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By SUSAN [email protected]

Favorable bids on supplies and a huge savings in earthwork netted Allen County Hospital about $732,000 in savings, Shel-don Streeter, project manager with Murray Construction, told trustees at their meeting Tues-day night.

Streeter and his crew walked trustees through a wish list of alternate materials and addi-tions they had relegated to the sidelines until additional funds materialized.

Of that sum, about $117,000 was approved for:

• Solid surface countertops in favor of laminate throughout most of the hospital for an addi-tional $60,485.

• Roller shades over mini-blinds for an additional $6,588. The pseudo-fabric shades offer a “warmer environment,” said Cris Rivera, chief executive offi-cer of the hospital. Because they are not made of fabric they are easy to wipe clean and provide better insurance against germs, said Patti McGuffin, chief nurs-ing officer.

• An irrigation system around the south, east and a small sec-tion of the north side of the grounds of the hospital for up to $50,000.

TRUSTEES BIT the bullet Tuesday and committed $2.667 million for an electronic health records system.

Larry Peterson, chief finan-cial officer for the hospital, said the five-year agreement with Cerner Corporation would be paid quarterly. An initial $203,000 “payment for execution” fee will be paid in the next few days fol-lowed by regular payments of $248,000.

About $1.2 million of the $2.7 million will be reimbursed to

the hospital from the Medicaid and Medicare federal health pro-grams, Peterson said. Of that, Medicaid will pay $255,000 and Medicare $959,000. Operational reimbursements also will be forthcoming, Peterson said.

The reimbursements are part

of the federal government’s in-centive to have all U.S. hospitals implement an electronic system to record patient data over the next few years or face a penalty.

“We hope to go ‘live’ by July 31, 2013,” Peterson said, enabling

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Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

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

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

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

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

By SUSAN [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By RICHARD [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

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

By BOB [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

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By JOE [email protected]

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

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

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Temps for runlook inviting

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

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

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

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

Pekarek finds home at USD 257

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

Cheating scandal detailed

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Savings free up funds for ACH

Register/Susan LynnSteve Underwood, project superintendent with Murray Con-struction, showed hospital trustees where concrete is being poured at the new hospital site on North Kentucky Street.


Rory Foster, 31, and his court-appointed attorney, Rustin Rankin, Fredonia, sought to con-vince District Judge David Roger on Monday that Foster had in-effective defense counsel when he was convicted of first-degree murder, rape and other charges in 2008.

Allen County Attorney Wade Bowie argued for the state. Bowie told the Register Tuesday after-noon Rogers likely would rule on the appeal in October.

Appearing for the prosecution were Sheriff Tom Williams and three attorneys who represented Foster at various times after his arrest and through his trial, Da-vid Clark, John Gillette and Mike Brown.

“We have 30 days to prepare

briefs relative to the hear-ing for Judge Rogers,” Bow-ie said of the next step for the defense and prosecut-ing attorneys.

If the re-sult doesn’t favor Foster, he can take the case on to the state Court of Appeals.

Foster was brought to Allen County Sunday by Kansas De-partment of Corrections guards stationed at the El Dorado facil-ity, where Foster is imprisoned. He was returned to El Dorado late Monday afternoon.

Bowie noted no incidents oc-

Foster appeals conviction

Rory Foster

Water warning: what it means for residents

By ALLISON [email protected]

Water restrictions went into ef-fect Monday — but what does that mean for residents?

The Kansas Water Office issued stage 2 water warning to commu-nities in Cottonwood and Neosho River Basins Water Assurance District No. 3.

All 105 counties in Kansas are experiencing the drought and Al-len County and surrounding resi-dents have been living on a water watch for the better part of the summer.

That is why city administrator, Carl Slaugh, isn’t worried about residents contributing to any ex-

cess water usage. “Ninety percent of Iolans have

already been following the re-strictions,” Slaugh said.

Citizens are not the major wa-ter consumers, it is the big in-dustries that are using the most, Slaugh said.

This water restrictions will be “very loosely enforced,” Slaugh said because city administrators are hoping this critical stage will pass quickly.

If the city did begin writing ci-tations, the first violation would be a warning followed by fines. Slaugh is hoping it will not come to that.

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Register/Richard LukenAmong the event organizers at Wesley United Methodist Church hosting this weekend’s “Keeping It Real” celebration are, from left, Dixie McMullen, Lori Cooper, Mary LaCrone and Jenel Eisenbart.

Church kicks off new school yearBy RICHARD LUKEN

[email protected] schedule loaded with food,

worship and fun is in store this weekend for Wesley United Meth-odist Church’s second annual Keeping It Real celebration.

The church’s three-day event kicks off Friday evening with a taco bar at 6 o’clock, followed by a social gathering period and a 7 o’clock worship service at the church at 301 E. Madison Ave.

Casual attire is suggested, said the Rev. Trudy the Anderson, who will lead the service.

Another service begins at 6 p.m. Saturday at the church. The United Methodist Women will host a dessert bar and fellowship afterward.

The events hit high gear Sun-day morning at Riverside Park.

A communitywide worship ser-vice begins at 10:30, followed by a barbecue lunch. Pulled pork and

Gas ups spending a tadBy BOB JOHNSON

[email protected] — The 2013 budget for Gas

was approved at a public hearing Tuesday evening.

The budget projects total ex-penditures of $605,738, compared to $538,288 this year. A property tax levy of 29.212 mills will sup-port the new budget. That’s near-ly eight-tenths of a mill lower than this year’s 29.980.

Property taxes for a $100,000 home in Gas are $335.94.

City Clerk Rhonda Hill told council members 115 Gas fami-lies had been identified through a survey as being in low- or middle-income categories. The survey is being done preliminary to apply-ing in late October for a $75,000 Community Development Block Grant for a handicap-accessible storm shelter.

“We need to have 288” in those categories for the grant applica-

tion, or 51 percent of Gas’ 564 families, Hill said, meaning an-other 173 must be found. Surveys were mailed to all residents.

Hill said she would encour-age residents to complete survey forms when they paid utility bills and, “I’ll hit the street” and go door to door if survey returns continue to lag.

Information on completed sur-veys is confidential.

THE DROUGHT has dried three ponds on the Allen County Country Club golf course to the point that water is being drawn from Gas to keep greens alive.

So far this month the club has used 676,000 gallons of water through the Gas system.

Steve Robb, city superinten-dent, said the extraordinary us-age didn’t threaten the city’s pur-chase allotment from Iola. The

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Triumphant return to BowlusThe Bowlus will mark the “Tri-

umphant” return of the South-east Kansas Christian Artists Series to the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

Triumphant Quartet, one of the country’s most acclaimed gospel quartets, will kick off the 2012-13 SEKCAS season at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Bowlus audito-rium.

Saturday’s concert is part of Triumphant Quartet’s 10th an-niversary tour, noted SEKCAS

President Dee Singer. The group performed in Iola in 2010.

Three recent releases — “Love Came Calling,” “Saved By Grace” and most recently, “Almost Home” — have all reached the top of the gospel music charts.

The group was formed in 2002, then known as the Integrity Quartet in the Louise Mandrell Theater in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.

A nationwide contest in 2004 led to the group’s new moniker Triumphant Quartet.

They performed at Dollywood for years before taking their show

County budget up $1 millionBy BOB JOHNSON

[email protected] County commission-

ers fulfilled their promise to cut the mill levy to support the 2013 budget, but approved a spending plan Tuesday that has expendi-tures of $867,000 more than this year.

The levy will be the same at 67.635 mills, but will raise nearly $250,000 more in tax dollars be-cause the county’s assessed val-uation increased by $3.7 million to $95.87 million.

Revenue for the remainder of the additional increase in expenditures — next year’s will

be $12.5 million compared to this year’s $11.65 million — will come from cash carried forward in several funds, including solid waste disposal, road and bridge construction and services to the elderly. Other revenue sources are sales tax, figured at $480,000 next year, motor vehicle taxes of $485,000 and various other fees and taxes.

General fund expenses of $5,314,613 are forecast for 2013, an increase of $240,000. Road and bridge is next at $2.3 mil-lion; special bridge is $285,000. Ambulance expenditures were put at $263,000, appraisal costs at

$237,000.The general fund pays for

courthouse functions, including jail and law enforcement.

Since the first draft of next year’s budget was handed com-missioners by their financial counsel, Rodney Burns, Cha-nute, early in July, commission-ers examined each line item fund and cut expenditures with the central purpose to bringing the property tax levy in line with this year’s.

The final cuts came Tuesday when they reduced 5 percent increases in salary proposals

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Treats. These should be food, verbal or playing. Small bites of an irresistible yummy are probably the fastest way to get a pup’s attention. At the office, we have found all chicken- breast jerky or desiccated liver bites to be the most univer - sally accepted treats. As the pup has grown, once the good behavior is learned, you can begin to use verbal praise or a favorite toy, like a ball or Frisbee session, as an alternate reward.

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Thanks to our families for a special day Sunday for our 66 th Anniversary.

Linda & Lyle Bartholomew and their families, Lynne & Joe Sutherland and their families.

Cha rles & H elen Su tto n

Walter KinneyWalter L. Kinney, 87, Iola,

died Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, at his home.

Cremation has taken place. Private family ser-vices will be later.

Memorials to the Walter L. Kinney Memorial Fund may be left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel, Iola. Online condo-lences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.

Obituary

NARFE meetsThe National Active and

Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) Association met Aug. 6 at the New Greenery.

For the program, Mike Ford and Bruce Cochran spoke about the history of Allen County Crime Stop-pers.

There will be no Septem-ber meeting.

The group meets again at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 1 at the New Greenery.

Students honoredTOPEKA — Kolbie Gilli-

land, Colony, and Eli John-son, Kincaid, were named to Washburn University’s President’s Honor Roll for the spring 2012 semester. The honor is designated for students who maintain a perfect 4.0 grade point aver-age while being enrolled in at least 12 hours of classes in the spring semester.

Commodities availableCommodities from the

U.S. Department of Agri-culture will be distributed Friday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Harvest Time Fellowship Church, 329 S. First St.

Misc.

The Kansas Farm Ser-vice Agency has recently added another Conser-vation Reserve Program (CRP) practice that can be requested under the emer-gency haying or grazing provisions, resulting from the ongoing drought.

Practice CP-25 — used for the restoration of prai-rie and sagebrush-grass steppe using native cool season grasses — has been added to the list of eligi-ble practices that may be hayed or grazed.

Participants must first contact the local Farm Ser-vice Agency (FSA) county office to request emer-

gency haying or grazing approval on an individual contract basis.

Participants will work with FSA to determine if the CRP practice is eligi-ble for emergency haying or grazing. If determined eligible, participants will work with the Natural Resources Conservation Service to develop a forage management plan. If the CRP cover is destroyed, the practice must be re-established at their own expense to remain in com-pliance with the CRP con-tract.

Participants must also accept a 10 percent reduc-

tion in the annual rental payment for the acres hayed or grazed.

Emergency grazing can begin after the request is approved by FSA and the authorized period ends Sept. 30.

Emergency haying can begin after the request is approved by FSA and the authorized period ends Aug. 31.

Emergency haying and grazing is not allowed on the same acreage. Please contact the Allen County FSA Office at 202 W. Miller Road in Iola or call 365-2901 for more informa-tion.

More haying, grazing allowed

Alan Wagner, a trooper with the Kansas Highway Patrol, has been assigned to patrol Hodgeman Coun-ty, following his recent completion of a 23-week basic law enforcement course at KHP’s Training Academy in Salina.

Wagner, Mankato, is a graduate of Rock Hills High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in justice studies from Fort Hays State University with a minor in psycholo-gy. He also served with the Hays Police Department

in 2010 and 2011.Wagner was one of

16 members of KHP’s recruiting class, who trained on everything from defensive tactics, car stops, report writ-ing, commercial vehicle inspections, ethics and other law enforcement topics.

The academy ran from Jan. 4 through June 9.

Wagner is the son of Rita Berntsen and her husband, Rick, Iola. His grandfather is Ray Ai-kins, LaHarpe.

