SALINE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect after a domestic violence dispute.
Gonzales photo Saline Co.
Just after 3p.m. Thursday, police responded to a residence in a trailer park at 1200 W. Crawford in Salina after a report of domestic violence., according to Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester.
A 22-year-old Salina woman was in the back of a 2011 Toyota pickup and and in an argument with Zachary Gonzales, 34, of Salina.
As she attempted to unload some items belonging to her, Gonzales drove the pickup off at a high rate of speed on the trailer park’s street, which is nearly a quarter-mile loop, according to Forrester.
A man who lives in the trailer park heard the woman screaming for Gonzales to stop and stepped out into the street to try to stop the vehicle.
The pickup struck the 41-year-old Salina man. A dent in the front of the pickup was consistent with the man’s story, according to Forrester.
Gonzales stopped and the woman was able to get out of the truck when her mother came to help, Forrester said.
Police arrested Gonzales on requested charges of Kidnapping, Aggravated battery, Domestic aggravated assault. The 41-year-old man refused medical treatment, according to Forrester.
Hays Police Chief Don Scheibler says a change in Kansas law regarding possession of CBD oil with 5% THC is creating some challenges for law enforcement.
By BECKY KISER Hays Post
A 2019 change in Kansas law allows for an affirmative defense for people being treated by a doctor with CBD oil containing up to 5% THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.
Don Scheibler, Hays police chief, explained the update to city commissioners during their Thursday night meeting. If stopped by law enforcement “the person must also have a letter from a licensed physician that confirms they or their minor child are being treated for a debilitating medical condition with the CBD oil.”
The change allows for a person to receive prescribed medical treatment using CBD oil with THC without being convicted of a crime in Kansas.
Mayor Henry Schwaller was curious how law enforcement officers would deal with an unmarked bottle. “How do you know it’s 5 percent?,” he asked.
“It would have to be tested and that would definitely limit us in what we could do with that,” Scheibler replied. “Each situation would vary.”
Hays police officers recently visited Hays businesses that are selling CBD oils and various other cannabis products with no THC content.
“They were able to show us their paperwork where it shows it doesn’t have any THC. Stuff purchased in Colorado (where marijuana use is legal) does list the THC.”
Scheibler says the update “isn’t the best law” for Kansas law enforcement, confirming there is no requirement for a bottle of CBD oil to be labeled.
“We’re trying to appease two different groups.”
The state legislature this year passed Claire and Lola’s law, a narrow bill that may assist certain people if they ever find themselves facing prosecution for possessing some cannabis products currently illegal in the state of Kansas.
“It creates some challenges for law enforcement. It’s illegal for them to have it,” Scheibler pointed out.
“But here’s a person with a letter from a doctor saying ‘my child needs this for treatment’ and I know they’re not going to be found guilty in court. But nothing in the law allows the officer to hand that CBD oil back to them. In fact, if he hands it back to them, he’s committed a felony in distributing THC.”
After some discussion, the Hays city commission unanimously adopted the the updated 2019 Uniform Public Offense Code for Kansas cities (UPOC) and the updated 2019 Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas cities (STO) for use within the city of Hays.
In other business, the commission also:
Approved a bid of $48,675 from J Corp, Hays, for replacement of cart paths on the Back 9 of Fort Hays Municipal Golf Course
Approved a bid of $37,954 by Air and Fire Systems, Salina, for purchase by the fire department of a new self-contained breathing apparatus air compression system to refill firefighters’ air tanks
SHAWNEE COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a pair of early morning shooting incidents and looking for suspects .
Police on the scene of the shooting investigation on SE Irvingham in Topeka early Friday photo courtesy WIBW TV
Just before 2a.m. police were dispatched to a report of shots fired in the area of 3136 SE Irvingham in Topeka, according to Lt. Manuel Munoz.
While officers were in route, dispatch received information of a possible victim at the address. Officers located a man who was suffering from non-life threatening injuries. He was transported to a local hospital. Police brought several witnesses to the Law Enforcement Center to be interviewed. No arrests have been made.
Just after 4a.m., police were dispatched to 935 SW Watson in Topeka on a report of a shooting, according to Munoz. Upon arrival, officers located a man suffering from non-life threatening gunshot wounds. The victim refused to cooperate with detectives.
Nothing feels better than a dip in the pool on a hot summer day. Can you think of anyone who would enjoy that plunge more than our canine friends? Give your dog a treat and bring them to the “Bark at the Water Park” event at the WaKeeney Water Park on Saturday, August 24 from 10 a.m. to noon.
