The Concordia Blade

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CONCORDIA
VOL. CX NO. 100 (USPS 127-880)
CONCORDIA, KANSAS 66901
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
County considers relocating Health Dept.
Good Evening
Concordia Forecast
Tonight, partly cloudy in the evening,
then mostly cloudy with slight chance of
showers and isolated thunderstorms after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. South
winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation
20 percent.
Wednesday, cooler. Mostly cloudy with
slight chance of showers and isolated
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the
northeast in the afternoon.
Wednesday night, cloudy with chance of
rain showers and isolated thunderstorms.
Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
Thursday, cloudy with rain showers
likely and isolated thunderstorms. Highs
around 70. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph. Chance of
precipitation 60 percent.
Thursday night, rain showers likely and
isolated thunderstorms. Lows in the upper
50s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
Friday, partly sunny with chance of rain
showers and isolated thunderstorms.
Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
Friday night, partly cloudy with slight
chance of rain showers and isolated thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 40s.
Saturday, mostly sunny. Highs in the
mid 60s.
Saturday night, mostly clear. Lows in
the lower 40s.
Sunday, sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
Sunday night, partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 40s.
Monday, partly sunny. Highs in the mid
60s.
By Hailey Keller
Blade Staff Writer
The Cloud County Board of
Commissioners toured the
Cloud County Courthouse
Monday morning, on preliminary search for a new home for
the Health Department.
Commissioner Gary Caspers
said the purpose of the Monday
tour was to see “What we have
and what would work.”
“And if it would work,‚” Shella Thoman, Cloud County
Clerk, interjected.
Bill Czapanskiy said that
discussions of relocating the
health department, including
touring the courthouse and
extensive research into placement, are all part of the “first
stage of feasibility to see if it’s
even a possibility.” Czapanskiy said: “We could do away
with rental payments, do away
with insurance, do away with
utilities, do away with maintenance. We’re providing that all
right here now [at the courthouse].”
The County had considered
purchasing the building where
the Health Department is now
from CasselRock, Inc., the real
estate development company
owned by John and Joyce
Hood of Hood Heating and Air
After routine, pre-inspections of the property revealed
that the roof needs to be
replaced, and at a cost of
around $42,000 to $43,000,
the commissioners started
thinking of other options.
According to figures provided by the County Clerk, the
county could save upwards of
$50,000 if the county moved
the health department out of
its current location.
Thoman said that in 2014,
the county spent $68,206.01
to have the health department
in the building owned by Hood.
Although it is easy for one to
say that the county could save
money by moving the health
department from their current
location to the courthouse; and
although Thoman provided
specific numbers highlighting
just how much the county
could save, Thoman said that
“There are too many variables
in what is considered savings.”
Thoman also said that the
money the county is “saving” is
really based on what you
would consider saving to be, as
“there will be some expense of
actually making it happen.”
These expenses would, of
course, include, remodeling or
reworking a section of the
Courthouse to accommodate
the Health Department.
The commissioners toured
every room in the three-story
courthouse, trying to find that
sweet spot the health department could call home.
As Monday’s meeting was
the first in many discussions,
the board of commissioners
did not make any decisions
concerning moving the health
department to the courthouse.
“Nothing is going to happen
tomorrow, by any means,” Czapanskiy said.
Unlike the commissioners,
Cloud County Sheriff Brian
Marks reported that immediate
action needed to be taken on
Friday, Oct. 16, as Cloud
County Law Enforcement
assisted the city with a search
warrant.
This action resulted in the
arrest of Kenneth D. Crump,
56, and Brock A. Crump, 27,
both
of
Concordia.
The
Crumps were charged with
aggravated kidnapping, aggravated battery, aggravated robbery, possession of drug
paraphernalia and possession
of a stimulant.
Except for Friday’s events,
Marks said the rest of the
weekend was uneventful, and
that the enforcement center is
holding
53
out-of-county
inmates, which is around average for the jail.
Beyond their sentences, the
inmates are coming to terms
ACS offers
new advice on
mammograms
Choir concerts
Concordia Junior Senior High School
vocal music department will present its
Fall concert at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 22,
in the CHS Auditorium. Performing will be
the Junior High Select Choir and the High
School Chamber Choir. The public is welcome.
Across Kansas
Group will try to
recall commissioner
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An advocacy group
has announced plans to try to recall a Sedgwick County commissioner who wants to
prohibit people in the U.S. illegally from participating in a federal nutrition program in
Kansas.
The Wichita Eagle reports the Immigration Advocacy Network announced Monday
it’ll seek to recall Sedgwick County Commission chair Richard Ranzau over his positions on health care and immigration.
Sandrine Lisk, director of advocacy for the
group, says they’ll apply within the week for
a petition seeking Ranzau’s recall.
Supporters of the recall would try to seek
about 9,400 signatures of north-central
Sedgwick County residents to force a special
election if the district attorney finds acceptable reason for a recall.
Ranzau recently sent a letter to the
Kansas Department of Health and Environment asking that Kansas participants in the
federal food program, called Women, Infants
and Children, be limited to “United States
citizens, nationals and qualified aliens.”
“I have stated that citizens of this country
should not be forced to subsidize illegal
immigration and I stand by that,” Ranzau
said Monday.
The program provides nutrition education and issues checks to low-income families for foods like baby formula, cereal,
cheese, eggs and milk.
Last month county commissioners voted
to reduce program funding by $320,000 to
trim administrative and overhead costs.
“Who denies health care to babies and
children up to five years of age?” asked
Sharon Ailslieger with the local League of
Women Voters chapter. “I’m sorry, but that
is unacceptable. We are not a Third World
nation.”
The Immigration Advocacy Network has
also criticized other public health decisions
of the county commissioners, such as
approving a 2016 financial budget that cuts
$540,000 for health education and data proVisit us online at www.bladeempire.com
with a new food service, CBM
Managed Services.
The jail had employed an inhouse cook, but recently
switched to the family-owned
food service.
“It’s really cut our grocery
costs quite a bit,” Marks said.‚
Caspers asked Marks if the
inmates were happy with the
new food service.
“Inmates are never happy;
they’re always going to complain,” Marks said.
On a motion by Czapanskiy
and a second by Commissioner
Gail Engle, the board approved
a five-minute executive session
to discuss non-elected personnel with Marks and Thoman.
As the end of the year
approaches, insurance renewal terms are on the docket.
For Cloud County, Alisha
Bond, the Group Benefit Specialist with Blue Cross Blue
Shield, sat with the commissioners to discuss the county’s
current health insurance plan.
Bond told the commissioners that they are getting a “very
favorable renewal this year. It
is way below industry trend.”
Although “very favorable,”
the county will see an increase
in their coverage for 2016, but
an insignificant one, according
to Bond.
(see County on page 8)
Curb and gutter
City of Concordia employees work on a curb and gutter project on West 13th Street Tuesday
morning. (Blade photo by Jay Lowell)
Rain could provide relief
for extremely dry conditions
Some relief for the extremely dry conditions in North Central Kansas may be
on the way.
According to Brian Barjenbruch of the
National Weather Service office in Topeka there is a good chance of rain on
Thursday night and Friday.
The National Weather Service Office is
calling for a 50 percent chance of rain on
Thursday night and a 60 percent chance
on Friday.
“One of the more significant rains we
have had in a month,” Barjenbruch said,
“There is at least the potential we will get
a nice soaking of the ground.”
Concordia, through Monday, had
received only .07 inches of rain in October, which is 1.20 inches below normal.
The .07 inch fell on Oct. 8.
Since Sept. 1, Concordia has received
just 1.28 inches of precipitation.
Concordia has received 23.24 inches
of precipitation for the year, which is
1.97 inches below normal.
“Up until Sept. 1, Concordia was
above normal, but has fallen into a
deficit,” Barjenbruch said.
Barjenbruch said that a weather pattern that has made it difficult to get a lot
of moisture into the air is to blame for
the dry conditions.
“A dry fall isn’t all that rare,” Barjenbruch said.
