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BLADE-EMPIRE
CONCORDIA
VOL. CX NO. 243 (USPS 127-880)
CONCORDIA, KANSAS 66901
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Opinion on county administrator presented
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Concordia Forecast
Tonight, mostly clear in the evening
then becoming mostly cloudy. A 50 percent
chance of rain showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the northeast 5 to 15 mph after midnight.
Wednesday, cooler. Partly sunny with a
50 percent chance of rain showers and
thunderstorms. Highs around 70. North
winds 10 to 20 mph.
Wednesday night, partly cloudy. Lows in
the upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 15
mph.
Thursday, sunny. Highs in the lower
70s. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
Thursday night, mostly clear. Lows in
the upper 40s.
Friday, sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
Friday night, partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 40s.
Saturday, cooler. Mostly sunny. Highs
in the lower 60s.
Saturday night, partly cloudy in the
evening then becoming mostly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 40s.
Sunday, mostly cloudy with chance of
rain showers. Highs in the lower 60s.
Chance of showers 50 percent.
Sunday night, mostly cloudy with
chance of rain showers. Lows in the upper
40s. Chance of showers 50 percent.
Monday, mostly cloudy with chance of
rain showers. Highs in the mid 60s.
Chance of showers 40 percent.
At their meeting with Cloud
County commissioners Monday, County Clerk Shella
Thoman included in her report
the department heads’ opinion
on hiring a county administrator which was formed at a
meeting last week.
They said they thought hiring an independent consultant, increasing the auditor’s
services
and/or
working
together as department heads
and with the commissioners
might be a better route to take
than hiring a full time administrator.
Commissioner Gail Engle
said that after talking to several people at conference last
week, he doesn’t think an
administrator is the best fit for
Cloud County.
Reporting on other activities
during the meeting were these
County officials:
DISTRICT
COUR T
Lea
Throckmorton said that July 1
is the deadline for mandatory
filing, with a goal of paperless
30-60 days later. Attorney
training will be May 24 and
judge training will be May 25.
JJA CASE MANAGER and
JISP and ADMINISTRATIVE
ASSISTANT Dawn Snyder submitted the FY 2017 grant
application, creating a new
Juvenile Task Force and
Intake coordinator and focusing on new legislation.
MAINTENANCE manager
Troy Shepard said that the
memorial ball needs a valve
replaced and the cooling tower
is cleaned out and filled, waiting to be turned on.
SHERIFF
Brian
Marks
reported inmate numbers are
being maintained and revenue
for out-of- county prisoners is
staying steady. He also said
that bids for PREIA audit are
turned in.
EXTENSION officer Pat Gerhardt reported free parenting
classes are scheduled for June
in Belleville, Winter Canola
Field Day will be May 25 and
wheat plot tours will be June
1, 2 and 8. Babysitting classes
will start and school activities
for the year are being finished.
HIGHWAY
administrator
Andy Asch reported his
employees are patching roads
and spraying. They also will be
doing work on Noble Road.
SOLID WASTE director Mike
Hake reported the Recycling
Center said 51,915 pounds of
cardboard and he is looking at
prices for a back hoe replacement for the Transfer Station.
HEALTH
DEPAR TMENT
administrator Diana Gering
reported the roof is leaking
from Sunday night’s rains and
thanked the Sheriff’s office for
doing building checks.
IT director Jerry Collins
School board
approves contracts
Across Kansas
Man sues over
wrongful conviction
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas
man who spent 15 years in prison for a
rape and murder that his brother later
confessed to committing is suing law
enforcement officers for fabricating evidence that led to his conviction.
Floyd Bledsoe of Hutchinson was freed
in December after his brother, Tom, killed
himself in prison and left behind a series of
notes confessing to the November 1999
slaying of 14-year-old Camille Arfmann.
The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday says
Tom Bledsoe confessed several times to
killing and raping the Oskaloosa girl soon
after her disappearance, but investigators
coached him to instead implicate his
brother.
Floyd Bledsoe was convicted in April
2000, briefly released on bond in June
2008 and returned to prison in July 2009
after the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
reversed the 2008 ruling.
Suspect arrested in
death of KCK detective
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) —A suspect in
the fatal shooting of a police detective in
Kansas City, Kansas, and a subsequent
string of carjackings remained in the hospital Tuesday after he was shot and wounded
by police during his arrest in neighboring
Missouri.
The detective, 39-year-old Brad Lancaster, was shot at least twice around 12:30
p.m. Monday near the Kansas Speedway.
He died three hours later after undergoing
surgery, his department said in a statement.
Police said the gunman shot the detective
and fled in the officer’s unmarked car. He
later hijacked a vehicle with two children
inside before abandoning that in nearby
Basehor, Kansas, leaving those kids
unharmed.
He then crashed another vehicle while
being pursued by officers in Kansas City,
Missouri, and was shot by police as he
attempted to hijack yet another vehicle.
That female motorist, who police say was
shot by the would-be carjacker, was in stable condition Tuesday at an unspecified
hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, police
spokesman Amber Thomas-Hickerson said.
Police identified the suspect as Curtis
Ayers, a 28-year-old man from Tonganoxie,
Kansas. He was taken into custody in
Kansas City, Missouri, and also was hospitalized Tuesday in stable condition,
Thomas-Hickerson said.
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Crossing the line
Cav Carlgren crosses the finish line while winning the sixth grade boys’ 800meter run in the Concordia Middle School track and field meet Tuesday at
Harold M. Clark Stadium. (Blade photo by Jay Lowell)
CCCC commencement
scheduled for Friday
Cloud County Community College commencement activities are
scheduled for 7 p.m., Friday, May
13, at Harold M. Clark Stadium,
Concordia.
The event will recognize 278 graduates from the Concordia and Geary
County campuses and outreach
locations.
Zoë Merz, Student Senate president, will be the student speaker
representing the Concordia campus. There also will be a student
reported new computers will
be arriving and he will work
through problems with Windows 10. He also discussed
servers and offsite back up.
COUNTY CLERK Shella
Thoman reported June 1 is the
deadline to file for State, county and Township offices. She
will be attending the Kansas
County Clerks and Election
Officials Annual Conference in
Manhattan this week with
deputy election clerk Stacie
LaBarge. She has looked at
new election equipment and if
purchased this year could
save 27 1/2 percent by purchasing with other counties.
She will look at another company before purchasing. She
said the County is fortunate
that more than enough funds
have been put aside since purchasing the current equipment.
(see Opinion on page 6)
speaker from the Geary County
campus.
Graduates, family and friends are
invited to a reception in the CCCC
cafeteria prior to commencement.
The nurses’ pinning ceremony
will be at 4 p.m at the Brown Grand
Theatre.
The public is invited to attend. In
the event of inclement weather,
graduation will be in Arley Bryant
Gymnasium on the Concordia campus.
Extending the contracts of
current
teachers
was
approved by the Unified
School District 333 board of
education during its May
meeting on Monday night in
the board office.
The board of education
also approved four new hires
including Kathy Poore, high
school
physical
science/physics teacher; Ann
Metcalf, elementary school
music teacher; Heather
Rogge, second grade teacher;
and Hannah Splitter, second
grade teacher.
Resignations accepted by
the board include Gail Snyder, assistant high school
cheerleading coach; Kevin
Brown, assistant junior high
wrestling coach; and Tom
Cyphers, bus driver.
For a second straight
meeting, the board approved
a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Cloud
County Community College
to lease space in the USD 333
Service Center, formerly the
Concordia Middle School.
The school board approved
the MOU during its April
meeting.
The Cloud County board of
trustees, seeking a change in
wording, tabled the issue
during its last meeting.
It stated in the agreement
approved by the USD 333
board that this agreement
may be terminated by either
party upon 30 days notice.
Under the agreement
approved by the school board
it now states this agreement
may be terminated by either
party upon 90 days notice,
before the end of each fiscal
year.
Cloud County Community
College will pay USD 333
$5,000 per year to lease
space in the facility, plus
$200 per month the first year
to help cover the cost of utilities.
The college is looking to
use the space for a sports
practice facility.
In other action during the
meeting, the school board
approved the purchase of
Board Docs, a computer program that stores board of
education documents.
The school district is dropping Socs, its website
provider, and will build its
own website, and then
adding Board Docs.
Background checks by the
Kansas Bureau of Investigation for all new hires was
approved by the board.
The board also approved
the
Kansas
Reading
Roadmap Grant for the Summer Program.
