Those pests Page 2A Remembering infamous pine tar Junction City incident See Sports The D aily Union. Thursday,July25,2013 Volume 152, No. 128, 2 Sections, 18 pages, 3 Inserts www.yourDU.net 50 Cents • Junction City, Kansas Thursday The DU Can’t miss this stuff Geary County Free Fair See a photo you ends tonight must have? A new feature on yourDU.net Activities set for this afternoon and evening include 4-H Barbecue allows you to purchase photos and Watermelon Feed from 4:30 to 6:30 and the 4-H Project and taken by The Daily Union staff. Livestock Auction at 7 p.m. Go to our photo gallery and find the photo you would like to purchase. Click on buy this photo. It will be sent straight to your house. Don’t forget, we have many more photos on our site than we can get in the newspa- per. Check them out. Bidding farewell Elijah Scmidt enjoys a BB gun FORT RILEY — The 1st Sus- target practice Ryan Henington, a young tainment Brigade, 1st Infantry activity at the fair. business owner, makes a Division, is set to conduct a change of command and change snow cone treat Wednesday of responsibility ceremony at 10 afternoon at the Geary a.m. July 26 on Fort Riley’s Cav- County Free Fair. alry Parade Field. The “Durable” Brigade will bid farewell to Col. Brian J. Tem- pest and welcome Col. Robert A. Law. Under Tempest’s leadership, the brigade recently completed a nine-month deployment to eastern Afghanistan. Tempest’s Photos by Chase Jordan • The Daily Union next assignment will be at the Pentagon. Law is coming from the Naval More pictures at www.yourDU.net War College in Newport, R.I. Law and Tempest are scheduled in the photo galleries. to speak during the ceremony. As a member of an all-women barbecue team from Corey’s Corral, Your news Cory Vercher prepares for a contest. every day New MRI system coming By ChAse JordAn tem, which is valued at more than $1.3 million. [email protected] “It’s a major step for the hospital and I look for- For professionals from ward to seeing the results,” Geary Community Hospi- Hospital Board Chairman tal’s Radiology Depart- YourDU.net provides you Gary Drake said. ment, conducting MRI with news from JC that you Trustee Vic Davis procedures is not easy. want and need every day. agreed. The magnetic resonance Go to Yourdu.net and sign up “Our hospital is moving imaging (MRI) system forward and doing the best for a free membership or if you currently sits outside in a are a print subscriber in need of thing that it can by provid- mobile trailer. It’s also 13 your news fix on the days we ing the best care that years old. don’t print, go to our website money can buy,” Davis and register. Everything is acces- “You never know what said. sible for you, so read all you the weather is going to be The Titan Toshiba want. like,” said Department model was selected out of Manager Pat Small. “It five vendors. does not cooperate with Chief Radiologist Pat No more mail at your door? you sometimes.” Landes said it’s one of the Today’s forecast But that will change in newest MRI systems on By Andrew Mig A Postal Service in April delivery costs the agency upcoming months. the market and will pro- began deciding whether to about $350 per year, on aver- The Geary Community vide a better experience Associated Press provide such delivery for age. Hospital (GCH) Board of for patients by improving people moving into newly Sue Brennan, a Postal Trustees members comfort. WASHINGTON — Amer- built homes rather than let- Service spokeswoman, said, approved major upgrades “We’re very excited icans for generations have ting the developers decide. “While converting delivery to improve radiology ser- about the construction come to depend on door-to- “A balanced approach to away from the door to curb vices for patients. and the Geary Community door mail delivery. It’s saving the Postal Service or centralized delivery During its monthly Hospital Board having the about as American as apple would allow the Postal Ser- meeting Tuesday night, courage to step forward 87 65 pie. means allowing USPS to and make a big leap for us But with the Postal Ser- adapt to America’s chang- vice to deliver mail to more the board approved the vice facing billions of dol- ing use of mail,” Issa said. addresses in less time, doing lease of a new MRI sys- Please see MRI, 9A Friday’s forecast lars in annual losses, the “Done right, these reforms so is not included in our delivery service could be can improve the customer five-year plan.” 84 59 virtually phased out by 2022 experience through a more Brennan said the agen- under a proposal a House efficient Postal Service.” cy’s five-year plan does call About one in three mail