The Scott County Record

Aerobatics show thrills spectators at the Scott City airport last weekend

34 Pages • Four Sections

Volume 22 • Number 5

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Published in Scott City, Ks.

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Fire destroys SC landmark; 2 other downtown buildings damaged

The oldest business building in downtown Scott City, dating back to 1907, was destroyed by fire early Monday afternoon.

Fire departments from Scott and Lane counties responded to the fire which destroyed a two-story brick building that was home to Braun’s Butcher Block in the north half and was an empty storefront in the south half.

The building, which was owned by Terry Berning and Louise Berning, is located immediately north of the US83K96 intersection.

Sustaining unknown damage was a brick building on the corner of the intersection which had been occupied

by Bruce’s Carpet and Tile, along with Bling to the north.

Smoke and fire were discovered by business owner Craig Braun shortly after 1:30 p.m. in the back of the building.

Heavy smoke soon blocked traffic on US83 Highway with vehicles being detoured around the fire. For several hours firefighters could be seen pouring water into the building as smoke billowed out of the front and back windows.

By about 3:30-4:00 p.m., as fire was shooting through the roof and was visible from second floor windows on the east side, it was apparent that the building couldn’t be saved. Firefighters had turned their attention to keeping the fire from spreading to nearby buildings and rooftops.

(See HISTORIC on page eight)

A firefighter from the Dighton department looks on as the intensity of flames increase on the second floor and shoot through the roof of the downtown building occupied by Braun’s Butcher Block. (Record Photo)

BLM bringing horse deaths under control Changes made in the diet and feeding conditions at a Scott County feedlot appear to have led to a significant improvement in the health of nearly 1,500 wild horses which were placed there by the Bureau of Land Management.

The BLM was first made aware of an abnormally high death of horses held at Beef Belt, LLC., in early August and sent an inspection team to the site on Aug. 12. At that time 57 horses had already died and, once the team arrived, another 13 were euthanized.

By Aug. 19, the death toll had climbed to 75 and it reached 83 horses by Aug. 29. As of Sept. 8, the number of deaths stood at 90, according to Paul McGuire, public affairs specialist with the BLM’s Oklahoma field office.

“The impact of the changes we’ve made has been positive,” says McGuire.

“We’ve been involved with this situation going on four weeks and we’ve seen a pretty dramatic tapering off (of deaths) in that time.”

He says some of the more recent deaths aren’t necessarily nutrition-related.

“A couple of horses died because of heart attacks. That’s to be expected when you look at the age of many of these horses.”

(See DEATHS on page two)

06 Main, St. Scott City • 620-872-2090 www.scottcountyrecord.com Historic plane was a big attraction at annual air show Page 25

Air show, balloon are a big draw in Scott City

Wilbur Wright and his 3-1/2-year-old grandson Ayden Warta, both of Scott City, enjoy the aerial show at the Scott City Airport on Saturday afternoon.

(Record Photo)

When looking at the weather forecast for last Saturday’s Showdown on the Plains Air Show, it was almost too good to be true for Scott City Chamber of Commerce officials.

No wind? In Western Kansas?

Chamber officials and organizers of the annual air show couldn’t have asked for better conditions and people from throughout the area responded with another huge turnout for what has become one of the premier events in Western Kansas.

For 4-1/2 hours the tethered hot air balloon was giving rides to a steady line of passengers.

The only thing that brought the event to a halt was lack of fuel.

It was a first-time occurrence for hot air balloon professional John Petrehn.

“He said that’s never happened before,” says Shawn Powelson, a Chamber board member and Wheatland Electric employee. Wheatland sponsored the balloon. “He expected conditions to allow only about two

406 Main, St. Scott City • 620-872-2090 www.scottcountyrecord.com Opinion • Pages 4-6 Calendar • Page 7 LEC report • Page 11 Health • Pages 12-13 Deaths • Page 14

Church services • Page 15 Sports • Pages 17-24 Pigskin Payoff • Page 22 Farm section • Pages 26-29 Classified ads • Pages 31-33

Beavers roll over Clearwater in football opener Page 17

(See SHOW on page two)

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Deaths

(continued from page one)

When the inspection team first arrived in midAugust the initial response was to increase the quantity and nutritional mix of the feed. When the horses were first shipped to the feedlot in mid-June, they were receiving an average of 18 pounds of feed per day Over a short period of time that was eventually increased to 28 pounds per day with a 3/4 alfalfa and 1/4 prairie hay mix.

“Under these unique circumstances a maintenance ration wasn’t working,” noted McGuire.

“They needed something with more energy density.”

BLM officials are continuing to monitor the site on a weekly basis.

Officials from BLM facilities in Oklahoma, Nebraska and other locations in the western U.S. are rotating into the Scott County feedlot to see that the horses continue to respond well and that their health improves, McGuire says.

He says the feedlot facility is also putting together working chutes “so that horses with special needs can be separated.”

“It’s always been part of our overall plan to have these installed. They can be used for anything from a horse being too timid and needing extra attention to helping an injured horse.”

It appears that the horses won’t be leaving

Show

the Scott County facility anytime soon. The BLM is seeking solicitations nationwide for long-term pasture leasing.

“The plan all along has been to find permanent pasture for them,” McGuire emphasizes. “But the process takes awhile.

There is a contracting phase and an environmental review. It can take half a year or longer to work through this process.”

In the meantime, he’s pleased with efforts to improve the health of the horses and to help them adjust to the different environment.

“The feedlot has been very cooperative and willing to do whatever is necessary to help stabilize the horses,” McGuire says.

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hours of flying.”

In fact, on Friday evening they considered airing up the balloon so it would attract the attention of those passing by the airport and serve as another reminder of the air show. Once they saw the forecast for calm weather on Saturday they nixed that idea.

“We figured we’d better save all the fuel we had for rides,” says Powelson.

“It’s a good thing we did.”

Six-year-old Kallyn Turner, Scott City, gave the balloon ride two big thumbs up.

“It was neat. You could feel the heat,” she said, referring to the blast of hot air which help the balloon become airborne. “It wasn’t scary. It was fun and awesome.”

Her five-year-old brother, Keller, added that

it was fun flying.

“We didn’t get the “I’d like to do it again,” number of food booths he said. we were hoping for, but everyone who was there Started With a Bang seemed to do really well Two early morning and there were long lines events were very success- at each,” Powelson adds. ful.

“As word about that gets Chris Cakes fed pan- around maybe it will cakes to between 200- attract more food vendors 250 people under a big next year.” tent south of the airport hangar. The morning also included 5k and one mile runs which attracted about 90 runners.

“Our hope was that adding those events would bring people to the airport earlier and they accomplished that,” says Powelson. “They were both a huge success.”

Instead of the Kansas City BBQ competition, the Chamber asked for food booths and they ended up with four.

What’s for Lunch in Scott City?

Sun. - Sat., Sept. 14-20

Majestic Theatre 420 Main • 872-3840

Hours

Lunch • Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Evenings • Thurs., Fri., Sat. 5:30 -10:00 p.m.

Tues. • Open faced prime rib sandwich with french fries.

Wed. • French dip sandwich with chips.

Thurs. • Fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy.

Fri. • Taco dinner with rice and beans.

What’s for Supper?

The Broiler

102 Main St. • 872-5055

1211 Main • 872-3215

5Buck Lunch 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

• Chili Cheese Dog • 1/4 lb Cheeseburger • 3 Piece Chicken Strips

Includes Fries, 21 oz. Drink and Small Sundae

1304 S. Main • 872-5301

6

$

49

Buffet

Mon. - Sat. • 5:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Sun. • 5:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Mon. • Chicken fry Tues. • Hamburger steak with mushrooms and onions Wed. • Fried chicken Thurs. • Mountain oysters Fri. • Seafood specials

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Sat. • Prime rib

Breakfast specials every night.

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Community Living

Page 3 - Thursday, September 11, 2014

Avoiding tears and other onion cooking tips For no particular reason I decided to write about onions this week.

This is just good information to know if you cook with or eat onions.

With the rising cost of food, none of us like to throw away uneaten produce. But an onion doesn’t have to be thrown away; we can freeze it.

With a fully grown onion, you will need to wash, peel and chop mature onions into about 1/2-inch pieces. There is no need to blanch onions.

Bag in freezer bags for best quality and odor pro-

tection. Package them flat in freezer bags to hasten freezing and make it easier to break off sections as needed.

Express out the air and place bags on cookie sheets or metal pans until onions are frozen. Then, restack bags to take up less room.

You can use in cooked

Recipe favorites . . .

Low-Fat Blueberry Bran Muffins

Prep time: 15 minutes Ingredients: 1-1/2 cups 1 cup 1/2 cup 1 2/3 cup 1/2 teaspoon 1/2 cup 1/2 cup 1 teaspoon 1 teaspoon 1/2 teaspoon 1 cup

Cook time: 20 minutes

wheat bran nonfat milk unsweetened applesauce egg brown sugar vanilla extract all-purpose flour whole wheat flour baking soda baking powder salt blueberries

Cooking directions: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease muffin cups or use paper muffin liners. Mix together wheat bran and milk, and let stand for 10 minutes.

In a large bowl, mix together applesauce, egg, brown sugar, and vanilla. Beat in bran mixture. Sift together allpurpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Stir into bran mixture until just blended. Fold in blueberries. Scoop into muffin cups.

Bake in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until tops spring back when lightly tapped.

Yield: 12 muffins

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products, such as soups and stews, ground meat mixtures, casseroles, etc.

For most dishes, frozen onions may be used with little or no thawing. (They will keep 3-6 months.)

When purchasing onions, you should store them in a cool, dry, ventilated place - not in your refrigerator. Avoid storing onions in plastic bags outside of the refrigerator; the lack of air movement will reduce their storage life.

After onions are chopped or sliced, store them in a sealed container

in your refrigerator for up to seven days.

Freezing Veggies One medium onion Also, you can freeze yields about one cup of diced carrots, bell peppers and celery, too. Just chopped onions. clean, dice and lay them How to Cook on a large cookie sheet Use low or medi- and flash freeze them. um heat when sautéing Then put them into bags onions. High heat will to freeze. make them bitter.

By flash freezing, they Reduce crying when will not freeze in one cutting onions by first lump and are more manchilling them for 30 min- ageable when you want to use more or less from utes.

Leave the root end a bag. intact when cutting Freeze different vegonions. The root end has ies together in pre-meathe highest concentration sured amounts for soups of the sulphuric com- and other recipes. When pounds that cause tearing. you want to use them for

cooking, just thaw under cool water and pat dry with a paper towel or add straight to a recipe like soup.

Here is one more little quick tip.

When cutting corn off the cob, use a Bundt pan.

Place the small end of the cob in the middle hole of the pan and cut the corn away from the cob. The corn will fall down into the pan and will save a lot of loose kernels. How cool is that!

If you have any other helpful hints, please share them with me, I would love to hear them.

Annual Fairchild reunion in Scott City Grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Raymond Earl and Alta (Bennett) Fairchild met at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Building, Scott City, on Aug. 30-31 for their annual reunion.

The Saturday evening meal was pizza and salads and the time was spent visiting.

A carry-in dinner was held at noon on Sunday.

Representing the Chet Fairchild family were: Kenneth Fairchild, Sr.,

Newton; Gabe, Janet and Kristin Gallardo and friend, Zachery Booth, all of Garden City.

Representing the Lenard Fairchild family were: Vada Turley, and Steve and Tamela Turley, Scott City; Max and Delma Calvin, WaKeneey, and granddaughters, Ashley and Paula Calvin, Hays.

Representing the Elise (Fairchild) Verbeck family were: Bernard and Lois Welch, Jack and Annie Verbeck, Lloyd Ver-

beck, Jr., Ezra and Ashlee Cowan and family, Mayson, Landon and Easton, Jerry and Linda Verbeck, and Jenney Verbeck, all of Wichita.

Representing the Kenneth Fairchild family were: Robert and Joyce Fairchild, and Brian and Nicole Fairchild and family, of Arkansas; Fox and Sharee Still, and Yancy Still and family, Destiney, Hunter and Justice, of Sharon Springs; and Windy McClung and fam-

ily, Rae, Tobasco, Chloe and Piper, Ellis.

Representing the June (Fairchild) Markham family were: John and Becky Rountree, Carla Fry, Rome Mahaney, Roy Markham and Mark Markham, all of Wichita.

Representing the Viva (Fairchild) Miller family were Larry and Greta Bricket, McPherson.

Representing the Jessie (Fairchild) McClendon family was Marion McClendon, Amarillo, Tex.

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Editorial/Opinion

Page 4 - Thursday, September 11, 2014

editorially speaking

Pulling together:

We must help businesses in recovery from disaster

Earlier this week, Scott City suffered one of those tragedies that every community hopes it can avoid. Whether it’s a tornado or fire, we all know that the initial damage is only part of the story. What happens afterwards can have an even more significant impact on a community’s future.

Granted, the potential loss of three businesses doesn’t compare with the devastation resulting from the Greensburg tornado, but there are a couple of valuable lessons to be learned.

1) The longer the delay, the likelihood of recovery diminishes.

2) The best hope for recovery must begin at home.

As we have witnessed with other disasters, the recovery process has to begin yesterday. People can’t wait to move forward with their lives, to know whether they have jobs or whether they can begin rebuilding their business. As soon as adjoining businesses know the status of their buildings and as soon as insurance adjusters and fire investigators are out of the way, the recovery process must begin.

The Scott County Development Committee needs to take the lead on what can be done to get these businesses on their feet again . . . or keep them open.

SCDC needs to coordinate with the owner of the destroyed building to see if there is anything that can be done to accelerate the rebuilding process. We need to see what can be done to reopen Braun’s Butcher Block and what assistance can be offered to keep Bruce’s Carpet and Bling as part of our business community.

We need to reassure these businesses that we care about their well-being and we want to do everything possible to keep them here.

It’s easy to overlook what a business means to a community in terms of property taxes, sales taxes, employee salaries and contributions to countless clubs and organizations who walk through the front door. Every time we add a business everyone benefits. Likewise, when we lose a business we all share in the cost.

It’s important that we look close to home to provide the necessary assistance, possibly through low-interest or no-interest loans, grants, etc. We have resources available locally so that we can respond quickly and provide the means to get these businesses on their feet again.

These businesses have already been hit with a huge, unexpected interruption in their revenue stream. We must do anything we can do to minimize that impact and help them open their doors again more quickly.

This is a difficult time for our friends and business partners. It’s important to the future of our community that we restore not just the appearance of our downtown community, but show that when disaster strikes we are more than just bystanders.

Independent:

Orman will find it difficult to avoid inaccurate labels

Independent senate candidate Greg Orman is trying to walk the fine line between being a Democrat and a Republican in his bid to unseat Sen. Pat Roberts. The Roberts campaign won’t let that happen. As Roberts made clear during a recent debate, his strategy is to identify Orman as a “Harry Reid” Democrat.

Orman is trying to be all things to all voters by being against everything that Republicans and Democrats have done to create gridlock and partisan rancor in Washington, D.C. While that’s a seemingly smart position to take, it may be difficult to accomplish.

Roberts is coming across as a strong candidate only because Orman can’t clearly identify who he is and Roberts is more than willing to fill that void.

That’s unfortunate because Roberts is perhaps one of the weakest incumbents imaginable.

Right now, Orman is looking surprisingly strong in polls, despite being a relative unknown going against a well-financed campaign. Maybe he can maintain those numbers and find enough discontent with Roberts to pull off the upset.

Roberts, on the other hand, will do everything imaginable between now and November to paint his portrait of Orman, however inaccurate it may be. Perhaps Orman can sell himself as a true independent who’s beholden to no one except the voters.

Good luck. It won’t be easy.

It’s times like this we’re reminded of Texas populist Jim Hightower who once observed “there’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.” Before this election is over, Orman may have to leave the armadillos behind.

GOP has little to smile about

It’s tough being a Republican candidate in Kansas these days.

There once was a time, if you entertained thoughts of going to Washington, D.C., or spending a couple months out of the year in Topeka, the hardest thing you had to do was make sure your name appeared on the ballot with a big, bold “R” behind it.

If you had to debate a Democratic opponent, all you had to do was smile a lot and avoid saying anything stupid . . . but mostly just smile a lot. You’d get your 70 percent of the vote in the general election and be guaranteed job security for as long as you wanted.

Being an incumbent was even easier. Just show up on your annual “listening tour,” remember what town you were in and, of course, keep smiling. You never had a Republican challenger and, most of the time, no one appeared on the Democratic ticket.

When one did surface it was often a candidate whose name was unknown outside of his immediate family.

But Barack Obama and

Harry Reid have ruined it.

It’s because of them that we have a Tea Party, we have uberconservatives in Congress and in statehouses around the country, and we have ubergridlock. They’re to blame for voter fraud, illegal immigration, taxes, Putin flexing his muscle in the Ukraine and anything that can possibly go wrong in the Middle East.

Worst of all, they’re making it very difficult for Republicans in Kansas to get re-elected.

Sen. Pat Roberts, who has to look at a map to be certain where Kansas is located, mentioned Harry Reid’s name 20 times during the Kansas State Fair debate with Independent challenger Greg Orman.

Orman had to be looking over his shoulder to be sure the Nevada senator hadn’t slipped onto the stage without his knowledge.

Gov. Sam Brownback has used a similar strategy by referring to Democratic challenger Paul Davis as “the Nancy Pelosi of Kansas” (whatever that’s supposed to mean) and by claiming the only reason people voted against him in the Republican primary was because “ . . . people are so angry . . . they’re just trying to express it somehow.”

Isn’t that just like Kansas voters?

One minute they elect Brownback governor and the next minute they can’t wait to throw him out of office because they hate President Obama.

Of course, it has nothing to do with anti-education policies, a disastrous tax policy and a state budget that’s going into the toilet.

Curse you President Obama. You’re spoiling a good thing for Kansas Republicans.

One can’t fault Brownback and Roberts for their political strategy. It makes sense when you haven’t done anything that you can . . . or want to . . . be remembered for. When that

happens the only alternative is to dangle some red meat like Barack, Harry, Hillary, Benghazi, EPA or IRS in front of Tea Party hyenas and after that nothing else matters.

“Sen. Roberts, what would you do to improve the economy and create more jobs?”

“I’d put Harry Reid out to pasture.”

“How will that help the economy?”

“Did I mention that Nancy Pelosi fights like a girl?”

“Senator, we’re talking about the economy.”

“Harry Reid.”

“What about Harry Reid, Senator Roberts?”

“What more can I say?

Once you’ve said Harry Reid you’ve said it all.”

It’s obvious that Gov. Brownback has been looking through the same Republican playbook. The sluggish Kansas economy, the downgrading of our state’s bond rating and state revenues that are on track to bring in $600 million less than projected for the current budget year (See SMILE on page six)

When moderates fight back

The missing component in the machinery of American politics has been moderate-to-liberal Republicanism, and the gears of government are grinding very loudly. You wonder if Kansas and Alaska have come up with a solution to this problem.

In Kansas, Democrat Chad Taylor shook up the Senate race by dropping out last week, giving an independent candidate, Greg Orman, a clean shot at the incumbent, Pat Roberts.

At least one poll showed Orman with a 10-point lead over the 78-year-old Roberts in a two-way race.

Republicans are so afraid of Orman that Kansas’s Republican (and unabashedly ideological) secretary of state, Kris Kobach, used a technicality to keep Taylor’s name on the November ballot anyway.

Where to Write

another view by E.J. Dionne, Jr.

Taylor is challenging the decision.

In Alaska, Democrat Byron Mallott ended his candidacy for governor and chose instead to run for lieutenant governor on a ticket led by an independent candidate, Bill Walker. By combining forces, Walker and Mallott hope to oust Republican Gov. Sean Parnell.

Because of the revolution in Republican politics spearheaded by the tea party, these should not be treated as isolated episodes. They are both signs that moderates, particularly moderate Republicans, are fighting back.

The safe journalistic trope is that both of our major parties have become more “extreme.”

Gov. Sam Brownback 2nd Floor - State Capitol Topeka, Ks. 66612-1501 (785) 296-3232

This is simply not true.

It’s the Republican Party that’s veered far off center. To deny the fact is to disrespect the hard work of conservatives in taking over the GOP. By contrast, there are still plenty of moderates in the Democratic Party.

They include Sens. Mark Pryor in Arkansas, Mark Begich in Alaska, Mary Landrieu in Louisiana and Kay Hagan in North Carolina. All of them are threatened in this fall’s elections by conservative or right-wing Republicans.

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia has another moderate on the ballot this year, but so far, he seems safe.

On the other hand, outright liberals have been losing primaries in the Republican Party since the late 1960s, particularly in Senate races.

Sen. Pat Roberts 109 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-4774 roberts.senate.gov/email.htm

In the House, the few remaining liberal Republicans (one thinks of Maryland’s Connie Morella and Iowa’s Jim Leach) were defeated because Democrats in their districts finally decided that electing even Republicans they liked only empowered the party’s increasingly conservative congressional leadership.

As for the Republican establishment, it may have overcome many tea party challenges this year, but it is increasingly captive to the right wing.

This summer, conservative writers Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru offered an insightful analysis of the tea partyestablishment dynamic in an article in “National Review” appropriately titled “Establishment Tea.” (See FIGHT on page six)

Sen. Jerry Moran 141 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-6521 www.house.gov/moranks01/

No easy answers to world’s hottest conflicts

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by William Collins and Emily Schwartz Greco

The latest conservative fad is beating up President Barack Obama for being too squeamish about exerting military force.

