Wilburn E. Ludlum Sr., 96, longtime Moran resident, died Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010, at Vintage Park in Ottawa.
He was born Feb. 6, 1914, in Elsmore to Harvey and Emma (Olsen) Ludlum. He grew up on the family farm west of Elsmore and attended Sky Rocket Grade School.
On July 26, 1936, he married Pauline A. Dozier in Nevada, Mo. They made their home on a farm west of Elsmore for a year before moving to the present farm four miles northeast of Moran. She died May 30, 2003.
He was active in Moran United Methodist Church, serving on numerous boards and committees. He enjoyed gardening and he and his wife raised most of their food for a great number of years.
He is survived by a son, Wilburn E. Jr. and his wife, Barbara, Vassar; a sister: Edith Bolinger, Derby; five grandchildren, Roger Ludlum and his wife, Sheryl, and Mike Ludlum and his wife, Aimee, Waverly, Nancy Ludlum, Lenexa, Marty Paul Ludlum and his wife, Kara, Lawton, Okla., and Susanne Gray and her husband, Roy, The Colony, Texas; eight great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.
A son, Marvin Paul Sr., a grandson, Steven Ludlum, and seven siblings, Arthur, Lawrence, Harrison, Lucille, Gladys, Evelyn and an infant sister, died earlier.
Visitation will be from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel in Iola.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Moran United Methodist Church. The Rev. David Shrum will officiate. Burial will be in Moran Cemetery.
Memorials to Moran United Methodist Church or SouthernCare Hospice may be left at the funeral home. Online condolences for the family may be left at iolafuneral.com.
Leonard Cox
Leonard Clarence Cox, 75, of Iola died Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010, at Via Christi St. Francis Campus in Wichita.
He was born April 23, 1935, to Clarence and Beulah (Ford) Cox.
Most of his life he was a carpenter, but he later owned and operated J & L Tall Tales Bait Shop in Toronto and owned and operated Tornado Game Room in Eureka.
He is survived by his companion, Cathleen Williams, of the home; four daughters, Sue Weitzel and her husband, Richard, Chanute, Debra Wiles and her husband, Gary, Chanute, Brenda Cox, Neodesha, and Leona Bever and her husband, Rick; a stepdaughter, Jackie Denner; a son, Tim and his wife, Liz, Iola; a stepson, Rex McVey; 16 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; two brothers, John, Augusta, and Carl, Erie; and many nieces and nephews.
A sister, Margaret Enos, his second wife, Jean McVey, and a stepson, Rick McVey, died earlier.
Cremation has taken place.
Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Penwell-Gabel Johnson Chapel in Chanute.
Memorials to the Kidney Foundation or American Diabetes Association may be left at the funeral home. To leave a special message for the family online, visit www.PenwellGabelChanute.com.
USDA on both sides of battle against obesity
Here’s a classic case of a left hand pulling while the right hand pushes: Dairy Management, a creation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is very successfully increasing the consumption of cheese in the U.S. — Americans now eat an average of 33 pounds of cheese a year, nearly triple the the 1970 rate — while the USDA itself is the center of the government’s anti-obesity campaign.
An article in the Sunday New York Times used a campaign for Domino’s Pizza as an example. Domino’s sales were falling and consumers rated their product pretty awful. Enter Dairy Management. A team paid by the government worked with Domino’s to develop a new line of pizzas using 40 percent more cheese. Customers loved it. Sales zoomed.
At the same time Dairy Management was pushing cheese consumption up by millions of pounds a year, other USDA employees were urging the public to consume less saturated fat — which is found in whole milk and, you guessed it, cheese. While sales of low-fat and non-fat milk kept growing under the impact of advice from USDA scientists, the American people kept gaining weight.
Michelle Obama, the president’s wife, joined the obesity battle. At a speech she made to the National Restaurant Association’s annual convention she implored her audience to “offer healthy menu options” and deplored the proliferation of cheeseburgers and macaroni and cheese in the nation’s eateries.
As she was speaking, Dairy Management was working with restaurants to expand their menus with cheese-laden products.
Another example cited by the Times is the Taco Bell steak quesadilla, with cheddar, pepper jack, mozzarella and a creamy sauce. The quesadilla uses eight times more cheese than other items on the Taco Bell menu and contains more than three-quarters of the daily recommended level of saturated fat and sodium.
Some of Dairy Management’s tactics verge on dishonesty. The company, which is funded by a check-off on milk sold as well as USDA budget dollars, spent millions on research to support a national advertising campaign promoting the notion that people could lose weight by consuming more dairy products. That campaign went on for four years, ending in 2007, even though other researchers proved the theory to be false.
It was finally discontinued when more and more independent experts said way too much cheese and other fat-heavy dairy products were being eaten by Americans.
The Federal Trade Commission put an end to the claim that eating more dairy foods was a good way to lose weight when the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine petitioned the FTC to act.