With the dry conditions and strong
winds the past couple of days, the Concordia area is in a high fire risk area.
“It is red flag today,” Cloud County
Rural Fire Chief Bob Gering said on
Monday.
Barjenbruch said that following the
rain chances on Friday and Saturday,
dry conditions are expected over the
weekend. He said there is a small chance
or two for rain the following week, but
there are no big storm systems right
now.
Wheat planting nearly complete
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas farmers
are getting closer to finishing their planting
of the 2016 winter wheat crop.
The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that 82 percent of
the wheat has now been planted. That is
close to average at this point in the season.
Meanwhile, another corn harvest is also
nearing its end in Kansas. The agency
reported 85 percent of the corn in the state
has now been cut, ahead of average.
Soybean harvest has hit the 51 percent
mark, while sorghum harvest is 52 percent
complete.
CHICAGO (AP) — New mammogram
advice from the American Cancer Society
says most women should start annual
screenings at age 45 instead of 40, a change
that moves the group closer to guidelines
from an influential advisory task force.
The cancer group also now advises
switching to screening to every other year at
55. The task force recommends starting routine screening for breast cancer at age 50,
then every other year.
It’s not a one-size-fits-all recommendation; both groups say women’s preferences
for when to be scanned should be considered.
The advice is for women at average risk
for breast cancer. Doctors generally recommend more intensive screening for higherrisk women.
“The most important message of all is
that a mammogram is the most effective
thing that a woman can do to reduce her
chance of dying from breast cancer,” said Dr.
Richard Wender, the cancer society’s cancer
control chief.
“It’s not that mammograms are ineffective
in younger women,” he said, but at age 40,
breast cancer is uncommon and false
alarms are more likely.
Concern about false alarms contributed
to the cancer society’s new guidance. These
lead to worry and more testing — they mean
an initial result was suspicious but that
cancer was ruled out by additional scans
and sometimes biopsies.
The latest guidelines acknowledge that
some younger women are willing to accept
that, and that for them starting annual
exams at age 40 is fine, as long as they know
the risks.
The guidelines were developed by experts
who reviewed dozens of studies including
research published since 1997 —the year
the trusted medical group recommended
yearly mammograms starting at age 40, and
since 2003, when it stopped recommending
monthly breast self-exams.
The update also drops a recommendation
for routine physical breast exams by doctors, saying there’s no evidence that these
save lives.
The Rev. Jennifer Munroe-Nathans, a
church pastor in Millis, Massachusetts, said
she hasn’t paid attention to guidelines and
started getting annual scans around age 40
on her doctor’s advice. Her mother had
breast cancer; so have some of her congregants and Munroe-Nathans said she has no
plans to change course when she gets older.
“For my own peace of mind I intend to
continue yearly mammograms,” she said.
“I’ve seen the impact of breast cancer —perhaps that makes me a little more hyper-vigilant.”
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A baby born today has
a Sun in Libra and a Moon
in Capricorn if born before
9:38 p.m. (PDT). Afterward,
the Moon will be in Aquarius.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for
Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015:
This year you must keep
your eye on your long-term
goals, as you often will be
distraActed. You know what
you want, and you know
how to get there. Bosses
and supervisors demand a
lot from you, which often
might cause a problem. You
will not be bored. If you are
single, you will have to go
through quite a few suitors
before you meet the right
person. Give yourself the
space to date. If you are attached, the two of you often
need an escape from your
daily life. Plan a special few
days away together as soon
as you can. AQUARIUS provokes a wildness in you.
The Stars Show the
Kind of Day You’ll Have:
5-Dynamic;
4-Positive;
3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult
ARIES (March 21-April
19)
* * * You’ll shake up the
status quo and cause someone to become upset. Know
that this, too, will pass. The
results are very much in the
ballpark of what you had
projected would happen. A
conversation with someone
will add a fresh perspective.
Tonight: Enjoy whomever is
around.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20)
* * * * You could be facing quite a bit of volatility in
the daytime. As a result, you
will need to come to terms
with the existing situation.
A higher-up is likely to give
you feedback. You know
when you have had enough,
so don’t be afraid to speak
up. Tonight: Till the wee
hours.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20)
* * * * Continue dealing
with people directly, as you
do better in one-on-one discussions. You could be overwhelmed by everything you
hear from a friend or loved
one. This person seems to
want some distance. Use
this time to evaluate and
think. Tonight: Opt for the
unusual.
CANCER (June 21-July
22)
* * * * Defer to others, as
you might not have any other choice. It is as if people
are running in and out the
door telling you their plans.
Maintain a sense of humor,
and you’ll experience less
tension. Be willing to break
patterns and routines. Tonight: Follow your heart.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
* * * * You might be overwhelmed by all the requests
you are receiving. You have
a lot to do, and not enough
time to do it. You could be
jolted by news from someone afar. Don’t sell yourself short. Postpone a conversation until later in the
day. Tonight: Catch up with
friends.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
* * * * * Your senses of direction and creativity merge
once again. You might surprise some friends who
seem to have pigeonholed
you. If you get a strange reaction here and there, try
not to worry. Curb frivolous
spending, and you’ll be happy you did. Tonight: Meet up
with a friend.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
* * * * You might feel as
if you are all over the place
because of your latest interactions. Understand that
you are likely to hear a lot
of conflicting information.
The unexpected hits when
a loved one or dear friend
reacts in a shocking way.
Tonight: Add some spice to
your life.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21)
* * * * Conversations will
reveal others’ natural resistance, especially someone
in your daily life. Your instincts might not help you
at present, because they
come from your perspective.
Be willing to break patterns,
and opt to head down a new
path. Tonight: Reach out to
a friend.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21)
* * * * You might feel as
if you need to have different
concerns from those around
you. You might want to ask
more questions and come
to terms with a changeable
situation. Use caution with
your finances and spending.
Tonight: Fun doesn’t need
to leave your wallet empty.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19)
* * * * * Your effectiveness
will be challenged by someone you look up to. Know
that this person simply
wants to present a different
perspective. The unexpected
continues to run through
your personal life. Take a
step back, and don’t worry
so much. Tonight: Whatever
pleases you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18)
* * * Maintain a low-key
profile during the day. You
have a tendency to do the
unexpected and shake up
the status quo. You won’t
even have to work on it -it will just happen. A longdistance call will prove to be
enlightening. Tonight: Take
a power nap, then decide.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20)
* * * * Don’t avoid a
meeting, even if you would
prefer not to be present. You
will realize how important
it is soon enough. Network
and extend your immediate
circle. Don’t lose sight of a
goal. Have a talk with someone on a one-on-one level.
Tonight: Make it early.
BORN TODAY
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(1950), rapper Snoop Dogg
(1971), actor John Krasinski (1979)
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Never look down to test the ground before taking
your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed
on the far horizon will find the right road.
—Dag Hammarskjold
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50 years ago
Oct. 20, 1965—Concordia was to have a new
industry, that when firmly
established would employ
5 or more persons. The
company was Simlo, Inc.,
a subsidiary of the internationally known J.B. Ehrsam
Manufacturing Company of
Enterprise, Kan., and would
be built at the east edge of
town. . . . New members being installed into the Elks
Lodge at its Fall Class Day
were Don Budden, Herschel
Betts, Dr. Grady N. Coker,
Laurence Cox, Larry Hartshorn, Richard Leonard,
Calvin K. Mosburg, Harold
Johnson, Carl W. Johnson Jr. and Leroy B. Jones,
Concordia; the Rev. Maurice
B. Dion and the Rev. Louis
Matas, Clyde; Gerald Bergeson, Jamestown; Howard
Hammond and Dale Chizek,
Agenda; and Dale Bradley,
Miltonvale.
25 years ago
Oct. 20, 1990—Linda
Mason had returned from a
trip to Branson, Mo., which
she won from Columbia Insurance Group of Columbia,
Mo. The trip was awarded
Mason for being one of the
top producers in its crop
insurance department. . . .