The Republicans he defeated in 2008 and 2012 are prime examples.

The government shouldn’t “jettison our reliance on U.S. strength,” lectured Mitt Romney in a Washington Post op-ed that equated lower numbers of active-duty troops with anemic military force.

The Russia-Ukraine conflict “requires our participation,” declared John McCain.

Surely, there were better ways for Obama to explain why he wasn’t bombing everything in sight just to look decisive than his painfully honest words at a recent White House briefing. “We don’t have a strategy

yet” for dealing with the Islamic State’s strongholds in Syria, he admitted.

Yet Obama wasted no time formulating a strategy, but not until after a U.S. strike killed Islamic militant leader Ahmed Abdi Godane in Somalia.

The White House’s aboutface is coinciding with the release of a spike in public sentiment favoring intervention. A new poll found that 71 percent of Americans now favor military strikes on targets in Iraq, up from 54 percent just three weeks earlier.

Clearly, the nation’s military outlook is being redrawn faster than the quickest caricature.

Just a few months back, it really looked like the American people were no longer eager to wage wars. In January, a majority said the U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan had “mostly failed,” a poll by

Fewer boots don’t necessarily add up to a lighter global footprint. A military dependent on drones and special forces requires hundreds of overseas bases. By most reliable estimates, there are somewhere between 800 and 1,000 of them scattered about.

the Pew Research Center and USA Today found.

In February, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced force cuts that were supposed to make further U.S. invasions very unlikely.

Back then, military affairs seemed destined to consist of figuring out what to do with millions of suffering veterans and how to eventually stop squandering more trillions on the Pentagon.

That doesn’t mean we haven’t been at war - even if you consider having nearly 32,000 U.S. troops still sta-

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell feels put upon just for having to talk about increasing the pay of the country’s working poor.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wanted to share his long-repressed feelings about a traumatic event.

“It was,” the Kentucky Republican confided, grim-faced, “the worst day of my political life.”

Was he talking about the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America?

No. McConnell was reflecting on the day 12 years ago when the Senate approved the McCainFeingold campaign finance law, imposing some limits on political donations by super-rich corporate interests.

While the vast majority of Americans enthusiastically supports such restrictions, the gen-

tleman from Kentucky isn’t often swayed by what The People want.

So this June, he shared the shame he felt that fateful day in a meeting he attended in Southern California.

It was a very sympathetic group: more than 100 rightwing billionaires convened by the Koch brothers to fund a plutocratic takeover of Congress in this year’s elections.

McConnell was the featured act at the three-day Koch-apalooza held at the posh St. Regis Monarch Bay resort in Dana Point. There, he titillated the elites with the changes that would result from a GOP takeover of the Senate.

For one thing, he exulted, “we’re not going to be debating all these gosh darn proposals.” Like what, you might ask?

“Like raising the minimum wage,” explained the senator of a state with tens of thousands of

tries, or roughly 70 percent of the globe’s nations, Nick Turse reports.

Fewer boots don’t necessarily add up to a lighter global footprint. A military dependent on drones and special forces requires hundreds of overseas bases. By most reliable estimates, there are somewhere between 800 and 1,000 of them scattered about.

Even if they’re easier on the budget than full-out war, these operations come at a cost. Drone strikes and special ops hit jobs invariably get the United States involved in local conflicts all over the world, making enemies out of people whose fight was originally with someone else.

Obama should keep that in mind as he hones his new strategy for responding to the emergence of the Islamic State.

by Jill Richardson

Flame retardant laws essentially gave the chemical companies that made them a rich new market while doing little to help prevent fires.

(See CONFLICTS on page six)

Toxic impact of whack-a-mole flame retardants

That gosh darn minimum wage

by Jim Hightower

tioned in Afghanistan to not constitute a war.

The new U.S. methods of global domination are far cheaper as measured in American blood and treasure. Just like in the Star Wars movies, we have platoons of drones. These unmanned military aircraft, large and small, have killed thousands of people - some militants, yes, but more than a few civilians too - throughout Pakistan and Yemen, among other countries.

Where more muscle is required, that’s a job for Special Operations. These uber-troops sometimes undertake commando raids themselves, as seen in recent operations in Libya and Somalia. Mostly, they train elite squads of foreign officers to do the job on their own.

In all, American Special Operations Forces are working with 134 different coun-

minimum-wage workers desperately needing a raise.

Poor Mitch. For once, he was being honest, thinking his candor would not be heard outside this closed-door enclave of Koch-heads. But - oops - a recording of his comments was leaked to The Nation magazine.

Now, Kentucky voters are learning how put upon their nearly $200,000-a-year lawmaker feels for just having to talk about those “gosh darn proposals” to lift the roughly $15,000-a-year poverty pay of his minimum-wage constituents.

Keep talking, Mitch. Such stuff is what makes politics the Greatest Show on Earth. Or is it the funniest? Or saddest?

Kentucky voters will get to choose in November.

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

Flame retardants in everything from couch cushions to tents may be poisoning us all for no good reason.

Popular activities like hiking, camping, and backpacking come with all kinds of risks.

You can get heat stroke or hypothermia, run out of water, fall off a cliff, and bump into cougars or grizzly bears. If you get close enough to an infected ground squirrel or one of their fleas to hop onto your skin, there’s a chance you’ll catch bubonic plague.

Perhaps the only way to actually avoid risk is to stay at home indoors. Only if you do that, you’ll be at risk of diabetes and heart disease from a sedentary lifestyle - so you’d better go outside.

In other words, our lives are full of risks. Our job is to manage them. Sometimes it’s easy: Don’t hitchhike, don’t smoke, and wear a seatbelt. Sometimes, it’s more complicated.

Case in point: flame retardants. Getting burnt up in a fire is scary. But many flame retardants are toxic. In fact, many flame retardants used in textiles and electronics are chemically related to pesticides like DDT or chlorpyrifos. Some cause cancer, and many persist in the environment for decades.

I find it particularly shocking that they’re polluting most tents campers use to get some fresh air and enjoy the great outdoors.

Whether we’re spending time indoors or outside, do these chemicals really enhance our safety?

In 2012, the Chicago Tribune exposed the fact that many laws requiring flame retardants were initially put in place due to tobacco and chemical industry lobbying. A series of articles showed how these industries falsified and misinterpreted studies showing how many lives could be saved.

Flame retardant laws essentially gave the chemical companies that made them a rich new market while doing little to help prevent fires. Flame retardants also distracted the public from the dangers of smoldering cigarettes as the cause of fires in homes and on campsites.

By the time of these revelations, regulators had turned against the most common flame retardants, a group of chemicals called PBDEs. Two of the three most common versions were phased out internationally by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, a treaty that bans the worst of the worst chemicals.

The EPA convinced the major manufacturers of the third PBDE to stop making it as of 2013.

(See TOXIC on page six)

Modern monopolies are leading to inequality

Analysts at the OECD, the Paris-based research agency, have just shared a grim prediction: If current trends “prevail,” all developed nations will show by 2060 “the same level of inequality as currently experienced by the United States.”

If we let those current trends continue, that conclusion sounds about right. But why on earth should we let those trends continue?

The trends that have made our world so unequal reflect simple political decisions, not some inevitable unfolding of globalization. We can make different decisions.

Take privatization. Over the past four decades, governments around the world have chosen to sell a broad array of public services. These privatizations

behind the headlines

by Sam Pizzigati

have increased the concentration of wealth. Carlos Slim, one of the world’s three richest men, obtained much of his $75 billion fortune by snapping up Telmex, Mexico’s formerly governmentowned phone company.

But privatizers today are increasingly facing as much resistance as opportunity. In many countries, John and Jane Q. Public are beginning to reject the privatization mantra. The privatizers, turns out, have a problem with their pitch.

“Privatization,” as the Guardian‘s Seumas Milne puts it, “isn’t working.”

Privatizers promise greater efficiency and cheaper prices.

Most people have experienced the opposite, notes University of Glasgow economist Andrew Cumbers, and this perverse reality is spurring a growing global push “to take back utility sectors into public ownership.”

But not just any public ownership. Instead of the old, overcentralized state entities “far removed” from ordinary citizens, privatization’s critics are looking at “new forms of public ownership.” Cumbers says.

These models “encourage broader engagement and participation in economic life by the wider public.”

Denmark, for instance, is nurturing innovative “publicpublic” partnerships. In 2001, one of these partnerships built

what was then rated as the world’s largest wind farm. The partners: Copenhagen Energy, the municipally-owned local utility of Denmark’s largest city, and a cooperative run by the over 10,000 local residents who had purchased shares in it.

A similar cooperative-local government utility model, observes Andrew Cumbers, has helped the Danish island of Samsoe “become one of the first places in the world to become 100 percent efficient in renewable energy.”

Good moves. But in our new Information Age we need to do more than undo the privatization of the traditional “natural monopolies” in sectors like electricity, water, and public transportation. We need to turn our online monopolies into pub-

lic utilities.

Corporate giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon, argues analyst Richard Eskow, profit off publicly funded technologies like the Internet but operate “without regard for the public interest.” And they don’t even pay their own full tax share.

“Each of these Big Tech corporations has the ability to filter - and alter - our very perceptions of the world around us,” relates Eskow.

Over a century ago, Americans saw similar abuses in the new technologies of their day. This country was transforming at breakneck speed back then, from a rural to urban society.

The nation’s newly overstuffed cities, big and small (See INEQUALITY on page six)

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Absentee professors common at universities

by John Schrock

At some public universities across the nation, faculty parking lots are half empty after noon.

Good colleges and universities have traditionally had good teaching faculty.

They not only taught their courses well, but they had ample office hours. Their doors were open to students who have further questions, needed extra help, or sought academic advice.

Professors are salaried which means that they do not “clock in” but are

Inequality (continued from page five)

alike, needed to move and warm and light ever-denser populations.

Private corporations rushed in with new technologies to deliver these services, and municipalities in the early 1900s showered franchises with hundreds of millions of dollars for gas and telephone lines, street railways and electricity.

In some cities, companies bid honestly against each other to win these lucrative franchises. In most, honesty would not be among the bidding criteria. Private utility companies passed politicians kickbacks.

Politicians passed utilities monopoly pricing power - and signed franchise agreements that locked down exorbitant phone, gas and light rates for years to come.

“In no other way,” historian Otis Pease would later note, “can wealth be obtained so easily.”

Public anger at the holders of this wealth would, in city after city, turn many of these fabulously lucrative, privately provided services into public utilities.

America, in the process, would become significantly more equal.

We could do the same today.

Sam Pizzigati is an Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow and an author

Conflicts (continued from page five)

The hottest conflicts raging at the moment don’t come with easy answers. What could go wrong if Washington sides actively with Ukraine against Russia? (Plenty.)

Or if the Pentagon were to give the Syrian opposition more weapons?

(Answer: It could add to the Islamic State’s stockpile of American-made weapons.)

And what if we were to try to “help” Libya and Iraq some more? Recent U.S. interventions in those countries produced the exact opposite of peace and security.

Whether or not the Obama administration’s shiny new strategy gets its conservative critics to lower their volume, there are no easy answers to these questions.

William Collins is a former state representative and a former mayor of Norwalk, Conn.; Emily Schwartz Greco is a former foreign correspondent and financial reporter

paid to get the job done.

Faculty parking lots were full and remained full all day long. And most students graduated knowing that some of their professors knew them and helped them succeed.

Later in life, when the student has a successful career, it is this relationship that is most likely to generate alumni donations.

But walk the hallways of some of today’s public universities and you will find fewer students in those hallways.

Classrooms may stand

Smile can only be blamed on one thing . . . or person.

“What we are seeing today is the effect of tax increases implemented by the Obama administration that resulted in lower income tax payments and a depressed business environment,” according to Brownback.

Brownback and his Republican legislature passed massive tax cuts with the promise that it would be a boost to businesses and that higher state tax revenues would follow. Other than being

Fight Lowry and Ponnuru argued that the establishment candidates who triumphed did so largely on the tea party’s terms, though the authors put the matter somewhat more politely.

“Candidates who make the case that they will fight for conservative ideas, and not just serve time,” they wrote, “can win tea-party support.”

What’s happening in Kansas is particularly revealing of the backlash against the right from moderate Republicans.

Toxic That same year, California overturned its 1975 law requiring flame retardants in all couch cushions. Because many companies don’t want to make two sets of couches (one for California, one for everywhere else), the law meant that many sofas throughout the country contained flame retardants.

And yet, several states still have laws requiring flame retardants in common consumer products - from kids pajamas to camping tents.

Manufacturers typically respond by putting the chemicals in products sold across the country.

The chemicals don’t make your furniture or camping gear fire-proof.

Plus, modern tents are so

empty, even at 10:00 a.m. on Monday/Wednesday/ Friday. Faculty office blocks may be a ghost town.

Why are some faculty parking lots half empty in the afternoon?

The absentee professor problem is becoming more common as technology makes it legitimate to “phone it in.” The “telecommuting” craze started in industry about a decade ago and many businesses allowed employees to work at home where it was appropriate.

That has not always

worked out and many businesses are calling workers back into the on-site offices to regain that interpersonal interaction that produces creativity and loyalty.

Unfortunately, this phoneit-in craze is accelerating in higher education.

The extent it has legitimacy is evident in the June 20 “Chronicle of Higher Education” where the title says it all: “Office Hours Are Obsolete.” If they can offer courses online, why not do everything else online as well.

That author asserts

that: “ . . . other than teaching my face-to-face classes, almost everything I do as part of my job can be done from practically anywhere. Therefore, I should be able to do those things from practically anywhere if I see fit.”

When you follow up on absentee professors, you can find other excuses as well. In law and business schools, some administrators explain that private practice pays so much more that you cannot hire qualified professors if you don’t let them work on the side (during school

hours).

This excuse even extends to education fields such as counseling and to some applied liberal arts as well.

Such professors may only appear on campus for classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays and be absent the rest of the week. So if they are only present 40 percent of the time, are they just making 40 percent of the salary? Think again.

Most universities have a standard “conflict of interest” form that they

tween 2010 and 2013, according to the U.S. Census Bureau?

Simple. It’s because those people realize that Kansas is in President Obama’s crosshairs and the only way to avoid becoming a victim of his obsessive dislike for Kansas is to escape to places like Oklahoma or Missouri where people are enjoying the benefit of exuberant support for the President and his policies.

The truth is that being Republican isn’t enough to guarantee an easy elec-

tion as Roberts, Brownback, Kris Kobach and Tim Huelskamp are discovering. Obama, Reid or any other Democrat bogeyman aren’t to blame because Roberts hasn’t had an original idea in 40 years and Brownback’s tax experiment is a disaster.

Republican incumbents are finding very little to smile about this election season and they have no one but themselves to blame.

(See ABSENTEE on page 7)

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named Barack Obama, exactly what did the President do to throw a wrench into Brownback’s budget?

Unless, of course, Obama really doesn’t like Kansas. Perhaps his unique Muslim abilities made it possible to implement policies that have an impact on Kansas alone.

For example, In 11 of 12 economic measuring sticks, Kansas trails the neighboring states of Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Colorado.

Private business establishments in Kansas grew

by 0.7% between 2012 and 2013, compared to 2.6% in the region and 2.2 percent nationwide.

Personal income growth from 2011 to 2012 was 2.2 percent in Kansas, which lagged behind the sixstate region (3.6%) and the nation (3.4%).

It’s obvious that Barack’s tax policies and Michelle’s push for healthier eating are creating an economic disaster in Kansas.

How else do you explain the net loss of 10,197 people from Kansas be-

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

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Although Roberts is not a tea party candidate indeed, he defeated a tea party challenger in last month’s primary - the Senate race could be influenced by the state’s contest for governor, one of the most important in the country.

Incumbent Republican Sam Brownback has championed an unapologetic tea party, taxcutting agenda and has sought to purge moderate Republicans who opposed him from the state legislature. Many GOP mod-

erates have responded by endorsing Brownback’s opponent, Democrat Paul Davis.

A Brownback defeat would be a major blow to the right.

“The moderates have said, ‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore,’ ” said Dan Glickman, a moderate Democrat who represented the area around Wichita in Congress for 18 years.

In an interview, Glickman argued that the rightward tilt is antithetical to the GOP’s history in Kansas, a state that sent

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lightweight that they have little fuel for a fire anyway.

A 2014 study found that many tents contained a cancer-causing chemical - and it came off on campers hands when they pitched the tent. Simply washing your tent won’t get rid of these chemicals.

Manufacturers will soon phase out that chemical, but it’s being replaced with a new one that isn’t much better. Chemist Arlene Blum calls this “toxic whack-a-mole.”

Companies that make and sell tents refuse to say which chemicals they use, so consumers can’t even make an informed choice.

When I spoke to employees of companies that manufacture tents, they told me they do not want to poison their customers.

They wish the law would change - and they think the only way to change it is if their customers speak up.

You can contact your lawmakers, but make sure to also tell the store where you shop for tents that you want one without flame retardants. If enough people complain, REI, Cabela’s, L.L. Bean, and other vendors that sell outdoor equipment might respond.

Flame retardants are poisoning more people than they are saving. We need to speak up and get the outdated laws that mandate their use off the books.

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

both Bob Dole and Nancy Landon Kassebaum, in her day a leading GOP moderate, to the Senate.

“The Republican Party in Kansas was always a heartland, common-sense, moderate or moderately conservative party,” Glickman said, adding that at times, it has had a strongly progressive contingent as well.

Orman has been almost maddeningly disciplined in not revealing which party he would caucus with if he defeated Roberts. With national

Republican operatives pouring into the state to save the three-term incumbent’s floundering campaign, the battle will get a lot tougher.

But already, Republicans are learning that the cost of driving moderates away could get very high. What middleof-the-roaders could not accomplish inside the party, they may achieve by attacking from outside the gates.

E.J. Dionne, Jr., is a political commentator and longtime op-ed columnist for the Washington Post

McCain rips failure to bomb Stonehenge

by Andy Borowitz

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) blasted President Obama on Saturday for failing to bomb Stonehenge while in the United Kingdom for the NATO summit.

“This is a time when it’s important to send our enemies the message that the United States is strong,” McCain told Fox News. “I can think of no better way to do that than by blowing Stonehenge off the map.”

McCain said that he was “astounded” by Obama’s reluctance to order airstrikes on the ancient monument.

“He had a clean shot at Stonehenge and he blinked,” he said.

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author

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Absentee

editor’s mail

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Stegall qualified for the Court

update with annual contracts to ensure that professors are not participating in activities that conflict with their work at the university in a monetary or ethical way.

And that includes a “conflict of time commitment” to ensure that their full time job at the university is not eroded by extensive participation in non-university activities.

However, the questionable claim that “I can work from home just as well” makes the enforcement of these legal commitments nearly impossible.

Imposing requirements that faculty have a set number of office hours outside of class is no solution; it merely turns salaried professionals into time-clock punching wage earners.

Surveys of good faculty reveal that professors work an average of over 60 hours a week. Treating faculty who have integrity with work hour rules could easily reduce their presence.

The professional solution to absentee professors is to have competent departmental chairs who are given the authority to do their job, and are backed up by higher administration. Many universities need to reverse the trend and get both professor’s and student’s boots back on the ground.

Students do not attend a campus to do most of their work online. If universities continue to tolerate a growing number of absentee professors today, they will pay by a decline in alumni contributions tomorrow.

Your editorial of September 4 criticized the appointment of Judge Caleb Stegall to the Kansas Supreme Court.

You said that he was appointed because Kansas Supreme Court Justices were no longer appointed based on the merit system. In fact, the system for appointing Kansas Supreme Court Justices was not changed. Judge Stegall was appointed by the same merit system used to appoint his colleagues on the Supreme Court.

The merit system was removed only for members of the Kansas Court of Appeals, which is the court one level down from the Kansas Supreme Court. Your readers can be assured Judge Stegall is qualified by merit to sit on the Kansas Supreme Court.

Carolyn Simpson Scott City

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SCHS JV FB vs. Colby, SCHS VB Quad @ 5:00 p.m.

Lakin, 5:00 p.m.

BOE meeting, 7:00 p.m.

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SCHS FB @ Good7th/8th FB @ Hays, land, 7:00 p.m.

3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.

Pack 66/Troop 149, 5:00 p.m.

20 SCHS XC @ Hugoton, 10:00 a.m.

Youth Day @ Lake Scott State Park, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Punt, Pass and Kick competition @ SRC soccer fields, 11:00 a.m.

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Carter Sampson concert, SCHS auditorium, 7:00 p.m.

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Historic By late afternoon the worst of the fire had been contained and extinguished. Firefighters remained on the scene throughout the night.

While the threat of the fire spreading to nearby buildings had diminished by early evening, Fire Chief Ken Hoover noted that they had to watch for hot spots.

“When the roof collapsed it made it more difficult to get water into some areas, so we had to keep an eye on that,” says Hoover.

The cause of the fire has not been revealed.

The State Fire Marshal was on the scene Tuesday “but they don’t talk to us,” Hoover says. As for an agent with the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) who was also on site, Hoover noted “I’ve never seen them show up before.”

Started in Back Preliminary indications are the fire started in the back of the building which was occupied by Braun’s Butcher Block.

Business owner Craig Braun closed the business each day from 1:00-2:00 p.m. and it appeared the fire may have started during this time.