The district is in the second year of the grant.
The
Kansas
Reading
Roadmap for Summer Program is a six-week program
for K-3 students. It includes
30-40 students.
Also approved by the
board during the meeting
include: Golf course contracts for 2015-16 and 201617, disposal of textbooks, use
of district facilities for summer camps, and Kansas
Association of School Board
(KASB) membership and
legal assistance fund for
2016-17.
The board approved setting the date for the end of
year closeout meeting for
June 29 at noon and the
board of education retreat for
either July 25 or Aug. 1 at
noon.
The board retreat date will
be determined on which date
the board will meet with Dr.
Brian Jordan, KASB, for a
study session to discuss
items related to the hiring of
Quentin Breese as the new
superintendent of schools.
Two possible dates, July
25 and Aug. 1, will be presented to Jordan for the
study session.
Concordia
Elementary
School principal Krystal
Breese discussed a plan for
curriculum departmentalization for third grade.
Breese also presented revisions to the CES student
handbook for 2016-17.
Concordia Junior-High
School principal Bryce Wachs
discussed revisions to the
junior-senior high school
handbook and the athleticactivities handbook for 201617.
CCHC begins affiliation with Salina Regional
Salina Regional Health Center
and Cloud County Health Center
officially began a clinical and
operational affiliation to better
serve their patients and communities May 1.
With this new affiliation certain changes will be seen.
One change includes the
merging of the centers’ electronic health record systems.
All patients coming into the
hospital now will have to register
with hospital admission services
or the Family Care Center.
CCHC wants to provide
patients with the best possible
care available and to ensure that
their health records are as accurate and complete as possible.
This will cause some delay in the
new registration process.
CCHC staff asks that patients
bear with them during this time
of transition.
Another change will be in
billing which will now be generated through a different processing center and have a new logo.
“The goal of this agreement is
to improve patient care in the
region by better coordinating
services between our two hospi-
tals,” said CCHC president of
operations Cherri Waites.”We
think affiliation with a strong
regional health provider like
SRHC gives us the best chance
to provide a broad range of
health care services to Concordia and North Central Kansas.”
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Kansas prosecutor
looking into conduct
of election official
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – A
Kansas prosecutor is looking into allegations of misuse of public funds against
a top U.S. election executive
when he was a county election commissioner in the
state, two county officials
confirmed Monday.
Johnson County spokeswoman Sharon Watson said
that the county had concerns
over the findings of an audit
completed after Brian Newby
left Kansas to take a job as
executive director of the U.S.
Election Assistance Commission in November last year.
The federal commission was
created in part to help make
voting easier but advocates
have said Newby has worked
for restrictions.
“It was appropriate for us
to inform the district attorney of what we were finding
in the audit and provide him
with that information,” Watson said.
District Attorney Stephen
Howe said in an email that
his office “has and will continue to work with Johnson
County Government to review
Mr. Newby’s conduct while
serving as Johnson County
Election Commissioner.”
Newby said in an email to
The Associated Press that it
would be wrong to say that
he is under criminal investigation. He has called the
audit findings “inaccurate,
incomplete and misleading.”
The review by the county
auditor found that in Newby’s
previous job he intentionally
skirted oversight of government credit card expenses,
improperly claimed mileage
and travel expenses, and
wasted taxpayer funds. Auditors found Newby used the
government card of the assistant commissioner, in effect allowing him to approve
most of his own expenditures
rather than submit them to
the county manager.
The audit of Newby’s fiscal
management at the Kansas
job was released in March. In
the federal job, Newby infuriated voting rights advocates
when he decided without
public notice or review from
his agency’s commissioners
that residents of Alabama,
Kansas and Georgia can no
longer register to vote using
a federal form without providing documentary proof of
U.S. citizenship.
A government watchdog
group, the Campaign for
Accountability, asked Kansas Attorney General Derek
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Schmidt on Monday to investigate Newby for using the local election office as his “personal piggy bank.”
The attorney general’s office confirmed receipt of that
request, but said it plans no
further action at this time.
“We have consulted with
the Johnson County District
Attorney’s office and are in
agreement that the allegations included in the letter
fall within the jurisdiction of
that office and local authorities,” its spokeswoman Jennifer Rapp said in an email.
The federal election assistance commission was created in 2002 to help prevent
a repeat of the disputed 2000
presidential election between
George W. Bush and Al Gore
following voting chaos in the
crucial state of Florida.
“No one who has abused
his state office as Mr. Newby
clearly did should be awarded a new perch in the federal government,” said Anne
Weismann, executive director
of the Campaign for Accountability. “The Election Assistance Commission should
demand his resignation and
its inspector general should
also take a close look to make
sure Mr. Newby hasn’t been
replicating his Kansas spending habits in Washington.”
Voting rights groups have
sued Newby and the federal
commission over his unilateral move requiring documentary proof of citizenship
in the three states, saying
it hurts voter registration
drives and deprives eligible
voters of the right to vote.
The
public
advocacy
group, Allied Progress, called
last month for the agency’s
inspector general to investigate communications between Newby, and Kansas
Secretary of State Kris Kobach. The Associated Press
reported the communications
based on emails provided under an open records request.
The inspector general’s office
has declined to investigate
while the civil lawsuit is ongoing, according to a letter
the inspector general sent Allied Progress.
This month, more than
116,000 people have signed
an online petition from progressive advocacy group
CREDO Action urging the inspector general to investigate
what it calls voter suppression at a federal government
agency entrusted with making voting more accessible.
OPINION
Washington Merry-Go-Round
by Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift
WASHINGTON – In December we wrote of the possibility of a Donald Trump
victory in the general election, noting, of course, that
a prediction of a possibility
is not an endorsement. We
reiterate this now that he
has cinched the Republican
nomination.
A victory for him seems
impossible in light of various outrageous statements
that are considered slanders against woman, handicapped people, Muslims,
and Hispanics, but upon
closer look something revealing comes to the fore. His
attacks are generally disregarded by a sizeable plurality of Republican voters, the
people who voted for him in
primary after primary.
Why is this? First, some
of them agree with him,
but mostly it is because his
attacks are selective. He
picked on Rosie O’Donnell
and Megyn Kelly, for ex-
ample, but not women in
general, pointing out that
his accomplished and wellspoken daughter is his primary business confidant. He
denounces illegal aliens, but
actively employs legal aliens.
He wants to place a temporary, albeit unconstitutional,
ban on Muslim immigration,
but he had a Muslim advocate introduce him for a
speech. In short, his selective slurs are dismissed as
either accurate or irrelevant
by a sizeable slice of the electorate.
True, 77 percent of women say they will not vote for
him, but a majority of white
males say they will. And
it should be remembered,
as he says, he has hardly
started on his expected opponent, former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton. When
he does, that 77 percent figure could change.
The fact is that Clinton
also has high negatives,
DOONESBURY® by G.B. Trudeau
Today in History
50 years ago
May 10, 1966—Pop’s
Pizza Parlor was having a
Couples Only Dance featuring Bob Darby’s Orchestra.
Admission was $2.50 a couple . . . Kenneth E. Peery,
Republican,
announced
that he was seeking re-election to the office. He was
completing his first term.
25 years ago
May 10, 1991—Lowell A.
May, court services officer
for the 12th Judicial District, was named the outstanding court services officer for 1990 by the Kansas
Association of Court Services Officers . . . With a toss
of 220-10 Concordia High
School senior Aaron Larsen
had the third best javelin
throw in the United States
and was invited to compete
in the 32nd Annual Golden
West Invitational on June 8
at California State University in Sacramento.
at Fort Riley, was scheduled to be the commencement speaker at Cloud
County Community College
. . . American Legion Auxiliary was sending Shelby
Brownell, Larrisa Crum and
Sephanie Doyle to Sunflower Girls State in Lawrence.
5 years ago
May 10, 2011—Cloud
County Historical Society
Museum was having an
open house reception honoring Don Kerr and introduing the new curator, Cindy
Reimann . . . Lex Deal, a
senior on the Concordia
High School golf team who
shot a 2-over par 70 to win
his third individual league
championship at the American Legion Golf Course, was
the CHS Athlete of the Week.
10 years ago
May
10,
2006—Major General Dennis Hardy,
commanding general of the
Army 24th Infantry division
1 year ago
May 10, 2015—Robin
Daniels was named a 2015
Governor’s Scholar by Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback . .
