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CONCORDIA
VOL. CX NO. 86 (USPS 127-880)
CONCORDIA, KANSAS 66901
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Bill to keep
government
open passed
by Senate
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Water bills mailed
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bills. Anyone who has not received a bill
should call City Hall. Bills are due Oct. 6.
Delinquent accounts will be disconnected
on Oct. 13 if not paid by 8 a.m.
Across Kansas
Parole revoked for
convicted killer
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Parole has been
revoked for one of two men convicted in the
1980 Topeka killings of a Kansas woman
and her young son.
Kansas Department of Corrections
spokesman Adam Pfannenstiel said Tuesday that the Kansas Prisoner Review
Board revoked Tony Hobbs’ parole after
concluding he violated its conditions when
he possessed and tested positive for
methamphetamines. The Topeka CapitalJournal reports that Hobbs wasn’t
charged with any new law violations.
Hobbs was convicted of first-degree
murder and second-degree murder in the
strangulation and stabbing death of 28year-old Karen Crook and the drowning
death of her 4-year-old son, Brandon
Cook. Hobbs told police he used a pillow to
try to smother Crook’s 7-year-old son, but
the boy survived.
Board members have decided not to
consider parole for Hobbs until March
2017.
Officer’s gesture brings
homeless man to tears
ROELAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Touched
by the plight of a homeless man forced to
walk several hours a day to his job, a
Kansas police officer stepped up with a
gesture that brought the man to tears.
Roeland Park officer Zack Stamper
says he was just doing his job last week
when he gave Samuel Meixueiro a bicycle
to ride to and from the man’s work as a
liquor store cashier. Stamper threw in a
duffel bag to replace Meixuero’s suitcase,
which had a broken zipper.
The kindness drew tears from Meixueiro, who says he’s been staying in a
church while trying to save money for an
apartment.
Stamper’s gesture came after he was
dispatched to investigate a report of a
suspicious person in a park. That person
turned out to be Meixueiro, who
explained to Stamper his situation —
and the foot-pounding treks to the job
Meixueiro said he couldn’t afford to lose.
So Stamper drove the man to work
that day. The officer retrieved a duffel
bag from his basement and a bicycle
from the department’s assortment of
surrendered or abandoned ones. Stamper spiffed up the bike and inflated its
tires, ultimately surprising Meixueiro
with the cycle and the duffel bag at his
workplace.
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Talking things over
With coach Rio Brown standing in the middle of the huddle, the Concordia High School volleyball team talks things over during a timeout in a match against Abilene Tuesday night.
(Blade photo by Jay Lowell)
CCCC looking at complete
restructure of retention area
By Hailey Keller
Blade Staff Writer
During the Tuesday evening Cloud
County Community College Board of
Trustees meeting, Danette Toone, president of the college, announced that she will
be taking a leave of absence for the month
of October.
Bill Backlin, Vice President of Academic
Affairs, will serve as the interim-president
while Toone is absent, and Brenda Edleston, Associate Vice President of Geary
County Campus, will serve as the interimVice President of Academic Affairs on
CCCC’s campus.
Both Backlin and Edleston have said
that they will continue business as usual.
Business as usual includes student
enrollment.
Kim Reynolds, the Foundation director,
reported that, according to a 20-day number report, the college is down 214 students or 9.38 percent.
Reynolds also reported that credit hours
are down 2,323.5 or 11.77 percent.
The Foundation director said that CCCC
will be looking at a complete restructure of
the retention area.
“We will be taking a proactive approach
on retention instead of a reactive
approach.”
In the past, Reynolds said that the community college has focused solely on students at a high risk for leaving the
institution because of academic probation
and other troubling reasons.
Now, the college will be taking a proactive approach. They will look at all students
across the board in order to see what students need, whether they are transferring
to another institution, or the student is
focusing on completing an applied science
degree, which they can use to enter the
workforce right away.
“It is less expensive and a lot easier to
retain students than trying to go out and
recruit students. We need to look at a
cross-section of our students. We need to
identify who our students are and develop
and implement the services to meet their
needs,” Reynolds said.
In order to help with the drop in student
head count, as well as to address the
decrease in credit hours, the admissions
recruitment team has been “out on the
road and hitting high schools,” Reynolds
said.
October 8, is Sophomore Career Day,
which will bring 300 high school students
from across the county and some from outside the county.
Although enrollment may be down,
things are looking up in several departments, including the financial aid, business and advising offices.
According to Reynolds, the U.S. Department of Education has a three-year cohort
default rate of 30 percent that community
colleges must stay under in order to continue receiving student financial aid.
Under the direction of Suzi Knoettgen,
the Financial Aid Director, the college’s
default rate has seen a decrease from 22.8
percent to 17.9 percent.
Amy Lange, the Vice President of Administrative Services, reported that the business and advising offices have also been
working hard to reduce college costs.
“The dollar amount that we send to collections every year for students who were
unable to pay their bills decreased by 30
percent this year compared to last year,”
Lange said. “This tells us that the new procedures for our student’s payment system
and student billing system is working.”
The final dispersement of the Ernest G.
and Ellen E. Briggs Foundation scholarship has been given to CCCC in the amount
of $525,000. This brings the total donated
amount from the Briggs fund to $3.675
million, added to the 1.9 million previously
donated by the fund, for a grand total of
$5.575 million to the Foundation, which
almost doubles CCCC’s Foundation
money, according to Reynolds.
Cloud County Community College continues to try and improve their campus
with funds available, as well as apply for
grants in order to fully finance future ideas.
(see CCCC on page 7)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A temporary funding measure aiming to keep the government open past a midnight deadline sailed
through the Senate on Wednesday and was
expected to make its way shortly through a
divided House and on to President Barack
Obama.
The 78-20 Senate tally represented a
vote of confidence for an approach engineered by top GOP leaders determined to
avoid a government shutdown.
That approach, favored by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and
House Speaker John Boehner, has angered
tea party lawmakers who wanted to use the
must-pass measure to punish Planned Parenthood for its practices involving the supply of tissue from aborted fetuses for
scientific research.
Tea party anger directed at Boehner over
the Planned Parenthood issue helped prod
the Ohio Republican last week to announce
he will resign at the end of October. His
decision — and other House leadership
races — have highlighted divisions between
more pragmatic Republicans and a tea
party wing that is increasingly dominant,
especially in the rough-and-tumble House.
The House was slated to approve the
measure Wednesday afternoon, with GOP
leaders counting on Democratic votes to
balance opposition from tea party supporters of “defunding” Planned Parenthood.
The bill would prevent a repeat of the
partial federal shutdown of two years ago
and finance the government through Dec.
11, which will provide 10 weeks of time to
negotiate a more wide-ranging budget deal
for the rest of fiscal 2016, which ends on
Sept. 30, 2016.
Senate Majority Leader McConnell said
Tuesday that he and Boehner spoke with
Obama recently and that he expects budget talks to get underway soon.
At issue are efforts to increase the operating budgets for both the Pentagon and
domestic agencies still operating under
automatic curbs that would effectively
freeze their spending at current levels.
Republicans are leading the drive to boost
defense while Obama is demanding equal
relief for domestic programs.
The conversation among McConnell,
Boehner and Obama took place earlier this
month — before Boehner announced he
was stepping down. Many of the conservative GOP lawmakers who helped bring
Boehner down want to preserve stringent
“caps” on the spending bills Congress passes every year. But Senate Republicans are
generally more eager to rework the 2011
budget deal that put them in place.
Boehner’s
surprise
resignation
announcement on Friday followed unrest
by archconservatives in his conference who
wanted to use the pending stopgap spending bill to try to force Democrats and
Obama to take federal funding away from
Planned Parenthood.
Instead, Boehner and McConnell opted
for the pragmatic route — a bipartisan
measure that steers clear of the furor over
Planned Parenthood and avoids the risk of
a partial government shutdown — over the
opposition of the most hardline conservative Republicans.
Court refuses to rehear abortion threat case
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday
refused to reconsider its earlier
ruling that a Kansas abortion
opponent must stand trial over
a letter she sent to a Wichita
physician saying someone
might place an explosive under
the doctor’s car.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals rejected a petition
from anti-abortion activist
Angel Dillard asking the threejudge panel that made the ruling or the full court to rehear
her civil case. The court noted
in its brief order that the petition had been sent to all active
judges of the appeals court and
none requested that the full
court be polled on the request.
