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CONCORDIA
VOL. CIX NO. 100 (USPS 127-880)
CONCORDIA, KANSAS 66901
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Brownback, Davis debate issues
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) —
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback vowed Monday to defend
Kansas’ ban on same-sex marriage, while Democratic challenger Paul Davis said during a
debate Monday that there’s
nothing either of them can do at
this point because the matter is
in the hands of the courts.
The issue came up during a
televised debate at KWCH studios in Wichita in the wake of a
U.S. Supreme Court decision
earlier this month that cleared
the way for gay marriages in several states. The American Civil
Liberties Union is seeking a
court order that would allow gay
marriages in Kansas, and a federal judge has set a hearing for
Friday.
Kansas has a voter-approved
ban on same-sex marriage in its
constitution. Davis was a lawmaker when the Legislature
debated it, and he said Monday
that he did not support the constitutional amendment because
he believed it would have an
adverse effect on the welcoming
image the state has had for
decades. But he added that the
people of Kansas decided by a
significant majority to put the
prohibition in the constitution,
and he respects that decision.
“The fact of the matter is that
at this particular time there is
nothing I can do, there is nothing Gov. Brownback can do to
impact this issue,” Davis said.
“It is in the court system.”
Brownback noted that 70 percent of Kansans voted for the
amendment.
“There is something that Rep.
Davis and I can do on this and
that is as governor defend our
constitution, and he is not even
saying whether he would defend
our constitution where our peo-
ple have voted on this issue,”
Brownback said.
Their final debate is Tuesday
before the Kansas Association of
Broadcasters meeting. The
back-to-back appearances come
amid recent independent polling
that shows the race has tightened as outside money from
groups has flooded into the
state.
Davis is wooing moderate
Republicans and unaffiliated
voters who are worried about tax
cuts enacted at Brownback’s
urging. The cuts dropped the
state’s top personal income tax
rate by 26 percent and exempted the owners of 191,000 businesses from income taxes
altogether.
“The governor’s experiment is
not working and it is not going to
work,” Davis said.
But the governor promised to
keep pushing what he calls “a
County
sets date
for hearing
Fall vocal concert
Concordia Junior and Senior High
School vocal music departments will have
their Fall concert at 7 p.m., Thursday,
Oct. 23, at the CHS Auditorium. The
Senior High School Chamber Choir and
the Junior High Select Choir will be performing. Admission is free and the public
is welcome.
Across Kansas
Wheat seeding
is behind normal
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas farmers
are running a bit behind normal in planting next year’s winter wheat crop.
Monday’s weekly update from the
National Agricultural Statistics Service
showed 78 percent of the winter wheat
now seeded in Kansas. That is below the
five-year average of 84 percent by midOctober.
About 58 percent of the wheat crop has
emerged.
Meanwhile, harvest continues for other
farm crops. About 66 percent of the corn
in Kansas has now been cut. Sorghum
harvest is at 25 percent, while the soybean
harvest is 31 percent complete. About 12
percent of the state’s sunflowers have also
been cut.
Teen sentenced
in death of father
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A northeast
Kansas teenager will spend five years and
four months in a juvenile facility for killing
his father during a custody exchange.
The Kansas City Star reports the Bonner Springs youth was sentenced in Johnson County on Monday, which was his
16th birthday. He pleaded guilty earlier to
second-degree murder.
The fatal shooting occurred in July
2013 outside a Shawnee business where
the boy’s mother and stepfather had
arranged to turn him over to his 46-yearold father. The mother and stepfather were
inside when the teen walked to his father’s
car and fired several times with a handgun.
Woman arrested
after slow-speed chase
ST. MARYS, Kan. (AP) — The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office has
arrested a woman who it says led officers
on a slow-speed chase and ran into a
police car.
Deputies say the chase began Sunday
night after authorities received a call
about an unwanted person at a home in
Emmett. They say the 43-year-old woman
from Topeka left in a van and wouldn’t pull
over for authorities. Deputies say she was
driving slowly.
The chase ended in St. Marys after city
police officers used spike strips on the
van.
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growth agenda and not a tax
agenda.”
Brownback contends the tax
cuts are boosting the economy,
but the Legislature’s nonpartisan research staff predicts a
$260 million budget shortfall by
July 2016.
Education cuts have been a
focus throughout the campaign
and remained so in the latest
encounter.
The Kansas Supreme Court
has found the state’s education
spending unconstitutional and
ordered the state to better fund
its schools. Brownback has
steadfastly claimed he has
increased education spending,
while Davis contends the incumbent is misleading voters by
counting outside factors such as
pensions in his numbers.
Davis said his first priority if
elected governor is to restore
education funding.
New sign
Missy Giersch, left, and Sharon Klima work on a new sign above the door at the Hattan Dental Clinic on Monday afternoon. (Blade photo by Jay Lowell)
Democrats enjoy having
minimum wage on the ballot
CHICAGO (AP) — As Democrats across the
country make an election-year push to raise
the minimum wage, they often point to fast
food workers, baristas and others who are
struggling to raise families, pay rent or get
through school — some on as little as $7.25
per hour.
First, though, they are out to help themselves.
Looking to motivate younger people, minorities and others in their base to go to the polls
on Nov. 4, the party has put questions on the
ballot in five states asking voters whether the
minimum wage should be increased. The issue
is also a near-constant topic on the campaign
trail, as Democrats work to identify themselves as stalwarts for the middle class and to
paint Republicans — who typically oppose
raising the wage because they say it will lead
to job cuts — as uncaring.
In one state, Illinois, the campaign to sup-
port the minimum wage would not actually
raise the wage. The ballot question is nonbinding and would only ask voters their opinion.
But for getting out the vote, the issue is “a
winner with everybody in our state,” said
Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, who said
he urged party leaders to put it on the ballot.
“So encouraging people to vote that issue
when it came to the ballot questions, and contrasting Democratic positions with Republican
positions, I thought was a worthy issue for this
election campaign.”
Illinois Democrats are fighting to keep control of one of the party’s last strongholds in the
Midwest. Gov. Pat Quinn, with backing from
labor unions, has hit his wealthy Republican
rival repeatedly for earlier statements that he
wanted to cut and even eliminate the minimum wage, calling him an “out-of-touch” multimillionaire.
Donors respond to need for blood
Sixty-nine Cloud Countians and surrounding area residents responded to the critical
need for blood when the Red Cross Bloodmobile had a drive Oct. 16, at the Kansas National Guard Armory in Concordia.
Giving the gift of life were 59 productive
donors with the possibility of saving 177 lives.
First time donors were Austin Graham and
Richard Ramsey.
EcoWater, Concordia, furnished the water
for all donors and volunteers. Setting up and
taking down the equipment were American
Legion members Damon Christensen, Duane
Johnson, Rick Simpson, Trey Workman, Caleb
Strait, Perry Johnston and Davin Strait. Members of the American Legion Auxiliary who pre-
pared and served the hot meal were Lorene
Phipps, Karen Driscoll, Jennifer Ramsey, Vicki
Roberts, Laura Christensen, Genna Strait,
Myrna Campbell, Doris Hale, Charlotte Love,
Marylou Fellows and Gwen Trost.
