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Donor invests in childhood education WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — People who know Barry Downing say he tends to research things thoroughly.

About 12 years ago, he began intensely researching child poverty from the top down. It was a subject he knew well from the bottom up.

By that time he had money and wanted to contribute to Wichita because he’s fond of the place, The Wichita Eagle reports.

At first he considered investing in several charities serving several community problems. And then he realized that he could attack sev-

A COLD SNAP

City crews worked to clear roadways inside the Iola city limits Sunday morning. Below, Rosie and Woody brave the cold to take a romp in the snow. REGISTER/STEVEN SCHWARTZ

Cold, sure, but we’ve seen colder

There is a great deal of potential in young children. We need to quit looking at them like an expense.

—Barry Downing

eral problems at once by investing in one thing.

Two years later, in 2003, he opened the first of three early education schools in an organization he named the Opportunity Project, called TOP for short.

He wanted early education to be done boldly. He wanted to model nationally how to inspire and educate kids who live in poverty.

And he hired auditors to track every student after they left TOP to see how they fared in school, to see if what they were trying to accomplish was working, to see whether they were indeed providing an opSee DONOR | Page A4

‘Polar vortex’ pummels Midwest

By KERRY LESTER and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — A whirlpool of frigid, dense air known as a “polar vortex” descended today into much of the U.S., pummeling parts of the country with a dangerous cold that could break decades-old records with wind chill warnings stretching from Montana to Alabama.

For a big chunk of the Midwest, the subzero temperatures were moving in behind another winter wallop: more than a foot of snow and high winds

that made traveling treacherous. Officials closed schools in cities including Chicago, St. Louis and Milwaukee and warned residents to stay indoors and avoid the frigid cold altogether.

The forecast is extreme: 32 below zero in Fargo, N.D.; minus 21 in Madison, Wis.; and 15 below zero in Minneapolis, Indianapolis and Chicago. Wind chills — what it feels like outside when high winds are factored into the temperature — could drop into the minus 50s and 60s.

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The mercury bottomed out at 9 degrees below zero just before dawn today. That may have been a record low for a Jan. 6, but wasn’t an all-time low for Iola.

At least eight times the low temperature has been in double digits locally, according to records The Register has maintained since 1906.

The granddaddy of frigidity came on Jan. 13, 1912, when the overnight low fell to 16 degrees below zero. It was about as cold on Jan. 19, 1943, when the low was minus 15.

Twice it hit 12 below, on Jan. 13, 1916, and Jan. 3, 1928, as well as minus-11 on Jan. 8, 1933.

Other double-digit lows were minus-10 on Jan. 3, 1919, Jan. 5, 1924, and Jan. 19, 1940.

More recent years have had readings below zero, but none of 10 degrees or more.

Tyson: ‘Tread lightly’ with education

By KAYLA BANZET The Iola Register

Sen. Caryn Tyson visited Humboldt to address the Downtown Action Team Friday afternoon. REGISTER/KAYLA BANZET

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Public education and its funding has been a cumbersome topic, said Kansas Sen. Caryn Tyson.

Tyson, District 12, spoke with Humboldt community members on Friday about plans for Kansas education. Currently, a decision to request legislators to increase funding for preK and K-12 schools awaits in the Kansas Supreme Court.

“We need to be very cautious and tread lightly when it comes to education,” Tyson said.

On Jan. 13, the Kansas State Legislature will begin its annual session and school funding will be on the top of the to-do list.

Tyson, who lives near Parker in rural Linn County, said the bigger districts and smaller districts should be equal when it comes to funding.

“It’s not rural against urban districts,” she said. “All students deserve a quality education.”

Tyson said she did not vote to increase K-12 funding last year. State funding for schools has dropped from $4,400 per pupil in 2009 to $3,838

in 2013.

Tyson was critical of a school district “in my own backyard,” which recently spent more than $1 million on an athletic stadium. Although building the stadium established storm shelters for students, Tyson was critical of their decision to spend money on an athletic venue.

“We need to spend that money wisely and get those funds to the classroom and to our teachers,” she said.

Schools are restricted to spending their capital outlay funds on buildings, not on teacher and other staff salaries, which is the responsibility of the Legislature.

The senator said she would like to focus more on where funds are going instead of adding more.

“The question isn’t ‘Do we need more money?’ but ‘How are we spending the money we already have?’” Tyson said.

An increase in funding to support career and technical education programs was approved last year. Tyson supported this increase.

“You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.”

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Obituary

GOP leader proposes intern dress code

Carol Solomon Carol E. Solomon passed away Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014, at Diversicare of Chanute where she had been a resident for five years.

The family will welcome visitors at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday with burial to follow at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Humboldt Memorials may be given to Milk & Honey Ministries for the Daghfals and Fords, Carol’s two granddaughters serving as missionaries in the Mid- and Far East. Memorial gifts may be left with the WaughYokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel of Iola, which is in charge of arrangements.

To sign the guestbook online or leave condolences, go to www.iolafuneral.com.

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— Moran Public Library meeting, 5 p.m., Moran Public Library.

— Moran City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Moran City Hall.

— Unity Club meeting, Jan. 13, 4 W. Edwards.

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— Allen County Commission meeting, 8:30 a.m., Allen County Courthouse commissioner room.

— Allen County Historical Society board meeting, 7 p.m., Allen County Historical museum.

— Knights of Columbus, 7 p.m., KofC Room in the St. John Parish Center.

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— Grief Support Group, 1 p.m., Allen County Home Health and Hospice.

— Dirt Diggers Club, 2 p.m., Dorothy McGhee’s home.

— LaHarpe City Council meeting, 7 p.m., LaHarpe City Hall.

— Jones Hardy Post NO. 385, Post Home Moran.

— Iola BPDE No. 569, 8 p.m., Elks Lodge.

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— Rotary Club, noon, The Greenery.

— TOPS No. KS 880 5 p.m. weigh in, 5:30 p.m. meeting, Calvary United Methodist Church.

— Weight Watchers, weigh in 5:30 p.m., 6 p.m. meeting, Trinity United Methodist Church.

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— Senior Citizens Card Club, 5:30 p.m., Senior Citizens Center.

— Brian Free & Assurance and Tribute Quartet, 6 p.m., Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

— Iola Old Time Fiddlers, Pickers and Singers, 1 p.m., North Community Building.

— Sons of the Legion, 2:30 p.m., Post Home.

Universities unite in budget fight TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas universities are uniting in an appeal to restore higher education spending after two years of multimillion-dollar state budget cuts.

Political debate about the future of taxpayers financing the 32-school Kansas Board of Regents system returns to the forefront when the 2014 Legislature is scheduled to start this week in Topeka, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported.