. Robin Daniels was named
valedictorian
and
Julie
Gross was salutatorian of
the Concordia High School
graduating class.
Press your tongue against
the roof of your mouth
when you perform abdominal crunches to prevent
using your neck muscles
to assist yourself up.
The 535-foot-tall Washington Monument contains
an estimated 36,000 granite and marble stones that
weigh 90,000 tons.
though not as high as his.
And those negatives are going to be fodder for the bynow famous one-liner putdowns he used to eviscerate
the campaigns of 16 contenders in the Republican
nominating race.
Therein lies the strength
of his campaign. By subjecting his targets to public ridicule he has been able to reinforce his reliable base with
voters who come to dislike or
distrust his opponents more
than they dislike and distrust him.
Everyone has vulnerabilities, and Clinton’s are about
to be revisited, condensed,
and scrutinized as never before. Trump has already begun to hammer away on her
alleged enabling of husband
Bill Clinton’s philandering,
the Whitewater imbroglio,
Benghazi, support for the
2003 invasion of Iraq, intervention in Libya, and especially her coziness with Wall
Street.
One would think this is
all about throwing stones
from glass houses, considering Trump’s infidelities,
corporate bankruptcies, and
shameless switching of political positions on a regular
and current basis, but his
supporters simply dismiss
all this, claiming he is an acknowledged flawed individual who says it like it is.
In the end, Trump more
than anyone knows the election will turn on whom the
voters dislike the least.
Douglas Cohn’s new book,
“The President's First Year:
None Were Prepared, Some
Never Learned – Why the
Only School for Presidents Is
the Presidency,” is available
in book stores.
Twitter @WMerryGoRound
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PEOPLE
Annie’s
Mailbox
by Kathy Mitchell and
Marcy Sugar
Dear Annie: What is the
polite thing to do with a
guest who carries a gun?
I do not like guns in my
house, but I have a friend
who adamantly refuses to
leave his gun at home when
he comes here. Do people
who carry a concealed weapon have an obligation to notify the host before entering
their residence? — Pennsylvania
Dear Pennsylvania: Yes.
More importantly, it's your
house. You get to set the
rules, and if you don't want
guns, say so. You can't force
him to be honest about having a concealed weapon, but
you certainly can inform
him of your preferences.
If your friend won't leave
home without his gun, you
can ask him to put it in a
drawer, cabinet or closet
that you can lock. If he insists on wearing it in your
house when you have asked
him not to, we'd politely tell
him to leave. If he says he
won't visit anymore unless
he can bring his gun, regretfully say that you'll miss
him. People who are guests
in your home should be respectful of their hosts.
Dear Annie: I would like
to share some additional
thoughts in regard to the letter from "Befuddled Grandma," whose grandchild has
a food allergy, and who was
unable to buy treats for her
other, allergy-free, grandchild.
We have a young grandchild with a life threatening
milk allergy. According to
Food Allergy Research and
Education, 1 in 13 children
has a food allergy. Unfortunately, many people do not
know about or understand
the seriousness of an allergic reaction. It can be more
than itchy hives or an upset
stomach. In our case, my
grandchild can go into anaphylactic shock, which can
lead to death.
It is stressful for families. Reading food labels is a
must, as allergens can crop
up in unexpected places.
There is often cross-contamination in processed foods,
and in food preparation in
homes and restaurants. It
is not required by law for
food companies to disclose if
multiple foods are processed
on shared equipment.
Sensitivity and understanding are tremendously
appreciated by those dealing
with a serious food allergy.
Inclusion is important so
that children are not made
to feel left out when so many
activities involve food. Perhaps schools (and others)
will consider eliminating
food treats altogether and
choose some other "reward."
You often don't know that a
child has a food allergy until there is a first-time reaction, which can result in an
unexpected life-threatening
situation.
For more information,
please tell your readers to
look at foodallergy.org. The
website covers such topics
as food culprits, treatment
of reactions, how to manage allergies, foods and their
ingredients, and alerts. We
can all help. — Concerned
Food Allergy Advocate
Dear Concerned: People
often think food allergies are
minor, or worse, optional.
They think it's silly to have
to cater to all of these food
issues, and we hope your
letter will open their eyes.
We especially like your idea
of nonfood prizes and treats,
not only because it eliminates the danger of anaphylaxis, but also because
it helps re-program kids to
stop rewarding themselves
with unhealthy, high-calorie
edibles.
Annie's Mailbox is written
by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors
of the Ann Landers column.
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By Jacqueline Bigar
Harrington hired
as CCHC CFO
Cloud County Health
Center announces that Ron
Harrington has been hired as
Chief Financial Officer.
A graduate of Sherman
(Texas) High School, Harrington attended Murray
State College on a baseball
scholarship. He transferred
to Southeastern Oklahoma
State University after two
years, majoring in accounting with a minor in business.
Harrington received his
Bachelor of science degree
from Southeastern Oklahoma State, and has over
25 years of healthcare experience working in both forprofit and nonprofit facilities.
“I’m very excited to be a
part of the Cloud County
Health Center team. I look
forward to continuing to help
the hospital be a viable part
of Concordia and the surrounding communities. My
wife and I are planning to re-
Ron Harrington
locate to Concordia this summer after we sell our home in
Princeton, Ind.,” Harrington
said.
Harrington and his wife,
Jennifer, have two daughters, Shannon, 24, and Emily, 18.
Area students
are KSU grads
Approximately 3,000 students are candidates for
graduation from Kansas
State University this spring.
Graduates from and near
Cloud County include the
following:
CLYDE—Michelle George,
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
CONCORDIA—Alyssa
Champlin, Bachelor of Science; Garrett Coash, Bachelor of Science; Megan Frost,
Bachelor of Science in Education; Garet Koester, Bachelor of Science in Agriculture; Trenton Tholstrup,
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration; James
Tyler, Bachelor of Arts;
Lindsey Widen, Bachelor of
Science; Amber Wogomon,
Bachelor of Science; Kadin
Zimmerman, Bachelor of
Science in Computer Engineering.
DELPHOS—Lauren Forshee, Bachelor of Science in
Agriculture.
GLASCO—Trevor Barnes,
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration; Madison Davis, Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition.
MILTONVALE—Brandon
McFadden, Bachelor of Science; Shelby Schultz, Bachelor of Science in Agriculture.
Concordia optometrists
attend KOA Convention
Concordia optometrists
who attended the 2016 Kansas Optometric Association
(KOA) Convention and Seminar April 28-30 in Topeka
were Drs. Steven Bryant,
Richard Kueker and Chad
Thompson. Thompson was
awarded the William A. Car-
Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars
riger, Sr. Legislative Service
Award for his work in the
grassroots political process.
At the event optometrists
were able to attend 13 hours
of continuing education on
the latest developments in
eye health and vision care
for re-licensure.
A baby born today has a
Sun in Taurus and a Moon
in Cancer.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for
Tuesday, May 10, 2016:
This year you open up to
an opportunity to be more
expressive and caring. At
times you will have difficulty relating to others who are
not choosing a similar path
as yours. Not only are you
different people from different backgrounds, but you
also are making choices
that point to an even greater
intellectual and emotional
distance. You are fortunate
to be open to unique ideas.
If you are single, you will
make choices that allow you
to meet more people, though
an emotional bond could
form quite quickly between
you and another person. If
you are attached, the two
of you enjoy more one-onone time than ever before.
Express your tenderness
and caring. CANCER stabilizes because of your earthy
calmness.
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 see opportunities arise that allow you
to take a stand. You’ll feel
unusually energized and
content as a result. Consider your options more carefully. Any effort to get past a
problem might force you to
reveal a little more than you
desire. Tonight: Reach out
to a friend.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20)
***** Keep conversations
open. Your strong judgments often put you at a
disadvantage, especially if
you reveal too much of your
thinking. Being willing to
listen to others will allow
you to understand a friend
better, and it will add zest to
your relationship. Tonight:
Out late.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20)
**** You could be in a
position where you want to
do something very different. Your sense of humor
emerges when dealing with
others. You are likely to see
a change in a family member’s attitude, or you might
have a more positive interaction in your personal life.
Tonight: Celebrate!
CANCER (June 21-July
22)
**** You seem more willing to have a discussion
and root out the real prob-
POW Camp Society meets
lem rather than getting into
all the gossip and sarcastic
remarks. Recognize how important it is to hear someone else’s perspective. You
might have more in common
than you realize. Tonight:
Be imaginative.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
**** You will cause yourself a lot of trouble if you are
not careful. Listen carefully
to someone you trust. The
news you hear could involve
your personal life or a professional manner. You know
and understand the importance of first impressions.
