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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 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

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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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By WILLIAM DOUGLAS, SEAN COCKERHAM, and

LESLEY CLARKMcClatchy Newspapers

WAUKESHA, Wis. — With the 2012 Summer Olympics winding down, the 2012 presidential cam-paign geared up Sunday, with President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candi-date Mitt Romney framing argu-ments and trading accusations that will likely set the tone and tenor of the upcoming political conventions and the fall cam-paign.

With new running mate Paul Ryan in tow, a reinvigorated Romney raced across North Carolina and Wisconsin Sun-day, warning at each stop that an Obama second term would

be economically devastating for America.

At a state h o m e c o m i n g rally here, Ryan, a seven-term c o n g r e s s m a n from Wisconsin, blasted Obama and praised the state’s Republi-can governor, Scott Walker, who survived a union-led recall ef-fort in June.

“On June 5, courage was on the ballot in Wisconsin and courage won and courage won. We Wisconsinites, we saved Wisconsin that day,” said Ryan, chairman of the House Bud-get Committee and author of a budget plan that would cut taxes, federal spending and re-vamp Medicare. “And on Nov. 6,

TALES FROM HISTORIC DROUGHT

New director takes band in professional direction

By ROB BURKETTrob@iolaregister.com

Matt Kloepfer, Iola High and Middle School band director, has been busy establishing what he hopes is a musical foundation for area students.

Kloepfer said he comes to Iola for a variety of reasons. The one that tops the list is the chance to work with the kind of students he has encountered so far.

“I had opportunities to teach other places that are more sub-urban than Iola,” Kloepfer said. “But the thing is, kids from more rural areas just seem to have a stronger work ethic. These kids remind me a lot of when I was that age. They have parents who have instilled a desire for them to be better.”

That attitude has been exempli-fied in the growth of his charges.

Giving private lessons on Tues-days and Thursdays throughout the summer, Kloepfer can see progress.

“The confidence that they are starting to build has been one of the most noticeable things so far,” Kloepfer said. “A lot of them didn’t read music that well or at all. They’ve come a long way al-ready.”

Kloepfer said a strong music program requires getting to stu-dents early, mentoring them and building their love of music. Kloepfer is looking for juniors and seniors to be mentors to middle school students, building their interest in music.

For those youths who don’t have instruments, Kloepfer says he has plenty of instruments for

Register/Richard LukenWhile the searing heat has apparently ebbed for the summer, the lack of rainfall continues to leave waterways lacking. Above, the Neosho River has dwindled to a slow trickle to the point that one could easily walk from one bank to another. Below, a small pond south of LaHarpe has dried completely.

Hot and dry weather takes toll By DAVID MERCER

Associated PressCHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — The

United States is in the midst of the worst drought in decades, and the dry weather and soar-ing temperatures are taking a toll on people living and work-ing in Ohio west to California and Texas north to the Dakotas. Farmers have watched their corn wither and their cattle go hungry. Homeowners have seen their lawns turn brown and gar-dens wilt. Communities in the Midwest that rarely experience water shortages have enacted

restrictions, and businesses are looking for ways to stay afloat as sales fall off. Here are a few of their stories:

Water for QuartersThe creeks and ponds that

Cimeron Frost’s 300 cows and calves drink from in central Il-linois are almost dry.

So each day, he takes rolls of quarters to what amounts to wa-ter vending machines in nearby towns. He drops in the coins, collects the water in metal and plastic tanks and tows it on trail-ers to his pastures around the

town of Tallula. He hauls 4,000 gallons a day in four separate trips, dumping or piping the water into big, galvanized-steel troughs for his herd to drink.

Even at 40 to 50 gallons per quarter, it adds up.

“It takes a little over two rolls of quarters a day, plus probably $40 in gasoline a day, to water all our cows in all our locations,” Frost, 65, said. At $10 a roll, that’s about 60 bucks a day, or $420 a week, and he’s been haul-ing every day since mid-June.

He estimates he has spent

Ryan boosts GOP ticket

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Stores offer back-to-school deals, tipsBy ALLISON TINN

allison@iolaregister.comIt’s back to school week and

some parents are scrambling to get last-minute things done be-fore classes begin Thursday.

Two weekends ago local shops held their annual sidewalk sale but even if parents missed the big weekend, they can still find good deals around town.

The recent heat has been a nightmare for most people, in-cluding local vendors who have put off pulling out their fall col-lections.

The key is to embrace the heat and buy a few more summer pieces, then during the winter time pair those with some win-

ter items. This is a trend Kelly Sigg,

owner and operator of Auda-cious Boutique, embraces.

“You will see the lace shorts that have been bought all sum-mer paired up with some leg-gings, riding boots and a big sweater,” she said.

Brenda Miller, owner and op-erator of Annie’s Attic, says her store always has a half-off rack and a 50-cent rack, which are back to school friendly.

Another recent trend young girls can try, Sigg said, is to buy scarves and tie them to at the edges to make a vest. The scarf can be used around the neck during the winter and during

the summer can be paired with a tank top, cami or a T-shirt.

Other trending styles that have already shown up in stores are colored pants. They are still a little warm for the summer months, but they are on sale in stores like Audacious Boutique and McGinty-Whitworth.

Using accessories can help change up an outfit. Using a dif-ferent belt, scarf or necklace can change an outfit, that way girls can have multiple outfits using the same camis, jeans and shorts — and parents are spend-ing less money.

Walmart has sale racks that have some out-of-season clothes,

See DROUGHT | Page A2

Paul Ryan

Register/Bob Johnson

Pool partyMilo “Drumsticks” Combs was a kid magnet Friday night at the fourth annual back-to-school Moonlight Splash at Iola’s mu-nicipal swimming pool, sponsored by Steve and Cecilia Orcutt, retired USD 257 art teachers. Milo — in real life John Hutton — led scores of youngsters in the “Chicken Dance,” after a parade around the pool.

Register/Rob BurkettMatt Kloepfer, Iola High and Middle School band director, stands in the middle of the woodwind circle during band camp Wednesday. The camp was designed to help push the limits of students by hav-ing them work with area professionals.

See BAND | Page A4

Police totarget DUIdriving

By RICHARD LUKENrichard@iolaregister.com

Those planning a night on the town in the coming days will want to think twice before getting behind the wheel.

The Iola Police Department is joining 150 other law enforcement agencies across the state with sat-uration patrols geared to finding drunk drivers starting Thursday.

The “You Drink, You Drive, You Lose” campaign starts Thurs-day and runs through Labor Day, Sept. 3.

The crackdown is underwrit-ten by a grant from the Kansas Department of Transportation.

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By RICHARD LUKENrichard@iolaregister.com

Iola has implemented a num-ber of water usage restrictions beginning today.

The stage 2 water warnings were issued by the Kansas Water Office, affecting communities in the Cottonwood and Neosho River Basins Water Assurance District No. 3 .

