The Scott County Record

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36 Pages • Four Sections

Volume 22 • Number 7

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Published in Scott City, Ks.

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Appoint Venters to fill Ward 1 council opening Brad Venters has been appointed by Mayor Dan Goodman to Ward 1 opening on the Scott City Council.

The opening was created when Councilman Everett Green moved to Ward II. Green’s departure from the council was short-lived when he was reappointed to fill the Ward II opening that was a result of Jack Schmitt’s resignation.

Venters was sworn in as a councilman at the council meeting on Sept. 15.

He will serve the remainder of Green’s term which was due to end in April of 2017.

Venters, originally from Dighton, moved to Scott City in July of 2008 when he was hired as director of the Scott Recreation Commission.

He remained in that position for 4-1/2 years, followed by a short stint as director of the Scott City Chamber of Commerce. He is currently an associate with Richards Financial in Scott City.

Janie Griswold, emergency room supervisor at the Scott County Hospital, stands next to the monitor that can be operated by a neurologist in Denver who can examine a patient, view CT scans and participate in a diagnosis as it’s happening in the ER. Appearing on the screen as part of the demonstration is Natalie Walkerk, operations manager for CO-DOC Telemedicine Network.

(Record Photo)

Telemed gives another layer of support to SC Hospital’s ER When a possible stroke victim enters the Scott County Hospital’s emergency room, Janie Griswold quickly gets the medical team into action.

She and the ER staff begin prepping the individual for tests, the on-duty physician is contacted and the on-site robot is activated.

Robot?

Yes, a telemedicine robot that links the local ER with a neurologist in Denver is part of the medical team. The neurologist is able to visit with the patient, view CT-scans as they are made available to the local staff and assist in determining whether the individual is suffering from a stroke and whether the individual should be transferred to another site for treatment of a possible heart attack.

“It’s a great resource,” says Scott City physician Matthew Lightner.

“How you treat a stroke patient isn’t

always a slam dunk There can be complications.

“It helps to have someone else available who sees these kinds of patients all the time.”

Griswold, who is the ER supervisor for the Scott County Hospital, says the telemed equipment has been used three times since it became available on July 21.

A flat screen is on the end of a swivel arm which is operated by the specialist.

The screen can be rotated so that the neurologist can see anywhere in the room.

The robot is set up at the foot of an exam table which allows for the neurologist to communicate with and view the patient while doing the same with anyone else in the ER room. With the patient sitting on the edge of the exam table, the neurologist is able to zoom into the individual’s eyes and study

the pupils and he can also study a CTscan image in detail immediately as it’s available, “It’s basically as if they’re right here with us which, in a sense, they are,” says Griswold.

Quick Response Bringing the neurologist onto the scene is just one part of a seamless procedure that quickly determines a patient’s status and what steps should be taken next.

Within 10 minutes of a patient entering the ER, a physician is called and a CT-scan is being conducted within 15 minutes, explains Griswold. We expect that report back within 20 minutes.

“Right after the doctor has seen (the patient) and we’ve done the CT, we’re calling the neurologist,” Griswold says.

(See TELEMED on page two)

Storm Resigns The city council tentatively accepted the resignation of Vernon Storm from the Planning and Zoning Commission while awaiting a formal letter.

Storm was recognized by Mayor Goodman for his “many, many years of service” on the commission.

Even before the resignation, Goodman said there has been a problem with all the members showing up for hearings on zoning variances and other P&Z business. Four members are needed in order to have a quorum and conduct business but that isn’t always possible because two members have been frequent no-shows.

(See VENTERS on page 10)

Whimmydiddle this weekend in Scott City More than 150 exhibitors and several thousand shoppers will be in Scott City on Saturday for the annual Whimmydiddle arts and crafts festival.

The show opens in Patton Park at 9:00 a.m. and continues until 4:00 p.m.

Maps of all exhibitors are available at the shelterhouse. There will also be a number of food and concession booths.

New name, location for Thrift Store

As part of the many housekeeping duties that have been taking place over the past week, Kris Fetty was putting new signs in the windows of the former Dollar General in downtown Scott City on Wednesday afternoon.

Each sign read “Hope’s Closet.”

“We’re in a new location so it seemed like a good time for a new name,” said Fetty, referring to what has for years been known as the Community Thrift Store.

With help from the Scott Community Foundation, the Scott County Ministerial Alliance was able to make a move to their new location in a building the organization will someday own.

“It was suggested about a year ago that we should look at moving in Dollar Gener-

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SCHS fall Homecoming crowning ceremony is Friday Page 11

al, but that was going to require money that we don’t have,” says Pastor Jon Tuttle of the Ministerial Alliance.

But the more the group thought about it the more its members began to consider the possibility. That’s when they approached the Foundation to see if there was someway it could help.

“They agreed to fund the purchase of the building and we’ve entered into a 10-year lease-purchase agreement,” says Tuttle.

“The last couple of years have been pretty good for the thrift store. We’ve been bringing in enough income that it made it possible for us to consider this move and use this as an opportunity to grow our ministry.

(See HOPE’S on page two)

Hope’s Closet manager Kris Fetty (left) and volunteer Dorothy Hutchins visit as they get the thrift store ready for its reopening on Monday.

(Record Photo)

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Telemed The neurologist has 15 minutes to respond after the initial phone call which has never been a problem, notes Griswold.

“All we have to do is pick up the phone and they’re right with us,” Griswold says of the HealthONE staff.

“In fact, the telemed camera is never shut off because they’re constantly testing the system to make sure it’s on-line.”

“If there should be a problem with the telemed device, it’s not unusual for the staff in Denver to know before the local ER staff,” notes Natalie Walker, operations manager for the CO-DOC Telemedicine Network.

Expanding its Reach CO-DOC (Collaborative Digital On-line Consulting) began in 2006 and since then has provided over 3,500 consultations.

Scott County Hospital and the Gove County Hospital

(continued from page one)

(Quinter) are the only two Kansas facilities linked to the network. The are 45 sites overall with two others in Wyoming and the rest in Colorado.

In the Denver market, telemedicine connects all HealthONE facilities to Swedish Medical Center.

The physician team consists of eight stroketrained neurologists.

“This is all they do,” explains Walker. “If one is busy, there’s another one quickly available as a backup. And if that one is busy then there’s another backup.”

Walker says that with today’s tech-savvy population, no one has expressed an issue with a visual examination being conducted by a robot and communicating with another physician who appears on a monitor.

“Older people think it’s pretty neat and younger people think nothing about it,” says Walker.

Hope’s In preparation for the move, volunteers put in new flooring and are in the process of doing electrical work in the 6,000 square foot building.

While it will mean a lot more work, Fetty is excited about the move.

“We can do so much more in here. There’s so much more that we can put on display,” she says.

Hope’s Closet gained a huge amount of display space when Heartland Foods donated the shelving from its former location. One Saturday was spent moving the shelving and getting it set up with the help of many volun-

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“It’s as if the physician is “People have been very in the room with you and, receptive to the telemed in a sense, they are.” process, but nothing will ever replace the imporMore to Come tance of face-to-face conThe robot is provided tact between patients and

by HealthONE while their doctor and the ER Scott County Hospital staff. People still expect pays a maintenance fee, and want that,” Burnett says hospital CEO Mark says.

Burnett.

He also expects teleWhile HealthONE can medicine to expand now provide a variety of di- that federal programs such agnostic capabilities deas Medicaid and Medicare pending on a hospital’s recognize it as a reimbursneeds, they are assisting able service.

SCH only in the diagnosis “For the longest time, of strokes and heart atteleconsulting wasn’t covtacks.

“We’re dipping our ered by government health toes in the water to see plans. That’s changed,” he how this works out,” Bur- notes.

That’s not the case with nett says. “We may look for other ways to expand private insurers who have been slower to accept its use.”

While telemed is being telemedicine and provide used by more hospitals, reimbursement when it’s especially in rural areas, been used.

“Now that the governand its gaining in acceptance by more patients, ment is doing it I think Burnett emphasizes it is that private insurers will only part of the medical start to come around,” says Burnett. team.

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teers, including members of the SCHS football team.

Last Saturday was spent moving merchandise from the old location on Main Street which took about three hours.

Fetty says there are more clothing racks and they even have three dressing rooms which were built by volunteers.

There’s also a craft section that includes fabric and supplies that had previously been kept in the back room because there wasn’t enough space at the old site. And there’s even room for furniture to be displayed.

As Fetty walks around the store she pleased that there are specific sections set aside for men’s, women’s and children’s clothing.

Tuttle thinks that as word got around that the store was moving it seemed to give a boost to donations of clothing and other items.

“You wouldn’t believe the amount of stuff that’s been coming in - and it’s good stuff. I think some people have been holding back because they didn’t feel we had the room,” Tuttle says.

The response has been positive from those who have been in the store.

“People tell us it feels more like a department store than a thrift store,” Fetty says.

Fetty has had to turn away some shoppers wanting to get an early start on bargain hunting.

“People have tried to come in, but we tell them they have to wait,” she notes.

There will be a dedication ceremony and a grand reopening of the store on Mon., Sept. 29, at 10:00 a.m.

Store hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10:00-4:00 and on Saturdays from 10:002:00.

What’s for Lunch in Scott City?

Sun. - Sat., Sept. 28-Oct. 4

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. • Chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy.

Thurs. • Fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy.

Fri. • Beef enchilada dinner.

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

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$

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 25, 2014

Consumer scams getting more sophisticated People need to constantly be on the alert for scams and frauds. The thieves just get craftier in what they do.

With the internet and sophisticated computer equipment it’s often hard to tell if what we hear and see are scams or legitimate services. The USA. gov website offers lots of information to help you to avoid becoming a victim to scams.

Above all, never give your information (bank, personal or credit card) out unless you made the call for the goods or ser-

vices. Also, life isn’t easy and if a deal sounds too good to be true it is.

Be aware of unsolicited offers. Whether it’s an e-mail, phone call, or it arrived in your mailbox, if you didn’t request the information, ignore the offer. Also, be verbal, if you make a mistake and fall for a scam, be quick to talk to your bank, credit card companies and the local law enforcement.

Your pride may be temporarily bruised, but by contacting law enforcement and others you might help others from

becoming a victim.

And there’s no hope of recovering money you lost to the scam if you don’t tell anyone.

Consider setting up an account for your debt card separate from your checking account and do not have your savings set up to cover over drafts.

Warning Signs These are indications of potential fraud: •If someone you don’t know asks you to send money or money orders to claim a prize, lottery, credit card, loan, or other

‘Time’ is program for study club

od of time. If you don’t have time to think about the deal and check it out, say no thanks. Do not be rushed.

•The seller offers “free gifts” in return for a minimum effort or a fee. It’s not a free gift if you have to pay a fee to get it.

•A “repair person” suddenly finds a dangerous defect in your car or home. Get a second opinion, even if it is to call a friend and talk to them about it. They may see a red flag that you have missed.

•You are given little or

no time to read a contract.

•A sale item is suddenly unavailable but a “much better item” is available for slightly more money.

•The solicitation looks like a government document and suggests contest winnings or unclaimed assets are yours for a small fee. (The government doesn’t solicit money from citizens.)

•You are asked for your bank account or credit card number.

There are many varieties of consumer fraud, but the most common (See SCAMS on page nine)

Helpful cooking tips

•If you have a problem opening jars: Try using latex dishwashing gloves. They give a non-slip grip that makes opening jars easy.

•Use air-freshener to clean mirrors: It does a good job and better still, leaves a lovely smell to the shine.

•Potatoes will take food stains off your fingers.

Just slice and rub raw potato on the stains and rinse with water.

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Wiechman

Wiechmans to celebrate 65th wedding anniversary

‘Moonshiners’ at VIP Center

Next dance at the Scott County VIP Center will be Fri., Sept. 26, 7:30-10:00 p.m., featuring “The Moonshiners.”

Scott City, and friend Karen Thomason, Hays, and Norman Wiechman and wife, Laura, Scott City; and daughter-in-law, Susan Wiechman, Scott City.

They plan to take a trip to Branson Mo. Cards may be sent to the couple at Box 618, Scott City, Ks. 67871.

Buy one get one half, 25% off, buy one get one free, 50% off, door prizes,

new lines, check us out on Facebook, thank you for your business.

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Wiechman, Scott City, will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary on Thurs., Oct. 2.

Gerald Wiechman and Joyce Wicker were married on Oct. 2, 1949, at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Scott City.

The couple has two sons, Jay Wiechman,

Late Night Shopping on Main

Come help us celebrate our anniversary with wine and cheese

Friday Night, September 26 • 9:00 - 11:00 p.m.

A great sale you won’t want to miss!

Fall into Giftologists for Whimmydiddle specials Saturday, September 27 • Store hours: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

401 S. Main St., Scott City

(620) 872-7100

new lines, check us out on Facebook, thank you for your business.

Marvel Keyse hosted the High Plains Study Club in her home on Sept.

18.

The social committee consisting of Marvel Keyse, Jane Ann McClellan, Jean Hardy, Thelma Miller and Cozette Buckner served a delicious brunch.

Devotions about “time” were shared by Patsi Graham.

New officers Marilyn Dryer, Susie Gooden, Betty LaToush and Gwen Huck, accompanied by Ann Hawkins on the piano, presented a skit using the year’s theme, “Time in a Bottle.” They handed out the new program books that had been compiled by Barb Hutchins, designed by Audra Winter and assembled by Jan Winter.

The club collect and flag salute were recited.

Roll call was answered by 24 members stating, “If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing I’d like to do . . . .” New member Cozette Buckner was welcomed to the study club.

Gwen Huck moved for a change to be added to Article 1, Section 4 of the bylaws: “When a member in good standing has health problems which no longer allow her to participate as an active member, she will be recognized as an honorary member, with no dues required.” It was passed unanimously.

Marilyn Dryer announced that the next meeting will be Oct. 2 at Ivadell Cotton’s home at 1:30 p.m. Barbara Hutchins will bring the Lucky Dip. The program will consist of each member sharing a time-piece as a memory, an object or a photo.

valuable offer. Do not send prepaid credit cards either.

•If someone you don’t know offers you the chance to receive a credit card, loan, prize, lottery, or other valuable item, but asks you for personal information to claim it.

•An unknown caller claiming to be a lawyer or in law enforcement offers to help you get your money back (for a fee).

This is not the way either lawyers or law enforcement officers work.

•The deal is only good “for today” or a short peri-

Buy one get one half, 25% off, buy one get one free, 50% off, door prizes,

Grand Opening

Whimmydiddle Weekend Saturday, September 27 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

112 Main Street, Scott City

Stop by and see our repurposed furniture and other home accents!

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Editorial/Opinion

Page 4 - Thursday, September 25, 2014

editorially speaking

Blame the court:

It’s time for Roberts to stand on his own 2 feet

There’s been a lot of howling by the Republican Party over the past week in the wake of the Kansas Supreme Court’s decision to allow the Democratic candidate for Senate to have his name removed from the ballot.

The response from Republicans was predictable. The Sen. Roberts’ campaign blamed the “liberal activist Supreme Court.” In an e-mail that was sent immediately after the ruling, the campaign also cast blame on Sens. Claire McCaskill and Harry Reid because, as we all know, those two rule Kansas politics with an iron fist.

Instead of reciting tired, old rhetoric, perhaps Kansas Republicans should be looking at the Secretary of State’s office and wondering why this case even had to go to the Supreme Court. If Kris Kobach would have been doing his job rather than acting as a liaison for the Roberts campaign as an honorary chairman, then perhaps this issue could have been decided much more quickly, and at less cost to taxpayers.

Can anyone say conflict of interest, or does that even matter anymore?

Roberts has every advantage imaginable. He’s a Republican in Kansas. That alone should be enough in a state that hasn’t elected anyone other than a Republican to the U.S. Senate since 1932.

Roberts has a huge campaign war chest which will grow even more as the Republican National Committee throws everything imaginable into saving this seat. And he’ll have the backing of the Koch brothers.

Really, Pat? And you’re complaining about a Democrat being removed from the ticket so that you have to face an Independent?

This, says Roberts, is a “travesty to the judicial system and our electoral process.”

Once again, Pat has it all wrong. The real travesty is that after 32 years in Congress - 16 years as a Representative and the last 16 as a Senator the big issue for the Roberts campaign is whether or not a Democrat is on the ticket.

Roberts should be able to run on a record filled with such an impressive list of accomplishments for Kansas that it wouldn’t matter who his opponent is. The reason that’s not happening is simple.

There are no memorable achievements.

The only thing in shorter supply is Roberts’ character. Here’s an example.

The Senate held a vote on whether to approve a United Nations treaty that would protect the rights of disabled people throughout the world.

Patterned after the Americans with Disabilities Act, this was so important to Sen. Bob Dole that he was brought onto the floor of the Senate in a wheelchair in an effort to sway Republican votes.

Roberts likes to claim that Dole was his mentor, but when it came time to vote for the treaty, Roberts buckled. Rather than showing some backbone - and acknowledging how important Dole was in his career - Roberts showed his true self.

If he didn’t have the backbone and character to vote for a measure supported by his mentor and friend, what makes anyone think he will vote in the best interests of Kansans when he’s feeling pressure from his own party to do otherwise?

Then again, he doesn’t have to stand for anything . . . not as long as he can blame the liberal court, Harry Reid and Claire McCaskill when something doesn’t go his way.

This is Pat Roberts. Surely we can do better.

Perpetual war:

There will always be a ‘threat’ in the Middle East

To hear the President talk about the threat posed to America’s security by radicals in the Middle East, to watch images of buildings being blown up by our bombs and to hear about possible plans to blow up U.S. jets makes one wonder what has been gained since the Bush presidency.

In fact, the President’s speech and military footage could have been borrowed from 13 years ago.

We have been in a state of perpetual war since 2001 and at great cost to us. It’s estimated that the latest military action will cost us $1.5 billion per month.

As one former military advisor said, we need to quit the scare-mongering. We need to “quit making these people 10-feet tall.” We’re talking about what some say is an organization consisting of “several dozen” radicals.

Is this all it takes to force an expensive retaliation from the U.S. military?

Let’s face it. We will never be liked by everyone. If this is how we intend to respond to every “threat” to the U.S., then regardless of the outcome, we have already lost.

There must be a better way.

Forget a chicken in every pot

In an apparent effort to rebrand himself and that of the Republican Party, Gov. Sam Brownback is selling porn.

Yes, that stodgy, ultraconservative image that Brownback has cultivated so carefully for so many years is being cast off in hopes of salvaging another term in the governor’s office.

“I think everyone should give Gov. Brownback credit for being way ahead of the curve on this,” says a Republican campaign consultant.

“The governor has seen the fading popularity of Tea Party politics. With Sen. Pat Roberts and Congressman Tim Huelskamp fighting for their political lives, and with the governor trailing in most polls, he decided that it was time for the people of Kansas to see him in a different way.”

Porn provided the perfect opportunity.

You see, Larry Minkoff, the owner of a porn shop, had his merchandise confiscated by the state for failure to pay taxes.

According to the Tope-

ka Capital-Journal, about 400 lots of merchandise (lots can include dozens of items) have been turned back over to Minkoff for him to sell at auction. This merchandise includes porn DVDs, sex and drinking games, lingerie, a wide assortment of sexually oriented equipment, a Glass Pleasure Wand and much more.

Proceeds from the auction will be used to pay taxes owed by Minkoff.

“This is a gift to Brownback from the Goddess of Election Erotica,” says the GOP consultant.

“Our internal polls show that one of the things voters don’t like about Brownback is that he comes across as too ‘preachy’ and stiff. What better way to dispel that image than to be able to include on your election brochures that you sell porn. Suddenly people are looking at you a lot differ-

ently.”

Democrats are furious.

“It seems all too convenient that as the state treasury is going into the tank suddenly the Republicans have all this porn they can sell in order to help bring the state into the black,” says a Democrat legislator. “It sure would be nice to know if this Minkoff is a Republican and if he has previous ties to the Republican political machine.”

Many Democrats are in agreement that it’s not just a coincidence that the governor is selling porn on the heels of it being revealed that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Paul Davis happened to be in a southeast Kansas strip club at the time it was raided 16 years ago.

