BASKETBALL Crest playoff run ends See B1 Locally owned since 1867 www.iolaregister.com Saturday, March 9, 2013 Vol. 115, No.93 75 Cents Iola, KS WEEKENDER The IOLA REGISTER Murder suspect not found during raid Register/Richard Luken Four people were taken into custody Friday following a raid in downtown Iola, involving officers with the Kansas Highway Patrol, Iola and Chanute police departments, Allen County Sheriff Department and a KHP SWAT team. ACC enrollment up a smidgen By BOB JOHNSON [email protected]Overall headcount of stu- dents in Allen Community College’s three areas — on campus, outreach and online — increased by 4.1 percent for the spring semester com- pared to a year ago. Fulltime equivalent (FTE), which determines state aid and is the academic measure of enrollment, didn’t increase quite as much, trustees were told Thursday evening. FTE rose just .7 percent, with a large measure of the reason being outreach FTE was stat- ic. “We have more high school students,” which increases headcount, “but they’re not taking as many hours this se- mester,” said Cynthia Jacob- son, vice president for aca- demic affairs. Headcount overall went from 2,795 to 2,909, while FTE increased from 1,675.1 to 1,687.6. On campus are 520 students, while 1,300 are enrolled in outreach classes and 1,089 are furthering their education through online courses. Jacobson said some things were planned to enhance en- rollment. “We’re making financial aid applications available this month,” rather in June as has been past practice, she said. “That should help (high school) students make a col- lege decision earlier — hope- fully for ACC.” The college also is mak- ing changes in its online ap- proach for enrollment. Ja- cobson said key words were being added to the search engine that will cause ACC to be the near the top when pro- spective students searched for a community college. Regena Ayes, dean for on- line learning, said the divi- sion had 85 part-time instruc- tors, 20 full-time. “We’re tweaking the pro- gram,” to make it more user- friendly, she said, and noted that she was “working on the summer schedule.” Trustees approved the 2013- 14 schedule for the Iola cam- Register/Richard Luken GO CUBS! Gardening around Kansas weather By ALLISON TINN [email protected]It might be a little hard to imagine right that spring is on its way. Weather and soil temperatures will be warming soon and the green thumbs will be itch- ing for color in their yards. The Southwind Exten- sion District and Emprise Bank hosted the first of a three-part home landscape series for area residents Thursday night. Dr. Alan Stevens, state floriculture specialist at K-State, gave the presenta- tion, “New and Exciting Flowers for your Home Landscape.” Kansas weather is a challenge for plants and flowers. “We are too far south for the cold plants and we are too far north for the warm plants. Kansas makes growing difficult,” Stevens said. “The weather is con- stantly changing and it creates unique stress here that we don’t see anywhere else.” Stevens and his team at K-State strive daily to de- termine what grows well in Kansas and what doesn’t. And, with 24 K-State test sites across Kansas “that’s how I can tell you it will grow,” Stevens said. Toward the end of the year they revise a list of flowers that will grow and release it online at www. prairiestarflowers.com. Most people like to deco- rate their yards with beau- tiful plants with a lot of color. Studies have shown that when homes and com- munities are well deco- rated quality of life is bet- ter. Towns and individual KPR interest is at a peak Tricia Greve, a library assistant at Humboldt High School, was one of scores of Cub fans who have descended upon Hutchinson this weekend for the boys Class 3A state bas- ketball tournament. Full details of Humboldt’s games Thurs- day and Friday are in today sports section. By ALLISON TINN [email protected]In the 60 years Kansas Pub- lic Radio (KPR) has been in operation, it never has had as many listeners as today, with an average 114,000 weekly. KPR director of develop- ment Sheri Hamilton visited with Rotary Club members Thursday to discuss the KPR’s success and to encourage more Iolans to become listen- ers. KPR has a tower in Chanute, station 90.3 FM, and Rotarians who listen to the station say they receive a clear signal. When KPR first started reaching the Chanute and Iola area, community members were excited about the news programing. After roughly a year it went away. Hamilton said additional programing fees were too expensive. “We didn’t want to go away from the area but couldn’t af- ford what it was going to cost to have the all news format,” Hamilton said. “But, it’s not gone it’s available on the com- puter,” at www.kansaspublic- radio.org. KPR is housed in Lawrence on the University of Kansas campus. It was started origi- nally as a classical and jazz music format for dorms and classrooms. As it grew out of the class- rooms and into cars and homes the station brought in news broadcasts. “We have changed over the years,” Hamilton said. “We don’t put anything on the air if we don’t think it will be meaningful and relevant.” The award-winning station is non-profit, and like with any non-profit it struggles to keep afloat. Hamilton said in addition to fundraisers the station receives 6,000 contri- butions annually. “We have 6,000 listeners that love us enough to give money to keep operating,” she said. It cost the station $234 for every hour of programing, with 2.6 percent of its funding coming from the state. “We are trying to be less and less dependent on those dollars,” Hamilton said, add- ing that she firmly believes the reason why the station has been in operation for 60 years See SPRING | Page A4 By BOB JOHNSON [email protected]A raid of an apartment on East Street just off Iola’s downtown square Friday af- ternoon failed to produce a suspect wanted for murder in Chanute. Acting on a tip that the sus- pect, Brian Shields, 26, might be in the apartment, 20 Kan- sas Highway Patrol officers, including its crack SWAT team, as well as Iola, Allen County and Chanute officers descended on the second-floor apartment at 1:30. The event drew consider- able attention. Streets were blocked within a block and nearby Iola schools were locked down. Traffic and pe- destrians were turned back. Four people, two men and two women, were arrested, and a second visit to the apart- ment was being considered, af- ter authorities noticed things that might lead to charges against its occupants. The Register learned later in the afternoon that Kayla Devoe, 30, Nicole Gardner, 29, and Dillon Shapel, 38, were placed in the Allen county Jail soon after the entry exercise. Fred Sigg, 24, was taken to Al- See RAID | Page A4 We have changed over the years. We don’t put anything on the air if we don’t think it will be meaningful and relevant. — Sheri Hamilton “ “ See KPR | Page A4 Register/Bob Johnson With Allen Community College dormitory rooms nearly full, there’s hardly a parking spot to be found nearby. See ACC | Page A4
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Locally owned since 1867 www.iolaregister.comSaturday, March 9, 2013
Vol. 115, No.93 75 Cents Iola, KS
WeekenderThe Iola
regIster
Murder suspect not found during raid
Register/Richard Luken
Four people were taken into custody Friday following a raid in downtown Iola, involving officers with the Kansas Highway Patrol, Iola and Chanute police departments, Allen County Sheriff Department and a KHP SWAT team.
Overall headcount of stu-dents in Allen Community College’s three areas — on campus, outreach and online — increased by 4.1 percent for the spring semester com-pared to a year ago.
Fulltime equivalent (FTE), which determines state aid and is the academic measure of enrollment, didn’t increase quite as much, trustees were told Thursday evening. FTE rose just .7 percent, with a large measure of the reason being outreach FTE was stat-ic.
“We have more high school students,” which increases headcount, “but they’re not taking as many hours this se-mester,” said Cynthia Jacob-son, vice president for aca-demic affairs.
Headcount overall went from 2,795 to 2,909, while FTE increased from 1,675.1 to 1,687.6. On campus are 520 students, while 1,300 are enrolled in outreach classes and 1,089 are furthering their education through online courses.
Jacobson said some things were planned to enhance en-rollment.
“We’re making financial aid applications available this month,” rather in June as has been past practice, she said. “That should help (high school) students make a col-lege decision earlier — hope-fully for ACC.”
The college also is mak-ing changes in its online ap-proach for enrollment. Ja-cobson said key words were being added to the search
engine that will cause ACC to be the near the top when pro-spective students searched for a community college.
Regena Ayes, dean for on-line learning, said the divi-sion had 85 part-time instruc-tors, 20 full-time.
“We’re tweaking the pro-gram,” to make it more user-friendly, she said, and noted that she was “working on the summer schedule.”
Trustees approved the 2013-14 schedule for the Iola cam-
imagine right that spring is on its way. Weather and soil temperatures will be warming soon and the green thumbs will be itch-ing for color in their yards.
The Southwind Exten-sion District and Emprise Bank hosted the first of a three-part home landscape series for area residents Thursday night.
