Lewis Takes the Beer Challenge

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VOLUME 16, NUMBER 59 THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2008

King Art And Writing Lewis Takes The Beer Challenge Contest Winners Chosen As many of us are setting (and — for every pound they lose, with Two best of show winners, nine first Honorable Mention: quickly breaking) New Year’s res- proceeds benefiting the Terry C. place winners and six honorable men- Arianna Cravens, 3rd-4th grade cat- olutions, two Manhattan men have Johnson Center for Basic Cancer tions have been awarded for this year’s egory, Bluemont Elementary School decided to enter publicly into a Research. Both men have lost Martin Luther King, Jr. Art and Lane Sorell, 5th-6th grade category, friendly weight-loss challenge as immediate family members to Writing Contest. The contest is a part Manhattan Catholic School an added incentive to meet their cancer, so cancer research is a of the Manhattan community’s annual Renee Slick, Adult category, Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration. personal weight-loss goals. cause they are dedicated to sup- Manhattan A total of 258 pieces were entered in Four volunteer judges in each cate- Frank Beer, owner of porting. this year’s contest, 121 art and 137 gory selected the winning entries. Manhattan’s RadioShack, and “I try to do something to benefit writing. Judges in the art category included: Dave Lewis, local media personal- the Cancer Center every year,” Winners were selected in both the art Katherine Schalgeck of the Beach ity, owner of All Star DJ, and Beer said. “I realized I hadn’t done and writing categories in five groups Museum of Art, local artist Diane advertising representative for anything for 2007, so I decided (kindergarten-2nd grade, 3rd-4th Dollar, Victoria Martin of Manhattan Sunflower Publications, have this would be a great opportunity.” grade, 5th-6th grade, 7th-12th grade, Public Library, and Moon-Hee Chung agreed to be the first participants Beer and Lewis will appear and adult). Additionally, a Best of from the Manhattan Methodist Church. of the Mercy LIGHT Challenge, a around the 15th of each month on Show winner and three Honorable Writing Judges were: Marcia Allen of weight-loss challenge facilitated WIBW-TV (most likely during the Mention winners were selected in both Manhattan Public Library, Bunny art and writing from among all cate- through Mercy Regional Health 6 a.m. news) and on KMAN and McBride and Elizabeth Dodd from gories. Kansas State University and Peter Center’s Mercy LIGHT program. B104 radio stations to announce Art Winners Pellegren of Cloud County Mercy LIGHT is a physician- their monthly weight-loss totals Best of Show: Sammi Grieger, 5th- Community College-Geary County supervised weight-loss program Frank Beer Dave Lewis and how the program is going. 6th grade category, Northview Campus. that treats obesity as a disease. At Their progress and the amount of Elementary School Entries addressed Dr. Martin Luther the first appointment, new patients weight loss is certainly most people’s expecting, and I’d like to be able to pledges they raise will also be First Place, grades K-2: Fadia King Jr.’s life themes of non-violence, meet with a physician — either primary objective for entering the keep up.” posted at Husseine, Manhattan social justice, and building bridges medical director Dr. Debra program, the program also monitors As men who are very active in the mercylightchallenge.com and First Place, grades 3-4: Emily between racial and ethnic divides and Doubek or Dr. James Gardner — and sets other types of individual community and with their families, published monthly in a paid adver- Thumm, Bluemont Elementary School could incorporate the theme to assess their medical history, both say it has been difficult to make tisement in The Manhattan First Place, grades 5-6: Kelli “Messages to Dr. King: Reporting health goals for clients, such as low- Forrest, Northview Elementary School weight history, and recent lab Mercury. The two men will also from 2008” and the values Dr. King ering cholesterol and managing healthy eating and exercise a priority. First Place, grades 7-12: Brooke held about non-violence, social justice, results. The physician helps the blood-glucose levels. They hope the challenge and the keep a blog about their experience Grieger, Manhattan High School and building bridges between racial patient set specific goals, then Both Beer, 47, and Lewis, 46, are accountability of publicly having to on the website. First Place, adult: Alicia and ethnic divides. organizes a team of professionals entering the program not only to slim announce their monthly weight loss For more information about the Firstbrook-Rine, Ogden Best of Show entries receive a $20 — including psychologists, dieti- down their waistlines, but because will force them to stick to the pro- Mercy LIGHT Challenge or Honorable Mention: gift card from Manhattan Town Center tians, personal trainers, registered they have found that their weight is gram and get results. Mercy LIGHT, visit mercy- Yunmei Li, 7th-12th grade category, and a certificate. First place entries nurses and possibly even a contributing to other health problems “I don’t want to do the crazy diets lightchallenge.com or call (785) Anthony Middle School receive a $10 gift card from Manhattan bariatric surgeon — to create a as they age. Both men still have — the cabbage soup diet and all 587-4275. Mercy LIGHT has a Jiaying Li, 3rd-4th grade category, Town Center and a certificate. program that will allow the patient young children (Beer has four chil- that,” Beer said. “That’s why I went free monthly seminar for the pub- Marlatt Elementary School Honorable Mention winners receive a to reach those goals. Each pro- with Mercy LIGHT. They work lic to learn about how its program Amya Miller, K-2nd grade cagegory, certificate. dren, with the youngest in third Marlatt Elementary School gram is designed with the individ- works, generally scheduled on the Winners will be officially grade, and Lewis’ family will wel- around your life and find what works Writing Winners announced during the Martin Luther ual’s health challenges, personali- come a new baby next summer) and for you. I’m hoping this competition third Tuesday of each month in the Best of Show: Bharath King, Jr. Public Awards Ceremony at ty, fitness interests and eating want to improve their health so they will be the kick-in-the-pants I need boardroom of the Mercy Regional Krishnamoorthi, 7th-12th grade cate- Manhattan Town Center on Monday, tastes in mind, making it easier to can be active participants in their to stick with [the program].” Sunset Campus, 1105 Sunset gory, Manhattan High School West January 21. These entries will then be maintain the program long term. children’s lives. As an added incentive, Beer and Avenue. In February, this meeting Campus displayed at Manhattan Town Center. Because it is a medical program, “My main goal here is to get Lewis are collecting pledges from will be Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 5:30 First Place, grades K-2: no entries Several other non-winning entries Mercy LIGHT can often be cov- healthy,” Lewis said. “I have a 12- the community on the challenge’s p.m. First Place, grades 3-4: Blake will be displayed in places throughout ered by medical insurance. While year-old daughter and my wife is website — mercylightchallenge.com Johnson, Bluemont Elementary School the community including Manhattan First Place, grades 5-6: Joseph Public Library. Selected works will Haug, Manhattan Catholic School also be published in local newspapers First Place, grades 7-12: Keith and/or read on the radio. Additionally, Naranjo, Eisenhower Middle School a few pieces may be kept for display at First Place, adult: Kasey Portenier, the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka in KSU Football To Host Signing Day 2008 Manhattan Christian College January 2009. Fans will have the opportunity to weight room and team room will also tour the K-State football facilities be available during the social hour of and be introduced to the newest the event. WalkAmerica Is Now members of the Wildcat football pro- The presentation of the class will gram as Kansas State will host its be held inside the team meeting March For Babies room with audio and video available third annual Signing Day with Head Support and Stork’s Cradle. Coach Ron Prince on Wednesday, in the Big 8 Room and the players’ WalkAmerica, the March of Dimes lounge. Video only will also be dis- largest fundraising event, which brought The mission priority of the March of Feb. 6, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Dimes is to fight the growing crisis of Vanier Football Complex and Bill played on the south end zone video in $117 million nationwide last year, has board of the stadium. Attendees are been renamed March for Babies. The prematurity. By engaging more people in Snyder Family Stadium. its mission and educating more pregnant The event for K-State fans will be also encouraged to participate in a new name makes a clear connection to washers tournament on Wagner Field what the March of Dimes is all about – women and moms about healthy babies, hosted by coach Prince, who will the March of Dimes hopes to reach that provide commentary on the from 4-5 p.m. To sign up for the tour- the health of babies. nament, email [email protected] “The name of our event has changed, goal much sooner. Wildcats’ 2008 recruiting class and The new name of its premier event is answer questions regarding the class. or call (785) 532-5769 by 5 p.m. but our mission stays the same – working Monday, February 4. towards the day when every baby is born part of a larger March of Dimes initiative Recruiting coordinator and lineback- focused on all babies—those born ers coach Matt Wallerstedt will also Fans who purchase Signing Day healthy,” said Ed Klimek, Vice President tickets in advance, who do not have of Platinum Broadcasting and 2008 Flint healthy as well as those who need help to conduct a player-by-player review of survive and thrive. The March of Dimes the class, which will feature video basketball season tickets or parking, Hills March for Babies Chair. “We hope will be allowed to park free of charge the new name will bring more people on also has released a new public service clips of each of the new Wildcats. advertising campaign, and is offering Tickets purchased for the event in the Vanier Complex or the east board to help make that day a reality.” side Sports Complex parking lot. The Flint Hills March for Babies will pregnant women and moms new medical prior to Feb 5 are priced at $10 for information in new ways that fit their the general public and $5 for Kansas For students planning to attend the take place Saturday, May 3 at the Kansas men’s basketball game, scheduled State University Student Union Plaza. active lifestyle, including email, pod- State students (with K-State I.D.). casts, and text messaging. The event will be limited to the first for 7 p.m., the bottom of section 21 Registration opens at 8:30 a.m. and the will be reserved until 15 minutes march begins at 9:30 a.m. Participants In 2008, national March for Babies 400 tickets that are purchased. Any sponsors are CIGNA, Continental remaining tickets not purchased by prior to tip-off. can sign up today to help fund lifesaving Fans are encouraged to pre-pur- research and educational programs Airlines, Famous Footwear, Farmers, Feb. 5 will be sold at the door on FedEx, Grain Foods Foundation, Liberty Feb. 6 for $17. chase tickets for the event and those aimed at helping moms have healthy interested may do so in person at the babies. Tax Services, nesting.com, and Kmart, Included in the ticket price is a the March of Dimes number one corpo- meal, which will feature such tailgat- K-State Athletic Ticket Office in Last year, more than 150 walkers Bramlage Coliseum, online at k- raised $36,000 at the Flint Hills event. rate partner, which has raised more than ing favorites as hamburgers and hot- $63 million for babies. Additional dogs grilled on the Vanier Complex statesports.com or by calling toll- Funds raised by March for Babies sup- free, 1-800-221-CATS. The ticket port local research grants focused on national sponsorship is provided by deck overlooking the field. A cash Discovery Health, Mead Johnson bar will also be available in the Big 8 office is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., issues related to premature birth and Monday through Friday. community programs such as NICU Nutritionals, Outdoor Services and Ther- room of the Vanier Complex, while Kansas State Coach Ron Prince Rx. guided tours of the locker room, (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) Family Kansas Profile - Now That’s Rural - John Thaemert By Ron Wilson, director, Huck National Association of Wheat Agriculture and RuralLeadership, or it a try myself." He was elected in hit the World Trade Center and that the proud that USDA and the National Boyd National Institute for Rural Growers, the first Kansan to do so in KARL. The goal of KARL is to 2007. Senate office buildings had to be evac- Association of Wheat Growers are Development at Kansas State more than 20 years. encourage more leadership in the ag His responsibilities take him from uated immediately. working together on biotech issues. University. John grew up on a small farm near industry and rural communities. John coast to coast and as far away as Next