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82 Pages • Five Sections

Volume 20 • Number 49

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Published in Scott City, Ks

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County valuation ‘busted’ by $8 million The oil industry is famous for its boom and bust cycles.

Scott County Commissioners were hoping to ride the boom a little longer than two years.

A slight dip in oil prices, combined with a sharp decline in oil well production, contrib-

uted to an $11 million drop in oil/gas valuations for 2013.

A sizeable increase in real estate values ($4.7 million) wasn’t nearly enough to prevent an overall loss of $8.2 million in total valuation figures that will be used to determine mill levies

for the county, school district and Scott City during the upcoming year.

After climbing to an alltime high of $98.27 million in 2012, total county valuation has slipped to $90.04 million.

It’s a plunge that surprised

County Appraiser John Reeder as much as it did commissioners, especially after Reeder had informed the commission only a couple of weeks earlier that valuation figures would likely see very little change from 2012.

“At the time I said that I

didn’t have the oil and gas valuations in hand,” an apologetic Reeder told the commission. “I was shooting from the hip and that’s something I never like to do. I can guarantee it won’t happen again.”

(See BUSTED on page two)

Council keeps restrictions on truck parking

Teamwork . . .

Brodey Rohrbough (left) is assisted by his older brother, Zach, while taking their dog, Abbi, through the paces in the pee wee division of the Scott County Fair dog show on Tuesday evening. The dog and pet show kicked off county fair activities which will be in full swing next week. For a complete schedule of Fair events, check the insert in this week’s Record.

(Record Photo)

Local motel operators have made arrangements for long-term truck parking off city streets in response to a request from the Scott City Council.

The city council had expressed concerns that motels had abused the privilege of issuing parking permits to truck drivers that allowed them to keep trucks on city streets beyond the original intent of 24-48 hours.

As a result of the long-term parking, asphalt streets near one motel were being damaged. At another motel, trucks were parking on a street where the signage clearly prohibits truck parking.

The council agreed to a compromise at Monday’s meeting attended by two motel representatives. The motels can continue to issue the parking permits, but they are limited to a maximum of 48 hours. In addition, the “no parking” signs on the frontage road west of the El Quartelejo Inn have been removed from the west side of the street. Trucks will be allowed to park there if they have a temporary permit.

As for long-term parking, the motels appear to have addressed that situation as well.

The Plains Inn has made arrangements for truck parking on property it owns behind the motel. The El Quartelejo Inn has arranged for truck parking at the northeast section of the ShopKo parking lot and on a vacant lot where Midwest Mixer had been located, about a block north of the motel.

Conrad Kough, owner of the Lazy R Motel, was informed that overnight truck parking would continue to be allowed on the street immediately west of his business.

“The issue being addressed by the council is with truckers staying a month at a time,” explained City Attorney John Shirley.

“Monthly parking was not the intent of the council when the temporary (parking) permits were approved,” said Police Chief Chris Jurgens.

Councilman Everett Green said the council was surprised to learn that motel owners were making copies of the permits and issuing them to truck drivers.

Avie Barmann, manager of the El Quartelejo Inn, said when the motel was first built there was a vacant lot to the south where trucks could park, except when it rained and conditions were muddy. That’s when they were moved to the frontage street.

(See PARKING on page 16)

Insurance cushions the impact of a poor harvest Bob Campbell staff writer

With Western Kansas wheat growers harvesting perhaps their worst crop in the past half-century, agricultural officials and crop insurance agents say the weakening of coverage under holdover farm legislation is further darkening the uncertainty shadowing the industry.

Sherill Tubbs, Scott City, whose Western Kansas Insurance covers 600 growers in 11 Kansas counties and two counties in Colorado, says Washington’s contradictory actions with the new Farm Bill have thrown the legislation’s more drought-sensitive protections into question.

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June 20 and then on July 11 deleted the food stamp program in a bill President Obama said he would veto.

Tubbs said tying insurance to farmers’ APH (actual production history) has progressively lowered the amounts coverage can pay.

The four-year 2008 Farm Bill expired last year, but Congress extended it for nine months last

December because $6 to $8 a gallon milk and other steep food prices loomed. The measure expires again Sept. 30.

“For the last three years, insurance has enabled most of our clients to stay in business, but I don’t know how much longer it will,” said Tubbs, who has worked extensively in Washington as a board member of the Crop Insurance

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Tubbs said it costs an average grower with 1,500 acres about $28,000 to insure his crop for production of, for example, 28.5, 33.8, 27.8, 31.5, 25.5 and 29.3 bushels per acre from various sections of his farm, based on yields from recent years.

If the ‘08 bill didn’t provide a $34,000 premium subsidy, (See HARVEST on page eight)

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Busted Reeder based his assumption on the number of oil and natural gas leases filed in the county.

There were 23 natural gas wells in the county during 2012, same as 2011. But there were 214 oil wells - an increase of 25 from the previous year.

That was in line with the 22 well increase from 2010 to 2011 - a year which saw the county’s total valuation jump $87.4 million to a record high $98.2 million.

Since the increase in wells was similar from the year before, Reeder thought that valuation figures would hold steady, if not increase.

Production Plunges What Reeder hadn’t yet seen was production figures from these wells.

Even with the increase in oil wells, production during 2012 slipped to 649,963 barrels from a record high of 705,731 barrels the previous year.

The 2012 production was even slightly less than the 662,699 barrels produced in 2010 when there were 47 fewer oil wells.

“Some of the new production is in zones which haven’t typically produced before. We had no idea how those zones

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would play out,” says Reeder. “We’re learning that production may hold up for a little while, but then it can drop pretty significantly.”

During his meeting with county commissioners, Reeder showed them nine oil leases in which production declined by upwards of 26,000 barrels in just one year.

One well experienced a 78 percent decline in production - or 20,979 barrels - during the past two years. Another plunged by 26,411 barrels, or 74 percent.

Take that kind of production times an average price of $70 per barrel and the loss of valuation quickly adds up.

“These leases are declining much more rapidly than anyone expected,” Reeder noted. “These are not going to be long-term leases like we’re used to seeing in Ness and Trego counties. I see a lot of these wells becoming exempt with five barrels (per day) or less.”

Reeder says Scott County is in the Marmaton/Kansas City pay zone while Trego County is in the Arbuckle zone.

“How these zones deplete is unique to every area,” he said. “We’re just

Real estate values increase Something which caught a number of local residents by surprise earlier this year was an increase in real estate values while the value of their home remained unchanged.

Overall, real estate values climbed by $4.7 million in the county, which helped to offset the huge loss in oil/gas and state assessed utilities.

“We do a separate land analysis each year. We define neighborhoods and study the transactions,” says County Appraiser John Reeder. “People may say the land value increased but the home value didn’t. We look at the overall picture - the parcel and the land when determining the value. getting an understanding of what’s happening in Scott County.”

Reeder offered some hope to the commission that the sharp loss in valuation this year may not be a trend.

“We’re still seeing an upward trend in exploration. The producers didn’t hit as many big leases this year as they did the year before, so there’s hope that this will bounce back up,” he says. “I would expect to see a lot of oil and gas activity for another five or six years.”

At the same time, he warned the county to brace for fluctuating valuations as a result.

“Other counties ride this oil roller-coaster every year. I’ve seen 30 percent increases and decreases in a single year

in some counties,” noted Reeder. “This is new to Scott County. It’s not as consistent as real property.”

Reeder says it doesn’t appear that horizontal drilling will be as big a factor in Scott County as some had thought. He’s seen some producers already pulling out of the area.

“In some places they opened up a zone, sucked it dry and were gone within a year,” he said.

His advice.

“Look at oil as a windfall. Build a reserve during the good years and know that it’s a declining resource,” he said. “I would love to say that it’s going to increase every year - or at least hold steady - but I think we’re seeing that’s not going to happen.”

Loss of KinderMorgan cost an additional $2M Scott County lost another $2 million in valuation when a huge part of the KinderMorgan pumping plant was removed from the property tax rolls.

Because this is a state-assessed utility, the valuation figures are determined in Topeka and passed along to the county.

KinderMorgan has been sold to Tallgrass Interstate Gas Transmission which plans to convert the site to a fluid pipeline. Because it will be handling less volume it was able to see a major reduction in valuation.

“The value of the plant is determined by the amount of natural gas it handles, not by the infrastructure,” says County Clerk Pam Faurot.

“Our understanding is that they are pumping less natural gas and aren’t renewing natural gas contracts.”

The plant had been valued at $5.034 million, but that has been reduced to $3.37 million.

The county is bracing for a similar loss in value with the Oneok helium plant next year.

“If they apply the same reasoning to the Oneok plant, we assume the property value will be reduced significantly,” Faurot says.

Three sentenced on drug charges Bob Campbell staff writer

Three defendants have been sentenced in 25th District Court on charges ranging from felony and misdemeanor narcotics violations to making a criminal threat.

Richard Heberlee pleaded guilty on July 2 to a Class A misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia and was given a year’s probation and fined $1,618 by Magistrate Judge James Collins.

He was represented

by Garden City attorney Lucille Douglass and prosecuted by Special Prosecutor Laura Lewis, Leoti.

Accused of Class A misdemeanor possession of hallucinogenic drugs, Kevin LaPlant received

deferred adjudication from Judge Collins, who fined him $160.

LaPlant was represented by Scott City attorney Colton Eikenberry after his Jan. 19 arrest. He was prosecuted by Scott County Attorney Rebecca Faurot.

Deferred adjudication is a ruling under which the charge is held in abeyance unless another case is filed against the defendant, at which time they may be prosecuted on the new charge and the old one.

Brent Mulligan pleaded guilty to possession of opium and was fined $495

by District Judge Michael Quint, Garden City.

Mulligan was represented by a public defender and prosecuted

by Faurot. He was taken into custody on Feb. 3.

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Community Living

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Some fruits freeze better than others

Ashlee Fox and Logan Argo

Fox-Argo plan Oct. 5 wedding

Larry and Norma Fox, Scott City, announce the engagement of their daughter, Ashlee, to Logan Argo, Amarillo Tex., son of Elton and Donna Argo, Plains.

The bride-to-be is a 2007 graduate of Scott Community High School, a 2012 graduate of Ft. Hays State University earning a BA in public relations and a BA in art.

She is currently a public relations coordinator at Faith City Mission in Amarillo.

Ashlee is the granddaughter of Bob and Donna Fox, Vona, Colo., and the late Phyllis Fox, the

late Raymond B. Eisenbart, and the late Agnes Eisenbart.

The prospective groom is a 2007 graduate of Southwestern Heights High School, Plains, and a 2011 graduate of FHSU, earning a BS degree in Information, Networking and Telecommunications.

He is currently a media consultant at KVII TV, Amarillo.

Logan is the grandson of RW and Ella Sherrill, Vinson, Okla., and Calvin Argo, Hollis, Okla., and the late Julia Argo.

The couple is planning an Oct. 5 wedding at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Scott City.

Freezing fruit is an easy way to preserve fruits that are in season for later use.

There are many ways in which you can use frozen fruit, but before we get to the yummy part of this column, let’s talk a about how to freeze fruit for future use.

Almost all fruits can be frozen, but some freeze better than others. Just remember, once frozen then thawed, the fruit will become real watery from the breakdown of the fibers.

So, frozen fruit is often best if eaten in a semifrozen state or thickened down to be used in pie or other recipes.

When freezing fruit, it’s important that you remove any seeds from the fruit that you wouldn’t

Riedl open house is Sat.

Mr. and Mrs. Dean Riedl, Scott City, will observe their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house on Sat., July 20, 2:00-4:00 p.m., at Area 96, 308 W. 5th St., Scott City.

The come-and-go event will be hosted by their children.

Food entries to be sold

All food entries during the Scott County Fair consultation judging will be sold at The Scott County Record office on Mon., July 22, from 3:00-5:00 p.m.

All proceeds go to the county 4-H program.

Bloom reunion is July 26-28

The Lyle and Juanita Bloom family will have a family reunion on Friday through Sunday, July 26-28, in Goodland.

Juanita Bloom will be honored with a birthday party on Saturday evening.

Kaitlin Roemer and Chance Bezona For more information and to RSVP contact Candas Freeman at 928Roemer-Bezona are engaged Earl and Barbara Ro- Overland Park, and the 533-3754. emer, Healy, announce late Elmer Roemer.

The prospective groom the engagement of their daughter, Kaitlin Jo, to is a 2007 graduate of HolChance Arthur Bezona, ly High School and a 2011 son of Layne Bezona and graduate of FHSU with a Paula Reyman, Holly, degree in agronomy. He is currently employed by Colo.

The bride-to-be is a Roemer Land and Cattle 2008 graduate of Healy in Gove County and Nu High School and a 2012 Life Market, LLC, in graduate of Ft. Hays State Scott City.

He is the grandson of University. She is currently a full-time radiologic Kenny and Pearl Reyman, technologist at the Scott Holly, Colo., and Jean Bezona, Granada, Colo., and County Hospital.

She is the granddaugh- the late Dean Bezona.

The couple is planning ter of Roberta Graff, Marienthal, and the late Victor a September 14 wedding Graff, and Luella Roemer, in Scott City.

typically eat. Cherries and peaches are two that quickly come to mind as examples. Some fruits you will just want to wash and then dry really well before you freeze them, others you will also want to blanch.

Blanching some fruits will help you remove the skin easily from the fruit should you want to do this before freezing.

Ascorbic Acid Wash For fruits that tend to brown, like apples, peaches, nectarines and apricots, treat with ascorbic

acid (Vitamin C). Look for the powdered form in health food stores, drugstores, and some grocery stores in the vitamin aisle.

To make an ascorbic acid wash: Dissolve 1/2 teaspoon of ascorbic acid powder (or finely crushed vitamin C tablets) in three tablespoons water.

Sprinkle this mixture over the cut fruit.

An acceptable substitute: Slice the fruit and dip the slices in an acidulated water bath - about one quart water plus a tablespoon of lemon juice - before drying and freezing.

Homemade smoothies Freezing fruit makes whipping up homemade smoothies so much easier!

Since everything is cut up and frozen beforehand,

there’s really no prep work involved - and who doesn’t love that?

You can also use frozen fruits in your waffle batter, muffins, as toppings for oatmeal or yogurt, or even homemade fruit rollups.

Some fruits do best with a sugar or sugar-syrup preparation.

There are several ways to pack fruit for freezing.

Fruits packed in syrup generally are best for most cooking processes.

Small whole fruits, such as berries, packed on trays are good for salads or garnishes.

The University of Georgia is kind of the guru of food preservation.

Here are a few of their methods of freezing fruits.

(See FREEZE on page 7)

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Editorial/Opinion

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editorially speaking

Tourism:

Lake Scott should be at heart of local campaign

Tourism is big business . . . or it can be if you happen to be in the right place or happen to have the right attraction.

Scott County has such an attraction in Lake Scott State Park, though you wouldn’t know it by the absence of an organized effort to promote the site.

The numbers speak for themselves.

The Buffalo Bill sculpture and visitor center just off I70 at Oakley attracts about 8,000 people a year. The El Quartelejo Museum and Jerry Thomas Gallery bring in about 2,000. Those numbers are growing and should continue to do so.

But they pale in comparison to the 130,000 to 140,000 visitors annually at Lake Scott.

“There’s nothing in Western Kansas that can compare with the number of people we get each year,” says Park Manager Greg Mills.

Granted, many of those park visitors have a single purpose of going to Lake Scott for a family outing, fishing, etc. They don’t meet the definition of “tourist.”

But that doesn’t mean there isn’t an unmet potential in drawing from those park visitors who may be looking for something different to do while in the area. Even if we were able to get five percent of the park’s visitors to stop at the museum/gallery that’s still more than 6,000 additional visitors.

And that’s without any type of organized promotional campaign to bring more visitors to the park.

Given the extended drought in eastern Colorado and reservoirs experiencing water shortages in central Kansas, people are looking elsewhere for a weekend escape. We have the area attractions - from Monument Rocks, to buffalo tours, to the museum/gallery. But Lake Scott has proven its ability to attract people to this region - whether it’s for a day trip or a 3-4 day getaway.

We have one of the area’s greatest natural wonders on our doorstep. We enjoy an attraction many communities would do anything to have.

If it isn’t at the heart of our efforts to bring visitors to Scott County then we’re letting a golden opportunity - and countless tourism dollars - slip away from us.

Subsidies:

If wind energy is willing to do without, why not oil?

It’s easy to question the value of government (i.e., taxpayer) subsidies for industry.

In a true capitalist society, businesses should be able to stand on their own without being propped up with government assistance. But there are also times when subsidies are important in leveling the playing field - in giving new industry a chance to gain their footing against long-established enterprises.

The green energy industry has benefitted from taxpayer subsidies. However, Monika Wood, a spokesperson for Siemens Wind Energy, says it’s time to end the Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit for wind development.

That may be. It would seem the bigger issue has been the constant uncertainty year after year about whether the tax credit will be renewed.

Congress has made a habit of waiting until the last minute to renew the tax when the industry is looking for a long-term, stable tax incentive program.

Furthermore, if Congress decides to follow Wood’s advice it should also do away with tax subsidies for the oil industry that is far more profitable and more financially secure. Government subsidies of the oil industry are pegged at about $10 billion - and this doesn’t include costs related to defending oil pipelines and shipping routes from the Mideast. Yet, efforts to trim back those subsidies by as little as $2.4 billion annually have been defeated in Congress.

In 2011, the three biggest U.S. oil companies took home more than $80 billion in profit. Exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour. And yet, the Congress doesn’t have the backbone to eliminate even a small portion of the industry’s federal subsidies.

In the meantime, Congress continues to play games with the Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit. This has led to instability in the wind industry and played a role in workforce fluctuations for major companies such as Siemens.

Congress would best serve the renewable energy industry by developing long-term policies.

Maybe the industry can eventually operate without subsidies. If we can begin having this conversation with wind energy, then it’s definitely overdue for the fossil fuels industry.

Socialism in the heartland

We hate big government in the Midwest. Call it that pioneer spirit in which we have learned to care for our own without the help - or interference of government.

There isn’t a politician who has any hope of success who doesn’t understand that underlying dislike, and distrust.

Every politician from Sen. Jerry Moran, to Congressman Tim Huelskamp, to Gov. Sam Brownback to Secretary of State Kris Kobach owes their current and future success to one thing - preaching the anti-government dogma and allowing capitalism to operate freely.

We must fight socialism at every turn - in the form of Obamacare and assistance for the poor because it destroys the fabric of our independent well-being.

If you want to enjoy any political success in Kansas and the Midwest you have to stick to this script.

There’s just one problem. It’s bogus and any politician with an IQ greater than his shoe size

knows it.

To say we don’t need - or want - socialism is as ridiculous as those ignorant pleas to “keep the government’s hands off my Medicare” during the height of the Obamacare debate.

The current farm bill, as well as the one approved by Republicans in the House of Representatives, is a perfect example of the disconnect between rhetoric and reality.

Congressional Republicans couldn’t bring themselves to support any version of a farm bill that included food stamps because, as any hardworking person knows, food stamps only weaken the ability of individuals to fend for themselves.

By stripping food stamps out of the farm bill, we are giving these individuals an incentive to work harder and depend less on government handouts.

We’re doing those folks, and the kids who benefit from these programs, a huge favor even if they don’t see it that way. They could take a few lessons from those who work the land and “don’t need no stinkin’ government handout.”

Unless you’re talking about crop insurance.

Under the GOP farm bill, taxpayers (i.e., the government) would subsidize roughly 62 percent of the premium costs for farmers who purchase insurance.

The GOP farm bill doesn’t just maintain this traditional program for wheat, soybean, cotton, rice, peanut and dairy farmers, but it would expand it to include the fishing industry, alfalfa growers and producers of biomass and sweet sorghum. In addition, the bill includes special peanut revenue insurance, funds to study extending insurance to cover losses dues to food recalls or health advisories related to contamination, and protection against business interruption of poultry producers.

In addition, the bill protects loan programs and protectionist trade barriers for U.S. sugar growers.

Did anyone get left out?

If that isn’t enough, the bill would also provide $3 billion to cover deductibles before the crop insurance kicks in, which was written into the law in an effort to offset the loss of direct payments.

As a farmer, it’s almost enough to make you hate government interference . . . almost.

Let’s be clear about one thing. We don’t view government supports as a terrible thing that needs to be eliminated from the federal budget.

While there are clearly huge farm operations that benefit immensely from this type of farm legislation, as do the giant food conglomerates, we see a bigger benefit by maintaining a financial safety net for smaller operators.

While the “family farmer” may be more myth than reality these days, there are many farmers (See SOCIALISM on page six)

There ought to be a better law

I wasn’t too surprised when do-it-yourself vigilante George Zimmerman was found not guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin. The trial took place in Florida, after all.

You have to be pretty stupid or reckless or both to be found guilty of murder in Florida.

If you want to kill someone in the Sunshine State, all you have to do is get him or her alone and then provoke them into threatening you. At that point, you can pull out a gun and shoot them dead, later saying that you felt your life was in danger.

And if you get them really alone, you don’t even have to provoke a threat. You can just say you were threatened. It’s your word against theirs and they’re dead. Perfect crime.

Remember Columbo, the quirky and long-run-

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ning TV mystery series starring Peter Falk?

Columbo would have been out of a job if he tried to exercise his funky detective skills in Florida.

Only two people know what really went down that night, and one of them is unable to tell his version of the events. Zimmerman made sure of that.

His story is that he saw Martin, a black teenager, acting suspiciously in a community where Zimmerman was trolling for miscreants. He followed the kid for a while, reporting the youngster to the 911 operator. Then, acting against the advice of the operator, he got out of his car and started to follow the young man on foot.

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Eventually, Zimmerman said, he stopped and began walking back to his car. At which point, the defendant claimed, Martin jumped out from some bushes and attacked him, knocking him down and repeatedly beating Zimmerman’s head against the sidewalk.

Fearing for his life, Zimmerman pulled out a gun he’d been carrying all this time and shot Martin, killing him.

That was his story. The jury bought it, though I can’t imagine why.

(Actually, I can imagine why, but I’m not going to say it. It might start a riot.)

This is a cockamamie story from start to finish.

In the first place, Martin was a skinny kid and Zimmerman’s an older, burly guy. If they got in a fight, you’d bet on the bigger fellow, particu-

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larly if he fancied himself a kind of cop.

In the second place, there were no bushes for Martin to jump out of.

Pictures show the site to be clear of foliage.

