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Lucas graduates basic training Army Pvt. Michael C. Lucas has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina.

During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field training exercises.

Lucas is the son of Justin and Monica Lucas of Cherokee. He is a 2013 graduate of Cherokee High School.

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620 Choctaw St. Alva, Oklahoma 73717 Lynn L. Martin, President Telephone Numbers: Alva Review-Courier 580-327-2200 Newsgram 580-327-1510 FAX 580-327-2454 www.alvareviewcourier.com E-Mail: manager @alvareviewcourier.net news@alvareviewcourier.net Entire Contents Copyright 2014 Members of: Associated Press Oklahoma Press Association

Alva Vision Clinic was named Alva Chamber of Commerce business of the month. Pictured with the sign to be displayed in front of the business are Liz Smith, Dr. Troy Smith and chamber representatives Laura Girty, Alex Mantz and JoDe Bradt. Photo by Lynn L. Martin

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DOWNTOWN ALVA'S ARTS AND SHOPPING DISTRICT PRESENTS

FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK Janaury 2, 2015 • 6-8 p.m.

ON EXHIBIT IN THE GALLERY American Indian Art featuring Artists: Linda Rous, Jesse Ghere Feather and Nicole Sine The Non-Profit "Moccasin Children", founded

by Linda Rous, will be serving Indian Fry Bread and any donations made to the "Moccasin Children" Foundation will receive a Linda Rous Print.

Be sure to sign up for door prizes to be given out that evening as well!

Graceful Arts will be serving REFRESHMENTS!

Hey Kids

Check out the Drawing Space in the Studio! Bring your Inner Picasso for First Friday! All supplies provided!

AT THE CHEROKEE STRIP MUSEUM

The Festival of Trees will remain on exhibit for January's First Friday Art Walk. Come out and enjoy this year's tree exhibits throughout the museum. Refreshments will be served!

CHECK OUT OUR RETAIL PARTNERS AROUND THE SQUARE! Try the Jack and Jill's at Holder Drug, and grab a sandwich at the Sandwich Shoppe!

Wind down the holiday season with First Friday Art Walk!

First Friday Sponsored by

Graceful Arts Gallery and Studios 523 Barnes Street, Alva • 580-327-ARTS

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Lynn Says

Windows 10 coming this spring

By Lynn L. Martin Microsoft has released a beta version of Microsoft 10 that most anyone can download at no charge. They give a warning that it will quit working April 15. Computer columnists speculate that date will be near the time the latest version will become available for purchase.

Since it is a test version, Microsoft makes no promises about anything.

It would not be smart to install the program on your working hard drive if you have anything important to you on it.

I downloaded the 3.4 gigabyte program Sunday at the newspaper office. It took about twelve hours for the download to complete.

Using a brand new hard drive, I copied my existing drive C to it with Windows 8 installed. Then I unplugged the original C and installed the Windows 10 version on the new drive. That way I had an un-damaged backup in the event

Windows 10 clobbered my system.

People have been speculating as to why Microsoft skipped creating Windows 9. Most think that because Windows 8 has been so unpopular, the company is trying to distance itself. It is obvious this is a major overhaul of Windows.

I have Windows 8 or 8.1 installed on a few computers, and generally hate it. This is because Microsoft seemed compelled to cleverly hide familiar commands. I think those young hot technical nerds likely give each other high-fives when one says, “You’ll never believe how well I hid this command!”

His buddies go, “Yeah, you’re the MAN!” Adobe does the same thing in each new version of Photoshop of Premier (video editing). They seem to think it is so clever to move commands or icons to places we can’t find them. Also, they drop features I like to use. I still have Photoshop CS2 on several machines because later versions dropped the automated package creation feature.

Premier CC (Creative Cloud) fails to include Encore, which is necessary for burning DVDs if you want a menu

structure. They have a weird workaround. Download Premier 6, which includes Encore, then un-install Premier 6, which leaves Encore 6 still in place.

Stupid.

Writers far more expert than I have heaped praise on the beta version of Windows 10, saying it is what Windows 8 “should have been.”

So far, I agree. Upon launch, the program moves straight into a traditional looking desktop by default with actual icons. The command structure is versatile, as you can choose either Windows 7 OR Windows 8 type features. Best of all, it returns the missing start menu that caused the greatest howl of pain from those who missed it in Windows 8.

I’ve installed Coreldraw X6, Photoshop 5.5 and Open Office on the Windows 10 system and everything works fine. I figured Microsoft might sabotage Open Office since it is a free competitor to their expensive office suite, but it worked fine.

Another nice thing I noticed is launch time is very quick. Windows 8 was quicker than Windows 7, and Windows 10 is faster than either of those.

Swearing-in ceremony Friday at courthouse

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By Lynn L. Martin The new officers taking their positions at the Woods County Courthouse will participate in a swearing-in ceremony Friday, Jan. 2, in the courtroom at 10 a.m. New county commissioners and excise board members will be present.

Then one hour later, the county commissioners will hold their first meeting of the year in the county commissioners’ office.

The commissioners conducted a special meeting on Dec. 29 to approve the Dec. 31 payroll, along with warrants and claims. The board also approved the six month bid tabulations and the blanket purchase orders.

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Valerie and Andy.

In the spring of 1985 Sam retired and he and Charlotte moved back to Alva. Sam passed away October 12, 2003.

She was also preceded in death by her parents, one brother, two sisters and a son, John Chrisman.

Charlotte is survived by two daughters, Tammy Arbuckle of Florida and Valerie Johnson of Branson, Missouri; two sons and their wives, Andy and Audrey Chrisman and Bill and Pat Bouziden of Houston, Texas; 20 grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren; one brother, Jake Reed; one sister, Shirley Freeze; and a number

of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Memorial contributions may be made to a love fund through Wharton Funeral Chapel.

No services are planned at this time

Obituary CHARLOTTE L. CHRISMAN Charlotte, daughter of Sadie (Shaddy) and Dewey Bouziden, was born on the farm in the Greenleaf area, December 27, 1945. She passed away at St. Mary’s Regional Hospital on December 26, 2014, lacking one day of her 68th birthday.

She attended school in the Greenleaf Community and Aline School System.

Charlotte was married to Sam Chrisman in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 10, 1967.

After their marriage they moved to Chillicothe, Missouri, to make their home. She was a stay-at-home mother raising five kids, Bill, Tammy, John,

PATRICIA HANES Funeral services are pending for Patricia Hanes, 40, of Waynoka, with Marshall Funeral Home of Waynoka LLC. PERRY VERDON MCOSKER Funeral services for Perry Verdon McOsker, 87, are pending with Marshall Funeral Home of Alva.

Border Line Theatre veterans preparing for early spring production

By Yvonne Miller After about a year’s hiatus, the Border Line Theatre in Kiowa, Kansas, is excited to have play rehearsals started again for the spring production. The smell of paint, the buzzing of saws working on the set and pure excitement fills the air inside the Kiowa Community Building, the home of Border Line productions.

Kevin Cox agreed to sit in the director’s chair for about the sixth time. He’s reprising the comedy hit, “The Foreigner,”

which was his first play to direct in 2007.

“The play is really funny! It’s all coming back to me,” Cox said. The audience takes a trip into segregated Georgia when a supposed “foreigner” who pretends not to speak English intentionally keeps everyone in an uproar. The plot unfolds in a backwoods hunting lodge with colorful characters, some even with white hoods, which adds to the hilarious insanity.

Although the people who play these unforgettable characters have changed from the original cast, Cox said “it’s all a Border Line veteran group. They’ll have it under control.”

Matt Cantrell has the lead as “The Foreigner,” a man of not-so-many words,

but priceless when he does speak. Justin Rugg plays “Froggy” who brought the Foreigner to the lodge. Gary Jacobs portrays a reverend who is kind of slimy.

Mary Ellen Willhelm is the reverend’s fiancee. Josh Myers plays the half-witted Ellard. Jason Thayer plays the obnoxious town hillbilly. Janice Hill holds down the fort as the loving and gullible owner of the fishing lodge.

Just those brief descriptions bring a smile of anticipation of how zany this play will be to watch. Mark your calendar for performances of “The Foreigner” the last weekend of February and the first weekend of March. Tickets will be for sale at Shirts and More in Kiowa. Watch the Newsgram for details.