“If you want to look at why people are fat today, it’s pretty hard to identify a contributor more signifcant than this meteoric rise in cheese consumption,” Dr. Neal D. Barnard, president of the physicians’ group, told a Times reporter.
THE USDA’S nutrition committee issued a new standard this summer calling for daily diets to contain no more than 7 percent of saturated fat by calorie count. That amounts to about 15.6 grams in a 2,000 calorie diet. But Americans are consuming nearly twice that much. Part of the reason is that the department is spending far more on promoting the increased consumption of cheese than it is on selling Americans on eating healthy diets.
Dairy Management has 162 employees and had a $135 million budget last year. The USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion — which runs its anti-obesity effort — has a budget of $6.5 million.
Dairy Management’s chief executive officer, Thomas P. Gallager, received $633,475 in compensation in 2008 — and that doesn’t count first-class travel privileges. Two other Dairy Management executives are paid $300,000 a year.
As Congress and the administration focus on ways to trim the federal budget, they could stop spending $135 million a year to defeat their own anti-obesity program.
— Emerson Lynn, jr.
House damaged in fire; local man arrested
A fire, reportedly caused by an overloaded circuit, extensively damaged the home of Darian Nowak at 409 S. Third St. Friday.
Deputy Iola Fire Chief Tim Thyer told the Register that the fire, which started near the kitchen, was quickly knocked down, but not before the house sustained heavy fire, smoke and water damage.
Flames and smoke were visible from outside when firefighters arrived.
Thyer said Nowak was in an agitated state and arguing with police when firefighters arrived.
Nowak was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
According to an Iola Fire Department report, the house was being purchased by Dorothy Turner on contract, and she did not have insurance.
Donna Culver of the American Red Cross said the agency is assisting Nowak and Turker as they recover from the fire.
For more information about donations, call the Red Cross 365-8106.
Five injured in crash
Five people were injured, two seriously, in a traffic accident at the north edge of Iola early Saturday evening.
A car driven by Marilyn Marts, 72, Chanute, westbound on Oregon Road failed to stop at its intersection with North State Street and collided with a northbound pickup truck driven by Iolan Lorenzo Jensen, 61. The Marts car then collided with a southbound vehicle driven by Vernon Bartlett, Osawatomie.
Marts, Jensen and three passengers in Marts’ car, Laura Tasche, 74, and Betty Fehr, 73, both of Chanute, and Phyllis Caler, 73, Iola, were transported to Allen County Hospital. Later, Fehr was flown by helicopter to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita and Caler to Overland Park Medical Center.
Deputy Iola Fire Chief Tim Thayer told the Register rescue workers cut the top out of Jensen’s truck to extract him. Jensen suffered mainly bruises and was protected, Thayer said, when air bags throughout the 2011 truck’s cab deployed. He was released from ACH Saturday night, said Nicolle Hoepker, his daughter.
‘Jack’ Fronk
H.J. “Jack” Fronk, 85, of Iola died Friday, Nov. 5, 2010, at Allen County Hospital in Iola.
He was born Sept. 10, 1925, on a farm in southeast Allen County, to Harry and Ethel (Bennett) Fronk. He graduated from LaHarpe High School. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II from November 1943 until June 1946.
On April 4, 1946, he married Prudence Lower. They made their home in Iola. He worked for the City of Iola for 42 years retiring as superintendent of the power plant.
He was a member of Iola American Legion, Chanute Veterans of Foreign Wars and Calvary United Methodist Church.
He is survived by his wife of the home; a daughter, Aimee Sue Billingsley, Iola; a sister, Hazel Sutter, Tulsa, Okla.; two grandsons, Dan Billingsley and Jeff Billingsley and his wife, Stacey; and two great-granddaughters.
A son, Kevin, four brothers, Glenn, Eddie, Bob and Walter, and three sisters, Alice, Golda and Mary Lou, died earlier.
Visitation will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel in Iola.
Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Chaplain Lloyd W. Houk will officiate. Burial will be in Leanna Cemetery
Memorials to Allen County Animal Rescue Facility (ACARF) may be left at the funeral home. Online condolences for the family may be left at iolafuneral.com.
Child in stroller struck
A 3-year-old child riding in a stroller was taken to Allen County Hospital Friday morning after the stroller was struck by a minivan.
According to the Iola Police Department, Chloe Hoag, 3, was being pushed by Iolan Kathryn Ronay in the crosswalk at the intersection of Madison and Sycamore streets in downtown Iola when the stroller was struck by a 1999 Chevrolet Ventura driven by Iolan Whitney Kerns. Kerns was turning eastbound onto Madison from Sycamore when the accident occurred.
The extent of Hoag’s injuries were unavailable.
Officers closed the street for about 20 minutes while emergency personnel were at the scene. Allen County Sheriff’s Department officers assisted with traffic control.
An investigation continues.
Murderer seeks new trial
Rory Foster, serving a 50-year prison sentence for the April 2006 murder of Iolan Briawna Hardrick, is seeking a new trial.
