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Barleen
Family
Returns To
Waterville
John Currie told the Knoxville
Business News last December that
the best advice he had received was:
“Never accept a job in a community
where he couldn’t picture him self
living happily for the rest of his
career.”
Manhattan does make a beautiful
picture and Currie must be able to
see himself in it. Sports Columnist
Mark Janssen has learned that Currie
will be named the next Athletic
Director at Kansas State University.
Currie is the number two man in
the University of Tennessee where he
has been accountable for the generation of $57.5 million in annual revenues.
Currie earned a history degree fro
Wake Forest University in WinstonSalem, N.C. in 1993. He also earned
a master’s degree in sport management.
He interned at Wake Forest and
that led to a full-time position. In
2000 he was named UT’s assistant
athletic director for development.
Last year he was named to the number two post by University of
Tennessee Athletic Director Mike
Hamilton.
As of press time Kansas State has
not given a time for the announcement.
Cheney’s Model Republican:
More Limbaugh, Less Powell
The Barleen family will return to this beautifully restored opera house.
Pelosi: House Taking Up
Health Care Before Recess
Tax - Tax - Tax
“Senators also are
considering limiting
— but not eliminating — the tax-free
status of employerprovided health
benefits.”
Americans is the cornerstone of his
promise to enact a larger overhaul of
the health care system. Independent
experts put the costs at about $1.5
trillion over 10 years.
But turning that vision into reality
remains the biggest challenge for the
president and his backers, because
hard cash — not just ideas — is
required to cover upfront costs of
expanding coverage.
The final financing package is
likely to include a mix of tax increases and spending cuts in federal health
programs. Among the possibilities
are tax increases on alcoholic beverages, tobacco products and sugary
soft drinks, and restrictions on other
health care-related tax breaks, such
as flexible spending accounts.
Senators also are considering limiting — but not eliminating — the
tax-free status of employer-provided
health benefits.
Employer-provided health insurance technically is considered part of
workers’ compensation, but unlike
wages, it is not taxed. The forgone
revenue to the federal government
amounts to about $250 billion a year.
So even if they’re lucky enough to
avoid going to the doctor or hospital,
and never use their job-based health
insurance, some Americans may find
themselves paying taxes on at least
part of its value.
Some taxes don’t seem to be on
the table, such as a federal sales levy
to pay for health care or a new payroll tax.
On the question of taxing health
benefits, Senate Finance Committee
Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont.,
who chaired a round table of senators
on Tuesday, is staking out a position
that could put him at odds with
Obama.
The president adamantly opposed
such taxes during the campaign,
arguing they would undermine jobbased coverage. Obama’s aides now
say he’s open to suggestions from
Congress, even if he criticized
Republican presidential rival John
McCain for proposing a sweeping
version of the same basic idea.
Baucus said he wants to modify
the tax break, not abolish it.
‘’We are not going to repeal it,’‘ he
said.
Baucus suggested that the benefit
could be limited by taxing health
insurance provided to high-income
individuals, although he did not
specify at what income levels. He
also said that plans offering rich benefits — for example, no co-payments
or deductibles — might be taxed
once their value exceeded a yet-tobe-determined threshold.
Many experts say Congress won’t
be able to come up with the kind of
money needed to provide coverage
for all unless limitations on the
health care tax break are part of the
mix.
Marr Named District Chairman
Charles (Chuck) Marr, a member
of the local Manhattan chapter of the
international organization known as
the Barbershop Harmony Society,
has been named the Central States
District Chairman of the group’s
Chapter Support and Leadership
Training Program, according to Don
Blank, Central States District
President from McCook, NE. Blank
announced the appointment today.
The Central States District is made
up of six states: South Dakota,
Nebraska,
Kansas,
Arkansas,
Missouri and Iowa. According to Dr.
Blank, Chuck Marr, who has leader-
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Kansas State To Announce
John Currie As Athletic Director
The Barleen family is returning to
Waterville. At town they called
home may years ago.
The Barleen's Arizona Opry,
Variety Entertainment at its Best,
will perform on the stage of
Waterville's historic, 1903, opera
house. Saturday, May 30th, 2009
will be a dinner theater performance
at 6:00 p.m. for $25.
On Sunday, May 31st, there will
be 2 performances at 2:00 p.m. and
7:00 p.m. for $20. For tickets, please
call 785-363-2515.
This same weekend the
Waterville Preservation Society will
hold a Grand Opening of the historic, 1905 Weaver Hotel on May
23, 2009. Please join the Waterville
community for a champagne and
ribbon cutting ceremony at High
Noon on the veranda of the hotel.
The Weaver will host 10 lodging
rooms, 2 party rooms and a 4 floor
elevator. In addition, the hotel houses a gift shop and tourism center.
The entire facility will be handicapped accessible. For more information, please log on to our website:
weaverhotel.com and/or call 785363-2515
WASHINGTON (AP) — House
Speaker
Nancy
Pelosi
said
Wednesday that her chamber would
have a sweeping health care bill on
the floor by the end of July, an
announcement that President Barack
Obama hailed.
‘’That’s the kind of urgency and
determination that we need to
achieve what I believe will be historic legislation,’‘ the president said
at the White House, standing on the
south driveway with Pelosi and
Democratic leaders of the relevant
House committees.
‘’Our health care system is broken,’‘ Obama said. ‘’We are not
going to rest until we’ve delivered
the kind of health care reform that’s
going to bring down costs for families, improve quality, affordability,
accessibility for all Americans.’‘
Pelosi, D-Calif., and other House
Democrats had met with Obama and
Vice President Joe Biden in the Oval
Office just before going outside to
make their announcement. No
Republicans were present, and neither were any senators.
‘’We promised him that we will
have this important legislation on the
floor of the House before the August
break,’‘ Pelosi announced. ‘’Our
goal is to have a healthier America.’‘
Neither the speaker nor the president offered details of how the legislation will look, the subject of ongoing debate on Capitol Hill. The
White House is remaining mostly
quiet as proposals emerge for discussion among lawmakers, preferring to
let Congress come up with a plan and
engage more on the specifics later
on.
Obama’s plan to provide coverage
to some 50 million uninsured
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ship and “people” skills which will
serve him well in this new position,
will begin immediately formulating
plans for the next Leadership
Academy to be held in St.Joseph,
Missouri on February 5 and 6, 2010.
The Leadership Academy is a twoday event full of skill training for
chapter officers and other chapter
leaders. It is specifically designed to
provide a learning experience “ with
lots of fun and singing” thrown in.
Marr will also be responsible for
organizing and facilitating the
Central States CHAPTER SUPPORT PROGRAM which is
designed to provide the 58 separate
chapters located in cities and towns
throughout the six states in the district with programs for individual
chapter planning and leadership support.
The Manhattan chapter and the
Central States District are local and
regional organizations within the
framework of the Barbershop
Harmony Society, headquartered in
Nashville, TN. The Barbershop
Harmony Society has over 800 chapters with 26,000 members worldwide.
By JANIE LORBER
WASHINGTON - AP - Former
Vice President Dick Cheney said on
Sunday that he preferred Rush
Limbaugh’s brand of conservatism to
former Secretary of State Colin L.
Powell’s, saying Mr. Powell had
abandoned the Republican Party
when he endorsed Barack Obama for
president last year.
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“Well, if I had to choose in terms
of being a Republican, I’d go with
Rush Limbaugh, I think,” Mr.
Cheney said in an interview on “Face
the Nation” on CBS. “I think my take
on it was Colin had already left the
party. I didn’t know he was still a
Republican.”
Mr. Cheney said he “assumed” Mr.
Powell’s support of Mr. Obama over
Senator John McCain was “an indication of his loyalty and his interest.”
The endorsement, in a carefully
timed and deliberate statement after
Mr. McCain chose Gov. Sarah Palin
of Alaska as his running mate in a
move to fire up the party’s conservative base, helped solidify Mr.
Obama’s campaign.
Mr. Powell, a retired chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, identified
himself as a Republican only after
retiring from the military. Last week,
Mr. Powell said the Republican Party
was in “deep trouble” and needed to
find a way back to the middle of the
political spectrum and away from
polarizing leaders like Mr. Limbaugh
and Ms. Palin.
His view, if not a new one, came
after Senator Arlen Specter of
Pennsylvania switched to the
Democratic
Party
and
as
Republicans debated where the heart
of the party lay. In response, Mr.
Limbaugh suggested that the moderate Mr. Powell should leave the
party.
“What Colin Powell needs to do is
close the loop and become a
Democrat, instead of claiming to be a
Republican interested in reforming
the Republican Party,” Mr.
Limbaugh said on his talk show.
