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Volume 23 • Number 51

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Published in Scott City, Ks.

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it’s budget time

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Scott City trims ‘17 budget Huge loss in oil/gas values levy by just over half a mill pushes county levy up 4 mills If one had to describe the City of Scott City proposed budget for 2017, “we’re just getting by,” says City Clerk Brenda Davis.

There are no major expenditures planned and, with any luck, there will be no major surprises.

For the third consecutive year, the city budget is virtually unchanged at 72.612 mills. That’s down slightly from the 2016 budget of 72.847 mills.

The city got a very slight bump

in revenue thanks to a small increase in total valuation, from $23.44 million to $23.79 million.

Davis credited employees with having a big part in holding down the levy.

“Every department was able to hold the line on their expenses so we didn’t have to dip into our reserves,” she said. “We look carefully at every expense and determine whether it’s truly need(See CITY on page 3)

A loss of $6 million in property valuation was more than Scott County Commissioners could overcome while crafting the 2017 budget.

The total levy will climb by 4.2 mills in the proposed budget.

While the levy is up, the amount of tax revenue it will generate is virtually unchanged.

The proposed budget will raise $5,916,809 in property taxes - a decrease of $2,865 from the cur-

rent budget year.

The current levy is 64.984 mills and will climb to 69.240 in the 2017 budget. That’s because total county valuation has slipped from $91.09 million in 2015 to $85.45 million this year.

That’s down from $100.48 million two years ago.

One mill will raise $85,453 in the proposed budget compared to $100,485 in the 2015 budget.

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mammoth remains a mystery

Community Check out some of the faces that were found at this year’s county fair Page 27

Election Two local races on Tuesday’s primary election ballot Page 2

Sports Unusual summer regimen puts focus on mental toughness Page 19

Index Opinions...................4-7

Human link eludes team in what may be final dig

(See MYSTERY on page 13)

Political letters............. 9 Youth/education........ 11 Church services......... 12 LEC report................. 14 Public notices.......14-15 Scott Co. budget....... 15 Health care...........16-17 Sports...................19-26 Farm section.........28-29 Classified ads.......31-33

Health State has failed to deliver on Medicaid payments Page 16

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The mystery behind the death of a mammoth in northeast Scott County will likely remain that way.

The 14,000-year-old “cold case” is unsolved following what will likely be the University of Kansas Odyssey program’s final visit to the site that was first discovered in 2011.

What had intrigued researchers over the years has been the location of the skeletal remains and the possibility of human interaction in the animal’s death.

That link was never found.

“For six years, we’ve been coming out here and assessing the site. We kept returning, knowing that this was a crap shoot,” says Jack Hofman, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas.

“We remained intrigued because of the setting and the nature of the position of the animal. We learned a lot about this site, which will be important in future studies,” he says.

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County Fair Local promoter planning changes in demolition derby Page 19

Archeologist Josh Collins takes measurements of a mammoth tibia that was discovered during the Odyssey team’s latest dig in Scott County. (Record Photo)

ALICE could save your life “There’s a lot that people can do to reduce their risk of being shot. Hiding under a desk isn’t one of them,” says Scott City Police Chief Chris Jurgens who recently participated in ALICE training.

An acronym for Alert Lockdown Inform Counter Evacuate - the program encourages individuals to evacuate an active shooter scene as quickly as possible, but if that isn’t possible

to take aggressive action.

“In a lot of these situations, like the movie theater in Aurora (Colorado), there’s a very good possibility that many of the deaths could have been avoided if people had gone through this training,” Jurgens says. “An active response to an active shooter reduces casualties by 80 to 85 percent.”

And at Columbine High School, 54 students in the library had five minutes to escape through

an exterior door, but didn’t. As a result, 10 of them were killed.

“They were told by an instructor to take cover instead of escaping, because that’s what she had been taught to do,” notes Jurgens.

The police chief was among about 40 people who recently attended a two-day training program in Garden City.

The ALICE training has been around for awhile. Garden City (See ALICE on page two)

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If an active shooter or someone else should enter a public building and put lives in danger, what happens during the first few minutes can determine if, or how many, lives are lost.

Unfortunately, what too many people have been taught in the leadup to shootings at schools such as Columbine, or Sandy Hook, is to take cover in a room and hope the gunman passes by without incident.

Agriculture KSU: climate change could be impacting insect resistance Page 28

or call (620) 872-2090

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things to do around SC July 30-31 Really Cheap Fun If you haven’t had enough of county fairs, there’s still one more going on this week at Wichita County.

Of course, what sets this Fair apart from most is the Wichita County Amusement Association and one of the best - and cheapest - carnivals to be found anywhere.

All of the rides are owned, maintained and operated by local volunteers. And the best part, each one - kids and adults - is just a quarter. And there are many games that are also just a quarter.

It’s great family time and you don’t have to dip into the kids’ college fund.

urday when they will depart for Lake Scott. The clinic will last until about 11:30 a.m.

Spud’s will provide a fishing pole, tackle and bait for anyone who doesn’t have the equipment.

Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult.

Carnival rides for a quarter are a hot ticket at the Wichita County Fair.

Sat., July 30 Fishing Clinic Adults or kids who are interested in learning more about the do’s and don’ts of fishing will want to take part in a free fish-

ing clinic being offered by Mike See of Spud’s Hunting and Fishing Supplies.

Participants will need to show up at Spud’s (323 S. Main, Scott City) at 8:00 a.m. on Sat-

Thurs., Aug. 4 Book Signing Everyone’s heard of or knows Ron Baker the basketball player (currently with the New York Knicks).

Now you get to meet Ron Baker the author.

Baker will be at the Scott Community High School commons area from 1:00-4:00 p.m.

August 2-4 where he will be signing copies Back-to-School Yes, summer is almost over of his childrens’ book, “You’re and thoughts are turning to Too Big To Dream Small.” school with enrollment starting next week in the Scott County Fri., Aug. 5 Movie Under the Stars district.

Enjoy a relaxing evening unGrade school enrollment is on Tuesday and middle school der the stars while watching the students will enroll on Wednes- free movie, “Zootopia,” in Patton Park. day and Thursday.

County commission race is on primary election ballot

Scott County voters will be choosing a county commissioner along with the general election candidates in several key statewide races when they go to the polls on Tues., Aug. 2.

There are only two local races on the ballot.

Incumbent county commissioner Jerry Buxton is being challenged by Brittan Ellis to represent District 2. Both are Republicans and there is no Democrat on the general election ballot.

The other race is for Beaver Township Committeewoman involv-

ALICE

ing Leona Logan and Sheila Ellis.

Races capturing the most attention in the area are for the U.S. Congress and the Kansas Legislature.

Incumbent Tim Huelskamp and challenger Roger Marshall are locked in a dead heat to represent the Big First District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Both are Republicans.

According to one poll released over the weekend, Marshall is leading Huelskamp by less than one percentage point.

Marshall has received

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“Grade school kids schools have had a violent intruder training and can’t confront an intruder response program in place like high school kids or adults, but they can run. for 3-4 years.

They can be taught not to just stand there,” he says.

Giving the Alert Should there be an “We want to teach people intruder in a public build- not to be victims.” ing, Jurgens advises against code words and Will Offer Classes The training program subtle warnings.

“The idea is to get the was very beneficial, even warning out as quickly for individuals in his proas possible. If someone fession, Jurgens notes.

“It gave me a lot to enters a building with a gun, the announcement think about. There were needs to go out on the things I hadn’t thought intercom or yell to other about before, but I do people,” says Jurgens. now,” he says.

For example, when a “Then you begin the lockperson enters a restaurant, down or evacuation.”

Jurgens says that seek- a movie theatre or other ing refuge in a room public building, know should be an option only where the exits are so you if evacuation isn’t possi- can evacuate quickly, if ble and individuals should necessary.

Jurgens has conductbarricade themselves ed ALICE training for inside. courthouse employees in addition to emergency Don’t be a Victim A point of emphasis in response personnel in the the training is for people county. He has a program scheduled for Compass not to allow themselves to Behavioral Health and become victims. will be giving a presenta“In a school shooting, tion to teachers in USD most of the victims are 466 during in-service within 18 to 24 inches training in August. of the shooter,” notes “The schools have torJurgens. “That’s because nado and fire drills and many of them are lying they don’t have active under a desk or sitting in shooter drills,” Jurgens a closet.” says. “We’ve seen over He says people need the years that students are to do everything possible far more likely to be at to distract the intruder - risk from an active shootscream, keep moving and, er than from a fire or torif possible, throw any- nado.” thing and everything at Jurgens is available to the shooter. give the program to any “Spread out. Don’t business, school, hospital stand in a group,” he says. or agency.

“And as a last resort, “Having been through fight.” this training, I couldn’t Of course, that can live with myself if I had depend on the circum- this knowledge and didn’t stance. pass it on,” he adds.

the endorsement of several farm organizations, including the Kansas Livestock Association and the Kansas Farm Bureau.

Another Republican primary features Mary Jo Taylor (Stafford) and Larry Salmans (Hanston) in the 33rd District for the Kansas Senate. Incumbent Mitch Holmes did not seek re-election.

There is also a primary election in the U.S. Senate races between Republicans Jerry Moran and DJ Smith and Democrats Monique Singh and Patrick Wiesner.

Scott County residents can vote in advance at the courthouse until noon on Mon., Aug. 1. Polls will be open on Tuesday from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Wm. Carpenter 4-H Building.

Photo ID is required for advance voting and at the polls on Tuesday.

Aug. 1 - 5

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Community Living

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Preserving the great taste of fresh produce With so much fresh produce available at the moment, many families are looking to freeze, can, or dehydrate food to save it for winter.

Kansas State University and the University of Missouri Extension have teamed up to produce a newsletter in English and Spanish and videos available online to help cooks safely capture the tastes of the summer to enjoy well past the growing season.

“Lots of berries like blackberries and blueberries are in grocery stores and farmers markets,” says Karen Blakeslee, food science associ-

City

ate with KSU Extension.

“Bigger fruits like peaches are starting to come into season and melons are starting to appear in roadside produce stands.”

Among the vegetables, cucumbers are nearing the point where they can be made into pickles and sweet corn is being picked.

Green beans are popular and both zucchini and yellow squash are ready. Tomatoes are starting to ripen to use fresh or to preserve.

“Some of the spring vegetables are done producing like asparagus and fresh

green peas. Those are probably not what you’re going to see at a farmers market or even at some grocery stores,” Blakeslee says.

Knowing What’s Fresh When searching for fresh foods, knowing what foods are not fresh can be equally as important.

The most important part about preserving food, Blakeslee said, is ensuring the food you’re preserving is fresh. If you start with bad food, it’s still going to be bad food after it’s preserved. She provided several tips.

Recipe favorites . . .

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New Red Potato Salad This is a wonderful no-fail potato salad.

ed or whether it’s something that can wait.”

When making comparisons to the current budget, the airport sinking fund in 2017 saw its mill levy more than double to 4.063 mills. That’s a result of a change in budget practices, explains Davis.

Expenditures that have been in the general fund - the fixed base operator contract, maintenance of the AWOS and insurance - have now been moved into the airport sinking fund.

“It gives a clearer picture of what it actually costs to operate the airport,” Davis said.

A major expense that’s expected to come out of that budget is contruction of a seven-bay T-hangar along with additional concrete aprons. This is a joint project between the Federal Aviation Administration and city, with the city’s share of the cost approximately $74,000.

The budget does include a five percent pay increase for city employees.

Davis noted there was very little change in the city’s cost for it’s partially self-funded health insurance plan for employees.

Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 15 minutes Ingredients 3 pounds unpeeled red potatoes 4 eggs 1-1/2 cups mayonnaise 2 tablespoons milk 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar 1/2 cup sliced green onions 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 cup sliced celery Directions Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add red potatoes, and cook until tender but still firm, about 15 minutes. Drain, cool and chop into 1 inch cubes. Place in a medium bowl.

Place eggs in a medium saucepan, and cover with cold water. Bring water to a boil, and immediately remove from heat. Cover, and let eggs stand in hot water for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from hot water, cool, peel and dice.

In a small bowl, whisk together mayonnaise, milk, distilled white vinegar, green onions, salt and pepper.

Pour the mixture over the potatoes, and mix together with the eggs and celery. Cover, and chill in the refrigerator approximately 2 hours before serving.

•Use food that is in good condition. Discard diseased and moldy food. Trim off damage or decay.

•Preserve food as soon as possible, preferably, the same day it is harvested.

•Always wash produce to remove dirt and other debris.

•Peel root crops, underground stem crops and tomatoes to reduce bacteria, yeast and mold contamination.

•To preserve the safest food, use tested recipes, good food, and ensure your equipment is in good condition.

Blakeslee also recommends following tested recipes.

Vehicle tag deadline Fri. Persons whose last name begins with the letters J, K or L are reminded that license tags must be purchased by Fri., July 29, to avoid a penalty.

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

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

Tags must be renewed during August for persons whose last name begins with M, N or O.

She has a website (www.rrc. ksu.edu) which has many good resources for recipes.

It includes a section for food preservation.

Information is also available at the county Extension office.

For more assistance visit http://www.rrc.k-state.edu/ preservation/ and in the newsletter at http://www.rrc.kstate.edu/preservation/doc/ JulyAugPresNews2016BR.pdf.

“Enjoy this time of year.

This is a great time to preserve food so you can have some fresh tasting food during the winter months,” Blakeslee adds.

Scott Community Health Center Open House Mon., August 8 • 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Have questions about the Scott Commnity Foundation?

Call 872-3790

Water/Sewer Upgrades The city is currently upgrading water lines in the city so that by the end of 2017 the water from all wells will be directed through the treatment plants. A new lift station is also being installed at the site immediately east of LaFiesta Restaurant on Parklane.

These expenses, however, are paid for through water/sewer rates and not through property taxes.

“I’m ready to represent my district in Topeka because I care deeply about the people and values of Kansas.”

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Editorial/Opinion

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editorially speaking

Tax lid:

Legislative overreach has unintended consequences

If the Kansas Legislature has made itself clear on one thing, it’s taxes.

It hates them.

Gov. Brownback’s “march to zero” set the stage for more than 330,000 businesses and corporations in the state to have their income tax burden erased.

And just to make sure that cities and counties didn’t try to compensate for lost revenue by raising property taxes, the legislature approved a tax lid that will limit mill levy increases in 2017 and beyond to the cost-of-living as determined by the consumer price index.

In other words, ultraconservatives in the legislature determined that locally elected officials can’t be trusted to determine tax increases without first forcing voters to weigh in. Some might call such micromanagement “legislative overreach.”

The only way to get a mill levy increase beyond the CPI is by asking voters to approve a tax increase.

Not only does this represent an added cost to local government, but it’s also impractical.

A county may not know it’s property valuation until May or June and budgets have to be completed and published by early August. That would require a special election with little time to inform voters why they’re being asked to increase their tax burden. And that’s also happening during harvest, summer vacations and county fairs.

Good luck with that.

And, for obvious reasons, waiting until a primary or general election later in the year is impractical.

Not that any of this matters to ultraconservative lawmakers in Topeka.

But, their inability to grapple with reality goes a step further in that they are limiting cities and counties to budget restrictions that have no bearing on the cost of goods and services received. If electric rates increase by seven percent, does it matter to the utility company that a city or county is limited to a CPI increase of two percent? Of course not.

The same is true of health insurance, fuel, vehicles, road equipment or anything else that local units of government must purchase.

Some counties, who already see a dilemma that the legislature didn’t (or didn’t want to) are increasing their mill levies by a more substantial amount this year to set a higher property tax “base.” As one county commissioner explained, that gives them a little added “cushion” so they aren’t so constrained by future CPI restrictions.

In other words, the legislature’s attempt to put a lid on property taxes has had the effect of increasing taxes at a higher rate than would have occurred without the pending lid. Don’t blame these county commissioners. They’re just trying to protect themselves from the legislature’s folly.

“It goes to show there are consequences when the legislature does something like this,” observed a county commissioner.

When lawmakers are more concerned with ideology than common sense, the consequences are predictable.

Time for change: Kansans must regain power at the ballot box

Over the past four years, Kansans have witnessed a collapse of state revenue thanks to an income tax cut that offered unrealistic expectations.

The result has been the slow disintegration of the institutions which are important to fulfilling the social and moral obligations we have in society, along with maintaining the infrastructure that is important to the future well-being of our state - our public schools, our universities, highways, early-childhood programs and more.

It’s all been done in the name of tax cuts.

One thing has been obvious during the process.

Gov. Sam Brownback and ultraconservatives who gave us the 2012 tax cuts don’t accept responsibility for all that has happened since. As long as they remain in power, the tax cuts and the resulting turmoil in our state are here to stay.

Instead, it is up to us to do something about it.

That opportunity is with your advance vote now or in the general election on Tuesday.

You can either vote for someone who offers hope for change and is determined to reverse the course that Kansas is on, or you can vote for a state lawmaker who promises more of the same.

There are enough legislative candidates appearing on the primary election ballot that we can take away the base of support which has allowed Brownback and his ultraconservative supporters to make Kansas a laughing stock of the nation. The only thing that Brownback and his lackeys have been successful at doing over the last four years is showing - once again - that trickle-down economics is a discredited theory and that Brownback’s great “experiment” is a failure.

We have the choice of suffering the consequences of this failure for two more years or putting a stop to it.

Taylor a clear choice in 33rd District It’s remarkable to think that a state which was once known for its progressive roots is now infamous for its right-wing ideology.

That’s fine for Mississippi or Alabama, but not for Kansas.

Our sharp turn to the outskirts of the political spectrum reached its climax in 2012 when Gov. Sam Brownback and right-wing special interest groups were successful in purging most of the moderate Republicans who remained in the state legislature. The power grab was complete and they could finally set about making Kansas an ultraconservative test lab for their social and economic experiments.

Some would describe this experiment as a failure - unless your goal is to destroy government.

Nonetheless, with the state budget in freefall and revenue shortfalls as far as the eye can see, a number of the lawmakers responsible for the economic disaster have decided this is a good time to bail out.

That’s no surprise.

Cleaning up a disaster is always much more difficult than creating one.

In the wake of this fiscal mess, there is opportunity for change. More moderate Republicans and Democrats are on state House and Senate ballots than has been seen in many elections. But, the mass exodus of ultraconservatives doesn’t mean that the big money and special interests behind their cause will give up easily.

In the 33rd Senate District, for example, the Koch-funded interests that prop up Brownback and his ultraconservative lackeys have thrown their support behind former state senator Larry Salmans to replace Sen. Mitch Holmes (R-St. John) who isn’t seeking re-election.

From an ideological standpoint, the difference between these two is negligible. If you like

Holmes, then you’ll have no problem with Salmans.

The moderate choice in this election is Mary Jo Taylor. She’s also the right choice for the 33rd District. Here’s why.