Foster filed papers this week with the Allen County District Court, claiming he should either be granted a new trial or be released from prison.
Foster claimed attorneys and court officials were “unfit/neglect” [sic] and refused his request for a change of venue prior to his conviction in 2008. He also said his arrest was based on hearsay and that he was not in Kansas the night of Hardrick’s murder.
Foster alleged his attorneys neglected to question his accuser “on important facts” and used “ineffective doctor’s and expired doctor’s reports on the petitioner’s case, despite an obvious conflict of interest.” Foster said Allen Countians were “blinded by hate and ware (sic) unfit to assist with a proper outcome.”
In addition to the murder charge, Foster also was convicted of aggravated rape, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated arson, aggravated battery and making criminal threats. Many elements of Foster’s crimes were told to jurors by Iolan Rachel Reeder, who escaped the home in which Hardrick was killed after Reeder left the premises.
Foster also said that both prior to his original conviction and after the verdict was upheld at a Topeka appeals court, the courts violated his Sixth Amendment rights, which grant a person the right to a trial in front of a jury of his peers and to public counsel.
Foster went through numerous public defenders before his conviction and was ultimately sentenced to a so-called “Hard 50,” meaning all 50 years of his sentence must be served. He would be 77 before he would eligible for parole.
An appellate court upheld Foster’s conviction in June.
He is being held in the El Dorado Correctional Facility.
[Engagement] Kyle Gilligan and Casandra Hawkinson
David and Rhonda Hawkinson and Bill and Rosemary Gilligan, Savonburg, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their children, Cassandra Hawkinson and Kyle Gilligan.
The bride-elect is employed by JCPenney in Chanute.
The groom-to-be is stationed at Cherry Point, N.C., with the U.S. Marine Corps.
The couple are planning a Jan. 22, 2011, wedding at Ambassador Christian Church in Chanute.
Marcell Tinkler
Marcell B. (Bernard) Tinkler, 88, of Humboldt died Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute.
He was born December 12, 1921, in Gypsum, to Irl N. and Maudie M. (Mounkes) Tinkler.
He served as an Airborn radio operator/navigator during World War II from 1942 to 1945.
On Dec. 27, 1942, he married Anna Mae Nickey.
He was a vocational agriculture teacher, FFA adviser and also taught welding. He taught in Humboldt for 27 years and at Altoona-Midway for eight years.
He was active in Boy Scouts of America. He served as a scoutmaster in Humboldt, then was on the staff of Wilderness Scout Camp near Independence, later becoming camp director, and was camp director for Quivira Scout Ranch near Sedan. He was presented the Silver Beaver Award.
He was a member of Humboldt United Methodist Church and was active in the Biblesta Parade. He was a member of the Lions Club, Methodist Men’s Club, Boy Scout Silver Beaver Honorary Leaders, Southeast Kansas Silver Beavers Club and past president of Humboldt Nutrition Site Council of Humboldt Senior Center.
Along with his wife Anna Mae, he is survived by four sons, David and his wife, Virginia, Great Bend, Steven and his wife, Linda, Janesville, Wis., Michael and his wife, Debra, Kansas, Okla., and Thomas and his wife, Melissa, Humboldt; three daughters, Marcia Klotzbach and her husband, Bill, Humboldt, Alice Gomberg and her husband, Howard, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Juliane Goldberg and her husband, Mark, Wichita; 19 grandchildren, Darren Tinkler, Great Bend, Jeremy Tinkler, Kansas City, Mo., Mark Tinkler and his wife, Michele, Arlington, Va., Brian Tinkler, Rockford, Ill., Adam Tinkler and his wife, Bethany, Rockton, Ill., Laura Hess and her husband, Sean, Milton, Wis., Sarah Weight and her husband, Doug, Denver, Colo., Amy Ehmke and her husband, Jim, Chanute, Jeffrey Klotzbach and his wife, Angela, LaHarpe, Jason Tinkler and his wife, Jennifer, Wichita, Tina Fleming and her husband, Brian, Wichita, Seth Tinkler and his wife, Lindsey, Chillicothe, Ohio, Shawna Wheat and her husband, Isaac, Webb City, Mo., Joshua Tinkler and his wife, Melissa, Grayson, Ky., Alex Goldberg, Manhattan, Monica Goldberg, Wichita, Jessica Williams, Great Bend, Vanessa Stephens and her husband, Eric, Olpe, and Darrah Tinkler, Humboldt; 31 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Evelyne Tinkler Lawson, Grinnell, Iowa.
Sons, Gregory died in 1989 and James in 1978.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Humboldt United Methodist Church in Humboldt. Burial will follow in Mount Hope Cemetery in Humboldt.
Visitation will be from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Penwell-Gabel Humboldt Chapel in Humboldt.
Memorials to Humboldt United Methodist Church, Tinkler Family Scholarship Fund (to be awarded to graduates of Humboldt High School) or Quivira Scout Ranch may be left at the funeral home. To leave a message for the family online visit PenwellGabelHumboldt.com.