In the third place, an examining doctor said that Zimmerman’s head wound looked as though it were the result of a single blow, not repeated bashing.

In other words, at every point that could be checked, Zimmerman lied.

In addition, he lied to the judge about his resources at his bail hearing, for which he was jailed again.

Yet the jury seemed to believe him.

This is what I think happened: Zimmerman got out of his car to follow Martin more closely and, perhaps, harass him.

Martin, nervous (wouldn’t you be?), turned to confront him.

(See LAW on page seven)

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The Obamacare search-and-destroy mission

by Dana Milbank

Watching House Republicans’ latest complaint about Obamacare brings to mind the joke Woody Allen used to open “Annie Hall,” about two elderly women at a Catskills resort.

“Boy, the food at this place is really terrible,” says one.

“Yeah, I know,” says the other. “And such small portions.”

Last week, the administration announced it was delaying by a year the implementation of one of Obamacare’s provisions, the requirement that large employers provide health insurance. You’d think the opposition party, which has spent four years denouncing the health-care reforms, would be delighted by the reprieve.

But on Wednesday, Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing to

condemn the administration for incomplete enforcement of the law they hate.

“This committee intends to get an explanation,” proclaimed Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Tex.), chairman of the subcommittee holding the hearing. “This committee has serious questions about how and why this alarming decision was made and the effect that delaying this key provision will have on other provisions of the law.”

It was kind of the chairman to show such thoughtful concern for a law he wants repealed.

And if Brady saw the delay as “alarming,” others were apoplectic. “Boy, I’ll tell you,” Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Tex.) said, beginning his remarks. “I hate to see a dictatorship come into this country, but it sure looks like that’s what’s happening with health care.”

“We see this as definitely something that leans toward

President Obama was called a dictator and a socialist for passing Obamacare.

Now he’s a dictator and a socialist for postponing it?

socialism,” proclaimed Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.).

President Obama was called a dictator and a socialist for passing Obamacare. Now he’s a dictator and a socialist for postponing it?

“The irony of objecting to the delay of a program you’ve been trying to stop is no doubt lost on this room,” observed Rep. Jim McDermott (Wash.), the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee.

It’s a safe bet that Republicans aren’t really concerned about the delay, which the administration said last week that it had granted at the request of employers and which was applauded by business groups. Rather, Republicans

used the delay as a chance to make the case, yet again, that the entire health-care law should be ditched. They are planning to vote soon on repealing the law - for the 38th time, give or take.

“This law is literally just unraveling before our eyes,” judged Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), the former vicepresidential candidate. “I don’t know how you can conclude that this is not a total fiasco.”

In an extended cobbler’s metaphor, he said Democrats wrote the law “on Christmas Eve and shoehorned that into law, which is what we have today, and so we see all these shoes dropping.”

Chairman Brady revealed his motives when he used his opening statement to cite polling on the law’s unpopularity. “Clearly, the rollout of Obamacare is in disarray,” he exulted.

This unqualified opposition is counterproductive for House

Republicans. On health care, as on immigration, their approach amounts to a search-and-destroy mission. They could work with Democrats to remove problematic pieces in the health-care law, and they could compromise with Democrats on legislation that would secure the borders.

But instead they are devoted to shutting down both.

Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wisc.) made the point when he asked the four witnesses called by the Republicans whether Obamacare should be fixed or repealed. The replies: “Repealing and replacing.”

“Repealing and replacing.”

“Repeal and replace.”

“Repeal it.”

“The major obstacle that the Affordable Care Act faces today is there’s so much opposition for political reasons alone to see that this thing fail, and not whether this is going to (See MISSION on page six)

Keystone pipeline will hike gas prices

by Tom Steyer

Watch out for those ‘helpful’ bankers

by Jim Hightower

The word “help” is so uplifting. It conveys our best humanitarian values. How odd, then, to see it used in this New York Times headline: “Banks’ Lobbyists Help in Drafting Financial Bills.”

I’ll bet they did!

We all know how altruistic, beneficent, and kindhearted Wall Street lobbyists are - when it comes to helping themselves.

The Times’ article explains that a small army of high-dollar influence peddlers are not merely asking our lawmakers to free big banks from pesky rules that limit their reckless greed. Instead, the lobbyists are helping to write the laws themselves.

There’s that word again. In

this case, “helping to write” is a euphemism for “dictating.”

Big-time bankers are turning members of Congress into obedient stenographers.

For example, one key bill that zipped out of the House Finance Committee in May is essentially a do-it-yourself lawmaking product of Citigroup. In a concise 85 lines, it exempts big chunks of dangerously high-risk Wall Street speculation from any bothersome regulation. More than 70 of those 85 lines were penned by Citigroup lobbyists with “help” from other banks.

The committee even copied two key paragraphs, word for word, from the language that Citigroup handed to the members.

This group of DIY bill-writers insists that nothing is amiss here - we’re not trying to gut the Wall Street reform package passed just three years ago, they say. We’re simply trying to reach “a compromise.”

I was born at night, but it wasn’t last night. The 2010 reforms were a compromise, and the American people would like to see them made much tougher, not weaker.

Wall Street, of course, feels entitled to snake inside, assume the role of lawmaker, and pervert the public will.

As one lobbyist puts it, “We will provide input if we see a bill we have interest in.” After all, it’s all about helping.

Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker and author

The last thing Americans, or the American economy needs, is another jump at the gas pump. A new report by Consumer Watchdog finds that’s what America will get if the president approves Keystone XL pipeline: a 25 cent to 40 cent gas price hike in the Midwest, and pain at the pump all the way to California.

Environmental security has rightfully been a rally cry of clean air advocates opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline, which poses tremendous environmental hazards from leaks of the oil itself to emissions of toxic additives on the line to greater carbon output in refining of tar sands oil.

New evidence shows economic security and energy security are equally important reasons for the president to oppose the pipeline.

Statements from pipeline developers reveal that the intent of the Keystone XL is not to help Americans, but to use America as an export line to markets in Asia and Europe. As Alberta’s energy minister Ken Hughes acknowledged, “It is a strategic imperative, it is in Alberta’s interest, in Canada’s interest, that we get access to tidewater . . . to diversify away from the single continental market and be part of the global market.”

Relatively cheap Canadian tar sands crude, which is more than half of the crude oil used in Midwest refineries, and increasingly the source of Western refiners, will get a lot more expensive if the XL pipeline developers have their ways.

Their articulated goal for the global market: raising the price per barrel of Canadian tar sand oil by $30, from $70 now charged to the $100 per barrel now commanded by Mexican Maya crude oil in the Gulf.

As a businessman, I can understand that profit motive. But what it means for U.S. drivers is higher gasoline prices. When crude prices go up, gasoline prices go up.

Why build the Keystone XL if it will hurt the consumer and the environment?

As reported in the Des Moines Register, in the Midwest, in particular, the 40 cent per gallon increase at the pump that the report identifies is going to do grave damage to the economy.

High gasoline prices ripple through the economy with devastating impact on economic activity - the price of everything goes up. Consumers pay the price not only at the gas pump, but in increased costs for the food they eat, the clothes they wear, their airfare, their electronics.

When fuel costs go up, the economy takes a big hit. This report shows that the risks from the Keystone XL are not just environmental, but economic, and they are dire.

Current events also put into question the alternatives to Keystone XL for anything other than an export pipeline. The Quebec crude oil train disaster on July 6 (50 dead, tremendous destruction) has strengthened opponents of rail transport, sharpening focus on Keystone XL. (See KEYSTONE on page six)

Big profits don’t make fracking less deadly Jacki Schilke was suffering from symptoms ranging from rashes, pain, and lightheadedness to dental problems and urinating blood. The formerly healthy, 53-year-old cattle rancher’s body was under assault from a list of toxic chemicals as long as your arm.

But Schilke’s lucky - so far - compared to five of her cows.

They died.

The rancher’s problems might become worse in time, since the chemicals causing her acute problems are also linked to chronic, deadly diseases like cancer.

What’s afflicting Schilke and her cows? The oil and gas drilling craze known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. As The Nation magazine and the Great Plains Examiner reported last

behind the headlines by Jill Richardson

year, Oasis Petroleum started fracking on land three miles from her ranch in 2010. Oasis got money, the world got more energy from the gas they drilled, and Schilke got sick. Now, she won’t even eat her own beef.

If the results of fracking were virtually unknown a decade ago, before it became a common practice in states like Pennsylvania and Schilke’s home of North Dakota, there’s no mystery remaining now.

It shouldn’t be a surprise.

After all, when you pump a cocktail of toxic chemicals into the ground to dislodge fossil

fuels, there’s a cocktail of toxic chemicals in the ground. And some of those toxins don’t stay put. They make their way into the water, the soil, and the air.

And the toxins flow from there into the living things that rely on the water: the soil, the air, plants, animals, and us.

We’re fracking our food.

Yet President Barack Obama is a big fracking supporter.

He called natural gas a form of “clean energy” in the big address on global warming he delivered in June, touting the nation’s production of more natural gas “than any other country on Earth.”

Then he said, “We should strengthen our position as the top natural gas producer because, in the medium term at least, it not only can pro-

vide safe, cheap power, but it can also help reduce our carbon emissions.”

Right. Compared to other forms of dirty energy, natural gas might reduce our carbon emissions. But at what cost?

If our only energy options were oil, coal and natural gas, we’d be in a rotten Catch-22.

Luckily, we have more choices than that. There are growing solar, wind, and geothermal options. Perhaps the most overlooked alternative is increasing efficiency.

I visited the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, two years ago. The school had made a big effort to reduce its energy use. In one building, I saw a hallway that used to have its lights turned on all the time.

The builders had never even installed switches to turn them off.

Decades ago, energy was “too cheap to meter.” It seemed cheaper to just leave the lights on all the time than to wire them to be turned off. That’s changed.

After some retrofitting, the lights can be turned off.

How many other buildings and homes have no light switches, insufficient insulation, or old, power-guzzling appliances?

How many are still being built without taking advantage of the most up-to-date methods that curb energy use?

Obama proudly spoke of doubling America’s use of solar and wind power in the last four years, with plans to double them yet again.

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Kochs trying to sell their vision of a better America Rich people often run for office or become sports owners or well-known spokesmen for their businesses.

It’s also comWestern mon for them to Skyline back candidates to

by Bob Campbell influence legislation affecting their finances, but few put beaucoup bucks into promoting their political philosophies and trying to reshape society to conform to their peculiar notions.

Kansas’ multi-billionaire Koch Brothers, Charles and David, are among those few, vilified by the left, lionized by the right and puzzling to much of the middle.

Conventional thought is that these true libertarian believers are merely boosting their profits at Koch Industries, but you don’t have to spend like they do to buy a gaggle of honking politicians.

Charles is in the news with a $200,000 ad buy to gauge support for his radical conservatism in Wichita, which he and his advisors are using as a test market for a possible national media campaign.

The elder Koch, 77, told the Wichita Eagle on July 9 that “to do a better job of raising up the disadvantaged and the poorest in this country, we need to analyze all these additional policies, these subsidies, this cronyism, this avalanche of regulations, all the things that are creating a culture of dependency.”

One needed change, he said, is to eliminate the minimum wage.

Libertarianism is an idealistic philosophy with a callous heart, holding, among other things, that there should also be no Social Security or Medicare and that, like novelist Ayn Rand’s self-interested protagonists, the richest and most talented people are the most heroic.

The Kochs are blowing millions on extreme right wing groups like the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, and I suspect that those whose livelihoods they’re enriching have perfected their ideological sales pitches to the brothers, who seem dismayed that having generally avoided the spotlight has not kept them from becoming controversial.

Their politicians could have told them that consultants and ad agencies see guys like them coming and that there is no end to campaigns to solve the problems created by prior activities.

Mitt Romney learned there is a threshhold to what you can do with TV ads, and the Kochs may one day see, after the ad men and political consultants get done taking them for a ride, that mainstream America has no use for their ideas.

Bob Campbell is a reporter and columnist for The Scott County Record. He can be reached at kansasnewz@att.net

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He’s right. We increased wind and solar energy from less than one percent of our energy in 2007 to less than two percent in 2011. (Meanwhile, our reliance on natural gas crept up from 28 percent to 30 percent of total energy consumption, and our total use of energy overall rose in those four years by 9.4 percent - with most of the increase coming from dirty sources.)

Fracking might be profitable, but whether it’s good for anything else is doubtful. Emissions during the fracking process outweigh any benefits of reduced emissions when the fuel obtained is burned. Besides, how does fracking American land make sense if it’s poisoning our food and water supply with chemicals that give us cancer?

Let’s solve our energy problems by increasing efficiency and by turning to truly clean sources of energy: renewable options like solar, wind, and geothermal power.

Jill Richardson is the author of Recipe for America: Why Our Food System Is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It

Keystone

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If pressure will mount against the tar sands crude being transported via rail to the Canadian coast for export, and if there will be no pipeline through West Canada, then the Keystone XL is the main line to markets in Asia and Europe for the cheap tar sands crude.

That means Americans will bear the risk of the pipeline and not see any reward. Why would the President of the United States of America want that?

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Florida considers eliminating all laws

by Andy Borowitz

Arguing that its current system of laws is out of step with life in today’s Florida, a growing chorus of lawmakers in the state are arguing for a measure that would eliminate laws altogether.

“Florida is rife with laws that say ‘Do this,

don’t do that,’ ” said Gov. Rick Scott, a supporter of the measure. “Speaking as a Floridian, I have found it exhausting pretending to obey them.”

There is broad support in the state for abolishing laws, according to a poll commissioned by the political action committee Citizens For a Lawless

Florida.

According to that poll, a majority of Floridians favor ridding the state of laws, while a sizable number did not know that the state had any.

“We’ve been trying to remove laws piecemeal for the past few decades, but this measure seems like the most efficient way

to take care of the whole problem,” Gov. Scott said.

For those who fear that eradicating Florida’s laws would wreak havoc on life in the state, Gov. Scott offered this reassurance: “Honestly, I don’t think you’ll notice a difference.”

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author

Modern agriculture taking over China

by John Schrock

“One Kansas farmer feeds 128 people and you,” reads a common Kansas road sign.

In China, that sign would read: “One Chinese peasant feeds you,” because the rural population constitutes nearly half of China. However, that proportion was much higher a half century ago, and the number of farmers is plummeting each year.

As I traveled the superhighway from the Xi’an airport to Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University for the seventh time since 2001, the countryside alongside the highway has changed. It was a patchwork of small family plots 12 years ago.

Today most of those plots are gone.

Graders have removed the pathway ridges between plots. Now, monocultures allow larger tractors and combines to run some distance. Where three generations used to work side-by-side after school, now no studentage children can be seen.

They come home from school and are sent inside to study the rest of the day.

Escape from the peasant life via hard study, passing the gao kao test, and going to university is their one-way route off of the farm.

Intensive farming of small plots has shifted to the older generation who will someday retire and

small plot farming will disappear. China could command an instant move to industrialized farming tomorrow, but that would leave many folks out of work.

China is moving at about the pace that the rural population is retiring and human dignity can be preserved.

But sometimes faster. I stood on the second story balcony of a brand new vacation-hotel-restaurant complex not yet open to the public. About a quarter mile away was an old village.

“That village will be gone next year,” my host explained.

“What will happen to the people living there?”

I asked.

“The young couples all left for the city long ago,” he explained. “All that are left are old farmers. They would make about 2000 yuan a year, so the government will give them that as a pension and they will live at the new housing you saw down the road, simple but modern.”

“What happens to their land?” I asked.

“The government owns it. When we built these hotels and restaurant, we pay rent,” was his reply.

“That is a lot more than what the farmer was producing. That is how the government here is financed.”

This is the American concept of “imminent

Socialism who may not be in business if not for crop insurance assistance and other benefits in past farm bills.

Abandoned farmsteads and vacant Main Street storefronts in many rural communities are testimony to the not-so-pleasant changes in American agriculture and the exodus of farm families.

If crop and insurance

help small businesses or help Americans throughout the country,” Kind said. “And that’s the real tragedy with these type of hearings.”

Replied Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) “Do we want to repeal this? You bet your life. Caught redhanded.” Roskam rejected

insult. “Nengmin” translates as “peasant” and in this word you begin to sense the derogatory nature of the term, like “hillbilly” or “hick.”

And sadly, some countryside folks believe they are inferior because they have little education and lack city manners.

It is not without basis.

Several weeks ago as I was waiting at a bus stop, a rural man urinated on a lamp post about six feet away. China is a spectrum, from 1930’s Depressionera Appalachia without electricity or plumbing, to the most modern cities in the world, where this would never have been tolerated.

Back in the college classroom, a student from the countryside told her story. Her rural parents left the farm to work hard in the city so that she could go to a better city school.

In her case, a Chinese high school teacher detected her country accent and railed at her that she did not deserve a city school and belonged back in the countryside.

This made the student very angry and resentful and she committed herself to studying even harder.

“And I am here at the university. I showed her!” she triumphantly tells her classmates, with tears in her eyes.

John Schrock trains biology teachers and lives in Emporia

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subsidies are needed in order to keep large, industrial farm operations from swallowing up smaller farmers, that’s a price we’re willing to pay.

But please, don’t say you don’t need government.

As a member of the Kansas Congressional delegation, or as a farmer, you can’t claim to stand

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domain” with Chinese characteristics.

And that is what makes this system work. It is an irony that in a country founded on a peasant revolt against landlords and indentured servitude, the government is now the big landlord. It pays the retired farmers and then generates far more land tax revenue.

Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich advocated constraining all building within current cities and suburbs, and I grieve to see so much rich Kansas farmland turned into housing.

Our zoning laws are a farce. China is far better at “building up, not out.”

They constrain their housing development - usually. I was standing on one such development that occupied good soil.

But usually, good effort is being made to save the rich farmland.

“So this is how county and state governments are funded across China?” I asked.

“No,” was the answer.

“Only where the agricultural soil is good. Many regions have to find other sources. And sometimes the government officials at local level do not run this program fairly and that causes trouble.”

I am careful when I speak the Chinese words for “countryside” (nengchuan) or “farmer” (nengmin). Some uses can be an

for free markets and fiscal responsibility while also waiting for your subsidy check to arrive in the mail any more than you can claim to hate socialism while cashing your Social Security check.

The farm bill isn’t perfect. For every dollar directed to those farmers most in need, there are countless others, includ-

ing some of the largest ag corporations in America, who also reap the benefits.

Congressmen on either side of the aisle aren’t going to change that.

It’s socialism at its best - or worst. To say otherwise is to deny the obvious.

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

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the idea “that somehow a desire to see something fail is somehow unjust.”

But Republicans don’t have much of a viable alternative. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor touted a bill this spring to help people with preexisting health problems get insurance, but

conservative opposition forced him to pull the bill from the floor.

In the case of the “employer mandate,” even a number of liberals agree that it’s a bad policy. Republicans could probably find support for repealing that provision, if they weren’t hellbent on

repealing the whole law.

But it’s so much more cathartic to call a hearing, assume a posture of umbrage, and use words such as “calamity” and “fiscal time bomb,” and “socialism” and “dictatorship.”

Dana Milbank is a Washington Post staff writer and author

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Syrup pack. A 30-percent syrup (1-3/4 cup sugar per four cups water) is recommended for most fruits. Lighter syrups are lower in caloric content and especially desirable for mild-flavored fruits, such as melons. Heavier syrups may be needed for very sour fruits. Allow 1/2 to 2/3 cup of syrup for each pint of fruit.

To pack fruit in syrup, pour 1/2 cup cold syrup into each container. Add fruit and cover with additional syrup, leaving sufficient headspace at top of container. Allow 1/2 inch of headspace for widetop pints, one inch for wide-top quarts, 3/4 inch for narrow-top pints and 1-1/2 inches for narrowDonald Kaul is a retired Washington columnist for The top quarts. Allow 1-1/2 Des Moines Register. He covered the capital for 29 years. inches of headspace for dkaul1@verizon.net juices packed in narrowtop containers, regardless of size.

Sugar pack. Place prepared, cut fruit in a bowl or shallow pan. Sprinkle sugar over the fruit. Mix gently with a large spoon until the sugar dissolves and juice is drawn out.

Pack in containers, allow-

Maybe Zimmerman accosted the young man, maybe he didn’t.

In any case, thinking he was acting in self-defense, Martin popped the bigger man, knocking him down, all the while yelling for help.

Zimmerman, panicked now, pulled out his gun and shot his assailant. Then he called the cops again.

I think that plays.

However, it’s no more than fiction, a work of the imagination. Were I a juror, I would not act on the assumptions I made there.

As a matter of fact, I would not vote for a guilty verdict on the charge of murder. By Florida law, the evidence did not prove “beyond the shadow of a doubt” that Zimmerman murdered Martin.

It’s a really stupid law.

Given the opportunity, I might vote for a manslaughter verdict (getting out of the car against expert advice puts him somewhat at blame for what happened later).

But the prosecution was so lame I doubt I’d get the opportunity.

As President Barack Obama pointed out, we are a nation of laws.

Justice has nothing to do with it.

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ing the headspace recommended for syrup-packed fruit. The amount of sugar is determined by which fruit you are using. I have a copy of the “So Easy to Preserve” book in the Extension office and would be happy to share.

Unsweetened pack.

Pack prepared fruit into containers without liquid or sweetening, or cover with water containing one teaspoon ascorbic acid per quart of water.

Nonnutritive sweeteners may be added to the water to provide sweetness. Fruit also may be sweetened at the time of serving.

Soft fruits may be packed in their own juice by crushing the fruit lightly to produce juice.

For firmer fruits, puree a small amount of the fruit to obtain enough juice to cover.

Pack foods tightly to cut down on the amount of air in the package.

Press out as much air as possible for fruits packed in bags. Allow 1/2 inch of headspace for fruits packed without juice or

liquid. For fruits packed in juice or liquid, allow headspace recommended for syrup packs.

Tray pack. Spread small, whole fruits, such as strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and sweet cherries, in a single layer on shallow trays and freeze. Remove and quickly package in labeled freezer bags or containers removing as much air as possible from containers and allowing no headspace. Seal and return promptly to freezer.

Go for quality when selecting fruits and vegetables. Fruit and vegetables should be ripe but not soft. If it is not good going in the freezer, it will not getting any better (just colder)!

Time matters, the quicker produce is frozen the better. Make sure you work in small batches (about two or three quarts) to help capture the freshness of the product. Select appropriate containers for freezing. There are a variety to choose from that include wide mouth jars, plastic containers, and

freezer bags.