Tonight: Keep it confidential.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
**** You might want to
experience a change of pace
and see the effect it has on a
relationship. Of course, you
could evoke a strong reaction, so be prepared. How
you work with a close friend
or an associate will be appreciated far more than you
realize. Tonight: Follow the
crowd.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
****Avoid a power play
at all costs, as you are only
likely to get aggravated by
it. A family member wants
his or her way, and getting
caught in the crosswinds of
this person’s desires would
be a mistake. Assess the areas of your life where you
have more say. Tonight: At
home.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21)
***** The solution to a
controversy won’t be apparent until you can calm down
and look at the matter from
different viewpoints. Make
sure you are detached and
not being triggered. Communication could become
difficult at some point. Tonight: Hang out with a friend
or two.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21)
***Be aware of the costs
of continuing as you have
been. Ask yourself what
drives you to act in the way
that you do. A partner could
be very receptive to an offer, whereas you might be
insulted by it. Brainstorm
with others in order to find
a solution. Tonight: Avoid a
controversy.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19)
****You are a lot sassier
than you might realize. You
want what you want, when
you want it. Try not to be
angry or uptight if everything doesn’t fall into place
as you might like. Be direct
and forthright, but develop
a gentler style as well. Tonight: It is your call.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18)
*** You could be suppressing a need to handle a
problem in your own way. A
problem is likely to arise if
you don’t address the issues
as you would like to. As a result, you could become very
angry. Open up to new perspectives and a more flexible
style. Tonight: Pace yourself.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20)
**** You have the ability to
make major changes, if you
so choose. Someone close to
you could make some suggestions, but in a grumpy
and difficult way, which is
likely to make you recoil.
Stay upbeat, and don’t allow
this person to get the best of
you. Tonight: All smiles.
BORN TODAY
Singer/dancer
Fred
Astaire (1899), singer/
songwriter Bono (1960),
actor Kenan Thompson
(1978)
***
Jacqueline Bigar is on
the Internet at www.jacquelinebigar.com.
(c) 2016 by King Features
Syndicate Inc.
Paul Rimovsky gave the Grand July 31 and KNCK,
president’s report when The Blade-Empire and the
POW
Camp
Concordia Brown Grand will assist
Preservation Society met the POW Camp ConcorMonday evening at the dia Preservation Society in
Cloud County Historical sponsoring this event.
Society Museum Annex.
Everett Miller anHighlights included: 1) nounced that the MuseLast week there were visi- um had 35 visitors to the
tors to the Museum each guard tower in April, 23
day and this week there from Kansas and 12 from
are three tours sched- other states. Some of the
uled; 2) The stumps east remarks they left were:
of T9 will be removed this “Very interesting,” “Great
week; 3) The roof has been tower, thanks for preservpatched and the patches ing it,” and “It’s wonderful,
seem to be working;4) The very neat.”
wood has been moved from
Rimovsky said the Musethe south slab to the north um was running out of souslab to be burned; 5) The venirs and said he would
model of Camp Concordia check into getting more
was taken to the Sampler hats, magnets and painted
Scholarship recipients
Festival and drew a lot of stones. Members discussed
These First United Methodist Church students received scholarships from the church. Pic- attention; 6) A parachute the plaque for donors and
tured front row are Pastor Tessa Zehring, Kaelyn Ade and Brenton Edwards; back row: Cooper has been installed over what to call the different
Holmes, Russell Dethloff and Dr. Paul Nelson.
the garage door, another levels of donations.
globe light installed and
Nine members attended
the track lights lowered; 7) Monday’s meeting. Next
The display boxes will be meeting will be at 5 p.m.,
Senior Citizens Menu
painted this week; 8) The June 13, at the same locaWednesday, May 11—Beef tips with gravy, butter noo1st Infantry Division Band tion. Interested persons are
dles, corn, pudding; 10 a.m.—Exercise; 1 p.m.—Boosters.
will perform at the Brown invited to attend.
Thursday, May 12—Pulled pork on a bun, beets, pudding.
***
Friday, May 13—Ham sandwiches, diced tomatoes fruit;
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
10 a.m.—Exercise; progressive cards.
Milk, bread and butter served with meals
***
Cinnamon rolls and fresh coffee daily, 8-11 a.m.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
Call Teddy Lineberry at 243-1872 for questions or to
—Abraham Lincoln
make reservations.
***
4 Blade-Empire, Tuesday, May 10, 2016
MUTTS® by Patrick McDonnell
ZITS® by Scott and Borgman
BABY BLUE® by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
Sales Calendar
•Tuesday,
May
17,
2016 – Real Estate Auction at 7:00 p.m. located at
the Glasco Senior Center,
Glasco, Kansas. The farm
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Mike and David Loy, Sellers. Thummel Auction.
•Saturday, May 21, 2016–
Public Auction at 9:00 a.m.
located at the Kearn Auction House, 220 West 5th
Street, Concordia, Kansas.
Vehicle, Misc. and Antiques.
Dannie Kearn Auction.
•Saturday,
May
21,
2016– Public Auction at
9:00 a.m. located at the Miltonvale Grade School, 6th
& Ash Streets, Miltonvale,
Kansas. Appliances, Electronics, Antiques, Furniture, Collectibles, Outdoor
and Other Items and Crafts.
Sue Ensign Estate, Seller.
Max Coleman Auction.
BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH® by John Rose
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE® by Chris Browne
The large canvases Jackson Pollock used for his
Abstract Expressionist action paintings were usually
laid flat on the floor while
he painted. Pollock was a
chain smoker and would
frequently paint with a cigarette hanging from his lips.
This led to the incorporation of cigarette ashes into
the surface of some of his
works.
Congress voted to make
the rose America’s national
flower in 1986.
Looking Back
Today is Tuesday, May 10, the 131st day of 2016.
There are 235 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On May 10, 1941, Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess,
parachuted into Scotland on what he claimed was a peace
mission. (Hess ended up serving a life sentence at Spandau
Prison until 1987, when he apparently committed suicide
at age 93.)
On this date:
•In 1775, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys,
along with Col. Benedict Arnold, captured the British-held
fortress at Ticonderoga, New York.
•In 1863, during the Civil War, Confederate Lt. Gen.
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson died of pneumonia, a complication resulting from being hit by friendly fire eight days
earlier during the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia.
•In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was
captured by Union forces in Irwinville, Georgia.
•In 1869, a golden spike was driven in Promontory,
Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental
railroad in the United States.
•In 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was named acting director
of the Bureau of Investigation (later known as the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, or FBI).
•In 1933, the Nazis staged massive public book burnings
in Germany.
•In 1940, during World War II, German forces began invading the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and France.
The same day, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
resigned, and Winston Churchill formed a new government.
•In 1960, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton
completed its submerged navigation of the globe.
•In 1977, actress Joan Crawford died in New York.
•In 1984, the International Court of Justice said the
United States should halt any actions to blockade Nicaragua’s ports (the U.S. had already said it would not recognize World Court jurisdiction on this issue).
•In 1994, Nelson Mandela took the oath of office in Pretoria to become South Africa’s first black president. The
state of Illinois executed serial killer John Wayne Gacy, 52,
for the murders of 33 young men and boys.
•In 1996, two Marine helicopters collided in the dark
and crashed in a swamp at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina,
during a U.S.-British training exercise, killing 14 people.
The tornado thriller “Twister,” starring Helen Hunt and Bill
Paxton, was released by Warner Bros.
Ten years ago: Daniel Biechele (BEEK’-lee), a former
rock-band manager whose pyrotechnics caused a 2003
Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people, was
sentenced to four years in prison. (Biechele was paroled in
March 2008.) Former New York Times executive editor A.M.
Rosenthal died at age 84. British movie director Val Guest
died in Palm Desert, California, at age 94.
Five years ago: The bulging Mississippi River rolled
into the Mississippi Delta after cresting before daybreak
at Memphis, Tennessee, causing widespread damage. In a
one-two punch against Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, NATO
war planes struck a command center in Tripoli and pounded targets around the besieged port of Misrata. Burt Reinhardt, one of CNN’s first presidents, died in Marietta, Georgia, at age 91.