Man with localties joins KHP

FORT SCOTT — Mis-takes often are magnified when they involve mon-ey, particularly public money.

Bourbon County of-ficials learned late Fri-day that an annual state audit uncovered a $1.5 million mistake in the county’s valuation. It ad-versely affected the bud-gets of five taxing units, including the county and Fort Scott.

According to the Fort Scott Tribune, Fort Scott commissioners are faced with cutting the city’s budget by $75,000, or rais-ing the mill levy by 1.6 mills. Commissioners were to have met this af-ternoon to decide what to do.

County Commissioner Allen Warren said from the county’s viewpoint, the miscalculation was “not good.”

The county’s budget showed a levy decrease of .6 of a mill. To keep income and expenditures the same will require a half mill increase.

Errorcostly forBourbon County

By JOHN HANNAAssociated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has until next spring to revise how it evaluates teachers so that they’re judged partly by how well their students score on standardized tests, education officials told members of the state school board Tuesday.

The federal government is pushing for the changes by making them a condi-tion for waiving key pro-visions of No Child Left Behind, the law enacted a decade ago requiring all students to be proficient in reading and math by 2014. With its promise to pursue the revisions in teacher evaluations, the state ob-tained the waiver, giving Kansas greater flexibil-ity in measuring how well their students are being taught.

Kansas Department of Education officials told State Board of Education members Tuesday that a commission of teachers and administrators plans to start work in Septem-ber on proposals for revis-ing teacher evaluations. Though changes wouldn’t take effect until fall 2014, the commission is expect-ed to make its first report in December, so that board members can approve revi-

sions next year.“We have the course of

this school year to figure that out,” said Judi Miller, the department adminis-trator who oversees the state’s effort to comply with the federal law.

Kansas typically has left decisions about how to evaluate teachers to its 286 local school districts, but the state board can set guidelines and review dis-tricts’ plans. Traditionally, teachers have been judged based on issues such as acting professionally, hav-ing orderly classrooms and following academic stan-dards.

The state began pilot programs last year in 17 districts to test new meth-ods for evaluating teachers and administrators, focus-ing, for example, on how well teachers know the subject they teach and how flexible they are in dealing with students of different abilities.

But Education Commis-sioner Diane DeBacker noted that none of the projects incorporated stu-dents’ scores on assess-ments.

“There’s still work to be done,” DeBacker said.

The U.S. Department of Education has granted No Child Left Behind waiv-ers to more than 30 states,

including Kansas in June. Otherwise, as 2014 ap-proaches, an increasing number of students must be proficient in reading in math.

Educators see the targets as increasingly tougher to reach, while many schools that continue to fail to meet them can be required to take aggressive action, including firing staff or even closing. For example, in Kansas last school year, districts were required to have nearly 91 percent of their students proficient in reading and 88 percent in math, based on their as-sessment scores.

Under the waiver, schools can be recognized as for high assessment scores overall or for large improvements in their scores. Schools also can be targeted for help from the

state either because their assessment scores are low overall or because there are gaps among different groups of students.

Outgoing board member Walt Chappell, of Wichita, predicted that the state will face extra costs in trying to comply with the waiver’s terms, despite assurances to the contrary. He said the pilot projects on evalua-tions suggest changes will create more paperwork for teachers and adminis-trators and still create a “fuzzy” system for judging teachers.

“No Child Left Behind was absolutely worthless — an abomination — but we haven’t improved,” said Chappell, who lost his GOP primary race this year to a retired Wichita schools ad-ministrator. “This is going to be extremely expensive, if it works at all.”

Feds push for more teacher evaluations

No Child Left Behind was abso-lutely worthless — an abomination — but we haven’t improved. This is going to be ex-tremely expensive, if it works at all.

— Walt Chappelloutgoing Kansas Board

of Education member

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Ron Palillo, the actor best known as the nerdy high school student Ar-nold Hor-shack on the 1970s s i t c o m “Welcome Back, Kotter,” died Tuesday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. He was 63.

Palillo suffered an ap-parent heart attack at his home, said Karen Poind-exter, a close friend of the actor. He was pronounced dead at Palm Beach Gar-dens Medical Center.

Palillo was inextricably linked with the character he played from 1975 to 1979

on “Kotter,” the hit ABC sitcom, in which title char-acter Gabe Kotter returns to his Brooklyn alma mater to teach a group of love-able wiseguys known as the Sweathogs. Horshack was the nasally teen who yelped, “Oooh, ooh,” and shot his hand skyward whenever Kotter posed a question.

The show was a ratings success and pop cultural phenomenon, injecting smart-Alec phrases such as “Up your nose with a rubber hose” into the mainstream and propelling co-star John Travolta to stardom. But the series only lasted as long as a high school educa-tion and its end, for Palillo, brought difficulty.

He said he felt exiled throughout the 1980s, un-

able to find parts, sinking into depression, and rarely venturing from his apart-ment.

“While I loved him, I real-ly loved him, I didn’t want to do him forever,” he told the Birmingham News in 1994.

Ronald Paolillo was born April 2, 1949, in Cheshire, Conn., eventually dropping the first “o’’ from his sur-name. His father died of lung

cancer when he was 10 and he developed a stutter. His mother thought getting him involved in a local theater might help. He fell in love with the stage and overcame his speech impediment.

His last act in life mir-rored his most famous one, in a real-life classroom. Pa-lillo taught acting at G-Star School of the Arts, a high school in West Palm Beach.

Palillo, ‘Welcome Back Kotter’ star, dies

Ron Palillo

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A judge ruled Tuesday that an Illinois man and his wife will stand trial in Kansas on child abuse charges after two of their children were found in a Walmart parking lot tied up, a practice the father’s lawyer described as a reli-gious belief in the family and a way to guard against demons.

Douglas County Judge Paula Martin said at the conclusion of a prelimi-nary hearing there was enough evidence to try Adolfo Gomez, 52, and his wife Deborah Gomez, 44, on two counts each of child abuse. The father also faces an additional count of obstruction for resisting arrest.

The Northlake, Ill., pair have been in custody since June 13 when police found two of the Gomez children, ages 5 and 7, tied up and with duct tape over their eyes outside a Walmart in Lawrence. The couple’s three other children, ages 12, 13 and 15, were in the family’s SUV unre-strained. The children are in protective custody.

Martin also said the state did not prove its case on five previous ag-gravated endangerment counts against each par-ent because of the way the charges were worded. Deb-by Moody, assistant Doug-las County district attor-ney, said she would amend the five counts and refile them before the couple’s arraignment Thursday.

Lawrence police Detec-tive Randy Glidewell testi-fied Tuesday that when he interviewed Adolfo Gomez

the day of the arrest, Go-mez said he had been lis-tening to an online preach-er who was predicting the end of the world and that a “darkness had come over the house” in Illinois.

“And the world was com-ing to an end, and that’s why they left,” Glidewell added, referring to the fa-ther’s comments to police.

The detective also said Adolfo Gomez told him he hadn’t slept in nine days, and that Gomez was par-ticularly concerned about one of the younger chil-dren. Gomez described the child as “acting like he was possessed,” Glidewell said.

“He was scared (the child) would hurt some of the kids,” the detective said.

Lawrence police officer Hayden Fowler testified that one of the older chil-dren told him the family believed there were “de-mons” in their home and outside their SUV in the parking lot, and that the coverings on the vehicle’s windows were there to keep the demons out.

Adolfo Gomez’s law-yer, Skip Griffy, also said during the hearing that blindfolding and binding the younger children was part of the family’s reli-gious beliefs, and that it was not done frequently or as a punishment but as a way to protect the children

from demons.“Their actions were tak-

en out of their religious beliefs, that these children were possessed,” Griffy said. He added that the children had no injuries.

Angela Keck, a lawyer for Deborah Gomez, dis-tanced her client from Adolfo Gomez, saying the woman had no control over her husband.

“She was doing her best to protect herself and her children when Mr. Gomez was having a kind of religious experi-ence,” Keck said. “You have not heard anything that these children’s lives were in any danger in any way.”

Moody, however, said the “danger to these chil-dren was real.”

“These types of bind-ings and blindfolds come into play when you’re talk-ing about ... prisoners of war,” the prosecutor said.

Deborah Gomez was involved in the abuse and when presented with an opportunity to help, “she went shopping for duct tape, two tarps and a base-ball bat,” Moody said, al-luding to the list of items police discovered in the mother’s shopping cart at Walmart when the chil-dren were found.

“It was a team effort, your honor,” Moody said. “What happens when kids in the Gomez family are possessed? They get bound and they get blindfolded.”

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Mardi GrasWindsor Place’s 12th an-niversary party included some Cajun style fun with a Mardi Gras celebration Aug. 2. The festivities included Cajun food, a saxophone player, pho-tographer and carica-ture artist. Among those participating in the events were the families of Thelma Manbeck, above, and Max Snodgrass, left. Windsor Place is owned by Health Management of Kansas, based in Wich-ita. The company owns another nursing home and two assisted living centers in Coffeyville and seven home care offices throughout the state.

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Tara GardensSympathy goes out to the

family of Virginia Boyd. She will be missed.

Virginia Burke, Moran, and Steve Traw, Iola, vis-ited Grace Parsons. Visit-ing Catherine Yocham were Danny and Uanna Stotler, Steve Traw and Don and Maryann Rehmert. Larry Brown, Kim Beecher, Bessie Leonard, Connie Griffith

and Shirley Murcko visited Jesse Brown for her birth-day. Visiting Joan Creason were Harold and Janice Creason and Vinnie Wille. Derek, Kim, Koela and Dar-bie Flynn and Twyla Nor-man visited Arlene Flynn. James and Judy Heinrich visited Lois Heinrich. Mark and Virginia Peters visited Mae Morris.

Plans are shaping up for

Assisted Living Week in September. We are in need of floppy hats and overalls of all sizes. The staff and residents are planning a hillbilly band.

If you have old floppy hats and overalls you don’t need any more, please let us know. We can come pick them up or you can drop them by 1110 E. Carpenter St. in Iola. We appreciate your help.

Arrowood LaneResident Charles Glore

got a new guitar and we were blessed with him play-ing some good gospel tunes this week.

Guest Home EstatesRodney and Janice Dan-

iel, Olathe, and Andrea, Alexa and Cooper Carley, Olathe, visited Melva Lee. Beverly Franklin, Iola, vis-ited Evelyn Calhoun. Joyce Sneed, Iola, visited Cal-houn.

Residential care news

Iola Nursing CenterKirby Byers, Iola, vis-

ited Marilyn Byers. Leona Holtz, Iola, visited Doris Rogers Sunday for her birthday. Helen Dorsey, Miami, Okla., visited J.D. Dorsey. Naomi Clounch, Iola, and Lolita Johnson, Iola, visited Rosie Neal.

Nursinghome news

LAHARPE — Partici-pants can partake in an all-night softball tournament and help a local organiza-tion raise funds for park im-provements in the process.

The “What Was I Think-ing” Co-Ed Softball Tour-nament runs Aug. 24 and 25 at the LaHarpe City Park softball diamond.

Teams must consist of five males and five females.

A double-elimination tournament is planned, depending on the number of teams to register.

A $100-per-team regis-tration fee is required.

Contact Savannah Flory at (620) 496-5467 for more information.

Proceeds will go to La-Harpe PRIDE, which is aiming at several improve-ments to the LaHarpe City Park.

PRIDE Committee mem-bers will gather at the park at 7 p.m. Monday to put the finishing touches on the tournament plans. The public is invited.

LaHarpe softball tourney in works

Walmart parking lot children case goes to trial

The Collins-Sheat fam-ily reunion was Saturday and Sunday at the North Community Building in Iola. More than 200 attend-ed from 37 towns in 10 dif-ferent states.

They were sad to lose Reba McCollough of La-mar, Mo., who died July 26.