Dr. Alan Stevens, state floriculture specialist at K-State, gave the presenta-tion, “New and Exciting Flowers for your Home Landscape.”
Kansas weather is a challenge for plants and flowers.
“We are too far south for the cold plants and we are too far north for the warm plants. Kansas makes
growing difficult,” Stevens said. “The weather is con-stantly changing and it creates unique stress here that we don’t see anywhere else.”
Stevens and his team at K-State strive daily to de-termine what grows well in Kansas and what doesn’t. And, with 24 K-State test sites across Kansas “that’s how I can tell you it will grow,” Stevens said.
Toward the end of the year they revise a list of flowers that will grow and release it online at www.prairiestarflowers.com.
Most people like to deco-rate their yards with beau-tiful plants with a lot of color. Studies have shown that when homes and com-munities are well deco-rated quality of life is bet-ter. Towns and individual
KPR interest is at a peak
Tricia Greve, a library assistant at Humboldt High School, was one of scores of Cub fans who have descended upon Hutchinson this weekend for the boys Class 3A state bas-ketball tournament. Full details of Humboldt’s games Thurs-day and Friday are in today sports section.
In the 60 years Kansas Pub-lic Radio (KPR) has been in operation, it never has had as many listeners as today, with an average 114,000 weekly.
KPR director of develop-ment Sheri Hamilton visited with Rotary Club members Thursday to discuss the KPR’s success and to encourage more Iolans to become listen-ers.
KPR has a tower in Chanute, station 90.3 FM, and Rotarians who listen to the station say they receive a clear signal.
When KPR first started reaching the Chanute and Iola area, community members were excited about the news programing. After roughly a year it went away. Hamilton said additional programing fees were too expensive.
“We didn’t want to go away from the area but couldn’t af-ford what it was going to cost
to have the all news format,” Hamilton said. “But, it’s not gone it’s available on the com-puter,” at www.kansaspublic-radio.org.
KPR is housed in Lawrence on the University of Kansas campus. It was started origi-nally as a classical and jazz music format for dorms and classrooms.
As it grew out of the class-rooms and into cars and homes the station brought in news broadcasts.
“We have changed over the years,” Hamilton said. “We don’t put anything on the air if we don’t think it will be meaningful and relevant.”
The award-winning station
is non-profit, and like with any non-profit it struggles to keep afloat. Hamilton said in addition to fundraisers the station receives 6,000 contri-butions annually.
“We have 6,000 listeners that love us enough to give money to keep operating,” she said.
It cost the station $234 for every hour of programing, with 2.6 percent of its funding coming from the state.
“We are trying to be less and less dependent on those dollars,” Hamilton said, add-ing that she firmly believes the reason why the station has been in operation for 60 years
A raid of an apartment on East Street just off Iola’s downtown square Friday af-ternoon failed to produce a suspect wanted for murder in Chanute.
Acting on a tip that the sus-pect, Brian Shields, 26, might be in the apartment, 20 Kan-sas Highway Patrol officers, including its crack SWAT team, as well as Iola, Allen County and Chanute officers descended on the second-floor apartment at 1:30.
The event drew consider-able attention. Streets were blocked within a block and nearby Iola schools were locked down. Traffic and pe-destrians were turned back.
Four people, two men and two women, were arrested, and a second visit to the apart-ment was being considered, af-ter authorities noticed things that might lead to charges against its occupants.
The Register learned later in the afternoon that Kayla Devoe, 30, Nicole Gardner, 29, and Dillon Shapel, 38, were placed in the Allen county Jail soon after the entry exercise. Fred Sigg, 24, was taken to Al-
See RAID | Page A4
We have changed over the years. We don’t put anything on the air if we don’t think it will be meaningful and relevant.
— Sheri Hamilton
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See KPR | Page A4
Register/Bob Johnson
With Allen Community College dormitory rooms nearly full, there’s hardly a parking spot to be found nearby.
See ACC | Page A4
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Come Let Us Worship The Lord Sunday School.....................9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship.................10:45 a.m. Thursday Service......................6 p.m.
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helping us in our tim e of sorrow .
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ObituaryCarolyn Dreher
Carolyn Edith Dug-gan Dreher, 81, Iola, passed away Thursday, March 7, 2013, at the Allen County Hospital.
Carolyn was born Oct. 1, 1931, in rural Moran, the daughter of Elmer J. and Elva M. (Davis) Duggan. She graduated from I o l a H i g h S c h o o l in 1949.
O n Nov. 5, 1 9 5 0 , Carolyn married Lyle W. Dreher. They made their home in Iola. Lyle preceded her in death Dec. 26, 1993.
Carolyn worked at Allen County Bank, Rural Electric Co-op-erative and the City of Iola from 1970 until she retired in 1996. She was Iola city clerk from February 1991 until she retired and was a mem-ber of the City Clerks and Municipal Finance Officers Association.
As her children were growing up, she had leadership roles in PTA, Girl Scouts and 4-H. Her member-ships included Wes-ley United Methodist Church, Wesley United Methodist Women and the Wesley Bell Choir, Allen County Hospi-tal Auxiliary, Sorosis, Dirt Diggers Garden Club, Happy Hearts Extension Unit, and she served as a docent at the Allen County Historical Museum. Carolyn enjoyed tole painting, sewing, quilting, crafts, trav-
eling — especially on many bus trips — and tending her plants and flower garden.
She is survived by her three children, Linda Wille and hus-band Tom, Piqua, Sharon Grisier and husband George, Gas, and Jerry Dreher and wife Cathy, Iola; she shared the love of seven grandchildren, Angie Slaven (Mike), John Wille (Beth), Sara Leivian (Chad), Chad Grisier (Jana), Robbie Grisier (Bran-di), Caitlin Dreher and Carly Dreher; 13 great-grandchildren, Zachary Slaven, Dil-lon Slaven, Cody Wille, Camryn Wille, Kaden Leivian, Morgan Leiv-ian, Jaylen Grisier, Emerson Grisier, Owen Grisier, Maryn Grisier, Brennen Nues-sen, Bryer Grisier and Rowan Grisier.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and her brother, Curtis E. Dug-gan.
Funeral service and visitation will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Wesley United Meth-odist Church in Iola, where the family will receive friends an hour prior to the service. Burial will be at High-land Cemetery, Iola.
Memorial choices are Wesley United Methodist Church or Allen County Hospi-tal Auxiliary and may be left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Me-morial Chapel of Iola. Online condolences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.
Carolyn Dreher
DISTRICT COURTJudge Daniel Creitz
Civil cases filed:Community National
Bank of Humboldt vs. Susan Burcham, et al, real estate. Nicholas R. Adams vs. Crystal Ann-Louise Adams, divorce. Missy M. Rogers vs. DeWayne A. Rogers, di-vorce. Shaylin Robb vs. Joshua P. Robb, divorce. Cerie King vs. Dennis D. Flanagan, protection from abuse. Cassie M. Goodman vs. Ronald E. Goodman Sr., divorce.