Erika Nelson and Gene Kearn were participating in the
Class 4A State Cross Country Meet at Manhattan.
10 years ago
Oct. 20, 2005—Bryant
Johnson, a junior quarterback on the Concordia High
School football team who led
the Panthers to a 55-19 win
over Goodland by completing eight of 12 passes for
129 and two touchdowns,
was the Concordia High
School Athlete of the Week.
. . . Concordia Moose Lodge
announced it would resume
Thursday nights beginning
Nov. 3.
5 years ago
Oct.
20,
2010—Babies born at Cloud County Health Center between
July 23 and Sept. 21 included Mairi’kol Barksdale,
Colton Joseph McWhorter,
Jordyn Maria Lyn Garcia,
Kolby George Buckley, Verity Grace Elstrom and Dillon James Mendenhall. . . .
Jeff and Kathy Nielsen and
daughter Chloe had moved
to Concordia from Norton.
Jeff was the new pastor of
the First Christian Church.
1 year ago
Oct. 20, 2014—Jamie
and Justin LeDuc, Concordia, announced the birth
of their daughter, Sydney
Ann LeDuc, born Sept. 25.
. . . October Students of the
Month at Concordia Middle
School were Kiana Champlin, fifth grade; and Tyson
Roush, sixth grade.
PEOPLE
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Annie’s
Mailbox announced Honor Roll
by Kathy Mitchell and
Marcy Sugar
Dear Annie: My family is
very dysfunctional because
of my mother's poor parenting and her history of playing favorites. I maintain
minimal contact with my
siblings.
One of my sisters is very
controlling and has always
manipulated my mother to
get what she wants. She's
my mother's "golden child."
A number of years ago, this
sister took all of the old family photos from my mother's
home. Mom says she only
borrowed them. Knowing
my sister, I was concerned
that the family would never
see those pictures again.
I recently decided to ask
my sister to let me have
the pictures so I could go
through them, make some
enlargements and copies,
and write down some names
and dates. My adult children
also have expressed interest in having access to the
pictures, as they have never
seen them and would like
to know about their family's
history. My sister lives four
hours away, and I offered to
pick them up.
Well, my request has
started World War III. My
mother and sister are furious that I have asked to take
the pictures to go through
them. They cannot give me a
reason I can't have access to
the photos but consider me
the bad guy in this scenario.
I could back down and
let my sister have her way,
but I would like to have that
piece of my family history to
pass on to my children. Ideally, all of the siblings would
have some of the originals,
but my sister never learned
to share. Should I continue
my quest for these photographs, even knowing I will
be treated with contempt by
my mother and sister? Or
should I just let it go? — Living in Dysfunctional Family
Land
Dear Living: There may
be another way to get the
pictures.
Your sister seems con-
trolling and possessive, so
she is unlikely to hand over
the photographs. Instead,
as nicely and sweetly as
possible, ask whether you
can go through them in her
home. Discuss scanning the
ones you want into her computer and emailing them. Or
you could offer to pay her
to make copies. Bring your
mother along so she can see
that you are being reasonable and flexible. If Sis says
no and your mother gets angry, you will be no worse off.
Dear Annie: I read the
letter from "Ohio," who wondered why prospective employers never get back to her
after job interviews.
I would suggest that after the interview, she send a
thank-you letter expressing
something she liked about
the job and explaining how
she's looking forward to
working for that company.
I learned about that when
I attended a community college. It helps. One employer
was so impressed that he
kept the thank-you note in
my file. — B.T.
Dear B.T.: We like this
idea. It can only enhance
your chances of learning
whether you got the job or
not. It also doesn't hurt to
make a follow-up phone call
or send a polite email if you
haven't heard back within a
week of the interview.
Annie's Mailbox is written
by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors
of the Ann Landers column.
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to anniesmailbox@creators.
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Card shower planned
to mark Holechek’s 90th
Kenneth W. Holechek
The family of Kenneth W.
Holechek, Concordia, would
like to honor him with a card
shower for his 90h birthday
Oct. 27.
After serving in the U.S.
Army, Holechek returned to
Republic County where he
married Bessie Heina (now
deceased) on April 18, 1948,
in Belleville. They farmed in
Republic County for many
years and later moved to
Concordia. They purchased
Ken’s TV and Appliance
and were in business for 25
years. The Holecheks were
active members of the Presbyterian Church as well as
the Concordia Lions Club.
Their sons are Daryl
(Jayne) of Salina and Roger
(Betty, deceased) of Concordia. They have three grandchildren: Jami (Tom) Shirley
of Lincoln, Kan., Brett (Pam)
Holechek of Concordia and
Morgan (Dru) Davis of Salina. Kenneth also has six
great-grandchildren.
Cards may be sent to Kenneth at Sunset Home, 620
2nd Ave., #164, Concordia,
KS 66901.
Senior Citizens Menu
Wednesday, Oct. 21—Hamburger soup, grilled cheese
sandwiches, fruit; 10 a.m.—Exercise; 12:30 p.m.—BINGO;
Hearing aid service.
Thursday, Oct. 22—Roast beef, mashed potatoes with
gravy and a roll, carrots, Jell-O®.
Friday, Oct. 23—Tuna casserole, green bean casserole,
fruit, alt., hamburger; 10 a.m.—Exercise; progressive cards.
Cinnamon rolls and fresh coffee daily, 9-11 a.m.
Call Teddy Lineberry at 243-1872 for questions or to
make reservations.
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Dylan Sulanka, Bethany Trost, Abby Valeka.
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5th grade
Kendalyn Allen, Cami Anderson, Justice Alexander, Michael Ashland, Jaxson Brooks, Bailey Buckley, Serena Davis, Cianna DeLeon, MaKinzie Dvorak, Alec Francis, Shaelin Giersch, Kasey Halfhide, Stryker Hake, Taelor Hayne,
Peyton Johnson, Tyler Kearn, Bergun Kindel, Kevin Kindel, Kyler Kindel, Drew Kjellberg, Jaida Koester, Kadryn
McManus, Chase Peralta, Ariana Perrin, Charles Roegge,
Brett Rosenbaum, Madison Starr, Madison Strecker, Daniel Vines, Paige Zadina.
6th Grade
Kenney Anderson, Keghun Avery, Nathan Brown, Hayden
Dvorak, Shaeleigh Eakins, Samantha Jeardoe, Kira Kearn,
Braxton Kindel, Will Kindel, Logan Leiszler, Keyan Miller,
Taye Retter, Kellan Stupka, Samantha Terrill, Toby Wahlmeier, Meagen Wheeler, McKenzie Widen.
Club notes
VFW 588 Auxiliary met
Oct. 8 at the American Legion post home. The meeting opened with prayer by
chaplain Lois Stone and
the flag salute led by Vicki
Roberts. A letter from Linda
Marshall, president of the
Department of Kansas, was
read. Each Sunflower Express will have the virtual
VFW classroom.
Ruth Bombardier gave
report of support given to
veterans and families. She
used 10 poppies for the
meeting. Roberts gave the
Americanism report. She
read a patriotic story, “Old
Glory 1776” and reported
that the Avenue of Flags
committee will meet at 7
p.m., Monday, Oct. 26. She
said she was pleased to see
some children at Fall Fest
who showed they could salute the flag.
In her report, Historian
Edith Uri talked about items
that are needed. Hospital
chairman Jane Christensen
is planning a time for members to get cards ready for
veterans in care homes and
hospitals.
Mary Jane Hurley gave a
legislative report from Action
Corps weekly and a scholarship report. An article was
printed in the Blade Oct. 8
about endowment scholarships. So far two entries for
the Patriot Pen contest have
been received. Members discussed plans for an awards
ceremony with a potluck for
winners of Voice of Democracy and Patriot Pen. For the
Youth report, she said the
Auxiliary received a schedule of CHS Panther games.
The Auxiliary is on the list of
boosters.
Members voted to donate
poppies to fourth graders
and to help prepare materials for science projects and
Christmas projects.