Bloodmobile volunteers who assisted before
and during the visit were Janet Istas, Martha
Fyfe, Ruth Bombardier, Janice Strait, Lea
Rott, Ann Lanoue, Carol Jones, Alice Walker,
Rose Maginness and Josephine Wiesner.
A total of 211 volunteer hours were contributed to the drive for which Cloud County
Health Center Auxiliary is the sponsor.
Next Bloodmobile visit will be Wednesday,
Dec. 17, from noon-6 p.m. at the National
Guard Armory, Concordia.
Bridge project receives funding
Cities and counties receiving funding
under a Kansas Department of Transportation
program designed to reduce the number of
deficient bridges on local road systems have
been selected.
Among the recipients of 77 local bridge projects announced by KDOT secretary Mike King
is the bridge 1.0 mile west and 1.5 mile north
of Hollis. Project cost is $488,376 with a federal match of $390,701.
Following a discussion with Ashley McMillan Hutchinson, CloudCorp executive director, about the
Neighborhood Revitalization Program, Cloud County commissioners
Monday set 3:15 p.m., Nov. 10, as
the time for a public hearing for
consideration for the plan extension.
McMillan Hutchinson presented
the board with a draft copy of the
plan and the Inter-local Agreement
and possible timeline for renewal of
the program.
In other business, Andy Asch,
highway administrator, reported the
bridge on 150th Road north of Noble
Road has been accepted in the
Kansas Local Bridge Improvement
Program; Campbell and Johnson
will be doing the 2015 bi-annual
inspections, which includes 267
bridges for a total cost of $16,195;
employees are continuing to haul
rock; they have finished chip sealing
the Ames/Miltonvale road and will
be completing the striping later this
week.
Crews were in Glasco Monday
and today to assist with the chip
sealing of the streets.
Alicia Bond, Group Benefit Specialists, presented information concerning
benefits
for
county
employees and service provided by
GBS.
Bond recommended that no
changes be made to the benefits for
county employees and set Thursday,
Nov. 13, as the date for open enrollment.
The board had two executive sessions.
A 10-minute session was held to
discuss confidential business data.
Included in the session were McMillan Hutchinson and Larry Uri, Concordia city manager.
A five-minute session was held for
attorney-client privilege.
In other matters the board
•approved a resolution appointing Scott D. Wright attorney, as acting Cloud County Attorney because
of potential conflict by the county
attorney.
•approved continuing with Blue
Cross Blue Shield as the county
health insurance provider for 2015
for county employees.
•heard information on benefits
Family Heritage offers from Mandy
Helwege, Family Heritage representative.
•County Attorney Robert Walsh
discussed Green Road, which had
been closed, with Ron and Julia
Johnson.
Meetings attended by commissioners during the past week
include: Gary Caspers, Cloud County Resources Council meeting, Oct.
14; and KWORCC Board of
Trustees, Oct. 16; Gail Engle, Juvenile Detention meeting in Junction
City, Oct. 15; Johnita Crawford, the
North Central Regional Planning
Leadership Committee meeting in
Minneapolis Oct. 14.
50 years ago
Oct. 21, 1964—Riverside
Sno-Grip Economy snow
tires were $12 at Montgomery Ward. . . . Janice Lanoue
of Aurora, who completed
specialized
schooling
in
Omaha, had accepted work
in New York City as an automatic operator with the
Western Union company.
25 years ago
Oct. 21, 1989—Youth
conirmed at a Mass celebrated by the Most Rev.
George K. Fitzsimons at
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Catholic Church in Concordia were Joan Kocher,
Carolyn Dreiling, Heidi Cote,
Stacy Strait, Amy Goddard,
Christy
Grant,
Malinda
Swihart, Jina Moon, Debbie Miller, Jared Budreau,
Marcia Sorell, Keith Snyder, Jamie Fouquet, Justin
Nichols,Thad Longenecker,
Brad Johnson, Brandon
Jager, Jackie Cibolski, Trinity Fouquet, Brandon Mauch,
Melissa
Hood,
Jennifer
Strait, Vince Charbonneau,
Lisa Kirchoff, Lee Clark,
Becky Snyder, Jill Gennette
and Rachel Eustice. . . . In
a unanimous vote, Jamestown city council members
accepted the resignation of
Jamestown’s utilities superintendent, Jack Derowitsch
who had been accused of
appropriating city money for
personal use.
10 years ago
Oct. 21, 2004—CloudCorp with private loans from
local individuals, had acquired from Robert P. and
Darline L. Rasure the Concordia Lumber Company
properties for the construc-
tion of a new movie theatre.
The properties, 240 W. 5th
and 231 W. 6th would help
facilitate the construction of
a $1.33 million four-screen,
irst-run theater and related
public parking to be located
in downtown Concordia. . . .
Concordia senior Sarah Fogle qualiied for the Class 4A
state cross country meet by
placing ifth in the regional
at Hiawatha.
5 years ago
Oct. 21, 2009—Concordia Panthers defeated the
Larned Indians 44-26 for
their irst football win of the
season. . . . Cloud County
Commission approved a
50 cent hourly increase for
JJA/Community
Corrections employees, Christine
Witt, Dawn Snyder, Randy
Sorell and Rose Splichal.
Commissioners Gail Engle
and Johnita Crawford voted
for the measure and commissioner Gary Caspers
voted against it saying that
a pay increase for all other
county employees had been
denied.
1 year ago
Oct. 21, 2013—After 45
minutes of executive sessions, Cloud County board
of trustees approved a 3.5
percent raise for faculty
and support staff on a 4-2
vote. Greg Askren and Dave
Clemons voted against the
measure, voicing economic
times and decrease in enrollment as their reasons. .
. . Ryan Mortimer, Concordia Middle School ifth grade
teacher, received a grant
from U.S. Cellular which he
used to purchase gym balls
for his students.
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Letters to the Editor Your Birthday
Dear Editor,
One deinition of insanity is doing the same thing over
and over and expecting different outcomes. Democrats and
Republicans in Congress seem to spend all their time yelling across the aisle at each other, playing partisan games,
then wondering why the real problems do not get solved.
Budgets don’t get passed and gridlock is a way of life in
Congress. This must change.
The undersigned, former opponents and party warriors,
think that the upcoming election offers a way to push back
against the destructive extremism that has come to dominate both political parties. We write to urge the election of
Greg Orman as an Independent Senator with the ability to
stand in the middle and ind actual solutions.
Greg Orman is an independent businessman who has
made a career of bringing people together to ind the best
ideas and then implement them. Good ideas are not the exclusive property of either political party. As an Independent
Senator, Greg Orman will choose the best solutions without
having to answer to a political party. He will answer to the
people.