thing he knew, John and his He is excited about such possibilities Kansas - the Wheat State. Our Sylvan Grove. You might say he went Thaemert was in the very first class of Australia. Because of the farm bill colleagues were on the street. They as cellulosic energy from agricultural state has long been known as a to college on the seven year plan. He KARL participants. debates and other national policy managed to get to the airport and found crops and the promise that this can leader in the wheat industry, but was expanding the farming operation, John says, "KARL helped me to issues, he travels to Washington, D.C. that all planes were grounded. So they have for the future. given that fact, why is it that Kansas so he attended Fort Hays State in the realize that if we in agriculture don´t approximately once a month. rented one of the last vans available Kansas - the Wheat State. Now our has not had a national president of spring semester only and spent the stand up and speak for ourselves, That´s pretty exciting, coming from and proceeded to drive home, all the state can also claim to be the home of the wheat growers organization in summer and fall doing the farming. He somebody else will have a say and it the rural community of Sylvan Grove, way to Kansas. the president of the National about a quarter of a century? That studied finance and went to work for might not be good." Through his Kansas, population 319 people. Now, Most of his wheat grower activities Association of Wheat Growers. We situation was remedied recently Citizens State Bank and Trust in neighbor Merrill, John got involved in that´s rural. have not been quite so dramatic. commend John Thaemert for making a when a young man from rural Ellsworth while continuing to farm. the wheat growers organization. In fact, back in 2001 he was in D.C. It has been exciting to be the nation- difference with his service, helping to Kansas became the president of the Two things happened next. One was He became active at the state level on business while serving as president al president in the year that the new improve the state of wheat. National Association of Wheat that a neighbor of John´s, Merrill and then at the national level as well, of the Kansas Association of Wheat farm bill is being debated. The wheat And there´s more. Yet another com- Growers. It´s another in our series Nielsen, became active with the serving on various committees and Growers. He and other wheat produc- growers are working to maintain the modity is represented by a Kansan at on national ag leaders from Kansas. Kansas Association of Wheat Growers. boards. The time came to consider ers were in one senator´s office when basic structure of farm programs. the helm of its national organization, John Thaemert is from Sylvan In fact, Merrill was the state presi- national office. John says, "I´d asked their meeting was interrupted. The day, Among growers, John is working to so we´ll meet another national ag Grove, Kansas. In March 2007, dent. The second was that John joined other people to consider it and they by the way, was 9-11. change producers´ mindsets from enti- leader from rural Kansas next week. John became president of the a brand new program called Kansas turned me down, so I decided I´d give The report came that terrorists had tlement to entrepreneurship. John is LOCAL NEWS MANHATTAN FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2008 2

Obituaries Women’s Imaging Center Dorthy K. Young Aircraft, where she would string the Funeral services were held at wiring through the wings of the B17 10:30 A.M. Wednesday at the Dorothy Kathryn Young, age 91, bomber planes. Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral Converts To Digital of Manhattan, died January 12, 2008, When the war was over she and Chapel with Reverend Ben Duerfeldt Patients visiting the Women’s at Meadowlark Hills Retirement acts as a second set of eyes for the Frank returned with their first child, officiating. Interment will follow in Imaging Center of Mercy Regional Community. She was preceded in radiologist.” Macey back to Manhattan. Dorothy Sunset Cemetery. Health Center will now benefit from death by her husband Frank P. Young The move to this new technology resumed working at the Blaker’s Online condolences may be left for better breast cancer detection and in 1973. is part of an overall effort by the Studio Royal until she received her the family through the funeral home diagnosis, thanks to the Center’s Dorothy was the only child born Women’s Imaging Center to stay on real estate license. Then she had to website at conversion to digital mammography to Carl and Elizabeth (Dobson) the cutting edge of radiology servic- learn to drive. She sold real estate www.ymlfuneralhome.com. in December 2007. Unlike tradition- Shroyer on June 13, 1916. es. In October 2007, the Center was for 35 years. In lieu of flowers memorial contri- al film mammography, digital mam- After WWII broke out Frank designated a Breast Imaging Center Survivors include three children: butions may be made to Kansas mography offers images that — in enlisted in the US Navy as a Seabee, of Excellence by the American Macey Soupene and her husband Bill Specialty Dog Service. many cases — are easier to view, Dorothy worked for the Blaker’s College of Radiology (ACR), recog- of Anamosa, Iowa, Frank C. Young Contributions may be left in care of assess, and share with off-site physi- Studio Royal at the time and eventu- nizing the Center’s accreditation in of Joplin, Missouri and Susan the Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen cians. The Center’s new ally followed Frank to Seattle, WA, all of the ACR’s voluntary breast- Mitchell and her husband David of Funeral Home, 1616 Poyntz Avenue, Senographe® DS full-field digital where Dorothy was one of 55,000 imaging programs. The Women’s Manhattan; eight grandchildren and Manhattan, KS 66502. mammography system from GE other women employed at Boeing Imaging Center is the only center in 13 great-grandchildren. Healthcare is the most modern mam- the state of Kansas that holds this mography equipment available to designation. patients today. Mercy Regional Health Center is and two sisters: Helen Elizabeth Norma Nordin ried to Philip Nordin. They were “It’s state-of-the-art digital mam- located in Manhattan, Kan. The inseparable for 58 years until he pre- Zulauf of Ohio and Marian Margaret Norma Rosaline Nordin, age 84, of mography. It’s going to be much bet- regional hospital employs more than ceded her in death on August 22, O’Connor of Guelph, Ontario, Manhattan, died January 9, 2008, at ter quality and enhance our breast 1,000 team members from the local 2005. Canada. Stoneybrook Retirement cancer screening program,” said Dr. and surrounding communities and She gave unstintingly of herself to Funeral services were held at Community. Gregory J. Welle of Manhattan supports a medical staff of more than assisting her youngest son, James, 10:00 A.M. Monday, January 14th, at She was born January 17, 1923, in Radiology, who works with the 140 physicians. with the burdens of his physical the First Lutheran Church, 930 Saskatoon, Saskatoon, Canada, the Women’s Imaging Center staff. “It’s handicaps. After the death of James Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, with daughter of Kasper George and Ida especially effective for women in 1976, she worked at Marlatt Reverend Dr. Keith Wiens officiat- Louise (Pohlmann) Morgenroth. She between ages 40 and 50, and for School and at KSU registration for a ing. Interment will followed in had been a Manhattan resident since women with denser breasts.” number of years. She was a home- Sunrise Cemetery. 1954. In addition to providing higher maker and a member of the First Online condolences may be left for Mrs. Nordin was a gifted child, an quality breast imaging, the new tech- Lutheran Church in Manhattan. the family through the funeral home educated woman and a devoted wife nology also limits patient discom- She was also preceded in death by website at and mother. She earned a bachelor’s fort. one son, James Andrew Nordin in www.ymlfuneralhome.com. degree from the University of “This type of mammography is 1976, and by two sisters, Anna Memorial contributions may be Saskatchewan in 1943 and a master’s faster, which makes it more comfort- Louise Lehmann and Doris Ida made to the First Lutheran Church. degree in Physics from the able for the patient. It also allows the Morgenroth. Contributions may be left in care of University of Saskatchewan in 1946 radiologist to alter the brightness of Survivors include one son, John the Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen and was employed there as a labora- the image or zoom in as necessary,” Philip Nordin and his wife Debra and Funeral Home, 1616 Poyntz Avenue, tory instructor. said Joe Strano, director of radiology nephew Connor of Woodinville, WA; Manhattan, KS 66502. On August 23, 1947, she was mar- at Mercy Regional. “It even high- lights suspicious areas, so it almost Gala To Fight Heart Disease The Mercy Community Health but it’s also a way to celebrate what enhance local cardiology services. In Foundation and the Mercy Regional we’ve accomplished so far,” said addition to the catheterization lab Health Center Auxiliary are hosting Margie Michal, Mercy Foundation that was opened several years ago, in the fourth annual A Dress the Heart manager. “The community has really 2007 Mercy Regional welcomed two Gala on Saturday, Feb. 2, at the pulled together to bring cardiac care interventional cardiologists — Dr. Holiday Inn at the Campus. to Manhattan, so it’s only right that Priyantha Ranaweera and Dr. Established to help raise money for the community takes part in this William Freund — and established the community’s cardiac initiative, wonderful event.” The Heart Institute at Mercy BUFFALO PHYSICIAN-SUPERVISED WEIGHT LOSS the formal event will feature an auc- Last year’s event raised over Regional. tion, live music by The Exceptions $60,000 to benefit local cardiac serv- For tickets to the 2008 A Dress the MEAT featuring Betti O., dancing and ices at Mercy Regional Health Heart Gala, to preview auction items Surgery Seminar refreshments. An auction preview Center. Over the past few years, per- prior to the event, or to make a dona- All natural, Tuesday, January 22 sonal gifts, gifts in kind, corporate tion, call the Mercy Foundation at will begin at 6:30 p.m., and the auc- No hormones, 5:30 p.m. tion and gala will start at 7:30 p.m. gifts and special events have raised (785) 587-5462. 1105 Sunset Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas nearly $650,000 to expand and “This event is a great fundraiser, Grass fed, Call 785.587.4275 for reservations Low cholesterol. Wamego Telecommunications Across from Manhattan Airport Company Underwrites Shows www.plumleeranch.com WAMEGO, KS – Jan. 15, 2008: They are an award winning musical Faris Family performances, under- Put Your Team to Work for You! With the New Year and the support group, having won “Entertaining written by Wamego of Wamego Telecommunications Group of the Year” and “Bluegrass Telecommunications Company, will Company, The Columbian Theatre Band of the Year – Traditional”, both be at The Columbian Theatre in brings three new shows to the stage. three times, and “Vocal Group of the Wamego on Friday, Jan. 25, The 2008 season started with Year.” The Faris Family is Bob Saturday, Jan. 26 and Sunday, Jan. “Martini Night” which was a sold Faris, guitar and fiddle; Michelle 27. Friday and Saturday perform- out show, or should we say a sold out Faris, upright bass; James Faris, ances are at 7:30 p.m. and the party, because everyone had a won- upright bass and fiddle; Richard Sunday performance begins at 2:00 derful time. The actors and the Faris, guitar and resophonic guitar; p.m. Tickets for the show are $20.00 guests can’t wait to do it all again! Edward Faris, banjo and guitar; and for adults and $10.00 for children. Next on the schedule is the Faris Jon Faris, mandolin. All members “Betti O’ and Friends,” underwritten Family. They reflect the best in share their vocal talents throughout by Wamego Telecommunications Bluegrass music heritage inherent the show. Company, will be at The Columbian in today’s generation of Bluegrass Then, in February, Betti O’ returns Theatre for two weekends in Nolan grew up in Wichita and is a KSU graduate. artists. They are the sound of to the Columbian, bringing with her February, 8-10 and 15-17. He has been with Little Apple Toyota for 2 years. today. Fresh and innovative yet never Linda Uthoff and more of Betti’s Performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. Favorite Saying: A man can fall many times, but losing touch with their roots. The friends. Betti O’ performed at the on Fridays and Saturdays, and 2:00 is never a failure until he refuses to get up. result is the fresh sound of tradition; Garlund-Luft exhibit opening last p.m. on Sundays. a blend of the past present and future. fall and if you missed her then you Tickets for the show are $20.00, will definitely not want to miss her adults 18 and over are suggested. and Linda Uthoff on stage together. Please call The Columbian Theatre The show will be full of great songs, ticket office at 785-456-2029 or 800- lots of laughs and plenty of fun! 899-1893, or purchase tickets online and view upcoming events at Tickets for the Faris Family and www.columbiantheatre.com. the Betti O’ and Friends show are going fast so don’t wait too long to get yours!