Hurley said she plans to
take a basket she prepared
to the District meeting. Raffle proceeds will go to the
general hospital fund.
For the good of the organization members discussed
a social event and will plan
to go out to eat and especially to celebrate the women
who are in their 90’s.
Next meeting will be Nov.
12 at 7 p.m. at the American
Legion Home.
Ohio putting off
executions until 2017
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)
– Ohio is putting off executions until at least 2017 as
the state struggles to obtain
supplies of lethal injection
drugs, delaying capital punishment for a full two years,
the prisons department announced Monday.
Execution dates for 11 inmates scheduled to die next
year and one scheduled for
early 2017 were all pushed
into ensuing years through
warrants of reprieve issued
by Gov. John Kasich.
The result is 25 inmates
with execution dates beginning in January 2017 that
are now scheduled through
August 2019. Ohio last put
someone to death in January 2014.
Ohio has run out of supplies of its previous drugs
and has unsuccessfully
sought new amounts, including so-far failed attempts to import chemicals
from overseas.
The new dates are needed
to give the prisons agency
extra time, the Department
of Rehabilitation and Correction said in a statement.
The agency “continues to
seek all legal means to obtain the drugs necessary to
carry out court ordered executions, but over the past
few years it has become exceedingly difficult to secure
those drugs because of severe supply and distribution
restrictions,” the statement
said.
Last week, the attorney
general’s office in Oklahoma
announced no executions
will be scheduled until at
least next year as the office
investigates why the state
used the wrong drug during
a lethal injection in January
and nearly did so again last
month.
Earlier this month, an Arkansas judge halted the upcoming executions of eight
death row inmates who are
challenging a new law that
allows the state to withhold
any information that could
publicly identify the manufacturers or sellers of its execution drugs.
On Oct. 1, Virginia executed serial killer Alfredo
Prieto, but only after obtaining pentobarbital from the
Texas prison system. Texas
has continued to purchase
supplies of compounded
pentobarbital without saying how much it has obtained or where it came
from.
At Ohio’s last execution
in 2014, condemned killer
Dennis McGuire repeatedly
gasped and snorted during
a 26-minute procedure, the
longest in Ohio history, as
a new two-drug combo was
used.
The next execution was
scheduled for Jan. 21 when
Ronald Phillips was to die for
raping and killing his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter
in Akron in 1993. Phillips’
execution was rescheduled
for Jan. 12, 2017.
The handwriting has
been on the wall for months
that Ohio would have to
make such a move, said
Franklin County Prosecutor
Ron O’Brien, expressing his
frustration at a new set of
delays.
These delays come in cases where inmates have long
exhausted their appeals and
there’s no question of their
guilt, he said.
“It seems that in those
states that authorize assisted suicide, there has been
no impediment to securing
drugs, and as time marches
onward, victims wonder why
they must continue to wait
for justice,” O’Brien said in
an email.
Ohio abandoned the twodrug method after McGuire’s
execution and announced it
would use either of two older
drugs that it had previously
obtained for capital punishment, but did not currently
have supplies of.
One of those drugs, sodium thiopental, is no longer
manufactured by FDA-approved companies and the
other, pentobarbital, has
been put off limits for executions by drug makers.
Ohio obtained a federal
import license to seek supplies overseas, but has been
told by the FDA that such a
move is illegal. Ohio raised
the issue again with the
FDA earlier this month, asserting the state believes it
can obtain a lethal-injection
drug from overseas without
violating any laws. The FDA
has yet to respond.
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Former Kansas AG
sues court justices
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) –Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline sued all seven
Kansas Supreme Court justices and others connected
with their 2013 decision to
suspend his law license over
an investigation of abortion
clinics that he led.
Kline’s attorneys said in a
complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas and
made public on Monday that
the court toughened Kline’s
punishment because of his
“fervid beliefs” against abortion. The lawsuit also contends the court selectively
applied rules governing attorney conduct.
Kline argued the sanctions imposed against him
should also be voided because five of the seven sitting justices removed themselves from hearing his case
and were replaced by judges
from lower courts, which he
contends makes it an improperly constituted court.
His lawsuit names all the
sitting judges on the state
Supreme Court as well as
the replacement judges and
the Kansas disciplinary administrator.
The Supreme Court had
not yet received a copy of
the complaint and was unable to comment, said John
Houston, staff attorney for
the Office of Judicial Administration.
The Kansas Supreme
Court indefinitely suspended Kline’s law license in October 2013. The court found
that as attorney general and
as Johnson County prosecutor, Kline repeatedly misled
or allowed subordinates to
mislead others, including a
Kansas City-area grand jury,
to further his investigations
against abortion clinics in
Wichita and Overland Park.
His attorney, Thomas W.
Conduit, said in a news release that the Kline case has
been “a complete miscarriage of justice and an embarrassment to the Kansas
judicial system.” The idea
Kline ever attempted to lie
or to mislead a court is “preposterous,” he said.
Kline was Kansas attorney general from 2003 to
2007 and Johnson County
district attorney in 2007 and
2008. He is now a visiting
law professor at Liberty University in Virginia.
As Johnson County prosecutor, Kline filed 107 criminal charges in 2007 against
a Planned Parenthood clinic
in the Kansas City suburb
of Overland Park, accusing
it of performing illegal abortions and falsifying records.
The last of those charges
was dropped in 2012. As attorney general, he also pursued misdemeanor criminal
charges against Dr. George
Tiller because of late-term
abortions performed by his
Wichita clinic. The case was
dismissed for jurisdictional
reasons.
The U.S. Supreme Court
last year turned down without comment Kline’s request
to review the indefinite suspension of his license.
It is well established that
a law license is protected by
the principles of due process
and by the First Amendment, said Richard Levy, a
law professor at the University of Kansas. There have
been cases over law licenses
litigated in federal court dating back to the early 1930s.
“It is relatively unusual
to take this route, but it is
not unheard of,” Levy said of
the federal lawsuit. “And it is
probably the only avenue left
to him at this point.”
Business Interest
CCHC observes National
Account Management Week
National Patient Account
Management Day was established on Oct. 18, 1989,
by a proclamation from the
U.S. Congress when AAHAM
(then AGPAM) sought to officially recognize healthcare
administration
management throughout the country.
Cloud County Health
Center is observing National Patient Account Management Day with a weeklong
celebration this week, now
through Oct. 25.
According to Cherri
Waites, CCHC CEO, this is
a special week for employees to recognize their colleagues and for the public
to become aware of the importance of the profession.
Patient account representatives are: Shannon
Parker, Samantha Coon,
Theresa Hammond, Katrina
Gelino, Eunice Eakins, Miranda Morrissey, Ashley
Beaumont, Molly Adams,
Arleen Alley, Maggie Waites,
Rebecca Huse, Diana Heldenbrand, Colleen Eichelberger and Cheryl Glenn.
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Snyder: We all have to fight back
Kansas State coach Bill
Snyder was asked Monday
about his Wildcats being 0-3
in Big 12 play for the second
time in three seasons, this
time after their most lopsided loss in 25 years.
“If I can’t present the
right attitude and approach,
then I can’t expect the players to,” Snyder said on the
weekly Big 12 coaches teleconference. “It’s a dramatic
disappointment, but we all
have to fight back, that disappointment turns into
anger.”
The Wildcats (3-3, 0-3 Big
12) only lost two league
games a year ago, including
the regular-season finale
against Baylor that was
their third loss overall. After
losing their first three conference games in 2013, they
responded with four consecutive victories.
K-State lost 55-0 at home
Saturday to No. 17 Oklahoma. Next up for the Wildcats is Texas (2-4, 1-2),
which had an open date
after its 24-17 win over
those same Sooners at the
State Fair of Texas.
Texas coach Charlie
Strong quickly dispelled the
notion that he had to guard
against overconfidence by
his players because of what
happened to K-State.
