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Iola Municipal Band— Since 1871 —

At the bandstand Jim Garner, directorThursday, July 7, 2011 8 p.m.

PROGRAMStar Spangled Banner ..................................................arr. J.P. SousaAmericans We — march .......................................... Henry FillmoreRock, Rhythm and Blues — medley ......................arr. Jack BullockArmy of the Nile — march ...................................Kenneth J. AlfordBegin of the Beguine ...................................................... Cole PorterInvercargill — march ...................................................Alex LithgowHymn to the Fallen.................................... John Williams/SweeneyMen of Ohio — march ............................................. Henry FillmoreA Sixties Time Capsule — medley .............................. arr. JenningsThe Washington Post — march ...................................John P. Sousa

Rained out concerts will be rescheduled for Friday evening.

Register/Richard LukenMules Pat and Pete pull an antique sickle bar mower piloted by Ray Whiteley of Le Roy. Whiteley was joined by Greg Gleue in cutting an 18-acre prairie hay field Tuesday.

By SUSAN [email protected]

If you’ve got enough of it, Fri-day night is the night to let your hair down.

One sure test is to participate in the “Drag Race” as a runup to the Charlie Melvin Mad Bomber Run For Your Life race.

Men and women alike are en-couraged to dress in a cross-gen-der manner and then “compete” in teams of four in a relay. Last

year a woman’s garter was trans-ferred from one participant’s leg to another.

“It’s better than a baton,” said David Toland, executive director of Thrive Allen County and one of the organizers for Friday’s events.

If you don’t have a thing to wear — no worries.

Dresses, hats, purses, jewelry and other accoutrements will be available at Elizabeth Donnelly’s

The Shirt Shop, 20 W. Jackson, where participants will have a wide selection from which to choose. Doors open at 10 p.m.

Registration to participate in the drag race is $5. That also gains participants entrance to a 9:30 p.m. pre-party at the Thrive office, 12 W. Jackson. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Thrive office or Friday night on

By RICHARD [email protected]

LE ROY — Unlike the mecha-nized behemoths of today, Ray Whiteley’s mowing outfit was considerably quieter.

His “engine” — a pair of 1,200-pound mules — needed only an occasional break from the sti-fling summer heat as Whiteley traversed his way around an 18-acre prairie hay meadow.

“It’s a little warm, so we’ve been taking it easy,” Whiteley said. “It’s our little hobby.”

The mules were pulling White-ley’s antique sickle bar mower, a small wagon with cutting bar

attached. The bar was triggered through a gear box engaged as its wheels roll.

With no mechanical engine to speak of, the only noise emanat-ing from his unit was from the teeth of the seven-foot cutting bar rotating back and forth.

Joining Whiteley was neighbor and friend Greg Gleue, with his own mowing outfit, another sick-le bar mower pulled by a pair of Percheron draft horses.

“We’re having some fun with it,” Whiteley joked. “Greg’s kind of a wimp about it. He needs a

Mowing effort recalls yesteryear

Ray Whiteley

Register/Susan LynnThese men are ready to leave their inhibitions at home as they participate in Friday night’s favorite race, the drag race. From left to right are Matt Skahan, Brian Wolfe, Nic Lohman, David Toland and Fred Heismeyer. The race begins at 10:30 p.m. on the courthouse square.

By BOB [email protected]

Calls to the 911 dispatch center average one almost every 10 min-utes.

And while that may sound a lit-tle slow, played out over 24 hours a day and every day of the year, the total comes to 55,000.

“That’s what we received last year,” Angie Murphy, dispatch center director, told Allen County commissioners Tuesday morn-ing.

The call total — she figures half or more are for true emer-gencies — wasn’t the point of her appearance, but the magnitude of the number captivated commis-sioners.

Murphy was before commis-sioners to request a 20 percent increase in the department’s bud-get for 2012, up $126,000 over this year’s $490,000.

The increase seemed pretty hefty. Murphy reasoned health insurance will cost an additional $50,000 and another $6,000 was expected for Kansas Public Em-

Put that ego on the shelf, boys

See EGO | Page B6

By JOE [email protected]

When Brian Pekarek was hired as superintendent of the Iola school district in February, he saw an opportunity to “reinvigo-rate” USD 257.

With a focus on academic achievement and public transpar-ency, Pekarek hopes he can fur-ther success for the district and the more than 1,300 students rely-ing on it.

Pekarek walks his talk. A na-

By BOB [email protected]

An anticipated field of a thou-sand runners and walkers, who will flee Iola’s downtown busi-ness district early Saturday as Charley Melvin did in 1905, can be thankful that Melvin chose to do his dastardly deed in the mid-dle of the night.

Had the event being commemo-rated occurred in mid-day, par-ticipants would battle oppressive heat and humidity, with both forecast at the upper end of the discomfort scale during daytime Friday and Saturday. As is, they will run and walk in somewhat more inviting temperatures pre-dicted for the low 70s by 12:26 a.m. Saturday.

The race — many walkers will be out for a stroll — will cap activ-ities that start late Friday after-noon and will go on throughout the evening. Included will be the much-awaited “drag race,” fea-turing some of the area’s finest men and women dressed in drag.

Chris Weiner at Thrive Allen County, co-sponsor with Allen County Crimestoppers for “The Charley Melvin Mad Bomber Run for your Life,” said total of partic-ipants was approaching 450, with about 200 signed on for the 5-kilo-meter run. The walk will follow a 3-kilometer course.

“Registration, including prob-ably a fifth online, has really

picked up,” Weiner said Tuesday afternoon. As in the past, “we ex-pect a lot of people to sign up Fri-day night.”

Cost is $12 for the walk. Run-ners’ fees are $14 for youth to age 17, $20 for adults and $17 each for members of teams.

Runners in the third annual event will aim for best times of 15.40.06 for males and 20.44.78 for females, set last year.

Sticks of “Melvin Dy-No-Mite” will be awarded the first three places for males and females in each of five ages groups, 15 and under, 16-30, 31-45, 46-60 and 61 and over.

All participants will break from in front of the post office. Runners will follow a course that will take them on West to Wash-ington, then Jackson, Jefferson and East to Cottonwood. They

Temps for runlook inviting

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Countyhearsbudgetrequests

ATLANTA (AP) — Former Atlanta schools Superintendent Beverly Hall knew about cheat-ing allegations on standardized tests but either ignored them or tried to hide them, according to a state investigation.

An 800-page report released Tuesday to The Associated Press by Gov. Nathan Deal’s office through an open records request shows several educators report-ed cheating in their schools. But the report says Hall, who won the national Superintendent of the Year award in 2009, and other administrators ignored those re-ports and sometimes retaliated against the whistleblowers.

The yearlong investigation shows educators at nearly four dozen Atlanta elementary and middle schools cheated on stan-dardized tests by helping stu-dents or changing the answers once exams were handed in.

The investigators also found a “culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation” in the school district over the cheating allegations, which led to educators lying about the cheating or destroying

Pekarek finds home at USD 257

Brian Pekarek, center, visits with Barb Geffert and Marcy Boring at the USD 257 board office.

Cheating scandal detailed

See CHEATING | Page A5See MOWING | Page A5See COUNTY | Page A5

See PEKAREK | Page A5

Vol. 115, No.39 75 Cents Iola, KS

Local troupe brings magic to stage with ‘Nutcracker’

Delaney Umholtz leads a line of ballerinas during a- presentation of “The Nutcracker,” which runs at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. Tickets are available at the door for $10 apiece. Other photos from the production are on the Register’s Facebook page.

Register/Richard Luken

By STEVEN [email protected]

The name of the game for this year’s performance of “The Nutcracker” is refinement, and director Jesse Cooper says the dancer and production is ready for a stellar show.

The show, put on by the Kan-sas Youth Dance Company, will be presented at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

This year marks the second annual production of “The Nut-cracker” by the company, which Cooper said is going to be a fam-ily tradition in Allen County. They have been preparing since September.

“I have high expectations for the performance, people will forget they are watching a local youth (dance) company,” Cooper said. “They are looking less and less like recreational dancers.”

He said the show has “grown massively,” featuring more than 200 costumes for the 39 dancers involved. In addition, they have added more productions pieces including a confetti cannon, snow machine, more backdrops and coordinated sword-fighting scenes on stage.

The backdrops for the show were rented from Kenmark Backdrops out of Kansas City. All of the costumes are hand-made by Jeanne Cooper, Sherry Elmhorst and Lori Stephens.

This year will be the first that men will perform as danc-ers, all of which volunteered for the roles. In the past, the female dancers have played the male roles during the production. In addition to the dancers with the company, there are 10 volunteers from the community performing as well.

Dancers hail from Chanute,

Humboldt, Le Roy, Colony, Yates Center and Iola. Lauren Mc-Dermiett is playing the role of Clara, Hayden Seabolt is the King, Zoie Stewart is the Sugar Plum Fairy and Mackenzie We-seloh is taking on the role of the Snow Queen. Cooper is filling in as Drossalmyer.

Cooper said the audience can expect a more refined and pre-cise version of “The Nutcrack-er” this year. He said all of the lead dancers are going to be wearing pointed ballet toe shoes instead of flats, allowing them to execute more technical ma-neuvers.

Cooper, who has 15 years of experience dancing with the company, formerly known as South Street Dance Company, said the goal for the dancers is to give them a taste of what it is like to perform professionally.

“I want to give them a realistic flavor of what it is like,” Cooper said. “From here they can even-tually move on to dance full-time with a company or to major in dance in college.”

The dancers in the company

IHS leadership class gets financial boostBy BOB JOHNSON

[email protected] High’s leadership class

got an early Christmas present Wednesday morning, a $1,500 check from Walmart.

Making the presentation to the class of 28 students and instruc-tor Regina Chriestenson were Jeff Livingston, Walmart manag-er, and Shandie Wrench, a depart-ment manager.

Livingston learned about the many things the leadership class does during a Chamber of Com-merce “See, Hear Iola” session, where Stacey Fager, IHS princi-pal, spoke about the positive ef-fects the class has had on students and the community.

“Jeff came up afterward and said he was impressed with what we were doing and thought he could get us some financial help through Walmart,” mentioning the possibility of a $1,000 grant, Fager said.

Walmart did better. Livingston and Wrench showed up at Iola High Wednesday morning with

Regina Chriestenson, left, receives a check for $1,500 from Shandie Wrench, a department manager, and Jeff Livingston, Walmart manager, to be used for activities of Iola High School’s leadership class. Mem-bers of the class on hand for the presentation Wednesday morning were, front from left, McKenzie We-seloh, Keli Lee, MaKayla Robb, Klairissa Hall and Ashley Cary; second row from left, Emma Sigg, Halie Cleaver, Caleb Burrough, Katie Kelley, Darci Collins, Chloe Friederich, Lexi Cramer (behind Friederich) and Jacob Cooper; back row from left, Alanna Knavel, Joel Mefford, Austin Snyder, Cody Conner, Ste-phen McDonald, Tyler Bartholomew, Devon Simpson, John Hutton, Kaleb Beckham and Chase Roettgen.

By BARBARA RODRIGUEZ and JOHN MILBURNAssociated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The first major snowstorm of the season began its slow eastward march across the Midwest early Thursday, leaving at least three people dead, creating treacherous driving conditions and threat-ening to disrupt some of the na-tion’s busiest airports ahead of the holiday weekend.

Forecasters warned that heavy snow coupled with strong winds would create blizzard conditions for morning commuters from

Kansas to Wisconsin, after blan-keting the Rocky Mountains ear-lier in the week.

