thrilled that after months of encouragement she booked an appointment and saw a therapist that she said she connected with. But she has since canceled subsequent appointments and is saying she’s not sure

she wants to go back; she wants to “work things out on her own.” I have encour-aged her to go back at least one time, said how proud I am of her for taking the step in the first place, but nothing is working and I am growing frustrated.

Do you have any advice about how to encourage a

good friend to keep up their therapy? I feel like being too pushy will have the op-posite outcome of what I’m going for.

Answer: “Months of en-couragement” say you have encouraged her, probably to the full extent you can.

I do think it’s always a friend’s responsibility to point out when you think

she’s in real danger of hurting herself or others, which I hope it won’t come to. Otherwise, all you can do is continue to say, when she looks to you for help, “I’m sorry, this is beyond my abilities,” and hold that line. It’s important not to be the outlet that she counts on to justify not sticking with professional help.

Emotional issues, therapy and friendsTell MeAbout It

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Clayton Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A5

H&R Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Jarred, Gilmore & Phillips, P.A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A10

ATTORNEY AT LAWORNEY AT LAW .A3

AUTOMOTIVE

BANK

CARE HOME

CLEANING / LAUNDRY

COMMUNITY SERVICES

CONTRACTOR

CONTRACTOR ( cont. ) CONTRACTOR ( cont.)

J&J Contractors, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A2

John’s Lock & Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B5

Keim & Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

B2

Kitchens & More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B1

LACO Guttering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B4

Northside Plumbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A6

P ducts Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B2A6

EDUCATION / GOVERNMENT

ENGINEERING

EXERCISE / RECREATION

FARMING / AGRICULTURE

FLORIST / GREENHOUSE

FUNERAL HOME / MONUMENTS

GROCERY / MEAT / CONVENIENCE

HAIR SALON / SPA / MASSAGE

INDUSTRY INDUSTRY B&W Trailer Hitches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . B6

Gates Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A7

Herff Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A

12

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Microtronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A8

The Monarch Cement Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A4

Sonic Equipment Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A9

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NEWSPAPER / PRINTERS

OFFICE SUPPLIES, COMPUTERS &

OFFICE SUPPLIES, COMPUTERS &

COMMUNICATION SERVICES COMMUNICATION SERVICES

Advantage Computer / Jayhawk Software . B9

Cox Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A3

Hawk Business Specialties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B5

KwiKom Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B4

OIL FIELD SUPPLIES OIL FIELD SUPPLIES

JB Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . A7

Oil Patch Pump & Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B8

PEST CONTROLEST CONTROL .... . B3

REAL ESTATE / HOUSING

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LOS ANGELES — They’re calling it the swat heard ’round the world — and its echo is still rever-berating.

On Monday night, the school board in Spring-town, Texas, voted to allow students to be paddled by employees of the opposite gender if their parents give written permission. The board’s previous policy per-mitted only same-gender paddling.

No one really argued with the idea of corporal punishment; at issue was the question of who gets to administer it, specifically can an adult male swat young girls?

The entire issue went on the school board agenda after two parents recently complained that a male vice principal had paddled their

daughters, in apparent vio-lation of the district’s poli-cy that calls for the staffer and the student to be of the same gender.

“I have tried to be very professional and not per-sonal about it,” a tearful Anna Jorgensen, whose daughter was one of those who was paddled, told the board, according to WFFA, a television station that has been following the dis-pute.

“I didn’t know the media would turn it into all of

this, and I feel very sorry for putting Springtown in that spot.”

Last week, Jorgensen told the station that her daughter’s bottom had been bruised by the punishment. Another mother, Cathi Watt, then came forward and complained that her daughter’s bottom had also been bruised.

“These men that swat these girls, they are telling the boys in the school, ‘It’s OK to hit a girl and it’s OK to bruise a girl,’ and that’s

not right,” Watt told board members Monday night.

Superintendent Michael Kelley asked the board to change the policy to allow males to paddle female students because not all of the schools have enough females to perform the

task.According to the Fort

Worth Star-Telegram, the superintendent said the recent paddlings were con-trary to the policy in place at that time, and for that, he apologized to the girls and their families.

“I take it very seriously every time we use corpo-ral punishment,” Kelley said.

About three-quarters of the school districts in Tex-as allow corporal punish-ment, which is legal in 18 other states as well.

Texas school board OKs expanded student paddling

BUNNELL, Fla. (AP) — A man was intoxicated while riding his horse as he led police on a half-hour chase through a northeast Flor-ida town, authorities said Tuesday.

Charles Larkin Cowart, 29, was arrested Monday af-ternoon in the city of Bun-nell, about 60 miles south of Jacksonville.

A police officer was re-sponding to a report of “an intoxicated male riding a horse” when he turned on his emergency lights to stop traffic as Cowart crossed the street, according to the charging affidavit. Cowart said he was on his way to his grandmother’s house in nearby Flagler Beach, but refused officers’ order to dismount and “in an ag-gressive manner reared the horse back” and took off running.

Officers did not immedi-ately chase after him, the report said, citing the pub-lic and the horse’s safety. Cowart continued to ride through town, “causing a crowd of people to come out of their homes” and a train to slow down as Cow-art crossed over a set of

railroad tracks. Police kept their emergency lights on, but did not use their sirens to prevent the horse from being frightened and “po-tentially making the situa-tion worse.”

Cowart ignored several verbal commands to get off the horse, which after more half an hour, became exhausted. Cowart eventu-ally jumped off and took off running. He was captured a short time later. The horse was returned to Cowart’s family and is doing fine, po-lice said.

Cowart was booked into the Flagler County Jail on charges that included dis-orderly conduct, resisting arrest without violence and cruelty to animals. He was being held Tuesday on $7,000 bond.

A message was left Tues-day at a phone listing for Cowart in Bunnell, about 60 miles south of Jackson-ville. It was not immediately known if he has an attorney.

Cowart was arrested for theft on Sept. 9 and on a DUI charge in October 2010. The disposition of those charges wasn’t immediate-ly known.

I have tried to be very professional and not personal about it. I didn’t know the media would turn it into all of this, and I feel very sorry for put-ting Springtown in that spot.

— Anna Jorgenson, mother of female studentwho was spanked in school

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Drunken horsebackchase leads to arrest

MOSCOW (AP) — Last year, when then-President Dmitry Medvedev perma-nently switched Russia to summer time, most resi-dents didn’t see sunrise un-til after 10 a.m. during the country’s bleak winters.

The move angered many, and Vladimir Putin prom-ised before reclaiming the presidency in March that he would take a second look on the issue. On Tuesday, he said that Medvedev, who is now prime minister, would con-sider reversing the change.

Putin’s statement that the Cabinet must think again whether the change was feasible dealt a humili-ating blow to Medvedev.

Putin had to shift into

the prime minister’s seat in 2008 due to a constitu-tional limit of two consecu-tive presidential terms. Since swapping jobs with Medvedev, Putin has tough-ened his line on dissent, reversing some of the lib-eral changes introduced by Medvedev.

Putin eyes time change reversal for Russians

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