For dogs who love water there’s nothing better than that first splash. This is a “dogs only” event, with an entry fee of only $5 for each dog. Bring dogs who are ready to run and play with other pups and the water toys they love most.
The WaKeeney Water Park is the perfect place for all dogs to play. Whether your dog is pint sized or super-sized, the zero-depth, beach-like entry area gives them a place to run and splash through shallow waters. Take them to the deep end so they can do those hilarious belly flops that are so fun to watch. They can play in the deck sprays, and the dump bucket will give them a big surprise as they play at its base. There is plenty of shady areas around the pool for their owners to sit and enjoy the show.
The dog days of summer are here, and your four-legged friend deserves a chance to cool off. Bring them to the WaKeeney Water Park on August 24 from 10 a.m. to noon for the first ever “Bark at the Water Park” event.
Reza “Ray” Marefat, age 80, of Hays, Kansas passed away on Sunday August 18, 2019 in Hays. Ray was born on August 30, 1938 in Saveh, Iran.
Ray came to the United States in 1960 for work and school. He attended Highland Community College in Coffeyville and Pittsburg, KS. He graduated with a BS in Math from FHSU in 1969, then continued on to the University of Oklahoma for a BS in Chemical Engineering followed by a Master’s Degree in Petroleum Engineering from Ohio State – Columbus.
He returned to Iran in 1973 to work for the National Oil Company of Iran until the revolution of 1979. Upon returning to the United States in 1986 he opened Maxim’s Restaurant in Hays until his retirement in 1996.
Ray’s commitment to education was passed along to his children. His daughter is a RN graduate of FHSU, and now on staff at UCSF Medical Center. His son also graduated from FHSU and is a KU Medical Graduate practicing Ophthalmology in Topeka, KS.
Ray is survived by his wife, Mary Marefat; Son, Babak Marefat; Daughter, Simin Marefat (married to Kreg Rotthoff); and a Grandson, Kai Rotthoff.
Memorial Services for Ray will be Saturday September 28, 2019 from 3 to 6 PM in the 1St floor conference room of the Hadley Center, 205 East 7th Street Hays, KS 67601.
Cremation entrusted to Brock’s-Keithley Funeral Chapel and Crematory 2509 Vine Hays, KS 67601. Condolences may be left online at www.keithleyfuneralchapels.com or by email at [email protected]
The 2019 dove season opens on Sept. 1 and there is no better time to introduce youth to hunting. Aside from a proper-fitting shotgun, a good supply of shotgun shells, and a mentor, special equipment isn’t needed. Better yet, you won’t have to battle the bitter winter temperatures that are sure to come with later hunting seasons.
Several organizations, including Pheasants Forever, Westar Energy’s Green Team, and the Quail and Upland Wildlife Federation, take advantage of this mild season by hosting youth hunts on opening weekend. These special events are safe, fun and free, and more often than not, they’re hosted on lands rife with opportunity. Find a hunt near you, and pass on the joys of wingshooting this fall.
OSBORNE COUNTY PHEASANTS FOREVER HUNT, Sept. 1-2
The Osborne County Pheasants Forever (PF) chapter, in partnership with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT), invites youth ages 10-16 to participate in an opening weekend dove hunt on Sept. 1 or 2, 2019. This hunt is expected to provide kids with plenty of shooting action as the birds flock to grain fields for morning feeding and ponds for evening water.
Participants should have limited previous dove hunting experience, and those who have not hunted before will be given preference. Only youth may hunt, and they must be strong enough to handle their shotgun safely. Participants will have at least one adult mentor at their side to assist them, so parents can rest easy knowing their child will have guidance.
Hunts will either take place the evening of Sunday, Sept. 1 at local private ponds or early morning on Monday, Sept. 2 on a Glen Elder Wildlife Area managed crop field. Participants will be notified several days in advance as to where and when their hunt will take place. After the hunt, participants can enjoy a free meal courtesy of the Osborne County PF chapter.
Shotguns can be provided upon request, and 12 and 20 gauge shotgun shells will be provided for all hunters. Hunters age 16 will be required to have a hunting license and Harvest Information Stamp (HIP) stamp prior to participating.
Parents must pre-register their child by calling the Glen Elder Area Office at (785) 545-3345 (8 a.m. – 4 p.m. weekdays). Deadline to register is Wednesday, August 28. Spots are limited, so families are encouraged to register early.
For more on this event, contact Chris Lecuyer (KDWPT) at (785) 545-3345 or John Cockerham (PF) at (785) 346-6527.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Billionaire industrialist David H. Koch, who with his older brother, Charles, transformed American politics by pouring their riches into conservative causes, has died at age 79.