Whether or not the then unmarried Davis was getting a lap dance is in dispute. Law enforcement said that Davis was involved in no wrong-doing and just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Nonetheless, the Davis campaign has been caught completely flat-footed by

Brownback’s porn sale.

Fearing that the Brownback campaign is going to outflank him on the left, Davis is urging the county attorney in Coffeyville to take another look at his strip club incident.

“We’re not saying that anything more occurred than was originally reported, but then again, it’s possible,” said a Davis campaign spokesman.

“Hey, our candidate can have just as much fun as the next guy. Don’t sell our guy short just because he doesn’t have access to a warehouse of sex toys.”

Brownback’s new strategy has received unexpected support from organizations on the far right, including the Kansas Policy Institute.

“We’ve been telling taxpayers for years that we could lower the cost of public education in Kansas if school districts would spend down all their reserves,” explains KPI President Dave Trabert.

“How disingenuous would it be if we didn’t hold the governor to that (See CHICKEN on page six)

GOP sees slam dunk slip away

There is something deeply satisfying about the troubles punditry is having in nailing down exactly what’s happening in the 2014 elections.

The careful statistical models keep gyrating on the question of whether Republicans will win control of the Senate this November. The prognosticators who rely on their reporting and their guts as well as the numbers are sometimes at odds with the statisticians.

The obvious reason for the uncertainty is that many of the key Senate races are still very close in the polls. This should encourage a degree of humility among those of us who love to offer opinions about politics.

Humility is a useful virtue not always on display in our business.

The unsettled nature of the election also sends a

Where to Write

another view by E.J. Dionne, Jr.

salutary signal to the electorate. As Howard Dean might put it: You have the power. Voting will matter this year.

It is not my habit to agree with Karl Rove, but he was on to something in his Wall Street Journal column last week when he wrote that “each passing day provides evidence as to why a GOP Senate majority is still in doubt.”

Rove’s focus, not surprisingly, was on money.

Democrats have been spending heavily to hang on to their majority, and he interpreted this as an imperative for Republican candidates and donors to “step up if they are to substantially reduce that gap.”

In a parenthetical sentence, he disclosed his

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

interest here: “I help American Crossroads/ Crossroads GPS raise funds on a volunteer basis.” Rove’s professional history is in the direct mail business, and his column was a nicely crafted fundraising plea.

Rove acknowledged that the big-dollar Republican groups have yet to commit all the cash they have raised, so the TV advertising gap “is likely to shrink.”

But the GOP’s real problem in closing the deal is about more than money. Spending doesn’t work unless candidates and parties have a case to make, and this gets to why we have yet to see either a clear trend or a dominant theme emerge in this campaign.

Many swing voters may be in a mood to punish or put a check on President Obama. Yet

Sen. Pat Roberts 109 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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

Democrats might still hang on if voters decide that life and government will be no better with a legislative branch entirely under GOP control.

Underlying the Democrats’ argument that a Republican-led Senate will be no day at the beach is the fact that their conservative opponents are offering little of practical help to voters still unsettled by the economic downturn, and might make things worse.

Thus, even in conservative states, Democrats are zeroing in on Republican opposition to government programs aimed at solving particular problems. Their arguments and ads reflect a reality: Voters who might dislike government in the abstract often support the concrete things government can do.

(See DUNK on page six)

Sen. Jerry Moran 141 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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

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We all pay for corporate tax deserters #RichKids:

Corporations love to wrap themselves in the flag with sun-drenched TV commercials that proclaim a deep devotion to American workers and communities. But when it comes to actually taking responsibility for supporting the workers and communities that create the conditions for corporate profits, a record number of big businesses are deserting America.

Burger King is the latest corporation to announce it is moving to Canada - at least on paper - where it will pay lower taxes. In the past three years alone, at least 21 companies have completed or announced mergers with foreign corporations to avoid taxes in an operation known as “inversion.” That compares with 75 over the past 30 years.

These only-on-paper moves will gouge a $20-billion tax loophole over the next decade.

These companies may be moving their taxes overseas, but they’re not ending their reliance on the U.S. government to operate profitably. They are just shirking their responsibility to pay for what they get.

The companies still make money in the United States, where they hire

behind the headlines

by Richard Kirsch

workers educated by public schools, ship their goods on public roads, are kept safe by local police officers and firefighters, and protect their patents in America’s courts.

Of course, small businesses and American families can’t play the same traitorous game. We can’t hire lawyers and accountants to pretend to ship our homes and our income overseas. And most of us wouldn’t do that if we could.

We understand that paying taxes is part of our basic obligation as citizens and essential to building strong communities.

What we do resent about taxes is that the current system is upside down big corporations and the wealthy game the system so they pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than working families and small business. The share of profits corporations spend on taxes stands at a record low. And those profits are reaching record highs.

It’s time to turn the tax system right-

side up by closing the tax loopholes that allow billionaires and huge corporations to escape paying their fair share to support the country that made them rich.

The Obama administration just took a major step to do that. Tiring of Republican objections to closing the corporate tax deserter loophole, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced he was issuing new regulations aimed at making it much harder for companies to reap tax benefits from an offshore move.

This step may curb some corporate desertion. In the long run, it would be best if Congress took action. Two bills (S2360 and HR4679) would end the current practice of treating corporate deserters as foreign companies when they are still really based right here.

Consumers can play a role too. In August, Walgreens - which bills itself as “America’s drugstore” - abandoned its plan to dodge $4 billion in taxes in the next five years by changing its corporate address to Switzerland. Walgreen reversed course when outraged consumers protested at its stores and on the Internet.

I love groups with the gumption to take on big tasks and do what needs to be done - can-do groups that can and do.

But, uh-oh, here comes The Little Train That Couldn’t. I’m talking about Congress.

Since the earliest days of our US of A, the most basic task of this legislative body has been to keep our national house in good repair. That requires tending to roads, bridges, rail systems, airports, school buildings, parks, internet access, etc.

Yet, with a toxic mix of anti-government ideology and fiscal foolishness, Republican members of Congress have recently been blocking every serious

proposal to reinvest in America’s collapsing infrastructure.

The result is an inexcusable drop in maintenance, even as our population has expanded dramatically and the wear and tear on all parts of the infrastructure has created disasters-waiting-tohappen.

As one lawmaker says of our increasingly-ramshackle house, “I’ve been here 7-1/2 years. We have not solved one single problem. It’s just so frustrating.”

That was no tax-and-spend liberal Democrat talking - it was a pennypinching Republican, Bob Corker of Tennessee. Indeed, it wasn’t that long ago that most Republicans understood and funded infrastructure - from Abe

political problems in Iraq and Syria.

Such claims are tenuous, at best. What’s far more certain is that all military campaigns have unintended consequences, some of which don’t appear for many years afterward.

The Islamic State itself is largely a product of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Dismantling the Iraqi state and rebuilding it along sectarian lines produced an authoritarian government dominated by Shiite Islamists who ignored minority grievances and often suppressed dissent with bullets.

The result? An entrenched civil war with no end in sight.

Although U.S. media coverage of the violence in Iraq subsided following the withdrawal of combat troops, sectarian attacks against civilians have continued. Car bombs, street assaults, and kidnappings have transformed Baghdad into a city segregated by sect.

Large parts of the country, including the Sunni majority areas in the west and (See WAR on page six)

(See RICHKIDS on page six)

(See DESERTERS on page six)

Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt to Dwight Eisenhower, and even Ronald Reagan, who called such common sense maintenance “an investment in tomorrow that we must make today.”

Gail Collins, the superbly sensible New York Times columnist, recently noted that, “In a perfect world, Congress would figure out a serious, longterm plan to fix bridges, (etc.).” Yes, but I would amend her observation with this: It shouldn’t take “a perfect world” - even a Congress in a halfway-mediocre world ought to be able to do that job.

Actually, thanks to GOP obstinacy, Congress isn’t the Little Train That Couldn’t. It’s the choo-choo that could, but won’t.

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

Next round of an unwinnable war Once again, a U.S. president vows to eliminate an extremist militia in the Middle East to make the region, and Americans, safe.

And that means it’s time again for a reality check. Having failed in its bid to destroy the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, the United States is still trying to dismantle both organizations.

Over the course of 13 years of war, that mission has spread to Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Mali, and West Africa, as militant groups on two continents have adopted the al-Qaeda brand.

Contrary to normal logic, the White House wants everyone to see this failure as a badge of expertise. As President Barack Obama vowed in an interview on Meet the Press, fighting the Islamic State forces “is something we know how to do,” mainly because we’ve been battling similar groups “for five, six, seven years.”

Years of air strikes, drone-operated killings, and covert operations have

other voices

by Amanda Ufheil-Somers

brought neither peace nor safety to the region and its people. Estimates of the death toll from U.S. attacks in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia alone range from 3,100 to 5,400, including 570-1,200 civilians.

Precise figures are impossible to obtain since the strikes remain classified, and investigating drone attacks is difficult and dangerous work.

Nor has the drone campaign halted the proliferation of groups seeking to link their - usually local - agendas to the idea of a global struggle represented by al-Qaeda. Indiscriminate killing - and the constant fear of death from above - has only destroyed communities and provided easy recruitment material for extremist groups.

Obama promises that his plan to combat and destroy the Islamic State forces will also address the underlying

by Josh Hoxie

It doesn’t take long for viewers of #RichKids of Beverly Hills to realize the show is deliberately trying to make you feel poor.

Watching heiresses in their midtwenties drop more on a day of shopping than the average American spends buying a home makes the point quite well - and that’s just the intro. To watch #RichKids, now in its second season on E!, is like entering a parallel universe where the weather is always sunny, the people are all goodlooking, and everyone is filthy rich.

The show was inspired by Rich Kids of Instagram. In that cultural sensation, the children of today’s super-wealthy take their excess to the Internet with pictures of six-figure bar tabs and their parents’ Italian sports cars. #RichKids of Beverly Hills tracks Morgan Stewart and Dorothy Wang as they fill their days with Instagram selfies and casual $40,000 Friday night house parties with their equally wealthy friends.

If not for the commercials, you might completely forget that some people “pay less” for shoes or buy clothes at discount big box stores like Wal-Mart that pay their employees less than it costs to just eke by. The show offers an escape from the crushing reality of things like the “jobless recovery,” widespread unemployment and under-employment, and student debt now topping $1 trillion.

Wang has other problems.

“Opening wine is the hardest thing in the entire world to do,” she says.

Historically, people who make their money off inherited nest eggs and spend their lives in comfort free from the requirement to keep a steady job or establish their own business would be called aristocrats. From the beginning, Americans looked harshly on this class of people.

As Alexis de Tocqueville, the famous French commentator on U.S. values, once said: “They will tolerate poverty, enslavement, barbarism, but they will not tolerate aristocracy.”

The producers of #RichKids have challenged this prediction. They’re betting that today’s Americans won’t only tolerate historic levels of inequality with obscene displays of unearned wealth - they’ll celebrate it.

At a time when more than a fifth of U.S. children live in poverty, when two-thirds of American adults haven’t saved enough for retirement, and when nearly 4-in-10 young households are saddled with student debt, maybe this show is daring the American public to say enough is enough.

While middle and working class families across the country struggle to make ends meet, these gaudy displays of wealth beg the question: How much is too much?

At what point do we say: “You’ve benefited enormously from the American economic, judicial, educational, and transportation systems - it’s time you gave back.”

While it’s true that the heirs and heiresses of America’s elite pay a sales tax on their thousand-dollar Christian Louboutin shoes and Birkin bags that can cost $10,000 or more, it’s also true that the poorest Californians pay a greater share of their income in state and local taxes than the richest one percent in their state.

You see, California has done away with its state gift and estate taxes, the only kinds of tax on their unearned fortunes that the #RichKids might pay. At the federal level, the estate tax is so riddled with loopholes that estate planners can help their clients just about avoid it altogether.

The #RichKids are an excellent example of what happens when a toothless estate tax fails to curb the concentration of wealth. Congress could and should take action. For starters, it could pass the Responsible Estate Tax Act Senator Bernie Sanders recently announced.

Congress: the little train that won’t

by Jim Hightower

How much wealth is too much?

The Scott County Record • Page 6 • Thursday, September 25, 2014

What should be the ‘college experience’?

by John Schrock

Across the United States, public universities are focusing on providing resident students with the “college experience.”

With the movement to present lectures online as a strictly audio-visual experience, there is a natural feeling that something is missing from the posthigh school experience.

This has led administrators to contrive to restore the social interactions that occur on campuses and

proclaim this is the missing 50 percent of a university education.

Unfortunately, just as the online “course” is barely a shadow of faceto-face teaching, the funand-games socializing that passes for the out-ofclass “college experience” also fails to provide the real college experience.

In 1987, a Distinguished Professor at my university spoke to assembled faculty and students. He advised students to not only attend every class,

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Court decision, unlike Kobach’s, based on law The Kansas Supreme Court, in the case of Taylor v. Kobach, applied elementary and uniformly recognized principles of statutory interpretation when it decided that Chad Taylor’s request to withdraw as a candidate for the United States Senate complied fully with the applicable Kansas statute.

The court’s unanimous determination that Secretary of State Kobach violated “a clearly defined duty imposed by the law” when he refused to remove Mr. Taylor’s name from the ballot was grounded in law, not politics.

As a law professor for 42 years, I have taught those same elementary principles of statutory interpretation in many classes at Washburn Law School, including the course on Legislation.

Mr. Kobach, as a former law professor himself, could not have been ignorant of those principles of interpretation. Instead, he chose to ignore his clearly defined legal duty and to apply an unsupportable interpretation of Kansas law which had the effect of benefitting his personal political agenda and the Senate candidate of his political party on whose re-election honorary committee he serves.

I had the privilege to know personally Mr. Kobach’s four Republican predecessors as Secretary of State - Elwill Shanahan, Jack Brier, Bill Graves and Ron Thornburgh. I was campaign manager for one of them. Each of them was a person of integrity who understood that the office of Secretary of State was unique and imposed an obligation on them to be worthy of the public’s trust in administering our election laws impartially.

I do not speak for any of them. But I know that none of them ever would have considered violating a clearly defined legal duty in order to advance a personal political agenda or the candidacy of a member of the Secretary’s political party.

As administrator of our election laws, the Secretary of State must be held to a higher standard of integrity than other elected officials.

Mr. Kobach’s decision to ignore his statutorily defined legal duty calls into question his fitness to hold any public office and, without question, the office of Secretary of State.

James M. Concannon Topeka

RichKids

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This innovative bill would close billionaire-friendly loopholes in the federal estate tax and raise rates only on the top quarter of one percent of wealthy Americans.

The Vermont independent’s legislation would exempt the first $3.5 million for individuals ($7 million for married couples) and levy a surtax on the 492 American billionaires.

Raising taxes on #RichKids wouldn’t impact the rest of us - about 99.7 percent of Americans - yet it would narrow the widening inequality divide.

And Congress could invest the revenue into health care, education, and other things that will level the playing field.

That way, more Americans will get a shot at the good life, not just kids who inherit great fortunes.

Josh Hoxie is the director of the Project on Taxation and Opportunity at the Institute for Policy Studies

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This nation faces huge challenges in building an economy that works for all of us. If we plan to build a better future for our children, we must insist that corporations be held accountable for their responsibilities to our families and communities.

Richard Kirsch is a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and the author of Fighting for Our Health: The Epic Battle to Make Health Care a Right in the United States

but to also get a full education outside of class.

He meant that students should stop in at professors’ offices. At a good university, faculty doors are open. They are there to help, not just when a student is struggling in coursework, but also to listen to where you are in life.

To share the difficulties of being an intellectual.

To help advise in career decisions from an experienced position. To help a

student see a bigger world of ideas.

In this last year, research by Pascarella and Gillig at the University of Iowa confirmed this advice and found that “meaningful interactions with faculty members outside class, along with clear and organized teaching, had the strongest positive effects on students’ motivation during their first year of college, which otherwise tends to drop significantly.”

The Distinguished

Chicken same standard. If he has all this porn lying around for a rainy day, so to speak, then he owes it to Kansas taxpayers to sell it off. It’s the fiscally responsible thing to do.”

Gov. Brownback and his campaign committee have already thrown all their resources behind this porn sale. Campaign insiders report that a series of commercials are already scheduled to begin airing in the 1:00-4:00 a.m. advertising time slot in which you can hear

War

Dunk In Kentucky, Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes launched a web ad criticizing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for leading a filibuster against Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s bill to bring down interest rates on student debt.

“We want our students getting degrees, not debt,” Grimes says.

In Arkansas, Democrat Mark Pryor has run advertising built around the Ebola outbreak, criticizing his opponent, Rep. Tom Cotton, for being one of 29 House Republicans to vote in 2013 against a reauthorization of public health and emergency programs. Cotton’s campaign insisted that he voted later in favor of a subsequent version of the spending bill, but it’s striking that a conservative would be put on the defensive about opposing a spending program.

And in North Carolina, Sen. Kay Hagan used a debate earlier this month to launch a populist attack on state House

enter medical school, etc.

Many elite schools, such as Harvard, house the majority of their students in thematic residence halls to maximize this out-of-class educational experience.

And the philosophy and literature and music addressed in class discussions can continue late into the night, from top bunk to bottom bunk, as classmates carry the lesson further as they share their own life experiences.

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Brownback’s voice saying seductively, “Hey, swinger, are you looking for other hot singles you can talk to? Or are you looking for some added excitement in the bedroom? The State of Kansas can help.”

In another advertising spot, Brownback asks, “Have you been looking for that certain sexuallyoriented device to create an added sense of adventure when you enter the voting booth? Or maybe that Pipedream Fantasy Love Swing is the only

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north, feel abandoned by the central government.

These political tensions are the reason why the Islamic State has found some support in the areas it has taken over. Bombing Islamic State targets especially where they are embedded in communities and liable to cause civilian casualties - carries no promise of changing this dynamic for the better. It’s more likely to change it for the worse.

The Islamic State is indeed a danger to the people of the region and to efforts to resolve the political conflicts in Iraq and Syria. Yet the past decade has shown, again

Professor went on to stress the importance of extending that classroom learning into student interactions.

In academic campus clubs, senior students can share advice with entering freshmen in the same major, helping the youngsters decide on careers and demonstrating that they can survive. These contacts with older classmates and professors also help students mature.

If they just study hard, in a few years they too can

and again, that American firepower doesn’t solve these problems.

Even if Washington manages to help destroy this al-Qaeda spinoff, the grievances that give rise to groups like it can’t be bombed out of existence.

The campaign formerly called “the War on Terror” has only proven to perpetuate both war and terror.

No amount of rebranding or wishful thinking will change that reality this time around.

Amanda Ufheil-Somers is the assistant editor of Middle East Report, published by the Middle East Research and Information Project.

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Speaker Thom Tillis, her Republican foe, charging him with believing that “those who have the most should get the most help.”

She has also denounced Tillis for blocking North Carolina from taking advantage of the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. She pointed to health-care providers in the state who are “having unbelievable problems because of no Medicaid expansion.”

I’ll try to practice some of the humility I’m preaching by acknowledging that I have no idea whether Republicans will take the six seats they need to control the Senate.

Maybe their incessant assaults on Obama will prove to be enough.

But an election that once looked to be a Republican slam dunk has even Karl Rove worried, because many voters seem to want to do more with their ballots than just slap the president in the face.

E.J. Dionne, Jr., is an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post

thing that’s missing from your election night watch party.”

Democrats have already been in contact with the Federal Communications Commission wondering if this violates equal time provisions of political campaigns.

Political experts are predicting that the legal arguments surrounding the sale of porn could have a ripple effect, not just in Kansas politics, but throughout the nation. It’s been reported that the Sen. Roberts campaign staff

has been in contact with Brownback to see if there might be another warehouse of porn available to Republican candidates.

Republicans in Kansas have been rejuvenated by this turn of events.

“A chicken in every pot is so 1930s,” says a GOP consultant. “A sex toy in every bedroom . . . now that’s something we can campaign on. I’d like to see how the Democrats can top that.”

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

Kerry claims US has found a moderate rebel

by Andy Borowitz

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - In what Secretary of State John Kerry described as a significant foreign-policy coup, the U.S. claimed, on Tuesday, that it had successfully located a moderate Syrian rebel.