Officials at Washburn University, Kansas State University and the University of Kansas say they won’t be shy about arguing for stronger state investment in higher education. They want to see the restoration of $23 million in the current fiscal year and $25 million that was scheduled to be withdrawn in the upcoming fiscal year.

“It’s important for Kansas to support higher education so that we can have a better-educated populous and workforce,” Kansas State president Kirk Schulz said. “This gets lost in the shuffle sometimes when we talk about tax policies and tax rates. If we cannot produce the workforce that industry needs, they will go else-

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where.”

Bernadette GrayLittle, chancellor of the main University of Kansas campus in Lawrence and the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., said thriving universities were a major component in the quest to draw companies and innovators to the state.

And Washburn University President Jerry Farley said Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposal to deliver state government aid to districts for all-day kindergarten throughout Kansas was a good sign. But while Brownback vowed to push for about $80 million necessary to expand kindergarten offerings, he has yet to make a firm public commitment about reversal of the higher education cuts.

“THE BETTER educated we are, the better the economy has done,” said Farley, who worries retrenchment in public education would diminish the middle class. “I don’t think there is any question about it. That’s what will occur.”

“The question is: How long will it be before we’re willing again to invest in education at all levels?” Farley asked.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Republican leader in the Kansas House has developed a proposed set of rules gover ning the appearance and social m e d i a behavior Peggy Mast of volunteer interns who work for state lawmakers.

The list developed

by House Speaker Pro Tem Peggy Mast, an Emporia Republican, is in response to a few complaints about decorum, she said. It does everything from banning mohawk haircuts to allowing only female interns to wear earrings — and even then, only one pair.

“We want it set up so they can take pride in the position they hold,” Mast told the Topeka Capital-Journal.

“Hopefully, they’ll benefit from it.”

Tennis shoes and strapless tops would be forbidden, as would un-

flattering photographs or criticism on the interns’ Facebook pages.

Violations of Statehouse personal conduct rules could result in dismissal from the intern program, she said.

The guide directs “gentlemen” to wear a suit or dress shirt, tie, slacks and shoes; keep their hair clean and “neatly” styled with no “over-the-top colors;” and they should be clean shaven or have their facial hair trimmed very short.

For the “ladies,” options include suits, business dresses, skirt/dress pants and a “dressy” top, according to the draft plan. Halter tops, miniskirts or “skirts/pants that are too tight, skinny dress pants and revealing necklines” are not allowed.

Interns should use very little, if any, perfume or cologne, and they are to cover tattoos and remove all facial and body piercings under the plan. Women

would be allowed only one earring in each ear, while men can’t wear any at all.

The plan also admonishes interns to view themselves as a “direct

“It is unacceptable for the speaker pro tem’s office to draw an arbitrary line as to what they find inappropriate for an intern’s appearance or their ac-

It is unacceptable for the speaker pro tem’s office to draw an arbitrary line as to what they find inappropriate for an intern’s appearance or their activity on social media.

— Will Lawrence, intern coordinator

representation of the senator or representative” to whom they are assigned, including during their free time, and to never say anything derogatory about others with whom they interact.

Some of the proposal’s recommendations raise First Amendment issues, said Will Lawrence, intern coordinator and legislative counsel to the Senate’s Democratic leader.

tivity on social media,” Lawrence said. “Legislators and their interns should be free to make these decisions on an individual basis.”

A spokeswoman for House Speaker Ray Merrick, a Stilwell Republican, said the guidelines don’t appear to be unreasonable.

“They seem to be pretty standard for private business,” spokeswoman Rachel Whitten said.

Nuss to give update on Kan. courts TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss is planning to deliver the annual State of the Judiciary from the court’s chambers, making an appeal to residents about the need for additional resources to keep courtrooms open.

When Nuss gives the remarks on Jan. 22, it’s expected to be the first time the address will be delivered from the Supreme Court chambers. Legislators and other interested parties are invited to attend the speech, which also will be broadcast on the court’s website and archived.

The webcast will allow him to make the case for the need for an estimated $8.25 million in state funding in the

next fiscal year to operate the courts, Nuss said Friday. The legislative session begins Jan. 13.

“I can only appeal to them in the State of the Judiciary address and try to talk to the committees and individual legislators,” Nuss said.

Absent additional appropriations from the Legislature, Nuss said court employees could be sent home without pay, forcing court offices to close statewide. Employee costs account for 96 percent of the judicial branch budget, including judges and clerical staff. Nuss closed the court system down in 2012 when legislators were slow to act on the state budget.

Nuss said the budget figures have been known for some time and that he has tried to

be open about the consequences.

“This is reality. We would like more money so those things don’t have to happen,” Nuss said.

Senate Vice President Jeff King, an Independence Republican who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said legislators could instead act to modernize the case management system, improving efficiencies and saving money.

“We have a difference of opinion over the level of funding,” King said of court’s budget request. “I’m looking for a long-term solution that will fund the courts and also create a 21st-century judiciary.”

King said he thought legislators would be looking at options that

could result in a budget increase of $2.5 million to $3 million for the courts.

Kansas law requires the chief justice to give an update on current affairs within the judicial branch each year near the start of the legislative session. In past years, the address has been given to a joint session of the House and Senate from the House chambers.

However, in 2012 House Speaker Ray Merrick declined a request by Nuss to give the address, suggesting there were other pressing matters for legislators to consider and asked Nuss to find an alternative means for making his remarks.

Nuss submitted his remarks in writing to legislators.

Woman’s kind deeds inspire others KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A northeast Kansas woman who spent the year after her 40th birthday performing 40 acts of goodness to honor people who made a mark in her life is inspiring others.

Tami Greenberg of Prairie Village, volunteered so many hours around town that she lost count and called her project “A Year of Being 40 and Grateful,” The Kansas City Star reports.

The Star’s story about her moved Danny O’Neill, founder of the Roasterie, a Kansas City coffee roaster, to tears. He announced a plan to “commit to 50+ random, but somewhat planned, acts of kindness” and encouraged others to do the same in his annual Christmas letter, sent to nearly 14,000 Roasterie fans, friends, customers and business associates. One business friend pledged to launch a charitable project for Easter.

Others also were inspired. A work colleague was moved to send a letter of thanks to an old teacher/coach from high school. Another woman shared the article on her Facebook page and started her own project

for her 40th birthday.

Immediately after reading Greenberg’s story, Annie Loendorf, a member of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, whipped out paper and pen and listed 67 people — one for every year of her own life — who had made a difference for her. Then she lit candles and prayed for them — little “shout-out” prayers, she calls them.

“I just sat there by myself and gosh, what happened to me. I found myself going back to my childhood,” she said. “I even went beyond 67 (people). I don’t know, it just got something started in me.”