It is also important to remove as much air from the containers before freezing, to prevent freezer burn. Do not over pack a freezer as it will slow the freezing process, resulting in a “mushy” finished product.

Ascorbic acid will prevent fruit from darking and can be purchased in tablets, or powder form usually where canning supplies are available, be sure to follow the directions for use. Fruits can be packed a variety of ways, with syrup, a sugar, artificial sweeteners or unsweetened.

The packing method depends mainly on preferences and any special dietary needs. Proper packing can help the fruit maintain a pleasing texture and taste.

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Harvest that policy would cost $62,000, she explained.

With a Sept. 30 purchase deadline, insurance may cover from 55 to 85 percent of a crop, although maximum coverage is too expensive for most growers, who typically buy 70- to 75-percent policies for wheat priced for insurance purposes at $8.78 per bushel this year.

“Most also plant some corn or milo,” Tubbs said.

“There haven’t been many soybeans or sunflowers in years. A man I know hates row crops, but his banker said, ‘You have to plant some milo to protect yourself.’”

Harmful Proposals Referring to an amendment offered by Wisconsin Rep. Ron Kind and narrowly defeated in a June 30 House vote, she said, “By decreasing the revenue product, the Kind Amendment would have hurt the Midwest and the rice people in California and Florida.

“CIPA and the farmers are talking about dropping counter-cyclical payments to keep crop insurance and subsidies,” Tubbs said, explaining

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that the ‘08 bill’s countercyclical payments have not been a factor in many years because prices have stayed well above the targets.

Covering 200 farmers in 10 counties at Platinum H Insurance, Scott City, Darrin Habiger said a policy this year for a 1,500acre farm averaging an APH of 20 and suffering a complete crop failure would return a grower who had paid $30,000 for 75-percent coverage about $260,000.

“He will take home $230,000, but after he pays for fuel, seed, fertilizer and chemicals, he will barely break even,” Habiger said. “You hope you keep your banker happy enough to get to the next crop year. We need a new Farm Bill, but with some of the changes they’re talking about, the ‘08 bill is better.

“If it’s up to the city guys, they’ll do away with it completely. Too many of them think their food comes from the grocery store.”

Kansas Association of Wheat Growers Governmental Affairs Director Dalton Henry,

Manhattan, said this “second or third year of extreme drought with no relief in sight” has wrought a forboding scene. “Farms in the western third of the state are looking at potentially the worst wheat crop in the last 45 years,” Henry said.

“For a lot of our members, this will make the worst crop in their lifetimes. Congress isn’t doing these farms any favors by continuing to delay action on a farm bill.”

Henry said each farm bill for the past 70 years has been merely a set of temporary amendments to the permanent legislation passed in the 1940s, which in turn based parity prices on consumer goods like milk on levels from 1910 to 1914.

“The current farm bill covers all crops in

the ground right now, so the growers will get their direct payments this fall,” he said.

“Crop insurance is permanently authorized, so they don’t have to worry about losing that. We have improvements in the insurance program in the draft legislation, but it will leave western Kansas incredibly exposed if it isn’t passed.

“The biggest weakness is eroding APHs. They’re paying the same money but getting less coverage.”

U.S. Farm Service Agency Program Technician Janell Ludowese, Scott City, said most of the FSA’s payments to Scott County landowners this year will be about $550,000 for the “few thousand acres” enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program.

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El Quartelejo Inn has been a huge boost to Scott City

There aren’t many “can’t miss” business opportunities.

The El Quartelejo Inn and Suites would fall into that category.

Five years after welcoming its first customers, the motel continues to demonstrate what a vital role it plays in the local business community.

“It’s exceeded our expectations,” says Avie Barmann who has been employed at the motel since its opening. She started behind the front desk before taking over as the manager in November 2011.

Not that there weren’t some pretty good expectations from day one.

For years, Scott City was in dire straits for a motel that would measure when it came to family reunions, business travelers, wedding parties, etc.

In addition, if the community entertained hopes of attracting a major event, one of the prerequisites was motel accommodations.

“Besides,” notes Barmann, “for people traveling on US83, there wasn’t a place they could stay between Oakley and Garden City.”

As a result, a number of local investors banded together and provided

El Quartlejo Inn and Suits manager Avie Barmann has been with the local motel since it opened five years ago.

(Record Photo) Breakdown of Motel Customers for 2013 56% Walk-in or on-line reservations 22.43% Return customers (mostly business) 18.55%

Business travelers

the money to build the 50-room facility on south US83 Highway.

The timing couldn’t have been better. Shortly after the motel was completed, wind farm construction began in neighboring Wichita County which provided a steady stream of customers. That was followed by construction of the new hospital and major renovation of the nursing home.

Typically, the busy season for the motel has been March through September when US83 sees the heaviest traffic from seasonal travelers. The Best Western name on the front of the motel is a big drawing card.

“That’s worth a lot.

People know what to expect,” Barmann says.

“Plus we’re held to a higher standard. We have people from the company

who are on site twice a year to make sure that we’re doing things exactly the way they want.”

While Barmann and her staff lacked any experience in managing a motel at the time they started, she feels that may have worked to their advantage.

“The Best Western people didn’t have to worry about breaking any bad habits, or dealing with people who thought they knew all there was about running a motel.

We were kind of ignorant about things when we started and that may have

been best. We’ve learned to do it the right way and we adapted quickly.”

In most years, the opening of pheasant hunting season in November also brings a huge influx of business, but that hasn’t been the case the last couple of years due to the drought.

“Last year we filled 32 rooms on the opening weekend,” Barmann says.

“We had nothing the next weekend.”

The local business community continues to be a key source of customers. The feedlot industry, veterinary sup-

pliers, feed and grain salesmen and others are reliable customers.

Barmann is also quick to credit the staff for the motel’s success.

“We have a very stable workforce and they take a lot of pride in this place. I think that’s evident when you look around at how well it’s kept,” says Barmann. “People will ask how old this place is and when I tell them five years they don’t believe me.

“I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished here and that we have a place the community can be proud of.”

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Livestock haulers granted rest-break exemption

Responding to concerns over animal welfare, the Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has granted livestock truckers a 90-day waiver from a rest-break provision included in new hours-of-service rules.

The new rules, which took effect on July 1, require drivers to take a 30-minute break during

the first eight hours of a shift, while also reducing the maximum average workweek for drivers from 82 hours to 70 hours.

FMCSA announced the new rules, which are intended to improve safety, back in December 2011, allowing trucking companies and drivers time to adjust their schedules. According to the agency, only the most extreme schedules will be

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department July 10: Clifford Miller was arrested on a warrant from another agency and transported to the LEC. July 15: A hit-and-run accident was reported in the Alco parking lot.

Scott Co. Sheriff’s Dept.

July 9: Alexis Chavez was operating a 2013 Kawasaki, southbound on West Scott Lake Drive, when he failed to negotiate the curve and left the roadway.

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., July 18, 2013; last published Thurs., July 25, 2013)2t REQUEST FOR ZONING CHANGE Notice is hereby given that the Scott City Planning Commission will hold a special meeting on August 8, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., at the Scott City Council Meeting Room at City Hall, 221 West 5th Street, Scott City, Kansas, to consider the following agenda items: 1. Application for amendment of the official zoning map

by Kirk and Shelli James to change the zoning from R-1 Residential to C-2 General Commercial District for the following described property to wit: Lots Eleven (11) and Twelve (12), Block Thirty-Five (35), Original Town (Southeast of Intersection of East 5th Street and South Washington Street) All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at such hearing.

Dated: July 17, 2013 Rodney Hogg, Chairman Scott City Planning Commission

Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., July 18, 2013)1t ORDINANCE NO. 1143 AN ORDINANCE ATTESTING TO AN INCREASE IN TAX REVENUES FOR BUDGET YEAR 2014 FOR THE CITY OF Scott City, Kansas.

WHEREAS, the City of Scott City must continue to provide services to protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of this community; and WHEREAS, the cost of providing essential services to the citizens of this city continues to increase.

NOW THEREFORE, be it ordained by the Governing Body of the City of Scott City: Section One. In accordance with state law, the City of Scott City has scheduled a public hearing and

has prepared the proposed budget necessary to fund city services from January 1, 2014 until December 31, 2014.

Section Two. After careful public deliberations, the governing body has determined that in order to maintain the public services that are essential for the citizens of this city, it will be necessary to budget property tax revenues in an amount exceeding the levy in the budget.

Section Three. This ordinance shall take effect after publication once in the official city newspaper.

Passed and approved by the Governing Body on this 15th day of July, 2013.

City of Scott City, Kansas Dan Goodman, Mayor Attest: Brenda K. Davis, MMC City Clerk

impacted, and more than 85 percent of the truck driving workforce will see no changes.

FMCSA estimates the new regulations will save 19 lives and prevent approximately 1,400 crashes and 560 injuries each year.

Livestock organizations however, expressed concerns over the 30-minute break requirement, believing it could increase

stress on animals, especially during the hot summer months.

In announcing the exemption, FMCSA notes that long-range weather forecasts call for hotterthan-average weather for much of the nation during July, August and September.

“The industry requested relief, and the Agency has determined that it is appropriate to grant a

Kansas roads rank second in the nation The Kansas state highway system is ranked as the nation’s second best in overall highway performance and efficiency in a report released by the Reason Foundation.

The annual report measures the condition and cost-effectiveness of state-owned roads in 11 categories, including pavement condition, deficient bridges, spending per mile and more.

“Kansas was able to achieve this performance while spending 24 percent less than the U.S. average in per-mile disbursements,” the report states.

The report’s rankings are based on data that states reported to the federal government for 2009, the most recent year with full spending statistics available.

Kansas has consistently scored well in the Reason report, having been ranked number three

in the nation in both 2008 and 2007.

“Kansans have long supported transportation improvements not only to highways, but to the entire transportation network that includes aviation, rail and transit,” said Kansas Transportation Secretary Mike King.

The current transportation program T-WORKS, passed in 2010, is the state’s third transportation program approved

by Kansas legislators and governors since the late 1980s. In 2010, Kansas highways were ranked the nation’s best in a report published in Reader’s Digest magazine.

“The T-WORKS program will address 100 percent of the state highway preservation needs over a 10-year period so we will continue to have a world-class transportation system in Kansas,” Secretary King said.

Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., July 18, 2013)1t PUBLIC NOTICE: Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to build a 295-foot self-support Communications Tower. Anticipated lighting application is medium intensity dual red/white strobes. The site location is East Finney-Scott Line Road, Scott City, Scott County, KS 67871 (N 38° 15’ 55.367” / W -100° 53’ 9.867”). The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Antenna Structure Registration (ASR, Form 854) filing number is A0842872.

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS – Interested persons may review the application (www.fcc.gov/asr/applcations) by entering the filing number. Environmental concerns may be raised by filing a Request for Environmental Review (www. fcc.gov/asr/environmentalrequest) and online filings are strongly encouraged. The mailing address to file a paper copy is: FCC Requests for Environmental Review, Attn: Ramon Williams, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, D.C. 20554.

limited 90-day waiver for this period to ensure the well-being of the nation’s livestock during interstate transportation,” according to a statement from the FMCSA. Livestock organizations are pleased with the temporary exemption, and likely will push to make it permanent.

“This decision will help ensure the continued humane treatment and

welfare of livestock while traveling on the nation’s highways,” says National Pork Producers Council president Randy Spronk.

“By granting the 90-day waiver, the FMCSA will ensure that during hot summer months livestock won’t be sitting in the sun for extended periods, with drivers unable to care for them because they’re required to take a 30-minute break.”

Permits required for ROW hay harvesting Hay harvesting on the right-of-way along state and federal highways without a permit is illegal and is trespassing, according to the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT).

Haying permit applications are available at KDOT district and area offices and are good for one year or a specific haying season. From April 1 to the end of each year, permits to harvest are issued in the order in

which they are received.

Interested persons can contact the district office in Garden City (620-2763241) Permits can be canceled at any time by either party and all operations shall be in accord with requirements and guidelines set by KDOT. For additional information, contact the local KDOT office or the Bureau of Construction and Maintenance in Topeka at (785) 296-3576.

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NOTICE OF 2014 BUDGET HEARING

The governing body of the City of Scott City will meet on Aug. 5, 2013, at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall for the purpose of hearing and answering objections of taxpayers relating to the proposed use of all funds and the amount of ad valorem tax to be levied.

Detailed budget information is available at City Hall, 221 W. 5th, Scott City, and will be available at this hearing.

BUDGET SUMMARY Proposed budget 2014 expenditures and amount of 2013 ad valorem tax establish the maximum limits of the 2014 budget.

The estimated tax rate is subject to change depending on the final assessed valuation.

2012 Prior year Expenditures

Fund General

2013

Proposed Budget 2014

Actual Tax Current Year Est. Actual Tax of Expenditures Rate* Rate*

Expenditures

52.817

3,240,500

57.275

4,098,676

1,192,385

54.394

Airport Sinking

123,686

2.582

679,970

2.500

666,000

45,400

2.071

Employee Benefit

198,210

10.246

211,500

6.068

238,500

184,954

8.437

1.854

539,000

35,013

1.597

1,457,752

66.499

Fire Equipment

1.919

Special Highway

160,351

165,000

262,391

(Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., July 18, 2013) 1t

Sewer

127,032

224,100

489,325

Airport Enterprise

16,201

11,800

28,011

2,509

8,232

13,847

397,836

522,900

2,356,202

COUNTY HEALTH FUND SALARIES .............................................

COMMODITIES .....................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES .................

CAPITAL OUTLAY .................................

OTHER...................................................

14,368.08 13,159.54 1,103.16 0.00 0.00

NOXIOUS WEED FUND SALARIES...............................................

COMMODITIES ......................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES...................

OTHER ...................................................

4,879.88 16,603.16 34.93 0.00

ROAD AND BRIDGE FUND SALARIES ..............................................

COMMODITIES.......................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES....................

CAPITAL OUTLAY....................................

24,378.36 41,241.42 6,866.33 11,000.00

FIRE DISTRICT FUND SALARIES ..............................................

COMMODITIES ......................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES....................

CAPITAL OUTLAY ..................................

389.28 22.03 4,658.42 0.00

TREASURER’S SPECIAL FUND SALARIES ...............................................

COMMODITIES .......................................

CONTRACTUAL SERVICES ....................

CAPITAL OUTLAY.....................................

OTHER .....................................................

JAMES M. MINNIX Chairman

3,834.75 0.00 306.30 0.00 365.50

PAMELA J. FAUROT Scott County Clerk

Special Parks Water Municipal Equipment

54,260

Transient Guest Tax

63,990

Non-Budgeted Funds

3,224,657

City Totals

7,089,161

Less: Transfers

87,206 99,500 67.564

5,163,502

NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING

The governing body of Wet Walnut Creek Watershed Joint District No. 58 • Rush County will meet on August 6, 2013, at 7:30 p.m., at the district office, for the purpose of hearing and answering objections of taxpayers relating to the proposed use of all funds and the amount of ad valorem tax to be levied.

Detailed budget information is available at 300 West Highway 4, LaCrosse, Ks., and will be available at this hearing.

BUDGET SUMMARY Proposed Budget 2014 Expenditures and Amount of 2013 Ad Valorem Tax establish the maximum limits of the 2014 budget. Estimated Tax Rate* is subject to change depending on the final assessed valuation.

6,969,161

5,068,502

Total Tax Levied

1,288,076

1,342,492

Assessed Valuation

19,065,093

19,831,741

21,921,404

Jan. 1, Outstanding Indebtedness

2011

2012

2013

G.O. Bonds

820,000

610,000

0

Other

839,300

793,100

3,745,800

58,055

104,609

96,067

1,507,355

897,709

3,841,867

Lease Pur. Princ.

TOTAL

Fund General

Totals

Scott City Clerk

(Published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., July 18, 2013)1t

NOTICE OF 2013 BUDGET HEARING

The governing body of the County of Scott will meet on August 6, 2013, at 3:00 p.m. at the Scott County Courthouse for the purpose of hearing and answering objections of taxpayers relating to the proposed use of all funds and the amount of ad valorem tax to be levied.

Detailed budget information is available at the Scott County Clerk’s office and will be available at this hearing.

BUDGET SUMMARY Proposed budget 2014 expenditures and amount of 2013 ad valorem tax establish the maximum limits of the 2014 budget.

The estimated tax rate is subject to change depending on the final assessed valuation.

Expenditures

General

3,636,769

24.810

4,171,182

28.643

4,362,570

Debt Service

1,516,828

7.308

1,535,787

7.055

3,340,879

635,258

7.055

Road and Bridge

1,603,438

12.387

1,574,219

1,107,069

12.294

Fund

767,680

10.557

1,142,666

8.632

1,383,067

800,499

8.890

County Health

283,774

1.159

308,368

1.058

442,489

103,535

1.150

Home Health Agency

76,700

0.822

84,004

0.805

91,391

86,567

0.961

Hospital Maintenance

460,200

4.866

303,442

2.758

304,659

289,835

3.219

Library Maintenance

266,443

3.000

296,409

3.000

409,154

270,143

3.000

Noxious Weed

107,639

0.796

101,710

0.786

119,975

94,906

1.054

5,790,089

64.301

Alcohol Programs Public Building

1,200

1,202

4,224

419,524

460,978

741,048

Special Parks/Rec

1

Non-Budgeted Funds D

5,221,049

559,700

1,531,713

Total Tax Levied

432,690

491,025

Assessed Valuation 129,181,204

146,793,268

147,460,139

2012

2013

2011

G.O. Bonds Revenue Bonds

COUNTY TOTALS

15,138,019

Net Expenditures

0

0

*Tax rates are expressed in mills.

Barb Misedagis Clerk

0

12,773,675

14,442,131

9,779,186

12,251,675

5,868,991

6,399,716

87,434,758

98,277,479

2011

90,048,760

2012

2013

25,235,000

25,105,000

24,715,000

9,677,476

8,991,743

8,337,875

34,912,476

34,096,743

33,052,875

Lease Purch. Prin.

2012

Other District Funds

65.124

522,000

Jan. 1 Outstanding Indebtedness

TOTAL

10,009,186 230,000

Total Tax Levied Assessed Valuation

67.098

695,888

Less: Transfers

G.O. Bonds

Lease Pur. Princ.

26.678

1,580,388

843,013

374,166

2,402,277

Est. Tax Rate*

Employee Benefits

421,166 3.350 606,700 3.345 999,195 493,260 3.345

Net Expenditures

Amount of 2013 Ad Valorem Tax

13.780

20,852

310,495

TOTAL

Actual Tax Rate*

Non-Budgeted Funds C

47,000

Jan. 1, Outstanding Indebtedness

Current Year Est. of Expenditures

182,801

47,000

Proposed Budget 2014

Actual Tax Rate*

Non-Budgeted Funds B

Less Transfers

2013

Prior Year Actual Expenditures

596,172

421,166 3.350 606,700 3.345 1,842,208 493,260 3.345

8,920,512

Brenda Davis

Non-Budgeted Funds A

Structure Maintenance

0

*Tax rates are expressed in mills

Actual Tax Rate*

Amount of 2013 Ad Valorem Tax

8,920,512

Net Expenditure

Budget Authority (includes carryover)

2013

67.697

95,000

Proposed Budget 2014

2012

Prior Year Actual Current Year Actual Est. of Actual Tax Rate* Tax Rate* Expenditures Expenditures

141,354

120,000

2012 (Published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., July 18, 2013)1t

Est. Tax Rate*

2,720,429

Public Notice SCOTT COUNTY COMMISSIONER’S PROCEEDINGS JUNE 2013 GENERAL FUND SALARIES ............................................ $ 75,335.67 COMMODITIES ....................................

3,161.28 CONTRACTUAL SERVICES .................

43,591.50 CAPITAL OUTLAY..................................

675.00 OTHER...................................................

1,133.58

Amount of 2013 Ad Valorem Tax

2013

Proposed Budget 2014

Prior Year Actual Expenditures

Actual Tax Rate*

Current Year Est. of Expenditures

Actual Tax Rate*

Expenditures

Amount of 2012 Ad Valorem Tax

Rural Fire District

42,633

0.839

42,904

1.082

146,000

73,700

Total Tax Levied

58,381

84,833

68,369,665

78,445,738

Assessed Valuation

Est. Tax Rate* 1.082

68,127,356

*Tax rates are expressed in mills

Pamela J. Faurot Scott County Clerk

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Why your doctor may still have paper records Uncle Sam wants your doctor to go digital. And the federal government is backing up that goal by offering money to practices if they start using digital records systems.

Nearly half of all physicians in America still rely on paper records for most patient care, and time is running out to take advantage of the government incentive payments. So practices like Colorado Springs Internal Medicine are scrambling to get with the program.

Nearly 200 patients will cycle through the office on any given day. Doctors and staff pop in and out of

exam rooms and offices constantly, carrying big stacks of manila folders holding patient charts.

Just behind the front desk, Dr. Jay Kinsman stands at the practice’s information nerve center.

“There’ll be probably 500 pieces of paper come in on the fax, two times, three times a day,” he chuckles. “If that goes down we might as well close.”

He is only half-joking.

They have a back-up fax machine just in case.

About a year ago the practice decided it’s time to switch to an electronic

health record system, or EHR, and Kinsman took charge of shopping for the right one. He quickly felt overwhelmed.

“Do we really need 250 different EHRs, and 30 fairly widely used ones and 15 really big ones?” he asks. “Could we get by with one? Would we do better with just one product?”

Actually, there’s closer to a thousand products out there. The market exploded when the federal government started offering doctors incentive payments to buy them. The government also said that those who don’t go digital

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will face payment penalties in the future.

Not every doctor in the practice is equally enthusiastic about switching to electronic records. Dr. Mike Spangler has been practicing medicine for 40 years. He’s not convinced that going digital is going to improve things.

“It’s going to take a lot of time, it’s going to decrease productivity,” he says. “And it’s going to be very expensive. So, it means kind of three strikes against it and not as many strikes for it.”

There are also decisions about computer hardware (See RECORDS on page 13)

BC/BS foundation offers health grants to schools A foundation is offering grants of up to $1,000 for Kansas schools to help implement student health programs.

Officials with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation announced today that they plan to award some 150 grants in 2013. The grants are intended to promote healthy eating habits, increase physical activity or otherwise reduce the risk of cardiovascular illness.

“Reaching children where they spend the majority of their waking hours seems like the perfect way to make a significant impact in the lives of Kansas children,” said Marlou Wegener, chief operating officer for the foundation. “The Foundation’s board of directors recognizes curbing childhood obesity now will translate into healthy adults later, saving health care dollars for all Kansans.”

