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

Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

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

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

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

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

By SUSAN LYNNsusan@iolaregister.com

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 LUKENrichard@iolaregister.com

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 JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

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 SNEVEjoe@iolaregister.com

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

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

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-

By BOB JOHNSONbob@iolaregister.com

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. 177 75 Cents Iola, KS

KEEPING COOL, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

Register/Richard LukenMason Ingle, left, and TeAnna Hamilton used de-cidedly different means to enter the Iola Munici-pal Pool Sunday, with Ingle opting for an acro-batic flip from a diving board, while Hamilton opted for using a water slide. Temperatures are expected to remain in the upper 80s or lower 90s this week.

Sudsy fundraiserFrom left, Abbey St. Clair, Gus Hopkins, Zach St. Clair, Thomas El-der and Judd Wiltse work together to wash the front end of one of the more than 20 vehicles they cleaned up during a 4-H fundraiser Saturday. The money goes toward Zach St. Clair’s and Hopkins’ trip to Washington, D.C., for the upcoming presidential inaugura-tion and a 4-H leadership conference in January. The conference features a week-ong course designed to promote leadership and citizenship.

The fourth annual “Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life” kicks off Friday after-noon with new events to celebrate the infamous bombings of 107 years ago.

Allen County Crime Stoppers and Thrive Allen County are or-ganizing the event which will in-clude an inflatable carnival, car show, the ever-popular “Drag” race and first-ever “Parade of Lights,” plus assorted activities.

At 12:26 a.m. a loud boom will signal the beginning of a run/walk, capping off the night’s ac-tivities.

The walk/run begins in the 100 block of West Street — where Melvin blew up the Eagle, Red Light and Blue Front saloons — for the start of the race. Runners will take part in a 5-kilometer road race, while those in favor of a more leisurely pace can partake in a 3K walk.

FOR THOSE unfamiliar with the story, Charley Melvin, 42, was a strict prohibitionist working at the Kansas Portland Cement Plant in 1905. Even so, a group of his coworkers convinced him beer and whiskey would help qui-et his nerves.

Within two hours, he had con-

JULIE PACEAssociated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi-dent Barack Obama is launching a push to extend tax cuts for the middle class, as he seeks to shift the election-year economic de-bate away from the dismal jobs market and toward the issue of tax fairness.

Obama, in an address from the White House today, will call on Congress to pass a one-year extension of tax cuts for house-holds mak-ing less than $250,000 a year,

said senior campaign adviser Robert Gibbs.

The president’s appeal to mid-dle-class voters is aimed at draw-ing a contrast with Republican rival Mitt Romney and congres-sional Republicans. The House GOP is expected to make its own push this month for an extension of all the Bush-era tax cuts due

to expire at the end of the year, including reductions on wealth-ier income earners. Obama op-poses extending the tax cuts for higher income earners.

Obama’s re-election campaign also plans to use Washington’s tax debate to ramp up its criti-

MelvinRuntakesshape

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Obama pushes for more tax cuts

Barack Obama

The northbound onramp con-necting drivers from Minnesota Road onto U.S. 169 will be closed from 6 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The closure will allow Kansas Department of Transportation crews to replace the ramp’s con-rete pavement.

BAY SHORE, N.Y. (AP) — It just keeps going, and going, and go-ing. No, it’s not a battery. It’s Irvin Gordon’s 1966 Volvo P1800S.

Gordon’s small, red two-door has well more than 2 million miles on the odometer, the equiv-alent of nearly 1,176 times across the globe.

The retired schoolteacher from Long Island hopes to reach the 3 million mile mark by next year. He only has 34,000 miles to go.

The 72-year-old Gordon drives his Volvo everywhere. He has held the Guinness World Records mark for High Mileage Vehicle since 2002 and was the first per-son to hold that record.

“It’s just a car I enjoy driving,” he said.

He bought his beloved car on June 30, 1966, for $4,150 at the age of 25. “It was a whole year’s sal-ary,” he said.

Gordon originally wanted the convertible Volvo with air condi-tioning, but it was too expensive.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Sec-retary of State Kris Kobach is confident the courts will uphold a Kansas law that will require some potential voters to prove their U.S. citi-zenship start-ing next year, despite an ongoing legal dispute over a similar policy in Arizona.

Kobach contends his state’s proof-of-citizenship law is sound because it was drafted to avoid issues facing the Arizona law, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported this week. The law will require people registering to vote for the first time in Kansas to present proof that they’re

American citizens to elections officials.

The proof-of-citizenship re-quirement was included in a package of elections changes legislators approved last year at Kobach’s urging. Another mea-sure in the package, requiring voters to show photo identifica-tion at the polls, took effect this year.

Kobach asked lawmakers this year to move up the effective date of the proof-of-citizenship rule to June 15, so that it would be in place before this year’s election. Skeptical state sena-tors blocked the proposal, delay-ing the rule’s start until next year.

As Kansas lawmakers re-viewed Kobach’s proposal to move up the effective date of

the proof-of-citizenship rule, a federal appeals court blocked Arizona’s law, ruling that it con-flicted with a federal statute al-lowing people to mail in voter registration cards without pro-viding documents to prove their citizenship. However, Arizona is being allowed to enforce its policy while the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether to hear the case.

Kobach, a former University of Missouri-Kansas City law professor, said the Kansas law doesn’t automatically reject fed-eral voter registration forms, as the Arizona law did. Instead, Kansas election officials hold the forms until a person’s citi-zenship can be verified.

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Lib-ya’s first nationwide elections in nearly five decades brought hints Sunday of an Arab Spring precedent: Western-leaning parties making strides over Is-lamist rivals hoping to follow the same paths to power as in neighbors Egypt and Tunisia.

While final results from Sat-urday’s parliamentary election could still be days away under a two-tier selection system, un-official and partial counts from Libya’s biggest cities suggested liberal factions were leading the Muslim Brotherhood and allies in a possible first major setback to their political surge following last year’s uprisings.

If the Libyan trend holds — which is still far from certain — it would challenge the narrative of rising Islamist power since the fall of Western-allied regimes from Tunis to Cairo. It also could

display the different political dy-namics in Libya, where tribal loy-alties run deep and groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood at times cooperated with the rule of Moammar Gadhafi.

“Anyone with past ties with old regime is hated, even de-spised,” said Fathi al-Fadhali, a pro-Islamist Libyan political analyst who lived in exile for 30 years. “Any political names associated with the regime are immediately politically burnt by that association.”

Ultimately, the 200-seat parliament will face the task of forming a government — which could become tests of strength for Islamists and sec-ular forces over questions such as women’s rights, the extent of traditional Islamic law and relations with the U.S. and oth-er Western nations that helped bring down Gadhafi.