for shifting 20 percent of Three Kansas City panel was considering Storms likely Wednesday. Curbside deliv- customers has door-to-door business address deliveries ery, which includes deliver- delivery, Issa said. from door-to-door to curb- ies to mailboxes at the end The shift would include side and cluster box deliv- residents arrested We’re social of driveways, and cluster safe and secure cluster box ery through 2016. box delivery would replace delivery areas, he said, Rep. Steve Lynch, letter carriers slipping mail especially for elderly cus- D-Mass., said the plan to Like us on move some 30 million resi- on drug charges into front-door boxes. tomers who receive Social Facebook The proposal is part of Security checks and pre- dential addresses from to- The Daily Union Staff during the stop the led to broader legislation by Rep. scriptions through the the-door to curbside and Morales and passengers Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chair- mail. cluster box service would Three Kansas City, Mo., Keelie Wilson and Frank man of the House Oversight About 30 million residen- be virtually impossible in residents were arrested on Saunders being arrested. and Government Reform tial addresses receive deliv- dense urban areas such as drug related charges after The three are charged Committee, designed to cut ery to boxes at the door or a his hometown of South a traffic stop on I-70 early with possession of mari- costs at the cash-strapped mail slot. Another 87 mil- Boston crowded with triple- Wednesday morning agency by up to $4.5 billion lion residential addresses deckers — three apartments juana with the intent to according to a report from a year. The Postal Service receive curbside or cluster stacked on top of each distribute, possession of the Geary County Sher- had a $16 billion loss last box delivery. other. drug paraphernalia and year. The cost differences are “You’d have to knock iff’s Office. no drug tax stamp. The agency has been clear. Curbside delivery houses down in my neigh- Deputies pulled over a Morales faces additional moving toward curbside costs average $224 per year borhood to build cluster vehicle driving by Austin charges of driving limita- and cluster box delivery in for each address, while boxes,” Lynch said. “This Morales near mile marker tions on controlled access The Daily Union is a Montgomery new residential develop- cluster box delivery aver- will not work.” 294 shortly after 1 a.m. An highways and unlawful Communications newspaper, ©2013 ments since the 1970s. The ages $160. Door-to-door Please see Mail, 9A investigation was initiated use of a driver’s license. For news updates throughout the day, visit www.yourDU.net A bilene & ChApmAn 2A The Daily Union. Thursday, July 25, 2013 Old Abilene Town to celebrate Cowboys ABILENE — All trails lead songs of the old west, cattle folklife of ranching and is the to Abilene to celebrate the drives and Kansas ballads. co-author of “Plains Folk,” a National Day of the Cowboy Also performing at 4:30 p.m. syndicated newspaper col- on Saturday, July 27, in Old will be Harold “Trail Song umn. Abilene Town. There will be Willie” Williams of Hering- “The cowboy has become gunfights, Can Can dances, ton. an internationally recog- live entertainment and living The gunfights will take nized symbol of America, history demonstrations. place at 11:30 am, 1:30 p.m., and his music gives us insight From 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., and 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. On into how this icon devel- there will be something for Sunday the times will be 1:30 oped,” said Hoy. the whole family. Admission p.m. and 3:30 p.m. “Frontier Kansas Cattle is free, however donations The Can Can Dancers will Towns” and “Singing the are welcomed. perform in the Alamo Saloon Cattle North are part of the This is the 9th Annual at 12 p.m., 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Kansas Humanities Coun- Photo courtesy of Tim Horan National Day of the Cowboy Saturday. They will also per- cil’s The Way We Worked Holly Davis, graduate student in entomology examines crop insects with Jeff Witworth, professor celebrated nationwide. Start- form on Sunday at 1 p.m., 2 Speakers Bureau, featuring at K-State. ed in 2004, by the American p.m. and 3 p.m. presentations and discus- Cowboy magazine, Congress There will be two perform- sions examining the theme passed a solution claiming ers entertaining during the of work and working in Kan- the fourth Saturday of July day Jim Hoy of Emporia and sas and how these stories Professor saves farmers’ will be a day to celebrate the Jim Gray of Ellsworth.