Mr. Cheney has been a particularly
fierce critic of the Obama administration and a defiant defender against
critics of the Bush administration,
including President Obama. While
his remarks have been striking, they
are not unusually outspoken by comparison, for example, to former Vice
President Al Gore’s condemnations
of the Bush administration when it
held office.
Mr. Cheney said he did not want to
drive moderates from the party, but
did not want the party to move left.
“I think there is room for moderates in the Republican Party,” he
said. “I think partly it’s a semantic
problem. I don’t think the party
ought to move dramatically to the
left, for example, in order to try to
redefine its base. We are what we
are.”
Area Cafe To Get Spruced
Up As Part Of Pilot Project
Whiting Cafe will get a boost on
June 26-27 as the pilot project for the
Kansas Sampler Foundation’s “We
Kan” Bank initiative.
Designed to match rural community needs with those who can help is
the essence of the “We Kan” Bank.
Foundation director Marci Penner
said, “The plan is to create accounts
of community need and match them
with accounts opened by individuals
who want to offer services, materials, labor, or funding.”
Rosa Thomas will celebrate the
25th year of her cafe in August.
Penner said, “Anyone that can keep a
cafe open for 25 years in a town of
200 with space for 25 people
deserves recognition and support.
Rosa didn’t ask for this kind of help.
We came to her and have convinced
her that it’s OK to be on the receiving end this time.”
Kansas Sampler Foundation board
member Gene Merry, Burlington, is
in charge of the project. He has been
to Whiting several times to assess the
needs of the cafe and to plan materials and type of help needed. “We’ll
replace windows, apply paint inside
and out, fix some floor and ceiling
tiles, scrub walls, and take care of
some other odds and ends. Jim
Stukey of Burlington has designed a
mural that will be painted on an outside wall that will say “Food so great
you’ll
scrape
your
plate.”
The public is invited to participate
by coming to help or by making a
tax-deductible donation.
They
should contact the Kansas Sampler
Foundation at 620.585.2374 or
[email protected]. Forty
workers and donations of $5,000 are
being sought.
With help from several community
members, Ms. Thomas plans to feed
the workers out of the community
center. The cafe will be closed those
two days.
The new Northeast Kansas
Tourism Connections group will take
a lead role in the project and president Bob Topping will be in charge
of the work inside the building.
The Jackson County Development
Corporation has granted $1,000
towards the goal. More than $1,800
has already been raised.
Penner said, “The model we are
trying to establish is that if lots of
people make a small donation or
offer several hours of work then
nobody has to do too much. But, in
the end lots of people can feel like
they contributed to helping keep a
small town viable. Though this will
directly impact the cafe, this is also
intended to be a boost for the town of
Whiting.”
White House Challenges EPA Findings
WASHINGTON (AP) — An
Environmental Protection Agency proposal that could lead to regulating the
gases blamed for global warming will
prove costly for factories, small businesses and other institutions, according
to a White House document.
The nine-page memo, released
Tuesday by Republican senators, is a
compilation of opinions made by numerous federal agencies prior to the EPA
determining in April that greenhouse
gases pose dangers to public health and
welfare.
That finding set in motion the regulation of six heat-trapping gases from cars
and trucks, factories and other sources
under the Clean Air Act for the first time.
The document, which is labeled
‘’Deliberative-Attorney
Client
Privilege,’‘ says that if the EPA proceeds
with the regulation of heat-trapping
gases, including carbon dioxide, factories, small businesses and institutions
would be subject to costly regulation.
‘’Making the decision to regulate carbon dioxide ... for the first time is likely
to have serious economic consequences
for regulated entities throughout the U.S.
economy, including small businesses and
small communities,’‘ the document
reads.
Republicans and business groups
immediately used the document to bolster their arguments that controlling
greenhouse gases would harm the economy.
They also highlighted parts of the document that find fault with how the EPA
arrived at its conclusion that greenhouse
gases endanger human health and welfare, since the gases by themselves do
not pose any harm.
The memo says the EPA could have
been ‘’more balanced’‘ in its analysis by
also highlighting regions of the country
that would benefit from global warming,
such as Alaska, which would have
warmer winters.
‘’It really appears to me that the decision was based more on political calculation than on scientific ones,’‘ said Sen.
John Barrasso, R-Wyo., who called the
document ‘’a smoking gun’‘ during a
hearing Tuesday on the Obama administration’s proposed budget for EPA.
‘’The counsel in this administration
repeatedly questions the lack of scientific support that you have for this proposed
finding,’‘ he said.
EPA administrator Lisa Jackson
responded by saying that the finding by
the EPA in April was required by law,
stemming from a 2007 Supreme Court
decision that said the EPA could classify
greenhouse gases as pollutants. Jackson
also said the agency’s determination was
preliminary and would not necessarily
result in regulation.
The administration has said it prefers a
new law that would limit greenhouse
gases and put a price on climate-altering
pollution.
‘’I have said over and over, as has the
president, that we do understand that
there are costs to the economy of
addressing global warming emissions,
and that the best way to address them is
through a gradual move to a marketbased program like cap and trade,’‘
Jackson said.
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MANHATTAN FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2009
Obituaries
Elnora Young
ELNORA HUYCK YOUNG
Elnora Huyck Young, born Elnora
Jane Thomas on October 8, 1918, in
Superior, Nebraska, died May 5,
2009, at Mercy Regional Health
Center in Manhattan, Kansas, of pulmonary fibrosis complications.
Among her life roles, Elnora was a
daughter, friend, wife, mother, college teacher, college administrator,
and church leader.
Soon after graduating from Kansas
State College in 1940, Elnora married J. Kenneth Huyck, a minister
who served churches in Rhode
Island,
Wisconsin,
Kansas
(Manhattan),
Massachusetts,
Minnesota, and Iowa. Having completed a PhD in psychology at the
University of Minnesota, Elnora
Bill Trimmell
Wamego- William “Bill” Glenn
Trimmell, 90, of Wamego, Kansas,
passed away Thursday, May 7, 2009
at Stormont-Vail Health Center of
Topeka.
Bill was born February 6, 1919 in
Altoona, Kansas, the son of Ernest L
and Maggie (Steenhoek) Trimmell.
At an early age, he moved to Elk
County, near Longton, Kansas.
There, he attended a rural grade
school, Hartford, and Longton High
School. His family moved to Wilson
County, near Coyville during his senior year, and he graduated from
Coyville High School. He then
attended and graduated from
Pittsburg State, receiving his
Bachelors and Masters Degree in
School Administration in 1950.
Michael Schmitt
Michael S. Schmitt, age 28, of
Manhattan, died May 7, 2009, at
Mercy Regional Health Center as the
result of a sudden illness.
He was born October 9, 1980 in
Manhattan, the son of Randall K. and
Mary Jo (Helget) Schmitt.
Mike graduated from Manhattan
High School in 1999 and attended
Manhattan Area Vo-Tech in building
trades.
He
was
the
Assistant
taught at Iowa State and Kansas
State, retiring in 1983 from the position of Associate Dean of KSU’s
College of Human Ecology.
After her retirement, Elnora served
terms as interim president of Bacone
College in Muskogee, Oklahoma,
and as interim dean of Central
Baptist Seminary in Kansas City,
Missouri. For a number of years she
served as a director of the Ministers
and Missionaries Benefit Board of
American Baptist Churches.
Elnora’s roots in Manhattan were
deep. The great aunt with whom she
lived as a K-State undergraduate was
born on the way to Kansas in a covered wagon. Elnora knew her
beloved physician, Diana Brightbill,
since the doctor-to-be was two years
old and Elnora was teaching with her
father at K-State.
Happily remarried twice, five
years after Kenneth’s death in 1987
she married Alvin Porteous, a retired
minister and seminary professor, and
two years after Al’s death in 1999
she married Paul M. Young, a retired
professor and university administrator, with whom she lived at
Meadowlark Hills in Manhattan until
her death.
Elnora was preceded in death by
her first husband and father of her
children, J. Kenneth Huyck; by her
second husband, Alvin Porteous; and
by her son Warren A. Huyck. She is
survived by her husband, Paul M.
Young; by her son J. Randall Huyck,
his former wife Marion E. Laetz, his
partner Carol S. Lauhon, and his
children, J. Matthew Huyck, David
W. Huyck, and Edward (“Teddy”)
Thomas Huyck; by Warren’s former
wife Carol Fencl, his widow Andy
Huyck, and Warren’s children,
Cynthia Villacis and Janell Huyck;
by her daughter Susan E. Huyck, her
former husband John Dunn, and her
children, Laila Crivea and Sean
Dunn; and by her great-grandchildren Garrett Crivea and Kailyn
Crivea (by Laila), Victor Villacis and
Daisy Villacis (by Carol), J. Gabriel
Huyck (by Matt), and Susanna
Elnora Huyck (by David).