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Florence Manufacturing is proud to be an equal COME BUILD A NEW CAREER WITH US! opportunity employer and drug free workplace. HISTORY MANHATTAN FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2008 3 which has mostly disappeared to day. Wrote R.S. Stevens on Lot 1, Blk Called on W.I. Houghanant. Cloudy Wrote B.F. Mudge & sent him Pass Monday, April 2, 1877 57, offered $25 or $30 for it. afternoons. Worked in garden clean- to Denison & Return. Looked at P.C. to W.E. Woodward & J.H. Pleasant day. Hattie washed,- helped ing up & burning the rubbish. Eve— Wall paper for Mrs. Smith’s house. Gaylord. Chopped wood &c. Fine her some. Miscellaneous jobs, &c. Call from Goss & Moore. Ellen & Hattie Called at Rev. Cool Morning. P.C. to French. Eve—Call upon Br. McAnulty. Visit McAnulty’s & Widow Hattie returns. Col. Rode with on Babtism &c. Course of Lectures. Wednesday, April 11, 1877 Houghanant’s. Letter to Henry. Randall to Humboldt, Sold 2110A Wrote S. Lindsley. Damp Sawed & Split wood. Cleared off land. Finished setting glass &c. Tuesday, April 10, 1877 Morning. Moved quite a pile of pleasant. J.D. Todd called in the Made out Deed, 2110A. Call from Wrote C.D. Trimble, S. Whitney. wood. Eve. Mr. Lossing & Wood. Talk with Gorbet on garden &c!

Sunday, March 25, 1877 Tuesday, April 3, 1877 A beautiful Sabbath Sermon A.M. Burnt rubbish! Went to Emporia, & Evening by Rev. McAnulty. Large Sold SW. 19-23-7, Nath[‘]l[.] Congregations! Class Meeting after Crawford $400, $200. cash. $200 Morning Service. Read one of H.W. Note payable Nov. 1st, 10 p[e]rcent Beecher’s Sermon, St. Louis. Wrote interest. Payable Em. Nat[‘]l[.] B., The Goodnow Diary gives a glimpse into the life of Isaac Goodnow, a a long letter to L.H. Whitney. $24 Com[‘]n[.] to be paid by A.M. leader in the free-state movement and one of the founders of the town of Miscellaneous reading. Sommers. Lizzie very sick! Went to Manhattan. He later established the college which became Kansas State Junction City & put Up at Pacific University. A prominent farmer and successful businessman, Goodnow Monday, March 26, 1877 House. To bed at 11 ¾ P.M. and his wife, Ellen, built a unique stone farmhouse in the 1860s. Isaac's Pleasant day. Arranged for paper- and Ellen's interest in education and nature is reflected in the hundreds ing A.M. Smith, front room. Col. Wednesday, April 4, 1877 of objects they collected. Goss & Co. left for a hunt in Called on Pierce. Went to Visiting Goodnow House Location: 2309 Claflin Road in Arkansas Valley. Talk with Rev. Manhattan. French, Sawyer & Manhattan, Kansas Hours: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday - Friday Phillips on Wince House. Wrote Winchip! Bank business! Dinner & 2 - 5 p.m. Saturday - Sunday. Subject to staff availability. Hobbe Velde. Wrote Frank on Supper at Adams House. Rode with Hattie’s going up. Hattie took a ride French to S. Whitney’s & spent the Crawford, F. Goodnow. Leach & with Dr. Todd. Accident-& wonder- night. 1877 wife to dinner; pleasant visit. ful escape! Letter from Frank on Sunday, March 11, 1877 Worked in garden some & on Wood. Quereau &c. Thursday, April 5, 1877 A.M. Sermon by Chaplin McCabe. Sore throat. Cold. Sent deed to Mrs. Went to My old Claim with S. P.M. by D.P. Mitchell & ordination Prentice. Tuesday, March 27, 1877 Whitney. Call upon Reynolds, Mrs. of Elders by Bishop Simpson. Wrote Quereau, enclosing Windsor &c. Went to Manhattan. Evening Sermon by Dr. Fry. Warm Sunday, March 18, 1877 French’s letter. Neibarger & Gorbet Interview with Bank Officers! WEDDING OPEN HOUSE day. Met Br. Rhodes with Dr. Home all day, & read & rested! papering Mrs. Smith’s room. Raked Discussion of of State VS Nat[‘]l[.] Denison. up the Bricks & stones around & car- Banks. Decided to Change A. Saturday and Sunday, January 19 & 20 Monday, March 19, 1877 ried off to the [Sw-ie?] Hattie went National of Manhattan to State Bank Monday, March 12, 1877 Wrote French & sent him up to Emporia to Spend a few days of Manhattan at once. Went to Register for Free Prizes Left Wichita at 3-40 A.M. Home Quereau’s letter, to answer. Eve— with Lizzie, who is sick. Ellen not Junction City. Put up at Pacific, visit very well. Pleasant day! with Mrs. G. & Florence. WEDDING INVITATIONS at 10-20 A.M. Dr. Williams dead! A went to Emporia & settled for S ½ H. In Store good man has fallen! Left at 5-30 Velde’s Land $891.28. Miss Specials P.M. for Manhattan. 11-15 P.M. at Sebastian. Lizzie still sick. Wednesday, March 28, 1877 Friday, April 6, 1877 All Wedding 40% OFF Wrote J. Paulson & Sent 1.00 T. Arose at 4 A.M. took the train for Items Junction City, Pacific House. Slept 20% OFF January 2 - February 9 well. Letter to H. Velde. Tuesday, March 20, 1877 Paper, A.C. Pierce, H.B. Cullom. home. Breakfast at Emporia Telegraphed to C.D. & Co. Fixed up Settlement on A/c of H. Worked around barn & raked up Junction. Home at 10 ½ A.M. Met Stalks. Also in garden, enough to get Rice & Burley Smith on the train, Visit our booth at the Manhattan Bridal Show Telegraphed to R.W. Randall, for Velde with Bank, Emporia Nat[‘]l[.]. January 20 • KSU Student Union Pass. J.R. Stone, Wichita Host Col. Ret[‘]d[.] to N. F. on Freight at 2 ¼ tired. Conductor Wood discharged. Also Rev. Benty. Lizzie better. Carpenter on train. P.M. Settled with E. Van Norman for Nobody knows Why! Read in the Worked on wood some, letters &c. NW1-24-16 for $450. for $790.81, Eve—Prescott on Cervantes! Good. MR. P’S PARTY OUTLET Signs of rain! Saturday, April 7, 1877 Tuesday, March 13, 1877 due-giving him $340.81. Rec[‘]d[.] 318 POYNTZ 785-776-7547 Went to Manhattan. T.V. Wilson cash $300. Note, 150. &50. = 450. Worked on Walks in garden. on train. Wrote P.C. A.W. Rinehart, Ernest & Wallace Lossing over Thursday, March 29, 1877 Painted front gate & etceteras. N.H. N. Goodrich (1.30) Eve N. Bank night. Wrote H. Ritchie, S. French & Wrote L.B. Dennis, R.W. Randall, tramp via Texas, Hungry! Mr. Cook –(151.30) Wm McCraner. French, sent 100. Draft on 1st Nat[‘]l[.] R.S. Stevens, H.D. Mirick, S. & Miss Dykeman & Wallie Lossing Sawyer, Winchip. Dined at Adam’s [H.C?]. Whitney, S. French. P.C. to P. at dinner. Worked on woodpile & O OU AVE ACK OR ECK AIN House, Col. Stenton, Host. Went Lossing. Rainy in the last night & to burnt rubbish! Fixed ketch to Gate. D Y H B N P ? through Ag[‘]l[.] College. Supper at Wednesday, March 21, 1877 day. Read Review of Prescott on Sir Try This: A. Winde’s. Stopped over night at S. Wrote H. Velde, G.E. Hunton, R.S. Walter Scott. Sunday, April 8, 1877 Whitney’s. Sudden Change Weather. Stevens, J.P. Magee & sent Tax Cer- A.M. & Evening sermons by Rev. Friday, March 30, 1877 McAnulty; Class Meeting at noon. 375 W.H. De Motte, Delavan, Wis. DECOMPRESSION Wednesday, March 14, 1877 Hiram S. Denison. R.W. Randall Rained again in the night. Letters Read papers &c. Pleasant day. Went to M—n. Talk with French enclosing Burton’s letter Geneva, to W.F. Gue 2.00, S.H. Fairfield, A SAFE and PAINLESS procedure for: W.B. Meeker & Co. $168. Draft on Monday, April 9, 1877 &c. Wrote G.W. Quereau. Went to Kam Co., Ill. Wrote J.B. Gould, S. • Pinched Nerves • Disc Bulge Valley falls, R.K. Mc Cartney, Jessie French. P.C. S.Whitney, Emma N.Y. Met Randall at the train 5-30 & Ethal. Went on to Conference. Cheney. Saw Capt. Houghanant & P.M. Wants the 2100 A. for J.M. • Back & Leg Pain • Disc Rupture (herniation) Put up with Martin Anderson. Eve— Rev. Phillips on purchase of Wince Browne. • Neck & Arm Pain • Disc Degeneration Crowded Meeting. House. Saturday, March 31, 1877 • No Drugs Thursday, March 15, 1877 Thursday, March 22, 1877 Wrote W.H. De Moote. Wrote Educational Meeting, A.M. & P.M. Quite breezy! Talk with R.W. Randall at Emporia. Rainy. • No Injections Hard work, but a success. $2,200. Neibarger, Sub - rosa. Wrote A.M. Put in 7 panes of glass into Barn pledged. Wrote C. Dodge & Co. to Smith. Sent Draft on St Louis $300. Windows. Visit with Philo. Eve— • No Surgery send ($1000. Bond). to Em Nat[‘]l[.] Bank. Called at Mr. read in Hershey’s on papering House, &c. Appletons Journal. Took a Bath. Friday, March 16, 1877 Wrote Eli Crawford, Note $200.00. Up at 5 ½ A.M. & took the Cars Col. Goss getting ready for an expe- Sunday, April 1, 1877 DR. GARY E. CLEVELAND, DC for home. Narrow guage to Valley dition to the Arkansas river, Hunting A.N. Sermon by Rev. Irwin on Falls. Called on R.R. Mc Cartney & Expedition!~ Col. Parsons, &c. denying self! Excellent. 785-323-1923 dined. Sweet, Rhodes, & Beautiful day. Cherrington & Fry along. On to Emporia & spent the night at Friday, March 23, 1877 *Spinal Decompression, Frank’s, Emporia. Lizzie Sick! Change of weather to Cold & Grizzly’s Grill Have a Sore throat. damp. Wind from the North. 2 that is, non-surgical Young tramps! Wrote to L.T. unloading of the spine Saturday, March 17, 1877 Heritage to Send Draft $40 to G. due to distraction Denison, Denver, Col. Went home. McAnulty, & Rhodes and positioning. aboard. Wrote S.A. Sawyer, Eli Miscellaneous reading. P.C. to Mrs. Mon-Thurs: 11am-9pm Home Cookin’ Cabbage. W.F. Morse, H.S. Willard. 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this to the protection afforded those who violate Kansas law regarding late-term Thoughts abortions and the turmoil in the AG office causes me to wonder what is hap- pening to the rule of law in Kansas. From The I returned home from Topeka with haunting thoughts about the possible demise of our Republic. It is not that Prairie America will soon cease to be, but that Yogi Berra said you could “hear a lot America will cease to be the shining by listening,” so I went to Topeka over light. Secular humanism is replacing the the weekend to hear what’s going on in pillar of Christianity in our educational our Legislature and school system. system. The humanistic form of govern- The good news is that many ment is socialism and socialism turns out Americans in Kansas and around the the light of liberty, replacing it with drab, country are responding to the battle call low-level lumens and replaces individu- to preserve this great Nation. Among ality with groupthink normality. In this those answering the call are many teach- scenario, individual thinkers who attempt ers in public, private, and home schools to rise above the norm are penalized and who understand the founding history of culture stagnates. America and the reason America has There are numerous examples of failed been a “shinning light on a hill.” George socialistic systems. I visited Berlin in Washington, in his farewell address, 1978 before the wall came down. In West articulated the basis for this light and the Dick Miller Berlin, seat of a new representative pillars of our educational system: “Of all republic, businesses were thriving, peo- the dispositions and habits which lead to Christianity shall be overthrown, our ple were smiling, and the destruction of political prosperity, religion and morality present republican form of government, WWII had been replaced with new build- are indispensable supports.” and all the blessings which flow from ings and bright flowers hanging from Washington’s statement is a reflection them, must fall with them.” every balcony. East Berlin, governed by of the Northwest Ordinance he had Then I heard something that saddened Russian socialism, was dramatically dif- signed into law August 7, 1789. This me. I heard that teachers in Kansas are ferent. I explored behind the city square. ordinance declared. “Religion, morality, exempted from prosecution for present- Just one block away there were no flow- and knowledge being necessary to good ing pornography to students that would ers and the drab buildings still had the government and the happiness of be punishable for other citizens. This vio- marks of battle. There were long lines of mankind, schools and the means of edu- lates reciprocity articulated by Thomas frowning people in drab clothing at the cation shall forever be encouraged.” In Jefferson. A bill to remove this exemp- grocery store waiting for meat that did order for a state to be admitted into the tion passed out of committee unanimous- not exist. Reminded me of the line from Union, its educational system had to con- ly last year only to be shelved because of Doctor Zhivago: “Lenin in Moscow! No form to this ordinance. vigorous protest from the Kansas more czars: just workers in a worker’s Jedediah Morse, a teacher and author Teachers union, KNEA. state!” of America’s first geography book, Then I heard rumblings about “The philosophy of the school room in affirmed in 1799 that the religion Domestic Partnership Registries that one generation will be the philosophy of referred to in this document was undermine the Marriage Amendment government in the next.” Abraham Christianity: “Whenever the pillars of passed by the citizens of Kansas. Add Lincoln

