ST. LOUIS, Mo. — It was not a good opening weekend for Allen County Community College’s soccer teams.
The Red Devil women and men opened the 2011 season in St. Louis, Mo. and lost two games each.
On Friday, the men lost 4-0 to Jefferson County Community College and the women also dropped a 4-0 decision to Merimac Community College.
The women lost 1-0 to St. Charles Community College Sunday. St. Charles got past the ACCC men 2-0.
Allen County’s teams are at home Wednesday. The Red Devil squads host Northwestern Technical College’s teams from Goodland.
The women’s game is at 2 p.m. followed by the men’s contest at 4.
Crash closes highway
The U.S. 169 roundabout south of Garnett was closed for nearly 12 hours starting Monday afternoon after a highway transport carrying a load of ethanol crashed there.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Rodney Honn, 46, Kincaid, crashed while maneuvering his truck and a 53-foot trailer through the round-about, where U.S. 169 and U.S. 59 intersect.
Honn was uninjured, but ethanol began leaking from the trailer.
The highway was closed and traffic rerouted around the accident scene from about 2 p.m. Monday until 1:18 this morning, according to KHP.
Julia Thomas
Julia Marie Thomas, 86, of Coffeyville and formerly of Prescott, Mound City and LaHarpe died Sunday Aug. 28, 2011, at Windsor Place
in Coffeyville.
She was born Sept. 11, 1924, in Levant, to Joseph and Justina Bruenn Golemboski. She graduated from Colby High School.
She married George Thomas on Dec. 31, 1948, in Colby. He died Nov. 15, 2008.
She was a member of Holy Name Catholic Church in Coffeyville, Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary of LaHarpe and was a farm wife.
She is survived by four sons William “Bill,” Salina, Fredrick and his wife, Phyllis, Salina, Gary, Rhinelander, Wis., and Glenn and his wife, Connie, Colony; four daughters, Janet Rau and her husband, Maurice, Elk City, Ethel McDaniel and her husband, Bill, Carbondale, Wanda Rudiger, Chino Valley, Ariz., and Rose Thomas, Saint Pete Beach, Fla.; a brother, Joe Golemboski, Tulsa, Okla.; four sisters, Marge Sinclair, Jetmore, Dorothy Beckman and Victoria Hume, Wichita, and Betty Sherlock, Saint Francis; 16 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Two brothers, Frank and Edward Golemboski, a sister, Helen Ribordy, and two grandchildren died earlier.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Mound City. Visitation will be from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Coffel-Schneider Funeral Home Pleasanton.
Rosary will be said at 1 p.m. at the Coffel-Schneider Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Sacred Heart Cemetery in Mound City.
Memorials to the Julia Thomas Memorial Fund may be left at the funeral home. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.coffelschneider.com.
Jean Carr
Jean L. Carr, 88, long-time Welda resident, died Saturday, August 27, 2011, at Windsor Place Nursing Center in Iola.
She was born Jan. 23, 1923, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1936, she and her mother, Faith (Marshall) Kattenhorn, moved back to the family farm northwest of Welda. She graduated from Welda High School in 1941 and attended Pittsburg State University.
On Aug. 8, 1943, she married Eugene Carr. They made their home in a number of communities while he was in the service and then following his career. They had two children before they divorced in 1957.
She moved back to Welda and raised her two children. She was the fourth generation to farm the Marshall family farm at Welda. She also worked as an Avon representative. She operated a dairy until 1987. In 1999, her health failed and she moved from the farm.
She was known for her whistling which started as she was milking cows. In 1938 she performed on the WIBW Radio program and continued to provide programs for many years. She was a member of Welda United Methodist Church where she had been a Sunday School teacher. Her other activities included the Hobby Club, Pinochle Club, a quilting club, nutrition site director in Welda and writing the Welda news for the Garnett Review. She had been named Person of the Year by the Anderson County Historical Society.
Two children survive, her daughter, Sharon Turner and her husband, Gwynne, Osteen, Fla.; and her son, Richard “Rick” Carr and his wife, Debra, Moran; four grandchildren, Diane Wiggins and her husband, Gerald, Ormond Beach, Fla., Eric Turner and his wife, Tracey, DeLand, Fla., Joseph Carr and his wife, Taeler, Moran, and Derrick Carr, Moran; six great-grandchildren, Selena, Brent and Brook Turner, Zack and Justin Wiggins and Andersyn Carr.
She was preceded in death by a great-grandson, Austin Wiggins.
Funeral services will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Welda United Methodist Church. Burial will follow at Welda Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel in Iola.
Memorials in lieu of flowers may be sent to the Jean Carr Memorial Fund, which will be used to create a special room at Windsor Place for families to be near their loved ones during their final days. Memorial gifts may be left with the funeral home, which is in charge of the arrangements.
Online condolences may be sent to www.iolafuneral.com.
Letter to the editor — August 29, 2011
Dear Editor,
American Red Cross helps military and disaster victims
The American Red Cross was mandated by Congress in 1907 to do two things: To provide service to the military and to respond to disasters. That has been our primary mission for more than 100 years and continues to be that today.