On the southern edge of the storm system, high winds wreaked havoc, damaging homes and downing trees across Arkan-sas, the National Weather Service said. A powerful storm peeled the roofs off buildings and toppled trucks in Mobile, Ala., but in-jured no one. Tornado warnings remained in effect in parts of Mississippi, Louisiana and Ala-bama early Thursday.

The storm dropped nearly a foot of snow in Des Moines, but the storm wasn’t as dangerous as earlier feared because every-one had good warning of the

approaching havoc, said Kevin Skow, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Des Moines. But wind might become a concern, he warned.

“It’s starting to taper off,” Skow said of the snow early Thursday. “It’s soon going to become less of a snow event and more of a wind event.”

The airport at Creston, Iowa, recorded the highest winds, with a gust of 53 mph. Skow said wind gusts would grow stronger later Thursday, creating whiteout con-ditions, before dying down by the evening.

Iowa native Laurie Harry said the weather probably wouldn’t

Midwest hit by first major snowstorm of season

Register/Bob Johnson

Scott Reeder cleared snow from sidewalks outside the Allen County Courthouse early today after the first winter storm of the season arrived in the wee hours of the morning.See STORM | Page A4

See LEADERSHIP | Page A3

See PLAY| Page A4

By KHI NEWS SERVICEWASHINGTON, D.C. — Kansas

ranks dead last for public health preparedness, according to a new report released Wednesday.

The Ready or Not report by the nonprofit Trust for America’s Health, lists Kansas and Montana as the worst performing states in the nation, with each meeting only three out of 10 readiness cri-teria.

That means that Kansas is significantly less well prepared than other states to respond to health threats such as foodborne illnesses, infectious diseases and extreme weather events.

Factors that led to Kansas’ low ranking included funding cuts in state and local public health pro-grams, insufficient staffing at the state’s public health laboratory and the state’s inability to meet

Kansas fails in public health preparedness

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I have high expecta-tions for this perfor-

mance, people will for-get they are watching a local youth (dance) company. They are looking less and less like recreational danc-ers.

— Jesse Cooper, director

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To all military personal & families, you are admired & appreciated. I remeber

praying for my daddy to come home safe from Germany during WWII, and

he did. I was four yrs old and my mom, the faithful wife & mother.

God bless you all. During these trying times, I ’ m

reminded of the scripture Isaiah 6:1-3 (paraphrase) “ In a year of chaos, I saw The Lord! The whole earth is full of His

Glory. ” This is still true, And always will be. A favorite chorus of mine: “ Turn your eyes upon Jesus. Look full in His wonderful face. And the things

of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His Glory

& Grace. ” A blessed Christmas to

everyone. Sharon M c Cauley

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that day. Hazel, Shirley, Dale & Beulah

CalendarSunday-Annual Christ-

mas dinner and program for Colony community senior citizens, City Hall community room, 6 p.m.; Wednesday-Court, City Hall community room, 6 p.m.; City Council meeting, 7 p.m.; Dec. 27-trash pickup.School calendar

Christmas Break until Jan. 3.Senior meals

Tuesday- Closed for holi-day; Wednesday-live mu-sic, vision cards accepted, chicken lasagna rollup, Brussels sprouts, Texas toast, apricots; Friday-tur-key burger, sliced tomato, pasta salad, bun, sunshine fruit. Phone 620-852-3479 for reservations.Christian church

Billy Beckmon read a Christmas poem written by Lance Corporal James M. Schmidt at Sunday’s Chris-tian Church service. Scrip-ture was Matthew 1:18-25. Pastor Mark McCoy pre-sented the sermon from the Bigger Better More Minis-

try, “Honeymoon on Hold.” Sunday-The Children’s church will present “Just a Little Christmas” during worship time; Jan. 6-photos for the new church direc-tory will be taken directly after church. We need all of the church families there that day. Bring finger food to eat while waiting for pictures to be taken; Jan. 9-Working Wonders Chris-tian Women’s Council, 7 p.m.

The Working Wonders Christian Women’s Council met Dec. 5 at the Christian Church basement. Mem-bers fixed and delivered 29 fruit plates and seven gifts for the area nursing homes.UMC

Scripture at the United

Methodist Church service was Proverbs 3:9-10 and Luke 1:33-56. Pastor Leslie Jackson presented the ser-mon. Tuesday-Christmas Eve program, 6 p.m.BOE

At the Crest Board of Education meeting Dec. 10 the 2011-12 CPA audit was approved. Also ac-cepted was as audit con-tract from Diehl, Banwart & Bolton, CPAs of $3,750 for the 2012-13 school year, and approval of the pur-chase of 25 laptop comput-ers not to exceed $13,376.75. The purchase of library chairs was discussed. Re-port from Superintendent Jerry Turner stated the elementary school would have Christmas parties to-day and Santa will visit. Students and classes attain-ing Standard of Excellence on the state standards will receive awards at the Jan. 11 basketball game. Turner discussed the new teacher evaluation document and reported the gray van is

back in service.4-H

The Seekers Not Slack-ers 4-H Club held its monthly meeting on Dec. 9, at the Lone Elm com-munity building. Sixteen members and two leaders answered roll call by giv-ing a favorite Christmas song. Karson Hermreck and Jerrick Jones led members with the flag sa-lute and 4-H Pledge. Com-munity leader CJ Lacey reminded everyone of a project meeting on Jan. 20 at the Lone Elm commu-nity building. Communi-ty leader Kathy LaCross announced the county-wide social will be Dec. 29 6–8:30 p.m. at the Garnett community building at the fairgrounds. Seekers Not Slackers are respon-sible for bringing snacks. Photography leader Cara Bowen announced details of the Landon Center on Aging Annual Photography contest, the Shutterbugs in the Gar-

den contest, and Photo Adventure Camp. For demonstration members put together fruit and cookie plates to be deliv-ered to families in the area. For recreation, the club played bingo. The next meeting will be Jan. 21 at the Lone Elm com-munity building at 7 p.m. Happy birthday was sung to Brooklyn Jones, Mae-gyn LaCross, and Jerrick Jones. The meeting ad-journed by saying the 4-H motto.January celebrations

Anniversaries: Jan. 19- Richard and Kloma Buck-le; 25-Kendall and Christy McGhee. Birthdays: Jan. 5 -Doris Church; 7-Phyl-lis Goodell; 8-Phyllis Lu-edke; 13-Haley Freelove; 15-Zona Wiley; 16-Jeff McAdam; 17- Braden Mc-Ghee; 19-Bruce Beeman; 24-Mary Scovill; 25-Jay Dutton; 26-Trewit Lu-edke; 27-Wayne Luedke; 29-Evelyn Bunnel, Char-lotte Swift, Donna Wes-

terman.Around town

The Christmas Spirit ex-ists in Colony!

Five gals — Paula Decker, Sammye Strickler, Gerri Godderz, Cathy Stephens and Andrea Hermreck — got together one morning to bake several cookie reci-pes and distributed them at various homes throughout town. They did not repre-sent any club or organiza-tion of any kind, just some-thing they got together and did to show people they cared and that Christmas most certainly is a time of caring. Christmas season arrives and these five girls show there are people who care. I’m sure everyone ap-preciated their thoughtful-ness.

Did you know? Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Car-ol” became an immediate sensation when it appeared in bookstores in 1843. The novel took just six weeks to pen and remains so popular it’s never gone out of print.

Colony News

Dolores WilsonDolores J. Wilson, 79,

Iola, passed away Wednes-day, Dec. 19, 2012, at her home.

Dolores was born Oct. 14, 1933, on the family farm two and a half miles west of Piqua, the daugh-ter of Leo Henry and Til-lie I. (Hasstedt) Smith. She grew up on the farm.

On Nov. 10, 1952, Dolores married Ralph O. Wilson at St. Martin’s Catholic Church in Piqua. He en-tered the service and she made her home with her parents until his honor-able discharge from the service. They had made their home in Iola since 1955.

She was a member of St. John’s Catholic Church and Altar Society in Iola. Dolores enjoyed garden-ing and canning, crafts and painting, and fishing with Ralph.

Survivors are her hus-band of 60 years, Ralph Wilson; two daughters, Sharon Bland and hus-band, Roger, Iola, and Debbie Hill and husband, Rick, Parker, Colo.; one brother Robert L. Smith, Piqua; four grandchil-dren, Lori Goodell and husband, Tadd, Colony, Jeremy Bland and wife, Rebecca, Waukee, Iowa, Jason Hill and wife, Audra,

P a r k e r, C o l o . and Dar-rin Hill, L a c o n , Ill.; eight g r e a t -g r a n d -s o n s , B r y s o n a n d

Brayden Goodell, Dylan and Jackson Bland, Car-son, Liam, Garrett and Daniel Hill.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Larry Eugene Smith.

Parish rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Friday at St. John’s Catholic Church in Iola. Visitation will follow in the parish center.

Funeral mass will be at 10:30 a.m., Saturday at St. John’s Catholic Church in Iola.

Burial will be at High-land Cemetery, Iola.

Memorial choices are St. John’s Catholic Church, Allen County Hospice or Kappa Alpha Chapter of Phi Tau Ome-ga Sorority for local can-cer support.

Memorial gifts may be left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel, Iola.

Online condolences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.

Rosie CollinsRose Zetta “Rosie”

Collins, 72, Piqua, died Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, en route from Kansas Heart Hospital, Wichita, to Allen County Hospi-tal.

Rosie was born Aug. 15, 1940, in Bloomfield, Ind., the daughter of Clyde and Genevieve (Haywood) Lenning. She grew up in Scotland, Ind.

On Dec. 19, 1959, Rosie married Robert E. “Ike” Collins in Spencer, Ind. They made their home in Piqua. She worked 28 years for Palmers News along with several other jobs before retiring.

Survivors are her hus-band, Ike; two sons, Ray Collins and wife Susan, Iola, and Randy Collins, Piqua; a daughter, Kris Wallace and husband Chris, Emporia; three brothers, Fred Len-ning, Owensburg, Ind., Nick Lenning and wife Carolyn, Spencer, Ind., and Brady Lenning, Pi-

qua; one sister, Doris Hawkins, Jasonville, Ind.; six grandchildren, Luke, Kylie, Staci and husband Adam, Miles, Tyler and Jordan; and two great-grandchildren, A’mayh and Zoey.

She was preceded in death by a brother, John Lenning.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel in Iola.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the chapel. Burial will be at Iola Township Cem-etery east of Piqua.

Memorials may be made to the National Kidney Foundation and left with Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Chapel.

Online condolences for the family may be left at www.iolafuneral.com.

Teresa KarmannTeresa “Terry” (Hayes)

Karmann passed away Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, at Coffey County Hospital, Burlington. She was 67. Terry was born Jan. 16, 1945, in Geary County, the daughter of Ted Hayes and Annetta (Myers). Ter-ry grew up in Wakefield, and was graduated from Wakefield High School.

After graduation Terry met her future husband, Keith Karmann, also of Wakefield. Keith’s family began farming in Geary County and on June 2, 1962, he and Terry were married. The same year, Keith and Terry moved to Yates Center to begin making their home. A few years after the couple settled they were blessed with two children, Col-lette and Shane.

While in Yates Center Terry worked as a dis-patcher for the Coffey County sheriff ’s office and the Woodson County sheriff ’s office, retiring from Woodson County. She also was a member of Grace Lutheran Church in Iola. She was an avid

reader.Teresa was preceded in

death by her parents and her son Shane on Dec. 4, 1998. She is survived by her husband Keith, Yates Center; her daughter, Col-lette (Karmann) Jacobs and husband Donald, Yates Center; brother Ted Hayes Jr. and wife Dana of Wichita; sisters Kay Fehlman and husband Da-vid, Wakefield, and Susan Meng and husband Jerry, Overbrook; three grand-children, Erik and Shayna Karmann and Taylor Ja-cobs, as well as many oth-er relatives and friends.