The restrictions are geared to prohibiting the waste of water and include:

• An odd/even lawn watering system will be imposed on Iolans. Residents with odd-numbered ad-

dresses will water on odd days; even addresses will water on even days.

• Outdoor water use, including lawn watering and car washing, will be restricted to before 10 a.m. and after 9 p.m.

• Golf courses will restrict wa-tering to tees and greens after sunset.

• Swimming pools may be re-filled one day a week after sunset.

• Outdoor watering will be re-stricted to use of a hand-held hose or bucket only.

• Excess water use charges will be considered.

Water restrictionsin effect for Iolans

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long Gas resident, died Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute.

Lillian was born Dec. 8, 1929, in Gas, the daugh-ter of John and Beatrice (Perkins) Schiefelbine. She grew up in Gas and gradu-ated from Iola High School.

On April 26, 1947, Lillian married Clifford “Cliff ” Steele in Iola. They made their home in Gas. She re-tired in 1991 after 30 years as a deputy clerk of Al-len County District Court. Mr. Steele preceded her in death Oct. 14, 1998.

She enjoyed walking, bi-cycling, embroidering, bak-ing and cooking for fam-ily and friends and helping with Gas functions.

She is survived by a

daughter, Judy Ann Ho-epker and husband Larry, Humboldt; two grandchil-dren, Janae Coronado and husband Henry, Frontenac, and Justin Hoepker and wife Nicole, Iola; five great-grandchildren, Avery and Colin Coronado and Rayce, Chassis and Speed Hoepker. She was preceded in death by her parents and a broth-er, Elwood Schiefelbine.

Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at the Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola, where the family will receive friends an hour prior to the service. Burial will be in Gas City Cemetery. Memorials may be left at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel, Iola, for Fees Park in Gas. Online condolences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.

Obituary CalendarDeadline: Notify the Register about calendar announcements by 7 a.m. Mondays in order to have your event listed in that week’s schedule. The calendar is published every Monday.

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

at Riverside Park.Women’s Ministry Fellowship group meeting, 6:30 p.m., First

Assembly of God Church, 1020 E. Carpenter St.USD 257 school board meeting, 6:30 p.m., Iola High School

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

district 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.,

conference 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.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.

WednesdayPrenatal classes, 6 p.m., Mary Ellen Stadler conference

room at Allen County Hospital, to register for session call Shari-lyn Lamb at (620) 365-1054.

Veterans Day Committee, 7 p.m., Alfred Link’s home, 623 S. Sycamore.

ThursdayKansas Commission on Veterans Affairs representative, 9:30

a.m.-2:30 p.m., Allen County Courthouse commissioners’ room.911 Advisory Board meeting, 10 a.m., 911 center, 410 N.

State St., Iola.Rotary 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.Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group, 7 p.m., First Assem-

bly of God Church, 1020 E. Carpenter.

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.

Aug. 20Thrive Allen County Community Conversation, 7 p.m., 12 W.

Jackson Ave.Cooking class: Breakfast, 9 a.m. at the Iola Public Library.

BERLIN (AP) — A kan-garoo is on the lam in Ger-many after breaking out of a wildlife park, with a fox and a wild boar his suspected accomplices.

Michael Hoffmann, as-sistant head of the Ho-chwildschutzpark Hun-srueck west of Frankfurt, said today the male kanga-roo was one of three that escaped overnight Satur-day with the inadvertent help of the menagerie that lives in the area woods.

Hoffmann says the kan-garoos got out of their enclosure after a young fox snuck into the park and dug a hole next to the cage’s fencing.

Two of the three were then able to get out of the park entirely through an-other hole dug by a wild boar under the exterior fence.

Hoffmann says “we’ve got two of them back; now we’re just looking for the third.”

Kangaroos escape German zoo

about $2,700 so far. But he worries more about what could lie ahead.

“If we don’t have a wet fall and a wet spring, we could be in trouble for an-other year,” Frost said.

Buy now, plant laterJeff Gatewood has never

seen a summer this bad in 36 years at Allisonville Nursery in the Indianapo-lis suburb of Fishers.

Indianapolis had its hot-test July on record, with temperatures topping 90 degrees on 28 days, and less than an inch of rain fell in June and July.

“We’ve now gone where nobody’s gone before. Hot, dry, hot, dry, record-setting all the time,” Gatewood said.

With business down 20 percent to 30 percent be-cause of the weather, he quit ordering new plants in June and cut hours and staff. Then he decided to get creative.

The nursery held a “heat stroke” sale in late July, of-fering customers a chance to buy plants and pick them up later, once cooler tempera-tures arrive and local wa-tering bans are lifted. That brought people in and helped business some, he said.

“We’re seeing a pent-up demand like a dam want-ing to break. I think once we see cooler temperatures in the lower 80s, get a little rain shower — that’s going to help,” he said.

The nursery has clus-tered plants in shaded ar-eas to protect them. Gate-wood said hydrangeas are especially vulnerable.

“Even in the shade, when it’s 95 or 100, they hate it,” he said.

— Jeni O’Malley in India-napolis

Creative forecastingFacing three minutes

to fill on the nightly news-cast, a TV station blog to update and a forecast read-ing something like “sunny and 102” for the umpteenth day in a row, meteorologist Todd Yakoubian doesn’t sweat. He pulls out a meat thermometer.

“I try to keep it as inter-esting as possible,” said Yakoubian, a meteorologist with KATV in Little Rock, Ark. “You can’t do the same thing day in and day out.”

To illustrate just how hot it has been in Arkansas, and for how long, Yakou-bian recently filled a sink in his home with water from the “cold” tap and measured it at a not-very-refreshing 84 degrees. He also has fried eggs on a sidewalk and baked cook-ies in a car, but admits ev-erybody does that. He’s on a quest to find other ways to show just how doggone hot the dog days are.

“I put a wireless ther-mometer in the attic and hooked up a webcam and streamed it for “How Hot Is It In Todd’s Attic?”

The answer: 138.6 de-grees.

He also took temperature readings in his wife’s car to show viewers how danger-ous it was to leave children or animals in vehicles that can reach 130 degrees.

“I used a meat thermom-eter because it was the only one I had that would go that high,” Yakoubian said.

— Kelly Kissel in Little Rock, Ark.

A silver liningThere may be a silver lin-

ing to the drought: The so-called “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is shrink-ing and the summer has seen fewer tornadoes.

The dead zone is an area of low oxygen in the wa-ters that is a long-standing environmental problem, which experts say is caused by farm pollution running into the Mississippi River and then the Gulf of Mexi-co. But with less rain, there is less runoff.

Nancy Rabalais, a dead zone expert with the Loui-siana Universities Marine Consortium, found the dead zone was the fourth small-est in 80 years of records. It measured only 2,889 square miles in July, compared to a five-year average of 5,695 square miles.