One year ago: Cuban President Raul Castro met with
Pope Francis at the Vatican to thank him for working
for U.S.-Cuba detente and said he was so impressed by
the pontiff, he was considering returning to the Catholic
church. In the first round of Poland’s presidential elections,
Andrzej Duda narrowly edged out incumbent Bronislaw
Komorowski; since neither candidate polled more than 50
percent, a runoff was held two weeks later (Duda won).
Today’s Birthdays: Author Barbara Taylor Bradford is
83. Rhythm-and-blues singer Henry Fambrough (The Spinners) is 78. Actor David Clennon is 73. Writer-producerdirector Jim Abrahams is 72. Singer Donovan is 70. Singer-songwriter Graham Gouldman (10cc) is 70. Singer Dave
Mason is 70. Actor Mike Hagerty is 62. Sports anchor Chris
Berman is 61. Actor Bruce Penhall is 59. Former Sen. Rick
Santorum, R-Pa., is 58. Actress Victoria Rowell is 57. Rock
singer Bono (BAH’-noh) (U2) is 56. Rock musician Danny
Carey (Tool) is 55. Actor Darryl M. Bell is 53. Playwright
Suzan-Lori Parks is 53. Model Linda Evangelista is 51.
Rapper Young MC is 49. Actor Erik Palladino is 48. Rock
singer Richard Patrick (Filter) is 48. Actor Lenny Venito is
47. Actor Dallas Roberts is 46. Actress Leslie Stefanson is
45. Actor-singer Todd Lowe is 44. Country musician David
Wallace (Cole Deggs and the Lonesome) is 44. Actress Andrea Anders is 41. Race car driver Helio Castroneves is 41.
Rock musician Jesse Vest is 39. Actor Kenan Thompson is
38. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jason Dalyrimple (Soul For
Real) is 36. Rock musician Joey Zehr (The Click Five) is 33.
Singer Ashley Poole (Dream) is 31. Actress Odette Annable
is 31. Actress Lindsey Shaw is 27. Actress Lauren Potter
is 26. Olympic gold medal swimmer Missy Franklin is 21.
Thought for Today: “Nothing recedes like success.”
– Walter Winchell, American columnist and broadcaster
(1897-1972).
More Highlights in History:
•In 1961, in a speech to the National Association of
Broadcasters, Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Newton N. Minow decried the majority of television programming as a “vast wasteland.”
•In 1754, a political cartoon in Benjamin Franklin’s
Pennsylvania Gazette depicted a snake cut into eight pieces, each section representing a part of the American colonies; the caption read, “JOIN, or DIE.”
•In 1814, the Jane Austen novel “Mansfield Park” was
first published in London.
•In 1864, Union Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick was killed by
a Confederate sniper during the Civil War Battle of Spotsylvania in Virginia.
•In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson, acting on a joint
congressional resolution, signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.
•In 1926, Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett
supposedly became the first men to fly over the North Pole.
(However, U.S. scholars announced in 1996 that their examination of Byrd’s flight diary, discovered earlier that year,
suggested he had turned back 150 miles short of his goal.)
Blade-Empire Tuesday, May 10, 2016 5
Sports
Young roughed up as Yankees belt Royals, 6-3
NEW YORK (AP) — A
dejected Chris Young sat on
the bench and stared
straight ahead, his eyes
glazed over when he wasn’t
wiping his face with a towel.
Never mind getting outs
and going deep in the game.
Young is having a hard
enough time just keeping
the ball in the park.
Carlos Beltran hit two of
New York’s five solo homers
in the first three innings off
an ineffective Young, and
Aroldis Chapman allowed a
run in his Yankees debut
before closing out a 6-3 victory over the slumping
Kansas City Royals on
Monday night.
“It’s a horrible feeling,
feeling like you’re letting a
team down and not even
giving them a chance,” said
the 6-foot-10 Young, who
turns 37 this month. “The
life on the ball isn’t there for
whatever reason. I don’t
know why. I don’t know if
it’s mechanical. It’s weird
because the velocity’s better than it was last year but
the life is not and I’ve got to
figure that out.”
Young (1-5) lasted only 2
2/3 innings against a Yankees lineup missing three
injured regulars. He has
given up 13 long balls in
seven starts covering 32
1/3 innings this season,
including nine in his last
three outings.
The career -high five
home runs allowed by
Young equaled the franchise record set by Sean
O’Sullivan at Texas on May
28, 2011. It was Young’s
shortest start since getting
only two outs in Oakland
on Sept. 1, 2014.
“I don’t have any room
for error. If I miss a spot it’s
getting hit and it’s getting
hit hard and that’s what
happened tonight,” he said.
Brian McCann, Brett
Gardner and Aaron Hicks
also went deep to help New
York win the opener of a
four-game set against the
defending World Series
champions.
Alex Gordon and Eric
Hosmer homered for the
Royals (15-16), who have
lost 10 of 13. They fell
under .500 for the first time
since they were 49-50 on
July 22, 2014.
“We didn’t really deal
with anything like this last
year and I think this will be
a good test for us to see
what we’re made of,” Hosmer said.
Ivan Nova gave the lastplace Yankees (12-18) a
solid effort in his first start
of the season, pitching in
place of injured lefty CC
Sabathia. Nova was pulled
after 81 pitches — one out
short of qualifying for a win
— but New York’s fortified
bullpen held Kansas City at
bay.
“Maybe this gets us
going,” manager Joe Girardi said.
Chapman, a four -time
All-Star with a fastball that
often exceeds 100 mph,
was eligible to pitch for the
first time with the Yankees
after serving a 29-game
suspension under baseball’s new domestic violence
policy.
The
left-hander from Cuba was
obtained from Cincinnati
for four prospects in
December.
He entered to a warm
ovation in a non-save situation with a 6-2 lead in the
ninth and drew gasps from
the crowd by firing his first
four pitches 100-101 mph.
Chapman struck out his
first two batters before
pinch-hitter Paulo Orlando
doubled to deep center field
and scored on a sharp single by Alcides Escobar.
Lorenzo Cain bounced
back to the mound for the
final out.
Kirby Yates (2-0) preserved a 5-1 lead in the
sixth and pitched a perfect
seventh with the help of
some fine fielding by New
York. Phil Coke, called up
Friday
from
Triple-A,
retired Hosmer on a deep
fly with runners at the corners to end the fifth.
ROAD WOES
The best road team in the
majors over the past three
seasons, Kansas City has
dropped 10 of its last 12
away from home. Young is
0-4 with a 9.72 ERA in four
starts away from spacious
Kauffman Stadium.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Royals: With 3B Mike
Moustakas (broken left
thumb) on the 15-day disabled list, rookie Cheslor
Cuthbert made his third
straight start at the hot corner since being recalled
from Triple-A Omaha.
Yankees: 2B Starlin Castro was given his first day
off this season after tweaking his lower back Sunday
night. He was available off
the bench. ... CF Jacoby
Ellsbury (hip) missed his
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) —
Stephen Curry nailed a 3pointer in overtime and
gestured to the crowd,
exclaiming over and over:
“I’m back! I’m back!”
Golden State’s superstar
certainly was.
Curry returned from a
sprained right knee to
score an NBA-record 17
points in overtime, finishing with 40 as the Warriors
rallied to take a 3-1 lead in
the Western Conference
semifinals with a 132-125
victory over the Portland
Trail Blazers on Monday
night.
“I love this game, I love
playing and love competing. And really, really
missed being out there with
my teammates,” Curry
said. “To help our team get
a win tonight and in that
fashion, that was a good
feeling in that moment to
be back on the floor and
playing.”
Playing for the first time
since he was injured in
Game 4 of the first-round
series against Houston,
Curry was rusty for three
quarters and sensational
down the stretch after the
Warriors trailed by as
much as 16 points.
Originally expected to
play about 25 minutes off
the bench, Curry picked up
a heavier workload in the
second half after Shaun
Livingston, who had been
starting in his absence,
was ejected in the second
quarter after arguing a call
and picking up two technical fouls.
Curry’s victorious return
came hours after a person
with knowledge of the
award told The Associated
Press that Curry would
repeat as NBA MVP, with
the announcement coming
as early as Tuesday.
The Warriors can win the
series Wednesday night at
home in Game 5.
Damian Lillard finished
with 36 points and 10
assists for Portland.
Curry’s fast-break layup
gave the defending NBA
champions a 120-118 lead
with 2:21 left in the extra
period. He followed with a
3-pointer, strutting and
pumping his fist in celebration.