Attending were: From Iola, Lillie Collins, Ruby

Cook, Gary and Barb Collins, Car-la Capper, Jeff and Teresa, Nick and Megan Cook, Dennis Banks, Cari and Camri Bockover, Amber and Rori Collins, Roger and Billie, Kris and Darci Collins, Brandon and Courtney Andres, Tony and Nykki, Jordan Garcia, Drew Smith and Danielle Venter, Martin and Shawna, Lexie and Kaeden Vega, Leo Bass and Ivy Vyhlidal, Harvey Collins and Samantha Blackchard, Joe Robertson and Kathy Habel and Suzy Fields and friend;

Leo and Linda Bass and Orel and Marla Wilson, Gas;

Velma and Carl Dyche, Leon-

ard, Aaron and Andy Cowlishaw, Brandon and Katilyn Thompson, Linda Thompson, Sandra Leslie, Jeanie, Chloe and Madison Smith, Mark and Rhonda Walker, Josh and Sarah, Joe and JoDee McKay, Fort Scott;

Kevin and Maggie, Ryan and Allie Collins, Olathe; Rachel Bock-over, Overland Park; Brandon and Amy Karsyn Robertson; Ben and Leah and Layne Bockover, Law-rence; Amy and Braden Robert-son, Shawnee;; Kelly and Cassie, Tanner and Paige Collins, Osawat-omie. Jess and Ginger Blake and Levi Ervin, Uniontown; Bruce and Cheryl, Taylor, Saylor Haily, Aiden Sheat, Marvin McCollough, Sherry Gastel, Sam and Norma Walker, David and Joan Sheat, Chris and Dana, Logan and Kelli Sheat and George and Pat Sheat, Lamar, Mo.;

Gene and Dorothy Venable, Stockton, Mo.; Cindy Coffel, El Do-rado Springs, Mo.; Jesse Crigger and Judy Collins, Branson, Mo.; Mike McCollough, Joplin, Mo.; Darrel and Carolyn Thompson, Liberal, Mo.; Rosemary Thomp-

son, Nevada, Mo.; Russell and Teresa Foster, Jacob and Jayme and Carter Browning, Kansas City, Mo.; Jerry and Christine and Jacob Kelly, Manchester, Mo.; Amanda Smith, Mindenmines, Mo.; Jordan Sheat and Zach Fowler, Bolivar, Mo.; Sara Foster, Springfield, Mo.; Krystal Roush and Jennifer Ritschel, Blue Springs, Mo.; Tom and Brenda McKay, Jasper, Mo.;

Glen and Betty Benedict, Nam-pa, Ind.; Rob and Darlene Sale, Joshua, Texas; Sandra Jackson, Flower Mound, Texas; Dale and Tania Henley and three boys, Rockwall, Texas; Kelly and Patty and April Robertson, Logansport, Ind.; Terry and Gloria Collins, Evansville, Ind.; Eric and Jenni-fer, Katelyn, Issac and Miranda Collins, Starkville, Miss.; Kimberli Hatch, Edmond, Okla.; Dean and Sandy Collins, Bella Vista, Ark.; Harry and Norma Collins, Rob and Becky, Cassie and Jonathon Gray, Des Moines, Iowa; Greg and Mis-sy Wray, Urbandale, Iowa; James Collins, Whiting, Iowa; and Jared Collins and Kortnie Ravenscroft, Grand Island, Neb.

Family reunion

PAOLA, Kan. (AP) — Union Pacific Railroad is cleaning up after a train with 22 cars filled with grain derailed in eastern Kansas, sending at least two cars into the Marais Des Cygnes River.

The Miami County Sher-iff ’s Office says the train went off the tracks at 2:24 a.m. today near Osawato-mie, but there were no in-juries and no roads were blocked because of the de-railment.

Union Pacific officials were on the scene this morning to investigate the crash. A spokesman for the railroad didn’t immediate-ly return a phone message seeking comment.

Grain train derails near Paola

What happens when kids in the Gomez family are possessed? They get bound and they get blindfolded.

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The tenor of Monday night’s city council meeting was re-portedly relaxed, friendly and even downright productive.

For the first time in more than a year no executive ses-sion was called to discuss items in private. And the meeting lasted just over an hour, with decisions handled in an efficient and amiable manner.

Citizens should take heart of the lightened mood — per-haps due to the ouster of coun-cilmen Ken Rowe and Kendall Callahan — and pledge anew their commitment to city gov-ernment.

How? By throwing their hat into

the ring to fill the now two empty seats.

For those not so bold, to make a personal resolution to attend city council meet-ings and witness firsthand the many decisions council mem-bers must make.

Not to be suspicious, but it could be human nature, for some, to want to have public business done with little at-tention. An audience helps to assure accountability. The more ears and eyes, the more humbled a ruling body by the

enormity of its responsibility to good governance.

IOLA HAS A WEALTH of talent to serve on the council. Helpful attributes include a vi-sion for Iola, a desire to work with neighboring cities and other governing bodies for the greater good — ambulance ser-vice comes to mind — and the determination to make work-ing for the city a rewarding ex-perience in order to attract the best employees possible.

The council’s responsibility is to set policy, and let the hired hands carry it out.

Micro-managing builds re-sentment from staff and undue anxiety.

A shake-up of the council makeup will hopefully result in new dynamics of transpar-ency, good manners and effi-ciencies.

If that’s your goal, contact Mayor Bill Shirley at [email protected] or 620-365-7816.

It’s Shirley privilege to se-lect a replacement for Wards 1 and 4, upon which the council will weigh its opinion.

For those deliberating the decision, take on the Olympian spirit. Be bold.

— Susan Lynn

Go for the gold — Iola council needswilling do-gooders

A few months ago, as I was speaking to a non-profit group about how developments in the Arab world would affect Israel, I noticed the faces in the crowd looking back at me with deep skepticism. I understood the rea-son.

I was arguing that there is a possibility — not a certainty —that Israel will eventually emerge safer than before as a result of the Arab revolutions, also known as the Arab Spring. I have not changed my mind.

Let me be clear: I know there are no guarantees and great risk. A period of turbulence lies ahead, and the long-term outcome is far from assured. The dangers Israel faces are many, and real. But I be-lieve that if change in the Arab world ushers in a genuine open-ing to new ideas, it could bring a more stable and reliable peace between Israel and its neighbors.

There is a possibility that over time, as the people of the Arab world are allowed to speak more freely and to discuss new ideas, more will openly express what remains a most unpopular point of view: That it’s not the end of the world to allow a small sliver of the Middle East to be the home of the Jewish people; that peace — real peace, not just lack of war — is OK.

Some will never accept that view. The overall conflict will not end before Israelis and Palestin-ians find a common solution to their difficult dispute. But there is a chance that in a democracy a segment of the Arab population will recognize that Israel and the Jews are not the cause of every problem in the region, an absurd idea that remains stunningly per-

vasive.In the short run, however, the

challenges will mount and Israel must be counted as one of the losers of the region’s transforma-tion. The revolution upended a situation in which Israel experi-enced a certain amount of stabil-ity in its always-tense neighbor-hood.

Egyptians, like other Arabs, tend to be viscerally hostile to Israel. But until last year’s upris-ing, Israel could count on Egypt to stay at peace. Now Egypt has a president from the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization with a history of opposition to Israel’s existence. The cold peace has been replaced by vague prom-ises to preserve existing treaties, along with a sharp upsurge in vi-olence, particularly on Egypt’s Si-nai Peninsula on Israel’s border.

Across the region, a new demo-cratic opening has elevated Is-lamist politicians. It has also giv-en voice to a population that had been exposed to only one point of view regarding Israel. For the near term, that means that people who despised Israel have now be-come voters. That creates even more friction.

BUT OVER TIME, if dictator-ships and repression are replaced with freedom, new ideas and new perspectives should slowly seep into the national consciousness, some will begin to understand the kind of life and death choices Israel has faced over the years while surrounded by enemies who wish to destroy it.

Consider the events of Aug. 5, when masked militants killed 16 Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai be-fore bursting across the border and rushing towards an Israeli

farming community. Israeli fight-er jets stopped the attack, blow-ing up the explosives-laden ar-mored vehicle the attackers had hijacked at the Egyptian border post.

It was a tragedy for Egypt, chal-lenging views that have fueled the Egyptian people’s antipathy towards Israel.

Egyptian, Israeli and Ameri-can intelligence know the Sinai has become lawless, with small bands of al Qaida fighters shar-ing the territory with Bedouin smugglers and Hamas operatives.

This time, the enemy was not Israel. Hamas and Egypt’s Mus-lim Brotherhood rushed to blame Israel and stoke conspiracy theo-ries. But Egyptians knew the truth. That’s why the soldiers’ funeral in Cairo turned into an angry anti-Hamas, anti-Muslim Brotherhood protest.

Before long, Egypt’s armed forces responded against the Si-nai militants with a force remi-niscent of what Israel has used when its people came under at-tack. Interesting.

The Arab revolution means Is-rael confronts new threats, but so do Israel’s enemies, such as Iran and Syria. Most importantly, the people who controlled the media, who monopolized the message in the Arab world, will face competi-tion.

A more realistic, less nega-tive view of Israel might emerge, leading to a more solid peace. I understand the skepticism. But the possibility is real.

About the writerFrida Ghitis writes about glob-

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Arab Spring might help Israel

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... If dictatorships and repression are replaced with freedom, new ideas and new perspectives should slowly seep into the national consciousness ...

Dear editor,An excerpt from Emerson

Lynn’s editorial last Wednesday follows:

“Three was not enough; eight, we now can see, is too many. So let’s try five.

“Five councilmen, all elected at large so that every voter had a voice in picking every member of the governing body, would be enough so that the absence of one at a meeting wouldn’t be critical

and would also make it far less likely that any one member would dominate.

“Iola may never have a better opportunity to tailor its city gov-ernment to a better fit.”

We agree with this analysis and urge the city council members to give it top consideration. It’s a good fit for Iola. If you also think this is a good move, let it be known.

Ed and Betty Miller,Iola, Kan.

Letter to the editor

The recent primary election in Kansas was ugly long before vot-ers headed to the polls.

In the run-up to the election, a far-right faction of the Repub-lican Party led by the Kansas Chamber, Americans for Prosper-ity, wealthy Koch brothers and Gov. Sam Brownback unleashed a flurry of negative ads intended to take down anyone who would dare challenge their agenda, Sen-ate President Steve Morris, R-Hu-goton, included.

Sadly, many voters fell for such outlandish claims as the absurd notion that moderate state sena-tors somehow supported so-called “Obamacare.”

Now, with Senate moderates pushed aside and both legislative chambers controlled by ultracon-servative Republicans, we’re left to brace for renewed attacks on education, social services and other programs.

Education will be a big target. Expect Brownback to pursue re-duced state funding while allow-ing local school districts to shoul-der more of the cost.

That would be a great deal for affluent eastern Kansas districts. They’ve long favored lifting the existing cap on local option bud-gets, and being able to generate more property tax dollars to im-prove their schools.

The problem is those districts then would have no cause to sup-port any policies in place to ad-dress inequities between wealthy and smaller, poorer districts.

Less affluent districts — includ-ing those in southwest Kansas — would be left to either raise prop-erty taxes or close schools and put educators out of work.

Such grim possibilities are proof that this region needs strong representation in Topeka.

But Larry Powell, the Repub-

lican state representative now headed to the Senate to replace Morris, is hardly a friend of edu-cation. During a local legislative coffee, he even dismissed the link between education and economic development.

Powell should consider his dis-trict’s unique needs and challeng-es, and defend southwest Kansas interests on every issue — educa-tion included.

That’s unlikely, however. Pow-ell was a beneficiary of the attack-ad campaign because he could be counted on to endorse every Brownback pitch, regardless of the impact on this part of Kansas.

Of course, Powell won’t be alone in rubber-stamping the gov-ernor’s radical right-wing agen-da. And with too few legislators left to provide much resistance, southwest Kansans should be very worried.

— The Garden City Telegram

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Today is the 228th day of 2012. There are 138 days left in the year.

In 1935, humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Bar-row in the Alaska Territory.