This election represents an opportunity to take bold
action which will ix the mess in Kansas and also send a
reverberating message to complacent, unresponsive, irresponsible incumbents across the Nation. Orman’s election
in Kansas will give incentive to overly partisan incumbents
to clean up their act, not just for their own survival, but for
the good of our country.
Please join us in this effort to elect a new type of Senator
for Kansas, Greg Orman, independent problem solver.
Respectfully and Proudly Kansan,
Rochelle Chronister
State Republican Chairwoman, 1989-91
Neodesha, Kansas
John T. Bird
State Democratic Chairman, 1991-93
Hays, Kansas
By Stella Wilder
Born today, you often
deine yourself according
to the way others see you,
and your self-worth is very
much wrapped up in their
opinions of you. You understand and appreciate
that this can be a rather
unsteady, even dangerous
way to live, but what choice
do you have? You are made
the way you are made, and
the stars have decreed that
you will care deeply about
what others think of you.
So instead of trying to be
something that you are not,
you must spend much of
your life learning to navigate the uneven, treacherous ground upon which you
conduct your affairs, both
private and public. You are
not the kind to shrug things
off with ease.
You can be an intensely
private individual, yet you
require the contact of others to give your life meaning. This is a paradox that
you will be trying to igure
out through much of your
life; it’s not an easy puzzle
to solve, but solving it is an
essential endeavor for you.
Also born on this date
are: Kim Kardashian, television personality; Carrie
Fisher, actress; Benjamin
Netanyahu, Israeli prime
minister; Judy Sheindlin,
judge and television personality; Dizzy Gillespie,
musician; Alfred Nobel,
inventor; Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, poet.
To see what is in store
for you tomorrow, ind your
birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let
your birthday star be your
daily guide.
WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 22
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
-- You may get a sneak peak
at something someone else
is working on. Is what you
see any reason for concern?
That’s not likely.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21) -- A promise is made
that changes everything,
but you may not be able
to believe, with your whole
heart, what is offered.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21) -- Any errors you
make today are sure to be
unintentional. You are acting in good faith, and you
want the best for everyone
involved.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19) -- What happens in
and around the home will be
more important -- and more
urgent -- than anything that
happens at the workplace.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18) -- You have an ace in the
hole, but you won’t know if
it’s a card you can play until
those around you lay down
their bets.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20) -- You may be remembering a good time you had
with a friend who is currently on the outs for reasons you cannot really understand.
ARIES (March 21-April
19) -- When you get your
work done, you’re going
to want to treat yourself
to something special. The
choices are quite intriguing.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20) -- Environmental inluences may be pushing you
in a certain direction at this
time. Take care that you’re
not giving up what you most
value.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20) -- Be sure to pass messages along in a timely manner -- and be sure, too, that
the wording you use accurately conveys the proper
tone!
CANCER (June 21-July
22) -- You and a friend can
put your heads together and
come up with a plan that
has others excited about
what lies ahead.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -Take care that you don’t get
so caught up in another’s
process that you forget to do
for yourself the things you
most need.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22) -- You may need more
rest at this time than you
are used to giving yourself.
The demands being made of
you may be quite unusual.
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2 Blade-Empire, Tuesday, October 21, 2014
PEOPLE
Annie’s
Mailbox
by Kathy Mitchell and
Marcy Sugar
Dear Annie: Before my father died, my husband and
I promised him we would
bring my mother to live with
us after he was gone. Our
home situation was perfect,
although we needed to make
a few renovations so Mom
would be comfortable. Dad
asked to approve the renovation plans, which he did,
and then he said he'd give
us $15,000 so we could ix
the house. Unfortunately,
we never put this in writing.
After
Dad
died,
we
brought Mom to our home.
We borrowed an additional
$6,000 from her with the
intent to pay her back. She
paid us "rent" every month
— an amount less than half
of what she had been paying
at the assisted-living facility
where she and Dad lived.
Eight years later, Mom
died. My sister and I each
inherited half of Mom's estate. My sister thinks her
share is $21,000. I told her
that because most of Mom's
money went into the house,
she will get paid when the
house is sold. (It's on the
market.)
Am I obligated to give
my sister $21,000 when
$15,000 of this money was
a gift to us to ix the house?
Her husband has stopped
speaking to us and has badmouthed us to family and
friends. I don't know what
to do, but it doesn't seem
fair to give her more than
we end up with. — We Took
Care of Mom
Dear Took Care: What
are the terms of the will?
You cannot change them
simply because they may be
unfair. If the will says your
sister gets half of everything, that's what she gets.
If it is unclear, consult the
attorney who drew it up.
And please decide whether
the money is more important than your relationship
with your sister, because
that is what it boils down
to. You sound like a caring
and kind daughter, but you
have illustrated why it is so
important to put these arrangements in writing.
Dear Annie: Years ago, I
read about a cure for seasickness.
It said to put an aspirin
in your belly button and
Scotch tape over it. Some
said the cure worked even
without the aspirin. I've tried
it both ways and haven't
been seasick in 20 years.
I even started using duct
tape because when I sweat,
the Scotch tape comes off.
It works great. Before this,
I had tried pills, bracelets
and a patch, and nothing
worked.
My wife never had a problem with seasickness, so
she wouldn't try this. On
our last cruise, the seas
were very rough. At breakfast, she was sick as a dog
and had to go back to bed.
I, with my duct tape over my
navel, was perfectly ine.
The problem is, nobody
believes me. They think
I'm playing a joke on them.
Would it be possible for you
to ind out? It could help a
lot of people enjoy the water.
— J.
Dear J.: We cannot verify
whether this home remedy
works, although a quick
Internet search turned up
a great many people who
think it does. It doesn't seem
to be harmful, so if it works
for you, great. (We're sure
our readers have plenty of
other suggestions.)
Dear Annie: This is for
"Wondering," who cheated
on his wife and now she
asks questions that he inds
"annoying." Let me ill him
in a little on the other side.
I was in your wife's shoes,
and I forgave my husband
but wanted some questions
answered. His refusal to do
so was the only major issue we fought about. I can
no longer get the answers
because he died suddenly
a few years ago. And it's
the one thing that still sits
in the back of my mind and
mars my memories of him.
So, "Wondering," please
ind a way to answer your
wife's questions so the
cheating can truly recede
into the background. You
never know when it will be
too late. — Been There
Annie's Mailbox is written
by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors
of the Ann Landers column.
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Flags committee makes
plans for Veterans Day
Avenue of Flags committee met Monday evening at
the American Legion Home
and made plans for Veterans
Day.
Flags will be placed at
the Avenue at Pleasant Hill
Cemetery at 8 a.m. and taken down at 4 p.m. and folded
at American Legion Home.
A ceremony will be held at
11 a.m. at the Eternal Flame
at 8th and Washington.
Nine members attended
Monday’s meeting. Next
meeting will be at 7:30 p.m.,
November 3rd, at the same
location.