The program was started seven years ago and has awarded 600 grants totaling more than $573,000. Foundation officials said last year virtually all $150,000 earmarked for the program was distributed to Kansas schools.

(See GRANTS on page 13)

Study: electronic health records have cut costs Alvin Tran Kansas Health News

The adoption of electronic health records by community doctors helped drive down health costs, according to a study published this week

in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Previous studies, many dealing with academic teaching hospitals, have yielded mixed results about the effects electronic health records (EHRs) have had and have drawn

concerns over the adoption of health information technology.

Federal officials are encouraging the implementation of such systems, arguing that it will help curb the rise in health spending by eliminating

Several states ahead of the curve on health exchanges Most states that have chosen to run their own health insurance marketplaces or exchanges will be running ahead of schedule in the offerings and information they will provide their consumers and small businesses, according to a new study.

The report, done by researchers at Georgetown University, looked at the 17 states and the District of Columbia that have opted to run their own exchanges. (Kansas officials opted to have the federal government run the Kansas exchange.)

They concluded con-

sumers in those states “will likely have a greater ability to make informed choices regarding their coverage as well as more information about plan quality than what current federal regulations require.”

The insurance marketplaces, which are scheduled to begin enrollments Oct. 1 for coverage that starts Jan. 1, 2014, are intended to remedy some shortcomings of the current individual and smallbusiness health insurance markets, including high premiums, lack of choice and inadequate coverage.

Poll shows Kansans prefer smoke-free air Celebrating the third anniversary of the Kansas Clean Air Act, the Sunflower Foundation also noted the findings of a statewide poll showing nearly 80 percent of Kansas voters favor the law which prohibits smoking in most public places, including workplaces, public buildings, offices, restaurants and bars.

“Kansans simply believe this is good public policy, and they overwhelmingly favor this law,” said Linda DeCoursey, executive director, Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition.

Released earlier this year, the public opinion poll also showed that nearly nine out of 10 Kansas voters believe the law protects customers and employees at restaurants and bars from the dangers of secondhand smoke, and that more than eight out of 10 say they

enjoy going to restaurants and bars “without smelling like cigarette smoke” when they get home.

In January, the Kansas Health Institute released a separate analysis that showed the smokefree law did not lead to decreased overall sales at Kansas restaurants and bars or a reduction in the number of businesses that sell liquor.

“Those of us involved from several years ago know how difficult this was at the time so it’s really gratifying to see that it’s such a widely popular policy now especially across so many different groups of Kansans,” said Charlie Claycomb, past Chairman of Tobacco Free Wichita.

“People understand that it protects the health of Kansans, and mostly it seems that they appreciate a smoke-free environment in public places.”

The report found that nine of the 17 states plan to display data on quality in their marketplaces in 2014, two years earlier than the federal government requires.

And in almost all the states, Small Business Health Options (SHOP) marketplaces will enable companies to offer workers a choice of more than one plan, something not required until 2015.

Also, eight states and the District of Columbia have adopted rules that require or provide incentives for insurers to offer plans in the marketplaces.

duplication of services and medical errors.

This study, however, is the largest to assess the impact EHRs have in community-based settings, including in private practices and community hospital care.

In the study, researchers analyzed and compared insurance claims data for patient care at three Massachusetts communities that adopted EHRs to six that did not.

They found that outpatient spending did not rise

as fast in the communities that adopted EHRs as it did in the other six. The difference in cost-growth between the two groups was about three percent.

“There’s a lot of anecdotal concern that EHRs (See COSTS on page 13)

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Moran fails to block parts of health reform law Democrats on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee rejected several attempts last week

by Sen. Jerry Moran to block implementation of key parts of the federal health reform law.

Moran, a Republican, attempted to rescind funding needed by the Department of Health and Human Services to establish new online insurance marketplaces in every state and implement coverage mandates in the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.

Three of the four amendments that Moran offered were defeated on party-line votes. The fourth was lost on a tie vote.

The first of Moran’s amendments would have prohibited HHS from spending any money to implement or enforce the requirement that large employers offer health insurance to their workers.

He said the prohibition was needed even though the Obama administration announced last week that it intended to delay enforcement of the requirement - which only applies to employers with more than 50 workers - so that it could work with businesses to address their concerns.

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said Moran’s amendment would prevent the administration

Costs are going to drive up the cost of health care. The fact that we didn’t find that is good news,” said Julia Adler-Milstein, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and the study’s lead author.

The researchers, who analyzed insurance claims data from January 2005 to June 2009, found significant savings in outpatient radiology testing.

Adler-Milstein and her colleagues, however, did not find any significant

Individual Mandate Moran also attempted to block implementation and enforcement of the individual mandate, which requires virtually all Americans to purchase health coverage or pay a penalty. He said the administration’s delay of the employer mandate could leave many individuals uncertain about their coverage options.

“In fact there may be an increased number who

will not have coverage as a result of that delay,” Moran said.

To make his proposal to rescind $1.4 billion needed to establish the online insurance marketplaces more difficult for Democrats to vote against, Moran proposed to transfer the money to the National Institutes of Health to fund more medical research.

But Democrats on the committee said as much as they would like to give NIH a bigger funding increase, taking money needed to set up the marketplaces - or exchanges - was not the way to do it.

“That’s the choice you give us. It’s not a good

savings relating to outpatient pharmacy or laboratory care, inpatient care and the total cost of care.

“It is significant because we’re looking to control the cost of delivering health care in our country. It’s a huge issue for companies, the government, and individuals.

Anything that can help control the cost is going to be a good thing,” said Dr. Glen Stream, the board chair for the American Academy of Family Physicians.

He added, however, that the savings from

adopting electronic health records may have been even greater if researchers were to analyze more recent insurance claims.

Adler-Milstein and her colleagues plan to do just that to get a better assessment. The researchers looked at data on how EHRs affected these practices’ costs only up to 18 months after implementation of them, she said.

“We don’t know if it continued to perform in that way,” Adler-Milstein said, but she suspects the savings will continue.

Chantal Worzala, the director of policy at the American Hospital Association, added that the study showed three important aspects to making digital health records more cost efficient: financial assistance for the health care providers to buy and set up the systems, technical support to help implementation of them, and an efficient infrastructure for data exchange.

“When you have all of those things, we’re getting some positive results,” she added.

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to do it. If we could all keep positive and just get through it and learn it, I think we’ll be OK,” she says.

Margret Amatayakul, a consultant who’s written about digital health records, says the experience leaves a lot of doctors frustrated.

“Especially when people are finding that they

bought a product and now are not happy with it. It wouldn’t surprise me if there would be two or three times a replacement process before things settle down for any given practice,” she says.

The message from the federal government is much more upbeat. It says American medicine

choice,” said Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin.

Supporters of the reform law say the exchanges are essential to efforts to extend coverage to the uninsured and others who struggle to afford it. That’s because the only way to qualify for federal subsidies is to purchase coverage through an exchange.

Another amendment to block implementation of the exchanges was also defeated.

Cost Containment The Individual Payment Advisory Board has long been a target of Republicans. It is responsible for keeping Medicare spending in check to off-

Grants

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Records - laptops or tablets in the exam room? Host the system on their own server, or in the cloud? Hire an IT specialist, or outsource it?

Vexing as all that is, the practice’s business manager, Vicky Bonato, says it’s probably not even their biggest challenge.

“Having everybody have a positive attitude

from using the yearlong delay to work through those issues.

“The administration wants to work with businesses over the next year to figure out how to do this right,” Harkin said.

is making great progress towards reaping the benefits of the digital age. The White House says more than half of U.S. doctors are now using electronic records in a meaningful way, and the Obama administration’s head of health information technology says digital records will transform the practice of medicine.

set other cost increases in the law.

Calling the board “one of the more onerous, damaging and dangerous” parts of the law because its recommendations could lead to the rationing of care, Moran tried to rescind all of its $15 million appropriation.

Harkin objected to Moran’s characterization of the board. He said in addition to a long list of patient protections, the law gives Congress the authority to block any cost-saving recommendations that it believes could negatively affect the care provided to seniors and disabled Americans served by Medicare.

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Wegener said school personnel have used the grant money to purchase, among other things: •nutritional and wellness curriculum, •healthy snacks, •pedometers for walking programs, •heart rate monitors for physical education classes, •health fairs, •playground equipment, and •to purchase Nintendo Wii game systems to keep children active when inclement weather keeps them inside for recess.

Grants are limited to one per school per grant cycle.

Applications are due Oct. 10. More information and grant applications are available at bcbsks.com/ foundation.

The Scott County Record • Page 14 • Thursday, July 18, 2013

Pastime at Park Lane Church services at Park Lane were held by Kim Smith and Doris Riner, On Monday afternoon residents played pitch and dominoes. Helping with the games were Dorothy King, Hugh McDaniel, Joy Barnett, Madeline Murphy and Mandy Barnett.

Wii bowling was played on Monday evening.

Bible study was led by Marilyn Ramsey on Tuesday. Doris Riner played the piano and Elsie Nagle sang.

On Tuesday evening the residents played trivia.

Wednesday afternoon bingo helpers were Madeline Murphy, Barbara Dickhut, Mary Ann Spangler and Emogene Harp.

Helping with card games on Wednesday evening was Madeline Murphy.

On Thursday Elsie Nagle gave the ladies manicures.

On Thursday evening Sier Vigil held a Bible study class.

Catholic mass was held on Friday morning.

Park Lane was saddened by the passing of Neoma Martindale on July 12. She had been a

Residents take part in craft day

Craft day was hosted by the Immanuel Southern Baptist Church on Tuesday with the residents making a patriotic octopus.

Helping with the crafts were Joy Barnett, Jennifer Murphy, Mandy Barnett, Bev Nuckolls, Jaiden Lane, Kassidy Mehl, Eli Mack-Lane and Chelsie Eitel. Donna Eitel furnished the cookies.

‘Over 50 Chorus’ performs

The “Over 50 Chorus” performed on Thursday afternoon.

Chorus members were Dorothy Milburn, Madeline Murphy, Darlene Snyder, Arlene Cauthon, Gladys Soodsma, Betty Mast and Dora Mae Bowman. Mona Spangler furnished cookies.

Park Lane resident for 2-1/2 years.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Treva McCandless, Arlene Cauthon, Dorothy Koehn, Verna Mae Koehn, Larry and Gloria Wright, Margie Stevens; Josh, Jenny and Kylie Wright; and Larry and Philene Pickett.

James Still was visited

by Tina Turley.

Mildred Van Pelt was visited by David Van Pelt, Treva McCandless and Arlene Cauthon.

Geraldine Graves was visited by Howard Sheley, Megan Dirks, Marilyn Waters, Phyllis Trembley, Darrel and Diane Dirks, and Fritzi Rauch.

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Deaths Larry Frederick Minor Larry Frederick Minor, 75, Leoti, died July 12, 2013, at Trinity Manor Nursing Home, Dodge City.

H e was born Sept. 30, 1937, at Leoti, the son of Ernst and Eva Larry Minor Marie (Campbell) Minor.

He graduated from Leoti High School in 1956 and from Sacramento Junior College in 1958. He attended Emporia University from 1959-60, going to Kansas State Teachers College, also in Emporia, and earning a master’s degree in librarianship in 1968.

He enlisted in the California National Guard in October of 1960 at Ft. Ord, Calif., and was dis-

charged in October of 1966.

He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, Leoti.

Survivors include: three sisters, Margaret Turner, Scott City, Theda Ball, Norton, and Lois Phillis, Hutchinson; and one brother, Gordon, Stilwell, Okla.

He was preceded in death by his parents, seven brothers and two sisters.

Graveside service was held July 16 at the Leoti Cemetery with the Rev. Bob Everest presiding.

Memorials may be sent to Trinity Manor Nursing Home, Dodge City, in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 202 N. 4th, Leoti, Ks. 67861.

E-condolences may be given at www.priceandsons.com.

Greg Biernacki Greg Biernacki, 59, Garden City, died July 12, 2013, at St. Catherine Hospital, Garden City.

He was born May 18, 1954, at Garden City, the son of Fred and Edna (Wright) Biernacki.

A 1973 graduate of Garden City High School, he worked 23 years for Post & Brown Well Service which later became Post & Mastin Well Service. In 2000, he and John Huber formed BHS Pumping, LLC, which he has owned and operated since.

On March 29, 1973, he married Diana Smith at Garden City. She survives.

Other survivors include: one daughter, Sherlyn “Sheri” Biernacki, Overland Park; two sons, Jason, Lakin, and Justin, Garden City; his father,

Edith Norman was visited by Sue Riner, Sara Shane, Jane Ann McClellan, Rogene Gutshall, Jay Norman, Doris Riner and Kim Smith.

Pat Lewis was visited

by Ronda Skibbe, Elsie Nagel, Pete Steffens, Kim Smith, Herb Graves, Darlen Snyder, Trisha Baker, Fritzie Rauch and Mary Torson.

Maxine Binns was visited by Arlene Cauthon and Margie Stevens.

Ruby Latham was visited by Cody Nagle, Jordan Reynolds, Elsie Nagle, Bonnie Stewart, Anthony Ivey, Betty and Jim Bailey, Shylo McCulloch and Elizabeth Thoe.

Kathy McKellips was visited by Ronda Skibbe, Pat Percival, and Dave and Val Duff.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Ann Crane, Mark Fouquet, Fritzi Rauch, Pam Appel, Lil Fransisco, Timothy Fouquet and Verene Dearden.

Jim Jeffery was visited

by Wade Jeffery, Libbie Joles and Hugh McDaniel.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Jackie John, Bill and Kandi John, Camdone Ludowese, Kashlyn Ludowese and Fritzie Rauch.

Delores Brooks was visited by Linda Stroble, Frank Rohrbough, Charels Brooks, Vera Buffington, Cheryl Perry and Lucille Dirks.

Hilda Gruver was visited by Tina Turley.

Joyce Bohnert was visited by Alan and Glenda Graham, Kale and Olivia Graham, and Tina Turley.

Mike Kitch was visited

by Charlen Becht, Cris Gorman, George Andrasak, Sharilyn Wilkens, and Don and Judy Browning.

Bruce Scott was visited by George Andrasek, Margie Stevens, Marvel Keyes and Norman Keyes.

Chadron, Nebr.; four brothers, Phillip, Chadron, Nebr., Francis, Bamberg, S.C., Michael, Garden City, and Nicholas, Holcomb; three sisters, Rosemary Blanco, Chadron, Nebr., Mary Shipley, Seaside, Ore., and Jackie Dunne, Battle Ground, Wash.; and five grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his mother; and one sister, Veronica Biernacki.

Memorial service was held July 18 at Garnand Funeral Home, Garden City.

Memorials may be sent to the Greg Biernacki Memorial Fund in care of Garnand Funeral Home, 412 N. 7th, Garden City, Ks. 67846.

E-condolences may be given at www.garnandfh@sbcglobal.net.

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Judy Redburn was visited Mary Torson, Carol Ellis, Jacqueline Huetta, Tina Turley, Debbie Holland Bush, Jim Cooley and Wendy Derstine.

Vivian Sharpe was visited by Harry Sharpe.

Pat Palen was visited

by Florence Daubert, Arlene Cauthon, Jack and Sherry Rapier, Tina Turley, Pete Steffens, Lila Carson, Linda Dunagan, Alisa Moore, Doris Riner and Sharilyn Wilkens.

Cecile Billings was visited by Thurman and Delinda Dunagan, Ann Beaton, Linda Dunagan; Ken, Pattie and Mandy Billings; Dona and Judy Browning, and Hayden Wiechman.

Mike Leach was visited

by Linda Dunagan and the Rev. Don Martin.

Ruth Holland was visited by Charlene Becht.

Mary Alice King was visited by Sharilyn Wilkens.

Jimmy Dunkel was visited by Mona Spangler, Allen Osborn and Roy Dinkel.

Herb Graves was visited by Jasmine Laos, Tina Turley, Pete Steffens, Celine Chavez, Janessa Lowenthal and Inday Lehman.

Ann Tedford was visited by Arlen Cauthon and Elsie Nagle.

Darlene Richman was visited by Mike Deschner, Pat Sheley, Tina Turley, Phebe Unruh and Linda Dunagan.

Earl Gorman was visited by Jane McBroom.

Pete Steffens, Charlene Becht, Loretta Gorman, Chris Gorman, Kristi Gorman, Jaden Gorman, Grace Gorman and Josiah Gorman.

Rod and Kathy Haxton were visitors of their mother, Boots Haxton.

Jake Leatherman was visited by Ken and Karen Hoover, Rod Leatherman, Jeanette and John Crump, Gaby Chance, Danielle Hutton, and Floyd and Viviane Dirks.

Lula Dirks was visited

by Darla Luebbers, Willetta Payne, Lucille Dirks, and Floyd and Vivian Dirks.

Harold and Ruth White were visited by Joy Barton, Pete Steffens and Travis Jones.

Lorena Turley was visted by Neta Wheeler, Rex Turley, Arlene Cauthon and Tracy Hess.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Larry and Sharon Lock.

The Scott County Record • Page 15 • Thursday, July 18, 2013

Park Place People

by Doris Riner

The last couple of weeks have kept us busy celebrating birthdays. We’re not complaining, the more the merrier!

I wrote about Pat Palen’s birthday last week, then came Betty Ohneck’s. Her daughter had a party for her on Tuesday morning.

Another big event (I guess) that took place last week is that the pool table was overhauled. Now neither Joe nor Clif can blame the other for their failure to win a game.

Did you Record readers notice Lela Bishop’s grandchildren and Asher Huck’s picture in the paper and read the article about the SCHS rodeo kids making it to the high school NATIONAL Rodeo?

Jack Rapier told me he had coffee downtown and Larry Huck, (grandpa) was there. I asked Jack if Larry and Gwen were going to Wyoming to watch to see if Asher and the others made it to the Finals. Jack said over and over again, that they wouldn’t miss it for anything. Besides Galen and Mary Kay live in Cheyenne.

Lou Pfanenstiel enjoyed a visit, even though it was a short one, from Don and Elaine Webb of Kansas City. Lou introduced me to them and they told me they used to live in Ashland. That is almost home to me, but like they said Ashland and Protection schools were bitter enemies.

Later in the week another birthday was celebrated. It was Phyllis Thon’s. Her good friend of many years, Karen Hoover, brought a large, decorated cake and it was so delicious that almost all of us had two pieces - even the weight watchers.

And the cake, Karen decorated herself, was unusual. She had white icing, sliced large strawberries to make red stripes and blueberries to form stars and thus a large, beautiful American flag. I want to tell you more about Phyllis’s birthday so I’ll say, continued next week.

Attend the Church of Your Choice

It is what it is “Take it easy”, I said to Sam as I walked away from a completed business transaction. “I guess I’ll take it however it comes,” he replied.

Sam’s words have come back to me many times since then. Sam made his living collecting and selling scrap iron. He was laid back and the closest example of unpretentiousness I have ever seen. What you saw was what you got.

I admire people with a “come what may” approach to life. But “taking it however it comes” is easier said than done. “It is what it is” usually is a response to very difficult circumstances.

What do you do when hard times come? I am apt to take a defensive posture. Sometimes I flee rather than fight. Sometimes denial takes over. I wish they would just go away. Other times I try to wait it out. Too many times I am just paralyzed by my circumstances.

But most times I follow Saint Peter’s advice and cast my cares upon the Lord because He cares for me (1.Pet.5:6-7). He doesn’t always make my problems go away, but He helps me through them. If need be He just helps me endure them.

I cannot forget the times He has provided the exact amount of my material need. He has often intervened in my circumstances with encouragement from a friend in Christ. He causes me to pray and then He answers. He speaks appropriately through His Word. His still small voice assures me He is with me and will never leave or forsake me.

God answers prayer; sometimes when hearts are weak He gives the very gifts believers seek.

But often faith must learn a deeper rest, And trust God’s silence when He does not speak; For, He whose name is love will send the best.

Stars may burn out, nor mountain walls endure, But God is true, his promises are sure To those who seek. (Myra Goodwin Plantz) Well, I guess I can take it however it comes. Can you?

Read Matt.11:28-30 Pastor Robert Nuckolls Immanuel Southern Baptist Church, Scott City

Scott City Assembly of God

1615 South Main - Scott City - 872-2200 Ed Sanderson, Senior Pastor 9:00 a.m. - Pre-Service Prayer 10:00 a.m. - Sunday Worship Service and Children’s Church Wednesday: 7:00 p.m. - Bible Study and Prayer

St. Joseph Catholic Church

A Catholic Christian Community 1002 S. Main Street - Scott City Fr. Bernard Felix, pastor • 872-7388 Secretary • 872-3644 Masses: 1st Sunday of month - 8:30 and 11:00 a.m.

Other weekends: Sat., 6:00 p.m.; Sun., 11:00 a.m.

Spanish Mass - 2nd and 4th Sundays, 1:30 p.m.

Pence Community Church

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

4855 Finney-Scott Rd. - Scott City - 276-6481 Pastor Jon Tuttle Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Men’s Fellowship • Wednesday mornings Breakfast at 6:30 a.m.

Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water

Holy Cross Lutheran Church

1102 Court • Box 283 • Scott City 620-872-2294 • 620-872-3796 Pastor Warren Prochnow holycross-scott@sbcglobal.net Sunday School/Bible Class, 9:00 a.m.

Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m.

Wed.: Mid-Week School, 6:00-7:30 p.m.

Community Christian Church

8911 W. Road 270 10 miles north on US83; 2 miles north on K95; 9 miles west on Rd. 270 Don Williams, pastor • 874-2031 Wednesdays: supper (6:30 p.m.) • Kid’s Group and Adult Bible Study (7:00 p.m.) • Youth Group (8:00 p.m.)

Sunday School: 9:30 • Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

12th & Jackson • Scott City • 872-3219 Shelby Crawford, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday: God’s High School Cru, 7:30 p.m.

First Baptist Church

Immanuel Southern Baptist Church

803 College - Scott City - 872-2339 Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor

1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264 Robert Nuckolls, pastor - 872-5041

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. • Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Sunday morning worship: 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Gospel Fellowship Church

1st United Methodist Church

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

5th Street and College - Scott City - 872-2401 Dennis Carter, pastor 1st Sunday: Communion and Fellowship Sunday Services at 9:00 a.m. • Sunday School, 10:30 a.m.

All Other Sundays • Worship: 8:30 and 10:45 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

MYF (youth groups) on Wednesdays Jr. High: 6:30 p.m. • Sr. High: 7:00 p.m.