Services for Teresa were at 10:30 a.m. today at Campbell Funeral Home, Yates Center. Burial fol-lowed in Yates Center Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the Ameri-can Diabetes Association of Kansas and may be sent in care of Campbell Funeral Home P.O. Box 188 Yates Center, KS 66783.

Additional infor-mation may be found at jonescampbellfu-neralhome.com and [email protected]

Obituaries

Wilson

Wanda NelsonWanda M. Nelson, 91,

Lamar, died at her home Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, af-ter a long illness.

Mrs. Nelson was born July 7, 1921, in Allen County to George Wash-ington and Artie Jean (Tinsley) Alumbaugh. She was retired from working with her hus-band and sons as office manager in the family owned Nelson Brothers Quarry, east of Jasper, Mo. On Feb. 25, 1939, she married Carl Andrew Nelson at Iola. She was a member of First Baptist Church, Jasper, Mo.

Wanda leaves behind five sons, Jerry R. Nel-son, Lamar, Mo., Robert W. Nelson, Joplin, Mo., John B. Nelson, Quapaw, Okla., Paul M. Nelson, Jasper, Mo., and James L. Nelson, Baxter Springs; two daughters, Carol A. Harman, Ocola, Fla., and Mary Nelson Cook, Lamar, Mo.; daughter-in-law Virginia Nelson, Richmond; a sister Opal

D o u bl e -d a y , T a o s , N.M.; 22 g r a n d -c h i l -dren; 46 g r e a t -g r a n d -children and 19

great-great-grandchil-dren.

Wanda was preceded in death by her husband Carl A. Nelson and one son, Randy K. Nelson.

Service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Daniel Fu-neral Home. Burial will follow at Lake Cemetery. Grandsons and great-grandsons will be pall-bearers.

Visitation will be from 6 to 7 p.m. today at Dan-iel Funeral Home.

Contributions are sug-gested to First Baptist Church, Jasper, Mo., in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be left at www.danielfuner-alhome.net

Nelson

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JUST RECENTLY leader-ship class students hosted district kindergartners at the Recreation Community Building in Riverside Park.

“They had a banquet for the kids and then had games and crafts,” Chri-estenson said, topped off with a play about Rudolph, Santa’s red-nosed reindeer. Her drama students wrote and performed the play.

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vided by Walmart paid for the event, as well as warm scarves and gifts for each kindergartner.

Among other projects have been family fun nights at the downtown Iola farm-ers market; maintaining bulletin boards at the high school; help with Farm-City Days activities; and a Lincoln Elementary holi-day festival.

Several spring semester events are pending, includ-ing a fundraiser for Allen County Animal Rescue Fa-cility, as well as projects to help other non-profit groups.

The class, comprised of mainly juniors and seniors, was started to give students

a means to hone leadership skills and character behav-ior.

“It’s been very success-ful,” said Fager.

The class was started five years ago by Jodi Grover, then an IHS counselor, to expose them to projects for the betterment of the com-munity.

Chriestenson, also dra-ma and forensics instruc-tor, joined Grover last year and took the class reins this year, when Grover left to be an assistant principal at Maize Middle School. She happened to be in Iola Wednesday for a meeting, which gave her opportunity to see the Walmart grant awarded.

“Jodi was instrumen-tal a year ago in Iola High getting a $60,000 Safe and Supportive Schools grant and comes periodically for meetings concerning that grant,” Fager said. The grant of federal money ad-ministered by the Kansas Department of Education supports encouraging ac-tivities for students.

Her husband, David Gro-ver, stepped away from the Iola High principalship at the conclusion of last school year to become su-perintendent of schools at Cheney, about 35 miles west of Maize.

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There isn’t a better way to spread Yuletide cheer during the holidays than gathering with friends and family to walk or run at the 15th annual Jingle Bell Jog.

The jog is being hosted by Thrive Allen County and will be held on Christmas Eve.

Participants can either run a 5K or walk a 3K. The jog be-gins at 1 p.m. on the north side of the courthouse square.

The route will be the same as the Mad Bomber Run, weaving through Highland

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Each participant is given bells to tie onto their shoes, so they can “jingle all the way,” said Damaris Kunkler, Thrive program director.

If participants “like” the Thrive Allen County Face-book page, or if they already have, they will receive $2 off their registration fee.

More than 70 have signed up for the jog so far.

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Jog into the holidaysBy CAROL J. WILLIAMS

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days after the worst mass murder in Australian his-tory, when 35 people were shot to death at Tasmania state’s Port Arthur tourist mecca in 1996, the govern-ment issued sweeping re-forms of the country’s gun laws. There hasn’t been a mass shooting since, and suicides, deaths by firearms and robberies at gunpoint have plummeted.

The results of toughened gun rules in Britain after the massacre in the Scottish town of Dunblane that same year weren’t so immediate or impressive. Gun crimes continued to rise until 2003, and despite a steady down-turn since then, a dozen people were killed two years ago in Cumbria by a man

using legally registered weapons.

Mass murders by gun-wielding maniacs aren’t unique to the United States, although crime statistics show the tragedies to be far more prevalent in a na-tion that gained its inde-pendence by musket and proudly brandishes a con-stitutional guarantee of a right to bear arms. As the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence attests on its website, in a single year guns killed 17 in Finland, 35 in Australia, 39 in Britain, 60 in Spain, 194 in Germany, 200 in Canada and 9,484 in the United States.

“We are the only devel-oped nation in the world that allows people such easy access to even the most dangerous weap-ons,” said Adam Winkler, a UCLA law professor and author of “Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America.”

“There are other coun-tries where you can own an assault rifle, such as Swit-zerland, but they impose

strict laws on who can have them and when they can carry them.”

Even idyllic Switzerland hasn’t been immune from mass-casualty gun violence. In 2001, a disgruntled public official in the northern city of Zug killed 14 people at the regional parliament before taking his own life. Swiss voters last year defeated a referendum that would have required all weapons regis-tered to members of its citi-zen militia to be secured in military depots.

Most foreign countries that have endured gun vio-lence have reacted with tighter restrictions on which weapons can be pri-vately owned, who can ob-tain them, how they can be licensed and stored, and what penalties are imposed on violators. But a review of mass killings abroad over the last two decades reveals a contradictory picture of the effectiveness of strict controls in an age of Inter-net-based arms trading and global criminal networks.

Norway, the scene last year of the deadliest mod-ern massacre by a single gunman, has some of the toughest restrictions on gun ownership in the de-veloped world. Yet Anders Behring Breivik managed to obtain an assault rifle, a high-powered handgun and chemicals used to make a diversionary explosion at the start of his killing ram-page that left 77 dead. In his rambling manifesto posted online on the day of his at-tacks, he boasted that “eBay is your friend.”

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preparedness standards set by the Emergency Management Accredita-tion Program.

The report said that in recent years the nation and states have regressed after spending much of the last decade steadily improving their ability to respond to public health emergencies.

“The bad news is that the accomplishments achieved over the past decade to improve public health preparedness for all hazards are now being undermined due to severe budget cuts and lack of

prioritization,” the report said.

The report said that in-stead of building on prog-ress made early in the decade, “the progress of the past 10 years is now at risk.”

Kansas is one of 29 states listed in the report that has decreased public health funding since the 2010 budget year, reducing it by 6 percent. Kansas was one of only three states that did not respond to re-quests to verify or correct the budget information contained in the report. Minnesota and South Da-kota were the others.

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stop her from starting up her car this morning.

“If I need to get into work, I’ll be here,” said Harry, a manager at a Casey’s General Store in the western Iowa town of Atlantic. “We’ve had snow before. Iowans know what to expect. We’re used to it.”

Forecasters said the heaviest snow could be expected across a swath extending from northwest Missouri into Milwau-kee, Chicago and Michi-gan, with predictions of as much as a foot of snow in some areas. Before the storm, several cities in the Midwest had broken records for the number of consecutive days without measurable snow.

The weather service warned of poor visibil-ity due to driving snow in much of the region and warned drivers to stay off roads in some areas.

In southeastern Wis-consin, where a blizzard warning was in effect and winds of up to 45 mph were expected to create white-out conditions, sheriff ’s officials said slick condi-tions led to at least two fatalities late Wednesday when a driver lost control of his car in Rock County, about 90 miles northwest of Chicago. In southeast-ern Utah, a woman who tried to walk for help after her car became stuck in snow died Tuesday night. Search and rescue crews on snowmobiles found her buried in the snow just a few miles from her car.

Chicago commuters awoke today to heavy fog and cold, driving rain, but forecasters said snow would hit the Midwest-ern metropolis by mid-afternoon. Officials at the city’s two international airports reported some delays and cancellations, but said most incoming and outgoing flights were on time. United Airlines said it would waive change fees for travelers who have

to change their plans for travel through O’Hare In-ternational Airport.

Hundreds of schools across the affected region canceled classes today be-cause of heavy overnight snow. Kansas City Power & Light reported about 16,000 scattered power outages in northwest Mis-souri and northeast Kan-sas.

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30 miles north of Des Moines, auto repair shop owner Steve Simmons said he had a busy Wednesday morning with custom-ers looking for snow tires ahead of the storm.

“Everybody seems to wait to the last minute for this kind of thing,” he said. And he was also ex-pecting a busy today snow-plowing several churches and private businesses.

“The bad weather usu-ally benefits me greatly,” he said.

The moisture was be-ing welcomed by farmers in the drought-parched region, but Meteorolo-gist Kris Sanders said the storm wouldn’t make much of a dent. In Kansas, for example, some areas are more than 12 inches below normal precipita-tion for the year.

“It’s not going to have a big effect, maybe only a half-inch of liquid precipi-tation. It’s not helping us out much,” Sanders said.

Sanders said another storm similar to the cur-rent one could bring addi-tional snow on Christmas or the day after.

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It’s not going to have a big effect, maybe only a half-inch of liquid precipitation. It’s not helping us out much.

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start at age six, and are as old as 17. In this year’s show, the dancers are as young as four. Cooper said all of them have worked hard to make the show better than it has ever been.

“We set the bar very high for them,” Cooper said. “They have all risen to the high level.”

He said “The Nut-cracker” was sold out last year, so the Bowlus has added a second show to make up for the added interest this year.

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Chelsea Lea performs a dance routine during the Kansas Youth Dance Company’s presentation of “The Nutcracker,” which runs at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. Tickets are available at the door for $10 apiece.

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An important cost-cutting deal has been reached in the fis-cal cliff negotiations. President Obama and Speaker Boehner agree that a new inflation mea-sure should be adopted which will reduce the amount that Social Security payments will rise each year to compensate for inflation.

The measure is called the Chained Consumer Price In-dex. It assumes that as prices rise consumers turn to lower-cost alternatives, reducing the effect that inflation has on their budgets.

The difference works out to about .3 percent. This coming year, for instance, Social Se-curity checks are scheduled to rise by 1.7 percent. Using CCPI, the increase would fall to 1.4 percent.

Once the change is fully phased in, yearly Social Secu-rity benefits for a typical mid-dle-income 65-year-old would be about $136 less, according to an analysis of Social Security data. At age 75, annual benefits under the new index would be $560 less. At 85, the cut would be $984 a year.

The chained CPI would cut Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor, by $12 billion over the next decade. Medicare, the health insurance program for seniors, would see savings of almost $9 billion.

Taxes, however, would rise by about $65 billion over the same period.