A memorial service with reception
to following was held at the First
Congregational Church, 700 Poyntz
Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas, at
10:30am on Tuesday, May 12, 2009.
Online condolences may be left for
the family through the funeral home
website
at
www.ymlfuneralhome.com.
In honor of Elnora’s love of
Bill taught school in Wilson
County and was Superintendent at
Coyville for several years before
moving to Sedgwick, Kansas where
he was Superintendent from 1950 to
1963. He was also the Principal and
Superintendent in Anthony, Kansas
from 1963 to 1967. He moved to
Wamego and was the Wamego High
School Principal from 1967 until
1974. In 1974, retired from the
school administration and joined the
Burgess Real Estate firm in Wamego,
where he worked until retiring in
1984. He and his family also managed rental houses for many years in
addition to managing their Wilson
County farm. He was a long time
member of the First United
Methodist Church of Wamego,
where he volunteered for several
offices, and served on the Wamego
Public Library board for several
years.
Bill was an active participant in
the Senior Olympics, and the Kansas
Sunflower State Games. He and
Ellen traveled extensively for him to
participate in the meets. In 1995, he
qualified to compete in the national
meets in Texas and Louisiana, placing second and third in the shot-put.
He married Ellen Ridlon,
September 10, 1949 in Girard,
Kansas. She survives of the home.
Bill is also survived by two sons,
Roger Trimmell and his wife Vikki,
of McPherson, Kansas, and Kent
Trimmell and his wife Shannon, of
Salina, Kansas; eight grandchildren,
Emily, Allison, Joshua, Kate, Elle,
Lauren, Luke, and Cole. He was preceded in death by his two brothers,
John and Sidney, and his sister,
Anna.
Funeral services were
held
Monday, May11 at 10:00 a.m., at the
First United Methodist Church of
Wamego. Burial will be in the
Wamego City Cemetery.
Mr.
Trimmell will lie in-state at the
Stewart Funeral Home of Wamego
beginning at 1:00 p.m. Sunday,
where the family will greet friends
during a visitation from 7:00 until
8:30 p.m. Memorial contributions
are suggested to the Wamego First
United Methodist Church Building
Fund and may be left in care of the
Stewart Funeral Home of Wamego,
P.O. Box 48, Wamego, KS 66547.
Online condolences may be left for
the family at www.stewartfuneralhomes.com
Superintendent for MW Builders of
Texas currently working at Fort
Riley.
Mike was baptized at Seven
Dolors Catholic Church. He was a
member of Duck’s Unlimited. He
was active with Boys Scouts as a
child and FFA while in high school.
He enjoyed playing softball.
Survivors include his parents,
Randy and Jo of Manhattan; two sisters: Tricia Lagabed and her husband
Charles of Ogden, and Stacy Schmitt
of the home; grandparents: Virgil
Schmitt and his wife Hulda of
Anthon, Iowa, and Leo and Joan
Helget of Flush; and his niece,
Kaitlyn Lagabed.
Mike was preceded in death by his
grandmother, Naomi Schmitt.
Mass of the Christian Burial was
held at 10:30 A.M. Tuesday at St.
Joseph’s Catholic Church at Flush.
Interment followed in St. Joseph’s
Cemetery at Flush.
The family will receive friends
from 7:00 until 9:00 P.M. Monday at
the
Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen
Funeral Home.
Online condolences may be left for
the family through the funeral home
website
at
www.ymlfuneralhome.com.
Memorial contributions may be
made
to
American
Heart
Association. Contributions may be
left in care of the Yorgensen-MeloanLondeen Funeral Home, 1616
Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, KS
66502.
music, memorial gifts may be made
to the organ restoration fund of that
church. Contributions may be left in
care of the Yorgensen-MeloanLondeen Funeral Home, 1616
Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, KS
66502.
between public sector employees,
where 37 percent belong to unions,
compared to the private sector,
where just 7.5 percent of workers
carry union cards. He said federal,
state and municipal employees face
fewer barriers to organization, while
managers in the private sector use
‘’every trick in the book’‘ to undermine unions.
Biden said he and President
Barack Obama would not consider
their economic recovery efforts a
success unless growth creates
‘’good, sustainable, livable jobs in
the process.’‘ A key element, he said,
is rebuilding the American labor
movement, which has steadily
declined since the 1950s.
‘’We will not consider it a success
unless the middle class is growing,
taking a piece of that productivity,’‘
Biden said.
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concerning preservation and collection of local church history. The first
meeting will be Thursday May 21
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice
President Joe Biden, making a
renewed pitch for a major change in
labor law, told union leaders Tuesday
that the best way to rebuild the middle class is to help labor unions grow.
Biden said it’s time to ‘’level the
playing field’‘ for unions by passing
a bill that would make it easier for
workers to organize.
‘’You’ve got to climb up a hill
with so many roadblocks on the way
to organize that it’s just out of
whack,’‘ Biden told a conference of
the American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees,
which has about 1.6 million members.
‘’If a union is what you want, then
a union is what you should get,’‘
Biden said.
The Employee Free Choice Act —
also known as ‘’card check’‘ — is
organized labor’s top priority this
year, but business groups are
adamantly opposed. It would allow a
majority of workplace employees to
sign cards to join a union instead of
holding secret ballot elections.
Senate lawmakers are working on
a compromise version of the measure
that will satisfy some moderate
Democrats that have concerns about
the bill. Democratic leaders need to
garner 60 votes in the Senate to overcome an expected GOP attempt to
filibuster.
Biden pointed out the difference
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MANHATTAN FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2009
Now That’s Rural
Kansas Profile: Dan Hubert - H and H Hunting Supplies
By Ron Wilson, director of the
Huck Boyd National Institute for
Rural Development at Kansas State
University.
Beijing, China. It is the 2008
Olympics, and the field archery competition is underway. The archers are
using high quality, composite bows.
Would you believe that a person
could buy one of that exact type of
high quality bows at a hunting shop
right here in rural Kansas?
Dan and Paulia Hubert are coowners of H and H Hunting Supplies
in Sedan, Kansas. H and H carries
the very same type of bows used by
those Olympic archers. It represents
one of Dan´s lifelong interests,
which he has turned into his own
business.
Dan enjoyed hunting and fishing
as a kid. He grew up in a rural area
on a place between Berryton and
Overbrook. Berryton is unincorporated and Overbrook is a town of 974
people. Now, that´s rural.
Dan´s dad was a taxidermist and
had his own shop. Dan learned to
hunt and fish with his father, including bowhunting. Dan came to southeast Kansas to work in the oilfields
and then worked for Cessna. He met
and married Paulia, and they settled
in her hometown of Sedan.
Dan continued to hunt. In fact, he
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and Paulia competed in a lot of 3-D
archery competitions, where archers
shoot at lifesize models of elk or deer
or bear. Dan said, "I did pretty good,
won some first place trophies, but
my wife did really good - she stood
out in the women´s competition."
Dan ran an archery shop at home
out of his garage as a hobby.
Meanwhile, a sporting goods store
in Sedan came up for sale. With support from the Quad County
Enterprise Facilitation Group, a
multi-county organization which
supports entrepreneurs in southeast
Kansas, the Huberts bought the
store´s inventory and eventually the
building.
In July 2005, Dan and Paulia
opened H and H Hunting Supplies. It
is a full service hunting and fishing
supply store, and much more.
H and H offers guns, ammunition,
black powder, scopes, binoculars,
trail cameras, safes, knives, bows,
arrows, rods, reels, lures, licenses,
and all kinds of supplies for reloading, trapping, andfishing. Dan says,
"Our fishing gear has been real well
received by the customers." Perhaps
a third of the shop is dedicated to
archery.
Dan said, "I thought long and hard
about the type of bows which I
would sell. When I was in competitions I would watch all the equipment to see which was the best, and I
chose the Hoyt line. That company
has been building bows for 79 years.
Then when I saw the field archery
event in the Olympics, I recognized
several of the bows they were using.
You could buy one of those here."
Dan sells Easton arrows, which he
fletches (adds the feathers) by hand.
H and H sold 90 dozen of those
arrows in 2008. H and H also sells
Palmer Cap-Chur, which is a modified shotgun that shoots medicated
darts at sick livestock.
Then there are their special writing
pens made by hand from deer antlers.
Paulia selects the antlers, turns them
on a lathe by hand,
drills out a hole length-wise, adds
a brass cylinder and an ink refill and
creates a wonderful keepsake pen.
She also makes centerpieces and
candleholders. Many people are
using these as one-of-a-kind gifts,
perfect for an outdoorsman.
H and H Hunting Supplies offers a
product line that adjusts with the season. For example, fishing and turkey
hunting products are busy in the
spring. Dan says, "When deer season
winds down, then trapping comes on
strong."