A three-judge appeals court
panel in July overturned a federal judge’s summary judg-
ment in Kansas that the letter
was constitutionally protected
speech. At the time, the split
panel said the decision about
whether the letter constituted a
“true threat” should be left for a
jury to decide. It also rejected
Dillard’s argument that the
government violated her free
speech rights by suing her.
The latest developments in
the case stem from a civil lawsuit that the U.S. Department
of Justice filed against Dillard
under the Freedom of Access to
Clinic Entrances Act, a federal
law aimed at protecting access
to abortion services.
“We look forward to trial,”
U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom
said in an emailed statement.
Dillard’s attorney, Theresa
Sidebotham, said Tuesday they
had just received the appeals
court ruling and hadn’t decided
whether to appeal to the U.S.
Supreme Court. However, she
said the record is “very strong”
that her client did not make a
true threat and they are confident a jury will find in her
favor.
The Justice Department
sued Dillard in 2011 for sending the letter to Dr. Mila Means,
who had been training to offer
abortions. At the time, no doctor was performing abortions in
Wichita in the wake of the 2009
slaying of Dr. George Tiller by
an anti-abortion zealot.
In a 2-1 ruling in July, the
appeals panel said a jury could
reasonably find that the letter
conveyed a true threat of violence.
“The context in this case
includes Wichita’s past history
of violence against abortion
providers, the culmination of
this violence in Dr. Tiller’s murder less than two years before
Defendant mailed her letter,
Defendant’s publicized friendship with Dr. Tiller’s killer, and
her reported admiration of his
convictions,” the court panel
wrote in its decision.
Dillard wrote in her 2011 letter that thousands of people
from across the nation were
scrutinizing Means’ background and would know her
“habits and routines.”
“They know where you shop,
who your friends are, what you
drive, where you live,” the letter
said. “You will be checking
under your car every day —
because maybe today is the day
someone places an explosive
under it.”
OPINION
Trivial History of Concordia and Environs
By Clarence Paulsen
a broken and bloody leg.
Whether my unsolicited legal advice to Mr. Marshall to
get rid of that trap was ever
followed, I do not know. The
burglar, incidentally, was
never caught.
••••
In the fall of 1914, W.
Henry Johnson and his
wife, Mary L. Johnson, lived
on a farm just north of the
county line in Cloud County, Kansas, about halfway
between Glasco and Miltonvale. They had been married to each other more than
30 years, and they had two
children. The older child, a
daughter, had married and
left home. The son, Ollie J.
Johnson, was 20 years old
and still lived at home. Under the law as it was in 1914
Ollie was a minor.
From newspaper accounts it seems that the father and husband, W. Henry, was generally known by
the nickname “Skunk.” He
felt that his position as head
of the Johnson house was
growing increasingly insecure. To reestablish his position he resorted to violence
against his wife and son in
July, and then again on November 12 and 13, 1914. On
the latter date, Ollie'd had
enough, and he proceeded
to paddywhack poor old
Skunk pretty well.
Skunk's black eyes and
loose teeth didn't feel good,
but a worse hurt was the
knowledge that his position
as head of the house had
gone awry. He hitched up
old Dobbin, went to Miltonvale, and there charged Ollie with assault and battery.
The local constable rounded
up Ollie and brought him before the justice of the peace,
who found Ollie guilty and
fined him “ten bones and the
trimmins.” ($10 and costs.)
Skunk's malaise was
somewhat alleviated as he
drove home. When he arrived at home, however, his
wife immediately proceeded
to dethrone him completely,
establish herself as the real
head of the Johnson household, and relegate poor
Skunk to the bottom of the
family peckin order. In other
words, Mary beat him up
again.
Back to Miltonvale went
Skunk, intending to have
his wife arrested for assaulting and battering him. But
he reckoned not with Mary's
fury. She got to the justice of
the peace ahead of Skunk–
and both of them got arrested. The citizens of Miltonvale promptly chose up sides
and hired the local lodge
hall so that everyone could
enjoy the trial in solid comfort. County attorney M.V.
B. Van De Mark journeyed
to Miltonvale to prosecute
the case. After a loud and
furious trial, the justice of
the peace found both Skunk
and Mary guilty, and fined
each of them $10 and costs.
That was the last straw.
Both Skunk and Mary announced that they'd had
it, and that they would get
a divorce. One big trouble
was that Mary refused the
dethroned Skunk the use of
the family's team of horses
for his trip to Concordia.
Skunk had to start in the
evening in order to walk all
night and be in Concordia
the next day. Mary and Ollie took the horses, and got
there ahead of Skunk.
On November 17, 1914,
Mary sued Skunk for divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty. After a while,
tempers had cooled enough
so that the parties could and
did agree upon a division of
their property. In those days
each Kansas county had a
divorce proctor whose job it
was to investigate each case
and tell the judge whether or
not he thought a divorce was
called for. It was felt that
divorces were a bad thing–to
be discouraged. The county
attorney was, ex-officio, the
divorce proctor for Cloud
County. He had just prosecuted both Skunk and Mary
for fighting. He had no trouble telling the judge that he
believed a divorce would be
a good thing under the circumstances.
Judge John C. Hogin
granted a divorce and approved the property settle-
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Russia jets target
IS group in Syria
MOSCOW (AP) – Russian
military jets carried out airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria on
Wednesday for the first time,
the defense ministry said.
The airstrikes targeted IS
positions, vehicles and warehouses that Russia believes
belong to IS militants, ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told Russian news
agencies.
Russia’s upper chamber of parliament earlier on
Wednesday gave the green
light to President Vladimir Putin’s request to send Russian
troops to Syria.
Putin said the Russian air
force will be supporting the
Syrian army in its offensive
operations.
Russia is “not going to
plunge into this conflict headon,” Putin said, and Moscow
will help Syrian President
Bashar Assad’s army as long
as their offensive operation
lasts.
••••
Personal diaries can be a
source of the life styles of our
early settlers. One such diary is that of Hiram H. Young,
whose farm home a hundred
years ago, in the 1800s, was
about eight miles southeast
of Concordia. He was generally known as Hi Young,
and he was elected about
1892 to the office of probate
judge of Cloud County, Kansas, on the Populist ticket.
Ever after that, T.A. Sawhill,
the Republican editor of the
Concordia Empire, referred
to “Hi Yung” as a Chinaman.
Young kept a personal
diary during his farming
years, and the diary appears
in the Kansas Historical
Quarterlies of May, August
and November 1946, published by The Kansas State
Historical Society. From the
diary we learn about the
early settlers' practice of
trading meat.
There being no way of
keeping meat fresh during
any extended period of time,
and one family being unable
to consume a hog or deer in
a short period of time, the
resourceful settlers developed a system of trades, a
sort of “meat bank” if you
please.
When one farmer
butchered a “critter” he
would lend fresh meat to
his neighbors. Thus one
neighbor would be indebted to him for six pounds of
one cut, another neighbor
would be indebted to him
for four pounds of another
cut, and so on. When one
of those neighbors later
butchered a critter, he
would pay back his meat
debt. In this way, by neighborhood planning, everyone had fresh meat during
much of the hot weather.
Of course, the settlers
knew how to preserve meat
by smoking it, by drying it
to make jerky, and by salting it–but the meat bank
relieved the monotony of
cured meat.
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several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9
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Assad to sit down and talk only once. The difficulty level of
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about a political settlement.
from Monday to Friday.
Russian lawmakers voted
unanimously Wednesday to
allow Putin to order airstrikes
in Syria, where Russia has
deployed fighter jets and other weapons in recent weeks.
Putin had to request parliamentary approval for any
use of Russian troops abroad,
according to the constitution. The last time he did so
was before Russia annexed
Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula
in March 2014.
The vote comes after Putin’s meeting Monday with
President Barack Obama on
the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New
York, where the two discussed
Russia’s recent military buildup in Syria. Speaking after
his meeting with Obama, Putin kept the door open for airstrikes but ruled out ground
action.
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Thereafter there was no
Johnson household needing
a head.
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ODDS
AND
ENDS,
Fourth Batch
Several museums in
England display man-traps.
