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Thursday, October 3, 2013

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SCHS jump to Class 4A no surprise It was a mix of good and bad news for USD 466 (Scott County) when school classifications were officially announced last week by the Kansas High School Activities Association.

Administration officials and coaches knew Scott Community High School would be one of the bubble schools when it came to being in either Class 3A or 4A. That’s exactly how it turned out as the Beavers remained in Class 3A for football while they are making the move to Class 4A in all other sports and activities.

The reason SCHS is in Class 3A for football is because only grades 9-11 are used to determine classifications since the schools are locked into their playoff districts for two years.

In those three grade levels, SCHS has 192 students - making them the second largest school in Class 3A behind St. George-Rock Creek.

In all other sports and activities the enrollment in grades 9-12 is used to determine classification.

SCHS has 257 students in the four grade levels, making it the third smallest school in the division.

However, this is the first year for two divisions in Class 4A, so Scott City will be in the smaller of the two for basketball, volleyball, baseball and softball.

The 32 schools in the Class 4A-DII have an enrollment range of 251 (Russell) to 432 (Eudora).

“From a football standpoint it certainly makes things a lot easier to remain 3A,” says SCHS Activities Director Randy Huck.

(See SCHS on page 12)

Leoti will return to HPL in ‘14

Two years after leaving the Hi-Plains League it appears that Wichita County High School will be returning.

WCHS has applied for readmission into the league and all that’s lacking is a formal vote, says Supt.

Keith Higgins.

In fact, Activities Director Faron Kraft attended a HPL meeting on Wednesday and WCHS was included in the rotation for football and basketball games starting with the 2014 school year.

“Unofficially, we’re back in the league,” says Higgins. “It will be voted on at the next league meeting.”

WCHS had been part of a restructured Northwest Kansas League that consisted only of 2-1A schools with the departure of Colby and Goodland.

It appears that Leoti isn’t the only team leaving. Another recent member, WaKeeney, has declared its intention to rejoin the MidContinent League.

mystery solved

An emotional Jerry Snyder sees the portrait of Col. Wm. H. Lewis for the first time after it was unveiled by Jerry Thomas (left) during Saturday’s open house. Snyder, a local historian, has spent many unsuccessful years in search of an image of Col. Lewis to be displayed in the museum. (Record Photo)

Photo of only military fatality surfaces 135 years after battle As the history of the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork has unfolded and been documented over the past 135 years, there has been one missing element.

No one knew what Lt. Col. Wm. H. Lewis looked like.

In the West Point Military Academy graduating class of 1849, his is the only photo that’s missing.

Ft. Lewis College, Durango, Colo., doesn’t have an image of their namesake who served in the Civil War and in the Indian Wars that followed.

Ft. Douglas, at Salt Lake City, Utah, where Col. Lewis was the commander for a number of years has no photo.

The only U.S. military casualty in the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork remained, in one sense, one of the biggest mysteries.

Until now.

During an emotional unveiling ceremony held at the Jerry Thomas Gallery and Collection last Saturday morning, a painting of Col. Lewis was seen by the public for the first time. The painting was the work of Thomas, whose painstaking research and determination had come across a long lost photo of the popular military leader.

Local historian Jerry Snyder was standing next to Thomas when the display was unveiled and, for the first time,

saw the image he has spent many years searching for. Moments after seeing the display that also included a dress sword belonging to Col. Lewis, Snyder broke into tears.

“I couldn’t believe it,” he said afterwards. “I had no idea. We had been looking for (a photo) for so long, I didn’t think we’d ever find it. It’s amazing.”

It truly is amazing when one considers the detective work that took place on an international scale as Thomas tracked down the photo - at times himself wondering if the last image of Col. Lewis had been lost to time.

(See MYSTERY on page two)

No sense of sadness at Battle Canyon

(See LEOTI on page 12)

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Twenty-three-year old Northern Cheyenne Wade Redhat, Billings, Mt., looks down into Battle Canyon from a bluff prior to the dedication ceremony Friday afternoon.

(Photo by Larry Caldwell)

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SCHS streak comes to an end with loss at Ulysses Page 23

Greg Sanchez has been to enough battle sites from the Indian Wars that the feeling has become alltoo-familiar.

In nearly every instance, the site memorializes the deaths of countless Native Americans - a place where atrocities were inflicted upon his people and others.

Battle Canyon offered a different feeling for the nearly 90 Northern Cheyenne who made the trip from Lame Deer, Mont.

There wasn’t the sadness or the heartache.

“Nobody died, so it was a good thing,” he said while taking a break in the Jerry Thomas Gallery and Collection on Saturday morning.

(See SADNESS on page 11)

The Scott County Record • Page 2 • Thursday, October 3, 2013

‘Haunted hospital’ gets commission’s okay Ghosts, witches and the walking dead weren’t exactly the occupants Scott County commissioners were hoping to see in the former hospital, but that’s who they are getting for two days this month.

The commission approved a request from parents to transform part of the building into a haunted house on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1-2.

The haunted house is a fundraiser for the Scott City Middle

School cheerleaders.

Commissioners were assured by cheerleading fathers Erik Wiechman and Tim Miller that parents would be in charge of the haunted house on both days.

They were also assured that the hospital would be cleaned up afterwards.

They explained that they were only needing two hallways and the courtyard. One hallway will be used for the first night of the spook house and the other

Mystery The hunt for Col. Lewis’ photo went through Mary Leefe and her descendants. Mary, also known as Mame, was a six-year-old youngster at Ft. Dodge when Lewis was also there and when the colonel took part in the battle with Northern Cheyenne in Scott County.

“Sixteen years ago, when I started doing this, I came across this book about a little girl who told of being the daughter of an infantry officer. The story goes on to say that she missed seeing the return of a tall, handsome figure who would give her candy on the front porch. She was sad to see his bloodstained blanket in the lawn because it had been used to carry him from the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork,” says Thomas.

She was referring to Col. Lewis.

hallway on the second night.

“I think it’s a great use of the facility,” said Commission Chairman Jim Minnix.

He said that the hospital has been made available to the Kansas Highway Patrol for drug dog training.

The parents said they would only need electricity in the building, but no water.

sented information by Scott Strom of 360 Energy Engineers about doing an energy audit of their buildings.

The company has a main office in Lawrence.

Commissioners questioned the need for an audit at this time since the hospital, Law Enforcement Center, Park Lane Nursing Home, library and courthouse have been renovated in recent Energy Audit Commissioners were pre- years.

“We did an energy audit at the time we were renovating the nursing home and library,” noted Minnix.

“Even new facilities may not be operating as efficiently as they should be,” said Strom.

“Maybe in another three or four years, as technology changes, we may want to take another look at this,” Minnix said. “But I think we’re in excellent shape at this time.”

(continued from page one)

I’ve been offered a lot of money for these items. There are places that would dearly love to have them, but this is where they’ll stay.

Jerry Thomas

“I was able to acquire it and the original photo is in a vault where it will stay,” says Thomas.

Two days after acquiring the photograph, Thomas received another call from the east coast notifying him that Col. Lewis’ sword was available. Inscribed on the scabbard is “W.H. Lewis USA.” That has also been added to the Lewis exhibit in the Jerry Thomas Gallery and Collection.

“I’ve been offered a lot of money for these items. There are places that would dearly love to have them, but this is where they’ll stay,” says Thomas. “We want people to come to Scott City and to this museum and gallery in order to see this collection,” He also owns Mary Leefe’s memorabilia (scrapbook, etc.) which is now part of the gallery’s permanent collection.

Thomas also squashes any doubts about the authenticity of the photo or other memorabilia.

“I have a good network of friends and collectors,” says Thomas, who also adds, “their authenticity is well-documented. I have enough provenance on the artifacts in this collection to know that they’re the real deal.”

Finding the Scrapbook The search for the photo took Thomas overseas 11 years ago where he contacted descendants who still had the original scrapbook. The historian and artist thought that he would finally claim the long lost photo, only to find an empty space in the book where the photo of Col. Lewis had once been.

“I was devastated,” says Thomas, who says it was even written in pencil, “Col. Lewis photo missing.”

“But I was still confident we would find the photo. I firmly believed that we needed to bring it back here where it belongs.”

It wasn’t until years later that Thomas received a call from Mame’s grand- Why no photos?

So, why is there only son informing him the photo had been discov- one known photo of Col. Lewis? Thomas offers ered.

several explanations.

First of all, Col. Lewis was serving in the West during the Civil War and all the great wartime photographers were in the East.

Secondly, about two years after his death, his parents’ home burned to the ground.

“And there was another reason,” adds Thomas.

“He wasn’t a publicity hound like Custer.”

That’s despite the fact that Col. Lewis was an honored and respected military officer. He was cited for meritorious achievement in Mexico and Colorado.

“Gen. S.A. Holabird was the quartermaster general in the (West Point) graduating class with Lewis. He wrote a great expose´ on what a distinguished officer and what a great man he was to the men under his command,” Thomas says.

The photo was taken at the Washington, D.C., studio of photographer Samuel Montegue Fassett when Col. Lewis had traveled back east to see his family. Interestingly, the photo was taken in civilian clothing, not a military uniform.

“He preferred being what he called ‘normal’ when he would visit home,” says Thomas.

Adding further to the historical significance of the photo is the fact it was taken by Fassett, a famous photographer who also took one of the most famous images of Abraham Lincoln, among other famous individuals during that era.

And, as an additional piece of history, Mary Leefe married the famous artist Frederick Sturgis Laurence.

“I’ve studied (Lewis)

so much that I’ve become attached to him,” says Thomas, who tried to capture the officer’s compassion in the painting.

He says that a year before the battle, in July 1877, Col. Lewis met with Starving Elk while the Northern Cheyenne were passing near Ft. Dodge on their way to the Darlington Agency in Oklahoma.

At the time, he tried to assure Starving Elk that the government would take care of the Cheyenne.

“A year later he wrote that he was very discouraged in the way the Northern Cheyenne were being cared for at Darlington.

And he was very conflicted when he was ordered to go after the Northern Cheyenne and send them back to Darlington,” Thomas says. “He did his duty as an officer even though he was sympathetic to the plight of the Northern Cheyenne.”

Now that he has an image of Col. Lewis in hand, that allows Thomas to move forward with a battle painting that he’s been planning for a number of years. There was no way he could pursue the painting in the past without knowing exactly what Col. Lewis looks like.

“I know what his horse looked like and what he was wearing. Now I know what he looked like,” Thomas says. “My plans are to do this from the vantage point of a Cheyenne rifle as Lewis is directing his men in battle.

I think this will be a dramatic image.”

It will add yet another element to the growing story line and understanding of the events that make the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork a significant part of history in the West.

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Community Living

Page 3 - Thursday, October 3, 2013

Balancing food safety and unnecessary waste

The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic recently released a study that says that each year Americans throw out as much as 40 percent of the country’s food supply, worth an estimated $165 billion.

Much of this is a result of confusion regarding the dates found on a product.

How products are dated in the US can be very confusing and can lead to unnecessary food waste. This also makes it very difficult for smallscale food producers and

processors to know how to date their products.

On the other hand, food safety people will often urge others who are uncertain about a food product: “If in doubt, throw it out.”

How do we balance reducing food waste and ensuring food safety?

Hopefully, these key facts will help consumers

protect themselves from potential food safety risks, but also not waste food unnecessarily.

1) The only food product on which expiration dates are federally regulated is infant formula.

Therefore, you should NOT buy or use baby formula after its “use-by” date, for both safety and nutritional reasons.

2) Some states do require dating of some foods, but other than infant formula, there is no regulated dating system across the US. However, USDA does provide the

following definitions for various terms used on food product labels: •“Sell by” date: Tells the store how long to display the product for sale.

You should buy the product before that date.

•“Best if used by (or before)” date: Recommended for best flavor or quality. It is NOT a purchase or safety date.

•“Use by” date: The last date recommended by the manufacturer for the use of the product while at peak quality. *Note that these dates generally refer to food

quality, rather than safety.

However, they can give a general idea of how long the food has been in the market.

3) The most important thing consumers can do to impact the length of time they can safely keep and use food is to handle it properly. This includes the following: •If perishable, take the food home immediately after purchase and refrigerate it (at 40° or below) within at least two hours.

Freeze it if you can’t use it within USDA recommended refrigerated stor-

age times. These times can be found at www.fsis. usda.gov *Note that once a perishable product is frozen, microbial growth stops, so it will be as safe as it was when it went into the freezer.

•Store foods at the proper temperature and length of time. Do not leave perishable foods at room temperature for more than two hours. For example, if you know that a carton of milk has been sitting on the counter for (See SAFETY on page 12)

Births PARENTS OF SON Donnell and Laci Unruh, Leoti, announce the birth of their son, Luke Connor, born on Sept. 25, 2013, at the Kearny County Hospital, Lakin.

He weighed 5 lbs., 10 oz. and was 18 inches long.

Maternal grandparents are Mervin and Patsy Koehn, Leoti.

Paternal grandparents are Donald and Jewell Unruh, Scott City.

Amanda Shearmire and Jordan Unruh

Shearmire-Unruh are engaged

Jordan Unruh and Amanda Shearmire are happy to announce their engagement and forthcoming marriage.

Amanda is the daughter of Chad and Kimberly Shearmire, Scott City. She is in her senior year of dental hygiene school at Manhattan Area Technical College, with plans to graduate in May, 2014.

Jordan is the son of Jerrold and Kari Unruh, Scott City. He graduated from Garden City Community College with an associates degree in applied sciences. He is employed at Edwards Spraying.

The wedding will be held at the First Baptist Church, Scott City, on Aug. 2, 2014. The couple plans to reside in Scott City.

Shayla Specht and Landon Tucker

Specht-Tucker to wed Nov. 16

Sherry Knott and Troy and Deb Specht, Garden City, announce the engagement of their daughter, Shayla Specht, to Landon Tucker, son of Gary and Jan Tucker, Scott City.

Shayla graduated from Southwestern Heights High School, Kismet, in 2007 and attended Garden

City Community College.

Landon graduated from Scott Community High School in 2001 and from Northwest Kansas Technical College, Goodland, in 2004.

The couple will be married on Nov. 16, 4:00 p.m., at the First Christian Church, Scott City.

Fairchild reunion held in Scott City

Grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Raymond Earl and Alta (Bennett) Fairchild met at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Building in Scott City on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 for their annual reunion.

The Saturday evening meal was grilled hamburgers, hot dogs and all the trimmings. The evening was spent visiting and taking pictures.

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

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

Newton, and Janet Gallardo, Garden City.

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

Representing the Elise (Fairchild) Verbeck family were: Lois and Bernard Welch, Lloyd Verbeck, Jr., Jack and Annie Verbeck, Jerry and Linda Verbeck, Jenny Verbeck; Jessi, Eli and Emery Dalke; Julie and Jacklyn Brayfield,

Bryan Pleitez; Ashley, Mayson and Landon Cowan; and Robyn Verbeck, Wichita.

Representing the Kenneth Fairchild family were: Fox and Sheri Still, Yancey and Amanda Still, Journey, Hunter, Destaney and Justice, Sharon Springs; and Windy, Taylor, Rae, Tabasco, Chloe and Piper McClung, Ellis.

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

Representing the Viva (Fairchild) Miller family were: Howard and Eldera Russell, Chappel, Nebr.; Larry and Greta Bicket, McPherson; and Charolette Wendel, Garden City.

Representing the Jessee (Fairchild) McClendon family were: Marion McClendon, Amarillo, Tex., Misty Heinrich, Kaine Unger and Aomyigh Unger, Scott City.

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Editorial/Opinion

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editorially speaking

Symposium:

2-day event showcased our history and heritage

Anyone who attended the two-day Battle Canyon Symposium held in Scott City should have come away impressed with the history that this area enjoys, the knowledge shared by those who have studied the battle and the wealth of artifacts on display at the Jerry Thomas Gallery and Collection.

Congratulations to Thomas for organizing an event that had been talked about for several years, but never could get off the drawing board until now. This was no small accomplishment considering the logistics of bringing the Northern Cheyenne to Scott County in addition to gathering other authors and historians who could offer their perspectives on the journey and the battle.

It is no exaggeration to say that Thomas is probably the only individual with the connections and the fortitude to make this happen.

The Northern Cheyenne delegation of nearly 90 people was truly appreciative of their reception here and the hospitality shown to them. They shared some wonderful stories and offered great insight into the events surrounding the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork.

In addition, Thomas has again proven that this gallery is becoming home to one of the most extensive collections of Battle Canyon artifacts from both the Northern Cheyenne and military participants.

The story behind the discovery of a long-lost and nearly destroyed photo of Lt. Col. Wm. H. Lewis - the only known image in existence - is a testimony to his persistence and desire to make this gallery the most complete and historically accurate collection of artifacts to be found anywhere.

Thanks to the Northern Cheyenne for sharing their time and experiences. Thanks to Jerry Thomas for making Scott City the home to a oneof-a-kind historical collection.

We are very fortunate.

Obamacare:

Demand for health care causes sign-up ‘failures’

When 2.8 million people tried to access the federal government’s Obamacare website, in addition to several million visitors to websites sponsored by several states - all in an attempt to get health insurance or find cheaper rates that would seem to be a sign that Obamacare is something that people have been waiting for.

Not if you’re a Congressional Republican.

Rather than taking notice of the number of people entering the websites on Day No. 1 of Obamacare, they instead focused on the fact that those websites couldn’t keep up with the demand.

Congressman Tim Huelskamp complained about the on-line system overload, saying that Obamacare “simply is unworkable, unaffordable and increasingly unpopular.”

Had the government websites received only several thousand inquiries and worked perfectly, the Congressmen would have complained about the lack of demand. When the websites are inundated with millions and millions of hits - and unable to keep up with the demand - that’s another sign that Obamacare is destined to fail.

Obviously, the President and Obamacare are in a no-win situation.

Adding to the irony of Obamacare critics is that Republicans have done all within their power to pull funding for the Affordable Care Act and to engineer its failure. In addition, states, such as Kansas, refused to implement their own marketplace options, passing that responsibility to the federal government.

The result was an even greater demand on the federal government’s website.

Tens of millions of Americans are looking at marketplace options with Obamacare, not because they want it to fail, but because the current system of health insurance has failed them.

They are looking for a way to buy affordable care for themselves and their family and protect themselves from the risk of an economic catastrophe.

Congressmen Huelskamp and fellow Republicans have demonstrated time and again they don’t care about the economic hardship the current system imposes on working class families.

Their only focus is to perpetuate a failed system and to demonize Obamacare.

Keeping young out of Obamacare

Opponents of Obamacare have come up with the ultimate game plan for stopping the health care program in its tracks (other than shutting down the government).

They’re telling young adults to avoid Obamacare like an extra helping of vegetables.

“Don’t believe anyone if they tell you Obamacare is good for you,” warns FreedomWorks.

“You heard the same thing about spinach and where did that get you?”

Young people are in the prime of their life. They’re indestructible. Who needs health insurance?

Or car insurance? Or homeowners’s insurance?

Or any kind of insurance?

You’re invincible. Bad things always happen to someone else.

As for young people under the age of 26 who could be added to their parents’ health insurance, the message from Republicans and the billionaire Koch brothers is to “Just say no!”

There’s no better way to show that you’re ready to make mature, adult

decisions than by telling your parents, “Thanks, but no thanks” for something that will cost you nothing.

It’s the principle of the thing, right?

The Koch-funded FreedomWorks is even providing young people with “Obamacare draft cards” that can be downloaded from their website and ceremonially burned.

Of course, there’s also a 60-minute video which explains to young people what a draft card is and why anyone would want to burn it.

FreedomWorks also makes it possible to download a map showing the underground network that will take young people to Canada so they can be true Obamacaredodgers.

The fact that Canada is offering the very thing that these young people are escaping from in America - only better - is beside the point.

You’d be sending an unmistakable message that you’d rather live in Canada and get free socialized health care than be forced to live under the oppressive nature of Obamacare in the United States.

Americans for Prosperity, another Koch-funded organization, is reportedly looking into setting up kiosks at college football games urging college students to sacrifice insurance subsidies for the noble cause of destroying Obamacare.

What could make more sense than telling college kids who have been partying all night before a game, all morning on game day and again throughout the game that “You don’t need insurance. What could possibly go wrong?”

But there’s one other little secret we’d like to share with young people (everyone else leave the room for a minute). The reason Obamacare needs you is because you are young and healthy. Obamacare, to a large degree, is counting on you in order

for it to work. When you buy insurance, it helps subsidize the cost for older and less healthy individuals who, naturally, visit the doctor more often and have higher medical bills.

And here’s another little secret that the Koch brothers and conservative Republicans don’t want you to know. Someday you will be older and less healthy, too. Yes, despite what you may have heard on Fox News, it’s true. We know it’s true because it happened to us.

One day you’re going to the KSU-KU football game and partying until 4:00 in the morning with your friends. Next thing you know, you’re sitting at home watching the KSU-KU football game and falling asleep by halftime.

Here’s something else that really bothers the anti-Obamacare forces.

One thing that Obamacare does (which Republicans really don’t like either) is that it provides young people subsidies to buy insurance so it’s more (See YOUNG on page six)

We can’t always be winners

As children return to school this fall and sign up for a new year’s worth of extracurricular activities, parents should keep one question in mind.

Whether your kid loves Little League or gymnastics, ask the program organizers this: “Which kids get awards?” If the answer is, “Everybody gets a trophy,” find another program.

Trophies were once rare things - sterling silver loving cups bought from jewelry stores for truly special occasions. But in the 1960s, they began to be mass-produced, marketed in catalogs to teachers and coaches, and sold in sporting-goods stores.

Today, participation trophies and prizes are almost a given, as children are constantly assured that they are winners. One Maryland summer program gives

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awards every day - and the “day” is one hour long.

In Southern California, a regional branch of the American Youth Soccer Organization hands out roughly 3,500 awards each season - each player gets one, while around a third get two. Nationally, A.Y.S.O. local branches typically spend as much as 12 percent of their yearly budgets on trophies.

It adds up: trophy and award sales are now an estimated $3 billion-ayear industry in the United States and Canada.

Po Bronson and I have spent years reporting on the effects of praise and rewards on kids. The science is clear. Awards can be powerful motivators, but nonstop recognition

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does not inspire children to succeed. Instead, it can cause them to underachieve.

Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford University, found that kids respond positively to praise; they enjoy hearing that they’re talented, smart and so on. But after such praise of their innate abilities, they collapse at the first experience of difficulty.

Demoralized by their failure, they say they’d rather cheat than risk failing again.

In recent eye-tracking experiments by the researchers Bradley Morris and Shannon Zentall, kids were asked to draw pictures. Those who heard praise suggesting they had an innate talent were then twice as fixated on mistakes they’d made in their pictures.

By age 4 or 5, children

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aren’t fooled by all the trophies. They are surprisingly accurate in identifying who excels and who struggles. Those who are outperformed know it and give up, while those who do well feel cheated when they aren’t recognized for their accomplishments.

They, too, may give up.

It turns out that, once kids have some proficiency in a task, the excitement and uncertainty of real competition may become the activity’s very appeal.

If children know they will automatically get an award, what is the impetus for improvement? Why bother learning problemsolving skills, when there are never obstacles to begin with?

If I were a baseball coach, I would announce at the first meeting that there would be only three (See WINNERS on page six)

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GOP destined to become a permanent minority

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by Harold Meyerson

For the third time in less than 20 years, congressional Republicans are bringing the nation’s government to a halt in an attempt to reverse the outcome of national elections. The first instance was Republicans’ shutdown of the government in 1995-96 (which, actually, was two shutdowns in rapid succession). The second was their impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998.

Today, we’re slogging through the third - yet another shutdown.

Each instance had its proximate causes. In 1995, the GOPcontrolled Congress, led by House Speaker Newt Gingrich, refused to fund the government after Clinton rejected its spending cuts to Medicare benefits and Republicans failed to muster the votes to override his vetoes.

In 1998, the House, led by then-Majority Whip Tom DeLay, impeached Clinton for having sex with an intern but denying it to a special prosecutor (whose charge, uncovering Clinton’s alleged business scandals, had turned up nothing).

This week, Republicans have shuttered the government to pressure President Obama to stop implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Repealing the health-care law would require either a Republican president or veto-proof majorities in both the House and Senate, but Republicans failed to elect any one of these in 2012.

The punishment the GOP metes out never really fits the “crime” Republicans insist has compelled them to act. In rejecting the Republicans’ proposed Medicare cuts in 1995-96, Clinton was simply reasserting what had been national policy for 30 years.

If Republicans truly believe that Obama must be forced to undo the socialization of medical insurance, they would demand the repeal of Medicare, not Obamacare.

Republicans never convinced most ordinary Americans, much less constitutional scholars, that Clinton’s sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky, and his denial of same, amounted to the high crimes and misdemeanors that the Founders said were grounds for impeachment.

And it’s absurd to argue that Obamacare - modeled after a right-wing think tank’s proposal for a health-insurance program that left the private healthinsurance industry intact - is a socialist threat to the American way of life. If Republicans truly believe that Obama must be forced to undo the socialization of medical insurance, they

would demand the repeal of Medicare, not Obamacare.