Tornado Alley also has been quiet this summer. In mid-April, the U.S. looked like it was on pace to set a record with the number of tornadoes this year. Then the storms stopped coming.

In June, there were about 100 tornadoes, the second fewest in more than 60 years of recordkeeping. Then in July it got even slower, with a preliminary count of 24. Before this year, the fewest tornadoes the U.S. had in July was 73.

The heat wave and drought are the primary reason for fewer twisters, said Harold Brooks, a re-search meteorologist at the National Severe Storm Lab-oratory in Norman, Okla.

In a drought, there are fewer thunderstorms from which tornadoes can form.

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vamp Medicare. “And on Nov. 6, we Wisconsinites will help save America that day.”

Ryan told the crowd that Obama is leading the country on a path “toward a welfare state with a debt crisis.”

“Do we want to copy Eu-rope?” No!” Ryan shouted.

Earlier in the day in North Carolina, Ryan told a crowd that packed into a furniture factory in High Point that “We have a clear choice of two fu-tures.”

“Are we going to accept the status quo, a path of debt, a path of doubt and decline?” he asked. “We can turn this country around.”

Meanwhile, in Chica-go, Obama formally wel-comed Ryan to the cam-paign, invoking his name

to a chorus of boos during a fundraiser at an arts center. The event was the second of five fundraisers in his home town Sunday.

“I know him; I welcome him to the race,” Obama said, cutting the crowd’s booing off.

Obama called Ryan the “ideological leader of the Republicans in Congress.”

Ryan is a “decent man, a family man” and an “ar-ticulate spokesman for Gov. Romney’s vision,” Obama said.

“But it’s a vision I funda-mentally disagree with,” he added. “The question in this election is which way do we go? Do we go forward toward a vision of American in which pros-perity is shared... or do we go backward, toward the same policies that got us into this mess in the first place. I believe we have to go forward.”

H CampaignContinued from A1

We’ve now gone where no-body’s gone be-fore. Hot, dry, hot, dry, record-setting all the time.

— Jeff Gatewood, Garden nursery

owner in Indianapolis

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U.S. stocks fell this morning as evidence piled up that the global economic slowdown is dragging on Asia.

Japan’s economy grew in the second quarter at a 1.4 percent annual rate, far slower than analysts had expected. Last week, China released dismal figures on retail sales and exports in July. Traders had hoped Beijing would roll out stimulus mea-sures over the weekend. That did not happen.

Slower growth in Asia is worrisome because the region’s economic

strength has offset weak-ness in the U.S. and Eu-rope during the past sev-eral years. Exports from Asia are plunging, a sign that Europe’s economic woes are stifling consum-er demand for products made there.

While Chinese and U.S. monetary authorities are thought to be considering how to ease monetary pol-icy further, the European Central Bank is expected to take a more active role firefighting Europe’s debt crisis in order to reduce the borrowing rates of Spain and Italy.

Economic malaisehits Asian shores

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Mitt Romney’s pick in Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice-presiden-tial running mate is so good, many may be wishing Ryan was leading the ticket.

Ryan makes no bones about his vision for America. And because Romney has yet to be definitive about his ideas for the country, Ryan is more than happy to fill in the details.

A bright future for the U.S., Ryan says, depends on largely undoing safety net services such as Medicaid and Medi-care, revamping the income tax formula to favor the wealthy, and keeping defense spending at its all-time high.

This formula would reduce spending by about $6 trillion the first 10 years, according to the non-partisan Congres-sional Budget Office. But also would reduce income by $4 tril-lion.

If implemented, the CBO estimates the United States would get out of debt in 30 years — hardly an aggressive trajectory toward solvency.

MOST OF US would not enjoy the benefits of Ryan’s tax plans. While high-income earners would reap huge bene-fits, the other 95 percent of the U.S. population would experi-ence none because deductions such as home mortgages would be eliminated.

For most Americans their homes — not their investments

— are their biggest asset. Ryan proposes lowering the

top rate from the present 35 percent to 25 percent, increas-ing the tax burden on middle class Americans.

Under Romney/Ryan, Medi-care would be turned into a voucher program where bene-fits would be determined by an insurance company. Tradition-ally, the health care needs of senior citizens are generously covered by the U.S. govern-ment. Under Ryan’s plan, that care would be determined by private insurance companies. Vouchers for a fixed amount would be issued, forcing se-niors to make do.

The CBO estimates most se-niors would pay an average of $6,400 in additional medical costs under Ryan’s plan.

As for Medicaid, which cov-ers low-income people and increasingly nursing home care for formerly middle-class Americans, the federal govern-ment would issue block grants to states — and at a significant-ly reduced rate than it current-ly pays for those services.

Ryan also favors privatiza-tion of Social Security, steal-ing the last leg under the stool of federal entitlements which Americans have earned.

Ryan’s plan is for the hale, hearty and well-heeled.

Those less than that, will feel increasingly unwelcome.

— Susan Lynn

Two of a kind:Ryan fleshes out Romney’s vision

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Conser-vative Republicans cleared away a big obstacle this week to their ambitions to convert Kansas into a policy laboratory, but they could face a new problem as they work on fiscal and social issues next year — the state GOP’s ingrained habits of splintering and squab-bling.

Voters in last week’s Republi-can primaries ousted seven mod-erate state senators, and Senate President Steve Morris, a Hugo-ton moderate, trails in his con-test as counties prepare to certify election results this week. Con-servative Republicans are likely to emerge from the November general election with a conserva-tive GOP majority in the Senate alongside one in the House.

Conservatives and like-minded groups like the Kansas Cham-ber of Commerce, Americans for Prosperity, Kansans for Life and the tea party movement have plenty to celebrate. They appear to have shattered a Senate coali-tion that allowed GOP moderates and Democrats to check conser-vative Gov. Sam Brownback’s agenda. Brownback’s administra-tion has a clearer path for his po-litical initiatives.

But Brownback and the Leg-islature’s new GOP leaders will face rising expectations on the right and a coalition of allies with diverse policy goals. Brownback and conservative legislators also will be enmeshed in the details of drafting a budget and managing state government, knowing the governor and House members will face voters again in 2014.

“They’ve got 30 months to turn this state around, because nobody’s going to give them any grace,” said state Rep. Scott Schwab, a conservative Olathe Republican.

Some Republicans thought Brownback faced a similar prob-lem after his election in 2010, when the GOP won all statewide and congressional races on the ballot for the first time since 1964 and dramatically boosted its ma-jority in the state House. And rumblings initially came from

the right, as a few conservative Republicans grumbled about what they perceived as a lack of progress on budget and tax is-sues.

BUT THE BIGGER problem was on the left. GOP moderates resisted Brownback’s successful push this year to cut income tax-es, fearing it would lead to budget shortfalls, something legislative researchers have projected. The bipartisan Senate coalition also blocked some proposals on abor-tion, gun rights, labor unions’ political activities and giving the governor and legislators more control over appellate court ap-pointments.