They are vicious looking contraptions like extra
large steel bear-traps, actually used in the eighteenth
century
to
catch
men. An
old (1943)
edition of
the Encyclopaedia
Britannica says:
ManT r a p s ,
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catching
poachers and trespassers. They have taken many
forms, the most usual being like a large rat-trap, the
steel springs being armed
with teeth which met in the
victim's leg. Since 1827 they
have been illegal in England,
except in houses between
sunset and sunrise as a defense against burglars.
Man-traps are not peculiar to England, as the following story will attest:
Fifty-three years ago, in
1932, A. S. Marshall ran a
general merchandise store in
the little hamlet of Ames, in
Cloud County, Kansas. On
the morning of June 23rd,
Mr. Marshall telephoned
Sheriff Ed Sparger to report
that his store had been burglarized the night before. As
the county attorney, I went
along with sheriff, to learn
what I could about the matter in the event that I had
to prosecute somebody. In
the Marshall store we found
that the burglar had entered
and exited through a back
(west) window. On the floor
under the window Mr. Marshall had set a large steel
bear-trap. The trap had not
been sprung. How the burglar avoided that trap, even
if he knew it was there, will
always be a mystery. But
avoid it he did. If he hadn't
avoided it, he'd have been
there the next morning with
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Annie’s
Mailbox
by Kathy Mitchell and
Marcy Sugar
Dear Annie: I am a mother of two daughters in their
20s. Both have been emotionally, socially and financially supported by my husband and me throughout
their lives. Both have advanced degrees and are now
entering the work place.
What should be a happy
time in my life is just the opposite. The older one told us
she does not believe in God
and is seriously dating a
man of a different faith. My
husband and I feel the rejection of religion isn't based on
deep philosophical reasons,
but rather is a convenient
excuse to date whomever
she chooses.
We have sought counseling with our rabbi to help
our daughter care more
about her faith. But now my
husband has drawn a line in
the sand, saying if she marries outside the religion, he
will have nothing to do with
her. My younger daughter
sides with her sister. What's
a mother to do? — Torn
Dear Torn: The Old Testament response is that if
your daughter marries outside the faith, she is considered "dead" to you. And we
know some parents would
follow that. But we doubt
this is what you want, and if
your husband's ultimatum
is an effort to get his daughter to return to the fold, he
has to be prepared for a negative outcome.
Please have a heartfelt
talk with your daughter.
Explain how hurtful this is,
intentional or not. Tell her
that people often change
their minds about the depth
of their religious feeling as
they get older or once they
have children. Point out
that raising children with
a partner of another faith
can cause all kinds of issues down the road and she
should consider that carefully before making any permanent decisions.
But we know you still
want to have a relationship
with her, so tell her that you
love her no matter what,
and that you will do your
best to accept whomever
she chooses to marry. It will
take effort (and a few tears)
on your part to do so, but it
can be done.
Dear Annie: This is an
attempt to reach out to
"Conflicted," the man who
said he once coerced a woman into having sex, and has
suffered quiet remorse for
the past 30 years.
I could be that woman,
and I want him to know that
all I really want is an apology and confirmation that
he has learned a lesson from
what was a shame-filled encounter for both of us. His
Gino,
We spent lots of birthdays
together
Celebrations which we
thought we would share
forever. But time passes
so quickly and life deals
its cards. Now life without
you, my love, is so very
hard.
So I will raise a glass in
a toast to you today. To
celebrate with you your
60th birthday. I hope you
can see from up above.
How much I miss you, my
one true love.
Love from your wife and
family.
letter of remorse was a surprising comfort. I would
like to think he has seen a
counselor and contributed
to organizations that help
victims who have not been
able to get past such experiences.
But I disagree that he
should confess to his wife.
If he's been a trustworthy,
faithful husband all these
years, confessing this premarriage behavior may very
well destroy the trust she's
had in him and leave her
wondering what other lies
their marriage is built on. —
Appreciate His Admission of
Wrongdoing
Dear Appreciate: You
could be right, but such secrets can be slowly destructive to a marriage. We think
he should be able to confide
in a loving partner who can
help him deal with it, especially if talking to a counselor would bring criminal
charges.
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Honor Society members
CCCC students from the Concordia campus present at the recent Fall induction ceremony for Phi Theta Kappa honor society
were, front row, from left: Lucila Nelson, Peyton Warner, Maggie Woodward, Miranda Mansfield, Gabby DaSiva and Jarreth
Martina; back row, from left: Upsilon Tau Chapter advisor Marc Malone, Jesse Patrick, Daniel Douglas, Dalibor Basor and Micayla Sjolander.
Students inducted into Honor Society
Cloud County Community College had its Fall
induction ceremony for
Phi Theta Kappa, an international honor society for
two-year colleges Sept. 25
at the college’s Concordia
campus.
Students from the Concordia campus and Geary
County campus were inducted into the Upsilon
Tau Chapter and Beta Eta
Xi Chapter of Phi Theta
Kappa. Beta Eta Xi Chapter
advisors Mitch Stimers and
Gwen Carnes and Upsilon
Tau Chapter advisor Marc
Malone inducted the students during a ceremony
in the presence of family
members and other special
guests.
Phi Theta Kappa, founded in 1918, recognizes
and encourages academic
achievement. PTK also provides opportunities for individual growth and development through leadership,
scholarship, fellowship and
service.
Students who have completed at least 12 hours of
transferable credit while
maintaining a cumulative
grade point average of at
least 3.5 are invited to join.
Brent Phillips, Dean of
Humanities, Social Sciences and Business welcomed
the inductees and guests
attending the PTK induction ceremony. Concordia city commissioner and
Cloud County Health Center board member Chuck
Lambertz was the guest
speaker.
New members of Phi Theta Kappa and their hometowns aare: Jesse Patrick,
Abilene; Peyton Warner,
Margaret Woodward, Bel-
leville; Jamie Adama, Chapman; Jace Coppoc, Miranda
Mansfield, Lucila Nelson,
Concordia; Tyler Marr, Formoso; Danielle Amdrews,
Rogelio Gomez, Cindy Peterson, Junction City; Brett
Slater, Paxico; Micayla Sjolander, Randall; Venessa
Torres, Salina; Cheyanne
Hileman, Smith Center;
Daniel Douglas, Wichita;
Irosha Wanithunga, Galle,
Sri Lanka; Dalibor Basor,
Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Jarreth Martina,
Willemstad, Curacao; Karina DaSilva, Igarapé, Brazil.
Forgue/Dallen families
have reunion in Concordia
The Forgue/Dallen reunion was Sunday, Sept.
27, at the Valley Rental
Center in Concordia.
Attending from out of
town were Farrell and Mary
Frances Dallen, Topeka; DeWayne and Sondra Dallen,
Wichita; Henry Plante, Galen Plante, Plainville; Andy
and Norma Odell, Abilene;
Phyllis File, Bruce File, Beloit; Margaret Benyshek,
Cuba, Kan.; Don Forgue,
Kansas City, Mo.; Mike
Forgue, Minneapolis, Kan.;
Ina Garrison, Noel Garrison, Clyde; Dale Bieker,
Micah Bieker, Benton, Ark.;
Dwight and Peggy Colgrove,
Washington, Kan.
Attending from Concordia were Bernard Bieker
and Jan Henshaw, Tony and
Mary Bieker, Anthony Bieker, Tom Bieker and Crystal
Wilson and Anita Cyphers.
The next reunion will be
Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016, at
the same location.
CNA class starts Oct. 19
Cloud County Community College is offering a Certified Nurse Aide class beginning Oct. 19 at Park Villa
Nursing Home in Clyde.
Certified Nurse Aides
are in demand. This course
will enable students to
care for the ill, disabled or
elderly person in a nursing home or hospital setting. Students are eligible
for employment once they
have completed the first 40
hours of class.
Darice Cairns, RN, will
be the instructor. The class
will end Dec. 3.
For further information or to preregister, call
1.800.729.5101, ext. 372 or
785.243.1435, ext. 372 at
CCCC or email jaldridge@
cloud.edu.
New day and place
for Games and Goodies
from Sisters of St. Joseph
After two months of Games
and Goodies at the Nazareth
Motherhouse, the afternoon
gathering of informal fun has
moved.
Those seeking company
and friendly competition are
welcome to visit Neighbor to
Neighbor, 103 E. 6th St. from
2-4 p.m. every Tuesday.