David Koch in 2015 during his announced $150M gift for a new cancer center image courtesy Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Charles Koch announced the death on Friday, saying, “It is with a heavy heart that I now must inform you of David’s death.”
David Koch, who lived in New York City, was the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential candidate in 1980. He was a generous donor to conservative political causes as well as educational, medical and cultural groups.
The Koch brothers were best known for a vast political network they built that became popularly known as the “Kochtopus” for its far-reaching tentacles in support of conservative causes. The brothers founded the anti-tax, small government group Americans for Prosperity.
“I was taught from a young age that involvement in the public discourse is a civic duty,” David Koch wrote in a 2012 op-ed in the New York Post. “Each of us has a right— indeed, a responsibility, at times — to make his or her views known to the larger community in order to better form it as a whole. While we may not always get what we want, the exchange of ideas betters the nation in the process.”
After battling prostate cancer for 20 years, he told a reporter following the 2012 Republican convention that he was thinking about what he will someday leave behind.
“I like to engage where my part makes a difference,” he told The Weekly Standard. “I have a point of view. When I pass on, I want people to say he did a lot of good things, he made a real difference, he saved a lot of lives in cancer research.”
David Koch donated $100 million in 2007 to create the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also gave millions to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, the M.D. Anderson Cancer in Houston, and other institutions.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History named in his honor a wing dedicated to the story of human evolution over 6 million years. David Koch donated $15 million to fund the 15,000 square-foot hall.
“The program has the power to influence the way we view our identity as humans, not only today, but for generations to come,” he said in a statement at the time.
David Koch, an engineer trained at MIT, joined Koch Industries in 1970, and served on its board. He also served as chief executive officer of Koch Chemical Technology Group, LLC, a Koch subsidiary. He retired from the company in 2018
Charles and David Koch, each with an estimated net worth of $50.5 billion, tied in fourth place in 2012 on Forbes 500 list of the nation’s richest men.
Two of the Koch brothers, Frederick and Bill Koch, sued the other two, claiming in a 1998 trial that they were cheated out of more than $1 billion when they sold their stake in Koch Industries back in 1983. David and Bill Koch are twins.
The dispute stemmed from a falling out three years earlier when Bill Koch criticized Charles’ management of the company, and with Frederick’s support, tried to gain control of the company’s board of directors. After the takeover move failed, the board fired Bill as an executive. Bill and Frederick Koch and other dissident stockholders sold their interests, and the brothers later sued claiming the company withheld crucial information that would have led to a higher sale price.
Bill and Frederick lost their case, but the lengthy public trial offered a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse at the Koch family.
The Kochs’ father, Fred Koch, guessed early — before two of his boys were out of diapers and before two were even born — that wealth might split his family apart.
“It will be yours to do with what you will,” the father wrote in a 1936 letter to his two oldest sons. “It may be either a blessing or a curse.”
David Koch and his wife, Julia Flesher, have three children.
Sandra Lynn Hartman, age 53, died at her home in Utica, Kansas on August 18, 2019. She was born on June 18, 1966 in Ransom, Kansas the daughter of Norman and Areta (Ummel) Hartman.
Inurnment in the Ransom will be held at a later date.
Merle Nadine “Honey” Cozad, 102, passed away on August 21, 2019.
There will be a visitation Friday, August 23, 2019 from 6-8pm at Langsford Funeral Home in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Another visitation will take place Sunday, August 25, 2019 at Enfield Funeral Home in Norton, Kansas from 5-7pm. Burial will be in Lyle Cemetery on Monday, August 26, 2019 at 10:30am. Contributions may be made in Merle’s memory to Great Lakes Caring Hospice.
Merle Nadine “Honey” Cozad, daughter of Elmer and Helen Knutson, was born on January 13, 1917, in Wilsonville, Nebraska, where she graduated from high school. Merle married A. Rex Cozad on October 10, 1935, and they had four children, Beverly Jean, John Elwyn, David Charles, and Mary Lynn.
Merle was active in the Lyle community where they raised their family. She participated in community activities and was an active member of the Lyle Methodist Church and the local 4-H club. They left Norcatur, Kansas, to Hutchinson, Kansas, where they spent many years traveling, Friday night dancing, and the social life that came with Rex’s political career.
Merle was a very loving and exceptionally strong woman who had a passion for life and her family. There was never a family event that Merle and Rex missed whether it be marriages, graduations, soccer, baseball or football games. Merle was a true matriarch in every sense of the meaning. She showed her family how to love and to be strong. She was our leader, our strength, and our family glue.
