WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A government forecast shows Kansas is expected to harvest 592 million bushels of corn this fall while setting a record yield for bushels cut per acre.
The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Friday this year’s corn crop in Kansas is shaping up to be 17 percent larger than a year ago. A record yield is forecast of 160 bushels per acre, or 33 bushels per acre more than last year.
Anticipated production of most other fall crops in Kansas is also higher than a year ago.
A forecast of 188 million bushels for grain sorghum is up 14 percent. Soybean production of 148 million bushels is up 13 percent. Cotton production of 55,000 bales is up 34 percent.
But anticipated sunflower production of 77.6 million pounds is down 5 percent.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A same-sex couple received a license Friday in Johnson County and got married but it’s not clear whether Kansas will recognize the marriage.
Attorney General Derek Schmidt is asking the state Supreme Court to immediately block all such licenses from being granted. He says a judge in Johnson County exceeded his authority in ordering clerks and other judges to approve marriage applications from gay couples. The Kansas Constitution bans gay marriage.
Schmidt says his goal is to “freeze the status quo in place until the legal dispute can be properly resolved.”
Johnson County Court Clerk Sandra McCurdy won’t identify the couple but says they married shortly after receiving the license.
A gay couple whose application for a marriage license in Riley County was accepted Thursday learned Friday that a judge had denied it.
ANTHONY- Two women were injured in an accident just before 8 a.m. on Friday in Harper County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2001 Chevy passenger vehicle driven by Ashley Nicole Lankton, 17, Anthony, was northbound on Kansas 2 one mile north of Anthony.
The vehicle rear-ended a 2014 Chevy SUV driven by Brenda Lee Allen, 54, Byron, OK. that had slowed for traffic.
Lankton was transported to Harper Hospital. Allen was transported to Anthony Medical Center.
The KHP reported both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident.
LONDON (AP) – David Gilmour says the upcoming album “The Endless River” will be the last Pink Floyd album.
Gilmour tells the BBC he’s “pretty certain there will not be any follow up to this” because keyboardist Richard Wright is dead.
Gilmour says the album is a tribute to Wright, who Gilmour feels was under-appreciated, even by him.
Gilmour says people can get judgmental and think that “someone is not quite pulling his weight enough, without realizing that theirs is a different weight to pull.”
James W. Frick, former vice president for development at Notre Dame University, once said, “Don’t tell me what your priorities are. Show me you how you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.”
Your habits and attitudes about money can support or sabotage many aspects of your life, career, relationships and financial goals. By discovering your money personality, you can discover why you spend, save and share money the way you do. Understanding how your spouse approaches money can help you improve your marriage relationship as well.
A new program from the Ellis County Extension Office will help you explore your “money habitudes” — your habits and attitudes about money — at noon Friday, Oct. 17 at the Ellis County Extension Office meeting room, 601 Main, Hays. Enter the rear door from the north parking lot; bring a lunch to eat during the meeting if desired.
The class is free but limited to a maximum of 10 people. Register with the Extension by calling (785) 628-9430 — first come, first served.
Not only do decisions about assets and debt have financial consequences, they have consequences on couple relationships, too. Research studies indicate that partner spending behaviors influence relationship satisfaction. Spending without consulting one’s partner decreases marriage satisfaction and creates tensions about money that can contribute to disagreements and divorce.
In a long-term study that followed a group of married couples over six years, debt problems ranked high for overall marital discord. As debt increased, fights over money increased, husbands worked more hours, partners spent less time together and marital satisfaction decreased.
Accumulating assets can ease feelings of financial pressure and decrease conflict in relationships. Paying down consumer debt, such as credit card debt, may decrease conflict in marriage. Paying off or remaining free from consumer debt is linked to increased marital satisfaction.
In short, your money behaviors can directly impact your happiness with your spouse.
George Lorimer, past editor of the Saturday Evening Post, once put it this way, “It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.”
Plan to attend the Extension program “Discover Your Money Habitudes” on Oct. 17 to learn about your money personality and how you can use money behaviors to strengthen your marriage and family life. Call to register at (785) 628-9430.
Linda K. Beech is Ellis County Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences.
Kansas Department of Transportation Secretary Mike King
Kansas Department of Transportation Secretary Mike King is scheduled to be in Hays next week to unveil the recipients of 77 bridge improvements projects in the state.
The event is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Kansas Highway Patrol conference room, 1821 W. Frontier Road.
Also scheduled to speak are Ellis County Commissioner Barbara Wasinger, Kansas Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Chad Bontrager and Kansas Association of Counties Local Road Engineer Norm Bowers.
The program targets bridges with a daily vehicle count of fewer than 100 and a length of 20 to 50 feet.
Check Hays Post for more as details become available.
PLAINVILLE — The Plainville Cardinals begin district play Friday night against the LaCrosse Leopards on the 101.9 The Bull Area Game of the Week.
The Cardinals enter week six 1-4 after losing to Norton last week 48-0 and their lone win came against the TMP-Marian Monarchs two weeks ago.