Women of all ages and
all playing abilities are welcome, and games range from
pinochle and pitch to Scrabble and Yahtzee. If there is a
card or board game a player
particularly enjoys, they may
Attend 65-year reunion
Attending their 65-year class reunion in Concordia Sept. 18 and 19 were, front row: Dorothy
Johnson Morgan and JoAnn Cousins Walker; back row: Dale Ames, Jerome Johnson, Keith
Burt, Anson Edwards and Keith Buss. (not pictured, Mark Morgan)
Alumni of 1950 gather for reunion
Alumni from the Concordia High School and Concordia Catholic High School
classes of 1950 celebrated
their 65-year reunion at
the American Legion’s 19th
Hole in Concordia Friday
evening, Sept. 18, and Saturday evening, Sept. 19.
The group remembered
classmates who had died
since the 2013 reunion:
Alfred Marcotte, Edna Deneault
Lervold,
Harold
Brown and Alice Harnois
Lachenmeier.
Jerome Johnson, master of ceremonies, read cor-
respondence from the following classmates: Carol
Thompson Beatty, Loveland, Colo.; Fern Woodside
Ames, Aurora, Colo.; Marvin Dean McDaniel, Sarasota, Fla.; Mary Lou Burchfiel
Jensen, Fort Collins, Colo.;
Minnie Buss Sherman,
Raytown, Mo.; Dick and
Katherine Fisher Garwood,
Tulsa, Okla.; Sue Shirling
Fitzgerald, Americus Ga.;
Richard and Ilene Dochow
Lloyd, Greenwood, Neb.
Joyce Spiegel Cashman,
Tuscon, Ariz.; Charlene
Shriver Duggan, Salina;
stop in and the Sisters will
see if they can find players
for the activity.
Originally organized by
the Sisters of St. Joseph
Development Office staff,
Games and Goodies was
held during July and August
at the Motherhouse with the
Sisters as hosts. Most weeks
saw a couple dozen players
enjoying an afternoon together.
The Sisters at Neighbor to
Neighbor wanted to continue
the event, and offered to be Senior Citizens Menu
Thursday, Oct. 1—Roast beef and noodles, mashed potahosts for it at the downtown
toes, peas and carrots, brownies.
Center.
Burton Gillan, Broomfield,
Colo.; and Joan Gile Meili,
Lincoln.
Those attending were
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Burt,
Rogers, Ark.; Dale Ames,
Denver, and his sister,
Evelyn Miller, Concordia;
Anson Edwards, Bullhead
City, Ariz.; Tom and JoAnn
Cousins Walker, Belleville;
Keith Buss, Mr. and Mrs.
Jerome Johnson and Mark
and Dorothy Johnson Morgan, all of Concordia.
This was the 15th and
final reunion held by the
classes of 1950.
***
Strong reasons make
strong actions.
—William Shakespeare
Groups
seek
end
to
Today
in
History
Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars
4 Blade-Empire, Wednesday, September 30, 2015
By Jacqueline Bigar
A baby born today has a
Sun in Libra and a Moon in
Taurus.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for
Wednesday,
Sept.
30,
2015:
This year you demand
more from yourself as well
as from others. You will
want to perform to the best
of your abilities. You will
have a similar expectation
of others, though it might be
wise to let them know that.
You appreciate the power
of one-on-one relating, and
you often prefer this type of
interaction. If you are single,
you’ll meet people with ease.
Your desirability might encourage others to present
themselves differently from
how they really are. If you
are attached, the two of you
will benefit from frequent
periods away from the doldrums of daily life. Schedule
a special vacation for just
the two of you! TAURUS can
be stubborn.
The Stars Show the
Kind of Day You’ll Have:
5-Dynamic;
4-Positive;
3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
ARIES (March 21-April
19)
* * * * You could hear
more than an earful about
what is happening. One-onone relating is likely to result
in a creative brainstorming
session. You’ll make sense
to others. As a result, you’ll
see a thinking alliance begin over a critical issue. Tonight: Run some errands on
the way home.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20)
* * * * * You seem to be
able to walk the right path
because of your ability to
detach and see the whole
picture. Focus on the quality of your daily interactions.
Know where you are going,
and be willing to take a leap
of faith. Tonight: Make sure
you do something for yourself.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20)
* * * Be more sensitive
about what is happening
around you, but understand that you don’t need
to do anything. A partner
could feel more in touch
with you than he or she has
in a while. Be open to this
person, and listen to his or
her news. Tonight: Go along
with a friend’s suggestion.
CANCER (June 21-July
22)
* * * * You have reason
to smile, despite any hassle
that heads your way. When
you look around, you’ll recognize how successful you
have been, especially with
your friends and loved ones.
Express your gratitude in a
way that makes others feel
appreciated. Tonight: Hang
with others.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
* * * * You might have the
fire in your eye to achieve a
long-awaited goal. Be careful, as you could push others away as you charge toward this desire. You won’t
want to turn off some of your
friends who have supported
you in this process. Tonight:
A force to be dealt with.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
* * * * * Your stability will
guide you in making choices
that are good for you, even
if they’re not particularly exciting. You might feel as if
you finally have made it to a
place where you have wanted to be. Share more of your
caring with a loved one. Tonight: Use your imagination.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
* * * * Give some more
thought to someone’s words
and actions. Note how sure
of yourself you are, but note
this person’s confidence as
well. See where the meeting
point is. Be willing to admit that he or she has some
good points. Tonight: Dinner with someone you care
about.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21)
* * * * You could be on top
of a problem, but you might
have to deal with someone
who feels that he or she is
on top of the same problem.
Your solutions could be very
different, but you are likely
to discover that both approaches will work. Tonight:
Go with the moment.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21)
* * * Pace yourself, and
you will achieve what you
want. Don’t underestimate
the cost of your time, especially if you are in a bind. Decide to weigh in on a friendship and its meaning to you.
This person also could be
a work associate. Tonight:
Keep an eye on completion.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19)
* * * * You have the energy and the wherewithal to
bypass a lot of trivial matters, which you will handle
later. Take a stand, especially if you feel that there is
the potential for a difference
of opinion. You know there
are many ways to achieve a
goal. Tonight: Let your hair
down.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18)
* * * * You have a style
that will help you get past a
problem. You might need to
keep your plans on hold or
not discuss them yet. You’ll
gain insight from an acquaintance who comes from
a different background or
culture. Listen to this person’s news. Tonight: Read
between the lines.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20)
* * * * You could be taken
aback by a conversation and
might need to weigh the pros
and cons before you act. In
some way, this person has
offended your philosophical
slant of what life could or
should be. Tonight: Do not
be intimidated by anyone.
Do your thing.
BORN TODAY
Actress Monica Bellucci
(1964), writer Elie Wiesel
(1928), drummer Buddy
Rich (1917)
***
Jacqueline Bigar is on
the Internet at www.jacquelinebigar.com.
(c) 2015 by King Features
Syndicate Inc.
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50 years ago
Sept. 30, 1965—Sunday special at the Broadway
Café was baked turkey and
dressing. . . . Diane Collette,
Aurora High School senior,
was crowned queen of the
Aurora Horse Show. Jimmy
Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lavern Brown, won the pony
which was given away.
25 years ago
Sept. 30, 1990—Airman
Mark Burchfiel, son of Dixie
and James Burchfiel and
husband of Pam Burchfiel
of Concordia, was serving
a tour of duty in the Middle
East. . . . A photo taken by
Lee Dunlap, Concordia, was
featured on the August page
of the 1991 Essence of Kansas Visions Calendar published by Kansas 4-H Foundation, Inc.
10 years ago
Sept. 30, 2005—Fall
Fest Turtle Race winners
were T. Strait with Twinkletoes, first; Matthew James
with Bubba, second; Megan
James with with Rhonna,
third; and Colton Adams
with Louie, fourth. . . . Devin
Lowell,
Concordia
High
School senior, was named a
National Merit Commended
Student in the 2006 National Merit Scholarship Program.
5 years ago
Sept. 30, 2010—Members of the Master Contractors Cloud County Convention and Tourism 2010
Scavenger Hunt—Discover
the Treasures of Cloud
County Architecture-Concordia—were Marilyna and
Jim Douglass who won 25
$2 bills for a total of $50.
Chad Lowell was runnerup, winning 12 $2 bills. . .