Democratic legislative leaders argue Kansans can still check conservatives by voting for Dem-ocratic candidates in November. But odds are long that Democrats can pick up enough seats in the Senate, because Republicans could lose six of their current 32 seats, and conservatives still would have a majority of 21 in the 40-member chamber.

Some GOP moderates have already conceded majorities in both chambers to conserva-tives and a free reign in policy to Brownback.

“He will get those rubber-stamp majorities,” said Ryan Wright, chairman and treasurer of the Kansas Values Political Action Committee, which formed in mid-July to help moderate GOP sena-tors. “I actually think his biggest challenge over the next two years is saying ‘no.’ The base wants red meat, and at some point, the lead-ership has to govern.”

Both major parties experience internal strife and attempts to push out dissidents, but Kansas Republicans have a more storied tradition of family feuding be-cause of their dominance in the state.

A century ago, when the Popu-list movement faded, conserva-tives battled Bull Moose progres-sives. The squabbling flared in the 1950s and 1960s, and again in the mid-1990s, when moderate Bill Graves swept into the gov-ernor’s office but conservatives took control of the state GOP or-

ganization.With even GOP moderates now

brought to heel, Schwab still sees the potential for splintering, say-ing the party has “reasonable” conservatives and “the far right.”

An early test of conservative unity will be in December, when Republicans in both chambers pick new leaders. House Speak-er Mike O’Neal, a conservative Hutchinson Republican, didn’t run for re-election to the Legisla-ture. Morris’ departure and GOP moderates’ losses likely mean a clean slate of leaders for Senate Republicans.

But Wright expects GOP sena-tors’ potential conflicts over lead-ership jobs to work themselves out and predicts the first serious battles will be over budget issues, followed by some conservatives’ desire to pursue social issues, in-cluding abortion.

Notably, Kansans for Life described last week’s election results as “a pro-life primary triumph.” While efforts by the Kansas Chamber and AFP re-ceived far more attention, the anti-abortion group was active through voter guides, mailings and radio ads for conservative candidates.

Another potential flashpoint is immigration policy, which di-vided even conservative Repub-licans this year. Some GOP legis-lators want to pursue measures designed to crack down on illegal immigration and have a visible ally in Secretary of State Kris Kobach. But the Kansas Cham-ber — a visible force in this year’s conservative wave — backed a proposal to allow illegal immi-grants to fill jobs in industries deemed to have a labor shortage.

Finally, Schwab said, Brown-back and legislative leaders must deal with the impatience of new legislators.

“You’re always going to have those freshmen, who have that lust for immediate change,” he said.

Political Writer John Hanna has covered Kansas politics and government since 1987. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/apjdhanna .

Newly elected come with agenda

JohnHannaAn AP news analysis

... (Brownback’s) biggest challenge over the next two years is saying ‘no.’ The base wants red meat, and at some point, the leadership has to govern.

— Ryan Wright,Kansas Values Political Action Committee

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A look back in time25 Years Ago

Week of Aug. 11, 1987Evans Music, a member of the

Iola business community since 1963, will close later this month. Jim Evans began working at the store five years after his parents opened it in 1963. The store, at 15 W. Madison, housed Edmiston’s department store before Dave and Olive Evans expanded their busi-

ness from Chanute to Iola. The Chanute store was closed earlier and the elder Evanses retired.

*****Dr. Frank Lenski Jr., a native Io-

lan, who has been practicing med-icine since 1950, when he joined his father’s practice here, is retir-ing. The younger Lenski graduat-ed from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and interned at

Charity Hospital in New Orleans. He joined the U.S. Navy two years after joining his father’s practice. After his Navy tour of duty he ac-cepted a residency in psychiatry at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka. Lenski returned to Iola to continue his medical career in 1954. His office in Iola is at 206 S. Jefferson. He now plans to travel and visit his three sons.

Olympic athletes are very special people. But are they more special than, say, Nobel Prize winners, or police officers, or nurses, or spiritual gurus, or brilliant inventors or research-ers whose discoveries enhance our lives? If an election year happens to fall in an Olympics year, yes.

Both presidential candidates have embraced an astonish-ingly silly but highly populist measure in Congress to exempt Olympic medalists from taxes, an idea that, naturally, originat-ed with that bastion of silly but populist tax proposals, Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform. The U.S. Olympic Com-mittee awards honorariums in the amount of $25,000 for each gold medal, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze, which means, Norquist’s group sputters, that a gold medalist would be on the hook to send up to $8,986 of his or her winnings to the IRS.

Never mind that the fact-checking organization Politi-Fact ruled this claim “Mostly False,” because any decent ac-countant could reduce that tax bite to as little as zero by de-ducting the expenses paid to win that medal, such as travel, uniforms, classes, payments to coaches, cost of equipment, etc. Republicans, with some Demo-cratic support, quickly spon-sored legislation in the House and Senate to make Norquist’s notion law, and on Monday the White House weighed in by say-ing that if Congress approves the bill, President Obama will sign it.

Why? There’s no legitimate tax policy reason. Politicians in both parties complain endlessly about the complexity of the U.S. tax code and its many needless loopholes, yet they’re only too happy to add to the complexity and drill another loophole in an election season when liberals and conservatives alike rooted for Team USA in London. If you’re going to make an argu-ment for a tax exemption, the first requirement should be to demonstrate that the tax relief would have a stimulative or oth-erwise beneficial effect on the economy without significantly worsening the deficit. That clearly doesn’t apply here.

FORGET ABOUT the brain, though; this bill is targeting the heart. Americans’ guts tell them that Olympians work very hard, most of them are amateurs, and their accomplishments should be honored rather than snatched by the IRS. Yet if we were to carve out exemptions for all the people who work hard, make sacrifices and some-times achieve remarkable feats, the government would quickly go broke. Is an Olympian’s sac-rifice in pursuit of personal glo-ry really more noble (or worthy of a tax exemption) than a fire-fighter’s risk of life and limb in a dangerous rescue operation? Hardly, yet firefighter salaries are taxed at the same rate as everybody else’s. This mindless bill should be rejected with the authority of a Kerri Walsh Jen-nings block.

— The Los Angeles Times

Medals are reward enough

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sic program early in the sum-mer and it helped out a lot,” Kloepfer said. “We ended the summer with about 18 in-struments that were donated. We have most of them ready to go right now and we’ll con-tinue to work on the rest to have them ready as soon as possible.”

On the other side of the equation, students have re-sponded positively to the new

band director. The level of instruction has impressed some of the seniors.

“You don’t just walk through things during prac-tice,” Cody Cokely said. “He pushes us to be better. You really have to work at things and that’s awesome. I can’t speak for all the seniors, but I know I’m a little sad that he got here in my senior year. I’ll get only this year to work with him.”

“You can tell he wants to push students to be bet-

ter,” Colton Schubert, added. “We’ve had some good prac-tices, so it’s been good.”