Though Kerry did not elaborate on how the U.S. did so, he said that locating the rebel was “the culmination of a months-long effort.”

The Secretary of State said that the Syrian had been appropriately vetted and was deemed “moderately rebellious.”

“He definitely seems to be the sort of gentleman we can work with,” Kerry said, adding that several millions of dollars would be spent arming and training the rebel in the days and weeks ahead.

Kerry said that the government’s successful identification of a moderate Syrian rebel was a major victory that should silence critics of the U.S.’s strategy in Iraq and Syria.

“To all of the naysayers who have been arguing that there are no moderate Syrian rebels, I am here today to say that we have found one,” Kerry said. “And if we have found one, that means that there must be others out there.”

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author

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College The study of academics is not just for a grade.

Academics are for moving each student’s understanding of life to a higher level.

And the Professor recommended travel.

Students view the world as their hometown viewed the world. Travel helps students gain a wider view.

Even if they cannot travel, there are foreign students on campus, sitting next to them in class and in the cafeteria. Deep engagement with foreign students helps students realize that on the one hand, they have the same human needs and desires.

And yet the foreign stu-

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dents often view the world much differently than we do.

Students learn that there are many other ways to view world problems, and perhaps our provincial view is not the correct view.

Sadly, in today’s national discussion of “the college experience,” nothing academic is included.

Social clubs, pep sessions, fun and games, recreational facilities—yes.

But more faculty doors are closed. Advising is done by an impersonal computer. Each student feels like a number because they are treated as a number.

This problem has been caused by confining aca-

demics to classroom “teaching” and considering it just an audio-visual experience. Just as this was a failure in the 1960s as televised instruction, it remains a poor excuse for teaching today when delivered over the internet.

A new breed of American university administrator thinks that the teaching task is completed in the classroom or on-screen. The rest of the college experience is considered “time-to-party.”

But when you remove academics, you have taken “college” out of “the college experience.”

John Schrock trains biology teachers and lives in Emporia

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WSU airplane crash survivor biking to Colorado memorial There’s a physical toll that comes from biking for long stretches on the open road.

But, perhaps the most difficult part can be the mental toll.

Biking provides Rick Stephens a lot of time to think. When making the 550 mile trek from his home in Wichita to the Rocky Mountains above Denver, it gives him ample opportunity to reflect on an airplane crash nearly 44 years ago that claimed 31 lives.

Stephens was one of only eight survivors.

Fourteen of those killed in the crash on Oct. 2, 1970, were his Wichita State University football teammates.

Stephens, who left Wichita on Saturday morning, plans to arrive at the memorial site near Denver on Sunday.

“I always feel humbled that, for some purpose, I was spared. It’s a time for me to pause and reflect,” says the 66-year-old. “But I also hope that it gives others who know about the crash or possibly knew people who were killed a chance to stop for a few moments and reflect on that terrible day 44 years ago.”

At the time of the disaster, Stephens was a 22-year-old senior tackle for the Shockers.

After refueling in Denver, two WSU aircraft departed for the game to be played at Utah State.

One plane took a northern

I remember Randy Jackson telling me that he stopped to help Jack Vetter. Jack said, ‘Get out.

You can’t help me. The individuals who had to leave, knowing full well what was going to happen, have had to carry the burden.

Rick Stephens survivor of 1970 plane crash

route while the pilot of the plane carrying Stephens decided to change the flight plan and take a more scenic route. The plane was overloaded, however, and when it flew into a box canyon the crash was imminent.

“It wasn’t unusual for the players to walk up to the cockpit and visit with the pilots,” says Stephens.

That’s what he had done only to become aware that something was wrong. He saw the pilots were looking at a topographical map and “I could tell there was tension . . . a sense of urgency.”

He recalls that one of the pilots commented, “It’s 14 (thousand feet).

We can’t make that one either.”

Looking through the window of the cockpit, Stephens said he could see only green from the forests and no sky.

“That’s when I turned around. I knew there was impending disaster, but I had no idea how serious it would be,” he notes.

“I went back to the cabin area and at that time they banked the airplane and I fell to the floor.

“The last thing I remember is the wings clipping trees . . . a very sud-

den and sharp impact.”

Thrown from Plane It was at that same time construction of the Eisenhour tunnel was taking place and a crew was on a road over Mount Trelease.

Vic Bell was one of three construction workers who saw the crash and were the first ones to arrive at the scene.

“They saw the one pilot who had died at the scene.

They found me about 20 yards beyond him and they thought the worst until they saw me move,” says Stephens.

One of the workers removed a pair of bib coveralls he was wearing and they used that to help carry Stephens farther from the crash site. Because of the difficult terrain, they were only able to get about 75 yards before they had to pause for a break.

“I can remember the Rick Stephens, a WSU graduate and survivor of the plane crash that plane at that point was claimed 31 victims in 1970, bikes on K96 Highway west of Scott City. smoking badly and then (Record Photo) there was the explosion,” inside and unable to es- were alive. knowing full well what Stephens says. cape.

“I remember Randy was going to happen, have “The kids . . . ,” Ste- Jackson telling me that he had to carry the burden.

Leaving Friends Behind “To walk away when so The most troubling phens starts to say before stopped to help Jack Vetpart, says Stephens, is that starting to break down. ter. Jack said, ‘Get out. many others didn’t causes if not for the explosion “ . . . the kids who were You can’t help me,” said me to think about what well after the crash more able to get out did get out, Stephens as he choked can be done to keep the people would have sur- but they had to leave their back the tears. “The indi- memory of those friends vived. Some were trapped teammates behind who viduals who had to leave, (See MEMORY on page nine)

The public is invited to

Walk with the Spirits at Punished Woman’s Fork Saturday, September 27 • 4:30 p.m.

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

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Memory and teammates alive,” he says. “There’s no paying back for something like that, but if I can put that memory out there, even for a little while, it’s part of the history of Wichita State and the city.”

Long distance biking isn’t new to Stephens who has also made three trips to Manitoba, Winnipeg.

However, the trek to Colorado is more difficult.

“I was quite optimistic three years ago when I did this for the first time,” he says.

Stephens got as far as Idaho Springs, 35 miles short of his destination, before calling it quits.

“This year I’m going as far as I can. If I don’t make

Scams variations of fake check scams, credit repair, free trip offers, and sweepstakes.

Here are some tips to help you avoid being a victim: •Don’t give out personal information.

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Be on the lookout for these common scams: •Fake check scams.

Never send money to get money.

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it, then at least I gave it a shot,” he says.

Plans are to arrive at the roadside memorial that marks the crash site on I70 West, about eight miles west of Silver Plume and two miles east of the Eisenhower Tunnel.

From there it’s a short distance to the trail head and about a half mile climb to the crash site.

His daughter, Sarah Selmon, who accompanied him for part of the journey, will rejoin him on Sunday along with other family and friends.

Selmon, is a WSU graduate, having received a Memorial 70 Scholarship from the university which was established to

help the children, grandchildren and relatives of crash victims to attend WSU. “Hopefully, we can raise some money and keep this scholarship going for many more years,” says Stephens.

Selmon has also made pennant flags with the names of boosters, supporters, teammates and crew members who died in the crash. They will be planted around the memorial.

“I was fortunate enough to survive,” adds Stephens. “I want to do my part to make sure those who didn’t survive are not forgotten.”

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•Sweetheart swindles.

Do not be sweet talked into sending money to someone you don’t know.

This person will not be who they are representing themselves to be.

•Beware of fraudulent sellers and bogus merchandise. Nothing is for free.

•Don’t fall for foreign lotteries.

•Advance fee loans and credit. It’s illegal for telemarketers to charge a fee in advance for help getting a loan.

Financial Aid Scam A newer one is the scholarship or Financial Aid Scam that is going around. The students are getting notices about additional scholarships that they can receive if they give out their information.

They are asking for a student’s checking

account to “confirm eligibility.” It’s a scam.

They are also receiving invoices from various departments at the schools they may be attending asking for payments that are not actually owed and want students to give out account information to make the payment.

Parents of school aged children have also been getting notices of payments due, only they are scams and are not coming from their local schools or school districts.

If you suspect fraud, contact the Kansas Attorney General’s office by calling the Consumer Hotline at 1-800-4322310 or visit their website at www.ag.ks.gov.

If it is an insurance scam, you can call the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s hotline at 1-800835-6422.

New giraffe arrives at GC zoo The Lee Richardson Zoo, Garden City, has a very tall new resident.

A young female reticulated giraffe arrived Sunday afternoon and was unloaded under the watchful eye of the zoo’s 28-year-old bull, Shingo, and his five-year-old counterpart, Juani.

The young female, who stands about nine feet tall, is named Cleo. She was born at the Jacksonville Zoo, is 14 months old, and weighs a little under 1,000 pounds.

She arrived at Lee Richardson Zoo under a recommendation from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Species Survival Plan for giraffes.

The hope is for Juani and Cleo to become a breeding pair in the future.

Shingo, on the other hand, is enjoying his golden years. He is one of the oldest males ever in the North American population and recently ventured into a new yard at Lee Richardson Zoo. The additional giraffe

yard and deck were made possible through a donation and will be dedicated on Sat., Sept. 27, at 2:00 p.m.

Cleo traveled from Florida in a specially equipped trailer designed for the height and comfort of giraffes. Zoo staff will give Cleo a few days to adjust to her new home before letting her out into the yard.

Adult giraffes range from 14-18 feet tall and can weigh over 2,000 pounds.

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Ceremony at Battle Canyon site on Saturday

Those who enjoy the history of the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork at Lake Scott will have an opportunity to “Walk With the Spirits” on the upcoming anniversary of the battle.

At least two members of the Northern Cheyenne who were in Scott County for last year’s 125th anniversary celebration plan to return. They will be part of a program with local historians that will begin at 4:30 p.m. and continue into the evening.

“For a number of years, Jerry Snyder, Larry Hoeme and Denny Siegrist, along with a handful of others, have spent the evening of Sept. 27 at Battle Canyon,” says historian and artist Jerry Thomas. “This is an opportunity for others to share in the experience with some of the Northern Cheyenne.”

Tag deadline Tuesday

Persons whose last name begins with the letter P, Q or R are reminded that license tags must be purchased by Tues., Sept. 30, to avoid a penalty.

Tags are due for autos, light trucks, motorcycles and motorized bikes.

License tags can be purchased at the county treasurer’s office.

Tags must be renewed during October for persons whose last name begins with S.

Venters

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“But they don’t want to resign from the commission,” noted Goodman.

He said that the city codes allow him to appoint alternate members to the commission who can be called to sit in on a hearing when there aren’t enough regular members in attendance.

The mayor said he will seek a member to replace Storm and consider potential candidates to serve as alternates.

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College and career planning conference at SCHS on Mon. All area seniors can meet with college, technical school and military representatives during the annual College and Career Planning Conference on Mon., Sept. 29, 7:00-8:00 p.m., in the Scott Community High School gym.

This is a come-and-go event with students and their parents able to meet with representatives of about 50 colleges, community colleges, Vo-tech schools, specialty schools, and all branches of the military “This is an excellent opportunity to ask questions regard-

ing college and career planning and receive answers from representatives of the schools and military branches the student may be interested in attending after graduating from high school,” says SCHS Counselor Anissa Wilkinson.

A financial aid officer will also be available to answer questions and assist in all aspects of the financial aid process.

Refreshments prepared by the Scott Community High School foods classes will be available.

4-H Club News Lake Wide Awake plans upcoming events

SCHS Homecoming queen candidates are (from left) Kristi Faurot, Jaylee York and Brooke Dillinger. King candidates are Chantz Yager, Sloan Baker and Trey O’Neil.

(Record Photo)

SCHS fall sports coronation is Friday Scott Community High School fall Homecoming activities will be held Fri., Sept. 26, when the Beavers host Holcomb High School.

Crowning ceremony will take place at 6:30 p.m., prior to the football game.

Queen candidates are Brooke Dillinger, daughter of Luke and Jodi Coker; Jaylee York, daughter of Daren and Jennifer York; and Kristi Faurot, daughter of Brent and Angie Faurot.

King candidates are Chantz Yager, son of Dr. James and Jodi Yager; Brett Meyer, son of Joe and Margie Meyer; and Trey O’Neil, son of

Glenn and Jenny O’Neil.

Class attendants are: Juniors: Nicole Latta and Nick Storm.

Sophomores: Lizzy Eikenberry and Isaac Evans.

Freshmen: Makaela Stevens and Reid Brunswig.

The flower girl is Payton Gentry and crown bearer is Easton Eisenhour.

A dance will be held in the SCHS commons area following the game.

Members of the Lake Wide Awake 4-H Club met on Sept. 8 at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Building. Roll call was answered by nine members and three community leaders.

Kelsi Jo Crouch led the Flag Salute. News items discussed were the Washington, D.C., trip for June 2015, record book training, hunter safety course, the annual Achievement Banquet, and the county-wide Christmas movie in Oakley.

New business that we took action on was to move our monthly meeting start time to 7:15 p.m. from 7:00 p.m. to accomodate our members with late sports practices.

Austin Rios gave a talk about his cat, Shelby, and Kelsi Jo Crouch gave a talk about her CIA trip.

Next meeting will be Monday, October 13.

Alyssa Storm, reporter

School Calendar Fri., Sept. 26: SCHS Homecoming parade, 4:00 p.m.; Homecoming crowning ceremony, 6:30 p.m.; SCHS football vs Holcomb, 7:00 p.m.

Sat., Sept. 27: SCHS x-country at Stanton County, 9:00 a.m.; SCHS varsity tennis at Garden City, 9:00 a.m.

Mon., Sept. 29: SCHS JV football vs Holcomb (T), 5:00 p.m.; College and Career Planning Conference at SCHS, 7:00 p.m.

Tues., Sept. 30: SCHS varsity tennis at Colby, 3:00 p.m.; SCMS 7th/8th volleyball in triangular at Holcomb, 4:00 p.m.; SCES Site Council meeting, 7:00 p.m.

Thurs., Oct. 2 SCHS varsity tennis at Ellsworth, 3:00 p.m.; SCHS x-country at Ness City, 4:00 p.m.; SCMS 7th/8th grade football vs Larned (H), 4:00 p.m.

Fri., Oct. 3: SCHS football vs Hugoton (T), 7:00 p.m.

Sat., Oct. 4: SCMS 7th volleyball in A/B tournament at Liberal West, 9:00 a.m.; SCHS JV tennis at Colby, 9:00 a.m.; SCHS JV volleyball at Colby, 9:00 a.m.; SCHS varsity volleyball at Oakley, 9:00 a.m.; SCHS 8th volleyball in A/B/C quad at Larned.

Mon., Oct. 6: SCHS JV football vs Hugoton (H), 5:00 p.m.; SCES TEAM meeting, 5:30 p.m.

‘Sustainability certificate’ now available to FHSU students Beginning this fall, campus and online students at Fort Hays State University can receive a certificate in sustainability after meeting the 12-credit-hour requirement.

Sustainability is a growing trend, and the Kansas Board of Regents has created a policy to report annually on state universities’ sustainability efforts.

One principle enunciated by the regents is to get universities to incorporate sustainability issues into the “learning experiences of students throughout their academic experiences.”

The certificate provides students with a foundation of knowledge in implementing

social efforts towards preserving planet resources.

“Sustainability affects all living systems and so is applicable to all of life, including humankind,” said Andrée Brisson, FHSU sustainability coordinator and adjunct professor with the Department of Biological Sciences.

The requirements are: •Elements of Physical Geography 101 or Physical Science102; •Technology in Society 390 or Economic Ideas and Current Issues 300; •Global Challenges 407; and •Global Environment Issues 499 or Humans and the

USD 466 Lunch Menu Week of September 29-October 3 Breakfast Monday: Whole grain cereal, string cheese, apricots, fruit juice.

Tuesday: Whole grain pastry, Tropical fruit, fruit juice.

Wednesday: Biscuits and gravy, fresh banana, fruit juice.

Thursday: Sausage breakfast sandwich, diced pears, fruit juice.

Friday: Whole grain muffin, mandarin oranges, fruit juice.

Lunch Monday: Pizza mozzarella sticks, *BBQ beef, marinara sauce, green peas, pineapple.

Tuesday: Grilled chicken sandwich *taco wrap, tater tots, pork-n-beans, applesauce.

Wednesday: Enchilada casserole, *egg roll, cooked cauliflower, corn-bread muffin, fruit cup.

Thursday: Fish sticks, *sloppy joes, cheesy potatoes, Capri-blend veggies, dinner roll, strawberries.

Friday: Crispitos and cheese sauce,*cheesy fish, broccoli dinner roll, pears. *second choice at SCMS and SCHS

Environment 200.

Brisson said that some upperclassmen may have completed these courses and are already eligible for the certificate. Brisson worked this past spring with the Sustainability Committee to get the certificate approved.

She also worked with Dan Shea, academic affairs marketing specialist, to launch the sustainability website and create a bookmark with certificate information.

FHSU is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and has eight campus organizations that

relate to sustainability, environmental and social awareness. The organizations have brought sustainability speakers to campus and participate year-round in sustainability efforts, especially with events on Earth Day. FHSU intramurals maintain bicycles for “Take a Bike/ Leave a Bike” on campus to help eliminate traffic. Also, students in the Department of Agriculture build barrels to collect rainwater that preserve water for landscape purposes.

In 2005, FHSU started using peak-shaving generators to reduce energy use, which saves an estimated $250,000

a year. Most recently, the campus started producing electricity from two 2-megawatt wind turbines that save the university an estimated $600,000 to $1 million a year.

“Sustainability is applicable to all disciplines and strengthens a degree in biology, political science, economics and cultural studies,” said Brisson.

“It is quite relevant when studying agriculture, geosciences and technology studies, as methods in these areas may not be currently sustainable and new paths of innovation and research may open,” Brisson adds.

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Know the risks before cosigning a loan Jason Alderman

Shakespeare probably said it best: “Neither a borrower, nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend.”

Four hundred years later, people still wrestle with whether or not to help out a loved one by loaning them money or cosigning a loan.

Perhaps you want to help your kid qualify for a better student loan rate or assist your widowed mom

with refinancing her mortgage. Before you cosign anything, however, make sure you understand the risks involved.

Here are just a few of the things that can go wrong and questions to ask before committing yourself - and your good credit - to what could be a decades-long commitment: First, understand that the main reason you’re being asked to cosign a

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department Sept. 19: Dixie Keski was eastbound in the 400 block of east 7th Street when she struck a vehicle owned by USD 466.

Sept. 19: Kylee Trout was eastbound in the 800 block of 9th Street when she struck a vehicle belonging to Teresa Berning in front of Scott City Middle School.

Sept. 22: Michelle Lane was arrested for a domestic battery incident that occurred on Sept. 14 and transported to the LEC. Sept. 23: Robert Wheeler reported a burglary and the theft of property.

Scott County Sheriff’s Department Sept. 22: A hit-and-run accident occurred in the 300 block of West Road 20 when an unknown vehicle broke the west rail of the railroad tracks.

Public Notice (Published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Sept. 25, 2014)1t STATE OF KANSAS ORDER FOR CLOSING OF REGISTRATION BOOKS BEFORE GENERAL ELECTION NOVEMBER 4, 2014 Pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 25-2311(c), notice is hereby given that on the 14th day of October, 2014, all voter registration books for the general election will close at the end of regular business hours.

Registration books will remain closed until the 5th day of November, 2014.

WITNESS MY HAND and the seal of my office this 3rd day of September, A.D. 2014.

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loan is because lenders don’t think the borrower is a good risk. By cosigning, you’re guaranteeing that you’ll repay the full loan – plus any late fees or collection costs – should the borrower default.

If that doesn’t scare you sufficiently, read on: Even one late or missed payment can damage your credit.

In most states, the creditor can - and probably will - go after you for repayment without first

Deadline nears to report dormant assets, unclaimed items

State Treasurer Ron Estes reminds businesses, organizations and government entities of the Nov. 1 deadline to report dormant financial assets and unclaimed items to the State Treasurer’s office.

State law requires all financial institutions, except life insurance companies, to submit a report if they have unclaimed property in their possession by Nov. 1. Life insurance companies have a May 1 deadline.

Compliance with the deadline allows the Unclaimed Property Division to provide the most up-to-date database of lost property belonging to people with a last known address in Kansas.