MUNICIPAL COURTJudge Thomas Saxton
Convicted of speed-ing or other violations with fines assessed:
Tray L. Hodges, Cha-nute, driving under the influence, sentencing set for April 9. Charles F. Turner, Iola, disor-derly conduct, 30 days in jail suspended for six months probation, $535. Haley L. Hardwick, Tul-sa, 77/65, $161. Grover J. Froggatte, Iola, domes-tic battery, six months in jail suspended for 12 months probation, $220. Calvin L. Field, Topeka, basic rule governing the speed of vehicles, improper passing, $248. Robert C. Stephen, Tulsa, 79/65, $248. Tina A. Cady-Friend, Savon-burg, 80/65, $173. Don-ald C. Gray Jr., Over-land Park, 76/65, $149. Grace L. Jones, forgery, sentencing set for April 22. Paul A. Thibodeau, Bilox, Miss., aggravated failure to appear, sen-tencing set for May 6. Tiffany N. Rogers, Iola, possession of hallucino-genic drugs, sentencing set for April 22. Bran-don L. Hutton, burglary,
sentencing set for April 22. Grace L. Jones, Iola, possession of hallucino-genic drugs, sentencing set for April 22. Amanda R. Pollock, Iola, posses-sion of hallucinogenic drugs, sentencing set for May 6. Jimmy R. Ept-ing, Iola, possession of depressants, possession of drug paraphernalia, theft, criminal damage to property, sentencing set for May 6. Paul A. Thibodeau Jr., Biloxi, Miss., fleeing or elud-ing law enforcement officers, driving with suspended license, driv-ing under the influence, sentencing set for May 6. Oran W. Thomsen, Watts, Okla., over-weight lim-its on wheels and ax-les, $243. Scott Warren, Kansas City, 76/65, $149. Mason V. Sigg, Iola, 75/55, $203. Kristopher C. Webb, Chanute, fail-ure to yield, $173. Joyce B. Lemon, Manhattan, failure to yield at a stop sign, no seat belt, $183. Paul G. Morgan, Iola, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, $293. Andrew S. Hayes, Ne-vada, Mo., 74/65, $143. David M. Funk, Tulsa, 75/65, $143. Devin K. Myers, Humboldt, pos-session of hallucino-genic drugs, 12 months probation, $560. Justin L. Cawthon, Chanute, domestic battery, six months jail suspended for 12 months probation, $445. Tevin C. Strack, Humboldt, interference with a law enforcement officer, six months in jail suspended for 12 months probation, $845. Patrick V. Johnson, Cartersvile, Ga., miscellaneous wild-life violations, $275. An-
thony J. Hulett II, Iola, driving under the influ-ence, sentencing set for April 3. Lucky A. Ragan, Iola, driving under the influence, sentencing set for April 17. Jimmy E. Vogt Jr., Kellyville, Okla., 82/65, $185. Ange-lena I. Hunt, Pittsburg, 86/55, $308. Olivia Sal-vador Rios, Des Moines, Iowa, 92/65, child pas-senger safety, $326. Bon-nie L. Jordan, Owasso,
Okla., 79/65, $167. Convicted of no seat belt and fined $10:
Tyler M. Parks, Okla-homa City. Scott L. Smail, Iola. Jason W. Garber, Iola.Diversion agreements with fines assessed:
Douglas R. Hickman, Kansas City, 78/65, $186. Leah M. Vile, Olathe, 84/65, $222. Benjamin N. Baker, Lenexa, 87/65, $271.
Court report
Due to a lack of print space, the remainder of the court report will be published in Monday’s Register.
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Senior Spotlight Iola High School
Class of 2013
Johnny is the son of Johnny Henry Adams Sr. and Jennifer Adams.
He enjoys playing video games, writing and drawing.
After graduation Johnny plans to join the Navy as a construction electrician.
Johnny said his high school highlights have been Mrs. Hawley’s junior paper, Mrs. Murphy’s mythology and Mrs. Adams’ string ensemble.
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Caitlyn is the daughter of Jeff and Aimee Callaway.
She is involved in cheerleading, softball, basketball, volleyball, student council, future business leaders of America, SADD, National Honors Society and Link Crew.
She enjoys spending time with friends and family.
She works part time at Bolling’s Meat Market and A&J Cleaning.
After graduation she will attend Washburn University to major in nursing. After school she hopes to start a family.
Caitlyn said her high school highlights have been being on the banana squad for two years, reigning champs at cheer camp, and getting All-American at cheer camp.
Tessa is the daughter of Pat and Rhodenia Rowe.
She is involved in cheerleading, softball and the youth group at WUMC.
Her hobbies are reading, singing and hanging out with friends and her boyfriend.
After graduation she plans to attend Allen Community College for two years then go to a school to be a physical therapy assistant.
Tessa said her high school highlights have been winning the season opener in the pouring rain. “Gotta love them Mustangs.”
Tessa Rowe
Caitlyn Callaway
Johnny Adams
is because of what it of-fers.
Morning the station streams in National Pub-lic Radio, which is the second most listened to radio network. Through-out the day there are programs such as “All Things Considered,” “This American Life” and “Car Talk,” which comes in as the most lis-tened hour on KPR.
Classical and jazz mu-sic are still a part and on the weekends KPR has added “Trail Mix,” which is folksy type music.
The station reaches a slightly larger male audi-ence — but not by much, at 53 percent of males and 47 percent of females.
The classical music seg-ments reach 52 percent of males and 48 percent of females.
Hamilton said studies have shown that people who listen to KPR are more intelligent and have a higher chance to hold a higher degree of educa-tion.
On the political spec-trum the station brings in 37 percent of liberals/somewhat liberals, 25 per-cent of middle road, 28 percent of conservative/somewhat conservative and 10 percent with no response.
Hamilton said she doesn’t believe KPR is skewed one way or the other and that if the sta-tion is then it “wouldn’t
be doing its job.” “You have to listen and
decide for yourself, but I just don’t hear it,” she said.
KPR OFFERS audio readers to the visually impaired for free with documentation of their impairment.
The station will give out a special radio that has books read out loud. There are about 300 vol-unteers a week that go to the radio station and re-cord books. Audio reader listeners even may re-quest a certain book to be recorded.
For more information visit the stations website at www.kansaspublicra-dio.org.
residents do it during the Christmas season, which only lasts one month, so why not do it in yards during the six-month growing season?
“Flowers are the throw pillows that pro-vide contrast in nature’s neutral color — green,” Stevens said.
Most people will drive or walk by a home with only grass, trees and green shrubs and never notice the work put into it. Stevens said it is as simple as having one or two pots of colorful flowers near the door or within the yard to add that extra color to a green yard.
The list of flowers provided online or at the local Southwind Ex-tension office all grow in Kansas, but more im-portantly they pass the “lazy gardener list,” Ste-vens said.
“If it’s a lot of work we don’t want it,” he said.
DURING THE presen-tation Stevens pointed out the “best of the best.”
Some of the flowers that made the list were, begonia BIG series (all colors), canna chocolate sunrise or the Rosita, geranium Rocky Moun-tain series (all colors,) echinecea pow pop wild berry, helenium dakota (gold), pentas northern lights lavender, salvia farinecea, petunia hap-py dreams and basil box-wood, which is one of the more popular plants for foliage display.
Stevens said the celo-sia WATCH (hot pink) is the best celosia K-State researchers have found. Any lantana will grow in this area but the bet-ter one is the landmark series.
“With lantanas we have better and slightly better,” Stevens said.
Stevens said the petu-nia bubble gum (pink) is the best petunia he has ever seen and can with-
stand a lot of heat. For people with deer
problems, Stevens rec-ommends the portulaca pazzazz. Deer won’t touch those flowers be-cause they don’t like the taste.
When it comes to fer-tilizing annuals Stevens said it is all about nitro-gen.
“Phosphorus has nothing to do with flow-ering,” Stevens said.
He said in a perfect world gardeners would fertilize with a little bit of nitrogen every week, but he said since that’s not usually possible time-release fertilizers will work well.
“Use light and fre-quent applications, avoid excess,” Stevens said.
For more information or a full list of flowers visit the website at www.prairiestarflowers.com or contact the South-wind Extension office at 365-2242.
pus, which will have classes starting a week later in fall (Aug. 19) and spring (Jan. 21) semes-ters so they mesh better with other colleges.
Trustees were told that even with more students enrolled on-line, occupancy of on-campus housing in Iola remained at a premium. With 274 beds available, 252 were spoken for this spring, 92 percent. Last spring with 24 fewer beds, occupancy was 86 percent.
TRUSTEES agreed to participate in a property tax arrangement that will give Toby Shaugh-nessy and his father, Bob, advantage in build-ing a new restaurant on North State Street, just south of the entrance to Wal-Mart.
ACC is the third of four governing bodies — Iola and USD 257 did previously — to sign on to give the Shaughnes-sys a 95 percent rebate on property taxes for five years. The tax then will be added in 20 percent increments over the next five years.
The Shaughnes-sys next will ask Allen County to complete the abatement circle.
Sam and Louie’s New York Pizzeria will be “a full service, sit-down res-taurant,” Toby Shaugh-nessy said.
He expects to have 12 to 15 employees and an-ticipates some part-time workers will be ACC stu-dents.
“I worked at a Papa John’s while attending Pittsburg State (he grad-uated there in 2010) and then spent a year manag-ing it,” which he thinks gives him a leg up with the restaurant here.
Sam and Louie’s is based in Omaha and has 22 outlets in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota.