Greenberg didn’t intend for her project to be so publicly displayed.

“I have been so touched by people’s really genuine responses to my project,” Greenberg said. “It seems

to have helped people think about the meaningful people in their own lives and the ways that we

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Fighting birth control misuses church’s precious resources It would seem nuns fighting birth control is misspent energy.

Yet, the Little Sisters of the Poor have decided that an exemption for religious groups to provide contraception coverage is still too strong of language for their liking. Applying for the exemption, the nuns argue, is a substantial burden and infringes on their religious freedoms. The case has made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The argument stems from the Affordable Care Act and its requirement that employer insurance include birth control at full cost with no co-pay for women.

Religiously oriented institutions such as parochial schools, charities, hospitals and churches can claim exemption from the provision. All that is necessary is that they sign a waiver saying as much. In those instances, employees who still wish to purchase birth control may do so directly through the insurance company. It’s this provision that rankles the sisters.

That their employees can still obtain birth control through a workaround does not absolve the sisters from the sin, they say.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a

temporary injunction last week, saying the nuns did not have to provide the paperwork.

The Justice Department replied on Friday the paperwork should not prove burdensome and asked the Supreme Court to reject the lawsuit.

CATHOLIC WOMEN use artificial means of birth control because it works above and beyond the natural rhythm method of trying to time a woman’s menstrual cycle. Today, birth control comes in many forms, including pills, implants, shots and devices.

Polls show about 90 percent of Catholic women use some measure of artificial birth control.

Alongside preventing pregnancy, birth control helps control abortion rates.

Six months into his papacy, Pope Francis criticized Catholics for being “obsessed” with not only birth control but also gay marriage and abortion.

“We have to find a new balance,” he said, or else the “moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards.”

The church has bigger battles, Francis said.

Amen.

— Susan Lynn

Quote of the day “Just as the commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill’ sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say ‘thou shalt not’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?” — Pope Francis, Apostolic Exhortation, The Joy of the Gospel.

Kobach changes tack on voter ID What’s this, different agencies of government talking to each other? The state taking on some of the burden from the citizen before denying the citizen’s constitutional right to vote?

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office will start cross-referencing names on its list of voters whose registrations are on hold with the state’s birth certificates files to see if they can be certified in compliance with the new proof-of-citizenship requirement.

Bravo.

Kobach told the Associated Press this week that attorneys for his office and the Department of Health and Environment were meeting to work out an agreement to check lists of prospective voters against records at KDHE’s Office of Vital Statistics.

“We’re looking for every way that we can to help people complete their registrations,” Kobach said. “This will help a lot of people.”

This sounds like a change in thinking for someone who up until now has been more focused on stopping people

This sounds like a change in thinking for someone who up until now has been more focused on stopping people from voting than encouraging more to participate in democracy. from voting than encouraging more to participate in democracy. But we’ll give Kobach the benefit of the doubt and credit for taking a different, more inclusive, approach.

The requirement that voters prove their citizenship has been in effect for one year now, and more than 19,300 registrations are on hold because voters haven’t produced the birth certificate, passport or other legally required documentation to allow them to cast ballots.

Nothing is wrong with a proof-of-citizenship law per se. Of course the integrity of our elections should be secure. But voting is a fundamental right of every citizen of a democracy; indeed, it is the foundation of the system.

Consequently, government should not be in the position

of taking away that right from lawful citizens.

THE BURDEN for proving citizenship, then, should rest with the government, not with the citizen ­­­— especially when the government has plenty of documentation of each person’s citizenship. If not the birth records of the state ­— remember, Kobach’s office is only checking Kansas’ records right now — a quick check of the federal Social Security records should confirm citizenship.

No doubt a cross-check with a federal database would prove challenging. But it shouldn’t be impossible. The very politicians who decry big government bureaucracy should be trying to solve it, not using it as an excuse. ­— The Hutchinson News

States should heed Colorado’s experiment with weed On New Year’s Day, government-licensed recreational marijuana shops opened in Colorado, the first place in the world to regulate the drug “from seed to sale.” Later in 2014, marijuana retailers will open in Washington State. As public opinion shifts away from prohibition, these two states will serve as test cases for full-on legalization.

Here’s what to watch for in the early stages of this experiment:

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION

A big question is whether the widespread availability of marijuana will lead to decreased alcohol consumption, which recent research suggests might happen. That would be a boon for public health. (Heavy drinking is

A look back in time

FATE OF THE BLACK MARKET

One of the basic arguments in favor of legalization is that it could eliminate the black market and create new tax revenue. But it’s not clear how quickly and to what extent this will actually happen.

Marijuana sold at retail shops that pay taxes may well cost more than illegal marijuana, potentially keeping off-thebooks dealers in business.

UNDER-AGE SMOKING

When the Justice Department announced in August that it would not sue to block state laws legalizing marijuana, James Cole, the deputy attorney general, emphasized that local governments must employ “strong and effective regulatory” systems. To avoid federal intervention, states will have to prove that they’re capable of enforcing bans on selling the drug to anyone under 21. Roughly 36 percent of 12th graders reported having used marijuana in 2013. From a public-health standpoint, it will be important to monitor

more harmful than heavy pot smoking, and costlier to society.) But if the use of one substance encourages use of the other, the consequences might be dire, particularly for road safety. It is more dangerous to drive after combining marijuana and alcohol than after using either alone.

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whether youth usage rates in Colorado and Washington diverge from those in other states.

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Washington banned marijuana ads near schools, libraries and playgrounds. In Colorado, marijuana vendors may run ads in print media only if there is “reliable evidence” that no more than 30 percent of the readership is under 21.

But these policies may not be sufficient to satisfy the Justice Department, which said that it might step in if it saw marijuana “marketed in a manner to appeal to minors.” The Justice Department may not look

kindly on THC-infused sweets, like cannabis gummy bears and brownies.

INTERSTATE TRAFFICKING

To stem the flow of marijuana across state lines, Colorado has imposed different rules on residents and visitors. Residents may buy up to an ounce per transaction but visitors only a quarter-ounce.

Visitors are supposed to consume their purchases before returning home.

Despite these precautions, cross-border trafficking may increase, especially if the price of marijuana in Colorado drops below the price in, say, neighboring Wyoming.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hattan have announced the sale of H & M Supermarket to their longtime associates, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Thompson. The supermarket’s name will be changed to Thompson’s Meat Market and Grocery. The Hattans purchased the supermarket in 1955. Thompson has operated Thompson’s Meat Market and now manages the

store.

***** A business which has been in the same family since its founding in 1906 has been sold. Charles E. Williams Jr. announced the sale of Williams Monuments to Mrs. and Mrs. Charles Barnett.