“We have nothing to
guard against, because
before Oklahoma, we go
play TCU and get hammered
(50-7),” Strong said. “We’re
not thinking about what
Oklahoma did against
Kansas State, because I
know they’re a well-coached
football team. It may have
happened last week, but it’s
not going to happen two
weeks in a row. ... Good
teams are always going to
bounce back.”
While the Wildcats were
getting
embarrassed,
Kansas (0-6, 0-3) made
quite a comeback before
coming close to their first
victory in holding down
offensive powerhouse Texas
Tech.
The Red Raiders led 20-0
at halftime, but Kansas was
within 23-20 before Tech’s
interception return for a
touchdown with 4 minutes
left.
“I saw dramatic improvement from our team defensively against a really good
offensive unit,” first-year
Jayhawks coach David
Beaty said. “We had an
opportunity. We just simply
didn’t get it done. The next
step in the maturation
process now kind of looking
at, “Hey, what prevented us
from finishing that game
out?’”
MAYFIELD VS. TECH:
Baker Mayfield is throwing
for 313 yards a game with
19 touchdowns and only
three interceptions in his
first season as Oklahoma’s
quarterback. He had to sit
out last season with the
Sooners after transferring
from Texas Tech. With the
Red Raiders at Oklahoma
on Saturday, Tech coach
Kliff Kingsbury was asked
Monday about his thought
process for players who
want to transfer.
“That whole talk is something that I’m really going to
stay away from this week,”
Kingsbury said. “Just focus
on the game and two very
good teams going at it.”
Sooners
coach
Bob
Stoops said he’s not too worried about Mayfield getting
too hyped about the game.
“He’s handled himself
really well, he’s played well,”
Stoops said. “I wouldn’t
expect him to do any different this week.”
Some other notes from
the Big 12 call:
— With a week to go
before the first College Football Playoff rankings, the
Big 12 still has three undefeated teams — No. 2 Baylor,
No. 4 TCU and No. 14 Oklahoma State. They all play
each other in November.
Asked if he felt the Big 12
would avoid another playoff
snub this season, Oklahoma State coach Mike
Gundy quickly responded:
“No question, there will be a
Big 12 team in there.”
— Baylor still has the
nation’s top offense, piling
up 719.7 total yards and
63.8 points a game. The
Bears have also won an
FBS-best 19 consecutive
home games, and play Iowa
State on Saturday. So how
do you stop the Bears
offense? “I would say dangnear impossible,” Iowa State
coach Paul Rhoads said.
— TCU and West Virginia
both have Saturday off,
ahead of their Thursday
night game (Oct. 29) in Fort
Worth.
Panthers’Hanson
ties for 35th at state
Anna Pool of Coffeyville,
the second-place finisher
last year, carded a 77 to
earn medalist honors.
Katie Brungardt, Hays,
finished second with an 82
and Miranda Kern, Colby,
was third with a 95.
Winfield won the team
title with a score of 395.
Goodland was second with a
400 and Hays was third
with a 411.
HAYS — Battling winds
gusting over 30 miles per
hour,
Concordia
High
School junior Allayna Hanson finished in a tie for 35th
place in the Class 4A state
girls’ golf tournament Monday at Smoky Hill Country
Club.
Hanson, making her first
appearance in the state
tournament, shot a 52 on
the front nine. She fired a 56
on the back nine to finish
tied with Tysha Henning,
Winfield.
“I was extremely proud of
Allayna, and the way she
represented our high school
and community. She hit the
ball well, and when she
found herself in trouble, she
played
smart
recovery
shots,” Concordia coach
Gene Rundus said, “The
conditions were pretty brutal, but she never tired out,
never lost focus and finished her round with a par
into a 30 mile per hour
headwind. She’s a great
competitor who I know will
work hard to continue to
improve and make it back
next year.”
CLASS 4A STATE
at Smoky Hill Country Club
Team Scores
Winfield 395, Goodland 400, Hays
411, Spring Hill 424, Andale 431,
Topeka Hayden 432, Labette County
449, Kansas City Piper 450, Holcomb
451, Frontenac 463, Augusta 470,
Chanute 477.
Individual Medalists
1. Anna Pool, Coffeyville, 77; 2.
Katie Brungardt, Hays 82; 3. Miranda
Kern, Colby, 85; 4. Maggie Moody,
Frontenac, 87; 5. Taylor DeBoer,
Hays, 89; 6. Abby Berthoff, Winfield,
90; 7. Erika Ingold, Spring Hill, 90; 8.
Nicole Withrow, Wichita Collegiate, 91;
9. Reagon Lesser, Wichita Trinity
Academy, 92; 10 Abbe Funk, Chanute,
96; 11. Sadie Revell, Winfield, 96; 12.
Erica Gardener, Labette County, 96;
13. Sammy Walter, Anderson County,
97; 14. Logan Perryman, Goodland,
98; 15. Brianna Magee, Mulvane, 98;
16. Katie Hays, Goodland, 98; 17.
Camerin Defebaugh, Fort Scott, 98;
18. Renae White, Labette County, 100;
19. Haddie Morris, Andale, 101; 20.
Gracen Becker, Holcomb, 101.
TORONTO (AP) — Back
in the homer dome with
their rowdy fans, Troy
Tulowitzki, Josh Donaldson
and the Toronto Blue Jays
quickly got into the swing of
the
AL
Championship
Series.
Tulowitzki and Donaldson both connected in a sixrun third inning Monday
night, and the Blue Jays
roughed up Johnny Cueto
for an 11-8 victory over the
Royals that cut Kansas
City’s series lead to 2-1.
“I feel like we’ve played
better at home and I felt like
the entire night we had
great at-bats,” Donaldson
said. “Not just good at-bats,
great at-bats.”
Ryan Goins also homered
and had a two-run single,
one game after his misplayed pop fly set off Kansas
City’s winning rally Sunday.
The resilient Royals tried
to come back this time, too.
Kendrys Morales capped a
four-run surge with a tworun homer in the ninth
before
Roberto
Osuna
closed it out.
“We’re just going to keep
fighting,” Kansas City outfielder Alex Gordon said.
“We’ve got a lot of competitors on this team and that’s
what you see.”
Even with a big lead,
Tulowitzki lost his cool. He
was given a rare playoff
ejection for arguing balls
and strikes before the top of
the eighth.
Tulowitzki, who struck
out looking in the seventh,
was restrained by teammates as he argued with
plate
umpire
John
Hirschbeck when the Blue
Jays took the field. Toronto
manager John Gibbons and
bench coach DeMarlo Hale
also came out to break it
up.
Despite being outhit 1511 by the pesky Royals,
Toronto pounced on Kansas
City pitching in the first
ALCS game at Toronto since
1993. The Blue Jays scored
their most runs ever at
home in the postseason —
after mustering just three in
two games at Kansas City.
“You could not tell in the
clubhouse if we’re down 0-2
or up 2-0,” winning pitcher
said.
Stroman
Marcus
“What we have is extremely
special. The confidence that
everybody has with everybody is amazing.”
Seemingly not distracted
by the contentious federal
elections being held in
Canada on Monday, 49,751
fans serenaded Cueto with
a sing-song “Cueto-Cueto!”
chant from the game’s first
pitch and never quieted
down.
The Royals took a quick
lead when Alcides Escobar
opened the game with a
triple and scored on Ben
Zobrist’s grounder. But that
was the only advantage
Kanas City held in having
its nine-game ALCS winning streak snapped. The
string dated to the 1985
series against Toronto.
Blue Jays center fielder
Kevin Pillar quashed the
early rally with a fantastic,
catch
over-the-shoulder
that sent him crashing into
the wall.
After an easy first, Cueto
appeared flustered by the
crowd. Eleven of his
remaining
13
batters
reached and at one point in
the third inning he threw
his hands up in frustration
after gesturing for a new
cycle of signs from catcher
Salvador Perez.
Goins singled in two runs
in the second after Tulowitzki singled with one out
and Russell Martin was hit
by a pitch that knocked off
his left elbow guard. Goins
pulled into second on the
throw home and shouted
and pumped his arms.