It’s a proposal that has bi-partisan support because it cuts benefits and increases taxes gradually in ways that would not be immediately ap-parent to most, but become substantial. Congressional budget estimates say it would produce more than $200 billion in savings or new revenue over

a decade.Economists also argue the

CCPI is a more accurate way to calculate the effect of inflation. In addition, it produces more income tax because it changes the income levels at which peo-ple qualify for food stamps and other welfare programs and moves taxpayers into higher brackets faster.

The agreement should make an overall fiscal cliff deal eas-ier to reach because it gives Boehner a victory and makes it easier for him to sell higher taxes on the well-to-do to his anti-tax majority in the House.

This is, however, a small step forward. President Obama stands firm on his demand for higher taxes on families earn-ing more than $400,000 a year. Boehner only wants higher taxes on Americans with tax-able incomes of $1 million or more.

If no deal is reached in the few days left before the first of the year, every American will see a tax increase and govern-ment spending will be slashed across the board. Economists warn that those twin shocks could toss the economy back into recession unless they are quickly nullified.

On the other hand, having the income tax rates revert to those of the Clinton years — when the economy was booming and the federal bud-get balanced — would give Re-publicans a chance to support tax restructuring that could include reductions from those higher rates, which they could then do without breaking their pledge to Lord Norquist. That back-door log-ic just might appeal to some who find thinking an insur-mountable challenge.

— Emerson Lynn, jr.

Fiscal cliff dealis more likely

WASHINGTON — After word leaked from the White House late last week that Chuck Hagel was in line to become the next secretary of defense, Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard manned the Patriot mis-sile batteries to shoot down that trial balloon.

The neoconservative journal, no fan of the iconoclastic former Republican senator, published a smear under the headline: “Sen-ate aide: ‘Send us Hagel and we will make sure every American knows he is an anti-Semite.’” In the posting, this anonymous aide went on to accuse Hagel of “the worst kind of anti-Semitism there is.” As evidence, the article included a quotation from Hagel referring to the “Jewish lobby.”

Other right-wing publications and conservative Zionist groups inevitably joined the chorus, including a column by Bret Ste-phens in The Wall Street Journal saying Hagel’s prejudice has an “especially ripe” odor.

The Hagel hit is wrong on the merits, but it’s particularly egre-gious because the former senator from Nebraska is among the best and bravest public servants. He was an enlisted man in Vietnam, earning two Purple Hearts in jungle combat. In his legislative career, he was a powerful voice against the chicken hawks who have recklessly sent American troops to their deaths; he became one of the most outspoken critics of George W. Bush’s handling of the Iraq war.

Hagel would probably be swift-ly confirmed by the Senate, and he should be: A man of unassailable military credentials who regards war as a last resort is exactly the

sort of person to head the Penta-gon.

Kristol’s criticism of Hagel in-cluded a variety of supposed sins in various categories: terrorism (“Hagel was one of 11 senators who refused to sign a letter re-questing President Bush not meet with Yasser Arafat ... “), Israel (“Hagel was one of only four sen-ators who refused to sign a letter expressing support for Israel dur-ing the second Palestinian intifa-da”), and Iran (“Hagel was one of only two U.S. senators who voted against renewing the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act”).

IT’S FAIR CRITICISM to say Hagel isn’t sufficiently pro-Israel, although much the same is said of the man who would nominate him. But Kristol, and then others, went further, publishing a pas-sage from a 2008 book in which Hagel is quoted as saying: “The political reality is that ... the Jew-ish lobby intimidates a lot of peo-ple up here.”

That was a dumb phrase — many Christians are pro-Israel and many Jews aren’t — and Ha-gel said he misspoke (he used the phrase “Israel lobby” elsewhere in the interview). But, as an American Jew who has written about anti-Semitism in political dialogue, I don’t see this as anti-Semitic or anti-Israel.

Hagel was explaining why he didn’t sign all of those nonbind-ing letters from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, justifiably calling them “stupid.” He further said: “I’m a United States senator. ... I support Israel. But my first interest is I take an oath of office to the Constitution of the United States. Not to a pres-

ident. Not a party. Not to Israel. If I go run for Senate in Israel, I’ll do that.”

Hagel’s foes claim groundlessly that this means he was accusing others of divided loyalties; that, they say, and his less-than-perfect record of voting AIPAC’s position disqualify him from running the Pentagon. But let’s examine Ha-gel’s record further:

He voted for the Iran Nonprolif-eration Act, the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act and the Iran Mis-sile Proliferation Sanctions Act. He co-sponsored resolutions op-posing any unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state and prais-ing Israel’s efforts “in the face of terrorism, hostility and belliger-ence by many of her neighbors.” He also co-sponsored legislation urging the international commu-nity “to avoid contact with and re-frain from financially supporting the terrorist organization Hamas ... until Hamas agrees to recog-nize Israel, renounce violence, disarm, and accept prior agree-ments.”

Such gestures won’t satisfy the neocon hard-liners, and Hagel’s occasional criticism of the Israeli military’s excesses doesn’t help. But this isn’t indicative of anti-Semitism, or even of anti-Israel sentiments.

It’s indicative of an infantry sergeant who isn’t opposed to war (he voted for the conflicts in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq) but knows the grim costs of going to war without a plan. And it’s in-dicative of a decorated military man who, unlike some of his neo-con critics, knows that military action doesn’t solve everything.

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Chuck Hagel: Two Purple Hearts earned from fight-ing in the jungles of the Vietnam War. A powerful voice against the chicken hawks who have recklessly sent American troops to their deaths. Outspoken critic of George W. Bush’s handling of the Iraq war.

Some environmental protec-tion measures have payoffs that are way off in the future, such as reducing the amount the at-mosphere will warm by the end of the century. Others yield im-provements that are only indi-rectly related to human welfare, such as making Adirondack lakes livable for native fish.

The U.S. Environmental Pro-tection Agency’s new rule on soot pollution is not one of those.

Its purpose is much more stark and immediate: saving human lives in the next couple of de-cades. Particulate emissions from smokestacks and diesel trucks kill some people and hospitalize others. It can shorten the lives of those with heart or lung dis-eases. It can also trigger irregular heartbeat and asthma attacks. In all, it is to blame for some 15,000

premature deaths each year.So the EPA has good reason to

take measures to curb this type of pollution, and last week, it did. Administrator Lisa Jackson an-nounced it would reduce limits on particulate emissions by 20 per-cent, which will make it harder for businesses to get permits for plants and equipment that foul the air.

At the moment, there are 66 counties across the country that don’t conform to the new stan-dard, including the Chicago area. But because of restrictions al-ready in place, Chicago and most of the other places will be un-der the limit by 2020. Only seven counties in Southern California are expected to be in violation.

What good will the change do? By 2030, says the EPA, it should “prevent up to 40,000 premature deaths, 32,000 hospital admis-

sions and 4.7 million days of work lost due to illness.” Previous soot rules, experts say, have increased the average life expectancy of Americans by a full four months.

Can we afford it? The National Association of Manufacturers says no, accusing the agency of “dropping another harsh regula-tion on America’s job creators.” The cost of the new rule, true, is estimated at up to $350 million a

year. That sounds like a lot only until you consider the projected value of the benefits from saving lives and preventing illness: at least $3.7 billion a year.

The EPA’s action may prevent some businesses from operating in the areas most affected. But since the new regulation won’t come into full effect until 2020, they will have ample time to fig-ure out what to do with obsolete

equipment.Chicagoans have some ac-

quaintance with this issue. Earlier this year, Mayor Rahm Emanuel brokered a deal to close two old coal-fired power plants that were among the biggest local sources of particulate emissions, doing immense damage to health among city residents.

For a long time, the govern-ment made allowances for old plants that couldn’t meet modern emissions standards. But eventu-ally, the health of ordinary people had to take priority. No one has a constitutional right to spew tox-ins into the air that we all breathe.

A decade from now, thanks to this change, some people will be alive who would have been dead without it. That’s reason enough to proceed.

— The Chicago Tribune

Soot pollution from smokestacks and trucks a killer

Particulate emissions from smokestacks and diesel trucks kill some people and hospitalize others. It can shorten the lives of those with heart or lung diseases.What good will the new rule on soot pollution do? Pre-vent up to 40,000 premature deaths, 32,000 hospital admissions and 4.7 million days of work due to illness.

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He said his highlight in school has been the great friends he made since moving to Allen County from the East Coast.

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P215/60R16 $ 114 92 P215/60R16 $ 114 92

P225/60R16 $ 120 28 P225/60R16 $ 120 28

P215/65R16 $ 115 16 P215/65R16 $ 115 16

P225/65R16 $ 120 12 P225/65R16 $ 120 12

P235/65R16 $ 122 79 P235/65R16 $ 122 79

P215/60R17 $ 133 65 P215/60R17 $ 133 65

P215/65R17 $ 137 17 P215/65R17 $ 137 17

D yn a p ro D yn a p ro A T-M R F10 A T-M R F10

Prem ium A ll Prem ium A ll Terra in Terra in

50,000 M i. W a rra nty 50,000 M i. W a rra nty

P235/75R15 $ 130 81 P235/75R15 $ 130 81

P225/75R16 $ 126 84 P225/75R16 $ 126 84

P245/75R16 $ 143 74 P245/75R16 $ 143 74

P265/75R16 $ 152 28 P265/75R16 $ 152 28

P245/65R17 $ 157 29 P245/65R17 $ 157 29

P265/65R17 $ 166 86 P265/65R17 $ 166 86

P265/70R17 $ 170 95 P265/70R17 $ 170 95

P235/65R17 $ 154 49 P235/65R17 $ 154 49

P265/60R18 $ 185 62 P265/60R18 $ 185 62

P265/70R18 $ 183 78 P265/70R18 $ 183 78

P275/55R20 $ 215 91 P275/55R20 $ 215 91

P275/60R20 $ 229 47 P275/60R20 $ 229 47

D yn a p ro D yn a p ro H T R H 12 H T R H 12 Prem ium H w y. Prem ium H w y. A ll Sea son A ll Sea son

70,000 M i. W a rra nty 70,000 M i. W a rra nty

P235/75R15 $ 126 77 P235/75R15 $ 126 77

P225/75R16 $ 125 24 P225/75R16 $ 125 24

P245/75R16 $ 136 81 P245/75R16 $ 136 81

P265/75R16 $ 150 36 P265/75R16 $ 150 36

P245/65R17 $ 151 46 P245/65R17 $ 151 46

P255/65R17 $ 161 91 P255/65R17 $ 161 91

P265/65R17 $ 165 63 P265/65R17 $ 165 63

P245/70R17 $ 162 77 P245/70R17 $ 162 77

P265/70R17 $ 169 88 P265/70R17 $ 169 88

P265/60R18 $ 184 57 P265/60R18 $ 184 57

P265/70R18 $ 181 29 P265/70R18 $ 181 29

P275/55R20 $ 203 39 P275/55R20 $ 203 39

Alignment Specials Fro n t W h eel Fro n t W h eel A lig n m en t A lig n m en t $ 24 95 $ 24 95

w ith p urcha se of w ith p urcha se of set of 4 tires set of 4 tires

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Cold but warmingTonight, clear. Lows near 20.

West winds 5 to 15 mph.Friday, sunny, warmer. Highs

in the mid 40s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.

Friday night, clear. Lows in the mid 20s. South winds around 5 mph.

Saturday, sunny. Highs near 50. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

Saturday night and Sunday, mostly clear. Lows 25 to 30. Highs in the mid 40s.

Sunrise 7:34 a.m. Sunset 5:06 p.m.

TemperatureHigh yesterday 53Low last night 26High a year ago 38Low a year ago 37

Precipitation24 hours ending 7 a.m. .03This month to date .45Total year to date 27.73Def. since Jan. 1 9.49

The Iola area got its first taste of winter weather early today, but missed the worst of an ominous storm that enveloped much of the nation.