Club notes
AARP Chapter #589 met
Oct. 17 at the Concordia
Senior Center for lunch and
a business session. The
meeting opened with the
Flag Salute led by Dan Gerber, and a patriotic song,
also led by Gerber. Ten
members and two guests
attended. The Chapter had
137 volunteer hours and
$9 was donated to the Food
Bank.
Gerber introduced State
Trooper Greg Askren who
spoke on “Safety of Wearing
Seat Belts.” He also spoke
on the importance of making complete stops at stop
signs before making turns,
checking left and right for
trafic and also checking
in the mirror for trafic behind. Many accidents can
be avoided by following
these simple precautions.
President Dolores Landry
introduced Bill Czapanskiy,
candidate for Cloud County
commissioner. Czapanskiy
said if he is elected, he will
try to do his best.
Next meeting will be Nov.
21 at the same location.
Murderer sues state
over prison porn ban
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)
– A convicted murderer sentenced to more than a halfcentury behind bars is suing the state of Connecticut,
saying its ban on pornography in prison violates his
constitutional rights.
Dwight Pink Jr., 44, says
in the lawsuit iled in U.S.
District Court in July that
guards have used the policy
to deny him an art book,
“The Atlas of Foreshortening,” which uses nude models to help show how to draw
the human form.
Pink says the ban is a
violation of his free speech
rights and serves no meaningful objective in prison.
The state iled its response Monday, saying Pink
has not been harmed by the
ban and none of his rights
were violated.
“Any injury or harm, if
any, was caused solely by
plaintiff’s own acts, omissions, or conduct and was
not due to any wrongful
conduct by the defendants,”
Assistant Attorney General
Steven Strom wrote.
The state Department
of Correction put out the
administrative directive in
2011. It bans all material
that contains “pictorial depictions of sexual activity or
nudity” from the prisons.
But it also says the ban
should not apply to “materials which, taken as a whole,
are literary, artistic, educational or scientiic in nature.”
A prison spokesman at
the time said the ban was
intended to improve the
work environment for prison staffers, especially female staffers, who might
be inadvertently exposed to
pornography.
It led to a letter-writing
campaign and threats of
lawsuits from inmates upset
with the policy.
Jaclyn
Falkowski,
a
spokeswoman for the at-
torney general’s ofice, said
about a half dozen lawsuits
have been iled since then
challenging the ban in both
federal and state courts.
She said those cases are
still being litigated.
But a judge in 2012 refused to issue a preliminary
injunction allowing inmate
Akove Ortiz to possess magazines like “Playboy.”
“Although prisoners do
not forfeit all of their constitutional rights upon incarceration, the fact of incarceration and the needs
of the prison system impose
limitations on prisoners’
constitutional rights, even
those derived from the First
Amendment,” the judge
wrote in his ruling.
William Dunlap, a law
professor at Quinnipiac
University, said courts have
generally sided with prison
oficials in such cases if
they can prove the ban has
a legitimate goal other than
to simply suppress material that some people might
ind objectionable – such as
maintaining safety in the
prisons or keeping the material out of the hands of sex
offenders.
But he said the lawsuit
has a chance of succeeding
if Pink can show it was improperly used in his case to
suppress art or literature.
“I think that’s a much
stronger argument than
saying the statute itself is
facially unconstitutional,”
he said.
Pink is serving a 56-year
sentence for his part in the
1998 slaying of a 35-yearold father of two in Old Saybrook. Scott Ruin was shot
up to ive times in the head
with two guns and stabbed
in the heart seven times
with a sword, authorities
said. Pink led authorities
to the skeletal remains two
years after the killing, which
he said was committed by
another man.
Schools closed in
suspect search area
A northeastern Pennsylvania school district closed
its schools Tuesday after at
least two reported sightings
of the suspect in a deadly
state police ambush.
Oficials in the Pocono
Mountain School District
announced the decision to
cancel classes shortly after
5 a.m. Tuesday.
In the latest possible
sighting, an oficer with Pocono Mountain Regional Police reported seeing a man
dressed in green in a wooded area near the Swiftwater
Post Ofice around 2 p.m.
Monday, leading to an intensive police search but no
capture.
“He lost visual contact
with the man through the
woods. A search of the area
was conducted but no one
was located,” Trooper Tom
Kelly said Tuesday morning.
The post ofice is less than
a half-mile from a Pocono
Mountain School District’s
Swiftwater campus, which
includes a high school, junior high and elementary
school.
The possible sighting
came three days after a
woman said she saw a rile-toting man with a mudcovered face near Pocono
Mountain East High School.
District oficials had said
Monday night that schools
would be open Tuesday, with
students remaining indoors
and athletic practices moved
off site. It wasn’t immediate-
ly clear what changed their
minds, but Superintendent
Elizabeth Robison has said
the district is in close contact with state police.
A statement posted on
the district’s website Monday night, and since taken
down, said Robison spoke
to a state police oficial who
“expressed his commitment
to student safety and assured her that he will notify
her immediately if he ever
has a safety concern for any
of our schools or campuses.”
Kelly said Tuesday that
classes were canceled “as a
result of the police activity in
the area of the school.”
Frein, 31, is charged with
opening ire outside the
Blooming Grove state police
barracks on Sept. 12, killing a trooper and seriously
wounding another.
Authorities had been
searching for him in the
woods around his parents’ home in Canadensis
but shifted their primary
search area 5 or 6 miles to
the southwest after Friday
night’s sighting.
The school district had
opened with heightened security Monday, stationing
additional police oficers
at the Swiftwater campus.
As police ramped up their
search efforts nearby in response to Monday’s possible
sighting, district oficials
moved outdoor after-school
athletic practices to another
campus.
Senior Citizens Menu
Wednesday, Oct. 22—Sliced turkey, mashed potatoes/
gravy, spinach, plums, rolls; 10 a.m.—Exercise; 1 p.m.—
Boosters. Hearing Aid Svs.
Thursday, Oct. 23—Chili soup with crackers, diced
peaches, cinnamon rolls.
Friday, Oct. 24—Tuna casserole, seasoned peas, chocolate pudding; 10 a.m.—Exercise; progressive cards.
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From the
Kitchen
CHEESY, RICE & CHICKEN,
top of stove skillet dish.
Ingredients
1 Tbsp veg. oil
2 boneless, skinless, chicken breast halves
1 can(s) campbells, ..condenced cream of chicken soup
1-1/2 c water
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp black pepper
1 c uncooked, regular grain rice
2 c your choice, frozen vegetables
3/4 c shredded, cheddar cheese
Directions
1. Heat oil in a 12 inch skillet, over medium high heat.
Add chicken, and cook 10 minutes or until well browned
on both sides.
Remove chicken from skillet.
2. Stir soup, water, onion powder, black pepper, and rice
in skillet and heat to a boil.
Reduce heat to low.
Cover and cook 15 minutes.
Stirring once half way thru cooking time.
3. Stir in vegetables.
Return chicken to skillet.
Sprinkle with cheese.
Cover and cook 5-10 minutes, or untill chicken is cooked
through and rice is tender.
Serve and enjoy...