Braun saw smoke coming out the rear entrance and tried to enter the building but was turned back by heat and smoke.

Firefighters from Scott City were on the scene at about 1:45 p.m. with additional firefighters from Dighton and Healy dispatched shortly afterwards as part of a mutual aid agreement between Scott City and neighboring towns. Fire departments from Leoti and Oakley were on standby.

“If we’d have had more firefighters and trucks there were only so many hydrants and so much working area available,” says Hoover.

Scott City and Scott County departments had their trucks in the alley on the west side of the building. Firefighters were pouring water into the second floor windows as white smoke billowed out and was carried north by the wind.

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The Dighton Fire Department, joined by a couple of Healy volunteers, arrived with its 100-foot ladder truck and fought the fire from the east side.

The department purchased the truck from the York (Nebr.) Fire Department only about four weeks ago and it still had York Fire Department lettering on the ladder.

“At the time we were deciding whether or not to purchase this truck, as part of the discussion we knew there was no better way to fight this type of fire than from an elevated position,” says Lane City/ County Fire Chief Bill Fowler. “From our viewpoint we were able to help the Scott City guys size up the fire. Plus, it’s so much safer to fight a fire from a bucket.”

Hoover says the ladder truck was invaluable in getting water, not just onto the primary blaze in the Berning building, but on the rooftop of the Bruce’s Carpet building.

Members of the Lane County department were literally learning on the fly.

“We had practiced using the ladder, but without the hoses,” Fowler says.

“We hadn’t operated the pump at full power until that day.”

At maximum capacity, the ladder pump can deliver 1,250 gallons per minute.

Fowler says people will second-guess a purchase like this until it’s needed.

“We got a really good deal on the truck, so that helped,” notes Fowler.

“But in towns like Ness City, Scott City and Dighton we’re talking about aging buildings in our downtown area. Fire can go through those buildings pretty quickly. Without a ladder truck there’s a good possibility that the fire would have spread to more buildings along the block.

“I was very impressed with the job that the Scott City guys did and with what our guys did,” Fowler adds. “To contain the fire to the building of origin hardly ever happens in a situation like this.”

(See FIRE on page 16)

(Top) A firefighter from the top of a 100-foot ladder is nearly engulfed in smoke as water is poured onto the rooftop of the Berning building.

(Right) Mike Deschner pours water over the head of Scott City firefighter Marc Ramsey while he takes a break during Monday’s fire.

(Below right) Scott City firefighters pour water into the west windows of the Berning building while smoke billows out.

(Bottom) A firefighter peers over the edge of the Bruce’s Carpet building at a stream of water from a nearby pumper.

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3 earn degrees from Ft. Hays State Three area students are among the 337 who completed associate, bachelor’s or graduate degrees at Ft. Hays State University during the summer term.

Area graduates include: Dighton: Haley Barrett-Ward, bachelor of general studies with emphasis in leadership skills; Stryder Montgomery earned a bachelor of arts in music.

Scott City: Stacy Graff earned a bachelor of science in elementary education with an emphasis in early childhood unified.

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School Calendar Fri., Sept. 12: SCHS football vs Colby (T), 7:00 p.m.

Sat., Sept. 13: SCHS JV volleyball invitational, 9:00 a.m.; SCHS cross-country at Tribune, 10:00 a.m.

Mon., Sept. 15: SCHS JV tennis at Garden City, 9:00 a.m.; SCMS 7th/8th volleyball in triangular at Goodland; SCHS JV football vs Colby (H), 5:00 p.m.; BOE meeting, 7:00 p.m.

Tues., Sept. 16: SCHS varsity tennis at Phillipsburg, 3:00 p.m.; SCHS volleyball quad at Lakin, 5:00 p.m.

Thurs., Sept. 18: SCHS JV tennis at Phillipsburg tournament, 3:00 p.m.; SCMS 7th/8th football vs Hays (T), 3:30 p.m.; SCMS 7th/8th volleyball in triangular at Ulysses, 4:00 p.m.

Fri., Sept. 19: SCHS football vs Goodland (T), 7:00 p.m.

Sat., Sept. 20: SCHS x-country at Hugoton, 9:00 a.m.

Mon., Sept. 22: SCHS varsity tennis tournament, 9:00 a.m.; SCHS “C” volleyball at Lakin, 5:00 p.m.; SCHS JV football vs Goodland (H), 5:00 p.m.

Tues., Sept. 23: SCHS varsity tennis at Liberal, 3:00 p.m.; SCMS 7th/8th volleyball in quad at Ulysses, 4:00 p.m.

Thurs., Sept. 25: SCMS 7th/8th football vs Liberal West (H), 4:00 p.m.; SCHS volleyball in dual at LaCrosse, 5:00 p.m.

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Tuesday: Biscuit and gravy, fresh banana, fruit juice.

Wednesday: Granola bar, sliced peaches, fruit juice.

Thursday: Chicken biscuit sandwich, fresh oranges, fruit juice.

Friday: Pancake on a stick, pineapple chunks, fruit juice.

Lunch Monday: Macaroni and cheese, *chicken nuggets, fish sticks, choice of hot veggies, breakaway bread, cherry crisp and whip.

Tuesday: Pizza quesadilla, *tuna sandwich, sweet potato tots, green peas, pudding, banana.

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Join us for a ceremonial presentation by Northern Cheyenne representatives and a retelling of the famous battle by local historians.

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Jason Alderman

In their quest to land a job, any job, many young adults will sacrifice what used to be called “fringe benefits” to gain a foot in the door. But many entrylevel jobs either offer no healthcare benefits, or the employee’s cost share is prohibitive for someone barely making minimum wage.

Add to the equation that most twentysomethings are in good health

and rarely visit the doctor and it’s easy to see why many will forego health insurance in favor of paying other bills.

But that’s a dangerous choice. One serious accident or illness can rack up thousands of dollars in bills. In fact, over half of all personal bankruptcies result from unpaid medical bills. Plus, there’s usually a tax penalty for going uninsured.

Fortunately, since the Affordable Care Act

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(ACA) rolled out, young adults now have more health insurance options than before. In addition to buying coverage through their employer (if offered), people under age 26 may also choose to enroll in their parent’s plan, even if they’re married or no longer a dependent, or to buy an individual plan through the health insurance marketplace.

If you’re currently without coverage or want to explore better options,

this is the perfect time to start researching what’s available. Here’s why: •For most employersponsored benefit plans, the open enrollment period to sign up for 2015 benefits happens in the next few months.

Watch for communications from your own employer and ask your parents to do likewise if their company provides dependent health coverage. ACA’s 2015 open enrollment period is

Scott City Council Agenda Mon., Sept. 15 • 7:30 p.m.

City Hall • 221 W. 5th

•Presentations

•Call to Order

•Comments from the public

•Approve minutes of Sept. 2 regular meeting

•Recognition of persons/delegations present 1) High Plains Co-op - Eric Erven 2) NW Ks. Tech. College - Mark Davis 3) Administrative reports 4) Additional

•Approve Standard Traffic Ordinance

•Financials 1) Bills payable 2) Transfers •Consent agenda 1) Approve previous minutes 2) Approve building site councils

•Approve Uniform Public Offense Code •Discussion of El Quartelejo Museum parking lot with historical society board member Patsi Graham •Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested Police Department 1) Misc. business

November 15, 2014 to February 15, 2015.

•With both employer plans and ACA, if you miss open enrollment you’ll have to wait until the following year to apply unless: you’re applying for Medicaid; you qualify for a special enrollment period because of a family status change (e.g., marriage, divorce, birth of child); or you lose your current coverage.

•Another good reason to enroll in a healthcare

(See POLICY on page 11)

Texas man order to repay $75K to SC residents in scam A Dallas, Tex., man was ordered to repay $75,000 to two Scott County consumers after being found guilty of three counts of theft by deception.

George Lester Fogle, 67, Dallas, Tex., was sentenced Monday by Judge Wendel Wurst in Scott County District Court to 24 months of probation with an underlying sentence of 45 months in prison. Fogle pleaded guilty in April to three counts of theft by deception.

Fogle was accused of stealing funds from Scott County consumers in a lightning rod insurance scam.

The case was investigated by the Scott County Sheriff’s Department, Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the attorney general’s Consumer Protection Division.

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(Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., September 11, 2014)1t Parks Department BEFORE THE STATE 1) Misc. business •Consider items pulled from consent agenda CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS Public Works Department NOTICE OF FILING New business 1) Misc. business APPLICATION 1) Board policy review RE: Landmark Resourc2) Classified handbook es, Inc- Application for ComClerk’s Department 3) Cell tower contract mingling of Production in the 1) Request to attend debt recovery system Dirks 1-2 in Scott County, training in Garden City Kansas.

•Executive session 2) Request to attend Kansas /IIMC Certification TO: All Oil and Gas Pro1) Non-elected personnel Institute in Wichita ducers, unleased Mineral In3) City Council training on Oct. 28 at City Hall terest Owners, Landowners, •Resignations/hires and all persons whosoever concerned.

•Financial and investment reports You, and each of you, are •Executive session: negotiations hereby notified that Land•Mayor’s comments mark Resources, Inc. has •Additions, if any filed an application to commingle the Marmaton and •Adjournment Cherokee producing formaPublic Notice tions at the Dirks 1-2, located 348’ from the south line (First published in The Scott be determined and ordered and 1563’ from the west line County Record, Thurs., Sep- paid; the administration of Scott County Commission Agenda tember 4, 2014; last pub- the Estate be closed; upon lished Thurs., September 18, the filing of the receipts the Tues., Sept. 16 Petitioner be finally dis2014)3t County Courthouse IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF charged as the AdministraSCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS tor of the Estate of Marilyn 3:00 p.m. County business IN THE MATTER OF THE L. Sloan, deceased, and the Approve minutes, accounts payable ESTATE OF MARILYN L. Petitioner be released from and payroll SLOAN, DECEASED, further liability.

No. 11-P-24 You are required to file NOTICE OF HEARING your written defenses there3:30 p.m. Review Mitigation Plan THE STATE OF KANSAS TO to on or before October 2, County EMS Director Larry Turpin ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: 2014, at 10 o’clock a.m., You are hereby notified in the District Court, Scott 4:00 p.m. Otto Harp that a petition has been City, Scott County, Kansas, Patient care at Park Lane Nursing Home filed in this court by Walter at which time and place the Donald Waldren, duly ap- cause will be heard. Should 4:30 p.m. Public Works Department pointed, qualified and acting you fail therein, judgment Adminstrator of the Estate of and decree will be entered Agenda may change before the meeting. Contact County Marilyn L. Sloan, deceased, in due course upon the PetiClerk Alice Brokofsky for an updated agenda (872-2420) or praying Petitioner’s acts be tion. visit www.scott.kansasgov.com approved; account be setWalter Donald Waldren tled and allowed; the heirs Administrator be determined, the Estate be SUBMITTED BY: assigned to the persons en- Colton D. Eikenberry Public Notice titled thereto; the Court find Attorney at Law the allowances requested 310 Court Street, Suite 8 (Published in The Scott 1-T17S-34W in Scott Coun- for attorney’s fees and ex- Scott City, Ks. 67871 County Record Thurs., Sep- ty, Kansas. penses are reasonable and (620) 872-0300 Any persons who object should be allowed; the costs Attorney for Petitioner tember 11, 2014)1t to or protest this application BEFORE THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION shall be required to file their OF THE STATE OF KANSAS objections or protests with NOTICE OF FILING the Conservation Division of APPLICATION the State Corporation ComRE: Landmark Resourc- mission of the State of Kanes, Inc- Application for Com- sas within fifteen (15) days mingling of Production in from the date of publication. the Janzen Unit 1-1 in Scott These protests shall be filled County, Kansas. pursuant to Commission TO: All Oil and Gas Pro- regulations and must state ducers, unleased Mineral In- specific reasons why the terest Owners, Landowners, grant of the application may and all persons whosoever cause waste, violate correlaconcerned. tive rights, or pollute the natYou, and each of you, are ural resources of the State of hereby notified that Land- Kansas. mark Resources, Inc. has All persons interested or filed an application to com- concerned shall take notice mingle the Marmaton/Fort of the foregoing and shall Scott and Cherokee produc- govern themselves according formations at the Janzen ingly.

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County Commission August 11, 2014 Scott County Commissioners met in a regular meeting with the following present: Chairman James Minnix, Commissioner Gary Skibbe; and County Clerk Alice Brokofsky were present. Commissioner Jerry Buxton was absent.

•Harold Gossett was appointed to the Southwest Kansas Area Agency on Aging.

Approval was given to the following tax additions and abatements: Added Tina Lynette Schmitt $1,039.82 Abatement Tina Schmitt $ 313.78 Added Steve & Kay Schmitt Trust $ 375.30 Added Michael A. Martin $ 376.18 Added Dannie G. Bahm $ 12.00 Added Doyle L. Koehn $ 23.98 Added Mark Christopher Patton $ 534.48 Added Wiechman Land and Cattle $ 25.26 Added D Ann Gay Markel $ 78.82 Added Byron C. /Amanda M. Sowers $ 85.25 Added A & D Enterprises $ 134.90 Added Bryan W. Voth $ 31.34 Added Norman V. Keyse $ 40.12 Added K @ Farms Revocable Trust $ 129.18 Added Faurot Electric Inc. $ 18.00 Register of Deeds Debbie Murphy informed the Commissioners that long-time employee Doris Stegall would be retiring in November and she would like to hire a new employee before Doris leaves but had no money in her 2014 budget for two full-time employees for three months. Commissioners allowed her to start the process and said would look at her overall budget in two months.

•Sheriff,Glenn Anderson asked to purchase a light bar (less the lights) siren decals and console for a new patrol vehicle in the amount of $2,700. Anderson said he could receive a $2,000 in grant money to defray the cost. He also informed the commissioner’s he needed to update an old computer system to make it compatible with the other agencies. The commission authorized $2,700 for patrol car updates and $1,300 for a new computer and software.

•Alyson Alder joined the meeting and discussed the Scott County Health Department rescheduling appointments. Minnix said he will discuss the issue with County Health Nurse Karen Sattler.

•Approval was given to the following road agreement: Shakespeare Oil Company Inc. - Field access Eagle Road S25 T16S R34W and S26 T16S R34W. •Municipal lease agreements between Scott County and First National Bank were approved for the purchase of a Bobcat compact excavator and a Bobcat skid-steer loader.

•Kimble Mapping will be paid $2,645.00 to assist with the inventory of the remaining (SE 1/4 of County) county signs.

•Public Works Director Richard Cramer informed the commission that he needed to purchase two used trucks for the road department. He had found two used trucks in Topeka. Upon inspection of the trucks he would like permission to purchase them. Commissioners approved spending up to $126,000 for the purchase of two used trucks for the road department.

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Public (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., September 11, 2014)1t BEFORE THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS NOTICE OF FILING APPLICATION RE: Landmark Resources, Inc- Application for Commingling of Production in the Frick 1-5 in Scott County, Kansas.

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The program will be held from noon to 1:00 p.m. at the First Methodist Church, 210 Soule, from noon to 1:00 p.m., in the West Chapel.

It is sponsored by the Dodge City Area Alzheimer’s Caregiver’s Support Group.

Discussion for the September meeting will revolve around successful coping skills for the caregiver and the emotional impact changing weather has on the person experiencing dementia.

The gathering is informal and all personal information is confidential.

Anyone with questions you may contact Jan Scoggins, Region 5 long-term care ombudsman, at 620-225-2439.

Breastfeeding advocates to meet in Wichita Breastfeeding advocates from across Kansas will gather in Wichita on Thurs., Sept. 25, for a daylong summit on how best to encourage mothers to breastfeed their babies for at least six months.

“According to the CDC, only 15 percent of Kansas infants are breastfeeding exclusively at 6 months,” said Katie Ross, program officer with the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund (UMHMF). “That’s pretty low compared to a lot of other states.”

The Kansas Health Summit on Breastfeeding, a project of the Kansas Health Foundation, will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the foundation’s conference center, 325 E. Douglas.

Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Dr. Robert Moser will open the forum with a statistical presentation, “Breastfeeding in Kansas - Barriers and Opportunities for Change,” that’s expected to highlight the public health benefits of breastfeeding.

He’ll be followed by Dr. Todd Wolynn, a pediatrician and chief executive of the National Breastfeeding Center in Pittsburgh, who will discuss local and state strategies to improve breastfeeding rates.

Dozens of studies have shown that breastfed babies grow up healthier than those reared on formula or cow’s milk.

“Nationally, breastfeeding is becoming more and more of a public health issue rather than just a breastfeeding issue,” Ross said. “But there are barriers to breastfeeding, so what we’re wanting to do is identify those barriers and come up with strategies for eliminating them.”

Attendees will spend much of the afternoon in small-group sessions focused on hospital policies and practices, quality initiatives, support programs, workplace supports and ways to use social media to promote breastfeeding.

Wesley Medical Center will host a reception and panel discussion, “Moving Toward BabyFriendly Maternity Care.” The discussion will begin around 5:15 p.m.

Ross expects about 200 people - a mix of doctors, nurses, program directors and health advocates - to attend the free sessions.

Registration information is available on the UMHMF website.

The Scott County Record • Page 12 • Thursday, September 11, 2014

Doctor, Lt. Gov. candidate swears by ‘direct primary care’model Andy Marso KHI News Service

Wichita physician Josh Umbehr has never understood the traditional model of health care reimbursement - the one in which doctors and hospitals fill out pages of forms to bill a patient’s insurance company for everything from a $3 test to a $30,000 surgery.

“You don’t have car insurance for gasoline,” Umbehr said in a recent phone interview. “Why would you have health insurance for family practice?”

With that philosophy in mind, Umbehr has operated on a kind of service plan for the human body since he opened his practice in 2010.

He sees hundreds of patients at his Wichita clinic, AtlasMD, but he bills no insurance companies. Instead, he charges a monthly membership fee of $10 for kids and $50 for adults for unlimited visits, texts, phone calls, discounted prescription medications and a slew of in-office services like stitching wounds and removing lesions.

“Any procedure we can do

in the office is included free of charge,” Umbehr said.

It’s what used to be called “concierge medicine,” and it used to be mostly for wealthy people. But Umbehr and others in the small but growing monthly-fee model prefer to call it “direct primary care” because they say they’re offering it at prices now accessible to the masses.

Umbehr, whose practice now includes two partners and a patient list of more than 1,600, is one of the more high-profile direct primary care physicians in the coun-

try. AtlasMD has been written up in the Wichita Business Journal and Bloomberg Businessweek, and Umbehr, 33, spends a chunk of his time these days helping other doctors disillusioned with the traditional insurance model start their own direct primary care practices.

“The momentum for this is picking up,” says Umbehr.

“When I started four years ago, they said it would never work. Now I’ll be traveling three of the next four weeks lecturing on this.”

(See MODEL on page 13)

2015 marketplace premiums decline Average cost for coverage drops 8.7% to 15.6% Jay Hancock Kaiser Health News

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In preliminary but encouraging news for consumers and taxpayers, insurance filings show that average premiums will decline slightly next year in 16 major cities for a bench-

mark Obamacare plan.

Prices for a benchmark “silver” or mid-priced plan sold through the health law’s online marketplaces aren’t all moving in the same direction, however, a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) shows. In Nashville, the premium will rise 8.7 percent, the largest increase in the study, while in Denver it will fall 15.6 percent, the largest decrease.

But overall the results,

based on available filings, don’t show the double-digit percentage increases that some anticipated for the second year of marketplace operation. On average, rates will drop 0.8 percent in the areas studied.

“If you’re the government, this is great news,” said Larry Levitt, KFF senior vice president. “Competition in the marketplaces is helping drive down the cost of the tax credit” that subsidizes coverage for lower-income consumers.

30% of Kansans obese; state ranks 19th in nation Kansas is the 19th most obese state in the nation, according to a report released last week.

The 11th annual report on state obesity rankings by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation says adult obesity rates increased in six states over the past year, with Mississippi and West Virginia topping the scales.

Thirty percent of adults in Kansas are obese, according to the report.

The CDC deems adults with a body mass index, or BMI, of 30 or higher to be obese. A person who is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs at least 203 pounds is considered obese.

“Obesity in America is at a critical juncture,” Jeffrey Levi, executive director of the Trust for America’s Health, said in a statement. “Obesity rates are unacceptably high, and the disparities in rates are profoundly troubling.

Despite the seemingly morbid figures, there are signs of progress. Childhood obesity rates have stabilized over the last decade, say Levi and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Foundation.

And for the first time in a decade, they say, “data also show

a downward trend in obesity rates among young children from lowincome families in many states.”

“Unfortunately,” they continue, “the progress is more mixed for adults. Over the past 30 years, adult obesity rates have sharply risen, doubling since 1980.”

Although that rate has begun to slow, “adult rates remain far too high across the nation, putting millions of Americans at higher risk for a range of serious health problems, from type 2 diabetes to heart disease,” they say.

In Kansas, 30.5% of men are obese and 29.1 percent of women.

More than 29 percent of white residents are obese, compared with 39.2 percent for blacks and 33.5 percent for Latinos.

Colorado has the lowest adult obesity rate in the nation at 21.3 percent, followed by Hawaii, 21.8 percent, the District of Columbia, 22.9 percent, and Massachusetts, 23.6 percent.

