Ruth Yowell, 90, Humboldt, passed away Jan. 21, 2013, at Windsor Place in Iola.
Ruth was born east of Chanute on Feb. 5, 1922, the daughter of Oscar and Lillie Mar (Inman) LaSalle. She married Eldon Yowell on Dec. 7, 1941, in Caney. He preceded her in death in July of 1994.
In addition to being a mother and wife, she farmed with her husband for 25 years, managed Best Western Motels in Ottawa and Ark City for several years. She also worked at Johnson’s General Store in Humboldt for 13 years. She was an incredible seamstress who enjoyed making and giving away bears. One of her greatest talents was making the best macaroni and cheese for her family.
Ruth is survived by her four children, Wayne and Bonnie Yowell, Wichita, Lyle Yowell, Olathe, Dale and Randee Yowell, Humboldt, and Pat Yowell of St. Louis, Mo.; six grandchildren, Jackie and Darin McIntyre, Wichita, William and Lisa Yowell, Wichita, Sean and Ann Yowell, Olathe, Aaron Yowell, Belton, Mo., Mikel and Sheri Yowell, Humboldt, and Jeremy Yowell, Olathe; nine great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mary Ann and Cecil Barnhart, Erie, and Jennie Roseberry, Overland Park; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by parents, husband and one sister, Florence Clemens.
A Graveside Service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday at Mt. Hope in Humboldt.
Memorials in her name may be made to Home Health and Hospice in Iola and may be left with the funeral home.
Penwell-Gabel Humboldt Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
IPD, KBI make key meth arrests
The Iola Police Department, along with Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents, made key arrests last week in the fight against methamphetamine production and sales.
On Jan. 19, police officers and KBI agents executed a search warrant at 424 N. Cottonwood St. to execute a search warrant.
After the search, Christopher Lee Trautloff, 29, and Sierra Renee Trautloff, 27, both of Iola, were arrested and taken to the Allen County Jail. They remain in custody.
Officers are requesting charges, including manufacturing methamphetamine, possession of meth, unlawful use of a communication facility to facilitate a felony drug transaction, possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to manufacture methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia used to ingest illegal narcotics be filed through the Allen County attorney’s office.
Information gathered from the Trautloff residence led to the arrest of another suspected drug trafficker, Thadeus Hutton.
On Jan. 22, officers arrested Hutton in the 600 block of North Cottonwood Street for suspicion of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, distributing or marketing precursors for illegal use, possession of hallucinogens, possession of drug paraphernalia, using a communication facility in the commission of a felony and no possession of a drug tax stamp.
He also is being held in the Allen County Jail.
Iola Police Chief Jared Warner declined to offer additional details regarding the arrests, in order not to hinder any ongoing investigation.
“The Iola Police Department is dedicated to working on drug investigations and keeping drugs off the street,” Warner said. “Over the past year we have made progress on several drug investigations.”
Warner said it was important to recognize the police department’s hard work.
With new technology, he said the investigation process is becoming more complicated and in depth.
“We have the right personnel dedicated to the investigation. It is both time-consuming and tedious,” Warner said.
Red Devil women win again
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Allen Community College’s women moved three games over .500 for the first time this season Wednesday with a 42-33 win over Kansas City, Kan., Community College.
The men, however, saw their losing streak reach nine games with another heart-breaking loss, falling to KCK 61-59.
Full details will be in Saturday’s Register.
The Allen women stand at 11-8 overall and 4-3 in Jayhawk Conference Eastern Division play. The Red Devil men are at 4-15 overall and 0-7 in conference.
The schools will host Cowley on Saturday.
Austin Levi Reser
Austin Levi Reser, Yates Center, passed away Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, after an automobile accident. He was 16.
Austin was born May 8, 1996, in Chanute, the son of Roy Akin and Valicia (Adkins). Austin grew up in Iola until the age of four; he was then adopted by his great-grandparents, Clifford and Delores Reser. After the adoption Austin began attending Yates Center Schools and was a junior in High School before his life abruptly ended Sunday evening.
Austin worked as a Grocery Attendant for G&W Foods in Yates Center and has been employed with the company for nearly one year. He was also a member of the First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ where he served as a deacon for the church.
Austin is survived by his birth father, Roy Akin and his wife Sue, Iola; birth mother Valicia (Adkins) and significant other, Wayne Daugherty, Panama City, Fla.; parents, Clifford and Delores Reser, Yates Center; brother, Dylan Reser; sisters, Kaitlyn Makayla and Hannah Reser, Yates Center, Emma Daugherty, Panama City, Fla.; grandmother Vicky Adkins, Yates Center; grandfather, the late Edward Adkins; and a host of Aunts and Uncles as well as many other relatives and friends.