The firm still will be called Williams Monuments. Barnett joined Williams Monuments in 1970 with the intention of eventually purchasing the business.

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Cold: Hits Midwest Continued from A1

tional Weather Service meteorologist Butch Dye in Missouri.

It hasn’t been this cold for almost two decades in many parts of the country. Frostbite and hypothermia can set in quickly at 15 to 30 below zero.

Lorna West, a 43-yearold student and consultant from Columbus, Ohio, said thermal underwear, lots of layers and “Eskimo coats� with zipped hoods to block

ed next to a propane heater. He wore four layers of clothing up top, two on his legs: “Two wool socks on — right now, I feel comfortable,� he said. “Well, my nose is about frozen. It feels like — I jumped in the lake the other day — it feels about like that,� his wife said with a laugh.

She was completely dry, unlike New Year’s Day when she took part in a “polar plunge� into Lake Michigan.

Well, my nose is about frozen. It feels like — I jumped in the lake the other day — it feels about like that. — Renee Heling, Green Bay tailgater and polar plunger

the wind were the norm when she was growing up in Chicago. “And don’t go out if you don’t have to,� she said.

Elnur Toktombetov, a Chicago taxi driver, woke up at 2:30 a.m. Monday anticipating a busy day.

By 3:25 a.m. he was on the road, armed with hot tea and donuts, and an hour into his shift, his Toyota’s windows were still coated with ice on the inside. “People are really not comfortable with this weather,� Toktombetov said. “They’re really happy to catch the cab. And I notice they really tip well.�

It was 5 degrees at kickoff Sunday inside soldout Lambeau Field for a playoff game between the Green Bay Packers and the San Francisco 49ers, one of the coldest ever played.

In the parking lot, Craig and Renee Heling of Waukesha, Wis., set up a camouflage hunting blind behind his white pickup truck and tailgat-

Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard upgraded the city’s travel emergency level to “red,� making it illegal for anyone to drive except for emergencies or seeking shelter.

The last time the city issued such a travel warning was during a blizzard in 1978.

For several Midwestern states, the bitter cold was adding to problems caused by a weekend snow storm. The National Weather Service said the snowfall at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport totaled more than 11 inches as of 6 p.m. Sunday — the most since the Feb. 2, 2011, storm that shut down the city’s famed Lake Shore Drive.

Police in suburban Detroit said heavy snow was believed to have caused the roof to collapse at a two-story building that once housed a bar. No injuries are reported and police said no one was inside the building in Lake Orion, Mich., about 7 p.m. Sunday when the roof collapsed.

Biting cold Trevor, from left, Connor, and Austin Bartz, seen on Wednesday, built a16-foot high snow shark at their New Brighton, Minn., home. It took the brothers around 95 hours. GLEN STUBBE/MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE/MCT

Tyson: Addresses school funding Continued from A1

This past session Common Core was brought to the attention of the Senate and House. School districts USD 257 and 258 have integrated Common Core into their curriculums.

Senate members voted to put limits on Common Core, while the House defeated the bill. “Many feel that Common Core is seen by the federal government as a back door of getting control of local education of our children,� Tyson said.

She voted against Common Core curriculum.

Besides working on education, Tyson said she will continue working on taxes.

Last year she was promoted to Senate Tax Committee chairman.

The senator is optimistic for the upcoming session. “I work with great people on both sides of the aisle,� she said. “I think everyone is working for what they think is best for the state but no one agrees on what is best.�

Briefs Councilman resigns in Klingon INDIAN TRAIL, N.C. (AP) — Call it a politician boldly going where no one has gone before.

On Thursday, David Waddell used the Klingon language to write his letter of resignation from the Indian Trail Town Council in North Carolina.

Waddell says he opted to use Klingon, the language of a warrior race on the “Star Trek� TV shows and movies, as an inside joke.

Mayor Michael Alvarez is calling the letter unprofessional.

Waddell says he is resigning at the end of this month. His four-year term expires in December 2015.

‘Beet’ the ice BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is experimenting with beet juice as a way to treat icy roads in especially cold weather.

PennDOT officials tell KDKA-TV that chemicals in the juice are supposed to help road salt melt ice at lower temperatures. Typically, salt loses much of its effectiveness below 20 degrees, but when mixed with beet juice, the salt reportedly melts ice down to zero or even below-zero temperatures.

PennDOT experimented with beet juice a few years ago but officials say a new and improved version is being tested as part of a pilot program in Butler County.

Donor: Investing in promise of early childhood education Continued from A1 portunity. “Children are pretty amazing if we give them a chance,� Downing said.

Downing has given interviews about all this only grudgingly, in part because he’s more than tired of hearing his own story recited again.

He doesn’t think that’s fair to the many parents whom he said try hard to get out of poverty. They never get enough credit, he said.

He has also said he doesn’t want the story of their success to be cluttered with anecdotes about how Barry Downing’s father worked in a filling station. Or how when his dad drove him around in a clunker of a 1949 Chevy, Barry Downing would scrunch down, hoping no one would see him wearing the cheap trousers with iron-on patches.

He knows the reason that story is so compelling is that no one back then knew what potential he had. But he’s uncomfortable with hearing other people say how he became a multimillionaire and an advocate for children.

The main thing he wishes people would quote him on has nothing to do with charity, he said. It is a fact, he said, based solidly in our own collective self-interest.

We could save a lot of our tax money if we’d embrace a truth he learned, first from poverty, and then from success, Downing said.

“I believe people should earn their way,� he said. “But we have to have compassion enough to understand that there are people who are not equipped to perform at a high level.�

What Downing really accomplished with TOP, according to longtime TOP director Janice Smith, is more complex and instructive than a rags-to-riches tale would be.

Downing made a lot of his money in real estate and health care. It wasn’t only that he was smart; he was careful.

After he set up TOP, he brought in outside auditors, from Wichita State University and the Wichita school district.

They have tested TOP kids for years, after they go on to school, and the auditors say the hundreds of children tested appear to be much better prepared to do well socially and academically than children who don’t get what his schools give.

So far, TOP schools have educated and nourished 1,400 Wichita and Derby kids, most of them drawn from poverty.

What he really did 12 years ago was look for a way to equip them, starting early, when a child’s mind is most curious and pliable. “There is a great deal of potential in young children,� Downing said. “We need to quit looking at them as an expense.�

TOP offers early education programs and 10-hour-long day care.

Because Downing still believes people should pay their own way when possible, TOP sets expectations: If a family gets a TOP scholarship that puts their kids in TOP for free, the parents must show up for most of the scheduled parentteacher meetings and work with TOP counselors who connect them with low-cost help with everything from financial counseling to learning English.