“There’s no need to put
any extra pressure on yourself,” Goins said when
asked if he was looking for
redemption. “Just come out
and do what I’ve been doing
all season— whatever I can
do to help this team win is
what I’m going to do.”
David Price, the losing
pitcher in Game 2, led the
cheering from the top step
of the dugout.
When Goins scored on
Donaldson’s hit, he was
greeted first by the enthusiastic Stroman.
“He’s been carrying that
load around a little bit,”
Gibbons said of Goins. “But
he stepped up, really got us
on the board with that great
at-bat, picking up those two
runs, base hit to left and
then, of course, the home
run.”
Eagles shut down Manning, beat Giants Blue Jays unload
on Royals, 11-8
PHILADELPHIA (AP) —
Sam Bradford kept the New
York Giants in the game. His
defense wouldn’t let Eli
Manning do anything.
DeMarco Murray ran for
109 yards and a touchdown,
Nolan
Carroll
returned one of Manning’s
two interceptions for a score
and the Philadelphia Eagles
beat the Giants 27-7 Monday night.
The Eagles had three
takeaways, sacked Manning
three times and forced two
intentional
grounding
penalties.
“All the credit goes to
them,” Bradford said of
Philadelphia’s defense. “For
us to go where we want to
go, I’ve got to play much better.”
No kidding.
Bradford threw for 280
yards with a 32-yard TD
pass to Riley Cooper, but
had three interceptions. The
Giants got zero points off
the turnovers.
“We were stagnant,”
Giants coach Tom Coughlin
said. “They did more with
their opportunities than we
did.”
The Eagles (3-3) have
won two straight to move
from last place in the NFC
East into a tie for first with
the Giants (3-3). The teams
meet again in Week 17.
Neither team looked
sharp in front of a primetime audience. They combined for seven turnovers
and 21 penalties.
“That’s bad football,”
Coughlin said.
The Giants gave the
Eagles first downs on a
roughing-the-passer penalty and a running-into-thekicker penalty to keep both
of their TD drives going.
Wearing all-black uniforms for the third time in
franchise
history,
the
Eagles got off to another
slow start.
Manning completed his
first 10 passes, including a
13-yard TD pass to Odell
Beckham Jr. for a 7-0 lead.
But things went downhill
for Manning from there.
The Eagles took a 14-7
lead in the second quarter
when Carroll jumped in
front of a pass intended for
Dwayne Harris and ran it
back untouched for his first
career TD.
“Terrible read by me, bad
decision to make that
throw,” Manning said. “I
should have gone to my next
guys in my progression.”
After Nikita Whitlock ran
into punter Donnie Jones to
give Philadelphia a first
down at its 28, Murray took
over. He had two runs of 11
yards each and finished off
the drive with a 12-yard TD
run to give Philadelphia a
24-7 lead in the third quarter.
The Eagles were 1-3
before a 39-17 win over the
New Orleans Saints at home
last week. They’ll travel to
play unbeaten Carolina (50) next Sunday night.
The Giants had won three
in a row. They’ll host Dallas
(2-3) next week.
Here’s some things we
learned from the game:
MURRAY’S BACK: Murray had his best game since
joining the Eagles after a
record-breaking season in
Dallas. The All-Pro led the
NFL in rushing last year and
broke Emmitt Smith’s single-season club record, but
has struggled in Philadelphia. He entered the game
with 130 yards this season.
He has 192 of his 239 yards
in the last two games. “It
was good to get him going,”
Eagles coach Chip Kelly
said.
RUNNING UP-TEMPO:
The Giants came out playing Kelly’s style of football,
running
a
no-huddle
offense. They moved right
down the field and Manning
connected with Beckham
across the middle for a
score. But that was it.
THE NFC LEAST: The
ugly, sloppy performance by
both teams was fitting for a
division that doesn’t have a
team with a winning record.
The Eagles have already lost
at home to Dallas and at
Washington. “We have to be
able to own the NFC East if
we want to go into the playoffs,” Eagles safety Walter
Thurmond said.
MISTAKE-PRONE: Kelly
blamed a couple of Bradford’s picks on receivers
running the wrong routes.
Bradford said the team is
“lacking attention to detail.”
That’s not a good sign for an
offense six weeks into the
season.
DOMINANT HALF: The
Eagles held the Giants to 55
total yards in the second
half, including 27 yards
passing. “It was tough to
find completions out there,”
Manning said.
Colt’s fake field goal among dumbest plays
The Colts’ attempt to fool
the Patriots with a fake punt
Sunday night only made Indianapolis look foolish.
It might not have been the
dumbest call or execution of a
play in NFL history, but it certainly ranks down there in
the litany of failures.
And there are many to rival
this one, in which Indy, trailing by six points in the third
quarter, lined up nine players
to the right, with only the
snapper
(wideout
Griff
Whalen) and the quarterback
(safety Colt Anderson) on the
left.
New
England
wasn’t
tricked a bit, and the Colts’
plan was supposed to include
taking a delay of game.
Instead, Anderson took a premature snap and was at the
bottom of a tidal wave of
Patriots tacklers.
Game over, basically.
“The whole idea there was
on fourth-and-3 or less, shift
our alignment to where you
either catch them misaligned,
they try to sub some people
in, catch them with 12 men
on the field, and if you get a
certain look, you can make a
play,” coach Chuck Pagano
said. “Alignment-wise, we
weren’t lined up correctly,
and then there was a communication problem on the
snap, and I take responsibility for that.”
Who gets the blame on
some of the other classic Bozo
plays in NFL annals? Read
on:
ABNER HAYNES — The
star running back for the
AFL’s Dallas Texans in 1962
misunderstood coach Hank
Stram’s directions on the coin
flip for overtime. He won and
chose to kick off into a hefty
wind. Fortunately for Haynes,
the Texans (now the Kansas
City Chiefs) held off the Oilers
and won in double OT.
JIM MARSHALL — One of
the most durable players in
NFL history, the defensive
end is best known for going
the wrong way with a fumble.
The Vikings standout recovered a fumble by the 49ers’
Billy Kilmer and, disoriented,
returned it 66 yards to his
own end zone. Safety, San
Francisco.
GARO YEPREMIAN —
Perhaps the most infamous
play in a Super Bowl, Dolphins kicker Garo Yepremian
had his attempt blocked by
Washington in 1973. He
picked up the ball, made a
clumsy attempt to pass, and
it flew directly to the Redskins’ Mike Bass. He went 49
yards for a TD, but Miami
held on to close out its perfect
season.
JOE PISARCIK, JOHN
MCVAY, BOB GIBSON — The
“Miracle at the Meadowlands,” when Giants QB Joe
Pisarcik followed the orders of
coach John McVay and offensive coordinator Bob Gibson
to hand off to future Hall of
Fame fullback Larry Csonka
when kneeling would have
clinched a victory over
Philadelphia.
Pisarcik’s
attempt never got to Csonka,
hit the turf and Eagles DB
Herman Edwards picked up
the ball and ran into the end
zone for the winning points.
LEON LETT — Late in Dallas’ 1993 Super Bowl rout of
Buffalo, Cowboys DL Leon
Lett picked up a fumble and
headed down the right sideline undisturbed. As he
approached the goal line, he
began showboating, sticking
the ball out front. Bills receiver Don Beebe caught him and
knocked the ball out of Lett’s
hands for a touchback.
LEON LETT (again) —î
This time, Miami was trying a
field goal in the snow in Dallas on Thanksgiving Day —
seriously. The kick was
blocked and sat on the white
stuff untouched. Until Lett,
despite claiming he knew the
rules that it was a dead ball if
no one touched it, tried to
pounce on the pigskin. It slid
away, the Dolphins recovered
and kicked the winning field
goal. Lett called it “brain
freeze.”
DAN ORLOVSKY — In the
midst of the NFL’s only 0-16
season, the Lions QB obliviously stepped out of the back
of the end zone while scrambling, awarding the Vikings a
safety.