. Capt. Aaron Isaacson, son
of John and Robin Isaacson,
was in Colorado preparing
for a “Soldiers to the Summit” expedition Oct. 2-21
that would take him and
other disabled athletes to
the top of Mount Lobuche,
Nepal, a 20,075 foot peak
located just 8.7 miles from
Mount Everest.
1 year ago
Sept. 30, 2014—Rebuilding of Cloud County’s
Bridge No. 67 between Concordia and Beloit on Highway No. 9 was complete
and Dean Holbert marked
the occasion by driving
across the bridge in a Model
T Ford, something he had
done when the bridge was
completed 59 years ago. . .
. Winners of the frog jumping contest at Concordia
Fall Fest were Kinlly Martin,
first; Nick Vignery, second;
and Jo LaPolice, third.
all Arctic drilling
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)
– Royal Dutch Shell’s decision to end its quest for oil in
the Arctic waters off Alaska
sparked jubilation among
environmental activists, who
said Tuesday that they will
seize the opportunity to seek
an end to all drilling to in the
region.
But while Shell’s move is a
definite setback for oil companies, it does not mean offshore drilling is dead or that
the Arctic Ocean has any
greater protection now than
it had last week.
Shell’s decision gives advocates on both sides a
chance to pause and consider whether Arctic drilling
should continue, said Mike
LeVine of the ocean-advocacy group in Juneau known
as Oceana.
“Meaningful action to address climate change is almost certainly going to mean
we can’t keep looking for
oil in remote and expensive
places,” LeVine said. “Rather
than investing in programs
like this, we need to figure
out how to transition away
from fossil fuels and toward
sustainable energy.”
Shell announced Monday
that it would abandon exploration in U.S. Arctic waters
“for the foreseeable future”
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after a well drilled this summer in the Chukchi Sea off
the Alaskan coast failed to
find natural gas and oil in
sufficient quantities.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC
spent more than $7 billion on
Arctic offshore development
in the Chukchi and Beaufort
seas and was dogged at every
regulatory level by environmental groups, which feared
that a spill in the harsh climate would be difficult to
clean up and devastating to
polar bears, walruses, seals
and other wildlife.
The next step for many
environmental advocates is
to establish “some sort of
binding policy so that these
decisions are not up to oil
companies,” said Cassady
Sharp, spokeswoman for
Greenpeace USA in Washington, D.C.
Over the summer, Greenpeace protested drilling by
boarding a Shell vessel as
it crossed the Pacific. The
group helped organize onthe-water
demonstrations
in Seattle by “kayaktivists”
in kayaks. Protesters with
climbing gear hung suspended from a bridge in Portland,
Oregon, to briefly delay a
Shell support vessel from departing for the Chukchi Sea.
“I think the activism
played a huge role and probably a bigger one than Shell
is going to admit,” Sharp
said.
Greenpeace remains opposed to Arctic offshore oil
development and will turn
its attention to other Alaska
leases and potential drilling
in other countries, she said.
“We don’t want to get too
confident and assume no
company is going to move
forward,” she said.
The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that American
Arctic waters hold 26 billion
barrels of conventionally recoverable oil. That’s considerably more than the 17
billion barrels of crude that
moved through the transAlaska pipeline from 1977
through 2014.
Miyoko Sakashita, oceans
director for the Center for
Biological Diversity, said
Shell’s experience and public pressure may serve as a
warning message to other
companies. However, Arctic offshore drilling is by no
means over.
The Department of Interior
continues to evaluate Arcticspecific exploratory drilling
regulations. The leases that
allow oil companies to explore for crude run through
2017 in the Beaufort Sea and
through 2020 in the Chukchi
Sea, and corporations have
sought extensions.
Arctic waters continue to
be part of President Barack
Obama’s “all-of-the-above”
energy strategy, which embraces a wide range of sources, from oil and natural gas
to renewables such as wind
and solar power.
Depending on interest by
petroleum companies, the
Interior Department could
hold lease sales in Arctic waters in 2016 and 2017.
Both the Chukchi and the
Beaufort seas could be included in the federal government’s next five-year plan for
offshore leases, which covers
leasing through 2022.
Environmental groups are
also lining up to oppose a
proposed Beaufort Sea project 19 miles east of Prudhoe
Bay. HilCorp Alaska LLC has
applied to build a 9-acre artificial island in 20 feet of water about 6 miles off shore to
tap into 150 million barrels
of crude oil.
Shell’s decision ended
hope that within a decade or
so Arctic offshore oil could
help replenish the transAlaska pipeline. Alaska Gov.
Bill Walker, a Republicanturned-independent,
said
the state must find ways to
address Alaska’s multi-billion dollar budget gap between income and spending.
“If it’s not going to come
offshore, let’s safely develop
it from onshore,” he said.
Blade-Empire Wednesday, September 30, 2015 5
Sports
Bye week
comes at
good time
for KSU
Royals struggle
to score runs in
4-2 loss to Chicago
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) —
Kansas State coach Bill Snyder’s notable 18-7 record
after a bye week comes with
one major caveat: He’s not all
that impressed by it.
“Well, we lost seven,” Snyder said Tuesday as the Wildcats (3-0), off last week,
prepared to visit No. 20 Oklahoma State on Saturday. “So
I’m not sure how much success we’ve really had.”
Since his return from a
brief retirement in 2009,
Kansas State is 7-3 coming
off a bye. The extra week of
preparation has regularly led
to significant improvement,
evident last season when the
Wildcats went 2-1, falling
only to No. 5 Auburn 20-14
early in the schedule.
This season’s first bye
seemed to come at an ideal
time, too, between nonconference play and a grueling
stretch that will see the Wildcats play four ranked opponents in their next five
games.
“This bye week was so
good in that we could sit back
and watch what we were
doing wrong and correct it,”
center Dalton Risner said.
“When you’re in the heat of
game week, you get to the
next week and you’re already
watching that film, so it’s
kind of hard to sit back and
correct a lot.”
Kansas State dedicated
the off week to a number of
areas, including the team’s
struggles inside the red zone.
Last season, the Wildcats
were successful on 56 of 62
trips. And while that success
has carried over to 2015 — so
far 17 of 18 trips inside opponents’ 20-yard line have
resulted in scores — only six
times has Kansas State
scored touchdowns.
The extra attention to
detail has evidently led to
some optimism heading into
Big 12 play.
“We’re making some headway as it relates to what’s significant for us, that is
improving on some of the
things that we have really
had difficulty with or have
demonstrated
we
need
improvement upon,” Snyder
said.
Facing the Cowboys will
certainly be a test to that
improvement, given Kansas
State’s track record at Boone
Pickens Stadium. The Wildcats haven’t won there since
1999, when Snyder led them
to a 7-1 record in the Big 12
and an 11-1 overall mark in
his first tenure as coach.
The
Concordia
High
School volleyball team suffered a pair of North Central
Kansas League losses to an
Abilene team ranked fifth in
Class 4A-Division I Tuesday
in the Concordia JunoirSenior High School gymnasium.
Abilene pulled out a narrow 25-23 victory in the first
set of the first match.
Concordia evened the
match at 1-1 with a 27-25
win in the second set.
The
Panthers
then
dropped the third and deciding set, 25-13.
Cydney Bergmann had 16
kills, 13 digs and three service points for the Panthers.
Jordan Eshbaugh finished with seven kills, five
blocks, eight digs and eight
service points.
Hadley Thyfault had six
kills, three blocks, 10 digs
and four servcie points.
Jessica Williams added
three kills and four blocks.
Mykah Eshbaugh had
nine digs, two kills and two
locks.
Mariah Blazek had seven
digs and three service points
with two aces. Laken
Schroeder had 70 good sets
in 70 attempts with 26
assists, six digs and five
service points.
“We didn’t finish when we
needed to in the first set. We
missed some key serves to
close it out that hurt our
momentum,”
Concordia
coach Rio Brown said, “We
did a better job at the net,
and our hitting efficiency
was better in the first two
sets. We made better decisions and hit the ball better.
Again, we had difficulty finishing set two, and have to
learn to finish. Our momentum and intensity didn’t
carry over into the final set.
Our serve receive struggled
and we fell apart with errors.
We beat ourselves in the final
set. We are seeing improvements, and stretches of
potential, but it isn’t consistent yet.”
Abilene won the second
match in straight sets, 2519, 25-19.
Jordan Eshbaugh had
nine kills and four service
points.
Bergmann finished with
six kills, six digs and three
service points.