Kloepfer said he can tell his new students are bring-ing out the best in him as an instructor.

“I’ve started stepping my game up even more as a teach-er,” Kloepfer said. “They’ve been like sponges just soak-ing in what I say. They come ready to go each time. A lot of them come early and stay late. That’s the kind of stuff that inspires me to give all I

can. Their energy pushes me to step up mine.”

The new band will debut at the IHS football Blue and Gold game Aug. 23.

The band has rehearsed many of the traditional songs played during games that help raise the team’s in-tensity.

“Our job is to give the team an extra edge,” Kloep-fer said. “If we can keep the crowd pumped up and into the game, then we’re doing our job.”

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FOR A lot of kids, es-pecially young girls, the idea of showing up to class and running into someone wearing the same outfit is horrifying, and that is a problem that Sigg tries to get around.

Because she has a small boutique she orders only so many of the same out-fits, no more than six, she says. That limits the chances of customers wearing the same thing around town.

By shopping around town there are more chanc-es for sales and more ways to create school-friendly outfits.

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As many as 61 people are injured and three killed every day on Kansas roads in alcohol-related crashes, the Iola Police Department said in a press release.

“I want this enforce-ment to remind drivers of several things,” Iola Police Chief Jared Warner said.

“First, if you’re going to drink while away from home, do it responsibly by planning ahead and lin-ing someone up who is not drinking to get you home.”

Waiting until it’s time to go home to start asking is foolhardy, the police chief said.

“Chances are, if you do that, you will end up with

a driver who thinks he’s sober enough to be driving, but may not be.”

Second, Warner encour-aged drivers to picture families they know, then consider the impact of injuring or killing one of them due to drunk driving.

“Third, we can pull you over for any number of traffic infractions or me-chanical deficiencies,” Warner said.

If officers detect a hint of alcohol, the driver will be tested.

“Fourth, we ask every-one to be our eyes when on the road,” the police chief said. “If you see suspicious driving behaviors, take note of location and direc-tion, as well as the vehicle’s

description.”Call 911 only when it’s

safe to do so, he stressed.Warner also noted wear-

ing seat belts or appropri-ate child restraints is an ongoing concern for offi-cers. Those laws will be en-forced as well.

While the campaign is geared toward the Labor Day holiday, Warner noted officers will remain vigi-lant to removing impaired drivers throughout the year.

A drunken driving ar-rest could result in fines of up to $2,500, a year in jail, suspension or permanent loss of driving privileges and the installation of an interlock ignition device on the driver’s car.

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Drowning victim was sleeping swimmer

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — A man floating on a central Pennsylvania river was mistaken for a drowning victim — until he sat up.

WNEP-TV reports po-lice and a coroner arrived at the scene Thursday along the Susquehanna River near Williamsport.

Onlookers reported seeing the man floating face-up in a lifejacket just below a dam. The area has seen drownings before.

Turns out the man had fallen asleep while cooling off on a hot summer day.

Swimmer Joseph DeAn-gelo says he had no idea

what was going around him until a dragonfly landed on his nose. Then he sat up.

DeAngelo apologized for the confusion, but says he was living life the best way he knows how.

Man charged with bag of bogus cash

INDIANA, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania man has been charged with possessing an instru-ment of crime — a bag of shredded counterfeit money — after police say he handed it to them when they went to his house on an unrelated disturbance call last year.

Thirty-nine-year-old

Peter Letso, of Indiana, Pa., was charged by state police only this week be-cause crime lab experts and the U.S. Secret Ser-vice have been examining the bag’s contents to deter-mine what it contained.

Police say they were answering a disturbance call on Sept. 10, when Let-so told troopers he knew why they were there and handed over the bag. Po-lice haven’t explained why Letso did that or how he allegedly obtained the counterfeit money.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for Letso, who also doesn’t have a listed phone.

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AA Indians wrap up seasonBy JOCELYN SHEETS

jocelyn@iolaregister.comWAHPETON, N.D. — It was not

the ending they wanted but Iola American Legion Post 15’s AA Indians saw their state champion-ship season come to an end Fri-day evening.

The 2012 Kansas American Legion AA champions lost twice on Friday, losing out at the 2012 American Legion Central Plains Division 2 Regional Tournament. Iola dropped a 9-6 decision to Ely, Minn., in the winners bracket Friday afternoon.

On Friday evening, the AA In-dians just couldn’t come up with a timely hit and lost 2-1 to Wiscon-sin Dells, Wis., in an elimination game. The Indians ended the 2012 season at 41-6.

They won the Kansas Amateur Baseball Association (KABA) South for the second year in a row. They won the KABA tournament championship then followed it up with a Kansas American Legion Zone 3 championship.

The Iola AA Indians captured the second-ever state champion-ship for Iola American Legion Leslie J. Campbell Post 15. Iola won a state AA championship in 1988. A team from Iola has been in the AA state tournament in 1983, 1984, 1988, 1990, 2007, 2011 and 2012. Iola finished second in 1984 and 1990.

In the game with Wisconsin Dells, Iola gave up a run in the first inning on an error, a walk and fielder’s choice. Iola tied the game up in the third inning.

With one gone, Levi Ashmore walked but was caught stealing second base. Clint Heffern opened a two-out rally with a base hit and Jerrik Sigg followed with a single. Heffern stole third base.

Sigg took off for second base and on the throw, Heffern scored. Sigg was tagged out at second.

Wisconsin Dells scored the go-ahead run in the fourth. A hit bat-ter with one gone and two singles produced the run. Iola had two on with no one out in the top of the seventh but a double play and a fly ball ended the threat and the game.

Heffern had two singles in the game. Hitting a single each were Dalton Smith, Mason Coons, Sigg, Drew Walden and Corey Taylor.

Smith was the losing pitcher. He gave up two hits, walked five, hit two batters and struck out three.

At right, Iola AA Indians’ second baseman Clint Heffern goes up to snag a high throw during the team’s state championship run a week ago.

Register/Jocelyn Sheets

...Success at the 2012 London Summer Olympics.

Sorry Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt and the U.S. Dream Team. You did well but these games belonged to the women of the world.

Especially the U.S.A. women, who brought home 29 of their country’s 46 gold medals. They were responsible for over half of the 104 total medals garnered by U.S. athletes over the two weeks of competition.

Even in sports generally thought of as men’s sports — boxing and freestyle wrestling — American women placed. Claressa Shields won the first ever gold medal in boxing for the American women and Marlen Esparza claimed a bronze in boxing.

Kayla Harrison was so overcome with emotion that she couldn’t keep the tears from flowing atop the podium. Harrison won the first ever judo gold medal in Olympic history.

It was the U.S. men’s gymnastic team that was touted as gold medal favorite go-ing into the Olympics. They stumbled and the U.S. women captured the team gold in their competition plus added two individ-ual goal medals. Those included the all-around gymnast gold to Gabby Douglas.