Kobach defends voter I.D. law

Beloved ’66 Volvo nears 3-millionmile mark

Kris Kobach

Libyan election hints at blow to Brotherhood

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Billie HoldenBillie Lee Holden, 71,

Kansas City, Mo., died Fri-day, July 6, 2012, at North-Care Hospice House in North Kansas City, Mo.

Funeral services were this morning at Highland Cemetery in Iola.

Memorial gifts may be made to the Susan G. Ko-men for the Cure and left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola, which is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences for the family may be sent to www.iolafuneral.com.

ObituaryDeadline: Notify the Register about calendar announce-ments by 7 a.m. Mondays in order to have your event listed in that week’s schedule. The calendar is pub-lished every Monday.

TodayIola City Council meeting, 6 p.m., New Community Building at

Riverside Park.USD 257 school board meeting, 6:30 p.m., Iola High School

lecture hall.Marmaton Valley USD 256 school board meeting, 7 p.m., dis-

trict office in Moran.Humboldt City Council, 7 p.m., Humboldt City Hall.USD 479 school board meeting, 7 p.m., Crest board office in

Colony.Allen County Chapter American Cancer Society, 7 p.m., confer-

ence room at Allen County Hospital.USD 258 school board meeting, 7:30 p.m., school board office

in Humboldt.

TuesdayAllen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County

Courthouse commissioners’ room.Iola Kiwanis Club, noon, Allen Community College Student

Center meeting room.Grief Support Group, 3:30 p.m., Allen County Home Health and

Hospice, 501 N. State, call 365-2120.Allen County Hospital trustees meeting, 6 p.m., Mary Ellen

Stadler meeting room at Allen County Hospital, open to public.American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary Unit 15, 7:30

p.m. Post Home.

WednesdayDirt Diggers Garden Club, 9:30 a.m., Maxine Redfearn hostess.ANW Special Education Cooperative board meeting, 6:30 p.m.,

710 Bridge St., Humboldt.LaHarpe City Council meeting, 7 p.m., LaHarpe City Hall.Jones Hardy Post No. 385 American Legion and Auxiliary, 7

p.m., Post Home, Moran.Iola BPOE No. 569, 8 p.m., Elks Lodge.

ThursdayRotary Club, noon, The Greenery.Take Off Pounds Sensibly No. KS 880, Iola, 5 p.m. weigh-in,

5:30 meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church, 118 W. Jackson.Farmers Market, 5:30 p.m., southwest corner of Iola square.Allen Community College Board of Trustees meeting, 6 p.m.,

Student Center trustees’ meeting room at the college.Christian Strings Dulcimer Performance, 2-3 p.m., Iola Public

Library.

FridaySenior Citizens Card Club potluck dinner, 5:30 p.m., senior

citizens center, 204 N. Jefferson.

SaturdayBreakfast for retired military, veterans and their spouses, 8

a.m., B & B Country Cafe, Andy Thornton, outreach specialist for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will speak.

Cancer Support Group, 10-11 a.m., Parish Hall at St. John’s Catholic Church.

SundayIola Old-Time Fiddlers, Pickers and Singers, 1 p.m., North

Community Building, 505 N. Buckeye, visitors welcome.

Friday and SaturdayAnnual Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life sched-

ule: 5-11 p.m., Carnival, courthouse lawn; 5-midnight, run/walk registration, in front of the Shirt Shop; 5:30-8, car and bike show, Washington Avenue; 6-Molly Trolley tours of the downtown square, tickets cost $5 apiece, tours will depart from the inter-section of Washington and Jackson streets every 30 minutes; 7-bucket brigade relay and live music; 8-telling of the Melvin Story with the Brass Boomers Band; 8:45, Minute To Win It games, 9:30-Parade of Lights; 10:30-third annual “Drag” race; 11-live mu-sic; 12:15 a.m., group stretch and warmup at starting line on West Street; 12:26-run begins.

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Iolan Michael L. Dillow, 33, died Saturday of uncer-tain causes.

Dillow, brother of Hum-boldt Police Chief Brian Dillow, worked for eight years as a sergeant with the Kansas State Correctional Facility in El Dorado and two years as a specialized paraprofessional for the

ANW Special Education Cooperative in Humboldt.

Iola Police Chief Jarred Warner told the Register Dillow’s death is being in-vestigated as a medical is-sue.

Private funeral servic-es are planned through Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel in Iola.

Michael Dillow dies

BEIJING (AP) — Chi-na’s government said Friday it will “properly handle” a U.S. complaint to the World Trade Orga-nization about its anti-dumping duties on auto imports and doesn’t want the latest in a string of trade disputes to harm re-lations.

“It is normal for fric-tions to occur,” said a for-eign ministry spokesman, Liu Weimin, at a regular briefing. “What is impor-tant is to properly handle it and not to let it impede friendly relations.”

The U.S. complaint Thursday adds to a se-ries of disputes with Bei-jing over market access for goods ranging from poultry to steel. Political tensions over trade are mounting as governments try to boost exports at a time of slumping global demand.

Washington accused Beijing of improperly imposing anti-dumping duties on American-made autos worth $3 billion. The Chinese duties of 2 to 21.5 percent affect cars and SUVs with engine capacity of 2.5 liters or larger.

A Commerce Ministry statement said Beijing will “properly handle the request for consultations under the WTO dispute settlement procedures” —

the first step in resolving a complaint.

If consultations fail to resolve the issue, Wash-ington can request a WTO dispute panel. A ruling can take 18 months to two years.

WTO rules allow coun-tries to raise import du-ties to offset improper subsidies and dumping. The United States con-tends China has imposed anti-dumping duties im-properly to obstruct im-ports of U.S. goods and shield its own producers. Last month, the U.S. suc-cessfully challenged Chi-nese tariffs imposed on American steel products and has also objected to tariffs on chicken prod-ucts.

Auto sales caught in US-China fray

Oil rose slightly to near $85 a barrel today, recover-ing part of the large drop from the previous session amid hope that weak U.S. economic growth may trigger new stimulus mea-sures.

By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for August delivery was up 38 cents at $84.83 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Ex-change. On Friday, crude fell $2.77 to settle at $84.45 in New York.

In London, Brent crude for August delivery was up 42 cents to 98.61 per bar-rel on the ICE Futures ex-change.

The Labor Department on Friday said the U.S. economy added 80,000 jobs last month, which was fewer than expected and prompted speculation that the U.S. Federal Reserve may implement more monetary stimulus mea-sures known as quantita-tive easing.

Last week, the Europe-an Central Bank and the People’s Bank of China both cut lending rates in the bid to boost flagging economic growth.

“We’re still stuck in

this mode of slow growth, which means weak de-mand,” energy trader and consultant Carl Larry of Oil Outlooks and Opinions said. “We have seen the ECB and China both take aggressive measures to ensure economic recovery and stimulate growth. We will need the U.S. Fed to do something similar.”

China said today that its annual inflation rate fell to 2.2 percent, the lowest since January 2010. Ana-lysts said slowing inflation should give policymak-ers more room to imple-ment stimulus and boost demand in the world’s second-largest crude con-sumer.