We’re sure that Salmans is a wonderful grandfather who his grandkids love to spend time with. That’s a great qualification for holiday gatherings - not for the legislature.

In fact, Salmans is ill-prepared for the Herculean responsibility of stopping this state from “spinning out of control” (his own words).

“We haven’t kept up with things for the last five years . . . 12 years,” admits Salmans, referring to his own absence from the legislature since 2004.

That becomes evident as one tries to interpret where Salmans stands on tax policy, or most any other major issue. In a 1-1/2 hour interview with the candidate we couldn’t.

During that time we heard: “I haven’t studied the tax cuts enough. I have people tell me they appreciate the cuts.”

“I don’t want to in-

crease the property tax.”

“There will undoubtedly be a tax increase.”

“I hate the consumption (sales) tax because it hits people on a fixed income, but I’m concerned about not increasing it.”

“I support more funding for public education.”

“They shouldn’t be taking money from KDOT, but I don’t know where they will get the money otherwise.”

If you can recognize a policy position on taxes or state spending - in those statements then congratulations.

What you have is a candidate who has admittedly spent little time studying the state’s fiscal dilemma since the 2012 tax cuts, has no idea what should be done to correct the state’s economic disaster and seems to have little taste for increasing taxes even when more revenue seems to be the only remaining course of action.

That makes him the ideal candidate for the Kansas Club for Growth and Americans for Prosperity who are flooding (See TAYLOR on page six)

Delayed pain leads to apathy Here’s the dirty little secret as to why so many moderate Republicans in Kansas, especially in Johnson County, will not bother to vote in the August primary.

Despite the fact that approval ratings for Gov. Sam Brownback and the Legislature are in the toilet, the direct impact of their sins has not yet been felt. And if the impact has not yet hit home, all the headlines about mismanagement of the state’s budget may seem like a distant dream, or maybe a distant nightmare.

Take the downgrade of the state’s credit rating.

Independent rating agencies have concluded that Kansas has become a risky investment. The state has borrowed too much, consistently under-funded its pension plan, and slashed revenues through deep tax

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cuts so much there are legitimate worries about whether the state can pay back bondholders.

Who cares or even knows about that?

Although it is embarrassing, and means Kansas must now pay higher interest rates on its bonds, it’s difficult to connect the dots between that irresponsible government and the everyday life of a hard-working, middleclass resident of, say, Johnson County.

If it is explained that the state is paying its credit cards by using other credit cards, that may click. A household can relate to that. As we all know, there is a day of reckoning for that reckless behavior. But

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

that day has not come.

That pain comes later, long after this August’s election.

Every parent of schoolage children followed the news about the threatened school shutdown by the Kansas Supreme Court.

Had that happened, turnout at the polls would have spiked, and many incumbents would have been punished.

But, schools did not close. Furthermore, even with budget cuts forced on wealthier districts like those of Johnson County, there will be no noticeable changes in the classroom.

School districts will use their reserves for this year, and there may be a small property tax hike. The funding crisis, for now, is over. The future outlook is scary, but, hey, we can worry about that later.

Right?

Sen. Pat Roberts 109 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

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

Busy people in Johnson County may not know that the highway fund reserves in Kansas have been basically wiped out, perhaps forever, to help balance the budget. But, do highways look neglected? You sure wouldn’t know it by all the road construction that’s going on in Johnson County.

Current state highway projects in Johnson County are not affected by the cuts, because those projects are already underway and previously funded. But, there will be a price to pay for highway budget cuts. Doug Davidson, president of the County Economic Research Institute in Johnson County, worries plenty about the longterm impact on the local economy by the state’s obliterating reserves for (See APATHY on page six)

Sen. Jerry Moran 141 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-6521 www.moran.senate.gov/public/

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Corporations couldn’t operate in a ‘free market’

by Jill Richardson

The debates leading up to the election this year will no doubt invoke the “American value” of capitalism. But what, exactly, does that mean? And what should it mean?

I’m no economist, but I took a few economics courses while earning an undergraduate business degree. Growing up in a capitalist society, I thought I understood the basic concepts underlying capitalism - free markets, competitive advantage, and so forth.

Then I actually read The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, the founding work that described what we call capitalism in the first place. That was a game changer.

We’re all probably familiar with Smith’s ideas at some level.

The market regulates itself, as each of us operates based on our own self-interest. Businesses try to earn profits, and consumers try to meet their needs at the best prices. The market ensures that the demand of consumers is met with supply from business.

The government’s job, the doctrinaire thinking goes, is to get the heck out of the way. It doesn’t set prices or quotas. It just lets the market function.

Adam Smith cast this arrangement in glowing terms in 1776. He was describing England during the Industrial Revolution. He thought it was amazing that millions of individual actors, each operating based on self-interest, could so efficiently revolutionize society without any central planning at all Only, he was wrong.

In fact, the growing British Empire was undertaking economic interventions on a colossal scale - and would do even more in the centuries to come.

The British set out all over the globe, claiming colonies in the New World and later India and Africa, setting up trade policies that benefited the British at the expense of the colonized.

The British imported cotton from their colonies for their own factories, as well as wheat to feed British workers in the isles. Colonial India, meanwhile, suffered several massive famines. Even as tens of millions of Indians starved to death, record amounts of Indian wheat were exported to feed British factory workers laboring in a so-called free market.

Before the Industrial Revolution, Indian textiles

A garment factory during the industrial revolution.

reigned supreme. But, British authorities kept industrial textile technologies out of India in order to capture the global textile market, impoverishing the colony further.

Other British staples - tea and sugar - were also imported from British colonies. That sugar was

produced by enslaved Africans in the Caribbean.

Some invisible hand.

Smith also overlooked the utter misery textile workers lived in, even in Britain.

The system “worked” at making some people rich. But, the (See MARKET on page six)

Trump ticket signals tax cuts for the wealthy

by Josh Hoxie

Populism everyone can get behind

by Jim Hightower

What if organizers and volunteers joined forces to run a nationwide campaign to replace today’s corporate-owned congress - all at once?

Yes, one sweeping campaign against all incumbents of either party who owe their jobs to Big Money.

A new campaign called Brand New Congress is trying to do just that, aiming to oust those congress critters with hundreds of coordinated campaigns running simultaneously in every state. They’ll back local candidates publicly pledged to fight for an agenda of economic, social, environmental, and political justice.

Sound impossible?

Not in the minds of the plan’s architects, which include several of the former Bernie Sanders staffers who conceived and implemented the Vermont senator’s successful grassroots campaigns.

They trained and empowered tens of thousands of far-flung volunteers to be autonomous organizers, digitally linked into a nationwide network, eliminating the need and cost of a rigid hierarchy of “leaders” to boss volunteers, recognizing instead that volunteers are already leaders.

Now they’re applying this model to Brand New Congress.

It’s a true bipartisan effort.

They’re planning to run Democrats in blue districts, Republicans in solid red ones, and independents wherever that makes sense.

But wait - how can they get Republican candidates to run on progressive values? By recognizing that true populism is neither a right nor left theory, but a top vs. bottom reality that even middle-class and lower-income Republicans can relate to.

Indeed, outside of the rightwing Congress, many rank-and-file Republicans support stopping global trade scams and repealing Citizens United. Many also support health care for all, recognizing climate change, and standing up to bigotry.

A message of authentic populism and a shared agenda of populist policy proposals could finally turn the tables on Big Money.

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

Following in the path of tyrants How much do we give up in Trump’s America?

Donald Trump was a man in full as he accepted the Republican nomination: Full-throated, full of fury and full of himself: “I am your voice”; “I alone can fix it (the system)”; “I am the law-and-order candidate.”

The teeming throng of red-, whiteand blue-bedecked patriots loved all 76 minutes of an acceptance speech in which the candidate promised to stop me if you’ve heard this - make America great again.

Personally, I’d settle for a smile, an expression that rarely bothered Trump’s facial features, and a national day of no-yelling. All week, there was so much shouting and pointing. So much posturing and clenching of fists. So much anger as the crowd roared in unison: “Lock her up, lock her up, lock her up.”

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie,

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serving as a prosecutor/provocateur, enumerated her crimes.

“Guilty or not guilty?” he shouted from the dais, at least once struggling to keep a straight face.

“Guilty!!!!” the crowd screamed with the bloodlust of Romans waiting for Caligula’s thumb.

Ah, but it’s just politics, giddy commentators reminded us the day after. This is what conventions are all about, riling the ready for the final slog. Nothing to see here but faith in the promise of a better, stronger, safer United States - all made possible by a red-faced, hamfisted, copper-coiffed casino broker who until very recently was a reality show celebrity who jabbed his finger toward trembling wannabes and decreed: “You’re fired!”

Heads will roll, we can presume, but whose? If I were Ted Cruz, I’d keep mine down.

The grandest of marketeers,

Trump has cast a spell over a swath of the United States, inspiring Americans not with soaring rhetoric but with dark harbingers of worse to come. In the familiar way of despots, tyrants and kings, he has made the many feel better by singling out the few to fault.

It is not for nothing that many have compared Trump’s brand of rhetoric to the words of some of humankind’s worst, including, unavoidably, Adolf Hitler.

This is the biggest secret to negotiation Silence can be a key tool for creating power dynamics and a successful outcome.

Observing the convention, I was taken back to my uncommon childhood, when I was exposed to Hitler’s speeches. My father, a World War II Army Air Corps pilot, was also a kitchen historian who, postwar, studied Hitler in an effort to better understand him. This involved listening to his recorded speeches, which, in the dark, B.A. (Before Apple) era, meant we all listened to (See TYRANTS on page six)

It was easy to get caught up in the circus that was the Republican National Convention.

Rousing speeches (plagiarized and original) and raucous floor votes make for great television and funny internet memes.

Unfortunately, as we’ve come to expect from events organized by Donald Trump, the convention was decidedly light on substance.

For an inkling of what a Trump administration might actually do, we have to look elsewhere.

Let’s start with Mike Pence, the newcomer to the ticket and a relative unknown to most voters.

As a conThe self-described Tea Partier served six terms in gressman the House of Representatives in 2010, for instance, and one term as governor of Pence made Indiana. He’s best known for the bizarre his staunchly conservative claim that raisstances on social issues, nota- ing income taxes would bly on reproductive health and decrease fedLGBT rights. eral revenue.

But, Pence also stands Unsurprisingly, way outside the mainstream Politifact on economic issues, with a the Pulitzer Prize-winning clear track record of coddling fact-checking the wealthy. He’s an ardent group - rated supporter of trickle-down eco- that false. nomics, the debunked idea that giving more money to the wealthy will somehow help the rest of us.

As a congressman in 2010, for instance, Pence made the bizarre claim that raising income taxes would decrease federal revenue.

Unsurprisingly, Politifact - the Pulitzer Prizewinning fact-checking group - rated that false.

More recently, Pence put his ideas into action in Indiana, enacting a major tax cut that helped give his state one of the most regressive tax structures in the country.

Indeed, on taxes, Pence is largely in line with Trump, who’s shown significant support for massive tax cuts for wealthy people like himself.

During the primary, Trump released a tax plan that would cost a whopping $24 trillion over the next two decades, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center calculates - most of it in cuts for high earners. Now in the general election, reports indicate he may be promoting a more modest package of cuts, but an unmistakably regressive one nonetheless.

Under the soaring subtitle “Restoring the American Dream,” page one of this year’s Republican Party platform dives straight into ideas around tax reform. The tax code, it claims, “has the greatest impact on our economy’s performance.”

“Getting our tax system right,” it goes on, “will be the most important factor in driving the entire economy back to prosperity.” What Trump and Pence consider “getting it right” is massive tax cuts for the ultra wealthy.

How do the American people feel about this?

I’m sure many see cutting their tax bill as a great thing - the adult equivalent of an elementary school class president promising to end homework or double the length of recess. But, most see past this.

Cutting taxes means major cuts to programs that millions of families depend on. It means slashing budgets or perhaps completely eliminating child nutrition programs, senior (See WEALTHY on page six)

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Museum is reminder of a dark chapter in WWII

by John Schrock

I am at the Unit 731 Museum in northeastern China. This was the research base for Japanese biowarfare atrocities that far exceeded anything that occurred on the European Front in World War II. So why did the officers in charge of this horrific facility not go before the International Military Tribunal in Tokyo in 1948, the eastern equivalent of the Nuremberg Trials in Europe?

Despite our history

books stating that the surrender was “unconditional,” there was one concession the Allies made at the highest level.

We would hold harmless the Japanese Emperor and any members of his extended family.

As a result, General MacArthur released some of the most vicious of Japanese generals, including General Asaka, an Imperial “prince,” under whose name the “kill all prisoners” order was issued that triggered the Nanjing Massacre.

Apathy future highway construction. But then, that’s down the road. We’ll worry about that later.

Kansans may have heard about steep cuts to higher education. But, how many Kansans are up in arms over the state’s continued cutbacks to funding universities?

The pain will be limited to only those paying newly hiked tuition to make up most of the gap. However, students notoriously do not vote, and those who do usually do not vote Republican.

So, when moderate Republicans go doorto-door, it is not likely they will be talking much about university funding.

Out of sight, out of mind.

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The last report concluded that the immunity-forinformation exchange was important because “Such information could not be obtained in our own laboratories because of scruples attached to human experimentation.”

However, General Ishii Shiro and the staff at Unit 731 were not royalty. Ishii gathered his officers and swore all to absolute lifetime secrecy before he left China for Japan, taking with him vital Unit 731 experimental records and destroying the rest.

Those members of Unit 731 who returned to Japan were never tried as war

criminals. The first two American military investigations (Sanders Report in Nov. 1, 1945 and Thompson Report in May 31, 1946) disclosed the development of bacterial bombs and recommended an immunity-for-information deal.

The United States was also pursuing biological warfare. Military staff at

Fort Detrick were eager to access scientific data that we did not have. But two additional reports (Fell Report in June 20, 1947 and the Hill and Victor Report in December 12, 1947) interrogated Japanese researchers and fully described the human experiments conducted by Unit 731.

The last report concluded that the immunityfor-information exchange was important because “Such information could not be obtained in our own laboratories because

of scruples attached to human experimentation.”

General Douglas MacArthur told Washington that “. . . additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as war crimes’ evidence.”

Ishii and his teams that returned to Japan never faced trial. Ishii Shiro (See MUSEUM on page 7)

Decent human being in election confuses voters

by Andy Borowitz

blush, exhibits none of the outward characteristics of a sociopath or clinical narcissist.

Furthermore, the man’s evident failure to be the target of fraud lawsuits, sexual-harassment claims, or federal criminal investigations was, in the parlance of many voters, “weird.”

“He seems like a nice guy, the kind of person you might enjoy spending time with and getting to know better,” said Harland Dorrinson, age 32, who watched the man’s unveiling on TV. “I

don’t know. The whole thing feels like some kind of prank.”

The man’s apparent humanity could spell trouble for his candidacy, as some voters questioned whether he has the capacity for unspeakable evil that is generally considered necessary to win higher office.

“I’m trying to keep an open mind, but I worry about his lack of experience being a jerk,” one voter said.

The state has obliteratMIAMI (The Borowitz ed its funding to the needy Report) The involvement of a and disabled, and slashed seemingly decent human being funding to health care in the 2016 election campaign for the poor. How many left American voters stunned and candidates will print that deeply bewildered when Tim on their campaign post Kaine was announced as Hillary cards? How many moderClinton’s runningmate. ate Republicans will gain In interviews across the countraction from that issue? try, voters expressed reactions Not many. We know the ranging from shock to total poor do not vote. incomprehension at the camAndy Borowitz is a comedian and It is such a con game. paign début of a man who, at first author The general population knows there is turmoil in state government, which is why approval ratings are low. But, they also are (continued from page four) lulled into apathy, because they do not see or feel the pain today. And tomorrow mailboxes with glossy, Club for Growth? Does That’s exactly what Efforts to neuter the Suseems so very far away. political flyers that lie that mean you’ll be an- lower court rulings have preme Court so it’s only Steve Rose is a columnist about his opponent and other waterboy for the determined repeatedly a rubber stamp for the for the Kansas City Star. He ultraconservative Ameri- over the years by declar- executive and legislative make property tax promcan be reached at srose@ ises which Salmans can’t can Legislative Exchange ing that public school branches is what will dekc.rr.com Council? funding fails to meet the stroy our democracy. keep.

That’s what contributSalmans lacks an un“fair and adequate” proSalmans says he’s “dised to the current crisis in vision of the state’s con- derstanding of the failed appointed in the people (continued from Kansas. stitution. That decision policies that are diminputting out this negative page five) Salmans is just as unwas reaffirmed by the Su- ishing the quality of life stuff.” However, he can’t certain about the checkspreme Court earlier this in Kansas. Neither does seem to stop these organiand-balances that are esby the “feeling that some year in a showdown with he have the willpower zations from doing somesential to our government. wealthy people don’t pay to stand up to those who the legislature. thing against his will.

He adopts the ultracontheir fair share.”

However, that’s not put the interests of a few If you can’t control servative stance that the Trump’s candidacy has who is putting out cam- Kansas Supreme Court enough to satisfy Salmans ahead of the majority. been anything but predictMary Jo Taylor grasps who feels that when the able, and there’s a long paign material in your has stepped beyond the those issues and will work way to go before Election name, then how can we “constitutional limit of Supreme Court overrules with fellow legislators to the legislature “it’s eating trust that you’ll have the separation of powers” by Day in November. But, with Pence on the ticket political will to do what’s ordering the legislature to away at public representa- restore fiscal integrity to our state. put more money into pub- tion.” and the GOP platform in right in Topeka?

Larry Salmans belongs He is wrong.

And does that mean lic education. place, it’s clear tax cuts Being elected by “the with his grandkids. Mary “The court’s only refor the wealthy are part of you’ll be another vote people” doesn’t give leg- Jo Taylor belongs in Toin the back pocket of the sponsibility is to look at the plan.

Kansas Chamber of Com- whether a law meets mus- islators the authority to peka.

Josh Hoxie is the director of merce, Kansas Policy ter with the constitution,” ignore the constitution or Rod Haxton can be reached the Project on Opportunity to interpret it as they wish. at editor@screcord.com and Taxation at the Institute Institute and the Kansas says Salmans.

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prescription health plans, and early childhood education programs. And the list goes on.

Perhaps that’s why for the third year in a row, an annual Gallup poll shows most Americans agree with the statement, “Our government should redistribute wealth by heavy taxes on the rich.”

Further, a recent poll from Pew Research showed 78 percent are either “very bothered” or “somewhat bothered” for Policy Studies

Market squalid and wretched lifestyles of laborers, including children - which inspired the writing of Charles Dickens - were its cost.

We in America have meddled in markets plenty in our own right - not least through historical crimes like slavery and colonialism. But we’ve also developed more benign interventions that can actually help people.