In 1945, in a radio address, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced that his country had accepted terms of surren-der for ending World War II.

In 1947, India became independent after some 200 years of British rule.

In 1961, as workers began con-structing a Berlin Wall made of con-crete, East German soldier Conrad Schumann leapt to freedom over a tangle of barbed wire in a scene cap-tured in a famous photograph.

In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York.

In 1971, President Richard Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents. Bahrain declared its independence from Britain.

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One year ago: A relentless barrage of bombings in Iraq killed 63 people, striking 17 cities from northern Sunni areas to the southern Shiite heartland. Jim Thome hit his 600th home run an inning after he hit No. 599 to help the Minnesota Twins outslug the Detroit Tigers 9-6. (Thome became the eighth major league player to reach 600.)

Thought for Today: “Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.” — George Carlin, American comedian (1937-2008).

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the staff to move into the new hospital “paperless.”

TRUSTEES had to be con-tent with a modified emer-gency room entrance for patients who are brought to the hospital by other means than emergency crews.

The best design engineers could devise with the exist-ing plan is a covered side-walk next to reserved park-ing spaces leading into the ER.

A canopy that extends over incoming vehicles is not possible, said Bruce Jones, project manager with the architectural firm Health Facilities Group. “It would have to be 14-feet high which would not provide ef-fective coverage from the el-ements,” he said.

A drive-through canopy

will be available for ambu-lances, which will use a sep-arate emergency entrance. That entrance will not have a patient reception area so it cannot be used by those who self-admit.

An outdoor meditation area will be built on the grounds south of the hos-pital and will include the gazebo currently on ACH grounds. Because of po-tential development of a medical arts building to the north of the hospital, those grounds cannot be used, Streeter said, forcing the gardens to be moved farther away from the hospital than previously hoped.

The upside of the loca-tion is that it will be near a retaining pond equipped with a fountain as well as the helipad. Last year, a heli-copter landed at the hospital 32 times to transfer patients

admitted to its emergency room, McGuffin said.

CONSTRUCTION of the hospital remains on tar-get, Streeter said. A start-ing date of April 16 puts its completion at Oct. 15, 2013. Trustees hope it’s an “all systems go” by Thanksgiv-ing 2013.

Pouring concrete in the blazing hot weather has not been a problem because of a product called Concure, said Steve Underwood, proj-ect superintendent with Murray Construction. The additive has a warranty that guarantees concrete will remain stable in all condi-tions, Underwood said.

“We’ve experienced no shrinkage or cracks,” Un-derwood said. During the hottest weather, crews began pouring concrete as early as 4 a.m., Underwood said.

This Friday, crews will pour slabs for the west side of the building. Next week they’ll approach the east.

A slab of concrete for a storm shelter in the center of the hospital has yet to be poured. It will include solid concrete block walls reinforced with rebar. The 34-foot by 34-foot room will have its own circulation sys-tem as well as restroom. It is designed to accommodate both patients and hospital staff in the case of an emer-gency such as threatening weather.

“It’s pretty stout,” said Bruce Jones, project man-ager with Health Facilities Group.

TRUSTEES APPROVED $986,376 in bills primarily for architectural and con-struction fees for June and July.

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curred while Foster was here, unlike four years ago when he bolted from the courtroom after his con-viction was announced. He was captured within sec-onds.

FOSTER, THEN 27, killed Briawna Hardrick, 19, in her apartment on the east side of Iola early the morn-ing of April 26, 2006. After bludgeoning Hardrick, he set fire to a bed where her body laid. A second victim Rachel Reeder, also 19 at the

time, escaped and was a key prosecution witness in the case.

In addition to murder and rape, Foster was con-victed of aggravated arson, aggravated battery, aggra-vated kidnapping, crimi-nal threat and aggravated criminal sodomy.

He is serving 50 years without chance of parole for murder, as well as con-secutive terms totaling 39 years and four months and another 81 months concur-rently for the other convic-tions.

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The warning turned voluntary procedures into mandatory, Iola Water Plant Superintendent Toby Ross said.

The assurance, accord-ing to Ross, is more like in-surance.

“If we weren’t on the as-surance we wouldn’t be able to draw from the Neo-sho,” he said.

The restrictions are in place so that the water plant isn’t releasing more water than is coming in.

The current water re-strictions for Iolans in-clude:

• An odd/even lawn wa-tering system. Residents with odd-numbered ad-dresses will water on odd-numbered days of the

month. Even addresses will water on even days.

• Outdoor water use, such as watering the lawn and washing cars, will be restricted to before 10 a.m. and after 9 p.m. It also will be restricted to hand-held hose or buckets only.

• Swimming pools may be refiled one day a week after sunset.

Gas residents are under the same restrictions as Iola.

Humboldt also draws from the Neosho, but city administrator Larry Tuck-er said they only enforce restrictions when they are on an emergency warning.

Moran and LaHarpe are not taking any drastic mea-sures to enforce the stage 2 water warning.

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Gas monthly limit is 6 mil-lion gallons.

“I don’t foresee a prob-lem,” Robb said.

Hill noted that Gas resi-dents were required to ob-serve the same stage 2 wa-ter conservation measures imposed by the Kansas Wa-ter Office and announced for Iola Monday.

They are:• An odd/even lawn wa-

tering system, with odd-numbered addresses water-ing on odd-numbered days, even-numbered on even-numbered days.

• Outdoor watering and car washing is restricted to before 10 a.m. and after 9 p.m.

• Golf course watering is restricted to tees and

greens. (Robb mentioned that if greens at the coun-try club weren’t watered and the grass died, reinstal-lation would cost “thou-sands of dollars.”)

• Swimming pools may be refilled one day a week after sunset.

• Outdoor watering is re-stricted to a hand-held hose or bucket.

COUNCIL MEMBERS talked briefly about hiring a police officer, but conver-sation quickly died when potential costs were dis-cussed. Mark Henry noted a vehicle would have to be purchased and there would be wages to be paid.

Allen County officers patrol the city periodically and respond to 911 calls and other requests.

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side dishes will be pro-vided.

Then the fun begins.A school carnival, filled

with games, prizes — even a dunk tank — will fill the afternoon.

Students will earn tick-ets by competing in differ-ent games, then use those tickets for free school sup-plies.

All children who attend can enter a free drawing to win a backpack filled with other school sup-plies. One backpack will be given to each boy and girl.

The drawings are slat-ed for about 3 p.m., when the carnival concludes.

The Wesley UMC Praise Band will perform at the park Sunday, as well as at the church on Friday and Saturday.

Worshippers of all stripes are invited to at-tend the non-denomina-tional services.

“We tried to schedule it so people can attend their own church, then make it for our meal and the car-nival,” Kenyon Anderson said. “Everybody will leave with a prize.”

Last year’s service drew more than 200 wor-shippers, and scores of children to the carnival.

Wesley members have worked extensively to purchase supplies in recent weeks to ensure enough are on hand for the participants.

“The nice thing is we have so many different teams involved,” Kenyon Anderson said. “It’s our most all-encompassing outreach event we do all year.”

The music alone could be enough to draw an au-

dience, Kenyon Anderson said.

“It’s a multi-genera-tional group,” she said. “They’re quite good.”

THE THEME FOR the worship services will be to stress the importance of a smooth transition from a busy summer schedule to hectic school activities.

“Keeping It Real is a wonderful opportunity to get this new school year off to a great start spiri-tually,” Kenyon Anderson said. “If your household is like mine, you’ve been busy gathering new sup-plies and clothing and checking off all of those last minute things you need to get done to ensure that everyone gets the best possible start to this new year.

“The transition from summer schedules to school schedules is sel-dom easy,” she continued. “It seems that most of us run our lives on overload and what ends up taking the hit is taking time for spiritual nourishment.”

Both of the evening events should conclude by 8 o’clock, Kenyon An-derson said.

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to 2 percent, with a deci-sion on whether raises will be awarded in Janu-ary not a done deal. How individual budgets this year play out will be a fac-tor in whether employees get larger paychecks in 2013.

After the proposed sal-ary cuts, commissioners found themselves still with a levy increase.

They turned to budgets for the Sheriff ’s Depart-ment and jail.

Commission Chairman Dick Works said that since Sheriff Tom Williams was elected to the first of two four-year terms in No-vember 2004, expenditures in each department had more than doubled.

Then, sheriff ’s expen-ditures stood at $400,000,

for the jail at $380,000. Next year’s proposals were $795,118 for the jail, $870,000 for law enforce-ment. Operations of each department were moved into new quarters in the law enforcement center under Williams.

Commissioners reduced the jail budget to $770,576, the sheriff ’s to $837,905.

The budgeting process this time around was the last for two commission-ers, Gary McIntosh and Rob Francis. McIntosh did not run for re-election and in the GOP primary Jim Talkington bettered Don Bauer for the nomination to replace him. Williams, meanwhile, defeated Fran-cis, also in the Republican primary. Neither nominee has an opponent in the Nov. 6 general election.

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We tried to schedule it so people can at-tend their own church, then make it for our meal and the carnival.

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Families of Iran’s slain nu-clear scientists have filed a lawsuit against Israel, the U.S. and Britain accusing them of involvement in the assassination of their loved ones.

Rahim Ahmadi Roshan, father of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, the slain chemis-try expert and a director of the Natanz uranium en-richment facility in central Iran, told a press confer-ence in Tehran today that the families have demanded Iran’s judiciary to pursue their complaint through international bodies and bring those behind the kill-ings to justice.

“We’ve filed an indictment against the Zionist regime and the arrogant powers,” Roshan told reporters.”(The judiciary) is to pursue this case with the relevant inter-national bodies.”

Iran’s state television broadcast purported con-fessions earlier this month by 14 suspects in connec-tion with the killing of five nuclear scientists since 2010.

The TV also showed pic-tures from a military gar-rison it said was a training camp outside Tel Aviv in Israel. It said the suspects took courses there, includ-ing how to place magnetic bombs on cars — the meth-od used in the killing of the scientists.

The suspects also ac-knowledged in the purport-ed confessions that they re-ceived training in Israel.

Iran says the attacks are part of a covert campaign by Israel and the West to sabotage its nuclear pro-gram, which the U.S. and its allies suspect is aimed

at producing nuclear weap-ons. Iran denies that.

Iran has blamed Israel’s Mossad as well as the CIA and Britain’s MI6 for the assas-sinations, with support from some of Iran’s neighbors. The U.S. and Britain have denied involvement in the slayings. Israel has not commented.

“Through this complaint, we declare to the world that actions of arrogant gov-ernments, led by the U.S., Britain and the occupying Zionist regime, in assas-sinating nuclear scientists and elites is against hu-man principles,” according to a statement read out by Mansoureh Karami, wife of slain Tehran University physics professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi.

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Bollig moves forward after spinal injuryBy JOCELYN SHEETS

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riding and walking the family dog, Matt Bollig is out and about a month after suffering a critical spine injury.

There is no miracle. The Cha-nute native is a paraplegic as a re-sult of the weightlifting accident he had during Ottawa University football team workouts July 18.

“No, there hasn’t been any change in my mobility but I’m mov-ing forward. I’ve dealt with my situ-ation with a positive attitude,” Bol-lig told the Register in a telephone interview from Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colo., Saturday.

“I can’t play football any more but I can still be involved in the game I love. I can still be in the field of study I was going into at college. I’m finishing college.”

Bollig was a Chanute High standout athlete. As a senior in 2009-2010, Bollig led the Blue Comets to the Southeast Kansas League title and a Class 4A dis-trict title. Chanute was 8-2 in the 2009 season.

He is the son of Valarie Bollig of Ottawa, Jim Bollig of Chanute and Doug Ligon of Iola. Bollig’s grandparents, Daryl and Janice Heslop, live in Neosho Falls.

Jacob Rhoads, a cousin, at-tends Iola High School and plays football for the Mustangs. Rhoads spent 10 days with Bollig recently in Colorado.