H and H serves local needs as well
as many non-resident deer hunters.
Their products have gone as far
away as Dallas, Arkansas, and even
New York.
It is time to leave Beijing, China,
where Hoyt bows are being used by
the Olympic contestants in the field
archery competition. That same line
of bows is being offered by H and H
Hunting Supplies halfway around the
globe in Sedan, Kansas. We salute
Dan and Paulia Hubert, Quad
County Enterprise Facilitation
Group, and all those involved with H
and H Hunting Supplies for making a
difference with entrepreneurship,
which is helping rural Kansas stay on
target.
To The Editor
Dear Editor
We understand there were five in
the car, one young man and four
young ladies. It was a beautiful
evening and they had a lot to do.
During the mid-50’s there were
many outhouses left in Blue Rapids
and this was Halloween.
It was easy. After dark they started
a night of fun. One by one the old
outhouses fell to the side. Some fell
on their banks and some were pushed
over on the door. Over time the number of displaced outhouses has been
lost. It could have been five or a few
more than ten. All in all it was fun.
And then it happened…at the
north end of Main Street the fun-loving five hit an outhouse in very good
condition. One hard push and over it
went. And that is when they heard
the scream. It was total shock for the
gang of five. Someone was inside the
outhouse. And someone was mad,
very mad.
They raced to the car and made
their get-a-way. But not fast enough,
the Blue Rapids City Marshall’s
wife, crawling out of the outhouse,
saw the car. For the next two month
five very meek pranksters were
walking around Blue Rapids wondering if they were going to be taken
to court.
Town folks had a lot of fun telling
and retelling the story. If you are a
US To Borrow 46 Cents For
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government will have to borrow nearly
50 cents for every dollar it spends
this year, exploding the record federal deficit past $1.8 trillion under new
White House estimates. Budget
office figures released Monday
would add $89 billion to the 2009
red ink — increasing it to more than
four times last year’s all-time high as
the government hands out billions
more than expected for people who
have lost jobs and takes in less tax
revenue from people and companies
making less money.
The unprecedented deficit figures
flow from the deep recession, the
Wall Street bailout and the cost of
President Barack Obama’s economic
stimulus bill — as well as a seemingly embedded structural imbalance
between what the government
spends and what it takes in.
As the economy performs worse
than expected, the deficit for the
2010 budget year beginning in
October will worsen by $87 billion
to $1.3 trillion, the White House
says. The deterioration reflects lower
tax revenues and higher costs for
bank failures, unemployment benefits and food stamps.
Just a few days ago, Obama touted
an administration plan to cut $17 billion in wasteful or duplicative programs from the budget next year. The
erosion in the deficit announced
Monday is five times the size of
those savings.
For the current year, the government would borrow 46 cents for
every dollar it takes to run the government under the administration’s
plan. In 2010, it would borrow 35
cents for every dollar spent.
‘’The deficits ... are driven in large
part by the economic crisis inherited
by this administration,’‘ budget
director Peter Orszag wrote in a blog
entry on Monday.
The developments come as the
White House completes the official
release of its $3.6 trillion budget for
2010, adding detail to some of its tax
proposals and ideas for producing
health care savings. The White
House budget is a recommendation
to Congress that represents Obama’s
fiscal and policy vision for the next
decade.
Annual deficits would never dip
below $500 billion and would total
$7.1 trillion over 2010-2019. Even
those dismal figures rely on economic projections that are significantly
more optimistic — just a 1.2 percent
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rate for 2010 — than those of private
sector
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and
the
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As a percentage of the economy,
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since World War II. It would drop to
8.5 percent of GDP in 2010.
In the past three decades, deficits
in the range of 4 percent of GDP
have caused Congress and previous
administrations to launch efforts to
narrow the gap. The White House
predicts deficits equaling 2.9 percent
of the economy within four years.
Polling data suggest Americans are
increasingly worried about mounting
deficits and debt.
An AP-GfK poll last month gave
Obama relatively poor grades on the
deficit, with just 49 percent of
respondents approving of the president’s handling of the issue and 41
percent disapproving. By contrast,
Obama’s overall approval rating was
64 percent, with just 30 percent disapproving.
‘’Even using their February economic assumptions — which now
appear to be out of date and overly
optimistic — the administration
never puts us on a stable path,’‘ said
Marc Goldwein of the Committee for
a Responsible Federal Budget, a
bipartisan group that advocates
budget discipline. ‘’The president ...
understands the critical importance
of fiscal discipline. Now we need to
see some action.’‘
For the most part, Obama’s updated budget tracks the 134-page outline he submitted to lawmakers in
February. His budget remains a bold
but contentious document that proposes higher taxes for the wealthy, a
hotly contested effort to combat
global warming and the first steps
toward guaranteed health care for all.
Meanwhile, the congressional
budget plan approved last month
would not extend Obama’s signature
$400 tax credit for most workers —
$800 for couples — after it expires at
the end of next year.
Obama’s ‘’cap-and-trade’‘ proposal to curb heat-trapping greenhouse
gas emissions is also reeling from
opposition from Democrats from
coal-producing regions and states
with concentrations of heavy industry. Under cap-and-trade, the government would auction permits to emit
heat-trapping gases, with the costs
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pm you may find out who filled that
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MANHATTAN FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2009
Thoughts From The Prairie
From Tea Party to Town Hall
The bumpy ride above the beautiful
Flint Hills from Manhattan to Kansas
City is past and now from 37,000 feet
the landscape below is a pleasant green
after awakening from the throes of
winter. I dig out my laptop and begin to
write. The clouds are puffy, the sky
blue and the flight is smooth and
scheduled to arrive early. All is peaceful and serene and no one is wearing a
surgical mask. My seatmate, Melissa,
is a pleasant and efficacious Bed and
Breakfast entrepreneur with refreshing
thoughts about individuality that merits serious consideration. Melissa is on
her way home after living it up with
her grandchildren in Colorado.
Individuality knows no age limit, confirmed by the nostalgic and exciting
sojourn upon which I am now
engaged; a sojourn to North Carolina
to celebrate the conferring of a Masters
of Divinity degree upon my 76 year
old sister, Lorena, who is chaplain for
a retirement center with a population
of about 500 retirees.
The pomp and ceremony of Lorena’s
graduation was exceeded only by the
blessing of visiting with boyhood
neighbors not seen for six decades.
Lowell, one of eight children, brought
us up to date and reminded us that “we
were all poor as church mice” but didn’t know it because we were so rich in
other ways. As we reminisced, we concluded the big difference between then
and now is the diminished dedication
to individual responsibility. We were
part of a family, yet each one had specific chores. We were part of a community school, yet individually
responsible for our own learning. We
were part of a community church, yet
individually responsible for our relationship to God. We each had an
account at Brannon’s store, and we
paid our own bills. We were taught that
we have a great heritage, yet we are
individually responsible for our own
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commitment to and defense of our
Constitution.
It is our commitment to individual
responsibility and our love and respect
for our Constitution, and the individual
liberties it was designed to guarantee,
which is generating the ground swell
of protest to the rapid incursion of government that is eroding these liberties.
This incursion comes in the form of
reckless spending that puts us in slavery to exorbitant taxes and debt and
erodes our liberty to use our resources
as we choose. The incursion comes in
the form of government seizure of private enterprises and transferring ownership to third parties. It comes in the
form of invasion of privacy by compiling GPS data of each of our front
doors. It comes in the form of multiple
incursions into freedom of speech by
the Fairness Doctrine and Hate Crime
Bills that are aimed at silencing specific voices.
The road out of this governmental
morass requires each of us to take
responsibility for our own welfare and
turn from the indifference that permitted unconstitutional liberal policies to
fill the vacuum created by large num-
bers of citizens abdicating their personal responsibilities. George Bernard
Shaw argued, “The worst sin towards
our fellow creatures is not to hate
them, but to be indifferent to them.”
Fortunately, thousands of citizens
across the nation have become activated and the journey to reclaiming
America has begun, signaled by thousands of Tea Parties.
Locally, building upon the enthusiastic response at the Tea Party in
Manhattan, future activities will
include a Town Hall meeting May 19,
2009 at Pottroff Hall followed by a DDay celebration June 6, 2009, at a
location to be determined soon.
Numerous Washington, DC, protests
are in the planning stages by various
organizations.
The purpose of the Town Hall meeting May 19th is to invite citizens of the
Flint Hills area to come together to
share personal concerns and provide
constructive input to more effectively
make our voices heard at the local,
state and national level. Those who
attend the Town Hall meeting will be
invited to complete a survey, provide
personal contact information and indicate their desire to share with the group
by providing a brief synopsis of their
comments. The Task Force will evaluate each synopsis and select as many to
speak as time permits that are in consonance with the purpose of the meeting.