We ban child labor, for example, and enforce (admittedly inadequate) minimum wage protections. We require businesses to offer safe and healthy workplaces. We ban the sale of dangerous drugs. We try to regu-

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late pharmaceuticals to make sure they’re safe and effective.

In other words, capitalism with absolutely no government intervention is a myth - and always was.

We can debate the pros and cons of specific regulations. But, if you hear a candidate claiming that capitalism means doing away with all regulations - or that any government interference in the market equates to socialism or communism - they’re being dishonest.

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

Tyrants them. They made a lasting impression.

Without understanding a word of German, it wasn’t difficult to translate Hitler’s message.

The ferocious shouts of thousands of citizens, inflamed by and enamored of this strange little man, merged into a solid note - a deafening roar freighted with the fears and furies of mankind’s primeval past.

“Lock her up” sounds a lot like “To the stockades.”

We affirm that such a thing could never happen here. Our Constitution and

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our system of checks and balances protect against totalitarianism. I share the faith that America yet remains too good and too strong for a complete breakdown of our ordered liberty.

However.

There are reasons for the comparisons between tyrants and Trump that transcend mere politics.

There is also good reason that so many have accepted Trump as their leader. As one Republican loyalist explained to me: “He’s a tough guy. They think he’s going to punch (bad) people in the face.”

Indeed, Trump promised to end the Islamic State and to protect the LGBTQ community from “the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology,” just as he has promised to bring back jobs and renegotiate trade deals. The how of these several vows remains a mystery.

More pressing, meanwhile: What will be required of the United States in the process? How much freedom does law and order cost? We don’t know because Trump probably doesn’t know.

What I do know is that the sound and fury I recall

from my father’s records are similar to what I heard in Cleveland from decent people who would recoil at the comparison.

But, imagine you’re the person about whom thousands are chanting with the cadence of a lynch mob, “Lock her up!” How frightening that would be, even to a tough pro like Hillary Clinton. How horrifying it should be to all of us that the next president of the United States could be the man who inspired it.

Kathleen Parker is a Pulitizer Prize winning columnist who writes on politics and culture

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Museum would die in bed at the age of 67.

However, the Russian Army had captured 12 members of Unit 731 and put them on trial in December 25-31, 1949, in the industrial city of Khabarovsk. This revealed to the world for the first time the Unit 731 operations: bubonic plague fleas dropped on civilians and inhumane human experimentation.

The West dismissed the event as a Communist show trial. However, the Russians also negotiated clemency for information. The 12 Japanese war criminals were eventually released and repatriated to Japan by 1956.

Many of the Japanese doctors who participat-

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ed in the gruesome live autopsies at Unit 731 rose to high positions in Japan: Governor of Tokyo, the head of Japan’s biggest pharmaceutical company, the president of the Japan Medical Association, and the head of the Japan Olympic Committee.

Japanese veterans of Unit 731 erected a memorial tower for their Unit and held reunions. Today, Japan’s right-wing politicians continue to intimidate those who would call for any real apology and suppress detailed textbook discussions of any wartime atrocities.

And the Japanese prime minister continues to visit the Yasukuni Shrine that honors 14 Class A war criminals.

Some of the Unit 731 documents sent to the United States and labeled “top secret” were recently declassified under Defense Secretary Perry, and are now on view at this museum. The U.S. immunity-for-information deal and our Cold War cover-up, along with the Khabarovsk trial occupy additional rooms at this museum.

Recent articles in the “American Journal of Bioethics” in 2006 and 2015 calling for a public U.S. response in this cover-up have gone ignored.

And our own world history textbooks remain silent about Unit 731 and the U.S. immunity-for-information deal.

Before I left the Harbin museum, I talk-

ed with their staff with the assistance of my colleague from the Ministry of Education. I had used a modern headset that translated the narration of displays into English.

This museum provides the headsets in Japanese also.

“Do many Japanese visit this museum?” I asked.

“Yes,” was the reply.

“Perhaps a dozen a week, but more in some seasons.

Some bring flowers. And some apologize.”

For all of its horrible images, the theme of this museum is not antiJapanese. This museum stands as a repository of the documents and artifacts of this horrible time of warfare. And it is the same as the theme at the

Nanjing War Museum and the conclusion of Iris Chang’s book “The Rape of Nanjing.”

It emphasizes that in times of “all out” warfare, any of us could be stripped of humanity and pulled down to unspeakable cruelty, be it torture, waterboarding, or growing and spreading disease among children.

As one Japanese veteran recently stated without remorse: “When you are in war, you must do whatever you need to do to win.”

The Unit 731 Museum in Harbin is here to help everyone avoid going down that path again.

John Schrock trains biology teachers and lives in Emporia

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Salmans sees state ‘spinning out of control’ Larry Salmans says he’s concerned about the economic climate in Kansas and the resulting budget cuts.

“It seems that things are spinning out of control so fast and nothing is pointing us to the north,” says the former Kansas lawmaker.

When those cuts resulted in the closing of one of his pet projects - the youth center at Larned State Hospital - Salmans began receiving phone calls from former constituents in Pawnee County asking if he could do something to retain the program.

“It seemed evident that I needed to do some-

Quint files for retention

District Judge Michael Quint has filed for retention in the 25th Judicial District.

T h e district c o n sists of F i n n e y, Scott, K e a r n y, H a m i l - Judge Quint ton, Wichita and Greeley counties.

Judge Quint has served 22 years in the district court and has stood for retention on five previous occasions. Over that time he has received an overall approval rating of 79 percent from voters.

A lifelong resident of Western Kansas, he is a graduate of the University of Kansas and Washburn University School of Law.

thing,” said Salmans, a former director of a substance abuse program.

His concerns about the LSH youth center, combined with a phone call from current state senator Mitch Holmes looking for someone who would run in his place, prompted Salmans to re-enter politics after a 12 year absence.

Salmans, a native of Hanston, last served in the state senate from 19962004. Following redistricting, Salmans was defeated by Democrat Janis Lee in the 2004 general election.

While the 2012 tax cuts have been unpopular with

many Kansans and have led to a sharp decline in state revenue, Salmans feels they have been helpful to many, especially farmers who are dealing with low crop prices.

“I haven’t studied the tax cuts enough, but I’ve had people tell me they appreciate them, especially young farmers,” Salmans says.

“My tax policy has always been, if you don’t need (the money), don’t take it.”

reduce “excessive and wasteful spending.”

While Salmans says he supports more funding for public education, he didn’t spell out how that would happen since he didn’t offer support for a tax increase. He did take exception with the viewpoint that more money will lead to a better education.

The block grant system that was put in place by the legislature prior to the 2015-16 school year “bought some time. I don’t think we can kick Excessive Spending this can down the road Salmans, 78, says his much further.”

He is also opposed to priority in state government has always been to taking money from the

Kansas Department of Transportation to keep the state budget out of the red, but added, “I don’t know where they will get the money otherwise.”

Separation of Powers The former lawmaker feels the Kansas Supreme Court has stepped “beyond the constitutional limit of separation of powers,” in ordering the legislature to equalize funding among schools or face a potential shutdown.

“I don’t think they have the evidence to support (that funding) is unconstitutional,” claims Salmans.

While he didn’t offer specifics on how to deal

with the budget deficit, school funding or his particular interest - mental health services - Salmans did say he would bring a common-sense approach to Topeka.

“I’ve learned over the years to bring compassion and understanding to my decision-making,” he says.

At the same time, Salmans acknowledges the political atmosphere is difficult in Topeka with such a sharp divide within the Republican Party.

“I have friends on both sides of that split,” he says. “My goal is to try to do what’s right.”

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Don’t be swayed by character assassination, misleading election ads Crazy Season has begun!

Some candidates believe that character assassination is the only way to win. It has proven effective over the last several elections in Kansas. We need to send a strong message to our representatives that this is unacceptable.

As election day gets closer, we have been inundated with postcards, phone calls and television/radio ads.

Most of these ads have been very negative.

We received, as I’m sure you did, a couple of post cards that were very disturbing about Mary Jo Taylor.

We have spoken to Mary Jo. She has no idea what she ever said that would make anyone think that she would do any of those things.

She would not put “seniors at risk.” As she said, “I’m a senior citizen. Why would I do anything to put seniors at risk?”

The newest card shows a picture of Mary Jo Taylor with Hillary Clinton photoshopped to leave the impression they believe in similar philosophy, which is absolutely untrue!

When you receive these negative ads, please look for the fine print. Find out who they come from and what agenda that organization has.

The senior scare postcard came from an organization called Main Street Kansas. This is part of The Republican Main Street Partnership PAC (from their website) “a multi-candidate federal political action committee. We offer our individual and corporate/ association members the opportunity to support the governing wing of the Republican Party.”

In other words, if you give them money, they will send out all kinds of negative ads for you.

Do we want to elect someone for our state senator based on a company in some other state? I say, no.

Talk to the candidates. Do not believe anything you read or hear in a negative campaign.

Our state legislature has the power and authority to stop these unethical tactics in Kansas elections and they have failed to clean up their behavior. Western Kansans deserve better from their elected officials.

When candidates allow other groups to defame their opposition it is the same as condoning it. The end does not justify any means.

Mary Jo Taylor can be reached at Taylor4senate82@ gmail.com. Ask her what her view is on the issues.

You will be glad you did.

Hold the candidates to positive, honest campaigns.

Advance voting is available now. Please exercise you right to vote!

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Kansas is at a historical crossroad Kansas is at a crossroad. The upcoming election for legislative members of both the Kansas House and Senate will likely go down as one of the most telling in state history.

Regardless of your personal position as a conservative, moderate, liberal or a combination of any or all those, your choice at the ballot box in this election will help determine the immediate future of the State of Kansas.

The upcoming decisions made in Topeka will require legislative members who possess the most wisdom, experience, honesty and integrity available to us at the ballot box.

As the superintendent of schools at Stafford (USD 349), it was on my watch that Mary Jo Taylor was hired as high school principal. When I retired, Mary Jo was chosen by the board of education as my replacement. What a great call!

Here is a lady in every sense of the word. Mary Jo is college educated with a major in history and government, became a highly successful teacher, a mother widowed early, remarried and successfully blended her new family, obtained a Master’s degree in educational administration, became a high school principal, obtained her Doctorate degree while on the

job, and now is a highly respected and successful superintendent of schools.

So, Mary Jo understands history, government and the Constitution, understands budgeting, dealing with people, decisionmaking, planning, and at the same time continues to successfully shepherd her blended family and stay active in her community and church - and she decides to run for the Kansas Senate.

Wisdom. Experience. Honesty.

Integrity. Hard work. Mary Jo Taylor will well-represent you in the Kansas Senate, District 33.

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Marshall capable Give Kansas ag a voice in Washington of solving problems

On August 2, Kansans in the Big First will have the opportunity to regain leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives by voting for Dr. Roger Marshall.

For nearly four years, Kansans have lacked a voice on the House Agriculture Committee and Dr. Marshall, if elected, will regain our voice.

Incumbent Congressman Tim Huelskamp, claims he was removed by former Speaker John Boehner as political retribution. Unfortunately, that likely wasn’t the case.

Removal of a member from a committee usually is done at the behest of the committee chairman in consultation with the party steering committee. When Congressman Huelskamp was removed from the Agriculture Committee, he also was removed from

the Budget Committee.

The chairman at that time was current Speaker Paul Ryan.

In a recent interview with Politico, a current member of the steering committee said Congressman Huelskamp “would still have zero chance of getting back on ag” and that he had “burned more bridges than J.E.B. Stuart.”

While anything is possible in Washington, D.C., the facts demonstrate it is unlikely Congressman Huelskamp will regain his seat. Kansans cannot afford another two years without effective representation.

Please vote for Dr. Roger Marshall on August 2.

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Dr. Roger Marshall is an honest, hard-working and successful businessman who will bring his ability to work productively with others to reach conservative solutions in Congress.

Most successful businessmen will not submit to the uncertainties of the ballot box. Roger is not like most. He is unselfishly concerned about the direction America is taking and is willing to dedicate his time, energy and problem-solving abilities to reaching solutions.

Roger Marshall is a law-abiding, well-liked, intelligent businessman with a farming background, who is also a good listener.

Roger is a veteran who will ensure that our veterans have proper hospital care and that our military is the strongest in the world.

We are fortunate to have people like Roger willing to make an effort to save our nation.

A plus for him is that he has the ability to compromise and negotiate to reach acceptable solutions.

The incumbent is not able to do this. It is his way or the highway.

The incumbent has thrown some dirt into the campaign, but people who know Roger Marshall can see through the lies.

I’m voting for Roger Marshall as our First District Congresssman.

Dick Boyd Norton

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County Austerity has been the key word for commissioners and department heads over the past two years while property valuations have been on the decline.

County Commission Chairman Jim Minnix notes that the county received about $600,000 less in tax revenue during the current budget year, but was able to keep the mill levy virtually unchanged.

“We’ve kept our spending very tight. We’re trying to keep what we can in the taxpayers’ pockets,” says Minnix.

In anticipation of a tax lid that was passed by the Kansas Legislature and scheduled to go into effect with next year’s budget, many counties have chosen to build a “cushion” in their tax levy. By establishing a higher mill levy base, these counties will avoid the immediate impact of future mill levy hikes limited to the rate of inflation as determined by the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

“We’ve had auditors say that some counties are raising their levies 20 to 30 mills in preparation for the tax lid,” Minnix says. “We kept ours very low and austere and we believe we can still maintain the same level of operations.

“An unintended consequence of the state tax lid is that some counties will raise their levies more

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than they normally would been aggressive over the in anticipation of that. We last couple of years in paying down our long-term aren’t doing that here.” debt and refinancing two bond issues, which have Budget Changes Not that the commis- resulted in a significant sion hasn’t taken advan- savings,” Minnix says.

Refinancing of bond tage of some budget maneuvers allowed by the issues has saved the county about $1.8 million. tax lid.

For example, this Bonds that were issued year’s budget has separate for renovation of the line items for the sheriff’s courthouse will be retired department and ambu- this year. lance service. They have previously been included Hospital Support In past years, the counin the general fund. ty has provided $200,000 The reason is that the tax lid exempts public annually for the Scott safety expenses such as County Hospital, but that the sheriff’s department, was reduced to $180,000 fire department and ambu- in the current budget. That amount will be unchanged lance service.

This gives the county in 2017.

However, the hosa little added room in the pital repays the county general fund before the CPI becomes a factor.

“When we budget next year, we won’t be able to increase our spending above the CPI increase,” said Minnix, referring to non-public safety expenses.

Local voters would have to approve an increase in the levy of a greater amount.

Debt Service The proposed 2017 budget includes no mill levy for debt service.

Minnix reports there is enough carryover from prior years that it wasn’t necessary to levy for that expense in 2017.

“That’s because we’ve

$180,000 annually.

“Essentially, the hospital does not rely on taxpayer funding for its operations,” Minnix says.

Taxpayers do provide $180,000 for the ambulance service.

Tight Budgets Ahead Minnix feels the county could be dealing with a declining tax base and tight budgets over the next few years.

While volatile oil/gas values may not drop too much farther, neither are they expected to increase in the near future.

Perhaps the next blow to valuations will be the anticipated drop in usevalue for agricultural land. Those values are based on the most cur-

rent eight-year average.

As years with high crop values are dropped from the back end of the eight year cycle, and the most recent years added, county appraiser Randy Sangster has warned the commission to brace for a steady drop in ag land values.

This year, real estate values are $57.2 million and that has climbed to $61.2 million for the 2017 budget year. With ag land accounting for a huge share of that, Sangster says the 2017 valuation will likely be lower.

Minnix says the county has been able to use cash reserves to maintain services and avoid a big leap in property taxes.

The county, for example, has $1.4 million that it

is holding in the oil/gas depletion fund.

“Some counties are using that reserve fund, but we haven’t had to touch it yet,” Minnix notes.

He says the goal of the commission and their auditors has been to average a 30 percent carryover in funds each year, but that may no longer be possible.

“Once the tax lid takes effect, I can see our carryover shrinking considerably,” warns Minnix.

“We hope the public understands we’re operating with a tight budget and that we aren’t asking for any more dollars than what it takes to operate and to provide the services that our taxpayers expect.”

Youth/Education

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Exchange visitor gets a glimpse of Kansas ag When Mohit Singh had an opportunity to participate in a six-month exchange trip to the United States, there was no hesitation.

“I’m following in the footsteps of my grandf a t h e r, ” Mohit SIngh says the native of Agra, Shahganj, in north-central India.

Singh, 23, is the only representative from India on an international exchange team of about 30 people who arrived in the U.S. in mid-June. He is spending three weeks observing the farming operation of Jim and Eileen Minnix in southern Scott County.

His grandfather came to the U.S. in 1966 as part

of an exchange program and returned to India with “a lot of ideas and grapefruit,” says Singh.

While his grandfather worked in the Indian government at the time, he was also interested in learning ideas that the family could incorporate on their small farming operation.

While small by U.S. standards, the 200-acre farm is large in India.

In fact, Singh says the state in which his family lives limits farm ownership to 40 acres, though that varies among states.

His family is able to maintain a 200-acre tract by dividing ownership among family members.

Even on just 200 acres, Singh describes a very diverse operation that includes vetch, potatoes, canola, guava fruit, milo,

a mango fruit orchard, fish and 2,000 broiler chickens.

Because farm operations are small, much of the labor is by hand and with the use of animals.

The Singhs have five tractors which are 40-50 horsepower.

When harvesting wheat, farmers will usually hire custom cutters.

“There is a desire to change and to modernize our equipment,” says Singh. “But, there is a limit to what many farmers can afford to do.”

Government Support In that respect, India and the U.S. share similarities in their support of agriculture. That’s particularly important in India where the government limits the size of farms, but still needs to feed a

population of 1.3 billion people.

“The central government in New Delhi is good to the farmers. They will subsidize 70 percent, 60 percent, of what it costs to farm,” says Singh.

He said farmers are also eligible for low-interest loans and pay no income taxes.

“I think it’s because farmers don’t have a big income. We have so many small farms.”

He added that in rural areas, education is free to everyone through the eighth grade. Singh says about 70 percent of his college education was paid for by the government.

“The cost of universities is not very high,” he said. “If you are poor and can show you have a need, the government will help

you with your education.” agement - and for good reason. Over the past 50 years their farm has been Impressed With Yields While he understands visited by two U.S. presithat the wheat crop in dents - Richard Nixon and Kansas was exceptional Bill Clinton.

President Barack this year, Singh has been impressed with wheat Obama would have been yields even in an average the third presidential visit, but last minute security year.

“We get about 24 bush- concerns forced a change els an acre in India,” said of plans.

“Having two U.S. Singh, noting that producers plant a hard red winter presidents is a really good wheat that originates in thing for tourism,” says Mexico. “I’ve discussed Singh, who is looking at with our family that we ways to promote agrineed to look at other vari- tourism.