Snow of a foot or more fell in the northern Plains and tornadoes touched down in the Gulf states.

Snowfall here was mini-mal and the temperature barely dipped below freez-ing, but winds gusting to nearly 40 miles an hour added to consternation, particularly before day-break.

The Register’s scanner emitted constant chatter early this morning about motorists troubled by slick pavement, with their ve-hicles sliding onto rights of

way and into roadside fields.The forecast was for the

storm to move from eastern Kansas this morning and temperatures to moderate under sunny skies. Day-time temperatures through the weekend are expected to be in the high 40s to low 50s, with overnight lows dipping below freezing.

WITH CITY employees having Christmas Eve day and Christmas off, trash pickup will be suspended after Friday’s until Wednes-day morning, when gift wrappings and other holi-day residue will make it more of a chore than usual.

County employees also will have Monday and Tues-day off for the holiday.

Winter arrives See us online at www.iolaregister.com You can contact any of the Iola Register staff at

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Cab, 4x4, A uto V8, 78K M i. . . . . . $ 15 , 988 $ 15 , 988 2008 Ford F-350 Chassis Cab, A uto V8, C annonball H ay B ed, O nly 58K M iles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 27 , 488 $ 27 , 488 2008 G M C Sierra, A uto V8, L ift K it, 20” W heels w/M idaey Thom pson Tires, 4x2, O nly 52K M iles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 21 , 988 $ 21 , 988 2008 Ford F-150 Crew Cab, A uto V8, L ocal Trade-In, 95K M iles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 19 , 988 $ 19 , 988 2008 Ford F-350 SD Crew Cab L ariat, A uto, D iesel, 4x4, L eather, 134K M iles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 21 , 988 $ 21 , 988 2007 Chevy Silverado Crew Cab, A uto V8, N ice Truck, 77K M iles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 17 , 988 $ 17 , 988 2007 D odge D akota, 4 D oor, A uto V6, C lean 110K M i. . . . . $ 9 , 995 $ 9 , 995 2007 Ford F-250 SD Crew Cab, A uto, D iesel, L eather, Very C lean, L ocal Trade-In, 102K M iles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 22 , 875 $ 22 , 875 2007 Ford F-250 SD Crew, A uto, D iesel, L eather, R anch H and G rill G aurd, 111K M iles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 21 , 988 $ 21 , 988 2006 Ford F-350 SD Crew Cab, A uto, D iesel, L eather, D ually, 89K M iles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 22 , 590 $ 22 , 590 2003 Ford F-350 SD Crew Cab, A uto, D iesel, L eather, 113K M iles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 14 , 750 $ 14 , 750 2003 Chevrolet Silverado Extended Cab, A uto V8, N ice C lean Truck, L ocal Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 5 , 995 $ 5 , 995 2003 Ford F-150 Crew Cab, A uto V8, Sharp Truck, G rill G uard, 132K M iles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 10 , 988 $ 10 , 988 2001 Chevrolet Silverado Reg. 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Christmas Eve services

Wesley United Methodist Blue Christmas is scheduled for today at 7 p.m. The program is a quiet

service meant to reflect on loss and struggles for people in the congregation. Attendees will be able to light a candle to honor loved ones lost or to recognize a difficult event in

their lives.The Christmas Eve candlelight service will be at 7 p.m. A bell choir and trumpeter Ryan Co-

chran will play “Come and Adore Him.” Chelsea Kenyon, Casiee Wolfe and Shelly Meadows will sing “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming” and “Waiting Here for You.”

The sermon’s message will be based on “Following the Star” from pastor Trudy Anderson. There will be a baptism, and the program will close with “Silent Night.”

First PresbyterianChristmas is starting early at First Presbyterian. On Sunday, the Children’s Christmas pageant will be

celebrated with the ringing of bells. There will be musical pieces from the Children’s Choir, the Handbell Choir, and accompaniment by a ukulele.

The Christmas Eve Candlelight service welcomes all in with luminaries lining the sidewalks to come and celebrate the holy birth. Music will be by a brass trio, on violins “Ave Maria and On the Lips of an Angel,” the Chancel Choir singing “Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming” and “In Dulci Jubilo,” and the Handbell Choir playing “Do You Hear What I Hear?” and heralding the birth of Christ by leading in “Joy to the World” after “Silent Night” by candlelight. Communion will also be served.

First Assembly of GodThe annual Christmas service will begin at 6 p.m. Sunday. Children will sing carols at the beginning of

the program, followed by a storytime titled “God gave us Christmas.” There will be a brief sermon from Pastor Paul Miller, and the program will close with music and a candlelight service. Cookies and cocoa will be served following the service.

Grace LutheranThe Christmas service at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday. Christmas Eve festivities will start at 7 p.m. The Lord’s

Supper Holy Communion will be held at both services.St. Peter’s Lutheran

The children of the congregation will present the Christmas message at 6:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve. The hand-chime choir will play “Hark the Herald Angels Sing,” and pastor David Meier will present the story of the birth of Christ.

First Christian ChurchThe children’s program will be at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. The Christmas Eve service is at 6 p.m. The choir

will sing carols and the congregation will sing hymns, followed by a candlelight service.RiverTree Christian Church

The Christmas Eve service will begin at 7 p.m. The children will present their Christmas program and a candlelight service will be held.

Carlyle PresbyterianChristmas Eve services are at 7 p.m. Special music will be played by church members and a candlelight

communion will be shared.Salem Methodist

Christmas Eve candlelight service is scheduled for 7 p.m., followed by a Christmas communion.First Baptist

Christmas Eve candlelight service is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.Harvest Baptist

This year’s Christmas service will be the normal scheduled time for 10:30 a.m. Sunday.LaHarpe Baptist Mission

In addition to a normal service at 11 a.m. Sunday, the Mission will have a Christmas break-fast at 9 a.m. Christmas Day, and will take food pantry donations at 4 p.m. Friday.

St. Timothy’s EpiscopalThe Christmas Eve service will take place at 6:30 p.m.

Humboldt MethodistChristmas Eve candlelight service is scheduled for 7 p.m.

By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER

Associated PressCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) —

A war over, the Army heeds Congress’ demands to cuts costs by paring its ranks. But the nation’s economy is weak, and unemployment rates are high. It’s an un-certain time for thousands of service members and their families.

Sound like today? It’s a scenario that has played out previously when big conflicts end, most recently two decades ago. What’s happening now as the Army, the biggest military branch, carries out plans to shrink by 80,000 troops in the wake of the Iraq War re-sembles what soldiers went through in the early 1990s, when the end of the Cold War and collapse of the Soviet Union prompted the U.S. to trim the military for what was called “the peace dividend.”

The 1990s may be remem-bered as economic good times. But those came later in the decade. First there was a recession in 1990 and 1991 that, though shorter and milder than the Great Recession of 2007-2009, was painful at the time and drove up jobless rates just as ex-soldiers were released into the workforce.

“It’s hard to open that letter that says, ‘As of July 1, your services are no lon-ger needed,’” said retired Army Col. Rick Kiernan, who helped top generals re-duce the ranks in the 1990s.

“It’s a hard message to deliver as well. We’re talk-ing about people who’ve volunteered to serve,” said Kiernan, now retired and director of a web-based in-formation television chan-nel for veterans in Wash-ington, D.C.

This time around, the main U.S. ground forces are set to be cut by 100,000 troops. The Army is ex-pected to cut about 80,000 soldiers from its ranks of about 570,000 over the next six years. The smaller Ma-

rine Corps is dropping about 20,000 men and wom-en to reach 182,000.

To a large extent, the cut-backs are the result of a budget agreement reached last summer between Presi-dent Barack Obama and congressional Republicans, calling for a half-trillion dollar cut in projected de-fense spending over 10 years.

Pentagon officers have said they think they can make the cuts less pain-ful by stretching them out in several ways: accepting fewer new soldiers each year, asking for voluntary reductions, encouraging service members to retire, and moving uniformed ser-vicemen and women into jobs vacated by civilians.

As the service branches get smaller, every soldier and Marine who wants to stay in uniform faces in-tense scrutiny, Kiernan says.

“What might not be deemed a problem in war time when they need peo-ple, like misconduct in the barracks, could rise to a reason to pass someone over for a promotion” or to be retained in the ranks as a senior enlisted officer, he said.

Even a good job record and years of experience won’t help when the mili-tary is paring back.

Eleven years in the Ma-rine Corps as an enlisted signals intelligence special-ist and as an officer in air-craft maintenance didn’t save Joe Carpenter of At-lanta, Ga., when the Corps decided to cut back on his job specialty.

Carpenter said he found work this year as a pro-gram manager at Gleason Research Associates in Huntsville, Ala., a Defense Department contractor in-volved in weapons system engineering, inventory management and counter-insurgency and covert op-erations training and sup-port.

Army cuts ranks, soldiers affected

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The worst U.S. drought in de-cades continues its iron-fisted grip across much of the nation’s key farming states, though some relief could come from the first major snowstorm of the season trekking eastward across the Midwest.

Today’s weekly U.S.

Drought Monitor update shows that roughly 62 per-cent of the continental U.S. remains in some form of drought, unchanged from the previous week. That number has been above 60 percent largely since July.

Nearly 22 percent of the lower 48 states are in extreme or exceptional

drought, the two worst cat-egories. That’s up a half of a percentage point from a week earlier.

The latest numbers are as of Tuesday, before the arrival of the Midwest’s first winter snowstorm.

All of South Dakota, Ne-braska, Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma are in drought.

Drought worsens in Midwest

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COURT IS ADJOURNED (FOR NOW)

Register/Richard LukenIola High junior varsity basketball player Fryendz Wallace, left, drives to the hoop for a basket Tuesday in a contest against Chanute. At right, Iola’s Taylor Sell, right, goes up against Chanute defender Jordan Schoenberger. The Iola varsity, junior varsity and C team squads concluded their pre-Christmas schedules Tuesday. They’ll return to action Jan. 4 at home against Osawatomie.

By RANDY COVITZThe Kansas City Star

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (MCT) — When Herm Edwards was head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, he sounded a warning whenever his players had some free time.

“Don’t show up on Dah-Dah-Dah . . . Dah-Dah-Dah! “ Edwards would say, singing the theme song of ESPN’s “SportsCenter.”

That was Edwards’ way of say-ing he did not want to see any of his players’ names on ESPN’s scroll detailing arrests or other off-the-field incidents.

In the last few weeks, the NFL has been hit hard by two off-field tragedies, and alcohol played a major role in one and likely con-

tributed to the other.Dallas Cowboys defensive tack-

le Josh Brent was under the in-fluence of alcohol when his Mer-cedes hit a curb, flipped over and killed Jerry Brown, a linebacker on the club’s practice squad on Dec. 8. Brent was jailed on an in-toxication manslaughter charge, and it was reported that his blood-alcohol level was 0.18, more than twice the legal limit.

Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher spent the evening party-ing in the Power & Light District before shooting and killing his girlfriend and himself on the morning of Dec. 1. While toxi-

David Eulitt/Kansas City Star/MCTKansas City Royals pitchers James Shields, center, and Wade Davis, right, speak to reporters dur-ing an introductory news conference at Kauffman Stadium with Royals general manager Dayton Moore, at left, Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo.

By RUSTIN DODDThe Kansas City Star

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (MCT) — In the Santa Clarita Valley, a sprawling swath of Southern California suburbia, they still talk about the best high school baseball game they ever saw. It happened nearly 13 years ago, but Jim Ozella, the baseball coach at Hart High School, still keeps the scorebook numbers just a few clicks away on his computer.

There was a first-round draft pick on the mound and a future NFL quarterback playing short-stop. But the teachers and coach-

es at Hart mostly remember the 18-year-old pitcher everybody knew as “Jamie.”