“There really is very little comfort out there for any bulls that remain in the market,” said energy consultants KBC in Lon-don. “The economic out-look remains bleak, oil de-mand growth is faltering ... and crude supply is high despite the ongoing strike in Norway and the loss of Iranian exports.”

A strike by oil workers in Norway, the largest oil exporter in Western Eu-rope, helped support pric-es, especially for the Brent contract. After weeks of unsuccessful negotia-tions, employers will lock out workers from Monday midnight, which some ex-pect will lead the govern-ment to forcibly end the labor dispute.

“The lockout ... is likely to largely paralyze the en-tire North Sea oil produc-tion of ” Norway, totaling 1.6 million barrels per day, said a report from Com-merzbank in Frankfurt.

Oil at $85 a barrel

Preschoolsacceptingstudents

Two school districts in Allen County, Humboldt USD 258 and Marmaton Val-ley USD 256, are accepting applications for free 4-year-old preschool programs for the 2012-23 academic year.

The preschool is de-signed to provide fun-filled, hands-on learning oppor-tunities and experiences to enhance a child’s cognitive, language, social, emotional and physical development in preparation for kinder-garten, according to a press release from the Southeast Kansas Education Service Center.

Children must be 4 on Aug. 31, but not have reached their fifth birthday.

Qualifying students must meet one of the following criteria:

— Live in a single-parent home.

— Qualify for free lunch-es.

— Have a parent who was a teen parent.

— Have a parent who has not completed high school or a general equivalency diploma.

— Be developmentally or academically delayed.

— Be referred by the De-partment of Social and Re-habilitation Services.

— Have limited English proficiency.

Preschool applications are available by calling toll-free (800) 554-3412.

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Although it’s never looked old, a new airport for Kansas City is in the making.

The new design will be one large terminal instead of three separate terminals. Increased demands for security and a decrease in the number of air-lines mean the single terminal can offer greater efficiencies.

For years, the 1970’s era KC airport had been hailed as passenger-friendly because of its curbside service. It used to be you could practically drive up to your departing gate. Re-member how you could give one last hug before your loved one got on the plane?

The terrorist bombings of Sept. 11, 2011, however changed the face of public transporta-tion. Multiple layers of secu-rity are now between check-in and departure.

The need for more guards to check IDs and pat down suspi-cious bulges runs counterintu-itive to the spacious design of MCI’s three horseshoe-shaped terminals around which were spaced 30 gates each.

Yes, the lines are longer to access the gate areas of other major metropolitan airports, but there’s a much greater ef-

ficiency of manpower by mov-ing more people through fewer stations.

MCI was always more friendly to those dropping pas-sengers off than for the pas-sengers themselves.

Idled passengers because of engine trouble or a canceled flight find the airport very un-friendly precisely because ev-erything is spaced so far apart and out of sight.

Restaurants and shops close early in the evenings. And un-like most airports, ticketed passengers who have gone through security are separated from such services.

There’s also a notable lack of seating out in the general concourse.

STEAM IS picking up for the new terminal to replace the current Terminal A instead of starting anew on vacant land. Terminal B might be used for offices. Terminal C is up for grabs.

Work could begin as soon as 2014 and be open in as little as five years.

The change is welcome and needed.

— Susan Lynn

New KC airportwill better meetneeds and demands

Dear editor,Most people think Barack

Obama was the first black presi-dential candidate, but he wasn’t!

In 1888, Frederick Douglass held that title. If there ever was a self-made man Frederick Douglass was that.

Born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1818, this proud young black man was deter-mined to shape his own destiny. At 20, he braved a dangerous escape from slavery and be-come an abolition-ist, reformer, orator, newspaper publisher, writer, political leader and government official.

Though he never became presi-

dent, he was a personal adviser to several presidents, Abraham Lin-coln among them. He was also a supporter of women’s rights. Like Lincoln, Douglass left a legacy in

death: The ideal of freedom for all people.

There are lots of great Americans in history, even movie stars. John Wayne was certainly one. Movie stars can love America, too.

Sincerely,Jim Brownrigg,

Iola, Kan.

Editor’s note: Mr. Brownrigg frequently

attaches drawings to his ruminations. I thought this

one was particularly worth sharing.

Letter to the editor

By JOHN SCHLAGECKKansas Farm Bureau

Across the state Kansas farm-ers are looking skyward, praying for rain and some relief from the record heat and drought. An early spring and ideal planting season had row-crop producers feeling optimistic about the potential yield for this year’s crop.

That enthusiasm has faded as we now realize the harvest for many Kansas farm families will be limited — or nonexistent. Kansas recorded one of the dri-est Junes ever and one of the hottest months in this state’s his-tory. While the western third of Kansas is blessed with irrigated crops, they are already feeling the brunt of the hot, dry weather, and the rest of the state is being dev-astated by this brutal heat.

While most farmers have some level of crop insurance and will recover a portion of their econom-ic losses. Producers must remain proactive and begin working with their crop insurance agents im-mediately. This will ensure they receive the indemnities they are entitled to.

Kansas row-crop farmers are already making hard decisions based on the likelihood this drought will continue and grow.

Some of these decisions include: is it time to take this crop out and salvage something? Is the crop already too far gone and should I leave what remains as residue? Should I hay what remains of my corn or milo? Do I need to divert some of my irrigation and choose which fields I believe will still yield a crop?

Hard choices?You bet; however, the key is to

begin talking with your crop in-surance agent about your individ-ual situation.

“Make sure you’re getting all your i’s dotted and your t’s crossed regarding your crop insurance policy,” says Mark Nelson, Kan-sas Farm Bureau commodities di-rector. “And remember, if you do decide to harvest your crops early, beware of prussic acid.”

Prussic acid can cause live-stock deaths. Ruminant animals (cattle and sheep) are more sus-ceptible to prussic acid poison-ing than non-ruminant animals because the ruminal microorgan-isms have enzymes which will re-lease prussic acid in the animal’s digestive tract.

Once plants containing prussic acid have been consumed by an animal, the toxin rapidly enters the blood stream and is transport-ed throughout its body. Prussic acid inhibits oxygen utilization by the cells in the animal’s body. In essence, the animal suffocates

With conditions shaping up like

they are in Kansas, any number of common plants may accumu-late large quantities of prussic acid (cyanogenic compounds). Corn, sorghums and related spe-cies readily accumulate these compounds.

Another potential problem that may be facing row-crop produc-ers is aflatoxins. Aflatoxins are highly toxic chemicals produced by certain mold fungi. They’re of-ten associated with drought con-ditions during grain fill and the accompanying high daytime and warm nighttime temperatures, that are conducive to fungal in-vasion and aflatoxin production, Nelson says.