Twenty states have rates at or above 30 percent, according to the report. And 43 states have rates at or above 25 percent. Every state weighed in at more than 20 percent.

Overall, the report says, 34.9 percent of adults in the United States are obese.

That’s because the credits are based on the cost of the second least-expensive silver plan, known as the benchmark plan. That’s the one KFF studied. The lower the benchmark-plan rates, the lower the cost to taxpayers.

For consumers, the picture is also promising - but more complicated.

The main message: shop around, says Levitt.

(See PREMIUMS on page 13)

The Scott County Record • Page 13 • Thursday, September 11, 2014

Model Umbehr also is running for lieutenant governor as a Libertarian with his father, Alma attorney Keen Umbehr, at the top of the ticket.

Josh Umbehr said he’s “still doing the math” on whether the state should move its 400,000 Medicaid recipients to a direct primary care plan if he and his dad are elected, so it’s not part of the official platform yet.

But he’s not shy about spreading the gospel of direct primary care on the stump, now that his father has “talked me into running.”

“We’re very passionate about this model. We want Kansans to have access to good-quality, affordable health care,” Umbehr said. “The race as a whole has several platforms and goals. My goal is to advance the cause of direct primary care.”

Gambling on Health Umbehr faces skepticism from consumer advocacy groups at the state and national level.

“Our concerns around concierge medicine are mostly that we worry that people that go that route are not going to have the best access to a comprehensive range of services,” said Claire McAndrew, private insurance program director for the group Families USA. “That provider can provide you primary care, but are you going to have affordable access to specialty services when you need them?”

A comprehensive insurance policy would cover the primary care as well as specialty services like cancer care and surgeries, minus deductibles and co-pays.

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Umbehr and his counterparts say their monthly memberships are not a substitute for health insurance, but serve as a supplement that can reduce a patient’s cost in most circumstances.

“We recommend the same thing we have, which is a high-deductible plan,” Umbehr said.

Umbehr said coupling his direct primary care membership with “catastrophic care” health insurance, like his $5,000 deductible plan, can save consumers because such plans generally have much lower premiums than traditional comprehensive health insurance plans with deductibles in the $500-$1,000 range.

McAndrew wonders whether those flocking to concierge medicine are pricing out the possible outcomes, even with catastrophic coverage. One hospital visit, she said, and a patient could end up having to pay that entire $5,000 deductible out of pocket. Even for young, healthy people, that’s a financial risk, she said.

“People are young and healthy until they’re young and fall ill, or they’re young and get into an accident,” McAndrew said. “I think that’s a pretty big gamble for young people to take.”

Ryan Neuhofel, who runs a direct primary care practice in Lawrence, said he makes sure his patients understand the risks, but he still thinks most come out ahead if they opt for his monthly fee plus a catastrophic plan.

In a given year most people are unlikely to run into a medical problem that would suck up their entire deductible, like a compound fracture requir-

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Premiums may vary significantly within states.

Premiums for plans with different benefit levels higher platinum and gold and lower bronze - may behave differently than prices for silver plans.

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And just because your policy was the least expensive in your area for 2014 doesn’t mean it will stay that way for 2015.

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ing surgery, he said.

“Those type of events are pretty rare; they don’t happen very often to people,” Neuhofel said.

“You’re going to need insurance for that. If they have to pay $5,000 because of the deductible, that’s going to stink at the time and they’re going to have to pay for that over time. But is that better than paying $200 a month in premiums for the rest of their life?”

Neuhofel said he carries a $10,000 deductible plan.

ACA Considerations Like Umbehr, Neuhofel said his practice has grown faster than he expected since he started it three years ago. He has more than 600 patients and will likely cap his practice at 700 soon.

“I’ve seen a big shift in the last year,” Neuhofel said. “More and more people are approaching us, as opposed to us approaching them and trying to sell them on the idea.”

Neuhofel has a fee structure similar to Umbehr’s, and most of his patients are below the median income level, he said.

He makes each new patient sign a form stating that they understand his recommendation to pair his plan with some type of insurance, but he estimated that about 70 percent are uninsured and coming to him because they can’t afford a comprehensive insurance plan.

Katrina McGivern, communications director for the Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved, said that could present another problem.

Under the Affordable Care Act, Americans who do not carry health insurance face a penalty that started at $95 a year. A clause in the health reform law states that a concierge plan coupled with catastrophic care insurance qualifies as “wraparound” coverage, while a concierge plan alone does not.

“Truthfully, by law they should be getting insurance through the (online) marketplace or they’ll face the penalty by tax time,” McGivern said.

Pastime at Park Lane Residents enjoyed the video “Egypt Adventures,” on Tuesday afternoon.

On Tuesday evening some of the residents played trivia games.

Wednesday afternoon bingo helpers were Barb Dickhut, Madeline Murphy and Mandy Barnett.

Some of the residents played Wii bowling on Friday.

On Saturday afternoon the residents watched the movie, “Alvin and the Chipmunks.”

Yvonne Spangler was visited by Jerica VanCampen and Danica Spangler.

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The VIP Band entertained Park Lane residents on Thursday afternoon.

On Friday the Park Lane rythm band provided musical entertainment.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane, Mark and Terri Fouquet, Fritzie Rauch, Donna Gaschler, Norene Rohrbough and Collier Livingston.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Roger and Jackie John, Fritzie Rauch, Larry LaPlant, Gloria O’Bleness and Pastor Dennis Carter.

Deaths band, Steve, Gayla Elliott, and husband, Gary, and Janet Reed and husband, Roger, all of Garden City; 15 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, four brothers and one sister.

Funeral service will be held Sat., Sept. 13, 2:00 p.m., at the Price and Sons Funeral Home, Garden City.

Interment will be at Valley View Cemetery, Garden City.

Friends may call on Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Price and Sons Funeral Home, Garden City.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to the Finney County Humane Society or Meals on Wheels, both in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 620 N. Main, Garden City, Ks. 67846.

Doris M. Hemel Doris M. Hemel, 82, died Sept. 4, 2014.

She was born Dec. 23, 1931, in Shallow Water, the daughter of Paul and Georgia Baker.

Survivors include: two sons, Larry Hemel and wife, Barb, Dexter, and Lance Hemel and wife, Cindy, Olewier, Ia.; two daughters, Jacque Hemel, Wichita, and Billie Jackson, and husband, Glenn, Udall; 14 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Delmar; parents; one daughter, Debra Elaine;

Emogene Harp was visited by Darla Luebbers; Kim Harp and Devoe Harp, both of Longview, Tex.; Mary Lou Oeser and Karen Harms.

Cecile Billings was visited by Ann Beaton and Jax and Delinda Dunagan.

Edith Norman was visited by India Gutshall, Haviland; Sue Riner, Sara Shane, Alan Graham, Dale Dickhut and Kim Smith.

Darlene Richman was visited by her cousins Maureen, Colleen and Sally.

Clifford Dearden was visited by Janet Ottaway, Hays.

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Walter Alvin Sears Walter Alvin Sears, 88, died September 9, 2014, at St. Catherine Hospital, Garden City.

H e was born Feb. 25, 1 9 2 6 , in Gem, the son of John M i l t o n Walter Sears and Lula (Jennings) Sears.

A Garden City resident since 1953, he was a retired shift foreman for Northern Natural Gas Company and owner/operator of Seaco Plastics sign business.

He was a World War II U.S. Marine Corps veteran.

On April 24, 1949, he married Melvina Donavee Luther in Cimarron. She passed away on Nov. 8, 2010, in Garden City.

Survivors include: four daughters, Norah Sears, Melva Cottrell, and hus-

Corine Dean was visited by Aaron and Mandy Kropp, Dianna Howard, Ron Hess, Marlyn Ohnick and Madeline Murphy.

Delores Brooks was visited by Charles and Cheryl.

Lorena Turley was visited by Rex and LuJuana Turley, Mary Lou Oeser, Karen Harms and Neta Wheeler.

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one brother, Rex; and three sisters, Betty Wise, Jean Doris and Blanch Stull.

Funeral service was held Sept. 8 at Broadway Mortuary, Wichita.

Burial took place on Sept. 9 at the Dighton Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Harry Hynes Hospice, 313 South Market, Wichita, Ks. 67202.

Condolences may be shared at www.CozineMemorial.com.

The service was being conducted by Broadway Mortuary.

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Bonnie Pickett was visited by Gloria Wright, Larry Wright, Lorena Turley, Larry and Philene Pickett, Margie Stevens and Jon Tuttle.

Boots Haxton was visited by Rod and Kathy Haxton.

Albert Dean was visited by Nancy Holt, Tava See, Carol Davey, Mary Lou Oeser and Karen Harms.

Harold and Ruth White were visited by Junior and Sharon Strecker and Pete Steffens.

Jake Leatherman was visited by Otto Harp.

Lucille Dirks was visited by Darla Luebbers and Floyd and Vivian Dirks.

Ann Tedford was visited by Mary Plum.

Harriet Jones was visited by Rev. Don Martin.

Herb Graves was visited by Tina Turley and Ron Hess.

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Health law no longer the No. 1 issue with GOP voters

Heading into the 2014 mid-term congressional elections, health care is not shaping up as a makeor-break issue, according to a new poll.

Health care trails jobs and the economy as a top issue on voters’ minds this fall, 21 percent to 13 percent. Only three percent of voters in the monthly tracking poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation mentioned the health law by any name (Affordable Care Act/Obamacare) when asked about issues most likely to determine their vote.

Health care is even less important to independent voters, those who frequently decide close races.

While Democrats and Republicans both chose health care as their second ranked issues with 15 and 16 percent respectively, independents rank of health care tied for fifth with nine percent.

The issue is, however,

nonetheless playing a role in the current campaigns, particularly in key swing states where control of the U.S. Senate is at stake.

Republicans need to capture a net gain of six seats to gain a majority in that chamber.

Nearly three-quarters of registered voters in the 11 states considered likely to decide Senate control said they saw or heard health-related election ads in the previous month.

In those states, 34 percent said they saw or heard more ads opposed to the health law, while only four percent saw more ads supporting the law.

Forty-eight percent of registered voters said they are “tired of hearing candidates for Congress talk about the health care law” and think they should move on to other issues, while 47 percent say the health care debate is important and should

continue.

Not surprisingly, more than 60 percent of Republicans favor keeping the debate going.

About the same percentage of Democrats say candidates should move on, and independents are evenly split.

Republicans are thought to have an edge in the coming elections, partly because the party out of power traditionally does well in a president’s second midterm and partly because the Democrats are defending several seats in traditionally GOP states such as Alaska, Louisiana

and North Carolina.

Republican voters are also more enthusiastic than Democrats about voting this fall. But apparently the health law isn’t driving that enthusiasm to any great degree.

When Republicans who said they were eager to vote were asked the reason for their enthusiasm, the top answers were giving Republicans control of the Senate (13 percent), wanting their vote counted (10 percent) and getting rid of incumbents (10 percent).

The health law was named by three percent.

Attend the Church of Your Choice

When to Pray

“Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms”. (James 5:13) When we find ourselves in trying times, often the temptation is to strike out at a person who helped bring those circumstances upon us. Or, we want to blame someone for our state of affairs. We may even become mad at God for allowing this in our lives. Or, we might wallow in self-pity.

But when we are afflicted, when we are suffering or when we are in trouble, God tells us what we should do: pray. Why? For on thing, it just may be that God might remove that problem because of our prayers.

That is not to say that God always will take our afflictions, sufferings, or troubles away. But sometimes He will.

By simply bringing our circumstances before the Lord and acknowledging our need and dependence on God, we can see God intervene in the situation we are presently facing. Prayer can also give us grace we need to endure trouble and be brought much closer to God. James 5:13 tells us, “ Is anyone among you suffering? Let Him pray.” The word suffering used here can also be translated “in trouble” or “in distress.” Is anyone among you in trouble? Are you distressed? Then you should pray.

So when the bottom falls out, when you feel you are just hanging by a thread, when circumstances have become difficult, or when they have grown worse by the minute, what should you do? You should pray. You should pray when you are afflicted, You should pray when you are sick. You should pray when you are corrupted by sin, and you should pray when specific needs occur. Pray, and don’t give up.

Dennis Carter, pastor First United Methodist 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 • Tuesday breakfast at 6:30 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study at 7:00 p.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 120 S. Lovers Lane - Shallow Water Larry Taylor, pastor Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

First Christian Church

1st United Methodist Church

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 casual 6:30 p.m.: “The Way” contemporary gathering Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. • MYF (youth groups) on Wednesdays Jr. High: 6:30 p.m. • Sr. High: 7:00 p.m.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

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.

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Fire

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That praise was shared

by Gil Lewis, owner of Bruce’s.

“The only reason we can even consider coming back into this location is because of the job that the firemen did,” he emphasizes.

“I was impressed with how well everyone did their jobs,” adds Louise Berning. “It was emotional for myself because we were losing things in the fire that had sentimental value. But it was also quite a sight to see all those guys doing what they could to save the building and keep the fire from being so much worse than it was.”

Hoover also feels that building codes which establish a firewall with three layers of bricks were also a key factor in containing the fire.

“That prevents fire from transferring to the next building,” emphasizes Hoover. “The reason more buildings tend to be lost in a situation like this is because people, over the years, have torn out the brick firewall. That’s something I won’t allow.

Either you build a firewall or you don’t build.”

What next?

Lewis remains optimistic he will resume business in the same building in the near future. He is awaiting an inspection of the building - particularly the north wall - by a structural engineer.

Carpeting and all other inventory has been dam-

aged by smoke and will be replaced.

If he gets a green light to move back into the building, Lewis says it will take at least a month to have it cleaned out and ready to reopen. In the meantime, he has relocated to 519 South Main Street.

“We intend to keep doing what we’ve been doing here for many years,” says Lewis. “We have a sentimental attachment to this business. Dad built it and we want to keep it going.”

Likewise, the inventory in Bling has also been lost as a result of smoke and water damage.

Berning remains noncommittal about the future of what will be a vacant lot after the building has been razed. Rebuilding, she says, “has crossed my mind.”

“I don’t know the obstacles with the full basement under the building,” she says.

Berning says she has a long connection with the building, recalling that, as a youngster, “I ran abstracts for my grandfather” when the abstract office was located on the second floor.

With her sister-in-law, Tonni Numrich, involved in the renovation of another historic building on the north end of Main Street, Berning says she was considering the possibility of an art gallery for the building in which she shared ownership.

“I guess that’s not going to happen now,” she

added.

Historic Building According to the Scott County history book, A.B. Timmerman and U.G. Ruth were responsible for construction of the building in 1907. Ruth was the great-uncle of Patsi Graham, Scott City.

It was the first twostory brick business house built in Scott City, according to historical records.

The second floor was originally an opera house.

Over the years, the building has had numerous occupants, including a hospital, Bloodhart Drug Store (1940s), Marshall’s Ready to Wear (women’s clothing), a restaurant and a clothing store. At one time the main floor was divided into two storefronts - Duckwall’s on the north side and Brown/McDonald’s clothing store in the south half.

For the past two years, Braun’s Butcher Block had been located in the north half on the ground floor.

The second floor of the building had been a meeting place for the Odd Fellows Club, Masons and Eastern Star for a number of years.

The corner building occupied by Bruce’s had been known as “The Corner Store” during the 1920s with a grocery store operating out of the west end.

For many years it was a Firestone dealership before Bruce’s relocated to the site in the late 1990s.

The original building,

Smoke and flames pour out of the roof of the Berning building late Monday afternoon.

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visible in photos from the 1920s, was torn down and a new brick building constructed in the 1940s. At the top of the building is a nameplate that says “Car-

penter Bldg. 1942.”

Hoover Electric was once located across the street to the south, in the west end of what was the First National Bank. As

a youngster, Ken Hoover can recall sitting in his father’s shop and looking out the window as the new, brick building was being constructed.

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Air assault Beavers stampede Buffs with five TD passes • Page 24

Crush Clearwater

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‘Boredom’ not a problem for Hutchins in 37-0 SC win

Last year was a tough one for Marshall Hutchins.

As a junior, a shoulder injury limited him to punting duties after the second game of the season.

“Last year got really boring because, with the team we had, I didn’t get to punt all that much.”

If all goes well, boredom shouldn’t be a concern for Hutchins this season.

In just his second carry he burst through a hole in the line that was big enough for a pair of trucks. Eighteen yards later the senior fullback was standing in the end zone with his first touchdown run in more than a year.

“It felt great to get some touches and feel like I was helping the team on offense,” says Hutchins who finished with 42 yards on five carries in Scott City’s season opening 37-0 win over Clearwater.

Hutchins was part of an overpowering offensive attack that shredded the Clearwater defense for 272 yards on the ground - including 121 from the fullback position - as Scott City rolled to a surprisingly easy 37-0 non-league win.

“I think we surprised a few people tonight,” head coach Glenn O’Neil told his team as they huddled following the game. “You don’t expect 400 yards of offense in the first game. We showed that we

When SCHS opens Western Kansas Activities Conference play this week at Colby, head coach Glenn O’Neil won’t be mentioning that the Eagles lost a tough 14-10 season opener against Oakley.

He’ll be reminding the Beavers of their hard-fought 28-12 win over the Eagles a year ago.

“Last year, I felt they physically beat us for most of the game so we have to be prepared physically and mentally,” says head coach Glenn O’Neil. “We definitely aren’t going to overlook them.”

(See CRUSH on page 19)

(See COLBY on page 20)

Junior fullback Cooper Griffith dives into the end zone to finish off a five yard touchdown run early in the second quarter against Clearwater. (Below) Chantz Yager (at the ankles) and Wyatt Eitel catch Clearwater quarterback Hunter Hall for a sack during Friday’s action.

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Beavers won’t overlook Colby in GWAC opener

Young squad claims title at Goodland

From the time the Scott Community High School girls began practices in mid-August, cross-country head coach Kevin Reese thought they had the potential to be pretty good.

In their season opener at Goodland the Lady Beavers removed all doubt.

With four girls finishing among the top 11 runners, Scott City nudged the host school - 22 to 33 - for the team title in the seven-school field. Freshman Makaela Stevens (17:29) finished third overall and led a SCHS squad that included four girls who were competing in their first cross-country meet.

Also competing for the first time were sophomore Kylee Trout (fourth, 17:46), freshman Trella Davis (11th, 18:37) and freshman Olivia Prieto (17th, 19:49).

Sandwiched between that group was junior Jade Wren (6th, 18:04) who was joined by senior Macy Davis (20th, 20:50).

(See YOUNG on page 21)

Smull, Price are second at Liberal Invite

among owners - and nonowners - that Levenson’s guilt is being driven by economic opportunity that was created by former LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Sterling, as most everyone living in the 21st Century is aware, was caught on tape making racist comments to his girlfriend who made the comments public.

Dropping just two games in her three wins, Bre Smull was a runner-up in No. 1 singles at the Liberal Invitational.

The Scott Community High School senior had a very strong outing which included lopsided 6-1 and 6-0 wins over opponents from Liberal.

Her only loss came against Ashland.

Also finishing second in the round-robin field in No. 1 singles was sophomore Emma Price who dropped just five games in her three wins. Her only loss was also against Ashland.

Smull was the only SCHS senior competing at Liberal and is one of just three on this year’s roster.

“We don’t have a lot of varsity experience, but we have some young girls who should be able to hold their own very well against varsity competition,” says head coach Steve Kucharik.

The No. 1 doubles team of Christina and Melanie Tilton finished third.

Kucharik says there are 8-9 players who are playing at the varsity level, “but we are fairly settled at our top six spots.”

Rounding out the varsity roster is the No. 2 doubles team of Alma Martinez/ Krystal Appel.

(See CASHING on page 19)

(See TENNIS on page 21)

Sophomore Kylee Trout in action at the Goodland Invitational last week.

Franchise owners cashing in on racism Bruce Levenson Rod has pulled off what Haxton, sports some are editor calling one of the shrewdest business moves in decades.

The majority owner of the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA has revealed that he sent an e-mail two years ago that made some disparaging comments about

the black fan base in Atlanta. In the e-mail he said, among other things that, “My theory is that the black crowd scared away the whites and there are simply not enough affluent black fans to build a significant season ticket base.”

In other words, black fans simply aren’t spending enough money to support the franchise.

“I think southern whites sim-

ply were not comfortable being in an arena or at a bar where they were in the minority,” he also said in the e-mail.

To have one’s moral conscience kick in two years after the fact was “absolutely brilliant,” remarked one NBA owner who asked to remain anonymous.

“Leave it to Bruce to seize a great opportunity,” said another.

There is some sentiment

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Outdoors in Kansas

by Steve Gilliland

When geese are a nuisance In the real estate business it’s all about location, location, location.

The same holds true with Kansas’ Canada geese. Resident geese have found everything they need around the golf courses and housing developments of our bigger cities in the eastern half of Kansas.

There they have all the water and green forage they could ever need and for the most part protection from predators - including man. And people seem to enjoy them until they become too plentiful.

In some states, nuisance geese like that are killed, but the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) tries to capture and relocate nuisance geese whenever possible.

Last Saturday, “Greenwings,” the youth arm of Ducks Unlimited, sponsored a goose banding event at the 5,000-acre Jamestown Wildlife Area northwest of Concordia. The Greenwing Banding Event was geared toward youth up to 17-years-old.

At 7:00 a.m. we rolled into a parking lot already filled with kids of all ages, their parents and a big trailer holding 115 Canada geese in cages awaiting identification bands and their freedom.