What about the young women in the pool. Missy Franklin, Katie Ledecky. Re-becca Soni in the swimming along with others. Then in another pool the U.S. women claimed the gold in water polo.

It was an All-American gold medal match in beach volleyball. The U.S. wom-en won gold in soccer and basketball.

Who can forget the sheer joy of Serena Williams’ dance following her gold-medal

victory in women’s singles. She and her sister, Vanessa, won the women’s doubles gold.

It all got started by Kimberly Rhode in women’s skeet shooting. And the Ameri-can women kept rolling right to the end.

In track and field, the American wom-en were tremendous. Allyson Felix, San-ya Richards-Ross, DeeDee Trotter and Francena McCorory punctuated the run in track and field with a gold medal in the 4x400-meter race. Felix, Carmeliat Jeter, Bianca Knight and Tianna Madison set a world record in winning the 4x100-meter relay gold.

What role models all of the American women — even those who did not earn a medal — were for the young girls of this country.

No one can deny that the 2012 Sum-mer Games were important to the women of the world. A stadium full of people cheered the first woman track athlete from the Saudi Arabia even when she was last in her heat of the 800 meters. Sarah Attar ran for Saudi Arabia and Wojdan Shaherkani, who became the first Saudi Arabian women ever to compete in the Olympics earlier in judo.

The men were pretty good also but the women had it going on in London.

Women have had it...

Jocelyn Sheets

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From left, USA’s Allyson Felix, Carmelita Jeter, Bianca Knight and Tianna Madison cel-ebrate after winning the gold medal in the 4X100 relay in world record time at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England. Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/MCT

USA’s Claressa Shields, left, battles Kazakhstan’s Marina Volnova in the women’s boxing middle-weight semifinals at the 2012 Olympics in Lon-don, England. Shields won the gold medal later in the week. Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/MCT

Maggie Steffens of the United States rises up for a shot en route to the U.S. winning the gold medal match against Spain, 8-5, in the Summer Games in London, England.

Karl Mondon/Contra Costa Times/MCTUnited States’ golden girls in gymnastics.

LONDON (AP) — Red, white and blue was everywhere in Lon-don.

For the Americans — and for the British, too.

The most medals, and the most gold medals. That’s what the U.S. Olympic Team wanted, and it’s what they delivered. As for the home team? Riding the wave of home-field advantage, the British put together their best Olympic showing in over a century.

The competition is over. The U.S. was best, but the success sto-ries from London truly spanned the globe.

“I think these games were ab-solutely fabulous,” International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said.

The final numbers: 104 med-als for the United States, 46 of them gold, their highest total at a “road” Olympics. China won 87 medals, 38 of them gold, down from what they did as the home team in 2008. Britain won 29 golds, third-most of any nation,

and 65 overall — fourth in that category behind Russia, a winner of 82 medals, 24 gold.

Grenada had its first gold med-alist, and six other nations sent athletes to the Olympic podium for the first time. Meanwhile, Australia took another step back in its Olympic freefall after a scin-tillating show in Sydney 12 years ago.

In all, 85 nations won some-thing in London, from the U.S. to

Tajikistan and dozens of points in between.

“We are immensely proud of the success that our athletes had in London,” U.S. Olympic Com-mittee CEO Scott Blackmun said Sunday.

So were the hosts, who delivered on a promise of greatness in 2012.

“What I’ve witnessed in the last couple of weeks has been both up-lifting and energizing,” London Games chief Sebastian Coe said. “I don’t think any country that has staged the games or any city that staged the games is ever the same afterward.”

Neither are the athletes who win them. A boxer from Thailand protested losing a gold-medal fight to a Chinese opponent, and shed tears of disbelief when the decision was announced. He cried again 10 minutes later, holding his silver medal for the first time.

“I’m happy. I’m still really hap-py that I’ve got this silver medal,” said the Thai fighter, Kaeo Pong-prayoon. “I’m really proud. It

might not be gold, but it’s a medal I can bring back to the Thai people.”

The U.S. brought a whole slew of hardware back to the Ameri-can people. The 46 golds in Lon-don were one more than the gold haul from Paris in 1924 and Mexi-co City in 1968.

LeBron James recognized that winning gold means more than, well, winning gold. He and the U.S. men’s basketball team won the Americans’ final Olympic title in London on Sunday afternoon.

The final numbers for the Americans in London won’t go down as record-setting for all Olympics.

They won 83 golds (174 overall) at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, boycotted by most of the Soviet bloc countries; and 78 golds (a whopping 239 overall) at the 1904 St. Louis Games, when U.S. ath-letes won roughly seven out of every eight medals.

Different eras, different dynam-ics. By any measure, 2012 will be considered a success for the U.S.

US, Britain earn high medal counts

LONDON (AP) — Shot putter Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus be-came the first athlete to be stripped of a medal at the London Olympics after her gold was withdrawn today for doping.

Valerie Adams of New Zealand was awarded the gold and Evgeniia Kolodko of Russia was bumped up to silver. Fourth-place finisher Gong Lijiao of China was moved up to bronze.

The International Olympic Com-mittee said Ostapchuk tested positive for the steroid metenolone. She won the shot put exactly a week earlier. The IOC said she was tested the day before her competition and again fol-lowing the event. Both samples were positive.”

The announcement came hours af-ter the flame was extinguished at the closing ceremony with athletes and officials heading out of London.

Shot putter isstripped of Olympic gold

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Kan-sas City Royals slugged their way through four games at Camden Yards, taking full advantage of the short distance to the outfield fence to hit eight home runs against the Baltimore Orioles.

Unfortunately, the Royals were also victimized by the long ball. Such was the case Sunday, when Kansas City yielded two homers in a 5-3 loss that gave Baltimore a split of the series.

Manny Machado hit his third homer in four major league games and Nick Markakis also connected for the Orioles, who got four hit-less innings from their bullpen.

Throughout the series, the Roy-als had no answer for Machado, who went 6 for 16 with a double, triple, three home runs and seven RBIs.

Mike Moustakas homered for the Royals, who went 4-3 on a road swing against the White Sox and Orioles. Kansas City has 15 home runs over its last eight games.

The Royals are 49-65, but they gave Baltimore all it could handle.

The Royals got a run in the fifth when Alex Gordon and Alcides Es-cobar singled ahead of a double-play grounder by Moustakas. In the bottom half, Markakis knotted the score at 3 and ended Chen’s run of 11 straight outs with a drive to right on a 3-2 pitch.

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — For health officials, the death of a baby is more than just a loss for the par-ents.

The ripple effect could drive mental health needs for grieving households.

The death also could highlight a lack of edu-cation among new moms about safe sleep practices for infants.

Or it could signal a gap in a community’s prenatal services. And that, in turn, could mean expensive treat-ment in neonatal intensive care units and costly educa-tion supports later if those babies are developmentally disabled.