George Washington wrote a letter in
1789 to the resident of Boston, home
of the first Tea Party, which could just
as appropriately be addressed to those
who are speaking out for liberty today:
“Your love of liberty - your respect for
the laws - your habits of industry - and
your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest
claims to national and individual happiness.”
Waxman-Markey Needs Critical Analysis
By Ben Lieberman
The Heritage Foundation
The main focus of debate over the proposed Waxman-Markey American Clean
Energy and Security Act of 2009 has
been its cap and trade program. These
global warming provisions have been targeted for good reason, as they amount to
a massive energy tax that would cost this
nation trillions of dollars and millions of
manufacturing jobs in the years ahead.
Nonetheless, there are other costly and
anti-consumer measures in the proposal
that also deserve attention--including a
renewable electricity standard, a low carbon fuel standard, and appliance efficiency mandates. These measures provide
additional reasons why the WaxmanMarkey proposal warrants critical analysis.
The Renewable Electricity Standard
The
Waxman-Markey
proposal
requires that more electricity come from
so-called renewable sources, chiefly
wind energy but also others like biomass
and solar. This renewable electricity
standard (previous bills called it a renewable portfolio standard) is nothing more
than a mandate for higher electricity
bills.
For many years, wind energy has been
the beneficiary of generous tax credits
and subsidies (American's pay for it both
as taxpayers and as ratepayers), but it
still provides less than 2 percent of
America's electricity. By comparison,
coal provides about 50 percent--and does
so with considerably less favorable treatment than wind--while natural gas and
nuclear energy account for about 20 percent each. Proponents of wind power
believe the nation should use more of it
and thus have called for a federal mandate in addition to all the handouts. The
targets in the Waxman-Markey renewable electricity standard start with a
tripling to 6 percent by 2012, increasing
each year until it reaches 25 percent by
2025.
Of course, the reason wind energy
needs all this government help is that it is
too expensive to catch on otherwise. By
some measures it is over 50 percent costlier than conventional coal. The actual
impact of Waxman-Markey on future
energy bills is a matter of considerable
speculation, as the renewable electricity
provisions represent an unprecedented
transformation of the American electricity supply and infrastructure. The Energy
Information Administration optimistically projects cost increases of no more than
2.9 percent. But the actual experience in
Spain--a nation that is already implementing a similar policy--suggests costs
10 times higher.
One often-overlooked factor is wind's
unreliability. Wind can stop blowing at
any time, and it often does during hot
summer days when electricity demand
peaks. Since people need electricity 24/7,
additional wind power would need to be
backed up with conventional sources
ready to carry the full load at any time,
further raising costs and undercutting the
rationale for this alternative. This is particularly true of the southeastern U.S. and
some other areas where wind is particularly weak--a good reason why each state
legislature should be able to decide for
itself whether to impose such a mandate
rather than having a one-size-fits-all
national standard.
The new transmission lines necessary
to bring more wind from where it is produced to where it is needed is another
substantial cost. By some estimates it
could reach $80 billion. And like most
other costs, it would be paid by the public.
The Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Though gasoline was above $4 a gallon as recently as last summer, WaxmanMarkey seeks to add costly new gasoline
regulations in the form of a low carbon
fuel standard.
There are already convoluted federal
Clean Air Act regulations dictating the
recipe for gasoline. These requirements
were designed to reduce tailpipe emissions, but they have proven to be unnecessarily costly and complex for the task.
On top of that, the 2005 and 2007 energy
bills required that renewable fuels
(chiefly corn-based ethanol) be added to
the gasoline supply. For 2009, 11 billion
gallons must be used, going up to 36 billion in 2022. Ethanol costs more than
gasoline, and the diversion of corn from
food to fuel use has raised food prices,
not only of corn itself but of related items
such as corn-fed meat and dairy.
Now, Waxman-Markey seeks to add a
low carbon fuel standard, which purports
to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide
emissions attributable to motor fuels.
Among other things, the proposal would
require the addition to the gasoline supply of supposedly lower-carbon alternatives such as cellulosic ethanol and
biodiesel. The problem is that these alternatives are very expensive. One study
estimates that the Waxman-Markey proposal would add 61 cents per gallon.
The standard could also harm domestic oil production. Compared to some
sources of imported oil, certain domestic
sources either require more energy to
extract, are of a lower grade that require
more energy to refine, or both. Since the
carbon used to produce and refine oil
would be part of the low carbon fuel calculation, these domestic supplies would
be at a comparative disadvantage.
Further, a low carbon fuel standard
would all but preclude promising domestic alternatives such as shale oil (because
of its supposedly high carbon contribution) as well as oil currently being produced in Canada from tar sands]
Thus, at the same time it would be
jacking up the cost of driving, a low carbon fuel standard could also give a comparative advantage to oil imports from
unfriendly regimes while reducing
domestic production.
Appliance Efficiency Standards
Federal laws dictating how much ener-
gy home appliances are allowed to use
have frequently harmed consumers, but
Waxman-Markey contains a host of new
ones.
Improved energy efficiency is a worthwhile goal, but not when Washington
tries to mandate it with arbitrary requirements. Consumers who think the resultant energy-efficient appliances will save
them money may be disappointed. These
standards almost always raise the purchase price of appliances, in some cases
to the point that the extra upfront costs
are never recouped in the form of energy
savings. For example, the Department of
Energy conceded that its most recent airconditioner standard would be a money
loser for many consumers, but went
ahead with it anyway.
Efficiency standards can also adversely affect product performance, features,
and reliability. For example, Consumer
Reports noted that several high-efficiency clothes washers meeting the latest federal standard "left our-stain soaked
swatches nearly as dirty as they were
before washing" and suggested that "for
best results, you'll have to spend $900 or
more."
Some standards also restrict consumer
choice. For example, the 2007 energy bill
effectively phases out the traditional
incandescent light bulb in favor of more
efficient compact fluorescent bulbs.
Compared to the old-fashioned but stillpopular incandescent lights, compact fluorescent bulbs are more expensive, have
a light quality some find inferior, do not
fit into certain fixtures, and contain small
amounts of mercury, which can be a
health and safety concern if the bulbs
break. In any event, consumers are clearly better off when they have the choice
between light bulb types, not when government steps in and decides what is
best.
The Waxman-Markey proposal contains a host of new standards for everything from household lamps to portable
electric spas. It also makes it easier to set
more stringent requirements for appliances like air-conditioners that are
already regulated. The overall effect
would be higher costs, compromised
quality, and restricted choice for homeowners with a negligible impact on the
environment.
Ample Reason for Criticism
The cap-and-trade provisions in
Waxman-Markey are more than enough
reason to be highly critical of this proposal. Nonetheless, the renewable electricity standard, low carbon fuel standard, and appliance efficiency mandates
are truly terrible in their own right and
would only heighten consumer anger if
this misguided proposal ever becomes
law.
Ben Lieberman is Senior Policy
Analyst in Energy and the Environment
in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for
Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage
Foundation.
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President-elect Schulz Closing In On New K-State AD
By Mark Janssen
The clock appears to be racing toward
announcement day for the position of
athletics director at Kansas State
University.
President-elect Kirk Schulz told The
Manhattan Free Press that “certainly by
June 1, and perhaps sooner than that,” a
decision will be made.
“Sooner” could mean in the next week
so the new Wildcat AD could attend the
upcoming annual Big 12 Conference
spring meetings in Colorado Springs.
“I would certainly love that,” Schulz
admitted. “It would be nice to have a representative at the meetings.”
But before that can happen, Schulzon-candidate interviews must be conducted, the negotiation of a contract
finalized, and, making sure that the individual hired could work the meetings
into his personal schedule.
“But ideally, that would be great if it
could happen,” Schulz said. He would
add, however, “We are not going to rush
the process.”
The Free Press and KStateFans.com
learned that an initial set of interviews
did take place in Kansas City over the
weekend of April 24-26, and that Schulz
has been given a list of three names for
consideration.
It’s been confirmed that Marc Boehm,
executive associate athletic director at
Nebraska to AD Tom Osborne, and, John
Currie, executive associate athletic director at Tennessee, are two of the three
names on that abbreviated list.
Boehm, a native of Topeka, is a 1983
graduate of Kansas State. Prior to
Nebraska, he was on the athletic staff at
the University of Pittsburgh (1997-
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2003), and prior to that the associate
executive director of the Fiesta Bowl
(1987-1991).
Boehm led the search in the hire of
Doc Sadler as NU’s basketball coach,
and orchestrated the largest multi-media
contract in college sports through IMG
College Sports.