Since January 2011, the State Treasurer’s Office has collected more than $120 million in property and returned more than

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trying to collect from the borrower, because they know you’re more likely to have the money.

If the loan goes into default or is charged off, that fact will go into your credit report and can take seven years to erase.

If you pledged personal property to secure the loan, you could lose these items if the borrower defaults.

Should the lender agree to settle for a lesser amount, you’ll have to

American Fostoria Framed prints: CM Russell, Fredrick Remington and others Special police badge Wedge wood dishes Flow blue plates Hull, McCoy and Roseville pottery Some cobalt glass Pink and green depression glass Old cash register Coors items Shawnee corn items Shawnee salt, pepper and creamer set Bowl and pitcher Czech dresser set Cookie jars: Marilyn Monroe, Betty Boop and others Betty Boop music box Fiesta dishes Old toys Handmade quilts and quilt rack RS Prussia flow blue ink well desk set Fenton items

2-sets Mt. Washington 1880-1890 hand painted butter dish, sugar and creamer Oriental items 1960s poodle bank Jewelry and jewelry boxes Christmas items 4-large lamps Children’s books Old magazines: Life and Look Noritake dishes Metal hat rack Lots of other items Coins Morgan Silver dollars 1882-1888-1889 1890cc-1896 1899bu-1900 1921P&S Peace dollars 1921-1922-1923 1924-1925-1928AU 1928S 1988 Silver dollar 1986 half dollar unc Commerative coins

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$61 million to rightful owners, including many businesses, organizations and government entities.

“Often times, businesses are unaware that they have missing money to claim as well,” said Estes.

“While filing this year’s report, I encourage all employers to visit www. kansascash.comand check if any unclaimed property belongs to them.”

Unclaimed property generally consists of forgotten utility deposits or other refunds, insurance policies, uncashed checks and wages, savings bonds, dormant bank accounts and abandoned safe deposit box contents.

Holders who are in need of assistance in filing their report can contact the Unclaimed Property Division at 1-800-4320386 or Unclaimed@treasurer.ks.gov.

report the difference as “debt forgiveness income” and pay tax on it.

If you cosign a credit card account, primary borrowers over age 21 are allowed to raise the credit limit without notifying you.

Government-backed student loans generally aren’t eligible for bankruptcy protection unless you can prove “undue hardship.”

Some private student loans contain a clause

allowing the borrower to originate additional years’ loans without your signed approval.

Even if you’re not asked to repay the loan, your potential liability could stop you from getting additional credit if your debt-to-income ratio is too high.

If you do decide to cosign someone’s loan, taking these steps can help lessen your risk: (See COSIGN on page 13)

Register of Deeds Harold and Wilda Gossett and Duane and Vonda Hinz to Donald Dornon and Stephanie Ivey, W2 of Lot 5, Blk. 6, Original Town.

Margie Berry to Michael and Roberta Mooney, Lot 5, Blk. 56, Original Town.

Donna Morgan to Verl and Monda Crossman, part of N2 of Tract 26, Shallow Water.

Greg Skibbe Estate to Poky Feeders, a tract in NW4 of 31-20-32.

Brian and Megan Gentry to Kaleb and Kari McDaniel, Lot 1 and north 12 ft. of Lot 4, Blk. 9, C.A. Steele and Sons Addition.

James Howard to Brian and Megan Gentry, N2 of Lot 21 and all of Lot 22, and south 5 ft. of Lot 23, Blk. 3, Nonnamaker Addition.

Harold and Wilda Gossett and Duane and Vonda Hinz to Lance and Janell Webster, Lot 3, Blk. 6, Original Town.

Benjamin and Megan Taylor to Edwin and Rosemary Wasinger, Lots 1, 4, 5, 8 and 9, Blk. 5, Webster’s Third Addition.

310 Corporation to Dustin and Chandra Hughes, south 26 ft. of Lot 8 and north 44 ft. of Lot 9, Blk. 1, Durrant’s Addition.

Daniel and Michelle Morris to Stephanie Bangerter, Blk. 53, Original Town.

Cosign Calculate whether you can afford the loan’s monthly payments, should the borrower stop paying.

To be prudent, start setting aside enough money to cover it for one year, which will allow you to keep payments current while working out a solution.

Insist that the lender agree, in writing, to notify you if the borrower missed a payment or the loan’s terms change. That’ll give you more time to make contingency plans.

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If you’re unsure about the borrower’s reliability to pay each month on time, ask the lender to send payment requests directly to you so you can manage the transaction.

(It’s a pain, but one way to guarantee timely payments.)

Ask the lender to stipulate in the contract that you’re only responsible for the loan’s principal amount, should it default.

It doesn’t hurt to ask.

Make sure you get copies of all paperwork in case of future disputes.

Don’t consolidate old loans accumulated by your spouse before you married. If something should happen (divorce, death), you would be responsible for paying them off.

There may be times you want to cosign a loan to help out a relative or friend, despite the risks involved. The Federal Trade Commission’s “Cosigning a Loan” guide share precautions to take before entering such agreements www.consumer.ftc.gov.)

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Medicare compact is not on the radar in D.C. Andy Marso KHI News Service

TOPEKA - A health care compact bill designed to get Kansas and other states out of federal health regulations is gaining attention locally for its possible Medicare implications,

but a national expert on Medicare says the compact, which would need congressional approval, is not even being discussed in Washington, D.C. Tricia Neuman, a senior vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation and director of the foundation’s

Program on Medicare Policy, said she has read news reports of the compact that nine states have joined, but as far as she knows “there’s no discussion of congressional action on the compact,” which would allow states to receive their Medicaid and Medicare money in

no-strings-attached block grants.

“The idea of Medicare block grants is not something that has reached the front burner, or even the back burner, in Congress,” she said.

Neuman’s observations come as the Kansas Legislature’s vote to

More insurers selling more marketplace plans in 2015 Mike Sherry, Hale Center for Journalism

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Consumers in Kansas should see more companies offering coverage through the health insurance marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act, according to preliminary estimates released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

A report, released in advance of the open enrollment period set to begin in mid-November, estimates that the number of companies issuing policies in Kansas should increase from four to five.

The report said Missouri

should double to eight.

Nationwide, the department projected a 25 percent increase in the number of companies expected to offer plans through the marketplace, for a total of 77 new entrants.

“When consumers have more choices, we all benefit,” HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell said.

In Missouri and Kansas, Coventry and Blue Cross and Blue Shield offer policies through different business entities.

The Kansas Insurance Department said the additional participant in Kansas is a division of Blue Cross.

According to federal figures, 7.3 million

Americans obtained marketplace coverage through mid-August. The signups include nearly 210,000 consumers combined in Missouri and Kansas.

UnitedHealthcare is a notable new entrant to the marketplace, says Heather Howard, director of the State Health Reform Assistance Network at Princeton University, which provides technical assistance to states to maximize coverage expansion under the health reform law.

It is “certainly a sign of the health of the law that it is more attractive to more carriers,” she said.

In the first signup period, she said, enrollees

were more likely to be married, uninsured for at least two years and diagnosed with a chronic condition.

The challenge for enrollment advocates in the next signup period, she said, will be motivating consumers who have a less pressing need for health insurance.

One potential motivator, she said, is that the penalty for not having health insurance is scheduled to triple to $325.

On the other hand, Howard said, the signup period is shorter and occurs during potentially cold weather.

(See INSURERS on page 15)

KU pathologist welcomes effort to fight antibiotic resistance Bryan Thompson KHI News Service

WA S H I N G T O N , D.C. - President Obama last Thursday issued an executive order directing the federal government to step up the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

It’s a fight with enormous consequences, according to Rebecca Horvat, who oversees infectious disease testing at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Ks. In that role, Horvat is familiar with bacteria that are impervious to frontline antibiotics.

“Half of them are very antibiotic-resistant,” she said. “You only have a few drugs left to treat them. I see it every day.”

The day is coming when disease-causing bacteria will develop resistance to all current antibiotics, Horvat said.

A lot of your parents will die earlier, because as they get older they get sicker, and there’s no antibiotics left.

I don’t mean to make it seem scary, but that is where we’re going.

Rebecca Horvat University of Kansas Hospital, KC

“We’ll go back to the pre-antibiotic age, where mothers will see half their children die from infections. That’s really what used to happen,” she said.

“A lot of your parents will die earlier, because as they get older they get sicker, and there’s no antibiotics left. I don’t mean to make it seem scary, but that is where we’re going.”

Horvat doesn’t know how soon that scenario might play out. She said one simple step everyone can do is to wash their hands to reduce the spread of bacteria.

In conjunction with the executive order, a science advisory council released a report to the president on how to combat antibiotic resistance. Among other steps, it calls for reduc-

ing overuse of antibiotics in humans and livestock, increasing incentives to spur development of new antibiotics, and improving the monitoring of the development and spread of drug-resistant bacteria.

In addition to the scientific report and the president’s executive order, the White House released a National Strategy for Combating AntibioticResistant Bacteria. It also announced a $20 million prize sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, and the Food and Drug Administration to spur the development of a rapid diagnostic test to allow health care providers to identify highly resistant

bacterial infections at the point of patient care.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, antibiotic-resistant infections are associated with 23,000 deaths and two million illnesses in the United States each year.

The annual impact on the national economy is estimated at $20 billion in excess direct health care costs, and as much as $35 billion in lost productivity from hospitalizations and sick days.

join the interstate health care compact comes under increasing scrutiny. The Johnson County Commission on Aging plans to run an article next month in a newsletter called “The Best Times” that criticizes the vote for its possible Medicare implications.

Conservative Republican legislators who spearheaded the compact’s passage as a repudiation of President Barack Obama’s health reforms have called the draft of the article unfair and have tried to have it altered.

(See COMPACT on page 15)

Drug take-back day is September 27 Law enforcement officers across the state will be collecting unused, leftover medications for safe disposal on Sat., September 27.

The collection events are part of a nationwide effort to safely dispose of leftover medications to prevent accidental or intentional misuse. Since the program began in 2010, the semi-annual event has collected more than 28 tons of unwanted medications in Kansas alone.

The nearest drop-off site is WalMart in Garden City. Medications for disposal should be taken to the east front door between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

The National Drug Take-Back Day is coordinated by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, which collects and safely destroys the medications.

Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse and abuse.

Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are increasing, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet.

In addition, Americans are now advised that traditional methods for disposing of unused medicines - flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash - pose potential safety and health hazards and should be avoided.

Unused prescriptions can be turned in yearround at many local law enforcement locations.

Kansans should contact their local sheriff’s office or police department for more information.

Compact The Johnson County League of Women Voters is devoting its Sept. 30 “JoCo in the Know” forum to the health care compact, and promoting the event with fliers that ask: “Have you heard about a new law called the Health Care Compact? Are you concerned that it might change your Medicare?”

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger and the retirees group AARP cited Medicare concerns when they testified against the compact bill last session.

Linda Sheppard, formerly special counsel and director of health care policy and analysis for the Kansas Insurance Department who now works for the Kansas Health Institute, is slated

Breast cancer awareness event Monday in Garden City

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to be on a panel at the questions people ask when League of Women Voters there’s discussion about a block grant,” Neuman event. said. “A block grant differs from an entitlement Possible Concerns Neuman said that if because the dollars are Medicare is included in fixed, which raises questhe compact, “then it does tions about whether or not raise some questions that the same sort of benefits I’m sure seniors would are promised.”

Legislators who supwant to have answered.”

Block grants are ported the compact have capped payments, she said that the state would said, whereas Medicare as not touch the Medicare it is now administered by program under the comthe federal government is pact or that it would only an entitlement program to take it over to save it from specific services regard- a federal government deep less of costs. So seniors in debt.

Though the Legislature would want to know if they would still be entitled and Gov. Sam Brownback to those same services if approved Kansas’ memthe block grant payments bership in the compact, from the federal govern- its effects remain purely ment don’t keep pace with hypothetical for now. the costs, Neuman said.

Kansas Congressman “Those are typically the Tim Huelskamp has co-

Insurers “Getting people to enroll in the winter months is going to be harder,” she said.

And there’s no guarantee that re-enrolling will be straightforward for people who already have signed up, Howard said.

With new plan options and perhaps changed life circumstances, she said, reenrollment could be just as complicated as the first time around.

She said insurers likely will begin sending notices to consumers in late October.

Howard also anticipates

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a lot of scrutiny about how the government performs in this second enrollment period after the problems following the online marketplace’s launch.

“Last year it was, ‘could you get the business up and running?’

And clearly it stalled in many places,” she said.

“So this year, from an exchange perspective, is the business up and running? Are you improving the consumer experience?

And that first day will be important because it is going to set the tone for open enrollment.”

sponsored a compact approval bill, but it’s has gained little traction at the federal level thus far.

In vetoing the compact in his state, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer said the United States will “put a person on Neptune” before Congress OKs the compact. Some constitutional scholars say the president also has to approve interstate compacts before they take effect.

The compact was adopted as model legislation by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in 2011, helping it gain approval in South Carolina, Georgia, Indiana, Alabama, Texas, Utah, Oklahoma and Missouri, as well as Kansas.

Breast cancer is the second-most common cancer worldwide and the most common cancer in women.

Early Detection Works, together with the Susan G. Komen Foundation, invite southwest Kansas men and women to learn more about ways to identify risk factors of breast cancer, ways to prevent

it and how to live healthy after a diagnosis.

The event will be held at the Clarion Inn on Monday, Sept. 29.

Hors d’oeuvres begin at 5:00 p.m. and presentations from Western Kansas nurses, surgeons and oncologists will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m.

There is no cost to attend.

For more information call 620-275-5302.

Pastime at Park Lane We welcome Etta Fern Ashcraft to Park Lane.

The Church of the Nazarene led Sunday afternoon services.

Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon. Game helpers were Madeline Murphy, Dorothy King, Wanda Kirk and Hugh McDaniel.

Residents played Wii bowling on Monday evening.

Pastor Bob Artz led Bible study on Tuesday morning. Doris Riner and Elsie Nagel led the hymns.

Naomi Teubner entertained residents with a musical program on Tuesday afternoon.

Residents played trivia games on Tuesday evening.

Members of the Scott Mennonite Youth sang on Tuesday evening.

Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran Bible study on Wednesday morning.

Residents played bingo on Wednesday afternoon.

Honor 6 with September birthdays

Thad Beach performed at Park Lane on Thursday afternoon. He told stories of the Dirty ‘30s, sang and played several folk instruments.

Each year, Beach conducts music history classes at Scott City Middle School for a week. His program at SCMS and Park Lane is sponsored by the Scott County Arts Council.

Otteson celebrates 96th birthday

Marcella Otteson’s family furnished cake and ice cream in honor of her 96th birthday on Friday afternoon.

Madeline Murphy and Mandy Barnett were the helpers.

Residents played pitch on Wednesday evening.

Russel Webster led a Bible study on Thursday evening.

Fr. Bernard Felix led Catholic Mass on Friday morning. Rev. Warren Prochnow led Lutheran services on Friday afternoon.

Residents watched the movie, “Benji” on Saturday afternoon.

Deaths

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Gloria O’Bleness, Marvel Keyse and Lester Huseman.

Delores Brooks was visited by Charles Brooks and David and Cheryl Perry.

Darlene Richman was visited by Sandy Anderson, Carlene Schultz, Lyn Benson, Marlene R., Phebe Unruh and Deb Farr.

Etta Fern Ashcraft was visited by Marvel Keyse.

Cecile Billings was visited by Linda Dunagan and Don and Judy Browning.

Harriet Jones was visited by Nancy Holt, Sharilyn Wilken, Rev. Don Martin from St. Luke’s Church, and Marvel Keyse.

Edith Norman was visited by Sue Riner, Nancy Holt, Sara Shane, Marvel Keyse and Mary Plum.

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Gloria Wright, Treva McCandless, and Larry and Philene Pickett.

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Larry Luke Haverfield Larry Luke Haverfield, 77, died Sept. 21, 2014, at Citizens Medical Center, Colby.

H e was born Nov. 20, 1 9 3 6 , at Scott City, the son of Larry Haverfield John R. and Edith A. (Luke) Haverfield.

Larry graduated from Scott Community High School in 1954. A rancher, wildlife conservationist and a lifetime resident of Western Kansas, he was a member of Audubon of Kansas and Defenders of Wildlife.

On May 19, 1954, he married Bette Talbott in Dalhart, Tex. Survivors include: his wife, Russell Springs; two sons, Calvin Haverfield, and wife, Lillie, Russell Springs, and Jay Haverfield and wife, Joy, Colby; three daughters, Nancy Parkhurst, and husband, Rick, Kerrville, Tex.,

Thanks to Lois Fenster for bringing cookies for the staff to enjoy.

Thanks to the family of Jim Spangler for the flowers brought to Park Lane.

Thanks to Suzy B’s for the red roses that are decorating our tables.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jon and Anne Crane and Mark and Terri Fouquet.

Jake Leatherman was visited by Otto Harp, Loren Ratzlaff, Viola Ratzlaff, and Don and Judy Browning.

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Cathy Lucas and husband, R.W., Sublette, and Dawn McKinney and husband, Doug, Leoti; one sister, Ruth Ann Burtner, and husband, Charles, Scottsdale, Ariz.; one niece, one nephew, 15 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Funeral service will be held Fri., Sept. 26, 2:00 p.m., at Carwood Community Church (formerly Parks Presbyterian Church), northwest Wichita County, with Rev. Paul McNall officiating.

Burial will be at the Carwood Cemetery.

Memorials may be given to Audubon of Kansas, the Defenders of Wildlife Conservation or the donor’s choice in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, 202 N. 4th, Leoti, Ks. 67861.

Condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at priceandson.com.

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Albert Dean was visited by Nancy Holt, Brian and Charlene Geist, Kent Geist, Mary Lou Oeser, and Karen Harms.

Harold and Ruth White were visited by Travis Jones.

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

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Sharon Lock.

Yvonne Spangler was visited by Lynette and Bill Payne, Willetta Payne, Jillian VanCampen, Brett and Matthew Spangler, Elisa Shields, Doug and Kayla Schraeder, Debbie Bowers, Sharilyn Wilken, Greg and Yvette Mills, Bianca Spangler, Jordan VanCampen, and Will, Danica and Jagger.

Lucille Dirks was visited by Willetta Payne, Vicki Dirks, and Marvel Hopkins.

Mike Leach was visited by Linda Dunagan and Rev. Don Martin from St. Luke’s Church.

Ann Tedford was visited by Mary Plum and Mae Foster.

Herb Graves was visited by Tina Turley.

James Still was visited

by Tina Turley.

Boots Haxton was visited by Rod and Kathy Haxton.

Thelma Branine was visited by Bob and Linda Wilson, Sherri Smith, Hunter Smith, Chandler Hornbostel, Carol Ellis and Lance Ellis.

Corine Dean was visited by Dianna Howard, Margaret Snyder, Pastor Shelby Crawford, Aaron and Mandy Kropp, Madeline Murphy and Bert Lucas.

Joyce Bohnert was visited by Alan and Glenda Graham.

Jim Jeffery was visited

by Libbie Joles.

Nella Funk was visited by Tami Turley, Pam Brown, Judy Kitch, Nancy Holt, Sheila Boyd, Mary Lou Oeser and Karen Harms.

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Kansas revenue decline among nation’s steepest A new report from the nonpartisan Rockefeller Institute of Government says that changes in federal tax policy are not the main cause of a steep drop in Kansas revenue collections.

The report says while the federal changes, which caused people to shift when they took capital gains, are the main cause of revenue declines in many states, Kansas and Alaska are exceptions.

“Twenty-nine states reported declines in overall tax collections, with Kansas and Alaska reporting the largest declines

at 21.9 and 15.7 percent, respectively,” the report says.

“The large declines in Alaska are mostly due to declines in oil and gas severance taxes, while the declines in Kansas are mostly attributable to legislative tax changes.”

At Gov. Sam Brownback’s urging, Kansas legislators cut income tax rates in 2012 and again 2013. When fully implemented in 2019, the cuts will have reduced the state’s top income tax rate by 40 percent and eliminated income taxes for the own-

ers of more than 190,000 businesses.