toilet like it was a spaceship. He told me Soviet spies reveled in the whole cloak-and-dagger aspect of espi- onage. One spy gave weirdly specific Ann details to a contact before their first meeting: He would have the New York Herald Tribune folded three times, tucked under his left elbow at a particular angle. Coulter When the spy walked into the hotel lobby for the rendezvous, Father nearly fell off his chair when the man with the John Vincent Coulter Herald Tribune folded under his elbow The longest baby ever born at the just so ... was also wearing a full-length Albany, N.Y., hospital, at least as of May fur coat. But he couldn't have told his 5, 1926, who grew up to be my strapping contact: "I'll be the only white man in father, passed away last Friday morning. North America wearing a full-length fur As Mother and I stood at Daddy's cas- coat." ket Monday morning, Mother repeated In the early 1980s, as vice president his joke to him, which he said on every and labor lawyer for Phelps Dodge cop- wedding anniversary until a few years per company, Father broke a strike ago when Lewy bodies dementia pre- against the company, which culminated vented him from saying much at all: "54 in the largest union decertification ever - years, married to the wrong woman." Ann Coulter - at that time and perhaps still. President And we laughed. Reagan had broken the air traffic con- John Vincent Coulter was of the old men than anyone I've ever known. He trollers' strike in 1981. But unions recog- school, a man of few words, the un- was, in short, the molecular opposite of nized that it was the breaking of the Oprah, no crying or wearing your heart John Edwards. Phelps Dodge strike a few years later that on your sleeve, and reacting to moments Father didn't care what popular opin- landed the greater blow, as described in of great sentiment with a joke. Or as we ion was: There was right and wrong. I the book "Copper Crucible." used to call them: men. don't recall his ever specifically talking There was massive violence by the When he was moping around the about J. Edgar Hoover or Joe McCarthy, strikers, including guns being fired into house once, missing my brother who had but we knew he thought the popular his- the homes of the mine employees who just gone back to college, he said, "Well, tories were bunk. That's why "Treason" returned to work. Every day, Father if you had cancer long enough, you'd was dedicated to him, the last book of walked with the strikebreakers through miss it." mine he was able to read. the picket line, (in my mind) brushing He'd indicate his feelings about my When Father returned from the war, he egg off his suit lapel. skirt length by saying, "You look nice, used the G.I. Bill to complete college and By 1986 it was over; the mineworkers Hart, but you forgot to put on your skirt." law school in three years. In order to get voted against the union and Phelps Of course, he did show strong emotion to law school quickly, he chose the easi- Dodge was saved. For any liberals still when The New York Post would run a est college major -- a major that so reading, this is what's known as a "happy photo of Teddy Kennedy saying the impressed him, he told my oldest brother ending." rosary. I can still see the look of disgust. that if he ever took one single course in To Mother's lifelong consternation -- I saw that face in "How To Read People sociology, Father would cut off his until he had dementia and she could get Like a Book" and it was NOT a good tuition payments. him back by smothering him with hugs chapter. As a young FBI agent fresh out of law and kisses -- Father wasn't demonstra- Your parents are your whole world school, one of Father's first assignments tive. But all he wanted was to be with when you are a child. You only recognize was to investigate job applicants at a ura- Mother (and to work on his what is unique about them when you get nium enrichment plant, the only suitable Volkswagens). They traveled the world older and see how the rest of the world land for which was apparently located on together, went to DAR conventions diverges from your standard of normali- some property owned by the then-vice together, engaged in Republican politics ty. president, Alben Barkley, in Paducah, together and went to the New York So it took me awhile to realize that by Ky. Philharmonic together -- for three telling my friends that Father was an ex- One day, a group of FBI agents saw decades, their subscription seats were on FBI agent and a union-buster whose hob- the beautiful Nell Husbands Martin at the highest landing, or as we Scots call it, bies included rebuilding Volkswagens lunch with her mother. They asked the the "Music Lovers" level. and shooting squirrels in our backyard, I waitress for her name and flipped a coin When Mother was in a rehabilitative was painting the image of a rough Eliot to see who could ask her out first. Father facility briefly after surgery a few years Ness type, rather than the cheerful, funny lost the coin toss, so he paid off the other ago and Father was not supposed to be raconteur they would meet. agents. And that's how Nell became my driving, we were relieved that a snow- Besides being very funny, Father had mother. storm had knocked out the power to the an absolutely straight moral compass Mother swore she'd never marry a garage door opener, so Daddy couldn't without ever being preachy or judgmen- drinker, a smoker or a Catholic, and she get to the car. It would just be a week and PUBLISHED WEEKLY EVERY tal or even telling us in words. He just got all three, reforming Father on all but then Mother would be home. THURSDAY was good. the Catholicism. Even in foreign coun- My brother came home to check on Manhattan Free Press He would return to a store if he was tries where none of us spoke the lan- Father the first day of this arrangement to given too much change -- and this was a guage, Father went to Mass every find that he had taken an ax to the side WINNER OF THE KANSAS GAS SERVICE man who was so "thrifty," as we Scots Sunday until the very end. door of the garage, so he could drive to like to say, he told us he wanted to be Of course, toward the end, he probably the rehab center and sit with Mother all EXCELLENCE IN EDITORIAL WRITING AWARD buried in two cardboard boxes from the didn't even remember he was a Catholic. day. A&P rather than pay for a coffin. But on the bright side, he didn't remem- When she left him for five days last When I was bombarded with argu- ber that Teddy Kennedy was a Catholic, summer to go to a family reunion in Free Press Staff ments for baby-killing as a kid, I asked either. Kentucky, at some point, Father, who Jon A. and Linda L. Brake, Publishers Father about the old chestnut involving a Father spent most of his nine-year FBI hadn't been able to speak much anymore, poverty-stricken, unwed teenage girl career as a Red hunter in New York City. looked up and asked his nurse, "Where is Jon A. Brake, Editor who gets pregnant. (This was before they He never talked much about his FBI she?" added the "impregnated by her own days. I learned that he worked on the And last Friday morning at 2 he passed Linda L. Brake, Advertising Manager father" part.) Father just said, "I don't Rudolf Abel case -- the highest-ranking away, in his bedroom with Mother. The Ben Brake, Sports Editor care. If it's a life, it's a life." I'm still wait- Soviet spy ever captured in U.S. history - police and firemen told my brother that ing to hear an effective counterargument. - during one of my brother's eulogies on they kept trying to distract Mother to Brandon Evans - Advertising Representative Father hated puffery, pomposity, snob- Monday. But when Father read a paper I keep her away from the bedroom with bery, fake friendliness, fake anything. wrote at Cornell defending McCarthy Father's body, but she kept padding back Subscriptions: eFreePress subscriptions are Free Like Kitty's father in "Anna Karenina," and came across the name William into the bedroom to be close to him. “Were it left to me to decide Street Address: he could detect a substanceless suitor in a Remington, he told me that had been his whether we should have a govern- 103 North 3rd Street heartbeat. (They were probably the same case. Now Daddy is with Joe McCarthy and ment without newspapers or ones who looked nervous when I told Mailing Address: Father mostly had contempt for Soviet Ronald Reagan. I hope they stop laugh- newspapers without a government, them Father was ex-FBI and liked to spies. In addition to damaging informa- ing about the Reds long enough to talk to P.O. Box 1191, Manhattan, Ks 66505 shoot squirrels in the backyard.) tion, such as military plans and nuclear God about smiting some liberals for me. I should not hesitate a moment to E-Mail: He hated unions because of their cor- secrets, the spies also collected massive prefer the latter.” [email protected] or [email protected] rupt leadership, ripping off the members amounts of utterly useless information on COPYRIGHT 2008 ANN COULTER - Thomas Jefferson, 1787 for their own aggrandizement. 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WINNER OF THE KANSAS GAS SERVICE 2006 KANSAS PROFESSIONAL 2006 KANSAS PROFESSIONAL WINNER OF THE KANSAS PRESS EXCELLENCE IN EDITORIAL WRITING COMMUNICATORS PHOTO ESSAY AWARD COMMUNICATORS EDITORIAL AWARD ASSOCIATION ADVERTISING AWARD Beasley Has Game Winner, As KSU Beats Oklahoma By MURRAY EVANS and likely will keep Oklahoma out of They should be able to come out here it works that way every time, I would Associated Press Writer next week’s rankings after the and just represent their schools like be lying to you. NORMAN, Okla. (AP) _ In a Sooners had risen to 26th in the bal- they do. ``When your freshmen keep their game dominated by freshmen, it loting for the Top 25. ``Those two kids, both young pup- focus and make a play against such a made sense that one of the nation’s ``That’s why you put your fresh- pies, to play the high level basketball quality team, it shows a lot of best freshmen made the decisive play men out there against tough teams that they play and lead their teams growth.’