Winning three of four
matches, the doubles teams
led the Concordia girls’ tennis team to a second-place
finish in the triangular it
hosted on Tuesday.
Sadie Mosher and Jenna
Bloomer went 2-0 in placing
first in number one doubles
for the Panthers.
Kahlie Miller and Trystin
Plymesser finished second
in number two doubles with
a 1-1 record.
Concordia scored eight
points in the meet.
Clay Center won the meet
with 17 points, and Beloit
was third with five.
Mosher and Bloomer
posted an 8-6 win over Abby
Bean and Sidney Odle,
Beloit. They knocked off
Emma Girton and Jaden
Wilcoxson, 8-6.
“Sadie and Jenna continued their string of success
from the past week, and
were able to claim firstplace medals. This duo is
peaking at the right time,”
Concordia coach Michael
Wahlmeier said.
Miller and Plymesser got
past Paige Haflinger and
Hailey Princ, Beloit, 8-6.
They were beaten 8-0 by
Hannah Fowles and Paige
Richardson, Clay Center.
“Kahlie
and
Trystin
ended up with secondplace. We were happy for
their success,” Wahlmeier
said.
Cameron Collins, playing
number one singles for Concordia, lost 8-2 to Xandra
Bouray, Beloit, and 8-0 to
Chloe Gaug, Clay Center.
In number two singles,
Concordia’s Grace Tracy
was beaten 8-3 by McKenna
Trumble, Beloit, and 8-0 by
Hannah Callan, Clay Center.
“Cameron and Grace did
a nice job today in some
tough singles matches.
Both girls were able to get
some wins against Beloit.
The two singles players
from Clay Center are excellent players and should find
success this postseason.
Our girls did a great job of
competing and making
them earn each one of their
wins,” Wahlmeier said.
Concordia will host the
North
Central
Kansas
League tournament on Saturday.
Tipping it
Concordia’s Jordan Eshbaugh tips the ball over the net during a match against Abilene on
Tuesday. (Blade photo by Jay Lowell)
Fifth-ranked Abilene deals
Panthers pair of league losses
Doubles teams lead CHS
to second-place finish
Hadley Thyfault had four
kills and five digs.
“We started off too slow in
both sets. We made too
many errors from the beginning, and had to dig ourselves out of too big of hole,”
Brown said, “We will have an
opportunity to address and
focus on our areas of concern the next few days, and
look forward to hosting our
home invitational this Saturday,” Brown said.
The Concordia junior varsity split a pair of matches
with Abilene.
Concordia won the first
match, 25-10, 25-10.
Abilene took the second
match, 25-22, 25-21.
ennifer Garcia had six
kills and 10 digs for Concordia.
Allison Poore finished
with five kills and six digs.
Jaden Champlin had 15
assists, nine digs, two kills
and four service aces.
Natalie Vines had eight
digs and two service aces.
Kaitlin Miller had six digs
and three kills.
Carley Martin had six digs
and Brynn Brummett had
four digs.
CHICAGO (AP) — Scoring runs hasn’t come easy
for the Kansas City Royals
recently. Jeff Samardzija
didn’t make it any easier
Tuesday night.
Eric
Hosmer
and
Kendrys Morales hit backto-back homers and Johnny Cueto threw six quality
innings, but the Royals
lost to Samardzija and the
Chicago White Sox 4-2.
The Royals, who have
lost four of their last five,
fell behind 3-0 after Adam
Eaton drove a two-run
homer into the bullpen in
right field off Cueto (10-13)
in the fifth inning.
Cueto lost for the third
time in his four September
outings and gave up three
runs and eight hits over six
innings. He struck out two
and walked two.
Still a Royals offense
that hadn’t scored in 17
innings during a threegame stretch that included
Kansas City being shut out
1-0 in 11 innings by the
Chicago Cubs on Monday
night, didn’t do much to
help Cueto — or the Royals.
Tuesday’s loss dropped
the AL Central champions
to 10-17 in September.
After beginning the month
with a 6 1-2 game lead over
Toronto for the best record
in the AL, the Royals now
trail the Blue Jays by 1 12 games with five games
remaining in the regular
season.
Asked if he’s starting to
fight the urge to try and do
something to snap out of
it, Royals manager Ned
Yost said, “Maybe a little
bit, but we’re not quite
there yet.”
He added, “We’re fighting it a little bit.”
Kansas City got within
3-2 in the sixth when Hosmer and Morales homered
off Samardzija (11-13),
who won for the second
straight time after losing
nine of his 10 previous
outings.
Coming off a completegame one hitter against
Detroit on Sept. 21,
Samardzija scattered eight
hits over seven innings to
pick up the win, striking
out two. The consecutive
homers — Kansas City’s
first since July 25, 2014 —
snapped
Samardzija’s
string of 14 scoreless
innings.
The solo homers didn’t
rattle Samardzija.
“That was the difference
in the game,” Samardzija
said. “You keep guys off
the bases. If you pitch here
in (U.S. Cellular Field)
you’re going to give up
some homers, man. The
ball flies. As long as no one
is on base and they’re
solos, you can deal with
it.”
David
Robertson
pitched the ninth inning
for Chicago, which added a
run in the eighth on Alexei
Ramirez’s RBI double, to
earn his 33rd save in 40
opportunities.
The two solo shots were
the only offense the Royals
could muster. White Sox
left fielder Trayce Thompson saved a potential
game-tying run in the seventh inning with a fullextension diving catch that
robbed Ben Zobrist of an
extra-base hit that likely
would have scored Alcides
Escobar, who reached on a
two-out single.
The Royals put a runner
in scoring position in the
eighth, but Chicago third
baseman Mike Olt snagged
a line drive by Mike Moustakes that appeared headed for left field.
“They made two great
plays that saved them the
game,” Yost said.
The White Sox took a 10 lead in the third inning.
Jose Abreu laced a two-out
RBI single, scoring Carlos
Sanchez, who led off the
inning with a walk.
Samardzija took care of
the rest in picking up his
first career win against the
Royals.
“He’s a guy, you usually
face him and there’s a good
chance you’ll get a fastball,” Hosmer said. “He
was really mixing it up.
Even in hitter’s counts he
had the ability to throw his
pitches
for
off-speed
strikes, which made him
effective tonight.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Royals: Morales (bruised
right ankle) returned to
the starting lineup Tuesday as the DH. Morales did
not play Sunday after
being hit by a pitch. He
pinch-hit on Monday.
UP NEXT
Royals: RHP Edinson
Volquez (13-9, 3.65 ERA)
will be looking for his first
win since Sept. 8 after losing two of his last three
starts. He will face White
Sox LHP Jose Quintana (910, 3.38 ERA) who has
taken no-decisions in his
last two starts and who
has only surrendered three
earned runs in September.
Doubling up
Concordia’s Trystin Plymesser, playing number two doubles with Kahlie Miller, hits a forehand
during the triangular the Panthers hosted Tuesday. (Blade photo by Jay Lowell)
6 Blade-Empire, Wednesday, September 30, 2015
ONE PLACE HAS IT ALL
THE CLASSIFIEDS
Card Of Thanks
CARD OF THANKS
I would like to thank J and
Charlene Trost for hosting
the 1975 Class Reunion
at their home. I would
also like to thank all the
classmates who were able
to show up this year for our
reunion. It was nice to see
each and every one.
Gary Blochlinger
CARD OF THANKS
I want to extend my thanks
and appreciation to all of
my friends and relatives for
all the cards, gifts and good
wishes I received on my 80th
birthday. I cannot express in
words the gratitude I have in
my heart to those who helped
me celebrate this special
occasion. A special thanks
to my children for all they did
to make this a special day, a
day I will always remember.
God Bless you.
Carolyn Henning
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF CLOUD
COUNTY, KANSAS
In the Matter of the Estate of Velma E.
Clark, Deceased.
Case No. 15-PR-38
(Proceeding Pursuant to
K.S.A. Chapter 59)
NOTICE OF HEARING
THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL
PERSONS CONCERNED:
You are hereby notified that a Petition
for Determination of Descent has been filed
in this Court by Wayne E. Clark, an heir of
Velma E. Clark, deceased, requesting:
Descent be determined of the following described real estate situated in Cloud
County, Kansas:
Lots Ten (10), Eleven (11), Twelve (12),
Thirteen (13), and Fourteen (14), in Block
One Hundred Twenty-eight (128), in the
City of Concordia, Cloud County, Kansas,
according to the recorded plat thereof, and
that portion of vacated Seventh Street, adjoining said lots on the North thereof;
and all personal property and other
Kansas real estate owned by the decedent
at the time of death. And that such property
and other Kansas real estate owned by the
decedent at the time of death be assigned
pursuant to the laws of intestate succession.