With Great Appreciation A Big Thank You to all the salvation bell ringers who volunteer their time during the holiday season, and for those who drop their loose change in the salvation kettle.

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Alfalfa County commissioners meeting

By Rebecca Kinney CHEROKEE – The Alfalfa County commissioners had their regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, Dec. 29, at 10 a.m. in the county courthouse.

The meeting started with the approval of the minutes from last week’s meeting, after which they approved the payroll warrants, M&O warrants, blanket purchase orders, monthly officers reports and road crossing permits.

Other items on the agenda that was approved by the commissioners were: • Cedar Ridge payment for specs for Carmen responders for additional 25 percent for $3,700.

• Henson payment for EMS building for $52,475.

The majority of the meeting was spent opening six month bids from many different companies and accepting bids as follows.

• Form 1, cement and mileage: districts 1 and 2 went with Alva Concrete and District 3 went with Enid Concrete, all approved for location for districts.

• Form 2, rebar and I beams: all three districts went with Sunbelt Equipment because they were the lowest bidder.

• Form 3, hot oil: districts 1 and 3 went with Coastal Energy because they offered more products and District 2

went with Ergon because it was the lowest bid.

• Form 4, cover materials: District 1 went with Hoskins Gypsum as the lowest bid, District 2 went with Allied because of location and District 3 went with Dolese Bros Co. because of location. Cummins had no bid on Form 4A for the chipping and sealing linear mile contract labor and the asphalt laid and rolled in place (county will furnish oil and rock).

• Form 5, steel pipe/steel plate: commissioners accepted the bid from Sunbelt due to the lower price.

• Form 6, steel tanks: all commissioners accepted Sunbelt due to being the lowest bid.

• Form 8, spiral metal arches: all three districts accepted Dub Ross because it was the lowest bid.

• Form 12, machine for hire welding: districts 1 and 3 went with Dietz Welding because they have a crane, and District 2 went with Reggie Hague because it was the lowest bid.

• Form 12, dozer: all three districts went with Caruthers based on location and having a winch on the dozer. The county did not accept any bids on track hoe and back hoe due to the fact that county has their own.

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• Form 12, belly dump trucks: District 1 went with Angle Farms due to location and low bid, District 2 went with Reggie Diel for location and District 3 went with B&B Equipment for low bid per mile. All three districts moved to accept all belly dump bids due to availability, with the auditor said to pick one vendor per district – one not available use phone quotes or other district bids.

• Form 13, grader blades: all three districts went with Kirby Smith based on lowest bid on products used.

• Form 15: all three districts motioned to use Dub Ross due to lowest price.

• Form 16, hot mix/asphalt: districts 1 and 3 went with Circle S due to low bid, and District 2 went with Cummins due to location.

• Form 20: District 3 had only one bid – from Davey Tree Surgery – and a motion was approved to accept that bid.

There was a motion to make changes to the agenda for next week, and approved all the above. The commissioners will take up the next six month bids on the last week of May 2015. New bids are opened every six months.

Road crossing revenue was as follows: District Number Revenue

of Permits 1 6 $6,750 2 0 $0 3 4 $7,250 Total: 10 permits totaling $14,000 as of Dec. 29.

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Betty Sewell will celebrate her 90th birthday with a come and go reception at the Homestead in Alva from 2-4 on Sunday January 4th 2015. Betty was born January 4, 1925, in Hendley, Nebraska. At age 12 she moved with her parents and three siblings to Gardena, California. Betty married her sweetheart Chick Sewell in 1942 and to the union three children were born: Lynda Martin of Alva, OK, Dina Sappenfield of Purcell, OK, and the late Larry Sewell of Clayton, NM. Betty has 4 grandsons, 11 great grandchildren and 2 great -great grandsons.

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Perschbacher shoots a 20-point buck for a 12th birthday present

By Yvonne Miller Kate Perschbacher of Kiowa, Kansas, will probably never forget her 12th birthday on Dec. 5, 2014.

“It was a very rainy day,” Perschbacher said. “My dad and me went out in the morning. Deer were everywhere.” The father and daughter were in their deer stand. “Dad looked behind us and saw lots of deer.”

What turned out to be a 20-point buck that she would shoot in a few minutes came in with a bunch of does.

“The does started to run and we were afraid he (the buck) would run also,” Perschbacher said. “He came right to our feeder. I got set on him. I shot and paralyzed him. We had to go finish it.

I was shaking I was so excited.”

Kate Perschbacher is the daughter of Ryon and Brena Perschbacher. Avid hunters, they’ve taken her hunting since she was a second grader and she’s now in sixth grade. She described hunting as “sometimes scary, but it makes me so happy!”

“I’ve gotten deer on my birthday before,” she said. In her years of hunting, Perschbacher said she’s shot “maybe four,” and thinks “an eightpoint was my biggest.”

She said this huge rack would have been 21-points, but they could see where a piece had broken. They estimate the buck was about six-and-ahalf years old. She used a .243 rifle to shoot it. Perschbacher said they have a game camera on their deer stand and think they had seen this magnificent buck on it once, but didn’t realize exactly how huge it was.

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Looking back on shooting a 20-point – something most experienced hunters have never been fortunate enough to do – Perschbacher said, “My parents and everyone tells me, `You know you’ll never top that!’”

“I have three guys in my class (at South Barber) who love to hunt: Logan Rugg, Tyler Schupbach, Keaton Wisk.

They all asked me why I didn’t save it for them!” Perschbacher said.

Since word got out about her big

prize, Perschbacher said Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s have offered her family money for the rack and said they would have a replica built for her.

“We’re not sure we’ll do that,” Perschbacher said. She said they plan to get the 20-point rack mounted.

“It’s just been amazing! I’m excited that people know me for that. Dad never got one this big,” Perschbacher said.

Kate Perschbacher beams on her 12th birthday as she shot this 20-point buck.

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Bold booty or sheer reveal: 2014 was big on flesh

By Leanne Italie NEW YORK (AP) — Skin was definitely in, but was 2014 all about the big, bold booty or a sheer reveal up top?

On runways, Marc Jacobs sent upand-comer Kendall Jenner out during February’s New York Fashion Week with nipples clearly visible under a taupe knit top. Christian Siriano closed his show in September with ice blue crystals on a barely there trouser set, nipples on display.

Look no further than awards shows, music videos and magazine covers for fuller rears, compliments of Iggy Azalea, Jennifer Lopez and Nicki Minaj, along with Jenner’s big sis Kim Kardashian and Rihanna, the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s style icon of the year.

Rihanna showed off every inch top to bottom when she collected the award, but curvy newcomer Meghan Trainor said it best in the rear department with her breakout, Grammy nominated hit: “All About that Bass.”

Where would Instagram be without booty? Well, nipples gained ground in pilfered nude celebrity selfies, RiRi’s bare, pierced assets on the cover of French magazine Lui and among proud “Free the Nipple” activists, including Scout Willis and Miley Cyrus, who challenged Instagram’s ban. Scout and others flashed and pranced topless in public from New York to Moscow. A film by Lina Esco of the same name turned into a hashtag.

As for the bass, Kardashian loves showing off hers and signed on to help Paper magazine with another bodybaring declaration, #breaktheinternet.

She did it with the pop of a Champagne cork that arched a stream of bubbly over her head into a glass resting nicely on her derriere for the cover.

But she also advanced the cause of the nipple when she went full-frontal on the magazine’s inside pages, followed soon after by a topless Madonna in Interview.

Why did Kardashian do it? She said on the Australian TV show “The Project” that she loved working with famed photographer Jean-Paul Goude on the Paper shoot and considered it an

“art project.”

“It taught me to do what you want to do. Everyone should do what they’re comfortable with, and I’m never one to preach but I felt really positive and really good about myself. I love the photos. I did it for me,” she told host Rove McManus.

Alas, McManus wasn’t able to repeat the glass-balancing trick. “You don’t have as big a butt as I do,” Kardashian noted after she attempted to show him how it’s done.

Backside or bare female breast — either way, it seemed light years from 2004. That’s when the live Super Bowl halftime show on CBS turned into Nipplegate for Janet Jackson, taking over chatter about nudity, leading to a court battle over fines (since overturned) and temporarily derailing her career.