“You knew he’d catch his
rhythm eventually,” Klay
Thompson said. “He’s probably the best player in the
world, the best shooter of
all-time. He was getting
good looks. We’ll take those
all day.”
Harrison Barnes’ layup
extended the lead to 125-
118 and Portland couldn’t
catch up. Thompson finished with 23 for the Warriors.
Curry finally made his
first 3 of the game to give
the Warriors a 103-100
lead with 4:35 left in regulation, but Portland was
ahead in the final minute
before Barnes tied it at
111-all with a 3-pointer
with 51 seconds left. Both
Lillard and Curry missed to
force the OT.
Curry led the Warriors to
an NBA-record 73 wins in
the regular season, a year
after leading the team to its
first NBA championship in
40 years. He averaged just
over 30 points per game
this season.
“Remarkable,” Blazers
coach Terry Stotts said. “I
mean, he looked fresh. He
had his rhythm. He made
tough shots, he made nice
passes, he fought through
screens. Obviously 17
points in overtime. It was a
hell of a performance.”
The Trail Blazers narrowed the series to 2-1 on
Saturday night when Lillard scored 40 points in a
120-108 Portland victory
while Golden State was still
without its star guard. The
Blazers became the only
team to defeat the Warriors
third consecutive game and
isn’t expected to play Tuesday, either. “Hopefully,
shortly after that,” manager
Joe Girardi said.
UP NEXT
Royals: RHP Kris Medlen
(1-3, 6.85 ERA) pitches
Tuesday night, hoping to
rebound from perhaps the
worst start of his career as
he tries to avoid his first
four -game losing streak.
Medlen lasted only twoplus innings in a 13-2 loss
to Washington, when the
first six batters he faced all
scored and he didn’t manage an out until his 38th
pitch. He has faced the Yankees four times, all in relief,
but not since 2012 with
Atlanta.
Yankees: RHP Masahiro
Tanaka (1-0, 2.29 ERA) has
not yielded more than two
earned runs in any of his
six starts this season. He’s
taken a shutout into at
least the seventh inning in
each of the past two.
Three battling to be Curry returns, Warriors beat Blazers
Chiefs’ backup QB
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) —
The biggest question facing
Chiefs coach Andy Reid
these days is a mathematical one: Can the number of
snaps at his disposal in
practice and games equal
the number of players who
want them?
There are far worse questions to have.
The Chiefs chose Stanford quarterback Kevin
Hogan in the fifth round of
this year’s draft, following
their trend of taking a developmental flier with a late
selection. Now, the Chiefs
have starter Alex Smith and
backups Hogan, Tyler Bray
and Aaron Murray all fighting for playing time.
Smith will get his snaps,
of course. But the youngsters behind him are in a
competitive race to be the
full-time backup after the
Chiefs let veteran Chase
Daniel sign with Philadelphia in free agency.
Hogan has prototypical
size at 6-foot-4, 220 pounds,
and was uber-successful
with the Cardinal, going 3610 as the starting quarterback. But he faces a steep
learning curve in Reid’s
complex offense.
“Having experience with
the pro-style, West Coast
offense, a lot of the concepts
and progressions were the
same,” Hogan said. “Even
though the terminology and
whatnot might be different,
I’m excited to come in and I
think it will be a smooth
transition. It’s not going to
be easy. It’s just going to
take work.”
That’s something Bray
and Murray have been putting in for a while.
Bray has been held back
by injuries since signing as
an undrafted free agent out
of Tennessee a few years
ago, but the Chiefs remain
intrigued by his strong arm
and 6-6 frame. Murray was
a fifth-round pick out of
Georgia two years ago who
may be the most polished of
the three backups.
“I think we’ll be OK
there,” Reid said, when
asked whether everyone will
get sufficient work. “One
nice thing is they all have a
good head on their shoulders. They’re smart guys. I
think we’ll be OK there.”
Quarterback isn’t the
only place where there is a
logjam.
The Chiefs will get star
running
back
Jamaal
Charles back from his torn
ACL at some point this summer, though he may not do
much work until training
camp. They also re-signed
Spencer Ware and Charcandrick West, the thunderand-lightning duo that
carried the load with
Charles was out, and still
have running back Knile
Davis — himself a former
third-round pick — trying to
work into the mix.
There has been speculation that the Chiefs will
trade or release Davis, especially given their cashstrapped
salary
cap
situation, but for the time
being he is still on the roster.
“I’m just excited they
could sign West and Ware
and still have Knile here.
That’s something blessed to
be a part of,” Charles said. “I
don’t think any other team
in the NFL has a running
back group like that. If
either one of us goes down,
we know one of the guys ...
is very fortunate coming in
and stepping up.”
The Chiefs wrapped up
their three-day rookie minicamp Monday, where all
nine of their draft picks and
numerous undrafted players got a chance to prove
they deserve a look later this
summer.
They will reconvene with
most of the veterans for voluntary workouts beginning
May 24, and the Chiefs will
hold their mandatory minicamp in mid-June before
taking a break ahead of
training camp.
MCPHERSON — The
Concordia High School tennis team had two singles
players and one doubles
team knocked in the opening round of the Class 4A
Regional last Friday.
Josh Timme was beaten
6-1, 6-1 by Cole Brumbaugh, Smoky Valley.
Ben Peltier fell 6-0, 6-0 to
Ryan LaComb, Abilene.
Paul Frost and Elijah
Steffen were beaten by
Hank Goertzen and Hunter
Wiehl, Buhler, 6-0, 6-0.
“We knew it was a tough
regional tournament. I was
happy with the boys’
efforts. Both Ben and our
doubles team lost to state
qualifiers,”
Concordia
coach Michael Wahlmeier
said.
Panthers fall in
first round of regionals
twice this season.
Curry came off the
bench with 5:56 left in the
first quarter and Portland
up 16-2. His only points in
the quarter came off a pair
of jumpers before he went
back to the bench.
Livingston felt he was
fouled just before halftime
and was thrown out after
arguing with referee Scott
Foster. The 12-year veteran
guard was averaging 12.1
points and 5.5 assists in
the playoffs. He had started
six of the eight playoff
games while Curry nursed
his knee injury.
Portland led 67-57 at the
half, scoring a franchise
playoff-record 41 points in
the second quarter alone.
Lillard led all scorers with
17 points.
Curry said his legs were
sore after the game.
“To be expected,” he
said. “I pride myself in the
work I put in in the offseason to get through the 82game schedule and be
fresh for the playoffs. I was
off my feet for a week and
some change. You obviously lose a little bit but deep
down when I got the work
the last four days and
broke a sweat and put the
time in, that helped me get
through these 38 minutes.”
Heat defeat Raptors in OT, 94-87
MIAMI (AP) — Just about
everyone struggled to score,
with one very notable exception.
Dwyane Wade was rolling.
And the Miami Heat
couldn’t be more thankful.
Wade scored 30 points,
including the layup that sent
the game to overtime and
finished off Miami’s frantic
comeback from a nine-point
deficit, as the Heat beat the
Toronto Raptors 94-87 in
Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Monday night.
The series is tied 2-2,
heading to Toronto for Game
5 on Wednesday.
“It looked dark for a
minute,” Wade said, “but
there was no quit in us.”
It looked dark for a lot of
minutes before Wade and
the Heat figured it out.
Goran Dragic had 15 points,
including a three-point play
that just about clinched it
for the Heat with 22.4 seconds left in overtime. Joe
Johnson also scored 15,
despite still being without a
3-pointer in this series —
but setting the tone with two
blocked shots in the first 59
seconds of the extra session.
Wade didn’t score in overtime until his steal and dunk
closed the scoring. He didn’t
have to, either.
“I was tired,” Wade said. “I
was using myself as a decoy.
All eyes were on me and I
wasn’t going to force anything.”
Miami led for only 13 seconds in the fourth quarter,
but never trailed in overtime
— the third time in four
games the Heat and Raptors
needed five extra minutes to
decide a winner.
“That’s what you get when
two teams are trying to make
the conference finals,” said
Toronto’s Kyle Lowry, who
fouled out late in regulation
after scoring just 10 points
on 2-for-11 shooting and
blamed himself for the loss.
“We’re going at it.”
Terrence Ross and Cory
Joseph each scored 14 for
Toronto, which shot 39 percent.
Bismack Biyombo and
DeMarre Carroll added 13
apiece for the Raptors, while
the starting backcourt of
Lowry and DeMar DeRozan
— who is obviously bothered
by a thumb injury — combined for 19 points on 6-for28 shooting.
