The WEEKEND Friday, Nov. 7 2008 Goodland Star-News $1 Volume 76, Number 89 12 Pages Goodland, 67735 weather Veteran’s report 47° service noon Thursday Today Tuesday • Sunset, 4:39 p.m. Veterans Day is Tuesday, Nov. 11, and Saturday the Goodland Veterans of Foreign Wars • Sunrise, 6:23 a.m. hope Sherman County veterans, family • Sunset, 4:38 p.m. and friends join them to celebrate the day during the annual service at 11 a.m., said Midday Conditions post commander Bill Selby. • Soil temperature 41 degrees Post Quartermaster Joe Wahrman said • Humidity 33 percent Goodland’s VFW Post 1133, located at • Sky cloudy and overcast 824 Main Street, has been holding a Vet- • Winds northwest 44-53 mph erans Day program since 1986 when he • Barometer 29.93 inches was the post commander. The Auxiliary and rising American Legion Post 117 is helping • Record High today 82° (1931) organize the service. • Record Low today 12° (1938) “We hold the program to honor our Last 24 Hours* veterans, those who have served and High Wednesday 51° those who are serving now,” said Wah- Low Wednesday 35° rman, a Vietnam War veteran. Precipitation none The public ceremony will include a This month trace presentation by the VFW Color Guard, Year to date 19.40 a talk on the VFW auxiliary activities Above normal 0.71 inches including a tribute to comrades and The Topside Forecast prisoners of war and missing in action, Today: Mostly sunny with a high a scripture reading, Veterans Day prayer near 54, winds breezy out of the and music by the Manugs family. The northwest at 15 to 20 mph and a speaker will be Curtis Duncan of KLOE/ low around 30. Saturday: Mostly KKCI/KWGB. sunny with a high near 58, winds A reception will be held after the out of the north at 5 to 10 mph and program. a low around 31. The event will be a time for veterans of all branches, wars and types of military Tumbleweeds block Extended Forecast service to “come out to visit and meet Sunday: Mostly cloudy with a 20 some of their good old comrades,” said percent chance of rain or snow, a Wahrman. road, underpass high near 42 and a low around 28. Veterans Day ceremonies traditionally Monday: Mostly cloudy with a 20 begin at 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the A county employee (above) moved piles of percent chance of rain and snow, a 11th month, the time when the armistice tumbleweeds out from the I-70 underpass high near 43 and a low around 27. ending World War I was signed in 1918. on County Rd. 10 south of Ruleton Thursday Veteran’s Day: Mostly sunny. morning. The underpass had been completely (National Weather Service) Veterans Day was first celebrated as Armistice Day proclaimed by President blocked, so that traffic could not go through and Get 24-hour weather info. at 162.400 MHz. it wasn’t even possible to see through. Tumble- * Readings taken at 7 a.m. Woodrow Wilson in 1919. It became a legal federal holiday on Nov. 11, 1921 weeds, driven by 35-45 mile per hour winds and and was changed to Veterans Day in gusts up to 61 miles per hour, tumbled down 1954 by a proclamation from President Rd. 10 toward the underpass, threatening to Dwight D. Eisenhower. fill it up again. The National Weather Service All federal, state, county and city issued both a high wind warning and a hazard- government offices, including the Post ous weather outlook due to the wind and said it Office and the Sherman County transfer could cause hazardous driving conditions. local station, and local banks will be closed Photos by Sharon Corcoran/The Goodland Star-News on Tuesday. Schools in the Goodland markets School District will be open. Noon Wheat — $4.75 bushel Posted county price — $4.93 McCain wins in Kansas; nation elects Obama Corn — $3.33 bushel Posted county price — $3.54 By Tom Betz 2nd District. Milo — $2.77 bushel [email protected] Republican easily defeated Soybeans — $7.51 bushel Democrat James Bordonaro in the 1st District Posted county price — $8.07 Nationally Kansas stayed solidly in the Re- Millet — $7 hundredweight publican column Tuesday, and Sherman County with Moran getting 82 percent to 13 percent Sunflowers turned out a Democratic incumbent to return a for Bordonaro. In Sherman County Moran Oil current crop — $15.90 cwt. woman to a county commissioner seat. received 86 percent (2,226) to 11 percent for Confection — $35/$23 cwt. Democrat was declared the Bordonaro (274). Pinto beans — $32 (new crop) 44th President-elect about 9:30 p.m. on Tues- Republican (61 percent) easily (Markets by Scoular Grain, Sun Opta, day as his electoral count crossed the magic defeated Democrat Donald Betts (35 percent) Frontier Ag and 21st Century Bean. 270 mark defeating Republican John McCain in District 4. Democrat Dennis Moore (75 per- These may not be closing figures. ) by a wider margin that expected. cent) easily kept his District 3 seat defeating In Sherman County 77 percent of the Republican Nick Jordan (22 percent). registered voters turned out with only one Nationally Democrats increased their ma- county race in County Commissioner District jority in the