Jackson’s split-second slip included a now-quaint nipple shield under the piece of leather Justin Timberlake ripped off her outfit, either accidentally or on purpose. Today, flaunting one’s pasties is downright passe.

Just ask Cyrus, who rocked a pair as she performed at Paper magazine’s Break the Internet party during Art Basel Miami Beach in celebration of its nakey jaunt with Kardashian.

Fashion darling Alexander Wang did his part in Year of the Flesh. He previewed his new Denim x Alexander line on Instagram with a fully nude but strategically posed model chilling in an easy chair, jeans pulled below the knee.

In Siriano’s case, he was looking to evoke the massive glass sculptures of controversial Australian sculptor Sergio Redegalli. His core customer is more society lady than nipple-baring It girl, but he said in a recent interview the delicate sheer crystal top with pants to match is the most popular of his designs borrowed by stylists for clients and photo projects — often with a lining added.

“Now, you see people are celebrating the body. It’s different. Very different,” he said. “I went there more as an inspirational fantasy, but we’ve had pretty much every publication pull that look for editorial shoots. It’s been

done in art for so long and fashion is a form of art.”

The booty has also had a big year for enhancements in the offices of plastic surgeons.

Dr. Scot Glasberg on the Upper East Side of Manhattan said techniques on buttock augmentation have greatly improved over the last 10 years, with uncomfortable and unnatural implants replaced by the self-explanatory fat transfer.

“You get a much more natural look,” he said.

In 2014, Glasberg saw an increase of about 10 percent in requests for cosmetic butt enhancement over 2013 among his patients, with about 10,000 done nationwide by members of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

When compared to breast augmentation, nose jobs and face lifts, the number is small but on the move, he said.

Bodacious backsides and public nudity are, of course, not new.

British psychologist Philip CarrGomm, who put out the book “A Brief History of Nakedness” in 2010, goes back to ancient times.

Judeo-Christian sensibilities had the wealthy in opulent all-over gear and the poor raggedly naked, he said. But in a Classical context, from the Greeks and Romans, nudity was a symbol of power and beauty among the gods and goddesses — and politicians.

“Napoleon, for instance, had himself carved naked in that tradition,” CarrGomm said by telephone from Lewes, outside London. “The contradictory attitude is there right from the beginning. We want to see it. We don’t want to see it. We hate it. We love it.”

When it comes to 2014, there was definitely skin in the game.

Esco, the filmmaker, actress and “Free the Nipple” activist, based her December movie on true events, when women protesters in search of equality demonstrated tops off around the globe.

“It’s been such a struggle getting the movie out there, because of the title, because of the content,” she bemoaned.

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Oklahoma Kansas court orders more Tobacco Help- state spending on schools line offers tips for quitting TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline says its ready to help tobacco users become tobacco free in the new year.

Officials say the helpline can connect tobacco users with a specially trained quit coach who can provide non-judgmental support and personalized quit plans based on needs.

Paula Warlick, head of the Tobacco Free Coalition for Tulsa County, says Oklahomans should take the opportunity this New Year to upgrade their health and quit tobacco for good.

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By John Hanna TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas isn't spending enough money on its public schools to provide a suitable education for every child, a state district court panel ruled Tuesday in an order that could mean the state has to boost its aid by hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

An attempt by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and the GOP-dominated Legislature to comply with the order would complicate their efforts to close state budget shortfalls and preserve aggressive personal income tax cuts enacted at Brownback's urging to boost the economy.

The Shawnee County District Court panel declared in its ruling that the current funding is "inadequate from any rational perspective of the evidence."

"Since the obligations here declared emanate from our Kansas Constitution, avoidance is not an option," the judges said.

The panel said the evidence suggests base state aid should increase to at least $4,654 per student — which would amount to about $548 million a year. However, the panel also suggested the figure could be much higher.

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Schmidt said he was "disappointed" by the ruling, and state Senate President Susan Wagle, a Wichita Republican and Brownback ally, said the judicial panel took "a very political and antagonistic posture."

Brownback said in a statement that he will work with legislative leaders "to determine the best path forward" and suggested rewriting the state's formula for distributing aid and pursuing other policy changes could get more money into classrooms.

Democratic legislative leaders said the ruling shows the problem isn't the funding formula but inadequate funding.

"Now it's time for him to ante up and finally restore dollars back to our classrooms," said state House Minority Leader Tom Burroughs, a Kansas City Democrat.

Parents of more than 30 students and the Dodge City, Hutchinson, Wichita and Kansas City, Kansas, school districts sued the state in 2010 after recession-driven budget problems caused it to back away from promised increases in funding.

The state constitution says the Legislature must make "suitable provision" for financing public schools.

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — AAA Oklahoma says the state's average price for a gallon of gasoline has dropped to $1.98 and is the second lowest price in the nation.

Spokesman Chuck Mai says Missouri had the lowest average price for regular gas of any state on Tuesday at $1.92 a gallon. Oklahoma's price is second after falling below $2 on Saturday for the first time since May 7, 2009. The Oklahoma average has now fallen for 62 consecutive days.

The national average was $2.27 Tuesday and has fallen 96 straight days for a total decline of $1.08. Prices have plummeted $1.40 — nearly 40 percent — since the beginning of June.

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By Kyle Hightowerorlando, Fla. (AP) — Clemson quarterback Cole Stoudt has had several moments during the 2014 season he tried hard to forget.

The senior ended his career with a performance worth savoring.

Stoudt threw for three touchdowns and ran for another, and 18th-ranked Clemson routed Oklahoma 40-6 in the Russell Athletic Bowl on Monday.

"It all comes down to who makes the big plays and we made the most this game," Stoudt said. "We really didn't hit the brakes at all."

The Tigers (10-3) reached double-digit victories for the fourth consecutive season. Clemson was 10-4 in 2011, 11-2 in 2012 and 11-2 in 2013.

"It was our night tonight. We knew it would be a tough challenge, but we were ready," Tigers coach Dabo Swinney said."

Oklahoma (8-5) had five turnovers, including three interceptions by sophomore quarterback Trevor Knight.

Stoudt began the season as the Tigers starting quarterback, before struggles cost him the job to freshman standout Deshaun Watson.

Injuries to Watson gave Stoudt several opportunities to regain the spot, but he never was able to put together the kind of outing that gave the coaching staff lasting confidence.

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Stoudt was a different presence against the Sooners on Monday, completing 26 of 36 attempts for a season-high 319 yards. He was sacked four times, but Clemson never turned the ball over.

"I wouldn't say this was redemption," Stoudt said. "This was my last game. I was prepared to do my best.

I wanted to be the best I could be and just enjoy the last game and that is what we did."

As good as Stoudt was, the Tigers' defense was equally impressive.

The Tigers, which came in ranked No. 1 in the nation in total defense, held the Sooners' offense to just 275 yards.

With most of the Oklahoma section of the announced crowd of 40,071 already gone from Citrus Bowl Stadium, Swinney pulled the senior starters from his defense early in the fourth quarter.

It wasn't until then that the Sooners were finally able to score their first touchdown with just under seven minutes to play.

Sooners coach Bob Stoops shied away from assigning blame, but acknowledged Oklahoma's lofty yearly standards aren't being met.

"You can't play one-handed," Stoops said. "I thought overall we did a really nice job of running the football, but the lack of execution in the passing game was a major factor as well.

"We had our chances," he added. "We had our shots, but we didn't make anything happen."

Clemson was efficient in all phases but was also the beneficiary of three early Sooners turnovers in building a 27-0 halftime lead. A 47-yard interception return for a touchdown by Ben Boulware was part of a 17-point first quarter.

Stoudt completed his first six passes and finished the half with a pair of touchdown throws — a 65-yarder to Artavis Scott and a 26-yarder to Mike Williams.

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Rise in homeless students continues in Kansas TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The number of homeless students in Kansas public schools continues to increase, with about a thousand more homeless students last year than the previous year, according to state education officials.

The Kansas State Department of Education said nearly 10,400 homeless children attended public schools last year, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported (http://bit.ly/1xqNxFZ ). Wichita and Kansas City, Kansas, public schools reported increases of 45 percent and 20 percent, respectively.