Merle was preceded in death by her parents, Elmer and Helen Knutson; brother, Meredith Knutson; husband of 68 years, Rex Cozad; three of her children, Beverly Morton, John Cozad and David Cozad; and one great-grandson, Shawn Petty.
Survivors include: her daughter, Mary Vanderburg, and husband, Bill; daughter-in-law, Karen Cozad; 15 grandchildren, Tony, Jana, Lynn, Kenny, Sherri, Laura, Tracy, Jon, Jeremy, Kim, Kari, Erin, Nikki, Dusty and Morgan; 28 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren.
Marjorie L. (Debes) Ludwig, 83, died August 22, 2019, at her home in Hoisington. She was born July 19, 1936, the daughter of Joseph N. and Mary E. (Linsner) Debes. Marjorie graduated from Hoisington High School in 1954.
A longtime Hoisington resident, she was a homemaker, loving wife, mother, and grandmother. Marjorie was a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church and Altar Society.
On August 2, 1954, she married Robert G. Ludwig at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Hoisington.
She is survived by her husband of 65 years, Robert G. Ludwig and their children; Susan Davis and husband Keith of New Cambria, Loretta Riedl and husband Bert of Great Bend, Mary Kaiser and husband Kent of Bushton, Robin Nicholson and husband Brian of Windsor, Colorado, and Dennis Ludwig of Olmitz and special friend Christine Allen; daughters-in-law, Veronica Ludwig of Olmitz and Jeri Ludwig Henderson and husband Bob of Cleveland, Oklahoma; siblings, Pat Radke of Hoisington, Bernice Capps and husband Ron of Newton, Mary Ann Thornburg and husband Alan of Rapid City, South Dakota, Virginia Foos of Greeley, Colorado, LeRoy Debes and wife Connie of Spokane, Washington, and Joe Debes and wife Renita of Loveland, Colorado; 19 grandchildren, and 21 great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; sons, George C. Ludwig and Robert J. “Bobby” Ludwig, and an infant son, Patrick Ludwig; sister, Joan Vink and husband Larry; brothers-in-law, Bill Radke and Harold Foos; and a grandson, Kevin Anthony Kaiser.
Friends may call 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, with family to receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Vigil with Rosary will begin at 7 p.m., all at the funeral home.
Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m., Monday, August 26, 2019, at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, celebrated by Father Louis Hoang. Burial will follow in St. John Church Cemetery, Hoisington.
Memorials may be made to St. John Cemetery Fund or Kans for Kids in care of Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home, PO Box 146, Hoisington, KS 67544.
The Rooks County Healthcare Foundation is hosting a charity golf tournament on Sept. 14 to help raise funds for the new Rehabilitation Center being built on to the north side of Rooks County Health Center.
Fairways For The Future is a three-person scramble that will be at the Rooks County Golf Course 5 miles north of Plainville.
The day will include an 18-hole tournament, lunch, whole-hog roast dinner, live music and silent auction. Cash prizes will be awarded, plus golfers can enter for a chance to snag $50,000 in the Hole in One Contest.
Solutions North Bank in Stockton is sponsoring the Hole-in-One contest and Palco4-H student Jamie Keller is donating a market-weight hog that won a blue ribbon at the Rooks County Free Fair.
Registration fees are $225 for a team of three, which covers green fees, sack lunch, supper and entertainment.
For those who don’t play golf but want to join the party, a whole-hog roast dinner and music by local band Gypsy Road will be after the tournament. Tickets are available for $25 per person for those who wish to join in on the fun later in the day. Tickets for the after-tournament event can be purchased at Carmichael True Value and Ruder Oil in Plainville and Solutions North Bank in Stockton.
The day’s schedule on Saturday, Sept. 14 is
8 a.m.: Registration
9 a.m.: Shotgun Start
4 p.m.: Prizes awarded and doors open for dinner and music attendees.
5 p.m.: Whole-hog roast, silent auction and live music by Gypsy Road.
Golfers can register before Aug. 31 for an early-registration discount. Online registration is available at www.fairways4thefuture.com or by calling Eric Sumearll at 785-688-4428.
Laurinda Miller, age 89, of Hays, Kansas passed away Thursday, August 22, 2019 at Via Christi Village, Hays.
Funeral services will be 10 AM Monday, August 26, 2019 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Hays. Burial will follow in the St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Hays.
Visitation will be Sunday 5 PM – 8 PM and Monday 9 AM – 9:30 AM all at Brock’s-Keithley Funeral Chapel and Crematory 2509 Vine Hays, KS 67601.
A combine rosary and parish vigil service will be 7 PM Sunday at the funeral chapel.
Condolences may be left by guest book at www.keithleyfuneralchapels.com or by email at [email protected]