The Food and Drug Administra-tion (FDA) has established strict limits for the presence of aflatoxins which can impact the deliverabili-ty, use, price and insurance indem-nities that farmers may receive for alflatoxin-contaminated grain.

“For crop insurance claims, aflatoxin tests must be done by a Risk Management Agency (RMA) approved testing facility,” Nelson emphasizes. “Make sure to keep in touch with crop insurance agents. Let them know what your plans are before you take action if possible, and definitely before you cut, so an accurate appraisal can be made.”

A farmer’s biggest risk remains the weather. This fact is being hammered home in a big way again this year.

Farmers face compounded risksDrought can cause toxic conditionsfor crops

WASHINGTON — When Rep. Joe Walsh looks back on his brief and inglorious career in Con-gress, he will have many moments to blame for his demise, but none more colorful than Thursday af-ternoon, when he managed to ut-ter the word “Ashleigh” 91 times over the course of a 12-minute interview.

This bizarre verbal obsession had origins in the freshman tea party Republican’s town hall meeting in Illinois a few days earlier, when he unfavorably com-pared his opponent, who lost both legs in combat in Iraq, to John McCain, whom Walsh claimed was reluctant to talk about his military service.

“He talked a little bit about it, but it was very uncomfortable for him. That’s what’s so noble about our heroes,” Walsh said. “Now I’m running against a woman who, I mean, my God, that’s all she talks about. Our true heroes, the men and women who served us, it’s the last thing in the world they talk about.”

So Lt. Col. Tammy Duckworth, who earned a Purple Heart in 2004 when the helicopter she was co-piloting was hit, is not “noble” or a “true” hero because she talks about her military service? It was similar to what Walsh told Polit-ico a few months earlier: “I have so much respect for what she did in the fact that she sacrificed her

body for this country. Ehhh. Now let’s move on.”

If this isn’t enough to convince voters to “move on” from Walsh, the lawmaker continued his self-destruction by appearing on CNN and declining host Ashleigh Banfield’s invitation to cast his remarks as a “slip-up.” Instead, he scolded “Ashleigh,” using her first name repeatedly when he wasn’t calling the 44-year-old an-chor “kiddo” or asking the recent-ly nationalized citizen whether she served in the military.

“No, no, Ashleigh. No Ashleigh, this wasn’t a slip-up. I don’t regret anything I said,” Walsh declared.

Banfield tried to read a list of things Duckworth has talked about other than her military ser-vice.

“No, she hasn’t, Ashleigh. No, Ashleigh, no, she hasn’t.”

“Do you want to hear it, Con-gressman? Do you want to hear it or do you just want to rail on me?”

“Hey, Ashleigh.” “I’ve got the list here.”

“No, Ashleigh, Ashleigh.” Banfield read part of the list. “Ashleigh, Ashleigh, Ashleigh,”

Walsh replied. “Hey, Ashleigh, Ashleigh, Ashleigh.”

ALL INDICATIONS are that Walsh’s first term in the House may be his last, as challenger Duckworth, a failed candidate in 2006, is favored to win Illinois’ 8th District, redrawn to favor Demo-crats.

But Walsh’s antics should be of concern to Republicans far be-yond the congressional district, both because they are the type of tea party histrionics that raise doubts about the GOP’s readiness to govern, and because they point to a potential Republican vulner-ability among veterans, a usually reliable voting bloc.

Polls are conflicting, ranging from a Gallup survey in May show-ing Mitt Romney with a 24-point lead among vets to a Reuters poll the same month giving Obama a seven-point lead. (McCain won vets by 10 points in 2008.)

Regardless, Obama tends to do better among veterans under 60, and his campaign, seeing a potential inroad, is planning to make veterans issues central to the Democratic convention in Charlotte. Obama’s pitch to veter-ans is that he has sponsored vari-ous jobs programs for them, and proposed steady increases, while

Romney backs the House Repub-lican budget, which would cut do-mestic discretionary spending by 19 percent — likely costing vets tens of billions of dollars.

Walsh is a ripe target for rea-sons well beyond his crass put-down of Duckworth. During his term, he failed to show up to a court hearing into his ex-wife’s claim that he owed $117,000 in child support (there were earlier tax liens and a foreclosure). His driver’s license was suspended last year for the second time in three years. He called Obama a “tyrant” and accused the presi-dent of “lying.” He even squared off with the other Joe Walsh, of the Eagles, over unauthorized use of the song “Walk Away.”

And now there’s Ashleigh, Ashleigh, Ashleigh.

Walsh acknowledged to Ban-field that all veterans are heroes, but he defended his claim that Duckworth isn’t a true hero be-cause she spoke about her service. He made this argument primarily by repeating the host’s Christian name 91 times by my count.

After many such Ashleighs — “Hey, Ashleigh, well, Ashleigh, look Ashleigh” — the interview-er responded in kind with “Yes, Congressman, Congressman. Yes, Congressman.”

“Whew,” Banfield said after the final Ashleigh. “I need to take a big breath.”

So should Illinois voters — and send a true hero to Washington in Walsh’s place.

Dana Milbank’s email address

is danamilbank@washpost.com.

A real hero is easy to see; and should be notedDana Milbank

WashingtonPostWriters Group

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A view of East Madison Avenue in the early 1900s.

Included in Friday eve-ning’s activities to com-memorate Charley Mel-vin’s infamous bombing of three Iola saloons 107 years ago will be a Mol-ly Trolley tour of Iola’s downtown square.

The trolley will board at the south side of Decora-tor Supply, or immediately

west of the registration desk for the Charley Mel-vin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life.

The tour will take ap-proximately 20 minutes and will feature the stories of several historic build-ings around the square, as well as the fates of the three saloons destroyed by

dynamite the early morn-ing hours of July 10, 1905.

Tickets cost $5. No res-ervations are necessary, but passengers may call the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce at 365-5252 to reserve a seat if they wish.

A new tour begins ev-ery half hour, starting at 6 o’clock.

Tours look at square’s history

sumed nearly three quarts of beer and a half-quart of whiskey.

Outraged and disillu-sioned by his binge’s pre-dictable results, Melvin set about ridding Iola of its poisonous brew. He was arrested shortly after pur-chasing a gun, with the intention of killing about a half dozen Iola saloon keepers.

He was judged insane and taken to the state hospital in Osawatomie, where he remained until he was discharged four months later and consid-ered cured.

State officials should have considered other-wise.

In short order, Melvin returned to Iola, with many of the same inten-tions, this time to use dynamite instead of a re-volver to rid Iola of alco-hol.

He waited until the early morning hours of July 10, 1905, to fill several downtown saloons with dynamite and lit a series of fuses.

The ensuing explosion blasted three of the sa-loons — the Red Light, Ea-

gle and Blue Front saloons — while partially burned fuses were found in other buildings on the north and east sides of the square, with another saloon in Bassett targeted.