He not only helped win a state championship as a junior but also impressed his art teacher with his drawing skills during morning classes. He was the type of kid, Ozella says, who just wanted to win.

On that day in Santa Clarita, the Hart Indians were playing Centennial-Corona and star left-hander Mike Stodolka in the state quarterfinals. Ozella called on Jamie Shields in the middle innings. He had battled back is-sues for most of the season and

pitched Hart to a playoff victory the previous night. But the ball needed to be in Shields’ hand again.

“It was a big-game situation,” Ozella says now.

Pitch after pitch, inning after inning, the two prep phenoms went toe to toe. At one point, with the score tied 4-4, Shields escaped a bases-loaded jam with a 3-2 slider. He finished two for five at the plate and allowed one hit in four innings. Stodolka ex-ited after eight. Centennial beat Hart in the 11th inning when

Shields aims for repeat success

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Jim McIsaac/Newsday/MCTJosh Brent, right, of the Dallas Cowboys chases down Ahmad Bradshaw of the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium Jan. 1. Brent was arrested Dec. 8 on a manslaughter charge after an early-morning one-vehicle accident that killed Cowboys teammate Jerry Brown.

NFL targets alcohol usage

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cology reports have not been released, Belcher was found by police sleeping in his Bentley hours before he went on his rampage.

Despite all of the pro-grams the NFL and the indi-vidual clubs make available to their players, including a free taxi service that’s pro-vided in every league city by the NFL Players Associ-ation, drinking and driving continues to be a problem in the NFL.

Brown’s death was the third time since 2009 that an NFL player killed anoth-er person because of a sus-pected DUI. Brent’s arrest marked the 18th time this year an NFL player was ar-rested on suspicion of DUI, more than double the figure of seven in 2011 and closing in on the all-time worsts of 20 in 2006 and 19 in 2009.

“It’s wrong,” Chiefs quarterback Brady Quinn said of drinking and driv-ing. “But it happens all across this coun-try. Wheth-er it’s play-ers who do it or eve r yd ay w o r k e r s who do it, it’s something people need to take individual account-ability for and stop and un-derstand it’s affecting the lives of not just the driver but other people. I don’t care if it’s drinking and driving or texting and driv-ing, it’s no different. Tex-ting and driving now has become more dangerous than that.

“In both cases, people need to understand if they’re the driver, to be re-sponsible for themselves

driving and getting to go where they’re going safety.”

Actually, the percentage of NFL players arrested for DUI is smaller than the rate of the general popula-tion of males age 20-29. Of nearly 2,000 players on NFL active rosters and practice squads, an average of 14 DUI arrests are made each year, a rate of 0.7 percent. Nationally, males ages 20-24 have twice as many arrests, 1.6 percent; while those 25-29 are at 1.4 percent, ac-cording to FBI statistics for 2011.

But any DUI, especially when it leads to an injury or a fatality, is one too many.

“It’s a wakeup call,” for-mer NFL safety Jason Bels-er, now senior director of player services and devel-opment for the NFL Play-ers Association, said after the tragedy in Dallas. “We know from underage drink-ing and drunk driving, the prime ages are 20 to 24, and the point we try to tell play-ers is proper planning. . . . . ‘If you know you’re going out, have a prearranged transportation service.’”

Not everyone listens to that advice. Belser said “six or eight” rides were administered the weekend as Brown’s death in Dallas — through the NFLPA’s free taxi service.

“It’s just a shame,” Chiefs tackle Eric Winston said. “This one (in Dallas), you feel like it could have easily been avoided, and that’s the biggest tragedy of it all.”

OAKLAND quarterback Carson Palmer has seen his share of teammates arrested for DUIs. During 2006-10, nine of Palmer’s teammates in Cincinnati were stopped for DUIs, in-cluding wide receiver Chris

Henry, who was arrested five times, suspended by the league three times and eventually died in a bizarre accident in which he fell out of the back of a truck in 2009.

“Just about every situa-tion is a little bit different,” Palmer said. “Whether somebody thinks they’re OK, or they don’t want to leave a car, or their phone is out of batteries and they can’t call a cab — or they called one and it won’t show up — there are a mil-lion reasons why it’s hap-pening, and all of them are unfortunate.

“All you can do is keep preaching to guys. Coach (Dennis) Allen talks about it all the time: ‘If you’ve made some mistakes and you’ve been drinking, you have to do the right thing.’ There is no other way around it. You have to call somebody, whether it’s a cab, a limo, a friend, a family member . . . that’s all you can do is keep bringing it up. It’s obvious-ly a big problem in the NFL and in this country.”

While the Belcher and Brent incidents occurred in-season, the biggest con-cern for teams is the off-

season, when players have more free time on their hands.

“That’s when coaches worry the most about what can happen,” Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel said. “You try to educate them before they leave and talk to them about staying out of bad situations and walking away from situations that become contentious. You try to teach them the right thing and hope they make the right choices.

“ I ’ v e had op-p o r t u n i -ties to talk to play-ers about their life-style and about what they need to do to straighten themselves out.

“Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t.”

Chiefs Hall of Fame safe-ty Deron Cherry has seen the issue of drinking and driving from all angles. He was a six-time Pro Bowler as a player. He was a part owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars. And he’s presi-dent of United Beverage

Co., which distributes An-heuser-Busch products in the Kansas City area.

Cherry said players should be aware of the dan-gers of alcohol long before they reach the NFL.

“It’s not only when they get to the NFL,” Cherry said. “They’re exposed to this in college. Everybody knows what they have to deal with in college. We’ve all been there. Even in high school now, they’re exposed to these issues of drinking and being responsible.

“It’s how you handle those situations when you’re in high school, when you’re in college; you should be past that stage that when you get to the league. It shouldn’t be an is-sue. You should understand you have that responsibil-ity.”

Rather than feel respon-sible, so many athletes feel invincible.

“Some guys think they have a Superman (logo) on their chest and nothing’s going to happen to them,” Cherry said. “There’s that entitlement activity . . . no different than you see with some of these people in Hollywood. They continue to be destructive â. . . why would you do that? But you think you’re invincible and have an entitlement men-tality that you don’t have to answer to the law.”

As a beer distributor, Cherry is keenly aware of the consequences of drink-ing and driving.

“You have to be legal age to drink it, so hopefully you’re a responsible indi-vidual when to say no,” Cherry said. “Our business is legal, it’s very highly regulated, but the problem we have ... (is) it’s hard for any individual or group or

person to regulate human social behavior.

“You don’t see 98 or 99 percent of players abusing the responsibility of be-ing able to go out and have a drink, have a good time, and be able to function like a normal human being. Those people are being re-sponsible. Why can’t that other 1 or 2 percent do the same thing? You don’t un-derstand what’s ticking in their heads.”

Does the punishment fit the crime? NFL players who are guilty of DUI receive a fine of two game checks up to a maximum of $50,000 for a first offense. A DUI arrest also gets a player evaluated for potential entry into the league’s substance-abuse program.

If the commissioner finds that there were aggravating circumstances, and if the player has had prior drug- or alcohol-related miscon-duct, increased discipline up to and including sus-pension may be imposed. Discipline for a second or subsequent offense is likely to involve further suspen-sions.

NFL commissioner Rog-er Goodell met with NFLPA executive director DeMau-rice Smith about the issue of drinking and driving during the recent owners meetings in Dallas, not far from the scene of Brent’s accident. NFL senior vice president Greg Aiello said the league has been propos-ing harsher penalties for such infractions, but the players association is op-posed.

“I don’t think it’s a se-cret that we have long felt the discipline in this area needs to be revisited and escalated on a first offense and a second offense, “ Goodell told reporters in Dallas. “Hopefully that nev-er happens, but it’s very im-portant to have that.”

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Matt Moore, now of the Mi-ami Dolphins, misplayed a ball in short left field.

Shields was heartbro-ken. But life — and base-ball — would go on. A few weeks later, in early June, the Royals selected Stodol-ka with the No. 4 overall pick, a potential ace on his way to the big leagues.

Shields waited until the 16th round, when Tampa Bay drafted him 466th overall.

From that point on, he was mostly known as James.

If you’re a baseball fan in Kansas City, you proba-bly know the story of Mike Stodolka. Like so many other young starters, the potential never surfaced. He scuffled in the minors. Decided to become a hitter. And that was that.

If you’re a baseball fan in Kansas City, you may just be learning about James Shields.

Two Sundays ago, the Royals shook up the ma-jor leagues by acquiring Shields — who turned 31 today — and right-handed pitcher Wade Davis, 27, from the Tampa Bay Rays in a seven-player block-buster deal. The two arms came at a premium price.

The Royals handed over consensus minor-league player of the year Wil My-ers, 22, a power-hitting outfielder; top pitching prospect Jake Odorizzi, 22; former top pitching pros-pect Mike Montgomery, 23; and minor-league third baseman Patrick Leonard, 20. Tampa Bay will also send a player to be deter-mined in the deal.

The gambit comes with risk, of course. The Royals exchanged the promise of prospects for the instant gratification of a 30-some-thing frontline starter.

Shields is just part of the Royals’ remade start-

ing rotation. They also ac-quired right-hander Ervin Santana from the Angels and re-signed right-hander Jeremy Guthrie to a three-year deal this offseason.

But so much of the bur-den will fall on Shields, a veteran with one turn-around story — a worst-to-first run in Tampa Bay — on his resume.

THOSE WHO KNOW Shields say he embodies the intangibles — leader-ship, integrity, passion — that the Royals covet.

“A lot of the motiva-tion,” says Davis, a long-time teammate in Tampa Bay, “comes from him and what he brings to the ta-ble.”

When James Shields was a senior in high school, a math teacher at Hart High School named David Mont-gomery took his 10-year-old son, Michael, to meet Shields for a personal hit-ting lesson.

Montgomery had taught Shields ninth-grade al-gebra, and as far back as he could remember, the kid seemed determined

to make baseball his life. Shields had older brothers who played, and his cous-in, Aaron Rowand, was about to make his major-league debut as a Chicago White Sox outfielder.

In the afternoons, fellow Hart students would of-ten see Shields heading to the football field for long-toss, using the yard lines to mark the distance. At night, Shields would head to his part-time job at the local batting cage.

“All the Little League teams would go see him,” David Montgomery says.

In Santa Clarita, the Shields stories are now legend. Here’s another one: In 2002, when Shields underwent major shoul-der surgery as a Rays mi-nor-leaguer, he needed an equalizer to make up for the lost velocity. So Shields went into the backyard with his brother, messing around with change-up grips until he found the right one.

By 2007, his breakout season with the Rays, the change-up had become his signature.

“That is his pitch; that’s his baby,” says former Roy-als pitcher Brian Ander-son, who was an assistant pitching coach for Tampa Bay in 2008 and 2009.

“Everybody knows it, but there’s nothing they can do about it.”

When Anderson arrived in Tampa Bay in 2008, the Rays had suffered through 10 straight seasons of at least 90 losses, including 96 the year before. For years, the most hopeless franchise in baseball had played in a depressing warehouse of a stadium called Tropicana Field. But Shields, still just 26, was emerging as the leader of a young pitching staff.

He’d posted a 3.85 ERA in 2007, and then followed that with a 14-8 record and 3.56 ERA in 2008 as the Rays won 97 games and the American League pen-nant. The Rays called him “Big Game” James.

“We developed a chemis-try from ‘07 to ‘08,” Shields says.

If there was a fight, Shields was the type of guy who wouldn’t back down. If a Tampa Bay pitcher needed to hear something, Shields was generally the guy who would deliver the message.