The Rockefeller Institute report says that income tax collections in the second quarter of this year were down by 43 percent compared to the same period last year.

That is the largest drop of any state.

The drop in revenue will lead to a budget shortfall of nearly $240 million

by July of 2016 unless lawmakers cut spending in the current budget year, according to projections compiled by the nonpartisan Kansas Legislative Research Department.

Application and report are required for disability claim Q) What is the difference between the disability application and the disability report? Do I have to complete both?

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The Disability Report, meanwhile, is a form that provides Social Security with information about your current medical condition. We need this information to process your disability application.

To start a claim for disability benefits, you need to complete a disability application, a disability report, and an authorization release form that allows us to obtain your medical records. You can get the disability application process started at www.socialsecurity.gov/ applyfordisability. * * * Q) I’ve been turned down for disability benefits. How do I appeal?

A) Visit www.socialsecurity.gov and click on the “Appeal a disability decision online” link in the left-hand column. This is the starting point. There you can ask us to review our medical decision.

There are two parts to the Internet appeal process: 1) An Appeal Request Internet form; and 2) An Appeal Disability

Social Security Q and A Report, which gives us more information about your condition.

You can complete both forms online. To appeal online, the only form you are required to submit is an appeal request (Part 1).

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Attend the Church of Your Choice

How You Can Have the Right Heart in Worship “And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. And He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the first born from the dead, that in everything He might be preeminent” (Colossians 1:17-18).

Many years ago when Warren G. Harding was president of the United States, he regularly attended a particular church in Washington D.C. A lady heard he was a regular attender at this church and wanted to meet President Harding. So she showed up at church one Sunday.

Not seeing the President, she walked up to the pastor before the service and asked him, “Sir, is the President going to be in the service today?” The pastor looked at her and said, “I’m not sure, ma’am, but the King of Kings will be here today!”

Many churchgoers today are a lot like that woman. They see church as an opportunity to see the right people or be seen as a good person, and they completely miss the real meaning of church. But the truth is about much more than just seeing people. It’s about those coming together to bring glory to the Almighty God. Don’t fall into the idolatrous notion that church is all about the people who are there. Yes, we go for the fellowship with others. But more important, join with others in the faith and focus you worship on the true King!

Dennis Carter, pastor First United Methodist Church, Scott City

Scott City Assembly of God

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

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

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.

Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m., at the church

St. Joseph Catholic Church

Holy Cross Lutheran 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

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

1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264

Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor

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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looking back

This photo, dating to the mid-1920s, shows the area that today is Lake Scott. It is looking to the north in the direction that Beaver Creek flows. This is one of a number of old photographs donated to the Scott County Historical Society by Dean Fairchild. courtesy of Dean Fairchild) 11456-2285978-3.33 x (Photo 6-4c

Kansas official pushes for Clean Power Plan The regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency says climate change is already happening.

Karl Brooks, administrator for the EPA’s Region 7, which includes Kansas, says the best way to minimize climate change is to implement the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.

“Carbon emissions from the power sector are the largest, single, uncontrolled source of greenhouse gas pollutants in America right now,” Brooks said. “Our obligation to regulate those pollutants is clear. The Supreme Court announced that nearly six years ago.”

The EPA still hasn’t finalized its plan to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. The proposed rules would require existing power plants in Kansas to cut carbon emissions by 23 percent by 2030. New power plants would have to keep their carbon emissions below a set level one that would be impossible for coal-burning

plants to meet without using carbon capture and storage.

Brooks said America can meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets and maintain a reliable supply of electric power through innovation, efficiency and competition.

“This country is in a better position to compete and win globally by moving toward a lower-carbon economy, because that’s what markets want, that’s what investors reward, that’s what customers prefer,” he said.

According to Brooks, the Clean Power Plan puts a premium on flexibility at the state level and allows states to work together to meet their emissions reduction goals. The EPA has received more than 750,000 comments from the public on the Clean Power Plan. The deadline for submitting comments has been pushed back to Dec. 1.

Brooks said Kansas utilities and state officials worked with EPA staff during the summer to create a strategy to comply

with the Clean Power Plan.

“At this stage, the State of Kansas is actively involved, working on what Kansas’ approach to the Clean Power Plan will look like over the course of the next year or two,” he said.

The most controversial issue Kansas faces is the planned expansion of a coal-fired power plant near Holcomb, in southwest Kansas.

Backers of the expansion insist it should be classified as an existing plant, because of all the planning that has gone into it the past nine years. Environmentalists oppose that classification, because no actual construction has taken place.

The EPA had proposed classifying that plant and a handful of others as “transitional,” which might have allowed it to be regulated as an existing plant. The agency has since abandoned that idea.

However, the agency has not decided how to classify the Sunflower Electric expansion.

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Sports The Scott County Record

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Lady spikers pick up wins at quad, Liberal tourney When you’re rebuilding your program, you’ll take progress no matter how small.

While Megan Gentry was glad that her Scott Community High School volleyball team picked up three wins during the past week, she also wanted to keep it in perspective.

“They didn’t come against strong teams,” she noted. “But every win we get is a step in the right direction.”

SCHS picked up a pair of those in pool play at the Liberal Invitational on Saturday against the Liberal JV (19-25, 25-16, 26-24) and Wichita Southeast (28-26, 25-22).

“Obviously the win over Southeast was a good one for us. They had some big girls who were hitters,” says Gentry. “What impressed me most was our court coverage. We had girls diving on (See SPIKERS on page 26)

running wild Scott City senior Chantz Yager turns the corner against the Goodland defense during Friday’s win by the Beavers.

(Record Photo)

A record-setting game for SC running attack in blowout win Beavers rip Cowboys for 514 yards rushing; Griffith has 183

SCHS freshman Olivia Prieto at the Hugoton Invitational on Saturday.

Streak ends: SC girls 2nd at Hugoton Scott City’s winning streak of two consecutive cross-country meets came to an end last Saturday by the narrowest of margins.

Despite some outstanding individual performances, the Lady Beavers finished two points behind Stratford, Tex. - 70 to 72 - in the team standings.

They were followed by Cimarron (79) and Hugoton (90) in a very tough field of teams.

Freshman Makaela Stevens continues to set the pace for the Lady Beavers with a season best of 16:16 over the 2.5 mile layout to finish second.

Another freshman, Trella Davis (15th, 17:21) continues to climb the leaderboard to finish second among the Scott City runners with the fastest time of her young career.

Finishing close behind were junior Jade Wren (18th, 17:31) and sophomore Kylee Trout (19th, 17:33).

(See SC GIRLS on page 20)

Power and speed.

It’s a lethal combination that Scott Community High School used to dismantle the Goodland defense in a 65-12 Great West Activities Conference win on Friday.

Behind the dual running attack of fullback Cooper Griffith (183 yards) and junior tail- Scott City 65 Goodland 12 back Wyatt Kropp (153 yards) the Beavers shredded the Cowboys for 514 yards on the ground.

That is a new single-game rushing record during the eight-game Glenn O’Neil era, topping the old mark of 494 yards.

SCHS finished with 709 yards of total offense.

As those numbers would indicate, the Beavers were unstoppable on offense, scoring on their first 10 offensive possessions.

That impressive stretch included a pair of field goals and a late score by the junior varsity. Scott City’s first score was the result of a 95 yard drive.

Griffith, a junior, had runs of 42 yards on back-to-back drives in the second half which contributed to a big chunk of his career high rushing performance.

“I wasn’t sure I could run that far,” said Griffith with a grin afterwards.

“The base (offensive series) was pretty much open all night and the cutback lane was there,” he says. “There were a couple of times I probably should have picked a side instead of zig-zagging back and forth. That allowed guys behind me to catch up. But I’ll figure it out.”

Kropp picked up more than half of his yards on an 88 yard scoring run late in the third quarter. He took the handoff to the right side, slipped through a crease that barely seemed big enough for 170-pound junior, and then walked a tightrope down

the Scott City sideline as he outsprinted two defensive backs.

“You have to give the line credit,” Kropp says.

He said that left guard Abe Wiebe pulled and Griffith delivered a block on the outside linebacker “which allowed me to turn it up (the field),” noted Kropp.

“I just had to run for the sideline. I had the easy job. They had the harder one.”

Goodland Moves Ball On the other hand, long drives and big plays mean that the Beavers were forced to move the ball from deep in their end of the field.

Goodland finished with 315 yards of total offense - 300 coming through the air from quarterback Kolt Trachsel (16-342).

A stiff defensive stand on Goodland’s opening drive forced them to give the ball back on downs at the Scott City five yard line. Two other drives ended with interceptions in the end zone by free safety Trey O’Neil.

(See BLOWOUT on page 21)

Huge showdown for SC-Holcomb With a potential Great West Activities Conference title and a pair of undefeated seasons hanging in the balance, there will be a lot on the line when Scott City hosts Holcomb for Friday’s Homecoming game.

But even if there was nothing on the line except for bragging rights, this would still be a huge game for both teams.

The fact is, the two teams just don’t like each other. Over the years, this has

become one of the most heated rivalry games for each team.

“Holcomb and Ulysses,” says junior fullback/linebacker Cooper Griffith.

“Coach says he shouldn’t have to say anything more than that to get us fired up.”

Both teams are undefeated and state ranked entering the game.

The Beavers (3-0) are coming off three lopsided wins, but will be facing their toughest test of the season against

a Holcomb (3-0) squad that was a 17-14 overtime winner over Ulysses last week.

If the Beavers win, SCHS will need to get another win the following week when they host Ulysses in order to get a share of the league championship.

A win by the Longhorns this week will give them the inside track toward their first ever GWAC football title.

“This is probably the biggest and most physical team that Holcomb has had (See SHOWDOWN on page 23)

Bluejays control line in shutout over Hays A week earlier, head coach Skip Numrich’s frustration with his offensive line was evident.

There were too many missed assignments.

Too many blocks 8th Grade 27 that weren’t Hays 0 being sustained. Too much standing around and watching.

It was a laundry list that the Scott City Middle School eighth

graders were reminded about during a tough week of practice.

That effort paid off in a big way when the Bluejays dominated Hays in a 27-0 blowout win last Thursday.

And the difference was up front.

“We worked a lot on our line blocking and we saw that effort rewarded,” says Numrich. “The difference between the Colby and Hays games were like night and day.

“You don’t always get that kind of quick feedback in a sport like this, but we, as coaches, saw the difference and the boys could see the difference,” says Numrich.

The head coach didn’t waste any time putting confidence into his line. On Scott City’s opening possession they were staring at fourth-and-short on the Hays 15 yard line.

Marshal Faurot got the call on a tackle trap and he not only

got the first down but a touchdown for a 7-0 lead midway into the first quarter.

“We blocked it well enough to give Marshall a crease and that’s all he needed,” Numrich says.

After that, the game was similar to a week earlier when the SCMS defense couldn’t get off the field. Hays kept the ball for more than six minutes before Jose Trejo ended the scoring

threat with an interception at the 10 yard line.

SCMS wasted no time getting back on the scoreboard again when quarterback Jack Thomas connected with Faurot on a 55 yard touchdown pass.

The Bluejays extended their lead to 20-0 early in the fourth period when Jaren Berning and Faurot made a couple of key blocks that allowed Thomas to score from 12 yards out.

(See BLUEJAYS on page 26)

The Scott County Record • Page 20 • Thursday, September 25, 2014

Outdoors in Kansas

by Steve Gilliland

Camouflage on a shoestring Webster’s dictionary describes camouflage as “A disguise; a deception; to disguise in order to conceal.” Anyone who has priced camouflage clothing at sporting goods stores or even Wal-Mart knows there’s hardly a limit to the amount of money one can spend on camouflage clothing and gear.

My way around that is to buy or otherwise procure military surplus camo. This is hardly a secret and possibly many of you have already gone this route too, but maybe I can pass on to you a few things I’ve learned about military camouflage clothing.

Having spent 20 years in the Army National Guard, I’ve found that not all military camo is created equal. During my service we sported the BDU’s (battle dress uniforms) that were all shades of green, black and dark brown and the pattern was comprised of large blotches.

This is great stuff for later spring turkey hunting when all of nature is adorned in its brand new green foliage, but for fall and winter when most of our hunting takes place it’s too green to look natural.

We have recently fallen in love with the pattern worn by the army for several years now known as ACU Digital. This pattern is comprised of smaller square and rectangular shapes that looks much like a jigsaw puzzle, but contains more off-whites, grays and drab greens. It’s a much better fit for year-round use and is also good for winter.

Two of the obvious pros of military camo are the availability and the price. Besides local surplus stores, the internet and eBay teem with sites and sellers peddling military camo clothing and gear.

(See CAMO on page 25)

Dighton has balance in first win Getting 148 yards on the ground from Marcos Cruz and another 142 yards passing from Tyler Lingg, Dighton-Healy was able to get its first win of the season, 44-30, over Moscow on Friday.

Moscow scored the game’s first touchdown,

but after that it was the Hornets who took control when they opened up a 32-6 lead.

Cruz scored the first of his three touchdowns on an 11 yard run. Dylan Foos was on the receiving end of a PAT pass from Lingg and the Hornets

never trailed again.

Lingg and Foos connected on a 31 yard pass and Cruz returned an interception 23 yards to give D-H a 24-6 first quarter lead.

Moscow made a comeback bid in the second half. They scored a touch-

down late in the second quarter and then added a blocked punt for a TD in the third period that cut the deficit to, 32-22.

Foos added a 39 yard TD run in the third period and Cruz added his final score of the game on a seven yard run.

Lingg finished with 191 all-purpose yards - 142 passing and 47 rushing.

Foos had 112 yards receiving on seven catches.

The Hornets will try to stretch their streak to two games when they face Tribune on Friday.

Lozano, Hutchins set pace at Hugoton Scott City head coach Kevin Reese had mixed feelings as he watched his boy’s perform at the Hugoton Invitational last Saturday.

It was great to see that junior Irvin Lozano (11th, 18:42) can be a consistent performer, turning in the fastest time on the SCHS squad for the second consecutive week.

And Dylan Hutchins (19:01) was only 19 seconds off the pace.

Add a second place overall finish by the Beavers and it wasn’t a bad day.

“But wasn’t a great day either,” says Reese.

Even though the Beavers haven’t placed lower than second place in any of their three meets so far this season, Reese doesn’t feel they have come close to running like they’re capable.

He points out that Scott City (94) was a distant second to Hugoton (34).

And the Eagles aren’t as strong as they’ve been in past years, finishing in the middle of the pack at the Wamego Invitational a week earlier.

“In case we were needing a reminder, that sends the message that we still have a long way to go in

Scott City’s Dylan Hutchins makes a turn on the course at the Hugoton cross-country meet last Saturday.

order to compete with the best programs in the state, which is always our goal,” says head coach Kevin Reese.

Both Lozano and Hutchins are running faster than they were a year ago at this time.

Lozano trimmed 48 seconds off his time on the same course compared to last year; Hutchins was 22 seconds faster.

However, senior Edi Balderrama - who had the third fastest time among the Beavers - was 1:09 slower than a year ago.

It’s the three through seven runners that have Reese concerned.

“We need to start dropping our times,” says Reese. “We may be slightly ahead of last year, but slightly better isn’t going to be good enough if we

want to get to state.”

Seniors Edi Balderrama (19:16) and Miguel Chavez (20:13) are two runners who Reese expects to bring their times down and become more of a factor in meets during the rest of the season.

Junior Heath Briggs (22:02) and sophomores Chance Jones and Gustavo Gonzales are also

runners who should factor in whether the team can make a return trip to state.

“We have some boys who have set some pretty definite goals and are doing all they can to make us a team that can get to state,” Reese says.

“The next two or three meets will tell us whether enough other boys are making the commitment to do what it takes.”

KDWPT sets waterfowl seasons The Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Commission has approved the following waterfowl seasons.

High Plains Duck Zone: Oct. 11-Dec. 8 and Dec. 20-Jan. 25.

Low Plains Early Duck Zone: Oct. 11-Dec. 7 and Dec. 20-Jan. 4.

Low Plains Late Duck

Zone: Nov. 1-Jan. 4 and three scaup; three wood Jan. 17-25. ducks; two redheads; two pintails; and one canvasLow Plains Southeast back.

Duck Zone: Nov. 8-9 and Possession limit is Nov. 15-Jan. 25. three times the daily bag Daily bag limit for limit. ducks is six with the following species and sex Geese Canada geese: Nov. restrictions: no more than five mallards, of which 1-9 and Nov. 12-Feb. 15.

Daily bag limit on Canonly two may be hens;

SC Girls

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“Makaela, Trella and Kylee all went out strong with the leaders and pushed themselves,” says head coach Kevin Reese.

“Makaela ran a great race to stay with the Stanton County girl.”

Reese was referring to Stanton County’s Rebeca Avelar who finished just four seconds ahead of Stevens to win the meet title.

“Makaela is learning with every race and she’s running stronger each time. The next time she sees (Avelar) I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a different result” says Reese.

ada geese is six; possession limit is 18.

Light geese: Nov. 1-9 and Nov. 12-Feb. 15.

Daily bag limit on light geese is 50 with no possession limit.

White-fronted geese: Nov. 1-Dec. 14 and Jan. 17-Feb. 15.

Daily bag limit for

white-fronted geese is two and possession limit is six.

In other business, the Commission also approved a regulation allowing dogs on hand-held leashes to be used to trail dead or wounded big game animals.

The next commission meeting is scheduled for October 16 in Salina.

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Hermosillo is Payoff winner

Blowout (continued from page 19)

In a week that was very rough for most Pigskin Payoff participants, Mike Hermosillo stood out from the rest. He missed just two games and was all alone with 14 correct picks to win top prize for the week.

Nic Cheney needed a tiebreaker to win second place money over Gabriella Tucker.

Both had 12 correct picks.

Others with 12 correct picks but finishing out of the money were Gary Cheney, Amelia Ramsey, Shayla Tucker, Dawson Fox and Piper Fox. 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.

Goodland was able to finish off only one scoring drive which came on a 47 yard fingertip catch behind the secondary. Their only other touchdown was on a 74 yard kickoff return.

The Cowboys couldn’t establish any kind of a running attack. They were held to minus 20 yards rushing in the first half.

Offense Nearly Flawless That compares to a SCHS offense which was nearly as flawless as it was methodical in rolling up 31 first downs.

On their first possession of the night, SCHS moved the ball 95 yards in 14 plays - 10 on the ground - without committing a single penalty. They kept the ball for 4:29 before quarterback Trey O’Neil easily scored on a one yard keeper.

Goodland’s next series was stopped short with a rare threeand-out - they had just two for the game and SCHS had none.

On the 67 yard scoring drive that followed, O’Neil picked apart the Goodland secondary with completions of 20 yards (Chantz Yager), and 14 and 20 yards (both to tight end Sloan Baker) that would set up a 10 yard scoring run as the quarter ended for the first of Griffith’s two touchdowns.

The Cowboys were threatening to score again on their next possession, driving to the Scott City seven yard line, but a high snap over Trachsel’s head resulted in a 17 yard loss and two plays later O’Neil took a knee after picking off a pass in the end zone. That led to an 11play, 80-yard scoring drive that was capped by a four yard run

by Kropp - the first of his three touchdowns.

In a break from normal, the Beavers went for two-point conversions following each touchdown and were successful.

Following another interception by O’Neil in the end zone - this one returned for 35 yards

7th grade ‘Jays top Hays, 6-0 Junior runningback Wyatt Kropp sheds a tackle attempt by Goodland’s Hagan Hoss during Friday’s action.

(Record Photo)

- the Beavers needed just two completions to senior Chantz Yager - the last one covering 12 yards over the middle - to open a 31-0 lead.

Goodland struck quickly with a 47 yard pass down the sideline for a score with 1:34 left in the half, which was just enough time for the Beavers to execute their two-minute offense. They quickly moved the ball 49 yards to the 15 yard line, setting up a 31 yard field goal

by Tre Stewart that hit the crossbar dead center and caromed through the upright with only five seconds remaining.

The scoring was fast and furious in the second half.

Griffith’s 42 yard run on the first play of the half sparked a three-play, 64 yard drive that lasted just 1:03 and ended with an eight yard scoring run by Griffith.