There were no fatalities, although one of the saloon owners was trapped in his second-store apartment for hours. The sound of the massive explosions was heard as far away as Humboldt, LaHarpe and Neosho Falls.

The sparkling new Al-len County Courthouse Clock stopped at 12:26 a.m., disabled by the blast’s concussion. Sever-al other downtown build-ings sustained damage. The courthouse lost 71 windows. Damage to all buildings was placed then at about $100,000, or $2.4 million in today’s dollars.

MELVIN DIDN’T stick around to enjoy his handi-work. He fled town that night (his route marking a portion of the trail for the 5K runners). He was arrested a month later while working in a rail-road camp near Keystone, Iowa.

Curiously enough, Mel-

vin was never charged with the bombing. Rather, he was convicted of bur-glary and larceny for the theft of the dynamite. He served about nine years in the state penitentiary un-til his release in June 1914, shortly before his death.

MELVIN’S STORY, and the subsequent com-memoration has grown in popularity by leaps and bounds. More than 700 runners and walk-ers participated last year, with organizers eager to have similar participation numbers again this year.

One note for avid run-ners: The race includes certified chip timing of-fered by Oz Endurance.

THE schedule:Friday

5-11 p.m. — Inflatable carnival, courthouse lawn.

5-midnight — Run/walk regis-tration, in front of the Shirt Shop.

5:30-8 — Car and bike show, Washington Avenue.

7 — Bucket Brigade Relay, Washington and West streets; live music, courthouse bandstand.

8 — Telling of the Melvin story and the Brass Boomers Band, courthouse bandstand.

8:45 — Minute to Win It games, Washington Avenue.

9:30 — Parade of Lights.10:30 — Third annual “Drag”

Race.11 — Live music, bandstand.

Saturday12:15 a.m. — Group stretch

and warm-up at starting line on West Street.

12:26 a.m. — Race begins.

Sun-kissedWhile Colony’s Allene Luedke was watering and checking on her flowers, she came across this large hibiscus blossom with a bumble bee checking it out as well. The sun was just rising, giving the flower an intriguing glow, Luedke said.

Judy Brigham, Iola, a candidate for the 9th Dis-trict Kan-sas House of Repre-sentatives, will host f o r m e r Speaker of the Unit-ed States House of Representatives Dennis Hastert at two campaign events this week.

Hastert, the longest-serving Republican House speaker in history, will join Brigham for a fundraiser from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Allen County Coun-try Club and from 7 to 8:30 a.m. Thursday at the Chi-cago Room in Chanute.

Hastert served as House speaker from 1999 until 2007.

Brigham faces two GOP candidates for Republican nomination to the Kansas House, Iolan Bud Sifers and Ed Bideau of Chanute.

The primary election is Aug. 7.

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He paid extra to have an AM/FM radio, though.

“It was $10 extra, and at that time, $10 was a lot. But an AM/FM radio was a big deal,” he said.

Gordon’s car has just enough room for him and his essentials. His front bumper is filled with pins of his mileage achieve-ments. Even his license plate says “MILNMILER.” And his trunk overflows with the many car parts he thinks he might need when on the road.

“I have a set of every-thing,” he said. “If I have it, then I am not going to need it.”

Gordon has been taking road trips since he was a kid and continued through his adult years. He says he would just tell his fam-ily to pack their things and hit the road. Gordon’s two daughters went on his road trips until they outgrew the tiny red car.

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cism of Romney. The cam-paign and its Democratic allies have slammed the presumptive GOP nominee for not releasing several years of tax returns and for having some of his money in offshore bank accounts.

The strategy is aimed at portraying Romney, whose personal wealth could exceed $250 million, as disconnected from middle-class voters.

“We have to continue to grow our economy. We have to grow it from the middle class out,” Gibbs said today in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show. “But for millionaires and billionaires, they don’t need a tax cut,” he added.

Gibbs said, “We’re go-ing to have to make some tough choices in this country. We can’t contin-ue to spend the kind of money that was spent in the last decade.”

The president was to continue the tax debate Tuesday during a cam-paign trip to Iowa. His re-election team was also promoting the president’s tax policy at a series of events this week in battle-ground states, including New Hampshire, Colora-do and Nevada.

The president’s shift to the tax debate follows Fri-day’s lackluster jobs re-port showing the nation’s unemployment rate stuck at 8.2 percent.

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Kobach said the Kan-sas law was drafted “an-ticipating that somebody might try to sue.”

“The law is, I think, virtually bulletproof,” he said.

Kobach’s comments come as his office pre-pares for what will be the biggest test so far of the requirement that voters show photo ID at the polls — the state’s Aug. 7 pri-mary election. The sec-retary of state has said local elections have gone smoothly with the policy in place, with little voter

confusion or problems.The secretary of state’s

website contains links for forms allowing potential voters to seek a free ID along with, if necessary, a free Kansas birth certifi-cate or a birth certificate from another state.

But Louis Goseland, coordinator of KanVote, a Wichita-based group opposed to Kobach’s ini-tiatives, contends such efforts show that the laws he pushed “contain gap-ing holes.”

“There are still a lot of voters in the dark about this,” he said.

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HUMBOLDT — Action ran hot last week at Humboldt Speedway.

On June 29, the 2012 Mid-Sea-son champions were crowned in the four racing divisions at the lo-cal dirt track. On July 3, the 22nd annual Modified Blow Out blasted off Independence Day celebra-tions.

It came down to the final race of the first-half of the season to determine the pure stock division points leader. Tyler Kidwell had to win that Friday night race on June 29 and he did to secure the 2012 Mid-Season championship.

Joining Kidwell in the top spots in their respective divisions at the midway point were Jimmie Davis in B-Mod, John Allen in the USRA modified division and Scott Stuart in the factory stock compe-tition.

Kidwell finished ahead of Levi Phillips in the pure stock feature race that night. Derek Michael ran third followed by Jeremy Wil-lard and Mike Aiello to round out the top five.

Stuart continued to have a solid hold on the points leader spot in the factory division winning the feature race. Steve Stuart, Scott’s father, was the runner-up in the race with David Matlock in third place. Patrick Kay came across in fourth and Daryl Drake was fifth.

Tim Van Gotten earned a big come from behind win in the USRA B-Mod feature. Van Gotten defeated second place finishing Shawn Strong for the checkered flag. Davis came across the fin-ish line in third place, Curt Drake was fourth and Jeremy Chambers finished fifth.

Johnny Bone Jr. captured the USRA modified feature win. Bone returned to the Speedway four days later to claim a bigger pay day in the Blow Out on July 3.

In the modified feature on June 29, Luke Driskell was the runner-up to Bone. Scott Daniels ran third with Chase Sigg and Jess Folk Jr. finished fourth and fifth,

respectively.

BONE RETURNED to Hum-boldt and hung a wire-to-wire win on the competition in the Modi-fied Blow Out feature race. He dominated the 35-lap event that didn’t have a single caution.