We also have some “should dos” and “could dos,” such as disaster response training, lifeguard and water safety, CPR and first aid, but our main focus is assistance in disasters. We receive no tax money, no government grants, we are strictly supported by the generosity of the American people and all assistance is free.
There has been some concern over the closing of the Chanute office. We have been under the leadership of Pioneer Chapter of Coffeyville for several years now, and were only able to staff the Chanute office with volunteers and persons paid for by the SER Program.
The organization is undergoing some restructuring due to economic times, advances in technology and changes in population areas. There has not been, nor will there be any changes in our mission to provide relief in disasters, just in ways the assistance will be delivered.
We are still charged to respond to any disaster whether it be a single family fire or a major incident in a timely manner. We will still be accountable to our supporters and faithful donors that we depend upon to sustain our efforts. We still have volunteers in local communities that can respond quickly in case of need.
Call 1-888-460-1050 and someone will be dispatched to your area.
We are still here and it’s “Business as Usual.”
Thanks,
Donna Culver
American Red
Cross Volunteer
Iola, Kan.
Jenkins rejects best tactic to fix Social Security
Rep. Lynn Jenkins had two suggestions for beefing up Social Security when she was in Iola Wednesday: increase the retirement age to 68 in recognition of the fact that we are living longer; and index benefits so that those who accumulated money during their working lives would get smaller pensions.
However, Jenkins made no mention of favoring raising the amount of annual earned income subject to the Social Security tax.
Which is curious. At present, all wages and other earned income subject to the tax, are taxed up to $106,800 a year. Wages above that level are exempt.
If earned income up to, say, $250,000 were subject to the Social Security tax, the program would be fiscally sound. If all earned income was taxed, the Social Security trust fund would once again be overflowing.
And it is pretty difficult to support the proposition that only low- and middle-income Americans should pay the Social Security tax on all of their income. The math is easy. With every dollar a person earns over the current limit, he or she pays a smaller percent of their earned income to support Social Security.
That is exactly as unfair as it sounds. It is not only unfair, but makes the job of balancing the federal budget that much more difficult.
Since reducing the deficit has a high priority with the Republican Party, raising the cap on the amount of earnings to be tapped to keep Social Security sound would seem to be a natural for Rep. Jenkins and her colleagues.
SHE DOES DESERVE credit for favoring the two most obvious ways to reduce Social Security benefits to trim the program’s cost.
Raising the retirement age gradually would be wise and appropriate. Not only are people living longer, the nature of work has changed dramatically. Ditch diggers wore themselves out before they turned 65. Computer operators don’t. An appropriate retirement age may be 70 today, although it would make sense to add some caveats.
Along with a higher retirement age should also come some exceptions for those who work at physically taxing jobs and for those who, for whatever reason, can no longer work full time.
Indexing pensions can also be defended. My father, for example, who retired at 65 in 1963, calculated that he had received all of the money that he and his employers had put into the Social Security system on his account within a few years after retirement and, from then on, was receiving a pension someone else was being taxed to provide. He proposed that the system be revised so that retirees would receive only what had been invested for them, plus a reasonable return on that investment, if they could afford to support themselves from then on.
His reform would have taken the rich off the Social Security rolls.
Both of these reforms would reduce payouts from the system by reducing benefits. Both, however, would be much more expensive to administer — and politically difficult to enact — than simply lifting the lid on the amount of income subject to the payroll tax.
That should be the first step Congress takes to make the program sound far, far into the future.
— Emerson Lynn, jr.
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Person spotted near latest hay bale fire
Officers investigating a string of recent hay bale fires are looking into the latest fire Saturday, in which a “person of interest” was spotted near where the fire occurred.
Allen County Sheriff Tom Williams said a person was spotted “at about the same place and same time the fire was reported” near 1000 Street and Texas Road.
The person was identified and interviewed, Williams said.
“We’re checking out what we were told to see if the story matches,” Williams said, adding that the suspect has not yet been cleared.
More than 10 hay bale fires have been reported since Aug. 1 in Allen and Anderson counties, with damage valued at about $40,000. More than 400 large bales have been lost to the fires.
Saturday’s fire was the same site as a previous fire, Williams said.
‘Bob’ Zentner
John Robert “Bob” Zentner, 81, of Welda died Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011, at his home.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at First Christian Church in Garnett.
Visitation will be from 6 to 80 p.m. Sunday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel in Garnett.
Memorials to First Christian Church may be left at the funeral home. You may send condolences to the family at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.
[Birth] Bryson Yocham
Luke Yocham and Ashley Sinclair, Iola, announce the birth of a son, Bryson Ray, born Aug. 22, 2011, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute. He weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces and was 21 inches long.
Maternal grandparents are Rena Craft and Marvin Sinclair, Iola, and paternal grandparents are Hazel Sele, Yates Center, and Donnie Yocham. Great-grandparents are Darlene Yocham, Betty Craft and Kathleen Sinclair, all of Iola.