Tate Toedman, the education department's child homelessness program coordinator, said many families are taking longer to recover from homelessness.

"It's a bigger struggle finding the jobs that pay enough, and then the affordable

housing just isn't there," Toedman said.

The federal government requires schools to track homeless students in order to receive support and service programs that help them stay in school.

"The very fact that schools are identifying students and these kids are enrolled in school is progress," says Barbara Duffield, policy director at the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth.

Duffield said economic factors combined with improvements in school reporting contributed to the increased numbers of homeless students.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said that as of last winter, about 2,780 adults and children were homeless in Kansas. The numbers are drastically lower than the 10,400

children reported by schools because the housing department defines homelessness differently than schools.

HUD defines the homeless as individuals and families staying in homeless shelters, on the streets, in cars and other similar situations. It does not count families that move from one home to another, which accounts for three-fourths of the 1.26 million homeless children identified by U.S. public schools last year.

Duffield said even if they have roofs over their heads, children "doubling up" in other people's homes are in unstable situations.

"It's not different than other kinds of homelessness," she said. "It's not like, 'Oh, you're staying with your grandma, everybody's warm, everybody's comfortable.' "

Kansas survey to study dropping groundwater levels LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Kansas Geological Survey and state agriculture officials are planning to start work early next month to determine how much water is being lost in

western Kansas.

The effort comes as annual data has shown decreases in groundwater levels in the High Plans aquifer during the past 60 years, according to a statement from the University of Kansas, where the Geological Survey is based.

The aquifer is the main water source for irrigation, cities and industries in western and central Kansas.

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pected to be measured, The Lawrence Journal-World reported (http://bit. ly/13GSek0 ).

Similar measurements taken in January 2013 showed groundwater levels rose in south-central Kansas while levels in western Kansas continued to decline, although less sharply than in the previous year. Drought and increased irrigation are blamed for the decline.

"In 2014, the growing season in March to May started off very dry with June being extremely wet and, in places, so were July and August," Brownie Wilson, KGS water-data manager, said in the news release. "It wasn't a drought-buster by any means, but the quantity and timeliness of the precipitation was probably good enough to reduce groundwater declines this year in comparison to recent years."

Most of western Kansas continues to be classified as being in moderate to severe drought, with counties along the Kansas-Oklahoma border considered in extreme drought, Wilson said.

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By John Hanna TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A firm managing part of the Medicaid program in Kansas and its parent company alleged Monday in court documents that a former executive tried to "extort" $3 million from them by threatening to forward "spurious" information about them to state officials after being fired.

Sunflower State Health Plan Inc. and its parent, Centene Corp., made the claims in responding to a federal lawsuit filed in late October by Jacqueline Leary, vice president of network development and contracting for Sunflower.

She alleged in her lawsuit that she was wrongfully fired in January after protesting potentially improper cost-cutting measures for Medicaid in Kansas.

Leary's attorney, Lewis Galloway, of Kansas City, Missouri, called the companies' new legal claims "paper thin" and "the silliest thing I can imagine." He said they represent continued retaliation against her.

The state's $3 billion-a-year Medicaid program covers health services for 368,000 poor and disabled residents.

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback turned over the program's administration in 2012 to Kansas-based subsidiaries of three large, private health insurance companies, including Sunflower, which is based in the Kansas City suburb of Lenexa. Centene's headquarters is in St. Louis.

Leary filed her lawsuit eight days before the November election, with Brownback in a tough re-election race that he won narrowly. The conservative governor contends the privatized Medicaid program, now called KanCare, is delivering better services at a lower cost to the state, but Democrats used the lawsuit to raise new questions about the program's overhaul.

Centene and Sunflower denied Leary's allegations in separate replies to her lawsuit, said she was fired for poor performance and accused her of defaming them in comments to health care providers after she lost her job. The companies also said that in February, three weeks after her firing, she sent a letter to them through her attorney, demanding $3 million within seven days.

The companies said in court documents that Leary threatened to file a "formal report" about them with the Kansas attorney general's office and state officials overseeing Medicaid. The firms said Leary's lawsuit was part of an "extortive scheme."

Each company said it "refused to be extorted."

Galloway said the letter described Leary's concerns about Sunflower's practices in detail and was an attempt to settle her own claims. He said Leary will seek "many multiples" of $3 million in damages when the lawsuit goes to trial.

"It's not a ransom note," he said of the February letter. "This is the way employment-related lawsuits are resolved."

Sunflower and Centene said they forwarded Leary's demand to the FBI, federal prosecutors in Kansas and western Missouri, the Kansas attorney general's office and state Department of Health and Environment officials overseeing Medicaid for potential investigations.

The offices of the federal prosecutors and state attorney general declined to comment. FBI and Kansas health department representatives did not immediately return phone messages seeking comment. Neither did an attorney representing the two companies.

Leary's lawsuit alleges she was fired after questioning a directive not to assign Medicaid participants to some physicians based on whether their institutions had contracts with Centene to be paid more than the standard rate for services. Her lawsuit describes the move as an attempt to lower costs when the KanCare management companies were experiencing losses, possibly violating Sunflower's contracts with the state and individual providers.

But Centene and Sunflower said that when Leary lodged an internal protest, she "could not articulate reasons" why the practice was unethical and said she didn't complain about it until after receiving a poor job-performance evaluation.

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Guidelines to help judges with frivolous pleadings TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Kansas Supreme Court is studying proposed guidelines for judges grappling with people who file repetitive, malicious or frivolous pleadings.

The recommendations by the judicial branch's Access to Justice Committee are meant to act as a resource for judges when considering filing restrictions in court cases. The state's highest court is taking public comments until February 2015 on the 18-member committee's report that outlines state and federal court precedent and advice for judges when confronted with difficult

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By Dewi Nurcahyani and Robin Mcdowell PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The first proof of the fate of AirAsia Flight 8501 emerged Tuesday from the shallow, aqua-colored waters of the Java Sea, confirming that the plane crashed with 162 people aboard in an area not far from where it dropped off radar screens.

Two days after the jet vanished, searchers found as many as six bodies and debris that included a life jacket, an emergency exit door and a suitcase about 10 miles from the plane's last known coordinates.

The airliner's disappearance halfway through a two-hour flight between Surabaya, Indonesia, and Singapore triggered an international hunt for the aircraft involving dozens of planes, ships and helicopters. It is still unclear what brought the plane down.

Images of the debris and a bloated body shown on Indonesian television sent a spasm of anguish through the room at the Surabaya airport where relatives awaited news.

The first sign of the jet turned up about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from its last known coordinates. Parts of the interior, including the oxygen tank, were brought to the nearest town, Pangkalan Bun. Another find included a bright blue plastic suitcase, completely unscratched.

"I know the plane has crashed, but I cannot believe my brother and his family are dead," said Ifan Joko, who lost seven relatives, three of them children, as they traveled to Singapore to ring in the new year. "We still pray they are alive."

First Adm. Sigit Setiayanta, commander of the Naval Aviation Center at Surabaya Air Force base, told reporters six corpses were spotted about 160 kilometers (100 miles) from Central Kalimantan province.

Rescue workers descended on ropes from a hovering helicopter to retrieve bodies. Efforts were hindered by 2-meter (6-foot) waves and strong winds, National Search and Rescue Director SB Supriyadi said.

The first body was later picked up by a navy ship. Officials said as many as six others followed, but they disagreed about the exact number.

Supriyadi was on the aircraft and saw what appeared to be more wreckage under the water, which was clear and a relatively shallow 20 to 30 meters (65 to 100 feet).

When TV broadcast an image of a half-naked man floating in the water, a shirt partially covering his head, many of the family members screamed and wailed uncontrollably. One middle-aged man collapsed and had to be carried out on a stretcher.

Their horror was captured by cameras on the other side of windows into the waiting room. Officials blacked out the glass later Tuesday evening.

Around 125 family members were planning to travel Wednesday to Pangkalan Bun to start identifying their loved ones. Body bags and coffins have been prepared at hospitals there. Dozens of elite military divers will join the massive search. They were desperate to search the water ahead of approaching rough weather.

Malaysia-based AirAsia's loss comes on top of the still-unsolved disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in March with 239 people aboard, and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July over Ukraine, which killed all 298 passengers and crew.