Iola will be the compa-ny’s first venture into Kansas.
PRESIDENT JOHN Masterson reviewed sev-eral proposed hirings, one of which was met with some opposition.
Trustee Larry Manes said he thought hiring a director of human re-sources was superflu-ous, suggesting that, as he did when an instruc-tor, determining things
to do with KPERS (re-tirement) and insurance was not a difficult chore for those affected.
“I know there’s some validity to it, but we keep hearing about bud-get problems,” from state revenue cuts being considered by the Legis-lature, “and I wouldn’t want to approve an HR person and then have to make cuts elsewhere,” said Trustee Ken McGuf-fin.
A salary of $50,000 was mentioned at one point.
Jon Marshall, vice president for academic affairs, made an impas-sioned plea for the hir-ing, saying that he spent time helping with indi-viduals’ problems that would be better spent de-veloping academic pro-grams.
Masterson said he
would develop a job de-scription for later dis-cussion.
He also mentioned hirings in computer sci-ence, criminal justice, allied health, visual me-dia, biology (at the Bur-lingame campus), main-tenance and coaching.
OTHER GLEANINGS:— Trustees approved
purchase ($30,842) of a Polaris circulation system for the library, which will make it com-patible with other aca-demic and public library and ease transfer of ma-terials among them.
— On Feb. 4 49 donors, from 61 who offered, gave blood during a drawing on campus. The goal was 39 units; 34 were drawn in 2012.
— Marshall said an aim of the college was to ramp up support of the Bowlus Fine Arts Cen-ter. Two productions will be at staged at the Bow-lus next academic year and students will contin-ue to use it as a venue to display art and perform recitals.
— Agreed to pay Dib-ble Construction $4,000 to complete, in the col-lege’s estimation, work to drain and dredge a pond and reform its dam on property shared with several private owners. Manes said the work started with an $8,000 price tag, with the col-lege to pay half, and then escalated when others asked more of Dibble. “It’s been going on for 43 months (hyperbole) and this settles it,” Manes said.
— Trustees congrat-ulated four students named to the Kansas All-Academic Team. They are Faith May, Quenemo, and Debra Young, Overbrook, on the Burlingame campus; and Kaden Roush, Smith Center, and Jennifer Walters, Pomona, on the Iola campus.
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I know there’s some valid-ity to it, but we keep hearing about budget problems and I wouldn’t want to approve an HR person and then have to make cuts elsewhere.
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Market research by definition is any orga-nized effort to gather information about mar-kets or customers. This past Thursday evening a group of folks gath-ered at the Iola area Chamber of Commerce office to do a little mar-ket research, also as known as Cash Mob.
We traveled together to the Allen County Hos-pital’s gift shop. I know it is not someplace that would instantly pop up as a place to shop, but if you haven’t been there you should stop by. It has some interest-ing merchandise. It has some great ideas for
Easter, as well as some clearance items and new merchandise.
Market research also may be conducted at the Iola Business EXPO.
There are a wide vari-ety of booths again this year. It will be a great time to find out some of the new businesses we have in the area, as well as visit with our cur-rent businesses about
the goods and services they have to offer.
They also will have many items to sell. Al-len County Animal Res-cue Facility once again will have a food booth on Friday evening and Saturday. The food is al-ways delicious.
There will be free trolley rides around Riverside Park on Sat-urday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. It is the way of the Chamber and trolley board to say thank you for all support given the trolley project through-out the year.
We are looking for-ward to visiting with all of you next weekend.
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len County Hospital for treatment of minor inju-ries suffered during his arrest. Plans also were for him to be jailed.
No charges immedi-ately were filed.
Shields is wanted in the murder of a Chanute woman, Cristy K. Wiles, who was identified as the victim in a fire at 221 N. Lafayette in Chanute,
which occurred in late January.
Michelle Voorhees, 21, has been arrested in relation to Wiles’ death, and Shields is being sought. He is described as a white male, 5-foot-7 and 150 pounds. Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to contact the Chanute Police Department, 620-431-5768.
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For three days this week I took extra long lunch hours to watch the three-part se-ries “Makers: Women Who Make America” on PBS’ website.
The series detailed the women’s movement begin-ning in the 1950s.
Those were the days airline stewardesses were terminated on their 32nd birthday; where women, de-spite their careers during World War II, were down-graded to waitresses or secretaries at war’s end. All the good jobs were returned to men home from war.
I grew up a generation behind the likes of Gloria Steinem, former editor of Ms. Magazine, and Betty Friedan, author of the “Feminine Mystique,” — talented women who were sidelined because of their sex.
Many women, freed by the technology of wash-ing machines and vacuum sweepers, felt a deep sense of malaise. It was not enough to be married with children. They, too, had tal-ents, but were stymied by a society that said their place was in the home.
Steinem’s attempts at serious journalism at the New York Times were time and again dismissed. When the paper refused to let her cover a worker’s discrimination case, she left the prestigious paper to begin her magazine with cohort Letty Pogre-gin.
The magazine took on like wildfire.
“I found whenever one person takes the initiative to stand up for an issue, it helps other people do the same,” Steinem said.
Thanks to Ms. Magazine many women read their way into feminism.
I WAS 17 when Gloria was 38. It was the heyday of the women’s movement with demonstrations over-taking New York City’s Fifth Avenue, the shedding of girdles, the burning of bras and sit-ins protesting discrimination.
When I was in high school Title IX was passed, forcing schools not only to adopt sports programs for girls, but also universi-ties to open wide their law, medical and engineering schools to females.
For much of my youth I dreamed of being an airline stewardess if only as a way to see the world. It wasn’t until my grand-mother scoffed, “they’re nothing but glorified wait-resses,” that I realized per-haps I held more potential.
By the time I left college I was prepared for a career and enjoyed working until I opted to stay home with my infant children.
It wasn’t until 10 years later, 1984, when Geraldine Ferraro was the Demo-cratic nominee for vice-president, that I started to emerge from my cocoon.
“The issue is not what America can do for wom-en, but what women can do for America,” Ferraro said.
In that one sentence Fer-raro turned the tables and by example empowered women to become real players in a man’s world.
I went back to school for an advanced degree, which increased my earn-ing power.
TODAY, my daugh-ter Louise, 30, takes for granted the inroads paved by women’s libbers. She’s never thought twice about her gender limiting her ca-reer options.
That said, women still earn 77 cents to a man’s dollar in some fields.
Reintroduced this year by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and Sen. Barbara Mikulski- D-Md., is the Paycheck Fair-ness Act which strengthens arguments against pay dis-crimination for women.
For the past eight years, the two women have brought the legislation before their predominately male peers only to face defeat year after year.
It’s a sign of progress that today’s young women can start from where previous generations paved the way, lawsuit by lawsuit, demon-stration by demonstration, legislation by legislation.
How nice it will be when one day the topic of women’s equality will be but a discus-sion for history books.
Only continued action will make that dream come true.
Women’s rights:a story still inthe making
Most Kansans would prob-ably think that the very defi-nition of a safe Senate seat is that of Pat Roberts. The three-term senator has won every election he contested and has never earned less than 60 per-cent of the vote. Roberts is also a respected voice in the Senate, with history as chair of the Intelligence Committee. Roberts will likely win again, but is facing three challeng-ing realities that might make his 2014 re-election effort his toughest yet.
First, Roberts lost his se-
nior position on the Sen-ate Agriculture Committee. Membership shifts put a more senior Republican on the pan-el, which took Roberts out of his ranking minority spot. First District congressman Tim Huelskamp was removed from the House Agriculture Committee, providing a con-venient parallel, except for the fact that Huelskamp’s removal was retaliatory while Roberts’ was procedural. Still, the sen-ator may struggle to fundraise as agricultural interests look to the new senior Republican, Mississippi’s Thad Cochrane. Robert’s age may work against him as well — if re-elected the senator would be 84 at the end of his next term.
Second, according to a recent Public Policy Poll-ing survey, Pat Roberts is the second-most anonymous senator in the country. More than 40 percent of Kansans surveyed could not identify Roberts, placing him ahead
of only first-term Illinois senator Mark Kirk. Public Policy Polling was one of the most accurate pollsters in 2012, giving the findings weight. Roberts can take sol-ace in the facts his approval
numbers were higher than disapproval, and other elect-ed officials in the state have even lower numbers. Gov-ernor Brownback’s approval stands at just 37 percent, yet he appears poised to cruise to re-election as Democrats continue to lack a candidate around whom to rally in 2014. Another Roberts advantage lies in that there is no likely Democrat to challenge him in the general election.