So, what’s really going on?

What’s behind this two-decade drive to employ the obstructive power of a governmental minority to undo the policies that a majority enacted or to unseat an elected president?

Plainly, the gap between the Republican Party and the rest of the nation has widened. And as that gap has grown, Republicans have become more insular and more desperate - a toxic combination for a functioning democracy.

The Republicans who swept to power in 1994 were the first House and Senate delegations that reflected the party’s new center of power in the white South. For the first time in Republican history, most of the party’s top legislative leaders came from former Confederate states, where resistance to minority and worker rights was

an established tradition.

Even today, this resistance remains key to the GOP’s hold on power; the voter-suppression efforts in Republican-controlled Southern states make this clear.

Since 1995, the demographic and cultural changes transforming this nation have deepened the Republicans’ marginality. The growth of Latino and Asian populations - both groups increasingly trend Democratic - has relentlessly reduced the white share of the electorate, on which Republicans have come to rely almost exclusively.

The only presidential election in which the GOP nominee has won a plurality of the popular vote since then was George W. Bush’s reelection in 2004.

The current Republican hold on the House is the product of the lily-white, gerrymandered districts that GOP legislators crafted after the 2010 Census; (See MINORITY on page six)

Tea Party has accomplished its grand mission

by E.J. Dionne, Jr.

Another slap to the poor

by Jim Hightower

The bluebirds of happiness are chirping away in our nation’s treetops, for America is now in the fifth year of economic recovery, with stock prices at record highs, corporate profits soaring, and employment is even ticking upwards.

But wait, what’s this? Down below the treetops, down at the grassroots, poverty persists and is spreading. Also, income disparity is worsening as middleclass workers are pushed into lower-wage jobs and poor people are pushed out entirely.

Far from happiness, joblessness among our lowest-income families is now the worst on record, topping 21 percent.

The plight of the poor is so dramatic that even Republican

leaders in the US House have noticed them and are reaching out with open hands - unfortunately, not to help lift up the needy, but to slap them in the face.

In a gratuitous act of callousness, the GOP slashed $4 billion-a-year out of the food stamp program, complaining that even though our economy is recovering, more and more people are getting food assistance.

Apparently these congress critters never even visit reality.

Hello, boneheads - the program has expanded only because all of the “recovery” benefits went to those at the top, leaving those at ground level reaching desperately for food stamps as a life preserver.

In fact, the program lifted

about four million Americans above the poverty level last year and kept millions more from sinking deeper into destitution. It’s a safety net that’s been working - exactly in the way it’s supposed to.

Yet, just for the hell of it, these laissez-fairyland Dickensians added insult to the injury their cuts would cause for millions of America’s hard-hit people. They tacked on a provision to let the meanest of states force the needy families to submit to humiliating drug tests as the price of obtaining food for their families.

And House members wonder why their approval rating is in the ditch!

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

Yes, the tea party Republicans should hang a “Mission Accomplished” banner across the House of Representatives.

They could flank it with large portraits of Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican who ousted John Boehner as speaker of the House in an unacknowledged coup.

The right-wing extremists got exactly what they wanted.

Now, what will the country do about it?

In blundering into a shutdown, Boehner has lost any claim to authority. Helpfully, the Speaker-in-Name-Only underscored this fact himself on the House floor when he mocked the way President Obama talked.

Does anyone remember a real speaker going to the well of the House and making fun of a president of the United States?

Can anyone now doubt who is responsible for Washington’s dysfunction?

The Republican right still does not accept the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency.

That is why the government shut down.

The issue here is not that Congress failed to reach a “compromise.” The Democrats already have compromised, lopping some $70 billion (this number has been updated from an earlier version) off their budget proposal, to the dismay of many liberals.

That was meaningless to a tea

party crowd that seems to care not a whit about the deficit, despite its fulsome talk. It will be satisfied only if Congress denies heath care coverage to some 25 million Americans, which is what “repealing Obamacare” really means.

It needs to be said over and over as long as this stupid and artificial crisis brewed by the tea party continues: Financing the government in a normal way and avoiding a shutdown should not be seen as a “concession.”

Making sure the government pays its debt is not a “concession.” It’s what we expect from a normal, well-functioning, constitutional system. It’s what we expect from responsible stewards of our great experiment.

The extremists who have taken over the House do not believe in a normal, constitutional system. They believe only in power.

There’s a profound irony here, since no one talks more about the Constitution than the tea party. Before the Civil War, John C. Calhoun and a variety of nullifiers and future secessionists spoke incessantly about the Constitution, too. We know where that led.

In the normal course of things in a constitutional and democratic republic, parties win elections on the issues that matter to them. They pass laws or repeal them by majority vote.

The tea party could not muster such a majority to repeal the (See MISSION on page six)

The horror movie known as socialized medicine The core argument of the hysterical Republican diatribe against Obamacare is that it will push Americans down a slippery slope into the nightmare of, gasp, socialized medicine!

The phrase regularly trips from the lips of GOP reactionaries.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz declared in his recent 22-hour speech: “Socialized medicine is - and has been everywhere it has been implemented in the world - a disaster.”

Congressman Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.) tells us, “Obamacare is a perfect tool to crush free enterprise and force all Americans into a socialist health care system.”

These mantras are conversation-stoppers. They are designed to flood the mind with murky

behind the headlines by Jeff Faux

images of indifferent bureaucratic sloth, incompetent if not sadistic doctors and nurses, dingy overcrowded waiting rooms and other grim scenes from a dystopian medical horror movie.

The purpose is to convince the public that as bad as our health care system is, real change would make it worse.

The menace of socialized medicine is perhaps the most successful long-running propaganda campaign in our political history. The rest of the civilized world has established health care systems that produce

healthier outcomes at half the cost, while we Americans - our minds clouded with specters of brutal Stalinist collectivism cling to our grossly inefficient, expensive, unfair and unhealthy way of preventing and dealing with illness.

Effective propaganda not only stops the conversation, it stops thought. Once you are convinced of the presence of unfathomable evil, there is no need to try to fathom it. The mind becomes safely barricaded against reality.

My sister-in-law Liz - an American - lives in London, where they really do have socialized medicine in the form of the government-run National Health Service (NHS). She called on a recent Saturday. Suddenly her

vision had become blurry and she saw floating spots in front of her eyes. Since my wife had recently had a torn retina, Liz asked her advice. Marge said Liz should see a doctor.

So Liz hung up and clicked online to the NHS “symptom checker” website. Less than a minute later, she got a message with flashing red lights confirming that she needed medical attention.

Then the phone rang. It was a-physician’s assistant. They discussed her symptoms. He concluded that she should come to the eye hospital right away.

But it was a rainy Saturday night and Liz’s husband was out of town. She would rather have waited until Monday.

“Don’t wait,” he said. “Come to the hospital now. They will

be expecting you.” When she still resisted, he said, with a Pakistani lilt to a typical British expression: “Do it for me, love.”

She did. As soon as she arrived a doctor examined her and confirmed that her retina was torn and that she needed laser surgery.

But there were a few emergency cases ahead of her. So, she had three options: wait a few hours and have it done that night; go home and come back at 8:00 a.m. and be taken immediately; or, if she didn’t want to go home in the rain, she could stay over night in the hospital free of charge of course.

She opted to go home.

Next morning - 8:00 a.m. on a Sunday - she had the procedure.

(See HORROR on page six)

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in 2012, House Democrats won nearly 1.4 million more popular votes than House Republicans.

This leaves two ways that Republicans can affect policy at the national level: They can embrace minority rights (i.e., immigration reform) and accept a legitimate role for government in the nation’s economic affairs (which, polls show, millennials strongly support).

Or they can try to maximize the power of their minority status by trying to disrupt the nation to the point that the majority will be compelled to support Republican positions.

Rationality dictates the first choice, but rationality doesn’t hold much sway in today’s GOP. Right-wing media fuel support for Republican lawmakers’ most obstructionist tendencies. And Republicans in safely GOP districts don’t have to concern themselves with voters who may cringe at their radicalism.

Is this course sustainable? Ultimately, no.

Eventually, the number of millennials, voters of color and fed-up moderates will rise to the point that 218 sufficiently white and conservative House districts can no longer be crafted. How much havoc Republicans can wreak until then, however, is anybody’s guess.

Harold Meyerson is a political and domestic affairs columnist for the Washington Post

Young

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affordable. Once you’re in, they hope you’ll stay in.

That’s called marketing.

Obamacarehaters will say that it’s unfair for you to be coerced into getting health insurance just so you can subsidize others who aren’t as healthy.

It’s no less unfair than for people in their 30s, 40s and 50s - who are all required to purchase car insurance if they own an automobile - to subsidize the cost of insurance for teenagers and young adults who, quite frankly, don’t drive as safely. We may not always like the cost of our premiums, but we’ve all been young before and we know what it was like when we were behind the wheel of a car.

It’s called shared risk . . . or shared responsibility.

Of course, you don’t have to participate in Obamacare. And should you suffer a major illness or accident that buries you under a pile of medical bills, that’s a small price to pay for the right to say no to health insurance.

While the Koch brothers will tell you what a great American you are they won’t be there to help with your medical bills. Real Americans, as they will also remind you, must take responsibility for their actions.

When it comes to paying the price for patriotism, sometimes you’re on your own.

Rod Haxton can be reached at editor@screcord.com

by Andy Borowitz

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - Millions of Tea Party loyalists fled the United States in the early morning hours today, seeking what one of them called “the American dream of liberty from health care.”

Harland Dorrinson, 47, a tire salesman from Lexington, Ky., packed up his family and whatever belongings he could fit into

his Chevy Suburban just hours before the healthinsurance exchanges opened on Tuesday, joining the Tea Party’s Freedom Caravan with one goal in mind: escape from Obamacare.

“My father didn’t have health care and neither did my father’s father before him,” he said. “I’ll be damned if I’m going to let my children have it.”

But after driving over 10 hours to the Canadian

Winners awards: Best Overall, Most Improved and Best Sportsmanship.

Then I’d hand the kids a list of things they’d have to do to earn one of those trophies. They would know from the get-go that excellence, improvement, character and persistence were valued.

It’s accepted that, before punishing children, we must consider their individual levels of cognitive and emotional development. Then we monitor them, changing our approach if there’s a negative outcome.

The bill? Zero. Indeed, there was no bill.

There were no insurance forms. No deductibles. No waiting for the hospital and doctor to make sure they would be paid. The entire system from the time she logged in to the symptom checker was focused on solving her medical problem as quickly as possible and without the frustrating red tape that ties up Americans before they even see a nurse, much less a doctor, Unfortunately, this was not her first experience; Liz and her family have had several serious health problems over the last few years. Fortunately, they live in a country where health care is considered a human right. The treatment in every case has been excellent - and free.

Undaunted, Mr. Dorrinson said he had begun looking into additional countries, like Chad and North Korea, but he expressed astonishment at a world seemingly overrun by health care.

“It turns out that the United States is one of the last countries on earth to get it,” he said. “It makes me proud to be an American.”

believe that attendance is all it takes to get a promotion.

In life, “you’re going to lose more often than you win, even if you’re good at something,” Ms. Twenge told me. “You’ve got to get used to that to keep going.”

When children make mistakes, our job should not be to spin those losses into decorated victories.

Instead, our job is to help kids overcome setbacks, to help them see that progress over time is more important than a particular

win or loss, and to help them graciously congratulate the child who succeeded when they failed.

To do that, we need to refuse all the meaningless plastic and tin destined for landfills. We have to stop letting the TrophyIndustrial Complex run our children’s lives.

This school year, let’s fight for a kid’s right to lose.

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and author

That’s exactly the problem, says Jean Twenge, author of “Generation Me.” Having studied recent increases in narcissism and entitlement among college students, she warns that when living rooms are filled with participation trophies, it’s part of a larger cultural message: to succeed, you just have to show up. In college, those who’ve grown up receiving endless awards do the requisite work, but don’t see the need to do it well.

In the office, they still

Ashley Merryman is the author, with Po Bronson, of “NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children” and “Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing”

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As a taxpayer, Liz pays indirectly. But it is cheaper than such coverage - if it were available - would cost here. That’s because overall health care costs as a share of the British economy are less than half of what they are in the U.S., despite the millions of Americans who remain without coverage.

Yet the British live longer and by most measure are much healthier, having fewer incidences of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, lung disease, hypertension and other major serious health problems. These facts rarely, if ever, make their way into our national discussion.

Having associated the phrase socialized medicine with frightening negatives, propagandists in the service of the corpo-

Mission peal the Affordable Care Act because Democrats held the White House and the Senate in the 2012 elections.

Lacking a majority, the extremists chose force.

“Do what we want,” they said, “or we will render the country ungovernable.”

That’s what they have done. Everyone says Boehner knew better and did not want this outcome.

But he was so fearful for his job that he let it happen.

My conservative colleague Michael Gerson had it exactly right: “We are no longer seeing a revolt against the Republican leadership, or even

Mexico, noting, “They may have drug cartels and narcoterrorism down there, but at least they’ve kept health care out.”

Dorrinson was halfway to the southern border before he heard through the Tea Party grapevine that Mexico, too, has public health care, as do Great Britain, Japan, Turkey, Spain, Belgium, New Zealand, Slovenia, and dozens of other countries to which he had considered fleeing.

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However, when it comes to rewards, people argue that kids must be treated identically: everyone must always win. That is misguided. And there are negative outcomes.

Not just for specific children, but for society as a whole.

In June, an Oklahoma Little League canceled participation trophies because of a budget shortfall. A furious parent complained to a local reporter, “My children look forward to their trophy as much as playing the game.”

Horror

border, Dorrinson was dismayed to learn that America’s northern neighbor had been in the iron grip of health care for decades.

“The border guard was so calm when he told me, as if it was the most normal thing in the world,” he said. “It’s like he was brainwashed by health care.”

Turning away from Canada, Dorrinson joined a procession of Tea Party cars heading south to

rate health care industry are free to apply the term indiscriminately to anything that might threaten their profits.

Medicare was denounced as socialism until it became too popular to attack. Obamacare a plan originally designed by the ultraconservative Heritage Foundation to further embed the private insurance and pharmaceutical companies in the health care system is similarly smeared. As is the Canadian singlepayer system, which like Medicare, preserves the delivery of health care by private doctors under a government-run insurance pool.

The problem is not just Republican Tea Party reactionaries and shills for the insurance and phar-

maceutical industries.

Democrats, including those who know better, are thoroughly intimidated by these paranoid images.

Both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have acknowledged that a Canadian - style single payer system, in effect Medicare for everyone, is the best solution to our chronic health care crisis. It is simple to understand, covers everyone, and would cut our national health care costs in half.

But both suppressed even discussion of it as too radical. So they ended up proposing - in Obama’s case, passing - an expensive, vastly complicated, program that makes marginal improvements, but still will leave millions without coverage and the insurance and drug

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against the Republican ‘establishment’; this revolt is against anyone who accepts the constraints of political reality.”

I would only add: This is also revolt against anyone who accepts majority rule and constitutional constraints.

The burden now is on Republicans who know how profoundly radical and, indeed, crazy the tea party has become. These genuine, non-radical conservatives know how irresponsible this shutdown is. They know that playing around with the debt ceiling later this month would be a profoundly un-patriotic act.

“It’s a dead end,” Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said of the shutdown strategy.

King, along with Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), had the courage to stand up against the lunacy by voting against Boehner’s last in a series of craven proposals Monday night.

Dent told CNN that as many as 200 Republicans were secretly hoping that there would be a vote on the Senate’s continuing resolution so the government could stay open. But if those Republicans exist, they are paralyzed, unwilling to stand up to the far right.

There is only one way for this to end: Republicans who know better

need to tell the far right, “Enough.” They need to overcome their abject fear of Republicans who are under Cruz-control and their cheerleaders in Rush Limbaugh’s world. They need to exit the boulevard of self-inflicted wounds.

We now know where the tea party’s political experiment ends. If this shutdown does not end the tea party’s reign of intimidation, we will face one unnecessary crisis after another as the extremists keep ripping up the roots of our great constitutional system.

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

companies free to charge whatever the market will bear.

The point is not that the British, or Canadian or any other system is necessarily the exactly right model for the U.S. But we will never get anywhere near the right model unless the ideological fog that clouds our political discourse on health care is lifted. Only when the public can see clearly that there are workable alternatives will we reform our perverse “free market” health care system.

Until then, even with Obamacare, we will continue to coddle the corporate scaremongers while back here in the real world ordinary Americans needlessly suffer - and die.

Jeff Faux is a founder and Distinguished Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute

The shot that prevented a massacre, saved a nation

One rifle shot was all that probably prevented the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork from being a major defeat for the U.S. Army.

That same shot may have saved the Northern Cheyenne people.

The shot that changed the course of history was reportedly fired by an anxious, young warrior after the U.S. 4th Cavalry had crossed a creek near present-day Camp Christy and was proceeding north into the valley of Punished Woman’s Fork. Instead of riding into an ambush, approximately 236 soldiers and about 15 scouts were able to regroup and slowly converge on the Northern Cheyenne and gradually push them farther north into Battle Canyon during the late afternoon battle.

Had that first shot not been fired, the result could have been a “mini Little Bighorn,” says Dr. Richard Littlebear, president of Chief Dull Knife College located on their reservation near Lame Deer, Mont.

In the short term, that would have been good for about 350 Northern Cheyenne hoping to return to their homeland in Montana.

“It would have made the escape much easier from this place,” says Littlebear, whose people were forced to escape without horses or provisions as they resumed their journey north.

But the ultimate cost might have been much greater just as public opinion in the East and in Europe was turning in favor of the Northern Cheyenne.

“They would have seen our flight from Darlington Agency in a different way. It may have become a mini Little Bighorn Battle,” says Littlebear. “That would have tipped opinion negatively toward our people.”

After visiting the battle site for the first time during the two-day Battle Canyon Symposium, Littlebear gained added respect for what his people were able to do at the site and their escape afterwards. He said it was no small task slipping out of the canyon under cover of darkness with about 140 children and another 120 women.

“It’s pretty impressive that, even though they were surrounded, they managed to get away through a slight draw to

the northwest,” he observes. “If they hadn’t gotten through, a lot of them, maybe all of them, would have been killed here.

“That was the intent of the United States Cavalry,” he says. “The Northern Cheyenne would not have surrendered. They were prepared to die here.”

The 1,500-mile trek of the Northern Cheyenne from the Darlington Agency, near El Reno, Okla., to Lame Deer, Mont., hasn’t achieved the historic significance of similar Native American marches such as the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the Navajo Long Walk or the trek of Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé.

“Those are the ones you see written about,” notes Littlebear. “The one thing that’s common to all of them is that the United States government prevailed. They always managed to defeat the Native Americans. With our trek back north, we prevailed.

We got what we wanted and the U.S. government did not.”

Littlebear speculates that another reason the journey, and the battle, haven’t been told of more in history books is because it wasn’t the site of

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Military re-enactors from the U.S. 4th Cavalry ride through Battle Canyon prior to the dedication ceremony at the National Historic Site last Friday afternoon.

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a massacre or atrocities committed against Native Americans. That sets it apart from many battle sites involving Native Americans and the U.S. Cavalry.

“Which is kind of lucky for us,” he says with a laugh.

In addition, it’s natural for the Northern Cheyenne to share their history among themselves, but not with others.

“We don’t talk about

ourselves. We don’t trumpet our accomplishments all that much,” Littlebear says.

The president of Chief Dull Knife College says the opportunity to visit Battle Canyon and other area sites of significance to the Northern Cheyenne has been therapeutic.

“This weekend has been a good relief, at least for me. It’s always highly emotional for us because we’re the descendants of

people who survived these events. And it’s good to tell your people there’s another side to history than what you may have read in the history books.”

But he also realizes that with the hardship his people have experienced over more than 135 years comes at least one moment of good fortune.

“Had one shot not been fired, I probably wouldn’t be standing here today,” he adds.

Fighting for their freedom Larry Caldwell staff writer

Clinton Bird Hat gently wrapped the eagle feathers into a red cloth, steadily pulling and folding the edges over the top, making a neat bundle. He would use these sacred feathers in a Cheyenne ceremony Thursday morning on a bluff overlooking Battle Canyon at Punished Woman’s Fork.

The eagle feathers are a symbol of the creator to the Cheyenne people; it’s a spiritual messenger. Not just anyone is allowed to have them. Combat veterans must go through a ceremony that permits them to carry feathers from the sacred bird.

Clinton Bird Hat has seen his share of combat.

The black jacket he proudly wears tells at least part of the story. VIETNAM VETERAN it reads on the back.

Between 1967 and 1971 he served with the U.S. Army Rangers from Quan Tre to Da Nang and at some places he doesn’t talk about.

Serving his country was something he wanted to do. But it would also be in Vietnam, where Bird Hat would lose a knee cap and an explosion would damage both ears, limiting his ability to hear.

Before going to Southeast Asia, Bird Hat was a Cheyenne dancer, something he had done since early childhood.

“In high school, when I was 17-years-old, I won the national championship and international championship in fancy dancing . . . mens fancy dancing,” the 65-year-old Bird Hat said.

“But when I lost my knee cap in Vietnam. When I lost my dancing leg over there, I cried. There ain’t

(Above) Tina Walker, Scott City, an assistant to Jerry Thomas, gets a hug from one of the descendants of Dull Knife after receiving a quilt.

(Below) Ariana Bement, a descendent of Dull Knife, attended the dedication ceremony Friday afternoon.

(Photos by Larry Caldwell)

Clinton Bird Hat bundles the scared eagle feathers in red cloth. He uses the feathers in Cheyenne ceremonies.

(Photo by Larry Caldwell)

gonna be no more.”

“I tried my hardest to work it back to where it’s at now. You see me dancing now, I can do the splits and kick over my head,” he said proudly. “It surprises a lot of people that I dance with my artificial knee. I tell people I’m never going to quit dancing.”

He credits his enthusiasm for dance and longevity to his grandfather, Grover WolfVoice.

“He was 98-years-old, he had two canes, thick glasses and wore short white braids. He was still

dancing,” Bird Hat said.

However, Vietnam never seems to be far from his thoughts. It serves as a comparison to Bird Hat for what his ancestors went through at Punished Woman’s Fork.

“The (other Cheyenne) started talking about how the women, children and elders were boxed into the cave . . . Woman’s Den Cave they called it before,” he said. “The warriors went out front to face the enemy, like what the veterans did in Vietnam.

We were the protectors.”

Bird Hat believes that

the Cheyenne warriors in 1878 were fighting for freedom just as he was fighting to keep the Vietnamese people free from communist rule.

“They (Northern Cheyenne) were running for their freedom, is kind of the way I look at it,” he said. “The freedom was a torturous trip for the women and children.

What they went through being marched back from Montana to Oklahoma . . . and then escaping.”

“Our people were running to their freedom,” he said.

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Cheyenne tribal drummers perform during a dance at the El Quartelejo site at Lake Scott State Park on Friday evening.

(Photo by Larry Caldwell)

Visions take Wade Redhat into the past Larry Caldwell staff writer

When you think of Native Americans, it’s probably not baggy pants or earphones connected to an ipod. But when Wade Redhat dons a headdress, the beaded outfit and leather moccasins he is transformed.

Wade Redhat is a dancer. And it’s his passion for dance and the Northern Cheyenne culture that pushes the 23-year-old to perform. But it hasn’t always been easy.

“I tell my stories through my dance,” he said. “I want to show the younger generation what it is to be Cheyenne, what it is to be a Native American.”

“What Native American is,” Redhat continued, “is being passionate about your own tribe . . . your own people. We don’t pray for ourselves, we pray for others. We didn’t gloat when we won the battle of the Little Big Horn . . . we don’t gloat about that. We say I remember. I want to tell you their story.”

He credits 65-yearold Clinton Bird Hat and some of the other elders with teaching him the importance of dance; the importance of his Native American heritage.

“I have been dancing since I was one-year-old,” he said, “Clinton has been in my life a long time, since I was a little kid.

That’s where I get my dancing from, I learned from him and the other elders. They all support me and sometimes I don’t deserve that honor.”

Redhat admits to having his share of difficulties growing up, but through those troubles he found a gift . . . visions.

“I was a very troubled kid, didn’t know who I was, what I was doing.

I was fighting, drinking, doing a lot of bad stuff,” he said He credits these life lessons, at least in part, for allowing him access to what he calls the “spiritual realm. I live between both worlds,” he said.

“Sometimes you are handed a gift. You may not understand your gift or you may not see where it’s trying to lead you,” he continued. “Maybe it’s trying to lead you to be someone that you should have been or maybe it’s telling you to walk down that road . . . live that way of life and let everybody know your story and others’ stories before you.”

Redhat believes Punished Woman’s Fork is a special place, a place to connect with his past and

thank those who fought here.

“It’s a sense of, I’m alive because of them,” he said, “and if it wasn’t for them making that trip home, I would never be here today.”

It’s also a place for his ancestors to tell him stories and to guide him on his path.