“I’m been here for him. We went riding on the handcycles and watching him work hard in his classes,” Rhoads said. “Matt is working hard learning how

to transfer himself. We’ve been learning how to transfer him from place to place also.”

Bollig, a 6-2 quarterback, passed for over 2,000 yards with 13 touchdowns as a senior for Cha-nute. He rushed for more than 600 yards and 10 touchdowns. Bollig also played safety and punted for

Chanute.Bollig played in the 2010 Kan-

sas Shrine Bowl All-Star Football game. Then he reported to Fort Scott Community College.

As a freshman, Bollig played on the defensive side of the ball for the FSCC Greyhounds. Last year, he was the Greyhounds’ quarterback.

Bollig transferred to Ottawa University and signed a letter of intent to play football for the Braves this season. He was a quarterback.

“I’ve done the exercise many times,” Bollig said of his accident in the Braves’ weight room ear-lier this month. “This wasn’t the

first time I did it and I just took a wrong step.”

Bollig said he was doing an ex-ercise designed to strengthen his hamstrings, step-ups while lifting heavy weights. There were other OU players working out with him at the time of the accident.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — It was show-and-tell time a few weeks ago in the coaching offices of what has been one of the na-tion’s weakest football programs.

Charlie Weis could hardly be-lieve his eyes.

Could these really be the same poorly conditioned football play-ers he agreed to lead last spring?

Weis, who shocked a lot of peo-ple when he took over at Kansas last February, met with strength and conditioning coach Scott Hol-sopple, who had made a book with three pictures of every player.

“A picture of when we first got here, a picture at the end of the spring (practice) and a picture at the end of the summer,” Weis said. The difference in many, said the coach, was startling.

“To look at some of the body changes on some of these guys from where they were — just look at their bodies,” he said. “I actual-ly had to pull some of the pictures out to show some of the staff cause they didn’t believe me.”

Of course, all this does not mean the Jayhawks will be com-petitive in every Big 12 game they play in Weis’ first season. Most pundits figure they will be dead last in a toughened Big 12 that has

added TCU and West Virginia.“Let’s face it — just because

they gained all these numbers in strength and conditioning doesn’t mean you’re automatically going to win more games,” Weis said. “But, to watch the transformation of a body in six months ... .”

Whether Weis can resurrect the Jayhawks will be one of the more intriguing story lines in col-lege football this year. As recent-ly as 2007, the Jayhawks won 12

games and beat Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl, their only BCS appearance.

But since 1945, Kansas has won as many as nine games only three times. In the past two sea-sons under Turner Gill, they won only five games total. This has always been a basketball school, a place where football for most fans is hardly more than an after-thought.

“Logically, I can’t see why anyone

wouldn’t rate us last, based off the evidence of what they have,” Weis said. “Right now, all we’ve done is hire a new coach, hire a new staff and change the way business is be-ing done to marry the personality of the head coach.”

Weis has said goodbye to 23 players and welcomed 27, includ-ing several who transferred from Notre Dame.

“So that’s been a big change in personnel,” he said. “But the ju-ry’s still out. You’re going to have to go out and prove it.”

His instincts tell him the change in perception may have started last month in Dallas when the Jayhawks joined their con-ference brethren at Big 12 media day. Along for the ride was Dayne Crist, the big quarterback who transferred from Notre Dame and

will have one year of eligibility.“When we went into media day,

at the end of the day we were not being treated like we weren’t one of the big boys,” Weis said. “We were being treated like everybody else. Our players felt respected. They didn’t feel shunned.”

Weis said he happened to be standing near some Texas players when Crist walked up.

“One of the Texas players turns to the other guys and says, ‘That’s the quarterback?’” Weis said. “He looks like a linebacker. You could feel from the media, ‘Well, we might have to review these guys over again.’”

Back to that picture book: Weis said his attention was particularly caught by junior defensive tackle John Williams, who spent most of last year on the injured list.

“He looks like a different per-son,” Weis said. “His face is thin-ner and he gained weight. That’s usually a good indication that it’s the right kind of weight.”

The portly Weis, who became fa-mous by coordinating the offense on three Super Bowl winners for New England, pulled himself to his full height and grinned.

“I obviously have been on that plan,” he said.

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New head coach Charlie Weis works to move the Kansas football program forward and earn back respect for the Jayhawks on the field in 2012.

Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Jeremy Guthrie (33) throws in the third inning during Tuesday’s baseball game against the Oakland Athletics at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jeremy Guthrie learned in June what not to do against the Oak-land Athletics.

Guthrie allowed only three singles in seven innings, and the Kansas City Royals rolled to a 5-0 win over the Athletics on Tues-day night.

Guthrie, who struck out a sea-son-high eight, ran his scoreless streak to 15 innings, the longest streak of his career. He has yield-ed eight hits and struck out 14 in his past two starts, victories over the A’s and the Chicago White Sox.

Guthrie (5-12) is 2-3 in five starts with the Royals, who ac-quired him in a July 20 trade with Colorado for left-hander Jona-than Sanchez.

In a June 12 start against the A’s at Colorado, Guthrie allowed sev-en runs and eight hits, including three home runs and two walks in five innings.

“When I pitched against them earlier in the year every pitch I threw was the exact wrong pitch at the wrong time,” Guthrie said. “So I had a nice blueprint on what not to do. I don’t think I threw too many duplicate pitches of what they punished me.

“I gave up an awful lot of hits and an awful lot of long home runs in a short amount of time. They gave me a blueprint on how to do a better job.”

A’s manager Bob Melvin noticed the change in Guthrie’s plan.

“He’s a guy we handled pretty well in Colorado.” Melvin said. “He’s coming off his best game this year, and he might have been riding some confidence from that. But I’d like to think we could get some better at-bats against him. We didn’t have a lot of good at-bats tonight.

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Matt Bollig, left, and his cousin Jacob Rhoads, right, check out handcycles before going on a bike ride. Rhoads, who is a junior at Iola High School, spent time in Colorado with Bollig, who is at Craig Hospital going through rehabilitation from a spinal cord injury. Bollig, who is from Chanute, was injured lifting weights at Ottawa University on July 18.

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Big 12 is back strong with new teamsBy STEPHEN HAWKINS

AP Sports WriterThe Big 12 Conference

has come back strong after two straight summers of uncertainty about its fu-ture.

Find another league that has ever featured three reigning conference cham-pions like the Big 12 will have this season. It has its own defending champ in Oklahoma State and both newcomers — TCU from the Mountain West and West Virginia from the Big East — are coming off titles.

Six of the current teams won at least 10 games last season. There is a new com-missioner (former Stanford athletic director Bob Bowls-by) and a new alignment with the powerhouse SEC, which has won the last six national championships since Texas’ title, for a fu-ture bowl game to match the champions of the two leagues.

“I think it’s fair to say our league, when you add West Virginia and TCU, two teams coming off bowl wins, two ranked football teams, you put them with the rest of what we’ve been doing here in the Big 12, that our league is every bit as strong as it’s ever been, if not stronger,” Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. “So it will be a challenging year.”

Oklahoma won seven Big 12 titles in an 11-year span before last season, when the league dropped from 12 to 10 teams and scrapped divisional play for a round-robin schedule.

The Sooners, with quar-terback Landry Jones back for his senior season and al-ready with 37 starts, is still considered a league favor-ite. Their schedule includes road games against the two new teams that replaced Missouri and Texas A&M, now in the SEC.

TCU has won 24 consecu-

tive conference games, hav-ing won three consecutive outright Mountain West ti-tles since its last league loss in November 2008. They also won the Rose Bowl in an undefeated season two years ago.

West Virginia won or shared the Big East title six times since 2003, and had a record-shattering 70-33 win over Clemson in the Or-ange Bowl in January that made the Mountaineers 3-0 in BCS games. Their 4,000-yard passing quarterback Geno Smith got tabbed as the Big 12 preseason offen-sive player of the year over Jones.

“What’s awesome about the Big 12 as opposed to where we were last year is just the national expo-sure,” said West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen, who knows that well after nearly a decade in the Big 12. “And it’s going to be West Coast to East Coast.”

An overall look at the Big 12:OKLAHOMA — Key

players: QB Landry Jones, DB Demontre Hurst, OL Gabe Ikard. Returning starters: 7 offense, 8 de-fense.

Notes: Heisman Trophy hopeful Jones has 93 career passing touchdowns, and has thrown for 9,181 yards the last two seasons. The Sooners also have short-yardage running quarter-back Blake Bell, who ran for 13 TDs as a freshman last year. ... Coming off 33rd 10-win season, more than any other team. ... Play both TCU and West Virginia on the road. ... Mike Stoops is back for his second stint as Oklahoma’s defensive coor-dinator for his brother. He left in 2003 after overseeing a defense that was among top seven in the country for fewest points allowed his four years in charge.

WEST VIRGINIA — Key players: QB Geno Smith, WR Tavon Austin,

C Joe Madsen, DL Will Clarke. Returning starters: 9 offense, 7 defense.

Notes: Mountaineers make Big 12 debut coming off first 10-win season since 2007. ... Before becoming West Virginia head coach last season, Dana Holgors-en spent nine of the previ-ous 11 seasons as a Big 12 assistant coach, eight years at Texas Tech and one as Oklahoma State’s offensive coordinator. ... Smith, go-ing into his third season as the starter, averaged 337.3 yards passing per game last season, which would have been third in Big 12 last sea-son. ... Austin had 101 catch-es last year. ... West Virginia is 9-4 against current Big 12 teams.

KANSAS STATE — Key players: QB Collin Klein, LB Arthur Brown, LB Tre Walker, DB Ty Zimmer-man. Returning starters: 8 offense, 6 defense.

Notes: Klein matched Big 12 overall record and FBS mark for quarterbacks with 27 rushing TDs last season. ... Kansas State won 11 games six times during a seven-year span in coach Bill Snyder’s first tenure. They won 10 games last year, in Snyder’s third season back from his three-year retirement. Wildcats swept the Big 12’s four Tex-as teams last year (includ-ing departed Texas A&M in four overtimes), but lost to both Oklahoma schools.

TCU — Key players: QB Casey Pachall, OL Blaize Foltz, DE Stansly Maponga, WR Josh Boyce, LB Kenny Cain, CB Jason Verrett. Re-turning starters, 6 offense, 5 defense.

Notes: Horned Frogs haven’t lost a conference game since November 2008, winning the last three Mountain West titles out-right. ... Only FBS team to win at least 11 games in six of last seven seasons. ... Coach Gary Patterson has 109 wins, tied with Dutch Meyer for most in school history. ... Averaged 440 yards, 41 points game last season. Return starting QB, two of three top rushers and three of four top receiv-ers.

TEXAS — Key Players: RB Malcolm Brown, DE Jackson Jeffcoat, DL Alex Okafor, DB Kenny Vaccaro, CB Carrington Byndom, LB Jordan Hicks. Return-ing starters: 9 offense, 7 de-fense.

Notes: Since 13-1 record in 2009 season that ended with loss in BCS national championship game, Long-horns have won a combined 13 games the past two years. Before the recent slide, Tex-as had nine consecutive sea-sons with at least 10 wins and had never won fewer than nine games under coach Mack Brown. ... Tex-as again goes into the sea-son unsettled on a starting quarterback. Junior Case

McCoy and sophomore Da-vid Ash both started games last season. ... The logo on the front cover of the me-dia guide is RISE (Relent-less/Intensity/Swagger/Emotion), representing the team’s theme and created by players.

OKLAHOMA STATE — Key players: OL Lane Taylor, RB Joseph Randle, DB Brodrick Brown, DE Cooper Bassett. Returning starters: 8 offense, 8 de-fense.

Notes: After winning first Big 12 title, Cowboys have eight offensive start-ers back. But missing are two first-round picks, quar-terback Brandon Weeden (4,727 yards passing and 37 TDs) and receiver Jus-tin Blackmon (122 catches, 1,522 yards, 18 TDs). ... Oklahoma State has won 41 games the past four years. ... Coach Mike Gundy tabbed true freshman Wes Lunt, who was in school for spring drills, as the starting quarterback. ... Junior RBs Jeremy Smith and Joseph Randle combined to rush for 1,862 yards and 33 TDs last season.