Bone racked up a $2,000 payday with the win. There was added money to the other three car divi-sions.

Al Purkey took second in the modified race and Jeremy Payne

was third. Terry Schultz ran fourth followed by John Allen.

Scott Stuart roared to yet an-other victory in the factory stock holding off Brandon Weide, who took second. Derrek Wilson, Steve Stuart and Daryl Drake went third, fourth and fifth.

Jeremy Chambers blasted his way through the field for a victory in the B-Mod feature race. Dustin Thulin put pressure on Chambers but settled for second. Curt Drake was third, Chad Staus took fourth

and Curtis Dreasher was fifth.Donnie Devers recorded his

first win at Humboldt Speedway this season. Devers won the pure stock race. Mike Aiello ran sec-ond followed by Levi Phillips, Mike Churning and Tony Morris.

There was no racing at the Speedway last Friday.

Regular racing resumes this Friday.

The MLRA Late Models will be featured at Humboldt Speedway on July 27.

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American LegionIola AA at Paola, 6 p.m.

WednesdaySwim Team

Humboldt at Iola, 6 p.m.

ThursdayBaseball

American LegionChanute at Iola AA, 6 p.m.

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American LegionIola A at Baldwin tournament

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By JOCELYN SHEETSjocelyn@iolaregister.com

BAXTER SPRINGS — A split of Saturday’s doubleheader with host Baxter Springs ran Iola American Legion’s A baseball team’s record to 13-4.

Iola’s A Indians claimed an 11-2 decision in part due to the pitch-ing of Trent Latta in the opener. Latta went five innings allowed six hits, walked two batters and struck out seven.

The Indians’ offense capital-ized on five walks and four er-rors by Baxter Springs. Two walks and an error led to Iola’s first run of the game, which Baxter Springs equaled in its first at bat.

Iola used four base hits to break things open in the third inning. Baxter Springs committed two errors and Iola scored four runs. The Indians led 5-2 after three in-nings.

A two-run double by Tyler Clubine in the fifth helped push Iola’s advantage to 8-2. Iola added three more runs in

the fifth.Derrick Weir was 3-for-3 at the

plate with three singles. Clubine and Shae Beasley each had a single and a double. Latta, Aaron Barclay and Cole Morrison each had a base hit.

In the second game, the Indians committed four errors. Barclay and Morrison pitched two in-nings each in an 8-3 loss.

Barclay was charged with sev-en runs on four hits, four walks and had one strikeout. Morrison allowed one run on two hits, one walk and struck out two. Each hit two batters.

Iola had a single, each from Latta, Barclay, Clubine and Mor-rison.

The Iola A team plays in a tour-nament at Baldwin this coming weekend.

A Indians splitdoubleheader

At right, Trent Latta pitches in a home game for Iola American Legion’s A Indians. Latta and the Indians beat Baxter Springs Saturday.

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Humboldt Speedway has Blow Out

Above, Humboldt Speedway mid-season champions Jim-mie Davis (01), John Allen (98), Scott Stuart (74) and Tyler Kidwell (54) present the colors at the Speedway’s 22nd an-nual Modified Blow Out on July 3. The mid-season champions were crowned on June 29.

At right, Johnny Bone Jr. (sec-ond from right) won the 22nd annual Modified Blow Out at Humboldt Speedway on July 3.

Former St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith, left, congratu-lates University of Kansas basketball Head Coach Bill Self as he rounds the bases after hitting a home run during the All-Star Leg-ends & Celebrity Softball Game Sunday at Kauffman Stadium.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jake Odorizzi and Wil Myers dressed side-by-side Sunday afternoon in the corner of the Kansas City club-house, one they hope to inhabit soon on a more permanent basis.

The two prospects started for the U.S. team in the All-Star Fu-tures Game, along with fellow prospect Yordano Ventura, the starting pitcher for the World team. Together, they gave home-town fans a reason to cheer dur-ing an All-Star weekend largely devoid of Royals representation.

“This is my second Futures Game, but this one is a little bit better, being in Kansas City,” My-ers said, a 21-year-old outfielder who’s been tearing up the minors. “It’s just a cool thought, to be here

in front of the home crowd, to get a little taste of it now.”

Odorizzi and Myers are both on the cusp of their shot at the big leagues, the latest in a wave of talent that has been matriculat-ing through one of baseball’s best farm systems. The Royals have said they want them up this sea-son, but nobody has been willing to divulge a timetable.

Odorizzi is 5-0 with a 2.83 ERA since a promotion from Double-A Northwest Arkansas to Triple-A Omaha. Myers is hitting .315 with 14 homers in only 48 games at Omaha.

They gave fans few opportuni-ties to cheer on the home team during All-Star weekend.

Billy Butler will DH Tuesday

night, but there are no represen-tatives in tonight’s Home Run Derby. Closer Jonathan Broxton missed out in the last-chance All-Star voting.

That’s why Odorizzi started the game — giving up a solo homer to Jurickson Profor in his one in-ning of work — and why Myers played all nine innings, going 2 for 4 and driving in three runs to help pace the U.S. team to a 17-5 victory over the World team.

PLAY (SOFT)BALL! Dave Win-field hit a pair of homers, Jon Hamm of the AMC hit “Mad Men” added a two-run shot and a team representing National League clubs routed their AL counter-parts 21-8 in the All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game.

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GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — Barton County authorities have stopped searching for a parole vio-lator last seen in central Kansas.

The Barton County Sheriff ’s Department called off the search Sun-day afternoon for Michael Aaron Jayne, who is want-ed for a parole violation in Oregon.

Undersheriff Larry Hol-liday told The Hutchinson News that federal authori-ties confirmed Jayne was

out of the area.The 30-year-old Jayne

reportedly led officers on a chase in Rooks County on Thursday night. A pickup stolen from Rooks County on Thursday was discovered near Chey-enne Bottoms on Friday. Another vehicle was reported stolen Friday evening from the Barton Hills area.

Multiple law enforce-ment agencies were in-volved in the search, using aircraft and police dogs.

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GODDARD, Kan. (AP) — The body of a man who was missing at Lake Afton has been recovered.

KFDI reports Sedgwick County authorities re-covered the body about 6 a.m. Monday at the lake in south-central Kansas.

The man’s identity has not been released. Further details were not immedi-

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thorities say witnesses saw the man go under the water and not resurface on Saturday evening.

Dive teams from the Wichita and Sedgwick County fire departments searched the lake for sev-eral hours Saturday and most of Sunday.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials will be in England this week pro-moting the state’s avia-tion industry.

Sen. Jerry Moran, Gov. Sam Brownback and Kan-sas Commerce Secretary Pat George will be dis-cussing Kansas aviation at the Famborough Inter-national Airshow near London.

Leaders of Wichita’s Spirit AeroSystems,

Hawker Beechcraft, Cess-na Aircraft, Boeing, Air-bus and Bombardier also will be there.