Police, courts putting
more faith in canines
BENTON, Calif. (AP) – Increasingly, police investigators and courts are putting
their faith in four-legged
tools – canines that can detect even small particles of
human remains.
But proving what these
dogs know isn’t easy.
“If only Buster could
talk,” quips Paul Dostie, as
he works his black Labrador through a wide patch
of scraggly brush, about 50
miles east of Yosemite National Park.
In his younger days,
Buster would lie down on
a spot like this to indicate
an “alert,” and bark. But
having lost a leg to cancer,
the 12-year-old canine now
prefers to poke his nose in
the direction of a particular
spot in the dirt, or at a rock,
or whatever has set off his
nose. In all, Dostie says that
Buster’s alerts have aided in
the recovery of the remains
of about 200 people.
As a reward, Dostie tosses Buster a toy. “Good boy,”
he says.
To the untrained eye, it
might seem that Buster is
simply barking for that toy.
But Dostie and others
who’ve seen Buster work
say they have little doubt
that the dog’s nose is to be
trusted.
“Seeing is believing,” says
Mark Noah, the founder of
History Flight, a nonproit
foundation whose mission
includes inding the tens of
thousands of fallen American veterans whose bodies
were never recovered.
Buster and Dostie, working with a team of volunteers
who also use ground-penetrating radar and historic
records, have helped the organization unearth the remains of missing Americans
lost in World War II battles
in Europe and on the south
Paciic island of Tarawa.
Among others, Buster
helped ind Lt. Robert Fenstermacher, an Army Air
Corps pilot whose plane
crashed in Belgium after being shot down in 1944. Last
year, his family gathered as
he was laid to rest, nearly
70 years later, in Arlington
National Cemetery.
History Flight searches
have led to the recovery of
13,000 bones on Tarawa
alone, most of them not yet
identiied, Noah says.
Other searches are often
much simpler – just the handlers and dogs, walking on
foot, mile after mile. That’s
how Deborah Palman, now
a retired specialist with the
Maine Warden Service and
her German shepherd, Alex,
found the body of a Canadian woman named Maria
Tanasichuk in 2003. Police
later determined she’d been
shot in the head executionstyle by her husband.
“My pulse must have
shot up over 200,” she says
of the moment she realized
Alex had found the body,
leading to David Tanasichuk’s conviction.
Local police departments
have been reluctant to use
the cadaver dogs for searches because their trainers
are volunteers, but that’s
changing, with these successes and as the dogs’
training has become more
standardized.
When more than one dog
has alerted independently in
the same spot, some judges
have been persuaded to allow cadaver dog evidence.
In February, for instance,
cadaver
dog
evidence
helped convict a suburban
Chicago man, Aurelio Montano, of killing his wife. She
disappeared in 1990, and
although her body was never found, investigators got
a tip, years later, and dug
up a rug at a horse farm
on which more than one
cadaver dog alerted. They
contended that Montano
had wrapped the body in
the rug.
Evidence tied to cadaver
dogs hasn’t worked in some
other cases, though.
In the high-proile 2011
Florida trial of Casey Anthony – accused of killing
her young daughter – more
than one cadaver dog alerted on the trunk of Anthony’s car. Arpad Vass, then
a senior research scientist
with the Oak Ridge National
Lab, testiied that using air
samples from the trunk,
he’d found high levels of
chloroform, which can be
found when a body breaks
down. However, his science
was questioned by other
witnesses, and Anthony
was freed.
Cadaver dogs “are an incredible investigatory tool
– no question about it,”
says Lawrence Kobilinsky,
professor and chairman of
the department of sciences
at the John Jay College of
Criminal Justice in New
York.
But in order to present
the dogs’ alerts as court
evidence, he believes forensic experts irst need to
“strengthen the science” to
prove what they’ve found.
Even in investigations,
dogs alerting is often just
the irst step in what can be
a lengthy, sometimes fruitless endeavor.
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Finding victims
in Indiana case
a lengthy process
GARY, Ind. (AP) – Investigators in two states are reviewing unsolved murders
and missing person reports
after the arrest of an Indiana man who police say
confessed to killing seven
women and hinted at more
victims over a 20-year span.
But determining whether
others have fallen prey to
Darren Vann, 43, a former
Marine convicted of sexual
assault in Texas in 2009,
could take years, a former
high-ranking agent at the
FBI’s Chicago ofice said.
That some of his alleged victims may have been prostitutes or had fallen through
society’s cracks could also
complicate the investigation.
“It does make it dificult.
It indicates he preyed on individuals that might be less
likely to be reported missing,” said Gary Mayor Karen
Freeman-Wilson.
Vann was charged Monday in the strangulation
death of 19-year-old Afrikka Hardy, whose body was
found Friday in a bathtub at
a Motel 6 in Hammond, 20
miles southeast of Chicago.
He also was charged with
murder in commission of a
robbery and robbery causing great bodily injury.
A probable cause afidavit
said police identiied Vann
from surveillance video outside the motel.
Hammond Police Chief
John Doughty said Vann
confessed to Hardy’s slaying and directed police to six
bodies in abandoned homes
in nearby Gary. Charges in
those cases are expected
this week.
Police in Gary and Austin,
Texas, said they are reviewing missing person reports
and unsolved cases to determine whether any might be
connected to Vann after he
indicated during interviews
that he had killed before.
Former FBI agent Joseph
Ways Sr., now executive director of the Chicago Crime
Commission, a non-governmental watchdog group,
told The Associated Press
that such investigations can
stretch into years. Investigators will trace Vann’s footsteps, down to examining
gas receipts and toll both
records, to learn where he
traveled.
Ways said teenagers or
adults who maintain close
contact with their families
are typically reported missing quickly, but that’s not
always the case for those
engaged in prostitution, he
said.
“If one of them goes missing for days or weeks, it
might be that nobody notices,” he said. “It’s a shame.”
Doughty said Hardy was
involved in prostitution and
had arranged to meet Vann
at the motel through a Chicago-area website. Police
were called by someone who
attempted to reach Hardy
but received text message
responses that made no
sense and that she believed
came from the suspect.
The backgrounds of the
other victims weren’t immediately revealed.
Police took Vann into custody Saturday afternoon,
and during interviews the
suspect confessed to Hardy’s killing, told investigators where the Gary bodies
could be found and hinted
at other victims since the
1990s, Doughty said.
“It could go back as far
as 20 years based on some
statements we have, but
that has yet to be corroborated,” Doughty said. The
Gary slayings appeared to
have happened recently, he
said.
The body of one victim,
35-year-old Anith Jones of
Merrillville, Indiana, was
found Saturday night in an
abandoned home. She had
been missing since Oct. 8.
Five more bodies were
found Sunday in other
homes. Doughty identiied
two of the women as Gary
residents Teaira Batey, 28,
and Christine Williams, 36.
Police have not determined
the identities of the other
three women, including two
whose bodies were found on
the same block where Jones’
body was found.
Austin police on Monday
said they would review potential related cases based
on information provided by
Indiana police.