“What I saw there was a place in time no others will ever see,” he said.

“More like a vision, a story they wanted to tell me personally. I usually get these visions at places I go, but not like this. There was something different . . . really, really, emotional.”

Redhat said he found it hard to hold back tears as he looked into the canyon.

He wanted to show his ancestors he was strong and proud.

“What I heard and seen there was not laughter . . . it was screaming . . . crying . . . footsteps.

And what I saw there was women and children running . . . hiding, and telling me to hide.”

After that, Redhat says a warrior spirit came up to him and said “take a rifle and pick a spot. I didn’t know what to do . . . so I prayed,” he said.

Next, Redhat remembers a big shadow coming up to him.

Cheyenne dancer Wade Redhat performs at Lake Scott State Park as part of the twoday symposium marking the 135th anniversary of the battle of Punished Woman’s Fork.

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by Larry Caldwell)

“He had a feather cap and what we call a coup stick, made with deer antler.”

A coup stick, or counting coup, was a badge of high honor for the Northern Cheyenne. It was the act of touching or striking a living, unhurt opponent and then leaving him alive.

“He asked me, ‘You Cheyenne?’ . . . and I said yes . . . and he said, ‘Why aren’t you fighting?’ I said what do you mean? ‘As I stare at you right now,’

said the shadowy figure, ‘I don’t see Cheyenne, I see a boy standing here . . . wanting to run, thinking he’s proud. You ain’t fighting.’ So, I went down into the canyon. And the same shadow came up behind me and he said, ‘Now you’re fighting. Welcome brother, welcome to the fight.’”

Redhat once again fought back tears as the vision continued.

“The vision told me that one day as Native Americans we’ll come

home . . . we’ll come back here. And we will fight once again to be who we are . . . to show people that we will never go away,” he said, “but we will also welcome others into the family.”

And even though Redhat can see into his past, he has hope for the future.

“One day we will just live to be. We won’t live by labels. We won’t live by indigenous or by Native American. We will just live by being,” he said.

They did not fight for the conventional things that we so carelessly desire today: status, ego, attention, validation, money, and other short-term gratification.

They fought for a Native identity that existed hundreds of thousands of years before their time in hopes that it will survive for another hundreds and thousands of years.

L. Jace Killsback Jerry Thomas talks about an original map that was drawn on the day of the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork. Among those listening in the foreground are historians and authors Ramon Powers (right) and Jim Leiker.

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Jerry Thomas (left) explains the Gardiner display while one of his great-granddaughters, Meg Galloway-Elliott (center) listens during the unveiling of the exhibit on Saturday morning.

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Like Lewis, Gardiner stood for the oppressed Upon passing by the exhibit at the Jerry Thomas Gallery and Collection which is dedicated to 2nd Lt. Cornelius Gardiner, one might ask why?

What did this young officer do to deserve such a prominent place?

That question is answered once one learns the respect that he had for his commanding officer - Col. Wm. H. Lewis - and how that respect was earned and returned.

An 1873 graduate of West Point, 2nd Lt. Gardiner and Col. Lewis became close friends. Lt. Gardiner was given adjutancy of the march, “which is pretty significant for a second lieutenant,” says local historian and artist Jerry Thomas, who did

considerable research on the young officer.

And when Lewis was mortally wounded during the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork, he asked Gardiner to relieve himself of his adjutancy to lead the 25-man detail responsible for transporting him by ambulance to Fort Wallace.

Gardiner would later become the first governor of Quezon Province in the Philippines (1901-02).

Two of his great-granddaughters were on hand for the open house at the Jerry Thomas Gallery and Collection last Saturday morning. At that time, the Gardiner display was unveiled for the first time.

One of those greatgranddaughters is Julie Terral, Mertzon, Tex.,

who says she has a box of memorabilia and newspaper clippings about Gardiner.

“This has been an amazing weekend. There were a lot of things that I thought I knew, but didn’t know,” she says.

The other great-granddaughter in attendance was Meg Galloway-Elliott, Azle, Tex. The two relatives didn’t even know about each other until Thomas began doing his research about their famous greatgrandfather.

G a l l o w a y - E l l i o t t ’s family has a long history of military service.

“My father was very familiar with (Gardiner’s) history because his father was a colonel in the Air Corps and my father was

a colonel in the Air Force, so the military history was very important,” says Galloway-Elliott.

She admits that she wasn’t familiar with the battle north of Scott City until Thomas met with her about a year ago.

“Afterwards, I came up here on my own and took pictures with my dad and began putting things together. We found it to be very, very interesting,” she says.

What she learned about Gardiner under Col. Lewis’ command and later, as a governor in the Philippines, was “very true to form to what Cornelius would do.

“The family motto that has been passed down is ‘Do Not Pretend.’ We are a family that does not pre-

tend. He was very principled, very loyal and very dedicated.

“We’re very proud of him,” she says.

Galloway-Elliott says that Gardiner took the same attitude with the Filipino people as governor as he did with the Northern Cheyenne.

“He didn’t want anyone persecuted. He didn’t like unfairness. He nearly testified before the Senate when the treatment of the Filipino people came up.

“He and Mr. Taft worked it out and they became lifelong friends. He was a man who stood up for those who were persecuted,” she says.

The Gardiner descendant said she was “thrilled with the display” and that her father would be hon-

ored with the way their family member has been honored.

“We were also excited about meeting the other half of the Gardiner family who also lives in Texas.

Who knew?,” she says.

As an American history teacher, GallowayElliott feels that too much of what happened in the West has been overlooked in the classroom.

“I’m sorry to say that kids don’t understand the history of this part of the country the way they should. It was a tough life for everyone.

“It needs to be taught because we’re the only country with this kind of history. Unfortunately, it gets skipped over. But this is a history of which I am very proud,” she added.

“Today, the Punished Woman’s Fork site comprises one of the few largely pristine Indian wars encounter sites in the nation.” - Jerome A. Green, Historian, National Park Service (retired) The greatest genocide wasn’t caused by the Germans. The Germans are believed to have killed about 10 million Jews.

That’s not as great as the genocide that occurred in this country.

Fifty million Native Americans were killed by the U.S. government. Twenty-five tribes are no longer in existence. That’s a fact that is never mentioned.

But we’re still proud to be Americans.

Anthony Whitedirt looks at one of the exhibits at the Jerry Thomas Gallery Saturday morning in Scott City. (Photo by Caldwell)

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Battle Canyon is the place where life began The Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork could have meant the end of the Northern Cheyenne people.

Tribal historians acknowledge that had they not managed to escape from Battle Canyon under the cover of darkness, they were prepared to die at the site.

That the Northern Cheyenne were able to make their way north and eventually return to their homeland in Montana cast the events in northern Scott County in a whole new light.

“Every night before bed my father would have a prayer for the life we had and he told the story about this place,” says Jennie Parker. “He would say this is the place where we got life.”

Parker, 72, is the last of 11 children who were descendants of Chief Dull Knife. Her great-grandfather was married to Dull Knife’s daughter and her father was Big Spider, who was 15-years-old at the time of the Battle of Punished Woman Fork.

Strong Left Hand, her grandmother’s brother, is the one who takes credit for firing the shot that mortally wounded Col. Wm. H. Lewis.

Parker considers herself “very fortunate” to know the history of Battle Canyon and the flight from the Darlington Agency. When her father told of the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork, he referred to this as the

“place where we got life.”

“From my father’s view, it was hard for all our people after the Little Bighorn battle. People had to go to different places to survive,” Parker says.

The Northern Cheyenne were sent to Oklahoma, but many were determined to return to Montana. The battle north of Scott City “only made everyone more determined to finish the journey.”

‘North Woman’ Helping to guide the band of about 353 Cheyenne was Woman Moving Against the Wind.

“She was a spiritual woman who would go away from the group when they stopped to rest. She would kneel on the ground and cover her head and pray to the spirits. And they would talk to her and give her guidance and tell her what to tell the men where to go,” says Parker. “When she would get back to the group she would tell them where the spirits said they should go.”

As the group neared Ft. Robinson in Nebraska, there was some dissension.

Dull Knife’s reason for seeking refuge at the fort was because he had the majority of old people, women and children, says Parker. The weather was freezing and they were needing food and shelter.

“And some of the young warriors in Dull Knife’s group didn’t want a woman telling

Jenny Parker shows a photo of her grandfather, Big Spider, who was 15-years-old at the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork. His father was married to Dull Knife’s daughter.

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them what to do. Chauvinist guys,” she adds with a grin.

She says that even though Dull Knife and Little Wolf have received most of the attention in history books, the group consisted of several chiefs.

“The chiefs had a meeting and they said that the young men didn’t want her for guidance,” she says. “So Little Wolf said that maybe it’s best that we split up. The people were given a choice of who they wanted to follow. They could choose whether to go with Dull Knife to the fort (Robinson) or continue with Little Wolf.

Dull Knife felt that Ft. Rob-

inson would provide them with a warm place and food. My grandma had to go with Dull Knife’s group and her brothers chose to go with them.”

Her mother’s side of the family, however, chose to continue with Little Wolf.

“Little Wolf’s people found a safe place because the lady was still with them. She was telling them where they can go.

She talked to the spirits and told them the people were splitting up,” Parker continued. “She warned Dull Knife that ‘it’s better if you don’t go that way. It’s better if you travel with us. If you go the other way they will

do things to you.”

“She told Little Wolf where to camp. They found a safe place at Cherry Creek and they stayed there all winter.”

Dull Knife’s band eventually ended up in South Dakota at Cheyenne Creek. Both groups eventually came together and ended up at Ft. Keogh at Miles City, Mont.

“When they got back together they had a celebration and Little Wolf’s group changed her name to North Woman,” Parker says.

The last descendant of North Woman was in Scott City for the symposium.

Jerry Thomas (left) reveals his painting of Col. Wm. H. Lewis from a photo that was discovered. It’s the first known image of Col. Lewis.

(Right) Northern Cheyenne enter Battle Canyon during Friday’s dedication ceremony.

(Record Photos)

A chance to remember our history Larry Caldwell staff writer

The colors of the canyon are reflected in his sunglasses. Conrad Fisher, Cheyenne tribal historian and preservation director, is seeing Battle Canyon at Punished Woman’s Fork for the first time.

Until now it was a place he had only heard about through oral histories or read about in books.

Fisher, along with some 80 Northern Cheyenne, made the trip from the Lame Deer reservation in southeastern Montana to help commemorate the 135th anniversary of the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork - the final battle of the Indian Wars in Kansas.

“It was a tremendous opportunity to view the site,” he said, “and being in research, I wanted to see first-hand exactly what the layout was and what the local people had to say about this place.”

Fisher believes local people can have a tremendous amount of knowledge and information about an area.

“I understand there are a lot of farmers and ranchers who have many good stories to share with us,” he said.

Tribal historian and preservation director Conrad Fisher.

(Photo by Larry Caldwell)

“I think because of the amount of time that has elapsed, sometimes our memories fade and people, our elders, carry that information with them to the next world. It was an opportunity for me to maybe answer some of the questions I had, but I think realistically, it was a great opportunity to pay homage and honor those that fought here,” he said.

For Fisher, it was as if he could go back in time. The battle site today looks much the same as it did when his North-

ern Cheyenne ancestors arrived in late September of 1878.

“I think what I was really feeling was . . . wow, this was the place that Punished Woman’s Fork battle really occurred and to be here and see how strategic that location was, you couldn’t find a better site if you are going to fight off people that are going to capture or kill you.

And the cave was such a nice place to house the women and children.”

“You could feel the sacredness of the area,” he continued,

“feel the presence of many of the spirits, the actual peoples’ spirits . . . the presence of the ancestors that were here. You’re really awed by the area itself.”

Fisher believed the Friday and Saturday events to be a healing experience for both the Cheyenne and for the State of Kansas.

“For some it will bring closure; for others, healing. For everyone, it is a chance to look at a part of our history,” he explained. “It is maybe a time to remember, to remember the ancestors when they came to that location. A time to remember the people that died for them so that they could give us a place back in the northern country . . . those that sacrificed their lives, that wanted to come home to a beautiful place in Montana.

It’s such a powerful, powerful feeling and a drive to want to go back to that place.”

Fisher knows he can’t speak for every Cheyenne who visited the site but he would like to believe that all his people felt the powerfulness and the emotion.

“People felt the spirituality of the area,” Fisher said. “I think that was one of the things they wanted to see . . . was to come down and see this loca-

tion and know and feel and be with the people that were there at one time.”

Fisher says he now understands what his ancestors were talking about after seeing Battle Canyon.

“It’s a powerful, powerful place and we could feel that presence there. As I looked over the canyon, that’s what I was feeling, all those things, all those emotions, and all those questions that you think about when you are not at that location,” he said. “We were one with our ancestors that fought here.”

Fisher hopes the symposium held in Scott City will allow people to better understand the Cheyenne.

“On a larger scale, I think that I would like for people to know who the Cheyenne people are. I want them to know we are human, we have emotions and we thank them for allowing us to be at Punished Woman’s Fork to share some of our history that we have talked about and to know that we are still alive,” he said.

“We’re still here and we are going to be here,” he said.

“We’re not going anywhere and we still consider this part of our ancestral land.”

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Northern Cheyenne Wade Redhat (left) and Clinton Bird Hat, look out from a bluff overlooking Punished Woman’s Fork, to acknowledge riders in the canyon during the dedication ceremony north of Scott City Friday afternoon.

(Photo by Larry Caldwell)

Sadness Sanchez had been at the Battle Canyon dedication ceremony on Friday afternoon and seen the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork National Historic Site for the first time.

More than 350 Northern Cheyenne men, women and children were being pursued by the U.S. 4th Cavalry during their escape from the Darlington Agency in Oklahoma in hopes of returning to their homeland in Montana. The Northern Cheyenne were prepared to make the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork their

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last stand, according to several Native Americans who were in Scott City for the two-day symposium.

A shot fired by Strong Left Hand was believed to be the one that mortally wounded Lt. Col. Wm. H. Lewis and stopped the advancement of the 4th Cavalry.

“If he’s not wounded, the battle is probably over in another 30 minutes.

The Cheyenne were surrounded on three sides,” says historian and artist Jerry Thomas.

Storm Clouds

According to history accounts, only one Cheyenne warrior lay dead on the battle field afterwards.

The Northern Cheyenne and their families were able to make their escape through a shallow draw that extends to the north, from the cave where the women and children were taking shelter during the battle.

They were aided by nightfall and storm clouds which added to the darkness.

The fact that Friday’s dedication ceremony at Battle Canyon was also

Clinton Bird Hat used the eagle feathers to offer a blessing at Monument Rocks as he looks out from one of the rock formations.

held under sporadic rain and threatening clouds wasn’t missed by the participants.

“It was 135 years to the day - a Friday - that the battle took place and the sky was overcast with rain. That’s just like it was on the day of the battle,” Thomas says. “We couldn’t have scripted it any better.”

The spirit of celebration was also noticed by the Cheyenne visitors.

“Many times we go to a battle site and it’s been a slaughter and we go to the memorials. You can

feel the sadness. When we were at the battle site there was no feeling of sadness,” Sanchez says.

“This has opened up my eyes and my ears. It’s been a healing process,” he says. “But there’s no hatred. No anger. I’d never experienced something like this where there were no graves, no killings, where there were kids who survived this.”

In addition to visiting Battle Canyon, the Northern Cheyenne also conducted ceremonies blessing the Sundance Site near Monument Rocks in

southwestern Gove County.

Building Friendships Likewise, the Cheyenne expressed their appreciation to the community and for the respect shown to them during their brief stay.

The outpouring of support from this community was incredible,” says Thomas. “We’ve opened doors that will lead to a long-lasting friendship and there’s a great chance that we will be able to add even more to our museum exhibits.

Paul Threefingers Jr. dances at Lake Scott State Park Friday night.

(Photos by Larry Caldwell)

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Tootsie roll drive to begin

The Scott County Knights of Columbus will start their annual Tootsie Roll sales campaign next week.

They will go to businesses for donations starting on Mon., Oct. 7. On Sat., Oct. 12, they will be selling Tootsie Rolls at the two grocery stores in Scott City.

Proceeds assist special education programs in local schools and support the Special Olympics.

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The 4-H youth will be going door-to-door to collect canned goods and non-perishable items that will be donated to the Community Breadbasket starting at 6:30 p.m. and continuing until dark.

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“But it’s not just sports. We also wanted to increase opportunities for our students in other activities and it wasn’t happening the way we hoped,” says Higgins.

“We had a music contest at Dighton last year and only two or three league schools participated. Music is a bigger deal in the HPL,” he says. “Our junior high kids went from a music contest with 300 or 400 kids to one that has just three or four schools. We didn’t feel that was fair to our kids.”

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“If we’d have been 4A and they would have assigned us to districts with other teams in our league, we could have had two or three openings on our schedule which are pretty tough to fill when you’re in this part of the state.”

As a 3A school, it’s easier for the Beavers to blend their regular season schedule into district play at the end of the season. It’s possible the only opening on the SCHS schedule for next year will be the first week of the season.”

The last two years, Scott City has played a homeand-home series with Abilene and two years before that it was Garden City.

“We’ve been visiting with our league schools so we can have some flexibility in our schedule,” says Huck.

“Right now, I don’t think Abilene will be playing us again. I think they want someone closer to home.”

All high schools will meet in Salina next Wednesday when district assignments are announced and when they can fill the remaining dates on their schedule for the next two years.

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Youth/Education Scott Community High School senior band members display the ribbon they were presented when the marching band earned a I rating at the Kansas State Fair parade. The band earned I’s from all three judges. Pictured (left to right) are Evan Cardenas, Christopher Green, Jordann Becker, Taylor George, Marissa Morris and Lane Turner.

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KU honors program for area seniors Seniors from nine area high schools will be recognized during the University of Kansas honors program to be held on Wed., Oct. 9, at Garden City High School.

The dinner and program will begin at 6:30 p.m.

The KU Alumni Association and KU Endowment will honor 77 seniors from Scott, Lane, Wichita, Kearny, Finney, Greeley and Hamilton counties.

Area students to be recognized include: Scott City: Rachel Anliker, Paco Banda, Andrew Brown, David Burnett, MariKate Crouch, Aubrey Davis, Taylor George, Brayden Strine, Megan Thornburg and Kelly Wycoff.

Dighton: Shambrey Budd, Liz Heath, Marta Payne and Leslie Speer.

Healy: Mariah York.

Leoti: Jantz Budde, Katherine Flores-Bailey and Karla Romero.

Honored students will be guests of the alumni association and KU Endowment. Parents and area alumni are welcome to attend at a cost of $15 each.

Community volunteers collect reservations and serve as local contacts for the event. Kristi Schmitt, Scott City, is the coordinator for Scott, Lane and Wichita counties.

The Kansas Honors Program is made possible by KU Endowment and proceeds from the Jayhawk license plate program.

Since 1971, the Kansas Honors Program has recognized over 120,000 scholars, who rank in the top 10 percent of their high school senior classes and are selected regardless of occupational plans or higher-education goals.

Each year, the KU Alumni Association and its volunteers host 37 programs that reach all 105 counties across the state and include approximately 360 high schools.

SCHS Homecoming activities are Friday Scott Community High School fall Homecoming activities will be held Fri., Oct. 4, when the Beavers host Hugoton High School. Crowning ceremony will take place at 7:00 p.m., prior to the football game.

Queen candidates are Megan Thornburg, daughter of Allen and Julia Thornburg; Bailey Nickel, daughter of Gayla Nickel; and Aubrey Davis, daughter of Kevin and Brenda Davis.

King candidates are Austin Beaver, son of Jay and Suzanne Beaver; Paco

Banda, son of Francisco Banda and Carlos and Laura Mesa; and Parker Nevills, son of Kyle and Melanie Nevills.

Class attendants are: Juniors: Reagan Smyth and Miguel Chavez.

Sophomores: Jade Wren and Wyatt Kropp.

Freshmen: Kiana Yager and Tre Stewart.

Flower girl is Ella Frank and carrying the football will be Kasten Wren.

The traditional Homecoming parade will begin at 4:00 p.m., at the Scott City Post Office. All floats

and participants are to line up on Court Street, near the courthouse, by 3:45 p.m.

The parade route will proceed south on US83 Highway, turning east onto Parklane Street and going by Park Lane Nursing Home, before concluding at the football field.

Security State Bank will sponsor a hamburger feed at the football field starting at 5:30 p.m.

The Homecoming dance will follow the game at the SCHS commons area, lasting until midnight.

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Scott City chapter 2nd in district land judging

The Scott County Natural Resource Conservation Service hosted a land judging competition on Sept. 18.

There were approximately 80 students from 10 schools that participated in the competition which took place on Brittan Ellis’ pasture near Lake Scott State Park.

We judged four land sites and two home sites. The Scott City judging team took second place with Chase Ramsey the top individual, finishing second, followed by Trace Mulligan (6th) and Abe Wiebe (9th).

Other participants were Macy Davis, Asher Huck, Cooper Griffith, Andrew Burnett, Reid Flower, Chase Rumford, Emily Hall, Karlee Logan, Chance Jones, Thomas Hoddy, John Banks, Chandler Janssen, Jenny Erven, Madison Groth, Nancy Wiebe and Eddie Tilton.

On Sept. 25, the Scott City land judging team traveled to Cimarron for district competition. Satanta placed first and moved on to the national competition.

Scott City finished second overall, led by Chandler Janssen (3rd), Griffith (5th), Ramsey (6th) and Mulligan (8th).

Others participating were Wiebe, M. Davis and Tilton.

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School Calendar Fri., Oct. 4: SCHS football vs Hugoton (H), Homecoming, 7:30 p.m.

Sat., Oct. 5: SCMS 7th grade volleyball at Liberal West tournament; SCMS 8th grade volleyball at Larned tournament; SCHS JV tennis at Colby; SCHS JV volleyball at Colby; SCHS varsity volleyball at Oakley.

Mon., Oct. 7: SCHS JV tennis at Tribune; practice for participants in Little Beaver cheer camp, 3:30 p.m.; SCHS JV football vs Hugoton (T), 5:30 p.m.

Tues., Oct. 8: Little Beaver cheer camp practice at SCES gym; 7th/8th grade volleyball at Goodland; SCHS varsity/ JV/C volleyball at Holcomb; pre-school parents as educators literacy night, 6:00 p.m.

Wed., Oct. 9: FFA Greenhand contest at Dodge City; SCMS picture day.

Thurs., Oct. 10: ESL 8th grade student leadership; Little Beaver cheer camp at SCES, 3:30 p.m.; SCMS 7th grade football vs Ulysses, 4:00 p.m.; SCMS 8th grade football vs Ulysses, 5:30 p.m.

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Friday: French toast sticks, fruit cup, juice.

Lunch Monday: Turkey pot roast, *meat loaf, potatoes and gravy, carrot coins, dinner roll, cherry pie and whip.

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120 N. Cimarron Hennessey, Okla. 73742

480.71

101

David Suri

603 N. Washington Scott City, Ks. 67871

72.51

102

William Swearingen

PO Box 453 Leoti, Ks. 67861

17.03

107

Ramon Villarreal

712 E. 5th - No. 8 Scott City, Ks. 67871

136.08

126

Alan/Jade Yeager

1011 N. Main Street Scott City, Ks. 67871

182.52

Lark Speer, Scott County Treasurer

(First published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., Oct. 3, 2013; last published Thurs., Oct. 10, 2013)2t NOTICE OF ZONING HEARINGS Notice is hereby given that the Scott City Planning Commission will hold a special meeting on October 28, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., at the Scott City Council meeting room at City Hall, 221 West 5th Street, Scott City, Kansas, to consider the following agenda items: 1. Application for variance by Max L. Edwards to allow a garage to be constructed of a height greater than and size greater than allowed by ordinance on: South 53’ of Lot Four (4) and Lot Five (5), Block Eight (8), Ware Addition to Scott City, KS (1408 Elizabeth Street) 2. Application for amendment of the official zoning map

by Harold R. Burnett Trust to change the zoning from Ag-Agricultural District to I-1 General Industrial following described property to wit: A tract of approximately 5 acres square, located within the Southeast (SE) Quarter of Section Seventeen (17), Township Eighteen (18) South, Range Thirty-two (32) West of the 6th PM, North of the railroad along Navaho Road 3. Application for conditional use permit by Jack Hawkins to manufacture small arms ammunition on the following described property.

A 3-acre tract in the Northwest Quarter (NW/4) of Section Sixteen (16), Township Eighteen (18), Range Thirty-two (32), lying North of the railroad right of way.

All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at such hearing.

Dated: October 2, 2013 /s/Rodney Hogg, Chairman Scott City Planning Commission

Amount 351.35

2,031.89

and Elizabeth Hess, heirs, devisees, legatees, and CoExecutors named in the Last Will and Testament of Nadine Marie Gies, deceased.

All creditors of the above named decedent are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within four months from the date of the first publication of this notice, as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

Kathleen Hoeme Elizabeth Hess WALLACE, BRANTLEY & SHIRLEY 325 Main - P.O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas 67871 Attorney for Petitioner

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Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., Sept.