“It’s important to find out why we lose our babies,” said Terrie Garrison, pro-gram manager for the fami-ly planning/prenatal clinic in the Wyandotte County Public Health Department.

Wyandotte County may get that opportunity, and the first step could come later this month.

That’s when the United Methodist Health Minis-try Fund and the Kansas Health Foundation expect to solicit proposals as part of their five-year, $900,000 initiative to fund intensive local studies into the causes of infant deaths. The stud-ies are called fetal and in-fant mortality reviews.

The foundations an-nounced their plan at a May meeting of the Kansas Blue Ribbon Panel on Infant Mortality.

They expect to make their funding decisions by the end of November, ac-cording to panel member Shannon Cotsoradis, chief executive of Kansas Ac-tion for Children. She said the foundations expect to choose up to three recipi-ents from five counties tar-geted for their high infant mortality rates: Wyandotte, Geary, Saline, Shawnee and Reno.

According to the latest data available from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Wyandotte lost 8.5 babies for every 1,000 live births in 2010. The statewide rate of 6.3 per 1,000 live births was the lowest since record keeping began in 1912.

But that improvement came on the heels of the state’s recent history of lagging behind the rest of the country. Kansas was ranked 40th among all states in 2009, according to the blue ribbon panel.

The Governor’s Office established the task force three years ago, and among its recommendations is-sued in February 2011 was a call to establish fetal and infant mortality reviews in communities across the state.

Interviews with families provide some of the richest

material in fetal and infant mortality reviews, said Di-ane Daldrup, who repre-sents the March of Dimes on the blue ribbon panel. She is director of programs and government affairs for the Greater Kansas Chap-ter.

Through interviews, she said, a community review team can glean detailed information that is not included on a death cer-tificate. And in doing so, Daldrup said, the team can uncover holes in the system that communities can ad-dress to improve prenatal services.

F++or instance, if the mother smoked during her pregnancy, local health offi-cials could consider wheth-er to reassess tobacco use prevention efforts.

Or maybe the team starts to notice a trend of unsafe sleeping arrangements be-cause low-income families can’t afford cribs. Or it may find a lack of prenatal vis-its because it’s taking 60 days for women to get en-rolled in Medicaid.

“Then you take every-thing that is happening in the community and you de-velop interventions at the community level,” Daldrup said. “But you also take that data, and it gets drilled up to the state health de-partment where they are beginning to look at themes across the state.”

As nurse manager for the labor and delivery de-partment at the University of Kansas Hospital, Leigh Collins said the Kansas City, Kan., hospital’s spe-cialization in high-risk pregnancies might inflate Wyandotte County’s infant mortality rate.

Record keepers are sup-posed to attribute the death to the mother’s home coun-ty, Collins said, but that does not mean mistakes don’t sometimes occur.

“I have often wondered if those numbers are not somewhat reflected in our mortality because dad may live in Kansas and mom lives in Missouri, or vice versa,” she said.

Like Garrison at the health department, Collins is on the Wyandotte County team working toward win-ning funding from the two foundations.

And she agreed that interviews with families would provide invaluable information in getting at the root causes of infant deaths.

“Right now,” Collins said, “we only have numbers.”

Wyandotte Co.pushes for infantmortality study

It’s important to find out why we lose our babies.

— Terrie GarrisonWyandotte County

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(First published in The Iola Register August 13, 2012)IN THE DISTRICT COURT

OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSASCIVIL DEPARTMENT

Bank of America, N.A.Plaintiff,vs.Jamie Fernandez and Jessica

Fernandez, et al.Defendants.

Case No. 12CV30Court Number:

Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60NOTICE OF SALE

Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Allen County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Allen County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the Front Door of the Courthouse at Iola, Allen County, Kansas, on Sep-tember 5, 2012, at 10:00 AM, the following real estate:

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Dear Carolyn: Partner A works long hours outside the home. Partner B is a stay-at-home parent. Weekend rolls around. Partner A wants to spend one day on a personal hobby/activity that would involve interactions with good friends, but not fam-ily. B wishes A would spend time with family instead.

Partner A deserves time to unwind after working so many hours during the week, but B also deserves a break from near-constant single parenting.

Obviously this is not a unique situation, so why does this feel like such a bat-tle with us, repeated ad nau-seam? — Weekend Duties

Answer: Because Part-ner A is apparently insis-tent upon blowing off fam-ily, that’s why.

Yes, P.A. deserves time to unwind, but: not for an en-tire weekend day; not at the expense of P.B., who also deserves unwinding time

from working crazy hours; and not at the expense of the kids, who will soon see right through P.A.’s ab-sentee parenthood, if they don’t already.

So, to meet all needs: Partner A gets one week-end day a month for the hobby. That, plus one week-end morning sleep-in, one weekly night out with Part-ner B courtesy of a stand-ing arrangement with a sitter, and, where possible, a few hours solo each week-end. Partner B gets a simi-lar weekend-day off once a month, once-a-weekend sleep-in, plus a few hours off every weekend — with

P.A. on kid duty, so they can all get acquainted.

Tweak to suit. Deal?Yes, it’s oh-so-bean-count-

ish, but, sadly, that’s often what it takes when one part-ner thinks it’s just fine to ab-scond with all of the beans.

Dear Carolyn: My spouse hates his/her job and I have no idea how to be patient. I don’t enjoy mine, either, and it seems all my spouse wants is for me to listen to constant complaints. I find myself getting more and more an-gry. Help. — How to Deal

Answer: The first and possibly hardest step in a situation like yours — which, if it’s any consola-tion, is one I hear about almost daily now, thank you economy — is to stop seeing this as your spouse’s failure to suck it up. In-stead, try seeing it more constructively, as a differ-ence between your spouse’s coping method and yours to

the same problem.That way, you won’t have

to say to Spousie, “I am so sick of your constant complaints. I’m miserable, too, and you don’t hear me yammering on about it all night.” You get to say the much cooperation-encour-aging, “I hear you, and I get that you want to unload all of these bad feelings at the end of the day. The problem is, I have the same bad feel-ings about work, and I want to get away from them in-stead of dwelling on them. Since we’re at least tempo-rarily stuck here, is there some way we can help each other manage?”

The ultimate goal is lofty — mutual respect and em-pathy — but don’t be afraid to get there by a distinctly earthy path. Life at the end of your tethers is hard for you both, yes, but those other three little words — “I get it” — have magic in them, too.

Partner shirks family time duties

Dear Dr. Donohue: I re-cently read in the newspa-per that limiting salt is no longer believed to be an important part of treating high blood pressure.

I have taken medicine for high blood pressure for 10 years, and now my pressure is fine. I have been strict about my salt intake. At first I found it disagreeable, but have gotten used to it, and prefer my food unsalted.

Can I start taking salt again? — R.B.

Answer: I’ve read the same articles, and I’ve read the original articles in respected medical jour-nals. This information has stirred up lively debates.