First Christian Church

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water Larry Taylor, pastor Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

701 Main - Scott City - 872-2937 Scotty Wagner, pastor Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Worship, 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday is Family Night Meal: 5:45 p.m. • Study: 6:15 p.m.

Website: www.fccscottcity.org

Elizabeth/Epperson Drives • Scott City • 872-3666 Father Don Martin Holy Eucharist - 11:45 a.m.

St. Luke’s - 872-5734 (recorded message) Senior Warden Bill Lewis • 872-3347 or Father Don Martin - (785) 462-3041

Scott Mennonite Church

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

12021 N. Eagle Rd. • Scott City Franklin Koehn: 872-2048 Charles Nightengale: 872-3056 Sunday School Worship Service: 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

9th and Crescent - Scott City - 872-2334 Bishop Irvin Yeager • 620-397-2732 Sacrament, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School, 10:50 a.m.

Relief Society and Priesthood, 11:20 a.m.

YMYW Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

The Scott County Record • Page 16 • Thursday, July 18, 2013

Former courthouse will become history Bob Campbell staff writer

That tumble-down old two-story wooden building you can see off to the right as you drive southwest of Scott City on Kansas Road was apparently the early day county courthouse.

Three miles south of K96, and nearly two miles south of Scott County Cemetery, the frontierlooking building has reached such a state of delapidation that it will probably be razed.

A walking inspection gives little indication that it was ever anything important, although it does appear to match the details of an elevated 1925 photo of the northwest side of town that is on view at the El Quartelejo Museum.

Indeed, seeming more like a one-time place of business than a residence,

Parking “I didn’t realize there was an issue with making copies of the permits until a couple of weeks ago,” Barmann said. “I wish somebody would have said something to me. We don’t have asphalt (streets). I can’t see where there’s any damage.”

In the meantime, Barmann says she has made arrangements for longterm truck parking with ShopKo and Brad Boulware, owner of the former Midwest Mixer property.

However, she’s concerned that truck drivers will object to walking a block from the parking lots to the motel during inclement weather.

Public Works Director Mike Todd said the 28-foot wide frontage street is too narrow to allow parking on both sides.

He noted, however, that the street sees little traffic during the hours that trucks are parked there.

“Oil field tankers were being parked there for quite awhile,” noted Jurgens. “The permits are good for only 24 hours.

We need to enforce the ordinance fairly.”

He said it wasn’t fair to a motel owner with asphalt streets around their business that they can’t have truck parking while another motel owner is allowed trucks because there’s a concrete street nearby.

the dusty, somewhat forboding interior is cluttered with the remnants of household and agricultural items once stored there.

A climb halfway up the rickety staircase doesn’t reveal much more other than a dead bird and a sense that the whole thing is better left alone.

The museum’s clearly focused black and white photo shows the new courthouse, completed in 1924, in the distance on the upper right side. The old one is still standing on its northeast side. It looks like the structure unsteadily standing today though it was bigger in those days, including a one-story addition on the north side that no longer exists.

Ted Crist, Scott City, said his wife Pam’s late uncle, Pete Hutchins, once owned the building and property southwest of town. The building and

This building scheduled for demolition was once the Scott County Courthouse.

property are now owned

by Van Buckner.

“If I had something like that, I would be figuring out a way to get rid of it myself,” said Crist. “It’s infested with skunks.”

However, Crist said his wife feels it “should be recognized as the original county courthouse” before it is torn down.

Gene Hutchins, Pete’s son, said Floyd Harkness moved the building to its present location soon af-

ter the Hutchinses arrived from Lane County around 1943 and bought land on the other side of Kansas Road.

Hutchins said it may have also been used as a post office “because it still has the cages where they put the mail” on its northeast downstairs wall.

“The Harknesses used it for living quarters for awhile,” he recalled, before they moved away in the mid- to late 1940s.

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Todd said that if the city is going to allow trucks on the frontage street than the “no truck parking” signs need to be removed. He also cited a problem with vehicles parking in front of a nearby fire hydrant.

“If you’re going to allow parking (at a motel) why not everywhere in town?” asked Councilman Jack Schmitt.

“Because they will bust through the asphalt,” replied Todd.

Barmann felt that the police had overreacted during a recent instance where two oil tanker trucks had parked on the frontage street and before they could return to their vehicles after checking into a room they had already been issued citations.

“You have to give them time to move their vehicles,” Barmann said.

Jurgens said the time frame wasn’t quite that tightly enforced. Jurgens said he had issued the tickets after seeing the trucks parked on the frontage street at 7:00 a.m. and still seeing them in the same location three hours later.

“The city is trying to work with you,” Councilman Fred Kuntzsch told Barmann. “In some cities you don’t get any leeway for truck parking. We are trying to help you, which is why we’re allowing the permits.”

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The Scott County Record

Page 17 - Thursday, July 18, 2013

it’s back to basics

Camp is new beginning for young, inexperienced SCHS squad

Having lost eight starters on offense and eight more on defense from last year’s Class 3A state championship team, it would be easy for the Scott Community High School coaching staff to lower the level of expectations for this year’s team.

It would be understandable.

But that will never be allowed under a Glenn O’Neil coached team.

“Our expectations are the same this year as they are any year,” says O’Neil as he greeted nearly 50 players for summer camp this week. “We expect our kids to compete hard and to play hard every day.

That never changes.”

That doesn’t mean O’Neil and his staff aren’t making some adjustments with so many young players and so many who lack varsity playing time.

“The main thing we want to accomplish this week is for the boys to understand their basic assignments and once we accomplish that we can

SCHS head football coach Glenn O’Neil observes as the offense executes plays during this week’s camp.

build from there,” says O’Neil. “Knowledge is the key. Even the best athlete is going to be slower if they’re unsure of what they want to do.

“We’re giving these

boys the basic knowledge that a lot of them should already have and reinforcing it so that once we get the pads on everything will be full speed.”

As the Beavers gain

that knowledge this week and when they return in another month for two-aday practices, it will also give the coaching staff a better idea of the team’s strengths. O’Neil expects

that he will have to limit what the boys can do offensively and defensively.

“We’ll probably have to eliminate some things we’ve done in the past, and we won’t be able to

(Record Photo)

do some of the extras,” he says. “We’d much rather hang our hat on a couple of things and say, ‘This is who we are and this is what we do really well,’ (See CAMP on page 24)

SCMS volleyball camp is July 22-26

Scott City’s Shelby Patton was a gold medalist in the 400m and 800m freestyle at the WKSC meet last weekend.

(Record Photo)

All girls who will be in seventh and eighth grade at Scott City Middle School this year can participate in a volleyball camp to be held July 22-26, 9:30-11:30 a.m., in the SCMS gym.

Participants must pre-register by Thurs., July 18. The $15 registration fee includes a t-shirt.

Registration forms and checks need to be sent to Adrianne Wren, Scott City. (Registration form appears in this week’s Record).

Anyone with questions can contact Coach Wren (874-5364) or Coach Megan Gentry (874-1479).

RC swim lessons

The final session of Red Cross swim lessons will be offered at the Scott City swimming pool from Monday through Friday, July 29-Aug. 2.

Lessons will be held from 10:0010:45 a.m. and 11:00-11:45 a.m. The cost is $30 per child.

To sign-up contact the pool at 8722308.

SRC volleyball

Girls in grades 1-6 can sign-up for fall volleyball offered through the Scott Recreation Commission.

Deadline to sign-up is Aug. 14.

Games will be held on Saturday mornings starting Sept. 7.

Cost is $25 per player.

Patton claims 4 golds; Stars third in WKSC meet Shelby Patton earned four gold medals - two individual and two relays - and the Scott City Stars came away with a best-ever third place finish in the Western Kansas Swim Club championship meet held last weekend in Great Bend.

Golden Belt (Great Bend) won the team title with 1,008 points, followed

by Guymon, Okla. (858), Scott City (711) and Dumas, Tex. (642).

Even though it was Scott City’s highest finish in a combined meet with

all 12 league teams, it also left the coaches and swimmers thinking “what if.”

Along with one of their top swimmers, Lizzy Eikenberry, out of the lineup due to surgery, the Stars also had a pair of unfortunate disqualifications in the relays which cost them a pair of gold medals. Those factors accounted combined to take about 80 points off the board.

In addition, there were about three swimmers who were able to compete

on Saturday, but couldn’t on Sunday, which also took some potential points away from the squad.

“If it wouldn’t have been for those things we might have been able to make the final team standings a little more interesting,” says coach Marci Patton. “I don’t know that we could have caught Great Bend, but it would have tightened things up a little more.

“Still, the kids had a great season and we feel pretty good about our third (See PATTON on page 23)

Guinness will settle stadium bragging rights

There was a time in Kansas City football history when Ar- Inside rowhead Stadium was a place the where opposing teams hated to Huddle play because of the noise factor. with Just like Denver likes to re- the mind opponents they’re playing X-Factor at “mile high” altitude, the Jumbotron in Arrowhead reminds Too many two- and four-win opponents they’re playing in the seasons don’t give fans a lot to loudest stadium in the NFL. cheer about.

That was then.

As if one winning season in

the last six hasn’t been painful enough, now comes the ultimate slap in the face. Seattle says it’s the loudest stadium in the NFL and they’re out to prove it.

A week ago, the Seahawks announced they were going after the world record for noise level in a sports stadium. The current record, as recognized

by Guinness, is 131.76 decibels at a soccer stadium in Istanbul,

Turkey.

Even more amazing than the record is the fact something actually happened during a soccer match that fans could get that excited about.

Nonetheless, Seattle plans to go for the record on Sept. 15 when they host San Francisco.

However, some of us aren’t taking this challenge lightly.

Myself and four other individu-

als have begin a campaign for Kansas City fans to officially retain our title as the NFL’s loudest stadium.

We’ve submitted an application with Guinness. We were told that the request could take about six weeks to process, but with a $450 filing fee, Guinness will consider our request in a matter of days. The fee has been (See BRAGGING on page 23)

The Scott County Record • Page 18 • Thursday, July 18, 2013

Outdoors in Kansas

by Steve Gilliland

I betcha’ didn’t know this I try hard to color within the lines, not to run with scissors and overall just to keep my mouth shut and blend in. But sometimes I find myself posing questions that everyone else wonders but is afraid to ask.

One such question is, “Why do states feel the need to have state symbols like state flower, state bird, etc.?”

Even though that distinction does absolutely nothing for us, the flower, or the bird, all states still have them. I recently uncovered some interesting facts about our state symbols.

Any Kansan worth their Wheaties knows that the Kansas state flower is the Sunflower, and the Kansas state bird is the Western Meadowlark.

Most Kansans know that the state tree is the Cottonwood and many probably know the state animal is the American Buffalo (bison.)

But how many of you knew that we also have a state insect, a state reptile, and yes, even a state amphibian?

Sometime in the mid-1970s, Jeff Woods, a seventh grader attending Edgewood Elementary in Coffeyville, evidentially decided we were incomplete without a state insect and suggested we give the honeybee that distinction.

Called “white man’s flies” by the Indians, honeybees are thought to have been brought from Europe by the pilgrims and soon inhabited the entire United States.

I have to admit that if we felt the need to have a state insect, we could not have done better than the honeybee, because life as we know it might not exist without them.

The state legislature has the final say in such important matters, and in 1976 the honeybee became the Kansas state insect.

(See BETCHA on page 21)

SCMS players make position moves during summer camp Two-a-day practices don’t begin for another month, but Skip Numrich wouldn’t mind if football practices began tomorrow.

A successful camp has the Scott City Middle School eighth grade head coach feeling optimistic about his incoming group of players and how both seventh and eighth graders responded during the week-long session.

“We got a lot accomplished. I was real pleased with how well the boys were picking up what we were teaching them,” says Numrich.

The camp attracted a high of 30 boys during the week with numbers split nearly even between seventh and eighth graders.

Naturally, a lot of time was spent on technique and fundamentals, which is particularly valuable for seventh graders who are making the step up from YMCA football.

Even though offensive and defensive schemes for SCMS seventh and eighth graders are very different from each other, Numrich and the coaching staff introduce all athletes to the system they will be seeing as eighth graders and into high school.

“We have kids who don’t know the system when they come into camp. We spend about 1-1/2 hours a day for five days teaching them and when it’s over they have a much better understanding of what we’re trying to do,” Numrich says. “A lot of these boys have a good football IQ. “I couldn’t have accomplished everything we did if it wasn’t for the help of the high school coaches,” he says. “And these boys came into camp with a great attitude and a desire to learn.”

Finding Positions The camp is particularly valuable for Numrich in giving him a week to evaluate his players and try to determine who will be playing where before two-a-day practices start.

One of his early experiments involved putting Nick Nowak at quarterback, a position which he has never played while in the YMCA ranks.

“I watched him during basketball and I liked his footwork,” says Numrich.

Reid Brunswig, who has had experience as quarterback, will show what he can do as a full-

Eighth grader Jaren Berning prepares to tackle a practice dummy during the middle school football camp last week.

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back “because we need a power runner,” says Numrich. But he will also get reps as the backup quarterback.

Joining them in the backfield will be Austen Turner who will be making the transition from tight end where he played as a seventh grader.

“He may be the fastest kid in the class and he gives us a receiver out of the backfield,” Numrich says. “We need to make sure our best athletes get plenty of touches.”

Getting the early edge on the offensive line are Daniel Nolasco (left tackle), Nic Cheney (left guard) and Baron Strine (right guard). The right tackle position is the biggest question mark at the time, but Numrich is hoping Kuwan Stewart may fit into that role.

Anchoring the line at center may be Dexter Gooden who was in the backfield last year.

“He has strength and quickness. He’s the perfect model of what we look for in a center,” says the head coach.

What may have impressed Numrich most was Gooden’s ability as a long snapper.

The head coach was equally impressed with what he saw from Daniel Nolasco (5-10, 218) who could be a force as a defensive tackle.

“He’s not just big, but he’s got some quickness and he has good footwork. He’s going to be able to give us a push on the line that we haven’t seen for awhile,” Numrich says. “I don’t know who’s going to be able to block him.”

Since he had the luxury of numbers during camp that he normally doesn’t have once practices begin, Numrich used the opportunity to give the seventh graders more reps on offense so he could see the eighth graders on defense.

“I feel like we made

some pretty good strides with our defense. We’re ahead of where we’ve been in recent years,” he says.

The week of camp also gives the eighth graders a head start in becoming familiar with the many things they will have to learn on offense and defense once practices begin on Aug. 19. The goal is for the eighth graders to incorporate many of the things they’ll be seeing a year from now in high school head coach Glenn O’Neil’s system.

“We won’t be able to do everything because

Glenn does so much, but the kids will be exposed to it,” Numrich says. “We are running the same formations and we’re using the same terminology so that it’s not such a big step for the boys when they get into high school.”

Numrich expressed his appreciation to SCHS coaches O’Neil, Jim Turner and Landon Frank for their assistance during the camp.

“And it was neat to see so many parents in attendance,” adds Numrich.

“I’m pretty excited about what these boys can accomplish.”

SCHS assistant coach Landon Frank explains blocking assignments to eighth grade lineman Nic Cheney during camp.

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Wildcats not getting respect in pre-season In a few short weeks, Big 12 football teams will begin practice for the 2013 season. by Kansas Mac State is the Stevenson defending co-champion with Oklahoma and, as usual, the Wildcats are not highly rated for the upcoming season. Athlon Sports’ Magazine picks K-State fifth in the Big 12 - behind Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Texas and TCU. This early ranking won’t concern legendary coach Bill Snyder. He’s endured much worse during his career. This time, however, the modest ranking may be justified.

Kansas State looks formidable on offense, but the defense lost nine talented starters.

Numerous so-called experts in the media have determined that K-State’s most pressing problem will be their defensive line, which isn’t necessarily true.

Senior safety Ty Zimmerman (6-1, 204) is the only returning starter from the defensive backfield. Zimmerman was a pre-season first team All-Big 12 pick

by Athlon and he deserves that honor.

Except for Zimmerman, the defensive backfield will consist of players with little or no experience. That’s not good in the pass-happy Big 12. But over the years, Snyder’s defenses have more than held their own against opposing Big 12 teams.

This will be Snyder’s fifth year after coming out of his short-lived retirement and he has K-State’s program up and running again.

After spring practice, Snyder said, “This group really does not understand what they are capable of.

Like so many, we think we are doing the best that we can when indeed there is more there. I think they have placed some limitations on what they are capable of and those limitations should not be there.”

That’s vintage Bill Snyder.

Snyder lost all his starters from last year’s defensive line, but don’t expect the Wildcats to be overly vulnerable against the run.

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Scott City’s Chase Rumford competes in the 100m butterfly.

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Rohrbough wins 2 league golds; SC claims freestyle, medley relays Zach Rohrbough was a double gold medalist for Scott City in the boy’s division of the Western Kansas Swim Club championships at Great Bend.

Competing in the eight-years and under division, Rohrbough won the 100m (1:54.14) and the 200m (4:18.07) in the 12-team field that included swimmers from Texas, Oklahoma and Western and central Kansas.

The eight-year-old swimmer blew away the competition in the 100m freestyle by nearly nine seconds. In the 200m freestyle he finished more than 10 seconds ahead of his nearest challenger.

Rohrbough was also part of the 200m freestyle relay (3:29.9) team which finished just three seconds behind the championship team from Dumas, Tex. Other members of the relay were Jaxson Brandl, Wyatt Ricker and Houston Frank.

Brandon Winderlin, 11, earned Scott City’s only other individual gold in the 50m freestyle (11-12 year division) in a time of 32.8 - nearly 1.2 seconds ahead of his nearest challenger.

Scott City had little trouble collecting a win in the 200m freestyle relay (11-12 year division) with a time of 2:29.31 - more than five seconds ahead of Dumas.

Swimming on the league championship relay were Kaden Wren, Parker Vulgamore, Parker Gooden and Brandon Winderlin.

Scott City added another championship performance in the 200m medley relay with a time of 2:57.39. Relay members were Gooden, Wren, Conner Cupp and Winderlin. They finished nearly six seconds ahead of the runner-up from Guymon.

Cupp (11-12 years) was a silver medalist in the 50m butterfly (42.81).

Also picking up silver medals were Eric Shapland (9-10 years) in the 50m breaststroke (55.20) and Marshal Hutchins (15-years

and older) in the 100m backstroke (1:22.86.

Hutchins was also third in the 100m freestyle (69.22), 800m freestyle (13:02.22) and added a bronze in the 100m breaststroke (1:37.36).

Avry Noll (8-years and under) was a bronze medalist in the 50m freestyle (46.59).

Wren was third in the 100m freestyle (1:18.47).

Sawyer Stevens (9-10 years) finished third in the 50m butterfly (51.96).

Dylan Hutchins (15-years and over) added a pair of third place finishes in the 100m butterfly (1:19.24) and the 200m individual medley (3:04.25).

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Scott City Stars Swim Team Western Ks. Swim Club Combined Championship July 13-14, 2013 at Great Bend Team scores: Great Bend 1,008, Guymon 858, Scott City 711, Dumas, Tex. 642, Spearman, Tex. 395, Garden City 266, Hays 143, Lakin 110, Dodge City 95, Holcomb 22, Leoti 8, Ulysses 5 Girl’s Division 50m Freestyle 8-years and under: Hope Wiechman, 4th, 47.40; Kiley Wren, 8th, 51.60.

11-12-years: Shelby Patton, 5th, 34.75; Piper Wasinger, 6th, 35.59.

13-14-years: Camryn Patton, 4th, 32.74; Hannah Brandl, 5th, 32.90; Makaela Stevens, 6th, 33.12.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 2nd, 30.56.

100m Freestyle 8-years and under: Hope Wiechman, 4th, 1:45.67; Kiley Wren, 7th, 1:54.59.

9-10-years: Alli Patton, 4th, 1:34.10.

11-12-years: Shelby Patton, 4th, 1:20.40.

13-14-years: Kylee Trout, 2nd, 1:15.09; Camryn Patton, 7th, 1:16.80.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 2nd, 1:12.52.

200m Freestyle 8-years and under: Hope Wiechman, 4th, 4:05.24; Kiley Wren, 6th, 4:13.33; Kennedy Wasinger, 8th, 4:28.53.

9-10-years: Allison Brunswig, 7th, 3:39.42.

11-12-years: Shelby Patton. 3rd, 2:51.00.

13-14-years: Kylee Trout, 3rd, 2:47.04.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 2nd, 2:41.60.

400m Freestyle 11-12-years: Shelby Patton, 1st, 6:16.16.

13-14-years: Kylee Trout, 6th, 6:16.90; Paige Winderlin, 8th, 6:38.67.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 3rd, 6:08.68.

800m Freestyle 11-12-years: Shelby Patton, 1st, 13:22.65.

13-14-years: Camryn Patton, 3rd, 12:57.09; Kylee Trout, 5th, 13:09.11.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 2nd, 12:40.69.

50m Backstroke 8-years and under: Lana Rodriguez, 8th, 1:03.30.

11-12-years: Shelby Patton, 5th, 44.53; Mattie Brandl, 8th, 46.23.

100m Backstroke 13-14-years: Hannah Brandl, 4th, 1:29.50.

50m Breaststroke 8-years and under: Hope Wiechman, 7th, 1:06.88.

9-10-years: Allison Brunswig, 8th, 59.59.

11-12-years: Mattie Brandl, 5th, 49.41; Piper Wasinger, 6th, 49.50; Shelby Patton, 8th, 51.06.

100m Breaststroke 13-14-years: Hannah Brandl, 8th, 1:47.29.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 5th, 1:42.01.

50m Butterfly 8-years and under: Hope Wiechman, 6th, 1:06.21; Kiley Wren, 8th, 1:16.35.

11-12-years: Shelby Patton, 6th, 44.04.

100m Butterfly 13-14-years: Hallie Wiechman, 7th, 1:40.00.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 2nd, 1:19.54.

200m Individual Medley 8-years and under: Hope Wiechman, 5th, 4:49.07; Hannah Eikenberry, 7th, 5:21.15; Kiley Wren, 8th, 5:22.18.

11-12-years: Shelby Patton, 5th, 3:32.91; Piper Wasinger, 8th, 3:38.46.

13-14-years: Kylee Trout, 8th, 3:23.69.

15-years and over: Reagan Smyth, 2nd, 3:07.23.

200m Freestyle Relay 10-years and under: Alli Patton, Alivia Noll, Paige Vulgamore, Allison Brunswig, 4th, 3:01.51.