Last year, their farm eties.”

Irrigation in Singh’s was visited by about 30 region is provided by ca- delegates from the Uninals, though groundwater versity of Alabama.

Following three-week is available to supplement the water supply when stays in Allen County (in eastern Kansas) and near necessary.

Despite being involved Ransom, and a week at the in the farming operation, Kansas State Fair, Singh Singh has a degree in will spend his final three travel and tourism man- months in Virginia.

SC youth wants officers to know they are appreciated

With the recent violence aimed at law enforcement officers around the country, Amiah wanted to do something to show they are appreciated.

“It bothered me what I was hearing on the news,” said the 12-year-old. “It seemed to me that policemen were being hunted. It’s sad that they might not go home to their families.”

Her mother, Amanda, is employed at the Sonic Drive-in, so that was their first stop for donations. They also received donations from Wendy’s in Scott City.

They also spread the word on the First Baptist Church website and in a couple of days raised over $500.

They purchased items that were put into 14 plastic containers to be delivered to the Scott County Law Enforcement Center to be distributed among the officers. The containers included homemade cookies, gas cards and more.

“I was surprised that so many people were willing to help,” said the Scott City youth. “It seemed like the right thing to do.”

Amiah Shreve and her younger brother, Taizmond Yarbough, show their appreciation to the Scott City Police Department and Sheriff’s Department.

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Cosmosphere offering 4-H SpaceTech camp The Kansas Cosmosphere, Hutchinson will be joining with Kansas 4-H SpaceTech to offer a two-day camp on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1.

The inaugural program will feature “Space Exploration and the Mars Habitat.”

Cost will be $100 for youth between 9-18-yearsold and adult participants.

All youth must have a designated chaperone to attend.

Registration includes three meals, two breaks, and an overnight stay.

Program topics include a tour of the Cosmosphere, “Journey to Space” movie, creating a Martian habitat, geocaching items that you will need to live on Mars, robotics design challenge with building an item you will need to sur-

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vive on Mars, a star observation experience outside (weather permitting), plus much more.

This Cosmosphere collaboration is designed to be an adult-child experience, where 4-H members and adults can interact and learn from these fun and educational experiences.

The program will include overnight indoor camping at the Cosmosphere.

The experience is open to 4-H members, parents, grandparents, volunteer 4-H leaders, and KSRE staff.

Local 4-Hers who are interested are advised to contact the Scott County Extension office prior to registration.

For more information contact Deryl Waldren, dwaldren@ksu.edu, or call 785-462-6281.

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Pastime at Park Lane

by Jason Storm

Music groups entertain

Naomi Teubner entertained everyone with a music program on Tuesday afternoon.

Dean Fraley from Dighton played the accordion for residents on Friday afternoon.

The Blue Steele Band performed on Saturday afternoon. Band members are Mike Steele, Dan Dunn and Keith Steele.

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

Several residents played Wii bowling on Monday evening.

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

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

Madeline Murphy and Barbara Dickhut were the bingo helpers on Wednesday afternoon.

Residents played cards on Wednesday evening.

Ladies received manicures on Thursday morning.

Everyone enjoyed a watermelon feed on Thursday afternoon.

Residents played trivia games on Thursday.

Melva Rose was visited

by Carol Ellis.

Dottie Fouquet was visited by Jim and Karen Kwasny, Mark and Terri Fouquet, and Jon and Anne Crane.

Corrine Dean was visited by Dianna Howard, Aaron and Mandy Kropp, Caleb Powers, Carol Ellis and Kim Smith.

Vivian Kreiser was visited by Sharon Lock.

LaVera King was visited by Milt and Velda Riddiough, Marsh Holloway, Jerry and Joyce Wiechman, Shellie Carter, Margie Stevens, Carol Latham and Gloria Gough.

Cecile Billings was visited by Ann Beaton, Thurman and Delinda Dunagan, Larry Billings and Shantel Lobmeyer.

Louise Crist was visited by Jean Burgess and Tava See. Cloide Boyd was visited by Junior and Sharon Strecker, Chasen, and Donna Eitel.

Loretta Gorman was visited by Charlene Becht, Ashley Pecina and Draevynn Ullom.

Doris Riner was visited by Trudy Eikenberry, Bill and Sue Riner, Karen Harms, and Mary Lou Oeser. Doris had lunch on Sunday with Mary Lou, Karen, Jane, Alma, and Martha.

Nella Funk was visited

by Donna Eitel.

Kathy Roberts was visited by Zach Roberts, Major Roberts and Donna Eitel.

Lowell Rudolph was visited by Kathleen Moore, Connie and Marci Knobbe, LuAnn Buehler and Chuck Kirk.

Arlene Beaton was visited by John and Colleen Beaton and Margie Stevens.

Clifford Dearden was visited by Kirk and Janet Ottaway from Hays.

Boots Haxton was visited by Rod and Kathy Haxton.

Jeannie Rowton was visited by Susan Escareno, Becky Rowton, Phil Escareno and Beau Harkness.

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

Bonnie Pickett was visited by Gloria Wright and Larry and Philene Pickett.

Dona Dee Carpenter was visited by Gloria O’Bleness, Larry LaPlant, Shirley Strickert, Carter Peintner, Marcus Peintner and Jaelynn Peintner.

Sr. Citizen Lunch Menu Week of August 1-5 Monday: Chicken pot pie, tossed salad, confetti cottage cheese, peaches.

Tuesday: Breaded cod, sloppy joe, pea layer salad, sliced tomatoes, whole wheat roll, tropical fruit salad.

Wednesday: Chili, baked potato, creamy cole slaw, cinnamon roll, pineapple.

Thursday: Huntington chicken, capri vegetables, asparagus, whole wheat roll, Waldorf salad.

Friday: Sausage gravy with biscuit, broccoli with cheese, chilled tomatoes, melon mix. meals are $3.25 • call 872-3501

Attend the Church of Your Choice

Wrecked by Sin Each Sunday we are blessed to have group of ladies from City On A Hill (COAH) worship with us. COAH is a faith-based substance abuse and addiction recovery treatment center. These ladies come with tons of baggage associated with their addictions and often times with only the shirt on their back. They are wrecked by sin.

COAH treats women who vary in race, age and economic backgrounds for four weeks - 28 days. In that time many of them learn that they cannot overcome their sin without Christ. At the end of their 28 days there is a graduation ceremony for those who complete the program.

A few weeks ago, on a Sunday, I went to the COAH graduation. I hadn’t been to one in awhile and even though they are always formatted the same they are always very powerful. This was a big one with six girls graduating. I found myself captivated by their testimonies and moved by their tears.

Their testimonies were not just of being clean but also of how God was working in their hearts and how the gospel was transforming their lives. Sometime during the ceremony I came to a startling realization; I too have been wrecked by sin.

Luke’s gospel tells us, in chapter 7, that Jesus was invited to dine with a Pharisee at his home. I’ve often wondered what motivated the Pharisee. Was it because he was curious about this radical rabbi and his teaching? Did he see it as an opportunity to elevate his status? Maybe he was trying to find a weakness in Jesus’s ministry?

Jesus had become popular and this, of course, outraged the religious leaders. Whatever the case, I don’t think he expected the uninvited woman whom he described as a sinner.

This woman had heard that Jesus was eating at this Pharisee’s house and she shows up uninvited and then does the unthinkable: As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she

began to wet his feet with tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them. Luke 7:38 (NIV) We are not told right away why she is weeping, but Jesus knows. The Pharisee calls her a sinner; he is correct. While he knows what a sinner is, it seems he does not understand its devastating effects. She is wrecked by sin; he is not. Seizing the opportunity Jesus turns to his disciples: 40: “Simon, I have something to tell you.”

“Tell me, teacher,” he said.

41: “Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 42: Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”

43: Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt forgiven.”

“You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.

44: Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45: You did not give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet. 46: You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet. 47: Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven - as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.”

48: Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

49: The other guests began to say among themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”

50: Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

Luke 7:40-50 (NIV) Once wrecked by sin, now wrecked by the glorious beauty of the gospel.

Pastor Scott Wagner First Christian Church, Scott City • fccscottcity.org

Scott City Assembly of God

Prairie View Church of the Brethren

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

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

Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.

Men’s Fellowship • Tuesday breakfast at 6:30 a.m.

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

St. Joseph Catholic Church

Holy Cross Lutheran Church

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

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

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

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.

Pence Community Church

Community Christian Church

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

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

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

Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m.

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

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

First Baptist Church

Immanuel Southern Baptist Church

803 College - Scott City - 872-2339

1398 S. US83 - Scott City - 872-2264

Kyle Evans, Senior Pastor Bob Artz, Associate Pastor

Robert Nuckolls, pastor - 872-5041

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.

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

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

Wednesday Bible Study, 7:00 p.m.

Gospel Fellowship Church

1st United Methodist Church

Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m.

5th Street and College - Scott City - 872-2401 John Lewis, pastor 1st Sunday: Communion and Fellowship Sunday Services, 9:00 a.m. • Fellowship, 10:15 a.m. • Sun. School, 11:00 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.

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

First Christian Church

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

Scott Mennonite Church

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

12021 N. Eagle Rd. • Scott City

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.

Franklin Koehn: 872-2048 Charles Nightengale: 872-3056 Sunday School Worship Service: 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 p.m.

Holy Eucharist - 11:45 a.m.

St. Luke’s - 872-3666 (recorded message) Senior Warden Cody Brittan • (913) 232-6127 or Father Don Martin • (785) 462-3041

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Mystery The potential of discovering a human element, which would have set this mammoth discovery apart from others, was the one hope that kept bringing Odyssey team members back.

And there are still important questions that remain unanswered.

For example, as researchers have uncovered bones at the site - about 75 total - they remain puzzled at their disbursement on the landscape. One of the final pieces to be removed during the team’s visit in mid-July was the mandible (jaw bone).

It was located about 10 meters south of the cranium, which is about what would be expected.

“But, you go a couple of meters to the west and you’ve got the pelvis, and that’s not expected,” Hofman observes.

Only one scapula (shoulder blade) has been discovered and it’s in the wrong position in relation to the skull. And the humerii bone (upper front limb) is relatively close to the scapula, as it should be, but it’s not where one would expect in relation to the pelvis and skull.

Adding to the mystery is the absence of the femurs (upper leg).

“There are a certain number of elements that we would expect to find with this mammoth and we haven’t found all of them,” says Barb Crable, who has been excavating on the site for the last two years. “We know that humans targeted certain elements and that’s what we’re missing. That’s what keeps bringing us back.”

Expanding Search In hopes of discovering those key elements, the Odyssey team focused its search toward the north end of the skeletal field and, for the first time, opened a couple of dig sites on the west side of the terrace. Since the terrain slopes to the northwest, one possibility is that bones may have moved in that direction over several thousand years.

That search produced no new discovery, leading Hofman to speculate that the terrace is probably the west border of this site. Additional bones may lie under the terrace, but the cost of destroying a portion of the structure makes that search prohibitive.

“I think we’ve defined the bone concentration east of the terrace,” says Hofman. “We have a fair piece of the cranium, which we didn’t have before. That’s going to be pretty close to where the animal died. It’s a big bone and hard to move. It will melt down and fragment in the area where the mammoth originally died.”

Because a number of key bones haven’t been discovered, and likely never will, it forces the archeological team to develop an interpretation of the site based on the unusual distribution of those elements. Had the team been able to find a bone that was intentionally fractured in order to

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make a tool, that would offer one explanation.

It’s possible bones were moved by people or they could have been moved by early terracing operations. They could have also been moved by other mammoths, similar to what elephants will do when they visit the site of a dead elephant.

And even though the bones which have been found and taken to a laboratory in Lawrence for further analysis haven’t revealed signs of flaking or fracturing, that still doesn’t rule out human activity. Since the bones were discovered on a high point in the landscape it would have taken considerable time for them to be covered by blowing dirt. The longer bones are exposed to the elements, naturally the more they will disintegrate.

That’s in contrast to skeletal remains of mammoths which are commonly found in low-lying areas near water holes.

Bones in those locations are covered up more quickly and better preserved.

“This site is certainly of interest, but I suspect we won’t be returning,” speculates Hofman. “Our ability to interpret what happened here and how old (the mammoth) is won’t change much with the discovery of more bones unless we find some that happen to be modified by people.

While the discovery of human interaction with the mammoth, which has prompted the Odyssey team’s return each summer since 2011, has not materialized, Hofman emphasizes that it doesn’t diminish the value of this site.

“This is a very cool site and it’s in such an unusual setting. As a mammoth site, it offers a good contribution in its own right,” he says. “We learn from these sites only through excavation study. We’ve been able to do a lot of teaching and training here, which is invaluable.”

Among those visiting the site for the first time was Stephen Dyle, a graduate student at Missouri State.

“I felt fortunate to be selected to work at this site,” noted Dyle. “We don’t have these in Missouri, so it may be the only chance I’ll ever have to be involved in a mammoth dig.”

Even though it may eventually be concluded that no people were involved in the death of this mammoth, Hofman says that doesn’t mean early man didn’t have some connection after the fact.

“We think that people were here at the time this mammoth died. Either they didn’t find it or they weren’t interested. This is a big landscape,” Hofman says. “If they came up on it, you’d assume they would be interested in some of the bones.

But, they could also have butchered a mammoth two days before and they didn’t need this one.

“There are all kinds of reasons why this animal might have died. We don’t have the answer, but it’s looking more like a natu-

ral cause, or a non-human cause of death. But, we really don’t know.”

Museum Exhibit Given the condition of the bones and tusks that have been discovered, Hofman says they aren’t desirable for display at the University of Kansas or another major museum which already has access to higher quality pieces.

The eventual destination of the bones is in the hands of Mike and Deb Scheuerman on whose farm ground the mammoth was discovered.

The Odyssey team is currently working with the El Quartelejo Museum to prepare an exhibit that will include those bones in the best condition. It will also include an explanation of the Odyssey team - what they accomplished at the site and what was learned.

“The bones are the property of the Scheuermans. The problem is that it’s hard to find a place to care for these kind of bones,” Hofman says.

“They take up a lot of room and you need a controlled environment. Most museums and farm homes or outbuildings aren’t adequate.”

At the same time, Hoffman says the bones will remain available for future research.

“We could still learn more about the size of the animal, how much it weighed and whether it’s male or female. The bones would be available for further analysis by students or researchers who specialize in this,” he says.

(Top) Team leader Jack Hofman looks on while coordinates are logged into a computer which show the exact location, including depth, of the tibia.

(Above) This skeletal drawing of a mammoth shows the bones (darkened) which have been discovered by the Odyssey team at the Scott County site since 2011.

(Below) Norman Dye, Meade, (left) and Chris Hord dig a site west of the terrace in search of bones.

(Bottom) Stephen Dyle carefully removes sediment from around a mandible that was discovered during the latest dig. The vague outline of a tooth is visible.

(Record Photos)

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Choosing the right project for home renovation

by Nathaniel Sillin

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Scott City Council Agenda Monday, August 1 • 7:30 p.m.

City Hall • 221 W. 5th •Call to Order •Approve minutes of July 18 regular meeting •Open 2017 budget hearing •Approve charter ordinance No. 10 (city elections) •Request date to use Patton Park Aug. 6: Pence Community Church concert •Discuss authorization of mayor’s signature on consent letter with AT&T •Open bids for items in City Hall •Open agenda: audience is invited to voice ideas or concerns. A time limit may be requested Pool Department 1) Discuss Red Cross swim lessons 2) Discuss family night and aerobics schedule for 2017 3) Pool inspection report 4) Pool closing on August 14 Police Department 1) Misc. business Parks Department 1) Misc. business Public Works Department 1) Accept bids for pickups and motors Clerk’s Department 1) Misc. business •Close budget hearing •Approve 2017 budget •Mayor’s comments

Register of Deeds Roland Murphy to Bradley and Susan Boulware, a tract in E2 of SW4 of 19-18-32.

Jordan and Amanda Unruh to Devin Ellis, Lot 14, Blk. 3, East Acres Addition.

Randall and Robin Schemm to Brenda Cejda, east 20 ft. of Lot 13 and all of Lots 14-18, Blk. 14, Eastmans Addition.

Robert and Janice Thieman to Western Kansas Property Management, Lot 3, Blk. 5, East Acres Addition.

Bryan and Brenda Kough to Tyler Kough, west 80 ft. of Lots 2, 5 and 8, Blk. 53, Original Town, except for south 40 ft. of west 80 ft. of Lot 8.

Susan Wiechman, Phillip Gibbs, Jynette Gibbs, Brett Kendrick, Kenda Kendrick, Melvin Murphy and Denise Murphy to Glenn Turner, south 95 ft. of Lot 9, Blk. 5, CA Steele and Sons 2nd Addition.

Curtis and Mari Masters to Christopher and Tammy Lund, Lots 2 and 3, Blk. 5, Southview Second Addition; and Lots 1-4, Blk. 6, Southview Second Addition.

Andrew Nelson Trust No. 1 and Crayton Neufeld Trust No. 1 to Louise Ehmke Trust No. 1, SE4 of 25-19-31.

Bryan Weems, Jr., to Richard and Pamela Harris, S2 of Lot 10 and all of Lot 11, Blk. 6, Original Town.

Joseph Conner to Richard Allen McDaniel, Lot 9, Blk. 11, Fairlawn Addition.

Kaleb and Kari McDaniel to Chad and Amanda Amerine, Lot 1 and north 12 ft. of Lot 4, Blk. 9, CA Steele and Sons Addition.

Trophy, LLC, to Kelli Berry, Lot 16, Blk. 26, Original Town.

Prior to the housing crash, people were investing heavily in their homes and seeing returns greater than 100 percent on their spending. In 2016, the cost and return at resale for the projects listed in the report averaged 64.4 percent for a home sold within a year of the upgrades.

Making a profit on a renovation isn’t guaran-

teed, so to tackle projects that will allow you to recover your costs at the highest possible level.

•Smaller projects focusing on essentials can provide better returns.

A decade ago, it was an upscale outdoor deck or a gourmet kitchen. These days, new doors, which can cost under $500 to replace and install, are one of the most popular

projects.

A high quality fiberglass entry door replacement can recoup an average 82.3 percent of costs; a garage door replacement can return over 90 percent.

•Upgrade rooms and spaces, but keep it modest.

A minor kitchen remodel including upgraded cabinet fronts, new hard-

ware and the addition of one or two energy-efficient appliances averaged a return of more than 83 percent of original cost compared to 65 percent for the gut jobs.

After assessing the national and regional averages, you’ll need to evaluate your personal situation, local home market and the type of homes that (See HOME on page 18)

Caregivers should understand insurance options prior to service By 2030, the over-65 age group in the United States is expected to double. As a result, family caregivers for older Kansans are becoming more common.