‘ for Kansas State. from day one,’‘ Kansas State coach like they do, people should look into As Capel was trying to call time- Michael Beasley scored 32 points, Frank Martin said. `Ìf we don’t play that and try to figure out a way to get out, Oklahoma guard Austin Johnson including the game-winner with 2.3 Notre Dame, if we don’t play Xavier, the NBA out of our business.’‘ threw up a half-court heave at the seconds left, as Kansas State outlast- we don’t have a chance to come in Walker broke a 75-75 tie with a buzzer, which hit off the backboard ed Oklahoma 84-82 on Saturday in here and beat what I think is a top-20 bucket with 2:01 left, and Clent and front of the rim, preserving the the Big 12 Conference opener for team.’‘ Stewart _ a Tulsa, Okla., high school win for the Wildcats in their first true both teams. In a game in which neither team product _ made a 3-pointer with 1:09 road game of the season. Beasley grabbed 11 rebounds for led by more than five points, every left to give Kansas State an 82-78 Kansas State shot a season-high his 14th double-double of the season, surge was met with a countersurge. bulge. 56.4 percent from the field _ the and another freshman, Bill Walker, With the game tied 62-62, Walker Griffin, who fought through a sore highest percentage by an Oklahoma added 22 points for Kansas State (11- had a 3-point play that he followed right shoulder, hit a pair of free opponent during Capel’s tenure _ 4, 1-0), which won at the Lloyd with a drive down the lane for a dunk throws with 47.9 seconds left, then while Oklahoma made 52.8 percent Noble Center for the first time since to put the Wildcats up 67-62 with stole the ball and rumbled downcourt of its shots. Jan. 20, 1996. That stretch included 9:02 left, matching their biggest lead for a dunk that tied the game with 24 ``We needed to defend like we nor- five straight losses to Oklahoma (12- of the game. seconds left. mally defend,’‘ Capel said. ``...That 4, 0-1). Then Griffin scored on a putback `Ì felt like we had it the whole is the thing I am most disappointed The 6-foot-10 Beasley and 6-foot- and added a pair of free throws time ... but unfortunately the play in.’‘ 6 Walker outdueled Oklahoma’s before spinning around Beasley for a didn’t go our way at the end,’‘ Beasley’s 32-point outing matched standout freshman, Blake Griffin, dunk to put the Sooners ahead with Griffin said. his second-highest of the season. It who finished with a career-high 27 6:29 left. Beasley answered with a After two Kansas State time-outs, was his sixth game of 30 or more points and 14 rebounds for his sixth bucket of his own to again give freshman point guard Jacob Pullen points, one shy of Kansas State’s sin- double-double of the season. Kansas State the lead 20 seconds took the inbounds pass for the gle-season record, set by Bob Boozer ``Man, that is a big boy,’‘ Beasley later. Wildcats and found Beasley in the during the 1958-59 season and said of the 6-foot-10 Griffin. ``He is And so it went, in what might be lane. Beasley collided with Griffin matched by Norris Coleman during a great player. We just came out and the only collegiate matchup of while making his move to the basket, the 1985-86 season. played and it ended up being the bat- Beasley and Griffin, should one, or but no foul was called. It was the second straight game in tle of the beasts. He is my guy. In both, opt to jump into the NBA after `Ìt probably should have been a which Griffin recorded a career high basketball there are no friends on the their freshmen seasons. no-call,’‘ Capel said. in points, as he had 26 points in a win court, but we will always be friends ``That is why that NBA rule Martin said the play was ``what we Tuesday over Mount St. Mary’s. after the game.’‘ absolutely stinks,’‘ Martin said. ``We talked about doing. That is some- Longar Longar added 18 points for The loss ended the Sooners’ five- should be allowed to watch those thing that we do toward the end of Oklahoma, while David Godbold game winning streak, their longest two guys compete against each other, shot clocks. If I sat here ... and told had 15 and Tony Crocker had 13. Michael Beasley scored 32 points against Oklahoma. under second-year coach Jeff Capel, and play at a high level like they do. you that that is the way we run it and Kansas State Tops Texas AUSTIN, Texas -- Shalee Lehning consecutive games was back in 2005 to close the half to go into the locker Beasley Named Big 12 scored a career-high 21 points to lead as K-State knocked off No. 10 Texas room down three, 37-34. a quartet of Wildcats in double fig- Tech in Lubbock on January 22 and The Wildcats scored five of the ures and Kansas State erased an early No. 18 Iowa State at home on first seven points of the second half 12-0 deficit en route to a 77-74 over- January 25. to tie the game at 39, and Texas time upset of No. 15 Texas at the The Wildcats held Texas scoreless would never lead by more than five Player Of The Week Frank Erwin Center on Sunday. until the 0:59 mark of overtime and points until Kansas State took a 62- IRVING, Texas – Freshman for- Norman since 1996 and snap a five- including 35.3 percent from 3-point The win for the Wildcats was their led 75-71 before Carla Cortijo made 61 advantage, its first lead of the ward Michael Beasley earned game losing streak in road confer- range, with 13.1 rebounds, 2.0 second straight over a ranked oppo- a layup and free throw to bring the game, with just over 6 minutes Phillips 66 Big 12 Player of the ence openers. blocks, 1.3 assists and 1.2 steals in nent on the road, marking the first Horns to within one at 75-74. remaining on two free throws by Week honors for the second time this His performance against the 30.5 minutes per game this season. time since the 1979 season that a K- Kimberly Dietz then made two free Ashley Sweat. season on Monday after averaging Sooners marked his sixth 30-point As of Friday, he ranked among the State team has done so, as Kansas throws to put the Cats up by three at The two teams traded buckets for 28.5 points and 10.5 rebounds in contest of his young career, which top-5 in the nation in both scoring State moved to 2-0 in Big 12 play 77-74 before Brittainey Raven, who the remainder of regulation and wins over Savannah State and ties Mitch Richmond (6; 1987-88) (fifth) and rebounding (first). He has with the victory in Austin. had 14 points for Texas, missed a Sweat’s layup with 0:17 left tied the Oklahoma. for second-place on the school’s sin- recorded a double-double in 14 of 15 Back in 1979, Kansas State desperation 3-pointer for the game at 71. Sweat also blocked Beasley is just the second Kansas gle-season chart. He is just one shy games this season and has totaled 11 knocked off No. 19 Missouri (2/6) on Longhorns. Kathleen Nash’s potential game-win- State player to earn Big 12 Player of of the school record held by Bob games of 20 or more points. the road before taking a two-over- The Longhorns took a 12-0 lead to ner as time expired in regulation. the Week twice in a season and the Boozer (7, 1958-59) and Norris Kansas State (11-4, 1-0 Big 12) time thriller at No. 16 Kansas (2/26) open the game, but it wasn't enough Sweat scored 20 points, Marlies first since Jeremiah Massey did it Coleman (7, 1985-86). returns to action on Saturday, Jan. 19 in Lawrence. to contain the Wildcats as a Kari Gipson had 16 and Dietz added 15 two times during the 2004-05 sea- The former No. 1 high school when the Wildcats play host to Kansas State opened conference Kincaid three-pointer at the 11:42 for the Wildcats (10-5, 2-0 Big 12). son. The player of the week award is recruit continues to impress this sea- nationally-ranked Texas A&M (15-1, play with a 67-54 win at No. 12 mark of the first half cut the lead to Ashley Lindsey led Texas (12-4, 0-2) also Beasley’s fourth this season son, as he is averaging 24.8 points on 1-0 Big 12) at Bramlage Coliseum Texas A&M on Wednesday. 18-9. Texas upped its lead back to as with 15 points and 11 rebounds. after he earned Big 12 Player of the 57.2 percent shooting (139-of-243), beginning at 3 p.m. CT. The last time a Wildcat team many as 14 in the first half at 25-11, Week honors on Nov. 12, 2007 and defeated two ranked opponents in but the Wildcats went on a 23-12 run Rookie of the Week accolades on Nov. 19 and Dec. 26, 2007. Beasley averaged 28.5 points on 75.9 percent shooting (22-of-29) for the week with 10.5 rebounds, 2.0 blocks and 1.5 steals in 32.5 minutes per game. He also connected on 81.3 percent (13-of-16) from the free Access Your Accounts throw line. 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Date Opponent KSU Rank Location Time (CST) Results Media SCORING OFFENSE Sat, Nov 03 Fort Hays State (EX) 25 Manhattan, Kan. 5 p.m. 95 - 59 (W) Kansas 2 - 0 17 - 0 Team G W-L Pts Avg/G Fri, Nov 09 Sacramento State 25 Manhattan, Kan. 7 p.m. 94 - 63 (W) Sun, Nov 11 Pittsburg State 25 Manhattan, Kan. 3 p.m. 76 - 66 (W) Texas A&M 1 - 0 15 - 1 1.Missouri...... 1 1-0 97 97.0 2.Texas A&M...... 1 1-0 86 86.0 Old Spice Classic Baylor 1 - 0 13 - 2 3.Kansas State...... 1 1-0 84 84.0 Thu, Nov 22 George Mason 18 at Lake Buena Vista, Fla. 77 - 87 (L) Kansas State 1 - 0 11 - 4 Texas...... 1 0-1 84 84.0 Fri, Nov 23 UCF 18 at Lake Buena Vista, Fla. 73 - 71 (W) OT 5.Kansas...... 2 2-0 164 82.0 Sun, Nov 25 Rider 18 at Lake Buena Vista, Fla. 82 - 69 (W) Missouri 1 - 0 11 - 5 6.Oklahoma State...... 1 1-0 74 74.0 Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series Baylor...... 1 1-0 74 74.0 Thu, Nov 29 Oregon - 25 Manhattan, Kan. 77 - 80 (L) Okla State 1 - 0 10 - 5 8.Colorado...... 1 0-1 69 69.0 Jimmy V Basketball Classic Texas 0 - 1 13 - 3 9.Oklahoma...... 2 0-2 137 68.5 Tue, Dec 04 Notre Dame - at New York City, N.Y. 59 - 68 (L) 10.Iowa State...... 1 0-1 67 67.0 Sun, Dec 09 California - Manhattan, Kan. 82 - 75 (W) Nebraska 0 - 1 11 - 3 11.Nebraska...... 1 0-1 58 58.0 Iowa State 0 - 1 10 - 6 12.Texas Tech...... 1 0-1 55 55.0 Mon, Dec 17 Florida A&M at Kansas City, Mo. 87 - 60 (W) Texas Tech 0 - 1 9 - 6 SCORING DEFENSE Sat, Dec 22 Winston-Salem State Manhattan, Kan. 90 - 48 (W) Colorado 0 - 1 8 - 7 Team G Pts Avg/G Sat, Dec 29 Wagner Manhattan, Kan. 1 p.m. 101 - 59 (W) Mon, Dec 31 Xavier (Ohio) at Cincinnati, Ohio 6 p.m. 77 - 103 (L) Oklahoma 0 - 2 12 - 5 1.Oklahoma State...... 1 55 55.0 Mon, Jan 07 Savannah State Manhattan, Kan. 7 p.m. 85 - 25 (W) 2.Kansas...... 2 113 56.5 3.Baylor...... 1 67 67.0 Sat, Jan 12 Oklahoma * at Norman, Okla. 5 p.m. 84 - 82 (W) 4.Texas A&M...... 1 69 69.0 Sat, Jan 19 Texas A&M * Manhattan, Kan. 3 p.m. ESPN 5.Iowa State...... 1 74 74.0 Texas Tech...... 1 74 74.0 Wed, Jan 23 Colorado * at Boulder, Colo. 8 p.m. ESPNU Big 12 Conference Schedule 7.Nebraska...... 1 79 79.0 8.Kansas State...... 1 82 82.0 Date Game TV Arena Time 9.Missouri...... 1 84 84.0 Sat, Jan 26 Iowa State *- Manhattan, Kan. 5 p.m. FSN Midwest 10.Oklahoma...... 2 169 84.5 11.Colorado...... 1 86 86.0 Wed, Jan 30 Kansas * Manhattan, Kan. 7 p.m. ESPN Plus Sat., Jan. 19 Okla State at Iowa State* ESPN Plus 12:30 p.m. 12.Texas...... 1 97 97.0 Sat, Feb 02 Missouri * at Columbia, Mo. 12:30 p.m. ESPN Plus Texas A&M at Kansas State* ESPN 3:00 p.m. 2007-08 BIG 12 Texas Tech at Oklahoma* ESPN Plus 3:00 p.m. MEN'S BASKETBALL INDIVIDUAL Wed, Feb 06 Nebraska * Manhattan, Kan. 7 p.m. FSN Midwest Baylor at Nebraska* ESPN Plus FC 5:00 p.m. BASKETBALL STATISTICS Colorado at Texas* ESPN Plus EC 7:00 p.m. (Through January 14) (Conference games only) Sat, Feb 09 Oklahoma State * Manhattan, Kan. 5 p.m. ESPN Kansas at Missouri* ESPNU MA 7:00 p.m. SCORING Wed, Feb 13 Texas Tech * at Lubbock, Texas 8 p.m. ESPN2 Mon., Jan. 21 Player-Team Cl G FG 3FG FT Pts Avg/G Texas at Oklahoma State* ESPN GIA 8:00 p.m. 1.Brackins, Craig-ISU...... FR 1 12 8 1 33 33.0 Sat, Feb 16 Missouri * Manhattan, Kan. 5 p.m. ESPN Plus Wed., Jan. 23 2.Beasley, Michael-KSU..... FR 1 13 0 6 32 32.0 3.James, Damion-UT...... SO 1 10 3 4 27 27.0 Wed, Feb 20 Nebraska * at Lincoln, Neb. p.m. ESPN2 Iowa State at Kansas* ESPN AF 6:00 p.m. Baylor at Texas A&M* RA 7:00 p.m. 4.Walker, Bill-KSU...... FR 1 8 2 4 22 22.0 5.Abrams, A.J.