Classes include subjects like science, language and math, all heavily enriched by games, playtime, visuals and hands-on learning. Smith and the TOP staff created their own education recipe over time. They borrowed some of the high expectations and standardized teaching methods of public schools, along with looser “dance outside the box� techniques of private schools.

At TOP’s northwest school, nobody was sitting in rows listening to a lecture one day earlier this month. There was a lot of noise and excited laughter, but the kids were working on proj-

ects or being read to.

Smith said the schools now have 10 years of data and studies done by auditors from the Wichita school district and WSU. Downing wanted the auditors not only to train and demand highquality teaching but to prove good results, if the results were indeed good.

They were.

But what the numbers really mean, Downing said, “is that we’ll have a lot fewer prison inmates and gang members to deal with in the future.�

Fewer women needing the safety of shelters.

Fewer kids with unwanted pregnancies. “More people growing up to pay taxes and own homes,� he said.

Linda Bakken, a professor emeritus in educational psychology at WSU, set up an ongoing control group of children who had not attended TOP programs, then compared the two groups’ performances in schools year after year.

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STROKE OF LUCK KILLS KC

45-44 Collapse latest in string of Chiefs’ playoff misery

Jayhawks fall short against Aztecs

By MICHAEL MAROT The Associated Press

frantic, turning a steady stream of halftime boos into a chorus of cheers.

“I don’t know if it ever crossed my mind on how it would be remembered,” Luck said after winning his first

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Xavier Thames scored 16 points, four on free throws in the closing seconds, and No. 21 San Diego State held on to beat No. 16 Kansas 61-57 on Sunday, ending the Jayhawks’ 68game non-conference winning streak at Allen Fieldhouse.

Kansas (9-4) had a chance to tie the game when Perry Ellis went to the free throw line with 11.9 seconds left. He made his first free throw but, after San Diego State (12-1) called timeout to ice him, Ellis missed the second and the Jayhawks were forced to foul.

Thames made both free throws to give San Diego State a three-point lead, and the Aztecs fouled rather than allow Kansas to attempt a tying 3-pointer. Frank Mason missed the first and made the second, and Thames made two more foul shots with 4.6 seconds left to seal the win.

Skylar Spencer finished with 13 points and Josh Davis had 10 for the Aztecs, who have won 11 straight since losing to No. 1 Arizona on Nov. 14. That streak is tied for the second-best in school history and trails only the 20-0 start of the 2010-11 team.

Andrew Wiggins and Mason scored 14 points apiece for the Jayhawks, who had won 112 of their last 114 games at their venerable on-campus home.

Joel Embiid finished with 12 points and 12 rebounds.

The Jayhawks struggled against the long, lanky Aztecs right from the start, missing

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Chuck Pagano couldn’t believe his eyes. Andrew Luck couldn’t believe his ears.

Colts fans couldn’t believe the scoreboard, and the Kansas City Chiefs couldn’t believe their incredibly bad luck.

It seemed unfathomable.

On a day Luck appeared to be pressing and, at times, as bad as he ever has while putting Indianapolis in a 28-point deficit, the Colts quarterback somehow turned things around. He threw three of his four touchdowns in the second half, scored on a fumble return and connected with a wide-open T.Y. Hilton on a 64yard TD pass to give the Colts an improbable 45-44 wild-card victory Saturday.

“One for the ages,” said Pagano, Indianapolis’ coach. “I think somebody said that it was the second-largest comeback or whatever in the history of whatever. I guess 21 wasn’t large enough at half, so we thought we’ve give them another seven, you know, just to make it interesting.”

Actually, rallying from 28 down made the latest of Luck’s amazing comebacks one to remember.

Indianapolis (12-5) became only the second playoff team to rally from that big a deficit, according to STATS. Buffalo rallied from 32 points to beat Houston 41-38 in January 1993, though that one required overtime.

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Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck (12) leaps into the end zone after recovering a goal line fumble for a touchdown against the Kansas City Chiefs in the fourth quarter of an AFC Wild Card Game Saturday. The Colts defeated the Chiefs, 45-44. JOHN SLEEZER/KANSAS CITY STAR/MCT

49ers, Chargers, Saints advance GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Phil Dawson kicked a 33-yard field goal as time expired, and Colin Kaepernick threw for 227 yards and ran for another 98 to lead the San Francisco 49ers past the Green Bay Packers 23-20 on Sunday night in a frigid NFC wildcard game.

In a back-and-forth fourth quarter, the 49ers (13-4) threw the final punch. Kaepernick escaped a blitz on third-and-8 and scrambled for an 11-yard

gain to the 27 with 1:13 left.

Dawson nailed the winning kick five plays later.

The Colts, winners of four straight, travel to New England next weekend for the divisional round.

Luck was an incredible mix of good and bad, finishing 29 of 45 for 443 yards, the second-highest yardage total in franchise history for a play-

off game. He also matched his career high with three interceptions. Hilton broke franchise playoff records with 13 catches and 224 yards, and also caught two TDs. But it was the way Indy won that made it stunning.

Luck played angry and

CHARGERS 27, BENGALS 10

CINCINNATI (AP) — San Diego took advantage of Andy Dalton’s three turnovers, pulling away to a victory that extended Cincinnati’s streak of playoff misery to 23 years and counting.

Philip Rivers donned gloves and made accurate throws in the January rain, leading the Chargers (10-7)

to their fifth straight win, this one over the last team to knock them off. They’ll play Sunday in Denver.

SAINTS 26, EAGLES 24

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Shayne Graham kicked a 32yard field goal on the final play Saturday to give New Orleans its first road playoff win.

Graham’s fourth field goal sent the Saints (12-5) to Seattle next Saturday’s divisional playoff game against the NFC’s top seed.

Shockers knock off Northern Iowa, 67-53

By JEFFREY PARSON Associated Press

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Fred VanVleet had a seasonhigh 22 points to lead No. 8 Wichita State past Northern Iowa 67-53 on Sunday, the unbeaten Shockers’ 15th straight win.

Cleanthony Early had 18 points for Wichita State (15-0, 2-0 Missouri Valley), which established a school record for consecutive wins and extended the best start in school history. The previous record winning streak of 14 games came in 1953-54.

Deon Mitchell had 16 points for Northern Iowa (7-7, 1-1).

Wichita State shot a seasonworst 38.1 percent from the field, but VanVleet continued his hot streak. In the last four games, he averaged 18.3 points while compiling 21 assists and just one turnover.

Early scored 11 of Wichita State’s first 13 points in the second half. His third 3-pointer in a 5-minute span gave the Shockers a 43-33 lead with 14:05 remaining.

Northern Iowa rallied by taking the ball to the basket.

Drives by Marvin Singleton and Mitchell were followed

by Wes Washpun’s two free throws that cut Wichita State’s lead to 43-39 with 12:17 to play.