Nearly all the passengers and crew were Indonesians, who are frequent visitors to Singapore, particularly on holidays.

Haidar Fauzie, 60, said his youngest child and only daughter, Khairunnisa Haidar, was a flight attendant who had worked with AirAsia for two years.

On learning about the crash, he struggled to console his grieving wife. They last saw their child six weeks ago, when she returned home on holiday.

"From the start, we already knew the risks associated with being a stewardess," Fauzie said. "She is beautiful and smart. It has always been her dream to fly. We couldn't have stopped her."

AirAsia group CEO Tony Fernandes, the airline's founder and public face and a constant presence in Indonesia since the tragedy started unfolding, said he planned to travel to the recovery site on Wednesday.

"I have apologized profusely for what they are going through," he said of his contact with relatives. "I am the leader of this company, and I have to take responsibility. That is why I'm here. I'm not running away from my obligations."

The jet's last communication indicated the pilots were worried about bad weather. They sought permission to climb above threatening clouds but were denied because of heavy air traffic. Four minutes later, the jet disappeared from the radar without issuing a distress signal.

The plane's cockpit voice and flight data recorders, or black boxes, have yet to be recovered. Scott Hamilton, managing director of aviation consultancy Leeham Co., said in a post on his website that autopsies may provide some of the earliest clues about what happened.

"If death was due to blunt-force trauma, this could suggest passengers were alive upon impact with the water," he wrote. "If death came from other circumstances, this could suggest an explosive decompression and in-flight break up occurred."

Several countries rushed to Indonesia to help with search and recovery efforts.

The United States said it was sending the USS Sampson destroyer, joining at least 30 ships, 15 aircraft and seven helicopters in the search for the jet.

A Chinese frigate was on the way.

Singapore said it was sending two underwater beacon detectors to try to pick up pings from the plane's all-important cockpit voice and flight-data recorders.

Malaysia, Australia and Thailand are also involved in the search.

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Italian prosecutors order ferry back to Italy

By Paolo Santalucia, Llazar Semini And Colleen Barry BRINDISI, Italy (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Italian authorities warned Tuesday that more bodies will likely be found when the blackened hulk of a Greek ferry is towed to Italy, as part of a criminal investigation into the fire that engulfed the ship at sea, killing at least 11 of the more than 400 people on board.

Survivors continued to reach shore two days after the accident, amid confusion over the number of missing due to huge discrepancies between the names on the manifest and those rescued.

The fire-tinged Norman Atlantic was adrift for a third day off the Albanian coast, where two sailors were killed earlier Tuesday when a tow line attempting to secure it to a tugboat apparently snapped, Albanian officials said.

The Italian coast guard said another body from the ferry was found Tuesday, bringing the death toll to 11. Three of the victims were Italian truck drivers who worked for the Naples-based Eurofish company and had gone to pick up eel shipments in Greece. The company was closed for the day in mourning.

More than 400 people were rescued from the ferry, most in daring, nighttime helicopter sorties that persisted despite high winds and seas, after a fire broke out before dawn Sunday on a car deck. Both Italian and Greek authorities have announced criminal investigations into the cause of the blaze.

Italian prosecutors secured jurisdiction over the case from Albanian judicial authorities, citing the ship's Italian owner and Italian captain.

Bari prosecutor Giuseppe Volpe, who ordered the ferry back to the Italian port of Brindisi, said it was likely that other bodies will be found in the cargo areas of the ferry once searched, given that there was "incontrovertible" evidence that migrants were stowed away onboard.

"Our fear is that unfortunately

once the wreck is recovered, we'll find other dead people on board," he said.

Bari is a key port on the Adriatic coast and is where the judicial investigation will be based because the ferry is from there.

The search for possible missing people continued in the seas off Albania amid ongoing confusion over how many passengers were on board. The ferry company said there were 475, but Volpe said there were at least 18 "overbookings" and an untold number of stowaways.

Greek authorities said the ship had a capacity of 499 passengers.

Greek coast guard spokesman Nikos Lagadianos said all information on rescued passengers was coming from Italian authorities, who were in charge of the search and rescue operation.

"It's not easy to answer accurately how many people have been saved, and what nationalities. All that will take time," he said. "We fully understand the anxiety of the relatives, but this requires great care."

Greek maritime officials, meanwhile, revealed that the first word about the problems on board the ship came from a passenger, not the crew, calling an emergency number.

"We are aboard the Norman Atlantic of Anek lines heading for Ancona and it is on fire," the passenger said in the call, a recording of which was played out during a news conference.

"My name is Argyris Stavros, the ship is on fire and they don't know what to do. ... I don't know what time it is, what time is it? It's 5:40."

Officials said that once the alarm had been raised, there were also language problems in communicating with the ferry's Italian captain.

"The Italian captain couldn't give us information. We always had to talk to somebody beside him," said Rear Adm. Nikolaos Patrinos, head of the coast guard's security operations. "In such circumstances, time is money and we didn't have time to spare."

As night fell and under snow-

fall, the Italian navy transport ship San Giorgio docked in Brindisi with about 180-200 survivors aboard. The ship had been the main command center coordinating the search and rescue operation, but it also took aboard nearly half of the passengers and crew members who were rescued.

Earlier, two injured survivors were airlifted by helicopter to land for treatment.

Dr. Domenico Spada, who was among the rescued on the San Giorgio, said the first evacuee was a Turkish man aged 55 to 60 who was unable to walk. The second man, whose nationality is unknown, was suffering from 20 percent burns on his body.

On board, the survivors slept in neat rows on the floor, covered with blue blankets, according to images shown on state-run RAI television.

Italian judicial authorities have enlisted the Italian tug company, Barretta, to take charge of bringing the ferry to Brindisi. No timeframe was given, but Barretta said it could arrive within a day.

Besides Barretta, the ship owner's insurance company has contracted the Dutch salvage firm Smit to secure the wreck.

Smit spokesman Martijn Schuttevaer said one line was connected by early Tuesday and that the priority was to get a heavier tow line connection, aided by the arrival of larger tugs. It wasn't clear if that was the operation underway when the Albanian sailors were struck.

But Volpe cautioned that only Barretta was legally responsible for bringing the ferry to Italy. Schuttevaer noted that "prosecutors are not going to pick up the bill for the salvage," and that the ship owner's insurance company would.

A ship carrying 39 survivors was diverted from the southern Italian port of Manfredonia to Taranto because of poor weather, adding another 12 hours or more to their journey to dry land. The survivors include five children and three people who are injured.

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For Obama, reunion with pals a link to simpler times

By Josh Lederman HONOLULU (AP) — Since returning to his childhood home this month on vacation, President Barack Obama has spent a good part of most days cloistered with three people whose company puts him at ease. They're not his wife and daughters, who came with him, but a trio of pals whose friendship dates back to Obama's high school days in Hawaii.

The three men — Mike Ramos, Bobby Titcomb and Greg Orme — are among the few people still in Obama's life who knew him long before he was famous. Although their paths have long since diverged, they've made it a point to gather for frequent reunions, in one of Obama's most visible links to the days when his life was much simpler and his problems more mundane.

On this visit alone, Obama has spent more than 22 hours with the group on the lush golf courses that dot the island of Oahu. When it rained, Obama and his pals went bowling, instead. And every year during Obama's trip, they find time for a barbecue at Titcomb's beachside home in Waialua, about an hour outside of Honolulu on Oahu's North Shore.

Although by now an annual tradition, the reunions have increasingly become the focal point of Obama's family vacation in his second term as his teenage daughters spend less and less time at their father's side. Once content to join their parents for outings to the aquarium or to get shave ice, Sasha and

Malia are now more independent. Since arriving more than a week ago, Obama has been out in public with one of his daughters only once, briefly, during a hike.

What Obama and his companions talk about during their many hours alone is anyone's guess. But the foursome rarely goes more than a few months without reconvening in one arrangement or another. In August, Obama kicked off his 53rd birthday weekend golfing with the three friends in suburban Maryland before heading to Camp David, the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains.

All four were classmates at Punahou School in Honolulu, which Obama has described as "a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites." In his memoir, "Dreams From My Father," Obama recalled a high school career that was, for the most part, ordinary — "marginal report cards and calls to the principal's office; part-time jobs at the burger chain; acne and driving tests and turbulent desire."