Currie is in his 10th year with the
Volunteers. He’s given much of the credit for the hire of Bruce Pearl as basketball
coach, and has been saluted for heading a
fundraising/marketing campaign of $70
million.
In addition, he’s headed a $175 million
renovation campaign for Tennessee’s
100,000-plus-seat football stadium, and a
$37 million improvement on the Vol’s
basketball facility.
Talking in general and not about specific candidates, Schulz said, “We really
want someone to energize our fan base.
Number one, that is what I want to see. I
want that person who can get out in western Kansas, and into Kansas City, to get
our fan-base energized. That’s the number one thing.
“All the people we’ve looked at have
good fundraising backgrounds and at
some point have made good hires,”
Schulz said. “We want to go beyond that
and find that individual who can come in
and get people in the stands for all of our
sports, and get our fans fired up.”
And, Schulz said that goes beyond
being a polished public speaker.
“There are a lot of great public speakers, but after they’re done, they may go
stand in the corner,” Schulz said. “They
enjoy the speaking, but are uncomfortable visiting with everyone afterward.”
Schulz understands that nothing can
better the mood of the Wildcat Nation
more than winning football games. But
he adds, “We have to have football be
successful, but we want a total department. With the success all of our teams
Morris: (near) Prfect Season
By Mark Janssen
A.J. Morris - “Anthony Joseph ... my
mom calls me that at times.” - grew up
in Humble, Texas, a suburb of
Houston.
As a kid growing up, it was natural
that he would cheer the heroics of
Astro hurlers Nolan Ryan and Roger
Clemens. As Morris says, “Both were
Texas boys and two of the greatest to
ever play the game. Sure, I often said,
‘I want to be like them some day.’ “
But here’s the deal. Not even in their
finest moment did the two Texas
flame-throwers have a season like this
2009 spring of Mr. Morris.
Heck, it’s a year that perhaps only
Kansas City’s Zack Greinke can relate
to!
Oh, this past week the K-State righthander proved he was human when he
suffered his first loss of the season
when Texas Tech zapped the Wildcats,
6-0, but other than that blip to the season, Morris has been perfecto.
Heading into a scheduled 6:30 p.m.
start on Friday at KSU’s Tointon
Family Stadium against the Kansas
Jayhawks, Morris is 11-1 with a 1.67
ERA. Not only do those numbers lead
the Big 12 Conference for the
Wildcats, but the 11 wins, and miniscule ERA, are right at the top of any
pitcher around the nation.
“To a certain degree, you can’t
explain something like this,” said
Morris. “I always knew I had it in
myself, it was just a matter of getting it
out. But my record is a reflection of
our team. I’m just lucky to be a part of
it.”
But Team K-State is lucky to have
Morris toe the rubber once every week.
Only fittingly, Morris’ perfect season ... well, nearly perfect ... started at
Houston where he went six innings of
six-hit baseball against the Cougars.
He allowed two runs, neither earned,
walked two and fanned eight in a 16-2
K-State win.
The rest of the season? Ponder these
numbers:
* Morris has 13 starts. Aside from
the loss to Tech, his only no-decision
came against Missouri when he
worked eight innings of two-run, sixhit baseball with no walks and six Ks.
The bullpen was responsible for the 43 loss in the ninth.
* Morris has three complete games
and has pitched through the sixth
inning 12 times.
* With Morris on the mound, KState has won games by a combined
score of 99-34, or 8-3. In Big 12 play,
Morris/KSU has given up, 1, 1, 3, 4, 3,
2 and 3 runs, before the Tech game.
* Morris has allowed just 25 runs, 17
earned, in his 92 2/3 inning pitched. He
has averaged better than six strikeouts
and fewer than two walks per game.
* Batsmen are hitting a icy .201
against Morris.
Morris said the turning point came
on March 10 when he went 8 1/3
innings in a 4-0 victory at nationally
ranked Arizona State that lowered his
personal ERA to 0.68.
“There was a big crowd against a
great team, but the way our team
played set the tone for the rest of the
year,” Morris said. “It was proof that
this team was ready to take the next
step.”
Today, Morris says of his confidence
level, “It’s a 10. I have all the confidence in myself, but I have got to stay
level headed and not get too high or too
down.”
And that’s the big difference from
Morris, the 4-4 pitcher with a 6.04
ERA in 2008, to the chucker of today.
“It wasn’t so much a lack of confidence last year, but a lack of focus. Or,
the focus wasn’t on the right things,”
Morris said. “If things went wrong ...
and error or a bad call, I would take it
to the next batter. I would focus on the
past, and not the next hitter.”
Morris would go on to say that last
year was “... unacceptable .. it ate me
up.”
Pounded in a Big 12 Tournament
championship game by Texas last
spring, Morris began his turn-around
with the Moses Lake Pirates
(Washington) in the West Coast
Collegiate Baseball league during the
summer.
The 6-foot-2 Morris beefed up 15
pounds to 200, and while committed to
an 89- to 93-mile-per-hour fastball, it’s
an 80- to 83-mile-per-hour slider that is
his “out” pitch.
Now the bad news ... at least for KState.
An ultra-strong candidate for firstteam all-America honors, Morris has
the scouts drooling over this pitcher
that, basically, no one wanted out of
high school.
He was recruited by TCU and Sam
Houston State, but not by Baylor,
Texas Tech, Texas or his personal
favorite team in Texas A&M.
Oh, by the way, this year Morris
pitched a 7-0 win over Baylor, a 6-4
victory over A&M, and a 10-0 whipping of the Longhorns.
“You always want to perform well in
your home state,” Morris admitted,”
but to do something special, it takes
beating more than the Texas schools.”
As for his future, Morris says, “I try
not to think about the draft. If the team
is taking care of its goals, the team will
take care of yours.”
But he says, “Sure, I’ve talked to
scouts, but I don’t press the issue of
my status and where I might go. It’s
just not important ... not at this point.”
The important thing at this
point is to complete KSU’s most successful season in school history,
advance to the first Regional in school
history, and of course, the first College
World Series in school history.
are having, that says a lot about the quality of the head coaches that we have right
now.
“Now we have to retain the quality
coaches that we have because they’re
going to be on the radar screen of other
schools,” Schulz added. “We have to
make sure that we keep them to have
continued success.”
Former K-Stater Don Bocchi confirmed that he was one of those interviewed in Kansas City, but has been told
that he was not “one of three” finalists.
Another known to have interviewed
was former Kansas State track star Jeff
Schemmel, who is currently the director
of athletics at San Diego State. Like
Bocchi, Schemmel is not a finalist.
Bocchi said that there was a “huge
focus” on fundraising, but other than
that, the questioning was somewhat general.
Knowing the Kansas State make-up
from his stay in Manhattan, Bocchi said,
“Kansas State fans are wonderful people,
but they need a face to rally around. For
many years, Ernie Barrett (former
AD/fund raiser) was that face, who sup-
ported the coaches, who could fundraise
... someone K-Staters could connect with
as one of theirs.”
Headed by Amy Button Renz, Schulz
applauded the search committee for a
“superb job,” adding, “The group did
exactly what I wanted them to. I feel very
good with where we are.”
The search committee includes Lee
Borck, partner and CEO of Innovative
Livestock Services; Suzie Fritz, KSU
volleyball coach: Mike Holen, Dean of
College
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Manager of Minority Entrepreneurship
for the Kauffman Foundation; Chris
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Kansas State men’s basketball team; and,
Lydia Peele, former KSU student body
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Lehning’s Uniform Display At Hall Of Fame
Former Kansas State guard Shalee
Lehning will have her jersey on permanent display at the Women’s
Basketball Hall of Fame in
Knoxville, Tenn., in an announcement by the organization on
Wednesday morning.
The uniform will be on display in
the Hall’s “Ring of Honor” and will
recognize Lehning’s achievements
during the 2008-09 season. The
“Ring of Honor” at the Women’s
Basketball Hall of Fame is one of the
most popular exhibits at the Hall.
Currently there are over 100 jerseys
hanging in the “Ring of Honor”
ranging from high school and college
All-Americans to the 2007 WNBA
All-Stars.
The 2009 All-Big 12 first team
selection finished her senior season
as the Wildcats’ third-leading scorer
at 10.7 points per game, the team’s
top rebounder at 7.0 per game and
the Big 12 leader and second in the
nation in assists per game at 7.6 per
contest. She is the first player in
school history to record consecutive
200 point, 200 rebound and 200
assist seasons.
Her 229 assists this season set a
school record for assists in a season
and set the Big 12 record for assists
by a senior. She became the third
player in Big 12 history to record
consecutive 200 assist seasons.
Lehning registered three tripledoubles during the 2008-09 season to
set the Big 12 and school record for
triple-doubles in a season. She also
finished her career with five tripledoubles, which is tied for third in
NCAA history for triple-doubles.