11-12-years: Molly Eikenberry, Madison Shapland, Piper Wasinger, Shelby Patton, 1st, 2:26.17; Jacy Rose, Grace Hutton, Brooke Hoeme, Mattie Brandl, 6th, 2:46.91.

13-14-years: Camryn Patton, Makaela Stevens, Paige Winderlin, Haley Allen, 1st, 2:16.35; Emily Parkinson, Elaine Parkinson, Rachel Fisher, Kylee Trout, 5th, 2:26.63; Alyssa Storm, Alexis Hoeme, Chelsea Amerine, Hallie Wiechman, 7th, 2:45.56.

15-years and over: Hannah Brandl, Krissa Dearden, Elizabeth Parkinson, Reagan Smyth, 2nd, 2:22.31.

200m Medley Relay 8-years and under: Lana Rodriguez, Kiley Wren, Hope Wiechman, Tara Rose, 2nd, 4:31.87; Callie Hutton, Hannah Eikenberry, Kennedy Wasinger, Brinlie Stevens, 6th, 5:26.57.

10-years and under: Allison Brunswig, Alivia Noll, Paige Vulgamore, Alli Patton, 5th, 3:58.77.

Summer Sports Calendar Scott City Stars Swim Team July 13-14: WKSC combined championship meet in Hays Miscellaneous Aug. 10: Triathlon at Lake Scott State Park Football July 15-18: Scott Community High School football camp Aug. 6: Deadline to sign up for YMCA youth tackle football through SRC. Season begins on Sept. 8.

Aug. 19: Two-a-day practices begin for high school football

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Fishing 11-12-years: Mattie Brandl, Piper Wasinger, Shelby Patton, Molly Eikenberry, 1st, 3:03.65; Brooke Hoeme, Jacy Rose, Madison Shapland, Grace Hutton, 7th, 3:42.25.

13-14-years: Emily Parkinson, Kylee Trout, Paige Winderlin, Camryn Patton, 3rd, 2:57.88; Makaela Stevens, Alexis Hoeme, Hallie Wiechman, Haley Allen, 5th, 3:01.22.

15-years and over: Hannah Brandl, Elizabeth Parkinson, Reagan Smyth, Krissa Dearden, 2nd, 2:48.57.

Boy’s Division 50m Freestyle 8-years and under: Avry Noll, 3rd, 46.59; Zach Rohrbough, 6th, 50.06; Jaxson Brandl, 7th, 50.07.

9-10-years: Sawyer Stevens, 5th, 38.63.

11-12-years: Brandon Winderlin, 1st, 32.80; Kaden Wren, 4th, 34.32; Parker Vulgamore, 7th, 36.34; Parker Gooden, 8th, 36.43.

13-14-years: Chase Rumford, 6th, 32.22.

15-years and over: Marshal Hutchins, 3rd, 29.22; Dylan Hutchins, 4th, 30.41.

100m Freestyle 8-years and under: Zach Rohrbough, 1st, 1:54.14.

11-12-years: Kaden Wren, 3rd, 1:18.47; Parker Gooden, 7th, 1:24.53.

13-14-years: Chase Rumford, 7th, 1:14.34.

15-years and over: Marshal Hutchins, 3rd, 1:09.22; Dylan Hutchins, 6th, 1:13.94; Kyle Cure, 8th, 1:14.78.

200m Freestyle 8-years and under: Zach Rohrbough, 1st, 4:18.07.

11-12-years: Kaden Wren, 5th, 3:04.09.

13-14-years: Chase Rumford, 8th, 2:48.29.

15-years and over: Marshal Hutchins, 5th, 2:42.77; Dylan Hutchins, 6th, 2:46.77.

400m Freestyle 13-14-years: Chase Rumford, 7th, 6:20.20.

15-years and over: Marshal Hutchins, 4th, 6:16.47.

800m Freestyle 13-14-years: Chase Rumford, 5th, 13:08.90.

15-years and over: Marshal Hutchins, 3rd, 13:02.22.

50m Backstroke 11-12-years: Conner Cupp, 5th, 45.09; Parker Gooden, 6th, 46.28; Kaden Wren, 7th, 46.43.

100m Backstroke 15-years and over: Marshal Hutchins, 2nd, 1:22.86.

50m Breaststroke 9-10-years: Eric Shapland, 2nd. 55.20.

11-12-years: Kaden Wren, 5th, 48.97.

100m Breaststroke 13-14-years: Reid Brunswig, 8th, 1:42.13.

15-years and over: Marshal Hutchins, 3rd, 1:37.36; Dylan Hutchins, 4th, 1:39.15.

50m Butterfly 8-years and under: Zach Rohrbough, 6th, 1:38.37.

9-10-years: Sawyer Stevens, 3rd, 51.96.

11-12-years: Conner Cupp, 2nd, 42.81; Kaden Wren, 7th, 48.16.

100m Butterfly 13-14-years: Chase Rumford, 7th, 1:33.37.

15-years and over: Dylan Hutchins, 3rd, 1:19.24.

200m Individual Medley 11-12-years: Brandon Winderlin, 4th, 3:33.63; Kaden Wren, 7th, 3:41.71.

13-14-years: Reid Brunswig, 7th, 3:15.91.

15-years and over: Dylan Hutchins, 3rd, 3:04.25; Marshal Hutchins, 4th, 3:06.37.

200m Freestyle Relay 8-years and under: Jaxson Brandl, Wyatt Ricker, Houston Frank, Zach Rohrbough, 2nd, 3:29.99; Brandon Smyth, Alex Rodriguez, Tanner Gooden, Avry Noll, 5th, 4:36.58.

10-years and under: Eric Shapland, Carter Gooden, Ryan Cure, Sawyer Stevens, 5th, 3:04.77.

11-12-years: Kaden Wren, Parker Vulgamore, Parker Gooden, Brandon Winderlin, 1st, 2:29.31.

13-14-years: Conner Cupp, Dexter Gooden, Landon Trout, Reid Brunswig, 4th, 2:42.36.

15-years and over: Dylan Hutchins, Nick Storm, Chase Rumford, Marshal Hutchins, 4th, 2:07.38.

200m Medley Relay 10-years and under: Carter Gooden, Eric Shapland, Sawyer Stevens, Ryan Cure, 3rd, 3:42.02.

11-12-years: Parker Gooden, Kaden Wren, Conner Cupp, Brandon Winderlin, 1st, 2:57.39.

13-14-years: Landon Trout, Parker Vulgamore, Chase Rumford, Dexter Gooden, 3rd, 3:15.03.

15-years and over: Marshal Hutchins, Reid Brunswig, Dylan Hutchins, Nick Storm, 4th, 2:41.15.

Scott State Lake Updated July 11 Channel cats: Good/ excellent; up to 17 inches.

Cut bait, shrimp, worms, and prepaired baits fished around the fish attractors and other structure has been best for fish up to 8 lbs. Anglers have reported limits.

Crappie: fair; most up to 9 inches. Minnows or jigs around the fish attractors has been best. But drifting jigs or small crankbaits over the deeper part of the lake in a boat, fishing minnows under a bobber along rip-rapped shorelines in the evening, or fishing minnows under a bobber up in the creek can all be productive methods/locations. Anglers report catching good numbers of fish most days with the majority of the “keepers” running in the 8-9 inch range.

Walleye/saugeye: slow; up to 8 lbs. Casting and slow-retrieving jigs tipped with nightcrawlers or minnows or fishing various fish imitating jigs and crankbaits along drop-offs and points should be best.

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Betcha In the mid-1980s, to celebrate the 125th anniversary of our statehood, Larry Miller’s sixth grade class in Caldwell decided we also needed a state reptile and nominated the Ornate box turtle for the job. This is a dry land turtle which probably makes it the most visibly abundant turtle in Kansas. It’s found from the prairies in the west to the forests in the east.

I have absolutely no idea what a state reptile has to do with celebrating our 125th anniversary as a state, but on April 14,

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1986, Gov. John Carlin signed a bill designating the Ornate box turtle as the state reptile.

In the spring of 1993, Alice Potts’ second grade class at Wichita’s OK Elementary School was studying animals with backbones, which somehow triggered them as a class to begin a campaign to make the Barred Tiger salamander our state amphibian.

When Alice’s class contacted their legislators they were told it was too late to get a bill into the current legislative ses-

Respect Coach Snyder will have some players who aren’t well-known that are eager for their chance to play on K-State’s defensive line. And it’s almost a certainty that one or more of them will end up on an NFL team.

The linebackers will also be new, but there is some experience among that group. Seniors Blake Slaughter (5-10, 227) and Tre Walker (6-3, 225) have played extensively and well for K-State during their careers.

K-State’s offense will be among the best in the Big 12. The offensive line returns intact along with a number of talented and experienced receivers.

sion and the project would have to wait a year.

In the meantime, their zeal proved infectious and by the following school year the entire school plus parents were involved. A trip to the statehouse by Alice and a handful of students got Senate Bill 494 written and passed.

However, the bill ran into a little trouble in the House. It seems some representatives felt there were more important legislative matters (go figure!). Never fear though as Sen. Mike Harris came to the rescue and attached the salamander bill to an-

other bill to insure its passage.

On April 13, 1994, Gov. Joan Finney signed the bill designating the Barred Tiger salamander the state amphibian.

I guess if even one person is made to feel better about our state by having these symbols, then so-beit. And maybe this will get more people Exploring Kansas Outdoors looking for Barred Tiger salamanders.

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Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net

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And John Hubert returns at runningback.

Junior center B.J. Finney (6-4, 303) and senior left tackle Cornelius Lucas (6-9, 328) have NFL talent and size. They will anchor a deep and experienced line that was among the best in the Big 12 last season.

Either sophomore Daniel Sams (6-2, 207) or juco transfer Jake Waters (6-1, 210) will be the starting quarterback. Both possess exceptional athletic ability and - with the supporting cast on hand - the winner of this competition could be one of the surprise players in the nation.

Coach Snyder has justifiably become a legend in

his own time, but no one keeps getting better year after year. Kansas State will have a competitive and entertaining football team this fall, but that fifth place rating in the Big 12 may not be too far off.

Then again, Snyder could once again make the prognosticators look like fools.

Pennant Slipping Away The Kansas City Royals aren’t out of the race for the American League Central title, but with every passing day their pennant hopes decline.

KC’s pitching is greatly improved compared to the 2012 team and their fielding has been effective and

spectacular at times. Hitting has been KC’s Achilles’ heel.

Before the season started, Billy Butler, Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas were being counted on to supply consistency and power at the plate. All three have disappointed Kansas City’s fans.

Kansas City ranks 13th out of the 15 AL teams in overall hitting statistics.

Through July 12 KC had the fewest (60) home runs of any team in the AL; Minnesota is second worst with 85. As for RBIs, KC has 342. Only Houston and Chicago are worse.

Once again, it looks like we will have to wait until next year.

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Bragging paid and once Guinness officially declares it will sanction a test to determine the noise level in Arrowhead, the KC Chiefs public relations department has confirmed they will also be on board with our plans.

Within 48 hours of declaring our intent to claim the Guinness record the proposal had gone viral.

Chiefs’ fans are taking this challenge from Seattle seriously.

The possibility of setting a new record is well within our reach. The loudest “official” decibel reading during a Chiefs’ game at Arrowhead is 116 during a Monday Night Football game. Unofficially, it’s been said that

Patton place finish.”

Patton (11-12 years division) blew away the field in the 400m freestyle with a winning time of 6:16.66 - more than 10 seconds ahead of the runner-up. She was just as impressive in the 800m freestyle (13:22.65), which she won by nearly four seconds.

The Lady Stars collected two of their three relay golds in the 11-12 year division with wins in the 200m freestyle (2:26.17) and the 200m medley (3:03.65). The girls finished more than seven seconds ahead of the runner-up in the 200m freestyle.

Relay members were Molly Eikenberry, Madison Shapland, Piper Wasinger and Patton.

It was a much tighter finish in the 13-14-yearold division where Scott City won the event in 2:16.35 - just 52/100 of a

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we once hit 130 decibels during a game against San Diego a couple of years ago.

To date, the loudest official reading during a game at CenturyLink Field is 112 decibels.

So we should win this challenge hands down, right?

Not necessarily.

First of all, Seattle’s stadium was specifically designed to filter noise inwards. Arrowhead is 40-plus years old and it wasn’t designed with that in mind.

Seattle also has a speaker system that pumps additional noise into the stadium. I hope that technological aid isn’t permitted, but I don’t know the

details of what Guinness will or won’t allow.

At Arrowhead, we generate noise the old-fashioned way.

Seattle has gained a reputation around the NFL as the “new” loudest stadium. Then again, the Seahawks have given their fans reason to yell a little louder than KC fans over the past couple of seasons.

That all said, we’ve accepted the challenge. Now it comes down to setting a date.

One possibility is the Sept. 15 home game with Dallas. One potential problem, however, is that Cowboys fans travel well and the last thing we need is to attempt a noise record

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second ahead of Guymon.

Members of the league championship relay were Cami Patton, Makaela Stevens, Paige Winderlin and Haley Allen.

The Lady Stars continued their strong showing in the 200m freestyle relay with a second place finish in the 15-years and over division. Posting a time of 2:22.31 were Hannah Brandl, Krissa Dearden, Elizabeth Parkinson and Reagan Smyth.

Turning in one of the weekend’s top performances was Reagan Smyth who was a league runner-up in six individual events. Competing in the 15-years and over division, she picked up silvers in the 50m freestyle (30.56), 100m freestyle (1:12.52), 200m freestyle (2:41.6), 800m freestyle (12:40.69), 100m butterfly (1:19.54) and the 200m individual medley (3:07.23).

Smyth added two more silvers as a member of the 200m freestyle (2:22.31) and 200m medley (2:48.57) relays. Also competing on both relays were Hannah Brandl, Krissa Dearden and Elizabeth Parkinson.

The Stars were silver medalists in the eightyears and under 200m medley relay (4:31.87).

Members of the league runner-up relay were Lana Rodriguez, Kiley Wren, Hope Wiechman and Tara Rose.

Hannah Hildebrand (Great Bend) was the gold medalist finishing ahead of Smyth in the 50m freestyle, 200m freestyle, 800m freestyle, 100m butterfly and 200m individual medley.

Smyth finished only 1.66 seconds behind Hildenbrand in the 200m freestyle and 95/100 of a second behind her in the 100m freestyle.

with 10,000 or 15,000 uncooperative Dallas fans in attendance.

We’ve given a name to our record-setting plans - “Terrorhead Returns.”

The idea is quickly gaining attention among Chiefs fans. Kansas City’s PR department is behind it 100 percent.

It’s just a matter of working out the details . . . and giving KC fans something to cheer about.

Arrowhead is, and has been, the loudest stadium in the NFL. It’s a title we don’t intend to part with quietly.

The X Factor (Ty Rowton) is a former Scott City resident who has been inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame as a Chiefs Superfan

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Camp rather than be just average at a bunch of things.

“Last year’s team did everything really well.

This year we have to remember that we’re beginning from a much different place in terms of experience.”

By identifying some of the things they can do well during camp, it will avoid “wasting time that we don’t have to waste once the two-a-days begin,” O’Neil says.

In that respect, this team is using camp as a time to begin establishing their identity, to find out what they can and can’t do.

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“Where you start to see some separation - if there’s going to be separation - between the kids is when they get pads on.”

And that will also be true of the backs. They will have to show who’s capable of catching a ball in traffic, maintain control after a hit and also sustain blocks.

“We aren’t just looking for someone who can run the ball. We’d also like to have boys who can catch the ball coming out of the backfield and block,” O’Neil says.

This is also an opportunity for boys to begin making an impression on the coaching staff. Not only are a lot of varsity positions up for grabs, but for most of them there’s very little separation on the depth chart.

“There are probably only three boys who are better than their competition, where they can have an off-day and still be better than anyone else on the depth chart,” O’Neil says. “With everyone else, if they have an off-day someone’s probably going to jump ahead of them.”

What’s evident as O’Neil looks at his runningbacks in action is the lack of a “home run hitter” like Dalton Buehler who can break an 80 yard run. Of course, he didn’t come into camp expecting to see someone fill that role either.

“We have boys capable of breaking off a 30 or 40 yard run. I just don’t know that anyone has the top end speed where they can outrun quality opponents for 60 or 70 yards like we’ve had the past three years with the two Daltons (Smith and Buehler) and Colborn (Couchman).

Once camp is over, the receivers and defensive backs will still have time to work on their timing and coverage with 7-on7 drills for a couple of weeks. In addition, the coaching staff can also work with six players at a time prior to two-a-days, so that gives them the opportunity to have three receivers and three defensive backs at the same time.

“Those are quality reps because you know the ball is coming to your side and you have to make a play,” says O’Neil.

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Cheyenne exodus Certain death was all that awaited in Oklahoma Cheyenne knew pursuit by the military was inevitable Bob Campbell staff writer

MONTANA

Lame Deer

NORTH DAKOTA

SOUTH DAKOTA

FT. Robinson WYOMING NEBRASKA

KANSAS

Battle Canyon

Chief Dull Knife, known to his people as “Morning Star,” and Chief Little Wolf, or “Little Coyote,” are key figures in the culture and history of the Northern Cheyenne, who do not refer to themselves as such. They are considered Tsistsistas, or “The Called Out People.”

“They wanted to come home because they suffered so much in Oklahoma,” said Chief Dull Knife College Research Historian Mina Seminole, Lame Deer, Mont.

“There was so much starving and malaria. The rations were always short and they weren’t used to the climate. They asked if they could go to the President to ask permission and were told that maybe in a year their request would be considered.

They figured that within a year, there would be nobody to come back.

“They knew the Army would be sent after them, but they were determined to come home,” says Seminole. “They figured it would be a better honor for them to die in battle than to starve to death.”

About 100 of the 970 North-

FT. Reno OKLAHOMA

(Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of stories about the Northern Cheyenne exodus from Oklahoma to their homeland in Montana that began in late 1878.

The Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork took part on Sept. 27, 1878, in northern Scott County. A two-day Battle Canyon Symposium will be held on Sept. 27-28 to commemorate the 135th anniversary of the battle.)

ern Cheyenne sent to Fort Reno, Okla., a year earlier had died by the time Dull Knife and Little Wolf led 92 warriors, 120 women and 141 children off the reservation in early September 1878 and crossed Oklahoma into Southwest Kansas.

The 19th Kansas Infantry from Fort Dodge, commanded

by Lt. Col. William H. Lewis, was just one of the detachments looking for them. It was this detachment which found the Northern Cheyenne at midafternoon on Sept. 27 in an area that was also known later as Squaw’s Den Battleground, named for the cave in which

the warriors hid their women and children while laying an ambush for Lewis and his 220 troops.

The ruse might have worked if not for a peremptory rifle shot reportedly fired by a nervous brave. The report touched off a pitched battle in which hundreds of shots were fired in the next few hours, including one that hit Lewis in the right thigh and caused the troops to stop fighting and attend to their mortally wounded commander.

One Cheyenne was killed and a dozen wounded. Having lost 60 horses and most of their food, they escaped that night and made their way toward Nebraska.

“They had already been desperate, but that made it much more crucial and probably prompted a lot of the killing that happened with the white settlements,” said Seminole.

“They were desperately trying to get food and horses after the battle there. Little Wolf had cautioned the warriors to avoid the settlements as much as they could, but the young men went out and were trying to get supplies,” explains Seminole.

“They wanted to come home, so they were using whatever means they could.

“They force-marched, even at night. The men, women and children were pushed, walking and running, to get away.”

Dull Knife wanted to go toward the Red Cloud Agency, but he didn’t know that while they were in Oklahoma, the La-

kota (Sioux) had been moved from Ft. Robinson, Nebr., to Pine Ridge, S.D. “It seemed like the best choice because we had always been allied with the Lakota and Dull Knife thought they could get shelter instead of having to run all winter,” explains Seminole.

Group is Divided

The Cheyenne divided into approximately equal bands with Dull Knife and the older warriors taking the older women and numerous children toward Ft. Robinson while Little Wolf’s band built shelter in the Nebraska Sand Hills (in the state’s north-central region), correctly calculating that the soldiers could not find them there.

“They thought one of the groups would make it home rather than all of them dying,” Seminole said.

“Little Wolf was noted for his military strategy. He was the Sweet Medicine Chief, which is the highest honor in our culture, and (with Dull Knife) a member of the Council of 44.”

Referring to the acts by which warriors showed bravery in battle, she said, “It was said that Little Wolf counted more coup than any warrior other than the Southern Cheyenne Roman Nose.”

Among the Plains Indians, a coup was a brave or reckless deed performed in battle by a single warrior, as touching or striking an enemy warrior without sustaining injury to oneself.

“The chiefs always did what was best for their people, almost like their children. They looked after all members of the tribe,” emphasizes Seminole.

On April 1, 1879, Little Wolf’s band rode into Ft. Keogh, where Miles City, Mont., is today, and found an old friend, Lt. William P. Clark, who joined Gen. Nelson Miles’ appeal to Washington that the Cheyenne be allowed to stay in the country they had suffered so much to reach.

Seminole said the request was possibly strengthened by Chief Two Moons, who had stayed in Montana to lead 200 scouts for Miles.

It was granted five years later and the reservation, first named for the Tongue River, was expanded in 1900 from 371,200 acres to its present day 444,000, where 4,939 Cheyenne live.

The tribe’s total enrollment is 10,050.

Dull Knife’s group fared much worse, imprisoned under harsh conditions at Ft. Robinson because they refused to return to Oklahoma. Most of them broke out on the night of Jan. 9, 1879, but they were run down during the next two weeks by soldiers who killed 64 of them and recaptured 78. Dull Knife and his wife and daughter and a few others managed to escape to Pine Ridge.

Dull Knife died in 1883 and is buried alongside Little Wolf, who lived until 1904, on a hill overlooking the reservation.

Progress is slow on Veterans Memorial Park Bob Campbell staff writer

If everything goes well, two years of work may culminate later this year with dedication of the Scott County Veterans Memorial on east K96 Highway in Scott City.

The first order of laser-engraved bricks has been sent in. Foundation Director Ryan Roberts said 125 were ordered at $200 each by families wanting to recognize a loved one at the memorial.

There are spaces for 1,600 bricks in three sunken areas in front of five lighted shields honoring the Air Force, Navy, Army, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, each branch with its own insignia.

Roberts said a brick has room for six lines of information like the veteran’s name, rank, branch and years of service and theater of war.

Additional orders will be taken quarterly or semiannually.