Goodland answered with a kickoff return and Griffith again powered his way for a 42 yard run on the first play of Scott City’s next possession. Two plays later it appeared that Yager had scored on a pass play, but the touchdown was temporarily erased by a penalty. On Scott City’s next play, Kropp scored from 13 yards out.

Stewart added a 31 yard field goal and Kropp an 88 yard run in the third quarter to increase the lead to 58-12.

The SCHS junior varsity added a touchdown with a running clock midway into the fourth quarter. Sophomore Kevin Lozano finished off the 43 yard drive with a one yard run.

While he emphasizes there’s still room for the offense to improve, Kropp feels the line has continued to get better over the last three weeks.

“If our line can get a two yard

push that’s all that we need to find a little room to the inside or outside,” he says.

Griffith adds that with so many offensive weapons it’s difficult for a team to focus on stopping one or two individuals.

“We have a lot of skilled players - a lot of different people we can come at you with,” he says. “We have several very good receivers and we can run the ball with just about anyone we want. We’re lucky to have so many different guys and so many different running styles in the backfield.”

Five offensive starters accounted for 457 yards rushing while O’Neil spread the ball among five different receivers for another 195 yards.

That group was led by Yager with 66 yards on four receptions while Baker and Brett Meyer added 53 and 52 yards, respectively.

A lone touchdown in the third quarter was all the Scott City Middle School seventh graders needed to escape Hays with a 6-0 win last Thursday.

Cale Goodman scored on a six yard run with 2:18 remaining in the third period and the Bluejays (3-0) relied on their defense the rest of the night to seal the win.

“This was a defensive struggle in the first half with neither team able to get much going,” says coach Larry Fox. The best defense for Scott City was their offense. They had two time-consuming drives in the second half which kept the Hays offense off the field.

SCMS scored on the first of those two drives.

Hays had just eight offensive plays in the second half compared to Scott City’s 24.

Goodman finished with 10 carries for 102 yards while Brandon Winderlin and Justus McDaniel finished with 63 and 53 yards, respectively.

Defense corrals Goodland with shutout

It was typical Scott City football when the junior varsity hosted Goodland on Monday.

Pound the ball on the ground and play physical defense.

That combination was more than enough to provide a 38-0 win.

“It’s great to see how much more aggressive and how much harder these sophomores are playing now than they were a year ago,” says coach Brian Gentry.

“We’re seeing boys using better technique on defense and they’re not afraid to come up and hit someone.”

The defense limited Goodland to just 93 total yards, including 36 on the ground. They averaged just 1.2 yards per carry.

The defensive effort included three outstanding interceptions by sophomore Justin Faurot and freshmen Adrian Ruelas and Nick Nowak.

“The linebackers did a good job of containment.

They’re playing hard which can make up for some mental errors,” says Gentry.

Ground Attack The SCHS offense in the first half was a perfect balance of running (75 yards) and passing (76 yards) which led to three touchdowns and a 24-0 halftime lead.

A fumble on Goodland’s first play of the game gave the Beavers (3-0) great field position at the Cowboys’ 47. The short drive ended six plays later when sophomore Jess Drohman started to his right and then cut back against the grain for a 10 yard scoring run.

(See JV BOYS on page 26)

SCHS sophomore Drew Duff makes an over-the-shoulder catch for a 55 yard touchdown reception during Monday’s win over the Cowboys.

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Home grown talent shines in KSU loss to Auburn Who says the state of Kansas doesn’t have good high school football? In last Thursday’s disappointing loss to Auburn (20-14), the Kansas State starting lineup included eight Kansans on offense and three on defense. by The OL Mac starters in- Stevenson cluded the following in-state players: senior center B.J. Finney (Andale), junior RG Boston Stiverson (Andover), junior RT Matt Kleinsorge, (Olathe), junior LG Luke Hayes (Scott City), and junior LT Cody Whitehair (Abilene).

Two of the starting WRs were senior Curry Sexton (Abilene) and sophomore Deante Burton (Manhattan).

Senior DeMarcus Robinson (Wichita) started at RB. On defense, senior DE Ryan Mueller (Leawood), senior LB Jonathan Truman (Kechi), and junior CB Morgan Burns (Wichita) were in the starting lineup.

Coach Bill Snyder had 11 young men from Kansas among the 22 starters against Auburn. That’s impressive in a state that is supposedly weak in high school talent and has two major football programs.

Kansas State plays UTEP in Manhattan on Saturday (Sept. 27). K-State showed a lot of promise in their game with Auburn; the Wildcats will be a major factor in the Big 12 race.

Snyder’s team lost their chance to become one of the four teams to make the new playoffs for the national championship - unless they go unbeaten the rest of the way. That’s not likely, but it’s not impossible either.

In any event, Kansas State has another quality football team that will make a bowl game and have another prestige-enhancing season.

KU Quiets Critics KU’s football team calmed the rising tide of discontent among their fans by playing their best offensive and defensive game of the season in the second half of their 24-10 win over Central Michigan.

One has to think it’s calmed the natives for only (See TALENT on page 25)

O’Neil quickly puts huge offensive game into perspective The numbers that Scott City put up against Goodland last week were impressive to say the least . . . 546 yards rushing . . . 741 yards of total offense . . .

65 points.

That’s not a typical Scott City stat line - not because the Beavers have never been capable of generating that kind of offense. It’s because head coach Glenn O’Neil usually puts the brakes on the offense long before that happens.

He was a little self-conscious when talking about those numbers following the Goodland game.

“We weren’t even looking to score right before the half. We were going to run a sweep and be content with the lead,” says O’Neil after the Beavers took possession with 1:34 remaining.

A couple of routine plays turned into nice gains and that put them in position to attempt a last second field goal.

The 88 yard touchdown run by Wyatt Kropp late in the third quarter wasn’t expected either. O’Neil was just wanting to get out of the shadow of their goal posts and then give the ball over to the JV. Once Kropp got the handoff he wasn’t giving the ball back to anyone but the official 88 yards later.

Perhaps the person least impressed by the big offensive numbers is O’Neil.

“Don’t be fooled by stats,” he cautions. “We’ll be seeing teams that have much better defenses when we play Holcomb and Ulysses.”

In fact, O’Neil feels the offense still has a long way to go.

“There are some plays that stand out on film which show we don’t understand everything we’re doing,” he says.

“We’re just fortunate to have kids mak-

ing some extraordinary plays to get first downs or touchdowns.

“The line has made small steps, but it’s still a wakeup call when they see stuff on film and realize that they need to do some things a lot better.”

Defense Must Step Up It may be hard to be critical of a defense that allowed only 12 points, but then again that’s because the SCHS coaching staff sets a higher standard.

O’Neil was not at all happy with the defense or the week leading up to the game.

“We had a crappy week of practices,” he said. “We didn’t get to do everything we wanted to get done in practice defensively.”

Something that continues to linger over the defense is a lack of concentration.

“We had trouble lining up correctly against different formations and we didn’t cover things we’d planned to on Wednesday, which came back to haunt us on Friday,” O’Neil says. “Our concentration level has to get better.”

A Matter of Trust A major obstacle to be overcome is the trust factor. O’Neil says linebackers and defensive backs aren’t trusting each other on coverage drops so they leave their area to cover for someone else.

“When they’re trying to cover for someone else then another area is opening up in their zone,” O’Neil emphasizes.

“Most of the mistakes we see on film aren’t effort mistakes, but are mental mistakes. That goes for pass coverage and missed blocking assignments. I don’t think we got whipped anywhere.

“We just didn’t concentrate and take care of business with our pre-snap stuff.

That’s something we covered pretty extensively on Monday - where your zone starts and where it ends. Stop chasing people into other zones because when you do that you’re opening up bigger gaps.”

As for a kickoff return for a touchdown for the second consecutive game, O’Neil isn’t happy about it, but he’s not losing a lot of sleep over it either.

“Both touchdowns over the last two games have come at a time when we’d made a lot of substitutions on our special teams,” he points out.

Don’t look for the Beavers to be making as many substitutions this week against the Longhorns.

Holcomb quarterback and kicker Trey Teeter has a good leg and can pin a team deep on kickoffs. But they’ve also been known to pooch kick.

“That led to a couple of turnovers by Goodland when they didn’t handle the pooch kicks well,” notes O’Neil.

In a game with so much at stake, and that could be decided by a play on special teams, don’t look for substitutions to occur near as quickly or often this week.

Time for KC to reclaim what is ours Kansas City Chiefs’ fans are going to have another chance to reclaim what is rightfully ours - the distinction of having the loudest sports stadium in the world.

Arrowhead Stadium briefly held that official title until Seattle fans borrowed it back again last season.

During the Monday night game against New England, KC fans will once again prove we are “loud and proud” with the emphasis on loud as we again go after the Guinness record.

As you may recall, KC broke the record last October when crowd noise reached 137.5 decibels during our win over Oakland. The record went

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back to Seattle when their fans hit 137.6 decibels.

This time around the Chiefs’ organization is 100 percent committed to the record, the fans have a much greater understanding of what we’re trying to do and, most of all, we’ve learned a few things since then.

The timing couldn’t be better. We’re coming off a muchneeded win at Miami which should have the fans fired up again.

And it’s a Monday night game. It doesn’t get any better than that.

The last time we played MNF was against the Chargers in September 2010. I’m convinced that noise carries better during a night game. But that’s only one thing we’ve learned.

We found out after the Seattle game that they handed out 35,000 megaphones to their fans. That doesn’t seem quite fair, but it was done.

We’re encouraging fans to make their own megaphones out of birthday party hats or to roll up game programs.

It’s also a good idea to have your throat hydrated with water - not beer (sorry, fans).

But I think one of the keys to breaking the record will be

the fact that now it’s news.

This isn’t just X-Factor coming up with some far-fetched idea.

Head coach Andy Reid was talking about the record during a recent press conference.

They’re talking about it on ESPN. And it’s in all the local media.

Of course, the Chiefs have to do their part. They can’t let New England take them out of the game or it’s going to be next to impossible to get the fans loud enough for a record.

I think we’re capable of reaching 140 decibels. Just for some perspective, a jet engine at 100 feet is about 140 decibels.

(See RECLAIM on page 25)

Showdown since I’ve been head coach,” says Glenn O’Neil. “They have big defensive tackles and big inside linebackers.”

The heart of the defense is anchored by linebackers Blake Richmeier (sr., 6-2, 225) and Dillon Williams (Soph., 5-10, 200).

“They’re the key to taking away the inside power game,” says O’Neil.

Offensively, the Longhorns want to throw the ball. However, junior Trey Teeter was just 13-of-35 against Ulysses last week.

“Ulysses plays an entirely different defense than we do with their fiveman front. And when a team goes into a spread Ulysses will match up man-to-man and try to bring pressure on you quick,” notes O’Neil.

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The inability to bring pressure off the edge has been an issue for the Beavers so far this season.

“Our pressure on the quarterback hasn’t been that good this year without bringing some linebackers. We have to generate a pass rush from our defensive ends,” notes the head coach.

Sophomore Brandon Stegman does give the Longhorns speed coming out of the backfield, though he was held to 29 yards rushing against Ulysses. Richmeier and Williams give the Horns a powerful running duo.

However, when Holcomb puts two backs in the backfield that takes away a receiver. That allows the defense to slide another linebacker into

the box.

“When they keep it spread and they have Stegman in the pistol behind Teeter then you have to decide where you want to load up your defense - to stop the run or the pass,” O’Neil says.

While O’Neil respects the Holcomb defense, the Tigers also lost their quarterback which limited their offensive playbook.

The backup didn’t throw the ball which allowed Holcomb to key on the run.

“Holcomb showed no respect for the Ulysses passing game and put 10 guys in the box. Add a couple of turnovers by Ulysses and a couple of key fourth down stops by Holcomb, a couple of penalties that took them out of

kill shot

the red zone and you end up with an offensive night for Ulysses that’s not very good,” says the SCHS coach.

Special teams play can’t be overlooked this week after the Beavers have given up kickoff returns for touchdowns in each of the last two games.

Teeter has the ability to kick the ball deep and pin a team close to the goal line. At the same time, the Longhorns will also pooch kick the ball which led to a couple of turnovers by Goodland when the two teams faced each other two weeks ago.

Both teams, notes O’Neil, will be facing more balanced offenses than either has seen so far this season.

“Both offenses like to

Indians get first win over Stanton Co.

Wichita County High School football coach Cale Warden picked up his first coaching win when the Indians defeated Stanton County, 20-8.

Stanton County grabbed the early lead on a 17 yard run in the first quarter, but that was it for the night.

Spenser Thurman was on the receiving end of a 38 yard pass from quarterback Matt Huber in the second period. The PAT run by Zeke Castillo tied the game at 8-8 at the half.

Huber added a one yard TD run in the third period and Castillo scored on a 50 yard run in the fourth.

Castillo finished with 131 yards on just nine carries. Thurman caught five passes for 82 yards.

Dighton High School sophomore Sara Cramer delivers a kill for a point during action against Hoxie in the Dighton Invitational last Saturday.

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show a multitude of formations,” he says. “In most instances, the offensive coordinator is looking for the opportunity to get the defense in a situation where they want them and take advantage of boys out of position or certain personnel matchups.”

With their win over Ulysses, Holcomb is in the driver’s seat when it comes to winning a Great West Activities Conference title.

“The pressure is on us to beat Holcomb because they’re not going to lose another league game,” O’Neil says. “Ulysses is

cheering for Scott City this week - which is probably for the first time ever - because if we lose this week that eliminates any chance they have of a three-way tie for the league title.”

But, as he quickly adds, Scott City still controls their own destiny.

More importantly, this will be a good measure of how far the team has come in just four games and where they need to improve.

“We’ll definitely know where we are after playing Holcomb and Ulysses,” he says.

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First Downs 31 10 Yards Rushing 546 6 Yards Passing 195 320 Total Offense 741 336 Rushing Attempts 47 16 Yards Per Carry 11.6 .4 Passing 16-24-0 19-36-2 Total Plays Penalties Fumbles/Lost

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Individual Rushing Car. Yds. Cooper Griffith 12 183 Wyatt Kropp 10 153 Marshal Hutchins 7 65 Trey O’Neil 5 32 Kevin Aguilera 2 32 Chantz Yager 3 24 Individual Receiving Rec. Yds. Chantz Yager 4 66 Sloan Baker 4 53 Brett Meyer 5 52 Wyatt Kropp 2 16 Kyle Cure 1 8 Individual Passing Comp Att Int TD Trey O’Neil 16 24 0 1 How they scored: 1st Quarter: 4::09: Trey O’Neil, 1 yd.

(O’Neil to Wyatt Kropp) 0:00: Cooper Griffith, 10 yds.

(O’Neil to Chantz Yager) 2nd Quarter: 4:45: Kropp, 4 yds. (O’Neil to Brett Meyer) 3:08: O’Neil to Yager, 12 yds.

(Tre Stewart kick) 1:34: 47 yard pass (PAT fail) :05: Stewart, 31 yd. field goal 3rd Quarter: 10:57: Griffith, 8 yds.

(Stewart kick) 10:43: Goodland, 74 yd. kickoff return 9:55: Kropp, 13 yds. (Stewart kick) 4:58: Stewart, 31 yd. FG 1:54: Kropp, 88 yds. (Stewart kick) 4th Quarter: 6:57: Kevin Lozano, 1 yd.

(Stewart kick) SCHS JV 38 - Goodland 0

Score by quarters: Goodland 0 0 0 0 - 0 Scott City 16 8 6 8 - 38

First Downs

SC 17

Yards Rushing 205 Yards Passing 131 Total Offense 336 Rushing Attempts 33

Good 10 36 57 93 29

Yards Per Carry 6.2 1.2 Passing 5-9-0 7-22-3 Total Plays Penalties Fumbles/Lost

42 5-40 2/1

51 4-30 2/2

Individual Rushing Car. Yds. Jess Drohman 8 44 Austin Turner 4 33 Jarrett Jurgens 3 32 Nick Nowak 2 25 Pierre Cortes 3 21 Reid Brunswig 1 12 Bo Hess 1 5 Kevin Aguilera 1 5 Individual Receiving Rec. Yds. Drew Duff 2 88 Kyle Cure 2 32 Kevin Aguilera 1 11 Individual Passing Comp Att Int TD Bo Hess 5 9 0 3 How they scored: 1st Quarter: 7:22: Jess Drohman, 10 yds.

(Kevin Lozano run) 2:57: Bo Hess to Kevin Aguilera, 11 yds. (Drohman run) 2nd Quarter: 1:20: Hess to Drew Duff, 33 yds. (Drohman run) 3rd Quarter: 7:38: Hess to Duff, 55 yds. (run fail) 4th Quarter: 4:28: Reid Brunswig, 12 yds.

(Pierre Cortes run)

Reclaim Last year, I wasn’t sure it was possible for us to break the record. This year I’m convinced we can get it done.

There is a Game Of course, there’s also a game to be played on Monday.

We saw the emergence of a possible star runningback with the play of Knile Davis last week against the Dolphins.

Likewise with our No. 1 draft pick defensive end Dee Ford.

This week, we hope

Talent a short while. Head coach Charlie Weis should enjoy the brief reprieve from fan criticism.

Kansas plays Texas at home this Saturday, September 27. The Longhorns are beginning a new era under head coach Charlie Strong. Not all is well in Longhorn land either.

Texas beat North Texas (38-7) in their opener, but followed with losses to BYU (41-7) and UCLA (20-17).

Central Michigan doesn’t have the same caliber of athletes as Texas, but at least KU has a glimmer of hope.

KU quarterback Montell Cozart showed significant improvement compared to his play against Duke. KU’s offense was much better in the second half last Saturday.

KU’s season will depend on whether or not Cozart maintains his improvement or falls back to sub-

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to see a future star in De’Anthony Thomas play in his first regular season NFL game after being sidelined with a hamstring injury. This will be a huge boost to our special teams play.

If Thomas is able to make a game-breaking kickoff or punt return, that could generate the noise record that we’re looking for.

This could be the biggest game of the season - then again, they practically all are when you start 0-2. There’s a huge

difference between being 2-2 and 1-3.

If we can beat New England, we’re back in the playoff hunt.

If we don’t beat the Patriots, not only does that mean our playoff climb gets a lot steeper, but it means we probably didn’t get the Guinness record either.

That’s why it’s time to get loud and proud in KC. The X Factor (Ty Rowton) is a former Scott City resident who has been inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame as a Chiefs Superfan

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standard play.

Kansas has yet to play competitively against a quality opponent this season. Texas doesn’t have their usual powerhouse, but the Longhorns are talented.

Just playing Texas close won’t cut it. Jayhawk fans want some wins.

Feeling the Pressure What’s wrong with the Kansas City Royals as they stumble and bumble down the homestretch of the baseball season?

That’s simple: KC’s players and manager can barely get enough oxygen to breathe. They’re choking big-time.

You can no longer blame it on youth or inexperience; most of the Royals have been playing in the majors for several years.

Kansas City has relied on stellar defense throughout the season and now they’re playing like

Camo

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It’s also commonly found at garage sales where people have scarfed it up when their term of military service ended thinking it was cool, but then found they had no real use for it and are willing to part with it for a song.

In a recent internet search, we even found a site called www.magnafabrics.com that sells military camo fabric in about a dozen different patterns at very reasonable prices, so for those of you who sew or our married to a capable seamstress, that is another route to consider.

In my book, another big plus to military camo is its construction. Aside from the cockamamie button flies on the older pants, the military makes quality garments.

Things like Velcro tabs that allow you to pull sleeves tight around your wrist, draw strings at the bottom of pants legs to help keep out the cold wind or the ticks, and tabs that let you tighten waists all help make them handy and user friendly.

And then there’s the pockets, especially on the pants. Having too many pockets is like having too many goose decoys or too many walleye fillets in the freezer, it just ain’t gonna’ happen, and military camo garments have lots of big handy pockets.

The new shirts and pants come in different styles, but my new ACU shirt has six pockets; two on each sleeve and one on each side at chest height, all held shut by Velcro, and the pants all have those great cargo pockets on each side of the legs plus the usual four found on all pants.

My shirt has a zipper instead of buttons, which I think is cool, and an expansion panel on the back of each shoulder that flexes when you extend your arms or bend over. The only downside I’ve found with this new camo is all the Velcro. Velcro’s great but kind of noisy when the woods are quiet.