-UT...... JR 1 8 3 2 21 21.0 Missouri at Texas Tech* ESPN Plus 7:00 p.m. Sat, Feb 23 Baylor * at Waco, Texas 7 p.m. FSN Midwest Muonelo, Obi-OSU...... SO 1 7 5 2 21 21.0 Kansas State at Colorado* ESPNU 8:00 p.m. 7.Longar, Longar-OU...... SR 2 13 0 13 39 19.5 Mon, Feb 25 Texas * Manhattan, Kan. 8 p.m. ESPN 8.Maric, Aleks-NU...... SR 1 7 0 5 19 19.0 Sat., Jan. 26 9.Lawrence, Keon-MU...... SO 1 5 3 5 18 18.0 Sat, Mar 01 Kansas * at Lawrence, Kan. 8 p.m. ESPN Nebraska at Kansas* ESPN Plus AF 12:30 p.m. 10.Rush, Brandon-KU...... JR 2 10 9 6 35 17.5 Missouri at Colorado* ESPN Plus CEC2:00 p.m. 11.Augustin, D.J.-UT...... SO 1 6 2 3 17 17.0 12.Thomas, Ibrahima-OSU..... FR 1 5 1 5 16 16.0 Tue, Mar 04 Colorado * Manhattan, Kan. 8 p.m. ESPN Plus Oklahoma at Baylor* ESPN Plus FC 3:00 p.m. Iowa State at Kansas State* FSNMW 5:00 p.m. Horton, Jason-MU...... SR 1 4 2 6 16 16.0 14.Rogers, Kevin-BU...... JR 1 5 0 5 15 15.0 Sat, Mar 08 Iowa State * at Ames, Iowa 3 p.m. ESPN Plus Texas A&M at Okla State* ESPNU GIA7:00 p.m. Texas Tech at Texas* ESPN Plus EC 7:00 p.m. Kirk, Dominique-TAMU..... SR 1 5 2 3 15 15.0 Dugat, Henry-BU...... JR 1 5 3 2 15 15.0 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship Hannah, Stefhon-MU...... SR 1 5 3 2 15 15.0 Mon., Jan. 28 Higgins, Cory-CU...... FR 1 6 2 1 15 15.0 Thu, Mar 13 TBA at Kansas City, Mo. TBA Oklahoma State at Oklahoma* ESPN 8:00 p.m. 19.Roby, Richard-CU...... SR 1 5 1 3 14 14.0 ESPN Plus Bruce, Aaron-BU...... SR 1 5 2 2 14 14.0 * Conference Games Tue., Jan. 29 Brown, Marshall-MU...... SR 1 6 1 1 14 14.0 Colorado at Iowa State* FSNRM/CTN 7:00 p.m. Silas, Xavier-CU...... 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(AP) _ cruised to an 85-55 victory, hanging since the 1996-97 team began 22-0. scoring, rebounding and steals and rebound and then felt he knee pop. jumper from the top of the key for a Whatever slim chance Oklahoma with No. 1 North Carolina and No. 2 Griffin, the Big 12's freshman of looked hopelessly outmanned `Ì was just trying to go up for a 35-16 lead with 3:17 left. might have had against No. 3 Kansas Memphis as the only unbeatens in the week after scoring 53 points in against a deep and talented Kansas rebound. I kind of got pushed and I on Monday night evaporated 5 min- Division I. his last two games, hobbled to the team that's hardly been challenged so came down wrong. I twisted it or utes into the game when Blake Darnell Jackson had 17 points and bench and then to the locker room far this season, let alone defeated. something,'' he said. `Àt first, it hurt Griffin went up for a rebound and eight rebounds and Brandon Rush with what coach Jeff Capel said was `Ì don't know if it sealed the deal,'' a lot. When I got back to the locker ``came down kind of funny.'' had 16 points and nine rebounds for a sprained knee. He was to undergo Kansas coach Bill Self said, ``but I'm room it did not hurt that bad.'' The rest of the night, the Sooners' the Jayhawks (17-0, 2-0 Big 12), an MRI on Tuesday. sure that deflated them right there. Jackson, who began the game with 6-foot-10 freshman standout looked a huge dunk off the opening tip, was UPCOMING | LIVE AND INTERNET ONLY disappointed Griffin went out. `Ì was looking forward to playing AUCTIONS against him,'' Jackson said. `Ì hope Turgeon Has A&M Humming he gets well because he's a great player. We told ourselves we would By DOUG TUCKER Colorado last week in their Big 12 open- Turgeon, who played for Larry Brown They will be looking for their first 2-0 go out there and play hard no matter AP Sports Writer er. Ranked No. 11 going into the first full and worked under Roy Williams at start to the Big 12 season since 1997-98. what.'' KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ Losing week of conference action, Texas A&M Kansas, will be facing a Knight-coached `Ì think we do have confidence and Trailing 40-20 at halftime, the THU., JAN 17 its head coach and best player doesn't is fifth in the nation in field goal percent- team for the first time as the leader of a know if we play hard and to our full Sooners opened the second half with 6 P.M. seem to be slowing down Texas A&M age (51.3), third in field goal percentage program. But it won't be the first time he capability we can compete with any- a 5-0 run. But Mario Chalmers Liquor seizure auction one bit. defense (35.3) and fifth in scoring margin has scrutinized the Hall of Fame coach. scored six straight points in an 11-0 body,'' said Drew. ``We have experience 205 W Crestway Ave, If anything, says Texas Tech assistant (20.9). As a 23-year-old graduate assistant under now. We have the depth in the backcourt. run capped by Rush's fourth 3-point- coach Pat Knight, the Aggies are better So much for a period of painful read- Williams, Turgeon attended one of Our front line is coming along. We defi- er, and Oklahoma called a timeout Suite 300 than last year, when Billy Gillispie and justment. Knight's coaching clinics at Indiana and nitely have more resources and optimism with 16:32 left and the Jayhawks Derby, Kan. Acie Law led them to a school-record 27 ``They're still a very good team,'' said discovered things he still uses. than we had in the past.'' leading 51-25. Auction includes a wins in one of their greatest seasons ever. Knight, who stepped in for his dad in `Ì still do drills that I learned at that The Big 12's weekly player honors ``We got off to a better start in the single lot consisting `Ì don't think there's been any letdown Monday's Big 12 coaches call. ``Coach clinic,'' Turgeon said. `Ì've followed him second half with that quick 5-0 run, went to a couple of 6-foot-10 freshmen of approximately at all,'' said Knight, who will help his Turgeon's did a good job. He took it for a long time and studied him, even whose names are rapidly becoming but then we got into taking some bad dad, Bob, coach Texas Tech against the where it was and kept going with it. I from afar, even when I wasn't in his familiar not only around the league, but shots. Kansas is tremendous,'' Capel 286 bottles of liquor. Aggies on Wednesday night. ``We've think even he got tired of people talking league, watching his teams play, trying to around the nation. said. ``They are going to be a tough Bidders must have been talking about that.'' about what a good job Billy did. Now get a feel for things they did offensively.'' Kansas State's Michael Beasley was team for anyone to beat.'' a wholesale or retail After Gillispie departed for Kentucky, you've got to give him credit. It's his As impressive as Turgeon has been in chosen player of the week after averag- Longar Longar had 21 points for liquor license. the Aggies lured Mark Turgeon out of team. He deserves all the credit for keep- keeping the Aggies rolling along, he ing almost 29 points and 11 rebounds in the Sooners, hitting double figures Wichita, where the former Kansas guard ing it going. He lost Acie Law, the MVP might still get beaten out if coach-of-the- victories over Savannah State and for the eighth time in nine games, but had gone 128-90 and proven himself of this league, and they haven't missed a year balloting were conducted at midsea- Oklahoma. Beasley hit the game-win- could not stop Kansas from putting SAT., JAN. 19 worthy of a career upgrade. They also beat. It actually looks like they're playing son. Scott Drew, in his fifth year at ning shot against Oklahoma with 2.3 sec- its biggest whipping on Oklahoma 10 A.M. had to figure out a way to get through life better as a team than last year.'' Baylor, appears to have brought the onds remaining. since a 91-61 victory in 1978. without Law, a stellar point guard and The Aggies shot 85.7 percent from the Bears back from the brink. Finally free of Darrell Arthur had 14 points and Dallas Internet only last-shot specialist. free-throw line against Colorado, the the noxious residue of tragedy, scandal Oklahoma freshman Blake Griffin Chalmers added 13 for Kansas, auction While Gillispie has struggled at third time in their last five games they and severe NCAA sanctions, Baylor averaged 26.5 points and 10.5 rebounds which shot 53 percent against an www.purplewave.com Kentucky in the early going, Turgeon has have been over 70 percent. Helping ease could be headed toward its first NCAA in games against Mount St. Mary's and Oklahoma defense that had been the Aggies clicking along. They've won the pain of losing Law has been senior tournament in decades. Kansas State. He shot 70.8 percent in the holding opponents to 39 percent. The eight in a row while compiling a 15-1 guard Dominique Kirk, who has 24 The Bears (13-2, 1-0), who have held two games. Over his last three games, he Sooners were 21-of-64 from the field record, including an 86-69 whipping of assists and only five turnovers in his last every opponent under 50 percent shoot- has averaged 23.7 points and 10 (33 percent). Without Griffin, they five games. ing, play Oklahoma State on Tuesday. rebounds. were outrebounded 40-31 by Kansas' deep frontcourt. TUES., JAN. 22 Making Griffin's loss even worse for the Sooners is the absence of 10 A.M. Sports Potpourri backup Keith Clark, who has been Concordia multiplex declared academically ineligible. By Mac Stevenson some 3-point shots and he’s a chal- killer against some teams. their glossy record and high national Internet only auction Oklahoma was forced to play walk- Kansas State’s basketball team lenge for anyone to guard when driv- Texas A&M is a perfect example. ranking to Missouri Saturday for a 918 E Seventh St on Beau Gerber. won an important game on the road ing the baseline. The Aggies, coached by Mark 7:00 p.m. game that promises to be Kansas took a big early lead and Concordia, Kan. last Saturday. Beating Oklahoma in Beasley is one of those natural ath- Turgeon, are a scary basketball one of the best of the season. That’s already seemed to have full com- Join us as well sell this Norman was the kind of win that can letes who is so smooth that he some- team. And K-State doesn’t match up the good news. The bad news is that mand of the game when Griffin went change the season for a young team. times looks slow. But you can’t be well with them. the great majority of Cox 24-unit multiplex on a out. A few minutes later, David Coach Frank Martin didn’t encour- slow and score 32 points and grab 11 Turgeon has two NBA prospects in Communication customers won’t be 41,338 sq. ft. lot. The Godbold's 3-pointer sliced the lead to age any undue celebrations by his rebounds against OU. He’s sneaky the pivot—senior Joseph Jones (6-9, able to watch it. 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2007-08 Big 12 CONFERENCE BASKETBALL STATISTICS Women’s Basketball 10 - 5 Big 12 Through games of Jan 13, 2008 (Conference games only) Date Opponent Opp Rank Location Time (CST) Results Media SCORING OFFENSE Thu, Nov 01 Washburn (Exhibition) - Manhattan, Kan. 76 - 39 (W) Big 12 All Team G W-L Pts Avg/G Sat, Nov 10 Washington - Manhattan, Kan. 88 - 61 (W) Baylor 2 - 0 14 - 1 1.Iowa State...... 2 1-1 148 74.0 Okla State 2 - 0 14 - 1 2.Colorado...... 2 1-1 147 73.5 Mon, Nov 12 Southern Utah - Manhattan, Kan. 87 - 38 (W) 3.Kansas State...... 2 2-0 144 72.0 Nebraska 2 - 0 13 - 3 4.Oklahoma State...... 