Roberts’ third, and tough-est, challenge is the possibil-ity of a primary opponent on the right. Club for Growth, emboldened by victories like the Kansas primary purge of moderate Republicans last year, has taken that model to Congress, soliciting names of moderate Republicans in the House to recruit competi-tors against. Unlike the 2012 primary lead-up that hap-pened quietly, the next phase of their attempted purge will be very public. The group recently launched Primary-MyCongressman.com, where voters can submit the name of their Republican member of Congress for a primary challenger. The website will doubtless serve as a public
invitation for conservative candidates to emerge across the country. An aggressive self-described conservative may decide to ride that wave into a challenge for Roberts’ seat.
According to the PPP poll, just 42 percent of Republi-cans would vote to re-nomi-nate Roberts today, against 34 percent that would prefer someone more conservative. Despite a recent rightward shift, particularly in response to the Benghazi attacks, Rob-erts remains in the shadows. A firebrand candidate who wanted to challenge him from the right might have a chance. Likely names do not compare well, though. Roberts has big leads over specific GOP al-ternatives Public Policy Poll-ing tested — a 21 point edge against Todd Tiahrt, 31 over Tim Huelskamp, and 36 points over Kris Kobach.
ROBERTS CAN TAKE sol-ace in powerful allies, having the state GOP machinery be-hind him. The motive force that helped Roberts in 2008 and conservative candidates in 2012, David Kensinger, could serve as Roberts’ most power-ful ally in 2014. The support of Kensinger would likely deter the strongest of challengers who learned the lesson not to challenge the governor and his allies, keeping a vulner-able senator’s seat safe.
Ultra conservatives eye Roberts’ seat
Pat Roberts is the second-most anonymous Senator in the country. More than 40 percent of Kansans surveyed could not identify Rob-erts, placing him ahead of only first-term Illi-nois Senator Mark Kirk.
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German technician fits right inA gaggle of folks took a jour-
ney back to a more leisurely time in Iola Tuesday evening when Don Hillbrant threw a dinner party at his elegant but cozy home on East Broadway.
Good food and music were staples, and conversation that began in the main living area and continued at half a dozen tables when dinner was served made the evening complete.
A guest all enjoyed quizzing was Roland Writsch, who is overseeing upgrade of manu-facturing machinery at Hum-boldt’s Monarch Cement Com-pany with equipment from his employer, a German company.
Lloyd Houk played relaxing music, with a few jivey pieces tossed in, on Hillbrant’s baby grand piano.
Later, as brisket and ham
disappeared from dinner plates, Betty Cunningham did several German tunes — even sang some — on an accordion her father took in for repair work he did years ago in his Neosho Falls shop. Applause exploded after each number.
Hillbrant, never one to pass on a chance to tell a story, re-galed his audience about how the World War II standard, “Lili Marlene,” came to be popular on both sides of the
fighting front. As punctuation, Houk sang a haunting rendi-tion.
I HAD opportunity to sit next to Writsch at dinner.
His next stop is Canada, and then who knows where. He is a globetrotter, having worked in many countries, including China, India and Vietnam.
He lives in a small town, “40 or 50 kilometers from Ramstein,” and owns some timbered ground, but doesn’t hunt and if he did, arranging to do so would include having to wade through several levels of bureaucracy. Gun owner-ship in Germany is an exer-cise in patience, difficult to achieve, Writsch said.
Fuel prices there are about 1.5 euros per liter, which trans-
lates to $11 a gallon at today’s exchange rate. Taxes also are a burden, compared to what we rail about.
“About half of what I earn goes to the government,” Writsch said, but in exchange the country has universal health care and higher edu-cation is much less costly than in the U.S. Students are tracked, with those demon-strating the ability going on to college after nine years of public education; others pre-pare for employment requir-ing less formal education.
Writsch was taken back by being Hillbrant’s guest of honor.
Shouldn’t have been: He observed several times “how friendly people are in Iola and Humboldt.”
AtWeek’s End
Bob Johnson
WASHINGTON (AP) — A burst of hiring last month added 236,000 U.S. jobs and reduced the unemployment rate to 7.7 per-cent from 7.9 percent in January. The robust gains suggested that the economy can strengthen further despite higher taxes and government spending cuts.
The February jobs report is-sued Friday provided encourag-ing details: The unemployment rate is at its lowest level in four years. Job growth has averaged more than 200,000 a month since November. Wages rose. And the job gains were broad-based, led by the most construction hiring in six years.
The unemployment rate, which had been stuck at 7.8 per-cent or above since September, declined mostly because more people found work.
Hiring burst in February
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Levi and Savannah Flory, LaHarpe, are the proud parents of a new baby girl, Leanna Marie Flory.
She was born Sept. 23, 2012, at Allen County Hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 1 ounce and was 17¾ inches long.
Her maternal grand-parents are John Heard and the late Corinna Heard. Her paternal grandparents are Julie Kirkwood, Lecompton,
a n d S t a n F l o r y, L a w -re n c e. Great-grand-p a r -ents are Dale Maloney and Evelyn Maloney, La-Harpe, David and Mary Kay Heard, Iola, Larry and Donna Schlappi, Manhattan, and Jean and the late Calvin Flory, Lawrence.
Birth announcementLeanna Marie Flory
Leanna
Olivia Marie Mc-Cullough and John War-ren Chambers are the proud parents of a new baby girl.
Avery was born at the Allen County Hos-pital on March 5, 2013. She weighed 6 pounds,
11 ounces and was 18½ inches long.
Her maternal grand-parents are Tina and Charles McCullough, Kansas City. Her pater-nal parents are Lonny Chamber, Gas, and Con-nie Goyette, Topeka.
Avery Raelynn Chambers
Ryan Adam Sager was born Feb. 4 in The Wood-lands, Texas. He weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce.
Ryan’s parents are Brandon and Colleen Sager.
His paternal grand-parents are Jerry Sag-er, Moran, and Becky Orr and Mike, Owasso, Okla.
Ryan’s maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brown and ma-ternal great-grandfather is Archibald Brown, The Woodlands, Texas.
His maternal great-grandmother is Ora Lea Beggs, Stark, and pater-nal great-grandparents are Ted and Norma Stahl, Iola.
Ryan Adam Sager
Historial SocietyThe Allen County His-
torical Society has re-scheduled its director’s meeting to March 14 at 7 p.m. at the Allen County
Museum.
Moran FCEMoran FCE will
meet March 22 at Kathy Ward’s home at 1:30 p.m.
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Bronson graduate receives scholarship
Jessie Camac, Bronson, has received the Alumni Legacy License Plate Scholarship at Pittsburg State University for the 2013-2014 academic semester.
Camac is majoring in physical education and spe-cial education teaching.
She is the daughter of Mike and Jeanne Camac, Bronson.
Chance of stormsSaturday, showers and
thunderstorms likely. Breezy. Highs 60 to 65. South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
Saturday night, show-ers and thunderstorms likely. Lows 40 to 45. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the evening. Chance of rain 60 percent.
Sunday, partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain. Cooler. Highs 45 to 50. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Sunday night, colder. Mostly cloudy in the eve-ning, then becoming partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.
Monday and Monday night, mostly clear. Highs in the mid 40s. Lows near 30.
Sunrise 6:41 a.m. Sunset 6:23 p.m.
TemperatureHigh yesterday 63Low last night 32High a year ago 43Low a year ago 32
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Iolan honoredIolan Max Snodgrass, second from right, formally received his “Invested in People” award from Southeast Kansas, Inc., this week at Windsor Place, where he is a resident. The award essentially is for life-time achievement, said Jim Gilpin, a Southeast Kansas, Inc. member from Iola. The award was announced earlier. From left are Bernedine Snod-grass, holding her hus-band’s certificate, Gilpin, Snodgrass and John McRae, another Iola member of the regional development group.
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HAYS — The gym went silent as Brock Ellis hit the court, writhing in pain from an apparent knee injury. It was the first in a chain of events that would ultimately lead to an emotional loss for the Crest High Lancers.