12, 2013; last published Thurs., Oct. 3, 2013)4t IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS UNITED STATES of AMERICA, Plaintiff v.

Jennifer L. May, f/k/a Jennifer L. Ramsey, f/k/a Jennifer L. Turley, Justin Wayne Ramsey, State of Kansas, Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Defendants Civil No. 12-1428-JTM-GLR NOTICE OF MARSHAL’S SALE By virtue of and Order of Sale issued out of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, at Wichita, Kansas, in the above entitled case , I will, on Tuesday, the 15th day of October, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock a.m., at the front door of the Scott County Courthouse, Scott City, Kansas, offer for sale at auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, all of the right, title and interest of Defendant Jennifer L. May, f/k/a Jennifer L. Ramsey, f/k/a Jennifer L. Turley in and to the following described real estate, located in Scott County, Kansas, to-wit: Lot Five (5), Block Fourteen (14), Original Town of Scott City, Scott County, Kansas. Except all oil, gas, and other minerals in and under said land and

all rights incident thereto.

Payment must be in the form of Cash, Cashier’s Check, Money Order or Certified Check made payable to the U.S. District Court and will be accepted as follows: •Less the $25,000: entire amount due at conclusion of sale; •$25,000-$100,000: 10% down with the remainder delivered to the U.S. Marshal’s Service Office by close of business day; •More than $100,000: 10% down with the remainder delivered to the U.S. Marshal’s Service Office within five working days.

The contact person regarding inquiries about the above property is Aimee Omohundro, Rural Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture, (785) 271-2726.

The real property levied on is the property of Defendant Jennifer L. May, f/k/a Jennifer L. Ramsey, f/k/a Jennifer L. Turley and will be sold without appraisal, subject to any unpaid real property taxes or special assessments and with a three month right of redemption to satisfy the Order of Sale.

United States Marshal’s Office, Topeka, Kansas, this 27th day of September, 2013.

WALTER R. BRADLEY United States Marshal District of Kansas Craig Beam, Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal

Reappoint Wurst chief judge of 25th District

Judge Wendel Wurst has been reappointed to a twoyear term as Chief Judge of the 25th Judicial District, effective Jan. 1.

Judge Wurst has served the 25th District as a district judge since October 2009, presiding over cases in Scott, Finney, Kearny, Hamilton, Greeley and Wichita counties.

Chief Judge Wurst, a native of Sterling, is a graduate of Kansas State University and Kansas University Law School. He had a diverse, general law practice in Garden City for 29 years before becoming a judge.

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Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department Sept. 22: A theft was reported at Alco.

Sept. 27: Garret Wilken was arrested for DUI and transported to the LEC. Sept. 29: A theft report was taken in the 600 block of Monroe St. Scott Co. Sheriff’s Dept.

Sept. 26: A theft was reported in the 600 block of West 5th St. Sept. 30: John Harley Breckenridge was served an out-of-county warrant while incarcerated in the LEC.

Support Your Hometown Merchants!

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A quick guide to the insurance marketplace Michelle Andrews Kaiser Health News

Even with all the talk from Capitol Hill to Main Street about Obamacare, many people don’t know what they have to do to comply with the law’s requirement that almost everyone have insurance beginning in 2014.

For those who are uninsured, the key to satisfying that requirement could be the new online health insurance marketplaces, which opened Oct. 1 for shopping. Policies will go into effect Jan. 1.

Seven million Americans are expected to find coverage there.

More than 500,000 Kansans would have

15 things to know when shopping for a policy some reason to consider using the health insurance exchange to obtain coverage - such as those with a pre-existing condition according to the Kansas Health Institute.

Here are 15 basic things to know about the marketplaces: 1) The insurance marketplaces are open to nearly everyone, but if you have insurance through work, Medicare or Medicaid, it’s likely you won’t need to shop for coverage there.

They are really for people who are uninsured or folks who buy individual

Taking steps to escape abusive relationship by the American Counseling Association

Most Americans are only vaguely aware of how large a problem domestic violence is in this country. While we may see occasional media reports of individual incidences of physical or sexual abuse, the actual statistics concerning domestic violence are truly shocking.

It’s estimated that every nine seconds a woman in the U.S. is assaulted or beaten. Domestic violence causes more injuries to women than muggings, rapes and car accidents combined. Annually, more than three million women (who are the victims in 85 percent of domestic violence incidents) are physically or sexually abused by a current or former spouse or boyfriend.

Domestic violence can occur in a number of different forms. The generally accepted definition is that it’s a pattern of behavior in a relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner.

While such abuse can be physical, it can also take the form of sexual, economic, or psychological threats and actions with the aim of frightening, intimidating, humiliating, manipulating or terrorizing the other person in order to control her or him.

Recognizing that you have been the victim of physical abuse is usually fairly straight-forward. If you’ve been slapped, kicked or pushed, had things thrown at you, been prevented from leaving your home, or constantly threatened by a partner, these are all actions that constitute physical abuse.

Similarly, a sexually abusive relationship occurs when the victim is viewed as an object rather than a person, with mistreatment running from sexual insults to forced sexual acts.

But while physical and sexual abuse may be the most commonly recognized forms of domestic violence, emotional abuse can be just as destructive.

It occurs when someone is continually criticized or insulted, isn’t trusted, is monitored regarding friends or travel, or is prevented from working.

The victim might have no control of money, must ask permission for everything and is constantly humiliated.

Recognizing when you are in an abusive relationship is but a first step in dealing with the problem. While there’s almost never an easy way to make things better, there are trained people and organizations ready to help.

Many towns now have a domestic violence center with people you can talk to about getting assistance and shelter. To locate one in your area, or to find out what other help is available, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799SAFE (7233).

“Counseling Corner” is provided by the American Counseling Association. Comments and questions to ACAcorner@counseling.org or visit the ACA website at counseling.org

policies now.

2) Many people will qualify for subsidies to make coverage more affordable there.

These subsidies tax credits to help pay your premiums - will be available to people with incomes up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level. That’s about $46,000 for one person or $94,000 for a family of four.

And there are costsharing subsidies to reduce deductibles and copayments, depending on your income.

3) Immigrants who are

in this country illegally are barred from buying on the exchanges.

4) You can enroll until March 31, 2014, though you’ll generally need to sign up by Dec. 15 of this year, to be covered as of Jan. 1.

5) Through the marketplace, you can compare health plans in your area.

The prices are based on where you live, your family size, the type of plan you select, your age and whether you smoke.

All the plans have to comply with the Affordable Care Act’s requirement to have a

basic benefits package, but the amount you have to pay in premiums, copays and deductibles will vary among plans.

6) When you apply for coverage on the exchange, you will find out if you’re eligible for subsidies to help pay for premiums.

Or, if you have a low income, you can also learn if you are eligible for Medicaid coverage.

7) Your income - not your assets, such as your house, stocks or retirement accounts - will count toward determining whether you can get tax credits. When you

buy your plan, you estimate your income for next year, and your tax credit is based on that estimate.

The next year, your tax returns will be checked by the IRS and compared against your estimate.

8) If you qualify for a tax credit to pay your premiums, you can choose to either have the credit sent directly to the insurer or pay the whole premium up front and claim the credit on your taxes.

If you qualify for cost-sharing subsidies, that subsidy will be sent directly to the insurer, and you won’t have to pay as much out of pocket.

9) If your income increases during the (See GUIDE on page 17)

Release insurance plans for the Kansas marketplace Costs vary up to 20% across state Despite technical glitches and limited online functionality, the highly debated insurance marketplaces, a centerpiece of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), opened in Kansas and around the country today.

The Kansas Health Institute (KHI) has produced an issue brief and regional map which summarize the plans and the prices offered in the marketplace for individuals and families in the seven rating areas of Kansas.

There are 72 plans available in the Kansas marketplace provided by four private insurance companies. 65 of the plans are available for individuals and families, and seven for small busi-

nesses. At least two health insurance companies offer coverage in each county, and the average number of plans available per county is 37.

According to the KHI brief, a “benchmark plan” (a middle-of-the-road plan in terms of covered benefits and cost), will be available to a typical family of four at a monthly premium ranging from

$651 to $771.

The same plan would cost a 28 year-old individual $186 to $221 per month, and a 63-year-old couple would pay $1,013 to $1,200 per month.

These figures do not account for any financial assistance that low- and middle-income individuals and families may qualify for.

For that same bench-

mark plan, a family of four with annual income of $25,000 living in Jackson County, (the median-priced county in the median-priced rating area), would pay $42 per month after the premium tax credit, a 28 year-old individual making $12,000 a year would pay $20 per month, and a 63-year-old couple with (See INSURANCE on page 17)

Conference to focus on ‘fiscal experiment When Gov. Sam Brownback and lawmakers restructured the state’s tax code in 2012, the changes were dramatic enough that many observers began referring to it as a “fiscal experiment.”

That fiscal experiment and its effect on communities will be the topic of the 37th annual Kansas Economic Policy Conference, set for Oct. 24, in Lawrence.

The conference will also be available via live broadcast at the Chamber of Commerce in Ulysses.

Registration for both locations is $45.

This year’s program - entitled “The Kansas Fiscal Experiment: Impacts on Communities” - features panel discussions with economists and policy analysts, as well as Kansas community lead-

ers, city and county managers, and K-12 officials.

“Depending on who you ask, you’ll get very different assessments of the Kansas fiscal experiment,” said Donna Ginther, professor of economics and director of the Center for Science, Technology and Economic Policy at the University of Kansas, which is among the groups organizing the conference.

“Supporters of the overhaul have called it an ‘adrenaline shot to the heart’ of the state economy, while others have said it will hurt the state’s ability to provide core services, including K-12 education.

“The goal of this conference is to analyze the state’s fiscal experiment and focus on how it’s affecting Kansas communities.”

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Insurance marketplace sees opening day glitches The new online Health Insurance Marketplace experienced a flood of traffic on its opening day, leading to widespread reports of problems across Kansas, Missouri and the nation.

Federal officials on Tuesday afternoon said that more than 2.8 million people had visited the healthcare.gov website in the opening hours.

“This is Day One of a process. We’re in a mar-

athon, not a sprint and we need your help,” said Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Tavenner said the agency had fixed a major glitch on the website related to the security questions asked during the signup process and that the enrollment system should now be working.

It took Hannah Keepes two hours to create a mar-

Guide year, notify the exchange promptly so that you can avoid having to pay back the credits. On the other hand, if your income goes down, you could be eligible for a bigger subsidy.

Either way it’s important to notify the exchange if your income changes.

10) Each plan covers 10 “essential health benefits,” which include prescription drugs, emergency and hospital care, doctor visits, maternity and mental health services, rehabilitation and lab services, among others.

In addition, recommended preventive services, such as mammograms, must be covered

generally referred to as Obamacare.

Keepes eventually filled out the paperwork in an hour-long phone call with a customer service representative.

“I know it took a really long time and it took a lot of patience,” Zibers said.

“Yeah, we hit all these glitches, but we were able to work around it.”

“The first day is always the worst,” said Pam Seymour, executive direc-

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without any out-of-pocket costs to you.

11) You won’t have to pay more for insurance if you have a medical condition and that condition will be covered when your policy begins. But older people can be charged more than younger people and smokers could face a surcharge.

12) The prices for the marketplace plans are likely to be similar to those sold privately. If your broker offers you a plan that is also available on the exchange, you may be eligible for subsidies.

13) Your insurer generally can’t drop you, as long as you keep up with your

Insurance income of $17,000 would pay $28 per month.

Both more and less expensive plans are also available in the marketplace, and prices vary by region.

Kansas and other states that opted not to expand Medicaid, as allowed by the ACA, have created a coverage gap for the poorest people in the state.

A 28 year-old individual with annual income below the federal poverty level

ketplace account, which she eventually did by telephone, but the Gardner woman wasn’t complaining.

“I knew there would be some glitches,” she said.

Keepes was helped through the process by Caitlin Zibers, a worker at the Health Partnership Clinic trained to help patients navigate the marketplace, which was launched as part of the federal health reform law

insurance premiums and don’t lie on your application. Generally, people will be able to enroll in or change plans once a year during the annual open enrollment period.

This first year, open enrollment on the exchanges will run for six months, from Oct. 1 through March of next year. But in subsequent years the time period will be shorter, running from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7.

14) There are certain circumstances when you would be able to change plans or add or drop someone from coverage outside the regular annual enrollment period. This

could happen if you lose your job, for example, or get married, divorced or have a child.

15) The number of plans that you can choose from is likely to vary widely. In some states, only a couple of insurers have announced plans to offer policies though the marketplace, while in others there may be a dozen or more.

Even within a state, there will be differences in the number of plans available in different areas.

You can expect that insurers will offer a variety of types of plans, including familiar models like PPOs and HMOs.

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of $11,490 would not be eligible to receive a premium tax credit and also would not be eligible for Medicaid.

If they wanted insurance, they would have to pay the full premium price on their own. The same situation would apply to a 63-year-old couple with annual income below $15,510, who would not qualify for a premium tax credit, nor for Medicaid.

“The opening of the Kansas marketplace is an

important milestone for the health reform law,” said Robert St. Peter, M.D., an author of the brief and KHI president and CEO. “There has been a lot of discussion about whether the variety and prices of the plans offered in the marketplace will be enough to attract the large number of Kansans necessary to make it work efficiently. This first year of operation will be critical in determining that.”

The launch of the marketplaces around the country is expected to be bumpy as kinks and glitches in the system are worked out, and online functionality is improved.

“People have time to see how the marketplace works, “said LeAnn Bell, an author of the KHI research brief, “as long as a plan is selected and payments are made before December 15, coverage can still begin as early as Jan. 1, 2014.”

tor of Shepherd’s Center Central, which has two locations in Kansas City, Mo. “I’m confident it will get better.”

Seymour said she was frustrated because without online access, agency representatives were unable to access long awaited pricing information for the plans in the marketplace.

“That could’ve been handled a little better,” she said.

The federal government is operating the marketplaces in 25 other states, including Kansas.

Problems also were reported in some of the 16 states that created their own, most significantly in Hawaii and Maryland.

New York officials reported more than two million visits to its online site.

But numbers on how many people were actually enrolled remains to be tallied.

‘Comfort Zone’ retreat at Camp Lakeside Oct. 18-20 St. Catherine Hospice is again sponsoring the annual “Comfort Zone” Family Retreat at Camp Lakeside north of Scott City. The camp is offered to help families and individuals who are dealing with grief.

The family retreat weekend is designed to help families recognize their differences in coping with grief and encourage them to be open and supportive.

The retreat features sessions for adults, teens and children to share their feelings and gain the tools to help them and their family. The goal of the weekend retreat is to educate the participants about the grieving process and provide suggestions for coping skills.

The retreat is Oct. 18-20. Cost for the weekend, which includes six meals and two nights lodging, is $10 per family member. Financial aid is available to assist families who would not otherwise be able to attend.

The number of participants is limited. For more information or to register call Gina Cash, retreat director, at St. Catherine Hospice 620-272-2519 or 1-800-281-4077 or visit www.stcatherinehospice. org/bereavement to download information and an application.

Pastime at Park Lane The First Baptist Church led Sunday afternoon church services.

Residents played pitch and dominoes on Monday afternoon. Game helpers were Madeline Murphy, Dorothy King, Hugh McDaniel, Joy Barnett and Mandy Barnett.

Residents played Wii bowling on Monday evening.

Pastor Bob Artz led Bible study on Tuesday morning. Doris Riner played the piano for the hymns.

Max Moomaw, Maxine Wilson and Jo Fouse played music on Tuesday afternoon. Max played the guitar, Maxine played the piano, and Jo and Max sang. Darla Unruh furnished cookies.

Residents played trivia games on Tuesday evening.

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

Bingo was played on Wednesday afternoon.

Helpers were Madeline Murphy, Barbara Dickhut and MaryAnn Spangler.

On Wednesday evening several residents played pitch.

Russell and Mary Webster held Bible study class on Thursday evening.

Students read to Golden Listeners

Students from Gina Ramsey’s third grade class at Scott City Elementary School read to their Golden Listeners on Friday afternoon.

Readers and listeners were: Golden Listener

Ann Tedford Carol Auten Maxine Binns Lorena Turley Verlene Mohler Vivian Kreiser Clifford Dearden Jake Leatherman Phyllis Trembley Robin Day Lorine Yeager Arlene Taylor Kathy McKellips Verene Dearden Pat Palen Edna Uppendahl Dona Dee Carpenter Thelma Branine Cecile Billings

Pence women sing at Park Lane

Mennonite Women from Pence sang on Thursday afternoon. Singers included Virginia Decker, Sharon Nightengale, Grace Martens, Alice Unruh, Bev Unruh and Stephanie Unruh.

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

Chet Quance sang a variety of show tunes, country songs and hymns on Friday.

Social Security contributes $12B to Kansas economy A new study from the AARP Public Policy Institute calculates that each dollar paid to Social Security beneficiaries in Kansas generates nearly two dollars in spending by individuals and businesses, adding about $12 billion in total output to the Kansas economy and about $1.4 trillion to the national economy - in 2012.

The report also finds the $7.1 billion paid in Social Security benefits in 2012 helped Kansans keep or find more than 82,000 jobs.

Social Security’s Impact on the National Economy details the multiplier effect created when Social Security recipients spend their benefits and the companies which receive those dollars spend their profits and pay their employees, who in turn spend their wages.

The report provides both national and statelevel data.

AARP Kansas visited Capitol Hill offices earlier this week to deliver the report to the state’s Congressional delegation and voice concerns about chained CPI, a change proposed in budget negotiations that would cut Social Security benefits.

AARP volunteers and staff will also be delivering to Congressional district offices 18,730 petitions representing Kansans opposed to the chained CPI. “This report tells us that any adjustments Washington makes to

Readers

Joshua Zoe Gisselle and Joel Eliana Jaden Evelyn and Leslie Adrian Bryce Luis Elizabeth Yanet Samuel Katie Brandon and Lawson Jace Garrison Aiden Corbin Hope and Grace

Social Security will have a profound effect on individuals of all ages, businesses and our economy as a whole,” says AARP Kansas representative Maren Turner.

“That’s why AARP is fighting the chained CPI and calling for a national conversation about the future of Social Security so those who paid into the system can have a voice in the debate and so future generations get the benefits they’ve earned.”

Social Security benefit payments in 2012 supported more than $370 billion in salaries, wages and compensation for workers across the country.

Of the more than nine million jobs supported

by Social Security spending, about four million were in just 10 industries.

Nationally, the largest employment impacts were seen in the food services, real estate, health care and retail industries.

In addition to illustrating Social Security’s vital role in supporting national and local economies, jobs and workers’ incomes, this report reiterates the importance of Social Security as a vital source of income for millions of Americans.

Social Security benefits keep 22 million people out of poverty, including more than 15 million older Americans, and serve as the foundation of a secure retirement for millions more.

More than 488,000 Kansans receive Social Security benefits.

Residents watched the movie “Columbo” on Saturday afternoon Jake Leatherman was visited by Don and Judy Browning.

Mildred Van Pelt was visited by David Van Pelt and Treva McCandless.

The Scott County Record • Page 18 • Thursday, October 3, 2013

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Pete Steffens, Mr. and Mrs. Joel Bryan, Mark and Terri Fouquet, and Fritzie Rauch.

Judy Redburn was visited by Tina Turley, Wendy Derstine, Elizabeth Parkinson, Debbie Holland Bush and Jim Cooley.

Lula Dirks was visited

by Willetta Payne and Darla Luebbers.

Harold and Ruth White were visited by Travis Jones.

Thelma Branine was visited by Corbin Wilkinson, Sherri Smith, Hunter and Kendall Smith, and Elizabeth Dearden.

Pat Palen was visited by Pete Steffens, Mike Palen, Jace Thomas, MaryAnn Spangler, Lynette Payne and Jean Ludowese.

Verna Willman was visited by Bill Willman.

Vivian Sharpe was visited by Harry Sharpe.

Kathy McKellips was visited by Val Duff, Pat Percival, Phylesha Craft, Colby Craft, Katie Smith, Kay Percival, and Roy and Bernice N. from Oakley.

Edith Norman was visited by Tom and Sara Shane, Jan and JoAnn Norman, Mary Plum and Doris Riner.

Deaths

Earl Gorman was visited by Pete Steffens, Loretta Gorman, Kim Smith, Charlene Becht, Orville Gorman and Tina Turley.

Albert Dean was visited by Logan S., Mallory Solze, and Derek and Kendra Solze.

Boots Haxton was visited by Donna Eitel and Rod and Kathy Haxton.

Lorena Turley was visited by Cynthia Salinas, Pennifer Keller, Neta Wheeler, Phyllis See and Mike and Tracy Hess.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Larry and Sharon Lock, and Gracie Zapata.

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

Jim and Yvonne Spangler were visited by Greg and Yvette Mills, Les and Mary Ann Spangler, Cathy Graff, Bill and Lynette Payne, Adalei Zeller, Jerica VanCampen, and Danica and Jagger.

Clifford Dearden was visited by Kirk and Janet Ottaway, Jessica Hileman and Jill Brantley.

Geraldine Graves was visited by Megan Dirks, Mindy Schrader, Diane Dirks, Jean Ludowese and Fritzie Rauch.

Ann Tedford was visited by Mary Plum and Jean Ludowese.

Harriet Jones was visited by Travis Jones, Nancy Holt, Rev. Don Martin from St. Luke’s Church, and Annabelle McDaniel.

Herb Graves was visited by Tina Turley, Vera Buffington, Robin Day, Elizabeth Parkinson, Crystal Gutierrez, Kelsi Schwartz, and Kay Litton, Shreveport, La..

Darlene Richman was visited by Tina Turley.

Mike Leach was visited

by Rev. Don Martin from St. Luke’s Church and Linda Dunagan.

Cecile Billings was visited by Ann Beaton, Delinda Dunagan, Larry and Donita Billings, Don and Judy Browning; Roger, Toni, and Emily Glenn; and Alyssa Storm.

Ruth Holland was visited by Debbie Bush, Gert Bush, Charlene Becht, Kim Smith and Debbie Bush.

Mike Kitch was visited

by Charlene Becht.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Gloria O’Bleness, Les and Sandy Jensen, Donna Eitel, Bill and Kandi John, Thelma Miller, Jean Ludowese, Fritzie Rauch and Annabelle McDaniel.

Sr. Citizen Lunch Menu

Byron Duane House Byron Duane House, 55, died Sept. 8, 2013, at Kansas City, Mo. He was born May 29, 1958.

Survivors include: his mother, Erma House, McPherson; two sisters, Denise Beasley, Goodland, and Margaret Robertson, McPherson; one

by Jason Storm

nephew, Ryan Thornton, Lawrence; and four nieces, Morgan Fisher, Colorado Springs, Colo., Mikki Beasley, Hays, Danaea Scott, Goodland and Britney of Texas.

Memorials may be sent to: Erma House, 732A Kerschner Drive, McPherson, Ks. 67460.

Week of October 7-11 Monday: Chicken griller, potato rounds, capri vegetables, whole wheat bread, strawberries.

Tuesday: meat loaf, mashed potatoes, gravy, creamy cole slaw, whole wheat roll, cranberry gelatin salad.

Wednesday: Baked fish, au gratin potatoes, mixed vegetables, fruited muffin, fruit mix.

Thursday: Baked ham, cranberry sauce, candied sweet potatoes, California blend vegetables, whole wheat roll, cherry crisp.

Friday: Chicken and stuffing, harvard beets, whole wheat roll, tropical fruit salad. meals are $3.25 • call 872-3501

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You may not need a new Social Security card

by Becky Ewy Social Security assistant district mgr.

Q) I can’t find my Social Security card. How can I get a new one?

A) First, consider whether you really need a new card. You need to apply for a replacement Social Security card only if you don’t know your Social Security number or, if you need to show your card to a new employer.

Even then, you may only need a Social Security number printout to verify your number.

If you decide that you do need a card, you can replace it for free in three easy steps.

Step 1: Gather docu-

ments proving your identity and citizenship or immigration status.

Step 2: Complete an application for a Social Security Card (Form SS-5) Step 3: Take your completed application and original documents to your local Social Security office or your local Social Security Card Center.

You’ll receive your replacement card in about 10 to 15 days.

The types of documents you need to provide depends on your specific situation. Find out what you need by visiting our “decision tree” at www. socialsecurity.gov/ssnumber.

If you don’t need a new

Park Place People

card and the printout will do, you still need to show us documents to prove your identity and U.S. citizenship or immigration status.

However, you can get your printout during your

office visit. Learn more about the Social Security number printout by visiting www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs and typing “printout” in the publication search box on the left side of the screen.

by Doris Riner

Greetings this week from all Park Place residents. Last week was a full week for most of us and we’re anxious to tell you about it. First of all, we loved the cooler weather, didn’t you?

Our newest-latest resident, Ardis Rose, quickly made this her home, has gotten acquainted and is into the full swing of things. We like her being here and we feel she likes her new home. Ardis has three sons, but none of them live close.