VanVleet sparked the next significant spurt for Wichita State. He made a jumper with 8:11 remaining and then dribbled past two Panthers and slithered between two more for a winding layup to go up 57-44 with 6:28 remaining, the biggest lead of the game to that point.

Fittingly, it was VanVleet who sealed the victory.

With the shot clock winding down, he bulled through the Northern Iowa defense and hit a 12-footer while being fouled with 2:28 remaining.

The three-point play made it 64-47.

Just 33 seconds later, VanVleet was in transition when he lofted a left-handed layup over two Panthers while being fouled. That three-point play pushed the Shockers’ lead to 67-47 as the crowd gave him a standing ovation.

The Panthers shot 33.9 percent (19 of 56) for the game.

Northern Iowa started the game almost ideally, but the momentum didn’t last long.

The Panthers scored 12 points in the game’s first 4 minutes and took a 10-point lead.

But Northern Iowa scored only 10 points — making just three field goals — in the first half ’s final 16 minutes, allowing Wichita State to take a 3022 lead.

Kansas State’s Thomas Gipson goes to the basket against Oklahoma State’s Kamari Murphy (21) and Marcus Smart (33) during the first half at Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan Saturday.

K-State won, 74-71. TRAVIS HEYING/WICHITA EAGLE/MCT

Wildcats open Big 12 play with 74-71 win

By DAVE SKRETTA Associated Press

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Marcus Foster scored 17 points, Nino Williams made two free throws with 5.7 seconds left and Kansas State held off No. 6 Oklahoma State 74-71 on Saturday in the Big 12 opener for both teams.

Williams finished with 15 points, none bigger than his two free throws that gave the Wildcats (11-3, 1-0) a threepoint lead. Marcus Smart of the Cowboys raced up court and threw up a running

3-point try as the final buzzer sounded, but it clanked harmlessly off the rim and fell to the court.

Thomas Gipson added 10 points and 11 rebounds for Kansas State, which has won nine straight after losing to the likes of Northern Colorado and Charlotte earlier in the season.

Le’Bryan Nash scored 20 points, Markel Brown finished with 16 and Smart added 15 for the Cowboys (12-2, 0-1), who were plagued by foul trouble after already missing two of their key players.

Michael Cobbins, their best big man, sustained a seasonending Achilles injury Dec. 30, and freshman guard Stevie Clark — their second-leading scorer off the bench — did not play after he was arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession on Wednesday.

It was a crippling start to the Big 12 season for Oklahoma State, which is hoping to challenge perennial favorite Kansas for the conference title. But it couldn’t have been a much better beginning for See K-STATE | Page B4

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(MCT) — The teams in final Bowl Championship Series national title game Monday at the Rose Bowl took completely different roads to Pasadena.

Florida State used the high-speed express lane on its way to 13-0, cruising by one opponent after another.

Auburn (12-1) took the mountainous back route, navigating potholes, detours and a few angry Georgia Bulldogs.

It doesn’t matter now, they’re both here.

So, which team takes home the crystal ball?

Is it Auburn, a team of destiny that narrowly escaped Washington State in the opener, lost at Louisiana State by two touchdowns but somehow won the Southeastern Conference after two of the most improbable, back-to-back wins in the history of college football?

Or is it Florida State, a team of dominance that crushed opponent after opponent in a weaker Atlantic Coast Conference?

The Seminoles’ closest call this season was a 14-point win at Boston College (whew).

The only thing seemingly obstructing Florida State’s victory is the spike-strip of history.

The Southeastern Conference has won seven straight BCS titles and nine overall. The only SEC team to lose a BCS title game was Louisiana State, which lost to SEC conference-mate Alabama.

The SEC has dominated the BCS era and is looking to finish what it started 16 years after Tennessee won it all in the 1998 season.

If you trust in history you must believe in the SEC, right?

“One thing I can tell you about history, it’s in the past,” Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston said this week.

“I’m not worried about history has said. I’m worried about what’s happening today, what’s happening on Monday.”

Common sense says Winston is right. An independent arbiter, after analyzing the statistics, would rule heavily in Tallahassee’s favor.

Scoring offense: Florida State averages 53 points to Auburn’s 40.

Scoring defense: Florida State allows 10.7

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points per game to Auburn’s 24.

Florida State brings to the game an offense averaging 529 yards per game, facing an Auburn defense that allows an average of 423.

“We have not been, by all standards a really good defense this year,” Auburn defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson confessed. “But we always know how to play in the moment. We’ve made critical stops at critical times.”

Auburn’s defense has been good in red zone efficiency, ranking eighth nationally, but that may not matter much if Florida State is scoring on gaping-hole plays beyond the 20-yard line.

The eyeball evidence points to Florida State’s finally snapping the SEC’s dominance in title games.

“If you could end that, it would be good,” Seminoles defensive back Terrence Brooks said. “You see it all year, you see a lot of analysts saying this is the best conference, this is the best players in football.

It don’t mean nothing to me.”

What Auburn has going for it is unprecedented — some would say spooky — karma.

Don’t discount the “fairy dust factor” if the Tigers can keep it a close game in the fourth quarter.

There are things you can’t explain in sports and Auburn is one of them.

It was one thing to win the Georgia game on a Hail Mary pass on fourth down and 18, when Nick Marshall’s heave bounced off a defender’s hands into the hands of Ricardo Louis for a 73-yard touchdown.

It was immediately dubbed “Prayer on the Plains.”

“I don’t believe in luck,” Florida State cornerback Lamarcus Joyner said of that play this week. “But that was luck!”

Not even a leprechaun would argue.

Two weeks later, that play was topped when Auburn defeated Alabama on Chris Davis’ 109-yard return of a 57yard missed field goal as time expired.

It may go down as the greatest final second in college football history.

“He turned on some speed like I’ve never seen before,” teammate Tre Mason said. “My jaw dropped to the ground.

It felt like the floor was shaking, that’s how loud it was. ... We were in as much shock as them (Alabama).”

It would be easier to pull the Florida State “pick” trigger if Auburn did not so eerily remind of the 2010 team that pulled this kind of stuff all the way to BCS title.

Cam Newton, the quarterback that year, started at another SEC school (Florida), transferred to a junior college after getting in some trouble, and then sought refuge at Auburn.

The 2010 Auburn teams trailed in eight games (this year’s Auburn team trailed in seven). It would have lost to Clemson had a Clemson receiver not dropped a touchdown pass in overtime. Clemson then tied the score on a field goal that was negated by an illegal procedure penalty on the center. Clemson missed the retry.

Oh, Auburn also trailed Alabama that season, 24-0, before rallying to win.