The Lancers lost their Class IA Division I state tournament opener to the Sharon Springs Wildcats Thursday, 72-62, after a hard-fought, controversial and emotional four quarters.
“We didn’t catch a single break today, in shots, calls or otherwise,” head coach Travis Hermreck said.
With four minutes left in the first half, Ellis made a pass and collapsed to the floor. He held his knee on the ground for several minutes, limping off of the court with the help of trainers. By that point, the Wildcats were in the double bonus and the Lancers’ lead-ing scorer, Kyle Hammond, already had four fouls.
Despite the rough first half, the Lancers (17-7) held close to a 41-34 deficit at intermission.
Sharon Springs’ Eli Kuhl-man hit first to open the sec-ond half, but Jordan Morton quickly responded with a 3-pointer. Hammond hit on a driving floater to the basket, followed by another field goal from Jesse Boone.
Cayden Daily hit a 3-pointer for Sharon Springs, followed by another 3-pointer from his teammate Nate Klinge. The Wildcats had edged their lead to 53-46 with just over one minute left in the quarter.
Then Hammond took over.He had two driving baskets
to end the third, bringing the Lancers to within four.
He hit two more driving baskets to start the fourth, ty-ing the game at 54-all.
Then things started to go south. The quick whistles from the referees had already put the Crest players in foul trouble from the start. Boone was the first victim, fouling out with more than six min-utes to play.
Morton hit a long 3-pointer for the Lancers to make the score 58-57 Wildcats.
Kuhlman, red-hot through-out the contest from 3-point range, hit from outside. Ham-
mond then drove to the basket and was called for an offensive foul, to the dismay of Crest fans.
He walked off of the court, having fouled out at the 3:53
mark, as the Lancer fans howled in protest.
Morton was the last Lancer to feel the sting of fouls in the contest; he was called for a technical foul with just under
three minutes to play in the game, after being whistled for a blocking foul. Kuhlman hit the first two foul shots for the Wildcats, and Daily went 1 for 2.
The score was 66-57 Wild-cats with 2:23 left.
Hunter Frazell drained a 3-pointer for the Lancers to pull them within four. Morton attempted a steal at mid-court and was called for a foul.
He dribbled down the court and put the ball in the basket needlessly, and the referee wasn’t pleased — he called him once again for a techni-cal. The Lancers had lost their fourth starter.
“I want to go on the record by saying that both of the technical calls on Jordan Mor-ton were bogus,” Hermreck said.
Austin Green was the last starter to lead the substitute players on the court. Kuhlman hit the foul shots for the Wild-cats to make the score 70-62. Clay Schemm hit once more for Sharon Springs to put the game out of reach.
While emotional, Hermreck could not have been a prouder coach.
“I feel like we won a cham-pionship tonight; the guys didn’t roll over once,” he said. “No matter what happens for the rest of the tournament, no other coach will be prouder of their team than I am of my guys right now.”
He said it was a tough loss
Lancer playoff run ends with 72-62 loss
Register/Steven SchwartzCrest High’s Kyle Hammond, center, puts up a shot against Sharon Springs defenders Clay Schemm (5) and Eli Kuhlman (33) in the Lancers’ 72-62 defeat Thursday. The loss ends Crest’s season at the Class 1A, Division II state playoffs.
“I feel like we won a championship tonight; the guys didn’t roll over once. No matter what happens for the rest of the tournament, no other coach will be prouder of their team than I am of my guys right now.”
HUTCHINSON — Hum-boldt High’s magic carpet ride has the Cubs on the brink of history.
After a series of heart-stop-ping victories that have filled Humboldt’s postseason, the Cubs took care of business much earlier Friday night against Silver Lake.
A 16-3 run spanning the third quarter did the trick, propelling Humboldt to a 47-35 win in the Class 3A state semi-finals.
The victory puts the un-beaten Cubs (25-0) in tonight’s state title game against their toughest foe yet — two-time defending state champion Scott City. Scott City defeated Nemaha Valley 50-38 in their matchup.
Tipoff is at 6:15 at the Hutchinson Sports Arena.
While Humboldt is well aware of Scott City’s prow-ess — “They’re one of the top five teams in the state in any class,” Humboldt coach Da-vid Taylor said — the Cubs showed again they have some fight of their own, particular-ly on the defensive end.
The Cubs limited Silver Lake to a paltry 20 percent from the field, including 0 of 10 from 3-point range..
Meanwhile, Humboldt found its offensive rhythm early on in the third period.
“We hit some shots, but to give you specific instances, I can’t,” Taylor joked. “I was too worried about when we were going to turn the ball over.”
Humboldt’s Nathan Whit-
comb sandwiched baskets around a Trey Johnson 3-pointer to start the second half, turning an 18-17 lead to a 25-17 advantage.
Silver Lake’s Tyler Brown scored the Eagles’ first, and only, basket of the quarter to stem the run before Humboldt turned on the jets again.
Hunter Murrow’s putback put the Cubs up 29-20. John-son hit another 3-pointer to
push the lead to 12, then Tan-ner McNutt’s assist led to an-other Murrow bucket to put the Cubs on top 34-20 to end the quarter.
The game may have gotten out of hand, but the Cubs com-mitted 16 turnovers, 10 in the
Cubs one win away from historyHumboldtto play for Class 3Astate title
Register/Richard LukenAbove, Humboldt High’s Trey Johnson, right, dribbles against Silver Lake defender Aaron Seele Friday in the Class 3A state semifinal matchup between the two schools. Johnson scored 11 points in the Cubs’ 47-35 win. At right, Humboldt’s Noah Thornbrugh puts up a shot Thursday over the defense of Salina-Sacred Heart’s Tony Chavez. The Cubs won that one, too, and will play for a state championship tonight against Scott City.
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Register/Steven SchwartzAt left, Crest High fans show off large post-ers of Lancer coaches Travis Hermreck, from left, Craig Frazell and senior Jessee Boone at Thursday’s Class 1A, Division II state opener. Above, Crest fans look on with con-cern as senior Brock Ellis is tended to on the court because of a knee injury. Ellis was one of four Lancer starters who ended the game on the sidelines (the rest fouled out) in Crest’s 72-62 loss to Sharon Springs, ending the Lancers’ season.
GREG BEACHAMAP Sports Writer
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A furious Denny Ham-lin said he won’t pay the $25,000 fine leveled on him by NASCAR on
Thursday after his criti-cism of the Gen-6 race car.
The fine also left many of his fellow driv-ers wondering what they can say about their new
cars without incurring NASCAR’s wrath.
Hamlin couldn’t un-derstand why he was at the center of NASCAR’s latest tempest over its drivers’ media com-ments. He compared the
new race car unfavor-ably to last year’s car, along with lamenting the overall quality of racing last week in Phoenix.
Although Hamlin’s brief comments were barely noticed last week-
end, NASCAR — clearly concerned about the Gen-6 car’s public per-ception — leveled a sig-nificant fine against him before Thursday’s open test of the new car at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
“Ultimately, I’m not OK with it,” Hamlin said outside his hauler after the morning test. “This is the most upset and an-gry I’ve been in a really, really long time about anything that relates to NASCAR.”
He reiterated his posi-tion later Thursday in a lengthy Twitter post and said he’ll appeal the fine.
“I believe I was severe-ly disrespected by NAS-CAR by getting fined,” he tweeted. “I believe that the simple fact of us not even having a con-versation about this is-sue before I was hit with a fine has something to say about our relation-ship. What I said was 1 sentence taken com-pletely out of context.
Hamlin actually ran well last Sunday, the sec-ond race for NASCAR’s
new Gen-6 race car in Phoenix, finishing third in a fairly dull race that featured no passes for the lead in the final 189 laps of Carl Edwards’ victory.
But when Hamlin was asked on pit road how he liked the car, he said: “I don’t want to be the pessimist, but it did not race as good as our gen-eration five cars. This is more like what the gen-eration five was at the beginning.”
NASCAR deemed Hamlin’s remarks as detrimental to stock car racing, saying that while drivers get “ample leeway in voicing their opinions when it comes to a wide range of as-pects about the sport, the sanctioning body will not tolerate publicly made comments by its drivers that denigrate the racing product.”