Services for Austin were today at 10 a.m. at the First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Yates Center. Austin’s register book is open for signing at Campbell Funeral home in Yates Center. The family suggests memorials be sent to Campbell Funeral Home, P.O. Box 188, Yates Center, 66783, for use of Austin’s outstanding expenses.
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City of Bassett
Mayor:
Larry W. Crawford
Council:
Connie S. Alexander
Carol L. Crawford
Mark Dozier
James F. Ratcliff
Sheryl L. Ratcliff
Allen Community College
Neal W. Barclay
Harvey Rogers
Jenny Spillman
USD 256
Member District #3:
Lindsay T. Drake
Jim Armstrong
Member District #4:
Bill Bigelow
Member District #5:
Joshua Hermann
Member District #6:
Steve A. Becker
USD 257
Member District #4:
Tony Leavitt
Member District #5:
No Candidate
Member District #6:
Darrell D. Catron
USD 258
At-Large:
Donald E. Hauser
Kevin W. Heisler
Larry Mendoza
Mike Mueller
Clayton Schoendaller
Toni Schomaker
Steven Sellman
Kyle Seufert
Mitzi A. Farran
City of Elsmore
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City of Gas
Mayor:
Nobby Davis
Council:
Ward 1, Position 3
Mark Slater
Ward 1, Position 4
Shelia Bolling
Jerry Stephens
Ward 2, Position 3
Bryan D. Manion
Ward 2, Position 4
No Candidate
City of LaHarpe
Council:
Stanley Amweg
Tiffany Andres
Clayton Carr
Don F. Gay
Ruth L. Jackson
Ronald Knavel Sr.
Harry Lee Jr.
Diana Mullins
Sara’Nicole L. Prock
Tawnya M. Roloff
City of Mildred
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City of Moran
Mayor:
Phillip L. Merkel
Council:
James A. Mueller
Gene Gardner
City of Savonburg
Mayor:
Aaron Wilson
Council:
Vern L. Cuppet Jr.
Lon L. Hale
Charles E. Leckrone, Jr.
Glenn Wolfe
Southwind Extension #10
Jonet Bland
Jim Smart
FIRE DAMAGES STRICKLER DAIRY
Milking operations suspended
Late Tuesday night flames erupted from the main milking barn at Strickler Dairy north of Iola and quickly consumed the roof and caused damage throughout.
“It took the top off the barn,” said Steve Strickler, owner, this morning.
Jeanette Ingle, an employee at the dairy, was herding up a group of cattle at about 11 p.m. Tuesday when she saw the smoke and flames emanating from the barn.
She alerted coworker Elder Vasquez, who was in the barn with about 100 dairy cows.
“I don’t think he believed me at first,” she said. “He thought I was joking. I started yelling at him to get out.”
Elder, Ingle and the cattle were removed from the barn without injury.
Milking operations for the 350 head of cattle have been suspended. The dairies of Gary Foster in Uniontown and Robert Lowe in Prescott, Mo., have been secured to relieve the cows of their milk, Strickler said.
“The poor cows,” he said. “This is very hard on them to go through the fire and now to transport them. They won’t produce milk as they should.”
Strickler said the going price for milk “is not high enough” to make milk production very profitable. “The price of peat has been so high, and the price of milk so low, it’s been tough,” he said.
And now with the fire, “We’re losing money every day,” he said.
Strickler said it’s too soon to know the immediate future of the dairy.
“In a best case scenario, chances are we could be milking within a week,” he said.
Iola firefighters were on the scene for about five hours in the freezing temperatures to battle the blaze before it could spread.
Members of the Allen County Volunteer Fire Department also assisted.
WHILE CREWS were at the dairy, the Iola Fire Department received a second fire alarm shortly after midnight at Super 8 Motel.
The call was due to a malfunctioning fire alarm, firefighters said. There was no fire.
The old labels don’t help much
Here come the labels.
“Barack Hussein Obama opened his second term on Monday with an assertive inaugural address that offered a robust articulation of modern liberalism in America,” wrote Peter Baker for the New York Times.
Baker went on to define liberalism for himself: advancing gay rights, showing tolerance toward illegal immigrants, preserving Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and acting to stop climate change.
In addition to these specifics, a liberal thinks that government should act and he quoted the president: “Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-old debates about the role of government for all time — but it does require us to act in our time. For now decisions are upon us, and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle and substitute spectacle for politics or treat name-calling as reasoned debate. We must act.”