Caregiving is defined as providing care to someone in a home setting rather than care in a hospital or other facility. This allows a person receiving care to remain in his or her home longer.

Caregivers provide support to people who have physical, psychological and/or developmental needs. They work with a broad range of activities,

commissioner’s corner Kansas Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer

including help with the following: •Housekeeping, shopping and meal preparation.

•Bathing, using the bathroom and getting dressed, administering medicine and basic exercise.

•Providing emotional and social support.

The responsibilities and scope of caregiving make it necessary for those taking on these duties to

Scott Co. LEC Report Scott City Police Department July 22: Angel Moreno, 19, was served a warrant from another county while in the LEC. July 22: A theft of property/services and forgery was reported at 1603 South Main.

July 25: Obstructing the legal process of a police officer while on duty occurred.

Scott County Sheriff’s Department July 21: 10:56 p.m. Cody Couchman was involved in an accident on North Juniper Road while driving a 1986 Dodge pickup.

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record Thurs., July 28, 2016; last published Thurs., Aug. 4, 2016)2t NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR ZONING VARIANCE Notice is hereby given that the Scott City Planning Commission will hold a special meeting on Thurs., Aug. 11, 2016, 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 item: 1) Application for variance by Antonio Navarrete to allow a setback less than allowed by ordinance on: Lots Two (2) and North Half (N/2) of Lot Three (3), Block Twenty-Six (26), Original Town. (307 W. 4th) All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at such hearing.

Dated: July 26, 2016 Rodney Hogg, chairman Scott City Planning Commission

consider their insurance needs.

Whether you are a family member or someone outside the family, here are some considerations regarding those factors from the Kansas Insurance Department and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).

•Providing full-time care for a family member is a full-time job, even if it doesn’t earn a traditional salary. Consider having a life insurance policy for the caregiver to help provide support to others in case something happens to him or her.

•Disability income insurance is another consideration. This type of coverage offers protection by replacing a percentage of a previous income if a person is unable to work because of a disability.

•If the person receiving care has long-term care insurance, check the policy for any in-home care benefits that take the caregiver into consideration.

•The Affordable Care Act requires everyone to maintain health insurance or pay a fee called the individual shared responsibility payment. If a person plans to leave a job to (See CAREGIVERS on page 15)

USD 466 Board of Education Agenda Wed., Aug. 3 • 7:30 a.m.

Administration Building • 704 College •Comments from public •Presentation of 2016-17 budget •Approval of 2016-17 budget for publication •Additions, if any •Adjournment

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Logan Co. commissioner convicted of election crime OAKLEY - A Logan County man was convicted last week of an election crime and barred from holding public office in the State of Kansas.

On July 21, Clinton Lee Kvasnicka, 38, pleaded guilty to one misdemean-

or count of disorderly election conduct and was sentenced by Judge Glenn Braun to 12 months probation with an underlying sentence of six months.

He also was fined $1,000.

Because the conviction constituted violation of

Caregivers be a full-time caregiver, he or she should think about health insurance coverage.

Losing coverage for leaving a job qualifies for the special enrollment period through the federally-facilitated health insurance marketplace.

•If you are a privateduty caregiver (someone not affiliated with a caregiving agency) for in-home care, understand that your employer will be responsible for tax obligations, legal issues and insurance coverage. Your employer will need to

a penal statute involving a crime of moral turpitude, Kansas law requires that Kvasnicka forfeit his position as Logan County Commissioner. As part of the plea agreement he agreed to immediately resign his seat.

He is also disqualified from holding a public office or position of trust in the State of Kansas.

The State previously had charged Kvasnicka with election bribery, but in March a Logan County jury failed to reach a

unanimous verdict on that charge, resulting in a mistrial. After the mistrial, the State and the defendant resolved the case by plea agreement, which resulted in the conviction and sentencing.

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verify that you are legally entitled to work in the United States.

Note that some homeowners insurance policies may exclude coverage if a private-duty caregiver is injured on the job. The employer should discuss this with his or her insurance agent about what the policy would cover if there is a caregiver accident in the home.

Determine whether an umbrella or worker’s compensation policy is needed for the homeowner’s protection.

NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING

health care agencies to assure they meet certain federal health and safety requirements.

Medicare will pay for services only if the agency is Medicare-approved and if the services are covered

by Medicare.

There are many considerations as a caregiver and for the person or family seeking care. Going into a caregiving situation knowing the essentials for insurance and other financial situations is a good first step toward a successful experience.

•If you work as a caregiver for an agency, you should be bonded and insured. However, some agencies may hire private contractor caregivers.

Those agencies typically don’t provide additional liability coverage because they don’t take responsibility for the caregiver as a traditional employee.

•Check with your local health department to review state requirements for both yourself and an agency, if you work for one. Also ask if the agency is certified by Medicare.

Medicare inspects home

The governing body of ISBEL TOWNSHIP, SCOTT COUNTY, will meet on August 9, 2016, at 7:00 p.m., at the Township Hall Building, 480 Modoc Lane, Modoc, Ks., for the purpose of hearing and answering objections of taxpayers relating to the proposed use of all funds and the amount of ad valorem tax to be levied.

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

BUDGET SUMMARY Proposed Budget 2017 Expenditures and Amount of 2016 Ad Valorem Tax establish the maximum limits of the 2017 budget. Estimated Tax Rate is subject to change depending on the final assessed valuation.

2015

your written defenses thereto on or before the 18th day of August, 2016, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., in said Court, in the City of Scott City, in Scott County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

All creditors 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.

Thomas K. McDaniel, Petitioner WALLACE, BRANTLEY AND SHIRLEY 325 Main Street P.O. Box 605 Scott City, Kansas 67871 (620) 872-2161 Attorneys for Petitioners

BUDGET SUMMARY Proposed Budget 2017 Expenditures and Amount of 2016 Ad Valorem Tax establish the maximum limits of the 2017 budget. Estimated Tax Rate* is subject to change depending on the final assessed valuation.

2015

2016

Proposed Budget 2017

Fund

Prior Year Actual Current Year Actual Budget Amount of Actual Est. of Actual Tax Rate* Tax Rate* Authority 2014 Ad Tax Expenditures Expenditures (includes Valorem Rate* Tax carryover)

General

546,877 2.942 649,700 3.043 752,000 315,082 3.043 988,962

Structure Maintenance Totals Less Transfers

546,877 2.942 649,700 3.043 1,740,962 315,082 3.043 94,000

47,000

47,000 1,693,962

Net Expenditures

452,877

602,700

Total Tax Levied

461,165

342,969

Assessed Valuation 156,729,242

112,725,844

103,528,440

2015

2016

Jan. 1, Outstanding Indebtedness

2014

G.O. Bonds Revenue Bonds

TOTAL

0

0

*Tax rates are expressed in mills.

Kimberly D. Corsair Clerk

0

General

2,497

0.196

3,250

0.219

5,365

1,907

0.228

Totals

2,497

0.196

3,250

0.219

5,365

1,907

0.228

Less Transfers

0

0

0

Net Expenditures

2,497

3,250

5,365

Total Tax Levied

1,885

1,906

Assessed Valuation

9,636,752

8,707,877

8,356,956

Jan. 1, Outstanding Indebtedness

2014

2015

2016

0

0

0

Lease Pur. Princ.

TOTAL

*Tax rates are expressed in mills.

Matt Novak Township Trustee

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NOTICE OF 2017 BUDGET HEARING The governing body of the County of Scott will meet on August 8, 2016, at 3:00 p.m. at the Scott County Courthouse for the purpose of hearing and answering objections of taxpayers relating to the proposed use of all funds and the amount of ad valorem tax to be levied.

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

BUDGET SUMMARY Proposed budget 2017 expenditures and amount of 2016 ad valorem tax establish the maximum limits of the 2017 budget.

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

2015

2016

Proposed Budget 2017

Prior Year Actual Expenditures

Actual Tax Rate*

Current Year Est. of Expenditures

Actual Tax Rate*

Expenditures

General

3,929,981

29.550

4,825,108

37.764

3,878,555

Debt Service

1,551,204

6.103

1,133,208

3.290

3,654,067

Road and Bridge

1,494,375

11.085

1,226,364

8.245

Employee Benefits

968,267

9.515

1,391,488

County Health

355,457

1.023

460,006

Home Health Agency

95,002

0.879

6,864

Hospital Maintenance

300,000

2.712

Library Maintenance

278,611 91,895

Noxious Weed

Public Building

1,272,425

876,545

10.258

8.427

1,479,980

1,029,383

12.046

1.134

474,212

102,285

1.197

203,150

1.937

180,000

170,751

1.998

3.000

249,179

3.000

499,032

256,456

3.001

1.075

131,937

1.187

132,960

95,805

1.121

1,017,793

986,004

11,538

180,000

186,274

2.180

5,916,809

69.240

2,834

2,588

6,624

12,263

8,024

1,961,745

Special Parks/Rec

4,173

Non-Budgeted Funds A

159,571

Non-Budgeted Funds B

137,199

Non-Budgeted Funds C

60,626

Non-Budgeted Funds D

356,834 9,794,119

COUNTY TOTALS

64.942

9,637,916

64.984

14,741,566

573,204

496,864

632,000

Net Expenditures

9,220,915

9,141,052

14,109,566

Total Tax Levied

6,529,394

5,919,313

Assessed Valuation

100,486,158

91,094,335

Jan. 1 Outstanding Indebtedness

2014

Less: Transfers

2015

2016

23,860,000

23,400,000

694,900

560,827

431,812

7,699,797

7,142,292

6,615,946

32,699,697

31,563,119

30,447,758

Lease Purch. Prin.

TOTAL

85,453,688

24,305,000

Other

2015

Other District Funds

Est. Tax Rate*

25.901

Ambulance Alcohol Programs

Amount of 2016 Ad Valorem Tax

2,213,306

Sheriff

G.O. Bonds

Lease Pur. Princ.

Tax

Actual Tax Rate*

Revenue Bonds

Fund

The governing body of Wet Walnut Creek Watershed Joint District No. 58 • Rush County will meet on August 15, 2016, at 7:30 p.m., at the district office, for the purpose of hearing and answering objections of taxpayers relating to the proposed use of all funds and the amount of ad valorem tax to be levied.

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

Supporting Counties Rush (home county), Ness, Barton, Lane, Scott, Pawnee

Proposed Budget 2017

G.O. Bonds

(Published in The Scott County Record on Thurs., July 21, 2016)1t

NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING

2016

Amount of Prior Year Actual Current Year Actual Budget Est. of Actual Tax Rate* Tax Rate* Authority for 2016 Ad Expenditures Expenditures Expenditures Valorem

Fund

Public Notice (First published in The Scott County Record, Thurs., July 21, 2016; last published Thurs., August 4, 2016)3t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS in the matter of the Estate of ROBERT A. MCDANIEL, Deceased Case No. 2016-PR-15 NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS You are hereby notified that on the 11th day of July, 2016, a Petition was filed in this Court by Thomas K. McDaniel, an heir, devisee and legatee, and Executor named in the First Codicil to the Last Will and Testament of Robert A. McDaniel, deceased, dated February 11, 1994, praying that the Will filed with the Petition be admitted to probate and record; that she be appointed as Executor without bond; that she be granted Letters Testamentary.

You are required to file

In evidence presented at the trial, the State accused Kvasnicka of offering to let a constituent use a stock trailer he owned in exchange for her voting for him for county commissioner. The crime occurred in August 2012.

2016

Proposed Budget 2017

Prior Year Actual Expenditures

Actual Tax Rate*

Current Year Est. of Expenditures

Actual Tax Rate*

Expenditures

Amount of 2014 Ad Valorem Tax

Rural Fire District

35,413

1.310

51,958

1.311

303,380

80,872

Total Tax Levied

102,036

88,666

77,905,734

67,645,508

Assessed Valuation

*Tax rates are expressed in mills

Alice Brokofsky Scott County Clerk

61,658,235

Est. Tax Rate* 1.312

State has not delivered on advance Medicaid payments Nursing homes in limbo while state clears backlog Andy Marso Kansas Health Institute

The state has not made any advance payments under a program that promised financial help for nursing homes while they wait for residents’ Medicaid applications to process.

Nursing homes were told in March that they could apply for half-payments for their Medicaidpending residents until the state resolves a backlog of thousands of applications.

But the state instead has used requests for advance payments to prioritize which Medicaid applications are moved to the front of the processing queue.

“To clarify, we have made no advance payments under the program,” Angela de Rocha, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, said last week via email. “Rather, what the State has done is to determine the eligibility of the individuals involved and to approve regular payments to the nursing facilities when advance payment requests

are made. This reduces the administrative burden on both the state and the nursing facilities.”

De Rocha said the state had received requests for advance payment for 287 nursing home residents and responded to 246 of them.

Medicaid benefits have been extended to 39 percent of the 287 and denied to 38 percent, she said.

The state had no Medicaid application on file for 4 percent.

The state is still trying to verify information for 12 percent of the advance payment applicants and continues to evaluate the financial assets of 6 per-

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cent to make sure they’re below Medicaid limits.

“Some of these are extremely complicated,” de Rocha said.

‘Held hostage’ Patricia Raasch, CEO of Mission Village Living Center in Holton, said her small nonprofit facility struggled to pay its bills as it applied for advance payments that never came.

She had to ask vendors to delay bill collections until more of her residents’ Medicaid applications were processed.

“We got gas shutoff notices,” Raasch said.

“Notices that we were

KSU researchers on the hunt for Zika mosquitoes The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently awarded Kansas more than $350,000 to support efforts to protect Kansans from Zika virus, a mosquito-borne disease. The money also will go toward eliminating adverse health outcomes that can result from Zika infection, including severe birth defects.

Now, state agencies are working to identify and monitor the two species of mosquito that transmit the Zika virus.

Mosquito season went into full swing when early rains and warm temperatures started the population with a bang this spring. But with rising concerns of Zika virus in the United States, the itchy welts that come from mosquito bites are no longer just annoying. They’re scary.

In an effort to lessen fears and keep track of the prevalence of the tiny flying bugs, the Kansas (See ZIKA on page 17)

(See PAYMENTS on page 17)

KanCare providers vent frustration with state cuts Andy Marso KHI News Service

A pair of federal officials heard a litany of concerns from KanCare providers and clients Tuesday in Salina as the state prepares to apply for renewal of the managed care Medicaid program.

James Scott, associate regional administrator for

the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Megan Buck, the agency’s program services branch manager, heard about problems with applying for Medicaid, cuts to services and provider reimbursements, and difficulties getting help from the state during the forum at the Bicentennial Center.

Rick Cagan, executive director of the Kansas chapter of the National Association for Mental Illness, told Buck and Scott that the complaints should give federal officials pause as they consider the upcoming application to renew the program past 2018.

“KanCare experiment is still very flawed, and

you’re hearing that from many people here today,” Cagan said.

In November 2011, Gov. Sam Brownback announced his plan to reform the state’s Medicaid program. Three private insurance companies were selected to run the $3 billion KanCare program, which launched in 2013 and provides

health insurance for more than 425,000 Kansans.

A spokeswoman for state agencies disputed claims that the problems described are systemic, saying the program is working well for most on Medicaid.

But during the forum, providers described a Medicaid system at a breaking point, with cuts

to programs meant to keep Kansans out of hospitals and nursing homes coming as those facilities also struggle with reimbursement reductions and long waits for residents’ Medicaid applications to process.

“I have not been approved for a single Medicaid application (See KANCARE on page 17)

Calls for resignation after foster care audit Andy Marso KHI News Service

Kansas Department for Children and Families Secretary Phyllis Gilmore brushed off two Democrats’ calls for her resignation and defended her agency Wednesday following an audit critical of its oversight of the state’s foster care system.

Gilmore acknowledged that the audit was “negative,” but disputed some of it and said the agency already had started correcting most of the deficiencies cited.

Gilmore, a social worker and former legislator appointed by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback four years ago, said she won’t step down.

The report was intended to evaluate how safe foster care is for Kansas children, who have entered the system in record numbers in recent years.

The auditors found Gilmore’s agency and its contractors performed inadequate background checks of foster parents,

found that DCF granted exemptions to sleeping space requirements for 98 percent of those requested.

An attorney for the department said most of those exemptions were granted to keep siblings together.

But Sen. Laura Kelly, a Democrat from Topeka, called the process “rubber-stamping” that clearly needs reform.

“An exception should be exactly that - an exception,” Kelly said. “Not a standard operating procedure.”

Gilmore said the department is tightening enforcement of that policy.

She repeatedly told the legislative committee that children are safe in Kansas foster homes. The auditors, she said, examined only 40 of the thousands of safety checks the department oversees each year and found the department’s response lacking in only five.

“That still is not acceptRequirements Waived able,” Gilmore said. “But The audit released Wednesday, however, (See FOSTER on page 17) missed monthly home checks or at least failed to document them, didn’t adequately investigate some abuse and neglect reports, and gave almost universal exemptions to living space requirements.

The audit came after several high-profile incidents of children harmed while in state custody.

That included the case of Jonathan Schumm, a Topeka city councilman who resigned after he and his wife were brought up on child abuse charges.

The Schumms had more than a dozen children living in their 2,200-squarefoot home when a judge agreed with DCF’s recommendation that they be allowed to adopt a child that was being fostered by a lesbian couple in Wichita.

That raised questions about potential bias toward same-sex couples within DCF, but legislators instructed auditors not to investigate that.

The Scott Community Health Center invites you to

Come see our new location!

Monday, August 8 4:00-6:00 p.m.

204 S. College - Scott City Scott County

Health Department

Scott County office of Emergency Management

The name has changed . . . because we are doing more You no longer have to leave Scott City for EEG testing.

Neurological testing can be done at the Sleep Disorder and Neurodiagnostic Center to determine the possibility of mild seizures, abnormal activity that can lead to sleep disorders, and more.

•A routine EEG test can be completed in 20-30 minutes.

•We conduct tests for adults and children.

Sleep Disorder and Neurodiagnostic Center Respiratory Therapist Michelle Pianalto

SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITAL Leading You To A Healthy Future

201 Albert Avenue, Scott City, Ks 67871 (620) 872-5811

KanCare in my building since October,” said Haely Ordoyne, co-owner of a nursing home in Washington County called Centennial Homestead.

Ordoyne said almost 70 percent of the residents at her 31-bed facility rely on Medicaid.

She and other nursing home administrators, like Charles Smith of Medicalodges in Coffeyville, have watched residents struggle to get applications processed since the state switched

look for our breath - or, more specifically, the carbon dioxide that we breathe out. Rogers has a trap that simulates that using a bucket filled with dry ice, which puts off a gas as it melts.

“They fly in,” Rogers said, pointing at the trap.

“And inside of here is a fan, which sucks the mosquitoes down into the sleeve cage.”