Vann is registered as a
sex offender in Texas, where
the Department of Public
Safety listed his risk of attacking someone again as
“low.” He did not register in
Indiana.
Court records in Travis
County, Texas, show Vann
served a ive-year prison
sentence, with credit for the
15 months he was in jail
awaiting trial, after pleading
guilty in 2009 to sexually
assaulting a woman at an
Austin apartment two years
earlier.
The woman told police
that she went to Vann’s
apartment, where he asked
if she was a police oficer.
After she told him no, he
knocked her down, strangled her, hit her several
times in the face and told
her he could kill her. He
then raped her.
Vann allowed the woman
to leave and she called police the next day.
The circumstances of
that case had similarities
to Hardy’s death, according
to the victim’s mother and
court records.
Lori Townsend said police
told her that Vann asked
her daughter to perform a
certain sex act, and “when
she said ‘no’ and put up a
ight, he snapped and strangled her.”
Vann told police Hardy
began to ight during sex
and that he strangled her
with his hands and an extension cord, the probable
cause afidavit says.
“This man is sick,”
Townsend said from her
home in Colorado.
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Sports
Steelers
rally past
Texans
Royals’ Cain,
Holland learning
about fatherhood
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The
deluge started with a desperation third-down heave,
a trickle that turned into a
downpour and led to another abrupt turn in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ confounding
season.
Good one week and lousy
the next, Pittsburgh managed to be both in a 30-23
victory over the mistakeprone Houston Texans on
Monday night.
Ben
Roethlisberger
passed for two touchdowns
and wide receiver Antonio
Brown added another on a
gadget play during a decisive
73-second stretch late in the
first half that moved the
Steelers from down 10 to an
11-point lead.
“You stand on the sidelines long enough, you will
see explosions such as that,”
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin
said. “It was good to be on
the good side of it.”
Roethlisberger finished
with 265 yards passing.
Le’Veon Bell racked up 145
yards of total offense,
including a 43-yard catchand-run with less than 2
minutes to go in the first half
that became the spark the
Steelers desperately needed.
“That provided the type of
emotion the group needed,”
Tomlin said. “Then we kind
of fed off that. The guys really capitalized on it.”
Arian Foster ran for 102
yards for Houston (3-4), but
just 29 over the final three
quarters. Ryan Fitzpatrick
was 21 of 32 for 262 yards
with two touchdowns and an
interception, but the Texans
were undone by three
turnovers, including consecutive offensive snaps that
handed the momentum over
to the Steelers.
“We had a terrible second
quarter,” Houston coach Bill
O’Brien said. “We couldn’t
come back from it. Just too
many turnovers. We just
had a hard time overcoming
all those things.”
Texans defensive end J.J.
Watt recovered a fumble and
picked up his third sack of
the season but was neutralized for most of the second
half.
Pittsburgh was listless for
the first 25 minutes, letting
Foster and Fitzpatrick do
whatever they wanted as the
Texans raced to a 13-0 lead
that seemed larger.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)
— Lorenzo Cain is learning
that he doesn’t get a
reprieve from diaper duty
just to play in some silly
baseball games. He’s also
learning that changing diapers is harder than it looks.
“Been peed on a few
times,” he said, breaking
into a grin. “Got me twice
this morning.”
While the rest of the
Kansas City Royals are
focused on the World Series,
which begins Tuesday night
against the San Francisco
Giants, Cain and teammate
Greg Holland are trying to
figure out all the intricacies
of fatherhood in their rare
moments away from the
ballpark.
Cain and his wife, Jenny,
welcomed Cameron Loe
Cain into the world on Oct.
7, a day off between the
Royals’ sweep of the Angels
in the AL Division Series
and the start of the AL
Championship
Series
against Baltimore. The tiny
tot showed up a week after
Holland and his wife, Lacey,
had Nash Gregory Holland
on a day off between their
wild-card win and the
ALDS.
Now, Cain and Holland
are swapping stories about
those late-night diaper
changes.
“Haven’t mastered it yet,
but I’m willing to learn,”
Cain said. “It’s tough. You
have to hold the legs up,
position him right. He’s
kicking and squirming all
over the place. It’s tough.”
About as tough as making one of those running
catches at the outfield wall
that already has made Cain
a playoff star, earning him
the MVP award in the ALCS.
But probably not as tough
as the hurdles both players
encountered in making sure
they were present for the
births.
After the Royals rallied to
beat Oakland in a 12-inning
epic, Holland hopped a
plane home to North Carolina. The plan was to induce
the next day, and Nash
arrived at 7 pounds, 10
ounces.
Holland didn’t get to
spend much time with his
son. The next day, he was
on a chartered flight to
Southern California. After
getting stuck in traffic, he
arrived at the ballpark in
the middle of Game 1 of the
ALDS. A couple hours later,
Attacking
Cloud County’s Gaby da Silva attacks against Butler Community College Monday night in
Bryant Gymnasium. She had nine kills in the Thunderbirds’ win. (Blade photo by Jay Lowell)
Thunderbirds drop Grizzlies
The Cloud County Thunderbirds notched a fifth
straight Jayhawk Conference Western Division volleyball win by dropping
Butler Community College
3-1 Monday night in Bryant
Gymnasium.
Cloud County has rattled
off five wins in a row since a
loss to Seward County, and
is now 17-6 overall and 9-4
and tied for second place
with Colby in the Confer-
ence.
The T-Birds lost the first
set to the Grizzlies, 10-18
overall and 3-9 in the Jayhawk West, 25-22.
Cloud County evened the
match at 1-1 with a 25-20
victory in the third set.
The T -Birds rolled to a
25-14 win in the third set.
Cloud County capped off
the win by taking the fourth
set, 25-19.
Jocelyn Marten had 13
kills, four digs and two stuff
blocks for the T-Bird.
Kaylee Bontrager finished with 12 kills.
Laura Sudbeck had 11
kills and Gaby da Silva had
nine.
Jaci Kolm had 49 assists
and six digs for Cloud
County.
Emily Brown finished
with 18 digs.
The T-Birds play at Colby
on Wednesday night.
Champlin places 60th at state
KANSAS CITY, Kan. —
Playing in the Class 4A state
golf tournament for the
fourth consecutive year,
Concordia’s Janae Champlin finished in 60th place
Monday at Dub’s Dread Golf
Club.
Champlin posted a score
of 114 in the tournament.
Brittany Jensen, DeSoto,
and Anna Pool, Coffeyville,
each shot 79 to tie for first
place.
Jensen birdied the first
playoff hole to earn medalist
honors.
Emily Pennington, Piper,
placed third with an 83.
Hays won the team title
with a score of 364. Topeka
Hayden finished second
with a 380 and Goodland
was third with a 391.
CLASS 4A STATE
at Dub’s Dread Golf Club
Team Scores
Hays 364, Topeka Hayden 380,
Goodland 391, Labette County 395,
Winfield 406, Thomas More Prep-Marian 427, Piper 439, Andale 449, Clay
Center 450, Frontenac 452, Spring
Hill 456.