Your blood pressure is

normal. You like your food without salt. I’d stick with your current regimen. It’s working for you.

Before people ditch the low-salt diet, they should wait until this new infor-mation has been retested and proven beyond a doubt.

Dear Dr. Donohue: Please furnish information on basal cell cancer. I had four removed. How did I get them? Are they a threat to life? — B.B.

Answer: Basal cell cancers are skin cancers that arise from the lowest layer of skin, the basal layer. Exposure to sunlight and having a fair complexion are the two great-est risk factors for developing this common kind of skin cancer. The typical basal cell cancer is a scaly, red, slightly raised, small patch of skin that develops a central sore.

The sore may heal, but it al-ways comes back.

Basal cell cancers are not usually a threat to life. They can bore deeply into the tissues beneath them if they are not removed.

Doctors and patients have a number of ways to suc-cessfully get rid of them. Their size and location dic-tates the best treatment.

It’s best to wait before ditching no-salt plansDr. Paul Donohue

To YourGoodHealth

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Sporting Kansas City’s path to the U.S. Open Cup title required penalty kicks.

After converting one spot kick in regulation in Wednesday night’s final, Sporting outlasted Seattle in a penalty shootout to de-rail the Sounders’ bid to be-come the first team to win four straight titles.

“I went out there before the first kick and I told the guys, ‘Look, different things are going to happen through these five — maybe up to nine — shots,’” man-ager Peter Vermes said af-ter Kansas City won its first Cup since 2004.

“Whatever happens, the next guy up needs to clear his mind and get on with his business.”

That’s just what Sporting did, finishing with a 3-2 ad-vantage in an up-and-down exchange that had Seattle miss its last three tries and Sporting’s Paulo Nagamu-ra make good on his second chance after the first one was saved.

After the match went through overtime tied 1-1, Sporting opened the shoot-out with Kei Kamara’s suc-cessful conversion and Brad Evans answered for Seattle.

The Sounders led 2-1 af-ter the second round, when Michael Gspurning saved Roger Espinoza’s low shot and Marc Burch beat Jim-my Nielsen with a shot to the right side of the goal.

That was Seattle’s last successful attempt.

In the third round, Sport-ing’s Matt Besler scored off the underside of the cross-bar and Osvaldo Alonso shot well over the bar.

Kansas City’s Graham Zusi chipped high to open the fourth round, but Nielsen saved Christian Tiffert’s shot to keep things even and set up the final-round drama.

Gspurning saved Naga-mura’s shot, but Nagamura was given a second chance when Gspurning was whis-tled for coming off his line

early.Nagamura made his sec-

ond attempt in the bottom left corner, and Eddie John-son sent his answering at-tempt high.

That sealed Kansas City’s first Cup title since the then-Wizards won it in 2004 — also the last time the fi-nal went beyond regulation. Kansas City also snapped a seven-game winless streak against Seattle across all competitions.

Kansas City also earned a berth in the 2013-14 CON-CACAF Champions League.

Kamara opened the scor-

ing for Kansas City on a penalty kick in the 84th minute after Zach Scott was called for a handball in the area. Scott redeemed him-self in the 86th with a head-er from 12 yards off Mauro Rosales’ free kick.

Sporting went up a man in the 119th minute, when Patrick Ianni was given his

second yellow card for a foul on C.J. Sapong, but was unable to take advantage.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — For the Kan-sas City Chiefs, getting a victory was more of a re-lief than a win.

The Chiefs scored touch-downs on their first two possessions Friday night and beat Arizona 27-17 in their preseason opener.

But most importantly to fans and coaches, Ja-maal Charles, Eric Berry and Tony Moeaki seemed to have no trouble in their first action since ACL sur-geries put all three key players on the shelf before the 2011 season barely got started.

Charles, the NFL’s sec-ond-leading rusher in 2010, took a hit on his left knee by cornerback Michael Adams on his first carry. No prob-lem. He went on to carry three times for 12 yards and catch a pass for 11 more.

“That was a relief,” coach Romeo Crennel said. “For him to take that hit, I think that helped clear his mind about where he is with that injury. Until you get hit on it, you just never know. You’re always wondering about it. Now he’s been hit in a game and I think that will help him going forward.”

Charles insisted he “wasn’t even paying atten-

tion” to the hit to the left knee.

“It was good just to be on the field again and run-ning the ball again in a real live game,” he said. “It was great to be out there with my teammates.”

Did he feel like the old Jamaal, the one whose 6.4 yards per carry in 2010 was just under Jim Brown’s NFL record?

“I don’t know. You tell me,” he said, grinning. “I feel fresh. My body feels real good. I feel ready to go.”

Matt Cassel found Peyton Hillis on a 11-yard scoring pass to cap the first posses-sion, marking the second straight game the defense for Arizona yielded a touch-down on the opening drive.

In their second posses-sion, the Chiefs went 72 yards in just four plays, capped by Shaun Draughn’s four-yard run.

“Coach Crennel’s been preaching all camp long to get off to a good start,” said Cassel, who showed no ill effects from the hand injury that kept him out of most of the second half of last season.

“I think that’s exactly what we accomplished to-night. I think that gives us momentum going forward.

But we know it’s only the first preseason game. I was proud of how everybody came out and had a good start.”

The Cardinals will be glad to get back to Arizona. Counting their loss to New Orleans in the Hall of Fame game, they’re 0-2 since they last slept in their own beds.

“It’s disappointing that we didn’t play better,” Car-dinals coach Ken Whisen-hunt said. “I don’t accept that. I just don’t think it was a good effort by our team and I’m glad we’ve got three (preseason) games left to clear that up.”

Little was decided in the battle between John Skel-ton and Kevin Kolb for Ari-zona’s starting quarterback job.

But William Powell, a second-year running back from Kansas State, had a big game, rushing for 92 yards on nine carries. He scored the Cardinals’ first touchdown on a two-yard run on fourth down after going for 67 yards a mo-ment before.

Skelton started and was 3-for-6 for 35 yards and one interception. Kolb, who started in the Hall of Fame game, came off the bench and was 1-for-5 for 21 yards.

The Cardinals, who spent the week practicing at the Chiefs’ camp in nearby St. Joseph, Mo., dropped to 0-2

in the preseason, while the Chiefs matched their pre-season victory total for the past three seasons.

“I thought John looked comfortable,” Whisenhunt said. “Kevin looked good early.”

There’s football...Chiefs beat Cardinals in preseason opener

And there’s futbol in Kansas CitySporting Kansas City wins US Open Cup

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Sporting Kansas City celebrates with the trophy after defeating the Seattle Sound-ers FC during last Wednesday’s Lamar Hunt US Open Cup soccer championship at Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kan.

Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher (59) pressures Arizona Cardinals quar-terback John Skelton, right, over the top of LaRod Stephens-Howling (36) in the first quarter of Friday night’s preseason game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.

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