You are required to file your written
defenses thereto on or before October 19,
2015, at 11:00 a.m. at the Cloud County
Courthouse, in the City of Concordia,
Cloud County, Kansas, at which time and
place the cause will be heard. Should you
fail therein, judgment and decree will be
entered in due course upon the Petition.
Wayne E. Clark, Petitioner
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Georgia executes first woman in 70 years
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) – The
only woman on Georgia’s
death row was executed
early Wednesday, making
her the first woman put to
death by the state in seven
decades.
Kelly Renee Gissendaner
was pronounced dead by
injection of pentobarbital
at 12:21 a.m. at the state
prison in Jackson. She was
convicted of murder in the
February 1997 slaying of her
husband after she conspired
with her lover, who stabbed
Douglas Gissendaner to
death.
Kelly Gissendaner, 47,
sobbed as she said she loved
her children and apologized
to Douglas Gissendaner’s
family, saying she hopes
they can find some peace
and happiness. She also addressed her lawyer, Susan
Casey, who was among the
witnesses.
“I just want to say God
bless you all and I love you,
Susan. You let my kids know
I went out singing ‘Amazing
Grace,’” Gissendaner said.
Prison Warden Bruce
Chatman left the execution
chamber at 12:11 a.m. Records from previous executions indicate that the lethal
drug is administered within
about a minute of the warden leaving the room.
Gissendaner sang “Amazing Grace” before taking several deep breaths and then
becoming still.
More than 100 people
gathered in rainy conditions
outside the prison to support
Gissendaner. Among them
was the Rev. Della Bacote,
who said she is a chaplain
at Saint Thomas Hospital in
Nashville and who spent several hours with Gissendaner
on Tuesday afternoon, talking and praying.
“She was at peace with
whatever was to come,” Bacote said.
Gissendaner’s three children visited with her Monday
but weren’t able to see her
Tuesday because they were
at a meeting of the Georgia Board of Pardons and
Paroles, Bacote said. The
parole board is the only entity authorized to commute
a death sentence in Georgia.
“Kelly embraced that the
children were going to talk
to the Board of Pardons and
Paroles,” Bacote said, adding
that Gissendaner was able
to speak to her children by
phone Tuesday.
Two of Gissendaner’s
three children had previously addressed the board
and put out a video earlier this month pleading for
their mother’s life and talking about their own difficult
path to forgiveness. Her oldest son had not previously
addressed the board.
Various courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court,
denied multiple last-ditch
efforts to stop her execution Tuesday, and the parole
board stood by its February
decision to deny clemency.
The board didn’t give a reason for the denial, but said it
had carefully considered her
request for reconsideration.
Gissendaner was previously scheduled for execution Feb. 25, but that was
delayed because of a threat
of winter weather. Her execution was reset for March
2, but corrections officials
postponed that execution
“out of an abundance of caution” because the execution
drug appeared “cloudy.”
Pope Francis’ diplomatic
representative in the U.S.,
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, on Tuesday sent a letter to the parole board on behalf of the pontiff asking for
a commutation of Gissendaner’s sentence “to one that
would better express both
justice and mercy.” He cited
an address the pope made to
a joint session of Congress
last week in which he called
for the abolition of the death
penalty.
Gissendaner’s
lawyers
submitted a statement from
former Georgia Supreme
Court Chief Justice Norman
Fletcher to the parole board.
Fletcher argued that Gissendaner’s death sentence
was not proportionate to her
role in the crime. Her lover,
Gregory Owen, who did the
killing, is serving a life prison sentence and will become
eligible for parole in 2022.
He also noted that Georgia
hadn’t executed a person
who didn’t actually carry out
a killing since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the
death penalty in 1976.
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Gissendaner’s
lawyers
also said she was a seriously
damaged woman who has
undergone a spiritual transformation in prison and has
been a model prisoner who
has shown remorse and provided hope to other inmates
in their personal struggles.
They gave the parole board
testimonials from several
women who were locked up
as teens and who said Gissendaner counseled them
through moments when they
felt scared, lost or on the
verge of giving up hope.
Douglas
Gissendaner’s
family said in a statement
Monday that he is the victim
and that Kelly Gissendaner
received an appropriate sentence.
“As the murderer, she’s
been given more rights and
opportunity over the last 18
years than she ever afforded
CCCC
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Jenny Acree, the Director
of Marketing and Public Information presented one of
these improvement ideas to
the Board of Trustees Tuesday night.
“We have a complicated
campus,” Acree said. “We
have a lot of entrances and
a lot of parking lots and
people are just kind of confused when they approach
Cloud County Community
College.”
The Wayfinding Signage
Project has been in the
works since 2007, Acree
said.
The college even collected
proposals for the wayfinding
plan in 2007, but decided to
table the project.
Over the last holiday
break, Toone wrote a grant
proposal to the Dane G.
Hansen Foundation.
The college secured the
Foundation's grant and received a $50,000 check in
February 2015.
In presenting her plan,
Acree admitted that she has
no idea if the $50,000 will
cover the costs of creating
and installing the exterior
signs.
She, along with Janet Eubanks, the Director of Auxiliary Services, have made the
Wayfinding Signage Project
scalable in order to keep
costs low, however.
The main exterior sign
will be modeled after the
main campus monument
sign, Acree said.
The design will include
slated spots where areanameplates can go, as well
as two extra slots, which
will accommodate for campus growth.
As the placement of the
sign was considered, Acree
and Eubanks met with Bruno Rehbein, Concordia's
building inspector.
Rehbein asked the directors if they knew where the
college's property lines were.
As they didn't know, and as
no one else within the college seemed to know either,
Campbell and Johnson surveyed the land this summer
to Doug who, again, is the
victim here,” the statement
says. “She had no mercy,
gave him no rights, no choices, nor the opportunity to
live his life.”
Kelly Gissendaner repeatedly pushed Owen in late
1996 to kill her husband
rather than just divorcing
him as Owen suggested,
prosecutors have said. Acting on her instructions,
Owen ambushed Douglas
Gissendaner at Gissendaner’s home, forced him to
drive to a remote area and
stabbed him multiple times,
prosecutors said.
Investigators looking into
the killing zeroed in on Owen
once they learned of his affair with Kelly Gissendaner.
He initially denied involvement but eventually confessed and implicated Kelly
Gissendaner.
to determine exactly where
the college and city land
met.
As the sign's placement
will be on city property, the
director of marketing and
the director of auxiliary services will present the Wayfinding Signage Project to
the City Commission on
October 21, in order to gain
their approval for construction.
In other board business,
Toone announced the 20152020 Cloud County Community College Strategic
Goals, which include:
“Student Success and
Completion – Increase the
number of students who are
graduating, transferring or
completing an educational
goal or credential by 50 percent by designing and implementing structured academic and career pathways
at scale for all of students.
Quality Student Learning – Achieve peer college
metrics for Student Services
through Noel-Levitz data,
achieve statewide course
and program assessment
metrics, and meet or exceed
Kansas universities’ native
students’ success rates.
Recruitment and Retention – Expand educational
opportunities with a focus
on recruitment and retention, increasing credit hours
to 50,000 and achieving/
maintaining a Fall-to-Fallretention-rate of 60 percent,
while maintaining tuition
and fees at less than half of
the average cost of attending Kansas’ public four-year
institutions.”
At the close of the Cloud
County Board of Trustees
meeting, an executive session was called to discuss
negotiations and non-elected personnel.
Lange, Reynolds, Toone,
Scott Condray (college attorney) and Christine Wilson
(Director of Human Resources) joined the board during the executive session,
and Matt Bechard (Athletic
Director) sat in during the
non-elected personnel section of the session.
Blade-Empire, Wednesday, September 30, 2015 7
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Obituaries
EDITH E. KRASNY
Edith E. Krasny, age
90, died Tuesday, Sept.
29, 2015, at Cloud County
Health Center, Concordia,
Kan. She was born April 20,
1945, in Rice, Kan., to Albert
& Gelena E. (Nanniga) Berk.