MARK SANCHEZ — New
England could give thanks to
Jets QB Mark Sanchez on
Thanksgiving night when his
running back missed a handoff, so Sanchez took off and
smacked into the butt of
guard Brandon Moore. Out
came the ball, scooped up by
Patriots DB Steve Gregory,
who trotted into the end zone
for a touchdown.
8 Blade-Empire, Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Obituaries
REV. THERON REX HUGHES II, SSC
The Rev. Dr. Theron Rex
Hughes II, SSC, of Quincy,
Ill., formerly of Concordia,
Kan., died Friday, Oct. 9,
2015, in the Illinois Veterans Home, Quincy, Ill.
He was born Feb. 2,
1924, in Casper, Wyo., the
son of Theron Rex Hughes,
Sr., and DeEtte Marie
Pierce. He married Anne Adams Agee on Aug. 30, 1954,
in St. John’s Quincy. She
survives.
He served in the United
States Army Air Force during World War II, where he
was deployed to the Pacific
Theatre during the liberation of the Philippines.
Fr. Hughes was ordained
on Nov. 3, 1953, in St.
John’s Episcopal Church in
Quincy. He served as the assistant rector for St. John’s
Quincy, Ill. He served as the
rector of St. Stephens and
St. Andrews, both in Peoria,
Ill. While at St. Andrews, he
helped build the parish from
a small congregation to a
thriving and vibrant church.
He then served as the rector of St. Timothy in Griffith,
Ind., St. Andrews in Kenosha, Wis., and Epiphany
Episcopal Church in Concordia, Kan. After his retirement, Fr. Hughes returned
to Quincy and attended
St. John’s Parish, where
he continued to assist and
serve during his retirement.
He was a member of
Phi Sigma Kappa, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, and was
awarded an Honorary Doctor of Divinity in 1992. He
was Vicar Provincial of the
Society of the Holy Cross
from 1982-1988. He was
Warden (President) of the
Nashotah House Seminary
Alumni Association from
1971-1974. He also served
as the Big Ten Conference
Chaplain for the V.F.W.
from 1992-1995.
At the age of 12, he
was singing in the choir at
St. Mary’s in Kansas City,
Mo., when he knew he was
called to the priesthood.
Fr. Hughes devoted his life
to the church and inspired
many to have a closer relationship with God, in the
parishes where he served.
He loved his family and
greatly enjoyed spending
time with his daughters and
his grandchildren.
Survivors in addition
to his wife, Anne, include
four daughters, Jane (John)
Derhake,
Sarah
(Mark)
Cook, Mary Hughes and
Anne (Troy) Rupert, all of
Quincy; eight grandchildren, Amy (Justin) Homer
of Chicago, Ill., Stephanie
(Mark) Cress of Coatsburg,
Ill., Ashley (Nate) Miller and
Emily (Ryan) Miller, both of
Quincy, Andrew and Megan
Blackwood, both of Concordia, Kan., and Brady and
Seth Rupert, both of Quincy;
three great-grandchildren,
Gavin and Nolan Miller, and
Mackenzie Cress.
Service was Oct. 15 at St.
John’s Anglican Parish with
the Very Rev. Lewis Payne,
SSC, Rev. Patrick Smith and
Rev. Waylon Lawrence officiating.
Burial was in AdamsDustin Cemetery, Atlas, Ill.
Memorials may be made to
Nashotah House Theological
Seminary or St. John’s Parish (7th and Hampshire)
Website:
www.hansenspear.com
Hansen-Spear Funeral
directors were in charge of
arrangements.
Police: Man meant Weather
to drive car into lake
PHOENIX (AP) – The
deaths of two adults and
three young children who
were in an SUV that plunged
into an Arizona lake are being investigated as a murdersuicide as police said Monday
that the father of the youngsters deliberately drove the
vehicle into the water.
Police spokesman Lt. Mike
Pooley said 27-year-old Glenn
Edward Baxter purposefully
drove himself, his estranged
wife and their children into
Tempe Town Lake just after
midnight Sunday.
A grainy surveillance video
from a nearby condominium
complex showed the car being driven into the lake, Pooley said a news conference
Monday night.
He said the video shows
Baxter getting out of the
SUV, walking down to the
lake, then getting back in
the driver’s seat and driving
the vehicle “at a high rate of
speed” before it hits a curb
and flips over into the water.
“This was not an accident.
Mr. Baxter took deliberate
action,” Pooley said. “It’s absolutely horrific what happened to those little kids and
their mother.”
Witnesses and officers
jumped into the lake in a bid
to rescue Baxter, 25-yearold Danica Baxter, and their
three children, 1-year-old
Zariyah, 2-year-old Nazyiah
and 3-year-old Reighn.
The
children’s
greatgrandfather had expressed
his doubts earlier that the
deaths were accidental, saying the children’s mother
had declined her estranged
husband’s attempts at reconciliation because he hadn’t
addressed his anger management problems.
George Britt said it doesn’t
make sense that the early-
to-bed-early-to-rise mother
would take her children out
for a ride just after midnight.
“She is never up at that time
of the night,” Britt said. “Never, never.”
Pooley said investigators
believe Baxter and his wife
met late Saturday night to
talk about their children and
an argument ensued.
He said police found a
handgun in the SUV, but it’s
unclear if Danica Baxter was
being held against her will at
the time of the incident.
Glenn Baxter’s father and
other family members gathered Monday morning at a
relative’s home, but declined
interview requests.
The couple married in
April 2012, and relatives
said they separated several
months ago.
Tamika Franklin, an aunt
of Danica Baxter, described
her as an excellent mother
who adored her children.
“Everything she did was for
her kids. Her kids were her
life. She would never do anything to hurt her kids,” she
said as she began to cry.
“I can’t explain it. It’s hard
burying anybody but to bury
a whole family at once I just
don’t understand it,” she
said, shaking her and tearing
up.
The parents and the two
youngest
children
were
pulled from the vehicle and
brought to a hospital, where
they later died. Investigators
then determined the couple’s
oldest child was missing,
and divers later retrieved the
child’s body from the still
submerged vehicle.
Broken glass and vehicle
plastic could be seen Monday near the lake’s shore.
Two bouquets of flowers and
a stuffed animal also were
placed nearby.
Contractor convicted Courthouse
in building collapse
District Court
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A
cut-rate demolition contractor was found guilty of manslaughter Monday, more
than two years after a towering wall fell on a busy thrift
store, killing six people.
A jury convicted Griffin
Campbell of six counts of
involuntary manslaughter,
rejecting the third-degree
murder charges sought by
prosecutors who said Campbell ignored warnings of an
imminent collapse.
Campbell described himself as a scapegoat for the
architect overseeing the demolition of a seedy downtown
block, and in his testimony
last week called the collapse
“an accident.”
However,
prosecutors
said he controlled the worksite and lied about how the
demolition was being done.
Their experts said he caused
the unsupported wall to fall
on the adjacent thrift store by
cutting corners on the job in
June 2013.
One survivor lost both
legs after spending 13 hours
trapped in the rubble. A dozen other people were injured.
Subcontractor Sean Benschop testified that he was
using heavy equipment nearby when the wall crashed
onto the Salvation Army
store, instead of doing the
delicate job by hand.
“When I saw the building like that, I should have
walked away,” Benschop
testified, explaining why he
pleaded guilty in the case. “I
had my family to feed and I
had bills to pay.”
He pleaded guilty to six
counts of involuntary manslaughter, and faces a maximum 10 to 20 years in prison.
Campbell turned down the
chance to forge a similar plea.
He could face a much stiffer
sentence if the manslaughter
counts are run consecutively.
Campbell was also convicted of aggravated assault
and risking a catastrophe.
His lawyer tried to shift the
blame to building owner
Richard Basciano, project
architect Plato Marinakos
and others. Basciano, once
dubbed the Porn King of
Times Square, wanted the
wall brought down quickly so
he could redevelop the strip
of low-end stores.
Campbell had gutted the
support beams and joists to
sell them for salvage, leaving
the four-story walls unstable,
prosecutors said.