Plainville returns three starters on the offensive line from last year and, after suffering through injuries early in the season, they believe they are back to full schedule.
The line leads the way for backfield that returns three starters as well. Sophomore Hayden Friend led the Cardinals with 625 rushing yards last season.
La Crosse is fresh off a 42-22 win over Ellis last week moving to 1-0 in district play.
The Leopards got a standout performance from Andrew Jay, who got his first start at quarterback for the injured Jack Garcia.
Jay ran for three touchdowns and threw for three more in the win over Ellis.
Garcia also proved to be an effective weapon out of the backfield accounting for 102 total yards with a 24 yard touchdown reception against Ellis.
Tonight’s kickoff is at 7 p.m. from Plainville with the pregame show at 6:30 p.m. on 101.9 The Bull and online at HaysPost.com.
TOPEKA (AP) — A court office in Kansas’ most populous county has issued a marriage license to a gay couple, believed to be the first such license in the state.
Liz Dickinson, a member of the gay-rights group Equality Kansas, said she was at the county courthouse Friday when the couple received their license. The Johnson County District Court clerk’s office confirmed that a license was issued but declined to identify the couple.
That came two days after district court Chief Judge Kevin Moriarty directed clerks and other judges to begin issuing licenses to same-sex couples — even though the Kansas Constitution bans gay marriage under a provision voters approved in 2005.
Moriarty acted after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear appeals from five other states seeking to preserve their gay-marriage bans.
DERBY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas police department says it’s no longer looking for a suspicious black van or a suspect in reported child abduction attempt that never happened.
A woman told Derby police on Oct. 1 that a man in a van pulled alongside her and her children, offered candy and cookies and then jumped out and grabbed her 3-year-old daughter when she refused.
Police put out an alert last week for a black van and released a composite sketch of a suspect. The woman told police she fended off the attacker by hitting him twice and forcing him to release the child.
The Wichita Eagle reports authorities announced on Thursday they had determined the report was false, and that the woman had recanted the initial accusations.
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge has denied a marriage license for a same-sex couple who said their application had been accepted with open arms a day earlier.
KMAN-AM reports Darcie Bonhenblust and her partner, Joleen Hickman, found out Friday morning their application had been denied.
The two say the Riley County clerk told them Thursday when they filed their application there was a three-day waiting period and they could come back Tuesday to pick up their license.
But on Friday morning they received an order from Judge Meryl Wilson denying the license. Bohnenblust called the rejection disheartening but says she anticipates it eventually will come through.
Johnson County on Friday issued what is believed to be the state’s first marriage license to a same-sex couple.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A second Kansas county has begun accepting marriage license applications from same-sex couples.
The Manhattan Mercury reports Darci Bohnenblust and Joleen Hickman had considered getting married in New York but changed those plans after an Oklahoma ban on gay marriage was overturned by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — which also includes Kansas.
The couple, who have been together for 19 years, say they turned in their application on Thursday at the Riley County clerk’s office and were welcomed with open arms. The state has a three-day waiting period for marriage licenses, and Bohnenblust says the clerk told them to come back Tuesday to pick up their license.
Johnson County accepted the first same-sex marriage application on Tuesday and planned to issue the license on Friday.
OtherWords columnist Jim Hightower is a radio commentator, writer and public speaker.
As an old popular song asks: What do you get if you “work your fingers right down to the bone?” Boney fingers.
As housekeepers in the sprawling Marriott hotel chains know, that’s more than a cute lyric. It’s the truth.
These “room attendants,” as they’re called, are paid barely $8 an hour to perform a very hard, physical job, suffering the highest injury rate among hotel workers. Some two-thirds of them take pain medication just to get through their day of heaving 100-pound mattresses, stooping to clean floors, and twisting to readjust furniture in 15 to 20 rooms per shift.
Yet Marriott President and CEO Arne Sorenson publicly hails the very women he exploits as “the heart of the house,” saying his chain likes to express its appreciation to them with “special recognition events” during International Housekeepers Week.
Yes, exploited room attendants are not rewarded with a living wage, but with a congratulatory week — how great is that?
This year, housekeeper week came with “a new tipping initiative” — a scheme created by multimillionaire Maria Shriver — urging Marriott’s customers “to express their gratitude by leaving tips and notes of thanks for hotel room attendants.” Shriver says she hopes the voluntary tips “will make these women feel seen and validated.” Is that sweet or what?
Does she at least urge that this tip be the standard 15-20 percent we give at restaurants? No. Tipping between one and five bucks per night’s stay is recommended. Let’s see: At about $250 a day for a Marriott room, even $5 is a sad 2 percent expression of “gratitude.”
As for customers leaving a little thank-you note, imagine trying to buy a baloney sandwich with that.
How about this: Instead of paying Sorenson $9 million a year, make the Marriott CEO rely on customer tips — and see how validated he feels.
OtherWords.org columnist Jim Hightower is a radio commentator, writer and public speaker.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A government forecast shows Kansas is expected to harvest 592 million bushels of corn this fall while setting a record yield for bushels cut per acre.