Lela Bishop’s trip to a Dutch family reunion in Indiana and Kentucky with her sister and daughter was great. (She didn’t know she was related to so many Dutch people). On the way home she saw lots of corn fields and trees, soybeans and TREES, tobacco fields and T-R-E-E-S! Betty Ohneck’s daughter Beth Wilbur, came over and with her was her grandson, Ryan Andrasek and wife, Mindy, Houston, Tex. Marlyn Ohneck, Rocky Ford, Colo., Lynnet Payne, Pueblo, Colo., and Amee Burch, Leoti, were also here to see Betty.

Mary Plum’s son and wife took her to Forgan, Okla., for a family reunion. Mary has two brothers and two sisters. Her sisters came home with her for a four-day visit here. Mary enjoyed and was proud to show off her new home and some new friends.

Elvira Billinger’s son, Benny, and daughter, Connie Boswell, Garden City, were here to visit her. They also treated her to a “supper out.”

The big news of last week doesn’t happen to often in families. There was a reunion here at Park Place for the Louie Pfanenstiel family. They were all here for four days and Lou was proud and happy all week. We can bet he was plenty tired “when the party was all over”!

Lou has three sons and one daughter, Phil Pfanenstiel, Elk City, Okla., Dave Pfanenstiel, Naples, Fla., Terry and Linda Eddy, Bloomfield, N.M., Jerry and Dana Pfanenstiel, Scott City, Lola Pfanenstiel, Woodland Park, Colo., Teresa and Jorge LaFore, Plains, Bill and Sherrie Bartel, Killeen, Tex., Stewart Fibrega, Naples, Fla., Gail Anderson, and Sally Hughes, Crowley, Colo., and Mary McCormek, Park Falls, Mo. I didn’t have room to tell about my birthday, but I’m 91 now.

Attend the Church of Your Choice

Love Your Neighbor Sept. 15 was “Back to Church Sunday” and I’m wondering did any of our churches notice an influx of people on that particular Sunday?

I thought about writing an article entitled “Why You Should Go to Church” and then I realized churchgoers are probably the only ones reading this. So let me ask you this question, if you had known Sept. 15 was “Back to Church Sunday” what would you have done about it?

Jesus was asked by an expert in the law what he must do to inherit eternal life (Luke 10:25). The conclusion that the lawyer came to was to love God and to love his neighbor. Jesus said he was right, but that didn’t satisfy the expert in the law, “well who is my neighbor?” was his retort.

Jesus then tells the parable of the Good Samaritan. I’m sure you’re familiar with that teaching, but if you’re not it’s found in Luke 10:30-37. At the end of the story Jesus asks “who in this story was a neighbor to the man who fell victim to the robbers?” That’s a great question and when we answer it we come to the conclusion that our neighbor can be anyone.

But I’d like to propose something revolutionary. What if your neighbor was actually your neighbor?

Profound? Yes, I believe it is. Don’t get me wrong I’m not trying to contradict Jesus’ teaching, I’m just saying that we must not be so busy doing good that we neglect the person or family who actually lives in your neighborhood.

Have you ever invited them to church? They might say no, but they might say yes. You don’t have to make a big deal out of it, just ask. If they say no, don’t pressure them, but continue to love them in real and practical ways.

I recently learned that it takes 7-15 encounters or touches with Christ’s love before someone will finally respond in a positive manner. You could be number 3 or number 5, but what if you’re number 15? It really doesn’t matter if you’re a Baptist, a Methodist, Assembly of God or First Christian Church, we can love our neighbor. It’s an evangelism tool that costs nothing, but will pay out in dividends that result in eternal life.

Pastor Scotty Wagner First Christian Church, Scott City

Scott City Assembly of God

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

St. Joseph Catholic Church

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

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

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

Pence Community Church

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

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

Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.

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

Held at Precision Ag Bldg. west of Shallow Water

Holy Cross Lutheran Church

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

Worship every Sunday, 10:15 a.m.

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

Community Christian Church

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

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

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

Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m.

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

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

First Baptist Church

Immanuel Southern Baptist Church

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

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

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

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

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

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Gospel Fellowship Church 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 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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4-H is reaching out to Hispanic community Garden City residents hope that the success of a pilot 4-H program targeted to Hispanic families is another indication that their community is growing closer socially and culturally. “(Community) relationships are all about social connectedness and community engagement,” said Debra Bolton, a family and consumer sciences specialist with K-State Extension’s southwest area office.

Bolton helped set in motion a plan to create a 4-H club for Hispanic families in Finney County, with an initial goal of 30 kids participating. By summer’s end, it grew to 90 families in two Finney County clubs, as well as clubs in nearby Cimarron and Lakin.

A unique feature of this program is that it capitalized on Hispanic families’ reliance on spending time with each other: all members of the family - even toddlers and grandparents - were encouraged to participate together in all activities.

According to Bolton, “The success of the program is in the parents coming together and connecting with one another.

The more the parents are connected, the better the community is. The community is tighter when there is a lot of connection between people who live in the community.”

According to the Census Bureau, Hispanic, Somali, Burmese and Asian Americans account for nearly 60 percent of the approximately 27,000 residents in Garden City.

“The Hispanic community, we have different kinds of challenges; we’ve been asleep for a long time,” said Antonio Perez, who had five grandchildren participating in the summer program.

“This is going to help so everyone can wake up; we need to be involved in a lot of things, not just one thing. The way we’ve been raised, where we come from, we don’t see each other in other things - just work and work – it’s not helping us. We have to do something more and this program has helped a lot.”

Kyle Averhoff, manager of Royal Farms Dairy east of Garden City, said he has recently noticed more active community involvement by Hispanic families in the area.

“The Hispanic community is a huge part of the

success that Garden City and southwest Kansas has experienced and will continue to experience,” he said. “If you look at the dynamics of southwest Kansas, it truly is an economic empire in the way that it has developed and grown, and without the Hispanic culture and the culture of many other immigrant populations, it wouldn’t have been possible to do what it has done over the past four or

five decades.”

Royal Farms Dairy has 60 Hispanic employees, of a total work force of 65.

As a former 4-H member, Averhoff is a proponent of the program, and in fact tried to start a worksite 4-H program for employees and their families.

“As you enter into programs like 4-H, county fairs, church, the YMCA and other programs, what you’re doing is you’re just paving the way to create

the right kind of habits and be associated with the right kind of people, and allow them to grow and develop the quality of ethics that you want them to possess as young adults,” he said.

Yadira Soltero, a mother of two who participated in the summer’s 4-H program, said 4-H is helping families like hers “get involved in something new, (and) doing something important for their

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families and their kids.”

“Others can also get something from us. We’re Hispanic, we have a different culture and we have some different things to offer and show to them.”

Bertha Mendoza, who coordinates the Expanded Food, Nutrition and Education Program for K-State Extension’s southwest area office, helped to recruit many Hispanic families to the summer program.

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SRC women’s volleyball @ , SC Elementary, 5:45, 6:15, 7:30 p.m.

SCHS JV FB@ Hugoton, 5:30 p.m.

Brown Bag lunch Little Beaver cheer SCHS, 11:00 a.m. - camp @ SCES gym, 3:30 p.m.

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Wednesday

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7th - 8th VB @ Goodland, SCHS Pictures 4:00 p.m.

SCMS Pictures SCHS V-JV-C VB @ Holcomb, 5:00 p.m.

HS FFA Green hand contest @ DCCC Educators literacy night, 6:00 p.m.

Thursday

Friday

10 7th FB @ Ulysses, 4:00 p.m.

Saturday

11 ES 3rd Ship building

SCHS V-JV-C VB quad @ Garden City 8th FB @ Ulysses, 5:30 p.m.

ES Pictures HS Regional Tennis @ TBA SCHS FB vs.

Goodland, 7:30 p.m.

Pink out night/ Little Beavers perform

City Council meeting, 7:30 p.m.

Pigskin Payoff entries due, 5:00 p.m.

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St. Joseph Parish Center 7:00 p.m.

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HS State Tennis

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HS Regional Tennis @ TBA SCHS Girls JV Tennis @ Colby 7th - 8th VB GWAC Tournament @ Holcomb SCHS VAR VB Invitational, 9:00 a.m.

SCHS CC @ Lakin, 10:00 a.m.

Community Wellness Fair @ SCMS, 7:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

Art Opening @ Keystone Gallery, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 19 Great Pumpkin 5K

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How you can dispute a credit card charge

by Jason Alderman

Have you ever ordered something online that was delivered damaged or never arrived at all?

Or been double-billed by a merchant? Or spotted a charge on your credit card statement you didn’t make?

Most of us have.

Fortunately, the 1975 Fair Credit Billing Act (FCBA) protects your rights during such credit card billing disputes. It also outlines the process for contesting charges made to your account.

Here’s how it works: First, FCBA protection applies only to “openend” credit account transactions ‘ those involving credit cards or revolving charges (e.g., department store accounts). It doesn’t cover installment contracts you repay on a fixed schedule, such as car loans.

Billing errors that are covered by the FCBA include: •Fraudulent or unauthorized use of your credit card, whether it was stolen or merchants charged unapproved items to your account.

•Charges that list the wrong date or amount.

•Charges for goods or services you either did not accept or that weren’t delivered as agreed.

•Math errors, such as being charged twice for a transaction.

•Failure to post payments or other credits.

(Note: Report suspected fraud immediately. By law, you’re only liable for the first $50 in unauthorized charges; however, most card issuers waive that liability if you report the charges quickly.)

Review all billing statements carefully upon receipt because in order to be covered under FCBA

rules, most disputed transactions must be reported within 60 days of the statement date on which the error appeared.

First, contact the merchant and try to resolve the dispute directly with them. If this good-faith resolution attempt doesn’t work, you can escalate the process by filing a written report with your credit card issuer within the 60-day window.

The card issuer is then obligated to investigate the dispute on your behalf.

They must acknowledge your complaint, in writing, within 30 days of receipt and resolve the dispute with the merchant within two billing cycles but not more than 90 days.

Send your letter via certified mail to the card issuer’s billing inquiry address, not the payment address. Include your name, address, account number and a descrip-

tion of the billing error.

Include copies of sales slips or other documents that support your position.

According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), you may withhold payment of the disputed amount and related charges during the investigation. In fact, many card issuers may voluntarily remove the charge until the matter is resolved since they are representing you, their client, in the dispute.

If it turns out your bill contains a mistake, the creditor must explain,

in writing, the corrections that will be made.

In addition to crediting your account, they must remove all finance charges, late fees or other charges related to the error.

However, if the card issuer’s investigation determines that you owe part - or all - of the disputed amount, they must promptly provide you with a written explanation.

If you disagree with the investigation’s results, you may further dispute your claim with the creditor, as outlined by the FTC

at www.consumer.ftc.gov/ articles/0219-fair-creditbilling. (That site also contains a sample dispute letter and other helpful FCBA information.)

If you believe a creditor has violated the FCBA, you may file a complaint with the FTC or sue them in court.

Hopefully, you’ll never have a billing dispute that goes to these extremes.

But it’s good to know how consumer laws protect you, just in case.

Jason Alderman directs Visa’s financial education programs

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Sports

Page 23 - Thursday, October 3, 2013

Week 5

Beavers need to rebound against Eagles

end of the streak Tigers power their way to GWAC win over Beavers It was never a question of if the streak would come to an end, but when.

Last Friday, the Beavers were simply overpowered Scott City 6 Ulysses 25 by the Ulysses running attack in a 25-6 loss in Great West Activities Conference play.

The loss ended three impressive streaks: •A 17 game winning streak for SCHS that included last year’s undefeated state championship run.

•A 17 game winning streak in GWAC play.

•A five game win streak over

the Tigers.

•A 37 game regular season winning streak (including district play).

“Nobody was foolish enough to think that we could get through the season undefeated,” says head coach Glenn O’Neil.

“We knew that the league was more balanced this year and that it would be very tough going through this schedule without a loss.

What’s more important is how we bounce back from this loss.”

Even with the loss, the Beavers had their opportunities and, in the first quarter, appeared to be in control of the game despite having to overcome some personnel changes.

Just when it appeared the offensive line was starting to find some continuity, sophomore Abe Wiebe was inserted at right guard.

“We went from a 210-pound guard to a 155-pounder,” says O’Neil. “Against the size that Ulysses has that’s going to make a difference.”

In addition, illness had

(Above) SCHS senior Martin Gough returns a kickoff during Friday’s action at Ulysses.

(Record Photo)

sidelined senior fullback Paco Banda during most of the week’s practices, which meant putting sophomore Cooper Griffith into the backfield.

It seemed the Beavers hardly missed a beat when they recovered a fumble at the 50 yard line and, on their first possession, put together one of their more impressive drives of the season.

They were finally able to get to the outside with senior runningback Martin Gough and needed just seven plays to reach the end zone, with Gough doing most of the work.

(See STREAK on page 27)

Beavers slip, slide to finish at Rim Rock One of the toughest crosscountry courses in Kansas took on an added degree of difficulty when athletes had to compete in rain-soaked and sloppy conditions at the Rim Rock Classic last weekend near Lawrence.

Scott Community High School runners finished 15th in the boy’s division and 23rd in the girl’s against some of the top runners from throughout the Midwest.

Individual times were generally slower than a year ago for the SCHS competitors, but that was to be expected under the conditions.

“The conditions probably added 30 to 60 seconds to their times,” says head coach Kevin Reese.

“It was sloppy and gooey.

There were a lot of kids falling on the hills and even on the downslopes they had to be a lot more cautious.”

(See RIM ROCK on page 25)

Scott City sophomore Jade Wren makes her way up one of the hills at the Rim Rock course near Lawrence last Saturday.

Scott City (3-1) will be hoping to avoid back-to-back losses when they host Hugoton for Friday’s Homecoming.

More importantly, the Beavers are trying to get healthy before they begin district play in a couple of weeks.

“We’re pretty banged up right now, especially at our skill positions,” says head coach Glenn O’Neil.

Quarterback Trey O’Neil reinjured his shoulder during the Ulysses game and runningbacks Martin Gough and Brayden Strine are battling through elbow injuries.

There’s a good chance that O’Neil will be limited to playing offense this week.

“After Trey got banged up it took away the option game (against Ulysses) in the second half,” says Coach O’Neil.

“And when Martin hurt his elbow and didn’t have any feeling in his hand that took him out as a runningback.

That allowed Ulysses to focus on Brayden and we weren’t able to find our running game in the second half.”

Gough (61. ypc)and Chantz Yager (6.7 ypc) have been the two bright spots in the backfield - at least in terms of yards per carry.

Fullback Paco Banda is the team’s leading rusher (158 yards, 3.3 ypc) though sophomore Cooper Griffith showed he may be ready for a few more carries after the young fullback raised his average to 3.8 ypc against Ulysses.

If the Beavers can’t establish a running game, that may put more pressure on the defense to stop a Hugoton team that’s coming off a 56-0 (See HUGOTON on page 31)

SC spikers are swept in triangular It’s back to the drawing board for the SCHS volleyball squad after dropping a pair of matches on the home floor to Southwestern Hts. and Cimarron.

“It’s a very frustrating night when you expect to come out with at least one win and drop both matches,” says head coach Jordan Dreiling.

With the losses, Dreiling says it’s time to get back to the basics.

“Our serving just killed us and defensively, I feel like we’re still watching the game instead of reading the hitter and reacting quickly to the trajectory the ball is taking,” says the head coach.

“Heights really plays a slow style of volleyball, all of their sets are very high, which really seemed to take us out of our tempo and we started playing their tempo, which doesn’t work for us.”

She says it comes down to consistency.

“We do a lot of good things, but one mistake or lapse in judgement can make all the good things go by the wayside,” she says. “And when that happens, we lose our confidence.”

The Lady Beavers (2-9) will be in action at the Oakley Invitational on Saturday.

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First quarter hole is too deep for Wichita Co.

Outdoors in Kansas

by Steve Gilliland

A point to being checked

I was in the Army National Guard for twenty years, and in 1996 was deployed to Bosnia. One of our many duties there was manning checkpoints where vehicles were stopped and searched, along with their occupants for unnecessary arms and ammunition.

A main thoroughfare actually ran through one side of the base where I was stationed, so naturally a 24-hour checkpoint was operated at both ends, and vehicles were searched as they entered. No illegal weapons or ammo were ever found while I was on duty, but we did find some interesting stuff. I found two goats in the back seat of a tiny car, and I opened the back of a utility truck full of garden tools, and found a puppy which the vehicles owner tried to give us.

The most unusual was a small round object covered with a towel in the back seat of a car.

In today’s insane world, that would probably have been enough to evacuate the base and send in a robot. I lifted the towel from what turned out to be a basket containing a chicken, and beneath her was her entire clutch of baby chicks.

I say all this to make the case that checkpoints are a good and effective tool for law enforcement personnel.

According to an official press release

by Ron Kaufman, Director of Information Services for Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT), the department will conduct a checkpoint somewhere in central Kansas sometime in early October.

This will be a joint checkpoint with local law enforcement personnel intended to (See CHECK on page 29)

Marshall Faurot grabs onto the Burlington quarterback for a sack during Monday’s win on the home field.

(Record Photo)

Bluejays snap skid with 26-0 shutout over Burlington Wyatt Hayes rushed for 130 yards and a pair of touchdowns and Marshall Faurot added 91 yards as the Scott City Middle School ground game crushed Burlington, 26-0, on Monday.

With the win, Scott City (1-3) snapped a three game losing streak.

“The boys eliminated mistakes and executed the offense,” says coach Larry Fox. “Our offensive

and defensive lines are showing a lot of improvement.”

Scott City scored on their first two possessions.

Hayes finished off the team’s first drive with an eight yard run.

Quarterback Parker Vulgamore connected with Faurot on a 39 yard pass that finished off a 70 yard drive. Burlington put 10 guys on the line and

that left Faurot wide open in the secondary for the easy catch and run.

In the final moments of the first half, Faurot was able to make a juggling catch for a 24 yard gain to the Burlington 11 yard line. On the final play of the half, Vulgamore connected with Josiah Evans for the TD and a 20-0 lead.

The Bluejays stopped the Cougars on downs to

start the second half. With the ball at their own 32 yard line, Hayes broke loose for a 68 yard scoring run.

Vulgamore finished the game 4-of-6 for 75 yards.

Faurot had two catches for 62 yards and Evans had two for 13 yards.

The defense was led by Faurot with seven tackles, followed by Hayes and Juan Rodriguez with five each.

Poor field position, aided by a strong wind, proved too much for the Wichita County High School football team in a 41-7 loss to Elkhart.

“Between the wind that was in our face the entire first quarter and our penalties, we couldn’t get out of our end of the field,” says head coach Faron Kraft.

“I’m not sure Elkhart had a drive of more than 25 yards (in the quarter).”

Elkhart took advantage of the starting field position to score four touchdowns and grab a 33-0 lead by the end of the opening period.

Over the final three quarters, Elkhart held only an 8-7 advantage.

The only other Elkhart TD was set up by an interception and another short field.

“We put ourselves into too many third-and-long situations,” says Kraft.

“We’re not a throwing team, so we can’t put ourselves in long yardage situations.”

The Indians couldn’t generate much on the ground with just 87 yards rushing.

Colton Northrup was limited to 31 yards on 13 carries.

Quarterback Jantz Budde was 4-of-13 for 65 yards passing.

It doesn’t get any easier for the Indians who face Oakley this week in district play.

4-0 is a rare feeling for the Chiefs The Chiefs are walking on turf that’s rarely been tread upon by this organization.

They are 4-0.

It’s hard to imagine that this has been accomplished only two other times in the franchise’s history.

What does that mean?

First of all, teams that start the season 4-0 have made the play-

Inside the Huddle

with the X-Factor

offs 83% of the time.

It also means they have to get

Spikers to Oakley on Saturday

The Scott Community High School volleyball team will be competing in the Oakley Invitational on Sat., Oct. 5, starting at 9:00 a.m.

Teams in each pool are: High school gym: Lakin (10-3), Colby (10-6), Oakley (5-8) and Tribune (0-16).

Impact Center: Goodland (8-3), Wheatland/Grinnell (9-4), Scott City (4-10) and Quinter (2-15).

Holcomb Triangular The SCHS varsity and JV will travel to Holcomb for a triangular on Tuesday. Scott City plays Southwestern Hts. (6:00 p.m.) and Holcomb (7:00 p.m.).

ready for a very good Tennessee team this week.

Perhaps the best thing about the way we whipped the Giants last week was the fact we did it with key players on the sideline.

Even with our shutdown corner Brandon Flowers out of the game, we were only one play away from shutting out the Giants.

This defense has been nothing short of spectacular. Through four games we have 12 takeaways and 18 sacks.

In fact, our defense has scored two touchdowns, which is just one touchdown shy of how many they’ve allowed.

Those are the kind of numbers that will give you a 4-0 record.

(See RARE on page 28)

Hornets nearly shock Indians Dighton put together their best defensive game of the year. It was good, but not good enough, to upset Hoxie in Northwest Kansas League action last Friday.

Both teams played to a 12-12 deadlock at the half before Hoxie (3-1) was able to pull away for a 34-18 win.

“Defensively, we played well enough to win. But we still can’t get our ground game going,” says head coach Ken Simon.

Hoxie held a 312-61 edge in rushing yards.

Even with their inability to run the ball, the Hornets were able to control the ball and clock enough to keep Hoxie’s offense off the field in the first half.

“We did what we wanted for the most part, but then we’d miss a blocking assignment or get thrown for a loss that put us in third-and-long situations,” says the head coach.

It didn’t help that the Indians were able to convert on fourth down situations, turning a fourth-and-10 play into a first half touchdown.

Twice, Dighton (2-2) trailed by a touchdown in the first half, but was able to come back and tie the game.

A 40 yard pass from freshman Tyler Lingg to Isaac Alinor tied the game at 6-6.

Late in the first half, Lingg was able to avoid pressure long enough to find Alinor open who had broken off his route to help his quarterback.

“Tyler made a great throw under pressure. Isaac made a couple of guys miss and he ran over another player for a 35 yard gain,” says Simon.

Lingg finished off the drive with a one yard run.

Hoxie opened up a 28-12 lead in the second half when Dighton reached deep into its playbook for a double pass from Lingg to Alinor back to Lingg.

The 22 yard completion made it a 28-18 game.

After rotating between two quarterbacks for the first four games of the season, Simon says he will give Lingg the start this Friday. That will allow him to move Marcos Cruz to wide receiver.

“That’s probably our best fit,” he says.

“We’ve improved a lot since week one. I think that’s evident in the way we stayed with Hoxie,” says the head coach.

The Hornets will open district play this week against OtisBison (0-4).

The Scott County Record • Page 25 • Thursday, October 3, 2013

2 or 3 plays, or breaks, can determine the outcome Five plays over the course of a football game aren’t many. But that was enough for Ulysses to gain an inside edge for their first ever Great West Activities Conference title with a 25-6 win over Scott City last Friday.

“We felt going into the game that it might come down to four or five plays,” says head coach Glenn O’Neil.

Making that short list were: •A fake punt for a 38 yard touchdown run by Ulysses.

•A 15 yard penalty against SCHS when it appeared they had a first down inside the 10 yard line and were driving for a go-ahead score in the first quarter.

•An interception that deflected off the facemask of a SCHS receiver and into the arms of a Ulysses defender who was lying on his back.

•A fumble by SCHS at the Tigers’ 32 following a short punt in the final seconds of the first quarter.

•A dropped catch that would have resulted in a SCHS score in the fourth quarter.

“You never know how things will play out at the end of a game, but it shows how one or two things can turn a game around,” says O’Neil.

Not that he was making any excuses.

“They were the more physical team and they wore us down,” says O’Neil, whose Beavers lost their first ever GWAC game since the league was formed four years ago.

It didn’t appear that would be the case as the Beavers controlled the line of scrimmage and ran the ball effectively in the first quarter when they rushed for 74 yards. A very methodical 50 yard drive on Scott City’s first possession saw senior tailback Martin Gough getting to the outside on sweeps, finishing off the series with a five yard run that put the Beavers on top, 6-0.

Rim Rock And for those teams that competed later in the day, after there had already been a couple of races on the course, it was even more treacherous.

Senior Taylor George (86th, 18:34) was only 16 seconds off her time on the same course a year ago, to lead the SCHS girls.

“I didn’t fall once, so I felt like I ran a pretty good race,” she says.

Senior Megan Thornburg (112th, 18:55) had her strongest outing of the season while freshman Jade Wren (127,

After forcing a fumble on Ulysses’ first possession, the Beavers looked like they were going to force a punt on their next series from the SCHS 38. Instead, the punter was able to avoid a tackle in the backfield and race down the right sideline for the tying score.

It was that kind of night.

Sometimes the breaks go your way.

Sometimes they don’t.

Not that there weren’t some bright spots.

Sophomore Abe Wiebe, who normally plays linebacker on JV, was told as they got on the bus for Ulysses that he’d be the starting offensive guard. It was a last minute change (obviously) over which the coaching staff had no control.

Wiebe (165) may be undersized as a guard but don’t be fooled. He held his own against Tigers.