This season’s Auburn team is led by quarterback Nick Marshall, who started at another SEC school (Georgia), transferred to a JC after getting in some trouble, and then sought refuge at Auburn.

“It’s funny how that worked out,” Marshall said of the career-path similarities.

Maybe Monday is the game where Auburn’s luck runs out.

Maybe it will be Winston’s day on his 20th birthday.

“We’re not looking for miracles to happen,” Winston said. “We’re looking to play football and do what we do.”

Auburn hopes to work some more magic.

“The football field is where I do all my work,” Winston said.

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Medical mystery may be broken vessel Dear Dr. Roach: I have just returned from seeing my doctor, and was told that the cause of what I experienced is a mystery.

In the late afternoon, my husband and I were sitting at the kitchen table. He noticed that a bruise was forming on my right temple — a dime-size purple mark, with a bump near the hairline. Over the next few hours the bruise grew larger, with red discoloration down the right side of my face, to

Dr. Keith Roach To Your Good Health the jaw. I had not been injured in any way, and it did not hurt. I called a 24-hour advice nurse, and was told I probably had broken a blood vessel.

The next day, I called my doctor for an appointment, just to be on the safe side, but my

doctor didn’t have anything to look at. When I got up, all the bruising and discoloration was gone. She told me that there would still be some discoloration if it had been a broken blood vessel, so therefore it was a mystery.

— C.C. Answer: I agree with the nurse that it likely was a broken blood vessel, which can happen spontaneously to anyone. Once the blood is under the skin, it gets cleaned away by cells

with enzymes that break down the blood.

The color typically goes from dark red to green to yellow. This way, we can tell approximately how old a bruise is.

Very superficial bleeding also can move, as the blood literally gets pulled by gravity (which is why you had a darkening down to the jaw). I suspect that while asleep, the remainder got pulled into the hairline or lower down, where it could no longer be seen.

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Public notice (First Published in The Iola Register, December 23, 2013) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS In the Matter of the Estate of Ruth M. Boyer, Deceased No. 2013 PR 63 NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:

You are notified that on December 17, 2013, a Petition For Probate of Will and Issuance of Letters Testamentary was filed in this Court by C. Duane McCammon, one of the Co-executors named in the Last Will and Testament of Ruth M. Boyer, deceased.

All creditors of the Decedent

are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within the latter of four months from the date of first publication of notice under K.S.A. 59-2236 and amendments thereto, or if the identity of the creditor is known or reasonably ascertainable, 30 days after actual notice was given as provided by law, and if their

demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

C. Duane McCammon, Petitioner IMMEL, WORKS & HEIM, P.A. Four East Jackson Iola, Kansas 66749 (620) 365-2222 Attorneys for Petitioner (12) 23,30 (1) 6

(First published in The Iola Register, December 30 2013) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS In the Matter of the Estate of JEFFREY JACKSON Deceased 13 PR 5 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT (Chapter 59)

THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified a petition has been filed in this Court by Lindsey Vanderford and Kurt Jackson, co-administrators of the Estate of Jeffrey Jackson, deceased, praying for final settlement of the estate, approval of their acts, proceedings and accounts as coadministrators, allowance for their administrator’s fees and expenses

and the Court determine the heirs of the said decedent and assign to them the real estate and personal property remaining in said estate.

You are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 21st day of January 2014, at 8:30 A.M., in said District Court in Iola, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard.

Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due

course upon said petition.

Lindsey Vanderford, Co-Administrator and Co-Petitioner Kurt Jackson, Co-Administrator and Co-Petitioner ROBERT E. JOHNSON II JOHNSON LAW OFFICE PA P.O. Box 866 Iola, KS 66749 (12) 30 (1) 6,13

(First published in The Iola William J. Skeeters, requesting approval to sell real estate at private Register, December 30, 2013) sale.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS You are required to file your PROBATE DIVISION written defenses thereto on or beIn the Matter of the Estate of fore January 21, 2014, at 8:30 a.m.

WILLIAM J. SKEETERS, in the Allen County District Court, Deceased in the City of Iola, in Allen County,

13 PR 30 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT AND APPROVAL TO SELL REAL ESTATE (Chapter 59) THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that a Petition for Approval to Sell Real Estate and a Petition for Final Settlement were filed in this Court by Ila M. Runer, Executrix of the Estate of

Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail to file written defenses, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition. /s/ILA M. RUNER, Petitioner/ Executrix

(First published in The Iola Register, January 6, 2014) NOTICE OF CITY OF MORAN ELECTION To the Residents of the City of Moran, Kansas: A Primary City Election will be held February 25, 2014, if needed.

General Election will be held April 1, 2014. Candidates may file for the following city offices: City of Moran 3 Council Members City of Moran candidates may file at their City Clerk’s Office or with the Allen County Clerk’s office at 1 N. Washington, Iola, KS 66749.

The deadline for filing for office is January 21, 2014, at noon.

For publication as per K.S.A. 25-2018(b) IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 3rd day of January 2014.

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Jayhawks: Offense struggles against San Diego St. Continued from B1

eight of their first nine shots and allowing San Diego State to dictate the tempo.

After a 3-pointer by Naadir Tharpe gave Kansas a 9-8 lead, the Jayhawks had just one more field goal over the next 8-plus minutes.

Thames and Davis had no such trouble for San Diego State, hitting a series of jumpers and contested layups as the Aztecs built a 29-23 halftime lead.

Kansas wound up shooting 20.7 percent (6 of 29) in the first half.

The Aztecs kept up the intensity in the second half, forcing the Jayhawks to misfire on eight of their first 10 shots with their inyour-face, man-to-man defense. The lead slowly grew to 44-33 when JJ

Sports Calendar Iola High School Basketball Tuesday, at Chanute, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, at Osawatomie, 4:30 p.m.

High School Wrestling Tuesday, at Parsons, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, at Burlington Invitational, 9 a.m.

Middle School Basketball Thursday, at Royster, 3:30 p.m.

Humboldt High School Basketball Tuesday, vs. MARMATON VALLEY

Marmaton Valley High School Basketball Tuesday, at Humboldt Friday, at Crest

Crest High School Basketball Tuesday, vs. NORTHEASTARMA Friday, vs. MARMATON VALLEY

Yates Center High School Basketball Tuesday, vs. FLINTHILLS Friday, vs. CANEY VALLEY

Southern Coffey Co. High School Basketball Tuesday, at Marais des Cygnes Valley Friday, at Waverly

Allen Basketball Wednesday, women vs.

COTTEY, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, men at Hutchinson, 7 p.m.

Saturday, vs. KANSAS CITY, KAN., women 2 p.m., men 4 p.m.

Kansas State Basketball Tuesday, at Texas Christian, 7 p.m.