Reading these comments over again, one must wonder how many of us are “liberal” and how many are not. Granted, there are still a good many Americans who believe that climate change is a natural part of the way things are and can’t be altered by what people do or don’t do. There may be just as many who are emotionally unable to accept homosexuality as natural and can’t grant homosexuals full equality. Both of these positions lie contrary to the discoveries made by long years of careful study, which is why public opinion on both has shifted so dramatically in recent years.
But for the rest of Mr. Baker’s definition of liberalism, well, it seems to describe what Americans think governments should do for their citizens — and, for that matter, what the peoples in all of the world’s rich countries expect from government.
Without putting on a frock and mounting a pulpit, Mr. Baker could have gone on to say that “liberalism” in today’s nations of the west comes straight from the New Testament.
The belief that those with power and means should feed the hungry, clothe the unclothed, house the homeless, tend the ill, take special care of children and chase the money-changers out of the temple lies at the heart of Christianity. And Christian thought has played a dominant part in forming the values by which Americans, Europeans and growing numbers of Asians and Africans live.
If we can agree on these things, then the challenge is to govern responsibly.
Rather than debate whether government should guarantee universal health care coverage, the discussion should be how best to provide it and pay for it.
Rather than question where the responsibility lies to create effective schools to educate each generation for the increasingly challenging demands science and technology put on the work force, all of us should agree that the national community must meet that imperative and then decide how best to do it and pay for it.
The same can be said of each of the challenges our nation faces.
The American way should be liberal, in that its goals should embrace every citizen.
The American way should be conservative, in that each generation should pay its own bills
The American way should be communitarian, in that the good of the whole is given priority.
The American way must be practical, which recognizes that politics is the art of the possible and that good government can be achieved and maintained only through thoughtful compromise.
— Emerson Lynn, jr.
Donald Harris
Graveside services for Donald L. Harris, 83, Eudora, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, at Eudora Cemetery. He died on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, at Medicalodges in Eudora.
He served his country in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.
The family will greet friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. today at the Warren-McElwain Mortuary — Eudora Chapel.
The family suggests memorials to the Medicalodges Activity Fund and may be sent in care of the mortuary.
Online condolences may be sent to www.warrenmcelwain.com.
SCC squads fall
EMPORIA — Southern Coffey County High’s teams found a tough first round in their games to kick off the Lyon County League Tournament.
The SCC boys, seeded seventh, fell Monday evening to second-seeded Olpe 66-25. The loss sends Southern Coffey County to the consolation side of the bracket, where it will take on Lebo, which fell to Waverly 49-33. The second-round game tips off at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
On Tuesday, the Lady Titans squared off against top-seeded and undefeated Olpe High and fell 66-16. Southern Coffey County takes on Madison/Hamilton, which dropped a 46-45 decision to Burlingame. The second round game is at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Final round action is Saturday.
Labette downs Allen men
PARSONS — Allen Community College’s men got off on the right foot Monday, but could not sustain their early offensive efficiency.
The Red Devils trailed by nine at halftime, but their comeback attempt came up short in a 70-64 loss to Labette Community College.
The loss drops Allen to 4-14 overall and 0-6 in Jayhawk Conference Eastern Division play.
The Devils were sharing the ball and making open shots, and led for the game’s first 10 minutes, head coach Andy Shaw said.
“But the offense became stagnant, turning the ball over too many times.”
The Red Devils committed 14 first-half turnovers and trailed Labette 36-27 at the break.
Allen outscored Labette 37-34 in the second half.
Leading the way for Allen was Cameron Blue, who drained 4 of 5 3-pointers en route to 16 points and six rebounds. Tray Fountain and DeAndrae Barnette followed with 13 points apiece. Andrew Rountree scored eight points with eight rebounds and four assists. Ben Uno had eight points and four assists.
Allen County (27-37—64)
Labette (36-34—70
Allen (FG/3pt-FT-F-TP): Rountree 3-2-3-8, Burnes 0-2-0-2, Wesley 1-0-3-2, Fountain 3/1-4-3-13, Uno 3-2-3-8, Barnette 1/3-2-2-13, Blue 1/4-2-0-16, Walter 1-0-3-2. TOTALS: 11/10-12-22-64.
Labette (FG/3pt-FT-TP): Luerman 0/1-0-3, Williams 3/1-4-13, Hamilton 6-8-20, Elechi 3-0-6, Gantt 4/1-5-16, T. Johnson 1-0-2, Adams 2-3-7, Pledger 2-0-4. TOTALS: 23/2-20-70.