That didn’t help Ham-lin’s bewilderment at his fine in a sport known for frank talk about every aspect of competition.
NASCAR driver fined — for criticizing his car
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Humboldt
second half after Silver Lake deployed a full-court press.
That’s when Sil-ver Lake went on a 7-0 run, capped by Evan Burdick’s jumper with just under 6 minutes left in the game.
The Cubs kept their poise, and ran their mo-tion offense to perfec-tion, leading to a wide open McNutt beneath the basket. He scored, was fouled, and hit the free throw to re-estab-lish a 37-27 lead with 5:22 remaining.
It was the Cubs’ only field goal of the fourth quarter; it was the only one they needed.
Humboldt ended the game on the free throw line. The Cubs missed six charities in a row at one point, but still man-aged to hit 10 of 21 in the period.
Silver Lake got no closer than eight points down the stretch.
“We just defended,” Taylor said. “The kids were really prepared and focused. They ran a couple of sets, and we were able to jump all over it.”
THE FIRST half was a bit tighter, as both teams struggled to find
their offensive rhythm. Humboldt trailed only once, 17-16, before Mur-row scored with 1:41 left
in the second quarter to give the Cubs an 18-17 lead.
Silver Lake’s Trenton Smith scored 15 of the Eagles’ 17 points before halftime, but only seven after intermission.
“We couldn’t stop the guy inside,” Humboldt senior Noah Thorn-brugh said. “We changed our defensive scheme in the second half, and sure enough, we got it to be our game.”
“It’s been a long time, four years,” Thornbrugh continued. “My fresh-man year we came in and set a goal, and said by the time we leave,
we’ll win a state champi-onship.”
Thornbrugh is quite familiar with Scott City.
“I played with three of their players in a sum-mer league. I know what they’re capable of. I’m sure Coach has some defensive schemes. We just have to take of our defense, and our offense will come to us.”
Whitcomb led the way with 15 points, seven re-bounds and four steals, while Johnson followed with 11 points. Thorn-brugh had seven points to go with 14 rebounds. Johnson also dished out three assists.
FRIDAY’S GAME was tame in comparison to Thursday’s quarterfinal, a heart-stopping 41-37 win over Salina-Sacred Heart.
Humboldt twice over-came five-point deficits in the second half, tak-ing the lead for good on Thornbrugh’s jumper with 1:29 left in the game. Johnson followed with two free throws.
Sacred Heart had one last shot at a tie, but Sacred Heart’s Brooks Brown missed a 3-point-er in the final five sec-onds and Humboldt up 40-37.
The Cubs limited Sacred Heart to 26 per-cent shooting from the field and no 3-pointers — sound familiar? — al-though the Knights out-rebounded Humboldt 45 to 33 and corralled 22 offensive boards, leading to several second chanc-es.
Thornbrugh led Hum-boldt with 15 points, nine rebounds and five blocks. Whitcomb followed with 10 points, nine rebounds, four steals and three as-sists. McNutt, whose four points were 11 be-low his season average, still led the Cubs with four assists.
Tony Chavez scored 12 to lead Sacred Heart. Austin Palen scored sev-en.
“The scary thing for us, is we still haven’t played our best basket-ball yet,” Thornbrugh said. “We know we have this opportunity. We’ll be ready to go. We’ll come out amped up. We just have to execute.”
FridaySilver Lake (8-9-3-15—35)Humboldt (12-6-16-13—47)Silver Lake (FG-FT-F-TP):
Boyd 0-0-4-0, Burdick 1-0-2-2, Vega 0-0-2-0, Perry 0-0-3-0, Pfannenstiel 1-1-4-3, Smith 6-12-5-24, Brown 2-2-3-6. TO-TALS: 10-15-23-35.
Register/Richard LukenAbove, Humboldt High’s Nathan Whitcomb has been a stalwart for Humboldt’ High’s Cubs, scoring a combined 25 points in the Cubs’ two wins at the state tournament. Below is Cub head coach David Taylor. Humboldt will face Scott City at 6:15 tonight for the Class 3A state championship.
]NEW YORK (AP) — The Big East is going back to its roots — and punting football.
The football and bas-ketball schools in the ever-changing confer-ence announced Friday that they have agreed to a settlement that will allow the two sides to go their own ways on July 1.
Commissioner Mike Aresco told The Asso-ciated Press the seven Catholic schools that are leaving to form a basketball-centric con-ference will get the Big East name, along with the opportunity to play their league tournament in Madison Square Gar-
den.The football members,
most of which are new-comers to a conference that has been ravaged by realignment, get a huge cash haul but will have to find a new name for their league.
“It’s been an ardu-ous four months but we got to the right place,” Aresco said in a phone interview. “I think both conferences have good futures.”
Aresco, who will re-main commissioner of the football league, would not disclose the financial part of the set-tlement.
A person familiar with the negotiations told the AP earlier this week that the football schools will receive about $100 million from a $110 million stash the conference had built up over the last two and a half years through exit and entry fees as well as NCAA men’s basket-ball tournament funds.
Aresco said the foot-ball schools have not chosen a conference name and there are no favorites yet. “We can get on with reinventing ourselves and re-estab-lishing our brand,” he said.
He also said they have not determined how the money from the separa-tion agreement will be split among the mem-bers.
The person familiar with the negotiations said the bulk of the mon-ey will go to holdover members Cincinnati, Connecticut and South
Florida.The divorce agree-
ment with the basket-ball members, and the football schools’ new TV deal with ESPN, still must be ratified by the school presidents. Aresco said that should come soon and without glitches.
Next up on the agenda for the football schools, Aresco said, is to find a 12th member and ven-ues for future basketball tournaments.
The settlement will bring the Big East back to its origins. When it was formed in 1979, it banded together a group of mostly small, private schools located in and around big Northeast cities.
The seven schools breaking away from the football schools include some of the Big East’s founding members and most recognizable teams: Georgetown, St. John’s, Providence, Seton Hall, Villanova, Marquette and DePaul. They are expected to sign a tele-vision rights deal with Fox, add at least two more schools and have the new league up-and-running by July.
“We are grateful to Commissioner Mike Aresco for spearheading an agreement that truly represents the best path forward for each of our great institutions and the thousands of stu-dent-athletes who com-pete for our schools an-nually,” the presidents of the seven basketball schools said in a joint statement.
Big East announces split
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JUNIOR EARNHARDTPoints racer
JIMMIE JOHNSON
First, then second . . .
third this week?
JUAN PABLO MONTOYA
In the mix early, and in a
good way
BRAD KESELOWSKISurprisingly, no championship
hangover
MATT KENSETHHe’s more of
a Reno guy, we’re guessing
TONY STEWARTStrangely quiet
about Goodyear, Danica & Ryan
CLINT BOWYERFrom Emporia,
Kan., same hometown as
QB Jim Everett
CARL EDWARDSBackfl ipping must be like riding a bike
Ken Willis has been covering NASCAR for The Daytona Beach News-Journal for 27 years. Reach him at [email protected]
QUESTIONS & ATTITUDE Compelling questions ...
and maybe a few actual answers
FEUD OF THE WEEK
SPRINT CUP: Kobalt Tools 400SITE: Las VegasSCHEDULE: Friday, practice (Speed, 3 p.m.), qualifying (Speed, 6:30 p.m.). Saturday, practice (Speed, 2:30 p.m.) Sunday, race (Fox, coverage begins at 2:30 p.m., green fl ag at 3:15 p.m.)TRACK: Las Vegas Motor Speedway (1.5-mile oval) RACE DISTANCE: 267 laps, 400.5 miles
NATIONWIDE: Sam’s Town 300SITE: Las VegasSCHEDULE: Saturday, race (ESPN2, 4 p.m.)4 Las Vegas Motor Speedway (1.5-mile oval) RACE DISTANCE: 200 laps, 300 miles
WHAT’S ON TAP?
HOT TOPICS: 3 ISSUES GENERATING A BUZZ
Godwin Kelly is the Daytona Beach News-Journal’s motor-sports editor and has covered NASCAR for 30 years. Reach
WINNER: Greg Biffl eREST OF THE TOP FIVE: Kyle Busch, Kasey Kahne, Brad Keselowski, Jimmie JohnsonDARK HORSE: Kurt BuschBIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Carl EdwardsFIRST ONE OUT: Joe Nemechek
The day before Sunday’s Subway Fresh Fit 500k at Phoenix International Raceway, Dale Earnhardt Jr. covered a wide range of topics with the media. He talked about everything from going on a diet to the Daytona 500 and his fi nish in NASCAR’s Super Bowl.