"I'd made my share of friends at school, gone on the occasional awkward date," Obama wrote. "And if I sometimes puzzled over the mysterious realignments of status that took place among my classmates, as some rose and others fell depending on the whims of their bodies or the make of their cars, I took comfort in the knowledge that my own position had steadily improved."

Far less is known about Obama's buddies, of course, than about the

president himself. All three live mostly private lives when they're not being photographed with the commander in chief.

Ramos, who graduated from Punahou in 1978, bonded with Obama over their mutual affinity for jazz. He's lived in Colorado, but was listed as a North Carolina resident when in 2012 he attended a state dinner at the White House that Obama held for British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Titcomb, who golfed another two days with Obama this month before the others got into town, was a year behind Obama at Punahou. Titcomb has worked as a commercial fisherman and an airline employee, according to the school's alumni magazine. In 2011, he pleaded no contest to soliciting a prostitute, but Obama has stayed fiercely loyal to his childhood friend.

Obama played basketball at Punahou with Orme, who the alumni magazine says is now a building contractor.

Aging photos show Obama and Orme decked out in 1970s fashion with their dates before attending a high school prom.

Among U.S. presidents, Obama is not alone in carving out time regularly to reconnect with his roots. Franklin D. Roosevelt made frequent trips back to Hyde Park, N.Y., throwing picnics or barbecues for former neighbors and friends, and George H.W. Bush remained pals with men he served with in World War II. In the second term, presidents have often sought refuge from the pressure by disappearing into nature to fish or hunt, said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University.

But such solitude has become less and less attainable for presidents in modern times.

"Many people call Obama aloof, and he hasn't made a lot of friends in Washington," Brinkley said. "When you're president, everybody wants something from you and only these types of friends are able to simply want your well-being. They have a different level of affection for you than friends you meet later in life."

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Inhofe: GOP Senate to push against regulations

By Tim Talley OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Republican Party's takeover of the U.S. Senate gives the GOP its best chance to push back against government regulations and ramp up military spending since Democratic President Barack Obama was elected in 2008, Oklahoma's senior U.S. senator, Jim Inhofe, says.

Elected to a fourth full six-year term in November's general election, the 80-year-old Inhofe, a Republican, will be part of a 54-seat majority when the Senate convenes in January. While not a veto-proof majority, Inhofe said the GOP, which retained control of the House in the fall elections, will still have considerable political sway over Obama.

"We're not going to resolve these problems unless we have a lever over Obama," Inhofe said during a recent

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phone interview with The Associated Press. "This gives us the margin to make me optimistic."

Inhofe will wield considerable influence in the new Congress. Currently the ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, Inhofe is expected to become the committee's chairman in the next Congress. He also has been the ranking Republican on the Senate's committee on armed services, an area Inhofe said will be a primary focus.

Inhofe accused the Obama administration of "disarming the military" over the past six years, reducing the nation's military budget by billions of dollars.

"He is a very liberal person," Inhofe said of the president. "Extreme liberals sometimes don't think you need a military."

But the senator said ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan and the Middle East, including attacks against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, will require the U.S. to devote more resources to its armed forces.

"We are now being challenged all over the world," Inhofe said.

Rolling back federal regulations, especially those involving the environment, will be another goal of the GOP-controlled Senate, Inhofe said.

He accused the current administration "of destroying this country in terms of overregulation." "(Obama) has this extreme environmental agenda," Inhofe said.

"We're going to be very busy."

Inhofe, one of Congress' most vocal deniers of the scientific consensus of climate change, wrote in a 2012 book that global warming was "a hoax."

"It's not happening," Inhofe said during the AP interview. Climate changes detected in recent years are part of a natural cycle that takes between 25 and 35 years to complete, he said.

"We've gone through this since 1895 five times," Inhofe said. "There's not warming going on. We're now in the 15th year of cooling."

He said regulations imposed by

the Environmental Protection Agency will kill the economy and jobs.

He has urged the agency to abandon stricter rules on refinery air pollution and to reject their own scientists' recommendation to tighten a standard for the main ingredient in smog.

As the likely chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Inhofe will lead an effort to boost oversight of the EPA and try to thwart its agenda.

While the Republican agenda will likely face opposition from Democrats, Inhofe said he expects bipartisan support in the next Congress for a transportation reauthorization bill to distribute federal dollars for new roads and bridges and repairing and replacing existing ones.

"That will be the No. 1 priority," Inhofe said. "That's what we're supposed to be doing here."

And he said he looks forward to support from Oklahoma's newest addition to the U.S. Senate, Republican Sen.-elect James Lankford, in accomplishing the GOP goals. Lankford was elected in November to the seat being vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Tom Coburn.

Lankford, a two-term member of the U.S. House from central Oklahoma's 5th District, said expects to have a good working relationship with the state's senior senator and play a role in passing legislation that challenges Obama's agenda.

"We need to set things on his desk," Lankford said Monday. "I think the president is going to have a hard time vetoing things over and over again."

Oklahoma Democratic Party Chairman Wallace Collins said he is concerned the Republican-controlled Congress and Oklahoma's all-GOP congressional delegation might push to repeal Obama's health care law and undo his administration's other best accomplishments.

"They've declared war on President Obama," Collins said. "I have no doubt that they're going to do more than they have done to discredit him and make him look bad."

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includes federal funds and local property tax dollars. The state's own base aid — a figure seen by educators as measuring state dollars for classroom and general administrative expenses — is $3,852 per student.

The base aid figure peaked at $4,433 in 2008, and is now 13 percent lower — even as the state increased the total dollars it put into schools to $3.4 billion annually, partly because teacher pension costs have risen.

Kansas once promised its base state aid would reach $4,492 per student, and the three-judge panel

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pegged its lowest figure for what's adequate to that number, adjusted for inflation since 2012.

The parents and school districts who sued had argued for an even higher base aid figure, but John Robb, a Newton attorney representing them, called Tuesday's ruling "a great decision for Kansas kids."

"It recognizes a continuation of a problem we've had for decades, of governors and Legislatures underfunding schools," Robb said.

The three-judge panel said it understands that the state faces "a

self-imposed fiscal dilemma" and suggested negotiations among the parties.

Brownback successfully pushed lawmakers to cut the state's top personal income tax rate by 26 percent and exempt the owners of 191,000 businesses from income taxes altogether. Further cuts are promised.

Lawmakers boosted aid to poor school districts earlier this year by $129 million annually to eliminate gaps between them and their wealthier counterparts, but it didn't increase base state aid for all school districts.

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Knight was just 5 for 14, with a pair of interceptions. Samaje Perine rushed for 62 yards but also had a fumble inside the Tigers 25 that ended the Sooners' best drive late in the second quarter.

Stoops said that changes were possible at quarterback and elsewhere.

"It's fair to say quarterback position is open," he said. "With guys we have coming in and inconsistency we have overall. But every position is open come spring time. I'm not going to sit here and create a problem, but of course there will be competition."

Trailing 20-0, Oklahoma's defense nearly grabbed a bit of momentum when defensive end Charles Tapper appeared to tip, intercept and return Stoudt's pass for a touchdown. But the play was called back for offside.

Stoudt then promptly hooked up with Williams for the Tigers' final scoring play of the half.

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Alfalfa County court filings According to the affidavits and petitions on file, the following individuals have been charged. An individual is innocent of any charges listed below until proven guilty in a court of law. All information is a matter of public record and may be obtained by anyone during regular hours at the Alfalfa County Courthouse. The Alva Review-Courier will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper.

Divorce Filings Donna Rae Martin vs. Darrell Paul Martin: Divorce ($248.70).

Wildlife Filings Jimmy Ray Bull Jr., 36, Weatherford: Hunt ducks without federal duck stamp

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Traffic Filings Gregory Allen Hargis, 30, Cleo Springs: Failure to yield right of way from stop sign ($211.50).

Drew Christopher Potter, 33, Watauga, Texas: Failure to prevent load from dropping, sifting, leaking or blowing ($211.50).

Waylon E. Lytle, 20, Van Buren, Arkansas: Failure to carry security verification ($211.50).