There is way more to banding geese than meets the eye, and there were already scores of man-hours invested in getting those geese that far.

Geese “molt,” or lose their flight feathers, a couple times a year, the first time being late June or early July. At that time, the flightless geese can be captured.

Our “victims” had been removed from golf courses and housing additions around Wichita and Kansas (See GEESE on page 23)

Jays show they can play defense Limit Holcomb to -43 first half yards in shutout The ability to score points wasn’t a big concern for the Scott City Middle School eighth graders entering the season.

I t wasn’t a worry in their seaHolcomb 0 son open8th Grade 42 er as the Bluejays scored on their first five offensive possessions and added a defensive score in a 42-0 rout of Holcomb on the home field last Thursday.

As dominating as this game was offensively for the Bluejays, the defense was just as impressive in limiting Holcomb to minus-43 yards of total offense in the first half.

If that defensive performance wasn’t enough, Jack Thomas stepped in front of a screen pass and returned it for a touchdown on the opening play of the second half to account for the last of Scott City’s six touchdowns.

“For our first game the offensive and defensive execution was pretty good,” says head coach Skip Numrich. “We made

some mistakes, but we have boys who are athletic enough that they were able to overcome them against Holcomb. We will have to execute better in our next few games.”

The offensive line, which was a concern heading into the season, “did a good job of blocking the right person,” notes Numrich.

“The point of emphasis this week is to be more aggressive. We want to take the defender off his spot and drive them off the line.”

SCMS was able to put together a methodical drive to open the game, capped by a one yard keeper by quarterback Parker Vulgamore.

Short drives helped the Bluejays whose average starting field position for their next three possessions was the Holcomb 36. As a result they needed just 20 plays to score their next four touchdowns while building a 36-0 halftime lead.

Marshal Faurot finished off a short 35 yard drive with a 15 yard run in which he slipped a pair of

SCMS eighth grader Jack Thomas breaks into the open field for a seven yard gain during the season opening win against Holcomb.

(Record Photo)

tackles inside the five yard line. That was followed by a five yard scoring run by Wyatt Hayes and a five yard TD run by Faurot.

The Bluejays showed they could put together an extended drive, covering 80 yards in just over 2-1/2 minutes to close out the half. Thomas capped the seven-play series with a seven yard run with just 6.1 seconds remaining.

“I wanted to see how

the boys could do in a situation where we had to manage the clock,” says Numrich. “We weren’t trying to run up the score.

We kept the ball on the ground and tried to pick up the tempo. The boys executed the offense pretty well.”

SCMS will be tested over the next three weeks with games at Colby and Hays before they return home again to face Lib-

eral West.

“That’s going to be a pretty tough stretch,” says the head coach. “The goal for our offense is to improve their blocking and knowledge of the playbook. The defense will have to be more alert, especially in the secondary.

We’re going to be facing teams that can throw the ball and with boys who have the speed to get to the second level.”

Hutchins leads SC at Goodland X-C Dylan Hutchins has established himself as a team leader during practice.

In the Scott Community High School cross-country team’s season opener he established himself as a leader on the course.

The junior completed the 3.1 mile Goodland course in 19:52 to finish sixth - just two seconds ahead of junior Irvin Lozano.

The Beavers had five

runners finish among the top 15, but it wasn’t quite enough to overtake Goodland which won the team title, 41-49.

Goodland and SCHS finished well ahead of Ulysses (76) in the field of six teams.

“The boys ran a conservative race - maybe a little too conservative,” says head coach Kevin Reese.

“I wanted to see us compete better as a team against Goodland. We

let them get away from us early and we couldn’t make up the difference.”

Reese was pleased with the way the boys ran in a pack during the first half of the race. Only four seconds separated the top five runners after the first mile. The top four were separated by only 30 seconds at the two-mile mark.

“We need to keep our top five or six boys a little tighter,” Reese says.

“We don’t have that real strong No. 1 runner who will give us a low score like we’ve had in the past.

It’s going to take a pack mentality for us to be successful.”

Compared to a year ago over the same course, Hutchins ran 1:19 faster and Lozano sliced his time by 2:06.

“What we need to look for now is consistency from meet to meet,” says Reese. “That’s been a

Lingg injury slows DHS offense Dighton High School knew it could ill afford to lose one of its starters to injury.

That loss was particularly devastating in last Friday’s season opener when the injury sent quarterback Tyler Lingg to the sideline.

“He got hit in the side of his knee and it buckled him over,” says head coach Ken Simon, who was hoping a MRI this week would reveal only a sprain.

When Lingg left the

game the Hornets were trailing 40-34. Without him as an offensive weapon, Dighton was unable to keep pace with Quinter in a 62-40 loss.

Prior to his departure Lingg had passed for 321 yards and four touchdowns in addition to a rushing TD. Dylan Foos had 11 receptions for 214 yards.

“It hurt to lose Tyler, but what disappointed me more was the lack of defense,” says Simon.

“I thought our younger

guys held their own at times, but it came down to experience and strength, especially up front. They were beating us on both sides of the ball.”

Dighton finished the game with three freshmen on the offensive line.

“We have things that we need to adjust on defense. They were able to find a way to exploit our weaknesses,” Simon says.

Foos filled in at quarterback following Lingg’s injury and led the Hornets on a touchdown drive.

problem for some of these guys in the past.”

If the team can get their top two times in the high 17-minute range and the No. 3 and 4 runners in the low 18s, Reese feels they can compete with anyone in the league and be one of the top teams in the area.

“And that’s what it will take if we want to get back to state, which I know these boys want to do,” he adds.

Castillo rushes for 109 yards at Meade A win at Meade in Friday’s season opener would have been an upset of epic proportions for the Wichita County High School football team.

The upset didn’t occur as the powerhouse Buffaloes claimed a 64-12 win.

But the Indians were able to come away from the game with a couple of highlights, including a 75 yard touchdown run by Zeke Castillo who finished the night with 109 yards.

“You have to give these boys a lot of credit. I had nine boys who never stepped off the field,” says head coach Cale Warden.

“We need to practice more on passing, but to be expected with first-year quarterback,” he noted about the 12 passing yards.

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Scott City senior fullback Marshall Hutchins bursts through the line for an 18 yard touchdown run during the third quarter of Friday’s game against Clearwater.

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Crush have several weapons with our skilled guys.”

While they had controlled the entire first half, SCHS held only a 17-0 lead at the break. That changed quickly when Clearwater opened the second half with a threeand-out followed by two quick scoring drives by Scott City that each took just three plays.

The Beavers scored on their first three possessions of the second half to take a 37-0 lead with 9:43 left in the game.

Scott City’s fullback duo of junior Cooper Griffith and senior Marshall Hutchins scored the first two TDs in the half on runs up the middle of 31 and 18 yards, respectively.

A nine yard pass from quarterback Trey O’Neil to senior tight end Sloan Baker, who was all alone in the back of the end zone, finished off the night’s scoring.

Scott City was, by far, the more physical team, averaging 6.47 yards per carry compared to Clearwater’s 1.3 yards.

“Marshall and Cooper each had a couple of big runs and Wyatt (Kropp) even added a couple of nice runs on traps,” says O’Neil. “(Clearwater) was kind of exploited after they got spread out with the tosses and the passes. Our offense did a good job all the way around.”

Pass Defense Tested Perhaps the biggest surprise of the night was the steady diet of passing

by Clearwater. Quarterback Hunter Hall put the ball into the air 36 times, completing just 15 for 153

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yards. The Indians added just 33 yards rushing - 32 coming in the final quarter.

“We didn’t expect them to pass that much,” says senior defensive tackle Chantz Yager. “We were expecting them to run more, especially quarterback draws and traps. But (Hall) never lowered his shoulder and a few times he ducked out of bounds.”

Hutchins, an inside linebacker, was also looking for Clearwater to run the ball more.

“That’s what we saw on film. When they started passing from the beginning it kind of threw me off,” says Hutchins. “I felt we did a pretty good job of staying with our guys in coverage and making sure their quarterback didn’t have very many easy completions.”

Clearwater abandoned their running game early, running the ball just eight times in the first half for three yards.

“They didn’t do what we were expecting coming into the game,” says Coach O’Neil. “They didn’t do any speed options or anything to challenge us to the outside other than their quick passes.”

O’Neil says the defense was able to bring occasional pressure on Clearwater quarterback Hunter Hall.

“We probably got as much pressure as we expected and maybe a little more. They had a big line even though they were inexperienced,” he notes.

“We were able to get to Hall a couple of times with blitzes from the outside. The (pass) coverage was pretty good, so that

gave Wyatt (Eitel) and Chantz (Yager) a couple of chances to get to him.”

The Beavers didn’t get any picks, despite so many pass attempts by Hall. But there were a couple of near misses. Hutchins had a near interception where the ball crawled across a receiver’s back and the senior was able to get control of it for a moment.

“I had the ball and then he punched it out of my hands,” said a frustrated Hutchins who was thinking touchdown on the play. “I was tucking it away and then he hit it.”

Offense on a Roll About the only thing that didn’t go right for the Beavers was a threeand-out on their first possession of the night. They scored on five of their next six possessions until the second team offense entered the game late in the fourth quarter.

The Beavers scored their first points of the season on a 26 yard field goal by sophomore Tre Stewart.

That was followed by a 70 yard, 10 play drive that ended with a five yard run

by Griffith early in the second period. O’Neil caught the defense napping on a 37 yard naked boot that extended the lead to 17-0 with 6:59 left in the half.

It wasn’t a bad half, but it could have been better.

“We left some points off the scoreboard,” says Coach O’Neil, referring to a couple of missed opportunities on passing plays that would have resulted in touchdowns.

Those opportunities didn’t escape SCHS in the second half as they scored on their first three drives.

Following a pair of Clearwater punts the Beavers had great field position at the Indians’ 37 and the SCHS 45 yard lines on their first two drives of the third period. On the opening series, Griffith shed a pair of tackles at the line of scrimmage and burst free for a 30 yard scoring run to finish off a 38 second scoring drive.

Less than 1-1/2 minutes later, Yager had one of the most exciting plays of the night when he wrestled a near-interception from the hands of a Clearwater defender near the SCHS sideline, ran toward the Clearwater end zone about three yards before regaining his momentum and then cutting back across the field.

It looked like Yager might try to take the play to the far sideline before he cut back to the SCHS sideline again and was eventually forced out of bounds following a 26 yard gain.

“I saw (the defender) out of the corner of my eye and I knew it was going to be a pick if I didn’t fight for the ball so I stepped in there and grabbed it somehow,” Yager says. “It felt like I ran 80 yards. It was crazy.”

Two running plays later, Hutchins was staring at a huge opening up the middle as he raced 18 yards for a touchdown with 7:38 left in the third period.

Griffith led the rushing game with 79 yards on 13 carries while junior tailback Wyatt Kropp added 70 yards on nine carries.

O’Neil was 8-of-14 for 120 yards passing. Yager had two receptions for 43 yards and senior wideout Brett Meyer had a pair of catches for 34 yards.

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Sterling was banned from the NBA and forced to sell a team that he purchased for $12.5 million in 1981 for $2 billion. We should all be so lucky to get that kind of punishment.

That undoubtedly got every other owner of a sports franchise in America to thinking of the possibilities . . . and searching through their old e-mails or contacting former and current girlfriends to ask if they had some kind of racist or even off-color comment on tape.

The Hawks were recently valued by Forbes at $425 million. Using the Clippers sale as a measuring stick that would put the value of the Hawks at $1.5 billion.

That’s could be why Levenson went through his e-mail history and found one that he had sent two years ago which he reported to other team owners and the NBA. He said that the comments he made about the fans in 2012 were “inappropriate and offensive” and feels he has left the league no alternative but to force him to sell his share of the team.

Because the comments weren’t as racially charged as those made by Sterling, Levenson isn’t putting a $2 billion price tag on the team.

“But if given a little more time to look through e-mails I wrote that were perhaps sent to me and which I forwarded to someone else I might be able to find something equally offensive,” noted Levenson.

“It’s even possible that I could send out an inappropriate e-mail in the near future if it will help this franchise find an interested buyer.”

Another owner, who asked not to be identified, said that he recalled telling an off-color joke while in college.

“I’m sure I can get some of my frat brothers to testify before the commissioner about how inappropriate the joke was if it comes to that,” he said. “But I’m afraid the joke would only increase the value of my franchise by $100 million . . . $200 million at best.

I’m holding out hope that someone on my staff can find something even more inappropriate.”

Other owners will be watching closely as the NBA decides how to handle the situation in Atlanta and as potential buyers line up for the franchise.

“I don’t consider myself a racist,” said one owner, “but, if the price is right, I’ll bet I can find an e-mail that says otherwise. It’s the least I can do to rid the league of people like me who don’t deserve to be owners.”

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The luster isn’t lost on AuburnKSU game Kansas State’s football team dodged a fatal bolt of lightning last Saturday against Iowa State. The damage caused by a loss would have been incalculable, but the Wildcats’ season is intact after a 32-28 win.

“I don’t by know if they Mac thought it Stevenson was going to be easy, but I thought that they’d contend differently.

With all of that, there was a lot of character involved in playing the last five minutes of the game the way they did,” said head coach Bill Snyder.

After the comeback win, the national significance of the Sept. 18 game against Auburn is undamaged. Kansas State will have to be an improved team to have a chance against Auburn, but Snyder’s teams are capable of substantial progress with extra time to prepare.

K-State-Auburn will have the undivided attention of the college football world.

KU Hangs On In their season opener, KU team won the first quarter against Southeast Missouri State and lost the last three. Fortunately, the Jayhawks won the first quarter (24-0) by enough to hold on and win 34-28.

It was a disheartening performance.

“When we watch this tape, there will be plenty of things that we like, and plenty of things . . . plenty of things . . . we don’t like,” said head coach Charlie Weis.

KU travels to North Carolina this Saturday (Sept.

13) to play a talented Duke team that returns most of their key players from last season’s bowl team. Duke (2-0) is coming off a 34-17 win against Troy.

The Jayhawks’ have been a notoriously poor road team for some time and the outlook against Duke is not encouraging.

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O’Neil believes in keeping a first game win in perspective Scott City entered last Friday’s game with a number of questions.

A 37-0 rout of Clearwater didn’t go very far in answering them.

Yes, it was a good win, if not a bit surprising - not just by how well Scott City played, but by how well Clearwater didn’t.

“Did you see this coming?” asked head coach Glenn O’Neil when the scoreboard showed 37-0 midway into the fourth quarter.

To some degree, yes. We predicted a comfortable win, but we certainly expected to work a little harder for it than we did.

It was the margin of victory and the relative ease which is a double-edged sword. It’s great from a team confidence standpoint and in terms of knowing that you’re moving in the right direction. It certainly beats the alternative.

But you never want your team - or even fans - to put too much stock into a season opener.

“There’s nothing eye-popping about the game that says we’re really good here or really weak there. It’s the first game and that’s about all you can read into it,” cautions O’Neil. “You don’t know how good (Clearwater is) until they’ve played a couple more games and the same could be said about us.”

It doesn’t help that the Indians threw a wrench into pregame planning by relying so much on their passing game.

SCHS was prepared for a spread offense, but they were also expecting much more in the way of speed options and quarterback draws.

“They didn’t do anything to challenge us to the outside other than their quick passes,” O’Neil points out. “There were no questions answered with respect to our run defense.”

The Beavers don’t expect to see a four-out, spread offense again this season, unless it’s against Holcomb. New head coach Kent Teeter, who has previ-

Colby The Eagles are experienced at the skill positions, led by quarterback Josh Matchell.

“They aren’t going to throw the ball a lot, but they showed last year against us they will try to throw deep on occasion,” O’Neil says. “They run a lot of different formations with a lot of them out of the shotgun.”

The defensive ends, outside linebackers and cornerbacks will be challenged this week

by Colby’s running game. At the same time, they will try to

ously been at Goodland, has been known for an up-tempo, spread passing attack.

Solid Ground Game Offensively, the Beavers did put up some solid rushing numbers with 272 yards, including 121 yards from fullbacks Cooper Griffith (79) and Marshall Hutchins (42).

However, there are concerns on the line.

“Trey (O’Neil) was scrambling for his life a little bit,” noted the head coach about his starting quarterback.

“We knew this would be a concern early in the season. Hopefully we can get it cleaned up by the time we get into district play.”

Likewise, a broken ankle that senior Lane Hayes suffered during wrestling season will likely be an ongoing situation.

“His status will be day-by-day and week-by-week throughout the season,” says O’Neil.

When he was out of the game, sophomore Eddie Tilton played tackle, “but that’s the short-range solution,” O’Neil says. “We need Lane to stay healthy and play a full game on the offensive side of the ball.”

Special Teams Play Two elements in Scott City’s special teams play stood out Friday night.

O’Neil was pleased with punt returns, other than the fumble midway into the third period which was the game’s only turnover. Wyatt Kropp averaged about 12 yards per return.

Kickoff coverage was also good. On six kickoff returns, the average starting field position for Clearwater was their own 26 yard line. Sophomore Tre Stewart consistently got good height on the

kickoffs and Clearwater fielded them between the eight and 15 yard lines, which allowed for good coverage.

The Beavers were also effective in containing Clearwater on their sideline returns.

“The problem with a sideline return is when a team doesn’t kick it to the side you’re set up to return to,” says O’Neil.

“That forces a return guy to try and get all the way across the field and run about 35 yards to get to the edge of the wall and you haven’t gained anything up the field.

“We knew they ran a lot of kickoffs back to their bench and we were able to keep them from setting up the returns they wanted.”

Having a big game on kickoff coverage was junior Abe Wiebe who O’Neil says “stood out the most with his hustle.”

“He’s not our fastest guy, but he’s the guy who was always out front on the kickoffs. I think he only finished with one tackle on special teams, but he was always someone they had to account for first and take him out of the play,” O’Neil says.

A good start to the season? Absolutely.

“But you don’t know where to gauge yourself because you don’t have any idea how good your opponent was. You don’t want to pat yourself on the back too much and you don’t want to say your opponent wasn’t very good because you don’t know what their success will be until they’ve played two or three games,” he adds.

“Overall, we’re pleased with where we are after one game, but we also realize we have a long way to go to be very good.”

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catch the back side of the defense napping with misdirection plays.

“Offensively, they run a lot of different sets. Our defensive tackles will have to make adjustments throughout the night,” O’Neil says.

Aggressive on Defense When the Beavers line up with two runningbacks the Eagles will counter with a 5-3 defense. In a one-back set they will be in a 5-2 defense.

When SCHS sends out wide receivers and spreads the offense it will force the Eagles to spread their linebackers which could open up some running lanes.

“Colby has some good size with their two defensive tackles and at noseguard,” says O’Neil. “Their linebackers like to play downhill. It seems they’re blitzing on almost every play, but they are also making the (coverage) drops in play-action.”

Colby will try to be aggressive with the eight players they keep inside the box.

“Their secondary won’t play bump-and-run like Clearwater so it’s a different look for our receivers and our quarterback,” says the head coach.

“When you’re playing Clearwater and they have five guys in the box then you run the ball. When you play Colby they put eight guys in the box so you throw the ball. It’s a numbers game,” he adds.

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Faurot Ag has 4 rushing TDs in 29-6 win

Behind a punishing ground attack that scored four touchdowns, Scott City rolled to a 29-6 win over TLC Trucking on the opening weekend of YMCA football action Sunday afternoon.

The fifth/sixth grade team sponsored by Faurot Ag Services/Fairleigh Feedyard/Zoetis needed just three plays to cover 40 yards on their opening series, scoring on an 11 yard run by Easton Lorg.

After that, the only thing in doubt was the finals score.

On their next possession, Lorg scored on a 29 yard run on Scott City’s first play following a TLC punt.

That was followed by a safety and a 15 yard TD run by Loren Faurot that opened up a 22-0 halftime lead.

TLC’s only bright moment of the day was a 40 yard run on the first play of the second half, but Faurot Ag quickly responded with a 40 yard run that included a 27 yard gain by Lorg. Kale Wheeler finished off the scoring drive with a four yard run.

Defensive Battle First National Bank/ Security State Bank was locked in a defensive battle with Commerce Bank in the third grade division.

The first-year Scott City players grabbed an 8-0 lead on a 29 yard punt return by Kooper Wright.

Collin McDaniel added the two-point PAT. Scott City had a 34 yard

Tennis Price and M. Tilton played doubles last season and advanced to the second round of regional tournament play. Smull played singles at the varsity level.

Appel, a sophomore, and Martinez, a junior, are in their first year of high school tennis.

With 26 girls on this year’s squad, the coaching staff has put together varsity squads to compete at different tournaments on the same day.

“The main thing is to get these girls as much

Crocker wins opening Payoff Chris Crocker claimed top prize in the opening week of the annual Pigskin Payoff sponsored by Scott City businesses.

The Scott City resident was all alone with 14 correct picks. His only misses were USC’s win over Stanford and Texas getting trounced by BYU. Six contestants tied with 13 correct picks. Winning the second place money on the tie-breaker was Jon Lippelmann while Aaron Kropp claims third place money.

Others with 13 correct picks were Adam Kadavy, Ryan Roberts, Mandy Kropp and Jon Berning.

Grand prize at the end of the 14-week season is $275 to the individual with the most correct picks. The runner-up will receive $125.

There is also a $75 prize to the first perfect entry of the season.