BAYLOR — Key Players: QB Nick Florence, OL Ivory Wade, NB Ahmad Dixon, WR Terrence Williams. Re-turning starters: 6 offense, 8 defense.

Notes: Baylor enters the season with a six-game win-ning streak, third-longest among FBS teams (North Illinois 9, TCU 8). ... After winning 10 games to match a school record, the Bears lost some big playmakers: Heisman Trophy quarter-back Robert Griffin III, re-ceiver Kendall Wright and running back Terrance Ganaway. ... Williams last season had 59 catches for 957 yards and 11 TDs, in-cluding the game-winner with 8 seconds left against Oklahoma.

IOWA STATE — Key Players: LB Jake Knott,

LB A.J. Klein, RB James White. Returning starters: 7 offense, 5 defense

Notes: Next win for Cy-clones will be No. 500 in program history. There are also 595 losses and 46 ties. ... Iowa State upset Okla-homa State in two OTs last November, likely costing the Cowboys a BCS cham-pionship game berth. The Cyclones then lost their last three games, including their bowl game at Yankee Stadium. ... Klein and Knott combined for 231 tackles last season.

TEXAS TECH — Key Players: QB Seth Doege, WR Eric Ward, S Terrance Bullitt. Returning starters: 8 offense, 6 defense.

Notes: After unexpected 41-38 win at Oklahoma to end the Sooners’ 39-game home winning streak, Red Raiders lost their last five games to finish 5-7. That ended a streak of 16 consec-utive winning seasons. .... Texas Tech has third defen-sive coordinator, and third different scheme, in three seasons. The new coordi-nator is Art Kaufman, who has been on coach Tommy Tuberville’s staffs in the past. ... Doege, who threw for 4,004 yards and 28 TDs last season, gets back his top three receivers, who ac-counted for 1,987 yards and 23 TDs.

KANSAS — Key Players: QB Dayne Crist, LT Tanner Hawkinson, DE Toben Opu-rum. Returning starters: 7 offense, 6 defense.

Notes: Jayhawks have won only two Big 12 games the last three seasons. ... Charlie Weis takes over as head coach and brought NFL veteran coach Dave Campo along as his defen-sive coordinator. ... Crist graduated from Notre Dame and then transferred to Kansas to join Weis, who originally recruited him to South Bend. Crist will have only one season as a starter.

“He worked ahead and had a good downward plane on his fastball, good move-ment.”

Guthrie, who is eligible for free agency after this season, could be pitching his way into the Royals’ plans for next year.

“I just felt along with Dayton (Moore, general manager), three or four starts and that would get him back on track,” Roy-als manager Ned Yost said. “He’s definitely on track. It’s not really fluky stuff. You can see where this could be extended out start

after start. I’m really liking what I’m seeing right now.”

Guthrie was 4-11 with a 6.31 ERA as a Rockies start-er. He credits Royals pitch-ing coach Dave Eiland for helping him with adjust-ments.

Tim Collins and Greg Holland completed the shut-out for Kansas City. Collins struck out all three batters he faced in the eighth in-ning, boosting his total to 77 — a Royals’ strikeout record for a left-handed re-liever.

The A’s failed to get a run-ner past second base and were shut out for a major

league-leading 14th time.Alex Gordon and Eric Hos-

mer delivered run-scoring singles in the Royals’ five-run fifth inning that also fea-tured sacrifice flies by Chris Getz and Billy Butler.

Kansas City also scored an unearned run after Oakland second baseman Jemile Weeks failed to handle Alcides Escobar’s bouncer. That allowed Lorenzo Cain, who had walked, to score.

A’s rookie right-hander Jarrod Parker (7-7) was pulled after 4 2/3 innings. He gave up five runs, five hits and two walks.

Major League BaseballAt A Glance

All Times EDTThe Associated Press

American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBNew York 69 47 .595 —Baltimore 63 53 .543 6Tampa Bay 63 53 .543 6Boston 57 60 .487 12½Toronto 55 61 .474 14

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 63 52 .548 —Detroit 62 55 .530 2Cleveland 54 63 .462 10Kansas City 50 65 .435 13Minnesota 50 66 .431 13½

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 67 48 .583 —Oakland 61 54 .530 6Los Angeles 61 56 .521 7Seattle 54 64 .458 14½

Tuesday’s GamesBaltimore 7, Boston 1N.Y. Yankees 3, Texas 0Chicago White Sox 3, Toronto 2Detroit 8, Minnesota 4Kansas City 5, Oakland 0L.A. Angels 9, Cleveland 6Seattle 3, Tampa Bay 2

Wednesday’s GamesDetroit (Scherzer 11-6) at Minne-sota (De Vries 2-3), 1:10 p.m.Tampa Bay (Hellickson 7-7) at Se-attle (F.Hernandez 10-5), 3:40 p.m.Boston (A.Cook 3-5) at Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 4-2), 7:05 p.m.

Texas (Feldman 6-7) at N.Y. Yan-kees (F.Garcia 6-5), 7:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Floyd 8-9) at Toronto (R.Romero 8-9), 7:07 p.m.Oakland (McCarthy 6-3) at Kansas City (W.Smith 3-4), 8:10 p.m.Cleveland (R.Hernandez 0-0) at L.A. Angels (E.Santana 5-10), 10:05 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesTexas at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.Boston at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.Oakland at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.Tampa Bay at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBWashington 72 44 .621 —Atlanta 67 49 .578 5New York 55 61 .474 17Philadelphia 54 62 .466 18Miami 52 65 .444 20½

Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati 70 46 .603 —Pittsburgh 64 52 .552 6St. Louis 63 53 .543 7Milwaukee 52 63 .452 17½Chicago 45 70 .391 24½Houston 39 79 .331 32

West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles 64 53 .547 —San Francisco 63 53 .543 ½Arizona 58 58 .500 5½

San Diego 52 66 .441 12½Colorado 43 71 .377 19½

Tuesday’s GamesL.A. Dodgers 11, Pittsburgh 0Cincinnati 3, N.Y. Mets 0Philadelphia 1, Miami 0Atlanta 6, San Diego 0Houston 10, Chicago Cubs 1St. Louis 8, Arizona 2Colorado 8, Milwaukee 6Washington at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s GamesPhiladelphia (Halladay 6-6) at Mi-ami (Buehrle 9-11), 12:40 p.m.Houston (B.Norris 5-9) at Chicago Cubs (Germano 1-2), 2:20 p.m.Milwaukee (M.Rogers 0-1) at Colo-rado (Moscoso 0-1), 3:10 p.m.Washington (Strasburg 13-5) at San Francisco (Lincecum 6-12), 3:45 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 10-6) at Pittsburgh (W.Rodriguez 7-11), 7:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Dickey 15-3) at Cincin-nati (Leake 4-7), 7:10 p.m.San Diego (Volquez 7-8) at Atlanta (Maholm 10-7), 7:10 p.m.Arizona (J.Saunders 6-8) at St. Louis (Wainwright 10-10), 8:15 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesL.A. Dodgers at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.San Diego at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.Arizona at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.Miami at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

Coaches and trainers called 911. Bollig was taken to Overland Park Regional Medical Center where he under went immediate sur-gery.

“I’m going to get through this. I’ve had a tremendous support from my family, friends and so many more including my football brothers,” Bollig said.

“The work I’m doing now in occupational and physi-cal training is teaching me how to be independent with my disability.”

Bollig is a paralyzed from the hips down. He has learned out to ride handcy-cles while in Colorado.

“Matt has been really upbeat about his injury. Of course, he has his down days but for the most part he is approaching this like he does life — moving for-ward,” said Valerie Bollig, Matt’s mother, in a tele-phone interview from Colo-rado Saturday.

“We’ve had such a great outpouring of support for Matt and our family. My sister, Erin (Dix, Jacob Rhoads’ mother), helped arrange a send off for him when we left Overland Park for Colorado. We had for-mer Kansas City Chiefs players there along with the Ottawa coaches and players and Chanute coaches and players.”

Valerie said family and friends have come to Colo-rado to see her son. She said Bollig’s grandfather, Daryl Heslop, has been there help-ing him also the family dog, Shep.

“Matt is amazing. He’s learned how to transfer himself from the wheel-chair to the bed and the other way. He’s been play-

ing basketball and football in the gym,” Valerie said.

“Matt’s girlfriend, Amy Weilert of Chanute, has been his rock and he has been hers.”

Although his mother said it might be the middle of September when Bollig is released to go home, he wants to be back for the Ot-tawa University home game with Baker University on Aug. 25.

“When I got out here, they did a lot of tests on my body. There’s nothing wrong with my back after the surgery. My spinal cord was damaged,” Bollig said.

“I’ve been learning how to cope physically and emo-tionally with my paralysis. There’s a lot of occupa-tional and physical therapy classes to go through.”

Bollig said the main

thing he has learned is “I’m still me. I can still do what I want to do.”

Bollig is majoring in ex-ercise management in col-lege. His mother has been working with Ottawa Uni-versity on his class sched-ule so everything will be in place when he returns to Ottawa.

“No matter what you are doing. It doesn’t have to be after an accident like this but you should surround yourself with family and friends who care about you,” Bollig said. “You never stop striving for your dreams.”

“We’re trying to encour-age him and he keeps on encouraging us,” OU head coach Kent Kessinger told media at the Kansas Colle-giate Athletic Conference media day recently.

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Matt Bollig gets away from an Iola High defender dur-ing the teams’ 2009 football game at Chanute. Bollig was the Chanute High quarterback.


By DAVID LAUTER and LISA MASCARO

Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Rep. Paul D. Ryan’s proposed federal budget — now star-ring as the centerpiece of the presidential campaign as he joins the Republican ticket — would reshape American government, achieving long-sought con-servative goals and revers-ing an 80-year path of larg-er, more expensive federal programs.

Under Ryan’s plan, which has passed the Republican-controlled House twice in slightly different versions, the Inter-nal Rev-enue Ser-vice would tax the wealthiest Americans less, but many of the poorest ones more; Medicare would be transformed; Medic-aid would be cut by about a third; and all functions of government other than those health programs, So-cial Security and the mili-tary would shrink to levels not seen since the 1930s.

Mitt Romney has made a point of saying that he’s running on his own budget, not Ryan’s, but even before choosing him as a running mate, he had adopted much of Ryan’s plan. Romney’s tax plan would reduce tax rates by less, but closely resembles Ryan’s, and so do his plans for Medicare, Medicaid and other safety-net programs.

The Ryan plan would not balance the federal bud-get for another 28 years at least, according to an anal-ysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Of-fice. That means the federal debt would continue to rise. That’s partly because the tax cuts take effect right away while the Medicare cuts kick in later, as people now 55 hit retirement age. It’s also partly because Ry-an’s proposed tax cuts con-siderably outweigh even his ambitious spending re-ductions.

Ryan himself concedes that his plan would not balance the budget this de-cade, predicting it could be balanced by the “mid-to-early 2020s” because his plan would ignite rapid eco-nomic growth. Like his one-time mentor, Jack Kemp, the 1996 Republican vice presidential nominee, Ryan argues that the key to eco-nomic growth is not balanc-ing the budget but lowering tax rates.

“Growth is the key to fis-cal sustainability — and low rates are the key to growth,” he said.

But even if low tax rates spur the economy — a de-batable point among econo-mists — a balanced bud-get will depend on wiping enough tax breaks off the books to offset the new tax cuts.

In the more than two

years since his budget was unveiled, Ryan has not specified any tax breaks he would eliminate. Indepen-dent analyses have shown that offsetting the tax cuts would require changing things such as the mort-gage interest deduction, the tax exclusion for employer-financed health insurance or other popular tax prefer-ences widely used by mid-dle-income households.

For any of these changes to take place, of course, Romney and Ryan would have to win the election and probably carry a Republi-can Senate with them.