Brownback says the Kansas delegation is working to promote cur-rent companies and re-cruit more companies to Wichita.

The Wichita Eagle re-ports Wichita builds and delivers more than 40 per-cent of the world’s gener-al aviation airplanes.

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HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Reno County health officials have pro-posed increasing several inspection and permit fees to make up for a state grant that was lost in a line-item veto from Gov. Sam Brownback.

The Reno County Com-mission has tentatively approved the fee hikes, and formally takes up the issue in August.

The Hutchinson News reports that the increased fees will be for such ser-vices as inspections of

rural home water and wastewater systems and inspecting private water wells or septic system in-stallations. Under the pro-posal, several inspection fees would increase, in-cluding for private wells, which would increase from $60 to $175.

Health Department Di-rector Julia Hulsey says the state grant to the coun-ty of $17,774 for the pro-gram was included in the state budget. But Brown-back eliminated it in a line-item veto.

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By SANDI DOUGHTONThe Seattle Times-(MCT)

SEATTLE _ When Bill and Melinda Gates were casting around for a cause in the 1990s, the topic that first snagged their interest was birth control. Expand-ing the use of contracep-tives and inventing new ones seemed like a sure bet to help the world’s poor and slow population growth.

But the world’s richest couple soon had second thoughts for their nascent foundation. Within a few years, they decided to shift the focus to saving chil-dren’s lives in the develop-ing world through vaccines and cures for deadly dis-eases.

Now, after more than 15 years, the Gateses are re-turning to their charitable roots in a big way.

Earlier this year, Melin-da Gates announced that

she intends to put birth control back on the inter-national agenda by making it her signature issue and significantly boosting the foundation’s investment. On Wednesday, the Gates

Foundation and the British government will convene a summit of world leaders in London with the goal of raising $4 billion to make contraceptives available to an additional 120 mil-lion women in the poorest

countries.The move puts the Gates

Foundation on a collision course with the Catholic Church and elements of the religious right. A Cath-olic herself, Melinda Gates is attempting to defuse the controversy by fram-ing her crusade in terms of health and individu-al choice. In her travels around the world, she has said, reliable supplies of contraceptives are among the things poor women ask for most.

“We’re not talking about abortion. We’re not talking about population control,” Melinda Gates said in the Berlin TEDx-Change talk where she kicked off her initiative in April. “What I’m talk-ing about is giving women the power to save their lives, to save their chil-dren’s lives and to give their families the best

possible future.”The foundation set up a

website called No-Contro-versy.com, asking people to share personal stories about birth control and pledge support for the ef-fort.

Veterans of the birth-control wars agree the foundation could be in for a harsher brand of criticism than it has faced in the past.

The fear of becoming a target in America’s cul-ture wars was one of many reasons the foundation backed away from birth control in the early days, and some insiders remain justifiably worried about the PR fallout, said Steven Sinding, former director general of the Interna-tional Planned Parent-hood Federation and one of a small cadre of experts who never stopped urging the Gates Foundation to take up the cause again.

Gates Foundation birth-control initiative could fire up critics

We’re not talk-ing about abor-tion. We’re not talking about pop-ulation control.

— Melinda Gates

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By LAURA KING And AIMAL YAQUIBI

Los Angeles TimesKABUL, Afghanistan _

Human-rights activists and Western officials expressed horror Sunday at a video showing a young Afghan woman who had been ac-cused of adultery apparent-ly being shot dead in front of a crowd of jeering men in a village only about an hour’s drive from the capi-tal of Kabul.

Authorities in Parwan province, where the NATO force has one of its largest bases, said they believed the images, shot in late June, were authentic, and vowed to pursue those who carried out the killing.

The Taliban movement issued a statement denying responsibility for the wom-an’s execution.

NATO’s International Security Assistance Force condemned the apparent killing, the latest in a se-ries of gruesome attacks against Afghan women to be made public in recent months.

The 120-second video, which was first obtained by Reuters and later dis-tributed via YouTube, shows a woman in a white shawl kneeling in the dirt. Crouching in terror, she could not speak even a word in her own defense. She then crumples after ap-parently being shot dead at close range by a gunman be-fore a crowd of more than 100 shouting men arrayed on a dusty terraced hillside.

The Parwan provincial governor, Basir Salangi, said it was believed that the incident had taken place on June 23 in the village of Qimchaq, in Shinwari district. He expressed dis-gust at the events depicted, which were reminiscent of the harsh public punish-ments that were common-place when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan before the U.S.-led invasion of 2001.

A provincial spokeswom-an, Roshna Khalid, said the victim was a 22-year-old woman named Najiba. She said local police had swiftly reported the incident, and the video was now being treated as evidence. “With this clip we have, we can identify some of the perpe-trators,” she said.

Video shows killing

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ZITS by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

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DAILY CRYPTOQUOTES - Here’s how to work it:

Dear Carolyn: How do you know when a relation-ship is right for the long term? Is it when you stop asking the question? Or when you fall into a stable pattern? I’ve been in a re-lationship for nearly three years and find myself struggling to determine the criteria by which to judge. — “When It’s Right”

Answer: I think it’s when you really like the version of you that the relation-ship brings out, and when it’s a version that’s easy for you to maintain. And when you’re no less happy to see the person walk in the room than you were at the beginning.

Dear Carolyn: A friend’s spouse has anger-manage-ment issues and is physical-ly abusive. She will not con-sider leaving and brushes off my pleas to seek coun-seling. I’m extremely con-cerned about their children (as yet, the spouse has not physically abused them). What more can or should I do? I’ve considered alerting her family members. I’m

not sure this is the right ap-proach. — Anonymous

Answer: Alerting family members — or Child Pro-tective Services — might be the way to go. Before you do either, though, call the hotline for Childhelp, 800-4-A-CHILD (422-4453). Childhelp is a nonprofit group dedicated to prevent-ing child abuse, and the hotline is a way to find out whether any steps you’re considering are the right ones.

Dear Carolyn: What advice would you give to a couple in a nonexclusive re-lationship (man is recently separated after many years of marriage) so that they don’t jeopardize how great their new relationship is going but also don’t jump into anything too quickly?

— NonexclusiveAnswer: Both need to be

disciplined about populat-ing their social calendars during the times they’re apart, whether it’s to date others or just see friends and pursue other interests.

Waiting around for each other — or just submitting to the other’s gravitational pull — is a bad idea when there’s a clear agreement that you’re neither exclu-sive nor serious. That’s how one of you gets the idea that things are getting serious while the other assumes the original agreement still stands.

Dear Carolyn: My teen can’t find a “first” job; fast food, etc., are all taken by adults needing survival work. Our many friends and family live in an area much less impacted by the recession. My teen is regu-larly needled with, “Still no job? I was working at your age!” She is worrying her-self into a tizzy. I would like their encouragement, not judgment. — Mom

Answer: Mama Bear

needs to address these “friends and family”: “The recession hit us hard, and Teen is trying. Please stop asking her, because she’s al-ready worried and the ques-tions make it worse.”