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Kooper Wright returns a punt 29 yards for a touchdown during the First National Bank/Security State Bank’s 8-2 win on Sunday. (Record Photo)

touchdown pass called back because of a penalty late in the first half and in the third quarter they drove to the two yard line but were unable to punch it in.

Commerce Bank’s only score came from a safety on the game’s final play.

Ruelas Scores 2 TDs Aaron Ruelas scored a pair of first half touchdowns and Western State Bank/Neuman Harris Chiropractic claimed a 21-6 win in the fourth grade division.

Scott City opened up an early 7-0 lead before Pizza Hut answered with a TD, but failed on the

PAT conversion, to make it a 7-6 game. Ruelas gave Scott City a one touchdown margin, 14-6, with his second scoring run of the first half.

J.P. Harris gave Scott City some breathing room with a 19 yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter. Ruelas added the PAT. Am. Implement Wins Scott City enjoyed a big day on the first Sunday of YMCA tackle football action, winning all four games in the third through sixth grade divisions.

The other fifth/sixth grade team sponsored by The Record/American Implement/Wheatland

had no trouble cruising to a 26-6 win over RT Sporting Goods.

Kevin Serrano opened up the game with a 27 yard touchdown run on Scott City’s first possession.

Quarterback Sawyer Stevens followed with touchdown runs of 15, 6 and 5 yards.

RT Sporting Goods tried to make a game of it with a 44 yard scoring pass early in the second half that cut the deficit to 20-6, but Scott City answered with a methodical nine play, 40 yard scoring drive that ended with a five yard keeper by Stevens.

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experience as we can, but it’s also a chance for them to compete at a higher level,” Kucharik says.

At times that may seem like he’s tossing lambs to the wolves with 18 girls who are either sophomores or freshmen. There are only three seniors on the squad.

In addition to a lot of youth on the team, Kucharik also faces the challenge of getting his girls into tournaments that can enhance their seeding when they enter regional play later this fall.

In addition to area tournaments, the team travels to Plainville, Ellsworth and Hoisington in hopes of seeing future competition head-to-head, or facing players who may see potential regional opponents.

“That way we can, hopefully, improve our seeding by head-to-head or indirect competition,” Kucharik says.

Having such a young squad, and with several Class 5A and 6A schools on the schedule, it can be a tough learning curve for

the Lady Beavers. While he likes the tougher competition, Kucharik points out it can also mean his girls don’t have a very glossy record when they get ready for post-season play.

There’s the added dilemma of never knowing until midway through the season whether those tournaments will pay off as hoped. That’s because SCHS won’t know if they are Class 3A or 4A until after enrollment numbers are announced on Sept.

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The young squad lived up to Reese’s expectations, though he wasn’t sure how they would respond in their first high school competition.

“They ran smart. Most of the girls ran a pace they could sustain in the first part of the race and were able to push it harder at the finish,” says Reese.

Stevens showed a glimpse of her potential, trailing Trout by 10 seconds after the first mile, but running a strong second mile to open up a 17 second lead on her teammate in the 2.5 mile race.

“You could see her gaining confidence during the race,” says Reese. “As the season progresses I expect Makaela to go out with the race leaders early in a race and establish a stronger pace.

“Makaela and Kylee were trying to feel their way through the first part of this race. That was smart since this is probably one of the tougher courses we’ll see before regional.”

Reese is hoping to see a big drop in times posted by freshman T. Davis and Prieto as they gain more experience.

“The bigger the meet the more important that it is that our fourth and fifth place girls close the gap between them and our number-three runner,” says the head coach. “I think both girls are capable of showing a lot of improvement over the next few weeks.”

Next meet for the SCHS squad will be Saturday at Tribune.

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SCHS Football SCHS 37 - Clearwater 0 Score by quarters: SC 3 14 13 7 - 37 Clearwater 0 0 0 0 - 0 SC Cle First Downs 20 9 Yards Rushing 272 33 Yards Passing 120 153 Total Offense 392 186 Rushing Attempts 42 26 Yards Per Carry 6.5 1.3 Passing 8-14-3 15-36-0

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Individual Rushing Car. Yds. Cooper Griffith 13 79 Wyatt Kropp 9 70 Marshall Hutchins 5 42 Trey O’Neil 4 42 Chantz Yager 6 31 Tre Stewart 1 6 Kevin Lozano 1 0 Bo Hess 1 0 Individual Receiving Rec. Yds. Chantz Yager 2 43 Brett Meyer 2 34 Sloan Baker 3 30 Wyatt Kropp 1 16 Individual Passing Att Comp Int TD Trey O’Neil 8 14 0 1 How they scored: 1st Quarter: 6:16: Tre Stewart, 26 yd. field goal.

2nd Quarter: 10:46: Cooper Griffith, 5 yds.

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6:59: Trey O’Neil, 37 yds.

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3rd Quarter: 9:32: Griffith, 31 yds. (kick fail).

7:38: Marshall Hutchins, 18 yds. (Stewart kick).

4th Quarter: 9:43: O’Neil to Sloan Baker, 9 yds. (Stewart kick).

SCHS “C” 38 - Garden City 0 Score by quarters: SC 14 12 6 6 - 38 Gard. City 0 0 0 0 - 0 SC GC First Downs 19 6 Yards Rushing 203 46 Yards Passing 197 31 Total Offense 400 77 Rushing Attempts 37 23 Yards Per Carry 5.5 2.0 Passing 9-12-1 6-14-3 Total Plays 49 37 Penalties 2-6 3-15 Fumbles/Lost 0/0 1/1 Individual Rushing Car. Yds. Kevin Lozano 9 67 Jess Drohman 9 58 Jarrett Jurgens 5 42 Nick Nowak 7 26 Austin Turner 4 14 Kevin Aguilera 2 1 Bo Hess 1 -5 Individual Receiving Rec. Yds. Jess Drohman 3 70 Kevin Aguilera 2 63 Drew Duff 1 27 Kyle Cure 2 21 Justin Faurot 1 16 Individual Passing Att Comp Int TD Bo Hess 9 11 0 5 R. Brunswig 1 0 1 0 How they scored: 1st Quarter: 7:06: Bo Hess to Jess Drohman, 42 yds. (Aguilera run).

2:03: Hess to Kyle Cure, 1i7 yds. (run failed).

2nd Quarter: 5:42: Hess to Justin Faurot, 16 yds. (pass inc.).

4:09: Hess to Kevin Aguilera, 56 yards. (run failed).

3rd Quarter: 5:10: Hess to Drew Duff, 27 yds. (run failed).

4th Quarter: 4:15: Jarrett Jurgens, 14 yd. run. (run failed).

Geese City and taken to a large holding facility the KDWPT maintains at Cedar Bluff Reservoir.

Flight feathers were kept trimmed until just prior to Saturday’s event when the quills of those feathers were actually pulled completely out, forcing them to grow back faster and allowing the geese to regain flight within a month.

Tom Bidrowski, KDWPT biologist and waterfowl coordinator for Kansas, took a seat away from the trailer where he would be “sexing” the geese before their release.

Bidrowski told the crowd, “You tell the boys from the girls just like you would a puppy. You just have to ruffle a few more feathers.”

Volunteers began wrangling geese from the cages and handing them to the kids, showing each youth how to properly hold them between the wings and around the legs while KDWPT personnel clamped a metal number tag around the leg of each goose. Then it was over to Bidrowski where he identified the sex and approximate age of each goose as a volunteer documented the information.

Bidrowski kept things light. His way of asking for another goose each time was to call out, “Okay, someone goose me!”

The final stop was a short walk down the ad-

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jacent boat ramp where each goose was given its freedom and swam happily away toward the lake as each kid went back for more. The sea of kids, parents and KDWPT personnel banded and released all 115 geese in just a couple hours.

Sixteen- year-old Hanna Tracy from Valley Center, whose dad Jeff was one of the “wranglers” retrieving geese from the cages, has been hunting geese with her dad since she was 10 from a blind he made under a big pine tree on the back of their property.

He puts out the decoy spread and does the calling, but she shoots her share of geese. Hanna told me, “On one hunt last year there were four of us hunting. We shot 11 geese and I got five of them.”

Hanna said she feels events like this are important to help conserve our great hunting here in Kansas.

After all geese were banded and released, and all the feathers had settled so to speak, Bidrowski explained to us how very important banding is to waterfowl management.

“Banding is our basic tool for waterfowl management, like a tractor to a farmer or a hammer to a carpenter,” he explained.

Each leg band has a 1-800 phone number and a website address on it.

Bidrowski stressed how important it is for

every hunter that harvests a banded bird to call that number or go to the website and answer a few simple questions that also help with waterfowl tracking and management.

Each hunter who does that will be mailed a certificate of appreciation stating when and where the goose was banded and released and thanking them for their help.

About 30,000 Canada geese reside in Kansas year-round, and 93% of all geese banded and released in Kansas are harvested in this state. Canada geese make up 80% of the Kansas goose harvest; about 80,000 are shot here each year.

Most Canada geese harvested in Kansas are from three- to six-years-old, but the oldest recorded goose ever shot was 33.

Because of its location on the flyway, its myriads of sandpits and other water impoundments and its abundance of forage for migrating geese, Reno County records the largest goose harvest in the state most years.

Ducks Unlimited and the KDWPT do an amazing job of conserving habitat, managing Kansas waterfowl and getting youth involved in the outdoors.

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fans is the number of seniors that are key performers on this year’s team.

As usual, KU is short of talent and depth on the offensive and defensive lines. And quarterback Montell Cozart had some encouraging moments against SEMO, but he missed on a number of passes that should have been completed.

Barring serious injuries to key players, Kansas is going to be a superior team to the first two that Coach Weis put on the field. And the Big 12 - with the exception of Baylor and Oklahoma, and maybe Kansas State - doesn’t look to be too potent.

Regardless, it looks for all the world like another long and dismal season for the Jayhawks.

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O’Neil gives verbal commitment to FHSU

Trey O’Neil, a senior at Scott Community High School, has verbally committed to play basketball at Ft. Hays State University.

O’Neil made the announcement on Wednesday.

O’Neil, a 6-2 guard, has played on two SCHS state championship teams (2012-13) and the state runner-up in 2014.

As a junior, he was named the Kansas Class 4A-Division II “Player of the Year” and was named to the Great West Activities Conference all-league lineup.

On the season he averaged 21 points, 5.3 assists, 5.7 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game. For his career, he has scored nearly 1,000 points.

FHSU has been one of the top Division II programs in the country, compiling a 75-24 record over the past three seasons. Head coach Mark Johnson should break the FHSU coaching wins record sometime this season.

O’Neil played club basketball for the Colorado Chaos this past spring and summer.

SCHS freshman Nick Nowak gets one of three interceptions by the Beavers during the third quarter of Monday’s “C” game on the home field.

(Record Photo)

Hess has 5 TD passes in 39-0 romp over Garden City Scott Community High School scored on its first four possessions and forced four turnovers in a 38-0 shutout of Garden City in “C” team action on the home field Monday.

It was a dominating performance by the Beavers that saw them holding a 400-77 edge in total offensive yardage. A balanced attack saw 203 yards rushing and 197 yards passing.

“The big thing I saw with our sophomores was the yards they made after the catch or after contact,” says coach Brian Gentry.

“All our backs were running hard.”

Sophomore Jess Drohman set the tone early when he hauled in a pass in the flats and ran 42 yards along the visitor’s sideline on the seventh play of the game. That was part of a 128 yard performance for Drohman - 58 yards rushing and 70 yards receiving.

It was also the start of a very effective game for sophomore quarterback Bo Hess who was 9-of11 and connected with five different receivers for touchdowns.

Hess finished off Scott City’s second possession with a 17 yard TD pass to sophomore Kyle Cure.

Sophomore Justin Faurot picked off a pass on the first play of the second quarter - the first of three interceptions by SCHS in the period. That led to a 74 yard scoring drive with Faurot on the receiving end of a 16 yard scoring pass.

Moments later, Hess intercepted a pass and returned it to the Scott City 44. On the first play, Hess found sophomore Kevin Aguilera streaking down the middle of the field.

Sophomore Kevin Lozano returns a punt during Monday’s win.

(Record Photo)

Aguilera reached over his head and caught the pass in stride, racing untouched to the end zone for a 26-0 lead.

SCHS kept their momentum in the second half, finishing off a 64 yard drive with a 27 yard pass that Hess tossed just over the defender and into the hands of wide receiver Drew Duff.

“That was a wellthrown ball,” says Gentry.

“In practice, Bo feels a lot of pressure from the No. 1 defense, so he has to rush things a little. The main thing we stress in a game like this is slow down. We remind him that he has more time than he thinks.

When he has the time to slow down he’ll make throws like this.

“What made that play even more impressive is that Bo stayed in the pock-

et. He got hit pretty hard after making the pass, but he hung in there and made the play.”

Following a short punt

by Garden City, the Beavers enjoyed great field position at the Buffalo 28 yard line with just over six minutes remaining in the game. Freshman Jarrett Jurgens finished off the scoring barrage with a 14 yard run.

SCHS spread the offensive wealth with six different backs and five receivers getting the ball.

Sophomore Kevin Lozano led the team with 67 yards on the ground while Jurgens finished with 42.

Aguilera added 63 receiving yards.

“Kevin (Lozano) ran hard between the tackles. He earned everything he got with the yards he gained after contact,” says

Gentry.

“It’s not just that the boys know the offense better than they did a year ago, but they’re playing more physical. We also saw that up front with some of our linemen. They know their assignments better and they were playing more aggressive.”

The Beavers were just as impressive on defense, allowing just 46 yards rushing and 31 yards passing. Gentry says inside linebackers Eddie Tilton and Trey Loftis “did a real nice job of coming up and filling the gaps.”

“The interceptions we got were a result of good coverage by our secondary, not bad passes,” adds Gentry.

Hess, Faurot and Nick Nowak had interceptions while Morgan Roberts recovered a fumble.

Long break is no problem for DHS in winning title A little break coming out of pool play is a good thing in a volleyball tournament.

But nearly three hours?

The Dighton High School girls overcame the short vacation between matches to claim the championship at the Satanta Invitational last Saturday. The Lady Hornets dropped just two games during the day and those didn’t come until the semi-finals and championship match.

The toughest of those two losses was a 29-27 heartbreaker in the first game of the championship match against Stanton County.

“After the first game I told the girls we had to match their intensity and I felt like we did,” says head coach Whitney Linenberger. “We fought so hard in the first game, but it was our own mistakes that cost us.”

After sweeping through pool play without a loss, the Lady Hornets had to face South Central following the long break.

“We lacked rhythm after the break. We struggled in the first two games but we finally started getting it together again in the third game,” says Linenberger.

The head coach saw the improvement she expected from her squad after they started the season 2-1 at the Hill City quad.

“We did a lot better job of using all three hitters,

Pool Play DHS def. Rolla 25-16, 25-21 DHS def. Deerfield 25-3, 25-7 DHS def. Satanta 25-7, 25-8 Bracket Play DHS def. South Central 25-22, 13-25, 25-19 DHS def. Stanton Co. 27-29, 25-20, 25-18

though we could still pass to the weak side more than we are,” Linenberger says.

Sophomore Sara Cramer has become a force at the net with both power and accuracy.

“One of our strengths is that we are able to do more than keep feeding the ball to our strong side hitter all the time. We’ll set Sara a couple of times and then we’ll send it back to Madison on the other side and it’s keeping teams off balance,” Linenberger says. “All of our hitters are capable of scoring. They did a great job of moving the ball not hitting it to the same place every time.”

Defensively, she feels her squad is doing a better job of reading the opposing hitters.

“I’m proud of what we did, but it will only get tougher,” adds Linenberger. “We have to have the mental and physical toughness not to lose 2729. We have to win those matches.”

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‘the plane that won the war’

P-51 Mustang has earned its place in aviation history For anyone who knows anything about vintage aircraft, there are few - if any that stir the emotions like the P-51 Mustang.

“It is literally the airplane that won World War II,” says Col. Larry Lumpkin.

The retired commercial airline pilot has the privilege of sitting in the cockpit of the P-51 when it flies to air shows throughout the region.

The plane’s $2 million price tag is beyond his range, says Lumpkin. Instead, it’s owned by the Commemorate Air Force based out of Midland, Tex., soon to relocate to Dallas.

The Mustang is rare because so many were sold for scrap iron following the war. Like many fighters, they were chopped up and melted down for the aluminum. As a result, there are only about 150 P-51s still flying in the world today.

Most of those can be found in the U.S., with others scattered in a handful of other countries such as Australia, England and Germany.

“After the war, you could buy one of these air planes for $2,500 with a full tank of gas and a new engine sitting next to it. Today, it will cost you about $2 million to buy one,” says Lumpkins.

They also weren’t very practical for private aircraft owners because they burn so much fuel.

Col. Lumpkin became a pilot for the CAF after becoming acquainted with the P-51’s previous pilot, Brig. Gen. Regis Urschler.

He helped acquire the airplane in 1977.

“At the time I was helping to polish it, all the grunt stuff,” says Lumpkin with a slight grin. “He approached me and wondered if I’d want to take over once he retired, which he did in 2007.”

Lumpkin began training

with Gen. Urschler in 2003.

Before he could get into the cockpit of the P-51, the CAF required that Col. Lumpkin have at least 200 hours in a T6 trainer.

“It’s a pretty straight-forward airplane, but it’s a highperformance airplane,” says Col. Lumpkin.

The airplane’s cruising speed is about 250 mph, but it will reach a maximum speed of 505 mph, “which is in a dive, of course,” he adds.

Representing the CAF, Col. Lumpkin flies the P-51 around the country to various air shows and selling rides to individuals willing to pay $1,600 so they can join him in the cockpit. He will make it to about 10 air shows this year.

Col. Lumpkins says that most of the people who fly in the P-51 are pretty passionate about the fact it’s a WWII fighter.

“It’s one of the prominent fighters of the war. It helped us win the war,” he points out.

“People are emotional in that regard.”

The airplane has a Rolls Royce, two-stage, two-speed supercharge engine which allowed the plane to fly at an extremely high altitude and get the fuel flow way back, explains Col. Lumpkins.

“This provided for an extremely long-range fighter,” he says.

That allowed them to escort the B17 and B24 bombers into Germany from England. It was that capability which made them so valuable in controlling the skies over Europe and, eventually winning the war.

The opportunity to fly such a rare and historic aircraft is a dream job, Col. Lumpkins admits.

“A lot of people tell me that I’m living their dream.

It’s a pleasure.”

Col. Larry Lumpkin prepares to enter the cockpit of the P-51 Mustang as he gave rides to individuals who paid $1,600 for the privilege on Saturday at the air show in Scott City.

(Record Photo)

Aerobatic pilot Steve O’Bern freefalls while leaving a trail of smoke during Saturday afternoon’s entertainment at the Showdown on the Plains Air Show. (Below) A member of the Kansas State University parachute club comes in for a landing.

(Record Photos)

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Animal welfare: public vs cattle producers A main goal of research in any area is to address a knowledge or information gap.

Although prior research has addressed the issue of animal welfare in certain areas - the swine and egg industries as examples limited research currently exists comparing producer and consumer views of beef and dairy animal welfare, said Glynn Tonsor, livestock economist for

ag briefs

Beef trade reacts to U.S. market International cattle and beef markets are reacting as expected to record U.S. market prices.

The latest monthly trade data for July confirms that beef exports are declining; and beef and cattle imports are increasing as markets adjust to shrinking U.S. beef and cattle supplies.

While U.S. cattle and beef prices are not the only factors that affect international trade but the price influence is strong and likely to be a major determinant of trade flows in coming months.

After increasing the first half of the year, beef exports are decreasing year over year to most major U.S. beef destinations with July total exports down 13.5 percent.

Total exports are just 1.4 percent higher than a year ago through the first seven months of the year.

Corn crop forecast to be 14% higher

Based on September 1 conditions, the Kansas corn crop is forecast at 578 million bushels, 14 percent above last year’s production, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.

Area to be harvested for grain, at 3.75 million acres, is down six percent from a year ago. Yield is forecast at 154 bushels per acre, up 27 bushels.

Sorghum for grain in Kansas is forecast at 182 million bushels, up 10 percent from last year. Area for harvest, at 2.6 million acres, is down seven percent.

Yield is forecast at 70 bushels per acre, up 11 bushels from last year.

Soybean production is forecast at 147 million bushels, up 15 percent from last year.

Harvest acres, at 4.19 million, is 18 percent above 2013.

Yield is forecast at 35 bushels per acre, down one bushel from last year.

Research looks at public perception of industry Kansas State University.

Tonsor, along with Melissa McKendree, a doctoral agricultural economics student at K-State and a team of veterinarians and animal scientists, have taken the lead in finding out more about the similarities and differences in U.S. beef producer and public views on

animal welfare practices in the cattle industry.

Researchers note that all livestock industries, beef included, are faced with mounting pressure to adjust animal welfare practices in response to societal concerns.

McKendree said a key finding in the study showed 65 percent of U.S.

consumers reported they were concerned about the welfare of beef cattle in the United States. And while most beef producers strongly disagreed that a tradeoff exists between profitability and animal welfare, consumers tended to believe that being more profitable means sacrificing on animal wel-

fare.

“Producers believe there is a connection between profitability and animal welfare,” she said.

“So, a healthy animal is going to be more profitable.”