Republicans hope the Ryan budget will propel their campaign forward, grabbing the mantle of “change” away from Presi-dent Barack Obama. Dem-ocrats fervently believe Ryan’s plan will become a major weapon for their side.

MEDICARERyan would shift Medi-

care from a system in which everyone gets the same set of benefits, paid for by tax funds, to one in which the government would give each senior citizen a fixed amount of money.

When people now 55 or younger reach retirement, they would be given the option of using that “pre-mium support” payment, or voucher, to buy private insurance policies or enroll in Medicare.

The amount of the pay-ment would vary from one region of the country to another, depending on the cost of private insurance plans. In some places, at least in the early years, the premium-support payment might cover the full cost of Medicare, but there’s no guarantee of that.

Ryan would also gradual-ly lift the Medicare eligibil-ity age from 65 to 67 by 2034.

Supporters say the pre-mium-support approach would hold down the federal government’s spending on health care, since seniors would have an incentive to shop for the cheapest plans, and competition among private health plans would push costs down. But crit-ics argue that elderly sick people aren’t likely to be good comparison shoppers and could easily be misled by complicated insurance programs.

Detractors also say health insurers would have a huge incentive to create low-cost plans for younger, healthier seniors, leaving Medicare with the oldest, sickest patients and driving up its costs.

Medicare beneficiaries have average incomes of $20,000 a year. Last year, the federal government spent $5,500 for each beneficiary, according to the Congres-sional Budget Office, which projects that cost will rise to between $8,600 and $9,600 by 2030. Ryan would cap the spending at $7,400 per se-nior. So unless costs grow much more slowly than ex-

pected, the average retiree on Medicare would have to pay between $1,200 and $2,400 a year. The amount would rise over time and would probably be higher for those with chronic health problems.

TAXESRyan’s plan would keep

the tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush and add an additional $4.5 trillion in cuts over the next decade. It would do that by replacing the current six tax rates with two — 10 percent and 25 percent. It would also eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax and cut corporate taxes.

Not all Americans would get a tax cut, however. The plan would repeal tax breaks for low-income families with children and other changes adopted in 2009 under Obama. The net result would be a tax in-crease for the bottom fifth of households and a big tax cut at the top, according to the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan Washington think tank.

In many cases, low-in-come households would see a tax increase of $100 or less, but some would be hit harder. Among households earning between $10,000 and $20,000 a year, about 1 in 5 would get a tax increase averaging over $1,000, the Tax Policy Center analysis showed. Households earn-ing more than $1 million

a year would get nearly 40 percent of the benefits of the plan, with a cut aver-aging about $265,000. Ryan has not challenged those figures.

Those tax cuts would reduce overall federal rev-enue far below the level of spending that Ryan would allow. The result would be a very large deficit — larger than Obama envisions. To keep that from happening, Ryan says he would elimi-nate existing tax breaks to “broaden the base” of the tax code.

“What we’re saying is take away the tax shelters that are uniquely enjoyed by people in the top tax brackets so they can’t shel-ter as much money from taxation,” Ryan said in a CBS “60 Minutes” inter-view Sunday.

While upper-income tax-payers pay a lot of taxes, many of the tax benefits they use are either support-ed by Ryan and Romney or don’t come close to closing the gap.

One of the largest ben-efits for upper-income tax-payers, for example, is the lower tax rate for capital gains. Ryan, like Romney, opposes raising the capital gains tax rate. Indeed, in 2010, when Ryan unveiled his plan, it called for en-tirely eliminating taxes on capital gains, interest and dividends. Romney opposed that idea during the Repub-lican primaries. Ryan has

never disowned it, but did not address the topic in this year’s version of the plan.

The remaining big tax preferences all have huge political support — the mortgage interest deduc-tion, the exclusion of em-ployer-provided health in-surance from income, the charitable contribution deduction. Changing those would increase taxes on middle-income households, which Romney has said he won’t do. Not changing them while still enacting the tax cuts would mean a much higher deficit and ris-ing debt.

MEDICAIDThe biggest single source

of cost savings in Ryan’s budget would come from cutting Medicaid, the joint state-federal program that provides health care for the poor and disabled, and a companion program that pays for health care for chil-dren.

Now serving 58 million low-income children, dis-abled adults and seniors a year, Medicaid is the na-tion’s main health care safety net. Much of the spending on the program goes to long-term care for seniors, largely in nursing homes, which Medicare does not cover.

Under the Ryan plan, funding would be cut by a third, according to the CBO, and the remaining federal funds would be given to the states as a block grant to use as they wish in provid-ing care to the poor.

Conservatives have long argued that giving state and local governments greater control would save money by making Medicaid more efficient. The budget office said in its analysis this year that “even with

significant efficiency gains, states would need to in-crease their spending on these programs, make con-siderable cutbacks in them, or both.” Medicaid already makes up one of the larg-est shares of most states’ budgets, making new state funds unlikely.

Medicaid pays doctors and hospitals substantial-ly less than they get from private insurance or Medi-care. In many states, eligi-bility requirements are ex-tremely tight. For example, 30 states do not allow cover-age for parents who earn more than $9,500 a year, ac-cording to the Kaiser Fam-ily Foundation.

Expanding Medicaid had been a central part of Obama’s health care law. Ryan’s budget would repeal that expansion along with the rest of the law.

DEFENSE SPENDINGOne important display of

priorities in Ryan’s budget is the trade-off between de-fense spending and domes-tic programs other than So-cial Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Last summer, Congress and the White House reached a deal that would trigger automatic across-the-board spending cuts of nearly $1 trillion over 10 years, beginning Jan. 2 — half from defense, half from domestic programs. The automatic cuts would be stopped if Congress reached a plan to reduce the deficit.

Ryan would upend that deal. Instead of cutting de-fense by half a trillion dol-lars over the next 10 years — which Obama also oppos-es — Ryan would increase the military budget by $300 billion over the decade.

Ryan would keep in place the across-the-board cuts on the domestic side and deepen them by $700 billion more over the decade.

Some of the domestic spending cuts are spelled out in Ryan’s blueprint — a cut in food stamps, for ex-ample, that would impose new limits on the length of time recipients can receive aid. Like Medicaid, the food stamp program would be-come a grant to the states, giving local jurisdictions more say in how the money is spent. Pell Grants for col-lege students would simi-larly be capped, with new requirements that make only lower-income students eligible. Worker training programs would also be re-duced.

Overall, the CBO said in its analysis that under Ryan’s budget, spending on defense and all domes-tic programs other than Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid would fall to 6 percent of the total econ-omy by 2030, about half the current level. That would mean a smaller share of the economy going to fed-eral domestic spending oth-er than entitlements than at any time since the New Deal.

Ryan’s plan reshapes role of US government

Paul Ryan

In many cases, low-income households would see a tax increase of $100 or less, but some would be hit harder. ... Households earning more than $1 million a year would get nearly 40 percent of the benefits of the plan, with a cut averaging about $265,000.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Young illegal immigrants are scram-bling to get passports and other records in order as the Home-land Security Department starts accepting applications to allow them to avoid deportation and get work permits.

Homeland Security announced the details Tuesday of what documents illegal immigrants would need to prove that they are eligible for the Obama ad-ministration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The an-nouncement came a day before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services was set to begin letting people apply for the program.

Hundreds of thousands of il-

legal immigrants potentially could benefit from the program, which President Barack Obama announced in June. The program is beginning just months before what promises to be a tight con-test for the White House in which the Hispanic vote may play an im-portant role.

Obama has come under fire from Hispanic voters and others who say he hasn’t fulfilled a pre-vious campaign promise to over-haul the nation’s immigration laws. The policy change could stop deportations for more than 1 million young illegal immigrants who would have qualified for the failed DREAM Act, formally the Development, Relief and Educa-

tion of Alien Minors Act, which Obama has supported in the past.

Republican lawmakers have ac-cused Obama of circumventing Congress with the new program in an effort to boost his political standing and of favoring illegal immigrants over unemployed U.S. citizens.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, called the policy backdoor am-nesty.

“While potentially millions of illegal immigrants will be per-mitted to compete with Ameri-can workers for scarce jobs, there seems to be little if any mechanism in place for vetting fraudulent applications and docu-

mentation submitted by illegal immigrants,” Smith said Tuesday.

At the Honduran Consulate on Tuesday, a line of people wrapped around the building before it was open for business, and the office was crowded for much of the day.

Evelyn Medina, 23, got in line at about 6:30 a.m., and she wasn’t alone. With her passport in hand, Medina was all smiles as she walked out of the building just before 2 p.m., saying “Finally” as she clutched the document.

Medina, a Maryland college student studying social work, said she expected to be ready to apply today. If she is allowed to stay in the U.S. and work, she hopes even-tually to earn a master’s degree.

The administration plan is to stop deporting many illegal im-migrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. To be eligible, im-migrants must prove they arrived in the United States before they turned 16, are 30 or younger, have been living here at least five years and are in school or graduated or served in the military. They also cannot have been convicted of certain crimes or otherwise pose a safety threat.

Under guidelines that the ad-ministration announced Tuesday, proof of identity and eligibility could include a passport or birth certificate, school transcripts, medical and financial records and military service records.

New immigration program launched; young avoid deportation

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TONY PERRYLos Angeles Times

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (MCT) — A fast-moving wildfire stoked by triple-digit temperatures burned more than 1,800 acres Tues-day in the foothills of the San Jacinto Mountains, creeping perilously close to tinder-dry areas of the San Bernardino National For-est, officials said.

At least three structures, including one home, were de-stroyed by the blaze, which spread rapidly through dry brush and grasslands in a sparsely populated area south of Hemet and east of Temecula.

The fire, just 5 percent contained as of Tuesday evening, was spreading rapidly through the rocky hills and desert scrub, and was within a mile of forest lands west of Anza, where drought has heightened fire danger all summer.

“Of course we’re con-cerned,” said John Miller, spokesman for the San Bernardino National For-est. “This year our big con-cern is the fact that rainfall — and that includes snow — for our forest was some-where between 50 percent to 70 percent of normal.”

Mandatory evacuations were ordered in the sparse-ly populated area near Aguanga, and nine homes have been evacuated, ac-cording to Jody Hagemann of the California Depart-ment of Forestry and Fire Protection. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries, ac-cording to radio dispatch reports.

South of the Riverside County fire, fast-moving blazes, some started by lightning strikes from heat-born thunderstorms, have burned more than

2,300 acres in northeast San Diego County, leading to evacuations in the rural communities of Ranchita and the San Felipe area off California 78.

The four San Diego Coun-ty fires are being fought by more than 500 firefighters, along with air tankers and water-dropping helicopters. No structures have been re-ported damaged.

“We have very dry veg-etation, brush and grass and things like that. Now we have multiple days of very high temperatures,” said Chief Julie Hutchin-son, spokeswoman for the state fire agency. “It’s like lighting your fireplace with a blowtorch.”

The fire in Riverside County was reported just before 1 p.m. in the com-munity of Aguanga. More than 210 firefighters were working to extinguish the blaze, and six water-carry-ing helicopters and six wa-ter-tender aircraft as well as a DC-10 were assisting, state fire officials said.

Crews from the Sierra Nevada mountains areas are being dispatched to as-sist firefighters.

“That’s one thing that’s unique about California. We have a state fire agency, and we’re able to move re-

sources up and down the state,” said Hutchinson, adding that crews from the U.S. Forest Service, local departments and the Cali-fornia National Guard are playing a role in the state-wide firefighting efforts.

Although flames are more than 14 miles away from Idyllwild, residents and fire officials in the art-sy mountain community have been nervously watch-ing television news reports.

“I’m certainly keeping up on what they’re doing,” said Capt. Alan Lott of the Idyll-wild Fire Protection District.

A decade ago, the Idyll-wild area was considered one of the regions most susceptible to a catastroph-ic wildfire, but that danger was abated by aggressive efforts to clear dead trees along evacuation routes and vegetation around mountain homes, Lott said.

“Our forest is healthy and green. But there’s still danger,” Lott said.