Why did you start drinking carrot juice?
“A buddy of mine was talking about this detox diet, it’s like a 15-day deal and for the fi rst eight days, you drink prune juice and then the last half of it you drink carrot juice. … I’m not drinking it all the time, but just during that little detox thing. It was pretty tough, too. I was surprised I was able to make it. It was like just fi sh, chicken and raw, steamed vegetables and then there was like two days where you just ate vegetables and fruit. That was pretty tough for me to not have any meat. I think the older you get the more you have to do to kind of maintain a healthy weight. That’s really what it’s about for me is just trying to maintain my weight, so I don’t
have to keep getting my driver suits altered throughout the season. Last year, I was like, ‘Man, they’re shrinking, something is wrong with the washer.’ This offseason. I lost a lot of weight, lost about 15 or 20 pounds and just trying to do a better job of managing my calories and stuff like that.”
Does that mean no more Hellmann’s (mayonnaise) for you?
“Well, you have to mix it in there every once in a while. It’s part of the recipes. Like I said, I’m not really a health freak or anything, but I am counting calories, I will say that.”
What did you take away from the Daytona 500?
“We got off to a good start, just like we did last year. I really think that if you put yourself in a hole early, no matter how good of a team you are, you’re going to be one of those guys that are sitting there at Richmond or the last couple races before the Chase really digging and worried about your opportunities and position and worried
about the guys that you have to beat.”Do you think it is important for NASCAR to come away from the Daytona Nationwide wreck stronger for fans?
“Absolutely, and I think NASCAR is actively seeking solutions and alternatives to always make the sport safer, especially, we’ve done so much with the physical car itself. There’s always opportunities and other areas where we can become a safer sport. I’m sure that, unfortunately, incidents like that will draw attention, but in the long term, a lot of positive things will come out of it. That’s what I’m hoping anyways that we’re better off down the road because of what we experienced, and it was a terrible experience for everyone that went through it. It was diffi cult to watch and diffi cult to be a witness to, but I’m glad that no one was killed or anything like that. That was my biggest fear was that we had lost a life or maybe multiple lives, and that was going to be really diffi cult. It would have been really diffi cult to race the next day.”
Junior admits he’s counting calories2013 SPRINT CUP
POINTS STANDINGS(after Phoenix, race 2 of 36)
Rank Driver Points 1 Johnson 902 Earnhardt Jr. 822 Keselowski 823 Hamlin 723 Bowyer 724 Biffl e 665 Martin 656 Gordon 606 Stenhouse Jr. 606 Almirola 607 Edwards 598 Ambrose 529 Yeley 5010 Labonte 4911 Burton 4811 Reutimann 4811 Menard 4812 Kenseth 4613 Mears 4514 Newman 4414 Logano 4415 Patrick 4216 Stewart 3917 Montoya 3817 Blaney 38
WEEKLY DRIVER RANKINGS — BASED ON BEHAVIOR AND PERFORMANCE
Carl Edwards has the backfl ip. What’s your
signature move?GODSPEAK: I would go with the Harlem Shake or attempt the jump known in ballet as pas assemblè.KEN’S CALL: Gotta go with the Curly Shuffl e — until the knees go bad. Then, it’s smiles, handshakes and, like Bobby Allison’s best days, a 24-ounce Miller High Life.
Two races in — notice any trends for 2013?
GODSPEAK: Jimmie Johnson’s average fi nish is 1.5; Carl Edwards did a victory fl ip; Danica crashed out. Nothing outta the ordinary here.KEN’S CALL: Strangely enough, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. seems to be getting overshadowed in the “Rookie of the Year” chatter.
Did Denny Hamlin break the code?
Even if you never saw the movie “Fight Club,” you still probably heard the famous line regarding the fi rst rule of Fight Club: “You do not talk about Fight Club.” The prevailing policy regarding NASCAR and its new Generation-6 car seems to be that you do not speak ill of Gen-6. Denny Hamlin, perhaps in a weak moment, broke ranks – and in unspeakable fashion.
What did he say that was so horrible?
He actually compared Gen-6 to Gen-5. The early days of Gen-5, to be specifi c. Gulp! As Godwin Kelly notes in “Hot Topics” next door, Hamlin might need a reminder about the “one big happy family” rule. Sure, it’s diffi cult – so far – to get the new cars to pass each other, and single-fi le racing seems to be the way to go (again, “so far”), but you’re not supposed to SAY it.
Then what do you say instead?
A million alternatives are out there. Even Tony Stewart, never known to be shy about his honest feelings, found a nice way to describe the Gen-6 cars after racing them on a “normal” track in Phoenix: “It will change. But I think for the fi rst race, it is pretty sporty, so far I think.” Yes, that was two “I thinks.” Translation: Patience isn’t always easy, but I think we’ll fi gure it out. Meanwhile, the cars look pretty good – I think.
AP/JOHN RAOUX Denny, Denny, Denny. See how long you can remain tight-lipped.
AP/ROSS D. FRANKLIN Don’t worry, his backfl ip muscles were well-rested.
Patrick RaganDanica Patrick vs. David Ragan: Ragan was minding his own business when Patrick’s right-front tire blew, she hit the wall and took Ragan with her. Godwin Kelly gives his take: “This wasn’t like the Gordon-Bowyer fl are-up of 2012. Nothing to see here, folks. Keep moving along.”
GODWIN’S LAS VEGAS PICKS
PHOENIX REWIND
Getty Images/SAM GREENWOOD As you suspected, Junior was getting too big for his “britches.”
How did Carl Edwards win Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway? With a little help from his new Ford friend, 2012 Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski.
On the last restart with two laps to go, Keselowski gave Edwards a big shove past Jimmie Johnson, who was lined up on the outside of Edwards.
In days gone by, when Edwards and Keselowski made contact, it would send one of their race cars sailing into the wall. As Edwards said after the race: “We all know that Brad and I have not had the best history. It was pretty bad at one point.”
A checkered fl ag heals all wounds, and you can thank a grandson of Henry Ford for helping mend the fence between fi erce competitors.
“Jim Farley and Edsel Ford came to that media day at the Hall of Fame just to sit us in a room and say: ‘Look, we want to win as a team. We want to do what we can to help one another,’ and that was very cool of Brad to push us,” Edwards said.
And who is Jim Farley, you ask? He is Ford’s executive vice president of global marketing, sales and service. So, yes, “Win on Sunday, sell on Monday” is back in a big way.
Talkin’ ‘bout my generation
Denny Hamlin, the guy who made the big, hold-your-breath pass for a third-place fi nish at Phoenix, said the Generation-6 cars have some catching up to do with the old Gen-5 models. He was not happy with his mount.
“I don’t want to be the pessimist, but it did not race as good as our Generation-5 cars,” Hamlin said of his No. 11 Toyota. “This is more like what the Generation-5 was at the beginning. The teams hadn’t fi gured out how to get the aero balance right. Right now, you just run single fi le, and you
cannot get around the guy in front of you.”The fi rst announcement you will hear this week in the
Las Vegas Motor Speedway garage area will be, “Denny Hamlin, please report to the NASCAR hauler.”
Petty not a believer
On a Sunday pre-race show, former Cup Series driver Kyle Petty shared his opinion on Danica Patrick.
“No, I don’t believe the hype,” he said. “I’m going to drop some of ‘The King’s’ wisdom on
you: Some drivers can go fast and some drivers can race, but not all fast drivers
can race. We know she can go fast, but she’s got to show me she can race.”
‘The King’ is Kyle’s father, Richard Petty. Some think Patrick will someday pass Petty on the all-time wins list. Oh, not Richard, but
Kyle, who had eight victories behind the wheel.
When push comes to shove
DON’T BE SURPRISED IF: Biffl e comes out of nowhere and dominates from start to fi nish. He loves these aerodynamic tracks.
AP/ROSS D. FRANKLIN The fi st pump, the chompers, the fl ag . . . all signs of a 70-race skid ending.
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