The species he’s looking for are varieties of the Aedes mosquito: Aedes aegypti, which is native to Africa, and Aedes albopictus, which comes from Asia. These are the two species that are carrying Zika virus in Central and South America, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.

Eight Cases in Kansas The State of Kansas has been doing this kind of work - trapping, counting and identifying mosquitoes - for years in order to keep tabs on other mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile virus, which first showed up in the state in 2002. Rogers’ work helps state agencies like the KDHE determine where certain species of the insect are found and how dense the population is.

“By knowing what species of mosquitoes are coming into the traps, we can direct efforts to control the mosquito larvae, and officials know where to look for habitat where the larvae may be coming from,” he said.

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the federal assessments, given that the state chooses which cases the federal inspectors examine.

“Why is that a more comprehensive review?”

Trimmer asked, adding that major problems had been uncovered in other states with high federal marks.

Background Checks Lacking The audit also turned up deficiencies with background checks of prospective foster parents, including some that did not include fingerprints and some that only checked

Payments going to have our cable and telephone shut off. … (We) couldn’t pay our food bills. We have all these service charges now that were incurred for us.”

Raasch said the longest-pending applications for her facility’s residents now have been processed and approved. The residents are covered, with

stagnant reimbursements have left them unable to recruit and retain enough staff.

Administrators from hospitals large and small said a four percent cut in Medicaid reimbursements approved by Gov. Sam Brownback to help balance the budget would make it financially harder for them to provide their full array of services to Medicaid patients.

“Since 1897 when our hospital was founded, we have never reached this

type of crossroads,” said Bob Finuf, vice president of Children’s Mercy in Kansas City, adding that Medicaid is a topic of concern at every board meeting. “It’s reached a point where we have to consider options we’ve never had to think about that are extremely anticultural to us.”

Scott and Buck listened quietly throughout hours of testimony, asking few questions until the open mic period at the end, when they talked through

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Foster at the same time we realize we will never be perfect. There will always be human error.”

Gilmore urged legislators to look at federal assessments that rank Kansas’ foster care system among the top in the nation for child safety.

Those, she said, are more comprehensive than the auditors’ work.

“We can be proud that Kansas is a leader in keeping children safe when they’re in our custody,” Gilmore said.

Rep. Ed Trimmer (DWinfield) asked why he should put more stock in

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to a new computer system last year and funneled all applications through a single KanCare Clearinghouse in Topeka.

Smith said the current wait times are “getting ridiculous” and his small chain of homes is carrying more than $2 million in uncompensated care for Medicaid-pending residents.

Providers of home and community-based support services for Kansans with disabilities said years of

Zika Department of Health and Environment, along with specialists from the University of Kansas, conduct mosquito surveillance each year.

Researchers trap and count the insects and identify them by species.

Christopher Rogers, with the Kansas Biological Survey, is one of the researchers tasked with mosquito monitoring in Kansas.

Of the 50 species of mosquitoes in the state, Rogers said only about half bite. Of those, only the female bites and only when she needs to lay eggs.

In order to find someone or something to bite, the female mosquitoes

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based on parents’ current names. The department failed to provide annual follow-up background checks in nearly all cases.

Sen. Julia Lynn, a Republican from Olathe, called the audit “painful to listen to.” She reiterated concerns about the 1997 privatization of foster care that now has the state distributing $280 million a year to contractors.

“I’m not so sure that privatizing this really is the answer,” Lynn said.

An audit on the privatization is coming later this year, and DCF is renegotiating contracts.

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back payments, but she said those do not account for the service charges incurred for late payments to vendors.

Nor do they restore her facility’s goodwill with those vendors.

Raasch wondered why no one from the state explained that the advance payments weren’t coming.

“I just want some accountability, and I haven’t seen any,” she said. “I haven’t heard one apology for any of this. Yeah, we still finally got our money. But it got held hostage three or four months. Taking care of seniors here in Kansas sometimes just doesn’t pay.”

So, that begs the question everyone seems to be asking: Is it just a matter of time before Zika virus does show up in Kansas?

“Zika virus has shown up in Kansas in people who went to other places, got the virus and came here,” Rogers said.

“Because there are people here who have Zika - and there’s very few all mosquitoes have to do is bite that person and now they’ve got the virus.

These people are doing everything in their power not to get bitten by these mosquitoes.”

Eight cases of Zika have been confirmed in Kansas, and none of those originated in the United States.

individual cases with people who stepped up from the crowd of more than 100.

Scott sought to assure the audience members that their concerns were not falling on deaf ears.

Sean Gatewood, lobbyist for the KanCare Advocates Network, which hosted the event, provided several suggestions for federal officials as they consider the KanCare renewal. They included removing home

and community-based services from KanCare, like they were in the program’s first year.

At a minimum, Gatewood said, the state should not be allowed to make further major changes to Medicaid, such as combining waiver services for Kansans with disabilities, while the current problems remain.

“They haven’t proven hypothesis one,” Gatewood said. “We shouldn’t let them go to hypothesis five.”

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Home are selling in your neighborhood. Let’s start with the questions you need to ask yourself: •What kinds of improvements make sense for my neighborhood?

Generally, exterior renovations that complement nearby homes have greater value, so consider how your new exterior might fit in with other houses on the street.

As far as interior renovations, keep your spending in line with your future sale price. For example, a $100,000 kitchen in a home that might not sell for more than $300,000

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would probably be a wasted investment - but a kitchen update worth $10,000 or less might help your house move quicker once it’s listed for sale.

•How long will I stay post-renovation?

Remember, the latest Remodeling magazine numbers cover only one year of cost recovery on projects. People renovate for a variety of needs, either to make the home more livable or to make it more salable.

The longer you stay, the more you’ll get out of the investment. If you have to sell soon, think carefully

about what you’ll need to spend to attract a buyer.

•Will this send my property taxes through the roof?

Renovation projects that create larger homes can risk higher property taxes. You should think through the potential property tax impact not only for yourself but also for your future buyer.

Consider checking with your county appraiser to determine “before and after” property tax rates for renovated properties in your vicinity.

If you know a real estate broker with significant knowledge of your

immediate neighborhood, you might consider speaking with them about this issue.

Consider consulting experts to help you answer the basic questions you’ll have as you make this decision. If you need to borrow to renovate, that means it’s time to make

sure your credit reports are accurate and you are pre-qualified or preapproved for your loan based on what is required.

In short, do your homework before you renovate your home.

Bottom line: In 2016, home renovation is far from a home run. Know

how long you’re planning to stay in the home before you start and make sure the project you choose makes sense for your local marketplace or you won’t get your money back.

Nathaniel Sillin is a financial expert who directs Practical Money Skills for Life (www. practicalmoneyskills.com)

Buy of the Week Wednesday, July 27 - Tuesday, August 2

Exchange 4-Her speaks to Lake Wide Awake The Lake Wide Awake 4-H Club met on July 11 at the Wm. Carpenter Building. Roll call was, “What’s your favorite fair activity?”

Roll call was answered by 13 members and two club leaders.

Wyatt Ricker reports that supplies for the Silent Auction basket have been purchased and the gift basket is being put together. Baskets for the silent auction were on display in the William Carpenter Building during the fair.

July centerpieces were made and delivered to Park Lane Nursing Home.

4-H Club News Our club’s t-shirt fundraiser made $148.

Drew Metzger led everyone in singing “Happy Birthday” to the July birthday ladies, Emily Glenn and Alyssa Storm. Cayden Couchman gave a project talk on his heifer, Rose, and Alyssa gave a project talk on photography.

Eileen Minnix, a former LWA community leader joined the meeting and introduced her special guest. Mohit Singh is a foreign exchange 4-Her from India.

Mohit told us about

India and specifically about the town he lives in.

Mohit is spending a few weeks with the Minnix family.

He will be in the United States for six months. He is traveling to different regions of the U.S. to learn more about western practices and crop production.

Mohit also spoke of U.S. citizens he met that were going to India as 4-H foreign exchange students.

The Ricker family hosted this meeting and they brought ice cream sandwiches for everyone.

Next meeting will be August 8.

Alyssa Storm, reporter

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overcoming the biggest obstacle SCHS sophomore Kyle Sherwood (left) and senior Kyle Cure flip a tractor tire during an obstacle course workout.

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Unusual regimen is a test of mental toughness Building strength and power are always a goal of the summer weight program.

But, the Scott Community High School coaching staff was looking for a little different approach to achieving those objectives.

When athletes went to the track during July for their speed workouts every Tuesday and Thursday, they also had to go through an obstacle course that included flipping tractor tires, carrying buckets of sand, running with telephone poles

elevated over their heads or carrying a teammate piggyback across the football field.

The obstacles may vary from workout to workout, but the goal is the same.

“We’ve always put an emphasis on mental toughness,

but some of the things we’ve added this summer have been a real gut-check for the kids,” says football head coach Jim Turner. “I think they’ve taken pride with the things we’ve done with the tires, the poles and the buckets and they seem

to enjoy it. It’s a change of pace from the weight room.”

Credit SCHS strength coach Todd Richardson who approached Turner about incorporating the unusual workout regimen. The obstacle course, (See MENTAL on page 26)

What next for demo derbies?

Promoter considers different date, added events There was a time when the Scott County Fair demolition derby was one of the biggest shows in Western Kansas, drawing more than 20 vehicles and providing a full night of entertainment on the final night of the Fair.

However, there has been a steady decline in derby entries in recent years and this year’s event attracted just five big iron cars.

If not for a late decision to have a compact car division, this year’s derby would have been very abbreviated.

Has the demolition derby run its course?

Not yet, according to Wicked Derby promoter Cody Kennedy.

He’s convinced that the

Lucas Ruth (left) and Alex Kough (right) each deliver a hit on Chris Pounds during the compact car demolition derby on Saturday night at the fairgrounds.

(Record Photo)

derby can continue to be a popular drawing card for drivers and fans, but that some changes will have to occur.

Timing is perhaps the biggest

factor which worked against the Scott City derby this year. It was one day after the Oakley derby and fell on the same night as derbies in Hays and Syracuse.

Kennedy said he had a com- they still had cars capable of mitment from eight drivers in competing. the Oakley derby to compete “So many of the cars were in Scott City, which was con- badly destroyed. It’s too much (See DEMO on page 20) tingent on one huge factor - if

8th graders making a smooth transition during camp When the Scott City Middle School seventh grade football program made the transition last year to the same offense that was being used by the eighth grade and at the high school level, the consensus is that it would allow for a smooth transition for the young athletes.

That change didn’t go unnoticed by eighth grade football coach Skip Numrich during the seventh and eighth grade sum-

mer camp.

“It made a huge difference. I was pretty much amazed at how much we got accomplished on offense,” said eighth grade head coach Skip Numrich following the four-day camp.

“I feel the eighth graders have a high football IQ, but they were still able to pick things up better than I imagined.”

Even without contact, Numrich says it was evident

the team has the “physical talent and tenacity” to play good defense.

“You can get a pretty good gauge of how aggressive they will be on defense by the way they attack the drills,” he points out.

Numrich even felt the athletes came into camp in better condition than usual.

“I attribute that to the weight room this summer,” he says.

“I don’t spend a lot of time on conditioning at camp, but we do a few things to gauge where they are and at this time of the year they were looking good.”

There were nearly 40 boys in the camp which was evenly divided between seventh and eighth graders.

During the 1-1/2 hour practices in hot conditions, Numrich was very pleased with the work ethic and the attitude.

“From the first practice to the last practice I felt the enthusiasm picked up each day. The boys were anxious to learn and they listened,” he says.

Getting an early preview of the team that he will put on the field this fall, Numrich was impressed with the depth.

“There’s no reason that a lot of these boys shouldn’t see a lot of playing time. We hope to be (See CAMP on page 20)

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Outdoors in Kansas by Steve Gilliland

There’s no substitute for reality A couple years ago in March, Joyce and I took our then fiveyear-old grandson Jacob to the woods to look for shed antlers.

Much to my chagrin, he insisted on dragging along his constant companion, a Kindle, (a scaleddown version of a laptop) on which he played video games.

Things went well at our first stop, as he was all fired up and left the Kindle in the truck without discussion.

The second stop was a different story.

From the moment I parked, he insisted on staying in the truck with grandma and playing his video game. I can be “fairly persuasive” but I was getting nowhere in luring him away from the video game and into the woods.

I was about to yank the Kindle from his grasp and pitch it into the hayfield when grandma intervened, and her plea of, “Don’t you want to find grandma an antler?”

That did the trick.

I rather dislike video games anyway, just because I dislike playing games, but that incident rekindled my disdain of them.

Don’t get me wrong. Joyce and I like technology. I have a PC on which I write these columns, she has a laptop and a Kindle, plus we both have smart phones.

I’m not totally antivideo game either. It just rubs me wrong when a child chooses that over getting out into nature and observing the real world.

Unless you live under a rock somewhere, I’m sure you’re heard or read about the new video game craze sweeping humanity right now called “Pokémon GO.” (See REALITY on page 23)

Demolition derby champion Tyson Ryff (Great Bend, 99R) and Larry Steinbeck (McCook, Nebr., 66) deliver a simultaneous hit on Alex Ryan (Colby) during the derby main event at the Scott County Fairgrounds on Saturday night.

(Record Photo)

Demo to expect someone to do all the metal fabrication, drop in a new transmission or whatever else it takes in less than 24 hours,” notes Kennedy.

Consequently, only two of the eight drivers from Oakley made the trip to Scott City.

In addition to the big rigs that have been familiar at derbies for many years, Oakley decided to have a compact division this year.

“They were like me and didn’t know how it would work,” Kennedy says.

It worked out well with about 10 entries. Several of those were from Scott City who competed in the figure-8 race and derby.

When it became evident what was going to happen to his show on Saturday, Kennedy met with Scott City drivers and they quickly agreed to put on a compact derby for the local fans.

“They still had a lot of car left and they didn’t want them to sit over the winter. We asked if they’d be interested in running

Camp able to rotate a lot of boys into the lineup,” he says.

The opportunity to have players run through the offense and to see how they react on defense - even without pads - is valuable with two-a-day practices to begin on

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Demolition Derby Main Event 1st: Tyson Ryff, Great Bend Others: Alex Ryan, Colby; Kyle Bremer, Scott City; Jory Friesen, Colby; and Larry Steinbeck, McCook, Nebr.

Compact Division 1st: Alex Kough, Scott City Others: John Jacobson, Scott City; Chris Pounds, Scott City; Lucas Ruth, Scott City.

them in Scott City and they were all for it. They worked on their cars Friday night and Saturday so they’d be ready,” says Kennedy.

Alex Kough, John Jacobson, Chris Pounds and Lucas Ruth put on a show for the crowd with Kough the compact winner.

“I wasn’t sure if the crowd would like it or not, but I think everyone was pretty pleased. We plan to do it again next year,” says Kennedy.

Compact Division Kennedy says it’s not lack of interest, but lack

of cars, which is making it more difficult for the traditional derbies. Not only has Scott City seen its numbers decline, but the Finney County Fair no longer has a demolition derby.

“I feel there’s a good future for compact derbies . . . for awhile. I think we can have five or six years of good compact shows until the cars get hard to find,” Kennedy says.

“That is what’s happened with the big cars. They’ve become really hard to find over the last four years.”

And, at least for awhile, the availability of compacts makes them cheaper to build.

Most drivers can purchase a compact and have it derby-ready for about $400-$500. The bigger derby cars can cost $1,500 to $2,000.

“It’s getting expensive even for the weekend warriors who just want to compete in a couple of shows, or in their county fair. It’s hard to find a car for less than $700 or $800 and by the time you add a

Changing the Schedule Kennedy feels they have to look at having the local derby on a weekend that doesn’t conflict with Oakley. One possibility is to have the demolition derby on the opening weekend of the Fair and then close the week with the figure-8 races on Saturday night.

Another event gaining in popularity is a power wheel derby for kids. Promoters are fixing up an area where these small, battery-operated vehicles can bang around just like the big boys.

“You put a bicycle helmet on the kids and let

them run into each other for about 15 minutes.

They’re cheap and it’s fun entertainment,” Kennedy says. “Colby and Oakley are also looking at adding this to their derbies.”

It’s all about creating a fun and entertaining night for the fans. That remains Kennedy’s number-one priority.

“I believe we can keep the demo derby going.

It’s something I grew up with and I’ve built a lot of friendships through the sport,” says the former driver. “And I believe we have a lot of fans here who still enjoy going to the derby.

“I wish we could have put on a bigger show, but I think most people knew the situation and there are some things we can’t control.”

Kennedy is optimistic that with some changes the local derby can continue to be a mainstay of the Scott County Fair. That will be part of the discussion when the derby promoter and the county fair board meet in November.

That won’t be the only change. For the first time in about 20 years, both SCMS football teams will be wearing new uniforms.

And while SCMS acquired new helmets last year they had to purchase some extra helmets this

year for an unusual reasons.

“For some reason we have a lot of boys with big heads. We had to order more large helmets,” Numrich said. “Hopefully, that means they have a higher football IQ.”

safety cage and do other work, it will cost about $1,500,” noted Kennedy.

“That’s more than a lot of guys want to spend.”

However, Oakley still had 17 big iron cars and at least that many are anticipated for the Colby derby this weekend, so Kennedy is convinced there is still enough interest and vehicles to keep the sport alive.

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August 15.

“By the morning of the 16th, we need to have a good idea of who’s going to be playing where,” Numrich says. “That doesn’t give us a lot of time before our first game to see if it will all work.”

The season opener will be on Sept. 1 with the first of two games this season against Ulysses.

In addition to a homeand-home series with Ulysses, the Bluejays have added McCook (Nebr.) to the schedule.

The Scott County Record • Page 21 • Thursday, July 28, 2016

Local cowboys finish in the money at Stampede Rodeo Four Scott City cowboys were among prize winners in the Stampede Rodeo held during the Scott County Fair.

Reid Flower finished third among 14 entries in the tiedown roping with a time of 15.9 seconds. That earned him $219.60 in prize money.

Flower and Tyler Hitchcock combined to claim fourth place in open team roping. They were among 19 entries in the division.

The cowboys had a time of nine seconds and won $132.33.

In the 40/40 team roping there were 18 entries with Gene Jett and Tom Peterson, Scott City, posting the second fastest time of 8.4 seconds. They finished behind Brian Padilla/ Mike Weir (8.4 seconds).

Results are: Bareback (3) Brayden Roberson Ty Pellam Tyler Ferguson

Baker book signing in Scott City on Thurs.

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Tie-Down Roping (14) Rusty Slavin 9.4 Ben Johnsrud 9.6 Reid Flower 15.9 Breakaway Roping (18) Ashlyn Moeder 2.6 Nicole Sederstrom 3.1 Kaitlyn Dinges 6.0 Megan Hendricks 12.3

Scott City’s MariKate Crouch competes in the breakaway roping during the Stampede Rodeo last Thursday evening.