Waylon E. Lytle, 20, Van Buren, Arkansas: Failure to register used vehicle within 30 days ($211.50).

Bob Avery Cantrell, 50, Zavalla, Texas: Failure to keep right on road of sufficient width ($211.50).

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The following individuals received a citation for failure to wear seatbelt ($20 fine): Matthew Frank Rauch, 34, Cleo Springs.

Alfalfa County sheriff’s log December 21, 2014 8:53 a.m. Livestock at large, respondent said that 10 head of cattle are out 4 miles east of four-way on Highway 11, called two possible owners, neither could find any cattle out.

9:32 a.m. Information, respondent wanted to know if were booking in an individual, negative, he is the father of her kids.

11:35 a.m. Medical emergency, inmate fingers were turning dark in color (almost black on tips) and his hands were shaking complaining of pain, advised deputy he advised to call

ambulance and call deputy to let him know, deputy with inmate transporting to St. Mary’s, let OHP know deputy will be running hot to St. Mary’s with inmate, at hospital, heading back with inmate, deputy back in county.

11:48 a.m. Livestock in roadway, OHP advised cattle out 3 ½ miles west of Carmen, called possible owner who would go check, possible owner advised that no cattle were out.

December 22, 2014 6:27 p.m. Accident, seriousness unknown 3-4 miles north of four-way on Highway 11, CPD patched through a 911 call, respondent advised singlevehicle accident, a semi, no one is hurt, road is not blocked, semi is on the old road, CPD sent ambulance and first responders, deputy en route, OHP advised.

7:28 p.m. Reckless driver, Garfield County Sheriff’s Office advised that a reckless driver is on Highway 64 east heading west between Nash and Jet, driving into the left lane and on the shoulder, deputy and OHP advised.

December 25, 2014 9:29 p.m. Information, respondent called in to inform the sheriff’s office that his wife’s car broke down on Highway 58 north of Helena, respondent said they will come back and get it.

December 26, 2014 7:00 p.m. Civil matter, respondent advised her son is involved in a divorce and was supposed to have visitation

with his children but did not get visitation, the son lives in Enid, the children and his estranged wife live in Enid, Enid Police Department was sent to do welfare check on children/ wife, when police got to residence the children/wife no longer lived at the home, new tenants advised that they had been living there for about a month, advised respondent to contact Garfield County Sheriff’s Office.

7:45 p.m. Welfare check, respondent is concerned about the welfare of her granddaughter, who was upset and left on Dec. 24 for Oklahoma City, grandmother gave address, will do welfare check, notified deputy.

December 27, 2014 8:40 a.m. Stolen vehicle, respondent called and advised that a company semi truck was stolen from the Jiffy Trip in Cherokee, respondent advised individual would not return the truck until he was paid, called respondent back and told him to have an employee come in and file a report since he was not in the state and could not file report himself, respondent advised that he had since talked to the individual and told him that he was calling the cops, individual told him where the truck was, advised deputy.

10:00 a.m. Disturbance, Woods County advised they received a 911 call from Carmen about a disturbance regarding someone at a residence taking property, advised deputy.

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Alfalfa County real estate transactions Beginning in book 760 page 633 Real Estate Transfers Barbara A. Powell and Barry H. Powell, Donald V. Hertzler and Glenna S. Hertzler, Phyllis Jean Robertson and Colin L. Robertson and Linda HertzlerCrum to Hughes Farms LLC: the SE/4 of Sec 14, T 24N, R 12, WIM: Warranty Deed.

Book 760 Page 635 Zoom Properties LLC to Valerie Jo Tuxhorn: Lot 1 in Blk 21 in the Original Town, now City of Cherokee, LESS and except all the oil, gas and other minerals in and under the subject property: Individual Warranty Deed.

Book 760 Page 643 Ronald G. Hatfield and Judy Hatfield to Jamie S. Beisel, formerly Jamie S. Buck, Trustee of the Jamie S. Buck Trust dated July 5, 2007: an undivided ½ interest in and to the SE/4 f Sec 1, T 25N, R 11, WIM, Less the oil, gas and other minerals, SUBJECT to easements: Warranty Deed.

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Book 760 Page 662 Richard W. McElhatten to Robert L. Goss and Margaret Ann Goss: All of Lots 3, 4 & 5 in Blk 157 of 1st Add to the Original Town of Carmen: Joint Tenancy Warranty Deed.

Book 760 Page 663 Cindy Spradling to Dorothy F. Smith Revocable Trust dated Jan 18, 1995: Lots 1 & 2 and the S/2 of the NE/4, a/d/a the NE/4 of Sec 6, T 27N, R 10, WIM: Quit Claim Deed.

Book 760 Page 664 Lisa E. Mirelez to Dorothy F. Smith Revocable Trust dated Jan 18, 1995: Lots 1 & 2 and the S/2 of the NE/4, a/d/a the NE/4 of Sec 6, T 27N, R 10, WIM: Quit Claim Deed.

Book 760 Page 687 Janice Haunschild and Charles D. Haunschild, as Trustees of the Janice Haunschild Revocable Trust to SandRidge Exploration and Production LLC: a 5 acre tract of land in the NW/4 of Sec 34, T 28N, R 9, WIM: Special Warranty Deed.

Book 760 Page 848 Barry Bryce Hartman and Kendall Lee Hartman, as Trustees of the Clark Living Trust dated Oct. 16, 1992, amended on Oct. 12, 2001 and as amended and restated on March 5, 2012 to Steven C. Clark: (1) NE/4 of Sec 9, T 24N, R 9, WIM and (2) SE/4 of Sec 9, T 24N, R 9, WIM: Quit Claim Deed.

Book Page 852 Steven C. Clark, as Trustee of the Testamentary Trust of Wilbur C. Clark to Steven C. Clark: (1) NW/4 of Sec 4, T 24N, R 9, WIM; and (2) NE/4 of Sec 4, T 24N, R 9, WIM: General Warranty Deed.

Book 760 Page 950 Martha J.

LaBreche to Martha J. LaBreche, Trustee of the Ferdinand J. LaBreche and Martha J. LaBreche Family Trust dated Apr. 2, 1997: S/2 of the NW/4 of Sec 15, T 27N, R 12, WIM: Quit Claim Deed.

Book 761 Page 28 Brent Ratliff to Jack Parr, Trustee of the Jack Parr Living Trust dated Apr. 29, 1993 an undivided ½ interest and Juanita Parr, Trustee of the Juanita Parr Trust dated Apr. 29, 1993: (1) Lots 20, 21, 22, 23 & 24 in Blk 15 in the Town of Amorita; (2) Lots 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20 in Blk 17 in the Town of Amorita; and (3) Lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 in Blk 26 in the Town of Amorita: Warranty Deed.

Book 761 Page 29 Stonecrest Income and Opportunity Fund-I, LLC to Rocktop Partners I, LP: all of Lots 23 & 24 in Blk 37 of the Original Town of Cherokee: Special Warranty Deed.

Book 761 Page 103 Logan Schanbacher to Ronald D. Eckhardt and Karen K. Eckhardt: the North 25 ft of Lot 11 and the South 37.5 ft of Lot 12 in Blk 1 of Aubrey Tatro’s Add to City of Cherokee: Joint Tenancy Warranty Deed.

Mortgages Book 760 Page 649 Hannah K. Horstman and Christopher D. Horstman to American Southwest Mortgage Corp.: the S/2 of Lot 5 and all of Lot 6 in Blk 3 in Gilmore’s Add to Cherokee: $68,367.

Book 761 Page 1 Ronald Alan Severin to The Bank of Kremlin: SE/4 of Sec 24, T 24N, R 9, WIM: 2 notes totalling $750,000.

Book 761 Page 13 Travis D. Miller and Tamera R. Miller to Community Bank: a tract of land in the SE/4 of the SW/4 of Sec 1, T 26N, R 11, WIM: maximum obligation limit $10,089.

Barber County court filings Criminal Filings Joe Wells, no age listed, Medicine Lodge: Disorderly conduct; Fighting words or noisy conduct to cause resentment.

Erin Wells, no age listed, Medicine Lodge: Disorderly conduct; Fighting words or noisy conduct to cause resentment.

Anthony Paul Petardi Jr., no age listed, Medicine Lodge: Criminal damage to property; Without consent, value < $1,000.