TV: Big 12 Network Saturday, at Kansas, 1 p.m.

TV: ESPN (Ch. 32)

Kansas Basketball Wednesday, at Oklahoma, 6 p.m.

TV: ESPN2 (Ch. 33) Saturday, KANSAS STATE, 1 p.m.

TV: ESPN (Ch. 32)

O’Brien converted after two misses, once more silencing a packed crowd at the Phog.

The Jayhawks finally started to build some momentum midway through the second half, closing within 58-56 on a basket by Wiggins and 50-48 on Tharpe’s scooping layup.

It seemed as if every time Kansas went on a run, though, the Aztecs had an answer.

Spencer scored after Tharpe’s basket, and Thames curled in a 3-pointer to give San Diego State a 55-48 lead with 3 minutes to play. Kansas made one more salvo, getting within 57-55 on a 3-pointer by Mason and seemingly getting the ball back after O’Brien missed a free throw.

During a stoppage in play, the officials determined that the ball went off Kansas with 44.8 seconds left. And even though the Jayhawks got a stop, it cost them precious time.

Kansas coach Bill Self called a timeout with 20 seconds left and decided to go with Ellis, the sure-handed sophomore.

He drove to the basket and was fouled, but the 72 percent free throw shooter could only make the first of his two attempts, and San Diego State eventually held on to win.

San Diego State’s Skylar Spencer, right, swats down this shot by Kansas’ Naadir Tharpe during the second half at Allen Fieldhouse Sunday. San Diego State Aztecs defeated the Jayhawks, 61-57. RICH SUGG/KANSAS CITY STAR/MCT

YC teams earn split NEODESHA — Yates Center High’s basketball teams opened the 2014 portion of their schedules Friday with a split.

The Wildcat boys snapped a three-game losing skid by downing Neodesha High’s Bluestreaks, 64-44.

The Yates Center girls fell short in a spirited comeback attempt, falling to Neodesha, 41-35.

The Wildcats return to action Friday at home against Flinthills.

Yates Center’s boys were even with their hosts through the first two quarters before taking control in the third quarter. The Wildcats outscored Neodesha, 226, in the period to snap a 30-30 deadlock.

The Wildcat girls also turned on the jets after halftime, but they already trailed 25-11 by that point.

Yates Center trailed 16-6 after one quarter and 25-11 at halftime before cutting the gap to 3525 after three quarters.

The Wildcats outscored Neodesha 12-6 in the fourth quarter.

Individual statistics from the games were unavailable.

Chiefs: Playoff loss is franchise’s eighth straight Continued from B1

playoff game four seasons quicker than it took his predecessor, Peyton Manning. “When I took a knee, and you feel the buzz and the energy of the crowd and see your teammates’ faces, that makes it special.”

For Kansas City, it was another brief, miserable postseason appearance.

The Chiefs (11-6) finished their remarkable turnaround season with three straight losses and an eighth straight postseason defeat — none more shocking than this one. The eight consecutive losses broke a tie with the Detroit Lions for the longest playoff skid.

And they were beaten up, too.

Starting running back Jamaal Charles left

with a concussion on the opening possession.

Knile Davis, Charles’ backup, left in the fourth quarter with what appeared to be a left knee injury. Receiver Donnie Avery and cornerback Brandon Flowers were knocked out with second-half concussions, and linebacker Justin Houston was out with a knee injury when Hilton caught the winning pass.

That put even more pressure on Alex Smith, who was 30 of 46 for 378 yards with four TDs and no interceptions but lost a fumble that led to a touchdown for Indy. Just about everyone other than the Colts figured Smith sealed the win with a 10-yard TD pass to Davis less than two minutes into the third

the Wildcats, who tied the Jayhawks for the regular-season championship a year ago.

The Wildcats, who’ve made a habit of pummeling opponents during their win streak, tried to wear down the shorthanded Cowboys in the first half. They pawed and pressed and got physical with Smart and Nash as much as possible, and both of them were clearly frustrated.

Both of them also picked up two fouls late in the first half.

Kansas State was unable to take advantage of the brief stretch in which both sat on the bench, though. Foster scored in the waning seconds of the half to put the Wildcats in front, but the Cowboys raced up court and Brown managed to curl in a layup at the buzzer for a 3837 lead.

The senior dished a bit of attitude at the Kansas State student section as he left the floor.

Oklahoma State tried to extend the lead early

in the second half, and Smart’s dunk and foul with about 13 minutes left provided a cushion.

But Smart decided to do a chin-up on the rim and slap the backboard after his slam, and he was hit with a technical — his fourth foul of the game.

While he took a seat, the Wildcats started to gather momentum.

Shane Southwell hit a 3 from in front of his own bench to knot the game 52-all with just over 9 minutes left, his first points of the game. A few minutes later, Nash picked up his fourth foul, and Cowboys coach Travis Ford put Smart back in the game.

The Wildcats went right at him, and Smart wisely backed down on a couple of occasions to avoid picking up his fifth foul. That allowed the Wildcats to surge ahead, taking a 65-60 lead when Foster slashed through the lane and dropped in a layup with 3 minutes remaining.

That matched the biggest lead of the game for either team.

plays down the field,” Chiefs cornerback Sean Smith said, referring to Luck.

Even when Eric Berry jarred the ball loose from Brown near the goal line, Luck had the answer. He scooped up the bouncing ball and squirted through the middle to make it 41-38.

And after a Kansas City field, goal, Luck found Hilton to win it.

“It seemed surreal, being down like we were down and then you have that fourth-down stop and they had used their last timeout there at the 2-minute warning,” Pagano said. “Thinking about how good tomorrow’s going to be, snow or no snow, I don’t really care.”

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But Luck had plenty of time to make the jawdropping rally.

With Indy going nohuddle, Luck started throwing at will. He eventually caught the Chiefs defense off-guard when Donald Brown scored on a 10-yard run to start the rally. Then Luck capitalized on the fumble by hooking with Brown on a 3-yard TD pass to make it 38-24.

After Luck’s third interception turned into a 42-yard field goal, he answered with a 12-yard TD pass to cut the deficit to 41-31 after three quarters.

“He’s as advertised.

He went out there and definitely avoided some pressure and made big

quarter.

Instead, he tried to rally the Chiefs after Hilton’s score and wound up throwing to Dwayne Bowe — who caught the ball but was out of bounds — on fourthand-11 with 1:55 to play from the Indy 43.

“Anytime you’re leading like that and then have them battle back and then take it, and you end up losing by a point, it’s tough, a tough pill to swallow,” Smith said.

Things appeared bleak with Indy trailing 3110 at halftime, and they got worse when Luck’s first pass of the second half was picked off and returned to the Indy 18.

Three plays later, Smith made it 38-10.

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