Top 10 Individuals
1. Jensen, DeSoto, 79; 2. Pool,
Coffeyville, 79; 3. Pennington, Piper,
83; 4. Bertholf, Winfield, 85; 5. Schaben, Hays, 87; 6. Gartner, Labette
County, 88; 7. Funk, Chanute, 89; 8.
Rezac, Topeka Hayden, 90; 9. Keenan,
Larned, 91; 10. Moody, Frontenac, 91.
Upsets may cost Big 12 a spot in playoffs
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP)
— The Big 12 has been as
entertaining as any league
in the country.
All that fun might come
with a price.
Recent upsets like West
Virginia beating Baylor and
Kansas State surprising
Oklahoma have made the
conference impossible to
ignore — at least during the
regular season. They might
also cost the Big 12 a spot
in the inaugural College
Football Playoff.
“There’s just not any one
week where you can actually feel surprised by the outcome,” Baylor coach Art
Briles said.
It’s a trend that’s done
significant damage to the
CFP hopes of the Big 12’s
top contenders.
The Sooners, the preseason favorites, have two
losses. Baylor already has a
loss and a trip to Oklahoma
on Nov. 8.
League-leading Kansas
State has one loss — to No.
5 Auburn — and it’s now
ranked 11th in the country.
But the Wildcats (5-1, 3-0
Big 12) still have to play No.
10 TCU and No. 12 Baylor
on the road. The Horned
Frogs (5-1, 2-1) lost at Baylor in a wild shootout, but
they have to survive a trip
to West Virginia.
It appears as though
parity is at its peak in the
Big 12. That might not be a
good thing in a four-team
playoff era.
“Each week things get
shaken up,” Kansas interim coach Clint Bowen said.
“Every week it’s a battle.”
TCU hosts Texas Tech
(3-4, 1-3) this weekend, followed by a crucial road
game against the 22ndranked Mountaineers (5-2,
3-1). If they can get past
West Virginia — and that’s
a big if given how well the
Mountaineers have been
playing — they should be
favored in each of their
final four games.
There are just three
unbeaten power conference
teams left, and Ole Miss
and Mississippi State still
have to play each other. So
a one-loss TCU team would
likely get a look from the
CFP selection committee.
Coach Gary Patterson
knows better than to look
ahead.
“In this league, you just
need to hold onto your
hat,” he said. “For us, if
there’s anything we’ve
learned in the last few
weeks is you’ve got to keep
your nose down and understand that everyone can
play.”
After playing Oklahoma,
Baylor (6-1, 3-1) finishes
the season by hosting
Kansas State and then
Oklahoma State on Nov.
22. For now, the Bears will
host struggling Kansas (25, 0-4) on Saturday. Oklahoma has the week off
before playing at Iowa State
(2-5, 0-4).
“Every team is good. If
you make a mistake or two,
you’re going to be on the
wrong end of it. Everybody’s got talented players.
But the league’s full of good
coaches. It’s a challenge
every week,” Oklahoma
coach Bob Stoops said.
Kansas State’s home
loss to Auburn, now
ranked 5th, looks better
with each passing week.
But the Wildcats might still
need to finish the second
half of the season undefeated to earn CFP consideration, and their schedule is
loaded.
Kansas State finishes
the year with trips to TCU,
West Virginia and Baylor
sandwiched around a rivalry game with Kansas. The
Wildcats (6-1, 3-0) host
hard-to-figure Texas (3-4,
2-2) on Saturday.
A loss to the Longhorns
could doom K-State’s playoff hopes. But coach Bill
Snyder is more concerned
with beating Texas than
worrying about the possible
ramifications of a loss.
“I have absolutely no
idea. All we hear about is
the final four, so to speak,
and that’s the last thing, I
think, on most coaches’
minds. I think everybody is
trying to fight week by
week,” Snyder said when
asked if a two-loss Big 12
team might still make the
playoffs. “I don’t think
about it.”
he was closing out a 3-2 victory in 11 innings.
“I kind of made a few
security guards nervous
running up to them with a
pack over my shoulder with
my ID in my hand saying,
‘I’m a player! I’m a player!
Don’t take me to the
ground!’” Holland said this
week, “But they let me in.”
After the Royals had dispatched with the Angels in
four games, it was Cain’s
turn. He drove to Oklahoma
City after the decisive Game
4 in time to see all 6
pounds, 13 ounces of
Cameron Loe enter the
world. Soon, he was on a 6
a.m. flight to Baltimore to
join his teammates for the
ALCS.
After the Royals wrapped
up their sweep of the Orioles at Kauffman Stadium,
Cain held tightly to his son
— wearing a little stocking
cap that looked like a baseball. Father and son paraded around the ballpark
while thousands of fans
cheered.
“It’s a special time,” Cain
said. “I’m doing as much as
I can while getting some
rest. He’s kind of all over the
place with his sleep. It’s
hard to juggle it, but it’s definitely a once-in-a-lifetime
type of thing to have a kid
and get a chance to go to the
World Series.”
Once in a lifetime, perhaps. But not unheard of,
either.
When the Royals were
last in the playoffs, 29 years
ago, star pitcher Bret Saberhagen’s wife, Janeane, was
pregnant with their first
child. As the World Series
rolled around, Saberhagen
would rub his belly every
time the television cameras
were on him as a signal to
his wife. Drew William
wound up arriving at a
Kansas City hospital the
day before the Royals won
the decisive Game 7.
Saberhagen was on the
mound that night, tossing a
five-hitter in an 11-0 victory. Along with his victory in
Game 3, it would earn
Saberhagen
the
World
Series MVP award.
Call it coincidence, call it
poetic symmetry, but Drew
Saberhagen grew up to
pitch in college for Western
Carolina. Closing the games
for him during his junior
season? Holland.
“A small world,” Holland
said. “Weird.”
Tigers down Panthers
Scoring the final 22
points of the game, the Clay
Center Tigers downed the
Concordia Panthers 30-16
in junior varsity football
play Monday night at
Harold M. Clark Stadium
Concordia took a 16-8
lead in the second quarter
when
Matthew
James
returned a punt 65 yards
for a touchdown and Rope
Dorman ran in the twopoint conversion.
Clay Center got a 5-yard
scoring pass in the second
period to close the gap to
16-14.
The Tigers scored a
touchdown, and got the
two-point conversion, in the
third quarter to go up 2216.
Clay Center added a
touchdown and conversion
in the fourth period to make
the final score 30-16.
Dorman scored on a 2yard run in the first quarter
and ran in the conversion to
put Concordia up 8-0.
Clay Center tied the
game with an 8-yard touchdown run and a two-point
conversion in the second
stanza.
James then returned the
punt to give Concordia the
lead back before the Tigers
rallied for the win.
Panthers beat Bearcats
The Concordia Panthers
qualified for the sixth grade
Salvation Army Football
championship game by
defeating the Ellsworth
Bearcats 39-26 Saturday
at Harold M. Clark Stadium.