She grew up in the
Huscher/Rice area. She
graduated from Concordia
High School. Edith worked
as an office supervisor at
the St. Joseph Hospital
until her retirement. She
married William F. Krasny
on Dec. 28, 1978, at the
Huscher United Methodist
Church and he preceded her
in death on Sept. 12, 1997.
She was a lifelong member
of the Huscher UMC, where
she played the piano for several years. She also belonged
to the P.E.O and the Garden
Club.
She is survived by her
stepson, Bill Krasny, Jr.,
Pompano Beach, Fla., and
stepdaughter, Barbara Dell
Love, Ontario, Canada; two
granddaughters; four greatgrandchildren;
nephews,
Dale Berk (Linda) Concordia
and Marvin Berk (Nancy),
Louisburg; nieces, Joyce
McCall (John), Topeka, Phyllis Vinson, Marshalltown,
Iowa, and Loretta Hill (Bob),
Hillsboro, Mo.
She was preceded in
Edith E. Krasny
death by her husband, William; her parents; brothers,
Herbert and Lawrence Berk
and sister, Eldora Trost.
Funeral services will
be 10 a.m., Friday, Oct. 2,
2015, at Chaput-Buoy Funeral Home with the Rev.
Dean R. Frazier officiating.
Burial will follow at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Concordia. Visitation will be from
12-9 p.m. with family greeting from 6-7 p.m., Thursday,
Oct. 1. at Chaput-Buoy Funeral Home. The family suggest memorials to Huscher
United Methodist Church in
care of the funeral home. For
online condolences, please
visit www.chaputbuoy.com.
KENNETH DUANE TRAVIS, Esq.
Kenneth Duane Travis,
Esq., 86, of Midland, Texas
entered heaven’s gate Friday
evening, Sept. 18, 2015, at
Midland Memorial Hospital
after a long battle with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. His precious wife and
daughter were with him in
his final moments. A memorial service celebrating Ken’s
life will be held in Midland,
Texas, at the First Baptist
Church Chapel on Saturday,
Oct. 3, 2015, at 10:30 a.m.
The Rev. David Johnson will
be officiating the service.
Kenneth was an only
child born to Wallace and
Gladys Travis of Concordia, Kan., on Feb. 8, 1929.
He attended school in Concordia, Kan., and then went
on to receive his Bachelor
of Law from the University
of Kansas in 1953, passing
the Kansas State Board of
examiners a few weeks later.
Shortly after graduating from Law School, Kenneth married the love of his
life, Theresa Marie Hamel
of Clyde, Kan., on July 20,
1953.
Ken spent most of his
working years as an attorney for the St. Paul Insurance Company. Doing so,
he took on several different
assignments in different areas of Kansas. He finished
his career with St. Paul in
Houston, Texas, taking early
retirement.
The biggest part of Ken’s
life and legacy was his faith
in God, his love of family,
and his service to others.
From teaching fifth grade
Sunday School to leading as
a deacon, as well as an elder, to singing in quartets
and choirs, he was always
busy in his church. Until he
could no longer sing, he was
the deep bass for the FBC
choir and the Faithful Men.
Beyond his faithful service
in the church, Kenneth also
volunteered for more than
20 years at Midland Memorial Hospital.
Kenneth Duane Travis,
Esq.
Kenneth Travis was a
faithful and dutiful son,
husband and father. He
is survived by his forever
sweetheart, Theresa Marie
Travis of Midland, his four
children, Debra Denise Musick (Casey); Gary Lee Travis
(Bryanette); James Duane
Travis (Mary Jo); and Kristi
Kay Sberna (Salvatore); his
seven grandchildren: Tarah
deShetler, Sean Travis, Colin Travis, Salvatore Sberna,
KelcieKay Eaton, Reagan
Travis, Garrison Travis and
four
great-grandchildren:
Dylan, Justin, Valentina
and Luke.
He is preceded in death
by his parents: Wallace
Irvy Travis and Gladys May
(Quakenbush) Travis.
The family would like to
offer a special thank you
and words of appreciation
to Hospice of Midland. We
are forever grateful for the
dignity and care and mercy
with which you treated our
loved one.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made
to the First Baptist Church
of Midland, Texas.
Arrangements are under
the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home
of Midland. Online condolences may be made at www.
npwelch.com.
U.S. military favors
Weather
keeping troops in
Afghanistan past 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) – In a
potential major shift in policy, U.S. military commanders
want to keep at least a few
thousand American troops
in Afghanistan beyond 2016,
citing a fragile security situation highlighted by the Taliban’s capture of the northern
city of Kunduz this week as
well as recent militant inroads in the south.
Keeping any substantial
number of troops in Afghanistan beyond next year would
mark a sharp departure from
President Barack Obama’s
existing plan, which would
leave only an embassy-based
security cooperation presence of about 1,000 military
personnel by the end of next
year. Obama has made it a
centerpiece of his secondterm foreign policy message
that he would end the U.S.
war in Afghanistan and get
American troops out by the
time he left office in January
2017.
About 9,800 U.S. troops
are in Afghanistan. But the
top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Army Gen. John
F. Campbell, has given the
administration several options for gradually reducing
that number over the next
15-months. The options all
call for keeping a higherthan-planned troop presence based on his judgment
of what it would take to sustain the Afghan army and
minimize the chances of losing more ground gained over
more than a decade of costly
U.S. combat.
The timing of a new decision on U.S. troop levels is
unclear. Campbell is scheduled to testify to Congress
next week on the security
situation, including the effectiveness of Afghan security
forces after a tough summer
of fighting.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military said it conducted two
more airstrikes overnight
on Taliban positions around
Kunduz. A U.S. Army spokesman, Col. Brian Tribus, said
coalition advisers were at the
scene Wednesday, “in the
Kunduz area advising Afghan
security forces.”
The Taliban’s takeover of
Kunduz, a city of 300,000,
marked the militants’ first
capture of a major city since
the U.S. invasion ousted their
government 14 years ago in
the aftermath of the 9/11
terrorist attacks. Republican
critics of Obama’s approach
to transitioning from wartime
occupation of Afghanistan
to full Afghan security control called the fall of Kunduz
a predictable consequence
of Obama’s calendar-based
troop reductions.
The loss of Kunduz may
prove temporary, but it has
underscored the fragility of
Afghan security and hardened the view of those who favor keeping U.S. troops there
beyond 2016.
According to U.S. officials,
Campbell’s options would
postpone any major cuts in
troop levels this year and give
him more leeway on the pace
of any reductions next year.
The options, officials said,
include keeping as many as
8,000 troops there well into
next year and maintaining
several thousand troops as
a counterterrorism force into
2017. The options would allow for a gradual decline in
troop numbers over the coming year, depending on the
security conditions in Afghanistan and the capabilities of the Afghan forces, who
sustained heavy combat losses this year and last.
As far back as March, during top-level meetings at the
Camp David presidential retreat, senior administration
officials were leaving the door
open to a small counterterrorism force in Afghanistan
in 2017. Afghan President
Ashraf Ghani and the Republican-controlled Congress
favor extending the U.S. military presence. Ghani has expressed worry about militants
affiliated with the Islamic
State group trying to gain a
wider foothold in his country.
Both Defense Secretary
Ash Carter and Secretary of
State John Kerry have suggested the importance of the
U.S continuing its counterterrorism missions in Afghanistan, even into 2017. During
the Camp David meetings,
Kerry said the administration
was concerned about reports
that Islamic State militants
are recruiting in Afghanistan
and that some Taliban were
rebranding themselves as Islamic State members. Since
then, other U.S. officials have
cited the Islamic State as a
potentially growing threat,
and the Taliban have made
inroads in the southern province of Helmand.
Today’s weather artwork by
Boone Richard,
a 1st grader in
Mrs. Peltier’s class
Markets
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Soybeans .....................$8.20
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Milo ...(per bushel) ........$3.27
Soybeans .....................$8.10
Nusun .........................$14.05
NEW YORK (AP) – U.S.
stocks are rising in afternoon trading Wednesday following big gains in Asia and
Europe, but major indexes
are still heading for their
worst quarterly close in four
years. Many stock benchmarks around the world
have also lost ground in the
third quarter, weighed down
by weak growth in major
economies and the prospect
of higher U.S. interest rates.
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