2 2-0 141 70.5 Thu, Nov 15 Wyoming - at Laramie, Wyo. 44 - 56 (L) Kansas State 2 - 0 10 - 5 5.Baylor...... 2 2-0 131 65.5 6.Oklahoma...... 2 1-1 130 65.0 Caribbean Challenge Colorado 1 - 1 12 - 3 7.Nebraska...... 2 2-0 127 63.5 Wed, Nov 21 Tulane - at Cancun, Mexico 57 - 60 (L) Iowa State 1 - 1 12 - 3 8.Missouri...... 2 1-1 126 63.0 Thu, Nov 22 Michigan State 18/19 at Cancun, Mexico 65 - 68 (L) Texas Tech...... 2 0-2 126 63.0 Oklahoma 1 - 1 10 - 3 10.Texas...... 2 0-2 119 59.5 KSU Commerce Bank Classic 11.Texas A&M...... 2 0-2 110 55.0 Fri, Nov 30 UTEP vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff - at Manhattan, Kan. Missouri 1 - 1 8 - 7 12.Kansas...... 2 0-2 105 52.5 Texas 0 - 2 12 - 4 Fri, Nov 30 Lipscomb - Manhattan, Kan. 92 - 50 (W) Texas A&M 0 - 2 12 - 4 SCORING DEFENSE Sat, Dec 01 UTEP - Kansas State at Manhattan, Kan. 66 - 58 (W) Texas Tech 0 - 2 12 - 4 Team G Pts Avg/G Wed, Dec 05 Wisconsin-Green Bay - at Green Bay, Wis. 56 - 68 (L) Kansas 0 - 2 11 - 4 1.Nebraska...... 2 96 48.0 Sun, Dec 16 Texas State - Manhattan, Kan. 90 - 61 (W) 2.Oklahoma State...... 2 117 58.5 t 3.Baylor...... 2 123 61.5 Tue, Dec 18 Creighton - at Omaha, Neb. 62 - 69 (L) 4.Texas A&M...... 2 126 63.0 Big 12 Conference 5.Kansas State...... 2 128 64.0 LMU/Hilton LAX Holiday Tournament 6.Missouri...... 2 129 64.5 Fri, Dec 28 Arkansas-Little Rock - at Los Angeles, Calif. 52 - 40 (W) Sat., Jan. 19 7.Kansas...... 2 130 65.0 Missouri at Kansas* Lawrence, Kan. 2:00 p.m. 8.Texas...... 2 133 66.5 Sat, Dec 29 Loyola Marymount/Cal State Bakersfield at Los Angeles, Calif. 70 - 47 (W) Colorado at Kansas State* FSNMW 7:00 p.m. 9.Texas Tech...... 2 140 70.0 Nebraska at Iowa State* Ames, Iowa 7:00 p.m. 10.Colorado...... 2 142 71.0 Wed, Jan 02 Western Illinois - Manhattan, Kan. 68 - 53 (W) Oklahoma State at Texas A&M* FSN TBA 11.Iowa State...... 2 144 72.0 12.Oklahoma...... 2 146 73.0 Wed, Jan 09 Texas A&M * - at College Station, Texas 7 p.m. 67 - 54 (W) Sun., Jan. 20 Baylor at Oklahoma* ESPN2 2:00 p.m. Sun, Jan 13 Texas * - at Austin, Texas 1 p.m. 77 - 74 (W) Texas at Texas Tech* FSN 5:00 p.m. 2007-08 Big 12 Conference FSN INDIVIDUAL Tue., Jan. 22 BASKETBALL STATISTICS Wed, Jan 16 Texas Tech * - Manhattan, Kan. 7 p.m. FSN Midwes Kansas at Colorado* FSNRM 8:00 p.m. Through games of Jan 13, 2008 (Conference games only) SCORING Sat, Jan 19 Colorado * - Manhattan, Kan. 7 p.m. FSN Midwest Wed., Jan. 23 Player-Team Cl G FG 3FG FT Pts Avg/G Texas Tech at Oklahoma* SSN & TTTN 7:00 a.m. Wed, Jan 23 Iowa State * - Manhattan, Kan. 7 p.m. Baylor at Missouri* MSN 6:30 p.m. 1.Riley, Andrea-OSU...... SO 2 23 6 19 71 35.5 Iowa State at Kansas State* 7:00 p.m. 2.Hollins, Alyssa-MU...... JR 2 17 11 2 47 23.5 Sun, Jan 27 Oklahoma State * - at Stillwater, Okla. 1:30 p.m. FSN Oklahoma State at Texas 7:00 p.m. 3.Spears, Brittany-CU...... FR 2 17 4 7 45 22.5 Texas A&M at Nebraska* 7:05 p.m. McFarland, Jackie-CU..... SR 2 14 1 16 45 22.5 Wed, Jan 30 Nebraska * - at Lincoln, Neb. 7:05 p.m. 5.Bolte,Kelsey-ISU...... FR 2 16 5 7 44 22.0 Sat., Jan. 26 6.Seals, Dominic-TTU...... JR 2 11 0 17 39 19.5 Sat, Feb 02 Baylor * - Manhattan, Kan. 12 p.m. FSN Missouri at Texas* Austin, Texas 1:00 p.m. 7.Lacey,Alison-ISU...... SO 2 12 8 6 38 19.0 Colorado at Texas Tech* FSN 4:00 p.m. 8.Dietz, Kimberly-KSU...... SR 2 12 4 7 35 17.5 Sat, Feb 09 Kansas * - Manhattan, Kan. 1 p.m. Texas A&M at Kansas* 7:00 p.m. 9.Sweat, Ashley-KSU...... SO 2 12 4 6 34 17.0 Nebraska at Baylor* Waco, Texas 7:30 p.m. 10.Starks, Takia-TAMU...... JR 2 14 4 1 33 16.5 Wed, Feb 13 Iowa State * - at Ames, Iowa 7 p.m. Mediacom 11.Robinson,Danielle-OU..... FR 2 12 0 8 32 16.0 Sun., Jan. 27 Raven, Brittainey-UT..... SO 2 10 0 12 32 16.0 Sun, Feb 17 Missouri * - at Columbia, Mo. 2:30 p.m. FSN Midwest Kansas State at Oklahoma State* FSN 1:30 p.m. 13.Green, Danielle-OSU...... SR 2 10 1 8 29 14.5 Georgia at Oklahoma ESPN2 4:00 p.m. Player, Jhasmin-BU...... JR 2 10 4 5 29 14.5 Wed, Feb 20 Oklahoma * - Manhattan, Kan. 7 p.m. 15.Morris, Sade-KU...... SO 2 11 2 4 28 14.0 Tue., Jan. 29 Griffin, Kelsey-NU...... JR 2 6 0 16 28 14.0 Sat, Feb 23 Colorado * - at Boulder, Colo. 7 p.m. (MT) Missouri at Texas A&M* TBA 17.Tisdale, Angela-BU...... SR 2 6 2 13 27 13.5 Gipson, Marlies-KSU...... JR 2 9 0 9 27 13.5 Wed, Feb 27 Nebraska * - Manhattan, Kan. 7 p.m. FSN Midwest Wed., Jan. 30 Paris,Courtney-OU...... JR 2 9 0 9 27 13.5 Colorado at Iowa State* 7:00 p.m. 20.Myrick, Erin-TTU...... SR 2 11 0 4 26 13.0 Sat, Mar 01 Missouri * - Manhattan, Kan. 2 p.m. Kansas at Oklahoma* SSN 7:00 p.m. 21.Lehning, Shalee-KSU...... JR 2 9 1 6 25 12.5 Texas at Baylor* Waco, Texas 7:00 p.m. Smith, Bianca-CU...... SO 2 9 7 0 25 12.5 Wed, Mar 05 Kansas * - at Lawrence, Kan. 7 p.m. Metro/ESPN360 Kansas State at Nebraska* Lincoln, 7:05 p.m. 23.Thompson,Amanda-OU...... SO 2 10 2 2 24 12.0 24.McCray, Danielle-KU...... SO 2 8 3 4 23 11.5 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Championship Sat., Feb. 2 Wieben,Nicky-ISU...... JR 2 9 0 5 23 11.5 Tue, Mar 11 - Sat, Mar 15 TBA - at Kansas City, Mo. TBA Baylor at Kansas State* FSN 12:00 p.m. 26.Allison, Rachel-BU...... JR 2 7 0 8 22 11.0 Iowa State at Kansas* 7:00 p.m. 27.McIntosh, Taylor-KU...... SR 2 9 0 2 20 10.0 * Conference Games Oklahoma State at Colorado* FSNRM 7:00 p.m. Putnina, Aija-CU...... SO 2 7 0 6 20 10.0 Texas A&M at Texas Tech* 7:00 p.m. Wilson, Danielle-BU...... SO 2 8 0 4 20 10.0

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Family escapes Bellevue house fire officials gave athletes improper Michigan have dropped 12 cents Commissioner Christine Nixon said her home. In fact, that's pretty much International Falls has replied to a BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) _ Four financial assistance. over the past week. it would be difficult to prove exactly all she has. lawsuit filed by Fraser with a coun- members of a family had escaped The school was also placed on a AAA Michigan reports the who caused the estimated A$20,000 Now that most of 73-year-old tersuit. their burning home in Bellevue when one-year probation. statewide average of $3.06 is 97 (US$18,000; euro12,000) in damage, woman's neighbors have sold their Fraser officials say their town has a 77-year-old man went back inside The academy's lawyer, Gregg cents higher than last year at this but the youth may hold ultimate properties to Memorial Medical used the phrase since 1956, and offi- for some personal items. Thornton, says the school has time. Michigan is in line with the responsibility because he threw the Center, Wilkey's one-story house is cials in International Falls say they Firefighters say his 27-year-old already paid the $13,000 fine and national average price for gasoline, party. ringed on three sides by parking lots. have used it since 1948. The dueling grandson went after him and they won't appeal the ruling. which is $3.07 a gallon. ``He needs to learn a lesson, and Wilkey said a hospital representa- lawsuits ask city officials to prove it. both became trapped by smoke and He says the cost of appealing isn't The state's highest prices at the one way or another we will be mak- tive calls every year to politely ask if The two chilly municipalities flames in an upstairs bedroom. a good use of school resources and a pump can be found in Marquette, ing sure that happens,'' Nixon told she's willing to sell. fought an earlier cold war over the They were able to climb out a win- bylaws change by the KSSAA will where it costs drivers $3.19 a gallon reporters at a news conference. `Ì told them I'm not selling,'' motto decades ago that ended in dow to the roof and step down on a clarify who can contribute financial to fill up. The 16-year-old told local media Wilkey said of the home she's lived 1986 with Fraser giving up its `òffi- trash bin to escape again. They were aid to students. The auto club says the cheapest he had no regrets about the party in for more than 50 years. `Ì'm com- cial'' claim to the trademark in taken to a hospital to be checked out. The decision also requires students gas is in the Saginaw/Bay City area because he believed invited guests fortable here. And I don't care about exchange for $2,000 (euro1,352) The fire department estimates to repay the full amount they at $2.94 per gallon. Motorists in had no role in the ruckus. Asked if he the money. Money don't buy happi- from International Falls. damage to the single-family home at received for this school year from Detroit are paying $3.03. would do it again, the youth said he ness.'' But the Minnesota city last year $350,000 and says the 2 a.m. fire Imani Baptist Church, a private The statewide average for would do it again this weekend _ if The hospital has bought dozens of acknowledged it had inadvertently may have been caused by a candle. foundation or any other unapproved biodiesel is $3.48 and $2.72 for his parents were not due home from nearby properties over the years to failed to renew its federal trademark funding source. ethanol. a vacation this week. build the parking lots. back in 1996, even while keeping a Man sentenced to nine years in AAA Michigan surveys 2,800 Victoria's acting Premier Rob Wilkey said the lots are well-lit state trademark up to date. That prison in Marion beating death Petaluma woman missing, pre- Michigan gas stations daily. Hulls said the youth's parents had no and that the hospital even clears the allowed Fraser to file its own appli- MARION, Ill. (AP) _ A Marion sumed to have drowned near idea about the party and were horri- snow from her sidewalks. And she cation. man who pleaded guilty to involun- Bodega Bay Wayward seal waddles onto state fied when police told them what had said she doesn't mind losing some of To outsiders it might seem ridicu- tary manslaughter in last June's beat- BODEGA BAY, Calif. (AP) _ A highway happened. her neighbors _ including those she lous, but Durbin said it is important ing death of another man should Petaluma woman remains missing TRESCOTT TOWNSHIP, Maine said were troublemakers. to Fraser's residents. spend nine years in prison. and is presumed to have drowned (AP) _ A wayward seal is back in its Rancher in search of good in A message left for a medical center That's the ruling from Williamson after she tried to save her dogs in ocean home after making its way America rides horse into North spokesman was not immediately ``We ought to get something out of County Judge John Speroni in the rough surf off the Sonoma County onto land, crossing several front HENDERSONVILLE, North returned Sunday evening. it after having to live through winters case of 41-year-old Scott Winchester. coast. yards and a horse pasture, and strad- Carolina (AP) _ An Oregon rancher Wilkey said it's the memories of here,'' resident Joan Christensen said. Speroni says Winchester's criminal Authorities say 19-year-old Ann dling a state highway in eastern who set off on a cross-country horse- living in the house with her late hus- past includes battery charges and that Madden was knocked down by a Maine. back ride seven months ago in search band and their daughters that keeps The Summit Daily News in Frisco, makes him a continued danger. The wave and swept away Saturday Motorists came across the seal of what's good in America dismount- her there. Colorado, reported an attempt to set- judge says imprisonment is neces- while she and her fiance -- Grant Saturday morning in the middle of ed Sunday, feeling encouraged by the ``That's the reason I don't want to tle it with a duel failed when Fraser sary to protect the public. Korte -- tried to get her dogs out of state Route 189 in Trescott Township