Concordia will play the
Salina Eagles in the title
game.
The Panthers had over
400 yards rushing and six
touchdowns in the win over
the Bearcats.
Concordia had four
fumble recoveries and two
quarterback sacks.
8 Blade-Empire, Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Obituaries
DAVID PAGE WILSON
David Page Wilson, age
75, of Springield, Mo. formerly of Concordia, Kan.
passed away Sunday, October 19, 2014. He was born
on December 13, 1938, in
Neodesha, Kan. to Omer Wilson and Helen (Page) Wilson.
He taught high school
Math in Kansas and Missouri.
He was preceded in death
by his parents and one sister, Barbara Davis.
Survivors include his
wife, Rochelle, son, Jared
(Samantha) Wilson, daughters Leslie (Greg) Hoyt, and
Lisa (Frank) Lewis, ive
grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren.
Memorial services will
be at 2:00 PM, Fri., Oct. 24,
2014 at Chaput-Buoy Funeral Home, Concordia with
Rev. Dean R. Frazier oficiating. Visitation with family
will be from 1:00 to 2:00 pm,
Fri. at the funeral home.
In lieu of lowers the family suggest memorial contributions can be made to:
Regional Hospice, 1328 E.
Evergreen, Springield, MO
65803. For online condolences, please visit www.
chaputbuoy.com. ChaputBuoy Funeral Home, Concordia, Kan. is handling arrangements.
White House opposes
Nazi beneit payments
WASHINGTON (AP) – Former Nazis should not be getting the Social Security beneits they are receiving as
they age overseas, the White
House said Monday, responding to an Associated Press investigation that revealed millions of dollars have been paid
to war-crimes suspects and
former SS guards who left the
U.S. for Europe.
“Our position is we don’t
believe
these
individuals
should be getting these beneits,” said spokesman Eric
Shultz when asked about the
situation.
He said the Justice Department has said it has “aggressively pursued Nazi war criminals and brought over 100 of
them to justice.” He added
that the department and the
Social Security Administration “work together within the
conines of current law to cut
off beneits for criminals that
shouldn’t be receiving them.”
AP reported Sunday that
dozens of Nazi suspects have
collected beneits after being forced out of the United
States. Though their World
War II actions led to their departure, they were not convicted of war crimes.
The
payments
lowed
through a legal loophole that
gave the Justice Department
leverage to persuade Nazi
suspects to leave the U.S. If
they agreed to go, or simply
led before deportation, they
could keep their Social Security, according to interviews
and internal U.S. government
records.
Several efforts to change
the law to cut off payments
to the few aged former Nazis
have failed.
Separately, a senior House
Democrat demanded on Monday that the Obama administration investigate the payments over the years.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney of
New York requested the inquiry in letters to the inspectors general at the Justice
Department and Social Security. Maloney, a high-ranking
member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, called the
payments a “gross misuse of
taxpayer dollars.”
Car owners urged Weather
to get air bags ixed
DETROIT (AP) – A potential safety crisis over defective air bags widened Monday as the U.S. government
issued an urgent plea to
more than 4.7 million people to get their cars ixed.
The inlator mechanisms
in the air bags can rupture,
causing metal fragments to
ly out when the bags are
deployed in crashes.
Safety advocates say at
least four people have died
from the problem and there
have been multiple injuries. They also say more
than 20 million vehicles in
the U.S. are equipped with
the faulty air bags.
The National Highway
Trafic Safety Administration warned people whose
cars have been recalled
during the past two years
for faulty air bag inlators
to take them to dealers
right away. The inlators
are made by Takata Corp.,
a Tokyo-based supplier of
seat belts, air bags, steering wheels and other auto
parts. So far, automakers
have recalled about 12 million vehicles worldwide because of the problem.
“This message comes
with urgency,” NHTSA said
in a statement. The agency
has been investigating the
problem since June, and
has cited reports of six inlators rupturing, causing
three injuries.
The warning covers cars
made by Toyota, Honda,
Mazda, BMW, Nissan, General Motors and Ford. Passenger or driver air bags or
both could be affected depending on the vehicle.
Toyota issued the latest recall Monday, covering passenger air bags in
247,000 older model vehicles including the Lexus
SC, Corolla, Matrix, Sequoia and Tundra.
Like many of the other
recalls, the Toyota recall
covers vehicles in South
Florida, along the Gulf
Coast, in Puerto Rico, Ha-
waii, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Saipan and
American Samoa – all areas that have high absolute
humidity. Toyota, in documents posted on the NHTSA website, said the company and Takata are still
trying to pinpoint the cause
of the rupture and to gauge
the inluence of high absolute humidity.
Absolute humidity is a
measurement of water vapor in the air, while relative
humidity, which is commonly used in weather reports, measures air moisture content relative to the
air temperature.
Toyota has been testing
the air bags, and it found
an unusually high incidence of inlator failures
along the coasts, according
to spokesman John Hanson. The investigation continues and the recall could
be expanded to more areas,
Hanson said.
Toyota says it knows of
no crashes or injuries from
the cars it has recalled.
Neither Toyota nor NHTSA could say exactly how
far inland the recall area
goes or what states it covers.
NHTSA urged people to
check if their car has been
recalled by going to https://
vinrcl.safercar.gov/vin/
and typing in their vehicle
identiication number.
Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the nonproit Center for Auto Safety, estimated there are 20
million to 25 million cars
in the U.S. alone that are
equipped with the faulty air
bags.
Toyota said repairs will
be done for free and notices
will go into the mail starting around Oct. 25, according to documents. People
who live in areas that are
outside of the recall zone
who are afraid of driving
their cars should contact
their dealerships, Hanson
said.
Today’s weather artwork by
Isabell Martin,
a 1st grader in
Mrs. Peltier’s class
Today’s weather artwork by
Tagnen Christenson,
a 3rd grader in
Mrs. Koester’s class
Markets
LOCAL MARKETS -EAST
Wheat ...........................$5.65
Milo ......(per bushel) ....$3.52
Corn .............................$3.17
Soybeans .....................$8.96
Oats ..............................$3.25
AGMARK
LOADING FACILITY
LOCAL MARKETS - WEST
Wheat ..........................$5.65
Milo .....(per bushel) .....$3.52
JAMESTOWN MARKETS
Wheat ...........................$5.60
Milo ...(per bushel) ........$3.45
Soybeans .....................$8.91
Nusun .........................$14.35
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S.
stock indexes rose Tuesday, putting the market on
track for a fourth gain in a
row, following an encouraging report on the Chinese
economy as well as strong
quarterly results from Apple and other big companies. Stocks continued to
recover from last week’s
plunge.
KEEPING SCORE: The
Dow Jones industrial average rose 150 points, or
0.9 percent, to 16,550 as
of 1:07 p.m. Eastern. The
Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 27 points, or 1.4
percent, to 1,931 and the
Nasdaq composite rose 72
points, or 1.6 percent, to
4,387.