Roberts had hoped the city would do concrete work for the parking spaces, but because other municipal projects have taken precedence, the foundation will hire a contractor for that phase, he said.

Referring to the group that designed and is constructing the memorial, Roberts said, “It has just been a good group effort by our veterans’ committee.

“Skip Numrich, Larry Brown, Ruben Brokofsky, Harold Irwin and Chairman Shane Faurot came through and did something for the veterans of Scott County.”

Numrich said Faurot, has supervised and hired sub-contractors for the $200,000 project, which was financed with donations, sales tax revenues

An artist’s concept of the Veteran’s Memorial Park in Scott City.

and local grants.

“The foundation was the conduit,” he said.

“It’s going to be really nice when we get done.

It will have trees, grass, sidewalks and parking.”

Within the next few months, a decommissioned howitzer will be arriving from Anniston, Ala., and will be added to the park.

Roberts said the task began when Scott City’s Dona Dee Carpenter donated the property at the southwest corner of Antelope and east K96 with the suggestion that “something should be done to recognize our veterans” in addition to the memorial commemorating their service on the courthouse grounds.

“The committee looked at a lot of different things in other communities,” said Roberts.

“They talked about putting names on a wall, but in the end it would have been cost-prohibitive.”

Roberts said the memorial will also feature a computer kiosk with the name of every local ser-

viceman and woman the committee can find.

“It will be every veteran who ever lived here, moved here or is in any way connected to Scott County,” he said.

“We want to mix technology with tradition and make sure we get everyone in there who wants to be there.”

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Few corn acres switched to beans

Because of wet planting conditions across much of the Corn Belt, including Iowa and Illinois, many expected about two million fewer acres of corn would be planted than reported in the March Prospective Plantings report, with about half of those lost corn acres being switched to soybeans.

That didn’t turn out to be the case in the latest USDA acreage rpeort.

USDA estimated 97.379 million acres were planted to corn this year, which is about 97,000 acres more than in the March Prospective Plantings survey and 224,000 acres more than in 2012 (Table 1). Of the 97.379 million acres planted to corn, USDA forecasts that 89.135 million acres will be harvested for grain, in line with historical abandonment rates and acres cut for silage.

USDA estimated that 77.728 million acres will be planted to soybeans in 2013, which is almost 300,000 acres less than anticipated, but is still the largest-ever soybean acreage.

Like corn, soybean planted acres surpassed the acres reported in the March Prospective Plantings survey. USDA forecasts harvested acres of soybeans to be 76.9 million acres in 2013.

The 2013 corn acreage came as quite a bearish shock to the market.

So, the ‘surprise’ generated by the report begs the question: “How could actual planted acres be so different than expected?”

(See CORN on page 27)

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Study: wind power has no impact on prairie chickens Wind power development does not ruffle the feathers of greater prairie chicken populations, according to the results of a seven-year study from a Kansas State University ecologist and his team.

The researchers - led

by Brett Sandercock, professor of biology - discovered that wind turbines have little effect on greater prairie chickens, and that these grassland

birds are more affected by rangeland management practices and by the availability of native prairie and vegetation cover at nest sites.

Unexpectedly, the scientists also found that female survival rates increased after wind turbines were installed.

With the arrival of wind energy projects in Kansas and throughout the Plains, Sandercock and his team

were part of a consortium of stakeholders - including conservationists, wildlife agencies and wind energy companies - who studied how these wind projects influence grassland birds.

“We had a lot of buyin from stakeholders and we had an effective oversight committee,” said Sandercock, who studies grassland birds. “The research will certainly aid with wind power site

guidelines and with the development of mitigation strategies to enhance habitat conditions for the greater prairie chicken.”

The greater prairie chicken was once abundant across the central Plains, but populations have declined because of habitat loss and human development. The chickens now are primarily found in the Great Plains (See CHICKENS on page 28)

Looking at farm vs non-farm income While spending on food nutrition programs has been a key issue in the farm bill debate, both the proposed spending and structure of the farm safety net impacted at least some, maybe many, votes.

Thus, the decision by the House of Representatives suggests the U.S. is now fully engaged in a major

debate about the future of its farm safety net.

These types of debates are more about the big policy picture than about specific policy parameters, such as the level of target prices. This post specifically examines the issue of farm income relative to the income for the rest of the U.S.

Average income of U.S. farm households has exceeded average income of all U.S. households every year since 1996, a full decade before the start of the recent farm prosperity. Moreover, since 1972, income of farm households has exceeded income of all households in 67% of the years.

The major exception is 1979 through 1984, a period that overlaps with the farm financial crisis.

For a more detailed discussion comparing U.S. farm household and all U.S. household income see the USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) website.

(See INCOME on page 27)

Immigration reform must address farms’ needs America’s farmers and ranchers need a balanced immigration reform bill that includes a fair and workable farm labor provision. That is what we got in June. When the Senate passed S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity,

Beef imports from Mexico down again U.S. cattle imports for 2013 are forecast at 2.05 million head, about nine percent lower than a year ago.

While imports from Canada are expected to rise, a fall in imports from Mexico will offset the gain.

According to AMS weekly reports, cattle imports from Mexico through July 6 were 45 percent below year-earlier levels, a reflection of smaller inventories in Mexico. Reports show that imports from Canada are 36 percent higher than the previous year due to a significant rise in imports of feeder and slaughter cattle.

Total cattle imports for 2014 are forecast at two million head, or 2.5 percent lower than 2013 levels.

Lower beef output in ‘13 The latest USDA world report forecasts lower beef production compared to 2013.

The USDA has lowered its beef production projection by 100 million pounds for the year. The new estimate is 576 million lower than totals in 2012.

Looking ahead to annual beef production in 2014, the USDA remains steady on its prediction of 24.1 billion, over 1.8 billion lower than the 2012 figure.

ag outlook

Bob Stallman, president American Farm Bureau

and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013, it was welcomed by farmers and ranchers.

Passage of the Senate

bill was the first step toward securing a comprehensive agricultural labor plan that works for all sectors of agriculture and across all regions of our nation. The Senate-passed bill will help ensure an adequate supply of farm labor. It also provides

increased surveillance of high-risk areas along our borders.

Even with that progress, much work remains as we now focus on the House, where we will continue to work toward passage of responsible immigration reform leg-

CRP emergency haying, grazing for area counties

The Farm Service Agency (FSA), has announced that emergency haying and grazing of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acreage is now in effect for 66 counties in Kansas.

Counties in which emergency haying and grazing are allowed include Scott, Lane, Wichita, Logan, Finney and Greeley.

The Kansas FSA State Committee used their authority with the D2 Severe drought designation once the primary nesting and brood rearing season concluded on July 15.

“This authorization provides relief for many Kansas livestock producers who have suffered through severe drought conditions,” according to Adrian Polansky, State Executive Director for Kansas FSA. “Many livestock producers cannot maintain their current herds without implementation of CRP emergency haying and grazing.”

Due to multiple years of drought and concerns for long term negative impacts to the sustainability of the grass, the Kansas FSA State Committee determined that all 2013 emergency haying and grazing activities will be limited to specific acreage that was not utilized for haying or grazing in 2011 and 2012. This includes all prior 2011 or 2012 grazing or haying activity under emergency or managed practices.

An exception is available in areas where adequate moisture conditions have permitted sufficient cover growth and vigor which justifies

future use as determined on a county or area basis within the county.

Current CRP enrollment in Kansas is 2.3 million acres. The haying and grazing acreage utilized in 2011 and 2012 plus ineligible continuous CRP acreage totals 950,000 acres.

This leaves a balance of over 1.3 million CRP acres to be used for haying and grazing in 2013 in addition to the acreage meeting the adequate moisture exception.

Emergency haying in approved counties is allowed through August 15. Participants must leave at least 50 percent of each field or contiguous CRP field un-hayed for wildlife.

Hay must be removed from the field within 30 days from the end of the haying period. Hay cannot be sold. Producers without livestock may rent or lease the haying privileges.

Emergency grazing in approved counties is allowed through September 30. The grazing timeframe begins when the individual request is approved.

All livestock must be removed at the end of the grazing period or when the minimum average height reaches 5 inches. Producers without livestock may rent or lease the grazing privileges.

CRP participants in approved counties shall contact the local FSA county office to request emergency haying or grazing on an individual contract basis prior to haying or grazing.

islation that includes an earned adjustment for experienced, undocumented agricultural workers and a new, flexible guestworker program.

Helping members of Congress and the public understand that farmers and ranchers depend on

the workers who show up every day to tend our crops and raise livestock has been challenging at times. However, we press on because we know responsible immigration reform is imperative for the continued success of (See REFORM on page 27)

Market Report Closing prices on July 16, 2013 Winona Feed and Grain Bartlett Grain Wheat.................. $ 6.81 Wheat.................. $ 6.88 White Wheat ....... $ 7.11 White Wheat ....... $ 7.18 Milo (bu.) ............ $ 6.10 Corn.................... $ 6.80 Milo (bu.)............. $ 6.10 Soybeans............ $ 15.35 Corn.................... $ 6.80 Scott City Cooperative Wheat.................. $ 6.88 White Wheat ....... $ 7.18 Milo (bu.)............. $ 6.10 Corn.................... $ 6.80 Soybeans ........... $ 15.35 Sunflowers.......... $ 21.55

Weather July 9

July 10 July 11

July 12

ADM Grain Wheat..................

Milo (bu.).............

Corn....................

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Deadline extension for acre reports The Farm Service Agency (FSA) has announced an extension of the FSA acreage reporting deadline.

Farmers and landowners have an additional 18 calendar days - until Fri., Aug. 2 - to submit their annual report of acreage to their local FSA office.

The acreage reporting requirement for crop insurance did not change.

Accurate acreage reports are necessary to determine and maintain eligibility for various programs, such as the Direct and Countercyclical Program (DCP); the Average Crop Revenue Election Program (ACRE); the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP); and the Non-insured Crop Disaster Assistant Program (NAP).

Farmers are reminded to report any loss within 72 hours of discovery to their insurance company. Farmers must report prevented planting acreage to their insurance company, in writing, within 15 calendar days after the final planting date.

Losses must be reported and an insurance adjuster must view and release the crop before the crop is destroyed.

Reform (continued from page 26)

American agriculture.

A point that we must continue to drive home is that one of the best ways to improve border security is to create a legal, workable way for farmworkers to enter our country. With less time and resources wasted locking up lettuce harvesters, the focus can shift to where it properly belongs: keeping those with criminal intentions out of our country.

Although the specific labor needs of farmers across our nation vary, we will all benefit from immigration reform.

We need a solution that addresses agriculture’s unique labor needs with a market-based, flexible agricultural worker program, which reflects real-life workforce challenges for all crop and livestock producers.

Reforms to our broken immigration system will assure that farmers and ranchers have a legal, stable supply of workers, both in the short and long term, for all types of agriculture.

It is our preference to grow our nation’s food in our nation, and having the labor required to do that is in the best interest of all Americans.

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Agriculture is the next big economic boom Even as the cattle industry in northern Australia struggles, a former Queensland Treasurer sees big profits ahead with Asia’s expanding middle class demanding more protein in their diet.

Other industry experts have also noted the opportunities in Asia, in addition to the future food production needed to meet demand of a growing world population

Income Average household incomes can be compared back to 1960. In 1960, average farm household income was 65% of average U.S. household income. Thus, over the last half century, farm household income has increased substantially relative to income of U.S. households.

To obtain a longer historical perspective, USDA published a comparison of per capita (per person) personal income from 1934 through 1983. In 1934, per person disposable income of farms was 39% of U.S. per person disposable income. By 1983, the ratio was 69%.

The ratio of farm household income to all U.S. household income usually exceeds the ratio of per person disposable income because farm households are larger on average than nonfarm households.

Caution is always in order when conducting a comparison over time and when comparing across different data sets.

Nevertheless, the trend is so strong that it is difficult to argue that farm income is not substantially higher relative to nonfarm income now than when farm programs began in 1933.

expected to pass nine billion in 2050.

The cattle industry prediction comes from former Macarthur Coal chairman Keith De Lacy, who the Queensland Country Life says presided over Macarthur Coal from its listing in 2001 to the time it topped $5 billion a decade later.

“My view is the next big boom will be the soft commodities boom

dependent upon feeding a hungry world,” De Lacy said.

The coal market has been declining lately and De Lacy is working on his next project to capitalize on the current state of the market. He’s eyeing Asia’s booming middle class and his country’s cattle industry, which he expects to make a timely recovery.

Along with fel-

Role of Nonfarm Income The increase in farm income relative to nonfarm income is the result of many factors, but two stand out. One is the increasing size of the farm production unit, which in turn is partially driven by technology.

The second is the increasing role of nonfarm income (also referred to as off-farm income).

Nonfarm income comes from varied sources. The majority are wages and salaries from off-farm jobs, followed by transfers, such as Social Security, and income from nonfarm businesses. Farm income provided over 60% of per capita income of the U.S. farm population in the 1940s and 1950s.

In contrast, farm income has provided less than 15% of all income of

and rearing cattle.

He will avoid the capital intensive end of the cycle, finishing and processing cattle, where more trouble can arise.

The project is already attracting global investors, including Archer Daniels Midland. He plans to collect more interest, both foreign and domestic, before his company makes an initial public offering.

Corn

(continued from page 26)

This historical perspective is relevant for the current debate because farm programs were adopted in part as a response to the poverty of the U.S. farm population, which was 25% of U.S. population in 1930. Critics of farm policy commonly mention this historical change in relative economic status.

low investors, De Lacy has created a new company, The Staples and Agricultural Global Beef Investment, also known as STAG Beef.

The company will invest in Australia’s cattle industry which has many distressed sellers hurt by a ban on live exports and dry weather. De Lacy could invest up to $100 million with plans to focus solely on breeding

farm households in recent years, even including the farm prosperity years since 2005.

Supporters of farm programs are quick to point out that the role of nonfarm income is smaller on larger farms, which produce the majority of U.S. farm output. Farms with gross sales of $250,000 or more in 2011 accounted for 82% of the value of U.S. farm production in 2011.

While nonfarm sources accounted for only 25% of the household income of these farms, their total household income averaged $205,215 or 194% more than the average U.S. household income for 2011.

Thus, it is not clear that focusing on larger U.S. farms necessarily strengthens the argument for a U.S. farm safety net policy.

It is worth noting that, while nonfarm income is a smaller share of household income on larger farms, it is not small on average. Off-farm income of farms with over $250,000 in farm sales in 2011 exceeded $50,000, which is 72% of the U.S. average household income in 2011.

(continued from page 26)

A couple factors likely led to the discrepancy. First, many of the pre-release expectations bantered about in the industry tend to be based on anecdotal evidence and examples of planting problems, etc. While important to the localized acres and farmers affected, it doesn’t have as large of an impact on national numbers as would be expected by aggregating that kind of information to the entire country.

Second, although the March Prospective Plantings numbers were the best survey-based estimate of planted acres until the latest report, forecasted profit margins available in April and May would have suggested both corn and soybean acres could be substantially higher from what farmers reported to USDA on March 1.

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What to look for in identifying ash borer Johnson County has a new, unwelcome resident.

The Kansas Department of Agriculture confirmed July 15 that a destructive beetle called the emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis, has been found in Johnson County.

The invasive, woodboring pest can infest and kill native ash trees, including saplings to fully mature trees, according to Nicole Opbroek, Kansas Forest Service forest health specialist.

The EAB news prompted the KDA to implement an emergency intrastate quarantine for Johnson County, similar to a permanent quarantine in place for Wyandotte County, where EAB was confirmed in August 2012. Wyandotte and Johnson counties are the only two Kansas counties where EAB has been found.

The quarantine applies to individuals, companies and government agen-

cies, among others, and prohibits movement from the quarantined area of firewood of all hardwood species; Ash (Fraxinus) trees including nursery stock and green lumber, as well as wood chips, logs, stumps and branches of trees. More information about the quarantine order is available at https:// agriculture.ks.gov/docs/ default-source/pp-emerald-ash-borer/emeraldash-borer-.pdf?sfvrsn=0.

Opbroek said there are several things property owners can do to help in detection and to impede the spread of the pest, which include: •Don’t move firewood.

EAB can be transported long distances in firewood. When you camp, leave your wood at home.

Buy only local firewood, and burn it before you leave. Once transported into new areas, EAB can become established and kill local trees.

•When planting new trees, avoid planting ash

Vegetable plants not producing? May be shortage of pollinators You’ve set the stage - planted healthy vegetable plants, then watered, weeded and waited. And now your vegetables are blooming, but not producing fruit.

Situations where vegetable plants are flowering, but not setting fruit may indicate a problem with flower pollination, according to Kansas State University horticulturist Ward Upham.

“There may be several reasons for pollination problems, which usually vary by species,” Upham said. “One condition that can affect several species at the same time is over fertilization. Too much nitrogen causes the plant to emphasize vegetative growth, often to the detriment of fruit production.”

Over fertilization can lead to a delay in flower production and a decrease in fruit set among the flowers produced, Upham said.

Squash, cucumbers, watermelon, and muskmelon can have a couple of other problems, he added.

The early flowers on these plants are usually all male. The production of both male and female flowers becomes more balanced as time passes.

You can easily tell the difference between the two because only the female flower has a tiny fruit behind the blossom, he said. If you have both, have not over-fertilized, and still have a problem, make sure you have pollinators. Look for the presence of bees visiting the plants.

If you don’t see any, try hand-pollinating several flowers by using a painter’s brush to transfer pollen from the anther of the male flower to the stigma of the female flower.

“If you get fruit on only those flowers you pollinated, you need more pollinators. Make sure you aren’t killing them with overuse or misuse of insecticides,” Upham said.

Tomatoes are wind pollinated and therefore not dependent on pollinators. But they have another possible problem, which is temperature.

Tomatoes normally won’t set if the night temperature is below 50 degrees due to sparse pollen production. They also won’t set when nighttime temperatures are above 75 degrees and daytime temperatures are above 95 degrees with dry, hot winds.

trees.

•Emerald ash borer only attacks ash trees, so it’s important to determine if your trees are ash trees. Ash tree branches have opposites growing on either side of the main branch, rather than a branch on one side and another 2-3 inches further down on the other side.

•If you have an ash tree, assess its health.

Look for sparse leaves or branches dying in the upper part of the tree, vertical splits in the bark, new sprouts on the roots or lower trunk or branches, increased woodpecker activity, winding s-shaped tunnels under the bark or light-colored larvae with bell-shaped segments just under the bark.

Two or more of these symptoms may indicate a problem.

•Check for holes in ash trees. What shape are they? EAB makes D-shaped holes (not round or oval).

•If you’re unsure if your ash tree has EAB, call your local extension office www.ksre.ksu. edu or a certified arborist http://www.treesaregood.org/findtreeservices/ FindTreeCareService. aspx.

“Unfortunately, we all knew that this day could come,” said Dennis Patton, horticulture agent for Johnson County K-State Extension. “Ash has been a very popular and beloved tree, and now we are faced with losing them. The best recommendation at this time is not to panic.

“You have time to assess your situation and determine the best course of action, which can range from treatment to letting nature run its course. We are not sure at this time how fast EAB will move through the area. This issue also underscores the importance of planting a mix of trees.”

The widespread

Chickens in Kansas - particularly the Smoky Hills and the Flint Hills - where the largest tracts of prairie remain.

Study Began in ‘06 Sandercock and his team started their study in 2006 with three field sites that were chosen for wind development: a site in the Smoky Hills in north-central Kansas, in the northern Flint Hills in northeastern Kansas and a site in the southern Flint Hills in southern Kansas.

The Smoky Hills site - the Meridian Way Wind Power Facility near Concordia - was developed into a wind energy site, which gave researchers the opportunity to observe greater prairie chickens before, during and after wind turbine construction.

The researchers cooperated and collaborated with private landowners at each site.

Researchers studied the birds for seven breed-

Ash borer quick facts •Emerald ash borer (EAB) has been found in 20 states.

•EAB’s native range includes China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the Russian Far East.

•EAB was first found in the United States in southeast Michigan in 2002.

•EAB is an enormous threat to U.S. urban, suburban and rural forests. It kills stressed and healthy trees.

•Ash trees are as important ecologically in the forests of the northeastern United States as they are economically. They fill gaps in the forest and are highly desirable for urban tree planting.

•Ash wood is valued for flooring, furniture, sports equipment (baseball bats, hockey sticks, oars), tool handles, and supplies for dairies, poultry operations and beekeepers.

drought stress that shade trees have been experiencing the past two years, has made trees even more vulnerable to insect attacks than usual, including the emerald ash borer, Patton said.

Before any action is taken, it’s important to assess the health and value of the tree, he said.

Preventive treatment options are available, but should only be considered for trees that are healthy and a value to the landscape.

More information is available at www.kansasforests.org/programs/ health/eab.shtml and http://www.johnson.ksu. edu/p.aspx?tabid=1270.

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ing seasons and captured nearly 1,000 total male and female birds around lek sites, which are communal areas where males gather and make calls to attract females. Females mate with the males and then hide nests in tall prairie grass.

The scientists researched many different features of prairie chickens and their biology: patterns of nest site selection; reproductive components, such as clutch size, timing of laying eggs and hatchability of eggs; survival rates; and population viability.

No Adverse Effect “We don’t have evidence for really strong effects of wind power on prairie chickens or their reproduction,” Sandercock said. “We have some evidence for females avoiding the turbines, but the avoidance within the home range doesn’t seem to have an

impact on nest site selection or nest survival.”

The results are somewhat surprising, especially because similar studies have shown that oil and gas development affect prairie chickens, Sandercock said.

With wind power development, the researchers had the unexpected result of female survival rates increasing after wind turbines were installed, potentially because wind turbines may keep predators away from nest sites.

Female mortality rates are highest during the breeding season because females are more focused on protecting clutches than avoiding predators, Sandercock said.

“What’s quite typical for these birds is most of the demographic losses are driven by predation. We can say that with confidence,” Sandercock said. “What’s a little unclear from our results is whether that increase in

female survivorship was due to the effects of wind turbines on predators.”

Conservation Practices The researchers also found that conservation management practices seem to have the strongest effect on the birds, Sandercock said. Prairie chickens are ground-nesting birds and need adequate cover for their nests to survive.

Grazing and fire management practices can affect how much nesting cover is available for chickens.

“A lot of what drives nest survival is the local conditions around the nest,” Sandercock said.

“Do they have good nesting cover or not?

Our results are important because they suggest ways for mitigation.”