“Abe did really well. He was blocking the inside linebacker a lot of the time and he was outweighed by 55 pounds,” says Coach O’Neil.

Likewise, Cooper Griffith got a few more carries this week because Paco Banda was fighting illness.

“Coop finally showed us what we’d been expecting to see from him,” says O’Neil. “He runs hard and he’s going to get the tough yards.”

Scott City’s inability to find the end zone in the second half wasn’t a matter of heart or effort.

Combine the injuries with Ulysses’ physical advantage up front and the

Beavers simply began to wear down.”

“Overall, the offensive line played well. They’re starting to get some things figured out,” says O’Neil.

“If we continue to play the kind of physical ball that I saw against Ulysses, we have a really good chance of going 7-2 or 8-1.”

Ulysses is a good team. This year they were the better team.

But that game is behind us. The streak is over.

What’s more important is how the Beavers respond.

While you are hoping for an undefeated season, we know that those are darn hard to come by. And, realistically, we knew it wasn’t going to happen this year.

We’re too young and too inexperienced.

That’s not to say we can’t still have a great season and make a run into the playoffs. And it doesn’t get any easier when we look at the growing list of injuries.

But that’s football.

And O’Neil isn’t looking for excuses. He’s looking for players who will overcome obstacles.

“Now it comes down to how bad do we want to win. Our ego got stepped on a little. It wasn’t fun, but it happens.

“Now it’s time to show our true character,” says the head coach.

Now it’s time to start another streak.

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19:04) ran well considering it was her first time to see the course.

Rounding out the squad were Aubrey Davis (148th, 19:25) and Macy Davis (199th, 20:32).

“It was great to see Megan finish as strong as she started,” says Reese. “Hopefully, she’s worked through the illness and can start finding her form.

“I’m hoping that we can start seeing Taylor, Megan and Jade running better as a pack. If they can pull each other along it’s going to help our chances as a

He was followed by Miguel team. And Aubrey’s not that far behind.”

Chavez (58th, 18:46), Heath Briggs (96th, 19:22), Irvin LoBalderrama is 34th zano (113th, 19:35) and Dylan Edi Balderrama (34th, Hutchins (119th, 19:37).

18:22) continues to set the pace “We’re seeing some good for the SCHS boys, improving things from our boys and we’re on his time from a year ago on seeing some glaring weaknessthe same course by 18 seconds. es,” says the head coach. “Our “That was pretty impressive sophomores have slipped from when you consider the condi- last year and they need to get tions,” Reese says. “For Edi to back to where they were and, run faster tells a lot about where hopefully, push past that.

“Now that we’re (Class) 4A, he is right now in terms of conditioning. He’s raising the level we have to set our standards a of his game and becoming a little higher just to compete at leader on this team.” the next level,” he adds.

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Federal shutdown has no effect on state parks The Kansas Department of Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) is a state agency and all offices, wildlife areas, education centers and state parks operated by the agency remain open.

However, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has announced that the government shutdown will impact access for hunting and fishing on all national wildlife refuges (NWR).

The USFWS operates four national wildlife refuges in Kansas: Kirwin NWR in Phillips County, Quivira NWR in Stafford County, Flint Hills NWR in Coffey County, and Marais des Cygnes NWR in Linn County.

According to Matt Hogan, Deputy Regional Director for the USFWS’s Mountain-Prairie Region,

operations on the NWRs will cease under the shutdown, including hunting and fishing on these areas.

The NWRs in Kansas primarily offer waterfowl hunting opportunities, and all are within the Late or Southeast Duck zones.

Duck season opens Oct. 26 in the Late Zone and Nov. 2 in the Southeast Zone. Goose seasons open Oct. 26, statewide.

K D W P T- m a n a g e d wildlife areas are not affected by the shutdown and will remain open.

Waterfowl areas managed by KDWPT in the Early Duck Zone include Cheyenne Bottoms, Jamestown, McPherson and Texas Lake. The regular duck season in the Early Duck Zone is Oct. 5–Dec. 1, 2013 and Dec. 21, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014.

Day-use areas on state

Brandon Winderlin runs through a huge hole in the line on his way to an 18 yard touchdown run during Sunday’s YMCA action at Garden City.

(Record Photo)

SSB offense scores 6 TDs in shutout win

The Security State Bank/First National Bank offense was unstoppable in a 44-0 romp over Becky’s Bridges during YMCA tackle football action on Sunday.

SSB/FNB (4-0) scored on every possession.

Parker Gooden opened the scoring when he slipped three tackles on a 25 yard run on the team’s first play from scrimmage.

Gooden added touchdown runs of 7 and 11 yards.

Brandon Winderlin had a big day with touchdown runs of 3 and 18 yards.

Scott City’s Jalen Hoddy added a 38 yard interception return for a score late in the game.

That sets up a showdown in the regular season finale between SSB/ FNB and undefeated Doll

Farms (4-0).

Doll Farms has allowed just 21 points this season - 15 of those in a 31-15 win over the Scott County Record/Faurot Ag Services of Scott City.

SSB has given up just six points.

The SCR/Faurot team is 3-1 following a 33-0 win over Pizza Hut last Sunday.

Teams Unbeaten In the third and fourth grade division, both Scott City teams are still undefeated heading into their final regular season game.

Fairleigh Feedyard/ Zoetis (4-0) won in dramatic fashion, scoring on the final play of the game to defeat UniFirst, 6-0.

With both teams in a defensive stalemate it only seemed natural that

a huge defensive play would determine the outcome.

After stopping Fairleigh on downs at the five yard line, UniFirst tried a sweep around the left side. When the quarterback pitched the ball, Scott City’s Carter Gooden grabbed the ball from the halfback in midair, giving his team possession at the 11.

Three plays later, Austin Thon scored on a six yard reverse for the game’s only score.

American Implement/ Seminole Energy (4-0), also of Scott City, was a 34-7 winner over Keller and Miller.

The first weekend of Super Saturday tournament play will begin on Oct. 13 with the championship games on Oct. 19.

District 11 AA Meetings

Scott City

Unity and Hope Mon., Wed. and Fri. • 8:00 p.m.

807 Kingsley Last Sat., Birthday Night, 6:30 p.m.

All open meetings, 874-8207 • 874-8118

Tuesday • 8:30 p.m.

United Methodist Church, 412 College A.A. • Al-Anon, 872-3137 • 872-3343

Dighton

Thursday • 8:30 p.m.

535 Wichita St. All open meetings, 397-5679 • 397-2647

reservoirs will also be closed during the shutdown. The USACE operates parks at Big Hill, Clinton, Council Grove, John Redmond, Kanopolis, Marion, Melvern, Milford, Perry, Pomona, Tuttle Creek, and Wilson reservoirs.

KDWPT offices will be open during regular hours, and access to all wildlife areas and state parks operated by the department remains unchanged.

For more information on Kansas state parks, public hunting areas and hunting regulations, go to www.ksoutdoors.com.

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Streak They also ran most of the plays behind the right side of the line.

Gough’s five yard run just four minutes into the game put the Beavers on top, 6-0.

The defense did its part on the next Ulysses possession, stopping the Tigers on third-and-five for a one yard gain. Following a five yard Ulysses penalty, the Beavers were ready for a Ulysses punt from the Scott City 38.

Instead, the punter managed to elude one tackler and raced down the right sideline for a TD that tied the game, 6-6.

Even with that setback, Scott City responded by moving the ball more than 60 yards on the next possession. O’Neil utilized a full complement of backs, spreading the ball around between Wyatt Kropp (gains of 10 and 6 yards), Cooper Griffith (5 and 9 yards) and mixing in a couple of passes to wide out Chris Pounds for nine and seven yards.

The last reception put the ball inside the 10 yard line and it appeared the Beavers were ready to punch the ball in for another score. However, a chop block was called against SCHS on the seven yard gain which moved the ball back to the 35 yard line.

On the next play, quarterback Trey O’Neil tossed a ball to Brayden

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Strine that was tipped by a defender inside the five yard line. The defender fell to the ground and the ball glanced off Strine’s facemask. The wideout then lost the ball in the lights and couldn’t come down with the catch.

Instead, the ball fell into the arms of the defensive back who was lying on the turf at the two yard line.

It was a tough break for the Beavers who seemed to be executing their offense well.

O’Neil liked what he saw on the first two possessions.

“In terms of overall execution, I felt those were our two best series of the season,” says the head coach.

Momentum Killer The good fortune for Ulysses ended the threat, but again the Scott City defense was able to shut down the Tigers’ ground attack, limiting them to no gain on three straight carries. The coaching staff used their timeouts to force Ulysses to punt into the stiff wind and the strategy worked perfectly as Scott City took possession at the Tigers 32 yard line with only a few seconds left on the clock.

On the next play, however, the Beavers fumbled and it seemed their offense was never the same.

Even with those missed

Scott City quarterback Trey O’Neil scrambles for a few yards during Friday’s GWAC game at Ulysses.

(Record Photo)

opportunities, the Beavers trailed only 12-6 at halftime and had the ball to start the second half.

“We still didn’t feel we were in a bad position. If we could take the opening drive and score then it’s a new game,” said O’Neil.

Instead, the first drive was a three-and-out and the second drive ended with a penalty. The SCHS offense managed just six rushing yards in the second half and added only 46 passing.

“As the game went along, their depth across the front wore our guys down and they were able to stuff our running game,” says O’Neil.

Nonetheless, he says the effort was there.

“It’s always been a battle when we play at Ulysses, even with the teams that went deep into the playoffs,” he says.

“They’re a team that has better numbers than we do and they have more speed and size . . . at least right

now.”

That was evident in the rushing numbers where the Tigers held a lopsided 306-109 edge. Sophomore halfback Ian Rudzik accounted for most of that with 207 yards on just 20 carries.

The Beavers were led

by Griffith with 44 yards on 10 carries while Gough added 29 yards - most of those in the first quarter.

The SCHS passing game, which had been able to rescue them through

the first three games, also struggled. O’Neil was 8-of-14 for 61 yards while Brett Meyer was 3-of-10 for 28 yards.

On the other hand, O’Neil felt he saw better physical play from his squad.

“We took a step in the right direction with how physical we played. If we can continue to play that physical the rest of the year we have a good chance of finishing 8-1 or 7-2,” he says.

League Standings Team

Great West Activities Conference Boy’s Division

Ulysses

Scott City

Hugoton

Goodland

Holcomb

Colby

Team

League W L 3

2

2

1

1

0

0

1

1

1

2

4

Overall W L 3

3

3

3

2

0

1

1

1

PF

PA

191

108

152

67

105

1

131

4

44

2

90

Northwest Kansas League 8-Man Division League W L

Sharon Springs 2

0

Atwood

0

1

Overall W L

PF

78

86

83

214

PA

Strk 3W

1L

3W

1L

1W

4L

Strk

4

0

180

28

4W

4

0

209

22

4W

Hoxie

1

1

3

1

172

66

2W

Dighton

2

1

2

2

80

107

1L

Quinter

0

2

1

3

72

132

3L

Tribune

0

2

1

3

80

170

1L

WaKeeney

0

0

1

3

102

156

2L

Team St. Francis

Northwest Kansas League 11-Man Division League W L

Overall W L

PF

PA

Strk

2

1

74

28

2W

Leoti

1

3

67

131

1L

Oberlin

1

3

40

111

3L

Cheer camp starts Oct. 7

The Little Beaver Cheer Camp will be held Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, Oct. 7, 8 and 10, from 3:304:45 p.m. in the Scott City Elementary School gym.

Sponsored by the Scott Community High School cheer squad, the cost is $20.

Deadline for registration is Mon., Sept. 30. The young cheerleaders will perform at halftime of the SCHS football game on Fri., Oct. 11.

Rare

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Pigskin Payoff

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Hopefully we can add to those numbers against a Tennessee team that’s lost their starting quarterback (Jake Locker) and will be playing Ryan Fitzpatrick this weekend.

Injuries remain a concern for the Chiefs.

•Flowers has a knee injury •Sean McGrath - the bearded wonder - appeared to have a serious knee injury against the Giants, but came back to play. We can’t afford to lose any more tight ends.

•Likewise, Travis Kelce still has a deep thigh bruise.

•And rookie lineman Eric Fisher had a concussion against New York.

Terrorhead Returns We’re only a week away from our attempt to set the new record for the loudest stadium in the world.

That record is currently owned by the Seattle Seahawks with a decibel level of 136.6 that was set on Sept. 15. It broke the old record of 131.8.

During the New York game we had an unofficial noise level off 128 decibels in Arrowhead. I repeat, that’s unofficial.

The KC Jumbotron measured 113 decibels during the game - and that wasn’t even during the punt return

by Dexter McCluster which would have been off the charts.

The excitement is building and KC is ready to reclaim its place as not just the loudest stadium in the NFL but the world.

Week 4 TieBreak

Gary Tucker Tim McGonagle Trevor Cox Walter Johnson Jon Berning Steve Fenster First State Bank Adam Kadavy Ryan Roberts Barry Switzer Anissa Wilkinson Rick Wright

39 39 49

Correct 14 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

First ever pre-rut whitetail antlerless season opens Oct. 12 As part of a legislative mandate last year that required the state of Kansas to open a pre-rut firearm deer season, deer hunters may now hunt white-tailed antlerless deer Oct. 12-13.

This new two-day season has been designed as an effort to create additional opportunities for hunters wishing to take antlerless whitetails.

After careful consideration, several commission meetings, and input from the public, it was decided that a two-day season would provide a unique opportunity without infringing on established traditional seasons.

During this season, any permit that allows the harvest of a white-tailed antlerless deer is valid during this season. Equipment and unit restrictions listed on permits will still be in effect, and all deer hunters are required to wear hunter orange.

For more information, consult the 2013 Kansas Hunting and Furharvesting Regulation Summary, or visit ksoutdoors.com and click “Hunting/Hunting Regulations.”

Must win faces Wildcats at OSU

Kansas State can turn their football season around if they defeat Oklahoma State in Stillwater this Saturday. by H o w e v e r, Mac so far as the Stevenson Big 12 race is concerned, the Wildcats will be in a deep hole if they lose.

K-State couldn’t be catching O-State at a worse time following the Cowboys’ inept performance in a 30-21 loss at West Virginia. Oklahoma State will be sky-high and ready for K-State.

O-State quarterback J.W. Walsh had a substandard game against the Mountaineers and so did his receivers, who dropped numerous easy catches. Walsh is more effective as a runner than a passer.

O-State has a big, fast and nasty defense. K-State has to be able to run the ball if they’re going to win. And the Wildcats’ defense must stop the run and that’s going to be a formidable challenge.

Coach Snyder needs for either Daniel Sams or Jake Waters to emerge as the number one quarterback; neither has so far.

This is a must-win game for Kansas State if they are going to be in the race for another Big 12 championship.

Chiefs Make History The Kansas City Chiefs made NFL history with their 31-7 win over the New York Giants last Sunday.

KC is the first NFL team to ever begin their season 4-0 after losing at least 14 games the previous season.

This exceeds the fondest hopes of everyone associated with KC’s franchise.

Quarterback Alex Smith is playing big-time football.

He’s been close to flawless in the first four games.

Smith has been highly effective throwing the ball and his running ability keeps defenses honest.

KC’s defense has been among the best in the NFL. Defensive coordinator Bob Sutton’s unit has no glaring weaknesses.

(See WILDCATS on page 30)

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Late TD lifts 8th grade Jays over Liberal A year ago, the Scott City Middle School eighth graders needed a late field goal to slip past Liberal West.

That nearly happened again.

Trailing by two points with only about 30 seconds remaining in the game, the Bluejays were able to cap off a 55 yard drive with a one yard run by Austin Turner that gave SCMS a 12-8 road win last Thursday.

“When we had a first down at the 10 yard line I was thinking of maybe a game winning field goal,” says head coach Skip Numrich.

It wasn’t necessary.

With only a half-yard to go on third down, Austin Turner bounced off tackle and into the end zone for the touchdown.

That highlighted a day in which the Bluejays were able to capitalize on mistakes by Liberal West.

Trailing 8-0, SCMS decided to bring pressure on the punter deep in their end of the field.

“We felt there was a good chance they might mess up the snap and we were able to force them into a mistake,” says Numrich.

From the 10 yard line, Scott City needed just two plays to score on a TD run by Nick Nowak.

One of the big defensive plays of the game was turned in by kicker Zac Carson on the following play when he was the last player standing between the Liberal West return man and the end zone.

Not only did he make the tackle, but he stripped the ball and recovered the fumble.

“That was huge for us. It kept

Check help enforce state and federal wildlife laws and Kansas driver’s licensing laws.

Law enforcement officers will operate the first stage of the checkpoint where drivers will simply be checked for a valid driver’s license. If the driver has no valid license or something else is amiss, appropriate enforcement actions will be taken on the spot.

If however everything checks out, the occupants will be asked if they are hunting or transporting harvested wildlife, and if so they will be directed to the second portion of the checkpoint manned by KDWPT natural resource officers.

SCMS eighth grader Nick Nowak carries the ball during Monday’s win over Burlington.

(Record Photo)

them off the field and it gave us a huge boost of confidence,” Numrich says.

Scott City had another big defensive play late in the game when Liberal West elected not to punt on fourth-and-short from the Scott City 45. The Bluejays made the defensive stop with just under six minutes remaining in the game and drove down the field for the winning score.

It was also the first game for quarterback Dexter Gooden who was converted from center only two days earlier when it was learned that an injury to starting quarterback Reid Brunswig would keep him out the rest of the season.

“Dexter is a smart kid and moving him to quarterback created the least disruption in terms of moving players around,” says Numrich. “He did a real nice job.”

Roll Over Burlington The Scott City Middle School football team scored on its first two possessions and coasted to a 26-12 win over Burlington on the home field Monday.

The Bluejays took the opening kickoff and needed just 10 plays to cover 66 yards for an early 6-0 lead.

Turner scored the TD on a one yard run.

Following a Burlington punt,

they had great field position at the Cougar 45 yard line and five plays later Nowak scored on a 13 yard run.

Hanging on to a 13-6 lead late in the first half, Scott City regained possession at their own 29 following a punt.

A 50 yard pass play from Gooden to Turner gave SCMS a first down at the 15. Nowak scored on a four yard run with 27.3 seconds remaining in the half for a 20-6 advantage.

The Bluejays stretched their lead to 26-6 late in the third period when they stopped Burlington on downs at their own 33.

Nowak capped the seven play drive with a 33 yard scoring run.

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Here they will be asked for all required licenses and permits, and their game will be counted and other biological and hunter success information will be collected. Wildlife and Parks and law enforcement personnel work together most years to conduct checkpoints like this, so neither portion of this checkpoint should cause more than minor delays.

Our local conservation officer has told me lots of interesting stories after working checkpoints like this. My favorite was the guy who showed up with only a deer head in the back of his pickup that was so freshly killed it was still steaming.

When confronted and asked about the rest of the deer’s body, the hunter (and I use that term loosely) spun him a yarn about how the deer’s body was at his buddies house, and gave the officer a name and said he would take him there. My friend cautiously got into the pickup with the man and they drove off.

It seemed to the officer that they were just meandering around, and sure enough, the man eventually pulled over and admitted that he was busted and that the deer’s body was in fact still in the field where he had illegally shot it from the road. He had also violated several other wildlife laws as well.

Numerous hunting seasons are open now, and the first week of October will usher in fall turkey season and the early big duck season, so wildlife and parks guys will be starting their annual season of “little sleep time.”

The above mentioned checkpoint and others they will operate from now through early 2014 will give them some help in staying on top of illegal hunting activities and helping those of us who obey the wildlife laws to better enjoy and . . . Continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors!

Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net

Wildcats President Clark Hunt deserves all the accolades he’s receiving after cleaning house and hiring Andy Reid as head coach and John Dorsey as general manager. Their success speaks for itself.

Next up for the Chiefs is this Sunday at Tennessee. KC’s team is like a golfer who is off to a great start with all pars and birdies: It’s easy to start thinking that it can’t last much longer, but the players should just focus on riding their momentum as far as they can.

Big Game for Hawks Kansas University’s football team faces their biggest challenge of the young season this Saturday in Lawrence when the

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Jayhawks play unbeaten Texas Tech. It’s homecoming for KU and the game will be nationally televised on Fox Sports.

KU and Texas Tech are coming off bye weeks, so they have had time to correct obvious weaknesses.

Texas Tech opened Big 12 play by defeating TCU on September 12 in Lubbock.

That was an impressive win for the Red Raiders.

When Tommy Tuberville resigned following the 2012 season, it shook the foundation of Tech’s program. However, when former quarterback Kliff Kingsbury was hired as Tuberville’s replacement, spirits soared in Lubbock.

Kingsbury, 33, is the youngest head coach within the FBS conferences.

Texas Tech has crushed three patsies besides the win over TCU; KU will be their first road game.

Kansas has had two weeks to work on the blocking of the offensive line, which has been the most obvious weakness in their first three games.

How much improvement the OL shows will be a vital factor in KU’s first Big 12 game.

Texas Tech is a passing team. The Red Raiders passed for 293 yards on 24-of-45 completions against TCU. Their expected starting QB, Michael Brewer (6-1, 183), has been out with an injured back and replaced by walk-on freshman Baker Mayfield (6-2, 220), who passed for 216 yards on

21 of 40 completions. He also threw three interceptions.

Tech couldn’t run against TCU. They had just 43 yards on 26 carries, a 1.7 per carry average.

KU’s defense has played well overall, but their run stoppers broke down late in the game against Louisiana Tech.

The Jayhawks gave up 154 yards rushing on 32 carries - an average of 4.8 yards per carry. But the defensive backs have been effective; they will face their first big test against Texas Tech.

Kansas played Texas Tech to overtime last season, before losing 41-34.

Despite sporadic substandard play, KU is much

better than last year. The Jayhawks will be fired up and primed for a big upset.

Woodland is No. 37 PGA touring pro Gary Woodland had a superb 2013 season. Woodland, a KU graduate from Topeka, kept his tour card for 2014 and is exempt from qualifying for all the Major tournaments. Woodland finished 37th on the money list with winnings of $1,915,732 and that doesn’t count substantial endorsements.

He had one astounding putting statistic on tour this year. Woodland was first on tour with 871 consecutive putts made from three feet or closer. That’s an incredible and improbable feat.

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Hugoton

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team that’s coming off a 56-0 shellacking of Colby last week.

The key to the offense is senior quarterback Yates Sutton who guides the option and veer attack for the Eagles.

“You have to focus on the quarterback because he’s going to make a majority of the plays. He will run the mid-line option or outside veer and he’s also capable of throwing the ball,” says O’Neil.

Defensively, it’s critical that everyone understand their assignments. As defenders come down the line the first man has to take the dive back and the next one has responsibility for the quarterback. And then the pitch man has to be accounted for.

“They will run 10 or 12 formations and try to confuse you, so we have to line up correctly,” says the head coach.

The Eagles have good speed - but not like Holcomb - and decent power - but not another Ian Rudzik.

“They have three or four boys capable of breaking a big play on the edge and they will also try to power the ball at you,” says O’Neil.

Scott City’s Wyatt Kropp breaks to the outside for a nine yard gain during Monday’s JV action against Ulysses.

(Record Photo)

Scott City JV burned by big plays in loss to Tigers It was deja vu for the SCHS football team during Monday’s junior varsity action on the home field.

The defense played well, but Ulysses still found a way to break off enough big runs to keep drives alive.

The result was a 30-13 loss for the Beavers.

“It was a lot like the (varsity) game on Friday.

We’d make stops and put them in long yardage situations and they’d find a way to get a first down or break one loose for a

score,” says coach Brian Gentry.

And a little bit of luck didn’t hurt either.

After taking a 6-0 lead, the Tigers had the ball and were throwing deep from the SCHS 37. The Beavers had great coverage in the secondary, but the tipped ball landed in the hands of the Tigers’ receiver and he was able to walk into the end zone.

SCHS answered with a 63 yard scoring drive that began with a 23 yard reception by junior Sloan Baker. He added another

19 yard catch in double coverage that gave the Beavers a first down at the 10.

On the next play, fullback Marshall Hutchins was able to squeeze through the middle of the line for a touchdown that cut the deficit to 12-6.

Ulysses didn’t waste any time in getting back on the scoreboard with a 61 yard counter play for a TD. They added a 57 yard counter trap early in the second half that extended the lead to 24-6.

Scot City added a touchdown with 2:08 left in the third period when junior James Jurgens returned a punt 36 yards to make it a 24-13 game.

“We did a pretty good job of moving the ball.

We just couldn’t finish off drives,” says Gentry.

The Beavers also lost Hutchins to a shoulder injury after halftime.

“James (Jurgens) ran hard and he blocked well,” says Gentry.

Also pulling duty at fullback were Wyatt Kropp and Chantz Yager.