(Record Photo)

Saddle Broncs (3) Ben Engelman 79 Steer Wrestling (8) Kris Rasmussen 7.6 Cody Devers 14.4 Ranch Broncs (5) Riggen Herbert 67 Bull Riding (5) No qualified rides Open Team Roping (19) Rusty Slavin/Shane Goad 6.3 Nick Becker/Toby Mentzer 6.3 Ben/Nate Johnsrud 7.1 Reid Flower/Tyler Hitchcock 9.0

Ron Baker will be in Scott City on Thurs., Aug. 4, to autograph his children’s book, “You’re Too Big to Dream Small.”

The book signing will be in the Scott Community High School commons area from 1:00-4:00 p.m.

While pre-orders have been encouraged by the publisher, a limited number of books are expected to be available at the signing as well.

Baker emphasizes that the book is not a biography, but is written to inspire young readers The book is written in verse with illustrations.

“The way it’s written is neat,” says Baker. “It teaches a moral lesson and that if someone is willing to work hard they can be successful at anything in life.”

Baker just finished his college career at Wichita State, where he led the Shockers to four straight NCAA berths, nine NCAA Tournament victories and was named all-Missouri Valley Conference three times.

He is currently under contract with the New York Knicks.

“I’m really excited about the release of ‘You’re Too Big To Dream Small,’” Baker said. “It was fun to work on this project and I hope this will motivate kids to dream big.”

Baker is a 2011 graduate of Scott Community High School.

40/40 Team Roping Brian Padilla/Mike Weir 7.9 Gene Jett/Tom Peterson 8.4 Justin Crist/Brian Crist 10.1 Joe Reynolds/George Estes 11.0 Barrel Racing (22) Montanna Peterson 17.9 Tammy Peterson 17.94 Jessica Higa 18.17 Tanya Owens 18.22

Asher Huck, Scott City, is successful as the header in the open team roping.

(Record Photo)

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Road trip to an outdoor paradise in Nebr. sand hills As you launch a raft into the Niobrara River, it doesn’t take long to be reminded that one must respect the power of the water.

Of course, you can also sit back and enjoy a leisurely float as a guide navigates a stretch of wilderness that rates among the best in the U.S. The river has appeared on National Geographic’s list of top 100 adventures and Backpacker magazine’s top 10 canoeing rivers. You can travel through the Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge, considered one of the most scenic sections of the river.

If you have time, you can enjoy a short hike to a 70-foot waterfall at Smith Falls State Park.

Each June through August, the Niobrara River attracts an estimated 50,000 visitors to Valentine, in north-central Nebraska. While in the town of fewer than 3,000 residents, they hike to some of the nearly 200 waterfalls throughout the river’s valley; fish, hunt and bird-watch on Cherry County’s 200,000 acres of public accessible land; visit the shops and restaurants on Main Street; golf at a semi-private destination golf club and take

advantage of remote night skies to stargaze.

“We’re not 50 miles from St. Louis or 50 miles outside Los Angeles, we’re 300 miles from any sort of population center,” said Doug Graham of Graham Outfitters.

“We’re right in the middle of the sand hills. That’s why people want to come here. There’s nothing else like it.”

The beautiful rolling sand hills were formed during the past 10,000 years as winds shaped stream-deposited sands into dunes and valleys.

The Niobrara River flows 535 miles from eastern Wyoming to join the Missouri River in northeastern Nebraska.

from one hour to multiple days.

They provide tips on float times and scenic stops and let you know that you can’t possess alcohol on the portion of the river that goes through the refuge.

Graham Outfitters started in 1978 and is one of the longest-operating outfitters with the original owners, Graham and his wife. They cater to tourists wanting to tube for an afternoon with friends, as well as groups looking for full-service, two-day floats.

Rentals run from $30 per day up to $180 per adult/$90 per child for the full-service trip, and they offer car shuttles as well.

National Scenic River The section from Valentine to 76 miles east of here is part of the National Park Service, designated a National Scenic River for its cliffs, canyons, waterfalls and biological significance.

The Niobrara is a constant-flow river with speeds of 4-7 mph, making it navigable for people of all ages and abilities. There are about a dozen outfitters based in the Valentine area renting canoes, kayaks and tubes or offering guided raft trips for durations ranging

Waterfalls Some of Nebraska’s best waterfalls are along the Niobrara River, including at Smith Falls State Park. You can access the state’s tallest waterfall, Smith Falls, by floating or driving to the state park.

A pedestrian bridge crosses the Niobrara River and a short walkway leads to the 70-foot falls. The largest waterfall in the state by volume is Snake River Falls, which rushes over a 54-foot-wide ledge and can be seen from (See PARADISE on page 24)

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Defense will be a bright spot for Wildcats Kansas State placed an astounding four players on the Big 12’s preseason All-Big 12 defensive team.

Selections were made by media representatives that cover the conference.

Four Wildby cats were Mac named to the Stevenson first team: defensive linemen Will Geary (jr., 6-0, 297) and Jordan Willis (sr., 6-5, 250); linebacker Elijah Lee (jr., 6-3, 218); and free safety Dante Barnett (sr., 6-1, 193).

On offense, fullback Winston Dimel (so., 6-1, 235) also made the first team.

K-State had a substandard 2015 season (6-7) and an inept defense, which was not up to the standards established by head coach Bill Snyder. But that didn’t keep the people who should know from picking four Wildcats on the first-team defense for 2016.

K-State’s defense has the talent to be greatly improved this fall.

Preseason media polls don’t always prove to be an accurate forecast of what’s going to happen. Nevertheless, Kansas State fans are justifiably encouraged by the prospect of a quality Big 12 defensive unit. Fall practice begins on August 4.

Royals are Fading The Kansas City Royals’ hitters swing at more pitches that are well out of the strike zone than any other team in Major League Baseball.

This lack of focus and discipline has been a major weakness of Royals’ baseball ever since Ned Yost became manager.

It’s not just one or two players. Almost all of KC’s hitters are guilty.

But, the everyday players who are the most flagrant offenders are Alcides Escobar, Eric Hosmer, Salvy Perez, Kendrys Morales and Alex Gordon. That’s five of nine regulars who consistently refuse to be selective on which pitches they try to hit.

Royals’ hitters let pitches go that are right down the middle and then strike out swinging at balls they can’t even reach.

(See DEFENSE on page 25)

Reality The original Nintendo Pokémon games first appeared in the late 1990s and also took the world by storm back then.

Pokémon are monsters that can look like rats, snakes, dragons, dinosaurs, birds, eggs or even trees.

In the game, people known as “trainers” travel the globe to capture and train these creatures and use them to fight each other. The new Pokémon GO uses a smart phones GPS and clock to detect where and when you are playing the game. It then makes Pokémon appear around you (on your phones screen) so you can capture them.

As you move around, more and different Pokémon will appear, depending on where you are and what time it is.

The game is being touted for getting players off the couch

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and into the outdoors. It’s said that Pokémon GO fulfils a fantasy Pokémon fans have had since the original games inception: what if Pokémon were real and inhabited the world around us?

The Kansas State Fairgrounds has reportedly become a Mecca for Pokémon GO players and, according to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, Pokémon “have been spotted at many Kansas state parks and nature centers.”

It’s great that this new game gets players outside.

The problem I’m having is that for as long as we’ve been around there have been real four-legged critters roaming the fields and woods, Real fish have swum in the lakes and rivers and real birds have filled the skies, thus fulfilling

the fantasy of being “real and inhabiting the world around us.” Even though you need the proper licenses to catch them, they have been available to pursue and observe.

And now it takes a video game to get everyone excited about getting outdoors?

And why do Pokémon have to be monsters? Why does everything have to involve fighting? Can nothing excite us anymore unless it’s evil and monstrous in some way? Does anyone else see the irony here, that the very reason many kids hole-up inside (video games) is now the reason they’re running outside in droves?

The technology used by the new Pokémon in which a game and the real world interact is known as “augmented reality.” The word augment means “to make or become

greater,” so I guess the makers of the game want us all to believe they have made reality better? (Just when I think I have heard it all!)

I realize I’m showing my age here with this rant, but I fear society today, and especially our youth need a “reality” check, and need to be introduced or reintroduced to the real world around them.

Get outside and enjoy the new Pokémon GO with my blessing, but then come with me to the lake or to the woods and let me introduce you to some real world Pokémon that are not monsters, that inhabit the world around us and are available to find anytime without your smart phone.

Continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors!

Steve can be contacted by email at stevegilliland@idkcom.net

The Scott County Record • Page 24 • Thursday, July 28, 2016

Paradise

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the top of the canyon or National Forest isn’t your close-up with a short but typical forest. Only about steep hike.

2,300 of its 116,000 acres are actually wooded with Wildlife Refuges hand-planted timber, the While the one remain- rest is rolling sand hills. ing building of the origi- The area is open to huntnal frontier military fort ing in season, and popular is not open to the public, for hiking, bicycling, fishthere is plenty to see at ing and bird watching.

Fort Niobrara National The forest borders Wildlife Refuge, east of Merritt Reservoir, which Valentine. A history dis- is about 28 miles southplay at the visitor center west of Valentine and one contains fossils of long- of the top walleye fisherjawed mastodons, giant ies in the state according bison, and three-toed to Nebraska Game and horses.

Parks. Sandy beaches, 44 From there, a 3.5-mile miles of tree-lined shore self-guided driving tour and 2,900 acres of water has stops to read about make it popular for boatthe wildlife, land and his- ing and swimming, too. tory of the refuge and Merritt is also the site of you’ll often see prairie the Nebraska Star Party, a dogs, bison and elk. At week-long gathering that Fort Falls, a five-minute attracts amateur astronowalk on a gentle trail mers and families taktakes you to the top of ing advantage of unpolthe falls. From there, 60 luted night skies. The steps lead to the base of 23rd annual event is July the falls. The entire hiking 31-Aug. 5 and includes trail loops for just under activities for all ages and a mile. all interest levels.

For solitude, take a canoe or hike into the Golfing Wilderness Area in the Since opening in 2010 north part of the refuge. on land along the rim No motorized vehicles of the Snake River canor bicycles are allowed, yon, the Prairie Club has making it great for bird- become a bucket-list desing, hiking and wildlife tination for golfers who viewing. Its 4,635 acres often fly into the nearby contain five constant flow general aviation airport. creeks that all enter the Designers built 46 holes Niobrara River, and you’ll in less than six months by enjoy excellent river moving very little dirt to views. create undisturbed holes.

Twenty-five miles The Dunes Course, south of Valentine, designed by Tom Lehman the Valentine National and Chris Brands, is a Wildlife Refuge contains links-style course with nearly 72,000 acres of rollwide fairways, sand traps ing sand hills and springand natural grasses of the fed lakes, including nine that are open to fishing hills for the rough. The year-round. Pick up bro- Pines Course by Graham chures at the Marsh Lake Marsh weaves in and out Overlook and Nature Trail of the Snake River valright off US83 Highway ley with forest and canfor information on hunt- yon views. There’s also ing, fishing and a nine- a 10-hole Horse Course mile self-guided wildlife played similarly to the basketball game “Horse.” driving tour.

Golf Digest has named The wildlife brochure lists 289 species of birds, all three courses to its list 41 species of mammals, of the “Most Fun Courses 16 species of reptiles and You Can Play.”

Because it’s 17 miles six species of amphibians that have been record- south of Valentine, the ed on the refuge. May, Prairie Club also offers September and October some of the area’s best offer good bird watch- lodging and dining oning opportunities during site. They have lodge rooms or multiple-bedannual migrations. room cabins for golfers and offer a limited numNational Forest Samuel R. McKelvie ber to non-golfing guests.

Other lodging options in and around Valentine include camping, cabin and home rentals, bed and breakfasts and hotels.

Walking and Cycling The Cowboy Trail is on the converted Cowboy Line of the Chicago and North Western railroad. Nearly 200 miles have been improved with crushed limestone, stretching from Valentine east to Norfolk. It is open for walking, bicycling or riding horses, and you don’t have to go far to see one of the most scenic parts.

A quarter-mile long pedestrian bridge 148 feet above the Niobrara River is just one-half mile north of a parking area and about two miles from downtown Valentine.

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Defense Yost sits in the dugout, looking like a wooden statue, and watches the hitters get themselves out time after time by swinging at bad pitches. He never even changes his expression.

Yost and his hitting coach, Dave Sveum, need to do away with the niceguy persona and start chewing on these Royals’ hitters who are not performing like professionals.

It would be enlightening to know how pleasant the late, great Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher would have been to his players if they had developed this ridiculous approach to hitting. Durocher was known for a famous quote: “Nice guys finish last.”

KC isn’t last, but they

Fishing Report

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sure aren’t playing like champions and Yost and Sveum need to get in the face of the bad-ball hitters.

Kansas City isn’t going to make the playoffs. The ballclub is coming apart and there’s no answer to their dire straits.

What’s equally troubling is that many of the Royals’ key players are close to free agent status.

KC’s minor league talent has declined and the future is not promising. The 2015 World Series champions are quickly becoming “old news.”

KU Line Improved Kansas University begins fall practice and their second season under head coach David Beaty on August 2. Progress for a program that was so down

when Beaty took over is gradual at best, but the Jayhawks will be better in 2016.

Quarterback is at the top of the list of vital positions however, the offensive line is the main unit.

In 2015, Beaty had to play inexperienced true freshmen and sophomores who had redshirted.

As one might expect, the offensive line struggled mightily.

This fall, KU will field an improved line, but how much better remains to be seen. The preseason depth chart for starters includes the following: LT Jordan Shelley-Smith (sr., 6-5, 302), LG Jacob Bragg (so., 6-4, 291), C Joe Gibson (jr., 6-3, 310), RG D’Andre Banks (sr., 6-3, 310), RT Clyde Mc-

Cauley III (so., 6-5, 307), and TE Ben Johnson (jr., 6-5, 245). One of the top backups for either tackle slot is Larry Hughes (so., 6-7, 309).

Offensive line coach Zach Yenser thinks his unit will be improved, but he said, “We’re still young and we’ve still got a long way to go.”

Quality depth is the major issue up and down KU’s lineup, but it’s most important on the offensive line. This season’s starters have some maturity, experience and talent.

The guess here is that Kansas will show more improvement on the OL than any other position group. But all predictions about KU football must include the following caveat: “if” numerous injuries don’t occur.

Scott State Lake Updated July 21 Channel cats: good; most in the 13 to 18 inch range.

Fishing prepared baits over shallow flats has been best.

Crappie: fair; most up to 10 inches. Minnows and small tube jigs under a bobber around the fish attractors and along deeper shorelines, or drifting the same as above baits/lures from a boat on the main lake.

Largemouth bass: fair to good; up to 5.5 lbs. Fishing soft plastics around shoreline structure is usually best.

Sunfish: good; up to 8 inches. Fishing worms or small jigs under a bobber along the edges of the cattails has been best.

Saugeye/walleye: slow/fair; up to 7 lbs. Fish imitating baits along drop-offs and points early and late.

General comments: Release all walleye/saugeye less than 18 inches and largemouth bass less than 15 inches Please discard all leftover bait in a trash can, even baitfish. Remember it is illegal to release any fish into public water unless it was taken from that water.

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Mental

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along with the strength teams that athletes were divided into, helped to create more competition.

“It was a good way to push one another. They bought into this just as much as they bought into the weight room,” says Richardson.

Both coaches have been very satisfied with the result.

“Coming into the summer, we had some questions regarding leadership and mental toughness and from day one these seniors and a number of the underclassmen have stepped up and pushed themselves day in and day out,” says Richardson.

He says the obstacle course was a different way to bring out those qualities in the athletes.

“People think you have to be in the weight room to get stronger, but there’s a different type of strength required for different activities,” he says. “Flipping tires is a full body movement, just like the squats and the (power) cleans.

Carrying telephone poles overhead is like your military training.

“We’re not just gaining overall strength and conditioning, but the kids are becoming tougher mentally and that’s going to be important in whatever sport they compete in this year.”

On a reduced scale, the obstacle course is also being used by the SCHS girls and by middle school athletes.

“Maybe the kids who weren’t mentally tough coming in here at the start of the summer now have the belief they can do these things,” Turner says. “That’s particularly true of young kids who still aren’t sure of what they can do.”

Every athlete, says Richardson, has to work through that mental barrier.

“We want to teach kids that their bodies are capable of doing more than their minds think they can,” he adds.

Some of the stages of the obstacle course include: Top: Senior Kevin Lozano (front) and junior Jarret Jurgens carry a telephone pole.

Right: Senior Octavio Nolasco carries Jaren Berning across the football field.

Below: Senior Mikennon Donovan hauls two buckets of sand.

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Posing for a selfie while riding the scrambler at the carnival are (from left) Alli Patton, Alivia Noll and Ella Rumford.

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Hunter Wells, 7, tries to keep an egg from falling off the spoon during the kids’ games on Friday night.

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ag briefs

State’s corn progress above average Corn silking in Kansas is at 86 percent, well ahead of the five-year average of 76 percent.

Corn dough is 13 percent, behind the 26 percent average.

The corn crop is rated 57 percent good and 10 percent excellent.

Twenty-seven percent of the sorghum crop is headed, far ahead of the 11 percent average.

The crop is rated 62 percent good and nine percent excellent.

CAB earns Impact Award

Certified Angus Beef, the world’s largest and most successful branded beef program, has been selected to receive the 2016 Don L. Good Impact Award.

In fiscal 2015, the CAB brand reported record sales for the ninth consecutive year, marketing 896 million pounds of product.

In the mid-1970s the future was dim for consumers who had grown up eating high-quality beef.

Economic pressures, combined with the lowering of USDA beef quality grade standards in 1976 resulted in too much variability in beef that was rated as Choice grade.

The CAB brand, based on high-quality carcass characteristics, was developed to reduce variability and reassure customers they were getting the best beef available. In 1978, the first CAB packer was licensed and the first pound of product was sold.

CAB’s original mission statement remains in place today: Increase demand for registered Angus cattle through a specificationbased, branded-beef program to identify consistent, high quality beef with superior taste.

The program has grown to include more than 17,500 licensed partners in 52 countries. The brand’s global partners generate an estimated $6.9 billion in consumer sales annually.

Cattle on feed up 1%

USDA’s cattle on feed report was pegged at 10.4 million head on July 1, one percent above last year’s total.

The report is seen as relatively positive for the nearterm, but more negative for markets later this fall. June placements totaled 1.525 million head, 3% higher than a year ago. June marketings were 1.912 million head, 9.6% higher than last year.

The inventory included 6.87 million steers and steer calves, down 1% from the previous year. This group accounted for 66% of the total inventory. Heifers and heifer calves accounted for 3.49 million head, up 5% from 2015.

The report noted a large number of cattle weighing 800 pounds and over were placed on feed last month, at 640,000 head.