Brittany Paige Boggs, no age listed, Sharon: Possession of opiate, opium, narcotic or certain stimulant.

Small Claims Filings Mikes Service and Alignment Center vs. Medicine River Mercantile and Robin E. Paxson: Mechanical repairs to vehicle in amount of $3,500 plus interest, costs and damages.

Marriage Filings Michael David Finnegan Jr., 26, of Hardtner and Natasha Kay Anderson, 22, of Hardtner.

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Community Calendar Wednesday 9 a.m. The Woods County Senior Citizens Center, 625 Barnes, Alva, is open for games and other activities. Exercise is scheduled each day at 11 a.m.

Transportation provided upon request.

Noon Alva Kiwanis Club meets at Champs Restaurant.

2-5 p.m. The Cherokee Strip Museum in Alva is open every day except Monday. For information or arranged tours, call 580-327-2030.

Thursday 9 a.m. The Woods County Senior Citizens Center, 625 Barnes, Alva, is closed for New Year’s Day.

7 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 1027 8th (Wesley House) in Alva every Monday and Thursday.

Friday 9 a.m. The Woods County Senior Citizens Center, 625 Barnes, Alva, is open for games and other activities. Exercise is scheduled each day at 11 a.m.

Transportation provided upon request.

2-5 p.m. The Cherokee Strip Museum in Alva is open every day except Monday. For information or arranged tours, call 580-327-2030.

6-8 p.m. First Friday Art Walk will be held in downtown Alva and at the Cherokee Strip Museum.

Barber County sheriff’s log December 22, 2014 Montana McCullough, Kiowa, driving a 2006 Chevrolet, struck a deer on U281 south of K2. Over $1,000 damage, no injury, accident investigated

by Undersheriff Small.

Medicine Lodge Ambulance transported patient from First Street to Medicine Lodge Hospital.

Steve Wilson, Moody, Texas, driving a 2000 Ford SUV, overturned on K2 about 3 miles east of Hazelton. Over $1,000 damage, unknown injuries, accident worked by Deputy Richardson and Sheriff Rugg, aided by Hazelton Volunteer Fire Department and Kiowa Ambulance.

December 23, 2014 Medicine Lodge Ambulance transported patient from Cherry Street to

Medicine Lodge Hospital.

Kiowa Ambulance transferred patient from Kiowa Hospital to Wichita.

During the week officers received two reports of cattle out; performed 14 public assists; and assisted three other agencies.

Arrests December 24, 2014 Adam J. Moody, Medicine Lodge, W/M, 31. Arrest by BASO. Charge: Probation violation.

Hope M. Collins, Medicine Lodge, W/F, 23. Arrest by BASO. Charges: DUI 2. TOC 3. Child endangerment. Released Dec. 24, 2014, on $1,500 surety bond.

Marcella L, Smith, Medicine Lodge, W/F, 34. Arrest by MLPD. Charges: Domestic battery 2. Criminal damage to property. Released Dec. 24, 2014, on $1,000 OR bond.

AUCTION - SATURDAY, JANUARY 10TH AT 10:00 A.M. Auction Location: 13 miles north of Mooreland on Hwy 50 then east on CO Rd 27 2 miles, then north on NS 217 1 mile then east on EW 26 1 mile then north on Co Rd NS 218 1 mile then east ½ mile of EW 25 then north 218.5 1 mile east on 2/10 to the property.

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Barber County real estate transactions Real Estate Transfers Beginning book 139 page 315 Katherine Jo Emling and Charles Russell Emling to Maurice C. Harrington, Trustee under Agreement of Trust dated Jan 31, 2003 for the benefit of Maurice C. Harrington: an undivided ½ interest in the NE/4 of Sec 26, T 30S, R 15, WPM, And All of Sec 25, T 30S, R 15, WPM: Quit Claim Deed.

Book 139 Page 316 Brad L. Harrington to Maurice C. Harrington, Trustee under Agreement of Trust dated Jan 31, 2003 for the benefit of Maurice C. Harrington: an undivided ½ interest in the NE/4 of Sec 26, T 30 S, R 15, WPM, And All of Sec 25, T 30S, R 15, WPM: Quit Claim Deed.

Book 139 Page 317 Jay R. Harrington and Diane K Harrington to Maurice C. Harrington, Trustee under Agreement of Trust dated Jan 31, 2003 for the benefit of Maurice C. Harrington: an undivided ½ interest in the NE/4 of Sec 26, T 30 S, R 15, WPM, And All of Sec 25, T 30S, R 15, WPM: Quit Claim Deed.

Book 139 Page 318 Jay R. Harrington, Successor Trustee of the Maurice C. Harrington Revocable Trust dated Jan 31, 2003 to George L. Bissantz and Frances L. Bissantz,

Trustees of the Bissantz Family Revocable Trust dated April 9, 1993: All of grantor’s interest which amounts to an undivided ½ in the following: (1) the NE/4 of Sec 26, T 30S, R 15, WPM, and (2) all of Sec 25, T 30S, R 15, WPM: Trustee’s Deed.

Book 139 Page 320 Terry W. Garman and Betty A. Garman to Terry W. Garman and Betty A. Garman, Trustees of the Garman Family Revocable Trust dated Jan 23, 2014: (1) all of Outlot No. 7, except a 1.94 acre tract in Sec 1, T 35S, R 11, WPM, containing 38 acres more or less; (2) all of the West 3/4ths of Outlot No. 13 in Sec 1, T 35S, R 11, WPM, containing 30 acres more or less; (3) Outlot No. 14 in Sec 1, T 35S, R 11, WPM, containing 40 acres more or less; (4) that part of Outlot No. 26 lying SE of the Missouri Pacific Railroad in Sec 2, T 35S, R 11, WPM, and containing 14 acres more or less; and Blks A, B & C to the Town Company’s Add to the City of Kiowa; (5) Outlot No. 27 in Sec 1, T 35S, R11, WPM, containing 40 acres more or less; (6) Outlot 28 lying North of the Missouri Pacific Railroad rightof-way in Sec 1, T 35S, R 11, WPM, containing 20 acres more or less; (7) the W/2 of Sec 14, a/d/a Lots 3 & 4 and the N/2 of the NW/4 of Sec 14, T 35S,

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Mortgages Beginning book 217 page 399 Ryan S. Dohm and Sandra F. Dohm to USA acting through the Farm Service Agency of the USDA: S/2 of Sec 10, T 32S, R 10, WPM, except the tract described on Book 217 Page 404: 4 notes totalling $525,810.

Book 217 Page 405 Diel Farms LLC and Diel Properties LLC to High Plains Farm Credit FLCA: (1) Surface interest only in the N/2 of Sec 34, T 34S, R 12, WPM; (2) the SW/4 of Sec 23 and the W/2 of the NE/4 and the NW/4 of Sec 29, T 34S, R 11, WPM, and the SE/4 of the NE/4 and the SE/4 of Sec 10 and the NE/4 of Sec 15, T 34S, R 12, WPM; (3) Surface interest only in the SW/4 of Sec 34, T 34S, R 12, WPM; (4) Surface interest only in a tract of land located in the NE/4 of Sec 32, T 34S, R 12, WPM, And the W/2 of the N/2 of Sec 33, T 34S, R 12, WPM; (5) Surface interest only in the SE/4 of Sec 32, and the S/2 of the SW/4 and 830 ft off the South side of the N/2 of the SW/4 of Sec 33, T 34S, R 12, WPM, and Lot 2 of Sec 4 and Lot 1 of Sec 5, T 35S, R 12, WPM; (6) Surface interest only in the SE/4 of Sec 33; and the S/2 of the N/2 of Sec 33, and all of the N/2 of the SW/4, except 830 ft off the South side of said N/2 of the SW/4 of said Sec 33, all in T 34S, R 12, WPM, and Lot 1 in Sec 4, T 35S, R 12, WPM; (7) Surface interest only in the NE/4 of Sec 32, T 34S, R 12, WPM, except the described tracts listed on Book 217 Page 406; (8) W/2 of the NE/4 and the E/2 of the W/2 of Sec 10, and the E/2 of the NW/4 of Sec 15, T 34S, R 12, WPM: $500,000.

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