Sporting goods stores are full of good quality camouflage clothing for every occasion and situation.

Heck, some companies were founded and exist today entirely for the design and production of camoflage clothing and gear. So if you insist on name brand camo clothing, I understand.

But if you, like me, love a bargain and feel good when you can spend less on your outdoor clothing and gear and still get just what you need, try surplus military camo, and especially the new army ACU stuff.

It’ll help you continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors for less.

a bunch of scared rookies. On the infield, third baseman Mike Moustakas, shortstop Alcides Escobar, second baseman Omar Infante, and first baseman Eric Hosmer have made some costly errors in game after game.

As for hitting, it’s been painful to watch when runners are in scoring position. The Royals’ hitters have been pathetic in pressure situations.

Their plate discipline has been nonexistent throughout the season and that flaw falls on the manager.

Kansas City is still in the race for one of the two AL wild card spots, but they will never make it if they keep playing scared Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom. baseball. net The pressure is on and nothing has been working for Kansas City, including manager Ned Yost’s decisions on who to play and his handling of the pitching staff.

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Youth starting to taste success for SC tennis A year ago, Krystal Appel wasn’t even on the Scott Community High School tennis squad.

This year, the sophomore has earned her way into the No. 1 singles position - and finding success.

“She’s having a pretty tremendous season considering she hadn’t played before this summer,” says head coach Steve Kucharik.

Appel was a gold medalist at the Phillipsburg quadrangular a week ago when she finished 3-0 in round-robin play. She followed that up with a fourth place finish in the eight-team Scott City Invitational on Monday.

“She showed up for tennis this summer and just started playing,” says Kucharik. “It’s not just her athletic ability, but she understands there’s a mental side to the game as well. She gets it. I’ve had a lot of older, more experienced players who never figured out the mental side of the sport, so to see a sophomore soaking that in is pretty neat.”

Despite her unexpected success at No. 1 singles, Appel will likely be playing in the No. 2 posi-

tion for the next couple of tournaments. Kucharik emphasizes it is not meant to be seen as a demotion.

“We’re juggling our lineup a little in order to find the best position for everyone when we get into regional,” he explains. “We’re trying to put together a team that will give the most girls an opportunity to get to state.”

Senior Bre Smull will be moving back into the No. 1 singles position after playing No. 1 doubles with senior Emily Buxton.

The two had some success at Phillipsburg where they finished second, but had to settle for a sixth place finish in their own invitational.

“We were hoping that things might click for the two girls in doubles, but it didn’t seem to be coming together. We’ll have Bre go back to singles for awhile and see if we can find another combination for doubles,” Kucharik says.

That doubles combination will include sophomore Emma Price who was a gold medalist at Phillipsburg and added a

JV Boys Following a three-andout by Goodland, the Beavers again enjoyed starting field position at the Goodland 45. The eight play drive was capped by an 11 yard scoring pass from quarterback Bo Hess to sophomore Kevin Aguilera who was able to pull the ball down and touch his feet in the back of the end zone.

Faurot’s interception with 3:09 left in the first half set up a 53 yard drive that ended four plays later with a 33 yard pass from Hess to sophomore Drew Duff.

On Scott City’s first possession of the second half, Hess again connected with Duff on a 55 yard scoring strike. Without breaking stride, Duff was able to pull the ball in over his shoulder along the far sideline to finish off the two-play scoring drive.

SCHS turned the ball over to its running game in the fourth quarter, putting together a 10-play, 80 yard drive that followed Nowak’s diving interception in the end zone.

Freshman Reid Brunswig capped the 5-1/2 minute march with a 12 yard run

SCMS added a final score with just under three minutes remaining when they were looking at fourth-and-14 at the Hays 19 yard line. SCMS lined up with four receivers and scored on a trap play by Wyatt Hayes.

This was a game, says Numrich, that belonged to the offensive line.

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SCHS senior Bre Smull reaches for a backhand return during action in the Scott City Invitational on Monday.

(Record Photo) silver medal in the Scott City Invitational. Price cruised through pool play with an undefeated mark, dropping just five games in three matches. Her only loss came against Colby

(8-2) in the championship round.

Twin sisters Melanie and Christina Tilton finished third in the Scott City tournament with a 3-1 record. The only loss

for the two juniors came against Ulysses (8-6) during pool play. They needed a tie-breaker (7-3) to get past WaKeeney and added a win over Tribune (8-4).

the floor and making some blocks.”

Even more important was her team finding a way to finish the match.

“There have been too many times when we get to 16 or 18 points and then it’s like we hit a road block and we can’t finish strong. This time we did and were able to get the wins.”

In their other three matches SCHS fell to Ulysses (19-25, 7-25), Emporia (14-25, 12-25) and Southwestern Hts. (25-20, 14-25, 15-25).

“We had Ulysses worried in the first game.

We gave them a lot better game than they were expecting,” Gentry says.

The matches against Ulysses and Heights were reminiscent of several this season in which the Lady Beavers got off to a strong start in the first game, but dropped off sharply after that.

“That’s been hard to figure and it’s been frustrating,” Gentry says. “So often this season we’ve had games where we’ll play well for maybe five minutes and then disappear for the next 10.

Part of that is from being young and inexperienced.

But some of that is mental toughness and that’s something we need to improve.”

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to make it a 38-0 lead.

Goodland was limited to just two offensive plays in the fourth quarter and one of those was an interception.

Drohman led the ground game with 44 yards, followed by Austin Turner (33) and Jarrett Jurgens (32). Hess was 5-of9 for 131 yards passing.

“What impressed me most was how hard the boys were running. It was great to see Austin have one of his better running games and show what he’s capable of doing,” says Gentry.

“Give the line credit for a good job of blocking.

That allowed our backs to bounce to the outside and get some big gains.”

At the same time, he says the pass blocking needs a lot of improvement.

“When we run playaction it gives Bo a little more time. But our pass blocking has to get better when Bo is in a threestep drop,” says the SCHS coach.

Next game for the JV will be Monday at Holcomb with kickoff at 5:00 p.m.

Bluejays

Spikers

Drake McRae (left) and Josh Becker (52) sack the Goodland quarterback during Monday’s JV action on the home field.

(Record Photo)

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On the first touchdown, right tackle Caleb Carter pulled to his left and set up the scoring run.

“And give Marshall credit as well. He did a nice job of cutting it back against the grain,” notes Numrich.

Hayes’ touchdown came on a fullback trap with left guard Chase Cupp pulling from his

position and taking the defensive tackle out of the play.

“Kyle (Sherwood), Jaren (Berning) and Caleb (Carter) all did a great job of making blocks at the next level,” adds Numrich. “When we have boys who can make plays like that and continue blocking our running game is going to be awfully

tough to stop.”

While he liked the improvement he saw in a week’s time, Numrich isn’t satisfied - not with tough games against Liberal West and Ulysses still on the schedule.

“We still can’t be satisfied.

We have to play better defense and make stops on third down

and we can still execute better on offense,” he says. “And if we can control the edges a little better the toss sweeps have the potential to be a huge play for us.

“But give the boys credit,” he adds. “They bought into what we were telling them all week and they did what we asked them to do.”

Hope’s Closet is at a new location • 311 North Main St. in Scott City • Reopening Monday

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experiencing the outdoors

Trapshooting, archery and snakes are part of youth day

Eddie Velacich enjoys the archery and the trapshooting during the annual outdoors youth day at Lake Scott on Saturday.

But there’s something else he enjoys even more.

“I like winning the duck hunts,” says the 15-year-old Lakin youth who has been on hunts to Meade on two occasions in addition to hunting near Cheyenne Bottoms.

“When I was at Cheyenne Bottoms I got three Canadian geese and four ducks,” he said proudly.

Velacich was among 69 youngsters taking part in the event which is sponsored by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.

Velacich, who was attending his fourth outdoor youth event at Lake Scott, tries to practice on the trapshooting range at Lakin once a week and would like to improve his archery skills.

One of the goals of the annual event is to introduce youngsters to outdoor activities they might not otherwise have a chance to do.

“I’m very pleased with the success of the program,” says Manuel Torres, regional wildlife officer with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.

This year’s event attracted 69 youth from across the region.

In addition to activities, Torres also tries to bring in a celebrity. This year’s guest was Miss Rodeo Kansas Katera Harter.

Many Youth Day Veterans Like Velacich, a number of the youngsters in attendance were veterans of the program.

Seth Rupp, 10, Dighton, has attended two or three times.

“Archery is the most fun,” says Rupp, who likes to target practice at home. “I keep coming back because I like all the stuff we do.”

This was also the third time for Trinity Pierce to attend.

“I come back for the archery,” said the 12-year-old Dighton youth. “But I trapshoot and hunt sometimes. I’d like to practice more than I do.”

(See OUTDOORS on page 36)

Youth day scenes are (top to bottom): Dutch Turner, 12, Scott City reacts as he prepares to hold a Western Hognose snake.

Shayden Woods, 9, Garden City, gets instruction from KDWPT conservation officer Daniel Haneke on the trapshooting range.

Seth Rupp, 10, Dighton, takes aim at targets on the archery range.

(Record Photos)

Farm

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SCO an option for winter wheat insurance The deadline to insure the 2015 winter wheat crop is Sept. 30, and as producers consider their coverage, they might also want to enroll in the Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) made possible by the 2014 Farm Bill.

The SCO, according to the USDA, is a new crop insurance option that provides additional coverage

for a portion of a farmer’s underlying crop insurance policy deductible on a countywide plan.

Farmers in nearly all Kansas counties would be eligible to enroll (see map for availability at http:// www.rma.usda.gov/news/ currentissues/farmbill/ SCOwheatfilingdates. pdf).

Art Barnaby, risk management specialist for

ag briefs

Aerial maps available for field reports Scott County farm operators should ensure they have filed their 2015 farmland acreage reports at the Farm Service Agency (FSA). This can be initiated by requesting copies of the aerial maps from the county office.

Aerial photos are used for documenting the crops, field boundaries, acreages and planting dates. These maps are then returned to the local FSA so that the acreage reports can be data loaded.

Farm operators can call the county FSA at (620) 872-3230 to request aerial maps or to set an appointment for acreage reporting.

Certification of acreage devoted to perennial forage, such as native grass (pasture), clover or alfalfa must be reported to FSA by Nov. 15.

The deadline to report 2015 small grain crops of wheat, triticale, barley, oats or rye intended for grain is Dec. 15.

Acreage reports, for any crop intended for grazing use, should be submitted to FSA two weeks prior to grazing.

Fracking effect on water is KSU lecture

Nationally recognized geoscientist Susan Brantley will present the 31st annual Roscoe Ellis, Jr. Lectureship in Soil Science on Wed., Oct. 15, 4:00 p.m., in 1018 Throckmorton Hall on the Kansas State University campus.

The title of the lecture is “Water Resource Impacts During Unconventional Shale Gas Development with Hydrofracking: The Pennsylvania Experience.”

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Brantley is a distinguished professor of geosciences in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. She also is director of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute.

Her research has concentrated on understanding water chemistry at the surface of the earth and how water in the earth’s crust interacts with the rocks through which it flows. The research investigates the chemical, biological, and physical processes using field, laboratory, and theoretical modeling.

Brantley is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America, Geochemical Society, European Association of Geochemistry, and International Association for GeoChemistry.

(Price Loss Coverage) or ARC (Agricultural Risk Coverage),” he said. “It gives you more time to make the decision. From a farmer’s perspective, I would list (SCO) regardless of the coverage level I’m buying at, with the idea that I may decide to go ahead and cancel it later.”

The SCO begins to pay when county revenue falls

K-State Extension, recommends that eligible producers add the SCO to their coverage, because they have the option to cancel it prior to the wheat insurance acreage reporting date at no cost.

“In the meantime over the next month, you’ll probably get more clarity on which Farm Service Agency (FSA) program you’re going to select, PLC

below 86 percent of its expected level. The full amount of the SCO coverage is paid out when the county average revenue falls to the coverage level percent of the underlying policy.

Barnaby said as an example, consider that a producer buys 80 percent coverage in his or her underlying policy.

“Six percent of the expected revenue is covered (by the SCO), and on top of that, it’s not triggered by your individual loss,” he said. “It’s triggered only at the county level. If the county has a big enough loss, you could get a payment that is six points higher than what you’re getting from your individual coverage.

(See SCO on page 29)

Favorable economic returns still possible with limited irrigation Getting the most value out of irrigation water is likely on the minds of many Kansas farmers. As groundwater supplies diminish, pumping rates decline and talk of local water conservation policies surface in the state, these farmers face even more difficulty in determining how to best manage limited water.

Nathan Hendricks, assistant professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State University, recently examined how the value of agricultural production declines as water availability decreases.

He specifically looked at two general management methods to determine which is more effective: deficit irrigation on a larger number of acres versus more intense irrigation on a smaller number of acres.

Focus on Fewer Acres To answer the question of which is better, pumping more intensively on fewer acres versus less intensively on more acres, Hendricks said he first looked at the basic economics.

The question only relates to those facing limited irrigation,

not those farmers who currently have limited authorized irrigated acreage and can fully irrigate that acreage.

“The simple intuition is you first want to decrease intensity and maintain acreage if a one percent reduction in intensity decreases returns by less than one percent,” Hendricks said.

“But, eventually as irrigation becomes more limited, you want to end up at an intensity level such that if you decreased (irrigation) intensity by one percent, you would decrease your returns by one percent.”

“The economically optimal

place is where either reducing intensity or reducing acreage gives you the same loss in return,” he continued. “This is constant returns to intensity.

Once you have reached this intensity, then it is optimal to further reduce irrigation water use by reducing acreage.”

A county-level data analysis of crop production in the Great Plains and Corn Belt showed losing about one to 1.5 inches of precipitation short of meeting the evapotranspiration demand for crops, including corn, is about the place where (See LIMITED on page 30)

White House targets antibiotic resistance The White House is joining the fight against antimicrobial resistance. Late last week, President Obama issued an executive order to stop the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which he calls a “serious threat to public health and the economy.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), antibiotic-resistant bacteria cause at least two million illnesses and 23,000 deaths annually in

the United States alone.

According to the executive order, detecting, prevent and controlling antibiotic resistance will require a “strategic, coordinated and sustained” effort with cooperate among government, academia, industry, healthcare providers, the general public, agriculture and international partners.

The order calls for the creation of a Task Force to be co-chaired by the Secretaries of Defense, Agriculture and HHS that will develop a fiveyear action plan to imple-

Market Report Closing prices on September 23, 2014 Scoular in Pence Bartlett Grain Wheat..................

$ 5.14

Milo ....................

$ 2.88

White Wheat .......

Corn ...................

Soybeans ...........

$ 5.29 $ 3.45 $ 8.46

Scott City Cooperative Wheat..................

$ 5.14

Milo (bu.).............

$ 2.89

White Wheat .......

Corn....................

Soybeans ...........

Sunflowers..........

ADM Grain

$ 5.29 $ 3.46 $ 8.61

$ 14.40

Wheat..................

$ 5.17

Corn....................

$ 3.26

Milo (bu.).............

Soybeans............

Sunflowers..........

$ 2.86 $ 8.41

$ 14.95

Wheat..................

$ 5.14

Milo (bu.).............

$ 2.89

White Wheat .......

Corn....................

$ 5.29 $ 3.46

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Sept. 18

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Sept. 19

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Sept. 21

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ment a National Strategy for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (Strategy).

Among a lengthy list of goals in the strategy is to continue taking steps to eliminate the use of medically important antibiotics for growth promotion in food-producing animals.

The National Pork Producers Council said with the order, the White House has acknowledged something NPPC has said for years - that more research is needed to understand antibiotic resistance.

“NPPC is pleased that the

administration agrees that more research is needed and looks forward to working further with FDA and USDA on determining the most informed and appropriate solutions for combating antibiotic resistant bacteria,” said NPPC President Howard Hill.

The pork producers weren’t the only agricultural group to weigh in on the announcement. American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman says raising healthy (See ANTIBIOTIC on page 36)

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Cold snap may have nipped Ks. sorghum, beans more than corn From time to time over the past few months it seemed like fall was trying to crowd out summer, and now it’s a little more serious. The latest cold snap may have been enough to impact grain filling and test weight for Kansas’ summer row crops, especially sorghum and soybeans, according to a Kansas State University agronomist.

“Based on preliminary temperatures, the lowest temperatures recorded around the state may have a potential impact on the grain filling and final test weight for summer row crops, especially sorghum and soybean, since corn is close to 50 percent mature,” said Ignacio Ciampitti, crop specialist with K-State Extension.

“In the last 17 days, we have recorded temperatures below 35 degrees for several counties,” said Mary Knapp, assistant state climatologist for Kansas.

Osborn County had the lowest recorded temperature of 29 degrees, but Ellis, Trego, Ness, and

SCO “On the other hand, you could have a total loss, and you would collect nothing from SCO, because the county didn’t trigger.”

If a producer chooses 70 percent coverage, he or she will have more coverage over the county yield trigger, he said, because that would be 86 percent down to 70 percent covered by the SCO. Producers who sign up for the SCO might benefit from remaining enrolled if they have a low actual production history (APH) yield but think the county loss will likely be greater, Barnaby said. Producers will have until later this winter to decide if they want to enroll in PLC or ARC. If they decide to enroll in ARC for winter wheat, they are not eligible to be covered by the SCO. “You can substitute for SCO by simply going to an enterprise unit and buying up on the coverage level,” Barnaby said.

“You can buy an 80 percent enterprise unit for

Decatur counties also had temperatures dipping to around 30-31 degrees.

The northwestern and north-central corners of the state particularly have experienced the low temperatures. The central part of the state saw temperatures as low as 33 to 37 degrees, while the south region (west, central and eastern portions) had overall temperatures above 40 degrees.

The temperatures experienced in the last 17 days fell below the 30-year average for 101 of Kansas’ 105 counties. For the north-central counties of Smith, Phillips, Mitchell, Graham, Rooks, Osborne and Trego, the departure was close to 7 degrees below the 30-year average.

Impact on Crops In most of the state, Ciampitti said, the state’s corn crop is beyond the dent stage (50 percent mature). Corn is affected with temperatures below or at 32 degrees. Lower temperatures can produce an equivalent or greater

damage even when the exposure time is relatively minimal.

Clear skies, minimum humidity and no wind conditions increase freeze damage even with temperatures above 32 degrees.

“Any freeze damage at this point of the season will hardly produce any visible symptoms but can impact the final test weight and potentially seed quality (depending on the growth stage),” Ciampitti said.

Researchers in Wisconsin found that a light frost (affecting leaves) will produce a five percent yield reduction, while a killing frost (affecting leaf and stalk) will reduce yields by 12 percent, even when the corn is at the dent stage.

The only point in which corn is not affected at all by freeze is at the black layer stage.

“Kansas’ soybean crop is into the final reproductive stages (dropping leaves),” the agronomist said. “Temperatures below 32 degrees can interrupt grain filling and impact

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Farm program aid is available

A computer decision aid released by the USDA can help farmers decide on the best option for participation in 2014 Farm Bill commodity programs - ARC, PLC and SCO. The Excel-based computer aid will allow farmers to evaluate programs and select the option that best fits their farm.

Using the tool, farmers can enter their crop acres and yields, and the program will calculate their new crop base acre allocation and program yield. Results, presented in both current and updated base acres, can help farmers determine if updating their base acres with the Farm Service Agency (FSA) is to their advantage.

The model estimates the future yields based on trend yields, but farmers have the option to override these values and can re-run it with different sets of assumptions about prices and their yields.

Learn more about the program and access it online on K-State’s Ag Manager website (http://www.agmanager.info/crops/insurance/risk_mgt/rm_html14/OSU-KSU_ ModelRelease.asp).

the same premium or less than you can buy 70 percent optional units in most counties and in most farm situations.”

If producers don’t cancel the SCO for their winter wheat before acreage reporting date and do sign up for ARC down the road, they will owe 20 percent of the SCO premium to cover administrative expenses.

Visit the USDA’s website (http://www.rma.usda.gov/ news/currentissues/farmbil l/2014NationalSupplement alCoverageOption.pdf). The USDA’s FSA also has more information online (http:// www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/web app?area=home&subject=ar pl&topic=landing) about PLC and ARC.

yield, meaning lower test weight and seed quality.”