Lehning was a candidate for a
number of national All-American
honors during the 2008-09 season
including: a candidate for the Wade
Trophy, a State Farm/WBCA AllAmerica finalist, a finalist for the
Naismith Trophy, a finalist for the
Wooden Award, a finalist for the
Lieberman Award and a finalist for
the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award.
The product of Sublette, Kan., garnered CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine
Academic All-America third team
honors this season and earned her
third straight Academic All-Big 12
first team citation.
She finished her career ranked first
in school history and second in Big
12 history for career assists with 800,
ranked first in school history for
career minutes played with 4,271,
ranked fourth in school history for
career rebounds with 914 and 19th
for career points with 1,189. She is
the first player in Big 12 history to
record 1,000 career points, 900
career rebounds and 800 career
assists. Lehning is the eighth guard
in school history to register 200
points in every season of her career
and her final career point total is the
11th-highest by a guard in school
history.
In early April, Lehning was selected with the 25th overall pick during
the second round of the 2009 WNBA
Draft by the Atlanta Dream. Lehning
is the sixth player in school history to
be selected during the WNBA Draft
and the eighth player overall to
become a part of the league.
For more information on the
Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame,
please visit wbhof.com. Lehning
begins her WNBA career later this
week, as training camp opens for the
Atlanta Dream on May 15.
in the discus with a regional qualifying throw of 155-06.
Groves was not the only Wildcat to
see success in the hammer and discus. Eric Thomas threw to a thirdplace finish in the men’s discus at
179-08 for a regional mark. The
throw was a new personal best for
Thomas and one inch short of passing her previous mark by two feet.
Nate Brummet also posted a new
personal best throw in the men’s
hammer throw on his way to winning
that event. Brummet’s throw of 18808 soared passed his previous best
throw by 6-feet 8-inches and moved
him into fifth all-time at K-State.
Personal best throws was a theme
Cats Remain Steady In National Polls
Following its 3-2 record last week,
Kansas State held steady in its rankings in all five national polls this
week as the publications released
their rankings on Monday.
The Wildcats, who earned their
first top-10 ranking in school history
last week at No. 10 in Baseball
America, fell just one spot to No. 11
in this week’s poll.
K-State was ranked No. 18 in three
other polls as the Cats retained their
ranking in the Rivals.com Top 25
and the USA Today/ESPN Coaches’
Top 25 from a week ago. Collegiate
Baseball placed Kansas State No. 18,
a one-spot drop from last week,
while the Cats fell two spots to No.
23 in the NCBWA Top 30.
Kansas State remained consistent
in each poll after a two-game sweep
of BYU last Monday and Tuesday
before a series loss to Texas Tech this
past weekend. The Cats lost the first
two games to the Red Raiders, but
were able to salvage the final game
of the series, thanks in part to senior
starting pitcher Todd Vogel, in a 9-5
Sunday win.
Kansas State concludes its regularseason schedule this weekend
against in-state rival Kansas. The
first game of the series is scheduled
for a 6:30 p.m. first pitch on Friday
at Tointon Family Stadium. Friday is
Senior Day as the six Wildcat seniors
will be honored prior to the contest.
The series will then shift to
Hoglund Ballpark in Lawrence,
Kan., with a 6 p.m. first pitch on both
Saturday and Sunday. The Sunday
contest will be televised nationally
on FSN.
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of the day for the Wildcats with Cory
Boulanger leading the way.
Boulanger won the men’s javelin
with a new personal best throw of
218-02. The new personal best shattered his previous mark set last week
at the Nebraska Quad. Boulanger
improved his personal best by 10feet 11-inches.
Ali Pistora rounded out the success
of the throwers finishing second in
the women’s javelin at 156-07 for
another regional mark.
The throwing success was not limited to the throwers, however.
Combined events specialist Moritz
Cleve got in on the personal best
action improving his shot put mark
by nearly 10 inches while preparing
for the decathlon at next weeks’ Big
12 Championship. Cleve also posted
a new outdoor personal best in the
pole vault on Saturday.
TiAra Walpool tallied another
regional mark for the Wildcats in the
field events while winning the
women’s triple jump. Walpool
leaped 41-05.00 for the win.
And the personal bests did not just
come in throwing and field events.
Two more Wildcats improved their
best times while winning their events
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K-State Throws Way To Strong Finish
The Kansas State track and field
team closed its regular season schedule with a home meet on Saturday
with much success. The Wildcats
posted nine regional qualifying
marks at the Ward Haylett
Invitational, and saw the throwers
power their way to a handful of those
marks and personal bests.
K-State was led by the throwers all
day starting with women’s hammer
in the morning and closing with
women’s discus in the afternoon.
Senior Loren Groves posted
regional marks in both events for the
Wildcats winning the hammer throw
and breaking the 200-foot mark
again at 200-04. She finished fourth
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mates who got faster on the track.
Emilee Morris won the women’s
1,500 meters in 4:39.98 to cut into
her personal best time, and Denise
Baker tied her personal best 14.18
seconds in the 100 meter hurdles.
Mantas Silkauskas sped to a 14.06
seconds in the 110 meter hurdles finishing second and cutting a quarter
of a second off his time with the
regional mark.
In the 200 meters, Kim Haberman
finished second with a new personal
best time of 24.94 seconds improving by nearly half a second. Lekesha
Pointer-Allen also set a personal
record in the women’s 800 meters at
2:12.02 cutting more than four seconds off her time.
Two men’s sprinters had strong
showings as well for the Wildcats as
Jason Coniglio finished third in the
100 meters at 10.72 seconds narrowly missing his personal best time, and
Mike Myer tied his fastest time of
the season in the 200 meters winning
in 20.99 seconds.
The Wildcats will travel to
Lubbock, Texas, next week eyeing
conference titles at the Big 12
Championship at R.P. Fuller Stadium
where the action begins on Friday.
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Irish Student Hoaxes World’s Media
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DUBLIN (AP) — When Dublin
university student Shane Fitzgerald
posted a poetic but phony quote on
Wikipedia, he said he was testing
how our globalized, increasingly
Internet-dependent media was
upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news.
His report card: Wikipedia passed.
Journalism flunked.
The sociology major’s made-up
quote — which he added to the
Wikipedia page of Maurice Jarre
hours after the French composer’s
death March 28 — flew straight on
to dozens of U.S. blogs and newspaper Web sites in Britain, Australia
and India.
They used the fabricated material,
Fitzgerald said, even though administrators at the free online encyclopedia quickly caught the quote’s lack of
attribution and removed it, but not
quickly enough to keep some journalists from cutting and pasting it
first.
A full month went by and nobody
noticed the editorial fraud. So
Fitzgerald told several media outlets
in an e-mail and the corrections
began.
‘’I was really shocked at the
results from the experiment,’‘
Fitzgerald, 22, said Monday in an
interview a week after one newspaper at fault, The Guardian of Britain,
became the first to admit its obituar-
ist lifted material straight from
Wikipedia.
‘’I am 100 percent convinced that
if I hadn’t come forward, that quote
would have gone down in history as
something Maurice Jarre said,
instead of something I made up,’‘ he
said. ‘’It would have become another
example where, once anything is
printed enough times in the media
without challenge, it becomes fact.’‘
So far, The Guardian is the only
publication to make a public mea
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or amended their online obituaries
without any reference to the original
version — or in a few cases, still are
citing Fitzgerald’s florid prose weeks
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Russian-Lesbians Denied License
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW (AP) — Supporters considered it a historic moment: two radiant
women applied for a marriage license in
a Moscow government office, claiming
to be the first same-sex female couple to
try to marry in Russia.
But a flustered-looking official denied
their application Tuesday, a move that
gay rights activists say symbolizes the
refusal of many Russian officials to recognize the rights of the country’s gay and
lesbian communities. Registry office
director Svetlana Potamoshneva, seemingly embarrassed, handed them a written rejection and said Russian law recognizes only marriages between a man and
a woman.
Irina Fedotova and Irina Shipitko said
they would not give up.
‘’We won’t stop in midstream,’‘
Fedotova told journalists later, saying she
and her partner plan to get married in
Canada. She said Russia recognizes marriages registered abroad, thus allowing
the couple to formalize their relationship.
The event was the first of two this
week that will put the issue of gay rights
— which many Russians regard as controversial — on the public stage in
Moscow.
Fedotova and Shepitko sought to
marry ahead of a gay pride parade
Saturday, scheduled to coincide with the
finals of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Gay rights activists hope the media covering the event also will focus on their
cause.
Radio Netherlands reported Monday
that the Dutch singer Gordon would boycott the contest if parade is broken up
violently.