“Two
tough-minded
teams,”
Raptors
coach
Dwane Casey said. “They
came out and forced their
will on us at the end of the
game.”
Miami was down 77-68
midway through the fourth,
and still trailed 79-72 when
Lowry got the roll on a 15footer with 5 minutes left.
That’s when Wade went to
work.
He scored the next five for
Miami, getting the Heat
within 79-77. The deficit was
still two when Lowry fouled
out — on an offensive foul —
with 1:58 left. The Heat finally got the equalizer with 12.6
seconds left, Wade getting to
the rim for a layup that knotted the game at 83-all.
Joseph missed a jumper
to end regulation and the
Raptors scored a mere four
points in the extra session.
“I don’t think there’s any
doubt this game was going to
go into overtime,” Heat
coach Erik Spoelstra said.
“It’s just one heck of a
series.”
It’s even in games, 2-2.
The Heat have outscored
the Raptors, 379-374.
The difference has been
Wade, who’s averaging 27.3
points in this series — nine
more than any other player.
“I’m as confident as I’ve
been all season right now,”
Wade said.
TIP-INS
Raptors: Instead of dealing with the prospects of a 5
a.m.-ish arrival in Toronto,
the Raptors were spending
Monday night in Miami.
They’ll fly Tuesday and plan
to practice in Toronto. ...
Lucas Nogueira made his
playoff debut, checking in
with 4:04 left in the opening
quarter. He’s the fourth Raptor to make his playoff debut
in 2016.
Heat: The Heat have led in
the fourth quarter of all four
games in the series. ... Miami
had 11 assists in the game’s
first 15:24. The Heat then
had no assists for the next
18:26.
WADE WATCH
Wade’s season of climbing
the scoring charts continued. With his ninth point, he
passed Magic Johnson
(3,701) for 13th on the NBA’s
playoff scoring list. He’s also
passed Wilt Chamberlain,
Elgin Baylor, Scottie Pippen
and Dirk Nowitzki in these
playoffs alone, and now with
3,723 he’s within 32 of tying
No. 12 Hakeem Olajuwon
(3,755). Wade is the NBA’s
39th all-time regular-season
scorer, up from No. 54 when
this season began.
6 Blade-Empire, Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Obituaries
GEORGE “HAP” C. RUGG JR.
George “Hap” C. Rugg, of
Jamestown, Kan., passed
away Saturday, May 7,
2016, at the Republic County Hospital in Belleville,
Kan. He was 77. Hap was
born Sept. 30, 1938, at Beloit, Kan., the son of George
C. Rugg Sr. and Lillian Mildred (Thorp) Rugg.
On March 16, 1987, he
married Deborah J. Harris
at Concordia, Kan. Hap was
a veteran, serving in the Marine Corps for 30 years. He
was a member of the American Legion Post #76.
Hap was employed by the
city of Jamestown as assistant city superintendent.
Survivors include: Wife
Deborah of the home; four
sons: Everett Honts and
Amanda Baumann, Concordia; Bruce Rugg and
wife Stacy, Jamestown;
Sean Rugg and wife Alena,
Jamestown; Thomas Rugg
and wife Morgan, Topeka;
one daughter, Kimberly
Stangle and husband J.R.,
San Antonio, Texas; one
brother, Samuel Rugg and
wife Prudy, Waco, Neb.; one
sister, Mary Blochlinger,
Concordia; 14 grandchildren.
He was preceded in death
by his parents and one sister, Betty Stortz.
Funeral services will be
held Friday, May 13, 2016,
at 3 p.m. at the Jamestown
United Methodist Church
with Judy Hill officiating.
Visitation will be Thursday, May 12, 2016, at Nutter Mortuary from 10 a.m.-8
p.m. with the family present
from 6-8 p.m. Memorials
may be given to the George
Rugg Memorial Fund to be
designated at a later date.
Interment will be at the
Scottsville, Kan. Cemetery,
with military honors by VFW
Post #588 and American
Legion Post #76. To leave
online condolences, please
visit
nuttermortuary@yahoo.com. Nutter Mortuary
in charge of arrangements.
HERBERT “HERB” WILLIAM MEIS
Herbert “Herb” William
Meis, 75, passed away Sunday, May 1, 2016, at Grace
Pointe, a continuing care facility in Greeley, Colo., following his battle with cancer.
Herb was born Dec. 5,
1940, in Cheyenne Wells,
Colo., to Elizabeth (Schmidt)
and William Meis. He was
the third son in a family of
seven children.
Herb grew up on a small
farm on the outskirts of
Weskan, Kan. One of his
favorite childhood memories was riding his horse,
Tut, with his friends. He
also had some great memories of spending time on
the farm with his brothers,
Larry, Fred, Milton and Norman and sisters Vera and
Betty. Herb was naturally
timid, but his father encouraged him to participate
in 4-H and become a roper
and compete in rodeos. After his high school graduation in 1958, his family
moved to Jamestown, Kan.
It was there that he met Judith “Judy” Regina Kieffer at
church. A friend dared Herb
to ask Judy on a date. She
turned him down . . . twice
. . . but the third time was
the charm, and the rest is
history.
Herb went to automotive tech school in Kansas
City to 1960 and returned
the next summer. He married Judy on May 18, 1961,
in Jamestown, Kan. Within
eight years, their first five
children were born in nearby Concordia, Kan., all delivered by the same doctor.
Herb started his career
working for his father in his
Case farm equipment dealership. He then continued
his career in farm machinery sales and management,
which took him and his
family to several communities in Kansas, Colorado
and Nebraska.
Herb was ambitious and
hardworking,
anxiously
concerned for his family’s
welfare and innately compassionate. He never hesitated to help anyone. He
also had a great sense of
humor and a laugh that no
one could miss.
After raising their six
children, Herb and Judy
spent many more wonderful
years together, where they
enjoyed gardening, family
gatherings, and riding their
motorcycle.
Herb valued relationships and spent many
mornings connecting with
farmers and friends at local
coffee shops—creating last-
Herbert “Herb” William
Meis
ing friendships. He was a
faithful Catholic and active
member of the Knights of
Columbus and most recently, a lector at St. Catherine’s
Parish in Iliff, Colo.
He found joy in his family, spending the last year
of his life with his children
and relishing visits from his
siblings. Herb’s hobbies included classic cars, going
“up the hill” to play penny
slots in Black Hawk, Colo.,
and motorcycle rides with
his friends.
During the final weeks
of his life, Herb’s physical
health rapidly declined, but
his faith in God, his love
and gratitude for family and
friends, his strength, personal courage and his unfailing determination grew
fixed and firm as a testament of his true character.
Herb will be lovingly
remembered by his six
children, Timothy (Vicki),
Duane, Regina, Concetta
(Robb) Rood, Melanie (Paul)
Prestwich and Catherine
(Jason) Masek. He will also
be fondly remembered by
his 12 grandchildren, Nicole, Tyler, Chase, Levi, Kyli,
Kieffer, Bowen, Samuel,
Elizabeth, Kate, Jonas and
Silas. He is also survived by
four
great-grandchildren,
Tallen, Casen, Ashlynn and
Seamus.
He also is survived by
four siblings, Sr. Vera,
Fredrick (Jean), Elizabeth
“Betty” (David) Huryta and
Milton (Mary).
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Judith Kieffer
Meis and brothers Norman
“Finnian” and Larry.
Mass of Christian Burial
was Thursday, May 5, at
St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, in Iliff. Burial
was in Chappell Cemetery
in Chappell, Neb. In lieu of
flowers, donations to Hospice of the Plains or can be
made to the Herb Meis memorial, in care of ChaneyReager Funeral Home.
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which we dared not even hope for!
—Terence
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Thoman also reminded
department heads to respond if they will be attending the Workforce Development Lunch May 25 and
asked if everyone felt like the
monthly reports that are being sent are helpful. Thoman
reported that many department heads met last week to
discuss employee retention,
a Capital Improvement Plan
and the idea of a County Administrator.
COMMISSIONER Bill Czapanskiy asked departments
to continue working on their
budgets and to evaluate if all
employees are carrying their
weight.
During the commissioners regular session, Sheriff
Brian Marks reported outof-county billing for April totaled $51,800, averaging 54
out of county inmates daily.