The unsolicited part of the advice: There is a some-what recession-proof class of jobs, one described to us by a teenager we hired as “too small for other people to want.” For example, few landscapers will come to weed just one flower bed for you, but a broke teen-ager will. Few dog walk-ers will take your dog for the occasional five-buck spin around the block, but a broke teenager will. Few nannies/housekeepers will take $5 to fold laundry or do a sink full of dishes for the parents of small kids, but .?.?. you get the idea. A flier to trusted neighbors might do it.

Write to Carolyn Hax, Style, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071, or tellme@washpost.com. Sub-scribe at www.facebook.com/carolynhax.

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Minor pains could be serious, see doctor Dear Dr. Donohue: My

son plays three sports: foot-ball, basketball and base-ball. He is 16. I saw him walking with a slight limp and asked what the trouble was. He said his knee hurt a bit but wasn’t terribly painful. And he said that it locked on him a few times. I told him I would take him to our doctor, but he won’t hear of it. What do you think he has? — V.C.

Answer: He must see a doctor if he wants to con-tinue his participation in sports. The symptoms you describe make a good case for osteochondritis disse-cans. It’s a separation of a piece of bone along with its adjacent cartilage from the lowermost part of the femur, the thigh bone. The bottom of the femur and the top of the lower leg bone constitute the knee joint. Blood supply to that small area of bone is cut off. The bone and the carti-lage covering it fall off into the joint. They can become a loose body and greatly in-terfere with knee action.

Repetitive stress, repeat-ed minor trauma and over-use can bring on this condi-tion.

Most often, the affected person feels some knee dis-comfort, and, on occasion, he can be in severe pain. The joint might make crack-ling or popping noises. Fre-quently, the knee cannot be fully straightened or fully bent. The knee might lock

for a brief period.An X-ray demonstrates

what the problem is. If it doesn’t, then an MRI scan or a scope inserted into the knee joint provides the needed information.

Osteochondritis disse-cans is not limited to the knee. It often occurs in the elbow.

Treatment depends on what stage the OD is in. If the separation is only a crack in the bone, restrict-ed activity and a knee brace are effective treatment and give the knee a chance to heal. If the separation is complete, then activity has to be restricted for months, and a knee immobilizer and crutches are required. New bone eventually is formed. Surgery often is recom-mended.

Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer in-dividual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible.

Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE by Chris Browne

Sudoku is like a crossword puzzle, but uses numbers instead of words. The puzzle is a box of 81 squares, subdivided into 3x3 cubes of 9 squares each. Some squares are filled in with numbers. The rest should be filled in by the puzzler.Fill in the blank squares allowing the numbers 1-9 to appear only once in every row, once in ev-ery column and once in every 3x3 box. One-star puzzles are for begin-ners, and the difficulty gradually increases through the week to a very chal-lenging five-star puzzle.

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Serena Williams, Federer win WimbledonWIMBLEDON, England

(AP) — One Wimbledon title wasn’t enough for Ser-ena Williams.

About five hours after Williams won her fifth singles title by beating Agnieszka Radwanska, she and sister Venus were back on Centre Court to beat Czech duo Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hra-decka 7-5, 6-4 Saturday in the doubles final.

It was their fifth Wimble-don doubles title together, and came shortly after Ve-nus watched her little sister win the singles final.

“I was definitely inspired by Serena’s singles perfor-mance,” Venus said. “Ob-viously it’s wonderful to play on the court with her. I couldn’t have done it with-out her, so it’s great.”

Both sisters have battled health issues over the last two years, with Venus hav-ing been diagnosed with an energy-sapping illness and Serena overcoming blood clots in her lungs and two operations after cutting her feet on glass in 2010.

This was their first dou-bles tournament together in two years, and they looked as if they hadn’t missed a beat.

“She’s such a fighter, you never say die,” Venus said about her sister. “I don’t think either of us believe that we can be defeated by anything. Nothing has de-

feated us yet, so we’re going to keep that track record.”

Serena was the last wom-an to win both the singles and doubles titles at Wim-bledon, in 2009.

Playing under the closed roof, Venus Williams served out the match less than 15 minutes before the 11 p.m. deadline for the end of play on Centre Court.

For Serena Williams, the low point came in early 2011, when she spent hours

laying around her home, overwhelmed by a depress-ing series of health scares that sent her to the hos-pital repeatedly and kept her away from tennis for 10 months.

The high point came Sat-urday on Centre Court at Wimbledon, when Williams dropped down to the grass, hands covering her face. She was all the way back, a Grand Slam champion yet again.

Her serve as good as there is, her grit as good as ever, Williams was dominant at the start and finish, beat-ing Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 to win a fifth championship at the All England Club and 14th major title overall, ending a two-year drought.

“Coming here and win-ning today is amazing,” she said. “It’s been an unbeliev-able journey for me.”

Serena finished with 17 aces — including four in one game — and a record 102 for the tournament. She is the first woman in her 30s to win a Wimbledon title since Martina Navratilova, who won at the All England Club in 1990 when she was

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HISTORY WAS ALSO made in the men’s champi-onship match.

A Grand Slam title drought did indeed end in Sunday’s historic and riveting Wimbledon final, only it was Roger Federer’s lengthy-for-him gap be-

tween trophies that came to a close, rather than Britain’s 76-year wait for a homegrown men’s cham-pion.

Making sure everyone knows he is still as capable as ever of brilliance on a tennis court — particular-ly one made of grass, and with a roof overhead — Federer came back to beat Andy Murray 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 indoors on Centre Court for a record-tying seventh championship at the All England Club.

“It feels nice,” Federer said, clutching the gold trophy only Pete Sampras has held as many times in the modern era. “It’s like it never left me.”

The victory also in-creased Federer’s record total to 17 major titles after being stuck on No. 16 for 2½ years, and clinched a re-turn to the top of the ATP rankings, overtaking No-vak Djokovic, after an ab-sence of a little more than two years. Federer’s 286th week at No. 1 ties Sampras for the most in history.

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Serena Williams celebrates with the trophy after win-ning the 2012 Wimbledon women’s singles final in Wimbledon, England, on Saturday.

Roger Federer holds the championship trophy after de-feating Andy Murray in men’s singles final at Wimble-don in England Sunday.

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Iola High’s Fillies ten-nis team camp is Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 6-8 p.m. The camp is at the IHS tennis courts northeast of the high school.

All girls interested in playing high school tennis are encouraged to attend the game. Camp fee is $10.

Fillies’ tennis coach Jen-nifer Bycroft is the instruc-tor. Athletes will work on tennis fundamentals.

Athletes are to bring a racquet, tennis court shoes and water. Contact Bycroft at 620-228-3090 for more in-formation.

Fillies tennis camp startsTuesday