The Scott County Record • Page 32 • Thursday, October 3, 2013 Green Bay vs

Goodland vs

Cincinnati vs

Cimarron vs

Baltimore

SCHS

Buffalo Bills

Elkhart

Oregon vs

Pittsburgh

Garden Plain

vs

vs

Washington

NY Jets

Conway Springs

Texas A&M vs Mississippi

Hutchinson Nebraska

Oakland vs

vs

Indianapolis vs San Diego

Kansas City

vs Derby

Dighton vs

Kansas vs

New Orleans.

vs

Baylor vs

Wilson

TCU

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not so serious art A stroke of humor behind much of Bonner’s ‘artplay’ Whether in his musical lyrics, or with the stroke of a paint brush, Chuck Bonner loves to offer a different perspective on a popular phrase.

The artist and musician will put his twisted sense of humor on display during the Arto Bizarro show to be featured at the Keystone Gallery on Sat., Oct. 5. The gallery is located 18 miles north of Scott City on US83 Highway.

“I think all artists take themselves pretty seriously, but this show is meant to be fun,” says Bonner, who owns and operates the gallery with his wife, Barbara Shelton.

Bonner’s talent with a brush is no joke - unlike paintings such as “Lip Service,” “Navel Exercise,” “Mamalith” and “Nobody Nose” which are sure to draw a grin from those who walk through the gallery.

“What I find satisfying is the creative illusion,” says the artist, whose play on words is sometimes obvious while at other times it’s meant to make the observer think. “There are a lot of visual puns.”

A painting, such as “Body Art,” might be humorous to one person and mildly offensive to another.

“Just like with all art, it’s in the eye of the beholder,” he points out.

In the case of his abstract art, Bonner says “the images are there, but they don’t always

been out of the public’s view for a number of years.

“The oldest ones go back to the ‘70s. Some I probably won’t have finished until the day before the show,” he says. “I’ll have pieces that people won’t normally see in a show.” jump out at you.”

Most, but not all, will be for Sometimes the paintings are sale. whimsical, at other times they are meant to draw a response.

The Evolution of Art “I want artwork to create a Artistic style evolves over reaction. I feel a sense of dis- time and Bonner feels that will appointment if someone looks be evident as one walks through at a painting and all you get is, the gallery.

‘Oh,’” he says. “Even when a “Your life changes, so your painting’s done with humor in art changes,” he notes. mind, I hope that it makes peoThe one thing that doesn’t ple look at things in a different change is Bonner’s approach to way.” a work of art.

“I like having a lot of blank A ‘Quasi-Retrospective’ canvases around,” he says.

Bonner refers to the first full- “I’ll start something and there scale show he’s done in about are times when I have no idea 10 years as a “quasi-retrospec- where it will end up. That haptive” look at his work - past and pens a lot.” present.

In fact, it’s his light-hearted “A lot of the pieces aren’t approach that prompts Bonner part of what I’m doing now. to refer to what he does as “artThat’s the retrospective,” he ex- play” rather than “artwork.” plains. “This represents a body “Artplay has a feeling of enof work.” joyment. When you say artwork As he looks through the col- it has the connotation of hard lection of art, Bonner can often work,” he says with a grin. relate a story attached to each That may be why Bonner one. Some bring back memories avoids the “introspective” apof events in his life going back proach that some artists take more than four decades. with their work. He has a difThe show will feature about ficult time taking himself that 50 pieces of art that include seriously. paintings, mixed media and The show will feature painteven sculptures. Many have ings mixed among the gallery’s Arto Bizarro art open house Sat., Oct. 5 • 9:00-5:00 Keystone Gallery north of Scott City The show will continue through Thanksgiving

(Top) Bonner in his studio at the Keystone Gallery. (Above) A painting “A Tooth for a Tooth: Joan Crawford. (Below) “Portrait of the Boss.” (Bottom left) Bonner with a self-portrait dating to his younger days.

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fossil exhibits which have been collected from the Smoky Hill region. In addition, Bonner and Shelton promise a Halloween atmosphere.

While Bonner has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art from Ft. Hays State University, he’s just as proud of the JAV that he sometimes like to include behind his name. It’s a tribute to his fossil hunting background and the title that his father, Mar-

ion, joking gave himself and which other close friends have adopted.

JAV . . . or Just Another Vertebrate.

It’s about having fun, enjoying the simple things in life and never taking yourself - or your artplay - too seriously.

Or, as Bonner emphasizes with a grin, “I don’t want the show to be boring.”

Not a chance.

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Ogallala depletion is issue we all must face Urban and rural dwellers rely on the Ogallala Aquifer and share responsibility in managing the water resource.

Vast, vital and vulnerable is the Ogallala Aquifer.

Lying beneath eight U.S. states and encompassing more than 170,000 acres, the Ogallala is a sizeable and important water resource that has brought life to Kansans in both rural and urban areas.

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Sequester leads to changes in crop loans USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) has announced several adjustments to commodity loan programs to accommodate the automatic funding reductions known as sequester.

The programs, which provide interim financing for agricultural commodities to be stored after harvest and sold throughout the year when unaffected by harvestseason pressure on prices, are subject to sequester reductions of 5.1 percent.

The following adjustments will take place with the 2013 crop year, which began Oct. 1.

•Loan-making for all commodities has been suspended and is expected to resume in mid-October.

•Loan repayment and loan servicing for all disbursed commodity loans will continue.

•Loan deficiency payments will be reduced 5.1 percent •2013 crop loan rates are not affected.

Annual report of foreign investors is released

The FSA has released its annual publication regarding foreign investors’ holdings of United States agricultural land. Statistics that are current through Dec. 31, 2011.

The report, titled “Foreign Holdings of U.S. Agricultural Land Through December 31, 2011,” is now available on the FSA website at http:// www.fsa.usda.gov/ FSA/webapp?area=ho me&subject=ecpa&to pic=afa.

According to data foreign investors hold an interest in 25.7 million acres of U.S. agricultural land, which is approximately two percent of all privately held ag land.

That’s an increase of 1.5 million acres from a year earlier.

Not only is the aquifer used for production agriculture, but it also provides water for people’s homes and for other municipal uses. It’s no secret, however, that the Ogallala has been overused, and its depletion could pose a problem for everyone and the Kansas economy.

David Steward, a professor of civil engineering at Kansas State University, and a team of research-

ers recently completed a study that examined the future of the Ogallala Aquifer. The study found that if current usage of the aquifer continues, as much as 69 percent of it would be depleted by 2060.

Natural recharge of the aquifer is currently supplying only 15 percent of the pumping that’s going into the wells.

The Kansas Water Appropriation Act protects

both the people’s right to use Kansas water and the state’s supplies of groundwater and surface water for the future. The law is administered by the Kansas Department of Agriculture’s (KDA) Division of Water Resources, which issues permits for water usage.

Every well used for irrigation, for more than two acres, or for municipal use must have a water

permit. According to the KDA, water used solely for domestic purposes for households, watering livestock on pasture, or watering up to two acres of your lawn or garden does not need a permit.

There are about 66,000 water permit numbers in Kansas.

“Every one of those files a water use report every year,” Steward said.

“Most of those are me-

tered, at least in Western Kansas. It’s very accurate data we have in terms of water use.”

The water data helps monitor use of the aquifer, which is what Steward used in his research to examine the changes in elevation levels of the wells.

Some Western Kansas farmers have taken measures to reduce water use to extend the life (See OGALLALA on page 36)

Farm bill and political paralysis Autumn in farm country brings with it the roar of combines lumbering across America’s farm fields. It’s harvest season and across the land, farmers are hard at work bringing in the bounty of what, in many areas, amounts to a “pretty good year.”

The farm policy landscape, on the other hand, has yielded little, thanks to the frosty bite of American politics.

Because of congressional inability to reach a consensus, the nation’s farm bill has expired - an occurrence that might have been lost in the hubbub of the larger government shutdown. This is not the first sign of farm bill trouble.

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It would have expired a year ago had Congress not simply extended it for another year due to disagreements and partisan paralysis.

Gone with the farm bill is the basic, no-frills safety net for farm families. Gone is the publicly recognized good of government-backed food security for our nation. Gone is the direct link between the people who farm and those Americans who feel the daily pang of hunger.

Two heartland farmers were

disappointed, even gloomy about these losses. Glen Brunkow shared that feeling as he steered his combine into the afternoon sun on his farm in Pottawatomie County.

“I am very, very disappointed that Congress would play political football with something that is as important as our nation’s farm bill,” Brunkow said. “Crop insurance as a safety net is important to me and most other farmers I know. Without crop insurance, and the promise of crop insurance, farmers cannot secure the operating loans they need to make it through another year.”

Brunkow said without

incentives included in the farm bill to purchase crop insurance, the product simply is not affordable for most farmers.

He said the difference is $40 to $50 an acre.

“I just can’t imagine going through a crop year without having a safety net,” Brunkow said. “We had adequate rainfall this year, but not enough rainfall to restore soil moisture.

“We are just one dry spell away from being in another drought and I cannot imagine going into that not knowing that I have crop insurance to help at least pay my fixed costs back.”

(See PARALYSIS on page 36)

Economists study impact of stalled farm bill As Congress continues to struggle over a farm bill to replace the 2008 legislation due to expire Sept.

30, a farm policy analyst says there is probably a 50-50 chance that a new bill will be finished this year.

If a bill isn’t ready before the end of October, pressure will build to pass a temporary extension, said James Richardson,

Kansas wheat production slides 16%

Kansas winter wheat production is estimated at 319 million bushels, down 16 percent from last year.

Planted acreage totaled 9.5 million acres, up one percent from a year earlier. Acres harvested for grain totaled 8.4 million acres, down seven percent from 2012.

Yield at 38 bushels per acre, is down four bushels from 2012.

Oat production is estimated at 840,000 bushels, 15 percent below 2012.

Planted acreage totaled 100,000, down five percent from a year earlier.

Barley production is estimated at 528,000 bushels, 28 percent above 2012. Planted acreage totaled 17,000, which is 70 percent above a year earlier.

Yield of 48.0 bushels per acre, is down 11 bushels from 2012.

co-director of the Texas A&M University Agricultural Food and Policy Center.

Richardson and Eric Wailes, distinguished professor of agricultural economics in the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, provided their reviews of the legislation’s current status during an on-campus forum Friday, Sept.

27, hosted by the department of agricultural economics and agribusiness.

Expiration of the farm legislation that was first passed in 2008 would result in a 1949 farm measure becoming the policy effectively governing federal agricultural policy. If the 1949 law remained in effect by the end of the year, milk price supports would have to be raised.

Market Report Closing prices on October 1, 2013 Winona Feed and Grain Bartlett Grain Wheat.................. $ 7.25 Wheat.................. $ 7.30 White Wheat ....... $ 7.55 White Wheat ....... $ 7.60 Milo (bu.) ............ $ 3.99 Corn.................... $ 4.49 Milo (bu.)............. $ 3.99 Soybeans ........... $ 11.68 Corn.................... $ 4.49 Scott City Cooperative Wheat.................. $ 7.30 White Wheat ....... $ 7.60 Milo (bu.)............. $ 3.99 Corn.................... $ 4.49 Soybeans ........... $ 11.68 Sunflowers.......... $ 16.85 ADM Grain Wheat..................

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The House recently passed a farm bill without a provision for nutrition, which funds the food stamp program, and made it a separate bill. The Senate kept the nutrition program in its version of the farm bill.

“It’s not a question of whether the farm bill will provide less support than the previous farm bill in 2008,” Richardson said.

“There’s no doubt about it.

Farmers are going to lose direct payments. They’re going to lose countercyclical payments.” He explained that the Senate bill puts all commodities except cotton into an agricultural risk coverage program, which would provide payments to farmers if their incomes drop. But it doesn’t cover everything and has gaps.

(See STALLED on page 35)

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Finding a solution to transmission line debate the state and the nation.

If Grain Belt is successful in building this transmission line, nearly 1,000 more wind towers could go online in southwestern Kansas. This could result in an economic boom for a part of the state that is reeling from extended drought and the impact of the declining Ogallala Aquifer.

Utilities building transmission lines in Kansas should look at options

that minimize the impact on landowners and create positive long-term relationships between agriculture and industry.

Compensation should be paid annually and based on the fair market value of the property impacted by transmission line easements or restrictions, says Mike Irvin, Kansas Farm Bureau legislative counsel.

If lines impact farm or ranching operations

With each passing day there’s more interest in the Grain Belt Express Clean Line transmission project. This is the proposed direct current (DC) electric transmission line that would run from near Spearville north and east across the state to the Kansas-Missouri border.

Thousands of farmers and ranchers who live and

work along the proposed route of this project may need to alter their practices if the line is built across their property.

Like other Kansans, farmers and ranchers understand the importance of developing our state’s wind resources. They also realize that in order to maximize the potential for wind development, transmission lines are necessary to move power to population centers across

Kansas State Agribusiness tour of Brazil, Argentina

Farm earnings drop across the Midwest

John Schlageck Kansas Farm Bureau

Kansas State University’s Master of Agribusiness (MAB) program is offering travel to Brazil and Argentina to learn about the food and agriculture industry in South America.

The trip will include professional visits to agricultural and foodrelated industries.

Guided sightseeing tours will also be arranged.

The tour is scheduled for Feb. 14 to March 1 and is open to anyone with an interest in international agribusiness.

This the second time the MAB program has traveled to South America since it began hosting international agribusiness tours in 2004.

Past participants saw firsthand some of the strengths and challenges of agriculture in the MERCOSUR countries.

MERCOSUR is an agreement between several South American countries designed to promote free trade, among other efforts.

“While the MERCOSUR region is a direct competitor for U.S. agriculture, their perspective on many issues is very different than the U.S. perspective,” says Allen Featherstone, professor of agricultural economics.

Previous international trips hosted by K-State’s MAB program have been to South America, Russia, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and Europe.

More information about the trip can be found at http:// mab.ksu.edu/Alumni/ SAmerica14.html or by contacting Mary Bowen at 785-532-4435, mjbowen@ksu.edu.

The news isn’t good for farm income.

While the national average income grew a modest one percent from April to June, the Commerce Department painted a different picture of the country’s key agriculture-producing states.

Farm earnings were down more than 14 percent across the nation, with the Midwest taking the biggest hit. Personal income shrank in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota.

Commerce Department economist Carrie Litkowski told The Wall Street Journal that the fall in farm earnings reflects a decline in crop output, possibly due to lower commodity prices. Inventories also have bounced around after Central and Southern Plains and much of the

Stalled The Senate bill provides a deficiency payment if a commodity price drops below a reference price for all crops except peanuts and rice, which have a fixed reference price, Richardson said, which would be 55 percent of a five-year moving average.

“If you take 55 percent of that, your support price is going to drop very rapidly,” he said. “Fiftyfive percent is a long way below where we have our target price today.”

Richardson said the current safety net for farmers is in danger because many groups who oppose it prefer “a completely free market,” noting that high prices for commodities have made it easier to oppose a safety net.

“It’s very difficult to develop a farm bill with an effective safety net when prices are high,” Richardson said. “When prices are low is when you

Corn Belt were hit by a severe drought in 2012.

While the drought wiped out stocks, farmers spent much of the first quarter of 2013 rebuilding. However, this pace slowed during the second quarter.

Read, “Lower Farm Earnings Hold Back Incomes in Plain States.”

The USDA suggests that the quarterly dive may be more of a quirk than a trend and expects the region to see a third year of near-record revenues.

Last month in its “Farm Sector Income Forecast,” the USDA showed farm income to increase by 6 percent to $120.6 billion in 2013.

“It may not be a record but I think we’ll have a pretty strong year all things considered,” said

American Farm Bureau Chief Economist Bob Young.

However, farm production expenses are also expected to climb. Since 2013, expenses for both farm and manufactured inputs have increased by 106 percent, while other operating and overhead expenses have increased 60 percent.

Farm-origin expenses, such as feed and purchased livestock, and those for manufactured inputs, such as chemical fertilizers and pesticides, now account for nearly 50 percent of total production expenses.

Nearly 90 percent of farm households are earning an income from nonfarm sources in addition to their on-farm work.

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want to negotiate a farm bill if you’re a farmer. If you’re worried about saving the budget, you want to pass a farm bill when prices are high when we can cut everything.”

Richardson predicted that crop insurance could come under attack later because it can be addressed in legislation outside the farm bill at any time. He said the nutrition element of the farm bill might be restored to a final bill this year.

Wailes said his research team’s analysis of the farm bill’s supplemental coverage option for crop insurance found that it

would be “a very attractive option because of the level of subsidies for crop insurance buy-up.”

Farmers who buy higher insurance coverage under the supplemental coverage would be able to do so with higher subsidies than they would receive for their regular crop insurance premium.

The House and Senate versions have significant differences in payment limits on commodity support.

Payment limits on commodity support in the Senate bill is $50,000 and on the House side $25,000.

or requires alteration of facilities, those expenses should be included in any compensation package.

“Sitings should be located along section of property lines,” Irvin says.

“Landowners may be able to maximize the potential of their land and minimize logistical inconvenience – even if a line is built on their property.”

Developers must restore damage to grasslands and compensate for

crop damage resulting from activity associated with the building, maintenance and operation of the line.

“Transmission line easements often try to shift or place liability for any unintended or inadvertent damage to structures to the landowner,” Irvin says. “The KCC should require developers to assume and manage that risk.”

(See LINES on page 37)

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Finish end-of-the year gardening, lawn work Since we are getting into fall, we are running out of time to finish up with our end-of-the-year gardening and yard work.

There are a few things that homeowners and gardeners should do over the next month.

Now is the time to plant hardy bulbs like tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and crocus. Other less common bulbs like Dutch iris, reticulated iris, snow glories, and snowdrops will also add great color and variety to your yards next spring.

Bulbs, as a group, are great for our climate since

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they are dormant during the hot summer months.

If you have planted bulbs previously, October is a time to place fertilizer on them. Use a fertilizer heavy in nitrogen and spread about one teaspoon for every two square feet.

Fall is also a good time to plant trees, shrubs, and perennials. The warm and moist soils normally asso-

Ogallala of the aquifer, said Scott Staggenborg, K-State adjunct professor of agronomy. But, it will take the efforts of all farmers and people living in cities to ensure the resource is available in the future.

It’s possible that the aquifer could be pumped to the point that there’s no water available, which has happened in areas of the Texas High Plains and in northwest Kansas.

“We know there are some places that are more at risk than others, and some places are known to have a longer supply of several hundred years,” Staggenborg said.

“There’s no doubt about it. We have to start sitting down and making serious decisions now about how we want to manage both agricultural water use, as well as water by everyone else. We need to quit viewing this as purely an agricultural issue and view it

According to Brunkow, crop insurance is keeping some farmers in business this year, helping them weather through one of the worst drought periods since the Dust Bowl. The prospect of that safety net being in place for the next growing season rests at the doorstep of Congress.

“We each need to contact our members of Congress and let them know how important this is,” Brunkow said.

Meanwhile, about 150 miles north and east of Brunkow, in Atchison County, Mo., Blake Hurst

and they are dormant.

Broadleaf Weeds Late October through early November is the most effective time to control broadleaf weeds.

Dandelion usually produces a flush of new plants in late September and the winter annual weeds henbit and chickweed should have germinated in October.

These young plants are small and easily controlled with herbicides such as 2,4-D or combination products like Trimec, Weed-B-Gon, Weed-Out, that contain 2,4-D, MCPP

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as a societal issue.”

Higher food costs and less water available for home use could be the result of a dried-up aquifer.

Everyone needs water, Staggenborg said, but everyone needs to look beyond his or her front door and farm and understand that reduction has to happen everywhere. If that is realized now, it might prevent a financial fight that no one wants over water.

“I think what would happen before we pump it dry is industries and urban users are going to be willing to pay more money for that water, because it has a higher value to them than agriculture,” he said.

“That’s one that I’m not sure people in agriculture have thought about as much.”

If that happens, he said, cattle and swine feeding operations and dairies might be forced to close, which would diminish the

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ciated with fall encourage root growth.

Fall root growth helps plants become established better than those planted in the spring and better able to withstand summer stresses. Another big advantage for fall is that oftentimes garden centers have really good deals on plants.

Use mulch around newly planted plants and stay aware of their moisture needs. Of course, mulch and watering are always important. If you want to move trees and shrubs already planted, wait until their leaves drop

support industries around age could help save wacrop production. ter, but it also might bring higher transportation and A Ripple Effect production costs, which “There’s an argument could translate to higher that we can bring corn food costs for consumers. in from other places in The ripple effect could the United States and not lead to people moving worry about growing it lo- from the area, putting the cally to keep the livestock Western Kansas populafeeding and dairy opera- tion at pre-1900s levels, tions going,” Staggenborg Staggenborg said. said.

Steward explained “What does that do to more about his Ogalthe person who sells seed, lala Aquifer depletion sells fertilizer, sells farm study in a video interequipment, sells irrigation view, available on the Kequipment? Those are big State Extension YouTube economic drivers to all channel (http://www.youof these communities in tube.com/watch?v=_sOWestern Kansas, Oklaho- 6JRgQ6x4).

To find out more about ma, Texas and Nebraska all up through the aquifer. water management and “Those people need to conservation practices for be consulted as well, so irrigation, as well as for that they can voice their urban uses for lawns and concerns and the things gardens, several K-State that affect them, as well as Research and Extension have an understanding of publications are available online (http://www.ksre. the potential impact.”

Reducing irrigated for- ksu.edu/bookstore/).

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has his combines lined up and ready to start the harvest. Like Brunkow, he is living on the edge of drought.

Due to drier conditions during key growing periods, Hurst believes he is looking at a corn crop that is two-thirds to three-fourths of optimal and a soybean crop that is on the lower side of that range.

Hurst, who is president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, considers this a drought year, just not quite as severe as the one he and other farmers faced

in 2012. However, it is the first time he has faced two consecutive drought years in his 35 years of farming.

“Crop insurance kept everything together last year,” Hurst said.

Not knowing whether he will have that key risk management tool heading into next year is more than a little disconcerting for the Missouri farmer.

“It’s the uncertainty of it,” Hurst said. “I can’t really plan on what the crop insurance program might be next year. I don’t really know how long it will last. I don’t know

what will be required of me as far as qualifying for crop insurance and what will be required from me as far as premiums.

“Congress is a year late in getting its job done on the farm bill. Mother Nature never gives me a one-year extension on harvest. If I don’t get it done, I just lose the crop.”

He believes that if members of Congress could feel the same kind of time pressure he experiences during harvest, it could possibly make a difference.

and Dicamba.

Fall is an ideal time to prepare garden soil because it is usually drier than in the spring, an abundance of organic materials are available to improve soil condition, and soil will have a chance to settle before next spring’s planting.

These days are ideal cleanup days. Get a headstart on early falling leaves, destroy what is left of summer weeds before they provide seed for next year’s crop in the garden, cut away or dig out that misplaced seedling tree and give the hedge its

final clipping for the year.

Another task to think about is to protect foliage of fruit trees with periodic insect and fungus sprays.

Water adequately.

Remember that foliage this year produces fruit for next year. Yellowing foliage can be corrected with Fertilome Iron Plus or Greensand. Prune out dead or diseased wood now from trees and shrubs.

Hold off major removal of healthy tissue until winter as doing so at this time will only stimulate tender new growth that could be damaged by frost.

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Corn fields are source for low-cost feed Despite what appears to be a more bountiful harvest compared to last year, cattle farmers are continuing to experience the pinch of elevated feed costs.

Hay prices have remained at record levels, corn co-product feeds have been slow to lower in price, and land values and pasture rents are still elevated, according to a University of Illinois beef Extension educator.

Meteer reported that hay prices have stayed at record levels because of depleted inventories due

to last year’s drought, winter-kill issues in early 2013, and a slow start to the haying season due to a wet spring. Competition for acreage from corn and soybeans has also contributed to expensive forage costs.

It is evident that forage prices will remain elevated into 2014, and cattlemen need to be looking to alternative forages.

Nearby cornfields can offer the most economical alternative to high-priced forage.

“The best way to use a harvested cornfield is to

allow cattle to graze it,” Meteer said. “Cattle graze selectively, looking for the more palatable feedstuffs.”

In the case of cornstalk grazing, the more palatable parts of the plant are also more nutritious.

Cattle first eat the remaining corn grain, then husks, then leaves, and finally the stalk.

The cost of grazing cornstalks is low, first of all because the cows graze and harvest their own feed, and second, because all costs to produce the plant for grain production

are attributed to the rowcrop operation.

According to Meteer, even with the cost of a temporary fence (which many farmers already have) and water, grazing cornstalks is more economical than feeding high-priced hay.

“Cattle will eat the more digestible and higher-protein portions first,” Meteer said. “Therefore, a good mineral is probably the only supplementation needed for the first month unless the herd includes fall-calving cows or stocker calves. For them,

a supplement will be necessary to meet nutrient demands of lactation and growth, respectively.”

Grazing stalks can also benefit subsequent crops.

Cows grazing cornstalks for 60 days will remove approximately 30-40 percent of the residue, Meteer said. Residue buildup has been a well-documented problem in many cornon-corn fields with new hybrids.

Cows deposit nutrients in the form of manure back on the field. As they graze, they reduce volunteer corn, considered a

Farmers are facing decisions Lines related to health care reform America’s farmers have important decisions to make - both for their families and for their employees - with the Affordable Care Act which went into effect Oct. 1.