Marks also reported that
bids were in for the Prison
Rape Elimination Act (prea)
Audit and Department of
Corrections would be here
Tuesday to review them;
DOC will pay up to $6,000
for the audit. A call was made
to Tom Richard who reported he would be at the LEC
next Tuesday or Wednesday
to look at the roof.
Marks also discussed
a letter received by City of
Concordia for water and
sewer services at the Law
Enforcement Center. The
LEC was significantly under
billed during the period of 31
months beginning September 2013 and ending March
2016. The letter states that
the total quantity of water
provided during the period
read 3,650,000; however,
the software erroneously recorded this as 365,000 gallons. The difference between
the total paid and the correct
billing is $10,608.35, which
will be prorated over a period of 31 months. Larry Uri,
Weather
Concordia City manager, later attended the meeting and
apologized for the error and
explained a one-time Kansas
Department of Revenue Water Protection fee of approximately $100.
Marlene Stamm, NCK Environmental LLC requested a
variance for the separation
distance between the well
and the wastewater system.
Because of the limited lot
size and the location of the
well, the system had to be
installed within 30 feet of
the well. The board approved
granting a variance for the
property at 1328 Rust Road
for a septic tank.
Highway
administrator Andy Asch reported the
tire bids last year totaled
$36,754 and this year were
$35,381, that the bridge two
miles east of Highway 81 on
160th between Highway 24
and Camp is closed for repairs and discussed repairs
that will be done on Noble
Road.
The board approved the
following payroll totaling
$140,572.38:
General
Fund,
$68,552.53;
Appraiser,
$4,668.11; Noxious Weed,
$511.54;
Solid
Waste,
$7,687.25; Road & Bridge,
$42,256.84; County Health,
$15,560.19;
Election,
$1,335.92.
Health Department administrator discussed a delinquent billing. She had a
10 minute executive session
to discuss non-elected personnel with Thoman present.
Commissioners
Engle,
Gary Caspers and Czapanskiy reported they attended
the Kansas County Commissioners Association Annual
Conference in Manhattan
May 3-5.
Adjournment
was
at
12:07 p.m. until 9 a.m, May
16.
Three girls charged
in fatal restroom fight
DOVER, Del. (AP) – Three
teenage girls have been
charged in a high school restroom assault in Delaware
that left a 16-year-old girl
dead, authorities said Monday.
The Delaware attorney
general’s office announced
the charges after meeting
earlier in the day with the
mother and older brother of
the victim, Amy Joyner-Francis.
Joyner-Francis, a sophomore at Wilmington’s Howard High School of Technology, died April 21 after a
fight broke out shortly before
classes were to begin.
Authorities said a 16-yearold girl, the only person believed to have struck JoynerFrancis, is charged with
criminally negligent homicide, which is punishable by
up to eight years in prison.
Prosecutors said they will
seek permission from Family Court to have the girl tried
as an adult in state Superior
Court.
The other two suspects,
also 16, are charged with
third-degree criminal conspiracy, which is punishable
by up to a year in prison, they
added. They will be tried in
Family Court.
The Associated Press is not
naming any of the suspects
because they are juveniles.
Authorities noted that
while the evidence indicates
that all three suspects were
involved in planning a confrontation with Joyner-Francis, only one actually hit her.
Authorities did not disclose a
motive for the confrontation.
“The individuals responsible for Amy Joyner-Francis’s
death are minors, but they
must be held accountable for
their actions,” the state Department of Justice said in a
statement.
Authorities disclosed Monday that Joyner-Francis died
of sudden cardiac death, with
a contributing factor of physical and emotional stress because of the physical assault.
An autopsy did not detect
any internal injuries or significant blunt force injuries.
“In layman’s terms, the
medical examiner determined
that Amy died from a cardiac
incident that she was vulnerable to because of a preexisting heart condition, but
the cardiac incident would
not have occurred if she had
not been assaulted,” the DOJ
statement read.
According to a police affidavit, a video of the assault
obtained by investigators
shows a girl striking JoynerFrancis repeatedly in the
head and torso with what appears to be a closed fist. As
the attacker leaves, JoynerFrancis then attempts to
stand up.
“Witnesses confirm that
Joyner-Francis then began
exhibiting disorientation and
collapsed shortly thereafter,”
the affidavit reads.
Authorities also said in
court documents that written and oral communications
among the three suspects indicate that the assault was
planned over the course of
the preceding 20 hours.
Chief state public defender
Brendan O’Neill, whose office is representing one of the
suspects charged with conspiracy, described the death
of Joyner-Francis as “a terrible accident in the context
of an ugly incident.”
“It’s a tragedy all the way
around,” he said. “The consequences are going to be
life-changing for all the kids
involved.”
Wilmington Mayor Dennis
Williams issued a statement
saying the charges are a “first
step” in providing the victim’s
family and the community
with closure.
“As this process moves
forward, I ask that we keep
the family and loved ones
of everyone involved in our
thoughts and prayers,” Williams said.
Police Chief Bobby Cummings did not immediately to
requests for comment.
Today’s weather artwork by
Noah Redmond,
a 4th grader in
Mrs. Stensaas’ class
Today’s weather artwork by
Jagger Johnson,
a 3rd grader in
Mrs. McFadden’s class
Kansas suspending
work on limiting
carbon emissions
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas is suspending its work
on a plan for complying with
federal regulations meant to
combat climate change by
reducing carbon emissions
from power plants.
A new state law putting
the work on hold takes effect May 19 and would make
Kansas at least the third
state to take such a step
following a U.S. Supreme
Court decision in February.
Lawmakers in Virginia and
Wyoming included similar
measures in budget legislation earlier this year, though
Oklahoma’s governor issued
an executive order last year
to keep her state from drafting a plan.
The high court issued a
5-4 decision staying the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s rules requiring states to reduce carbon
emissions from power plants
until legal challenges to the
regulations are resolved.
Kansas was among 27 states
challenging the rules, finalized by President Barack
Obama’s administration last
year.
Republican Gov. Sam
Brownback signed Kansas’ measure into law last
week after the GOP-dominated Legislature approved
it by wide margins late last
month. The Kansas law prohibits state agencies from
conducting studies or doing
other work toward drafting
a compliance plan until the
U.S. Supreme Court’s stay
is lifted.
Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley called the
EPA’s rules “an unprecedented expansion of its
regulatory power” and “an
affront to our constitutional
order and the rights of our
citizens.”
“We will continue to oppose these regulations in
court in order to protect
Kansans from unnecessary
increases in energy costs,”
she said in an emailed statement.
But Zack Pistora, a Sierra
Club lobbyist, said Kansas
should reduce carbon emissions linked by scientists to
climate change, regardless
of whether the EPA rules are
in effect or the federal government presses states to
act.
“Climate change isn’t going to go away,” Pistora said.
“Here, we’re just sitting idle
while our state becomes
more susceptible to the
damage.”
The EPA told states law
year that they must start reducing carbon emissions by
2022. EPA’s target for Kansas was a 43 percent reduction by 2030.
Republican
lawmakers
last year reluctantly approved a law spelling out
how the state would draft a
plan for complying with the
EPA’s rules.
Last year’s law authorized the state Department
of Health and Environment
to draft a plan and allowed
“flexible regulatory mechanisms” or voluntary agreements with utilities. But it
also said the agency must
consider whether reductions
can “reasonably be achieved”
at each power plant, can’t
force plants to switch fuels
and must obtain a special
legislative committee’s approval before submitting the
plan to EPA.
Republican
lawmakers
strongly criticized EPA’s
rules but also said they
didn’t want the federal government to impose its own
plan on Kansas because the
state wouldn’t draft one.
Kansas
Senate
Utilities Chairman Rob Olson,
an
Olathe
Republican,
said suspending work now
makes sense because studies conducted now by the
state could be outdated by
the time legal challenges are
resolved.
“What we did was put everything on hold and wait
for the U.S. Supreme Court,”
Olson said.
Markets
NEW YORK (AP) – U.S.
stocks are climbing Tuesday
after the Chinese government moved to stimulate its
economy. Machinery companies and miners are rising
the most, and energy companies are trading higher with
the price of oil. Stocks are on
track for their biggest gain in
a month.
KEEPING SCORE: The
Dow Jones industrial average jumped 200 points, or
1.1 percent, to 17,906 as of
12:31 p.m. Eastern time. The
Standard & Poor’s 500 added
21 points, or 1 percent, to
2,079. The Nasdaq composite
index picked up 46 points, or
1 percent, to 4,796.
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