“We wanted to look back and say we were one of the big reasons that we won games,” Davis says.

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Arrests madeRunaways nabbed

Monday, police officers made a traffic stop on the 300 block of North Chest-nut Street. The officers dis-covered that the three oc-cupants of the vehicle were all runaways from Arma, ages 12, 15 and 16. The ve-hicle, having been reported stolen, was impounded. The youths were taken into custody and charges are be-ing taken up in Crawford County.

Man arrestedon warrant

Officers sought out Eric Schommer, Iola, on Monday for an outstanding warrant with the Allen County Dis-trict Court. He was arrested and taken to the county jail.

Minor arrestedduring traffic stop

During a traffic stop in the 2200 block of North Kentucky Street on Sunday officers arrested Brittany Belosic, 18, on charges of driving under the influence and consumption of alco-hol by a minor.

Man arrestedon traffic charges

Saturday, officers made a traffic stop in the 200 block

of South Oak Street. Jason Anderson-Moseley was ar-rested for driving without a license, no proof of insur-ance and an outstanding warrant in Allen County.

Protection order reported violated

Jimmy Pergeson was ar-rested in the 1100 block of North Jefferson Avenue Saturday for violation of a protection order.

Shoplifting allegedin woman’s arrest

Jessica Wright was ar-rested on Dec. 12 at the Dol-lar General on State Street for shoplifting.

Woman arrestedon drug charges

Amanda Pollock, Iola, was arrested on Dec. 11 in the 800 block of Wilson Lane for possession of mar-ijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Table saw stolenMarilyn Andres, Gas, re-

ported on Dec. 10 that a 10-inch Ryobi table saw was stolen from her garage at 1102 East St. She said “An-dres” was engraved into the arm of the saw.

Gasoline stolenCasey’s General Store re-

ported that $13.29 worth of gasoline was stolen on Dec. 10. The suspect is thought to have been an elderly white male, approximately 65 years old.

Snowman stolenBetty Holding reported

to officers that a snowman decoration was stolen from her front yard in the 1000 block of North Cottonwood Street on Dec. 10.

iPad stolenMikayla Williams, Iola,

reported on Dec. 10 that her iPad had been stolen from her residence at 127 White Blvd., Apt. 204. A suspect was identified.

Student’s phonereported stolen

On Dec. 12, Chad Thomp-son reported his Samsung Galaxy cell phone was sto-len from the Allen Commu-nity College weight room. The phone has a black and white ballistics case along with a privacy screen.

Computer stolenfrom dorm room

Blake Wulfkuhle report-ed on Dec. 13 that his Mac-book Air was taken from his dorm room on the 1800 block of North Cottonwood Street.

Vehicle tag stolenMichael Garver reported

to officers that his Kansas license tag, 809DGX, was stolen from inside a bucket truck while it was parked at 1202 N. Cottonwood St. on Dec. 14.

Toolbox stolen fromlocal pickup truck

Steven Garber reported Friday a red toolbox was stolen out of the bed of his white Chevrolet pick-up truck in front of his residence at 416 N. Walnut St. The toolbox contained screwdrivers, a socket set and two pairs of pliers.

Cash stolenfrom Iola woman

Kathy Miller, Iola, re-ported to officers a small amount of cash and a checkbook belonging to Jeffery Miller was stolen Saturday in the 400 block of South First Street.

Other incidents— Iola police responded

to a disturbance in the 100 block of South First Street on Dec. 13. A 16-year-old ju-venile was taken into cus-tody as a child in need of care. Battery charges are being sought through the Allen County attorney’s of-fice.

— Bettie Pankey report-ed her vehicle was struck in the Walmart parking lot on Dec. 6.

— Susan Gonzales, Cha-nute, reported on Sunday she had lost her driver’s li-cense and debit card at an unknown location in Iola.

— John Park reported on Sunday he had been bat-tered while at his residence in the 10 block of North State Street.

— Lindsey Shaughnessy reported to officers some-one damaged her electric star Christmas tree on Dec. 11 in the 700 block of Kan-sas Drive.

— Paul Stokes, Iola, re-ported on Dec. 12 the win-dow of his camper was damaged while it was parked in the 300 block of North Washington Avenue.

— Iola police officers are seeking the identity of a person who left coins at Great Southern Bank. The money is being held at the police department.

— Bryan Mize Jr., Brandi Jones and Paul Heslop were found to be in direct con-tempt of court on Dec. 12 by Judge Thomas Saxton in the Iola Municipal Court.

— A blue 26-inch Sch-winn Sidewinder boys bi-cycle was found in the 800 block of North Chestnut Street on Dec. 13.

Minivan soughtin fire probe

WAVERLY — Coffey County deputies are look-ing for a blue minivan that was seen near grassfires set Wednesday and Thurs-day of last week, the Coffey County Republican report-ed.

Arrest followschase by deputy

Seth Kress, 29, Iola, was taken into custody by An-derson County authorities Tuesday afternoon after he led Jeremy Troester, an Allen County deputy, on a chase from north of Iola on old U.S. 169 to Colony.

Undersheriff Bryan Mur-phy said Kress was wanted for domestic and civil bat-tery when he was noticed in Iola. Troester was alert-ed and attempted to stop Kress before he drove off and to Colony. Murphy said a charge of felony fleeing and eluding an officer also would be sought.

Kress allegedly battered his girlfriend and her fa-ther at a residence near Colony. He was taken to the Osawatomie State Hospital for a mental assessment af-ter his arrest.

Police reports

The Kappa Alpha Chapter of the Phi Tau Omega sorority met Monday for their Christ-mas party at the home of Mary Lou and Mike Bey-ers. Hostesses were Mary Lou Beyers and Connie Rutledge.

Special guest was Santa (Vernon Hill) who passed out Christmas gifts to everyone. Present were 14 members, four pledges and five guests. Afterward Santa posed for pictures with the group. The evening was spent visiting and enjoy-ing the good food.

Pledges present were Gwen Hamilton, Viv-ian Peavey, Carla Hunt and Elizabeth Donnelly. Guests were Mike Beyers, Jerry Skidmore, Gary Hoffmeier, Carl Stanley and Ken Hunt.

The January business meeting will be hosted by Beckye Parker, location to be announced later.

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For a peaceful holiday season to you and yours.

The Light is come into the world

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. John 8:12 (KJV)

May the Light of Christ shine on you at Christmas and guide you in all of the years to come.

Steven R. Stanley • David E. Yokum

16 N. Buckeye, Iola • 620-365-2948

Windsor PlaceLast week the residents

were visited by Santa. Over 150 family members attend.

Many organizations have come to Windsor Place to sing or deliver Christ-mas cards. Andy Dunlap brought his troop of Boy Scouts. Sarah Folk and the Daises 70007 and Girl Scouts Troops 70248 and 70264 visited another night.

Florence Utley was visit-ed by Connie Prock, Casey and Terri Riebel; Sylvia Wools was visited by Deb-bie Wools, Karmeron Simp-son, Brooklynn Jones, Jack Tate and Carolyn Denny; Elizabeth Comption was visited by Finley Comp-tion; Betty Camac was vis-ited by Julia Ann Rleoton and Gerie Reeder; Ralph Wilson was visited by Ha-len Westerman; Leroy Ew-

ing was visited by Jess Ew-ing.

Iola Nursing Home Charles and Janel Cole,

Gas, and Vida Sprague, Andover, visited Betty Sprague. Lauren and Sha-ron Frederick and Patti Nichols, West Des Moines, visited Elmer Nichols. Leo-na Holtz, Iola, visited Doris Rogers. Mark and Barbara

Foster, Paola, and Mike, Cindy, Nate, John Foster, Baldwin City, visited Al-bert Foster. Ken, Sandra, Hannah Church, Leaven-worth, visited Lila Church, who had her birthday on Dec. 15. Ralph Beachy, Ka-tie Schmucker, Ida Yoder, Garnett, and Joanne and Jill Yoder, Katie and Norma Beachy, Hutchison, visited Dora Beachy.

Nursing home news

Guest Home EstatesDonna Zornes, Ottawa,

and Jan, Jeremie, Jack and Jammel Wing, St. Joe, and David and Cindy Sparky Zornes, Bartles-ville, Okla. and David and Ruth Spangler, Moran, visited Russel Zornes. A

Moran group of 22 sang Christmas carols to the residents. Members of St. John’s Catholic Church, First Christian Church and Wesley United Meth-odist Seeds and Sprouts youth group sang carols to the residents.

Residential care news


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DREAM HOME FOR SALE. 402 S. Elm, Iola, Grand 3-story 1897 home on 3 lots. 4,894 sq. ft. $190,000. call 620-365-9395 for Susan Lynn or Dr. Brian Wolfe [email protected]. More info and pictures at iolaregister.com/classifieds

Services Offered

Help Wanted ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR NEED-ED to teach Dreamweaver and Flash classes at Allen Community College for the 2013 semester on the Iola Campus. Classes are of-fered on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays from 11a.m. to 1p.m. Mas-ter’s degree with at least 18 gradu-ate hours in computer science or a related discipline preferred. Review of applications will begin immediate-ly. Come be a part of our great team! Send letter of interest, resume, un-official college transcripts and three professional references to: Person-nel Office, Allen Community Col-lege, 1801 N. Cottonwood, Iola, KS 66749. Fax to 620-365-7406, email: [email protected]. Equal Op-portunity Employer.

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Personals

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P AYLESS C ONCRETE P RODUCTS, INC .

802 N. I ndustrial R d ., I ola (620) 365-5588

1008 N. Industrial Road H Iola 1008 N. Industrial Road H Iola

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Help Wanted Anderson County Hospital, Saint Luke’s Health System has the fol-lowing positions open: PATIENT ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVE III (billing position) in Fiscal Services Department, full time. HOUSE-KEEPER in Hospitality Services, part time as needed. NUTRITION-AL SERVICES AIDE and COOK in Nutrition Services, part time as needed. MEDICAL TECHNOLO-GIST in Laboratory Department, part time as needed. Apply online at www.saintlukeshealthsystem.org/jobs See online posting for more in-formation on each opening. We hire only non-tobacco users. EOE.

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Child Care

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HOLIDAY SPECIALS December/January

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Pets and Supplies

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1-BEDROOM MOBILE HOME, $350 plus $300 deposit, 410 N. Oak, Lot 22, Adults only, no pets, need references, No illegal drug activity, Senior Living Trailer Park, 620-365-3402.

Real Estate for Rent QUALITY AND AFFORDABLE HOMES available for rent now, http://www.growiola.com/

IOLA, 818 GARFIELD RD. N., 3- BEDROOM, CH/CA, appliances, large backyard, single attached ga-rage w/auto opener, $795 monthly, 620-496-6161 or 620-496-2222.

New Duplex, 2-Bedroom, CA/H, garage, appliances. Ready Now! Taking applications. 620-228-2231.

406 S. KENTUCKY, 1-BEDROOM, $350 monthly, $350 deposit, 620-363-2007.

ECKAN (a community action agency) ECKAN (a community action agency) is seeking to hire an ANDERSON COUNTY is seeking to hire an ANDERSON COUNTY

HUMAN SERVICE COORDINATOR. HUMAN SERVICE COORDINATOR. This position will operate out of Garnett to provide case management and other support services to low-income families throughout Anderson County. Must be able to create and maintain effective community partnerships. Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services field preferred. $ 32,000/year-plus excellent benefits. Open until filled. For a complete job description go to www.eckan.org. A printable application can also be downloaded from the site for interested applicants. 785-242-7450, ext. 7100. EOE M/F/D/V.