“On the whole, farmers are more likely to be insured than the rest of the U.S. population,” said Roberta Riportella, the Kansas Health Foundation’s professor of Community Health at Kansas State University.

“This is not surprising given that farm work is hazardous with many potential occupational injuries. Purchasing health insurance and disability insurance is viewed by many farmers as essential elements in protecting their family farms.”

The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is now federal law that requires all Americans to have health insurance. One provision

of the law is set up as a ‘marketplace’ through which individuals can make decisions on what’s best for them.

“Because premiums in the individual health insurance market are rated based on the individual’s own risks, they have been exceptionally high for farmers,” said Barbara O’Neill, an Extension specialist in financial resource management at Rutgers University.

The new law, O’Neill added, makes it more likely that “farm families will be able to purchase less expensive coverage.”

A challenge for farmers, however, is that many will have to make insurance decisions for their families and their business.

Farms with less than 50 employees will not be required to provide insurance, and thus won’t face government penalties,

O’Neill said.

But, she adds, “tax credits are available to help the smallest employers (less than 25 employees) pay for the cost of employee health insurance.”

O’Neill added that a mandate for large farms (more than 50 employees) to provide health care coverage is currently delayed.

So fines, which could be as much as $3,000 for every employee, will not be imposed until January 2015.

Riportella shared three tips to help farm families make decisions about insurance coverage for themselves and their employees: •Compare the cost and features of your current insurance with those in the new insurance ‘marketplace.’

State-based navigators and insurance agents can assist farmers in mak-

ing decisions on personal insurance.

“If you are considering insurance for your farm business, consult an insurance broker, employment law attorney, certified financial planner or others you trust,” she said.

•Consult with a professional farm advisor to develop an action plan for the business.

•Allow enough time to shop around and select insurance coverage that is both affordable and adequate.

Additional information to help farmers make decisions is available on the government’s official website, www.healthcare. gov. Riportella also maintains a blog that she is using to provide information regarding emerging topics on health reform: https://blogs.ksre.ksu.edu/ issuesinhealthreform/.

weed and a yield robber in soybean fields.

Healthier corn plants compared to 2012 should yield a good amount of residue available for harvest. Using an equation developed at the University of Nebraska, a field that averages 150 bushels per acre yields 2,162 pounds of leaf and husk.

Only 50 percent of the 2,162 pounds is available for the animal; the rest is trampled or lost in weathering. Thus, 1,081 pounds of dry matter husk and leaf per acre are available as feed.

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Transmission lines have the potential to interfere with modern agricultural technologies that is expensive and provides necessary, valuable data to farmers and ranchers about their production practices.

“We strongly suggest that before the KCC approves any transmission line routes in Kansas, that studies be conducted to show potential impacts and efforts be made by developers to minimize interference to landowners, their property and operations.”

Are there other unknown and possible unintended consequences?

Consider the following: there has been no discussion of the impact or location of generator lead lines that will connect wind towers with the conversion station. There are no restrictions to prevent other power generation companies from accessing the line or to prevent power produced outside of Kansas from connecting with the project.

All Kansas citizens, landowners and businesses deserve a thorough examination of these issues before final approval is given. The Kansas Corporation Commission will conduct an evidentiary hearing, open to the public, concerning the proposed Clean Line project.

The hearing is slated for Oct. 8-10, 9:00 a.m., in the first floor hearing room at the Kansas Corporation Commission Topeka office, 1500 S.W. Arrowhead Road.

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CHAMBLESS Preconditioning and Growing ROOFING Residential Agriculture

• 45 Years Experience • Managed and owned by full-time DVM • 2,000 Head capacity Office - 872-5150 • Scott City Jerry Doornbos, DVM Home - 872-2594 Cell - 874-0949 Stuart Doornbos Home - 872-2775 Cell - 874-0951

Sager’s Pump Service • Irrigation • Domestic • Windmills • Submersibles

All Types of Roofing

Commercial

Cedar Shake and Shingle Specialists Return to Craftsmanship Attention to Detail and Quality Guaranteed 620-872-2679 • 1-800-401-2683

Walker Plumbing, Inc. Backhoe & Trenching services • Irrigation & gas leak repairs • Full-line irrigation parts T-L center pivot dealer Floor heat systems Pump & install septic systems Boring equipment

423 S. Mesquite Rd. • Scott City • 872-2130

Dirks Earthmoving Co.

Medical

Precision Land Forming of terraces and waterways; feed lot pens and ponds; building site preparation; lazer equipped

Area Mental Health Center

Richard Dirks • Scott City, Ks. (Home) 872-3057 • 877-872-3057 (Cell) 872-1793

Cell: 874-4486 • Office 872-2101

SERVICES PROVIDED:

Marriage and Family Therapy • Individual Psychotherapy Psychiatric Evaluations • Drug and Alcohol Counseling Mediation • Child Psychology • Psychological Evaluations • Group Therapy Pre-Marital Counseling

24-hour Emergency Answering Service

210 W. 4th • Scott City • 872-5338

ELLIS AG SERVICES • Custom Manure Conditioning • Hauling and Spreading • Custom Swathing and Baling • Rounds-Net or Twine • Gyp and Sand Sales • Pickup or Delivery

Charles Purma II D.D.S. P.A. General Dentistry, Cosmetics, and Insurance Accepted

We welcome new patients.

Call Brittan Ellis • 620-874-5160

324 N. Main • Scott City • 872-2389 Residence 872-5933

Moore Fencing Farm and Ranch Fence Construction

Horizon Health

•We build the best barbed wire fence, braces and gates in the business.

•We use innovative corral designs that make working cattle a lot easier and with less help.

See pictures at: www.moorefencinginc.com

In business since 1980

For your home medical supply and equipment needs!

620-214-9085

We service and repair all that we sell.

Automotive

1602 S. Main • Scott City • 872-2232 Toll Free : 1-866-672-2232

Willie’s Auto A/C Repair

Pro Health Chiropractic Wellness Center

Willie Augerot Complete A/C Service Mechanic Work and Diagnostics Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

(Scott City Chiropractic) “TLC”...

Technology Lead Chiropractic

Dr. James Yager • Dr. Marlyn Swayne Dr. Robert Fritz

404 Kingsley • Scott City • 874-1379

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all coatings t Paint i or any other color

Paint inside and out residential, commercial, and industrial.

Free estimates and 16 plus years of experience.

PC Painting, Inc. Paul Cramer 620-290-2410 620-872-8910 www.pcpaintinginc.com

Landscaping • Lawn/Trees

Berning Tree Service David Berning • Marienthal

620-379-4430

Tree Trimming and Removal Hedge and Evergreen Trimming Stump Removal

Fully Insured

110 W. 4th St. • Scott City • 872-2310 Toll Free: 800-203-9606

Dr. Jeffrey A. Heyd Optometrist 20/20 Optometry

Treatment of Ocular Disease • Glaucoma Detection Children’s Vision • Glasses • Contact Lenses

Complete family eye center!

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

106 W. 4th • Scott City • 872-2020 • Emergencies: 872-2736

Family Dynamics Brent Porter, D.C. Doctor of Chiropractic • Insurance Accepted 115 N. 4th Street • Leoti, KS 67861 Office: (620) 375-5222 • Fax: (620) 375-5223

Scott City Clinic Daniel R. Dunn, MD Family Practice

872-2187

Matthew Lightner, MD Family Practice

Christian E. Cupp, MD William Slater, MD Family Practice

Libby Hineman, MD Family Practice

Josiah Brinkley, MD

Call today for a Greener Healthier Lawn

Family Practice

General Surgeon

Megan Dirks, AP, RN-BC Ryan Michaels, PA Mindy Schrader, PA

SPENCER PEST CONTROL RESIDENTIAL – COMMERCIAL

Owner, Chris Lebbin • 620-214-4469

Construction/Home Repair

Termite Baiting Systems • Rodents Weed Control • Structural Insects Termite Control Box 258, Scott City • (620) 872-2870

Turner Sheet Metal

Heating & Air Conditioning

Heating & Cooling Systems Since 1904

Sandy Cauthon RN

Commercial & Residential 1851 S. Hwy. 83 • Scott City 872-2954 Shop • 1-800-201-2954

Scott City Myofascial Release

Ron Turner Owner

105 1/2 W. 11th St. Scott City 620-874-1813

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www.reganjewelers.com

412 N. Main • Garden City • 620-275-5142

Northend Disposal A garbologist company.

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

620-290-2410

LM Wild Animal Eviction Service Control, capture and removal of nuisance animals.

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Coyotes, pigeons, Let’s BOOcT ters it r ky s e p m e h raccoons, skunks, t snakes, rabbits and more.

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Gene’s Appliance Over 200 appliances in stock!

COMPARE OUR PRICES!

We have Reverse Osmosis units in stock.

Remember us for parts in stock for all brands of all appliances.

Sales and Service Days • Mon. - Sat. Deliveries • Mon.-Sat.

Largest Frigidaire appliance dealer in Western Ks.

Networktronic, Inc.

Brent Rogers

Sales Consultant b.rogers@officesolutionsinc.biz

Computer Sales, Service and Repair Custom computers!

Networking solutions!

Mon. - Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

402 S. Main, Scott City • 872-1300

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 All Under One Roof

Revcom Electronics

Your RadioShack Dealer Two-way Radio Sales & Service Locally owned and operated since 1990

1104 Main • Scott City • 872-2625

Services

Education

Truck Driving

HEAVY EQUIPMENT operator training. Three weeks, hands-on program.

Bulldozers, backhoes, excavators. Lifetime job placement assistance.

National certifications.

GI Bill benefits eligible!

1-866-362-6497.

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Medical. Business. Criminal Justice. Hospitality.

Job placement assistance.

Computer available. Financial aid if qualified.

SCHEV certified. Call 888-220-3977. www.CenturaOnline.com.

PARTNERS IN EXCELLENCE. OTR drivers. APU equipped PrePass EZ-pass passenger policy. 2012 and newer equipment. 100% notouch. Butler Transport, 1-800-528-7825.

––––––––––––––––––––– TRAINING. Class ACDL. Train and work for us. Professional and focused CDL training available. Choose between company driver, owner/ operator, lease operator or lease trainer. (877) 3697885. www.centraltruckdrivingjobs.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– TRANSPORT AMERICA has dedicated and regional openings. Variety of home-time options.

Good miles and earnings.

Enjoy Transport America’s great driver experience. TAdrivers.com or 866-204-0648.

––––––––––––––––––––– EXPERIENCED FLATBED drivers. Regional opportunities now open with plenty of freight and great pay. 800-277-0212 or primeinc.com.

––––––––––––––––––––– EXPERIENCED DRIVERS or driving school graduates to deliver our product to our dealer network. Great Plains Trucking is a subsidiary of privately owned Great Plains Manufacturing, Salina.

We offer excellent compensation, benefits and hometime. Please contact Brett at brettw@gptrucking.com or 785-823-2261.

––––––––––––––––––––– TRANSFER DRIVERS. Need CDL A or B contract drivers to relocate vehicles from local body plants to various locations throughout US. No forced dispatch. Call 1-800-5013783.

For Sale PIANO SPECIALS. 12 Yamaha vertical pianos from $40/month; highend Clavinova, $1,888; Kimball baby grand $4,488; New digital baby grand, polished ebony, $2,988.

Mid-America Piano, Manhattan, 1-800950-3774. www.piano4u. com

Lee Mazanec (620) 874-5238

508 Madison • Scott City • 872-3686

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.

Dining

HAPPY JACK SKIN BALM. Stops scratching and gnawing. Promotes healing and hair growth on dogs and cats suffering from grass and flea allergies without steroids.

Orscheln Farm and Home. www.happyjackinc.com.

Help Wanted NOW HIRING. Truck driving school instructors.

JOIN CRST’s brand new training school in Cedar Rapids, Ia. Relocation assistance provided. Call 866-397-7407; email: sandersen@crst.com.

Legal Aid ARE YOU A 45-79-yearold woman who developed diabetes while on Lipitor? If you used Lipitor between December 1996 and the present and were diagnosed with diabetes while taking Lipitor, you may be entitled to compensation. Call Charles H. Johnson Law, toll-free, 1-800-535-5727.

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Fur-Fection

C-Mor-Butz BBQ

Barbecue, the only sport where a fat bald man is a GOD...

& Catering

Kyle Lausch 620-872-4209

Bryan Mulligan & Chris Price 620-874-8301 & 620-874-1285

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District 11 AA Meetings

Scott City • Unity and Hope

Berning Auction “Don’t Trust Your Auction to Just Anyone”

For all your auction needs call:

(620) 375-4130

Russell Berning Box Q • Leoti

Monday, Wednesday and Friday • 8:00 p.m.

807 Kingsley Last Saturday, Birthday Night, 6:30 p.m.

All open meetings, 874-8207 • 874-8118 ________________ A.A. • Al-Anon • Tuesday • 8:30 p.m.

United Methodist Church, 412 College 872-3137 • 872-3343

Dighton • Thursday • 8:30 p.m.

535 Wichita St. • All open meetings 397-5679 • 397-2647

Classifieds

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Buy, sell, trade, one call does it all 872-2090 ot fax 872-0009

Card of Thanks Thank you to our children and grandkids for our 50th anniversary reception. You did a wonderful job planning it and making it happen. It was a special day that we will always remember. It was so nice to have our childern and grandchildren all here with us. Thank you to those who came and spent time with us at the reception, gave ua gifts, sent cards, called us or stopped us when they saw us to congratulate us. Thank you to those that helped the day of the reception. This fifty years wnt really fast and we are looking forward to many more years together. God bless each and everyone of you.

Jerry and Glenda Harkness

Real Estate

Rentals

903 MYRTLE, GREAT FIRST HOME 2+2 bedrooms, 2 baths. Just remodeled with a new kitchen and stainless steel appliances. All new windows, doors, flooring, insulation, plumbing and roof. Close to elementary school, which is a plus.

Call for appointment: Clinton Constuction (Darryl or Virginia) 620-8725494 or cell 620-2141456.

06tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– HOUSE FOR SALE IN SCOTT CITY. Wellbuilt home on double corner lot. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. Lots of built-in storage. Over 2,400 sq. ft., plus 3-season screened porch, double attached garage. Established yard with underground sprinkler. 620-353-9933. 42eow

HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available.

Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, (620)874-2120.

41tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– PLAINJANS has houses and storage units available to rent. Call 620-872-5777 or stop by PlainJans at 511 Monroe.

28tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– AVAILABLE IN SEPT. 3 bedrooms, 1 bath home. Trash and water paid. Laundry hookups.

No pets. Call Clinton Development at 620-872-5494 after 6:00 07tfc p.m.

––––––––––––––––––––– MOBILE HOME 1 1/2 bedrooms, furnished, all bills paid. 212 Clara Ave., Scott City. (620) 87208tfc 3506.

Services WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc. Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 8744135.

34tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing. Lawn mower tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 874-1412.

36tfc ––––––––––––––––––––– 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 37tfc will not be beat!

Agriculture

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.

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. Byrd, Brawl Cl., TAM 112, TAM 304, T158, T163, T153, Duster.

Help Wanted Also triticale and blends.

Vance and Tanner Ehmke, DIRECT SUPPORT Amy, Ks. 620-397-2350.

WORKERS are needed 51t13c in Leoti to work for an individual with a disability in their home. Starting wage is $9.64 an hour. Duties may include personal care, household chores, meal preparation, etc. For an application, please contact Carol at LINK, Inc. 1-800-569-5926 and leave your name and mailing 08t2 address.

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BEST BUY IN LOST 10 HEAD brahman cross heifer calves, TOWN! brand capital A on right hip, ear notch. Mostly red, few yellow and blacks.

Seen one mile south Tom Yager, also Dodge Rd. Business north of 96, and also coun- 4 bedroom brick home in INDIVIDUAL OFFICE ty line 96. Irvin Yeager, great west location! Seller SUITES from one to 402-990-2014. just put in new carpet on 07t2 main level. Price has been four rooms available for SLASHED to only lease. Leases starting at $109,000! $250/month including CHEAPER utilities. Common areas available for use includTHAN RENT! ing reception and break rooms. Perfect for quiet small business or climate controlled storage.

Great 3 bedroom starter Former location of Scott home with LOTS of City Chiropractic, 1101 S. upgrades! New central heat and air, carpeting and Main. Call 214-3040 for paint! Also has steel siding, 27tfc information. shed and will have a new roof! Only $65,000!

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Garage Sales Friday/Saturday, Oct. 4-5 Garage Sale 402 W. 12th Friday: 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Saturday: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Garage Sale

1608 Court St. Scott City Saturday:

Lots of misc. household and office, Bowflex, women’s clothing, lawn mower, books, tools.

8:00 a.m. - noon

Furniture Sale 1106 Court Friday: 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Garage Sale 1310 Elizabeth Friday: 4:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

Two floral sofas $100 each, painted coffee table, end tables, grey TV or stereo table, green desk and chair, blue headboard, two red chairs, lamps, pictures, tablecloths, fall decorations etc.

Baby furniture and clothes, gun cabinet, end tables, lamps, divan, chair, office chairs, Christmas decor, misc.

Now you can own it! Frank Lloyd Wright custom-built home! Nothing else like this home in Scott! Tons of built-ins, familyroom is surrounded by two patios and no square corners in this beauty!

Lawrence and Associates Deb Lawrence, GRI Broker Shorty Lawrence, Sales Assoc.

513 Main • Scott City 872-5267 ofc. 872-7184 hm. lawrenceandassocrealty.com Shelia Ellis, Broker Assoc.

872-2056 Kerry Gough, Sales Assoc.

872-7337 Russell Berning, 874-4405 www.berningauction.com

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Just Updated County Plat Maps • Logan • Wichita • Wallace • Greeley • Kearney Pick them up today at:

406 Main • Scott City 620 872-2090

Employment Opportunities Sales/Marketing SEEKING APPLICANTS for a full-time sales/marketing position.

Experience is required, food sales experience is preferred. Competitive pay and benefits package offered.

Applications are available at our office.

Office hours are Mon.-Fri. 8:00 a.m.- noon and 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

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Indigent Defense Attorney SCOTT COUNTY is accepting applications for two indigent defense attorneys. Contract labor pay: $1,200/ month. One year contract. No benefits. Submit application or resume to: Scott County Commission 303 Court St. Scott City, Ks. 67871 Deadline is Nov. 1.

For information contact District Court: 620-872-7208 or County Clerk: 620-872-2420

Park Lane Nursing Home

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“Quality Care Because We Care” Has openings for the following positions: Part-time Housekeeping Part-time CNA/CMA Part-time Dietary aid/ Cook Shift differential offered for evening and night shifts!

Please apply in person at: Park Lane Nursing Home 210 E. Parklane Scott City, KS 67871 Or visit us at our website: www.parklanenursinghome.org Fill out application and return to human resources.

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Regional Manager

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Seeking Assistant Director The Scott Recreation Commission is seeking applications for the position of Assistant Director.

The position is responsible for developing, organizing and directing the programs of the commission, have the ability to prepare budget, direct the selection, training and work of all recreation personnel, and the maintenance, repairs and be responsible for improvements on a 750,000 square foot sports complex.

Salary DOQ

MachineryLink, the leading and fastest growing provider of combine leasing programs to agricultural producers, is seeking a Regional Manager to be responsible for the sales strategy, execution and performance for western Kansas.

Send cover letter, resume and references to:

This position works out of a home office and includes a vehicle with fuel card, laptop, iPad and expense reimbursement.

Field IT Service/Support Position

For detailed information about this job, please visit www.machinerylink.com. To apply, please send resume to: careers@machinerylink.com or fax to 816-329-0307. EOE

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Program Technician The Wichita Couty Farm Service Agency (FSA) in Leoti is accepting applications for a temporary part-time or full-time Program Technician position beginning at a Grade 3 with promotion potential to a Grade 7. Hourly wage is $11.95 to $24.16 depending on knowledge and experience. An agricultural background is not required, but could be helpful.

Applications for: (FSA-675, Application for FSA County Employment and KSA’s, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities) May be picked up at: Wichita County FSA Office, 612 W. Broadway Leoti, Ks. 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Monday-Friday Applications and KSA’s must be returned to the office no later than 4:30 p.m., Wednesday Oct. 9, 2013.

FSA is an Equal Emploment Opportunity Employer.

Scott Recreation Commission 823 S. Main, Scott City, Ks. 67871 or e-mail to scottrec@wbsnet.org 08tfc

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Drilling operation threatens ‘pristine’ historic site On Monday morning as Jerry Thomas and Denny Siegrist topped the crest of a ridge located east of Battle Canyon, they were greeted by an earth mover preparing ground for an oil drilling rig.

“I got a knot in the pit of my stomach to see all that dirt and buffalo grass being scraped,” says Siegrist, who regularly conducts tours at the National Historic Site.

“I couldn’t even sleep last night. I was ready to go out there the next morning and sit in the middle of that dirt in protest. I didn’t care if they had to get the sheriff to move me,” he says. “My wife talked me out of it.”

They aren’t planning any protest - at least not yet - but neither are Thomas or Seigrist going to ignore what’s happening only about 200 yards north of the cave where Northern Cheyenne women and children huddled while their husbands and fathers were fighting the U.S. 4th Cavalry in the canyon 135 years ago.

The future site of a drilling rig is located just above the draw where the Northern Cheyenne escaped from troops during the night and resumed the journey to their homeland in Montana. The remnants of another drilling site can be seen on the other side of the shallow escape route farther to the west.

Metal stakes designate the property line boundary between land owned

by Chad and Suzanne Griffith and county land.

While Thomas’ cousin and landowner Chad Griffith was able to persuade the drilling company to postpone work until after the two-day Battle Canyon Symposium on Sept. 27-28, Thomas was still surprised to see them start work barely 24 hours after the Northern Cheyenne had begun their return trip home.

“We were in the process of seeing what we could do to provide a bigger buffer between the drilling site and the battle site,” Thomas says. “They (oil company) weren’t going to let that happen.”

Furthermore, Thomas says there has been erosion damage from an earlier drilling operation and he anticipates more erosion damage now that a second site has been started. This will have an ecological impact on the escape draw and, eventually, the cave at the historic site.

“Chad and Suzanne have been very helpful and are involved in protecting the historical significance of the Punished Woman’s Fork site,” Thomas says.

Even though the drilling operation is on private ground, and not on the 30 acres owned by the county where Battle Canyon is located, the land is still of historical significance.

There was troop activity in that area and that is, of course, the escape route used by the Northern

A bulldozer moves dirt in preparation for an oil rig only about 300 yards north of the Battle Canyon historic site. The monument can be seen in the upper portion of the photo, just ahead of the bulldozer, while the cave and canyon are to the right.

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Cheyenne.

“One of the things historians have commented about when they visit here is the pristine nature of our site. It’s like it would have looked in 1878,” Siegrist points out. “That’s being taken away. Now there’s a chance we’ll have a pumping rig.”

Monument Rocks Thomas is just as concerned about oil well development in the area near Monument Rocks, which is another National Historic Site.

“There are 16 major historical sites that have been identified in that area. They have significant relevance to our historical heritage and need to be protected,” Thomas says.

He noted that new landowners Norman and Gloria Nelson have been very cooperative in allowing access to the land and

“they appreciate the history of this area.” They were on hand when the Northern Cheyenne conducted a ceremony to bless what is called the Sundance Site last week.

“This is a sacred place where the Northern Cheyenne conducted important religious ceremonies to renew their spirituality,” Thomas explains. “The Nelsons were very moved by the ceremony. They appreciate the historic value of this site.”

However, the local artist and historian is again concerned with the damage caused by oil exploration companies, not just with their rigs, but with equipment getting to a drilling site.

He says the historic Butterfield Overland Dispatch was marked four years ago so exploration companies would take steps to avoid damaging the route, but to no avail.

Bulldozers recently destroyed about 200 yards along the trail when putting in a road to an oil rig.

“This has nothing to do with the landowners.

I don’t feel the oil companies have any respect for our history or our heritage,” says Thomas.

“Some of the things they are doing without the knowledge of the landowners.”

Cheyenne Assistance Thomas has already been in contact with the Northern Cheyenne and enlisted their help in requiring stricter guidelines to be established by the federal government. He’s hopeful that pressure through the Bureau of Indian Affairs will get the attention of exploration companies.

He’s also been in contact with Gov. Sam Brownback’s office and received a positive re-

sponse to a proposal to reinstitute a buffer zone which had once been the law in Kansas.

“We believe there should be a buffer zone between drilling operations and these historic sites,” he says. “You can’t just say you’ll stay 60 feet from the property line and think everything will be okay.”

If the pumpers and tanks can’t be located beyond the line of sight, Thomas feels the companies should be required to paint them a sand beige so they blend in a little more with the surrounding countryside. This is already being done in Colorado and Montana.

“We need to maintain vistas that are pleasing to look at,” he says, “but, more importantly, we need to prevent further damage to these sites. Once a site is damaged it’s gone forever.”

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