Blazes plague California, too

Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/MCT A helicopter makes a water drop on a fast-moving fire in thick brush near the community of Aguanga, Calif., Tuesday.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An official says three grenades were thrown into a mosque com-pound during morning prayers in eastern Afghan-istan, wounding at least nine worshippers.

Wednesday’s attack in Khost province comes a day after a series of bombs across Afghanistan killed 46 people. It was the dead-liest day for civilians this

year.The Khost police chief

says one of the grenades exploded inside the mosque itself in Baghi Sara area. Two others landed in the courtyard outside and one of those failed to detonate. The police chief, Sardar Mohammad Zazai, blamed Taliban insurgents.

The NATO military coali-tion had no immediate com-ment.

By LAURA J. NELSONLos Angeles Times

WASHINGTON STATE (MCT) — Fire crews battled a blaze in central Washing-ton state that had destroyed more than 43 square miles of dry forest and brush and continued to grow, stoked by strong winds Tuesday afternoon and evening.

The wildfire, sparked Monday afternoon at a con-struction site near the small town of Cle Elum, charred thousands more acres Tuesday afternoon, damag-ing more than 60 homes and forcing nearly 500 people to evacuate. No injuries have been reported, fire spokes-man Rick Scriven told the Los Angeles Times.

“It’s going to get even more difficult,” Scriven said. “If this fire gets any more wind-driven, they’re going to have a heck of a fight on their hands.”

The Taylor Bridge fire — named for the site where it started — began eating into mixed grassland and for-ested areas to the east and north. The fire is about 75 miles east of Seattle.

Washington has had

minimal fire activity the last few seasons, Scriven said, and dry vegetation has built up in forests and meadows. Dry grasses to the north and east will pro-vide instant tinder, posing challenges to firefighters converging from across the state.

“In some of these areas that are extremely dry, if the fires get into the big, tall sage, it will really take off,” Scriven said. “Especially with the wind.”

Washington’s Depart-ment of Transportation closed a 14-mile stretch of

U.S. 97 after the fire leaped the road. On Tuesday after-noon, flames stayed north of Interstate 90, the main freeway stretching between Seattle and Spokane.

The priority of first responders, said Depart-ment of Natural Resources spokesman Bryan Flint, was protecting property and people.

Hundreds of livestock were evacuated, most to a local fairground, and un-claimed horses roamed the smoky area. A local chimpan-zee sanctuary also appeared threatened by the blaze.

Wildfires char Washington

Bettina Hansen/Seattle Times/MCT Tom Colvin, 63, of Cle Elum, Wash., sifts through his belongings Tuesday after his house succumbed to the Taylor Bridge Fire.

9 hurt in grenade attack

Dear Carolyn: This past year has been nonstop hell for me, starting with the death of a cat I’ve owned since high school and ending with a still-fresh breakup after a lot of re-lationship ups and downs. Through it all my best friend has basically done a disappearing act. How much support am I entitled to expect in an adult friend-ship? — Boston

Answer: I’m sorry. Some possibilities:

1. Your friend is going through her own annus horribilis and you’ve ei-ther failed to notice each other’s misery while so consumed by your own (and she’s off somewhere else typing, “I’m in hell and my best friend has vanished .?.?.”), or she has tried to be thoughtful and chosen not to tell you, knowing you have enough to worry about;

2. You’ve elevated a se-ries of bummers into an annus horribilis and she’s feeling less sympathetic than weary of your self-pity;

3. She’s one of the many good-hearted people who freeze in a crisis.

4. Your friend isn’t as good a friend as you thought (bleaker view) — or 4b. She was once a great friend, but you’ve grown

apart in a perfectly natural way, and it wasn’t until you really needed her that you were able to notice the dis-tance between you (bright-er view, sort of).

If you think it might be 1, ask her how she’s doing, and tell her you’re sorry you’ve gone AWOL while dealing with your own stuff.

If you fear it might be 2, make a list of all the things you’re counting toward your conclusion of “non-stop hell,” compare these with other things people deal with regularly, and see whether you need to tough-en up a bit.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: If I’m not mistaken, you

wrote about how the foot should land when running, and you favored the heel as the place to plant the foot. I also remember you not fa-voring barefoot running. Would you reconsider these issues? Barefoot running decreases runners’ injuries, and landing on the heel in-creases them. – W.W.

ANSWER: The proper way to first strike the ground when running and the ques-tion of barefoot running are contentious matters. I don’t believe that anyone has the definitive answers to these questions. Both issues are addressed in the April issue of, “Exercise and Sport Sci-ence Review.” One is a short article by Walter Herzog, and the other is by Daniel Liberman, who has done a great deal of work in evalu-ating the benefits of barefoot running.

Walking and running are things that are rarely taught. We learn them instinctively. When they are taught by coaches and others, they generate a great deal of con-troversy. Running in shoes is said to contribute to the great increase in overuse in-juries in runners, both in the

feet and legs. Barefoot run-ning appears to lower the in-jury rate. According to some, shoes dampen propriocep-tion, the subconscious abil-ity to maintain balance and alter stride from signals sent to the brain from the feet. Shoes also encourage a running form where heel strike is favored. And they seem to contribute to weak and inflexible feet. Barefoot running corrects these prob-lems. The bare foot is vulner-able to obstacles on the run-ning path, but calluses form on the balls of the feet to pro-tect them, given enough time to do so.

When the feet are not in shoes, a person almost instinctively strikes the ground with the balls of the feet. Impact on the foot from such a landing greatly lessens forces that are trans-ferred to both the feet and legs. That is thought to be one of the reasons why bare-

foot runners have fewer inju-ries to their feet and legs.

Many highly successful Olympic runners do not wear shoes.

All this information is fas-cinating. I know I wouldn’t think of running barefoot. I don’t know whether every-one should abandon heel-strike running. I’m waiting to see more evidence from the experts.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I swim at a Boys and Girls Club in our town. Some of the women are causing trou-ble over the water tempera-ture. I have been swimming at the club for 14 years. I had open-heart surgery to cor-rect two leaky heart valves.

When I read your article that said cold water makes your heart beat faster and harder and could lead to chest pains, I tried to tell the women that this is true. They will not listen. I asked my cardiologist, and he said that the temperature should be 82 F.

I would like to post your reply to cold water for all members to see it. -- G.I.

ANSWER: Water tem-perature between 82 and 86 F is the temperature used for competitive swimming. I like water at the higher end

of those temperatures. At temperatures less than

77 F, the body is stressed. By “body,” I mean the heart. Heat-conserving measures are thrown into high gear. The heart beats faster. It is stressed.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a professional swim instructor and have been teaching swimming for many years.

I would like to know about water intoxication in small children. I don’t think par-ents should put their child under water in swimming lessons until that are at least 2 years old, as they can swal-low lots of water. -- D.C.

ANSWER: Water intoxi-cation occurs when anyone, regardless of age, takes in too much water. The excess water leads to brain swell-ing. The situation is urgent. Corrective measures have to be taken quickly.

The American Academy of Pediatrics used to say that 4 should be the age that chil-dren learn how to swim. It has now lowered the age to 1 year.

People instructing such young swimmers must have had professional training and know how to keep such young infants safe.


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DAILY CRYPTOQUOTES - Here’s how to work it:

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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Sipping nectarThis is a sphinx moth, or “hummingbird moth,” sipping nectar from a cleome flower in the early evening. Notice the long sucking tube that enables the moth to get nectar and to pollinate flowers, especially the tubular kinds.

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BEIRUT (AP) — Activ-ists say Syrian troops have clashed with rebels near the government headquar-ters and Iranian embassy in the capital Damascus.

The Britain-based Syr-ian Observatory for Hu-man Rights had no imme-diate word on casualties in Wednesday’s clashes.

Maath al-Shami, an ac-

tivist based in the area, said smoke could be seen billowing from behind the Iranian embassy building, which is under construc-tion. The present Iranian embassy building and the Cabinet headquarters are also nearby, he said.

“We heard shooting and explosions for a while,” said al-Shamir.

Fighting in Syria continues

By MIKE SHIELDSKHI News Service

TOPEKA — Whoops.In their haste to pass

the biggest tax cut in state history, Kansas policymak-ers and proofreaders over-looked some important details that now have ac-countants scratching their heads about what they should tell their business clients.

For example, the 38-page bill signed into law by Gov. Sam Brownback in May and which is scheduled to become effective for 2013 tax filings, refers to a cou-ple of sections in the Kan-sas tax code that don’t actu-ally exist.

“I understand what they were trying to accomplish,” said Jerry Capps, senior vice president of state and local tax at Allen, Gibbs, and Houlik, a Wichita firm that bills itself as the larg-est accountancy in the Mid-west. “It’s just that there’s some unfinished business there…that needs to be looked at, I think.”

Capps’s firm has held seminars on the new tax law, which among other things was expected — or at least was intended — to eliminate state income tax-es for owners of as many as 191,000 of the state’s es-timated 237,000 businesses and essentially leave only people who are wage earn-ers with any state income tax liability.

He has described the law’s technical problems at those sessions. The prob-lems also were discussed at a recent conference of Kan-

sas accountants held at the Potawatomi Band Casino near Mayetta. The state’s top revenue officials were on hand for that, including Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan and Budget Direc-tor Steve Anderson, who also happens to be a certi-fied public accountant.

The glitches were cited again Tuesay at a meeting staged in Overland Park by the Brownback administra-tion to advertise the law’s potential benefits to busi-nesses.

“We had a hiccup in the legislation and now we need to correct that hiccup,” said Gary Allerheiligen, former president of the Kansas Soci-ety of CPAs, a group that has recommended that the Leg-islature correct the errors as soon as possible when it reconvenes in January.

Meanwhile, “you kind of scratch your head,” Capps said. “What do you do? What do you advise? With that sort of dilemma for state income tax, what do you tell your clients to do?”

“The way I see it, what we passed is a work in prog-ress,” said Sen. Les Dono-van, the Wichita Republi-can who chairs the Senate Tax Committee and is in the running to be the next Senate president.

Capps and others have found three significant “technical” errors in the new law.

He said state revenue of-ficials probably can fix two of them as they write rules or clarifying guidelines for the new law. Those rulings should be out next month, according to Kansas Rev-enue Department officials. But everyone seems to agree that one of the prob-

lems will require sending the law back to the Legisla-ture for repairs.

One of the problems, the apparent but unintended elimination of itemized de-ductions, already has been addressed with a ruling from the revenue depart-ment.

A second, confounds or undermines the utility of an earlier business tax break called PEAK, which allows companies that re-locate or expand in Kansas to keep 95 percent of their workers’ state tax withhold-ings. That one is still up in the air.

The biggest technical problem deals with the determination of what ac-countants call “basis,” the formula by which the value of a business is determined for tax purposes. Because of that glitch, owners of companies intended to ben-efit from the law might not benefit at all and could find themselves deeper in the hole to state and federal tax officials should they choose to sell their enterprises.

Technical problems with major new laws due to quick or sloppy legal draft-ing are not unprecedented. But those problems with Senate Substitute for House Bill 2117 are considered by some to be emblematic of the torturous way the leg-islation was passed and the larger dilemma it is expect-ed to produce for funding state and local government services within the next two years and beyond.

Some legislators predict

the technical changes can be made without a major reopening of the tax debate that left last year’s Legis-lature bitterly divided, but others are not so sure. Af-ter the November elections, there will be dozens of new legislators and the make-up and leadership of the House and Senate will be much different. Conserva-tive Republicans who sup-ported the tax cuts largely prevailed in the Senate primaries but the House remains more of an open question.

That added political uncertainty on top of the law’s technical problems has put many accountants and their business clients in wait-and-see mode.

Technical errors in new tax law keep it on iceAccountants say they don’t know what to tell their clients

You kind of scratch your head. What do you do? What do you advise? With that sort of dilemma for state income tax, what do you tell your clients to do?

— Jerry Capps,Allen, Gibbs, and Houlik,

Wichita accountancy

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... What we passed is a work in progress.— Sen. Les Donovan,

Wichita (R), chair of the Senate Tax Committee

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