ALLEN COUNTY DISTRICT COURT ALLEN COUNTY DISTRICT COURT IOLA, KANSAS IOLA, KANSAS

TRIAL COURT CLERK II TRIAL COURT CLERK II Salary $ 11.29 per hour. DUTIES: caseload processing, receipting DUTIES: payments and balancing, scheduling, filing, answering telephone, typing, assisting the public. REQUIRED EDUCATION AND REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: graduation from high school or GED and 1 year EXPERIENCE: of experience in clerical work. Thirty semester hours or its equivalent may be substituted for the required experience. 1 yr. working experience on IBM compatible computer. PREFERRED PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: Court or law office experience and accounting. EXPERIENCE: Kansas Judicial Branch Application for Employment is REQUIRED . ( http://www.kscourts.org/pdf/application.pdf ) Send REQUIRED applications to: Dina Morrison, Chief Clerk, Allen County District Court, 1 N. Washington, Room B, Iola, KS 66749. Applications must be received in the Allen County District Court office no later than December 28, 2012 at 4 p.m. The Kansas Judicial Branch is an EEO/AA Employer.

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By PAUL RICHTERTribune Washington

BureauWASHINGTON — The

State Department was guilty of “systematic failures” in security that made the dead-ly Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Libya possible, a high-level inves-tigative panel concluded in an unflinching examination made public late Tuesday.

The panel faulted the de-partment for ignoring re-quests from U.S. diplomats in Tripoli for security assis-tance and for relying on ill-prepared local militias and inadequate equipment to protect the mission in Ben-ghazi. It found that two key bureaus failed to properly coordinate their security planning, and it pointed to a failure in leadership by offi-cials at several levels.

“Systematic failures and leadership and manage-ment deficiencies at senior levels within two bureaus of the State Department re-sulted in a ... security pos-ture that was inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place,” the report says.

The attacks by dozens of Islamist militants killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans and set off a broad reexamination of how the U.S. government protects its thousands of diplomats in dangerous parts of the world. The inci-dent has also become the fo-cus of a months-long battle between the Obama admin-istration and Republican critics, who contend offi-cials have sought to cover up their lapses.

United Nations Ambassa-dor Susan Rice was among those caught up in the po-litical fray, eventually with-drawing her name from con-sideration as secretary of State after fierce criticism of her comments on television talk shows regarding the Benghazi attacks.

According to the report, which is likely to represent the government’s lasting judgment on the attacks, the assault was the calculated effort of militants and not a “spontaneous” reaction of an outraged crowd, the first explanation offered by U.S. officials.

Yet the five-member inde-pendent panel said that, de-spite the lapses, no officials had failed to carry out their duties in a way that required disciplinary action.

It also determined that there had been “no immedi-ate, specific intelligence” on the threat against the mis-sion.

The report prepared for lawmakers includes classi-fied sections.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a let-ter to congressional commit-tees that she has accepted “every one” of the Account-ability Review Board’s 29 recommendations, several of which remain classified.

She praised the board, saying that it had offered “a clear-eyed look at serious, systematic challenges that we have already begun to fix.”

Three state officials resign over roles in Benghazi

Systematic fail-ures and leader-ship and manage-ment deficiencies at senior levels within two bu-reaus of the State Department re-sulted in a ... se-curity posture that was inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inade-quate to deal with the attack that took place.

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“The fact that this prob-lem is complex can no lon-ger be an excuse for doing nothing. The fact that we can’t prevent every act of violence doesn’t mean we can’t steadily reduce the violence.” — President Barack Obama after prom-ising to send Congress broad proposals in January for tightening gun laws and curbing violence after last week’s schoolhouse massa-cre in Connecticut.

___“It’s always hard to bury

a child. God didn’t do this. God didn’t allow this. We allowed it. ‘Send the little children to me.’ But he didn’t mean it this way.” — Rev. John Inserra a Catho-lic priest trying to comfort families wondering how a loving God could permit such carnage as more vic-tims from the slaughter of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Connecticut. were laid to rest.

___“This is not a game. This

is real because so much of the sequester (spending cuts) would be defense — half of it. I just don’t think it’s workable.” — Rep. C.W. (Bill) Young of Florida, who heads the House panel with jurisdiction over the Pentagon’s budget, saying he is undecided how to vote on the legislation as fiscal cliff talks are at a partisan standoff.


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(First published in The IolaRegister, December 6, 2012)

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS

In the Matter of the Estate ofJohn Robert WorksDeceased

No. 2012 PR 46 NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:You are notified that on Novem-

ber 28, 2012, a Petition For Pro-bate of Will and Issuance of Letters Testamentary and Determination of Valid Waiver of Rights by Surviving Spouse was filed in this Court by Frederick J. Works, Successor Ex-ecutor named in the Last Will and Testament of John Robert Works, deceased.

All creditors of the Decedent are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within the latter of four months from the date of first publication of notice under K.S.A. 59-2236 and amendments thereto,

or if the identity of the creditor is known or reasonably ascertainable, 30 days after actual notice was giv-en as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

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Hi, Carolyn: My friend has children. I don’t. When-ever I mention having done something that costs even a medium amount of money, like splurging on a piece of jewelry, her martyr complex comes out: “You’re so lucky you get to do things like that!”

Maybe I’m projecting, but this dialogue really irritates me (it happens with other mommy friends, too). Do you think these comments are intended as digs, or are they innocent insights into how moms of small kids actually feel? Do they think I would rather have dispos-able income than a family? — Philly

Answer: No doubt some people take the “Must be nice having [something I don’t]” tone of snarktastic self-validation — but what you describe sounds more like reflexive fatigue from people who rarely sleep.

Try replacing the kids/no kids topic with one that isn’t your hot button —

imagine working two jobs to cover your student loans, say, when your friend says, “We’re spending Christmas in St. Bart’s.” You just might blurt, “You’re so lucky you get to do things like that!”

It wouldn’t be your proud-est moment, but your lament also would be more insight-into-true-feelings than dig, right?

So respond to your mom friends accordingly. Cliches are your friend in (only) these instances — “Grass is always greener, eh?” — as is life affirmation: “Thanks, I do feel lucky.” When you’re inclined to make a point, there’s always, “ . . . but it’s never as easy as that.”

By the way — some people

do choose disposable income over kids. No shame there.

Hi, Carolyn: What do you say to somebody who has several “I will never ______” things, is openly snarky and condescending to those who do those things . . . and then later does those same things? Then gets angry when ques-tioned about the change of heart, and says they never thought that, or if they did they weren’t THAT mean about it?

And is your parent?I know it will never

change. Is there any way other than, “Yeah, OK, what-ever,” to respond to either end of the cycle? — Oh You Won’t, Will You?

Answer: You can relish each comeuppance, inside.

You can also greet the cy-cle’s beginning with a mild, “Perhaps you shouldn’t box yourself in,” and its end with, “______.” You’ll both know what goes there, so no need to keep score out loud.

Hi, Carolyn: I stay at home with our 1-year-old twins.

When they sleep, I work on an online class for my mas-ter’s degree. When they’re awake, well, they need su-pervision.

It’s a nice enough life for me, but I also kind of sympa-thize with far-off friends and family who want to know what I’m doing BESIDES watching the babies . . . not much. When I do get down time, I just want to take a nap! How can I be less bor-ing? Any magic perspective? — Boring

Answer: Sorry. My “magic perspective” suggests you strike “be entertaining” from your to-do list.

This is not to be mistaken for license to bore, obvious-ly; unless you have a talent for mining humor out of tedious things, monologu-ing about babies is cruel and unusual punishment of those whose only crime was to care about you. But you can respond to people’s po-lite queries with, “What can I say — I watch babies, study and sleep.”

Trials of parenting, and dealing with parentsTell MeAbout It

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The world’s happiest people aren’t in Qatar, the richest country by most measures. They aren’t in Japan, the nation with the highest life expectancy. Canada, with its chart-topping percentage of college graduates, doesn’t make the top 10.

A poll released Wednes-day of nearly 150,000 people around the world says seven of the world’s 10 countries with the most upbeat atti-tudes are in Latin America.

Many of the seven do poorly in traditional mea-sures of well-being, like Guatemala, a country torn by decades of civil war fol-lowed by waves of gang-driven criminality that give it one of the highest homicide rates in the world. Guatemala sits just above Iraq on the United Nations’ Human Development Index, a composite of life expectan-cy, education and per capita income. But it ranks sev-enth in positive emotions.

“In Guatemala, it’s a cul-ture of friendly people who are always smiling,” said Luz Castillo, a 30-year-old surfing instructor. “Despite all the problems that we’re facing, we’re surrounded by natural beauty that lets us get away from it all.”

Gallup Inc. asked about 1,000 people in each of 148 countries last year if they were well-rested, had been treated with respect, smiled or laughed a lot, learned or did something interesting and felt feelings of enjoy-ment the previous day.

In Panama and Paraguay, 85 percent of those polled said yes to all five, putting

those countries at the top of the list. They were followed closely by El Salvador, Vene-zuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand, Guatemala, the Philippines, Ecuador and Costa Rica.

The people least likely to report positive emotions lived in Singapore, the wealthy and orderly city-state that ranks among the most developed in the world. Other wealthy countries also sat surprisingly low on the list. Germany and France tied with the poor African state of Somaliland for 47th place.

Prosperous nations can be deeply unhappy ones. And poverty-stricken ones are often awash in positivi-ty, or at least a close approxi-mation of it.

It’s a paradox with serious implications for a relatively new and controversial field called happiness economics that seeks to improve gov-ernment performance by adding people’s perceptions of their satisfaction to tra-ditional metrics such as life expectancy, per capita in-come and graduation rates.

The Himalayan king-dom of Bhutan famously measures policies by their impact on a concept called Gross National Happiness.

British Prime Minister David Cameron announced a national well-being pro-gram in 2010 as part of a pledge to improve Britons’ lives in the wake of the global recession. A house-hold survey sent to 200,000 Britons asks questions like “How satisfied are you with your life nowadays?”

The Organization for

Economic Co-operation and Development, which unites 34 of the world’s most ad-vanced countries, recently created a Better Life Index allowing the public to com-pare countries based on quality of life in addition to material well-being.

Some experts say that’s a dangerous path that could allow governments to use positive public perceptions as an excuse to ignore prob-lems. As an example of the risks, some said, the Gallup poll may have been skewed by a Latin American cultur-al proclivity to avoid nega-tive statements regardless of how one actually feels.

“My immediate reaction is that this influenced by cultural biases,” said Edu-ardo Lora, who studied the statistical measurement of happiness as the former chief economist of the In-ter-American Development Bank

“What the empirical liter-ature says is that some cul-tures tend to respond to any type of question in a more positive way,” said Lora, a native of Colombia, the 11th most-positive country.

For the nine least posi-tive countries, some were not surprising, like Iraq, Ye-men, Afghanistan and Hai-ti. For others at the bottom,

Armenia at the second low-est spot, Georgia and Lithu-ania, misery is something a little more ephemeral.

“Feeling unhappy is part of the national men-tality here,” said Agaron Adibekian, a sociologist in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. “Armenians like being mournful; there have been so many upheav-als in the nation’s history. The Americans keep their smiles on and avoid sharing their problems with others. And the Armenians feel ashamed about being suc-cessful.”

The United States was No. 33 in positive outlook. Latin

America’s biggest econo-mies, Mexico and Brazil, sat more than 20 places further down the list.

Jon Clifton, a partner at Gallup, acknowledged the poll partly measured cul-tures’ overall tendency to express emotions, positive or negative. But he said skeptics shouldn’t under-value the expression of positive emotion as an im-portant phenomenon in and of itself.

“Those expressions are a reality, and that’s exactly what we’re trying to quan-tify,” he said. “I think there is higher positive emotion-ality in these countries.”

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