Both Campbell and Benschop had prior prison records, but were trying to
support families through
contracting and demolition
work. Campbell’s $112,000
bid for the work was a fraction of the other bids.
The victims included two
young artist friends dropping off donations, a woman
buying clothes to send to her
native Sierra Leone and a
woman working her first day
at the store.
The collapse led city officials to revamp the requirements needed to get a demolition permit. A city inspector
who had checked on the project last spring killed himself
days after the collapse.
The victims’ families have
filed lawsuits against Basciano, the Salvation Army,
Campbell and others. City
treasurer Nancy Winkler and
her husband, Jay Bryan, who
lost their 24-year-old daughter Anne Bryan and attended
the three-week trial, said in a
statement Monday that they
will now focus on “the fault
of everyone involved, not just
one individual.”
Campbell’s lawyer agreed.
“The civil litigation will ...
tell the complete and true
story of all the participants
and all the players,” lawyer
William Hobson said Monday, “layers ... far above Griffin Campbell and Sean Benschop.”
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CRIMINAL
Jose Rangel-Gaspar appeared Oct. 14 and was convicted of 0perating a Motor
Vehicle Under the Influence
of an Intoxicant, Second Offense. He was sentenced
to 12 months in the Cloud
County Jail and ordered
to pay costs of the action,
$108, a fine of $1,000, a
Community Corrections fee
of $250 (DUI fine), an alcohol/drug testing fee of
$40, a probation supervision fee of $60 and all other
assessed fees. Defendant’s
sentence was suspended
with the exception of a fiveday term with Defendant
being placed on supervised
probation with Court Services for 12 months following specific terms and conditions.
Jordan E. Kimbrough
appeared Oct. 15 and was
found Guilty and convicted
for Driving While License
Suspended. He was sentenced to six months in
the Cloud County Jail and
ordered to pay costs of the
action, $108, and a fine of
$100 by Jan. 7, 2016. His
sentence was suspended
with Defendant being placed
on unsupervised probation
for six months following specific terms and conditions.
George Curtis Mitcheam,
Jr., appeared Oct. 14 and
was found Guilty and convicted of Driving While License Suspended, Fourth
Offense
and
speeding,
69/60, an infraction and
convicted. For driving while
license suspended, he was
sentenced to six months in
the Cloud County Jail and
ordered to pay costs of the
action, $200 by Dec. 2. For
the speeding 69/60 infraction he was ordered to pay
a fine of $45 by Dec. 2. Defendant’s sentence shall be
suspended with exception of
a five-day term on condition
that all fines and costs are
paid in full by Dec. 2.
Christopher R. Waechter
II appeared Oct. 14 and was
found Guilty and convicted
of Driving While License
Suspended, First Offense.
He was ordered to pay a fine
of $100 and costs of the action, $108.
Markets
Major U.S. stock indexes
shifted between small gains
and losses in afternoon trading Tuesday as investors considered the latest batch of
company earnings and deal
news. Weak earnings or outlooks from companies such
as IBM, Harley-Davidson and
Lockheed Martin weighed on
stocks. The market is coming off a three-day winning
streak.
KEEPING SCORE: The
Dow Jones industrial average slipped 13 points, or
0.1 percent, to 17,216 as of
1:07 p.m. Eastern time. The
Standard & Poor’s 500 index
dipped three points, or 0.2
percent, to 2,029. The Nasdaq
lost 25 points, or 0.5 percent,
to 4,879.
EARNINGS
CRUSH:
Roughly 57 percent of the
companies in the S&P 500 index report earnings over the
next two weeks. That works
out to about 117 companies
this week, including Verizon
Communications, eBay, Caterpillar and Alphabet.
LOCAL MARKETS -EAST
Wheat ...........................$4.24
Milo ......(per bushel) ....$3.16
Corn .............................$3.31
Soybeans .....................$8.26
AGMARK
LOADING FACILITY
LOCAL MARKETS - WEST
Wheat ..........................$4.24
Milo .....(per bushel) .....$3.16
JAMESTOWN MARKETS
Wheat ...........................$4.14
Milo ...(per bushel) ........$3.06
Soybeans .....................$8.16
Nusun .........................$13.75
Today’s weather artwork by
Caidence Buttman,
a 2nd grader in
Mrs. Moore’s class
County
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The increase for single,
benefited employees will be
$6.35, or a 1.3 percent increase, per paycheck, but
the employee will only pay
15 percent of that $6.35,
which is a $.95 increase per
paycheck.
The county pays 85 percent of health coverage for
full-time employees, including dental and vision (excluding glasses and contacts), and employees pay
the other 15%.
As the county received
a favorable renewal last
year and another favorable renewal this year, they
do have a reserve of cash,
which, according to Thoman, was placed in the medical expense fund.
The
commissioners
asked Thoman and Bond if
the extra money from the
fund could be used to keep
employee's insurance rates
flat, instead of raising them
due to the 2016 increase,
although seemingly insignificant.
The commissioners and
Thoman also discussed using the extra money to possibly start a wellness program, which is the option
Thoman said she would opt
for. This program would incentivize county-benefited
employees to get out and get
moving.
Czapanskiy, Caspers and
Engle will continue to discuss what to do with the
extra money refunded from
Blue Cross Blue Shield in
2014. They did, however, renew their coverage with the
insurance company, and
signed the Grandfathered
Plan Attestation.
In
other
commission
news:
Senator Elaine Bowers
joined the commissioners
via phone Monday and invited them, and Thoman to
attend the grand opening
ceremony for the Russell
County Courthouse at 1:30
p.m.
The commissioners, due
to their 12:02 p.m. adjournment time, were not able to
attend the ceremony.
The
board
approved
$17,541.50 in accounts
payable.
Commissioners Czapanskiy, Caspers and Engle approved and signed the audit
agreement with Lindburg
Vogel Pierce Faris, which
will end December 31, 2015.
Prosecutors join forces
to combat trafficking
ALBUQUERQUE,
N.M.
(AP) – Top prosecutors from
several U.S. states are looking to bolster relationships
with their counterparts in
Mexico to tackle a rise in human trafficking and money
laundering crimes.
Drug running and weapons smuggling continue to
be dangers along the border, but New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas
said Monday that organized
crime is becoming more sophisticated and is seeing
higher profits from human
trafficking.
“Drugs, illegal weapons
and now human trafficking
are exploding worldwide,”
he told The Associated
Press in a telephone interview. “Clearly, the message
is it’s in our backyard and
we want to partner with as
many law enforcement agencies and prosecution offices
as we can, even internationally.”
Balderas joined attorneys
general from Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Rhode Island
and Kansas for a special
gathering in Mexico City last
week. A grant from the U.S.
State Department funded
the visit.
The focus is on improving the sharing of information among law enforcement
agencies on both sides of the
border as well as more training for prosecutors to handle
trafficking cases and those
involving money laundering.
In January, New Mexico
will be hosting a group of
Mexican prosecutors for a
training session on whitecollar crimes.
“We think Mexico is a
critically important partner
in overcoming some of these
organized
criminal
networks,” Balderas said.
According to the State
Department’s most recent
report on global trafficking
trends, the number of victims identified by law enforcement and other government agencies throughout
the Western hemisphere has
increased over the last two
years to more than 8,400.
But officials say that only
represents an estimate.
Experts say the very nature of trafficking activities
makes it difficult to gather
accurate statistics.
In the United States, the
National Human Trafficking
Resource Center’s hotline
receives about 110 calls per
day. In the first six months
of the year alone, the center
received calls directly from
about 2,800 trafficking survivors, putting it on track to
surpass the number of cases
it learned about in 2014.
Bradley Myles, CEO of
Polaris, which operates the
nonprofit resource center,
said the problem appears to
be growing given anecdotal
evidence and research that
has examined the transition of gangs and organized
crime toward trafficking activities.
“We feel like we’re only
working the tip of the iceberg,” he said.
Even though many states
have passed anti-trafficking
laws in recent years, Balderas said it’s a threat in every state.