spirit and stories of the people he move,'' she said. wanted it to be a contest on snow- Authorities say 25-year-old David the water after they were hit by in Washington County. met. shoes and the Minnesota mayor Dudman apparently had a previous waves near Bodega Bay. The animal drew the attention of Bill Inman began his journey June Towns in Colorado and Minnesota wanted a snowball fight. relationship with Winchester's girl- Korte and the dogs made it out of several passers-by, who speculated it 2 because he felt distress over how face off over claim to be America's friend and that may have led to the the water, but Madden did not. had crawled out of nearby Whiting the country was being portrayed in 'ice box' On Sunday afternoon, the National fight. Authorities say she would be the Bay. When approached, the seal lum- news coverage and on TV shows. He FRASER, Colorado (AP) _ A feud Weather Service said, Fraser was the Investigators say Dudman was hit first drowning victim off the Sonoma bered down an embankment and rode his 16-year-old thoroughbred- between two U.S. cities over who warmer of the two cities at a balmy and kicked during the altercation. He and Mendocino coasts this year. toward some woods. quarter horse Blackie. owns the trademark `Ìce Box of the 19 degrees (-17 Celsius). died the next day at a hospital. After Marine Patrol Officer His wife, Brenda, and a four-per- Nation'' is heating up. International Falls was 17 degrees (- Landscapers: water limits force Russell Wright arrived, he and half a son support crew joined him on the Fraser, Colorado Town Manager Jeff 8 Celsius). State studies landfill problem layoffs, some businesses may fold dozen others grabbed the seal by its trip through eight states. Durbin said the Minnesota town of PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ The CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) _ flippers and tail and lifted it into a Among the people he met was a state agency that operates the Central Landscapers in areas under drought- cage. Wyoming deputy sheriff who drove Landfill has hired a Virginia consult- imposed water restrictions said From there, Wright drove the ani- 25 miles (40 kilometers) through a ing firm to recommend other ways to they've been unfairly targeted. mal to a boat launch and released it thunderstorm to bring dinner to him process solid waste. An industry group also represent- back into the ocean. and his wife, and all 17 people of a The Rhode Island Resource ing nurseries and irrigation installers Colorado town who came out to see Recovery Corporation last month said outdoor watering limits have Teen might have to pay up after him ride off. agreed to pay Gershman, Brickner caused 30 percent of the industry's police break up a wild party An Idaho state trooper paid him and Bratton $78,000 to study the 151,000 workers to be laid off. Some MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) _ $20 for the chance to sit on top of state's trash situation and devise fear their businesses could fold. An Australian teenager who threw a Blackie, he said. alternatives to landfilling solid Mecklenburg County landscapers wild party while his parents were ``Sometimes, I was more intrigued waste. plan to appeal Charlotte's water away could face a hefty fine after by the stories they were telling than The agreement calls for the con- restrictions to the City Council this police said Monday they might the stories I was telling,'' Inman said. sultants to consider options including month, but Charlotte-Mecklenburg charge him for the cost of breaking Inman finished his trip riding into gasification and incineration, which Utilities said it will stand firm on its the gathering up. the southwestern North Carolina has been illegal in Rhode Island restrictions. More than 500 people turned up to town under overcast skies. A crowd since 1992. Maeneen Klein, the utility's con- the party Saturday in the southern of more than 100 people greeted The landfill, located in Johnston, is servation coordinator, said pool city of Melbourne, and some of them Inman at a motorcycle dealership as expected to reach capacity in two builders and other industries have went on a rampage when police he ended the journey. years. Rhode Island currently throws also been hurt by limits meant to responded to complaints about the `Ì don't know if that's really sunk 1.2 million tons of trash into the eliminate discretionary water uses. noise. in yet. It may take me two or three landfill a year. The utility may grant exceptions, Police cars were pelted with glass days to think it's over,'' Inman said in but only when lenders require new bottles and nearby houses and gar- a telephone interview. Lexington Christian Academy landscaping as a condition of closing dens were vandalized before at least also put on probation a new home sale. 30 officers, a helicopter and the dog Ill. woman's house surrounded by LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) _ The squad were able to end the melee at hospital's parking lots; that's Kentucky High School Athletic AAA Michigan: Gas prices down the suburban home. No one was exactly how she likes it Association has fined Lexington 12 cents arrested. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ Rena Christian Academy, saying school DETROIT (AP) _ Gas prices in Victoria state Police Wilkey has plenty of parking around

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Niehoff says the board has been Lawrence Journal-World defunct lumberyard into the though the center's organization has an additional $500,000, would add a The end building, Diane Niehoff focused on other tasks _ like organiz- BALDWIN CITY, Kan. (AP) _ Lumberyard Arts Center _ may have a contract to purchase it once half the 164-seat theater in the back of the says, will blend the character of the ing occasional classes and starting Mostly, this old lumberyard still been slow-going. But Dickinson, funds for renovation have been building. old building with the functions of a the nonprofit organization _ have looks like a lumberyard. who is vice president of the center's raised. Architectural plans were complet- modern art center. captured too much of the board's Aged wooden beams crisscross the board of directors, and Diane ``We're into saving old things,'' ed by Paul Werner Architects of ``We want to keep it as much like attention. large room where trucks used to Niehoff, who is the president, say Niehoff says of her committee. Lawrence. They were based, in part, the old building as possible,'' she Now, she says, 2008 can be the drive through to load up with sup- they expect 2008 to mark a major `Ònce it had closed, there was talk by suggestions made several years says. time to get the project going in plies. Handwritten signs still hang, push toward getting the project done. of it becoming offices. But we want- ago by architecture students at Dickinson, the board's vice presi- earnest. advertising the price of lumber. 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The lumberyard was built in 1914 was formed last year. that we'll have to do this in phases,'' ``People get locked into thinking `Ìt's hard to be patient,'' Dickinson and housed the Ives-Hartley Lumber The first stage of the project _ Niehoff says. ``We're not raising it's just painting and photography,'' says. ``You just want to hurry up and Co. The lumberyard closed in 2002, expected to cost around $550,000 _ money fast enough. But there has she says. `Ìt would offer so many & ASSOCIATES, INC get it done, but it doesn't work that leaving the 8,000-square-foot build- includes constructing a gallery, been shown there's a real need for opportunities. To me, there are no 720 POYNTZ AVENUE MANHATTAN, KS 66502 way. If you want this to be qualita- ing empty. classrooms, restrooms and offices this project.'' boundaries to what can be offered tive, there has to be an evolution.'' that will house the Baldwin City Jim Niehoff, Diane's husband and once it's up and running. It will pro- (785)539-7576 Chamber of Commerce. It also will construction manager of the project, vide a great launch place for enhanc- Serving your renovate the center area of the build- says the old lumberyard appears to ing what the already-existing arts in Independent ing to be a commons space that can be in good condition. the community and a place for the insurance Insurance GM Adding 300 be rented out for events. ``We won't really know until we community to grow.'' needs BEST Agent Jobs At Fairfax Plant KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) _ to start building it at a second plant General Motors Corp. plans to add in Orion Township, Mich., near 300 jobs this spring to its Fairfax Pontiac, which also makes the assembly plant, which makes its sud- Pontiac G6. denly popular Chevrolet Malibu. ``We’re still very supply con- Officials with United Auto strained. We’re not coming any- Workers Local 31 said the plant’s where near meeting demand so far production will be cranked up in with the new Malibu,’‘ LaNeve said. April from 47 vehicles an hour to 59. ``We think we will be close to meet- SWAP Your Almost all the 300 jobs will be filled ing demand sometime May or New Cars by workers transferred from GM or June.’‘ Delphi Corp. plants being closed, LaNeve said GM expects to dou- Ride John Melton, Local 31 bargaining ble the old Malibu’s retail sales this chairman, told The Kansas City Star. year from 60,000 to 120,000. The old The Malibu, a medium sedan, was Malibu was sold largely to rental car #1 Selling Crossover In 2007 named ``Car of the Year’‘ Sunday at companies and other fleet buyers. the North American International Industry analysts said domestic car Auto Show in Detroit. The award is producers are catching up with their given out by a committee of automo- foreign competitors on quality and tive writers. the back-to-back ``Car of the Year’‘ The car is `èasily as good as any- awards for GM _ its Saturn Aura thing near its price and better than won last year _ is proof that GM is most,’‘ said freelance journalist Gary leading the charge. Witzenburg, one of the ``Car of the GM is hoping the new Malibu Year’‘ jurors. gives it a fighting chance among New Ford Edge It also has been a hit with con- midsize passenger car vehicles, said New Ford Focus New Mercury Milan Leather, Sirius Sat Radio, 2x3 Loaded And Leather, V6, Power sumers. Last month, amid an indus- Ed Peper, Chevrolet general manag- Loaded And Leather, V6, Power Reverse Sensor trywide sales decline, GM sold er. Moonroof, Heated Seats 12,172 Malibus, or almost 7 percent ``Customers are getting that mes- more than the same period a year sage because the new Malibus are $15,499 ago. selling faster than we can put them in $22,978 $28,995 The car’s sales are still way behind dealers’ lots,’‘ Peper said in a written Plus Tax, After Rebate Plus Tax, After Rebate its Japanese peers as Toyota sold statement. Plus Tax, After Repate 39,000 Camrys in December while Once production is increased, the Honda sold more than 31,000 plant will employ about 2,700 hourly Accords. workers and 200 salaried employees, Mark LaNeve, GM North America officials said. Fairfax has averaged Dick Edwards Uses Cars vice president for vehicle sales, serv- between 2,000 and 2,300 workers in ice and marketing, said Chevrolet recent years. sold every Malibu it built in its first This is the second ``Car of the two months on the market, Year’‘ award for Fairfax, which also November and December. makes the Saturn Aura. 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