Necrosis of the leaf canopy is a visible symptom of freeze damage in soybeans.

Absolute temperature is more important than the duration of the cold stress - especially if temperatures drop lower than 28 degrees.

The timing of the freeze effect will increase the likelihood of affecting yields. As the crop approaches maturity, the impact of a freeze event on soybean yields declines.

The Kansas sorghum crop is more than halfway coloring (14 percent mature). Low temperatures will reduce seed growth and affect final test weight and seed quality.

“A freeze will kill sorghum if the stalks are frozen and impair the flow of assimilates and nutrients to the grain,” Ciampitti said.

“A freeze at the harddough stage (before grain matures) will produce lower weight and chaffy seeds.”

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Agronomists co-author cover crop field guide Farmers interested in planting cover crops to improve soil health now have an updated and expanded resource in the second edition of the Midwest Cover Crops Field Guide.

The pocket guide, released Sept. 22, was produced by Purdue University and the Midwest Cover Crops Council, with input from DeAnn Presley, K-State

soil management specialist; Peter Tomlinson, K-State environmental quality specialist; and other agronomists in the Midwest.

“This is a great resource on cover crops. It is objective and thorough, and applicable to conditions of Kansas as well as neighboring states,” Presley said.

Growers plant cover crops for a variety of rea-

Limited water hits this constant returns to intensity, Hendricks said.

Crop water need, as defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization, is the depth of water required to meet the water loss through evapotranspiration—loss of water through evaporation from the soil and transpiration from the plant.

Evapotranspiration helps determine how much water is needed by rain or irrigation for crops such as corn.

“One of the key things that surprised me when I did the analysis is that’s quite a bit of water per acre only being 1 to 1.5 inches short of meeting evapotranspiration demand for corn,” Hendricks said.

“It suggests that a pretty intense level of irrigation is optimal even when water is severely limited. As we’re seeing dwindling water supplies, it will likely be optimal to start reducing irrigated acreage relatively soon.”

To further illustrate, Hendricks gave an example where a farmer may choose to cut his or her irrigated acreage almost in half - say 120

sons and possible benefits, Presley added.

Cover crops can trap nitrogen left in the soil after cash-crop harvest, scavenging the nitrogen to build soil organic matter and recycling some nitrogen for later crop use.

They also can prevent erosion, improve soil physical and biological characteristics, suppress weeds, improve water quality and

conserve soil moisture by providing surface mulch.

The first cover crops guide was released in February 2012. The updated guide is in response to the increasing interest in cover crops in the Midwest and to requests for additional information “All this new information will help farmers better choose appropriate cover crops for their situ-

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acres of limited irrigated corn (irrigated at half of corn evapotranspiration demand) down to 66 acres of more intensely irrigated corn (irrigated at optimal constant returns to intensity). That farmer originally had 40 acres of dryland corn, but now tacks on the remaining 54 acres of those 120 acres formerly under limited irrigation, to now equal 94 total dryland acres.

“Before, you were only doing half of corn evapotranspiration demand,” he said. “It could be that you’re planting wheat to do that, or whatever other crops, but the idea is that you’re doing a limited intensity over a large acreage. What’s optimal, according to my numbers, is that you would more intensively irrigate, but you would reduce your irrigated acreage.

“If you do this, you could pay another $4,260 in rent over the entire 160 acres. You’re getting a lot more value by irrigating a limited area at a more intense level.”

Irrigators should crunch their own numbers to figure out when they are getting below this constant

Bison quarantine decision in 2015

By the middle of next year, a decision on a proposal to capture and quarantine wild bison from Yellowstone National Park in an attempt to prevent livestock from catching brucellosis is expected.

Some of the bison will also be relocated in an attempt to create new herds, Matthew Brown reported for the Associated Press.

Thousands of bison from Yellowstone have been slaughtered to control population size and to keep the animals from getting into Montana where they might infect the livestock they come into contact with. The disease can cause pregnant livestock to abort their young prematurely, Brown reported.

A pilot quarantine project in Montana over the last 10 years has been effective at culling out the animals that tested positive for brucellosis. Agricultural groups are still not sure about the bison competing with cattle for grazing space.

returns to intensity level, Hendricks said, and then they would likely be better off reducing irrigated acreage and increasing intensity.

The Role of LEMAs Policy-wise in Kansas, the role of local enhanced management areas (LEMAs) comes into play, if groundwater management districts (GMDs) decide to establish their own groundwater conservation policies. LEMAs are water conservation plans voluntarily implemented by agricultural producers, and made possible by a bill passed in the Kansas Legislature in 2012. The first LEMA in Kansas, the SheridanThomas County LEMA, or Sheridan 6 LEMA, is in the northwest part of the state.

“As people are talking about LEMAs, they’re thinking about reducing their water use,” Hendricks said. “How are they going to adapt to less water? How can they get the most value if they’re going to limit the amount of water? How will the value of agricultural production decline if they

restrict their water use?”

In addition to examining how LEMAs could further affect limited irrigation, Hendricks said he would like to research further how farmers could time irrigation to get more value out of it. Perhaps they could reduce intensity more just by optimally timing irrigation.

Hendricks said he wants to know how much water farmers could reduce before they see a 10 percent decrease in water use decreasing returns by 10 percent.

“At some point we’re going to hit that, my analysis suggests,” he said.

“I’m not exactly sure where, but that’s certainly a conversation for producers. It’s this idea that we can decrease water use without a huge loss in returns. Then at some point it starts to decline at a linear rate.”

Information for this story was presented at the 2014 K-State Risk and Profit Conference in Manhattan Aug. 21-22. View details of Hendricks’ presentation at K-State’s Ag Manager website (http://www.agmanager. info/events/risk_profit/2014/ Papers/12_Hendricks_ LimitedIrrigation.pdf).

ation and better manage the cover crops they grow - all for greater potential benefit for their soils and cash crop growth,” said Eileen Kladivko, Purdue professor of agronomy, and editor of the new publication.

The updated guide features seven new topics: •Getting started in cover crops •Rationale for fitting

cover crops into different cropping systems •Suggested cover crops for common rotations •Cover crop effects on cash crop yields •Climate considerations including winter hardiness and water use •Adapting seeding rates and spring management based on weather •“Up and coming” cover crops (See GUIDE on page 31)

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Livestock producers face Oct. 1 deadline USDA is encouraging producers who have suffered eligible disasterrelated losses to act to secure assistance by Sept.

30, as congressionally mandated payment reductions will take place for producers who have not acted before that date.

Livestock producers who have experienced grazing losses since October 2011 and may be eligible for benefits but have not yet contacted their local Farm Service Agency (FSA) office should do so as soon as possible.

The Budget Control Act passed by Congress in 2011 requires USDA to implement reductions of 7.3 percent to the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) in the new fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.

However, producers seeking LFP support who have scheduled appointments with their local FSA office before Oct. 1, even if the appointment occurs after Oct. 1, will not see reductions in the amount of disaster relief they receive.

This will also lock in the current zero percent

sequestration rate. As an additional aid to qualified producers applying for LFP, the Farm Service’s Agency 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.

This is an alternative to visiting or contacting the county office.

To place a name on the Livestock Forage Disaster Program list online, visit http://www.fsa.usda.gov/ disaster-register .

Davis, Jones first in class at Kansas JLS

Scott County 4-Hers Aubrey Davis and Chance Jones were class winners in the Kansas Junior Livestock Show (KJLS) held Sept. 19-22 in Wichita.

The event featured 715 contestants from 89 Kansas counties showing 1,428 head of cattle, hogs, sheep and goats.

Major sponsors of the show were the Kansas Livestock Association (KLA), Kansas State University and the Agri-Business Council of Wichita.

Prior to the Auction of Champions, KJLS presented $20,100 in scholarships to 13 exhibitors.

Davis, a freshman this fall at Kansas State University, received a $2,000 award.

Guide There also is more information about herbicide carryover, manure and biosolids applications, and crop insurance issues.

Four states have been added to the new guide to round out information for cover crops in the Midwest. They are Kansas,

Results of Scott County participants are: Aubrey Davis: 10th in class 13 - Meat Goat; 1st in class 5 - Meat Goat.

Emily Glenn: 11th in class 22 - Light Crossbred Market Barrow; 11th in class 23 - Light Crossbred Market Barrow Chance Jones: 1st in class 13 - Hampshire Market Lamb; 8th in class 5 - Commercial Ewe Lamb; 9th in class 7 - Commercial Ewe Lamb.

Jaden Jones: 2nd in class 4 Speckled Market Lamb; 6th in class 25 - Crossbred Market Lamb.

Trace Mulligan: 2nd in class 3 Duroc Market Barrow; 6th in class 3 - Duroc Gilt; 8th in class 9 - Dark AOB Market Barrow.

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Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota.

The guide’s second edition is available for purchase at Purdue Extension’s The Education Store at www. the-education-store.com.

There is no online version of the publication.

Kansas producers may

be able to get a copy of the new publication from Presley later this year.

“I bought 500 copies for Kansas producers which I’ll be giving away at K-State Research and Extension winter extension meetings,” Presley said.

Producers who already contacted the county office and have an appointment scheduled need do nothing more.

Livestock Indemnity The Livestock Indemnity Program, the Tree Assistance Program and the Noninsured Disaster Assistance Program Frost Freeze payments will also be cut by 7.3 percent on Oct. 1.

Unlike the Livestock Forage Disaster Program, applications for these programs must be fully completed by Sept. 30.

FSA offices will prioritize

these applications, but as the full application process can take several days or more to complete, producers are encouraged to begin the application process as soon as possible.

The Livestock Forage Disaster Program compensates eligible livestock producers who suffered grazing losses due to drought or fire between Oct. 1, 2011 and Dec. 31, 2014.

Eligible livestock includes alpacas, beef cattle, buffalo, beefalo, dairy cattle, goats, llamas, poultry, reindeer, sheep or swine that have been or

would have been grazing the eligible grazing land or pastureland. 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 Livestock Forage Disaster Program assistance.

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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 t Paint i

Red

Specializing in all coatings

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

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!

Brent Rogers

Sales Consultant b.rogers@officesolutionsinc.biz

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

Education

Truck Driving

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.

REGIONAL OTR drivers for small Omahabased carrier with loads to and from Kansas. Long hoods, 72 mph, paper logs, 12-13,000 miles/ month. Call Lanny at 800810-5432.

––––––––––––––––––––– BUTLER TRANSPORT. Your partner in excellence. Drivers needed.

Great hometime. $650 sign-on bonus. All miles paid. 1-800-528-7825. www.butlertransport.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– START WITH OUR training or continue your solid career. You have options. Company drivers, lease/purchase or owner/operators needed.

(888) 670-0392. www.

CentralTruckDrivingJobs. com.

––––––––––––––––––––– GREAT PLAINS Trucking of Salina is looking for experienced OTR tractor-trailer flatbed drivers or recent driving school graduates. Our drivers travel 48 U.S. states as well as the lower Canadian provinces. We offer excellent compensation, benefits, home time and equipment. Please contact Brett or Randy at 785-823-2261 or brettw@ gptrucking.com, randyl@ gptrucking.com.

Help Wanted SEEKING PROCTORS for the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress. For more information and to apply visit http://www.westat.com/ careers/field-data-collection-jobs. Search by state then find the NAEP Assessment Administrator position. WESTAT EOE Minorities/Females/ Protected Veterans/ Disabled.

––––––––––––––––––––– $2,000 BONUS. Oil field drivers. High hourly, Overtime. Class A-CDL/ tanker. One year driving experience. Home one week monthly. Paid travel, lodging. Relocation NOT necessary.

1-800-5882669. www.tttransports. com.

––––––––––––––––––––– C O N T R A C T SALESPERSONS to sell aerial photography of farms. Commission basis, $4,225 first month guarantee. $1,500-3,000 weekly proven earnings.

Travel required. More info msphotosd.com or call (877) 882-3566.

105 1/2 W. 11th St., Scott City 620-874-1813 scottcitymfr@gmail.com FB: Scott City Myofascial Release

Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300

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.

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

For Sale LENDERS OFFERING special government programs for manufactured homes. $0 down for landowners. FHA for first-time buyers. VA - $0 down for veterans. Section 184 for federal Tribe members.

Lenders accepting less than perfect credit. 866858-6862.

Is your subscription paid?

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.

Card of Thanks Thank you to family and friends who made my 80th birthday one full of memories and to all of you who took time to say and sing “Happy Birthday” to my mom.

God Bless, Marilyn Speer The family of Earl Gorman would like to thank the doctors and staff of Scott County Hospital for the wonderful care that he received. Also, all the condolences from family and friends during our loss. God bless you.

BRICK HOME

Well kept home, nice west location, 3 bedrooms with 3 car garage.

Buy lots in the Eastridge addition for your new home location.

Thomas Real Estate

www.thomasreal-estate.com

914 W. 12th Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620)-872-7396 Cell: (620)-874-1753 or Cell: (620)-874-5002 06tfc

FAMILY HOME

Nice area, approx., 1,692 sq. ft., up and a partial basement. 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, family room, enclosed patio, large kitchen, plumbing down for shower, several updates.

Plus, steel siding, partial sprinkler and SA garage.

ONLY $119,500.

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

Agriculture

Rentals

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.

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 ––––––––––––––––––––– COMMERCIAL/RETAIL SPACE available Sept. 1. 306 W. 5th Scott City. Contact Jeff 8741659.

50tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 14’x 70’ TRAILER with appliances.

Available Oct. 1. $475 per month includes water and trash service. $475 security deposit required. Call 620872-3076.

06t2c ––––––––––––––––––––– STORAGE UNITS in various sizes available at The Storehouse, Don and Trudy Eikenberry 620872-2914.

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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.

Services

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 620214-1730.

36tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– METAL ROOFING, SIDING and TRIMS at direct-to-the-public prices. Call Metal King Mfg., 620-872-5464. Our prices will not be beat!

37tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– “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 44tfc a.m.- noon.

––––––––––––––––––––– LADY WANTING to baby sit, all hours, in cliwww.scottcountyrecord.com ents home. Contact 62006tfc 874-8480.

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Help Wanted USD 466 IS LOOKING for substitute route bus drivers. For applications and additional information contact Lance Carter at 620-872-7655.

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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 application today! Turner Sheet Metal, 1851 S. HWY 83, Scott City. 05tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– IMMEDIATE OPENING at USD #468 Healy in the Custodial-Maintenance department. We are an equal opportunity employer, health benefits are included. Applications are available at Healy Public Schools, 5006 N Dodge Road, Healy, KS 67850 or interested parties can contact Dr. Paul Sellon at 06t2c 620-398-2248.

For Sale REMODELED 3 BEDROOM, 1 bath 16x80 trailer, new roof, new appliances on lot with carport and 2 car heated shop $32,500. Call 620-4999175 or 620-384-4360.

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.

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––––––––––––––––––––– OAK DINING ROOM TABLE 4’8” square, leaf extends to 5’, 8 chairs included. 55 gallon fish tank with stand and light. Call 07t2p 872-7344.

Al-Anon at same time and location.

Contact: 874-0472 or 872-3137. 30t52 GARAGE SALES Friday-Saturday, Sept. 26-27

Price Reduced

In Healy: 3+1 bedrooms, 2+1 baths, dining room, family room in basement, has lots of storage in basement, D/A garage, lovely patio and landscaping, lots of extras, must see to appreciate.

Paragons “Tag Sale” 1110 S. Main, Scott City Friday: 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Glassware, housewares, primitives, items for re-purposing, antiques, vintage items, popcorn machine, kickbox video game and lots of stuff!

Garage Sale 1208 Church St., Scott City Saturday: 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Coffee table, toys, TV with stand, DVD player with 5.1 surround, home decor and more.

Proceeds go towards an adoption.

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Employment Opportunities CUSTODIAN Unified School District No. 466 is looking for a qualified applicant for a full-time night shift custodian position at Scott City Elementary School.

For applications and additional information please contact: Lance Carter Board of Education Building 704 College, Scott City, Ks. 67871 (620)-640-7276 USD #466 is an EOE Employer.

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SEEKING BIDS The City of Scott City is accepting bids for the replacement of overhead and walk-in lights with new fixtures at the Scott City Municipal Airport main hangar.

Specifications may be picked up at City Hall.

Sealed bids marked “Hangar Lighting Bids” will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. October 6, 2014.

The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

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SPECIAL EDUCATION PARA-PROFESSIONAL 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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SEEKING BIDS The City of Scott City is accepting bids for the removal, transport, and installation of two heaters currently housed in the City’s water treatment plants to be moved to the Scott City Municipal Airport main hangar.

Specifications may be picked up at City Hall.

Sealed bids marked “Hangar Heater Bids” will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. October 6, 2014.

The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

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PARK LANE NURSING HOME Has openings for the following positions: Full-time CNA 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:

Wheatland Broadband is seeking to fill a full-time position for a Wireless Installer.

Primary hours of employment: Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m..

Job duties include: Installing internet services at member premises, resolving internet related service issues and communicating with members.

Qualified candidates must have a high school diploma or equivalent, should possess excellent communication and organizational skills and construction experience in residential or commercial construction. Experience in microwave radio frequency, telecommunications, or equivalent vocational training is preferred. Must be able to take on-call rotation for 24 hour service assistance.

Applications may be picked up at: Wheatland Broadband office, 416 S. Main St., Scott City, Ks and should be returned to same

by Friday, October 3.

Park Lane Nursing Home

210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org “Quality Care Because We Care”

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Needing drivers.

Scott City, 872-3485 or 1-800-942-7411

WIRELESS INSTALLER

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Pick them up today at:

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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

SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL HAS OPENINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS 406 Main • Scott City • 620 872-2090

PATIENT CARE Acute Care RNs Physical Therapist Respiratory Therapist Outpatient Services RN ER RN OR RN Clinic RN Supervisor C.N.A.s 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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The Scott County Record • Page 36 • Thursday, September 25, 2014

Outdoors

Eddie Velacich, 15, Lakin (foreground) is among youngsters who were on the archery range Saturday morning.

(Record Photo)

Antibiotic animals are a farmer’s top priority, and encouraged the task force to keep an open dialogue with agriculture as it moves forward.

“America’s livestock farmers live on their farms and care about the health of both their families and their animals. Just as parents do not give antibiotics to a child, except when necessary and prescribed by a doctor, farmers don’t rush to treat animals with antibiotics,” Stallman says.

Not everyone was satisfied, however, with the order. Critics said they hoped the White House would have gone further.

“The overuse of antibiotics on the farm clearly

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Expanding the Program While the program is limited to youth who are at least 10-years-old, Torres says he has sponsors who are very interested in expanding the program to include activities for those under the age of 10.

“That wouldn’t be a problem,” Torres says. “I can come up with activities for a younger group. They can shoot a pellet gun instead of a shot gun and we’d have prizes for them as well.”

As for the prospect of having even more kids participate, again, says Torres, that’s not a concern.

“I don’t worry about having too many kids. We’ve had as many as 98,” he points out. “We can always break up the kids into smaller groups and provide an additional activity or two.”

A drawing was held for two shotguns which were given away. In addition, many youngsters were also the winners of waterfowl, turkey and deer hunting trips.

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affects human health, and substantial changes in the use of antibiotics in agricultural settings are necessary in order to preserve this precious resource for human medicine,” said U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) who has been a vocal critic of the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture.

Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said she was disappointed the order didn’t “urge more effective action to limit antibiotic use in animal production.”

“The Administration can’t tackle antimicrobial resistance without tackling unnecessary uses of medi-

cally important antibiotics on the farm. Today cattle, pigs, and poultry are given three times as much antibiotics by volume than are used to treat humans,” says Smith DeWaal.

Allan Coukell, senior director of drugs and medical devices at The Pew Charitable Trusts, welcomed the order and encouraged the Task Force to focus on three key areas: •greater surveillance of infectious organisms, patterns of resistance, and antibiotic use; •vigilant stewardship of existing drugs in humans and animals; and •efforts to spur the development of new antibiotics.

Hope’s Closet (formerly the Thrift Store) has relocated to 311 N. Main in Scott City

We’re here for you and ready to handle your Fall harvest needs!

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