Another major difference between the two groups was their views on providing overall care

to cattle. While 73 percent of cow-calf producers believed that U.S. farms and ranches provide appropriate overall care to their cattle, only 39 percent of the public believed this to be true.

“We don’t exactly know the reason for this gap and what the views are, but one hypothesis is that there’s a difference in what consumers think (See WELFARE on page 27)

Water is becoming the new oil multi-billion dollar income from what we euphemistically call the energy business.

Anyone who tries to argue that the real business of America and the world isn’t oil would soon find themselves over a pricey barrel...of crude.

Oil was then and this is now. The new golden liquid is water. Battles fought over access to fresh water will make the oil wars look like childhood spats on a school yard playground.

More money will be made and lost over who controls the kitchen faucet than who controlled all those oil pipelines.

The 21st century’s first shots fired in the new water

ag outlook

Waging war over distribution by the ‘free market’

Chuck Jolley

FarmGate blog

We’ve fought ugly wars over oil. We’ve developed horrendously expensive infrastructures where nothing existed before so we can transport oil from where it was to where it needed to be. Tankers the size of small cities ply the oceans to bring oil from there to here.

Building the Alaskan pipeline across virgin polar landscape in the mid 1970s was a battleground that exposed the brutality of no-holds-barred

business interests and hardball politics when billions of dollars are at stake. Many of the participants in that near nuclear battle 40 years ago are at it again as they try to build another pipeline, this time through the heart of the North American continent.

Politicians have seen their careers boom and bust, depending on the price of a gallon of gas. Six of the top ten largest corporations in the world are in oil and gas. The largest banks derive much of their

wars began with the great Southwestern drought. If the millions of square miles of potentially flammable dried vegetation in the Southwest and West coast wasn’t dangerous enough, Nestlé Chairman and former CEO Peter Brabeck let fly a few sparks when he hinted that declaring water a right is “extreme” and floated the idea that water is best valued and distributed by the free market.

A group calling itself American Against the Tea Party linked a video clip featuring Brabeck talking at an industry event. It was titled “Nestlé Chairman: Water Not a Right, (See WATER on page 28)

Nebr. court hears Keystone pipeline plan Nebraska’s Supreme Court heard arguments last week about whether Gov. Dave Heineman acted properly when he blessed a route for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and the court’s decision could weigh on the controversial project.

A lawyer for landowners who may be in the pipeline’s path hoped to

Open house for new KDA office in Manhattan A ribbon cutting ceremony and open house will be held on Thurs., Sept. 18, at the new Kansas Department of Agriculture office building, 1320 Research Park Drive, Manhattan.

“This new location will allow the KDA to collaborate more effectively with Kansas State University and members of the ag industry,” said KSU President Kirk Schulz.

“The move will ultimately better serve our farmers, ranchers and agribusinesses as well as a public that depends on Kansas agriculture.”

Tours will be offered from 2:00-4:00 p.m.

persuade the seven-member panel that Heineman overreached and that a decision on the route should be left to an independent state agency.

Keystone opponents who watched the proceedings from an adjacent room were not subdued.

“It just makes sense, how can they not see that,” said Shannon Graves, a

Nebraska landowner who opposes the plan and was in the viewing room.

At issue was a 2012 law that gave Heineman authority to approve a route for TransCanada Corp’s proposed $5.4 billion pipeline. The project, which would connect Western Canada’s oil sands region with Texas refineries, is now in a

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sixth year of debate.

Siting issues are typically a matter for the state’s Public Services Commission (PSC) but the legislature authorized Heineman to settle the Keystone issue and he blessed a route for the 1,700-mile pipeline early last year.

Nebraska law tolerates that kind of interven-

tion from its legislature, argued Katherine Spohn, deputy attorney general.

“The constitution, on its face, allows the legislature to limit the PSC’s authority,” she told the seven-judge panel.

But landowners opposed to Keystone argue that by personally authorizing a route, the (See KEYSTONE on page 27)

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October deadline for livestock disaster aid

Producers who have sustained disaster related livestock losses have until Oct. 1 to file a request for assistance with their local Farm Service Agency (FSA) office.

Ranchers applying for Livestock Forage Program (LFP) assistance

by Sept. 30 will still be eligible for full aid.

Payment reductions will take place for producers who have not acted

before that date.

Livestock producers who have experienced grazing losses since October 2011, but have not contacted their local FSA office, should do so.

The Budget Control Act passed by Congress in 2011 requires USDA to implement reductions of 7.3 percent to the LFP in the new fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.

As an additional aid,

Welfare appropriate overall care means,” McKendree said.

“Appropriate overall care to consumers, for instance, might be related to using or not using antibiotics or hormones. Conversely, producers might think that overall appropriate care is making sure that (the cattle) are not sick, giving them appropriate feed and water, and protecting them from the elements.”

McKendree said these preliminary results show opportunities for cow-calf producers and the general beef industry to communicate with the public about practices on farms and ranches.

Having a discussion about items such as appropriate care would help more clearly define it with expectations of both producers and consumers.

Common Ground While differences in views did exist, the study also showed producers and consumers are on the same page on some items. Both groups (72 percent of producers and

governor robbed the PSC of its oversight role and an objective standard to weigh a decision.

“The statute is standardless,” Dave Domina, lawyer for landowner opponents of Keystone, told justices.

A final word from the court, expected by early next year, will restart a bureaucratic process in both Nebraska and Washington that began more than five years ago.

If Heineman prevails, the U.S. State Department will finish its work to determine whether the pipeline is in the national interest and pass a final decision to the White House.

ments began, we’ve processed 240,000 applications to help farmers and ranchers,” says Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

The Livestock Indemnity the Tree Program, Assistance Program and the Noninsured Disaster Assistance Program Frost Freeze payments will also be cut by 7.3 percent on Oct. 1.

Unlike the LFP, appli-

need to be changed on the farm or ranch within in the industry today,” McKendree said, while noting that requiring employees to complete a consistent training program, castrating and dehorning with pain control, requiring third-party verification that appropriate animal care is being provided on the farm, and developing a herd health plan with a veterinarian are examples of more hands-on changes that were listed and did not rank as high.

Futuristic Look Tonsor said one of the “take homes” from the study is that the issue of animal welfare is in the eye of the beholder and includes many different practices: providing pain control, using antibiotics, and providing adequate feed and shade as some examples.

“There’s a growing list of third-party verifications that are available to verify that proper animal welfare is in place at dif-

ferent stages in the cattle industry,” Tonsor said.

He added that these verifications could allow for broader marketing claims on animal welfare, such as certified labels on retail meat products. “I envision our work, once it’s analyzed and out for full public dissemination and absorption, to be useful as supplemental input in guiding the prioritization of those protocols and third-party efforts.”

The items of agreement between the public and producers would be comparatively easy to add to those third-party verifications, Tonsor said. A bigger challenge, but just as important, is incorporating and addressing those areas of disagreement between the public and producers today.

“That’s where our work comes in, highlighting some of those issues or on-farm practices that might be either a threat to the industry with no action required or an opportunity to get the public up to speed with producers,” he said.

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If the court rules in favor of landowners, the question goes back to the PSC and a decision on a Nebraska route might not come before next summer.

The Keystone debate has energized environmental activists who see the pipeline as emblematic of the world’s reliance on fossil fuels blamed for worsening climate change.

President Barack Obama has said he will have the last word on the pipeline and that global warming concerns will weigh on his thinking.

But a State Department review must be completed before the matter reaches the White House. That review was suspended in

April due to uncertainty in Nebraska.

Anthony Schutz of the Nebraska School of Law, said lawyers on both sides were fairly matched on the merits of the case but a question of whether the landowners even have a right to challenge the pipeline may be decisive.

“I was surprised that the justices spent so much time over the question of standing,” he said.

cations for these programs must be fully completed

by Oct. 1.

The LFP compensates eligible livestock producers who suffered grazing losses due to drought or fire between Oct. 1, 2011, and Dec. 31, 2014..

Producers forced to liquidate their livestock may also be eligible for program benefits.

Additionally, the 2014 Farm Bill eliminated

the risk management purchase requirement.

Livestock producers are no longer required to purchase coverage under the federal crop insurance program or Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program to be eligible for LFP assistance.

Producers can review the LFP program fact sheet, http://go.usa. gov/5JTk, or contact their local FSA office.

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57 percent of consumers) overall did not agree with statements indicating that low beef prices are more important than the wellbeing of cattle.

Both producers and consumers picked the same top three most effective and practical actions to improve animal welfare based on nine total options.

Those top three selected include: provide access to fresh, clean feed and water appropriate for the animal’s physiological state; provide adequate comfort through the use of shade, windbreaks and ventilation assuring clean, dry, sanitary environmental conditions for cattle; and promptly treat or euthanize all injured or sick animals.

The survey showed 80 to 90 percent of producers said they have already implemented these top three selected practical applications on their operations.

“Out of all of the practices we investigated, those are probably the least hands-on that would

Keystone

the FSA has developed an online registration that enables farmers and ranchers to put their names on an electronic list before the deadline to avoid reductions in their disaster assistance.

To place a name on the Livestock Forage Disaster Program list online, visit www.fsa.usda.gov/disaster-register.

“In four months since disaster assistance enroll-

Since the exact route of the pipeline has been unsettled for so long, it’s debatable which properties will be touched by the pipeline.

Property owners in the direct line of the pipeline would be on stronger legal footing to challenge the project, Schutz said.

Lawyers for landowners say they also have a right to challenge as Nebraska taxpayers.

call 872-3790 or e-mail: alli@scottcf.org

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Destroy volunteer before new wheat emerges Along with the cooler weather, most of the area has been lucky enough to get some added moisture as well.

This will allow for better growing conditions for the wheat that is soon to be planted, especially compared to the last couple of falls. Now is the time to be controlling your volunteer that loves the conditions we have right now.

Down on the Farm Chris Long Walnut Creek Extension Agent

In trying to pick up where I left off, in my last column, I ended while sharing information on controlling aphids and the spread of Barley Yellow Dwarf.

Russian wheat aphids may also live over the summer on volunteer wheat. While this insect has wings and can be windblown for hundreds of miles, the vast majority of fall infestations in Kansas appear to originate from nearby infested volunteer.

A number of other pests are also associated with the presence of volunteer wheat. An example

in Western Kansas is the Banks grass mite. During some years, infestations become established during late summer and early fall on volunteer wheat.

Later, as the quality of the volunteer deteriorates, mites move from the volunteer into adjacent fields of planted wheat or other small grains. Occasionally mites will survive the winter and continue to spread into the planted

A sticky situation for grain producers An invasion of sorts has occurred in Kansas, and the invaders may pose a problem for this year’s sorghum harvest - but not in the way you might think.

“The sugarcane aphid, Melanaphis sacchari, also known as the sorghum aphid was recently detected in Kansas for the first time ever,” said Kansas State University entomologist Jeff Whitworth.

Scott Armstrong, entomologist with the USDA at Stillwater, Okla.,, officially confirmed the identity of this particular sorghum pest on Aug. 29

Water Not a Right, Should Be Given a ‘Market Value’ and Privatized.”

The callousness of Brabeck’s statement, coming from a man who ran the world’s largest seller of bottled water juxtaposed against the hundreds of millions of people without adequate access to clean, fresh water shocked most people.

Brabeck backtracked and repositioned himself when he blogged, “Let me be very clear about this again here on the blog, because I think the video clip, which took my views out of context, isn’t clear about the point I was trying to make. The water you need for survival is a human right, and must be made available to everyone, wherever they are, even if they cannot afford to pay for it.”

And now we have the EPA looking at the devastating loss of trillions of gallons of water in the Southwest and the growing pollution problems throughout the rest of the country.

Facing a ferocious battle between corporate and agricultural interests - bottled water companies defending their right to the enormous profits gained with branded water at $1/

from specimens he collected in a mature sorghum field in Sumner County.

To differentiate this pest from the yellow sugarcane aphid, Sipha flava, some scientists and grain producers are calling it the “white” sugarcane aphid.

“White” sugarcane aphids have been troublesome in the southeastern United States prior to 2013, said Whitworth, who is a crop production specialist with K-State Extension.

In 2013, problems were reported in eastern Texas,

and the pests have since moved into Oklahoma and have now apparently invaded Kansas.

Kansas’ farmers grow more sorghum than is grown in any other state.

In 2013, Kansas produced 165 million bushels of the total 389 million bushels grown in the U.S. Texas was second at just under 129 million bushels.

“This (sugarcane) aphid is yellowish - lime green with black cornicles (tailpipes) and probably will not do much damage by feeding on sorghum plants at this time, as sorghum is mature across the

state,” Whitworth said.

“However, they produce copious amounts of honeydew, which can interfere with grain harvest because of the stickiness of the honeydew.”

So far it is unclear whether “white” sugarcane aphids will be able to withstand Kansas winters.

Producers who have aphids in sorghum that appear yellow to lime green and have dark tailpipe-looking structures are asked to contact their county Extension agent and/or K-State entomologist Brian McCornack at mccornac@ksu.edu.

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bottle vs the more mundane agricultural need to water crops and cattle and adding in the voices of millions of home owners who want green lawns and 30 minute showers, the feds have decided they need to expand their legal dominion to all sources of water, up to and including the occasional muddy puddle.

Congress, driven by pressure from a lot of ag groups, said, “We don’t think so” and put forth a bill called the Water Rights Protection Act. An ad hoc group called Ditchtherule explained it this way: “Puddles, ponds, ditches, ephemerals (land that looks like a small stream during heavy rain but isn’t wet most of the time) and isolated wetlands dot the nation’s farmland. The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on March 25 issued a proposed rule that would expand its regulatory authority under the Clean Water Act to these types of land features and waters, giving the agencies the power to dictate land-use decisions and farming practices in or near them.”

Ditchtherule’s website states, “The Water Rights Protection Act would pro-

hibit the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture from: 1) conditioning the issuance, renewal, amendment, or extension of any permit, approval, license, lease, allotment, easement, right-of-way, or other land use or occupancy agreement on the transfer of any water right directly to the United States, or any impairment in title, in whole or in part, granted or recognized under state law, by federal or state adjudication, decree, or other judgment, or pursuant to any interstate water compact; and 2) requiring any water user to apply for a water right in the name of the United States under state law as a condition of such a land use or occupancy agreement.”

Most importantly, as far as Ditchtherule is concerned, “The bill would state that nothing in this Act limits or expands any existing authority of the Secretaries to condition any permit, approval, license, lease, allotment, easement, right-of-way, or other land use or occupancy agreement on federal lands subject to their respective jurisdictions.”

Boiling it down into simple-to-understand language, the bill says the

feds already have enough control over water and they can’t add puddles, ponds and ditches to their domain. It allows small children to jump up and down in muddy puddles without fear of being sued for water pollution.

A farmer can still divert runoff from a small, occasionally wet ditch to make the best use of this randomly available resource.

In the significantly larger context of worldwide water management, passing the Water Rights Protection Act would be a small victory. It should be called the first “bump” in a lengthy battle of steadily escalating bumps and bruises that will go on for decades as the North American continent struggles to reorder its management of fresh water.

Look to Canada with its enormous natural resources to become the Saudi Arabia of water, ultimately dictating to the U.S. and Mexico how much of this precious resource will be available and when. In the end, as much as Brabeck’s comment offended, he might have been right.

For better or worse, the future might find water will be valued and distributed by the free market.

wheat following green-up in the spring.

Another reason to control volunteer is that volunteer and other weeds use up large amounts of soil moisture. When water storage is important, such as in summer fallow, volunteer must be destroyed.

Destroying volunteer after the new wheat emerges is too late.

Producers should leave enough time to have a

second chance if control is incomplete.

Tillage and herbicides are the two options available for volunteer control.

Tillage usually works best when plants are small and conditions are relatively dry. Herbicide options depend on cropping systems and rotations.

Glyphosate can be used to control emerged volunteer wheat and other (See WHEAT on page 29)

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GMO labeling foes in US triple spending Opponents of mandatory labeling for foods made with genetically modified organisms spent more than $27 million in the first six months of this year on GMO-related lobbying, roughly three times their spending in all of 2013.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and major food makers such as Coca-Cola Co and PepsiCo, Inc., and top biotech seed makers Monsanto and DuPont were among heavy spenders on GMO labelingrelated lobbying, among other food issues, accord-

Wheat weeds during the fallow period in any cropping system. However, it has no residual activity and will not control later germinating volunteer wheat or weeds.

If glyphosate is used too close to planting time, volunteer may stay green long enough to transmit diseases and insects to the new crop. It may take as long as one week following glyphosate application before the wheat will die, so that needs to be considered when timing the application to break the bridge for insects and diseases.

The optimum time to treat with glyphosate is when most of the volunteer has emerged and is healthy and actively

ing to a report issued by the Environmental Working Group.

The group analyzed lobbying disclosure forms that cited labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) along with other policy issues.

All told, the opponents of GMO labeling disclosed $15.2 million in lobbying expenditures for the second quarter of 2014, bringing the sixmonth total for 2014 to $27.5 million.

That compared with $9.3 million reported in 2013, according to EWG,

a Washington-based nonprofit that supports GMO labeling.

In contrast, supporters of GMO labeling disclosed $1.9 million in lobbying expenditures for the first half of 2014, up slightly from $1.6 million spent in 2013.

Mike Gruber, vice president for government affairs for the Grocery Manufacturers Association, said that the EWG report is “grossly misleading.” The lobbying work the dollars in the report includes a host of issues unrelated to GMO labeling, he said.

GMA said the dollars spent lobbying on GMO issues are far less than what the EWG report indicates.

“The GMO issue is a very important without a doubt, but so is food safety . . . so is international trade,” said Gruber.

The expenditures by food and biotechnology companies come as the group pushes for passage of a bill introduced in April

by U.S. Representative Mike Pompeo that would block state laws that require GMO labeling on food packages.

Vermont is the first U.S. state to pass a mandatory GMO labeling law that requires no other trigger to become effective.

More than 20 other states are considering mandatory labeling of GMO foods, including Colorado and Oregon, which have the issue on the ballot for the November election.

Consumer groups and lawmakers pushing for mandatory labeling of GMOs say there is no scientific consensus on their safety, and consumers have the right to know if GMOs are in the food they eat. They say high

pesticide use associated with GMOs and pesticide residues on food containing GMOS is a health concern.

But the food and agriculture industries, including the makers of genetically modified corn, soybeans, canola and other crops widely used in packaged foods, say their products are proven safe.

They have sued to block the Vermont law and say that labeling will imply GMO products are unsafe, confuse consumers and increase costs for consumers as well as farmers and food companies.

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growing. Glyphosate can effectively control volunteer wheat that has tillered.

Atrazine is a relatively inexpensive treatment for volunteer wheat control that can be applied anytime in the summer or fall, if rotating to sorghum or corn.

In the September to October time period, using atrazine plus crop oil alone can often control small volunteer wheat that has not yet tillered, as well as later emerging volunteer wheat and other weeds.

If the volunteer has tillered, most of the roots will have grown deep enough to be out of the reach of atrazine. This is when it helps to add

glyphosate to the atrazine plus crop oil.

The combination of glyphosate and atrazine will provide a good combination of burndown and residual control on both volunteer that has tillered and later-emerging volunteer. Atrazine rates need to be adjusted to soil type and pH, and may not be appropriate for all areas.

In summary, the most important reasons to control volunteer wheat are: Wheat curl mite/wheat streak mosaic virus, Hessian fly, Russian wheat aphid, take-all, bird cherry oat aphid/greenbug/barley yellow dwarf virus, Banks grass mite, chinch bug and reduces moisture loss.

Construction Equipment

Saturday, September 20 • 10:00 a.m.

Sunday, February Location: 1903 VFW Rd., Garden City 2 • 11:00 a.m.

Cook Construction - Owner

Construction Equipment Komatsu Excavator PC200LC with 24” bucket Excavator Buckets 33” and 48” Excavator trench roller 1997 JD 310D back hoe 19 9 2 JD 510 Backhoe, 10,567 hrs.

2-18” backhoe buckets 2-24” backhoe buckets 2-backhoe forks 1988 Bobcat 843 skid steer with bucket and forks Bobcat 773 skid steer, 2120 hrs. bucket

Melroe 2500 skid steer breaker Vermeer M-455 back hoe/trencher Vermeer #1620 Navi gator boring machine, directional Trucks and Pickups 1988 Kenworth Semi tractor, day cab, 318 Cummings motor 1984 IHC truck with 5-yard gravel box 1984 IHC truck with 12 ft. flat bed 1965 Chevy truck with 5-yard gravel box 1976 Ford F250 pickup 1988 GMC pickup 1992 Chevy crew cab pickup, dually 1994 Chevy Suburban

1995 Ford F150 pickup 1996 Chevy pickup with utility box Trailers 1979 Shop built trailer 24 ft. trailer with dove tail 16 ft.trailer with dove tail 6.5 x 12 ft. trailer 6 x 18 ft. flat deck trailer 45 ft. cargo semi van box trailer 20 ft. cargo semi van box trailer Construction Tools Efficiency trench box, 8 x 16 ft., double wall Gorman Rupp 2” trash pump (2) Gorman Rupp 3” trash pump Hydraulic grader attachment

2-Partner K700 cut off saws, 14” Paving breaker Pipe cutter Pipe laser Ring-O-Matic Brick saw, 14” Concrete mixer on trailer Concrete pipe lift Concrete tools David White transit Plate packer Rotary hammer Barricades Some small hand power tools Many other tools Lots of construction supplies and inventory (some new)

Terms: Must have ID to register. Cash or approved check day of sale. Everything sold as is. No warranties expressed or implied. Not responsible for theft or accident. Announcements day of sale take precedence over printed material. Lunch served. Check us out: www.berningauction.com and facebook

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The Scott County Record Professional Directory

There’s no better way to reach your potential customers in Scott County and the surrounding areas.