Moscow authorities have banned the
march, and religious and nationalist
groups said Tuesday they have asked for
permission to hold a counter-demonstration in central Moscow.
‘’The gay parade is ... an act of spiritual terrorism,’‘ said Mikhail Nalimov,
chairman of the Union of Orthodox
Christian Youth.
His deputy, Dmitry Terekhov, said the
parade was in part aimed at converting
people to homosexuality. ‘’This must be
stopped by radical methods, but without
violence naturally,’‘ he said.
In some countries, gays have won
increasing acceptance — including the
right to marry — but in many nations of
the former Communist bloc homophobia
remains rampant.
Decades of official persecution of
Russian gays ended in 1993 with the
decriminalization of homosexuality, but
opposition to gay rights remains widespread. Russian spiritual leaders have
claimed that homosexuality threatens the
country’s traditional values.
There are no official estimates of how
many gays and lesbians live in Russia,
and only a few big cities such as Moscow
and St. Petersburg have gay nightclubs
and gyms.
Russian gay rights movement leader
Nikolai Alexeyev said several gay male
couples have attempted to wed since the
mid-1990s, but officials rejected those
efforts.
In 2006, gay activists trying to lay
flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier just outside the Kremlin wall
were arrested by riot police and
harangued by religious and ultranationalist group members.
Last year, at least one gay rights
activist was assaulted during a small
protest in Moscow while uniformed
police officers stood by and watched.
Dancer and singer Boris Moiseyev,
one of Russia’s few openly gay pop stars,
said in March he received death threats
from Muslim activists. His extravagant
shows have been banned in several
Russian cities, and the Orthodox Church
condemned him for ‘’propagating
sodomy and sin.’‘
Meanwhile, despite their rejection of a
marriage license in Moscow on Tuesday,
Fedotova and Shepitko — wearing suits
and bow ties and holding flowers — held
hands and kissed. They said they would
continue to fight for recognition of gay
rights in Russia.
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‘’One could say my life itself has
been one long soundtrack,’‘
Fitzgerald’s fake Jarre quote read.
‘’Music was my life, music brought
me to life, and music is how I will be
remembered long after I leave this
life. When I die there will be a final
waltz playing in my head that only I
can hear.’‘
Fitzgerald said one of his
University College Dublin classes
was exploring how quickly information was transmitted around the
globe. His private concern was that,
under pressure to produce news
instantly, media outlets were increasingly relying on Internet sources —
none more ubiquitous than the publicly edited Wikipedia.
When he saw British 24-hour news
channels reporting the death of the
triple Oscar-winning composer,
Fitzgerald sensed what he called ‘’a
golden opportunity’‘ for an experiment on media use of Wikipedia.
He said it took him less than 15
minutes to fabricate and place a
quote calculated to appeal to obituary writers without distorting Jarre’s
actual life experiences.
If anything, Fitzgerald said, he
expected newspapers to avoid his
quote because it had no link to a
source — and even might trigger
alarms as ‘’too good to be true.’‘ But
many blogs and several newspapers
used the quotes at the start or finish
of their obituaries.
Wikipedia spokesman Jay Walsh
said he appreciated the Dublin student’s point, and said he agreed it
was ‘’distressing so see how quickly
journalists would descend on that
information without double-checking it.’‘
‘’We always tell people: If you see
that quote on Wikipedia, find it
somewhere else too. He’s identified
a flaw,’‘ Walsh said in a telephone
interview from Wikipedia’s San
Francisco base.
But Walsh said there were more
responsible ways to measure journalists’ use of Wikipedia than through
well-timed sabotage of one of the
site’s 12 million listings. ‘’Our network of volunteer editors do thankless work trying to provide the highest-quality information. They will be
rightly perturbed and irritated about
this,’‘ he said.
Fitzgerald
stressed
that
Wikipedia’s system requiring about
1,500 volunteer ‘’administrators’‘
and the wider public to spot bogus
additions did its job, removing the
quote three times within minutes or
hours. It was journalists eager for a
quick, pithy quote that was the problem.
He said the Guardian was the only
publication to respond to him in
detail and with remorse at its own
editorial failing. Others, he said,
treated him as a vandal.
‘’The moral of this story is not that
journalists should avoid Wikipedia,
but that they shouldn’t use information they find there if it can’t be
traced back to a reliable primary
source,’‘ said the readers’ editor at
the Guardian, Siobhain Butterworth,
in the May 4 column that revealed
Fitzgerald as the quote author.
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Kansas State Scrimmage Honors Troops
Sgt. Cody Harding
1ST INF. DIV. PAO
Fort Riley Post
Soldiers and Families from Fort
Riley joined Kansas State Wildcats
fans at the K-State Spring Game
May 2 to welcome back Bill Snyder
as the head coach of the K-State football team.
The Kansas State University football team and Fort Riley have built a
bond of trust and friendship, thanks
in part to the team’s relationship with
the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry
Regiment. This outreach gives support to both the college students and
the Soldiers of the Big Red One.
“It feels really good,” said Spc.
Steven Saracco of the 1st Infantry
Division Commanding General’s
Mounted Color Guard. “It feels like
I’m letting them know and sharing
my experiences with the color guard
and everything I do. So I enjoy doing
it a lot.”
Soldiers from Fort Riley brought
out some of their vehicles to the stadium as well, allowing visitors to get
an inside look at what troops use
while deployed overseas. Children
looked inside Stryker armored carriers and Humvees, while others met
the horses and Soldiers of the
Mounted Color Guard.
“Any opportunity where we can
get the Soldiers and equipment out
into the public and let them see it is
just another opportunity for civilians
to gain awareness of what Fort Riley
Soldiers do,” said Maj. Aaron Welch
of the 1st Infantry Division’s operations staff. “It’s all about continuing
to build this strong relationship
between Fort Riley and the surrounding communities.”
As the game began, the 1st Bn.,
28th Inf. Regt. Black Lions took to
the field with the National Flag, the
State Flag and their unit’s colors for
More fun at the Spring Game.
the National Anthem. Afterward, the
1st Inf. Div. Command Sgt. Maj. Jim
Champagne and Chief of Staff Col.
Ricky Gibbs walked out to midfield
for the coin toss.
The team was split between the
first string, wearing purple, and the
second string, wearing white.
Kidding Around
Soldiers Get Workout Supporting Schools
By Gary Skidmore
DUTY FIRST! MAGAZINE
Sgts. Jonathan Reinegger, James
Kinney and Jeffrey Walters, 1st
Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment
received enough physical training
April 29, to last them a week after
playing with students from
Westwood Elementary School in
Junction City. They ran, jumped,
were crawled on, carried kids, and
were the subject of dog piles for several hours during the afternoon.
Supporting the school’s “Schools
in Review” program, several members of the battalion visited the classrooms, ate lunch and went to the
playground with the students.
Kinney has been married for three
years but doesn’t have children and
said he loved his day with the kids.
“My wife is a student teacher on
Fort Riley so I thought it’d be a good
opportunity for me to experience
what she deals with everyday,” said
Kinney. “I don’t think she goes
through a lot of dog piles like I just
did, but she enjoys the job. I’m still
out of breath from the dog pile.”
Sgt. 1st Class Richard Dukes said
he thought the partnership they have
with the school, a part of the recent
Army Community Covenant program, was great.
“One of the good things about this
particular program is there’s a lot of
children with parents in the military
and with deployments being what
they are, it gives kids a connection
while their military parents are
deployed. It’s also great for our
involvement in the community. We
do a lot with Junction City and
Grandview Plaza and it helps
strengthen our bonds,” he said.
Purple took an early lead, scoring
17 points in the first half. As the second half began, even a switch in jersey colors couldn’t stop purple from
scoring 28 points, ending the game
with Purple 28, White 17.
The game marks the first game
since Bill Snyder’s return as head
coach of the Wildcat football team,
which gives the team plenty of time
before the Wildcats are scheduled to
play again Sept. 5.
Student Support Monitor Jerry
Williams, a retired Soldier from Fort
Riley, knows the importance of having Soldiers interact with students.
“It’s terribly important for the kids
to see uniforms here,” Williams said.
“Most are comfortable with Soldiers
and since so many parents are
deployed, it gives our students a
reassurance and a connection when
the battalion comes.”
Still breathing heavily 10 minutes
after their run and dog piles,
Reinegger, Kinney, Walters and
Dukes said there was no doubt
they’d be back if asked.
“I’m not too sure about carrying so
many kids the next time we race,”
Reinnegger said, “And I probably
won’t have that many kids dog pile
me next time,” Kinney said, “And I
know I won’t try to run as fast as I
did with all those kids hanging on
me,” Walters said, “but we’ll be
back,” Dukes said.