Senate by five (56-40) with four 2 where Republican Cynthia Strnad defeated seats undecided and two who are registered inside incumbent Democrat Mitch Tiede 653-356. independents, but they have caucused with McCain carried Sherman County with the Democrats in the past couple of years today 1,932 votes to 677 for Obama. Statewide to give them a narrow majority. Democrats McCain received 57 percent (683,480) to gained 22 seats in the House for a 258-177 More local Obama’s 41 percent (498,035). Douglas, majority. news, views from your Wyandotte and Crawford counties bucked In Obama won with 53 percent Goodland the tide and voted for Obama. to 46 percent for McCain. In the Senate race Star-News Nationally Obama won with 52 percent Democrat (53 percent) won of the popular vote to McCain’s 48 percent. over Republican (43 percent) Obama won 27 states and the District of to replace the outgoing Republican Wayne Columbia for 349 electoral votes to 173 for Allard. McCain who won 23 states including Kansas. In the big Fourth District that covers most Only North Carolina remained undecided After putting his ballot in the ballot box on Tuesday, Darrick Leiker receives his “I of Eastern Colorado including Fort Collins Wednesday with Obama leading in the state voted” sticker from election official Mary Harper. and Greeley Democrat Betsy Markey (56 per- by about 11,000 votes. Photo by Jessica Corbin/The Goodland Star-News cent) ousted incumbent Republican Marilyn Kansas Republican Sen. eas- Musgrave (44 percent). The race was a bitter ily defeated Democrat 2,099 to Roberts carried 102 counties and Slattery Kansas Republicans picked up one con- one with both national parties and several 492. Statewide Roberts received 60 percent won in Atchison, Wyandotte and Douglas gressional seat with defeating political action committees pumping money (710,194) to Slattery’s 36 percent (428,098). counties. incumbent Democrat in the into the campaigns. Republicans sweep Sherman County offices in election By Tom Betz by Dee Miller in August by one vote election. State Representative Jim Morrison write-ins were for Frank Tabor who Mustangs [email protected] before facing Strnad on Tuesday. County Clerk Janet Rumpel won (R-Colby) was running unopposed ran against Butts in the primary and Sherman County had one Demo- The Second district includes the re-election with 2,298 votes; Coun- in the 121st district and received some were for Chief Ray Smee. play Cougars crat left in county office, but Tues- northeast part of the county, Voltaire, ty Treasurer Iris Scheopner won 2,307 votes in Sherman County. She said in a lot of the write-ins the day that changed when Republican Shermanville and Llanos townships, re-election with 2,370; Register of Rumpel said a total of 2,758 voter marked the circle and wrote Jordan McCombs (No. Cynthia Strnad defeated incumbent plus Ward 1 in Goodland and the Deeds Billie Hoyt, running for her people voted out of the 3,578 regis- in “other.” 11) tried to block a Burl- Democrat Mitch Tiede for the Dis- north part of Ward 4. Only those liv- first term won with 2,264; County tered for a 77 percent turnout. She She said there were 67 in the ington Couger’s pass dur- trict 2 county commissioner seat. ing and registered in the district were Attorney Bonnie Selby was re- said the total includes 59 provisional district judge race where Showalter ing the Grant Junior High Strnad won the commissioner race allowed to vote in the contest. elected with 2,000; Sheriff Kevin ballots that will be reviewed by the was the winner. She said some of the eighth grade Mustangs’ with 653 votes (64.46 percent) to 356 Republican Max Linin won the Butts was re-elected with 2,106. commissioners when they canvass names were for the other attorneys game Thursday, Oct. 30, in votes for Tiede (35.14 percent). primary election in District 3 over Attorney Scott Showalter, who the votes today. who ran in the primary or there were Burlington. See Photo on Strnad, who served as coun- incumbent Kevin Rasure, and was won a three-way primary race in Au- She said one of the things that slowed names of people who were not eli- Page 11. ty commissioner 11 years ago, unopposed on Tuesday to win his gust, won the 15th Judicial District down the counting of ballots on Tues- gible and a few for Mickey Mouse. changed her registration in May to commissioner seat receiving 592 judge seat with 2,233 votes. day was a high number of write-in Commissioner Rasure’s name Republican to run for the commis- votes for 92 percent. State Senator Ralph Ostmeyer votes for some of the offices. was written in for the District 3 sioner seat. All of the other county offices are (R-Gove) was running unopposed The highest number of write-in commissioner race won by Linin Tiede, who was seeking a third held by Republicans and all were for the 40th district and received names was for sheriff where there she said. There were 49 write-ins term, survived a primary challenge running unopposed in Tuesday’s 2,205 votes in Sherman County. were 115 she said. Some of the in that race.