Agriculture

SPENCER PEST CONTROL

Preconditioning and Growing

RESIDENTIAL – COMMERCIAL

• 45 Years Experience • Managed and owned by full-time DVM • 2,000 Head capacity Office - 872-5150 • Scott City

Termite Baiting Systems • Rodents Weed Control • Structural Insects Termite Control

Stuart Doornbos Home - 872-2775 Cell - 874-0951

Box 258, Scott City • (620) 872-2870

Construction/Home Repair

Sager’s Pump Service CHAMBLESS • Irrigation • Domestic • Windmills • Submersibles

Cell: 874-4486 • Office 872-2101

ELLIS AG SERVICES • Custom Manure Conditioning • Hauling and Spreading • Custom Swathing and Baling • Rounds-Net or Twine • Gyp and Sand Sales • Pickup or Delivery Call Brittan Ellis • 620-874-5160

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

Dirks Earthmoving Co. Precision Land Forming of terraces and waterways; feed lot pens and ponds; building site preparation; lazer equipped

Richard Dirks • Scott City, Ks. (Home) 872-3057 • 877-872-3057 (Cell) 872-1793

Automotive

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

Willie’s Auto A/C Repair Willie Augerot Complete A/C Service Mechanic Work and Diagnostics Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

423 S. Mesquite Rd. • Scott City • 872-2130

Medical

404 Kingsley • Scott City • 874-1379

Charles Purma II D.D.S. P.A. General Dentistry, Cosmetics, and Insurance Accepted

We welcome new patients.

324 N. Main • Scott City • 872-2389 Residence 872-5933

Horizon Health For your home medical supply and equipment needs!

We service and repair all that we sell.

Contact:

Landscaping • Lawn/Trees

Berning Tree Service David Berning • Marienthal

620-379-4430

Tree Trimming and Removal Hedge and Evergreen Trimming Stump Removal

Fully Insured

SCOT AYTES • 874-1646

Red

Specializing in

all coatings t Paint i or any other color

Paint inside and out residential, commercial, and industrial.

Free estimates and 16 plus years of experience.

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

• Termites • Rodents • Soil Sterilization • Pre Treats • Lawn Care • Fly Parasites

John Kropp, Owner • Scott City 874-2023 (cell) • 872-3400 (office) • prox2@live.com

Call today for a Greener Healthier Lawn

RT Plumbing Rex Turley, Master Plumber

Residental and Commercial Plumbing Water Systems, water lines, sewer cleaning faucets and fixtures, garbage diposals and more

Marienthal, Ks.

Owner, Chris Lebbin • 620-214-4469

1602 S. Main • Scott City • 872-2232 Toll Free : 1-866-672-2232

620-909-5014 (H) • 620-874-4128 (C)

Dr. Jeffrey A. Heyd Optometrist 20/20 Optometry

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

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Scott City Clinic

872-2187

Christian E. Cupp, MD

William Slater, MD

Libby Hineman, MD

Megan Dirks, AP, RN-BC

Josiah Brinkley, MD

Ryan Michels, PA

Family Practice Family Practice Family Practice

Matthew Lightner, MD Family Practice

General Surgeon

Joie Tedder, APNP Melissa Batterton, APRN

Scott City Myofascial Release Sandy Cauthon

Fur-Fection

RN

105 1/2 W. 11th St., Scott City 620-874-1813 scottcitymfr@gmail.com FB: Scott City Myofascial Release

Call me to schedule your Myofascial Release

Retail

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

Networktronic, Inc.

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

Brent Rogers

Sales Consultant b.rogers@officesolutionsinc.biz

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.

Auctions

Education

ART AUCTION. Sat., Sept. 20, 1:00 p.m. 30 Raymers, 4 Sandzens, 60 other area artists. 224 S. Main, Lindsborg. 785227-2217 www.lesterraymer.org.

CAN YOU DIG IT? Bulldozers, heavy equipment operator training.

Three week hands-on program. Bulldozers, backhoes, excavators. Lifetime job placement assistance w/national certifications.

VA benefits eligible.

1-866-362-6497.

Garage Sales

9TH ANNUAL US36 Highway treasure hunt.

For Sale Sept. 19-21. 400 miles of antique and garage sales LENDERS OFFERING across Kansas. www. special government proushwy36.com. grams for manufactured homes. $0 down for landFHA for first-time Truck Driving owners. buyers. VA - $0 down for OTR DRIVERS truck- veterans. Section 184 for load. PD practical. Loaded federal Tribe members. and empty same. Good Lenders accepting less DOT rating. Get home. than perfect credit. 866Weekly pay. Class A/2 858-6862. years experience required. www.climateexpress.com Help Wanted 636-584-6073.

––––––––––––––––––––– RURAL FIRE CHIEF/ YOUR PARTNER in investigator.

Seward excellence. Drivers need- County. $46,571 ed. Great hometime. $650 to $69,846 DOE. sign-on bonus. All miles Applications due 9/22/14: paid. 1-800-528-7825. April Warden, 515 N. www.butlertransport.com. Washington, Suite 205, ––––––––––––––––––––– Liberal, Ks. 67901. E-mail START WITH OUR awarden@sewardcountraining or continue your tyks.org Apply on-line solid career. You have www.sewardcountyks.org. options. Company driv- EOE. ers, lease/purchase or ––––––––––––––––––––– owner/operators needed. $2,000 BONUS. Oil field (888) 670-0392. www. drivers. High hourly, CentralTruckDrivingJobs. Overtime. Class A-CDL/ com. tanker. One year driving experience. Home one week monthly. Paid travel, lodging. Relocation NOT necessary.

1-800-5882669. www.tttransports. com.

Northend Disposal A garbologist company.

Office (620) 276-3131 Toll Free 1-800-794-9052 Cell (620) 874-0014 Fax (620) 276-8876 1007 N. 8th, Garden City, KS 67846 www.officesolutionsinc.biz

Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

www.reganjewelers.com

Scott City • 872-1223 • 1-800-303-3371

PC Cleaning Services, Inc. We'll clean your home, business or do remodeling clean-up Available seven days a week!

Paul Cramer, Owner

Dining

620-290-2410

412 N. Main • Garden City • 620-275-5142 All Under One Roof

Revcom Electronics

Your RadioShack Dealer Two-way Radio Sales & Service

C-Mor-Butz BBQ

Barbecue, the only sport where a fat bald man is a GOD...

Locally owned and operated since 1990

& Catering

Kyle Lausch

1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625

620-872-4209

Bryan Mulligan & Chris Price 620-874-8301 & 620-874-1285

www.cmorbutzbbq.com • cmorbutzbbq@gmail.com

District 11 AA Meetings

Scott City

Unity and Hope Mon., Wed. and Fri. • 8:00 p.m.

Services

807 Kingsley Last Sat., Birthday Night, 6:30 p.m.

All open meetings, 874-8207 • 874-8118

Berning Auction “Don’t Trust Your Auction to Just Anyone”

Dighton

For all your auction needs call:

(620) 375-4130

Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti

Thursday • 8:30 p.m.

Support Your Hometown Merchants!

535 Wichita St. All open meetings, 397-5679 • 397-2647

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Classifieds Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009

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.

GARAGE SALES Saturday, Sept. 13 Multi-Family Garage Sale 1412 S. College, Scott City 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

We have lots of baby clothes and items as well as maternity clothes, furniture, household items, lots of misc.

Cash only. Please enter through the alley.

Agriculture

Help Wanted

Rentals

Services

WANTED TO BUY. Stored corn. Call for basis and contract information.

1-800-579-3645.

Lane County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– WANTED TO BUY. Wheat straw delivered.

Call for contracting information. Lane County Feeders. 397-5341. 44tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– CERTIFIED SEED WHEAT: Brawl CL, Byrd, TAM 112, TAM 304, T158, T153, Duster, Oakley CL, Turkey Red. Also triticale and rye.

Ehmke Seed, Amy, KS. 51t16 620-397-2350.

OIL FIELD SUPPY HAND wanted in Dighton area. Experience preferred.

For more information call 785-731-6442 or 785-74301tfc 9200.

––––––––––––––––––––– USD 466 IS LOOKING for substitute route bus drivers. For applications and additional information contact Lance Carter at 620-872-7655.

HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available. Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, (620)874-2120.

41tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– MULTIPLE HOUSES FOR RENT. 1 bedroom homes available. Also 8x10 storage units available. Stop by PlainJans to fill out an application or call 872-5777.

01tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– C OMMER C I A L /R E TAIL SPACE available Sept. 1. 306 W. 5th Scott City. Contact Jeff 8741659.

50tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 2 BEDROOM HOUSE $700 a month and $400 deposit. All bills paid, no smoking and unfurnished.

Call 872-2431.

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WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc. Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 87434tfc 4135.

––––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing. Lawn mower tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 36tfc 874-1412.

––––––––––––––––––––– MOWER REPAIR, tuneup and blade sharpening.

Call Rob Vsetecka at 62036tfc 214-1730.

––––––––––––––––––––– 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 ––––––––––––––––––––– “JEN’S GROOMING” Jennifer Milner grooming at 503 E. 5th St., (formally Cowboy Cabins). Please call for an appointment 620-214-0097.

Hours are Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m.- noon.

44tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– LADY WILLING to provide home health care, run errands and odd jobs, cook and clean. Contact 50tfc 620-874-8480.

Garage Sale 606 Ada, Scott City 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Child slide, treadmill, Nordic Trac skier, baby items, 2-seat bicycle trailer, Thomas Train toys.

Pine Village Apartments 300 E. Nonnamaker

Apartments available for qualifying tenants 62+ or disabled with rental assistance available.

Hours: Tuesday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. by appointment Call Steve 872-2535 or (620) 255-4824.

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THE HOME YOUR FAMILY DESERVES!

Lovely 3+2 bedroom home with 3 bathrooms in great west location! New kitchen (mom will love), brick, family room in basement, DA garage and much more!

Price Reduced!

EASTRIDGE

3 bedrooms, 2 baths, full basment.

Buy lots in the Eastridge addition for your new home location.

Thomas Real Estate

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––––––––––––––––––––– NEWS PAPER CARRIER needed. Approximately 130 papers. Must have reliable vehicle. Seven days a week for Hutchinson paper and six days a week for Garden City paper. Contact Artie 620-290-9501. 05t3c ––––––––––––––––––––– SEEKING THE PERFECT applicant that is looking to expand their future in heating and air.

Come in and pick up an Notice application today! Turner Sheet Metal, 1851 S. LOST SATURDAY, SepHWY 83, Scott City. 05tfc tember 23 on Jefferson St., two keys on black fob.

Call 874-2230 reward offered for return.

05t1p ––––––––––––––––––––– APPLES TO GIVEAWAY. South east corner of 10th St., and Court, 05t2nc Scott City.

Get all the top local stories www.scottcountyrecord.com

www.thomasreal-estate.com

914 W. 12th Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620)-872-7396 Cell: (620)-874-1753 or Cell: (620)-874-5002 52tfc

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS If you want to drink, that’s your business.

If you want to stop, that’s ours.

Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Tuesday nights at 8:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church basement (use west door).

412 College, Scott City.

SERVICE TECHNICIAN American Implement, Inc., a progressive John Deere agricultural dealership in Southwest Kansas, is experiencing significant growth and is currently seeking qualified individuals to fill the position of Service Technician in the Scott City location.

Al-Anon at same time and location.

Contact: 874-0472 or 872-3137. 30t52

Qualified applicants must own a set of tools to perform the functions of the job.

Awesome lots in perfect new west location!

Call for details!

American Implement offers competitive wages and an excellent benefits package, which includes life, health and supplemental insurance, 401(k) plan and a quarterly incentive bonus program.

Lawrence 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

Responsibilities are to analyze, troubleshoot and perform electrical and mechanical repairs on agricultural equipment. Experience in maintenance and repair of automotive, diesel or heavy equipment required.

Interested applicants may send a cover letter and resume to: Tyler Kough Location Manager PO Box 20, Scott City, KS, 67871 or Call: (800) 779-7244 or (620)872-7244.

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Money doesn’t grow on trees! Or, from your parents pockets!

Keep working through the school year and advertise your services here for FREE! My name is:________________________________ My phone number is:_______________________ Check your services: Mow Lawns:_____

Yard Clean up:____

House Cleaning:____

Babysitting:____

Snow Removal:____

Car washing:____

Other services you provide:_____________________________________ List your rates:$_______Or we can add “Call me for my rates”:____ (Your listing will run until you contact us to pull it out.)

Fill in the form above and return it to The Scott County Record: PO Box 377 406 Main, Scott City, Ks. 67871 phone: 620-872-2090 or Fax: 620-872-0009

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Employment Opportunities FEED AND GRAIN PERSONNEL

HRC FEED YARDS / POSITIONS

Frontier Ag, Grinnell and Grainfield locations are currently hiring full and part-time feed and grain personnel.

Competitive wages and benefits package includes health, life, retirement and 401K. Call: John 785-743-8609

Is now accepting applications for the following: mechanic, maintenance worker, cowboy and night-watchman.

Excellent benefits health, life, disability insurance, vacation, sick pay and 401K.

E.O. E.

Pick up an application at: 6550 W. Hwy 96, Scott City.

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HOUSEKEEPING

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Scott City Best Western El Quartelejo Inn and Suites is now looking for a part-time housekeeping/laundry attendant.

SPECIAL EDUCATION PARA-PROFESSIONAL

Applications are available 24/7 at the hotel 1610 S. Main St. Scott City, Ks. 67871 620-872-7373

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PERSONAL CARE/ HOMEMAKER ATTENDANT Scott County Health Department has a full-time position available for a personal care/homemaker attendant to work with the elderly.

Must be compassionate, responsible, reliable, highly motivated, and be able to work independently.

Work involves mostly housekeeping services.

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LOAN ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Western State Bank is accepting applications for the position of Loan Administrative Assistant.

Applicants must be professional, organized individuals, with strong computer skills.

Please apply in person at our Scott City office.

For High Plains Educational Cooperative Scott City Middle School is seeking a special education Para-Professional to work with students.

The position is available for the beginning of the 2014-15 school year. Start date is August 21, 2014.

For more information and application please contact.

Susan Carter Board of Education Building 704 College, Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620) 872-7600

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PEN RIDERS/YARD MAINTENANCE Come and grow with us and be part of an innovative team. We are looking for experienced pen riders and yard maintenance personnel. Our next team member must be energetic, goal-oriented, and have a desire to grow and take on more responsibility. BilingualEnglish/Spanish preferred.

Competitive wages are offered with a full benefits package including, 401(k) with company match, profit sharing plan, 100% paid medical and dental insurance for employee, 100% paid short/long term disability insurance, life insurance, paid vacation, sick leave, and career advancement opportunities.

Apply for this outstanding opportunity in person or send your letter of interest to: Royal Beef, ATTN: Aleta See, 11060 N. Falcon Rd., Scott City, KS 67871.

Irsik and Doll is an EOE.

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DRIVER AND MAINTENANCE Full-time feedtruck driver and maintenance workers needed.

We offer competitive pay, health insurance, meat card and 401K plan.

Please apply at: Brookover Cattle Co. of Scott City, LLC 4000 E. Road 200 Scott City, Ks. 67871.

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STORE CLERK/COOK Healy Oil Company is currently seeking a full-time convenience store clerk/cook.

Full benefit package includes: health insurance, paid holidays and paid vacation.

Contact Byler Sunley at: 620-398-2300 or pick up an application at: 1002 N. Dodge Road, Healy.

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PARK LANE NURSING HOME Has openings for the following positions: Part-time CNA Part-time PRN-LPN/RN Full-time Maintenance Assistant Full-time Certified Dietary Manager Full-time Cook/Dietary Aide Shift differential pay 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

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“Quality Care Because We Care”

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CLASS A DRIVER/ MEDICAL ASSISTANT

SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL HAS OPENINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS PROGRAM DIRECTOR Camp Lakeside is looking for a Program Director.

Director is responsible for specific management functions in the areas of program, lodging, and public relations.

Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to: monitors and maintains a high level of program quality, processes all registrations and user group reservations, develops and implements camp activities which will create new experiences for campers each year, oversees guest relations relative to lodging issues, maintains and develops public relations, camp image and communication by use of the camp website and social media sites, written materials, video, email and other media communications, participates in public speaking engagements on behalf of the camp. Embody the Camp Lakeside Mission of a Christian Camp where all people may come to recognize, enter into and grow in their relationship with God. Great salary and benefits, flexible work hours and fantastic work environment!

Applications: Open: September 1, 2014 Close: October 15, 2014.

For an application packet contact: Andie T. Strong, Executive Director, at andie@camplakeside.net or 620.872.2021 04tfc

PATIENT CARE Acute Care RNs Physical Therapist Respiratory Therapist Outpatient Services RN C.N.A.s CLERICAL Outpatient Scheduler SERVICE Housekeeping Aide PRN Dietary Aide/Cook Applicants for these positions are required to be able to read, speak and understand English.

Pre-employment physical, drug/alcohol screening, immunization titer, physical assessment and TB skin test required. We are a tobacco free campus.

We offer competitive pay and great benefits.

Due to our recent expansion of services and rapid growth, we are in need of Acute Care RNs and are offering financial incentives.

Applications are available through Human Resources at Scott County Hospital 201 Albert Ave. Scott City, Ks. 67871 620-872-7772 or online at www.scotthospital.net

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Shared Medical Services is looking for a Class A CDL Driver to operate a dedicated route that is based in Scott City. SMS offers medical imaging services to local communities that otherwise would not have access to this state-of-the art equipment. The position available is Full-time and is not OTR. Also, we offer medical assistant training so you can assist our patients.

Anticipated Schedule: • 3 1/2 days/week • 40 hour weekly guarantee Duties: • Relocate trailer to medical facilities along dedicated route • Set-up and tear down trailer (i.e. leveling, stairs, patient lift) • Administrative tasks (i.e. time reporting, maintenance, mileage or inspection forms, driver logs) • Preventative maintenance (work with vendors to complete) • Transport patients between facility and trailer • Patient care including screening and positioning Benefits: • Full benefit package starting the first of the month after 30 days of service • Paid per hour (driving and on-duty, not driving) • Paid overtime for hours worked over 40/week • Paid vacation • Paid lodging for overnight stays • Per diem for overnight stays • Longevity bonus starting after 2nd year of employment Equipment: • 53’ van-spread axle Training: • Paid on-the-job Medical Assistant training Qualifications: • Class A CDL • Ability to pass physical, drug screen & background • Safe driving record • Minimum of 21 years of age Join our team today!

Application: WWW.SHAREDMED.COM Shared Medical Services Cottage Grove, WI An Employee Owned Company Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer Our mission is to create lasting partnerships in the healthcare community and to provide the best possible care to every patient with our exceptional staff and our state-of the-art diagnostic imaging technology.

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The Scott County Record • Page 34 • Thursday, September 11, 2014

Pilot Jeff Shetterly with his T6 Texan that performed at the air show.

Conner Burchell, 9, Holcomb, looks at air show action on Saturday.

It’s like flying a ‘big, happy puppy’ The North American T6 Texan can be described in a lot of ways.

Jeff Shetterly finds it hard to beat the one offered by his niece.

“She said it best,” he offers with a huge grin.

“She said, ‘Uncle Jeff, this flies like a big, happy puppy.”

And when he’s sitting in the cockpit, Shetterly can’t argue with that description.

“On one hand, it’s rock solid. It will fly like a jet. On the other hand, if you do the right things with the controls it will unhinge and have fun and wag around and be a blast,” he says.

He says that the plane’s unique characteristics make it “fly much lighter than its 5,300 pounds.”

This is Shetterly’s first air show plane. He admits that it is a bit unusual to go straight to a war bird when flying stunts. A rookie on the air show circuit, the Scott City show was only his seventh.

Unlike other planes in the show that were lighter, faster and have a faster roll rate, the T6 is a “bigger, more majestic” plane that’s powered by a 600 horsepower radial engine.

Each of the nine cylinders is larger than the total displacement of the largest Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

“So it’s a giant beast and it flies like that. So I try to keep it smooth and precise and beautiful,” he

says.

Shetterly, 40, comes from a family with a long history in aviation. In fact, he says the decision to purchase the T6 about 1-1/2 years ago started with his brother and dad who “pulled the Jedi mind trick on me.”

They were wanting a T6 in the family and were encouraging Shetterly to buy one. It didn’t take a lot of convincing.

“I’ve always loved the shape, I love the air foil, I love the airplane,” he says. “There are a lot of these planes out there, it’s easy to find parts and there’s a great support community.”

That came in handy when Shetterly bought

what he admits was a “basket case.” The first thing he did was take off the wings and treat some corrosion issues.

“So it was a major repair job at the beginning.”

Shetterly said that owning the T6 Texan had been a longtime dream.

“I’ve flown maybe 85 different kinds of airplanes and this is very unique among the planes I’ve flown,” he says.

However, the Overland Park resident sees himself as not just a pilot, but “caretaker who has a responsibility to pass this along to the next generation. The whole point in getting this was to share it.

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