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Tale of 2 GMO labeling laws July was a busy month on the GMO labeling battlefield.

Vermont’s label law went into effect July 1, requiring all food sold in Vermont grocery stores be labeled if it contains genetically modified ingredients.

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Senate-created mandatory federal GMO labeling law that will supersede all state precedents. AgriTalk host Mike Adams heard both sides of the story as Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) and Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell discussed the

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issue.

Federal GMO Law As passed by the House and Senate, the federal GMO labeling law will require companies to disclose the presence of genetically modified ingredients. Companies will have the option of how they want to do that, which could be done by text, phone number, website link, or QR code that can be read by smartphone.

To Vermont Attorney General Sorrell, though, those options don’t represent a clear, consumer-friendly way of disclosing GMO ingredients to shoppers. “As I understand the bill, you have to have a smart phone with a bar code reader to see [the ingredients] or you can call an 800 number,” Vermont Attorney General Sorrell says.

“How many consumers do you think are going to do that when they’re standing there with two cans of soup trying to decide which one to buy?”

The Vermont legislation required package labeling that specifically indicated if the food

product contains GM ingredients, which Sorrell still thinks is a better solution.

But, the labeling train has already left the station, according to U.S. Representative Peterson.

“Vilsack already has a task force set up, and he already has people working on it,” he says. “I think he will have most of this mechanism set up before a new secretary gets put in place.”

Consumer Confidence One of the big topics of discussion in many circles (See GMO on page 29)

Is climate change impacting genetic resistance to pests?

We humans may not have adapted to this summer’s sweltering rays, but for a few agronomic pests, warmer weather is what makes them thrive.

With temperatures rising and insects adapting, the days of following a “fly-free” date for wheat planting are fading.

In the past, a “fly-free” date meant that after a certain day in October, depending on location, wheat could be planted without weeds and without infestation of Hessian flies.

When flies started showing up in October and into January, Mike Smith and his team of scientists including Jeff Whitworth, Dr. Holly Schwarting and Dr. Ming Chen, started to investigate how tem-

wheat scoop Malerie Strahm Kansas Wheat

perature was affecting these populations.

“We started looking at varieties, and we started seeing that some of these varieties that used to be resistant were no longer resistant,” said Smith, professor of entomology at Kansas State University.

In a controlled environment consisting of about 12 Hessian fly resistant varieties of wheat grown in Kansas, it was found that only half were actually resistant and the other half weren’t.

This led to this year’s proj-

ect, an actual field experiment with wheat planted at different areas in the state looking at Hessian fly resistant varieties, known susceptible varieties and some new varieties with unknown resistance.

Smith is looking for the same thing to happen in the field as in the growth chamber to see how the resistant genes hold up against higher temperatures.

“It’s also known that some Hessian fly resistant genes in wheat are affected by higher temperatures, but we don’t know enough about the pedigrees of these lines to know if that’s the case. We don’t know if this is a change that’s occurring in all of them or why it’s occurring in some and not oth-

Irrigators using less water; same yields?

The economy of Western Kansas is based on the Ogallala Aquifer.

But, that ancient underground water supply is being rapidly depleted. The Kansas Water Office is teaming with forward-looking farmers in an effort to demonstrate that new irrigation technologies can reduce the demand on the aquifer without sacrificing crop yields.

From mid-May through the end of August, the sound of irrigation pumps pulling water from deep underground to nourish thirsty crops is heard almost nonstop on farms across southwest Kansas.

But, this year, Tom Willis is pulling a lot less water than normal from some of his irrigation wells - and he’s doing it intentionally. Willis is one of three western Kansas farmers partnering with the Kansas Water Office on a demonstration project called Water Technology Farms.

Standing next to one of his pumps

in a field 15 miles southwest of Garden City, Willis said he can tell just by listening to it that the pump engine isn’t pulling as much of a load as in years past.

“Normally, we’d be running about 300 gallons more a minute than what we’re running right now. You can tell, that engine’s hardly running,” Willis said.

He’s able to water this milo field while pumping the well more slowly than usual thanks to a relatively new type of irrigation. The generic name for it is mobile drip. The trade name is Dragon Line.

Monty Teeter, of Teeter Irrigation in Ulysses, came up with the idea behind Dragon Line about seven years ago.

“It’s real important to me that we try to save every drop we can,” Teeter said. “Our motto is ‘Making every drop of water count.’”

(See YIELDS on page 29)

ers,” said Smith.

“But, the bottom line is, not only the climate changing, but also something in the genetics of the varieties is changing. So that’s what we’re trying to get to the bottom of.”

These varieties will also be screened for resistance to the wheat curl mite and Russian (See PESTS on page 29)

Weather

Market Report Closing prices on July 26, 2016 Bartlett Grain Red Wheat............ $ 2.87 White Wheat ....... $ 2.87 Milo .................... $ 2.27 Corn ................... $ 2.84 Soybeans (new crop) $ 8.74 Scott City Cooperative Wheat.................. $ 2.90 White Wheat ....... $ 2.90 Milo (bu.)............. $ 2.31 Corn.................... $ 2.90 Soybeans ........... $ 8.89 Sunflowers.......... $ 14.10 ADM Grain Wheat..................

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Food Facts The First District in Kansas has all of the state’s sorghum ethanol plants, except one that sources its sorghum from the Big First.

Together, those plants produce more than 380 million gallons of ethanol annually.

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Aphids could be arriving early in sorghum crop With July coming to a close shortly after you are reading this, it is about time to start scouting the fields of your growing fall crops.

What exactly should producers be paying especially close to? None other than the dreaded sugarcane aphid. That pesky insect that has started to spread throughout the state over the last couple of years.

Sugarcane aphid infestations were confirmed on commercial grain sorghum fields near the Sumner/Cowley county border during the week of July 18-22. Based on the size of the populations observed, which included several plants that were producing winged aphids, this field was first infested approximately 3-4 weeks

GMO is whether or not consumers care if their food contains GM ingredients.

Sorrell believes they do. “There are many Americans who would prefer to know what is in the foods they buy,” he says.

Peterson disagrees.

“I don’t think there are that many people who are going to pay attention to what’s on the label,” he says.

He also suggested that the drive for GMO labeling is not necessarily about food labels, but

Pests wheat aphid. Although the most visibly destructive pest is the Hessian fly, these other pests are known to cause significant damage.

“Hessian fly’s probably the poster child for wheat entomology or has been for a long time.

However, the wheat curl mite is becoming more of a problem and the mite is a problem not necessarily because of the damage it can cause when it feeds on the plant. The wheat curl mite vectors three significant viruses on wheat: wheat streak mosaic, Triticum mosaic and wheat mosaic,” said Smith.

The combined losses of the mite feeding and vectoring viruses can

Yields Dragon Line is based on the center-pivot irrigation system already present in most irrigated fields. Instead of nozzles that spray the water onto the crop from above, this system has hoses that drag slowly along the ground as the system moves through the field. The hoses are dotted with pressure-controlled emitters that let out just a trickle of water directly onto the ground between the crop rows.

Teeter said a USDA study in the Texas panhandle found that more than half of the irrigation water sprayed onto bare soil simply evaporates.

Jonathan Aguilar is a water resource engineer

Down on the Farm Chris Long Walnut Creek Extension Agent

ago.

A significant number of natural enemies were observed feeding on aphids, which can help slow aphid growth. This is approximately 10 days sooner than when we found aphids in 2015.

Aphid densities are well below threshold, but sorghum producers are encouraged to start scouting fields now.

What should you do?

Report all new infestations by contacting your Extension agent.

For myFields.info users, submit reports using the

Pest Sampler module at, https://www.myfields. info/pest_sampler.

To receive pest alerts about sugarcane aphid, create an account at, https://www.myfields. info/user/register, and include your state and county information to receive notifications specific to your area.

When scouting, make sure you correctly identify the sugarcane aphid.

It can be confused with greenbugs or yellow sugarcane aphid.

The sugarcane aphid is light yellow, with dark, paired “tailpipes” called cornicles and dark “feet” called tarsi. Greenbugs have dark feet, dark antennae, but light colored cornicles or tail pipes. Greenbugs will often have a green stripe

down their backs, but this can be hard to see in lightcolored aphids.

The sugarcane aphid also has dark feet and darker antennae, however it has dark cornicles and no green stripe down its back. The yellow sugarcane aphid is bright yellow with many hairs on its body and no extended cornicles.

Most of these characteristics are hard to see with the naked eye, so keep a hand lens nearby to help you.

Quite a bit was learned in Kansas last year about treatment thresholds and management on sorghum. The current guidelines can be found on the scouting card developed

by KSRE and is available at the Extension office or online.

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about modern agriculture.

“For some of the folks behind this movement, they don’t want labeling,” he says. “They want to get rid of RoundUp Ready crops.”

Patchwork Laws One of the biggest arguments in favor of the federal GMO legislation was the fear that each state would end up passing different laws, making the situation confusing for consumers and burdensome for businesses.

“It was an unworkable

situation to have states with different labeling laws,” Peterson says.

Sorrell disagrees.

After all, different countries have different laws regarding GMO labeling and food companies have adapted their practices and products to sell their products in places with varying regulations, he notes.

The bill may have passed Capitol Hill and is awaiting for President Barack Obama’s expected signature, but Sorrell warns it will take years

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sometimes be as high as the Hessian fly, of up to 15-20 percent yield loss, according to Smith. Some locations in some states that have a very concentrated epidemic of a virus can see up to 100 percent yield loss.

Although the Russian wheat aphid poses the lowest threat statewide, dryland wheat of western Kansas and eastern Colorado is particularly susceptible to this pest.

“Higher temperatures are what’s causing us to see the effects, but it could be higher temperatures and drought. We know that in a lot of cases that when a drought stresses a plant, it will make it more susceptible to feeding of

insects and to viruses,” said Smith.

Smith and his team anticipate finding that varieties claiming resistance may now be susceptible to certain pests and that some of that change is due to temperature.

If they are successful in their research, it will provide a basis for crop improvement and give direction on how to adapt wheat to combat changes in the environment and pests.

“It’s all under the umbrella of trying to improve the crop, and when we get really lucky we might have some varieties that have multiple resistance to multiple pests. That’s our long term goal,” said Smith.

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with the Kansas State University Extension Center in Garden City.

Tests conducted there last year show the mobile drip system reduced evaporative losses by around 30 percent.

While test plot results

are not conclusive, Aguilar thinks a 20 percent savings would be a conservative figure. What’s more, he said there was more moisture in the soil after harvest on the mobile drip plot - as much as an inch of rain would provide.

for the new bill to be implemented.

“The bill doesn’t go into effect for a couple of years, there are no penalties to enforce, and it doesn’t disclose in a consumer-friendly way the existence of genetically engineered ingredients in a particular product,” Sorrell says.

“I think it’s unfortunate that Congress made this move and wasn’t respectful of state laws.”

Dan Murphy is a food-industry journalist and commentator

Two insecticides, Sivanto 200 SL, and Transform WD, provide superior control of sugarcane aphid. Sivanto can be applied at 4-7 ounces per acre. Transform WG can be applied at 0.751.5 ounces per acre. It is important to achieve complete coverage of the crop for most effective control.

Sivanto and Transform are not toxic to beneficial insects, which can help control populations of the sugarcane aphid.

One of the problems some producers faced last year was what to do if both headworms, also known as corn earworm, and sugarcane aphids were present at treatment thresholds. Sivanto and Transform are not effective on headworms.

The pyrethroid insec-

ticides most commonly used for headworm control, methomyl and chlorpyrifos, are effective against the sugarcane aphid, but will also kill beneficial insects. It was not uncommon last year to see sugarcane aphid populations explode a few days after the application of a pyrethroid insecticide.

Fields should be scouted often for sugarcane aphids and beneficial insect populations after the insecticide is applied.

If sorghum has to be treated more than once or twice with an insecticide, producers may hesitate since the cost can add up quickly. However, sugarcane aphid and headworms can cause significant yield losses.

It’s not an easy choice to make, by any means.

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Charles Berry, Broker • 874-0738 Brett Berry, Sales Assoc. • 316-258-3387 Tracy Chambless, Sales Assoc. • 874-2124

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If not paid in advance, there will be a $1 billing charge.

Tear sheet for classified ad will be $1 extra.

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I have heard that it takes a village to raise a child. I have now learned that it also takes a village to bury a child. Without hesitation, the people of my beloved little village of Scott City pitched in and helped us say goodbye to Lucas.

With so much help and support coming our way, everything that needed to be done was done. If we needed comfort, someone was there to offer just the right words, or a phone would ring, or the perfect card would come in the mail. If we were hungry, someone would appear with delicious food. Even if we just wanted to cry, Kleenex would appear.

Family and friends were with us each step of the way.

The EMTs who found Lucas are friends. At his service, the vocalist and pianist were a granddad and a cousin, and the minister was a friend. We were surrounded by so many kind and caring people. The flowers were the most beautiful I have ever seen, and the plants were so green and healthy (I hope I can keep them that way). The memorials were simply unbelievable.

We were not ready to let Lucas go, but with help from family and friends it seemed a little easier. Toby, Jacki and Cooper worked so hard, doing the difficult things that needed to be done.

Please know how much your kind acts are appreciated.

Thank you so much,

Craig and Marcia Matthies

Toby, Jacki and Cooper Mathies

Paul Hillery and Maxine Carlson

Larry and Greg Hillery

Janet Tecklenburg and Kim Musick

Rentals

Services

HIDE AND SEEK STORAGE SYSTEMS. Various sizes available.

Virgil and LeAnn Kuntz, 41tfc 620-874-2120.

C O M P U T E R SERVICES for PC and Mac computers.

Computer repair and virus removal. Call or email Josh at OsComp to schedule an appointment. 24-hour help line 620-376-8660 or email josh_4974@hotmail.com.

––––––––––––––––––– WANTED: Yards to mow and clean up, etc.

Trim smaller trees and bushes too. Call Dean Riedl, (620) 872-5112 or 34tfc 874-4135.

–––––––––––––––––––– FURNITURE REPAIR and refinishing. Lawn mower tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Vern Soodsma, 872-2277 or 4015tfc 874-1412.

–––––––––––––––––––– MOWER REPAIR, tune-up and blade sharpening. Call Rob Vsetecka 4515tfc at 620-214-1730.

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PLAINJAN’S RENTAL houses and duplexes. Stop by the office or call 62005tfc 872-5777. ________________________________

PLAINJAN’S RENT-ASHOP New Introductory Pricing! We can build an office to suit your needs.

This includes AC and heat if wanted. Each Rent-AShop comes with 110 and a 220 electric, overhead lighting, full concrete floor, exterior dawn-dusk lighting, insulated roof and exterior walls. ONLY 2 LEFT! Call today at 4516tfc 620-872-5777. ________________________________

NICE 2 BEDROOM HOUSE FOR RENT with central air. All new appliances. Call 620-872-5844.

5016t2 ________________________________

3 BEDROOM, 2 BATHROOM HOUSE for rent with Grow Healy. ALL UTILITIES PAID! Central heat and air, off street parking and storm shelter access. Newly renovated and all new appliances!

Section 8 applicants welcome. $650/month, $650 deposit. Pet deposit required. Call Terra Sunley 5116t4 at 620-398-2231.

Help Wanted

FULL-TIME HIRED MAN wanted to run 400 head cow/calf operation.

Must be honest and speak English. House and utilities furnished. Call 308387-4413.

5016t2 –––––––––––––––––––– FULL-TIME ENGINE MACHINE OPERATOR wanted for Jaguar Machine in Dighton. Operator and engine overhaul pay will depend on Livestock experience. Will train BLACK, ANGUS, REG- the right person. Call ISTERED BULLS for 620-397-2613 for intersale. Tested, 2 year old view.

5116t2 yearlings. Heifer bulls.

Delivery. Conformation Agriculture and Performance. Contact Black Velvet Ranch, AarWANT TO BUY. Stored on Plunkett, Syracuse, Ks. corn. Call for basis and 620-384-1101.

3716t15 information.

–––––––––––––––––––– contract 1-800-579-3645.

Lane REGISTERED, ANGUS BULLS for sale. County Feeders, Inc. 32tfc Yearling and 2-year old ________________________________ bulls. Crooked Creek An- WANT TO BUY. Wheat gus, St. Francis, Kansas. straw delivered. Call for Call 785-332-6206 or contracting information. www.crookedcreekangus. Lane County Feeders, com.

3716t19 397-5341.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS If you want to drink, that’s your business.

If you want to stop, that’s ours.

Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Tuesday nights at 8:00 p.m. at the United Methodist Church basement (use west door).

412 College, Scott City.

Al-Anon at same time and location.

Contact: 874-0472 or 872-3137. 25tfc

GARAGE SALES Garage Sale/Estate Sale for Bucky McCombs 303-859-3009 507 N. College Scott City Fri., Aug. 5 • 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Sat., Aug. 6 • 7:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Multi-Family 1107 Court Street Scott City Fri., July 29 • 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Sat., July 30 • 9:00 a.m. - Noon Love seat hide-a-bed, Collectibles, vintage wooden crib, Clothes (adult and children), cook books, books, fishing accessories, ice auger, yard tools, hand and electric tools, toys, small appliances, Ironing board, kitchen and household items.

Lots and lots of misc. treasures!

District 11 AA Meetings

Scott City

Unity and Hope Mon., Wed. and Fri. 8:00 p.m.

807 Kingsley Last Saturday of the month Birthday Night • 6:30 p.m.

All open meetings 214-4188 • 214-2877

Dighton Thursday • 8:30 p.m.

535 Wichita St. All open meetings 620-397-2647

We have room for you!

The Scott County Record • Page 33 • Thursday, July 28, 2016

Employment Opportunities

County Plat Maps By

Western Cartographers Available: •Scott •Ness •Gove •Lane •Finney

•Logan •Wichita •Wallace •Greeley •Kearny

Pick them up today at:

406 Main • Scott City • 620 872-2090

The Scott County Record • Page 34 • Thursday, July 28, 2016

There are 2 campaigns in the 33rd Senate District One campaign is backed by large Political Action Committees who do not care about our schools, our highways, our children and our senior citizens.

That campaign is telling lies and making promises it cannot and will not keep.

That’s not my campaign.

I won’t lie about my opponent.

I don’t accept money from PACs that are funded by the Koch brothers.

I will not make promises I cannot keep just to get elected.

I am Mary Jo Taylor.

I believe in the value of our public education system.

I believe in fiscal responsibility.

I believe we must support early childhood programs.

I believe in a health care system that serves all Kansans.

I believe in a fair tax policy.

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Those are the core values of a Kansas I once knew and it’s the Kansas I want to see again.

Together we can make that happen.

Vote for Mary Jo Taylor to be your senator from the 33rd District.

Pd. for by Taylor for Senate, Gemma Austin, Treasurer.