The team is conducting follow-up studies to test mitigation strategies that may improve habitat conditions for prairie chickens.

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PC Painting, Inc. Paul Cramer 620-290-2410 620-872-8910 www.pcpaintinginc.com

Pro Ex II

Over 20 Years Experience

Professional Extermination Commercial & Residential

Medical

Specializing in all coatings

Area Mental Health Center SERVICES PROVIDED:

Marriage and Family Therapy • Individual Psychotherapy Psychiatric Evaluations • Drug and Alcohol Counseling Mediation • Child Psychology • Psychological Evaluations • Group Therapy Pre-Marital Counseling

24-hour Emergency Answering Service

210 W. 4th • Scott City • 872-5338

• Termites • Rodents • Soil Sterilization • Pre Treats • Lawn Care • Fly Parasites

Charles Purma II D.D.S. P.A. General Dentistry, Cosmetics, and Insurance Accepted

We welcome new patients.

John Kropp, Owner • Scott City 874-2023 (cell) • 872-3400 (office) • prox2@live.com

324 N. Main • Scott City • 872-2389 Residence 872-5933

Cell: 874-4486 • Office 872-2101

ELLIS AG SERVICES

Horizon Health

• Custom Manure Conditioning • Hauling and Spreading • Custom Swathing and Baling • Rounds-Net or Twine • Gyp and Sand Sales • Pickup or Delivery

For your home medical supply and equipment needs!

We service and repair all that we sell.

1602 S. Main • Scott City • 872-2232 Toll Free : 1-866-672-2232

Call Brittan Ellis • 620-874-5160

Automotive Willie’s Auto A/C Repair

SPENCER PEST CONTROL

Pro Health Chiropractic Wellness Center

RESIDENTIAL – COMMERCIAL

(Scott City Chiropractic) “TLC”...

Technology Lead Chiropractic

Termite Baiting Systems • Rodents Weed Control • Structural Insects Termite Control

Willie Augerot Complete A/C Service Mechanic Work and Diagnostics Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Dr. James Yager • Dr. Marlyn Swayne Dr. Robert Fritz 110 W. 4th St. • Scott City • 872-2310 Toll Free: 800-203-9606

Box 258, Scott City • (620) 872-2870

404 Kingsley • Scott City • 874-1379

Turner Sheet Metal

Heating & Air Conditioning

Heating & Cooling Systems Since 1904

Optometrist 20/20 Optometry

Commercial & Residential 1851 S. Hwy. 83 • Scott City 872-2954 Shop • 1-800-201-2954

Dr. Jeffrey A. Heyd

Ron Turner Owner

Treatment of Ocular Disease • Glaucoma Detection Children’s Vision • Glasses • Contact Lenses

Complete family eye center!

106 W. 4th • Scott City • 872-2020 • Emergencies: 872-2736

Construction/Home Repair

CHAMBLESS ROOFING Residential

All Types of Roofing

Commercial

Cedar Shake and Shingle Specialists Return to Craftsmanship Attention to Detail and Quality Guaranteed 620-872-2679 • 1-800-401-2683

Walker Plumbing, Inc. Backhoe & Trenching services • Irrigation & gas leak repairs • Full-line irrigation parts T-L center pivot dealer Floor heat systems Pump & install septic systems Boring equipment

423 S. Mesquite Rd. • Scott City • 872-2130

Doctor of Chiropractic • Insurance Accepted 115 N. 4th Street • Leoti, KS 67861 Office: (620) 375-5222 • Fax: (620) 375-5223

Daniel R. Dunn, MD Family Practice

872-2187

William Slater, MD General Surgeon

Christian E. Cupp, MD Ryan Michaels, PA Family Practice

Precision Land Forming of terraces and waterways; feed lot pens and ponds; building site preparation; lazer equipped (Home) 872-3057 • 877-872-3057 (Cell) 872-1793

Brent Porter, D.C.

Scott City Clinic

Dirks Earthmoving Co.

Richard Dirks • Scott City, Ks.

Family Dynamics

Libby Hineman, MD Family Practice

Certified Physician Assistant

Megan Dirks, AP, RN-BC

Josiah Brinkley, MD Family Practice

Landscaping • Lawn/Trees

Berning Tree Service David Berning • Marienthal

620-379-4430

Tree Trimming and Removal Hedge and Evergreen Trimming Stump Removal

Fully Insured

Scott City Myofascial Release Sandy Cauthon RN

105 1/2 W. 11th St. Scott City 620-874-1813

Call me to schedule your Myofascial Release

Retail

Call today for a Greener Healthier Lawn

Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

www.reganjewelers.com

Owner, Chris Lebbin • 620-214-4469

412 N. Main • Garden City • 620-275-5142

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Your RadioShack Dealer Two-way Radio Sales & Service Locally owned and operated since 1990

1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625

PC Cleaning Services, Inc. We'll clean your home, business or do remodeling clean-up Available seven days a week!

Paul Cramer, Owner

620-290-2410

LM Wild Animal Eviction Service Control, capture and removal of nuisance animals.

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Coyotes, pigeons, Let’s BOOcT ters it r y k raccoons, skunks, them pes snakes, rabbits and more.

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Gene’s Appliance Over 200 appliances in stock!

COMPARE OUR PRICES!

We have Reverse Osmosis units in stock.

Remember us for parts in stock for all brands of all appliances.

Sales and Service Days • Mon. - Sat. Deliveries • Mon.-Sat.

Largest Frigidaire appliance dealer in Western Ks. 508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686

Dining

Computer Sales, Service and Repair Custom computers!

Networking solutions!

Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300

C-Mor-Butz BBQ

Barbecue, the only sport where a fat bald man is a GOD...

& Catering

Kyle Lausch 620-872-4209

Bryan Mulligan & Chris Price 620-874-8301 & 620-874-1285

Services

www.cmorbutzbbq.com • cmorbutzbbq@gmail.com

District 11 AA Meetings

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Providing internet, phone, email, networking solutions, webhosting and IP-based security camera systems.

(620) 872-0006 • 1-866-872-0006

Fur-Fection

For Sale HAPPY JACK SKIN BALM. Stops scratching and gnawing. Promotes healing and hair growth on dogs and cats suffering from grass and flea allergies without steroids.

Orscheln Farm and Home. www.happyjackinc.com.

Help Wanted WATER/WASTEWATER operator for Anthony, Ks. High school diploma/GED and valid driver's license required. Applications and complete job description available at: www.anthonykansas.org.

620-842-5434. Open until filled. EOE. ––––––––––––––––––––– FOREMEN TO LEAD utility field crews. Outdoor physical work, many positions, paid training, $17-$21/hr. plus weekly performance bonuses after promotion. Living allowance when traveling.

Company truck and benefits. Must have strong leadership skills, good driving history and able to travel throughout eastern Kansas. Email resume to Recruiter6@osmose.com or apply online at www.

OsmoseUtilities.com.

EOE M/F/D/V

Lee Mazanec (620) 874-5238

Networktronic, Inc.

Kansas Classifieds Ad Network

The classified ads below are appearing in 147 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 500,000 the classified display ads appear in 142 Kansas newspapers with a total circulation of 457,000. KCAN line ad is $300 for up to 25 words and $12 each additional word. A 2x2 display ad is $800 per insertion and a 2x4 display ad is $1,650 per insertion. To find out more, contact The Scott County Record at 872-2090.

Unity and Hope Mon., Wed. and Fri. • 8:00 p.m.

807 Kingsley Last Sat., Birthday Night, 6:30 p.m.

All open meetings, 874-8207 • 874-8118

Tuesday • 8:30 p.m.

United Methodist Church, 412 College A.A. • Al-Anon, 872-3137 • 872-3343

Dighton

Thursday • 8:30 p.m.

535 Wichita St. All open meetings, 397-5679 • 397-2647

Auction ON-LINE GOVERNMENT surplus sales.

GovDeals.com.

City, county and state surplus.

Seized and confiscated property. Heavy equipment, trucks, vehicles, computers. www.GovDeals.com.

800-6130156, ext. 2. info@govdeals.com.

Education CAN YOU DIG IT? Heavy equipment operator school. Three weeks, hands-on training. Bulldozers, backhoes, excavators. National certifications. Lifetime job placement assistance. VA benefits Eligible! 1-866362-6497.

––––––––––––––––––––– NEED CLASS A CDL training? Start a career in trucking today. Swift Academies offer PTDI certified courses and offer best-in-class training.

New Academy classes weekly. No money down or credit check. Certified mentors ready and available. Paid (while training with mentor). Regional and dedicated opportunities. Great career path.

Excellent benefits package. Please call: (602) 714-9455.

Notice GUN SHOW. July 2021. Sat., 9:00-5:00; Sun., 9:00-4:00. Century II Exhibition Hall, Wichita (225 W. Douglas) BuySell-Trade. For info: (563) 927-8176.

Truck Driving EXPERIENCED FLATBED drivers. Regional opportunities now open with plenty of freight and great pay. 800-277-0212 or primeinc.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– PARTNERS IN EXCELLENCE. OTR drivers. APU equipped PrePass EZ-pass passenger policy. 2012 and newer equipment. 100% notouch. Butler Transport, 1-800-528-7825.

––––––––––––––––––––– TRAINING. Class ACDL. Train and work for us. Professional and focused training for your Class A CDL. You choose between company driver, owner/operator, lease operator or lease trainer.

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Weekly Word Search Berning Auction “Don’t Trust Your Auction to Just Anyone”

For all your auction needs call:

(620) 375-4130

Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti

Northend Disposal A garbologist company.

Scott City • 872-1223 • 1-800-303-3371

Agreed Amount Angry Balcony Beggar Boxer Cared Chair Chords Claws Cling Clubs Congratulating Curls Eight Either Environment Error Flown Forms Guitar Halls Hostile Italy Likes Loser

Masks Mathematical Mound Naval Nearest Nickel Nuclear Pearl Plurals Raises Refrigerator Rides Rings Ripen Rusty Stanza Super Teething Thirds Truck

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Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009

FREE KITTENS

Ready to go. Litter box trained.

Call now, 620-214-2113.

House for sale in Scott City

Well-built home on double corner lot, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, lots of built-in storage, over 2,400 sq. ft., plus 3 season, screened porch, DA garage. Established yard with sprinkler system. Call 620-353-9933.

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For Sale

Real Estate

Call Clyde or Stephanie when you are ready to market your home, commercial property or farm real estate.

We are in need of a large commercial building, 3, 4 and 5 bedroom homes. Also farmsteads with some acreage and larger acreages with or without inprovement.

THOMAS REAL ESTATE www.thomasreal-estate.com

914 W. 12th St. Scott City, KS 67871 Clyde: 620-872-7396 • Cell 620-874-1753 Stephanie: 620-874-5002

NEW ON THE MARKET

Rentals

Agriculture

HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available. Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, (620) 874-2120.

41tfc ––––––––––––––––––– PLAINJANS has houses and storage units available to rent. Call 620-872-5777 or stop

by PlainJans at 511 Monroe.

28tfc ––––––––––––––––––– TRAILER SPACE AVAILABLE for 16x80’, 14x70’ and double wide trailers with off-street parking.

Call 620-872-3621.

45tfc ––––––––––––––––––– FOR RENT: 3 bedroom house, central heating and air, offstreet parking. Available in 4-6 weeks, Call for an application. (620) 8744050.

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WANTED TO BUY: Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information. 1-800-5793645. Lane County Feeder, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––– WANTED TO BUY: Wheat straw delivered.

Call for contracting information. Lane County Feeders. 397-5341.

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Pets FREE KITTIES ready to go. Litter box trained.

Call now, 620-2142113.

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Under New Management Pine Village Apartments 300 E. Nonnamaker

Tri-level brick, SA garage, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, all appliances stay, large yard, wood fence, storage shed, quiet neighorhood.

Apartments available for qualifying tenants 62+ or disabled with rental assistance available.

Hours: Tues., 10:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. by appointment Call Steve 872-2535 or (620) 255-4824.

Room to Roam

The whole family will have their own space in this lovely 5 bedroom BRICK home! 2 baths, cool family room, storage, fenced yard, covered patio, SA garage.

NOTHING TO DOJUST MOVE IN. REDUCED $143,500.

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Garage Sales July 20 Craft Sale 711 Church St. Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - noon Homemade crafts.

Bring in your Garage Sales by Monday at 5:00 p.m.

(No Rainy day refunds)

and Associates

Deb Lawrence, GRI Broker Shorty Lawrence, Sales Assoc.

513 Main • Scott City 872-5267 ofc. 872-7184 hm. lawrenceandassocrealty.com Sheila Ellis, Broker Assoc.

872-2056 Kerry Gough, Sales Assoc.

872-7337 Russell Berning, 874-4405 www.berningauction.com

FOR SALE: Black Angus Bulls, registered, tested, guarantee, excellent bloodlines, confirmation and performance, discounts. Contact: Black Velvet Ranch, Aaron Plunkett, Syracuse. 620384-1101.

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Classified Ad Deadline: Monday at 5:00 p.m. Classified Ad Rate: 20¢ per word. Minimum charge, $5. Blind ad: $2.50 per week extra. Card of thanks: 10¢ per word.

Minimum charge, $3. Classified Display Ad rate: $5.50 per column inch. Classified advertising must be paid in advance unless business account is established. If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge. Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.

Services

Help Wanted

WANTED: Yards to mow and clean-up, etc.

Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 874-4135.

34tfc ––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing, lawn mower spring tune-up and blade sharpening.

Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 874-1412.

36tfc ––––––––––––––––––– MOWER REPAIR, tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Rob Vsetecka 620-2141730.

36tfc ––––––––––––––––––– METAL ROOFING, SIDING, and TRIMS at direct to the public prices. Call Metal King Mfg., 620-872-5464.

Our prices will not be beat!

37tfc ––––––––––––––––––– NOW DOING MENDING, SEWING, alterations and custom sewing. Call Jade 620214-2546.

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HELP WANTED Midwest Mixer Service, LLC. Welder/mechanic.

Pay depends on experience. EOE but must have ability to understand and speak English. Health, dental, vacation, 401K. Applications available at front desk. 40 E. Road 160, Scott City. Contact Galen - 620-872-7251 46t4c ––––––––––––––––––– SEEKING hard-working sales consultants.

Competitive pay and great benefit package!

Apply in person or call to schedule interview.

EOE Burtis Motor Company, Inc., 601 W. Kansas Ave., Garden City, 620-275-6171.

48t2c ––––––––––––––––––– NW KS FORD DEALER in a progressive community currently seeking a full-time Service Technician. Established business of over 40 years. $15.00 per hour, attractive benefit package, college town, great place to live and work. Contact Chris at Tubbs & Sons Ford Sales Inc., 810 S. Range, Colby, KS 67701, (800) 369-3673, mtubbs@sttel.net.

49t2c ––––––––––––––––––– HOMESTEAD HEALTH and Rehabilitation, Garden City has full-time and part-time positions for LPN’s and RN’s, please apply at www.midwest-health. com/careers.

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––––––––––––––––––– LOOKING TO BUY CRP hay standing. Call Brittan at 620-8745160.

49t1c ––––––––––––––––––– CREWS AVAILABLE for field roguing.

15-years experience, references available.

Jesus O. Castillo (620) 214-2537.

48t6p ––––––––––––––––––– BLADE PLOW/ FALLOWMASTER LEVELING repair, upgrades. FACTORY DIRECT PICKER SALES, DELIVERY, INSTALLATION RogReal Estate er Kuntz, K-TECH, 785-673-5560. 49t1p RENOVATED 4 BEDROOM HOUSE FOR SALE Brand new kitchen, new wood and tile floors, beautiful lighting throughout, french doors leading • Apartments available to a spacious backyard and patio, DA garage, • Rental assistance main floor laundry, paravailable tial downstairs with half Open to general public, bath. Serious inquires singles and couples, call Dale Holterman, housing project is now 620-874-1100. 47t3c taking applications for apartments.

Equal opportunity housing project.

Pheasant Cove Apartments

1411 1/2 Myrtle Call 872-5458 32tfc

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Employment Opportunities Help Wanted We are a Quality Driven Company looking for Quality Driven Employees in Western Kansas.

Construction experience or Mechanical Aptitude preferred for Mill-Wright, Welding and Steel Fabrication duties.

Will train the RIGHT person.

Prefer applicants with a clean driving record and current license. CDL is a PLUS. Top pay and benefit package DOE. Call Doug at Mill-Tech Services (620) 214-4745 for application.

Regional Manager

Is seeking qualified individuals for the following positions:

MachineryLink, the leading and fastest growing provider of combine leasing programs to agricultural producers, is seeking a Regional Manager to be responsible for the sales strategy, execution and performance for western Kansas.

Night Watchman We offer competitive pay and benefits, including health insurance, employee beef, and 401(k) profit sharing plan.

Applicants can visit our main office (6 ½ miles west of Scott City on Highway 96) for an application. Contact Tom West, or Joe Megert at (620) 872-5328 for more information.

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Park Lane Nursing Home “Quality Care Because We Care” Has openings for the following positions:

HRC Feed Yards, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer

This position works out of a home office and includes a vehicle with fuel card, laptop, iPad and expense reimbursement.

For detailed information about this job, please visit www.machinerylink.com. To apply, please send resume to: careers@machinerylink.com or fax to 816-329-0307. EOE

P.O. Box 224, 6550 West Highway 96, Scott City, KS 67871

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Full-time night-shift RN/ LPN (10:00 p.m. - 6:00 a.m.)

Full-time night-shift CNA (Midnight-8:00 a.m.)

Part-time evening shift CNA (2:00 - 10:00 p.m.)

Pre-Op/Post-Op/PACU RN Scott County Hospital Operating Room has an opening for a part-time Pre-Op/PostOp/PACU RN.

Shift differential offered for evening and night shifts!

Please apply in person at: Park Lane Nursing Home 210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org Fill out application and return to human resources.

HRC Feedyards

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Dispatcher The Lane County Sheriff’s Office, Dighton, is taking applications for one full-time AND one part-time 911 dispatcher/call-taker.

Must be 18, possess HS Diploma or equivalent, have NO felony or serious misdemeanor convictions, pass drug screening and criminal background check and be able to work well with the public.

Basic computer operating experience and operation of other office equipment required.

The Sheriff’s Office offers competitive wages and is an EOE. Please call or stop by the Lane County Sheriff’s Office for an application. 620-397-2828.

Applications will be taken until positions are filled.

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HR Benefits Specialist Scott County Hospital is seeking an HR Benefits Specialist. This is a full-time Monday Friday position. No weekends or holidays.

Applicants must have competent reasoning and deductive thinking skills, and excellent customer service skills.

The successful candidate will have proficient computer skills and be competent with Excel and Microsoft Word. Applicants must be responsible, dependable and interested in long-term employment. Associate degree in business, personnel management, human resources or 3-5 years of experience required.

Primary purpose of position is to direct the employee benefit programs, personnel record management, orientation and on-boarding of new staff.

We offer competitive wages and excellent benefits.

Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screen, immunization titer, preemployment physical assessment and TB skin test required. Scott County Hospital is a tobacco free facility.

Applications available through Human Resources: Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, KS 67871 (620) 872-7772 and on our website: www.scotthospital.net

Must be a RN. Will work 20 hours per week.

No call or weekends. Must be flexible and a team player.

We offer competitive wages and excellent benefits.

Pre-employment physical, physical assessment, drug/alcohol screen and TB skin test required. Scott County Hospital is a tobacco free facility.

Applications available through Human Resources: Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, KS 67871 (620) 872-7772 and on our website: www.scotthospital.net Return completed applications to Human Resources.

Executive Director Position Scott City Area Chamber of Commerce is seeking an Executive Director.

Position offers flexible hours. New director will report to a 12 person Board of Directors.

Requirements include: excellent customer service and communication skills, must be a self-starter with good work ethic. Proficiency in QuickBooks is a plus.

Email or mail resume and cover letter to Shawn Powelson at: directorposition@wbsnet.org, 416 S. Main, Scott City, KS 67871.

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Registered Nurses Scott County Hospital is looking for full-time Registered Nurses to join our team of dedicated nursing professionals.

PRN- RN opportunities also available.

WE OFFER: • Diverse Nursing Opportunities • Experienced Nursing Administrative Staff • Excellent Ratios • Wages up to $28.62 for RN’s • PRN RN wage $30.00 (benefits do not apply) • Weekend Option Program (work weekends for six months at premium pay) • Shift and Weekend Differentials • Critical Staffing Pay • Call Pay BENEFITS: • Flexible PTO • Extended Illness Leave • Fully Paid Life Insurance • Fully Paid Long Term Disability Insurance • Partially Paid Health Insurance • 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan • Continuing Education • Reduced Local Health Club Fees • Reduced Broadband Internet Fees Scott County Hospital is a 25-bed CAH located in Scott City, a progressive Western Kansas community of 4000. The friendly hometown atmosphere and newly built and renovated schools provide an excellent place to raise families. Make the most of this great opportunity!

Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screen, TB skin test and physical assessment required. SCH in a tobacco free facility.

Applications available through Human Resources: Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, KS 67871 (620) 872-7772 and on our website: www.scotthospital.net

WE WILL CHALLENGE YOU TO DO THE BEST WORK OF YOUR LIFE AMHC is currently looking to fill the following positions at our Scott City location.

Children’s Case Managers. We work directly with children and their families in their homes, schools and community. These children are experiencing an emotional disturbance and need help to learn new skills and remain safe in their environment. Come be a part of our professional team as we work cooperatively within the agency and with outside providers to meet the needs of our children. A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a related human service field or equivalently qualified by work experience is required. Base pay starting at $12.98/hour, also additional compensation is given for experience.

Mental Health Assistant self-motivated individuals will provide children and youth assistance in the form of support, supervision, and/or cuing that enables children and youth to accomplish tasks and engage in activities in their homes, schools, or communities. Applicants must be 21 years of age. Base pay starting at $10.00/hour, also additional compensation is given for experience.

All candidates must pass KBI, SRS, motor vehicle screens, and have a valid driver’s license and be willing to work flexible hours to meet the needs of the consumer and family.

Benefits Include: Retirement: fully vested at time of employment Health/Dental Insurance: portion of premium paid by AMHC. Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability: premium paid by AMHC. Holiday, Bereavement and Vacation/Sick days Applications are available at: 210 West Fourth, Scott City, KS 67871 or www.areamhc.org Applications/Resumes can be sent to: E-mail hr@areamhc.org faxed to 620-272-0171 AMHC Attn: HR PO Box 1905 Garden City, KS 67846 Serving Southwest Kansas Since 1961

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